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Gridman the Hyper Agent

Denkou Choujin Gridman (電光超人グリッドマン), known as Gridman the Hyper Agent in some English-speaking territories, is a 1993–1994 Japanese tokusatsu "Giant Hero" series created by Tsuburaya Productions (the producers of Ultraman) and would be Tsuburaya's last non-Ultra superhero production before Bio Planet WoO. It was the inspiration and source material for DiC Entertainment's Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad.

Shot on live video, Gridman was the first series by Tsuburaya Productions to utilize D-2 digital video for its special effects scenes, allowing for smoother slow-motion photography. Tsuburaya, having switched to digital techniques since then, would continue to use D-2 for all future productions.

The series was released in the United States with subtitles in English on the television network TOKU on December 18, 2017. The series was also made available on Toku's streaming service and on its Amazon Prime channel.

On October 30, 2020, the series began streaming episodes weekly on Tsuburaya's Ultraman Official YouTube channel to mark the second anniversary of SSSS.Gridman. Episodes are released each Friday at 6:30pm JST and have English subtitles available. Two weeks after the premiere date of each episode, the episode is removed from the channel. Mill Creek Entertainment released the complete series on Blu-ray for the first time in North America on August 17, 2021.

Story
Three computer-savvy kids—Naoto, Yuka and Ippei—create their own video game superhero, but then discover it's possessed by an inter-dimensional police officer named Gridman. Pursuing an evil program called Khan Digifer, he merges with Naoto and fights Khan Digifer's digitized monsters (created by social misfit Takeshi) in order to prevent the computerized demon from wreaking havoc on the town of Sakuragaoka and the entire Human World.

Episodes

 * 1) The Birth of a New Hero! (新世紀ヒーロー誕生!)
 * 2) The Secrets of Acceptor (アクセプターの秘密)
 * 3) Imminent Telephone Panic (電話パニック危機一髪)
 * 4) A Runaway Car (暴走自動車)
 * 5) The Perfect Sword with a Man's Pride (男の意地の必殺剣!)
 * 6) A Terror Melody (恐怖のメロディ)
 * 7) Zero Seconds to Microwave Oven Explosion (電子レンジ爆発0秒前)
 * 8) Brother's Bond (兄弟の絆)
 * 9) Operation Evil Brainwashing (悪魔の洗脳作戦)
 * 10) The Dangerous Gift (危険な贈り物)
 * 11) Is My Allowance ¥100,000? (おこづかいは十万円?)
 * 12) Beware of The Phantom Thief Marty (怪盗マティに御用心!)
 * 13) I Hate Sports (スポーツなんか大嫌い)
 * 14) Manipulated Time (あやつられた時間)
 * 15) The Distorted Target (歪んだターゲット)
 * 16) Ippei is Scared!? (一平、チビる!?)
 * 17) A Lonely Hacker (孤独なハッカー)
 * 18) The Legend of Dragon (竜の伝説)
 * 19) A Sexy Policewoman in Trouble (セクシー婦警SOS!)
 * 20) Colors Disappear from the Planet of Earth?! (地球から色が消える?!)
 * 21) The Execution, My Hero! (処刑!! 夢のヒーロー)
 * 22) Revival! Dinosaur King (復活! 恐竜帝王)
 * 23) An Assassination! A Thunderclap in Hell (暗殺! 地獄の雷鳴)
 * 24) My Love! Bio-Flower (恋! バイオフラワー)
 * 25) The Decisive Battle! The End of the Hero (Part 1) (決戦! ヒーローの最期 (前編))
 * 26) The Decisive Battle! The End of the Hero (Part 2) (決戦! ヒーローの最期 (後編))
 * 27) Big Surprise! A Toy Rebellion (驚天! オモチャの反乱)
 * 28) Yuka Vanished!! (神かくし! ゆかが消えた!!)
 * 29) A Pet Dog Bomb Operation (愛犬爆弾計画)
 * 30) The Day of the World Destruction (世界滅亡の日)
 * 31) The Monster's Mother is a College Girl (怪獣ママは女子大生)
 * 32) Attack of a Human Vacuum Cleaner (人間掃除機の襲撃!)
 * 33) Another Takeshi (もうひとりの武史)
 * 34) A Body Guard (ボディガード弁慶参上!)
 * 35) Yuka Becomes Delinquent (ぎくっ! スケバンゆか!?)
 * 36) A Baby Given A Birth (やったぜ! ベイビィ)
 * 37) What? Is Daddy Executed? (えっ! パパが死刑?)
 * 38) The Earth in Danger (危うし地球!)
 * 39) Goodbye Gridman (さらばグリッドマン)

Cast

 * Naoto Sho (翔 直人): Masaya Obi (小尾 昌也)
 * Yuka Inoue (井上 ゆか): Jun Hattori (服部 ジュン)
 * Ippei Baba (馬場 一平): Takeshi Sudo (須藤 丈士)
 * Gridman (グリッドマン): Hikaru Midorikawa (緑川 光)
 * Junk (ジャンク): Junko Shimakata (嶋方 淳子)
 * Daichi Sho (翔 大地): Masahiro Iwaoka (岩岡 真裕)
 * Kana Baba (馬場 カナ): Kanako Nakatake (中武 佳奈子)
 * Soichiro Sho (翔 宗一郎): Edo Yamaguchi (エド 山口)
 * Michiko Sho (翔 道子): Miru Hitotsuyanagi (一柳 みる)
 * Hideyo Inoue (井上 英世): Daisuke Ban (伴 大介) (Played as Naoya Ban (伴 直弥))
 * Yoshie Inoue (井上 良枝): Yumi Mitani (三谷 侑未)
 * Yoshihito Inoue (井上 良仁): Masakazu Arai (あらい 正和) (Played as "新井 昌和")
 * Hiroshi Baba (馬場 寛司): Goro Kataoka (片岡 五郎)
 * Ayako Baba (馬場 彩子): Yuko Tsuga (津賀 有子)
 * Police Officer Koganemura (小金村 巡査): Shoichi Komatsu (小松 正一)
 * Police Officer Amagasaki (尼崎 巡査): Daisuke Itsumori (五森 大輔)
 * Takeshi Todo (藤堂 武史): Tsuyoshi Sugawara (菅原 剛)
 * Khan Digifer (カーンデジファー): Masaharu Sato (佐藤 正治)
 * Narrator (ナレーター): Yuji Machi (真地 勇志)

Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
Airing from September 1994 to April 1995 in syndication, Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad was an American adaption of Gridman produced by Tsuburaya, Ultracom (Tsuburaya's American division), and DiC Entertainment. It starred Matthew Lawrence as Sam Collins/Servo, Glen Beaudin as Malcolm Frink, Troy Slaten as Amp Ere, Kevin Castro as Tanker, Robin Mary Florence as Sydney Forrester, Rembrandt Sabelis as Lucky London, Jayme Betcher as Jennifer Doyle, John Wesley as Principal Pratchert, Diana Bellamy as Rimba Starkey, Kelli Kirkland as Yolanda Pratchert, and Tim Curry as the voice of Kilokahn. The story revolves around a rock band named Team Samurai, led by Collins, that fights evil Mega Virus monsters created by Malcolm Frink and brought to life by Kilokahn in the Digital World. Due to direct involvement from Tsuburaya, unlike most adaptions of Tokusatsu programs from that time period, Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad remained largely faithful to its source material and retained elements from Gridman including sound effects, character traits and arcs, plot points, and certain names.

Denkou Choujin Gridman: boys invent great hero
In 2015, the series inspired an animated short directed by Akira Amemiya and produced by Studio Trigger for the Japan Animator Expo. Entitled, Denkou Choujin Gridman: boys invent great hero (電光超人グリッドマン boys invent great hero), it debuted on January 16, 2015. It features the return of Takeshi Todo and the brief appearance of, another Hyper Agent like Gridman who has never made it to the show's final cut.

The entire short took place in 22 years after Gridman's final battle with Khan Digifer. Takeshi Todo, a former brainwashed servant of Khan, reflects on the past incidents as monster attacks took place in real life. Using the Acceptor, he transforms into Gridman Sigma before facing the monster.

Gridman Universe
During Anime Expo 2017, Akira Amemiya, Studio Trigger and Tsuburaya announced SSSS.GRIDMAN, a brand new original anime series incorporating elements from both the original Gridman and its western adaptation, which aired in 2018. It is followed by a 2021 sequel called SSSS.Dynazenon with a crossover film, Gridman Universe, announced.

Songs

 * Opening theme
 * "Yume no Hero" (夢のヒーロー)
 * Lyrics: Akira Ōtsu
 * Composition: Kisaburo Suzuki
 * Arrangement: Masaki Iwamoto
 * Artist: Norio Sakai
 * The piano version of "Yume no Hero" made its appearance in the sixth episode of SSSS.Gridman.

 * Ending theme
 * "Motto Kimi o Shireba" (もっと君を知れば)
 * Lyrics: Akira Ōtsu
 * Composition: Kisaburo Suzuki
 * Arrangement: Masaki Iwamoto
 * Artist: Norio Sakai

 * Insert song
 * "Futatsu no Yūki" (ふたつの勇気)
 * Lyrics: Atsushi Aida
 * Composition & Arrangement: Osamu Totsuka
 * Artist: Compoid Three
 * The karaoke version of "Futatsu no Yūki" made its appearance in the fourth episode of SSSS.Gridman.

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

The result of the debate was Merge — the content is already at doughnut, so keep as redirect. --Gareth Hughes 20:36, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Sprinkle doughnut
nom&vote delete or maybe just merge into doughnut article. I'm not seeing enough substance here to warrant an entire article for each variety of doughnut. Call me deletionist. This is somewhat contradictory with my wanting every star included (see AfD on 56 Aquilae) Gaff talk 04:36, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge sprinkles with doughnut, mmm... Anetode 05:42, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, genres of donut are less numerous than stars in the sky. Kappa 06:18, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Good point. I like chocolate bars, but that redirects to candy bar.  I also like maple bars and jelly doughnuts.  But like the point made below, anyone needing an article on doughnuts will go to doughnuts.  A separate article on sprinkle doughnuts seems unecessary.  Although a separate article for every star, while a wild concept, is also a bit over the top.  Who wants to right an article on the different kinds of sprinkles that can be put on a dougnut?--Gaff talk 20:50, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Merge with doughnut since, as Kappa points out, the types of doughnut are not literally infinite. --Angr/undefined 07:29, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with doughnut (keeping a redirect in its place). --Cel e stianpower hablamé 10:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I merged it. All that needs doing now is for this article to be made into a redirect. --Cel e stianpower hablamé 10:39, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Is anyone seriously ever going to look this up?  Even if so, wouldn't they be better served by the doughnut article? Gamaliel 18:04, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Gamaliel - mmm, donuts (- H. Simpson) --Rogerd 03:49, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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

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Talk:Google Maps/Archive 1

It would be wonderful if someone got us an api key for google maps. Then we could include google maps in wikipedia and add our own "landmarks". http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

List of interesting images
Who else thinks the NASA jet propulsion laboratory is not worthy of such a prestigious list? Lotsofissues 04:42, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, but I believe it is. They are single-handedly responsible for the very successful Mars Exploration Rovers which are still operating under their control there in Pasadena, not to mention extensive work on previous robotic missions such as Cassini and Galileo. -- Riffsyphon1024 16:48, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * But it looks like a plain campus! Let's replace the space with - say - a pic of the US-Tijuana border crossing. Lotsofissues 23:47, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I have added your idea of the border crossing. Very interesting traffic flow. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:40, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree, I think the list needs to be culled in general, I think its good that its growing now, but at one point it should be cut in half. These are the most interesting places (places that look interesting from a satellite) not important ones.. --18:33, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

Would it be acceptable to turn the list into its own page? Lotsofissues 08:17, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeah, it is getting kinda big. We're also duplicating content available elsewhere; that is, there are other sites with lists such as these.  Wikipedia is not a directory.  -Joshuapaquin 17:26, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

 * Perhaps limit the list to about 10 or so of the best entries? Scott Bell 21:39, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * That sounds sensible to me. -Joshuapaquin 21:10, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

I've sorted the interesting images into alphabetical order since they didn't seem to be in any order previously. There's probably some mistakes and I the US Government list should probably be sorted differently instead of by the first letter of each sentence. -- Scott Bell 02:31, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I have made the list into its own page. It is now located at List of interesting Google Maps satellite images. Obviously the name is awkward, so if you can think of something better then feel free to move it. Now the list can be made as long as we want without cluttering the main Google Maps page. -Joshuapaquin 20:06, May 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * The page was moved to User:Joshuapaquin/List of interesting Google Maps satellite images. --Interiot 18:46, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Image for satellite images
I just added an image for the satellite image section. Do all of you think that is a good idea? Should we have only one image, or several? Feel free to change it. Alex Weeks 04:51, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, too many images is bad news for dial-up users. • Thorpe • 20:40, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
 * And if you want to add more, I suggest doing so at the List of interesting Google Maps satellite images. -Joshuapaquin 21:33, May 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree that the fewer the images the better. I'm sorry, I phrased the question badly, not whether we should have several satellite image screenshots on the main Google Maps page, just whether we should have an image for each.  It hasn't been changed, so should it stand?  Two images, 1 normal, 1 satellite.  Alex Weeks 00:26, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm happy with it right now, thanks for adding that image. -Joshuapaquin 04:11, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

List of interesting images II
Where is the interesting images list stored now? I though that it was deleted and moved to Joshuapaquin's user page, but now it appears to be a Wikipedia article again. Scott Bell 11:34, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * It was moved by User:Thorpe, and I've contacted him to try to figure out what's going on. -Joshuapaquin 14:40, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm going to presume Thorpe made a mistake and revert it back to how it was-Scott Bell 13:07, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Embedding sites
Clearly "Websites embedding Google Maps content" is too generic, and can apply to any site which includes a Google Maps frame to show a map or directions. This section and its title should be retooled to specifically include sites which build upon or show custom location sets using the Google Maps interface. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ July 8, 2005 19:46 (UTC)

The Register
how about linking these two register articles, *http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/29/google_bush_map/ (the latter with a See also: Shroud of Turin)? dab (ᛏ) 07:39, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/15/google_spots_jesus/

Websites collecting Google Maps aerial views
I'm very temped to revert Elfguy's delete of these links, but I'll bring my gripes here before doing anything that might start a revert war. (Let me be up front and state that I am a moderator on one of the sites who's link was deleted, so I do have a personal interest here. I think my points will still stand, but I want my personal interest in this to be known.)

I feel strongly that this section belongs here, regardless of whether a similar list is present on the map list page. This page is for Google Maps, and contains an extensive list of external links to sites that do various things with Google Maps. Why should one specific use be excluded from this article? This one is by far my strongest objection to the deletion,

The page to which they are being dropped is a page about cool links, not a page about GM related sites. Yeah, it does have a set of external links, but that's an almost afterthought to that page. If people are wanting pages of links, that's not an obvious place to go looking for them.

Finally, the set of links on Joshuapaquin's page does not contain every link that was deleted from the main page. TexasAndroid 17:20, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, but I think that the external links section is getting way out of hand. There need to be some kind of criteria for what should be listed in the article. -Joshuapaquin 00:20, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

 * Not really sure what criteria could work, but I'm open to suggestions.
 * Hmm. Maybe instead of criteria, we split the external links off to a separate list page or pages.  One list would work, but it could be multiple for the separate sections if people wanted that.  Whichever, if it was a separate list page, I suspect there would be less need for limitations on content.
 * For a single page, how about the name : "List of External Links related to Google Maps". TexasAndroid 20:07, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

 * And yet, Wikipedia is not a repository of links. I would much prefer a short list of distinguished or exemplary applications rather than the free-for-all currently in place. -Joshuapaquin 21:43, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * FWIW, that's what I was trying to do in my cleanup efforts. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 01:19, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * Very well. We still need to choose which stay.  I'm no judge of quality on mashups and such, but I'm quite familiar with the "collecting" sites, given I moderate one and regularly visit the others looking for new maps.  I would think that, if we had to pare this grouping down, it could come down to what I consider the Big Three of GMaps collections, plus Joshuapaquin's user page link.  The "Big Three" (and this is totally IMHO) are Google Sightseeing, Google Globetrotting, and Perljam.  The rest in the group are either a fraction of the size of the Big Three, or very specialized. TexasAndroid 18:43, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I think we need to worry more about the "sites using Google Maps" for those now-booming sites of "hey, look at our location or get directions to us in a google maps window, woohoo!", or someone's blog that posts a screencap of a Gmaps window, rather than the sites that are heavily focused around GMaps. Disclaimer: I'm a contributor to both G-Sightseeing (as "Keith T.") and G-Globetrotting ("romulusnr"). - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 05:32, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

The external links section is absolutely ridiculous. I'm taking an axe to it. -- Cyrius|✎ 22:55, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Umm. In the middle of a discussion on what things to keep and what to cut, you go and cut almost everything?  I think you have gone way, way too far. TexasAndroid 23:05, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

 * There's so many links that you're talking about creating a whole separate page just to collect external links. External links should be limited in number and heavily relevant. The mere use of an API by some other tool does not constitute relevance. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:26, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I've tried to make a more reasonable revision. -Joshuapaquin 03:47, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, what are the criteria to be placed on the list? Few days ago I've noticed some incoming traffic to my page from this page, so I came here and saw my page on the list, next day I saw the list "slightly slenderized", so who decides if page with a collection of link should or should not be placed on the list.

outdated / plainly incorrect information
from the article "The downloadable Google Earth allows customized use of Google Maps, with e.g. map images with town and street names overlaying satellite images.

While not officially supported or authorized by Google, the fact that the Google Maps is done almost entirely in Javascript and XML, some end-users have reverse-engineered the tool and produced client-side scripts and server-side hooks which allow a user or website to introduce expanded or customized features into the Google Maps interface"

the google earth bit??? no mention of api release?

Easter egg?
I don't really think that the swiss cheese thing is an easter egg... it's just a joke. Easter eggs are hard to find; all you need to do is zoom in!

Adding additional links
We've got a nice, simple set of links now. As things move forward, people are obviously wanting to add more links back in, one by one. If we don't do something, set up some sort of process, it'll either grow wildly once again, or potentially become a revert war. I would rather have a few simple rules in place for how a new link gets approved for addition to the page. Obviously anything like this is strictly informal, but if several of us agree that we the community on this page will not accept any links that have not followed the rules, then I think we could make it work.

Obviously (to me, at least), the process would play out here on the talk page. Any new links would need to garner conscensous here first before they would be able to go to the page without likelyhood of removal/revert. But exactly how such a process should play out, I'm really not sure. But I can see that, if we are going to manage the page with a small sample set of links, we need some way to manage new links that people want added. TexasAndroid 15:25, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * One other preemptive suggestion. I'm personally following a 1RR on cleaning out links.  I will do at most one cleaing of links per day, even if someone adds some back in seconds after me.  There's no real rush on this.  Letting a new link stand around for a day or so doesn't hurt things.  It's the build-up of link after link that leads us back to where we were, with legitimate arguments to be made for doing away with them all.  By clearing out the new links daily, this build-up is controlled.  Anyway, my suggestion is that anyone else who wants to help keep new links cleared please also refrain from revert wars, etc.  Of all the things on Wikipedia that might be worth a revert war, keeping new links off this page isn't one of them. TexasAndroid 20:16, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Bank's teller machines
One thing that I really hate is paying $ 1.5 for using a teller machine from a diffrent bank. This mainly happen when you are in a new surrounding. Does anyone know whether there is a service like this? The banks just list addresses which are not really helpful if you don't know the area. Those address on a map would be better

Placeopedia

 * Placeopedia

Cleared this one, because it had not been discussed here, but I think this one may actually deserve to go back up. So let's give this link discussion thing a try.

This one has a direct concept linkage back to Wikipedia. The idea of Placeopedia is that users can add location links in the Placeopedia system that include direct references to Wikipedia articles. Basically it is trying to map out locations referenced here in Wikipedia. This fact by itself makes me think we should seriously consider adding it to our collection of links. Thoughts anyone else? TexasAndroid 15:33, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

 * vote:keep - I added it after finding it through (if I remember correctly) the blog of the man that created the sites They Work for You and Fax Your MP which are both well known here in the United Kingdom. I certainly believe it has a place here. --bodnotbod 15:28, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree, let's keep it. Connected to Wikipedia.  -Joshuapaquin 15:37, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Two comments on this. I deleted Placeopedia from the Examples this morning for the second time because, at the time, I was still the only comment on it. One person (me) does not a discussion make. Now we have a couple more comments, and it certainly appears that there is agreement that it should now stay. The next issue is in what form should it stay. Placepedia actually has it's own Wikipedia page, and that has been listed in the See Also section for several days. So I'm wondering, is that sufficient? Should it be in the Examples instead? Or should we have both references? TexasAndroid 15:55, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Archaeological findings
Manuela Catarsi Dall'Aglio, archaeologist of the National Archeologic museum of Parma (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Parma) was warned that there might be something in the soil of a field of Sorbolo. They were warned by Luca Mori who was exploring his region with google maps. On the satellite image, he found rectangular structures next to the meander of an old river: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.8819,10.4224&spn=0.007376,0.015044&t=k&hl=en

Is this an easter egg, fake publicity or ... reality? (when confirmed, you can put it in the main article "google maps")

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Okutsugaru-Imabetsu Station

Okutsugaru-Imabetsu Station (奥津軽いまべつ駅) is a railway station on the Hokkaido Shinkansen in the town of Imabetsu in Aomori Prefecture, on the island of Honshu, Japan. It is operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido), and is the last stop in Honshu before the Seikan Tunnel to Hokkaido.

Lines
Okutsugaru-Imabetsu Station is served by the Hokkaido Shinkansen between Tokyo or Shin-Aomori and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto. It used to be served by the Kaikyō Line between Aomori and Hakodate prior to the opening of the Hokkaido Shinkansen. After the beginning of the bullet train services, the Kaikyō Line is normally only used by freight trains.

Station layout
Before the Hokkaido Shinkansen stations were made, Tsugaru-Imabetsu Station had two opposed side platforms serving two tracks. There was no station building, but only a small weather shelter on the platform. The station was unattended.

Although the station is in the middle of the 82 km section shared by the standard-gauge Hokkaido Shinkansen and the-narrow gauge Kaikyō Line, narrow gauge trains use separate tracks (two each) on the both sides of the Shinkansen station so that only bullet trains pass through the passenger platforms.

Okutsugaru-Imabetsu is one of very few stations which is only served by Shinkansen trains, although it is physically connected to Tsugaru-Futamata Station on the JR East Tsugaru Line by an underground passage.

History
Tsugaru-Imabetsu Station (津軽今別駅) on the Kaikyō Line opened on 13 March 1988. From 2002, only the limited express Hakuchō services stopped at this station. According to the 2015 timetable, there were two trains per day in each direction.

The station became a stop on the Hokkaido Shinkansen on 26 March 2016 and was renamed, becoming Okutsugaru-Imabetsu Station. As the work to convert the Tsugaru-Imabetsu Station into the Shinkansen station was in progress, passenger services at the station were suspended from 10 August 2015. From August 2015, there were no train services at this station due to the work to convert the station to a stop on the high-speed line.

Surrounding area

 * Tsugaru-Futamata Station on the Tsugaru Line
 * Road Station Imabetsu "Asukuru"

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Rubtsovsk

Rubtsovsk (Рубцо́вск, ) is a city in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the Aley River (Ob's tributary) 281 km southwest of Barnaul. Population:   167,000 (1975); 111,000 (1959); 75,334 (1939).

History
It was founded in 1892.

A number of anti-Semitic incidents took place in the city in 1945.

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the city was the home city of several soldiers associated with the Bucha massacre and also a major destination for Ukrainian war loot.

Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Rubtsovsk serves as the administrative center of Rubtsovsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the city of krai significance of Rubtsovsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the city of krai significance of Rubtsovsk is incorporated as Rubtsovsk Urban Okrug.

Transportation
The Rubtsovsk Airport is a derelict airfield which is used most commonly by local youth for drag racing.

Geography
The city is located on the Aley River 281 kilometers (175 mi) southwest of Barnaul, the largest city and administrative centre of Altai Krai.

Notable people

 * Raisa Gorbachyova, activist and wife of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
 * Yevgeni Kryukov, association football player
 * Boris Eifman, ballet choreographer
 * Vladimir Ryzhkov, politician
 * Aleksei Tishchenko, boxer
 * Yekaterina Lobaznyuk, gymnast
 * Vladimir Galouzine, tenor

Cultural references
Novelist Esther Hautzig recounts her experiences in Rubtsovsk during World War II in The Endless Steppe.

Twin towns and sister cities

 * 🇺🇸 Grants Pass, Oregon, United States
 * 🇨🇳 Changji, China
 * 🇰🇿 Semey, Kazakhstan

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The 'green stripe' cover of House of Hell, by Steve Jackson. This was #10 in the Fighting Fantasy series.

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Moonlight Serenade (Carly Simon album)

Moonlight Serenade is the 20th studio album by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, released by Columbia Records, on July 19, 2005.

Simon's fourth album of standards, following Torch (1981), My Romance (1990), and Film Noir (1997), it debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, selling 58,000 copies in its first week, and remained on the chart for 10 weeks. It was Simon's first US Top 10 album since Boys in the Trees (1978). The album was produced by Richard Perry, with whom Simon had worked with in the 1970s on songs such as "You're So Vain" and "Nobody Does It Better".

Moonlight Serenade was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album in 2006.

Reception
AllMusic wrote "Carly Simon's fourth collection of standards digs a little deeper than her previous outings... She delivers these songs with panache, savvy, and just a touch of sass," continuing "Her smoky voice lends itself well to "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "My One and Only Love", and her sense of theatrics is drop-dead gorgeous on "I Only Have Eyes for You", which is a bit of a radical reworking that actually works. The slippery delivery on these songs is what lends them their unique, sexy character. This isn't for everyone, but it's a winner nonetheless."

Writing for Rolling Stone, David Wild rated the album 3 out of 5 stars and stated "Let no one ever accuse Carly Simon of jumping on the current standards bandwagon. Though Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald beat her to the punch, Simon was still way ahead of the curve for the rock generation. Torch, the singer-songwriter's first album of songs from the American songbook, came out back in 1981. Simon demonstrates on her fourth album of standards that she remains an assured and expressive stylist, quite comfortable with the exquisite melodic and lyrical subtleties of material like "All the Things You Are", "How Long Has This Been Going On?" and "Moonglow". Moonlight Serenade also marks Simon's reunion with producer Richard Perry... It's nice to see these two back together and still holding themselves to a high standard."

Track listing
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Formats and alternate versions
The album was released in both regular and DualDisc formats, the latter which included an interview with Simon and Perry, as well as behind the scenes footage of the recording sessions and the entire album in surround sound.

 * A special copy of the album was released by Barnes & Noble with a bonus track, "My Foolish Heart".
 * The album was released in the United Kingdom on October 10, 2005. It included "My Foolish Heart" and another track, "Let It Snow".

Transatlantic concert
In September 2005, Simon performed two concerts aboard the RMS Queen Mary 2, on a transatlantic trip from New York City to Southampton. A DVD of the concerts was released as A Moonlight Serenade on the Queen Mary 2 on November 22, 2005, and an edited version was broadcast on various PBS stations during their December 2005 pledge drives. Simon performed many songs from the album, along with some of her biggest hits.

Concert tour
In October 2005, Simon announced her "Serenade Tour" which was to include older hits and songs from Moonlight Serenade. Her children, Sally Taylor and Ben Taylor, joined her on the tour.

Musicians
• Carly Simon – vocals

• Michael Thompson – acoustic piano (1, 3, 4, 7-10), synth strings (1, 4, 5, 7-10), arrangements (1, 3, 4, 5, 7-10), additional synthesizers (2, 6), synth vibraphone (4), Fender Rhodes (5)

• Andy Chukerman – synth strings (2, 11), arrangements (2), additional synthesizers (6)

• Jim Cox – acoustic piano (2, 6, 11)

• Alex Navarro – synth strings (3, 6, 9), additional synthesizers (7)

• Vin D'Onofrio – guitars, guitar solo (8)

• Chris Golden – bass

• John Ferraro – drums (1-4, 6-11)

• Sammy Merendino – drum programming (5), percussion (5)

• Doug Webb – saxophone (1, 11), clarinet (1, 11), sax solo (2), clarinet solo (4), "stritch" sax solo (5), flute (6), arrangements (11)

• Tom Evans – sax solo (3)

• Lee Thornburg – trombone (1), trumpet (1), flugelhorn solo (10)

• Larry Lunetta – trumpet solo (7)

• William Galison – harmonica solo (9)

• Richard Perry – arrangements

• Lauren Wild – arrangements

• Live String Section

• Michael Thompson – arrangements (1, 4, 7, 8, 10)

• Alex Navarro – arrangements (3, 6, 9)

• Victor Lawrence – cello

• Danny Seidenberg – viola

• Sam Fischer, Samuel Formicola, Alyssa Park, Mark Robertson and Shalini Vijayan – violin

Production
• Richard Perry – producer

• Lauren Wild – associate producer

• Bobby Ginsburg – track recording, strings recording, mixing

• Carter William Humphrey – track recording

• Dylan Margerum – vocal recording

• Marcos González – additional engineer, Pro Tools technician

• Jimmy Paar – additional engineer, Pro Tools technician

• Jeff Phurrough – additional engineer, Pro Tools technician

• Nick Sample – additional engineer, Pro Tools technician

• Phil Carbo – assistant engineer

• Anthony Gallo – assistant engineer

• Cesar Ramirez – assistant engineer

• Robert Hadley – mastering

• Ben McCarthy – production coordinator

• Shauna Krikorian – production assistant

• Lauren Dooreck Camara – art direction, design

• Bob Gothard – photography

• Kerri Brusca – management

• Denise Searle – personal assistant

• Studios

• Recorded at Fox Force Five (Hollywood, CA); Reagan's Garage and Westlake Recorders (Los Angeles, CA); The Cutting Room (New York, NY).

• Mixed at Reagan's Garage

• Mastered at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, CA).

Charts
Album – Billboard (United States)

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The urban core of the metropolitan L.A. area, spanning a range of 16 miles, from the Santa Monica Beach to Downtown Los Angeles, connected together by Wilshire boulevard.

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Mareta West

Mareta Nelle West (August 9, 1915 – November 2, 1998) was an American astrogeologist who in the 1960s chose the site of the first crewed lunar landing, Apollo 11. She was the first female astrogeologist. Her cremated remains were launched into space.

Early life
West was born August 9, 1915, in Elk City, Oklahoma, to Luther and Myrtie West. West was a third-generation Oklahoman, her grandparents having moved to Indian Territory in 1889. She moved to Oklahoma City as a child and graduated from Classen High School. She earned her bachelor's degree in geology from the University of Oklahoma in 1937, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

West married Albert Reichard on April 21, 1939. They had divorced by the time of the 1940 United States Census.

Career
In the 1940s, West worked as a petroleum geologist in the oil and gas industry. She worked in Oklahoma City for eleven years before joining the United States Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1964, two years after the agency was founded. She was the first woman astrogeologist. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1966.

West was the only woman on the Geology Experiment Team for Apollo 11. She chose the site of the first crewed lunar landing, and worked on selection of landing sites for subsequent Apollo missions.

She continued to work on lunar and Martian geography into the 1970s, writing and co-writing several articles and publications. After retirement, West moved back to Oklahoma City, where she actively participated in community and philanthropic causes. She died on November 2, 1998.

Cremated remains launched into space
Her cremated remains were launched into space aboard a SpaceLoft-XL rocket on April 28, 2007, as part of the first commercial attempt to launch human remains for lunar "burial". This was a sub-orbital launch, and the cremains were recovered afterwards. A second attempt to launch the cremains was made on August 2, 2008, aboard a Falcon 1 rocket. The intended destination of this flight was low Earth orbit, but the rocket failed two minutes after launch.

Publications

 * Nuclear Power Reactor Sites in the Southeastern United States, 1978.
 * West Side of the Moon

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Supply network

A supply network is a pattern of temporal and spatial processes carried out at facility nodes and over distribution links, which adds value for customers through the manufacturing and delivery of products. It comprises the general state of business affairs in which all kinds of material (work-in-process material as well as finished products) are transformed and moved between various value-added points to maximize the value added for customers. In the semiconductor industry, for example, work-in-process moves from fabrication to assembly, and then to the test house. The term "supply network" refers to the high-tech phenomenon of contract manufacturing where the brand owner does not touch the product. Instead, she coordinates with contract manufacturers and component suppliers who ship components to the brand owner. This business practice requires the brand owner to stay in touch with multiple parties or "network" at once.

A supply chain is a special instance of a supply network in which raw materials, intermediate materials and finished goods are procured exclusively as products through a chain of processes that supply one another. John Mills et al. have suggested that the addition of the term "network" to the concept of supply chain management has extended supply chain management into a more strategic orientation. In their analysis, internal connections such as links between a company's purchasing department and staff responsible for new product development would form part of a supply network alongside the connections to players within the supply chain.

A supplier association can also be seen as a form of supply network.

Resilient supply networks
A resilient supply network effectively aligns its strategy, operations, management systems, governance structure, and decision-support capabilities so that it can uncover and adjust to continually changing risks, endure disruptions to its primary earnings drivers, and create advantages over less adaptive competitors. Moreover, it has the capability to respond rapidly to unforeseen changes, even chaotic disruption. The resilience of a supply network is the ability to bounce back – and, in fact, to bounce forward with speed, determination and precision. In recent studies, resilience is regarded as the next phase in the evolution of traditional, place-centric enterprise structures to highly virtualized, customer-centric structures that enable people to work anytime, anywhere.

Resilient supply networks should align their strategies and operations to adapt to risk that affects network capacities. There are 4 levels of supply chain resilience:
 * 1) reactive supply chain management.
 * 2) internal supply chain integration with planned buffers.
 * 3) collaboration across extended supply chain networks.
 * 4) a dynamic supply chain adaptation and flexibility.

Strategic resilience
From the strategic resilient viewpoint, a supply network must dynamically reinvent business models and strategies as circumstances change. It is not about responding to a one-time crisis, or just having a flexible supply chain. It is about continuously anticipating and adjusting to discontinuities that can permanently impair the value preposition of a core business with focus on delivering customer satisfaction. Strategic resilience requires continuous innovation with respect to product structures, processes, but also corporate behaviour. Renewal can be regarded as the natural consequence of a supply network’s innate strategic resilience.

Operational resilience
In terms of operational resilience, the supply networks must respond to the ups and downs of the business cycle or to quickly rebalance product-service mix, processes, and supply chain, by bolstering enterprises agility, flexibility and robustness in the face of changing environments.

Research
There are two distinct types of supply network research: Early supply network descriptive research looked at the automotive industry, comparing the Japanese Keiretsu with western manufacturing networks.
 * descriptive studies of industrial supply networks
 * prescriptive research into supply chain management focussing on strategic and operational management questions.

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Bob Kuban

Robert "Bob" Kuban (born August 19, 1940) is an American musician and bandleader.

Career
Kuban was born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and was graduated from the St. Louis Institute of Music. In the early 1960s, Kuban was a music teacher and band director at Bishop DuBourg High School, a Catholic secondary school in St. Louis.

In 1964, he formed the group Bob Kuban and The In-Men. Kuban was both its drummer and the bandleader. The group was an eight-piece band with horns, somewhat of a throwback for the time, considering that the British Invasion, mounted primarily by guitar-based bands that had initially formed in the UK, was taking place during that period.

Kuban was heavily influenced by Ike & Tina Turner, whom he would watch perform at Club Imperial in St. Louis before his band became regulars. He said, "I just loved the band so much... I mimicked a lot of the stuff that they did. We had the horn section in my band. When Ike and Tina Turner left, we were able to play there. We were there on Tuesday nights."

He is best known for his 1966 No. 12 pop hit, "The Cheater". For this hit single Kuban is honored in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's permanent exhibit on one-hit wonders.

After "The Cheater," Kuban never again scored high on the pop charts, although he did have two other top 100 hits: "The Teaser" peaked at No. 70; and a remake of the Lennon–McCartney song "Drive My Car" went to No. 93. Kuban continues to be a fixture on the St. Louis music scene, and still tours and performs at private parties. Bob Kuban and The In-Men performed for the opening ceremonies of Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis on May 10, 1966; and The Bob Kuban Brass performed before the last regular-season baseball game there on October 2, 2005.

In the 1960s, a spin-off of the group was a band called The Guise, led by In-Men organist and songwriter Greg Hoeltzel. The Guise performed in the 1969 St. Louis premiere of a composition by classical composer Arthur Custer and jazz composer Julius Hemphill titled "Songs of Freedom, Love, and War."

Death of Walter Scott
In a tragic coincidence, Walter Scott, who was the front man for The In-Men and the lead singer of "The Cheater", a song whose lyrics speak of infidelity, was murdered in 1983 by his wife's lover in a case that did not come to light until 1987. Scott's wife eventually admitted to helping conceal Scott's death.

Charted singles

 * "The Cheater" - 1965 (US #12)
 * "The Teaser" - 1966 (US #70)
 * "Drive My Car" - 1966 (US #93)

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Andrew Granville

Andrew James Granville (born 7 September 1962) is a British mathematician, working in the field of number theory.

Education
Granville received his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (1983) and his Certificate of Advanced Studies (Distinction) (1984) from Trinity College, Cambridge University. He received his PhD from Queen's University in 1987 and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada in 2006.

Career
He has been a faculty member at the Université de Montréal since 2002. Before moving to Montreal he was a mathematics professor at the University of Georgia (UGA) from 1991 until 2002. He was a section speaker in the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians together with Carl Pomerance from UGA.

Research
Granville's work is mainly in number theory, in particular analytic number theory. Along with Carl Pomerance and W. R. (Red) Alford he proved the infinitude of Carmichael numbers in 1994. This proof was based on a conjecture given by Paul Erdős.

Awards
Granville won a Lester R. Ford Award in 2007 and again in 2009. In 2008, he won the Chauvenet Prize for expository writing from the Mathematical Association of America for his paper "It is easy to determine whether a given integer is prime". In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Other
Andrew Granville, in collaboration with his sister Jennifer Granville, a film writer, wrote Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations, a graphic novel that is a "mathematical detective story" and investigates key concepts in mathematics.

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Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Lawrence Joseph Henderson (June 3, 1878 – February 10, 1942) was an American physiologist, chemist, biologist, philosopher, and sociologist. He became one of the leading biochemists of the early 20th century. His work contributed to the Henderson–Hasselbalch equation, used to calculate pH as a measure of acidity.

Early life
Lawrence Henderson was born in Lynn, Massachusetts the son of a business man Joseph Henderson and his wife. He entered Harvard at the age of 16 in 1894. His father was a ship chandler whose principal business was located in nearby Salem, but who also conducted business in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a French Overseas collectivity off the coast of Canada.

Career
Lawrence Henderson graduated from Harvard College in 1898 and from Harvard Medical School in 1902, receiving the M.D. (Medical Doctor) degree cum laude.

Then followed two years in chemical research at the University of Strasbourg with advanced scientific training in Franz Hofmeister's physiological laboratory. He became professor of biological chemistry, and later professor of chemistry, in Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was also introduced to philosophy and sociology by faculty members of Harvard University. He established some institutes in Harvard, especially the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory for physiological and sociological research on fatigue with the support of the Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Medical School, and he became the director. He served as the first president of the History of Science Society from 1924-5.

Henderson investigated acid-base regulation (1906–20). He found that acid-base balance is regulated by buffer systems of the blood in complex coordination with respiration, the lung, red blood cells, and with the kidneys. He wrote the Henderson equation in 1908 to describe the use of carbonic acid as a buffer solution. Karl Albert Hasselbalch later expressed the equation in logarithmic terms, creating the Henderson–Hasselbalch equation. In addition, he described blood gas transport and the general physiology of blood as physico-chemical system (1920–1932). He invented and constructed new charts, nomograms, with the help of Maurice d'Ocagne. He introduced nomograms into physiology and biology as well. The consequential inter-relations of various factors were shown in his book Blood in more than one hundred nomograms.

In 1913, Henderson wrote The Fitness of the Environment, one of the first books to explore concepts of fine tuning in the Universe. Henderson discusses the importance of water and the environment with respect to living things, pointing out that life depends entirely on the very specific environmental conditions on Earth, especially with regard to the prevalence and properties of water. In the book The Fitness of the Environment (1913) he wrote we find "an inquiry into the biological significance of the properties of matter" (Henderson). He saw the properties of matter and the course of cosmic evolution intimately related to the structure of the living being and to its activities. He concluded: "the whole evolutionary process, both cosmic and organic, is one, and the biologist may now rightly regard the universe in its very essence as biocentric".

As a sociologist (1932–42) he applied the functionalism of physiological regulation to the phenomena of social behavior basing on his concept of social systems. He described social systems with the help of the sociology of Vilfredo Pareto. In contrast to Pareto, Henderson applied the concept of social systems to all disciplines that study the meanings communicated in interactions between two or more persons acting in roles or role-sets. Henderson influenced many Harvard sociologists, especially Talcott Parsons, George C. Homans, Robert K. Merton, and Elton Mayo who all became pioneers in sociology or psychology. Henderson was instrumental in promoting Talcott Parsons career at Harvard despite Pitirim Sorokin's opposition. He also discussed intensively with Parsons the methodological chapters of Talcott Parsons The Structure of Social Action (1937) at the time when Parsons was working on the raw manuscript.

Henderson's investigations had their inception and consummation in the philosopher's chair. In spite of his diversity of interests, his work exhibits in retrospect a fundamental unity; his career was largely devoted to the study of the organization of the organism, the universe, and society.

Henderson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1912, the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1919, and the American Philosophical Society in 1921.

Henderson was an agnostic.

He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 10, 1942.

Books

 * The Fitness of the Environment. Macmillan, New York, 1913 (German edition in 1914),
 * The Order of Nature. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, London, 1917 (French edition in 1924),
 * Blood. A Study in General Physiology. Yale University Press, New Haven, and Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1928 (French edition in 1931, German edition in 1932),
 * Pareto's General Sociology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1935.
 * On the Social System. Ed. by Bernard Barber, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1970.

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House of Hell

House of Hell (House of Hades in the United States ) is a single-player adventure gamebook written by Steve Jackson, illustrated by Tim Sell and originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books. It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2002. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 10th in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0-14-031831-3) and 7th in the modern Wizard series (ISBN 1-84046-417-8). A digital version was developed by Tin Man Games for Microsoft Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.

Creation
A short version of the adventure was first published in Warlock: The Fighting Fantasy Magazine. Originally 185 references, the adventure was modified and expanded to 400 references for the final title.

The American edition of the book, published by Dell Laurel-Leaf, was re-titled House of Hades as the word 'Hell' can be considered a profanity in the United States.

Rules
As with titles such as Appointment with F.E.A.R. and Sword of the Samurai, House of Hell utilizes an additional game mechanic; in this instance, "Fear Points", which the player will occasionally accrue. If too many Fear Points are accumulated the story ends, as the character is literally scared to death.

Story
House of Hell is a horror story in which the protagonist must escape a haunted house, and survive against monsters such as skeletons, zombies, ghosts, and vampires.

At first a guest, the player discovers the house is home to Satan-worshippers and various monsters. Gameplay is initially devoted to finding a means of escape, although after finding a series of clues, the player must first defeat the evil presiding over the house.

In other media

 * A digital version developed by Tin Man Games is available for Android and iOS.
 * In 2010, Super Team Film Prods secured the rights to House of Hell, with the intention to make a motion picture based on the title.

Reception
In the June 1985 edition of White Dwarf (Issue #66), Chris Mitchell thought the artwork was "of very good quality", the price was reasonable, and the book was a worthy addition to the Fighting Fantasy collection.

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Storytelling (film)

Storytelling is a 2001 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz. It stars Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Paul Giamatti, Mark Webber, Robert Wisdom, Xander Berkeley, Aleksa Palladino, Julie Hagerty, Lupe Ontiveros, Franka Potente, and John Goodman. It features original music by Belle & Sebastian, later compiled on the album Storytelling. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot
The film consists of two stories that are unrelated and have different actors, titled "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction". College and high school serve as the backdrop for these two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.

Vi is a graduate student dating an undergrad, Marcus, who has cerebral palsy, though he observes that she no longer seems passionate about their relationship. They are in a creative writing class taught by a well known black author, Mr. Scott. Marcus has written an amateurish story about the effect of Vi's love on his medical condition, and she encourages him to share it in the class's workshop. While other students give it tepid praise, Mr. Scott and his favorite student, Catherine, harshly dismiss it as mediocre trash. Upset, Marcus angrily blames Vi for not warning him against sharing the story, and breaks up with her, accusing her of being secretly attracted to Mr. Scott. A hurt and heartbroken Vi goes out to a bar and encounters Mr. Scott. She thanks him for being honest about Marcus's story, praises his writing, and asks if he thinks she will make a great writer; he tells her that he does not. After she flirts with him clumsily, they return to his residence, where she discovers photos of Catherine and other students naked and in various poses. Mr. Scott and Vi have rough sex. Afterwards, Vi returns to Marcus in tears and reconciles with him. Later, back in the class workshop, Vi shares a fictionalized version of her encounter with Mr. Scott. The other students are appalled by the story's content, and Catherine calmly eviscerates the piece, claiming that "Vi" is an arrogant, narcissistic fetishist and racist. When Marcus and Vi defend the piece as being a real experience, an unimpressed Mr. Scott informs them that when she starts writing about an experience, it becomes fiction, and that the story is nevertheless an improvement over her other works because there "is now at least a beginning, a middle, and an end."
 * Fiction

Toby Oxman is a struggling would-be filmmaker attempting to make his first documentary. Though he originally intends to make a film about the experiences of teenagers post-Columbine on a wide scale, he is eventually forced to limit his scope to one dysfunctional, upper-middle-class suburban New Jersey family and their teenage son Scooby. His father, the strict and unsympathetic Marty, is frustrated with Scooby's lazy attitude and unwillingness to attend college, while his football player brother Brady worries that Scooby is secretly gay and his obnoxious youngest brother Mikey is obliviously self-obsessed. Scooby's only vague ambition is to be famous, and have a talk show on television like his idol Conan O'Brien, who appears to him in a dream sequence as Scooby allows a love-struck friend to perform oral sex on him. Scooby intentionally flunks his exams, but to his surprise, he finds that he has been accepted to Princeton University, which Marty privately reveals was because of a large donation from a family member.
 * Non-Fiction

Meanwhile, Mikey torments the family's overworked, underpaid, and exhausted housekeeper, Consuelo, exercising his privileged and sheltered upbringing to badger her with questions that emphasize the discrepancy between their lifestyles. She reveals that she is still poor, has no time for any personal activities due to the constant demands from the family, and that her beloved grandson has been executed after being arrested for rape and murder. The self-centered Mikey only continues ordering her around. Later, Brady suffers a serious accident during football practice and falls into a deep coma. Mikey takes advantage of Marty's vulnerability over Brady's condition to perform hypnotism on him, during which he commands himself to be Marty's new favorite son and orders Marty to fire Consuelo for petty reasons. Miraculously, the hypnosis works perfectly. Marty fires Consuelo despite her tearful pleading, much to Mikey's smug enjoyment.

After the documentary is finished and Toby refuses to let him see the completed footage, Scooby secretly attends a late-night screening, where he witnesses the audience laughing uproariously at his dim-witted portrayal. Realizing that he will never be famous, Scooby is left devastated. While he is away, a vengeful Consuelo sneaks back into the house and murders the rest of the Livingstons by poisoning the house with carbon monoxide. Scooby returns home the next morning to find emergency services wheeling his deceased family into an ambulance. Toby, back with a camera crew, runs up to Scooby to tearfully apologize for what's transpired, but an emotionless and jaded Scooby coldly tells him to not be sorry, because "the movie's a hit."

The original version of the film featured a third story entitled "Autobiography", concerning, among other things, a closeted football player. The main character has an explicit sex scene with a male partner; the entire story was cut from the final version.
 * Autobiography

Cast

 * Fiction

 * Non-fiction

Release
Storytelling premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 2001, before receiving a limited North American theatrical release on January 25, 2002.

Red box controversy
During the sex scene in the Fiction entry, a "red box" was added for the American version of the film, blocking the audience's view of a rough sex scene between Blair and Wisdom. This was used to bend the rules of the MPAA's rating system, allowing the film to obtain the R rating instead of NC-17. The box is not present in the international version of the film, although in the American DVD release, both options are available.

Box office
The film earned $73,688 in its opening weekend in a mere four venues, ranking number 42 in the domestic box office. By the end of its run, on March 28, 2002, the film grossed $921,445 domestically and $397,500 overseas for a worldwide total of $1,318,945.

Critical reception
The film received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 54% approval rating based on 91 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Todd Solondz's Storytelling boasts an audacious narrative structure, but fails to deliver on the mechanics of its namesake, yielding a creative exercise that is more interested in satisfying the author's interests rather than the audience's involvement." On Metacritic, the film has a 50 out of 100 rating based on 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

In popular culture
The censored cover for the 2003 Xiu Xiu album A Promise features a red rectangle obscuring the penis featured in the uncensored version. This red rectangle is a reference to the similarly censored sex scene in the "Fiction" portion of Storytelling.

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Please note: Though I have tagged this article for merging with Gedo, I have done so based on this article's amount of information, not its quality. There are other issues which need to be addressed - verification, copyediting, and wikification - before this text should be merged to Gedo. My following comments go into more detail. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:15, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I suspect this article might be a copyright violation, based on the fact that there was only one edit in which actual text content was added. This suggests the text was copied and pasted from another source (also the non-standard format of section headers etc.) There is also a line at the bottom that appears to attribute the information to a particular source. On the other hand, the text contains a number of grammatical and spelling mistakes, which would have (or at least should have) been cleaned up had someone actually published this, so perhaps it is copied from a school assignment. Aside from this issue, while the content is about Gedo and should be merged with that article, the title itself is more generic and should be redirected to Regions of Somalia. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 04:46, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The attribution I mentioned would appear to be the name of the person who posted this article. A Google search on the name revealed that various mirror sites were using another Wikipedia article with a very similar attribution (which has since been edited out of that article). As this does not appear to be a source, I have added unsourced to the other maintenance-related templates in this article. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:15, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I have now moved most of the content from here to Gedo. I will work on copy editing and wikifcation there as to do the editing properly I need it in one place--NHSavage 17:20, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of NHL Draft Steals

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

The result of the debate was Keep (see my talk for full explanation) Wikibofh 17:03, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

List of NHL Draft Steals
Delete This page should be deleted for a few reasons. 1) It is a matter of opinion 2)It has no formula or clear, precise definition about the difference between what makes Player A a steal and Player B not 3)different users have different opinions on who should belong on the list and who shouldn't, and therefore this article is easily disputable. If there ever can be a set formula for this article, it would be a great article because it is an interesting topic, but it just isn't fact enough to be considered in an encyclopedia Croat Canuck 04:47, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Very Strong Keep yes, sometimes it can be disputable for who goes on this list, but most of the time it is pretty obvious. Before this article was made, the original author posted an inquiry here about whether people thought it was a POV subject or not. That discussion can now be found here. Croat Canuck, I am wondering why you didn't post your concerns on the talk page to the draft steals article. If you had, I am sure that the users involved could have come up with a more exact definition of which players should be included and which ones should be excluded. Masterhatch 05:30, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep & merge the introductory paragraphs with NHL Entry Draft --Anetode 05:39, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete The very fact that the opening sentence admits the topic is by nature unencyclopedic makes, to me at least, a very compelling argument for excluding it from Wikipedia. Croat Canuck's concerns regarding its seemingly arbitrary inclusion criteria are also influencing me.  Finally, I'm not moved by the fact that it's part of a wikiproject, as I don't think the fact that an entry's editors have formally grouped themselves together with a collective name entitles them or their articles to a looser reading of WP:NOT, particularly section 1.7 and the overarching principle that Wikipedia is not to become an indiscriminate collection of information.  Cruft is cruft, and being part of a wikiproject doesn't, or at least I believe shouldn't be treated as some sort of imprimatur on cruft.  The Literate Engineer 06:59, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I think that this article will need to list verifiable sources saying that player A has performed much better than anticipated at a draft and is a steal. The criteria for determining who and who is not a steal also needs to be tightened up as it seems arbitrary at the moment. For example, players from the Soviet Union are excluded for reasons that don't seem obvious to me. Capitalistroadster 07:04, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as a list with POV criteria. I don't know enough about hockey to know if this has anything worth merging; if it does, merge it whereever. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: IF this list gets deleted, then this (List of NFL Draft Steals) should too. Masterhatch 08:43, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete the NFL article, i'm putting it on AfD now. I'm somewhere between Delete and Rewrite on the NHL article. Alot of work was put into it, and it can be salvaged, but right now it reads like an essay, it has a POVish title, if it were shorter I think any decent content could be merged without much rancor. Clean up the title and the essayish sounding parts, and I'll move to Keep. Otherwise, Delete from me. Karmafist 14:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep For those of you who just jumped in on the bandwagon to delete this page, I am the original author that Masterhatch talked about in his statement. Even though I have forseen this arguement about the whole POV factor, it seems that I was unprepared for the onslaught of *Delete statements on this discussion. Let me try to explain myself as clear as possible. I added this list onto wikipedia because I thought that this would be considered as an "educational tool" for the newer fans who did not know a bust from an apple or a steal from a pear. Yes, there are times where an addition to this list is debatable, but I personally feel that the ones I added were core components to successful teams (I'm talking about a playoff run... so don't add Bob Kudelski on this list) and were or are solid players at the NHL level. For an effort to fix this list (from disputable additions), I will find any players that I feel are debatable additions and will post them up on the discussion board for the people to vote upon (I will try to do several of these after I post this message). Hopefully, I explained this list's purpose on Wikipedia and persuaded a few people to change their minds about this list. I am surprised by the deletion or the list. Not because of why it's being deleted, but it about who is deleting this list. If you look at this list's history, you will see that Croat Canuck contributed to list a little less than a month ago. Seemingly ironic, he added a handful of extremely debatable steals himself (which I swiftly deleted, as I explained why I deleted them on my user discussion page). Hossmann 20:16, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Even the title itself is POV. --Nlu 23:06, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as inherently POV, unsalvageable article. MCB 23:46, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per CroatCanuck's reasoning. I'm a hockey fan, and I understand very well how the likes of Dominik Hasek and Martin St. Louis deserve notability for being tremendous players while going under the eyes of scouts, but there's no way to write this kind of article without abandoning empiricism in favour of opinion.  I suppose you could do something like "members of the Hockey Hall of Fame drafted in the second half of the NHL Draft" and that would be legit, but this article isn't. -The Tom 00:23, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. POV from the very first sentence: "The definition of a "steal" in terms of the NHL draft is hard to truly implement on an encyclopedia". Any article which spends several paragraphs giving instructions on how to edit doesn't belong on Wikipedia. Rhobite 02:10, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. The very nature of sports involves superlatives that can be considered a matter of opinion, between players and teams widely believed to be "great" or "mediocre" and the subjectivity of performance in general.  That being said, there is in fact a reasonable consensus opinion, undisputed in the discussions taking place concerning the article, and a similar consensus in the hockey community at large.  RGTraynor 06:02, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm as big a sports fan as anybody, but this is too subjective without criteria, ergo unencyclopedic. Xoloz 12:04, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep ccwaters 23:59, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep It is not POV, if a player was drafted low and has a good career, then it is pretty clear cut --Rogerd 03:53, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Please objectively define "low" and "good." You just used two very subjective terms in a supposedly objective statement. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 04:21, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Jkelly 04:22, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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Noshiro Station

Noshiro Station (能代駅) is a railway station in the city of Noshiro, Akita, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Noshiro Station is served by the Gonō Line, and is 3.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Higashi-Noshiro.

Station layout
Noshiro Station consists of two ground-level opposed side platforms serving two tracks, connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is staffed.

History
The station opened on 1 July 1908 as Noshiromachi Station (能代駅). It was renamed Noshiro Station on 1 November 1909. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 430 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

 * Noshiroekimae Post office
 * Noshiro Post office
 * Noshiro City hall

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Modern Art Week

The Modern Art Week (Semana de Arte Moderna) was an arts festival in São Paulo, Brazil, that ran from February 10 to February 17, 1922. Historically, the Week marked the start of Brazilian Modernism; though a number of individual Brazilian artists were doing modernist work before the week, it coalesced and defined the movement and introduced it to Brazilian society at large.

The Week took place at the Municipal Theater in São Paulo, and included plastic arts exhibitions, lectures, concerts, and reading of poems. In its breadth it differed significantly from the Armory Show, with which it is often compared, but which featured only visual art. It was organized chiefly by painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti and poet Mário de Andrade, in an attempt to bring to a head a long-running conflict between the young modernists and the cultural establishment, headed by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, which adhered strictly to academicism. The event was controversial at best and divisive at worst, with one member of the Academy, Graça Aranha, ostracized for attending. He had opened the week with a conference titled "The aesthetic emotion in modern art". Due to the radicalism (for the times) of some of their poems and music, the artists were vigorously booed and pelted by the audience, and the press and art critics in general were strong in their condemnation (such as in a famous episode by editor, writer and art critic Monteiro Lobato).

The group that took part in the Week, contrary to their initial intentions, did not remain a unified movement. A number of separate groups split off, and the original core members had separated by 1929. Two divisions predominated: the Anthropophagics (cannibalists), led by Oswald de Andrade, wanted to make use of the influence of European and American artists but freely create their own art out of the regurgitations of what they had taken from abroad (thus the term anthropophagy: they would "eat" all influences, digest it, and throw out new things). The Nationalists wanted no foreign influences, and sought a "purely Brazilian" form of art. This group was led by writer Plínio Salgado, who later became a fascist political leader (Brazilian Integralism) and was arrested by dictator Getúlio Vargas after a failed coup.

Before the events leading up to 1922, São Paulo was a prosperous but relatively culturally unimportant city. However, the Week established São Paulo as the seat of the new modernist movement, against the far more culturally conservative Rio de Janeiro.

Painters

 * Anita Malfatti
 * Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
 * Zina AitaVista do centro da cidade de São Paulo (SP), early 20th century 01.tif
 * Vicente do Rego Monteiro
 * Ferrignac (Ignácio da Costa Ferreira)
 * Yan de Almeida Prado
 * John Graz
 * Alberto Martins Ribeiro
 * Oswaldo Goeldi

Architects

 * Georg Przyrembel

Writers

 * Mário de Andrade
 * Oswald de Andrade
 * Menotti del Picchia
 * Sérgio Milliet
 * Plínio Salgado
 * Ronald de Carvalho
 * Agenor Fernandes Barbosa
 * Álvaro Moreira
 * Renato de Almeida
 * Ribeiro Couto
 * Guilherme de Almeida
 * Graça Aranha

Composers

 * Heitor Villa-Lobos
 * Guiomar Novais
 * Ernani Braga
 * Frutuoso Viana

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Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, QE or QEH in short, is one of the largest district general hospital in Hong Kong. It was named after Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a major tertiary hospital in southern Kowloon, with over 1,900 beds. It employs more than 500 physicians and surgeons.

The hospital was once the largest in the Commonwealth.

Description
Queen Elizabeth Hospital was officially opened on 6 September 1963 by then-Governor of Hong Kong, Robert Black. At the time, it was the largest general hospital in the British Commonwealth, built at a cost of HK$70,300,000. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh laid the hospital's foundation stone on 7 March 1959.

The hospital is now the largest public hospital in Kowloon. It has 1,906 beds and 13 clinical departments, and a staff force of about 6,850. It serves an effective population of about 900,000 and about one-third of all cancer patients in Hong Kong. It is the largest acute hospital in Hong Kong despite not being a teaching hospital.

The hospital has a full complement of services including 24-hour Accident and Emergency and specialist services. Clinics are located at three different sites to serve the district. They are the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Specialist Clinic, Yau Ma Tei Polyclinic, and the 'L' Block Clinic.

The hospital provides high-intensity care for all clinical specialties, and a tertiary referral centre for major specialties. It is also a teaching centre for basic and post-graduate training of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.

Through its cluster network, the hospital is closely linked with Kwong Wah Hospital and the United Christian Hospital for acute services, as well as Kowloon Hospital and Hong Kong Buddhist Hospital for convalescent rehabilitation and hospice services. Other general and speciality services are supported by Wong Tai Sin Hospital, the East Kowloon Clinic and Pamela Youde Clinic.

To enhance community participation, an annual health promotion programme and a patient resource centre were established in 1993, giving support to seven self-help patient groups. The hospital organised a Healthwork Campaign for the staffs of 28 hotels in Yau Tsim Mong District, and formed partnership programmes with the Hong Kong Hotels Association in 1995–96.

In 1994–96, the hospital completed some major service expansion projects. They included the provision of an Open Heart and Thoracic Surgical Services and an Adolescent Medical Centre.

A 24-hour multidisciplinary trauma service was introduced in 1995–96, and various patient-centred services re-organisations were introduced. The medical record system and electronic medical record systems were also introduced in phases beginning in 1994.

The hospital pioneered a two-year training posts of Family Physicians in QEH in July 1996 to promote high quality health care practitioners and expanded the initiative into a wider programme with corporate support in 1997. It is now an established mandate for HA.

To meet growing demand for its services, a number of renovation and reconstruction projects were carried out. These include air conditioning for all hospital wards by the end of 1996. With a donation from the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the Jockey Club Institute of Radiotherapy and Oncology, and the Jockey Club Institute of Radiology and Imaging were redeveloped. Redevelopment of the Ambulatory Care Centre, with specialist clinics, day surgery and rehabilitation services included under one roof, was completed by 1997. The new Rehabilitation Block opened for service in 1999, and a new surgical centre with 21 operating theatres opened in 2000.

Scope of service
Specialties: Others:
 * Accident and emergency department
 * Trauma centre
 * Anaesthesiology and operating theatre Services
 * Neurosurgery
 * Neurology
 * Clinical oncology
 * Cardiology
 * Gastroenterology and hepatology
 * Thoracic surgery
 * Renal medicine and urology
 * Surgery/medicine
 * Paediatrics and neonatology
 * Obstetrics and gynaecology
 * Ear, nose, and throat
 * Sports medicine
 * Ophthalmology
 * Intensive care unit
 * Oral-maxillofacial surgery and dental unit
 * Reconstructive orthopaedics
 * Nursing
 * Home care services
 * Radiology and imaging
 * Pathology
 * Paramedical service
 * Rehabilitation
 * AIDS service
 * Adolescent medical centre

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Russian Church

Russian Church may refer to:

Denominations

 * Russian Orthodox Church, alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate, one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches, in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox patriarchates. Main church in Russia headed by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Rus'
 * Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, also called the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, ROCA, or ROCOR, is a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church.
 * Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy, first full and stable church hierarchy created through the Raskol by the Old Believers. The hierarchy was created in 1846 with presently two separate Russian Church lines:
 * Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church or Russian Orthodox Oldritualist Church, Eastern Orthodox Church of the Old Believers tradition, which rejected the liturgical and canonical reforms of Patriarch Nikon in the second half of 17th century (Old Believers). Since the 18th century until the Council of 1988, the official self-designation of this Church was the Old Orthodox Church of Christ.
 * Russian Old-Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox Church of the Old Believers tradition, born of a schism within the Russian Orthodox Church during the 17th century (Old Believers). The current head of the Church is Patriarch Alexander Kalinin.
 * True Orthodoxy or Genuine Orthodoxy, movement within Orthodox Christianity that separated from the mainstream Eastern Orthodox Church over issues of ecumenism and Calendar reform since the 1920s. The Russian churches in True Orthodoxy include:
 * Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC or in Latin characters RPAC), with synod is located in Suzdal, Russia.
 * Russian True Orthodox Church (Josephites), commonly known as the Catacomb Church

Buildings

 * Russian Church (Florence), Italy
 * Bucharest Russian Church, Romania
 * Russian Church, Qazvin, Iran

Russian Catholic

 * Catholic Church in Russia, incorporating all communities and institutions of the Catholic Church in Russia
 * Russian Greek Catholic Church, also called Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, a Byzantine Rite catholic church sui juris in full union with the Roman Catholic Church.

Russian Protestant

 * Protestantism in Russia, various denominations, Evangelical Christians, Baptists (which are the most numerous), Pentecostals/Charismatics, Adventists, Lutherans, Presbyterians and Anglicans.

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Ikarigaseki Station

Ikarigaseki Station (碇ヶ関駅) is a railway station on the northern Ōu Main Line in the city of Hirakawa, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Ikarigaseki Station is served by the Ōu Main Line, and is located 427.2 km from the starting point of the Ōu Main Line at Fukushima.

Station layout
The station has one side platform and one island platform serving three tracks, connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is staffed.

History
Ikarigaseki Station was opened on 21 October 1895 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways system, which later became the Japanese National Railways (JNR). With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 113 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

 * Ikarigasaki Post Office
 * Former Ikarigaseki village hall
 * Ikarigaseki Elementary School
 * Ikarigaseki Junior High School

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Eminence Front

"Eminence Front" is a song by the Who, written and sung by lead guitarist Pete Townshend. It appears as the sixth track on the group's tenth studio album It's Hard (1982). The single entered Billboard Hot 100 on 25 December 1982, reaching number 68.

Background and recording
In the song, Townshend sings about the delusions and drug use of the wealthy and hedonistic. The lyrics describe a party in which people hide from their problems behind a façade. Townshend has introduced the song in live performances with: "This song is about what happens when you take too much white powder; it's called 'Eminence Front'." In an interview, Townshend explained:

"'Eminence Front' was written around a chord progression I discovered on my faithful Yamaha E70 organ. I hesitate to try to explain what it was about. It's clearly about the absurdity of drug-fueled grandiosity, but whether I was pointing the finger at myself or at the cocaine dealers of Miami Beach is hard to recall."

In the originally released version, there is a timing flaw or a syncopation in the first chorus, where Townshend sings "behind an eminence front" at the same time Daltrey sings "it's an eminence front", with Townshend one syllable behind. A more linear-sounding remixed version appears on the 1997 re-release of It's Hard (a live version, recorded on the band's final stop on their 1982 tour in Toronto, appears as a bonus track on the re-release). Additionally, the remix has Townshend's vocals panned centrally rather than hard right in the stereo field.

Release
"Eminence Front" was scheduled to be released as a single in the UK by Polydor Records in 1982; the catalog number was WHO 7 but the single was never released. The picture sleeve, by Richard Evans, depicted a 1930s Art Deco house in Miami. The single in its picture sleeve was finally released in 2017 as part of The Who's The Polydor Singles 1975-2015 box set. It was released as a promotional 12" single in both the US and UK, and as a 7" single in the US and Canada.

Critical reception
In a wholly negative review of It's Hard, Robert Christgau gave faint praise to "Eminence Front" as the album's high point, sarcastically noting how the aging Townshend "discovers funk. Just in time. Bye." Cash Box said that it "rides along on Pete Townshend's cleanly slicing guitar and the band's patented synth sound" as well as a "strong bottom" from the drums and bass guitar." Rolling Stone ranked the song as the Who's tenth best song, stating, Eminence Front' showed they could connect Townshend's new wave-influenced solo work with the classic sound of Who's Next."

In popular culture
The song has been used as the intro music for Dallas Mavericks games since it was adopted during the 2000–01 NBA season, the team's final season at the Reunion Arena. The song was chosen by Mavericks marketing executive Matt Fitzgerald, who stated that he was looking for a song with an instrumental introduction which builds to a crescendo in the same manner as the Alan Parsons Project's "Sirius", which is used in the same way by the Chicago Bulls: "We tried many different songs during our last season in Reunion Arena... Then one day in my car, I was listening to a Who CD and 'Eminence Front' came on. We tried it, the Mavs fans responded in a very positive way, so it became our signature player introduction song". In a 2019 interview, Townshend said that its adoption by the Mavericks was "a wonderful use of the song... I must have known [the team used it], because I must have given permission, but I had forgotten".

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Cinco de Ocho
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tsigani

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

The result of the debate was redirect to Roma people. – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 05:32, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Tsigani
Proposed delete: WINAD, foreign language, arguably nn. Alternately, transdictionary, but 1) do we have a Bulgarian dictionary?, 2) is this slang?
 * Delete This is actually a transliteration of the slavic word for gypsies (russian: цыгани) --Anetode 05:35, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Roma people. Wiktionary is a Bulgarian and slang dictionary, but I don't think it needs this definition. Kappa 07:52, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Kappa. Punkmorten 12:28, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect For what it's worth, this is also roughly the Romanian word for gypsy/Roma as well. Jessamyn 20:28, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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