title: Street racing

text: The street racing video game series "Midnight Club" has been very successful in the market and is available on many platforms. This series includes the first title "Midnight Club" for the PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance; "Midnight Club II" for the PlayStation 2, PC and Xbox; and "" for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and then later released on the PlayStation Portable. "" was later released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. "" was the first of the series to be released on seventh generation video game consoles.


title: Street racing

text: Several missions in the popular "Grand Theft Auto" video game series see the player participating in races on the city streets. While a few are mandatory, most are offered as side-missions that the player can undertake to earn money. Some of these missions often involve vehicular combat in addition to regular street racing, with the player required to attack opponents via drive-by shooting, in order to damage their vehicles or kill the opposing driver.


title: Street racing

text: The "Need for Speed" series originally started on the 3DO system in 1994. Although the earlier games were noted for daytime racing on public roads with high-performance cars of their times, several later titles affiliated with street racing, which came out after the Midnight Club series was established, after Midnight Club II in particular. Among them, the "Underground" series (encompassing "" and ""), takes place at night in various urban areas, but lacks any police to pursue the player. "" reintroduces police pursuit into gameplay and is set in daytime. It also draws controversy by encouraging the player to damage police cars by any means necessary to acquire bounty. The next "Need for Speed" title, "" sees the return of night time racing and features police pursuits, although not mandatory to damage police cars as in the previous installment. The 2007 "Need for Speed" title, "" has gotten rid of the illegal street racing, and is now entirely legal, closed-track races, with no police involvementmuch to the disappointment of some of the series' fans (and worse reviews by most video game reviewers). The next title, "", does return to illegal street racing and features gameplay similar to "Most Wanted" and "Carbon". Unlike "Most Wanted" and "Carbon", this time the plot involves an undercover police officer who is trying to break up an international crime ring; however, the game was very badly reviewed, and considered by many to be the low point of the series. Two "Need for Speed" titles, "" and "", also feature street racing, whereas "" again returns to legal racing, much like "", but this time with much more emphasis on realism and driving style Precision or Aggression. "Need for Speed" (2015) returns the player to the streets, again in the night. "" is the latest entry in the franchise. Released on November 8, 2019, the game features legal, sanctioned races during the daytime, and illegal street racing during the night. The game also features a return of free-roaming police after their absence in previous entry, "Need for Speed Payback".


title: Street racing

text: The popular multi-platform (PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox, PSP, GameCube) series "Burnout" showcases fictional cars racing at high speed through traffic, with crashes rewarded by highly detailed slow motion destruction sequences. Later iterations include specific competition modes rewarding the largest monetary damage toll in specifically designed maps.


title: Street racing

text: Another game that features street racing is "Juiced" by THQ. The game mentions that it was developed with the intention of giving the gamer the thrill of high-speed driving.


title: Street racing

text: To meet commercial expectations, these games often compromise the realism of the car handling physics to give the user an easier gameplay experience. The greatest disparity is that most games have the player's vehicle being completely indestructible. This makes it possible to devise strategies that would be impossible in real life, such as using a wall to stop lateral velocity through a turnrather than picking an appropriate line.


title: Street racing

text: The "Cruis'n" series is also associated with street racing. The 1994 arcade game "Cruis'n USA" has several references to street racing, like real cars and an upgrading system such as spoilers, decals, neon lights, ground effects, and engines. However unlike in "Need For Speed", there is not a pursuit system nor car damage.


title: Street racing

text: The classic arcade game, which is also for the Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, PC, PSP, and GBA, "Crazy Taxi", has similarities to an illegal street race. Players choose a driver and a convertible taxicab without any seat belts, car hood, or car windows, and get passengers to their destinations while driving as if taking part in illegal street races all over San Francisco, New York, and Las Vegas.


title: Street racing

text: Several racetracks in the "Mario Kart" series involve street racing on a public road with traffic acting as hazards such as cars, buses, and trucks. The first game to include this feature is "Mario Kart 64", and it has appeared at least once in subsequent games.


title: Street racing

text: The Rush arcade racing games featured street racing in simplified versions of real-world cities with the first and third game taking place in San Francisco, California. The second game, however, had races in all sorts of cities all over the United States. These game did not feature any traffic to interfere with the race.


title: Mae Questel

text: Mae Questel (born Mae Kwestel, September 13, 1908 – January 4, 1998) was an American actress. She was best known for providing the voices for the animated characters Betty Boop (from 1931) and Olive Oyl (from 1933). She began in vaudeville, primarily working as an impressionist. She later performed on Broadway and in films and television, including her role as Aunt Bethany in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (1989).


title: Mae Questel

text: Born Mae Kwestel in the Bronx, New York City, to Simon and Freida (née Glauberman) Kwestel, she attended Morris High School and studied acting at the American Theatre Wing and with the Theatre Guild. Although she wanted to be an entertainer, her parents, who were Orthodox Jews, actively discouraged her from doing so, at one point forcing her to leave the Theatre Guild school.


title: Mae Questel

text: Nevertheless, at the age of 17, Questel won a talent contest held at the RKO Fordham Theatre in the Bronx by imitating actress and singer Helen Kane. She was signed by an agent and began performing in vaudeville as an impersonator. Billed as "Mae Questel – Personality Singer of Personality Songs," she did impressions of Fanny Brice, Marlene Dietrich, Eddie Cantor, Mae West, Maurice Chevalier and others, as well as doing animal imitations. She was seen by animator Max Fleischer, who was looking for an actress to provide the voice for his Betty Boop character. Questel's "Boop-boop-a-doop" routine, done in a style similar to the version Helen Kane created, while at the same time evoking something of the naughty allure of film star Clara Bow, was exactly what Fleischer wanted, and he hired Questel in 1931. She began as one of a number of actresses providing the character's voice, but soon took over the role exclusively.


title: Mae Questel

text: From 1931 until 1939, Questel provided the voice of Betty Boop in more than 50 animated shorts, the longest run for any actress doing that voice. During the 1930s, she released a recording of "On the Good Ship Lollipop" which sold more than two million copies. In 1988, she reprised her role as Betty Boop in a cameo appearance in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", which was Questel's most extensive work for Disney; she had provided brief additional voices for some of Disney's earlier films. Along with her voice work, and occasional on-camera appearance in Paramount shorts, Questel also attended Columbia University, where she studied drama.


title: Mae Questel

text: Beginning in 1933, Questel provided the voice for Olive Oyl in the Max Fleischer Popeye cartoons. She made her debut with "I Eats Me Spinach" and essentially became the permanent voice until her hiatus to start a family in 1938. She reportedly based Olive's nasal vocal quality and expression, "Oh, dear!" on the character actress ZaSu Pitts.


title: Mae Questel

text: Starting in 1938, Margie Hines, who was the original voice of Betty Boop, replaced Mae Questel when production made the transition to the Miami Studio, Florida. Questel returned as the voice of Olive Oyl in 1944 after the studio reorganized as Famous Studios, Paramount Pictures and had returned to New York, a role in which she would remain until 1962. She also filled in for Jack Mercer as the voice of Popeye for a small number of cartoons, made when Mercer was temporarily drawn into war service, alongside Floyd Buckley and Harry Foster Welch.


title: Mae Questel

text: When Hanna-Barbera began making the "All New Popeye" cartoons for television in 1978, Questel auditioned for the role of Olive Oyl but lost out to Marilyn Schreffler.


title: Mae Questel

text: In addition to her signature voices of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, Questel also provided the voice of Little Audrey. In 1958, she voiced Wendy the Good Little Witch in the theatrical Casper cartoon short "Which is Witch". In the 1950s, she was the voice for the title character of the pioneering interactive Saturday-morning cartoon series "Winky Dink and You". She provided the voice of Casper, the Friendly Ghost in Golden Records' "Casper the Friendly Ghost and Little Audrey Says" in 1962.


title: Mae Questel

text: In "The Flintstones" series she voiced characters from the spin-offs "The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show", "The Flintstone Comedy Hour" and the "Flintstone Frolics". She voiced Wiggy Rockstone after the original voice actress, Gay Autterson, left the role in 1982.


title: Mae Questel

text: She continued to provide the voices of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl in commercials, television specials and elsewhere for the rest of her life. In 1988, she reprised her role as Betty Boop in the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".


title: Mae Questel

text: In 1935, Mae Questel played the voice of the Woman in the Shoe in the Max Fleischer cartoon, "The Kids in the Shoe".


title: Mae Questel

text: Questel played a number of small parts, including appearing with Rudy Vallee as Betty Boop in the 1931 short "Musical Justice (1931)" and as a nurse in "The Musical Doctor" in 1932.


title: Mae Questel

text: In 1961, she was seen as a middle-aged bride in Jerry Lewis' "It's Only Money", one of Fanny Brice's mother's card-playing friends at the start of the film "Funny Girl" in 1968, and as the "Jewish Mama from Hell" in "New York Stories" in 1989 in Woody Allen's segment titled "Oedipus Wrecks"; she had earlier sung the song "Chameleon Days" on the soundtrack for Allen's film "Zelig" in 1983. Her last non-voice appearance was as the elderly Aunt Bethany in 1989's "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation".


title: Mae Questel

text: In 1973, Questel had a role in the short-lived ABC television sitcom "The Corner Bar", but she achieved perhaps her greatest visibility in television commercials, notably playing "Aunt Bluebell" in ads for Scott Towels from 1971 to 1979, and appeared in spots for Playtex, Folger's Coffee and others. She also appeared on panel shows and in daytime soap operas.


title: Mae Questel

text: Questel married Leo Balkin on December 22, 1930, and they were divorced prior to 1950. She married Jack E. Shelby on November 19, 1970; they remained married until his death. She had two sons, Robert Balkin and Richard Balkin.


title: Mae Questel

text: Questel was a Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election.


title: Mae Questel

text: Questel died on January 4, 1998, from complications related to Alzheimer's disease at the age of 89 in her Manhattan apartment. She was buried in New Montefiore Cemetery in West Babylon, New York.


title: Death to 2020

text: Death to 2020 is a 2020 mockumentary by "Black Mirror" creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones under their Broke and Bones production company as a Netflix original production. The special features a series of fictional characters discussing US and UK events of 2020 including the COVID-19 pandemic and US presidential election. It was released on Netflix on 27 December 2020. The mockumentary received mostly negative critical reception, with reviewers criticising the jokes as obvious, though some of the cast performances were praised. A sequel special, "Death to 2021", was released on December 27, 2021.


title: Death to 2020

text: In mockumentary format, characters discuss events of 2020 with a mixture of true information and satire. The overarching topic is the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the US and UK. The 2020 United States presidential election is also heavily featured. Events in the early part of the year include the latter part of the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, Greta Thunberg's environmental speeches at the World Economic Forum, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan stepping down from the British royal family and the 2020 Oscars. The May 2020 murder of George Floyd and subsequent US protests are summarized, with commentary on the Donald Trump photo op at St. John's Church and protesters removing the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, England.


title: Death to 2020

text: On the topic of the pandemic, characters comment on the 2020 royal addresses to the nation in the UK, two national lockdowns in England, online circulation of false information, vaccine trials and the first uses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial. With regards to the US election, topics under discussion include acquittal of Donald Trump after his impeachment, Democratic primaries between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, presidential debates between Biden and Trump, "The New York Times" reports on Trump's tax returns and Biden's choice of Kamala Harris as running mate. After Biden won the election, Trump attempted to overturn results with a series of false claims and unsuccessful lawsuits.


title: Death to 2020

text: Prior to producing "Black Mirror", Brooker had done several end-of-year topical comedy specials for the BBC based on his "Weekly Wipe" series up through 2016. He had created a special "Antiviral Wipe" earlier in 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Brooker saw "Death to 2020" as different to his previous topical comedy, as it is "more character-based" and he does not serve as presenter. He also described it as "sillier", summarising it as "part record of the year, part spoof documentary and part character comedy".


title: Death to 2020

text: It is produced by Broke and Bones, which Brooker and Annabel Jones founded after departing from House of Tomorrow, the production company they had worked with for the Endemol Shine group in producing "Black Mirror". The two reportedly left House of Tomorrow over intellectual property rights issues. Netflix has a deal for exclusive rights over Broke and Bones productions. "Death to 2020" is its first full production after the co-production "Antiviral Wipe".


title: Death to 2020

text: The special was written with a team of writers over four months. It was filmed in late November across 10 days, in London and Los Angeles. Minimal crews were used due to the pandemic, with some actors in production bubbles. Each actor filmed for only one day. The Los Angeles filming shortly preceded a local lockdown there. Unlike "Wipe" specials, Brooker does not appear on-screen, but plays a director asking the talking heads questions. This decision was made partially because of an expectation that non-UK audiences would not be familiar with his appearance. Additionally, Diane Morgan appears in a different role—rather than recurring "Wipe" character Philomena Cunk, she plays Gemma Nerrick, ostensibly "one of the five most average people in the world". Cristin Milioti previously starred in "Black Mirror" episode "USS Callister".


title: Death to 2020

text: Actors influenced their characters' portrayal, with Brooker highlighting Kudrow in particular as having a number of things she felt strongly about. To appeal to a global audience, UK subjects such as the Dominic Cummings scandal were avoided. News of Biden's win and the Pfizer vaccine rollout arrived days before filming. Brooker and Jones were both involved with the editing process.


title: Death to 2020

text: Actor Hugh Grant revealed the project's existence in an interview with "New York" magazine in late November 2020, saying Brooker had written a mockumentary about the year 2020, which was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic and described by some as a real-life version of a "Black Mirror" episode. Brooker said Grant would play the role of a historian who's being interviewed about the year. Further details of the special were announced in early December 2020, including many of the principal cast.


title: Death to 2020

text: Critics branded the mockumentary as "disappointing", and compared it unfavourably to "Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe" and "Black Mirror". On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, of critic reviews are positive, with an average rating of . According to Metacritic, which calculated an average score of 41 out of 100 based on 11 critics, it received "mixed or average reviews".


title: Death to 2020

text: In a one star review for "The Independent", Ed Cumming found that he was often "waiting for punchlines that never arrive", saying that Grant is "not given a single decent line". Cumming criticised the absence of Brooker's narration, as found in the "Wipe" series, and wrote that the work "can't make up its mind whether it is for a British audience or an American one".


title: Death to 2020

text: Chris Bennion gave the special two stars out of five in a review for "The Telegraph", believing it to be a "huge disappointment" in which the humour is "as predictable as the targets of the jokes". Though reporting that most of the jokes are "at best wearily familiar", Bennion did find a few that "carry Brooker's acidic wit and giddy surrealism" and praised that Grant "adroitly captures the pomposity of the Grand Old TV Don". Another two star review came from "Evening Standard"s Nancy Durrant, who found it "not as good" as the "Wipe" specials. Durrant opined that a runtime of 45 minutes "would have been quite enough". Durrant praised Grant, Kudrow, Milioti and Morgan and the characters' names, along with some small jokes.


title: Death to 2020

text: Though praising some of the characters, including Jackson, Fishburne and Milioti, Zack Handlen of "The A.V. Club" gave the episode a B−, summarizing it as "obvious jokes over familiar footage". Handlen found nothing "particularly insightful" and criticised "a few lame stabs at 'both-sides-ing' the polarization of American politics". "The Hollywood Reporter"s Daniel Fienberg summarised the work as a "generally hacky piece of recycled political satire and tired documentary parody". Finding it "astonishing how lazy everything is", he viewed it as worse than many American topical comedies and said that the humour comes "almost exclusively from the enthusiasm of an impressively star-studded cast". However, Fienberg praised Milioti and Morgan and found it "appropriate" that Jackson discusses most of the material revolving around George Floyd protests with "only anger and outrage". The "Los Angeles Times" called the mockumentary a "bitingly funny, hastily assembled and slightly deranged comedic retrospective".


title: Death to 2020

text: A programme in the same style, "Death to 2021", aired on 27 December 2021, produced by Broke and Bones. Alongside returning cast such as Grant, Ullman and Morgan, the mockumentary starred new members including Lucy Liu, Stockard Channing and William Jackson Harper. According to "Digital Spy", Brooker had a reduced role, not participating as executive producer due to work on other projects. Instead, the executive producers were Jones and Ben Caudell—a writer for "Cunk on Britain", a programme starring Morgan's character Philomena Cunk. The special was directed by Jack Clough and Josh Ruben.


title: Charles Adams (1770–1800)

text: Charles Adams (May 29, 1770 – November 30, 1800) was the second son of President John Adams and his wife, Abigail Adams (née Smith).


title: Charles Adams (1770–1800)

text: As a child, smallpox had broken out killing many. He and his family got inoculated for the disease. He and his younger brother Thomas were not showing symptoms, so they both had the procedure done a few more times. His mother, Abigail Adams, and brothers Thomas and John Quincy had mild symptoms, but he and his sister Nabby were both very sick, though both recovered within weeks.


title: Charles Adams (1770–1800)

text: At the age of nine, he traveled with his father and older brother, John Quincy, to Europe, studying in Passy, Amsterdam, and Leiden. He matriculated in Leiden on January 29, 1781.


title: Charles Adams (1770–1800)

text: In December 1781, 11 year old Charles returned to America unaccompanied by family members. He had been feeling homesick and returned. In 1784, Abigail and Nabby moved to England to live with John Adams, who was working there at the time. John Quincy would join them later.


title: Charles Adams (1770–1800)

text: While attending Harvard College starting in 1785, the 15 year old Charles got into a lot of trouble, though his most famous act was running naked through Harvard Yard while drunk along with a group of friends. He almost got kicked out, which was the first recorded case of Primal Scream. John Quincy and Thomas would later attend Harvard soon after Charles.


title: Charles Adams (1770–1800)

text: After graduating from Harvard College in 1789, he moved to New York City, where plans had been made for him to work in the legal office of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton was named Secretary of the Treasury and Adams moved to the law office of John Laurance to continue his studies. Adams passed the bar examination in 1792.


title: Charles Adams (1770–1800)

text: On August 29, 1795, Adams married Sarah "Sally" Smith (1769–1828), the sister of his brother-in-law, William Stephens Smith. They had two daughters, Susanna Boylston (1796–1884) and Abigail Louisa Smith (1798–1836). Abigail married the banker and philosopher Alexander Bryan Johnson and their son, Alexander Smith Johnson, became a judge. At the age of 37, Abigail Louisa died of uterine cancer.


title: Charles Adams (1770–1800)

text: Adams was an alcoholic who engaged in extramarital relationships and made questionable financial decisions. He was disowned by his father and sometimes lived apart from his family.


title: Charles Adams (1770–1800)

text: It is a common myth that Adams died on November 30, 1800 of cirrhosis, a disease often caused by alcoholism. In a letter from Abigail to John Quincy after his death she stated Adams died in New York City of "dropsy of the chest" or Pleurisy. Pleurisy can be caused by a multitude of respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and even cancer. He was the first child of a president to die while the president was in office.


title: Charles Adams (1770–1800)

text: In 2008, HBO presented the miniseries entitled "John Adams" based on the book by David McCullough. The biographical presentation depicts President John Adams as a neglectful father to Charles Adams, and suggests that the elder Adams' failures as a father negatively influenced Charles' development. Historians have pointed out the inaccuracies of the series' representation of their relationship.


title: Mood (song)

text: "Mood" is a song by rapper 24kGoldn, featuring rapper Iann Dior. It was released on July 24, 2020, through Records and Columbia Records, as the lead single from 24kGoldn's debut studio album, "El Dorado" (2021). The pop rap and rap rock song is built around a guitar riff inspired by indie rock and post grunge music, and also features hi-hats and snare drums in the style of trap music. On the song, 24kGoldn and Dior sing-rap about their toxic relationships in which their lovers are always in a "mood".


title: Mood (song)

text: The song came about while the artists were playing "Call of Duty" together and producers Omer Fedi and KBeaZy were working on a beat, and 24kGoldn idly sang what would become the song's hook. After an early version of the song was completed, Blake Slatkin was soon brought on as a producer to make the song more pop-oriented. It became a commercial success after earning popularity on the video-sharing app TikTok, and was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). "Mood" peaked at number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100, where it spent eight non-consecutive weeks, and also topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. It also reached number two on the Global 200. "Mood" was positively received by critics, who praised it as being catchy, and it was included on lists of the best songs of 2020 published by "Slate", "Billboard", and "The New York Times".


title: Mood (song)

text: 24kGoldn and Dior performed the song live at the 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards preshow, the American Music Awards of 2020, the season 19 finale of "The Voice", "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve", "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". A music video for "Mood", in which 24kGoldn and Dior have disputes with two separate girls, was released on August 5, 2020, and directed by Sebastian Sdaigui. A remix of the song with Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Bieber and Colombian singer-songwriter J Balvin was released on November 6, 2020.


title: Mood (song)

text: According to 24kGoldn and Dior, they were playing "Call of Duty" while the song's producers, Fedi and KBeazy, were working on a beat, and as Fedi played a guitar riff, 24kGoldn idly began singing along with it. 24kGoldn then created a hook for the song while Dior performed a verse. After an early version of the song was written and produced by the four, producer Blake Slatkin was brought in to give the track a "pop polish".


title: Mood (song)

text: 24kGoldn teased a snippet of the song on his Instagram account before the song was officially released on July 24, 2020. To promote "Mood", Columbia Records pitched the song to various pop and "Gen Z" playlists on popular music streaming services. 24kGoldn's team also pitched the song to pop radio stations, and it quickly found success on contemporary hit radio. Video-sharing platform TikTok was also used as part of the marketing strategy to promote "Mood", and the song went from being used in approximately 12,000 videos on the platform in mid-August to over two million by October. 24kGoldn also used his own money to fund marketing campaigns for the song and get promotions from social media influencers.


title: Mood (song)

text: "Mood" is an uptempo pop rap and rap rock song, described by several publications as "genre-bending". According to sheet music published by Musicnotes.com and provided by Universal Music Publishing Group, the song is written in common time in the key of G minor with a tempo of 91 beats per minute, and 24kGoldn and Dior's vocals range from a low of F to a high of G. Its instrumental includes an indie and post-grunge-influenced guitar riff played by Omer Fedi (which is warped and echoed at points throughout the song), and "trap-style" hi-hats and snare drums.


title: Mood (song)

text: In the song, 24kGoldn and Dior deliver "melodic croons" about their girlfriends who are always in a "mood", in a sing-song rapping style. Described by Vicky Inoyo of "Earmilk" as a love-centered song that provides "a youthful feel with modern-day pop twists", the lyrics detail how it feels to be in a toxic relationship. Tom Breihan of "Stereogum" wrote, "the two rappers don't really rap. Instead, they mewl everything in a familiar nasal whine-bleat." "Variety"s Charlie Amter wrote that the lyrics to the song's pre-chorus, "We play games of love to avoid the depression/We been here before/And I won't be your victim", are "morose", while Breihan described the pre-chorus as "a hymn to horny self-pity" and "Slate"s Chris Molanphy called it "very emo" and "Gen Z". "Billboard" similarly remarked that the song is "emo-leaning". "HotNewHipHop"s Alexander Cole called the track "perfect for summer", and said the song's title "certainly fits the vibe as we get a very summer-inspired beat". "Rolling Stone"s Ethan Millman called the beat of the song "bright" and "beachy" and the melody "carefree".


title: Mood (song)

text: For "Billboard", Carl Lamarre stated that the song was a "feel-good record" and a "late-summer bop", describing the hook as "catchy", while Josh Glicksman of the same publication called the chorus "easily digestible" and "sonically light". Another "Billboard" writer, Andrew Unterberger, remarked that the song's energy felt "impossibly fresh" and that it is a "visceral banger". Chris Molanphy of "Slate" called the song "fiendishly catchy" and also praised the track's hook, opining that it was "one of the most instantly infectious rap-rock refrains ever". In his review of "El Dorado", Kyann-Sian Williams of "NME" wrote that "Mood" was "spritely" and "tacked on at the end [of "El Dorado"] to act as a smug victory lap in the face of doubters". In another review of the album, "Stereogum"s Chris DeVille stated, "like hits from forebears like Juice WRLD, Post Malone, and Lil Uzi Vert, 'Mood' was self-evidently a pop song, infectiously catchy and irresistibly propulsive." DeVille added that the song "gracefully avoided" descending into the "unlistenable cheese" that the other pop-rock songs on the album did. Joe Coscarelli of "The New York Times" called "Mood" a "melodic-rap confection". KROQ-FM program director Mike Kaplan stated that "Mood" was "one of those first-listen records".


title: Mood (song)

text: "Slate"s Chris Molanphy named "Mood" as the 12th best single of 2020, while "Billboard" named it the eighth best song, the third best rock song, and the 12th best musical TikTok trend of the year. On Jon Caramanica's list of the best songs of 2020 in "The New York Times", "Mood" was added as an honorable mention. "Mood" was nominated for Best Collaboration at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards. The song was also nominated for Top Hot 100 Song, Top Collaboration, and Top Rap Song at the 2021 "Billboard" Music Awards.


title: Mood (song)

text: In its first week after being released, "Mood" sold 15,000 units. Following the song's viral TikTok success, "Mood" debuted on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 at number 84 in August 2020. After ten weeks of climbing the chart, the song reached number one on the chart dated October 24, when it received 20.3 million streams, sold 7,000 downloads, and made 62.9 million radio impressions. It became both 24kGoldn's and Dior's first number one on the chart, as well as Dior's first entry on the chart, and the first number one for any artist on the Records label. It also topped "Billboard"s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, Hot Alternative Songs, and Hot Rap Songs charts, making it the first song to simultaneously top all four charts, and went on to top the Hot 100 for eight non-consecutive weeks. It also tied with Drake's "Nice for What" with the most climbs to the top spot at four when it returned to number one for a seventh non-consecutive week on the week ending January 9, 2021. "Mood" logged a 30th week inside the Hot 100's top ten, being the 12th song to do so.


title: Mood (song)

text: "Mood" peaked at number one on the Mainstream Top 40 chart for eight consecutive weeks and broke the Mainstream Top 40 spin record, previously held by Ed Sheeran's 2017 song "Shape of You", by logging 17,748 plays among the chart's reporting stations for the week of November 22, 17,707 plays. The song also had the longest run at number one on Mediabase's pop radio chart in 2020, with eight weeks. Following its debut on the "Rolling Stone" Top 100 in mid-August, "Mood" rose to the top of the chart after earning 20.6 million streams for the week dated November 6, 2020, where it spent two non-consecutive weeks. The song went on to be certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on December 1, 2020.


title: Mood (song)

text: In the United Kingdom, "Mood" debuted at number 51 on the UK Singles Chart for the week ending August 27, 2020. After spending five weeks on the chart, the song topped the chart in the week ending October 1, 2020, after earning 61,000 chart sales and 7.8 million streams, and stayed at number one for four consecutive weeks. "Mood" also reached number one on the


title: Mood (song)

text: Australian ARIA Charts, where it spent eleven non-consecutive weeks at number one. It spent four weeks at the top spot on the Irish Singles Chart. The song topped the charts in several other countries as well, including the Austrian Ö3 Austria Top 40, Denmark's Tracklisten, the Dutch Single Top 100, Norway's VG-lista, and the Swedish Sverigetopplistan.


title: Mood (song)

text: 24kGoldn and Dior made their debut television performance of "Mood" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on October 26, 2020, followed by a performance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on November 5, 2020, opening with a skit before singing the song on a sunflower-themed set. Later that month, they performed the track at the preshow for the 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards and at the 48th Annual American Music Awards, the latter of which was identified as a high of the night by Justin Curto of "Vulture". The two went on to perform the song during the season 19 of the NBC television series "The Voice", and also performed the song for ABC's "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" television special for 2021.


title: Mood (song)

text: English psychedelic pop band Glass Animals performed a cover of "Mood" for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge program in November 2020. That same month, American post-hardcore band Our Last Night performed a cover of the song.


title: Mood (song)

text: The song's official video, directed by Sebastian Sdaigui, was released on August 5, 2020. It includes several different scenes. During Dior's verse, he is depicted in a "bleak" room with a girl, going from having romantic moments with her to arguing with her. During 24kGoldn's verse, he is shown sitting in a car with a different girl, who sees him texting someone and angrily leaves the car before picking up a baseball bat and threatening him with it. The video also shows the two in two different sunflower-themed sets, as well as standing in front of lightning.


title: Mood (song)

text: An official remix of "Mood" was released on November 6, 2020, and featured vocals from Canadian singer Justin Bieber and Colombian singer J Balvin. Apart from verses by Bieber and Balvin, it also includes a new verse from 24kGoldn which replaces his verse on the original. An animated lyric video for the remix accompanied its release.


title: Mood (song)

text: For "Complex", Jordan Rose called Bieber and Balvin "perfect additions" to "Mood". "Consequence"s Wren Graves wrote, "[Bieber and Balvin] both sound like nobody else on the planet, and the contrast helps 24kGoldn shine."


title: Bent Pyramid

text: The Bent Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian pyramid located at the royal necropolis of Dahshur, approximately 40 kilometres south of Cairo, built under the Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu (c. 2600 BC). A unique example of early pyramid development in Egypt, this was the second pyramid built by Sneferu.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: The Bent Pyramid rises from the desert at a 54-degree inclination, but the top section (above 47 metres) is built at the shallower angle of 43 degrees, lending the pyramid a visibly 'bent' appearance.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: Archaeologists now believe that the Bent Pyramid represents a transitional form between step-sided and smooth-sided pyramids. It has been suggested that due to the steepness of the original angle of inclination the structure may have begun to show signs of instability during construction, forcing the builders to adopt a shallower angle to avert the structure's collapse. This theory appears to be borne out by the fact that the adjacent Red Pyramid, built immediately afterwards by the same pharaoh, was constructed at an angle of 43 degrees from its base. This fact also contradicts the theory that at the initial angle the construction would take too long because Sneferu's death was nearing, so the builders changed the angle to complete the construction in time. In 1974, Kurt Mendelssohn suggested the change of the angle to have been made as a stability precaution in reaction to a catastrophic collapse of the Meidum Pyramid while it was still under construction. The reason why Sneferu abandoned the Meidum Pyramid and its Step Pyramid may have been a change in ideology. The royal tomb was no longer considered as a staircase to the stars; instead, it was served as a symbol of the solar cult and of the primeval mound from which all life sprang.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: It is also unique amongst the approximately ninety pyramids to be found in Egypt, in that its original polished limestone outer casing remains largely intact. British structural engineer Peter James attributes this to larger clearances between the parts of the casing than used in later pyramids; these imperfections would work as expansion joints and prevent the successive destruction of the outer casing by thermal expansion.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: The ancient formal name of the Bent Pyramid is generally translated as "(The)-Southern-Shining-Pyramid," or "Sneferu-(is)-Shining-in-the-South". In July 2019, Egypt decided to open the Bent Pyramid for tourism for the first time since 1965. Tourists are able to reach two 4600-year-old chambers through a 79-metre narrow tunnel built from the northern entrance of the pyramid. The 18-metre-high "side pyramid", which is assumed to have been built for Sneferu's wife Hetepheres will also be accessible. It is the first time this adjacent pyramid has been opened to the public since its excavation in 1956.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: The Bent Pyramid has two entrances, one fairly low down on the north side, to which a substantial wooden stairway has been built for the convenience of tourists. The second entrance is high on the west face of the pyramid. Each entrance leads to a chamber with a high, corbelled roof; the northern entrance leads to a chamber that is below ground level, the western to a chamber built in the body of the pyramid itself. A hole in the roof of the northern chamber (accessed today by a high and rickety ladder long) leads via a rough connecting passage to the passage from the western entrance.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: The western entrance passage is blocked by two stone blocks which were not lowered vertically, as in other pyramids, but slid down 45° ramps to block the passage. One of these was lowered in antiquity and a hole has been cut through it, the other remains propped up by a piece of ancient cedar wood. The connecting passage referenced above enters the passage between the two portcullises.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: A causeway leads from the Bent Pyramids' northeast toward the pyramid with the valley temple. The causeway was paved with limestone blocks and had a low limestone wall on each side. In fact, there may have been a second causeway that lead down to a dock or landing stage, but there is no excavation that can prove this assumption yet.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: On the east side of the pyramid there are the fragmentary remains of the pyramid temple. Like the pyramid temple of the Meidum pyramid, there are two stelae behind the temple, though of these only stumps remain. There is no trace of inscription to be seen. The temple remains are fragmentary but it is presumed to be similar to that of the Meidum temple.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: A satellite pyramid, suggested by some Egyptologists to have been built to house the pharaoh's "ka", is located 55 metres south of the Bent Pyramid. The satellite pyramid originally measured 26 metres in height and 52.80 metres in length, with faces inclining 44°30'. The structure is made of limestone blocks, relatively thick, arranged in horizontal rows and covered with a layer of fine limestone from Tura. The burial chamber is accessible from a descending corridor with its entrance located 1.10 metres above the ground in the middle of the north face. The corridor, inclined at 34°, originally measured 11.60 metres in length. A short horizontal passage connects the corridor with an ascending corridor, inclined at 32° 30', leading up to the chamber.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: The design of the corridors is similar to the one found in the Great Pyramid of Giza, where the Grand Gallery takes up the place of the ascending corridor. The corridor leads up to the burial chamber (called this despite that it most probably never contained any sarcophagus). The chamber, located in the center of the pyramid, has a corbel vault ceiling and contains a four metres deep shaft, probably dug by treasure hunters, in the southeast part of the chamber.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: As the first geometrically "true" pyramid in the world, the Bent Pyramid shows its uniqueness not only from the method of construction but also manifests through the surrounding landscape. Nicole Alexanian and Felix Arnold, two distinguished German archeologists, provided a new insight toward the meaning and function for the Bent Pyramid in their book named "The complex of the Bent Pyramid as a landscape design project". They noticed that the sites of the Bent Pyramid sits aside in the middle of a pristine desert area instead of fertile area near the Nile River like all the other pyramids. After a long period detailed investigation, they believed the landscape surrounding the Bent Pyramid is in fact man-made.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: When the archaeologists observed the landscape closely, the plateau of the pyramid seemed leveled artificially and nearby escarpment and trenches were all made by human beings. Moreover, there were a few traces left indicating a build-up of garden enclosure. The impact of humans on the landscape is also represented by the presence of a wadi channel connecting the Bent Pyramid to a harbor, which shows a distinct difference between the southern and northern side of the channel. It shows a substantial difference in level with regards to the finding. The slope of southern wadi channel seemed to have been rectified when the archaeologists compared it to the natural and twisted northern side. Arne Ramisch supported this idea by providing evidence that displays a low correlation of fraternal patterns of channel and natural topography in the environs, which is southern side of wadi, of the Bent Pyramid.


title: Bent Pyramid

text: The purpose of this man-made construction might hold mythical meaning and ritual function. Based on available evidence, garden enclosure and water basins both are the counterparts of funeral rites which indicates a regular practice of rituals at Dahshur. However, there is also another implication states that the garden closure helping to create satisfactory living environment in the desert. Other than that, the leveled plateau, the quarrying trenches on the western and southern sides of the pyramid, and the nearby smaller tombs cooperate together to emphasize the monumentality of the Bent Pyramid, aiding by its long distance from the surrounding structures. These features represent the imprinting social hierarchy in the creation of this landscape, which furthermore represents the power of Egyptian King at that time. Alexanian and Arnold describes this construction in a concise phrase: an artificial mountain erected within an artificial landscape.


title: Petit baronets

text: The Petit Baronetcy, of Petit Hall on the Island of Bombay, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 September 1890 for the Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist Dinshaw Maneckji Petit.


title: Petit baronets

text: The baronetcy was created with remainder to Framjee Petit, second son of the first Baronet, and the heirs male of his body, failing which to the heirs male of the body of the first Baronet. By Special Act of the Legislative Council of India, all holders of the title were to relinquish their own name upon succession and assume the name of the first Baronet.


title: Petit baronets

text: The family's arms display the slogan, "Consequitur quod cunque petit", translated as "Whatever he asks for, he gets what he wants".


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: The Boys anti-tank rifle (officially Rifle, Anti-Tank, .55in, Boys, and sometimes incorrectly spelled "Boyes"), is a British anti-tank rifle used during the Second World War. It was often nicknamed the "elephant gun" by its users due to its size and large bore.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: There were three main versions of the Boys: an early model (Mark I) which had a circular muzzle brake and T-shaped monopod, built primarily at BSA in England; a later model (Mk I*) built primarily at the John Inglis and Company in Toronto, Canada, that had a rectangular muzzle brake and a V shaped bipod; and a third model made for airborne forces with a 30-inch (762 mm) barrel and no muzzle brake. There were also different cartridges, with a later version offering better penetration.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: Although adequate against light tanks and tankettes in the early part of the war, the Boys was ineffective against heavier armour and was phased out in favour of the PIAT hollow charge weapon mid-war.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: The firearm was developed by Captain Henry C. Boys, Assistant Superintendent of Design--1885-1937, who was a member of the British Small Arms Committee and a designer at the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield. It was initially called "Stanchion" but was renamed after Boys when he died a few days before the rifle was approved for service in November 1937.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: A bolt action rifle fed from a five-shot magazine, the weapon was large and heavy with a bipod at the front and a separate grip below the padded butt. In order to combat the recoil caused by the large round, a muzzle brake was fitted on the barrel while the receiver was allowed to slide along the frame with a shock absorber attached to the rear of the rifle. The Boys had been designed with numerous small narrow-slotted screws of soft steel set very tight into the body of the weapon and its repair and maintenance proved difficult.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: The .55 Boys cartridge was an adaptation of the .50 BMG with a belt added firing a bullet. At its introduction, the weapon was effective on light armour thick at .


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: Two main service loads were used during the Second World War: The W Mark 1 a AP projectile fired at , and the W Mark 2 ammunition, AP at . The W Mark 1 could penetrate of armour at , about the thickness used on the frontal armour of a half-track or armoured car, or the side or rear armour of a light tank. Later in the conflict, a more effective round was developed, the W Mark 2, which fired a tungsten-cored projectile at . The Boys' effective range against unarmoured targets (for example, infantry), was much greater.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: Despite its recoil slide and rubber-cushioned buttpad, the recoil of the weapon (along with noise and muzzle blast) was said to be painful, frequently causing neck strains and bruised shoulders. Consequently, the Boys was almost never fired as a free weapon (that is, not affixed to a support) except in emergencies.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: The Boys rifle was used in the early stages of the Second World War against lightly armoured German tanks and combat vehicles. Britain also supplied a large number of Boys anti-tank rifles to Finland in 1939 and 1940 during the Winter War with the Soviet Union. The weapon was popular with the Finns because it could deal with Soviet T-26 tanks, which the Finnish Army encountered in many engagements.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: Although useful against early German and Italian tanks in France and North Africa, as well as in the Norwegian campaign, such as the Panzer I, Panzer II and early models of Panzer III, increases in vehicle armour during the Second World War left the Boys largely ineffectual as an anti-tank weapon. A shortened version was deployed in 1942 for issue to airborne forces and saw use in Tunisia, where it proved completely ineffective because of the reduced velocity caused by the shortened barrel. Another limitation was that the Boys rifle was relatively heavy and unwieldy to carry and set up.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: The Boys' reputation after the Battle of France was such that the Canadian government, through the Directorate of Military Training, The Department of National Defence and National Film Board of Canada (NFB) commissioned a training film, "Stop That Tank!" (1942), from Walt Disney Studios to counter the rifle's "jinx" reputation.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: Nonetheless, in the European theatre, it was soon replaced by the PIAT (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) in 1943, which first saw service during the Allied invasion of Sicily. In other roles, the Boys saw some use against bunkers, machine gun nests and light-skinned vehicles but was rapidly replaced in British and Commonwealth service, as quantities of the latter weapon became available, by the U.S. .50 BMG calibre M2 Browning machine gun.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: Using armour-piercing (AP), armour-piercing incendiary (API), and armour-piercing incendiary tracer (APIT) ammunition, the .50 Browning was just as capable in armour penetration and more devastating when igniting thin-skinned vehicles using incendiary rounds than the Boys, and could also serve as an effective anti-aircraft weapon. The heavier Browning, however, was not "man-portable" at without tripod and with tripod. Even the British Special Air Service, which made much use of captured or cast-off weapons for their jeeps and reconnaissance vehicles, quickly got rid of their Boys rifles in favour of M2 Brownings or the Italian 20mm Breda cannon.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: The weapon was standard issue to British and Commonwealth forces which attempted to stem the Japanese onslaught through the Pacific theatre. At Milne Bay, the weapon proved completely ineffective. It also failed to stop Japanese tanks in Malaya. Some accounts claim that the 1/14th Punjabi Regiment knocked out two light Japanese tanks at a roadblock. During the Battle of Singapore, the 1st Bn Cambridgeshire Regiment claims the Boys was very useful in knocking holes through walls during street fighting. After the war in the Pacific, the gun was used by Royal Malay Regiment to fight against communist insurgents during Malayan Emergency.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: The U.S. Marine Corps purchased Canadian Boys rifles prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. They saw limited use by the Marine Raider Battalions against enemy bunkers and aided in the destruction of two seaplanes off Makin Island. The U.S. Army's 1st Ranger Battalion was also equipped with Boys, but they were not used in combat. The other five Ranger battalions were authorized Boys, but were not equipped with them.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: The Boys rifles were also used by the Chinese Nationalist Army during the late Second Sino-Japanese War in both China and Burma.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: The Boys rifle was also equipped and used by the Philippine Army and Philippine Constabulary during the Second World War against the Japanese occupation and to aid the Allied liberation. Following the Post-Second World War era, it was operated during the Hukbalahap Rebellion against the Hukbalahap Communist fighters in Central Luzon and by the Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (PEFTOK) against the North Korean and Chinese Communist forces.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: In September 1965, members of the IRA hit the British fast-attack patrol boat HMS "Brave Borderer" with a Boys rifle, crippling one of her turbines while she was paying a visit to Waterford, Republic of Ireland.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: The contemporary training manuals for the Boys directed that it was for protecting the platoon against light armoured fighting vehicles: penetrating "their armour up to about 500 yards range" and "inflict casualties on their crew, although it may not seriously damage the vehicle itself."


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: A manual on the Boys published for the Home Guard in 1944 gave the expected performance against armour ranging from 0.91 in (22.3 mm) at 100 yards square on to 0.35 in (8.8 mm) at 500 yards hitting at a 40 degree angle. The manual also noted that maximum penetration against other materials was of brick walls and of sandbags.


title: Boys anti-tank rifle

text: The Boys Rifle was sometimes mounted on vehicles such as the Universal Carrier ("Bren Gun Carrier"), Humber Light Reconnaissance Car and the Morris CS9, Standard Beaverette and Rolls Royce armoured cars.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: "Stay with Me" is a song by English singer Sam Smith from their debut studio album "In the Lonely Hour" (2014). It was released in the United States on 14 April 2014 and in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2014. "Stay with Me" is a gospel-inspired ballad that details the protagonist pleading with his one-night stand not to leave him. The song was written by Smith, James Napier, and William Phillips, with Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne later receiving co-writer credits due to the song's noted melodic similarity to Petty's single "I Won't Back Down".


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: The song has become Smith's most successful single to date, peaking at number one in the UK Singles Chart (becoming Smith's third chart-topper there, second as a solo artist), topping the charts in Canada and New Zealand, and reaching number two on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. It has also reached top ten status in over twelve countries worldwide. At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, Darkchild's version of "Stay with Me" won two Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: In an interview with "NME", Smith said that the song was written in a studio in Old Street with James Napier (Jimmy Napes) and William Phillips (also known as "Tourist"). Phillips started playing with three chords on the piano, and Napier quickly provided a drum pattern, and according to Smith, "the song just flowed out of us so naturally," and the song was written in thirty to forty minutes. After finishing the song, Smith started to layer their vocals about twenty times, singing in different parts of the studio and harmonizing. The result sounded like a gospel choir, but all from Smith's own voice, and this demo was then used in the released song.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: According to Smith, "the song is about the moment in the morning after a one night stand, where the person you are with leaves your house, and you are left by yourself, and it's just a second, where you are just like: 'I wish, I wish'. You don't even love them, you don't really fancy them that much, it's just nice to have someone in the bed next to you." The song won the Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, and in their acceptance speech for winning the Record of the Year, Smith said that "I want to thank the man who this record is about who I fell in love with last year. Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys."


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: On 25 March 2014, the song was played for the first time on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show at 7.30 pm. On 29 March, they performed the song live on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in the U.S. On 16 May, they performed the song on "The Graham Norton Show". In June, they returned to the U.S. as part of their tour where they performed the song on "Good Morning America", at the Apollo Theater in New York with Mary J. Blige, and David Letterman.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: In January 2015, it was revealed that a settlement had been reached with Tom Petty's publishing company to add Petty and Jeff Lynne as co-writers, and that they would receive a 12.5% songwriting credit. Petty's publisher contacted Smith's team after it noticed a likeness between "Stay with Me" and the melody of Petty's 1989 song "I Won't Back Down". Petty clarified that he did not believe Smith intentionally plagiarized him, saying "All my years of songwriting have shown me these things can happen. Most times, you catch it before it gets out the studio door, but in this case, it got by. Sam's people were very understanding of our predicament and we easily came to an agreement." According to Smith, he had never heard "I Won't Back Down" before he wrote "Stay with Me", but they acknowledged the similarity after listening to the song, and said that the likeness was "a complete coincidence". Petty and Lynne, however, were not eligible for a Grammy as the Recording Academy considered "Stay with Me" to have been interpolated from "I Won't Back Down" by Napier, Phillips and Smith; instead Petty and Lynne would be given certificates to honor their contribution to the work, as is usual for writers of sampled or interpolated work.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: In music notation, "Stay with Me" is written in the key of C major; an accidental-free key signature with chord progressions of Am–F–C, that are persistent throughout the entire song. The song is composed in common (4/4) time signature, and played at a tempo of 84 beats per minute (bpm), all according to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Sony/ATV Music Publishing.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: "Stay with Me" was written by Smith, James Napier, William Phillips, with additional credits to Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne. According to Erine Keane of "Salon", "Stay with Me" combines a "contemporary drumbeat", blue-eyed soul singing, and a refrain sung in a gospel style, while Stereogum's Tom Breihan called it "a soft-focus piano-soul ballad".


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: "Stay with Me" received generally positive reviews from music critics. Amy Davidson from Digital Spy called the song an "emotional crescendo" and said the chorus was "slightly over-sentimental" and felt that their "soulful voice" made the singer left in "defeat by fleeting fling". She gave the song four out of five stars. Joe Gross from "Rolling Stone" gave the song a mixed review, awarding it three of five stars. Isabel Pearson of Nouse gave the song a positive review during her album review, calling the song a "euphoric, slow building love-song that's raw and undeniably one of the best tracks on this album." Sarah Milton of "The Upcoming" lauded the song, calling it "electrifying with its blunt honesty and exquisite gospel influence."


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: In July 2014, " Billboard" listed "Stay with Me" as one of the "10 Best Songs of 2014 (so far)" saying that the song is "a fragile ballad that finds its backbone when a gospel choir assists the British singer on the harrowing chorus." Variance Magazine named the song its 2014 Song of Summer. The song was placed at number twelve on "Rolling Stone"s 50 Best Songs of 2014 list. In January 2015, "Stay with Me" was ranked at number 15 on "The Village Voice"s annual year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: In the UK Singles Chart it debuted at number one, making it Smith's third number one. The song became the eighth best-selling song of 2014 in the UK, and the seventh overall when streaming is included. On the "Billboard" Hot 100, the song peaked at number two for two weeks, making it Smith's first top ten song in the US as a lead artist and their second-highest charting single after "Unholy" (2022). It was held off from the top spot by MAGIC!'s "Rude." As of the week of 2 May 2015, "Stay with Me" has spent 21 weeks in the top ten and 54 weeks on the Hot 100. The song was the tenth best-selling song of 2014 in the United States with 3.34 million copies sold in that year. As of June 2015, The song has sold 4.1 million copies in the US. In Canada, "Stay with Me" topped the Canadian Hot 100 for seven consecutive weeks. In Australia, the song debuted at number 22 on the ARIA Singles Chart on the chart dated 5 May 2014 and later peaked at number five on the chart date 16 June 2014. The song also reached top 10 status in over twelve countries worldwide, becoming Smith's most successful single to date.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: A music video to accompany the release of "Stay with Me" was first released onto YouTube on 27 March 2014 at a total length of three minutes and twenty-nine seconds. The video shows Smith coming out of a house and walking down a street in De Beauvoir Town, London, sitting in a room performing the song, and performing the song in a church with a choir. It was directed by Jamie Thraves. "Stay with Me" received nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards for Best Male Video and Artist to Watch. As of September 2019, the video has received over 1.0 billion views.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: In June 2014, Ed Sheeran covered "Stay with Me" at BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. He explained his choice saying "It's my favourite song of the last year. I think it's an instant classic." Florence and the Machine covered it at the Orange Warsaw Festival. In July, Vin Diesel sang it during an interview with Capital FM. In August, Chris Brown posted a video on Instagram in which he sings the song with lyric changes. Eventual winner Josh Kaufman covered the song for his top 12 performance on the sixth season of "The Voice US". Reigan Derry performed the song for "Top 10 Hits" themed week on the sixth series of "The X Factor Australia", and her performance debuted at number 20 on the ARIA Singles Chart. In September 2014, FKA twigs also covered it at BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. Also in September, Charli XCX covered it at Live 95.5's Bing Lounge. Luke James also covered the song, which appeared on his 2014 self-titled album. Kelly Clarkson covered the song at her free concert in honor of the new Microsoft store at the SouthPark Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina. Singer Patti LaBelle performed it in November 2014 on her concert tour. Romain Virgo did a reggae cover. In September 2017, Pink covered "Stay with Me" at BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: In November 2017, US country singer Coffey Anderson released it as part of his Sad Love Songs series accompanied by a music video directed by Terry W.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: The song is sampled in the track "Freak" from Avicii's posthumous album "Tim", which it was released on 6 June 2019.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: In 2018, American R&B group The Temptations covered the song in their 2018 album, "All The Time". English folk group Bear’s Den covered the song for the Sunday Sessions.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: The song is featured in the television series "Mistresses, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce," "Bad Education," and "The Mindy Project."


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: The song is played in the emotional scene where Mary, Queen of Scots (Adelaide Kane) and a dying Francis II of France (Toby Regbo) dance together in the television series "Reign".


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: In the 2016 animated film "Sing," Johnny (voiced by Taron Egerton) sings this song as his audition for the singing competition.


title: Stay with Me (Sam Smith song)

text: The song is also used as the background music for the Inspiron 17 5000 commercial, with Liev Schreiber and Chris Pratt.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Taylor Hall (born November 14, 1991) is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the first overall pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft selected by the Edmonton Oilers. He has previously played for the Oilers, New Jersey Devils, Arizona Coyotes and Buffalo Sabres.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall had a highly successful junior career, helping the Ontario Hockey League (OHL)'s Windsor Spitfires to two consecutive Memorial Cup championships in 2009 and 2010. He won the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as the most valuable player of the Memorial Cup tournament both years. Hall has been named to the NHL All-Star Game on five occasions. In his second season with the Devils, Hall won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player, becoming the first Devils player in franchise history to win the award.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall was born in Calgary, the only child of Steve Hall and Kim Strba. His father was a former Canadian Football League (CFL) player for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders in the mid-1980s, after which he was a member of the Canadian national bobsleigh team. His mother introduced him to organized hockey at age five while his father maintained a backyard rink every winter which Hall and his friends practiced on relentlessly. His family moved to Kingston, Ontario, in 2005, where he attended high school at Frontenac Secondary School and later attended St. Anne's Catholic High School in Tecumseh, Ontario while with the Windsor Spitfires.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall started playing minor hockey in Calgary, Alberta. When he was 13, his family moved to Kingston, Ontario, where he continued to play. Hall captured a Bantam AAA Calgary city championship with the North East Canucks during the 2004–05 season. For the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons, Hall played Bantam and Minor Midget hockey for the Greater Kingston Predators of the ODMHA league. He was named to the ODMHA Midget AAA All-Star team. After the season, Hall was the second overall choice in the 2007 Ontario Hockey League (OHL) Priority Selection by the Windsor Spitfires. Ryan O'Reilly was selected first overall by the Erie Otters.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall made his OHL debut in 2007–08, scoring a team-high 45 goals and adding 39 assists for 84 points, which was third in team scoring. In March, he was named OHL Player of the Week twice (March 3 and March 10). He was named OHL and CHL Rookie of the Year after the season.


title: Taylor Hall

text: During the 2008–09 season, Hall was selected to represent the OHL in the ADT Canada-Russia Challenge. He scored 38 goals and added 52 assists to finish with 90 points. Windsor had a successful season on the ice, capturing the OHL Championship as well as the Memorial Cup. During the OHL playoffs, Hall scored 16 goals and added 20 assists while being awarded the Wayne Gretzky 99 Award as Playoff MVP. He scored the game-winning overtime goal in the fifth and deciding game of the OHL Finals against the Brampton Battalion to clinch the title. At the 2009 Memorial Cup, Hall recorded eight points in six games as the Spitfires defeated the Kelowna Rockets 4–1 in the final. After the tournament, Hall was awarded the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as the tournament's most valuable player and was named to the tournament all-star team alongside teammate Ryan Ellis.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Though the odds of him playing in Russia were remote, Hall was drafted 89th overall by the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL)'s Ak Bars Kazan on June 1, 2009. He was one of three Canadian junior players (all from the OHL) taken in the 2009 KHL Draft, which begins selecting players one year younger than the NHL does. Hall was an early favourite to be the top pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft since entering the junior ranks. He was praised early in his junior career on "Hockey Night in Canada" by commentator Don Cherry during his "Coach's Corner" segment. Hall was also featured in a July 2008 issue of "Sports Illustrated", profiling young athletes poised to star in their sports.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall finished the 2009–10 season tied for first place in the OHL with Tyler Seguin with 106 points (40 goals and 66 assists) to win the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy alongside Seguin. Hall was instrumental in the Spitfires' 2010 J. Ross Robertson Cup championship, recording a playoff-leading 35 points in 19 playoff games. His teammate, Adam Henrique, won the Wayne Gretzky 99 Award, scoring 20 goals.


title: Taylor Hall

text: In May 2010, Hall helped lead the Spitfires to their second-straight Memorial Cup. With the victory, Hall was awarded his second-straight Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as tournament MVP (the first player in its history to repeat as a winner), the Ed Chynoweth Trophy as Memorial Cup scoring leader and a spot on the tournament all-star team for the second-straight year.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall was ranked as the top North American-based prospect by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau (CSB) in its 2009–10 midterm rankings. In the CSB's final rankings, he was overtaken by Tyler Seguin as the top-ranked North American-based prospect. Hall has cited Toronto Maple Leafs forward and 2009 NHL Entry Draft first overall pick John Tavares as a role model, both on and off the ice.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Shortly after being selected first overall by the Edmonton Oilers in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, Hall signed his first professional contract. The contract paid Hall the entry level maximum of $900,000 with the potential of an additional $2.85 million in performance bonuses. This was the second-most lucrative rookie contract in Oilers history.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall was given permission to wear the jersey number 4, which had belonged to former Oilers' player Kevin Lowe, who was then serving as the Oilers' president of hockey operations and who had been the only Oiler to wear the number 4 in its NHL history, despite the fact that Lowe's number 4 was not retired by the Oilers.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall made his NHL debut on October 7, 2010, as the Oilers defeated their Battle of Alberta rivals, the Calgary Flames, at Rexall Place. Hall's first NHL point, an assist, came in his second game, against the Florida Panthers on October 10; Shawn Horcoff redirected Hall's shot in front of the net. Hall's first NHL goal came on October 28 against Steve Mason of the Columbus Blue Jackets; Hall's former head coach with the Windsor Spitfires, Bob Boughner, was an assistant coach with Columbus at the time.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall was named to the 2011 NHL All-Star Game as a rookie; a newly-introduced format for the 2011 All-Star Game selected 12 rookies specifically to participate in the NHL All-Star Game SuperSkills Competition. Hall came in second place to Michael Grabner in the fastest skater SuperSkills Competition.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall scored his first career NHL hat-trick (and natural hat-trick) against the Atlanta Thrashers on February 19, 2011: with the Oilers behind by two goals, Hall scored three consecutive power play goals in a span of 12:53 as the Oilers eventually won the game 5–3.


title: Taylor Hall

text: On March 3, 2011, in a 4–2 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets, Hall recorded his first career Gordie Howe hat-trick: Hall scored a goal against Steve Mason, assisted a goal scored by Jordan Eberle and fought Derek Dorsett. However, the fight with Dorsett ended Hall's rookie season early as he suffered a high ankle sprain at the end of the fight. Hall finished his rookie season scoring 22 goals and 20 assists in 65 games.


title: Taylor Hall

text: On January 17, 2012, Hall was cut by teammate Corey Potter's skate before a game against the Columbus Blue Jackets during warmup, resulting in a deep cut to his face that required 30 stitches to close.


title: Taylor Hall

text: It was announced that Hall would need major shoulder surgery and would need five-to-six months to recover, ending his successful sophomore year. Despite missing 21 games, Hall was still tied for fifth for power play goals.


title: Taylor Hall

text: On August 21, 2012, Hall signed a new seven-year, $42 million contract with the Oilers worth an annual average value of $6 million.


title: Taylor Hall

text: On January 26, 2013, Hall recorded his 100th career point with two assists in a 4–3 loss against the Calgary Flames. On February 22, 2013, he was given a two-game suspension by the NHL after a collision with Minnesota Wilds forward Cal Clutterbuck. On March 30, 2013, in a game against the Vancouver Canucks, Hall set a new franchise record by scoring a hat-trick just 7:53 into the game. Hall finished the lockout-shortened 2012–13 season ninth in NHL regular season scoring, also recording a career-high of 34 assists, sufficient for eighth in the NHL.


title: Taylor Hall

text: On October 17, 2013, Hall broke Wayne Gretzky's previous Oilers franchise record of two goals in nine seconds by scoring two in eight. On December 5, 2013, in a 9–2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks, Hall recorded his second career NHL hat-trick, having previously gone nine games without a goal.


title: Taylor Hall

text: On June 29, 2016, Hall was traded to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for Adam Larsson. Hall chose to wear number 9 with the Devils as his usual number 4 had been retired by the team in honor of Scott Stevens. Hall scored his first goal as a Devil on October 18, 2016, against the Anaheim Ducks. He later scored another goal in the same period to secure a 2–1 win. On November 16, Hall underwent surgery for a torn meniscus in his left knee. He was expected to miss three-to-four weeks, but skated on his own a week after surgery and with the team at practice on November 28. Hall was named to the Metropolitan Division team as the lone representative of the Devils at the 2017 NHL All-Star Game.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall was again named to the NHL All-Star Game in the 2017–18 season. However, due to a hand injury, he was replaced by teammate Brian Boyle. On February 15, 2018, in a win over the Carolina Hurricanes, Hall set a Devils franchise record with a 16-game point streak. His point streak came to an end at 26 games on March 8 in a 3–2 loss to the Winnipeg Jets; Hall recorded two shots on goal in the game. His 26-game point streak was the longest in the NHL since Patrick Kane's 26-point streak in the 2015–16 season. Hall finished the regular season as the Devils' top scorer with a career-high 93 points (39 goals and 54 assists) as he led the Devils to their first Stanley Cup playoff appearance since 2012. It was also the first time Hall ever played in the playoffs. Hall again led the Devils in the playoffs as their top scorer with six points (two goals and four assists) as the team was eliminated in the first round by the Tampa Bay Lightning, four games to one. On April 26, Hall was nominated for the Ted Lindsay Award as the NHL's most outstanding player. The following day, on April 27, Hall was also declared a finalist for the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player. Hall won the latter, becoming the first player in Devils history to win the trophy.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall was named an alternate captain for the Devils prior to the 2018–19 season. On December 13, 2018, he suffered an injury during practice which forced him to miss two games. After returning to the lineup, Hall recorded his 200th NHL goal in a 2–1 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets on December 20. However, he re-aggravated the injury on December 23 and was placed on injured reserve by the Devils on January 1, 2019. At the time, he had recorded 37 points in 33 games. Despite these injuries, Hall was selected for his fourth consecutive All-Star Game, but was later replaced by teammate Kyle Palmieri as he had not yet recovered. In February, Hall underwent arthroscopic knee surgery and entered rehabilitation.


title: Taylor Hall

text: After not playing for the rest of the 2018–19 season, Hall suited up the Devils pre-season games. In his first game back since December, Hall recorded a goal and an assist in a 4–2 win over the New York Rangers during the pre-season.


title: Taylor Hall

text: In the final year of his contract and with the Devils standing outside the playoff picture, speculation arose that Hall was likely to be traded. On December 13, 2019, it was announced that Hall would be scratched for that day's game against the Colorado Avalanche for "precautionary reasons". Hall would again be scratched the following night against the Coyotes.


title: Taylor Hall

text: On December 16, 2019, the Devils traded Hall and Blake Speers to the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for Nick Merkley, Kevin Bahl, Nate Schnarr, a conditional first-round pick in 2020, and a conditional third-round pick in 2021.


title: Taylor Hall

text: On October 7, 2020, Coyotes general manager Bill Armstrong announced that the Coyotes would not be re-signing Taylor Hall, marking the first time in Hall's career that he would be an unrestricted free agent.


title: Taylor Hall

text: On October 11, 2020, Hall agreed to join the Buffalo Sabres, signing a one-year, $8-million contract. In the pandemic delayed 2020–21 season, Hall struggled to show his offensive acumen, collecting just 2 goals and 19 points through 37 regular season games for the Sabres.


title: Taylor Hall

text: With the Sabres out of playoff contention and on the eve of the trade deadline, Hall, with his salary retained by 50%, was traded by the Sabres along with Curtis Lazar to the Boston Bruins in exchange for Anders Bjork and a 2021 second-round draft pick on April 11, 2021. Hall scored his first goal with the Bruins on April 15, 2021. Hall chose to wear number 71 with the Bruins as his usual number 4 had been retired by the team in honor of Bobby Orr. Hall's presence as the new left-wing forward on David Krejčí's line provided an immediate boost to the Bruins' offense as the season wound down, with a total of 8 goals and 6 assists over the concluding 16 games of the 2020–21 season that he played in for the Bruins.


title: Taylor Hall

text: On May 17, 2021, Hall recorded the tying goal against the Capitals to send the Bruins to overtime in Game 2 of the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.


title: Taylor Hall

text: On July 23, 2021, Hall opted to forgo free agency by agreeing to a four-year, $24 million contract extension with the Bruins.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall represented Canada at the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships in Kazan, Russia, as one of five 16-year-olds. He was fifth in tournament scoring, with nine points in seven games, helping Canada to a gold medal. He returned to Canada's under-18 team to earn a second gold medal at the 2008 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in Slovakia as an alternate captain to captain Matt Duchene.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall made Canada's national junior team roster for the 2010 World Junior Championships in Saskatchewan. He was the lone 2010 NHL Entry Draft-eligible player selected to the final roster. Hall scored a hat-trick against Slovakia in a game Canada won 8–2. Hall finished the tournament tied for third overall in scoring with teammate Alex Pietrangelo and the United States' Jerry D'Amigo; Hall finished with six goals and six assists in six games.


title: Taylor Hall

text: Hall was invited to Hockey Canada's summer evaluation camp for the 2011 World Junior Tournament, but declined to participate, choosing instead to focus on making the Edmonton Oilers' roster for the upcoming NHL season. According to Hockey Canada policy, Hall would have been ineligible to participate in the tournament even if he was available.


title: Taylor Hall

text: At the 2015 World Championships, where the senior Canadian team won the gold medal for the first time since 2007 with a perfect 10–0 record, Hall was named a member of the tournament all-star team.


title: Ariane Labed

text: Ariane Labed (born 8 May 1984) is a Greek-French actress and film director. She is known for her feature film debut in "Attenberg", for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and appearing in Helen Edmundson's film "Mary Magdalene" in 2018.


title: Ariane Labed

text: Born to French parents, Labed spent her first six years in Athens, then six years in Germany. She moved to France when she was 12 years old. Labed studied theater at the University of Provence (DEUST basic training in theater, Bachelor of Performing Arts and master's degree in dramaturgy and scenic writing). She participated in the creation of the Vasistas theater troupe with Argyro Chioti and went on stage with the National Theater of Greece.


title: Ariane Labed

text: Labed was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 67th Venice International Film Festival for her performance in "Attenberg", directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, which was her debut film. She starred in the films "Alps" and "The Lobster" directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. In 2018, she appeared as Rachel in Helen Edmundson's film "Mary Magdalene".


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi (released in Japan as ) is a series of fighting games developed by Spike based on the "Dragon Ball" manga series by Akira Toriyama. The series was published by Namco Bandai Games under the Bandai brand name in Japan and Europe, and as Atari in North America and Australia from 2005 to 2007. Atari's PAL distribution network was absorbed into Bandai Namco Partners and Bandai Namco has also handled publishing in North America for future "Dragon Ball Z" games since 2010, effectively ending Atari's involvement.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: The original game was released for the PlayStation 2 in 2005, with the second and third installments also released for the Wii, and "Tenkaichi Tag Team" released on PlayStation Portable in 2010.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: The "Sparking!" in the Japanese title references the last lyric found in the chorus of the first opening theme to the "Dragon Ball Z" anime series, "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" ) though the opening theme to the first game is the TV series' second opening, "We Gotta Power"). The North American title is a rearranged version of (also known as the "Tenka-ichi Budōkai"), a reoccurring tournament featured in the manga and anime series. Despite the localized title, the series is not a continuation of the "" series. Its been speculated that Atari chose to market the games as part of the "Budokai" series in order to capitalize on its success.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: While "Sparking!" features actual music from the "Dragon Ball Z" anime series (as well as the "Dragon Ball" and "Dragon Ball GT" anime) as composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi, the American release of the first game features recycled music from the "Budokai" series (composed in Japan by Kenji Yamamoto).


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: The games use a "behind-the-back" third-person camera perspective. Similar to the Super Famicom-released "", special forms are treated as their own character, with varying stats, movesets and fighting styles.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: In battle, players can build up their Ki gauge to execute various techniques such as the Power Guard, which reduces the damage characters take by 1/4. The Ki gauge can also be used to use moves referred to as Blast 2 skills. Every character has a unique set of Blast 2 skills that allow the character to use special moves such as Ki blasts and physical attacks. Characters also have a self-recharging numeric gauge called Blast Stock that allows players to use techniques called Blast 1 skills. Blast 1 skills usually have a supportive effect such as allowing characters to regain health or immobilize the enemy. Players can also power up into a mode called Max Power Mode normally by building up their Ki beyond full at the cost of Blast Stock bars. Max Power Mode makes the character that initiated it faster, stronger, and able to use moves that are exclusive to the mode. One of these moves is the Ultimate Blast which is usually the most powerful move a character has, though use of any Blast 2 skill or the Ultimate Blast immediately ends Max Power Mode.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: In the series' story mode, (called "Z Battle Gate", "Dragon Adventure", and "Dragon History" in each console installment, respectively), the objective is to complete in battles based on moments from the original manga series, as well as anime-exclusive storylines (as seen in "Dragon Ball GT", and several "Dragon Ball Z" films). The Dragon Balls can be acquired through story mode by destroying the environment in battle; however, the player can only keep the Dragon Ball they find if the battle is won. Each installment features several "what-if" battles and scenarios; for example, the "Tenkaichi 1" story mode features modes where the player takes control of a villain and uses the character to defeat the hero, while the "Tenkaichi 2" story mode has modes where Raditz and Zarbon essentially team up with the Z Fighters for one reason or another. Several levels of the "Tenkaichi 2" story mode also feature cutscenes shown either before or after the fight of the level takes place. The "Tenkaichi 3" story mode has cutscenes integrated into the battles themselves that are activated by hitting a certain button. These can be transformations, character changes, automatic attack use, or something as simple as a conversation.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: The player can enter a World Tournament and try to win their way to the top. There are three levels of the basic tournament and a Cell Games mode. Since characters can fly, characters can leave the perimeter of the arena, but will be called for ringout if they touch the ground. There are no restrictions to but the last match of the Cell Games mode is always against Perfect Cell. In "Tenkaichi 1" winning the tournaments gave players a Z-Item prize while in "Tenkaichi 2", players would receive money which in turn would be used on Z-Items. The World Tournament mode could be played with several entrants, but if there is more than one human player, no prize would be awarded. Other features in the game includes more combo attacks or character specific combos, the Blast Combos, and the Z Burst Dash. The additional combo attacks will be able to help chain in more attacks for more damage and longer combos. The Blast Combo is the normal combos however by inputting another button into the attack will allow the player to use a blast attack for extra damage. Depending on the moves of the character, the player might not be able to use this feat such as Videl or Hercule . The Z Burst Dash is much faster and more evasive version of the Dragon Dash. It allows the user to get behind the opponent at high speeds for either a strike or to avoid a blast 2 attack. The drawback to this technique is that it will rapidly drain the player of energy. The player can fuse characters to make a better character but some characters can not be fused. The player also has the opportunity to upgrade characters.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi, originally published as in Japan, was released for PlayStation 2 in Japan on October 6, 2005; North America on October 18, 2005; and Europe on October 21, 2005.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: The game features 64 playable characters and 10 stages. Players can fight across the Earth Wasteland, the Earth Rock Area, Planet Namek, the Islands, the City Ruins, the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, the Cell Games Arena, the Mountain Road, the World Tournament Arena, and Kami's Lookout.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, originally published as in Japan, is the second installment in the series and first to be released on a Nintendo platform. It was released for PlayStation 2 in Japan on October 5, 2006; Europe on November 3, 2006; North America on November 7, 2006; and Australia on November 9, 2006. The Wii version was released in North America on November 19, 2006; in Japan on January 1, 2007; in Europe on March 30, 2007; and Australia on April 5, 2007.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: Though originally confirmed as being a launch title in North America for the Wii, some stores started selling the Wii version on November 15, 2006. An issue of V Jump listed January 2007 as the release date for the Japanese version of the Wii release. The game originally featured 100 characters in 136 forms and 16 stages, though the Japanese and PAL Wii versions came with five additional characters (Demon King Piccolo, Cyborg Tao, Appule, Frieza Soldier, and Pilaf Robot/combined form).


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, originally published as in Japan, is the third installment of the "Budokai Tenkaichi" series and the last to be released on consoles. The game was released for PlayStation 2 and Wii in Japan on October 4, 2007, in North America on November 13, 2007 and in Europe on November 9, 2007 for the PlayStation 2 (the Wii version was released in Japan on October 4, 2007, in North America on December 3, 2007, in Europe and Australasia on February 15, 2008).


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: "Tenkaichi 3" features 98 characters in 161 forms, the largest roster in a fighting game at the time. Ryo Mito once stated that the game would feature never-before-seen characters made exclusively for the game.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: Several new notable features include Battle Replay, which allows players to record fights and save them to an SD card; Night and day stages, which allows certain characters ability to transform; and the Wii version features online multiplayer capability, the first game in the series to have such a feature. Players can fight against anyone from around the globe with a ranking system showing the player's current standing compared to anyone else who has played online. The PlayStation 2 version features the "Disc Fusion System", where inserting a "Tenkaichi 1" or "Tenkaichi 2" disc unlocks the "Ultimate Battle" or "Ultimate Battle Z" modes, featured in the respective games needed to unlock them. The game also supports 480p for both the Wii and the PlayStation 2 versions.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: Other features include more combo attacks or character specific combos, Blast Combos, and the Z Burst Dash. The additional combo attacks will be able to help chain in more attacks for more damage and longer combos. The Blast Combos are normal combos used in the game, however by inputting another button into the attack will allow the player to use a blast attack for extra damage. Depending on the moves of the character the player might not be able to use this feat such as Videl or Hercule. The Z Burst Dash is a much faster and more evasive version of the Dragon Dash. It allows the user to get behind the opponent at high speeds for either a strike or to avoid a blast 2 attack. The drawback to this technique is that it will rapidly drain the player of energy. Also to charge up all their energy, the player must have one blast one stock filled up to power up to the very limit.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: "Tenkaichi Tag Team" was the final game in the series, and the only installment to released on a handheld console. The game was published by Bandai Namco and released in August 2010 for PlayStation Portable.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: As the title suggests, the game focuses on two on two fights. "Dragon Walker" is the main story mode, following the events of the manga and anime series. Other modes include "Battle 100", where the player fights many teams; and "Free Battle", where the player can fight any team of their choice. Other features include the ability to perform fusions, and upgrade characters using "D-POINTS", the games main currency.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: "Budokai Tenkaichi" received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: "Budokai Tenkaichi 2" received "average" reviews on both platforms according to Metacritic. The PS2 version of the game received the 'Best Fighting Game of the Year' award from "X-Play". Mark Bozon of IGN said of the controls, "The sheer speed and complexity of the controls may turn some people off, but the general combat will eventually come down to two buttons, making the game amazingly easy to learn, but nearly impossible to fully master." "Nintendo Power" gave the Wii version a score of 10 for ""Dragon Ball Z" fans", and 5.5 for "everyone else", rounding out the overall score to 7.5 out of 10.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: "Budokai Tenkaichi 3" received "average" reviews on both platforms according to Metacritic. Japanese videogame magazine "Famitsu" gave the PS2 version a score of 32 out of 40, while the Wii version received 33 out of 40. "IGN" awarded both versions of "Tenkaichi 3" positively, with their only complaints being the comparatively underwhelming story mode (in comparison to "Tenkaichi 2"), gimmicky Disc Fusion, and the lagging Wi-Fi.


title: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

text: It has a score of 63% on Metacritic. GameSpot awarded it a score of 6.0 out of 10, saying "Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team is just another DBZ fighting game, and makes little effort to distinguish itself from its predecessors."


title: Alternative dispute resolution

text: Alternative dispute resolution (ADR), or external dispute resolution (EDR), typically denotes a wide range of dispute resolution processes and techniques that parties can use to settle disputes with the help of a third party. They are used for disagreeing parties who cannot come to an agreement short of litigation. However, ADR is also increasingly being adopted as a tool to help settle disputes within the court system.


title: Alternative dispute resolution

text: Despite historic resistance to ADR by many popular parties and their advocates, ADR has gained widespread acceptance among both the general public and the legal profession in recent years. In fact, some courts now require some parties to resort to ADR of some type like mediation, before permitting the parties' cases to be tried (indeed the European Mediation Directive (2008) expressly contemplates so-called "compulsory" mediation. This means that attendance is compulsory, not that settlement must be reached through mediation). Additionally, parties to merger and acquisition transactions are increasingly turning to ADR to resolve post-acquisition disputes.


title: Alternative dispute resolution

text: The rising popularity of ADR can be explained by the increasing caseload of traditional courts, the perception that ADR imposes fewer costs than litigation, a preference for confidentiality, and the desire of some parties to have greater control over the selection of the individual or individuals who will decide their dispute. Some of the senior judiciary in certain jurisdictions (of which England and Wales is one) are strongly in favour of this (ADR) use of mediation to settle disputes. Since the 1990s many American courts have also increasingly advocated for the use of ADR to settle disputes. However, it is not clear as to whether litigants can properly identify and then use the ADR programmes available to them, thereby potentially limiting their effectiveness.


title: Alternative dispute resolution

text: Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is generally classified into at least four types: negotiation, mediation, collaborative law, and arbitration. Sometimes, conciliation is included as a fifth category, but for simplicity may be regarded as a form of mediation. ADR can be used alongside existing legal systems such as Sharia courts within common law jurisdictions, such as the UK.


title: Alternative dispute resolution

text: ADR traditions vary somewhat by country and culture. There are significant common elements which justify a main topic, and each country or region's difference should be delegated to sub-pages.


title: Alternative dispute resolution

text: ADR is of two historic types. First, methods for resolving disputes outside of the official judicial mechanisms. Second, informal methods attached to or pendant to official judicial mechanisms. There are in addition free-standing and or independent methods, such as mediation programs and ombuds offices within organizations. The methods are similar, whether or not they are pendant, and generally use similar tool or skill sets, which are basically sub-sets of the skills of negotiation.


title: Alternative dispute resolution

text: ADR includes informal tribunals, informal mediative processes, formal tribunals and formal mediative processes. The classic formal tribunal forms of ADR are arbitration (both binding and advisory or non-binding) and private judges (either sitting alone, on panels or over summary jury trials). The classic formal mediative process is referral for mediation before a court-appointed mediator or mediation panel. Structured transformative mediation as used by the U.S. Postal Service is a formal process. Classic informal methods include social processes, referrals to non-formal authorities (such as a respected member of a trade or social group) and intercession. The major differences between formal and informal processes are (a) pendency to a court procedure and (b) the possession or lack of a formal structure for the application of the procedure.


title: Alternative dispute resolution

text: For example, freeform negotiation is merely the use of the tools without any process. Negotiation within a labor arbitration setting is the use of the tools within a highly formalized and controlled setting.


title: Alternative dispute resolution

text: Calling upon an organizational ombudsman's office is never, by itself, a formal procedure. (Calling upon an organizational ombudsman is always voluntary; by the International Ombudsman Association Standards of Practice, no one can be compelled to use an ombuds office.)


title: Alternative dispute resolution

text: Organizational ombuds offices refer people to all conflict management options in the organization: formal and informal, rights-based and interest-based. But, in addition, in part because they have no decision-making authority, ombuds offices can, themselves, offer a wide spectrum of informal options.