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Aya Ueto

Aya Ueto (上戸 彩) is a Japanese actress, singer and television personality. In 1997, Ueto participated in the seventh Japan Bishōjo Contest, where she won the special jury prize. Soon thereafter, Ueto joined the talent agency Oscar Promotion and began taking singing, dancing and acting lessons. In 1999, she formed the girl group Z-1 with three fellow Japan Bishōjo Contest participants. The group disbanded in 2002 and later that year, Ueto signed with Pony Canyon and released "Pureness", her debut single as a lead artist. She has since released five studio albums which have spawned ten Oricon top-ten singles.

At the age of thirteen, Ueto made her acting debut in the 1999 thriller Satsujinsha: Killer of Paraiso. In 2001, Ueto appeared in the sixth season of the TBS drama 3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi-sensei. Her portrayal of a high school student with gender dysphoria garnered critical acclaim and led to several leading roles and advertising endorsements, establishing Ueto as one of Japan's most recognizable faces. Since 2004, Ueto has held the annual title of CM Queen five times. Ueto has won two Television Drama Academy Awards – one for Best Actress for her performance in the sports drama series Ace o Nerae! (2004) and one for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the human drama Nagareboshi (2010). She subsequently starred in the remake of Attention Please (2006), the banking drama Hanzawa Naoki (2013) and Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon (2014).

Ueto ventured onto the big screen as the lead in Ryuhei Kitamura's 2003 blockbuster Azumi, which earned her a nomination for a Japan Academy Award for Best Actress. She went on to star in its sequel, Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005), and Thermae Romae (2012), the adaptation of Mari Yamazaki's manga series of the same name. In 2017, Ueto starred in the feature film adaptation of the drama series Hirugao.

Biography
Aya Ueto was born in Nerima, Tokyo. Her father is from Suttsu, Hokkaido, while her mother is from Ishigaki Island, Okinawa. Her parents divorced shortly after Ueto's debut. She is the middle of three children with an older brother, Shun, and younger brother Makoto. Despite growing up in a relatively poor household, Ueto studied piano, modern ballet, swimming and gymnastics.

Career
She originally had no ambitions to become an entertainer; she instead wanted to become a pre-school teacher. After hearing about one of her friends' experience as an extra on a TV drama, she decided she too "wanted to appear on TV." Unbeknownst to her daughter, Ueto's mother entered her into the 7th Japan Bishōjo Contest. When she was twelve years old, Ueto won the special jury prize at the contest. She revealed later on that her real motivation for doing well was to "win the two million yen cash prize to buy a house for her family," however because what she won was an ad hoc prize decided that day, there was no monetary reward. After Ueto's discovery, she joined the talent agency Oscar Promotion and began acting and singing lessons. In July 1998, Ueto joined the idol group Z-1. The group landed a regular spot on the variety shows ''Kaishingeki TV! Utaemon and The Yoru mo Hippare'', and debuted on Toshiba EMI a year later with the single "Vibe!" In 1999, Ueto obtained her first role in the film Satsujinsha: Killer of Paraiso, in which her lines were entirely in English.

2000–2005: Breakthrough and solo debut
In 2000, Ueto portrayed the supporting role of Momo Fuchigami in the Fuji TV drama Namida o Fuite, starring Yōsuke Eguchi. The drama garnered strong ratings and gave Ueto her biggest exposure yet. In 2001, Ueto appeared on the annual Victor Kōshien poster, which, in the past, kick-started the careers of Noriko Sakai and Miho Kanno. Later that year, she was cast in the role of Nao Tsurumoto, a student suffering from gender identity disorder (GID), in the sixth season of the TBS drama 3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi-sensei. The role propelled her to stardom and earned her a Golden Arrow Award for Best Newcomer.

In January 2002, it was announced that Ueto would continue her music career as a solo artist under Pony Canyon subsidiary label, Flight Master. During her summer break from school, she appeared in a 5-episode arc of the long-running drama Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari, and starred alongside Akiko Yada and Hiroshi Abe in the TBS drama My Little Chef. Ueto released her first solo single, "Pureness," in August 2002. The song debuted at number 4 on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart, making it the first debut single by a female artist with no commercial tie-in to enter the top five in three years. In between filming her first feature film, Azumi, Ueto released her second single, "Kizuna," and launched Seventeen's Map, a radio show on Nippon Hōsō. The program would go on to last four-and-a-half years, changing names after each of her birthdays to Eighteen's Road, Nineteen's Nine, Hatachi ni High Touch!, and 21 Peace!.

In early 2003, Ueto starred in a remake of the 1993 drama Kōkō Kyōshi, alongside Naohito Fujiki. She released her third single, "Hello," followed by her first studio album, Ayaueto. In April 2003, it was revealed that Ueto had taken a leave of absence from school to focus on her career. In a 2007 interview, she stated that, at the time, she was only getting two hours of sleep, trying to juggle work and school. In May 2003, Ueto launched her first tour, Ueto Aya First Live Tour Pureness 2003, released a fourth single, "Message/Personal," and Azumi opened nationwide. Ueto won several awards for her performance in Azumi. She swooped the Newcomer of the Year category of the Élan d'Or Awards, Japan Movie Critic Awards, Japanese Academy Awards, and Golden Arrow Awards; becoming the only actress to win two consecutive Golden Arrows for Newcomer of the Year. Ueto received a nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the Japanese Academy Awards and won the Popularity Award. In July 2003, Ueto landed her first TV leading role in the TBS drama Hitonatsu no Papa e, for which her fifth single, Kanshō, served as theme song. Despite low ratings, the single was well received on the charts, peaking at number 9.

In January 2004, Ueto starred as Hiromi Oka in the live-action adaption of the popular manga Ace wo Nerae!. The drama earned her The Television Drama Academy Award for Best Lead Actress. Ueto's seventh single, "Ai no Tameni.," served as theme song for the drama and became her best-selling single. In March 2004, Message was released and became her best-selling album. In December 2004, Ueto released her third studio album, Re., starred alongside Ryūnosuke Kamiki in the film adaption of Risa Wataya's award-winning novel, Install, which premiered at the 17th Tokyo International Film Festival, and performed as top-batter at the 55th Kōhaku Uta Gassen. With eighteen advertising contracts for sixteen companies, Ueto was crowned CM Queen of 2004.

In 2005, Ueto appeared in the NHK taiga drama Yoshitsune, portrayed twin sisters in a remake of the drama Koto, and starred in the sequel to Azumi, Azumi 2: Death or Love. In April 2005, she starred in the TV Asahi-produced live-action adaption of another popular manga, Attack No. 1. "Yume no Chikara," the theme song for the drama, became her ninth top ten single. Ueto next starred in two TV movies produced to commemorate TBS' 50th anniversary: Misora Hibari Tanjō Monogatar, a Misora Hibari biopic co-starring Izumi Pinko, and Nada Sōsō, Kono Ai ni Ikite, co-starring Hitomi Kuroki. She launched her second tour, Ueto Aya Live Tour 2005: Genki Hatsu Ratsū?, released her twelfth single, "Kaze wo Ukete," and first remix album, Uetoayamix. Ueto was appointed mascot girl for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship and covered the tournament as a special presenter for NTV.

2006–2007
In 2006, Ueto attended her Coming of Age ceremony, acted as special presenter for NTV's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics and made a guest appearance as herself in the anime Meitantei Conan, for which she was chosen as special supporter. She released her thirteenth single, "Egao no Mama de," followed by her fourth studio album, License. Ueto starred in Celeb, the first episode of the drama adaption of the cell phone novel Tsubasa no Oreta Tenshitachi. Her episode was the highest rated of the series. The drama marked Ueto's first appearance on a Fuji TV drama in six years, since Namida wo Fuite (2000). She starred alongside Ryo Nishikido in a modern-day remake of the 1970 drama, Attention Please, which became her most successful drama to date. It spawned two specials: Attention Please: Yōko, Hawaii ni Tobu (2007) and Attention Please: Sydney, Australia (2008). Ueto next starred in the Yukihiko Tsutsumi-directed comedy, Shimokita Sundays. In September 2006, Ueto released her first compilation album, Best of Uetoaya: Single Collection, which peaked at number 5. In December 2006, she hosted the 32nd Radio Charity Musicthon and acted as special presenter for NTV's coverage of the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup.

In 2007, Ueto starred in the two-part Yoshiko Ōtaka biopic, Ri Kouran. In March 2007, Ueto released "Way to Heaven," her first single in over a year, and made a guest appearance in the eighth-season finale of the TBS drama Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari. In April 2007, Ueto was cast in a remake of the Korean drama Hotelier. The theme song, "Namida no Niji," was released in May 2007. The single marked Ueto's first foray into songwriting. In an interview with Oricon Style, she revealed that the reason she insisted on not writing her own lyrics until then was because she felt "shy" about "opening herself completely" to her audience. Ueto held her third tour, Ueto Aya Best Live Tour 2007 Never Ever, in the summer of 2007. At the release event of the concert DVD, she stated that the tour refreshed her after a year of ups and downs. Ueto next starred alongside Hideaki Itō in the TBS period piece Wachigaiya Itosato, and alongside Yō Ōizumi in the Fuji TV drama, Abarenbō Mama, which was well received by critics and audiences alike.

2008–present
In 2008, Ueto won the Asakusa Entertainment Newcomer Prize, which is awarded to the most prominent entertainers based in Tokyo. She starred in her first NTV drama, Hokaben. In August 2008, Ueto became the first actress to ever appear on official postage stamps by releasing an original set with photos taken from her 2007 tour. She made a secret guest appearance at the 2008 Kobe Collection runway show, where she modeled for Emanuel Ungaro. In October 2008, Ueto next starred in her ninth TV drama leading role in the Fuji TV comedy Celeb to Binbō Taro, alongside Shūchishin member, Yūsuke Kamiji. Ueto attended the premiere of Saki Fukuda's first feature film Sakura no Sono, in which she makes a supporting appearance, at the 21st Tokyo International Film Festival. In December 2008, Ueto hosted two of the year's biggest festivities: the M-1 Grand Prix and 50th Japan Record Awards. She hosted the former for the third consecutive year.

In January 2009, Ueto launched her first wedding dress collection, in collaboration with bridal shop Joyful Eli, entitled U Aya Ueto Dresses. While she has designed her own tour merchandise in the past, namely the T-shirt line Buddy in 2005, U marks Ueto's first official foray into fashion design. A second collection was announced in July 2009. In April 2009, she starred alongside SMAP leader Masahiro Nakai in her first Getsuku drama, Konkatsu!. Ueto next co-starred with Hayato Ichihara in the Shunji Iwai-produced CG animation film, Baton, created in commemoration of the Port of Yokohama's 150th anniversary. The film, reunited her with Azumi director Ryuhei Kitamura. In June 2009, after a two-year hiatus, Ueto resumed her singing career by releasing the Kohmi Hirose-produced single "Smile for...," followed by her fifth studio album, Happy Magic: Smile Project. In November 2009, Ueto co-starred with Tetsuya Watari in the Sugako Hashida-written and Fukuko Ishii-produced TV movie, Kekkon.

In 2010, Ueto launched her third and fourth wedding dress collections, starred alongside Kin'ya Kitaōji in the Fuji TV drama Zettai Reido, and made a cameo appearance in Shun Oguri's directorial debut, Surely Someday. In August 2010, Ueto co-starred with Masaaki Uchino for the first time since Ace o Nerae! (2004) in her first NHK drama leading role, Jūnensaki mo Kimi ni Koishite. In September 2010, Ueto portrayed blind singer-songwriter Satoko Tatemichi in the TV movie Ai wa Mieru. Ueto next co-starred with Yutaka Takenouchi in her second Getsuku drama, Nagareboshi. The drama was very well received by critics and audiences alike and was the second best rated of the fall season. Ueto was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix and won the Television Drama Academy Award for her role in Nagareboshi. Boasting advertising contracts with 13 different companies, Ueto was crowned CM Queen for a second consecutive year, making it the fifth time she has held the title.

In February 2011, Ueto launched her fifth wedding dress collection. In July 2011, Ueto reprised the role of detective Izumi Sakuragi for a second season of Zettai Reido. Ueto was confirmed to appear in the series finale of the long-running drama Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari, scheduled to air in September 2011. She will also star alongside Hiroshi Abe for the first time in ten years, since My Little Chef (2002), in the film adaptation of Thermae Romae (2012). Filming started in Rome on March 14 and is expected to finish in early May.

Relationship and marriage
Ueto dated Japanese singer and actor Gō Morita of the boy band V6 for eight years before splitting in April 2010. In October 2010, it was reported that she was in a relationship with Exile leader Hiro. In September 2012, Ueto announced via a handwritten letter posted on her official website that she and Hiro had registered their marriage on Ueto's 27th birthday.

Ueto and her husband welcomed the birth of their first child, a daughter, on August 19, 2015. Official news outlets announced that the couple had welcomed their second child, a son, on July 27, 2019. She gave birth to their third child and second son on June 22, 2023.

Philanthropy
In April 2011, Ueto joined veteran actors Tetsuya Watari, Hiroshi Tachi in handing out food and other relief supplies to disaster victims in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami-stricken area of Ishinomaki in Miyagi.

Other
Ueto is close friends with tarento and singer Becky. The pair have been appearing on television together since they met on the morning show Oha Star in 2000.

Discography

 * Studio albums
 * Ayaueto (2003)
 * Message (2004)
 * Re. (2004)
 * License (2006)
 * Happy Magic: Smile Project (2009)

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M-85 (Michigan highway)

M-85, also known as Fort Street or Fort Road for its entire length, is a state trunkline highway in the U.S. state of Michigan. The highway serves several Downriver suburbs of Detroit, as well as neighborhoods in the city itself. From its southern terminus at exit 28 on Interstate 75 (I-75) to its second interchange with exit 43 on I-75 in southwest Detroit, M-85 is part of the Lake Erie Circle Tour. In between, it serves mostly residential areas running parallel to a pair of rail lines; the highway carries between 5,000 and 43,000 vehicles per day on average. Once in the city of Detroit, Fort Street runs parallel to I-75 for several miles before they separate near the Ambassador Bridge. The northern end of M-85 is at the intersection with Griswold Street in downtown Detroit, one block away from Campus Martius Park.

Two previous unrelated highways bore the M-85 designation. The first was in Montcalm County and the second near Caro. These uses were retired in the 1930s and the 1940s, respectively. The current M-85 was created in 1956 after the construction of the Detroit-Toledo Freeway; the original northern end was at an intersection with US Highway 25 (US 25) in downtown. The northern end was truncated in the late 1960s to the northern junction with I-75. The highway was then extended back into downtown Detroit in the first year of the 21st century.

Route description
M-85 starts a directional interchange with I-75 in near Rockwood; traffic to or from southbound I-75 must use Gibraltar Road instead. M-85 runs north from this interchange to Gibraltar Road as a full freeway; north of that intersection the highway becomes a boulevard. There are many businesses directly adjacent to Fort Street in the Downriver area with residential subdivisions on either side of them. The trunkline parallels a pair of rail lines. In this area, M-85 also runs parallel to, but inland from, the southern part of the Detroit River. The highway runs northeasterly through Gibraltar to Trenton, where it turns due north. Fort Street forms the boundary between Riverview and Trenton in the area near the Riverview Landing Shopping Center between King and Sibley Roads; north of here, Riverview extends along both sides of the road. At Pennsylvania Road, Fort Street crosses into the city of Southgate and curves to the northeast near the Southgate Tower office building. The highway returns to a due northerly course near Memorial Park and continues along the Southgate–Wyandotte city line. This area is mainly residential neighborhoods that extend in street grids on either side of the Fort Street boulevard, including the Old Homestead neighborhood of Southgate.

The highway crosses the South Branch of the Ecorse River and enters the city of Lincoln Park, through which Fort Street angles slightly northeasterly before turning sharply to the northeast at Champaign Road. M-85's new direction keeps it parallel to the Detroit River about 1 mi away. When the trunkline crosses the North Branch of the Ecorse River, M-85 enters the city of Detroit near Outer Drive. Fort Street runs parallel to I-75 through the Boynton–Oakwood Heights neighborhoods of the city. North of the intersection with Schaefer Highway, M-85 meets an interchange with I-75 and passes under the freeway, crossing to its northwest side. At this interchange, the LECT designation is transferred from M-85 to I-75. Fort Street continues running between an industrial area and I-75. In this area, the highway crosses the River Rouge and turns east-northeast. Fort Street continues through the Delray neighborhood and past Woodmere Cemetery before crossing under I-75 again; there is no interchange at this location. These two highways continue in parallel to the north of Fort Wayne and the Detroit Harbor Terminals / Boblo Island Detroit Dock Building; M-85 intersects Grand Boulevard and passes under the approaches for the Ambassador Bridge; I-75 turns inland near the bridge's toll plaza north of Fort Street. M-85 continues along the river into the Corktown neighborhood.

As M-85 approaches downtown, it crosses over the Canadian Pacific-owned Michigan Central Railway Tunnel. Several blocks later, the highway passes over M-10 (Lodge Freeway) without an interchange near Huntington Place. Fort Street continues carrying the M-85 designation as far east as the intersection with Griswold Street, one block west of Campus Martius Park.

M-85 is maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) like other state highways in Michigan. As a part of these maintenance responsibilities, the department tracks the volume of traffic that uses the roadways under its jurisdiction. These volumes are expressed using a metric called annual average daily traffic, which is a statistical calculation of the average daily number of vehicles on a segment of roadway. MDOT's surveys in 2010 showed that the highest traffic levels along M-85 were the 42,786 vehicles daily in Wyandotte; the lowest count was 5,976 vehicles per day at the southern terminus. All of M-85 has been listed on the National Highway System, a network of roads important to the country's economy, defense, and mobility. Between the two I-75 interchanges, M-85 is the closest state trunkline to Lake Erie and the Detroit River, making it a part of the Lake Erie Circle Tour (LECT).

Previous designations
In 1919, the first version of M-85 ran from then M-66 east to M-43 at Stanton in Montcalm County. This highway was later extended in 1929 from Stanton north to Edmore. By the end of 1930, this designation was removed when M-57 was extended through the area. A new M-85 was then designated between Mayville and Caro. This second designation was supplanted by an extended and rerouted M-24 in late 1941 or early 1942.

Current designation
When the Detroit–Toledo Freeway opened in 1956, several local roads were given the M-85 designation between the new freeway in Woodhaven into downtown Detroit to end at US 25/M-17. The northern end was truncated in 1968 to the interchange with I-75 in Detroit when that freeway was completed in the area. In the 1980s, the Great Lakes Circle Tours were created by the state of Michigan in consultation with neighboring states and the province of Ontario; after the tours were created in 1986, M-85 was added to the LECT.

At the end of 2000, MDOT proposed several highway transfers in Detroit. Some of these involved transferring city streets in the Campus Martius Park area under the department's jurisdiction to city control; another part of the proposal involved MDOT assuming control over a section of Fort Street from the then northern terminus of M-85 to the then southern terminus of M-3 at Clark Street. When these transfers were completed the following year, M-3 was severed into two discontinuous segments by the Campus Martius changes, and the southern segment between Clark and Griswold streets was added to an extended M-85.

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Sorry if I seemed dismissive over your concerns about the Authentic Matthew VfD. I agree that this article should be deleted, and I think the VfD is open to differing interpretations. But, the closing admin took the view that the 70% threshhold for delete votes had not been met. I think that decision was over-cautious, but not unreasonable. As you may have noted -Ril- contested it and put it back up for VfD - a move that was always unlikely to succees and really p'd off the admins. I simply think that the best tactics here are to accept the VfD (as regrettable as the decission was) and to seek other ways of cleaning up this dreadful article. A protected redirect seems almost as good as deletion.

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Not a problem. I might have mis-assessed my goals in all the action, but I'm actually more interested in the rules than in anything else here. -davilla (Sorry I haven't been able to log in.) 59.112.41.190 14:50, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

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Big O notation
Here is the reference for the big O notation. It is assumed as standard notation in many branches of advanced maths, so it is not really appropriate to give a reference every time it is used. Hope this helps! Madmath789 18:34, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It's one thing to say it doesn't need a reference every time and another to remove a brief explanation, and the only one on the page, as a "nonsense statement". Or perhaps there was a problem with my wording? Davilla 07:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, it was the wording that was the problem. The statement "where O(k) is on order k" unfortunately does not make sense in English. If you wish to add a brief explanation on the page about big O notation, I don't think that would be [a] problem. Madmath789 07:17, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

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Otterburn, Northumberland

Otterburn is a small village in Northumberland, England, 31 mi northwest of Newcastle upon Tyne on the banks of the River Rede, near the confluence of the Otter Burn, from which the village derives its name. It lies within the Cheviot Hills about 16 mi from the Scottish border. The parish of Otterburn is at the heart of Redesdale, a Northumbrian upland valley.

Etymology
The name Otterburn is first attested in 1217 as Oterburn; it comes from Old English otor 'otter' and brunna 'stream', and thus meant 'otter stream, a stream frequented by otters'.

The district of Otterburn also includes Troughend Common. The origins of this name are uncertain; it may not come from Old English but rather the Brittonic language, with the first part coming from the word that in modern Welsh is tref 'farm' and the second perhaps being gwen 'white'. If so, Troughend once meant 'white farm'.

History
Otterburn was the site of a major battle in 1388 between English and Scottish armies. The engagement, in which the Scots took Sir Henry Percy captive, is the subject of the English Ballad of Chevy Chase and the Scots ballad Otterburn.

The battle of Otterburn ended in an English rout. Despite James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas being killed, Percy was captured and over a thousand of the English were taken, left dead on the field or slain as they fled. The dead were carried to Elsdon church, 3 mi from Otterburn, where they were buried.

The modern village grew up around a coaching inn and Otterburn Tower. It was enlarged in the 1950s with the addition of Brierley Gardens, a council estate which was expanded in the 1970s. The village further expanded in the 1990s and 2000s with the new housing development on former farm land at Willow Green.

Governance
Otterburn is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham, Guy Opperman of the Conservative Party is the Member of Parliament.

Prior to Brexit, for the European Parliament its residents voted to elect MEP's for the North East England constituency.

For Local Government purposes it belongs to Northumberland County Council a unitary authority.

Economy
Today, the village is close to the Otterburn Training Area, one of the UK's largest army training ranges at approximately 60000 acre. The village also has an independent general grocery shop, two hotels and Otterburn Mill, an 18th-century woollen mill containing a small museum, outdoor shop and cafe.

Landmarks

 * Otterburn Hall, now a hotel, is a Neo-Elizabethan structure, built in 1870 for Lord James Douglas, and which is now currently shut.
 * St John the Evangelist's Church, Otterburn
 * Otterburn Mill is now a retail outlet and cafe.
 * Otterburn Tower, changed name to Otterburn Castle, now a hotel, was built in 1830 incorporating part of an eighteenth-century house, which itself may have incorporated the thirteenth-century tower house which originally stood on the site.
 * The "Percy Cross" stands within a small plantation, half a mile north of the village. Near this spot, on an August evening in 1388, an English army of 8,000 men followed Sir Henry Percy into battle against the Scots, led by James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas.

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Blue-tailed damselfly

The blue-tailed damselfly or common bluetail (Ischnura elegans) is a damselfly, belonging to the family Coenagrionidae.

Subspecies and varieties
Subspecies and varieties include:
 * Ischnura elegans ebneri Schmidt, 1938
 * Ischnura elegans elegans (Vander Linden, 1820)
 * Ischnura elegans pontica Schmidt, 1939
 * Ischnura elegans f. infuscans
 * Ischnura elegans f. infuscans-obsoleta
 * Ischnura elegans f. rufescens
 * Ischnura elegans f. typica
 * Ischnura elegans f. violacea

Distribution
This species is present in most of Europe and the middle-east. It is a common species.

Habitat
These damselflies can be found in a wide range of lowland environments, with standing and slow flowing waters, brackish and polluted water.

Description
Ischnura elegans can reach a body length of 27 - 35 mm and a wingspan of about 35 mm. Hindwings reach alength of 14 - 20 mm. Adult male blue-tailed damselflies have a head and thorax patterned with blue and black. There is a bi-coloured pterostigma on the front wings. Eyes are blue. They have a largely black abdomen with very narrow pale markings where each segment joins the next. Segment eight, however, is entirely pale blue. At rest, the wings of most damselfly species are held back together, unlike dragonflies, which rest with their wings out flat. The thorax of juvenile males has a green tinge.

Female blue-tailed Damselflies come in a variety of colour forms. Juveniles may be salmon pink, form rufescens; violet, form violacea and a pale green form. The colour darkens as the damselfly ages. Mature females may be blue like the male, form typica; olive green thorax and brown spot, form infuscans or pale brown thorax and brown spot, form infusca-obseleta.

Biology and behavior
Adults fly from April to September to early October. The adult damselflies prey on small flying insects, caught using their legs like a basket to scoop the prey up while flying, or insects taken from leaves. Damselfly nymphs are aquatic, and prey on small aquatic insects or other aquatic larvae.

A male can try to interfere with a mating pair, by attaching itself to the mating male. The females always lay their eggs on the floating parts of the plants without any involvement of the male.

Blue-tailed Damselflies are superb fliers and can alter each of their four wing's kinematics in order to maneuver. A recent study has shown that they can compensate for a whole wing loss and even successfully maneuver and catch prey.

Female Polymorphism
In damselfly populations, there is often a surplus of males displaying male mate harassment. In order to avoid unwanted mating attempts, females have developed polymorphisms that allow some of them to avoid recognition by males by mimicking male phenotypes. There are three specific morphs found in the Ischnura elegans species: androchromes, aurantiaca(rufescens) and infuscans. The androchromes resemble the male coloration, and the gynochromes, which can be either aurantiaca or infuscan, do not resemble males. The aurantiaca female morph is a pink-orange color with a blue abdominal patch that eventually disappears after maturation. The third morph, infuscan, displays an olive-green coloration with no color on its abdominal patch. Females are able to fully mature into their differing morph colorations just a few days after they finish their transition from aquatic larvae to their mature forms.

Although having an increased number of morphs makes it more difficult for males to distinguish between males from females, the levels of male mate harassment is different between the different morphs. Males primarily rely on visual cues to distinguish between the morphs and can also use odour cues, secondarily. Androchromes are often seen to face less male mate harassment because they resemble males and are less desired. This gives androchromes an advantage in that they are able to spend more time allowing their eggs to mature instead of exerting energy avoiding unwanted mating attempts. Along with that, the morphs also display different mate avoidance tactics. Androchromes are more likely to face off with males by spreading their wings and curling their abdomens while gynochromes tend to fly away to avoid mating. Despite potentially having more time for egg maturation, the androchromes are still disadvantaged because their abdomens, like males, are more narrow which prevents them from being able to carry as many eggs as gynochromes.

There are also five main hypotheses that attempt to understand how the different female polymorphisms are continually maintained in this species. The reproductive isolation hypothesis states that there is a greater predation pressure on androchromes, which is seen as a trade-off to maintain the more inconspicuous morph. The male-mimicry hypothesis, mentioned previously, proposes that the androchromes ability to mimic male coloration allows them to avoid unwanted mating attempts and allocate more time to egg maturation. The density-dependent hypothesis states that the maintenance of the polymorphisms is attributed to the changing population densities. The habituation hypothesis states that males are actually most attracted to the morph that is most abundant. Lastly, the neutral hypothesis proposes that the female morphs are maintained by genetic drift, mutations, and founders effect all working together as well as that they might be more neutral to selection.

Mating and Behavior
The I. elegans species of damselflies participate in a male scramble mate choice mating system in which a males mating success is determined by how fast they are able to find a mate. This includes many hours of copulations in which males are unable to monopolize a single female and some males are often left with no mates at all. Due to this, the I. elegans species displays intense male-male competition which leads to males forcing copulations with females. Along with the lengthy copulations, the reproductive lifespan of this species is only a few weeks. Cooperation from both males and females is required for copulation and females have the ability to reject sperm transfer from unwanted mating attempts. A tandem formation is created by males through the clasping of the female pronotum.

I. elegans have the ability to rapidly adapt to their environments which puts them under heavy selective pressures. As this species has originated from tropical environments, their hatching times are often shorter in warmer temperatures than cooler temperatures. Females are also more likely to spend time near bodies of water as that is where they lay their eggs. In response to changing social contexts and population densities, males may change their sexual preferences and choose to mate with other males.

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Lovely Rita

"Lovely Rita" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written mainly by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It is about a meter maid and the narrator's affection for her.

Inspiration
The term "meter-maid", largely unknown in the UK before the song's release, is American slang for a female traffic warden. According to sources, "Lovely Rita" originates from when a female traffic warden named Meta Davies issued a parking ticket to McCartney outside Abbey Road Studios. Instead of becoming angry, he accepted it with good grace and expressed his feelings in song. When asked why he had called her "Rita", McCartney replied, "Well, she looked like a Rita to me".

In his comments to biographer Barry Miles, however, McCartney refuted the idea that this episode inspired the song: "It wasn't based on a real person. I think it was more a question of coincidence … I didn't think, 'Wow, that woman gave me a ticket, I'll write a song about her.' Never happened like that." Author John Winn writes that McCartney's inspiration came from hearing the term "meter maid", after which he began writing the song when visiting his brother Michael in Liverpool.

According to a contemporary report on the recording of "Lovely Rita", in Beat Instrumental magazine, the lyrics were completed by McCartney and John Lennon during the session. A reproduction of the manuscript shows only the opening chorus and verse in McCartney's handwriting; the remaining lyrics appear in Beatles assistant Mal Evans' handwriting, after he and Neil Aspinall joined the two songwriters in a corner of the studio.

Recording
Recording began on 23 February 1967 with eight takes required to achieve a satisfactory basic track. Using a four-track recorder, this first performance featured George Harrison's guitar on track 1, Lennon's guitar on track 2, Ringo Starr's drums on track 3, and McCartney's piano set on track 4. After those individual tracks had been combined in a reduction mix, McCartney overdubbed a bass guitar part.

The 24 February session was devoted to adding vocals. According to engineer Geoff Emerick, McCartney had told George Martin, the band's producer, that he wanted the backing vocals to replicate how the Beach Boys "might approach the song". The Beatles were visited in the studio that evening by Tony Hicks of the Hollies, American musicians David Crosby and Shawn Phillips, and the brother of Ravi Shankar, Harrison's sitar teacher. Also present was Leslie Bryce, a photographer from Beatles Monthly. McCartney recorded his lead vocal with the tape speed reduced, so that his voice sounded at a higher pitch when the speed was corrected. Bryce took photos of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Crosby grouped around a microphone, and the Beat Instrumental report stated that the backing vocals were recorded that night with Crosby's participation. Phillips later supported this and said that he too sang backing vocals with the three Beatles. However, Phillips' recollection is not supported by others, who say the group vocals were instead overdubbed on 7 March.

The session was led by Lennon and recorded with heavy tape echo. Enjoying the lighthearted session, the Beatles also added percussive effects played on comb and paper, serving as handmade kazoos, and vocalised sounds such as moans, sighs and screams. The latter sounds appear over the song's extended coda. Martin later described the session as "anarchy", given how little was achieved over the seven hours, and cited it as a precedent for the group's "undisciplined, sometimes self-indulgent" method of working on Magical Mystery Tour later in 1967.

A second piano, played by Martin and processed electromechanically to wobble in and out of tune, was added for the solo on 21 March. This session was again filled with visitors. Among these were the band Pink Floyd, who were recording in a neighbouring studio and gained entry to the session through their producer, Norman Smith, formerly the Beatles' recording engineer. Although Pink Floyd were established as one of the leading bands in the London underground scene, they were intimidated to be in the Beatles' presence. Drummer Nick Mason recalled that they watched the band mixing "Lovely Rita" but they were "God-like figures to us" and any interaction between the two groups was minimal. Pink Floyd later used effects inspired by "Lovely Rita" when recording their instrumental composition "Pow R. Toc H." from their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

The final mono mix was completed that night, and a month later, the stereo mix was done. During mixdown the tape machine ran at 48.75 Hz instead of the standard 50 Hz, affecting the pitch on the released track. With vari-speed having been applied throughout the recording process, the song's key is around E flat major. According to Martin, "Lovely Rita" and "When I'm Sixty Four" were the songs that would have been cut from Sgt. Pepper had the Beatles not been pressured into issuing "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" as a non-album single in advance of the album's release. In the opinion of music critic Richie Unterberger, "Lovely Rita" is "one of the more lighthearted songs on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and consequently one of the more critically overlooked".

McCartney live performances and cover versions
McCartney first performed "Lovely Rita" in concert on 4 May 2013, when he opened his Out There! world tour at the Estádio Mineirão in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Fats Domino included the song on his 1968 album Fats Is Back. Richie Unterberger dismisses Domino's version as a "none-too-thrilling soul cover". In 1976, Roy Wood of ELO and Wizzard recorded the song for All This and World War II, a film that set new recordings of 30 Lennon–McCartney compositions to newsreel footage from World War II.

Joan Osborne sings the song on the 2009 Cheap Trick release Sgt. Pepper Live. The Easy Star All-Stars recorded a version with guest vocalists Bunny Rugs and U-Roy for their 2009 Sgt. Pepper tribute album Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band.

Personnel
According to Ian MacDonald, the line-up on the Beatles' recording was as follows:

The Beatles
 * Paul McCartney – lead and backing vocal, piano, bass guitar, comb and tissue paper
 * John Lennon – backing vocal, vocal percussion, acoustic rhythm guitar, comb and tissue paper
 * George Harrison – backing vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar, comb and tissue paper
 * Ringo Starr – drums, comb and tissue paper

Additional musician
 * George Martin – piano (solo)

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Dorf, Germany

Dorf in German translates to "village", and -dorf is a common suffix in place names in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Dorf, Germany may refer to:

 * Dorf (Bayrischzell), part of the municipality of Bayrischzell, Miesbach, Bayern
 * Dorf (Bernau im Schwarzwald), part of the municipality of Bernau im Schwarzwald, Waldshut, Baden-Württemberg
 * Dorf (Biederbach), part of the municipality of Biederbach, Emmendingen, Baden-Württemberg
 * Dorf (Engelsberg), part of the municipality of Engelsberg, Traunstein, Bayern
 * Dorf (Ering), part of the municipality of Ering, Rottal-Inn, Bayern
 * Dorf (Fürstenzell), part of the town of Fürstenzell, Passau, Bayern
 * Dorf (Künzing), part of the municipality of Künzing, Deggendorf, Bayern
 * Dorf (Oberstdorf), part of the town of Oberstdorf, Oberallgäu, Bayern
 * Dorf (Pfronten), part of the municipality of Pfronten, Ostallgäu, Bayern
 * Dorf (Schmelz), part of the municipality of Schmelz, Saarlouis, Saarland
 * Dorf (Seeon-Seebruck), part of the municipality of Seeon-Seebruck, Traunstein, Bayern
 * Dorf (Vilshofen), part of the municipality of Vilshofen, Passau, Bayern
 * Dorf (Wittlich), part of the town of Wittlich, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rheinland-Pfalz

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File talk:Mimas shape.jpg

That NASA caption annoyed me when I first saw it on the JPL Cassini site, because it's wrong-- Mimas is not oblate, it's prolate with a major axis pointing toward Saturn, and not only rotation but also tidal force is involved.

(Technically, its shape is probably a Roche lobe, but here that's very close to a prolate spheroid.) --Matt McIrvin 22:12, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

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King County Library System

The King County Library System (KCLS) is a library system serving most residents of King County, Washington, United States. Headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, KCLS was the busiest library system in the United States as of 2010, circulating 22.4 million items. It consists of 50 libraries, a Traveling Library Center, a mobile TechLab, and the ABC Express children’s library van. KCLS offers a collection of more than 4.1 million items, including books, periodicals, newspapers, audio and videotapes, films, CDs, DVDs and extensive online resources. All KCLS libraries offer free Wi-Fi connections. Patrons can check out 100 items at once and hold up to 50 items.

History
The library system began in 1942 when voters in King County established the King County Rural Library District in order to provide library services to people in rural areas with no easy access to city libraries. Funding for the library system is provided from property taxes. Funding measures for the system passed in 1966, 1977, 1980, 1988, 2002, 2004, and 2010. Property taxes account for 94% of revenue today. The KCLS budget for 2017 was $120 million. The name of the organization was changed from the King County Rural Library District to the present-day King County Library System in 1978, although the previous name of "Rural Library District" is still part of the organization's legal name. The system received a $172 million capital bond in 2004 to rebuild, renovate, and expand most of its existing libraries, as well as building new libraries.

KCLS extends access privileges to residents of its service area, which includes all unincorporated areas of King County as well as residents of every city in the county except Hunts Point and Yarrow Point, which do not offer any library service at all. Residents of Seattle – which maintains its own library system – are allowed access to KCLS collections under reciprocal borrowing agreements between KCLS and Seattle's libraries. KCLS also extends reciprocal borrowing privileges to residents of many other library systems in Western and North Central Washington. KCLS annexed Renton's public library system in 2010 following a vote by the city's residents.

In 2011, KCLS won the Gale/Library Journal "Library of the Year" award. The library eliminated its late fines in 2023 after finding it discouraged borrowing and cost more to collect and process. Replacement fees were instead levied for lost items.

Facilities
KCLS consists of 50 branches, the Traveling Library Center, ABC Express Vans, a mobile TechLab, and a service center located in Issaquah that houses the library's administrative offices. A program to build 17 new libraries and renovate or expand 26 other libraries was completed in 2019 with the opening of the Panther Lake Library in Kent.

Branches

 * Algona-Pacific Library
 * Auburn Library
 * Bellevue Regional Library (largest)
 * Black Diamond Library
 * Bothell Regional Library
 * Boulevard Park Library
 * Burien Library
 * Carnation Library
 * Covington Library
 * Des Moines Library
 * Duvall Library
 * Fairwood Library
 * Enumclaw Library
 * Fall City Library
 * Federal Way Regional Library
 * Federal Way 320th Library
 * Greenbridge Library (White Center)
 * Issaquah Library
 * Kenmore Library
 * Kent Regional Library
 * Kent Panther Lake Library
 * Kingsgate Library (Kirkland)
 * Kirkland Library
 * Lake Forest Park Library
 * Lake Hills Library (Bellevue)
 * Library Connection at Crossroads (Bellevue)
 * Library Connection at Southcenter (Tukwila)
 * Library Express at Redmond Ridge (Redmond)
 * Maple Valley Library
 * Mercer Island Library
 * Muckleshoot Library (Auburn)
 * Newcastle Library
 * Newport Way Library (Bellevue)
 * North Bend Library
 * Redmond Regional Library
 * Renton Library
 * Renton Highlands Library
 * Richmond Beach Library (Shoreline)
 * Sammamish Library
 * Shoreline Library
 * Skykomish Library
 * Skyway Library
 * Snoqualmie Library
 * Tukwila Library
 * Valley View Library (SeaTac)
 * Vashon Library
 * White Center Library
 * Woodinville Library
 * Woodmont Library (Des Moines)

Services
In 2016, KCLS circulated 20.8 million items, the third-most in the United States.

KCLS is subscribed to OverDrive, an online service that offers digital e-book, audiobook, and magazine checkouts for library patrons. In 2023, the library system had 8.8 million digital checkouts—the third most of any system in OverDrive worldwide.

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The Dangerous Brothers

The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and "Sir Adrian Dangerous". Originally appearing on stage in London at the comedy club The Comic Strip, the characters were well developed before appearing on TV. First appearing on television on a one-off 1980 BBC TV show Boom Boom Out Go The Lights, they were also featured in a TV short documentary film The Comic Strip, directed by Julien Temple, before they appeared in a number of brief sketches in the TV programme Saturday Live from 1985 and into its first series in 1986.

The act was, in essence, a prototype of the career which the pair were to forge over the next 20 years in such shows as Mr Jolly Lives Next Door, Filthy, Rich and Catflap and Bottom - two low-life loser perverts hitting each other in spectacular slapstick ways. It was arguably more hazardous than much of the material which was to follow in later incarnations - stage props in the brief run included a live crocodile, blank-firing submachine guns, and Edmondson apparently consuming Vim, a well-known UK brand of powder toilet cleaner. One of the early TV sketches "World of Danger" went wrong when a stunt to set fire to Edmondson's trousers left him with serious burns - although much of this was left on the broadcast version.

Sketch performed on BoomBoom Out Go The Lights

 * Knock Knock Joke / Gooseberry in a Lift

Sketch performed in The Comic Strip

(The Comic Strip version is a different performance with a slightly different conclusion, and features swearing)
 * Knock Knock Joke / Gooseberry in a Lift

Sketches performed on Saturday Live
 * World Of Danger (AKA The Towering Inferno)
 * Big Stunt
 * Torture - featuring Norman Lovett
 * Crocodile Snogging (which featured a live crocodile) and featuring John Bird
 * Flying Zebra
 * Exploding Politicians
 * How To Get Off With A Lady - featuring Edmondson's wife Jennifer Saunders
 * Babysitting - featuring Morwenna Banks as the wife and John Bird as the husband.
 * Dangervision - featuring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
 * Kinky Sex

One of the final sketches prepared for Saturday Live was entitled Kinky Sex. This supposedly fell foul of Channel 4 censors who banned it, getting the duo banned from Saturday Live for being "too sexy and too violent". They responded by apparently hijacking the programme and blowing up the wall on which the show's logo was painted in graffiti art along appearing on a "flower arranging dance" sketch with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. The sketch, which by modern standards seems fairly tame, was finally released on a compilation video The Dangerous Brothers present: World of Danger. Several Dangerous Brothers sketches are also included on the DVD compilation Saturday Live: The Best of Series One (2007).

Dangervision: The DVD
A DVD of all of the sketches featured in the show was released in 2009. However, the Kinky Sex episode is taken from a home video source as the original could not be found. Some of the sketches appear to be edited longer and slightly shorter than others. Music edits have also been made, of which some are obvious if you have seen the video. The laughing in the unseen audience is also different, where the video used the real studio audience laughter and also canned laughter. The DVD just uses the original studio audience.

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Good Morning Good Morning

"Good Morning Good Morning" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Inspiration for the song came to Lennon from a television commercial for Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Another reference to contemporary television was the lyric "It's time for tea and Meet the Wife", referring to the BBC sitcom.

Lennon himself was critical of the track. "It's a throwaway, a piece of garbage, I always thought," he once said. "I always had the TV on very low in the background when I was writing, and it came over, and then I wrote the song."

Recording
The basic track was recorded on 8 February 1967, with overdubs on 16 February (bass guitar and lead vocals), 13 March (brass section), 28 March (backing vocals and guitar solo), and 29 March (animal noises). The guitar solo was played by Paul McCartney on a Fender Esquire. At Lennon's request, George Martin brought in Sounds Incorporated to provide the song's prominent brass backing. Take eight, which contains Lennon's vocals from the subsequent session but also omits animal sounds, was released on Anthology 2 in 1996.

Lennon asked engineer Geoff Emerick to arrange the animal noises heard at beginning (and end) of the song so that each animal heard was one capable of devouring (or frightening) the animal preceding it. The final sound effect of a chicken clucking was so placed that it transforms into the guitar on the following track, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)". According to Emerick, these animal noises were inspired by the coda of "Caroline, No" that ended the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album. They begin with the crow of a rooster, while the other animal sounds heard at the end of the song include birds, a cat, a dog, a cow, a horse, a sheep, a group of bloodhounds accompanying fox hunters on horseback with horns blasting, and a chicken.

The rapid 16th note bass drum fills were done on two bass drums, according to Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn. The length of the mono version of "Good Morning Good Morning" is 2:35, whereas the stereo version (due to a lengthier fade out of animal sounds) runs to 2:41. The 2017 stereo mix follows the editing style of the mono version, and as a result, it is also 2:35.

For the Beatles' 2006 remix album, Love, the horse sounds were mixed into "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!".

Rhythm
The song is played at 117 beats per minute, has an unusual rhythmic feel, and uses different time signatures. Beats are played in groups of 2, 3 and 4, and time signature changes frequently. Parts with and  bars alternate, with  transitions. Most of the song uses simple time, where the beats are divided into two, but the middle eight sections use compound time, where the beats are divided into triplets.

The song is divided into seven sections, two of which are repeated once and one twice, in a time-symmetric pattern A, B, C, B, C, B, A (disregarding the fade out of the last bar):

A: 4,4,4,4,4 (introduction: five bars, 20 beats)

B: 5,5,5,3,4,5,4,3,3,4,4 (eleven bars, 44 beats)

C: 5,5,5,3,4,4,4,4,4,4 (contains refrain: ten bars, 42 beats)

B: 5,5,5,3,4,5,4,3,3,4,4 (eleven bars, 44 beats)

C: 5,5,5,3,4,4,4,4,4,4 (contains refrain: ten bars, 42 beats)

B: 5,5,5,3,4,5,4,3,3,4,4 (eleven bars, 44 beats)

A: 4,4,4,4,4,4 (end: six bars, 24 beats, with fade out bar)

That adds up to 64 bars with 260 beats which, at the published 117 beats per minute, would result in a length of 2:13.333... minutes.

Cover versions

 * 1988 – The Triffids, Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father compilation
 * 2007 – The M's, Sgt. Pepper ...With A Little Help From His Friends (Mojo compilation)
 * 2009 – Easy Star All-Stars featuring Steel Pulse, Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band
 * 2012 – Micky Dolenz performed the song on his album Remember
 * 2014 – Zorch, Grace Potter & Treasure Mammal, on the Flaming Lips cover album With a Little Help from My Fwends

Personnel
Personnel per Ian MacDonald and the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band 50th Anniversary booklet.
 * The Beatles
 * John Lennon – double-tracked lead vocal, rhythm guitar, backing vocal
 * Paul McCartney – bass, lead guitar, backing vocal, drums
 * George Harrison – backing vocal, lead guitar
 * Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine

 * Wind instruments
 * Barrie Cameron – saxophone
 * David Glyde – saxophone
 * Alan Holmes – saxophone
 * John Lee – trombone
 * Unknown – trombone
 * Unknown – french horn
 * Sounds Incorporated – brass

 * Production
 * Geoff Emerick – engineer
 * George Martin – producer

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User talk:Crayolacrime

I HAVE BEEN BANNED FOREVER UNFAIRLY BY USER:Ambi. IT HAS BEEN HOURS SINCE THE BAN AND SHE HAS NOT ONCE COMMUNICATED WITH ME. I NEVER EVER MADE ANY BAD EDITS. SHE SHOULD BE BANNED HERSELF. I DOUBT ANYONE ON WIKIPEDIA WILL SEE THIS. Crayolacrime 11:29, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I see it... 68.143.88.2 20:07, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

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WikiStress
Sorry about your Wikistress level. Maybe a barnstar could help you

Take care, D. J. Bracey (talk) 22:09, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Cookies
Hello! I just wanted to give you a plate of cookies for being a Wikipedian. I hope your Wikistress gets better! If you are a sockpuppet, I hope you will be a good contributor. If you are not, I hope that your issues will be resolved. I will not judge either way. Peace and Wikilove, Neranei 23:23, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:WolfDreams

Welcome from Redwolf24
Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. We as a community are glad to have you and thank you for creating a user account! Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Comments from WolfDreams
Well, thanks for the warm welcome and such, red. Should be helpful information as well. :) WolfDreams 00:32, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Welcome #2
Welcome! (We can't say that loud/big enough!)

Here are a few links you might find helpful:

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Comments from WolfDreams
Ah, thanks to you as well. I appreciate the help and look forward to being here for quite some time. :) WolfDreams 20:27, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Links
Hey, I saw your links to your contributions, etc. on your user page, and I thought you might appreciate this one: My Edit Count. It links to an automatic count of your edits, broken down by namespace. Try it out! -- Essjay ·  Talk 21:50, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Comments
Thanks, I added it to my page. Should be helpful, thanks again. All the help and suggestions are very much appreciated. :) WolfDreams 03:05, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Album articles
Hi, I've seen you've made some good album articles already, but I'd recommend using the much simpler album infobox syntax, which is a lot easier to update and understand, besides being smaller. I've modified at least one of the pages you created in this way, so you can see an example in this article - Epitaph (Necrophagist album). Anyway, thanks for the great contributions, keep up the good work :) Rbarreira 21:49, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Comments
I noticed your edits the other day, and it truely does look much better than how it did before hand. I'm definently going to start using that info box from now on, and I actually already started using it for an album that I did yesterday afternoon. Anyways, thanks for the comments. It's a lot easier this way, and I appreciate the feedback as well. :) WolfDreams 04:08, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

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Inconsistency of names of Ottoman admirals and generals
Some Ottoman combatants are listed according to their (correct) Ottoman names, others by European aliases. Surely it would be more stylistically consistent to list Turgut Reis and Uluç Ali Pasha rather than "Dragut" and "Occhiali"? 82.5.12.210 (talk) 00:07, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

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Another depiction of the Siege is found in the second season of the show `Into the Labyrinth` — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.217.80.107 (talk) 17:52, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Confussions in the relation of nations/empires involved in battle
If the Spanish imperial flag is used to represent the Spanish cooperation, then there's no need to add any other flag of any concrete Spanish land (as it was the case of Sicilia). But if, otherwise, the separated cooperation of each different Spanish land had to be underlined, then let's do it for each Spanish kingdom (not only Sicilia, but Neaples, Aragon, Mallorca, Castilla, etc. too).

If you mention the "Kingdom of Sicilia" as one of the nations involved in this battle, you should have also mentioned, separatedly, "Kingdom of Castilla" with its Castillian flag, "Kingdom of Aragon" with its Aragonesse flag, and so on.

All the different flags of each different kingdom subject to Philip II (the Habsbourg Spanish King, living in Madrid) were internationally represented under a common flag, the Saint Andrew's red cross against white background. But he was separatedly King of Castilla, Aragon, Neaples, Sicily, etc., and not King of Spain, because such a thing as "Spanish Kingdom" did not exist politically until 1714 (when Sicilia, Flanders and Neaples left the Spanish rule). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.158.235.28 (talk) 08:48, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Incorrect religion for the Maltese in the aftermath section.
On the article about the Great Siege of Malta (1565), the last section mentions that Malta withstood a siege, and then makes the claim that the majority of the Maltese were Muslim during this period. This is incorrect, given the fact that Malta had been thoroughly Christianized by this time period, and that Arab rule had ended in 1090, and that, by 1249, Islam was no longer practiced by the free inhabitants of the island (see citation at the bottom). As such, the claim made earlier in the article talking about how 9,000 defenders, some Christian but most Muslim, is incorrect. The Maltese, for the vast majority of their history, as well as during this part of their history, were extremely Catholic. The only Muslims on the receiving end of the Ottoman siege were slaves captured by the knights. Below is the citation regarding the general extinction of natively practiced Islam on Malta. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.123.6.112 (talk) 00:06, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Casualties
and, why can't both figures (Italian and Ottoman claims) be added, just like both Armenian and Azerbaijani claims are mentioned in the 2016 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes article? Xwejnusgozo (talk) 22:03, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

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Discrepancy in De Valette death
There is a discrepancy in the cause of De Valette between this article and the particular article on him.

This article: "De Valette himself died in Buskett at a hunting accident next to the Verdala Palaces"

Article on De Valette: "La Valette suffered a stroke while praying in a chapel and died soon after on 21 August 1568, exactly eleven years after he became Grandmaster."

I do not know which is correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.191.234.106 (talk) 14:48, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Minor Suggestion
Dragut should be mentioned in the aftermath, his death was very signifigant — Preceding unsigned comment added by 113.212.127.195 (talk) 04:05, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

 * Exactly, not even listed among the commanders and no mention in the whole article. Huge miss. 68.160.250.220 (talk) 17:27, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Capture of the Fort Saint Elmo
I think that my draft on the capture of the fort saint elmo (Draft:Capture of Fort Saint Elmo) should be accepted.

the reasons : My draft on the capture of Fort Saint Elmo should be accepted because the reason for its rejection was that it already existed on the main page of the Great Siege of Malta. However, this is not a valid excuse for invalidating my draft, as independent articles on existing battles exist on other wikis. For instance, the Battle of the Nobles in the Great Berber Revolt is covered on a different wiki, despite being related to the same subject. Berber.Enjoyer2 (talk) 17:17, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

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Milltown, County Kerry

Milltown is a small town on the N70 national secondary road between the major towns of Tralee and Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. It is approximately 7 km from Killorglin.

Prehistory
In July 2015, a neolithic tomb at Killaclohane near Milltown was excavated and human remains were uncovered that could potentially be 6,000 years old. They are thought to have belonged to the earliest settlers in the south west of the country.

History
Between the 13th and 16th centuries, much of land surrounding Milltown was owned by the nearby Killagha Abbey, the ruins of which now stand one and a half miles outside the town. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the estates were granted to the Spring family and then, following the Irish Confederate Wars, to the Godfrey family. The modern day settlement at Milltown was developed by Captain John Godfrey in the 1750s as the central town of their estate. The development of Milltown was a deliberate attempt at urban planning by the Godfreys who hoped such development would increase the income and prosperity of their estate through rents, market tolls and the promotion of industries.

The Milltown Halt railway station opened on 1 November 1886 and closed on 1 February 1960.

Kilcoleman Abbey
Bushfield House was built for Sir William Godfrey, 1st Baronet in the 1770s after the original Bushfield House, a long low thatched house was destroyed by fire. More or less abandoned from 1800 to 1818, Bushfield was renovated under the second Baronet, Sir John Godfrey, according to plans drawn up by the architect, William Vitruvius Morrison and renamed Kilcoleman Abbey. However the general economic decline of the 1820s meant that only the stables and service wing, with its Flemish gables, were completed as planned. Later, in the early 1840s, Sir William Godfrey, 3rd Baronet further modified the main block of the house, adding an attic storey, a turret emblazoned with the Red Hand of Ulster, the traditional shield of a Baronet and assorted gables, pinnacles and buttresses. Inside, the main reception rooms were remodelled in the then-popular Gothic style with plasterwork by local craftsmen, making extensive use of the Godfrey crest. The house was the centre of a 6,000-acre estate and was lived in continually by the Godfrey family until 1958. The last owner, Miss Phyllis Godfrey, confronted by an infestation of dry rot, was forced to abandon the house for the gate lodge where she died in December 1959. The house was eventually demolished in 1977.

Amenities and development
Milltown has a number of pubs, several take-away restaurants, a bakery, two vets, a butcher's shop, a Roman Catholic parish church, a Church of Ireland church, two schools and a shopping market. Milltown hosts a number of annual festivals and events including the World Bodhrán Championships.

As of the early 21st century, Milltown has grown in population and a number of housing developments have been built. The 2011 census showed that Milltown was the fastest growing village in Kerry between 2006 and 2011, in which time its population more than doubled from 415 to 838. By the time of the 2022 census, the population had grown to 1,118.

Milltown/Castlemaine GAA Club is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.

Notable people

 * Curry Foley (1856–1898), professional baseball player who played in the American National League from 1879 to 1883
 * Walter Spring (1620–c.1678), Roman Catholic landowner involved in the Irish Confederate Wars

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Umbrail Pass

Umbrail Pass (in Giogo di Santa Maria) is a high mountain pass (elevation 2501 m) on the Swiss-Italian border connecting Santa Maria in Val Müstair with Bormio in the Adda valley. On the Italian side, it connects to the Stelvio Pass road and the Valtellina. It is currently the highest paved road in Switzerland.

The sign at the top of the pass gives its elevation as 2,503 meters above sea level, but the reference level for Swiss elevation measurements has changed since the sign was erected, leaving 2,501 meters as the correct value according to current elevation.

The pass is named after the "Piz Umbrail", a nearby mountain peak.

The road is entirely asphalted since 2015. The last unpaved section was a 1.5 km stretch on the Swiss side, running between elevations of 1883 m and 2012 m. During the 2017 Giro d'Italia, Umbrail Pass was reached during the stage from Rovetta to Bormio.

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National Football League Quarterback Challenge

The NFL's Quarterback Challenge, created by the Challenge Group, LLC, was an annual competition of National Football League quarterbacks, sponsored in part by DirecTV, produced by NFL Players Inc. and NFL QB Greats. The first NFL Quarterback Challenge took place in 1990 on the island of Kauai. Previously it was sponsored by 989 Sports and in 2005 by Electronic Arts EA Sports.

Each of the quarterback challenges had different events that would test each quarterback's skills, with points being given to each quarterback. Whichever quarterback had the most points at the end of all the events, would win the challenge, with rewards also given to the quarterback who won each event. The events included the following:

Speed and Mobility : Penalties for knocking over obstacles and missing targets Bonus for hitting the bullseye or inner ring Top two advance to the final round QBC 7.61 seconds (Rick Mirer, 1995)

For this event, each quarterback would go run a slalom-like course, where they would have to run around cones, past cardboard cutouts of defenders, and a jump over a small hurdle and throw a pass at a target. Depending on where the target was hit by the football, the quarterback would have fractions of a second deducted from their overall time, such as .5 seconds being deducted if the quarterback hits the bullseye, or .25 seconds if they hit the outer ring of the target. The fastest time, including the deductions, was the winner. Course outline: 1st Duck back right, run around the cone 2nd through ring 3rd run left 4th run right right 5th over hurdle 6th throw into ring; red = 0.5 bonus, white = 0.25 bonus, grey = 0.00 Accuracy: 30 seconds to complete the course, closer to bullseye = higher score. Highest possible score - 84 points QBC record - Troy Aikman, 70 points (1995) 1st cart; 6, 8, 10 points over 3 balls, cart cutting diagonal right to left like a post route Max score 30 2nd group; 6, 8, 10 points over 3 balls, cart cutting left to right like an in route Max score 30 3rd group; 12,18 24 points over 1 ball, deep post about 40 yards Max score 24 Long Distance: Each quarterback tries to throw a football as far as they can, with the quarterbacks with the top three distances getting a chance to try again. The quarterbacks also have to keep the balls in bounds, or their throws wouldn't count. The winner of the event was the quarterback with the longest pass. Better of 2 throws count IF tie, 1 throw shoot out 2 points awarded every yard past 50 yards QBC record - Vinny Testaverde, 80 yards (1988)
 * All cart movements are inverted opposite for lefty QBs

Read & Recognition: Each quarterback throws a football at moving targets, but only the targets designated by a yellow flag, with each quarterback having four attempts.

If tie, 1 throw shootout Highest possible score: 192 4 attempts aiming for short, medium or long targets Short; 6,8,12 one from left, one from right crossing Medium; 18,27,36 one from left, one from right crossing Long; 30,45,60 (2 chances only) QBC record - Neil O'Donnell (1996) & Brett Favre (1997), 111 points

Video games
NFL-licensed NFL Quarterback Challenge, created by ProAppSports and produced by Adisoft Studios is currently available on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices. An officially NFL-licensed Quarterback Challenge appeared in 2 other different console video games. Both video game versions appeared in the same Quarterback Club series of games by Acclaim Entertainment. The Quarterback Challenge mode appeared in the first and last versions of the game series. The first was in the original Quarterback Club game released in 1994 on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis. The second and final appearance of the challenge was in NFL QB Club 2002, published in 2001 for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube. The first version was a sprite-based 2D game, while the later version was fully 3D. Both of these games and all games in this series were developed by Iguana Entertainment in Austin, Texas. The 1994 SNES/Genesis version was produced by Russell Byrd. The 2001 PS2/GameCube version was produced by Charles Normann.

Discontinued
In November 2007 NFL cancelled Quarterback Challenge. Cayman Islands Tourism confirmed on March 8, 2008, that the NFL officially discontinued the competition indefinitely.

Winners

 * 1990    Ken O'Brien
 * 1991    Dan Marino
 * 1992    Dan Marino
 * 1993    Jeff Hostetler
 * 1994    Randall Cunningham
 * 1995    Randall Cunningham
 * 1996    Neil O'Donnell
 * 1997    Vinny Testaverde
 * 1998    Jim Harbaugh
 * 1999    Jake Plummer
 * 2000    Jake Plummer
 * 2001    Trent Dilfer
 * 2002    Jeff Garcia
 * 2003    Brad Johnson
 * 2004    Matt Hasselbeck
 * 2005    Jake Delhomme
 * 2006    Chris Simms
 * 2007    Josh McCown


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Don West (wrestling)

Donald West (June 20, 1963 – December 30, 2022) was an American pitchman, television personality, and professional wrestling broadcaster.

West first came to prominence as a host for the Shop at Home Network in the early 1990s, achieving a degree of fame for his loud, energetic, abrasive sales pitches on late night television and for his blunt tone and persuasive style. After briefly hosting a talk show, The Sports Reporters, on WNSR, West joined the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as a color commentator in 2002; he would work with the promotion in various capacities over the 2000s and 2010s. In 2023, West was posthumously inducted into the TNA/Impact Hall of Fame.

Early life
West was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 20, 1963. He attended Purdue University, where he majored in sports broadcasting.

Shop at Home Network
Don West initially became involved with television shopping when he applied for a job with the Shop at Home Network as the host of a sports memorabilia show, Sports Collectibles. Despite his degree in sports broadcasting (and the fact that his brother Dale was the chief financial officer of the Shop at Home Network), West was rejected on the basis of his "scrabbly voice". In 1991, West began selling knives on television, and in March 1993, was made host of the Sports Memorabilia Show. Between 1993 and 2001, sales rose from $3 million to $150 million. In addition to sports memorabilia, West also pitched products such as Beanie Babies and Pokémon collectibles. Both Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan parodied West and his co-host, Eddy Lewis, on three episodes of Saturday Night Live.

The Sports Reporters
In 2001, West amicably left the Shop at Home Network and began hosting a sports talk show called The Sports Reporters on WNSR in Nashville, Tennessee. The program covered sports topics of the day and ongoing local sports issues. West was contacted by Vince Russo, then booker for World Championship Wrestling, who invited him to join the company. West declined the offer, the company being bought out a year later.

NWA Total Nonstop Action

In 2002, West was hired by Jeff Jarrett, who had been introduced to West by Russo, to serve as the color commentator for his newly formed professional wrestling promotion, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. West made his commentary debut on June 19, 2002, on the inaugural TNA pay-per-view alongside Ed Ferrara and Mike Tenay. Ferrara departed TNA in August 2002, reducing the commentary team to Tenay and West. Aside from commentating, West accompanied Jeremy Borash on the YouTube-based show TNA Today, where he promoted new TNA merchandise and special packages called "Don West's Insane Daily Deals".

In 2007, West was appointed TNA's Director of Merchandise. In 2008, he was appointed TNA's Director of Merchandise for Live Events.

On the February 26, 2009, episode of Impact!, West turned heel when he verbally assaulted and walked out on his commentary partner Tenay, leaving him to call the remainder of the show alone. On the August 17, 2009, tapings of Impact! TNA removed West as a color commentator and replaced him with Taz. The company later announced that West had been promoted within the organization to oversee merchandise development and sales initiatives. On the October 15 edition of Impact! West returned as Amazing Red's new manager, turning face in the process.

On May 28, 2012, it was reported that West had given his notice and would be leaving TNA shortly.

Wenatchee Wild
In 2012, West left TNA to become the new director of sales and marketing of the Wenatchee, Washington–based Wenatchee Wild ice hockey team.

Impact Wrestling
On January 13, 2017, TNA (now known as Impact Wrestling) revealed that West had joined the merchandise department. On July, 2, 2017, West returned to commentary for the final time at the Slammiversary XV pay-per-view. In 2022, Impact Wrestling featured a video tribute to their original announce team of West and Mike Tenay during Slammiversary.

On September 8, 2023 during Impact's Victory Road event, it was announced that West (alongside Mike Tenay) would be posthumously inducted into the Impact Hall of Fame in honor of them being the promotion's original broadcast team.

Personal life and death
West married his wife Terri on July 18, 1992.

On June 16, 2021, West announced that he had been diagnosed with a lymphoma of the brain, and began treatment. On December 30, 2022, Mike Tenay confirmed that West had died from lymphoma at the age of 59. Memorial tributes to West were made by the pro-wrestling community through social media and on WWE, AEW, and Impact Wrestling programming.

Awards and accomplishments

 * Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
 * TNA Hall of Fame (2023 - alongside Mike Tenay)

 * Wrestling Observer Newsletter
 * Worst Television Announcer (2007)

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Lisa Wilcox

Lisa Elizabeth Wilcox is an American actress, and former model and designer. She is best known for her role as Alice Johnson in the A Nightmare on Elm Street sequels 4 (1988) and 5 (1989)—both box office successes. In 2023, she appeared as herself along with her son Ryan on the controversial reality television series MILF Manor on TLC.

Early life
Wilcox was born in Columbia, Missouri. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Career
In 1984, Wilcox made her film debut in Gimme an 'F'. From 1985 to 1987, Wilcox guest starred on the television series Hardcastle and McCormick (1985), You Again? (1986), CBS Schoolbreak Special (1987), Valerie's Family: The Hogans (1987), Mr. Belvedere (1987), and MacGyver (1987). In 1988, Wilcox guest starred on the television series It's a Living and Hotel before portraying Alice Johnson in the fantasy horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. In 1989, Wilcox had a recurring role on Knots Landing as Ellen and guest starred on Something Is Out There before reprising her role as Alice in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. The same year, Wilcox portrayed Yuta in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called "The Vengeance Factor".

In 1992, Wilcox was cast as Missy Preston in the short lived television series Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures. From 1993 to 1995, Wilcox had guest roles on Boy Meets World. From 1997 to 1998, Wilcox had guest roles on Pacific Blue (1997), Walker, Texas Ranger (1998), and Chicago Hope (1998). The same year, Wilcox starred alongside Mark Hamill in Watchers Reborn. In 1997, Wilcox starred alongside Will Ferrell in the comedy film Men Seeking Women. In 2000, Wilcox portrayed Florence Henderson in Unauthorized Brady Bunch: The Final Days and Chastity Blade in the short film The All New Adventures of Chastity Blade.

In 2007, Wilcox appeared in 3 episodes of Big Shots. The following year, Wilcox was cast in Dead Country. In 2009, Wilcox portrayed Nurse Owens in the FEARnet produced webseries Fear Clinic for which she was nominated for the 2010 Streamy Awards. She starred alongside Robert Englund and Danielle Harris. In 2013, she starred in the thriller film Imago under the direction of Chris Warren, alongside actors such as Natalie Jones, Danielle Jones, Melanie Donihoo, Parrish Randall and Debbie Rochon. In 2015, Wilcox portrayed Pam Laudenslager in A Place Called Hollywood. In 2018, she portrayed Joan Laurels in the horror film The Church and is set to star in the sequel The Church: Second Offering.

Wilcox appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor podcast on July 20, 2016. Wilcox is set to star in the upcoming films: The Watcher of Park Ave, The Quite Room, The Possessed, and Kecksburg.

In 2023, Lisa appeared with her son on the reality series MILF Manor.

Personal life
In 2000, Wilcox and A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 co-star Tuesday Knight founded a footwear jewelry retailer company called ToeBrights which is still in business today.

Wilcox has been married once before, divorcing after almost ten years. She has two sons, Alex and Ryan, the latter of whom is a software engineer.

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