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112 (emergency telephone number)

112 is a common emergency telephone number that can be dialed free of charge from most mobile telephones, and in some countries, fixed telephones in order to reach emergency services (ambulance, fire and rescue, police).

112 is a part of the GSM standard and all GSM-compatible telephone handsets are able to dial 112 even when locked or, in some countries, with no SIM card present. It is also the common emergency number in nearly all member states of the European Union as well as several other countries of Europe and the world. 112 is often available alongside other numbers historically used in the given country to access emergency services. In some countries, calls to 112 are not connected directly but forwarded by the GSM network to local emergency numbers (e.g., 911 in North America, 999 in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, and 000 in Australia).

Origins

112 was first standardised as the pan-European number for emergency services following the adoption of recommendation by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) in 1976 and has since been enshrined a CEPT Decision ECC/DEC/(17)05.

The European Emergency Number Association, founded in 1999, an organization of emergency services representatives and others, has campaigned for an efficient 112 service all over Europe on behalf of European citizens. EENA continues to promote awareness of 112 as a core element of its mission.

This choice of number has been cited in logical terms as offering the following advantages:
 * Different digits: with the numeric keypads widely used today, using at least two different digits instead of the same digit repeatedly significantly reduces the risk of accidental calls. Young children, vibrations, defective keys and collisions with other objects are much more likely to press the same key repeatedly than a particular sequence of different keys, particularly with a button-operated keypad. Accidental calls to emergency centres from mobile phones, which can dial emergency numbers even with locked keypad, are a particular problem with same-digit numbers, such as the UK's 999.
 * Low digits: on rotary dial telephones, using only those digits that require the least dial rotation (1 and 2) permits a dial lock in hole 3 to effectively disable unauthorised access to the telephone network without preventing access to the emergency number 112. The same choice also maximises dialling speed. Additionally, with telephone systems using pulse dialling, briefly activating the hook once has the same effect as dialling "1", so repeatedly pushing the hook might result in calling 1-1-1. For this reason, Germany's police emergency number was changed from 111 to 110. With numeric keypads, pressing only the first and second button on the keypad is marginally easier in a difficult situation than other keys.

Implementation
After adoption in continental Western Europe, other countries began to use the 112 number for emergencies. Nations that have adopted it (including as a redirect alongside a pre-existing other emergency number) include:

Africa

 * 🇪🇬 Egypt (alongside 122 for Police, 123 for Ambulance and 180 for Fire)
 * 🇬🇭 Ghana
 * 🇲🇺 Mauritius (Police only; alongside 114 for Ambulance and 115 for Fire)
 * 🇲🇦 (alongside 19 for police, 15 for fire and ambulance, and 177 for the Gendarmerie)
 * 🇳🇬 Nigeria
 * 🇷🇼 Rwanda (Police and fire brigade; 912 for Ambulance)
 * 🇸🇳 Senegal (alongside 17 for Police, 18 for Fire, and 15 for Ambulance)
 * 🇿🇦 South Africa (alongside 10111 for Police and 10177 for Ambulance and Fire)
 * 🇺🇬 Uganda (alongside 999 for Police)

Asia

 * 🇨🇳 China (A recorded guidance about the correct SOS numbers in China: Police 110, Fire Services 119, Ambulance 120. GSM mobile phones will be redirected)
 * East Timor
 * 🇭🇰 Hong Kong (Automatically connects to the 999 emergency call centre from any local mobile phone network that has coverage in the location)
 * 🇮🇳 India (112 is now the pan-country single emergency number for all emergencies. All the existing emergency numbers like 100 (police), 101 (Fire and Rescue) and 102/108 (ambulance), 181 (Woman and Child Care) etc. are integrated to the unified number 112)
 * 🇮🇩 Indonesia (alongside 110 for Police, 118 for Ambulance, 113 for Fire)
 * 🇮🇷 Iran (alongside 110 for Police, 115 for Ambulance, 112 for Hilal Ahmar Ambulance and 125 for Fire; 911 is redirected to 112 on mobile phones)
 * 🇮🇱 Israel (Redirects to 100 – Police – alongside 911, and will serve the planned unified center. Alongside 100 for Police, 101 for Ambulance and 102 for Fire).
 * 🇯🇴 Jordan (alongside 911)
 * 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan (alongside 101 for Fire, 102 for Police and 103 for Ambulance)
 * 🇰🇼 Kuwait
 * 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan (alongside 101 for Fire, 102 for Police and 103 for Ambulance)
 * 🇱🇧 Lebanon (Police only; alongside 160 for Police, 140 for Ambulance and 125 for Fire)
 * Macau (alongside 999)
 * 🇲🇾 Malaysia (Redirects to 999 on mobile phones)
 * 🇲🇳 Mongolia (alongside 102 for Police, 103 for Ambulance and 105 for Fire)
 * 🇳🇵 Nepal (Police only; alongside 100 for Police, 101 for Fire and 102 for Ambulance)
 * Palestine (fire dep. 102, police dep. 100, ambulance 101)
 * 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia (alongside 911)
 * 🇸🇬 Singapore (redirected to 999 police line)
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea (Police only; alongside 119 for Ambulance and Fire)
 * 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka (Police only; alongside 119 for Police and 110 for Ambulance and Fire)
 * Syria (Police only; alongside 115 for Traffic police, 110 for Ambulance and 113 for Fire)
 * 🇹🇼 Taiwan (After call is connected, press 0 redirects to 110 (police), press 9 redirects to 119 (fire/rescue/ambulance))
 * 🇹🇭 Thailand (call 191 for Police, 1193 for Highway Police, 1155 for Tourist Police, 1669 for Ambulance, 199 for Fire&Rescue)
 * 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (alongside 999 for Police, 998 for Ambulance and 997 for Fire)
 * 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
 * 🇴🇲 Oman (alongside 9999 for Royal Police (All emergencies))

Europe

 * 🇦🇱 Albania (alongside 129 and 126 for Police, 127 for Ambulance, 128 for Fire and 125 for Maritime Rescue)
 * 🇦🇩 Andorra (Ambulance and Fire, alongside 118 for same services and 110 for Police)
 * 🇦🇲 Armenia (fire dep. 101, police dep. 102, ambulance 103)
 * 🇦🇹 Austria (alongside 122 for Fire, 133 for Police, 144 for Rescue/Ambulance, 140 for Mountain Rescue and 141 for Nighttime General Practitioner Service; 059 133 is the non-emergency number for any local police department)
 * 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan (alongside 102 for Police, 103 for Ambulance, 911 forwards to 112 on GSM carriers only)
 * 🇧🇾 Belarus (Fire only; alongside 101 for Fire, 102 for Police, and 103 for Ambulance)
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium (only in French, Dutch and English (in some cases in German) ) (Ambulance and Fire; alongside 100 for same services and 101 for Police)
 * 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina (alongside 122 for Police, 123 for Fire and 124 for Ambulance)
 * 🇧🇬 Bulgaria (only in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Turkish, or Russian ) (alongside 150 for Ambulance, 160 for Fire and 166 for Police automatically redirected to 112)
 * 🇭🇷 Croatia (alongside 192 for Police, 193 for Fire, 194 for Ambulance and 195 for Maritime search and rescue)
 * 🇨🇾 Cyprus (alongside 199)
 * 🇨🇿 Czech Republic (only in Czech, English, German, Polish, Russian and French (not by themselves, but by aid of translation software) ) (alongside 155 for Ambulance, 158 for State police, 156 for Municipal police and 150 for Fire)
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark (in Danish, English, Swedish and Norwegian (in some cases in German) ) (including 🇬🇱 Greenland in Kalaallisut/Greenlandic, Danish and English, 🇫🇴 Faroe Islands in Faroese, Danish and English). Alongside 114 for non-emergency police.
 * 🇪🇪 Estonia (in Estonian, Russian and English; sole emergency number since 11 February 2015, previously alongside 110 for Police. 1247 for non-emergency information)
 * 🇫🇮 Finland (in Finnish and Swedish) (including Åland)
 * 🇫🇷 France (alongside 15 for Ambulance, 17 for Police and 18 for Fire)
 * 🇩🇪 Germany (alongside 110 for Police)
 * 🇬🇮 Gibraltar (alongside 190 for Fire and Ambulance and 199 for Police)
 * Georgia
 * 🇬🇷 Greece (alongside 100 for the police, 108 for Coastguard, 166 for Ambulance and 199 for the fire service)
 * 🇭🇺 Hungary (alongside 104 for Ambulance, 105 for Fire and 107 for Police is redirected to 112 on mobile phones)
 * 🇮🇸 Iceland
 * 🇮🇪 Ireland (alongside 999)
 * 🇮🇹 Italy (sole emergency number in most of Italy; alongside 112 for Carabinieri, 113 for National Police, 115 for Fire, 118 for Ambulance in Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Molise, Campania, and Basilicata)
 * Kosovo (alongside 192 for Police, 193 for Fire and 194 for Ambulance)
 * 🇱🇻 Latvia (alongside 110 for Police, 113 for Ambulance and 114 for Emergency gas service)
 * 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein (Police only; alongside 117 for Police, 144 for Ambulance and 118 for Fire)
 * 🇱🇹 Lithuania
 * 🇱🇺 Luxembourg (alongside 113 for Police)
 * 🇲🇹 Malta
 * 🇲🇩 Moldova (sole emergency number since 1 July 2018, replacing 901 for Fire, 902 for Police and 903 for Ambulance)
 * 🇲🇨 Monaco (alongside 15 for Ambulance, 17 for Police and 18 for Fire)
 * 🇲🇪 Montenegro (alongside 122 for Police, 123 for Fire and 124 for Ambulance)
 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands (0900-8844 is the non-emergency number for any local police department) (In the Caribbean Netherlands 112 redirects to 911, whereas in the European Netherlands 911 redirects to 112)
 * North Macedonia (alongside 192 for Police, 193 for Fire, 194 for Ambulance)
 * 🇳🇴 Norway (112 for Police only, 110 for Fire and 113 for Ambulance. Calls to any of the emergency numbers will be redirected to appropriate service when needed. 02800 is the non-emergency number for any local police department)
 * 🇵🇱 Poland (it's used alongside 999 for Ambulance, and used to be available alongside 998 for Fire, and 997 for Police; both options are available; 112 is used for all emergencies)
 * 🇷🇴 Romania
 * 🇵🇹 Portugal (117 for reporting forest fires)
 * 🇷🇺 Russia (alongside 101 for Fire, 102 for Police, 103 for Ambulance and 104 for Emergency gas service)
 * 🇷🇸 Serbia (alongside 192 for Police, 193 for Fire, and 194 for Ambulance)
 * 🇸🇰 Slovakia (alongside 155 for Ambulance, 158 for Police, 150 for Fire and 18300 for Mountain Rescue Service)
 * 🇸🇮 Slovenia (alongside 113 for Police)
 * 🇪🇸 Spain (alongside 091/062/092 for Police, 061 for Ambulance and 080 and 085 (in some provincial consortium) for Fire)
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden (alongside 114 14 Police number for non-urgent matters and 1177 for medical advice)
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland (alongside 117 for Police, 144 for Ambulance and 118 for Fire)
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey 112 for all emergencies (alternatively 110-fire, 155-police, 156-gendarmerie and 177 for forest fires only. 911 redirects to 112)
 * 🇺🇦 Ukraine (alongside 101 for Fire, 102 for Police, 103 for Ambulance and 104 for Emergency gas service; in some cities 112 and 911 are additionally for all emergencies)
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (alongside 999)
 * 🇻🇦 Vatican City (alongside 113 for National Police, 115 for Fire and 118 for Ambulance)

North America

 * 🇨🇦 Canada (redirects to 911 on certain phone operating systems only)
 * 🇨🇷 Costa Rica (alongside 911)
 * 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic (alongside 911)
 * 🇵🇦 Panama (alongside 911; 104 for Police and 103 for Fire)
 * 🇺🇸 United States (alongside 911, 112 forwards to 911 on GSM carriers only, including AT&T and T-Mobile)
 * 🇲🇽 Mexico (alongside 911)

Oceania / Australia

 * 🇦🇺 Australia (redirects to 000 from mobile phones)
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand (redirects to 111 )
 * 🇻🇺 Vanuatu

South America

 * 🇦🇷 Argentina (alongside 911)
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil (alongside 911; redirects to 190 – Military Police – alongside 193 for Fire, 190 for Military Police, and 192 for Ambulance)
 * 🇨🇱 Chile (alongside 911; redirects to 133 - police)
 * 🇨🇴 Colombia (Police only; alongside 123 for all emergencies, 125 for Ambulance and 119 for Fire)
 * 🇪🇨 Ecuador (alongside 911)

In many countries, emergency numbers previously used also continue to be available; e.g. 061 and 112 in Spain, 999 and 112 both function in Ireland and the UK. In the United States, only some carriers, including AT&T will map the number 112 to its emergency number 911.

Adoption
The number is also adopted by candidates for EU accession and members of the EEA agreement.

The International Telecommunication Union recommends that member states selecting a primary or secondary emergency number choose either 911, 112 or both. 112 is one of two numbers (the other being the region's own emergency number) that can be dialed on most GSM phones even if the phone is locked.

European Union
112 is managed and financed in the European Union by each member state (country), who also decide on the organization of the emergency call centres.

EU legislation
Adopted in July 1991, the Council Decision 91/396/EC introduced ‘112’ as the European emergency number. The Open Network Provision Directive in 1998, the Universal Service Directives in 2002 and 2009 and finally the European Electronic Communications Code in 2018 further specified how 112 should work in the European Union. By the European Electronic Communications Code, everyone in the European Union should be able to contact the emergency services by using the European emergency number ‘112’ free of charge wherever they are in the European Union. Member States are also required to make sure that access to the emergency services for people with disabilities is equivalent to that enjoyed by other end-users.

E112
E112 is a location-enhanced version of 112. This obligation was strengthened with the European Electronic Communications Code in 2018 which requires the location to include both network-based and handset-derived location information. It is now possible for emergency services to retrieve accurate location information of the caller with the Advanced Mobile Location technology. The eCall feature for automated emergency calls on crash, mandatory on European cars since April 2018, is based on E112.

Reverse 112
Reverse 1-1-2 is a public safety communications technology used by public safety organizations throughout the world to communicate with groups of people in a defined geographic area. Reverse 112 allows authorities to rapidly warn those in danger, directly through their mobile phones. Article 110 of the European Electronic Communications Code makes it mandatory for all Member States of the European Union to deploy, by June 2022, a system that enables public authorities to immediately warn all the people present in a determined area of an ongoing or developing threat directly on their mobile phones. This objective can be achieved with either the Cell Broadcast or the Location-based SMS technology.

European 112 Day
The European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission signed a tripartite convention in 2009 in order to introduce an annual European 112 Day. It is supposed to raise awareness for the Europe-wide availability and the advantages of the European emergency call 112. They chose 11 February since the date includes the telephone number (11/2). A wide variety of events take place around Europe every year to celebrate European 112 Day.

Expert Groups on 112
Getting 112 to work across the EU is a complex task. It requires in particular coordination between civil protection administrations (the emergency authorities who handle the call) and electronic communications administrations (who have to make sure that a 112 call reaches the emergency operator). That is why the European Commission decided to act at European level and set up the Expert Group on Emergency Access (EGEA) at the end of 2005. The group met for the last time in May 2013.

In 2020, the European Commission set up the Expert Group on Emergency Communications (EG112) with the task to assist the European Commission in the preparation of new legislations on the matter and exchange views on how emergency communications are handled within the European Union.

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Stu Maschwitz

Stuart T. Maschwitz, commonly known as Stu Maschwitz, was the co-founder and chief technology officer of The Orphanage, a visual effects company that was based in California. He has worked as senior visual effects supervisor on several films. He previously worked at Industrial Light and Magic.

Maschwitz was writer, director, cinematographer, and editor for the film The Last Birthday Card (2000). He directed the "Song For The Lonely" Cher video in 2001 as seen in The Very Best of Cher: The Video Hits Collection. His film Skate Warrior is an example of guerrilla filmmaking. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts.

In 2007 he authored the book The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap for Peachpit Press.

In 2008 following the suspension of The Orphanage he became software director of Red Giant Software. In October 2009 it was announced in The Hollywood Reporter that he would direct Psy-Ops.

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Talk:List of Honda motorcycles

Non-English
Foreign language titles need to go somewhere else -- not here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cadillac (talk • contribs) 2 October 2005

list
This article is ridiculous, redundant, and out of control. Can we decide on what it is suppose to be first? Comprehensive?  roguegeek  ( talk · cont ) 05:48, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Revision of this list into a single sortable table
I've begun transcribing this list into a single table that you can sort at Talk:List of Honda motorcycles/Workpage. The idea is to have only one line per model, and letting the reader sort by letter code, Street vs Road Race vs Track, 2 or 4 stroke, etc etc, in place of the current table that lists each model two or three or four times as a kind of flattened out pivot table.

Please comment or boldly jump in and help if you want to influence the direction before it goes too far. A table this size is a pain to change once it's full.

At the moment I only have the year a model was introduced but not the final year of production -- mostly to keep it simple and verifiable. I think the bike's own article, if any, can go into that kind of depth, and it all varies by country and region anyway. The purpose of this list is to give access to a big picture view of what Honda did over the years. Disagree?

I'm wondering if instead of only Wikilinking the first use of terms like Motorized bicycle, Moped, Flat twin, etc, it should perhaps have every single one Wikilinked. While that looks overdone and excessive, it does make it more convenient for readers who have used the sorting to rearrange the rows to some order other than year. It would be cool if it magically only Wikilkined the first use of the word, alas.

There are some lines tagged as needing verification, but in the final draft I don't wish to keep anything that lacks a verified citation. I don't see how it is of any use to the reader to see the names of models that somebody once added without proof that it's real. If we can't find anything good enough to cite, then as far as I'm concerned that model is either a hoax, a Honda knockoff, or is a real Honda so obscure as to fail notability.

As I go along I'll probably uncover more issues. Let me know if you think I should add or remove a column before it gets too much bigger. --Dbratland (talk) 04:51, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

It might be more helpful if the list/table also listed models by the year. Kyuss-Apollo (talk) 00:35, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

ATVs
Should this list have a section for Honda's three-wheeled and four-wheeled ATVs? 198.7.249.59 (talk) 16:05, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
 * No. ATVs are not motorcycles. --Biker Biker (talk) 17:20, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Hybrid and electric motorcycles / scooters
Now that Honda is producing a hybrid and an electric model of the PCX scooter, this list ought to be updated. How will a list of motors by displacement account for hybrid or fully-electric drive systems? I propose adding separate columns for maximum power output and fuel / energy consumption. LeeColleton (talk) 15:00, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Africa Twin
I have noticed some problems with the Africa twins on this list, the 2018 Africa twin is completely missing from this list, the Africa twin (RD03) does not have a page linked to it, and the layout makes it hard to sort by model or type of bike, is there a way that we can fix this page and reformat it? --Munchy38 (talk) 00:28, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

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Dalton State College

Dalton State College (DSC or Dalton State) is a public college in Dalton, Georgia. It is part of the University System of Georgia. Founded in 1963 as a junior college, the college became a four-year institution in 1998. Dalton State is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

History
The college was founded as Dalton Junior College in July 1963 and opened in September 1967. It offered programs designed to provide the first two years of college work for students preparing to transfer to four-year degree-granting institutions. The addition of a technical division in 1976 also enabled the school to serve students wishing to develop work skills at the certificate or associate degree level. In 1987, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia removed the word "Junior" from the college's name and it became Dalton College.

In 1998, the University System of Georgia upgraded Dalton College to four-year status under a new name, Dalton State College, and authorized it to offer bachelor's degrees. The first bachelor's programs began that year, in business and technology.

In 2009, Dalton State opened an extended campus in Ellijay called the Dalton State Gilmer County Center. More than 200 students enrolled for the spring semester. Dalton State also opened its first on-campus residential housing, Dalton State at Wood Valley.

Today, Dalton State College offers baccalaureate degrees in accounting, biology, chemistry, communication, criminal justice, early childhood education, English, history, interdisciplinary studies, management, management information systems, marketing systems, mathematics, operations management, psychology, social work, and technology management. The college also offers 22 associate degree and several certificate programs.

Academics

Dalton State College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The Early Childhood Education program is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). The Social Work program is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). The C. Lamar and Ann Wright School of Business programs received initial accreditation by Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in January 2010.

Campus

The Dalton State College main campus consists of 146 acre on I-75 in Whitfield County, Georgia, 30 miles south of Chattanooga and 80 miles north of Atlanta. An additional campus exists in Ellijay, Georgia, southeast of the main campus.

Demographics
The almost 5,000 traditional and non-traditional students are from a 10-county service area of Northwest Georgia in addition to 38 foreign countries. The average student age is 24; females make up 62 percent of the student population. On-campus housing has been offered since fall 2009.

Athletics
The Dalton State athletics teams are called the Roadrunners. The college is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC; formerly known as Georgia–Alabama–Carolina Conference (GACC) until after the 2003–04 school year) since the 2014–15 academic year. The Roadrunners previously competed as an NAIA Independent within the Association of Independent Institutions (AII) from 2012–13 (when the school began its athletics program and joined the NAIA) to 2013–14.

Dalton State competes in seven intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include basketball, golf and soccer; while women's sports include cross country, golf, soccer and track & field.

Nickname
The Dalton State mascot is the roadrunner. This mascot was chosen by the first men's basketball head coach, Melvin Ottinger in 1967. Ottinger was actually inspired by the successful Warner Bros. cartoon character of the roadrunner. Originally listed as "Road Runner", ordering them to stop using the term due to copyright issues. This was fixed by combining the "Road" and "Runner" part into one word. The mascot represents the fact that most students are commuter students.

History
Dalton State College began an athletics program in 2014. The men's basketball team won the NAIA National Championship in 2015 on their second season within the organization.

The athletics program was reorganized in 2017 in order to bring the program into compliance with Title IX requirements and to reduce costs. As part of the reorganization, volleyball, men's cross country, and men's and women's tennis were dropped from the program and women's track and field was added.

Student life
The Campus Activities Board (CAB) is a student-run organization that strives to enhance the Dalton State College student experience through quality entertainment, creative programming and community involvement. Its stated goal is to strengthen the missions of both the Office of Student Life and Dalton State College by providing a variety of social, recreational, cultural and educational programs.

Through the expertise of an appointed student executive board, CAB works to ensure leadership development, networking with the college community, building campus traditions and school spirit.

Alpha Kappa Lambda became the first men's fraternity on campus when it received its charter on 7 April 2014. Delta Chi began colonizing on campus in fall 2015, becoming the second IFC fraternity on campus. Alpha Omicron Pi, colonized in spring 2014, is the first National Panhellenic Conference sorority on campus. Alpha Sigma Tau was the second sorority on campus, chartered in spring 2016.

Student housing
In fall 2016, Dalton State opened new dormitories. Mashburn Hall holds 363 beds and replaced the Wood Valley complex, on-campus apartments that previously housed 160 students.

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Monty Gopallawa

Moithra Cuda Banda Gopallawa (16 January 1941 – 26 September 2005) (known as Monty Gopallawa) was a Sri Lankan politician. Gopallawa was the son of William Gopallawa who served as Governor-General of Ceylon and President of Sri Lanka. Gopallawa was a member of Sri Lanka's parliament. He served as deputy Minister of Labour from 1994 to 1997, deputy minister of public works from 1997 to 2000, and as cabinet minister of cultural affairs from 2000 to 2001. He lost his parliamentary seat in the 2001 general election. In 2002, he became the governor of Central Province, Sri Lanka and served in that position until his death. He died at a hospital in Colombo during treatment for an illness.

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Talk:Stacy Keach

in America the ninth configuration was called "twinkle, twinkle,killer cain".

Hello
Hello everyone, this is a great all time actor. This person can lure someone into the role so well. Most of his directors said he needed no directing. Now I am wondering if anyone has seen a film called the ninth configuration. The Film came out in 1980 and keach stars as a physciatrist Colonel Hudson Kane. His acting in this movie is absolutley unbeliavable, I cant believe he wasnt nominated for any kind of award. One of the reasons for this is the negative undercurrent of Religion in Hollywood and this movie has religious undercurrents.

Stacy Keach played Frank James(his brother James Keach played Jesse)in The Long Riders, my all time favourite Western. He just *looks* the part, without having to try too hard. Great screen presence. His Frank James was the cool, silent and strong type. Brilliant movie.

Cocaine
It seems to me, his having spent 6 months in prison for smuggling cocaine is more than just trivia! 66.57.225.50 16:45, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I tend to agree, especially since the prison term and the ensuing controversy were responsible for getting the hit Mike Hammer show canceled. I remember there was a LOT of news about this back in the day (and parodies in Mad Magazine- or was it Cracked?) Can't anyone dig up source-able info about this? ChrisStansfield 23:09, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Six months? That's what it says in the Prison Break bit.  Nine months?  That's what it says in Personal Life.  Reconcile?75.103.6.106 (talk) 19:08, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Keach's Film History
The first sentence of the "Films" section asserts that Keach's "first film role was as a rookie cop in The New Centurions (1972), . . . ." However, Wikipedia reports elsewhere that Keach was in the 1968 film adaptation of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heart_Is_a_Lonely_Hunter

Moreover, Keach's IMDB page includes several other, even earlier film credits, as well as several that came after The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter but before The New Centurions.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005078/

The mistake may have been made by someone who relied on the "Selected filmography" section located further down Keach's Wikipedia page -- which does indeed begin (or end) with 1972's The New Centurions -- but who ignored the word "selected."

However the mistake was made, someone who knows more than I do should correct it. The information presently being presented is clearly wrong.

98.193.192.45 (talk) 21:09, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Film History
The article misses one of his films, he was in the 1993 John Carpenter movie 'Body Bags'. He starred in the second short story of the movie as Richard Coberts - the story is called 'Hair'. 19:22 08 Aug 2013 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.41.251.246 (talk) 18:22, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Television credits for Stacy Keach
Tuesday May 12th, 2015

Hi, noticed that NCIS New Orleans was missing from Mr. Keach's television credits...tho' he is listed as a recurring character on the show's page.

"...Main character: Dwayne Cassius "King" Pride (portrayed by Scott Bakula)...it is revealed that Pride's father, Cassius (Stacy Keach), is incarcerated in the Gretna Correctional Facility..."

Thank you so much for all the hard work! I use Wikipedia almost every day, as I find as I get older, I get more curious. :)

Sincerely, Susan J. Richards susme48@aol.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.74.135.37 (talk) 02:17, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Planet of life work is not mentioned
For some reason there is no mention in this article of his narration of the evolution documentary "planet of life." A seven part documentary from the mid 90s. Episode 1: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xki33

http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Planet_of_Life — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ataslav (talk • contribs) 02:16, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Arm amputation
I don't think the part about his arm being amputated is true. There's no information online to back that up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShawnWray (talk • contribs) 14:46, 1 June 2016 (UTC) The story of his amputation is so obviously wrong, I'm surprised it has been allowed to stay on the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.169.147.84 (talk) 20:31, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Missing film credit
Played Captain of the USS Indianapolis in the movie Mission of the Shark, 1991. 47.16.28.172 (talk) 15:57, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

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The Red Shoes (2005 film)

The Red Shoes is a 2005 South Korean supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Kim Yong-gyun, based on the 1845 fairy tale of same name by Hans Christian Andersen.

Plot
Sun-jae (Kim Hye-soo) leaves her unfaithful husband, Sung-joon, and moves into an old apartment with her daughter, Tae-su. She takes a pair of bright pink high heels she found in a subway car, only to discover that they are cursed. Her obsession grows, arousing envy and greed with nightmarish visions. Tae-su and Sun-jae's best friend, Kim Mi-hee (Go Soo-hee), also fall victim to the shoes, resulting in hysteria and theft. Mi-hee dies after she takes the shoes, and Sun-jae tries to get rid of them. However, the pink shoes always return to Tae-su and further horrifying Sun-jae.

With the help of her new boyfriend, In-cheol (Kim Sung-soo), Sun-jae tries to uncover the mystery behind the pink shoes before it kills her and Tae-su. She discovers that the person who takes them will die with their feet chopped off. The mystery leads to an old woman who lives in a basement below Sun-jae. The old woman identifies Sun-jae as Oki, which confuses her. It is revealed that in the old woman's youth, during the last years of the Japanese occupation of Korea, the old woman was a servant for a vain and sadistic dancer named Oki. She was often abused by Oki, which left her hunchbacked and scared of her.

Oki was jealous of a prominent dancer named Keiko, who was the daughter of a high-ranking officer and very talented. This is made worse when she is gifted pink shoes from a male dancer who had been her lover. Oki wanted the shoes for herself and paid the old woman to steal them. One night, a pregnant Keiko witnessed her lover and Oki having sex. When she fled out of betrayal and grief, the man tried to stop Keiko. Fed up with being second and realizing the man loves Keiko, Oki murdered Keiko and dumped her body. She wasn't aware that the old woman had witnessed Keiko's murder. Keiko's ghost then gets her revenge on both the man and Oki, leading to their deaths. The old woman warns her that the same fate will befall on Sun-jae if she doesn't return to shoes to Keiko at once.

At Keiko's gravesite, Sun-jae returns the pink shoes, hoping this will end the haunting. She visits In-cheol only to discover he has found out that she killed her husband. When she learns that Tae-su tells him the truth, she hurries home to try to kill her. She chases Tae-su to the subway station tracks to kill her, but at the last second, saves her life. Tae-su disappears, and Sun-jae looks for her. While trying to find her, she is confronted by the ghost of Keiko, who tells her the truth. It is revealed that Sun-jae is the reincarnation of Oki, which explains why the old woman feared her upon their first meeting. Keiko shows how Sun-jae murdered her husband, Mi-hee, In-cheol, and attempted to kill her own daughter. As Sun-jae tries to escape, she is faced with a deformed Keiko, who finally claims her.

In a brief moment, the scene switches back to 1944. Keiko is seen dancing passionately during rehearsals and wearing the pink shoes given to her.

The last scene reveals Tae-su practicing her ballet in her mother's bedroom. In a post-credits scene, a grown-up Tae-su picks up the pink shoes in the park (suggesting that Keiko meant for Tae-su to inherit the shoes).

Cast

 * Kim Hye-soo as Sun-jae/Oki
 * Kim Sung-soo as In-cheol, Sun-jae's boyfriend
 * Park Yeon-ah as Tae-su, Sun-jae's daughter
 * Kang Ye-won as Keiko/teenage Tae-su
 * Kim Ji-eun as Keiko
 * Go Soo-hee as Kim Mi-hee, Sun-jae's friend
 * Lee Eol as Sung-joon, Sun-jae's ex-husband

Reception
Ryan Daley from Bloody Disgusting said that although the film has occasionally "poor" pace, its cinematography is "striking" and that its plot machinations are "all over the map", which added to the confusion of the story. He also noted that "solid and stylish" gore was a plus to the film and that he was "dying" to know how it ended, even if [he] was a little overwhelmed by the final ambiguous twist."

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Dubious socio-economic model
A citation is needed from a reliable source to back up the unverified claim that CSA is a socio-economic model. It seems more like an economic model. Toddst1 (talk) 16:58, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Given no objection or discussion in 1 month, the dubious statement has been removed. Toddst1 (talk) 14:34, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Dubious European origin
The uncited claim "Community-supported agriculture began in the early 1960s in Germany, Switzerland and Japan." contradicts the citation labeled only as Robyn Van En which states "The origin of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) concept, the partnership between consumers and farmers, can be traced to Japan in the mid-1960s." Toddst1 (talk) 14:38, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

History of CSAs (unexplained removal of content)
The following paragraph has been removed multiple times from this article, without discussion:

"Community-supported agriculture began in the early 1960s in Germany, Switzerland and Japan as a response to concerns about food safety and the urbanization of agricultural land. In the 1960s groups of consumers and farmers in Europe formed cooperative partnerships to fund farming and pay the full costs of ecologically sound and socially equitable agriculture. In Europe, many of the CSA style farms were inspired by the economic ideas of Rudolf Steiner and experiments with community agriculture took place on farms using biodynamic agriculture. In 1965 mothers in Japan who were concerned about the rise of imported food, the loss of arable land, and the migration of farmers into cities started the first CSA projects called Teikei (提携) in Japanese – most likely unrelated to the developments in Europe." Please discuss... Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 09:57, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

General lack of citations in Structure section
Certain marked statements in the Structure section have no citation while making very strong claims (e.g. "The cost of a share is usually competitively priced when compared to the same amount of vegetables conventionally grown – partly because the cost of distribution is lowered." / "Typically CSA farms are small, independent, labor-intensive family farm" / "Most CSAs are owned by the farmers while some offer shares in the farm as well as the harvest"). While these may be covered ibid., that should likewise be referenced. The fact that this section looks like it's original research means that this could bear putting an Original Research tag on the page. Thanks for your discussion on this matter.Geoff (talk) 09:49, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Citations needed, WP:V is not optional
There was a massive section of apparent WP:OR tagged. in the Structure section. In accordance with our policy on WP:V, I removed it. There is an affirmative WP:BURDEN, which is policy, on any editor adding or restoring material to wikipedia. Continued restoration of this material without providing reliable sources will be considered disruptive. Toddst1 (talk) 17:32, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

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Article Evaluation
I think the article started off strong with the definition and summary of the idea, but the rest of the article seemed to only rephrase these basic concepts, rather than adding to them. The section, CSA System, was completely repeated from earlier in the article and offered no new information, I think it could be removed. In the History section, there is quite a few random facts that do not pertain to the article they were placed in and seemed like they may have been added later by another contributor. The History section was also very brief and vague, giving only a basic overview and a few facts. I think new information could be added in terms of CSAs today with more recent research studies referenced. There could also be a section added about the idea of connecting community to agriculture and the societal benefits of this system. The idea that CSAs are good is mentioned but not covered in depth or backed up by any real research. There was an unfortunate lack of citations and sources, so it was difficult for a reader to see if the information presented in the article was correct or where it came from. Many definitions seemed to be made up by an author rather than based in fact or research. The sources that are referenced in the article are credible, strong sources, mainly research studies, there simply isn't enough of these sources to carry the article through. I think a solution, as I stated earlier, would be adding more current information and studies, this would increase the currency, accuracy, and reliability of the article as a whole. The latest research studies referenced were four years ago in 2013 and there has been an abundance of new studies and movements since then. The reference links do work correctly, when they were added into the article, although there are several paragraphs without any, leaving the reader not knowing the source of the information. Ajensen3 (talk) 04:32, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Article Evaluation
Hello,

I think this is a great start to the Community-supported agriculture article! There is a lot of really great information in here. However, I believe there is a better way to structure it for those who are not familiar with many of the terms involved. I believe it would be helpful to start the article out by explaining what a CSA does, then dive into what it is exactly. Possibly, "CSA is a system that connects the producer and consumers within the food system more closely by allowing the consumer to subscribe to a the harvest of a certain farm (or group of farms)."

Additionally, the article could benefit from more information about the economic ideology behind the model. (See 'Political Economy and CSA' section in the article, "The Moral Economy is a Double-edged Sword" by Ryan E. Galt).

Thank you for reading. I look forward to hearing back from those interested in the topic! Amwong95 (talk) 03:36, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

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Hello,

I added a short section on "Challenges for farmers" connecting the related issues of economic rents, self exploitation, and the moral economy. I also added economic rents and moral economy as related topics. I'm new to Wikipedia so my apologies if I got a little to excited and put something where it shouldn't be/done the wrong way. Total newbie so any feedback would be great! Thank you! Kelizabethan (talk) 11:16, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

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Proposed merge of Vegetable box scheme into Community-supported agriculture
"Vegetable box scheme" is just a UK variant of the term "Community-supported agriculture" (CSA) and the article name should be redirected there. Platonk (talk) 00:08, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

 * Concepts seem to be quite different. While CSA is for quite tight and direct relationship between producers and customers, "Vegetable box scheme" seems to be not: "Other schemes offer a nationwide delivery, […] negating the local food affiliation of these schemes. Some British supermarkets have also begun offering vegetable boxes" --217.149.165.106 (talk) 09:58, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing, given the uncontested objection, no support and stale discussion. Klbrain (talk) 15:43, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Santa Claus Camp

 * 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 no consensus (1 delete, 2 keep, 3 merge}.  Rob e  rt  23:39, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Santa Claus Camp
Delete. It don't make no sense to me. — Fingers-of-Pyrex 03:26, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge It is another Boy Scout article about a camp. Merge them all into Philmont Scout Ranch under the List of Trail Camps section Joaquin Murietta 10:05, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment probably needs someone to update that article to remove all of the red links that are behind these articles. Vegaswikian 06:33, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * MergeNonsense, and it is just taking up space. Stu 19:28, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * There has been some editing to the entry, but it continues to lack in many ways. I continue to think that it needs to either be merged into a larger article, or deleted. Stu 22:20, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep - clearly not nonsense, and space is completely a non-issue; see Articles for deletion/Rich Cabins Camp for further reasoning. — Dan | Talk 02:38, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Joaquin - as all the others should be, too (and that seems to be where their vote is heading). Grutness...  wha?  02:27, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I went to Philmont so I may be biased but these should be kept. Here's why: more than 700,000 Scouts and leaders have backpacked through Philmont since 1938. These camps are familar to many people. With some additional work, the articles could be useful. I tried merging them into a Camps of Philmont article but if quality information is added to each subheading, that article will be enormous. The information could be valuable but the only way to share it is to keep all the individual articles.--L1AM 10:25, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
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1953 NFL season

The 1953 NFL season was the 34th regular season of the National Football League. The names of the American and National conferences were changed to the Eastern and Western conferences.

The season ended on December 27 with the NFL championship game in which the Detroit Lions defeated the Cleveland Browns for the second year in a row.

Draft
The 1953 NFL Draft was held on January 22, 1953, at Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. With the first pick, the San Francisco 49ers selected defensive end Harry Babcock from Georgia.

Major rule changes
The definition of illegal motion was clarified so that a player moving directly forward at the snap was to be considered illegally in motion.

Enfranchisement of the Baltimore Colts
A Baltimore, Maryland, group headed by Carroll Rosenbloom was granted an NFL team, and was awarded the holdings of the defunct Dallas Texans organization. The new team was named the Baltimore Colts, after the unrelated previous team that folded after the season. While the first Colts franchise used a green and silver color scheme, the new Colts franchise retained the blue and white color scheme used by the Texans.

The 12 teams of this NFL season continued for the rest of the decade of the 1950s. These would become known as "old-line" teams as they predated the 1960 launch of the American Football League (AFL).

Conference races
For 1953, the former American and National Conferences of the previous three seasons were renamed the Eastern and Western Conferences, respectively. The Western race saw the Rams beat the Lions twice, in Detroit (October 18) and in L.A. (November 1), and at the midway point in Week Six, the Rams were a full game ahead in the race. In Week Seven (November 8), the 49ers beat the Rams 31–27, and the Lions won their game, to put all three teams at 5–2–0. In Week Eight, the Lions beat Green Bay 14–7, while the Rams were tied 24–24 by the Cards, and the 49ers lost 23–21 to the Browns. As both teams won their remaining games, San Francisco was always a game behind Detroit.

In the Eastern, the Cleveland Browns won their first eleven games and led wire-to-wire, clinching a playoff spot by week 10. Their shot at a 12–0–0 regular season was spoiled by a 42–27 loss in the finale on December 13, and tarnished further by the championship game loss to the Lions two weeks later.

NFL Championship Game
Detroit 17, Cleveland 16 at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, on December 27, 1953

Attendance
A total of 2,164,585 fans attended the 72 regular season league games held in the 1953 season. Another 54,577 attended the league championship game, for a total attendance of 2,219,162, or 30,399 per game.

Eleven of the 12 teams in the league reported profitable financial operations, with only the Chicago Cardinals losing money — with this franchise said to have reduced its red ink "drastically" from its 1952 operations.

Awards

 * UPI NFL Most Valuable Player – Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns

Offseason

 * Baltimore Colts: The new Colts team hired Keith Molesworth as their first head coach.
 * Chicago Cardinals: Joe Kuharich was replaced by Joe Stydahar.

In-season

 * Green Bay Packers: Gene Ronzani resigned after 10 games. Hugh Devore and Ray McLean served as co-head coaches for the rest of the season.

Stadium changes

 * The new Baltimore Colts move into Memorial Stadium, the home of the previous Colts team.
 * The Green Bay Packers home games in Milwaukee moved from Marquette Stadium to Milwaukee County Stadium.
 * Shibe Park, the home of the Philadelphia Eagles, was renamed Connie Mack Stadium.

Additional sources

 * NFL Record and Fact Book (ISBN 1-932994-36-X)
 * NFL History 1951–1960 (Last accessed December 4, 2005)
 * Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League (ISBN 0-06-270174-6)

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Platte River (Minnesota)

The Platte River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in central Minnesota in the United States. It is 88.6 km long. Platte is a name derived from the French meaning "flat".

Course
The Platte flows from Platte Lake in southeastern Crow Wing County and follows a generally southwestward course through eastern Morrison County, through the towns of Harding and Royalton. It flows into the Mississippi River in Benton County, about 3 mi south of Royalton.

The Platte's largest tributary is the Skunk River, which joins it in Morrison County.

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Classics in the Key of G

Classics in the Key of G is the first cover album and ninth studio album by saxophonist Kenny G. It was released by Arista Records on June 28, 1999, and reached number 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, number 13 on the Internet Albums chart, number 17 on the Billboard 200 and number 27 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Track listing

 * 1) "Summertime" (featuring George Benson) (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 6:46
 * 2) "The Look of Love" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 5:32
 * 3) "What a Wonderful World" (Lead vocal: Louis Armstrong) (George David Weiss, Robert Thiele) - 3:03
 * 4) "Desafinado" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça) - 5:52
 * 5) "In a Sentimental Mood" (Duke Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Irving Mills) - 4:56
 * 6) "The Girl from Ipanema" (Lead vocal: Bebel Gilberto) (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Vinícius de Moraes) - 4:17
 * 7) "Stranger on the Shore" (Acker Bilk, Robert Mellin) - 3:09
 * 8) "Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Robert Sour) - 7:20
 * 9) "'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Cootie Williams, Thelonious Monk) - 6:26
 * 10) "Over the Rainbow/ The Girl from Ipanema (Instrumental)" (E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Harold Arlen / Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Vinícius de Moraes) - 7:49

Personnel

 * Kenny G – soprano saxophone (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10), tenor saxophone (2, 4, 6, 8)
 * Greg Phillinganes – Fender Rhodes (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9)
 * Randy Waldman – acoustic piano (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9)
 * David Foster – keyboards (3)
 * Felipe Elgueta – synthesizers programming (3)
 * Walter Afanasieff – keyboards (6, 7), synthesizers (6, 7), programming (6, 7), acoustic piano (10)
 * Greg Bieck – additional keyboards (6), additional synthesizer (6), additional programming (6), programming (7)
 * Adam Rossi – additional programming (7)
 * George Benson – guitar (1), guitar intro (1)
 * Nathan East – bass (1, 2, 4, 5, 8)
 * Ricky Lawson – drums (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9)
 * David Reitzas – drum programming (3)
 * Paulinho da Costa – percussion (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9)
 * Jeremy Lubbock – orchestration and conductor (1, 9)
 * Jules Chakin – orchestra contractor (1, 9))
 * William Ross – orchestration and conductor (2-8, 10)
 * Patti Zimmitti – orchestra contractor (2-8, 10)

Production

 * Producers and Arrangements – Kenny G and Walter Afanasieff (tracks 1, 2, 4-10); David Foster (track 3).
 * Recording Engineers – Humberto Gatica (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7-10); David Reitzas (tracks 1 & 6); Felipe Elgueta (track 3); John Richards (track 6); David Gleeson (tracks 6 & 7); Steve Shepherd (track 7).
 * Assistant Engineers – Mike Scotella (track 1); Christine Sirois (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 & 9); Andy Haller (tracks 1–5, 7-10); Mike Butler (tracks 1–5, 7-10); Cristian Robles (tracks 1–5, 7-10); Dann Thompson (tracks 1 & 9); Peter Doell (tracks 2–5, 7 & 10); Aaron Lepley (tracks 2 & 4); Chris Brook (track 3); Cristian Gonzalez (track 3); Ryan Hewitt (track 6); Pete Krawiec (track 6).
 * Additional Recording – David Gleeson (track 1); David Reitzas (tracks 2 & 4).
 * Strings on track 3 recorded by Humberto Gatica
 * Mastered by Vlado Meller at Sony Music Studios (New York, NY).
 * Art Direction – Margery Greenspan
 * Design – Jemal Pugh and Jeff Schultz
 * Photography – Lyndie Benson and William Claxton
 * Management – Dennis Turner at Turner Management Group, Inc.

Singles
Information taken from this source.

Reception
The third track features G's music overdubbed on Louis Armstrong's original recording. This move was criticized by musicians such as Pat Metheny and Richard Thompson, who were angered by what they perceived as arrogance on G's part to use a song by Louis Armstrong for personal gain. Additionally, some versions of the insert booklet of the Arista CD contained an error attributing the writing of The Look of Love to Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, instead of Bacharach and David.

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Gao Fenghan

Gāo Fènghàn (高鳳翰, 1683–1749) was born in Shandong to a minor bureaucrat. He was a painter, poet, and seal-carver, and he later became associated with the Yangzhou school of painters. These painters were known as eccentrics for their unorthodox style and preference for individualism. Gāo Fènghàn is not usually considered one of the eight Yangzhou eccentrics, but is associational. Like his father, he served a minor post in the bureaucracy, but this did not occur until 1739. In 1736, this job led to his imprisonment. The following year, injuries during his time in prison combined with arthritis disabled his right hand. After that he painted with his left. These paintings have since gained some renown among Chinese art collectors.

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Talk:Match Game PM

Personally, I think this article could use some work. The formatting seems to be etchy, and it seems it could use some more wikification. - Enzo Aquarius 03:30, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I honestly think this needs to be a redirect to Match Game. A lot of this article is copied from other Wikipedia articles, and the rules of Match Game PM are covered in the Match Game article. --Iowahwyman 05:37, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I made this into a redirect. --CFIF 19:03, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it should stay, because Match Game is different from Match Game PM, starting with the rules of the game to the supermatch! So NO redirections are necessary!-- Mgfan222 01:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

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Arctic Bridge

The Arctic Bridge or Arctic Sea Bridge is a seasonal sea route approximately 6700 km long linking Russia to Canada, specifically the Russian port of Murmansk to the Hudson Bay port of Churchill, Manitoba.

Description
Churchill is the only principal seaport on Canada's northern coast and has no road connections to the rest of Canada. It is the northern terminus of the Hudson Bay Railway and is a useful link in the export of grain from the Canadian Prairies to European markets. The Russian gauge Murmansk Railway links the port of Murmansk on the ice-free Kola Bay to Saint Petersburg and the rest of Europe and to the rest of Russia by the M18 Kola Motorway.

Russia has shown a keen interest in developing the Arctic Bridge route and hopes to develop the link as part of its plan to build a "geostrategic bridge between Europe, Asia and North America". To this end, Russia is building railways and roads to link cities like Paris, Berlin, Tokyo and Beijing. If developed (along with the Northwest Passage) it could serve as a major trade route between Europe and North America. According to the Russian Federation's Ottawa press attaché, Sergey Khuduiakov, the retreat of Arctic ice has enabled the opening of the trade route. Currently, the route is only easily navigable about four months of the year.

History
The concept of an "Arctic Bridge", with a hub in Churchill, was proposed by Canadians in the early 1990s. In 1997 the port of Churchill was sold to Denver-based OmniTRAX, a major railroad operator. In 2004, OmniTRAX entered into talks with the Murmansk Shipping Company to promote the Arctic Bridge concept. While the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) had been able to keep Churchill a viable port, exporting nearly 400,000 tons (15 million bushels) of wheat each year, OmniTRAX has had difficulty in landing imports at Churchill. On October 17, 2007, the first shipment of fertilizer from Murmansk arrived at the Port of Churchill. Two separate 9000 tonne imports of Russian fertilizer arrived in 2008, purchased by the Farmers of North America cooperative of Saskatoon from Kaliningrad.

The port of Churchill exported 710,000 tonnes of grain in 1977, 621,000 tonnes in 2007, and 529,000 tonnes in 2009.

The CWB was sold off to Saudi Company, G3 Global Grain Group in 2015 and the Churchill Port suffered as grain shipments were slowly ceased. Omnitrax then closed the rail-line and port, citing a lack of profitability of the operations. They then entered into initial talks to sell the port and rail-line to a local indigenous consortium of Manitoba First Nations, Missinippi Rail Consortium.

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List of choir schools

This article contains a list of choir schools sorted alphabetically by country.

Australia

 * St Andrew's Cathedral School, Sydney
 * St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney
 * Xavier High School, Albury, NSW
 * St John's Cathedral Choir School, Brisbane

Austria

 * Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna

Canada

 * Royal St. George's College, Toronto
 * St. Michael's Choir School, Toronto

Czech Republic

 * Boni Pueri, the Czech Boys Choir, Hradec Králové

Denmark

 * Copenhagen Boys Choir

Germany

 * Kreuzschule, Dresden
 * Thomasschule zu Leipzig, Leipzig
 * Gymnasium der Regensburger Domspatzen, Regensburg

Latvia

 * Riga Cathedral Choir School

New Zealand

 * The Cathedral Grammar School
 * Sacred Heart Cathedral School, Thorndon

South Africa

 * Drakensberg Boys' Choir School

United Kingdom

 * Bristol Cathedral Choir School
 * The Cathedral School, Llandaff, Cardiff (Church in Wales)
 * Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford
 * Exeter Cathedral School
 * Hereford Cathedral School
 * King's College School, Cambridge
 * King's Ely
 * The King's School, Gloucester
 * The King's (The Cathedral) School, Peterborough
 * The King's School, Rochester, Rochester
 * The King's School, Worcester
 * Lichfield Cathedral School
 * Lincoln Minster School
 * The London Oratory School
 * Magdalen College School, Oxford
 * The Minster School, Southwell
 * The Minster School, York
 * New College School, Oxford
 * Norwich School (previously King Edward VI's Grammar School)
 * The Pilgrims' School, Winchester
 * Old Palace School, Croydon
 * Truro School, Cornwall
 * Polwhele House School, Cornwall
 * Portsmouth Grammar School, Portsmouth
 * The Prebendal School, Chichester
 * St Edmund's School, Canterbury
 * St. Edward's College, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
 * St George's School, Windsor Castle
 * St James' School, Grimsby
 * St John's College School, Cambridge
 * St John's College, Cardiff (RC)
 * Reigate St Mary's School, Surrey
 * St Mary's Music School, Edinburgh
 * St Paul's Cathedral School, London
 * Salisbury Cathedral School, Wiltshire
 * Wells Cathedral School
 * Westminster Abbey Choir School (CofE)
 * Westminster Cathedral Choir School (RC)
 * Whitgift School, Croydon
 * Chorister School, Durham

United States

 * Newark Boys Chorus school
 * Pacific Boychoir Academy
 * Saint Thomas Choir School
 * St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)
 * St. Paul's Choir School
 * The American Boychoir School (closed in 2017)
 * Charlotte Choir School (Formerly The Choir School at St. Peter's)
 * The Madeleine Choir School
 * Westminster Choir College

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Michael Dahlquist

Michael Dahlquist (December 22, 1965 – July 14, 2005) was an American musician, film editor, and computer programmer best known for being the drummer of the Seattle-based Indie rock band Silkworm.

Early years
Dahlquist was born in Seattle, Washington, and spent his childhood in the nearby town Bothell, with many vacations spent at his grandmother's ranch in Livingston, Montana. In 1969 and 1970, a nine-month trip to Europe saw the Dahlquist clan live on bread and cheese as they traversed the continent. His childhood was filled with creative endeavors: writing (a lasting passion), juggling, puppetry, and tree-climbing, with a little skateboarding thrown in for good measure.

Dahlquist graduated from Inglemoor High School in Bothell in 1984, and then attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. In Olympia, he continued to develop his interests in writing and performance. To the former, he studied literature, mythology and mysticism, including a summer program at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he studied with poets Allen Ginsberg and Philip Whalen. He engaged in all manner of performance-oriented endeavors, from stage design to participation in and study of Fluxus-style art events of the sort pioneered by John Cage and Joseph Beuys. During this time period, Dahlquist had his first experiences as a rock drummer, playing with the bands Flowers for Funerals and Dungpump.

In 1988, Dahlquist moved from Olympia to Seattle. After a few odd jobs, he found himself a home at Yellow and Graytop cab companies, for whom he drove over the next eight years.

Silkworm
In January 1990, Dahlquist began a personal and semi-professional relationship that would shape much of his adult life. He met the members of Silkworm, three young men recently transplanted from Montana, who were looking to replace their drum machine. He immediately doubled the size of his kit to four drums. Dahlquist was also a member of the Crust Brothers, playing on their 1998 album Marquee Mark.

The activities of Silkworm dominated Dahlquist's life for the next six years. He also became an avid mountaineer and scaled Mts. Adams, Hood, Baker, and Shuksan. He snowboarded, learned to be a swing dancer, and also found time to play with a local gamelan ensemble.

In late 1996, Silkworm began curtailing their tour schedule, and Dahlquist talked his way into a job as office grunt at local software company LizardTech. Six months later, he bought his first house, a tiny one-bedroom on Seattle's Beacon Hill. By the time he left Lizardtech as a product manager in the summer of 2001, he had taught himself Perl, HTML, and XML, and had written the Silkworm website from scratch.

In October 2001, Dahlquist moved from Seattle to Chicago, Illinois. His bandmates had already made this move, individually, but the band had continued to prosper as a long-distance concern.

In Chicago, he was employed at Shure Incorporated as a technical writer, and he continued to spend a great deal of time on Silkworm and related pursuits. However, he also started a web design business and resumed his college studies, as he pursued a degree in visual anthropology from DePaul University.

Beyond music
In the last few years of Dahlquist's life, he made landmark trips to Italy (twice) and Japan with Silkworm. He bought a 2500 sqft condominium on Chicago's South Side.

Between late 2001 and mid-2005, he took on the job of editing 145 hours of digital video into a 90-minute documentary film titled "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?", an outsider perspective on the Christian rock music scene. He taught himself film editing from scratch, building a ramshackle Avid system out of home PCs.

Death
Dahlquist died on July 14, 2005, in Skokie, Illinois. While he was stopped at a traffic signal, a Mustang driven by ex-model Jeanette Sliwinski intentionally plowed into the car he was in (she was attempting to commit suicide). Douglas Meis and John Glick, Dahlquist's friends and fellow musicians, were also killed in the crash.

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Niphates

Niphates is a mountain chain in Armenia that John Milton uses in Paradise Lost iii. 742 as Satan's landing spot upon Earth. Milton is noted for his extensive use of obscure geographical references in his works.

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2003 Marriott Hotel bombing

A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the lobby of the JW Marriott Jakarta hotel on 5 August 2003, killing 12 people and injuring 150. Those killed included 11 Indonesians and one Dutch national. The hotel was viewed as a Western symbol, and had been used by the United States embassy for various events. The hotel was closed for five weeks and reopened to the public on 8 September 2003.

Prelude
Two weeks prior to the bombing, there was a tip call to senior Indonesian police officers from a militant captured during a raid in Semarang that two carloads of bomb-making materials were heading to the capital, Jakarta. During the raid, the police also discovered some drawings outlining specific areas in the city for possible attacks.

The explosion
A Toyota Kijang, bought on 20 July 2003, from an Indonesian businessman for 25.75 million rupiah was loaded with explosives and driven through the taxi stand in front of the JW Marriott Jakarta. The vehicle stopped briefly in front of the lobby and CCTV cameras show a security guard approaching the vehicle, briefly speaking to the driver. The security guard then turns and a detonation can be seen. It is still not clear if the explosion was accidental, set off by remote detonation or a timer exploding prematurely. If the vehicle had kept a course heading straight for the lobby the damage would undoubtedly have been more severe. The blast radius was visible along with the shattered windows of nearby buildings. According to Indonesian police, one of the ingredients in the car bomb contained the same chemical used in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings. The bombs in both cases were made of the same mixture of explosives, mobile phones were used as detonators, and the attackers had tried to scrape off the identification numbers from the vehicle bombs.

The severed head of Asmar Latin Sani, aged 28, and from West Sumatra, was later found on the fifth floor of the building, The head was identified by two jailed members of the Jemaah Islamiyah group who said they had recruited him.

Investigators uncovered the charred remains of a battery used to power the bomb and said it was similar to the ones used in a series of bombings against Christian churches on Christmas Eve 2000, in which 19 people were killed.

The attack came two days before a verdict in the trial of the Bali nightclub bombers. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack and the perpetrators are known to have trained in al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Investigation
Six days after the bombing, on August 11 al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, via the Arab media Al Jazeera, and singled out Australia for special attention. The statement said "This operation is part of a series of operations that Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri has promised to carry out. [It is] a fatal slap on the face of America and its allies in Muslim Jakarta, where faith has been denigrated by the dirty American presence and the discriminatory Australian presence"."

Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), an organisation affiliated with al-Qaeda, is alleged to have carried out the bombing. The al-Qaeda link has been backed by Indonesia's Minister of Defense, Matori Abdul Djalil who said the JW Marriott bombers had trained with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. "Each one of them has special abilities received from training in Afghanistan and Pakistan," Matori Abdul Djalil said on 11 August 2003. He also claimed that the bombers were linked to a group of people arrested in the eastern Indonesian town of Semarang during July 2004 and are alleged to be members of Jemaah Islamiah.

"There are many more Jemaah Islamiah members on the loose in Indonesia.... Because of this I am sure that JI is behind all of this."

On 5 May 2006 the International Crisis Group released its Asia Report No 114 entitled Terrorism in Indonesia. It described the events leading up the attack;

The trigger for the JW Marriott bombing came in December 2002, when Indonesian police stepped up the hunt for Jemaah Islamiyah members while investigating the 2002 Bali bombings. Toni Togar, a JI member based in Medan, North Sumatra, was nervous, because his house stored all the explosives left over from JI's 2000 Christmas Eve bombings. He contacted Noordin Mohammad Top to tell him he was going to throw them out. Noordin had been part of the team that carried out the Christmas Eve bombings which was led by Hambali and included Imam Samudra and many of the other 2002 Bali bombers. He told Togar to hold on as he "saw good materials being wasted".

Abu Bakar Bashir approved of Hambali's activities, and Toni Togar was selected to take part in the new bombing plot. Hambali had already set a precedent for a secret team pursuing jihad on its own. This was in part because he controlled the separate funding from al-Qaeda. In January 2003, Muhammad Rais, Noordin and Azahari Husin moved to Bengkulu, where a group of JI members lived, including Asmar Latin Sani, who became the JW Marriott suicide bomber. The next stages of the operation took place in February 2003 when the explosives were transported from Dumai to Bengkulu via Pekanbaru,

Azahari secured the detonators with a new team member, Masrizal bin Ali Umar. also known as Tohir, another Pondok Ngruki graduate and a Luqmanul Hakiem teacher who was a close friend of Rais. After the explosives safely reached Bengkulu as unaccompanied baggage on an intercity bus, they were stored at the house of Sardona Siliwangi, another Ngruki student and JI member. At the time, Sardona, who was working with Asmar Latin Sani, opened a bank account in March 2003 to facilitate financial transactions for Noordin.

In late April 2003, Mohamed Ihsan also known as Gembrot and Idris, who was involved in the 2000 Christmas Eve bombings transported the explosives again. In May, he and Toni Togar, robbed a bank in Medan on May 6 to raise funds for the project. "Ismail", a Luqmanul Hakiem student who had worked with Rais and Noordin in the shock absorber repair shop in Bukittinggi, then received an email from Noordin asking him to pick up some packages from a man in Dumai. Ismail obliged, and the package turned out to be cash in Australian dollars, sent by Hambali via a courier.

A book that appears based in part on transcripts of Hambali's interrogation says Hambali arranged for A$25,000 to be sent: A$15,000 for operational expenses, A$10,000 for Bali bomber families. Conboy, op. cit., p. 229. Hambali's younger brother, Rusman Gunawan, who was arrested in Karachi in September 2003, testified Hambali had secured a promise of A$50,000 from an Noordin on how to bring the cash from Dumai to Lampung.

On 4 June 2003, in Lampung, the final team was put together: Noordin, Azhari, Ismail, Asmar Latin Sani, and Tohir. Noordin assigned the tasks and explained that he was in charge, Azhari was field commander and Ismail his assistant. Asmar and Tohir would be in charge of renting the house, buying the vehicles and getting the explosives to Jakarta. Asmar had agreed to be the suicide bomber. When they got to Jakarta, they split into two teams to survey four possible targets. Azhari and Ismail examined the JW Marriott and a Citibank branch; Noordin and Tohir looked at the Jakarta International School and the Australian International School. Eventually they decided on the hotel because of the American brand name and the fact that it was easy to reach. The bombing took place on 5 August.

They all drove back to Blitar with 25 kilograms of potassium chlorate and ten kilos of sulfur for bomb making, as well as a pistol and ammunition. Not long afterwards, another operative delivered 30 extra kilograms of TNT.

Around this time a pamphlet was circulating in jihadist groups that was a translation from Arabic into Indonesian of an article that first appeared in the al-Qaeda on-line magazine Sawt al-Jihad. Entitled "You Don't Need to Go to Iraq for Jihad", it was written in 2003 by a Saudi jihadist, Muhammad bin Ahmad as-Salim.

Suspects

 * Riduan Isamuddin alias Hambali is being held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, since his August 2003 arrest in Thailand. He is accused of masterminding the 2002 Bali bombings as well as the JW Marriott blast. According to interrogation reports, Hambali was undergoing plans to develop biological weapons, in particular anthrax. Hambali was al Qaeda's main connection in South East Asia, and was apparently trying to open an "Al Qaeda bio-weapons branch plant" in either Malaysia or Indonesia. He told investigators he had been "working on an Al Qaeda Anthrax program in Kandahar", Afghanistan.
 * Azahari Husin, a former university lecturer, was also known as the "Demolition Man" because of his bomb-making skills, and used a mobile phone to detonate the JW Marriott bomb and included ingredients similar to other Indonesian blasts. According to Indonesian police, "If Azahari did not make the bomb, then its creator was following his manual."
 * Noordin Mohammad Top was suspected of helping finance the Bali blast and helping build the JW Marriott bomb. Noordin is a Malaysian citizen.
 * Muhammad Rais was convicted in May 2004 of violating anti-terrorism laws in connection with the attack. Rais transported the explosives from various towns to Jakarta, where they were used in the bomb. He was sentenced to seven years in prison for his role. "We saw the Marriott attack as a message from Osama bin Laden," Rais said at his trail.
 * Rusman Gunawan alias "Gun Gun" was sentenced in October 2004 to four years jail for "facilitating and aiding terrorism". In particular he was found to have transferred the money (in Australian dollars) that was ultimately used to finance the JW Marriott bombing. He and six other Indonesian students were arrested during raids in Pakistan. He trained at the Al Ghuraba training camp in Afghanistan. In 2002 while he attended university in Pakistan, he took over as the "intermediary" for e-mail messages between al-Qaeda and Hambali, who at the time was hiding in Cambodia.
 * Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep is one of Hambali's key lieutenants and like Hambali is being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He allegedly transferred the al Qaeda funds used for the bombing and knew of Jemaah Islamiah plots to launch attacks elsewhere in South East Asia. The CIA claims he was to be a suicide bomber for a "second wave" of al Qaeda attacks targeting Los Angeles.
 * Gempur Angkoro alias Jabir, is al-Ghozi's cousin and was one of Top's most trusted men; he was killed in a raid on 29 April 2006. Jabir personally assembled the JW Marriott bomb, and the bombs used in the 2004 Jakarta embassy bombing. (Jakarta Post, 2 May)
 * Sardona Siliwangi, was the first person to be sentenced for the JW Marriott attack. He had been "legally and convincingly" proven guilty of an act of terrorism, during his trial in the town of Bengkulu on the island of Sumatra, and sentenced to ten years in prison. Siliwangi had stored at his Bengkulu home, six cartons of explosives left by the suicide operative Asmar Latin Sani. The explosives were later moved to the South Sumatra town of Lubuk Linggau before being taken to Jakarta.
 * Air Setyawan, Luthfi Haidaroh and Urwah were all arrested in the Central Java city of Surakarta on 26 July 2004 by Indonesia's Detachment 88 anti-terrorist squad, which is trained and equipped by the United States and Australia.
 * Yazid Sufaat
 * Majid Khan pled guilty in 2012 to taking part in the bombing.

Al-Qaeda connection
Stuart A. Levey, the former Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the United States, believes that the 2002 Bali bombing, and the JW Marriott Hotel bombing were financed by smuggling $30,000 in cash for each attack from al-Qaeda to allied terrorists in Asia. By contrast, the 9/11 Commission estimated the 11 September attacks in 2001 cost between $400,000 and $500,000 over two years—at least some of which was deposited in foreign accounts and accessed by the plotters in the USA.

Then Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney said: "Hambali went to the training camps in Afghanistan that they ran back in the '90s, subsequently received funding from al Qaeda, went back then to Indonesia, and was behind some of the major attacks there. So you've got this sort of home-grown, but nonetheless affiliated, extremist operation going now in Indonesia. You'll find the same thing if you go to Morocco, where they had the attack in Casablanca; in Turkey, Istanbul, and so forth." It was the simultaneous presence at al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan by militants from across South East Asia that facilitated many of the personal relationships that exist between JI and members of other violent Islamist groups. These include the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a secessionist movement fighting for a Muslim homeland in the southern Philippines, as well as several other Indonesian, Malaysian and Thai groups. The weight of evidence suggests that although some JI personnel might be inspired by the larger global mystique of figures such as Osama bin Laden, the South East Asian group remains operationally and organisationally distinct.

Effects
The Jakarta Stock Exchange market index tumbled 3.1 per cent after the attack and its currency, the rupiah, lost as much as 2 per cent of its value against the US dollar.

Australia issued a warning for its citizens to avoid all international hotels in Jakarta after intelligence found the capital could be under the threat of further attacks.

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The Orphanage (company)

The Orphanage was a visual effects studio located in California. It had offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. It was co-founded in 1999 by Stu Maschwitz, Jonathan Rothbart, and Scott Stewart, who all previously worked at Industrial Light & Magic. Scott Kirsner at Hollywood Reporter interviewed a couple of the founders, and writes about the company and its plans. Stu Maschwitz created the Magic Bullet software which gives video a film look, and wrote a book about guerrilla filmmaking called The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap.

The Orphanage was known for its work on both commercials and features. The company then launched but later closed Orphanage Animation Studios which was headed up by Genndy Tartakovsky, and was due to make their film debut with the ill-fated Power of the Dark Crystal. They never made any projects except for Sym-Bionic Titan.

The Orphanage did approximately 640 shots for the "That Yellow Bastard" section of Sin City (2005). as well as three other films with Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, and the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez co-directed double feature Grindhouse.

The company has worked on a number of Hollywood blockbusters including Superman Returns, Night at the Museum, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest & At World's End, and the Korean blockbuster The Host. They created the Heads-up display (HUD) for the hi-tech suit of armour in the Marvel Studios production of Iron Man, for which their work was nominated for a 2008 VES Award (for Best Compositing).

They have also created commercials and a handful of Super Bowl spots for clients as varied as Comcast, Toshiba, HP, Benadryl, Nicoderm, and several award-winning spots for Sony PlayStation's Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando.

On February 4, 2009, the company announced it was suspending operations indefinitely, after 10 years in the business. The announcement was made by company co-founders Stu Maschwitz, Scott Stewart, and Jonathan Rothbart, and announced on Mr. Maschwitz's blog. No immediate notice was posted on the company's website. Although the announcement gave no reason for the closing, bloggers attributed the closing to general economic conditions.

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Claudio Muccioli

Claudio Muccioli (born 8 April 1958) is a former captain-regent of San Marino. His term with Antonello Bacciocchi lasted from 1 October 2005 to 1 April 2006. He is a member of the San Marinese Christian Democratic Party.

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Guillermo Pérez Roldán

Guillermo Pérez Roldán (born 20 October 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.

Pérez Roldán was known particularly as a strong clay court player. He turned professional in 1986. Between 1987 and 1993, he won nine top-level singles titles. His best Grand Slam performance came at the 1988 French Open, where he reached the quarter-finals, beating Alberto Mancini, Tore Meinecke, Patrik Kühnen and Stefan Edberg on the way, before being knocked out by Andre Agassi.

Juniors
Pérez Roldán had an excellent junior career, winning the French Open Boys' Singles championship on his favored red clay in both 1986 and 1987 – since the open era, he is the only individual to have captured the Boys' Singles championship at the French Open more than once.

Junior Grand Slam results:

Australian Open: -

French Open: W (1986, 1987)

Wimbledon: 2R (1985)

US Open: 3R (1985)

Pro tour
He burst onto the scene as a teenager in 1987, winning two tour titles at the age of seventeen. In 1988, already seeded 14 by age eighteen, he reached the final of the Italian Open, where he battled Ivan Lendl in five grueling sets. Later that year, he followed up his clay-court success at the French Open, reaching the quarterfinals with wins over Alberto Mancini, Tore Meinecke, Patrik Kühnen and Stefan Edberg, before losing to Andre Agassi. He was named Rolex Rookie of the Year in 1988.

At the 1988 US Open, John McEnroe expressed outrage at being seeded lower than Pérez Roldán, who had not yet won a match on hard courts. However, Pérez Roldán silenced critics by progressing further in the tournament than McEnroe.

Pérez Roldán's career-high singles ranking was World No. 13 (in 1988), and his career prize-money earnings totaled $1,686,341. Despite his teenage success, in the early 1990s, his career was hamstrung by injuries, and he finally retired from the professional tour in 1996.

Pérez Roldán is currently tied for tenth on the list of most titles won by a teenager in the Open Era (five).

Personal life
He is married to Daniela with whom he has three sons. He has alleged suffering extensive physical, mental and financial abuse during his tennis career from his coach and father Raúl Pérez Roldán. A biopic based on his life was directed by Rodolfo Lamboglia and released on Star network.

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Joe Ricketts

John Joseph Ricketts (born July 16, 1941) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founder, former CEO and former chairman of TD Ameritrade. He has an estimated net worth of US$4.1 billion as of 2024, according to Forbes. He has pursued a variety of other business ventures including DNAinfo.com, High Plains Bison, The Lodge at Jackson Fork, and The American Film Company. Ricketts also engages in philanthropy through The Ricketts Art Foundation, Opportunity Education Foundation, The Cloisters on the Platte Foundation, and The Ricketts Conservation Foundation. He and his family have been the owners of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team since October 2009.

Early life
John Joseph Ricketts was born and raised in Nebraska City, Nebraska, the son of Florence M. (Erhart) and Donavon Platte Ricketts. He obtained a bachelor's degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska in 1968. Ricketts is married to Marlene Margaret (Volkmer), with whom he has four children, Pete, Thomas, Laura, and Todd, who were raised Catholic. He currently resides in Hoback Basin, Wyoming.

Regarding his time in Omaha during the 1960s, Ricketts wrote in his 2019 memoir The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get about "stockbrokers destroying their lives with dope, alcohol, and sex, which was just another kind of drug": "Our substance of choice was beer. Beer, whatever its drawbacks, is not dope. Marlene generally did not come out for drinks on Friday at the Rookery. She went home and got supper ready for the children. Often, I did not get home in time to eat with them. I might have had twelve beers on a Friday evening. I might have had more. I'm sure there were a few nights that it was only by the grace of God that I didn't have a car accident. But it was only beer and it helped me get rid of all my pent-up stress. I got myself home, and our family and our business could press on together."

TD Ameritrade
In 1975, Ricketts and a few partners invested $12,500 each to form First Omaha Securities, a retail securities brokerage firm that through mergers and acquisitions grew into TD Ameritrade. Ricketts retired from the TD Ameritrade board in October 2011 to concentrate on entrepreneurship and philanthropy.

High Plains Bison
In 2004, Ricketts founded High Plains Bison, a retailer of natural bison meat. In addition to online and offline sales channels, High Plains Bison is the official bison vendor at Chicago's Wrigley Field. Some of the bison are raised on a Wyoming ranch owned by Ricketts. A four-bedroom lodge named The Lodge at Jackson Fork Ranch is located on the same property. Joe Rickett's Grizzly Ridge Bison Ranch in northern Montana comes at the expense of the Blackfeet tribe's wild herd; it represents 2% of their ancestral lands, which the tribe were deprived of despite trying to buy back their own land.

The American Film Company
In 2008, Ricketts founded The American Film Company, which produces feature films about true stories from American history. The Conspirator is a 2010 historical drama film directed by Robert Redford. It served as the debut film of The American Film Company.

DNAinfo.com
In 2009, Ricketts founded DNAinfo.com, a digital news service that used to cover neighborhood news in New York City and Chicago. Ricketts shut it down on November 2, 2017, one week after their employees voted to unionize. Gone with it were Gothamist, Chicagoist, DCist, LAist, SFist, and Shanghaiist. On November 3, 2017, archived versions of Gothamist, DNAinfo, and other sites were back up. In September 2017, Ricketts wrote, "I believe unions promote a corrosive us-against-them dynamic that destroys the esprit de corps businesses need to succeed."

Chicago Cubs baseball team
In October 2009, the Ricketts family acquired a 95 percent controlling interest in Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, as well as 20% of Comcast Sportsnet Chicago. The Ricketts family represents the eighth ownership group in the 133-year history of the team. While Ricketts is not directly involved in the team's operations, his son, Tom Ricketts, is Cubs chairman and his three other children (Pete, Laura and Todd) are on the board of directors. In 2016, seven years after purchasing the Cubs, they won the World Series, ending a 108-year-old drought without a championship.

Political activities
Ricketts co-founded the Campaign for Primary Accountability (CPA) with Eric O'Keefe, Leo Linbeck III, and Tim Dunn. It targets both Democratic and Republican incumbents in primary elections.

In 2010, Ricketts led a campaign against earmarks and what he perceived to be wasteful federal spending. Ricketts founded an independent organization called Taxpayers Against Earmarks that classified every Member of Congress as either a spending "hero" or "hooligan."

Along with Taxpayers for Common Sense and WashingtonWatch.com, Taxpayers Against Earmarks developed a database of earmarks requested by members of Congress. The group successfully pressed for a moratorium on earmarks in 2010. Taxpayers Against Earmarks changed its name to Ending Spending in 2011, as part of a broadening of the group's focus.

Ricketts established and funded The Ending Spending Fund, a political action committee, in 2010. The Ending Spending Fund spent over $1 million sponsoring independent advertisements in several Congressional races. The goal of the advertising expenditure was to highlight incumbents' earmark-related policies. The Ending Spending Fund spent the largest amount of its money on the United States Senate election in Nevada, 2010 in an unsuccessful effort to defeat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Although not required by law, Ricketts willingly disclosed his identity due to his belief in transparency.

Ricketts served on the board of trustees of the American Enterprise Institute from 1999 to 2007. His son, Pete Ricketts, is a member of the Republican National Committee and was elected governor of Nebraska in 2014. His daughter, Laura Ricketts, is a gay rights activist and prominent bundler for Barack Obama. Another son, Todd Ricketts, was named CEO of Ending Spending in 2013.

On May 17, 2012, The New York Times published a story by Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg reporting that The Ending Spending Action fund had been presented with a 54-page proposal entitled, "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: the Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good." According to the Times, the proposal, written by a vendor seeking to be hired by Ending Spending, suggested a $10-million ad campaign to "attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away" and called for "running commercials linking Mr. Obama to incendiary comments by his former spiritual adviser, the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright." The report came to light when an unidentified person, who was not connected to the proposal, leaked it to The New York Times. The president of the Ending Spending Action Fund said that the pitch was a "nonstarter" and issued the following statement repudiating the proposal: "Not only was this plan merely a proposal—one of several submitted to the Ending Spending Action Fund by third-party vendors—but it reflects an approach to politics that Mr. Ricketts rejects and it was never a plan to be accepted but only a suggestion for a direction to take."

As of mid-2014, the Ending Spending SuperPac had supported only Republicans.

In the 2016 presidential election, Ricketts donated at least one million dollars in support of Donald Trump. Ricketts also raised funds for the Future45 Super Pac and the 45Committee, a pro-Trump 501(c)4 organization that is not required to disclose its donors. During the Republican primaries, Ricketts had contributed to Our Principles PAC, a Super PAC dedicated to opposing Trump. Ricketts explained his changed position citing economic grounds, stating that Hillary Clinton "represents four more years of the Obama-Clinton economic policies that continue to cripple the middle class."

Together with his spouse, Ricketts contributed $2.2million to Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.

Philanthropy
Ricketts established Opportunity Education, which is a non-profit organization that empowers teachers with research-backed resources and support to help their students develop the skills they need to succeed in school and beyond.

On September 26, 2013, Louisiana College president Joe W. Aguillard presented Ricketts and his brother, Jim, with two of three Trustees' Distinguished Service Awards at the annual Founder's Day chapel.

Anti-Muslim and racist email controversy
On 5 February 2019, Splinter News released a cache of Ricketts emails from 2009 to 2014. He wrote that Islam could not create a civil society, that "we cannot ever let Islam become a large part of our society", and that "Muslims are naturally my (our) enemy." Included were Obama citizenship conspiracy theory emails, and claims that Obama favored Islam over other religions. Also included were multiple racist "joke" emails that he received and responded to positively; including slurs against Black and Hispanic people. He apologized for the emails after they were made public.

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User talk:PryItOpen

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name's Robert, aka Jaxl. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!  Rob e  rt  03:38, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
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