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Talk:God/Archive 3

non-believers
I removed fragment about number of non-belivers from this article. Data at adherence.com regarding number of non-belivers seems to be in major conflict with the CIA World Factbook, cf. with, when CIA World Factbook states that there are 39,8% of Atheists in the Czech Republic. Due to conflicting sources (and I believe, an attempt to minimalize non-belivers significance) I remove that data completely. I also removed an obvious NPOV sentence. Przepla 13:34, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Thank you for removing this obviously biased "data". Many reliable surveys show that the number of atheists, agnostics and freethinkers is much higher than what that person claimed. When we add atheists, agnostics and freethinkers together, we find that a very large percent of people in the Western world find the concept of God useless or meaningless. I understand that religious fundamentalists don't like this, but they can't make these people disappear by foolishly writing them out of existence. What's next? Actually exterminating the non-believers if they cannot be hidden? Ironically, I am a theist (specifically a Maimonidean rationalist), so I promote belief in God. (Even though I don't believe in an anthropomorphic God.) But I won't distort the numbers when it comes to citing how many people disagree with me, nor will I psuh my beliefs on others. Someone is clearly pushing bad data to push their religious beliefs. RK 15:16, Jan 10, 2004 (UTC)

Bad Data
I'm sorry to hear that you dislike my sources. I am also sad to see that you simultaneously accuse me of distorting the facts, while grouping atheists, agnostics and "freethinkers" together as though they were a legitimate category with similar characteristics. I chose adherents.com because I had seen it used elsewhere in the wiki, and because it bothered to point out that those groups are "highly disparate ... and not a single religion" which is something that those who are trying to push this agenda of exadurating the size of this ridiculously small minority clearly enjoy doing. You statistics regarding the Czech republic have nothing to do with the statistics I provided regarding the United States and Australia. However I will admit that this page is not particularly well suited by documentation of the official numbers of adherents of any particular religion. When I saw the glaring error attempting to misstate (as you are clearly attempting to do) the percentage of atheists, I chose to point it out the best way possible, thru citation of sources. Jack 07:08, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Here is a well known alamanac, citing adherents.com as a source and here is another link, this time citing only encyclopedia brittanica and here is the CIA factbook statistics world wide  (notice I am not listing statistically bizzare places, such as the Czech republic) which gives an amazingly high (I think they must be counting all of N korea, etc...) 2.44%. In any case, please take your anti-science and underhanded debating techniques elsewhere, they are particularly unsuited for the learned. Jack 09:15, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I didn't said that adherents.com is unbelivable. I just pointed out major conflict of data between adherents.com and CIA World Factbook -- specifically number of Atheists in the Czech Republic (almost 40%) and the fact that Czech Republic is not listed as a country with many Atheists in adherents.com. (And adherents.com lists non-existent countries like East Germany, West Germany and Britain). Since those data are in conflict, and I (and you as well -- I suppose), am unable to find out which data is real, I decided to remove that data from the article. The fact that there is virtually no data about how many politheists, monotheists in the article; and somehow there is data about how few non-belivers made me to suggest agenda pushing. I deeply apologize if I was in error. Regarding your last sentence, will you please explain where are mine: anti-science and underhanded debating techniques, and who are those learned. Przepla 12:05, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I am those learned, and I pray you are as well. While I was refering particularly to RK's ad hominem attack, I was also quite displeased with his and your innacurate insinuations of data conflict/bad data. There isn't one. And bringing the Czech republic (clearly an exceptional case) appeared to me to be unnecessarilly tricky (and/or ethnocentric if you are indeed Czech). The fact that the Czech republic is not listed on adherents.com (its old data, thats why they refer to East Germany, Czech was Czechslovak back then) has nothing to do with anything. My point was specific in refering to the anglosphere, and europe in general, and Czech was never specifically mentioned by anyone until you brought it up. Anyways, I don't see a need for mention of numbers of adherents in the text, and if you would like to learn about the exact percentages look into it with the links I provided, or any other reliable source, heck try atheism. Jack 12:23, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Let me restate the text I removed: A small minority of people, making up less than one tenth of one percent of the population in the Australia, less than 0.7% in the U.S., and rarely found outside of Europe and the Anglosphere, find the concept of God meaningless or unnecessary. I don't see almost 15% of human population -- non-religious 12.53%, atheists 2.44% according to CIA World Factbook small minority. 15 millions of non-adherents in Great Britain (25%), (again according to CIA World Factbook), 33% Atheists in France according to atheism article, and finally 40% in the Chech Republic does not definitely make a small minority in Europe. Removed statement is like Small minority of Christians, making less than 0.5% in Poland and Italy, and rarely found outside Nordic Europe, US, and Australia are not Roman Catholics. The problem is that Poland and Italy are most Roman Catholic countries in the World. As well as US is one of most religous countries in the Western Culture. Regarding learned, English is not my native language (I am a Pole) and I don't know what do you mean by it. My dictionary gives only those definitions: having a lot of knowledge obtained by study and of or for learned people. As such, having MA in Law, and MSc (eng.) in Technical Physics I think I qualify as learned. Przepla 12:51, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Ok, so your learned. Lets see if you can learn this: Non-religious, non-adherents, non-practicianers, secularists, agnostics, freethinkers, and people in france who agree that atheism "in part" describes their religious view etc... ARE NOT ATHEISTS. Atheists make up aprox. 2.44% of the world population. enuff said. Jack 13:01, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * All more or less equivalent for practical purposes. I am an atheist. 81.86.225.46 13:17, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I know that! However, Non-religious, non-adherents, non-practicianers, secularists, agnostics, freethinkers, and people in France who agree that atheism "in part" describes their religious view [the atheism article says "33% of French adults say that "atheist" defines their position on religion rather or very well" - Przepla] are people who find the concept of God meaningless or unnecessary. Atheists are not people who find the concept of God meaningless or unnecessary. but instead they assert that no God exists (atheism). Specifically, for agnostics concept of God in meaningless since it has no verifiable definition (Agnosticism). Przepla 13:39, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * I do not believe in the existance of any gods, which makes me an atheist. But I don't assert that no god exists, because that would be silly - I haven't looked everywhere that a god could possibly be hiding. "Atheism" is commonly taken to mean "active denial of God or gods", but one doesn't need to actively deny something to lack belief in it. See weak atheism and strong atheism for more on this distinction. Bryan

 * I quoted the atheism article in my previous response: In modern usage as reflected in most dictionaries, atheism is the assertion that no gods exists, or that the existence of gods has infinitesimal probability.. I am perfectly aware of distiction between weak and strong atheism, and close similarity of weak atheism to agnosticism. As such, I think, atheism without any adjective means strong atheism, as correctly indicated in both articles quoted by you. If necessary let's continue this discussion on my talk page, since this seems off topic in Talk:God. Przepla 18:05, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Ok, so your learned. Lets see if you can learn this: Non-religious, non-adherents, non-practicianers, secularists, agnostics, freethinkers, and people in france who agree that atheism "in part" describes their religious view etc... ARE NOT ATHEISTS. Atheists make up aprox. 2.44% of the world population. enuff said. Jack 13:01, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Sorry, Jack, but you don't know what you are talking about. Try doing some reading on the subject. All of these people reject the idea that one should believe in God, all of these find the idea of the God meaningless or unimportant. And most of these people use all three of these names interchangeably! Your studies which show low figures do not take such facts into account. Try reading the articles in Skeptic magazine, or Skeptical Inquirer, or the Humanist, to understand why all these names are effectively synonyms. I know that you are angry that so many people reject your religious beliefs, but these people exist whether you like it or not. You can't write millions of people out of existence, and it scares me when you try to do this. RK

Przepla writes "As such, I think, atheism without any adjective means strong atheism, as correctly indicated in both articles quoted by you. "

 * We need to clarify the difference between presciptive definitions, and common definition. Among most English speakers, the world "Atheism: is only loosely defined. Many people do not believe in God for a variety of reasons, or find no reason to be sure that God exists. A great many of these people use the words atheist or agnostic interchangeably. The majorty of self-identified atheists I know (rightly or wrongly) reject the definition of strong atheism given here. I just want to sound a note of caution on how we phrase things. RK

The fact remains that millions of people have moved away from theism (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc.) and have become atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, Brights, etc. Claims to the contrary are argument by loud denial, and do not represent a factual picture of our post-Enlightenment world. RK

Logic
First of all, there is no "argument by loud denial" its something you made up. The idea that someone emphatically opposes your view is in no way inherently fallacious. Secondly, You are making a blatant Appeal to false authority with your amazingly biased sources, and simultaneously refusing to accept multiple valid sources on the subject of religious demographics. Furthermore you are perpetrating false generalizations in your attempt to include as many people as possible under the umbrella of atheism. This is a common technique of atheistic proselytizers, who commonly become wild in their exaggerations, when the number is documented at 2.44%. I don't know why I am bothering with this, there is a history of difficulties in doing so but perhaps it is because as a lover of God I see potential in everyone for progress. Please strive for logical and moral growth. JackLynch 09:49, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * @JackLynch. Are you implying that CIA World FactBook is a biased source -- as this is the only one referenced here beside adherents.com? Kindly re-read my previous statements. Specifically, I pointed out that previous statement in the God article was broad enough as to include not only atheism. When accusing others of broken logic kindly state what exacly statement is wrong and why. Please don't use such statements Please strive for [...] and moral growth or I see potential in everyone for progress. as they are irrelevant to discussion and unnecessary heat up this discussion. Let's try not to move this discussion to an emotional ground. Additionally we may ask for a mediation on Village Pump or similar page. Przepla 14:22, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

No. I cite CIA.gov all the time, I sure hope its not biased! I was refering to "Skeptic magazine, or Skeptical Inquirer, or the Humanist". I wasn't accusing you of anything, Przepla. And I am seeking mediation for my complaints against RK for disregarding my sources, not with you. I'm not the least bit upset w you, but if your mad at me for some reason let me know what I can do for you. JackLynch 10:42, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * So we may consider current version of God being a consensual one? BTW. It appears that I was responding to your responses to RK thinking it was a reponse to me. I'm sorry about that. Przepla 11:01, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hey, Jack, if I end each of my comments with the assertion that Rev. Moon is the Messiah, will that convince you? ;-) --Uncle Ed 15:39, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * (i am new to this conversation) - It seems that there is much dispute over these numbers. I have my own opinion on these numbers.  I'll say only that my opinion is not radical; that it is not statistically implausible.  Since there seems to be no clear and accepted number (if there were, people would generally accept it), I think it would be deceptive to say or imply in the article that there is.  To mantain a NPOV, the article, therefore should either state all numbers with equal prominence, and cite them in proportion to the degree that their statement occurs (that is, given equal weight to all sources), or put no numbers at all.  I am thus in agreement with the majority on this matter. -- Kevin Baas 18:42, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

God in the East

 * A belief in a [immortal, supernatural being, usually said to watch or rule over humanity and the universe] or [those plural] is found in 1) Taoism 2) Theravada Buddism

 * 1) It looks like this statement is technically made by the article
 * 2) I think, the statement is wrong
 * 3) I suggest that you provide some references to prove it or clarify the corresponding frase in the article.
 * 4) Thank you, ilya 21:40, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I move that these paragraphs be deleted on the grounds that they are meaningless waffle:

 * It [God] can also be used to refer to similar concepts such as an energy or consciousness that pervades the universe, and whose existence makes the universe possible; the source of all existence; the best and highest good within all sentient beings; or even that which is beyond all understanding or definition.

 * Conflicting interpretations arise regarding the name of "God", and what the name actually means — often the infinite God concept is mixed with non-infinite personifications of "God" (i.e. God as an old man, a Zeus or Odin.) A belief in a "God" or gods is found in many cultures, although followers of a particular God or gods may consider other gods to be inferior. Likewise many people hold non-literal, sometimes even secular interpretations of God — few of which may actually contradict the pure concept of an "infinite God," despite any contradictions these may have with any particular religious tradition.

Adam 13:46, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I dont find them meaningless. Andres

Well, I agree with Adam that this style of "some think this about X, some think that about X, so that there is no agreement on what X means", intentionally or not, shows either, a basic disinterest in the religious topic or, a commitment to a pluralistic view of the issue -- which is fine for Wikipedia, if it is made clear that this is a point of view to which some subscribe, who are disinterested or pluralistic. But the fact that, there are various gods according to various religions, is accounted for differently by a believer in Islam, or a Catholic, for example, than it is by a believer in religious ecclecticism or by an agnostic, or an atheist. The paragraph can be reworded into a report of that fact. Mkmcconn 15:45, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Alright, so this higgs particle is also known as "the God particle". So what? How is this relevant? I call my pen "the God pen". Should there be a link to my pen on this page? -- Kevin Baas 22:31, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I just added http://www.freewebs.com/thegodparticle/ as a possible source for an answer to your question. Bevo 22:55, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

This God particle thing is very interesting. Some quantum mechanists have argued since particles come in and out of existance from nothingness (i.e. empty space is not really empty) that the universe could have been created out of nothing in the same way. There are many counter arguements to this though, and esp. since we do not have a unified theory of physics yet, but these ideas should be included, perhaps under a 'Science / Physics' heading. --ShaunMacPherson 22:33, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Etymology question
The first character in Ȝuðán in the etymology section does not display on my browser (Mozilla) and I have fonts that cover most of this territory. Is γuðán what is supposed to appear? If so, I or someone else can fix. -- Smerdis of Tlön 20:24, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * No, its a Yogh that should be coming through. Morwen 20:30, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)

 * I changed it to ʒuðán, which technically is ezh rather than yogh, but at least on this browser it displays at the appropriate place on the line anyways. Apparently my fonts antedate the drawing of the distinction in Unicode, but if mine do, it is likely that others' do as well.  Smerdis of Tlön 20:40, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Java Foundation Classes

The Java Foundation Classes (JFC) are a graphical framework for building portable Java-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs). JFC consists of the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Swing and Java 2D. Together, they provide a consistent user interface for Java programs, regardless of whether the underlying user interface system is Windows, macOS or Linux.

History
AWT existed before JFC. AWT was heavily criticized for being little more than a wrapper around the native graphical capabilities of the host platform. That meant that the standard widgets in the AWT relied on those capabilities of the native widgets, requiring the developer to also be aware of the differences between host platforms.

An alternative graphics library called the Internet Foundation Classes was developed in more platform-independent code by Netscape.

At the same time, another graphics library, called Application Foundation Classes (AFC), was developed independently by Microsoft. It was made to be easier to extend the graphic components, but was primarily aimed for use with the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine.

On April 2, 1997, Sun Microsystems and Netscape announced their intention to combine IFC with other technologies to form the "Java Foundation Classes". The "Java Foundation Classes" were later renamed "Swing", adding the capability for a pluggable look and feel of the widgets. This allowed Swing programs to maintain a platform-independent code base, but mimic the look of a native application. The release of JFC made IFC obsolete, and dropped interest for Microsoft's AFC.

Using the Java programming language, Java Foundation Classes (JFC) are pre-written code in the form of class libraries (coded routines) that give the programmer a comprehensive set of graphical user interface (GUI) routines to use. The Java Foundation Classes are comparable to the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC). JFC is an extension of the original Java Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT). Using JFC and Swing, an additional set of program components, a programmer can write programs that are independent of the windowing system within a particular operating system.

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free dance
Please put it into the appropriate category in the relevant lists (I guess it woud be pages 20th century concert dance and List of dance style categories, but I assume you know better). Mikkalai 18:26, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC),
 * no you were right, all done! Ohka- 11:30, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou! for working on dance-related articles. The very little I remember from college is just enough to annoy me that we don't have decent coverage (the fact that you just recently created en pointe is startling enough), but not enough to be able to write decent articles myself without lots of research. So many kudos from me, and keep up the good work... -- Seth Ilys 17:15, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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 * and your bibliography. Dunc_Harris|☺ 15:21, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I'm going to start helping too
I just noticed what a sorry state all the dance related articles were in, so I figured I'd start categorizing and researching to see what information I can add. Glad to see someone else is, and I love your biblography. I'll be working on the categorizing for awhile- let's get this organized! Lyellin 11:54, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)

 * that's great!, what do you think we could do to help each other out? any game plan suggestions Ohka-

 * I think the wikiproject idea is great (was actually thinking about that myself), but I have no idea how to go about starting one up, so I've been cautious to go ahead with it. Once I went through Ballet and tried categorizing, I realized how much Ballroom dancing needed... those are the only two I've looked at, although I suspect there are more in the dance section itself that need help. Lyellin 07:50, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

 * The Wikiproject page already has a red link for Dance, so I think I will create that with the basic template, and we'll start going through. I do believe we'll have to create descendent projects for some of the major forms of dance... and perhaps different forms for dancers, shows, choerographers, etc. Regardless, we'll talk about it there? Lyellin 08:05, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

 * Try WikiProject_Dance. Just started it with the template.

 * neat - Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dance

Question about this photo
Did you take the picture yourself? Do you have any others out there - it looks great, and since I am also a hobby-dance-photographer... (http://gallery.dekay.org) I am always looking for other dance pics ;) dekay 10:07, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Chorea
Hi, User:Defrenrokorit introduced confusion into articles. Now we have four of them: Chorea, Chorea (dance), Chorea (disease), Chorea (disambiguation), all of them started their own diverging lifes. I suggest to kill one of them. Since the decease is most common usage of the word today, I suggest to make Chorea a decease article and forget Chorea (disease). In order to keep autorship I suggest the following complicated sequence.

I can do it all by myself, of leave the last step to you (if you wish to keep the authorsip). Your opinion? Mikkalai 03:34, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Revert Chorea (disambiguation) to vrsion before Defrenkorit.
 * Move Chorea to Chorea/temp
 * Move Chorea (disambiguation) to Chorea
 * Make a new, simple Chorea (disambiguation).
 * Introduce your edits into Chorea.

 * hello, i agree with what you are saying, i added the info to show that the terms all come from the same root, there really shouldn't be so many pages, just Chorea and Chorea (dance) it's a bit compliated so i'll let you do it (feeling clumsy at the moment). i'm really not bothered about loosing authorship, what good for wikipidea is good for me! thanks Ohka- 15:29, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Circle dance
Can you take a look at Circle dance? It was pretty biased. I straightened a bit, but still something must be done. Mikkalai 04:01, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Dance code repository
Hello,

I am looking for a dance code repository that would provide an organized set of free dances to make a robot dance. It could be curated manually or generated through BHV files. Also it could be based on Dance Notation Markup Language (DNML) and XML-encoded STEP (XSTEP) but I never saw those format before. I checked MikuMikuDance but did not find any community-driven website and I am not sure it is general enough (but would surely be a good start).

I described that idea a bit more on my webpage if you are curious http://wiki.seedea.org/Seedea/SandIdeabox#DanceCodeRepository

Cheers, Utopiah (talk) 14:22, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

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JFC

JFC may refer to:

 * Jean F. Cochois, a German record producer and DJ
 * Jamshedpur FC, an association football club, Jharkhand, India
 * Juventus FC, an association football club, Turin, Italy
 * JFC Reggae Band, Arlington, Virginia, US
 * JFC International, a foods supplier
 * Joint Force Command Brunssum, the Netherlands
 * Joint Force Command Naples, Italy
 * Joint Force Command Norfolk, Virginia, USA
 * Joint Forces Command, UK, now Strategic Command
 * Java Foundation Classes of the programming language
 * Jollibee Foods Corporation, a Philippine food company

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China Beach

China Beach is an American war drama television series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The title refers to My Khe beach in the city of Đà Nẵng, Vietnam, nicknamed "China Beach" in English by American and Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War. The series originally ran on ABC for four seasons from April 27, 1988 to July 22, 1991.

Overview
Created by William Broyles Jr. and John Sacret Young, the series looks at the Vietnam War from the perspectives of the women, military personnel and civilians who were present during the conflict. John Wells took over most of the series beginning with the second season and many of the show's cast members appeared later on another Wells production, ER.

Set at the fictitious 510th Evacuation Hospital and R&R facility (the "Five-and-Dime"), the series' cast of characters includes US Army doctors and nurses, officers, soldiers, Red Cross volunteers and civilian personnel (American, French, and Vietnamese). The series also features the experiences of the characters when they return to the United States, either on leave or at the end of their tours of duty. The show does not shy away from showing the brutality of war; it provides a gritty view of the experience and its aftermath.

The show was inspired in part by the book Home Before Morning (1983) written by the former U.S. Army Nurse Lynda Van Devanter. The show's character Nurse Colleen McMurphy roughly follows Van Devanter's experiences as a nurse in Vietnam. The book takes the reader from Van Devanter's wish to serve her country through the adventure she thought her deployment to Vietnam would be, her culture shock upon returning to "the States", and her struggles with PTSD. The show was cancelled before it could fully address McMurphy's PTSD issues. Van Devanter died in 2002.

Cast

 * Dana Delany as First Lieutenant (later Captain) Colleen McMurphy, USA – a Catholic girl from Lawrence, Kansas, and army nurse with the 510th Evac Hospital in Vietnam during the late 1960s. A composite of various real-life Vietnam War nurses, the character illustrates her courage, kindness, and sacrifices during the war, as well as the severe emotional scarring of noncombatant personnel during and following military service; several episodes feature the veterans in their own words, intercut with the storyline. Delany won two Emmy awards for the role.
 * Nan Woods as Cherry White (seasons 1–2) – a naive Red Cross volunteer ("doughnut dolly") from Iowa, she comes to China Beach to search for her brother Rick, a Marine Infantryman, who was reported MIA. She dies midway through the second season during the Tet Offensive in January 1968.
 * Michael Boatman as SP5 Samuel Beckett, USA – a draftee and a preacher's son from North Carolina, he works in the Graves Registration unit at China Beach. His job makes him unpopular with most of the other servicemen.
 * Marg Helgenberger as Karen Charlene "K.C." Koloski – a cynical part-time prostitute and civilian volunteer, she comes to China Beach seeking to make her own wealth and fortune.
 * Robert Picardo as Captain Dick Richard, USA – a head surgeon dealing with being drafted into Army and away from his family, he worked as an OB-GYN when he was a civilian.
 * Tim Ryan as Captain Bartholomew "Natch" Austen, USAF (regular in season 1; recurring in season 2) – a jet fighter pilot and McMurphy's love interest.
 * Concetta Tomei as Major Lila Garreau, USA – a World War II veteran, she is the career Army commanding officer of China Beach.
 * Brian Wimmer as Corporal Boonwell "Boonie" Lanier, USMC – the friendly China Beach lifeguard and manager of the Jet Set Club.
 * Jeff Kober as Sergeant Evan "Dodger" Winslow, USMC – a moody Marine Force Reconnaissance operative, he serves and fights in the jungle mainly to keep other servicemen in his platoon alive. He constantly displays the "thousand-yard stare", a blank facial expression common among soldiers who have seen too much death and destruction in battle. He is a friend of Boonie, McMurphy, and Cherry.
 * Chloe Webb as Laurette Barber (season 1) – a USO singer from Paoli, Pennsylvania, she is determined to make it big.
 * Megan Gallagher as Airman Wayloo Marie Holmes, USAF (season 2) – a reporter for the Armed Services Network, she is seeking a career as a world-famous reporter.
 * Nancy Giles as Private Franklin "Frankie" Bunsen, USA (seasons 2–4) – a female private, she was assigned to the China Beach motor pool.
 * Ned Vaughn as Specialist Jeff Hyers, USA (season 3; guest appearances in seasons 2 and 4) – a good-natured combat medic from Georgia, he is killed in action midway through the third season during a routine patrol.
 * Troy Evans as Sergeant First Class Bob Pepper, USA (seasons 3–4) – a World War II veteran, he is a driver, mechanic, and non-commissioned officer in charge of the motor pool. He becomes romantically involved with Lila Garreau, whom he later marries.
 * Ricki Lake as Holly Pelegrino (season 3) – she is a sharp-witted Red Cross volunteer.
 * guest role: Nancy Sinatra appeared in the first-season finale, re-creating USO concerts she performed for U.S. troops in 1966 and 1967.

Episodes
Over four seasons from 1988 to 1991, the series aired 61 episodes and one pilot movie.

Production
The title sequence theme song was "Reflections" by Diana Ross & the Supremes (the episode "Phoenix" instead used "We Gotta Get out of This Place" by Eric Burdon with Katrina & The Waves).

Reception
China Beach was a critically lauded, but poorly rated series. ABC persisted with the show for four seasons, but the final season was put on hiatus in December 1990 and did not air its finale until July 22, 1991. As a result of the scheduling, Dana Delany was eligible for (and ultimately won) a Best Actress Emmy Award in the fall of 1992, a year after the series broadcast its final episode and over a year and a half after many of the scenes were filmed.

Syndication
China Beach debuted in rerun syndication on Lifetime, on November 4, 1991.

Home media
Before being released on DVD, the series' only home video release was the 97 minute pilot movie on Warner Home Video, in 1990 (cat no. 11971).

In December 2012, it was announced that the series, among the most-requested television shows not available through either VHS or DVD following its broadcast run, would be issued on DVD in a box set (including new interviews with cast members and various bonus features) and released on April 15, 2013, through StarVista Entertainment (affiliated with TimeLife). The collection includes 302 songs heard during the series. To mark the show's 25th anniversary, a 21-disc collector's set was released October 1, 2013.

Music rights long delayed the release on DVD. More than 250 songs were licensed; seventeen could not be, and were either deleted or replaced.

Possible follow-up novel
John Sacret Young stated prior to the show's October 2013 DVD release that he was working on a follow-up novel, titled Reflections, in which Colleen, now in her 60s and recently widowed, returned to Vietnam and reconnected with the retired Dick Richard and venture capitalist K.C. Koloski. Young had also hoped to adapt it into a TV movie. However, the novel was never published.

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WebKit

WebKit is a browser engine primarily used in Apple's Safari web browser, as well as all web browsers on iOS and iPadOS. WebKit is also used by the PlayStation consoles starting with the PS3, the Tizen mobile operating systems, the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, Nintendo consoles starting with the 3DS Internet Browser, and the discontinued BlackBerry Browser.

WebKit started as a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE, and has since been further developed by KDE contributors, Apple, Google, Nokia, Bitstream, BlackBerry, Sony, Igalia, and others. WebKit supports macOS, Windows, Linux, and various other Unix-like operating systems. On April 3, 2013, Google announced that it had forked WebCore, a component of WebKit, to be used in future versions of Google Chrome and the Opera web browser, under the name Blink.

Its JavaScript engine, JavascriptCore, also powers the Bun server-side JS runtime, as opposed to V8 used by Node.js and Blink. WebKit's C++ application programming interface (API) provides a set of classes to display Web content in windows, and implements browser features such as following links when clicked by the user, managing a back-forward list, and managing a history of pages recently visited.

WebKit is open source and available under the BSD 2-Clause license with the exception of the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components, which are available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. As of March 7, 2013, WebKit is a trademark of Apple, registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Origins
The code that would become WebKit began in 1998 as the KDE HTML (KHTML) layout engine and KDE JavaScript (KJS) engine. The WebKit project was started within Apple by Lisa Melton on June 25, 2001, as a fork of KHTML and KJS. Melton explained in an e-mail to KDE developers that KHTML and KJS allowed easier development than other available technologies by virtue of being small (fewer than 140,000 lines of code), cleanly designed and standards-compliant. KHTML and KJS was ported to macOS with the help of an adapter library and renamed WebCore and JavaScriptCore. JavaScriptCore was announced in an e-mail to a KDE mailing list in June 2002, alongside the first release of Apple's changes.

According to Apple, some changes which called for different development tactics involved macOS-specific features that are absent in KDE's KHTML, such as Objective-C, KWQ (pronounced "quack") an implementation of the subset of Qt required to make KHTML work on macOS written in Objective C++, and macOS calls.

Split development
The exchange of code between WebCore and KHTML became increasingly difficult as the code base diverged because both projects had different approaches in coding and code sharing. At one point KHTML developers said they were unlikely to accept Apple's changes and claimed the relationship between the two groups was a "bitter failure". They claimed Apple submitted their changes in large patches containing multiple changes with inadequate documentation, often in relation to future additions to the codebase. Thus, these patches were difficult for the KDE developers to integrate back into KHTML. Also, Apple had demanded that developers sign non-disclosure agreements before looking at Apple's source code and even then they were unable to access Apple's bug database.

During the publicized "divorce" period, KDE developer Kurt Pfeifle (pipitas) posted an article claiming KHTML developers had managed to backport many (but not all) Safari improvements from WebCore to KHTML, and they always appreciated the improvements coming from Apple and still do so. The article also noted Apple had begun to contact KHTML developers about discussing how to improve the mutual relationship and ways of future cooperation. In fact, the KDE project was able to incorporate some of these changes to improve KHTML's rendering speed and add features, including compliance with the Acid2 rendering test.

Following the appearance of a story of the fork in the news, Apple released the source code of the WebKit fork in a public revision-control repository.

The WebKit team had also reversed many Apple-specific changes in the original WebKit code base and implemented platform-specific abstraction layers to make committing the core rendering code to other platforms significantly easier.

In July 2007, Ars Technica reported that the KDE team would move from KHTML to WebKit. Instead, after several years of integration, KDE Development Platform version 4.5.0 was released in August 2010 with support for both WebKit and KHTML, and development of KHTML continued until 2016 before it was officially discontinued in 2023.

Open-sourcing
On June 7, 2005, Safari developer Dave Hyatt announced on his weblog that Apple was open-sourcing WebKit (formerly, only WebCore and JavaScriptCore were open source) and opening up access to WebKit's revision control tree and the issue tracker.

In mid-December 2005, support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) was merged into the standard build.

WebKit's JavaScriptCore and WebCore components are available under the GNU Lesser General Public License, while the rest of WebKit is available under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Further development
Beginning in early 2007, the development team began to implement Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) extensions, including animation, transitions and both 2D and 3D transforms; such extensions were released as working drafts to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 2009 for standardization.

In November 2007, the project announced that it had added support for media features of the HTML5 draft specification, allowing embedded video to be natively rendered and script-controlled in WebKit.

On June 2, 2008, the WebKit project announced they rewrote JavaScriptCore as "SquirrelFish", a bytecode interpreter. The project evolved into SquirrelFish Extreme (abbreviated SFX), announced on September 18, 2008, which compiles JavaScript into native machine code, eliminating the need for a bytecode interpreter and thus speeding up JavaScript execution. Initially, the only supported processor architecture for SFX was the x86, but at the end of January 2009, SFX was enabled for macOS on x86-64 as it passes all tests on that platform.

WebKit2
On April 8, 2010, a project named WebKit2 was announced to redesign WebKit. Its goal was to abstract the components that provide web rendering cleanly from their surrounding interface or application shell, creating a situation where, "web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) lives in a separate process from the application UI". This abstraction was intended to make reuse a more straightforward process for WebKit2 than for WebKit. WebKit2 had "an incompatible API change from the original WebKit", which motivated its name change.

The WebKit2 targets were set to Linux, macOS, Windows, GTK, and MeeGo-Harmattan. Safari for macOS switched to the new API with version 5.1. Safari for iOS switched to WebKit2 with iOS 8.

The original WebKit API has been renamed WebKitLegacy API. WebKit2 API has been renamed just plain WebKit API.

Use
WebKit is used as the rendering engine within Safari and was formerly used by Google's Chrome web browser on Windows, macOS, and Android (before version 4.4 KitKat). Chrome used only WebCore, and included its own JavaScript engine named V8 and a multiprocess system. Chrome for iOS continues to use WebKit because Apple requires that web browsers on that platform must do so. Other applications on macOS and iOS make use of WebKit, such as Apple's e-mail client Mail, App Store, and the 2008 version of Microsoft's Entourage personal information manager, both of which make use of WebKit to render HTML content.

Installed base
New web browsers have been built around WebKit such as the S60 browser on Symbian mobile phones, BlackBerry Browser (ver 6.0+), Midori, Chrome browser, the Android Web browser before version 4.4 KitKat, and the browser used in PlayStation 3 system software from version 4.10. KDE's Rekonq web browser and Plasma Workspaces also use it as the native web rendering engine. WebKit has been adopted as the rendering engine in OmniWeb, iCab and Web (formerly named Epiphany) and Sleipnir, replacing their original rendering engines. GNOME's Web supported both Gecko and WebKit for some time, but the team decided that Gecko's release cycle and future development plans would make it too cumbersome to continue supporting it. webOS uses WebKit as the basis of its application runtime. WebKit is used to render HTML and run JavaScript in the Adobe Integrated Runtime application platform. In Adobe Creative Suite CS5, WebKit is used to render some parts of the user interface. As of the first half of 2010, an analyst estimated the cumulative number of mobile handsets shipped with a WebKit-based browser at 350 million. By mid-April 2015, WebKit browser market share was 50.3%.

Ports
The week after Hyatt announced WebKit's open-sourcing, Nokia announced that it had ported WebKit to the Symbian operating system and was developing a browser based on WebKit for mobile phones running S60. Named Web Browser for S60, it was used on Nokia, Samsung, LG, and other Symbian S60 mobile phones. Apple has also ported WebKit to iOS to run on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, where it is used to render content in the device's web browser and e-mail software. The Android mobile phone platform used WebKit (and later versions its Blink fork) as the basis of its web browser and the Palm Pre, announced January 2009, has an interface based on WebKit. The Amazon Kindle 3 includes an experimental WebKit based browser.

In June 2007, Apple announced that WebKit had been ported to Microsoft Windows as part of Safari. Although Safari for Windows was silently discontinued by the company, WebKit's ports to Microsoft's operating system are still actively maintained. The Windows port uses Apple's proprietary libraries to function and is used for iCloud and iTunes for Windows, whereas the "WinCairo" port is a fully open-source and redistributable port. WebKit has also been ported to several toolkits that support multiple platforms, such as the GTK toolkit for Linux, under the name WebKitGTK which is used by Eolie, GNOME Web, Adobe Integrated Runtime, Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL), and the Clutter toolkit. Qt Software included a WebKit port in the Qt 4.4 release as a module called QtWebKit (since superseded by Qt WebEngine, which uses Blink instead). The Iris Browser on Qt also used WebKit. The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) port – EWebKit – was developed (by Samsung and ProFusion ) focusing the embedded and mobile systems, for use as stand alone browser, widgets-gadgets, rich text viewer and composer. The Clutter port is developed by Collabora and sponsored by Robert Bosch GmbH.

There was also a project synchronized with WebKit (sponsored by Pleyo) called Origyn Web Browser, which provided a meta-port to an abstract platform with the aim of making porting to embedded or lightweight systems quicker and easier. This port is used for embedded devices such as set-top boxes, PMP and it has been ported into AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS. MorphOS version 1.7 is the first version of Origyn Web Browser (OWB) supporting HTML5 media tags.

Web Platform for Embedded
Web Platform for Embedded (WPE) is a WebKit port designed for embedded applications; it further improves the architecture by splitting the basic rendering functional blocks into a general-purpose routines library (libwpe), platform backends, and engine itself (called WPE WebKit). The GTK port, albeit self-contained, can be built to use these base libraries instead of its internal platform support implementation. The WPE port is currently maintained by Igalia.

Forking by Google
On April 3, 2013, Google announced that it would produce a fork of WebKit's WebCore component, to be named Blink. Chrome's developers decided on the fork to allow greater freedom in implementing WebCore's features in the browser without causing conflicts upstream, and to allow simplifying its codebase by removing code for WebCore components unused by Chrome. In relation to Opera Software's announcement earlier in the year that it would switch to WebKit by means of the Chromium codebase, it was confirmed that the Opera web browser would also switch to Blink. Following the announcement, WebKit developers began discussions on removing Chrome-specific code from the engine to streamline its codebase. WebKit no longer has any Chrome specific code (e.g., buildsystem, V8 JavaScript engine hooks, platform code, etc.).

WebCore
WebCore is a layout, rendering, and Document Object Model (DOM) library for HTML and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), developed by the WebKit project. Its full source code is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The WebKit framework wraps WebCore and JavaScriptCore, providing an Objective-C application programming interface to the C++-based WebCore rendering engine and JavaScriptCore script engine, allowing it to be easily referenced by applications based on the Cocoa API; later versions also include a cross-platform C++ platform abstraction, and various ports provide more APIs.

WebKit passes the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, with pixel-perfect rendering and no timing or smoothness issues on reference hardware.

JavaScriptCore
JavaScriptCore is a framework that provides a JavaScript engine for WebKit implementations, and provides this type of scripting in other contexts within macOS. JavaScriptCore is originally derived from KDE's JavaScript engine (KJS) library (which is part of the KDE project) and the PCRE regular expression library. Since forking from KJS and PCRE, JavaScriptCore has been improved with many new features and greatly improved performance.

On June 2, 2008, the WebKit project announced they rewrote JavaScriptCore as "SquirrelFish", a bytecode interpreter. The project evolved into SquirrelFish Extreme (abbreviated SFX, marketed as Nitro), announced on September 18, 2008 further speeding up JavaScript execution.

An optimizing just-in-time (JIT) compiler named FTL was announced on May 13, 2014. It uses LLVM to generate optimized machine code. "FTL" stands for "Fourth-Tier-LLVM", and unofficially for faster-than-light, alluding to its speed. As of February 15, 2016, the backend of FTL JIT is replaced by "Bare Bones Backend" (or B3 for short).

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User:Zootalures

Zootalures is a Ph.D. student Sysadmin  post-doc at the University of Bath, developer who gets used to travel to lot, he thinks he has been to about 30  countries:

Australia Austria Belgium Chile Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Indonesia Ireland Italy Luxembourg Malaysia Malta Mexico Monaco Netherlands Poland Portugal Singapore Scotland Slovakia Spain Switzerland Turkey United States of America Wales

Articles in Progress:

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BBCode

BBCode ("Bulletin Board Code") is a lightweight markup language used to format messages in many Internet forum software. It was first introduced in 1998. The available "tags" of BBCode are usually indicated by square brackets ( and  ) surrounding a keyword, and are parsed before being translated into HTML.

Implementation
BBCode is typically implemented by applying a series of regular expression string-replace operations upon the input. Because regular expressions are limited in analyzing the structure of text input, this has the artifact that any non-hierarchical BBCode input will be transformed into invalid non-hierarchical HTML without error.

Applying traditional parsing techniques is made difficult by ambiguities in the markup, such as in [quote=[b]text[/b][/quote], where the input can either be interpreted as "text" quoted from someone called [b, or the bolded text "text" surrounded by [quote= and, i.e..

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Saint-Aubin-des-Bois, Calvados

Saint-Aubin-des-Bois is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Events
Saint-Aubin-des-Bois hosts an annual event each August, attracting over 5000 visitors, with demonstrations of traditional countryside skills, machinery (farm), vehicles and cars from earliest steam driven to 1960's vehicles. It is held on the third Sunday of August each year.

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Talk:Ffestiniog

Merge?
Not convinced that this redirect should exist-is the really the most important use of Ffestiniog? Would Blanaeu Ffestiniog not be more appropriate?

 * I am not sure which redirect the unsigned comment above refers to, since there appear to be no redirects to this page in 'What links here?', however, I came here from another link entirely (David Nash (artist)) and discovered this:

 * Blaenau Ffestiniog is a small town in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. (Population 4,830, including Llan Ffestiniog.

 * Ffestiniog is a community in Gwynedd in Wales, containing several villages, in particular the settlements of Llan Ffestiniog and Ffestiniog. It has a population of 4,830.

 * (both have precisely the same coordinates and population), and

 * Llan Ffestiniog also known as Ffestiniog or simply Llan is a village in Gwynedd (formerly county of Merionethshire), north Wales, lying south of Blaenau Ffestiniog.
 * (no population is indicated for Llan)

 * This is pretty confusing and clearly some sort of merge is in order, but I'm not familiar enough with Wales or Gwynedd to effectively pursue that. Could someone please, or if I've asked for help in the wrong place, could I be pointed in the right direction?

Duff (talk) 22:05, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't really see the problem here. Ffestiniog is a local government district, not a settlement (as shown by the link to Community (Wales); perhaps this could be made clearer?). The district's territory contains the settlements of Blaenau Ffestiniog and Llan Ffestiniog, and "several" other villages which are not named, and are presumably tiny. The population of the district is 4830, which is also given as the population of Blaenau Ffestiniog plus Llan Ffestiniog, presumably because no better source was available and the error involved is small. I can't see why we should merge these articles on two separate settlements and a third thing which is not a settlement. Algebraist 22:27, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Agree with Algebraist. I suggest creating a disambiguation page for this name. Robert Skyhawk (T C B) 22:42, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

 * To my mind all 3 need to stay as they are. Quite clearly both Blaenau F. (locally called "Blaenau")  and Llan F. (locally called "Llan") need separate pages, and given that Ffestiniog is a defined official area, that should remain too.  As said above, maybe a little more clarity is all that is needed. Hogyn Lleol (talk) 07:20, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

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Loup River

The Loup River (pronounced /lup/) is a tributary of the Platte River, approximately 68 mi long, in central Nebraska in the United States. The river drains a sparsely populated rural agricultural area on the eastern edge of the Great Plains southeast of the Sandhills. The name of the river means "wolf" in French, named by early French trappers after the Skidi band of the Pawnee, whose name means "Wolf People," and who lived along its banks. The river and its tributaries, including the North Loup, Middle Loup, and South Loup, are known colloquially as "the Loups", comprising over 1800 mi (2900 km) of streams and draining approximately one-fifth of Nebraska.

Course
The river is formed in eastern Howard County, approximately 5 mi northeast of St. Paul and 20 mi north of Grand Island, by the confluence of the North Loup and Middle Loup rivers. It flows east-northeast, past Fullerton, where it is joined from the north by the Cedar River. It continues east-northeast roughly parallel to the Platte, past Genoa, separated from the Platte by approximately 15 mi (24 km). It joins the Platte from the northwest approximately 4 mi southeast of Columbus.

A diversion dam southwest of Genoa diverts water to the Loup Canal to hydroelectric facilities in Monroe and then in Columbus. The canal then runs into the Platte a short distance below its confluence with the Loup.

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Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados

Saint Aubin-sur-Mer (, literally Saint Aubin on Sea) is a commune in the Calvados department, in northwestern France. Administratively, it is part of the arrondissement of Caen and the canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer. It is 2.1 km east of Bernières-sur-Mer, 4 km north of Douvres-la-Délivrande and 16 km north of Caen.

Origins
Up until July 1851, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer was part of the commune of Langrune-sur-Mer. Upon its creation in 1851, by the will of Napoleon III, Saint-Aubin had a population of 1,153 and Langrune 1,129. Nicknamed "Queen of Iodine", at low tide its banks of seaside rocks expose, an air of iodine saturates the beaches, thanks to the bladder-fucus and kelp deposited there.

During the second half of the 19th century, the population of Saint-Aubin declined to the point that in 1901, there were only 727 inhabitants. In July 1876, a train station was opened in Saint-Aubin along the Caen à la mer line, permitting the development of a sea resort. The 1920s brought the construction of its Rococo or Art Deco villas, and its 1800 m seawall (dam walk), today the seafront buildings open passages to the narrow alleys, where old fishermen's houses are the watchful guardians of the past. Located in the heart of the Canadian and British D-Day beaches, the waterfront, to a large extent, did not suffer from the misdeeds of the war.

D-Day
At the beginning of the Battle of Normandy, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, commanded by Major General Rodney Keller, landed 15,000 Canadians and 9,000 British troops on the Calvados coast. Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, one of five Canadian landing sites. was located at the eastern end of Canada's assigned landing sector of Juno Beach. On D-Day, the 8th Canadian Infantry (Assault) Brigade (Group) stormed the beach, landing The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, the 10th Armoured Regiment (The Fort Garry Horse), and the guns of the 19th Canadian (Army) Field Regiment, RCA. The Canadians were met by about 100 defenders who garrisoned the town's fortified 'Resistance Nest'. The Germans were largely unaffected by the preparatory barrage, as such they were able to put up heavy resistance at the beach and in the town, for most of the day, as the Canadians pushed inland.

Widerstandnesten WN27, the "Resistance Nest" at Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer was a platoon sized position, incorporating reinforced concrete (Verstärkt Feltmessig: Vf Type 2) gun casemates, with additional observation and fighting positions, located to dominate exits off the beach, into the town. A tight and compact position on the western side of town, the fight to hold WN27 was commanded by Züg Führer (Acting Commander) Lieutenant Gustav Pflochsch - Kompanie 5. / Grenadier-Regiment 736./ Bataillon II. The crew-served weapon shelters were linked by both underground passages and a well-developed system of trenches. WN 27 additionally incorporated a battalion heavy mortar detachment, located directly behind the beach seawall. Several of the villas and houses, in the town, had been strengthened and fortified as additional fighting positions, and to locate site snipers. Approaches into the position were well protected by K.V. Gruppe Courseulles minefields.

The coastline at St Aubin-dur-Mer was low lying, and to its east were low cliffs for a mile and a half, with a sea wall along most of it. Offshore, eastwards were rocky outcrops parts of which were exposed at low tide: les Essarts de Langrune. Having survived a weakened beach bombardment programme, at 07h39, WN 27 began to take indirect fire from 105 mm self-propelled guns on LCT landing craft. Firing on the run in, 19th Canadian (Army) Field Regiment, RCA, forty-eight guns fired for 30 minutes, putting down a very effective concentration, landing its first battery at 09h10. Heavily mortared getting off the narrowed (tide) and congested beach, the first gun was in action at 09h20. Observation and reconnaissance parties reported finding few targets in the early stages, when there was much close fighting, in the town. With no relief, the position was then covered by fire from LCT (Rocket) at H -8 minutes and H -5 minutes and the two flanks enveloped by Hedgerow mortar barrage, from LCA(HR)s at H -3 minutes, intended to cut the wire entanglements and detonate the landmines, securing the approaches onto the crew fighting positions. Disrupting any attempt at recovery, WN 27 began to take direct fire from the DD tanks of C Squadron, 10th Canadian Armoured Regiment, The Fort Garry Horse, arriving by LCT at H-Hour (07h55 BST). ‘C’ Squadron landed and managed to give supporting fire from the beach.

Attacked from its left flank, WN 27 was assaulted by ‘B’ Company, The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment (OC Major R.B. Forbes) they landing just west of the town, at 08h10, it having the difficult task of clearing the strong-point. This as ‘A’ Company, (Major J.A.M.C. Naughton), landing at 08h10 hours, to its right, was to clear the beach-houses fronting the seawall. At H+45 with no beach exits, the reserve North Shore companies landing, Major Bray commanding C squadron of the Fort Garry Horse decided to advance through the minefield losing three tanks, but with Churchill AVREs, after a hard fight St Aubin was soon under control. 'A' Company was clear of its planned objective by 09h48. Except for the strong-point, Saint Aubin was reported as "neutralized (secure)" at 11h15 and "Neutralized (Cleared)" – at 18h00. The North Shores landing at Nan Red lost nearly 50 men (dead and wounded) in the fight for WN 27.

Discussing the fire support to the landing at Saint Aubin-sur-Mer (NAN Red), a debate began, in late June 1944, as to who was not entirely effective in supporting the North Shores and the Fort Garry’s, on 6 June.

 * ‘On the left battalion front (St. Aubin-sur-Mer) neither the RAF heavy bombers, the rockets, nor the self-propelled artillery actually covered the main strong point and the North Shore Regiment engaged it without the assistance of heavier arms until sometime later. A considerable time was therefore spent in reducing it.’ Brigadier K.C. Blackader, MC, ED, Commander 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade:24 June 1944.
 * From H-40 to H, the three Fleet ‘V’ Class Destroyers, of Assault Group J2, HMS Vigilant (R93), HMCS Algonquin (R17) and HMCS Sioux did not fire, as planned in support of the two 8 CIB landings. Controlled by HMS Kempenfelt (Flag - Captain Assault Group J2), The Beach Drenching Fire Programme, set out to ensure indirect naval gunfire was delivered to the right beach, at the right time, was changed, as the St Aubin and Bernières landings took place.
 * When 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade put H Hour back by ten minutes, this apparently caused a delay in the opening of fire of the SP artillery, as six batteries had to adjust their firing tables. However, Brigade HQ reported that Bernières and St Aubin received ‘a terrific pounding’, this before all SP artillery fire switched to St Aubin. At the time, the cause was thought to be the strong current making navigation and station keeping difficult, as SP guns had a limited traverse, the LCT itself had to be aimed, the current caused all craft to point at St Aubin. A later report suggested a technical problem with the control craft observing and controlling fire on Bernières, so control was transferred to the craft off St Aubin and all fire concentrated there. Whatever the cause it was Bernières (Nan White), that did not receive the full (beach) barrage as planned.

Literary associations

 * Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer is the setting of Robert Browning's poem Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, where it is renamed Saint-Rambert.
 * In this picturesque seaside town Émile Zola wrote his novel about the underbelly of Paris society, L'Assommoir. It turned him into a literary star. More here plus pics.

Activities

 * Every summer in the middle of August, Saint-Aubin hosts a week-long festival called La semaine acadienne, composed of concerts by musical groups from Acadia, a Tintamarre, an open-air ball, exhibitions, documentary film showings, etc. The festival also pays tribute to the Acadian soldiers of the North Shore Regiment of New Brunswick who landed on the beach of Saint-Aubin on June 6, 1944.

International relations
The commune is twinned with:
 * Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada 🇨🇦 - many soldiers that died in Saint-Aubin were from there
 * Emsworth in Hampshire, England 🏴

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 * All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen Talk 19:55, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

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Revert to previous version. Greba 20:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

"Strong disagreement with the fans"
What the hell does that mean? If the band resisted and wanted the tapes out there, why would that be a disagreement with the fans? Could somebody correct this if they have the right information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by CZMQFRG (talk • contribs) 22:03, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Pronunciation?
I've heard the album name pronounced two different ways, first the English [mælˌəˈdrɔɪt] (Mal-eh-droyt) but I've also heard it as the French pronunciation [ma.lad.ʁwa] (Mal-eh-dwah). Does anyone have a source showing that the album is pronounced the English way?chad. (talk) 21:28, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Album title takes precedence over Artist Name?
It strikes me as strange that the page for 'Maladroit' is about the fourth album of the band called Weezer, from 2002, while it is also an artist name of an Australian electronic music composer who has been releasing since 2001, including 11 cds and 12"es. (145.97.201.205 (talk) 21:19, 27 December 2008 (UTC))

"Burndt Jamb"
It is most definitely "Burndt Jamb" and not "Burnt Jamb" or "Burnt Jam".192.138.178.107 (talk) 15:28, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Slob?
The song slob has several links to it in the article and the Weezer Portal. I'm guessing the article was deleted, so should these links be removed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.116.115.121 (talk) 05:28, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

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UClibc

In computing, uClibc (sometimes written μClibc) is a small C standard library intended for Linux kernel-based operating systems for embedded systems and mobile devices. uClibc was written to support μClinux, a version of Linux not requiring a memory management unit and thus suited for microcontrollers (uCs; the "u" is a Latin script typographical approximation - not a proper romanization, which would be letter "m" - of μ for "micro").

Development on uClibc started around 1999. uClibc was mostly written from scratch, but has incorporated code from glibc and other projects. The project lead is Erik Andersen, and the other main contributor is Manuel Novoa III. Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, uClibc is free and open-source software.

uClibc is much smaller than the glibc, the C library normally used with Linux distributions. While glibc is intended to fully support all relevant C standards across a wide range of hardware and kernel platforms, uClibc is specifically focused on embedded Linux systems. Features can be enabled or disabled according to space requirements.

uClibc runs on standard and MMU-less Linux systems. It supports i386, x86-64, ARM (big/little endian), Atmel AVR32, Analog Devices Blackfin, Renesas/Hitachi H8 (h8300), Motorola m68k, MIPS (big/little endian), IBM PowerPC, SuperH (big/little endian), Sun SPARC, and Renesas/NEC v850 processors.

uClibc-ng is a fork of uClibc announced on the OpenWRT mailing list in July 2014 after more than two years had passed without a uClibc release, citing a lack of any communication from the maintainer. At present, the original project's author no longer publishes updates, but refers to the still actively developed fork uClibc-ng for current releases.

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Tsawwassen

Tsawwassen is a suburban, mostly residential community on a peninsula in the southwestern corner of the City of Delta in British Columbia, Canada. It provides the only road access to the American territory on the southern tip of the peninsula, the community of Point Roberts, Washington, via 56th Street. It is also the location of Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal, part of the BC Ferries, built in 1959 to provide foot-passenger and motor vehicle access from the Lower Mainland to the southern part of Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands. Because Tsawwassen touches a shallow bank (Roberts Bank), the ferry terminal is built at the southwestern end of a 3 km causeway (part of Highway 17) that juts into the Strait of Georgia. Boundary Bay Airport, a major training hub for local and international pilots which also provides local airplane and helicopter service, is ten minutes away. The Roberts Bank Superport is also nearby.

To the northwest of the community are the lands of Tsawwassen First Nation ("TFN"), a people of Coast Salish ancestry who have used this land since at least 200 B.C. Having been "stripped of their lands, rights and resources" by European colonizers throughout the 19th century, and in accordance with a 2009 treaty with British Columbia, their territory now consists of approximately 724 ha of treaty settlement land, bounded by the Strait of Georgia on the west, the 2600 block to the north, the 4800 block to the east, and the 1200 block to the south. While also part of TFN lands, the 92-lot residential subdivision of Stahaken was leased for use by the (then) Tsawwassen Indian Reserve to Staheken Developments Ltd. in 1989 for a 99-year term. It was then developed in a partnership between Stahaken Development Ltd. and the Municipality of Delta. As such it is commonly thought of and serviced in the same manner as other subdivisions in the community of Tsawwassen. Stahaken residents are represented by the Stahaken Homeowners Association.

Etymology
Tsawwassen is derived from the Halkomelem word sc̓əwaθən, meaning "land facing the sea".

Location
Tsawwassen is on the northern end of a peninsula flanked by the Strait of Georgia to the west and Boundary Bay to the east. Boundary Bay is an important stopover for migratory birds on the Pacific Flyway. Tsawwassen has recreational access to Boundary Bay at Centennial Park, and there is an extensive bike/foot path along the edge of the bay, known as the Dyke.

Tsawwassen's southern boundary is the Canada–United States border, following the 49th parallel north. To the north, its nearest neighbour is the town of Ladner, which is also part of the City of Delta. Together, Ladner and Tsawwassen make up the area known as South Delta. Ladner is the site of the Delta Municipal Hall. Both the police station and hospital serve Ladner and Tsawwassen.

Tsawwassen's lowest elevation is just below sea level, and its highest is at 70 m at the Point Roberts border near 56th Street.

History
Tsawwassen and surrounding lands are the ancestral home, and traditional lands, of the Tsawwassen First Nation, a Coast Salish people, who may have lived in the area for over 4,200 years, the age of the oldest archeological site found on English Bluff. Eight prehistoric villages have been unearthed there.

The first group of Europeans to see Tsawwassen was the expedition of Spanish explorer José María Narváez in 1791. Narvaez named the Point Roberts peninsula Isla de Zepeda and wrote that "there is an incredible quantity of rich salmon and numerous Indians... They speak an entirely different language."

Transportation
Tsawwassen is arranged in a grid, with streets running north–south and east–west. Running east–west are the avenues, with 1st Avenue closest to the Canada–US border. Running north–south, the streets follow the grid laid out for the municipality of Delta, part of the greater street grid set out by the British Royal Engineers in the 19th century.

Tsawwassen main arterial street is 56th Street, which connects Highway 17 with the exclave of Point Roberts, in Washington, U.S. (where it becomes Tyee Drive). It runs through the main commercial area, centred at the intersection of 12th Avenue with 56th Street. This border crossing is the westernmost on the 49th parallel between Canada and the USA.

Tsawwassen is served by buses from TransLink. Four primary bus routes serve the main bus loop at the South Delta Exchange next to the South Delta Recreation Centre, where many terminate at Bridgeport Station in Richmond: Routes 602, 603, and 604 operate during rush hour and connect directly to Bridgeport Station, whereas Route 601 operates all day/all week, and is routed past Tsawwassen Mills and through Ladner.

Route 620 connects the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal to the Ladner Exchange and, ultimately, Bridgeport Station.

Local community routes in Tsawwassen are handled by Route 609 (Tsawwassen First Nation), Route 614 (English Bluff and Beach Grove during non-peak periods), and Route 619 (Boundary Bay).

Tsawwassen is also home to the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal, part of BC Ferries. Ferries go to the following destinations:

Holidays and events
Since 2001, Tsawwassen has played an integral part of the Tour de Delta, one-day bicycle races that take place over a July weekend (The White Spot / Delta Road Race for men since 2001; and the women's since 2011). The weekend culminates in a race from North Delta through Ladner to Tsawwassen, where men and women do various laps around Tsawwassen's perimeter until finishing in either Diefenbaker or Winskill Park. The race grows in popularity and coverage each year.

The Tsawwassen / Boundary Bay chapter of Lions Clubs International runs a Sunday car lot in the east parking lot of Town Centre Mall, which donates the space. People selling their cars park them in the lot, where they can be seen by locals and people passing through on the way to Point Roberts. Dozens of cars and hundreds of shoppers now come from all over the Lower Mainland each Sunday.

In keeping with its reputation as the sunniest spot in the Greater Vancouver Region, every year on the August long weekend (for B.C. Day) Tsawwassen hosts the Sun Festival, which usually includes a parade, a live music, and a variety of activities such as children's games, food tents, and sporting events. There is usually a theme for each year's event, and attendees are encouraged to dress accordingly.

Neighbourhoods

 * Boundary Bay, a quiet beach-side neighbourhood situated on Boundary Bay between Boundary Bay Regional Park and the Canada–U.S. border. It originated in the 1890s as a seaside summer community for wealthy Vancouverites. Some of the original cottages still stand, many as renovated and updated homes, as well as modern contemporary single family homes and waterfront architectural residences. To the south, "The Bay" as it is referred to by residents, borders on the residential neighbourhood of Maple Beach in Point Roberts, WA. A Canada/U.S. customs checkpoint joined the two communities (at the foot of 67th Street) until it was closed in the 1970s. Currently, Boundary Bay Road as well as the newly opened Southlands boulevard provide the only two access routes to this area.
 * The Southlands, which is a new neighbourhood centred around original barns, historic farm house, grange, and small shops extends from the Boundary Bay Rd and 3rd Ave roundabout ultimately to the USA border. It is bounded on the east by Boundary Bay community and to the west and north by protected farmland.
 * Beach Grove, which is situated on the edge of Boundary Bay, further north from the community of Boundary Bay. It is located on the east side of 56th Street, between 12th and 17A Avenue.
 * The Highlands, which is the area just to the northwest of Downtown Tsawwassen, behind the Town Centre Mall and situated around Highland Park.
 * Pebble Hill, which is the area surrounding Diefenbaker Park and Pebble Hill Park.
 * Tsawwassen Heights, a small area located on English Bluff Road, south of 1st Ave. Two totem poles stand on either side of the road here as its official gateway.
 * The Terrace, a terraced subdivision located between 56th Street, the Tsawwassen Nature Reserve, and the Canada–U.S. border.
 * English Bluff, which refers to the area along English Bluff Road, where many of the most expensive homes in the community enjoy commanding ocean views.
 * Stahaken, which refers to a large area of houses built on land belonging to the Tsawwassen First Nations. This land is leased on a 99-year term to Stahaken Development Ltd., and supported and serviced by the Municipality of Delta. The current lease expires in 2089.
 * The Village; adjacent to Stahaken, it is a wealthy subdivision built on the west side of English Bluff Road, overlooking the Strait of Georgia. Another totem pole stands at its entrance at Wesley Drive.
 * Tsatsu Shores, a large apartment complex beneath English Bluff, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. This is also built on land leased from the Tsawwassen First Nation.
 * Imperial Village, a large subdivision located east of 52nd Street at 16th Avenue.
 * Forest-by-the-Bay, which refers to a housing development off 56th Street and 6th Avenue beside Tsawwassen's only cemetery.
 * Tsawwassen Springs, a small subdivision within the centre of the Tsawwassen Golf & Country Club.

Schools
Public schools in Tsawwassen are part of School District 37 Delta. Tsawwassen has only one public high school, South Delta Secondary School (SDSS), formerly South Delta Senior Secondary.

There are five public elementary schools in Tsawwassen. These are Cliff Drive, Pebble Hill, South Park, English Bluff, and Beach Grove. A sixth school, Boundary Beach (Grades K-3), closed in June 2009. There is also a small French programme cadre school, Ecole Du Bois-Joli, for students with French language spoken at home.

Boundary Bay Elementary School, formerly located on 56th Street south of 12th Avenue, served grades K-7. With usually one class per grade, it was a small school, and shared a principal with Boundary Beach Elementary School. Grades 3–7 students from Boundary Beach were bussed daily to attend the school. The school was closed in the early 1990s, and the land sold. It is now a residential development. There was also a middle school called Tsawwassen Junior Secondary (TJS), but low enrolment led to its closure in 1994. This land was also sold by the school district and re-developed into a housing subdivision.

Private schools in the Tsawwassen area include Southpointe Academy, a private K–12 school; Delta Christian School in Ladner, a Christian private school offering grades K-8; and Sacred Heart Elementary in Ladner, a Catholic school offering grades K-7.

Parks
Tsawwassen contains many community and regional parks; Boundary Bay Regional Park (home to Centennial Beach) is run by the Metro Vancouver Regional District (MVRD). The following parks are maintained by Delta Parks & Recreation, an arm of the municipal government:
 * Diefenbaker Park – located at the intersection of 56th Street and 1st Avenue, named after former Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker in 1976, prior to the park's completion in 1980. One of the largest parks in the area, it has many features – open spaces and large hills, a waterfall, dock, and pond, a very large forest, playgrounds, restrooms, and many gardens. The steep grade from the surrounding streets into the centre of the park makes it especially popular during Tsawwassen's rare snow falls, for sledding and tobogganing. In Summer 2011, the Rotary WaterWorks Playground was built. This water playground was created with environmentally friendly materials. The WaterWorks project was a collaborative partnership of the Corporation of Delta (now the City of Delta) and the Rotary Club of Tsawwassen. The concept draws on the history of the site, a former gravel mining operation that, at one time, supplied much of the gravel for the development of Tsawwassen.
 * Pebble Hill Park – located west of 52nd Street between 2A Avenue and Milsom Wynd. This park features large fields used for sports (baseball and soccer), tennis courts built atop a pair of water reservoirs, and many forest trails.
 * Fred Gingell Park – Tsawwassen's newest park, located on English Bluff Road just south of 3rd Avenue. It is named after the former MLA who represented South Delta in BC's legislative assembly. Built on a BC Hydro right-of-way, this park sits on the top of a high bluff overlooking the Strait of Georgia, the ferry terminal, and Vancouver Island. An observation deck is built on this bluff, and a stairway and trail have been built down the bluff to Tsawwassen Beach below. It is the first (and only) public access to the beach, creating controversy as semi-private beach access contributed a great deal to the area's property values. Locals, who hike up and down the steep stairs for fitness (often multiple times), often refer to the stairs leading down to the beach as the "Tsawwassen Grind" in reference to the Grouse Grind.
 * Winskill Park – located at 56th Street and 9th Avenue, named after the land's donor and one of the first families to live in Tsawwassen. This is Tsawwassen's all-purpose sports park, featuring numerous baseball diamonds, soccer fields, and field hockey fields. A fenced artificial-turf outdoor soccer field was completed in 2007. Also features a walking trail, disc golf course, restrooms, youth centre, playground, and the Winskill Aquatic Centre.
 * Dennison Park – located across from the high school at the corner of 53rd Street and 7A Avenue. This park used to feature an outdoor pool, but is now primarily used as a sports park for the high school football team. Also used for soccer and baseball. A forest grows on the northern half of the park.
 * Village Park – a very small community park located on Wesley Drive at Skana Drive. Mostly green space, but also features a playground.
 * Brandrith Park – another sports park, adjacent to Cliff Drive Elementary school, at the corner of 12th Avenue and Winskill Drive. The focus here is primarily on its baseball diamond, but a soccer field and tennis courts are present as well. A forest can be found to the rear of the park; a large playground can be found at the adjacent schoolyard.
 * Highland Park – mostly open green space with a light forest, located at the corner of 55th Street and 13A Avenue, in the heart of downtown Tsawwassen.
 * Grauer Park – another heavily used park, located at 56th Street and 18th Avenue. Greenspace here is minimal. The park is best known as home to the South Delta Rec Centre (featuring an ice rink, curling rink, and gymnasium). The Kiwanis Longhouse (once the South Delta library) is in this park, and is now an art gallery. Also featured here is parking for the Tsawwassen Park and Ride, the Tsawwassen Skate Park, and a lacrosse box.
 * Jackson Way Park – a grassy greenspace, found at the southern end of Jackson Way.
 * Beach Grove Park – mostly forest, found at the corner of Braid Road and 17A Avenue, adjacent to Beach Grove Elementary school. This park once featured a giant checker board and checker pieces visitors could play with. Also features tennis courts.
 * Imperial Park – an open field underneath the BC Hydro right-of-way in Imperial Village, at the corner of Spyglass Crescent and Silverado Place. Features a baseball diamond, playground, and a decent hill used for sledding/tobogganing in the winter.
 * Beach Grove Mini-Park – a very small community park on Beach Grove Court, featuring a small playground.
 * View Crescent Park – a very small greenspace joining the southeast corner of View Crescent with the north end of Hunter Road, located behind a commercial complex in downtown Tsawwassen.

The following parks aren't officially recognized by the municipality, but still exist within Tsawwassen's boundaries:
 * Wildwood Crescent Mini-Park
 * Woodland Park
 * Tsawwassen Nature Reserve

Historic Street Names

 * 1st Avenue – Summer Avenue
 * 2nd Avenue (English Bluff Road to approx Murphy Drive) – Autumn Avenue
 * 4th Avenue (52 Street to 56 Street) – Rawlins Road
 * 6th Avenue – Allen Road
 * 8th Avenue – Cemetery Road
 * 12th Avenue (English Bluff to 56 Street) – Raitt Road
 * 16th Avenue / Springs Boulevard (west of 52 Street) – Brandrith Road
 * 16th Avenue (east of 53A Street) – Herd Road
 * English Bluff Road – 48th Street
 * 52nd Street (12 Ave to 28 Ave) – Imperial Road
 * 56th Street (south of 12 Ave) – Point Roberts Road
 * Arthur Drive / 53rd Street (north of 28 Ave) – Slough Road

And then there's historic Boundary Bay Road, which features the following streets: From here, this connects with the segment of road that has always been known as Boundary Bay Road.
 * 28th Avenue (53 Street to 56 Street)
 * 56th Street (28 Ave to 12 Ave)
 * 12th Avenue (56 Street to Beach Grove Road)

In the neighbourhood of Boundary Bay, virtually every numbered street here was historically named something else:
 * 1A Avenue (65B Street to Centennial Parkway) – Mable Street
 * 3rd Avenue (Boundary Bay Road to Centennial Parkway) – Gunn Road
 * 4th Avenue – Montgomery Road
 * 65B Street – Jordan Road
 * 66 Street – Mack Avenue
 * 66A Street – Old Cammidge Avenue
 * 67 Street – Major Avenue
 * 67A Street – Alexander Avenue

Telecommunications
Tsawwassen, like the whole of the Municipality of Delta, was initially only serviced by Delta Cable (since sold to Eastlink) for TV and cable internet services, although Shaw and Telus now offer services as well.

As in all of British Columbia, incumbent telephone services is provided by Telus; the area codes serving Tsawwassen are 604 and 778 – though the latter is primarily used for cell phones. The original CO Code servicing Tsawwassen was 943, but as the population expanded, a new code, 948, was introduced in the early 1990s. New codes have since been added, and local number portability has blurred traditional exchange differences. Phone calls within Tsawwassen or the entire 604/778 region must adhere to the process of ten-digit dialing.

Retail
Tsawwassen is home to the largest shopping centre in South Delta (Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall). In 2016 a new commercial business complex, Northgate, was completed, and construction began on the Southlands Market Square project; both developments of Century Group.

Tsawwassen Mills opened in October 2016 in the neighbouring municipality of Tsawwassen First Nation, located to the west of Tsawwassen, Delta, BC.

Climate
Tsawwassen is known for its relatively dry and sunny climate compared with other locations in Metro Vancouver. For example, it receives nearly 40% less precipitation than downtown Vancouver and less than half of that of North Vancouver. It has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) with cooler summers and milder winters than other areas on the Canada–U.S. border, and features some of the mildest winters and lowest diurnal temperature variation in Canada.

In film
Due to being part of the Greater Vancouver area, which is the third-largest film and television production centre in North America after New York and Los Angeles, Tsawwassen has also appeared in numerous high-profile movies and television shows over the years. These include:

Shooting locations

 * Shoot to Kill (1988)
 * Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) – the indoor section of the Town Centre Mall was used for this film.
 * The X-Files (1993–2002) – various episodes had portions filmed in Tsawwassen.
 * Jumanji (1995) – all of the sequences shot at "Sir Save-A-Lot" were filmed at a former SuperValu store at the open-air Delta Fair Mall, which was located at the southwest corner of 56th Street and 12th Avenue. The space has since been demolished and replaced with the new Safeway (since sold to Save-On-Foods as of March 2014). An intersection near Diefenbaker Park was used for a scene of an animal stampede.
 * Da Vinci's Inquest (CBC, 1998) Various locations
 * Smallville (2001–2010) – various episodes were filmed in Tsawwassen, as well as just outside Tsawwassen on Deltaport Way near the Deltaport container port.
 * Insomnia (2002) – the sequences filmed in the lodge in which Al Pacino was sleeping were actually filmed in an unused space previously occupied by the restaurants Timothy's, the Manor, and others. It is located at the northeast corner of 12th Avenue and 55th Street; it is now the location of Century Holdings, a real estate agency.
 * X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) – the location of Jean Grey's childhood home is located in the subdivision of Imperial Village, on Golf Club Drive.
 * Snakes on a Plane (2006) – the location of the illegal snake-dealer's greenhouse/barn is shot on the Tsawwassen/Ladner boundary near Deltaport Way and Arthur Drive.
 * Are We Done Yet? (2007) – a portion was filmed on Pacific Drive near Wesley Drive.
 * The Sandlot: Heading Home (2007) – filmed in Dennison Park
 * Kickin' It Old Skool (2007) – an outdoor scene was shot in the Thrifty Foods parking lot (off 12th Avenue), and several indoor scenes were shot at the Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall (56th Street and 12th Avenue) and the Pacific Rim Performing Arts Studios in Century Square (56th Street and 18th Avenue).
 * Juno (2007) – the scenes where Juno pulls over on the side of the road in tears were filmed along Deltaport Way near the 46A Street farm overpass; the "Summer" title screen is filmed at Diefenbaker Park.
 * Battlestar Galactica – the final scene of the midseason finale, Revelations showed the remnants of a seaside city devastated by a nuclear war. It was shot on the Boundary Bay side of Tsawwassen, at Centennial Beach.
 * Hellcats (2011) – Pharmacy scene took place at Wellspring Health.
 * Child Bride (2019) – filmed primarily in Tsawwassen.

Setting for films

 * Scorn (2000) – a Canadian made-for-TV movie that aired on CBC, was a movie that prominently focused on Darren Huenemann, and his actions that would eventually lead to what would become a very high-profile murder that happened in Tsawwassen in the early 1990s.

In music

 * North Vancouver punk band d.b.s. named a song "Tsawwassen" on their 1999 album If Life Were a Result, We'd All Be Dead.

Notable people

 * Dylan Ainsworth, former lineman of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL
 * Mike Dopud, actor, stuntman, and former running back of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL
 * Irving K. Barber, industrialist and philanthropist
 * Jason DaSilva, filmmaker
 * Jerry Doucette, musician
 * Brendan Gallagher, forward of the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL
 * Harald Hasselbach, former lineman for the Denver Broncos of the NFL
 * Brandon McMillan, forward of the KHL Medveščak Zagreb of the KHL
 * Lochlyn Munro, actor, Riverdale (2017)
 * Neil Osborne, vocalist in 54-40
 * Brent Seabrook, defenceman of the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL
 * Ashley Spires, children's book author and illustrator

title: Tsawwassen