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Astrology
''In her monologue, Sweeney shared a story of when her mother told her her birthday was really October 10th instead of September 10th, and how traumatic it was to discover she was not a winsome Virgo but really a Libra, symbolized as a cosmic scale. Ironically, based on the science of astronomy instead of mythical astrology, she really was a born a Virgo due to the precession of Earth's axis over time.''

That (in bold) is an incorrect statement. Based on the science of astronomy she's a virgo? Wait a minute, when do astronomy started to adress a zodiacal sign on people? Astronomy is a science, it does not adress mythical signs on people. By the way, astrology is not about constellations, astrology believes in periods of the year - it's not the signs that are based in constellations, it's the other way, constellations where named after the signs. One may argue that astrology is ridiculous (myself, for example), but we must criticize it correctly, citing astrology's beliefs, not the general misconception of astrology... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.159.252.22 (talk) 19:58, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Atheism
A HUGE part of Julia's life for the past 10 years or so has been her activities in the Atheist movement. She's written a book, toured with the act on stage, done extensive interviews, attended numerous Atheist conventions (The Amaz!ng Meeting, Atheists Alliance Int'l, American Atheists, Freedom From Religion Foundation, etc.). I would think there'd be an entire section devoted to that part of her life; instead, all we have is a weak little section about the "Letting Go of God" monologue? I think you Wikipedians need to stick with subjects you know something about. You clearly don't know Julia.
 * If you know so much about the subject then fix it. BE BOLD. Insulting "us Wikipedians" is counterproductive. — Sandtiger  00:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Possible copyright infringement
Large sections of this entry are taken verbatim from the bio on Sweeney's official website.—65.88.178.10 18:54, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

I have tidied up this article, but I agree with the above, namely that the article is more or less taken straight from the official website. Should we delete it and start again?—Laurence Boyce 19:45, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Anon
Maybe we should all take a deep breath and get over ourselves? The busybodies who spend all day on Wikipedia need to stop changing my entries. I'm just going to put them back like I wrote them. 24.5.219.77 08:49, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Amen to that, all over Wikipedia!

Letting go of God
what about the movie of the same title coming out later this year, is there any information about this? --voodoom 04:27, 15 February 2007 (UTC)--

 * It's completed, but I don't think she has a release date yet. I attended a private screening in September and it was great!  She can't release it until after Sundance Film Festival (they require all submissions to be pre-release).  Not sure when that is or whether it's passed already.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.4.206.132 (talk) 01:47, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

her blog
her blog is here:

http://juliasweeney.blogspot.com/ --Family Guy Guy 17:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

 * What about this one:

http://www.blogger.com/profile/02459682985438227986 Badagnani 18:25, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * That second one is just her profile on Blogger.com. The first entry above is the URL to her blog.  She doesn't use it much anymore, relying instead on her forum http://juliasweeney.eamped.com/

Missing dates and references
Missing authoritative references for dates for her cancer diagnosis and releases of It's Pat and Letting Go of God. Suggestions? --Hipgnostic 19:07, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I have two suggestions. One of them is to read her books.  The other is to write to her at julia@juliasweeney.com and ask her.  She'll write back.

Accusation of embezzling
Can anyone provide a better cite for the embezzling bit, or verify that that cite is good enough for the claim to stand? — ciphergoth 11:56, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I heard her talk about this on NPR, and asked her about it in person. She verfied that it happened, but it was not much money at all.  Nothing more than skimming a bit off the top, like millions of waitresses do every day.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.4.206.132 (talk) 01:40, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Except that elsewhere she says it isn't true, just a story she made up for This American Life. See http://www.americantowns.com/ct/ridgefield/news/julia-sweeney-appearing-at-the-ridgefield-playhouse-on-nov-11-61404 user:Anon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.214.181.173 (talk) 05:52, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * What you're using as a reference regarding her embezzlement seems to be easily shown as self-contradictory and fabricated. The timelines are wrong.  Here's what americantowns.com says:

 * While Julia Sweeney was in Los Angeles (she had applied for an accountant’s job at Columbia Pictures), she went on a radio show, This American Life, describing herself by working as an assistant bartender and embezzling thousands from her employer—not true, of course, but it got her to thinking about the career she really wanted, which was acting. Soon Ms. Sweeney not only discovered an improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings, she discovered her true calling. It was here she developed the character Mea, who turned into “Mea’s Big Apology,” a play that won the Best Written Play Award from L.A. Weekly in 1988. http://www.americantowns.com/ct/ridgefield/news/julia-sweeney-appearing-at-the-ridgefield-playhouse-on-nov-11-61404

 * It's claiming she was on This American Life (TAL) telling a nearly contemporary story, and then got interested in acting, joined the Groundlings, and then Saturday Night Live (SNL). This is untrue.  The TAL story is from 1999, where she recounts something that happened "when she was 21" (circa 1980).  The TAL recounting comes well after her Groundlings (1988) and SNL career.  And not incidentally, through the TAL summary and story itself, it's clear that she stole "between ten and fifteen thousand dollars in cash"; this would be felony embezzlement had she ever been caught, not something every waitress does. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/135/allure-of-crime?act=1

 * I would think this episode in her life should be represented on her wiki page. It is notable and well-documented. --Petzl (talk) 12:33, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Ambiguity of portrayal of Pat?
My recollection is that for the first few appearances, maybe even the first year, of Pat on SNL, people didn't even know who was playing the character and weren't sure if it was a male or female actor. If this can be verified with reliable sources, it would be interesting to add.Lawikitejana (talk) 04:20, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

I always thought it was pretty clear that Julia was playing Pat. 152.228.182.150 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:45, 30 October 2009 (UTC).

Birthdate
The reference says 1961, the article says 1959. 75.15.255.124 (talk) 07:59, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Peer review
Julia was interviewed by "The Wikipedia Files". --Ysangkok (talk) 12:29, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

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The Party Animal

The Party Animal is a 1984 American fantasy comedy film written and directed by David Beaird. It was independently produced and was released across the United States, where it was critically derided, but did respectably well at the box office.

The film is a slapstick mockumentary-style comedy that spoofed the college campus sexploitation genre popularized by Animal House and Porky's. Though the movie was made on a shoestring budget, its soundtrack featured Buzzcocks, The Untouchables (who also perform in the film), The Fleshtones, The Convertables and Chelsea. The theme song for The Party Animal was "Why Can't I Touch It".

The film is available through MGM Home entertainment on a limited edition series of 80s comedies.

Plot
The film begins with the strains of "Why Can't I Touch It" by Buzzcocks as the camera pans across a rural landscape to the face of a beautiful teenage girl (Susanne Ashley) who is atop a hill surveying the road below. An open-ended truck rolls into view bearing a young man lying on a pile of turnips. This is Pondo Sinatra (Matthew Causey), the star of the story, a 22-year-old virgin burdened with raging hormones, no sex appeal or social skills. He is on his way to his first day at college. Upon arrival, Pondo cannot help but notice that the university is full of attractive and scantily clad females but try as he might he is of no interest to them. The good looking and popular 'Studly' (Timothy Carhart) soon takes him under his wing, as best friend and tries to teach him the ways of seduction but Pondo is without a clue and tries ever more bizarre schemes failing spectacularly with hilarious consequences. Even the local whore house won't help him. Desperate to break what seems to be a curse, Pondo descends into suicidal depression at which point the college's wise janitor named Elbow (Jerry Jones) steps in and gives Pondo some advice in one of the film's most famous scenes. This and a few of the other main scenes are so politically incorrect they would not be allowed in today's more careful cinematic climate. The attempts include a try at poetic seduction. Studley tells Pondo what to say to his vivacious date Natasha (Robin Harlan) via a remote microphone; sending Pondo to buy elegant new clothes (he goes to the Punk store by mistake and leaves looking like Quasimodo); taking massive quantities of drugs (which in reality would be lethal); and activating world's biggest vibrator, the Moby-M5 with disastrous consequences. The M-5 episode provides a pretext for an outrageous scene where two porn store employees discuss strategic arms limitation treaties, using various dildos as props.

After one of these dating debacles, Pondo frightens Studley by shouting "I'd sell my soul for a piece of ass!" Meanwhile, the lovely Miranda, (Susanne Ashley), a mysterious girl with supernatural powers who has been observing Pondo's struggles for some time, hears his cry and cryptically acknowledges it. Some time afterward, Pondo accidentally creates a chemical compound that makes him irresistible to women. At first he revels in his new "party animal" prowess; later, exhausted and terrified, he takes to barricading himself in his room to escape the mobs of obsessed women who pursue him everywhere. "I have been greedy," he confesses despairingly to Studley, "I am like King Midas; everything I touch turns to poontang!" The end of the film is tragic-comic with a metaphysical twist concerning the fate of those ruled by lust.

Cast

 * Matthew Causey - Pondo Sinatra
 * Timothy Carhart - Studley
 * Jerry Jones - Elbow
 * Susanne Ashley - Miranda/Mother Nature
 * Robin Harlan - Natasha
 * Frank Galati - The Professor
 * Luci Roucis - Sophia
 * Joan Dykman - The Nurse
 * Barbara Baylis - Madame
 * Frannie James - Dean Fox
 * Leland Crooke - Dean's Secretary
 * Billi Gordon - The New Dean

Soundtrack
The film contains numerous songs by The Fleshtones, Buzzcocks, Chelsea The Convertables.

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It's ironic that the normally button-up, proper, morally superior Star Fleet types' favorite shore leave destination is the equivalent of Cancun during spring break, except the "loose" people here aren't drunk.

Doc's gonna have a lot of work to do when they get back. ;)

 * In which sense are the women "open"? @_@ Also, I think it seems quite natural that such button-up types would choose the holiday resort most different from their normal way of life... It's a Yin-Yang thing, you know, an attempt to restore the balance...

List of Female Japanese Porn Stars sent me here.
I was *ahem* doing some research when I clicked on a link and it took me here. I have no clue how to fix it but I just thought I would mention it.

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The Pet Sounds Sessions

The Pet Sounds Sessions is a 4-CD box set by the American rock band the Beach Boys. Released on November 4, 1997, by Capitol Records, it compiles tracks from the group's 11th studio album Pet Sounds (1966) and its 1965–66 recording sessions. The entire album is included in its original mono mix, as well as a specially-created digital stereo mix. The set also contains instrumental tracks, vocals-only tracks, alternate mixes, and edited highlights from the recording sessions for many of the album's songs, along with several tracks not included on the album.

This was the last Beach Boys chronology to be released with Carl Wilson Whom died more than 2 months later after releasing.

The box set was nominated for Best Historical Album at the Grammy Awards of 1999. In 2011, it was followed by The Smile Sessions, a similar compilation devoted to the recording of the Beach Boys' unfinished Smile project.

Background
Original producer Brian Wilson writes in the liner notes to The Pet Sounds Sessions:

"It was a heart and soul album; I worked very, very hard on it. The thing is, I’m glad we’re doing this new Pet Sounds reissue because the Pet Sounds box set is going to be very revealing to the public as to just what sort of music makers we really are. ... When we were making Pet Sounds we were absolutely positive we were cutting a milestone record. Carl [Wilson] and I knew for sure we were into something heavier than hell, and we just went with it."

Compiler David Leaf explains the purpose of the new compilation: "The first three CDs of this box set are designed to give you a sense of how Brian and the studio musicians cut the tracks [from Pet Sounds] and also to give you a unique glimpse into the harmonic magic of the Beach Boys singing." He adds: "It is not hyperbole to say that for every pop and rock group that followed in the Beach Boys wake, Pet Sounds became an audio benchmark. ... Since that time, nothing has really changed." Leaf had only a minor role in the set, with all creative work, including editing, mixing, and mastering. being done by lead producer Mark Linett.

Stereo mix
Pet Sounds was first released in 1966 in monaural and duophonic formats. Overseen by Brian Wilson and produced and engineered by Mark Linett, the set includes the first stereo mix of Pet Sounds. These new mixes were made possible by the survival of the original Pet Sounds multitrack tapes. Advances in recording technology allowed the compilers to digitally sync multi-track stems that had been ping-ponged numerous times prior to their final mono mixdown.

The new mixes created for the box set were made in January–February 1996. Linett wrote: "In mixing Pet Sounds in stereo, every attempt was made to duplicate the feel and sound of the original mono mixes. Vocal and instrumental parts that Brian left off the record in 1966 were noted and duplicated, as were the fades." To this end, a Scully model 280 4-track was used to transfer the analog reels to digital multi-tracks – the same model used for Pet Sounds. The mix was then processed through an original tube console from United Western Recorders in the 1960s.

Some exceptions remain, and so the stereo mix of Pet Sounds does contain some differences from the original mono mix. Among them, alternate vocal parts used for the bridge of "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and the end of "God Only Knows" due to the original tracks no longer existing. "You Still Believe in Me" features a single tracked vocal instead of the doubled vocal of the original due to a missing tape. In the mono version, chatter can be heard buried in various tracks; instances of them were omitted from the stereo version at Brian's request.

Release
There was a minor controversy regarding a significant 18-month delay in the release of the box set (originally planned for May 1996 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the album's original issue). Reportedly, Mike Love was dissatisfied with the accompanying essays that allegedly understated his involvement in the album's making. The original liner notes had featured none of his comments, even though other band members were interviewed, and new notes were subsequently commissioned to Dennis Diken. Biographer Timothy White said that "The Beach Boys apparently didn't get the track selections until late in the production phase, and they all had misgivings about how Capitol envisioned it."

Reception
AllMusic calls the compilation "a fascinating, educational listen, even if it's not necessarily indispensable." Q gave the "enlightening" box set a perfect score and wrote that "the backing music tracks sans vocals opens your ears to a bevy of awe-inspiring nuances previously obscured by singing. At the same time, the isolated vocal tracks are nothing less than spiritual in their emotive wallop." The New York Observer's D. Strauss called the stereo mix "pointless", adding, "I must admit that, as a music geek, listening to Mr. Wilson hold myriad consultations on when to beep the bicycle horn in 'You Still Believe in Me' carries a portentous thrill".

The compilation was pivotal to the inception of the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy, as director Bill Pohlad enthuses: "It's just so beautiful and impactful for me to listen to that. So the idea of trying to capture that on film was certainly a big part of my interest in making the movie."

Track listing
Disc four: Pet Sounds Re-Mastered Mono Mix (same as tracks 1–13 of disc one)

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Wellington, Ontario

Wellington is an unincorporated place and community in Prince Edward County in eastern Ontario, Canada. It has a population of 1,932 according to the 2016 Census. The community is located on the shore of both Lake Ontario and West Lake in the southwest of the county. Sandbanks Beach, the northernmost of Sandbanks Provincial Park's beaches, is located in the Village of Wellington, where it is called Wellington Rotary Beach.

It is separated from the Sandbanks Provincial Park by a canal through the beach to Wellington Harbour.

History

Prince Edward County's first non-indigenous resident, Daniel Reynolds, first colonized the area in the 18th century and settled in Wellington, where his house remains today along Main Street. Reynolds was nicknamed "Old Smoke" by local First Nations, hence the community was first known as Smoke Ville. When a post office was established in the 1830s, the village was renamed Wellington after the Duke of Wellington.

Arts and Culture
The Wellington Heritage Museum is located in the heart of the village, and was built in 1885 as a Quaker Meeting House. A key exhibit is the Douglas A. Crawford Canning Industry Collection, as more than 75 canning factories operated in Prince Edward County from 1882 to 1996.

Attractions
The Wellington Farmers' Market is the largest open-air market in the region, and is open from Victoria Day to Labour Day.

The Toronto boutique hotelier The Drake Hotel opened a location in Wellington in the fall of 2014.

Sports
The Wellington Dukes of the Ontario Junior Hockey League (Junior A) play at the Essroc Arena (capacity 1,600), part of the Wellington and District Community Centre. The Prince Edward County Minor Baseball Association plays all its games in Wellington, and the rep teams of the Quinte Royals Baseball Club (Midget and Minor Midget age group teams) play their homes games at the Wellington Field of Dreams. There is also a skating club and an equestrian centre in the community.

Transportation
The main road in the community is County Road 33 (formerly Ontario Highway 33), known as the Loyalist Parkway. The road goes northwest to Trenton (part of Quinte West) and east to Picton.

The Prince Edward County Railway from Picton to Trenton ran through the community. It was opened in 1879, was extended to form the Central Ontario Railway in 1882, became part of the Canadian National Railway in 1923, and operated until 1985. The route through the community today forms a rail trail portion of the Millennium Trail.

Education
English language public elementary education from JK to Grade 8 is offered at C.M.L. Snider Public School in the Hastings & Prince Edward District School Board. Students must travel to nearby schools in Belleville for separate school French Immersion education, or to Picton for French-language public elementary education. Both Belleville and Quinte West are about 25 minutes by car north of Wellington. Picton is about 20 minutes east of Wellington.

Secondary students travel to Prince Edward Collegiate in Picton for English language public secondary education, or to Bayside Secondary School in Quinte West for French Immersion public secondary education.

Media
Since 1992, the community has been served by the independent Wellington Times newspaper. The paper is available at over 50 retail locations across the County, and has a circulation of approximately 4,000.

Notable people

 * Arthur G. Dorland (1887 – 1979), historian

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Talk:List of artists and art institutions in Portland, Oregon

Additions and subtractions
If an artist is important, notable and nationally known, write an article on him/her then (and only then) include it in the list. If something you add isn't a redlink, check the link to make sure it doesn't point to the wrong article. If you need help disambiguating an article name, let me know. Here is more advice about writing articles. Thanks! Katr67 23:41, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Colleges
It might be nice to list how each college is part of the art scene if it isn't obvious (like the art college). Is it because they have art classes? Galleries? Lecture series? Or what? Otherwise it just looks like a list of all the colleges in the area. Katr67 17:59, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Good Idea, Reed has the Cooley Gallery and PSU has an MFA program, PNCA is an art school so that should be self explanatory. --Gungnir PDX 08:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

People
Someone took Miranda July off the list, I think because she doesn't live there anymore. How should this list handle former residents? Katr67 18:26, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Well she was here and Portland played an important role in her development. I think she should stay and if that doesnt fit the definitions of the article it should be ammended to accomodate people who develop here. At a cetain point an artist is no longer really claimable by any city. What is important is where they developed and made history as July did.--Gungnir PDX 22:17, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I've started a stub on MK Guth here. And one for David Butts here. Should I submit them to be moved to live pages (as stubs), or delete the references to them here in this list of artists? An admin speedily deleted the David Butts article as I was writing it, so trying to avoid that mistake again. Hobsonlane (talk) 22:22, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

 * In reply to your comment above and private email to me, develop the biographical article in your user space at your convenience. When it is completed enough to pass the notability guidelines for people and, if living, the biographies of living persons guideline, then move it to article space, add it to appropriate categories, and link to it from associated articles.
 * Having a list item link to non-article space is generally to be avoided. Lists of notable topics are deemed to be notable if there is a proper article about the topic.  Linking from article space to user space undermines the basis for notability of the entry.  —EncMstr (talk) 23:04, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

 * @EncMstr Shouldn't we delete the artist from this list until MK Guth is notable, then? Is a broken link preferable to a userspace link then? It's the only red link and the only reflink on this page. Detracts from an otherwise polished page. Hobsonlane (talk) 16:21, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

 * A redlink would be better than a crosslink in a normal article. However, in a list of notable entities it is better to remove it until the article is ready.  —EncMstr (talk) 16:49, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

 * Hey presto, MK Guth article created. Sionk (talk) 23:59, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

List of artists, curators, etc.
Can we break this down into more subcategories? Artists, Writers, Filmmakers, etc.? The list will be much easier to navigate that way. Katr67 14:04, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

People are often working in many genres now; many filmakers are also artists (like Matt McCormick of Periphrial produce ...who deserves his own page), writers and architects also have notable gallery shows as artists as well. Its more common than uncommon to cross genres. I think the trick is to keep to just the most notable ones (there are a few here I question). Then again we could break it up if someone could be listed in several categories?... but isn't that ultimately more cumbersome. --Gungnir PDX 01:03, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I separated the artists (of all ilk) from the curators and critics. Sure there is some crsossover but I sorted them into the capacity they are most noted for.--Gungnir PDX 08:54, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Institutions?
I can't tell if this list is the appropriate place for Portland Opera and Oregon Symphony. Is it? —EncMstr 00:29, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Not really.. its more for visual arts --Gungnir PDX (talk) 01:31, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Any standard on listings of artists?
Is there any standards for the lists of artists? I happen to be a metal and led lighing artist. Can I list myself? 70.90.129.90 (talk) 07:17, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * A common standard for lists is to only include entries that have a WP aritcle (i.e. a blue link). It's not an absolute criteria, but for an entry that doesn't have an article a good reason should be offered.  RJFJR (talk) 02:52, 24 August 2011 (UTC)


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Fallen Angel (1945 film)

Fallen Angel is a 1945 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle, who had also worked with Preminger on Laura a year before. The film features Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell and Charles Bickford. Fallen Angel was Faye's last film as a major Hollywood star, and she did not appear in another film until State Fair (1962).

Plot
Eric Stanton, a well-dressed but down-on-his-luck drifter, feigns sleep but gets pulled off a bus in the hamlet of Walton because he does not have the fare to continue to San Francisco. He finds a low-budget diner called "Pop's Eats", where Pop is worried about waitress Stella because she has not shown up for work for days. Ex-New York cop Mark Judd tells him not to worry, and the sultry Stella soon returns. Stanton is attracted to her, but she is unimpressed by his smooth talk.

Stanton cons his way into a job with Professor Madley, a traveling fortune teller and spiritualist. He goes to the large house of Clara Mills, daughter of the late mayor, Abraham Mills.

The townspeople are unwilling to buy tickets to Madley's "spook meeting" because Clara Mills, an influential local spinster, disapproves. Stanton gets to Clara through her inexperienced younger sister June and persuades them to attend the performance.

Madley stages an entertaining séance, channeling Abraham Mills, the deceased father of Clara and June. Using information secretly dug up by his assistant Joe Ellis, Madley brings up the sisters' financial problems. The two become upset and leave.

Stanton gets to know Stella, watching her steal from the cash register and go out with men, and falls in love with her. She makes it clear that she wants a man who is willing to marry her and buy her a home, which he agrees to do. To raise the money, Stanton romances and marries June, planning to divorce her as soon as he can. Clara, who has been victimized by a man of Stanton's type in her past, is unable to prevent their marriage.

Stanton cannot stay away from Stella, even on his wedding night. Instead of sleeping with his wife, he goes to Stella, who has given up on him. He explains his odd scheme to her. She rejects him and he leaves watched by Clara who has followed him. He gets home late and is found by June sleeping on the couch.

The next day Stella is found to be murdered. Judd is asked by the local police chief to investigate. He first tries to beat a confession out of Dave Atkins, Stella's latest boyfriend, but Atkins has an airtight alibi. Stanton is also a strong suspect, having been seen quarreling with Stella shortly before her death. Judd tells him not to leave town.

Stanton flees, with June, to a seedy hotel room in San Francisco. He tells her all about his drifter's life of failed schemes. June tells Stanton that she loves him; the next morning, when she goes to the bank to withdraw her money, she is taken into custody for questioning.

Stanton returns to Pop's Eats, where Judd is waiting for him. Stanton has found evidence of Judd’s relationship with Stella and how he left NY police because of his violence. Stella had decided to marry Atkins rather than wait for Judd's wife to give him a divorce.

Judd pulls out his gun but Pop wrestles it away. Stanton prevents him from shooting Judd, though a shot is fired into the ceiling. This brings a police officer in, and Judd is arrested. Outside, June pulls up in a car and asks Stanton where they are going; he tells her, "Home."

Cast

 * Alice Faye as June Mills
 * Dana Andrews as Eric Stanton
 * Linda Darnell as Stella
 * Charles Bickford as Mark Judd
 * Anne Revere as Clara Mills
 * Bruce Cabot as Dave Atkins
 * John Carradine as Professor Madley
 * Percy Kilbride as Pop
 * Olin Howland as Joe Ellis

Source material
The source of the film was the Marty Holland novel of the same title. Holland also wrote another story that was adapted for the film noir screen, The File on Thelma Jordon (1949). According to the British Film Institute, "Hardly anything is known about Marty Holland except that ‘he’ was a she called Mary, who wrote two or three best-selling pulp novels and then in 1949—to all intents and purposes—vanished, there being no further record of her at all."

Holland faded into obscurity after her last published writing credit in 1952 until the 70th anniversary of crime drama imprint Série noire. "Contradicting the consensus theory that Holland changed her name from Mary to Marty to hide her gender and come off as 'more masculine,' her photo is on the back cover of first editions of Fallen Angel, and all reviews and news of the time referred to her as 'Miss Holland' or 'Miss Marty Holland.' Perhaps Marty, that gender-neutral name, sounded more hardboiled than did Mary." Holland lived in Los Angeles until her death from cancer in 1971.

Production
The film's location shots were in Orange, California, San Francisco, the Ocean Park Bowling Center in Ocean Park, California, the California Bank in Hollywood, and the Sycamore Pier in Malibu.

Casting
Because of his success in Otto Preminger’s Laura, Dana Andrews was asked to play the part of Eric by Darryl Zanuck and Preminger. Initially, Andrews was hesitant due to misgivings over the script. After Preminger asked him to explain his initial declination, he argued, “In the first place, I don’t think it’s a picture for Alice Faye, but beside [sic] that, I don’t like the part of me. I don’t like the picture, it’s terrible. It’s in bad taste, it’s unbelievable. I just can’t see it at all.” He only reluctantly accepted the role after being threatened with suspension by Zanuck.

For the role of June Mills, several actresses were considered, including Jeanne Crain, Olivia de Havilland, and Anne Baxter. Alice Faye, who had been one of 20th Century Fox’s most notable musical comedy stars, had been on a career hiatus due to a lack of mature roles being offered to her. “I was tired of being a Technicolor blonde in musicals that didn’t even pretend to have a plot,” she stated later. After rejecting many scripts, she was pleasantly surprised when she received one for Fallen Angel. "I was mad after I read [the script] — because I liked it so much,” she stated in 1945, “So I called up the studio and said, 'I'm coming back to work.' Everyone practically fainted." She agreed to play the role of June on a few conditions, one being that she star with Dana Andrews, and another being that she got to choose and sing the theme song. She decided on “Slowly” written by David Raksin, which she was “simply wild about." After these conditions were met, she was excited to begin work on the picture. Yet, she was incredibly nervous and “temperamental” on set, so much so that Preminger had to shut down production at one point. After she finished her portion of the movie, she attended a screening of the final cut of the film. To her surprise, her recording of “Slowly” was cut, along with a good portion of her scenes. She was infuriated. “I was terribly upset. I felt the film had been ruined." Zanuck had edited the film to bring out Linda Darnell’s character, minimizing Faye’s role as the female lead and her first attempt at a strictly dramatic role. On her way out of the studio, she wrote an angry letter to Zanuck, left it on his desk, abandoned her new contract, and didn’t return to the industry for sixteen years.

In January 1945, the role of Stella was given to Linda Darnell, who at this point was one of 20th Century Fox’s top actresses and achieved newfound success as a femme fatale. According to biographer Ronald L. Davis, Linda approached the character “with gusto,” and that “everyone agreed it was her finest acting yet." This film was also her first time working with director Otto Preminger, whom she would work with four more times throughout her career. She did not enjoy working with Preminger, and this was a common sentiment throughout the cast and crew. Preminger himself stated that she had “a rather colorless personality." However, Linda was remembered fondly by other members of the film. David Raksin, the film’s composer, said, “There was something lusty about her without any overt attempt to seduce. I realized she was there not because she was a schooled actress, but because she was beautiful.” Dana Andrews deemed her “the best thing in the picture." Linda herself was pleased with the role among the other ones she had been working on at the time, calling them "interesting."

Critical response
New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther liked the acting in the film but was disappointed by the story. He wrote, "As the frustrated adventurer, Dana Andrews adds another excellent tight-lipped portrait of a growing gallery. Linda Darnell is beautiful and perfectly cast as the sultry and single-minded siren, while Miss Faye, whose lines often border on the banal, shoulders her first straight, dramatic burden, gracefully. Charles Bickford, as a dishonorably discharged cop, Anne Revere, as Miss Faye's spinster sister, and Percy Kilbride, as the lovesick proprietor of the diner in which Miss Darnell works, are outstanding among the supporting players. But for all of its acting wealth, Fallen Angel falls short of being a top-flight whodunit."

Critic Tim Knight of Reel.com notes that if the viewers can forget the "... headlong dive into preposterousness, it's still a lot of fun". His review adds, "... the movie does have much to recommend, from Joseph La Shelle's atmospheric, black-and-white cinematography to Preminger's taut direction to the juicy, hard-boiled dialogue. Veteran character actors Charles Bickford, John Carradine, and Percy Kilbride (of Ma and Pa Kettle fame) lend strong support to the sizzling twosome of Andrews and Darnell, who made only one more film together, when they were both past their prime: 1957's Zero Hour!, a forgotten grade-Z thriller."

Critic Fernando F. Croce wrote of the film, "Fallen Angel, the director's follow-up to his 1944 classic, is often predictably looked down on as a lesser genre venture, yet its subtle analysis of shadowy tropes proves both a continuation and a deepening of Preminger's use of moral ambiguity as a tool of human insight...Preminger's refusal to draw easy conclusions—his pragmatic curiosity for people—is reflected in his remarkable visual fluidity, the surveying camera constantly moving, shifting dueling points-of-view in order to give them equal weight. Fallen Angel may not satisfy genre fans who like their noir with fewer gray zones, but the director's take on obsession remains no less fascinating for trading suspense for multilayered lucidity."

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 * Yeah no problem, i wasnt aware of the rule until some1 pointed it out to me in the edit comments. I just throught it was harsh to write a new description before the orginal had been judged. I wont restored it anymore, especially under other accounts or ip's...im not trying to cheat, i just want to define something that i feel deserves defining.

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Leighton Group
I am unsure whether the company profiled at Leighton Group reaches the notability level required by WP:CORP - I do remember getting a copyvio deleted that was a copy and paste job from their website (which I can't access at the moment), and it didn't strike me as all that notable. What was concerning me most is that another Leighton Group is the biggest construction company in Australia, active across much of East Asia, part of the Hochtief group (also containing the largest construction companies in the United States and Germany), and was at one stage going to construct the tallest structure ever built, the Solar Tower. That company certainly meets the notability guidelines of WP:CORP, and being, as far as I can see, the most important, largest and well-known company with that name, should probably be allocated the Leighton Group article. Might your article belong at Leighton Media instead? Then once the article on the Australian group is made, there could be a Leighton Group (disambiguation) page, linked to with a WP:HATNOTE from Leighton Group. Does that sound like a sensible arrangement? TheGrappler 20:54, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

''Sorry im unsure or the correct way to respond to this so ill write here. I dont have any strong opinion on this. I added the page because i had an interview there and wanted to find out more about them on going toLeighton page someone else had already added a dusambig for the sunderland based leighton so i just added a page. --B0sh 13:57, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

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Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics

Weightlifting has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the 1920 Summer Olympics, in Antwerp, Belgium, as well as twice before then. It debuted at the 1896 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece, and was also an event at the 1904 Games.

Men's events
In the early Games, all lifters competed in the same events, regardless of their individual body weights.
 * 1896
 * One hand lift
 * Two hand lift

 * 1904
 * Two hand lift
 * All-around dumbbell

When the sport returned to the Olympic Games in 1920, the competition was structured as a set of weight classes. The number of classes and weight limits for each class have changed several times, as shown in the following table.

Women's events
Women's weightlifting made its Olympic debut at the 2000 Games in Sydney, with seven weight classes.

Medal table
Sources:

As of the 2020 Summer Olympics and Court of Arbitration for Sport decision of March 2022 to disqualify a gold medalist in the weightlifting men's 77kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics (medals in this event have not yet been reallocated as of May 2023).

Multiple medalists
The table shows those who have won at least 2 gold medals. Boldface denotes active weightlifters and highest medal count among all weightlifters (including these who not included in these tables) per type.

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Freman Hendrix

Freman Hendrix (born October 12, 1950) is an American politician from the state of Michigan. A Democrat, Hendrix served as Deputy Mayor for former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer from 1997 to 2001. He ran twice, unsuccessfully, as a mayoral candidate in the city of Detroit: in 2005 against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and for the 2009 special election called to replace the ousted Kilpatrick.

History
The son of a black Army veteran, Emmanuel Freman Hendrix, and an Austrian-born woman, Rudolfine Ernegger, Hendrix was born in Inkster, Michigan, graduated from Inkster High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Eastern Michigan University in 1982, became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, and was initiated into the Delta Nu chapter at EMU; Hendrix served in the U.S. Navy for four years.

He later worked in the administration of former Wayne County Executive Edward H. McNamara, and was himself elected to a two-year term as Assistant County Executive for Wayne County in 1991. He worked for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in Michigan and managed Dennis Archer's successful mayoral campaign in 1994, serving as chief of staff from 1994 to 1997 and as deputy mayor of Detroit during Archer's second term. Mayor Archer concurrently named Hendrix chairman of the appointed Detroit School Board in 1999. He was among the 18 presidential electors chosen to cast Michigan's votes in the Electoral College for Democratic Party nominee Al Gore in 2000.

2005 Campaign
The city's major daily papers, the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, endorsed Hendrix. The alternative weekly, Metro Times, somewhat reluctantly endorsed Hendrix. Its editors deem Hendrix "has served the public without the taint of scandal, although soiled somewhat by his associations," and claims that as Archer's deputy, Hendrix bears some responsibility for the problems of the city that were still unsolved at the end of Archer's term. Interviewers from The South End asked Hendrix if he would consider a partnership of the city with the colleges of Detroit, to which he answered, "The short answer to that is yes, of course."

Hendrix won the August 2 primary election by a comfortable margin, with incumbent Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick coming in second. After a successful campaign by incumbent Kwame Kilpatrick, in which commercials that exposed Hendrix support of a state takeover of the Detroit Public Schools were run, Hendrix lost support throughout the Detroit Community. He ultimately lost to Kilpatrick in the controversial November 8, 2005, election by a margin of 47% to 53%.

Hendrix was named chief operating officer of Strategic Staffing Solutions and joined EMU in August 2006 as chief government relations officer, focusing on strengthening relationships with legislators in Lansing and Washington, D.C.

2009 Campaign
Hendrix officially announced a second formal campaign for mayor of Detroit at the EMU Student Government meeting on October 7, 2008. After an inquiry by Student Body Vice-President Robert Philip Kull about his plans, Hendrix revealed his plans as a way of pushing for "honesty, transparency, and accountability".2 Others who announced their candidacy were interim Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr., Sharon McPhail, Coleman Young II, Nicholas Hood III, and Dave Bing; Hendrix ultimately came in third in the February 24, 2009, primary behind Cockrel and Bing (who was elected mayor).

Hendrix was the top vote getter in the August 4, 2009 primary for a post in the Charter Revision Commission, receiving 11% of the vote. He resigned, however, from the commission on September 14, 2010, to join the Greektown Casino Hotel Board of Directors.

Electoral history

 * 2009 Election for Charter Revision Commission (Detroit)
 * Freman Hendrix (D), 11%
 * Teola Pearl Hunter (D), 8%
 * Ken Coleman (D), 8%
 * Jenice Mitchell Ford (D), 7%
 * Reggie 'Reg' Davis (D), 6%
 * Rose Mary C. Robinson (D), 6%
 * Ken Harris (D), 6%
 * John Johnson (D), 6%
 * Cara J. Blount (D), 5%
 * 2009 Special Election for Mayor (Detroit) (Primary Election)
 * Dave Bing (D), 28.82%
 * Kenneth Cockrel, Jr (D), 27.00%
 * Freman Hendrix (D), 23.21%
 * Warren Evans (D), 10.06%
 * Coleman A. Young II (D), 4.10%
 * 2005 Race for Mayor (Detroit)
 * Kwame Kilpatrick (D), 53%
 * Freman Hendrix (D), 47%
 * 2005 Race for Mayor (Detroit) (Primary Election)
 * Freman Hendrix (D), 45%
 * Kwame Kilpatrick (D), 34%
 * Sharon McPhail (D), 12%
 * Hansen Clarke (D), 8%

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Petra Procházková

Petra Procházková (born 20 October 1964 in Český Brod) is a Czech journalist and humanitarian worker. She is best known as a war correspondent from conflict areas of the former Soviet Union.

Procházková studied journalistics at Charles University in Prague (graduated in 1986). In 1989 she started to work in the re-established newspaper Lidové noviny. In 1992 she became Lidové Noviny's Moscow correspondent. Here she began covering conflict areas—Abkhazia being the first. During Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 she was the only journalist staying in the besieged Russian White House. In 1994, together with fellow journalist Jaromír Štětina, Procházková founded the independent journalism agency Epicentrum dedicated to war reporting. In following years they covered events in Chechnya, Abkhazia, Ossetia, Georgia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Nagorny Karabakh, Kurdistan, Kashmir and East Timor. Her work has won several journalistic awards.

For several years, Procházková concentrated on wars in Chechnya and was in Groznyi when it was bombed for the first time. In June 1995, during the hostage-taking raid at Budyonnovsk in southern Russia, she offered herself in exchange for hostages taken from the hospital. Procházková reported the horrors of both the first and second Chechen War, often to the dismay of Russian authorities. During that time, she started to organize relief efforts for families ravaged by war. In 2000 she limited her work as a journalist and dedicated herself to humanitarian work, establishing a shelter for orphans in Groznyi. Her critique of Russian politics in Chechnya brought punishment—in 2000 she was forbidden to stay in Russia for a period of several years (and returned there only in late 2011 ).

After returning from Russia to the Czech Republic, Procházková founded a small humanitarian organisation Berkat which concentrates on aid mainly to Chechnya and Afghanistan. Adding to the list of volatile regions she has worked in, she began covering the situation in Afghanistan and was the last journalist to speak with Ahmed Shah Massoud before he was killed.

Procházková's second husband, Ibragim Zyazikov, an Ingushethian from the teip of Murat Zyazikov who worked as security guard for the People in Need organization, was kidnapped in Chechnya in February 2003 and disappeared without trace. In 2006, her son Zafar (named after her third husband, Zafar Paikar, a photographer from Afghanistan) was born.

In 2001, the cash prize of the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award was passed on to her by Madeleine Albright.

Books

 * Petra Procházková, Jaromír Štětina: Utřete tělesné šťávy (Wipe out the body fluids), 2001, ISBN 80-86103-51-X. Collection of short stories about people pushed outside the society due to wartime cruelty.
 * Jaromír Štětina, Petra Procházková: Rošangol, 2003, ISBN 80-86103-70-6. Two stories about women-mothers from the contemporary Afghanistan.
 * Petra Procházková: Aluminiová královna: rusko-čečenská válka očima žen (The Aluminium Queen: The Russian-Chechen War Through the Eyes of Women), 2003, ISBN 80-7106-730-X. Document about women struggling for survival in Chechnya during the wars. It was translated into French, Swedish, Polish, Dutch and Estonian.
 * Petra Procházková: Frišta, 2004, ISBN 80-7106-792-X. Novel about a Russian-Tadjik woman living in Afghanistan after the fall of Taliban.

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Stanley Theater (Utica, New York)

The Stanley Theatre is a historic Baroque movie palace in Utica, New York. Over the years, it has gone through several changes of ownership, but has always been affiliated with Warner Brothers Pictures.

History
Originally owned by the Stanley-Mark Strand Corporation chain (founded by brothers Mitchel H. Mark and Moe Mark), the Stanley Theatre (and entire movie theatre chain) was purchased three days before opening by Warner Brothers. The company was eager to showcase its products on as many screens as possible. The theatre opened on September 10, 1928, with the silent movie Ramona starring Dolores del Río.

Thomas W. Lamb, a prolific theatre architect, designed the 2,963 seat cinema for the Mastbaum chain of theatres. The theatre was named for Stanley, one of the Mastbaum brothers. While Lamb and his firm designed over 300 theatres worldwide, he is considered to be somewhat of a local, having owned a camp in the Adirondacks. (His great-grandson lives in the Albany area today.)

The Stanley was built in less than 13 months on the expanding southern edge of downtown, some four blocks away from Utica's theatre district. All the theatres located there were razed during the Urban Renewal era of the 1960s and 70s. The Stanley remained open through all of this, though it suffered many years of neglect. In 1974, when the threat of destruction became very real, the Central New York Community Arts Council (renamed Stanley Center for the Arts in 2008) spearheaded a campaign to acquire the property, which it did for $135,000.

The design motif of the Stanley Theatre is dubbed "Mexican Baroque" because of its unique blend of styles. The terra cotta and tiled mosaic exterior shows the Mexican influence, while Habsburg lions, Indian faces, and a multitude of angels and cherubs grace the lavish gold leaf Baroque theatre interior. Moorish influence is also evident in the star-splashed ceiling and twisted columns flanking the stage. Legend has it that the grand entry staircase was designed to resemble the main staircase on the Titanic ocean liner.

While the Stanley Theatre continued to be primarily a movie house, it introduced live events early in its history. Today it is host to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Great Artists Series (over 75 years); Broadway Theatre League (50 years); Utica Symphony (over 60 years); and the Mohawk Valley Ballet (over 25 years).

Notable early performers included legendary singers Marian Anderson, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons, Jeanette MacDonald, and Gene Autry. Later illustrious entertainers included Chuck Mangione, Conway Twitty, Third Eye Blind, Diana Ross, Barry Manilow, and Harry Connick Jr. The Stanley was also host to multiple appearances by Jerry Seinfeld, Wynton Marsalis, George Carlin, Itzhak Perlman, Bob Weir & RatDog!, and B.B. King. More recent performances include Aretha Franklin and legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach. The Broadway Theatre League brought in National Touring productions of Cats, Annie, Evita, Sweeney Todd, and Barnum.

The theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is significant for its relationship to the early movie industry and its distinctive architecture.

The Stanley underwent major renovations in 2007.

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Grand Prix 2

Grand Prix 2, released in North America as "Grand Prix II", is a racing simulator released by MicroProse in 1996. It is a sequel to Formula One Grand Prix. It was made under an official FIA license that featured the Formula One 1994 season, with all of the circuits, teams, drivers and cars. The cars were painted with liveries reflecting the races that did not allow tobacco and alcohol sponsors (e.g. 1994 German Grand Prix).

It had 3D texture mapping and SVGA graphics, as well as an early 3D physics engine. A large community of GP2 enthusiasts formed following the game's release. Grand Prix 2 was a commercial hit, and is recognized as one of the definitive racing simulations of its era.

Gameplay
The game is a simulation of the 1994 Formula One season with all 16 circuits from the 1994 season and 28 drivers in their 14 teams. Unlike the real 1994 season, where teams changed drivers and sponsorship liveries repeatedly, the game has a consistent driver list and set of liveries throughout, which reflects that of the 1994 German Grand Prix. As a result, Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger, who both were killed during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix are not present in the game; Nigel Mansell was also not included in the game as he was not Williams' regular second driver after Senna's death. The liveries for each of the cars are also based on their appearance at the 1994 German Grand Prix, where all teams ran non-tobacco livery. It includes all parts of a Formula One weekend, including practice, qualifying and racing. It also included a championship mode which simulated the entire season.

Some circuits in the game show safety-related changes to the tracks made during the season, e.g. Silverstone, Estoril and Jerez have them included while they are missing at Barcelona, Montreal and Spa.

There was no "arcade" mode in Grand Prix II, per se, but it included the ability to turn on and off seven "driving aids": steering help, braking help, automatic turn-around (has the car face forward after a crash), indestructibility, racing line help, automatic shifting and traction control. The game had five levels of difficulty one could choose from, and the higher the level, the less options for driving aids one could turn on or off.

There also is a "Quickrace" function that lets the player jump into a race without having to go through the perfunctory qualifying session. The quickrace option was customizable, allowing a player to race as many laps as desired and allow the player to set their grid position.

The player selects the car they will drive among the 28 seats available, supplanting the driver who originally raced in that vehicle.

The game had multiple camera angles, including a simulated TV coverage angle. The player can control their car from any of them, but the primary angle used was the first-person cockpit angle. The game can be played using the keyboard, mouse or joystick depending on the player's preference.

The cars can be customizable in myriad ways through the setup function. Car setups could be modified to high detail with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

In addition to the single player modes, the game also offered hotseat and modem-linked LAN multiplayer modes.

A race can be played in turns, with different players driving different cars in the race. Gameplay in this mode has one player at a time driving their car in the race. Instead of a split screen game, The computer simulates the driving for the other players' cars when they are not being controlled by one of the players waiting their turn.

The game also featured a replay function and save game feature. The replay function showed the last ~30 seconds of racing and included the ability to save replays. It did not include an edit function. The save game feature allowed players to save their progress in the game.

The game also replicated engine, gearbox and electronic failures. This meant cars not only could crash, but also have flames or smoke shoot out of the backs of their cars from engine failure, after which they raced around the circuit damaged for a limited time before parking at the side of the road or in the pits. This game was the first to simulate visual car failures; as in 1989's Indianapolis 500: The Simulation cars fell out of the race but went to the pits and parked permanently when a car failure occurred.

Grand Prix II did not include wet weather conditions. There was also the lack of a 'black flag' system replicating Formula One regulation penalties for course cutting, instead slowing the car down for a limited period of time if the course is cut through.

Development
The game was developed by Geoff Crammond as a follow-up to 1991's Formula One Grand Prix (which was known as World Circuit in the US). In a time when the gaming industry had become dominated by development teams, it was a rare instance of an essentially one-man-project.

It was the first serious racing simulation programmed with all three axes in it—i.e. the ability for vehicles to get airborne in the game (1990's Stunts and Stunt Driver featured this ability, but were not racing simulations of a series). However, GP2 lacked the feature of having a car flip over entirely, which was not seen in hardcore racing simulations. In some cases, the game would crash if the car was about to overturn. Microsoft's Monster Truck Madness (1996), simulating monster truck racing, may have been the first to have that feature.

It included more extensive physics and included image mapping over the 3D model of the car to show vehicle liveries, a feature that emerged in racing simulations with Papyrus Design Group's 1993 IndyCar Racing.

Reception
Following Grand Prix 2's release in July 1996, its global sales reached 500,000 copies in September. This number rose to 750,000 copies by mid-January 1997, driven in large part by European purchases. In August 1998, the game received a "Platinum" sales award from the Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland (VUD), indicating sales of at least 200,000 units across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Grand Prix 2 sold 1.5 million copies worldwide by late 2000. That year, Andy Mahood of PC Gamer US described the entire Grand Prix series as "one of the most successful PC racing franchises in history".

Critics hailed Grand Prix II as stunning and the class of the field for Formula 1 simulations. Jim Varner of GameSpot particularly applauded the way it breaks the convention of racing games always falling into either simulation-style or arcade-style, through the use of adjustable "driving aids", which when turned off make Grand Prix II a phenomenally complex and realistic driving sim, and when turned on make it one of the most fun and exciting arcade-style racers ever made. Calling it "unquestionably the best racing game yet made for the PC", he gave it a 9.5 out of 10. PC Zone gave the game 95%. The game was rated outstanding by CNet.

Grand Prix 2 was nominated as Computer Games Strategy Plus's 1996 "Racing Simulation" of the year, although it lost to NASCAR Racing II.

Though they never published a review of Grand Prix 2, shortly after its release Next Generation named it the 46th best game of all time, calling it as the most sophisticated and realistic driving game. Grand Prix 2 and its predecessor, collectively, were named the seventh best computer game of all time by PC Gamer UK in 1997.

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Haberl

Haberl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Aladár Háberl (1898–1990), Hungarian skier
 * Charles G. Häberl (born 1976), American professor
 * Franz Xaver Haberl (1840–1910), German musicologist
 * Raimund Haberl (born 1949), Austrian rower

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The Saddletramps

The Saddletramps were an alternative country band from Toronto, Ontario in the 1980s and 1990s. Core members of the band included Ken Horne, Andrew Lindsay, John DeHaas and Brian Duguay.

History
In the early 1980s several Fanshawe College students from the Greater Toronto Area who shared a rented house in London, Ontario got together to form the band Tin Mitten. Their first gig was opening for another established local band, The Waiting. Friends of the band members chanted "No Waiting, Mitten Now" and pelted the band with mittens. The band was soon renamed The Saddletramps, and performed in various Toronto venues.

Lindsay met seventeen-year-old Sarah Harmer while working at Sunrise Records in Burlington, and she joined the band, later commuting to Toronto to perform on weekends while attending Queen's University.

In 1989 the Saddletramps released their first album, The Saddle Tramps, on cassette tape, with Dehaas on bass, Duguay on lead guitar and vocals, Harmer on vocals, Horne on percussion, Lindsay on vocals and guitar. Mike Northcott also contributed some instrumental work. The album was recorded at Grant Ave and Axon Studios, and all but one of the songs were written by the band members.

In 1990 the band released a second cassette album, Yardsale. Harmer left to concentrate on her studies; she later fronted her own band, Weeping Tile.

The Saddletramps disbanded in 1995.

In 1999, Harmer began a solo career; her solo album You Were Here included a new recording of "Don't Get Your Back Up", which she had originally recorded with The Saddletramps on Yardsale. Lindsay, Duguay, and Dehaas formed a new band called Loomer along with Michael Taylor, Iain Thomson, and Scott Loomer. The band released an album, Love Is A Dull Instrument in 2004. In 2006, Harmer sang "Only Lovers" on the band's second album, Songs of the Wild West Island.

Albums

 * The Saddle Tramps (1989) Tracks: "Christ", "Life and Times", "Church", "Winds of Change", "Alaska", "I Don't Mind", "Blue Eyes" and "Fallen Angel"
 * Yardsale (1990) Tracks: "Weight of the World", "Deal With It", "Boomerang", "4000 Roads",   "She Don't Love", "Rain of Gold", "Wastin' It On You", "Race Along The Edge", "Passin' Thru", "Don't Get Your Back Up"
 * Well Gone Bad (1993)

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Rhode Island Route 120

Route 120 is a numbered state highway running 4.2 mi in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It runs along the Nate Whipple Highway for its entire length. Its western terminus is at Route 122 in Cumberland and the eastern terminus is at the Massachusetts border where it continues as Massachusetts Route 120.

Route description
Route 120 takes the following route through the State:

 * Cumberland: 4.2 mi; Route 122 to Massachusetts State line at Route 120
 * Nate Whipple Highway

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Bajuni Islands

The Bajuni Islands (Jasiiradaha Jubbada Hoose, also known as the Bajun Islands or Baajun Islands) are an archipelago in southern Somalia. They are situated in the Somali sea off the southern coast of Jubaland, from Kismayo to Ras Kiyamboni.

Geography
Administratively, the islands are within the Lower Juba region of Somalia.

There are six main islands: Chula, where the village of Ndowa is situated, is the only island with a significant population
 * Chandra (2.95 km²),
 * Chovaye (also spelled Tovai; -0.872°N, 42.1593°W) (5.46 km²),
 * Chula (also spelled Tula; -1.0052°N, 42.0364°W) (1.99 km²),
 * Koyama (6.38 km²),
 * Darakasi (1.99 km²) and
 * Ngumi (2.56 km²).

In addition, there are several smaller islands, including Kandha Iwu, Fuma, and Ilisi. The island of Kismayo was attached to the coast in 1961 during the construction of Kismayo Port.

History
The islands were part of the ancient Somali empires, merchants, and fishermen who used it as an offshoot to trade with other civilizations in the spice world. The Somali Ajuran Dynasty utilized it for centuries as part of their kingdom. After the decline of several Somali empires later, the islands became less inhabited until the colonial invasion by the British East Africa prior to World War I. The Bajuni Islands formed a constituent part of British Jubaland. In 1924, mainland Jubaland was ceded to Italy, while the Bajuni Islands were transferred two years later.

According to C. Wightwick Haywood, a British official in Kismayo who visited the islands in 1913, the only inhabited islands in the chain were Chovaye and Chula. Maize, millet, sweet potatoes and coconuts were grown on the islands, and dhows were used for transportation. While there, Haywood saw ruins of what he described as a "fair-sized town" on Chovaye. He mentioned that similar stone scrollwork could also be seen on houses in the Lamu Islands. Haywood thought some of the residents to be of Arab or Persian descent.

Demographics
The islands are today mainly inhabited by the eponymous Bajuni people.

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Ballard Elementary School District

Ballard Elementary School District is located in the rural town of Ballard, California, United States, serving residents of the Santa Ynez Valley.

The district was founded in 1882 and was the first school in the valley. There is one school in this district, Ballard Elementary. Ballard Elementary is a Kindergarten through 6th grade school originally built in 1886 as a one-room schoolhouse. The "little red schoolhouse" is still used today by the Kindergarten and 1st grades. 128 students attend this school. Ballard School has become renowned for its quality of instruction, achieving second place among 43 school district results for Santa Barbara County, in the 2006 No Child Left Behind testing program.

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Session 9

Session 9 is a 2001 American psychological horror film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Anderson and Stephen Gevedon. The film stars David Caruso, Peter Mullan, Brendan Sexton III, Josh Lucas, and Gevedon as an asbestos abatement crew who take a clean-up job at an abandoned mental asylum amid an intense work schedule, growing tensions, and mysterious events occurring around them. Its title refers to a series of audio-taped sessions with an asylum patient that run parallel to the crew's experiences.

The film marked a tonal departure for Anderson, who previously only directed romantic comedies. Production took place on location at the Danvers State Mental Hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts. While not a financial success, Session 9 developed a reputation as a cult film.

Plot
Gordon Fleming, the owner of an asbestos abatement company in Massachusetts, makes a bid to remove asbestos from Danvers State Hospital. Desperate for money, he promises to complete the job in only one week, despite requiring two to three weeks. His crew includes Mike, a law school dropout who is knowledgeable about the asylum's history; Phil, who is dealing with his grief over a recent breakup; Hank, a gambling addict; and Gordon's nephew Jeff, who has a pathological fear of the dark.

While surveying the job site, Gordon hears a disembodied voice that greets him by name. The men begin their job, and Mike discovers a box containing nine audio-taped therapy sessions that were recorded with Mary Hobbes, a patient who suffered from dissociative identity disorder. Mike begins listening to the tapes in the ensuing days. In the sessions, Mary's psychologist attempts to unveil details surrounding a crime she committed at her home two decades prior. Mary exhibits numerous personalities who have unique voices and demeanors.

Meanwhile, Hank discovers a cache of antique silver dollar coins and other valuables from the crematory. Late that night, he returns to the hospital to retrieve the items and discovers a lobotomy pick among them. He becomes frightened by noises and a shadowy figure, and is confronted by an unknown assailant.

Hank fails to show up to work the next day. An additional worker, Craig McManus, is hired to take his place. Gordon confides in Phil that he slapped his wife Wendy after she inadvertently splashed him with boiling water, and that she refuses to answer his calls or let him see their infant daughter. In a stairwell in the hospital, Jeff witnesses Hank staring out a window wearing sunglasses, talking to himself.

Hank goes missing and the men split up to search for him, but Mike is compelled to continue listening to the tapes. Jeff and Phil descend into the tunnels beneath the hospital where Phil finds Hank, half-nude, muttering to himself. The generator runs out of fuel, leaving a terrified Jeff trapped in darkness. Mike restores the electricity and continues listening to the ninth and final tape, which reveals that one of Mary's malignant personalities, "Simon," was responsible for Mary murdering her family. Phil finds Gordon in Mary's former hospital room, staring at photos from his daughter's baptism which he has pasted to the wall. Jeff emerges from the tunnels and is attacked by an unseen assailant at the company van.

The following day, Gordon arrives at the hospital and finds Hank wrapped in plastic sheeting in one of the rooms, the lobotomy pick protruding from his eye. He is then confronted by Phil, who repeatedly tells him to "wake up" before vanishing in front of him. Craig witnesses Gordon standing over Hank, who is barely alive. Gordon attacks Craig before pulling the lobotomy pick from Hank's eye and stabbing it into Craig′s. Gordon, in a dissociated state, finds the bodies of each of his men in various rooms in the hospital, and recounts his murdering each of them. He also recalls killing Wendy, his daughter and the dog after Wendy spilled the boiling water on him.

Distraught, Gordon confusedly attempts to call his home to apologize to Wendy. An excerpt from the ninth tape plays: Mary's doctor asks her, "And where do you live, Simon?" to which "Simon" responds: "I live in the weak and the wounded, Doc."

Interpretations
In reviewing the film for the 2003 edition of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Edward Bryant contends that Simon is not necessarily an alternate personality of the former patient Mary, but rather a malevolent genius loci. He also points out that the deleted scenes included on the DVD help fill out the narrative. Critics have also pointed out similarities and references to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980).

Scholar Heike Schwarz states that Session 9 "refers to DID [ Dissociative identity disorder ] and a possible possession with a demonic personality." M. Scott Peck also saw evil originating from weakness or cowardice.

Development
Session 9 was director Brad Anderson's first horror film, after directing two romantic comedy films, Next Stop Wonderland (1998) and Happy Accidents (2000). Anderson describes Session 9 as an "American tragedy", and states that he and screenwriter Stephen Gevedon aimed "to subvert the conventions of the so-called horror genre that exists now", which he describes as "less horror than it is teen thriller."

The film's plot was inspired by the Richard Rosenthal case, a murder that took place in Boston, where Anderson grew up, in the mid-1990s, in which a man supposedly killed his wife after she accidentally burnt his dinner, then cut out her heart and lungs and put them in his backyard on a stake. Anderson states that it was also "as you imagine, very much inspired by the location", Danvers State Asylum.

Don't Look Now, directed by Nicolas Roeg, was one inspiration for the film, for its sense of place and because the lead character realizes in the climax that he is at the heart of the mystery. Anderson has stated that he aimed to use sound to convey the plot as well as to generate "a creepy tone"; the sound design incorporated the subliminal use of animal and mechanical noises.

Filming
Most of the film was shot in a small section of the Danvers Asylum; according to actor David Caruso, the rest of the building was "unsafe" for shooting. Caruso also claims the sets did not need to be dressed as all the props featured in the film were already there inside the building. Elaborating Caruso said:

"It was a place you never got comfortable in. It wasn't like day three and we were throwing water balloons because it was so much fun to be there. It was always scary. You can really feel the pain of the people that went through Danvers. It's a rough environment. It's not fun. It's on the film. They didn't have to dress any sets, or anything. All of that stuff was sitting there. The federal government walked away from it about thirty years ago. It was a terrifying location."

It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot in 24p HD digital video, which shoots at 24 frames-per-second like film, as opposed to regular digital video which shoots at 30 frames-per-second.

Release
Session 9 premiered at the Fantasia Festival in July 2001. It was released to theaters on August 10, playing on 30 screens. It ended its American theatrical run on October 18, grossing a total of $378,176. The film was a greater financial success abroad, earning $1.2 million internationally.

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 66% based on 74 reviews, with an average rating  6.30/10. The site's consensus states, "Relying more on atmosphere than gore, Session 9 is effectively creepy". On Metacritic it has a score of 58% based on reviews from 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Some critics praised the film's dark, eerie atmosphere and lack of gore. Entertainment Weekly called the film "a marvel of vérité nightmare atmosphere". Rolling Stone called it "a spine-tingler", and praised Brad Anderson's direction. Los Angeles Times said of the film: "Session 9 is so effective that its sense of uncertainty lingers long after the theater lights have gone up." Bloody Disgusting ranked the film fifth in its list of the twenty best horror films of the 2000s, writing, "Session 9 isn't just a cheap, hack 'n' slash, instantly-forgettable type horror film, but a psychologically probing, deeply unsettling journey off the edge and into the abyss of the human mind." Slant Magazine favorably compared it to the 1973 film Don't Look Now, writing, "Anderson's creeper is nowhere near as profound, but the film's old-fashioned pacing and revelatory camerawork bring to mind [Nicolas] Roeg's uniquely terrifying dreamworlds."

Some reviewers criticized the film's ending. A negative review came from Variety, which wrote, "while pic works up a nervously eerie paranoia, it finally doesn't know what to do with what it sets up." San Francisco Chronicle said, "the story doesn't quite pay off, characters are underwritten and the surprise ending is contrived and unconvincing." The Village Voice wrote, "the script for Session 9 is so underwritten that even such lively character actors as David Caruso, Peter Mullan and Brendan Sexton III are left stranded." Dave Kehr, in a mixed review for The New York Times, praises the "impeccable" performances and the dialogue's "authentic working-class snap", but criticizes the pacing which "often feels long and aimless", and concludes that the film "loses any sense of urgency or structure" because of Anderson's choice to leave the connections between events unstated.

Home media
USA Films and Universal Home Entertainment released a DVD of Session 9 on February 26, 2002. A Blu-ray edition was released in August 2016 by Scream Factory.

Soundtrack
The score to Session 9 was composed by Seattle, Washington-based experimental band Climax Golden Twins. The score is in an ambient and dark ambient vein. The soundtrack was released on August 21, 2001, through Milan Records. "Choke Chain" by Sentridoh is played over the closing credits of the film, but is not featured on the album.

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Stanley Theater

Stanley Theater may refer to:
 * Stanley Theater (Jersey City), New Jersey
 * Stanley Theater (Newark, New Jersey)
 * Stanley Theater (Utica, New York)
 * Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, now the Benedum Center
 * Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, formerly Stanley Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia

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