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3. Vince Gribbin
4. Eppie Gibson
5. Syd Lowdon (No. 5) circa-1950s
6. Phil Kitchin circa-1956-65
7. Arnold 'Boxer' Walker
8. Bill McAlone (Testimonial match 1960)
9. Aaron Lester
10. John Tembey circa-1950s
11. Bill Holliday
12. Dick Huddart
13. Gordon Cottier
14. Billy Garratt (No. 3) circa-1950s
15. Geoff Robinson (No. 13)
16. Dave Watson circa-1980s
17. xLes Moore (No. 10) circa-1963-65
18. Jimmy Dalton
# Club honours.
- National League One Winners 2005
# External links.
- Official site
- Alternative site
- The Unofficial Whitehaven RLFC Forum
- Whitehaven RLFC forum on rlfans.com
- Co-operative Championship website
- Whitehaven RLFC Fans Forums – RugbyLeague.org | 14,600 |
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Oobi (TV series)
Oobi is an American children's television series created by Josh Selig of Little Airplane Productions. The series follows four characters, represented by bare hand puppets with eyes and accessories, on their everyday adventures. It began in 2000 as a series of shorts commissioned by the Noggin network, which was a joint venture between Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop at the time. Two seasons of half-hour episodes aired on Noggin and Nickelodeon from April 2003 to February 2005.
Selig created the series shortly after leaving "Sesame Street", which he had worked on since its first season. He developed the idea for "Oobi" while watching bare-handed puppeteers audition for "Ulica | 14,601 |
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Sezamkowa", the Polish version of "Sesame Street". Roles on "Oobi" were offered to veteran puppeteers from related Sesame Workshop shows. The Jim Henson Company, which designed the puppets on "Sesame Street", held a stake in Noggin at the time of "Oobi"s inception. Principal photography took place at Kaufman Astoria Studios, where "Sesame Street" is also taped.
The series features Muppet performers Tim Lagasse, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Noel MacNeal, and Tyler Bunch in starring roles. "Oobi"s concept is based on a technique used by puppeteers learning to lip-sync, in which they use their hands and a pair of ping pong balls in place of a puppet. The characters' designs include plastic eyes and accessories | 14,602 |
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such as hats and hairpieces. The puppeteers' thumbs are used to represent mouth movement, and their fingers flutter and clench to indicate emotions. The characters speak in simplified sentences that do not contain prepositions or conjunctions. The puppets have been compared to those of ventriloquist Señor Wences and were billed as "furless" Muppets in promotional statements.
"Oobi" was a breakout success for Noggin. The series received a variety of awards from honorary organizations including the Television Academy and Parents' Choice. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the puppeteers' performances, the visual style, and the show's appeal toward multiple age groups. | 14,603 |
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"Oobi" posted an average Nielsen rating of 2.35 among the preschool age group by its second season, becoming the highest-rated series ever to air on Noggin. It is the most widely distributed Noggin original program, having aired in over 23 markets worldwide by 2005. A spin-off titled "" premiered in 2012 and ran for 78 episodes, airing in the Middle East and countries across Asia.
# Premise.
The series takes place in a neighborhood inhabited by hand puppets with human qualities, and is shown from the perspective of a four-year-old named Oobi. The puppets frequently communicate with the audience and encourage participatory viewing. The characters' dialogue is made up of basic vocabulary, and | 14,604 |
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they speak in simplified sentences resembling the speech structure of a child just beginning to talk. For example, "Uma, school, first day" is said in place of "It is my first day of school." Prepositions and conjunctions are rarely used. The show is intended to help preschool-aged viewers develop social skills, early literacy, and logical thinking.
Oobi lives in a quaint and old-fashioned single-story house with his younger sister, Uma, and his grandfather, Grampu. Oobi's best friend, Kako, lives across the street and often visits. Each episode centers around Oobi discovering more about a simple concept like a new sport, a new place, or a particular holiday. Uma and Kako provide comic relief, | 14,605 |
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often misunderstanding Oobi's discoveries in a comical way or providing humorous commentary about the episode's topic. The series is meant to mirror the stage of early childhood "when everything in [the] world is new and incredible" and "when each revelation helps build a sense of mastery and self-confidence."
Episodes in the first season follow a format consisting of three vignettes. The first is a linear story featuring the puppets embarking on an adventure or making a new discovery. The second vignette is a series of brief interviews between the puppets and human families that center on the preceding story's topic. The last segment is an interactive activity (often involving rhyming, guessing, | 14,606 |
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or memory) in which viewers are encouraged to play along with the characters. When "Oobi" was renewed for a second season in 2004, game segments were dropped in favor of extended storylines. Interviews remained an integral part of the program in later episodes, but instead of being shown after the story, these segments were shortened and played as transitions between scenes.
# Characters.
## Main.
- Oobi (Tim Lagasse) is a four-year-old boy. He is curious, inquisitive, and always willing to learn something new. Unlike the other characters, he is a completely bare puppet aside from his eyes and wears no accessories or clothing. His eyes are brown in the short episodes and hazel in the full-length | 14,607 |
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episodes. Recurring elements in the series include Oobi's aspiration to become a piano player and his favorite toy, a miniature red model car. He acts as a role model to his younger sister, Uma, who often looks to him for guidance.
- Uma (Stephanie D'Abruzzo) is Oobi's three-year-old sister. She is shorter than Oobi and usually wears a barrette on her pinky finger. She loves singing, dancing, and pretending. Chickens are her favorite animal, and she will often talk about and imitate them, much to Grampu's annoyance. She has a tendency to comically overreact to minor changes or inconveniences. Her catchphrases are "Nice!" and "Pretty." Because she is so young, she has trouble pronouncing larger | 14,608 |
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words.
- Kako (Noel MacNeal) is Oobi's excitable, confident, and slightly arrogant best friend. Kako generally has a playful attitude and often cracks jokes, but he can prove to be insightful and sincere whenever Oobi needs advice. He has green eyes and wears a red knit cap. His catchphrase is "Perfecto," the Spanish word for "perfect." Unlike Oobi and Uma, Kako comes from a nuclear family consisting of himself and his parents, Mamu and Papu.
- Grampu (Tyler Bunch) is Oobi and Uma's wise and sometimes rather unlucky grandfather, who acts as their caregiver and mentor. His appearance is different from that of the children; four of his fingers are curled instead of being extended, making him | 14,609 |
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look taller. His favorite pastimes are cooking and gardening. He develops a romantic relationship with Oobi's piano teacher, Inka, throughout the series. His catchphrase is "Lovely!"
## Recurring.
- Inka (Stephanie D'Abruzzo) is Oobi's piano teacher and Grampu's love interest. She often takes Grampu on dates and flirts with him when she visits Oobi's house. She hails from Paris, is fond of French cuisine, and has an ambiguous Eastern European accent.
- Angus (Matt Vogel) is a high-strung friend of Oobi's whose eyes are below his fingers rather than on top. He speaks in a nasal voice and tends to worry about how he looks in front of others. Ironically, he is a gifted actor and has a talent | 14,610 |
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for singing but gets stage fright whenever he has to perform in front of an audience.
- Mrs. Johnson (Jennifer Barnhart) is Oobi's elderly neighbor and one of the few left-handed characters on the program. She wears a white wig, glasses with circular lenses, and a sleeve-like brown dress. She has a pet cat with a propensity to climb up trees.
- Mamu and Papu (Frankie Cordero) are Kako's parents, who appear whenever Oobi visits Kako's house. Papu is the homemaker of the household and is not currently employed. Mamu works at an office and is frequently away from home, but she still finds time to spend with her family.
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at the local community center. He is also in charge of the town's theatrical productions. He wears a bow tie and a gray wig made to resemble the distinctive hairstyle of Ludwig van Beethoven. His index finger is always extended and he uses it as a conducting baton.
- Frieda the Foot (Cheryl Blaylock) is a five-year-old girl portrayed as an anthropomorphic foot puppet. She has blue eyes and wears a flower-shaped pin on one of her toes. Oobi and Frieda often play with each other at the park and teach each other how to play different games. She represents a person of a different race or culture from the hand puppets, and episodes featuring her involve themes of social integration and the celebration | 14,612 |
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of diversity.
- Moppie (Heather Asch) is Uma's best friend from preschool. She has curly red hair, and her fingers are curled in a fist-like position. She is high-spirited and energetic, but also afraid to try new things. Her favorite activity is drawing portraits of her classmates.
- Bella (Lisa Buckley) is a greengrocer and one of Grampu's close friends. She owns the local grocery store and speaks with an exaggerated Italian accent. She is shown to bring fruit wherever she goes, regardless of the time or situation.
# Production.
## Concept and creation.
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Polish adaptation of "Sesame Street". Each puppeteer used their hand and a pair of ping pong balls in place of a puppet. This is a common technique among puppeteers in training, as it helps them learn the basics of lip-syncing and focusing the eyes of a puppet. Selig noted the amount of expression conveyed by the more skilled actors' hands, and it gave him the idea for a series that showcased the "raw emotion" of bare-handed puppetry.
In 1999, Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop created the Noggin cable channel. The network's lineup consisted mainly of repackaged programs from Sesame Workshop's library, so both companies started to seek pitches for original shows. Selig had recently left "Sesame | 14,614 |
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Street" when he was given the opportunity to propose his own show to Noggin. He pitched "Oobi" to them under the working title "Pipo", which he intended to name the main character. He decided to rename the show "Oobi" after he discovered that "Pipo" was already trademarked by an Italian brand of jeans. The new name was meant to mirror the characters' eyes with two O's.
Selig's pitch was successful, and "Oobi" entered production with funding from Nickelodeon. The network ordered a collection of about 50 interstitials, which lasted 1 to 2 minutes each and would play during commercial breaks. They were made as an experiment to gauge whether or not Selig wanted to continue his own production studio, | 14,615 |
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Little Airplane Productions. Of the shorts, he said, "I set up a shop to produce that series. So we just signed a one-year lease, it was really an experiment for us ... and after the first year we found that we loved having a company." The shorts were filmed in 1999 and started airing in mid-2000 on both Noggin and Nickelodeon.
## Assembling the crew.
Tim Lagasse was chosen to play the main character on "Oobi" because of his previous bare-handed puppetry in "A Show of Hands", a series of short films he created in 1992. Many of the techniques he used to convey expressions through hand motions in the films were carried over to "Oobi". The rest of the show's cast consisted exclusively of Sesame | 14,616 |
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Workshop alumni. Kevin Clash, best known for being the original performer of Elmo in many Muppet projects, was an ensemble puppeteer on "Oobi" and guest-starred as Randy in the "Babysitter!" episode. Matt Vogel, the current puppeteer for Kermit the Frog and Big Bird, played the recurring role of Angus. Martin P. Robinson – who performs Mr. Snuffleupagus, Telly Monster, and Slimey the Worm on "Sesame Street" – created and built the puppets' costumes and accessories. Ken Reynolds and John Tierney, editors on "Sesame Street", were hired to edit the show. Both Josh Selig and the show's educational consultant, Natascha Crandall, worked on the Palestinian and Arabic adaptations of "Sesame Street". | 14,617 |
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Lisa Simon, who won 20 Daytime Emmys for her work as a director of "Sesame Street", acted as the supervising producer.
Sacred Noise, a music production company in New York, provided the show's background music. A staff of New York-based composers wrote original songs sung by the characters. Christopher North Renquist, who had been a songwriter for Disney Channel prior to working on the show, wrote the majority of the music. Jeffrey Lesser, who continued to work at Little Airplane as the music producer of "Wonder Pets", joined the music crew to write the song "Oobi and Grampu" for the "Fishing!" episode. Mike Barrett, who worked as the sound editor on the "Wonder Pets" pilot, was the series' | 14,618 |
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sound mixer.
## Filming.
"Oobi" was filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York. The show's set pieces were built on tall wooden poles, positioned to be level with the puppeteers' hands when they raised their arms. This kept the actors' heads out of the camera frame and allowed them to walk normally while performing, making their puppets' movements as smooth as possible. Television monitors were placed below the sets so that the puppeteers could watch their motions and position their characters according to each scene. The actors wore hands-free headsets that recorded their dialogue, making them able to perform and voice their characters at the same time. They occasionally dubbed over their | 14,619 |
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lines in post-production, specifically for the musical sequences, which required them to record different takes to match their voices to the music tracks.
Many of the show's sets were made to evoke the appearance of old-fashioned home environments. To simulate natural window light in the studio, the crew of "Oobi" placed shades with foliage patterns over their studio lights; this gave the appearance of sunlight passing through trees. Green screens were used for the sky of the outdoor sets and for the windows of Oobi's house.
Every week during production, the puppeteers visited their local manicurist to get their fingernails touched up. The male puppeteers, such as Tim Lagasse, also had to | 14,620 |
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shave their arms regularly if they played younger characters; Josh Selig said in a 2004 interview that Lagasse had to shave often so that Oobi would not "look like a hairy kid." Tyler Bunch was told specifically not to shave, as his natural arm hair gave Grampu the appearance of an elderly, hairy grandfather.
When Cheryl Blaylock was offered the role of Frieda the Foot, she had to revisit puppeteer training techniques to learn to use her foot as a puppet. She recounted in a 2012 interview: "I had to actually go back to Puppetry 101 to train my foot to lip sync. Oh yes, I was determined to do some kind of toe wiggle that could be convincing." For episodes featuring Frieda, the crew had to construct | 14,621 |
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a new set that allowed Blaylock to raise her foot alongside the hand puppets. To do this, they assembled a ramp-like stage with a chair connected to it, resting on its side. Blaylock was able to lie down in the chair and rest her leg on the ramp, making her foot appear to be standing at the same height as Oobi.
## Iranian adaptation.
In a fashion similar to "Sesame Street"s international co-productions, a spin-off and adaptation of "Oobi" was produced in Iran in May 2012. It was titled "Oobi: Dasdasi" in reference to an Iranian folk song about clapping hands. and , who directed and starred in the program, said in an interview with "Jaam-e Jam" that their company had screened episodes of "Oobi" | 14,622 |
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in English and wished to create a tailored version for a new audience. The same American prop makers from "Oobi" supplied the puppet costumes, which were identical to those of the original show. The cast of adult puppets, which was expanded to include a set of parents in addition to a single grandfather, wore Arab garments.
78 eight-minute episodes were produced. They aired from September 22 to December 20, 2012. In July 2013, "Oobi: Dasdasi" was sold to broadcasters in Kuwait, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. IRIB TV2 aired the show in Iran and Japan's NHK distributed a subtitled version in Japan. IRIB's Art News Agency hosts full episodes of "Oobi: Dasdasi" on its website.
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Broadcast.
## Episodes.
26 full-length episodes (each consisting of two segments) and 48 shorts aired during the series' run. The shorts were shown as interstitials on Noggin and Nickelodeon during the Nick Jr. block. The full-length episodes, each one spanning ten minutes, were aired in pairs.
## Airing history.
In the United States, "Oobi" aired on Noggin and Nickelodeon. The original shorts aired on both networks from 2000 to 2002. They were normally shown as interstitials between longer programs. When the full-length series debuted in 2003, episodes were primarily shown on Noggin, with several premieres shown on Nickelodeon during its Nick Jr. block. The show was also available through | 14,624 |
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Nickelodeon's on-demand service from 2004 until 2009. In 2005, "Oobi" episodes were released to Nick Jr. Video, a section of the TurboNick broadband video service. Later that year, the show was aired as part of "Cox Family Fun Night," a weekly event featuring content from Nickelodeon that was broadcast every Sunday on Cox systems' local origination channels. Select General Motors vehicles sold throughout 2005 included entertainment systems preloaded with Nickelodeon content, including episodes of "Oobi", and fellow Noggin program "64 Zoo Lane". "Oobi" reruns were aired on the Nick Jr. channel from 2009 until 2013. On May 6, 2015, twenty-six episodes of the series were made available as part | 14,625 |
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of the Noggin mobile application. The show has been available for streaming on Amazon Video since June 2018.
By the end of its run in 2005, "Oobi" had aired in over 23 international markets, many of which span multiple countries. In Canada, TVOntario aired both the shorts and the full-length episodes. It carried the show from September 1, 2003 to September 2, 2006. On December 5, 2004, the series started airing on AFN Prime, a channel operated by the U.S. Armed Forces that is available worldwide. It was shown on the network every Sunday until April 3, 2005. The Australian channel ABC Kids ran premieres of the show from February 8 to March 15, 2005, with reruns continuing until February 2, 2007. | 14,626 |
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"Oobi" has been one of Nickelodeon Pakistan's flagship series since 2009; as of 2018, it continues to air on the network once per day.
The series has been dubbed in a variety of languages. From 2005 to 2006, an Icelandic-dubbed version of "Oobi" aired on Stöð 2. In China, a Standard Mandarin dub aired on SMG's children's block from May 1 to August 5, 2005. In Israel, a Hebrew dub was created with Gilad Kleter and Yoram Yosefsberg as the respective voices of Oobi and Grampu. It aired on Nickelodeon Israel and BabyTV from 2008 to 2013. In France and Wallonia, a French dub aired on Nickelodeon Junior from 2007 to 2010. The show was included as part of the channel's Fête de la Musique event in | 14,627 |
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June 2010. A Polish dub titled "Rączusie" aired on Nickelodeon Poland from July 19, 2009 to February 28, 2010. Nickelodeon Arabia, which broadcasts to the Middle East and North Africa, aired an Arabic dub from 2009 to 2011. The series was also shown in other Oceanian regions, such as Tonga. Although "Oobi" was not shown regularly on Nickelodeon Southeast Asia's feed, the channel's website featured games and media relating to the show until 2016.
# Television appearances.
## "Dog Problems".
Indie rock band The Format released a music video for their song "Dog Problems" in November 2006. The video, which includes Nate Ruess of Fun as the lead singer alongside Sam Means and Steven Shane McDonald, | 14,628 |
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was inspired by "Oobi" and features hand puppets in the style of the show. Ruess is represented in the video by a puppet wearing a bowler hat on his knuckles, in a fashion similar to the "Oobi" character Kako (who also sports a cap). It begins with Ruess's character creating a shadow puppet, but "the set-ups get increasingly intricate and clever as things progress out into the real world and onto various parodies," one of which features a quartet of "Oobi" puppets spoofing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".
"Dog Problems" was aired throughout 2007 on the music-themed cable channel Fuse as a part of its hour-long "Oven Fresh" music video blocks. It was pulled from the channel's lineup in 2008 following | 14,629 |
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The Format's announcement that it would break up, and not release another album. The video was also briefly shown on Viacom's own networks MTV2 and MTVU. The newspaper "Pipe Dream" noted in 2008 that the video "was just making the rounds on alternative music networks ... but almost as quickly as [The Format] shot up in popularity, they were no more."
## "Farewell Elizabeth".
In January 2014, Havas Worldwide and the Turkish branch of the condom company Durex created a television commercial titled "Farewell Elizabeth" that parodied "Oobi". It featured a man breaking up with his girlfriend and resorting to dating his right hand, which was dressed up like one of the characters from the series. | 14,630 |
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The "Oobi" hand puppet (named "Elizabeth") was intended to be a metaphor for masturbation, which is generally regarded as a taboo subject in the country. The company had produced other anti-masturbation advertisements in the past, all of which were unsuccessful in Turkey. Havas Worldwide stated in an interview with "La República" that they chose to parody "Oobi" after deciding that doing "something never said or done" before would be the only way to make such a commercial popular with Turkish viewers.
The commercial was the first advertisement from Durex Turkey to take a comedic approach to spreading brand awareness. The humorous inclusion of an "Oobi" puppet made "Farewell Elizabeth" a success | 14,631 |
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with Turkish consumers. The advertisement received over five million views on YouTube in its first week of release, despite how the website was blocked in Turkey at the time. The amount of Durex Turkey's followers on Facebook also increased by 20% following the commercial's first broadcast on television.
## "Right Hand Guy".
In July 2016, Disney XD announced that it had greenlit a put pilot titled "Right Hand Guy", which was in consideration for a full series. The pilot starred a pre-teen who draws a face on his right hand that comes to life and befriends him. The creator, Dan Lagana, took inspiration from "Oobi" while developing the concept. Lagana showed the "Oobi" episode "Babysitter!" | 14,632 |
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to the actors so that they would be familiar with it.
# Reception.
## Ratings.
"Oobi" was instrumental in growing the Noggin network's viewership. From 2003 to 2004, full-length episodes of the show (along with premieres of "Miffy and Friends" and "Connie the Cow") were responsible for increasing Noggin's average daily viewers to 93,000 children in its key demographic of infants and toddlers (a 55 percent increase over its ratings the year before). The average number of viewers aged 2–5 watching "Oobi" increased by 43 percent during the same time period. The steady increase in ratings received coverage from Multichannel News author Mike Reynolds, who attributed Noggin's popularity to its | 14,633 |
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"breakout original series "Oobi"." Its growing audience was what led Noggin to order a second season of full-length episodes. The premiere of the "Uma Preschool!" episode on September 6, 2004, posted a 2.35 Nielsen rating among the preschool age group, becoming the highest-rated premiere of a Noggin original series to that date.
## Critical reception.
The puppeteers' performances and the show's approach to teaching fundamental life skills have been praised by critics. Common Sense Media reviewer Andrea Graham gave the show a five-star review, writing that "when it comes to preschool programming, "Oobi" really breaks the mold, succeeding in its simplicity." Jeanne Spreier of the "Dallas Morning | 14,634 |
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News" called "Oobi" "the most imaginative and interesting preschooler program to debut in years," describing its characters as "amazingly expressive hands that show anger, fear, happiness, even age and youth." The Coalition for Quality Children's Media wrote positively of "Oobi", complimenting its concept, and calling it "thoroughly enjoyable" and "extremely well received." Diana Dawson of the "Herald-Journal" found the show's old-fashioned look appealing, stating that "in a world that too often forgets the innocent joy of playing kick-the-can and catching fireflies, there's something incredibly endearing about the bare-handed puppetry." DVD Talk's Holly Ordway called "Oobi" "a clever way to | 14,635 |
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encourage kids to be imaginative." Jaime Egan of Families.com commended the show's messages of inclusion and diversity, calling them "invaluable" and highlighting Frieda the Foot and Kako as stand-out characters. Ryan Ball of "Animation Magazine" described the show as "an offbeat new entry" to Noggin's lineup, adding that "the fact that all the characters are played by hands just adds to the quirkiness." In 2010, Babble.com listed "Oobi" second on their list of top twelve television series for babies and toddlers.
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target audience. 'The simplicity is really understandable by my two-year-old, but my ten-year-old really giggles at "Oobi". Andrew Dalton of "The Stir" stated that he was a fan of the show himself, adding that "Oobi" is "just happy to be simple and gleeful, and that actually makes it more appealing to sit and watch as a grown-up." "The San Diego Union-Tribune"s Jane Clifford felt that it could be enjoyed by viewers of all ages, remarking that "if as a kid you ever drew eyes or a mouth on your hand and then 'talked' to a friend, you'll relate to this show." The "Arkansas Democrat-Gazette" named "Oobi" the best cable premiere of April 2003, reporting: "I've seen every blessed minute of each general-audience | 14,637 |
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premiere; they are good. But another new show outreaches the rest: "Oobi"." In a 2018 interview, Noel MacNeal recounted, "Some of our biggest fans became [college] kids coming back from parties, who were just like really stoned, and would just sit and watch "Oobi"."
## Awards and nominations.
In spring 2001, Little Airplane Productions was the recipient of a Parents' Choice Television Gold Award for "Oobi". Later in the same year, "Oobi" won a Kids First Endorsement Award, presented by the Coalition for Quality Children's Media. It was also nominated for the organization's Best Children's Film or Video Awards. In 2004, the series received a second Parents' Choice Award, and a nomination in | 14,638 |
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the "Up to 6 Fiction" category at the . In 2007, Common Sense Media named the series on its annual list of "Best Bets for Young Kids 2-4." In June 2009, Josh Selig was presented with an Innovation Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation for his work on the show. In 2014, Prix Jeunesse recognized the series in its category "The Greatest Impact Programmes of the Last 50 Years."
Havas Worldwide and Durex's commercial featuring "Oobi", "Farewell Elizabeth", was also the recipient of one award and three nominations in 2014. It was nominated in two categories at the Kristal Elma awards, which were presented by . It won a Silver Prize at the Loeries, and was a finalist in the | 14,639 |
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2014 Epica Awards.
## Cultural impact.
"Oobi" has made an impression on celebrities. Actress Uma Thurman, who shares her first name with the character of Uma, revealed to Stephanie D'Abruzzo (who plays "Oobi"s Uma) that she was familiar with the show and its characters in 2004. As part of his "Brotherhood 2.0" project, author John Green featured Oobi in an installment of his video blog series "Vlogbrothers". In a humorous sketch, the show's title character demonstrated how to write a book proposal alongside a sock puppet. Clips from "Oobi" were frequently shown on Joel McHale's "The Soup" during the segment "What the Kids Are Watching", in which McHale took scenes from children's programs | 14,640 |
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out of context and provided sarcastic commentary on them. After watching a scene from the "Showtime!" episode that depicted Oobi and Kako glued together, McHale joked about the puppets being homosexual.
During its run, the series developed a cult following of Muppet fans and amateur filmmakers who created their own "Oobi" puppets. Before "Oobi" premiered as a long-form program in 2003, Amy Amatengelo of the "Boston Herald" stated that the "Oobi" shorts were "already very popular" with "those of the Muppet generation." In the same article, Tom Ascheim stated that Oobi "gets fan mail," attributing the popularity to viewers' ability to make their own "Oobi" puppets. In 2004, "The Melbourne Age" | 14,641 |
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reported that "the show - the work of various "Sesame Street alumni" - is developing a strong cult following; the real Uma [Thurman] is said to be a fan of hand Uma." An online catalogue of unofficial "Oobi" puppets and accessories, OobiEyes.com, was operated from 2006 to 2013. A community of amateur puppeteers who created fan films with "Oobi" puppets existed during the early years of the YouTube website, and OobiEyes.com held an advertising campaign with YouTube in 2008.
One of the runner-ups of the 2009 Cannes Young Lions Competition, a television advertising contest, was an Oxfam commercial based on "Oobi". Titled "Let Your Hands Do the Talking," it featured spoofs of celebrities portrayed | 14,642 |
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as hand puppets and given "Oo"-themed names in the vein of Oobi and Uma.
The show is mentioned in a variety of books published by television producers, puppeteers, and parents of young children. Satirist Neal Pollack mentions the show in his autobiography "Alternadad", in which he notes that "Oobi" "offered the standard share-and-be-creative message ... it also featured a hilarious character called Grampu." It is briefly referenced in Laura Lynn's "Ariel's Office", in which the narrator describes her daughter watching Noggin, and being transfixed by "Oobi". It is described as a "Noggin show that use[s] Señor Wences-style human hand puppets" in Dade Hayes's novel "Anytime Playdate", which investigates | 14,643 |
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the preschool entertainment business and its effect on parenting. Robert Rodriguez, a filmmaker who directed "Sharkboy and Lavagirl" and the "Spy Kids" franchise, also likens the show to Señor Wences' puppets in his book "The 1950s' Most Wanted". Lisa Guernsey mentions that "Oobi" "promot[es] cognitive growth" in her 2012 book "Screen Time", which reports on how electronic media affects children.
# Related media.
## Video releases and books.
"Oobi" shorts and episode clips were included in many Nick Jr. DVDs released in 2003 and 2004, beginning with "Blue's Clues: Shapes and Colors!", which contained the "Dance!" short. The final video to include a clip from the show was "Oswald: On-the-Go | 14,644 |
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Oswald", which featured a clip from the "Dance Class!" episode. Several of these videos have been repackaged and sold in DVD packs as recently as 2015.
"Oobi" has been featured in many television-related magazines. Information about the show was frequently incorporated into "Nick Jr. Magazine", whose August 2004 edition included an "Oobi"-themed craft section. In summer 2004, "TV Guide" published excerpts from an interview with Stephanie D'Abruzzo about the show. The series is mentioned in the September 2004 issue of "Big Apple Parent" among Little Airplane's other works. The October 2004 issue of "Playthings" includes an interview with Josh Selig about his company, along with two photos of | 14,645 |
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"Oobi" characters. "Kidscreen" regularly included news about the series. In July 2005, it mentioned the show in a description of the Little Airplane Academy. The June 2007 issue included a story about how Little Airplane conceived the "Oobi" series' title.
## Online content.
"Oobi" activities were available on Noggin.com from 2002 to 2009. Kenny Miller of Viacom announced the addition of "Oobi" to the site in an interview with PR Newswire, describing the show's online webpage as a place "where kids can match shapes with bubbles, colors with snacks, compose music, and draw and dance with Oobi." Many interactive games were created to coincide with the shorts. From 2004 to 2006, printables featuring | 14,646 |
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the characters were also released on the site. The games based on the show were mentioned by "Time" magazine when it named Noggin.com one of the 50 best sites of 2004, and by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences when the site won a Webby Award in 2005.
The majority of the games received positive reviews. In 2006, the AACE organization listed the "Oobi's Letters" game as an online resource that helped players develop "critical components of children's development." Jean Armour Polly and Heidi Kotansky of Common Sense Media wrote positively of the more informative activities, but noted that some lacked a sufficient amount of educational content. They write, "in Oobi's Bubbles, | 14,647 |
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kids drag a bubble wand next to Oobi's 'mouth' so he can blow bubbles. This just teaches tots to click and drag. Wouldn't it be more fun to do this with real wands and soapy water?"
## Promotional events.
The 2001 North American Trade Show Tour in Saint Paul, Minnesota, included a replica of the "Oobi" set. Noggin's other displays at the show were all related to "Sesame Street"; the "Oobi" display was included as part of the "Sesame" tour. The display was designed and constructed by Matthew Allar, a scenographer for Viacom Media Networks. "Oobi" was also a recurring theme of "Club Noggin", a monthly event taking place at malls across the United States. Episodes of the show were screened at | 14,648 |
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these events, and visitors were supplied with "Oobi" puppet eyes and activities.
Fifteen minutes of "Oobi" shorts were played as part of the 2001 Kids First Film and Video Festival, presented by the Coalition for Quality Children's Media. The festival was a nationwide event; the first screening occurred in Santa Fe, New Mexico, followed by subsequent showings at fifty locations across the United States. From 2002 to 2004, "Oobi" shorts were also broadcast regularly at Jillian's restaurants as part of the chain's "Noggin Play Day" promotion. At these events, attendees could watch a live feed of Noggin with themed activities and meals.
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at Jillian's restaurants as part of the chain's "Noggin Play Day" promotion. At these events, attendees could watch a live feed of Noggin with themed activities and meals.
""Oobi" Arts and Crafts" sessions were held throughout November 2007 at Nickelodeon Suites Resort in Orlando, Florida. Sets of plastic "Oobi" puppet eyes, identical to those at Club Noggin, were distributed to hotel guests at these events.
# See also.
- History of "Sesame Street"
- "Sesame Street" research
- "Wonder Pets", another series created by Josh Selig on which much of "Oobi"s staff worked
# External links.
- Page on Little Airplane Productions
- Page on NickJr.com
- "Oobi" at Moviefone
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Orangeville, Ontario
Orangeville (UA population 30,734) is a town in south-central Ontario, Canada, and the seat of Dufferin County.
# History.
The archeological record in Dufferin County dates indigenous occupation of the area to the "early Paleo-Indian" time period from 9000 to 8400 BCE. What eventually became Orangeville and Dufferin County, was historically the traditional territory of the Tionontati or Petún (Tobaco) People. "The Petun occupied from eight to ten villages located below the Niagara Escarpment along the southwest margin of Georgian Bay". Although described in the Encyclopædia Britannica as "living in the mountains south of Nottawasaga Bay, in what are now Grey and Simcoe | 14,651 |
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counties", according to Sawden's "A History of Dufferin County" the Petún also lived farther south at the source of the Grand River in Dufferin County.
The Petún were decimated by European diseases in the 1630s, going from a population of approximately 8000 to 3000, and were subsequently attacked by the Iroquois in December 1649 further reducing their numbers to fewer than 1000. They then fled along with other Huron peoples into the United States, while other Petún sought refuge with their French allies and settled in Quebec. This Iroqouis attack was not exclusive to the Petún, but was a part of the Beaver Wars, in which the Iroquois sought to expand their territory and monopolize the fur trade, | 14,652 |
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the trade between European markets, and the trade between tribes of the Great Lakes region.
After the decimation and dispersal of the Huron, Petún, and Neutral people of southern Ontario, Algonkian peoples from northern Ontario moved into the area at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century, while members of the Three Fires Confederacy (Chippewa, Odawa, Potawatomi) moved into southern Ontario from Ohio and Michigan in the late 1700s. During the pre-confederation Treaty era, Anishinaabe or Chippewa First Nations signed Treaty #18 on Oct 17th, 1818, which included the Dufferin County area. Today, the descendants of Petún call themselves Wyandotte, and despite the 350 | 14,653 |
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years since their displacement from southern Ontario, and despite the heteroglot and diasporic nature of their contemporary communities (located in Oklahoma, Michigan, Kansas, and Quebec), they continue to recognize their shared history and are united through a modern-day Wyandotte Confederacy.
The first patent of land was issued to Ezekiel Benson, a land surveyor, on August 7, 1820. That was followed by land issued to Alan Robinet in 1822. In 1863, Orangeville was named after Orange Lawrence, a businessman born in Connecticut in 1796 who owned several mills in the village. As a young man, he moved to Canada and settled in Halton County. During Mackenzie's rebellion in 1837, he was a captain | 14,654 |
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in the militia. Lawrence purchased the land that became Orangeville from Robert Hughson. Orange Lawrence committed suicide December 15, 1861. In 1873, the Act of Incorporation was passed and Orangeville was given town status on January 1, 1874. The public library, located at Broadway and Mill Street, was completed in 1908. Andrew Carnegie, well-known businessman and philanthropist, provided financial assistance for its construction.
# Economy.
Orangeville serves as an administrative and commercial hub for Dufferin County, the northern portion of Peel Region and the surrounding area. Orangeville's downtown core is home to several retail stores, and there is a cluster of big-box stores in the | 14,655 |
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Fairgrounds Shopping Centre. Many residents in and around Orangeville also commute to other areas of the Greater Toronto Area for work.
There are a number of manufacturing plants located in the town. Major industrial employers include Greening Donald (automotive airbag components), Resolve Corporation (computer outsourcing), Clorox Company of Canada (Glad garbage bags), Relizon Canada (pressure-sensitive labels), Rochling Engineering Plastics (formerly Symplastics Limited) (plastic sheets) and Sanoh Canada (automotive components). Orangeville is also the main banking center for residents in the area.
# Transportation.
The main intersection in the heart of the town is Broadway (formerly Ontario | 14,656 |
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Highway 9) and First Street. Highway 10 runs through Orangeville on its east side.
Beginning in 2005, a major roadwork project was initiated to resurface Broadway through Orangeville. The downtown section was completed in early 2006, with extensive work still to be done on the west end in late 2006. In conjunction with this project, there was another one completed in late 2006 that involved building large planters in the middle of Broadway through the downtown section between First and Third Streets (West - East). The project was controversial, as safety concerns had been raised by the Fire Department because the new concrete planters in the middle of the road have made the rights of way too | 14,657 |
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narrow for fire trucks to properly set up in case of a fire in a downtown building.
Construction of the South Arterial Road, often referred to as the 'Orangeville by-pass', was completed on August 3, 2005. The road runs from east to west, connecting Highway 10 and County Road 109 (formerly Highway 9). Much of the eastern stretch runs through the Town of Caledon, but officially enters into Orangeville at the Townline Road controlled intersection.
Aecon Construction and Materials Limited was the successful bidder for the Design Build project with a price of $9.8 million. The project was completed in conjunction with Brampton-based Armbro Construction, TSH Engineers Architects Planners, Peto | 14,658 |
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MacCallum Ltd. and Gartner Lee Ltd.
Orangeville Transit is the town's own public transit system, and there is a commuter GO Transit bus service to Brampton. In the early 1990s, preliminary plans were drawn up for GO Transit rail service to Orangeville. However, it never got past the drawing board.
Industries in Orangeville are served by the Orangeville Brampton Railway, which purchased of surplus track from the Canadian Pacific Railway. The railway connects with the CPR in Streetsville, and also services customers in Brampton to the south. From 2004 to 2018, a tourist train was operated on weekends in summer months.
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serve Orangeville, to be called the Huron and Ontario Electric Railway.
# Demographics.
According to the 2016 Canadian Census, the population of Orangeville is 28,900, a 3.3% increase from 2011, with a per annum average growth rate over the same period. The area is , giving a population density of . The median age is 38.8 years, lower than the national median age of 41.2 years. There are 10,696 private dwellings with an occupancy rate of 98.8%. According to the 2015 National Household Survey, the median value of a dwelling in Orangeville is $400,320, higher than the national average at $341,556. The median household income (after-taxes) in Orangeville is $73,605, higher than the national median | 14,660 |
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of $61,348.
Orangeville inhabitants are predominantly of European descent. The racial composition of Orangeville is:
# Education.
Upper Grand District School Board operates secular anglophone public schools. The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board operates anglophone catholic public schools. The "Conseil scolaire Viamonde" operates secular francophone schools serving the area. The "Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud" operates catholic francophone schools serving the area.
There are currently eleven public and separate elementary schools in Orangeville: Credit Meadows, Mono Amaranth, Montgomery Village, Parkinson Centennial, Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, | 14,661 |
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St. Andrew's RC, St. Benedict's RC, St. Peter's RC, Island Lake Public School and Spencer Avenue Elementary, as well as a holding school, formerly Springbrook Elementary. Along with these publicly funded schools, there are several private schools in the area: Headwater Hills Montessori School, Dufferin Area Christian School, Hillcrest Private School, The Maples Independent Country School, Orangeville Christian School.
A French elementary school named L'École élémentaire de Quatre-rivièrs (translated as "Four Rivers Elementary School") currently resides in the old Springbrook Elementary building despite the reason for closing the school being 'structural' problems. Most of these problems are | 14,662 |
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said to be the result of 'improper foundation for the area' as the school was built upon a swamp. It is currently being used as a holding school that other schools including Island Lake, Montgomery Village, and Princess Margaret, have used while repairs, renovations, rebuilds and construction were completed.
There are two secondary schools within the boundaries of Orangeville: Westside Secondary School and Orangeville District Secondary School (ODSS). A catholic secondary school Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School draws around 1000 students from Orangeville and the rest of the county despite being within the Region of Peel.
Humber College is scheduled to offer full-time programs in Fall | 14,663 |
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2007 at a temporary location at the Alder Street arena. A new campus was planned on an site located on Veteran's Way. The first phase of the new facility is planned to open in late fall 2007 or early 2008. Upon opening, the campus is expected to accommodate up to 400 students, expanding to 2,000 by 2017. As of July 2016, Humber is still run out of Alder Street arena.
Georgian College currently owns and operates a campus offering full & part-time courses located at 22 Centennial Road. It is also delivering Employment programs and services out of a location on 51 Townline.
# Culture.
Orangeville hosts the annual Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival.
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Orangeville Opera House. This facility is the home base of professional theatre company Theatre Orangeville, and hosts plays and concerts throughout the year.
Begun in 2003, Orangeville's Art Walk of Tree Sculptures features more than 50 detailed works by local artists. The sculptures are carved from old maple trees that have died from natural causes. The largest tree sculpture is a tribute to Canadiana and the centrepiece of a small newly-developed park. It is a story totem entitled Nature's Unity, and celebrates Canada's 150th birthday.
# Sports.
The Orangeville Flyers were a junior 'A' ice hockey team and part of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. They played home games at the Alder Street | 14,665 |
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Recreation Facility until moving to Brampton in 2018. Orangeville was also home to a professional basketball team, the Orangeville A's of the National Basketball League of Canada, who played at the Orangeville Athlete Institute. The Athlete Institute Academy is home to Orangeville Prep, which has produced two top-10 NBA draft picks.
The Orangeville Northmen junior A and B box lacrosse teams are based in Orangeville.
# Media.
There are two local newspapers based in Orangeville, the "Orangeville Citizen" and the "Orangeville Banner".
Two radio stations originate from Orangeville, adult contemporary CKMO-FM ("MyFM 101.5") and rhythmic contemporary CIDC-FM ("Z103.5"), although the latter station | 14,666 |
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has historically targeted the broader Greater Toronto Area and Toronto (having moved its tower closer to the city, and operating from studios in Etobicoke) rather than operate as an Orangeville-specific outlet, and has faced orders from the CRTC requesting that the station regularly broadcast more content (including news and information) with specific relevance to Orangeville. CKMO, which launched in 2015, does specifically target Orangeville.
Until June 2005, Rogers Television maintained its Peel North studio and production facility at 98 C-Line. The facility was closed to allow for expansion of the Peel North headend.
# Government and politics.
Orangeville is located in provincial electoral | 14,667 |
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district of Dufferin—Caledon. This was changed from Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey when the Province instituted the 107 electoral districts revision in 2006. Its current Member of Provincial Parliament is Sylvia Jones, former assistant to Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leader, John Tory. Federally, Orangeville is located in the Dufferin—Caledon electoral district. Its elected Member of Parliament is currently David Tilson of the Conservative Party.
# Notable people.
- Nana Attakora, MLS, defender currently playing with Ottawa Fury
- Keith Beavers, Olympic swimmer (2004 and 2008)
- Sarah Bonikowsky, Olympic rower (2008)
- Borealis, power metal band
- Brian Buchanan, Enter the | 14,668 |
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Haggis/Jubilee Riots
- Ryan Cooley, actor who portrayed J.T. Yorke on ""
- Adam Copeland, WWE Hall of Famer, retired professional wrestler/actor better known as "The Rated R Superstar" Edge
- Nick Cvjetkovich, professional wrestler better known as Kizarny in WWE and Sinn in TNA
- Robertson Davies, author, died in December 1995 at Orangeville
- DVBBS, famous for Tsunami, electronic music duo
- Dan Ellis goalie for the Florida Panthers of the NHL, former Orangeville Crushers goalie
- Laurie Graham, represented Canada at 3 Olympic games in downhill skiing and won 6 World Cup races
- Thon Maker, alumnus of the Athlete Institute and 2016 draft pick of the Milwaukee Bucks
- Jamal Murray, | 14,669 |
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alumnus of the Athlete Institute and 2016 draft pick of the Denver Nuggets
- Jason Reso, WWE and TNA World Champion, retired professional wrestler, better known as Christian Cage/Christian
- Brett Ritchie, Dallas Stars, NHL
- Nick Ritchie, Anaheim Ducks, NHL
Orangeville has produced a number of notable National Lacrosse League players, including:
- Bruce Codd
- Pat Coyle, NLL Defensive Player of the Year in 2002
- Rusty Kruger
- Brodie Merrill, NLL Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in 2006
- Brandon Miller
- the Sanderson family, including Terry, Nathan, Josh, Phil, and Chris
- Dillon Ward, NLL, MVP of 2014 World Lacrosse Championships
# Accolade.
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r
- Brodie Merrill, NLL Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in 2006
- Brandon Miller
- the Sanderson family, including Terry, Nathan, Josh, Phil, and Chris
- Dillon Ward, NLL, MVP of 2014 World Lacrosse Championships
# Accolade.
On November 4, 2015, The Canadian Institute of Planners announced winners of its fifth annual Great Places in Canada contest. A jury of seven professional planners named Broadway as the Great Street. "The jury was impressed by the central role Broadway plays in the Orangeville community, along with the heritage character and streetscape design."
# External links.
- Town of Orangeville
- Orangeville Time Machine, photos from the past & present | 14,671 |
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Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor.
Established in 1983 to encourage young writers by bringing their work to the attention of readers and reviewers, it has since become a significant proving ground for newcomers.
It is awarded annually to two winners for a collection of short stories or novellas. Authors of winning manuscripts receive a cash award of $1,000, and their collections are subsequently published under a standard contract. The Press occasionally selects more than two winners.
Due to a plagiarism | 14,672 |
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scandal, no award is recognized for 2004. "See also: Brad Vice." Starting in 2016, there was only one winner per competition cycle.
# Winners.
- 1983 David Walton for "Evening Out"
- 1983 Leigh Allison Wilson for "From the Bottom Up"
- 1984 Mary Hood for "How Far She Went"
- 1984 Sandra Thompson for "Close-Ups"
- 1984 Susan Neville for "The Invention of Flight"
- 1985 Daniel Curley "Living with Snakes"
- 1985 François Camoin for "Why Men are Afraid of Women"
- 1985 Molly Giles for "Rough Translations"
- 1986 Peter Meinke for "The Piano Tuner"
- 1986 Tony Ardizzone for "The Evening News"
- 1987 Melissa Pritchard for "Spirit Seizures"
- 1987 Salvatore La Puma for "The Boys of Bensonhurst"
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1988 Gail Galloway Adams for "The Purchase of Order"
- 1988 Philip F. Deaver for "Silent Retreats"
- 1989 Carol L. Glickfeld for "Useful Gifts"
- 1990 Antonya Nelson for "The Expendables"
- 1990 Debra Monroe for "The Source of Trouble"
- 1990 Nancy Zafris for "The People I Know"
- 1991 Robert H. Abel for "Ghost Troops"
- 1991 T. M. McNally for "Low flying Aircraft"
- 1992 Alfred DePew for "The Melancholy of Departure"
- 1993 Alyce Miller for "The Nature of Longing"
- 1993 Dianne Nelson for "A Brief History of Male Nudes in America"
- 1995 C. M. Mayo for "Sky Over El Nido"
- 1996 Ha Jin for "Under the Red Flag"
- 1996 Paul Rawlins for "No Lie Like Love"
- 1996 Wendy Brenner for | 14,674 |
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"Large Animals in Everyday Life"
- 1998 Frank Soos for "Unified Field Theory"
- 1999 Hester Kaplan for "The Edge of Marriage"
- 1999 Mary Clyde for "Survival Rates"
- 2000 Robert Anderson for "Ice Age"
- 2000 Darrell Spencer for "Caution: Men in Trees"
- 2001 Bill Roorbach for "Big Bend"
- 2001 Dana Johnson for "Break Any Woman Down"
- 2002 Kellie Wells for "Compression Scars"
- 2002 Rita Ciresi for "Mother Rocket"
- 2003 Catherine Brady for "Curled in the Bed of Love"
- 2003 Ed Allen for "Ate It Anyway"
- 2005 David Crouse for "Copy Cats"
- 2006 Greg Downs for "Spit Baths"
- 2007 Anne Panning for "Super America"
- 2007 Margot Singer for "The Pale of Settlement"
- 2007 Peter | 14,675 |
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LaSalle for "Tell Borges If You See Him"
- 2008 Andrew J. Porter for "The Theory of Light and Matter"
- 2008 Peter Selgin for "Drowning Lessons"
- 2009 Geoffrey Becker for "Black Elvis"
- 2009 Lori Ostlund "The Bigness of the World"
- 2010 Jessica Treadway for "Please Come Back to Me"
- 2010 Linda L. Grover for "The Dance Boots"
- 2011 Amina Gautier for "At-Risk"
- 2011 Melinda Moustakis for "Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories"
- 2012 E.J. Levy for "Love, In Theory"
- 2012 Hugh Sheehy for "The Invisibles"
- 2013 Jacqueline Gorman for "The Viewing Room"
- 2013 Tom Kealey for "Thieves I've Known"
- 2014 Karin Lin-Greenberg for "Faulty Predictions"
- 2014 Monica McFawn for "Bright | 14,676 |
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Boots"
- 2011 Amina Gautier for "At-Risk"
- 2011 Melinda Moustakis for "Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories"
- 2012 E.J. Levy for "Love, In Theory"
- 2012 Hugh Sheehy for "The Invisibles"
- 2013 Jacqueline Gorman for "The Viewing Room"
- 2013 Tom Kealey for "Thieves I've Known"
- 2014 Karin Lin-Greenberg for "Faulty Predictions"
- 2014 Monica McFawn for "Bright Shards of Someplace Else"
- 2014 Toni Graham for "The Suicide Club"
- 2015 Anne Raeff for "The Jungle Around Us"
- 2015 Lisa Graley for "The Current that Carries"
- 2016 Becky Mandelbaum for "Bad Kansas"
- 2017 Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum for "What We Do With the Wreckage"
# See also.
- List of American literary awards | 14,677 |
1214869 | Halls | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Halls | Halls
ls
Halls is a plural of the word hall.
Halls may also refer to:
- Halls of residence, a type of student housing or dormitory
- Halls (cough drop), a brand of cough drop
- Halls, Georgia, an unincorporated community
- Halls, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Halls, Tennessee, a town in West Tennessee
- Not to be confused with Halls Crossroads, Tennessee, a suburb of Knoxville sometimes colloquially referred to as "Halls"
- Halls, an upscale department store owned by Hallmark Cards, with two locations in Kansas City, Missouri
- John Halls (born 1982), a British professional footballer
- Hall's, later name for a defunct Australian soft drink company, originally Geo. Hall & Sons | 14,678 |
1214849 | I Robot (album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I%20Robot%20(album) | I Robot (album)
I Robot (album)
I Robot is the second studio album by British progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released on 1 June 1977 by Arista Records. The album draws conceptually on author Isaac Asimov's science fiction "Robot" trilogy, exploring philosophical themes regarding artificial intelligence. It was re-released on vinyl and cassette tape in 1984 and on CD 2007.
# Background and concept.
The album was intended to be based on the "I, Robot" stories written by Asimov, and Eric Woolfson spoke with Asimov himself, who was enthusiastic about the idea. As the rights already had been granted to a TV/movie company, the album's title was altered slightly by removing the comma in "I,", and | 14,679 |
1214849 | I Robot (album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I%20Robot%20(album) | I Robot (album)
the theme and lyrics were made to be more generically about robots rather than to be specific to the Asimov universe. The cover inlay reads: "I Robot... The story of the rise of the machine and the decline of man, which paradoxically coincided with his discovery of the wheel... and a warning that his brief dominance of this planet will probably end, because man tried to create robot in his own image." The title of the final track, "Genesis Ch.1 v.32", follows this theme by implying a continuation to the story of Creation, since the first chapter of Genesis only has 31 verses.
# Artwork.
The album cover photo features the band members in the escalator tubes of the circular Terminal 1 building | 14,680 |
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of the Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris. Over this is superimposed a painting of a robot with a stylised atom for a brain. The robot also appears on the label of the record. The original vinyl release has a gatefold-style cover; the inside spread has the lyrics and a monochrome photograph of Parsons. The pose and angle of the photograph echoes that of the robot on the front cover.
# Singles.
Three singles were released from the album: "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You", "Don't Let it Show" and "Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)". The LP track "Breakdown" went into heavy rotation on AOR stations and continues to be played on classic rock radio.
# Reissues.
"I Robot" has been reissued | 14,681 |
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multiple times in various formats since its initial release on vinyl, including numerous audiophile releases. Besides the 8-track, vinyl and compact-cassette releases, Arista also released the original aluminum CD along with the rest of the Project albums, up to that time. Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) released the album on standard vinyl (MFSL 1-084), UHQR vinyl (MFQR 1-084), and on aluminium CD (MFCD-1-804). Classic Records has released the album in analogue form on 180-gram vinyl, as well as digitally on HDAD (24 bit/192 kHz and 24 bit/96 kHz DVD-Audio). JVC released the album as a K2 edition, with "Ammonia Avenue" and "Eye in the Sky". In 2007, as part of a larger campaign, Sony released | 14,682 |
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a remastered version along with bonus tracks on CD. It was later released in Japan as an SHM-CD, with the same mastering.
The album was re-released under Legacy Recordings as a "legacy edition" in 2013 on CD, with an extra disc with unreleased bonus tracks, mastered by Dave Donelly. There was also a vinyl edition with the same mastering launched one month later.
# In popular culture.
"Don't Let It Show" was covered by Pat Benatar for her "In the Heat of the Night" LP. Gail Godwin describes it as "much more sentimental than the usual Alan Parsons". "Some Other Time" was also covered by Arjen Anthony Lucassen in his 2012 album "Lost in the New Real". "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" is featured | 14,683 |
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in the 2013 video game "Grand Theft Auto V" on the fictional radio station Los Santos Rock Radio. "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" is also featured in an episode of the Netflix series Mindhunter.
# Track listing.
All songs written and composed by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, except where noted.
- 2007 reissue bonus tracks
- 2. li value=11"Boules" (I Robot experiment) – 1:59
- 3. "Breakdown" (early demo of backing riff) – 2:09
- 4. "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" (backing track rough mix) – 3:28
- 5. "Day After Day" (early stage rough mix) – 3:40
- 6. "The Naked Robot" – 10:19
- 2013 Sony Music Entertainment reissue bonus tracks
- 2. li value=11"U.S Radio Commercial for I Robot | 14,684 |
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– 1:01
- 3. "I Robot (Boules Experiment)" – 1:59
- 4. "I Robot" (Hilary Western Vocal Rehearsal) – 1:33
- 5. "Extract 1 from The Alan Parsons Project Audio Guide" – 1:04
- 6. "Extract 2 from The Alan Parsons Project Audio Guide" – 0:57
- 7. "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" (backing track rough mix) – 3:28
- 8. "Some Other Time" (Complete vocal by Jaki Whitren) – 3:43
- 9. "Breakdown" (early demo of backing riff) – 2:09
- 10. "Extract 3 from The Alan Parsons Project Audio Guide" – 0:31
- 11. "Breakdown - The Choir" – 1:51
- 12. "Don't let it Show" (Eric Woolfson demo) – 3:26
- 13. "Day After Day" (early stage rough mix) – 3:40
- 14. "Genesis Ch. 1 V. 32" (Choir session) – 2:18
- | 14,685 |
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15. "The Naked Robot" – 10:19
# Personnel.
- David Paton – bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
- Stuart Tosh – drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Ian Bairnson – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals
- Eric Woolfson - keyboards, vocoder, backing vocals
- Alan Parsons - keyboards, vocoder, backing vocals, acoustic guitar
- Duncan Mackay – keyboards
- B.J. Cole – steel guitar
- John Leach – cimbalom, kantele
- Lenny Zakatek, Allan Clarke, Steve Harley, Jack Harris, Peter Straker, Jaki Whitren, Dave Townsend, the English Chorale, the New Philharmonia Chorus – vocals
- Hilary Western - backing vocals
- Smokey Parsons - backing vocals
- Tony Rivers, John Perry and Stu Calver | 14,686 |
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d acoustic guitars, backing vocals
- Eric Woolfson - keyboards, vocoder, backing vocals
- Alan Parsons - keyboards, vocoder, backing vocals, acoustic guitar
- Duncan Mackay – keyboards
- B.J. Cole – steel guitar
- John Leach – cimbalom, kantele
- Lenny Zakatek, Allan Clarke, Steve Harley, Jack Harris, Peter Straker, Jaki Whitren, Dave Townsend, the English Chorale, the New Philharmonia Chorus – vocals
- Hilary Western - backing vocals
- Smokey Parsons - backing vocals
- Tony Rivers, John Perry and Stu Calver - backing vocals on "Some Other Time"
- Produced and engineered by Alan Parsons, executive producer Eric Woolfson
- Orchestra and choir arranged and conducted by Andrew Powell | 14,687 |
1214851 | Gerald Götting | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerald%20Götting | Gerald Götting
Gerald Götting
Gerald Götting (9 June 1923 – 19 May 2015) was a German politician and chairman of the East German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1966 until 1989. He served as President of the People's Chamber ("Volkskammer") from 1969 to 1976 and deputy chairman of the State Council of East Germany from 1960 to 1989.
# Life.
Götting was born in Nietleben, in the Prussian Province of Saxony, today part of Halle/Saale. During World War II, he served in the Reichsarbeitsdienst, an auxiliary support and supply organization, and later in the Wehrmacht. He was briefly held as a prisoner of war by US forces in 1945.
In 1946, Götting joined the East German Christian Democratic Union, a Christian-democratic | 14,688 |
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party. He then spent two years at the Martin Luther University of Halle, where he studied German studies, history and philology.
In 1949, Götting became General Secretary of the CDU and, after the establishment in the Soviet Zone of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was elected as a member of the People's Chamber (Volkskammer), the East German legislative body, in which he served for the next forty years. A loyal supporter of the Communist Socialist Unity Party, Götting helped push out those CDU members not willing to do the SED's bidding in the 1950s.
Over the years, Götting came to hold a number of influential positions within the East German state: from 1949 to 1963, he served as the | 14,689 |
1214851 | Gerald Götting | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerald%20Götting | Gerald Götting
Chairman of the CDU faction in the People's Chamber; from 1958 to 1963 as Deputy Prime Minister of the GDR; and from 1963 to November 1989 Götting served as Deputy Chairman of the Council of State, a position equivalent in rank to the vice-presidency of the GDR. Götting also served as Chairman of the People's Chamber from 1969 to 1976 and as its Vice-Chairman from 1969 to 1989. Finally, Götting was elected Chairman of the CDU at its 1966 party congress. As chairman, he worked closely with the other parties that formed the National Front, the SED-dominated alliance that governed East Germany. During his party leadership, he published brochures exploring the relationship between Christianity and | 14,690 |
1214851 | Gerald Götting | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerald%20Götting | Gerald Götting
socialism.
Götting held a number of other positions in East German society. From 1961 to 1969, Götting was Vice-President of the German-African Society, and from 1963 he was a member of the Albert Schweitzer Committee. He visited with Schweitzer twice, which meetings he recorded and publicized in his book “Begegnungen mit Albert Schweitzer“. In 1976, Götting was elected Chairman of the People's Friendship League of the GDR.
On 2 November 1989, just days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Götting was forced to resign as Chairman of the CDU. Five days later he stepped down from his position as a member of the Council of State, too. In December Götting was arrested, but released in February | 14,691 |
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Wall, Götting was forced to resign as Chairman of the CDU. Five days later he stepped down from his position as a member of the Council of State, too. In December Götting was arrested, but released in February 1990.
On 19 May 2015 Götting died in Berlin, aged 91.
# Works.
- Der Christ sagt ja zum Sozialismus (1960)
- Begegnung mit Albert Schweitzer (1961)
- Christen und Marxisten in gemeinsamer Verantwortung (1974)
- Christliche Demokraten auf dem Weg in die 90er Jahre (1988)
- Prediger für eine gerechte Welt (1989)
# Further reading.
- Kurt Nowak (1988) "Paul Gerhard Braune. Ein Christ der Tat." .
- David Childs (1983): "The GDR: Moscow's German Ally. "London: George Allen & Unwin | 14,692 |
1214837 | Financial system in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Financial%20system%20in%20Australia | Financial system in Australia
Financial system in Australia
The Australian financial system consists of the arrangements covering the borrowing and lending of funds and the transfer of ownership of financial claims in Australia, comprising:
- authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) or financial institutions, comprising banks, credit unions and building societies,
- non bank financial institutions (NBFI),
- insurance (life and general),
- superannuation,
- financial markets—debt, equity and derivative markets, and
- payments systems—cash, cheques, EFTPOS, RTGS and other high-value payment systems.
# Financial markets.
The main stock exchange operators in the Australian financial market are the Australian Securities | 14,693 |
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Exchange (ASX) and the smaller National Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX), both of which provide stock exchange facilities for Australian listed securities. NSX acquired the Bendigo Stock Exchange in June 2012 and merged its operations.
Most foreign exchange transactions are largely free from regulation, and the Reserve Bank of Australia has largely delegated its control to authorised money market dealers and foreign exchange dealers.
# Market participants.
Participants in the financial system consist of commercial banks, investment banks, finance companies, building or cooperative societies, credit unions, friendly societies, non bank financial institutions (NBFI), superannuation and approved | 14,694 |
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deposit funds, public unit trusts, cash management trusts, mortgage originators, insurance companies, institutional funds investing in and financing debt.
## Financial institutions.
Banking in Australia is dominated by what are known as the "big four", which are also referred to as the pillars of Australia's financial system:
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Commbank)
- Westpac Banking Corporation (Westpac)
- Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ)
- National Australia Bank (NAB)
There are several smaller banks with a presence throughout the country, and a large number of other financial institutions, such as credit unions. Many large foreign banks have a presence, but few have | 14,695 |
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a retail banking presence. The central bank is the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Since 2008 the Australian government has guaranteed deposits up to $250,000 per customer per institution against banking failure.
## Insurance market.
Australia's insurance market can be divided into roughly three components: life insurance, general insurance and health insurance. These markets have been fairly distinct, with most larger insurers focusing on only one type. However, in recent times several insurance companies have broadened their scope into more general financial services, and have faced competition from banks and subsidiaries of foreign financial conglomerates.
## Superannuation.
Superannuation | 14,696 |
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in Australia is government-supported and encouraged, and minimum provisions are compulsory for employees. Superannuation arrangements are provided by banks and insurance companies, though most funds are self-managed. Superannuation funds are tightly regulated.
# Payments and clearing systems.
There are several payment systems in use within Australia, many of which are regulated by Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet) (previously called Australian Payments Clearing Association), including:
## Cash.
The Australian currency is the Australian dollar, which is Australia's legal tender. Clearing and settling of cash payments (also called CS5) are regulated by APCA as the Australian Cash Distribution | 14,697 |
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Exchange System (ACDES).
## Cheques.
Cheques are still the most important non-cash payment instruments in Australia, in terms of the value transferred. The number of monthly cheque transactions in 2008 was 33.7 million with a value of $139.3 billion. Cheque use is in decline worldwide, but it is declining faster in Australia than many other countries. Between 2010 and 2014, cheque use in Australia declined by 42.8% with just over seven cheques written per person in 2014. In 2014, 166.6 million cheques were used in Australia, compared to 291.1 million in 2010. In 2015, cheque usage fell by a further 16.3%.
Cheques and other payment instruments (such as travellers cheques and warrants) (also | 14,698 |
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called CS1) are cleared and settled in accordance with the regulations and procedures set by APCS.
Cheques use MICR encoding containing the BSB and account number to identify the bank and account to debit, as well as other information to streamline the processing of cheques. In 2014, the cost of processing cheques was the highest of all modes of payments at $5 per transaction, compared to about $0.20 for direct debits.
A recent innovation has been digital cheque imaging, which involves images of cheques being captured by financial institutions and exchanged electronically between the relevant financial institutions rather than the previous costly practice of physically transporting paper cheques | 14,699 |
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