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Nikkō Ice Bucks

The HC Nikkō Ice Bucks (ホッケークラブ日光アイスバックス) is an Asia League Ice Hockey team based in Nikkō, Tochigi, Japan.

Logo design: The word IceBucks in italicized English in black with white trim, with the words "NIKKO KOBE" in bold italics in orange trimmed with white

Mascot: An orange and white furred male deer wearing a hockey helmet.

History
The Nikkō area has a long history of ice hockey, with the Furukawa Electric semi-professional team (one of the oldest in Japan) having been established in 1925, and becoming a founding member of the Japanese Ice Hockey League in 1966. In 1999, however, the team was forced to disband due to financial difficulties.

A outflow of support from the city and local financing allowed the team to be recreated as a club team, supported locally. It was renamed the HC Nikkō IceBucks and joined the league in time for the next season's start. The team, despite fervent local support, was never one of the successes of the JIHL even when they were supported as Furukawa Electric, and had a rocky start as the HC Nikkō IceBucks, having to relaunch their business model in 2001. The team has consistently placed near or at the bottom of the league.

When the league expanded into the Asia League Ice Hockey, Nikkō was one of the teams that was part of the new league. In the summer of 2005, the team arranged to play a number of its home games in Kobe, Hyogo, and changed its name to the Nikkō Kobe IceBucks to reflect its new two-city home. In 2007–2008 season Kobe is no longer home and the name was reverted to the older HC Nikkō Ice Bucks.

On January 29, 2020, It was announce that five players would represent Japan in the 3rd round of qualifiers for the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Honours

 * Japan League championships: none
 * Asia League championships: none
 * All Japan Ice hockey Championship: 2015, 2019, 2023

ALIH 2003–present
complete records for previous seasons *prior to the 2008–2009 season, there were no shoot-outs and games ended in a tie

Current roster
Roster for the 2023–24 season.

Past import players

 * 🇺🇸 Curt Bennett 1980–82, F
 * 🇺🇸 Harvey Bennett, Jr. 1980–82, D
 * Eduard Novák 1982–84, F
 * František Kaberle Sr. 1982–84, D (father of František Kaberle and Tomáš Kaberle)
 * 🇨🇦 Mark Kaufmann 1999–03, C
 * 🇸🇪 Patrik Degerstedt 1999–2001
 * 🇨🇦 Martin Kariya 2004–05, LW (Brother of Paul Kariya and Steve Kariya)
 * 🇺🇸 Shjon Podein 2005–06, LW
 * 🇺🇸 Chris Paradise 2005–06, C
 * 🇨🇦 Mike Henderson 2006–07, RW
 * 🇨🇦 Eric LaFreniere 2008–09, RW
 * 🇨🇦 Mickey Gilchrist 2008–09, C
 * 🇨🇦 Bud Smith 2009–11, C
 * 🇨🇦 Richard Rochefort 2010–11, D/C
 * 🇨🇦 Andrew Kozek 2011–12, LW
 * 🇫🇮 Petteri Nummelin 2017–18, D

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Takk...

Takk... (, Thanks...) is the fourth studio album by the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós, first released in the United States by Geffen Records on 12 September 2005. The album debuted at number 27 on the US Billboard 200, selling 30,000 copies in its first week.

Music and lyrics
Unlike its predecessor  (album), the album's lyrics are mostly in Icelandic, with occasional elements of Vonlenska ("Hopelandic"), a scat-like form of gibberish. The songs "Andvari", "Gong" and "Mílanó" are sung entirely in Vonlenska. Moreover, the song "Mílanó" was written together with the string quartet Amiina.

Rhythmically, Takk... makes extensive use of changing time signatures. In the track "Andvari" for example, the main melody repeats itself every 27 beats, with stress on beats 1, 5, 9, 11, 16, 20 and 25. This could be rendered as seven bars of 4, 4, 2, 5, 4, 5 and 3 beats respectively. Against this there is a steady counter-rhythm of triple time, which could be rendered as eighteen bars of 3/8 time per 27-beat cycle, also known as a phrase.

Release and promotion
"Glósóli" and "Sæglópur" were released on 15 and 16 August 2005 as the first and second singles respectively, the former worldwide and the latter only in the United States. "Hoppípolla" was released in the UK on 28 November 2005 as the third single. It peaked at number 24 on the UK Singles Chart in May 2006. All three singles were accompanied by a music video.

1,000 copies of Takk... on vinyl were manufactured and arrived in UK and US stores as of January 2006. It is composed of a gatefold sleeve housing two 12 inch records, with a single die cut page that houses a 10-inch record with a design by Olivia De Bartha etched on one side.

An extended Sæglópur EP was released, featuring three new songs. The EP also included a DVD with all three music videos.

Critical reception
Sigur Rós received three awards at the Icelandic Music Awards in 2006: Best Album Design (along with Ísak Winther, Alex Somers and Lukka Sigurðardóttir), Best Alternative Act and Best Rock Album for Takk.... In December 2005, American webzine Somewhere Cold ranked Takk... No. 4 on their 2005 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame list.

Media usage
The BBC has frequently used tracks from Takk... in its programmes. "Hoppípolla" was used as the backing music to trailers for the highly acclaimed nature series Planet Earth and for the end credits of Match of the Day broadcasting the FA Cup Final. "Sæglópur" has been used as a backing tune for the BBC's advertising campaign for the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, while snips of "Sæglópur", "Milanó", "Gong", and "Svo hljótt" appeared in Top Gear. "Sæglópur" was also notably used in Ubisoft's Prince of Persia E3 2008 gameplay debut trailer as well as their televised commercials for the game. The FIA also used "Hoppípolla" at the end of their review for the Formula One Season, aired during the 2009 FIA Gala.

"Hoppípolla" has also been used in multiple films such as the end of We Bought a Zoo, the end of Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, and during the closing credits of Penelope. Instrumental versions of "Hoppípolla" and "Inní mér syngur vitleysingur" (off the band's 2008 album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust) were featured back-to-back during the closing scenes of The Mitchells vs. the Machines.

In 2009, British electronic music artist Chicane produced a progressive trance remix of "Hoppípolla", titled "Poppiholla", which was on rotation on BBC Radio 1's B list in June 2009.

Track listing
On vinyl, "Milanó" is featured on the single-sided 10" included with the set and is labelled as the final side, effectively moving "Milanó" to the end of the album, after "Heysátan" (indicated by the label which has the album's last tracks on side 2B but features "Milanó" on side 3A. Also on the inside of the sleeve. The track listing has "Milanó" on its original place).

Personnel
Credits adapted from the band's official website.

Sigur Rós
 * Sigur Rós – production, composition, cover design
 * Jón Þór Birgisson – vocals, guitar
 * Kjartan Sveinsson – keyboards
 * Georg Hólm – bass guitar
 * Orri Páll Dýrason – drums

Additional musicians
 * Amiina – strings, string arrangement (track 7)
 * Kristín Lárusdóttir – cello
 * Júlía Mogensen – cello
 * Stefanía Ólafsdóttir – violas
 * Eyjólfur Bjarni Alfreðsson – violas
 * Ingrid Karlsdóttir – violins
 * Greta Salóme Stefánsdóttir – violins
 * Matthías Stefánsson – violins
 * Ólöf Júlía Kjartansdóttir – violins
 * Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson – trumpets
 * Snorri Sigurðarson – trumpets
 * Helgi Hrafn Jónsson – trombones
 * Samúel Jón Samúelsson – trombones
 * Össur Geirsson – tuba
 * Frank Aarnink – percussion
 * Álafosskórinn – choir (track 3)

Additional personnel
 * Kenneth Vaughan Thomas – engineering, mixing, co-production
 * Birgir Jón Birgisson – additional engineering
 * Ted Jensen – mastering
 * Ísak Winther – cover design
 * Alex Somers – cover design
 * Lukka Sigurðardóttir – cover design

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User:KarlMerson

Toronto-based composer. Developed otherworld music and the navigatable soundscape in 2002. Also heads a band, Villain Decor, and a media label, Quixotic.

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North Atlantic Squadron

The North Atlantic Squadron was a section of the United States Navy operating in the North Atlantic. It was renamed as the North Atlantic Fleet in 1902. In 1905 the European and South Atlantic squadrons were abolished and absorbed into the North Atlantic Fleet. On 1 January 1906, the Navy's Atlantic Fleet was established by combining the North Atlantic Fleet with the South Atlantic Squadron.

North Atlantic Squadron

 * Commodore/Rear Admiral James S. Palmer 1 November 1865 – 7 December 1867
 * Rear Admiral Henry K. Hoff 22 February 1868 – 19 August 1869
 * Rear Admiral Charles H. Poor 19 August 1869 – 9 June 1870
 * Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee June 1870 – May 1873
 * Rear Admiral Gustavus H. Scott May 1873 – 13 June 1874
 * Rear Admiral James Robert Madison Mullany 13 June 1874 – January 1876
 * Rear Admiral William E. Le Roy January 1876 – September 1876
 * Rear Admiral Stephen Decatur Trenchard September 1876 – September 1878
 * Rear Admiral John C. Howell September 1878 – January 1879
 * Rear Admiral Robert H. Wyman January 1879 – 1 May 1882
 * Rear Admiral George H. Cooper 1 May 1882 – 19 June 1884
 * Commodore Stephen B. Luce 26 June 1884 – 20 September 1884
 * Rear Admiral James E. Jouett 20 September 1884 – June 1886
 * Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce 18 June 1886 – 28 January 1889
 * Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi 28 January 1889 – 10 September 1892
 * Rear Admiral John G. Walker 10 September 1892 – June 1893
 * Rear Admiral Andrew E. K. Benham June 1893 – April 1894
 * Rear Admiral Richard W. Meade III April 1894 – May 1895
 * Commodore Francis M. Bunce 2 June 1895 – 1 May 1897
 * Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard 1 May 1897 – 28 March 1898
 * Rear Admiral William T. Sampson 28 March 1898 – October 1899
 * Rear Admiral Norman H. Farquhar October 1899 – 1 May 1901
 * Rear Admiral Francis J. Higginson 1 May 1901 – 29 December 1902

North Atlantic Fleet

 * Rear Admiral Francis J. Higginson 29 December 1902 – July 1903
 * Rear Admiral Albert S. Barker July 1903 – March 1905
 * Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans March 1905 – 1 January 1906

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User talk:Joedonno

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Muskoday First Nation

The Muskoday First Nation (ᒪᐢᑯᑌᐤ, maskotêw, formerly the John Smith First Nation) is a First Nation band government in Saskatchewan, Canada, composed of Cree and Saulteaux peoples. The First Nation has a registered population of 1,828 people as of September 2014, of which approximately 623 members of the First Nation live on-reserve, and approximately 1204 live off-reserve. Muskoday's territory is located in the aspen parkland biome. It is bordered by the rural municipalities of Birch Hills No. 460 and Prince Albert No. 461.

Background
The First Nation's land was settled after Chief John Smith of a Cree and Saulteaux band who were originally from the Saint Peter's Reserve (this was near Selkirk, Manitoba and was dissolved, with the remainder of the band today comprising the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba) settled along the South Saskatchewan River in the 1870s. Chief Smith signed onto Treaty Six at Fort Carlton in 1876 making the settlement legally an Indian reserve.

The reserve and First Nation was initially named after their Chief John Smith, who was a brother of Chief James Smith, the founder of the James Smith First Nation. Also during the late 19th century, James Isbister served for a period as a farm instructor at Muskoday.

History

 * 1800s - Hereditary Chief, John Smith, settled along the South Saskatchewan River.
 * 1800s - Day school established.
 * 1860s - Farming established.
 * 1870s - Farming expands to include a 150 head cattle herd.
 * 1876 - August 19, John Smith signed Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton, resulting in the creation of the John Smith Indian Reserve.
 * early 1900s - First Church in Muskoday.
 * 1914 - 1918 - Loss of land claim in Candle Lake.
 * 1924 - Chief John Smith dies.
 * 1930s - First car on Muskoday (John Bird).
 * 1930s - First sports day.
 * 1951 - Permit established (Indian Act revised).
 * 1951 - First Government House.
 * Early 1960s - First Band office opened.
 * 1963 - Muskoday Band farm is developed.
 * 1967 - Gardiner Dam is constructed on Saskatchewan River.
 * 1967 - Opening of Muskoday kindergarten.
 * 1968 - Residential schools taken over by INAC.
 * 1968 - First color television in Muskoday (Napoleon Bear).
 * 1969 - The White Paper (amendment to Indian Act).
 * 1969 - Highway 3 is paved.
 * 1969 - First convenience store (Cecil Bear 1969-1976).
 * 1970 - Official opening of bridge.
 * 1971 - First Pow wow (located where the village is now).
 * 1972 - Telephone service into Muskoday.
 * 1973 - Running water service in Muskoday)
 * 1973 - First Pow wow arbor built (first in Canada).
 * 1976 - First Muskoday health clinic.
 * 1980 - First village established.
 * 1981 - Convenience store and gas station (David Knight until 1991).
 * 1982 - Saskatoon Tribal Council (STC) established.
 * 1984 - Fire Hall built (one of the first in Canada).
 * 1985 - Bill C-31.
 * 1987 - Official opening of Muskoday daycare.
 * 1989 - Official opening of Water Treatment Plant.
 * 1990 - Second Pow wow arbor built.
 * 1991 - Convenience store is Band owned.
 * 1993 - The John Smith/Muskoday Reserve have its name officially changed to Muskoday First Nation.
 * 1993 - First Muskoday official flag.
 * 1993 - Opening of Muskoday post office.
 * 1994-1997 - Convenience store in village (Louis Bear).
 * 1997 - Return to Buffalo (17 head) farming.
 * 1997 - Switch to Financial Transfer Agreement (FTA) from Alternate Funding Arrangement (AFA).
 * 1998 - Muskoday ratifies Land Code.
 * 1999 - First market garden.
 * 1999 - Restoration of trees.
 * 1999 - Cultural grounds established on Crossing Island.
 * 1999-2000 - Water piped from Prince Albert.
 * 2000 - Official opening of restaurant/café.
 * 2004 - Muskoday files TLE Land Claim.
 * 2004 - Muskoday Organic Growers Co-op formed.
 * 2006 - Official opening of Muskoday Community School.
 * 2007 - Muskoday ratifies TLE settlement.
 * 2008 - Comprehensive community-based planning group established.
 * 2009 - Third Pow wow arbor built.
 * 2009 - New church.
 * 2009 - Muskoday Community Plan developed by Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Dalhousie University.
 * 2013 - Muskoday's first Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) selections receive reserve status (Muskoday #99A and #99B).
 * 2013 - Co-hosted the 2013 Saskatchewan First Nation Summer Games with Birch Hills and Prince Albert.
 * 2015 - Muskoday awarded Vision in Planning Award from the Canadian Institute of Planners for its continued work on the Land Code and Land Use Plan.
 * 2015 - First Land Code community in Canada to successfully complete a land exchange with a neighboring municipality.
 * 2016 - Muskoday Trespass Law passed by Chief and Council.

During the 1970s, the John Smith First Nation became the Muskoday First Nation. During the same period as the First Nation's name change, a highway was completed through the reserve that linked the town of Birch Hills with Prince Albert. The Muskoday Bridge was then built over the South Saskatchewan River, which divides the reserve lands roughly in half. The original band office was built in July 1978.

Unlike many other Cree Nations in the area, in the 19th and 20th century the reserve was almost entirely Anglican, with no Roman Catholic influence. Traditional spirituality and practices remained strong, however. Today, the two church congregations serving the Muskoday First Nation are St. James Anglican Church and the Muskoday Baptist Church.

Governance
The Muskoday First Nation have an Act Electoral System for determining their elected leaders. The current leadership consists of Chief Ava Bear (Muskoday's first ever female Chief) and five councillors: Clayton Bear, Merle Crain, Beryl Bear, Tracy Bear and Delbert Bear. Their two-year elected term began on 2021.

The First Nation is affiliated with the Saskatoon Tribal Council, along with six other First Nations. The Saskatoon Tribal Council was established on February 23, 1982, as an institution to assist the individual and collective governments of the First Nations in the Saskatoon area. In their mission statement, the Saskatoon Tribal Council states that they strive "...to maintain the social, economic and political bases of the First Nations represented herein, including their rights to land, resources, culture, language, self-government and self-determination." The statement continues with "The Saskatoon Tribal Council is desirous of obtaining and achieving co-operation and understanding between First Nation and non-First Nation citizens within represented First Nation territories and with Canada generally."

Services
Muskoday First Nation government have several services made available to their peoples. In 1997 the First Nation designed a Land Code to manage its own lands, rather than have them managed by the federal Government of Canada. This led the way for further developing services available to its people. These services include a housing development affectionately known as "the village" by the community, water plant, community health center, administration building and band hall.

In 2005, the Muskoday First Nation completed the construction of its own Kindergarten to Grade 9 school. Other services include the Muskoday Awasis Daycare/Headstart Center, Muskoday Volunteer Fire Department and the Muskoday Development Corporation.

In addition to these government services, the community houses a gas bar, a convenience store, and a post office.

Reserve
The First Nation has reserved for itself the 9,686.8 hectares (23,936.6 acres) Muskoday First Nation Reserve (formerly the Muskoday 99 Indian Reserve), an Indian reserve located approximately 19 km southeast of the city of Prince Albert. The community of the Muskoday First Nation is located on this reserve at the following coordinates (53.08667°N, -105.52556°W).

Like many of the First Nations of Canada, Muskoday First Nation are engaged in ongoing discussions, agreements and lobby efforts with the federal Government of Canada; land ownership and entitlement are at the core in these efforts. At the time of the signing of Treaty 6, the incorrect amount of land was reserved for the Muskoday. This led to Muskoday First Nation to submit a Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) claim. The discrepancy was identified as 6,144 acres (2,486.4 hectares). The TLE claim was approved and on May 23, 2007, Muskoday members voted overwhelmingly to ratify the TLE settlement. The amount of the TLE will be approximately $10,300,000.00, which will be paid to Muskoday over a period of 5 years. To satisfy the conditions of the TLE claim process, Muskoday must purchase at least 6144 acre during that 5-year period.

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Ponte Preta

Ponte Preta can refer to:

 * Ponte Preta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazilian municipality
 * Associação Atlética Ponte Preta, Brazilian football team
 * Arena Ponte Preta
 * Ponte Preta Sumaré Futebol Clube, Brazilian football team

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Talk:Queen of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

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Why is Lewis Carroll denominated as a "mathematician" in this article?

 * Because he was a mathematics lecturer at Oxford for 26 years - it was his principle occupation. Apepper 11:31, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Can someone get a picture of the Queen of Hearts from the book (John Tenniel's illustration) and/or from the Disney cartoon? I think they would be more beneficial to the article than the current one of Miss Piggy as the QOH. I think both the original drawing and the Disney one are what most people remember.Rt66lt 17:24, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I've gotten one from the original book.Rt66lt 17:39, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

-In the 16 years since this request, has anyone attempted this?

John Tenniel inspiration for Queen of Hearts image
I've been told that Tenniel based his image of the Queen of Hearts on a stained glass window in Long Melford Church, Suffolk - I took a photograph of the window and this is below:

To my eyes, it is similar but can anyone provide a citation for this window being used? If so I'll add the image to the article.

Apepper 11:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

 * On a similar note, under the "Origins" section it says that Sir John Tenniel's illustration was "clearly" based on Queen Victoria, and that Dodgeson/Carroll intended it that way. I have no doubt that there are supposed to be overtones of Queen Victoria in there, but was it really Carroll's decision to make it so? I have no doubt that he had a say in what the illustrations should and should not depict, and which ones should appear in his books, but Tenniel was a celebrated satirist in his day, and I can't help thinking it was more his intention that adults should see the resemblance than Carroll's...

Not050 (talk)Not050Not050 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

I believe that under the "Origins" section that it should also be noted how the queen resembles the queen from the Queen of Hearts poem (the knave stole some tarts etc.). If I remember correctly, Alice quotes some of the poem during the trial in the first book. Pallid Sky (talk) 21:59, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Origins
We need a realible source for this addition:
 * The Queen probably symbolizes Queen Margaret of the House of Lancaster. During the Hundred Years’ War, also known as the War of the Roses, a red rose was the symbol of House Lancaster.  Their rivals, the House of York, had a white rose for their symbol.  This explains the gardeners' painting the white roses red.

I've seen several documentaries that liken the Queen of Hearts in the story to Queen Victoria, but I am unable to find any source (reliable or otherwise) that makes any connection to Queen Margaret. I agree the red and white roses in the story might be a reference to the War of the Roses, but I think we need a source before we start adding original research to the article.

Although I have heard/read about the Queen Victoria similarities, I've done some quick searching and haven't been able to find an online source to support this claim either.
 * The Queen is clearly a caricature of Queen Victoria, with elements of reality that Dodgson felt correctly would make her at once instantly recognisable to parents reading the story to children, and also fantastical enough to make her unrecognisable to children.

 * Her identity was hammered home for the purposes of popular culture in the 1966 live-action film, where she and the King of Hearts are portrayed without any attempt at fantasy, or disguise as to their true natures or personality.

I've temporarily changed the wording on the article page to be more neutral and to give other editors time to cite any sources they may have about either of these claims. If no reliable sources can be provided, I'm going to recommend that the entire section should be removed, lest we begin to invite editors to start adding every queen throughout history because "They both wore crowns" or "They both were married to a King", etc., etc. --- Crakkerjakk (talk) 01:21, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't know if this qualifies as 'a reliable source' but there is an article by CW Giles, Punch, August 15, 1928 comparing the Queen of Hearts to Queen Margaret (and the Alice books to the Wars of the Roses.) You can see the relevant section of the article here: http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/explain/alice808.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.193.214.128 (talk) 09:30, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Witch archetype
The character of the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts are both better described as archetypes. Don't see that word here at all. Sadly this understanding is not directly proposed at all in this page. Robert Bly has an excellent lecture on the witch energy, Baba Yaga, and presents an encounter between a male encountering a witch and how to survive it. It would best be used to describe archetypes and especially these feminine dark archetypes- found in women of course, but also the source of significant concern in men- the care and maintenance especially! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1C2:4E02:9580:D9D4:6281:CF46:6AD5 (talk) 07:51, 5 November 2021 (UTC)