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Lee High School (Wyoming, Michigan)

Lee High School is a high school in Wyoming, Michigan (U.S.) that is part of the Godfrey-Lee Public Schools school district.

Demographics
The demographic breakdown of the 524 students enrolled in 2021–22 was:
 * Boys - 54.6%
 * Girls - 45.4%
 * Black - 7.8%
 * Hispanic - 84.2%
 * White - 5.7%
 * Multiracial - 2.3%

91.4% of the students were eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch.

Athletics
The Lee Legends compete in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Silver Division. The school colors are Navy Blue and Vegas Gold. The following Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) sanctioned sports are offered:

 * Baseball (boys)
 * Basketball (girls and boys)
 * Bowling (girls and boys)
 * Competitive Cheer (girls)
 * Cross Country (girls and boys)
 * Boys State Champion - 1971, 1972, 1978
 * Girls State Champion - 1981
 * Football (boys)
 * Soccer (girls and boys)
 * Softball (girls)
 * Tennis (girls)
 * Boys State Champion - 1953, 1954 (3-way tie)
 * Track and field (girls and boys)
 * Volleyball (girls)
 * Wrestling (boys)

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Bad Cop, Bad Cop

Bad Cop, Bad Cop is a 2002 Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Southern Star, directed by David Caesar

Main / regular

 * Michael Caton as Detective Red Lilywhite
 * Dan Wyllie as Detective Constable Lou Knutt
 * Helen Thomson as lawyer Tracy Lafever
 * Roy Billing as Assistant Commissioner 'Pud' Tugwell
 * Chris Hobbs as Slim Azzopardi
 * Garry McDonald as Howard Mayes
 * Sarah Chadwick as Deborah Sidebottom

Guests

 * John Batchelor as Uncle Dan

Premise
The series is a black comedy about two utterly corrupt police officers Lilywhite and Knutt (the "bad cop, bad cop" of the title). Lafever is their friend, a lawyer with a relaxed attitude to the goings on. Police graft, corruption and brutality are satirised in a very dry comic fashion, and with a stream of matter-of-fact obscenities. The series is shot in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, with Lilywhite and Knutt often seen drinking at the Clovelly Bowling Club and numerous references to Maroubra.

The title is a reference to the tactic of good cop, bad cop; though in this case both cops are as bad as each other.

Episodes

 * 1) Here Comes the Son - November 18, 2002 - w Ian David d David Caesar
 * 2) He Who Slips on Milkshakes - November 25, 2002 - w Ian David d David Caesar
 * 3) The Loaded Dog - December 2, 2002 - w Ian David d Cate Shortland
 * 4) The Ex, Lies and Sticky Tape - December 9, 2002 - w Tim Gooding d Cate Shortland
 * 5) Turn Me on Deadman - December 16, 2002 - w Ian David d David Caesar
 * 6) Suit Yourself - December 23, 2002 - w Angela Webber d Cate Shortland
 * 7) A Joint Venture - December 30, 2002 - w Ian David d David Caesar
 * 8) Yesterday's Zero - January 6, 2003 - w Ian David d Cate Shortland

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Talk:Extreme card manipulation

Pedantic
way too pedantic. you then exclude anybody who does 'XCM' but happens to know a few tricks. what do you make of aladin who shows up in the X Games type Book of Cool? or Ricky Jay? or Rick Smith? ever heard of them? bit inconvenient their existence, huh?! ;o) Grroin 00:16, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

AfD
This article clutters up the landscape. And the authors swallowed my bait - Ricky Jay is a magician. I have seen him off broadway and also broadway with his show "Ricky Jay and his 52 assistants". It was a magic show. He has done tricks everywhere on TV. And the ECM XCM whatever guys say that magicians can't be extreme card people too. come on. Am putting this up for AfD and putting a POV alert for good measure - just does not reflect what 99.99% believe out there; this is clearly a few people promoting themselves or each other or just bitching. Grroin 01:02, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

This page redirects to card magic following this AFD debate. THe history is still in tact if anyone wants to review the content and merge some of it. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:40, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Reference
I am removing the reference to www.superhandz.com for the statement "The term "Extreme Card Manipulation" (XCM) was coined by De'vo vom Schattenreich in 2004", because the site is affiliated with Schattenreich. Evidence for this is that the about page says "Superhandz has long been a dream of Underground Master Manipulator, De'vo", and that his personal website handlordz.com and superhandz.com both have a Store link to handlordz store. I also could not find this fact stated at www.superhandz.com anyway. --Jon186 (talk) 21:18, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

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Pay 'n Save

Pay 'n Save was a retail company founded by Monte Lafayette Bean in Seattle, Washington, in 1940. Over the years, Pay 'n Save was the leading drugstore chain in Washington and was the owner of several Washington-based retailers, including Lamonts and Ernst. A 1984 sale of the company to The Trump Group and a 1986 attempt to transform the retailer into a bargain-basement merchandiser resulted in a loss of nearly $50 million. By 1988, Pay 'n Save was sold to Thrifty Corporation, who later sold the stores to PayLess Drug, who retired the Pay 'n Save name. As a result, most of the retailer's divisions were spun off as separate companies or shuttered. As of 2023, Pay 'n Save's membership discount chain, Bi-Mart, is the sole surviving division of the company (the chain has been an employee-owned company since 2003).

At the company's peak, Pay 'n Save was operating 313 stores in ten western states, Canada and Great Britain under several different names, including Pay 'n Save, Ernst, Bi-Mart, Lamonts, Sportswest, Schuck's Auto Supply, Yard Birds, Von Tobel's, and Price Savers.

Founding; company acquisitions
In 1940, businessman Monte Lafayette Bean arrived in Seattle, Washington, from Portland, Oregon, to take over Tradewell Stores, Inc., a chain of grocery stores. By 1947, Bean and his son, M. Lamont Bean, opened the first Pay 'n Save drug store at Fourth Avenue and Pike Street in Seattle.

In March 1959, M. Lamont Bean became the president of Pay 'n Save and began considering operating other stores that were not pharmacies. Shortly after, Bean began an interest in Ernst Hardware, a local hardware chain owned by Seattle brothers Fred and Charles Ernst. Fred Ernst agreed to sell Ernst Hardware and its nine locations to Pay 'n Save in February 1960. In 1962, Pay 'n Save acquired Malmo Nursery and began opening Ernst-Malmo combination stores; combining hardware, lumber, garden supplies, and nursery items in one building. The first Ernst-Malmo combination store was opened at the University Village shopping center in Seattle. By 1982, Ernst was operating 68 hardware stores.

In 1965, Pay 'n Save acquired the Rhodes department stores chain. Pay 'n Save shuttered the Rhodes flagship store in Seattle during 1968. The Rhodes name was retired from the suburban branches when M. Lamont Bean renamed the stores Lamonts in 1970. During 1976, Pay 'n Save acquired discount chains Bi-Mart and Yard Birds.

Death of founder; Trump Group takeover

In October 1982, company founder Monte Lafayette Bean died at age 83. In 1983, Pay 'n Save entered the wholesale club business and opened the first Price Savers Warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah. In December 1983, Pay 'n Save acquired Schuck's Auto Supply, Inc. for about $70 million in Pay 'n Save common stock. At the time, Schuck's had 58 stores in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

In September 1984, the Pay 'n Save board voted to sell the retailer and to give a lockup option on $4.1 million shares to the Trump Group (no relation to New York real estate developer Donald Trump ) in an effort to stave off other bids.

Pay 'n Save's largest shareholders, Stuart Sloan and Samuel N. Stroum, vowed to fight the sale of the retail company. Sloan and Stroum, who owned 18 percent of Pay 'n Save's stock, issued a statement telling shareholders not to "be stampeded into acting hastily". On September 12, 1984, The Trump Group announced that it had withdrawn its offer to purchase Pay 'n Save in order to negotiate with Sloan and Stroum. On October 15, 1984, Pay 'n Save was officially sold to the Trumps for $358 million.

Sale of subsidiaries

The company's sporting goods chain, Sportswest, was spun off in 1984 before being closed completely. After a brief period, Thrifty Corporation reopened the stores under the Big 5 Sporting Goods name. Sportswest was the first of several Pay 'n Save division to be sold over the next few years.

In May 1985, Pay 'n Save announced it would put all its subsidiaries up for sale. During this time, Dayton-Hudson division Mervyns was expected to acquire the company's 20 Lamonts stores and Southland Corporation, then-owner of 7-Eleven, expressed interest in acquiring all 58 Schuck's Auto Supply stores. The first subsidiary to be sold was Price Savers Warehouse, in August 1985, to Cincinnati, Ohio-based Kroger.

On November 1, 1985, Pay 'n Save successfully spun off Bi-Mart, Lamonts, and Schuck's to form a new company, Northern Pacific Corporation. With all divisions combined, the new company had sales of about $450 million, making it one of the Northwest's largest retail operations. Just eight days later, Pay 'n Save's flagship drugstore chain became controlled by a company equally owned by the Trump Group and a partnership headed by William Zimmerman, owner of California discount chain Pic 'N' Save. The sale left Pay 'n Save with 69 Ernst Home Center stores, three Yard Birds stores, and wholesaler Northwestern Drug Co. By January 1986, Pay 'n Save Corp. was renamed Seattle Standard Corp.

Return as a public company
After 19 months as a privately held company, Pay 'n Save announced plans to return as a public company in May 1986. The company planned to sell 3 million shares at from $16 to $18 a share. As part of the transaction, the company purchased Bi-Mart, a former division of the original Pay 'n Save Corp. The original company sold its first shares of common stock to the general public in 1962 and reverted to private ownership in October 1984.

On May 15, 1986, days after announcing plans to go public again, Pay 'n Save announced it would be taking on a new image and announced plans to remodel its 108 stores, which would include a new blue-and-green paint scheme. The company also announced its new emphasis on bargain goods and plans to raise $225 million by selling convertible bonds and 10-year notes.

In June 1986, Pic 'N' Save, filed a lawsuit against Pay 'n Save's investment banker, contending that materials outlining Pay 'n Save's stock offering misrepresent the role of Pic 'N' Save's former chairman, William Zimmerman. When Zimmerman left Pic 'N' Save in August 1984, he agreed not work for a competing company for one year, but the company's interests had been attempting to determine whether Zimmerman violated the agreement. The suit, filed in state Superior Court in Los Angeles, said that the "Zimmerman merchandising strategy", a key part in Pay 'n Save's business plan, includes Pic 'N' Save trade secrets and other confidential information. On July 1, 1986, Pic 'N' Save had filed a civil lawsuit against Pay 'n Save, William Zimmerman, and related parties, asking for more than $50 million compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages.

By the end of July 1986, Zimmerman and the Trumps again turned Pay 'n Save into a public company by selling $52 million (~$ in ) in stock, despite a dramatic decline in sales since they took over. The company later reported a $12.8 million loss in the first quarter ending August 2. Mike Reynolds, senior reporter for New York industry publication Chain Drug Review, blamed the company's decline on Zimmerman's approach displaying tables of low-cost imported items. By December, the company's president, Maynard Jenkins, resigned for a job in California and the company's discounted items would no longer be carried.

Return to old format
In January 1987, Pay 'n Save reported a loss of nearly $50 million in the last year. At the time, chief executive Gerald Nathanson said Pay 'n Save management believes a new merchandising strategy and restructuring "will strengthen Pay ' n Save and improve its future performance significantly". In February 1987, Pay 'n Save announced the closure of all stores in Montana and Wyoming.

In June 1987, Pay 'n Save revealed its "back to basics" merchandising plan. The chain planned to revert their 106 drug stores back to the familiar blue-and-green color scheme, complete with new signs, and better lighting. The company's stores would focus on departments such as candy and snacks, stationery, household chemicals and greeting cards, while the pharmacies would remain the foundation of each store. The company's remodeling process was blamed for a loss of $9.6 million in the company's third quarter.

Thrifty Corporation and PayLess Drug
In April 1988, Pay 'n Save was put up for sale. The sale attracted interest from Thrifty Corporation, who previously acquired Sportswest from Pay 'n Save in 1984. On May 13, Thrifty announced plans to acquire the company's 110 Pay 'n Save drug stores and 37 Bi-Mart discount stores for stock worth $232 million. Thrifty also announced plans to keep the Pay 'n Save and Bi-Mart names and the company's current employees. In the previous year, Pay 'n Save was left with a $27 million loss and a $49 million loss in 1986.

In August 1988, Gerald Nathanson, Pay 'n Save president and CEO, resigned from the company. Richard Dortch, who began working with Pay 'n Save as a store clerk in 1969, was elected president of the 124-drugstore chain in January 1991.

By February 1992, Pay 'n Save was once again for sale. Days prior to the February 5 announcement, the company announced a loss of $88 million after a $250 million after-tax special charge. By March, PayLess Drug Stores, a then subsidiary of Kmart, emerged as a possible buyer for some or all Pay 'n Save 125 drugstores. PayLess officials were not able to comment at the time.

In June 1992, PayLess Drug Stores officially acquired the money-losing Pay 'n Save drug stores from Thrifty Corporation. Leonard Green & Partners, a Los Angeles investment firm that specializes in management buyouts agreed to acquire Thrifty Corporation's other division, including Pay 'n Save's Bi-Mart. Following the sale, the Pay 'n Save stores were renamed PayLess Drug.

M. Lamont Bean, the company's president from 1959 to 1984, died on February 5, 2004, at age 79.

Former subsidiaries

 * Bi-Mart: Bi-Mart's parent company, Thrifty PayLess was sold to Rite Aid in October 1996 for $1.3 billion. Rite Aid sold Bi-Mart to Endeavour Capital in 1997. By 2004, Endeavour Capital transferred ownership of the company to its employees through an employee stock ownership plan. The chain is last operating former Pay n' Save subsidiary.
 * Ernst Home Centers: Ernst went public in 1994 in a bid to raise $50 million to open 55 superstores. Tough competition from larger stores forced the company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July 1996 and close 33 stores. The company suffered more losses and announced the closure of its remaining 53 stores in November 1996.
 * Lamonts: In August 1989, Northern Pacific sold the chain to Scottsdale, Arizona-based Aris Corporation for $135 million. Lamonts filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 1995 and once more in January 2000. In April 2000, California-based Gottschalks purchased Lamonts' store leases for $19 million (~$ in ). The $19 million deal did not include Lamonts inventory, which was sold off. Gottschalks eventually filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and liquidated in mid-2009 during the late-2000s recession.
 * Price Savers Warehouse: Only three years after buying Price Savers, Kroger sold the 16-unit chain to a management-led investment group in September 1988. Kmart's Pace Membership Warehouse division acquired Price Savers for an undisclosed amount of cash in January 1991. Pace was eventually absorbed in Wal-Mart's Sam's Club division in 1993.
 * Schuck's Auto Supply: In 1987, Jules and Eddie Trump combined Schuck's, Kragen Auto Parts, and Checker Auto Parts to form Northern Automotive, later renamed CSK Auto. CSK Auto made a public offering of its stock in 1998 and became to first major auto parts retailer to sell products on the internet in 1999. O'Reilly Auto Parts, the third largest U.S. auto parts chain, acquired CSK Auto for $528 million in 2008. O'Reilly converted all CSK Auto-owned stores to the O'Reilly name shortly after.

Yard Birds
Yard Birds was originally a surplus store started in 1947 in Centralia, Washington. There were also Yard Birds stores in Chehalis, Olympia, and Shelton. While originally selling war surplus, Yard Birds became more of a discount store with many departments, including hardware, toys, shoes and clothing, automotive, pets, sporting goods, furniture, a full-service grocery, and more. Yard Birds stores had a logo that featured a black bird with a yellow beak, reminiscent of the cartoon characters Heckle and Jeckle. In 1987, Seattle Standard sold the chain to its employees through an employee stock ownership plan. Rich Gillingham, co-founder of Yard Birds, died in 1992. The company closed one store in 1993 and closed its last two stores in 1995.

The Chehalis store was more than 300,000 sqft and was considered, by the early owners, the largest surplus outfit on the West Coast. In 1971, the site became home to a 100 foot statute of a black bird that was large enough for automobiles to drive through. Accidently burned down in 1976, the Yard Birds location added a replacement statue, and smaller works of the same, over the years. The store was the focus of a documentary, Skinny and Fatty: The Story of Yard Birds. The Chehalis store was converted to a vendor mall and storage space under the Yard Birds name, before closing permanently in 2022. Beginning in April 2024, abandoned and unclaimed inventory was removed from the building and placed in the parking lot. With some exceptions, items were given away for free to the public.

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Charlie Williams (comedian)

Charles Adolphus Williams, MBE (23 December 1927 – 2 September 2006) was an English professional footballer who was one of the first black players in British football after the Second World War, and later became Britain's first well-known black stand-up comedian.

He became famous from his appearances on Granada Television's The Comedians and ATV's The Golden Shot, delivering his catchphrase, "me old flower" in his broad Yorkshire accent.

Early life and football career
Williams was born in Royston, a small mining village in Barnsley, south Yorkshire. His father, also Charles, had come to Britain in 1914 from Barbados, and enlisted in the Royal Engineers.

After the First World War, his father settled in Royston, where he sold groceries from a horse and cart, and married a local woman, Frances Cook. His father had been forced to give up his job as a greengrocer as a result of trench foot acquired in France, and depended on National Assistance.

After leaving school aged 14 (when, according to his autobiography Ee-I've Had Some Laughs, his father died), Williams worked at Upton Colliery during the Second World War, a reserved occupation. He played football for the colliery team, before turning professional, and signing for Doncaster Rovers in 1948, having also considered York City and Nottingham Forest, aged 19. A centre-half, he played for the first team in 1950 and became the first Black player to represent Doncaster Rovers when he made his debut in a home game against Tranmere Rovers on 3rd May that year. He then remained in the reserves until 1955, when he became an established first team player for four years.

He played 171 times for Rovers in total, but scored only one goal, in a Second Division game away to Barnsley on 24 March 1956. In his own words, "I was never a fancy player, but I could stop them buggers that were." He ended his career with Skegness Town in the Midland League.

He married twice. He was first married to Audrey Crump on 1 April 1957. They had two children. He later married a second time, to Janice, who survived him.

Showbusiness career
Following his retirement from football in 1959, Williams tried his hand as a singer in local working men's clubs, but it was his comic chat between the songs that was best received, so he decided to move into comedy full-time. He eventually became Britain's first well-known black television comedian. He came to prominence from 1971, when he began appearing regularly on The Comedians. The show broadcast stand-up routines from relatively unknown but often very experienced club comedians, including Frank Carson, Mike Reid and Bernard Manning. The novel combination of a black man with a Yorkshire accent and his first-hand experience of life in the British working class made him unmistakable.

Williams' comedy was often at his own expense, and particularly his colour. He used to respond to heckling by saying: "If you don't shut up, I'll come and move in next door to you". Like other popular comedians of his era, his comedy included jokes about "Pakis" and "coons".

Nevertheless, he was a role model for a new generation of British black comedians, such as Lenny Henry and Gary Wilmot, growing up in the 1970s, when almost all others were white.

He reached the pinnacle of his comedy career in the early 1970s. In 1972, he spent a six-month season at the London Palladium; presented his own show, It's Charlie Williams, on Granada Television; was a subject on This Is Your Life, when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Batley Variety Club; and appeared at the Royal Variety Performance.

In 1973, he presented a one-off special Charlie Williams Show on BBC2, and published an autobiography, Ee-I've Had Some Laughs. He was popular enough at this time to be featured as the star of his own one page comic strip in IPC's Shiver and Shake comic at this time. He was also the host of ATV's popular game show The Golden Shot, along with hostess Wendy King, for a six-month period from late 1973 to early 1974, although he often struggled to hold together a fast moving live show, and it ultimately had a detrimental effect on his career.

In 1976, Williams toured Rhodesia, and appeared before audiences at packed nightclubs in Salisbury. At that time, the white minority rule government of Rhodesia had unilaterally declared independence from Britain, which had severed all ties with the Rhodesian government.

By the late 1970s and early 1980s, his brand of humour was becoming old-fashioned, and his career declined. He caused offence to some, and was praised by others, for defending the Robertson's Golliwog trade mark, and for saying that immigrants to the United Kingdom should conform to the British way of life.

He retired after a final tour in 1995.

Recordings
In 1972 and 1973 Williams released two singles, That's what I shoulda said (1972) and Smile (1973), released on Columbia. In 1973, he also had an album issued by the label, You Can't Help Liking.......Charlie Williams.

In 1974, he released the pop single Ta Luv, on the Pye Records label, a song taken from The Good Companions musical.

Later life
Williams was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1999 New Year Honours "for charitable services to the community in Yorkshire." He was given a lifetime achievement award at the Black Comedy Awards in 2000, where it was recognised that he had "broken down barriers". In 2004, he was voted Doncaster Rovers' "all-time cult hero" by viewers of the BBC's Football Focus programme. Williams suffered from Parkinson's disease in his later life, and died on 2 September 2006, aged 78.

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Brugal

Brugal is the name and brand of a variety of rums from the Dominican Republic produced by Brugal & Co., C. por A. Brugal and the other Dominican rums, Barceló and Bermúdez, are collectively known as the three B's. Brugal has three distilleries, one in Puerto Plata and two in San Pedro de Macorís.

Company history

During the second half of the 19th century, Andrés Brugal Montaner, a Spanish national who had migrated from Sitges, Catalonia, Spain to Santiago de Cuba, decided to move to the Dominican Republic and take up permanent residence in Puerto Plata. While in Cuba, Don Andrés acquired expertise in the making of rum, and based on that experience he founded Brugal & Co. in Puerto Plata, the company produces several different kinds of rum. After introducing its dark rum into the market in 1888. It would mark the beginning of a long family tradition. Don Andrés, unknowingly, would become the forebear of entrepreneurial leadership in Dominican society. In 1920 the company's first warehouses were built for the ageing of rum in oak barrels.

By 1976, with Extraviejo, the company developed the Premium rum segment in Dominican Republic. In 1998 Brugal & Co. launched Brugal Limón, Brugal Pasión and Unico. In 2005, the company launched 5-liter steel dispensing barrels for its medium and low-tier brands. Today, the chairman George Arzeno Brugal and most of the board members are direct descendants of the founder of the company.

Brugal is enjoyed neat, over ice, mixed with Coca-Cola ("Coke") or Pepsi which is commonly referred to as a "cuba libre" with green sweet lemons or yellow sweet lemons (Lemon dulce) green dragon lemons or yellow dragon lemons (dragón verde or dragón amarillo) or mixed with 7-up or sprite which is commonly referred to as a ‘santo libre’. Some people mix Brugal with fresh fruit juices. It is also usually the main ingredient in Mama Juana which is a drink that is rumored to have qualities as an aphrodisiac.

Operations

Brugal has Distilleries in Puerto Plata where the rums are produced. The distribution and marketing offices are located in the capital city of Santo Domingo, and there is also a regional office in Santiago de los Caballeros, the Dominican Republic's second largest city. The company creates several varieties of rum.

Edrington acquisition
On February 6, 2008, Brugal & Co. made public that The Edrington Group, a large Scottish distilling company, won control of the company by acquiring a majority shareholding. In a press release, the Brugal family assured that production will continue within the Dominican Republic and that they will remain as shareholders and have an active role in managing the company and brand.

Figures published indicate that the price paid by Edrington for a holding of just over 60% (other sources cite up to 83% ) was in excess of £200million.

Brands and varieties

A number of Brugal rums have been submitted at international spirit ratings organizations for review. The Extra Viejo has performed reasonably well. Wine Enthusiast awarded it scores of "90-95" in 2009, while the San Francisco World Spirits Competition gave it a silver medal in that same year.

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No One (album)

No One is the only studio album by Chicago nu metal band of the same name. It was released on August 14, 2001 via Immortal Records and produced by Johnny K who also worked with Chicago natives Disturbed and SOiL. Neither the band nor their debut release gained any widespread commercial attention, despite the album being classified under the once-popular nu and alternative metal genre. Two singles from No One were released in "Chemical" and "Down on Me" and received moderate radio play for a short time. The album was re-released by the band February 6, 2024 but the track listing appeared in a different order and alternate cover art.

Background and recording
After forming the group, No One began writing and played their first show on August 5, 2000 at Champ’s. Having taken place between two Chicago dates for Ozzfest, the show gained the attention of Disturbed, Soulfly, and The Deadlights. No One only played two more weeks of concerts before joining Johnny K to record a 3-track demo. This resulted the recording of "Chemical," "It’s Real," and "My Release."

Shortly after, No One received a phone call notifying them that a Californian manager had been shopping the demo around without their consent. They were approached by Immortal Records and, after reviewing other offers, chose the aforementioned label due to their reputation for breaking in heavy metal bands, their promotional tactics, and their long-term approach in never having dropped any bands.

No One entered the studio in December 2000 without letting Immortal know that not enough songs had been written for an album. "Shedding", "Down on Me", and "Inside Out" were then written in the studio. After finishing up recording, No One resumed touring on April 5, 2001.

Vocalist Murk described the album in an interview: "It’s a journey of peaks and valleys. There is a lot of emotions and changes in it. I have been working on it my entire life. It definitely took a long time to write it and a lot of hard work."

Touring and promotion
No One opened for Slaves on Dope and Hinge to promote their eponymous debut record. In July 2001, the band performed on the Second Stage of Ozzfest 2001 but canceled after only ten days. They also participated in the Pledge of Allegiance tour, a leg of Slipknot's Iowa World Tour co-headlined by System of a Down.

The song "Chemical" was released as the lead single. It gained moderate airplay in late summer and early fall of 2001 and had a music video which aired on MTV2. It was later included on the soundtrack to the video game Jonny Moseley Mad Trix. "Down on Me" followed as the second single. "Cut," "Chemical," "Hype," and "It's Real" were all featured in the game Hunter: The Reckoning: Wayward. A live rendition of "My Release" was featured on Pledge of Allegiance Tour: Live Concert Recording in March 2002.

Critical reception
Allmusic's JT Griffith gave the album a 2.5/5 rating and emphasized No One's lack of originality and similarity to contemporaries but also their passionate, aggressive style: "No One is a good thrashing rock outfit, but original is not what they do. . . It may not be ground-breaking, but it is going to be hugely popular." He added, "The album cover has a picture of a man's face with his eyes covered like a prisoner. So when [frontman] Murk claims that he doesn't 'see a lot of (Korn or Pantera) in music today' it's easy to wonder if he is blinded too."

Track listing
All music written by No One. Lyrics by Murk.

Digital
The track listing was in different order

No One

 * Murk - vocals
 * B-Larz - guitar
 * Flare - bass
 * Billy K - drums

Additional personnel

 * Johnny K - production, engineering, mixing
 * Tadpole - assistant engineering and music editing
 * Ted Jensen - mastering
 * Jason Markey - A&R
 * P.R. Brown @ Bau-da Design Lab - art direction, photography, design

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Suleiman Pasha

Suleiman Pasha (Süleyman Paşa, also transliterated as "Sulayman Pasha", "Süleyman Pasha", "Suleyman Pasha", "Sulejman Pasha") may refer to one of the following persons:

 * Süleyman Pasha (son of Orhan) (c. 1306–1357), Ottoman prince, son of Orhan
 * Hadım Suleiman Pasha (governor of Rumelia) ( 1474–1490), Ottoman governor of Rumelia and Anatolia
 * Hadım Suleiman Pasha (died 1547), Ottoman grand vizier and governor of Egypt
 * Süleyman Pasha (Venetian), ( 1599–1603), Ottoman governor of Algeria (1599–1603)
 * Sulejman Bargjini ( 1614), Ottoman general, founder of Tirana

 * Suleiman, sanjak-bey of Scutari (fl. 1685)
 * İzmirli Süleyman Pasha (died 1721), Ottoman kapudan pasha
 * Sarı Süleyman Pasha (died 1687), Ottoman grand vizier
 * Ermeni Suleyman Pasha (died 1687), Ottoman grand vizier
 * Sulayman Pasha the Great (died 1761), Mamluk ruler of Iraq
 * Sulejman-paša Skopljak ( 1804–17), Ottoman military commander and governor of Belgrade
 * Sulayman Pasha al-Adil (c. 1750-1819), vali of Sidon and governor of Acre
 * Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi (1788–1860), also known as Colonel Sève, French-born Egyptian commander
 * Suleiman Pasha (Ottoman general) (c. 1840–1892), Ottoman commander
 * Süleyman Şefik Pasha ( 1919–1920), Ottoman military officer
 * Süleyman Sabri Pasha (1873–1941), officer of the Ottoman Army and the general of the Turkish Army

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hey there people!!! where is kosrae???? meh and my partner wants to know cause we doing a project on it and we don't know where it is!!! so where is it????
 * It's in the Federated States of Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean. if you learn more as part of your project, please add it to this article. --Scott Davis Talk 12:06, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

I looked on a map and right next to the island it says KUSAIE what is that all about? No where in the article did it mention the word KUSAIE. Did the island used to be called this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 153.26.176.34 (talk • contribs).
 * Google results for both words suggest they may be the same place. --Scott Davis Talk 23:29, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

They are the same place. The Japanese colonized the island of the FSM and a lot of their names have changed. Ponape-Pohnpei Truk-Chuuk Kusaie-Kosrae etc —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.252.253.227 (talk • contribs)

Lost?
how can it be the island from Lost? that comment seems a bit vague.Bigkev 11:13, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I lived on Kosrae just after it changed its name to Kosrae. The first pronunciation listed is correct. The second is incorrect and is due to non-natives trying to phonetically sound out the name. The pronunciation is KO (long O) - SHI (long I). See the Kusaiean-English Dictionary by Kee-dong Lee, Published 1976 ISBN 0-8248-0413-9 or Kusaiean Reference Grammar ISBN 0-8248-0355-8.

The "SR" is derived from a new spelling system created by the Kusaiean Orthography Committee in 1973. SR is pronounced "sh."

My native name was Sru and is pronounce Shoe. Mendehj (talk) 17:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

 * The question isn't how the name is pronounced in Kosraean, but how it's pronounced in English. If more than one pronunciation is used, then we should list all of them. If you want the Kosraean, then that should be added as Kosraean, not as English. kwami (talk) 11:20, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

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Amity Gardens, Pennsylvania vs. CDP
Is this not an actual town? Even if not, since it has an actual name, shouldn't that be used throughout the artile, rather than CDP? paul klenk talk 00:21, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

It is more of an housing area within Amity Township. The largest and oldest neighborhood. The best source of info on it is found at http://itsamity.com/

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Brain (DC Comics)

The Brain is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Commonly as a frequent enemy of the Doom Patrol and the Teen Titans, he is a French genius and criminal mastermind.

The Brain appears as the main antagonist in the third season of the HBO Max series Doom Patrol, voiced by Riley Shanahan.

Publication history
The Brain first appeared in Doom Patrol #86 (March 1964) and was created by Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani. Drake later commented: "I used that same concept in a Jerry Lewis comic book, and in a Bob Hope comic I had a totem pole that talked to him. Often times, I wrote the same storylines for the comedy stuff that I wrote for the serious stuff. I just turned it on its head".

Fictional character biography
As a scientist, the Brain performs experiments on animals to raise their intelligence. One of these is on a gorilla, who he names Monsieur Mallah and educates for almost a decade before making him his personal assistant. His colleague Niles Caulder grows jealous of his work and arranges for the Brain to get caught in an explosion, which destroys his body. Only the brain survives, which Caulder plans on putting into a robotic body. Mallah rescues the Brain, transferring him to a computer network that keeps him functioning.

The Brain and Mallah form the Brotherhood of Evil in hopes of conquering the world and getting revenge on Caulder where it gains members like Madame Rouge, General Immortus, and Garguax. Caulder, now known as the "Chief", through a series of other accidents that he manipulated, forms the Doom Patrol (Caulder's involvement in the events which transformed the Doom Patrol, and the Brain, was a retcon decades after the creation of the Doom Patrol and the Brain; originally the incidents were genuine accidents). The Brain, Mallah, and their Brotherhood's criminal activities also pit them against the Teen Titans. The Brotherhood go against the newly formed Justice League, with the Brain using a genetic splicer to take the Flash's legs, Green Lantern's ring, Black Canary's vocal chords, and the Martian Manhunter's eyes. The Brain is defeated by the League and the Doom Patrol, the League using cybernetic implants created by Niles Caulder to compensate for their lost powers. Aquaman is thrown to the Brain, overpowers his control of the ring, and separates the Brain from his makeshift body.

During Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol run, Mallah places the Brain in Robotman's new body, whose brain had been removed due to it malfunctioning. In his new body, the Brain confesses to Mallah he is in love with him. When Mallah reveals he feels the same way, the two kiss. However, Robotman's body, having developed sentience and vowed never to be enslaved again, triggers a self-destruct mechanism and explodes as they kiss.

The two later resurface (the Brain back to floating in a jar), with no explanation of how they survived the explosion. The Brotherhood begins raiding genetic research facilities to unlock the secrets of cloning and create a new body for the Brain, so he and Monsieur Mallah can resume their romance. After a short while the Brain's new clone body begins to break down, so he has Mallah rip off his head and put his brain back into another jar.

In the Salvation Run storyline, Brain and Monsieur Mallah appear amongst the villains that were sent to the planet Cygnus 4019. An altercation between Monsieur Mallah and Gorilla Grodd ends with Grodd beating Monsieur Mallah to death with Brain's chassis, also killing Brain in the process.

In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this continuity, Brain was originally a New England scientist named Ernst who experimented on a gorilla named Mallah to increase his intellect. He treated Mallah like a friend and an assistant. When an explosion occurred in his lab, Ernst was badly burned and Mallah saved his life by preserving his brain. After becoming distrustful of humans, Brain took Mallah into attacking humans that they blamed for their plight. Then they raided LexCorp where they received a cyber optic nerve so that Brain can see. During a standoff with the Special Crimes Unit, Maggie Sawyer tried to talk them down and agreed to help them if they surrendered.

In an alternate future of this new timeline, Brain and Monsieur Mallah assist Gorilla Grodd in taking over the remains of Central City at the time when The Black had taken over most of the world. They capture Animal Man and the heroes that are with him. Animal Man's group is saved by Frankenstein and his Patchwork Army.

He reappears in DC Rebirth. The Brotherhood of Evil worked together on a narcotic element which is then distributed to the addict population of New York City. The designer drug, Bliss; in actuality was designed to put people in a fugue state so Brain could use their dormant mental capacity as a type of cloud space to expand his own intellect into godlike territories.

In record time, Brain and Monsieur Mallah spearheaded their opiate both from a purer sample that they created. And through faulty counterfeits fabricated by the rival underlife, both having purposely leaked the original formula on the black market, then enlisted the mercenary Cheshire to steal back their original concoction while furthering the goal of expanding Brain's intelligence.

As his acumen began to reach hyper-genius levels of intellectual capacity. The Brain began to physically transcend his mortal coil at varying percentages over time, 10-15% enabling him to solve unsolvable mathematic formulas while masking his and Monsieur Mallah's operation, 23% giving him power over climate change and weather patterns, 47% enabling natural disaster & cosmological force phenomena manipulation and so on and so forth. As his mental abilities increased more and more with time he situated ecological catastrophes as bait to lure his enemies in the Justice League towards various traps while he worked towards achieving transcendent consciousness.

His ascent to godhood also came with the side effect of nullifying his empathy; becoming personally distant from the humanistic coil such as relations and his dearest confidante. To that end, Mallah betrayed Brain to the Titans before he could reshape reality to his own ends, ending the threat he posed for good.

Brain retired from the villain life and went to go see Faye Gunn about the ad for a teacher. She didn't trust him due to his villainous association with the Brotherhood of Evil. She did encourage Brain to know the Generation Outlaws better.

During the "Year of the Villain", Joker imprisoned Brain and Monsieur Mallah in an old fair ground at the time when The Batman Who Laughs was infecting people. Joker tortured them and left their care in Lex Luthor's hands in exchange for the knowledge to defeat The Batman Who Laughs.

Powers and abilities
One of the most formidable villains ever encountered by the Doom Patrol, or even in DC Comics, The Brain is more of a cerebral opponent but all the more dangerous for it. A former polymath, The Brain has a genius-level IQ which he puts to use as a criminal mastermind and is more than capable of plotting out perfect crimes. The Brain is completely single-minded and motivated almost entirely towards the domination of others, the committing of even more perfect crimes, and ultimate revenge against Niles Caulder. Adept in psychology, he is also a master of coercion, deceit, and manipulation, being able to persuade almost anybody to do his dirty work for him, even to the point where his agents are under the illusion that they are not actually committing evil or immoral acts.

It is, however, hinted that it is a result of mind control through telepathy by The Brain. It was through these cerebral abilities that The Brain was able to unite various villains under his leadership, forming the Brotherhood of Evil. Although others often act as brawns to his brain, most notably his assistant–partner Monsieur Mallah, The Brain has occasionally used agile robotic bodies to give him mobility. The different contraptions which have been seen to hold his brain were designed by The Brain himself (also a master in biology and robotics) and have proved time and time again to be durable and even nigh-indestructible.

On the rare occasion when The Brain has been vulnerable without robotic protection or assistance from other villains, he has protected himself by attacking opponents through telekinesis. Except for the times when he possesses robot bodies, the Brain is portrayed as an ordinary human brain, albeit housed within what could be described as a life-sized chess piece which contains the equipment required to keep him alive; it is this portrayal that was adapted in the animated versions of the Brain as mentioned in this article. In the original Doom Patrol series, he was regularly portrayed as a disembodied brain, bobbing inside a sealed dome filled with a nutrient bath, hooked up with numerous machines, including a loudspeaker to convey his voice.

During a confrontation with the newly-formed Justice League and the Doom Patrol, the Brain used genetics equipment provided by the mysterious Locus organization to 'steal' the Martian Manhunter's eyes, Black Canary's vocal cords, the Flash's legs, and Green Lantern's right arm, granting him access to the Manhunter's vision abilities, Canary's sonic scream, the Flash's speed, and Green Lantern's power ring. However, during this time he was only ever shown using the ring and was caught off-guard by its vulnerability to yellow, with Aquaman eventually managing to overpower the Brain's will and use the ring to sever him from his makeshift body.

In Rebirth, The Brain found a way to increase his intelligence by tapping some several hundred thousand people's vacant thought spaces to achieve mental divinity. Not only showcasing increased cognizant genius but obtaining various superpowers accessed via the power of his mind alone as a result. Having solved Ordlich's heuristic paradox and deciphered the Voynich manuscript while masking his whereabouts from outside detection, changing and manipulating weather patterns via remote climate alteration, engineering natural disasters, manipulating cosmic and quantum force, casting himself into technology alla Cyborg-Superman, twist space/time and manipulating reality by sheer force of will.

Other characters named Brain
DC Comics previously had other villains named the Brain:

 * The first villain was an ordinary criminal who earned his nickname for his cleverness and was not literally just a brain. He alongside Captain Bigg, Hopper, False-Face and Rattler were one of five small-time villains hired by Black Star to commit a bank robbery. They were all foiled by the Seven Soldiers of Victory.

 * The second villain to use the name Brain was a crime boss who fought Flash.

 * The third villain to use the name Brain is a crime boss who fought Wonder Woman and manipulated her into questioning her own existence.

 * The fourth villain to use the name Brain is a criminal mastermind who fought Superman.

 * Brain was also the alias used by three identical brothers who commit crimes while the city has been distracted by three giant boxes they have placed in each other after a fog has descended on the city, which the authorities try to open. The Flash jails the first two as they attempt robberies with clever tricks, like a tightrope which the first one cuts and spring-heeled shoes, and jails the last one when he attempts a bank robbery by draining his live wire suit with which he intended to break his brothers out with silver. It is then revealed the last box led into the bank vault.

Earth-S
On Earth-S, the Brain is the name used by Warden Loomis, a serial killer who is an enemy of Mr. Scarlet and Pinky the Whiz Kid.

Television

 * The Brain appears in The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure episode "The Brain, the Brave and the Bold".
 * The Brain appears in the fifth season of Teen Titans, voiced by Glenn Shadix. This version is emotionless, relies on others to act on his behalf, and possesses limited telepathy and telekinesis. He leads the Brotherhood of Evil in an attempt to eliminate young heroes around the world, only to be thwarted and flash-frozen by the Teen Titans.
 * The Brain appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker. This version possesses a variety of weapons mounted on extendable robotic arms.
 * The Brain appears in the first two seasons of Young Justice, voiced initially by Nolan North and subsequently by Corey Burton. This version is a leading member of the Light until he is captured by the Team.
 * The Brain appears in Teen Titans Go! (2013), voiced by Scott Menville. This version goes through several robot bodies, such as Project B.R.I.A.N. (Brain's Robotic Indestructible Armor Nexus), a four-armed spider-like body, and a giant stone mech.
 * The Brain appears in the Justice League Action episode "The Brain Buster", voiced by Jim Ward.
 * The Brain appears in Doom Patrol, voiced by Riley Shanahan. This version has had several encounters with the eponymous team, with one seeing him using his Ultimax form before Steve Dayton claimed his robotic body, though the Brain escaped. In the present, the Brain tasks Madame Rouge with attacking the Doom Patrol and stealing Robotman's body for him as her initiation into the Brotherhood of Evil. After taking control of the body however, Monsieur Mallah leaves him before Robotman gains control of Brain's brain jar and discarded giant robot and defeats him. After salvaging Robotman's body, Rita Farr kills Brain.
 * The Brain appears in My Adventures with Superman, voiced by Jessie Inocalla. This version is a kind-hearted but short-tempered German scientist who originally worked for Project Cadmus until Task Force X raided the Brain's base, which resulted in the latter's body being destroyed, though his namesake and heart were saved.

Video games

 * The Brain appears in DC Universe Online, voiced by Leif Anders.
 * The Brain appears as the final boss of the Nintendo DS version of Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame.
 * The Brain appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.
 * The Brain makes a cameo appearance in Injustice: Gods Among Us as part of the Insurgency headquarters stage.
 * The Brain appears as a non-playable character in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced by Jason Spisak.

Miscellaneous

 * The Brain appears in Teen Titans Go! (2004).
 * The Brain appears in Justice League Adventures #6.
 * The Brain appears in Justice League Unlimited #31.
 * The Brain appears in Smallville Season 11 #9.
 * The Young Justice incarnation of the Brain appears in issues #18 and #19 of the Young Justice tie-in comic book series. This version was originally among a group of scientists, led by an old woman who would become the Ultra-Humanite, who settled in Bwunda to conduct experiments on the native gorillas before having his brain transplanted into a robotic container. After building Gorilla City, the scientists enslaved the gorillas, enhanced their intellect with Kobra venom, placed inhibitor collars on them, and took their offspring hostage. Two years later, the scientists are pursued by the Team, who form an alliance with the gorillas. Despite destroying Gorilla City and freeing the offspring, the Brain and Ultra-Humanite escape.

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Cogent

Cogent may refer to:

 * CoGeNT, a type of detector for weakly interacting massive particles
 * Cogent Communications, an Internet service provider
 * Cogent Inc., a provider of automated fingerprint identification systems
 * Cogent Partners, an investment banking firm focused on private equity secondary advisory transactions
 * A group of Open Access journals operated by Taylor and Francis

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Hoist controller

A hoist controller is the controller for a hoist. The term is used primarily in the context of electrically operated hoists, but it is apparent that the control systems of many 20th century steam hoists also incorporated controllers of significant complexity. Consider the control system of the Quincy Mine No. 2 Hoist. This control system included interlocks to close the throttle valve at the end of trip and to prevent opening the throttle again until the winding engine was reversed. The control system also incorporated a governor to control the speed of the hoist and indicator wheels to show the hoist operator the positions of the skips in the mine shaft.

The hoist controllers for modern electric mining hoists have long included such features as automatic starting of the hoist when the weight of coal or ore in the skip reaches a set point, automatic acceleration of the hoist to full speed and automatic deceleration at the end of travel. Hoist controllers need both velocity and absolute position references taken, typically taken from the winding drum of the hoist. Modern hoist controllers replace many of the mechanical analog mechanisms of earlier controllers with digital control systems.

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User talk:Deathtocutie

My name is Deathtocutie...Its a derivitive of The Popular Band Death Cab for Cutie. Deathtocutie, while not commonly editing pages, does devour them in extensive reading periods. He is still a newcomer.

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Riemannian submersion

In differential geometry, a branch of mathematics, a Riemannian submersion is a submersion from one Riemannian manifold to another that respects the metrics, meaning that it is an orthogonal projection on tangent spaces.

Formal definition
Let (M, g) and (N, h) be two Riemannian manifolds and $$f:M\to N$$ a (surjective) submersion, i.e., a fibered manifold. The horizontal distribution $$K:=\mathrm{ker}(df)^{\perp}$$ is a sub-bundle of the tangent bundle of $$TM$$ which depends both on the projection $$f$$ and on the metric $$g$$.

Then, f is called a Riemannian submersion if and only if, for all $$x\in M$$, the vector space isomorphism $$(df)_x : K_x \rightarrow T_{f(x)}N$$ is isometric, i.e., length-preserving.

Examples
An example of a Riemannian submersion arises when a Lie group $$G$$ acts isometrically, freely and properly on a Riemannian manifold $$(M,g)$$. The projection $$\pi: M \rightarrow N$$ to the quotient space $$N = M /G$$ equipped with the quotient metric is a Riemannian submersion. For example, component-wise multiplication on $$S^3 \subset \mathbb{C}^2$$ by the group of unit complex numbers yields the Hopf fibration.

Properties
The sectional curvature of the target space of a Riemannian submersion can be calculated from the curvature of the total space by O'Neill's formula, named for Barrett O'Neill:
 * $$K_N(X,Y)=K_M(\tilde X, \tilde Y)+\tfrac34|[\tilde X,\tilde Y]^V|^2$$

where $$X,Y$$ are orthonormal vector fields on $$N$$, $$\tilde X, \tilde Y$$ their horizontal lifts to $$M$$, $$[*,*]$$ is the Lie bracket of vector fields and $$Z^V$$ is the projection of the vector field $$Z$$ to the vertical distribution.

In particular the lower bound for the sectional curvature of $$N$$ is at least as big as the lower bound for the sectional curvature of $$M$$.

Generalizations and variations

 * Fiber bundle
 * Submetry
 * co-Lipschitz map

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The Nerds

"The Nerds" is a series of sketches on American sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. The protagonists of the sketch are Lisa Loopner (played by Gilda Radner) and Todd DiLaMuca (played by Bill Murray), whose repartée with one another would be the focus of the sketch,  and regular character Mrs. Enid Loopner (played by Jane Curtin), Lisa's mother, in whose home the sketches were usually set. Virtually all the time Mrs. Loopner, a widow, would wear a housecoat. She often referred to her "wifely duties" concerning her late husband (who was born without a spine), and told Lisa Loopner to "...go warm up the Gremlin..." before they went out somewhere.

Todd would often give Lisa noogies by getting her in a headlock and knocking her on the top of the head, and a regular element of the sketches would be Todd making fun of her flat chest. He'd look down her shirt to see whether there were "any new developments" and then make a disparaging comment such as "Better put some Band-Aids on those mosquito bites," to which Lisa's weary reply was often "That's so funny I forgot to laugh," or "The last time I heard that I fell off my dinosaur". Lisa also addressed Todd affectionately as "Pizza Face."

Todd's name was originally given as "Todd LaBounta", but was changed in later sketches after legal action was threatened by a real person with that name. When the earlier LaBounta "Nerd" sketches were re-run on repeat SNL broadcasts, the audio was re-edited so that Todd's last name was not heard.

Guest stars included Michael Palin, who played Mr. Brighton, Lisa's piano teacher with an uncontrollable libido, in two sketches; Buck Henry as Todd's father, Marshall; and Steve Martin as Todd's rival Chas the Spaz.

In 1979, the series producers came up with a sketch in the series titled "Nerds' Nativity". Intended to be aired three days before Christmas Day, the sketch was a source of friction between the show's producer, Lorne Michaels, and NBC's standards department. The standards department contended that it was inappropriate to spoof the nativity of Jesus; the producer countered that in fact the sketch was spoofing nativity plays. In the end, the sketch was broadcast, although with some of the dialogue cut, resulting in viewers sending letters of complaint to the program.

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Talk:New Zealand Cadet Forces

History
I think a paragraph that gives a summary of the NZCF would be useful. I think showing where the NZCF of today came from would be important information. I don't propose quite the level of information that was present before though. - Shudda   talk  10:35, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm currently rewriting the article; should be finished in a couple of days. Brian | (Talk) 23:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Any chance of a link to the unfinished article so we can possibly comment pre-release Liberator 02:23, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * sure; have a look here Brian | (Talk) 04:12, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

rewrite 2
Done a complete rewrite of the article, excluding the History section. I've added quite a bit of new content, referenced most of the article, moved opinionated content to separate section, fixed up errors and cleaned up the style. --Timephoenix 09:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Commandants Tenure
My memory might fail me, but when i first joined in 1999, Commander Granville was finishing his term as Commandant, with Castell starting in early 2000, she was offered an extension as that was going to be her last post in the Army. Correct me if I'm wrong? 116.93.140.205 (talk) 00:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Tamaki Leadership Centre
The NZCF now calls the Whangaparoa Training Centre the Tamaki Leadership Centre (TLC). I am attending the Senior Leaders Course coming up (July), and the Warning Order states: 'The course will be held at The Tamaki Leadership Centre (TLC), formerly the Whangaparoa Training Centre'. Changed this in the wiki page. Wes45 (talk) 01:38, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Pay
The Pay section has incorrect information because I know NCO's get paid for staffing courses as well but I don't know the full details so can't update it myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crash123 (talk • contribs) 11:09, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Shooting Coaches/RSO
Added the Shooting Coaches Course and the Range Safety Officer Course to the list of Tri-Corps Courses available. Wes45 (talk) 01:34, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Major Overhaul / Rewrite - 2021 / 1
Thought the page and subordinate pages could use an overhaul. The history was from several units history banks on the NZCF plus public information and a little bit of my own experience. ATC got the most attention because that's my background.

I've tried to update it to reflect current the NZCF situation but sometimes the changes are to frequent to be noteworthy. E.g the organizational structure completely changing the responsibility of the XO three times in two years (possibly hyperbole). I've also used the NZDF page as a kind of template and tried to order all the NZCF pages similarly.

I've also added a new page. History of the NZCF Commandant which is linked a couple times throughout the page. On on that page I've also added the national and area warrant officers as I think it's a wicked achievement both for the organisation and the respective cadet, and part of NZCF history.

I've got a bunch ( currently at 80ish gigabytes) of documents and photos from my research that I'm still pouring through. I will add more as I'm able to summarize it.

Some of the sources are documents I'm sure HQNZCF won't want public so I'm not always able to directly cite my sources. But I promise to the best of my knowledge it's all true. Majorconvenience (talk) 13:58, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Major Overhaul / Rewrite - 2021 / 2
Brief summary of changes

- Medals is now medals and awards and includes every award currently available to all (non corps specific) personnel. Added images of each award where able.

- Changed service eligibility to include a section on adult cadets and supplementary staff. Also redone the fees section to be a little more forthcoming

- Added VMAV poster to VMAV section (although it's missing the A in VMAV).

- Complete overhaul of the courses section. Better descriptors and clear availability for different groups of the NZCF. Added section on staffing courses.

- Modified the Firearms section to Equipment and added vehicles currently operated by the NZCF. Added images of DPTA, Marlin XT, and NZCF livery on vehicles.

- Some grammar fixes and small rewrites to basically everything to finish off.

Forward

Things that could have been added but haven't been (for various reasons)

- The NZCF were attempting to acquire the NZ Army's old IW Steyrs for the purpose of replacing the DPTA. However I believe there were issues with cost ($400,000 I believe to make all of them non-functional) and public image surrounding youth with army rifles (even though every other country with a cadet force allows it).

- The Marlin XTs have come to the end of their service life and are due for replacement.

 * Edited because I've added these sections in.

Majorconvenience (talk) 23:49, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Controversies
I've added a controversies section, this in itself could possibly be controversial. While it's possible this may bring the reputation of the orgnanisation into disrepute, I feel it's important to note that Wikipedia is not a NZCF asset and therefore is not subject to the NZCF code of conduct. Also I've done my best to only put in facts and the truth and not speculate at all. There are more controversies I'm working on that may or may not be included in the future, depending entirely on whether I can find adequate references and quotable sources.

If anyone disagrees with what has been included or the phrasing or content, I'm happy to engage in a discussion. However, please remember that these incidents, both the ones that have been included and those that haven't lay the foundations for the modern organisation. I've always been told "Safety rules are written in blood" and that means being able to reflect and learn from negative events such as these. While it may be embarrassing or even harmful for the reputation of the New Zealand Cadet Forces for such events to be included, it would be unjust and quite frankly unfair not to include these topics.

Again, happy to discuss it with anyone if need be. Majorconvenience (talk) 01:36, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Notable Cadets
Added a notable cadets section. No tense is attached because I intend to add at least one serving member of the NZCF (SQNLDR Sinclair for the curious). If anyone knows of any other notable personnel then please post here, or add it to the chart yourself. Majorconvenience (talk) 00:14, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

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User talk:Hockeytaav

Hockeytaav is the username of someone who lives in Sussex, WI, U.S.A. and is in 10th grade at Hamilton High School.

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia! Your test worked, and thank you for reverting or removing it yourself. The best way to do tests in the future would be to use the sandbox. You can look at these pages as well: how to edit a page, the tutorial, and how to write a great article. All of these pages are good places to start. Again, welcome, and I hope that you will like Wikipedia. TimVickers 19:46, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

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Rhynchobdellida

Rhynchobdellida (from the Greek rhynchos, mouth, and bdellein, sucking), the jawless leeches or freshwater leeches, are an order of aquatic leeches. Despite the common name "freshwater leeches", species are found in both sea and fresh water. They are defined by the presence of a protrusible proboscis instead of jaws, and having colourless blood. They move by "inchworming" and are found worldwide. The order contains 110 species, divided into 41 genera and three families. Members of the order range widely in length, usually between 7 and 40 mm. They are hermaphrodite. The order is not monophyletic.

Appearance and eating habits

Instead of jaws and teeth, Rhynchobdellidae have protrusible proboscises, which they use to penetrate the host's skin. Mouths of Rhynchobdellidae species are small holes from which the proboscis can be protruded. The proboscis then sucks out the desired bodily fluid from the host: usually blood or coelomic fluid in the case of invertebrate victims.

Rhynchobdellidae are either sanguivorous or predatory. Sanguivorous species usually feed on a variety of other animals, using their proboscis to host's skin. They generate anticoagulants (like mosquitoes) and natural anaesthetia to help the feeding. Predatory Rhynchobdellidae have digestive enzymes that help break down their prey, which usually consists of small invertebrates such as insect larvae or amphipods.

Glossiphoniidae (Freshwater jawless leeches)
The Glossiphoniidae, the freshwater jawless leeches, or leaf leeches (due to their shape) are freshwater leeches, flattened, and with a poorly defined anterior sucker. The family Glossiphoniidae contains one of the world's largest species of leech, the giant Amazon leech, which can grow up to 45 cm in length. Many species show extended parental care, keeping eggs in nests or pouches and caring for and feeding the young. They feed on both vertebrate and invertebrate animals.

Piscicolidae (Fish leeches)
The Piscicolidae occur in both freshwater and seawater, have cylindrical bodies, and a usually well-marked, bell-shaped, anterior sucker. They are parasites of fish. The family was originally divided into three subfamilies based on species' pulsatile vesicles, but the subfamilies were disbanded in 2006.

Ozobranchidae (Turtle leeches)
Ozobranchidae are primarily parasitic on marine turtles, and are sometimes merged with the Piscicolidae.

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User:Gigglesworth

Hello-- My name is Stefan Lasiewski. Find me at: stefanco.com

My interests are:

 * San Francisco Bay Area
 * Berkeley, California
 * Central Coast of California
 * Santa Cruz, California (My college town)
 * UC Santa Cruz
 * San Luis Obispo County
 * Arroyo Grande (My home town)
 * Linux

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Télesphore Fournier

Télesphore Fournier, (August 5, 1823 – May 10, 1896) was a Canadian politician, lawyer, and judge of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Born in Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Lower Canada (now Quebec), the son of Guillaume Fournier and Marie-Archange Morin, he was called to the bar in 1846. On July 22, 1857, he married Hermine-Eloïse Demers, and they had nine children: seven daughters and two sons.

From 1855 to 1859, he was the co-owner and co-editor of the newspaper, Le National de Québec.

In an 1870 by-election, he was acclaimed as a Liberal Member of Parliament in the riding of Bellechasse. He was re-elected in 1872, 1873, and 1875. He held three ministerial positions: Minister of Inland Revenue (1873–1874), Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (1874–1875), and Postmaster General (1875). He tabled the bill to create the Supreme Court of Canada in February 1875.

At that period of time, it was possible to be a Member of Parliament and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec (pre-1968 designation of the (Quebec National Assembly) (MLA). He was an MLA in the riding of Montmagny from 1871 to 1873.

He was appointed as one of the first judges of the Supreme Court of Canada on September 30, 1875. Four years later, his wife died, and his eldest daughter then kept house. He retired on September 12, 1895, and died on May 10, 1896, at the age of 72.

The house he lived in from 1877 until 1882 is now the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Ottawa.

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Talk:Brown School

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At present, most of the text reads like an advert. It needs to be NPOV and verifiable. Greenshed 16:14, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

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