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The Box (2009 film)

The Box is a 2009 American thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly who also serves as a co-producer. It is based on the 1970 short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson which was previously adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone. The film stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a couple who receive a box from a mysterious man (played by Frank Langella) who offers them one million dollars if they press the button sealed within the dome on top of the box but tells them that once the button has been pushed, someone they do not know will die.

The Box was released on November 6, 2009, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $33.3 million worldwide against a budget of $30 million.

Plot
The film opens with a CIA internal memo about Arlington Steward, a man who has recovered from severe burn wounds and is delivering units related to the Mars project. Set in 1976, the story follows Norma and Arthur Lewis, who awaken early one morning to find a mysterious package on their doorstep. Inside is a wooden box with a button protected by a glass dome, a key, and a note stating that Mr. Steward will visit at 5:00 pm. Norma and Arthur have breakfast with their son, Walter, before Arthur heads to work at NASA, where he works in optics and was involved in designing the camera for the Viking Mars probe. Arthur learns he has been rejected from the astronaut program due to failing the psychological exam.

Norma, who teaches literature at an elite private school, reveals her disfigured right foot to her class during a discussion on Sartre’s vision of Hell. She learns from her boss that her tuition discount for Walter’s school is being revoked, causing financial concern. Later, Arlington Steward, a man with a severely disfigured face, arrives at their door as promised. He presents an offer: if they press the button, someone they do not know will die, and they will receive one million dollars. Arlington leaves them with 24 hours to decide.

After much deliberation, Norma impulsively presses the button. Arlington returns and gives them the promised money, implying that someone close to them may die as a consequence. Arthur attempts to return the money, but Arlington leaves abruptly. Later, Arthur and Norma attend a wedding rehearsal dinner, where Arthur encounters a student of Norma’s and sees a box similar to the one left on their doorstep, containing a photograph of Arlington.

Arthur’s investigation into Arlington’s background reveals his car is registered to the NSA. Concurrently, Norma receives a cryptic warning from a stranger at a supermarket, instructing her to look up a library call number and not trust Arthur. Arlington chastises Norma for involving the police, as Arthur had asked Norma’s father, a police officer, to run Arlington’s license plate.

At home, Arthur’s encounter with their babysitter, Dana, reveals she is not who she claims to be. She directs him to look in the mirror for answers before disappearing mysteriously. Further, Arthur discovers Arlington’s photo in a picture from his work at NASA.

Arthur and Norma separately visit a library, each following clues leading to Arlington. Arthur, guided by Arlington’s wife, navigates through three water gateways, choosing the correct one based on a prior hint. Norma, guided by Arlington, reflects on her disfigurement and experiences a moment of emotional connection with him.

Norma and Arthur reunite at home, where Arthur emerges from the water portal, and they find Walter demanding answers. At a wedding, their son is kidnapped, and Arthur is abducted by a former NASA employee, who reveals he faced a similar choice between his wife and daughter. Arthur is shown a manual and water portals but is interrupted by a Santa Claus figure before being struck by a truck.

Arthur emerges from a NASA warehouse, surrounded by military personnel. Back home, Arlington offers them a final choice: live with their million dollars and a deaf-blind son, or Arthur can shoot Norma, restoring Walter’s senses and securing the money for his future. They learn Arlington’s employers are testing humanity’s worthiness.

Norma and Arthur decide to sacrifice Norma. After she is shot, Walter’s senses are restored, and Arlington delivers the million to another couple who have pressed the button. The film concludes with Arthur being taken away by authorities, indicating the cycle of testing will continue.

Cast

 * Cameron Diaz as Norma Lewis
 * James Marsden as Arthur Lewis
 * Frank Langella as Arlington Steward
 * James Rebhorn as Norm Cahill
 * Holmes Osborne as Dick Burns
 * Sam Oz Stone as Walter Lewis
 * Gillian Jacobs as Dana / Sarah Matthews
 * Celia Weston as Lana Burns
 * Deborah Rush as Clymene Steward
 * Lisa K. Wyatt as Rhonda Martin
 * Mark Cartier as Martin Teague
 * Kevin Robertson as Wendell Matheson
 * Michele Durrett as Rebecca Matheson
 * Ian Kahn as Vick Brenner
 * John Magaro as Charles
 * Ryan Woodle as Jeffrey Carnes

Production
Director Richard Kelly wrote a script based on the 1970 short story "Button, Button" by author Richard Matheson, which had previously been turned into a Twilight Zone episode of the same name. The project had a budget of over $30 million provided by Media Rights Capital. Kelly described his intent for the film, "My hope is to make a film that is incredibly suspenseful and broadly commercial, while still retaining my artistic sensibility." Actress Cameron Diaz was cast in the lead role in June 2007.

Most of the filming took place in the Boston, Massachusetts area, with scenes shot in downtown Boston, South Boston, Waltham, Ipswich, Winthrop, Milton, Medfield, Quincy, Kingston, and North Andover, as well as other localities. Some filming took place on the Milton Academy campus and at Boston Public Library. A large indoor set was built inside a former Lucent Technologies building in North Andover to recreate a NASA laboratory. The production crew also journeyed to NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, to shoot a number of scenes for the film. Richard Kelly's father had worked at NASA Langley in the 1970s and 80s.

Filming also took place in Richmond, Virginia, including overhead shots of the city, including 95 South passing the train station. Many background extras were reused in different scenes, and people with period-correct 60s and 70s cars were encouraged to participate. Arlington Steward's car, in particular, is a Buick Electra, although characters in the movie refer to it as Lincoln Town Car (an entirely different car model, which was not yet in production at the time the movie is set).

Actor Frank Langella was cast in October 2007, and production began on the film the following month. Prior to production, actor James Marsden was cast a lead role opposite Diaz. Production concluded by February 2008. It was the second time Marsden and Langella worked together, the first being Superman Returns and re-teaming again in Robot & Frank.

Music
In December 2008, it was announced that Win Butler and Regine Chassagne of Canadian band Arcade Fire, and Owen Pallett provided an original score for the film. Butler, Chassagne, and Pallett helped Kelly during the editing process by advising his decisions. Butler, Chassagne, and Pallett had planned on releasing the soundtrack after Arcade Fire's third album release in August 2010, but as of 2023, the soundtrack is still unavailable.

Release
The film was first released in Australia on October 29, 2009. While it was originally scheduled to be released in the U.S. on October 30, 2009, on July 31, 2009, it was announced the release date would be delayed to November 6, 2009.

The film opened with $7,571,417 in 2,635 theaters at an average of $2,873 per theater. It ranked number 6 at the box office coming in behind the newly released Disney's A Christmas Carol, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and The Fourth Kind. The film went on to gross $15,051,977 domestically and $32,924,206 worldwide.

It was released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download in the U.S. on February 23, 2010.

Reception
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 43% of 156 critics have given the film a positive review, and the average rating is 5.2/10. The site's consensus is that "Imaginative but often preposterous, The Box features some thrills but largely feels too piecemeal." Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from film critics, has a score of 47 based on 24 reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore on opening day gave the film an F, for which CinemaScore President Ed Mintz blamed the film's ending and was quoted as saying "People really thought this was a stinker." , it is one of only 22 films to receive such a rating.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars and wrote: "This movie kept me involved and intrigued, and for that I'm grateful." Jordan Mintzer of Variety wrote: "Kelly's trademark mix of sci-fi, surrealism and suburbia occasionally entertains." Keith Uhlich of Time Out New York named The Box the ninth-best film of 2009, calling it "a defiantly personal project that solidifies writer-director Richard Kelly's talent, even as it surely pushes him further toward the filmmaking fringe."

Awards
The film was nominated at the 8th Visual Effects Society Awards in the category of Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture but lost to Sherlock Holmes.

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Hi- I have added non-free to the article because of the high quality files- the album cover need not be more than 300 by 300, while the song samples should not be higher than 64kbps (see Music samples). These are things which would really need to be fixed before it was ready for GA status. Please feel free to remove the notice once the issue has been dealt with, and please contact me on my talk page if you have any questions. J Milburn (talk) 22:54, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

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Max has done a great job on the article but to me it kind of reads like a press release (I'm really sorry Max!) and there are lots of NPOV issues ("The most refreshing among the new cuts...", "an optimistic pop splash that at last gave Dion the chance to shine on an uptempo song", "Dion's success was so widespread that.." etc.). A copy-edit would benefit the article in my opinion. Ryoga Godai (talk) 07:18, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Lacking information about...
Which songs are new in this album, and which are previously released — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.250.138.35 (talk) 13:40, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * So we're good here 145.226.158.81? -- Max24 (talk) 02:46, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Infodisc is not a good reference. But for 600 copies, if it makes you happy... 145.226.158.84 (talk) 07:06, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

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Hemispheres (magazine)

Hemispheres is United Airlines' inflight magazines. The magazine is circulated monthly and reaches 139 million passengers annually. The magazine was formerly produced in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is currently produced in New York City.

Hemispheres was established in 1992. Its editorial coverage includes its signature ‘3 Perfect Days’ travel piece, and the latest news in business, travel, fashion, and culture. The magazine reaches a highly influential business and leisure traveller audience, with a median household income of $128,000, spending and profession.

In 2009, Ink was appointed as the new publisher for United Hemispheres. Ink's first issue of Hemispheres was placed on all United Airlines and United Express flights on March 1, 2009.

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Untitled
It's remarkable how mysterious the MTA Police is. I couldn't find:

 * Who is the commander/chief/commissioner
 * Annual budget
 * Location of headquarters
 * Any kind of substantial info about them, other than that they exist

If anyone has any of this info, please add it to the article. Thanks Paul 04:00, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

I have placed it into the article. --AEMoreira042281 (talk) 04:55, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Questions
1. Who seeks out to become a MTAP officer? Is it a pseudo disciplinary action or is it seen as a cushy position as they may never have to deal with serious crime compared to the regular NYPD?

2. As the present Commander Wilcox was involved in a scandal but still got promoted to the head of MTAP what does this say about the staff and quality of officers in this dept?

3. What is the internal NYPD feeling about this dept? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lindus (talk • contribs) 21:20, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Sound like some rather loaded and prejudiced questions - I esp don't understand how someone joining a police dept could be a pseudo disciplinary action? The cushy bit is (as we say in the UK) crap as I am sure that there are any number of quieter depts that someone could join - its not as if people are conscripted into the police and then go looking for cushy postings. Also who defines serious crime? I have visited NYPD precincts where no one has fired their weapon in anger in 10 years - does that mean that the people working there have sought it out as a cushy posting. Usual childish "my jobs more important than yours" that we see in UK law enforcement too — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.42.150.127 (talk) 23:19, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

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FFM

FFM may refer to:
 * Fairchild Fashion Media, an American publisher
 * Fat free mass, a measure of body composition
 * Federally Facilitated Marketplace, health insurance exchange established by the US government
 * Felivaru Fisheries, a state-owned fishery company in the Maldives
 * FFM, IATA code for Fergus Falls Municipal Airport, in Minnesota, United States
 * FFM, ICAO code for Firefly (airline), a Malaysian airline
 * Five factor model, alternate term for Big Five personality traits
 * "Focus follows mouse", a method of assigning focus (computing) in a GUI
 * Football Federation of Macedonia, a Macedonian sports association
 * Frankfurt am Main, city in Germany
 * Free fall machine, a device for simulating a free-fall environment for biological samples
 * Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, an American think tank
 * Full face mask, alternate term for Full face diving mask
 * ffm, ISO 639-3 code for the Maasina Fulfulde language, spoken in western Africa
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Rumors
I deleted the whole thing about the rumors of the fake penis for three reasons: first, the actors would have commented on it by now or tried to downplay the scene with the truth (and if it was a lie it might help sell DVDs but it would also hurt reps). Secondly, I have never heard of it being fake and I am all over the IMDB boards and it is known Chloe was dating the director at the time and the film was shot with a remote camera in privacy with just the two leads. Which leads one to assume it was a real blow job. And lastly, and most importantly, since when is rumour quoting worthy of Wikipedia pages? Does the Encarta have a rumour section? No, rumours are not fact and therefore should not be included in an article, especially without ANY kind of source to back it up. This isnt Perezhilton.com

-Evan evanesp23@yahoo.com this is my fake a$$ email Because i get too much spam

 * Bananas. There was a lot of talk about it being fake on legitimate news sites, it wasn't just Reddit chatter. Additionally, the director Claire Denis, who has worked with Gallo multiple times, stated that the penis in the film looked like a prosthetic penis that went missing from the set of Trouble Every Day, which she directed and Gallo starred in just a year or so before The Brown Bunny. I'm pretty sure that information was in there at the time you just wiped the section. To me, you wiping it just stinks of someone simply not wanting to hear something rather than some noble pursuit to be above gossip. --123.3.95.137 (talk) 20:34, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Budget
The actual budget of the film was $1,400,000 the film was sold for about $16,000,000 with Sony taking most of the rights. So far the sales of DVD’s have been very good. The budget rumor of $10,000,000 was just that a rumor which was started long before the film was finished. The film in fact was made for below $500,000, which is why it qualified as a Screen Actors Guild low budget project, which is how it is listed with the union.

 * Can you please provide a source for this? The IMDB lists it as an estimated $10 million. --24.81.13.220 05:21, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

This is detail but was it a real one, looked very much like a plastic prosthetics to me... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hektor (talk • contribs)

 * There's a lot of rumors about that, perhaps enough to warrant an amendment to this article. I've heard that director Claire Denis is on record saying that's it's likely a prosthetic penis stolen from the props for Trouble Every Day, in which Gallo was the male lead. She even remarks that when she saw the scene, she recognized it as the stolen penis.

 * A purloined penis? What were the distinguishing characteristics ma'am?

 * Also, judging from the linked clip, there's too many cuts and a couple of reused close-ups of Gallo. And there's no real shot of both Gallo and his penis in the same shot (there's one that comes close, but I still have reasonable doubt), only shots of Gallo looking down, Gallo and the back of Sevigny's head or kissing her while zipped up, and of course, Sevigny performing oral sex. If it's not a prosthetic penis, I could even say that they used a stunt cock for that. But my money is on a prosthetic as well. --YoungFreud 09:00, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

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Unless Gallo and/or Sevigny had enourmos paychecks I can't see how the film could have cost 10.000.000 USD. Where does this number come from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.173.131.118 (talk • contribs)
 * IMDB's listing for The Brown Bunny says that it had an estimated $10 million budget. -- DImfeld 04:18, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

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I just watched... well, skimmed over the movie, just to know what all the fuss was about, and I'm amazed they managed to spend ten million USD on this film. Apart from a few minor roles and the actual race scene at the beginning I can't really see anything that would eat up that much money.

As for the sex -- there's also a (apparently simulated) threesome in a flashback, most of which is blurry. The blowjob looks pretty authentic, although the orgasm may be simulated (although Mrs Sevigny did gag a bit). I strongly doubt that penis is fake, unless the make-up crew did an excellent job -- the penis seems to be attached to the body, has the right texture (the colour looks right, the lighting bounces off the right way and the skin seems to move the right way, too) and shape (although Mr Gallo may be a bit above the US average here), and in one scene you can even see that it's attached to a scrotum (which also looks pretty realistic). Either that's the most realistically looking cock-n-balls prosthesis in the world, or it's Mr Gallo's authentic privates.

That said, the 10 million dollar budget (including happy fun time with a good-looking girl) aside, the movie may even have some artistic value. None I can appreciate, but the long real-time shots may very well be considered artistic by some (if they are not, I'd say they're incredibly bad and distracting).

I'm referring to the unrated version, by the way. As far as I know the rated version is a bit blurrier in the blowjob and condensed the motorcycle race in the beginning.

I don't think it makes much of a difference whether the blowjob was real or not, given that Gallo and Sevigny seem to want people to think it's real and they wouldn't have anything to win by pretending it is when it isn't (unless Mr Gallo has a problem with his penis or Mrs Sevigny wanted the scandal without being willing to perform on the real thing). Occam's Razor (even though, as a male, I don't like thinking about razors and genitalia in the same context) would strongly suggest it's more likely that the blowjob was real than that it wasn't. It'd make more sense for the affected to claim it was fake than to imply that it wasn't.

 * Perception is more important than reality. It makes the most sense for Gallo and Sevigny to play coy and infer that it may well be real - see for yourself, good for DVD sales. 21:15, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Either way. If you want to have your own opinion, rent, purchase or download the unrated version from a video store or any other place that has it and search the web for unsimulated blowjobs (just search for porn websites with sample clips, remember that Google has a content filter which is on by default, tho, if you're not using a more specialised search engine), fast forward to the scene (somewhere around 01:17:00 in my version) and compare. There's a lot of cuts, so you might need to use that pause button a lot and rewind, but the shots offered should provide for enough reference material.

If you've been wondering or actively searching for something like that, Mrs Sevigny is topless throughout most of the scene. I'm not sure whether that justifies the various uneventful realtime scenes the movie is mostly composed of, though. — Ashmodai 22:59, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I think the article ought to make it a bit more clear that the version of the film screened at Cannes was not Gallo's final cut and that the cut he screened at the Toronto Film Festival is the one he approves of. The company distributing his film pressured Gallo to submit the unfinished film for Cannes in order to increase publicity. Gallo has said in at least one interview that he was very unhappy about this (I'm lazy and don't feel like looking for the reference right now). The supposed differences between the cut that appeared at Cannes and his final cut is that the film clocked in at around 2 hours, featured a different ending, and was a very low quality, grainy print. This easily explains the negative reception at Cannes; any film without a proper editing job is going to be screwed. EmileNoldeSinclair 05:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Prostate Hex
The citation required for the misaimed hex - prostate, not colon - is available in Roger Ebert's 'Your Movie Sucks.' The prologue to the collection discusses Brown Bunny in detail and transcribes portions of a face-to-face meeting between Ebert and Gallo. The hex is covered on pages xviii and xix of the paperback edition. I'm not adding this to the article myself because I'm not sure of the html format, but I hope someone will. 75.39.15.138 01:26, 19 October 2007 (UTC)MD
 * What? (Amy Lamedes (talk) 10:56, 8 December 2007 (UTC))

End Scene and the Freeway
The driving scene at the end of the movie is the van being driven west on the I-215 Beltway in Clark County, NV. I know this by the street lights used on that the Freeway, the growth and style of the road, and the mountain skyline. That portion of the freeway is right after a driver leaves the airport tunnel of McCarren Airport.

Coffee4binky (talk) 04:22, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Link [1] to Roger Ebert's original review
The link redirects to Ebert's 2004 revised review after film was re-edited, and even the Wayback Machine at Archive.org does the redirect thing with the Sun-Times link. But his original review is here: http://www.rogerebert.com/festivals-and-awards/gallos-bunny-hops-to-the-top-of-all-time-worst-list

I'm guessing the redirect might be Roger's own way of giving Gallo a clean break? Would be interesting if anyone knew for sure.

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Critters 2: The Main Course

Critters 2: The Main Course (also known as Critters 2) is a 1988 American science fiction comedy horror film directed by Mick Garris in his directorial debut, and the second installment in the Critters franchise. A direct sequel to Critters, the film was written by David Twohy and Garris, and stars Scott Grimes, Don Keith Opper and Terrence Mann reprising their roles. The plot takes place two years after the first film, as a batch of planted Critter eggs begin to hatch and resume their carnivorous appetite upon the town once again.

Although it did not gross as much as the original, the sequel grossed $3.8 million during its theatrical run in the United States. It is the last installment in the series to be released theatrically, and is followed by Critters 3 in 1991.

Plot
Out in space on a desolate planet, the shape-shifting bounty hunters Ug and Lee and their human companion Charlie McFadden search for a vicious, worm-like creature. After killing the beast, they depart the planet. Soon afterwards, they receive a new assignment by Zanti, head of the High Council. He tells them that Krites have been detected on Earth and must be destroyed at once. With that, they set a course for Earth, but Ug notices Charlie is brooding, and he enquires what is wrong. Charlie states his reluctance to going back to Earth after two years and asks whether they will leave him there. Ug assures him they have no such intentions.

Back on Earth, Brad Brown, now 15, is visiting his grandmother in Grover's Bend, Kansas. Word gets around the town fast, implying he became well known after the events of the first film. Shortly after the bounty hunters arrive, the Critters attack a man dressed as an Easter Bunny, killing him. No one is aware that it was the Critters who attacked him, as his death is attributed to a farming accident. Ug has once again taken on the persona of rock star Johnny Steele, while Lee sees a magazine with a gorgeous, busty centerfold model (Roxanne Kernohan) and takes on her visage. Eventually the Critters make themselves known when they begin terrorizing the town, growing in large numbers. Lee is killed and devoured by the Critters when they set a trap, causing Ug to slip into a deep depression and revert to his alien form.

The remaining people of the town devise a plan. With Ug polymorphed into a large Krite, they lead the Critters to a burger factory in an attempt to blow them up. The plan fails and the Critters emerge joined together into a large ball, and begin heading to the church. Just before they reach it, Charlie flies directly into them with Ug's spaceship, successfully destroying the Critters and seemingly sacrificing himself. Ug subsequently takes on Charlie's facial features in honor of his bravery. The next day, as Brad departs, it is revealed that Charlie survived by using a parachute. He stays on Earth, becoming sheriff of Grover's Bend. Ug departs in a new spacecraft, still wearing the guise of Charlie.

Cast

 * Scott Grimes as Brad Brown
 * Terrence Mann as Ug
 * Liane Alexandra Curtis as Megan Morgan
 * Don Keith Opper as Charlie McFadden
 * Barry Corbin as Sheriff Harv
 * Tom Hodges as Wesley
 * Sam Anderson as Mr. Morgan
 * Lindsay Parker as Cindy
 * Herta Ware as Nana
 * Lin Shaye as Sal
 * Roxanne Kernohan as Lee
 * Douglas Rowe as Quigley
 * Eddie Deezen as Hungry Heifer manager
 * Mick Garris as Critter voices
 * William Hanna as Critter's screams and shrieks

Production
Garris got the chance to direct after having worked for Steven Spielberg on the television series Amazing Stories as a screenwriter. Garris initially turned down the offer to direct, but later accepted, citing that he was a big fan of the first movie and wanted to make the sequel a more scary film than the first. The Chiodo Brothers, who served as special effects artists on the first film, returned to create the titular creatures, creating over 50 puppets for the film.

The film was shot in Valencia, Santa Clarita, a part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

Release
The film was released theatrically in the United States by New Line Cinema in April 1988. It grossed $3.8 million at the box office and was the last film in the series to be released theatrically.

The film was released on VHS and laserdisc by New Line Home Video later the same year. In 2003, New Line Home Entertainment released the film on DVD. The film was re-released in a set containing all four Critters films on DVD by Warner Bros. in 2010.

Scream Factory, a subsidiary of Shout! Factory, released the four films as part of "The Critters Collection" on Blu-ray. The set was released on November 27, 2018.

Reception
Rotten Tomatoes reports that 38% of 13 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 4.7/10. Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 1 out of 4 stars: "It lacks all of the style and sense of fun of the original Critters (1986) and has no reason for existence".

Discussing the film several years after its release, writer David Twohy said in an interview with Starlog that "Critters 2 is something I'm still not terribly pleased is on my résumé".

Sequels
Critters 2: The Main Course was followed by Critters 3 and Critters 4, directed by Kristine Peterson and Rupert Harvey, respectively.

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"Sandman" and VQ-2

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I'm removing this section: "Breaking News! Today Pierce was acquitted of all charges. Judge Gregory Hulse stated that the prosecution's misconduct resulted in a violation of Pierce's constitutional rights. Pierce's attorney Alfredo Parrish was very pleased with the Judge's decision. Pierce has since reconciled all diferences with Coach Steve Alford and Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby and will be allowed to regain his position on the University of Iowa Men's Basketball team for the 2005-2006 season."

It's bizarre, to say the least, and most importantly entirely ficticious:. Pierre Pierce is still on trial, nor does what is said here sound like anything but Pierce's fondest (and most unlikely) wishes.

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 * The court granted Pierce's request for the state to pay part of the cost of his defense. He maintains that his poverty makes state assistance necessary, although his parents are reportedly paying defense attorney Alfredo Parrish upwards of $15,000 in legal fees.

The Iowa Court database doesn't agree with this. The editor didn't provide any news references to supplement this. Please cite sources if you wish to revert. --Ted 03:05, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Here is some material which helps to question the removed sentence above.

Event          Filed By               Filed           Create Date     Last Updated OTHER ORDER    HULSE GREGORY A        09/07/2005      09/07/2005      09/07/2005 Comments:  RULING ON DEFT'S REQUEST FOR ATTORNEY FEES; IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED THAT THE STATE OF IOWA SHOULD PAY TO DEFT'S COUNSEL, PARRISH, KRUIDENIER, MOSS, DUNN, MONTGOMERY, BOLES, GRIBBLE & COOK, LLP, THE SUM OF $16,683.80. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT DEFT'S NOTICE OF SUBMISSION OF ATTORNEY FEES & THE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED IN CAMERA TO THE COURT SHALL BE UNSEALED & OPEN FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION. OTHER EVENT                           12/07/2005      12/08/2005      12/08/2005 Comments:  COPY OF LETTER FROM DALLAS COUNTY ATTORNEY TO PARRISH LAW FIRM: DEAR MR. PARRISH: I UNDERSTAND THE RULING SPECIFIED THAT THE SANCTIONS WERE TAXED AS COSTS. TO MY UNDERSTANDING, THERE IS A FUNCTION WITHIN THE OFFICE OF CLERK OF COURT TO                MANAGE TAXING OF COSTS AGAINST THE STATE, AND THE CLERK WOULD MAKE THE CLAIM AGAINST THE COUNTY FUND WHERE APPROPRIATE. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT SECTION 602.8109 OF THE IOWA CODE APPLIES. **I, BARB, WAS NOT AWARE THAT THE COUNTY WAS PAYING THIS COSTS, ASSUMED THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE WAS PAYING. I                WILL MAKE THE COPIES AND GIVE THEM TO MY CLERK TO FILE WITH THE DALLAS COUNTY AUDITOR. RELEASE - SATISFACTION                02/21/2006      02/22/2006      02/22/2006 Comments:  ON THE $16,683.80 FROM DALLAS COUNTY TO PARRISH LAW FIRM
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John Lutz (mystery writer)

John Thomas Lutz (September 11, 1939 – January 9, 2021) was an American writer who mainly wrote mystery novels.

Career
Lutz's work included political suspense, private eye novels, urban suspense, humor, occult, crime caper, police procedural, espionage, historical, futuristic, amateur detective, thriller; virtually every mystery sub-genre. He was the author of more than forty novels and over 200 short stories and articles. His novel Single White Female was the basis for the 1992 film starring Bridget Fonda   and his novel The Ex was made into the HBO original movie of the same title, for which he co-authored the screenplay. Lutz's novels and short fiction have been translated into almost every language and adapted for almost every medium.

Lutz served as president of both Mystery Writers of America and Private Eye Writers of America. Among his awards are the MWA Edgar Award, the Shamus Award (twice), The Trophee 813 Award for best mystery short story collection translated into the French language, the PWA Life Achievement Award, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Golden Derringer Lifetime Achievement Award. John Lutz also wrote stories for jigsaw puzzles.

Personal life and death
He and his wife, Barbara, split their time between St. Louis, Missouri, and Sarasota, Florida. Together, they had three children and eight grandchildren.

Lutz died as a result of complications from Lewy body dementia, Parkinson's disease, and COVID-19 in Chesterfield, Missouri, on January 9, 2021, at age 81, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Missouri.

Awards
In 1995, Lutz received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America.

Series

 * Alo Nudger
 * Fred Carver
 * Night
 * Frank Quinn

Standalone novels

 * The Truth of the Matter (1971)
 * Bonegrinder (1977)
 * Lazarus Man (1979)
 * Jericho Man (1980)
 * The Shadow Man (1981)
 * Exiled (1982) (with Steven Greene)
 * The Eye (1984) (with Bill Pronzini)
 * Shadowtown (1988)
 * Single White Female (1990; original title: SWF Seeks Same; see also movie page Single White Female)
 * Dancing with the Dead (1992)
 * The Ex (1996) (adapted into a film — see The Ex (1997 film))
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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 05:45, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

TESF Top50
It's a list of members of a discussion forum that post the most, with their posting counts. As the discussion forum members will continue to post, this information will be out of date as soon as it is written, and thus is both worthless and unverifiable. Moreover, this is part of a series of articles under the heading The Official TES Forums Wiki. Wikipedia is not a hosting service. Uncle G 04:04:04, 2005-08-22 (UTC)
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Critters 3

Critters 3 is a 1991 American science fiction comedy horror Direct-to-video film and the third installment of the Critters series, directed by Kristine Peterson. It was shot simultaneously (from February to July 1991) with its sequel, Critters 4. Unlike the first two films, it does not take place in the town of Grover's Bend. It marked Leonardo DiCaprio's film debut.

Plot
Sometime after the events in Critters 2: The Main Course, Charlie MacFadden is tracking down the last of the Critters. A family of three – Annie (the main protagonist), Johnny (her little brother) and Clifford (the father) – stops at a rest stop when their car's tire pops.

At the rest stop, Charlie warns them and Josh, the stepson of a corrupt landlord, about the Critters. As this happens, a Critter lays eggs under the family's car and the family leaves, unknowingly taking the eggs with them. Soon after they arrive at their tenement, the Critters hatch and attack the sleazy maintenance man, Frank. When the landlord arrives, he too is eaten by the Critters. Josh locks the landlord in Clifford's room, unknowingly trapping his stepfather with the creatures.

Next, one of the residents is attacked and wounded. Annie, her family and five others (including Josh) try to get to safety in one piece by getting to the roof of the building. Charlie arrives and destroys the remaining Critters, saving the remaining tenants. The film ends in a cliffhanger as Charlie is about to destroy two Critter eggs, but is ordered not to and a containment pod sent from the Intergalactic Council crashes into the basement.

Cast
Cary Elwes mentioned on the commentary for the uncut edition DVD of Saw that he passed on the role of Josh.
 * Leonardo DiCaprio as Josh
 * Aimee Brooks as Annie
 * Don Keith Opper as Charlie MacFadden
 * John Calvin as Clifford
 * Nina Axelrod as Betty Briggs
 * William Dennis Hunt as Briggs
 * Geoffrey Blake as Frank
 * Christian & Joseph Cousins as Johnny
 * Terrence Mann as Ug
 * Jose Luis Valenzuela as Mario
 * Diana Bellamy as Rosalie
 * Katherine Cortez as Marcia
 * Frances Bay as Mrs. Menges
 * Bill Zuckert as Mr. Menges
 * William Hanna as Critter's screams and shrieks

Release
The film was released as a direct to video by New Line Home Video on December 11, 1991. New Line Home Entertainment released it on DVD in 2003. The film was re-released in a set containing four films on DVD by Warner Bros. in 2010.

Scream Factory, a subsidiary of Shout! Factory, released the four films as part of "The Critters Collection" on Blu-ray. The set was available from November 27, 2018.

Reception
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 0%, based on reviews from seven critics, with an average rating of 2.8/10.

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MMT Observatory

The MMT Observatory (MMTO) is an astronomical observatory on the site of Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (IAU observatory code 696). The Whipple observatory complex is located on Mount Hopkins, Arizona, US (55 km south of Tucson) in the Santa Rita Mountains. The observatory is operated by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian Institution, and has a visitor center in nearby Amado, Arizona. The MMTO is the home of the MMT (formerly Multiple Mirror Telescope), which has a primary mirror 6.5 m in diameter. The name comes from the six smaller mirrors originally used before the single primary mirror was installed in 1998. The primary mirror has a special lightweight honeycomb design made by the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory. The MMT is housed in a building which allows the walls and roof around the telescope to be completely rolled back, allowing it to cool down very quickly in order to improve observation.

Multiple Mirror Telescope (1979–1998)
The Multiple Mirror Telescope operated between 1979 and 1998 with six honeycombed borosilicate mirrors by Corning, each with a diameter of 72 inch, which were donated by the NRO after cancellation of the reconnaissance mission KH-10 (codename DORIAN) based on the Manned Orbiting Laboratory. These mirrors were providing the equivalent gathering area of a 4.5-meter telescope, making it the third largest optical telescope in the world at the time of its dedication. It featured ambitious design innovations including its unusual optical design proposed by Aden Meinel, a co-rotating building and an altitude-azimuth mount.

With the exception of the Large Altazimuth Telescope and William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, major optical telescopes prior to the MMT used equatorial mounts. The MMT heralded a change in telescope design; all major optical telescopes since the MMT have been built with altitude-azimuth mounts. Several technologies pioneered at the MMT contributed to the success of the subsequent generation of large telescopes. These included: high dynamic-range servos for the altitude-azimuth mount; highly accurate pointing that eliminated the need for sky charts; co-alignment and co-phasing of multiple telescopes; improvements to optical performance by attention to the thermal environment of the facility; contributions to vacuum coatings deposition, optics cleaning, and maintenance; and early experiments in co-phased adaptive optics.

MMT (1998–present)
One of the reasons for its original multiple mirror design was the difficulty of casting large mirrors. One solution to this problem was found by Roger Angel of Steward Observatory, of the University of Arizona, who cast mirrors with a honeycomb structure in the interior of a rotating oven. This made it possible to replace the six mirrors with a single 6.5-meter one. The original building and part of the structure could be reused. The new mirror was the first of its size to be cast and polished in the Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory. The updated MMT, its name no longer an acronym, was rededicated on 20 May 2000.

In late 2002, a novel deformable secondary mirror was added to the telescope. While other adaptive optics designs do their corrections with additional mirrors, minimizing the number of warm surfaces in the light path produces better results in infrared wavelengths. The MMT AO system contributed to the design of the Large Binocular Telescope, which achieved record breaking Strehl ratios with its AO system in 2010.

From 2004 to 2010, approximately 8% of MMT observing time was made accessible to the entire astronomical community via the US National Science Foundation's Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP), administered by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO).

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TESF Mods

 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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 05:45, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

TESF Mods
It's a Who's Who of the moderators a discussion forum. Wikipedia is not a resource for conducting business. It is not a place for discussion forum users to maintain membership rosters for their discussion forum. Moreover, this is part of a series of articles under the heading The Official TES Forums Wiki. Wikipedia is not a hosting service. Uncle G 04:05:57, 2005-08-22 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. Jaxl | talk 04:14, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. Dottore So 05:19, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator — Linnwood 05:45, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. Thatdog 08:30, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. - Mgm|(talk) 08:43, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unclear what whole "TES"/"TESF" thing is; presumably vanity. Page has since been blanked by creator. Steve Summit (talk) 19:09, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy? if creator has blanked. Vegaswikian 05:20, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
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Critters 4

Critters 4 is a 1992 American science fiction comedy horror film starring Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann, Angela Bassett and Brad Dourif. It is the fourth installment in the Critters franchise, filmed simultaneously with part three, from February to July 1991. Unlike the first three films, this installment adopts a darker, less-comedic tone, and takes place not on Earth, but on a space station in the year 2045.

Plot
Picking up where the previous film left off, Charlie McFadden is stopped from destroying two Krite eggs by a hologram message from Ug, who tells him the eggs are the last two in existence, and that destroying them would go against intergalactic law. Charlie reluctantly obeys Ug's orders, and goes to place the eggs in a preservation pod that suddenly falls from the sky. Whilst doing so, however, the hatch closes on him and Charlie is launched into space, becoming deep-frozen in the process.

Over a half-century later, in 2045, the crew of the salvage ship RSS Tesla finds the pod in deep space and bring it aboard. The ship is crewed by the shady and lecherous Captain Rick Buttram, along with his eccentric engineer Al "Albert" Bert, pilot Fran, cargo specialist Bernie, and young engineer apprentice Ethan. After reporting their find, the ship gets a communication from Councilor Tetra of TerraCor, who offers Buttram three times the going rate if he brings the pod to a nearby station. The crew accepts, and decide to go to the station, only to find the facility abandoned, with the only sign of life being a malfunctioning central computer named "Angela" that only obeys orders when given the exact opposite instruction.

Ethan later stumbles upon Rick tampering with the pod, with Rick saying that he plans to take whatever is inside for himself and leave the others behind. Ethan expresses disapproval, and Rick knocks him unconscious with a fire extinguisher before he manages to open the pod. In it, he encounters Charlie, who quickly jumps out, before Rick is attacked and killed by the newly hatched Krites.

After the Krites flee, Charlie revives Ethan, before he eventually meets up with the rest of the crew. Charlie explains who he is and warns the crew about the Krites, but Bernie refuses to believe him and heads off. Ethan then uses a computer keycard he found earlier to access a report made by Dr. McCormick, who reveals that she was conducting research on various alien organisms for use as a bioweapon. Her creations however could not reproduce on their own and she requested finding a suitable organism capable of rapid reproduction. After realizing what has been going on aboard the station, Albert strongly suggests they all leave it immediately.

Later, Bernie is attacked and killed by the Krites in the station's pharmacy. After the others find his remains, Angela announces that the reactor is leaking radiation and will go critical within hours, and starts sealing off sections of the station. The crew later discover a clutch of freshly laid Krite eggs, and learn the Krites are breeding. Meanwhile, the Krites make their way to the Tesla and program the ship to head for the nearest inhabited planet – Earth. One Krite goes to retrieve the eggs while the rest prepare the ship for take-off. The crew then arrives and encounter the Krites, upon which Charlie shoots and kills them, only to inadvertedly destroy the flight controls in the process.

Whilst the crew tries to repair the ship, Ethan heads off to hunt down the last Krite himself, and finds it using equipment in the science lab to rapidly grow several baby Krites to full size. Ethan runs to warn the others just as a Terracor ship arrives, carrying Tetra, Ug and other troopers, whom hold the surviving crew at gunpoint. Tetra demands the Krite eggs, and shoots and kills Albert when he tries to talk back. Charlie expresses despair over Ug's sudden change in alignment, to which Ug says "things change" and orders his troops to go find the eggs.

Ethan, having secretly witnessed Albert's murder, runs back to the science lab and sets up a trap for the troops by having Angela trap them behind sliding doors, whereupon the Krites attack and kill them. Ethan then retrieves three of the Krite eggs from the tunnel, and deliberately breaks two of them in front of Tetra. Enraged, Tetra threatens to kill Fran, but Ethan tosses the last egg as a distraction before Fran uses Ethan's revolver to knock Tetra unconscious.

Charlie and Fran rush aboard Tetra's ship to escape, but Ethan gets distracted when a Krite attacks him, forcing him to freeze it with a fuel hose. Tetra suddenly appears and holds him at gunpoint, but Charlie rescues him and shoots Tetra in the head, before the survivors manage to escape mere seconds before the station explodes, rendering the Krites extinct as Charlie, Fran and Ethan fly their ship towards Earth.

Cast

 * Don Keith Opper as Charlie McFadden
 * Terrence Mann as Ug / Counselor Tetra
 * Angela Bassett as Fran
 * Brad Dourif as Al 'Albert' Bert
 * Anne Ramsay as Dr. McCormick
 * Paul Whitthorne as Ethan
 * Anders Hove as Captain Rick Buttram
 * Eric Da Re as Bernie
 * Martine Beswick as the voice of Angela
 * Jonas Brindley as Dr. Franky

Release
Critters 4 was released on VHS on September 1, 1998, by New Line Home Entertainment. The film was released on DVD on September 13, 2005, by Warner Home Video. Critters 4 was re-released in a set containing all four Critters films on DVD September 7, 2010, by Warner Home Video.

Shout! Factory released the four films as part of "The Critters Collection" on Blu-ray. The set was released on November 27, 2018.

Web series
Warner Bros. produced a reboot web series based on the Critters films. Critters: A New Binge premiered on Shudder on March 21, 2019.

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I Was Monty's Double

I Was Monty's Double (released in the US as The Counterfeit General Montgomery ) is a book by M. E. Clifton James, first published in London in 1954. It was made into a film in 1958, directed by John Guillermin, from a screenplay adapted by Bryan Forbes. It tells the story of Operation Copperhead: James had an uncanny resemblance to Bernard Montgomery in real life, and he was used to impersonate Montgomery to confuse the Germans during the Second World War.

Film vs book
The film broadly follows the account by James in his book of the same name, but according to James, there was no attempt to kidnap him. The German High Command did plan to have him killed, but Hitler vetoed the plan until he could be sure where the landings would actually take place.

Gibraltar was in reality a hotbed of German agents, and James/Montgomery was spied on by several operatives who were smuggled into Gibraltar specifically to discover what "Monty" was up to. James/Montgomery deliberately talked nonsense about non-existent operations and plans, in the hope that the spies would overhear and take such information seriously. According to some accounts, the plan was brought to an abrupt end when James, still in disguise as Montgomery, was seen in public drunk and smoking, while the real Montgomery was a teetotaling non-smoker.

Satires

 * The Goon Show broadcast a parody episode entitled I Was Monty's Treble on 10 November 1958 (9th series, show 2).
 * In 1959, Cecil Parker and Leslie Phillips appeared in a spoof version, The Night We Dropped a Clanger (known as Make Mine a Double in the U.S.), alongside Brian Rix.
 * The 1961 film On the Double, starring Danny Kaye, was also a take-off of I Was Monty's Double, in which Kaye plays the twin roles of the General and the private who (comically but successfully) impersonates him.
 * The 1989 Jason Connery film Casablanca Express freely borrows from the original tale, but with Churchill as the kidnap target. Glenn Ford appears briefly as a character resembling Gen. Williams.
 * British satirical magazine Private Eye carried a spoof version of the War Picture Library graphic novels entitled "Battle for Britain", a satire on then-current British political issues, most notably the miners' strike. The author was credited as "Monty Stubble", a pun on Monty's Double.

Since 2010, the name 'Monty's Double' has been adopted by the actor Colin Brooks-Williams as the identity for his popular Montgomery lookalike and impersonation act, with which he tours 1940s-themed events nationwide as a tribute to Montgomery and James. Brooks-Williams has registered the name 'Monty's Double' as his professional stage name with the actor's union 'Equity' and carries the name on his Equity membership card.

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Atago Station

Atago Station the name of two train stations in Japan:

 * Atago Station (Miyagi) (愛宕駅), Miyagi Prefecture
 * Atago Station (Chiba) (愛宕駅), Chiba Prefecture

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Bonaire (disambiguation)

Bonaire is an island in the Caribbean Sea, that forms part of the Netherlands.

Bonaire may also refer to:

 * Bonaire, Georgia, an unincorporated town in the United States
 * HNLMS Bonaire, a steamship of the Royal Netherlands Navy

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The Progressive Populist

The Progressive Populist is a magazine in tabloid newspaper format published twice monthly. Founded in 1995, the magazine is based in Storm Lake, Iowa, with editorial offices in Manchaca, Texas. The editor is James M. Cullen, managing editor is Art Cullen and the publisher is John Cullen.

The magazine labels itself as "A Journal from America's Heartland." It deals with political and economic topics of interest to "workers, small businesses, and family farmers and ranchers"; according to its "About" page, the journal "report[s] on issues of interest to the middle class of America."

The magazine publishes original and syndicated columns of progressive journalists and pundits.

From October 31, 2010, to February 2, 2012, The Progressive Populist had a partnership with Vicki Nikolaidis to produce an Internet radio show via Blogtalkradio. For the first two editions of the program, held on October 31 and November 11, the show was called The Progressive Politics Show and was hosted on Asnycnow Radio One. The show was renamed Talking Progressive Politics and moved to the Populist's BTR service since November 17, 2010. The final show associated with the Populist aired on January 5, 2012, and the show continued until its final broadcast on February 2, 2012. The show has since been canceled. All past broadcasts have been pulled from Blogtalkradio and Vicki Nikolaidis has moved on to the Politics Daily show with BostonRed.

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The Hampdenshire Wonder

The Hampdenshire Wonder is a science fiction novel by J. D. Beresford, first published 1911. It is one of the first novels to involve a wunderkind (child prodigy). The child, Victor Stott, is the son of a famous cricket player. This origin is perhaps a reference to H. G. Wells's father Joseph Wells, a cricketer. The novel concerns his progress from infant to almost preternaturally clever child. Victor Stott is deformed subtly to allow for his powerful brain. A prominent, and unpleasant, character is the local minister. As Beresford's father was a minister, and Beresford was himself partially disabled, some see autobiographical aspects to the story. However this is unproven.

What is more definite is that the story of Christian Heinrich Heineken (1721..1725) was an inspiration for the story. Whether the biography of that child prodigy was accurate or not, "the Lubeck prodigy" is mentioned in the work. In the original version, the progressionist ideas of Henri Bergson concerning evolution were a significant influence.

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Talk:Taffy

=Split= I propose we split this page into several pages: The main taffy page should be a disambiguation followed by a page for the candy taffy and a page for the ethnic Welsh slur, followed by the Mars Attacks reference on the dis. page.--Elysianfields 04:08, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Van Halen/archive2

Van Halen
This article has undergone significant editing and revision in the last five months. I believe the main objections have been rectified and this article is very ready to go through the FA process again. --Chevan 02:04, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Could the paragraphs under "(Dec 2005 - Present) Hiatus Again..." be written like the rest of the article in prose, not in timeline form? I believe Hiatus and Again should also be decaptalized, per WP:MoS. Also, note Make_only_links_relevant_to_the_context; years with full dates should be linked, like "October 7, 2005" (but not "1980" and "1981"!). AndyZ 00:22, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

 * My first suggestion would be to go over to recommendations through the Featured Music Project. I noted that a review has been made of the page, and I agree with the suggestions.  Just about all the new FAC music articles have some sort of sound sample.  As well, the FMP noted there were no outside references, i.e. books, referenced in the article, although Van Halen has had numerous biographies, official magazines, and music entries over the years.

 * Personally, I think the article is a bit wordy, and at times sounds more like a "VH1 Behind the Music" special than an encyclopedia entry. Some examples, "The commercial success that Van Halen reached with Sammy Hagar set high expectations — and fans everywhere were watching and waiting for the band's next move" sounds odd.  "By 1980, Van Halen was perhaps the world's most successful and influential hard rock band" sets yourself up for arguments by fans of Led Zep, AC/DC, and others who might feel there were other more successful and influential hard rock bands.  Similar unsourced opinions slip through the article, like "5150 is generally considered the strongest album of the "Hagar era." and "A left over track entitled "That's Why I Love You" found its way onto the internet, leaving fans to wonder why it didn't make the album." are two other quick examples, although there are others.  Also, the article is very wordy, i.e., "By September, however, David Lee Roth and the rest of the band were asked to present an award at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards. On September 4, 1996, the four original members of Van Halen made their first public appearance together in over eleven years, presenting an award at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards."  Essentially, both sentences repeat the same thing.

 * I think that the article is there information-wise, but the writing needs a complete copyedit. Work on eliminating duplicate words, opinions, and POV.  Otherwise, an informative article on a major rock influence.

 * Hope this is helpful. Best of luck!

--Ataricodfish 16:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

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Someone offer me some support. I've done major work, but progress is slow (The Elfoid 18:02, 18 May 2007 (UTC))
 * Message me on my talk page if you wish for me to highlight specific concerns with the article, and I'll review it with a fine toothcomb. LuciferMorgan 00:43, 31 May 2007 (UTC)


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Lahn-Dill

Lahn-Dill is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 171. It is located in western Hesse, comprising the Lahn-Dill-Kreis district and a small part of the Gießen district.

Lahn-Dill was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Dagmar Schmidt of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Geography
Lahn-Dill is located in western Hesse. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the Lahn-Dill-Kreis district and the municipalities of Biebertal and Wettenberg from the Gießen district.

History
Lahn-Dill was created in 1949, then known as Wetzlar. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the 1949 election, it was Hesse constituency 7 in the numbering system. In the 1953 through 1976 elections, it was number 132. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 130. In 2002 and 2005, it was number 174. In the 2009 election, it was number 173. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 172. From the 2025 election, it has been number 171.

Originally, the constituency comprised the districts of Wetzlar and Dillkreis. In the 1980 through 1998 elections, it comprised the Lahn-Dill-Kreis district as well as, from the Gießen district, the municipalities of Biebertal and Wettenberg and the Stadtteil of Lützellinden from Gießen municipality. In the 2002 election, it lost the Stadtteil of Lützellinden.

Members
The constituency was first represented by Karl Gaul of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 1949 to 1953. Wilhelm Reitz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was elected in 1953 and served until 1969. He was succeeded by fellow SPD members Helmut Kater until 1976 and Klaus Daubertshäuser until 1983. Christian Lenzer of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was elected in 1983, but former member Daubertshäuser regained the constituency in 1987 and served a further two terms. He was succeeded by fellow party member Erika Lotz in 1994, who served until 2002. Helga Lopez of the SPD served from 2005 to 2009, when Sibylle Pfeiffer of the CDU won the constituency. She was succeeded by Hans-Jürgen Irmer in 2017. Dagmar Schmidt regained it for the SPD in 2021.

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Main-Taunus

Main-Taunus is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 180. It is located in southern Hesse, comprising the Main-Taunus-Kreis district and small parts of the Hochtaunuskreis district.

Main-Taunus was created for the 2002 federal election. Since 2017, it has been represented by Norbert Altenkamp of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Geography
Main-Taunus is located in southern Hesse. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Main-Taunus-Kreis district as well as the municipalities of Königstein im Taunus, Kronberg im Taunus, and Steinbach (Taunus) from the Hochtaunuskreis district.

History
Main-Taunus was created in 2002. In the 2002 and 2005 elections, it was constituency 182 in the numbering system. In the 2009 through 2021 elections, it was number 181. From the 2025 election, it has been number 180. Its borders have not changed since its creation.

Members
The constituency was first represented by Heinz Riesenhuber of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2002 to 2005 to 2017. Norbert Altenkamp of the CDU was elected in 2017.

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Sunrise River

The Sunrise River is a 39.1 mi tributary of the St. Croix River in east–central Minnesota in the United States. It originates within the boundaries of the Comfort Lake - Forest Lake Watershed District near the city of Forest Lake in Washington County. Its headwaters are considered several small tributaries that flow into and contribute to Forest Lake, the longest of which is the Washington Judicial Ditch 6. From the outflow from Forest Lake, the river flows north, accepting the South Branch from the west near the city of Wyoming, and continues north into Mud Lake, where the West Branch, which rises in southeast Isanti County and briefly enters Anoka County, joins it near the city of Stacy. From Stacy it flows generally north-northwest through Chisago County to meet the St. Croix River within Wild River State Park near the communities of Sunrise and Almelund. Not far upstream from its mouth, the Sunrise collects its North Branch, which rises in Isanti County and flows through the city of North Branch.

Sunrise River is the English translation of the native Ojibwe-language name, "Memokage zibi. Keep sunrising river."

There is a dam on the Sunrise River. The Sunrise River watershed spans 381 square miles in Isanti, Pine, Chisago, Washington, and Anoka counties.

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Schwalm-Eder

Schwalm-Eder is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 169. It is located in northern Hesse, comprising the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis district and the southern part of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district.

Schwalm-Eder was created for the inaugural 1949 federal election. Since 2009, it has been represented by Edgar Franke of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Geography
Schwalm-Eder is located in northern Hesse. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the entirety of the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis district and the municipalities of Allendorf (Eder), Battenberg (Eder), Bromskirchen, Burgwald, Frankenau, Frankenberg, Gemünden (Wohra), Haina, Hatzfeld, Rosenthal, and Vöhl from the Waldeck-Frankenberg district.

History
Schwalm-Eder was created in 1949, then known as Fritzlar-Homberg. In the 1976 election, it was named Fritzlar. It acquired its current name in the 1980 election. In the 1949 election, it was Hesse constituency 4 in the numbering system. In the 1953 through 1976 elections, it was number 129. From 1980 through 1998, it was number 127. In 2002 and 2005, it was number 172. In the 2009 election, it was number 171. In the 2013 through 2021 elections, it was number 170. From the 2025 election, it has been number 169.

Originally, the constituency comprised the districts of Frankenberg, Fritzlar-Homberg, and Ziegenhain. In the 1965 and 1969 elections, it also contained the municipality of Schiffelbach from the Landkreis Marburg district. In the 1972 election, it comprised the districts of Frankenberg and Fritzlar-Homberg, the municipality of Breitenbach am Herzberg from the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district, the municipality of Schiffelbach from the Landkreis Marburg district, and the Ortsteile of Berfa, Hattendorf, and Lingelbach in Alsfeld municipality from the Vogelsbergkreis district. In the 1976 election, it acquired borders similar to its current configuration, but excluding the municipalities of Felsberg, Guxhagen, Körle, Malsfeld, Melsungen, Morschen, and Spangenberg from Schwalm-Eder-Kreis. It acquired its current borders in the 2002 election.

Members
The constituency has been held by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during all but three Bundestag terms since its creation. It was first represented by August-Martin Euler of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 1949 to 1957, followed by Kurt Wittmer-Eigenbrodt of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) until 1961. Harri Bading of the SPD was elected in 1961 and served two terms. He was succeeded by Heinz Kreutzmann, who served from 1969 to 1983. Albert Pfuhl was then representative from 1983 to 1994, followed by Gerd Höfer until 2009. Edgar Franke was elected in 2009, and re-elected in 2013, 2017, and 2021.

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Brooklyn Commons

Brooklyn Commons, formerly MetroTech Center, is a business and educational center in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City.

Location
Brooklyn Commons lies between Flatbush Avenue Extension and Jay Street, north of the Fulton Street Mall and south of Tillary Street, close to Brooklyn's Civic Center (Borough Hall and the courts) and Brooklyn Heights. The complex is above the Jay Street–MetroTech station of the New York City Subway, served by the.

It is the nation's largest urban academic-industrial research park.

History
The 1980s and 1990s were a period of major large-scale development activity and renewal in Downtown Brooklyn. The MetroTech Center office complex was at the center of this revitalization and within walking distance of several other major development projects including Pierrepont Plaza, the Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Atlantic Terminal Mall, and Renaissance Plaza. MetroTech was controversial when it was created because it involved the demolition of over 100 homes and 50 businesses.

As part of an effort to resuscitate Downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s, George Bugliarello, a professor at the nearby Polytechnic Institute, had advanced an idea to create a center for research and development along the lines of the development then starting in Silicon Valley in California. About a decade later the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, like several other scientific and engineering organizations, was unsuccessfully seeking locations for expansion in Manhattan matching their needs and budget. When the AIAA chose to relocate to Washington D.C. due to lack of suitable space in New York, Bugliarello, who had by then become the President of Polytechnic, decided to try again to put his idea of a technology-centered development in Brooklyn into action.

A few years later, New York City agreed to designate what had then become Polytechnic University as the main sponsor of the urban renewal project that would become MetroTech, under the condition that there would be at least two other tenants. The city and Polytechnic chose Forest City Enterprises as the project's main developer based on its years of experience, commitment to stay in the area, and financial capacity. Forest City's co-founder Bruce Ratner and Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden put together a public-private partnership and quickly redefined the MetroTech vision from a research and development park to a campus-centered back-office complex.

As Forest City negotiated with Morgan Stanley, two other major corporate players were being considered for the site: the Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) and Brooklyn Union Gas. SIAC decided to move to MetroTech because the site was on a separate power grid from Manhattan's, which meant their operations would be safe if Manhattan experienced a power failure, as had happened in the New York City blackout of 1977. The move that sealed the decision to build the MetroTech vision begun by Bugliarello was convincing Chase Manhattan Bank (now JPMorgan Chase) to relocate its back-office operations there.

The 1980s and 1990s were a period of major large-scale development activity and renewal in Downtown Brooklyn. The MetroTech Center office complex was at the center of this revitalization and within walking distance of several other major development projects including Pierrepont Plaza, the Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Atlantic Terminal Mall, and Renaissance Plaza. MetroTech was controversial when it was created because it involved the demolition of over 100 homes and 50 businesses.

MetroTech Center was formed in 1992 by making a 16 acre rectangle of downtown Brooklyn into a superblock (bounded by Jay Street, Johnson Street, Flatbush Avenue, and Myrtle Avenue), to allow the erection of new office buildings and parking garages. Dozens of older buildings had to be demolished in order to clear this space for the construction of the new center. The entire area was designated a pedestrian zone, and, as a consequence, the north ends of Lawrence and Duffield Streets were closed to automobile traffic.

From 2000 to 2016, the MetroTech complex generated more than $1 billion in new investment, representing more than five million square feet of new space. In 2017, New York University announced that it would invest over $500 million in its Brooklyn Campus that mainly includes the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Center for Urban Science and Progress.

In 2018, Brookfield Properties purchased the MetroTech complex. In 2022, Brookfield Properties announced that MetroTech would be renamed Brooklyn Commons. The private plaza at MetroTech Commons was renamed Brooklyn Commons Park, and James Corner Field Operations was hired to renovate the plaza. Brookfield also announced that One MetroTech, Two MetroTech, and Fifteen MetroTech would be substantially renovated, with new lobbies, retail spaces, and terraces. The work was budgeted at $50 million, and the project was scheduled to be completed in 2023.

Brooklyn Commons Park
Brooklyn Commons Park (formerly MetroTech Commons) is the 3.5 acre privately owned public space at the heart of the Brooklyn Commons complex. It hosts events including concerts, health fairs, chess tournaments and holiday celebrations. Theater performances, an ice-skating rink, and children's activities are also offered at the facility.

Bounded by Lawrence and Duffield Streets, the square is frequently adorned by modern art exhibits. Two pieces called Alligator and Visionary are part of the Commons' permanent public art collection. Designed by sculptor Tom Otterness, they were installed in 1998.

Notable tenants
The early occupants included JPMorgan Chase, the New York City Fire Department, the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Verizon Human Resources, Keyspan Energy (now National Grid), Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, the New York City College of Technology and the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Later tenants include MakerBot Industries, the Brooklyn Nets, Slate magazine, the Ms. Foundation for Women, El Diario La Prensa, Robert Half International, and UniWorld Group. The NYU Tandon School of Engineering, previously named Polytechnic Institute, and later Polytechnic University, was one of MetroTech's founding institutions. The Marriott Hotel at Brooklyn Bridge is located across Jay Street. The MetroTech Business Improvement District, a non-profit organization, provides sanitation, marketing, and events programming services.
 * ImpreMedia has its headquarters on the 18th floor of 1 MetroTech Center. El Diario La Prensa, a newspaper of ImpreMedia, has its offices on the same floor.
 * MakerBot Industries has its headquarters on the 21st floor of 1 MetroTech Center.
 * National Grid, the gas utility company, has offices in the MetroTech complex.
 * The New York City Fire Department has its headquarters in 9 MetroTech Center, which has eight stories and 360000 sqft of space.
 * New York University's campus includes the building at 370 Jay Street, within MetroTech Center.
 * TransCare Corporation had its headquarters in 1 MetroTech Center.

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