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Jay Thomas

Jay Thomas (born Jon Thomas Terrell; July 12, 1948 – August 24, 2017) was an American actor, comedian, and radio personality. He was heard in New York from 1976–1979 on top-40 station 99X, and later on rhythmic CHR station 92KTU, and in Los Angeles beginning in 1986 on KPWR "Power 106", where he hosted the station's top-rated morning show until 1993. His notable television work included his co-starring role as Remo DaVinci on Mork & Mindy (1979–1981), the recurring role of Eddie LeBec, a Boston Bruins goalie on the downside of his career, on Cheers (1987–1989), the lead character of newspaper columnist Jack Stein on Love & War (1992–1995), and a repeat guest role as Jerry Gold, a talk-show host who becomes both an antagonist and love interest of the title character on Murphy Brown. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 1990 and 1991 for portraying Gold.

In 1997, he starred in the television film Killing Mr. Griffin, based on the eponymous novel. In films, he co-starred in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) as a high-school coach with a flair for theatrics, and portrayed the Easter Bunny in The Santa Clause 2 (2002) and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006).

He was also an annual guest on the Late Show with David Letterman during the Christmas season, where he told a story about how he met Clayton Moore, who portrayed the title character on The Lone Ranger. Beginning in 2005, he hosted The Jay Thomas Show on SiriusXM Satellite Radio channel 94 comedy greats Monday through Thursday afternoons and Friday mornings on Howard 101.

Early life and education
Thomas was born in Kermit, Texas, to Katharine (née Guzzino) and Timothy Harry Terrell. He was raised in his Italian-American mother's Catholic religion; his father was Protestant. Thomas was raised in New Orleans, where he attended and graduated from Jesuit High School. He went on to attend and graduate from Jacksonville University. Thomas was the quarterback on his high-school football team and also quarterbacked in college, a skill he later used on The Late Show with David Letterman.

Letterman appearances
Thomas made annual Christmas appearances on David Letterman's CBS late night show, beginning in December 1998. Letterman and one of his other guests that evening, then-New York Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde, took turns throwing footballs trying to knock a large meatball off the top of a Christmas tree at the other end of the stage. As the two took turns futilely attempting to knock off the meatball, Thomas came back out to join in the festivities, and promptly knocked the meatball from the tree.

Beginning on a subsequent visit to Letterman's show, Thomas told a story about when he was a young disc jockey (around 1972) at WAYS 610 AM in Charlotte, North Carolina. Thomas had been making a promotional appearance at a local Dodge dealership, which had also booked a personal appearance by actor Clayton Moore, best known as the Lone Ranger on television and in films; Moore appeared at the event dressed in his Lone Ranger costume.

According to Thomas, he and his colleague Mike Martin, both clad in the hip fashion of the day (including tight jeans, tie-dyed shirts and their hair, which Martin wore long while Thomas himself sported what he called a "White Man's Afro"), had secretly gotten "herbed up" (smoked marijuana) several times throughout the day behind a dumpster. After the broadcast had ended and the crowd had left, while packing up their equipment, Thomas and Martin discovered that Moore was still there, as the car that was supposed to drive him back to his hotel never arrived; Thomas then offered Moore a ride in his own car, an old, decrepit Volvo, which Moore accepted.

While stuck in traffic, with Moore sitting quietly in the back seat, an impatient, middle-aged man backed his full-sized Buick into the front end of Thomas's compact Volvo, broke a headlight, and then drove off. An angry Thomas chased the Buick down Morehead Street weaving through heavy traffic and forgetting all about Moore still sitting quietly in his back seat. Thomas finally caught up to the man, blocked his Buick with the Volvo, and confronted him about the broken headlight. The indignant driver denied all; when Thomas threatened to call police, the man exclaimed, "Who do you think they'll believe? Me, or you two hippie freaks?" At that moment, Moore, still in costume as the Lone Ranger, stepped out of the Volvo, approached the man and said "They'll believe me, citizen!" The man, incredulous, exclaimed "I didn't know it was you!"

For every year thereafter except 2013, Thomas appeared to repeat the Lone Ranger story, which Letterman called, "The best talk show story, ever", and once again attempt what Letterman would refer to as the "Late Show Quarterback Challenge". For his final appearance in December 2014, Thomas was again successful in knocking the meatball off the top of the tree. Thomas missed the 2013 Late Show Christmas episode due to throat surgery; John McEnroe took his place and told the Lone Ranger story, then tried, unsuccessfully, to knock the meatball off the tree by hitting tennis balls at it.

Personal life
Thomas fathered J. T. Harding in an out-of-wedlock relationship, and the child was adopted by another family in Michigan. Thomas and his son spoke about their reunion on the Dr. Phil Show. Harding was the lead singer of the band JTX and is a country-music songwriter.

Thomas married Sally Michelson in 1987. They had two sons, Samuel and Jacob.

Death
Jay Thomas died of throat cancer on August 24, 2017, surrounded by his family in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 69.

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Hudson's Bay Rewards

Hudson's Bay Rewards (known as HBC Rewards before February 2013) is a loyalty program where customers earn points for purchases at Hudson's Bay stores and thebay.com in Canada.

Every 1000 points earned can be redeemed as $5 towards a purchase. Points can also be donated, gifted, or converted to RBC Avion points.

1980s and 1990s: Club Z and Air Miles
The rewards program was first introduced by Zellers in 1986. It was known as Club Z and awarded points to customers. Starting in the 1990s, The Bay offered Air Miles reward miles to their customers as a rewards program.

2000s: HBC Rewards launched
In an effort to offer more choices to customers at both Zellers and the Bay, and with the opening of its Home Outfitters chain, the HBC Rewards program was introduced in April 2001. Club Z points were automatically converted to the same amount in HBC Rewards points.

2010s: Zellers closure and Hudson's Bay Rewards rebranding
In 2012 and 2013, all but three Zellers locations across Canada shuttered, to be replaced by Target, Walmart or other retailers. Points could still be earned at Zellers during the stores' liquidations, and the HBC stated that its Rewards program would continue to exist at the Bay and Home Outfitters.

In 2013, HBC relaunched HBC rewards under a new name, Hudson's Bay Rewards. The program has three tiers based on annual spend at Hudson's Bay and thebay.com.

Hudson's Bay points could be converted to Air Miles and vice-versa.

Purchases made with a customer's HBC Credit Card or Mastercard doubled the points earned.

2020s: Hudson's Bay Rewards app and program re-launch
In 2021, the new Neo Financial HB Mastercard kept the same double-point bonus. In 2022, Hudson's Bay Rewards ended their point-conversion partnership with Air Miles.

in 2023, an app was released that coincided with a relaunch of the Rewards program. The app and website now included personalized offers and point bonuses for users.

Members can link their Rewards account with their Petro-Canada Points account and SPC memberships to earn more points. Members can donate the dollar value of their points to the non-profit Hudson’s Bay Foundation or gift them to another member.

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Memory (disambiguation)

Memory is an organism's ability to store, retain, and recall information.

Memory or Memories may also refer to:

Memory

 * Adaptive memory, memory systems that have evolved to help retain survival-and-fitness related information
 * Collective memory, memory that is shared, passed on and constructed by a group or modern society
 * Immunological memory, a characteristic of the adaptive immunity
 * Long memory, a statistical property in which intertemporal dependence decays only slowly
 * Long-term memory, the ability of the brain to store and recover memories
 * Working memory or short-term memory, the ability of the brain (or a computer) to temporarily store data while processing it
 * Body memory, the hypothetical memory function of individual body parts or cells
 * Implicit memory, a type in which previous experiences help to perform a task with no awareness of those experiences
 * Procedural memory, a type most frequently below conscious awareness that helps perform particular types of action
 * Muscle memory is a form of procedural memory also known as motor learning
 * Genetic memory (psychology), present at birth and exists in the absence of sensory experience

Technology

 * Battery memory, an effect observed in nickel cadmium rechargeable batteries that causes them to hold less charge
 * Semiconductor memory, electronic memory used in digital electronics, for example:
 * Computer memory, devices that are used to store data or programs on a temporary or permanent basis for use in a computer
 * Read-only memory, semiconductor memory that cannot be modified
 * Volatile memory, semiconductor memory that requires power to maintain the stored information
 * Non-volatile memory, semiconductor memory that can retain the stored information even when not powered
 * Computer data storage, computer components, devices, and recording media that retain digital data
 * Plastic deformation of some elastic material that has been subjected to prolonged stress.
 * Memory foam, a material that molds to the shape of a warm body but returns to its original shape on cooling
 * Shape-memory alloy can be deformed when cold but returns to its pre-deformed ("remembered") shape when heated

Art

 * Memory (French), an 1886–1887 marble sculpture by Daniel Chester French
 * Memory (Dallin), a 1924 bronze sculpture by Cyrus E. Dallin
 * Memory, the Heart, also known as Memory, a 1937 painting by Frida Kahlo

Books

 * "Memory" (H. P. Lovecraft), a short story by H.P. Lovecraft
 * "Memory" (Poul Anderson), a 1957 science fiction narration by Poul Anderson
 * "Memory" (Stephen King), a short story by Stephen King
 * Memory (Bujold novel), a 1996 novel in the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
 * Memory (Westlake novel), a 2010 novel by Donald E. Westlake
 * Memory, a 1987 novel by Margaret Mahy

Film and television

 * Memory, a 1971 documentary by Grigori Chukhrai
 * Memories (1995 film), a 1995 anime film by Otomo Katsuhiro
 * Memory, 2004 short film featuring Kimberly Norris Guerrero
 * Memory (2006 film), a techno-thriller by Bennett Joshua Davlin
 * Memory (2008 film), a Thai horror film
 * Memories (2013 film), a Malayalam film
 * Memories (2014 film), a French film
 * "Memories" (The Twilight Zone), an episode of The Twilight Zone
 * Memory (TV series), a 2016 South Korean drama
 * Memory (2022 film), an American action-thriller film starring Liam Neeson
 * Memory (2023 film), an English-language drama film starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard

Music

 * Memories (radio network), or Unforgettable Favorites

Albums

 * Memory (Dan Michaelson and The Coastguards album), 2016
 * Memory (EP), by Mamamoo, 2016
 * Memory (Vivian Girls album), 2019
 * Memory, a 2018 Hélène Grimaud album
 * Memories (Pat Boone album), 1966
 * Memories (Abdullah Ibrahim album), 1973
 * Memories (mind.in.a.box album), 2015
 * Memories (Barbra Streisand album), 1981
 * Memories (The Vogues album), 1968
 * Memories (Doc Watson album), 1975
 * Memories: The Best of Elaine Paige, a 1987 compilation album by Elaine Paige
 * Memories: The '68 Comeback Special, a 1998 Elvis Presley compilation album
 * Memories...Do Not Open, a 2017 album by The Chainsmokers

Songs

 * "Memory" (Cats song), a song from the 1981 musical Cats
 * "Memory" (Sugarcult song), 2004
 * "Memory" (Kane Brown and Blackbear song), 2021
 * "Memory", a 1912 art song by the classical composer John Ireland on lyrics by the poet William Blake
 * "Memory", a 1959 art song by the classical composer Ned Rorem on lyrics by the poet Theodore Roethke
 * "Memory", a 2007 song by Sarah Nixey from Sing, Memory
 * "Memory", a track from the soundtrack of the 2015 video game Undertale by Toby Fox
 * "Memories" (1915 song), by Egbert Van Alstyne and Gustave Kahn
 * "Memories" (Hugh Hopper song), a 1960s song covered by Daevid Allen, Robert Wyatt, Whitney Houston, and others
 * "Memories" (Elvis Presley song), 1968
 * "Memories" (David Guetta song), 2010
 * "Memories" (Harold Faltermeyer song), 1986
 * "Memories" (Public Image Ltd song), 1979
 * "Memories" (Vamps song), 2010
 * "Memories" (Within Temptation song), 2005
 * "Memories" (Weezer song), 2010
 * "Memories", by One Ok Rock, 2015
 * "Memories" (Maroon 5 song), 2019
 * "Memories", by Beverley Craven
 * "Memories", by Earth and Fire
 * "Memories", by Joe Satriani from the album Not of This Earth
 * "Memories", by Leonard Cohen from the album Death of a Ladies' Man
 * "Memories", by Morris Albert
 * "Memories", by Panic! At The Disco from the album Vices & Virtues
 * "Memories", by Super Junior from the album Mr. Simple
 * "Memories", by The Temptations from the album A Song for You
 * "Memories", by Shawn Mendes from the album Handwritten (Revisited)
 * "Memories", by Margaret Glaspy from the 2023 album Echo the Diamond

Other

 * Pamyat (Память, "memory"), a Russian ultra-nationalist organization

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Mendoza (name)

Mendoza is a Basque surname, also occurring as a place name.

The name Mendoza means "cold mountain", derived from the Basque words mendi (mountain) and (h)otz (cold) + definite article -a (Mendoza being mendi+(h)otza). The original Basque form with an affricate sibilant (, Basque spelling ) evolved in Spanish to the current form.

History
Records of the Mendoza family can be traced back to the Middle Ages in Alava, in the Basque Country, Spain. It is believed that the family descends from the ancient Lords of Llodio (Alava), where the original patronymic house would have been. The Mendozas belonged to the local nobility, and branched out into different family lines early on.

The most distinguished branch of the family originated in what nowadays is known as the village of Mendoza, near Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country; the village takes its name after the family. A certain scion of this family, Iñigo Lopez de Mendoza, distinguished himself in the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1218), where he probably served under the Navarrese banner. He was responsible for building the ancestral home of the family, the Tower of Mendoza, which still stands. This branch of the family entered the service of the Kingdom of Castile during the reign of Alfonso XI (1312–1350), and took active part in the Reconquista, where they quickly acquired extensive land holdings in Castile and southern Spain through military and political service. The members of the House of Mendoza intermarried extensively with the Castilian nobility, and the family has many descendants nowadays, with numerous nobility titles attached to it. The line of the Dukes of the Infantado formed one of the main branches of the family.

Another branch of the family was based in Laudio, 50km northwest from Vitoria-Gasteiz. The family got involved in the medieval bloody War of the Clans. Finally, in Erandio, a baserri exists under the same name. Its original name "mendotza" developed to "mendontze" in the 1890s, "mendoche" in the 1920s, "mendotxe" in the 1980s to the restored original of "mendotza" being the current. The surname spread quickly through Castile during the Middle Ages. With the discovery of America, many of its members would emigrate to the Americas, where the surname is common.

Business

 * Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan businessman
 * Lorenzo Mendoza, Venezuelan businessman
 * Tom Mendoza, Vice Chairman of NetApp, Inc. and namesake of Notre Dame's business school

Arts, entertainment and media

 * Amalia Mendoza, a Mexican singer
 * Brillante Mendoza, a Filipino film director
 * Dayana Mendoza, a Venezuelan actress, model who won Miss Universe 2008
 * Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, a Spanish novelist
 * Hazel Ann Mendoza, a Filipina actress
 * Javier Mendoza (boxer), Mexican professional boxer
 * June Mendoza, portrait painter
 * Kerry-Anne Mendoza, editor of The Canary
 * Linda Mendoza, an American film and television director
 * Lydia Mendoza, a Tex-Mex singer and interpreter of "corridos"
 * Maine Mendoza, a Filipina actress
 * Marco Mendoza, bass player
 * Margot Rojas Mendoza (1903–1996), Cuban pianist and teacher
 * Mark Mendoza, bass player
 * Natalie Mendoza, a Hong Kong-born Australian actress and musician
 * Pauline Mendoza, a Filipina actress
 * Philip Mendoza, a British artist and cartoonist
 * Rebecca Jackson Mendoza, an Australian actress, singer and dancer
 * Thristan Mendoza, a Filipino musician
 * Mario Mendoza Zambrano, a Colombian Writer
 * Vince Mendoza, an American jazz composer and arranger

Fiction

 * Aristotle "Ari" Mendoza, main character from the book Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, written by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
 * Armando Mendoza Sáenz, coprotagonist of the Colombian Telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea
 * Jason Mendoza, a Filipino main character in the show The Good Place
 * Maria Mendoza, an alternate Peruvian Wonder Woman created by Stan Lee
 * Mendoza, a recurring gag character in The Simpsons
 * Mendoza, fictional character of the "Company" books by Kage Baker
 * Rodrigo Mendoza, fictional character of the movie The Mission
 * Kai Mendoza, a character in the television show Almost Paradise
 * Fat Dog Mendoza, main character from the animated television series of the same name

Military

 * Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones, Castilian general instrumental in the final stages of the Reconquista
 * Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Castilian nobleman
 * César Mendoza, member of Government Junta of Chile (1973) as chief of Carabineros de Chile
 * Pedro de Mendoza, conquistador
 * Bernardino de Mendoza, Captain General

Politics and government

 * Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 1st Duke of the Infantado, Spanish nobleman
 * Antonio de Mendoza, first Viceroy of New Spain
 * Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish statesman and ambassador
 * Carlos Antonio Mendoza, acting President of Panama
 * César Mendoza, Chilean soldier
 * Cristóbal Mendoza, First President of Venezuela
 * Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa, a Venezuelan cabinet minister and scientist
 * Eugenio Mendoza, a Venezuelan cabinet minister and industrial
 * García Hurtado de Mendoza, a Spanish governor of Chile
 * Heidi Mendoza, a Filipino public servant and former Undersecretary General for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight
 * Inés Mendoza, wife of Puerto Rico Governor Luis Muñoz Marín
 * Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquess of Santillana, Castilian statesman and poet
 * Juan González de Mendoza, Spanish minister and historian
 * Leandro Mendoza, Philippine Secretary of Transportation and Communications
 * Patricio Mendoza, Ecuadorian politician
 * Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman
 * Susana Mendoza, Chicago, Illinois politician
 * Victoria Muñoz Mendoza, Puerto Rico politician

Religion

 * Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman

Royalty

 * Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda, Spanish aristocrat
 * Beatriz Fajardo de Mendoza y de Guzmán, Baroness of Polop and Benidorm

Science

 * Josef de Mendoza y Ríos (1761–1816), Spanish astronomer and mathematician

Sport

 * Alvin Mendoza, Mexican football (soccer) player
 * Ana Mendoza, Mexican breaststroke swimmer
 * Carlos Mendoza (baseball coach), Venezuelan baseball coach
 * Carlos Mendoza (outfielder), baseball player
 * Daniel Mendoza, English boxer
 * Elías Mendoza Habersperger, Peruvian lawyer, diplomat and politician, Chief Scout of Peru
 * Gabriel Mendoza, Chilean football (soccer) player
 * Jessica Mendoza, American softball player
 * Jesús Mendoza, Mexican football player
 * Jonny Mendoza, Venezuelan boxer
 * Luis Mendoza Benedetto, Venezuelan footballer
 * Luis Mendoza, baseball player
 * Luis Angel Mendoza, Mexican football player
 * Mario Mendoza, baseball player
 * Michael Mendoza, American football player
 * Mike Mendoza, baseball player
 * Ramiro Mendoza, baseball player
 * Raul Mendoza, professional wrestler
 * Rigoberto Mendoza (disambiguation), several people
 * Ruben Mendoza (American football), American football
 * Sergio Michel Pérez Mendoza, Mexican racing driver

Other

 * Kayla Mendoza (born 1992), American serving 24 years in prison after being charged with vehicular homicide

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Eriko Hirose

Eriko Hirose (廣瀬 栄理子) is a badminton player from Japan.

Career
She competed at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim. In the women's singles event she reached the third round before losing to Wang Chen of Hong Kong. At the same year, she won the women's singles bronze medal at the Asian Championships after lose to her compatriot Kaori Mori in the semi-final.

In the 2010 BWF World Championship, she caused an upset over the world number one ranking player, Wang Yihan in the third round but lost to Wang Lin in the quarterfinals.

In the 2011 All England Open, she came second in the women's singles, losing in the final to China's Wang Shixian.

Hirose spent 23 years career in badminton and announced her retirement at the end of National Championships in December 2014. She then started a career as a coach in Japan National B Team.

Asian Games
Women's singles

Asian Championships
Women's singles

Asian Junior Championships
Girls' singles

BWF Superseries
The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries had two level such as Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries featured twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011, with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.

Women's singles
 * BWF Superseries Finals tournament
 * BWF Superseries Premier tournament
 * BWF Superseries tournament

IBF World Grand Prix
The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) since 1983.

Women's singles

BWF International Challenge/Series
Women's singles
 * BWF International Challenge tournament
 * BWF International Series tournament

Record against selected opponents
Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists.

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User:Not A Joke Joyce

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Rockin' the Suburbs (song)

"Rockin' the Suburbs" is a song by Ben Folds on the album of the same name.

Music and lyrics
Folds said of the inspiration for the song:

"'I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain. I was going to write this song about Korn. I don't know, it wasn't as funny when I directed it at somebody. So I thought I would write it not directed to anybody. I mean, I would be happy to tell the guys from Korn that I wrote a song about them, but I think, when people listen to it, it is a better song when it is not directed to anybody.'"

The song parodies Korn and Rage Against the Machine. Folds stated of the song "I am taking the piss out of the whole scene, especially the followers."

Single track listing
Japanese EP:
 * 1) "Rockin' the Suburbs" [Radio Edit]
 * 2) "Girl"
 * 3) "Make Me Mommy"
 * 4) "Rockin' the Suburbs" [Video]
 * 1) "Rockin' the Suburbs" [Radio Edit]
 * 2) "One Down"
 * 3) "Girl"
 * 4) "Make Me Mommy"
 * 5) "The Secret Life of Morgan Davis"

Music video
The music video for "Rockin' the Suburbs" was directed by friend "Weird Al" Yankovic, who also plays the role of a producer who fixes Folds' "shitty track," directly riffing on one of the song's lyrics. The video features Folds playing multiple members of an angry rock band in a suburban den and in front of a white background.

After the song's bridge, Folds is shown outside in a suburban neighborhood wearing a backwards red New York Yankees cap, the trademark of Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, while singing the lyrics, "girl give me something I can break", which were a riff on the Limp Bizkit song "Break Stuff". During this portion of the video, Folds engages in "suburban" activities such as skateboarding, jumping in pools and flipping burgers.

At the end of the video, the "band" (all played by Folds again) plays in front of a black background with holes punched in it, a style that deliberately matches the live-action parts of the Korn video for "Freak on a Leash." A subliminal message reading "Korn Sucks" briefly appears.

Over the Hedge remake
In 2006, Folds rewrote the song for the animated movie Over the Hedge, with film co-star William Shatner providing vocals during part of the song. Shatner does the voice for Ozzie the Opossum, who encourages his teenage daughter Heather (voice by Avril Lavigne) to play dead in threatening situations.

While this version features entirely new lyrics intended to be more family-friendly than the original, Folds maintains the song’s satirical edge. The rewritten lyrics focus more on the institution of suburbia, and include jabs at homeowner associations, tract housing, consumerism, and developments built on Native American burial grounds.

This version of the song was also featured in the film Marley & Me during the montage of Marley growing up in a year from a small puppy to a big dog for the rest of the movie.

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Canadian Tire money

Canadian Tire money, officially Canadian Tire 'money' or CTM, is a loyalty program operated by the Canadian retail chain Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC). It consists of both paper coupons introduced in 1958 and used in Canadian Tire stores as scrip, and since 2012 in a digital form introduced as Canadian Tire Money Advantage, rebranded in 2018 as Triangle Rewards. Both forms of the loyalty program remain current as of December 2022. Canadian Tire Money has been noted as the most successful loyalty program in Canadian retail history.

Canadian Tire Money is denominated in Canadian dollars. It is earned based on the pre-tax amount of a purchase, excluding labour and shop supplies costs. The initial rate earned was 5% of the eligible purchase price, but it was lowered to 3%, then to 1.4% and now is 0.4%.

When used to pay for merchandise, CTM is considered to be a cash equivalent and may be used to pay for any part of a purchase, including sales taxes. CTM cannot be exchanged for real Canadian currency.

Paper Canadian Tire money coupons
Paper CTM coupons resemble real banknotes. The notes are printed on paper similar to what Canadian currency was printed on when they were still paper, and were jointly produced by two of the country's long-established security printers, British American Banknote Company (BABN) and Canadian Bank Note Company (CBN). Paper CTM can be earned and redeemed only at Canadian Tire stores, although some other private businesses may choose to accept it as payment.

Paper CTM is earned only when customers pay with cash, debit cards, or Canadian Tire money. No paper CTM is earned on purchases made by credit card.

History
Canadian Tire Money coupons were introduced in 1958 at CTC's gas bar located at Yonge and Davenport streets in Toronto. They were inspired by Muriel Billes, the wife of Canadian Tire's co-founder and first president, Alfred J. Billes, as a response to the promotional giveaways that many gas companies offered at the time. It was only available at Canadian Tire gas bars but was so successful that, in 1961, it was extended to the retail stores as well. Until 1992, there were separate issues of coupons redeemable either at Canadian Tire gas bars, or Canadian Tire retail stores.

Canadian Tire money coupons were issued and redeemable only at Canadian Tire stores in Eastern Canada until 1995, when the program was launched to all locations nationwide.

Since 1961, the coupons have featured an engraving of "Sandy McTire", who sports a tam o' shanter and a stylized waxed moustache. A fictional character based on no specific individual, he is assumed to represent a thrifty Scotsman, the 1950s everyman of blue-collar Canada.

Denominations
CTM coupons are currently produced in denominations of 5, 10, 25, and 50 cents, as well as one and two dollars.

Usage beyond Canadian Tire

 * In late 2004 in Moncton, New Brunswick, several customers at a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ATM were dispensed a total of 11 bills of Canadian Tire money instead of real bills. They were compensated by the bank.
 * Culturally, Canadian Tire money is sometimes referred to by comedians: perhaps as a national version of "Monopoly money", perhaps invoking a pejorative comparison of the value of Canadian dollars against U.S. dollars, or perhaps as a misunderstood exotic element of Canadian society (e.g. Ron James's comedic reference to the person depicted on the bill as "our king"). In the 2009 Trailer Park Boys movie Countdown to Liquor Day, Jim Lahey offers Julian $700 in Canadian Tire money for his trailer.
 * In the mid-1990s, a man in Germany was caught with up to $11 million in counterfeit Canadian Tire money. It was recovered before he left for Canada to redeem it.
 * In 2012, musician Corin Raymond funded his album Paper Nickels partially through a fundraising campaign inviting fans to donate their unused Canadian Tire money.

Coins
On December 2, 2009, as part of an advertised deal, Canadian Tire had handed out the first Canadian Tire coin, redeemable with the purchase of at least $$1$ of merchandise. Another similar deal followed in 2010 (coinciding with the 2010 Olympic Winter Games), with a three-coin winter collection. The coins can be spent in the same manner as conventional CTM.

Electronic Canadian Tire money
A digital version of Canadian Tire Money was introduced in 2012 as Canadian Tire Money Advantage, which was earned by presenting a loyalty card. This was expanded in 2014 to holders of the Options credit card issued by Canadian Tire Financial Services (CTFS).

In April 2018, Canadian Tire Money Advantage program was replaced with the Triangle Rewards loyalty program for the earning of digital Canadian Tire Money ("eCTM"). The Triangle Rewards program expanded the earning and redemption of eCTM from Canadian Tire stores to the rest of Canadian Tire Corporation's family of stores, including Mark's, Sport Chek, Sports Experts, PartSource, and the Canadian operations of Party City.

Unlike with paper Canadian Tire money, eCTM can be earned on purchases paid for with a credit card. Extra eCTMs is earned when paying with a Triangle credit card issued by CTFS.

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Accountant–client privilege

Accountant–client privilege is a confidentiality privilege, or more precisely, a group of privileges, available in American federal and state law. Accountant–client privileges may be classified in two categories: evidentiary privileges and non-evidentiary privileges.

An evidentiary privilege is one that may as a general rule be successfully asserted in a court of law. A non-evidentiary privilege is (A) one that may not be maintained in a court of law, or (B) one which is, according to the terms of the statute granting the privilege, not applicable in the face of an order from the court compelling disclosure of the communication for which the privilege is claimed. The evidentiary and non-evidentiary versions of the accountant-client privilege are, as a general rule, creations of Federal or state statute.

Under English common law, on which American law is based, there was generally no accountant–client privilege. In the United Kingdom in particular the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 actually requires accountants (and solicitors, insolvency practitioners, etc.) who suspect their clients of tax evasion to report them to the authorities without telling the clients they have done so, subject to a maximum punishment of 14 years in jail. This affects even accountants who uncover a possibly inadvertent claim for expenses. In Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal took note of the American policy but refused to give any weight to it on the grounds that it is for Parliament to choose to enact a similar rule in Canada.

Non-evidentiary accountant–client privileges
Some states have enacted a non-evidentiary accountant–client privilege.

For example, Texas has a privilege rule that requires that a certified public accountant (CPA) not voluntarily disclose information communicated to the CPA by a client in connection with the engagement without the client's permission. The privilege generally does not apply, however, in the case of an administrative summons by the Internal Revenue Service under, in the case of a summons under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or in the case of a court order.

The federally authorized tax practitioner privilege
The federally authorized tax practitioner privilege, is a limited evidentiary privilege available in American federal tax law. The privilege is defined in an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code made by the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998:

 * With respect to tax advice, the same common law protections of confidentiality which apply to a communication between a taxpayer and an attorney shall also apply to a communication between a taxpayer and any federally authorized tax practitioner to the extent the communication would be considered a privileged communication if it were between a taxpayer and an attorney.

Under the law, the term "federally authorized tax practitioner" (or FATP) means an individual authorized under Federal law to practice before the Internal Revenue Service where the practice is subject to Federal regulation under. The term 'tax advice' means advice given by an individual with respect to a matter that is within the scope of the individual's authority to practice.

There are, however, some significant limitations on the FATP privilege.

Not applicable in criminal proceedings or state law matters
Unlike the attorney–client privilege, the FATP privilege does not apply in criminal matters, and does not apply in state tax proceedings. The privilege may be asserted only in a "noncriminal tax matter before the Internal Revenue Service" and a "noncriminal tax proceeding in Federal court brought by or against the United States."

Effect of date of the communication on availability of the FATP privilege
The FATP privilege applies only to communications made on or after July 22, 1998. The privilege does not apply to any written communication before October 22, 2004, between a federally authorized tax practitioner and a director, shareholder, officer, employee, agent, or representative of a corporation in connection with the promotion of the direct or indirect participation of such corporation in any tax shelter. Section 7525 was amended by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, so that the privilege does not apply to written communications made on or after October 22, 2004, involving a federally-authorized tax practitioner with respect to the participation of any person (not just a corporation) in a tax shelter. This is a further limitation of the privilege.

The practitioner
The term FATP includes an attorney, a CPA, an enrolled agent, or an enrolled actuary. The FATP privilege does not generally apply to accountants who are not CPAs or EAs (unless they qualify as enrolled actuaries).

The FATP privilege might not apply to certified public accountants who are not licensed to practice in the state in which the client lives (for example, in a situation where the client lives in New Jersey but works in New York, where he consults a CPA who is licensed in New York but not in New Jersey). Because the CPA is not licensed to practice in the state where the client resides, the communication might not qualify for the privilege.

Tax advice versus business advice
The FATP privilege applies only to tax advice. The advice must be treated as confidential by both the accountant and the client to be covered by the privilege. If the communication is divulged to third parties, then it is not confidential. The privilege does not cover general business consultations or personal financial planning advice.

Tax return preparation
With respect to communications involved in the preparation of tax returns, there is a split of authority. Much of the relevant case law was rendered prior to the creation of the FATP privilege in 1998, and relates to the attorney–client privilege.

Most of the case law indicates that a communication in connection with tax return preparation is not covered. Under the argument accepted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, communication pertinent merely to preparing a tax return does not involve giving or receiving legal advice (see e.g., United States v. Gurtner). The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, meanwhile, has held that tax returns are not privileged. This holding is based on the rationale that tax returns are intended for disclosure to a third party, i.e., the Internal Revenue Service, so there can be no expectation of confidentiality, which defeats a claim that the return or pertinent communication is privileged.

One minority view finds the privilege might apply to a communication about what to claim on a return. Another minority view is that such communications could be considered "legal" advice.

On balance, however, the weight of authority is that communication in connection with tax return preparation is probably not protected by the privilege.

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Discussion
I agree with SPUI's edit - making this less vote-like is good.TheGrappler 19:46, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

 * discussion continued at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion
 * --William Allen Simpson 03:07, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Missing bullet
This template isn't making the little bullet before the Delete, reason. ~ part (like cfm2 does, for instance). Picky, I know, but it's bugging me. 8). Recury 15:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Addition
I recently added a link here which, indeed, is a duplicate. That wasn't really the aim though, the idea was to have the template contain a Category:Name so that this could easily be copy/pasted into the CFD/W page when closing nominations. The CFR2 tag has one like that, and it's pretty useful. I was wondering if people had suggestions on how to put that here.  > R a d i a n t <  07:56, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

It should always contain a link to the category somewhere.
And the template doesn't.  The problem is that we want to be able to use What links here to find discussions. Otherwise we're just lost in the fog. -- Prove It (talk) 13:59, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Word(s)
editprotected On the template where it has Category:, before this it should have Proposed deletion. Simply south (talk) 14:13, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * ❌, CfD is also used for renames, merges, etc. Other similar templates do not use this wording. —Random832 16:13, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Purpose proposal
Can i direct people to Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion? Simply south (talk) 02:20, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Create documentation
Please create a doc subpage, move the categories, and add the documentation template. Thanks. --Thetrick (talk) 15:04, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Change that to remove the categories and add the documentation template. Thanks.  --Thetrick (talk) 15:24, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. --- RockMFR 19:03, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

"Propose deleting"
Please remove the colon after "Propose deleting". This would standardise this template with other CFD templates, which lack such a colon. — This, that, and the other (talk) 07:47, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ Tra (Talk) 20:12, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Extend to bulk nominations
I think this template should natively support bulk nominations, like the otherwise similar tfd2. Cfm2 and Cfr2 would likely be affected as well. This simply entails adding more optional numbered parameters similar to the first, e.g.  and removing the options of number parameters for other entries. An alternative would be making it more similar to rfd2, by adding the option to omit the nominator's rationale and header so that multiple cfd2 templates can be stacked atop each other; this approach fits better with cfm2 and cfr2. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 19:08, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please make your requested changes to the template's sandbox first; see WP:TESTCASES. If you are unable to edit the sandbox page, or if editing templates is unfamiliar to you, ping me here, and I will take another look. Is there a discussion somewhere that shows that this idea is supported by more than one person? – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:04, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Remove leading colons
The leading colons (i.e. indents) break the Reply tool, and don't seem to have a particular purpose. Would there be any objection to their removal? I have TE rights so I can carry this out myself, I'm just checking for objections. User:GKFXtalk 21:05, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * @GKFX Go ahead. Those leading colons are anyway in violation of MOS:INDENTMIX. – SD0001  (talk) 16:56, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅. User:GKFXtalk 21:13, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I would much prefer to reinstate the colon before "Nominator's rationale". At present the rationale is out-dented and aligned with the heading, which I find messy and confusing. See e.g. Categories for discussion/Log/2021 December 31: the some group nominations where the nominator has apparently manually inserted a colon are clearer to scan than the nominations without the indent. – Fayenatic  L ondon 22:00, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Which group nominations specifically? There are a couple where the entire nomination is indented with a “:” before both the rationale and each bullet, which is not how indents are supposed to be used on talk pages; the first post should be unindented. They look fine, but would look roughly the same if you removed all the colons. There’s also one (French troubadours) where there is an odd mix of one bullet, then all the entries with just a colon indent and no bullets, then the rationale with no indent. I agree that one looks odd but it’s not really this template’s fault; each entry in the list should have a bullet not a colon and then it would look fine. User:GKFXtalk 22:30, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
 * IMHO, the nominations of Psychiatric_instruments and Defunct LGBT night clubs are laid out much more helpfully for scanning the page. I think those are the ones you were referring to as "not supposed to be", but I find those better than e.g. Enigmatic taxa, although all I was asking for was to indent the rationale in that one. As a CFD regular I do find the old format much better, e.g.. Moreover I am not convinced that it was a breach of WP:INDENTMIX. – Fayenatic  L ondon 22:56, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
 * The use of colons for indentation, regardless of indentmix, should be avoided per Manual of Style/Accessibility. That said, the replacement is trivial if an indentation is preferred; either a template like block indent or handcoding it to . Izno (talk) 21:19, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I tested the use of block indent at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_December_31 and have now implemented it in Cfd2 and six sibling templates, including those for stub templates Sfd-t2 & Sfr-t2 (which were overlooked in the previous changes). – Fayenatic  L ondon 11:30, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * That just looks awkward since the nomination statement is now more indented than responses, which it wasn't before. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:44, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree, it's indented further than necessary. I didn't understand what was meant by margin: Nem, but have now tried  at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_December_31, and I think it looks right. May I copy this into the seven nomination templates? – Fayenatic  L ondon 17:43, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I am still not certain why you want the first post of these discussions to be indented. Every other talk page uses the convention that the first post has no indent, and I don’t understand why XfDs should deviate from that convention. User:GKFXtalk 17:46, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * CFD logs are not regular talk pages. Granted, WP:AFD logs are quite readable without indenting the rationales. But there are various differences which make them easier to scan: (1) coloured headings, (2) shorter rationales, (3) generally more responses. Indenting helps someone scanning CFD logs for discussions that are ready to be closed, or overdue for some other follow-up.
 * IMHO, WP:RFD logs could also benefit from indenting. Pinging User:Explicit, user:Thryduulf, user:Aervanath for comments. – Fayenatic  L ondon 18:08, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't have a problem with the indentation of RfD as it is, but that's not a massively strong opinion. Thryduulf (talk) 19:49, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I have no specific objection to the div indentation you used there, although I still am unconvinced its better than the status quo before. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:29, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I would not mind reverting to that, as it was much more concise. It's a matter of judgment as to whether this accessibility problem, having one non-standard colon at the start of every CFD discussion, is significant in practice.– Fayenatic  L ondon 08:29, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Currently Twinkle indents too much though, see today's CFD page. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:39, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I have reverted all seven templates to the status quo ante, i.e. with the colons that were removed in 2021. – Fayenatic  L ondon 17:18, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
 * So, what is the solution? Are we just going to ignore the fact that this breaks the option to use the Reply tool now? Gonnym (talk) 09:53, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Gonnym, apparently. User:Qwerfjkl, this is the source of your problem. It doesn't just break the reply tool, it also breaks Bawl. A BCL (Bawl Comment Link) could be added to every CfD which would make Bawl work. But honestly, we should just take a hard look at that indentation for nominators.. and kill it with fire. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 09:10, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Gonnym, when using Bawl you can try User:Alexis Jazz/Bawl/Modules. It's unfortunate it has to be like this. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 10:27, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Don't think I have Bawl installed. Either way, I'm fine with my comments breaking the indent list until this gets changed. Gonnym (talk) 12:08, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Edit request
The first parameter for block indent should be named, like {{tq| {{block indent|1=* '''Propose }}. While that seems to possibly break the bullet point, it's much better than breaking completely. If a bullet point is needed (is it?), maybe use •. ( &bullet; ). — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 22:10, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * {{u|Fayenatic london}}, I see this is a recent change. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 22:14, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Can we please not do a litany of hacks upon hacks and just go back to the original version either before Fayenatic london's edits or before GKFX's edits? * Pppery * it has begun... 03:44, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * {{ping|Alexis Jazz}} the error was related to the color code in your signature, see tests in my sandbox. Despite Pppery's request above, I have followed his fix by adding a nowiki code in the 7 templates. (Not that I understand either what was wrong with the span code in your sig, or how the nowiki code solves it.) – Fayenatic  L ondon 12:54, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * So, why have you ignored me? It's clear that this discussion is not coming to any consensus and normally a lack of consensus results in a return to the status quo before the contested changes. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:19, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Forgive me. I didn't want any more nominators being confused by a red block error message that was not their fault.
 * As for reverting to the status quo ante, we are told it was illegal; and there is still the possibility of a new consensus.– Fayenatic  L ondon 17:52, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Apologies, that comment was written in an angrier tone than it should have been. I don't see where the status quo is {{tq|illegal}}. If you are referring to Izno's comment, then I agree it's not ideal to use  for indentation, but think trying to suppress that usage on a discussion page in which many comments will themselves be indented that way is putting the cart before the horse. * Pppery * it has begun...  20:29, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * If you write  then the template receives an argument called   with a value of , and no first parameter, so it won't work. User:GKFX{{sup|talk}} 17:56, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I have closed this as the main discussion is above and there are already TEs aware. User:GKFX{{sup|talk}} 17:56, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 27 September 2022
Add per User talk:Alexis Jazz/Factotum, so Factotum will work on CfD. This should also be done to the various other templates for creating CfD nominations. Qwerfjkl talk  20:43, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 * @Qwerfjkl I don't really userstand the problem this is solving. Can you explain if this benefits anyone other than the ~15 users using the userscript. I fail to see why a "reply tool" needs a blank span on a cfd template, but leaving that aside the idea of adding this doesn't seem beneficial since this is adding userscript components to a commonly used template and userscript should realistically be able to operate on their own to reduce maintenance for people who don't understand each specific script. Terasail [✉] 13:42, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * @Terasail, to compensate for CfD's strange formatting; @Alexis Jazz can probably explain it better. I don't see any harm it does; it probably won't affect most users. — Qwerfjkl  talk  14:46, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: I am declining for now. This does not seem like a change that will improve the Cfd2 template. The FCL template would need to be template protected since it could influence this template and it seems that the complications that can arise from adding this template outweigh the benefits to the number of users using the userscript. Also adding blank spans to each nomination on the cfd page could have unintended consequences. Terasail [✉] 16:48, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Terasail, The FCL template would need to be template protected Wouldn't bother me. Probably a good idea if it gets deployed on Wikipedia Signpost anyway. the complications that can arise from adding this template Like..? the benefits to the number of users using the userscript In part a chicken and egg problem. Also adding blank spans to each nomination on the cfd page could have unintended consequences. Not likely. userscript should realistically be able to operate on their own to reduce maintenance for people who don't understand each specific script. FCL is best described like mw:Extension:InputBox 2.0. Factotum doesn't include much project-specific logic.Cfd2 is broken because nobody wants to fix . Factotum's behavior can be customized per-page using FCL so it can work properly in weirdly structured discussions like votes. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 21:17, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Personally I don't see it so much as a chicken and egg situation since the tool is a reply tool and not specifically a CSD tool of any kind. I am not convinced that this can't be fixed in the code rather than this template (Although I haven't looked at the userscript). The whole idea of adding userscript specific parts to templates isn't something I can easily get behind but I will reopen the request incase others have perspective I don't. Terasail [✉] 23:49, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * ❌ as noted above the primary desired benefit is only to someone's personal userscript, so it doesn't appear to be a net-benefit to everyone else using this template, and adds technical debt to it. What now? Assume you are now at step 3 of WP:BRD and establish a consensus for the change if desired. As this is a widely used template, including by many other tools, ensure that such a discussion is well advertised and hopefully well attended. — xaosflux  Talk 10:36, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Xaosflux, would it help if Factotum became a gadget and users who don't have the gadget enabled get a &withgadget=Factotum link?<span id="Alexis_Jazz:1664464027887:Template_talkFTTCLNCfd2" class="FTTCmt"> — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 15:07, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * If usage becomes quite popular it could become a gadget - however that doesn't mean that everything else needs to adjust to support a gadget. For example, Twinkle is a gadget that integrates with tons of templates but I don't see us squeezing in special twinkle-specific subtemplates in to many other templates just to benefit Twinkle. To propose a new gadget, see Gadget. — xaosflux  Talk 15:22, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

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Kristofer Hæstad

Kristofer Krüger Hæstad (born 9 December 1983) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Early life
Hæstad was born in Kristiansand, Agder.

Early career
Hæstad played for the youth teams of Randesund and Vigør.

Start
He was signed by Start in 2001, and debuted in the Norwegian Premier League in 2002, when the youthful Start squad only made 11 points and were relegated.

After two seasons in the First Division, Start were once again promoted in 2004, with Hæstad as one of the team's central players. Hæstad has continued in great form after the promotion, and was named player of the month by NRK in April 2005.

In July 2006, Hæstad launched a music single This Is For Real together with four other professional Norwegian footballers – Morten Gamst Pedersen, Freddy dos Santos, Raymond Kvisvik, and Øyvind Svenning. They call their band The Players.

On 29 December 2006, it was announced that Premier League club Wigan Athletic had secured Hæstad on six-month loan. The Norwegian newspaper VG would later reveal that it not was a standard loan contract, but an intricate deal that could see Hæstad stay at Wigan until July 2010, if they pick up an option to buy him at the end of the current season. Hæstad made his Premier League debut on 13 January 2007 against Chelsea, but was released from his loan contract at Wigan Athletic by mutual consent on 1 April 2007.

Hæstad made a scoring return for Start on his return to Norway after scoring the fourth goal in a 4–2 victory away to Aalesund.

Vålerenga

On 2 January 2008, Hæstad signed a four-year contract with Vålerenga. On 29 March 2008, Hæstad made his competitive debut for Vålerenga in the season's first game against Aalesund. After a poor first season plagued by injuries, and failing to score a goal, rumors said that he was heading away from the club, most likely back to his former club Start. However, he stayed at Vålerenga and had a great second season. He scored his first goal against Start in a 2–3 loss. He also scored two goals against Lyn which ended 4–4.

Hæstad announced his retirement from professional football on 1 July 2014.

International career
24 May 2005, Hæstad debuted for the national team in a private match against Costa Rica.

Honours
Individual
 * Kniksen award: midfielder of the year in 2005

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 * Propose
 * Nominator's rationale:

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Fighting Force 2

Fighting Force 2 is a beat 'em up/shooter video game, the sequel to 1997's Fighting Force. The game was released for the PlayStation and Dreamcast and was developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive.

Overview
Set in the not-too-distant future, human cloning has become a reality but has been banned by international treaty. The Knackmiche Corporation is suspected of researching cloning, and mercenary Hawk Manson is sent on a covert mission to investigate.

It features hand-to-hand and weapons combat like the original game but does not include multiplayer support. While it includes more weapons and larger levels than its predecessor, the sequel includes only one playable character this time around: Hawk Manson.

Reception
Unlike its predecessor which received some decent reviews, Fighting Force 2 was not very successful, and received mixed reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Blake Fischer of NextGen said in its February 2000 issue that the PlayStation version was "Solid, but ultimately uninspiring. You'll burn out on this game long before you beat it." An issue later, Jeff Lundrigan of the same magazine called the Dreamcast version "The very definition of a two-star game: 'Perhaps competent; certainly uninspired.'"

In one review, Four-Eyed Dragon of GamePro said of the PlayStation version in its February 2000 issue, "Ultimately, Fighting Force 2 is battered by meager controls and lacks the fast action of other games in the same genre. At best, it's worth a rental for those who desire a night of fists-in-your-face gameplay." In another review, the D-Pad Destroyer said that the same console version was "many things but it is not a good sequel to Fighting Force. Those of you looking for one more action/adventure title might want to give this one a look, but only until Syphon Filter 2. Come to think of it, just go play Syphon Filter again. You deserve better than this." Later on, the same author said of the Dreamcast version in one review, "If you really need that action fix on the Dreamcast, you might want to give Fighting Force 2 a look. Otherwise, you most likely just won't have much fun with this game. A little more work might have made this game better, but Fighting Force 2's DC version seems like more of an afterthought." In another review, Jake The Snake said of the same console version in the magazine's April 2000 issue, "Though it delivers some enjoyable mayhem, Fighting Force 2 doesn't offer much to separate it from other Dreamcast titles."

Due to its lackluster sales and a less-than-pleased fanbase, the series eventually ended. A third game was in development, but was cancelled when Core Design closed down.

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Burman

Burman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Anneli Burman (born 1963), Swedish curler
 * Barney Burman, American make-up artist
 * Barry Burman (1943–2001), English figurative artist
 * Ben Lucien Burman (1896–1984), American author and journalist
 * Bob Burman (1884–1916), American racecar driver
 * Carina Burman (born 1960), Swedish novelist and literature scholar
 * Daniel Burman (born 1973), Argentine filmmaker
 * Erica Burman (born 1960), British developmental psychologist
 * Fale Burman (1903–1973), Swedish Army lieutenant general
 * Jayasri Burman (born 1960), Indian artist, niece of Sakti
 * Johannes Burman (1707–1780), Dutch botanist and physician
 * John Burman (born 1982) American coffee mogul
 * Karl Burman (1882–1965), Estonian architect and painter
 * Maya Burman (born 1971), French artist, daughter of Sakti
 * Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734–1793), Dutch botanist, son of Johannes
 * Pieter Burman the Elder (1668–1741), Dutch classical scholar
 * Pieter Burman the Younger (1713–1778), Dutch classical scholar, nephew of previous
 * Rahul Dev Burman (1939–1994), Indian Bollywood music composer, son of SD
 * Sachin Dev Burman (1906–1975), Indian Bollywood music composer
 * Saket Burman (born 1976/77), British billionaire
 * Sakti Burman (born 1935), Indian artist based in France
 * Shirley Burman (born 1934), American railroad photographer and historian
 * Tony Burman (born 1948), Canadian journalist and editor in chief of CBC News
 * William Francis Burman (1897–1974), First World War English recipient of the Victoria Cross

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Jesse White

Jesse White may refer to:

 * Jesco White, the West Virginia "Dancing Outlaw"
 * Jesse J. White, former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
 * Jesse White (actor), (1917-1997) film and television actor
 * Jesse White, American professional wrestler also known as Jake Carter (wrestler)
 * Jesse White (footballer) (born 1988), Australian rules footballer
 * Jesse White (politician) (born 1934), Illinois politician

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List of places in Pennsylvania: Pl–Q

This list of cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania also includes information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper zip code bounds, if applicable.

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Space Wars

Space Wars is a shooter game released in arcades by Cinematronics in 1977. It is based on the PDP-1 game Spacewar! (1962) but instead uses vector graphics for the visuals. The hardware developed for Space Wars became the platform for most of the vector-based arcade games from Cinematronics. It was distributed in Japan by Taito in 1978, and a Vectrex port was published in 1982.

Gameplay

Two players controlled different ships. One button rotated ship left, another rotated the ship right, one engaged thrust, one fired a shell, and one entered hyperspace (which causes the ship to disappear and reappear elsewhere on the playfield at random).

The game offered a number of gameplay options, including the presence or absence of a star in the middle of the playfield (which exerted a positive or negative gravitational pull), whether the edges of the playfield wrapped around to their opposite sides, and whether shells bounced. The game had three particular features: First, the game could not be played in "one player" mode; a human opponent was required. Second, the player's ship could take a glancing hit without dying, but would suffer damage; a cloud of loose ship fragments would break off and float away, after which the ship would be visibly damaged on screen and would turn and accelerate more slowly. Third and most memorable was that the duration of play for any contest was solely governed by the amount of money deposited; each quarter bought a minute and a half of play. A dollar bought six minutes, and for a ten dollar roll of quarters two players could play non-stop for an hour.

Development
Larry Rosenthal was an MIT graduate who was fascinated with the original Spacewar! and developed his own custom hardware and software so that he could play the game. Cinematronics worked with Rosenthal to produce the Space Wars system.

Reception
Space Wars  sold 10,000 arcade cabinets in 1978. It was the highest-earning arcade video game of 1978 in the United States. It was later the sixth highest-earning arcade video game of 1979 in the United States.

Electronic Fun with Computers & Games magazine gave the Atari VCS version a C rating in 1982.

Legacy
Space Wars formed the basis of the platform used by Cinematronics for their subsequent black-and-white vector games such as Star Castle and Tail Gunner.

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Data structure diagram

A data structure diagram (DSD) is the visual representation of a certain kind of data model that contains entities, their relationships, and the constraints that are placed on them. It is an older alternative to the entity–relationship model.

The basic graphic notation elements of DSDs are boxes which represent entities. Arrow symbols represent relationships. Data structure diagrams are most useful for documenting complex data entities.

Overview
A data structure diagram is a diagram type that is used to depict the structure of data elements in the data dictionary. The data structure diagram is a graphical alternative to the composition specifications within such data dictionary entries.

The data structure diagrams is a predecessor of the entity–relationship model (E–R model). In DSDs, attributes are specified inside the entity boxes rather than outside of them, while relationships are drawn as boxes composed of attributes which specify the constraints that bind entities together. DSDs differ from the E–R model in that the E–R model focuses on the relationships between different entities, whereas DSDs focus on the relationships of the elements within an entity.

There are several styles for representing data structure diagrams, with the notable difference in the manner of defining cardinality. The choices are between arrow heads, inverted arrow heads (crow's feet), or numerical representation of the cardinality.

Bachman diagram
A Bachman diagram is a certain type of data structure diagram, and is used to design the data with a network or relational "logical" model, separating the data model from the way the data is stored in the system. The model is named after database pioneer Charles Bachman, and mostly used in computer software design.

In a relational model, a relation is the cohesion of attributes that are fully and not of every key in that relation. The coupling between the relations is based on accordant attributes. For every relation, a rectangle has to be drawn and every coupling is illustrated by a line that connects the relations. On the edge of each line, arrows indicate the cardinality: 1-to-n, 1-to-1 and n-to-n. The latter has to be avoided and must be replaced by 2 (or more) 1-to-n couplings.

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ADOdb Lite

ADOdb Lite is a very small, fast ADOdb-compatible database abstraction library written in PHP.

It uses less than 100 kB of system RAM for each HTTP access compared to over 640 kB for ADOdb. After a benchmark ADOdb Lite is also 300% faster than the ADOdb library.

Supported databases

 * FrontBase
 * Gladius
 * MaxDB
 * Mini SQL
 * MS SQL
 * MS SQL Pro
 * MySQL
 * MySQL Improved
 * MySQL w/transactions
 * PostgreSQL
 * SQLite
 * SQLite Pro
 * Sybase
 * Sybase ASE

The ADOdb Lite library is fully expandable through the use of modules. The library contains a PEAR module that contains PEAR DB-compatible commands. The library also contains a Transaction module giving full transaction support to many of the supported databases. The library can support any number of user created modules to easily expand the library. The module system also gives the programmer/admin the ability to structure the library usage based upon the needs of the website.

The library is very fast compared to other database abstraction libraries.

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Romeo Is Bleeding

Romeo Is Bleeding is a 1993 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Peter Medak, written and produced by Hilary Henkin, and starring Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, and Roy Scheider. It follows a psychosexual cat-and-mouse game between a corrupt cop (Oldman), and a ruthless mob assassin (Olin) who begins to unravel his carefully constructed double life. The film's title was taken from a song by Tom Waits.

Released in the United States by Gramercy Pictures, the film was critically unsuccessful and did not perform well at the box office (grossing $7 million from a $10 million budget), although its acting has garnered praise.

Plot
Jack Grimaldi is an NYPD homicide detective who seems to have everything; a beautiful wife named Natalie, and an adoring teenage mistress named Sheri. However, his lavish lifestyle is funded through extensive corruption, doing favors for Mafia boss Don Falcone in exchange for large cash bribes. Jack's latest task is to reveal the location of Nick Gazarra, a mobster-turned-state's witness protected by federal agents. Gazarra and his protection detail are subsequently killed by a mob hitwoman, Mona Demarkov. Grimaldi is disaffected by this outcome, being uncomfortable with his complicity in the deaths of other law enforcement personnel.

Mona is arrested and Falcone assigns Jack to kill her, as he fears that she could not only testify against him but take over his entire operation. Still reluctant about his double life, Jack is assigned as Mona's minder as she is transported to a safe house to await pick-up by federal agents. Upon arrival, Mona quickly seduces and tries to kill Jack, but their impromptu tryst is interrupted by the arrival of the agents. Jack leaves her to be detained.

Falcone, disappointed in Jack's ineptitude, orders one of his toes amputated. Realizing he has endangered both his wife and mistress, Jack instructs Natalie to leave the city immediately, giving her all of the payoff money he has saved as well as instructions for where to meet him out West when the time is right. Jack also ends his affair with Sheri and puts her on a train out of the city. He tries to hunt Mona but is attracted to her sexually and no match for her professionally. Mona offers to pay Jack to help her fake her own death.

Although he obtains false papers for her, Mona refuses to pay and attempts to strangle Jack. He shoots and wounds her in the arm, then tries to drive away with her handcuffed in the back seat. Mona escapes by hooking her legs around his neck, causing him to crash the car. She slithers out through the shattered windshield without freeing her hands. Mona lures Jack to an empty apartment. He again attempts to kill her but is tricked into shooting Sheri instead. Mona fixes the corpse so as to suggest that it was she, and not Sheri, who died. Mona has Jack abducted and transported to an abandoned warehouse: she handcuffs him to a bed and they have sex. Later she forces Jack to assist in burying Falcone alive.

Mona betrays Jack by turning him in to the police, copping a plea deal that will indict Jack for the multiple murders that she tricked him into committing. The police arrange a confrontation between Jack and Mona at the courthouse. She threatens to kill his wife, prompting Jack to grab a gun from a fellow officer's ankle holster and shoot her dead. He turns the gun on himself, only to discover that the revolver is now empty. Instead of being sent to prison for the murder, he is given a commendation. This frees him to begin a new life out West, under the identity of "Jim Daugherty". The final scene shows Jack living alone in a remote desert town and working at a diner. He waits every May 1 and December 1 for Natalie to return, as they planned before she left, but she never does. As he waits for her, he mourns his old life while looking at a scrapbook of the women he loved and lost - including Mona.

Cast

 * Gary Oldman as Jack Grimaldi/Jim Daugherty
 * Lena Olin as Mona Demarkov
 * Annabella Sciorra as Natalie Grimaldi
 * Juliette Lewis as Sheri
 * Roy Scheider as Don Falcone
 * Michael Wincott as Sal
 * David Proval as Scully
 * Will Patton as Martie
 * Tony Sirico as Malacci
 * James Cromwell as Cage
 * Ron Perlman as Jack's Attorney
 * Dennis Farina as Nick Gazzara (uncredited)

Production
The film was filmed on location in New York City in Coney Island, Bushwick, Manhattan, and Queens.

Jon Bon Jovi wrote the song "Always" for the film but withheld the track after he was dissatisfied with a preview screening. Bon Jovi in 2004 recalled, "The script was great: the movie wasn't."

Reception
Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert said that while Oldman is "unsurpassable" in portraying depraved characters, the film is "an exercise in overwrought style and overwritten melodrama, and proof that a great cast cannot save a film from self-destruction." Todd McCarthy of Variety also had praise for the central cast, but called the film a "heavy dose of ultra-violent neo-noir" whose "far-fetched plotting eventually goes so far over the top that [the] pic flirts with inventing a new genre of film noir camp." New York Times journalist Janet Maslin lauded Oldman as a "master craftsman" who gives an "uncanny performance as a slang-spouting American", but concluded, "For all its promise, and for all the brittle beauty of Dariusz Wolski's cinematography, Romeo Is Bleeding eventually collapses under the weight of its violent affectations." A favorable Peter Travers in Rolling Stone called the film a "scorcher of a thriller" with a "knockout performance" by Olin. He added, "It will be a shame if audiences don't get the joke".

In a retrospective review, Dennis Schwartz referred to the film as a "senseless, tasteless and demented postmodern noir", but commended Olin's "menacing" turn as well as the initial interaction between Oldman and Scheider. Randy Miller of DVD Talk wrote, "It's a wild and entertaining ride, to be sure... but not one without its fair share of bumps along the way, and one you probably won't revisit on a regular basis. Still, there's enough here to warrant another look." MSN Movies noted, "While not a great movie – or even a good movie, according to most critics – Gary Oldman's performance as corrupt cop Jack Grimaldi is still highly regarded". Romeo Is Bleeding holds a 27% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 41 reviews, with an average score of 4.7/10.

Year-end lists

 * 6th – John Hurley, Staten Island Advance

Awards

 * Nominee: Best Supporting Actress - Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (Lena Olin)
 * Nominee: Best Action Sequence - MTV Awards (Lena Olin)

Box office
The film debuted poorly at the box office and grossed $3.3 million in total in the US and Canada and $7 million worldwide.

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Christmas Conference

The Christmas Conference was an historic founding conference of the newly independent Methodists within the United States held just after the American Revolution at Lovely Lane Chapel in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1784.

Background of Methodism in the U.S
Prior to the revolution, American Methodism consisted of itinerant preachers commissioned by John Wesley the founder of the Methodist societies in England. Wesley had been sending preacher/missionaries since the 1760s. With the outbreak of war, most of these returned to England, with the exception of Francis Asbury and James Dempster. Asbury began to be looked upon as the leader of the groups, whereas Dempster moved to upstate New York, where he ministered locally. His activities were greatly restricted because, as an Englishman, he was suspected of not being sympathetic to the patriot cause. During the war, he ceased his circuit riding and stayed at the residence of his friend, Judge Thomas White of Delaware.

Before the war, the Methodist itinerant preachers were appointed to form societies, but they were expected by Wesley to work within the Anglican Church, as they were not ordained. They were not allowed to administer the sacraments. This produced some difficulty as Anglican Churches were limited to the coastal cities, and the itinerant preachers were moving westward and inland. Similarly the Anglican clergy almost all left for England with the outbreak of war.

Asbury had come to America in 1771. Under his leadership, conferences were formed and American preachers appointed, but this did not solve the problem of the administration of the sacraments.

During the war, the societies continued to grow, albeit more slowly due to all the disruptions. Following the war, there was a move to locally ordain the preachers, but Asbury counselled patience until Wesley gave direction.

Wesley's instructions
In England, at the Methodist Conference in Leeds in July 1784, Wesley himself ordained Richard Whatcoat and Thomas Vasey as elders, appointing them to go, along with a group of itinerant preachers to America. Wesley then ordained Thomas Coke (who was already an ordained Anglican priest) to go as superintendent of the American church. He gave Coke instructions to also ordain Francis Asbury as co-superintendent. Wesley was reluctant to take this action, but he had already asked for the Bishop of London to ordain a bishop for America, and had been rebuffed.

Invitations and conference
Meeting with Asbury on November 14, 1784, Coke explained Wesley's intentions and proposed to ordain him. Asbury, catching the spirit of democracy in the new country, refrained from accepting the ordination until approved by the American connexion. Messengers were sent, calling the American itinerants to Baltimore on December 24. Eighty one preachers were entitled to membership; nearly sixty of them were able to arrive for the conference. During the six weeks while waiting for the conference, Coke and Asbury went on a preaching tour (on horseback) that covered at least 900 miles.

With the Christmas Conference's unanimous approval, Asbury was ordained and appointed as co-superintendent. He was ordained deacon on Christmas Day by laying on of hands; elder on the next day; and superintendent the next. Asbury's friend Philip William Otterbein, pastor of the German Reformed Church of Baltimore, also laid hands on Asbury to assist in the ordination.

Coke later said of Asbury, "In the presence of Mr. Asbury, I feel myself a child. He is in my estimation, the most apostolic man I ever saw, except Mr. Wesley." Coke preached Asbury's ordination sermon, which was later published and caused some stir in England because he emphasized the need to ordain only godly men, and pointed to England for an example of immoral and unconverted men to orders.

Results and legacy
This conference, which became known as the first General Conference of the new church, abridged the 39 Articles of Religion of the Anglican Church into 24, added one additional article regarding civic duties as US citizens, and adopted these articles as its governing principles, also known as the Discipline. They also received a modified prayer book sent by Wesley.

John Dickins a pastor in New York proposed the name of the fledgeling church: the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The conference also ordained 12 preachers to orders, setting a precedent for the American church that ordinations were to be approved by the conference.

Immediately after the ten-day conference, Asbury set out circuit riding as he had before the war. His first destination was Charleston, South Carolina which he deemed the city most in need of spiritual enlightenment.

The American church held another General Conference in 1792 and every four years after.

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David Lindley

David Lindley may refer to:
 * David Lindley (musician) (1944–2023), American musician
 * David Lindley (physicist) (born 1956), British theoretical physicist and author
 * David Lindley (badminton), see 2009 All England Super Series – Mixed doubles

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Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons

Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (FRCS) is a professional qualification to practise as a senior surgeon in Ireland or the United Kingdom. It is bestowed on an intercollegiate basis by the four Royal Colleges of Surgeons (the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (chartered 1784), Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (chartered 1505), and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow). The initials may be used as post-nominal letters.

Several Commonwealth countries have organisations that bestow similar qualifications, among them the FRCSC in Canada, FRACS in Australia and New Zealand, FCS(SA) in South Africa, FCSHK in Hong Kong, FCPS by College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan in Pakistan and FCPS by College of Physicians & Surgeons of Mumbai in India.

The intercollegiate FRCS examinations are administered by two committees, the JCIE (Joint Committee on Intercollegiate Examinations, which handles domestic examinations) and the JSCFE (Joint Surgical Colleges Fellowship Examination, which handles overseas examinations). This system replaced the earlier one in which each college administered its own examinations. First the curricula were intercollegiately coordinated by the ISCP (Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme) of the JCST (Joint Committee on Surgical Training), and then the examinations became intercollegiate.

The original fellowship was available in general surgery and in certain specialties—ophthalmic or ENT surgery, or obstetrics and gynaecology—which were not indicated in the initials. It came to be taken midway through training. Each of the four Royal Colleges of Surgeons of the UK and Ireland used to administer its own examinations. The four postnominals were FRCS(Eng), FRCS(Ed), FRCS(G), and FRCS(I). The FRCS designation without further specification then referred by convention/tradition to FRCS(Eng) specifically. Today the examination and qualification are intercollegiate, although each surgeon can still choose afterward to be affiliated with one or more specific colleges. (In Canada the FRCS(C) qualification is administered by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.)

There are now a range of higher fellowships, taken at the end of higher specialist training and often in narrower fields, the first of which was FRCS (Orth) in orthopaedics. Others include FRCS (Urol) in urology and FRCS (OMFS) in maxillofacial surgery.

Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons
The MRCS examinations are also now intercollegiate.

Fellows
The original 300 Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) include: Biographies of all original 300 Fellows are in Plarr's Lives of the Fellows.
 * Marcus Beck (1843–1893)
 * John Badley (1783–1870)
 * John Abernethy (1764–1831)
 * Robert Keate (1777–1857)
 * Richard Partridge (1805–1873)
 * Joseph Jordan (1787–1873)

See Category:Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for more recent examples of Fellows.


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Talk:Dunfermline Athletic F.C.

Description
This article would cover all Fife-related articles such as places, famous people, museums, football and rugby clubs and churches to name a few. Examples would be: Kirkcaldy, Andrew Carnegie, Adam Smith, Dunfermline Abbey, Dunfermline Athletic, The Old Course and Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery. This could also help support articles that really do need a lot of work while keeping general maintenance. Examples would be: Methil, Dunfermline, Cupar and a lot of the smaller towns such as Kennoway and Lower Largo. Please see the discussion at WikiProject_Council/Proposals. Kilnburn (talk) 16:26, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

The nickname
Could you tell me what the "Pars" mean? Anything to do with golf? Everton 23:56, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * It seems like the origins of the nickname are unclear. There are a few explanations listed here on the clubs official website. Forbsey 11:39, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Record defeatt
Inserted Dunfermline's actual record defeat, the 17-2 Midland League loss to Clackmannan. Official records seem to give it as 10-0 to Dundee, and 11-1 to Hibs, but these official records for any club seem to only take into account Scottish League, Scottish Cup, League Cup and European games. 17-2 to Clackmannan is pretty shocking for a club that can beat Valencia 6-2!

Another case in point, Stranraer's official record win seems to be 7-0 v. Brechin, but they've had many more bigger wins when they played Southern Counties League and Qualifying Cup football. Keeno 21:11, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Famous players
I've removed Ian McParland from this section as he was merely a squad player for the club (only 16 league appearances). I don't think being appointed manager of an English League One club about 15 years later qualifies him as significant in a Dunfermline context either! -- Jellyman 09:07, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Falkirk
Is Falkirk the local rival of DAFC? Everton 14:22, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Falkirk are by far the club's biggest rivals. falkirk are by far the better club and matches between the two are highly charged affairs. the fans do actually hate each other but everyone hates the pars as the are clearly scum. airdrieonians when they existed and to a smaller extent raith rovers are other major rivals and with stokes r un stoble

New section?
As Dunfermline have recently been relegated it seems appropriate to start a new section under the "2000-2007" section about their exploits in the First Division and the UEFA Cup. Anyone else think this is justifiable? -- Exxy 21:10, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

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Seka Aleksić

Svetlana Piljikić (Aleksić; Светлана Пиљикић, Алексић; born 23 April 1981), better known as Seka Aleksić (Сека Алексић), is a Serb-Bosnian singer. She rose to prominence with her debut album Idealno tvoja (2002). Aleksić has collectively released nine studio albums of predominately pop-folk music.

In addition to music, she starred in the movie We Are Not Angels 3: Rock & Roll Strike Back (2006) and her own reality television show Moja desna ruka (2010). Aleksić has also launched several clothing lines. She is currently the second most followed woman from Serbia on Instagram with over two million followers.

Early life
Svetlana Aleksić was born on 23 April 1981 in Zvornik, SFR Yugoslavia to Bosnian Serb father Milorad Aleksić and Bosniak mother Ibrima. Her parents divorced when she was seven years old. She stated that she was exposed to scenes of domestic violence from her father as a child. During the Bosnian War, Aleksić fled to Serbia with her mother and older brother. They had initially lived in Banja Koviljača before eventually settling down in the village of Lipolist near Šabac a year later.

Career
Due to her family's financial struggles, Aleksić became a working singer early in her life. At the age of 19, she moved to Switzerland where she started performing with a band. Seka rose to prominence in 2002 by winning at the folk music festival Moravski biseri in Ćuprija with the song "Idealno tvoja". It was followed with the release of her debut album of the same name under Grand Production. Her subsequent albums Balkan (2003) and Dođi i uzmi me (2005) spawned regional hits such as "Crno i zlatno", "Sviđa mi se tvoja devojka" and "Svi tvoji milioni". Aleksić made her on-screen debut starring in the 2006 comedy film We Are Not Angels 3: Rock & Roll Strike Back, directed by Petar Pašić. Her third album Kraljica was released in November 2007. Selling in 300,000 copies, it became that year's best-selling album by a Serbian artist. Kraljica produced popular songs like "Aspirin" and "Poslednji let".

While promoting her fifth release, titled Slučajni partneri (2009), Aleksić announced her first solo concert in the Belgrade Arena. It was held on 24 October 2010 to 15,000 people. In 2010, she also appeared on her own reality competition show, called Moja desna ruka, which aired on TV Prva documenting the search for her new assistant. Following the release of Lom in April 2012, she embarked on a tour across Europe and the United States. Aleksić provided the voiceover for the character Vexy in the Serbian adaptation of The Smurfs 2 (2013). She posed for the cover of the May 2014 issue of the Serbian Playboy magazine. In May 2015, Aleksić released Lek za spavanje through City Records, featuring hits such as the title song, "Crveni ruž" and "Ti se hrani mojim bolom". Her eighth album "Koma" was subsequently released in April 2017. It provided songs like "Evo" and "Ti i ja smo par". Koma was followed with her second concert in the Belgrade Arena on 14 April 2018.

In May 2022, Aleksić released album Bioskop. She announced her tenth studio album, titled Disco Seka, with its lead single "Priđi ako smeš" in December 2022. During the 2023 Folk Music Assembly, Alekisć was declared the National Music Artist of Serbia.

Personal life
Aleksić married former kickboxer Veljko Piljkić on 12 September 2010. They have two sons, Jovan (born 24 September 2016) and Jakov (born 22 January 2020). Both were conceived through in vitro fertilisation. Aleksić and her family reside in Stara Pazova.

She practices Eastern Orthodox Christianity and is vocal about her faith.

Philanthropy
In December 2011, she held a benefit concert in Zenica for a young man, named Kemal Kremić, who was diagnosed with leukemia. The event reportedly raised €40,000.

Following the 2014 Southeast Europe floods, Aleksić supplied shelters in Serbia with food and hygiene products.

In August 2022, Aleksić condemned religious rallies against EuroPride in Belgrade and has since been known for showing her public support for the LGBT community in Serbia. In March 2023, she also denounced the assault against an LGBT activist in Banja Luka and addressed the mayor Draško Stanivuković to solve the case.

She has continuously supported the 2023 protests under the title Serbia Against Violence, organized following the Belgrade school shooting.

Discography

 * Studio albums
 * Idealno tvoja (2002)
 * Balkan (2003)
 * Dođi i uzmi me (2005)
 * Kraljica (2007)
 * Slučajni partneri (2009)
 * Lom (2012)
 * Lek za spavanje (2015)
 * Koma (2017)
 * Bioskop (2022)

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List of places in Pennsylvania: Pa–Pi

This list of cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania also includes information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper Zip Code bounds, if applicable.

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Huang Chia-hsin

Huang Chia-hsin (born 7 July 1984) is a badminton player and coach from Taiwan.

Career
She developed her badminton skills while attending Taipei Municipal Shezi Elementary School, Taipei Municipal Chengyuan High School, Datong High School, George Vocational High School of Taipei, and Taipei Municipal Song Shan Senior High School. Huang was among the first group of students in Song Shan Senior High School's new badminton club. A 2002 Min Sheng Bao article said, "Huang Chia-hsin is 164 cm tall, which is considered petite, but her footwork is good, and her personality is cheerful." She competed at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim and reached the second round, losing to first seed Zhang Ning from China. Her older sister Huang Chia-chi is also a badminton player and taught her the sport. Huang was the bronze medalist at the 1999 Asian Junior Championships in the girls' team event.

A 2005 article in Min Sheng Bao about the MMOA Cup National tournament said, "The disadvantage of Huang Chia-hsin's playing is that she lacks confidence in herself." She thought she had insufficient practice despite having practiced with the national team so was unsure about "defend[ing] her title". The article noted, "In the final, Huang Chia-hsin cut the ball sharply, successfully mobilized Jian Yujin, and defended well."

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