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Rufus C. Holman

Rufus Cecil Holman (October 14, 1877 – November 27, 1959) was an American politician and businessman who served as a United States senator for a single term during World War II. He was an officer in the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, then served as Oregon State Treasurer. He was a member of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners.

Running for re-election in May 1944, Holman was defeated in the Republican primary by Wayne Morse.

Early life
Holman was born in Portland, Oregon, on October 14, 1877. He was educated in public schools and became a teacher in 1896.

Career
After leaving teaching in 1898, he worked in various fields from farming and operating a steamboat, to pursuits related to the accounting field until 1910. That year, Holman began making record keeping books and paper boxes in Portland. He then worked in the cold storage business and was active in civic affairs.

Politics
Holman won his first election to political office in 1914, when he was elected to the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, where he served two four-year terms (1914–1922)

During the mid-1920s, Holman was an active member of the Ku Klux Klan in Oregon, serving as an officer.

In 1931, Oregon Governor Julius L. Meier appointed him as state treasurer after Thomas B. Kay died in office. He began in office on May 1, 1931, winning election to a full four-year term in 1932, and winning re-election in 1936. He resigned from the office in 1938, leaving on December 27, 1938.

Holman was strongly concerned about the environment. In 1937, he garnered publicity when he demonstrated the polluted state of the Willamette River by briefly holding a cage of salmon in the water, then quickly pulling them out dying to a shocked audience.

In 1938, he was elected to the United States Senate. As Senator, Holman was critical of the foreign policy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, taking a strongly isolationist position which placed him on the right wing of Oregon politics. As a Senator Holman was a staunch opponent of liberalizing immigration laws to allow easier immigration by Jews and other persecuted Europeans, a position which was deeply resented by Oregon's small but politically potent Jewish population, who quickly came to view the former KKK member Holman as antisemitic and who sought his electoral defeat.

"I have always deplored Hitler’s ambitions as a conqueror. But he broke the control of these internationalists over the common people of Germany. It would be a good idea if the control of the international bankers over the common people of England was broken, and good if it was broken over the wages and savings of the common people of the United States." While attenuating his isolationism after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, coming to support the war effort, Holman's name remained indissolubly tied with the now politically unpopular isolationist position and he faced a high-profile challenge in the May 1944 Republican primary from progressive Wayne Morse. Holman was an outspoken supporter of the internment of Japanese Americans and lobbied against their return.

During his 1944 re-election bid, Holman publicly charged that Morse was a stalking horse for the Democrats, who, facing a severe deficit in party registrations in Oregon, needed a fissure in the Republican camp to capture the Senate seat in November. When this conspiratorial theory did not gain traction, Holman proffered a new theory detailing an alleged plot involving the Portland shipyards of Henry J. Kaiser were being systematically used to stack the Republican primary against him. Newspaper editors around Oregon made hay over the conspiratorially-minded Senator, with one declaring that "like the ants, he has misplaced the center of the universe."

While the incumbent Holman won a majority of Oregon's counties, taking 20 to Morse's 16, it was Morse who dominated in populous Multnomah and Lane counties, winning the primary by a plurality of 10,000 votes out of more than 143,000 votes cast in a three-cornered race.

After his 1944 defeat, Holman returned to private life and never sought public office again. Holman returned to managing the Portland Paper Box Company in Portland, before retiring to his farm near Molalla, Oregon.

Personal life
Holman died on November 27, 1959, in his home town of Portland. He was buried at River View Cemetery in Portland.

Holman's great-nephew, Ralph M. Holman, was a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

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Welcome!
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Dear Dear

Dear Dear is an album by Canadian rock band 54-40, released in 1992. It was their most successful album in their native Canada, spawning the singles "Nice to Luv You", "She La", "Music Man", "You Don't Get Away (That Easy)" and "We Are, We Pretend". The album was certified platinum in Canada in April 1993. However, Dear Dear was their first album not to have an American release after several years of not breaking through in the United States market.

The album was recorded in Tom Petty's studio in California.

Including the blank space on track 11 between "Dear Dear" and the hidden track "Social Work", the album's running time when displayed on a CD player is 54:40.

The band received three Juno Award nominations at the Juno Awards of 1993, for Group of the Year, Video of the Year for "She-La", and Album Design of the Year.

Track listing

 * 1) "She La"  – 4:10
 * 2) "Music Man"  – 5:43
 * 3) "Nice to Luv You"  – 4:22
 * 4) "Lovers & Losers"  – 4:19
 * 5) "We Are, We Pretend"  – 3:11
 * 6) "Apollo & Me"  – 4:18
 * 7) "Faithful"  – 4:04
 * 8) "Inside the Horn"  – 3:20
 * 9) "You Don't Get Away (That Easy)"  – 4:25
 * 10) "Book"  – 4:38
 * 11) "Dear Dear"  – 4:46
 * 12) "Untitled" (Hidden Track) - 2:59
 * 13) "Social Work" (Hidden Track) - 4:25

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Talk:Operation Bodyguard

Removal of Operation Mincemeat
Operation Mincemeat should not be included with the deception plans under Operation Bodyguard. Mincemeat was a plan associated with Operation Husky, which was the invasion of Sicily in July 1943. Therefore it should not be associated with Bodyguard at all. RashBold 14 July 2005 (UTC)

 * See Talk:Operation Fortitude for references backing up the statement that Fortitude was a part of Bodyguard. DJ Clayworth 16:13, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Expansion of Article and Correction of Errors
Having recently completed an undergrad paper on the subject of Operation Bodyguard, I find the lack of sources and information presented by this article a little disconcerting. I am going to add some information and take out what is critically incorrect.

What really needs to be added is that the main components of Operation Bodyguard were the three Operation Fortitude sub-operations and the influences of the London Controlling Station (LCS) and the 'XX' Committee (Double Cross System), which I also intend to correct in the poorly researched and heavily biased Operation Fortitude article.

Largely, Operation Bodyguard was the command and control portion of the strategic deception operations leading to the Allied invasion of Normandy (Battle of Normandy [''with the four (not three)sub-operations (Fortitude North, Fortitude South, Fortitude South II and Zeppelin).  The article does provide a good primer, but lacks the more detailed information necessary to provide real insight and information. ( Added by User:142.109.100.30 at 17:54. 20 March 2006 ''] If anyone has objections to this, feel free to contribute to the article yourself.

-Onward_KOCR User:OnwardKOCR,17:42, 20 March 2006
 * Please do contribute. Expanding this is somewhere way down my to-do list, and you clearly know more about it than I do. I would draw your attention to the user who contributed to this article and talk page and also Operation Fortitude who (according to his own user page) is the author of a major book on the subject and contends that Fortitude was not part of Bodyguard, but separate. I don't have the knowledge to judge the validity of this. But seriously, write whatever you know. What we have here is very sketchy. DJ Clayworth 18:07, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Correct name?
Every print source I've seen refers to the pre-invasion deception operations as "Plan Bodyguard." There's an apparent distinction in Allied military terminology of the time (and which I'm not entirely clear on) between what constituted a "plan" and what was an "operation" -- and it's not just between what was talked about and what actually happened. More than that, "Bodyguard" appears in the sources I've read to refer to the planning that preceded "Operation Fortitude," which was what was actually carried out -- divided into "Fortitude North" (Norway) and "Fortitude South" (Pas de Calais). So, are we sure the correct term is used in this article? -- Michael K Smith Talk 14:28, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that D-Day naval deceptions be merged into Operation Bodyguard. The operations detailed in the D-Day naval deceptions article are a subset of Operation Bodyguard, there is a major summary of Operation Bodyguard as part of that article, this article has very little details about those three minor operations and there's probably only 600 or so words which would be added here in the Normandy Landings section. This article is relatively short currently and would benefit from some more detail. Thanks! Kirk (talk) 19:35, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the thought. But no that is not a good idea. In fact I'm afraid it's a pretty thoughtless proposal by someone who hasn't taken the time to study the topic in some depth. Bodyguard has a number of sub operations. I spent a long time figuring out which ones .needed a seperate article. The D-Day deceptions are a relatively minor part of the overall strategy, meaning that a lot of detail here would have been pointless. With it's own article that detail has space to breath. There are a good number of other articles, of some length that will also be summarised here so while the articke is currently very short it will eventually be very long. Hopefully by the end of the year :) I'll write more later, but hopefully you can appreciate why I'm a bit peeved by this suggestion abd the lack of discussion with me re my approach overall to this content. unless you intend to spend significant amounts of time, like I have, in writing about deception can I please suggest you leave me to it in peace? Because I have to confess your approach here is putting me off bothering to write any more. --Errant (chat!) 20:40, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay at home so I can write a little more detail to explain why the D-Day deceptions are a seperate article. It's definitely borderline, so I understand where you are coming from, but it would have been much better to try and engage over the matter with me on the FAR, or on my talk page - doing it like this feels like you're telling me that I've not thought this through. Anyway, if I seem a little arsey that is why. Right. In terms of size a merge here is a bad idea. In total there are three main operations within the scope of Bodyguard. It's also worth noting at this point that not all of the Background section (of the D-Day article) is general Bodyguard content, around half of it is content directly concerned with these operations that does not exist in this article. So with the lead and general content removed this leaves approx. 1200 words of prose. Operation Titanic is going top be even larger - I expect around 2000 words of prose. Operation Fortitude will be massive - if I can keep it under 15,000 words it will be an achievement. Based on my notes and plans, merging all of this content to here (assuming you'll allow me to write Fortitude as a standalone and merely summarise it here) it will be pushing 20,000 words. So as soon as I try and get it reviewed I'll be asked to split it.
 * I have other concerns with a merge too; each operation (or small group of similar ops, remember the D-Day article is already the merge of three articles!) has its own analysis as to its efficacy. Plus Bodyguard has an overall analysis of how much it achieved. How do I present this content? The impact section for Bodyguard will be monolithic, with analysis for each Op. a long way from the original content. Alternatively the analysis could go within the prose, but that disrupts the chronology and I don't plan to take that approach. Packaging the operations like this means we can keep things short and sweet and accessible for our readers :) This is important to me.
 * Finally, I see no issue with the small amount of duplication between these articles. Or the article length, which is fine. The brief Bodyguard summary is totally okay because then I customise it for each article to establish a context. This neat package of context, operation, analysis/impact makes the topic easily accessible to the reader. It also then allows this article to focus on the broader strategy of Bodyguard without spending masses of time on the sub-operations (were you familiar with the topic you would understand why this makes sense).
 * Hopefully this shows how deeply I've considered the topic in general and how detailed my plan for these articles is. And I do hope I've convinced you that this is the right approach.
 * PS I also refer you to WP:SIZE, which I use as a handy guideline, which emphasises that above 10,000 words it is best to begin to split the article if possible. And fortunately this article delineates wonderfully, allowing us to split things down neatly! --Errant (chat!) 00:07, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

 * Oppose I see no need to merge this article merely because it is a sub operation of a larger one. In fact such an idea nearly borders on the ridiculous. By the same logic, all of the separate Normandy beach articles could be merged into Operation Neptune - that is obviously not going to happen. I would also be opposed to operations like Fortitude or Titanic being merged into Bodyguard for exactly the same reason. Ranger Steve   Talk  19:05, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Operation Copperhead
I have tried to install a link to the current page titled 'I Was Monty's Double (film)' by keying-in I Was Monty's Double, but it only shows-up in red type, which is taken to mean that there is no such page. What am I doing wrong? Valetude (talk) 13:47, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

 * I've just fixed this by copy and pasting from the film's Wikipedia article title into the wikilink. Wikipedia claims I've added or subtracted two characters by doing so, but I can't see what they might be.

 * The main recent author of this article, User:ErrantX, has quite some experience in computer forensics, so this can be his next challenge when he has some free time :-) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 23:08, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

 * I think it's the famous single quote vs tick mark problem. Had us all deceived. --Errant (chat!) 23:25, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

 * Ah... I'll be sure to include that in my next private key, then :) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 02:23, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Calais delais

 * Following the invasion, Hitler delayed redeploying forces from Calais and other regions to defend Normandy for nearly seven weeks. (The original plan had specified 14 days.)

Clarify: whose original plan? Hitler originally planned to shift forces in two weeks, or the deception hoped merely to delay the shift by two weeks? —Tamfang (talk) 20:21, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Goods point; it was the plan that was supposed to delay the moves Errant (chat!) 10:05, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

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Suomisaundi

Suomisaundi ("Finnish sound"), also known as suomisoundi, suomistyge or spugedelic trance, is a style of psychedelic trance that originated in Finland around the mid-1990s. "Suomisaundi" literally means "Finnish sound" in Finnish. Suomisaundi's biggest proponents are said to be Tim Thick and his label Thixx'n'Dixx.

History
Sometime during the early years of the 90s, a party collective Ruskababa introduced Goa trance to a handful of enthusiasts through their covert summertime party activities. The music in these parties were typically played from DAT tapes, or even from cassette tapes and included mostly hits from Goa from the previous season's parties. Pepe Kosminen was one of the DJ's playing these new psychedelic tunes to the Finnish audience in Ruskababa parties.

Largely due to these influences coming from Goa, certain DJ's started to include Goa trance hits in their sets, and new party collectives emerged. The first new collective was Smooth Underground which organised the last of its parties in a warehouse in Herttoniemi, with Ville Tikkanen playing Goa trance for the first time in Finland in a more conventional trance setting. After the dismantling of Smooth Underground, another group, Löyhä was formed. Löyhä was the first party collective to put a special focus on promoting locally made music. Inspired by the covert party tradition of Ruskababa and Smooth Underground, the group was determined to push the boundaries of organising unlicensed parties in an urban environment. It was not uncommon for the early organisers to experience issues with the authorities related to the parties.

The first time Suomisaundi reached global circulation was during the 95/96 season in Goa, when DAT tape recordings of early songs produced by Tim Thick became an overnight sensation within the gatekeepers of the underground Goa trance DJ scene. The sounds and themes found in these short FastTracker 2 songs, and the inspiring response they had received globally, became the basic building blocks of the Suomisaundi phenomena.

Arguably the genre-defining Suomisaundi album is the self-published compilation, 'Flippin Bixies', in 1996. It was the first album to directly answer to the rapidly growing need for a new localised sound, that had been created over the previous years by the party collectives and the general popularization of electronic music. The album was named after a private recording studio that was located near Kurvi in Helsinki around mid 90s. In 1997 Exogenic Records became the first record label to focus on Suomisaundi and approximately during the same time Midiliitto was founded as an association focusing on the advancement of production and commercialisation of Suomisaundi. Pepe Kosminen was the founding Chairman of Midiliitto. Together with Flippin Bixies, Midiliitto counted within its members many of the future international stars of Suomisaundi, including the members of groups like Texas Faggott and Squaremeat.

2000s
Initially there was criticism of Suomisaundi because early examples of the genre suffered from lack of production standards and inconsistent quality. These criticisms, however, grew increasingly inaccurate as the average production quality improved significantly and the availability of music improved significantly. In 2000 Tim Thick launched Thixx'n'Dixx, a website that hosted a massive catalogue of Suomisaundi in an easy-to-access format.

Thixx'n'Dixx grew so popular that it was mentioned in a pop music program on Finnish national TV. Tim is widely credited for being the first to produce tracks closely resembling the modern Suomisaundi in -94, earning him a cult status within the global Goa trance DJ and party organiser community over the course of the following year.

After site-hosting problems and excessive bandwidth usage, the Thixx'n'Dixx site operates nowadays merely as a suomisaundi link catalogue, offering links to individual suomisaundi artist pages at mikseri.net, which is a Finnish MP3 community for unsigned/independent artists. Another popular MP3 download site for suomisaundi music is the Antiscarp-website, hosted by members of the Finnish psytrance group Salakavala.

Since 2000, the global interest in Finnish trance has grown significantly, with many Finnish groups touring internationally and performing to a growing global fan base. However, usually outside Finland, the Suomi-style is still considered an eccentricity within the context of the psytrance genre. Most notable suomisaundi audiences outside Finland are in Russia, Ukraine, Japan and Australia. The Japanese label, 6-Dimension Soundz, concentrates almost exclusively on releasing suomi-style trance.

Genre
Steady fanbases in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Russia and Eastern Europe led to non-Finnish producers creating Finnish style psytrance music around the world. The term "Suomisaundi" is typically used only to describe music that is produced in Finland whereas music produced in the suomi tradition but outside of Finland is more loosely described as "sparkling freestyle psytrance".

The genre is generally not as formulaic as most current psytrance, with artists having more freedom to explore their own individual sounds and styles. The most recognizable element of this style is that it has no set rules apart from basic trance elements such as the four-on-the-floor kick drum that has characterized the majority of electronic dance music styles to date. Suomisaundi tracks are usually very melodic and eclectic, typically with heavy influence from early Goa, tribal house and acid trance and as well as—departing from classical psychedelic trance—some degree of influence from funk music (e.g., incorporation of funky horn, guitar, or keyboard loops) oftentimes decorated with sounds and ambience reminiscent of retro video games.

Songs frequently include distorted sampling, layers and combinations of effects, tricky drum fills and breaks, as well as speech samples in Finnish or in English. On many occasions there are forms of strange humor and/or self-irony in the music or in the track titles. Some even describe the suomi-style of psytrance as anarchistic and almost punk in the trance music scene, even dadaist, because the songs are usually very different and progressive (or exploratory) compared to mainstream European psytrance tracks. Conversely, mainstream psychedelic trance comparatively sounds more serious than suomisaundi.

Additionally, suomisaundi bass tends to differ from conventional European psytrance in patch design, equalization, and rhythmic distinction. For example, bass patches tend to be less punchy (i.e., have a slower attack) and often breaks a rule followed by European and Israeli producers: never overlap kick drum and bass notes.

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Michael Argyle (psychologist)

Michael Argyle (11 August 1925, Nottingham – 6 September 2002) was one of the best known English social psychologists of the twentieth century. He spent most of his career at the University of Oxford, and worked on numerous topics. Throughout his career, he showed strong preferences for experimental methods in social psychology, having little time for alternative approaches such as discourse analysis.

Life
Michael Argyle was born in Nottingham on 11 August 1925. He was educated at Nottingham High School for Boys. After completing with distinction a Royal Air Force science course at the University of Cambridge he trained as a navigator in Canada (1943-7). In June 1949 Michael married Sonia Kemp and they had four children, Miranda (1952), Nick (1954), Rosalind (1957) and Ophelia (1963). After the war he read part one in moral sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and in 1950 graduated with first class honours in experimental psychology. Following two years of postgraduate study in Cambridge he became the first ever lecturer in social psychology at the University of Oxford, where he worked for many years. At the time, Oxford University was, along with the London School of Economics, one of only two universities in the United Kingdom to have a department of social psychology. He became a fellow of the newly founded Wolfson College, Oxford in 1966 and three years later a reader. He was one of the very early pioneers of social psychology in the UK and Europe and helped to initiate the British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology as the first social psychology editor (1961-7). In 1968 he set up a social skills training programme at Littlemore Hospital, Oxford. He chaired the social psychology section of the British Psychological Society twice (1964-7, 1972-4). Distinguished psychologists and sociologists from all over the world visited the research group he set up at Oxford. He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Oxford (1979), Adelaide and Brussels (1982) and an honorary fellowship of the British Psychological Society (1992). In 1990 The International Society of the Study of Personal Relationships in 1990 gave him a distinguished career contribution award.

After his retirement, he became Professor Emeritus at Oxford Brookes University. He regularly attended social psychology conferences. He had a great passion for Scottish country dancing.

His wife Sonia died in 1999 and Argyle died on 6 September 2002, at the age of 77, of injuries suffered in a swimming accident, from which he never fully recovered.

Work
Some of Argyle's best-known contributions were to this field. He was especially interested in gaze. One of his best-known books relevant to this field, The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour, became a best-seller. Argyle made contributions to many fields in psychology, including:
 * psychology of religion
 * social skills
 * nonverbal communication
 * the psychology of happiness
 * the psychology of social class

Communication cycle
Argyle made modifications in 1972 to the communication cycle initially developed by Charles Berner in 1965. The communication cycle involves six steps: someone decides to communicate an idea, encodes it, and sends it; someone else receives it, decodes it and understands it. Feedback demonstrates understanding (e.g. an action is performed or a reply message is encoded and sent). The model allows for the possibility of distortion at either the encoding or decoding stage.

Psychology of religion
Argyle, a committed Christian, published empirical works on the psychology of religion. His early work in this field was summarized in his book Religious Behaviour (1958). He also collaborated with Benjman Beit-Hallahmi to produce a later book, "The Psychology of Religious Beliefs, Behaviour and Experience" (1997). Both books show Argyle's commitment to empiricism in psychology, and list results of surveys into topics such as beliefs in the afterlife or frequencies of religious experience in the general population.

Psychology of happiness
One of Argyle's most notable later contributions was to the psychology of happiness. Keen that more research should be done in this field, he published "The Psychology of Happiness" in 1987, 2nd edition 2001. In this book he listed and discussed empirical findings on happiness, including that happiness is indeed promoted by relationships, faith, sex, eating, exercise, music, success, etc., but probably not by wealth.

Psychology of social class
Although social class is a concept largely studied by soci

Honorary doctorates

 * 1979 University of Oxford
 * 1982 University of Adelaide
 * 1982 University of Brussels

Fellowships

 * 1992 Honorary fellowship, British Psychological Society

Publications

 * The Scientific Study of Social Behaviour (Methuen 1957)
 * Religious Behaviour (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1958)
 * Training Managers (Acton Society Trust 1962), with Trevor Smith
 * Psychology and Social Problems (Methuen 1964)
 * The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour (Penguin 1967)
 * Social Interaction (Tavistock Publications 1969)
 * The Social Psychology of Work (Allen Lane 1972), ISBN 0-7139-0186-1
 * Skills With People: A Guide for Managers (Hutchinson 1973), ISBN 0-09-116481-8, with Elizabeth Sidney and Margaret Brown
 * Bodily Communication (Methuen 1975), ISBN 0-416-67450-X
 * Gaze and Mutual Gaze (Cambridge University Press 1976), ISBN 0-521-20865-3, with Mark Cook
 * Social Skills and Mental Health (Methuen 1978), ISBN 0-416-84980-6, with Peter Trower and Bridget Bryant
 * Person to Person: Ways of Communicating (Harper & Row 1979), ISBN 0-06-318097-9, with Peter Trower
 * Social Situations (Cambridge University Press 1981), ISBN 0-521-23260-0, with Adrian Furnham and Jean Ann Graham
 * The Psychology of Happiness (Methuen 1987), ISBN 0-416-40960-1
 * Cooperation: The Basis of Sociability (Routledge 1991), ISBN 0-415-03545-7
 * The Social Psychology of Everyday Life (Routledge 1992), ISBN 0-415-01071-3
 * The Psychology of Social Class (Routledge 1994), ISBN 0-415-07954-3
 * The Social Psychology of Leisure (Penguin 1996), ISBN 0-14-023887-5
 * The Psychology of Religious Behaviour, Belief and Experience (Routledge 1997), ISBN 0-415-12330-5, with Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
 * The Psychology of Money (Routledge 1998), ISBN 0-415-14605-4, with Adrian Furnham

plus numerous edited books, chapters, and articles in learned journals

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Munyati River

The Munyati River (also known as the Umniati River, and as the Sanyati River for part of its length) is a river in Zimbabwe. Under the Rhodesian administration, it was officially named the Umniati, but its spelling was changed in 1983 to more closely resemble the correct Shona pronunciation.

The river rises in Mashonaland East, just north of Chivhu, and approximately 100 km south of Harare. It runs approximately north-west and for much of its length it originally formed the southern border of Mashonaland province, and today is largely the southern border of Mashonaland West. The river is joined by the Mupfure River (also known as the Umfuli). Below this point, the river is often referred to as the Sanyati. After a total of 500 km the river flows into Lake Kariba (the section of the Zambezi between the Kariba Dam and the Batoka Gorge), making it part of the Zambezi Basin.

The river flow is highly variable, reflecting the sharp distinction in the local climate between dry and wet seasons. Between December and May it flows strongly and is about 3 m deep on the plateau, and 80 to 100 m in breadth (although less deep) on its lower reaches. During the rest of the year, it is much reduced and slower-flowing, usually only 2 m deep, and almost drying up on rare occasions during serious droughts; as last in 1984.

Gandavaroyi Falls
The biggest drop on the river is at Gandavaroyi Falls (Ganderowe Falls). As in Shona, ganda (kanda) means "to throw", and varoyi means "witches", "with typical poetry and precision, the local people have named the cataract after the picturesque practice they had of throwing reputed witches over the waterfall." The place was believed to be sacred and even this day, few locals prefer to visit this place. After this drop, the major tributary is Mvumvudze river which passes through Vashe

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MOPAC

MOPAC is a computational chemistry software package that implements a variety of semi-empirical quantum chemistry methods based on the neglect of diatomic differential overlap (NDDO) approximation and fit primarily for gas-phase thermochemistry. Modern versions of MOPAC support 83 elements of the periodic table (H-La, Lu-Bi as atoms, Ce-Yb as ionic sparkles) and have expanded functionality for solvated molecules, crystalline solids, and proteins. MOPAC was originally developed in Michael Dewar's research group in the early 1980's and released as public domain software on the Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange in 1983. It became commercial software in 1993, developed and distributed by Fujitsu, and Stewart Computational Chemistry took over commercial development and distribution in 2007. In 2022, it was released as open-source software on GitHub.

Functionality
MOPAC is primarily a serial command-line program. Its default behavior is to take a molecular geometry specified by an input file and perform a local optimization of the geometry to minimize the heat of formation of the molecule. The details of this process are then summarized by an output file. The behavior of MOPAC can be modified by specifying keywords on the first line of the input file, and translation vectors can be added to the geometry to specify a polymer, surface, or crystal.

MOPAC is compatible with other software to provide graphical user interfaces (GUIs), visualization of outputs, and processing of inputs. The most well-known GUIs that support MOPAC are  Chem3D, WebMO, the Amsterdam Modeling Suite, and the Molecular Operating Environment. Jmol can visualize some MOPAC outputs such as molecular orbitals and partial charges. Open Babel supports conversion to and from MOPAC's input file format.

Major features

 * Semiempirical models: AM1, PM3, PM6, PM7
 * Geometry optimization
 * Transition-state optimization
 * Vibrational analysis
 * COSMO solvation model
 * Periodic boundary conditions (Gamma point only, no Brillouin zone sampling)
 * MOZYME for closed-shell systems (linear-scaling electronic structure algorithm)
 * Gas-phase thermodynamics
 * Molecular polarizability
 * Automatic hydrogenation for pre-processing of Protein Data Bank structures
 * INDO spectroscopy
 * Configuration interaction
 * PARAM, a companion program for parameter optimization

History
MOPAC was originally developed in Michael Dewar's research group at the University of Texas at Austin to consolidate their previous developments of MINDO/3 and MNDO models and software and to serve as the software implementation of the AM1 model. The name MOPAC was both an acronym for Molecular Orbital PACkage and a reference to the Mopac Expressway that runs alongside parts of the UT Austin campus. The first version of MOPAC was deposited in the Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange (QCPE) in 1983 as QCPE Program #455 with James Stewart as its primary author. James Stewart joined the Dewar group in 1980 as a visiting professor on leave from the University of Strathclyde, and he continued the development of MOPAC after moving to the United States Air Force Academy in 1984. In 1993, MOPAC was acquired by Fujitsu and sold as commercial software, while James Stewart continued its development as a consultant. After 2007, new versions of MOPAC were developed and sold by Stewart Computational Chemistry with support from the Small Business Innovation Research program. Concurrent with its commercial development, there was an effort to continue development of the last pre-commercial version of MOPAC as an open-source software project. In 2022, the commercial development and distribution of MOPAC ended, and it was officially re-released as an open-source software project on GitHub developed by the Molecular Sciences Software Institute.

Early versions of MOPAC distributed by the QCPE were considered to be in the public domain and were forked into several other notable software projects. After James Stewart left, other members of the Dewar group continued to develop a fork of MOPAC called AMPAC that was originally released on the QCPE before also becoming commercial software. VAMP (Vectorized AMPAC) was a parallel version of AMPAC developed by Timothy Clark's group at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. Donald Truhlar's group at the University of Minnesota developed both a fork of AMPAC with implicit solvent models, AMSOL, and a fork of MOPAC itself. Also, commercial versions of MOPAC distributed by Fujitsu have some proprietary features (e.g. PM5, Tomasi solvation) not available in other versions.

MOPAC used different versioning systems throughout its development, sometimes with a version number or year stylized into the name. These alternate names include MOPAC3, MOPAC4, MOPAC5, MOPAC6, MOPAC7, MOPAC93, MOPAC97, MOPAC 2000, MOPAC 2007, MOPAC 2009, MOPAC 2012, and MOPAC 2016. Open-source versions of MOPAC now use semantic versioning.

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The Overture & the Underscore

The Overture & the Underscore is the 2004 (see 2004 in music) debut album by Australian singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko.

Background
"Essentially I wanted there to be something really classic about the album", says Blasko on her official website. "The kind of debut albums I like are those that don't try and do too much too soon, that point towards a number of possible directions, and that give the songs some room to move. It was really important to me that my voice and the songs had some character and that there was an intimacy to them. We tried to achieve this by using little or no effect on the voice and not going too far with overdubs."

Triple J music director Richard Kingsmill rated it ninth on his list of favourite 2004 albums. In 2011, he named it the 10th Greatest Australian Album Of All Time.

The album features former Beck and R.E.M. drummer Joey Waronker, who took a few days off working on Paul McCartney's album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard with producer Nigel Godrich to lay down his drum tracks for The Overture & the Underscore.

Reception
The album peaked at Number 35 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

Track list

 * 1) "All Coming Back" – 3:15
 * 2) "Beautiful Secrets" – 3:24
 * 3) "Always Worth It" – 3:46
 * 4) "At Your Best" – 3:36
 * 5) "Don't U Eva" – 4:19
 * 6) "Counting Sheep" – 4:21
 * 7) "Perfect Now" – 3:33
 * 8) "Sweet November" – 3:55
 * 9) "Cinders" – 4:09
 * 10) "True Intentions" – 4:11
 * 11) "Remorse" – 15:38 [The song "Remorse" ends at 5:31. After 5 minutes of silence (5:31 - 10:31), begins the hidden track "Long Time".]

 * All songs written by Sarah Blasko and Robert F Cranny.

Singles
"Don't U Eva" was released as a CD single containing two unique B-sides ("Fall Down" and "Into the Great Wide Open") on September 27, 2004.

The following tracks have been released as radio singles:

 * "Counting Sheep"
 * "Perfect Now"
 * "Always Worth It"

Studio crew

 * Joey Waronker – Drums and percussion
 * Robert F Cranny – Bass, drum programming, horn & string sample arrangements, guitars, organ, piano, synth
 * Sarah Blasko – Vocals, guitars, synth, percussion
 * Other musical contributors included Wally Gagel, Nadav & Edo Khan, Darren Hanlon, Bruce MacFarlane and Korel Tunador.
 * All tracks recorded & mixed by Wally Gagel, and mastered by Louis Teran, except "Long Time", recorded by Bruce MacFarlane.

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Valerie Curtin

Valerie Curtin is an American actress and screenwriter.

Personal life
Curtin was born in Jackson Heights, New York on 3/31/45, the daughter of radio actor Joseph Curtin. She attended Lake Erie College.

She is a cousin of TV comedian/actress Jane Curtin.

Career
Curtin performed with comedy groups and acted in theatrical productions in New York before going to Los Angeles in 1971. There, she was a member of The Committee, a comedy group.

Curtin began her writing career in the 1970s working on episodes of the television sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Curtin and her then husband Barry Levinson were nominated for an Academy Award (in the category of Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) for ...And Justice for All (1979) starring Al Pacino. They also co-wrote the semi-autobiographical Best Friends (1982), which starred Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn.

Curtin's acting career has run concurrently with her writing career. During the 1970s, she made various guest appearances on television in shows such as Happy Days; Welcome Back, Kotter; Rhoda; The Rockford Files; and Barney Miller. In March 1976, ABC shot the pilot episode for Three's Company, in which Curtin appeared alongside John Ritter and Susanne Zenor. Curtin played a character named Jenny, who eventually became Janet Wood, played by Joyce DeWitt.

Her movie appearances include Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (her first movie appearance, 1974), All the President's Men, Silver Streak, and Silent Movie (all 1976), Why Would I Lie? (1980), as well as Maxie (1985) and John Cassavetes' final film, the 1986 comedy Big Trouble, plus a small, uncredited role in Best Friends.

In 1982, Curtin was given the role of Judy Bernly in the television sitcom 9 to 5 based on the 1980 movie of the same name. Her character was portrayed by Jane Fonda in the film version. Curtin was dropped from the show after two seasons, when James Komack came on as the new executive producer, replacing the team led by Jane Fonda. However, Curtin returned for a syndicated version of 9 to 5 (1986–1988), reprising her earlier role; the new version was successful. In the 1980s and 1990s, her writing credits included mainstream films such as Inside Moves (1980), the 1984 remake of Unfaithfully Yours, and Toys (1992).

Curtin has also guest-starred in shows such as Frasier, Party of Five, Becker, The District, Just Shoot Me, and ER.

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Talk:Total station

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Can we work with Refelctorless total station in night when there is small intensity of light? Sanjay Lipare sanjay_lipare@rediffmail.com

 * Both regular and reflectorless total stations work by bouncing laser "light" off the target. The laser may be infrared, so not visible to the eye. But since the light is created by the total station, it does not matter whether it is night or not. --Gerry Ashton (talk) 17:52, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Yup. The only issues with night time use is seeing the crosshairs. Yevad (talk) 09:21, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

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Can a total station show E991 what signific it? my e-mail is seliashez@yahoo.es please sos elias espinoza M/s A-One Consultants,

 * What is E991? --Gerry Ashton (talk) 17:53, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

You have EDM listed as Electronic Distance Meter, I'm pretty sure it actually stands for Electronic Distance Measurement — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.87.139 (talk) 23:30, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Yup, Electronic Distance Measurement in the manuals. Yevad (talk) 09:22, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

sokkia
this page was redirected from searching "sokkia". but the total station in the picture is manufactured by leica. someone with enough rights should it out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.35.164.46 (talk) 17:48, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

EDM Redirect
EDM redirects here. It should not. The EDM is a device developed independent of the total station. It was common (for a time) that EDMs were mounted on theodolites with no ability to compute anything but slope distance to the target. I came here looking for interesting information about the development of the EDM from the time of microwave distance measurement and through the use of EDM to measure the distance to the retroreflective prism arrays placed on the moon during the Apollo missions.

I am disappointed. An EDM is not necessarily associated with a total station. You might as well redirect Tire to Car.--Bodybagger (talk) 06:01, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

 * EDM should redirect here, until such time as there is an EDM article all of its own. You could write this yourself 8-)  In the meantime this isn't ideal, but it's the best we've got.  I'd certainly suggest adding a short EDM section to Total station, just to indicate the history.   Andy Dingley (talk) 08:05, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

I have decided to survey my agricultural land by using leica total station how much accuracy I can get should I go for that?Want ur advise — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.204.130.173 (talk) 14:51, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

I have decided to survey my agricultural land by using leica total station how much accuracy I can get should I go for that?Want ur advise achaldesai.desai@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.204.130.173 (talk) 14:52, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Proposed merge with "Laser tracker"
I oppose a merge with "Laser tracker" because while they may be based on similar technology, laser trackers are much shorter range, more accurate, and worked with by a different community of users (for the most part). Jc3s5h (talk) 21:43, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Suggest that the term meter should be used for a measuring device, and metre used for the SI base unit of distance.

While a statement has been added to the 'Total station' article that the American 'meter' variety of the spelling of the International System of Units base unit 'metre' should be used, this variety has not been established by 'consistent usage'. if anything, the consistent usage rule establishes use of 'metre, as 'metres' and 'millimetres' are already incorporated in the article. The term 'meter' is also correctly used to refer to a measuring device, in the second sentence. There is no reason that this article should use American (or any other) spelling variations.

WP:RETAIN See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers § Retaining the existing format When an English variety's consistent usage has been established in an article, it is maintained in the absence of consensus to the contrary.

Usage of metre and meter
Suggest that the term meter should be used for a measuring device, and metre used for the SI base unit of distance.

While a statement has been added to the 'Total station' article that the American 'meter' variety of the spelling of the International System of Units base unit 'metre' should be used, this variety has not been established by 'consistent usage'. if anything, the consistent usage rule establishes use of 'metre', as 'metres' and 'millimetres' are already incorporated in the article. The term 'meter' is also correctly used to refer to a measuring device, in the second sentence. There is no reason that this article should use American (or any other) spelling variations.

WP:RETAIN See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers § Retaining the existing format When an English variety's consistent usage has been established in an article, it is maintained in the absence of consensus to the contrary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JuanFox (talk • contribs) 02:59, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

 * The argument about meter only referring to a measuring instrument was decided long ago at Manual of style/Dates and numbers; it is disruptive editing to re-argue it at each page. This article consistently used "meter" for the unit of measure in 2009 but I accidentally forgot to add a parameter to the convert template in this edit. I will now correct my error. Jc3s5h (talk) 15:47, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Coordinate measurement
The first sentence in this doesn't read very well. I would adjust it, but I'm not entirely sure what it's supposed to mean. In general, it might be worth clarifying that the instruments measure planar coordinates and convert them to rectangular for the display in X, Y & Z.

The statement about needing line of sight isn't correct, as in actual use it is easy enough to mark 2 points that you can see and use a string & tape measure to find the hidden point. Also, you don't necessarily need to be set up on a station, or to do a resection between two known points. Total stations have many uses depending on the imagination of the user. For example, I have used them to measure a very large door opening by simply setting it up level in front of the doorway and surveying various points (the rectangular coordinates displayed would have been relative to the location where it was used previously). The important thing in that exercise was determining accurate widths, heights and deviations from plumb, using programs such as "reference line". The actual position relative to anything else wasn't relevant. I have even done similar exercises when the instrument is fresh out of the box and just told the instrument that it was at 100.000, 100.000, 10.000 just for the purpose of being able to proceed.

Also, when using a total station to check "best fit" of a structure prior to works beginning, site control might not be established yet and again, actual position isn't so relevant, because the relationship between existing structures/elements is what is being looked at. Yevad (talk) 09:41, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

 * I agree that the first sentence isn't well written. I suspect the whole section needs to be rewritten. One problem is the word "measure". There isn't a clear demarcation between what is calculated and what is measured. Really, the total station makes a bunch of internal measurements, such as the reading of the horizontal and vertical angle encoders, the reading of an internal level, the phase of various modulations applied to the laser, temperature, atmospheric pressure, then corrections for various known imperfections in the instrument, and calculates a distance, horizontal angle, and vertical angle. Optionally, some instruments will display x, y, z coordinates if the position of the occupied point and a known direction are available.

 * I think the issue of whether site control has been established can be described by saying the total station can use a national or international geodetic coordinate system if points with known coordinates are available, or an assumed coordinate system can be used.

 * As for Yevad's comment "The statement about needing line of sight isn't correct, as in actual use it is easy enough to mark 2 points that you can see and use a string & tape measure to find the hidden point", I would say the total station is not measuring the hidden point, but depending on how extensive the onboard software is, it might be able to calculate the coordinates of the hidden point. Jc3s5h (talk) 10:40, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

 * Jc, my comment about line of sight would probably be based on an example where you mark out 2 nearby points with the same easting (or northing) as the position you seek, and then use the difference between the northing (or easting) as a guide to how far away the point is. You would then run a string line through the 2 points and measure beyond, or back from, the nearest point.  There are variations of this technique that can be used in all manner of situations, such as choosing 2 points to get a "reference line", if they are inline with the hidden point.Yevad (talk) 22:18, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

What a "Total" Station should be
Total stations seem to be an instrument that can measure distance and angles. The first is most frequently done by some sort of EDM and the latter by an optical angle encoder that is manually operated.

I propose that a new goal should be set for the development of a true "Total" Station.

First of all it should be robotic. Incorporate A GNSS/DGPS system. Have an on board high resolution 20 mega pixel camera. Optics that can resolve .5 arc seconds at 50 feet. Record Temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind direction and speed in all readings and calculations.

Other things that could be included. Spectrometer (detect airborne or surface chemical spills or hazards) Geiger Counter (measure environmental radiation) seismic sensor (measure seismic activity) lidar wind speed meter (could measure winds aloft or wind across a horizontal distance) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.44.163.17 (talk) 16:26, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

 * The preceding post is entirely unrelated to the purpose of Wikipedia, or any other encyclopaedia. Jc3s5h (talk) 17:59, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

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Berghaus

Berghaus Limited is a British outdoor clothing and equipment brand founded in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, and now headquartered in nearby Sunderland. It was founded in 1966 by climbers and mountaineers Peter Lockey and Gordon Davison, initially as an importer and distributor of outdoors products. Lockey and Davison's outdoor store in Newcastle upon Tyne, went by the name of the LD Mountain Centre. In 1972 they began designing and manufacturing their own products for sale in their shop. They gave their brand the German name 'Berghaus' which translates as 'mountain house'.

Berghaus offers a range of men's, women's and children's outdoor clothing and equipment, including waterproof jackets, fleeces, baselayers and legwear. They also produce a selection of outdoor specific accessories and footwear.

History
"It all began when climbers and mountaineers Peter Lockey and Gordon Davison from the North East of England, frustrated by what they saw as a lack of decent outdoor gear, decided to import and sell their own.

Their specialist outdoor store in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, went by the name of the LD Mountain Centre and quickly gained a reputation for selling the very best in high-performance outdoor products from the likes of Atomic Skis, Marker Bindings and Nordica Ski."

1970s
The first Berghaus rucksacks were launched in 1970 – the Berg 172 and Berg 272 models had external frames and basic single compartments. These more traditional sacks were followed two years later in 1972 by the Cyclops rucksack – arguably the world's first rucksack with an internal frame.

In 1977, Berghaus became one of Europe's pioneer users of Gore-Tex® fabric, a new waterproof and breathable fabric.

This was followed in 1979 by the development of the Yeti Gaiter, whose distinctive rubber rands were initially made from old tractor inner tubes.

1980s
In the 1980s, the Gemini jacket was introduced, and is still in production today; it allowed a walking jacket to have a zip-in fleece.

It was also in the early 1980s that mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington, 'officially' wore Berghaus. It was also around this time that Alan Hinkes – who would go on to become the UK's most successful extreme altitude mountaineer – began working with the company.

In 1986 the Extrem range was launched and included the Trango Jacket. The Attak sole unit was introduced the following year and exported around the world. Berghaus were awarded the Queen's Award for Export in 1988 and the Northern Business Award for Exporter of the Year.

1990s
In 1993, Pentland Group PLC, home to sports brands Speedo and Ellesse, acquired Berghaus. In the early 1990s Berghaus launched its first footwear collection. This collection included the Storm boot, a three-season fabric hiking boot.

As a new century approached Berghaus introduced the Simplex concept in 1997: the idea was that by minimising the layers of fabric in a garment and getting rid of any unnecessary styling you achieve a more breathable, lightweight product.

In 1999, a new lightweight and packable outerwear was introduced – Gore-Tex PacLite, a waterproof, windproof and breathable range of clothing.

The Nitro rucksack, introduced by Berghaus in 1998, was awarded the Millennium Product Award by the Design Council of Great Britain.

MtnHaus
In 2011, Berghaus announced that it had formed a design and development team called MtnHaus.

The MtnHaus team works with Berghaus-sponsored athletes, such as Leo Houlding and Mick Fowler, to produce kit for specific challenges, which means extended design, development and testing periods. So far the MtnHaus team have produced five products including the Asgard Smock, which went through 18 prototypes before the design was finalised. In 2013, the team developed the award-winning Vapour Storm Jacket.

Berghaus-sponsored athletes
Berghaus now has a team of over 21 athletes from all over the globe, including:

 * Climber Leo Houlding
 * Mountaineer Mick Fowler
 * Hand biker Karen Darke

Berghaus has a number of shops in the UK, including Bristol, Manchester, Covent Garden in London, Dalton Park in County Durham, Bridgend and Gretna.

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The Video Games Guide
Hi. I've again removed the prod tag from The Video Games Guide as the removal of a prod tag is taken as contesting the deletion. If you still think the article should be deleted, you'll have to take it to AfD instead. For what it's worth, I'd probably support the deletion, but I'd like a little more time to think it over. Cheers --Pak21 13:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
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Monochrome BBS
I get your point about "most of the community" but I was trying to point out that mono itself stayed in the BBS format, despite dwindling acitvity and discussions about moving the a web forum (which continue to this day - current suggestion is a mobile app interface!). This is hard to reference of course, hence I've got the tenuous link to LiveJournal - not a great source but perhaps it shows that there was a significant portion of Mono *community* that gathered on LiveJournal instead.

I added the Dierdre Ruana reference as there was a section in there about leaving mono, also the difference between presentation online identities in the two formats. Worth a read!

If you can find any better articles or links, even a blog post perhaps, we might be able to add that in. --Davoloid (talk) 11:02, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

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Chris Crutcher

Chris Crutcher (born July 17, 1946) is an American novelist and a family therapist. He received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2000 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.

Biography
Crutcher was born July 17, 1946, to a World War II B17 bomber pilot and a homemaker in Dayton, Ohio. A few weeks after his birth, his father gave up flying and the family moved to his mother's hometown of Cascade, Idaho, where his father could open an oil and gas wholesale business and he could grow up.

After graduating from high school, Crutcher attended Eastern Washington State College (now Eastern Washington University) where he swam competitively and earned a BA in psychology and sociology. With no post-graduation plans or prospects, he went back to Eastern and got a teaching certificate.

Crutcher taught at several primary and secondary schools in California and Washington before beginning his writing career. After his first book was completed, he joined Spokane's Child Protection Team and began practicing as a child and family therapist.

Writing
Crutcher's debut novel was Running Loose in 1983 about a senior in high school who has it all until life throws him for a few loops. Many of his novels concern teenaged athletes who have personal problems. Most of his protagonists are male, teenage athletes, often swimmers, and recurring supporting characters include a wise Asian-American teacher or coach and a caring journalism teacher.

Chris Crutcher's writing is controversial, and has been frequently challenged and even banned by individuals who want to censor his books by removing them from libraries and classrooms. Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories and Running Loose were #63 and #92 on the ALA list of 100 books most frequently challenged during the 1990s. His books generally feature teens coping with serious problems, including abusive parents, racial and religious prejudice, mental and physical disability, and poverty; these themes are viewed by some as too mature for children. Other cited reasons for censorship include strong language and depictions of homosexuality. Despite this controversy, Crutcher's writing has received many awards.

Crutcher has also written an autobiography called King of the Mild Frontier (2003), an adult novel titled The Deep End (1991), and two collections of short stories, Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories (1991) and Angry Management (2009), some of which further explore characters from his previous novels. One of the stories from Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories, "A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune", was made into a film called Angus.

The ALA Margaret Edwards Award recognizes one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature" and "helping adolescents become aware of themselves and addressing questions about their role and importance in relationships, society, and in the world." Crutcher won the annual award in 2000 when the panel cited six books published from 1983 to 1993: Running Loose, Stotan!, The Crazy Horse Electric Game, Chinese Handcuffs, Athletic Shorts, and Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (‡). All were edited by Susan Hirschman at Greenwillow Books. The panel chair observed that "[h]is stories bring to life the contemporary teen world, including its darker side. Sarah Byrnes suffers facial deformity caused by her father's deliberate cruelty. Jennifer Lawless dreads the nights her stepfather forces his sexual advances on her. ... Crutcher takes teenagers seriously and cares about them."

Books

 * Running Loose (1983) ‡
 * Stotan! (1986) ‡
 * The Crazy Horse Electric Game (1990 +
 * Chinese Handcuffs (1989) ‡
 * Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories (1991) ‡
 * The Deep End (1992)
 * Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (1993) ‡
 * Ironman (1995)
 * Whale Talk (2001)
 * King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography (2003)
 * The Sledding Hill (2005)
 * Deadline (2007)
 * Angry Management (2009)
 * Period 8 (2013)
 * Losers Bracket (2018)

Short stories

 * "A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune" – First appeared in Connections, edited by Donald R. Gallo, published in 1989 by Delacorte Press. Also published in Crutcher's collection Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories. Adapted into a film in 1995.
 * "Superboy" – Ultimate Sports: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults, edited by Donald R. Gallo, published in 1995 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers.
 * "Popeye the Sailor" – Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets, edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino, published in 1998 Viking Juvenile.
 * "Fourth and Too Long" – Time Capsule: Short Stories About Teenagers Throughout the Twentieth Century, edited by Donald R. Gallo, published in 1999 by Laurel Leaf.
 * "Guns for Geeks" – On the Fringe, edited by Donald R. Gallo, published in 2001 by Dial Books.
 * "'O' Foods" – Guys Write for Guys Read, edited by Jon Scieszka, published in 2005 by Viking. (Autobiographic)

Awards

 * 1993 – The ALAN Award from The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents for Significant Contribution to Adolescent Literature
 * 1998 – The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE/SLATE) Intellectual Freedom Award for advancing the cause of intellectual freedom
 * 2000 ALA Edwards Award
 * 2004 – The Writer magazine Writers Who Make a Difference Award
 * 2005 – Catholic Library Association St. Katherine Drexel Award for outstanding contribution to the growth of high school librarianship
 * 2005 – Intellectual Freedom Award from the National Coalition Against Censorship

The ALA has named eight of his books to the annual list of "Best Books for Young Adults".

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Blood II: The Chosen

Blood II: The Chosen is a first-person shooter video game developed by Monolith Productions and distributed by GT Interactive. Unlike the first installment, Blood, which was set in 1928, it takes place in the year 2028, so in addition to conventional weapons and magical items also incorporates science fiction technology, mostly falling under the cyberpunk genre, and elements of dystopian fiction. Much like its predecessor, the game contains a significant amount of graphic violence and black humor.

Single-player
In single player mode the player can choose their character from among the four Chosen. Blood II's gameplay is influenced by the choice of character at the start of the game because every Chosen has different marksmanship abilities, amount of maximum hit point and armor level, however the story mode can only be completed by playing as Caleb.

The game is divided into chapters, each of which accessible once the previous one is completed. A total of 17 weapons (some of them usable in dual mode) are available to the player, although there are only 10 weapon slots, forcing the player to choose which weapons will be included in their arsenal. Most weapons also have a secondary fire mode. For example, one mode deals higher damage to hostile creatures but consumes more ammunition. Several power ups including invulnerability, stealth movement, or increased firepower gives the player an advantage over enemies for a limited period of time.

Multiplayer
Blood II is primarily focused on the single player experience, but also features a multiplayer mode. Instead of Deathmatch mode, authors decided to change the name to "Bloodbath" because it better reflects the game's title. Each player can choose one of the four Chosen to control during the match – Caleb, Gabriella, Ishmael and Ophelia. Since every character has different abilities, the weaponry they receive at the beginning of the game varies. Players can also customize their characters, giving a score from 1 to 5 to four different stats.

The Chosen
The game takes place in 2028. Caleb, the protagonist, has spent the last century since Blood searching for a way to resurrect his comrades, The Chosen, who were killed in the previous game by the Cabal, a cult dedicated to the worship of the demon, Tchernobog. The Cabal, in the meantime, has spent the century since Tchernobog's death by Caleb's hands turning the cult into a global mega-corporation called CabalCo, which uses its economic influence to control the world's populace. This is all thanks to Gideon, the Cabal's current leader who has been raised to restore Tchernobog and destroy Caleb, now called the "Great Betrayer".

The game begins with Caleb riding a CabalCo subway train, where he discovers that Gideon is the one driving, after Gideon orders his troops to attack. Ready for a fight, Caleb pursues him through the train, which Gideon rigs to crash before escaping. After he regains consciousness, Caleb continues to chase Gideon through the city of New Town, leading to a few short encounters. He later catches up to Gideon in a CabalCo-owned museum, but before they fight, Gideon's bodyguard fires an experimental weapon creating a dimensional rift. Failing to harm Caleb, it instead brings back Gabriella, one of The Chosen, prompting Gideon and his companions to retreat.

From this point on, Caleb begins encountering strange creatures and people infested with strange mind-controlling parasites as he continues to hunt Gideon; fighting through CabalCo housing, steam tunnels, disease laboratories, and an air ship, before heading off to a Cabal controlled cathedral. Gideon is nowhere to be found and he is instead met with a giant of the creatures called the Naga, which Caleb defeats. Gabriella comes up from nearby subway tracks and probes Caleb about the creatures; Caleb has no good answer, and Gabriella expresses her doubts over Caleb's ability to handle this problem. Caleb tersely reassures her, and runs off to catch a train, which again crashes.

Caleb returns to his goal of killing Gideon, ignoring the creature problem, other than killing any encountered. After cornering Gideon in a CabalCo safe house, he is unexpectedly joined by Ishmael, another of The Chosen, after Gideon's bodyguard uses his weapon again. Gideon and his companions again escape, this time in a helicopter. After talking with Ishmael, Caleb fights his way through many CabalCo-owned institutions such as sewage and meat treatment plants and dams, as well as fighting through the subway system many times trying to get to the old underground.

Once there, he fights off a beast called a Behemoth and meets Ishmael again. During both encounters, Ishmael explains that the creatures are the inhabitants of an invading parallel universe, entering that world through tears in reality left by the death of Tchernobog, who maintained the walls separating realities, which have finally broken down due to the Cabal's experiments. Only Caleb can stop the invasion from consuming our world, as he inherited Tchernobog's power after killing the demon. Caleb shrugs off Ishmael's concerns, not accepting his powers, and returns to hunting Gideon.

Just before he leaves, Ishmael explains the whereabouts of Ophelia – the final Chosen and Caleb's lover; she is at CabalCo headquarters in Gideon's temple, the epicentre of the rifts. Caleb proceeds there, and, after dealing with several Cabal-created obstructions such as a raised bridge, finds Ophelia. Gideon returns and carries Ophelia away before Caleb can rescue her. Angered, Caleb blasts his way through CabalCo's offices, electrical generation areas, CabalCo's R&D lab, and finally finds Gideon on the rooftops. After Caleb defeats Gideon, with Ophelia freed, Gideon retreats through a dimensional rift. Against Ophelia's advice, Caleb follows him through.

Caleb finds Gideon in an ancient temple, part of a large strange citadel, and faces his spider version. With Gideon dead, Caleb fights many of the otherworldly beings until he encounters three undead forms of his comrades. They introduce themselves as The Ancient One, the leader of the invasion. After clumsily explaining their plans, Caleb faces them, before falling and finding the being's true form. After defeating the squid-like creature, the real Chosen appear. Grudgingly, Caleb gives in to their wishes and re-binds the realities, and the four Chosen begin their long walk home.

The Nightmare Levels
The Nightmare Levels, released in August 1999, was an expansion pack for Blood II that provided background information on Caleb, Gabriella, Ishmael, and Ophelia, narrated by a deceased Gideon. As the Chosen continue to walk home to their world from the invading reality, they encounter a psychic beast known as the Nightmare that captures Caleb due to the Chosen attracting it by telling scary stories.

The player then has to relive some of the most horrific moments of the Chosen's lives – Caleb fighting the Cabal in the frozen north (Blood, episode two), the Cabal attack on Ophelia's sorority which led her to join, Ishmael's escape from his life as a circus freak into the Cabal, and Gabriella's spooky night in a haunted house.

Caleb pops in at the end of each of the other Chosen's stories, and tries to figure out what is going on. After Gabriella's nightmare, he is transported to a level resembling the old west, which he escapes back out into the otherworld. There he finds the Nightmare, surmises that it is the being responsible for his troubles, and slays it. Gideon finishes with an end narration, foretelling the Chosen's many adventures and conquests ahead of them.

The Nightmare Levels reintroduced the Robed Cultist enemies from the original game, added the Gremlins enemies and the Nightmare boss, CabalCo cultists re-skinned as killer clown guards, and two new weapons – the combat shotgun and the flayer. The game also added new multiplayer (BloodBath) models (CabalCo cultists, Soul Drudges, etc.) and modes (such as "Zombie Head Soccer").

History
Blood II: The Chosen was developed by Monolith Productions and featured Monolith's new fully 3D engine LithTech, which was concurrently used in Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. The game was released on November 25, 1998, by GT Interactive, which was later purchased by Infogrames. An official expansion pack was released in August 1999 under the title of Blood II: The Chosen – The Nightmare Levels. As with Blood, a guide book was released for the game entitled Blood II: The Chosen Strategy Guide by Jamie Madigan.

Work on porting it and LithTech in general to Linux, and then later potentially to other systems like Solaris, was being done by employee Rachel Blackman, but was never completed.

Around 1999, the source code was partly released to allow easier modding. On April 29, 2010 Blood II was re-released by the digital distributor gog.com.

Reception
Mark Asher of CNET Gamecenter reported "disappointing" sales for Blood II in the United States during 1998's Christmas shopping season, a problem it shared with competitors SiN and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. Noting that the "only FPS game that has done really well [over the period] is Half-Life", he speculated that first-person shooters' market size was smaller than commonly believed. In April 1999, Asher wrote that the game "went nowhere at the retail level, although I've heard that Monolith has done well with OEM deals."

Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated, "In the end, Blood 2 seems like the Sybil of video games; it mimics a lot of different shooter genres, but it has no personality of its own." Elvis Bacon of PC Gaming World disliked the game, writing that it "has neither the gameplay to compete with the definitive title of the genre—Half-Life—nor the character of its predecessor."

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Kevin Spencer (TV series)

Kevin Spencer is a Canadian animated television series created by Greg Lawrence for CTV and The Comedy Network. The show is aimed at adult audiences, and takes its name from the main character, taking place in Ottawa, Ontario. It is based on the shorts of the same name that premiered on Mondo Media's flash cartoon site and CTV in 1997-98. It also aired on Burly Bear Network and Spike TV in the US.

Plot and characters
The show revolves around the everyday happenings of the Spencer family. Kevin himself is a 16-year-old, sociopathic juvenile delinquent addicted to alcohol, cough syrup and tobacco. He lives with his parents, whom he often shows ambivalence towards, and is a student at a local high school, although he rarely attends school. It is demonstrated many times throughout the series that Kevin is mentally unstable, as he is prone to random outbursts of violence, even towards himself, shows signs of insanity, and has a complete disregard for life, including his own. It is also shown that Kevin is probably mentally challenged, as he often has difficulties with performing the simplest of tasks, such as making himself a bowl of cereal, forgetting what he was talking about the instant after saying something, or even realizing that he was hungry, yet at times throughout the series, makes very well-articulated statements about certain aspects of society, culture, politics, and education, possibly indicating Kevin is a savant. Throughout the series, Kevin almost never speaks, aside from during dream sequences and occasional one-sentenced outbursts that the viewer only sees as speech or thought balloons. Instead, the show's narrator (voiced by Lawrence) speaks for Kevin; that is, he describes what Kevin is saying, thinking, and how Kevin reacts to the world around him. Kevin finally does speak in Season 2, Episode 17 (Dreamland), but only in his dreams.

His parents, Anastasia (voiced by Thomasin Langlands) and Percy (voiced by Lawrence), are also alcoholic, cough syrup-addicted chain-smokers. Both are crude, overweight, unattractive and extraordinarily stupid people who live off of welfare. Both parents neglect or otherwise use Kevin for their own selfish gains, and both show clear signs of sociopathic tendencies. Neither parent is faithful to the other, and Anastasia in particular is highly promiscuous. Their antics usually involve attempting to gain money or alcohol through illegal acts, which quite randomly succeed or fail. While both parents primarily show hatred and disgust towards one another, both occasionally demonstrate a small degree of lust for each other, though these moments rarely last longer than a scene of an episode.

Another frequent character in the show is Kevin's imaginary friend, Allen the Magic Goose (voiced by Mike Wetmore). Allen often encourages Kevin's sociopathic nature, noally asking him to do illegal, indecent, and/or dangerous things simply for the sake of the thrill or for vengeance. However, Kevin, being a sociopath, often shows ambivalence towards Allen, sometimes threatening or intimidating the bird. During such times, Allen often reminds Kevin of the futility of these outbursts, since Kevin is simply imagining Allen's existence. However, in Season 2, Episode 12 (The Potted Goose), Kevin and Allen have a falling out and go their separate ways, and it's revealed that Allen and other "imaginary" friends can leave their hosts and "find another head to live in". Allen tries living in the heads of other humans (during which time Kevin can no longer see Allen), including Percy, one of Kevin's teachers, Charlie Plunt, and the Widow Coulson. Meanwhile, Kevin tries out new imaginary friends, including Hacky the Cigar-Smoking Rollerskating Monkey, Zoltron (a robot that doesn't know the difference between a transformer and a transvestite), and a pimple-faced nerd who's new to the imaginary friend game. Neither Kevin nor Allen can find a suitable replacement, and reconcile at the end of the episode.

Charlie Plunt (voiced by Mike Wetmore) is Percy's friend.

Streaming
Ocnus Productions (creators of Kevin Spencer) sold the rights to the shows around May/June 2011 to Netflix. The seasons were therefore removed from Expressmedia.ca where Manufacture-On-Demand DVDs had been available for sale for several years. All 8 seasons were made available in the US on Netflix's streaming service July 15, 2011, although as of December 2011 the show failed to appear on Netflix's Canadian version of the streaming service. On July 17, 2012, Netflix stopped featuring it altogether. Seasons 1-2 were later added on to Hulu the same year. All 8 seasons of the show are currently available on Amazon Prime Video, Plex (software), and Tubi.

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John Rogers (writer)

John Rogers is an American screenwriter. He is known as the creator of the television series Jackie Chan Adventures (2000–2005), Leverage (2008–2012; 2021-present as Leverage: Redemption on Freevee), The Librarians (2014–2018), and The Player (2015).

Rogers co-wrote the films American Outlaws (2001), The Core (2003), Catwoman (2004), and Marry Me (2022), and co-wrote the story for the film Transformers (2007).

Early life and education
Rogers was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. While at McGill, he wrote for the school's comedy magazine The Red Herring.

Career
Rogers wrote the first draft of the script for the live-action movie Transformers, released in 2007. He wrote an early screenplay for Catwoman and created the cartoon series Jackie Chan Adventures. He also co-wrote the science fiction adventure film The Core. In 2004 Rogers wrote and executive-produced a television pilot based on the graphic novel Global Frequency. Although the pilot was never aired on network television, it was leaked onto the internet and accrued an international fan base. He created and served as executive producer for the TNT television series Leverage, which ran for five seasons from 2008 to 2012.

In addition to his work in television and film, Rogers has also written for the comic book industry. In March 2006, he launched an ongoing DC Comics series starring the new Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes, with co-plotter Keith Giffen and artist Cully Hamner. Rogers stayed on the series for two years, until #25. Some of his earlier comics work was created for Boom! Studios, where he penned a number of short stories for genre-themed anthologies Zombie Tales (and its sequels Zombie Tales: Oblivion and Zombie Tales: The Dead), Cthulhu Tales, Pirate Tales, Ninja Tales as well as What Were They Thinking?!, a series where contemporary writers wrote new humorous plots and dialogue over old stories. Rogers' last comics work to date is a fifteen-issue Dungeons & Dragons series for IDW Publishing.

Rogers has also worked on role-playing games, and is the author of Feywild chapter of the 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons, Manual of the Planes (2008).

Filmography
Film
 * American Outlaws (2001)
 * The Core (2003)
 * Catwoman (2004)
 * Transformers (2007) (Story only)
 * Marry Me (2022)

Television

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