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Royal Sussex County Hospital

The Royal Sussex County Hospital is an acute teaching hospital in Brighton, England. Together with the Princess Royal Hospital, it is administered by the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. The services provided at the hospital include an emergency department, cancer services at the Sussex Cancer Centre, cardiac surgery, maternity services, and both adult and neonatal intensive care units. The hospital is served by Brighton & Hove bus routes 1, 7, 14B, 14C, 23, 27C, 71, 73 and 94A.

History
The main building was designed by Charles Barry, who was later architect for the Houses of Parliament, and is still called the Barry Building. The foundation stone was laid by the Earl of Egremont on 16 March 1826, and the hospital was opened as the Sussex County Hospital on 11 June 1828. The Victoria Wing was added in 1839, and the Adelaide Wing was opened in 1841. The Sussex County Hospital became the Royal Sussex County Hospital in about 1911.

On New Year's Day 1872, a fire broke out on the top floor of the Adelaide Wing of the hospital, in Ward 6. Initially this fire threatened to destroy the building, but the efforts of volunteer firefighters and a detachment of the 19th Hussars saved the building.

The Jubilee Building was added to the hospital in 1887 and the Sussex Eye Hospital (one of local architect John Leopold Denman's many Neo-Georgian buildings) opened in 1935.

The main and tallest building of the hospital, the Thomas Kemp Tower, started construction in the late 1960s, reaching 15 floors at a height of 58.9 m.

In October 1984, after the Provisional IRA bombed the Grand Hotel where members of the Government were staying during the Conservative Party annual conference, the hospital received many of the injured.

In 2005 an episode of the BBC investigative programme Panorama featured secretly filmed material taken by a nurse and an undercover journalist. The programme highlighted serious failings in the standards of care and procedures and showed scenes that were described by the Chief Executive of the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, which was responsible for the hospital, as "very disturbing images".

The Millennium Building was completed in 2000 and the Audrey Emerton Building, built to accommodate clinical medical students of Brighton and Sussex Medical School, was opened by Baroness Emerton in 2005. In 2009 there was a proposal to demolish the Barry and Jubilee buildings as part of a £300m redevelopment scheme. On 1 May 2014, £420 million of public investment was approved for redevelopment works starting in late 2014 and expected to last until 2024.

2020s Redevelopment
In the early 2020s, the 3Ts Redevelopment began at the hospital, which is a three-stage project that is replacing all of the buildings on the front half of the hospital, some of which are almost 200 years old. The three Ts stand for trauma, teaching and tertiary care. It was expected to cost £485 million when it was approved, but by 2021 was significantly delayed and over budget. The whole project is expected to be completed by 2026.

In the old buildings' place will be two brand new clinical buildings, which will cover around 40 new wards and departments. The Stage 1 building is the first of the two, and covers 13 floors, 11 of which are above ground.

Stage 2 will be a new cancer centre, and Stage 3 will be a new service yard.

The project is being carried out in three stages to ensure that all clinical service can continue to run during construction. work is currently on Stage 1 and the helideck. According to BSUH, there is about a year to go until Stage 1 of the redevelopment is complete.

The 11-storey Louisa Martindale Building opened to patients on 12 June 2023, at a cost of £485 million. The building is named after Louisa Martindale, a physician, surgeon and writer who worked in Brighton. In 2024 the building won two awards at the European Healthcare Design Awards, winning the 'Healthcare Design' category and the 'Interior Design and Arts' award.

In June 2023 it was announced that demolition of the 195-year-old Barry Building, thought to be the oldest acute hospital building still in use in England, would take place in 2024. The demolition and clearing of the site was begun in February 2024 and well under way by April.

Helideck
Stage 1 is also providing a much needed helideck for air ambulances on top of the Thomas Kemp Tower, from which the most severe patients can be taken directly to A&E via a dedicated lift. Air ambulances taking patients to the hospital currently have to land at East Brighton Park, almost a mile away.

The helideck was originally expected to be in use by 2019, but it still hasn't been used. The first delays were due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but now is due to fears that helicopters may blow the cladding off the hospital's walls. Plans to launch it in November 2022 were shelved after surveys found aircraft could damage the tower it sits on.

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Livadia

Livadia can refer to:

Crimea

 * Livadiya, Crimea (Лівадія or Ливадия), a suburb of Yalta, Crimea

Cyprus

 * Livadia, Famagusta, a village in Cyprus
 * Livadia, Larnaca, a village in Cyprus
 * Livadia, Nicosia, a village in Cyprus

Greece

 * Livadeia (Λιβαδειά), a city in Boeotia, Greece
 * Livadia, Andros, a village on the island of Andros
 * Livadia, Astypalaia, a settlement on the island of Astypalaia
 * Livadia, Kilkis (Λιβάδια), a community in Kilkis regional unit, Greece
 * Livadia, Paros, a settlement on the island of Paros
 * Livadia, Rethymno (Λιβάδια), a community in Rethymno regional unit, Greece
 * Livadia, Tilos, a settlement on the island of Tilos

Romania

 * Livadia, a village in Baru Commune, Hunedoara County, Romania
 * Livadia, a village in the town of Băile Olănești, Vâlcea County, Romania

Russia

 * Livadiya, Primorsky Krai, a suburb of Nakhodka, Russia, near Mount Livadiyskaya
 * Livadia Range in the Sikhote-Alin mountains in the Russian Far East
 * Mount Livadiyskaya in the Sikhote-Alin mountains in the Russian Far East

Buildings

 * Livadia Palace, Livadia, Crimea

Ships

 * RUSSIAN YACHT Livadia, a Russian yacht completed in 1873 and wrecked in 1878
 * RUSSIAN YACHT Livadia, a Russian yacht completed in 1880 and written off in 1926

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List of Xbox network games

This is a list of network games on the Xbox video game console. It includes Online Multiplayer titles as well as System link enabled games, which can be played by connecting multiple Xbox systems together locally.

After Microsoft's termination of the original Xbox Live service on April 15, 2010, the majority of the game titles remain virtually playable, but their online connectivity and functionality were rendered defunct, even after some of them were re-released digitally. However, Insignia, a replacement online service for the original Xbox, allows players to continue to play Xbox Live titles online, bringing back online functionality and features to currently supported games.

Many of the game titles that were released later had updates, which added features that were not initially supported on retail copies of the games.

Some games (notably all games published by EA) ran on custom separate servers.

Basic Features
Online Multiplayer: Create, join, and spectate matches with other players.

Content Download: Additional updates, maps, missions, modes, or characters are available to download via Xbox Live.

Scoreboards: Measure your performance against other players with global leaderboards.

Friends: View, invite, and manage your list of Xbox Live friends.

Voice: Communicate with other players using in-game voice chat.

System Link: Connect multiple Xbox consoles together to play over a local network connection.

Additional Features
Clans: Create organised player groups in-game, with a clan tag for easy identification.

Competitions: Join and create tournaments directly through the in-game Xbox Live menu.

Xbox Live Aware: Receive invitations and view Xbox Live friends, even when playing single player modes.

XSN: Xbox Sports Network, a service for Microsoft-developed sports titles that allows for web-based player tournaments and stats.

Released Games
This list contains games

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Eugene Kaspersky

Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky (Russian: Евгений Валентинович Касперский; born 4 October 1965) is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees. He co-founded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research. He has been an advocate for an international treaty prohibiting cyberwarfare.

Kaspersky graduated from The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School in 1987 with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. His interest in IT security began when his work computer was infected with the Cascade virus in 1989 and he developed a program to remove it. Kaspersky helped grow Kaspersky Lab through security research and salesmanship. He became the CEO in 2007 and remains so as of 2024.

Early life
Kaspersky was born on 4 October 1965 in Novorossiysk, Soviet Union. He grew up near Moscow, where he moved at age nine. His father was an engineer and his mother a historical archivist. As a child he developed an early interest in math and technology. He spent his free time reading math books and won second place in a math competition at age 14. When he was fourteen, Kaspersky began attending A.N. Kolmogorov boarding school, which is run by Moscow University and specializes in math. He was also a member of the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

At the age of 16, Kaspersky entered a five-year program with The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School, which prepared intelligence officers for the Russian military and KGB. He graduated in 1987 with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. After graduating college, Kaspersky served the Soviet military intelligence service as a software engineer. He met his first wife Natalya Kaspersky at Severskoye, a KGB vacation resort, in 1987.

Origins
Kaspersky's interest in IT security began in 1989, when his PC was infected by the Cascade virus, while working for the Ministry of Defence. He studied how the virus worked and developed a program to remove it. Afterwards he continually found new viruses and developed software to remove them, as a hobby. Early on Kaspersky's anti-virus software had just 40 virus definitions and was distributed mostly to friends.

In 1991, Kaspersky was granted an early release from his military service and left the defense ministry to take a job at the Information Technology Center of a private company KAMI, in order to work on his antivirus product full-time. There, he and his colleagues improved the software and released it as a product called Antiviral Toolkit Pro in 1992. At first the software was purchased by about ten clients per month. It earned about $100 per month, mostly from companies in Ukraine and Russia. Kaspersky's then-future wife Natalya Kaspersky became his coworker at KAMI.

In 1994, Hamburg University in Germany gave Kaspersky's software first place in a competitive analysis of antivirus software. This led to more business for Kaspersky from European and American companies. Kaspersky Lab was founded three years later by Kaspersky, his wife and Kaspersky's friend Alexey De-Monderik. Natalya, who pushed Eugene to start the company, was the CEO, while Eugene was the head of research. The following year, the CIH virus (AKA the Chernobyl virus) created a boon for Kaspersky's anti-virus products, which Kaspersky said was the only software at the time that could cleanse the virus. According to Wired, "their software was advanced for the time." For example, it was the first software to monitor viruses in an isolated quarantine.

Kaspersky's company grew quickly in the late 1990s. From 1998 to 2000, its annual revenue grew 280 percent and by 2000 almost sixty percent of revenues were international. By 2000, it had a staff of 65 people, starting from 13 in 1997. The antivirus product was renamed to Kaspersky Antivirus in 2000, after an American company started using the product's original name, which wasn't trademarked.

Threat discoveries
As the head of research, Kaspersky authored papers on viruses and went to conferences to promote the software. He was often quoted in the technology press as an antivirus expert. He helped establish the company's Global Research and Expert Analysis Team (GReAT), which helps corporations and governments investigate IT security threats. Initially he told his team not to discuss cyber-terrorism publicly, to avoid giving governments ideas on how to sabotage their political opponents. After the American film Live Free or Die Hard (AKA Die Hard 4.0) (2007) was released, Kaspersky said the idea was now public. He hired the researcher that identified the Stuxnet worm, which is believed to be the first instance of state-sponsored cyberweapon. Afterwards, the company exposed the Flame virus at the request of the International Telecommunication Union. The virus was believed to have been used for cyber-espionage in Middle-Eastern countries.

Kaspersky Lab developed a reputation for discovering cybersecurity threats. In 2015 Kaspersky and Kaspersky Lab discovered a group of hackers known as Carbanak that were stealing money from banks. They also exposed Equation Group, which developed advanced spyware for monitoring computer use and was believed to be affiliated with the National Security Agency in the U.S. According to The Economist, it was these discoveries, Kaspersky's "relentless salesmanship" and the company's anti-virus product that made Kaspersky Lab uncommon as an internationally recognized Russian company.

CEO
Kaspersky became CEO of Kaspersky Lab in 2007. According to a 2008 article in USA Today, he traveled to 20 to 30 countries per year promoting Kaspersky Lab products. In early 2009, CRN said his personality contributed to the company's growth from "relative obscurity to now nipping at the heels of its larger, better-known rivals." At the time, Kaspersky Lab was the fourth largest endpoint security company. It introduced new products for the enterprise market and expanded its channel programs.

In 2011, Kaspersky made a decision against taking the company public, saying it would make decision-making slow and prevent long-term R&D investments. This led to a series of high-level departures from the company, including his ex-wife and co-founder. Another series of departures occurred in 2014 due to disagreements over how to run the company.

Kaspersky Lab has defended itself against allegedly frivolous patent claims more aggressively than most IT companies. In 2012, it was the only one of 35 firms named in a suit by patent troll Information Protection and Authentication (IPAC) to take the case to court, rather than pay a fee. The case was ruled in Kaspersky's favor. Also in 2012, another company, Lodsys, sued Kaspersky and 54 other companies for patent infringement, and that case also resulted in the claimant dropping the case against Kaspersky. According to an article in TechWorld, the company's aversion to settling these claims is most likely because Eugene "just hates" patent trolls. In his blog he called them "parasites" and "IT racketeers."

Kaspersky himself is the co-author of several patents, including one for a constraint-and-attribute-based security system for controlling software component interaction.

As of 2015, Kaspersky Lab employed more than 2,800 people. As of 2012, Kaspersky was working on developing software to protect critical infrastructure, like power plants, from cyberwarfare.

Views
Kaspersky is influential among politicians and security experts. He has warned about the possibility of cyberwarfare that targets critical infrastructure. He speaks at conferences advocating for an international cyberwarfare treaty, that would ban government-sponsored cyberattacks.

After the Stuxnet attack, Kaspersky proposed that the Internet needed more regulation and policing. One idea was to have some parts of the Internet anonymous, while more secure areas require user identification. He argued that anonymity mostly benefited cybercriminals and hackers. For example, accessing a nuclear power plant network could require a verified identity through a digital passport.

Kaspersky said anonymity on the Internet could be protected by using a proxy, whereby a responsible international body maintains a record of which online identities correspond to which real-world ones. For example, a person's identity would be revealed in cases of malicious activity. Some security experts believe that a centralized database of the real-world identities of Internet users would be "a privacy disaster and a highly attractive target for thieves." The Age said it "sounds a little too close for comfort to a Big Brother scenario" and Wired said Kaspersky's views were highly aligned with the Russian government's agenda. In 2012, Kaspersky ranked 40th in the Foreign Policy magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers yearly rating.

Many organizations have been considering reducing privacy to improve security as a result of Kaspersky's arguments. In a more recent Slashdot interview Kaspersky said the Internet should be divided into three zones: a red zone for voting, online banking, and other "critical transactions" that would require an Internet ID; a grey zone that may require only verification of age to access the site, but not identity; and a green zone for blogs, news, and "everything related to your freedom of speech." He proposes "special proxies" for red zone websites that allow disclosure of the user's identity only in the case of suspected malfeasance.

Affiliations with Russian intelligence
Kaspersky's prior work for the Russian military and his education at a KGB-sponsored technical college has led to controversy about whether he uses his position to advance Russian government interests and intelligence efforts.

Wired said Kaspersky's critics accuse him of using the company to spy on users for Russian intelligence. Russian telecommunications companies for example are required by federal law in Russia to cooperate with the government's military and spy operations if asked. Kaspersky said his company has never been asked to tamper with its software for espionage and called the accusations "cold war paranoia." According to Wired, Kaspersky staffers argue "not unconvincingly" that spying on users would hurt its business and its relationship with the Russian FSB, the KGB's successor, is limited. According to Gartner, "There's no evidence that they have any back doors in their software or any ties to the Russian mafia or state... but there is still a concern that you can’t operate in Russia without being controlled by the ruling party.” Computing mocked some of the more extreme accusations of espionage, but said it would be unlikely for a Russian business to grow to the size of Kaspersky Lab without relationships within the Russian government. NPR journalists also said it was unlikely Kaspersky was using its software for espionage, because it would be risky for the company's business, but said Kaspersky showed an unusual disinterest in Russia-based cybercrime.

In August 2015, Bloomberg reported that Kaspersky Lab changed course in 2012. According to the publication, "high-level managers have left or been fired, their jobs often filled by people with closer ties to Russia’s military or intelligence services. Some of these people actively aid criminal investigations by the FSB using data from some of the 400 million customers". Bloomberg and The New York Times also said Kaspersky was less aggressive about identifying cyberattacks originating from Russia than from other countries, allegations Kaspersky refutes. For example, he allegedly ignored or downplayed a series of denial-of-service attacks in December 2011 that were made to disrupt online discussion criticizing Russian politicians. Kaspersky also allegedly ignored a Russian-based spyware called Sofacy, which is believed to have been used by Russia against NATO and Eastern Europe. On the other hand, Kaspersky also published information on the Russia-based Crouching Yeti cyberattacks two days before Bloomberg accused him of ignoring Russia-based cyberattacks. At the time, the company had published eleven reports on malicious Russian programs. Competitor FireEye said it is awkward even in the U.S. to investigate cybercrimes performed by one's own government.

A March 2015 article in Bloomberg said an increasing number of executive staff at Kaspersky Lab previously worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies. According to News & Observer, Kaspersky "published a mammoth response, tearing down Bloomberg's accusations and accusing them of throwing facts out the window for the sake of a juicy anti-Russian narrative." Competitor FireEye said many U.S. IT companies also have executives that formerly worked for government military and intelligence agencies. NPR reported that Kaspersky has been doing an increasing amount of business with Russian cybersecurity agencies to catch cybercriminals. Kaspersky confirmed that Russian agencies are among its government customers.

In May 2017, the allegations resurfaced when US National Security Agency (NSA) director Mike Rogers told a US Senate Intelligence committee that the NSA was reviewing the US government's use of Kaspersky software for fear it would allow Russian intelligence services to conduct spy operations or launch cyber attacks against American digital infrastructure. ABC reported that the Department of Homeland Security had issued a secret report in February on possible connections between Kaspersky Lab and Russian intelligence, and that the FBI was currently investigating the matter. According to Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) director Vincent Stewart, his agency is "tracking Kaspersky and their software." In a press release, Eugene Kaspersky denied that his software is currently, or could be, used for such purposes, stating that "As a private company, Kaspersky Lab has no ties to any government, and the company has never helped, nor will help, any government in the world with its cyber-espionage efforts." He also stated that the US does not want to use his company's software for political reasons, and called the allegations "unfounded conspiracy theories."

Alleging connections to Russian intelligence, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2017 banned Kaspersky's main antivirus product from U.S. federal networks. In 2024 the U.S. Commerce Department announced that "Kaspersky will generally no longer be able to, among other activities, sell its software within the United States or provide updates to software already in use."

Kaspersky is one of many Russian "oligarchs" named in the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, CAATSA, signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017.

Anti-virus spoofing
In August 2015, two former Kaspersky employees alleged that the company introduced modified files into the VirusTotal community anti-virus database to trick its rivals' programs into triggering false positives. The result of the false positives was that important uninfected files would be disabled or deleted. The allegations also claimed that Kaspersky himself had ordered some of the actions, specifically targeting competitors, including Chinese companies he felt were copying his software. Emails dated 2009, two years after Kaspersky became CEO, were allegedly leaked to Reuters, one of which allegedly had Kaspersky threatening to go after competitors by "rubbing them out in the outhouse," using a phrase popularized by Vladimir Putin. The company denied the allegations.

Forbes ranking
Kaspersky was ranked #1,567 on Forbes' "Billionaires List 2017" with a net worth of US$1.3 billion (as of March 2017). He first made the list in 2015 when his net worth reached US$1 billion.

Awards

 * National Friendship Award of China

 * CEO of the Year, SC Magazine Europe - 2010

 * Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, Virus Bulletin

 * Strategic Brand Leadership Award, World Brand Congress

 * Most Powerful Security Executive, SYS-CON Media

 * Businessman of the Year, American Chamber of Commerce in Russia — 2011

 * Outstanding Contribution to Business Award, CEO Middle

 * Technology Hero of the Year, V3 — 2012

 * Top-100 Global Thinker, Foreign Policy Magazine — 2012

 * Top-100 IT executives, CRN.
 * Global High-Tech Award, Armenia - 2015

Personal life
Kaspersky lives in Moscow, Russia with his wife and five children. He and his first wife were divorced in 1998. On 21 April 2011, his son, Ivan, then 20, was kidnapped for a $4.4 million ransom. Kaspersky worked with a friend at the FSB and Russian police to trace the ransomer's phone call. They set up a trap for the ransomers, where they rescued his son and arrested many of the kidnappers. The incident had an influence on Kaspersky's sense of personal security. He now travels with a bodyguard and security detail.

Kaspersky is one of the richest people in Russia. His net worth is about $1 billion. According to Wired, he has "cultivated the image of a wild man with cash to burn." He has an interest in racing and drives his sports cars on race tracks as a hobby. He sponsors various "quirky or scientific projects" such as the Ferrari Formula One racing team or archaeological excavations in Akrotiri (prehistoric city). Kaspersky owns a BMW M3. Kaspersky describes himself as an "adrenaline junkie." He has gone hiking on volcanoes in Russia and reserved a trip to space on the Virgin Galactic. He travels often and writes about his experiences in his personal blog. He also enjoys photography as a hobby.

Kaspersky is known for shunning formal attire, typically dressing in jeans and a shirt. He supports university projects and competitions in the IT security field.

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Cologne Zoological Garden

The Aktiengesellschaft Cologne Zoological Garden is the zoo of Cologne, Germany. Being the third oldest zoo in Germany, it features over 10,000 animals of more than 850 species on more than 20 hectares. The internationally renowned zoo with an attached aquarium and invertebrate exhibit is active in preservational breeding of animals that are in danger of becoming extinct. In addition, in-the-wild conservation efforts and research focussing on animals of Madagascar, Wallacea, and Vietnam are actively promoted and supported via cooperation with Cologne University and local projects, such as in the case of Przewalski's horses.

History
The zoo was founded in 1860 by a shareholding company organized by local citizens, with biologist Heinrich Bodinus appointed as the first director (who would later become a director of the Berlin Zoological Garden). The animal enclosures being built at the time were recognized by their ornate, detailed building designs, with the most notable being the elephant house (designed to resemble a Moorish temple), the bird house (designed to resemble a Russian cathedral), the sea lion pool, and the cattle and ox houses (designed to resemble Swiss log cabins). Carl Hagenbeck's enclosure design also influenced the layout of the zoo, as interpreted by naturalistic looking baboon and polar bear rockwork exhibits built around 1914.

Initially, the zoo's financial track was a successful start, but the World Wars in Germany resulted in phases of stagnation. World War I and the Great Depression resulted in economic losses and development slowdown, and many animals suffered from a lack of food supply. Shortly after World War II the zoo had to close for two years entirely, after being heavily destroyed.

After reopening in 1947, the zoo saw a wave of modernization and renovation of its old exhibits. In 1960, the existing area expanded from 11 to 18.8 hectares and the first education center in a European zoo three years later. From 1981 to 2012, several new exhibits considered revolutionary were constructed including a great ape tropical house (1985), Southeast Asian rainforest house (2000), open-air Asian elephant enclosure, and West African-themed hippo and crocodile house (2010), as well the development of a Friends of the Zoo Organization (Freunde des Kölner Zoos e. V.) in 1982 and the launch of the first European Endangered Species Programme in 1985.

Primates
The great ape jungle house (Urwaldhaus) opened in 1985 as one of the first immersion exhibits in Europe. The enclosures mainly consist of swinging ropes, climbing bars, and various tropical plants to provide enrichment for the animals. Species housed include western lowland gorilla, orangutan, bonobo, pygmy marmoset, king colobus, and lion-tailed macaque.

The baboon rock, which opened in 1914, houses a troop of hamadryas baboons. The enclosure is a rocky island surrounded by a deep moat. The daily feeding of the baboons is very popular with visitors.

The bird house which was built at the time of the zoo's founding now houses South American monkey species including red howler and golden lion tamarin.

Rainforest Hall
Opened in 2000, this building houses animals native to the rainforests of Southeast Asia. The free-flight aviary in the exhibit includes palm cockatoo, blue-faced honeyeater, Bali mynah, fairy bluebird, wrinkled hornbill, Black-naped fruit dove, Palawan peacock-pheasant, green peafowl, sailfin lizard, Southern crowned pigeon, and reticulated python. Other animals include small-clawed otters, northern Luzon giant cloud rats, and lar gibbons.

Pachyderms
The new Asian elephant park opened in 2004 to replace the old elephant and antelope house. Since its inception, the zoo has had successes in elephant breeding, with the latest calf being born in 2020.

The hippo and crocodile house Hippodom, which opened in 2010, has common hippopotamuses, sitatunga antelopes, and Nile crocodiles as the main attractions. Other species housed include aardvarks, Rodrigues' flying foxes, hamerkops, hadada ibises, cattle egrets, and grey parrots.

Aquarium
Opened in 1971, the aquarium is located outside the main zoo grounds and is home to the majority of the zoo's amphibian, reptile, fish, and invertebrate collection. The most notable features include an insectarium, a coral reef tank, a Lake Tanganyika cichlid tank, a Philippine crocodile exhibit, and a Rhine panorama tank with various native fishes.

Incidents
In 1969, the zoo sought to acquire two young mountain gorillas, Coco and Pucker, from Rwanda. The capture of these gorillas caused the deaths of 20 adult gorillas, who tried to defend them. Dian Fossey tried unsuccessfully to prevent the export. They later died in 1978.

On October 10, 1985, male chimp Petermann and female chimp Susi escaped from their cage. They knocked down a zookeeper and attacked director Dr. Gunther Nogge, lifethreateningly injuring him by biting his head and his face. Subsequently, both were shot by the police; Petermann within the area of the zoo, Susi nearby, in the basement of a neighbouring house.

On March 6, 2012, a cheetah escaped its enclosure by jumping out of it. After strolling around the flamingo lake for 20 minutes, it returned to its enclosure by itself.

On May 25, 2012, the female Asian elephant Chumpol, who was imported from Thailand, was killed while in a socialization conflict with other members of the existing elephant herd.

On August 25, 2012, the Siberian tiger Altai attacked his zookeeper and fatally injured her. The animal had entered through an open security lock into a covered part of his enclosure, which the zookeeper was cleaning. The cat was shot by director Theo Pagel with a rifle to allow rescue workers access to the carer.

On March 15, 2022, a fire broke out in the Southeast Asian rainforest house, killing at least 130 animals.

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Brachypodium pinnatum

Brachypodium pinnatum, the heath false brome or tor-grass, is a species of grass with a widespread distribution in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It typically grows in calcareous grassland, and reaches 70 – tall. The flowerhead is open, with 10 to 15 erect spikelets.

Distribution
The plant can be found in such US states as California, Massachusetts, and Oregon.

Ecology
The caterpillars of some Lepidoptera use it as a food plant, e.g. the Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola). It is also one of the most important host grasses for Auchenorrhyncha in central Europe.

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Friedrich Adler (artist)

Friedrich Adler (29 April 1878 – c. 11 July 1942) was a Jewish-German artist, designer and academic. He was renowned for his accomplishments in designing metalwork in the Art Nouveau and Art deco styles; he was also the first designer to use bakelite. He designed using a wide variety of objects and materials.

Biography
Adler was born on 29 April 1878 in Laupheim, Germany to parents Karoline Frieda Sommer and pastry shop owner Isidor Adler. His birthplace is now the Café Hermes, an Art nouveau building in the style of the late Italian Renaissance. From 1894 to 1898 he studied at the Munich School of Applied Arts (now known as Academy of Fine Arts, Munich). In 1902, Adler decided to undertake a second degree at the new teaching and research institute for applied and free art called Debschitz School studying under Wilhelm von Debschitz and the sculptor Hermann Obrist. By 1903, he was teaching stucco technology at the same Debschitz School.

From 1907 to 1914, and again from 1918 to 1933, he taught at the School for Applied Art in Hamburg (with a break in between for his military service during World War I).

He drew closer to the Jewish religion as well as Jewish iconography and art, as Nazism grew. He designed two stained glass windows for the synagogue in his hometown. In 1914, for the Cologne Werkbund exhibition he designed the interior of a Jewish house of worship.

After serving in World War I from 1914 until 1918, changes in Adler's design work occurred and he stopped working in the Art Nouveau style. In his later life he focused on batik and fabric printing, opening the, Adler Textildruckgesellschaft Hamburg (Adler Textile Printing Company Hamburg). In between, he also directed the mastery lessons in Nuremberg, and was busy designing pieces in applied art for over fifty clients.

Death and legacy
On 11 July 1942, Adler, who was Jewish, was deported to the extermination camp Auschwitz, where, judged too old to work, he was murdered soon afterwards. There is a stolperstein in his memory at his last place of employment in Hamburg.

In 1994, he was honored with a retrospective exhibition at Munich Stadtmuseum (Munich City Museum). Alder's work is included in the museum collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Personal life
In 1907, Adler married Bertha Haymann, who died of Spanish flu in 1918. With Bertha he had five children, one of which was artist Paul "Pollo" Wilhelm Adler (1915–1944) who was murdered at Auschwitz.

In 1920, Adler married a former student, Erika Fabisch, and together they had two children. In 1934, Erika Fabisch left with the children to Cyprus.

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Asterix and Cleopatra

Asterix and Cleopatra is the sixth book in the Asterix album series by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. It was first published in serial form in Pilote magazine, issues 215–257, in 1963.

Synopsis
The book begins with an argument between Cleopatra  Queen of hellenistic greek Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt , and Julius Caesar. As a triumphant invader, Caesar belittles the Egyptian people and suggests that Egypt, as a realm, is past its best. Infuriated, Cleopatra makes a wager with Caesar promising to build a new palace in Alexandria within three months. Cleopatra summons Edifis, who claims to be the best architect in Egypt. She promises Edifis that if he builds the palace on time he will be covered with gold; if he fails, he will be a meal for the sacred crocodiles.

Edifis responds to this assignment by enlisting the help of the Gauls, Asterix, Obelix, Getafix, and Dogmatix. Thanks to Getafix and his magic potion, the work goes forward on schedule, despite multiple attempts by Edifis's arch rival, Artifis, to sabotage the construction after Edifis says he doesn't want his help, claiming Artifis works people too hard. Artifis tells the workers to demand less whipping, which would slow construction. However Getafix gives the workers magic potion. Artifis bribes the stone-delivery man to throw his load away, before Obelix beats him up, causing him to reveal the truth, a henchman tries to lock the Gauls inside a pyramid, but Dogmatix helps them find their way out. He subsequently tries to frame the Gauls by sending a poisoned cake to Cleopatra, but Getafix makes an antidote enabling the Gauls to eat it, then cures the taster and claims eating too much rich food was giving him a bad stomach. Edifis is kidnapped and hidden in a sarcophagus in the house of Artifis, but Obelix frees him. Artifis and his henchman are forced to work on the palace, but without magic potion.

Just before the palace is due to be completed, Caesar intervenes by sending legions to try to arrest the Gauls, after he realises the three Gauls are in Egypt when a spy disguises himself as a worker, and sees the effects of the magic potion. The Gauls fight off the Roman soldiers, but the commanding officer proceeds to shell the building with his catapults. In desperation, Asterix and Dogmatix deliver the news to Cleopatra. A furious Cleopatra then hurries to the construction site to berate Caesar. Caesar's legions are ordered to fix the damage they caused (without any magic potion to help them) and the palace is successfully completed on time. Cleopatra wins her bet and covers Edifis with gold. Edifis and Artifis reconcile and agree to build pyramids together, and Cleopatra gives Getafix some papyrus manuscripts from the Library of Alexandria as a gift. The Gauls return, but Vitalstatistix criticises Obelix trying to give an Egyptian style point to menhirs.

Adaptations
Asterix and Cleopatra has been adapted for film twice: first as an animated 1968 film entitled Asterix and Cleopatra, and then as a live-action 2002 film called Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra.

An audiobook of Asterix and Cleopatra adapted by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge and narrated by Willie Rushton was released on Hodder and Stoughton's Hodder Children's Audio.

Relationship to other Asterix books
Obelix's dog, Dogmatix (Idéfix in the original French), is named for the first time in this story. It is also the first story in which Dogmatix takes a significant role (rescuing the heroes from a maze inside a Pyramid).

In most Asterix books, Obelix is not permitted to drink the Magic Potion, because he fell into a cauldron of Magic Potion in his childhood, resulting in a permanent effect, and Getafix fears that giving Obelix any more potion would have an unpredictable effect on him. However, in this book Getafix makes an exception due to an extraordinary requirement (the need to force open a solid stone door inside a pyramid which apparently even Obelix's regular level of strength is incapable of doing). Obelix notices no difference, but keeps asking for more potion in subsequent volumes.

The recurring pirate characters appear in this book, though on this occasion they sink their own ship rather than endure a fight with the Gauls. The captain's son Erix (seen in the previous book Asterix and the Banquet) is mentioned as having been left as a deposit to pay for the short-lived ship. After he and his crew have been forced to take jobs as galley slaves on Cleopatra's barge, the captain expresses the unusual determination to wreak revenge on the Gauls — in other books, he simply wishes never to encounter them again.

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Trigon (German band)

Trigon is a German-based fusion band, and their history is carved by the numerous changes in line-up which contributed to Trigon's creative potential, as the band draws heavily on jamming as a source for their music. The band has also become a regular attraction at various music festivals. These include the Art-Rock Festival, on the "ProgParade", several times on the Burg Herzberg Festival,  and at the Zappanale. Internationally, they were for example at the "BajaProg Festival" in Mexicali (Baja California, México) and at the Festival Crescendo near Bordeaux in France. In 2005 they accompanied Nektar at their European tour.

DVDs

 * Live 2007 (2007)

CDs
 Studio   Live
 * 2011 (2011)
 * Emergent (2005)
 * Continuum (2004)
 * Beschränkte Haftung (2000)
 * Nova (1990)
 * Burg Herzberg Festival 2004 (2004)
 * Burg Herzberg Festival 2003 (2003)
 * Burg Herzberg Festival 2002 (2002)

Soundtrack

 * Hunting Dragonflies (17. June 2005)
 * by Crimson Chain Productions

 * Sonderfahrt (August 2004)
 * "Bergfilm" of the TU Ilmenau

Sampler / remixes

 * Progstravaganza I-IX (14. June 2013)
 * CD to the book of eclipsed ROCK - Das Gesamtwerk der größten Rock-Acts (6. April 2013)
 * ProgSphere’s Progstravaganza Compilation of Awesomeness – Part 9 (16. February 2012)
 * Eclipsed - The Art Of Sysyphus Vol. 62 (2011)
 * Zappanale18 Retrospective (2008)
 * DVD and CD with extracts of some concerts at the Zappanale18 2007.

 * CRESCENDO Festival De Rock Progressive Live 2005 Et 2006 (2007)
 * DVD with extracts of some concerts of the years 2005 and 2006

 * Eclipsed - Music From Time And Space Vol. 14 (2005)
 * assorted [progrock-dt] related music vol. 1 (November 2004)
 * Sampler, which collects some in the [progrock-dt] represented bands.

 * Portals. Movements. Structures III (July 2004)
 * CD set arranged by Lew Fisher of the Progressive Music Society

 * 23rd Peter - Trigonometrie (February 2004)
 * "Based on samples from German prog rock band TRIGON, 23rd Peter gives weird lessons in electronic alchemy."

Games

 * CA_DMOilrig - The Oilrig, featuring "Trigon" (2001)
 * As a member of Chaotic Dreams and as a former member of Trigon, Kirk Erickson put a Trigon Title ("Dekadenz and corruption") in one of his Quake III maps.

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Ryszard Kaczorowski

Ryszard Kaczorowski, GCMG (26 November 1919 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish statesman. From 1989 to 1990, he served as the last President of Poland-in-exile. He succeeded Kazimierz Sabbat, and resigned his post following Poland's regaining independence from the Soviet sphere of influence and the election of Lech Wałęsa as the first democratically elected President of Poland since before the Second World War. He died on 10 April 2010 in the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, along with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and other senior government officials.

Life and career
Ryszard Kaczorowski was born on 26 November 1919, in a wooden house at 7 Mazowiecka Street in Piaski District of Białystok. The house stood at the intersection of Mazowiecka Street with the no longer existing Argentyńska Street., Białystok, Poland. His parents were Wacław Kaczorowski, of the Jelita Coat of Arms, and Jadwiga (née Sawicka). In 1920, when Białystok was overrun by Soviet forces during the Polish-Soviet War, it briefly served as headquarters of the Polish Revolutionary Committee headed by Julian Marchlewski, which attempted to declare the Polish Soviet Socialist Republic. The city again changed hands after the Battle of Białystok, when the city was liberated by the 1st Legions Infantry Division and 5th Legions' Infantry Regiment. The family witnessed certain dramatic results of the battle from a small wooden house typical at Argentyńska Street.

He completed his education at a school of commerce. He was also a Scouting instructor of a local branch of the Polish Scouting Association. Following the Invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II, he secretly recreated the scouting movement – which was banned by the Soviet authorities – and became a head of the Białystok banner of the Szare Szeregi. In 1940, he was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to death, which was later changed to ten years in a concentration camp in Kolyma. He remembered later:"On the third of May we organized a bonfire in the cell. And since we were on death row, we could not be punished any more, so the guard who opened the window and shouted 'quieter!' he hit a clay bowl we had on hand. The bowl splattered, the guard hid, and we sang so that I think the whole prison heard."

Following the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement of 1941, he was set free and enlisted in Anders' Army. After its evacuation from the Soviet Union, Kaczorowski joined the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, where he completed divisional secondary school. He fought in most major battles of the Polish 2nd Corps, including the Battle of Monte Cassino. After the war, he remained in the United Kingdom as a political emigrant. Following demobilisation, he completed an academic course in foreign trade at the Polytechnic Regent Street (later the University of Westminster). Until 1986, he worked in business as an accountant. From 1955-67, he was the Chief Scout, and, subsequently, President of the émigré Polish Scouting Union (ZHP). As such, he led the Polish delegation for the 1957 Jamboree.

Kaczorowski was also active in Polish political circles and a member of the National Council of Poland, a parliament-in-exile. In 1986, he was appointed the Minister for Home Affairs within the Polish government in exile. As the April Constitution of Poland of 1935 (the legal basis for the government) allowed the president to appoint his successor "in case the seat is emptied before the peace is settled", acting president in exile Kazimierz Sabbat named Kaczorowski as his successor in January 1988. Sabbat died suddenly on 19 July 1989 and Kaczorowski automatically succeeded him. He handed over the insignia of the presidential power of the Second Republic to President Lech Wałęsa on 22 December 1990, signifying both a recognition of the legitimacy of the government in exile and its continuity with the Third Polish Republic.

Personal life
Ryszard Kaczorowski's last home was in London. He had two daughters with wife Karolina, Jadwiga Kaczorowska, who has two children Zenek and Wanda Szulc, and Alicja Jankowska who has three children, Ryszard, Marcin and Krystyna Jankowska. He was frequently present in Poland and was treated according to the Polish law on former presidents of the state, granting him a presidential pension, Biuro Ochrony Rządu protection and a chancellery. He was an honorary chairman of numerous social and historical organisations, as well as an honorary citizen of almost thirty cities in Poland, including: Warsaw, Gdańsk, Gdynia, Kielce, Kraków, Opole, Zielona Góra and his hometown of Białystok.

During his retirement, Kaczorowski did not hold any public positions, although it was reported that in November 1994 Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak proposed to President Wałęsa to appoint Kaczorowski as Minister of Defence (as, under the then-constitution, the President appointed the Ministers of Defence, the Interior and Foreign Affairs, regardless of the Prime Minister's will). Although he was a self-described follower of Józef Piłsudski (Piłsudczyk), Kaczorowski chose to not get involved in any partisan or strictly political activity during his retirement.

On 9 November 2004, Kaczorowski was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George as an Honorary Knight Grand Cross by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom for "his exceptional contribution to the community of Polish emigrees and their descendants living in the UK".

Death

Kaczorowski died on 10 April 2010 in a plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, along with the then-current President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and 94 others. He was the oldest victim of the crash. On 19 April 2010, Kaczorowski's coffin was taken to St John's Cathedral for a funeral mass, before being buried in a crypt at the National Temple of Divine Providence in Warsaw.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Askey

 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 Speedy per Deletion of vanity articles.mikka (t) 23:10, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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No mention of noteworthiness, no links, and the web provides no coverage that I've been able to find. Delete as non-noteworthy. --Diderot 12:50, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete On the basis of intentional vandalism. Appears to be a troll. Note creation of W.T.I. (which should be included) after the VfD was started. WTI is a nonsense / vandalism page. Admins please take note and consider banning. -Harmil 13:57, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete, we have a new policy over at WP:CSD, remember: no assertion of notability was one of the few things that passed. These do not need to come to VfD any more. -Splash 21:54, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
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April Hunter

April Hunter (born September 24, 1976) is an American retired professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet, boxer, actress, writer, fitness model and glamour model. She has appeared in publications including MuscleMag International and Playboy and has her own comic book series titled Code Red.

World Championship Wrestling (1999–2000)
In 1999, after Hunter appeared in Playboy magazine, she was hired by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Along with four other models (Tylene Buck, Kim Kanner (Shikira), Midajah and Pamela Paulshock), she accompanied members of the New World Order (nWo) to ringside for their matches.

Independent circuit (2001–2002)
Hunter trained to become a professional wrestler with Killer Kowalski in Boston. She was the only woman in the class and soon began working on the independent circuit and overseas.

NWA Total Nonstop Action (2002, 2003)
On August 28, 2002, Hunter appeared for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). She was introduced (and defeated) by then-Miss TNA Bruce as part of his Miss TNA Challenge. She returned for several other appearances in TNA, including matches against Desire, Eric Watts and R. J. Brewer.

Independent circuit (2002–2009)
Hunter formed a tag team with fellow Kowalski graduate Nikki Roxx in World Xtreme Wrestling; the pair were known as The Killer Babes. She then worked as the manager for Slyck Wagner Brown. Together they held both Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling's 3PW Tag Team Championship and Jersey All Pro Wrestling's JAPW Tag Team Championship. Hunter was the first woman in pro wrestling history to hold the (male) tag team title.

Hunter traveled to Canada for the first time in December 2005, working for Action Wrestling Entertainment and wrestling against Sarah Stock. In February 2006, Hunter worked for Carmen Electra's Naked Women's Wrestling League (NWWL). While in the NWWL Hunter broke her nose, which limited the moves she could perform while working for the promotion.

In Women's Extreme Wrestling (WEW) in April 2006, Hunter formed a tag team known as T & A with Talia Madison. On April 6, they defeated Team Blondage (Amber O'Neal and Lollipop) for the WEW Tag Team Championship. A month later, Hunter and J.D. Maverick debuted together for TNT Pro Wrestling. In September, Hunter challenged Madison for her TNT Women's Championship. She defeated Madison for the title on September 23. During her time in TNT, Hunter appeared in the Glamour, Glitz & Divas—The Untold Story of American Women's Wrestling DVD, alongside Madison and Michaels.

Hunter won Queens of Chaos's World Queens of Chaos Championship in November 2006 by defeating Sweet Saraya in the final round of a championship tournament. She vacated the title on In May 2012. She also won Great Canadian Wrestling's GCW W.I.L.D. Championship from Miss Danyah on April 13, 2007. She held the title for one day before losing it to Cherry Bomb in a four-way match. Because of wrestling-related injuries, Hunter retired from professional wrestling later in the year.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2009)
Hunter turned heel in her return to TNA on the December 31, 2009 edition of Impact!, teaming with the evil Lorelei Lee in a losing effort against TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions Sarita and Taylor Wilde. On June 15, 2010, Hunter claimed that she had turned down a contract offer from TNA the previous month.

Independent circuit (2009–2014)
In late 2009, Hunter returned to the ring from retirement. Her mother was diagnosed with stage four cancer and her return to the ring was prompted by her wanting to help out financially. Hunter toured Europe with American Rampage Wrestling in November and December 2009 with Rob Van Dam, Sid Vicious and Sabu.

Hunter was part of the AWR (American Wrestling Rampage) European Tour in November 2010 in France with Booker T, Sandman, Scott Steiner and Kai.

On September 21, 2012, Hunter debuted for Shine Wrestling's SHINE 3 event as the villainous manager of Made In Sin (Allysin Kay and Taylor Made). All three women would align with Rain and Ivelisse to form the Valkyrie faction at SHINE 6 on January 11, 2013. At SHINE 7 on February 22, Hunter made her in-ring debut for the promotion, teaming with Made In Sin in a victorious outing against Mia Yim, Su Yung and Tracy Taylor.

April Hunter debuted for High Impact Wrestling Canada in August 2014 as part of the "Tour De Rumble" that featured events throughout Central Canada. She appeared at eight events during the tour. On the tour she fought alongside Danny Duggan and Mike McSugar defeating the teams of Jaida and Michael Allen as Dick Richards and Jaida. Being her last fights after not fighting for a while, she retired in 2018 from professional wrestling.

Other media
Hunter competed in Muscle and Fitness competitions in 2009 and placed third in her first National Physique Committee-sanctioned figure competition November 14, 2009. She then competed in Figure on June 18, 2010, at the Junior Nationals in Chicago.

Hunter has appeared in the films Oh! My Zombie Mermaid (2004) and Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy (2007). In the United Kingdom, she has appeared on the James Whale Show, and in Japan, she appeared in a Toyota Fun Cargo TV commercial. In the United States, she appeared in an MSNBC documentary entitled Body of Work, on The Howard Stern Show, and in the video for The Outhere Brothers' "Boom Boom Boom"/"Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)." She appeared in a W-FIVE documentary in Canada, TruTV's Most Daring Wild Women and several independent films, including Ultimate Death Match II and Hell House in 2009/2010.

In 2012, Hunter appeared in horror film The Meat Puppet playing the role of "Jade" For her performance she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Feature Drama in the Downbeach Film Festival.

In 2013 Hunter appeared in the film Gravedigger, playing the role of Marie Spiegel.

Hunter is featured in a line of comic books with the titles Code Red, Code Red II, Stripper Viking, and Stripper Viking II. She is also featured in various trading cards and art, comics, and books by Jay E. Fife, Scott Blair, Monte Moore, Julie Strain and Boris Vallejo. In 2013 Hunter was one of several models chosen to work with artist George Pérez on his new comic, Sirens. She served as the model for the character "Agony".

In 2013, Hunter started a blog she titled "Putting The Clothes On, Taking The Gloves Off".

Starting in 2013 she started making appearances at horror, science fiction, and comic book conventions cosplaying as various characters. Her cosplay costumes have featured Phoenix, Black Widow, a female version of The Punisher, Poison Ivy, Wonder Woman and Red Sonja.

Personal life
Hunter is of German, Scottish and Italian descent. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but moved to Enterprise, Alabama with her father when her parents divorced. Before entering the world of professional wrestling, Hunter worked as a fitness model. She placed in Ms. Fitness Philadelphia and Ironwoman Tri-Fitness in Tampa, Florida. She also worked as a Playboy model and Met-Rx spokesperson.

On August 30, 2006, Hunter married Canadian wrestler Jordan Danyluk (known as J.D. Maverick) in Las Vegas, Nevada. They first met at a wrestling show in December 2005 and were engaged after Valentine's Day in 2006. The two have since divorced.

She studied photography at the New England School of Photography.

Championships and accomplishments

 * Far North Wrestling
 * FNW Women's Championship (1 time)
 * German Stampede Wrestling
 * GSW World Women's Championship (1 time)
 * Great Canadian Wrestling
 * GCW W.I.L.D. Championship (1 time)
 * Jersey All Pro Wrestling
 * JAPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Slyck Wagner Brown
 * Jersey Championship Wrestling
 * JCW Women's Championship (1 time)
 * NWA Cyberspace
 * NWA Cyberspace Women's Championship (1 time)
 * Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling
 * 3PW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Slyck Wagner Brown
 * Tag Team Royal Rumble (2004) – with Slyck Wagner Brown
 * Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 * Ranked No. 18 of the top 50 female wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2008
 * Queens of Chaos
 * World Queens of Chaos Championship (1 time)
 * USA Pro Wrestling
 * USA Pro Women's Championship (1 time)
 * Women's Extreme Wrestling
 * WEW World Tag Team Championship – with Talia Madison
 * Women Superstars Uncensored
 * WSU Hall of Fame (Class of 2011)
 * World Xtreme Wrestling
 * WXW Women's Championship (1 time)
 * Women's Super 8 Tournament (2003)

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 * Corresponding English-language article: Friedrich Adler (Artist)
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Filming location

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets constructed on a movie studio backlot or soundstage. In filmmaking, a location is any place where a film crew will be filming actors and recording their dialog. A location where dialog is not recorded may be considered a second unit photography site. Filmmakers often choose to shoot on location because they believe that greater realism can be achieved in a "real" place; however, location shooting is often motivated by the film's budget. Many films shoot interior scenes on a sound stage and exterior scenes on location.

Types of locations
There are two main types of locations:
 * Location shooting, the practice of filming in an actual setting
 * Studio shoots, on either a sound stage or back lot

History
Video cameras originally designed for television broadcast were large and heavy, mounted on special pedestals and wired to remote recorders in separate rooms. As technology improved, out-of-studio video recording was possible with compact video cameras and portable video recorders; a detachable recording unit could be carried to a shooting location. Although the camera itself was compact, the need for a separate recorder made on-location shooting a two-person job.

Substitute locations
It is common for films or television series to be set in one place, but filmed in another, usually for reasons of economy or convenience, but sometimes because the substitute location looks more historically appropriate.

Some substitute filming locations, and the corresponding film setting, include:

 * Almería, Spain - Southwest US (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as numerous other Spaghetti Westerns)
 * Cadiz, Spain - Havana, Cuba (Die Another Day)
 * Hawaii - West Africa (Tears of the Sun), Brazilian Amazon (The Rundown)
 * Madrid, Soria, Spain - Moscow, Russia (Doctor Zhivago)
 * Malta - Ancient Sparta (Troy); Ancient Rome (Gladiator); Rome, Beirut, Cyprus, Tel Aviv, Athens (Munich); Sweethaven (Popeye)
 * Matera, Italy - Jerusalem in (The Passion of the Christ), (Mary Magdalene) and several Jesus-time movies
 * Gran Sasso, Italy - Ladyhawke, Red Sonja, 60's Western movies
 * Prague, Czech Republic - Medieval England (A Knight's Tale), Renaissance Italy (Borgia); 18th Century Vienna (Amadeus); 18th Century France (The Affair of the Necklace); 19th Century England (From Hell, Shanghai Knights); 19th Century Vienna (Wiener Mädeln, The Illusionist); WWII-era Dresden (Slaughterhouse-Five)
 * St Pancras Hotel, London - Arkham Asylum, Gotham City (Batman Begins); Misselthwaite Manor, Yorkshire (The Secret Garden)
 * Thailand - Various locations around Thailand have been used for many films depicting the Vietnam War era, including The Deer Hunter, The Killing Fields, Casualties of War, Air America and Operation Dumbo Drop.
 * Woodstock, Illinois - Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania (Groundhog Day)

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William Calder Marshall

William Calder Marshall ARSA (18 March 1813 – 16 June 1894) was a Scottish sculptor.

Life
He was born at Gilmour Place in Edinburgh, the eldest son of William Marshall a goldsmith with a shop at 1 South Bridge and his wife Annie Calder.

He attended the Edinburgh Royal High School and Edinburgh University before enrolling at the Edinburgh Trustees Academy in 1830 before enrolling in the Royal Academy school in London in 1834, where he won the silver medal. He studied under Francis Chantrey and Edward Hodges Baily, and then, in 1836 went to Rome to pursue his study of classical sculpture, staying for two years.

In 1844, he participated in an exhibition held at Westminster Hall to select artists to decorate the rebuilt Palace of Westminster. It proved to be the turning point of his career, leading to many commissions for public monuments not only for the new Houses of Parliament - for which he made statues of the Lord Chancellors Clarendon and Somers, and of Chaucer but also for Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral. He made the colossal bronze of Robert Peel for Manchester; with figures representing the city, illustrative of manufactures and commerce, and another, symbolising the arts and sciences, at the base of the pedestal.

His monument to Edward Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination was set up in the south-west corner of Trafalgar Square in 1858 and inaugurated at a ceremony presided over by Prince Albert. The statue, which depicted Jenner sitting in a chair in a relaxed pose, was moved to Kensington Gardens in 1862.

In June 1864, Calder Marshall was commissioned to make an allegorical group representing Agriculture, one of the four representing various "skills" to be installed on the Albert Memorial. A model was completed within two months. His ideas - unlike those of the other sculptors working on the groups - received a generally positive reception from the Executive Committee overseeing the monument, and the sculpture was completed by April 1868. It shows a female personification of Agriculture, directing the attention of farmers to the benefits of modern technology, symbolised by a steam cylinder and cog, and a retort.

Calder Marshall was the most prolific exhibitor of statuary at the Royal Academy in the Victorian age. He died in London and was buried with his wife Margaret Calder Marshall in Kensal Green Cemetery. Two sons and a daughter lie with them.

Works

 * Statue of Hebe in National Gallery of Scotland (1837)
 * Statue of Lord Clarendon in the Palace of Westminster (1847)
 * Statue of Lord Somers in the Palace of Westminster (1849)
 * Statue of Captain Thomas Coram at the Foundling Hospital in Berkhampstead (1852)
 * Memorial to Mary Blacklock exported to St Michael's Church in Charleston USA (1852)
 * Statue of Sir Robert Peel at Picadilly Gardens in Manchester (1853) unveiled by William Gladstone
 * Statue of Thomas Campbell in Westminster Abbey (1855)
 * Statue of Sabrina at Amherst College (1857)
 * Monument to Mrs Adams at Newport, Shropshire (1857)
 * Statue of Edward Jenner in Kensington Gardens (1858)
 * Bust of Admiral Sir Hugh Pigot (1858)
 * Statue of David Hume in Montrose (1859)
 * Monument to Lady Manners at Tickhill (1861)
 * Statue of Samuel Crompton in Bolton (1862)
 * Statue of Sir George Grey in Cape Town, South Africa (1863)
 * Bust of Dr Thomas Alexander at Netley Hospital (1863)
 * Statue of 7th Earl of Derby in Bolton (1865)
 * Statue of Lady Godiva in Coventry (1868)
 * Monument to Louisa Foljambe at Tickhill (1871)
 * Bust of James Hopgood (1872)
 * Bust of Sir Isaac Newton in Leicester Square (1874)

Legacy
A number of his works were reproduced – often in reduced sizes – in Parian Ware porcelain by Copeland, one representing Sabrina proving especially popular.

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Chip Hilton

William "Chip" Hilton is the central character in a series of 24 sports novels for adolescent boys written by the successful college basketball coach and 1968 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Clair Bee (1896–1983). In addition to Bee's authorship of the Chip Hilton series, he was also the author of several basketball and coaching technique books. The Chip Hilton series was published between 1948 and 1966 by Grosset & Dunlap, with Bee's last manuscript, Fiery Fullback, published in 2002.

Characterization
Unlike other Grosset & Dunlap boys series books of the period, the Chip Hilton stories are distinguished by a greater degree of psychological interest. The staidly perfect Chip serves as a foil for his much more human fellow characters. Chip Hilton excels at all major sports, except hockey and soccer. Like most series books heroes, he does have a love interest, but spends much of his time with his buddies: "Biggie," "Soapy," "Speed" and "Fireball" in pursuit of sports. His occasional girl friend is Mitzi, the head cashier at his employer's drug store, about whom he once daydreamed while looking in a storefront at a display for dancing lessons. Chip was based on Seton Hall basketball player Bob Davies, and Chip's coach, Henry "The Rock" Rockwell, was based on Bee himself.

Plot structure
Chip Hilton books are always about football, basketball, or baseball. The most notable book in the series is Hoop Crazy, which examines the difficulties facing a black player wanting to join the basketball team. This is the only Chip Hilton book addressing social issues, and it does so in a compelling manner, although some of the early works did mention a great "negro" athlete, Miner, who played for one of the Big Reds' major rivals, Steeltown. Miner was presented as a gifted athlete without controversy over his participation; portraying an African-American athlete as accepted by teammate and foe alike. The reference is all the more interesting considering that the first books were written in the late 40s and early 50s when many pro teams, and even leagues, were yet to feature a black athlete. Tournament Crisis dealt with a team member who was Chinese and struggled to be included as a part of the team. He is initially depicted as angry and hard to like, and Chip works to help him and bring him around.

Collectibles
The original series of 23 Chip Hilton books has become a popular collectible, with the last few books fetching the highest prices because of their relatively limited print runs. The first six Chip Hilton titles were originally issued in fire-engine red, smooth textured bindings, with blank outer covers and full color picture dust jackets. These first six titles were later re-issued with blank rougher tweed cover bindings and picture dust jackets, as were the first editions of issues #7 through #19. There is an "urban legend" circulating that volume #7 was also originally issued in a fire-engine red binding, but this is unverified.

All 23 original titles were then re-issued in picture cover versions (later than the stated publication dates for issues #1-#19), without dust jackets, using the original dust jacket illustrations for the picture cover illustrations, with some variations existing for many issues with regard to some of the back cover images and back cover book title listings.

There is an active market in the original Chip Hilton hardback books on the eBay auction site, with usually 60-70 copies or partial sets for sale at any one time, with prices ranging from as low as $1–$2 for rough condition copies of the more common copies of tweed binding edition books without dust jackets up to several hundred dollars or more for fine condition copies of Hungry Hurler (#23), of which apparently only about 12,000 copies were printed.

In the new paperbacks, the first printing of the first 12 books carry a holographic image of a Chip Hilton logo.

List of titles

 * 1. Touchdown Pass (1948)
 * 2. Championship Ball (1948)
 * 3. Strike Three! (1949)
 * 4. Clutch Hitter (1949)
 * 5. A Pass and a Prayer (1951)
 * 6. Hoop Crazy (1950)
 * 7. Pitchers' Duel (1950)
 * 8. Dugout Jinx (1952)

 * 9. Freshman Quarterback (1952)
 * 10. Backboard Fever (1953)
 * 11. Fence Busters (1953)
 * 12. Ten Seconds To Play! (1955)
 * 13. Fourth Down Showdown (1956)
 * 14. Tournament Crisis (1957)
 * 15. Hardcourt Upset (1957)
 * 16. Pay-off Pitch (1958)

 * 17. No-Hitter (1959)
 * 18. Triple-Threat Trouble (1960)
 * 19. Backcourt Ace (1961)
 * 20. Buzzer Basket (1962)
 * 21. Comeback Cagers (1963)
 * 22. Home Run Feud (1964)
 * 23. Hungry Hurler (1966)
 * 24. Fiery Fullback (2002)

Spin-offs
Since 1997, the NCAA has presented The Chip Hilton Player of the Year Award to a Division I men's basketball player who has demonstrated outstanding character, leadership, integrity, humility, sportsmanship and talent both on and off the court, similar to the fictional Chip Hilton character.

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WUNI

WUNI (channel 66) is a television station licensed to Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Boston area. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision alongside Derry, New Hampshire–licensed True Crime Network affiliate WWJE-DT (channel 50); Entravision Communications operates WUNI under a joint sales agreement (JSA), making it sister to Worcester, Massachusetts–licensed UniMás affiliate WUTF-TV (channel 27). WUNI and WWJE share studios and transmitter facilities on Parmenter Road in Hudson; under the JSA, master control and some internal operations of WUNI are based at WUTF's studios on 4th Avenue in Needham.

V66
The station first signed on the air on February 12, 1985, as WVJV-TV (branded as "V-66, the Beat of Boston" ), maintaining a music video format at a time when they were a major part of the American culture (this was just four years after MTV launched in August 1981). The station was originally owned by longtime New England radio broadcasters John Garabedian (who later became host of the nationally syndicated radio show Open House Party) and Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg. Garabedian also owned WGTR (1060 AM, now WQOM); both WVJV and WGTR operated from studios in Natick. The music format combined videos from progressive rock (as heard on WBCN) and pop contemporary (as heard on WXKS-FM). Irrespective of the must-carry rule requiring cable systems to carry the station, many cable systems freely chose to carry WVJV instead of VH1. WVJV was also the first station in the Boston area to transmit in stereo.

Change from music videos to home shopping
Garabedian had hoped to launch a national over-the-air music video network (predating the existence of The Box) to compete against MTV, if WVJV had succeeded. However, although channel 66 received a sizable number of viewers, the station struggled to retain them for long periods of time, and by mid-1986, the station's advertising sales were insufficient to ensure the station's long-term viability; additionally, attempts to broaden the station's programming to include shows on sports and other topics proved unsuccessful. Consequently, WVJV was sold to the Home Shopping Network later that year, with the station transitioning to HSN's shopping programs soon afterwards on September 21, 1986; a callsign change to WHSH followed the next year. For the next thirteen years, WHSH continued to run HSN programming, with some local feature segments in-between.

A documentary film about V66 titled Life on the V: The Story of V66, produced by Christian de Rezendes and Eric Green, premiered at the Independent Film Festival of Boston on April 29, 2014.

"Hub 66", WHUB-TV
In 1999, Barry Diller, owner of HSN and its broadcast arm USA Broadcasting (formerly Silver King Television), began plans to turn his stations into true independents under the "CityVision" banner. After switching stations in Miami, Atlanta, and Dallas–Fort Worth, this format was implemented in Boston on Channel 66 as WHUB-TV (from Boston's nickname "The Hub"), with the "Hub 66" branding and a main slogan echoing The Standells' "Dirty Water" ("Ahhh, Boston you're our home"). The station under the "CityVision" format aired primarily syndicated and first-run programming including sitcom reruns of shows like Cheers and Taxi, drama reruns of shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation, cartoons, and movies under the HubFlix banner. Like other "CityVision" stations, the station also obtained live sports rights specifically Boston University ice hockey games (previously held by WABU/WBPX), as well as the annual Beanpot tournament.

Plans were set to convert the entire chain of USAB stations to the "CityVision" format, but at the end of 2000, USA Broadcasting scrapped all plans and put all its stations up for sale with WHUB reverting to HSN affiliation in the interim period to cut costs. Disney/ABC and Univision Communications were both in the running to become the owner of WHUB with Disney planning on aligning with Hearst-owned ABC affiliate WCVB-TV; however, Univision outbid them in a close race, with plans immediately announced to make the station (and all but three USAB stations) a charter affiliate of what would become Telefutura (originally referred to as Univision Duo and later rebranded as UniMás in 2013); The station's five-month run made it one of the shortest-run independent-formatted stations in the country (a few 1950s UHF independent stations, such as the three-month-long WBES-TV, had shorter).

AT&T Broadband obtained some of WHUB's programming for its AT&T 3 channel including the 2001 Beanpot, (which WHUB never telecast after reverting to HSN; the tournament has since moved to NESN); AT&T 3 would be replaced by CN8 New England in 2003 which, itself, would shut down in January 2009.

Switch to Telefutura/UniMás
To reflect its pending affiliation change, channel 66 changed call letters to WFUB (likely standing for "Telefutura Boston") in November 2001. However, just one month later, the station changed the callsign again to WUTF with both changes occurring during the interim period of HSN programming. It was not until January 14, 2002, that channel 66 joined Telefutura, offering a general Spanish-language entertainment format with movies, serials, sports and children's programming. Telefutura later rebranded as UniMás on January 7, 2013.

2017 call sign and channel swap; ATSC 3.0 conversion
On December 4, 2017, as part of a multi-market realignment, the programming and call signs of WUTF and sister station WUNI were swapped: WUTF and its UniMás programming moved to the Entravision-owned facility using digital channel 29 and virtual channel 27, while Univision's digital channel 27 and virtual channel 66 facility became the new home of WUNI.

On November 30, 2022, it was announced that WUNI would convert to ATSC 3.0.

News operation
WUNI presently broadcasts $2 1/2$ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with a half-hour each on weekdays; the station does not produce a late evening newscast on any night nor any news programs on Saturdays and Sundays).

On April 1, 2003, WUNI on channel 27 launched a half-hour local newscast, Noticias Univision Nueva Inglaterra (Univision News New England), at 6 p.m. Sara Suarez was brought from Univision's Denver owned-and-operated station KCEC to serve as anchor and news director. Angel Salcedo, who hosted WUNI's public affairs program Enfoque Latino for several years, was chosen as Suarez's co-anchor. However, Salcedo left the station shortly afterwards, leaving Suarez as the sole anchor until Carlos Ruben Zapata was hired as Salcedo's replacement. In 2005, Zapata left the station and eventually hired Eduardo Guerrero as co-anchor late that year. Before the newscast debuted, the station signed a news share agreement with New England Cable News, in which the regional cable news channel provided news footage. In addition, several commercial spots for NECN aired on WUNI and WUTF-TV, targeted at both stations' Hispanic audience.

The agreement with NECN expired in mid-2005; WUNI then signed a content sharing agreement with CBS owned-and-operated station WBZ-TV (channel 4). WBZ is acknowledged with an on-air credit when news footage supplied by the station appears on WUNI's newscasts, as well as at the end of the broadcast, before the copyright tag.

In April 2007, WUNI began producing news updates under the title Despierta Boston (which was anchored by Maria Gonzalez), during Univision's morning news/talk program Despierta América at 25 minutes past the hour from 7 to 9 a.m. The station used a modified version of the Despierta América logo branding, while using an alteration of the graphics and music package used on the 6 p.m. newscast. While Despierta Boston was relatively successful, economic problems led to Entravision discontinuing the morning updates in early 2009. The station also laid off Eduardo Guerrero (once again resulting in Sara Suarez anchoring solo) and 10-year veteran sports journalist Omar Cabrera.

On July 14, 2007, the station began airing the weekend edition of then-Univision-owned San Juan, Puerto Rico, station WLII's newscast Las Noticias Univision; this was subsequently dropped.

Subchannels
The station's ATSC 1.0 channels are carried on the multiplexed signals of other Boston television stations:

Analog-to-digital conversion
WUNI (as WUTF) shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 66, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station moved its digital signal from its pre-transition UHF channel 23 to channel 27, using virtual channel 66.

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Natural region

A natural region (landscape unit) is a basic geographic unit. Usually, it is a region which is distinguished by its common natural features of geography, geology, and climate.

From the ecological point of view, the naturally occurring flora and fauna of the region are likely to be influenced by its geographical and geological factors, such as soil and water availability, in a significant manner. Thus most natural regions are homogeneous ecosystems. Human impact can be an important factor in the shaping and destiny of a particular natural region.

Main terms
The concept "natural region" is a large basic geographical unit, like the vast boreal forest region. The term may also be used generically, like in alpine tundra, or specifically to refer to a particular place.

The term is particularly useful where there is no corresponding or coterminous official region. The Fens of eastern England, the Thai highlands, and the Pays de Bray in Normandy, are examples of this. Others might include regions with particular geological characteristics, like badlands, such as the Bardenas Reales, an upland massif of acidic rock, or The Burren, in Ireland.

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Out to Sea

Out to Sea is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Robert Nelson Jacobs. It was the final film role of Donald O'Connor, Gloria DeHaven and Edward Mulhare, and the penultimate film of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as a film duo.

Plot
Compulsive gambler Charlie Gordon cons his brother-in-law, widower Herb Sullivan, whose wife Susie was Charlie's sister, into an all expenses-paid luxury Holland America Mexican cruise. The catch, which Charlie does not reveal to Herb until the ship has left port, is that they are required to work as dance hosts. They must sleep in a cramped cabin in the bowels of the ship, and if they do not dance, they will get fired and have to pay nearly $3,000 (later Herb finds out he has over $5,000) for the cruise or get thrown off the ship.

Ruled over by tyrannical, control-freak cruise director Gil Godwyn ("a song and dance man raised on a military base"), they do their best, despite Charlie's failed dance. Each meets a lady of interest. One is the luscious heiress Liz LaBreche, whose wealth attracts Charlie every bit as much as the rest of her does even though her wealth isn't real. The other is lovely widow Vivian who was a successful book editor and who is under the impression that Herb is really a doctor, not a dancer. Vivian came on board on the ship with her daughter and her newlywed husband to help her start dating again. After finally telling her the truth, Herb soon finds himself quite attracted to Vivian, and eventually the feeling becomes mutual. However, Herb is still very much in love with Susie which conflicts his very growing feelings for Vivian, leading him to eventually stand her up on the day that they were supposed to view the rare solar eclipse together. Charlie doesn't know that Liz is broke and came on board the ship to land a rich man.

Charlie literally drags ship owner Mrs. Carruthers across the dance floor in a clumsy manner, yet this surprisingly greatly pleases Mrs. Carruthers. Charlie sets up Mrs. Carruthers to meet Gil in the latter's room under difference circumstances that neither are true. He being told he's about to get a big promotion and her thinking he's romantically interested in her. This was set in motion to enable Charlie to continue his charade and he and Liz could spend the night together. During the eclipse, Charlie and Liz propose to each other and make plans to get married immediately. Liz's mom is ecstatic to having landed a rich guy, yet Liz has lost interest in how much money Charlie may have and is truly falling in love with him. However, Gil, figuring out that Charlie was in his room busts him in front of Liz and her mother who promptly dumps him and they decide to leave the cruise immediately. They make their getaway with Vivian on a plane.

Herb decides against starting a new relationship with Vivian until Charlie reminds him that Susie was "his" sister long before she was Herb's wife, emphasizing that Susie would never want Herb to spend the rest of his life completely alone and sad. Herb and Charlie, both realizing they are really in love with the women, decide to go after them. Herb and Charlie are preparing to launch a lifeboat to get off the ship. Gil finds them and Herb finally stands up to him and tells him off. This sets off Gil who goes on a total tirade as Herb and Charlie leave. However, Mrs. Carruthers is there with two other dance hosts and hears him say disparaging remarks about her. She promptly fires him, calling him an "asshole" and giving his job to one of the other dance hosts. Herb and Charlie find the plane trying to fly and call out to all to return. They set off a flare that Vivian sees and reminds him of a story he told her. The plane lands and everyone tells the truth about everything. Charlie and Liz continue dating, but Charlie makes some good money winning a poker game from a rich guy that he had originally torn up to impress Liz but later taped back together. Herb and Vivian are together as well.

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 36% rating based on 22 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on reviews from 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "B+" on scale of A+ to F.

The film received an unenthusiastic review from Janet Maslin in The New York Times. She described it as a "weak but genial romp." She credits Brent Spiner as a funny "scene-stealer" and says that Ms DeHaven is "almost as pretty" in this film as she was in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936), and says that Donald O'Connor's dancing "draw[s] a well-deserved round of applause". Joe Leydon of Variety wrote: "For the most part, Lemmon, like Matthau, recycles shtick from earlier, better pictures." Siskel & Ebert gave the film two thumbs up, both stating they preferred this to either of the Grumpy Old Men films (Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men) and singling out both Gloria DeHaven and Brent Spiner for their performances.

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Talk:IS

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What is the meaning of, is? How do you describe the word is?

who care
Do you mean cares? Um, the previous poster, I'd guess. As for is, well, tell me if I need to clarify, elaborate, or what have you.(I added the "two letter combo" bit)TLM 01/29/06

Bill Clinton
This is a disambiguation page to aid readers in finding which of several articles for which they might have been searching when they type is into the search bar. It is appropriate to include a few words describing each target, but any in-depth discussion should be relegated to the actual articles. Please explain why it might be appropriate to reference a political controversy in the US last decade. - Eldereft (cont.) 17:15, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Can we use is with I as a helping verb?
Can we use is with I as a helping verb? Yes, But we can not telling here for all details of it. For more details contact by Avinash Bhola mail@atoall.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.62.101.251 (talk) 11:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * for helping verb see is.--Auric (talk) 17:53, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

moved from page
I removed the line "<>" from the entry for IS (manga).--Auric (talk) 17:51, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Do these belong here?
Just wondering why the following 4 entries are on this disambiguation page. 1) Does "IS" (or "Is" or "is") represent the 'I formation' in American Football?? Is this ("IS") a code or abbreviation for "I-formation"?? 2) When is the Roman numeral "I" (one) represented as "IS" or "Is"? 3) "...'Selves' known by the pronoun 'I'..."  what does that mean?   Could it ("Is") be referring to the plural of "I" when referring to multiple "selves"?? 4) Does "IS" represent "incomplete" in American grading???
 * I formation in American football
 * One or capital "i" in Roman numerals
 * Selves known by the pronoun "I"
 * Incompletes, scores used in academic grading in North America
 * Incompletes, scores used in academic grading in North America

Much of my confusion could be due to my ignorance of the subjects in question (it wouldn't be the first time...). Items 1,2 and 4 above seem to refer to "I" more than to "IS." But perhaps someone with more knowledge can provide feedback on if / how these topics should be listed on this IS / Is disambuiguation page. Pugetbill (talk) 23:57, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

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Serra da Chela

The Serra da Chela is a mountain range in south-central Angola. The mountains, rising to 2,306 meters (7,566 ft) above the coastal plains, are among the highest in the country. It forms part of the Great Escarpment of southern Africa, separating the Huíla Plateau of the interior from the low-lying coastal Namib Desert.

To its west there are some inselbergs, remnants of the plateau from a time when it was more extensive. In many places impassable, the escarpment may be accessed by the road running east from Capangombe to Humpata on the plateau.

The range was formed approximately 200 million years ago, when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up. What is now the Serra da Chela range was on the edge of one of the tectonic plates where Africa connected to South America, and rose slowly upward as the Atlantic Ocean formed between the separating plates.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electromagnetic suspension

 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 redirect to Magnetic levitation. Sjakkalle (Check!)  10:33, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Electromagnetic suspension
Original resaerch. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. -- RHaworth 13:01, 2005 July 20 (UTC)
 * Delete article as written describes a device which has not yet even been demonstrated practical -Harmil 13:48, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not a crystal ball blah blah blah. -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 14:58, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for good reasons given by nominator. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:43, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --//-- Pavel Vozenilek 20:30, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * redirect per Carnildo's sugestion would be fine too. Pavel Vozenilek 23:48, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Question: isn't this what the Japanese monorail uses? And if it is, can we redirect this there? -Splash 21:56, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It isn't a monorail, it is a magnetic levitation train. That article uses the exact phrase "Electro-Magnetic Suspension" so I will change my vote to redirect. -- RHaworth 23:30, 2005 July 20 (UTC)
 * Perhaps should redirect to magnetic levitation instead, since the general principle applies to more than just trains. --Buuneko 23:56, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. What's being described sounds like magnetic levitation being applied to building automobile suspensions.  It's got exactly the same problems that a simple coil spring suspension does: undamped oscillation leading to motion sickness.  Nothing particularly original there, but not worthy of an article.  Might be suitable for a redirect to magnetic levitation. --Carnildo 23:38, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Magnetic levitation. JamesBurns 08:07, 21 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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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Religious persecution by Muslims

I see there has not been a discussion as yet about keeping or deleting this page. I will summarize the reasons given for keeping and deleting. --Germen 13:01, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Reasons for keeping: (more reasons for keepuing sollicited)
 * there exist a page "persecution of Muslims" as well, there is no valid reason why persecution by Muslims is a less legitimate subject than persecution of Muslims (cited by user:Germen)--Germen 13:01, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * there exists religious persecution by Muslims, making this a legitimate subject (cited by user:Germen, User:Duncharris)--Germen 13:01, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * the title of this page has been suggested by a non-disputed user, user:Mustafaa (which not necessarily agrees upon keeping this page, though) (cited by user:Germen) --Germen 15:53, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * there are no standing complaints about POV and factual inaccuracies in this article (problems in the past have been addressed and there is agreement between the authors of this page about the method to solve inaccuracies and POV issues) (cited by user:Germen)--Germen 13:01, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * the page is a project of multiple users, including several undisputed users --(cited by: user:Germen) Germen 13:01, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * the page has potential for improvement, but should be thoroughly rewritten --(cited by user:Ems57fcva) Germen 16:04, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * the page is (non specified) encyclopedic (cited by user:Klonimus) --Germen 10:36, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * the page subject is (not specified) notable (cited by user:Klonimus) --Germen 10:36, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * the page is historically relevant (cited by user:Malathion) --Germen 17:34, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Reasons for deleting:
 * user:Germen is a supposed problem user (cited by user:Axon, user:Dcarrano) --Germen 16:33, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The article is a (non-further specified) POV fork (cited by user:Viriditas, user:Dcarrano, user:Jayjg) --Germen 16:33, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The article is non-encyclopaedic (not specified why) (cited by User:Jayjg) --Germen 16:33, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The article is a source for controversy (cited by Tomer) --Germen 17:03, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

(more reasons for deleting sollicited)

Reasons for deleting or keeping Reasons for alternative action
 * Dependant of outcome of delete vote on Religious persecution by Jews (cited by user:Irishpunktom) (note however that Germen did not create this article as stated by Irishpunktom, he created the article himself) --Germen 16:04, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * This article, the one currently debated, was created by you --Irishpunktom\talk 17:11, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I thought you referred to the Persecution by Jews article, which you did create yourself. I am the author of this Persecution by Muslims article indeed. Apologies offered. --Germen 09:16, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Meh, it's not really that important, apologies not needed but appreciated --Irishpunktom\talk 09:28, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * This article should be merged with Persecution of Muslims (cited by user:Hamster_sandwich) --Germen 16:09, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

My solution
As I stated on Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion/Religious persecution by Christians I think this type of article has inherent problems. There is nothing that links all Muslims to the same persecutions. Also, it should not become a whitewash because it is obvious that Muslims have been involved in persecutions. Most of the Qur'an quotes that are there now are horrible. They are talking about being Muslim is the path to heaven, that's not persecution... that's called thinking your religion is correct. Different Muslim groups have had different reasons for persecuting... this page could be a link to various Muslim groups but should not contain content that will necessarily generalize about a whole religion. gren 16:36, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * We try to make the page as NPOV as possible, by emphasizing that substantial portions of the Muslim population and clergy differ on things like religious sanctions or prohibitions of persecution. For instance, in Saudi Arabia Muslims believe the building of churches is not allowed while Muslims allow this with several severe restrictions in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Mentioning this differences will I think reduce prejudice and therefore be helpful in a better understanding of islam.--Germen (Talk | Contribs Netherlands flag small.svg) 16:53, 26 July 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:John A. Young

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I am looking for information on John Young's 10X quality initiative. Anyone have insights or information on this?

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