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Trail Motorsport

Trail Motorsports (formerly HighLine Performance Group, FitzBradshaw Racing and Fitz Motorsports) was a NASCAR team based in Mooresville, North Carolina, near Charlotte. The team was owned by Armando Fitz and Art Shelton, and was previously co-owned by Fitz's former wife Mimi. The team was known as the HighLine Performance Group until the end of the 2001 season, when they teamed up with Terry Bradshaw and formally created FitzBradshaw Racing. At the end of the 2004 season FBR announced that it was partnering with Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, which gave them access to more technical and engineering support. In addition to that partnership they also switched manufacturers from Chevrolet to Dodge. The team also formed a partnership with Michael Waltrip Racing for the 2006 season. Bradshaw left the organization at the end of the 2006 season. The team changed its name to Trail Motorsports in early 2009 after Shelton came on board. The team fielded the No. 22 Dodge Charger for Johnny Borneman III in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, the No. 32 Chevrolet Silverado for Chase Austin in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, and the No. 58 Chevrolet Impala driven by Jarit Johnson, younger brother of seven-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, in the Camping World East Series.

Sprint Cup Series
While the team was called FitzBradshaw, Trail briefly ran a Cup operation in 2002 with Kerry Earnhardt driving No. 83 RacingUSA.com/Aaron's Chevrolet. The car was fielded with support from Dale Earnhardt, Inc. The team had planned to run full-time in Cup by 2004. Earnhardt failed in each of his attempts, due to rain cancelling qualifying at all three events. Ron Hornaday Jr. qualified for that year's Checker Auto Parts 500, finishing 36th. Earnhardt attempted three more races in 2003 with sponsorship from Aaron's, Supercuts, and Hot Tamales, but also failed to qualify.

Beginnings
Armando Fitz's team started as a two-car operation during the 2001 season. He and his wife, Mimi, purchased the team from Team SABCO, owned by his father-in-law and current Sprint Cup Series co-owner Felix Sabates at the end of the 2000 season. The team, then known as the HighLine Performance Group ran the No. 8 Chevrolet and No. 11 Chevrolet. Blaise Alexander began the season in the No. 8 car, but after four races, the team cut back to a part-time schedule. Frank Kimmel, Jeff Falk, Michael Dokken, Jason Rudd, Mario Hernandez, Mark Voigt, and Josh Richeson all shared time in the car over the season, with the No. 8 team finishing 42nd in owner's points. Marty Houston drove the newly renumbered No. 11 car at the beginning of the year, his best finish being a 13th at the NAPA Auto Parts 300, but he was replaced by Ron Hornaday Jr. after the Outback Steakhouse 300. Hornaday had two top-tens but was released before the season was over, and was replaced by Todd Bodine who had one top-five in three races at the end of the season. Andy Santerre and Tim Fedewa also ran races in the car. The No. 11 car ended 21st in owner points, with Bodine finishing 29th in points.

Car No. 12/22 history

In 2002, the newly formed FitzBradshaw Racing signed Supercuts, 10-10-220, Hot Tamales, and Jani-King as sponsors and Kerry Earnhardt as the driver of the team's No. 12 Chevrolet. The team also formed a technical alliance with Dale Earnhardt, Inc., receiving engines and engineering support from DEI. Earnhardt had two top-fives and finished 22nd in points. Earnhardt did not have a top-ten finish in 2003, and was released after the Tropicana Twister 300. Tim Fedewa, who had been Earnhardt's spotter since 2002, and crew chief for a single race, replaced him for the balance of the season. Fedewa finished in the top-20 eight times. Fedewa had five top-tens in 2004, and finished sixteenth in points. Fedewa struggled in 2005, and did not finish in the top-ten, causing him to be released after Pikes Peak. Joel Kauffman, Paul Wolfe, Carlos Contreras, Kertus Davis, Sterling Marlin, and Steadman Marlin all shared the ride for the rest of the season. In 2006, the No. 12 car has seen several different drivers through the first 25 races of the season. Joel Kauffman was slated to run the full schedule for the team this year, however after struggling the team scaled back his schedule. David Reutimann ran the car at Daytona because Kauffman had not received approval for superspeedway racing. Tracy Hines and Mike Skinner drove the car in multiple races. For the 2007 season, Fitz Motorsports switched to the No. 22 and signed David Stremme and Mike Bliss as their principal drivers. Both drivers had great success in the No. 22, with Bliss scoring the team's best finish of second at Memphis. When the team came to Montreal for the inaugural NAPA Auto Parts 200, the team - in a last-second decision - placed Canadian CART regular Patrick Carpentier in the car. Carpentier won the pole position for the race and charged from 6th with less than 2 laps to go to finish second to Kevin Harvick.

Bliss returned in 2008 to drive full-time, but left for Phoenix Racing after six races, and was replaced by various Cup drivers including Robby Gordon and Reed Sorenson. Michael Waltrip Racing development driver Josh Wise became the new driver for thirteen races with one top-five finish. Of note, Fitz switched temporarily to Toyota during Wise's runs with the team. A wide variety of drivers including ex-Champ Car driver Andrew Ranger, 2008 Daytona 500 winner Ryan Newman, Jarit Johnson, and Joe Gibbs Racing development driver Marc Davis, took over for the rest of the season. This team shut down in early 2009.

Car No. 36 history
The team expanded to two cars in 2003 halfway through the season as the United States Navy came aboard to sponsor the No. 14 for nine races. Casey Atwood debuted the car at Kentucky Speedway, bringing it home in 9th place. Atwood ran 11 races that year, posting four top-ten finishes. Atwood came back in 2004, and had seven top-tens, when he was dismissed after Lowe's. His immediate replacement was Dave Blaney for one race, with Braun Racing's David Stremme named as his permanent replacement. As part of the arrangement to bring Stremme to the team, FitzBradshaw agreed to align themselves with Chip Ganassi Racing, who had him under contract as part of a driver development deal. This would allow the team to finish the season as a Chevrolet team, but beginning the next year both the No. 12 and the No. 14 would switch to Dodge as Ganassi's team was fielding the vehicles at the time.

Stremme ran the No. 14 full-time in 2005, and had ten top-tens, finishing 13th in points, before moving up to compete in the NEXTEL Cup series. Tracy Hines was hired to run in the No. 14 Dodge for the 2006 season, however sponsorship issues forced the team to compete on a limited basis. Steadman Marlin competed for the team in two races and A. J. Foyt IV competed in one race for the team. It was announced in July 2006 that Family Dollar would sponsor the car for nine races and the team would feature Ricky Craven, Carlos Contreras, and Mike Skinner as drivers. Fitz Motorsports changed the car number to No. 44 for 2007 and Rubén Pardo qualified for the team's first race at the Telcel-Motorola México 200, followed up by another start at Nashville Superspeedway. Mike Bliss also drove the No. 44 with Family Dollar sponsorship at Lowe's Motor Speedway in May 2007. For 2008, Kenny Wallace was signed to drive the No. 36 with sponsorship from Shark Energy Drink. Although Wallace missed the season opener at Daytona, he ran all following races until owner Armando Fitz announced on March 17 that the No. 36 team would only run part-time due to a lack of product distribution, and the owner points of the 36 were switched the No. 28 of Wallace's new team. The No. 36 began running part-time with Pardo and Charles Lewandoski driving midway through the season.

Car No. 40 history
The third FitzBradshaw car made its debut in 2003, with Jimmy Spencer driving the No. 82 Jani-King Chevrolet at Texas, finishing sixth. Casey Atwood attempted the Charlotte spring race in the No. 82 NAVY Chevrolet, failing to qualify. Atwood later drove the car at the Tropicana Twister 300 sponsored by Jani-King, finishing 21st. Randy LaJoie drove the car again at Phoenix, finishing 14th. LaJoie continued to run the car part-time in 2004 with sponsorship from Jani-King and Goulds Pumps, his best finish being 13th at Las Vegas. Dave Blaney also ran two races in the car.

In 2005, the team became a driver development team for Chip Ganassi Racing, and switched to Ganassi's No. 40 with sponsorship from Jani-King and Cottman Transmission. Sterling Marlin began the season with the team, with Carlos Contreras and Ganassi development driver Scott Lagasse Jr. filling in. Towards the end of the season, Contreras, Paul Wolfe, and Erin Crocker got majority of the starts in the car. Reed Sorenson ran the Aaron's 312 at Atlanta in March in the car after the transmission on his regular No. 41 Discount Tire car mysteriously locked up during qualifying for the race. For 2006, Michael Waltrip purchased the team's owners points and began a partnership with FBR to run the No. 99 Aaron's Dodge.

Other series
In addition to the Busch Series, Fitz Motorsports operated race teams in other series as well. In 2007, they fielded entries in the NASCAR Busch East Series with Ruben Pardo as the team's driver, with Pierre Borque racing on a part-time basis, and the NASCAR Mexico Series, where Carlos Pardo drove the team's FitzContreras Racing entry, along with development driver Maxime Dumarey.

In 2007, the team partnered with Hyper Sport to race in the Grand-Am Road Racing series.

Ruben Pardo raced in 2008 in the East Series for Fitz. For 2009, former Rusty Wallace Racing driver Chase Austin was to drive the No. 32 Chevrolet in the Camping World Truck Series and Jarit Johnson, younger brother of seven time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, was to drive in the Camping World East Series. However, the team shut down before their plans could come to fruition.

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Maurice Ross

Maurice Alexander Ross (born 3 February 1981) is a Scottish football coach and a former player who is the assistant head coach at Fleetwood Town.

Ross made his first senior appearance in professional football in February 2000 and played for eleven different clubs: Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Millwall, Viking, Kocaelispor, Aberdeen, Beijing Guoan, Motherwell, Livingston and FK Vidar. In his time with Rangers he won all the domestic honours in Scotland. He played predominantly at right back and was capped by the Scotland national team 13 times.

Club
Ross joined Rangers as a trainee and made his senior debut in a 7–1 defeat of home town team Dundee, in February 2000. He captained the Rangers Under-21s to a reserve league championship win during 2000–01 but it was not until the 2002–03 season, under Alex McLeish, that he established himself on the first team. A highlight was scoring the opening goal of the 2005 Scottish League Cup Final.

Despite signing a four-year deal with Rangers in 2003, by August 2005 Ross had fallen out of favour at Rangers and was given a free transfer and moved on to Sheffield Wednesday. However the transfer did not prove to be a success as Ross only made two appearances for Wednesday and was later loaned to Wolves after only two months. In January 2006, Wolves made the loan into a permanent deal and Ross signed a six-month contract but he was released by Wolves at the end of that contract. Ross secured a new club at Millwall in the summer of 2006 and featured in the starting eleven for the first five games before being dropped to the bench after a string of poor performances.

In March 2007 Ross was signed by Viking from Stavanger, Norway. Ross agreed a three-year contract with Viking until the end of the Norwegian season late in 2009 but instead joined Turkish Super League side Kocaelispor in early February 2009. After Kocaelispor secured their league status that season but Ross, along with four other players, had their contracts terminated. On 12 October 2009, it was announced that Ross had asked the then Aberdeen manager Mark McGhee if he could use the facilities at Pittodrie, in order to gain fitness and ultimately a deal with another club. He signed a short-term deal with the Dons until January. Ross made it clear his intention was to move abroad during the winter transfer window and on 11 January 2010 it was announced that he signed for Chinese club Beijing Guoan. It was confirmed on 10 February 2010 that he joined the defending champions of Chinese Super League. Ross scored his first goal for the club in a 3–1 defeat to Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma in the 2010 AFC Champions League.

On 1 April 2011, it was revealed that Ross had signed a contract with Scottish Premier League side Motherwell until the end of the season. Ross then was released by the Fir Park club on 1 June 2011. On 13 October 2011 Ross signed for Livingston until January 2012.

International
Berti Vogts gave him a call up to the Scotland team after making just a few appearances for Rangers. Ross made his international debut against South Korea in 2002, and went on to feature in the team in the campaign to qualify for Euro 2004.

Coaching career
After this third spell in Scottish football, Ross returned to Norway, initially to play and later coach, with FK Vidar and Sola FK respectively. He has since managed Norwegian club Egersunds IK, and Faroese clubs TB/FC Suðuroy/Royn and Víkingur.

On 24 January 2019, Ross re-joined Motherwell in a youth coaching capacity. Ross left Motherwell after the appointment of Graham Alexander as their manager.

Ross was appointed assistant manager of Notts County in March 2021. However, he spent only two months at the club, resigning from his post in May 2021 after making a racist remark about Dutch Notts County winger, Enzio Boldewijn. Ross made a full public apology for making the "clumsy, insensitive analogy".

In November 2021 Ross became the manager of Scottish League Two club Cowdenbeath. Despite signing several new players for the struggling Blue Brazil, the club ultimately finished bottom of League Two. The club was then relegated after a comfortable play-off defeat over two legs to Lowland League champions Bonnyrigg Rose. Ross opted to remain in charge at Central Park for the club's maiden Lowland League campaign, which got off to a horror start with the club earning just one point from its first five matches. Going into mid-August, pressure grew on Ross after the club's third loss against a youth team in just six games, a 3-0 Challenge Cup defeat to Kilmarnock B.

On 31 December 2023, he became assistant head coach to Charlie Adam at EFL League One side Fleetwood Town.

Club
Sources:

Managerial record

 * Scottish statistics only.

Player
Rangers
 * Scottish Premier League: 2002–03, 2004–05
 * Scottish Cup: 2001–02, 2002–03
 * Scottish League Cup: 2002–03, 2004–05

Manager
FK Sola
 * 3. divisjon: 2014
 * 4. divisjon: 2013

Víkingur Gøta
 * Faroe Islands Super Cup: 2018

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Furoshiki

Furoshiki (風呂敷) are traditional Japanese wrapping cloths traditionally used to wrap and/or to transport goods. Consideration is placed on the aesthetics of, which may feature hemmed edges, thicker and more expensive materials, and hand-painted designs; however, are much less formal than , and are not generally used to present formal gifts.

While they come in a variety of sizes, they are typically almost square: the height is slightly greater than the width.

Traditional materials include silk or cotton, but modern are available in synthetic materials like rayon, nylon, or polyester.

History
The first cloths were  ("wrapping"), used during the Nara period from 710 to 794 AD as protection for precious temple objects. Known as during the Muromachi period; the term  (literally "bath spread", from "bath" (風呂), and "spread" (敷)) is said to have come about after high-ranking visitors to bathhouses packed their belongings in cloth decorated with their family crest.

They became popular in the Edo period with increased access to bathhouses by the general public; moreover, cloths with family crests grew in demand as common people gained the right to have family crests during the Meiji period.

usage declined in the post-war period, in large part due the proliferation of paper and plastic bags available to shoppers. In recent years, however, it has seen a renewed interest as environmental protection has become a greater concern. In 2006, Japanese Minister of the Environment, Yuriko Koike, showcased a specially-designed cloth to promote environmental awareness. In 2020, The Observer reported a growing interest in in the UK, in part as a response to its perceived greater environmental sustainability compared to traditional single-use wrapping paper.

In a 2023 interview, a Kyoto manufacturer of furoshiki, founded in 1937 said that furoshiki are now used as bags or pillow cover in Japan.

Material, size, pattern
Modern may be made from fabrics of various thicknesses and price points, including silk,, cotton, rayon, and nylon. The cloth is typically square, although not a perfect square, to facilitate the wrap. Sizes vary, from 45 × and 70 × up to 100 ×. The main pattern is always on the bottom half, so it shows in the center. The gift should fit into one third of a furoshiki. Fabric patterns can contain traditional motifs such as cranes, turtles and pines and are double-sided prints.

The Ministry of the Environment of Japan has published a leaflet with 14 folding patterns.

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Template talk:Infobox television channel

Make cable provider/channel number collapsable by country or continent?
The cable provider and channel list is getting kinda long as more and more countries get cable TV is there a way to make a collapsable list by country? So like "United States" may have within "DirecTV, Dish Network, Fios, Time Warner, Cox, etc." U.K. might have "Sky, etc., etc.... ", Canada "Rogers, Bell, Shaw, etc., etc." CaribDigita (talk) 00:52, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

If not by country perhaps why not by continent? Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania?

Replaced/Replaced by
Exactly what are the "Replaced" and "Replaced by" parameters supposed to be used for? In most cases, the "Former name" parameter seems to be sufficient. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 20:14, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

 * In some cases, it makes sense because the change was so radical. Canal A to Canal Institucional, for instance, was a major change and the two merit coverage separetely. Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 20:26, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. BilCat (talk) 20:39, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Is it mainly for channels with separate articles then? BilCat (talk) 20:45, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, or where the change was sufficient to justify a new article. Not every rename demands a new article, but some renames come with major changes in programming type. Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 21:16, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

sister_channels
Outside a few entities with only a few channels they're sisters with (Hallmark Channel), this field now seems very pointless with corporate templates doing the legwork, and is now being abused by our regular vandals to make us think a reader somehow needs to care that CBS is owned by the same company that owns approximately 814 other networks, including Ego, a one-paragraph article which is just a PR logline of what 4 show reruns it carries followed by an absurdly long infobox of other one-paragraph PR logline network articles which are just themselves barely watched, with Paramount Global and WBD articles beyond the worst-polluted. I feel like it needs to be discussed. @BilCat 14:44, 28 August 2023 (UTC)  Nate  • ( chatter ) 14:44, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Honestly I don't even know if Ego is an existing television network (can't find sources easily for it because of the word and it's a Hebrew network so with lack of proficiency in reading it, I can't really do so), so they're crufting up what may be a long-defunct channel.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 16:25, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Disable embed_header
As title; the infobox I want to embed already has a title that I can't disable, and it seems uncommon to have a header for child infoboxes specified in the parent toobigtokale (talk) 00:37, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

 * @Toobigtokale Which article is this? Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 07:05, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Example: Korean News. If I put in Template:Infobox Korean name under embedded I don't really need the header. toobigtokale (talk) 13:07, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @Toobigtokale That article is about a TV program and should have Infobox television. I just edited that template to allow it to accept embeds. Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 00:49, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Oops, my mistake, thank you! toobigtokale (talk) 02:19, 30 October 2023 (UTC)


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Wisconsin Central

Wisconsin Central may refer to:

 * A predecessor of the Soo Line Railroad known by the names:
 * Wisconsin Central Railroad (1871–1899)
 * Wisconsin Central Railway (1897–1954), which also used the name "Wisconsin Central Railroad"
 * Wisconsin Central Ltd., a regional railroad acquired by the Canadian National Railway in 2001

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Blake Stone: Planet Strike

Blake Stone: Planet Strike is a first-person shooter video game, the sequel to Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, made by JAM Productions and released for DOS on October 28, 1994, by Apogee Software.

Plot
Following Pyrus Goldfire's escape at the end of Aliens of Gold, British Intelligence initiated a large-scale search to capture him. For many years, no trace of the arch-villain could be found. In 2149, Dr. Goldfire is spotted in an abandoned training facility near the former STAR Institute. He is building an army stronger than anything witnessed before, in a second attempt to enslave humanity. Blake Stone is once again sent to stop the villain, with a direct order to find and terminate Dr. Goldfire, so that he would never threaten Earth again.

Gameplay
Most of the gameplay is identical to the previous game in the series. In contrast to Aliens of Gold, in which the player has to retrieve the red access card to unlock the next floor in the elevator, the player advances levels in Planet Strike by way of the "Security Cube". The player must first acquire the fission detonator on that level. Then the player must locate the Security Cube itself and drop/arm the detonator. Once the Security Cube is destroyed, Stone can return to the main transporter to access the next level. The game contains one linear campaign of 20 levels and 4 secret levels, instead of six episodes with 54 levels and 12 secret levels as was in Aliens of Gold. There is also a new weapon.

Planet Strike eliminated some features of the auto-map system in order to make navigation more challenging. There is now only a minimap which shows at most 1/8 of a level, and the option of a non-rotating map has been removed. Thus the player must overcome the distortions caused by the map rotation and can potentially get lost when retracing steps to a newly unlocked area. The removal of these features also makes it more difficult to determine possible locations of secret areas. As a tradeoff, the pushable walls leading to secret areas are marked on the minimap, but only when it is at 4X magnification, making its coverage too small to be of use in navigation. Moreover, using the 4X and 2X views (which marks enemies which may be morphing or cloaked) expends magnification power, which must be refilled in a manner similar to ammunition.

Development
The game's working title was "Blake Stone: Firestorm". The developers were limited by memory constraints and programming issues when trying to add additional digitized voices into the game, and ended up playing pre-existing voices from Aliens of Gold backwards. Just like Aliens of Gold and Wolfenstein 3D, the maps were designed using Tile Editor (TEd). The woman character in the cover art was placed deliberately to catch the attention of viewers in game stores, despite not appearing in-game.

Legacy
Apogee released the source code, long thought to be lost, under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later license in 2013 to promote the sale of the Apogee Throwback Pack on Steam on July 8. The Steam release included support for Windows and MacOS.

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Stefan Arngrim

Stefan Arngrim (born December 23, 1955) is a Canadian actor and musician, sometimes credited as Stephan Arngrim.

Biography
He is perhaps best known for his role as Barry Lockridge on the Irwin Allen television series Land of the Giants which aired from 1968 to 1970. Arngrim was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of actress Norma MacMillan and Thor Arngrim. He is the elder brother of actress Alison Arngrim, who has alleged that he regularly molested her throughout her childhood.

Filmography

 * 2010 The A-Team as Howard 'Crazy Howard' Little
 * 2011 Bringing Ashley Home as Dealer
 * 2010 Concrete Canyons as Decker
 * 2009 Angel and the Bad Man as Gamble
 * 2008 The Secrets of Pine Cove as Eugene Fritts
 * 2006 Unnatural & Accidental as Hotel Clerk
 * 2005 The Fog as Blake's Compadre
 * 2004 The Final Cut as Oliver
 * 2004 The Life as Ed Nivens
 * 2005 The Long Weekend as Bus Driver
 * 1997 Misbegotten as Conan Cornelius
 * 1995 Someone To Die For as Lazarro
 * 1995 Strange Days as Skinner
 * 1985 The Orkly Kid The Orkly Kid
 * 1982 Class of 1984 as Drugstore
 * 1981 Fear No Evil as Andrew Williams
 * 1980 Getting Wasted as Charlie
 * 1969 Silent Night, Lonely Night as Jerry Johnson
 * 1967 ''The Way West as William J. Tadlock Jr.

Television

 * 2015 - Fargo - The Bank
 * 2015 - Minority Report - Eyeless Man
 * 2014 – Arrow
 * 2011 - The Killing - Monty
 * 2009 – V – Roy
 * 2010 – Caprica – Amphead
 * 2010 - Supernatural - Redcap
 * 2009 – Fringe – The Store Owner
 * 2007 - Battlestar Galactica: Razor - Male Captive
 * 2004 – Earthsea – Shire Reeve
 * Flash Gordon
 * Da Vinci's Inquest (2 episodes)
 * Dead Like Me
 * Cold Squad
 * UC: Undercover
 * Special Unit 2
 * Seven Days
 * Call of the Wild
 * The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
 * Millennium (2 episodes)
 * Dead Man's Gun
 * Viper
 * Police Academy: The Series
 * Poltergeist: The Legacy
 * The X-Files (2 episodes)
 * The Sentinel
 * Highlander: The Series
 * The Private Tapes of Sev Banin
 * T. J. Hooker
 * Police Story
 * Switch
 * The Smith Family
 * Land of the Giants – Series regular
 * Here Come the Brides
 * Dragnet
 * The Virginian
 * Gunsmoke
 * Cyrano DeBergerac
 * The Defenders
 * Search for Tomorrow
 * T.H.E. Cat
 * Combat! – Gulliver episode

Other work
Arngrim co-wrote two songs with Warren Zevon on the album Transverse City.

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McGillicuddy Highland Army

The McGillicuddy Highland Army is the fighting wing of New Zealand's Clan McGillicuddy and does battle with enemies of the Clan in accordance with the rules of the pastime of pacifist warfare. Battles have taken place at wide range of locations and events around the country. During the period 1984–1999 it shared many members in common with the Clan's political wing, the better-known McGillicuddy Serious Party.

Origins
The McGillicuddy Highland Army (McGHA) was established in Hamilton, New Zealand, in 1978 as the McGillicuddy Highland Regiment, the battling wing of the Clan McGillicuddy. Its foundation was inspired by a pacifist battle that Clan leader Graeme Cairns, the Laird of Hamilton, had taken part in Dunedin earlier that year involving Alf's Imperial Army (Alf's).

Weapons
As required by the rules of pacifist warfare, the McGHA fights its battles using strictly non-harmful weapons, such as newspaper swords and cardboard shields for personal duelling. 'Mass effect' weapons such as water bombs, flour bombs, porridge bombs, funnelators (huge slingshots), and meths mortars armed with soft or rotten fruit are also used (though water and flour bombs are the most common). 'Psychological Weapons' such as the Can-Can charge, heavy duty assault poetry, mass singing and vicious taunting are also permissible.

Uniforms
The basic uniform of the McGHA regiments was a white shirt, kilt, and bonnet with a white cockade, with a doublet faced in the regiment's colour. How strongly military the uniform looked varied depending upon the individuals in a regiment; whilst there were very strong variations between the regiments themselves. Appearances ranged from 17th century Scottish Jacobites to 19th century Victorian British Scots, to South American Presidential Guard, to hippies or anarchists, with the only article in common being a kilt. One regiment even wore tartan trousers combined with Russian-style jackets and fur hats.

Enemies
The Clan McGillicuddy being a Jacobite Clan, its Army naturally fought for the restoration of the Stuarts to the throne of New Zealand and Scotland. A strong rivalry with Alf's Imperial Army soon developed, as the McGHA evolved their own idiosyncratic interpretation of pacifist warfare.

The regiments developed into the Clan's 'standing army' with uniformed troops ready to swing into battle against the McGillicuddy Serious Party's political opponents, the Cambridge Borough Council, and various 'irregular' pacifist warfare groups such as folkies, nudists, hippies, anarchists, Outward Bound, student clubs and student hostels.

Other uniformed 'regular' opponents, include such groups as Alf's Imperial Army, The Fort Custard Fire Dept, Black Mac's Death's Head Hussars, the Seaweed People, the Knights of the Brown Bottle, the Auckland Revolutionary Army, The Knights of the Order, the Lindskiis, and the NZ Colonial Brigade.

Battle locations
Battles have taken place in towns and cities all around New Zealand, and at public events such as University Orientation weeks and capping events, folk festivals, local carnivals, wine and food festivals, snow festivals, swimming-pool openings, school gala days, and "Summer City" programs.

Brief history
The 1st Flying Claymores were the first company in the regiment, quickly followed by the 2nd McBormann Fusiliers, both based in Hamilton.

The name was changed to the McGillicuddy Highland Army in 1985, shortly after the Wellington-based 3rd Laird's Own Borderers (established in March 1984 ) was officially incorporated into the Army, and its members welcomed into the Clan.

The success of the Clan's political wing, the McGillicuddy Serious Party in the 1987 and 1990 NZ General Elections saw a rapid growth in McGHA membership, with new regiments founded in Auckland (The 5th Thane of Gordonton's Own Islemonn), Christchurch (The 6th Jahkirk Highland Tossers), and Dunedin (The Blues and Greys). At its peak in late 1992, the McGHA consisted of some eight uniformed regiments boasting a combined membership of over 100 pacifist warfarers.

Current status
As of 2024, the Clan McGillicuddy has no 'standing' uniformed regiments, although the Army has never been formally demobbed. Many Clan members still answer the Laird's calls to arms, and the Clan will still happily meet in battle any opponents who wish to challenge them. Battles have also occurred regularly very two years as part of the Clan's self-described "Xtreme Picnics'. For example, on December 31, 2007 the Clan McGillicuddy "Martians" took on Alf's Imperial Army in Oamaru in an enactment of the "War of the Worlds".; while in January 2014 and again in 2020 the Clan invaded the small township of Waitati. https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/video-militia-mayhem-and-madness-waitati https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/%E2%80%98battle-blueskin%E2%80%99-full-fun

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Talk:Peppered moth genetics

This article looks as if it was saved whilst in a half-finished state. Does anyone want to complete it? --BillC 00:03, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

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Ed Lewis (wrestler)

Robert Herman Julius Friedrich (June 30, 1891 – August 8, 1966), better known by the ring name Ed "Strangler" Lewis, was an American professional wrestler and trainer. During his wrestling career, which spanned four decades, Lewis was a four-time World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion and overall recognized officially as a five-time world champion. Considered to be one of the most iconic and recognizable sports stars of the 1920s, often alongside boxer Jack Dempsey and baseball player Babe Ruth, Lewis notably wrestled in over 6,000 matches (many of which were real contests) and lost only 32 of them.

He was posthumously inducted as a charter member into the following hall of fames: Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Professional Wrestling, George Tragos/Lou Thesz and WWE's Legacy Wing. One of the most legitimately feared grapplers of all time, Lewis was known for his catch wrestling prowess and trained many future champions, most notably Lou Thesz, Danny Hodge, Dick Hutton and Gene LeBell.

Professional wrestling career
Born in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, to German parents, Friedrich was an active youngster, participating in amateur wrestling, basketball and track. Friedrich would end up solely focusing on wrestling, finding success competing in local competitions against other farmers. Friedrich began wrestling professionally at the age of 14, using the ring name Ed "Strangler" Lewis, first in Louisville, Kentucky, partly in tribute of 1890s star Evan "Strangler" Lewis and so his parents wouldn't discover it was him.

It was also stated in the A&E documentary The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling that he was dubbed the Strangler after a match in France where he applied a sleeper hold, and the French, who were unfamiliar with the hold, thought he was strangling his opponent.

He was the pivotal figure in the "Gold Dust Trio", along with promoters Toots Mondt and Big Billy Sandow, a travelling road show that was the precursor to wrestling tours, and which revolutionized professional wrestling by creating undercards, promoting full events instead of one match shows. They also developed the first professional wrestling storylines, creating worked feuds between wrestlers. Because of the legit skills Lewis possessed, the Trio could put the title on whoever they wanted, because Lewis had the ability to defeat anyone who would not follow the script.

Lewis captured his first recognized World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship on December 13, 1920, defeating Joe Stecher. Stecher would prove to be Lewis' biggest rival, both in and out of the ring, with Stecher running his own shows against the Gold Dust Trio, beginning quite possibly the first promotional rivalry. Lewis and Stecher wrestled one of the longest matches in professional wrestling history, where they battled for five and a half hours, ending in a draw.

The climax of their feud came on April 15, 1925, when Gold Dust Trio star and former champion Stanislaus Zbyszko was asked to lose to the Gold Dust Trio's own handpicked champion, Wayne Munn, a former football star, in an effort to give Munn credibility. Zbyszko balked at the idea of losing to an unskilled wrestler, and secretly jumped to the Joe Stecher camp. Zbyszko double-crossed the Gold Dust Trio, using his knowledge of holds to legit defeat and, in the process, humiliate Munn. Eventually, Lewis and Stecher settled their differences, and agreed to do business with each other, with Stecher dropping the world title back to Lewis on February 20, 1928.

In 1931, Lewis and partner, Billy Sandow, signed former Notre Dame All-American running back "Jumping Joe" Savoldi to his first professional wrestling contract. Lewis was credited with training Savoldi in Los Angeles during the first half of 1931. After winning the AWA World Heavyweight Championship in April 1931, he faced Henri Deglane in May for a title defense in Montreal in a two-out-of-three falls match. After two falls, Deglane had feigned being bitten by Lewis, when in reality he had been bitten in the locker room. This led to Deglane being awarded the title via disqualification and a dispute over who was actually acknowledged as champion over the next two years.

In 1933, one of the Strangler's most infamous matches took place in Madison Square Garden. He was fighting Ray Steele for the title. The two men began circling each other, but no fighting happened, which made the fans bored. Steele ended the match by punching Lewis, causing the referee to disqualify him twenty minutes into the match.

On September 20, 1934, Lewis wrestled Jim Londos in front of an audience of 35,275 at Wrigley Field, and drawing a record gate of $96,302, which would stand until 1952.

In 1937, the Strangler had six contests in New Zealand. He beat Floyd Marshall, John Spellman, Glen Wade and Rusty Wescoatt, and lost twice to the Canadian champion Earl McCready, who was then established as the top wrestler in New Zealand. In 1936, he competed in one of the last known legitimate contests in professional wrestling, where he wrestled Lee Wykoff. Lewis separated a clavicle during training but decided to go ahead with the contest. The match ended a draw.

Post wrestling
Lewis went into semi-retirement in 1935, but came out of retirement in 1942, at the age of 51, despite being legally blind. He retired from professional wrestling for good in 1948, at 57 years old. At the November 1949 NWA Convention in St. Louis, Lewis was named the ambassador of good will for the NWA. In later years, he became the manager of his good friend and reigning NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Lou Thesz.

Lewis went blind from trachoma. He was destitute and relied on his wife and acquaintances to survive. He died in Oklahoma on August 8, 1966, at the age of 75. In 1999, Lewis was inducted into the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Hall of Fame.

Today, a Wisconsin state historical marker commemorates his achievements in his hometown of Nekoosa on Prospect Avenue. In 2002, Lewis was voted in by professional wrestlers, historians and writers and inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in Amsterdam, New York.

Championships and accomplishments

 * American Wrestling Association (Boston)
 * AWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
 * Championship Wrestling from Florida
 * NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
 * Class of 1999
 * International Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
 * Class of 2021
 * Midwest Wrestling Association (Kansas City)
 * MWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * Midwest Wrestling Association (Ohio)
 * MWA World Heavyweight Championship (Ohio version) (1 time)
 * New York State Athletic Commission
 * NYSAC World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
 * Class of 2002
 * WWE
 * WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2016)
 * Wrestling Observer Newsletter
 * Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)
 * Other titles
 * World Heavyweight Championship (Michigan/Illinois version) (1 time)
 * World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (4 times)
 * The musical The Music Man mentions the exciting contest between Strangler Lewis and Frank Gotch

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Simone del Pollaiolo

Simone del Pollaiolo (1457–1508) was a Florentine architect who was commonly known as Il Cronaca ("The Chronicle One").

Pollaiolo was born in Florence, the nephew of the better-known brothers Antonio and Piero Benci who had the nickname Pollaiuolo or Pollaiolo ("Hen-House Keeper" in Italian, from pollaio).

Simone was later given his nickname Il Cronaca. The reason for this nickname has much to do with his style and is explained by Giorgio Vasari. In order to learn more of the architectural art, he marched to Rome around 1470 to observe the old ruins. On his return to Florence he wrote meticulous descriptions and well-reasoned commentary on his observations, which were described as in a chronicle.

Pollaiolo was responsible for the completion of Strozzi Palace after the death of Benedetto da Maiano in 1497. He died in Florence in 1508.

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Risøyhamn

Risøyhamn is a village in Andøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located on the southern part of the island of Andøya. The island of Andøya is connected to the neighboring island of Hinnøya by the Andøy Bridge at Risøyhamn. The Hurtigruten coastal express boat has service to and from Risøyhamn twice a day.

The 0.28 km2 village has a population (2018) of 216 which gives the village a population density of 771 PD/km2.

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Areopolis

Areopolis may refer to :

 * Places and jurisdictions
 * Hellenistic and Roman name of present Rabba, in modern Jordan
 * the above city's former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see
 * Areopolis or Areopoli, a town on the Mani Peninsula, Laconia, peninsular Greece

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abstract Gender

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The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 (talk) 02:33, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Abstract Gender
Delete, a recently-started webcomic. FreplySpang (talk) 00:07, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete poorly written POV article about a nn webcomic that's "recently started" Soltak 00:15, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete.— Encephalon |  ζ   00:34:52, 2005-08-21 (UTC)
 * Delete. Might indeed "go very far", but this isn't the place to promote it. Flowerparty  talk 00:54, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, fancraft. (Or even author-craft.) Ashibaka (tock) 01:08, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Hamster Sandwich 01:14, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - the page was created by a new user who hasn't received a welcome from anyone yet, the first thing they'll have noticed is their creation up for VfD. I'll go do the welcome and point them here so they know it's not personal. Alf 08:20, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Though I must agree there's certainly potential in the webcomic itself, it is as of yet not notable. --Lomedae 12:20, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep It has a couple thousand daily hits. It's poorly written, yeah, but I imagined that will eventually be fixed. It, in itself, is not a very large webcomic yet (only about two and a half months), but it does have a connection to the much large The Wotch, which is then connected to the very popular Misfile. Keep it for now... The webcomic does look pretty decent, and someone will probably come along soon enough and fix up the article a bit. Solomaxwell 02:51, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep --Wannablessedbe 03:15, 23 August 2005 (UTC) (User has one edit -- this one.Textbook meatpuppet. Karmafist 03:18, 23 August 2005 (UTC))
 * Weak Keep - While it's true the article needs to be rewritten and expanded, and it doesn't meet any of the suggested minimum requirements for a webcomic, I get the sense that this comic has a large enough fanbase to justify including it. In other words, it seems likely useful to enough people, so it should be kept.  However, this assumes there is enough information to put in the article. - Matthew0028 09:45, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable, looks like vanity. "It is unknown if She'll play main role in the future." Of course it is, unless you're the author of the comic. Dragonfiend 01:39, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
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Hejnice (Liberec District)

Hejnice (Haindorf) is a town in Liberec District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,800 inhabitants.

Administrative parts
The village of Ferdinandov is an administrative part of Hejnice.

Etymology
The original German name of the village Haindorf is based on the German Dorf im Haine, which means "village in the grove". The Czech name was derived from the German one and from háj, i.e. "grove".

Geography
Hejnice is located about 14 km northeast of Liberec. It lies in the valley of the Smědá River under the northern slopes of the Jizera Mountains. The northernmost part of the municipal territory lies in the Frýdlant Hills. The highest peak is the Jizera Mountain at 1122 m above sea level.

The entire territory of Hejnice is situated in the Jizerské hory Protected Landscape Area. Half of the Czech part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site named Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe is situated in the territory of Hejnice.

History
According to legend, a pilgrimage church was founded here already in 1211. The first written mention of Hejnice is from 1381. In the 16th century, iron ore mines were opened. In 1692, count František Gallas established a Franciscan monastery, which helped the visibility of the village. In the 19th century, several textile factories were established in the village and its surroundings. The village of Hejnice was promoted to a town in 1917.

In 1938, Hejnice was annexed by Nazi Germany. From 1938 to 1945, it was administered as part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland.

Transport
Hejnice is located on a short railway line of local importance from Raspenava to Bílý Potok.

Sights
The former Franciscan monastery and its pilgrimage Church of the Visitation are the most valuable buildings in Hejnice. Today the monastery premises are used for cultural and social purposes and provide accommodation.

The Church of the Visitation was originally a small wooden church from the 14th century, which was gradually expanded. The most valuable object is a wooden Gothic sculpture of the Black Madonna from 1380. In front of the church stands the Marian column from 1695.

Notable people

 * Oskar Romm (1919–1993), German flying ace
 * Katharina Matz (1935–2021), German actress
 * Jürgen Kocka (born 1941), German historian

Twin towns – sister cities
Hejnice is twinned with:
 * 🇵🇱 Łęknica, Poland

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phillip Masse

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The result of the debate was merge. JYolkowski // talk 16:44, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Phillip Masse
Also, Bruce Morgenholt

This is a hoax. (Article has now been rewritten) Phillip Masse is a fictional character from the Splinter Cell video game, as is the "Georgian Information Crisis". The Bruce Morgenholt article by the same anon author also mentions this fictional Georgian Information Crisis and is also a fictional character. We have articles on fictional characters, but they can't be written as if they were real, and these ones likely aren't notable enough. -- Curps 00:08, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: also note Josef Klasinkova, also under VfD at the moment, by the same anon author. -- Curps 00:11, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete both.— Encephalon |  ζ   00:33:06, 2005-08-21 (UTC)
 * Comment: The Phillip Masse article at least has now been rewritten as a page about a fictional character. The only issue now is, is this notable enough? -- Curps 00:55, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all - Bit parts in the Splinter Cell games should not be included. If he is a major character, then maybe it should be expanded, as major characters in major computer games are wikiworthy. - Hahnchen 03:07, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Agree with Hahnchen. Dottore So 05:55, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Splinter Cell as minor characters section. Karmafist 05:56, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into the main article, as outlined above. --Agamemnon2 10:32, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
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Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport

Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport is a state-owned, public-use airport located west of the central business district of Sitka, a city and borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

The airport is named after Sitka's former mayor Rocky Gutierrez. It features a single terminal with jetway with air service operated year-round by Alaska Airlines and seasonally by Delta Air Lines regional affiliate Delta Connection operated by SkyWest Airlines. There is a single paved runway located on a causeway that juts off Japonski Island. Deceased tuberculosis patients from the nearby SEARHC/Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital were buried on airport grounds and had to be relocated during construction. That section of the airport is still unofficially called The Mausoleum.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 68,197 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 62,498 enplanements in 2009, and 64,536 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015-2019, which categorized it as a primary commercial service (nonhub) airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year) based on 68,222 enplanements in 2012.

Facilities and aircraft
Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport resides at elevation of 26 feet (8 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 11/29 with an asphalt surface measuring 7,200 by 150 feet (2,195 x 46 m).

For the 12-month period ending January 2, 2011, the airport had 23,100 aircraft operations, an average of 63 per day: 43% air taxi, 43% general aviation, 8% scheduled commercial, and 6% military. At that time there were 30 aircraft based at this airport: 70% single-engine, 13% ultralight, 10% military, and 7% multi-engine.

The airport also has hangars and offices for local air traffic control, the Civil Air Patrol, and various private enterprises. U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka also has a complex attached to the airport for their helicopters but their rotary-wing aircraft based in Sitka seldom use the runway for takeoffs and landings.

Safety hazards include ocean waves washing onto the runway during storms, high winds because of its exposed location, and large flocks of birds that live very close to the airport. Due to these hazards, the airport is listed by airfarewatchdog.com as one of the ten most thrilling landing experiences in the world.

Historical airline service
Alaska Airlines has served Sitka for over 50 years. In 1967, Alaska Air was operating Boeing 727-100 jet service into the airport on a round trip routing of Seattle - Sitka - Anchorage - Unalakleet - Nome - Kotzebue and was also flying Convair 240 propliner service nonstop to Juneau. By 1969, Alaska Air had added several stops on the route between Seattle and Alaska, and was operating a Boeing 727-100 jetliner on a round trip routing of Seattle - Sitka - Juneau - Yakutat - Cordova - Anchorage - Unalakleet - Nome - Kotzebue in addition to operating Convair 240 service on a round trip routing of Annette Island Airport - Wrangell - Petersburg - Sitka - Juneau. Over the years, Alaska Air also operated Boeing 727-200 and 737-200 jets into the airport before switching to later model Boeing 737 jetliners. In 1986, Anchorage-based AirPac was operating jet service into the airport with a British Aerospace BAe 146-100 aircraft flying a round trip routing of Seattle - Sitka - Anchorage.

Passenger
Alaska Airlines operates Boeing 737-700, 737-800, and Boeing 737-900 jetliners while Delta Connection did fly the Canadair CRJ-700 regional jet operated by SkyWest, but starting with the 2017 and 2018 summer seasons, it's been flown by the Embraer 175 also operated by SkyWest. In addition to providing passenger service, Alaska Airlines also operates Boeing 737-700 all-cargo jet freighter flights into the airport.

Media appearances

 * Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport is the destination in the mission "Sitka Approach" supplied with Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
 * In the 2009 movie The Proposal, scenes purportedly at Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport were actually filmed at Beverly Regional Airport in Beverly, Massachusetts, near Boston, Massachusetts.

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Ppc Racing

ppc Racing is a former NASCAR team based in Mooresville, North Carolina. The team was owned by Greg Pollex. ppc Racing came about from a merger of Pollex's Busch Series team with a car owned by Steve DeSouza and Ted Campbell in 1999. The team won the 2000 Busch Series championship with driver Jeff Green and they finished second in the standings four times. The team shut down during the 2007 NASCAR Busch Series season due to a lack of funding. Pollex later joined CJM Racing as a shop foreman before departing late in the season.

Winston Cup Series
ppc made its Winston Cup Series racing debut in 1993 at the Mello Yello 500. Chad Little was the driver of the No. 19 Kleenex Ford, and finished 33rd. They would also run the 1994 Daytona 500 in the No. 97 Ford with sponsorship from Tracy Lawrence, where they finished 29th. In 1995, they had their best finish at Talladega Superspeedway, their second of two races. After making five 1996 races in the Sterling Cowboy Pontiac Grand Prix, ppc moved to the Cup Series full-time with Little in the John Deere car. Despite an eighth-place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway, the team had trouble qualifying for races, and Pollex would sell the operation to Jack Roush in the final weeks of the season. (The team would eventually become Kurt Busch's 2004 Nextel Cup winning team, only to be sold to Latitude 43 Motorsports six years later and then folded.)

In 2005, ppc Racing returned to the Nextel Cup series with John Andretti driving the No. 14 VB Tobacco Products Ford. The team made the first three races at Daytona, Fontana, and Las Vegas. After two DNQ's in a row at Atlanta and Bristol, VB Brand shut down. The team did not make it through the season, as there was no other sponsorship to be found.

Car No. 10 History
ppc debuted at Darlington Speedway in 1993. It was No. 23 Ford sponsored by If Its Paper and driven by Chad Little. At the time, Pollex co-owned the team with NFL quarterback Mark Rypien. Little competed in 12 races with the team that season, posting three top-ten finishes. Going full-time with Bayer Select sponsoring in 1994, Little finished third in the Busch Series points, finishing in the top-ten in half of the races run that season. The next season was even better, as Little collected six victories and a runner-up finish in the points. When Pollex moved Little and the team up to the Cup Series in 1997, the team did not run the Busch Series.

Pollex returned in 1999 with a new operation. This time it was the No. 32 Kleenex Chevy driven by Jeff Green. Despite failing to qualify for the spring Rockingham race, Green won three races and finished second in the points in what was a comeback season for both Green and the team. For 2000, the team underwent some changes, as it bought the No. 57 car driven by Jason Keller, and Green's car was now No. 10 and sponsored by NesQuik. Green won six races and the championship by a then-record 616 points over Keller. After yet another successful 2001 season where Green visited Victory Lane four times and wound up second in the points in the team's new Fords, he departed for Richard Childress Racing's Winston Cup team. His replacement was Scott Riggs, an up-and-coming driver from the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Riggs won twice and finished 10th on his way to winning the Busch Series Rookie of the Year standings. After two more wins and a sixth-place finish in points, Riggs left for MB2/MBV Motorsports, and the team disappeared briefly, before coming back in 2005. Rookie driver Michel Jourdain Jr. was tabbed the car's pilot, and he posted one-top ten finish before being replaced by Brent Sherman with sponsor Serta Mattresses midway through the season.

In 2006, Sherman left ppc and went to the Nextel Cup Series with BAM Racing, being replaced by John Andretti. Andretti had limited success in his rookie season and came into the season finale tied with Danny O'Quinn in rookie points. Although Andretti finished 16th and O'Quinn 36th, O'Quinn still edged Andretti by 1 point to win Rookie of the Year.

For the 2007 season, ppc Racing announced an alliance with Biagi Brothers Racing and Braun Racing. The No. 10 would become part of the Braun stable keeping the No. 10's owner points and running equipment from the recently shut down Biagi Brothers team, switching from Ford to Toyota. The sponsorship, number, and driver were to remain the same however Andretti would leave the team following the first race of the 2007 season When funding for the team became questionable. Dave Blaney's No. 32 team for Braun would switch to the number No. 10 that following week at Fontana.

Car No. 22 History
The No. 22 car debuted in 1991 as the No. 14 at Lanier Speedway as the No. 54 Air Products and Chemicals Buick owned by driver Jason Keller and his father. Keller started eighth but finished 29th after a crash. The next year, Keller ran five races, but only finished one. In 1993, the team switched to No. 57 and ran 12 races. Despite the abbreviated schedule, Keller had one top-ten finish and finished 33rd in points. In 1994, Keller and his team signed Budget Gourmet to sponsor his Chevrolets, and posted three poles and had a seventeenth-place finish in the points. In 1995, Keller won his first race at the Kroger 200 and finished fourth in points. Despite not visiting victory lane again in 1996, Keller drove his Slim Jim-sponsored Chevy into a sixth-place points finish. Keller struggled the next two seasons, as he did not finish in the top-ten in points, and was forced to run 1998 without major sponsorship. After that year, owner Steve DeSouza bought his operation, and signed IGA as sponsor. It was the right combination, as Keller won at Bristol and IRP, and climbed to eighth in points.

In 2000, the team merged with ppc and got new sponsorship from Excedrin. While Keller's teammate Jeff Green dominated the Busch Series that year, Keller quietly had a strong season, winning one race and finishing a career-best second in points. Albertsons was the next sponsor to climb on board, and Keller won another race and finished third in points while switching to Fords, before winning four more races and returning to second in points in 2002. After a respectable 2003 season, the team switched to No. 22 and brought Miller High Life on board to sponsor. Keller went winless for the first time since 1998, and departed for Team Rensi Motorsports at the end of the year. He was replaced by Kenny Wallace and sponsor Stacker 2. Wallace had five top-fives and finished seventh in points. He continued to run with ppc with Autozone backing the car in 2006, but Autozone departed at the end of the season and Wallace took a full-time Cup ride with Furniture Row Racing. After a number switch with Fitz Motorsports, the team was merged with Carl A. Haas Motorsports in order to run Kyle Krisiloff in the No. 14 Clabber Girl car.

Craftsman Truck Series
The No. 10 Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International truck is driven by Terry Cook in the Craftsman Truck Series. Cook joined the team in 2003 leaving K Automotive Racing with 4 wins, 9 top 5s, 17 top 10s, and an 8th-place points finish. During the first 3 years with ppc, Cook would go on a winless slump, like the one he suffered from 1998 to 2002. Between the 2003 and 2005 seasons, Cook would amass a total of 3 poles, 4 top 5s, and 28 top 10s. Although the 10 team's first year together was slightly successful, 2004 and 2005 would be complete disasters for the team, with 2 consecutive years finishing outside the top 10 in points.

In 2006, Cook would receive his first victory in 4 years at Kansas Speedway and finish 8th in the points. He would leave for HT Motorsports at season's end. The following year, ppc's truck equipment was purchased by Circle Bar Racing with International's Maxx Diesel sponsoring David Starr in the No. 10 truck.

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Talk:Second superstring revolution

Is it really proper to state that branes were "discovered"? This would seem to imply that their existence has been experimentally verified or observed in nature.

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Talk:United States Office of War Information

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The stub article U.S. Office of War Information needs to be replaced by a redirect link and merged with this article. (QUINTIX 00:14, 22 November 2006 (UTC))

a book called Tale of a City, produced in 1942
This book is about the Germans invasion of cities. Produced by our Government's Office of War Information, Official Business Washington DC. I have a copy and would like to know the value of such an article. If anyone knows how to look this up or is interested plz contact me by candi.angel@yahoo.com.I thank you very much.64.130.137.70 (talk) 18:49, 8 August 2008 (UTC) Debra R.64.130.137.70 (talk) 18:49, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Documenting the Face of America
Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers. Explores the challenges faced by New Deal, led by Roy Stryker. 2008. — Nahum Reduta [ talk | contribs ] 02:02, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

OWI and broadcasting
There is a wealth of information about the relationship between the OWI and domestic broadcasters, and also on the international broadcasting efforts of the OWI, in Broadcasting and Broadcast Advertising magazine issues from the war years. Among other things, the OWI's use of NBC's Bound Brook, New Jersey transmitter site was what allowed WJZ to relocate its transmitter to Lodi despite strict rationing of steel and construction materials. 121a0012 (talk) 05:27, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

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Madea

Mabel "Madea" Earlene Simmons is a character created and portrayed by Tyler Perry. She is portrayed as a tough, street-smart elderly African-American woman.

Madea is based on Perry's mother and his aunt. In Perry's own words, Madea is "exactly the PG version of my mother and my aunt, and I loved having an opportunity to pay homage to them. She would beat the hell out of you but make sure the ambulance got there in time to make sure they could set your arm back because the love was there inside all of it."

The Madea films and plays are comedies, but all contain serious themes and are intended to deliver moral messages about issues such as infidelity, spousal abuse and consequences of one's actions.

Madea also appears outside of her movie universe in two sketches on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, in one occasion as the White House Press Secretary and the second cameo as herself, always aside Fallon's impression of then president Donald Trump.

Early years
Madea was born in Greensburg, Louisiana on June 26, 1935, and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it was confirmed in Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, when she went to a police station and saw her name on a wall.

Her age varies in different movies and plays. Madea was 68 in the first play, I Can Do Bad All by Myself, as well as Madea's Class Reunion. In A Madea Homecoming, set in 2022, it is said she is 95 years old, but with a birth year of 1935, she would actually be 89.

She is described as being brought up in poverty, growing up in a shotgun house with her parents and siblings. Madea has stated that although her family didn't have much, they had love.

When she was in her early teens, her family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where they lived on the west side. She attended Booker T. Washington High School and was a cheerleader. In I Can Do Bad All by Myself, we learn that she once lived in Cleveland, Alabama, but later returned to Atlanta.

According to A Madea Christmas: The Play, Madea's mother, "Big Mabel" Murphy, was a hooker during Madea's childhood and was not at all religious. Madea grew up with little knowledge of religion, explaining why she has a tendency to misquote the Bible. Madea makes frequent reference to herself once being a hooker and a stripper.

Her maiden name is not stated, but it is presumably either Baker or Murphy, the last names of her father and mother, respectively.

It is not revealed where and when she met her first husband, Johnny. Madea and Johnny had their first child, Michelle, as young teens, possibly 15 or 16. When Madea was 18, she got pregnant with her other daughter, Cora, through a one-night stand. Sometime later, Madea and Johnny had a son, William. All of her children are said to be married and had children. Madea and Johnny raised two of their grandchildren, Maylee and Vianne "Khazzy" Simmons, after their daughter's death from drug addiction.

Criminal background
In Madea Goes to Jail, we learn Madea's criminal record began at age nine with a charge of theft. She was charged with her first felony at this age and her crimes began progressing to illegal gambling at age 18, which later evolved into check fraud, identity theft, insurance fraud (related to her nine deceased husbands), assault, attempted murder, road rage (usually when Madea is in vehicle), and vehicle theft.

In Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea and her granddaughter Helen McCarter were both arrested and charged with "criminal trespassing, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a handgun, assault with a deadly weapon, [driving on a] suspended license, expired registration, reckless driving, and a broken taillight". This caused Judge Mablean Ephriam to place Madea on house arrest while Helen was placed on a bail of $5,000.00.

In Madea's Family Reunion, Madea was brought before Judge Ephriam once again after she removed her ankle monitor in order to purchase her brother Joe's medication, in effect violating her house arrest. After rigorous efforts, Brian was finally able to persuade Madea to accept Judge Ephraim's ruling to become the foster mother of Nikki Grady.

In Meet the Browns, Madea was arrested for causing a high speed chase following a routine traffic stop, resisting arrest, and assaulting a police officer while Joe fled the area claiming that Madea kidnapped him.

In Madea Goes to Jail, Madea was brought before Judge Ephriam because of the car chase in the last film. Because Brian and assistant district attorney Linda Davis brought up the fact that the arresting police officers failed to read Madea her Miranda rights, Judge Ephriam scolded the police officers that were present for that negligence. Because of this, Judge Ephriam lets Madea go on a technicality while suspending her already suspended driver's license and having her undergo anger management therapy that was overseen by Phil McGraw. Later on, she was arrested once again for removing a woman's Pontiac Solstice with a forklift and damaging it in the parking lot of the Big Kmart after the woman stole Madea's parking spot. She was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in prison by Judge Greg Mathis. This is later overturned due to the illegal tampering of Linda Davis and she is part of the "Georgia Seven" that are released.

In Madea's Big Happy Family, Madea smashes her car into the fast-food restaurant Snax out of frustration that the manager Sabrina won't give her food, even using excuses related to her Cadillac's technical problems in order to persuade the manager to give her food while waiting. No police action was brought up.

In the animated film Madea's Tough Love, Madea is arrested for excessive damage to public property (which she unintentionally committed while chasing after two unruly skateboarders), two bench warrants, 25 unpaid parking tickets, and an unpaid speeding ticket. Judge Michaels sentences her to do community service work at the Moms Mabley Youth Center. In addition, Judge Michaels had a special ankle monitor placed on Madea to make sure she does her community service and enlists two police officers to keep an eye on her. After Madea attacks mayoral candidate Betsy Holiday, Judge Michaels reassigns Madea to fulfill the rest of her sentence on house arrest much to the annoyance of Joe. Madea was released from the sentence when the truth about Betsy's secret illegal activities were exposed proving that Madea was right about her.

Media and entertainment featuring Madea
Madea has appeared in several plays (some of which have been recorded for repeated viewing), fully produced films, a couple of television programs (guest appearances), one book and one animated film. The character made her first appearance in the 1999 play I Can Do Bad All by Myself, later appearing in numerous other plays by Perry, then appearing in films based on those plays.

Plays (including recorded plays)

 * I Can Do Bad All by Myself—1999
 * Diary of a Mad Black Woman—2001
 * Madea's Family Reunion—2002
 * Madea's Class Reunion—2003
 * Madea Goes to Jail—2005
 * Madea's Big Happy Family—2010
 * A Madea Christmas—2011
 * Madea Gets a Job—2012
 * Madea's Neighbors from Hell—2013
 * Madea on the Run—2015
 * Madea's Farewell—2020

Films

 * Diary of a Mad Black Woman—2005
 * Madea's Family Reunion—2006
 * Meet the Browns (cameo)—2008
 * Madea Goes to Jail—2009
 * I Can Do Bad All by Myself—2009
 * Madea's Big Happy Family—2011
 * Madea's Witness Protection—2012
 * A Madea Christmas—2013
 * Boo! A Madea Halloween—2016
 * Boo 2! A Madea Halloween—2017
 * A Madea Family Funeral—2019
 * A Madea Homecoming—2022
 * Madea's Destination Wedding
 * Joe's College Road Trip (cameo)

Animated film

 * Madea's Tough Love—2015

House of Payne (guest appearances)
In the TBS comedy drama House of Payne pilot episode "Bully and the Beast", Madea was the foster mother of Nikki. She factored into the plot through a school altercation between her adopted daughter and Curtis Payne's great-nephew Malik. Curtis takes a particular disliking to Madea who is not in the least bit intimidated by Curtis at all. Rather conversely, Curtis became intimidated by Madea and had nightmares about her.

In the episode "The Wench Who Saved Christmas", Curtis tries to discourage everyone from having the Christmas spirit. He later fell asleep and dreamt that Madea was the Ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. In this form, she tried to teach him a lesson about his killjoy behaviour.

In the episode "Wife Swap", Curtis' wife Ella chastises him for taking her for granted. That night, Curtis has an extended nightmare where he is married to Madea instead of Ella.

Meet the Browns (mentioned)
On another TBS series, Meet the Browns, Mable is said to be the mother of Cora Simmons as a result of a one-night stand with the show's lead character. She is an unseen character throughout the series.

Love Thy Neighbour (guest appearance)
On January 21, 2015, Madea made a special guest appearance in the Oprah Winfrey Network comedy series, Love Thy Neighbor. The episode titled "Madea's Pressure Is Up" aired as part of the 3rd season of Love Thy Neighbour.

Television late night shows-

 * The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — 2017

Miscellaneous
In a commercial for BET+, Tyler Perry explained this streaming service to Madea and Joe at the time when they were arguing on what to watch on TV.

Book
Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Perry wrote the book in the character's persona. The book was published on April 11, 2006.

Reception
In 2009, Entertainment Weekly put the character on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Whether she's going to jail or just opening up a can of whupass, Tyler Perry's Madea is the profane, gun-toting granny you never had but (maybe) wish you did."

On April 1, 2013, Orlando Jones pulled an April Fools' Day prank, informing the public via his Huffington Post account that he would be replacing Perry as Madea. Jones led the public to believe that the decision had come amid Perry's prior obligations, assisting Oprah Winfrey with her struggling OWN network. As part of the prank, Jones released a photo of himself to the public in which he was impersonating Madea. In addition, he incorporated several pretend quotes seemingly issued by Perry, both acknowledging the news and giving Jones his blessing to continue on with the character. Unaware of the prank, fans responded with outrage and criticism. As result of increasing outcries from fans, Perry informed the public on April 15, 2013, that the news was untrue. Perry was quoted as stating "That was an April Fool's joke that HE did. Not true. And not funny. When I'm done with Madea, she is done."

Perry has been accused of minstrelsy and playing into black stereotypes with the Madea character, most notably by fellow black director Spike Lee. Perry's argument with Lee dates back to a 2009 interview in which Lee referred to Perry's films as "coonery buffoonery". Lee equated the Madea movies with the old-time minstrel shows which lampooned black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious and happy-go-lucky, and further stated that if a white director made a movie depicting black people in such a manner he would be ostracised. Perry responded by stating that his films were meant as entertainment and should not be taken so seriously, saying, "I am sick of him talking about me. I am sick of him saying, 'This is a coon, this is a buffoon.' I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he said: 'You vote by what you see'—as if black people don't know what they want to see. I am sick of him. He talked about Whoopi, he talked about Oprah, he talked about me, he talked about Clint Eastwood. Spike needs to shut the hell up!" Perry has been criticised for stereotyping black femininity using black masculinity. Some critics believe that the characterization of Madea, in addition to other black women featured in Madea films, works to legitimise harmful and damaging stereotypes. There is growing concern around these depictions of blackness as critics believe they can have a negative impact on how black women see themselves in society and how they are perceived by others. In addition, Tyler Perry's role as Madea has received criticism due to some viewing his cross-gender acting as a misappropriation of drag culture. Critics have alleged Tyler Perry perpetuates patriarchal ideology through his characterisation of Madea and her interactions with other protagonists.

Parody and satire

 * In the American Dad! episode "Spelling Bee My Baby" (2013; S09 E14), Steve Smith deliberately misspelled his words in a spelling bee so as to express his love for Akiko (who was also competing), instead spelling random Tyler Perry/Madea films.
 * The character was parodied on The Boondocks episode "Pause" (2010; S03 E07), in which a thinly disguised version of Perry named Winston Jerome (voiced by Affion Crockett) plays a similar character to Madea called Ma Duke.
 * In early December 2012, Madea was parodied on a Saturday Night Live episode by the episode's host Jamie Foxx.
 * In the South Park episode Funnybot (2011; S15 E02), Perry (voiced by Trey Parker) played his character Madea after being repeatedly paid by Tolkien Black after every joke, and was trapped in a metallic shell by the Americans and the Germans to be left underground at the conclusion.
 * Madea was parodied in the American satirical horror film Scary Movie 5 (2013), directed by Malcolm D. Lee. Madea was portrayed by actor Lewis Thompson.
 * Madea and Tyler Perry are both parodied in the spoof movie Not Another Church Movie (2024), with the name Taylor Pharry with the H being silent.

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IGE

IGE (Internet Gaming Entertainment) is a company that trades in virtual currency and accounts for MMORPGs. The company sold virtual goods for real money in more than a dozen popular games. Members of the gaming community were often critical of IGE, as its services were against the rules of the games, though not illegal by the laws of the real countries in which the games would operate.

During its peak, it had offices in Los Angeles, Shanghai as well as headquarters and a customer service center in Hong Kong. It was reformed in 2007 by Jonathan Yantis.

History
IGE was founded in 2001 by Brock Pierce, a former child actor, and Alan Debonneville. They met while playing Everquest and decided to form IGE. Pierce was the main investor in the company while Debonneville managed operations. Brock Pierce was also the co-founder of the failed dot-com Digital Entertainment Network (DEN). Media reports claim that Marc Collins-Rector is a silent partner in IGE. IGE initially used an address in the city of Marbella, Spain, where Collins-Rector and Pierce shared a villa until it was raided by Interpol in 2002.

In January 2004, IGE acquired its major competitor, Yantis Enterprises, then run by another secondary market figure, Jonathan Yantis, for $2.4 million and 37% share of the company. Yantis later sold his shares back to IGE in exchange for 22 monthly payments of $1 million due to conflicts and disagreement.

IGE's parent company, RPG Holdings, purchased Allakhazam in November 2005, as announced in May 2006. This purchase followed the acquisition of Thottbot.

In late 2006 and 2007, Debonneville was forced out of the company. Later, Debonneville sued Pierce for various reasons related to an investment made by Goldman Sachs a year earlier, which Debonneville won.

IGE tried to restructure its upper management team by recruiting new executives. The company began to lose revenue due to the frequent deletion of accounts involved in trading. In May 2007, a lawsuit was filed against IGE by Antonio Hernandez for "substantially impairing and diminishing [player's] collective enjoyment of the game." In June 2007, Pierce was replaced as CEO by Steve Bannon, who had been placed on the board following the Goldman Sachs investment.

During the final months of IGE leading to its reformation, the board of directors decided to sell the company to their former partner Jonathan Yantis. IGE's parent company was then renamed Atlas Technology Group Inc, which is owned by Yantis, while Brock went with Affinity Media.

Affinity Media was said to be one of the parent companies of IGE, though the company no longer has any ownership stake. Affinity Media's senior vice president of business development, John Maffei, noted that "we're no longer in that business" Affinity retains control of Allakhazam.com, Thottbot.com and has since purchased Wowhead.com.

In April 2014, IGE announced a formal service agreement with virtual currency provider EpicToon.com, who confirmed they will be handling IGE's virtual currency line of business.

Revenue
Common with in-game currency traders, the vast majority of IGE's revenue comes from trading World of Warcraft gold. Its website traffic, and allegedly its revenues, have been declining since 2006 due to the increased competition from the in-game currency traders based in China and anti-real-money trading measures by Blizzard Entertainment, the publisher of World of Warcraft.

Reception
Some gamers liked IGE's offers of World of Warcraft money that would normally take hours to farm. Other gamers called it cheating. Many gamers responded by posting anti-Chinese vitriol, since people earning the gold were "low-wage Chinese workers". Blizzard Entertainment, the owners of the video game, eventually shut down accounts used by "gold farmers". IGE was also the target of a class action lawsuit by a player who said that IGE's practices were "substantially impairing" people's enjoyment of the game.

Current

 * WildStar
 * Elder Scrolls Online
 * FIFA 14
 * DC Universe Online
 * Diablo 3
 * Final Fantasy XIV
 * Guild Wars 2
 * Rift
 * RuneScape
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic
 * TERA
 * The Secret World
 * World of Warcraft

Former

 * Age of Conan
 * Aion Online
 * EverQuest II
 * Final Fantasy XI
 * Lineage 2
 * Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

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Elliot Goldenthal

Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2, 1954) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and film and theatrical scores. A student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, he is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2002 for his score to the motion picture Frida, directed by his longtime partner Julie Taymor.

Early life and education
Goldenthal was born on May 2, 1954, the youngest son of a Jewish housepainter father and a Catholic seamstress mother in Brooklyn, New York City, where he was influenced from an early age by music from all cultures and genres. Both pairs of Goldenthal's grandparents emigrated to the United States from Bucharest and Iași, Romania. Goldenthal lived in a multi-cultural part of town, and this is reflected in his works. He attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyn where, at the age of 14, he had his very first ballet Variations on Early Glimpses performed; he continued to display his eclectic musical range, performing with rock bands in the seventies.

He then studied music full-time at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with composer John Corigliano (whom he greatly admired), to earn his Bachelor of Music degree (1977) and Master of Music degree (1979) in musical composition.

Career
Goldenthal has written works for concert hall, theater, dance and film. His work includes music for films such as Pet Sematary, Alien 3, Michael Collins, Batman Forever, Heat and the Academy Award-winning score for Julie Taymor's Frida, a movie in which Goldenthal had a small acting part as a "Newsreel Reporter". Incidentally he also had a small part in the stage show Juan Darièn as a "Circus Barker / Streetsinger".

The Tony Award-winning Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass (1988/'96) and The Green Bird (1999), based on a story by Carlo Gozzi, are two of the composer's theatre works. In 2006, Goldenthal completed his original three-act opera with Taymor entitled Grendel an adaptation of the John Gardner novel of the same name which told the story of Beowulf from the monster Grendel's point of view. It had its world premiere in early June 2006 at the Los Angeles Opera, the role of Grendel performed by Eric Owens, with an audience that included John Williams and Emmy Rossum; the opus was added to the Los Angeles Opera's permanent repertoire and earned Goldenthal a nomination in April 2007 for the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In 2008 Goldenthal reunited with Michael Mann to score 1930s gangster movie Public Enemies and in 2009 he scored another Julie Taymor Shakespeare adaptation, The Tempest. He cites Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu as an influence and someone he styles his own career on; Goldenthal has said that the lines between traditional concert music and orchestral film score have become more blurred which is the way he thinks it should be. He has also collaborated four times with Irish director Neil Jordan, including on his films Interview with the Vampire and In Dreams.

Personal life
He lives in New York City "happily unmarried", as he once put it, with his partner Julie Taymor, whom he met in 1980 through a mutual acquaintance, who told him, "I know a person whose work is just as grotesque as yours". They have an office/apartment where they both live and work.

Style
Elliot Goldenthal has been called the "thinking man's composer" by film-music collectors and a generally more cerebral choice for film makers and lovers of film music. He is known for his experimentation, nuances and willingness to try unconventional techniques. He has scored films in almost every genre from horror to action to Shakespeare adaptations. He has not yet scored comedy, but he has composed comedic motifs for several films such as Demolition Man and the Batman series. His eclectic output has gained him a great deal of respect in the music and film communities and with fans. He is widely appreciated for his musical abilities and distinctive style, although some find his work to be too experimental or inaccessible. His action music is brutal and atonal. Sometimes, in underscore, he uses very fast French horn passages with bending tones and whining. Goldenthal has said that he doesn't "hear" atonal and tonal, rather, "I either hear melody or I hear sonority".

Goldenthal often works with a team he assembled after the soundtrack for Drugstore Cowboy: Teese Gohl as supervising producer, Robert Elhai as orchestrator, Joel Iwataki and Steve McLaughlin as sound engineers and Richard Martinez as electronic music producer. According to Martinez, "a lot of composers want to focus on writing their music, and that's what [his] team allows Elliot to do." At the website filmscoremonthly.com, a former classmate of Goldenthal's commented on an article on the Sphere score from 1998 which stated that when he and Elliot were both studying at the Manhattan School of Music in the '70s, Elliot was already experimenting with unusual techniques. Once, when studying trumpet, Elliot had asked him to "buzz into the wrong end of the mouthpiece and sing into it as well". He thought he was crazy but, looking back after a decade or so of Goldenthal's film and concert music, he "was just way ahead of the rest of us," he said.

Awards and nominations

 * (2007) Pulitzer Prize for Music Nomination for his acclaimed "Grendel" opera
 * (2004) Emmy Awards Nomination, "Great Performances: Dance in America" – Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)
 * (2004) ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards Win, "S.W.A.T." – Top Box Office Film Score
 * (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003 Win, "Frida" – Best Original Soundtrack of the Year
 * (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003 Win, "Frida" – Soundtrack Composer of the Year
 * (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003 Nomination', "Burn It Blue" from "Frida" – Best Original Song Written for a Film
 * (2002) Academy Awards Win, "Frida" – Best Original Score
 * (2002) Academy Awards Nomination, "Frida", "Burn It Blue" – Best Original Song
 * (2002) Golden Globes Win, "Frida" – Best Original Score
 * (2002) World Soundtrack Awards 2002 Nomination, "The Dream Within" from "Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within" – Best Original Song Written for a Film
 * (1999) Chicago Film Critics Association awards Nomination, "The Butcher Boy" – Best Original Score
 * (1998) ASCAP awards Win, "Batman & Robin" – Top Box Office Film Score
 * (1998) Chicago Film Critics Awards Nomination, "The Butcher Boy" – Best Original Score
 * (1998) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1998 Win, "The Butcher Boy" – Best Original Score
 * (1997) Tony Awards Nomination, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" (Broadway Production) – Best Original Musical Score
 * (1997) ASCAP awards Win, "A Time to Kill" – Top Box Office Film Score
 * (1997) Grammy Nomination, "Defile and Lament" from "A Time to Kill"
 * (1996) Academy Awards Nomination, "Michael Collins" – Best Original Score
 * (1996) Golden Globe Nomination, "Michael Collins" – Best Original Score
 * (1996) ASCAP awards Win, "Batman Forever" – Top Box Office Film Score
 * (1995) Grammy Nomination, "Batman Forever" – Best Instrumental Composition
 * (1995) ASCAP awards Win, "Interview with the Vampire" – Top Box Office Film Score
 * (1995) Golden Globe Nomination, "Interview with the Vampire" – Best Original Score
 * (1994) Academy Awards Nomination, "Interview with the Vampire" – Best Original Score
 * (1994) ASCAP awards Win, "Demolition Man" – Top Box Office Film Score
 * (1990) Edinburgh Festival Critics Choice Award Win, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" – Best Music
 * (1990) American Academy of Arts and Letters Richard Rodgers Award Win, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" – Best Music
 * (1988) Obie Award Win, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" (Original Production) – Best Music

Among others including the Arturo Toscanini Award, the New Music for Young Ensembles composition prize, the Stephen Sondheim Award in Music Theater and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship.

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User:Jimbo Wales/WikiProject Wikipedians for Jimbo's beard/to do

 * Collect donated hair to paste to Jimbo's face
 * Collect donations for superglue / PVA glue to stick donated hair onto Jimbo's face in the case of an attack
 * Hire beard assassin assassins.
 * In the event that beard assassin assassins are unsuccessful, procure a large supply of industrial strength Rogaine
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User:Itgeek~enwiki

Introduction
Hello all and welcome to my personal page ! I am a French software engineer whose motto is "freedom, property, responsibility" (if only it could be my old country's one...)

Some of my hobbies : freedom (I am a convinced libertarian), information science, and cinema.

Contributions
Articles for which my contribution was significant :

 * Liberté chérie, the association in which I am engaged.

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Yakutat Airport

Yakutat Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Yakutat, a city and borough in the U.S. state of Alaska which has no road access to the outside world. Airline service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 11,028 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 12,158 enplanements in 2009, and 10,035 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2015–2019, which categorized it as a primary commercial service (nonhub) airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year) based on 10,100 enplanements in CY 2012.

History
Yakutat Airport origins date from 1940 when Yakutat Army Airfield was constructed as part of the United States Army's long-range defense program for Alaska.

Facilities and aircraft
Yakutat Airport has two runways: 2/20 is 6,475 by 150 feet (1,974 x 46 m) with a concrete surface; 11/29 is 7,745 by 150 feet (2,361 x 46 m) with an asphalt surface.

For the 12-month period ending May 3, 2010, the airport had 19,026 aircraft operations, an average of 52 per day: 68% general aviation, 26% air taxi, 4% scheduled commercial, and 2% military. At that time there were eight aircraft based at this airport, all single-engine.

Passenger
Alaska Air Cargo operates the Boeing 737-700 into the airport.

Incidents

 * A Boeing 737-700, flying as Alaska Airlines Flight 66 from Cordova, hit a bear and narrowly missed another as it landed on November 15, 2020. The struck bear was killed, while the other bear as well as all onboard the aircraft were uninjured. The plane suffered damage to its left engine cowling.

Other sources

 * Essential Air Service documents (Docket OST-1998-4899) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
 * Order 2004-5-5 (May 4, 2004): tentatively reselects Alaska Airlines, Inc., to provide subsidized essential air service at Cordova, Gustavus, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Yakutat (southeast) Alaska, for the period from October 1, 2003, through April 30, 2006, at an annual rate of $5,723,008.
 * Order 2006-3-20 (March 22, 2006): re-selecting Alaska Airlines, Inc., to provide subsidized essential air service at Cordova, Gustavus, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Yakutat (southeast) Alaska, for the period from May 1, 2006, through April 30, 2009.
 * Order 2009-2-3 (February 9, 2009): re-selecting Alaska Airlines, Inc., to provide essential air service (EAS) at Cordova, Gustavus, and Yakutat, for an annual subsidy rate of $5,793,201 and at Petersburg and Wrangell at an annual subsidy rate of $1,347,195, through April 30, 2011.
 * Order 2011-2-1 (February 1, 2011): re-selecting Alaska Airlines, Inc., to provide essential air service (EAS) at Cordova, Gustavus, and Yakutat, for an annual subsidy rate of $4,486,951 and at Petersburg and Wrangell at an annual subsidy rate of $3,415,987, from May 1, 2011, through April 30, 2013.
 * Order 2013-2-10 (February 11, 2013): re-selecting Alaska Airlines, Inc., to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) at Cordova, Gustavus, and Yakutat, Alaska, for $4,827,052 annual subsidy and at Petersburg and Wrangell at an annual subsidy rate of $3,476,579, from May 1, 2013, through April 30, 2015.

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I've now changed my name to Famous Ray. Accept no imititations! I am the original Ray! FamousRay 00:15, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

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John S. Williams

John S. Williams may refer to:
 * John Sam Williams (born 1966), American basketball player
 * John Scott Williams (1893–1944), Canadian air force officer
 * John Sharp Williams (1854–1932), US Senator from Mississippi and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives
 * John Sibley Williams (born 1978), American poet and fiction writer
 * John Skelton Williams (1865–1926), American Comptroller of the Currency
 * John Stewart Williams (1911–1964), English cricketer
 * John Stuart Williams (1818–1898), American Confederate general and US Senator from Kentucky

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Jean Cayrol

Jean Cayrol (6 June 1911 – 10 February 2005) was a French poet, publisher, and member of the Académie Goncourt born in Bordeaux. He is perhaps best known for writing the narration in Alain Resnais's 1955 documentary film, Night and Fog. He was a major contributor to the subversive, philosophical French publication Tel Quel.

In 1941, during the Nazi occupation of France, Cayrol joined the French Resistance, but he was subsequently betrayed, arrested, and sent to the Gusen concentration camp in 1943. He was one of the youngest French inmates at that camp, and consequently was made to do some of the hardest work along with the construction of roads and railways. When Cayrol wanted to die by refusing any further food, his life was saved by Johann Gruber, the "Saint of Gusen." Gruber gave Cayrol some "Gruber soup" in the washroom of barrack No. 20, and intervened for Cayrol to get him transferred to an easier job. Cayrol thereafter worked at the final inspection of Steyr-Daimler-Puch at KL Gusen I (the "Georgenmuehle" command), where he was able to write literature during breaks.

Between February 1944 and April 1945, Cayrol created a large volume of poetry at Gusen I. One of his poems from this era is the text for "Chant d'Espoir", which was set to music by a fellow Gusen I inmate, Remy Gillis, in 1944. Alerte aux ombres 1944–1945, a collection of Cayrol's Gusen texts, was published in 1997.

The figure of Lazarus appears many times in Cayrol's work. Having escaped death himself, Cayrol was fascinated and inspired by the story of Lazarus who died, whom Jesus returned to life after being dead.

Cayrol founded and edited for ten years (1956–66) the review Ecrire, published by Éditions du Seuil, who had recruited him as an editorial adviser in 1949.

He retired to Bordeaux, where he died at the age of 93.

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Bílý Potok

Bílý Potok may refer to places in the Czech Republic:

 * Bílý Potok (Liberec District), a municipality and village in the Liberec Region
 * Bílý Potok (Javorník), a village and part of Javorník in the Olomouc Region
 * Bílý Potok, a village and part of Vrbno pod Pradědem in the Moravian-Silesian Region

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Cover of Softdisk #27 (1984), a disk magazine for Apple II computers

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