text:
KKPX-TV

KKPX-TV (channel 65) is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the Ion Television outlet for the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E.W. Scripps Company, and has offices on Price Avenue in Redwood City; its transmitter is located atop San Bruno Mountain.

History
The station first signed on the air on November 15, 1986, as KLXV-TV (the last three letters of the callsign representing the Roman numeral for 65) and was an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In 1995, the station became an affiliate of the infomercial service InTV. In January 1998, the station's call letters were changed to KKPX after Paxson Communications (now Ion Media) bought the station. KKPX became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV (the predecessor of Ion Television, to which the network was renamed in 2007) on August 31.

Newscasts
From 2000 to 2005, KKPX, during weeknights, aired rebroadcasts of KNTV (channel 11)'s 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts at 7 and 11:30 p.m. instead of airing newscasts from then-NBC affiliate KRON-TV (channel 4). The newscasts were originally branded as NewsChannel 11 on Pax after KNTV switched its affiliation from ABC to The WB. When KNTV joined NBC in January 2002, the newscasts were first renamed to NBC 3 News on Pax, then to NBC 11 News on Pax several months later, after KNTV stopped branding by its common channel number on Bay Area cable systems. Like most other such arrangements involving Pax stations and major network affiliates, the simulcasts were dropped on June 30, 2005 (the day prior to Pax's rebranding as i: Independent Television).

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

KKPX-TV had plans for a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 65.1. A Mobile DTV feed did later launch, but it carried programming from 65.2 (Qubo).

Analog-to-digital conversion
KKPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 65, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 41, using virtual channel 65.

title: KKPX-TV


text:
David Brian

Brian James Davis (August 5, 1914 – July 15, 1993), better known as David Brian, was an American actor. He is best known for his role in Intruder in the Dust (1949), for which he received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination. Brian's other notable film roles were in The Damned Don't Cry (1950), This Woman Is Dangerous (1952), Springfield Rifle (1952), Dawn at Socorro (1954), and The High and the Mighty (1954).

On February 8, 1960, Brian was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.

Early years
Brian was born Brian Davis in New York City. After school at City College, he found work as a doorman, then entered show business with a song-and-dance routine in vaudeville and in night clubs. He did a wartime stint with the United States Coast Guard during World War II and returned to acting on the New York stage after the war.

Film
Persuaded by Joan Crawford to try his hand at film acting, Brian joined her in Hollywood and, in 1949, signed a contract with Warner Bros. The New York City native appeared in such films as Flamingo Road (1949) and The Damned Don't Cry! (1950) with Joan Crawford, and Beyond the Forest (1949) with Bette Davis. He also had a role in the film Springfield Rifle (1952), which starred Gary Cooper, and in the John Wayne movie The High and the Mighty (1954) as Ken Childs.

Brian was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actor for his role in Intruder in the Dust  (1949).

Television
In the 1950s and 1960s, Brian was active in television with guest roles in dozens of shows ranging from dramatic to comedic, from Rawhide to I Dream of Jeannie. In 1954 and 1955, he portrayed the lead character on the TV show Mr. District Attorney.

Brian has a star in the television section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.

Personal life
Brian was married to Bonita Fiedler; they divorced in 1948. In 1950, she filed a paternity suit against him, seeking his support for a son born to her. The suit claimed that Brian had admitted to being the baby's father. Brian's attorney, on the other hand, said that Brian did not think he was the child's father. At the time of the suit, Brian was married to Adrian Booth, an actress known as Lorna Gray. On August 11, 1951, a jury found in Brian's favor after another man testified to having been intimate with the mother "several times during the year before the child was born".

Brian's marriage to Booth also had legal problems. In 1949, columnist Jimmie Fidler reported that Booth's "recent marriage to actor David Brian has been set aside by an L.A. judge because of illegalities in his divorce from a former mate".

Death
Brian died July 15, 1993, of heart disease and cancer in Sherman Oaks, California.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: David Brian


text:
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother is a 1975 American musical comedy film with Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Roy Kinnear, and Leo McKern. The film was Wilder's directorial debut, from his own original script.

Douglas Wilmer and Thorley Walters appear as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively. Wilmer had previously appeared as Sherlock Holmes in the 1960s BBC TV series, and Walters played Watson in three other films: Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), The Best House in London (1969), and Silver Blaze (1977).

Plot
In 1891, Foreign Secretary Lord Redcliff haphazardly receives a document from Queen Victoria; the document is stolen from his safe later that night. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discuss the case. Deciding to lie low for a while, Holmes informs Watson that he will delegate cases to his younger brother, Sigerson, who has toiled in his brother's shadow without credit for decades. At a railway station, Holmes passes the message to Scotland Yard records clerk Orville Sacker.

Arriving at Sigerson's flat, Sacker finds him practicing his fencing and swordplay. Sigerson expresses bitterness and resentment over being unable to replicate Sherlock's success, mocking his big brother as "Sheer Luck" Holmes. Arriving next is a woman claiming to be Bessie Bellwood, but who is really Jenny Hill, a music hall singer who believes she is being blackmailed by opera singer Eduardo Gambetti over a lewd letter she sent him.

Sigerson attends one of Hill's performances and twice saves her from attempts on her life. The next day, he seduces her in her dressing room. She reveals that she stole the document from Redcliff's safe and claims that Redcliff is her father. When Sigerson meets with Redcliff, he learns that Hill is in fact Redcliff's fiancée.

The trail leads to Gambetti, who has made a deal with criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty to sell him the document, which foreign powers have offered £50,000 to acquire. Moriarty pays, but the distrustful Gambetti proposes that he hand over the document during the debut of his opera so that he has time to deposit the money. Sigerson and Sacker infiltrate the opera, which soon devolves into chaos. Sigerson and Moriarty confront each other backstage and are drawn into a sword fight that corners Sigerson on an outside ledge. Under threat of death, Sigerson agrees to hand over what Moriarty thinks is the document before the chimes of Big Ben cause Moriarty to lose balance and plunge into the water below. Moriarty opens the document to reveal a game of tic-tac-toe: Sigerson had positioned the real document for Sherlock to recover.

The final scene is of Sigerson Holmes running through a park to attend Jenny and Redcliff's wedding. Sitting on a bench in the park, Jenny tells Sigerson that she has called off the wedding, as Sherlock and Watson watch in disguise. Sigerson and Jenny joyfully reconcile and dance.

Production
Gene Wilder was having lunch with Richard Roth when it was suggested that Wilder spoof Sherlock Holmes, but Wilder expressed doubts about making fun of such an iconic character. Roth approached Wilder again a week later and inquired if Wilder had given any more thought to the idea of a Sherlock Holmes film. Wilder replied "No, but I have given a great deal of thought to Sherlock's insanely jealous brother Sigi." Wilder began writing the screenplay as production was wrapping on Young Frankenstein, writing in parts for his co-stars Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman. Wilder's screenplay reveals a deep knowledge of Conan Doyle's characters as Marty Feldman's character, Sgt. Orville Stanley Sacker, shares a similar name with that originally applied to John Watson, Ormond Sacker. On the set of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks warned Wilder that now that he was writing movies, he would eventually move to directing movies to protect his scripts. After Smarter Brother, Wilder went on to write, direct, and star in three more features over the next ten years (The World's Greatest Lover in 1977, The Woman in Red in 1984 and Haunted Honeymoon in 1986).

Box office
The film earned $9.4 million in rentals in North America during its theatrical release.

Critical response
Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "a charming slapstick comedy" that like Young Frankenstein "is full of affection and generous feelings for the genre it's having fun with." Arthur D. Murphy of Variety wrote, "Gene Wilder now joins Brooks in that elusive pantheon of madcap humor, by virtue of Wilder's script, title characterization and directorial debut, all of which are outstanding." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two stars out of four, calling it "tedious" and Sigerson "a bland character at the center of a gimmick-filled movie" that "recalls the great detective only by name and occasional costume. There's really no story here, and certainly no mystery." Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times declared it "a light, easy, brisk but unforced, professional, kindly and ingratiating trip through Holmes' sweet home as it never was".

Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called it "an enjoyable, encouraging beginning" to Wilder's career as a writer-director that "reveals a surprisingly inventive and conscientious comic imagination at work". Pauline Kael of The New Yorker wrote that Wilder "wrote the roles for the actors but didn't write characters for them to play. He provided lots of lovely, sideswiping bits of business but no conceptions that would allow the actors to surprise us with something new or that would enable us to get involved in what's happening to them." John Pym of The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "better in its parts than as a whole, and essentially a showcase for the individual performances of Wilder himself, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn and, particularly, the perpetually energised, rubber-faced Dom DeLuise."

Home media
The film was released on DVD on April 4, 2006.


text:
Rasmussen syndrome (dermatology)

Rasmussen syndrome is a condition characterized by multiple skin growths called trichoepitheliomas.

title: Rasmussen syndrome (dermatology)


text:
Cottey College

Cottey College is a private women's college in Nevada, Missouri. It was founded by Virginia Alice (Cottey) Stockard in 1884. Since 1927 it has been owned and supported by the P.E.O. Sisterhood, a philanthropic women's organization based in Des Moines, Iowa. For most of its history, Cottey was a two-year liberal arts college, and in 2011 it achieved accreditation as a four-year baccalaureate-granting college. It had 266 students enrolled in 2023.

Cottey is situated on 66 acre of land in Nevada, Missouri, the Vernon County seat and a rural town of 8,198 people (by the 2020 estimate). The main campus occupies 11 city blocks. Five blocks south is B.I.L. Hill, a private lodge that rests above a public park which includes a walking trail, gazebo, and small lake. BIL Hill is used by Cottey students, faculty, and staff for recreation, concerts, bonfires, picnics, suite nights, and other traditions.

Beginnings

Cottey College was founded by Virginia Alice Cottey (known as Alice Cottey) in 1884; she originally called it Vernon Seminary, based on the county. After teaching at Central College in Lexington, Missouri since 1875, Cottey decided she wanted to establish her own school. She had saved $3,000, and her sisters Dora and Mary lent her nearly $3,000 of their savings to begin the school.

Several towns bid for the opportunity to host the new girls' school, including Fort Worth, Texas and several towns in Missouri. After much thought, Cottey accepted the offer of Nevada in Vernon County, although it was not the most generous. Residents donated 6 acre of land upon which Cottey had a three-story brick building constructed. After the college expanded, this building came to be known as Main Hall.

Vernon Seminary opened its doors in 1884 as a primary, intermediate, and collegiate preparatory school. In those early years, before educational standardization in the U.S., placement of students depended more upon their accomplishments than age. In 1886 the school's name was officially changed to Cottey College. By 1932, the college consisted only of the higher education part, offering a two-year program.

In 1927, Cottey offered the college to the P.E.O. Sisterhood (Philanthropic Educational Organization), an international organization based in Des Moines, Iowa that supports women's education. She made a condition that they raise a $200,000 endowment for the college (about $2.9 million in 2018 dollars), in order to maintain and operate it for the long term. The P.E.O. accepted, and have since owned and operated the private Cottey College.

Enrollment
Enrollment grew from 28 to 72 students during the first year, and by 1910 there were 250 students. Attendance dropped during the 1930s and '40s, but rose to maximum capacity of 350 by the 1970s.

With more two-year local community colleges opening in the later 20th century, Cottey had a slow decline in enrollment during the 1990s and into the 2000s. It was also a period when some young women preferred co-ed institutions in larger communities. The college worked to restore enrollment and to expand its offerings to a full, four-year curriculum, which it achieved in 2011. By 2017, the number of students totaled 307.

Residential life

Students come from more than 40 states and in the 2018–19 school year, international students came from 20 different countries.

Cottey students live in one of three campus halls (P.E.O., Reeves, and Robertson), each having between 10 and 14 suites. These include a few bedrooms, a bathroom, and a kitchenette arranged around a living room. Student rooms have typical college furnishings. Suites are occupied by between 8 and 12 students. Most suites are sponsored by a P.E.O. chapter, and suite members usually receive several care packages from these P.E.O.s during the year. Sponsorship of some suites has changed over time, their names changing as well.

Residence halls
P.E.O. Hall is the oldest of the existing dormitories, and was erected in 1939. It has 10 suites, housing about 100 students. It was the first building to be paid by the P.E.O. Sisterhood after they acquired the college.

Reeves Hall was built in 1949 on the site where a prior Cottey dorm, Missouri Hall, had burned down in 1940. Like P.E.O., it houses 10 suites and about 100 students. It is noted for having the largest basement of the three halls, and a foyer reminiscent of a classic hotel lobby.

Robertson Hall (Robbie) was the last Cottey dorm to be built, being erected in 1959. It houses 14 suites (about 150 students) as well as the college's dining facility, Raney Dining Hall and the Centennial Room. It is noted for being the only hall with air conditioning and an elevator, and for having the smallest basement.

Each hall has recreational rooms, computer suites, laundry facilities, and quiet study rooms elsewhere in each building.

Cottey has had several prior dormitories, including Rosemary Hall (est. 1903) and Missouri Hall (1928–1940). Main Hall was also used as a dorm from 1884 to 1939.

International experience
In 2000, the college established a spring trip abroad for second-year students and other eligible students. Since the first international experience trip in 2000, each second-year class has traveled to one of several destinations: Paris, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, or Florence. For each European destination, the cost of airfare and hotel stays have been paid by the college. Alternative trips to destinations including Japan, Peru, Thailand, Guatemala and New Zealand have sometimes incurred additional fees.

Athletics
The Cottey athletic teams are called the Comets. The college is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the American Midwest Conference (AMC) since the 2022–23 academic year. The Comets previously competed as an NAIA Independent within the Continental Athletic Conference from 2018–19 to 2021–22.

Cottey competes in nine intercollegiate varsity sports: basketball, cross country, eSports, flag football (added in 2020), golf, softball, track and field (indoor and outdoor) and volleyball.

History
When intercollegiate athletics were re-introduced to the college in the 1998–99 academic year, the Comets competed in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).

Notable alumnae

 * Jetta Carleton '33 – author of The Moonflower Vine (1962), a New York Times Bestseller
 * Dora Dougherty Strother '41 – Women Airforce Service Pilot, one of the first two women to pilot a B-29.
 * Ruby Kless Sondock '44 – First woman justice on the Texas Supreme Court
 * Francine I. Neff '46 – Treasurer of the United States, 1974–1977
 * Marilyn Harris Springer '51 – Best-selling author of the Eden series and Hatter Fox.
 * Carol Littleton '62 – Film editor, nominated for an Oscar for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
 * Judith P. Morgan – Painter
 * Judith McCulloh – Folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and university press editor

title: Cottey College


text:
Roberto Clemente State Park

Roberto Clemente State Park is a 25 acre state park in Morris Heights, Bronx, New York City. The park is adjacent to the Harlem River, the Major Deegan Expressway (Interstate 87), and the Morris Heights station on Metro-North's Hudson Line.

History
Roberto Clemente State Park, originally named Harlem River State Park, opened in 1973 and was the first New York state park established in an urban setting.

The park was renamed in 1974 for Roberto Clemente, the first Latino-American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Clemente was killed in an air crash while trying to assist relief efforts after the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake. In 2013, a statue of Clemente was unveiled in the park.

The park is managed by a partnership of nonprofit New York Restoration Project and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Park description
Roberto Clemente State Park offers a recreation building, a swimming pool, picnic tables, a playground, recreation programs, ball fields and basketball courts, biking, and a waterfront esplanade. This park connects to Bridge Park to its south.

title: Roberto Clemente State Park


text:
Edward Falco

Edward Falco is an American author, playwright, electronic literature writer, and new media editor.

Hypertexts and electronic literature
An early innovator in the field of digital writing, Falco's literary and experimental hypertexts are taught in universities internationally. His online work includes Self-Portrait as Child w/Father (Iowa Review Web), Circa 1967–1968 (Eastgate Reading Room), and "Charmin' Cleary" (Eastgate Reading Room). Falco's work also appears in the online journal Blackbird. Falco published two works with Eastgate,a hypertext poetry collection, Sea Island (1995) and hypertext novel, A Dream with Demons (1997), Astrid Ensslin describes Falco's short essay, "Arriving at the Hypertext Poem" in the Eastgate Quarterly as an "essay to explore the nonlinear affordances of he medium."

He has edited and overseen The New River, an online publication of electronic literature (new media writing).

Novels and short stories
His latest book is the poetry Collection, X in the Tickseed (LSU, 2024). His previous books include the novel, Transcendent Gardening (C&R Press, 2022), the poetry collection Wolf Moon Blood Moon (LSU, 2017), and the crime novels Toughs (Unbridled Books, 2014) and The Family Corleone (Grand Central, 2012). Toughs follows the lives of fictional characters and their relationship to the notorious criminal Vince "Mad Dog" Coll, as well as Lucky Luciano, Owney Madden, Dutch Shultz, and other gangland figures. The Family Corleone (2012), based on a screenplay by Mario Puzo, spent several weeks on The New York Times Best Seller and Extended Best Seller lists, and has been published around the world in twenty-one foreign editions. Other novels include Saint John of the Five Boroughs (2009) and Wolf Point (2006). His short story collection Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories was released in 2005. Falco's In the Park of Culture, a collection of short fictions, was released the same year.

In addition to the works mentioned above, Falco's earlier books include the novel Winter in Florida (1990) and a chapbook of prose poems, Concert in the Park of Culture (1985), as well as two collections of short stories: Acid (1996) and Plato at Scratch Daniel's & Other Stories (1990).

His stories have been published widely in journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, and TriQuarterly, and collected in the Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, and several anthologies, including, Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millennium.

Plays
As a playwright, Falco is the author of Home Delivery, which won the Hampden-Sydney Playwriting Award and was subsequently staged by the Hampden-Sydney Theater Department. Earlier versions of the play were given staged readings in Mill Mountain Theater's Centerpiece and Theater B reading series. Two plays, Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha and Radon, premiered in university productions at Virginia Tech. Both were directed by David Johnson. In the summer of 2001, Falco worked with artists and actors from the United States, England, Greece, Bosnia, and Germany in an international theatre project meant to explore the healing power of drama. Scenes from The Cretans, a play developed during the project, were presented for a small audience in an amphitheatre on the Aegean in the village of Kolympari, Crete. His most recent plays are The Miscreant and Possum Dreams; the latter received its world premiere at Akron, Ohio's None Too Fragile Theatre's June 13–28, 2014

Prizes and awards
Acid won the 1995 Richard Sullivan Prize from the University of Notre Dame and was a finalist for The Patterson Prize. He has won a number of other prizes and awards for his fiction, including the Robert Penn Warren Prize from the Southern Review, the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Short Fiction from The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Mishima Prize for Innovative Fiction from The Saint Andrews Review, a Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, two Individual Artist's Fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and The Governor's Award for the Screenplay from The Virginia Festival of American Film.

Miscellaneous
Falco lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he teaches writing and literature in Virginia Tech's MFA program and edits The New River, an online journal of digital writing. He is the uncle of Edie Falco, an American actress known for her role of Carmela Soprano on the HBO drama series The Sopranos.

title: Edward Falco


text:
Bedlam (comics)

Bedlam (Jesse Aaronson) is a mutant superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He originally possessed the mutant ability to create and project a bio-EM field. This has the effect of temporarily disabling any similarly powered technology in the vicinity. He can also utilize his power to scan the environment for other pre-existing energy fields. After the High Evolutionary reset the mutant genome in every mutant on the planet, Jesse's abilities expanded to be able to affect the human brain's neural chemistry, thus allowing him to project the illusion of pain and confusion into other people.

The character made his live-action cinematic debut in the film Deadpool 2, portrayed by Terry Crews.

Fictional character biography
Jesse Aaronson was orphaned at the age of 5 after his parents were killed in a car crash. After that, he and his brother Christopher were put into foster care separately. Jesse went through multiple foster homes due to his emotional instability and was forced to go through many therapists before being placed in a psychiatric hospital at 13. He was exploited during that time by one of the doctors, who wanted to use Jesse's burgeoning powers for a book and performed experiments on him, and tried to convince Jesse that his brother was simply a figment of his imagination. Jesse was eventually rescued by Lucas Whyndam and ended up in the hands of the Professor Charles Xavier's Mutant Underground Support Engine (M.U.S.E.), a group based out of Montana with the goal of rescuing mutants and training them as field agents.

When he reached the age of 19, Jesse decided to leave M.U.S.E. in order to track down his brother once and for all. He enlisted the help of the mutant spy and former X-Force member, Domino. He offered her information regarding the whereabouts of the Prime Sentinel unit named Ekaterina Gryaznova in exchange for Domino's help. Gryaznova, now calling herself Gryphon, had implanted a device in Domino's body several months ago, which severely diminished her mutant powers. Upon entering the base, Domino was captured but Bedlam managed to escape. Using his resources from M.U.S.E., he managed to track down X-Force in San Francisco and break into their headquarters, in order to ask them for help. The team managed to free Domino and apparently kill Gryphon. In the process, Bedlam used his power to short circuit Domino's implant.

Keeping up her end of the bargain, Domino managed to find information regarding his family. His parents were actually information analysts at the National Security Department. They paid a visit to his parents' former supervisor, Dabney Saunders, who was residing in a retirement home, babbling incoherent sentences. Domino, however, discovered the orderly in charge of Saunders informing an unidentified man about their visit. Both Bedlam and Domino broke into the mysterious man's home using Jesse's power and were subsequently attacked by Magma and Paradigm. Bedlam used his powers to disrupt Paradigm's electronics, knocking out Magma in the process. However, they were subdued by none other than Jesse's brother, Christopher. Christopher, calling himself King Bedlam, has the power to disrupt the higher functions of the brain. Chris was tagged as a mutant at the age of six by the N.S.D. and was taken into a research center after their parents' death. At age 13 he fled, destroying Saunders mind in the process. He had now founded a new team of Hellions and offered an invitation of membership to Jesse, who gladly accepted. The group's true intentions, however, were to reanimate the Armageddon Man in order to blackmail the U.S. government into paying one billion dollars. X-Force managed to subdue the Armageddon Man, but the New Hellions managed to escape. Jesse was invited back to join X-Force, as he had discovered that it was his brother responsible for their parents' death.

After several missions with the team, Jesse learned martial arts through a "Delphi box" given to him by Peter Wisdom. The team also learned of Bedlam's unique condition, which forced him to take medication in order to keep his own power from scrambling his brain. After the High Evolutionary removed every mutants' power and subsequently restored it, the team took on a new direction. Peter Wisdom was now X-Force's leader, while Domino and Moonstar had quit. Wisdom taught them how to use their new abilities. In Jesse's case, he could generate an electromagnetic pulse, disrupt machinery within a certain distance without having to be in physical contact with the target, and could also disrupt neural responses from a distance just like his brother. He remained with the team until their apparent deaths, where he used his power to destroy an underground alien colony.

After a new group of "pop star" mutants began calling themselves X-Force, the original team crashed their press conference. The only missing member was Jesse. Months later when a group called the Church of Humanity crucified some mutants on the lawn on the mansion, Jesse was found among them. Archangel used his healing blood to revive Magma and Jubilee, but along with several other mutants, Jesse apparently did not have the same luck.

After Xavier and Magneto, with the secret help of Moira MacTaggert, put their plan in motion to start the mutant nation of Krakoa, Jesse now finds himself living on the utopian-like island with his fellow mutants.

Powers and abilities
Through a "Delphi box" Jesse had the memories of a karate black belt, and thus could perform with those skills. He continued to further his hand-to-hand training with both Domino and Pete Wisdom.

His mutant ability allowed him to sense and perceive energy signatures and generate a bio-EM field that wreaked havoc with electrical and certain mechanical systems, and could affect the neural chemical responses of a living brain to induce states such as pain, sleep, or confusion. At first strictly touch based aside from sensing energy fields and tracking others by their biological EM signature, the restarting of every mutant's powers by the High Evolutionary later enabled him to generate electromagnetic pulses that cover whole city blocks and also disrupt neural responses from afar not unlike his brother could.

As part of his training with the Mutant Underground, Jesse was adept in covert ops and intelligence gathering such as computer hacking.

Reception

 * In 2014, Entertainment Weekly ranked Bedlam 45th in their "Let's rank every X-Man ever" list.
 * In 2018, CBR.com ranked Bedlam 20th in their "X-Force: 20 Powerful Members" list.

Other characters named Bedlam
There are other characters in Marvel Comics that have also called themselves Bedlam:

 * One Bedlam is a mutate who is an Alpha Flight villain.

 * One Bedlam is a future version of Eddie Brock's codex that was given life and became a Symbiote. During the events of Dark Web, Eddie is confronted by Goblin Queen and Chasm after he lands in Limbo. He asks for their help in reuniting with his son, Dylan Brock, but Chasm uses his powers to mess with Eddie's mind to make him more complicit, causing him and his symbiote to revert to the tradition Venom look and become unhinged. Following a fight with X-Men member Synch and being bombarded with visions of him being alone, Eddie's worst fears are realized as he turns into Bedlam.

Other versions
Although his technical debut, Jesse appears alongside his brother (here named Terrence and called the Bedlam Brothers) in the "Age of Apocalypse" storyline. In that reality, he worked for Sinister's Elite Mutant Force in his pens. He eventually turned on Havok, in order to help Cyclops and Jean Grey to escape the pens and begin a path of redemption.

In other media
Bedlam appears in Deadpool 2, portrayed by Terry Crews. He is recruited into X-Force by Deadpool and Weasel. However, crosswinds blow Bedlam's parachute off-course, causing him to crash into a bus, though he later receives CPR.

title: Bedlam (comics)


text:
Mae Clarke

Mae Clarke (born Violet Mary Klotz; August 16, 1910 – April 29, 1992) was an American actress. She is widely remembered for playing Henry Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth, who is chased by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, and for being on the receiving end of James Cagney's halved grapefruit in The Public Enemy. Both films were released in 1931.

Early life
Mae Clarke was born in Philadelphia. Her father was a theater organist. She studied dancing as a child and began on stage in vaudeville and also worked in night clubs. In 1922, at the age of 12, she marched in the Miss America Pageant Parade on the Atlantic City Boardwalk dressed as a lobster. She returned to the Boardwalk Parade again in 1940 as a featured guest, riding atop a white limousine convertible.

Career
Clarke started her professional career as a dancer in New York City, sharing a room with Barbara Stanwyck. She starred in many films for Universal Studios, including the original screen version of The Front Page (1931) and the first sound version of Frankenstein (1931), with Boris Karloff. Clarke played the role of Elizabeth, Henry Frankenstein's fiancée, who is attacked by the Monster (Boris Karloff) on her wedding day.

The Public Enemy, released that same year, contained one of cinema's more famous (and frequently parodied) scenes, in which James Cagney pushes a half grapefruit into Clarke's face, then goes out to pick up Jean Harlow. The film was so popular that it ran 24 hours per day at a theater in Times Square upon its initial release; four months after the premiere, The Hollywood Reporter informed readers that Clarke's ex-husband Lew Brice claimed to have seen the film more than 20 times (and at least twice per week) and that Brice "says he goes to see the scene wherein Mae Clarke gets hit in the eye with a grapefruit—and that it's a plazure!"

Clarke appeared as Myra Deauville in the 1931 pre-Code version of Waterloo Bridge. In the film, she portrays a young American woman who is forced by circumstance into a life of prostitution in World War I London; both the film and Clarke's performance were well received by the critics.

Clarke also appeared in the modest pre-Code Universal film Night World (1932), with Lew Ayres, Boris Karloff, Hedda Hopper, and George Raft. In 1933, she was the female lead in Fast Workers, John Gilbert's last film as a contracted MGM star, and Lady Killer with James Cagney and Margaret Lindsay. The same year, she and actor Phillips Holmes were in a single-car accident that left Clarke with a broken jaw and facial scarring. Those injuries, however, did not end her film career, for she remained a leading lady for most of the 1930s. She was, though, increasingly cast in productions with lower budgets that lacked the status of her earlier films. Then, by 1940, Clarke slipped into supporting roles, although she did have a few last leading roles later in the decade, notably as the heroine in the Republic serial King of the Rocket Men (1949). In the 1950s and 1960s, Clarke played uncredited bit parts in several notable films, including Singin' in the Rain, The Great Caruso, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Her last screen appearance was in the 1970 film Watermelon Man.

On television, Clarke appeared in many episodic series, including General Hospital, Perry Mason and Batman. Clarke retired in 1970 and taught drama.

Personal life and death
Clarke was married and divorced three times: to Fanny Brice's brother Lew Brice, Stevens Bancroft, and Herbert Langdon. All of the unions were childless.

In later years Clarke resided at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. Clarke died of cancer on April 29, 1992, at age 81. She is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

Features

 * Big Time (1929) - Lily Clark
 * Nix on Dames (1929) - Jackie Lee
 * The Fall Guy (1930) - Bertha Quinlan
 * The Dancers (1930) - Maxine
 * Men on Call (1930) - Helen Gordon / Helen Harding
 * The Front Page (1931) - Molly Molloy
 * The Public Enemy (1931) - Kitty (uncredited)
 * The Good Bad Girl (1931) - Marcia Cameron
 * Waterloo Bridge (1931) - Myra
 * Reckless Living (1931) - Bee
 * Frankenstein (1931) - Elizabeth
 * Three Wise Girls (1932) - Gladys Kane
 * The Final Edition (1932) - Ann Woodman
 * Impatient Maiden (1932) - Ruth Robbins
 * Night World (1932) - Ruth Taylor
 * Flaming Gold (1932) - Claire Gordon
 * Breach of Promise (1932) - Hattie Pugmire
 * The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) - Gwen Parker
 * As the Devil Commands (1932) - Jane Chase
 * Parole Girl (1933) - Sylvia Day
 * Fast Workers (1933) - Mary
 * Turn Back the Clock (1933) - Mary Gimlet / Mary Wright
 * Penthouse (1933) - Mimi Montagne
 * Lady Killer (1933) - Myra Gale
 * Nana (1934) - Satin
 * This Side of Heaven (1934) - Jane Turner
 * Let's Talk It Over (1934) - Pat Rockland
 * The Man with Two Faces (1934) - Daphne Flowers
 * Silk Hat Kid (1935) - Laura Grant
 * The Daring Young Man (1935) - Martha Allen
 * Hitch Hike Lady (1935) - Judith Martin
 * The House of a Thousand Candles (1936) - Carol Vincent
 * Hearts in Bondage (1936) - Constance Jordan
 * Wild Brian Kent (1936) - Betty Prentice
 * Hats Off (1936) - Jo Allen
 * Great Guy (1936) - Janet Henry
 * Trouble in Morocco (1937) - Linda Lawrence
 * Outlaws of the Orient (1937) - Joan Manning
 * Women in War (1940) - Gail Halliday
 * Sailors on Leave (1941) - Gwen
 * Flying Tigers (1942) - Verna Bales
 * Lady from Chungking (1942) - Lavara
 * And Now Tomorrow (1944) - Receptionist (uncredited)
 * Here Come the Waves (1944) - Ens. Kirk (uncredited)
 * Kitty (1945) - Molly
 * Reaching from Heaven (1948) - Dorothy Gram
 * Daredevils of the Clouds (1948) - Kay Cameron
 * Gun Runner (1949) - Kate Diamond
 * Streets of San Francisco (1949) - Hazel Logan
 * King of the Rocket Men (1949, Serial) - Glenda Thomas
 * The Yellow Cab Man (1950) - Casualty Company Secretary (uncredited)
 * The Reformer and the Redhead (1950) - Counter Lady with Change for a Quarter (uncredited)
 * Annie Get Your Gun (1950) - Mrs. Adams, Party Guest (uncredited)
 * The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950) - Clubwoman (uncredited)
 * Duchess of Idaho (1950) - Betty - Flower Shop Saleslady (uncredited)
 * Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950) - Train Passenger (uncredited)
 * Three Guys Named Mike (1951) - Convair Passenger (uncredited)
 * Inside Straight (1951) - Nurse (uncredited)
 * Mr. Imperium (1951) - Minor Role (uncredited)
 * Royal Wedding (1951) - Telephone Operator #1 (uncredited)
 * The Great Caruso (1951) - Woman (uncredited)
 * The People Against O'Hara (1951) - Receptionist (uncredited)
 * The Unknown Man (1951) - Stella's Friend (uncredited)
 * Callaway Went Thataway (1951) - Mother on Train (uncredited)
 * Love Is Better Than Ever (1952) - Mrs. Island (uncredited)
 * Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Hairdresser (uncredited)
 * Carbine Williams (1952) - Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
 * Skirts Ahoy! (1952) - Miss LaValle (uncredited)
 * Pat and Mike (1952) - Golfer (uncredited)
 * Holiday for Sinners (1952) - Minor Role (uncredited)
 * Fearless Fagan (1952) - Hospital Telephone Operator (uncredited)
 * The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952) - Townswoman (uncredited)
 * Horizons West (1952) - Mrs. Jane Tarleton
 * Thunderbirds (1952) - Mrs. Jones
 * Because of You (1952) - Miss Peach / Nurse Peachie
 * Confidentially Connie (1953) - Happy Shopper (uncredited)
 * Magnificent Obsession (1954) - Mrs. Miller
 * Women's Prison (1955) - Matron Saunders
 * Not as a Stranger (1955) - Nurse Odell
 * Wichita (1955) - Mrs McCoy.
 * I Died a Thousand Times (1955) - Mabel Baughman (uncredited)
 * Come Next Spring (1956) - Myrtle
 * Mohawk (1956) - Minikah
 * The Catered Affair (1956) - Saleswoman (uncredited)
 * The Desperados Are in Town (1956) - Jane Kesh
 * Ride the High Iron (1956) - Mrs. Vanders
 * Decision at Sundown (1957)
 * Voice in the Mirror (1958) - Mrs. Robbins
 * Ask Any Girl (1959) - Woman on Train (uncredited)
 * A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) - Mrs. Craig
 * Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) - Secretary (uncredited)
 * Watermelon Man (1970) - Old Woman (uncredited)

Short subjects

 * Screen Snapshots (1932, Documentary short) - Herself
 * Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 7 (1937, Documentary short) - Herself

title: Mae Clarke


text:
Talk:Innate idea

This looks like a personal essay of some kind. ⟳ ausa کui × 02:56, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I think it should be VFD'd. Alr 02:58, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You shouldn't vfd it because it's a good topic that needs explanation. Unfortunately I don't feel that I know enough about this to write an article I would be happy with. ⟳ ausa کui × 20:54, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I've never heard of it before. Google only gets 3,810 hits. I still say, if it's original research or a personal essay, you should put it up for VFD and create a new article with the same name later. Alr 03:46, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * There's the makings of a decent article in here. The argument over innate ideas is an important part of the rationalist vs. empiricist debate. The presence of Leibniz and Locke is at least a step in the right direction. I don't think it warrants being VFD just yet. This article has also been tagged for a major overhaul in the Wiki philosophy project, so hopefully it can be cleaned up soon. --- Skubicki 04:14, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * This is a modern (last 30 years) report on the debate. It in no way counts as original research but copies what is said in many contemporary introductory philosophy courses, especially in North America. The objectors show only their ignorance of current ideas. JDsisson 11:17, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * No, I think the objectors are rightly pointing out that the "article" is shoddily written. A)It hardly even defines what 'innate idea' means, and B) it skims over a few thousand years of philosophical debate on the subject, choosing to focus instead on Noam Chomsky(?). I don't think this article should be deleted, but we pretty much need to start from scratch. The article needs to focus on the history of the concept of innate ideas and its evolution, starting with Plato and the other Greek philosophers, up through Descarte, the opposition from the empiricists, and into the modern period.  Ccj 22:21, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Overhaul
Ok, so I reworked the lead paragraph. Now it's a bit more objective, defines what an innate idea actually is, and no longer references Chomsky (I think we could save him for a later part of the article, but he doesn't belong in the lead). Hopefully it's better than the last one. What do you guys think? Too long? Just plain bad? --- Ccj 00:05, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

some changes
I changed two (I think) of the sentences in the lead because I basically found them incomprensible. One of them was this: "For example, ....theorized that knowledge of god is innate through reason"

as I am not exactly sure was innatenes through reasoning means (if it can mean anything), I changed it to the following:

"For example, the philosopher Rene Descartes theorized that knowledge of god is innate in everybody as a product of the faculty of reasoning."

This more clearly explains, IMO, that Descartes beleive in the innatenss of a faulty of reasining which permitted humans to know god, among other things.

There were some other small tweaks. I hope this is helpful and not taken provocatively or something.--Lacatosias 17:12, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

I want to try to go through this carefully, analysing it sentence by sentence. But without being rude in the process. --Lacatosias 17:12, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Hey, it's Wikipedia. Go for it. Ccj 21:00, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Alright then. This article is certainly salvagable, IMO. Haven't really found that many serious probelms as one would expect from all the warning templates. I have added some references and some more about Chomsky and slightly touched on the very modern debates about the innateness or not of behavior/morality, etc.. Those sections might be expanded perhaps.--Lacatosias 08:31, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Possible rename
Just to throw the idea out there: since the contrasting article is named Empirical knowledge and the term "knowledge" is a bit broader and more general than the term "idea", maybe this article should be renamed "Innate knowledge". Then again, the term "Innate idea" is far more used. So, as I said, I'm just throwing the idea out there. 24.126.199.129 12:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:Innate idea


text: User talk:68.50.242.46

title: User talk:68.50.242.46


text: User talk:69.107.15.124

title: User talk:69.107.15.124


text:
Riverbank State Park

Riverbank State Park is a 28 acre state park built on top of a sewage treatment facility on the Hudson River, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was opened in 1993. On September 5, 2017, it was renamed Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, after longtime New York State Assembly member Denny Farrell who represented the surrounding area.

Site
The park located on the Henry Hudson Parkway from 137th Street to 145th Street in Upper Manhattan, 69 ft above the Hudson River. The river continues to flow under the structure. A key design consideration for the park was reducing loads to the structure below, so lightweight construction techniques were used wherever possible.

History
Riverbank State Park was designed by Dattner Architects and Abel Bainnson Butz Landscape Architects and opened May 27, 1993. The original idea for a park atop the sewage plant was Philip Johnson's, who proposed a series of decorative fountains and a reflecting pool.

Community opposition forced further proposals for a park design that was useful to the surrounding community. Gruzen Architects made a design proposal in 1969, and Bond Ryder/Lawrence Halprin made another proposal in 1973–1975. Some iterations of the design included fully decking over the West Side Highway to create a continuous park. All of these designs were unfeasible, however, due to cost. Dattner Architects was formally selected in 1980 for the project, after a series of community engagements 1978–1980. leading to a design phase 1980–1988. Some aspects of the plan had to be simplified due to a 13% budget cut in 1989. The design was inspired by Japanese rooftop facilities, where a similar concept was used for Ochiai Water Reclamation Center and Ochiai Chuo Park.

North River Wastewater Treatment Plant
The park was built over the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant, which processes 125 e6USgal of wastewater every day during dry weather, and is designed to handle up to 340 e6USgal a day when the weather is wet. In order to minimize odors emitted by the plant, dedicated odor-control facilities have been installed at the plant, including $55 million in recent upgrades. The plant sits on 2,300 caissons pinned into bedrock up to 230 ft beneath the river. Construction of the foundation was completed in 1978, and the wastewater treatment facilities were constructed in two phases between 1986 and 1991.

Facilities

One of only three state parks within Manhattan (the others being Hudson River Park and Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park), it has become one of the most heavily used state parks in New York. The 28 acre site includes synthetic sport surfaces as well as several acres of "green roofs", with varying depths of soil supporting plantings and trees up to 35 ft high. This is the largest green roof in New York City.

The park includes an Olympic-size swimming pool (home to the Riverbank Redtails swim team), a covered skating rink for roller skating in the summer and ice-skating in the winter, an 800-seat cultural theater, a 2,500-seat athletic complex with fitness room, a 400m track, a 150-seat restaurant, community gardens, and a horticultural learning lab. Bicycling is strictly forbidden in the park but the Hudson River Greenway passes at water level.

A popular attraction is the Totally Kid Carousel created by Maria Reidelbach, Milo Mottola, and over 35 children, featuring animals designed from neighborhood children's drawings. Children whose drawings were selected received a $50 savings bond as well as free rides for life.

title: Riverbank State Park


text:
User:Xhin

Xhin is a user who starts new articles, spends hours learning, and contributes to The wikipedia word association game., or at least did, until they deleted everything that made it interesting :(

-=- Xhin -=-

title: User:Xhin


text:
Category:Fictional LGBT characters

 * NOTE: Some characters do not neatly conform to gender binary/cisnormativity-bias: these may dual-identify and may be included in multiple categories.

title: Category:Fictional LGBT characters


text:
CBC Radio Overnight

CBC Radio Overnight is a Canadian radio programming block, which airs nightly on CBC Radio One from 1:00 a.m. to 5:30 am (or 6:00 a.m., depending on the station). The program airs only on CBC Radio One's regional outlets; it does not air on the nationwide Sirius XM service.

The program, hosted by Saroja Coelho since late-April 2024, presents a variety of information programs from international broadcasters around the world. At the top of each hour, a regular CBC news update is aired, lasting four and a half minutes. Previous hosts of the program included Cathy Haag, Bernie MacNamee, Pep Philpott, and Jeff Goodes. However, apart from the news updates, the program's content consists primarily of complete programs produced by the CBC or other public broadcasters; the host's main role is to voice interstitial announcements of the next program coming to air.

History
The program premiered on May 1, 1995, with its programs sourced from the new World Radio Network. Prior to the program's launch, CBC Radio One signed off during the overnight hours. It had briefly experimented with a 24-hour schedule beginning in January 1991, with overnight programming consisting of repeats of its daytime programming, but this was discontinued by June of that year.

CBC Radio Overnight may, however, be preempted in some markets when the CBC needs to temporarily shut down a local transmitter for maintenance, as overnight transmitter repairs are less disruptive than a daytime shutdown.

Programming
Broadcasters whose programming has aired on Overnight included Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Radio Sweden, Radio Australia, Radio Prague, BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, Radio Poland, Radio Romania International, and KBS World Radio.

On October 27, 2009, CBC changed the program's schedule, with all programming on weeknights coming from the BBC World Service and Radio Canada International; with the dissolution of Radio Canada International in 2012, The Link was replaced with Public Radio International's The World and a repeat airing of the previous day's edition of CBC Radio's morning show The Current. In 2013, the program added content from Monocle 24. The remainder of the block is filled with programs from Australia's ABC Radio National and the BBC World Service; some programming from RTÉ Radio 1 and Deutsche Welle also airs on weekends.

title: CBC Radio Overnight


text:
Flamingo Road (film)

Flamingo Road is a 1949 American film noir drama directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet and David Brian. The screenplay by Robert Wilder was based on a 1946 play written by Wilder and his wife, Sally, which was based on Robert Wilder's 1942 novel of the same name.

The plot follows an ex-carnival dancer who marries a local businessman to seek revenge on a corrupt political boss who had her railroaded into prison. Some of the more salacious aspects of the novel were downplayed in the film because of the Hollywood Production Code.

Robert Wilder, who died in 1974, was later credited as the creator of the American TV series Flamingo Road (1980–1982), which drew elements from both the novel and the film.

Plot
Lane Bellamy is a carnival dancer who tires of the life, decides to quit and effectively strands herself in the small town of Boldon City in the Southern United States. She becomes romantically involved with Fielding Carlisle, a deputy sheriff whose career is controlled by Sheriff Titus Semple, a corrupt political boss who runs the town. Semple dislikes Bellamy and mounts a campaign against her. She has difficulty finding work and is arrested on a trumped-up morality charge. Meanwhile, Carlisle is the political machine's choice for state senator. Pushed by Semple to immerse himself in the perfect political family, Carlisle reluctantly marries his long-time girlfriend, Annabelle Weldon.

Sad that the love of her life has essentially abandoned her, Bellamy finds work as a hostess at a roadhouse run by Lute Mae Sanders. There, she meets Dan Reynolds, a businessman who supports the corrupt Semple so long as it is profitable. She charms Reynolds into marrying her and the couple moves to the town's best neighborhood, Flamingo Road.

As a kingmaker in the state, Semple decides to run Carlisle for governor and unseat the incumbent. This is too much even for Reynolds and he is now moved to oppose Semple. When Carlisle, who has a weakness for alcohol, also begins to show his limits in cooperating, Semple flies into a rage and abandons him, destroying Carlisle's career. Then Semple makes himself the candidate. At this, Reynolds grows stronger in his opposition, so Semple arranges to have Reynolds framed.

Later, a drunken Carlisle, who knows what's happening but feels the situation is hopeless, visits the mansion on Flamingo Road and commits suicide practically in front of Bellamy. This gives Semple another weapon in his bid to ruin Bellamy and her husband, who has now been indicted for graft. Bellamy confronts Semple with a gun and demands he phone the attorney general and confess everything, but a physical struggle ensues and she shoots him dead. At the end, Bellamy is in prison awaiting what is intimated to be a favorable ruling and Reynolds indicates he will stick by her.

Reception and box office
Howard Barnes wrote in the New York Herald Tribune, "Joan Crawford acquits herself ably in an utterly nonsensical and undefined part...It's no fault of hers she cannot handle the complicated romances and double crosses in which she is involved." Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called it a "jumbled melodrama" in which Crawford robotically experiences a series of crises. Variety described it as "a class vehicle for Joan Crawford, loaded with heartbreak, romance and stinging violence."

According to Warner Bros. records, the film earned $2,263,000 in the U.S. and $633,000 in other markets.

Home media
In 1993 the film was released on LaserDisc and on VHS by Warner Home Video in 1998, which also issued it on DVD in 2008 as part of "The Joan Crawford Collection: Volume 2".

It was released as a stand-alone DVD (part of the Warner Archive Collection) in 2017.

Flamingo Road was released for the first time on hi-def Blu-ray on March 14, 2023 by the Warner Archive Collection which includes all of the bonuses from the DVD releases.

title: Flamingo Road (film)


text: User talk:165.91.174.164

title: User talk:165.91.174.164


text:
Foxtail (diaspore)

A foxtail is a spikelet or cluster of a grass, that serves to disperse its seeds as a unit. Thus, the foxtail is a type of diaspore or plant dispersal unit. Some grasses that produce a foxtail are themselves called "foxtail", also "spear grass". They can become a health hazard for dogs, cats, and other domestic animals, and a nuisance for people.

Structure
All foxtails have a hardened tip, sometimes called a "callus", and retrorse barbs, pointing away from the tip of the callus. Wild barleys have clusters of three spikelets, and the callus is the portion of the rachis to which they attach. In other grasses, such as needlegrass and brome grasses, the foxtail consists of a single spikelet, with the callus being the hardened lemma tip. Retrorse barbs can be found on the callus, the lemmas, and the awns.

The spikelets or spikelet clusters of foxtails are adapted for animal dispersal: The foxtails disarticulate easily, the barbs cause the foxtail to cling to fur, and movement of the animal causes the foxtail to burrow into the fur, since the barbs permit it to move only in the direction of the callus. In wild mammals that inhabit the native ranges of foxtail grasses, the fur is ordinarily short enough that the foxtails will eventually become dislodged, dispersing the seed.

Hazard
Foxtails can become a health hazard for pets and other domestic animals, and a nuisance for people.

In dogs, cats, and other domestic animals the foxtails can become irreversibly lodged. Foxtails can also enter the nostrils and ear canals of many mammals. In all these cases, the foxtail can physically enter the body through muscular movements or, in the case of nostrils, air flow, can cause the foxtails to continue to burrow through soft tissues and organs, causing infection and physical disruption, which in some cases can result in death. In humans, foxtails can work through clothing, particularly fabric shoes and socks, causing discomfort to people while walking.

Foxtails are a problem beginning when the grass inflorescences begin to disarticulate, and ending when the spikelets or spikelet clusters are mechanically abraded or incorporated into the soil, turf, or leaf litter. In some habitats, this can be a matter of weeks, but in others it may require months, especially if different species flower and fruit at different times during the season.

Foxtails that have progressed no further than surface lesions may be removed and the lesion treated with antiseptic and bandaged if necessary. Once a foxtail has passed beneath the skin, dogs and cats are often treated with systemic antibiotics, and the foxtail either allowed to encyst and degrade, or in the case of actual or imminent organ damage, removed surgically. However, surgical removal can be problematic, since foxtails cannot easily be imaged by x-ray or ultrasound. Foxtails embedded in the nostrils can migrate into the nasal turbinates, causing intense distress, and in rare cases into the brain. Foxtails in the ear canal can puncture the eardrum and enter the middle ear, causing hearing loss.

Combing of fur removes foxtails along with burrs and other detritus, but potentially the most dangerous foxtails are found in areas easily missed: the axillae, between the toes, and in nostrils and ear canals. Occasionally they can even lodge in the conjunctiva under the eyelid.

Many wild barley species are weeds in disturbed habitats, and their growth is encouraged by foot traffic of humans and domestic animals. Control methods consist of restricting traffic to established paths, and eradication of wild barley by mechanical removal or herbicide. Some other foxtail-producing grasses, especially needlegrasses, are dominant species in stable grassland habitats. Control attempts in these cases can actually be counterproductive, creating disturbed habitats where wild barleys may thrive.

title: Foxtail (diaspore)


text: File:TE Lawrence authorized biography cover.jpg


text: Template:VPL Clubs

title: Template:VPL Clubs


text:
Talk:Bat Lash

Untitled
It's been suggested by various commentators since the 1960s, that Bat lash was "based" on the lead character in Waterhole #3

moniker
His full name is Bartholomew Aloysius Lash. Also, I believe his name was inspired by Bat Masterson and Lash Larue. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.247.22.119 (talk) 05:41, 10 April 2007 (UTC).
 * however, an early issue of his comic gave is name as "Batton Lash". I don't think his full name was ever given in those early issues.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.188.33.26 (talk) 21:11, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Comics B-Class Assesment required
This article needs the B-Class checklist filled in to remain a B-Class article for the Comics WikiProject. If the checklist is not filled in by 7th August this article will be re-assessed as C-Class. The checklist should be filled out referencing the guidance given at Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment/B-Class criteria. For further details please contact the Comics WikiProject. Comics-awb (talk) 15:30, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

C-Class rated for Comics Project
As this B-Class article has yet to receive a review, it has been rated as C-Class. If you disagree and would like to request an assesment, please visit WikiProject_Comics/Assessment and list the article. Hiding T 14:49, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Superhero?
Is it accurate to refer to Bat Lash as a superhero? Although he was later revived in a superhero setting, his primary creation was as a western character. It would be like describing Ben Cartwright of Bonanza as a superhero. 23skidoo (talk) 15:44, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

title: Talk:Bat Lash


text:
Will Lang Jr.

William John Lang Jr. (October 7, 1914 – January 21, 1968) was an American journalist and a bureau head for Life magazine.

Early career
Lang was born on the south side of Chicago. While attending the University of Chicago in 1936, he wrote for the Chicago Daily News and "campus stories" for Time on a part-time basis. Six months later, he was summoned to New York City to work for Time and Life on a regular basis. In both 1936 and 1940 he covered the Presidential campaigns of James Farley. While in Washington D.C., Lang met an old classmate, Kay Meyer (who later became Katharine Graham) of The Washington Post and Newsweek. The two dated for a while, but broke off the relationship due to conflicting interests.

In December 1940, Lang had an opportunity to get an interview with Massachusetts Congressman George Tinkham who showed Lang his trophies from his safaris in Kenya.

World War II

During World War II, Lang became Bureau Head in Algiers, Italy, Paris, and Berlin. He also became friends with Bill Mauldin, Ernie Pyle, George Silk, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa. During the war, he wrote many biographies, including those of Lucian Truscott, Bill Mauldin, J. Elmer Spyglass, Creighton Abrams, and Canadian manufacturer Ludger Dionne.

Lang was the first American reporter in Tunis after the Battle of the Kasserine Pass. Later that same year, he followed the battle campaign of General George S. Patton in Sicily. On October 7, 1943, Lang was nearly killed in the Naples post office explosion. Later that month, he was commended by General Matthew B. Ridgway for his professionalism during his stay with the 82nd Airborne Division. It is said that General Ridgeway considered Lang to be an honorary member of the Division. After D-Day, he had lunch with Mary Welsh Hemingway, the 4th wife of Ernest Hemingway.

Later on, he filed a report on The Battle of the Bulge alongside Col. Creighton Abrams, in which Abrams later mentioned in an article of Stars and Stripes.

Post-war
After the war, Lang continued his reporting in Europe and wrote reports on the rebuilding of Berlin and the fall of The Iron Curtain. During this time, in January 1948, his daughter Luisa was born. The Lang family's happiness was cut short in June when they heard of the Berlin Blockade. Lang was able to smuggle his family into France before the borders were closed.

In March 1950, one of his stories reported on the discovery of the coffins of German President Paul Von Hindenburg and his wife, alongside Frederick William I of Prussia and Frederick the Great, in a salt mine in Germany.

When Lang returned to the United States in May 1950, he became Bureau Head in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1952, he wrote about John F. Kennedy becoming Senator of Massachusetts. From 1954-1960, he served as Bureau Head in Washington, D.C. After becoming Bureau Head in Paris in 1960, Lang traveled to Spain to help his old friend Ernest Hemingway publish The Dangerous Summer. Hemingway called it an addendum to Death in the Afternoon (1938). Hemingway persuaded Lang to let him print the manuscript, along with a picture layout, before it came out in hardcover. Although not a word of it was on paper, Hemingway agreed to the proposal. The first part of story appeared in Life on September 5, 1960 and was followed by two more installments.

In 1961 while in Berlin, Lang witnessed the construction of the Berlin Wall. When he returned home in 1961, he was promoted to Deputy Regional Bureau Director of Life. In February 1963, he was promoted to Chief Bureau Head of Domestic and Foreign Departments for Washington, D.C.'s Life branch. On June 26, 1963, Lang returned to Berlin for a few days and witnessed John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.

In January 1965, he was promoted to Chief Regional Bureau Director for Life in Manhattan.

Lang died from a heart attack while on a skiing trip with his family in St. Anton, Austria. His body was taken to Salzburg where it was cremated.

title: Will Lang Jr.


text:
Talk:Tales from the Perilous Realm

Untitled
Er...actually, no. I'm just trying to figure out what to do with this.

Tales from the Perilous Realm is a compilation of "Leaf by Niggle", "Farmer Giles of Ham", The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (a collection of poetry), and "Smith of Wootton Major". Only one of which relates directly to Middle-earth. As far as I can tell it does not include "On Fairy-Stories", which is somewhat odd, as that essay is typically published with "Leaf by Niggle" as Tree and Leaf. It relates to The Tolkien Reader, a similar (but slightly different) compilation. I think it may be the UK version (although containng slightly different texts)—at least, I've only ever seen it at a bookstore in Canada.

I suppose "what I should do with this" consists mostly of saying that. -Aranel (" Sarah ") 03:09, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Does anyone (perhaps someone who owns the book) know the actual publication status of Tales from the Perilous Realm and The Tolkien Reader? (The latter, according to my copy, was published in 1966 but has recently been reprinted in the U.S. I've never seen Perilous Realm—which seems to have been published more recently—except in Canada.) I suppose the fact that someone requested the article means that this is useful information to have. Also, I don't have "Smith of Wootton Major" (it isn't in Reader) so if someone else wants to offer a short phrase describing it... -Aranel (" Sarah ") 03:34, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 13:47, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

1st versus 2nd edition
I have not seen the hardback edition of 1997, but I do have a paperback edition from 1998 (published by HarperCollins), and it differs significantly from the description of the "first edition" given in the article. It does not include Roverandom (which was not published until 1998), and has no illustrations at all -- not by Baynes, not by Lee. The cover illustration is by Sarah Gibb, not by Lee and certainly not the one shown here as the cover of the first edition. The bibliographic information on the back of the title page does not say in so many words that the content is the same as the hardback edition of the previous year, but that is clearly implied. Can anyone verify whether the information we currently give in the article for the first hardback edition is in fact correct? -- Elphion (talk) 21:43, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks to User:Solicitr, whose additions have largely cleared this up. -- Elphion (talk) 19:44, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

title: Talk:Tales from the Perilous Realm


text:
Australian Women's National League

The Australian Women's National League (AWNL) was an Australian political lobby group federation first established in 1904. It acted in many ways like a political party, with an extensive branch network and the capability to run its own candidates. It was a conservative organisation with four key declared objectives:

 * Loyalty to the Throne;
 * To counteract Socialist tendencies;
 * To educate the Women of Victoria to realise their political responsibilities; and
 * To Safeguard the Interests of the Home, Women and Children.

Foundation
The AWNL was supported in its foundation by the Victorian Employers' Federation and by employer bodies in other states, but it quickly became independent from those male-dominated groups, and formed an anti-socialist alliance with the Farmer's League in 1905. The group aimed to espouse anti-socialist ideas to Australian women who had been given the right to vote in Australian federal elections in 1902.

Leading Melbourne establishment figure, Janet, Lady Clarke, held a meeting at her home in August 1903 to discuss the formation of such a conservative women's movement. Months later, in March 1904, Lady Clarke's sister, Eva Hughes, organised a meeting at the Melbourne Town Hall. It chose a provisional committee and elected Lady Clarke as its inaugural president

On 25 October 1907, the League conducted the first Pan-Australian Conference of Anti-Socialist Women's Organisations. The League played an important role in achieving women's suffrage (right to vote) throughout Australia. By 1908, it had 10,000 members in Victoria alone, and helped convince the male conservative members of parliament that women voters would not necessarily be left-wing in disposition. In 1909, Lady Clarke died and was succeeded as president by her sister Eva who stayed in charge until 1922.

In 1912, the Liberal prime minister Alfred Deakin described the lobby group as "fierce and unceasing" in their political demands. He continued "So far – singlehanded – I have beat them and kept them at bay, but how long can this last?"

The ANWL was a very active organisation, with many suburban and rural branches. It published a monthly journal The Woman. It ran many campaigns, including one for greater education in "domestic science". The League organised Empire Day festivities in Melbourne for forty years and, during World War I, organised thousands of women to contribute to the war effort. In 1918, it launched "Baby Week" as an education campaign for families. It also conducted political education and training courses for its members, to make them more effective campaigners.

Peak of power
At its peak in World War I, the AWNL had 500 registered branches and more than 54,000 members across Australia. Using its massive membership base as a platform for achieving its objectives, it was very active in electoral politics, initially supporting male candidates and forming an important part of conservative political efforts across Australia. They employed women as paid political organisers, raised large amounts of money, and actively supported candidates, who sometimes had to go through a preselection process to attract the League's support.

Some years after women had obtained the right to vote and to run for office, most of the first women candidates in Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria were members of the League. While they generally worked with conservative political parties, on occasion they did not. In one instance, when one of their favoured candidates in Queensland was not endorsed as they had demanded, they ran their own candidate, Irene Longman, who became the first female member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in 1929.

Actions such as these, the vast size of the League, and its highly skilled political operatives, made it one of the most effective and feared political organisations in Australian politics at the time. Male journalists complained at the time about the power of the group: "Political godmothers rule UAP (United Australia Party) with haughty mien ... the political fate of the electorate was controlled by women."

Merger with the Liberals
In 1944, the AWNL actively supported the newly created Liberal Party of Australia and merged with it in 1945. The League's leaders at the time – including Dame Elizabeth Couchman and future senator Ivy Wedgwood – negotiated a tough deal with Sir Robert Menzies which ensured that women were equally represented throughout the structures of the Liberal Party, long before the era of affirmative action. It was agreed that the Liberal Party would reserve certain positions for women, that there would be a Woman Vice-president of the party, and also a Federal Women's Committee, the president of which would also sit on the party's Federal Executive.

Menzies regarded Couchman very highly and observed: "She would have been the best cabinet minister I could have wished for".

Some argue that the League had a major impact on the Liberal Party's direction leading up to the election in 1949, which the party won convincingly. In a highly unusual move at the time, Liberal advertising specifically made reference to women and women's issues. Images of men and women (and in some cases of women alone) were used in political advertising for the first time on a major scale. Their opponents in the Australian Labor Party were largely silent on women's issues.

Although the organisation had formally resolved to merge with the Liberal Party, some preferred to retain an autonomous group, which continued for a time with considerably reduced members and activity.

In 2004, the Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, spoke at a function commemorating the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the League, and paid tribute to its important role in the history of the Liberal Party and Australia.

Notable members

 * Jessie Ackermann – social reformer
 * Marie Breen – Senator for Victoria (1962–1968)
 * Janet Clarke – philanthropist, inaugural AWNL President
 * Elizabeth Couchman – AWNL President (1927–1945)
 * Eleanor Glencross – activist
 * Eva Hughes – political organiser
 * Enid Lyons – wife of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons, first woman elected to the House of Representatives (1943–1951)
 * Nellie Constance Martyn (1887–1926) Australian businesswoman, managing director of Steel Company of Australia
 * May Moss – AWNL Vice-president (1906–1914), National Council of Women President (1931–1936)
 * Ivy Wedgwood – Senator for Victoria (1950–1971)

title: Australian Women's National League


text:
Pinnacle State Park and Golf Course

Pinnacle State Park and Golf Course was a 714 acre state park located in Steuben County, New York. The park's site is southwest of the City of Corning in the Town of Addison, east of Village of Addison.

Park description
Pinnacle State Park offered fishing, hiking on 11 mi of trails, hunting of deer, turkey, and small game, and cross-country skiing. A 9-hole golf course with picnic tables, pavilions, and club house operated in the park up until 2017 when it was closed.

The first section of Great Eastern Trail in New York was marked at Pinnacle State Park in 2008. After the closing of the park's golf course, it was removed from the list of New York State Parks, and merged into the McCarthy Hill State Froest, which is managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

title: Pinnacle State Park and Golf Course


text: Category:Czech hip hop

title: Category:Czech hip hop


text: User:Mineeyes

title: User:Mineeyes


text:
Talk:Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

Transliteration
I think there should be a transliteration of the name for those than don't understand the characters of Icelandic. Thank you very much. --Nicanor5 03:11, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

 * His name is transliterated as Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. Wether to add it to the article, I'm not sure, this isn't a different alphabet set (such as cyrillic or arabic) which needs transliterations.
 * --Stalfur 12:18, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110718145700/http://yubarifanta.com/index_pc.php?ct=archive.php&langue=21002 to http://yubarifanta.com/index_pc.php?ct=archive.php&langue=21002

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 22:08, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

title: Talk:Friðrik Þór Friðriksson


text: Category:2004 in science

title: Category:2004 in science


text:
CKPG

CKPG may refer to:

 * CKPG-TV, a television station (channel 2) licensed to Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
 * CKDV-FM, a radio station (99.3 FM) licensed to Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, which held the call sign CKPG from February 1946 to May 2003

title: CKPG


text:
User talk:KLOTHMAN

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Alai 03:14, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * Tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style

title: User talk:KLOTHMAN


text:
User:''dbenbenn''

I am User:Dbenbenn, testing various bits of MediaWiki. My signature doesn't work! dbenbenn 03:16, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yep, this is really me. dbenbenn | talk 15:32, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Now the default signature makes: ''dbenbenn'' (talk) 04:57, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

title: User:''dbenbenn''


text:
Hawaiian home land

A Hawaiian home land is an area held in trust for Native Hawaiians by the state of Hawaii under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920.

History
Upon the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the idea for "Hawaiian Homelands" was first born. In his testimony before Congress regarding the Hawaiian Islands on January 3, 1894, William Alexander reported:

"President Dole [of the Republic of Hawaii] and his colleagues have elaborated a plan for giving the Kanakas homesteads out of the Crown lands, not transferable, and further this condition of occupation."

In 1921, the federal government of the United States set aside approximately 200000 acre in the Territory of Hawaii as a land trust for homesteading by Native Hawaiians. The law mandating this, passed by the U.S. Congress on July 9, 1921, was called the "Hawaiian Homes Commission Act" (HHCA) and, with amendments, is still in effect today. The act is often also attributed to the year 1920, when it was written. The avowed purpose of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act was to rehabilitate Native Hawaiians, particularly in returning them to the land to maintain traditional ties to the land. The Hawaiian politicians who testified in favor of the act specifically referred to the devastation of the Hawaiian population and the loss of the land, and the need for Hawaiians to be able to grow traditional crops such as kalo (taro).

The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act included a controversial definition of "Native Hawaiians" as persons with 50% or more Hawaiian blood. Prince Kūhiō Kalanianaole, the territory's non-voting delegate to Congress, wanted a blood quantum of no less than 1/32.

Primary responsibility for administering the trust has rested with: That is, responsibility was transferred to the state level after Hawaii became a state in 1959. The U.S. federal government nonetheless retains significant oversight responsibilities, including the exclusive right to sue for breach of trust.
 * 1921–1960: the Hawaiian Homes Commission (a federal agency)
 * 1960–present: the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL, a state agency)

Purpose
Section 101, "Purpose", of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act explains the aims of the Hawaiian Homelands program as follows:

 * (a) ... to enable native Hawaiians to return to their lands in order to fully support self-sufficiency for native Hawaiians and the self-determination of native Hawaiians in the administration of this Act, and the preservation of the values, traditions, and culture of native Hawaiians.
 * (b) The principal purposes of this Act include but are not limited to:
 * (1) Establishing a permanent land base for the benefit and use of native Hawaiians, upon which they may live, farm, ranch, and otherwise engage in commercial or industrial or any other activities as authorized in this Act;
 * (2) Placing native Hawaiians on the lands set aside under this Act in a prompt and efficient manner and assuring long-term tenancy to beneficiaries of this Act and their successors;
 * (3) Preventing alienation of the fee title to the lands set aside under this Act so that these lands will always be held in trust for continued use by native Hawaiians in perpetuity;
 * (4) Providing adequate amounts of water and supporting infrastructure, so that homestead lands will always be usable and accessible; and
 * (5) Providing financial support and technical assistance to native Hawaiian beneficiaries of this Act so that by pursuing strategies to enhance economic self-sufficiency and promote community-based development, the traditions, culture and quality of life of native Hawaiians shall be forever self-sustaining.
 * (c) In recognition of the solemn trust created by this Act, and the historical government to government relationship between the United States and Kingdom of Hawaii, the United States and the State of Hawaii hereby acknowledge the trust established under this Act and affirm their fiduciary duty to faithfully administer the provisions of this Act on behalf of the native Hawaiian beneficiaries of the Act.
 * (d) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to:
 * (1) Affect the rights of the descendants of the indigenous citizens of the Kingdom of Hawaii to seek redress of any wrongful activities associated with the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii; or
 * (2) Alter the obligations of the United States and the State of Hawaii to carry out their public trust responsibilities under section 5 of the Admission Act to native Hawaiians and other descendants of the indigenous citizens of the Kingdom of Hawaii. [L 1990, c 349, §1]

List

 * Anahola-Kamalomalo
 * Auwaiolimu-Kalawahine-Kewalo-Papakolea
 * Hanapēpē
 * Hoolehua-Palaau
 * Honokaia
 * Honokōhau
 * Honomu-Kuhua
 * Humuula
 * Kahikinui
 * Kalamaula
 * Kalaoa
 * Kalaupapa
 * Kamaoa-Puueo
 * Kamiloloa
 * Kamoku-Kapulena
 * Kaniohale
 * Kapaʻa
 * Kapaakea
 * Kapālama
 * Kapolei
 * Kaumana
 * Kawaihae
 * Keʻanae
 * Kealakehe
 * Keaukaha
 * Kekaha
 * Keoniki
 * Kula
 * Lāhainā
 * Lalamilo
 * Lualualei
 * Makakupia
 * Makuu
 * Mōʻiliʻili
 * Moloaa
 * Nānākuli
 * Nienie
 * Olaa
 * Panaewa
 * Pauahi
 * Paukukalo
 * Pihonua
 * Ponohawai
 * Princess Kahanu Estates Association
 * Puukapu
 * Puʻunēnē
 * Puna
 * Shafter Flats
 * ʻUalapuʻe
 * Ulupalakua
 * Waiʻanae
 * Waiʻōhinu
 * Waiākea
 * Waiehu
 * Waikoloa-Waialeale
 * Wailau
 * Wailua
 * Wailuā
 * Wailuku
 * Waimānalo
 * Waimanu
 * Waimea

title: Hawaiian home land


text:
Broughton Island

Broughton Island may refer to:

 * Broughton Island (New South Wales)
 * Broughton Island, Western Australia
 * Broughton Island (British Columbia), Canada
 * North Broughton Island, British Columbia, Canada
 * Broughton Island (Nunavut), island where the community of Qikiqtarjuaq is located
 * Qikiqtarjuaq (formerly Broughton Island), Nunavut, Canada
 * Broughton Island, New Zealand
 * Broughton Island, Georgia, USA

National adaptations of originally english name

 * Broutona Island, Russia — named after William Robert Broughton

title: Broughton Island


text:
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days

Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage) is a 2005 German historical drama film directed by Marc Rothemund and written by Fred Breinersdorfer. It is about the last days in the life of Sophie Scholl, a 21-year-old member of the anti-Nazi non-violent student resistance group the White Rose, part of the German Resistance movement. She was found guilty of high treason by the People's Court and executed the same day, 22 February 1943.

The film was presented at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2005 and won Silver Bear awards for Best Director and Best Actress (Julia Jentsch). It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Plot
In wartime Munich, Sophie Scholl joins members of the White Rose student organization, including Sophie's brother Hans, who are preparing a leaflet. They have more copies than they can distribute by mail. Hans proposes distributing the extras at university; Sophie volunteers to assist. At Munich University while classes are in session, Hans and Sophie put stacks of leaflets near the lecture rooms. With only minutes left, Sophie runs to the top floor, where she pushes a stack of leaflets over the balustrade. A janitor who sees Sophie detains the pair until the Gestapo arrive.

They are taken to the Stadelheim Prison. Sophie is interrogated by Gestapo investigator Robert Mohr. She says that she and her brother had nothing to do with the leaflets; She noticed them in the hall and pushed a stack off the railing as a prank, and she had an empty suitcase because she was going to visit her parents in Ulm, planning to bring back clothes. She is dismissed, but as her release form is about to be approved, the order comes not to let her go, as the Gestapo has found incontrovertible evidence that Sophie and Hans were responsible for the distribution of anti-Nazi leaflets. She is placed in a cell with dissident Else Gebel, a Communist sympathizer.

Sophie then admits her part, contradicting her brother's claim he acted alone. Determined to protect the others, she steadfastly maintains that the distribution of thousands of leaflets throughout the region was the work of the siblings. Mohr, having learned that their father was an imprisoned dissident, urges her to support laws that preserve a society which has funded her welfare and education. Scholl counters that before 1933 the laws protected freedom of speech and denounces atrocities committed by the Nazis. Mohr dismisses some of her accusations, such as the extermination of the Jews, as wartime propaganda, and tacitly approves of others, such as the euthanasia program.

Sophie and Hans, as well as a friend with three young children, Christoph Probst, are charged with treason, troop demoralization and abetting the enemy. In their show trial, Probst is the first to be examined by President of the People's Court Roland Freisler, whose prosecutorial zeal makes the prosecutor and defense attorneys superfluous. Freisler contemptuously dismisses Probst's appeals to spare his life so that his children can have a father. Hans maintains his composure in the face of Freisler's impatient questioning. Declining to answer only what he is asked, he highlights German war crimes on the Eastern Front as immoral and proclaims that the defeat of the Nazi state by the Allies is all but certain. Sophie dismisses the suggestion that she was led by her brother, and declares that many people agree with her group but dare not express it. Freisler pronounces the defendants guilty and calls on each to make a final statement. Sophie warns that "where we stand today, you [Freisler] will stand soon." All three are sentenced to death.

Sophie, having been told of the normal 99-day delay between conviction and execution, learns that she is to be executed the same day. She breaks down briefly, but regains composure, writes a final statement and receives a blessing from the prison chaplain, who offers his support for her silence. After a visit by her parents, who also express approval of what she has done, Mohr arrives and sadly watches Sophie taken away. She is led into a cell with Christoph and Hans, and they share a final cigarette. Sophie is led into a courtyard and remarks "The sun is still shining". A pardon is refused by the Reich Ministry of Justice, and she is the first to be beheaded by guillotine, the blade falling as the picture goes black. Hans' and Christoph's executions follow. A caption lists dozens of adherents of the White Rose executed in the following months, while others suffered imprisonment.

In the final shot, thousands of leaflets fall from the sky over Munich. A title explains that copies of the White Rose manifesto were smuggled to the Allies, who printed millions of copies of the "Manifesto of the Students of Munich" to drop over Germany.

Cast

 * Julia Jentsch as Sophia Magdalena 'Sophie' Scholl
 * Fabian Hinrichs as Hans Fritz Scholl
 * Alexander Held as Robert Mohr
 * Johanna Gastdorf  as Else Gebel
 * André Hennicke as Dr. Roland Freisler
 * Florian Stetter  as Christoph Hermann Probst
 * Maximilian Brückner as Willi Graf
 * as Alexander Schmorell
 * Lilli Jung as Gisela Schertling
 * as Magdalena Scholl
 * Jörg Hube as Robert Scholl
 * Franz Staber as Werner Scholl

Critical response
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days has an approval rating of 87% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 95 reviews, and an average rating of 7.27/10. The website's critical consensus states: "A film that begs the audience to reflect upon their own courage and strength of character in light of this young heroine's daring story". Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 76 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Awards and recognition

 * 55th Berlin International Film Festival, 2005
 * Nominated for Golden Bear
 * Silver Bear: Best Director – Marc Rothemund
 * Silver Bear: Best Actress – Julia Jentsch
 * European Film Awards, 2005
 * Best European Actress – Julia Jentsch
 * Audience Award
 * Bernhard-Wicki-Filmpreis, 2005
 * German Film Awards (Lolas)
 * Audience Award
 * Best Film, Silver Prize
 * Best acting performance (female main role) – Julia Jentsch
 * '''78th Academy Awards, 2006
 * Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film

title: Sophie Scholl – The Final Days


text: User:HisHoliness

title: User:HisHoliness


text:
Estádio Vila Capanema

Estádio Durival Britto e Silva, better known as Estádio Vila Capanema (Portuguese for Capanema Borough Stadium), is the main stadium of Paraná Clube in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. The other stadium is Estádio Vila Olímpica, currently being used for training. The stadium holds 20,000 people. It is named after Colonel Durival Britto e Silva, who was president of the RFFSA, the Brazilian Federal railroad company.

History
It was built in 1947 as the home stadium of Clube Atlético Ferroviário. The first match was played there on January 23 of that year, when Fluminense Football Club from Rio de Janeiro beat Clube Atlético Ferroviário 5–1; the first goal scored by Fluminense's Careca.

During many years Estádio Vila Capanema was Curitiba's most modern and comfortable stadium with a capacity of 15,000 spectators. It was used for the 1950 FIFA World Cup games. On June 25, 1950, Spain beat the United States of America and in the 29th day of that month, Paraguay played against Sweden.

Clube Atlético Ferroviário ceased operation in 1971 and Vila Capanema became Paraná Clube's home since the foundation of the club in 1989.

In 2006, Estádio Vila Capanema was modernized and Paraná Clube opened the stadium again after four years. The capacity of the stadium was boosted to 20,083 fans. The American rock band Pearl Jam played at the stadium on November 9, 2011, as part of their 20th anniversary tour.

title: Estádio Vila Capanema


text:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sos

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete contents and redirect. Woohookitty 11:50, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Sos
Not encyclopedic, no discernable subject, never even explains who or what "sos" is, and follows with some of the most disjointed, incomprehensible gibberish I have ever seen. Section headers are incomprehensible, even after reading the text under them. Gene Nygaard 03:19, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy as nonsense. Alr 03:25, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to SOS (Save our souls), do not merge. Andrew pmk | Talk 03:48, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, original research. Compare to cache:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliare (vfd'd here).  Redirect to SOS afterwards. —Cryptic (talk) 03:54, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Andrew pmk. Jaxl | talk 04:00, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as above. 23skidoo 05:29, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as above. -- Egil 13:22, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as above. -- Alf 16:30, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to SOS. Rob Church Talk 19:17, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as above. Jachin 22:04, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Why, why, why redirect to SOS? They are not in the slighest bit related. Speedy delete this please. Moriori 22:49, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. The reason I suggest the redirect is because some people are lazy typers and will get no results if they enter "sos" in lowercase. Andrew pmk | Talk 00:43, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect Since this content is o.r., onya redirect should be left. -- (drini|☕) 01:23, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as patent nonsense and redirect as above. I can't make heads or tails of it. --Carnildo 03:41, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to SOS, no merging of patent nonsense. --Andylkl (talk) 10:39, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * DELETE fails Turing test. ;) Roodog2k 00:21, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this nonsense. Then create a fresh redirect under "sos" to SOS. CDThieme 01:18, 31 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.

title: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sos


text:
Talk:Afterhours club

Quebec
In Quebec, Canada, the curfew is at 3 am, not 2 am. - Horst Azeglio

Trade
I would consider rewriting the reference to meth use in a more neutral light, as it seems too inflammatory right now.

Maybe I'm naive, but what exactly IS third-party slave trade? Why is it in the first paragraph and not in others?

 * It was a change made some time ago from "illegal drug trade". Since "third-party slave trade" gets no Google hits at all (this article excepted) there's no reason not to change it back, so I have. Loganberry (Talk) 22:42, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Hour/hours
Why is the title of this page "Afterhour club" if the opening sentence of the page declares this patently incorrect? 76.104.197.14 (talk) 02:30, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:06, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Afterhour club → Afterhours club – The opening sentence states that an Afterhours Club is "often misspelled as Afterhour Club". Since the title of the page is currently Afterhour club, I suggest retitling the page Afterhours club. 82.44.196.43 (talk) 09:15, 11 September 2011 (UTC) Support The proposed form gets 102 results on Google Books, the current form gets 3 -- all in contexts that suggest it is just a misspelling. Kauffner (talk) 12:47, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Clubs?
To me an afterhours club is a locale that is permitted to serve alcohol to its members after the regular opening hours for bars and pubs. In some cases temporary membership may be even available at the door.

There are other places that may be allowed to serve alcohol after hours, such as restaurants, specially licensed bars, hotels etc., but these are surely not clubs.

Nightclubs are rarely clubs (that require membership), and often primarily for dancing. You can usually drink there, but it's often expensive and an adjunct rather than the primary point. A nightclub is a discotheque under a modern, perhaps more sophisticated sounding name.

Also, what's with "historic"? Does it mean that the nightclub was founded over a decade ago? regards Guffydrawers (talk) 15:22, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
 * "Also, what's with "historic"?" This distinction makes no sense here anyway. Fabric and Egg London are not afterhour clubs, but "normal" clubs (technically: discotheques) that open at 23:59 and run 24 hours on weekends, like many electronic dance music venues and especially techno clubs in Europe. --Rio65trio (talk) 18:14, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

 * Thanks for confirming and for tidying up. It seems that the term "after-hours club" means different things to different people, e.g. 1950s-1980s illegal drug dens in US cities, sedate late-night bars, small live music venues, huge dance halls, you name it. Whichever way you look at it the article has a long way to go. Guffydrawers (talk) 12:24, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:Afterhours club


text:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NYEHP

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   Delete. Mhiji 00:03, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

NYEHP
Vanity page. Some guys playing Halo on New Year's Eve is not notable given how many million people have bought the game. Andrew pmk | Talk 03:20, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Was speedied: Delist Andrew pmk | Talk 03:22, 29 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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

title: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NYEHP


text: User:WrongAgain

title: User:WrongAgain