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Philippe Emanuel of Hornes

Philippe Emanuel, Prince of Hornes, Prince of Overisque, Count of Solre-le-Château (31 August 1661 in Condé – 14 October 1718 in Bailleul, Somme), was the son of Eugene Maximilian, Prince of Hornes and Princess Anne Marie Jeanne of Croÿ. He married Princess Marie Anne Antoninette of Ligne.

His domain, the Principality of Hornes, was a part of the Holy Roman Empire in what is now modern France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. It was surrounded by the Principality of Liège. It had 3 enclaves, which were in France.

Issue
He married Princess Marie Anne Antoinette of Ligne and had six children. They were:

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Talk:Anita C. Hill

Proposed Move
I propose the page be moved to Anita Hill (pastor). Any thoughts? Rob Church Talk 01:53, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Rev Hill herself identifies as "Anita C. Hill" in order to distinguish herself from Anita Hill. I think the current names are fine and the 1st paragraph of each article clearly distinguishes the two. EdwinHJ | Talk 02:04, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * What people identify themselves as doesn't necessarily govern what the Wikipedia identifies them as. It's generally considered better to go for the simpler form of the name. Rob Church Talk 02:06, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Anita C. Hill is MUCH SIMPLER than a parenthetical title "", which should be avoided at all costs. EdwinHJ | Talk 02:08, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Unsourced material
Moving unsourced material here. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 23:37, 23 October 2017 (UTC) Hill served as regional director of ReconclingWorks: Lutherans for Full Participation (www.reconcilingworks.org), an organization that works with Lutheran congregations in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota from 2012-2015. Hill served as pastor at Saint Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, (United States) from 1983 to 2012. Her ordination is now recognized by the ELCA. Hill is a lesbian in a committed relationship, and ELCA guidelines no longer require celibacy from "ministers who self-identify as homosexuals."

 * Have added some of this, sourced to R-W's own website which seems a RS for straight facts. Pam  D  09:36, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

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Lois Kibbee

Lois Kibbee (July 13, 1922 – October 18, 1993) was an American actress, known for her television roles.

Kibbee portrayed Geraldine Whitney Saxon on the CBS/ABC daytime soap opera The Edge of Night from 1970 to 1971 and from 1973 until 1984. She also played Emily Moore Matson on NBC's Somerset from 1972 to 1973, and Elizabeth Sanders on ABC's One Life to Live from 1986 to 1989. In film, Kibbee may be best remembered for her role in the 1980 film Caddyshack as Mrs. Smails.

Early life
Kibbee was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. She was the niece of actor Guy Kibbee.

Career
In 1951, Kibbee established Playhouse, Inc., a community theater in El Paso, Texas. She also performed with the Circle Theater in Hollywood and in summer stock theater in Columbus, Ohio, and in Chicago. Kibbee acted on radio on Lux Radio Theatre, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and other programs.

On television, Kibbee's most notable roles were on daytime soap operas. She had a long run as wealthy Geraldine Whitney Saxon on the CBS/ABC daytime soap opera The Edge of Night, where she appeared from 1970 to 1971 and again from 1973 until the show's end in 1984. She also portrayed frosty matriarch Emily Moore Matson on NBC's Somerset from 1972 to 1973, a character whose eccentric family was involved in a murder storyline centered on "Jingles the Clown". Later in her career she played powerful matriarch Elizabeth Sanders on ABC's One Life to Live from 1986 to 1989.

Kibbee was also a writer on The Edge of Night. She co-wrote the book The Bennett Playbill about the life of the Bennett acting family, particularly film, stage and television star, Joan Bennett. She also was the ghostwriter for The Christine Jorgensen Story.

While Henry Slesar was head writer for the CBS soap Capitol, Kibbee briefly contributed a few scripts as well. Kibbee had been writing a book about her family's history as performers at the time of her death.

Awards and nominations
Kibbee was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1984 and Outstanding Writing Team in 1982 with Slesar.

Death
Kibbee died of a brain tumor on October 18, 1993, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.

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Talk:Wesley Snipes

Blade: Trinity
Explanation and sources regarding his lawsuit and protest over this film are deserving of mention. --AWF

 * http://www.comics2film.com/FanFrame.php?f_id=12815 --AWF

This is the worst article I have ever seen. He "had relations" with a football players girlfriend, then was beaten up? Why is the relevant? Was this where he developed his interest in martial arts? Where is the proof in any of this? This article needs to be removed or rewritten. Jaileer

Blade 4
Blade 4 is listed in the filmography for 2008. Is there a source to the production of Blade 4? AdamBlue

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Gerald A. Drew

Gerald Augustin Drew (June 20, 1903 - September 27, 1970) was a career Foreign Service Officer for the United States.

Biography
Born in San Francisco, California, Drew was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau. He served as U.S. Vice Consul in Pará, 1929; Envoy to Jordan, 1950–52; Ambassador to Bolivia, 1954–57; Ambassador to Haiti, 1957–60. He was assigned to Haiti by the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration at the beginning of the regime of François Duvalier. He criticized the Duvalier government, and Duvalier requested his removal, but this was rejected by Christian Herter.

He died at Lewes, Delaware and is buried at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

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Talk:E-Amusement

e-AMUSEMENT Card Usage
This article sucks. How does the card WORK? is it RFID? It needs to be wikified also. 70.80.113.243 23:36, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * "In 2006, Konami replaced the old Entry Card system with the "e-AMUSEMENT Pass", a contactless smartcard." - I think that answers your question. And if you feel so strongly about it, why don't you wikify this article? --PkerUNO 03:49, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I added a picture of the card reader back then but it was deleted. Maybe I upload it again. Fireblaster lyz (talk) 17:34, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Playstation 2 availability?
I threw in the fact template on that part specifically...I don't know of any PS2 games to use e-Amusement and all of the descriptions in the article only mention their arcade counterparts. --Thunderbird8 (talk) 02:05, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * There is such a functionality. A screenshot might help, which I will be posting if possible. Fireblaster lyz (talk) 17:34, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * PS2 games themselves didn't use e-Amusement, but certain ones (primarily beatmania IIDX games) before e-Amusement Pass included cards for the corresponding (or subsequent) arcade version that unlocked special features, like other songs.Formedras (talk) 23:02, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

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Dabas (clan)

Dabas is an exogamous, patrilineal Jat gotra (clan) of India. Among their locales are the Haryana state and Delhi.

Notable people bearing the last name include

 * Parvin Dabas, Indian film actor

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Dot book

A dot book (also dotbook or dot-book or drill book) is a small notebook utilized by marching bands (especially high school show bands and drum corps) in order to aid the learning of formations on a field. The dot book was invented by Leslie Allard, a prominent high school band instructor and all-star percussionist. The name is derived from the use of dots on drill sheets which symbolize players on the field: a dot book focuses on the owner's particular dots and other marchers the player may have to guide (use to determine an adjusted location).

The general layout of a dot book contains the "longitudes" and "latitudes" of an American football field. However, a cartesian coordinate system (x/y) is rarely used, rather an alternative system of plotting players as dots on a grid and some jargon is used. For instance, a player may write: "3 inside 45R and 5 in front BH." This would mean that the player is 3 steps inside (towards the 50 yard line) from the 45th yard line from the right side (facing the press box) and is five steps in front of the back hash (see Field and players of American football for an explanation of terms).

Many times, however, a person's own dot book will contain their own specialized shorthand to represent their location on the field. Dot books can vary from simple (providing only the location of the marcher) to complex (also providing the location of nearby marchers whom you are guiding). This poses problems when players are switched between positions on the field: switching dot books is often difficult and many times players end up rewriting their dot books.

Dot books are considered essential by many high school band instructors to the progress of drill.

From drill sheet to dot book
This is a sample page of a pack of drill sheets. The owner of this page is AS10, and their dot on the field has been circled accordingly. After looking at this page, AS10 wrote in their page on the dot book at the top of this article. Several notable features:

 * Reversal of field - This is because all players face the "box" or "Director Viewpoint" of a field. Therefore, a player facing the correct direction will normally never view the field in this way (which is backwards).
 * Smallness of dot book - Drill sheets are unwieldy to handle because of their size. The dot book overcomes this limitation through loss of data: by only focusing on your dot, and the dots that are around it, you can eliminate most of the other dots. In many ways, a dot book is simply a magnification of a small area of a drill sheet.
 * Division of five yards into eight steps: this is called an eight to five step.

Coordinate Sheets
An alternative to the dot book is the coordinate sheet. Like dot books, coordinate sheets are small and meant to be worn around the neck on a lanyard. Coordinate sheets are set up as a list of the member's places on the field, given in coordinates (such as 5 steps inside the right 45 yard line and 2.25 steps in front of the Home hash), each "set" numbered. Also on the sheet is the number of steps it takes to go from one set to another, but this isn't written plainly. Set 1 always has a "0" by it. If it should take sixteen counts to move to the next set, a "16" will be placed next to Set 2's coordinates. If it should take eight counts to move to the third set, a "24" is next to Set 3's coordinates.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The doo rag nelsons

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The result of the debate was delete. -R. fiend 06:55, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

The doo rag nelsons
NN "joke" band. -HX 01:57, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Completing nomination. Punkmorten 19:17, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

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Paul DePodesta

Paul DePodesta (born December 16, 1972) is an American football executive and former baseball executive who is the chief strategy officer of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as a front-office assistant for the Cleveland Indians, Oakland Athletics, and New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). DePodesta was also general manager of MLB's Los Angeles Dodgers. He is also known for his appearance in the book and movie Moneyball about his early career as an assistant with the Athletics.

Early life
DePodesta was born on December 16, 1972, in Alexandria, Virginia. He grew up with Thad Levine. He attended Episcopal High School ('91) and then Harvard University, where he played baseball and football and graduated in 1995 with a degree in economics. He began his career as a sports executive with an internship for the Baltimore Stallions of the Canadian Football League in 1995.

Early career
In 1996, DePodesta got his first baseball job with the Cleveland Indians, where he spent three seasons. He spent the 1996 season as a player development intern, and was promoted to advance scout for the 1997-1998 seasons. Later in the 1998 season, he was appointed special assistant to general manager John Hart.

In 1999, he joined the Oakland Athletics organization as the assistant general manager, serving as second-in-command to general manager Billy Beane. DePodesta was a key figure in Michael Lewis's book Moneyball. The book thrust the analytical principles of sabermetrics into the mainstream.

Los Angeles Dodgers
At the age of 31, DePodesta was named general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers on February 16, 2004, making him the fifth-youngest general manager in baseball history.

DePodesta's reliance on sabermetric principles has been somewhat controversial. He is often considered part of a new breed of front-office executives whose personnel decisions depend heavily on analysis of performance data, often at the perceived expense of more traditional methods of scouting and observation.

One of DePodesta's most notable moves was made at the 2004 trading deadline. He traded catcher Paul Lo Duca, relief pitcher Guillermo Mota and outfielder Juan Encarnación to the Florida Marlins in exchange for pitcher Brad Penny, first baseman Hee Seop Choi and pitcher Bill Murphy, in what was reportedly an attempt to pick up pieces to acquire pitcher Randy Johnson from the Arizona Diamondbacks. DePodesta was heavily criticized in the local and national baseball media for this trade, because Lo Duca was thought to be the "heart and soul" of the team. The Dodgers made the playoffs anyway, with Penny developing into one of the better pitchers in the National League during his stint with the Dodgers, which lasted until the end of the 2008 season. Choi, however, was a disappointment, batting just .161 in 2004 and .253 in 2005, and striking out 80 times in 320 at bats. Bill Murphy was traded that year to acquire Steve Finley, who hit 13 homers in 58 games, including a memorable grand slam that clinched the division title. Lo Duca played through 2005 with the Marlins and then went to the New York Mets, the Washington Nationals and back to the Marlins, making his final Major League appearance in September 2008.

During the 2004 off-season, Adrián Beltré, who had hit 48 home runs in 2004, signed with Seattle as a free agent, spurning DePodesta's offer of 3 years for $30 million for Seattle's offer of 5 years for $64 million. DePodesta signed J. D. Drew, Jeff Kent, and Derek Lowe. Drew enjoyed two productive seasons as a Dodger and then used an opt-out clause in his contract to sign a new 5-year deal with the Boston Red Sox. Both Kent and Lowe put in four productive seasons for the Dodgers and cut ties with the franchise at the end of the 2008 season with Kent retiring and Lowe signing a contract with the Atlanta Braves.

Coming off the successes of 2004, the 2005 season saw the Dodgers lose a number of players to significant stints on the disabled list. Many of the players lost to injury were expected to produce heavily for the team, including J. D. Drew, Milton Bradley, Éric Gagné, Jayson Werth, César Izturis and Odalis Pérez. The 2005 season resulted in the team's worst record since 1992 and second worst since moving to Los Angeles in 1958. On October 29, 2005, Dodgers owner Frank McCourt fired DePodesta, citing his desire to see the club win and that DePodesta had not met those expectations. Reports surfaced that the real reason McCourt had fired DePodesta was his inability to find satisfactory managerial candidates to replace Jim Tracy. He was later replaced by Ned Colletti, who hired Grady Little as manager. Some have speculated that McCourt fired DePodesta in response to media criticism from Los Angeles Times sports columnists T. J. Simers and Bill Plaschke, who were vehemently "anti-Moneyball" and referred to DePodesta pejoratively as "Google Boy."

San Diego Padres and New York Mets
On June 30, 2006, DePodesta was hired as the special assistant for baseball operations for the San Diego Padres and was promoted to executive vice president on November 10, 2008.

On November 8, 2010, DePodesta was hired as the vice president of player development and scouting for the New York Mets by general manager Sandy Alderson, with whom DePodesta worked when Alderson was CEO of the Padres.

Cleveland Browns
On January 5, 2016, DePodesta was hired by the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) as their chief strategy officer.

On July 31, 2021, it was reported that the Browns and DePodesta had agreed to a 5-year contract extension.

On March 18, 2022, DePodesta helped to facilitate a controversial trade for Deshaun Watson. Watson and the Texans' 2024 sixth-round draft pick were traded to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for the Browns' first-round draft picks in 2022, 2023, and 2024, as well as the Browns' third-round pick in 2023 and fourth-round picks in 2022 and 2024. As part of the trade, Watson signed a new, fully guaranteed, five-year, $230 million deal with the Browns, making it the largest contract and most guaranteed money in NFL history.

Other ventures
On December 13, 2012, DePodesta joined the Sears Holdings Corporation board of directors. He has also served as a keynote speaker at numerous business conventions and been covered by publications such as Baseball Prospectus and Fortune Magazine.

Personal life
DePodesta is married to artist and philanthropist Karen Deicas and has three sons and a daughter. In 2016, Deicas launched the Sports Mind Institute, which seeks to connect lessons learned from figures in professional sports, athletes, team executives, and coaches, to help others apply them to life and the business sector. The family resides in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California.

Moneyball
In 2003, author Michael Lewis was interested in how Oakland Athletics general manager (GM) Billy Beane tried to find quality players to improve the team while struggling with one of the smallest payrolls in Major League Baseball. He first wanted to write an article on the subject, but the idea eventually blossomed into a book named Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Lewis's interests included how Beane hired DePodesta as his assistant to incorporate sabermetrics, an approach that consists of more sophisticated analyses of baseball statistics, which is at least partially credited for their 2002 20-game winning streak which set an American League record.

Lewis's book examines the lives and careers of various baseball personalities and explains the art of sabermetrics. Bill James, who coined the term sabermetrics for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), is also a major focus. James published The Bill James Baseball Abstract from 1977 to 1988 and wrote several sabermetrics books. Beane and DePodesta had studied James's work and were inspired by his knowledge of baseball analysis.

DePodesta did not feel comfortable in the spotlight after the book's release, nor did he care for the secrets revealed about his scouting methods. The book earned DePodesta a reputation as a cold calculator, choosing players based only on their numbers. In addition, he was thought of as a guy who knew nothing of "real baseball."

In reality, DePodesta played football in college and wanted to be a football coach, seen in a photo wearing number 17. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in economics, he became an intern for the Canadian Football League's Baltimore Stallions in 1995. In early 1996, he got his first baseball job with the Cleveland Indians, where he worked as a scout. In October 1996, at age 24, he was promoted to the position of advance scout. In October 1998, he became assistant to the general manager for the team. Those experiences led to him being hired by Beane as his assistant with the Oakland A's in November 1998.

When the movie Moneyball was adapted from the book, DePodesta did not approve of the way his character was portrayed. "There were a handful of things. Some were factual, others were more ephemeral." He had no objection to Jonah Hill's performance. "Jonah was awesome. He was so respectful of me and my time. It would have been flattering to be portrayed by someone of his expertise. It had nothing to do with the casting," DePodesta said in 2010. "I just could never get comfortable with the idea of somebody else portraying me to the rest of the world. Like any movie, to make it interesting, there has to be some conflict there. In some respects, a lot of the conflict is going to revolve around my character, and that was never really the case in reality," he said in 2011. He also talked about the focus that was brought on him, first in 2003 and again in 2011. "The other problem was I wasn't all that interested in the attention. It had already happened from the book. And I didn't necessarily need to relive it."

The role was originally going to be given DePodesta's name and portrayed by Demetri Martin, but DePodesta did not want his name or likeness to be used in the movie, so the character was named Peter Brand. Brand is a composite of Beane's assistants in Oakland, not an accurate representation of any specific person, but Moneyball's director, Bennett Miller, has credited DePodesta for being generous and helpful in the making of the film. Hill was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shit-Storm

 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. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 04:26, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Shit-Storm
Delete as self-promotion. FreplySpang (talk) 01:59, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

*weak keep What is the threshold of notability for comedy troupes? Do they have to be nationally fameous?Roodog2k 14:09, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nominator.--nixie 02:01, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep There are plenty of other pages regarding comedy groups and people. (Unsigned comment by 67.86.9.248 on 02:17, 27 August 2005 UTC)
 * Question: Does this group have any media coverage or other evidence of a reasonably large audience? Kappa 02:25, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Those pages cover notable groups, that is, groups or individuals who have some claim to national fame. Rob Church Talk 02:35, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Vanity Page Guidelines: Lack of fame shouldn't be a reason for a delete.
 * Keep As a regular at the UCB theater, I can vouch for the fact that SS is a group worthy of an article. They have regular fans and are accomplished actors.
 * Unfortunately personal attestations won't go very far, especially from new users. Wikipedia needs nice verifiable evidence. Kappa 02:44, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's spelled shit-storm, but it's pronounced vanity page. Delete Dottore So 03:00, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Reads to much like vanity, "wave of popularity" "rave reviews." If it were re-started with different style I could accept notability. Marskell 12:17, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry guys. Come back later.  Delete.  Nandesuka 12:41, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, link supported advertising, unless anyone wants it "Userfied". Alf 13:14, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Question: link sponsored advertising? i don't see any.
 * Delete Based on what I saw on CurrentTV, and this apparent attempt to pad the votes by a number of anon users, agreed that its NN and I hereby change my vote. Roodog2k 17:39, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Whatever that threshold may be, I can't imagine that its being met by a totally unreferenced article with the only external links being to the subject's own website and the theatre where the subject performs. Fernando Rizo T/C 18:13, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nominator Manik Raina 15:12, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Fernando Rizo T/C 18:13, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete spam. Fire Star 20:25, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as of yet non-notable group. Sdedeo 21:18, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep factual and verifiable. Trollderella 22:02, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Trollderella when factual and verifiable become the only criteria for inclusion, someone will let you know and then your votes will be welcome indeed. Admin, please ignore this vote; it's tendentious. Dottore So 07:58, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Dottore So, your comment that "factual and verifiable" is not sufficient for inclusion is correct and relevant. I don't think your other comments are and I wish you'd consider editing them out. If you do so, please remove this comment at the same time. A vote is a vote, and actual VfD votes define our de facto policy, which policy pages codify. Trollderella cast his vote and gave a reason. I think it's a bad reason but that doesn't matter. I think it is way out of line to suggest that the acting sysop ignore a valid vote Sysops are supposed to judge consensus, not pass judgement on the rationale given by voters. By pointing out that the reason he gives is invalid, you may hope to influence him or other voters (or minimize the influence of his vote on other voters) but you shouldn't try to influence the acting sysop. Dpbsmith (talk) 12:14, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete vanity, self-promotion. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:40, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment I was watching some show on Current, the TV Channel invented by Al Gore, and they were featuring this Billy Hot Chocolate guy. Shit-storm did not feature much in the show. My vote stands as above. :) Roodog2k 19:54, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep as informative. Unsigned vote by User:24.215.231.69 13:48, August 29, 2005

 * Keep as informative, especially in light of contributions maqde from Shit-Storm member Eric Appel as writer for The Andy Milonakis Show; this page shows background.(UTC) Unsigned vote by User:24.195.25.159 16:09, August 29, 2005

 * KeepShit-Storm!

 * Delete self promotion.

 * Delete Self agrandizing vanity. User:Capplebee

 * Keep Looking at the history of the entry, I don't think this is just self-promo.Bjones

 * KeepShit-Storm!

keep them

 * Keep it. This is informative.
 * Delete vanity. nonsense.

 * Keep A legitimate and respected improv group, keep this. User:Mattmoses

 * Delete I've seen them perform several times. They are neither legitimate nor respected except by the few of their more loyal audience members who still believe improv which "breaks the rules" is innovative or important. They're barely worthy of their ultimately meager following let alone of their inclusion in Wikipedia, which they admit on another webpage (http://www.improvresourcecenter.com/mb/showthread.php?t=38587) began as a joke for the sake of both vanity and self-promotion.User:BJH

 * Keep BJH sounds like sour grapes. It still is helpful and interesting.

 * Delete BJH is basically correct. And the previous voter doesn't know what "sour grapes" means. 216.27.44.254

KEEP: Shit Storm is good, and worthy of this entry. delete: guilty as charged

 * I cant decide but one thing I am sure about is that Im going to see this handsome group shit-storm for myself at school night, hosted by Justin Purnell, on sept. 14 at the UCB theatre in New York

Keep: We may yet discover their importance.
 * Keep Why not keep them. This is history.

DeleteOne time I farted and everyone blamed it on my teacher.

 * Happy B-Day Billy Hot Chocolate

KEEP: Yeehaw!

 * Keep They are changing the face of the improv comedy scene.
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Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac

Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, also known as Champollion l'aîné ('the Elder'; 5 October 1778 – 9 May 1867) was a French archaeologist, elder brother of Jean-François Champollion (decipherer of the Rosetta Stone).

Biography
He was born at Figeac in the département of Lot. He became professor of Greek and librarian at Grenoble. His research in Grenoble in 1803 revealed the existence of a Merovingian crypt under the church of St. Laurent. He was compelled to retire in 1816 on account of the part he had taken during the Hundred Days. He afterwards became keeper of manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, and professor of palaeography at the École des Chartes. In 1850 he became librarian of the Château de Fontainebleau.

He was a correspondent, living abroad, of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands from 1832 to 1851.

Works
He edited several of his brother's works, and was also author of original works on philological and historical subjects, among which may be mentioned:
 * Antiquités de Grenoble (1807)
 * Nouvelles recherches sur les patois ou idiomes vulgaires de la France (1809)
 * Nouveaux éclaireissements sur la ville de Cataro, aujourd'hui Grenoble (1814)
 * Annales de Lagides (1819; supplement, 1821)
 * Chartes latines sur papyrus du VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne.
 * Charte de Commune en langue romane, pour la ville de Gréalou en Quercy; publiée avec sa traduction française et des recherches sur quelques points de l'histoire de la langue romane en Europe et dans le Levant (1829), containing a partial edition of the Arabic–Old French glossary
 * L'Egypt ancienne et moderne (1840) Based on his brother's manuscript collections.
 * L'écriture démotique égyptienne (1843) Based on his brother's manuscript collections.
 * Traité élémentaire d'archeologie (2d ed. 1843)
 * Histoire des peuples anciens et modernes, l'Asie centrale, l'Inde et la Chine (1857)
 * Monographie du palais de Fontainebleau (1859–64)
 * Documents paléographiques relatifs à l'histoire des beaux-arts et des belles-lettres pendant le moyen âge (1868)

Legacy
His son Aimé-Louis (1812–1894) became his father's assistant at the Bibliothèque Nationale and, besides a number of works on historical subjects, wrote a biographical and bibliographical study of his family in Les Deux Champollion (Grenoble, 1887).

In Vif near Grenoble, The Champollion Museum is located at the former abode of Jacques Joseph.

In popular culture
Champollion was portrayed by Stuart Bunce in the 2005 BBC docudrama Egypt.

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KUTN

KUTN (96.7 FM, "Flashback 96.7", or in other words "96.7 Flashback") is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Levan, Utah, United States, the station serves the Levan area. The station is owned by a Utah County-based company called Sanpete County Broadcasting Company.

KUTN has a sister station known as KIXR.

History
The station was assigned the call sign KBLN on January 8, 1999. On January 25, 2001, the station changed its call sign to KCFM and on September 21, 2005, to KQMB; the radio station's name was Star 96.7.

KQMB picked up the callsign and format from 102.7, which is now known as KSL (radio network) KSL-FM.

In 2014, the station lost its signal and in 2017, the station went dark.

On December 20, 2018, Zeta Holdings, LLC sold the silent station, its booster signal in Provo, and translator K244DH Fort Douglas for $100,000 to Lucky Dog Broadcasting owned by Franklyn H. & Melanie Mueller. The sale was consummated on May 21, 2019. In 2020, the license for the booster signal in Provo was cancelled. The station returned to air on January 29, 2021. Originally, soft hits was aired on KKUT-HD4 Mount Pleasant for a while. On April 17, 2021, KQMB flipped to a soft adult contemporary format branded as Kosy 96.7, and the soft hits was moved from KKUT-HD4 Mount Pleasant to KKUT-HD3 Mount Pleasant. As of November 16, 2021, KWLO 1580 and its FM translator on 99.9 began broadcasting a repeating audio message telling listeners that "Utah's Goat" had moved to 96.7 FM. KQMB flipped to a classic hit format branded as Utah's Goat 96.7, and the classic hits is now heard on KKUT-HD3 Mount Pleasant. Lucky Dog Broadcasting had been leasing the 1580 and 99.9 frequencies from owner RAMS III under a local marketing agreement (LMA), and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lucky Dog was unable to consummate the sale of KWLO and its associated translator. The new owner of 1580 and 99.9 was scheduled to take over operations of those frequencies beginning December 1, 2021. However, the transfer of station ownership was delayed by several months. Programming from Iglesia Pentecostal Vispera Del Fin began airing on KWLO on April 13, 2022.

On March 31, 2022, it was announced that Sanpete County Broadcasting Company had filed with the FCC to purchase KQMB, KSRR, and translator K244DH from Frank Mueller's Lucky Dog Broadcasting for $170,000. On August 31, 2022, the sale of KSRR, KQMB, and K244DH from Lucky Dog Broadcasting to Sanpete County Broadcasting was consummated with the FCC. On October 6, 2022, Sanpete County Broadcasting filed an application with the FCC to change the KSRR call sign to KIXR. The change was approved on October 27, 2022. On October 13, 2022, KQMB was granted a "license to cover" by the FCC. On November 2, 2022, Sanpete County Broadcasting submitted a request to the FCC to change KQMB's call sign to KUTN. The change was approved by the FCC on November 9, 2022. On November 7, 2022, Utah's Goat changed its branding to "Flashback 96.7" or in other words "96.7 Flashback", and the station is now streaming online.

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Who I am:

I am a Physician with specialty certification in Radiology and subspecialty interests in Mammography, Breast MR, Cardiac MR, Cardiac CT, and Nuclear Medicine

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1953 Palanca Awards

The 3rd Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country.

Short Story

 * First Prize: Andres Cristobal Cruz, "The Quarrel"
 * Second Prize: N.V.M. Gonzales, "Lupo and the River"
 * Third Prize: Rony V. Diaz, "The Centipede"

Maikling Kwento

 * First Prize: Buenaventura S. Medina Jr., "Kapangyarihan"
 * Second Prize: Hilario Coronel, "Ang Anluwage"
 * Third Prize: Ponciano B. Pineda, "Malalim ang Gabi"

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The Other Guys

The Other Guys is a 2010 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Adam McKay, who co-wrote it with Chris Henchy. It stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg with Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Ray Stevenson, Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson in supporting roles.

This film is the fourth of five collaborations between Ferrell and McKay, following Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), and Step Brothers (2008), and followed by Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013). The Other Guys is the only one not to be co-written by Ferrell. It is also the first of three collaborations between Ferrell and Wahlberg, who later reunited in Daddy's Home (2015) and Daddy's Home 2 (2017).

The film was released in the United States on August 6, 2010. It was well received by critics and grossed $170 million worldwide.

Plot
Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz are both officers of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Allen is a mild-mannered forensic accountant while Terry is a hot-tempered detective who was partnered with Allen after mistakenly shooting Derek Jeter during the World Series (and earning him the nickname "Yankee Clipper"). They receive no respect from the other officers, particularly detectives Martin and Fosse. The precinct, except for Terry, idolizes detectives Chris Danson and P. K. Highsmith, who are considered New York City's best policemen despite the major collateral damage they cause catching petty criminals. During a pursuit, they leap to their deaths, believing they would land safely after surviving many near-death experiences.

Allen and Terry investigate a scaffolding permit violation by British multi-billionaire Sir David Ershon but wind up uncovering a much bigger plot by Ershon to cover the losses incurred by his client, Lendl Global. Lendl CEO Pamela Boardman has hired a team of mercenaries led by Roger Wesley to make sure Ershon pays her back.

Terry and Allen go to Allen's house to talk through the case and have dinner with Allen's wife Sheila. When they visit Allen's ex-girlfriend, Christinith, to gain their police evidence, she and her husband want him to have sex with her. Meanwhile, Terry unsuccessfully attempts to reconnect with his ex-fiancée Francine, who had walked out on him due to his anger issues.

During their investigation, Allen and Terry are wounded due to an unsuccessful attempt at scaring them off via the bombing of an accounting office when they come in to investigate it. Allen confides in Terry about how he ran a prostitution ring in college, though he insists that he was never a pimp. He stopped because he was deep into his dark alternative personality, "Gator", and wound up in the hospital, where he met Sheila. When Sheila tells Allen she is pregnant, he reverts to his Gator personality, causing her to kick him out.

Their investigation comes to a halt when Ershon's attorney, Don Beaman, learns of Ershon's plan to cover his losses, leading Wesley to kill him and make it look like suicide. Angered at their lack of progress, Captain Gene Mauch splits up the partners, sending Terry to traffic duty and Allen to beat patrol.

Despite Terry's anger, Allen still works the case on his own. After he learns that Danson and Highsmith died investigating a staged theft during which Wesley broke into an accounting firm next door, he finds credible evidence and earns his gun back from Mauch. Allen then convinces Terry to rejoin him. They meet Mauch at Bed Bath & Beyond, his second job, where he admits he has been holding off on the case because Ershon has high-profile connections that could ruin him, so he allows them to finish the case off-the-books.

They go to an investment meeting Ershon is having and realize that the $32 billion Ershon seeks is really coming from the NYPD pension fund. They escape with Ershon to his private apartment, and he tells them that the money from the pension fund is already in his account, ready to be transferred. Later that night, Allen and Terry finally reconcile with their loved ones. Allen apologizes to Sheila using her mother as an intermediary and she welcomes him back in. Terry also apologizes to Francine for letting his anger rule his life.

The next morning, they drive to the bank to stop the transfer, evading Wesley's team, groups of Chechen and Nigerian "investors" to whom Ershon owes money, and police officers who are told Allen and Terry have gone rogue. Reaching the bank, they halt the transfer. Wesley arrives and, as a delaying tactic, shoots both officers and Ershon in their arms. Mauch finally arrives with backup, rescuing them and arresting Ershon for embezzlement, and Wesley for multiple counts of murder. Ershon's arrest led to a stock market crash and the subsequent federal bailout of Lendl Global. Terry marries Francine, and Allen reunites with his wife.

Cast

 * Will Ferrell as Detective Allen "Gator" Gamble, a mild mannered detective and Hoitz's partner
 * Mark Wahlberg as Detective Terry Hoitz, Gamble's partner who is hated by the precinct due to shooting Derek Jeter, having done so under the belief he was an assailant
 * Eva Mendes as Dr. Sheila Ramos Gamble, Gamble's wife and a nurse
 * Michael Keaton as Captain Gene Mauch, the precinct's chief of police who also works at Bed, Bath, and Beyond
 * Steve Coogan as Sir David Ershon, a British billionaire
 * Ray Stevenson as Roger Wesley, Boardman's head of security and a mercenary, sent by her to monitor Ershon's activities
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Detective P.K. Highsmith, a cocky, well-liked detective who causes property damage while pursuing cases
 * Dwayne Johnson as Detective Christopher Danson, Highsmith's partner
 * Lindsay Sloane as Francine, Hoitz's ex-fiance
 * Natalie Zea as Christinith, Gamble's ex girlfriend
 * Rob Riggle as Detective Evan Martin, a detective who constantly picks on Hoitz and Gamble
 * Damon Wayans Jr. as Detective Fosse, Martin's partner who also picks on Hoitz and Gamble
 * Viola Harris as Mama Ramos, Shelia's mother
 * Rob Huebel as Officer Watts, a officer in the NYPD
 * Brett Gelman as Hal, Christinith's husband
 * Bobby Cannavale as Jimmy, a detective who picks on Hoitz and Gamble
 * Andy Buckley as Don Beaman, Ershon's attorney
 * Ben Schwartz as Beaman's Assistant
 * Adam McKay as Dirty Mike, a homeless man who trashed Gamble's car after it was stolen
 * Zach Woods as Douglas, an employee in Ershon's company
 * Chris Gethard as Clerk
 * Zoe Lister-Jones as Therapist
 * Michael Delaney as Bob Littleford
 * Tess Kartel as Brazilian woman

 * Cameos
 * Anne Heche as Pamela Boardman (uncredited), the CEO of Lendl Global
 * Ice-T as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
 * Horatio Sanz as gallery owner
 * Thomas Middleditch as gallery attendee
 * Derek Jeter as himself
 * Brooke Shields as herself
 * Rosie Perez as herself
 * Tracy Morgan as himself
 * Monty Sopp as Kip James (uncredited)
 * Brian James as BG James (uncredited)
 * Josef Sommer as District Attorney Radford (uncredited)

Production
Adam McKay described the genesis as an "accident, in a way", stemming from a dinner he and Will Ferrell had with Mark Wahlberg. After noticing the actors' chemistry, McKay wrote producer Kevin Messick an email hypothesizing a possible film starring the two, giving a cop film as an example of what he thought would work. Messick suggested developing that idea into a film.

Principal photography for the film began on September 23, 2009, in New York City. Additional scenes were filmed in Albany and Staten Island, New York.

Practical visual effects work, including the helicopter crash scene, was done by KernerFX.

Stunt coordinator Brad Martin said in a Wall Street Journal interview that for Gamble's car they used three Priuses, including one with a racing engine so large it had to go in the back seat.

Release
In July 2010, Wahlberg and Ferrell appeared at the San Diego Comic-Con International to promote the film.

During an episode of Big Brother, the house guests competed in a luxury challenge to see an advance screening of the film. Although they weren't actually in the house, both Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg made an on-screen video appearance.

During the August 4, 2010, episode of America's Got Talent, the week's contestants saw an advance screening of the film and met Ferrell and Wahlberg.

Ferrell and Wahlberg also made a cameo appearance on an episode of WWE Raw to promote the film.

During the week leading up to the release date, the film was promoted on TruTV programs, specifically The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest.... During the Season 2 premier for the MTV reality series Jersey Shore on July 29, 2010, special segments were shown during the commercial breaks of the show's cast broken down on a highway, discussing several movies, as part of a promotional tie-in; with The Other Guys being one of them.

They appeared in on screen advertising on broadcast sports events like MLB and NASCAR.

Box office
In its first day of release, The Other Guys grossed $13.1 million, placing first for Friday. It had a large opening weekend take of $35.5 million, placing it at #1 for the weekend of August 6–8, 2010, unseating Inception. The film ended up grossing $119.2 million in North America and $51.7 million in other territories, making for a worldwide total of $170.9 million.

Critical reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 78% based on 205 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "A clever parody of cop-buddy action-comedies, The Other Guys delivers several impressive action set pieces and lots of big laughs, thanks to the assured comic chemistry between Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg." On Metacritic, the film was assigned a weighted average score of 64 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.

The film was praised as "a highly entertaining movie filled with witty dialogue and over-the-top action." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone praised the film, saying, "Don't let anyone spoil the wildly hilarious surprises. Ferrell and Wahlberg will double your fun. Guaranteed." Some critics praised The Other Guys as the best police film of the year, comparing the film to the critically panned Cop Out, with Richard Roeper stating, "Note to Kevin Smith: THIS is how you do a spoof of the buddy-cop genre," and Stephen Whitty of The Star-Ledger said in his mixed review, "Measured against this year's other police farce—remember Cop Out?—it looks absolutely heroic."

The Other Guys also received the "Best Comedy Film" award for 2010 at the first annual Comedy Awards.

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Birds of the West Indies

Birds of the West Indies (ISBN 0-618-00210-3) is a book containing exhaustive coverage of the 400+ species of birds found in the Caribbean Sea, excluding the ABC islands, and Trinidad and Tobago, which are considered bio-geographically as part of South America.

Written by ornithologist James Bond, the book was first published in 1936 by the Academy of Natural Sciences as part of the International Series. It was reprinted in 1947 by Macmillan as Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies and has been reprinted several times since then, including as one of the Peterson Field Guides series (PFG 18), a September 1, 1999, edition from Houghton Mifflin and a March 4, 2002 edition from Collins. The book contains approximately 256 pages.

The book was the only text exclusively devoted to the avifauna of the region for many decades until A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies (ISBN 0-691-08736-9), by Herbert Raffaele et al., was published in 1998.

Inspiration for Ian Fleming
Birds of the West Indies was a book owned by novelist Ian Fleming, who used the ornithologist's name for his own fictional British secret agent character, Commander James Bond. Fleming, a keen bird watcher while living at his estate in Jamaica, owned this book. He later explained that the author's name was "brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon, and yet very masculine – just what I needed." Fleming once said in a Reader's Digest interview: "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, and 'James Bond' was much better than something more interesting, like 'Peregrine Carruthers.' Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure — an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department." The book has since become a collector's item amongst Bond fans and was featured as a homage in the twentieth James Bond film, Die Another Day, when Bond poses as an ornithologist while in Cuba. The final shot of the miniseries Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond is of a copy of Birds of the West Indies next to Ian Fleming's typewriter.

The story of James Bond and his wife, Mary Fanning Wickham Bond, discovering Ian Fleming's theft of the name, before contacting and meeting Fleming at Goldeneye is told in the 2022 documentary The Other Fellow. The film chronicles the lives of several men named James Bond and shows a film, not previously broadcast, of the Bonds meeting Fleming, as well as interviews with James and Mary that were discovered by the film's director Matthew Bauer.

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Large format lens

Large format lenses are photographic optics that provide an image circle large enough to cover the large format film or plates used in large format cameras.

Photographic optics generally project a circular image behind that is only required to have acceptable correction of aberrations over the intended film/sensor diagonal with little room to spare. Lenses that may be able to produce a considerably larger image circle than is needed (notably long focus lenses), but optimised for a given image format will typically mask this excess coverage off to minimize reflections and reduced contrast.

However, Some Medium and Large format cameras have movements, such as view cameras also sometimes known as technical cameras. Allowing the lens to be shifted and/or tilted from the sensor/film axis without vignetting in the corners opposite the movement requires a larger image circle. For this reason, large format lenses often produce image circles significantly larger than the film/sensor diagonal they are nominally aimed at Compared to mainstream cameras that typically have non-interchangeable lenses and/or focal plane shutters operated from the camera body, another difference with medium and especially large format lenses is that they are typically interchangeable in a very simple manner, being mounted in a "lens board", and include a shutter just in front behind or usually in the middle of the lens. This shutter is tripped directly at the lens (possibly using a cable release), not by a release on the camera body

Lens designs
Note: much of the text in this section is applicable to camera lenses for all formats, not only large format lenses

Lenses of the same general construction are often given a name implying this design. For example, a Tessar always has four elements in three groups as described below, although Tessars have been produced with different focal lengths and maximum apertures for many decades. Sometimes a name does not identify a specific design; Kodak's Ektar lens brand name encompasses many different types. Sometimes different manufacturers use different names for lenses of the same type; for example, the Voigtländer Skopar is of Tessar design. And sometimes identical lenses are sold under different names and at different prices; for example, lenses branded as Rodenstock and Calder.

Early lenses suffered from flare and low contrast, worsening as the number of lens-air interfaces increased. The introduction of and improvements in anti-reflective coatings vastly reduced flare; some many-element lens designs which had been abandoned due to low contrast in spite of otherwise excellent performance became practical. Lenses designed for use with monochromatic film, first orthochromatic, then panchromatic, had less exacting requirements regarding chromatic aberrations than when colour film is used. When using older lenses today one should check those chromatic aberrations and flare are acceptable for the application.

Wide-angle lens designs
The term wide-angle lens denotes a lens that has an image circle diameter significantly wider than the lens focal length

 * The Hypergon is a wide angle lens that covers a flat field. It is constructed symmetrically consisting of two deep meniscus elements that almost form a sphere. The aperture is limited to f/20 due to spherical and chromatic aberrations.

Normal lens designs
The term wide-angle lens denotes a lens that has an image circle diameter approximately the same as the lens focal length

The Tessar design is suitable for front-element focussing, but unit focussing is used on large format cameras.
 * Anastigmat is an achromatic lens used to reduce or eliminate astigmatism designed specifically for photographic applications. All modern lenses are anastigmatic; lenses produced in the early days when this was a new feature often had the word Anastigmat in their name: Voigtländer Anastigmat Skopar.
 * A Tessar comprises four elements in three groups, one positive crown glass element on the front, one negative flint glass element at the center, and a negative plano-concave flint glass element cemented with a positive convex crown glass element at the rear. Many manufacturers have produced lenses of this type under their own names.

Telephoto lens designs
The term long-focus lens denotes a lens that has a focal length significantly longer than the image circle diameter. For small formats such as 35mm, extreme long focus lenses can be found, with focal lengths 5, 10, or even higher multiples of the image circle, however, such extreme lenses are not normal for large formats (unless we chose to consider astronomical telescopes as cameras, which is very valid, indeed see eg Schmitt cameras and astrographs) The term telephoto has become widely if loosely used for any long-focus lens, but a true telephoto lens is designed to be physically shorter* than a simple lens of that long focal length. Typically this is achieved with a diverging group (sometimes known as the telephoto group) between the converging front group and the film/sensor. As a bonus, this rear diverging group often acts to flatten the focal plane (that would result from spherical aberrations of the front group if not corrected)

 * the front group is further back relative to the lens node/focal plane than would be the case for a simple thin lens of the same focal length

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Talk:Results of the 2003 Japanese general election

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I played around with the layout a bit because in the old version a map overlap a table and that looks ugly on my screen. I also think the new version is more compact thus have improved readability. If no one opposes, I will apply this format to the rest. Needless to say, I don't know how this looks on others' screen so don't hesitate to make modifications. -- Taku 02:04, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

 * I have no objection to any of the improvements, and I agree it looks a little nicer. The only thing I don't like is that I wish the total seats for a party (in the same box as the party name) were right aligned, or otherwise lined up vertically for comparison, as the single member and proportional entries are.

 * You may have to play around with the maps to get them to appropriate sizes, because have very different aspect ratios -- the Tohoku one is very large if you set the same width as the others. Willhsmit 02:11, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

My new edit should address this concern (i.e., total seats). I am still not quite comfortable with PR column but this is a good compromise. I will change the format for the rest in a day or so. -- Taku 23:46, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Tables
One possibile addition to the first table (nationwide summary) is changes. Changes in % of vote can go in parentheses within the table entry (e.g. 39.7% (+2.7)) but the most important change, number of seats, perhaps deserves a separate column. Nice article and fantastic graphics! Fg2 02:24, September 4, 2005 (UTC)


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Brian Chase

Brian Chase (born February 12, 1978) is an American drummer and drone musician who plays in the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He was ranked at No. 50 in Gigwise's list of The Greatest Drummers of All Time.

Career
Chase met Karen O at Ohio's Oberlin College, and he joined the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in 2000 after their original drummer left the trio.

Starting at college, Chase played for the rock band The Seconds. Chase has been described by the New York Times as "a consummate music nerd, a conservatory-trained jazz drummer who still plays in the city’s experimental scene." He plays drums with traditional grip.

Outside of his rock work with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Chase has performed in a number of experimental duos with other musicians, such as Stefan Tcherepnin and Seth Misterka, with whom he released a CD Duo on the Australian Heathen Skulls label in 2007. Other musicians he has played with include Jessica Pavone, Mary Halvorson, Yonatan Gat, Moppa Elliott, and groups Oakley Hall, Blarvuster, and klezmer-fusionists The Sway Machinery.

In May 2010 the Chase/Misterka Duo performed at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival and then a month-long Australian tour. A second record The Shape of Sound was released to coincide.

In 2013, Chase released the album Drums & Drones. A follow-up, Drums & Drones II, was released in 2018 by Canadian label ICM. Chase's drone work has been inspired by his time working at La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's Dream House, NYC.

Chase founded and operates Chaikin Records, a label named after his family's original name.

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Talk:Foreign relations of Singapore

Hainan
Beside ROC's legislators and media reports mentioning the Hainan offer, did S'pore or PRC govt made any comment regarding this matter? I couldn't find any. Vsion 02:06, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm....I would be looking for the actual offer by the PRC with regards to that too, other than from the two sources already listed...Hadent really gone deeply into it yet thou. :D--Huaiwei 06:36, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! That information seems to come from third party only ... About this article, I'm hoping to expand it for each region and each major topic (e.g. FTAs) adding all the relevant facts that we can find. This article abit messy now, but I believe it has potential to grow. The Current events in Malaysia and Singapore page really help! And that has been kept alive for two months now :-). --Vsion 07:08, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah.....we can actually write tonnes for both Malaysia and Indonesia (enough even for seperate pages for each country and probably even particular incidents. The water dispute is enough for books! :D), and lots of other countries are worthy of extensive mention here. We dont even have one for the PRC yet! Btw, we might have to move the FTAs to another page if the content grows...I have already made the provisional links below (and we need one for aviation agreements too. Others may follow). As for current events...phew....it was a real killer, but it forces me to keep abreast with the news. :D but we still have only two of us contributing actively to it...we need help!--Huaiwei 07:30, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * My interest in updating the current event is still strong, but yes, help is needed, (and I'm going for wikibreak soon, haha). Should we post a stub-like message at the top of the page: '" blab blab blab ..., You can help Wikipedia by updating it." --Vsion 07:38, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I am basically forever interested in the news (have been doing news cuttings for over 10 yrs now?), but it is indeed a challenge trying to update an online one everyday, especially when other life's commitments starts to pile up. As for the notice...hm...how about we shout it out everywhere we can? haha! :D--Huaiwei 07:57, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think the Europe section requires expanding to include the UK, France etc. --

Countries w/o diplomatic relations
Are there any countries which *do not* have any diplomatic relations with Singapore? North Korea? Zimbabwe? Any resources where we can find a list of these countries? Veinofstars (talk) 14:27, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Proposed WikiProject - Bilateral relations
There is now a upstart WikiProject to establish a concensus about WP's International bilateral relations articles, including "X-Y (country) relations" articles, at Centralized discussion/Bilateral international relations. Interested parties should add their names at WikiProject International relations/Bilateral relations task force if they wish to play a part in the discussions or have an Interest in this going forward. Thank you for your attention. CaribDigita (talk) 23:24, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

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The list states diplomatic relations with Serbia 🇷🇸 starting from 1960s which is incorrect. It should state Yugoslavia instead, as Serbia is not a direct successor of former socialist federation but Slovenia, Croatia, N. Macedonia, Bosnia Herzegovina and federal republic of Yugoslavia which later renamed itself to Serbia & Montenegro which finally dissolved on two separate states in 2000s. Therefore, info should be corrected accordingly. 185.50.15.107 (talk) 19:00, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

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Córdoba fighting dog

The Córdoba fighting dog (viejo perro de pelea cordobés) was a type of dog indigenous to Córdoba, Argentina, that resulted from crossbreeding old mastiff types of unknown pedigree. They were purposely bred for the sport of dog fighting until the early 20th century. They became extinct after dog fighting became illegal in Argentina in 1954.

History
The Córdoba fighting dog was a dog type originating from Córdoba, Argentina utilizing Spanish Mastiffs, Bull terriers and early Bulldogs brought to South America.

In the 1920s, Antonio Nores Martinez and his brother Agustin were inspired to develop a dog that could hunt wildcats, boar, fox and other vermin that were harmful to the region's agriculture. Over time, Martinez developed a new breed of pedigreed dog by repeatedly crossbreeding the Córdoba fighting dogs with modern breeds of dogs that were internationally recognized, such as the Boxer, Dogue de Bordeaux, Bulldog, Pointer, Bull Terrier, Irish Wolfhound, Great Pyrenees, and Great Dane. As a result of that purposeful breeding, the Dogo Argentino was developed.

In 1954, Argentina passed Article 3.8 of Law 14.346 on the Ill-Treatment and Acts of Cruelty to Animals which explicitly prohibits "carrying out public or private acts of animal fights, fights of bulls and heifers, or parodies [thereof], in which animals are killed, wounded or harassed." Already quite rare and with no other purpose, the Córdoba dog became extinct.

Characteristics
Often described as "large, white and ferocious," the Córdoba fighting dog was noted for its willingness to fight to the death and its high pain tolerance. The dog was so aggressive that fights would arise even during mating.

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Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński

Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński (Фадде́й Фра́нцевич Зели́нский; [Faddei Frantsevich] September 14, 1859 – May 8, 1944) was a prominent Polish classical philologist, historian, and translator of Sophocles, Euripides and other classical authors into Russian. His most well-known works are Die Gliederung der altattischen Komoedie, Tragodumenon libri tres, and Iresione, the last of which is a collection of essays.

Life and career
He was born on 14 September 1859 in Skrzypczyńce, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) to father Franciszek and mother Ludwika (née Grudzińska), both of them of Polish descent. Between 1869 and 1876 he attended secondary school in Saint Petersburg and subsequently in the years 1876–1881 he studied in Leipzig, Munich and Vienna. In 1880 he earned his doctorate from the University of Leipzig for his dissertation, Die Gliederung der altattischen Komoedie. He was author of works on the history of ancient Greek culture and religion, classical education, and popularization of classical studies (published largely in Russian and German).

In 1884 he became a professor at the University of St. Petersburg, and following Polish independence he held the chair of Classical Studies at Warsaw University for 17 years (1922–1939) during the interwar period. He was the recipient of honorary doctorates from the Jagiellonian University, Kraków (1930), and twelve western European universities. Between 1933 and 1939 Zieliński was a member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature.

His daughter became the wife of Prof. Vladimir Beneshevich, executed by the Soviet regime in 1938. Adrian Piotrovsky, his natural son, was arrested by the NKVD in November 1937 and executed.

After the outbreak of World War II, Zieliński left Poland to live with his son in Bavaria, where he lived until he died in 1944 after completing Religions of the Ancient World, which he considered to be his magnum opus.

Scholarly work
Although Zieliński was active in many areas of classical scholarship, one of the studies for which he is best known in the West is his investigation of the prose rhythm of Cicero, published in 1904, which is still often referred to today. (See Clausula (rhetoric)). He was also an early mentor to Mikhail Bakhtin. Zieliński's concept of pliaska, in which logocentricism is challenged by incorporating gesture and dance into speech, is referenced in Bakhtin's communication theories that emphasize group participation in the interpretation of meaning between self and other.

His work Tragodumena: De trimetri Euripidei evolutione is a primary reference work for chronology, style, and resolution within Euripides' individual plays as well as across Euripides' body of work, and employs an early narratological methodology.

Zieliński's defense of the significance of classical antiquity in education in a series of lectures in 1903 resulted in the publication of "Our Debt to Antiquity" (in Russian: "Drevnij mir i my") in 1905. In this work, Zieliński argues for a classically-influenced education's compatibility with the natural sciences and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. By 1911, the work was translated into French, English, Czech, and Italian, and its German translation appeared in the third edition.

Works

 * Cicero im Wandel der Jahrhunderte. (Leipzig 1897, 2nd ed. 1908)
 * Das Clauselgesetz in Ciceros Reden. Grundzüge einer oratorischen Rhythmik (1904)
 * Der Constructive Rhythmus in Ciceros Reden. Der oratorischen Rhythmik zweiter Teil (1913)
 * Rzym i jego religia (1920, Polish)
 * Chrześcijaństwo starożytne a filozofia rzymska (1921, Polish)
 * Grecja. Budownictwo, plastyka, krajobraz (1923, Polish)
 * Literatura starożytnej Grecji epoki niepodległości (1923, Polish)
 * Rozwój moralności w świecie starożytnym od Homera do czasów Chrystusa (1927, Polish)
 * Filheleńskie poematy Byrona (1928, Polish)
 * Kleopatra (1929, Polish)
 * OCLC-number for the translated edition:
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Tadeusz Zieliński

Tadeusz Zieliński may refer to:
 * Tadeusz J. Zieliński (born 1966), Polish lawyer and Protestant theologian
 * Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński (1859–1944), Polish philologist and historian
 * Tadeusz Zieliński (athlete) (1946–1977), Polish middle-distance runner
 * Thaddeus Zielinski (1916–1990), American bishop

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Melbourne School Bands Festival

The Melbourne School Bands/Strings Festival was a two-week program where school bands mainly from metropolitan Melbourne, Australia, as well as country Victoria and interstate, gather to perform, listen and participate in tutorials. The Festival has an education focus. All ensembles receive either a Gold, Silver, Bronze, Merit or Participation shield. The Melbourne School Band festival is the brain child of Barry Croll and Douglas Heywood who created the idea and event under the Music Junction Blackburn Banner in 1989 to support the ongoing development of music education in schools. The festival was produced and sponsored by Billy Hyde Music Foundation, until their parent company Billy Hyde went into liquidation in 2012.

In 2008, the Festival's 20th anniversary, over 300 concert bands, jazz ensembles and string ensembles performed at the Robert Blackwood Concert Hall and School of Music Auditorium, Monash University. Since the inception of the festival in 1989 the number of students electing to learn an instrument through their school music program has increased substantially. The festival is now one of Australia's most prestigious musical events for school musicians.

The festival is designed to support and develop instrumental music education. Not only do students have the opportunity to perform at Australia's finest venues (acoustic-wise), but they receive adjudication from an outstanding panel of adjudicators.

The festival runs for two weeks until the Festival Finale on the last Saturday of August. The Finale showcases the most outstanding ensembles from the Festival and features the distribution of the awards.

In late 2012, Allans Billy Hyde music stores went into liquidation and the Billy Hyde Foundation now ceases to exist. While select Allans Billy Hyde stores live on through a new owner the Melbourne School Bands Festival's fate is unknown.

Concert Bands

 * Training Concert Band
 * Novice Concert Band
 * Junior Concert Band
 * Intermediate Concert Band
 * Symphonic Band

Jazz Ensembles

 * Junior Jazz Ensemble
 * Intermediate Jazz Ensemble
 * Senior Jazz Ensemble

String Ensembles

 * Beginner String Group
 * Junior String Orchestra
 * Senior String Orchestra
 * Symphony Orchestra
 * String Ensemble

Concert Bands

 * 1989: Col. John Bourgeois, United States Marine Band, USA
 * 1990: Col. John Bourgeois, United States Marine Band, USA
 * 1991: Dr. Wayne Bennet, University of Oregon, USA
 * 1992: James Swearingen, Composer, USA
 * 1993: Col. John Bourgeois, United States Marine Band, USA
 * 1994: Dr. Francis McBeth, Ouachita University, Arkansas, USA
 * 1995: Dr. Barry Kopetz, University of Utah, USA
 * 1996: Dr. Barry Kopetz, University of Utah, USA
 * 1997: Ed Huckeby, Composer, USA
 * 1998: Dr. Ben Hawkins, Transylvania University, Kentucky, USA
 * 1999: Ms. Paula A Crider, The University of Texas, USA
 * 2000: Dr. Rob McWilliams, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, USA
 * 2001: Mr. Richard L Floyd, University of Texas, Austin, USA
 * 2002: Mr. Robert W Smith, Composer, USA
 * 2003: Mr. Ken Waterworth, Australia
 * 2004: Mr. John M Laverty, Syracause University, USA
 * 2005: Ms. Paula A Crider, The University of Texas, USA
 * 2006: Mr. Thomas V Fraschillo, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
 * 2007: Mr. Jeff King, USA
 * 2008: Mr. Don Wilcox, West Virginia University (ret.), USA

Jazz Ensembles

 * 1997: Mr. Gil Askey, USA
 * 1998: Mr. Jeff Jervis, USA
 * 1999: Mr. Doug Beach, Elmhurst College, Illinois, USA
 * 2000: Mr. Daryl McKenzie, Australia
 * 2001: Mr. Reg Walsh, Australia
 * 2002: Mr. Patrick Crichton, WAAPA, Australia
 * 2003: Mr. J Richard Dunscombe, Composer, USA
 * 2004: Mr. Monte H Mumford, Australia
 * 2005: Mr. Steve Newcomb, Australia
 * 2006: Mr. Dean Sorenson, University of Minnesota, USA
 * 2007: Mr. Victor Lopez, USA
 * 2008: Mr. Brad Millard, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

String Ensembles

 * 2000: Mr. Michael Loughlin, Australia
 * 2001: Mr. Willem van der Vis, Australia
 * 2002: Ms. Andrea Keeble, Australia
 * 2003: Mr. Peter Bandy, Australia
 * 2004: Ms. Christine Belshaw, Australia
 * 2005: Mr. Mark Drummond, Australia
 * 2006: Ms. Kim Waldock, Australia
 * 2007: Ms. Loreta Fin, Australia
 * 2008: Mr. Malcolm Yuen, Australia

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1954 Palanca Awards

The 4th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country. This year saw the inclusion of a new category, One-Act Play/Dulang May Isang Yugto, for both the English and Filipino Divisions.

LIST OF WINNERS

The 1954 winners, the fourth recipients of the awards, were divided into four categories, open only to English and Filipino [Tagalog] short story and one-act play:

Short Story

 * First Prize: Rony V. Diaz, "Death in a Sawmill"
 * Second Prize: S.V. Epistola, "The Beads"
 * Third Prize: Gilda Cordero Fernando, "The Morning Before Us"

One-Act Play

 * First Prize: Alberto S. Florentino Jr., "The World is an Apple"
 * Second Prize: Fidel Sicam, "Cowards Die a Thousand Deaths"
 * Third Prize: Paulina Bautista, "Prelude to Glory"

Maikling Kwento

 * First Prize: Teodoro Agoncillo, "Sa Kamatayan Lamang"
 * Second Prize: Buenaventura S. Medina Jr., "Ang Pusa sa Aking Durungawan"
 * Third Prize: Fernando L. Samonte, "Matalino ang Inaanak Ko"

Dulang May Isang Yugto

 * First Prize: Dionisio S. Salazar, "Hulyo 4, 1954 A.D."
 * Second Prize: Lazaro R. Banag Jr., "Ang Politiko"
 * Third Prize: Deogracias Tigno Jr., "Ang Aking Kapatid"

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Sledmere

Sledmere is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, about 7 mi north-west of Driffield on the B1253 road.

The village lies in a civil parish which is also officially called "Sledmere" by the Office for National Statistics, although the county council and parish council refer to it as Sledmere and Croome, as the parish also includes the nearby hamlet of Croome. According to the 2011 UK census, the parish had a population of 377, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 197; the parish covers an area of 2849 ha.

Local landmarks
Local points of interest include Sledmere House, a Georgian country house. Built in 1751 by Richard Sykes, the house has remained in the Sykes family since then. It is now the home of Sir Tatton Sykes, 8th baronet.

The Sledmere Monument is about 2 mi south-east of the village, along the B1252 road, on top of Garton Hill. It is 120 ft tall and is a tribute to Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet, built by his friends in 1865.

The Wagoners' Memorial in the village, designed by Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet, is dedicated to the Wolds Wagoners Reserve, a corps that Sir Mark raised from the local population to fight in the First World War. It is noted for its unusual shape and its graphic scenes of war and country life. The memorial was designated a Grade II listed building in September 1966, but upgraded to Grade I in March 2016.

Sledmere is also the site of the Sledmere Cross, a replica Eleanor cross erected in 1896–98 (as a folly) by Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet. His son, Sir Mark, converted it during and after the First World War to a war memorial, by adding a series of portrait monumental brasses in commemoration of friends and local men who had fallen in the war. Sir Mark himself served as a diplomat in the Middle East during the war, and died of the Spanish flu in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1919: he is represented by one of the brasses on the monument, in the dress of a crusader, and with the inscription "Laetare Jerusalem" ("Rejoice Jerusalem"). The cross was designated a Grade II listed building in 1966, but upgraded to Grade I in 2016.

East of the village is Sledmere Castle, a folly built around 1790 by John Carr for Sir Christopher Sykes, the 2nd baronet, to enhance the view from Sledmere House.

The church of St Mary is one of the churches on the Sykes Churches Trail. In 1966 the church was designated a Grade II* listed building.

Sledmere was served by Sledmere and Fimber railway station on the Malton and Driffield Railway between 1853 and 1950.

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Biscotasing

Biscotasing (or Biscotassing ), often referred to as simply Bisco, is a community in the Unorganized North Part of Sudbury District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It was founded on the shores of Lake Biscotasi on the Spanish River in 1884 by Canadian Pacific Railway as a railway construction town, and the first divisional point west of Sudbury. The rails of westward track laying gangs reached this area in October 1884.

Biscotasing is an access point for canoeists, fishermen, and back-country campers to the area including Biscotasi Lake Provincial Park. It has one general store that functions as the post office, tackle shop, grocery store and Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) outlet; a community centre; a church; and the one-room Biscotasing railway station served by Via Rail. The town also is accessible by floatplane and by a long drive on the Sultan Industrial Road. Although the year-round population is only 22, during the summer season, the population swells to around 300, mostly tourists.

History
The early development of Biscotasing was dictated solely by the needs of the railway. The CPR acquired a 470 acre parcel of land at Biscotasing in 1884 and by November had cleared 30 acre. A frame station the size of 30 × 35 ft, was constructed, with offices upstairs, a large freight shed 40 × 140 ft, a telegraph office, several residences for company officials and a number of boarding houses were completed before the end of that year. A wye track had also been installed to allow work trains to turn around prior to returning to the east. Later a roundhouse was built to service the locomotives.

On April 1, 1885, the first soldiers on their way to the North-West Rebellion passed through Biscotasing.

In 1887, the Hudson's Bay Company opened a supply depot on leased land of the Canadian Pacific Railway near its station. The following year, it became a fur trade outpost for Whitefish Lake and Sudbury.

As a divisional point, Biscotasing did not last much beyond the era of construction, as Chapleau, about midway between Sudbury and Lake Superior, was selected to replace it. Soon after, the town lost its importance as a railroad town but by 1890, the HBC outpost became a full trading post, and two years later, Biscotasing was made the headquarters of the HBC's Lake Huron District as a part of wider district reorganizations. The railway provided an inland access point to waterways flowing south to Lake Huron and north to James Bay, and the town subsequently developed as a centre for Indian trade in the region. After the Lake Huron District was amalgamated with the Temiscamingue District in 1900, the HBC post began operating as a saleshop, but the following year, Biscotasing was once again district headquarters and a new store was built.

The local water routes also helped to develop Biscotasing as a major centre for lumbering. In 1884, Public Lands Surveyor James Allan noted that timber in the area had been overrun by fires and was of very little value, consisting mostly of scrubby spruce and small pitch pine. The same year a sawmill was in operation at Biscotasing, mostly to serve the requirements of CPR construction.

The first permanent sawmill was established by Sadler and O'Neil in the early 1890s. Robert Booth and Patrick Shannon, were also actively logging this region from 1895. Booth and Shannon produced square timber, which was taken by CPR to Papineauville for export to Britain, from the Port of Quebec in Quebec. By 1903 Booth and Shannon were the only lumber producers in Biscotasing, possibly having taken over and expanding the O'Neil mill which closed in 1898.

In 1913, the original Booth and Shannon mill was destroyed by fire, as well as the HBC post. The mill and post were subsequently rebuilt. At that time Robert Booth left the partnership, with Patrick's son, the firm was reorganized as P. & G. Shannon. In 1923 the mill was sold to Midland lumbermen Pratt and Shanacy. The mill closed in 1927 for lack of timber. The mill was dismantled and removed by 1938.

On February 11, 1927, the HBC post again burned down, but was not rebuilt and HBC ceased operations at Biscotasing.

Many of the old buildings in Biscotasing that survive today are from the sawmill era. A small steam locomotive, once used to switch cars of lumber from the mill to the lumber piling grounds, sat for many years, derelict on the mill property, across the tracks, opposite the Pratt and Shanacy company store. In 1958, David L. Pratt, of Toronto donated his father's steam engine for display at the Algonquin Provincial Park Logging Museum.

From railway construction camp, to fur trade depot and lumbering centre, in 1922 Biscotasing became the first place in Northern Ontario to use aircraft (Curtiss NC) for forest fire surveillance.

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Provable prime

In number theory, a provable prime is an integer that has been calculated to be prime using a primality-proving algorithm. Boot-strapping techniques using Pocklington primality test are the most common ways to generate provable primes for cryptography. Contrast with probable prime, which is likely (but not certain) to be prime, based on the output of a probabilistic primality test.

In principle, every prime number can be proved to be prime in polynomial time by using the AKS primality test. Other methods which guarantee that their result is prime, but which do not work for all primes, are useful for the random generation of provable primes.

Provable primes have also been generated on embedded devices.

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Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3

Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3 (テイルズオブザワールド なりきりダンジョン3) is a spin-off from the Tales RPG series made by Namco. The game was released exclusively in Japan for the Game Boy Advance on January 6, 2005. Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3's characteristic genre name is Cosplay S-RPG (コスプレS-RPG).

Story
Frio and Kyaro, two teenagers, love the Tales legends and read about them every day before they go to sleep. After an earthquake, Dr. Brown finds an ancient time traveling machine in the ruins. Using this, they can go see the Tales legends. They go to sleep and prepare for tomorrow. Before Frio went to sleep, he read a Tales legend again. But this one ended strangely: the hero arrives too late and the world is destroyed.

When Frio and Kyaro wake up, they find out the machine has been stolen. Not long after they find out, a re-color of the machine appears. The one boarding it was Dr. White, Dr. Brown from 100 days into the future whose hair had turned white from extreme stress.

There are thieves who are ruining the timeline of the Tales legends, and they have to be stopped. Dr. White now needs Frio and Kyaro to help stop the thieves and brings with him the aid of the heroes from Tales of Symphonia, Destiny, and Eternia.

Gameplay
Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3 is a turn-based tactical RPG as well as a real-time RPG. Battles take place in enclosed areas that include ally parties and enemy units. Players move parties (consisting of three characters each) by selecting the sprite of the party's player-controlled character, then selecting the target location on the map. The limit of where the party can travel is indicated by dots between the target destination and the starting point of the party. When the dots are gray, the party can move to that location, as long as an obstacle does not block them. If it is red, then the target is out of range. The player can alter the destination of the party at any time during the player's turn. When the player ends the turn, all ally parties will move simultaneously. When one of the players' parties comes in contact with an enemy party, the player engages in a LMBS-style battle. In a typical RPG fashion, players level up their party members to gain stat increases. Like many Tales games, Narikiri Dungeon 3 includes the aspect of cooking: players can use acquired ingredients to prepare meals that affect party members, like replenishing HP, or temporarily gaining a certain stat in battle.

Character List
Tales of the World:
 * Julio Sven
 * Caro Orange
 * Thanatos
 * Clyte
 * Ponnie
 * Masked Boy
 * Masked Girl
 * Jababa

Tales of Phantasia:
 * Cress Albane
 * Chester Burklight
 * Mint Adenade
 * Claus F. Lester
 * Arche Klein
 * Suzu Fujibayashi
 * Ami
 * Dhaos

Tales of Destiny:
 * Stahn Aileron
 * Rutee Kartret (Rutee Katrea)
 * Mary Agent (Mary Argent)
 * Lion Magnus (Leon Magnus)
 * Philia Felice
 * Woodrow Kelvin (Garr Kelvin)
 * Chelsea Tone (Chelsea Torn)
 * Mighty Kongman (Bruiser Khang)
 * Johnny Shiden (Karyl Sheeden)
 * Lilith Aileron

Tales of Eternia:
 * Reid Hershel
 * Farah Oersted
 * Keele Zeibel
 * Meredy
 * Ras
 * Chat
 * Fog (Max)
 * Shizel
 * Celsius

Tales of Destiny 2:
 * Kyle Dunamis
 * Loni Dunamis
 * Judas
 * Reala
 * Nanaly Fletch
 * Harold Berselius
 * Barbatos Goetia
 * Elraine

Tales of Symphonia:
 * Lloyd Irving
 * Genius Sage (Genis Sage)
 * Collet Brunel (Colette Brunel)
 * Refill Sage (Raine Sage)
 * Kratos Aurion
 * Shihna Fujibayashi (Sheena Fujibayashi)
 * Zelos Wilder
 * Presea Combatir
 * Regal Bryan (Regal Bryant)
 * Yggdrasil (Mithos Yggdrasill)

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