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Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/Archive2

aero-corp-stub and telecom-corp-stub
Category:Corporation stubs is getting very large and could do with cleanup. There are many aeronautical and telecommunications corporations in this category. I propose these new stub categories, of which aero-corp-stub (created) should then become a daughter of aero-stub and of corp-stub. I haven't yet had the time to take stock of all the articles that would be covered by these new categories, but both would be substantial categories. More details and more related proposals coming up soon. Aecis 22:43, 18 July 2005 (UTC) (Proposal slightly edited since posting.) Comment: under A alone, there are at least 41 articles about aeronautical corporations, and it doesn't slow down under B. Aecis 23:01, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Looking through the food stubs recently it seemed that there were a lot of food-corp-stubs and restaurant-stubs. There are probably a lot of them in corp-stub too - would they be worth splitting off as well? Grutness...  wha?  02:34, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * They could very well be worth splitting off as well. A few other options (I don't know if they'll be big enough to deserve a category of their own, but it's close): tech-corp-stub, entertainment-corp-stub, oil-corp-stub or petroleum-corp-stub (all created), industry-corp-stub (a daughter of industry-stub and corp-stub), media-corp-stub, energy-corp-stub (created), distri-corp-stub and holding-stub. The Category:Corporation stubs is too big to check just how many articles would/could be moved to these categories, but they would all be substantial. Aecis 15:49, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

I think that holding-stub and distri-corp-stub need better names... I take it the second one is for corporations that only operate in a particular district? other than that, they look fine. Grutness...  wha?  01:26, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Distri-corp-stub was meant for corporations in the distribution sector (shipping, express, perhaps mail/postal services) :s Do you have a better name in mind for holding-stub? Holding-company-stub? Aecis 08:57, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Among the stub categories were a few hidden subcategories of Category:Corporation stubs. I've edited their entries, and now they're shown in the Category:Corporation stubs. This could help us out for now. The media-stub I proposed is largely covered by publish-stub, and what isn't covered by that tag could be covered by entertainment-corp-stub (created as leisure-corp-stub. Many aero-corp-stub bable articles are covered by airline-stub). Aecis 16:19, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

It's been a week now since I first proposed daughters to corp-stub. After Grutness' very valuable input and after adding several stub categories as daughters of Category:Corporation stubs, my final proposals are these: Any views on this? Aecis 14:44, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * aero-corp-stub - For corporations in the aeronautical industry. (created)
 * telecom-corp-stub - For telecommunications providers. (created)
 * leisure-corp-stub - For corporations involved in entertainment, leisure and perhaps sports and hotels. (created)
 * energy-corp-stub - For corporations involved in wind energy, solar energy, nuclear energy, water energy and conventional (non-durable?) forms of energy. (created)
 * industry-corp-stub - For corporations in the second economic sector: industry.
 * oil-corp-stub - For corporations involved in extracting, refining, processing, distributing and selling oil and related products. (created as petroleum-corp-stub)
 * food-corp-stub - For corporations producing candy, food and drinks, and for restaurants. (created)
 * tech-corp-stub and/or ict-corp-stub - As the names say: for technological and ICT-related corporations. There is some overlap between the two categories, so I'm not sure if there need to be one or two stub tags.

 * Sounds good to me. This will also help relieve my consternation with disney-stub (see discussion elsewhere on this page) being a subcategory of corp-stub: it can go under leisure-corp-stub after the split. — Fingers-of-Pyrex 15:03, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * What about arms manufacturers? Could they be moved to weapon-stub or should they stay in corp-stub? Aecis 17:53, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure about the proper wording for the stub tags. My ideas:
 * aero-corp-stub - This article about an aeronautical corporation is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. (created)
 * telecom-corp-stub - This article about a telecommunications provider is a stub... (created)
 * leisure-corp-stub -
 * If sport-related companied and hotel chains are included :
 * " This article about an entertainment-related, leisure-related or sports-related corporation, or about a hotel or a chain of hotels, is a stub... "
 * If sport-related companied and hotel chains are not included :
 * " This article about an entertainment or leisure-related corporation is a stub... " (created)
 * energy-corp-stub - This article about an energy producing corporation is a stub... (created)
 * industry-corp-stub - This article about an industrial corporation is a stub...
 * oil-corp-stub or petrol-corp-stub /petroleum-corp-stub - This article about a petroleum-related corporation is a stub... (created as petroleum-corp-stub)
 * food-corp-stub - This article about a corporation producing candy, food and/or drinks, or about a restaurant or a chain of restaurants, is a stub... (created)
 * tech-corp-stub - This article about a technological corporation is a stub... (created)
 * ict-corp-stub - This article about an ICT-related corporation is a stub... (created)

Especially "Leisure-corp-stub" needs attention. Aecis 15:21, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

I created country-stub. Given a country name as the first parameter, emits stub template for that country. Note that the following are equivalent: ', ', . I'm sure there will be comments. (SEWilco 08:21, 19 July 2005 (UTC))
 * Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!! This was tried a couple of months back, and didn't work, and some of the damage it caused is still awaiting clearance at sfd! The reason? Not every country has a stub category, nor does it need one. Furthermore the categories are not named in any consistent way (although they should be...). Often countries are bundled together into regions, to make the categories a useful size. Stub categories are not equivalent to ordinary categories (it would probably be useful for them, but are only created to fulfil editorial needs. Stub categories are only created when there are a certain number of stubs - deliberately, so as to stop near-empty (and therefore useless) stub categories. We've still got a couple of near-empty and useless categories hanging around from last time this was tried, - it was seen as a perfect way for anyone who wanted to to suddenly start zapping off a SanMarino-stub or Andorra-stub. It's also a bad use of metatemplates, which we've been trying to reduce the use of for reasons of server problems (not sure whether it's still as big an issue with MW1.5, but no-one's said anything to the contrary). See here for details of the previous attempt. Please please please get rid of it before it does any damage!!! (By the way, any reason why you've listed this here as a found stub rather than a proposal?) Grutness...  wha?  10:13, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Country stub groups? I can make the templates know the proper category for a specific country, so if the proper stub for the Bahamas should be a Caribbean-stub it will display that.  This should reduce problems with an unwanted Andorra-stub by predefining the "stub group" for that country.
 * How does one now find the proper stub for a country? One has to browse WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types, and note whether a regional Caribbean-stub or specific Cuba-stub is proper?
 * The previous GCS template had a problem with image names which is not present in this template.  This was listed in Found because Stub instructions guided me there, but now moved to Proposals.  (SEWilco 17:44, 19 July 2005 (UTC))
 * I'm still very very strongly against it. A major reason the previous proposal was rejected was that it would have ended up creating far more work for stub sorters. This looks to be very similar in that regard. I repeat: please please please get rid of it! Grutness...  wha?  01:48, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * In what way would preassigning all countries to a certain stub create more work? How likely is creation of Andorra-stub if Andorra is already assigned to a regional stub?  For that matter, country-stub could replace existing stubs and thus there would be fewer actual stubs to deal with.  (SEWilco 03:07, 20 July 2005 (UTC))

You also still haven't addressed the problems with the incosistency of category names. Will it work equally well for Category:Sri Lankan stubs, Category:France-related stubs and Category:Lebanon stubs, and for those where no flag is used so as to avoid political concerns? Grutness...  wha?  03:33, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) More typing - consider the lengths of  and  . Trivial, maybe, but over hundreds of stubs it adds up.
 * 2) Considerably more work when categories are split or otherwise need changing. Currently that only requires either changing the template and doing null edits on articles (category change) or adding a new template (category split).
 * 3) It's also more work for the servers. There has been no word yet on whether MW1.5 is any better than MW1.4 when it comes to heavy use of templates. That's one of the reasons stub categories are kept small. If, say, you were to use country-geo-stub plus modifier for all geography stubs. You'd be putting one template on about 30,000 articles. Recommended template use for MW1.4 was under 1000 - even if 1.5 is considerably better it would still be a major strain.

 * Shorter name can be provided, particularly if there are many people typing hundreds of stubs.
 * Only each country's "stub group" would have to be edited to change or split assignments. For example, Iraq-stub did not exist until January 2005.  If the stub template had the name of the country in them, all Iraq stubs could have been changed from MEast-stub to Iraq-stub by editing one entry in a template array.  The same way that Bahamas information can be changed by editing arrays:

 * I haven't referred to server load because there is no word. And it only matters when a template is edited.  And the behavior is likely to change with changes in template abilities.
 * It could handle a variety of category names, but it would seem that the categories should be made more consistent. There are several ways to deal with that situation.
 * Flags are not a problem, because the same mechanism which will assign a country to a stub-group also assigns it an appropriate image. Including no flag if needed.  (SEWilco 04:26, 20 July 2005 (UTC))

 * One minor point: The server load matters every time a template is edited, AND everytime an article with the template is edited. For a meta-template that is on many articles that are regularly edited, this is a much bigger hit on system performance, because templates are usually rarely edited. Blank Verse   ∅  04:11, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

 * The more you talk about it, the more complex it seems to get. Now we've got the option of a multitude of names for the same stub, providing a multitude of images. I've moving slowly from strongly against this to extremely strongly against. If this had been set up at the beginning of stub sorting, it would probably have been a good idea, but this far down the track it's extraordinarily bad. PLEASE do not do this! Grutness...  wha?  06:01, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Where did you find "a multitude of images"? One image would be shown, it would be whatever image is associated with the stub-group for that country.  The stub-group would either be for a region or for a specific country, depending upon whether a separate stub is needed for a country.  (SEWilco 16:32, 20 July 2005 (UTC))
 * I changed the sample table above to refer to Bahamas. Here is the current display from  (SEWilco 20:25, 20 July 2005 (UTC))

THIS TEMPLATE IS FOR TESTING ONLY, NOT FOR USE YET.

Category: stubs

 * I would like to point, bty, that all stubs at the spanish Wikipedia are actually following this format Circeus 21:47, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Each Wikiproject is free to choose its own way to do things. This project has repeatedly rejected similar such moves. Grutness...  wha?  11:21, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * So far the rejection by "this project" consists of one person saying Nooooooooo. (SEWilco 18:57, 11 August 2005 (UTC))
 * And only one person is arguing in favour, and they're not even a regular stub-sorter. The indifference of the rest of the project makes it clear that this proposal doesn't generate any support among the parts of the community who would be using it. As such, it's pretty obvious it's got no use here. What's more, it's a metatemplate of a type that the developers still haven't given us clearance to start using again. There is no guarantee that MW1.5 will in the long run be any more robust thatn MW1.4 when it comes to high use templates, and here you are suggesting a template to use on all country-specific stubs! I'm not prepared to sit by and watch this template cripple Wikipedia. Grutness...  wha?  03:08, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

 * The indifference also shows this proposal hasn't generated any complaints from the parts of the community who would be using it. Although actually one of the benefits would come from random editors being able to correctly mark stubs without having to hunt down the proper regional stub, thus much of the user community are not readers.  Readers of this discussion are those likely to clean up the mess created by difficulty in finding the proper stub.  (SEWilco 15:29, 12 August 2005 (UTC))
 * There has been concern that this template encourages creation of new stubs, such as as Liechtenstein category. The reverse is the case.  Right now, when a user is aware that stubs exist they have to hunt for a relevant stub and invoke it.  The present system displays many stubs and thus encourages creation of "missing" ones.  This template only requires specification of a country name, and if it is recognized then the proper regional Category will be used.  If Liechtenstein is not defined, someone may define it as being in the wrong region but this can be fixed by editing one template array entry and afterwards all additional references will be to the correct region.  (SEWilco 15:29, 12 August 2005 (UTC))
 * As for MW difficulties with templates, what are these difficulties? Many articles using a template?  Is there a problem with links, or updates?  My understanding is that there are concerns over frequently edited templates which are used in many articles.  Even then, that the overhead happens when an article is updated and not at the time a template modification is made.  This is a utility template that can be locked, not Picture_of_the_hour.  What is the most-used template?  (SEWilco 15:29, 12 August 2005 (UTC))

 * I will go ahead and try this on the Belarus related stubs and see how it works out. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 19:23, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's working for the country. Can you make it work for a larger region, as if Belarus had no stub category of its own?  Don't change the call, just change the stub country definition. (SEWilco 21:25, 11 August 2005 (UTC))

Category:Belarus stubs

 * The Belarus stub category of over 70 articles, but I am switching them from the old category to the new one. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 21:43, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * For a test, only a few is sufficient. (SEWilco 02:20, 12 August 2005 (UTC))
 * It works. And if a category needs to be changed, or an image, it can do so in an instant. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 03:21, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Category:European Union stubs

 * Zscout370's test is done. Removed country-stub references.  (SEWilco 04:15, 12 August 2005 (UTC))

Washington State Highway Stub
I'm sorry... I sort of jumped the gun and created this already. It is used with WikiProject Washington State Highways. It is just like California State Highway Stub, it is just for Washington. I will be adding this stub template to more of the WA state route articles, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. --Rschen7754

California-south-geo-stub *created*
Currently Category:California geography stubs has 400+ articles, and roughly 2/3rds of the 60 Category:California-related stubs are also geo-stubs and should be re-stubbed. My guess is that there may also be at least 50 more short Calif. geography articles that don't have stub tags or are inappropriately tagged. Then there are a huge number of community articles that have not been created yet (see the red-links at San Diego, California and San Diego County, California for just the San Diego County examples). Since there is now a Southern California WikiProject (as well as a new California WikiProject), I'd like to divide the Calif. geo-stubs into Northern and Southern Calif. geo-stubs. If approved, I'll let you guys suggest the most appropriate template and category names. Blank Verse  ∅  08:16, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Split sounds good to me. Make sure the boundary between the regions is well defined with words and picture(s) so stub sorters know where to put articles. If we follow the US-geo-stub split model, the names would be California-north-geo-stub and California-south-geo-stub. Could the larger cities be broken out instead? LosAngeles-geo-stub, SanDiego-geo-stub, SanFrancisco-geo-stub? Would that make California-geo-stub more manageable? — Fingers-of-Pyrex 18:00, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * A split is reasonable, but - as with Fingers-of-Pyrex - I wonder whether this is the best way - wouldn't having a separate LosAngeles-geo-stub by itself reduce the category considerably? Other than that, what F-o-P says sounds right on the money. Grutness...  wha?  02:56, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

 * For the two regions, there is a nice map of Southern California at the Southern California WikiProject, plus a listing of the counties involved under the "Scope" section. Northern California would be everything else.

 * I had also thought about breaking the Calif-geo-stubs into smaller regions. If things went that way, I would suggest probably by county for Southern Calif., and by region for Northern Calif. (which has a bunch of small counties). The main reasons that I didn't suggest going that route right away are 1) There are only the two WikiProjects 2) I'm not sure, except for a few of the very large counties like LA County and San Diego County, if there are enough stubs. Even Orange County, because it has a moderate number of medium-sized cities without many separate communities worthy of an encyclopedia entry, probably doesn't have enough stubs to have its own stub category.

 * However, I have a BIG problem with just a "generic" LosAngeles-geo-stub. Los Angeles is a city, a county, a region, a flood plain, etc. (which is one of the reasons the Los Angeles article is such a mess because it conflates all of those entities). That's another reason that I prefer the all-encompassing SoCal-geo-stub. Blank Verse   ∅  08:15, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Might I suggest that the obvious thing to do might be just to have a Category:Southern California geography stubs (with California-south-geo-stub) as a subcategory of Category:California geography stubs. Don't bother with a Northern California one for now. It will probably take the category from 500 stubs to 250 plus a subcategory. Why double your work moving the remaining stubs from a well-defined category to a less-well defined one? Grutness...  wha?  09:16, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Since it has been a week and there were no objections, I have now created California-south-geo-stub and Category:Southern California geography stubs. I then added the info to WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types, as per the instructions above. I did not, however, try to add the info to Template messages/Stubs/By region (I know just enough about Wiki Tables to occasionally create simple ones without problems and usually @#$! up anything more complicated). Would there be any objection to me creating a redirect from SoCal-geo-stub (although I know that redirects are usually frowned upon)? Blank Verse  ∅  11:08, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Mmm. We are reasonably strongly against abbreviations. The redirects we have are largely being orphaned. It'd be preferable if you could use the full name (I realise it's long, but if you're just copying and pasting, it shouldn't make that much difference how long it is). Grutness...  wha?  10:52, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I just sorted one: Orange curtain.

 * What is the northern boundary for purposes of stubs? According to Southern California, it is vague.

 * The northern boundary is more difficult to define. One generally accepted 'physical' boundary between Southern California and the rest of the state is the Tehachapi Mountain range located about 100 miles north of Los Angeles . Another useful boundary is the San Gabriel Mountain range located about 10 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. Depending on which of the two mountain ranges is used for the northern boundary of the region, different communities/cities and counties are included in, or excluded from, the area called "Southern California".

 * I also created Category:Southern California geography — Fingers-of-Pyrex 20:33, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

 * Take a look at the map and the scope section of the SoCal WikiProject which uses the widest definition of Southern California that is commonly used. For my first sort through the Calif-geo-stubs, I will probably only re-stub for those counties south of the San Gabriel mountains, except for Ventura County, which is still pretty much within the Los Angeles sphere of influence. On second thought, since the SoCal WikiProject has already got one participant from the northern counties, I may just go ahead and re-stub the few additional stubs associated with Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Kern County as well. Blank Verse   ∅  03:53, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Splitting Mythology Stubs
Myth-stub category is getting very, very full. Perhaps split by continent, eg: Euro-myth-stub, Africa-myth-stub, etc, or even by country/region: Greek-myth-stub would probably be handy GeeJo 00:45, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * By continent first would probably be the best way, since several countries share similar mythologies but few are common to more than one continent. I'd suggest Euro, Asia, Africa, Americas and Oceania as being the obvious five. Might be worth going through a sample of the myth-stub category (say the first page) to see what sort of count is likely for each category. Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Norse may be worth separate categories too, but I'd stick with the continents as a start. Grutness...  wha?  01:54, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Breakdown of the first 200 stubs in the category goes like this:

 * Africa (Not counting Egypt): 8
 * America: 22
 * Asia: 24
 * Europe (Not counting Norse, Roman, or Greek):39
 * Oceania: 12
 * Greek: 68 (!)
 * Norse: 7
 * Egyptian: 4
 * General: 7 (Ranging from Abrahamic Mythology to a Demonology article)
 * Roman (Not counting Etruscan): 11

From this I'd say Greek definitely deserves its own among the europeans. The others could probably go into their respective continents. GeeJo 05:18, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks like you're right. In that case:

 * Euro-myth-stub
 * Greek-myth-stub (or Greece, to keep it in line with other categories?)
 * Asia-myth-stub
 * Africa-myth-stub
 * Oceania-myth-stub
 * Americas-myth-stub (plural AmericaS -to allow for both north and south)
 * ...seems reasonable to me. The others could remain in the general category for now, although the demonology one probably needs a different stub to myth (occult-stub, maybe?). Note three other things: 1)many myths may be in individual country-stub categories. 2) A lot of Roman mythology stubs may be stubbed with Roman-stub. 3) There is already at least one subcat of Americas-myth-stub - Inca-myth-stub. Does this seem reasonable to everyone else? Grutness...  wha?  06:08, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Greek and European would appear to reduce the category by half, so I'd definitely go for them. As to the others, the logical breakdown makes sense but I have no strong opinion about them one way or another. --TheParanoidOne 09:50, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Might be as well to create them first then... go through the category, re-stub the Greek and European ones, and see what others are there as we go. Grutness...  wha?  11:57, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I just added myth-stub to 70-some articles on Polynesian mythology, so Oceania-myth-stub would definitely be useful. --Mairi 03:59, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I've noticed a few Maori ones in the past, too. I think it might be a useful one. Grutness...  wha?  13:47, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I created the Oceania and Asian myth stubs. --Admiral Roo 18:54, August 2, 2005 (UTC)


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The Guy Game

The Guy Game is a 2004 adult video game developed by Topheavy Studios and published by Gathering for Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. Presented in a trivia gameshow style, it allows up to four players to compete by completing multiple choice questions and minigames complemented by filmed live-action footage of young women in bikinis on spring break. Its development was led by former Metroid Prime developer Jeff Spangenberg, who sought to create an interactive game with appeal to men inspired by the Girls Gone Wild series of pornographic videos. The objective of The Guy Game is for players to earn points, as well as accumulate bonus points for a meter, titled the Flash-O-Meter, that progressively removes censorship of footage of the women exposing their breasts. Upon release, The Guy Game was a commercial disappointment and received negative reviews, with critics critiquing its tastelessness, slow pace, and lack of content, although some praised it as a niche party title for a college-age audience.

Following release, The Guy Game experienced controversy when a participant filmed exposing her breasts sued the developer and publishers for breach of privacy and emotional distress, and revealed that she was a minor at the time of filming. Her lawsuit successfully obtained a temporary injunction against further distribution, after which Topheavy Studios ceased further sales. Due to the ESRB classification of The Guy Game as 'Mature' instead of 'Adults Only', authors, groups and legislators in the United States targeted it in efforts to restrict minors' access to explicit video games. The Guy Game has been retrospectively assessed as a controversial entry in an emergent genre of adult video games receiving a mainstream commercial release on consoles in the mid-2000s in line with other entries including Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude and Playboy: The Mansion.

Gameplay
The Guy Game is a trivia game in which up to four players answer multiple choice quizzes and complete minigames in a series of 'episodes' that feature a progression of four rounds. Most gameplay is complemented by full motion video of comedian Matt Sadler asking trivia questions provided to the player to bikini-clad young women ('Hotties') on spring break. Players have dual objectives of earning enough points to reach the highest rank of competing players, and earn bonus points that add to a points pool named the Flash-O-Meter. In the full motion video footage, Hotties are expected to flash their breasts on camera if they answer the questions incorrectly. As players contribute to the Flash-O-Meter, footage of Hotties flashing the camera becomes less censored, starting from fully censored at 'Soft and Squishy', pixelated at 'Sorta Chubby', and uncensored at 'Super Stiff'. At the start of a round, players select a 'Cheerleader' avatar who reacts to their performance, progressively losing their clothes if the player earns points, and putting on their clothes if they answer incorrectly.

The first quiz round, 'Foreplay', is a multiple choice quiz in two sections. Firstly, players answer a multiple choice question, with more points earned the sooner a correct answer is made. Incorrect answers disappear from the multiple choice over time, at the cost of fewer points being earned. Secondly, players earn bonus points and contribute to the Flash-O-Meter by guessing if the Hottie answered the question correctly or incorrectly. The second round, titled 'Ballz', features interactive variations of skeeball (Ballz Shotz), Pong (Ballz In) and a game where players attempt to knock each other's rolling balls off of a platform (Ballz Out). The third round, 'TitWitz', is similar to 'Foreplay', except players are tasked to guess which of two incorrect answers was given by a Hottie in response to a question. If the Flash-O-Meter is sufficiently filled, players enter a fourth round, 'Hottie Challenge', where they can bet their points on one of several Hotties filmed completing a physical challenge. At the end, the player with the most points wins. In multiplayer rounds, players are ranked between 'President', 'Vice President', 'Treasurer' and 'Asshole', with the highest ranking position of 'President' having additional privileges including the ability to choose additional rules in a round, with the intent implied that violating the rules requires losing players to take a drink.

Development and release
The Guy Game was the first and only video game developed by Topheavy Studios, founded by lead developer Jeff Spangenberg in 2002. Spangenberg created the studio after his previous company, Retro Studios, which had developed Metroid Prime, was acquired by Nintendo in May 2002. Spangenberg stated that the title and concept of The Guy Game was based around creating "a game geared toward guys about things guys like: competing against your buddies, showing up your buddies and topless nudity". It was inspired by Girls Gone Wild, a direct-to-video pornographic series with a similar premise. Footage was shot on South Padre Island during the 2003 spring break season. The Guy Game featured Matt Sadler, a comedian who had previously appeared on MTV and in a national talent search on HBO. The budget for The Guy Game was estimated by Spangenberg to total $1.4 million. Atomic Planet Entertainment developed the PlayStation 2 conversion. Topheavy Studios previewed it in January 2004 in search of a publisher, with Take-Two Interactive subsidiary Gathering announcing a deal in July 2004 to publish it. The Guy Game was shipped for release on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox on August 31. A Windows version followed on December 22.

Rating and censorship
Upon release, The Guy Game received a 'Mature' rating from the ESRB, falling short of an 'Adults Only' classification that would have seen its sale restricted from minors. The Guy Game was cited by several groups and legislators in the United States seeking greater restriction of distribution of sexually explicit video games to minors. In 2004, the National Institute on Media and the Family advised parents that The Guy Game was a 'game to avoid' in its Ninth Annual Video Game Report Card. In December 2004, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich introduced legislation that restricted retailers from selling or renting violent or sexually explicit video games to minors. The Guy Game was one of two sexually explicit titles identified for restriction, along with Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, citing its "nudity" and "raunchy exchanges". Illinois legislators submitted footage of The Guy Game in an unsuccessful defense of its legislation in a 2006 lawsuit by the Entertainment Software Association. In March 2005, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm showcased footage of The Guy Game in support of a campaign for increased restrictions on violent and sexually explicit video games, lobbying to the Michigan legislature that Michigan law did not prevent minors from renting or purchasing it. Author Pamela Paul, who argued that The Guy Game was indicative of a greater presence of pornographic content in media targeted to adolescents, appeared before a 2005 U.S. Senate Hearing on pornography, testifying that it did "not even get an adults-only rating" and evidenced how video games "exult the pornographic".

The Guy Game is explicitly banned from streaming on the game streaming site Twitch.

Topheavy Studios v. Doe
In December 2004, an anonymous plaintiff ('Doe') initiated legal proceedings against Topheavy Studios and the publishers, requesting an injunction to discontinue the release of The Guy Game. Doe, a participant filmed exposing her breasts in The Guy Game, was a seventeen-year-old minor at the time of filming the segments. Doe had been approached by a representative to participate in The Guy Game and had given producers a fake identification card and inconsistent information on her media release. Upon its release, Doe was told by her brother that The Guy Game depicted images of her topless and was not aware her likeness was used in the game, its promotional material or website. Doe pursued a lawsuit for relief for invasion of privacy, negligence, and emotional distress. Her counsel argued that she was not able to consent to appear in The Guy Game, rendering her release form void, and that the publishers had misappropriated her likeness by failing to discover her age despite inaccuracies in her release form and proceeding to publish the footage. In rebuttal, counsel for Topheavy Studios argued that Doe had entered and participated in the contest willingly and made fraudulent representations about her age to the production team, making it reasonable for the studios to have treated her as an adult. The injunction restraining distribution of The Guy Game was granted at trial in January 2005, and successfully upheld by Doe at appeal to the Texas Third District Court of Appeal in August 2005. The trial and appeal did not resolve the question as to whether Topheavy had produced child pornography in violation of obscenity laws under the Texas Penal Code; the Court of Appeal held the injunction was not necessarily issued on this basis in coming to a finding that the injunction was not confined to that jurisdiction. Following the injunction, Topheavy Studios ceased distribution of The Guy Game, protesting on their website that "the Man has decided that our fun and hilarious presentation of spring break revelry just wasn't appropriate for the world of gaming".

Sales
The Guy Game was a commercial disappointment, selling a combined 60,000 copies in 2004 on Xbox and PlayStation. Spangenberg claimed it sold well in 2004, and estimated sales by 2005 to have totalled between 60 and 80,000 units, although provided no evidence during the Doe lawsuit on profits or projected sales. Chris Morris of CNN cited The Guy Game as an example of a trend of commercially unsuccessful adult video games in 2004.

Critical reception
The Guy Game received "generally unfavorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic, scoring 48/100 on the PlayStation 2, and 47/100 on the Xbox. Critics were mixed on its merits as adult video game. Some reviewers considered it and its depiction of women to be tasteless and objectifying,  with others describing it as an inferior alternative to softcore pornography as an imitation of Girls Gone Wild. Many critics remarked that it had little appeal due to its tepid content and tedious duration. Mike Angelo of PlayStation Magazine dismissed it as not risque enough to be worthwhile. Electronic Gaming Monthly found it to have "too much guesswork to see the goods". Brett Todd of PC Gamer noted it had "dubious value" due to its "limp" adult content. Greg Orlando of Xbox Nation found the footage to be poorly shot and edited, stating The Guy Game lacked any erotic appeal or redeeming qualities.

Reviewers also critiqued the quality of the trivia gameplay, with many critics remarking that The Guy Game lacked appeal as a single-player experience. Todd found the trivia gameplay to be "completely dissatisfying", citing the poor balance between obvious and inscrutable trivia questions, and the limited replay value due to a lack of questions. Dana Jongewaard of Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine expressed that the gameplay was "poorly constructed" and tedious due to the "slow and boring" pacing of episodes and the unclear rules of the minigames. Angelo similarly found it to be tedious and lacking challenge. Justin Leeper of GameSpy viewed it as having "virtually no gameplay", dismissing it as "far too complicated and asinine" for its intended player base due to its obscure minigames.

Some reviewers provided more sympathetic assessments of The Guy Game as an entertaining party title for groups. Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot stated that it had appeal to its specific audience of college-age men, the mini-games were "fun" and "functional" for multiple players, and highlighted Sadler's performance as host. Similarly, Rob Watkins of GameZone noted that it had niche appeal, writing that its trivia aspects were "fun", the minigames were "simple but competitive", and the drinking minigames were "well integrated". Douglass C. Perry of IGN assessed it to be "solid, simple and fun" and ideal as a rental title played with friends. Brent Soboleski of Team Xbox described it as a "decent trivia game" for groups, particularly due to its ranking system, and noted its adult appeal made it "easy to overlook" its "drawbacks and limitations".

Retrospective reception
Some authors have retrospectively noted The Guy Game was representative of a trend of increasingly accessible commercial softcore adult video games released in the 2000s, alongside titles such as Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude and Playboy: The Mansion. Brathwaite noted The Guy Game was the last notable example of the "short-lived craze" of interactive full-motion video in adult video games. In 2015, The Guardian cited The Guy Game as one of the worst games of all time, describing it as a "salacious" and "misogynist" title overshadowed by the circumstances of its censorship. In 2016, Stace Harman of IGN described it as a "lacklustre trivia" with "inane" humor.

The Guy Game: Game Over!
Following its discontinuation, Topheavy Studios briefly repackaged footage of The Guy Game sold as a DVD titled The Guy Game: Game Over! The DVD contains uncensored footage and outtakes, including from participants not featured in the original game.

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Talk:Viriditas

Thomas Berry in his book The Great Work suggests the next era would best be labeled ecozoic. "The Ecozoic is the period when human conduct will be guided by the ideal of an integral earth community, a period when humans will be present upon the Earth in a mutually enhancing manner." Viriditas infuses the human as well and its motive power is towards the emergence of an ecozoic consciousness.

Green-sickness
The term 'Viriditas' was, surprisingly, used as a name for Green-sickness (Hypochromic anemia). A surprise, because Hildegard's Viriditas=health sounds like the opposite of anemic. Perhaps editors more knowledgeable about the topic may find something to say on the matter from more detailed sources. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:28, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

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Orange-spotted emerald

The orange-spotted emerald (Oxygastra curtisii) is a dragonfly in the family Corduliidae. It is the only species in its genus.

The orange-spotted emerald is about 53 mm long. It has bright green eyes and a bronzy-green body with yellow spots along the top of the abdomen. The last segment of the abdomen (S10) has a prominent yellow mark on the upper surface.

The species occurs in much of Europe but is regionally extinct in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Its habitat is slow flowing streams, pools and ponds.

Status in Britain
This species was only ever known from two areas in southern England, one around the River Stour and Moors River in east Dorset, where the species was recorded from 1820 to 1963, and the other on the River Tamar in Devon where the species was recorded in 1946 only. It went extinct due to sewage pollution in rivers.

Habitat
This species lives in fresh water streams and rivers, with muddy or sandy beds. Where it lives today, it is still continually threatened by poor water quality. The nymphs are found on the banks of rivers, where they hide amongst leaf litter. Despite being regionally extinct in the UK and the Netherlands, they are still widespread throughout Europe,

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Fear of a Black Tangent

Fear of a Black Tangent is a studio album by American rapper Busdriver. It was originally released on Mush Records in 2005. In Europe, it was released on Big Dada.

Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78, based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Rollie Pemberton of Stylus Magazine gave the album a grade of B, saying: "The album is one of the few anti-industry freakouts that have appealed to me on both a conceptual and musical level, so whether or not you are familiar with Busdriver's skittering flow or innovative song structure, it's worth the time to see why he's so damn mad after all."

Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.

 * Busdriver – vocals
 * Daedelus – production (1, 6, 11, 13)
 * Omid – production (2)
 * Paris Zax – production (3, 5, 7, 9, 12)
 * Thavius Beck – production (4, 10)
 * Subtitle – keyboards (5)
 * Abstract Rude – vocals (7)
 * Ellay Khule – vocals (7)
 * Danger Mouse – production (8)
 * Kevin McNulty – keyboards (9)
 * Myka 9 – vocals (12)
 * 2Mex – vocals (12)
 * Isaac Sprintis – guitar (12)

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Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California

Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 (Cal. 1976), was a case in which the Supreme Court of California held that mental health professionals have a duty to protect individuals who are being threatened with bodily harm by a patient. The original 1974 decision mandated warning the threatened individual, but a 1976 rehearing of the case by the California Supreme Court called for a "duty to protect" the intended victim. The professional may discharge the duty in several ways, including notifying police, warning the intended victim, and/or taking other reasonable steps to protect the threatened individual.

History
Prosenjit Poddar was a student from Bengal, India, who entered the University of California, Berkeley, as a graduate student in September 1967 and resided at its International House. In the fall of 1968 he met Tatiana Tarasoff at a folk dancing class. When Tarasoff told him she was involved with other men, he began to stalk her. He became depressed, neglecting his studies and his health, keeping to himself, speaking disjointedly, and often weeping. He had occasional meetings with Tarasoff and secretly tape-recorded their conversations in an attempt to discover why she did not love him.

During the summer of 1969, Tarasoff traveled to South America. Poddar began to improve and entered therapy with Lawrence Moore, a psychologist at the student health service at Cowell Memorial Hospital in 1969. Poddar confided to Moore his intent to kill Tarasoff. Moore wrote to the campus police saying that Poddar was suffering from acute and severe paranoid schizophrenia, and recommending that Poddar be civilly committed as dangerous. Poddar was detained but shortly released, as he appeared rational. Moore's supervisor, Harvey Powelson, then ordered that Poddar not be subject to further detention. Neither Tarasoff nor her parents received any warning.

In October, after Tarasoff had returned, Poddar stopped seeing Moore. Poddar then befriended Tarasoff's brother and moved in with him. Several weeks later, on October 27, 1969, Poddar carried out the plan he had confided to Moore, stabbing and killing Tarasoff. Tarasoff's parents sued Moore and various other employees of the university.

Poddar was convicted of second-degree murder, but the conviction was overturned on the grounds that the jury had been inadequately instructed, and Poddar was released on the condition that he return to India.

Opinion of the court
The California Supreme Court found that a mental health professional has a duty not only to a patient but also to individuals who are specifically being threatened by a patient. This decision has since been adopted by most states in the U.S. and is widely influential in jurisdictions outside the U.S. as well.

Justice Mathew O. Tobriner wrote the holding in the majority opinion. "We conclude that the public policy favoring protection of the confidential character of patient-psychotherapist communications must yield to the extent to which disclosure is essential to avert danger to others. The protective privilege ends where the public peril begins."

Justice Mosk wrote a partial dissent, arguing that (1) the rule in future cases should be one of the actual subjective prediction of violence on the part of the psychiatrist, which occurred in this case, not one based on objective professional standards, because predictions are inherently unreliable; and (2) the psychiatrists notified the police, who were presumably in a better position to protect Tarasoff than she would be to protect herself.

Justice Clark dissented, quoting a law review article that stated, "…the very practice of psychiatry depends upon the reputation in the community that the psychiatrist will not tell."

Reception
Some decried the court's decision as a limitation of the foundation for the therapeutic relationship and progress, the client's expectation of confidentiality. In 1979, Max Siegel, a former president of the American Psychological Association, defended the therapist's right to confidentiality as sacrosanct, under any circumstances. Furthermore, he suggested that had Poddar's psychologist maintained confidentiality, instead of alerting the police, Poddar might have remained in counseling and Tarasoff's death might have been averted through Poddar's psychological treatment.

Subsequent developments
As of 2012, a duty to warn or protect is mandated and codified in legislative statutes of 23 states, while the duty is not codified in a statute but is present in the common law supported by precedent in 10 states. Eleven states have a permissive duty, and six states are described as having no statutes or case law offering guidance.

Despite initial commentators' predictions of negative consequences for psychotherapy because of the Tarasoff ruling, court decisions show otherwise. An analysis of 70 cases that went to appellate courts between 1985 and 2006 found that only four of the six rulings in favor of the plaintiff cited Tarasoff statutes; courts ruled in favor of the defendant in 46 cases and sent 17 cases back to lower courts. However, courts do rule in victims' favor in clear-cut cases of failure to warn or protect, such as the case of a psychiatrist who committed rape during a child psychiatry fellowship, for which he was recommended even after telling his own psychiatrist about his sexual attraction to children.

In 2018, the Court held that universities should protect students in the Regents of University of California v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County.


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Joseph McBride (writer)

Joseph McBride (born August 9, 1947) is an American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author and educator. He has written books on a variety of subjects including notable film directors, screenwriting, the JFK assassination, and a memoir of his youth.

He also serves as professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University.

Early life and career
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, McBride grew up in the suburb of Wauwatosa. He attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and worked as a reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, before moving to California in 1973.

Books
McBride has published more than 20 books, including biographies of directors Steven Spielberg (Steven Spielberg: A Biography, 1997, and published in translation in mainland China in 2012), Frank Capra (Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success, 1992), two of John Ford: John Ford (with Michael Wilmington, 1974) and Searching for John Ford) (2001) and three of Orson Welles: Orson Welles (1972), Orson Welles: Actor and Director (1977) and What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career (2006). McBride's interview book with Howard Hawks, Hawks on Hawks, was published in 1982.

In 2012, he published a screenwriting manual, Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless. In the book, McBride uses his adaptation of Jack London’s short story "To Build a Fire" to break down the steps necessary for a screenplay, such as research, treatments, and outlines. The book draws from his extensive teaching experience.

In 2013, he published Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit, which was the result of McBride's 31-year investigation of the case. Later, in 2015, he published The Broken Places: A Memoir, which deals with his troubled childhood, his teenage breakdown, and his subsequent recovery.

Columbia University Press published How Did Lubitsch Do It?, McBride's look at the career of filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch, in June 2018.

In March 2019, McBride's Frankly: Unmasking Frank Capra was published. It recounts his legal battle with original publisher Knopf/Random House and Capra allies over publication of his biography Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success, which was published by Simon & Schuster in 1992. His biography of Billy Wilder, Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge was published in 2021.

Film and television
McBride's screenwriting credits include the movies Rock 'n' Roll High School and Blood and Guts and five American Film Institute Life Achievement Award specials on CBS-TV about Fred Astaire, Frank Capra, Lillian Gish, John Huston, and James Stewart. He was also cowriter of the United States Information Agency worldwide live TV special Let Poland Be Poland (1982).

He plays a film critic, Mr. Pister, in the Orson Welles feature The Other Side of the Wind (1970–76) and served as a consultant on its completion in 2018. He is also the coproducer of the documentaries Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece (1997) and John Ford Goes to War (2002).

Awards and honors
McBride received the "Television: Comedy/Variety - Special" Writers Guild of America Award in 1984 for cowriting The American Film Institute Salute to John Huston with producer George Stevens, Jr. He has also received four other WGA nominations, two Emmy nominations, and a Canadian Film Awards nomination. The French edition of Searching for John Ford, titled A la recherche de John Ford, published in 2007, was chosen the Best Foreign Film Book of the Year by the French film critics' association, le Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma.

A documentary feature on his life and work, Behind the Curtain: Joseph McBride on Writing Film History, written and directed by Hart Perez, had its world debut in 2011 at the Tiburon International Film Festival in Tiburon, Marin County, CA, and was released on DVD in 2012.

Personal life
McBride lives in Berkeley, California. His life partner is author and psychology educator Ann Weiser Cornell.

As author

 * Orson Welles (1972, revised and expanded 1996)
 * John Ford (1975, with Michael Wilmington, revised and expanded 2023)
 * Kirk Douglas (1976)
 * Orson Welles: Actor and Director (1977)
 * High and Inside: An A-to-Z Guide to the Language of Baseball (1980)
 * Hawks on Hawks (1982)
 * Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success (1992)
 * Steven Spielberg: A Biography (1997, revised and expanded 2012)
 * The Book of Movie Lists: An Offbeat, Provocative Collection of the Best and Worst of Everything in Movies (1998)
 * Searching for John Ford (2001)
 * What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career (2006, revised and expanded 2022)
 * Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless (2012)
 * Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit (2013)
 * The Broken Places: A Memoir (2015)
 * Two Cheers for Hollywood: Joseph McBride on Movies (2017)
 * How Did Lubitsch Do It? (2018)
 * Frankly: Unmasking Frank Capra (2019)
 * Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge (2021)
 * Political Truth: The Media and the Assassination of President Kennedy (2022)
 * The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers (2022)

As editor

 * Persistence of Vision: A Collection of Film Criticism (1968)
 * Focus on Howard Hawks (1972)
 * Filmmakers on Filmmaking: The American Film Institute Seminars on Motion Pictures and Television, Volume 1 (1983)
 * Filmmakers on Filmmaking: The American Film Institute Seminars on Motion Pictures and Television, Volume 2 (1983)

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Louise Mandrell

Thelma Louise Mandrell (born July 13, 1954) is an American country music singer. She is the younger sister of fellow country singer Barbara Mandrell, and older sister of actress Irlene Mandrell. Louise had a successful singing career in country music from the 1970s, with a string of hits during the 1980s.

Early life
Thelma Louise Mandrell was born in 1954, to Mary Ellen (née McGill; born 1931) and Irby Matthew Mandrell (October 11, 1924 – March 5, 2009) in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. She is the second of three daughters. Sister Barbara is five and a half years older; sister Irlene is one and a half years younger. Her mother, Mary, was a homemaker and musician hailing from rural Wayne County, Illinois. Her father Irby was a World War II naval veteran and Texas police officer from Garland County, Arkansas. Irby Mandrell was an accomplished musician and entrepreneur as well. He used his impeccable social skills and knowledge of the music industry to manage all three of his daughters' careers for over three decades.

Although Louise Mandrell never developed the scale of fan base or the worldwide recognition that her older sister Barbara gained in country music, she is still credited as one of country music's more successful female vocalists of the 1980s. With their parents coming from a musical background, Barbara started off working as a singer, and playing the steel guitar and other instruments, and toured with Patsy Cline in the early 1960s. Mandrell learned to play the guitar and bass. Soon, their parents founded the Mandrell Family Band, which toured the United States and Asia.

Barbara's professional recognition in country music in the early 1970s with hits like "Tonight My Baby's Coming Home" and "The Midnight Oil" gave Louise opportunities at success. She started performing in Barbara's band The DoRites in 1969. Her first time in the studio was on the recording "Always Wanting You", a no. 1 hit for country singer-songwriter and Bakersfield sound pioneer Merle Haggard in 1975. In 1978, she signed with Epic Records.

Music career
Mandrell released her first single in 1978, called "Put It On Me", which appeared in the lower reaches of Billboard magazine’s country music singles chart. In 1979, she released her next single, a cover version of "Everlasting Love", another minor country hit. She started singing duets with her husband R.C. Bannon, such as "I Thought You'd Never Ask," which entered the top 50, and a cover of the pop/R&B number 1 song by Peaches & Herb, "Reunited", which went to number 13, her first significant hit. In 1980, following two more solo efforts that did not see the same success, she joined sisters Barbara and Irlene on the TV variety show Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters. This show showcased not only her singing, but her multi-instrumental and comedy talents as well. In 1981, she signed with RCA Records. In 1982, Mandrell had two top 40 hits, as well as the top 20 hit "Some of My Best Friends Are Old Songs".

1983 turned out to be her most successful year. She entered the top 15 with "Runaway Heart," and had the two top 10 hits "Save Me" (originally recorded by Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers) and "Too Hot to Sleep". In 1984, Mandrell had two other Top 40 hits, "Goodbye Heartache" and "I'm Not Through Loving You Yet" (co-written by Holly Dunn), and in 1985 the song "I Wanna Say Yes" entered the top 5.

In 1985, RCA released her first music video for the hit single "Some Girls Have All The Luck", a female-centric cover version of the 1973 hit song recorded by The Persuaders and Rod Stewart.

Mandrell's last studio album Dreamin' was released in 1987, with the single "I Wanna Hear It from Your Lips" and having her last top 40 hit with the single "Do I Have To Say Goodbye". Her last charted single came in 1988 with a cover of the song "As Long As We Got Each Other", a duet with Eric Carmen. The latter was the theme song of the 1985-1992 television sitcom Growing Pains.

RCA and Mandrell parted ways in 1988. During the early 1990s, she released the videos and songs "Jean Paul" (written by R.C. Bannon) and "Down Home Christmas". Both songs are extremely hard to find, and “Jean Paul” appears in Anthology, a 1998 compilation album containing many of her successful hits from the Epic and RCA years, which is also hard to find.

Mandrell was named the official 'Sweetheart of Tennessee.'

She was the unanimous choice of 50 Tennessee city managers -- the first time the city manager's association has so honored anyone. Mandrell accepted 50 inscribed crimson hearts from the managers and, in return, entertained them with a few tunes. She also was named 1981's 'Yellow Rose of Texas' by the Texas state legislature, another first.

Personal life
Her marriage to Ronald Shaw on July 1, 1971, ended in divorce in 1973. She subsequently married Gary Lamar Buck of the country music group The Four Guys on July 23, 1975. They divorced in 1978.

In 1978, Mandrell met R.C. Bannon. They married on February 26, 1979. He co-wrote a few songs for Louise’s sister Barbara. "One of a Kind Pair of Fools" is a 1983 single written by Bannon and John Bettis and recorded by Barbara Mandrell. "Only One Love in My Life," also written by R.C. Bannon and John Bettis, was Ronnie Milsap's 10th number 1.

Mandrell and Bannon adopted Nicole Mandrell Shipley in 1986. The couple divorced in 1991 and she married, for a fourth time, to John Haywood on July 16, 1993.

She became a grandmother for the first time in 2013.

Theater and writing
After leaving RCA Records, Mandrell continued to perform. In 1991, The Nashville Network began re-airing Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters.

From 1992 to 1994, she headlined at the 4,000 seat Grand Palace Theatre in Branson, Missouri along with Kenny Rogers. On occasion, she shared the stage with Barbara, Sawyer Brown, Roger Miller, Waylon Jennings, and several other well-known country and pop music entertainers at The Grand Palace.

On September 12, 1997, Mandrell opened her own 1,400-seat theater, The Louise Mandrell Theater in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, alongside other theaters such as Lee Greenwood's. Mandrell appeared in every performance there and encompassed numerous musical styles, including country, jazz, and big band. It was considered the most attended (non-dinner) show in the Smoky Mountains. The Triumphant Quartet, formerly known as the Integrity Quartet, was the in-house Southern gospel group and back-up singers for Louise. The Louise Mandrell Theater had its last performance, to a sold-out house, on December 31, 2005. Mandrell sold the theater afterwards and it has changed hands twice since. The theater is now home to the "Smoky Mountain Opry."

In 1983, Mandrell co-wrote The Mandrell Family Album with writer Ace Collins. Later, they produced a series of children's books.

In 2012, she performed the title role of "Calamity Jane" at Roger Rocka's Dinner Theatre in Fresno, California through September 16, 2012. Mandrell reprised her role from July until September 15, 2019.

Later career
Mandrell continues to perform at selected special occasions and corporate events. In December 2007, she performed in Washington, D.C., with the National Army band.

Over the Christmas and New Year seasons in 2008 and 2009, Mandrell performed at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville for one month. The multi-instrumental dinner show was entitled "Joy to the World". Mandrell also announced her intention to create a new show in 2010, "The Gift".

In 2009, she signed with Strouadavarious Records and announced her intention to release an album of country classics and a Christmas-themed album.

During 2011 and 2012, Mandrell joined fellow 80s country superstar Lee Greenwood on selected tour dates, including a six-week Branson run at the Welk Resort Theatre from September 12 —- October 22.

Mandrell's final Christmas show at Gaylord Opryland titled "Louise Mandrell's Christmas Dinner Party" took place on November 18 – December 25, 2011.

After 30 years, she released Playing Favorites, her most recent studio album consisting of country standards, on October 4, 2019. It was produced by Buddy Cannon.

Mandrell appeared on the Opry's country classic show in Nashville. The last time she performed on that stage was 50 years ago. The show was broadcast live on the radio program, Opry Country Classics at the Ryman Auditorium, October 3, 2019. She performed on the Grand Ole Opry live from the Ryman on November 30, 2019.

On July 30, 2022, Louise and Irlene joined the special Opry show celebrating the 50th year membership of sister Barbara Mandrell as a Opry member.

Louise once again took to the Opry stage in the Country classics segment on October 13, 2022, December 4, 2022, and March 9, 2023.

Commercial spokesperson
Outside of her musical career, Mandrell served as spokesperson for Sanderson Farms' Miss Goldy Chicken, appearing in several television commercials and print ads for two decades. She also participated in a series of commercials for RC Cola in the mid-1970s, singing the famous "Me and My RC" jingle. Most recently, Mandrell, along with Jimmy Fortune of The Statler Brothers, appeared in a half-hour infomercial for Time-Life, promoting the box set Classic Country (2022 edition).

Pop culture
In the 1980s, the Mandrell sisters were impersonated by the cast of Saturday Night Live on NBC. In 2007, Pam Tillis released a song called "Band in the Window", which name-checks Louise Mandrell ("her name is Louise but not Mandrell, she has 80's hair and fringe"). In 2023, Canadian country artist Lisa Brokop released her female-centric cover version of the George Jones country hit "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" (as "Who's Gonna Fill Their Heels"), and it is where the Mandrell sisters are mentioned among the names of country’s greatest female artists.

Television appearances

 * Louise Mandrell appeared in the following TV shows:
 * Super stars and their moms
 * Happy New Year 1985 w/Andy Williams Host
 * The Mike Douglas Show
 * The Today Show
 * 700 club
 * CNN
 * Branson Country Christmas
 * Bright Lights and Country Nights
 * Pop! Goes the Country 1977-78-79*
 * Battle of the Network Stars X 1981
 * Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters 1980–1982
 * Hollywood Squares
 * Austin City Limits 1985
 * Hee Haw 1980-82-87-89-90-91 +
 * The Tonight Show 1983–87
 * Crook & Chase most recently 2009 +
 * Children's Miracle Network
 * Lifestyles of the rich and famous
 * Another World 1983
 * Crazy Like a Fox 1986
 * Vicki Lawrence Show
 * Miller and Company (Dan Miller)
 * Prime Time Country +
 * American Almanac with Willard Scott 1995
 * Nashville Now +
 * Louise Mandrell: Diamonds, Gold and Platinum (TV special 1983)
 * Barbara Mandrell Christmas 1986
 * New Country 1987
 * Country Music Spot Light 1994
 * Music City News Awards guest and host
 * Mike Hammer 1987
 * Nashville on the road
 * ACM Awards *
 * CMA Awards *
 * Lee Ann Womack Christmas Special 2003
 * The New Hollywood Squares 1987
 * This Is Your Life 1987
 * Superstars and Their Moms
 * American Revolutions: Country Comedy 2005
 * Intimate Portrait 1999
 * Family Feud
 * Grand Ole Opry *
 * The Tommy Hunter Show Canada
 * The Geraldo Rivera Show
 * The Oprah Winfrey Show *
 * Merry Christmas From the Grand Ole Opry
 * Branson Country Christmas
 * Jerry Reed and Friends 1983
 * Louise Mandrell & Friends Salute the Boy Scouts
 * Hee Haw 20th Anniversary Show
 * Funny Business With Charlie Chase (11/06/91)
 * Christmas in Hollywood
 * CBS' Happy New Year America 1984 & 1985
 * Solid Gold 1985
 * Barbara Mandrell: Country's Do-Right Woman (TV special)
 * National Easter Seal Telethon 1990
 * Ralph Emery 2009
 * Mike Huckabee show 2019
 * Mr Nashville (Larry Ferguson) Web 2020
 * Jerry Lewis telethon
 * + was a guest many times

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Redlioness is a female user on Wikipedia.

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Talk:James Wilson (revolutionary)

Proposed move to James Wilson (Radical)
As the article already makes clear, Wilson was a Radical activist and part of that movement. "Revolutionary" is vaguer and misleading, as there have been several very different revolutionary movements at different times and his part in the Radical War was very much influenced by government agents provocateurs and misrepresented by them at his trial...dave souza 18:45, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

andrew hardie. john Baird & James Wilson monument photos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wilson_%28revolutionary%29 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.22.29.20 (talk) 22:16, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi this code is all very daughting so here goes. I live beside woodside grave yard in the west end of paisley scotland where many famous people have been buried. I took photos of "andrew hardie. john Baird & James Wilson" monument and close ups of the inscription I would like to add to their page. But the codeing is strange and it seems easer to load the images and have someone else place them. Plus i do not wish to destroy anyones hard work through my mistakes...

inscription on four sides of andrew hardie, john Baird & James Wilson monument at woodside grave yard

the monument

photos curtisy of dddoc blogger & if you check this blog on woodside and find any images you would like to use. You have my permission to do so... http://woodsidecrematorium.blogspot.com/

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Talk:Transformers: Armada

Too much information
Though the dedication of the anonymous users who wrote most of this article is to be admired, Wikipedia is not an episode guide. A lot of this content needs to go (and here's hoping it's not a copyright violation to boot.) --Ardonik.talk* 18:46, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

I fully disagree, if this is to be a complete encyclopedia it needs to have these episode summaries. And if anyone knows how to get to the ones on Transformers Armada, please let me know, PLEASE!!!! LegendRider 19:25, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Suggest that character profiles are placed in a separate page to ease the amount of information here. Katstevens 12:09, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Botched animation translation?
The main tranformers article says,"the series was rushed out of production, resulting in an American version that often contain unfinished, mistake-riddled animation and a transliterated script that frequently disagreed with the action onscreen and got character names wrong."

Is this true?
 * Unfortunately, yes. Check out the "Trouble with Dubbing" section of this article. - Chris McFeely 26th December 2005

Rhinox
Should Rhinox really be underneath the autobots section? He had a brief cameo in the last episode. It is hardly enough to make him a main character. However since I am not really a "Veteran" of wikipedia I don't think I should delete it without someone else's input. Anyone else agree/disagree?jkjkkkkklkkdkk? klko*ndfkkrkldç&ghdckjkfkfkfkfkfkllşdldpfpflogiü

You go ahead and change whatever you like. This is what you expect when you edit an arcticle, I've done it tons of times so grow a backbone, get a grip, grit your teeth and do it.

LegendRider 23:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

This page is really poorly written.
Seriously guys, I give up. Some else start cleaning this up please, I don't have time to do a major re-write, and I haven't seen the whole series. You can't put things like "But he packs enough punch to ward of any 'bots that try to mess with him" or whatever. You can't say things like "you know how there's always" and "If there was a grunt, he would be it". It's uncyclopedic. Look at an encyclopedia. Does it talk to you? No, it's written in a manner so that it doesn't look like anybody in particular made it. It's called NPOV, or non/no-point-of-view. Look it up guys. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chao9999 (talk • contribs) 23:56, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Alexis and Starscream
Is Alexis in love with Starscream? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.112.23.57 (talk) 05:23, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Link to Portal
Why is there a link to the Anime and Manga Portal? Please remove it. Hyakurei (talk) 17:43, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

what does the term mean?
What does the term armada mean? I think it should be added in the article.Doorknob747 (talk) 02:30, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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Hold That Lion! (1947 film)

Hold That Lion! is a 1947 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 100th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Plot
The Stooges are the sole heirs to a grandiose inheritance, which has fallen into the clutches of the duplicitous broker, Icabod Slipp, who has taken control of the funds. Engaging in a series of confrontations with Slipp in his office, the Stooges are subjected to false accusations of being the culprits responsible for the misappropriation of funds. Consequently, Slipp absconds with the inheritance, prompting the Stooges to pursue him.

Their pursuit leads them onto a train, where they navigate a series of misadventures. Dodging a vigilant conductor, the Stooges seek refuge in a crate within the baggage car, unaware that it harbors an unexpected occupant — a lion. As chaos ensues, the Stooges find themselves entangled in a slapstick sequence of events, inadvertently revealing their presence to the train's passengers.

Amidst the confusion, the Stooges must contend with the lion's unwelcome presence, leading to an exchange of mishaps and misunderstandings. As they navigate the perilous situation, the Stooges ultimately confront Slipp in a climactic showdown within the confines of the baggage car. Through a combination of wit and physical prowess, the Stooges emerge victorious, overcoming Slipp's machinations and reclaiming their inheritance.

Credited

 * Shemp Howard as Shemp
 * Larry Fine as Larry
 * Moe Howard as Moe
 * Kenneth MacDonald as Icabod Slipp
 * Emil Sitka as Attorney
 * Dudley Dickerson as Pullman Porter

Uncredited

 * Heinie Conklin as Train Conductor
 * Curly Howard as Sleeping Train Passenger
 * Tanner the Lion as himself
 * Victor Travers as Bearded Man
 * Blackie Whiteford as Train Passenger
 * Dorothy Mueller as Train Passenger

Production notes
Hold That Lion! was filmed on January 28–31, 1947, the first film produced after the new year. The film premiered the final version of "Three Blind Mice" as the Stooges' theme music, an updated, faster version arranged by Spud Murphy in the key of F major (the Curly period featured versions in G major, making it easy to differentiate between the two eras). With minor variations (all in F), this version was used through the end of Stooges' short subject releases in 1959. Although Hold That Lion! was the third film released featuring Shemp after his return to the Stooges, it was filmed after Squareheads of the Round Table and The Hot Scots, both which still utilized the "sliding strings" version of "Three Blind Mice" featured in the previous Shemp entries Fright Night and Out West, and in the final 12 entries starring Curly.

The film title is a parody of the football term, "Hold that line!"

Icabod Slipp's name appears on the door as "I. Slipp." This is a semantic parody on the Long Island town of Islip, New York.

This was the final Three Stooges film (excluding Booty and the Beast) to feature Tanner the Lion, who had previously appeared in You Nazty Spy!, Three Missing Links, Wee Wee Monsieur, and Movie Maniacs, as well as his last film appearance in general, before the lion's death in 1952. Whenever Tanner was required to growl or act angry, he was filmed by himself, while when he was onscreen with other people, he was filmed in a tame state. The FAO Schwarz lion plush served as a stand-in for Tanner for when the Stooges see him sitting at the foot of their bed. The film also recycled gags from Tanner's previous appearances (breathing from behind and licking the Stooges' feet).

Shemp Howard (a man of many phobias) was reportedly so frightened of lions that he insisted a glass plate be placed in between him and Tanner while filming the scene in the crate, and the Stooges' reflection in the glass can be seen as they are hastily exiting the crate. Apparently, though, Columbia Pictures hired Tanner who was currently in his elder years. Emil Sitka later commented that the feline was "so sickly, he would fall asleep in the middle of a take."

There is an audio goof in the film during a scene that featured Dudley Dickerson reacting to the lion. The laughing of a crew member can be heard in the background.

When the Stooges enter the berth, Larry's stunt-double can briefly be seen.

Curly Howard returns
Hold That Lion! is notable for a cameo appearance by former Stooge Curly, younger brother of Shemp and Moe. He appears as a snoring passenger who the Stooges think is Icabod Slipp, the man they are looking for. This was the only film that featured not only all four of the original stooges in new footage together but also the three Howard brothers — Moe, Curly, and Shemp — in new footage within the same film. This also marks the first time Curly is shown on camera with a full head of hair, and his only film appearance following the stroke that ended his career as a full-time Stooge.

Director Jules White remembers: "It was a spur of the moment idea. Curly was visiting the set; this was some time after his stroke. Apparently he came in on his own since I didn't see a nurse with him. He was sitting around, reading a newspaper. As I walked in, the newspaper, which he had in front of his face, came down and he waved hello to me. I thought it would be funny to have him do a bit in the picture, and he was happy to do it."

Recycling template
Hold That Lion! would be the template for recycled films starting in 1953. Three films in a row utilized footage from this short: Due to this successful practice, director Jules White would begin recycling entire scenes (rather than re-film them) as a cost-saving tactic for the remainder of the Stooges' tenure in Columbia Pictures' short subject department.
 * First, Booty and the Beast recycled the second half of Hold That Lion! consisting of scenes on the train (including Curly Howard's cameo);
 * Next, Loose Loot recycled the first half, consisting of scenes in various offices;
 * Finally, Tricky Dicks recycled the only segment from Hold That Lion! not previously used: the filing cabinet sequence from the early office scenes.

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Aragua State Anthem

The anthem of the Aragua State, Venezuela, has lyrics composed by Ramón Bastidas, with music made by Manuel Betancourt.

Lyrics in Spanish
Chorus En el libro que guarda la Fama, tendrá nuestro nombre soberbio blasón; el valor, nuestro hermoso oriflama, y el único escudo será el corazón.

I Nuestras armas, por siempre triunfales, humillaron al fiero español, del clarín a las voces marciales que oyó en sus montañas la tierra del sol.

II Nuestro pueblo vibró de coraje cuando esclava la patria gimió, como ruge, del yugo al ultraje, con ira potente soberbio el león.

III En el campo sangriento de Marte libertad à la patria ofrendó la proeza inmortal de Ricaurte, que en tierra aragueña su Olimpo encontró.

IV Coronó nuestras cumbres de gloria cuando Ribas la espada blandió, y a su homérico Afán La Victoria con sangre opresora sus campos regó.

Lyrics in English
Chorus In the book that keeps fame, our name will have an heroic banner; bravery, shall be our beautiful flag, and the only shield will be the heart.

I Our weapons, for ever triumphant, humiliated the fierce Spaniard, from trumpet to the martial voices that heard in its mountains the land of the sun.

II our people vibrated from courage when enslaved our motherland cried, how it roars, from yoke to rape, with powerful rage proudly the lion.

III in the bloody field of Mars freedom to the motherland was offered by the immortal deed of Ricaurte, that in Araguan land his Olimpus found.

IV Crowned with glory were our hills when Ribas the sword brandished, and in his Homeric pursuit La Victoria with oppressing blood its fields sprayed.

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The result of the debate was to delete the article. --Canderson7 17:59, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Political humour.tk
Only 10 google hits, seems to be vanity, advertisement and has no domain name - not notable Halo 18:50, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete.  Paul Klenk 19:06, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

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User:LadyClaudius

 * I am LadyClaudius. A woman of a certain age living in Berkeley, California. I have been posting to Wikipedia for months under various numerical identities, and decided to finally create an identity for myself.

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Dean Menta

Dean Menta (born July 23 1966) is an American music editor and composer living in Los Angeles, California.

Biography
In 1995, Dean Menta became involved in the band DUH and appeared on their second album The Unholy Handjob. Menta went on to serve as the guitarist for the rock band Faith No More from 1995 to 1996. He had been a keyboard tech for the band, first meeting them in 1991, while working at a San Francisco art gallery. Menta was recruited to handle guitar duties after Trey Spruance declined to tour for the album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime. He appears in their videos for "Digging the Grave", "Ricochet" and "Evidence". He was replaced as Faith No More guitarist by Jon Hudson.

Since leaving Faith No More, Menta has been performing and recording with pop group Sparks. He has contributed to Sparks' albums: Plagiarism (1997) Lil' Beethoven (2002) Hello Young Lovers (2006) Exotic Creatures of the Deep (2008), The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman (2009) and Hippopotamus (2017).

Menta now works primarily in television and film as a Music Editor, composer and Sound Designer. Additionally, Menta has also composed music for several video games, one of which, Jak X: Combat Racing, was in collaboration with Billy Howerdel of A Perfect Circle.

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Dirty Deeds (2005 film)

Dirty Deeds is a 2005 American comedy film directed by David Kendall, produced by Bill Civitella and Dan Kaplow, and written by Jon Land and Jonathan Thies. It was released on August 25, 2005, in the United States and filmed in Los Angeles, California.

Plot
High-school student Zach Harper sets out to complete the "Dirty Deeds", an outrageous list of ten challenges that must be completed between dusk and dawn on the Friday night of his high school's homecoming weekend. The only student to complete the entire list, Duncan Rime, did so in 1989 when only 8 tasks comprised the list. Rime later reveals that whenever someone completes the entire list, more are added to it.

Zach attempts to complete the deeds for a classmate, the beautiful Meg Cummings. Meg's younger brother, Kyle, wants to do the challenge to earn the respect of the school's jocks, who are constantly bullying him. Meg is concerned for her brother, and she insists that Zach stop him from trying to do something so foolish. While Meg had no intention of Zach attempting the deeds in place of her brother, Zach decides to take on the challenge.

The night begins, and Zach easily checks off the first item on the list—drink beer in front of the cops—by pouring a beer into a coffee cup and consuming it in front of them. This way, the cops, who are determined to stop all those who attempt the deeds, have no idea of Zach's intentions of completing the list. As Zach attempts the nine remaining deeds, the jocks do everything in their power to prevent him from completing it. Throughout his crazy night, Zach enlists the help of those around him to accomplish the difficult tasks. Along the way, Zach meets Duncan Rime who tries to warn him about how hollow the victory can be. Afterwards, Zach refuses to continue, but Dan and JD (the tough kid from Deed #2) decide to try to ruin the carnival so that Zach will be blamed. With some last-minute help from Vincent Scarno (the owner of the car from Deed #8), Zach is able to turn the tables in time. In the midst of everything, Zach and Meg begin to develop feelings for each other, and Zach and Meg end up falling in love over the list of "Dirty Deeds".

Cast

 * Milo Ventimiglia as Zach Harper
 * Lacey Chabert as Meg Cummings
 * Tom Amandes as Vice Principal Lester Fuchs
 * Matthew Carey as Dan Lawton
 * Wes Robinson as Kyle Cummings
 * Mark Derwin as Vincent Scarno
 * Charles Durning as Victor Rasdale
 * Michael Milhoan as Officer Dill
 * Keith Britton as Officer Bevins
 * Billy L. Sullivan as Stash
 * Zoe Saldana as Rachel Buff
 * Arielle Kebbel as Alison
 * Ray Santiago as Bobby D
 * Erin Torpey as Jen, Dan's girlfriend
 * Alex Solowitz as JD Riplock
 * Danso Gordon as Biggs
 * Todd Zeile as Mullet / Duncan Rime
 * Fred Meyers as Lockett
 * Charles Noland as Blind Man
 * Patrick Tatten as Student
 * Brett Tabisel as Stick

Music
The following were some of the songs featured in the film.
 * Bowling for Soup – “Almost”
 * Uptown Sinclair – “Face Down”
 * Valley Lodge – “If It Takes All Night”
 * The SmashUp – “Icarus Flies”
 * Alex Solowitz – “Take it and Shove it”
 * Bryan Datillo – “ICGM (Italian Click Gang Mafiosa)”
 * Grace & Manners – “9 By 9”

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Karl Traugott Queisser

Karl Traugott Queisser (11 January 1800, Döben, Electorate of Saxony – 12 June 1846, Leipzig) played trombone and viola in Germany as a member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Felix Mendelssohn.

He was Principal Viola of the Gewandhaus Orchestra from 1820 until 1843, where he also appeared as soloist on 27 occasions (playing trombone?). He was also the violist in the Gewandhaus String Quartet.

When Mendelssohn became conductor of the orchestra in 1835 he was so impressed that he promised to write Queisser a concerto. Owing to his busy schedule and new lover, he persuaded his orchestra's leader Ferdinand David (and 1st violinist in the Gewandhaus String Quartet) to write him a piece. This Concertino remains the most popular 19th-century solo piece for trombone and is dedicated to Queisser.

Queisser was known throughout Germany and performed at many music festivals where other virtuosi included Franz Liszt, Clara Schumann and Nicolò Paganini.

It has been suggested that Queisser was responsible for annoying Mendelssohn by putting a 'turn' in the opening trombone phrase of the 'Lobgesang' 2nd Symphony.

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George Coppard

Corporal George Alfred Coppard MM (26 January 1898 – 17 February 1985) was a British soldier who served with the Machine Gun Corps during World War I. Following his retirement he published his memoirs entitled With A Machine Gun to Cambrai in 1969.

Early years
George Coppard was born on 26 January 1898 and left school to work for a taxidermy firm at the age of 13.

World War I
Following the outbreak of War in 1914, towards the end of August he attempted to enlist at Mitcham Road Barracks in Croydon. After telling a recruiting sergeant his real age he was told to clear off and "come back tomorrow and see if you're nineteen". He returned the next day and lied about his age, stating that he was nineteen, and was enlisted. It was 27 August 1914 and he was sixteen years and seven months old. He joined the 6th Battalion Royal West Surrey Regiment (now part of The Queen's Regiment).

Having completed training in Guildford, the Battalion was posted to France in 1915, where they soon found themselves involved in the battle of Loos. At this stage Coppard had become a member of one of the machine gun teams. He fought in the front line almost continuously through the campaigns of 1916 and 1917 with the exception of a period of convalescence after he was accidentally shot by a colleague on 17 October 1916. This included most of the battle of the Somme (1916) and the battle of Arras (1917).

He was wounded again on 22 November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai, nearly killed by a machine gun bullet which passed through his left thigh and severed his femoral artery. His life was saved by his colleagues, who quickly applied a tourniquet. By this time Coppard had been promoted to Corporal and awarded the Military Medal for gallantry before Cambrai. On the day that he was wounded his promotion to sergeant was to have been recorded in company orders, but this did not happen due to his wound. He was invalided to England, to Birkenhead Borough Hospital, where he remained until June 1918. He was discharged to the Machine Gun Corps convalescent camp at Harrowby in Yorkshire, where he was still recovering when the Armistice was signed.

Later years
With the armistice having brought an end to hostilities, Coppard was discharged in 1919. Following a period of unemployment, he sought employment as an assistant steward at a golf club and thereafter in various sundry appointments. He retired in 1962, having worked at the Ministry of National Insurance since 1946.

He was married and had two daughters.

During retirement Coppard sought and received encouragement from the Imperial War Museum to have his wartime diaries published. Published in 1969, With a Machine Gun to Cambrai proved an instant success, prompting his contemporaries to publish their own wartime accounts.

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