title: Christopher Buckley (novelist)

text: The "Beast"s title for his endorsement, "Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama", was found by many of his father's friends and supporters to be offensive, particularly as it appeared shortly after his father's death. Buckley disavowed the choice of title, although he continued to occasionally write for the "Beast".


title: Christopher Buckley (novelist)

text: Buckley first marriage was to Lucy Gregg, the daughter of Donald Gregg, who served as assistant to Vice President Bush for national security affairs and later as United States Ambassador to South Korea. Buckley and Gregg have two children, Caitlin and William, born in 1988 and 1991, respectively. In 2000, Buckley's son, Jonathan, was born to former Random House publicist Irina Woelfle. Buckley and Gregg divorced in 2011.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign is a Las Vegas landmark funded in May 1959 and erected soon after by Western Neon. The sign was designed by Betty Willis at the request of Ted Rogich, a local salesman, who sold it to Clark County, Nevada.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: The sign is located in the median at 5100 Las Vegas Boulevard South, north of the historic stone pillars of the old McCarran Field on the east side, and across from the Bali Hai Golf Club and the (closed) Klondike Hotel and Casino on the west side. Some consider the sign to be the official southern end of the Las Vegas Strip. The sign, like most of the Strip, sits in Paradise and is located roughly south of the actual city limits of Las Vegas. Such distinctions are usually ignored by both locals and tourists, who refer to the entire metro area as "Las Vegas".


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: The sign is a classic roadside pole design, mounted offset on two flat poles which are joined by a cross piece at the top. The poles extend above the top of the sign. The sign is a horizontally stretched diamond shape, with the top and bottom angles pointed while the side angles are rounded. It is double-backed, internally lit, with a border of flashing and chasing yellow incandescent bulbs outside around the perimeter. In a nod to Nevada's nickname as "the Silver State," across the top of the sign are white neon circles, designed to represent silver dollars. The circles each contain a red painted letter, outlined in neon, which together form the word "Welcome." Crowning the sign, located between the two poles and just under the crosspiece is an eight-pointed, red-painted metal star outlined with yellow neon.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: The intersecting vertical and horizontal lines of the star extend over and wrap around the frame that is created by the two poles and the cross piece, which give the star a dynamic, explosive appearance. The cabinet is faced with translucent white plastic and covered with blue and red painted text. The south side of the sign reads "Welcome" inside the silver dollars, with "to Fabulous" in blue, in a 1950s-style cursive, underneath. The words "Las Vegas" are on the next line in red, all capitalized, and large, almost filling the width of the sign. Under "Las Vegas" is the word "Nevada" in blue, all capitalized, in a much smaller font. On the back or north side, which is less frequently photographed and thus is lesser known, the sign reads "Drive" on the top line and "Carefully" on the second in red capital letters, with "Come Back" in blue on the third line, in script, and "Soon" all capitalized in blue on the fourth line. The design is characteristic of the Googie architecture movement.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: The sign was built and installed in 1959 by Las Vegas-based Western Electric Displays (aka Western Neon) under contract with Clark County. Betty Willis, an employee of Western Neon, designed the sign.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: Legend has been written that "Willis considered this her gift to the city and wanted it to be in the public domain." She has been quoted in saying, "If I had copyrighted the sign, it probably wouldn’t have been used as much and wouldn’t be as famous. But, it would be nice to have a dime for every time it’s been used."


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: However, the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) has owned the sign since their purchase of Western Neon in the early 1960s, and the company leases the sign to Clark County.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: In late 2008, Clark County employees sought to have the sign listed on the National Register of Historic Places; the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office officially nominated it, and the National Park Service approved the designation on May 1, 2009.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: On December 6, 2013, the State Historic Preservation Office for the State of Nevada announced that the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign had been added to the State Register of Historic Places.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: On April 19, 2015, the designer of the sign, Betty Willis, died in her home in Overton, Nevada, at the age of 91. On May 5, 2015, Clark County commissioners declared May 5 "Betty Willis Day" honoring the designer of the sign. Commissioners issued a proclamation to her daughter Marjorie Holland.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: Prior to 2008, access to the iconic sign for photo opportunities was risky. There was no legal place for visitors to park, and visitors had to cross travel lanes of Las Vegas Boulevard and hop up onto a median to reach the sign. Although there had been no known traffic fatalities involving pedestrians attempting to access the sign, rising traffic at the south end of the Strip presented an increasingly dangerous situation.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: After control of Las Vegas Boulevard was transferred from the state to Clark County, county officials decided to improve access and increase safety around the sign for photo-seekers. On December 8, 2008, site improvements were completed in the median allowing official public access to the welcome sign for the first time. The $400,000 project included a parking lot with 12 parking spaces and two loading areas for buses and limousines, as well as a paved walkway leading from the parking to the sign viewing area.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: The improvements were successful, and the small parking lot was soon overwhelmed by an ever-increasing number of visitors to the sign. In April 2012, the Clark County Commission authorized the expenditure of $500,000 to add 20 more spaces to accommodate visitor traffic.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: On April 23, 2015, a second site enhancement project was completed at a cost of $900,000. This project added 21 additional parking spaces to the parking lot and completed additional cosmetic and safety improvements, including new marked crosswalks with traffic signals to allow safer pedestrian access to the sign.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: On January 31, 2008, the sign turned red in support of National Wear Red Day. The American Heart Association's Go Red for Women campaign sought to educate the public on women's risk of cardiovascular disease and promote the importance of women getting screened for heart disease.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: On March 28, 2009 the sign along with much of the Las Vegas Strip was darkened for one hour as the city took part in Earth Hour.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: On May 14, 2009, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman and the Playboy personality Holly Madison coincided the start of summer with the sign's 50th anniversary. Part of the celebration was making it in the "Guinness Book of World Records" for the largest bikini parade, followed by pool parties throughout the city. The event kicked off in front of the sign with a runway-style retrospective featuring bathing suits from the 1950s to today.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: April 28, 2010, marked the first time the text of the sign has ever been changed. Mayor Oscar Goodman unveiled the new marketing campaign "Camp Vegas." The sign was adorned with a cover that read "Welcome to Fabulous Camp Vegas." The event was hosted by Holly Madison, Wayne Newton, Oscar Goodman, and a slew of showgirls and skydivers. The Camp Vegas cover remained over the sign for 36 hours.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: On October 5, 2017, following a mass shooting four days earlier, 58 crosses with hearts on them, all made by Greg Zanis, were placed behind the sign. Each cross represented a victim killed in the shooting.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: On August 18, 2020 the sign was the site of the Nevada delegation's state roll-call at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: In 2002, the Las Vegas City Council erected a sign for the city proper reading "Welcome to Fabulous Downtown Las Vegas" at Las Vegas Boulevard and 4th Street, just within the city limits of the City of Las Vegas. This sign was destroyed in 2016 when a pickup truck crashed into it.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: On March 6, 2007, another replica of the sign was installed on Boulder Highway just north of Tropicana Avenue, the result of casinos along the "Boulder Strip" uniting to have their own welcome sign. Like the original, it does not mark the border with Las Vegas; instead, it "represents the understood gateway from the Boulder Highway to Las Vegas" according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: In 2013, the SlotZilla Zipline attraction was built at the Fremont Street Experience. A "Welcome to Fabulous Downtown Las Vegas" sign was added to one of its towers.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: In 2022, the Chapel of the Flowers erected a sign reading "Married in Fabulous Las Vegas" to celebrate the 5 million couples who were married in Las Vegas. The city of Las Vegas, Clark County, and the LVCVA launched a 10 month long campaign promoting couples who were married in Las Vegas to take a photo in front of the sign to win monthly prizes and one grand prize,


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: In 2004, souvenir replicas of the sign that light up were sold to benefit the Nevada Cancer Institute.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: In 2005, the image of the sign was featured on the Nevada license plate that was issued to commemorate the centennial of the City of Las Vegas.


title: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

text: On March 1, 2012, a business selling photos in front of a replica of the sign opened at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. This features an actual, physical sign located in the airport.


title: Rachael Carpani

text: Rachael Ann Carpani (born 24 August 1980) is an Australian actress best known as Jodi Fountain in "McLeod's Daughters".


title: Rachael Carpani

text: Carpani grew up on a property near Dural, in Sydney's Hills District. Carpani has twice been nominated at the Logies, both in 2007.


title: Rachael Carpani

text: She is most famous for her role as Jodi Fountain on the Australian TV drama "McLeod's Daughters". Carpani also had a role in the film "Hating Alison Ashley", starring Delta Goodrem, and appeared in "All Saints". Carpani attended The Hills Grammar School with Delta Goodrem.


title: Rachael Carpani

text: Carpani left "McLeod's Daughters" to pursue her career in the United States. She had been cast in the CBS pilot, "Law Dogs" with Janeane Garofalo, but the series was not picked up. She appeared in seven episodes of season one of "Cane". Rachael then returned to "McLeod's Daughters" as Jodi Fountain for the final episode on 31 January 2009.


title: Rachael Carpani

text: Carpani appeared commercially as one of the faces for Telstra's Next G network. She appeared in episode six of "" in November 2009, playing a small role alongside Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J. In 2010, she had a recurring role on "The Glades", playing opposite former real-life boyfriend Matt Passmore, with whom she split in 2011. She began starring in the crime drama "Against the Wall" in 2011. In 2015, Carpani starred in the TV films "If There Be Thorns" and "Seeds of Yesterday" on the Lifetime cable network, which are the third and fourth films in the "Flowers in the Attic" TV film series that are based on the Dollanganger novel series by V.C. Andrews. In 2018, she appeared in a multi-episode arc in the Seven/South Pacific series 800 Words.


title: Rachael Carpani

text: Carpani has been nominated for several television awards in her career. For her role on McLeod's Daughters, she has been nominated for the following awards at the Logies:


title: Stitch! The Movie

text: Stitch! The Movie is a 2003 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Rough Draft Korea, released on August 26, 2003. It is the second film released in the "Lilo & Stitch" franchise and the third film chronologically, taking place after the 2002 first film and (by later extension) the 2005 direct-to-video sequel "". The film also serves as the backdoor pilot of the spin-off sequel series "", which debuted the following month. The story is an introduction to Dr. Jumba Jookiba's 625 experiments (made prior to Stitch) that he created with the financing of Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel.


title: Stitch! The Movie

text: Stitch is still not fitting in and causes another disaster. Lilo tries to encourage him by saying he's one-of-a-kind, comparing him to Frankenstein's monster, which just makes him feel worse. Meanwhile, ex-captain Gantu, who's in his new spaceship after his original one got destroyed when he kidnapped Lilo and tried to recapture Stitch, is hired by Jumba's former partner; a diminutive creature resembling a cross between a hamster, poodle and rabbit named Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel to retrieve the other 625 experiments. Gantu goes to Earth, breaking into Lilo and Stitch's home, blasting Stitch into a net, finding and taking a blue pod with the number 625 on it, and abducting Jumba for interrogation. Stitch and Lilo take Jumba's spaceship and chase Gantu into outer space, engaging him in battle, only to be defeated and fall back towards Earth.


title: Stitch! The Movie

text: Back at their house, Lilo, Stitch and Pleakley find the container Jumba was hiding. Pleakley realizes that these are the other 625 experiments, in dehydrated form, and warns them not to tell anyone or put the experiments in water, aware of how dangerous they are. Deliberately disobeying Pleakley's orders, Stitch and Lilo retrieve the container and hydrate one of the experiments, Experiment 221, who promptly escapes into the night. Jumba is being held captive on the ship of Dr. Hämsterviel. Unable to intimidate Jumba, Hämsterviel activates another experiment, Experiment 625, to attack him. Although 625 has all of Stitch's powers, he is incredibly lazy and a terrible coward, prioritizing making sandwiches above all else. Meanwhile, Pleakley is able to call Hämsterviel's ship via telephone. Hämsterviel tells Pleakley that he wants a ransom of the other 624 experiments in return for Jumba. When Pleakley informs the other family members what the ransom is, Nani proceeds to call Cobra Bubbles about the problem while Lilo and Stitch go out to find 221. When Cobra arrives the next morning, he seems to already know about what happened. Meanwhile, Stitch and Lilo finally manage to catch a troublesome Experiment 221 at a nearby hotel with a glass vase and soon befriend him.


title: Stitch! The Movie

text: The rendezvous time arrives and Pleakley and Cobra show up with the container, not knowing that it contains only 623 experiments. Pleakley hands the container over to Hämsterviel, who is shocked to find that one is missing. Lilo then shows up with Experiment 221 trapped in the vase. Announcing that she has named it "Sparky", she says that Sparky is part of Stitch's, and thus her, "ohana". Furious, Hämsterviel tells her to give him the experiment or Jumba will die. After several moments of thinking and hearing Cobra, Pleakley, Jumba and Hämsterviel persuading them, Lilo and Stitch set Sparky free and break Jumba from his bonds. On Cobra's signal, the Grand Councilwoman's ship rises out of the nearby ocean and aims several guns at Hämsterviel to obliterate him. Lilo protests, saying that Hämsterviel has the other experiments while Sparky overhears this. Sparky then proceeds to use his electrical abilities to blow the power on the Councilwoman's ship, while Hämsterviel and Gantu climb back aboard their own ship with the captured experiments. In a last attempt to stop Hämsterviel, Lilo, Stitch and Sparky stow away on it as it leaves Earth.


title: Stitch! The Movie

text: Inside the ship, Lilo and Stitch manage to swipe the container with the other experiments in it. The struggle for the container between Lilo, Stitch and Gantu results in releasing the dehydrated pods to rain down and scatter throughout Hawaii. Having captured the two, Hämsterviel reveals his plans to clone Stitch a thousand times over and orders Gantu to do what he wants with Lilo. While Gantu puts Lilo in a teleportation pod to send her to an intergalactic zoo, Stitch is strapped to a weight just heavier than he can lift. Watching as Stitch tries to avoid being vivisected by a laser for the cloning process, Sparky shows that he has reformed by short-circuiting the cloning machine. He then breaks Stitch free from his bonds and the two strap Hämsterviel to the device before they rescue Lilo.


title: Stitch! The Movie

text: Having locked Hämsterviel in handcuffs, Lilo, Stitch, and Sparky short-circuit Gantu's ship, causing it to crash near a waterfall on Kauai. Landing Hämsterviel's ship back at the rendezvous point, they give Sparky a new home powering Kīlauea Lighthouse, which hasn't been running in years because powering it was very expensive. They then persuade the Grand Councilwoman to let them rehabilitate the other 623 experiments. The Councilwoman places Hämsterviel under arrest, and Jumba whispers to Pleakley that he has plans for making Experiment 627. At that moment, Experiments 202, 529, 455, 489, and 390 are activated, .


title: Stitch! The Movie

text: Later, Jumba and Pleakley hope to go home with the Grand Councilwoman this time, but they are left stranded on Earth once again.


title: Stitch! The Movie

text: Presented by Walt Disney Pictures and produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, "Stitch! The Movie" is the lead-in to "".


title: Stitch! The Movie

text: At some point, there was a decision to only have Stitch's name in the titles of both the film and the subsequent series, which was planned to be called "Stitch! The TV Series". Eventually, this was abolished, resulting in both this film and "The Series" having mismatched names. The "Stitch!" name (with exclamation point) was used as the title for an anime series five years after this film's release.


title: Stitch! The Movie

text: In a 2019 list of direct-to-video sequels, prequels, and "mid-quels" to Disney animated films, Petrana Radulovic of "Polygon" ranked "Stitch! The Movie" tenth out of twenty-six films, the lowest of the "Lilo & Stitch" sequel films on her list. Radulovic wrote that she liked the message of Stitch finding his family, but criticized it for not being as funny as the original "Lilo & Stitch" film, stating that "some of the [mundane] charm of "Lilo & Stitch"[...]is lost in favor of chasing a new alien [Sparky] and introducing the rabbitlike villain [Hämsterviel] who just wants world domination."


title: Stitch! The Movie

text: In a similar list in 2020, Lisa Wehrstedt of "Insider" ranked "Stitch! The Movie" seventeenth out of twenty-five films, also the lowest of the "Lilo & Stitch" sequels on her list. Wehrstedt wrote that she believed the film's premise did not warrant a full feature film, and its finale was too "open-ended" to have "Stitch! The Movie" "work as a stand-alone film like the rest of the "Lilo & Stitch" sequels." However, she nonetheless claimed that "everything in the "Lilo & Stitch" world has an irresistible charm that propels it up many ranks considering what its plot and animation quality would be able to achieve without a bunch of cute little monsters."


title: Kaka (Punjabi singer)

text: Ravinder Singh professionally known as Kaka, is an Indian singer, song-writer,composer and music director associated with Punjabi Music. He is best known for his songs "Libaas", "Temporary Pyar", "Teeji Seat", "Mere Warga", "Keh Len De" and many more.


title: Kaka (Punjabi singer)

text: Kaka was born as Ravinder Singh on April 5, 1994 in Chandumajra, Rajpura in the state of Punjab. He completed his schooling in Ashoka Public School and after that he completed his B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engeering. He also worked as Architect at Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority after pursuing his graduation.


title: Kaka (Punjabi singer)

text: Kaka began his music career with "Surma," a single with Adaab Kharud released in November 2019. In October 2020, his song "Keh Len De" was released under the label of Haani Records. In December 2020, he released the song "Libaas", which later appeared on YouTube's weekly Global Music Chart. His song is listed at number 1 on "Teeji Seat" Gaana's Top 50 Punjabi chart.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: Cannabis in New York has been legal for medical purposes under New York law since 2016, and recreational cannabis since 2021, although , no recreational cannabis is for sale legally anywhere in the state (outside of American Indian reservations).


title: Cannabis in New York

text: Adults aged 21 and older are allowed to possess up to of cannabis or of concentrated cannabis. Adults 21 and older are allowed to possess up to 5 lbs individually in their own homes. In addition, home cultivation of up to three mature and three immature cannabis plants per individual will be permitted, with a maximum of twelve plants per household, once regulations for home grow are in place.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: On March 30, 2021, both houses of the New York State Legislature approved legislation to legalize recreational marijuana. The bill was signed into law by former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on March 31, 2021. The law also resulted in previous marijuana-related criminal records in the state of New York being expunged. As of October 2021 New York State prohibited employers from testing both prospective and current employees for cannabis use or otherwise discriminating against employees who use cannabis outside of work hours.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In 1914, New York first began to restrict cannabis by requiring a prescription to obtain the drug. In an amendment to the Boylan Bill, they added ""Cannabis indica", which is the Indian hemp from which the East Indian drug called hashish is manufactured," to the city's list of restricted drugs. The "New York Times" on the following day commented: "Devotees of hashish are now hardly numerous enough here to count, but they are likely to increase as other narcotics become harder to obtain." In their study of the history of marijuana prohibition, Richard J. Bonnie & Charles H. Whitebread note that "only four articles about marijuana appeared in the major New York newspaper during the entire period from 1914 until 1927." In 1927, New York removed the medical purposes and restricted cannabis completely.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In New York City, there were more than of marijuana growing like weeds throughout the boroughs until 1951, when the "White Wing Squad", headed by the Sanitation Department General Inspector John E. Gleason, was charged with destroying the many pot farms that had sprouted up across the city. The Brooklyn Public Library reports: this group was held to a high moral standard and was prohibited from "entering saloons, using foul language, and neglecting horses." The Squad found the most weed in Queens but even in Brooklyn dug up "millions of dollars" worth of the plants, many as "tall as Christmas trees". Gleason oversaw incineration of the plants in Woodside, Queens.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In 1939, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia assigned a committee to investigate the issue of cannabis in his city. The committee released its report in 1944, concluding that the "gateway theory" was largely false, and that cannabis was not widely associated with addiction, school children, or juvenile delinquency. The report infuriated Harry Anslinger, commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who branded it unscientific.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In 1973, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller signed legislation increasing the penalty for selling or more of heroin, morphine, "raw or prepared opium," cocaine, or cannabis or possessing or more of the same substances, was a minimum of 15 years to life in prison, and a maximum of 25 years to life in prison.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In 1977, New York decriminalized possession of or less of marijuana, to an infraction with a $100 fine (). However, possession in public view remained a misdemeanor, and civil rights advocates stated that this was used as a loophole to unfairly arrest. A "New York Times" editorial noted in 2012:


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In response to the continued arrests for marijuana possession, in 2014, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio directed the NYPD to cease arrests, and instead issue tickets, for small possession even in cases where the 1977 law might allow an arrest, such as cannabis entering "public view" during a stop-and-frisk. However, the "Village Voice" noted in 2016 that despite a sudden drop following de Blasio's direction, arrests have "gone back up just as quickly."


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In 2018 the Manhattan and Brooklyn district attorneys announced that they would continue reducing the set of offenses that they would prosecute.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In July 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation permitting the use of cannabis for medical purposes, following a "lengthy, emotional debate" in the issue in the Senate and 49–10 Senate vote. Cuomo's signing began an 18-month window for the state Department of Health to enact a medical marijuana program to provide non-smoked methods of cannabis consumption to patients. The legislation awarded five contracts to private marijuana growers who would each be allowed to operate four dispensaries. As of December 2021, the program has 3,455 practitioners and 151,284 patients.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: Offenses related to the possession or sale of marijuana and "concentrated cannabis", outside those allowed by the state's medical marijuana statute, are defined in Article 221 of the New York State Penal Law. The former term is defined in the state's Public Health Law as "all parts of the plant of the genus "Cannabis", whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin." Stalks from the mature plant, fiber, oil and cake made from it, sterilized seeds and compounds or preparations from them are not considered marijuana. "Concentrated cannabis", meant primarily to refer to hashish, refers to the plant's "separated resin, whether crude or purified" and any substance, whether derived from the plant or not, containing more than 2.5% by weight of delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), delta-8 dibenzopyran, delta-1-THC or delta-1 (6) monoterpene, an isomer of the last compound.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: Possession of less than of marijuana, in any form, is unlawful possession of marijuana, punishable by a fine of no more than $100 if the defendant has no convictions for the offense within the last three years. Those who do can be fined up to $200; on the third conviction within that time period the maximum fine rises to $250 with the possibility of a 15-day jail sentence as well. The offense is considered a violation, the lowest level of offense defined in state law, and thus does not show up on a criminal record.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: If the marijuana is burning or in public view, no matter the amount, or is between , it is fifth-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor, carrying a possible three-month sentence. Amounts in the range are fourth-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a Class A misdemeanor for which offenders can receive up to six months in jail. Convictions for these offenses will result in a criminal record.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: Amounts higher than are felonies, all of which carry a minimum prison term of three years in New York. Third-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a Class E felony with up to four years as a possible punishment, applies to amounts between , or one pound. Those convicted of second-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a Class D felony with a maximum sentence of seven years, will have been in possession of up to and can expect to serve up to seven years at most. First-degree criminal possession of marijuana applies to those with more than 10 pounds, a Class C felony for which offenders may spend 15 years in prison.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: Offenses related to the sale of marijuana start with fifth-degree criminal sale of marijuana, a class B misdemeanor that covers amounts less than . Fourth-degree criminal sale of marijuana, a class A misdemeanor, covers sales between that amount and . Amounts up to are third-degree criminal sale of marijuana, a Class E felony.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: Sales in the range get the offender a conviction for second-degree criminal sale of marijuana, a Class D felony. That offense also applies to any sale of a lesser amount to a minor. Sales of more than a pound are considered first-degree criminal sale of marijuana, a Class C felony.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In his 2018 State of the State address Governor Cuomo urged the New York State Legislature to fund a study on the effects of legalizing marijuana for recreational use. The proposed study would be conducted by the Department of Health to examine a wide variety of issues, including the legal, economic, and social ramifications recreational marijuana could have on New York.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: The Department of Health completed its study and recommended the legalization of marijuana in New York, citing economic, public health, and public safety benefits. Cuomo stated that New York should "legalize the adult use of recreational marijuana once and for all," and that his marijuana legalization proposal would be including the state's 2019 budget plan. The study was followed by an amended Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act bill, which would legalize and regulate cannabis in the state.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In July 2019, New York enacted legislation signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo on July 29, 2019 that further expanded the decriminalization of recreational use of cannabis in the State of New York, but did not legalize it. This measure would treat possession of up to two ounces of marijuana as a violation instead of a crime, with fines dropping to as low as $50.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: Between 2018 and 2021, New York lawmakers repeatedly attempted to legalize recreational cannabis via the legislative process, but disagreements over allocation of tax revenue from cannabis sales (and in the case of the 2020 session, the COVID-19 pandemic) prevented legislation from moving forward. Legalization was included in the 2021 state budget proposal as the Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act. Members of the New York State Assembly objected to some provisions of the bill, with some expressing a preference to pass their own legislation independent of the governor's office, the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA).


title: Cannabis in New York

text: Negotiations between the governor's office and the legislature over the final cannabis legalization bill were successful and the MRTA was passed in the New York State Assembly and Senate on March 30, 2021 by votes of 94-56 and 40-23, respectively. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law the following day. This legislation legalized recreational cannabis where adults aged 21 and over are allowed to possess up to of cannabis or of concentrated cannabis. Adults 21 and older are allowed to possess up to 5 lbs individually in their own homes. In addition, home cultivation of up to three mature and three immature cannabis plants per individual will be permitted, with a maximum of twelve plants per household, once regulations for home grow are in place. On April 9, 2021, marijuana-related criminal records in the state of New York which previously resulted in losses of jobs, homes and licenses were confirmed to have been expunged by the law as well.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: Aside from driving under the influence, the NYPD no longer lists any other crime related to marijuana.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: As of October 2021, New York State prohibited employers from testing both prospective and current employees for cannabis use or otherwise discriminating against employees who use cannabis outside of work hours.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: As of April 2022, 52 recreational cannabis cultivation licenses have been granted and approved within New York State.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In February 2022, a bill signed into law by the Governor Kathy Hochul legally allows New York State hemp farmers to start growing cannabis crops. The law also promotes equity for minorities and other related purposes.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In April 2022, the New York Legislature passed a comprehensive omnibus Budget Bill - with provisions that explicitly legally allows cannabis related businesses and/or dispensaries to have "tax breaks" within New York State itself (not federally, due to cannabis still being illegal federally). The Governor of New York is yet to either sign or veto the bill.


title: Cannabis in New York

text: In April 2022, further regulations were approved by state boards - to allow cultivation of medical cannabis on certain licensed farms within New York.


title: Fullback (gridiron football)

text: A fullback (FB) is a position in the offensive backfield in gridiron football, and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback. Fullbacks are typically larger than halfbacks and in most offensive schemes the fullback's duties are split among power running, pass catching, and blocking for both the quarterback and the other running back.


title: Fullback (gridiron football)

text: Many great runners in the history of American football have been fullbacks, including Jim Brown, Marion Motley, Bronko Nagurski, Jim Taylor, Franco Harris, Larry Csonka, John Riggins, Christian Okoye, and Levi Jackson. However, many of these runners would retroactively be labeled as halfbacks, due to their position as the primary ball carrier; they were primarily listed as fullbacks due to their size and did not often perform the run-blocking duties expected of modern fullbacks. Examples of players who have excelled at the hybrid running–blocking–pass-catching role include Vonta Leach, Mike Alstott, William Henderson, Daryl Johnston, Kyle Juszczyk, John Kuhn, Le'Ron McClain, Lorenzo Neal, Marcel Reece, and Tom Rathman.


title: Fullback (gridiron football)

text: In the days before two platoons, the fullback was usually the team's punter and drop kicker. When, at the beginning of the 20th century, a penalty was introduced for hitting the opposing kicker after a kick, the foul was at first called "running into the fullback", inasmuch as the deepest back usually did the kicking.


title: Fullback (gridiron football)

text: Before the emergence of the T-formation in the 1940s, most teams used four offensive backs, lined up behind the offensive line, on every play: a quarterback, two halfbacks, and a fullback. The quarterback began each play a quarter of the way "back" behind the offensive line, the halfbacks began each play side by side and halfway "back" behind the offensive line, and the fullback began each play the farthest "back" behind the offensive line.


title: Fullback (gridiron football)

text: As the game evolved and alternate formations came in and went out of fashion, halfbacks (reduced to typically just one rather than two) emerged as the offensive backs most likely to run the ball. "Halfback" came to be synonymous with "running back". Formations began to favor placing the fullback—the back most entrusted with blocking for the running back—closer to the line of scrimmage than the running back. These blocking backs retained the name "fullback" even though they were closer to the offensive line than the halfback. The term "halfback" declined in usage, replaced variously with the more descriptive term "tailback" or the generic term "running back".


title: Fullback (gridiron football)

text: In the modern game, when the quarterback is under center, the fullback most often lines up directly behind the quarterback and in front of the halfback or tailback. The fullback position has seen a decline in recent time, with only 17 full-time fullbacks playing in 2016. The trend can be traced back to teams choosing to pass more, the use of "11 personnel" (one running back and one tight end), and the use of hybrid "H-backs".


title: Fullback (gridiron football)

text: Fullbacks are typically known less for speed and agility and more for muscularity and the ability to shed tackles. In 2010s NFL, fullbacks, while occasionally deployed as ball carriers, are often primarily a lead blocker to allow running backs to get to the secondary of the opposing team's defense. In the early 2000s, many NFL teams used blocking fullbacks, such as Tony Richardson, Vonta Leach, and Lorenzo Neal, with great success. These backs cleared the way for some of the decade's great running backs. Later on, some teams have phased the fullback position out of their offense altogether, with those teams either all but eschewing the I-formation, or instead utilizing either a tight end, h-back, or backup running-back in the role.


title: Fullback (gridiron football)

text: Prominent fullbacks in the NFL as of 2022 include C. J. Ham, Andy Janovich, Jamize Olawale, Patrick Ricard, Alec Ingold, Bruce Miller, Cullen Gillaspia, Anthony Sherman, Kyle Juszczyk, and Keith Smith. In spite of their usually infrequent carries, some fullbacks have led their teams in rushing – among the most notable ones were Le'Ron McClain who was the rushing leader for the Baltimore Ravens in 2008 and Tony Richardson who led the Kansas City Chiefs in rushing in 2000. In 2010, Peyton Hillis led the Cleveland Browns in rushing yards with 1,177 yards as a fullback before being converted into a halfback.


title: Fullback (gridiron football)

text: Although technically running backs, typically fullbacks are primarily valued for their blocking in most 21st century offenses. The most common and simple runs—the dive and the blast—both employ the fullback as the primary blocker for the halfback. In the flexbone formation, however, the fullback (sometimes referred to as the B-back) can often be used as the primary rushing threat.


title: Fullback (gridiron football)

text: In many other offensive schemes, the fullback is used as a receiver, especially when the defense blitzes. In selected plays, some teams will have a defensive lineman report as an eligible receiver to line up as a fullback ("Jumbo" or "Heavy Jumbo") or as a tight end in a "Miami" package in goal-line formations. Players who have been frequently used as situational fullbacks include Haloti Ngata, Dontari Poe, Jared Allen while with the Kansas City Chiefs, Richard Seymour while with the New England Patriots, and Isaac Sopoaga while with the San Francisco 49ers, while Dan Klecko and Nikita Whitlock have played both as a defensive tackle and fullback. Defensive Tackle William "The Refrigerator" Perry scored a touchdown in Super Bowl XX from the fullback position.


title: Fullback (gridiron football)

text: Most teams in the NFL do not have a substitute fullback, though there are exceptions. The role can be filled by backup or number three or four tight ends or bigger and less-frequently-used running backs. Occasionally, defensive tackles have been used in the fullback position (famous examples include William "The Refrigerator" Perry and Kyle Williams); this is most commonly used in goal-line situations, where the defensive tackle's size and ability to penetrate a wall of players becomes an advantage. In modern offenses, fullbacks in an I-formation can be motioned into a 2-TE formation or H-back formation, making a running back or tight end fairly well suited to the role.


title: Fullback (gridiron football)

text: The fullback position is less frequently used in Canadian football, which focuses more on passing than running the ball.


title: Ritz Crackers

text: Ritz Crackers is a brand of snack cracker introduced by Nabisco in 1934. The original style crackers are disc-shaped, lightly salted, and approximately in diameter.. Each cracker has seven perforations and a finely scalloped edge. Today, the Ritz cracker brand is owned by Mondelēz International.


title: Ritz Crackers

text: A single serving of the original cracker (about 5 crackers or 15 grams) provides of food energy, 1 gram of protein, and 4 grams of fat; the whole wheat variety provides and 2.5 grams of fat.


title: Ritz Crackers

text: In the early 1900s, the Jackson Cracker company of Jackson, Michigan, developed a small, round cracker called the Jaxon. The company was bought out by Nabisco in 1919. Nabisco introduced the Ritz Cracker in 1934. Looking to compete with the similar "Hi Ho" cracker made by their competitor Sunshine Biscuits, they tasked an employee, Sydney Stern, to create a name and a marketing plan. Stern chose the name 'Ritz', which appealed to individuals enduring the privations of the Great Depression by offering them "a bite of the good life". He also designed the blue circle/yellow lettering logo design, inspired by the round label inside his hat. In 2011, Ritz was identified in a YouGov poll as the "best perceived snack brand" among American consumers.


title: Ritz Crackers

text: A cartoon drawing of a box of Ritz Crackers can be seen in "Mickey’s Surprise Party" (1939), an animated theatrical advertisement/cartoon short produced by Walt Disney Productions for Nabisco.


title: Ritz Crackers

text: Ritz Crackers varieties include Original, Roasted Vegetable, Honey Wheat, Garlic Butter, Reduced Fat, Hint of Salt, Whole Wheat, Everything and Ritz Fresh Stacks.


title: Ritz Crackers

text: Ritz Crackers are available in the United Kingdom and Ireland in three varieties: Original and Cheese flavour are sold in 200 g boxes, and Ritz Cheese Sandwich (a cheese spread sandwiched between two Ritz Crackers) is available in 125 g roll packs and 33 g snack packs. They are also available as mini-crackers in 25g multi-packs.


title: Ritz Crackers

text: Ritz Crackers are available as dippers for Dairylea Dunkers and Philadelphia Snack. Ritz Crackers are also available as part of a confectionery product made by Cadbury in which the crackers form a sandwich filled with Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate.


title: Fourth Party System

text: The Fourth Party System is the term used in political science and history for the period in American political history from about 1896 to 1932 that was dominated by the Republican Party, except the 1912 split in which Democrats captured the White House and held it for eight years. American history texts usually call the period the Progressive Era. The concept was introduced under the name "System of 1896" by E. E. Schattschneider in 1960, and the numbering scheme was added by political scientists in the mid-1960s.


title: Fourth Party System

text: The period featured a transformation from the issues of the Third Party System, which had focused on the American Civil War, Reconstruction, race, and monetary issues. The era began in the severe depression of 1893 and the extraordinarily intense election of 1896. It included the Progressive Era, World War I, and the start of the Great Depression. The Great Depression caused a realignment that produced the Fifth Party System, dominated by the Democratic New Deal Coalition until the 1970s.


title: Fourth Party System

text: The central domestic issues concerned government regulation of railroads and large corporations ("trusts"), the money issue (gold versus silver), the protective tariff, the role of labor unions, child labor, the need for a new banking system, corruption in party politics, primary elections, the introduction of the federal income tax, direct election of senators, racial segregation, efficiency in government, women's suffrage, and control of immigration. Foreign policy centered on the 1898 Spanish–American War, Imperialism, the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and the creation of the League of Nations. Dominant personalities included presidents William McKinley (R), Theodore Roosevelt (R), and Woodrow Wilson (D), three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan (D), and Wisconsin's progressive Republican Robert M. La Follette, Sr.


title: Fourth Party System

text: The period began with the realignment of 1894–96. The 1896 presidential election is often seen as a realigning election, in which McKinley's view of a stronger central government building American industry through protective tariffs and a dollar based on gold triumphed. The voting patterns established then displaced the near-deadlock the major parties had held seen since the Civil War; the Republican dominance begun then would continue until 1932, another realigning election with the ascent of Franklin Roosevelt. Phillips argues that, with the possible exception of Iowa Senator Allison, McKinley was the only Republican who could have defeated Bryan—he theorized that eastern candidates such as Morton or Reed would have done badly against the Illinois-born Bryan in the crucial Midwest. According to the biographer, though Bryan was popular among rural voters, "McKinley appealed to a very different industrialized, urbanized America."


title: Fourth Party System

text: The Republican victory in 1896 over William Jennings Bryan and his Democratic Party was relatively close the first time. When Republican victory repeated in 1900 by an even bigger margin, business confidence was restored, a long epoch of prosperity was inaugurated, and most of the issues and personalities of the Third Party System were swept away. Most voting blocs continued unchanged, but some realignment took place giving Republicans dominance in the industrial Northeast and new strength in the border states. Thus, the way was clear for the Progressive Movement to impose a new way of thinking and a new agenda for politics.


title: Fourth Party System

text: During this period, a generational shift took place as the veterans of the Civil War aged out and were replaced by a younger generation more concerned with social justice and curbing the inequalities of industrial capitalism. The Democratic Party, after largely being excluded from national politics in the decades following the Civil War, would see a resurgence during this period thanks to the new immigrant voting blocs. The presidency of Woodrow Wilson marked a watershed as a new generation of Democrats without the baggage of slavery and secession. Meanwhile, the Republican Party, after a brief fling with progressivism under Theodore Roosevelt, quickly reasserted itself as the party of big business and laissez-faire capitalism.


title: Fourth Party System

text: Protection was the ideological cement holding the Republican coalition together. High tariffs were used by Republicans to promise higher sales to business, higher wages to industrial workers, and higher demand for their crops to farmers. Progressive insurgents said it promoted monopoly. Democrats said it was a tax on the little man. It had greatest support in the Northeast, and greatest opposition in the South and West. The Midwest was the battle ground. The great battle over the high Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act in 1910 ripped the Republicans apart and set up the realignment in favor of the Democrats.


title: Fourth Party System

text: Alarmed at the new rules of the game for campaign funding, the Progressives launched investigations and exposures (by the "muckraker" journalists) into corrupt links between party bosses and business. New laws and constitutional amendments weakened the party bosses by installing primaries and directly electing senators. Theodore Roosevelt shared the growing concern with business influence on government. When William Howard Taft appeared to be too cozy with pro-business conservatives in terms of tariff and conservation issues, Roosevelt broke with his old friend and his old party. He crusaded for president in 1912 at the head of an ill-fated "Bull Moose" Progressive party. The schism with Roosevelt helped elect Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and left pro-business conservatives as the dominant force in the GOP. The GOP elected Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. In 1928 Herbert Hoover became the last president of the Fourth Party System.


title: Fourth Party System

text: Many of the Progressives, especially in the Democratic Party supported labor unions. Unions did become important components of the Democratic Party during the Fifth Party System. However, historians have long debated why no Labor Party emerged in the United States, in contrast to Western Europe.


title: Fourth Party System

text: The Great Depression that began in 1929 spoiled the nation's optimism and ruined Republican chances. In long-term perspective Al Smith in 1928 started a voter realignment—a new coalition—based among ethnics and big cities that spelled the end of classless politics of the Fourth Party System and helped usher in the Fifth Party System with Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal coalition. As one political scientist explains, "The election of 1896 ushered in the Fourth Party System ... [but] not until 1928, with the nomination of Al Smith, a northeastern reformer, did Democrats make gains among the urban, blue-collar, and Catholic voters who were later to become core components of the New Deal coalition and break the pattern of minimal class polarization that had characterized the Fourth Party System." In 1932 the landslide victory of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt led to the New Deal coalition which dominated the Fifth Party System, after 1932.


title: Fourth Party System

text: Women vigorously defined their role in political parties from 1880 to 1920, with partisan women generally forming auxiliaries to the Republican and Democratic parties. The formation of Roosevelt's Progressive Party in 1912 offered women a chance for equality. Progressive party leader Jane Addams openly advocated women's partisanship. The Democrats, led by Woodrow Wilson, dodged the feminist demands for the vote by insisting the states should handle the matter, realizing the South strongly opposed women's suffrage. After New York Democrats came out for suffrage, Wilson altered course and supported a national constitutional amendment, which finally passed in 1920 with support from Tennessee. Women's strong support on the home front for the war effort during World War I energized supporters and weakened the opponents. After the Progressive Party loss in 1912, partisan women continued to form auxiliaries in the major parties. After 1920, inclusion and power in political parties persisted as issues for partisan women. Former suffragists, mobilized into the League of Women Voters shifted to emphasize the need for women to purify politics, endorse world peace, support prohibition, and create more local support for schools and public health. In the early 1920s both parties paid special acknowledgment to women's interests and named token women to a few highly visible offices. Congress passed a major welfare program sought by women, the Sheppard–Towner Act of 1921. By 1928, it was apparent to male politicians that women had weaker partisanship than men, but their opinions on political issues were parallel with a few exceptions such as peace and prohibition. In the long run, 1870–1940, woman suffrage at the state and federal level was correlated with increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives.


title: Fourth Party System

text: In most of the country prohibition was of central importance in progressive politics before World War I, with a strong religious and ethnic dimension. Most Pietistic Protestants were "dries" who advocated prohibition as a solution to social problems; they included Methodists, Congregationalists, Disciples, Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, and Scandinavian Lutherans. On the "wet" side, Episcopalians, Irish Catholics, German Lutherans and German Catholics attacked prohibition as a menace to their social customs and personal liberty. Prohibitionists supported direct democracy to enable voters to bypass the state legislature in lawmaking. In the North, the Republican Party championed the interests of the prohibitionists while the Democratic Party represented ethnic group interests. In the South, the Baptist and Methodist churches played a major role in forcing the Democratic party to support prohibition. After 1914 the issue shifted to the Germans' opposition to Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy. In the 1920s, however the sudden, unexpected outburst of big city crime associated with bootlegging undermined support for prohibition, and the Democrats took up the cause for repeal, finally succeeding in 1932.


title: Fourth Party System

text: The Spanish–American War in 1898 precipitated the end of the Spanish Empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific, with the 1898 Treaty of Paris giving the US control over the former Spanish colonies. Permanent ownership of the Philippines was a major issue in the 1900 presidential election. William Jennings Bryan, although strongly supportive of the war against Spain denounced the permanent acquisition of the Philippines which was strongly defended by Republicans, especially the Vice-Presidential nominee Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt in 1904 boasted of his success in gaining control of the Panama Canal, in 1903. Democrats attacked the move, but their attempt to apologize to Colombia failed.


title: Fourth Party System

text: The United States also appeared on the world scene in the last years of World War I. President Woodrow Wilson tried to negotiate peace in Europe, but when Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare against American shipping in early 1917 he called on Congress to declare war. Ignoring military affairs he focused on diplomacy and finance. On the home front he began the first effective draft in 1917, raised billions through Liberty loans, imposed an income tax on the wealthy, set up the War Industries Board, promoted labor union growth, supervised agriculture and food production through the Food and Fuel Control Act, took over control of the railroads, and suppressed left-wing anti-war movements. Like the European states, the United States experimented with a war economy. In 1918, Wilson advocated for various international reforms in the Fourteen Points, among them public diplomacy, freedom of navigation, "equality of trade conditions" and removal of economic barriers, an "impartial adjustment of all colonial claims", the creation of a Polish state (the second Polish Republic), and, most importantly the creation of an association of nations. The latter would become the League of Nations. The League became highly controversial for Wilson and the Republicans refused to compromise. Voters in 1920 showed little support for the League and the U.S. never joined it. Peace was a major political theme in the 1920s (especially now because women were voting). Under the Harding administration, the Washington Naval Conference of 1922 achieved significant naval disarmament for ten years.


title: Fourth Party System

text: The Roaring Twenties were marked, on the international scene by the problem of the economic reparations due from Germany to France and Great Britain, as well as by various irredentist claims. The US acted as mediators in this conflict, first with the Dawes Plan in 1924 and then with the Young Plan in 1929.


title: Transformers: Beast Wars

text: Transformers: Beast Wars is an entertainment franchise from Hasbro, and is part of the larger "Transformers" franchise. The franchise directly follows the "" continuity established by the 1984 series and . It ignores the continuity established by the Japanese Transformers series, though this franchise would have two exclusive Japanese series of its own. Previous to "Beast Wars", Hasbro had attempted to relaunch the original toys and animation as "". Hasbro intended another franchise titled "Transtech" to follow, combining "Beast Wars" and "Generation 1" characters and aesthetics, but this was cancelled. Instead the franchise began a series of reboots, beginning with the Japanese-produced "" series, internationally known as "Transformers: Robots in Disguise".


title: Transformers: Beast Wars

text: "Beast Wars" was succeeded by "Beast Machines", a new series with a new creative team in charge of production. The Maximals find themselves back on Cybertron, malfunctioning and trapped in their first beast modes (the ones they had at the beginning of "Beast Wars"). They were without memory of what happened previously, and fighting for survival against mindless drones called Vehicons. These were created and controlled by Megatron. With the whole planet empty, and all of the Transformers missing, Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rattrap, and Blackarachnia begin a new crusade, this time to free the entire planet.


title: Transformers: Beast Wars

text: The Japanese series "Beast Wars II" and "Beast Wars Neo" were created to fill the gap while the second and third seasons of "Beast Wars" were being translated into Japanese (called "Beast Wars: Metals"). The characters originate from the future that the "Beast Wars" teams left, but the events of the series take place in the far future. The series saw the return of Unicron. Unlike the original "Beast Wars" series, "Beast Wars II" and "Beast Wars Neo" used traditional animation and were aimed at a much younger audience. "Beast Wars II" spawned a theatrical movie. The "Beast Wars Neo" toyline was created to cater to the Japanese market. Whereas the cybernetic transmetal "Beast Wars" Transformers sold well in Western markets, Japanese fans preferred more realistic looking beast modes; thus, "Beast Wars Metals" was not as successful with Japanese fans. The second and third season of "Beast Wars" and its toy line only lasted a few months before being replaced by "" in the following new year, in which several unused Transmetal 2 molds were used as Destrongers (Predacons). "Beast Machines" was also imported to Japan in 2004 under the title "Beast Wars Returns", though it did not gain very much popularity.


title: Transformers: Beast Wars

text: Officially, the "Beast Wars" and "Beast Machines" series exist as the future of Generation 1 universe, and not specifically the original cartoon series or Marvel Comics series. The writers of the series adopted this position in order to pick and choose the best elements of the discrete Generation 1 continuities.


title: Transformers: Beast Wars

text: In the "Omega Point" storyline, several events lead up to a tremendous battle against Shokaract, a Predacon fueled by the Dark Essence of Unicron himself. This also serves as an introduction for Apelinq, and the only appearances of Windrazor, Sandstorm, Antagony, and Cataclysm.


title: Transformers: Beast Wars

text: In the "Primeval Dawn" story, Tarantulas comes back from the dead alongside Ravage, Spittor, Iguanus, and Razorclaw to complete the mission he set out to do, while the Vok create Primal Prime to stand in his way; Primal Prime teams up with Airazor, Tigatron, and Ramulus, who have come back from the dead as well.


title: Transformers: Beast Wars

text: Dreamwave Productions released a Summer Special which contained a "Beast Wars" story. It introduced three new characters, Optimus Minor, Bonecrusher, and Wolfang. The comic had a survey as to whether Dreamwave's new comic would be "Robots In Disguise" or "Beast Wars". "Beast Wars" won.


title: Transformers: Beast Wars

text: Dreamwave Productions had plans to release a "Beast Wars" comic in early 2005, which would have been done by the "War Within" creative team of Simon Furman and Don Figueroa. Brad Mick and Adam Patyk were originally planned to write the series until they left Dreamwave after not being paid for several projects. However, although some cover art did appear on the internet, Dreamwave entered bankruptcy before one issue could be published.


title: Transformers: Beast Wars

text: A mini-series takes place parallel to the third season of "Beast Wars" and introduces characters who are not shown in the original series such as Magmatron, Razorbeast, and Injector. Other characters who appear are Grimlock in his "Beast Wars" body (a recolored Dinobot toy) and Ravage in his Transmetal II "Tripredacus Agent" incarnation.


title: Transformers: Beast Wars

text: The mini-series focuses on Magmatron, sent by the Tripredacus Council to capture Megatron after Ravage's failure. However, Magmatron has his own agenda - to create his own army from the stasis pods the "Axalon" ejected in the pilot episode of "Beast Wars". His scheme is partially thwarted by the Maximal double-agent Razorbeast, who ensures the shell program used reconfigures many of the protoforms as Maximals rather than Predacons. The two sides clash in an attempt to stop Magmatron from returning to Cybertron with a captured Megatron, with some unexpected aid from Grimlock ensuring Magmatron is sent back to Cybertron empty handed. However, Razorbeast's Maximals and many Predacons (led by Ravage, resurrected in a Transmetal II body) are left on Earth, opening the way for future series.


title: Transformers: Beast Wars

text: There have been two "Beast Wars" video games. The first game, simply called "", was released for the PlayStation and PC. It is a third-person shooter, based on the first season of the show, in which players control either the Maximals or the Predacons in a series of missions to undermine the other faction's attempts at gaining enough resources to win the war between them and escape the planet. It was given a multiplayer feature (removed from the console releases) that allowed up to 8 players to play over LAN, with its own play rooms in the MS Gaming Zone (they have since been removed). The second game, "", is a fighting game based on the second season. The PlayStation version was released by Hasbro Interactive and the Nintendo 64 version was released by bam! Entertainment. Most of the cast members from the show reprised their roles. A third game was in the works for the PlayStation 2, but was scrapped in pre-production, without any official word as to why, or how far the project was before the plug was pulled.


title: Big Barda

text: Big Barda is an antihero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She first appeared in "Mister Miracle" #4 (October 1971), and was created by Jack Kirby. Jack Kirby based Barda's physical appearance on Lainie Kazan, who had recently appeared topless in "Playboy". Mark Evanier, Kirby's assistant on the Fourth World comics, has explained the genesis of the character: "Jack based some of his characters (not all) on people in his life or in the news... the characterization between Scott 'Mister Miracle' Free and Barda was based largely—though with tongue in cheek—on the interplay between Kirby and his wife Roz". In 2011, Big Barda was ranked 75th in "Comics Buyer's Guide's" "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.


title: Big Barda

text: Barda is a member of the race known as the New Gods, and was born on Apokolips about 250 years ago. Her mother was Big Breeda, whom Barda was taken away from at an early age to be trained as a warrior at Granny Goodness' Home for Orphaned Youth. Granny grooms Barda to one day lead the Female Fury Battalion, a ferocious pack of warrior women. However, during a raid, Barda meets Scott Free, Darkseid's adopted son, and, sensing a peace about him, falls in love.


title: Big Barda

text: Barda risks her own safety to work with the rebel cell led by the New God Himon. This comes directly after the murder of most of Himon's cell by the local authority, Wonderful Williki. This includes one of Barda's people, Auralie, who is tortured to death for dancing, a crime on Apokolips. Moments later, Himon kills Willik with a bomb. Barda, her Furies, Himon and Metron help Scott escape Apokolips. Darkseid himself calls for Scott to return but doesn't actually stop him, as Scott's escape can reignite his war with New Genesis. Barda, not emotionally prepared to escape herself, stays behind. Eventually, Barda turns her back on Granny Goodness and comes to Earth. Once there, she finds that Scott has taken up the mantel of the escape artist Thaddeus Brown, AKA Mister Miracle, and has teamed with his diminutive manager Oberon. Oberon and Barda become close friends. For a while, Barda's Furies assist Scott in his showmanship efforts but they return to Apokolips by themselves. Scott and Barda are married by Scott's birth father, the Highfather of New Genesis.


title: Big Barda

text: For a number of years Barda follows Scott and Oberon on tour. Eventually they retire from superheroing and move to Bailey, New Hampshire. Despite their best attempts, a normal life eludes them. Disasters plague them and eventually Barda, Scott, and Oberon leave Bailey to move into a loft in Greenwich Village. Barda forms a defense-training program for women called the New Female Furies.


title: Big Barda

text: Though naïve regarding Earth customs, Barda relishes her roles of wife and housekeeper, but when duty calls she never hesitates to assume the posture of a warrior; and when Scott joins the Justice League, Barda participates in several missions. In one instance, while training Fire, her weapon, the Mega-Rod, is stolen from her car. With the assistance of her husband and the Huntress, she gets it back, but not before many innocent people are killed by its wielder, who was unable to resist the corrupting influence of the Apokoliptian technology. Barda also led a JLA mission to rescue her husband after he was lost in space. The mission was a result of Manga Khan selling Scott to Granny Goodness. Her teammates included Martian Manhunter, Rocket Red, and G'nort. In an attempt to dissuade their successful pursuit, Manga Khan hired Lobo, paying him in dolphin feed, to kill them. He almost does, before Barda teleports him to a random location, that being ten feet behind Guy Gardner's skull. The repercussions of that literal meeting of the minds would last for years.


title: Big Barda

text: For a time, Barda mourns Scott, believing him slain in a battle with Despero, but it was a robot double that was destroyed, as part of a plan by Manga Khan.


title: Big Barda

text: After their time with the JLI, the two leave Earth for New Genesis, but, they soon return and take up temporary residence aboard the Justice League Refuge. During this period, the couple separate briefly due to Scott's lack of consideration for her feelings. Barda perishes, but is reborn via Scott's temporary access to great cosmic power.


title: Big Barda

text: Barda has served as a member of the JLA in her own right as well. At Takion's order, she and fellow New God Orion were sent as agents of New Genesis to serve on the team. Takion predicted that the Earth faced a grave threat. Their mission is to help mobilize Earth's heroes against the omnipotent Mageddon. Over time, they become involved with several other JLA missions. Adam Strange, needing help with an alien invasion, enslaves the JLA as part of a bluff. The League works for days, turning the planet into a giant teleportation beam. The aliens are sent off to the prison planet of Takron-Galtos, which Barda had mentioned several times during the ordeal. In another instance, Barda is badly wounded fighting the Queen Bee, a member of the newly reformed Injustice League. Once Mageddon is defeated, Barda and Orion resign from the JLA.


title: Big Barda

text: Barda and Scott then reside in the suburbs of Connecticut and are active adventurers. Barda never hesitates to lend a hand to her friends when her power and expertise are needed.


title: Big Barda

text: Barda accompanies Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman to Apokolips to rescue Supergirl from Darkseid's clutches, and accepts an invitation from Oracle to become the heavy-hitter on the Birds of Prey.


title: Big Barda

text: A similar-looking character named Little Barda appeared as a member of the Teen Titans in "52" #21; the character leaves the group in the same issue. Her relationship to Big Barda is unknown, though she escaped from Apokolips with Power Boy.


title: Big Barda

text: In a confrontation with the Secret Six, she engaged Knockout, another ex-Fury, in hand-to-hand combat. Although the fight is long and continues in the midst of other larger concerns for her team, it ends in a draw.


title: Big Barda

text: Big Barda is killed in the first issue of "Death of the New Gods"; her funeral occurs in the second issue of the series. Infinity-Man is later revealed as the killer. He had been slaughtering all the 'New Gods' in the name of restarting a new age of deities.


title: Big Barda

text: "Final Crisis" #7 depicts Barda standing alongside Lightray and Highfather in front of a reincarnated New Genesis.


title: Big Barda

text: In "The New 52" (a 2011 reboot of the DC Universe), Big Barda and Scott are seen on Earth 2. They are later seen with many of the comrades in Supertown. Big Barda and Mister Miracle are recruited by Batman to assist Los Angeles when flooding sea waters threaten all coasts.


title: Big Barda

text: Barda is a New God, a race of genetically enhanced beings who evolved godly abilities from their proximity to the Source. This gives Barda a level of strength roughly parallel to Wonder Woman as well as a high resistance to injury approaching invulnerability. She is similarly resistant to disease and most toxins. As a former Female Fury trained by Granny Goodness, Barda is a master combatant in terms of swordsmanship and raw brawling, which - in conjunction with her raw strength and grit - make her an immediate match for Wonder Woman.


title: Big Barda

text: In combat, Barda wears Apokoliptian battle armor, which enhances her already impressive durability. In addition, Barda manages a high-tech weapon, called the "Mega-Rod". This weapon can create boom tubes for teleportation over long distances, propel her high into the air and release energy blast capable of bringing down such powerful beings as Superman. For a limited time the Mega-Rod can also increase the gravity force of an individual.


title: Big Barda

text: Barda appears in the limited series "Kingdom Come" by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, which is set in an alternate future timeline of DC continuity. Orion has overthrown Darkseid and is the reluctant ruler of Apokolips. Barda (now sporting an eye-patch) and Scott Free work to teach the "lowlies" to think for themselves, with Orion's approval. The two have a daughter, Avia, who deploys a mega-rod and wears an outfit that combines elements of those of her parents.


title: Big Barda

text: In "The Dark Knight Strikes Again", as America descends into anarchy and chaos, a former porn star called Hot Gates (a reference to Frank Miller's "300" comic) takes up the mantle of "Big Barda" to declare herself dictator of Columbus, Ohio.


title: Big Barda

text: "Superman/Batman" #24 depicts "Big Bard", the male version of Big Barda from a reverse gender universe, who is married to Miss Miracle.


title: Big Barda

text: In "", Barda becomes a Green Lantern Corps member, although her power ring having fused to her Mother Box has made her a rather unusual Green Lantern. Mister Miracle's consciousness also inhabits the ring (Mister Miracle having 'escaped' being tortured to death by Desaad by transferring his consciousness into the control circuitry of Barda's Mother Box) and he can project himself as a spectral green figure.


title: Big Barda

text: Barda appears in DC's "Batman Beyond" comics that were loosely based on the animated series: "Justice League Beyond" and "Superman Beyond: Man of Tomorrow", where, as in the animated series, she belongs to the Justice League during the tenure of Terry McGinnis as Batman. "Justice League Beyond" contains a separate section at the end titled "Beyond: Origins" that briefly summarized the origins of Warhawk (Chapter 1), Aquagirl (Chapter 2), and Barda (Chapter 3). Chapter 3 gives an origin story for Barda similar to her canonical mainstream comic book continuity storyline, but sets the events later so that in the Beyond universe she was born later and didn't join the Justice League until Superman had already visibly aged and begun wearing the black and white costume he sports in the Beyond stories.


title: Big Barda

text: In the "DC Comics Bombshells" continuity, "Big" Barda Free is a member of Amanda Waller's Bombshells project. She is also in a romantic relationship with Kimiyo Hoshi. Barda's backstory is later revealed in the "Bombshells United" follow-up, where it is shown that she was once a member of the Female Furies on Apokolips. While on a mission to find new worlds to conquer, Barda encountered Kimiyo and fell in love with her, which eventually led to her defecting and becoming one of Earth's protectors.


title: Big Barda

text: Barda also appears alongside a gender-bent version of Mr. Miracle in the comic book series "Ame-Comi Girls".


title: Big Barda

text: In "Dark Multiverse: Flashpoint" world of the Dark Multiverse Big Barda appears in one panel as the ruler of Apokolips with her followers chanting "Barda Is".


title: Khodynka Tragedy

text: The Khodynka Tragedy () was a crowd crush that occurred on , on Khodynka Field in Moscow, Russia. The crush happened during the festivities after the coronation of the last Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II. While 1,282 corpses were collected from the scene, injury estimates range widely from 1,200 to 20,000.


title: Khodynka Tragedy

text: Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra were crowned Emperor and Empress of Russia on . Four days later, a banquet was going to be held for the people at Khodynka Field. In the area a town square, theatres, 150 buffets for distribution of gifts, and 20 pubs were built for the celebrations. Near the celebration square was a field that had a ravine and many gullies. On the evening of 29 May, people who had heard rumours of coronation gifts began to gather in anticipation. The gifts which everyone was to receive were a bread roll, a sausage, pretzels, gingerbread and a commemorative cup.


title: Khodynka Tragedy

text: At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the celebration day, several thousand people (estimates reached 500,000) were already gathered on the field. Rumours spread among the people that there were not enough beer or pretzels for everybody, and that the enamel cups contained a gold coin. A police force of 1,800 men failed to maintain civil order, and a catastrophic crowd crush occurred.


title: Khodynka Tragedy

text: A total of 1,282 corpses were collected from the scene, and the injured numbered between 9,000 and 20,000, according to different estimates. Another commonly cited figure reports "more than 2,600 casualties, including 1,389 deaths".


title: Khodynka Tragedy

text: Most of the victims were trapped in a ditch and were trampled or suffocated there. Despite the tragedy, the program of festivities continued as planned elsewhere on the large field, with many people unaware of what had happened. The Emperor and Empress made an appearance in front of the crowds on the balcony of the Tsar's Pavilion in the middle of the field around 2 p.m. By that time the traces of the incident had been cleaned up.


title: Khodynka Tragedy

text: A festive ball had been scheduled that night at the French embassy. When Nicholas heard of the stampede, "he did not display the slightest emotion and that night attended a ball given in his honor". Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich warned the tsar not to go to the French ball, but Nicholas II attended nonetheless. Li Hongzhang, China's Imperial Commissioner on a European tour, was the most notable witness. Li was amused and said a Chinese emperor would not have attended the ball.


title: Khodynka Tragedy

text: The government distributed a large amount of aid to the families of the dead, and a number of minor officials were dismissed. The negligence and the tone-deaf response of the imperial authorities, however, caused further public indignation. "The radiant smile on the face of Grand Duke Sergei prompted foreigners to remark that the Romanovs lacked judgment," Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich wrote. Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, then Governor-General of Moscow, became known as "the Prince of Khodynka" and the Emperor received the nickname of "Nicholas the Bloody".


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: Cookie Run: Kingdom is an action role-playing gacha game by Devsisters and the sixth game in the "Cookie Run" series.


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: "Cookie Run: Kingdom" is an RPG & city-building battle simulator. The game is mainly played by building the player's Cookie Kingdom and collecting Cookies using the game's gacha to fight in various game modes.


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: At the beginning of the game, players receive a piece of land to build structures and amenities and aid the player in collecting resources. To unlock more items/resources, the player must level up the Cookie Castle, production buildings, and the Fountain of Abundance. Furthermore, players will have to build additional structures to use for either trading or upgrading. Players can produce resources for their Kingdom with various production buildings. The Cookie Castle can be upgraded when given enough items or cleared certain tasks, and this allows the player to expand the space available, and level up buildings and place more of them. The same applies to the offline reward-giving Fountain of Abundance. The player can also expand their land by using materials or fighting enemies in certain areas with their team.


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: There are 83 playable Cookies in the game, used as the main fighting units for the game's various game modes. These Cookies, can be obtained from the game's gacha, which can be activated by spending Crystals, or specific event tokens for a specific Cookie. Crystals are earned through various methods in the game or can be purchased with real-life money. Cookies are placed in teams of up to five by the player. There are 7 rarities of cookie, ranging from Common to Ancient, and 8 classes of cookie that serve different functions in battle. For example, Support cookies provide a mix of healing, damage and temporary buffs for allies, and Magic cookies can debuff enemies. All cookies have a skill that can be activated, which causes damage, healing, or other effects. These skills have a short cooldown before being able to be used again.


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: Cookies can be powered up by various means. General stats, which are HP, Attack, and Defense, are upgraded by leveling up the characters, primarily done through EXP Candies. EXP Candies are obtained from playing through the game's multiple modes, or through Cookie Houses that give EXP Candies over time. The power of a skill can be increased with Skill Powders, which are obtained through daily bounties that give a specific type of Skill Powder. Toppings can be put on a cookie to improve other stats, such as how long it takes for a skill to cool down, or how much a cookie will be affected by a debuff. Up to 5 can be equipped, and have to be upgraded using coins and topping pieces. some cookies can be given items called Magic Candies that power up and give new effects to their skill. Magic Candies require a specific type of Crystal and Resonant Ingredient to upgrade. Cookies are obtained through soulstones, and obtaining a certain amount of soulstones for a cookie if you already have it will give you a chance to promote it up to 5 stars, which greatly increase HP, Attack, and Defense. After a cookie has reached 5 stars they can be upgraded further through Ascension, which requires Soulcores (a version of Soulstones that is unlocked after promoting a cookie to 5 stars) and Soul Essences.


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: The main story mode, known as World Exploration, contains multiple levels that are played in order. Each level is played by using a team of Cookies to attack multiple enemies, and on some levels, making their cookies jump to collect coins, similar to previous Cookie Run games. Over time, other modes are added that function in a similar way but with different approaches (see Features section)


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: In a world populated with anthropomorphised dessert items (created by witches using cookie batter and Life Powder), 5 Ancient Cookies, Pure Vanilla, Hollyberry, Dark Cacao, and Golden Cheese, created their own kingdoms and were given Soul Jams, which granted them special powers and Immortality. White Lily Cookie wanted to know about the origin and creation of cookies, and tried to contact the witches to seek an answer. Upon learning that cookies were meant to be eaten, she falls into the dough where cookies are created and is reincarnated as Dark Enchantress Cookie, who plans to use Cake Monsters to create a new world order. Pure Vanilla was forced to seal Dark Enchantress Cookie away and have the Ancient Cookies fall under hiding, leaving their kingdoms in disarray.


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: Cookies have a bond where collecting all the Cookies of a set and promoting them to a certain rank will grant stat increases to all Cookies.


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: In addition to rarities, there are 8 types of Cookies that perform different functions in battle. A strategy can be formed by putting specific cookies in a team as their skills work together to deal more damage overall:


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: There are 3 types of treasures: Common, Rare, and Epic. They also can be divided into 2 types of use of properties: Passive and Active. Active must be activated on the treasure before it can be utilized (e.g. Pilgrim's Slingshot reduces the defense of an enemy for a few seconds), whereas Passive treasures have an effect that lasts throughout the stage (e.g. Old Pilgrim's Scroll increases attack for all cookies in the field)


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: In addition to the standard World Exploration mode, there are other modes unlocked throughout the game. When a certain threshold is passed in a mode, you can obtain rewards or unlock a cutscene as part of a side story. The stories that accompany the game modes are canonical to the main story.


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: The Cookie Kingdom has multiple tasks that give the player items to progress the development of either the kingdom or the cookie's strength. These are represented by areas in the Kingdom;


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: On the iOS platform, "Cookie Run: Kingdom" has a Ratings and Reviews rating of 4.5 out of 5 and has a total of 9.6k reviews. This game is rated 164th in the App store in the Role-Playing category.


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: On the Android platform, "Cookie Run: Kingdom" has a Ratings and Reviews score of 4.4 out of 5 and has a total of 579k reviews. This game has been downloaded 5 million times in Thailand.


title: Cookie Run: Kingdom

text: In addition to the information on the App Store and Google Play, a summary of "Cookie Run: Kingdom" information is included. "Cookie Run: Kingdom" is Ranked 31st in Free Role-Playing game category in Thailand. In terms of free games, Japan ranked 1st on the Apple App Store and Google Play, and 3rd in the Free Role-Playing game category in United States. It was also Ranked 1st in Korea, 2nd in Taiwan, 3rd in Thailand, & 5th in Hong Kong in the Free Game on Apple App Store category in January 2021. And In Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, game revenue is Ranked 1st on the Apple App Store, and in Hong Kong and Singapore, it is Ranked 3rd in January 2021. "Cookie Run: Kingdom" had 10 million downloads in the first two months after its release and has been downloaded over 150 million times as of June 2021.


title: TT Games

text: TT Games Limited is a British holding company and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The company was established in 2005 through the merger of developer Traveller's Tales and publisher Giant Interactive (now TT Games Publishing). Its other branches include developer TT Fusion, animation studio TT Animation and mobile game studio TT Odyssey. The company is best known for its video games based on the Lego construction toy.


title: TT Games

text: In 2003, The Lego Group's video game division, Lego Interactive, commenced plans to develop "", based on the company's licensed Lego Star Wars toy sets. They contracted Traveller's Tales to develop the game, though Lego soon stepped out of the video game industry. Tom Stone and Jonathan Smith of Lego Interactive's senior management formed Giant Interactive, gaining the exclusive licence for Lego video games. As work progressed, Traveller's Tales manager Jon Burton recognised the potential of the game and the Lego licence, and how effectively the two companies worked together. "Lego Star Wars" was released in 2005 to positive reviews and strong sales, wherefore Traveller's Tales acquired Giant Interactive in April, forming TT Games.


title: TT Games

text: TT Games continued to produce Lego games to considerable success; "" received several awards and nominations in 2006, including the Best Gameplay Award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' 3rd British Academy Games Awards. In 2007, under advise from Farleys Solicitors, TT Games acquired developer Embryonic Studios and motion capture studio Centroid, which became TT Fusion and TT Centroid, respectively. On 8 November 2007, TT Games was bought by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and became part of its video game division, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. For Burton's share, which amounted to an ownership of 80% in TT Games, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment paid roughly ().


title: TT Games

text: TT Games expanded into mobile games with the acquisition of Playdemic in February 2017 and the opening of TT Odyssey (originally named TT Games Brighton) in January 2018.


title: TT Games

text: On 20 January 2022, a report published by "Polygon" detailed the amount of crunch that occurred at TT Games during the development of "", including dozens inside the company being at odds with management, due to expressing frustration over tight development schedules, the company’s crunch culture, and outdated development tools. In addition, the use of NTT (a new in-house engine that was being developed to replace TT's previous engine in attempt to avoid paying royalties for using a third-party engine like Unreal Engine or Unity) was extremely controversial within the company, as many employees had been pushing to instead use Unreal Engine. NTT turned out to be incredibly difficult to use, with some animations taking hours more to produce than they would on the old engine. As a result, "The Skywalker Saga" would end up being the only game developed by TT Games to use NTT, with the company deciding to use Unreal Engine going forward for their future projects. Follow-up reporting by Fanbyte revealed that management was dismissive of Polygon's investigation and attempted to bury it by releasing a trailer for the game on the same day. They also report that Director of Game Development Eric Matthews and Head of Game Mark Green, who had been identified as nepotistic hires, were a continuing source of conflict and miscommunication from management.


title: TT Games

text: Traveller's Tales was founded in 1989 by Jon Burton and Andy Ingram. Traveller's Tales is based in Knutsford, England.


title: TT Games

text: TT Games Publishing was founded as Giant Interactive Entertainment in 2004 by managing director Tom Stone and head of production Jonathan Smith. Both Stone and Smith were formerly in the senior management of Lego Interactive, the video game division of The Lego Group, before that company closed. Giant Interactive took over the publishing duties for Traveller's Tales' "", which were formerly handled by Lego Interactive, and became the exclusive licensee for Lego video games. Giant Interactive was acquired by Traveller's Tales in April 2005, and the two companies created TT Games. As a result, Giant Interactive became TT Games Publishing. TT Games Publishing is based in Maidenhead, England.


title: TT Games

text: TT Fusion was founded as Embryonic Studios by Nick Elms, the co-founder of Warthog, in 2005. TT Games announced the acquisition of the studio on 4 January 2007, at which point Embryonic employed 20 people in its offices in Bollington. The deal was overseen by Farleys Solicitors, and the studio was renamed TT Fusion. TT Fusion is based in Wilmslow, England, And it develops ports of TT's games for handheld platforms and mobile phones.


title: TT Games

text: TT Animation is TT Games' animation studio for film and television, run by "Fraggle Rock" co-creator Jocelyn Stevenson. The studio produced the film "", which was released in May 2013. The company also co-produced an original children's television property: "What's Your News?", with Canadian studio Original Pictures.


title: TT Games

text: TT Games announced the formation of TT Games Brighton, a mobile game development studio based in Brighton, England, on 30 January 2018. Jason Avent, who formerly headed Boss Alien, became the studio's head of studio. In March that year, TT Games Brighton was rebranded TT Odyssey.


title: TT Games

text: Centroid Motion Capture Limited, a motion capture studio, was acquired by TT Games on 31 May 2007. Its assets, including 10 employees in its England headquarters, plus another 12 employees in its subsidiary studio in Serbia, were absorbed by a new entity, TT Centroid Limited and the company moved to Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England. The deal was overseen by Farleys Solicitors. They spun off in 2008.


title: TT Games

text: Playdemic was founded in 2010 by Paul Gouge and Alex Rigby as a developer of Facebook Platform games. The company was acquired by RockYou in January 2011, and Gouge switched positions from chief executive officer to vice-president and general manager. When RockYou faced financial instability later that year, Playdemic performed a management buyout. In February 2013, Ian Livingstone was appointed as the company's chairman. TT Games announced on 8 February 2017 that they had acquired Playdemic to bolster its mobile game development capabilities. At the time, Playdemic had 33 employees in its Wilmslow offices. In June 2021, Playdemic was sold to Electronic Arts for $1.4 billion.


title: Rúnar Alex Rúnarsson

text: Rúnar Alex Rúnarsson (born 18 February 1995) is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Süper Lig club Alanyaspor, on loan from Premier League side Arsenal, and the Iceland national team. He has also previously played for Dijon, Nordsjælland and KR Reykjavik.


title: Rúnar Alex Rúnarsson

text: On 21 September 2020, Rúnar Alex signed for Premier League club Arsenal on a four-year deal. He chose the number 13 at the club. Rúnar Alex made his debut for the club on the 29th October 2020, keeping a clean sheet in a 3–0 UEFA Europa League win over League of Ireland side Dundalk at the Emirates Stadium. After first choice goalkeeper Bernd Leno was sent off against Wolverhampton Wanderers on 2 February 2021, Rúnar Alex made his Premier League debut as a substitute for Thomas Partey in a 2–1 away defeat.


title: Rúnar Alex Rúnarsson

text: On 31 August 2021, Rúnar Alex joined Belgian First Division A club OH Leuven on loan until the end of the season. On 27 October 2021, Rúnar Alex made his first appearance of the season for OH Leuven in their 2–1 Belgian Cup win over Lierse Kempenzonen, with his league debut coming one month later on 26 November 2021 in a 1–3 away win to league leaders Union SG.


title: Rúnar Alex Rúnarsson

text: Having previously represented his country at youth level, Rúnar Alex was called up to the senior Iceland squad for the 2017 China Cup, where the team became the silver medalist He earned his first senior cap in a friendly against the Czech Republic on 9 November 2017.


title: NTR: Netsuzou Trap

text: Yuma and Hotaru have been best friends since childhood. Yuma would protect Hotaru from things such as bullies, and made it her job to look after her. Now, the two are second-year high school students, but Hotaru is anything but innocent. Yuma gets her first boyfriend and is nervous about it, so a more experienced Hotaru suggests a "dress rehearsal" to help her out. The helping out later on leads to a deep kiss with Hotaru, who says that Yuma now knows how to kiss a guy. This leaves her thinking about how much better this kiss was than the one she had shared with her boyfriend. As time goes on, Yuma worries that her boyfriend will find out what is going on between her and Hotaru. She also cannot explain these "strange" feelings she has when she is with her.


title: NTR: Netsuzou Trap

text: "NTR: Netsuzou Trap" was serialized in the manga magazine "Comic Yuri Hime" from November 2014 to December 18, 2017. The chapters were collected into "tankōbon" volumes starting on June 18, 2015 when the first volume was released; the last was number six. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga in North America, and released the first volume on September 20, 2016. Seven Seas founder Jason DeAngelis had said that readers were requesting more "yuri" titles for release, and compared the series to "Citrus" in terms of potential enjoyment.


title: NTR: Netsuzou Trap

text: Kodama was originally considering a story between two brides, but thought that the characters seemed too old. She then had the two main characters aged down so that they were juniors in high school and liked the "sappy soap opera" results. The "NTR" in the title stands for "netorare", which translates to "cheating" in Japanese. While the term is similar to cuckold ("husband of an adulterous wife") the couples involved here are not in a marital affair. In the story, the two girls cheat on their boyfriends by doing things with each other.


title: NTR: Netsuzou Trap

text: An anime television series adaptation, directed by Hisayoshi Hirasawa and produced by Creators in Pack, aired in Japan between July 5 and September 20, 2017 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. Words in Stereo and Yūichi Uchibori wrote the scripts, and Masaru Kawashima designed the characters. A new visual was unveiled on May 15, 2017. The opening theme is "Blue Bud Blue" by Haruka Tōjō while the ending theme is "Virginal lily" by Akira Aikase.


title: NTR: Netsuzou Trap

text: The English version of "NTR: Netsuzou Trap" has received mixed reviews from manga critics. Rebecca Silverman from Anime News Network gave the series an overall C+ grade. She felt that it is a "fairly unusual yuri story", similar to what is seen in yaoi, because of the sexually aggressive nature of the romance. Silverman stated there is a strong indication that Hotaru is using boys to get over Yuma, and that Hotaru not appearing to particularly love Yuma might be masked feelings due to past problems. Although Silverman felt that it is good that the series offers variety for those who like this kind of story, and that, unlike with Hotaru, readers get a better feel for Yuma's character, she felt that the story's "less consensual romance" is uncomfortable, and critiqued the artwork of the character's upper bodies; she did, however, praise the artwork involving the character's legs. Journalist Kat Callahan agreed with Silverman on the series not being a typical example of a yuri series. She writes in her review that the series deals with the cycle of abuse when it comes to Hotaru, and that Yuma is also a victim as a result.


title: NTR: Netsuzou Trap

text: Yuricon founder Erica Friedman described the story as "creeptastic", saying that it is about girls who get naked to do stuff with each other while their boyfriends are "conveniently not in the room with them". Sean Gaffney from Manga Bookshelf wrote that the first volume is not for its intended audience and recommends it instead for adult men who think that girl-on-girl action is attractive.


title: Mac Studio

text: Mac Studio is a small-form-factor workstation designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Inc. It is one of four desktop computers in the Mac lineup, sitting above the consumer-range Mac Mini and iMac, and positioned below the Mac Pro. It is configurable with either the M1 Max or M1 Ultra system on a chip.


title: Mac Studio

text: The Mac Studio was announced on March 8, 2022, alongside the Apple Studio Display, and released on March 18. At the time of launch, customers reported shipping delays for the Mac Studio as late as May 2022. The delay has been attributed to the global chip shortage.


title: Mac Studio

text: The Mac Studio is designed as a higher-grade machine than the Mac Mini but lower than the Mac Pro, and is positioned similarly to the now-discontinued iMac Pro. There are two models which are driven by ARM-based SoC: the M1 Max or the M1 Ultra, which combines two M1 Max chips in one package. The Mac Studio has an identical width and depth to the Mac Mini, both about , but is around tall. It has four Thunderbolt 4 (USB 4) ports, two USB 3.0 Type-A ports, HDMI (up to 4K @ 60 Hz), 10Gb Ethernet with Lights Out Management and a headphone jack. The front panel has two USB-C ports (Thunderbolt 4 in M1 Ultra models) and an SD card slot (that supports SDXC cards and UHS-II bus). It is cooled by a pair of double-sided blowers and a mesh of holes on the bottom and back of the case, which helps reduce the noise of fans spinning. Nevertheless, there have been extensive early reports of excessive fan noise.


title: Mac Studio

text: Mac Studio models with the M1 Ultra are heavier than those with the M1 Max as they are equipped with a larger copper heat sink. Apple says the Mac Studio performs 50 percent faster than a Mac Pro with a 16-core Intel Xeon processor.