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Arcade (Marvel Comics)

Arcade is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in 1978's Marvel Team-Up (vol. 1) #65, created by writer Chris Claremont and writer/artist John Byrne. The character is a combination of evil genius and hitman who carries out his assassinations via various elaborate traps, often referred to as his Murderworld. He was the main villain and driving force behind the 2012-2014 comic book Avengers Arena.

Arcade's first intended victims were Spider-Man and Captain Britain but since Arcade's Murderworld games always leaves the outcome up to chance the duo defeated Arcade and escaped with their lives. Over the years Arcade has targeted a multitude of X-Men and members of X-Factor, X-Force and Excalibur. For a while he used the Crazy Gang as his hired henchmen with limited success. In Avenger Arena Arcade and his associates manage to kidnap 16 super powered teens and force them to fight each other and his latest Murderworld for survival. During the storyline several of the teens were killed but in the end Arcade seemingly dies as S.H.I.E.L.D.. Wolverine, Hank Pym and Captain Britain free the surviving teens. In the follow up series Avengers Undercover it was revealed that Arcade survived and that it was a clone that was killed at the end of the story.

Arcade (ballet)

Arcade is a ballet made by John Taras to Igor Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Winds (1924). The premiere took place Thursday, March 28, 1963, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.

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Kill the Lights (Luke Bryan album)

Kill the Lights is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Luke Bryan. It was released on August 7, 2015, through Capitol Nashville. The album's lead single, "Kick the Dust Up", was released to radio on May 19, 2015. "Strip It Down" was released as the second single from the album on August 4, 2015. The album's third single, "Home Alone Tonight", was released to country radio on November 23, 2015.

Kill the Lights garnered positive reviews from music critics. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, moving 345,000 equivalent units in the week ending August 13.

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Kill the Lights has received mostly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a "weighted average" rating out of 100 from selected independent ratings and reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a Metascore of 69/100, based on nine reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rates the album four stars conveying: "Kill the Lights winds up feeling happy and generous, an inclusive record that plays to teenage desires as effectively as memories of an adolescence left behind. " The publication Billboard rates the album three and a half stars, and Jewly Hight commenting: "the fact that Kill the Lights features a pensive, black-and-white cover shot -- the rare photo in which he's not smiling even a little -- is a hint: He isn't simply going about his business-as-usual fun on this album."Brian Mansfield rates the album three stars out of four at USA Today proffering: "The hits are fine, but that's the guy who's really worth getting to know." Maura Johnston gives the album a positive review on behalf of The Boston Globe suggesting: "Bryan might have broken up with spring break, but crashing pop’s party will probably offer him just as good a time."

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Weed

A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place". Examples commonly are plants unwanted in human-controlled settings, such as farm fields, gardens, lawns, and parks. Taxonomically, the term "weed" has no botanical significance, because a plant that is a weed in one context is not a weed when growing in a situation where it is in fact wanted, and where one species of plant is a valuable crop plant, another species in the same genus might be a serious weed, such as a wild bramble growing among cultivated loganberries. Many plants that people widely regard as weeds also are intentionally grown in gardens and other cultivated settings. The term also is applied to any plant that grows or reproduces aggressively, or is invasive outside its native habitat. More broadly "weed" occasionally is applied pejoratively to species outside the plant kingdom, species that can survive in diverse environments and reproduce quickly; in this sense it has even been applied to humans.