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Tom Railsback

Thomas Fisher Railsback (January 22, 1932 – January 20, 2020) was an American politician and lawyer who served eight terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983 for Illinois's 19th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, he sat on the House Judiciary Committee, which in 1974, voted to refer articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon to the full House.

Early life
Railsback was born on January 22, 1932, in Moline, Illinois, to municipal lawyer Fred Railsback and Elizabeth (Johnson) Railsback. He attended public schools in Moline, received a B.A. from Grinnell College in 1954, and received a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago in 1957. He served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1959.

Political career
In November 1962 Railsback was elected as a Republican to the Illinois House of Representatives. Four years later, in the 1966 election, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, defeating the Democratic incumbent Gale Schisler.

Although inspired to enter politics by the staunchly conservative Barry Goldwater, Railsback was a moderate Republican while in the House. A longtime member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, he participated in the 1973–74 impeachment process against President Richard Nixon. Railsback and his Democratic colleague Walter Flowers led what Railsback called a "fragile bipartisan coalition" which crafted two articles of impeachment against Nixon, charging him with: obstruction of justice in attempting to impede the investigation of the Watergate break-in and abuse of power by misusing the authority of the office of the presidency on multiple occasions, dating back to the first year of his administration (1969). He, along with five other Republicans (out of the 17 on the committee), voted with all 21 Democrats in advancing these articles to the House floor. In an emotional July 24, 1974 speech on the House floor, he said that his obligations to uphold the Constitution superseded his personal loyalties to Nixon, a friend who Railsback praised as having many significant achievements.

Support for Nixon's impeachment among congressional Republicans was the key factor leading to Nixon's decision to resign his office the next month. Despite the vitriol voiced against him by pro-Nixon commentators and constituents, he went on to be re-elected four more times.

While in the House, Railsback had a key role in the passage of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. In 1979, he and Wisconsin Democrat David Obey co-sponsored legislation to reduce the influence of political action committees in election spending. He opposed Ronald Reagan's effort to abolish and eliminate funding for the Legal Services Corporation, which provided legal aid to poor Americans.

In 1980, Railsback was one of three U.S. House members, along with future Vice President Dan Quayle of Indiana and Tom Evans of Delaware, involved in the controversial Florida golfing trip with lobbyist Paula Parkinson. Parkinson told Larry King in 1988 that she had a "brief" and "fun" affair with Railsback.

Over eight terms in office, Railsback had established strong political support in his district; the Washington Post noted that "He took what might have been a marginal district—a mixture of rural Republican counties and a labor stronghold in Moline-Rock Island—and built a secure political base by salting his GOP voting record with support for civil rights and some labor positions." In 1982, however, Illinois had lost two districts in reapportionment after the 1980 census, and through redistricting, Railsback's district (now renumbered as the 17th District) changed in composition to become significantly more conservative. He was defeated for renomination in the 1982 Republican primary by a considerably more conservative Republican, State Senator Kenneth G. McMillan. McMillan was defeated by Democrat Lane Evans in November.

Railsback was a mentor to Raymond H. LaHood, who worked for Railsback from 1977 to 1982 before becoming a U.S. Representative himself, and later U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the Obama administration.

Later life
After leaving Congress, Railsback worked as a lobbyist. He was executive vice president of the Motion Picture Association of America and also worked for the Federal Judges Association as its Washington coordinator.

Personal life
Railsback married Patricia Sloan in 1955, and they had four daughters. The marriage ended in divorce. Railsback later married Joyelyn (Silver) Railsback, known as Joye. He had 19 grandchildren.

Railsback retired to Idaho, where he and his wife lived in McCall and Meridian.

He died on January 20, 2020, in Mesa, Arizona, after a period of declining health.

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Dennis Ralston

Richard Dennis Ralston (July 27, 1942 – December 6, 2020) was an American professional tennis player whose active career spanned the 1960s and 1970s.

As a young player, he was coached by tennis pro Pancho Gonzales. He attended the University of Southern California (USC) and won NCAA championships under its coach George Toley. He and partner Bill Bond captured the NCAA doubles title in 1964. He was the highest-ranked American player at the end of three consecutive years in the 1960s; Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph ranked him as high as world No. 5 in 1966 (Ralston was ranked world no. 3 by the magazine Reading Eagle in 1963).

His best result at a Grand Slam singles event came in 1966 when he was seeded sixth and reached the final of the Wimbledon Championships, which he lost to fourth-seeded Manuel Santana in straight sets. At the end of that year he turned professional.

Ralston was a member of the Handsome Eight, the initial group of players signed to the professional World Championship Tennis tour. He won 27 national doubles and singles titles, including five grand-slam doubles crowns.

Ralston, a Davis Cup winner with the US Davis Cup team in 1963, continued to serve in the team as a coach from 1968 to 1971 and as a captain from 1972 to 1975, winning the title in 1972 over Romania.

Ralston was the men's coach at Southern Methodist University between 1981–89 and 1991–93 (split when he helped Noah in 1989–90), being named the NCAA Coach of the Year in 1983, when SMU finished second nationally.

Ralston was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987. In 2016, he was inducted into the Texas Tennis Hall of Fame.

Singles
Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December.

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Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick

Saint-Quentin is a town in northern New Brunswick, Canada.

Saint-Quentin is in the Restigouche region of the Appalachian Mountains, 50 kilometres west of Mount Carleton, the province's highest elevation.

The great majority of individuals in the area speak French.

On 1 January 2023, Saint-Quentin annexed the local service district (LSD) of St. Martin de Restigouche and part of the LSD of the parish of Saint-Quentin Revised census figures have not been released.

History
In 1897, the Restigouche and Western Railway Company embarked on a project to build a railway linking Campbellton and St-Léonard, two towns in northwestern New Brunswick. The progress of its construction sent workers deep into the forest. In 1909, Simon Gallant, an Acadian working as a blacksmith, decided to settle his family by a stream near Five Fingers where he found a stray cow.

At the same time, authorities began to worry about the emigration of Québec families to the United States and to Western Canada, resulting in a population decline. Msgr. Joseph Arthur Melanson, the largest settler and missionary in Saint-Quentin Parish, originally named Anderson Siding, launched a large program of colonization. Valuing farming and agriculture, he encouraged Acadien and Québécois families to settle in the Restigouche region of New Brunswick on the fertile lands along the length of the newly built train line.

The village of Anderson Siding was founded in 1910; its first mass was held in Simon Gallant's round log cabin in the forest. The first chapel was built in 1911, its first post office in 1912, its first school in 1913, and its first church in 1918. The name Anderson Siding was changed to the present name of Saint-Quentin in 1919 in commemoration of the Canadian victory in the French town of the same name during the Battle of the Somme in the First World War. Its first hospital, Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Joseph, was built in 1947 and is still in operation today.

Saint-Quentin was incorporated as a district in 1947, as a village in 1966, and as a town in 1992.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Quentin had a population of $2,141$ living in $976$ of its $1,015$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $2,194$. With a land area of 4.24 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Language
Mother tongue language (2011)

Industry
Logging of the area's forests is Saint-Quentin's largest industry. The two sawmills, Groupe Savoie and North American Forest Products, are Saint-Quentin's largest employers, employing 400 and 225 employees respectively. Agriculture is another major industry in the Saint-Quentin region. Livestock is raised for dairy, beef and pork production, and potatoes, grain and hay are grown on the area's many farms. The production of maple syrup and other maple sugar products is the third major industry in the region; there are over 35 commercial maple plantations as well as 25 traditional sugar shacks in the area.

Festival Western
Since 1984, Saint-Quentin has hosted the Festival Western (Western Festival) in mid-July of each year, the largest Western-themed festival of its kind in New Brunswick. Run by Le Festival Western de Saint-Quentin, Inc., it now includes rodeo, a parade, fireworks, children's activities and much more. The largest event is the "Pow-Pow", a flea market and gathering of local musicians and performers which takes place on Rue Canada, the main street of the town, which is closed to traffic for the occasion.

Old railway station
In 2005, the former railway station, which was reconstructed in its original location, reopened as a tourist centre as well as the offices of the Chamber of Commerce and the Festival Western. The route of the train tracks, which have been removed, has been transformed into a trail for walking, bicycling, and riding all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles.

Other events and activities

 * The Festival de l'Érable (Maple Festival), launched in 2004, takes place in the spring of each year, the maple sugar season, and includes tours of maple sugarbushes, shacks and refineries, as well as sawmills which process maple wood. In addition, it includes a market where vendors sell maple products, including syrup, sugar, salad dressing, and maple-flavoured alcoholic beverages.
 * A Carnival d'Hiver (Winter Carnival) is held in February and comprises winter-themed activities.
 * Golfing at the local golf course and riding ATVs and snowmobiles are popular activities.

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The Partisans (band)

The Partisans are a Welsh punk rock band formed in Bridgend, South Wales, in early 1978, when all four members were in their early teens. They continued until 1984, having several hits on the UK Indie Chart. The band re-formed in the late 1990s.

History
The band formed in early 1978, with an original line-up of Phil Stanton (vocals), Rob "Spike" Harrington (guitar and vocals), Andy Lealand (guitar), Mark "Shark" Harris (drums), and Mark "Savage" Parsons (bass guitar). Parsons and Stanton left in 1979, with Harrington moving to lead vocals, and Lealand's girlfriend Louise Wright joining on bass.

Influenced by Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Ramones, the band started off covering punk rock hits and soon started to compose their own material. They were the second band signed to Chris Berry's No Future Records label, and their debut release, the double A-sided "Police Story" / "Killing Machine" was released on 28 September 1981. It reached No. 5 on the UK Indie Chart, on the back of a tour with label-mates Blitz, and with strong support from Sounds writer Garry Bushell. Following the success of this single, The Partisans were included on the third volume of Bushell's Oi! compilation series Carry On Oi!, which reached No. 60 on the UK Albums Chart, and won the band gig slots with Blitz, Peter and the Test Tube Babies and The Ejected, as well as a 'No Future' night at London's Zig Zag Club with Red Alert, The Lombardos, and Peter and the Test Tube Babies.

The band released its second single, "17 Years of Hell", on 27 May 1982, peaking at No. 2 on the Indie Chart. This was followed by their self-titled debut LP, released in February 1983. It hit No. 5 in the Indie Chart and No. 1 in the Punk Chart, amid considerable critical acclaim from the national press and the underground fanzine culture.

After the departure of Louise Wright, the remaining members relocated to Bayswater in west London, with new bassist Dave Parsons to relaunch the band. Their next release was the three-track Blind Ambition EP on Cloak & Dagger Records, which peaked at No. 23 on the Indie Chart, and got played on BBC Radio 1. The LP, Time Was Right, followed in 1984, described as "The Professionals meets The Clash," and reaching No. 20 in the Indie Chart. The album featured live recordings from a gig at the Brixton Ace, at which The Partisans supported Anthrax, Lost Cherrees, Conflict and others.

The band split up in 1984. Dave Parsons later found chart success with Transvision Vamp and, even later, having global success with Bush. Lealand moved to Scandinavia. He and Harrington recorded one more session in late 1989 for Link Records under the name Agent Orange including Lealand's then partner Iggi. In the late 1990s, Lealand and Harrington reformed the band along with two of Lealand's Swedish friends, Magnus Neundorff and Mikael "Gustav" Gustavsson. The band signed to American label TKO who issued the "So Neat" single in 2001, followed by a new album in 2004, Idiot Nation on Dr. Strange.

In 2006, the band toured the UK with fellow Welsh hardcore punk band Picture Frame Seduction and played the Berlin festival Punk n' Disorderly in 2007. No further plans are being made to play live, although on 27 November 2015 they opened for Italian glam rock band, Giuda, at Orion, a rock venue in Ciampino, a small town near Rome. In 2024, the band opened for American experimental rock band The Garden at Heaven (nightclub) on June 25th and 26th for their European tour.

Discography
Chart placings shown are from the UK Indie Chart, unless otherwise stated.

Albums

 * The Partisans (1983), No Future - No. 5, UK Albums No. 94
 * Time Was Right (1984), Link/Cloak and Dagger - No. 20
 * The Best of the Partisans (1999), Captain Oi!
 * Idiot Nation (2004), Dr. Strange

Singles

 * "Police Story" (1981), No Future - No. 5
 * "17 Years of Hell" (1982), No Future - No. 2
 * "Blind Ambition" (1983), Link Records/Cloak and Dagger - No. 23
 * "So Neat" (2001), TKO

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Grace (style)

His Grace and Her Grace are English styles of address used with high-ranking personages, and was the style for English monarchs until Henry VIII (r. 1509–1547), and for Scottish monarchs until the Act of Union of 1707, which united the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England.

In Great Britain and Ireland, it is also the style of address for archbishops, dukes, and duchesses; e.g. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk and His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. The correct style is “Your Grace” in spoken and written form; as a stylistic descriptor for British dukes, it is an abbreviation of the full, formal style: “The Most High, Noble and Potent Prince His Grace”.

However, a royal duke, such as Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, is addressed as Your Royal Highness.

Christianity
The style "His Grace" and "Your Grace" is used in England and some other English-speaking countries to address Roman Catholic archbishops whose seats have come from an English diocesan background, which is not common in other countries (e.g. in France, the Philippines, and the United States Catholic bishops are addressed using the style "Excellency"). In the Eastern Orthodox Church it is used for bishops and abbots. The style is also used for an archbishop and some bishops in the Anglican tradition. In Ireland, the style "His/Your Grace" (A ghrása) is traditionally used for all Catholic bishops, not just archbishops. In the United Methodist Church in the United States, bishops are addressed "Your Grace" (spoken style), and "His/Her Grace" (reference style). The Church of God in Christ addresses its Presiding Bishop as "His Holy Grace" and "Your Holy Grace". The title solely for Roman Catholic Cardinals in reference style is "His Eminence" and the spoken style is "Your Eminence". In the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church Bishops (also known as Thirumenis) have the title of "His Grace"

"Your Grace" is also an alternative style for the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in the Church of England and the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Other religions
In Islam, several Sufi orders (such as the Qadrianis and Hawariyun) may refer to their spiritual Grand Masters with the honorific "(Most) Gracious ..." or "His Grace" in reference style, while the spoken style is "(Most) Gracious".

International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON–Hare Krishna) devotees prefix the name of their founder, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, with "His Divine Grace".

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of modern remakes of Shakespeare

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. --Dmcdevit·t 05:42, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

List of modern remakes of Shakespeare
Is this really necessary? Gwk 21:56, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - no it's not necessary - but there is plenty of more useless listcruft out there --Doc (?) 22:06, 11 July 2005 (UTC) (Merge sounds better --Doc (?) 18:15, 12 July 2005 (UTC))
 * Keep, The list is weak but maybe create an article on the subject. I'm sure there must be a formula to these remakes and has been covered extensively by film critics/analysts.maclean25 22:21, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * delete unmaintainable. no definition of modern or remake.--Porturology 22:23, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep     22:27, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful list, but needs a better introduction that more clearly explains that these are adaptations of the plays that have been "time-shifted" to other eras. This trend in adapting Shakespeare as modern-day stories is in itself worthy of an article. 23skidoo 23:37, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Shakespeare movies, that article has plenty of room to discuss when the movies are set. Dcarrano 01:22, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per Dcarrano. Barely beats out Porturology's excellent suggestion.  The Literate Engineer 04:30, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Shakespeare movies, as per Dcarrano. JamesBurns 07:24, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as above. Radiant_ >|< 13:44, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * keep it please it looks useful to me too Yuckfoo 18:02, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. Pavel Vozenilek 21:11, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per 23skidoo. Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:22, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge perhaps with List_of_adaptations_of_Shakespearean_plays AND Shakespeare movies  16:00, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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The Sex Files

The Sex Files is a television program broadcasting on Discovery Channel Canada and was broadcast on CTV network stations after the watershed, due to its highly explicit discussion of the nature of sexuality issues and behavior, from genetics, reproduction, sexual orientation, puberty, etc. As one would expect of a show of its nature, it frequently featured nudity, but portrayed in a scientific manner for visually aid in learning, highly beneficial information on sexuality and the biology behind it. In Europe the show was called Sex Sense and featured a male narrator. The number of episodes and their titles were the same, but the episodes themselves were slightly different as the more explicit scenes were replaced. It aired on Discovery Channel Europe.

Starting with episode 41 (season 4), it is broadcast in high-definition.

Season 1

 * 1) The Erection
 * 2) Breasts
 * 3) Orgasm
 * 4) The Birds and the Bees
 * 5) Aphrodisiacs
 * 6) Fantasy
 * 7) The Affair
 * 8) Fetish
 * 9) Gender
 * 10) Hair
 * 11) What is Sexy?
 * 12) Girl Power
 * 13) Birth Control

Season 2

 * 1) Sex Drive
 * 2) The Act
 * 3) The Vagina
 * 4) Sexual Signals
 * 5) Sexual Senses
 * 6) Sex for One
 * 7) Puberty
 * 8) Homosexuality
 * 9) The Rear End
 * 10) Sexual Cycle
 * 11) Love Juices
 * 12) Circumcision
 * 13) Intersexed People
 * 14) Myths

Season 3

 * 1) Testicles
 * 2) Celibacy
 * 3) Behavioral addiction
 * 4) Better Sex
 * 5) Sexual Reconstruction
 * 6) Menopause
 * 7) Future Sex
 * 8) Sex & Culture
 * 9) Sex & Disabilities
 * 10) Sex vs. Love
 * 11) Healing Sex
 * 12) Pregnancy
 * 13) Sexpertise

Season 4

 * 1) Sex Toys
 * 2) Kinky Sex
 * 3) Rated X
 * 4) Beyond Monogamy
 * 5) Pleasure and Pain
 * 6) The Kiss
 * 7) The Strip
 * 8) The Bi Way
 * 9) Baring it All
 * 10) No Sex Please
 * 11) Dirty Jokes
 * 12) Makin' it Work
 * 13) More Kinky Sex

Season 5

 * 1) First Date
 * 2) Sun, Sand and Sex
 * 3) The Boob Tube
 * 4) Top Ten Sexiest Clothes
 * 5) The Love Glove
 * 6) Top Ten Sexy Things
 * 7) Sexercise
 * 8) Top Ten Sexual Fantasies
 * 9) Erotic Origins
 * 10) His Sexy Makeover
 * 11) Her Sexy Makeover
 * 12) The Wedding
 * 13) Making of the Sex Files

Season 6

 * 1) Virginity
 * 2) Marriage Makeover
 * 3) The Brothel
 * 4) Breasts
 * 5) Sex and Beauty
 * 6) Girls on Top
 * 7) Sex and Aging
 * 8) Top Ten Myths
 * 9) Touch
 * 10) Sex and Rock n' Roll
 * 11) Satisfaction
 * 12) Top Ten Archetypes
 * 13) Sextracurricular Activities

Sexual Secrets
Sexual Secrets uses footage from The Sex Files, with contents rearranged to 1-hour episodes. Sexual Secrets was premiered on Life Network and Discovery Health. Episodes 1-18 use footage from first three seasons of The Sex Files. High-definition episodes are available starting with episode 19, which corresponds to the fourth and later seasons of The Sex Files.

Sexual Secrets episode list

 * 1) Pleasure Zones (09/27/2002)
 * 2) Love Potions (10/04/2002)
 * 3) Sex Appeal (09/20/2002)to
 * 4) Sex Drive (09/27/2002)
 * 5) Forbidden Fruit (10/04/2002)
 * 6) The Mating Game (11/21/2003)
 * 7) Love Juices (10/18/2002)
 * 8) Doing It Right (11/01/2002)
 * 9) Love Triangles (11/08/2002)
 * 10) The Body Beautiful (11/08/2002)
 * 11) Sex 101 (04/25/2003)
 * 12) Cheeky Secrets (04/25/2003)
 * 13) Ultimate Sex (04/11/2003)
 * 14) Sex, Lies and Abstinence
 * 15) Constant Cravings (05/02/2003)
 * 16) Designer Sex (05/16/2003)
 * 17) Sexpecting (05/23/2003)
 * 18) Prescription: Sex (05/30/2003)
 * 19) Bi Now, Tri Later
 * 20) Dating Secrets (03/05/2005)
 * 21) Wild and Whipped
 * 22) Kinky Secrets
 * 23) Ultimate Makeover
 * 24) Adults Only
 * 25) Beach Bums
 * 26) Ultimate Sex List (12/31/2004)
 * 27) Under the Hood, and down the drain.
 * 28) Put It On, Turn It On (02/26/2005)
 * 29) Sex Ed for Grownups (04/14/2006)
 * 30) Sex, Lies and Myth (04/21/2006)
 * 31) Aged to Satisfaction (04/28/2006)
 * 32) Rock n’ Roll in the Hay (5/05/2006)
 * 33) Alpha Dames: Sex, Sass and Secrets (05/12/2006)
 * 34) Beauty and the Breast (5/19/2006)
 * 35) Pure and not so Simple (05/26/2006)
 * 36) Sexy Marriage Makeover: From Hot to Not (06/02/2006)

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Façade (video game)

Façade is an artificial intelligence-based interactive story created in 2005 by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern. Upon release, the game received attention from mainstream news publications for its innovative design, and prompted speculation about the potential use of artificial intelligence in video games. Following release, Façade has received a generally positive reception, with praise directed at its technical innovation and wide cultural appeal, particularly in online streaming, and mixed views directed to the verisimilitude of its representation of interpersonal interaction.

Gameplay

Façade puts the player in the role of a close friend of Trip and Grace, a couple who recently invited the player to their New York City apartment for cocktails. This pleasant gathering, however, is somewhat damaged by the domestic confrontation between Grace and Trip upon the player's entry. Using incorporated language processing software, Façade allows the player to type sentences to "speak" with the couple, either supporting them through their troubles, driving them further apart, or being thrown out of the apartment. Incorporating elements of both interactivity and drama, Façade uses voice acting and a 3D environment, as well as natural language processing and other artificial intelligence routines, to provide a robust interactive fiction experience. The player can take an active role in the conversation, pushing the topic one way or another, as in an interactive stage-play. These stage-plays are stored as script text files which can be read after the player has finished.

Most playthroughs end with either Trip and Grace managing an initial reconciliation and telling the player they need to be alone, or being so offended by the player that Trip forcibly removes them from the apartment. However, with active intervention, it is possible to inspire the two to rediscover their love for one another, or to push one to leave the other – sometimes admitting a past affair, one of many events decided at random when play begins. Because much of it is designed to simulate 'on-the-fly' reactions to the player's or other characters' actions, and because the scenario features a random series of events (such as what conversational topics are brought up, what drinks Trip wants to serve, etc.) it possesses a certain amount of replay value.

The parser through which the player communicates to the actors is also notable for its ability to recognize and accept a large number of complex commands and respond to them adequately. Many questions can be fully parsed by the engine and the actors can respond in a variety of ways dependent on their mood, random fluctuations, and the player's past actions. For example, in one scenario, Grace may respond favorably to the statement 'I love your decorations.', while in another context she may believe the player is being condescending to her. Although not every statement made by the player will be successfully parsed, often the engine will pull related information and integrate it using the built-in voice acting clips. As such, proper spelling and grammar is almost always required for optimal player experience. The engine does have some quirks, however; for example, saying the word "melon" at any time will result in the player being kicked out immediately, due to the slang term referring to a woman’s breast, despite other meanings not used in a vulgar way.

Development
Façade was developed by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern. Prior to development, Mateas was a doctoral student at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, and Stern was a programmer and designer on the virtual pet video game series Petz. Mateas and Stern met presenting at a series of conferences on the intersection of artificial intelligence and interactive entertainment, and began initial work in 1998 on a long-term "interactive drama piece" and "commercial product prototype". In 2000, Mateas and Stern formally commenced a full-time collaborative project to "build an interactive story world integrating believable agents and interactive plot", with a plan to create a game around a "domestic drama in which a married couple has invited a player over for dinner." To develop organic and believable character behaviors, Mateas and Stern developed a complex programming framework described as 'a behavior language' to program and organize the expressions of multiple characters as 'believable agents'. Façade was released for Windows in July 2005 as a free download from the developer's web site.

Following the release of Façade, Mateas and Stern planned to create a follow-up project titled The Party. Building on the design of Façade, The Party was planned to feature around the plot of being invited a dinner party, in which gameplay would be expanded to accommodate ten characters, greater environmental interaction, and more mature complex narrative beats, including sex and violence. Intended as a commercial product, Stern noted that The Party required investment to fund a small team of designers and programmers necessary to create the game's artificial intelligence. In 2013, Mateas confirmed that development on The Party had ceased to pursue other projects.

Reception
Façade received contemporary praise from mainstream publications as an example of the burgeoning potential of artificial intelligence in the design of video games. Describing the title as "the future of videogames...where games are driven as strongly by characters as combat", the New York Times praised the game's use of "advanced artificial intelligence techniques...to change (the characters') emotional state in fairly complicated ways". Newsweek praised the game's potential to "take character to a new depth" and design games "about people's lives" that would appeal to broader audiences, including women. NBC News suggested Façade "could represent a new step in gaming" to "evoke complex emotions" in interactive entertainment, and noted that "how (the game) attempts to meet the challenges of artificial intelligence has relevance for gaming in the future". Describing the game as "one of the most important games ever created, possibly the most important game of the last ten years", Game Developer praised the "revolutionary" and "technically ambitious" design of the game, noting its innovative experimentation with natural language processing and generation, emotional modelling, facial expressions and body language, stating "Façade is important for what it tries to do and what it shows that we can do with this amazing medium".

Accolades
Façade won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Slamdance Independent Games Festival; an early, incomplete version was a finalist at the 2004 Independent Games Festival. It has been exhibited at several international art shows including ISEA 2004 and Game/Play 2006.

Retrospective reception
Retrospective assessments of Façade have recognized the game's technical achievement in its application of artificial intelligence and popular appeal. Describing the game as an "important research and cultural milestone", Games Developer identified Façade as project that made an "indelible mark on video games" due to the uniqueness and complexity of its design of artificial intelligence. Similarly, The Guardian cited Façade as an "interesting" milestone and "fascinating experiment" in the advancement of emotional artificial intelligence. The game was also recognized to have attracted mainstream attention, unusual for an independent video game at the time. Rock Paper Shotgun noted the game "was cutting edge enough to warrant scientific papers being written about it, but playable and interesting enough to be spread around the games world". PC Gamer noted that the game's enduring influence arose from a "strange second coming as an internet meme", with its widespread use in let's play and streaming videos. Similarly, Game Developer noted "arguably its biggest impact is that people know what it is outside of the academic conference circuit".

However, several retrospective reviews have expressed mixed views on Façade's execution as a simulation of interpersonal interaction, with Rock Paper Shotgun observing that the subsequent influence of the game on the broader industry had been largely overstated. PC Gamer noted that "if you play Façade as it was intended...their AI system holds up remarkably well", praising the character reactions to player inputs, although noting the game's "reliance on genuine interaction...makes it ripe for abuse". Describing the game as "an experiment rather than a finished game", Chris Dahlen, writing for 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, noted "the graphics are basic, and the parser's not perfect; Grace and Trip often react to a suggestion they don't recognize with an awkward stare or look of horror." The Stanford Daily critiqued the writing and characterization in Façade as "lazy" and "unfinished" depiction of an interpersonal conflict, noting the "irredeemable" characters, the tendency of the writing to "wholly victimize Grace", and the "limited due diligence you can have in your sleuthing before they force you to tell them what to do."

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MLB Advanced Media

MLB Advanced Media, L.P. (MLBAM) is a limited partnership of the club owners of Major League Baseball (MLB) based in New York City and is the Internet and interactive branch of the league.

Robert Bowman, former president and CEO of MLBAM, indicated in May 2012 that MLBAM generates around $620 million a year in revenue. Forbes went as far as calling the company "the Biggest Media Company You've Never Heard Of".

The company operates the official web site for the league and the thirty Major League Baseball club web sites via MLB.com, which draws four million hits per day. The site offers news, standings, statistics, and schedules, while subscribers have access to live audio and video broadcasts of most games. The company also employs reporters, with one assigned to each team for the season and others serving more general beats. MLB Advanced Media also owns and operates BaseballChannel.tv and MLB Radio.

MLBAM also runs and/or owns the official web sites of the National Hockey League and Minor League Baseball, YES Network (the television broadcaster of the New York Yankees), SportsNet New York (the television broadcaster of the New York Mets). It has also provided the backend infrastructure for WWE Network, WatchESPN, ESPN3, HBO Now, and PGA Tour Live.

History
Major League Baseball Advanced Media was formed in 2000 by Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to consolidate online rights and ticket sales for Major League Baseball teams. MLBAM was to be capitalized with $120 million with $1 million per team contributed each year for four years. The company hired an outside consulting firm to build its websites which failed to work properly, which led them to develop their own tech. In 2002, MLBAM attempted to run a streaming package around Japanese player Ichiro Suzuki of the Mariners, which achieved little success. With these failures, MLB Advance Media used its ticket rights to get an advance from Ticketmaster in mid 2002.

MLBAM used its $10 million advance from Ticketmaster to meet payroll and make another run at video. A Texas Rangers - New York Yankees game was produced and broadcast online on August 26, 2002. The company continued to tweak online broadcasting. A nine-game pennant race package was sold two weeks later followed by a $19.95 postseason package. Concurrently with 2003 spring training, MLB.tv was launched at $79.95 for a full season package, which garnered 100,000 subscribers. Those revenues halted the need for additional capital from the teams, taking only $77 million of the original planned $120 million.

In 2005, MLBAM bought ticket sales company Tickets.com in a deal worth approximately $66 million. MLBAM indicated at the time that the move was spurred by increased attendance at both the major and minor league levels of the sport and the need to make ticket purchases convenient for fans. In 2007, MLBAM signed a five-year deal with StubHub.

In April 2008, MLBAM signed a three-year deal with Yahoo for ad sales. The company replaced Yahoo with Auditude in a multi-year deal in April 2011.

In 2011, MLBAM worked with Glenn Beck to stream his new media services GBTV.

On February 20, 2014, Sports Illustrated announced the formation of 120 Sports, a streaming sports video service, with financial backing from MLBAM, the NHL, and Silver Chalice. Four days later, WWE launched its streaming platform WWE Network, with MLBAM as its operating partner.

In 2014, 2K announced that it would not exercise its license to publish a 2015 MLB video game for the Xbox. Thus, MLBAM developed a game from scratch in one and a half years with only a dozen programmers. The game, R.B.I. Baseball '14, was poorly received by the critics.

In February 2015, it was reported that MLBAM was planning to spin off its streaming technology division as an independent company, with investments by MLB and other minority partners. MLB-specific properties (such as MLB.com) would remain under league control. The formation of the spin-out, known as BAMTech, was approved by the company's board of directors on August 13, 2015.

On August 4, 2015, the National Hockey League announced a six-year deal with MLBAM for it to take over its digital properties, including its websites, mobile apps, operations and distribution of its digital streaming service NHL GameCenter Live (renamed NHL.tv outside of Canada), and migrating NHL Network to the facilities of MLB Network. The deal is worth $600 million over the life of the contract, and also granted the NHL an equity stake of up to 10% in BAMTech.

As of January 2018, MLBAM has a video game development team of 30+ employees who are working on R.B.I Baseball 18, the R.B.I. Baseball franchise was revived by MLBAM in 2014. With R.B.I Baseball 14, 15, 16, and 17, MLBAM had outsourced development to several external development studios and had a small group dedicated to overseeing production and managing publishing duties, that had all changed with R.B.I Baseball 18 when MLBAM decided to move development in-house. R.B.I Baseball is a unique product due to the fact that this is "the only instance of a professional sports league producing its own console video game," MLBAM is now a video game developer, producer and publisher as a result.

In 2017, the company's chief executive, Robert Bowman, was forced out after allegations related to his workplace conduct.

MLB At Bat
MLBAM is responsible for the At Bat app for the iPhone and iPad, which is downloadable from the iTunes store and also available as an Android app on Google Play.

In April 2012, MLBAM announced that the MLB.com At Bat 12 application surpassed the three million download mark, achieving the milestone only eight days into the 2012 MLB regular season and more than four months earlier than its record-setting 2011 campaign.

MLBAM CEO Robert Bowman had this to say about MLBAM in an article entitled "What did you learn in 2012 that you will carry forth with you into 2013?":

"The toughest thing to do in a poker hand and in this business is stand pat. This year we decided to make our At Bat app universal between the iPad and iPhone, which we knew going in would cost us 100,000 subscribers. We threw in At Bat for free with an MLB.tv subscription, which would also cost us revenue. And we added up a monthly At Bat subscription to get people to test the product out. We gave customers more options and a better deal, and we had a record year in paid content. We learned we're at an inflection point. Customers now understand and appreciate the nuance of content economics. You'll see more of that value pricing from us going forward."

MLBAM vs. CDM
MLBAM signed a five-year, $50 million interactive rights deal with the MLB Players Association in 2005 to acquire most of the players' online rights, including fantasy sports. The deal exacerbated tension between fantasy sports companies and professional leagues and players associations over the rights to player profiles and statistics. The players associations of the major sports leagues believed that fantasy games using player names were subject to licensing due to the right of publicity of the players involved. During the 1980s and 1990s many companies signed licensing deals with the player associations, but many companies did not. The issue came to a head when MLBAM denied a fantasy baseball licensing agreement to St. Louis-based CBC Distribution and Marketing Inc., the parent company of CDM Sports. CBC filed suit as a result. CBC argued that intellectual property laws and so-called "right of publicity" laws don't apply to the statistics used in fantasy sports. The FSTA filed a friend of the court brief in support of CBC which argued that MLBAM's step to deny CBC a license was the first step to limit the number of companies in the market, that could result in MLBAM having a monopoly. CBC won the lawsuit as U.S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Medler ruled that statistics are part of the public domain and can be used at no cost by fantasy companies. "The names and playing records of major-league baseball players as used in CBC's fantasy games are not copyrightable," Medler wrote. "Therefore, federal copyright law does not pre-empt the players' claimed right of publicity." The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision in October 2007. "It would be a strange law that a person would not have a First Amendment right to use information that is available to everyone," a three-judge panel said in its ruling.

On June 2, 2008, the United States Supreme Court denied MLB's petition for a writ of certiorari.

MLBAM has lost nearly $2 million on the case and may now opt out of the agreement with the MLBPA and also faces the potential loss of millions of dollars of licensing fees from major media companies, such as Fox. ESPN opted out of a seven-year, $140 million deal with MLBAM after three years in January 2008. The decision to opt out came less than three months after the CDM case was upheld on appeal as "ESPN thinks the court's decision means that it was paying a license fee for fantasy rights that others, such as CDM, were getting free."

MLBAM patents and patent infringement issues
MLBAM has been issued some patents with others still "patent pending" before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. For example, MLBAM was awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,486,943 for geolocating and blocking fans from viewing local games online. In addition, MLBAM was issued a patent for a system and method for allocating seats for a ticketed event. Another example of an MLBAM patent is U.S. Patent No. 8,045,965 entitled "System and method for venue-to-venue messaging," which lists MLBAM CEO Robert A. Bowman as a co-inventor (inventorship).

MLBAM has been the subject of patent infringement lawsuits. See, for example, DDB Techs., L.L.C. v. MLB Advanced Media, L.P. This case began as a patent infringement suit between DDB Technologies (DDB) and MLBAM over several patents for generating a computer simulation of a live event for display on a viewer's computer as well as one patent for a method allowing a viewer to search for certain information about a live event. The technology at issue was being used for simulation of baseball and other sporting activities. The case was finally settled with MLBAM acquiring rights to the DDB patent portfolio.

MLBAM has also been sued for patent infringement of the Front Row Technologies patent portfolio covering the delivery of sports and entertainment video to hand held devices such as smartphones (e.g., iPhone, Android), pad computing devices (e.g., iPad, Kindle, etc.), laptop computers and the like. According to the patent infringement complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, MLBAM infringed U.S. Patent Number 8,090,321 entitled "Transmitting sports and entertainment data to wireless hand held devices over a telecommunications network."

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Stagnation temperature

In thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, stagnation temperature is the temperature at a stagnation point in a fluid flow. At a stagnation point, the speed of the fluid is zero and all of the kinetic energy has been converted to internal energy and is added to the local static enthalpy. In both compressible and incompressible fluid flow, the stagnation temperature equals the total temperature at all points on the streamline leading to the stagnation point. See gas dynamics.

Adiabatic
Stagnation temperature can be derived from the First Law of Thermodynamics. Applying the Steady Flow Energy Equation and ignoring the work, heat and gravitational potential energy terms, we have:

 * $$h_0 = h + \frac{V^2}{2}\,$$

where:

 * $$h_0 =\,$$ mass-specific stagnation (or total) enthalpy at a stagnation point
 * $$h =\,$$ mass-specific static enthalpy at the point of interest along the stagnation streamline
 * $$V =\,$$ velocity at the point of interest along the stagnation streamline

Substituting for enthalpy by assuming a constant specific heat capacity at constant pressure ($$h = C_p T$$) we have:

 * $$T_0 = T + \frac{V^2}{2C_p}\,$$

or

 * $$\frac{T_0}{T} = 1+\frac{\gamma-1}{2}M^2\,$$

where:

 * $$C_p =\,$$ specific heat capacity at constant pressure
 * $$T_0 =\,$$ stagnation (or total) temperature at a stagnation point
 * $$T =\,$$ temperature (or static temperature) at the point of interest along the stagnation streamline
 * $$V = \,$$ velocity at the point of interest along the stagnation streamline
 * $$M =\,$$ Mach number at the point of interest along the stagnation streamline
 * $$\gamma =\,$$ Ratio of Specific Heats ($$C_p/C_v$$), ~1.4 for air at ~300 K

Flow with heat addition

 * $$h_{02} = h_{01} + q $$
 * $$T_{02} = T_{01} + \frac{q}{C_p} $$
 * q = Heat per unit mass added into the system

Strictly speaking, enthalpy is a function of both temperature and density. However, invoking the common assumption of a calorically perfect gas, enthalpy can be converted directly into temperature as given above, which enables one to define a stagnation temperature in terms of the more fundamental property, stagnation enthalpy.

Stagnation properties (e.g., stagnation temperature, stagnation pressure) are useful in jet engine performance calculations. In engine operations, stagnation temperature is often called total air temperature. A bimetallic thermocouple is frequently used to measure stagnation temperature, but allowances for thermal radiation must be made.

Solar thermal collectors
Performance testing of solar thermal collectors utilizes the term stagnation temperature to indicate the maximum achievable collector temperature with a stagnant fluid (no motion), an ambient temperature of 30C, and incident solar radiation of 1000W/m2. The aforementioned figures are 'worst case scenario values' that allow collector designers to plan for potential overheat scenarios in the event of collector system malfunctions.

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John Pratt (Canadian politician)

John William Pratt, (October 22, 1894 —November 29, 1973 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1927 to 1936.

Pratt was born at Hempton, Oxfordshire, England, the son of John W. Pratt and Julia A. Dixon. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London and Hitchin Grammar School, migrating to Canada in 1912. He attended the University of Manitoba, receiving a law degree, and subsequently worked as a barrister-at-law. Pratt enlisted in the R.F.C. in 1918. In 1920, he married Kathleen A. Barnes.

He was the mayor of Birtle, Manitoba in 1926 and 1927, and was a director of the Birtle Agricultural Society. He helped to found the firm of Pratt, Lauman. In 1944, Pratt was named King's Counsel.

Pratt was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1927, as a member of the governing Progressive Party. He campaigned in the constituency of Birtle, and defeated candidates from the Liberal and Conservative parties. Shortly after the election, he left the government benches to sit as an independent.

He was re-elected as an Independent Progressive in the 1932 provincial election, defeating Conservative W.C. Wroth by 639 votes. The government did not run a candidate against him. Pratt did not seek re-election in 1936.

He died in Birtle at the age of 79.

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John Henry Patterson (author)

Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson (10 November 1867 – 18 June 1947) was an Irish military officer, hunter, and author best known for his book The Man-eaters of Tsavo (1907), which details Patterson's experiences during the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in the East Africa Protectorate from 1898 to 1899. The book went on to inspire three films: Bwana Devil (1952), Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959), and The Ghost and the Darkness (1996). During World War I, Patterson served as the commander of the British Army's Jewish Legion, which has been described as the first precursor to the Israel Defense Forces.

Youth and Army service
Patterson was born in 1867 in Forgney, Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland, to a Protestant father and Roman Catholic mother.

He joined the British Army in 1885 at the age of seventeen and eventually attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). He retired from the army in 1920.

East African adventures
In 1898, Patterson was commissioned by the Uganda Railway committee in London to oversee the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in present-day Kenya. He arrived at the site in March of that year.

Tsavo railway and man-eaters

Almost immediately after Patterson's arrival, lion attacks began to take place on the workforce, with the lions dragging men out of their tents at night and feeding on their victims. Despite the building of thorn barriers (bomas) around the camps, bonfires at night, and strict after-dark curfews, the attacks escalated dramatically, to the point where the bridge construction ceased due to a fearful, mass departure by the workers. Along with the obvious financial consequences of the work stoppage, Patterson faced the challenge of maintaining his authority and even his personal safety at this remote site against the increasingly hostile and superstitious workers, many of whom were convinced that the lions were in fact evil spirits, come to punish those who worked at Tsavo, and that he was the cause of the misfortune because the attacks had coincided with his arrival.

The man-eating behaviour was considered highly unusual for lions and was eventually confirmed to be the work of a pair of rogue males, who were believed to be responsible for as many as 140 deaths. Railway records attribute only 28 worker deaths to the lions, but the predators were also reported to have killed a significant number of local people of which no official record was ever kept, which attributed to the railway's smaller record.

Various theories have been put forward to account for the lions' man-eating behaviour: poor burial practices, low populations of food source animals due to disease, etc. There was a slave trade route through the area, which contributed to a considerable number of abandoned bodies. Patterson reported seeing considerable instances of unburied human remains and open graves in the area, and it is believed that the lions (which, like most predators, will readily scavenge for food) adapted to this abundant, accessible food supply and eventually turned to humans as their primary food source. A modern analysis shows one of the lion's skulls had a badly abscessed canine tooth that could have hindered normal hunting behaviour. However, this hypothesis accounts for the behaviour of only one of the lions involved, and Patterson himself had disclaimed such theories, saying he had damaged the lion's tooth himself.

With his reputation, livelihood, and safety at stake, Patterson, an experienced tiger hunter from his military service in India, undertook an extensive effort to deal with the crisis. After months of attempts and near misses, he killed the first lion on the night of 9 December 1898 and the second one on the morning of 29 December (narrowly escaping death when the wounded animal charged him). The lions were maneless like many others in the Tsavo area, and both were exceptionally large. Each lion was over nine feet long from nose to tip of tail and required at least eight men to carry it back to the camp.

The workers and local people immediately declared Patterson a hero, and word of the event quickly spread far and wide, as evidenced by the subsequent telegrams of congratulations he received. Word of the incident was even mentioned in the House of Lords, by the Prime Minister Lord Salisbury.

With the man-eater threat eliminated, the workforce returned and the Tsavo railway bridge was completed on 7 February 1899. Although the rails were destroyed by German soldiers during the First World War, the stone foundations were left standing and the bridge was subsequently repaired. The workers, who in earlier months had all but threatened to kill him, presented Patterson with a silver bowl in appreciation for the risks he had undertaken on their behalf, with the following inscription: "'SIR, – We, your Overseer, Timekeepers, Mistaris and Workmen, present you with this bowl as a token of our gratitude to you for your bravery in killing two-man-eating lions at great risk to your own life, thereby saving us from the fate of being devoured by these terrible monsters who nightly broke into our tents and took our fellow-workers from our side. In presenting you with this bowl, we all add our prayers for your long life, happiness and prosperity. We shall ever remain, Sir, Your grateful servants,

Baboo PURSHOTAM HURJEE PURMAR, Overseer and Clerk of Works, on behalf of your Workmen. Dated at Tsavo, 30 January 1899.'"

Patterson considered the bowl to be his most highly prized and hardest won trophy.

In 1907, he published his first book, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, which documented his adventures during his time there. It was the basis for three films; Bwana Devil (1953), Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959) and the 1996 Paramount Pictures film, The Ghost and the Darkness, starring Val Kilmer (as Patterson) and Michael Douglas (as the fictional character "Remington").

In 1924, after speaking at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, Patterson agreed to sell the Tsavo lion skins and skulls to the museum for the then sizeable sum of $5,000. The lion skins were then stuffed and are now on permanent display along with the original skulls. The reconstructed lions are actually smaller than their original size, due to their skins' having been trimmed for use as trophy rugs in Patterson's house.

Eland discovery

In 1906, Patterson returned to the Tsavo area for a hunting trip. During the trip, he shot an eland, which he noted possessed different features from elands in Southern Africa, where the species was first recognized. On returning to England, Patterson had the head of the eland mounted, where it was seen by Richard Lydekker, a member of the faculty of the British Museum. Lydekker identified Patterson's trophy as a new subspecies of eland, which Lydekker named Taurotragus oryx pattersonianius.

Game warden and Blyth
Colonial Secretary Lord Elgin appointed Colonel Patterson to the post of Game Warden – that is, superintendent of game reserves in the East Africa Protectorate, an experience he recounts in his second book, In the Grip of Nyika (1909).

While on a safari in 1908 with Audley Blyth, a son of James Blyth, 1st Baron Blyth, and Blyth's wife Ethel, Patterson's reputation was tarnished by Blyth's death by a gunshot wound (possible suicide – exact circumstances unknown). Witnesses confirmed that Patterson was not in Blyth's tent when the shooting took place, and that it was in fact Blyth's wife who was with him at the time, as she was reported as having run screaming from the tent immediately following the shooting. Patterson had Blyth buried in the wilderness and then insisted on continuing the expedition instead of returning to the nearest post to report the incident.

Shortly after, in poor health, Patterson returned to England with Mrs. Blyth amid rumours of murder and an affair. Although he was never officially charged or censured, this incident followed him for years after in British society and in the army. His case was raised in Parliament in April 1909. The incident was referenced in the film The Macomber Affair (1947), which was based on Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936).

Second Boer War
Patterson joined the Essex Imperial Yeomanry for the Second Boer War (1899–1902), and served with the 20th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in November 1900. He returned home, but was again called for service when on 17 January 1902 he was appointed to command the 33rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel. The battalion left Southampton on SS Assaye in May 1902, arriving in South Africa after the war had ended with the Peace of Vereeniging.

Ulster Volunteer Force
Colonel Patterson commanded the West Belfast regiment of the Ulster Volunteers during the Home Rule Crisis of 1913–14. The Ulster Volunteers was a Unionist militia founded in 1912 to prevent Irish Home Rule. The Ulster Volunteers were based in the northern province of Ulster, with most of the organisation's 90,000 members coming from what is today Northern Ireland. Many Ulster Protestants feared being governed by an Irish Catholic-majority parliament in Dublin. In 1913, the militias were organised into the 'Ulster Volunteer Force' (UVF) and vowed to resist any attempts by the British Government to impose Home Rule on Ulster.

In April 1914, the UVF smuggled 20,000 rifles and 2,000,000 rounds of ammunition into Ulster from Germany. Colonel Patterson is believed to have been part of this operation with some of the weapons being stored at Fernhill House, HQ of the West Belfast regiment.

The Home Rule Crisis was halted by the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.

World War I

Patterson served in the First World War. Although he was himself a Protestant, he became a major figure in Zionism as the commander of both the Zion Mule Corps and later the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (also known as the Jewish Legion) which would eventually serve as the foundation of the Israeli Defence Force decades later. The Zion Mule Corps, which served with distinction in the Gallipoli Campaign has been described as "the first Jewish fighting force in nearly two millennia".

During his time in command of the Jewish Legion (which served with distinction in the Palestine Campaign), Patterson was forced to deal with extensive, ongoing antisemitism toward his men from many of his superiors (as well as peers and subordinates), and more than once threatened to resign his commission to bring the inappropriate treatment of his men under scrutiny. He retired from the British Army in 1920 as a lieutenant-colonel (the same rank he held when the war started) after thirty-five years of service. It is generally accepted that much of the admiration and respect of his men (and modern-day supporters) is due to the fact that he essentially sacrificed any opportunity for promotion (and his military career in general) in his efforts to ensure his men were treated fairly. His last two books, With the Zionists at Gallipoli (1916) and With the Judaeans in the Palestine Campaign (1922) are based on his experiences during these times.

Advocacy of Zionism
After his military career, Patterson continued his support of Zionism. He remained a strong advocate of justice for the Jewish people as an active member of the Bergson Group and a promoter of a Jewish army to fight the Nazis and to stop The Holocaust. He was a member of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe. During the Second World War, while he was in America, the British government cut off his pension, arguing they had no way to securely transmit his funds to him. This left Patterson in severe financial difficulty. He energetically continued working toward the establishment of a separate Jewish state in the Middle East, which became a reality with the statehood of Israel on 14 May 1948, less than a year after his death.

Patterson was close friends with many Zionist supporters and leaders, among them Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Benzion Netanyahu. According to Benzion's younger son Benjamin Netanyahu, who later became Prime Minister of Israel, Benzion named his first son, Yonatan Netanyahu, after Patterson. Patterson attended Yonatan Netanyahu's circumcision and gave him a silver cup engraved with the words "To my beloved godson Yonatan from Lt.-Col. John Henry Patterson".

Family
He married Frances Helena Gray of Belfast in 1895. She, in 1890, had been one of the first women to take a Doctor of Laws (LLD) in the UK. Their son Bryan Patterson (1909–79) became a palaeontologist at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Later life, death and final request
During the 1940s, Patterson and his wife, "Francie", lived in a modest home in La Jolla, California. Eventually, with his wife in need of regular medical care and his own health in decline, he took up residence at the home of his friend Marion Travis in Bel Air, where he eventually died in his sleep at seventy-nine years of age. His wife died six weeks later in a San Diego nursing home. Both Patterson and his wife were cremated, and their ashes were interred at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, niche 952-OC in Los Angeles. According to Patterson's grandson, Alan Patterson, one of his final wishes was that both he and his wife eventually be interred in Israel, ideally with or close to the men he commanded during the First World War.

Alan Patterson, the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, Canadian representative Todd Young, Beit HaGedudim (the museum of the Jewish Legion), and the moshav (village) of Avihayil (represented by Ezekiel Sivak) began a coordinated effort to honour this request in 2010. With the assistance and support of the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on 4 December 2014, the remains of Patterson and his wife, were re-interred in the Avihayil cemetery where some of the men he commanded are buried. Attending the ceremony were Prime Minister Netanyahu, members of his family, military and cabinet members of the Israeli government, the British Ambassador, the Irish Ambassador, Alan Patterson, Jerry Klinger of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, Ezekiel Sivak of Avihayil, representatives and descendent family members of the Jewish Legion, Christians supporters of Israel, 350 guests and numerous other dignitaries. Netanyahu referred to Patterson as "the godfather of the Israeli army" and "a great friend of our people, a great champion of Zionism and a great believer in the Jewish State and the Jewish people... I feel it is an obligation of our people, our State and mine personally to fulfil his testimony".

A souvenir plate postal stamp was issued by the Israel Philatelic Service in Patterson's honour.

Works

 * The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures London: Macmillan and Co., 1907
 * In the Grip of the Nyika; Further Adventures in British East Africa London: Macmillan and Co., 1909
 * With the Zionists in Gallipoli London: Hutchinson, 1916
 * With the Judaeans in the Palestine Campaign London: Hutchinson, 1922

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John Henry Patterson (NCR owner)

John Henry Patterson (December 13, 1844 – May 7, 1922) was an industrialist and founder of the National Cash Register Company. He was a businessperson and salesperson. He headed relief efforts after the 1913 Dayton flood, and successfully promoted the city manager form of government.

Early years
John Henry Patterson was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1844. He spent his childhood working on the family farm and in his father's sawmills. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1867 and went to work as a canal toll collector until 1870. That year, he began managing the Southern Ohio Coal and Iron Company. He became an investor in the National Manufacturing Company in 1882, buying it out with his brother by 1884 to form National Cash Register Company.

Pioneering business practices

In 1893 he constructed the first "daylight factory" buildings with floor-to-ceiling glass windows that let in light and could be opened to let in fresh air as well. This was in an era when sweatshops were still in operation elsewhere. He hired John Charles Olmsted to landscape the grounds of the National Cash Register Company campus in Dayton, with spacious lawns and landscaping with colorful plantings. Olmsted also had a hand in designing the residential community surrounding the plant (South Park) as well as a park system for the City of Dayton.

Based on a 16-page handbook written by his brother-in-law, Patterson established the world's first sales training school on the grounds of the NCR factory campus (at Sugar Camp in Dayton, Ohio). He also coined a phrase for his service division which, until about the time the company was bought by AT&T, hung on the wall of every service department in the company. The phrase was, "We Cannot Afford To Have A Single Dissatisfied Customer".

NCR and IBM
Patterson was famous for firing Thomas Watson Sr, who went on to become General Manager, then President, of CTR, later renamed IBM. So many prominent businessmen were trained and fired by Patterson that some business historians regarded experience at NCR as the rough equivalent of an MBA degree. Patterson was also famous for firing many people on rather trivial grounds, for example, if they could not tell him why the flags happened to be flying that day. Charles F. Kettering was hired and fired at NCR multiple times; once for failing at an equestrian event. Reportedly, Patterson fired him with the remark: "Anybody who can't handle a horse can't handle men."

Violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act
In 1912, NCR was found guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. Patterson, Watson and 26 other NCR executives and managers were convicted of illegal anti-competitive sales practices and were sentenced to one year of imprisonment. Their convictions were unpopular with the public due to the efforts of Patterson and Watson to help those affected by the Dayton, Ohio floods of 1913, but efforts to have them pardoned by President Woodrow Wilson were unsuccessful. However, their convictions were overturned on appeal in 1915 on the grounds that important defense evidence should have been admitted.

Great Dayton Flood
During the Great Dayton Flood disaster, John H. Patterson contributed significantly to the recovery efforts. NCR employees built nearly 300 flat-bottomed boats and Patterson organized rescue teams to save the thousands of people stranded on roofs and the upper stories of buildings. He turned the NCR factory on Stewart Street into an emergency shelter providing food and lodging, and he organized local doctors and nurses to provide medical care. Patterson's vision for a managed watershed for the Great Miami River resulted in the development of the Miami Conservancy District, one of the first major flood control districts in the United States.

Personal life
Patterson attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1867. He was something of a health fanatic, and adopted one regimen after another, most of which were required of his executives and employees. While at Miami, Patterson was a member of Beta Theta Pi.

In 1888 Patterson married Katharine Beck of Brookline, Massachusetts. They had two children: Frederick Beck Patterson and Dorothy Forster Patterson. Mrs. Patterson died of diphtheria in June, 1894 at the age of 28. John's nephew, Lt Frank Patterson, was killed in 1918 when his military aircraft crashed near Dayton, Ohio, one of the early WW1 casualties in the US. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was re-named in his memory as well as honoring the Dayton based Wright Brothers.

Patterson lived in his Swiss chalet estate "The Far Hills" in Oakwood, Montgomery County, Ohio. Patterson loved the Adirondacks and built his summer estate on Beaver Lake, on the Beaver River east of Lowville, NY. His family built two other estates on the lake. All three estates still exist, two as church camps (Beaver Camp and Unirondack), one as private bed and breakfast.

Death and legacy
Patterson died on May 7, 1922, two days after reviewing plans with General Billy Mitchell to develop a center for aviation research in Dayton. He is interred in the Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. He left no great fortune because of his expenditures on social programs at his company, and because he believed that "shrouds have no pockets." He left ownership of the company to his son Frederick Beck Patterson. $55 million in stock was subsequently offered to the public by Dillon, Read & Co. in January, 1926 in an initial public offering, which was noted in the January 4, 1926 edition of the New York Times as "the largest single offering of stock in the history of the country."

Mr. Patterson was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1979.

Patterson's methods influenced United States business for a generation. In the period 1910-1930 it was estimated that one-sixth of United States business executives were former NCR executives.

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1883–84 in English football

The 1883–84 season was the 13th season of competitive football in England.

Since 1880, Bolton Wanderers (founded in 1874), was known to have unofficially offered professional terms to Scottish players ("Scotch Professors"). The subject remained a heated one through the 1880s, directly or indirectly involving many other clubs besides Bolton. Their neighbours, Blackburn Rovers (founded in 1875) and Darwen (founded in 1870) had also signed Scottish players on a 'shamateur' basis using side jobs, either real or fabricated, to facilitate payment. The FA espoused the ideal of amateurism promoted by the likes of Corinthian F.C. from whom the phrase "Corinthian Spirit" came into being.

Overview
1883–1884 saw the world's first international tournament begin. The British Home Championship pitted the UK's four national teams (England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland) against each other in a league competition in which each played the other three once. Scotland won the first contest with England finishing second.

National team
* England score given first

Key
 * A = Away match
 * BHC = British Home Championship

Honours
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

Events

 * 5 February 1884 – Derby County Football Club is founded
 * Black Arabs F.C. season 1883–84 (inaugural season of today's Bristol Rovers F.C.)
 * Everton moves as tenant to Anfield, a newly enclosed ground off Anfield Road, Liverpool.
 * Leicester City founded as Leicester Fosse.

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Talk:Huaca Rajada

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My sources a bad but we have been graced by a lovely tool from google... and hopefully I will use it to add more. gren 22:02, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Why split Lord of sipan from the article of sipan? I think it belongs here, at least an abstract and picture. AgainErick 00:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

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Pyasina

The Pyasina (Пясина) is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The river is 818 km long, and its basin covers 182000 km2. The Pyasina River originates in Lake Pyasino and flows into the Pyasino Gulf of the Kara Sea. There are more than 60,000 lakes in the basin of the Pyasina covering a total area of 10450 km2. The river freezes up in late September or early October and stays under the ice until June. It is connected to the river Chetyrekh through its right distributary Staritsa.

History
The Dvina merchant Kondratiy Kurochkin reached the mouth of the Pyasina in 1610. In 1614, an ostrog was built on the river to collect yasak from the natives. In 1935, before the Dudinka-Norilsk railway had been built, the river Pyasina and Lake Pyasino were used to deliver cargo to the site of the future city of Norilsk.

Taimyr reindeer herd
The calving grounds of the Taimyr reindeer herd, a migrating tundra reindeer (R.t. sibiricus), the largest reindeer herd in the world,  is along the right bank of the Pyasina and at the bend of the middle flow of the Agapa.

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The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  10:01, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Hermaphrodude
Neologism - delete or merge somewhere --Doc (?) 22:02, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment, 5 days on vfd, no votes. Dunc|☺ 23:15, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Em, no, I nominated this one hour ago? --Doc (?) 23:17, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, doesn't seem to be widespread yet, just 25 google hits. Martg76 23:26, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Elmina Castle

Interesting source

 * P.E.H. Hair (1994) The founding of the Castelo de São Jorge da Mina: an analysis of the sources. Madison: University of Wisconsin, African Studies Program. ISBN 0-942615-21-2

 * Indeed, added this source to the article. Michel Doortmont 25 Feb 2008 01:36 CET

Major Edits
I plan to make some major edits to this article in a few days. I restructured the article to include several more in depth sections including Elmina before the arrival of the Portuguese, the Portuguese arrival, and the Building of the Castle. These were the major areas of my research. I also added sections on the Atlantic Slave Trade and the involvement of other European nations, but these sections will still need to be expanded upon. I will watch this discussion board for any objections. Akuajennifer 22:56, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

End of Dutch slave trade
It is only a minor point in the context of this article, but the Dutch slave trade from Elmina was already formally abolished in 1814. In that year Great Britain restored the Dutch colonies it had captured during the Napoleonic wars to the newly-independent Kingdom of the Netherlands by the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814. One of the provisions of the treaty was that involvement in the slave trade would henceforth be prohibited to Dutch citizens and such a prohibition was duly enacted in Dutch criminal law that year. Later treaties enacted joint Anglo-Dutch prize courts to adjudicate the capture of illegal slavers by the navies of both countries. Like in Great Britain slavery itself was not abolished until much later in Dutch colonies (1859 in Indonesia; 1863 in the West Indies). As the Dutch "Gold Coast" became economically worthless to the Dutch after 1814, they were happy to sell the area to the British in 1871 for monetary compensation (Elmina itself brought NLG 47,000) and a free hand on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. I have made the necessary edits.--Ereunetes (talk) 19:35, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

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Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick

Cap-Pelé ([kap pəle]) is a former village in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023 and is now part of the town of Cap-Acadie.

The community centres on the intersection of Route 945 and Route 133 but extends to Route 950.

Its sister city is Broussard, Louisiana, United States.

Geography
It is located on the Northumberland Strait approximately 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Moncton. Approximately 88% of its residents are Francophone.

History
The village was founded by Acadians in 1780 and incorporated as a municipality in 1969. Fishing is the dominant industry, and the town is home to several smoked herring processing plants known locally as boucannières. As many as 30 smokehouses are found in Cap-Pelé and its surrounding areas. Work in the smokehouses tends to be seasonal, and during the summertime certain smokehouses offer guided tours.

The post office's name was changed from Cape Bald to Cap-Pelé by petition of local residents in 1949. The name was approved on March 2, 1950.

On 1 January 2023, Cap-Pelé amalgamated with the incorporated rural community of Beaubassin Eastto form the new town of Cap-Acadie. The community's name remains in official use.

Aboiteau Beach
Cap-Pelé is home to the well known Aboiteau Beach that stretches out for approximately 2.5 kilometres (1½ miles), located inside Aboiteau Park. The beachside complex offers many services including a licensed restaurant with seafood and bar service, a gift shop and a patio overlooking the strait.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cap-Pelé had a population of $2,441$ living in $1,011$ of its $1,144$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $2,425$. With a land area of 22.96 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Income (2016)

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Talk:52 Pick-Up

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Needs to be merged with 52 Pickup!! --Sonjaaa 22:05, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

yep. titanium_geek

 * No, that's a practical joke. This is a movie.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.66.193 (talk) 04:28, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Novel not listed
Hmm, the book is not listed at all in a WKP search, only the film. A WKP search for the novel should at least have an disambiguation page mentioning the existence of the novel. Centrepull (talk) 15:37, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

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Committee to Register Voters Outside Quebec

The Committee to Register Voters Outside Quebec was created to help citizens who had left Quebec in the two years before the 1995 referendum to register on the electoral list.

Quebec lawyer Casper Bloom, chairman of the committee, and Liberal MNA Lawrence Bergman worked together to "make all eligible voters outside Quebec aware of their rights, to have them register and finally vote" said the pamphlet.

Since 1989, a clause of the Quebec electoral law allows for ex-residents of Quebec to signal, in writing, their intention of returning to Quebec and vote by mail. The committee, which operated during the referendum campaign, handed-out pamphlets including the form to be added to the list of voters by the Directeur général des élections du Québec.

The pamphlet gave out a toll-free number as contact information which was the same number as the one used by the Canadian Unity Council.


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This image is used in the article Dream About Me; although the image is subject to copyright, it is covered by the U.S. fair-use laws because:

 * it is a low resolution image of a CD artwork;
 * it illustrates only the topic in question (only to be used in the said article in question);
 * it does not limit the copyright owner's limits to sell the single or album in any way;
 * Copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the CD itself;
 * The image is significant because it was released and is by a renowned artist, Moby.

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Category talk:Daniels County, Montana

We need articles here on Peerless, Four Buttes, and Whitetail, and, if anyone has time, Madoc, and perhaps Julian, not to mention Pleasant Prairie, do we not, fellow (former) Daniels Countians?--Midnite Critic 22:06, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

I particularly would like some information on the town of Madoc, because of its similarity of name to the Welshman Madoc who led a voyage to America 300 years prior to Columbus.

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User:Alex legat

Алекс Легат(род.1960) известный писатель, работающий в жанре детективной и приключенческой литературы. Автор ставшего бестселлером романа "Гопак для президента".

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Talk:Codex Belli

This:

 * 1) Ranged weapons: bows and crossbows as well as slings

reads as slings but links to slingshot. Should that be sling (weapon)?

There is a reworked version of the Codex Belli from 2010 http://www.ig-heerlager.de/seite/codex-belli-2010 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.250.243.99 (talk) 07:54, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

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Lacustuary

A lacustuary is a freshwater body of water where river and lake waters mix. Lacustuaries are nonmoving or "slack" water, although water in them can ebb and flow due to lake waves moving in and out, and the rising and falling of lake water levels.

A lacustuary is that portion of a freshwater river or stream where lake water and river/stream water mix. The upper boundary of the lacustuary is that portion of the river directly affected by rising and falling water levels in the lake. Lacustuaries are generally nonmoving or "slack" water.

Lacustuaries are not estuaries. They are far less saline, as lacustuaries are freshwater bodies. Additionally lacustuaries tend to be less saline the closer to the lake, where as estuaries are more saline the closer to the ocean. Lacustuaries also have different functions than estuaries. Their physical and biological characteristics are also much different from the free-flowing water further upstream, and they play important roles in the ecology of both lake and river ecosystems. Lacustuary vegetation is also markedly different from shoreline and upland habitats.

Not all streams which enter a lake have a lacustuary. Man-made ship channels may also be lacustuaries, depending on their slack water status.

Biological characteristics''' The biota of a lacustuary is dominated by plant and animal species adapted to lucustrine conditions. Common plants species observed in Ohio (Thoma: personal observation) were Pondweeds (Potamogeton sp.) and Eelgrass (Vallisneria) in clean, clear waters. Eurasian Watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) and Elodea sp. dominate in polluted, turbid waters.

In clean waters fish communities are dominated by native Sunfish (Lepomis sp.), Minnows of several genera, and other phytophilic species such as Yellow Perch (Perch flavescens). In polluted, turbid, and organic enriched waters non-native fish species such as Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) can dominate in both numbers and biomass. Specifically, in Lake Erie the non native White Perch (Marone americana) and Gizzard Shad (Dorosoma cepedianum, possibly not native to the Great Lakes) can also display large numbers.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ask peeves

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The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  10:21, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Ask peeves

 * Delete Advertising. It's funny that the registered owner of AskPeeves.com and the IP address of the user that edited this are from California. -- BMIComp (talk) 22:24, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete ad. Jaxl 22:58, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete advertising. JamesBurns 07:25, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't Delete And putting Ask Jeeves and other web site entries is not advertising? Wonder if they have a rival encylcopedia page on here. (Unsigned by 69.110.138.75)
 * Delete. Website ad. hydnjo talk 00:21, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ad, nn, not even an URL. JFW | T@lk  00:25, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Eliezer 09:44, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
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Hugh McKenzie (Manitoba politician)

Hugh McKenzie (January 20, 1870 – 1957 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1927 to 1936.

The son of John McKenzie and Eliza Hogan, McKenzie was educated at Lovant, and served sixteen years as a municipal councillor and reeve in Deloraine, Manitoba. In 1895, he married Elfreda Potter.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1927 provincial election as a Progressive, defeating Conservative candidate A.G. Hainsworth by 160 votes. The Progressives won the election, and McKenzie served as a backbench supporter of John Bracken's government.

In 1932, the Progressives formed an alliance with the provincial Liberal Party. Government members became known as "Liberal-Progressives", and it was under this banner that McKenzie was re-elected in the 1932 campaign. He did not seek re-election in 1936.

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Dream About Me

"Dream About Me" is a song by American electronica musician Moby, released as the fourth single from his 2005 studio album Hotel. As the follow-up single to "Spiders", it was released in the UK on August 8, 2005, by Mute Records. Singer-songwriter and MoveOn cultural director Laura Dawn is featured on lead vocals alongside Moby himself.

Music video
The video for the single was produced with cutout animation and begins with a spaceship flying over a major city. The spaceship flies over a sidewalk and deposits its passengers that appear as small white kittens that are all picked up by pedestrians except for a tabby, whom none of the pedestrians desire to adopt or love. The tabby kitten then walks around and experiences the reality of the world, avoiding being stepped on, or almost falling into a storm drain and almost getting run down by cars crossing the street as well as running away from a vicious dog into an alleyway past a poster of Moby. The tabby then goes to sleep and dreams of a paradisiacal place where there is no hardship or pain. The tabby wakes up and then continues walking until it comes across a tree in the sidewalk and climbs it to the top. When it gets to the top, it appears that many spaceships are hovering over the city, indicating that, presumably, the tabby is not alone and that there may be other outcast kittens like itself, deposited in the same way throughout the world.

Track listing
CD (UK)
 * 1) "Dream About Me" (album version radio mix)
 * 2) "Feeling So Real" (recorded live on the Hotel Tour in London)

Vinyl

7" vinyl
 * 1) "Dream About Me"
 * 2) "Dream About Me" (The Shortwave Set Pick 'n' Mix)

12" vinyl
 * 1) "Dream About Me" (Sebastian Ingrosso Remix)
 * 2) "Dream About Me" (MHC Extended Remix)
 * 3) "Dream About Me" (Booka Shade Remix)

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