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Talk:St. Petersburg, Florida

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Please see the discussion involving this page on the Saint Petersburg talk page.

Transportation Section
Should mention of the PSTA (Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority) and major streets/avenues and federal roadways be included in this section? Osemab (talk) 22:02, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Daytime picture
Although the current picture in the InfoBox is artistically beautiful, I believe a clear picture of downtown taken during the day would be more representative of what St. Petersburg looks like rather than a very dark picture of purple hue and light trails. Does anyone have a current high resolution daytime picture of the downtown skyline that would be a better representation of what the city looks like?

Would the picture on the following page be acceptable for the daytime picture of downtown St. Petersburg? The resolution is 800 x 222 pixels. view of downtown St Petersburg Florida from the waterOsemab (talk) 21:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

The Burg
I have removed the most recent edit that suggests that St. Petersburg is frequently referred to as "The Burg" by locals, on par with "St. Pete." My own impressions are that "The Burg" is only rarely used, and usually in jest. "St. Pete," however, is regularly substituted for "St. Petersburg" by locals, and would be found acceptable except in formal occasions. Google seems to agree: A search of both "St. Petersburg" and "The Burg" together controlled for the word "Russia" yields 362 results; a search of "St. Petersburg" and "St. Pete" together controlled for the word "Russia" yields 1,820,000. ALC | Talk 21:05, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

St. Pete is frequently referred to as "the Burg" by younger local residents. "what's happening in the 'burg tonight?" (or variants) is an oft repeated question among local Facebook users. Whether its use is sufficiently widespread to merit mention in article is questionable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LaurenBrns (talk • contribs) 17:06, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Hulk Hogan
I believe Hogan lives in Clearwater, not St. Petersburg. I could be wrong about this. Anyone know? ALC | Talk 17:08, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * He lived in Belleair, but is moving to (I think) Miami.User:Mikereichold | User_talk:Mikereichold 20:36, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Rename
It was suggested that this article should be renamed St. Petersburg, Florida. The vote is shown below:

Shouldn't this be at St. Petersburg, rather than Saint Petersburg? The former is much more common in my experience. --timc | Talk 02:34, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

St. Petersburg, Florida redirects here, so it doesn't really matter... unless you want to switch the two so that this page redirects to the St. version and the St. version has all the content... I understand where you're coming from, but I don't know how to go about switching the two pages... (This is the full name, but the St. version is almost certainly a more common usage, I agree.) LockeShocke 00:28, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

Am I right in thinking that St Petersburg Florida is the home of Wikipdia? If so, doesn't this deserve a mention? Palefire 01:04, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * St. Petersburg is the current home of Jimbo Wales, but I think the actual servers are in Tampa, Florida and a few other places. It probably says somewhere where the physical home of Wikipedia is [the servers, I mean]. LockeShocke 01:22, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

The official name (I asked the Mayor's office) is "St. Petersburg," not "Saint Petersburg." I will put this on my list to fix, unless someone else wants to do it for me... ALC 27 July

I've moved it. violet/riga (t) 11:03, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

I believe people refer to St Petersburg as "The Burg," or "the 'burg" more often than ALC wants us to believe. My of my friends and I refer to the great St Petersburg as 'the burg in conversation often. BPT

I've lived in St. Pete for 19 years and haven't once heard it referred to as "The Burg". I discussed this with the owner of Haslam's bookstore in downtown St. Pete and she hasn't heard the term in her 65 years in the area, either. --GeneralAntilles 09:02, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Mayors?
We need to do some research and create a list of mayors and terms of office.

Hay am i allowed to do this? I live here in St. Pete and I have never, ever heard of it as the burg. Well maby if i was drinking in Ybor, and wanted to sound like I was trying to yuppify what is commonly known as sleepy St. Pete. LOL I have noticed that many online forms suggest/force one to put in Saint Petersburg spelled out. I believe it is indeed "St. Petersburg", and we usually say "Saint Pete". Canadians and other tourists misstakingly call it " Saint Pete's " which is cute but more annoying than the online form issue. There is a town on the beach named St. Petersburg Beach, which is also butcherd by tourists, being called "St. Pete's Beach". A Ray Leota and a Hulk Hogan film were both partially filmed there at the Don Ce`sar hotel, which incidently is pronounced Don "say-sar" not Don Cesar. This is the final and most embarrising miss-pronunciation, as it is an upscale hotel. Not as horrific as my spelling though- please edit TY MOZ885
 * It is actually called "St. Pete Beach", not "St. Petersburg Beach". --Lakerdonald 01:03, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

While I find this article to be quite well done, I would like to see an in-depth section on St. Pete history and government: mayors, governmental structure, social issues, racial integration, annexations, Rays stadium, WW2 history, etc, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davis39 (talk • contribs) 00:16, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Notable Residents
Removed Hulk Hogan (he lives in Belleair) and Omali Yeshitela (not known outside of St. Pete and not very prominent even in St. Pete).

Local Legend has it that Jim Morrison of the Doors lived here and attended St. Petersburg Junior College (now St. Pete. College.) Dr. Sylvia Holliday was his English teacher, and he performed on the ukelele at Beaux arts Coffee house, (then in Pinellas Park.)

Removed Omali Yeshitela. While he's known by some interested in St. Petersburg politics, he's almost completely unknown outside of St. Petersburg. I've deleted this before, not sure why someone keeps adding him here. Maybe I should add my own name?

I guess that would depend on who you are. He and his organization have been well known in South St Pete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C5E:2A00:2EE2:15A7:DCC7:CDAA:EBEF (talk) 11:18, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Also Lived here:

Babe Ruth Al Capone [Tygerbill]

St. Petersburg Times and the Poynter Institute
From the article:

It is affiliated with the St. Petersburg Times, whose building is right across the street from The Poynter Institute.

The St. Pete Times' main office is located at 490 First Avenue South.

The Poynter Institute is located at 801 Third Street South.

The two locations are about seven-tenths of a mile apart. They certainly cannot be considered to be "right across the street" from each other.

Roger

I changed this section since the Poynter Institute is far more than just "affiliated" with the Times--it OWNS the Times. 24.193.95.184 04:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)SuperDav

User:Larycrews
has added a reference to Lary Crews as a notable writer. Only about 1600 ghits I've asked him to review wp notability and get back to me. :) Dlohcierekim 03:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Expansion request
Looking for information about Weedon Island, Florida, which is apparently located here and is on the List of ports in the United States.
 * Weedon Island is a port? This must be a technical designation from the early 20th century or something. There's not much port activity out there so far as I've ever seen. 128.164.100.122 19:43, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Your speculation is close. Weedon Island was once home to an airport that provided service between St. Petersburg and Tampa before the Gandy Bridge was build. You may find some information about this related to aviation pioneer Tony Janus. (Or the port designation may refer to the Bartow Power Plant owned by Progress Energy, which receives fuel shipments via ocean tankers) Either way, if anyone can contribute some sourced information about Weedon Island, that would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JacksonGreenDevil (talk • contribs) 11:22, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Demographics Section
I put the historical population data into the graph, but its length spills over into the next section. I added white space to compensate for this, hopefully someone can flesh out the Demographics section to fix this. --GeneralAntilles 09:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

"Highly regarded" St. Petersburg Times?
I am doubting the implications of the statement that St. Petersburg Times is "highly regarded". It may well be liked by Floridians, and is likely a good paper. Fair enough; however, the Floridians' fondness for their local paper would hardly deserve mention in the opening paragraph of the artile on St. Petersburg. Stating that the paper is "highly regarded" in such a prominent spot implies a greater significance. Its history (which is currently referenced for this claim) is admirable, but not any more so than of dozens of other American newspapers. It has the 23rd biggest circulation in the states, and has 6 Pulitzers (on the other hand, New York Times has 94, Los Angeles Times has 37, Chicago Tribune has 24, Boston Globe has 18.) While there are many good regionally important papers in the country, I am failing to see any evidence that the St. Petersburg Times stands out amongst them. Please provide evidence of this importance; else, tone down the language and move the statement to a less prominent place in the article.

DarwinPeacock 22:21, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Well, it's not just mine (or other Floridian's) opinion. As I cited in the article, here's some national comments (from the "St. Petersburg Times" website ):

 * In 1997, TIME magazine again recognized the Times as one of America’s best newspapers, calling it “most resourceful.”
 * In 1999, the Columbia Journalism Review ranked the Times No. 9 on its list of the nation’s best newspapers for the 21st Century.
 * In 1996 The Times’ Travel section was named Best Newspaper Travel Section in the circulation category of 350,000-499,999 in an annual competition by the Society of American Travel Writers.
 * In 1998 The APSE (Associated Press Sports Editors) once again named the Times Sports section one of the nation’s best in three categories: Daily, Sunday and Special sections. It also named the Times sports writers among the nation’s top 10 in investigative reporting, enterprise reporting and game stories.

 * And the list goes on (and can be viewed at the link above). So, while it does seem more POV than encyclopedic, it is backed up by national accolades received.  That being said, there is no reason to judge a paper soley on the amount of Pulitzers (like you did above), as there are more prizes than that one alone. EaglesFanInTampa (formerly Jimbo) 14:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

 * The praise you point out is definitely factual and positive. I once again have no doubts that the paper is a deserving one.  The question that I still have is why it is so significant as to appear in the second sentence describing St. Petersburg.  Though the awards you list are plentiful, I do not believe they indicate a sufficient importance to merit placing the mention of the paper near the top of the article.  I am not alone in attaching the special importance to Pulitzers: they are listed at the top of the paper's significant award list, as they are for most papers.  The inclusion of so many varied and minor awards in the list adds to the list's arbitrarity, not its uniqueness.  The 1996 Best Newspaper Travel Section award for mid-circulation papers, for example, indicates quality but hardly points to a greater significance: the list of awards of a similar importance issued in the last decade would be in the hundreds.  Thus, considering a grab bag of minor awards implies a long list of worthy papers.  I believe that the statement we are discussing suggests that the paper is more important than simply being in the top few dozen national papers.  That being said, are there other reasons that the mention of the paper should stay close to the top of the article?  Does it play an important role in statewide politics, or in a regional/state identity?  Does it frequently achieve change through its investigative journalism?  If these are the case, the statement can be made better by replacing the vague praise with a more concrete mention of its importance.  DarwinPeacock 02:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Good points raised by DarwinPeacock. Would your concerns be satisfied by calling it a "highly regarded regional newspaper," and mentioning other more specific praise later in the article (it is, in my qualitative evaluation, the most important newspaper in Florida politics, and among national journalists in Washington is one of the most highly regarded regional newspapers in the country). 128.164.61.115 23:15, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, no, and for two reasons:
 * Not counting the Texas papers, the St. Pete Times is the 2nd largest paper in the Southeast behind the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and much larger to more "well-known" papers, such as the Times-Picayune, the Miami Herald, and the Virginian-Pilot, and;
 * of the 10 papers with larger circulation that have actually won a Pulitzer, the St. Pete Times has more than 2 of them.
 * By the sheer volume of circulation (2nd in the Southeast, 23rd overall) and the apparent "Holy Grail" for this entire discussion, the Pulitzer Prize, this would be the reason why the St. Pete Times deserve the superlative. Yes, there may have been more Pulitzers given to other papers, and there may be larger papers in the country, but putting all those facts together should bring clarity to the situation.  Besides, the name "St. Petersburg Times" is well-established through the newspaper community as one of the heavyweights, so much so that if you just mention either the Tampa Bay area or Florida in general, most immediately think the St. Petersburg Times, and not the other paper across the Bay with the word "Tampa" actually in the name.  So, while it seems like a suitable compromise, I have to respectfully reject your proposal on the grounds that it truly is a well-deserved moniker. EaglesFanInTampa (formerly Jimbo) 19:07, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Census numbers
Where do the percentages in the census numbers come from? Last time I checked, going from 8000 to 90000 is a tad more than a 15% jump. How are they determined and should they be changed to show the real rate of change? EaglesFanInTampa (formerly Jimbo) 14:56, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

 * According to 'From Pines and Palmettos-- A portrait of Largo., the Largo Historical Society's history of Largo, the whole Peninsula had about 50 people in 1850. That's derived from primary sources and land grant info. Cheers, :) MikeReichold' 01:00, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

St Pete grew between 2000 and 2010 not decreased in population, 22K. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.77.29.218 (talk) 02:00, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Sunshine figures
From near the end of the lead section:
 * With a purported average of some 360 days of sunshine each year, it is nicknamed "The Sunshine City."

360 days is quite a claim - we can't just let that stand as "purported"; we need both a solid reference to someone (other than Wikipedia editors!) doing the purporting, and a solid reference for whether the claim is accurate. Loganberry (Talk) 16:02, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I note that one reference has now been added, which is welcome. Loganberry (Talk) 23:43, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

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Neighborhood section
This section looks like a list, and should probably be a separate article. There is info about this at WP:NOTLINK. 018 (talk) 01:14, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Men's Health Controversy
(Moved to bottom of page per talk page guidelines)

This unscientific concoction of statistics is an unmerited, offensive slur against the city. What is the worth of it to anyone? I guess we will have to live with its being forced on the public, but I don't understand why Wikipedia is forced to exclude material that properly represents the atmosphere in the city, even when citation is included. If St. Petersburg is sad, that is probably why. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.99.15.218 (talk • contribs)

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Structure
Hi. I'm going through all the US Cities (as per List of United States cities by population) in an effort to provide some uniformity in structure. Anyone have an issue with me restructuring this article as per WikiProject Cities/US Guideline. I won't be changing any content, merely the order. Occasionally, I will also move a picture just to clean up spacing issues. I've already gone through the top 20 or so on the above list, if you'd like to see how they turned out. Thoughts? Onel5969 (talk) 19:59, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Neighborhoods Section
Hello I'm a new member of Wikipedia and I came across the neighborhood page which hosts a lot of neighborhoods however there is a separate article already listing all those neighborhoods. Should be delete the section and leave the link to the Article? -Adog104 8/12/2015 12:19 PM EST

 * Hi and welcome to Wikipedia. Yes, I would delete the list of neighborhoods, since someone has created a separate article on it.  I would leave the lead-in sentence however. Happy editing.  Onel 5969  TT me 16:51, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Over Haul
With looking at the St. Petersburg Article compared to other cities in the area this article seems like a mess where some sections don't belong in others and some things are repeated. For instance under Geography and climate, Downtown & Neighborhoods are listed under this section which doesn't make a whole lot of sense where others have that information under its own Downtown section and neighborhoods as a sub section. Attractions and Points of Interests should be a sub category of Downtown. Under Crime some those demographics are outdated however some information can stay (or can be sub categorized) because crime is a great deal in St. Petersburg (From experience in my neighborhood and response time it takes Police Officers to get to an area and how big of a deal the crime is). A Government section should be added since there is none. Under Downtown maybe there can be "Landmarks", "Architecture", "Parks" as a subcategory rather than "Points of Interests". Ill start editing if someone would like me too. -Adog104 8/14/2015 3:33 PM EST — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adog104 (talk • contribs) 19:33, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

 * Hi - take a look at WikiProject Cities/US Guideline for a guideline to the structure of a US city article.  Onel 5969  TT me 23:26, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

RFC: The Burg
Question: Should the nickname, The Burg (or the 'Burg), be included in the St. Petersburg, Florida's introduction to the article and the articles nickname infobox? The term is commonly used by teenagers and adults who live in the city or around it, however the nickname is deleted every time is shows up in the article. Please indicate support or oppose of the nickname with a short explanatory paragraph. 19:43, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I don't think that the nickname should be used in the introduction to the article, however I do think it is okay to use it in the infobox. Are there reliable sources that support the usage of this nickname?  Just because "teenagers" and "adults" have been known to use the term does not mean that we have sufficient evidence to include it.  Therefore, if you have reliable sources that support the information, then I think including it in the infobox serves sufficient purpose.  Cheers,  Comatmebro  User talk:Comatmebro 18:40, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Here are some sources that provide for the nickname, but I'm listing a few to make sure.
 * Background of The Burg
 * The Burg official website
 * Used by mayor - Used by TBT Reporter
 * Visual arts - Visual arts
 * Travel
 * Report about the 'Burg and background

 * Oppose It shouldn't be in the lead. Perhaps in the article but not in the lead. Specially since the name seems to be controversial. Gerard von Hebel (talk) 01:19, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

 * (Note: A reason why I asked with teenagers and adults since its a fairly new nickname than The Sunshine City and St. Pete, however has grown to a notable nickname throughout the years from its creation). I would totally agree with it being inside the infobox as well since its one of the newer notable nicknames.  A dog 104  Talk to me 20:57, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * (Note 2: In the media section, there is information about the burg from the ilovetheburg.com)  A dog 104  Talk to me 01:52, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

 * Maybe in infobox, definatley not in the lead. My personal preference for including a city nickname would be to only include the really well known ones (e.g.The Big Apple). However I know from experience that editors like to add lots of different nicknames to articles and a quick look at some other cities suggests this is the norm. AIR corn (talk) 21:41, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Maybe in infobox, not in lead. If it's reliably sourceable as common and consistent, then include it in the infobox field. Note that this means a RS says it's commonly used. Cherry picking  it does not qualify, per WP:NEOLOGISM. If it does suit that sourcing requirement, whether to include it in the lead is matter for editorial consensus on this talk page, and I'd argue against it, because it's a local colloquialism, thus trivia; if people outside this area do not refer to it this way, then the nickname is not of encyclopedic importance. Contrast "the Big Apple" for New York City, a nickname with which virtually all Americans and probably most native English speakers are familiar.  belongs in a city article's lead.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  21:11, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. This article seems to indicate that the use of the nickname is contested.  It sounds kind of like a forced meme, but I wouldn't really know; I've never heard of this controversy before and was summoned by the bot. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:48, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Updated RFC
To get a clear consensus from the previous RFC (as all opposed the nickname in the introduction, but most concluded the infobox as a possible place):

Question - Should the nickname, The Burg (stylized as the 'Burg from sources), be included in the St. Petersburg, Florida's infobox? Please indicate support or oppose of the nickname with a short explanatory paragraph. 21:12, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

 * Probably not in the infobox. If it's reliably sourceable as common and consistent, then include it in the infobox field. Note that this means RS say it's commonly used. Cherry picking  it does not qualify, per WP:NEOLOGISM. If it does suit that sourcing requirement, I'd still probably argue against it, because it's a local colloquialism, thus trivia; if people outside this area do not refer to it this way, then the nickname is not of encyclopedic importance. Contrast "the Big Apple" for New York City, a nickname with which virtually all Americans and probably most native English speakers are familiar.  belongs in a city article's infobox (and maybe its lead). It's reasonably likely that some RS can be found saying that "the 'Burg" is a common nickname of St. Petersburg FL, but I'd bet good money they're mostly or entirely local, or that they say it's used by locals. PS: If it were used in the infobox here, it should be as sources most often give it, which nom suggests is "the 'Burg", not "the Burg". It wouldn't be capitalized with "The" in either case, per MOS:CAPS, even if a few sources capitalize it that way.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  05:29, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I would argue against, although has already hit all the cogent points in my argument. I believe the standard should be that it gets more than local usage before truly being a nickname.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:48, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * No - If reliable sources confirm that St. Petersburg, Florida is actually nicknamed "The Burg", which I'm not doubting that is the case, I think inclusion in just the body of the article will suffice. A redirect from "The Burg" may be a viable option as well. Meatsgains (talk) 02:27, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Nope - I've seen nicknames sometimes in the lede or it has its own section but I've never seen a place nickname get included in the infobox so IMHO I don't believe we should start including it now, Mentioning the nickname somewhere in the article is fine IMHO. – Davey 2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 00:07, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * No as the others have already indicated, the name does not seem common enough among reliable sources that it deserves to be in the infobox. Mention it in the body by all means; to me, the logical place to mention it would be along with a discussion of why it is called the Burg, if such information is available and relevant. Vanamonde93 (talk) 10:38, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * No. I grew up in the area and never heard that used - it's a decided WP:NEOLOGISM and doesn't belong anywhere near the infobox. - The Bushranger One ping only 08:24, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Timeline of St. Petersburg, Florida
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This section is both outdated (all "most/largest" data over five years old) and has a skew towards highlighting certain types of crimes in certain sections of the city, and not either overall crime and/or all of the city. As a longtime resident, I appreciate what is being said, but I also see the direction the editor was (perhaps unintentionally) headed in. StPeteRays (talk) 00:07, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

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A Winner of the September 2005 West Dakota Prize

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This entry, one of an unprecedented 52, has won the September 2005 West Dakota Prize, awarded for successfully employing the expression "legend states''" in a complete sentence.

The years he lived are contradictory... from 1040 on one place and like 600 somewhere else, what's the truth? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.114.183.80 (talk) 10:16, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Another Arnold/Arnulf, Arnulf of Metz.--Wetman (talk) 14:03, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

First he became abbot, then a priest? Don't know if one could be abbot before being priest. Got a reference? --Kbh3rd 02:41, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * The reference was written that way (a web page...). Probably he was the head of the monks (hence filling the role of the abbot) before his ordination. I'll see if I can dig anything up. Mpolo 07:31, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

"This was due to the unknown fact that during the process of brewing, the water used was boiled and thus sanitized." Could this also have been due to the fact that beer contains alcohol, which helps to kill pathogens otherwise found in water? --Judzillah 22:16, 2005 July 14 (UTC)

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"Arnulf of Oudenaard"
These (other) Arnulfs were quite secular barons. The connection is with Oudenburg not Oudenaard. I've corrected the article and added some footnotes and references.--Wetman (talk) 14:03, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Feast Day
It is separately listed as July 8 and Aug 14 in the article. I can find very little actual information on him other than this article. Which of these two days is correct?Autkm (talk) 23:47, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

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Ravenswood School for Girls

Ravenswood School for Girls (often referred to as Ravenswood or Ravo) is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for Prep to Year 12 girls, situated in Gordon, an Upper North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1901 by Mabel Fidler (1871–1960), Ravenswood currently caters for approximately 1100 students from Prep to Year 12, including 20 boarders from Years 10 to 12. The school has been an IB World School since June 2004, and is authorised to offer the IB Diploma Programme.

Ravenswood is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Independent Primary School Heads of Australia (IPSHA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association, the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia, and is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS).

Awards
Ravenswood has been named one of Australia’s most innovative schools for the fourth year by The Educator, selected on the 5-Star Innovative Schools 2022 list. Ravenswood was also named on The Educator 5-start Innovative Schools list in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Ravenswood received four Excellence Awards  at the 2022 Australian Education Awards: Mrs Anne Johnstone, Principal of Ravenswood, received an Excellence Award for School Principal Of The Year (Non-Government)for her innovative application of Positive Education benefits, improving student and staff wellbeing, academic performance and fostering a collegial culture. Kerrie Besgrove, a Mathematics teacher in the Junior School was also recognised with an Excellence Award for Primary School Teacher Of The Year (Non-Government) for her commitment to student potential and innovative teaching. The School also received an Excellence Award for Boarding School Of the Year and Best Student Wellbeing Program.

In October, 2022, Principal Mrs Anne Johnstone was awarded the Phyllis Evans Medal by the Teachers’ Guild of NSW at the Teachers’ Guild NSW Awards Dinner on World Teachers’ Day. The prize is awarded each year to recognise a 'distinguished educator of great standing.' In December, Principal Mrs Anne Johnstone was recognised on the 2022 The Educator Hot List. The List, which is in its eighth consecutive year, recognises educators who represent the cutting edge of educational excellence in Australia.

History
Ravenswood was established with eight students on 28 January 1901 by the first Headmistress, Mabel Fidler, as a non-sectarian private day school for girls, with preparatory classes for boys. The first classes took place in a schoolroom erected on the block adjacent to Fidler's home, "Ravenswood", in Henry Street, Gordon. The school remains on this site.

Fidler retired from Ravenswood in 1925, a year after the school was purchased by the Methodist Ladies' College, Burwood, thus becoming a school of the Methodist Church. Subsequently, the school name was changed to Ravenswood Methodist Ladies' College. At this time, Ravenswood was the largest non-residential, private secondary school in Sydney, with an enrolment of 180, and was highly regarded for the quality of its teaching and its achievements in sport. Ravenswood became a day and boarding school in 1935, with the enrolment of the first two boarders.

The 1960s saw the introduction of the school anthem, Kindle the Flame and a fourth school House, all houses being named by the students after Royal Houses of Britain: Stuart, Tudor, Windsor and York. In 1977, as the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational churches came together to form the Uniting Church, the school name changed to the current Ravenswood School for Girls. The royal blue and gold uniform was also introduced at this time. In 2015, the Head Girl of the school used her end-of-term speech to accuse the school of peddling an "unrealistic image of perfection", and providing some students with more opportunities than others because "schools are being run more and more like businesses, where everything becomes financially motivated, where more value is placed on those who provide good publicity or financial benefits." She also alleged that the school had attempted to censor her speech by requiring prior copies. Her parents later sued the Uniting Church, which runs the school, because of disciplinary action taken against their younger daughter.

Campus
Ravenswood is located on its original site, a single campus in suburban Gordon. The school has progressively expanded since 1901, with the acquisition of new properties and the upgrading of facilities.

The school grounds feature quadrangles and courtyards, a multi-purpose complex with heated swimming pool, gymnasium, a "Strength and Conditioning centre" and an Athletics Field. The Ravenswood Centenary Centre includes a Performing Arts theatre, music centre and exhibition areas. Junior School students are catered for within the Junior School centre with a Resource Centre, playground and play equipment area, adventure playground and Assembly Hall.

Curriculum
In Years 11 and 12, students may choose to take either the Higher School Certificate (HSC) course or the International Baccalaureate Diploma Course (IB).

Debating
Ravenswood has a tradition of debating, and students are offered opportunities to participate at competitive or social levels. Ravenswood competes in three inter-school debating competitions: the Independent Schools Debating Association (ISDA), the Archdale Debating Competition and the Independent Primary School Heads of Australia (IPSHA). Girls may also participate in House debating.

Sport
Primary School students may partake in competitive sport through the Ravenswood's membership of the Independent Primary Schools Association of Australia (IPSHA). These competitions are usually held on Saturday mornings and include sports such as: Softball, Tennis, Netball, Cricket, Hockey, and Soccer. Secondary School students compete against 28 other similar type schools in the Independent Girls' Schools Sporting Association (IGSSA) competition. These competitions occur on Saturday mornings or in the form of carnivals and include sports such as: Softball, Swimming, Diving, Cricket, Tennis, Hockey, Soccer and Gymnastics. Students who perform well at IPSHA or IGSSA level may be invited to compete in NSW Combined Independent Schools' (CIS) competitions.

Community
It has been nominated for an "Employer of Choice for Women" classification by the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA).

Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is an initiative led by Ravenswood School for Girls, which aims to address the paucity of art prizes available for female artists in Australia. It has been run since 2017. It is an acquisitive prize, offering the following prizes:
 * Professional Artist Prize — $35,000
 * Emerging Artist Prize – $5,000
 * Indigenous Emerging Artist Prize – $5,000
 * People’s Choice Award – $2,000 (non-acquisitive)

Winners

 * Professional artist prize
 * 2018: Angela Tiatia
 * 2019: Joanna Braithwaite
 * 2022: Lara Merrett

Notable alumnae

 * Media, entertainment and the arts
 * Julia Baird – journalist, author and host of The Drum
 * Gretel Killeen – author and host of Big Brother
 * Tammin Sursok – Dani from Home and Away and Jenna from Pretty Little Liars

 * Medicine and science
 * Grace Cuthbert-Browne, MBE – doctor and Director of Maternal and Baby Welfare in the New South Wales Department of Public Health from 1937 to 1964
 * Winifred Marion Petrie (1890–1966) nurse and hospital founder

 * Politics, public service and the law
 * Juanita Nielsen – publisher, anti-development campaigner, heiress to the Mark Foy's retail fortune. Disappeared in mysterious circumstances (believed kidnapped and murdered) from Kings Cross, in 1975. Subject of films, Heatwave (1982) and The Killing of Angel Street (1981)
 * Catherine West – Labour Party politician
 * Jillian Broadbent – economist, company director, director of Sydney Dance Company

 * Sport
 * Tiffany Thomas Kane – world record holding Paralympian

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David Benson-Pope

David Henry Benson-Pope (born 1950) is a New Zealand politician. He is a former Member of Parliament for Dunedin South and has been a member of the Dunedin City Council since 2013.

Benson-Pope previously served as a Dunedin city councillor from 1986 to 1999 and returned to local government after his parliamentary and ministerial career was ended by a series of misconduct allegations.

Early career
Born in Dunedin and educated at King's High School, Benson-Pope received his tertiary education at the University of Otago and at the Christchurch College of Education. While studying education he was president of the Students' Association at the college, and National President of the Student Teachers' Association of New Zealand.

Working as a teacher at Bayfield High School, where he taught German and outdoor education for 24 years, he became involved in the teachers' unions and was first elected to the Dunedin City Council on a Labour Party ticket in October 1986. He was re-elected to the city council four more times and resigned in 1999, when he successfully contested the Dunedin South electorate for the Labour Party.

Member of Parliament
Benson-Pope was selected to succeed Labour's deputy leader Michael Cullen as the Dunedin South candidate for the 1999 election when Cullen moved to Hawke's Bay. He easily defeated National candidate Russel Keast to retain the seat for Labour. During his first term, Benson-Pope was a member of the Local Government and Environment Committee, Regulations Review Committee and Education and Science Committee.

In 2002, Benson-Pope became his party's Senior Whip. He entered Cabinet in 2004, becoming Minister of Fisheries, Minister Responsible for the Law Commission, Associate Minister of Justice, Associate Minister for Education (Schools) and Associate Minister for the Environment. He oversaw the drafting of the legislation for civil unions in New Zealand and gained a reputation as a political "Mr Fixit" and "master of the dark art of politics," but was also known as "difficult to deal with."

Despite briefly losing his ministerial positions leading up to the 2005 general election due to allegations of misconduct during his teaching career, Benson-Pope was appointed Minister of Social Development and Employment and Minister for the Environment when that election returned the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand for a third term. He lost those positions in 2007 and served the final year of his parliamentary career on the backbench. His committee assignments in 2007 and 2008 were as a member of the Law and Order Committee and Local Government and Environment Committee.

Allegations of misconduct as a teacher
Benson-Pope was temporarily stood down as a cabinet minister in 2005 after allegations from former students about the use of violence in the classroom. The allegations included stuffing a tennis ball in 14-year-old's mouth, throwing tennis balls at students to keep them quiet, striking a pupil with the back of his hand making the pupil's nose bleed at a school camp, and caning a student hard enough to draw blood. Benson-Pope denied the allegations. Claims that he misled Parliament were not referred to the Privileges Committee by the Speaker and after three weeks Benson-Pope was restored to his portfolios, except for his role as Associate Minister of Education.

Further claims about Benson-Pope's conduct as a teacher were revealed the following year. Investigate magazine published, in February 2006, allegations that he entered the girls' dormitory on a school camp to awaken students twice, and that he told them once that they were taking too long to shower after a "mud run." Benson-Pope denied any impropriety.

Allegations of misconduct as Minister for the Environment
Benson-Pope faced further controversy in 2007, which led to the resignation of his ministerial posts and the end of his Parliamentary career.

In July 2007 it emerged that a political advisor in Benson-Pope's office (the Labour Party's Trade Union Affiliate Vice-President Steve Hurring) made phone calls which led to the sacking of the Ministry for the Environment's newly appointed communications manager. The issue revolved around her relationship with the chief press secretary to National's parliamentary leader John Key, despite the fact that she had "made a disclosure of her personal connections" during the appointment process. (Under New Zealand's State Sector Act 1988, ministers and their staff were prohibited from being involved in employment matters within government departments for which they are responsible. The Act requires the chief executives of those departments "to act independently of Ministers in matters relating to decisions on individual employees." )

After a week of intense pressure focusing not only on the allegation that his staff had acted improperly, but also that he himself had misled Parliament, the media and Prime Minister Helen Clark about his knowledge and involvement, Benson-Pope offered his resignation from Cabinet at noon on Friday 27 July 2007. Clark accepted the resignation, saying, "The way in which certain issues have been handled this week has led to a loss of credibility and on that basis I have accepted Mr Benson-Pope's offer to stand aside". An editorial commented, "Not for the first time, he and the Government have been embarrassed less for what he has done than for his inability to simply say what he has done."

Despite subsequent investigations by State Services Commissioner Mark Prebble and former State Services Commissioner Don Hunn found that neither the Minister nor his staff acted in any way inappropriately, Benson-Pope remained a backbencher for the remainder of the parliamentary term. His resignation triggered a significant reshuffle of the Cabinet. Although Clark indicated that Benson-Pope could be returned to Cabinet at a later time, he was not reselected as the Labour Party candidate for his electorate at the 2008 general election (which, in any event, Labour lost), and left Parliament.

Local government career
After losing his bid to remain Labour's Dunedin South candidate for the 2008 general election, Benson-Pope rejected an invitation to stand for the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party and did not stand as an independent candidate.

Returning to Dunedin, Benson-Pope worked as a resource consent manager and sought election to the Dunedin City Council (DCC) in the 2013 local body elections. He stood as an independent candidate and was elected on 12 October 2013. He was re-elected in 2016, 2019 and 2022. He was a senior member of the DCC under mayors Dave Cull and Aaron Hawkins and chaired the council's planning and regulatory committee from 2013 until 2022.

During a live-streamed Zoom meeting of the DCC held on 5 May 2020, Benson-Pope was seen in the camera of his computer cleaning his study with a feather duster whilst "pants-less". Members of the public, councillors and senior managers watched on as the meeting faced technological difficulties. Benson-Pope said he was not wearing pants but was wearing shorts after gardening earlier in the day and stated he was "delighted" that his cameo provided a welcome diversion but "it wasn't intentional."

Benson-Pope was re-elected to the Dunedin City Council for a fourth term during the 2022 Dunedin local elections. He was not given a chair or deputy chair role within the Dunedin City Council by the new Mayor of Dunedin Jules Radich. Benson-Pope and Walker claimed that Radich had offered them committee roles which he knew they would reject. The mayor's proposed councillor salaries included an 11.7% pay cut for councillors without leadership roles than the equivalent position received in the previous term. In late October, Benson-Pope supported an unsuccessful motion by Green councillor Marie Laufiso to close the pay gap between councillors assigned deputy chair roles and those without these duties. The motion was defeated by a margin of 11 to 4 votes. In December 2022, the DCC was required to consider a revised remuneration proposal after the Remuneration Authority determined the paycut was unlawful.

In mid December 2022, Benson-Pope voiced opposition to Health New Zealand's proposed budgetary cutbacks to operating theatres and facilities in plans for the rebuilt Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin's primary hospital. He also campaigned for the Hospital to be rebuilt according to its original specifications. In late January, Benson-Pope filed a motion urging the DCC to contribute NZ$130,400 for a public campaign to support the hospital rebuild project as it was outlined in the final business case. On 31 January, the DCC voted unanimously to support Benson-Pope's motion to fight changes to the Dunedin Hospital's design.

In May 2024, Benson-Pope and fellow Cr Sophie Barker criticised Mayor Radich for not holding regular statutory chief executive appraisal committee. The last such committee meeting was held on 8 September 2023. Benson-Pope claimed that Radich's failure to hold regular meetings "was symptomatic of him having none of the skills required to perform this role." Radich disputed Benson-Pope and Barkers' criticisms, saying that Benson-Pope was not a member of the appraisal committee and argued that the DCC had held regular meetings.

In late May 2024, Benson-Pope voted in favour of a DCC motion asking the New Zealand government to establish a special visa category for Palestinian refugees displaced by the Israel-Hamas war. He said that "what's different here is we've got local residents asking us to get their families out of a hellish situation. Anyone who doesn't support that doesn't deserve to be sitting here."

Personal life
Benson-Pope is married with twin children.

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Thomas Wills

Thomas or Tom Wills may refer to:

 * Thomas Wills (minister) (1740–1802), English evangelical preacher
 * Thomas Wills (politician) (1826–1907), politician from Ontario, Canada
 * Thomas N. Wills (1866–1940), Arizona rancher and politician
 * Thomas Wills (footballer) (1877–1912), Scottish footballer
 * Tom Wills (1835–1880), cricketer and one of the inventors of Australian rules football
 * Tom Wills, meteorologist with WAVE
 * Tom Wills, news anchor with Florida television station WJXT
 * Tom Wills Interchange, an interchange on the Eastlink M3 in Melbourne, Australia

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Adventures in Odyssey

Adventures in Odyssey (AIO), or simply Odyssey, is an Evangelical Christian radio drama and comedy series created and produced by Focus on the Family. Aimed at families with children age 12 and younger, the series first aired in 1987 as a 13-episode pilot called Family Portraits and has over 970 episodes to date. In 2005, the show's daily audience averaged around 1.2 million within North America. The Odyssey radio series also includes several spin-off items, including a home-video series, several computer games, books, and devotionals. The series is set in the fictional town of Odyssey. Stories center around the people who live there, particularly ice-cream and discovery emporium owner John Avery Whittaker, who was originally voiced by Hal Smith.

History
In 1982, Focus on the Family began creating several short dramas for inclusion in the ministry's daily half-hour radio show; these radio dramas were commissioned by Focus on the Family founder and then-president James Dobson as an alternative to Saturday-morning cartoons. This effort culminated in a thirteen-week test series titled Family Portraits which aired in early 1987. It was created by Steve Harris and Phil Lollar, who set it in a small Midwest town they called Odyssey. The test episodes engendered a favorable audience response, and led to a continuing radio program in November 1987, called Odyssey USA. The title was later changed in 1988 to Adventures in Odyssey to "increase international appeal".

The goal of the Odyssey staff was to create a "values-based" radio show with production values comparable with or surpassing those of most mainstream audio dramas. While the show aimed to promote Christian values, according to Odyssey's co-creator Phil Lollar, the goal is not to be "a preaching program", but to be an "entertaining program". Large amounts of work were put into each individual story; for the first few years, each thirty-minute episode typically took over one hundred hours to produce.

Several well-known voice actors were brought in to provide the lead roles. Hal Smith voiced the lead character John Avery Whittaker in one of his favorite roles. The rest of the original "key" characters were voiced by Katie Leigh, Will Ryan, and Walker Edmiston, who, along with Hal Smith, had all previously worked together extensively at Disney. Television star Dave Madden played the character "Bernard Walton" from 1990 to 2008.

When Hal Smith died in 1994, Adventures in Odyssey was left without its main character and Focus on the Family considered canceling the radio show. After a search that lasted over two years, a replacement voice was finally found in Paul Herlinger, who sounded very similar to Hal Smith. Herlinger voiced Whittaker from 1996 through 2008. Because of health issues, a mutual decision was made by Herlinger and the crew to replace Herlinger with another voice actor.

Consequently, Adventures in Odyssey took a long hiatus, with no new episodes planned while the staff searched for a new actor to voice Mr. Whittaker. In September 2009, Andre Stojka was selected as the third actor to voice Mr. Whittaker; only months later, on February 2, 2010, Paul Herlinger died from his illness. In March 2010, regular episodes resumed airing as Album 51, Take it from the Top, premiered.

As of 2022, Chris Anthony and Katie Leigh are the only original cast members remaining in the series.

The show has been adapted into Spanish audio and Hindi live-action videos, with plans to create Mandarin audio as well. On January 2, 2014, a subscription service for Adventures in Odyssey fans and their families launched, the Adventures In Odyssey Club. The subscription fee supports Focus on the Family as well as other world relief and ministry organizations. The Adventures In Odyssey Club is available internationally and had over 7,000 members in 2016. Main features of the club include access to over 900 Episodes from the Radio Series, as well as all 17 videos, every Official Podcast, and exclusive monthly episodes available only to club members.

Popularity
By the end of its second year in 1988, the show was on 634 radio stations in North America. As of 1995, it was the second-most popular Christian radio show in the United States. By 2002, the show was on over 6,000 stations worldwide.

Almost all the radio episodes have also been widely released on both cassette and CD collections, and by 1992, almost a million cassettes had been sold. Odyssey episodes have also been released annually (since 1990) as promotional items through Chick-fil-A. Several times, Chick-fil-A has had special CD sets as their "kids' meal" product.

Characters

 * John Avery Whittaker, voiced by Hal Smith (1987–1994), Paul Herlinger (1996–2008) and Andre Stojka (2009–present)
 * Connie Kendall, voiced by Katie Leigh (1987–present)
 * Eugene Meltsner and Harlow Doyle, voiced by Will Ryan (1987–2000, 2005–2021)
 * Wooton Bassett, voiced by Jess Harnell (2001–present)
 * Chris, the show's announcer, voiced by Chris Anthony (1987–present)
 * Jason Whittaker, voiced by Townsend Coleman (1994–present)
 * Katrina Shanks-Meltsner, voiced by Pamela Hayden (1993–2000), Audrey Wasilewski (2005–present)
 * Bernard Walton, voiced by Dave Madden (1990–2008)
 * Tom Riley, voiced by Walker Edmiston (1987–2007)
 * Jack Allen, voiced by Alan Young (1994–2012)
 * Joanne Allen, voiced by Janet Waldo (1996–2012)
 * Bart Rathbone, voiced by Walker Edmiston (1987–2007) and Robert Easton (2008)
 * Rodney Rathbone, voiced by Steve Burns (1990–2007)
 * Dr. Regis Blackgaard, voiced by Earl Boen (1989–1999)
 * Edwin Blackgaard, Regis's twin brother, also voiced by Earl Boen (1992–2015)
 * Jimmy Barclay, voiced by David Griffin (1988–2008)
 * Donna Barclay, voiced by Azure Janosky (1988–1997)
 * Lucy Cunningham-Shultz, voiced by Genesis Long (1988–2008)
 * Jack Davis, voiced by Donald Long (1988–2008)
 * Aubrey Shepherd, voiced by Danielle Judovits (1999–2005)
 * Matthew Parker, voiced by Zach Callison (2010–2014), Gunner Sizemore (2014–2015) and Justin Felbinger (2016–present)
 * Emily Jones, voiced by Cristina Pucelli (2010–present)
 * David Parker, voiced by Marc Evan Jackson (2010–2018) and Eddie Frierson (2018–present)
 * Eva Parker, voiced by Amanda Troop (2010–present)
 * Olivia Parker, voiced by Hope Levy (2010) and Kelly Stables (2010,2011–present)
 * Camilla Parker, voiced by Sydney Shiotani (2010–2012), Michaela Dean (2012–2017) and Lilly Mae Stewart (2017–present)
 * Barrett Jones, voiced by Andy Pessoa (2010–2014)
 * Priscilla Peterson, voiced by Gatlin Green (2010–2012)
 * Jay Smouse, voiced by Whit Hertford (2010–present)
 * Robert "Mitch" Mitchell, voiced by Steve Burns (2001–2012)
 * Penny Wise, voiced by Kimmy Robertson (2011–present)
 * Jules Kendall, voiced by Shona Kennedy Rodman (2014–present)
 * Buck Oliver, voiced by Robby Bruce (2011–present)
 * Detective Don Polhaus, voiced by Phil Proctor (2011–present)
 * Wilson Knox, voiced by Greg Jbara (2017–present)
 * Morrie Rydell, voiced by Atticus Shaffer (2016–present)
 * Suzu Rydell, voiced by April Hong (2016–present)
 * Zoe Grant, voiced by Natalie Lander (2015–present)

Episodes
Adventures in Odyssey has aired more than 900 episodes and has released 75 main albums, as well as many other special collections, including monthly Adventures in Odyssey club only episodes.

Spin-off products
Aside from the radio drama, Adventures in Odyssey has begun many spin-offs and special series, including an official Odyssey podcast, fan-favorite podcast Whit's Up?, 17 animated videos, Eugene Sings! and ''Eugene Sings! Christmas'', and three edutainment computer games,.

Books
Adventures in Odyssey now has over 7 different spin-off book series, Passages, Kidsboro, The Imagination Station, Candid Conversations with Connie,  The Blackgaard Chronicles, Jones and Parker Case Files, Young Whit, a 12-book series of novels titled simply Adventures in Odyssey, as well as episode guides, Bibles, devotionals, mysteries, and a comic book.

Video series
The first Adventures in Odyssey video was released in 1991. This series was created following the success of Focus on the Family's involvement in Tyndale House's video project, McGee and Me!. Originally, the Odyssey video series was created by a separate staff than that of the radio series, and each episode had a budget of about $400,000; by 1998, over two million Odyssey videos had been sold. Currently, 17 episodes are in the video series and several attempts have been made to place this series on television. The episodes were screened in Britain on Channel 4 in the mid-1990s and its upcoming program on Smile of a Child.

It was also broadcast on the Australian Christian Channel in Australia.

Computer games
Christian video game developer Digital Praise has released three computer games based on the series, Adventures in Odyssey: The Treasure of the Incas, Adventures in Odyssey: The Sword of the Spirit, and Adventures in Odyssey: The Great Escape. Will Ryan, Katie Leigh, and Paul Herlinger voiced the main characters of the games.

The Imagination Station Book Series
The Imagination Station Book Series is based on the machine of the same name in the Adventures in Odyssey audio dramas. It takes characters back to see events in history using the power of their own imagination. There are currently 32 installments in the series, along with 11 audiobooks.

Eugene Sings!
Eugene Sings! and ''Eugene Sings! Christmas are Adventures in Odyssey'' musical albums, released by Tyndale House. Both feature songs written and sung by Will Ryan, voicing Eugene Meltsner from the series.

Merchandise
Since 1987, Adventures in Odyssey has released hundreds of products related to the show, including those listed above as well as apparel, toys, games, calendars, pens, and other collectibles. Some are sold through retail outlets others are promotional items that are given away to certain people or at special events. There is even a display case in the Welcome Center of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Colorado that showcases some of the rarest memorabilia. Many fans of Adventures in Odyssey have become collectors of these products along with the audio albums, books and videos. There have been fan-sponsored contests to showcase these collections. The largest collection consisting of almost 2,000 unique items currently resides in Indianapolis, Indiana in the OdysseyFan Museum.

Events

 * 1997 Live Show - November 29 - Colorado Springs, CO
 * 2002 Live Show - July 26 & 27 - Colorado Springs, CO
 * 2008 Live Show - August 15 & 16 - Colorado Springs, CO
 * 2012 Live Show - June 16 - Dallas, TX
 * 2012 GITS Finale - November 3 - Colorado Springs, CO
 * 2017 GITS2 Finale - Colorado Springs, CO
 * 2017 Cruise - Nov 15 - Disney Dream
 * 2024 One Grand Party - August 2 & 3 - Colorado Springs, CO

Radio Theatre
Radio Theatre is a program run by Focus on the Family that makes both original and adapted radio dramas. Much of the staff involved with Adventures in Odyssey is also involved with Radio Theatre such as Paul McCusker. They have made adaptations of many novels including Les Miserables and Anne of Green Gables, as well as an adaptation of the complete Chronicles of Narnia.

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Thank God He Met Lizzie

Thank God He Met Lizzie is a 1997 Australian romantic comedy film directed by Cherie Nowlan and starring Frances O'Connor, Richard Roxburgh and Cate Blanchett. It was Nowlan's directorial debut. In the United States, the film was released as The Wedding Party.

Premise
The film revolves around two stories, firstly the upcoming wedding of Lizzie (Blanchett) and Guy (Roxburgh), and a second story in flashback of Guy's previous relationship with Jenny (Frances O'Connor).

Cast

 * Richard Roxburgh as Guy Jamieson
 * Cate Blanchett as Lizzie
 * Frances O'Connor as Jenny
 * Linden Wilkinson as Poppy
 * John Gaden as Dr. O'Hara
 * Genevieve Mooy as Mrs. Jamieson
 * Michael Ross as Mr. Jamieson
 * Melissa Ippolito as Catriona younger
 * Elena Pavli as Catriona older
 * Craig Rasmus as Dominic
 * Rhett Walton as Tony
 * Jeanette Cronin as Yvette
 * Arthur Angel as George
 * Wadih Dona as Angelo
 * Celia Ireland as Cheryl
 * Roy Billing as Ron
 * Felix Williamson
 * Jonathan Biggins

Music

 * Composer: Martin Armiger
 * Orchestrator: Derek Williams
 * Conductor: Martin Armiger
 * Music mixer: Michael Stavrou

Production
Cherie Nowlan had met Alexandra Long at the Australian Film Television Radio School and they had collaborated on two short films, including Lucinda 31. They decided to make a feature together.

Box office
Thank God He Met Lizzie grossed $565,747 at the box office in Australia.

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Rocawear

Rocawear (stylized Roc-A-Wear) is an American clothing brand founded in 1999 by Roc-A-Fella Records co-founders Damon Dash and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter. The brand has had annual sales of $700 million. Rocawear expanded through licensing to sell affordable clothes for children and juniors; socks and sandals; leather, suede, and fur outerwear; handbags and belts; lounge wear; big and tall; headwear; jewelry; and sunglasses; as well as co-branded product with Pro-Keds, State Property, and Team Roc.

R&B singer Ciara signed to be the new face of Rocawear in 2007 for the 'I Will Not Lose' campaign. Chris Brown, Memphis rap collective Three 6 Mafia, radio personality Ebro Darden, Toccara and Rich Boy were amongst the other celebrities who were part of the campaign.

In March 2007, Jay-Z sold the rights to the Rocawear brand to Iconix Brand Group for $204 million. Jay-Z retained his stake in the company and continued to oversee the marketing, licensing, and product development. In May 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sought out Jay-Z's testimony in relation to possible security law violations made by Iconix.

In March 2009, Rocawear launched its first social networking site, offering style news, music, fashion, and cultural connections.

In August 2011, Jay-Z confirmed via Twitter that Rocawear had partnered with Pharrell Williams' clothing label, Billionaire Boys Club.

In 2012, Rocawear was a €490 million clothing business.

In November 2018, Jay-Z successfully halted a $204 million lawsuit between Roc Nation and Iconix over the lack of black arbitrators in the US.

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Talk:Roger Sessions

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Ack. Wanted to apologize for editing your article without talking with you about it first. Should I change it back? Changed Ernst Bloch to Ernest Bloch and added a paragraph, easy enough to do. Will use talk pages in future. Mortified... (First day, but that is no excuse...) Regards Schissel 02:49, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Boosey & Hawkes ad on page 21 of December 1978 issue of Tempo (issue 127, with recollections and a discography-to-that-point by Andrea Olmstead and Paul Rapoport respectively) claims 1972, not 1971, for the double concerto. Anyone have definite information (does it say on the score, for instance?) Schissel | Sound the Note! 19:58, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

To attempt to flesh out the biographical details a bit more:

 * married twice, and that should be "first wife" in "traveling Europe with his wife" (see the article in the same issue of Tempo, pp 10-16, a biographical sketch by Andrea Olmstead)

 * "A first movement of a... symphony in D major won Sessions a prestigious... award at Yale." Sessions put the work aside but later, teaching at Smith College, was offered the opportunity by Josef Stransky to have the work performed there, perhaps with the New York Philharmonic. Sessions sought advice from Bloch, who "having asked Sessions to play the first movement... on the piano," was unsparing in his detection of influences, advised Sessions to scrap the work altogether and suggested that Sessions work for two years with Bloch on composition. (This in the mid-1920s?)

 * Sessions won the Prix de Rome and lived there from 1928 to 1931, after which Otto Klemperer "enticed him to Berlin" (all quotes from the article, mostly p. 11.)

 * His only acknowledged/catalogued works from before his 30th year were the Three Chorale Preludes for Organ, the Incidental Music to the Black Maskers (or some of it) (but not yet transformed into the suite usually played) and the first symphony. (p. 12.)

 * Left Berlin for the US in 1933, his marriage dissolved, finances in very bad straits, his job situation "precarious". His violin concerto ("his most ambitious work to date" ) was unperformed for about five years after composition.

 * 1930s ended well however- second marriage, secure position at Princeton, performance of concerto, birth of two children. Schissel | Sound the Note! 00:12, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Why such an awful photo of this great and famous composer?
It makes him look mad and dishevelled with those glasses on his forehead — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.145.169 (talk) 14:38, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * If you care to check the image data, you will discover that it is the official publicity photo from the composer's publisher, used here solely because no copyright-free photo of the subject has been found. If you know of a better, copyright-free portrait, by all means upload it to Wikimedia Commons.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 16:33, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Well, that is a very definitive response that has put me firmly in my place! Thank you for your timely response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.158.143.66 (talk) 15:56, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

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Communist Youth of Greece

The Communist Youth of Greece (Κομμουνιστική Νεολαία Ελλάδας; ΚΝΕ) is the youth wing of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).

It publishes the monthly newspaper Odigitis (Greek: Οδηγητής, "guider") and hosts Odigitis festivals in most of the major towns and cities of Greece.

KNE is a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth.

History
KNE was founded on 15 September 1968, with a decision of Politburo of the Central Committee of the KKE, during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974, as an organization of youth with revolutionary and communist features.

It was the historical continuation of OKNE (Organization of Communist Youth of Greece), of all the organizations of youth which had already taken part in people's struggle in Greece, such as EPON (United Panhellenic Organization of Youth), DNE (Democratic Youth of Greece), D.N.Lampraki (Democratic Youth "Lamprakis").

In 1989-1991, a deep crisis shocked KNE and KKE. In autumn 1989, disagreeing with the participation of KKE in the Tzannetakis and Zolotas national unity governments, a large group, including the major part of KNE under its secretary-general, from the KKE and formed the New Left Current (NAR). The KKE, then part of the Synaspismos coalition, attempted to dissolve KNE into the Synaspismos Youth League. Later in 1991, KKE left the coalition, purged all non-hardliners (incl. 45% of the central committee and KKE secretary-general ), and restored KNE with the efforts of some hundreds of members. In March 1993, the 6th Congress of the Organization took place.

In the late 2000s, KNE decided to constitute MAS (Front of Students' Struggle) (Μέτωπο Αγώνα Σπουδαστών, ΜΑΣ Metopo Agona Spoudaston) which was finally founded by students' organizations in Athens, 6 November 2009.

The congresses of KNE

 * 1st Congress (19–22 February 1976)
 * 2nd Congress (4–7 April 1979)
 * 3rd Congress (14–18 December 1983)
 * 4th Congress (1–5 June 1988)
 * 5th Congress (25–27 January 1990)
 * 6th Congress (19–21 March 1993) "The hope is in our struggle, with KKE we open the road to the future"
 * 7th Congress (1–4 May 1997) "Youth's counter-attack to imperialism, with KKE for Socialism"
 * 8th Congress (21–23 December 2001) "Youth dynamic in struggle with working class and the people,for the Front, for the Socialism"
 * 9th Congress (12–14 May 2006) - Resolution
 * 10th Congress (7–9 May 2010) - "Communism is the youth of the world, KNE our organization"
 * 11th Congress (18–21 December 2014) - "Pioneer youth of KKE - combatively en route for the socialist tomorrow - without crises, wars, exploitation"
 * 12th Congress (15-17 February 2019) - "Even more, more capable, we pave the way for what is truly contemporary and young, for a world “worthy of our dreams, and worthy of our people”, Socialism!"
 * 13th Congress (10-12 February 2023) - "We are the spark that will turn darkness into light!"

List of secretaries

 * 1) Dimitris Tsiaras (1968-1972)
 * 2) Dimitris Gontikas (1972-1979)
 * 3) Spyros Chalvatzis (1979-1984)
 * 4) Giorgos Grapsas (1984-1989)
 * 5) Takis Theodorikakos (1989-1991)
 * 6) Nikos Sofianos (1991-2000)
 * 7) Themis Gionis (2000-2007)
 * 8) Giannis Protoulis (2007-2011)
 * 9) Thodoris Chionis (2011-2015)
 * 10) Nikos Abatielos (2015-2023)
 * 11) Thodoris Kotsantis (2023-today)

Odigitis festival
Odigitis festival is a series of annual festivals organized in most of the major towns and cities of Greece by the KNE.

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Richard Flanagan

Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian writer, who has also worked as a film director and screenwriter. He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Flanagan was described by the Washington Post as "one of our greatest living novelists".

"[C]onsidered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation", according to The Economist, the New York Review of Books described Flanagan as "among the most versatile writers in the English language".

Early life and education
Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land during the Great Famine in Ireland. Flanagan's father was a survivor of the Burma Death Railway and one of his three brothers is Australian rules football journalist Martin Flanagan.

Flanagan was born with severe hearing loss, which was corrected when he was six years old. He grew up in the remote mining town of Rosebery on Tasmania's western coast.

Flanagan left school at the age of 16 but returned to study at the University of Tasmania, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with First-Class Honours. Flanagan was president of the Tasmania University Union in 1983. The following year, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Worcester College, Oxford, where he earned the degree of Master of Letters in History.

Early works
Flanagan wrote four non-fiction works before moving to fiction, works that he called "his apprenticeship". One of these was Codename Iago, an autobiography of Australian con man John Friedrich, which Flanagan ghostwrote in six weeks to make money to write his first novel. Friedrich killed himself in the middle of the book's writing and it was published posthumously. Simon Caterson, writing in The Australian, described it as "one of the least reliable but most fascinating memoirs in the annals of Australian publishing".

Novels
Flanagan's first novel, Death of a River Guide (1994), is the tale of Aljaz Cosini, a river guide, who lies drowning, reliving his life and the lives of his family and forebears. It was described by The Times Literary Supplement as "one of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing". The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997), tells the story of Slovenian immigrants and was a major bestseller, selling more than 150,000 copies in Australia. Flanagan's first two novels, declared Kirkus Reviews, "rank with the finest fiction out of Australia since the heyday of Patrick White".

Gould's Book of Fish (2001) is based on the life of William Buelow Gould, a convict artist, and tells the tale of his love affair with a young black woman in 1828. It won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Flanagan described these early novels as 'soul histories'. The Unknown Terrorist (2006), was described by The New York Times as "stunning ... a brilliant meditation upon the post-9/11 world". Wanting (2008) tells two parallel stories: about the novelist Charles Dickens in England, and Mathinna, an Aboriginal orphan adopted by Sir John Franklin, the colonial governor of Van Diemen's Land, and his wife, Lady Jane Franklin. As well as being a New Yorker Book of the Year and  Observer Book of the Year, it won the Queensland Premier's Prize, the Western Australian Premier's Prize and the Tasmania Book Prize. The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013), about a Tasmanian doctor who becomes a Japanese prisoner of war, won the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

First Person (2017), based loosely on his experience early in his writing career ghost-writing the autobiography of John Friedrich. The New Yorker noted  "the novel, with its switchbacking recollections and cyclical dialogue, its penetrating scenes of birth and, eventually, death, is enigmatic and mesmerizing" while the New York Review of Books called it a "tour-de-force".

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (2020) about a woman caring for her dying mother during Australia's Black Summer of climate change induced wildfires, was described in a review for The Sydney Morning Herald as "a revelation and a triumph . . . astonishing".

Robert Dixon's (ed.) Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays (2018) offers different perspectives on Flanagan's writing, while Joyce Carol Oates has written an overview of his novels for the New York Review of Books.

Journalism
Flanagan has written on literature, the environment, art and politics for the Australian and international press including Le Monde, The Daily Telegraph (London), Suddeutsche Zeitung, The Monthly, The New York Times, and the New Yorker. Some of his writings have proved controversial. "The Selling-out of Tasmania", published after the death of former Premier Jim Bacon in 2004, was critical of the Bacon government's relationship with corporate interests in the state. Premier Paul Lennon declared, "Richard Flanagan and his fictions are not welcome in the new Tasmania". Flanagan's 2007 essay on logging company Gunns, then the biggest hardwood woodchipper in the world, "Gunns. Out of Control" in The Monthly, first published as "Paradise Razed" in The Telegraph (London), inspired Sydney businessman Geoffrey Cousins' high-profile campaign to stop the building of Gunns' two billion dollar Bell Bay Pulp Mill. Cousins reprinted 50,000 copies of the essay for letterboxing in the electorates of Australia's environment minister and opposition environment spokesperson. Gunns subsequently collapsed with huge debt, its CEO John Gay found guilty of insider trading, and the pulp mill was never built. Flanagan's essay won the 2008 John Curtin Prize for Journalism.

A collection of his non-fiction was published as And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? (2011).

In 2015 he published Notes on an Exodus, on the Syrian refugee crisis, arising out of visiting refugee camps in Lebanon, Greece, and meeting refugees in Serbia. The book also features sketches made by the noted Australian artist Ben Quilty, who travelled with Flanagan to meet the refugees.

His 2021 book ''Toxic. The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry'' has been credited with lifting 'the veil on the Atlantic salmon industry's environmental and social malfeasances' and igniting popular opposition to the industry.

Film
The 1998 film of The Sound of One Hand Clapping, written and directed by Flanagan, was nominated for the Golden Bear at that year's Berlin Film Festival.

He worked with Baz Luhrmann as a writer on the 2008 film Australia.

A major television series of The Narrow Road to the Deep North is in production, directed by Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Macbeth, Nitram) and starring Jacob Elordi (Euphoria, Priscilla, Saltburn).

Personal life
Flanagan is an ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, to which he donated his $40,000 prize money on winning the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Prize in 2014. A painting of Richard Flanagan by artist Geoffrey Dyer won the 2003 Archibald Prize. A rapid on the Franklin River, Flanagan's Surprise, is named after him. He was made an Honorary Citizen of Oxford, Mississippi, the home town of William Faulkner, in 2014.

Flanagan lives in Hobart, Tasmania with his Slovenian-born wife Majda (née Smolej) and has three daughters, Rosie, Jean and Eliza.

His life was the subject of a BAFTA award-winning BBC documentary, Life After Death.

Novels

 * Death of a River Guide (1994)
 * The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997)
 * Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (2001)
 * The Unknown Terrorist (2006)
 * Wanting (2008)
 * The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013)
 * First Person (2017)
 * The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (2020)

Non-fiction

 * (1985) A Terrible Beauty: History of the Gordon River Country
 * (1990) The Rest of the World Is Watching: Tasmania and the Greens (co-editor)
 * (1991) Codename Iago: The Story of John Friedrich (co-writer)
 * (1991) "Parish-Fed Bastards": A History of the Politics of the Unemployed in Britain, 1884–1939
 * (2011) And What Do You Do, Mr Gable?
 * (2015) Notes on an Exodus
 * (2018) Seize the Fire: Three Speeches
 * (2021) Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmania Salmon Industry
 * (2023) Question 7

Films

 * (1998) The Sound of One Hand Clapping (director and screenwriter)
 * (2008) Australia (co-writer)

Awards and honours

 * (1996) National Fiction Award for Death of a River Guide
 * (1995) Victorian Premier's Prize for Best First Fiction (for Death of a River Guide)
 * (1998) National Booksellers award for Best Book for The Sound of One Hand Clapping
 * (1998) Victorian Premier's Prize for Best Novel, for The Sound of One hand Clapping
 * (2002) Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (for Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish)
 * (2002) Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction for Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
 * (2002) The Commonwealth Writers' Prize (for Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish)
 * (2008) Western Australian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction (for Wanting)
 * (2009) Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Fiction (for Wanting)
 * (2011) Tasmania Book Prize (for Wanting)
 * (2014) Western Australian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
 * (2014) Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Fiction (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
 * (2014) The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
 * (2014) Australian Prime Minister's Literary Prize (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
 * (2015) Margaret Scott Prize (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
 * (2016) The Athens Prize for Literature (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
 * (2016) Lire Prix du meilleur livre étranger (for The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
 * (2019) Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
 * (2020) Honorary Fellow of the Modern Languages Association

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Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg (born 15 April 1939) is an Italian historian and a proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for Il formaggio e i vermi (1976, English title: The Cheese and the Worms), which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.

In 1966, he published The Night Battles, an examination of the benandanti visionary folk tradition found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Friuli in northeastern Italy. He returned to looking at the visionary traditions of early modern Europe for his 1989 book Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath.

Life
The son of Natalia Ginzburg, a novelist, and Leone Ginzburg, a philologist, historian, and literary critic, Carlo Ginzburg was born in 1939 in Turin, Italy. His interest for history was influenced by the works of historians Delio Cantimori and Marc Bloch. He received a PhD from the University of Pisa in 1961. He subsequently held teaching positions at the University of Bologna, the University of California, Los Angeles (1988–2006), and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. His fields of interest range from the Italian Renaissance to early modern European history, with contributions to art history, literary studies, and the theory of historiography.

In 1979, Ginzburg formally requested that Pope John Paul II open the Inquisition Archives. While the immediate response of the Vatican has not yet come to light, a limited group of scholars had been granted access by 1991. In January 1998 the archives were formally opened to "qualified researchers." Cardinal Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict XVI) credited Ginzburg, and his 1979 letter, as having been instrumental in the Vatican's decision to open these archives. Ginzburg had his doubts about using statistics to reach a judgment about the period. “In many cases, we don’t have the evidence, the evidence has been lost,” said Ginzburg.

Along with Paul Ginsborg, Marcello Flores, Sergio Luzzatto, Claudio Pavone, Enzo Traverso, etc., Ginzburg called, in January 2002, for the rejection of a bill, presented by Justice Minister Clemente Mastella, that would have outlawed Holocaust denial. They argued that Italy's legislation was sufficient to cope with such acts. The amended bill finally restricted itself to reinforcing sentences concerning hate speech.

He was awarded the 2010 Balzan Prize and was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013.

Work
In The Night Battles and Ecstasies, Ginzburg traced a complex path from certain European witch persecutions to the benandanti and a wide variety of practices which he describes as evidence of a substrate of shamanic cults in Europe. His 1999 work, The Judge and the Historian, sought to expose injustice in the trial of Adriano Sofri, but failed to win a new trial. His book was not only about Sofri but was also a general reflection on the scientific methods used by a historian, and their similarity to the work of a judge, who also has to correlate testimonies with material evidence in order to deduce what really happened. Thus, he explains how the judicial model of early historiography made it focus on easily verifiable facts, resulting in studies that centred on individuals or on what Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch called in the Annales d'histoire économique et sociale an "evenemential history". In his book History, Rhetoric, and Proof (1999), he contrasts the ancient rhetoric of Aristotle with the modern rhetoric of Nietzsche.

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Rodney Caston

Rodney Caston (born May 13, 1977) is an American writer and politician. He is credited as the co-creator of the popular comic book series MegaTokyo.

Writing
Caston is credited as a co-creator and writer of the first volume of the popular comic book series Megatokyo, and as a co-creator of the second volume. He has since parted ways with partner Fred Gallagher and relinquished his interest in Megatokyo. In July 2004, Megatokyo was the tenth best-selling manga property in the U.S.

Published works

 * Megatokyo Volume 1: Chapter Zero (Megatokyo vol.1 1st ed.) ISBN 1-929090-30-7
 * Megatokyo Volume 1, 2nd ed. ISBN 1-59307-163-9 (2004)
 * Megatokyo Volume 2 ISBN 1-59307-118-3 (2004)
 * The Government Hacker Threat Landscape

Politics
Caston is a former member of the Libertarian Party. In 2008, he ran, unsuccessfully, for constable in the state of Texas against Republican Chuck Presley, Sr. He received 19,079 votes (19% of the total votes cast) to Presley's 79,039 votes (81% of the total cast). In 2012, he ran, again unsuccessfully, for Texas State Representative of District 106 for the Libertarian Party against Pat Fallon; he received 8,412 votes (17% of the total votes cast) to Fallon's 41,582 (83% of the total cast)

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No Place Like Home (Big Country album)

No Place Like Home is the fifth studio album by Scottish band Big Country, released in 1991. Its title derives from a quote in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which is referenced by the first track, "We're Not in Kansas". Dorothy's statement was in turn taken from the famous poem and song Home! Sweet Home! by John Howard Payne and Henry Bishop.

Critical reception
Upon its release, Simon Dudfield of NME noted the band's transition from their "straight rock" and "old Scottish growl" to "a more traditional R&B feel". He concluded, "By returning to a form of music they truly love, Big Country have made a commendable step in the right direction; a bright start to their decade." Caren Myers of Melody Maker was critical of the album and concluded there is "no place like the bin". She described Big Country as a band that "makes Lime Spiders look like The Rolling Stones" and Adamson as a "Celtic Springsteen wannabe". She felt the album was made up of a "series of insufferable bar-room boogies" and added, "This, we are told, is Big Country getting back to basics, their R&B roots. Naturally, all sentient listeners will wish they wouldn't, but who listens to us anyway?"

Track listing
"You, Me and the Truth" and "Comes a Time" were bonus tracks on the CD and cassette releases of the album; they were not on the original vinyl release. The 2014 deluxe edition of the album restores the vinyl running order and moves these tracks to a bonus disc.

Personnel
Big Country
 * Stuart Adamson – guitar, vocals
 * Tony Butler – bass, vocals
 * Bruce Watson – guitar, mandolin

Additional musicians
 * Pat Ahern – drums on "Freedom Song"
 * Mark Brzezicki – drums, percussion
 * Richie Close – piano, programming
 * Katie Kissoon – additional vocals
 * Carol Kenyon – additional vocals

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Virginia Vestoff

Virginia Vestoff (December 9, 1939 – May 2, 1982) was an American actress of film, television and Broadway.

Early life
Vestoff was born into a family of vaudeville performers in New York City. Both her Russian immigrant father and mother, who was the great niece of American composer Stephen Foster, died and left Virginia an orphan at the age of nine. She coped with the loss by acting, and took third prize on The Ted Mack Amateur Hour, which launched a professional career with the Children's Chorus of the New York City Opera.

While living with relatives, Virginia attended the New York High School for the Performing Arts. At 15, she decided to move out and manage life on her own by attending Washington Irving High School and moonlighting as a salesgirl at a department store. However, Virginia quit school early to tour with a dance company. The failure to graduate remained a personal regret to Virginia throughout her life, which she countered with a thirst to self-educate, becoming an extensive reader.

Professional career
Soon after dropping out, Vestoff landed a part on stage in The Boy Friend and it led to many of her other theatrical credits including I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road, Spokesong, Drinks Before Dinner, The Misanthrope, Love and Let Love, Man With a Load of Mischief, Ben Bagley's New Cole Porter Revue, And in this Corner, A Doll's House, Fallout, The Crystal Heart, Private Lives, The Threepenny Opera, The Archbishop's Ceiling, Booth is Back in Town, Camelot, Put it in Writing, The King and I, and My Fair Lady.

In 1960 she made her first professional appearance in the play The Crystal Heart with Mildred Dunnock at the Off-Broadway East 74th Street Theater, with top seats selling for $4.96 ($0 in current dollar terms),

Vestoff made her Broadway debut in the 1960 revue From A to Z. Her most famous stage role was that of Abigail Adams in 1776, a role which garnered her a Tony nomination and one she reprised in the film adaptation. Additional Broadway credits include Irma La Douce, Boccaccio, Via Galactica, and Baker Street, in which she met her future husband, writer Morty Lefkoe, president and founder of the Lefkoe Institute and creator of the Lefkoe Method, a psychological process. For a time, Vestoff took on dual duties with Broadway and daytime drama. From October 20, 1969 to June 20, 1970, she played Dr. Althea Davis on The Doctors, taking over from a departing Elizabeth Hubbard. When Vestoff left due to her unhappiness with the role. Hubbard returned to the role on October 1, 1970. She eventually joined the cast of Dark Shadows as Samantha Drew Collins. Vestoff also did another soap opera stint on As the World Turns and appeared in numerous television commercials, including Sure Deodorant, Geritol, Hamburger Helper, Sardo Bath Beads, and Bradlees.

Vestoff's primetime television guest credits included The Quinns, Carmody, Contact: The Case of the Secret Message, We Interrupt This Season, Alone at Last and Kojak. Her screen roles included Robert Altman's A Wedding and Such Good Friends.

Death
Vestoff died of cancer in New York City on May 2, 1982, at age 42.

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