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Chlothar IV

Chlothar IV (died 718) was the king of Austrasia from 717 until his death. He was a member of the Merovingian dynasty, and was installed by Charles Martel, a contender for the office of mayor of the palace, in opposition to Chilperic II, whose rule was thereby restricted to Neustria. This marked the first time since 679 that the kingdom of the Franks was divided. Following Chlothar's death, it was reunited under Chilperic.

Chlothar's parentage and the exact dates of his reign are uncertain, since no primary source gives them explicitly. Documents from Chlothar's reign place him on the throne between 28 June 717 and 24 February 718. A Frankish king-list from the reign of Charles the Bald a century and a half later gives his reign a length of one year, which is consistent with all other evidence. His reign began no earlier than 21 March 717 and was over by 18 May 718. Although it has been suggested that he was not a true Merovingian but a puppet king of convenience, this is unlikely, since it was the need for Merovingian legitimacy that compelled Charles Martel to name a rival king in the first place. Chlothar's father must have been either Theuderic III (died 691), in which case he was about 35 years old when he came to the throne, or Childebert III (died 711), in which case he was probably closer to 20.

Chlothar was made king at the instigation of Charles Martel following his victory over the forces of Chilperic II and the mayor of the palace, Ragamfred, at the Battle of Vincy on 21 March 717. This put Charles in control of most of Austrasia, although pockets still recognised Chilperic. The creation of a rival king in Chlothar IV served two goals: it legitimised Charles as mayor of the palace, an office which he claimed as an inheritance from his father, Pippin of Herstal, and it expanded his military resources by allowing him to raise a larger army through royal summons and the royal power to command.

Following Chlothar's elevation, Chilperic and Ragamfred allied with Duke Odo of Aquitaine. In early 718, Charles led an army in Chlothar's name against the Neustrians and Aquitanians, whom he defeated at the Battle of Soissons, forcing Chilperic II to flee to Aquitaine and Duke Odo's protection. He then led the same army deep into Saxony, as far as the river Weser.

The Lex Alamannorum, a law code for the Alamanni, was promulgated during Chlothar's reign and in his name. One of the three manuscripts groups of the Lex Alamannorum is called the Lex Alamannorum Hlotharii because of its invocation of Chlothar.

The Liber Historiae Francorum seems to imply that Chlothar died in 719. It is more likely that he died in 718 between 24 February, the date of his last known act, and 18 May, when Wissembourg Abbey, which was loyal to Charles Martel and dated its charters by the reign of Chlothar IV, switched to dating them by Chilperic II. Charles's pursuit of Chilperic, which culminated in a negotiated settlement with Odo for the king's return, was probably required by the sudden death of Chlothar IV. It has even been suggested that the suddenness of his death is suspicious, indicating perhaps that Charles had him removed—as soon as he no longer need him—in favour of the more legitimate Chilperic. No primary sources casts any suspicion, however.

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Kerzhenets

The Kerzhenets (Керженец) is a river in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Volga, joining the Volga near Lyskovo, about 70 km east of Nizhny Novgorod. It is 290 km long, and has a drainage basin of 6140 km2.

History
After the schism (Raskol) of the 1660s within the Russian Orthodox Church, the densely forested shores of the Kerzhenets became the refuge for many Old Believers. Their settlements, called Kerzhenets sketes (Керженские скиты), remained numerous into the 19th century, and the people themselves were known as the Kerzhaks (Кержаки).

According to an Old Believer legend, the oldest of the sketes, the Olenevsky Skete (Оленевский скит, i.e. "The Skete of the Deer"), had supposedly been founded in the 15th century by some of Venerable Macarius's monks to commemorate their leader's Miracle of the Moose that took place at that site, and later joined the Raskol.

The former skete is now the village of Bolshoye Olenevo, located some 24 km south-east from the district capital Semyonov.

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TVQ (disambiguation)

TVQ is the Brisbane television station of Network Ten in Australia.

TVQ may also refer to:

Television

 * TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting, a television station in Fukuoka, Japan
 * Télé-Québec, a French-language TV network
 * Television Quarterly, a magazine published by NATAS
 * KTVQ, station TVQ in region K; a TV station in Billings, Montana, USA
 * KTVQ (Oklahoma City), former station TVQ in region K; a defunct TV station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
 * WTVQ, station TVQ in region W; a TV station in Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Other uses

 * Taxe de vente du Québec, the French name for Quebec Sales Tax, the provincial tax on goods and services in Quebec, Canada; and marked on bills and receipts
 * Smartwings Slovakia (ICAO airline code )

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Mizérable (EP)

"Mizérable" is the debut extended-play or mini album of Japanese singer-songwriter Gackt, released on May 12, 1999, by Nippon Crown. It marked his solo debut, four months after he left Malice Mizer, immediately gaining success reaching second position on the Oricon Albums Chart.

All of the album's lyrics were written and music composed and produced by Gackt himself, and so it remained in all his albums. Musically incorporating violin, piano and modern rock instruments, with mixed pop-art rock sound, and recognizable emotional-metaphorical lyrics, the album suggested his future musical expression.

Summary
In 1999, the 26-year-old Gackt was living in Tokyo, and trying to set up his solo project. He was joined by his fellow Cains:Feel members, You Kurosaki who became the rhythmic guitarist and violinist and Ren Aoba who became the bassist of his live supporting band, also the other, not-known members. Of them only Masa Shinozaki continued to be part of the support band. In February, Gackt travelled in Los Angeles, U.S. and France, to complete recording and filming. In April, he held his first concerts in 10 months called Gackt Easter Live - Resurrection, which was held in the Omiya Arche. It was a small event where he performed the song "Mizerable" live for the first time, as well talked with fans and announced the upcoming national tour.

The song "Mizerable" being the title song from the mini-album, was released one month later. This was first released as a single box containing a mini CD with the song and instrumental track, along VHS of the title song's promotional video and making of. Also nine days later a mini CD single version was released, containing no VHS. Also the song "Story" was re-recorded and released as a single titled "Saikai ~Story~" on August 30, 2000. Both songs were included on the 2004 compilation, The Sixth Day: Single Collection.

Release
The album was released on May 12, 1999, by Nippon Crown. In the fourth counting week of May it reached number two on the Oricon chart, with sales of 163,970 copies. In the upcoming week, it was at number ten respectively, with sales of 28,380 copies. It charted for 12 weeks, and with sales of 252,670 copies, it was the 95th best selling album of the year.

From the album were released two singles, "Mizérable", and a re-recording of "Story" titled "Saikai ~Story~", but is not considered the album's official single. The first single "Mizérable" reached number three on the second counting week of July, with sales of 65,530 copies. In the upcoming week, it was at number fifteen, with sales of 20,230 copies. It charted for 9 weeks, and sold over 116,771 copies. The second single "Saikai ~Story~" reached number seven on the second counting week of September 2000, with sales of 60,510 copies. It charted for 6 weeks, and sold over 91,200 copies.

Album credits
Personnel
 * Vocals: Gackt Camui
 * Guitars: You Kurosaki, Hideki Ekawa, Masa Shinozaki, Ren Aoba, Nao
 * Bass guitar: Ren Aoba, Chuck Wright
 * Drums: Matt Sorum, Gackt Camui
 * Piano: Gackt Camui
 * Violin solo: Bruce Dukov
 * Cello solo: Dennis Karamazyan
 * Keyboards: Yohei Shimada, Gackt Camui
 * Voice over: Val'erie Blier

Production
 * Producer: Gackt
 * Executive producer: Atsushi Takeshi, Masami Kudo (Nippon Crown)
 * Engineer: Stan Katayama, Tetsuo Mori, Hiroto Kobayashi, John Aguto, Brian Kinkel
 * String engineer: Nicholas Pike
 * Mixing: Stan Katayama
 * Programming: Takashi Furukawa, Yohei Shimada

Design
 * Art direction: Yoichirou Fujii (Bakery37.1)
 * Design: Maki Yoshikawa, Keiko Shimamura (Bakery37.1)
 * Photography: William Hames, Bruce Ecker

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Robert Earl (disambiguation)

Robert Earl is the founder and CEO of Planet Hollywood International, Inc.

Robert Earl may also refer to:

 * Robert Earl (judge) (1824–1902), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals
 * Robert Earl (singer) (born 1926), English singer
 * Robert Earl (U.S. Marine), United States Marine lieutenant colonel
 * Bob Earl (born 1950), American racing driver
 * Rob Earl, member of The Medway Poets
 * Robbie Earl (born 1985), American ice hockey player

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Marshall, Victoria

Marshall, formerly known as Marshalltown, is a residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Marshall had a population of 2,299. The Marshall railway station is located in the suburb.

History
The first Marshalltown Post Office opened on 8 November 1873, closing in 1911 when the Marshall Railway Station office opened. This was renamed Marshalltown in 1915 and closed in 1979.

The suburb of Marshall was significantly reduced in size in 2012, when more than two thirds of its previous area was re-gazetted as part of the new suburb of Charlemont, which is being developed as part of the Armstrong Creek Growth Area.

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Kinnie Starr

Alida Kinnie Starr (born 1970) is a Canadian multidisciplinary singer and rapper.

Early life
Starr was born and raised in Calgary, where she attended Western Canada High School. Her ancestry is French, German, Irish and self-identified indigenous heritage, specifically Mohawk. She is trilingual (English, French and Spanish). Starr has a BA in Race and Gender Studies from Queen's University.

After moving to Vancouver, Starr formed her first band in 1992. According to legend, the true extent of her talent was first revealed on trip to New York City, when a friend pushed her onstage at an East Village club's open-mic night, where her impromptu spoken-word poetry met an enthusiastic reception.

Career
Following a self-released demo called Learning 2 Cook in 1995, she released her debut album Tidy in 1996, mixing rock, punk, pop, and hip-hop, along with her trademark spoken-word poetry. On that album, she rapped in three languages: English, Spanish, and French.

Starr signed to major label group Island/Def Jam in 1997, following a massive bidding war during which Clive Davis personally flew out to dine the young artist to try and sign her to his roster of pop stars. The next year, Seagram bought Polygram, the parent company of Island Def Jam, and merged it into Universal Music Group. In the resulting upheaval, Starr felt she was lost in the shuffle and she asked to be released from her contract. The material she recorded for her first album with Island Def Jam, 1998's Mending was never released, though some record labels have talked of releasing the lost album.

In 1997, Starr appeared on the Lilith Fair tour. In the late '90s and in 2004, she toured Canada with Veda Hille and Oh Susanna as part of the "Scrappy Bitch Tour".

She performed in November 2000 at Lee's Palace in Toronto.

Cirque du Soleil pursued Starr to sing in their productions, and in 2003 she contracted with them to perform in Zumanity for two years. After releasing her 2003 album Sun Again, she moved to Las Vegas. However, she was back home in Canada by the following year, where she continued to perform and record.

Her 2013 album "Kiss It" was made available to fans at Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival one week before the official release.

Her 2018 album, Feed the Fire explores finding one's truest self amidst the digital chaos of the 21st century.

Musical style and influences
Her musical style has been described as "hip hop aggro groove".

Starr has enlisted other Canadian musicians to appear on her albums over the years, including Swollen Members' Moka Only, Coco Love Alcorn, former Dream Warrior Spek and Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara. Nelly Furtado credits Starr as an influence.

Music videos

 * "Ophelia" Director: Marsha Herle
 * "Month of Trickery" Director: Marsha Herle
 * "Nearer" Director: Marsha Herle
 * "Home is Everywhere" Director: Hannah C
 * "Go Go See It" Director: Hannah C
 * "High Heels" Director: Hannah C

Film
Starr's songs have been included on the soundtracks for the TV series The L Word and the movie Thirteen.

In 2001, Starr co-starred in Down and Out with the Dolls, a Kurt Voss movie about a fictional all-girl rock band.

Starr conceived of, and co-produced, the 2016 documentary Play Your Gender, which explores the gender gap in the music industry, asking why only 5% of professional music producers are female. Produced by Sahar Yousefi and directed by Stephanie Clattenburg, the film premiered at the Canberra International Film Festival in Australia. At the 2017 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival the film was awarded "Best Music / Art Documentary" (in a tie). In 2018, the film was screened at the Reeperbahn Festival as part of the "Key Change Festival Initiative".

Starr composed the score for the 2018 Haida language film Edge of the Knife.

Activism
Much of Starr's work engages positively with female sexuality, in contrast to male perspectives often associated with hip-hop culture. Starr identifies as bisexual, and has enjoyed popularity in the queer community.

In 2006 she formally became a mentor for aspiring indigenous musicians as a faculty member with the Manitoba Audio Recording Industry Association's Aboriginal Music Program (AMP) Camp.

Starr appeared as a guest on The Rachel Maddow Show on 11 August 2006. On 31 August, her single "Anything" was the first-ever No. 1 single on CBC Radio 3's new countdown show The R3-30.

Starr has often spoken out, for example during a 2013 performance at Vancouver Folk Music Festival, about the importance of protecting water.

Filmography

 * 2001: Down and Out with the Dolls. Director: Kurt Voss.
 * 2016: Play Your Gender (host, curator & co-producer). Director: Stephanie Clattenburg. Producer: Sahar Yousefi.

Awards and recognition
In 2004, Starr was nominated for the Juno Award for New Artist of the Year.

Starr was featured in the Royal British Columbia Museum's major 2008 exhibition, "Free Spirit: Stories of You, Me and BC", as one of 150 cultural icons of BC.

She produced the album We Are... by Digging Roots, which won the Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2010.

In 2011, Starr was honoured as a Pioneer in Canadian Hip Hop Culture by the ManifesTO festival.

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Ken Phelps

Kenneth Allen Phelps (born August 6, 1954) is an American former professional baseball designated hitter and first baseman. He played for six different Major League Baseball (MLB) teams from 1980 to 1990, primarily with the Seattle Mariners. Baseball statistician Bill James cited Phelps as an example of a player who is unfairly denied a chance to play in the majors, despite compiling strong minor league statistics.

Early years
Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Phelps graduated from Ingraham High School in north Seattle in 1972. He played a year at Washington State in Pullman under Bobo Brayton, then headed to Mesa Community College, looking for an opportunity to play at Arizona State in Tempe.

In his only season at MCC in 1974, Phelps was named a junior college All-American. He was drafted twice in the first round (January and June drafts) by the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies, respectively. He had previously been drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the eighth round out of high school in 1972.

All this earned Phelps a chance from Coach Jim Brock to play at ASU, where he was named to the College World Series All Star team in 1976, when the Sun Devils lost to rival Arizona after having defeated the Wildcats seven times that season, including a first-round game in Omaha.

Professional career
The left-hitting first baseman was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the fifteenth round of the 1976 baseball amateur draft. Phelps hit a combined 43 home runs from 1980–81 for the Omaha Royals, KC's Triple-A affiliate in the American Association. The Royals traded him to the Montreal Expos prior to 1982 season for pitcher Grant Jackson. In the American Association in 1982, Phelps hit .333 with 46 home runs and 141 RBI for the Wichita Aeros. He had only eight major league at-bats that year, as there was no room on a very talented Montreal roster for Phelps to break in. Instead, Phelps' hometown club, Seattle, purchased him from the Expos after the 1982 season.

Seattle
An average defensive player, Phelps was better suited to play with Seattle in the American League, as he could serve as the designated hitter, and the struggling franchise also had plenty of room for advancement. Phelps split time in 1983 between Seattle and its Pacific Coast League affiliate in Salt Lake City. Again, he hit minor league pitching well (.341 with 24 home runs and 82 RBI in 74 games), but he did not play much in the majors. In 1984, he played a bit more for Seattle, hitting 24 home runs in only 290 at-bats. Bad luck intervened early that year when a pitch broke his hand in the third game of the season; he had won the regular first base job, and hit two home runs in his first three-game and had five hits in his first ten at-bats. The injury resulted in the call-up of first baseman Alvin Davis after just one game in Triple-A, who immediately produced; Davis was named to the American League All-Star team and was the league's Rookie of the Year.

The next season, Phelps found himself behind Davis at first and Gorman Thomas at DH, who had been signed as a free agent the previous season as an outfielder, which limited Phelps to a mere 116 major league at-bats.

In 1986 at the age 31, Phelps got into the major league lineup on a more-or-less regular basis. Although he was normally platooned against left-handed pitchers, Phelps still clocked 51 home runs from 1986–87. It was at this time that his career travails inspired author Bill James to create the "Ken Phelps All-Star" team. As James described it:

"Ken Phelpses are just available; if you want one, all you have to do is ask. They are players whose real limitations are exaggerated by baseball insiders, players who get stuck with a label -- the label of their limits, the label the things they can't do -- while those that they can do are overlooked... The Ken Phelps All-Stars [are] a whole teamful of guys who are wearing labels, but who nonetheless can play major-league baseball, and will prove it if they ever get the chance."

The Buhner trade
Phelps hit 14 more home runs for Seattle in the first half of 1988. Impressed, owner George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees traded Triple-A prospect Jay Buhner to Seattle in exchange for Phelps,  despite already having Don Mattingly and Jack Clark to play first base and DH. With limited playing time, Phelps found it difficult to maintain his production of the previous four-and-a-half seasons, while Buhner went on to become an All-Star and legendary Mariners player. A Seinfeld episode in early 1996 ("The Caddy") depicted Yankee fan Frank Costanza (played by Jerry Stiller) as more upset about the Buhner trade than about the supposed death of his own son George. Phelps only hit 17 home runs for the Yankees before being traded to the Oakland Athletics in late August 1989. The A's won the World Series, but Phelps had just two at-bats in the post-season, with a pinch-hit double in the third game of the league championship series.

Final homer
Phelps' final home run might have been his most notable; it came with Oakland before a sell-out home crowd in 1990 on April 20, with two outs in the bottom of the ninth that Friday night. Phelps was called out of the dugout to pinch hit against Brian Holman of the Mariners, who had retired the first 26 batters in succession; he homered on the first pitch to ruin the perfect game.

Years later, Phelps said he wanted to hit it out because he did not want to watch himself on ESPN's SportsCenter all season making the out to complete Holman's gem. He was traded to Cleveland in mid-June, and retired after playing 7 games for the Giants AAA affiliate in Phoenix the next season in 1991 at the age of 36.

Summary
Phelps' career .239 batting average hides the things that, as James pointed out, he could do. Thanks to outstanding power and strike zone judgment, his career OPS is a strong .854. Phelps hit 123 home runs in 1854 career at-bats, the 28th best ratio in major league history through 2004 (min. 1500 plate appearances). Phelps hit his first 100 home runs in 1322 at-bats — the second fastest, as measured by at bats, in MLB history, behind Ryan Howard in 1141 at-bats; Phelps still holds the AL record.

After baseball
As of 2005, Phelps did color commentary on the radio for Arizona Diamondbacks baseball games. In 2006, Phelps was replaced as the Diamondbacks color analyst by former Major League pitcher Tom Candiotti. Today, he does baseball analysis for Fox Sports Arizona, along with community and media work he does for the state's largest electric utility, Arizona Public Service. Programs that Phelps has been involved with (The ABC's of Baseball, and Life and Power Players) have received national recognition for having positive impact on children.

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Ron Marz

Ron Marz (born November 17, 1965 ) is an American comic book writer, known for his work on titles such as Batman/Aliens, DC vs. Marvel, Green Lantern, Silver Surfer, and Witchblade.

Career
Marz is known for his work on Silver Surfer and Green Lantern, as well as the DC vs. Marvel crossover and Batman/Aliens. He co-created Genis-Vell in Silver Surfer Annual #6 (1993). Marz worked on the CrossGen Comics series Scion, Mystic, Sojourn, and The Path. At Dark Horse Comics he created Samurai: Heaven and Earth and various Star Wars comics. He has written for Devil's Due Publishing's Aftermath line including Blade of Kumori. In 1995, he had a brief run on X-O Manowar for Valiant Comics. The following year, Marz wrote the DC/Marvel: All Access limited series which was an intercompany crossover between DC and Marvel characters.

While writing Green Lantern, Marz wrote the "Emerald Twilight" storyline, in which the character of Hal Jordan, stricken with grief, became a mass murderer, leading to the destruction of the Green Lantern Corps, and Kyle Rayner being chosen at random as the last Green Lantern.

Marz's 2000s work includes a number of Top Cow Productions comic books, including Witchblade, which he wrote from issue #80 (Nov. 2004) to issue #150, plus a number of specials and crossover stories featuring the character, such as Witchblade/The Punisher in 2007 and Witchblade/Devi in 2008. His other Top Cow work includes Cyberforce #1–6 in 2006 and Cyberforce/X-Men in 2007.

For DC Comics, he has written Ion, a 12-part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after the One Year Later event, and Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Parallax and Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion, two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover, The Sinestro Corps War.

Marz wrote Moonstone Books' 2006 annual featuring The Phantom, and was responsible for getting writers Chuck Dixon, Mike Bullock, Tony Bedard, and Rafael Nieves to participate with chapters for the book.

Marz became an editor of three of Virgin Comics' Shakti Line titles in 2007 and oversaw Devi, Ramayan 3392 A.D. and The Sadhu. He wrote the Beyond series, based on a story created by Deepak Chopra.

In 2008 Marz wrote Broken Trinity, which featured the characters Witchblade, The Darkness, and Angelus, as well as the tie-in series, Broken Trinity: Witchblade, Broken Trinity: Angelus (2008), and Broken Trinity: Aftermath (2009). He signed an exclusive contract with Top Cow, which saw him write three comics a month: two for Marc Silvestri's Top Cow universe, and a creator-owned project.

In 2011, Marz was the writer on Voodoo, which was part of DC Comics' company-wide title relaunch, The New 52.

In 2020 Marz collaborated with Andy Lanning on the nine-issue DC Comics crossover storyline "Endless Winter", which would debut that December.

Women in Refrigerators Trope
In 1999, Gail Simone introduced the term Women in Refrigerators to highlight a troubling trend in comic narratives: the use of female characters' suffering—through death, injury, or assault—as mere plot devices to advance male protagonists' stories. This concept was sparked by an event in a 1994 Green Lantern issue written by Ron Marz, where Kyle Rayner discovers his girlfriend Alexandra DeWitt's fate at the hands of the villain Major Force, who had murdered her and left her body in a refrigerator. Simone's critique aimed to shed light on the broader issue of gender bias and the disposability of female characters within the genre.

In response, Marz stated: "To me the real difference is less male-female than main character-supporting character. In most cases, main characters, 'title' characters who support their own books, are male. ... the supporting characters are the ones who suffer the more permanent and shattering tragedies. And a lot of supporting characters are female." He also further explained:

"I created her [Alexandra DeWitt] with the intention of having her be murdered at the hands of Major Force. I took a lot of care in building her as a character, because I wanted her to be liked and her death to mean something to the readers. I wanted readers to be horrified at the crime, and to empathize with Kyle's loss. Her death was meant to bring brutal realization to Kyle that being GL [Green Lantern] wasn't fun and games. It was also meant to sever his links with his old life, paving the way for his move to New York. And ultimately I wanted her death to be memorable and illustrate just how truly heinous Major Force was. Thus the fridge."

Personal life
As of 2013, Marz lives in Duanesburg, New York.

CrossGen

 * Chimera #1–4 (2003)
 * CrossGen Chronicles #1–2, 5 (2000–2001)
 * Mystic #1–17 (2000–2001)
 * The Path #1–18 (2002–2003)
 * Scion #1–39 (2000–2003)
 * Sojourn #1–24 (2001–2003)

Dark Horse Comics

 * Dark Horse Presents #101–102, 138 (1995–1998)
 * Star Wars: Darth Maul #1–4 (2000)
 * Star Wars: Empire #19–22, 24–28 (2004)
 * Star Wars Tales #1–2 (1999)

Dark Horse Comics / DC Comics

 * Batman/Aliens #1–2 (1997)
 * Batman/Tarzan: Claws of the Cat-Woman #1–4 (1999)
 * Darkness/Superman #1–2 (2005)
 * Green Lantern Versus Aliens #1–4 (2000)

DC Comics

 * Action Comics #749 (1998)
 * The Adventures of Superman #563, 570 (1998–1999)
 * The Adventures of Superman vol. 2 #15 (2014)
 * All-American Comics vol. 2 #1 (1999)
 * Batman 80-Page Giant #1 (1998)
 * Batman Confidential #37 (2010)
 * Batman Villains Secret Files and Origins #1 (1998)
 * Batman: Hidden Treasures #1 (2010)
 * Convergence Batman and Robin #2 (2015)
 * Convergence Justice League International #1–2 (2015)
 * Countdown Presents the Search for Ray Palmer: Wildstorm #1 (2007)
 * DC Retroactive: Green Lantern The '90s #1 (2011)
 * Detention Comics #1 (1996)
 * Doctor Strangefate #1 (1996)
 * Friday the 13th: Bad Land #1–2 (2008)
 * Green Lantern vol. 3 #48–107, 109–114, 117–125, #0, #1,000,000, 176–181, Annual #4, 6 (1994–2004)
 * Green Lantern 80-Page Giant #1 (1998)
 * Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #4–7 (1993)
 * Green Lantern Plus #1 (1996)
 * Green Lantern Secret Files and Origins #1–2 (1998–1999)
 * Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends #1 (1997)
 * Green Lantern/Sentinel: Heart of Darkness #1–3 (1998)
 * Green Lantern: Fear Itself HC (1999)
 * Ion #1–12 (2006–2007)
 * JSA Secret Files and Origins #1 (1999)
 * Legends of the Dark Knight 100–Page Super-Spectacular #5 (2015)
 * Parallax: Emerald Night #1 (1996)
 * Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80–Page Giant #1 (1999)
 * Superboy #32–41, 45–47 (1996–1998)
 * Superboy Plus #1 (1997)
 * Superman vol. 2 #140, 147 (1998–1999)
 * Superman Secret Files and Origins #2 (1999)
 * Superman: The Man of Steel #84 (1998)
 * Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Ion #1 (2008)
 * Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Parallax #1 (2007)
 * Tangent Comics/Metal Men #1 (1997)
 * Tangent Comics/Powergirl #1 (1998)
 * Tangent: Superman's Reign #1–11 (2008–2009)
 * Voodoo #1–4 (2011–2012)

DC Comics / Marvel Comics

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Earth (1998 film)

Earth (पृथ्वी; released in India as 1947: Earth) is a 1999 Indo-Canadian period romance drama film directed by Deepa Mehta. It is based upon Bapsi Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India (1991, US; 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, UK), set during the 1947 partition of India. Earth is the second instalment of Mehta's Elements trilogy, preceded by Fire (1996) and followed by Water (2005). It was India's entry for the 1999 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Plot
The story is set in Lahore (now the capital of Pakistani Punjab) in the time period directly before and during the partition of India in 1947 at the time of Indian independence.

A young girl with polio, Lenny (Maia Sethna), narrates the story through the voice of her adult self (Shabana Azmi). She is from a wealthy Parsi family who hope to remain neutral to the rising tensions between Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims in the area. She is adored and protected by her parents, Bunty (Kitu Gidwani) and Rustom (Arif Zakaria), and cared for by her Ayah, named Shanta (Nandita Das). Both Dil Navaz, the Ice-Candy Man (Aamir Khan), and Hassan, the Masseur (Rahul Khanna) are in love with Shanta. Shanta, Dil, and Hassan are part of a small group of friends from different faiths (some of whom work for Lenny's family) who spend their days together in the park. With partition, however, this once unified group of friends becomes divided and tragedy ensues.

Cast

 * Aamir Khan – Dil Nawaz
 * Rahul Khanna – Hassan, the Masseur
 * Nandita Das – Shanta, the maid
 * Maia Sethna – Lenny Sethna
 * Shabana Azmi – older Lenny, narrator
 * Kitu Gidwani – Bunty Sethna
 * Arif Zakaria – Rustom Sethna
 * Kulbhushan Kharbanda – Imam Din
 * Kumar Rajendra – Refugee Police
 * Pavan Malhotra – Butcher
 * Sardar - Gulshan Grover

Reviews
The film holds an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 35 reviews. Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and states that Earth "is effective because it doesn't require much history from its viewers, explains what needs to be known, and has a universal message". The New York Times described it as "a powerful and disturbing reminder of how a civilization can suddenly crack under certain pressures". The New Yorker argues that "Deepa Mehta handles her material convincingly, and the cast is so likable that they wear the larger themes like beautiful garments". Rediff.com notes that "Aamir Khan has probably given the best performance of his life. It is hard to imagine another actor bringing alive the nuances of the ice-candy man the way he does". Planet Bollywood gave the film a 9.5 out of 10 and wrote that "Earth is strongly recommended to those who want to see a different type of Hindi film and who are tired of the usual boy meets girl stories and revenge dramas".

Awards and nominations

 * Asian Film Festival – Best Film Award
 * Filmfare Best Male Debut Award – Rahul Khanna
 * Filmfare Best Female Debut Award – Nandita Das
 * Earth was India's official entry for the 71st Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1999, but was not included among the final five nominees selected by the AMPAS.

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MD Helicopters MH-6 Little Bird

The Boeing MH-6M Little Bird (nicknamed the Killer Egg) and its attack variant, the AH-6, are light helicopters used for special operations in the United States Army. Originally based on a modified OH-6A, it was later based on the MD 500E, with a single five-bladed main rotor. The newest version, the MH-6M, is based on the MD 530F and has a single, six-bladed main rotor and four-bladed tail rotor.

Development

The OH-6 was started in 1960, when the US Army issued Technical Specification 153 for a Light Observation Helicopter (LOH) that could perform personnel transport, escort and attack missions, casualty evacuation, and observation. Twelve companies took part in the competition and Hughes Tool Company's Aircraft Division submitted the Model 369. Two designs, those submitted by Fairchild-Hiller and Bell, were selected as finalists by the Army-Navy design competition board, but the Army later included the helicopter from Hughes as well.

The first Model 369 prototype flew on 27 February 1963. Originally designated the YHO-6A under the army's designation system, the aircraft was redesignated the YOH-6A under the Department of Defense's new joint system in 1962. Five prototypes were built, each fitted with a 252 shp Allison T63-A-5A engine, and delivered to the US Army at Fort Novosel, Alabama to compete against the other 10 prototype aircraft submitted by Bell and Fairchild-Hiller. In the end, Hughes won the competition and the Army awarded a contract for production in May 1965. The initial order was for 714 aircraft, but that was later increased to 1,300 with an option to buy another 114. Seventy helicopters were built in the first month.

This agile, unarmed helicopter is outfitted with outboard "benches" designed to ferry up to 3 operators on each side. There is also a gunship variant, the AH-6. Painted black for nighttime operations, this small aircraft can conduct rapid insertions and extractions of special operations forces into areas its larger counterpart, the MH-60 Black Hawk can't.

Operational history
After the April 1980 failure of Operation Eagle Claw, in which Marine pilots and Navy helicopters were used, it was determined that the US Army lacked aircraft and crews who were trained and prepared to perform special operations missions. To remedy this shortcoming, the Army began developing a special aviation task force to prepare for the next attempt to rescue the hostages: Operation Credible Sport.

Task Force 160
The United States Army 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), also known as Night Stalkers, is a special operations force that provides helicopter aviation support for general purpose forces and special operations forces. Its missions have included attack, assault, and reconnaissance, and are usually conducted at night, at high speeds, low altitudes, and on short notice.

The architects of the task force identified the need for a small helicopter that could land in the most restrictive locations and could be easily transported on Air Force airlifters. They chose the OH-6A scout helicopter, and it became known as the Little Bird compared to the other aircraft in the task force, the UH-60A and the CH-47C. As a separate part of the project, armed OH-6As were being developed at Fort Novosel, Alabama.

The pilots selected to fly the OH-6A helicopters came from the 229th Attack Helicopter Battalion and were sent to the Mississippi Army National Guard's Army Aviation Support Facility (AASF) at Gulfport, Mississippi, for two weeks of qualification training in the aircraft. When the training was completed, C-141 aircraft transported the aircraft and crews to Fort Huachuca, Arizona, for two weeks of mission training. The mission training consisted of loading onto C-130 transport aircraft which would then transport them to forward staging areas over routes as long as 1000 nmi. The armed OH-6 aircraft from Fort Novosel joined the training program in the fall of 1980.

Operation Credible Sport
Operation Credible Sport was a joint project of the U.S. military in the second half of 1980 to prepare for a second rescue attempt of the hostages held in Iran. It was canceled after the hostages were released on 20 January 1981 and, for a short while, it looked as if the task force would be disbanded and the personnel returned to their former units. However, the Army decided that it would be more prudent to keep the unit. The task force, which had been designated Task Force 158, was soon formed into the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. The OH-6A helicopters used for transporting personnel became the MH-6 aircraft of the Light Assault Company and the armed OH-6As became the AH-6 aircraft of the Light Attack Company.

Operation Urgent Fury (Grenada)
The OH-6s of 160th SOAR saw overt combat action for the first time in Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury on the Oct. 25, 1983. On D-Day, six MH-6 and two AH-6s were flown to the Eastern Caribbean island from Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina in the bellies of four Air Force C-130s. In addition to the helicopter air crews, the aircraft also carried a company of US Army Rangers and a Delta Force squadron, units that were also part of the American assault forces. By the time the aircraft arrived over the island, other Rangers, flying separately from the US, had parachuted onto a nearly finished runway on the island's southwestern coast. When the air-dropped Rangers secured the runway, the four C-130s landed and unloaded. The two AH-6s set off for the capital city of St. George's to attack Fort Rupert, the permanent Grenadian military headquarters. The “Little Birds” found air defenses around the capital to be too formidable and they returned to the airport within 10 minutes. (This action appears to have given rise to later erroneous published speculation that an OH-6 was shot down on D-Day) A planned MH-6 assault by the Ranger/Delta force on Fort Rupert (also known as Fort George) was cancelled because of the stiff antiaircraft resistance. However, it did participate in other unscripted support tasks, including ferrying wounded servicemen to medical facilities on Navy ships offshore and a search and rescue mission to a Black Hawk helicopter crash site.

None of these aircraft were listed in the public inventory of US military at the time. The existence of the secret aviation unit became widely known in the aftermath of the invasion, as OH-6s helicopters were photographed and filmed in action by civilians onlookers.

The CIA also deployed two highly modified, "silent" Hughes 500D helicopters to nearby Barbados in advance of the invasion. They were offered to the Pentagon's invasion commanders for clandestine reconnaissance purposes, but were not used by the military over Grenada during Urgent Fury.

Nicaragua
By 1983, 160th SOAR and its helicopters were heavily committed to supporting the Contras, a United States-subsidized military force. Specially adapted unmarked Hughes 500D helicopters from the CIA Seaspray unit based in Fort Eustis also took part in this task.

MH-6s were based in Palmerola Air Base, Honduras, and flew missions into Nicaragua. The unit members wore civilian clothes, flew by night, and were instructed to destroy their aircraft if they were forced down.

Iran-Iraq War
On 24 July 1987, a Kuwaiti oil tanker, reflagged as Bridgeton and escorted by U.S. Navy warships, struck a mine in the Persian Gulf. It became apparent that more than escort ships would be required to guard merchant ships. The U.S. military deployed the MH-6 and AH-6 aircraft from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) to provide surveillance and patrols in cooperation with other U.S. special operations units in Operation Prime Chance.

Two MH-6 and four AH-6 aircraft were initially deployed and designated as Detachment 160 Aviation Group (DET 160 AVGP). The MH-6 aircraft carried Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) and a videotape system which gave them excellent ability to detect and identify targets, then direct the armed AH-6s. The AH-6 helicopters were armed with 7.62 miniguns and 2.75-inch rockets. Initially, the aircraft patrolled in teams (call sign "SEABAT") that waited for U.S. Navy SH-2s to direct them to the targets. Later, to preserve the aircraft and crews from fatigue and wear, the SEABAT teams remained on the ship's deck until a contact was identified.

At 10 pm on 21 September 1987, the captain of USS Jarrett launched a SEABAT team (a MH-6 and two AH-6s) to check out reports of Iranian minelaying. The team found Iran Ajr, an amphibious landing ship equipped with minelaying racks. The MH-6 confirmed that Iran Ajr was laying mines, the AH-6s opened fire, causing the crew to abandon ship. The vessel was subsequently boarded and captured.

On the night of 8 October 1987, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Boghammar and two Boston Whaler boats were detected by an SH-2. A SEABAT team was launched from USS Ford (FFG-54), and as the MH-6 drew near to investigate, the Boghammar opened fire, the first of a series of engagements by both AH-6s and the MH-6 (recently armed with a minigun). The Boghammar launched two Stinger missiles at the helicopters, but eventually all three boats were sunk.

For the remainder of the operation, barges, set up as mobile sea bases (MSB), would facilitate the operation of the special operations forces. Hercules and Wimbrown VII were leased to provide these bases and the SEABAT teams began operating from the barges.

In early 1988, it was decided that modified U.S. Army OH-58D helicopters, fitted with weapons, would replace the SEABAT teams. On 24 February 1988, a team of two AHIP helicopters replaced the SEABAT team on the Wimbrown VII but it would be several months (June 1988) before the SEABAT team aboard the barge Hercules would be relieved by another AHIP detachment.

Operation Just Cause (Panama)
On 17 December 1989, 9 MH-6s, 11 AH-6G/Js, 19 UH/MH-60As were flown by Air Force C-5 Galaxy airlifters to Howard AFB's Hangar 3. After dark, on 19 December, the aircraft were rolled out to prepare for Operation Just Cause.

Before the main invasion force arrived in Panama City, Panama, two MH-6s supported by two AH-6s landed at Torrijos-Tocumen Airport to insert a beacon and combat controllers. Four other AH-6s conducted pre-assault attacks on the Panamanian Defense Force (PDF) Headquarters, La Comandancia, adjoining the heavily populated El Chorrillo neighborhood in downtown Panama City. One of the AH-6s was damaged by ground fire and crashlanded in the Comandancia compound. The two pilots, pinned down by small-arms fire for two hours, eventually made their way back to friendly forces, taking a PDF soldier prisoner along the way.

Other AH-6s escorted MH-6s on a rooftop rescue operation conducted at Cárcel Modelo, a prison adjacent to La Comandancia. In Operation Acid Gambit, the aircraft approached the prison. Under fire from a nearby apartment house, the Little Birds landed on the roof, dropped off the rescue team, and lifted off. Upon their return, heavy smoke made it tough to find the roof and the helicopters took heavy fire from a cellblock about 50 to 60 ft from the landing site. Maj. Richard Bowman, a copilot, took a round in the elbow. His pilot took over the controls and landed the aircraft. The aircraft picked up the rescue personnel and headed back toward Howard AFB, but one MH-6 lost power as it left the roof, and crashed in the street below with minor injuries to the passengers, who were helped from the crash site by US infantry soldiers.

Elsewhere, four AH-6s provided fire support for the airborne assault at Rio Hato Airfield, supported by an MH-60 which operated as a Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP). Two nine-man teams from the 160th participated in the airborne assaults of Torrijos-Tocumen Airfield and Rio Hato Airfield, and were dropped from Air Force C-141s to set up FARPs, 12 ft platforms with HE-rocket and minigun ammunition, parts and replacements for the miniguns, and fuel and refueling pumps, hoses, etc. But the FARP dropped at Rio Hato landed out of reach in a marsh, forcing the team to "wet wing" refuel from the MH-60.

The Rio Hato mission originally included nine other MH-60s and four MH-6s. Several hours prior to H-hour, these aircraft and crews were instead sent to support a raid near Colón, Panama, a key PDF stronghold where PDF leaders were believed to be. At H-hour, the helicopters conducted an air assault on a beach house along the coast of Colon. It was during this mission that the first 160th soldiers to die in combat perished when their AH-6 was shot down.

Another force of eight MH-60s and four MH-6s waited on the airstrip with crew aboard, to conduct follow-on raids should the need arise.

After these initial missions, elements of the 160th provided support to special operations forces securing outlying areas, recovering weapons caches, and "hunt for Elvis" – the phrase the men of the 160th used to refer to the search for General Manuel Noriega. Four MH-60s, two MH-6s, two AH-6s, and two MH-47s were moved to Ft. Sherman in the north for operations in and around Colon.

The 160th conducted numerous air assault missions over the next two weeks, and on 3 January 1990, the majority of the force went back to Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Somali Civil War
MH-6 Little Birds were part of the initial assault near the Olympic Hotel in the Bakara Market of Mogadishu, Somalia. The MH-6s conducted rooftop insertions of Delta Force soldiers.

After the shootdown of the MH-60L, call sign "Super Six-One", by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG), an MH-6 Little Bird, call sign "Star Four-One", landed in the street next to the downed MH-60 and attempted to evacuate the casualties. The pilot went to assist survivors, successfully pulling two soldiers into the Little Bird, while the copilot laid down suppressive fire from the cockpit with his individual weapon. Under intense ground fire, the MH-6 departed with its crew and survivors.

During the night, AH-6J gunships provided fire support to Rangers and Delta Force operators who were in defensive positions around the crash site of "Super Six-One" and under constant fire from Warlord Mohammad Farrah Aidid's militia members.

Iraq War

During the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and up until the end of the war in late 2011, Little Bird pilots took part in numerous missions. Two AH-6 and two MH-6 helicopters were part of a special operations raid at Al Qadisiyah in western Iraq. AH-6 and MH-6 gave support for the 75th Ranger Regiment during its seizure of the Haditha Dam complex in April 2003.

AH-6 helicopters were also tasked with supporting the rescue mission of Private First Class Jessica Lynch in April 2003.

MH-6 helicopters were part of TF-145, as well as the rescue of three Italian contractors and Polish businessman taken hostage by Iraqi insurgents in 2004.

Operation Celestial Balance
In September 2009, two AH-6 and two MH-6 helicopters were used in an operation in Somalia by United States Navy SEALs to kill wanted terrorist Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan.

Variants
For OH-6 and TH-6 variants, see Hughes OH-6 Cayuse.

 * AH-6C
 * Special Operations attack version. Modified OH-6A to carry weapons and operate as a light attack aircraft for the 160th SOAR(A).

 * EH-6E :Special Operations electronic warfare, command-post version.
 * MH-6E :Improved attack helicopter used by US Army special forces units, and stealthy light attack and transport helicopter for US Army special forces units.
 * AH-6F :Special Operations attack version.
 * AH-6G
 * Special Operations attack version.

 * MH-6H
 * Special Operations version.

 * AH/MH-6J
 * Improved special operations transport and attack versions. Updated light attack helicopter based on the MD 530MG and equipped with an improved engine, FLIR, and a GPS/inertial navigation system.

 * AH/MH-6M
 * Also occasionally referred to as the Mission Enhanced Little Bird (MELB), it is a highly modified version of the MD 530 series commercial helicopter. All MH-6 helicopters to be modernized to MH-6M standard by 2015.

 * A/MH-6X
 * An AH/MH-6M MELB helicopter modified for use as a UAV. It builds upon experience gained through development of the Unmanned Little Bird (ULB) Demonstrator, which is a civil MD 530F modified for autonomous UAV flight. Boeing has announced that this version is marketed solely to other nations, not the U.S., for use as a low-cost attack helicopter. However, Boeing is planning to enter it in the U.S. Army's Armed Aerial Scout program.

 * KUS-VH
 * Korean Air Aerospace Division (KAL-ASD) have developed an armed, unmanned version of the Little Bird with Korean armed forces in mind. The KUS-VH is unlike Boeing's H-6U Unmanned Little Bird (ULB) in that, the former is completely unmanned while Boeing's ULB may be operated either manned or unmanned. The vehicle can be controlled from a ground station. However, Gareth Jennings of Jane's International Defense Review suggests the platform may be employed in a 'manned-unmanned teaming' (MUM-T) system alongside the AH-64E in a scouting/recon role to facilitate 'over the horizon' maneuvers to flush out enemy forces. Further, the Republic of Korea has over 150 MH-6 Little Bird's which can be, on request, converted to the design.

Operators

 * United States Army Aviation
 * Republic of Korea Army
 * Republic of Korea Army
 * Republic of Korea Army

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Talk:Discharge (band)

Genres
I think the listing of genres from their metal period is a bit misleading. Grave New World was pretty much regular heavy metal, very much in the vein of Judas Priest, and especially Pooch's post-Discharge band Hell's Belles, and wasn't really glam unless you count the horrific vocals. Not to mention that they were never thrash when Cal started his AC/DC singing. Except for parts of Shootin' Up The World, those two albums were more simple heavy metal. The S/T reunion effort was also still very much in the metal vein, though D-beat had finally returned. Sort of a speed metal hybrid I guess. They only returned to their true hardcore roots and left all metal influence once Rat joined. Unless someone disagrees, I'm editing to reflect this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Durandal1717 (talk • contribs) 00:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

1977 Demo
I thought it was proven to be a hoax?--68.12.87.201 23:38, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

i added a detailed discography and cleaned the whole text up a bit. Marxxxx 03:55, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * The page currently lists Discharge as a crust band. My understanding is that Discharge were more a part of the UK 82 punk movement, and that crust came more with Amebix.  Correct me if I'm wrong...

 * Dave Ellesmere was also known by the nick-name Bambi (I know I shared a flat with him!) He was also the drummer on the big 1980(?) tour that had the UK Subs, Discharge, Vice Squad and the Exploited. I am editing to include a link to 'Bambi'and the other bands he was involved with.

 * I agree. Although influential on the future crust movement, Discharge pre-existed that scene.

Also, should the EP's and the 7"s be listed seperatelly? I believe they should be combined, as the term Extended Play does not usually apply to punk rock bands.

 * removing intro line about country/genre of band

 * Hi, Some editors have been removed the opening line "were an Influential United Kingdom UK 82 Anarcho-punk band." I am not sure whether this editor's concern is the entire line, or just some parts of it. Regarding the term "influential", the question arises...is this Neutral Point of View (NPOV), as set out in the Wikipedia policies.  I believe that the article itself shows that there have been a number of bands that have been influenced by Discharge's approach and style. As well, prominent bands have "covered" their songs. Regarding the reference the "United Kingdom", I think it is desirable for readers to know where the band comes from. If the editor in question is concerned that there is debate over the terms "UK 82" or "Anarcho-punk", then perhaps these terms could be hedged a bit, with a statement like "the band is often classified as a UK 82 or anarcho-punk band." Thanks for your inputNatMor 15:24, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I think it was just an editing error. If you notice, the line was removed at the same time as the infobox was added, and I think the markup text accidentally replaced the opening line. The line was not even edited to simply say "Discharge were a punk band". It was removed entirely, which seems like a mistake to me. Also, it has not been reverted since I re-added the line.

 * Conversationally, while I'm here, I'm going to change from "were" to "was" in accordance with Wikiproject Musicians. --Switch 14:18, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Article now much improved - partly because of the above comments.
 * Derek R Bullamore 13:39, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

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3 Ninjas (film)

3 Ninjas is a 1992 American martial arts comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Victor Wong, Michael Treanor, Max Elliott Slade and Chad Power. It was the only 3 Ninjas film released by Touchstone Pictures, while the others were released by TriStar Pictures. The film is about three young brothers who learn martial arts from their Japanese grandfather. The film was released on August 7, 1992, and was preceded by the Bonkers D. Bobcat cartoon Petal to the Metal in theaters.

Plot
Every summer, the Douglas brothers, 12-year-old Samuel, 11-year-old Jeffrey and 6-year-old Michael, visit their grandfather, Mori Tanaka, at his cabin. Mori trains his grandsons in the art of ninjutsu. As the summer comes to an end, Mori gives each of them a new "ninja" name based on their personalities: 'Rocky', 'Colt', and 'Tum-Tum'. Meanwhile, the boys' father, Sam Douglas, is an FBI agent who stages a sting operation to entrap a master criminal named Hugo Snyder in the sale of warheads. Snyder flees the trap with the use of his ninja henchmen and then visits Mori, his former business partner. Mori is tested by Snyder's henchmen and defeats them with his grandsons' help. Face to face, Snyder threatens Mori's family if he does not tell Sam, his son-in-law, to cease pursuing him.

When the boys return home, they find their father unenthusiastic to see what they had learned during their visit and more annoyed at their new names. Emily, a friend of Rocky's, compliments his new name and agrees to ride with them to school the next day. Snyder develops a plan to kidnap the brothers to use them as leverage against Sam. Snyder's right-hand man Nigel Brown contacts his irresponsible nephew Fester, a petty criminal surf punk, as well as his buddies Hammer and Marcus, to kidnap the brothers, but their plans are put on hold due to the FBI's presence. The next day, Fester and his friends follow the brothers to school, but are side-tracked by a fender bender with a police car. Emily becomes separated from the brothers and encounters a group of bullies who steal her bike. At recess, the brothers challenge the bullies to a two-on-two basketball game, spotting the bullies nine points. Despite the bullies' dirty tactics, the brothers score ten consecutive points and win back Emily's bike.

That night, Colt learns that Snyder is the criminal their father is pursuing. Fester and his friends break into the house with a fake pizza order, subduing the boys' babysitter. Believing it to be a home invasion, the brothers suit up in their ninja gear and fight back using their surroundings and numerous household items. After regrouping in the boys' bedroom, Fester uses Rocky's homemade phone to call Emily over and they take her hostage, but the boys are able to outsmart and defeat Fester's group. After freeing the babysitter, the brothers are overpowered by Snyder's bodyguard Rushmore and are taken captive to Snyder's ship in the harbor. The brothers escape and manage to subdue Rushmore while Mori infiltrates the ship to rescue the brothers. Snyder confronts Mori and challenges him to a fight for the brothers' freedom. Due to his youth and speed (and a hidden pepper bomb), Snyder gains the upper hand, until Mori gags Snyder with a handful of Tum-Tum's jelly beans and finally defeats him. Enraged, Snyder grabs a gun from one of his subordinates and attempts to shoot Mori and the boys, but is suddenly shot in the shoulder and subdued by Sam, who arrives with his backup to arrest Snyder, Brown, and their henchmen. Sam tells his sons that he will let them continue to visit their grandpa every summer and takes the rest of the night off from work to get pizza with the family, including Mori, who hates pizza.

International version
The international cut of the film features a number of small parts of scenes that were cut from the film for its American release, most likely to ensure a PG rating. Among the cut scenes are (not all-inclusive): extra footage of Snyder's escape in which he confronts two FBI agents whom he promptly defeats; a scene in which Fester fires a gun in the convenience store while Hammer and Marcus tie up the clerk behind the counter; a scene in which Fester gets the Douglas family address from Brown; additional footage of Grandpa trailing Snyder to his ship hideout; numerous small portions of the scene where the kidnappers invade the Douglas household, including Colt beating them after covering them under a tarp in the room being renovated; a scene of Fester asking his uncle (Brown) if he can be paid; extra sarcastic dialogue while the boys are locked up in Snyder's ship; and an extended scene in which the boys are reunited with Grandpa. Additionally, in the international version the boys lose the basketball challenge and their bikes, so the film ends with a scene in which they fight the bullies to get them back. The international cut is available on Vudu.

Reception
As of 2020, the film has a 32% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 22 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "3 Ninjas might be exciting enough for younger action enthusiasts, but they deserve better -- and there's no shortage of superior options to choose from". Stephen Holden of The New York Times said that "the film can't seem to make up its mind whether it wants to be a comedy, a fantasy or an adventure film" and that "beneath all the excitement, the message that 3 Ninjas conveys is anything but reassuring". It did attain a favorable response from Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times, who said that "although their attention may wander, parents can be grateful that there's some substance as well as fun in this Disney release, for martial arts is presented as a matter of defense rather than aggression, emphasizing that it is a matter of mind and spirit as well as body and requiring resourcefulness and discipline". Later on, it would receive a cult following for its camp factor and spawned three less-successful sequels 3 Ninjas Kick Back, 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up, and 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain.

Box office
The film opened at the box office in the #4 position, and by the end of its 6-week run in theaters grossed US$29,000,301 domestically. Considering that the film was budgeted at $2.5 million, it was a huge financial success, and turned out to be the most profitable film of the year in terms of cost-to-gross ratio.

Legacy
Each April, Slade, Power and Treanor host an annual screening and Q&A in Oak Park, a neighborhood in Ventura County, where the movie was filmed.

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The result of the debate was speedied as re-created content. Joyous (talk) 17:31, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

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Does WP:FICT cover things/themes talked about by main characters? brenneman (t) (c) 03:56, 13 July 2005 (UTC) The old VFD (nominated 17 April 2005, deleted 1 May 2005) is at Votes for deletion/Kroxyldyphic. --Angr/undefined 12:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as re-creation of already deleted article. A different spelling of this "word" was up for VfD a few months back and lost. --Angr/undefined 07:22, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Angr. JamesBurns 08:39, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as unexpandable dic def of nonsense word. Speedily if old vfd can be found. - Mgm|(talk) 10:59, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy dlete--Scimitar 15:21, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

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Elissa

Elissa may refer to:
 * Elissa (name), a feminine given name (including people by that name)

People

 * Dido, Queen of Carthage in Greek and Roman mythology, also referred to as Elissa or Alyssa
 * Elissa (singer) (born 1972), Lebanese singer

Other uses

 * Elissa (book), a 1900 novel by H. Rider Haggard
 * Elissa (ship), a historic sailing ship anchored in Galveston Bay
 * Elissa, one of the seven women occurring as narrators in Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron

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Elissa (ship)

The tall ship Elissa is a three-masted barque. She is based in Galveston, Texas, and is one of the oldest ships sailing today. Launched in 1877, she is now a museum ship at the Texas Seaport Museum. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990. The Texas Legislature designated Elissa the official tall ship of Texas in 2005.

History
Elissa was built in Aberdeen, Scotland as a merchant vessel in a time when steamships were overtaking sailing ships. She was launched on 27 October 1877. The vessel was named for the niece of Henry Fowler Watt, Elissa's first owner, though according to his descendants the ship was named for the Queen of Carthage, Elissa (more commonly called Dido), Aeneas' tragic lover in the epic poem The Aeneid.

Elissa also sailed under Norwegian and Swedish flags. In Norway she was known as the Fjeld of Tønsberg and her master was Captain Herman Andersen. In Sweden her name was Gustav of Gothenburg. In 1918, she was converted into a two-masted brigantine and an engine was installed. She was sold to Finland in 1930 (owned by Gustaf Erikson to 1942) and reconverted into a schooner. In 1959, she was sold to Greece, and successively sailed under the names Christophoros, in 1967 as Achaeos, and in 1969 as Pioneer. In 1970, she was rescued from destruction in Piraeus after being purchased for the San Francisco Maritime Museum. However, she languished in a salvage yard in Piraeus until she was purchased for $40,000, in 1975, by the Galveston Historical Foundation, her current owners. In 1979, after a year in Greece having repairs done to her hull, Elissa was first towed to Gibraltar. There, she was prepared for an ocean tow by Captain Jim Currie of the New Orleans surveyors J.K. Tynan International. The restoration process continued until she was ready for tow on 7 June 1979.

Elissa has an iron hull, and the pin rail and bright work is made of teak. Her masts are Douglas fir from Oregon, and her 19 sails were made in Maine. She has survived numerous modifications including installation of an engine, and the incremental removal of all her rigging and masts.

Elissa made her first voyage as a restored sailing ship in 1985, traveling to Corpus Christi, Texas. In Freeport the crew was joined by seventh grader Jerry Diegel and Betty Rusk, his history and English teacher, after Diegel won an essay contest on the history of the Elissa. A year later, she sailed to New York City to take part in the Statue of Liberty's centennial celebrations. When she's not sailing, Elissa is moored at the Texas Seaport Museum in Galveston. Public tours are available year-round-provided she is not out sailing. The ship is sailed and maintained by qualified volunteers from around the nation.

In July 2011, the U.S. Coast Guard declared Elissa to be "not seaworthy." The Coast Guard inspection in 2011 revealed a corroded hull. The tall ship is inspected twice every five years, said John Schaumburg, museum assistant director. The 2011 inspection uncovered the worst corrosion since the tall ship was rebuilt in 1982, he said. Texas Seaport Museum raised the $3 million that paid for hull replacement and other long-overdue maintenance projects, finishing in January 2013. The museum also replaced the 22,000 board feet of Douglas fir decking and building new quarterdeck furniture out of high quality teak. Elissa returned to sailing once again in March 2014. She ran a series of daily sails for a period of two weeks out of her home port of Galveston.

Elissa remains one of the world's oldest sailing hulls still in operation. The oldest is the coasting schooner Lewis R. French, launched in 1871 in Christmas Cove, Maine. She still sails as part of the windjammer fleet out of Camden, Maine.

Honors

 * National Register of Historic Places - first object granted this status while outside United States territory
 * National Historic Landmark
 * Named state Tall Ship by act of legislature in 2005

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Bellarine Highway

Bellarine Highway is a main arterial highway that runs east from Geelong in Victoria along the Bellarine Peninsula to Queenscliff. The highway also provides the main route to Barwon Heads and Ocean Grove, localities along the southern coast of the peninsula.

Route
Bellarine Highway begins at the intersection of Latrobe Terrace and McKillop Street on the western edge of central Geelong. As McKillop Street, it runs east as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road through Geelong, where it eventually intersects with and changes its name to Ormond Road, running south-east until the intersection with Boundary Road on the eastern edge of central Geelong. It then changes its name to Bellarine Highway in its own right and progressively heads south-east through Leopold. It eventually meets Grubb Road in Wallington, where it narrows to a dual-lane, single-carriageway road past Point Lonsdale. The highway eventually ends at Wharf Street East, Queenscliff, where it meets the Searoad Ferries passenger and motor vehicle ferry which operates across Port Phillip Bay to Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula.

History
The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1912 through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the establishment of the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) and their ability to declare Main Roads, taking responsibility for the management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. Geelong-Queenscliff Road from Geelong to Queenscliff was declared a Main Road on 16 March 1914.

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the state government through the Country Roads Board. Bellarine Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1947/48 financial year, from Geelong to Queenscliff (for a total of 20 miles), subsuming the original declaration of Geelong-Queenscliff Road as a Main Road. It was named after the Bellarine Peninsula.

Bellarine Highway was signed as State Route 91 between Geelong and Queenscliff in 1986; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route B110, which continues on the other side of the bay at Sorrento to run along Point Nepean Road until Mornington. The Geelong end of the highway originally ran along Ryrie Street in the Geelong city centre, but was relocated a number of blocks south to McKillop Street to remove heavy trucks from the shopping district in October 1997.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2006, VicRoads re-declared the road as Bellarine Highway (Arterial #6730), beginning at Latrobe Terrace at Geelong and ending at the end of the Bellarine Peninsula in Queenscliff.

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The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 11:21, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Danish Refai
Non-notable vanity. Complete contents: ''Danish Refai is a teen studying in Mahatma Gandhi International School. He loves playing football and he swims fast. He likes to eat cheese a lot. he dosen'y like to have butter. He is a nice boy'' Bovlb 03:58:51, 2005-07-13 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nominator. —Cleared as filed 05:59, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable teen vanity. JamesBurns 08:40, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete teen vanity. - Mgm|(talk) 11:00, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete but recommend to subject the savory and healthful aspects of butter. -EDM 20:58, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above royblumy 21:47, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn teen vanity, nothing more. --Etacar11 23:13, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
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Dobsonville Shopping Centre

Dobsonville Mall is a shopping centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Located in Dobsonville, it was the first shopping centre to be built in Soweto and was seen as an early symbol of economic development in the area.

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Show You the Way to Go

"Show You the Way to Go" is a song written by Gamble and Huff and recorded by the Jacksons for their 1976 CBS debut album, The Jacksons. Released as a single in early 1977, it was the only number-one song for the group in the UK. It was later covered by Dannii Minogue in 1992.

The Jacksons version
"Show You the Way to Go" became a hit for the Jacksons, (formerly known as "The Jackson 5") after their departure from Motown nearly two years prior. The move made it easy for the brothers to write and produce their own material. They spent a couple of years under the production and direction of Gamble and Huff and were signed to Philadelphia International Records. This was one of the songs that the producers wrote for the brothers.

This song was released after "Enjoy Yourself," released a year earlier. Michael sang lead and background vocals. Marlon Jackson, and the rest of the brothers (Randy having replaced Jermaine) had backup parts. The song reached No. 6 US Billboard R&B chart, No. 28 US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. After recording the album Goin' Places in 1977, the Jacksons left Philadelphia International for Epic.

Record World called it "a smooth ballad" and said "There's only one way for this one to go, and that's up the chart."

The single's B-side was "Blues Away", which was the first song Michael Jackson wrote entirely himself.

Personnel

 * Lead vocals by Michael Jackson
 * Background vocals by Michael Jackson, Tito Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Jackie Jackson and Randy Jackson
 * Instruments by Tito Jackson, Randy Jackson, MFSB

Dannii Minogue version
Australian singer Dannii Minogue's version of "Show You the Way to Go" was produced by Bruce Forest and Andy Whitmore and was the first single released from her second album, Get into You. In 1992, it appeared on the NME charity album Ruby Trax, before being remixed and released as a single, reaching No. 30 on the UK Singles Chart in August of that year.

Critical reception
Larry Flick from Billboard called it "her strongest single to date", adding that "the cut sports a rich, soul-splashed house groove and a nicely matured vocal by Dannii." Alan Jones from Music Week described the song as "bright, breezy and inconsequential".

Track listings

 * UK CD single
 * 1) "Show You the Way to Go" (7-inch version)
 * 2) "Success" (E-Smoove Groovy 12-inch)
 * 3) "Show You the Way to Go" (extended version)
 * 4) "Success" (Maurice's dub)

 * Australian cassette single (C16040)
 * 1) "Show You the Way to Go" (7-inch version)
 * 2) "Success" (E-Smoove Groovy 12-inch)

 * Australian CD single (D16040)
 * 1) "Show You the Way to Go" (7-inch version)
 * 2) "Success" (E-Smoove Groovy 12-inch)
 * 3) "Show You the Way to Go" (extended version)

 * UK cassette single
 * 1) "Show You the Way to Go" (7-inch version)
 * 2) "Show You the Way to Go" (dub)

 * Ruby Trax (Disc one, track 9)
 * 1) "Show You the Way to Go" (Eron Irving Remix)

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Chris Snelling

Christopher Doyle Snelling (born December 3, 1981) is an American-born Australian former Major League Baseball outfielder.

Seattle Mariners
Snelling was signed as an amateur free agent out of Australia by the Seattle Mariners on March 2, 1999. He quickly established himself as the franchise's top position prospect in the system. He was often compared to Lenny Dykstra due to his aggressive play and ability to hit for average and draw walks. He made it to the major leagues in 2002, but during a baserunning mishap tore his ACL in his left knee. After that incident, his status as a top prospect began to decline, as Snelling suffered numerous serious injuries in subsequent years. At Seattle Mariners fan blog USS Mariner, Snelling was dubbed "Doyle" (his middle name) in hopes of driving off the injury curse that plagued him.

Washington Nationals
On the night of December 13, 2006, The Washington Post reported that Snelling and Mariners pitching prospect Emiliano Fruto would be traded to the Washington Nationals for veteran second baseman José Vidro. The trade was completed several days later.

Following the Virginia Tech massacre, players for the Nationals wore Virginia Tech baseball caps for their game against the Atlanta Braves on April 17, 2007. Snelling's cap was then sent to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

On the evening of May 2, 2007, during a game between the Nationals and San Diego Padres, Snelling was traded to the Oakland Athletics for outfielder Ryan Langerhans.

Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Snelling was claimed off waivers from the Athletics by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on October 25, 2007.

Philadelphia Phillies
With a crowded outfield, the Rays traded Snelling to the Philadelphia Phillies for cash considerations on November 20, 2007. The Phillies sent him outright to the minors on March 28, 2008.

On April 12, 2008, Snelling was recalled from the minor leagues by the Phillies after an injury to Shane Victorino. Despite getting only 4 AB, he had two very key hits for the Phillies who won the division by just three games. On April 15, he hit a pinch hit, first pitch HR off Houston Astros closer José Valverde in the 9th inning with his team down three runs. The Phillies scored three more runs in the inning and won the game. On June 6, he hit a pinch hit double to lead off the top of the 10th inning against the Atlanta Braves. The Phillies scored two runs in the inning and won the game.

He was designated for assignment on June 7. He spent most of the season with the Phillies' Triple-A affiliate, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs.

San Diego Padres
Snelling signed a minor league deal with San Diego Padres on March 14, 2009.

Pittsburgh Pirates
On June 10, 2009, Snelling was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates for future considerations, but was released after Ryan Doumit was activated. He played the rest of the season with the Monterrey Sultanes in the Mexican League.

International career
Although he was born in the United States, Snelling grew up in Australia and has played for the Australian national team.

He selected at the 2009 World Baseball Classic, 2009 Baseball World Cup and 2013 World Baseball Classic.

At the 2009 World Baseball Classic, he hit two of Australia's four home runs in its victory over Mexico on March 8, 2009.

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vfd vote failed due to no consensus at Votes_for_deletion/Knutsford_services. --Woohookitty 04:01, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to  restart  this debate because: The previous one (four years agho) was not about  this service station  in  particular. Moreover it discussed the notability  of motorway  service stations in particular, and Watford gap was mentioned many  times. The previous one was more of a general bickering than a civil debate on  the issue at hand. Finally, this article about Hopwood is blatant advertising.--Kudpung (talk) 09:46, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Its been debated so many time across various, service station articles, they are notable. There is no way this is advertising, its in the same format that most service station articles are in. Therefore I am removing the spam tag you added Jenuk1985  |  Talk  13:12, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

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Rock bands in the lead
has removed information from the lead that was present in the GA review (see above) and responsible for the Did you know? nomination, where it says it was an important stopping point for 1960s and 1970s rock bands. I think this is important because it takes the article away from a run of the mill bit of architecture to something more significant. What are other people's views? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  10:45, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The previous version of the lead seems fine to me - I don't think mentioning the names of the bands or the 50th anniversary is excessive detail. I'm not sure what "clarity" was achieved by omitting this information.-- P-K3 (talk) 13:01, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
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Margaret Fiedler McGinnis

Margaret Fiedler McGinnis (née Fiedler) is a London-based American vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and rights administrator. She is best known as a founding member of UK indie groups Moonshake and Laika, as live guitarist with PJ Harvey and Wire and as the owner/operative of Mineral Point Music Ltd.

Early life
Margaret Fiedler was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and grew up in Winnetka, Illinois and later in Connecticut. She was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and at Trinity College, Dublin.

She had attended grade school in Winnetka and played the cello growing up. McGinnis formed Child's Play with Moby as a high school band.

Career
After a move to London, England, McGinnis formed Moonshake in 1991 with David Callahan, formerly of The Wolfhounds. She and Callahan shared vocals, guitar, sampling and songwriting duties, and the band was augmented by John Frenett (bass) and Mig Morland (drums, percussion). Moonshake were signed to Alan McGee's Creation Records for their debut First EP released in Spring 1991. The group then moved to Too Pure Records, and released the Secondhand Clothes EP and the Eva Luna LP in 1992, and the mini-album Big Good Angel in 1993.

In 1993, McGinnis and Frenett split away from Moonshake to form Laika with engineer/musician Guy Fixsen (who'd engineered and co-produced Moonshake's recordings), flautist Louise Elliott and drummers Lou Ciccotelli and Rob Ellis. The band, increasingly centred around McGinnis and Fixsen, produced four albums (Silver Apples of the Moon, Sound of the Satellites, Good Looking Blues and Wherever I Am, I Am What is Missing) and five singles for Too Pure between 1994 and 2003, following which the band went on what became a permanent hiatus.

In 2000, while still with Laika, McGinnis joined PJ Harvey's live band to play lead guitar, cello, keyboards and percussion on the world tour for "Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea" world tour. Following Laika's last album in 2003, she studied at the College of Law where she received a post-graduate law qualification. After graduation, she took a job at the BBC in 2006, working in the music copyright field.

In 2008, McGinnis took a break from the BBC to join post-punk pioneers Wire, replacing Bruce Gilbert on guitar for an ongoing world-wide tour. After the tour she resumed work at the BBC until 2011, followed by music-licensing stints at Antenna International, Remedy Productions and Paramount (covering all music rights issues for MTV music-based programmes produced in the United Kingdom). Between 2008 and 2010, she had a parallel career working as a candle maker and aromatherapy instructor at The Make Lounge between 2008 and, using vintage teacups and environmentally friendly materials.

In 2015, McGinnis opened up a Twitter account for a new band project called Pea but failed to post any further updates there. In 2016, she set up the full rights clearance/music supervision service Mineral Point Music Ltd.

McGinnis returned to a more active musical career following the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. In 2023, a Pea homepage was set up announcing that music would be released the same year, with McGinnis declaring "new music coming soon... old music coming soon - 2023 is year of rabbits, lots of rabbits..." This page later disappeared from the internet, superseded by a dedicated Margaret Fiedler McGinnis homepage which did not mention the Pea project.

McGinnis' current homepage and her LinkedIn page note that she has been composing for television and film, as well as working on several other musical projects, including a "silent field recording project/homage" called Recording the Dead and a "secret" project provisionally called October First. She has also been half of Earthworm, a collaboration with musician/sound artist Christie Denton: the first fruit of this collaboration was a graphic score for "reactive electronics, guitar, and other elements (including) the musicians' own heartbeats and other organic rhythms" called "SPRINGS", which was performed at the Le Non_Jazz:: concert evening in Paris on 5 March 2024.

Personal life
Prior to her marriage, and while still known as Margaret Fiedler, McGinnis was in a romantic and domestic relationship with her Laika partner Guy Fixsen from the early 1990s until the early 2000s. She began using her married surname "McGinnis" from the mid-to-late 2000s. McGinnis is an animal-rights supporter.

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