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File:FeardotCom poster.jpg

FeardotCom film poster

Fair use in FeardotCom
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
 * 1) It's a low resolution copy of a Film Poster / VHS or DVD Cover.
 * 2) It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the film in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales.
 * 3) Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the artwork/image.
 * 4) The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
 * 5) The image  is significant because it was used to promoted a notable film.

Source

 * 1) Derived from a digital capture (photo/scan) of the Film Poster/ VHS or DVD Cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the film company or the artist.  Claimed as fair use regardless.

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Gambrel

A gambrel or gambrel roof is a usually symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. The upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, while the lower slope is steep. This design provides the advantages of a sloped roof while maximizing headroom inside the building's upper level and shortening what would otherwise be a tall roof, as well as reducing the span of each set of rafters. The name comes from the Medieval Latin word gamba, meaning horse's hock or leg. The term gambrel is of American origin, the older, European name being a curb (kerb, kirb) roof.

Europeans historically did not distinguish between a gambrel roof and a mansard roof but called both types a mansard. In the United States, various shapes of gambrel roofs are sometimes called Dutch gambrel or Dutch Colonial gambrel with bell-cast eaves, Swedish, German, English, French, or New England gambrel.

The cross-section of a gambrel roof is similar to that of a mansard roof, but a gambrel has vertical gable ends instead of being hipped at the four corners of the building. A gambrel roof overhangs the façade, whereas a mansard normally does not.

Origin and use of the term
Gambrel is a Norman English word, sometimes spelled gambol such as in the 1774 Boston carpenters' price book (revised 1800). Other spellings include gamerel, gamrel, gambril, gameral, gambering, cambrel, cambering, chambrel referring to a wooden bar used by butchers to hang the carcasses of slaughtered animals. Butcher's gambrels, later made of metal, resembled the two-sloped appearance of a gambrel roof when in use.

Gambrel is also a term for the joint in the upper part of a horse's hind leg, the hock.

In 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. wrote:

"Know old Cambridge? Hope you do.— Born there? Don't say so! I was, too. (Born in a house with a gambrel-roof,— Standing still, if you must have proof.— "Gambrel?—Gambrel?"—Let me beg  You'll look at a horse's hinder leg,— First great angle above the hoof,—  That's the gambrel; hence gambrel-roof.)"

An earlier reference from the Dictionary of Americanisms, published in 1848, defines gambrel as "A hipped roof of a house, so called from the resemblance to the hind leg of a horse which by farriers is termed the gambrel." Webster's Dictionary also confusingly used the term hip in the definition of this roof.

The term is also used for a single mansard roof in France and Germany. In Dutch the term 'two-sided mansard roof' is used for gambrel roofs.

Origins of the gambrel in North America
The origin of the gambrel roof form in North America is unknown. The oldest known gambrel roof in America was on the second Harvard Hall at Harvard University built in 1677. Possibly the oldest surviving house in the U.S. with a gambrel roof is the c. 1677–78 Peter Tufts House. The oldest surviving framed house in North America, the Fairbanks House, has an ell with a gambrel roof, but this roof was a later addition.

Claims to the origin of the gambrel roof form in North America include:

 * 1) Indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest, the Coast Salish, used gambrel roof form (Suttle & Lane (1990), p. 491).
 * 2) Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English mariners and traders had visited or settled into the area of southeast Asia now called Indonesia prior to permanent European settlement in America. In Indonesia, they saw dwellings with a roof style where the end of a roof started as a hip and finished as a gable end at the ridge. The gable end was an opening, to allow smoke to dissipate from the cooking fires. This roof design was brought back to Europe and the American Colonies, and adapted to local conditions. The roof style is still in use around the world today;
 * 3) seamen who traveled to the Netherlands brought the design back to North America;
 * 4) or practical reasons such as a way to allow wider buildings, the use of shorter rafters, or to avoid taxes.

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James Morrow (Manitoba politician)

James Morrow (July 8, 1857 – March 1, 1949) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1911 to 1915, as a member of the Conservative Party.

Morrow was born to William Morrow and Nancy Booth, an Irish family in Mille-Isles, Canada East (now Quebec). His father was a member of the 11th Argenteuil Rangers during the Fenian raids of 1866. Morrow was educated at common school, and worked as a farmer. He moved to Manitoba in 1879, and served as councillor and reeve of the Rural Municipality of Louise for ten years. Morrow married Mary A. McDougall in 1883. In religion, he was a Presbyterian.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in a by-election held in the constituency of Manitou on October 31, 1911, after incumbent member Robert Rogers resigned to run for the House of Commons of Canada. Morrow was elected without opposition, and served as a backbench supporter of Rodmond Roblin's government. He was re-elected by seventy votes over Liberal I.H. Davidson in the 1914 provincial election.

The Roblin administration was forced to resign in 1915, after a report commissioned by the Lieutenant Governor found the government guilty of corruption in the tendering of contracts for new legislative buildings. A new election was called, which the Liberals won in a landslide. Morrow was not a candidate for re-election.

He died at the Grace Hospital in Winnipeg.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Curtis Dean Moran

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The result of the debate was Speedy Delete. --Ryan Delaney talk 20:21, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Curtis Dean Moran
Vanity. Kwekubo 22:38, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Vanity and stupidity. D. J. Bracey (talk) [[Image:Flag of California.svg|25px]] 23:13, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You gotta be kidding. I'm sending it to speedy deletion for either nonsense or A7. --Howcheng 23:57, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

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The Ultimate Collection (Barry White album)

The Ultimate Collection, aka Gold and, later, Icon 2, is a retrospective 2-disc set of Barry White's career that was released in 2000. In 2008, it was substantially re-released as part of Universal Music's Gold series with the addition of the song "Baby, We Better Try To Get It Together" and the removal of the song "Love Makin' Music".

Disc 1

 * 1) "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby" (4:10)
 * 2) "I've Got So Much to Give" (5:15)
 * 3) "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up" (4:01)
 * 4) "Honey, Please, Can't Ya See" (3:15)
 * 5) "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" (3:48)
 * 6) "Baby Blues" - Love Unlimited Orchestra (5:36)
 * 7) "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" (4:33)
 * 8) "What Am I Gonna Do with You" (3:40)
 * 9) "I'll Do for You Anything You Want Me To" (4:08)
 * 10) "Let the Music Play" (4:15)
 * 11) "You See the Trouble with Me" (3:22)
 * 12) "My Sweet Summer Suite" - Love Unlimited Orchestra (4:59)
 * 13) "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long" (4:42)
 * 14) "I'm Qualified to Satisfy You" (3:05)
 * 15) "Midnight and You" - Love Unlimited Orchestra (5:10)

Disc 2

 * 1) "Loves Theme" - Love Unlimited Orchestra (4:07)
 * 2) "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me" (3:24)
 * 3) "Oh, What a Night for Dancing" (3:56)
 * 4) "Playing Your Game, Baby" (3:38)
 * 5) "Your Sweetness is My Weakness" (4:41)
 * 6) "Just the Way You Are" (4:10)
 * 7) "Love Serenade, Pts. 1 & 2" (7:48)
 * 8) "Satin Soul" - Love Unlimited Orchestra (4:15)
 * 9) "It Ain't Love Babe (Until You Give It)" (4:19)
 * 10) "Love Makin' Music" (4:57)
 * 11) "Sho' You Right" (3:57)
 * 12) "Put Me in Your Mix" (4:42)
 * 13) "Practice What You Preach" (3:55)
 * 14) "Come On" (3:48)
 * 15) "Staying Power" (3:59)


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Talk:List of text editors

real-time editor?
The linked topic gives no indication that this "real time editor" falls within the scope of "text editors", since its description is limited to a discussion of a quasi-IRC client. TEDickey (talk) 09:18, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * A closer inspection of the software will indicate that it is in fact a text editor. The "irc client" is a chat interface for editors to communicate about the document they're working on. There's a standalone server called infinote and compatible emacs mode called rudel.

Based on that response, it might be an IRC client, but "text editor" was not addressed in that comment. TEDickey (talk) 18:50, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Microsoft Edit: What versions of windows had EDIT? It certainly is not in Windows10
My experience has a gap, but here's what I know: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.245.132.186 (talk) 17:07, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * EDIT IS AVAILABLE : For me it existed in the following versions Win3.1, Win95, WinNT
 * (noticeable gap between windows versions)
 * EDIT ISNT AVAILABLE: It's not part of Windows 10

What versions between WinNT and Windows10 did it work on, and why was it removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.245.132.186 (talk) 17:06, 25 April 2016 (UTC) ASHwak (talk) 06:04, 7 October 2017 (UTC) Rev. Ph d. Aldea Silvaeahawk {06 Oct 2017 19:00hrs} to {07 Oct 2017 00:05hrs} All EDST. by my uses of following system. Please up date your list with information here and below. I personally love OS/2 version 3 Warp and PC-DOS 7.2 on a DX486 I'm register own of both with IBM. Window 98 on a 80686 with IBM Glass-ton chip set. I also owned two 80286/287 units had call to OS/2 v1.2 more like menu program, little Graphics as applications, that I bought at a junk yard repair there power supplies and used them and register with IBM PC-DOS 5.5 which was on both machines over the phone and later internet phone, until I bought a new DX486 desk top unit running PC-DOS 5.5 over it Windows95 OS-R2 then then loaded OS/2v3{Warp}. and owned many x686 up ward sense. Windows3.0--3.1 Windows(OS-R2) Windows98 windows Millennium but it's DOS command prompt was not real DOS no "ed" no "e” and only having these edit.exe for command prompt or\and call-able to start windows' "notepad.exe" as a windows GUI. I guess, you all were not born yet well as far back as maybe DX486 unit. Unix and ADA was in the U.S. Army 1976 through 1984. My Jr-yr "LSAT "Electronics Design" "Applied" Both as "Analog" and "Digital" 2nd best in Tennessee and nationally 2nd my bench partner got 1st in both he was killed with his whole family; very near Christmas day after the Exam posted. They were in West Tennessee that Christmas hollow Days. We all of our mates were informed of that when we had gotten back to school. These are all verifiable. All those below are self citations within there respective help and or document files, except where stated below. But that ED is documented in it;s help files under C/PM, which works in the very same way in my office c/pM on a Xerox computer, when I was a Motor-Sargent in US Army. Oh I think the first DOS OS was written on c/pM computer, check with Micro Soft whom did buy a DOS from the writer of DOS, I do Remember reading that it was bought for $65000.00 after IBM requested a PC-OS from Micro Soft they bought it after finding that their dead line was about come into effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors

Title: List of text editors From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

subtitle:	Graphical user interface [edit]

Item of list:	e made GUI in OS/2‘s called PC-7.2 and it's own GUI while under DOS note: that I am still reg owner of and user back then. I found it when writing boot copy batch file and config.sys for fix-it disk, FOR A FREIND whom need to copy Windows reg file for later uses. It was by mistake I did not hit the second letter of the hidden editor named "ed" which was apart of every real DOS like MSDOS PCDOS and MDOS under OS/2 version:3 Warp like this simple command prompt line as follows C:\> ED      but instead I did      C:\> e { See "ed" below too. } subtitle:	Text user interface[edit] System default[edit]

Item of list:		e or E  not On Real DOS version 3.3 PC DOS later until around 5.5 6.0

Item of list:	ed or ED depending as to which; REAL DOS OS you were using, is a hidden editor for writing .bat .sys files. I've never seen so much as a comment about "ED or ed" in any documents for any DOS OS but I have read every one around either. But sadly to say that MS Windows version 7.0 also had EDIT then and later afterward no longer had ed in it. Also Windows NT command prompt did not have "ed or ED" it only had "EDIT" but as "edit" either except when it is 		 loaded over a real DOS OS then like magic you got "ed" Example of DOS:

C:\> ed autoexec.bat /* makes Autoexec.bat file overwrites if one exists. */

C:\> ED config.sys  /* makes config.sys file overwrites if one exists. */

C:\> ed >>autoexec.bat /* append to one if it exists otherwise complains */

C:\> ed >>config.sys /* same is also true for config.sys file too. */

C:\MYFILES> ed mynotes.txt or c:\> ed >>c:\myfiles\mynotes.txt /* creates or appends. the prompt is the astric " * " as follows: */

 * I just found this very simple editor called "ed" it let you write for the
 * length command prompt later versions let write around the corner just like
 * this doing but the only the length of the command buffer which almost
 * always was 127 chars long later one even Ctrl+/r return as
 * the 128th char. When you were finished you and hold the "+ " tap
 * the  as a keycord completed ed finishes as always do end with
 * + /* On an empty line terminates the file and writes it */

C:\> canceled or ended by user /* some earlier DOSes did this report or complaint as your view point. */ /* Most DOSes did not report on the finish of ed   and OS/2 version 3 Warp never did. */ /* I am almost eighty year old started computing uses in the early 1970's.*/ /* These are all facts true hole and complete. */ /* Causes to write or to write this file show seamlessly append to it. */ /* "EDIT" was a command editor for Windows95 DOS 7.0 with upgrade win3.1 no DOS the upgrade askes for for the disk of windows 3.1 and then loads. Also I learned from Windoews95 help files program. */ Hope not to over write any one's work but here is the info all of it verifiable, either "IBM" or "MS" registeries.

List inclusion
I have added a brief hidden note to clarify Wikipedia's inclusion criteria for large lists, with one common sense exception: imo default editors of notable operating systems and computers can be assumed to be relevant enough for inclusion even without stand-alone articles (although such entries should ideally have an independent source). GermanJoe (talk) 17:24, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

 * I have adapted the current editnotice according to this (hopefully uncontroversial) suggestion. But of course the phrasing can be tweaked anytime if consensus changes. GermanJoe (talk) 09:36, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Include editors with trees
What are called outliners are just text editors with handling of separate text fields in nodes on a tree. -Inowen (nlfte) 23:40, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

A terrible article
What OS are these editors for? DOS, Windows, Unix, Linux, BSD Unix, perhaps Commodore or Atari? Please specify.— Ineuw talk 21:20, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * This one has all the needed details: Comparison of text editors. --82.194.57.136 (talk) 07:08, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

IBM & EDIT
With OS/2 and at least eComStation version 1.x, EDIT for DOS (and restricted to 8.3 FAT filenames) is available via "QBASIC /EDIT". 84.30.138.186 (talk) 11:49, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

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Portal talk:Estonia/Featured picture

List of formerly featured pics:

 * 1) Estonian Flag
 * 2) Estonian Coat of Arms
 * 3) Estonian Map
 * 4) Map of Counties
 * 5) Riigikogu
 * 6) Kroon
 * 7) Parnu Coat of Arms
 * 8) Saaremaa Flag
 * 9) Old Tallinn
 * 10) Estonian SSR flag
 * 11) Estonian SSR Coat of Arms
 * 12) Tallinn Coat of Arms
 * 13) Saaremaa Coat of Arms
 * 14) Vanilla Ninja
 * 15) Viljandi Coat of Arms
 * 16) Tartu University logo
 * 17) Andrus Ansip
 * 18) Arnold Rüütel

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darode

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 07:32, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Darode
There is no evidence of the existence of such a sword; google returns only irrelevant links (names of people) or mirrors of wikipedia. Query from April requesting sources was never responded to. siafu 22:42, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. As nominator. siafu 23:07, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unverifiable. --Howcheng 23:56, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Utility vault

A utility vault is an underground room providing access to subterranean public utility equipment, such as valves for water or natural gas pipes, or switchgear for electrical or telecommunications equipment. A vault is often accessible directly from a street, sidewalk or other outdoor space, thereby distinct from a basement of a building.

Utility vaults are commonly constructed out of reinforced concrete boxes, poured concrete or brick. Small ones are usually entered through a manhole or grate on the topside and closed up by a manhole cover. Such vaults are considered confined spaces and can be hazardous to enter. Large utility vaults are similar to mechanical or electrical rooms in design and content.

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www.atomly.com

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The Citizens' Voice

The Citizens' Voice is a compact newspaper published daily in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Its 2005 circulation was 32,862, mostly Luzerne County residents.

Founding
The newspaper was founded in 1978 by striking employees of the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company, which published the Times Leader. Established on October 9 of that year, The Citizens' Voice was initially a "strike newspaper" published by the local Newspaper Guild, but quickly grew to become a direct competitor to the Times Leader.

After 11 years, the Newspaper Guild turned control of The Citizens' Voice over to the original striking employees. The Citizens' Voice, Inc., was formed to manage the newspaper. The Citizens' Voice added a Sunday edition in 1993.

2000 sale
In 2000, the newspaper was sold to Scranton-based Times-Shamrock Communications. That year, the company formed the Northeast Pennsylvania News Alliance, a news-sharing agreement between Times-Shamrock's newspapers and several local radio and TV stations.

Several of the original strikers from 1978 still work for the newspaper. The Citizens' Voice is the oldest newspaper formed by striking workers in the nation.

2023 sale
In August 2023, Times-Shamrock Communications sold the newspaper and three other daily newspapers to MediaNews Group a subsidiary of Alden Global Capital.

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User:Caerwine/The Journey of a Thousand Miles (Xiaolin Showdown)

The Journey of a Thousand Miles is episode 101 of Xiaolin Showdown. It first aired in the United States on November 1, 2003.

Omi, a young Xiaolin Dragon-in-training is joined by three new students. However, the release of an ancient evil will send Omi and the three new students on a quest to obtain the magical Shen Gong Wu from the various places they have been hidden.

Synopsis
Thousands of years ago, Dashi, a fully trained monk fought the evil witch, Wuya, in the very first Xiaolin Showdown for the Shen-Gong-Wu. Dashi defeated Wuya, and he casted Wuya in a wooden puzzle-box so that there will be no more evil. Dashi took the Shen-Gong-Wu and spread its pieces all over the world. So that no one will attain that great of a power anymore ...

Present day. Omi, a young monk-in-training who must find the missing Shen-Gong-Wu pieces before the evil Jack Spicer and his partner in crime, Wuya, can. Master Fung, Omi's teacher, enlists a new band of students for Omi to train in his quest to locate all the Shen Gong Wu objects. They are Raimundo, Clay, and Kimiko. Also, the temple guardian, Dojo the dragon protects them on their adventures. Each Shen-Gong-Wu piece represents a certain ability or power that Omi and his team or Jack can possess.

Omi finds out where the first Shen-Gong-Wu object is hidden. It is called the Mantis Flip Coin. Obviously, it's power is to make you flip in mid-air. The team flies to San Francisco on Dojo, who turns fifty feet. Jack reaches it first, and he sends his Jack-bots out to destroy Omi and the rest, while he makes his escape. Even though Omi and the team defeated a majority of the Jack-bots, Jack manages to escape with the Mantis Flip Coin. Kimiko immediately finds out where the next object is, and it is called the Two Ton Tunic. The name is self explanatory. It also deflects anything that hits it, making it indestructible.

The team races to where the tunic is hidden, and Omi finds it. It is on a bridge by a river, and soon Raimundo, Kimiko, and Clay kick Jack into a boat, and the impact knocks him cold. Omi puts on the Two Ton Tunic, but accidentally releases its power, making it weigh two tons. The bridge breaks from under Omi, and all of them drop into the water.

Later, the team learns that the next object they need to get is the Eye of Dashi. Dojo gets them to where it is as fast as he can, and they find it right away. Just as Omi grabs it, Jack is grabbing a hold of it. We then learn that if two warriors reach a stalemate over a Shen-Gong-Wu object, then a Xiaolin Showdown must take place to see who deserves the object! Also, whoever wins then that means that person gets the other two objects as well.

The Showdown that will be happening is a race to the finish with jumping from one rock to the other... three hundred feet in the air! At the end is the Eye of Dashi. Whoever gets to the end first gets to claim it. Omi uses the Two Ton Tunic to help him, and Jack uses the Mantis Flip Coin. After being behind for a while, the result at the end is that Omi wins, and gets to have all three Shen-Gong-Wu objects!

The team goes back to the Xiaolin Temple, where Master Fung is waiting. He tells all of them that in time they will develop elements as their power. Omi is already water. Master Fung explains that Kimiko will have fire, Raimundo will have wind, and Clay will have earth.

Shen Gong Wu

 * The Mantis Flip Coin was found by Jack Spicer in San Francisco. Jack uses it to jump around.

 * The Two Ton Tunic was found by Jack Spicer in Venice, but the monks manage to take it away from him before he can put it on. When Omi activates the Two Ton Tunic for the first time, its weight causes the canal dock he and the other dragons-in-training are standing on to collapse.

 * The Eye of Dashi was hanging by a string loop from a tree in a sylvan wilderness location and was the subject of the episode's Xiaolin Showdown.

Guest Characters
There is no other characters other than the eight main characters that appear.

Showdowns
Who versuing who: Omi vs. Jack

Wagers: Omi's Two Ton Tunic vs. Jack's Mantis Flip Coin For: Eye of Dashi Game: Stone Jumping to the Wu Winner: Omi

Clay's Downhome Sayings
"It's not your weight; it's how you throw it around." -- while smashing a Jack-Bot with a belly bump. "Better not catch your chickens before they hatch."-- as Jack summons a couple dozen Jack-Bots.

Kimiko's Techno-Fashion
Hairstyle: Short, layered, blonde with a blue hair wrap in the back that goes past her waist. Top: Blue sleeveless turtleneck top with a red star in the middle, and long white fingerless gloves Bottom: Red and white skirt, white socks up to her knees, blue leggings, and red and white shoes. Gadgets: Po-chi Raider portable game, PDA, and cellphone.

Raimundo's Schemes
Raimundo asked master Fung about the bed and other accomadations as they are gathered together to start the sarch for the Shen Gong Wu, but Master Fung does not answer him, which he realised only later.

The Wisdom of Master Fung
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step." -- Said at the end of the episode and attributed by Master Fung to a desk calendar.

Dojo’s Wu Sense
Dojo convulsed when the Mantis Flip Coin activates, and was used as a dousing rod by Raimundo when they reached the locale of the Eye of Dashi.

Jack Spicer’s Bots
Only standard Jack-Bots were shown in this episode. They used some sort of blue ray gun in their bellies when Jack intitially met Wuya. They used vertically whirling shoulder blades at the first encounter between Jack and the Dragons-in-training.


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Press Holdings

Press Holdings and May Corporation Limited are two Jersey-registered holding companies owned by Frederick Barclay, which control the UK holding company Press Acquisitions Limited, which in turn owns the Telegraph Media Group, parent company of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.

In December 2005, Press Holdings sold The Scotsman Publications to the Edinburgh-based Johnston Press for £160m, having paid £82m for the group in 1995.

The company also owns The Spectator, a weekly British political magazine, and Apollo, an art magazine.

In July 2023, it was announced that Mike McTighe had been appointed chairman of Press Holdings and May Corporation Limited in order to oversee the sale of the Telegraph and the Spectator Magazine.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pincey Park

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 07:30, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Pincey Park
An article for a band who have yet to release a record, although the article claims that this may change in the near future (although the 8 google hits suggests it is not exactly widely awaited). non-notable, probable vanity. Rje 22:44, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete agree
 * Previous unsigned comment from Drini.
 * Delete non-notable bandcruft. --Kurt Shaped Box 23:08, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * How is this vain?????
 * Previous unsigned comment from 70.51.162.250.
 * It's vanity in the sense of WP:VANITY. It means that the article was probably written to promote the band, rather than simply to describe them. It's not intended as an insult to the writer -- in fact this article does seem to be factual and written in an appropriately neutral manner. However the band does not appear to be sufficiently notable to be included in Wikipedia at this time. Pburka 02:20, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NMG. --Howcheng 23:55, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think this should be deleted. It's just factual and does not seem to be promoting the band. Considering the band is signed to a major Record Label, I think it should be included in Wikipedia. (preceding unsigned comment by 70.51.137.179 03:43, 24 August 2005 (UTC))
 * Did you read WP:NMG? The band doesn't qualify under any of those conditions. --Howcheng 21:26, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * This user is from the same IP range as the previous anonymous voter. Poss. sockpuppet? --Kurt Shaped Box 21:51, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Probably the same person just writing a second comment. --Howcheng 23:58, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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The Castaways

The Castaways are an American rock band from the Twin Cities in Minnesota, United States. They were formed in 1963.

The band's only hit single was "Liar, Liar". Written by band leader Jim Donna and drummer (and band co-founder) Dennis Craswell, the song was produced by Timothy D. Kehr and released by Soma Records, reaching number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965. "Liar, Liar" was later featured in the films Good Morning, Vietnam and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and was covered by Debbie Harry in Married to the Mob. The Castaways performed "Liar, Liar" in the 1967 beach movie, It's a Bikini World. Their follow up, "Goodbye Babe", was another local hit, but did not break nationally.

Although the group released several more singles throughout the 1960s, they never released an album, until the appearance of their 1999 Greatest Hits compilation.

History
The original members were Jim Donna on keyboards, Robert Folschow and Roy Hensley on guitars, Dick Roby on bass guitar and vocal, and Dennis Craswell on drums. Folschow sang the distinctive falsetto vocal on "Liar, Liar", and Dick Roby contributed the scream.

In 1966 Jim Donna left the band. Bob Folschow ended up being drafted into the army. The band ended up breaking up 2 years after this in 1968. Jim Donna restarted The Castaways in the 1970s with new members.

Following the dissolution of the band, original drummer Dennis Craswell (co-author of the song "Liar Liar"), went on to join Crow, a Minneapolis-based rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s. and now plays under the name: The Original Castaways (summers) and plays under the name: The Castaway in the Rio Grande Valley playing dances in the 55+ parks, and on South Padre Island (winters).

In the early 1980s, Folschow and Craswell led a West Coast version of the band under the name The Castaways in Pismo Beach, California. Folschow, who was using the stage name of Bob LaRoy, played guitar and a keytar on many songs, including "Liar, Liar". At some point, this lineup also included fellow original members Roby and Hensley, leaving Donna as the only original member not participating.

Rhythm guitarist Roy Hensley (born on 31 December 1947) died on 8 June 2005, at the age of 57, and was buried in Lewisville, Minnesota.

In 2006, all five members of the classic Castaways lineup were inducted into the Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with the group's former producer, Timothy B. Kehr accepting the award on behalf of posthumous inductee Hensley.

The Castaways, with original band leader Jim Donna, continue to perform for fairs, festivals, and private events in the upper Midwest. The modern line up consists of Bob Donna on Guitar, Rick Snider on the drums, Ralph Hintz on bass guitar and lead vocals and Jim Donna on the keyboards.

In 2022 Jim Donna wrote a book about The Castaways called,  Liar, Liar From Garage Band to Rockstars, the Story of Minnesota's Castaways in the 1960' s .

Discography

 * Singles
 * "Liar, Liar" / "Sam" (1965)
 * "Goodbye Babe" / "A Man's Gotta Be a Man" (1965)
 * "She's a Girl in Love" / "Why This Should Happen to Me" (1967)
 * "I Feel So Fine" / "Hit the Road Jack" (1967)
 * "Walking in Different Circles" / "Just on High" (1968)
 * "Bad Hair Day" Dennis Craswell and Roy Hensley.
 * "Lavender Popcorn" / "What Kind of Face" (1968)

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The Empress (hotel)

The Fairmont Empress, formerly and commonly referred to as The Empress, is one of the oldest hotels in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Located on 721 Government Street, it is situated in Downtown Victoria, facing the city's Inner Harbour. The hotel was designed by Francis Rattenbury, and was built by Canadian Pacific Hotels, a division of the Canadian Pacific Railway company. The hotel is presently managed by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, part of AccorHotels since 2016. It is owned by Nat and Flora Bosa of Vancouver.

Opened on 20 January 1908, the Châteauesque-styled building is considered one of Canada's grand railway hotels. Since its opening, the hotel has undergone two expansions, the first from 1910 to 1912, and a second expansion in 1928. The building was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada in January 1981. The Empress underwent a significant restoration between 2015 and 2017, which cost more than $60M. The hotel commemorated the restoration efforts on 28 June 2017.

Location
The Fairmont Empress sits at 721 Government Street, at the southern end of Downtown Victoria, the central business district for Victoria, British Columbia. The hotel property is bounded by Humboldt Street to the north, Belleville Street to the south, and Government Street to the west. To the east of the hotel is the Victoria Conference Centre, a conference centre connected to the hotel via the conservatory in 1989. The hotel provides catering for the conference centre. The conference centre and hotel are bounded by Douglas Street on the east.

Located at the southern end of Downtown Victoria on Government Street, the hotel is situated close to the British Columbia Parliament Buildings. The hotel is also situated closely to the city's Inner Harbour, a major tourist attraction located west of the hotel, across Government Street. Other major attractions located adjacent to the hotel include the Maritime Museum of British Columbia and the Victoria Bug Zoo, both located north of the hotel, across Humboldt Street.

The hotel building was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada by Parks Canada on 15 January 1981 for its contribution to the development of the Chateauesque style of architecture.

Architecture
Shortly after acquiring the property, Canadian Pacific Hotels, a division of Canadian Pacific Railway, announced its plan to construct a new hotel, similar to the company's other Chateauesque grand railway hotels. Designed by Francis Rattenbury, the hotel was built from 1904 to 1908. Rattenbury's initial plans featured a seven-story hotel similar to the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City. Incorporating elements of French Renaissance architecture, his designs featured an enormous entrance hall, and a glass-roofed palm garden decorated in a Chinese motif. After months of delays, Rattenbury was relieved as the building's architect on 5 December 1907, with design responsibilities falling to William Sutherland Maxwell, the chief architect for Canadian Pacific Railway.

Like most Chateauesque hotels, the Empress incorporates stone and brick cladding, steep pitched copper roofs, ornate neo-Gothic dormers and gables, and polygonal turrets. However, the design of the hotel also deviates from earlier Chateauesque hotels owned by the company, incorporating elements from contemporary architectural styles into its design. The hotel's porch featured elements of Tudor architecture, the main roof of the hotel was designed in a Second Empire style with a flat top and iron railings. The building features an asymmetrical floor plan, with an interior featuring arcaded central loggia, and projecting pavilions accented by oriel windows.

The Empress was enlarged twice since it opened, with William Sutherland Maxwell designing the building's first expansion, from 1910 to 1912. The building's second expansion was completed in 1928. Much of the building's exterior brick was covered in an overgrowth of ivy, until renovations from 2014 to 2017 saw the bricks repointed and the ivy removed. The removal of the plants was done in order to prevent damage to the bricks, as well as preventing animals from living within the overgrowth.

Facilities
The Empress includes 464 guest rooms and suites spread throughout the hotel building.

A number of rooms at The Empress are also used by restaurants and other food-based services. Restaurants located within the restaurant include the Lobby Lounge, Q at the Empress Restaurant, and the Q Bar. The restaurants were all redesigned in 2017 by the Puccini Group, a San Francisco-based interior design firm. The restaurants features a purple, hardwood floor, and textured-fabric chandeliers. The hotel's afternoon tea service is held at the Lobby Lounge.

The Willow Stream Spa is a spa facility located within the hotel. It includes a Finnish sauna, steam inhalation room, and mineral pool. The hotel also operates a fitness centre with an indoor pools, and a hot tub.

History
The Chateauesque was designed by Francis Rattenbury for Canadian Pacific Hotels as a terminus hotel for Canadian Pacific's steamship line, whose main terminal was just a block away. The hotel was to serve business people and visitors to Victoria, but later as Canadian Pacific ceased its passenger services to the city, the hotel was successfully remarketed as a resort to tourists. Victoria emerged as a tourist destination beginning in the mid-to-late 1920s.

The hotel was built between 1904 and 1908, opening for service in that year and named for Queen Victoria, who was also Empress of India. Additional wings were added between 1909 and 1914, and in 1928. In 1919, Edward, Prince of Wales attended a gala at the hotel's Crystal Ballroom.

In the 1930s, Shirley Temple arrived accompanied by her parents amid rumours that she had fled from California because of kidnapping threats, a story borne from the presence of two huge bodyguards who took the room opposite hers and always left their door open. On May 30, 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth attended a luncheon at the Empress during their 1939 royal tour of Canada.

Until 1960 the hotel did not have a sign above the front entrance. In 1965, debate to tear down The Empress to make room for a more modern, functional high-rise hotel surfaced. One local newspaper warned that, "Without this splendid relic of the Edwardian era, literally tens of thousands of tourists will never return. This is the Mecca, this is the heart and soul of the city." However, on 10 June 1966, the hotel's ownership announced that they would not be demolished, but would embark on a $4 million renovation and refurbishment program, playfully dubbed Operation Teacup.

In 1989, over $45 million was spent in additional restoration known as The Royal Restoration. Guest rooms were renovated, and a health club, indoor swimming pool and guest reception were added. During these renovation, the engineering staff from the hotel confirmed that there was what has been described as a tunnel that ran from James Bay into the basement of the Empress. At high tide one was able to visit the basement and see the salt water flood the opening. It is not clear what the purpose was. Some have suggested that it was part of the hotel's waste management system and that at one time the sewage from the hotel was being flushed into James Bay.

In 1999, Canadian Pacific spun off Canadian Pacific Hotels, along with all its properties. The new company was renamed Fairmont Hotels & Resorts in an effort to reflect its growing global presence and ambitions. As such, all former CP Hotel properties were to be renamed and rebranded with the prefix 'Fairmont'. This led to a loud uproar and consternation by Victoria's newspapers and its citizens, a decision they viewed as sacrilege. Although the new name stuck, Fairmont made no changes to the hotel's original exterior signage, as a compromise to soothe local anxieties and respect its heritage.

Fairmont later sold the hotel on October 31, 2000, to the Legacy Hotels REIT for CAD $120 million. However, Fairmont has a long-term management agreement with Legacy Hotels, and as of August 2005, held an 11.14% ownership in this REIT. The hotel was sold again on June 27, 2014, to Vancouver-based owners, Nat and Flora Bosa. They invested more than $60 million in renovations. In May 2017, the first phase of restoration work and renovation was completed at the hotel. The renovations included redesigns of the guest rooms and suites, spa, dining facilities, and reception lobby.

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Apollo (magazine)

Apollo is an English-language monthly magazine covering the visual arts of all periods from antiquity to the present day.

History and profile
Apollo was founded in 1925, in London. The contemporary Apollo features a mixture of reviews, art-world news and scholarly articles. It has been described as "The International Magazine for Collectors". Apollo is owned by the Barclay brothers through the Press Holdings Media Group company.

The magazine rewards excellence in arts through annual Apollo Magazine Awards, including naming Sir Mark Jones, former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, "Personality of the Year" in 2011.

In the United States the magazine advertising and subscriptions was managed entirely by Valerie Allan from 1968 to 2008 first from New York then, starting in 1972, from Los Angeles.

Content
In line with its reputation as a magazine for collectors, Apollo regularly reports on museum acquisitions and international art fairs, including The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht, Netherlands, and Frieze Art Fair in London's Regent's Park, as well as publishing profiles on eminent collectors, such as Eli Broad, the Duke of Devonshire, Anita Zabludowich, Robert H. Smith, Sheihka Hussah al-Sabah and Charles Ryskamp.

Along with regular news and reviews, the magazine has published interviews with contemporary artists including Howard Hodgkin, Marc Quinn, Antony Gormley and architect Norman Foster.

Recent collaborative editions have included special issues in partnership with the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Yale Center for British Art. The current editor is Edward Behrens and regular contributors include Martin Gayford, Alan Powers, Emma Crichton-Miller, Simon Grant, Vincent Katz and art-market correspondent Susan Moore.

Regular features

 * Agenda: A guide to what's on worldwide
 * News: Developments in the world of art and architecture
 * Exhibitions: In-depth reviews of international exhibitions
 * Books: Recommendations and reviews of recent and forthcoming publications

Editors

 * R. Sidney Glover: 1925–29
 * Thomas Leman Hare: 1929–35
 * Herbert Furst: 1935–43
 * William Jennings: 1943–45
 * Horace Shipp: 1945–56
 * Wynne Jeudwine: 1956–59
 * William Jennings: 1959–60
 * Denys Sutton: 1962–87
 * Anna Somers Cocks: 1987–90
 * Robin Simon: 1990–97
 * David Ekserdjian: 1997–2004
 * Michael Hall: 2004–10
 * Oscar Humphries: 2010–13
 * Thomas Marks: 2013–2021
 * Edward Behrens: 2021–present

Previous owners

 * Lord Duveen and Tancred Borenius: 1925–29
 * The Apollo Press (publishers): 1929–33
 * The Field Group: 1933–39
 * William Jennings: 1939–60
 * H. W. Finnegan Jennings: 1960–62
 * Financial Times Business Information: 1962–84
 * Algy Cluff and Naim Attallah (Namara Group): 1984–90
 * Investment company co-owned by the Flick family: 1990–92
 * Paul Josefowitz: 1992–2002
 * The Telegraph Group (owned by Conrad Black): 2002–03
 * Press Holdings Media Group Ltd (owned by the Barclay brothers): 2003–present

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Ai (singer)

Ai Carina Uemura (植村 愛 カリーナ), known mononymously as Ai (, stylized as AI or A.I. ), is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, spokeswoman, and actress. Born in Los Angeles, California, Ai moved to Kagoshima, at age 4. Motivated to become a singer, Ai returned to Los Angeles during her adolescence, attending the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. While in Los Angeles, Ai performed as part of a gospel choir at a Mary J. Blige concert and appeared as a backup dancer in Janet Jackson's music video, "Go Deep". She briefly joined the Asian girl group SX4 in 1999 until she graduated high school.

After being discovered by BMG in 2000, Ai relocated to Japan and released her debut album, My Name is Ai (2001), to very little commercial success. Signing to Def Jam Japan in 2002, Ai became the first woman signed to the label. She released two studio albums under the label, Original Ai (2003) and 2004 Ai (2004). With the release of her third studio album, Ai rose to mainstream prominence in Japan. Transferring to Island Records, Ai released her fourth studio album, Mic-a-Holic Ai (2005). Its second single "Story" became one of the biggest singles of the 2000s in Japan, peaking at number 8 on the Japanese Oricon singles chart, and was the sixth single in history to receive a triple million digital certification by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).

Ai's fifth studio album, What's Goin' On Ai (2006), featured the top-ten singles "Believe" and "I Wanna Know", the latter receiving a Gold certification from the RIAJ. Her sixth studio album, Don't Stop Ai (2007) saw similar success, which received a Gold certification. In 2009, she released her seventh studio album, Viva Ai, which charted in the top ten of the Japanese Oricon albums chart. Ai's compilation album, Best Ai (2009), became her first number one album and was certified Platinum. In 2010, she released her eighth studio album, The Last Ai, which marked her last release under Island Records.

In 2011, Ai left Universal Music Group and signed a global publishing deal with EMI. Her Gold certified ninth studio album Independent (2012) served as her international debut and first release under EMI Music Japan. To promote the album, Ai toured in Japan and in Los Angeles. Her tenth studio album Moriagaro (2013) marked her first release under EMI Records Japan following EMI Music Japan's absorption into Universal Music Japan as a sublabel. Her fourth compilation album, The Best (2015) peaked at number 3 on the Oricon Albums chart and number 2 on the Billboard Japan Hot Albums chart, later being certified Gold by the RIAJ. Its successor, The Feat. Best (2016) charted within the top 30 of both the Japan Hot Albums and Oricon Albums chart.

Ai's eleventh studio album, Wa to Yo (2017) experimented with traditional Japanese and electronic sounds. Its second single, "Kira Kira" was nominated for the Grand Prix award and won the Excellent Works Award at the 59th Japan Records Awards. Her sixth compilation album Kansha!!!!! - Thank You for 20 Years New and Best (2019) was issued to celebrate her twenty years in the music industry. Further celebrating her twenty-year anniversary, Ai released the extended plays It's All Me, Vol. 1 (2020) and It's All Me, Vol. 2 (2021). Ai's twelfth studio album, Dream (2022), included the single "Aldebaran", the theme song of the Japanese drama, Come Come Everybody. The song received critical acclaim and was Ai's first song in five years to appear on the Billboard Japan Hot 100. Ai released her thirteenth studio album, Respect All (2023), within the next year.

1981–1997: Early life and education
Ai Carina Uemura was born in Los Angeles, California on November 2, 1981. Her father, Hisashi Uemura, is a former construction business owner and her mother, Barbara Uemura (née Endo) is a former real estate agent. She has one younger sister, Sachi Ueyama (née Uemura), and is of Italian and Native Okinawan descent.

When Ai was four, her family moved to Japan as her father found work at a construction business in Kagoshima. Her family had intentions of returning to Los Angeles within a year however decided to stay in Japan as her father took over business operations of the construction company. During her early childhood, Ai struggled to communicate with her family and peers at school, often blending English and Japanese phrases. Her mother only spoke English at the time while her father, who fluently spoke Japanese, was often away from home due to work.

During her early adolescence, Ai was motivated to become a singer after she sang at her cousin's wedding, having many people ask her if she wanted to be a professional singer, and hearing a gospel performance at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles in 1993. After graduating from junior high school in Japan, Ai returned to Los Angeles for high school, initially enrolling at Glendale High School, however found high school difficult due to never formally studying English. After a successful audition process, Ai enrolled at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, majoring in ballet. She became a member of the school's gospel choir.

1998–1999: Career beginnings, SX4
While attending Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Ai began her musical career by performing in a gospel choir at a Mary J. Blige concert at the Universal Amphitheatre, performing of "A Dream". In the same year, she appeared as a dancer in the music video for Janet Jackson's song "Go Deep". In 1999, Ai joined an Asian girl group called SX4, who were produced by George Brown of Kool & the Gang. Later in 1999, the group was offered a record label deal.

2000–2004: Relocation to Japan
While on a summer holiday in Kagoshima, Ai performed Monica's "For You I Will" on a local radio station, which led to her being scouted by BMG. She decided to take the offer, and after leaving SX4 and graduating from high school in June 2000, moved to Tokyo and debuted as a musician later in 2000.

Ai debuted under BMG Japan sublabel RCA Records with the single "Cry, Just Cry" in November 2000. Two additional singles were released, "U Can Do" and "Shining Star". Although the latter failed to chart, "Shining Star" charted and peaked at number 98 on the Oricon singles chart. Eventually, her debut studio album, My Name Is Ai was released in November 2001. Although not commercially successful, the album peaked at number 86 on the Oricon albums chart.

In 2002 Ai moved to Def Jam Japan and became the first female artist signed to the label. Ai claimed that she felt more at home under Def Jam, as many of her co-workers shared her musical tastes. Her first album under the label in 2003 Original Ai debuted at 15 on Oricon's album charts, and her second, 2004 Ai, debuted at number three. In 2004, she won the Space Shower Music Video Awards' award for Best R&B Video, with her song "Thank U".

After moving to Def Jam, Ai increasingly began collaborating with musicians, especially Japanese hip-hop and rap artists (though under BMG, Ai had collaborated with Mao Denda, and Soul'd Out rapper Diggy-Mo'). She was featured as a rapper on the Suite Chic single "Uh Uh,,,,,", a collaboration between Namie Amuro, Verbal of M-Flo, and music producer Ryōsuke Imai in 2003. Other musicians Ai collaborated with in this period were Afra, Boy-Ken, Joe Budden, Dabo, Deli, Double, Heartsdales, Ken Hirai, M-Flo, Sphere of Influence and Zeebra. Towards the end of 2004, Ai's former label BMG released a compilation album titled Flashback to Ai. The compilation featured songs originally recorded for her debut studio album. After Def Jam Japan folded into Universal Sigma, Ai signed with Island Records. The label released a compilation titled Feat. Ai of songs that have her as a featured artist.

2005–2010: "Story", rise in fame
In 2005, Ai released the ballad single "Story", which became the biggest hit of her career. A sleeper hit, the song charted for 20 weeks in the top 30 in 2005 and 2006 and went on to sell over three million ringtones, one million cellphone downloads, and 270,000 physical copies. Ai later performed "Story" at the prestigious 56th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen New Years music concert. Her next studio album, Mic-a-holic Ai (2005), was the best selling album of her career, being certified double Platinum by the RIAJ.

Ai's first single of 2006, the ballad "Believe", was also a success: it debuted at number two, and sold more than one million ringtones. The song was used as the theme song of the Kenji Sakaguchi starring medical drama, Team Medical Dragon. Her next two albums, What's Goin' On Ai (2006) and Don't Stop Ai (2007) were also greatly commercially successful, being certified Platinum and Gold respectively. In 2007, Ai made her debut performance in the United States at the El Rey Theatre with an audience around 800. In 2008, Ai returned to Los Angeles for her Ai Loves LA concert at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. The performance was a benefit concert for the Go For Broke National Education Center, an organization that commemorates Japanese Americans who served in the United States Army during World War II.

In 2009, Ai released her seventh studio album Viva Ai, which charted in the top ten of the Japanese Oricon albums chart. Her greatest hits album, Best Ai was released the same year. Best Ai later became Ai's first album to top the Oricon Albums chart. Ai debuted as a film director in August 2009 with her short film, Take Action, which was recorded in Los Angeles. Alongside Anna Tsuchiya and Micro, Ai also directed the drama film, Blue Pacific Stories. Later that year, Ai performed "Okuribito" and "Story" at the 3rd Asia Pacific Screen Awards which was held in Gold Coast, Australia.

In 2010, Ai collaborated with many artists such as Namie Amuro, Miliyah Kato, Chaka Khan and Boyz II Men on her 10th anniversary album, The Last Ai. Both Ai and Khan won the International Collaboration Artists of the Year at the 2010 Billboard Japan Music Awards for the song "One More Try" and a cover of Khan's "Through the Fire".

2011–2016: Foray into international market, Independent, Moriagaro and The Best
In June 2011, Ai's contract with Island Records and Universal Sigma expired. She signed a global publishing deal with EMI and a record deal with EMI Music Japan. She collaborated with The Jacksons on December 13 and 14, 2011, at the Michael Jackson Tribute Live tribute concerts held in Tokyo. She performed the vocals in the third act for Michael Jackson's songs. She also performed and released the theme song for the event, "Letter in the Sky" featuring the Jacksons. In November 2011, Ai released the song "Happiness", a collaboration with Coca-Cola for their winter 2011 campaign. The song was a hit, being certified Gold in two different mediums. The song revitalized the sales of her ninth studio album, Independent, which has sold more than 60,000 copies. Independent was Ai's first album to be released internationally outside of Asia. In promotion of the album, Ai embarked on the Independent Tour 2012. The tour included a performance at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. In the same year, Ai announced she was working on her US debut album. One song, a remix of Diggy Simmons song "Put You On" featuring Chris Brown and Diggy Simmons himself was released, however the album was never released.

On April 1, 2013, EMI Music Japan was completely merged into Universal Music Japan as a sublabel by the name of EMI Records Japan as a result of Universal Music's purchase of EMI in September 2012. Ai's tenth studio album, Moriagaro, was released in July 2013, serving as her first release under EMI Japan, although was not released outside of Asia. Its lead single "Voice" peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and was certified Platinum. Later that year, Ai performed "Story" in collaboration with figure skater and two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu at the touring ice show Fantasy on Ice amongst others. In 2014, Ai was transferred to EMI Records after EMI Japan was split and rebranded. A previously unreleased English version of Ai's single "Story" was featured in the Japanese dub of the Disney film Big Hero 6 in October 2014.

In January 2015, Ai recorded the song "Off Love" for Spicy Chocolate and Sly and Robbie's Grammy-nominated album, The Reggae Power. In November 2015, Ai released a compilation album, The Best, to celebrate fifteen years in the music industry. The compilation album was reissued in mid-2016. In 2016, Ai signed with Def Jam Recordings in partnership with EMI Records. She later released "Minna ga Minna Eiyū", which became a sleeper hit, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100. The original 100-second version of the song was certified Platinum while the full version was certified Gold. A third compilation release of tracks with featured artists titled The Feat. Best was issued in November 2016. In promotion of these compilation releases, Ai embarked on The Best Tour.

2017–2022: Wa to Yo, twenty-year anniversary and Dream
Ai teased her eleventh studio album, Wa to Yo on social media in April 2017. Wanting to "convey the goodness of Japan" to the rest of the world and "the goodness of the overseas to Japanese people", Ai collaborated with several producers, artists and songwriters from both Japan and the west. The lead single "Justice Will Prevail at Last" was released in May 2017. Wa to Yo was released in June 2017 and was her second international album release outside of Asia. The album was reissued in October 2017, titled Wa to Yo to. The album peaked at number 11 on the Oricon weekly chart.

In early 2019, Ai traveled to her hometown, Los Angeles, California, to record new material to celebrate twenty years in the music industry and for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Her fourth compilation album, Kansha!!!!! - Thank You for 20 Years New and Best, was released in November 2019, serving as her first international compilation release. In April 2020, Ai was revealed to be one of the artists performing for Global Citizen's Together At Home concert. Performing various songs from her discography, Ai was the first and only artist in Japan to participate in the event. In June 2020, Ai's extended play, It's All Me, Vol. 1 was announced and originally was planned to be released on the start of the 2020 Olympics, but instead was released on July 8, 2020, after the event was postponed to summer 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The lead single of It's All Me, Vol. 1, "Summer Magic" was her second single to be released internationally. Its Japanese version was included in an advertisement for the Amazon Echo.

In November 2020, "Not So Different" was released digitally as the lead single for Ai's extended play, It's All Me, Vol. 2. In December 2020, Ai partnered with One Young World and released a special music video of the song in support of the project. A remix of "Not So Different" featuring Japanese rapper Awich was released on December 11, 2020, as a promotional single. A promotional single, "Hope" was released on January 30, 2021, with its music video premiering the same day. Ai partnered with deleteC, a non-profit organization in Japan aiming to support cancer treatment. It's All Me, Vol. 2 later was released in February 2021. In March 2021, EMI released a compilation EP of songs by Ai titled Self Selection "Hip Hop". In June 2021, Ai's previous releases with Def Jam Japan, Universal Sigma and Island Records were made available internationally for digital streaming.

On June 28, 2021, Ai released "The Moment" featuring Japanese rapper Yellow Bucks. On the same day, she performed the song with Yellow Bucks and DJ Ryow on CDTV, a Japanese TV channel by TBS. In August 2021, she released a single featuring Dachi Miura, titled "In the Middle". In September 2021, Ai announced her next single, "Aldebaran". The song serves as the theme song for the NHK television drama, Come Come Everybody. Upon its release in November, it became her first charting single on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 since her 2017 single, "Kira Kira". The song debuted and peaked at number 37 on the chart. On the Oricon charts, "Aldebaran" peaked at number 4 on the Daily Digital Singles Chart and number 6 on the weekly Digital Singles Chart. Ai performed "Aldebaran" at the 72nd NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen on December 31, 2021, her fourth appearance on the show. In December 2021, Ai announced her twelfth studio album on social media, Dream. The nine-track album was released in February 2022. A tour titled after the album began on May 14, 2022 until December. In April 2022, Ai was featured on the front cover of Music Magazine. In May 2022, "Aldebaran" won the Best Drama Song award at the 111th Television Drama Academy Awards.

2023–present: Respect All, Respect All Tour, upcoming global tour
In April 2023, Ai announced the Respect All Tour, her fourteenth headlining concert tour. The tour is expected to have 80,000 people attending with the easing of COVID-19 prevention rules in Japan. A single titled after the tour was released on May 22. In May, Ai performed live in Hiroshima on the same day the 49th G7 summit took place. Ai performed and gave a speech to the spouses of world leaders, including First Lady Jill Biden and Akshata Murty. Within that same month, a global tour additionally was announced by her management company where Ai will raise donations for UNICEF Japan. In June, Ai announced her thirteenth studio album, Respect All. Released in August, the album featured Nestlé Japan's Kit Kat campaign song, "Start Again", as well as "Life Goes On", the image song for the Japanese film Haru ni Chiru. Near the end of 2023, Ai released "Whatever", which also was used by Nestlé Japan for a commercial campaign.

In April 2024, Ai and virtual YouTuber Mori Calliope released a duet song "Tide". Near the end of May, she released another duet song "A Procession of the Living" with Ringo Sheena which was included on Sheena's seventh solo studio album, Carnival.

Influences
Ai's earliest musical influence was gospel music, which she discovered when her mother's friend took her to a gospel church during junior high school. In an interview with Vogue, Ai stated Michael Jackson is one of her biggest musical influences. Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Janet Jackson, Puff Daddy, Usher, Mary. J. Blige, Tupac Shakur, and Whitney Houston have also heavily influenced Ai while she was a teenager.

Musical styles
Ai's discography spans R&B, hip hop, pop, J-pop, and dance genres. Critics have compared her to Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, and Missy Elliott. The Los Angeles Times has described Ai as a "fast-rising diva with authentic American-sounding R&B". While her early works were primarily marketed as R&B, her ninth and tenth studio albums, Independent and Moriagaro experimented with dance-pop. Ai's eleventh studio album Wa to Yo experimented with traditional Japanese and electropop sounds, while also featuring a return to her early R&B sound. Her 2019 greatest hits album ''Kansha!!!!! - Thank You for 20 Years New and Best'' heavily featured gospel influences. Ai's twelfth studio album Dream has been described as a pop and R&B album with influence from hip hop and gospel music.

Other ventures
In April 2011, Ai presented a music documentary, Ai Miss Michael Jackson: King of Pop no Kiseki, that was recorded for ''Music On! TV''. In the documentary, she traveled to the United States and interviewed members of the Jackson family in their home.

For the American musical comedy Glee's season two episode "Britney/Brittany", Ai dubbed the voice of Britney Spears in the Japanese release.

Products and endorsements
As is standard for Japanese musicians, Ai has featured as a spokesman, or has her music featured, for many products. Ai's songs have been used as TV commercial songs, drama theme songs, film theme songs and TV show ending theme songs.

Ai has worked on four major Coca-Cola TV commercial campaigns, two featuring her own songs ("You Are My Star" (2009), "Happiness" (2011)) and two featuring collaborations (K'naan's "Wavin' Flag" (2009), Namie Amuro's "Wonder Woman" (2011)). She has also been featured in two Audio-Technica campaigns (using "My Friend (Live Version)" and "I'll Remember You", a campaign for Japan Airlines ("Brand New Day") and Pepsi Nex with "I Wanna Know".

Ai's most high-profile work for a TV drama was the theme song for 2006's primetime drama Team Medical Dragon, "Believe", which was one of her greatest hits, selling over one million ringtones. Ai also sung the theme song for the drama's second series, "One". Ai also worked on the theme song for the 2010 primetime drama Keishichō Keizoku Sōsahan, "Nemurenai Machi". Other program theme songs include the Japanese theme song for the American drama Heroes ("Taisetsu na Mono"), and the 15th ending theme for the children's animation Crayon Shin-chan, "Crayon Beats"). In 2005, Ai's song "Alive (English Version)" was used as an insert song for the South Korean drama Sassy Girl Chun-hyang.

Many of Ai's songs have been used in films. Her "Story" song was remade (also with its English version) for Disney's box office Big Hero 6 in 2014. She performed the theme song for Departures (2008), the winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009. She has also sung the theme songs for Crayon Shin-chan: The Legend Called Buri Buri 3 Minutes Charge (2005), Pray (2005), Lalapipo (2009) and Berserk Golden Age Arc I: The Egg of the High King (2012). Her music has been featured on the soundtracks of TKO Hiphop (2005), the musical film Memories of Matsuko (2006), in which Ai cameoed to perform the song, and Heat Island (2007).

Legacy
In Japan, Ai has earned the nickname "Queen of hip-hop soul".

With her management company The Mic-a-holics, Ai helped launch the careers of many Japanese acts, including Japanese singer Riri. In 2012, The Independent listed Ai as the next big thing in Asian pop.

Personal life
On March 6, 2013, Ai announced her engagement to Hiroshi Noguchi, better known by his stage name Hiro, the leader and vocalist of the rock band Kaikigesshoku. The pair had been dating for 10 years, and wed in January 2014. On August 28, 2015, Ai gave birth to her first child, Heiwa Noguchi. On July 24, 2018, it was revealed Ai was pregnant with her second child. Her second child, Hakwa Noguchi, was born on December 29, 2018.

In 2019, outdoor advertisements for Ai's single, "Summer Magic" were displayed at Shinjuku Station. The advertisement displayed a search result of her name, which showed top results for artificial intelligence (AI), while a cut off photo of Ai herself appeared on the bottom of the search result. On Twitter, Ai revealed her distaste of artificial intelligence being the top results when searching her name mononymously on search engines.

In 2020, Ai was appointed an official artist of One Young World Japan.

In May 2023, Ai became a volunteer of UNICEF Japan, coinciding with the 49th G7 summit that took place in Hiroshima. Having a desire for world peace and equality, Ai commented in an interview that she wants to "...take the message of peace and policy change to not only the G7 leaders gathering in Hiroshima, but to our children across the world who grow up, or may grow up, in the midst of strife and conflict."

Controversy
In 2012, Ai was part of a controversy regarding the murder of Nicola Furlong. Reports from The Japan Times and Irish Independent stated James Blackston and Richard Hinds were working for Ai as performers for her Independent Tour 2012. On May 21, a day after the tour performance in Sendai, Blackston was at a dance school within the city teaching dance moves for a number of Ai songs to students. Regarding allegations of a connection to the crime, Ai and her representative team declined to make an official statement.

Discography

 * My Name Is Ai (2001)
 * Original Ai (2003)
 * 2004 Ai (2004)
 * Mic-a-holic Ai (2005)
 * What's Goin' On Ai (2006)
 * Don't Stop Ai (2007)
 * Viva Ai (2009)
 * The Last Ai (2010)
 * Independent (2012)
 * Moriagaro (2013)
 * Wa to Yo (2017)
 * Dream (2022)
 * Respect All (2023)

Tours

 * Original Ai Live Tour (2003)
 * 2004 Ai Live Tour (2004)
 * Mic-a-holic Ai Tour '05 (2005)
 * What's Goin’ On Ai Tour (2006)
 * Don't Stop Ai Tour (2008)
 * Viva Ai Tour (2009)
 * Ai Tour (2011)
 * Independent Tour 2012 (2012)
 * Moriagaro Tour (2013)
 * The Best Tour (2016)
 * Ai Tour Wa to Yo (2017)
 * It's All Me Tour (2021)
 * Dream Tour (2022)
 * Respect All Tour (2023–2024)

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Alan Abraham

Alan Rockwell Abraham (1 February 1931 – 2 October 2020) was the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

Career
Abraham, an engineering graduate from Saint Mary's University was involved in federal politics and helped with the organization of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's tours of the Maritimes. In 1983, Governor General Edward Schreyer, on the advice of Prime Minister Trudeau, appointed Abraham Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Abraham was the second youngest appointee as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia since Confederation at the time of his appointment. He was then age 53; one of his predecessors, Hon. James Robson Douglas of Amherst, was 49 when he was appointed in 1925. Abaraham died in 2020 at the age of 89.

Awards and recognition
In 1996, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He received the Order of Nova Scotia when it was established in 2002.

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 * 5) Riigikogu
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 * 8) Parnu
 * 9) Saaremaa
 * 10) Siim Kallas
 * 11) Singing Revolution
 * 12) Estonian SSR
 * 13) Estonian Rock
 * 14) Estonian mythology
 * 15) Vanilla Ninja
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User:Alexmb

Brought up as a young child in Venice and afterwards in England, I graduated from King's College London. Whilst at university I served with the Honourable Artilery Company, prior to attending RMA Sandhust, and being commissioned into a British Cavalry Regiment.

My interests include the British army, especially the Cavalry and the HAC, the British Constitution and Honours System, and various personalities.

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Cercidas

Cercidas (Κερκιδᾶς Kerkidas; fl. 3rd century BC) was a poet, Cynic philosopher, and legislator for his native city Megalopolis. A papyrus roll containing fragments from seven of his Cynic poems was discovered at Oxyrhynchus in 1906.

Life
Cercidas was an admirer of Diogenes, whose death he recorded in some Meliambic lines. He is mentioned and cited by Athenaeus (who cites him as a source for the cult of Venus Kallipygos) and Stobaeus. At his death he ordered the first and second books of the Iliad to be buried with him. Aelian relates that Cercidas died expressing his hope of being with Pythagoras of the philosophers, Hecataeus of the historians, Olympus of the musicians, and Homer of the poets, which clearly implies his esteem for these four disciplines.

He commanded his city's infantry contingent at the battle of Sellasia in 222 BC. He appears to be a descendant of Cercidas the Arcadian, who is mentioned by Demosthenes among those Greeks, who, by their cowardice and corruption, enslaved their states to Philip II of Macedon.

In Sophists, Socratics and Cynics, D. Rankin notes that Cercidas “was active in the politics of his city…[and]…was appointed nomothetes, or legislative commissioner, with the task of drawing up a new constitution”. But in his poetry, he was a harsh critic of the wealthy, and called for justice and revenge (Nemesis) upon them, also invoking Fortune, asking why she didn't “reduce to poverty the profligate Xenon and give us the money now running to futility?”. He refers to the profligate wealthy as “dirty-cheat usurers” misusing their “stink-pig wealth”, as misers, and "ruin merchants". He invokes Justice and asks why she – and all the gods on Olympus – are so blind. But most significant is his invocation of Nemesis, “the spirit of earthly retribution” to attack the wealthy for their profligacy and to attack the system of wealth itself, rather than specific acts of injustice or inequality – a profound theme of the Cynics.

Poetry
An Oxyrhynchus papyrus with the title "the meliambic poems of Cercidas the Cynic" (Κερκίδα κυνός μελίαμβοι) was discovered in 1906. Meliambic poetry, which is a style peculiar to Cercidas, is a combination of the iambic and hexameter meters. His poems are filled with moralistic themes such as the uneven distribution of wealth and the unfortunate results of luxurious living. There are seven poem fragments attributable to Cercidas. The longest fragment contains a discussion of the nature of the gods and of divine providence, in which Cercidas declares that the current beliefs do not square with the facts of life: [why did God not] choose that greedy cormorant wealthpurse, that sweet-scented out-of-control Xenon, make him a pathetic poor man, and transfer to us who deserve it the silver that now is uselessly flowing away? What can there be to prevent god - supposing you asked him the question - since a god, whatever comes into his mind, can easily get it all done, if a man is a turd of a loan-shark, a real old die-for-a-penny who squanders it all out again, one who's the death of his fortune, why can't God just empty this man of his swinewealth, and give to a thin-feeding, common-bowl cup-dipper all the man's damned expenditure? Has the eye of Justice been mole-blinded? Cercidas goes on to explain that he would rather leave the gods to the astrologers, and worship the tried Paean, Giving, and Retribution, that is, beneficence for those afflicted in body or spirit and punishment for wrongdoers. Another poem is erotic, teaching the cheap and easy way of love. Another fragment, apparently biographical, expressing the poet's satisfaction that he has devoted himself to the service of the Muses all his life.

In addition to these poems, there are also some papyrus fragments of a moral anthology with an introduction in choliambics, which can be dated to the 3rd century BC. It is possible that the anthology was compiled by Cercidas, but this is doubtful because the quality of the choliambic poetry in the introduction is much inferior to his meliambic poetry.

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Francis Wheatley

Francis Wheatley may refer to:

 * Francis Wheatley (painter) (1747–1801), English portrait and landscape painter
 * Francis Wheatley (VC) (1821–1865), English soldier and Victoria Cross winner

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Sheffer

Sheffer is a surname, and may refer to:

 * Alla Sheffer, Israeli-Canadian computer scientist
 * Craig Sheffer (born 1960), American actor
 * Daniel Sheffer (1783–1880), U.S. congressman
 * Doron Sheffer (born 1972), Israeli basketball player
 * Henry M. Sheffer (1882–1964), American logician
 * Hogan Sheffer (born 1958), American screenwriter
 * Isador M. Sheffer (1901–1992), American mathematician
 * Walter Sheffer (1918–2002), American photographer

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Rife (Foetus album)

Rife is a live album by Foetus Corruptus released in 1988. It is an official bootleg, initially released by J. G. Thirlwell with no record label credit. This album was released in three formats: a two-LP set on black vinyl, a two-LP picture disc set, and a CD. Rife is Self Immolation #RIFLE 1 and #RIFLEPIC 1 for the picture disc.

After its initial release, Jungle Records was authorized in 1988 to produce a limited edition official release of 2,000 albums split between the three formats. Jungle itself self-bootlegged Rife in 1996, producing 500 additional, unauthorized picture disc albums. In 1998, Jungle licensed Rife to Invisible Records, which began producing additional (and possibly unauthorized) CDs.

Track listing
All songs by J. G. Thirlwell unless noted.
 * 1) "Fin" – 2:58
 * 2) "Don't Hide It Provide It" – ?: LP formats only
 * 3) "Honey I'm Home" – 7:47
 * 4) "The Dipsomaniac Kiss" – 5:51
 * 5) "English Faggot" – 6:12
 * 6) "Grab Yr. Ankles" – 6:00
 * 7) "Slut" (Thirlwell / Marc Almond) – 3:25
 * 8) "A Prayer for My Death" – 6:26
 * 9) "¡Chingada!" – 8:00
 * 10) "Hate Feeler" (Alex Harvey / Hugh McKenna) – 8:10
 * 11) "The Fudge Punch" (Thirlwell / Roli Mosimann) – 8:02
 * 12) "Clothes Hoist" – 4:37
 * 13) "Private War/Anything (Viva!)" – 11:21 omitted from Invisible CD

 * Many of the songs have slightly different titles on the black vinyl set.
 * "Slut" originally by Thirlwell's Flesh Volcano project.
 * "Hate Feeler" is a cover of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band's "Faith Healer".
 * "The Fudge Punch" originally by Thirlwell's Wiseblood project.

Personnel

 * Algis Kizys – bass guitar
 * Ted Parsons – drums
 * J. G. Thirlwell (as Clint Ruin) – vocals
 * Raymond Watts (as Ray Scaballero or Raymondo Watts) – keyboards, guitar
 * Norman Westberg – guitar

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Arnold Cooke

Arnold Atkinson Cooke (4 November 1906 – 13 August 2005) was a British composer, a pupil of Paul Hindemith. He wrote a considerable amount of chamber music, including five string quartets and many instrumental sonatas, much of which is only now becoming accessible through modern recordings. Cooke also composed two operas (still unperformed), six symphonies and several concertos.

Education
Cooke was born at Gomersal, West Yorkshire, into a family of carpet manufacturers. As a child, Cooke learned to play the piano, and later the cello, and began composing by the age of 7 or 8. He was educated at Streete Preparatory School, Repton School and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read history, taking Part 1 of his Tripos in 1927, earning his B.A. He changed to read music with his composition teacher E. J. Dent. At Cambridge, Cooke continued to play the cello in the CUMS orchestra and in a string quartet. He was President of the Cambridge Musical Society from 1927 to 1928.

In 1929, he gained his Music degree and went to Berlin where he studied composition and piano at the Berlin University of the Arts under Paul Hindemith. Hindemith's composition class also included Harald Genzmer, Oskar Sala and Franz Reizenstein, the latter remained a lifelong friend and kept Cooke's Piano Concerto in his repertoire.

He later became musical director of the Festival Theatre at Cambridge, and in 1933 was appointed a professor at the Royal Manchester College of Music (now merged into the Royal Northern College of Music). In 1948, through the recommendation of E. J. Dent, he obtained a doctorate from Cambridge, submitting as his composition portfolio his Symphony No. 1 (1946–47), Piano Concerto (1939–40) and Sonata for viola and piano (1936–37).

Career
Cooke moved to London in 1938 to further his career. In the 1930s, he carved out a reputation for himself as a promising young composer, and his music was taken up by leading interpreters. The harpist Maria Korchinska introduced his Harp Quintet in 1932; Sir Henry Wood conducted his Concert Overture No. 1 at the 1934 Promenade Concerts and the Griller Quartet premiered his String Quartet No. 1 in 1935. In 1936 Havergal Brian singled out for praise a cantata, Holderneth, a setting of a text by the American poet Edward Sweeney.

Louis Kentner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult premiered his Piano Concerto in 1943, which he had completed just before his call-up in 1941. The concerto had been commissioned by the South African pianist Adolph Hallis in 1939 but the outbreak of WWII meant that Hallis had to return to South Africa. Kentner gave the first performance in a BBC studio broadcast on 11 November 1943. The work received subsequent broadcast performances from Franz Reizenstein with the BBC Northern Orchestra under Clarence Raybould in 1952 and Eric Parkin with the BBC Northern Orchestra under Brian Priestman in 1972.

During the Second World War, he served in the Royal Navy, first in the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious, and subsequently as a liaison officer in a Norwegian escort vessel and a Dutch tug that took part in the D-Day Landings. After demobilisation he returned to London in 1946, becoming a founder member of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain. From 1947 until his retirement in 1978, he was Professor of Harmony and Composition at Trinity College of Music in London. After a stroke in 1993, he virtually ceased to compose, but lived to the age of 98, dying at his nursing home in Five Oak Green in Kent in 2005.

Music
As a composer Cooke was highly productive and tended to work in traditional genres. His early music follows an English tradition with traces of Elgar, John Ireland and others, but this changes drastically from the time of his study with Hindemith. The music of the 1930s is far more stark, overtly contrapuntal and dissonant, but by 1937 is settling into a style which would essentially remain with him for most of his life. If the mature music shows the influence of Hindemith, Bartók and Shostakovich, it is also leavened with a more English sense of lyricism, whilst the shadow of Brahms is also present.

Cooke wrote two operas – Mary Barton (completed 1954) after the novel by Mrs. Gaskell and The Invisible Duke (1976). Neither has yet received a performance. The ballet Jabez and the Devil (1961) was a commission from the Royal Ballet. A suite from the ballet has been recorded. He composed six symphonies and several concertos, including two Clarinet Concertos (1956 and 1982), the first recorded. There are also recordings of four of the six symphonies (Nos 1, 3, 4 and 5), along with other orchestral works mostly issued on the Lyrita label. The sixth symphony finally received its first broadcast performance at the BBC studios in Salford on 7 September 2016, 32 years after it was completed.

His output of chamber music is copious, including a clarinet quintet, five string quartets, many instrumental sonatas, and some important vocal music. The Clarinet Quintet is available on Hyperion. The Pleyel Ensemble and MPR Records has issued a series of four CDs of chamber music recordings, the fourth of which was issued in September 2020. Most of the works are recorded for the first time. The Bridge Quartet is in the process of recording all five quartets. The organ music has been recorded by Tom Winpenny on Toccata.

Opera

 * Mary Barton, op.27 (1949–1954)
 * The Invisible Duke (1976)

Ballet

 * Jabez and the Devil, op.50 (1959) (Concert Suite: 1961)

Vocal and choral works

 * Holderneth, Cantata (1933–34)
 * Nocturnes, 5 Songs for soprano, horn and piano (1956)
 * Songs of Innocence for soprano, clarinet and piano (1957)
 * O Men from the Fields for unison voices (1961)
 * Ode on St Cecilia’s Day for soli, chorus and orchestra, op.57 (1964)
 * The Seamew for voice, flute, oboe and string quartet (1980)
 * Five Songs of William Blake for baritone, treble recorder and piano (1987)

Orchestral music

 * Concert Overture No. 1 (1934)
 * Passacaglia, Scherzo and Finale for string orchestra (1937)
 * Piano Concerto, op.11 (1940)
 * Four Shakespeare Sonnets for Soprano and string orchestra (1941)
 * Song for Tenor and small orchestra (1945)
 * Concert Overture No. 2, Processional (1945)
 * Symphony No. 1 (1947)
 * Concerto in D major for string orchestra (1948)
 * Prelude and Interlude from Mary Barton (1954?)
 * Concerto for Oboe and string orchestra (1954)
 * Clarinet Concerto No. 1 (1956)
 * Concerto for Treble Recorder and string orchestra (1957)
 * Violin Concerto (1958)
 * Divertimento for Treble Recorder and string orchestra (1959)
 * Concerto for small orchestra, op.48 (1960)
 * Concert Suite from Jabez and the Devil (1961)
 * Symphony No. 2 (1963)
 * Variations on a Theme of Dufay, Ce Moi de May(1966)
 * Symphony No. 3 (1967)
 * York Suite for Recorders, string orchestra, timpani and percussion (1972)
 * Cello Concerto (1973)
 * Symphony No. 4 (1974)
 * Symphony No. 5 (1979)
 * Clarinet Concerto No. 2 (1982)
 * Symphony No. 6 (1983–1984)
 * Repton Fantasia (1984)
 * Concerto for Orchestra (1986)

Chamber music

 * Octet for string quartet and woodwind, op.1 (1931)
 * Suite for brass sextet (1931)
 * Harp Quintet, op.2 (1932)
 * String Quartet No. 1 (1933)
 * Duo for Violin and Viola (1935, published A-AMP)
 * Flute Quartet (1936)
 * Sonata for Viola and Piano (1936–1937)
 * Sonata for Two Pianos (1937, published OUP)
 * Sonata No. 1 in G for Violin and Piano (1939, published OUP)
 * Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano (1941)
 * Piano Trio in C (1941–1944, published A-AMP)
 * Variations on an Original Theme for String Quartet (1945)
 * Alla Marcia for Clarinet and Piano, D38 (1946)
 * String Quartet No. 2 (1947)
 * Quartet for Oboe and String Trio (1948, published Novello)
 * Quartet for Piano and String Trio (1948–1949)
 * String Trio (1950)
 * Rondo in B flat for Horn and Piano (1950)
 * Sonata No. 2 in A for Violin and Piano (1951, published Novello)
 * Sinfonietta for 11 Instruments, op.31 (1954)
 * Arioso and Scherzo for Horn and Strings (1955)
 * Sonatina for flute and Piano (1956 rev. 1961)
 * Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1957, published Novello)
 * Little Suite for Flute and Viola (1957)
 * Suite for three B♭ Clarinets (1958)
 * Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1959)
 * Divertimento for Treble Recorder and String Quartet (1959)
 * Wind Quintet (1961)
 * Suite for Treble Recorder and Piano (1961)
 * Clarinet Quintet (1962)
 * Sonata for Oboe and Harpsichord (1962)
 * Quartet for Flute, Clarinet, Cello and Piano, D93 (1964)
 * Quartet-Sonata for Recorder, Violin, Cello and Harpsichord (1964–1965)
 * Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, D98 (1965)
 * Suite for Recorder Quartet (1965)
 * Serial Theme and Variations for Solo Recorder, op.65 (1966)
 * String Quartet No. 3 (1967)
 * Pavane for Flute and Piano, D112 (1969)
 * Quintet for Piano and String Quartet (1969)
 * Sonata for Solo Violin (1969, published Edition Peters)
 * Quartet for Recorders (1970)
 * Trio for Recorders (1970)
 * Sonata for Harmonica and Piano (1970)
 * Septet for Clarinets (1971)
 * Septet for Wind and Strings (alternative to the above) (1971)
 * Suite in C for Recorder Trio and Harpsichord (1972)
 * Sonatina for Recorder Trio (1972)
 * Divertimento for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Cello and Piano (1974)
 * Divertimento for Descant Recorder, Treble Recorder, Violin, Cello and Harpsichord (alternative to the above) (1974)
 * Variations on Two Christmas Carols for Recorder Trio (1975)
 * String Quartet No. 4 (1976)
 * Six Pieces for Treble and Tenor Recorders (1976)
 * Concertante Quartet for Clarinets (1977)
 * Quartet No. 2 for Recorders (1977)
 * String Quartet No. 5 in one movement (1978)
 * Suite for three Viols (1978–1979)
 * Prelude and Dance for Clarinet and Piano, D142 (1979)
 * Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano (1980)
 * Pieces for three Recorders (1981)
 * Suite No. 2 for Recorder Quartet (1983)
 * Trio for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon (1984)
 * Capriccio for Recorder and Piano (1985)
 * Sonatina for Alto Flute and Piano, D156 (1985)
 * Arietta for Soprano Recorder and Piano (1986)
 * Sonata for Bassoon and Piano (1987)
 * Intermezzo for Oboe and Piano (1987)
 * Sonata for Flute and Harp (1988)

Piano, Organ and Harpsichord music

 * Three Pieces for Piano (Ostinato, Intermezzo and Capriccio) (1935)
 * Sonata for 2 Pianos, op.8 (1936–37)
 * Piano Sonata No. 1 (1938)
 * Suite in C major for Piano (1943, rev. 1963)
 * Scherzo for Piano (1957)
 * Dance of the Puppets and Pastorale for Piano (1957)
 * Prelude, Intermezzo and Finale for Organ (1962)
 * Postlude for Organ (1962–1964)
 * Fantasia for Organ (1964)
 * Toccata and Aria for Organ (1966)
 * Impromptu for Organ (1966)
 * Fugal Adventures for Organ (1967)
 * Piano Sonata No. 2 (1965)
 * Intermezzo and Capriccio for Harpsichord (1970–1971)
 * Sonata No. 1 in G for Organ (1971)
 * Suite No. 2 for Piano (1975)
 * Interlude for Organ manual (1976)
 * Sonata No. 2 for Organ (1980)
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Marsaskala/Marsascala
Unclear which is the "correct" spelling.

Marsascala is the more common on Google with around 50,000 hits vs Marsaskala at round 12,500.

Spelt Marsaskala on the maps I have available. Sufficent ambiguity for a redirect link I believe.

--Shoka 22:53, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

The article Marsaskala supersedes the Marsaskala or Marsascala article. All useful content has been transferred I believe. I originally set up redirects from both spellings of the town name to the article Marsaskala or Marsascala, somewhere in the editing history the Marsaskala version has become the live article. Marsascala is a redirect that points to Marsaskala --Shoka 21:36, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I can confirm that the area locally is also known as Wied il-Għajn, I've had it explained to me in detail by several local residents. An explanation of that name is also included in the text by user marsascalin, a local resident. I'm having some difficulty locating an English language reference that supports the Maltese name, most documents that use that title are in Maltese. What a strange item to raise issues of fact about when there is a description in the text of the article. --Shoka 21:51, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Added a web cite--Shoka 22:10, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

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