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Talk:The Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence

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Do we really need this? yes Mikkalai 05:17, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I like the Simpsons, but this is just too much detail. Wikipedia is not an episode guide, and if we keep things like this that's exactly what it will become. Plus, having an encyclopedia article on it sucks all the humor out of it. Delete. [[User:Livajo|Ливай | ☺]] 05:26, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Please, no one-time jokes as articles. Rmhermen 05:46, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Why shouldn't Wikipedia be an episode guide if that's what people want ? --Centauri 05:50, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)\
 * Why can't Wikipedia be a porno site, or an MP3 download site, or a dictionary, if that's "what the people want"? Wikipedia has a clear purpose: it's an encyclopedia. Some things belong in encyclopedias, others don't. IMHO a single, non-notable joke on The Simpsons is not encyclopedic. --Szyslak 06:20, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Encyclopedias were and are conceived, created and intended as repositories of universal knowledge. Nothing has changed in that respect in the last 200 years except the ability to actually deliver on that intention thanks to the wonders of digital data storage. All knowledge is by definition, encyclopedic, no matter how apparently trivial, or apparently irrelevant to you =- and yes that includes mp3s, porn and obscure articles on higher mathematics that only 3 people in the entire world are ever likely to read. --Centauri 07:13, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * IIRC the root of the word "encyclopedia" is "a general course of education." My personal tolerance for what belongs on Wikipedia is pretty high for the most part—I voted to keep previous VfD articles like List of Republican celebrities and List of notable eccentrics, and I was in the minority in both cases. But I think the inherent purpose of Wikipedia puts some loosely-defined limits on what is appropriate here. A typical Wikipedian looking for information on The Simpsons wouldn't find this interesting, and neither would most fans. As a hardcore Simpsons fan, it seems to me that this is a minor joke in a minor episode, and only the most extreme fan would really find it useful. It's ridiculous for someone to say "all knowledge" belongs in Wikipedia. If that's true, maybe I should write an article about how many times I went to the bathroom yesterday or how big my MP3 collection is. Is that not knowledge? And doesn't all knowledge belong in Wikipedia? --Szyslak 09:46, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Well I am certainly no "hardcore" Simpsons fan and I find it interesting. Evidently others do too. Does that make us atypical? When I see people making assumptions about what others do and don't find "interesting" alarm bells start ringing. How can you possibly know? It is ridiculous to say that the only valid criteria for assessing worth are your own. --Centauri 13:48, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Right now the vote tally is 19 delete, 2 keep. If I'm trying to impose my personal will on Wikipedia, I have a lot of company. It isn't really about whether this article's "interesting," it's about whether it's encyclopedic. (That was a poor choice of words on my part, by the way.) This information might belong in an article about the episode this joke appears in. Then again, there are those who think "episode guides" don't belong on Wikipedia (I'm not one of them). There's a wide variety of views on what's appropriate for Wikipedia. Right now, it looks like a good number of Wikipedians support deleting this article, not because they want to "censor" WP but because they feel, for whatever reason, that deleting this article would make Wikipedia a better place. From what I gather, much of the Wikipedia community thinks there should be some criteria of "notability." Obviously, that can be a subjective term. But that's why we have mechanisms like Votes for Deletion, to reach consensus over issues like that. There are "notable" one-off Simpsons jokes (Worker and Parasite, for example). But in my opinion, this isn't one of them. --Szyslak 20:16, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. DJ Clayworth 05:53, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, Smithers. Wolfman 05:57, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. One-joke entry, no potential beyond that. --Calton 05:58, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * To answer Mikkalai, no we don't. Delete. Antandrus 06:02, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too short to meet the traditional definition of fancruft, but it's definitely cruft. --Szyslak 06:15, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep! This is what Wikipedia's all about. It should be part of an article on the episode in general, but in the meantime I have no problem with keeping it as is. I really liked this article. Everyking 07:36, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's not even significant in the context of the TV series, let alone in general. iMeowbot 09:28, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete The joke was not bad, but having articles for every cartoon joke? Pie in the face article? --Gene s 09:12, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * So maybe WP can be an episode guide, but an entry about a fictional award in a single Simpsons episode that had no influence on the rest of the series isn't encyclopedic. Delete. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 09:55, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Move any useful content to Homer J. Simpson and Delete. utcursch 10:00, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. No joke repository. Gtabary 10:14, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn Wyss 10:50, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete and then award yourself a Wikipedia Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence. P Ingerson 13:19, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete: The Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Minutiae and Evil. Geogre 13:31, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete article about a joke, trivia. Gazpacho 14:25, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trivial. Wikipedia is not the place for the world repository for one-off jokes in the Simpsons. --Bucephalus 14:39, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I would support merging and redirecting all these one-off jokes to articles on the episodes. Do not, however, keep as its own article. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 17:40, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: DCEdwards1966 17:45, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete --fvw *  19:54, 2004 Dec 16 (UTC)
 * Move information to episode article Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes? --Kaizersoze 20:19, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - Only from a single episode - Andre Engels 02:32, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Harmless redirect to Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes? Besides being important enough to the episode, the musical number about the Award also lives as a track on a Simpsons album. Samaritan 03:24, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge and delete. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/talk]] 03:25, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * If we're going to have an article on the episode, it should go there. -- Cyrius|✎ 03:28, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Mark Richards 21:18, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete non-existent award from fiction. Xtra 08:12, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: subtrivial fancruft. Wile E. Heresiarch 16:46, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to the article for the episode. Even if it had been mentioned in any other episode other than the one it appeared in, the entire point of the joke is that it was of no real significance.  -- Antaeus Feldspar 20:52, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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User:Yincrash

Michael Yin
Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a major in Computer Science.

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Daiwa Securities Group

Daiwa Securities Group Inc. (大和証券グループ本社) is a Japanese investment bank that is the second largest securities brokerage after Nomura Securities.

Major subsidiaries include Daiwa Securities, which offers retail services such as online trading to individual investors and investment banking services in Japan, as well as Daiwa Capital Markets, the firm's international investment banking arm (with a presence across Asia, Europe and North America) that provides M&A advisory, sales and trading services in a variety of financial products to corporate and institutional clients. Other group companies provide asset management, research and private equity fund services.

The company is the fourth largest shareholder in SL Green Realty.

Daiwa Securities SB Capital Markets
The company was founded in 1999 as Daiwa Securities SB Capital Markets Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Daiwa Securities Group (Daiwa) and Sumitomo Bank (SB). It was renamed in 2001 to Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. Ltd., after Sumitomo Bank merged with Sakura Bank on 1 April 2001 to form Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). However, in 2010, SMBC acquired Nikko Cordial (Japan's third-largest brokerage at that time).

Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Company
Following this step, Daiwa dissolved the joint-venture with SMBC and re-acquired 100% of the shares in the company, before renaming it again as Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Co. Ltd. Finally, about two years later, the company was absorbed in a merger, leaving Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd as the sole entity.

Member companies

 * Daiwa Financial Holdings Co., Ltd.
 * Daiwa Securities Co., Ltd.
 * Daiwa Asset Management Co., Ltd.
 * Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd.
 * Daiwa SB Investments Ltd.
 * Daiwa Securities Business Center Co., Ltd.
 * The Daiwa Property Co. Ltd.
 * Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc.
 * Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd.

Projects
In July 2012, Daiwa Securities Group was chosen by the Central Bank of Myanmar to spearhead a $380-million project designed to develop an IT network for the Myanmar government that would connect all ministries as well as schools and hospitals to a cloud computing system and would also entail a secure online banking system for the country.

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User:Evhagar5150

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List of highways numbered 113

The following highways are numbered 113:

Canada

 * BC-113.svg British Columbia Highway 113
 * NB 113.svg New Brunswick Route 113
 * Nova Scotia 113.svg Nova Scotia Highway 113
 * PEI_Highway_113.svg Prince Edward Island Route 113
 * Qc113.svg Quebec Route 113

Costa Rica

 * CR RNS 113.svg National Route 113

Germany

 * Bundesautobahn_113_number.svg Bundesautobahn 113

India

 * NH113-IN.svg National Highway 113 (India)

Japan

 * Japanese National Route Sign 0113.svg Route 113 (Japan)

Philippines

 * N113 (Philippines).svg N113 highway (Philippines)

United States

 * US 113.svg U.S. Route 113
 * Alabama 113.svg Alabama State Route 113
 * Arkansas 113.svg Arkansas Highway 113
 * California 113.svg California State Route 113
 * Colorado 113.svg Colorado State Highway 113
 * Connecticut Highway 113.svg Connecticut Route 113
 * Florida 113.svg Florida State Road 113
 * Georgia 113.svg Georgia State Route 113
 * Illinois 113.svg Illinois Route 113
 * Indiana 113.svg Indiana State Road 113
 * Iowa 113.svg Iowa Highway 113
 * K-113.svg K-113 (Kansas highway)
 * Elongated circle 113.svg Kentucky Route 113
 * Louisiana 113.svg Louisiana Highway 113
 * Maine 113.svg Maine State Route 113
 * MA Route 113.svg Massachusetts Route 113
 * M-113.svg M-113 (Michigan highway)
 * MN-113.svg Minnesota State Highway 113
 * MO-113.svg Missouri Route 113
 * N-113 1950.svg Nebraska Highway 113 (former)
 * NH Route 113.svg New Hampshire Route 113
 * NH Route 113A.svg New Hampshire Route 113A
 * NH Route 113B.svg New Hampshire Route 113B
 * New Mexico 113.svg New Mexico State Road 113
 * NY-113.svg New York State Route 113
 * Erie County Route 113 NY.svg County Route 113 (Erie County, New York)
 * Fulton County Route 113 NY.svg County Route 113 (Fulton County, New York)
 * CR 113 jct.svg County Route 113 (Herkimer County, New York)
 * CR 113 jct.svg County Route 113 (Steuben County, New York)
 * Suffolk County Route 113 NY.svg County Route 113 (Suffolk County, New York)
 * Sullivan County Route 113 NY.svg County Route 113 (Sullivan County, New York)
 * Tompkins County Route 113 NY.svg County Route 113 (Tompkins County, New York)
 * Tompkins County Route 113A NY.svg County Route 113A (Tompkins County, New York)
 * Washington County Route 113 NY.svg County Route 113 (Washington County, New York)
 * NC 113.svg North Carolina Highway 113
 * OH-113.svg Ohio State Route 113
 * Oklahoma State Highway 113.svg Oklahoma State Highway 113
 * PA-113.svg Pennsylvania Route 113
 * Rhode Island 113.svg Rhode Island Route 113
 * South Carolina 113.svg South Carolina Highway 113
 * Secondary Tennessee 113.svg Tennessee State Route 113
 * Texas 113.svg Texas State Highway 113
 * Texas Loop 113.svg Texas State Highway Loop 113 (former)
 * Texas Spur 113.svg Texas State Highway Spur 113
 * Texas Spur 113.svg Texas State Highway Spur 113 (1940–1948) (former)
 * Texas FM 113.svg Farm to Market Road 113
 * Utah SR 113.svg Utah State Route 113
 * Vermont 113.svg Vermont Route 113
 * Virginia 113.svg Virginia State Route 113
 * Virginia 113.svg Virginia State Route 113 (1923-1928) (former)
 * Virginia 113.svg Virginia State Route 113 (1928-1933) (former)
 * Virginia 113.svg Virginia State Route 113 (1933-1942) (former)
 * WA-113.svg Washington State Route 113
 * WIS 113.svg Wisconsin Highway 113
 * WY-113.svg Wyoming Highway 113

 * Territories:
 * Ellipse sign 113.svg Puerto Rico Highway 113

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Karl Ohs

Karl Ohs (November 18, 1946 – November 25, 2007) was an American politician who served as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of the state of Montana serving under Judy Martz.

Background
Karl Ohs was born in Malta, Montana, the son of a Swedish immigrant. He was a Montana rancher and farmer prior entering politics. He attended Montana State College (Later Montana State University) where he wrestled for the Fighting Bobcats and was a two time Big Sky Conference Champion. In 1969, Ohs left his studies in agricultural economics at Montana State University to help the family move to a new ranch in Pony, Montana in a Tobacco Root Mountain valley outside Harrison in Madison County. Ohs was only a few credits short of graduation when he left Montana State.

He stayed on to work the family ranch with his father and his brother, Jerry, and raised his four children, Brad, Eric, Brian and Elizabeth. While serving as Lieutenant Governor, Karl returned to MSU and completed his Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural business in 2004. Accepting his diploma and giving the commencement speech, Ohs said, "I promised myself I would be back, but I never thought it would be 40 years."

Political career
Ohs political involvement was sparked when he attended Willie Nelson's Farm Aid conference in St. Louis in September 1986. Carrying the vital spirit sparked by meeting with farmers and ranchers from all over the United States, Ohs returned home and began searching for ways and means of increasing economic options for Montana agriculture. In 1988, Ohs and nine other Montana ranchers and farmers formed MAGPI, Montana Agricultural Producers, Inc. Ohs served as Chairman of MAGPI, leading the company's exploration of alternative products and alternative markets.

For MAGPI, alternative crops had to be accompanied by alternative markets. "No sense in growing it if you can't sell it and make a profit," Ohs often said. In 1989 and 1990, Ohs traveled throughout Montana, educating and encouraging farmers to consider canola as a contract crop, much as they did for barley. MAGPI also promoted production of weed seed-free hay, participating in programs to require only weed seed-free hay on US Forest Service and State owned lands: "It's win-win all they [sic] way around: we need to get after our noxious weeds here in Montana and we need to find crops farmers can grow that have a market."

Ohs served in the Montana House of Representatives in 1995, 1997, and 1999. During the 1997 and 1999 sessions, he served as Majority Whip. During his time in the Montana State Legislature, Ohs sponsored the legislation that resulted in the purchase, by the state, of the Bovey properties in Virginia City and Nevada City, keeping the history and artifacts of Virginia and Nevada Cities accessible to future generations. Prior to his involvement in state politics, Ohs served 7 years on the Harrison, Montana school board (1978–1984). Running successfully for Lieutenant Governor in 2000 with gubernatorial candidate Judy Martz, Ohs was an active member of the administration, taking a leadership role is resolving complex or controversial issues facing the state including serving as chairman of the Governor's Drought Advisory Committee during drought years and chairing the K-12 Public School Renewal Commission working across party lines to solve the Montana public schools' funding problems.

Ohs was best known for his role in peacefully ending the Montana Freeman standoff near Jordan, Montana. In 1996, asked for help by a former ranch hand whose daughter and granddaughter were inside, Ohs served as principal negotiator making 19 separate trips into the Freeman compound. His involvement earned him the 1998 The Louis E. Peters Memorial Service Award given by the FBI for public service. His efforts also served as a model for FBI handling of similar situations and Ohs traveled to Washington, D.C. to help the FBI develop negotiator training programs based on his experiences.

Later years
In 2002, Ohs was elected chairman of the National Lieutenant Governors Association. Following his four-year tenure as Lieutenant Governor, Ohs was elected chairman of the Montana Republican Party in 2005. Ohs chose not to seek the party post in 2007 due to his efforts to recover from surgery and chemotherapy for brain cancer. Ohs died of brain cancer on Sunday, November 25, 2007 at his home in Helena, Montana, aged 61. The Montana Law Enforcement Academy has dedicated a building to the late former Montana Lt. Gov. Karl Ohs.

Personal life
Starting in 1996, he owned and operated several small businesses in southwest Montana. Ohs had four children: Brad, Eric, Brian and Elizabeth.

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Bill Williams (game designer)

Bill Williams (May 29, 1960 – May 28, 1998) was an American video game designer, programmer, composer, and author born with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder. According to a medical encyclopedia Williams consulted when he was 12, people with cystic fibrosis weren't expected to live past the age of 13.

Williams created a string of computer games from 1982 through 1990 for the Atari 8-bit computers and then the Amiga which are admired for their imaginative design concepts, innovative sound and music, and skillful implementation. Necromancer is a three-stage game about a wizard growing and controlling an army of trees. Scenarios in Alley Cat include stealthily drinking from the bowls of sleeping dogs, avoiding a sweeping broom to jump inside a fish bowl, and collecting ferns atop a bookcase protected by spiders. Mind Walker, one of the first games released for the Amiga, puts the player inside the head of a physics professor gone mad.

Late in his career he worked on a licensed game for the Nintendo Entertainment System and another for the Super NES, but became frustrated with the game business and left to attend the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and write two theological works.

Williams died from cystic fibrosis in 1998, at the age of 37.

Game design
Bill Williams's first published game was the vertically scrolling Salmon Run for the Atari 8-bit computers, published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1982. The player controls a salmon traveling upriver to mate while jumping waterfalls and avoiding bears and other obstacles.

He then wrote two games for Synapse Software: Necromancer (1982) and Alley Cat (1983). Alley Cat was begun by another programmer, John Harris, who abandoned the project. Each game is a collection of smaller games. Necromancer begins with a wizard growing and protecting trees, then, in the next stage, using those trees to crush spider eggs in stone vaults. Alley Cat takes place behind an urban apartment building and jumping through an open window starts one of six surreal minigames.

Synapse ported Salmon Run to the VIC-20, publishing it in 1983 under the label Showcase Software. In 1984, Synapse published the stress reduction package Relax, combining a sensor headband and minigames providing biofeedback. The software was a collaboration between Williams and fellow Synapse game designer Kelly Jones (who wrote the 1983 Atari 8-bit game Drelbs).

Williams then moved to the Amiga, designing and programming Mind Walker. It was published by Commodore in 1986 as one of the earliest releases for the new computer. He followed that game with Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon (1987), and Pioneer Plague (1988). Pioneer Plague was the first Amiga game to make full use of the difficult to work with Hold-And-Modify mode for the in-game graphics. His final game for the platform was Knights of the Crystallion (1990): "Knights was the game I threw the most of my soul into, out of all the games I ever did. Knights was my attempt to draw the industry into a different direction. It was going to be my epic, it was going to be my masterpiece—we called it a cultural simulation—and I thought I could pull it off."

For almost all of these Atari 8-bit and Amiga titles, Williams did the design and programming, created the art and sound effects, and composed the music. The credits often read, simply, "by Bill Williams."

Near the end of his game development career he worked on Monopoly for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Bart's Nightmare for Super NES. Both games were for Sculptured Software in Salt Lake City, Utah, though Williams worked out of his home. Company meddling during the development of the last game prompted Williams to abandon the video game industry completely, calling the experience "Bill's Nightmare". Some Super Nintendo sound driver code written by Williams during this time was used in other games.

Writing
Williams wrote the book Naked Before God: The Return of a Broken Disciple, published by Morehouse Publishing in May 1998 and in paperback in 2001. It imagines himself as a disciple of Jesus with cystic fibrosis in the present day, trying to understand his struggles with CF and diabetes, and Jesus's message. A collection of poetry and short prose, Manna in the Wilderness: A Harvest of Hope, illustrated by his wife Martha Williams, was published posthumously in March 1999.

Death
Bill had been born with the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis, which affected his lungs and impaired his ability to breathe. In 1992, he moved to Chicago to study at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, but the city's air pollution worsened his condition significantly, and he had to drop out after two years with only half of the program completed. He moved to Rockport, Texas, but his health continued to deteriorate until he died of complications from the disorder on May 28, 1998, one day before his 38th birthday.

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User:Garibanco

Garibanco is an idea originated by Gary, base on the idea behind a famous circus show name Saltimbanco. Garibanco stands for a motion to express oneself, to stimulate thinking and to pass on good experiences to others. To date, the Garibanco series of expression include web log and web albums.

Garibanco Blog Garibanco Album Garibanco Album2

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Rockingham County Public Schools

Rockingham County Public Schools is the public school district in Rockingham County in the U.S. state of Virginia.

General information

 * RCPS has received nearly $2 million in 21st Century Community Learning Centers grants from the U.S. and VA Depts. of Education to operate before- and after-school programs at five elementary schools in cooperation with Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.
 * The four high schools offer students a variety of opportunities to earn college credit while in high school, including dual enrollment classes, as well as Advanced Placement (AP) classes in all major content areas.
 * Al high schools offer alternative education programs for at-risk students.
 * All high schools have multi-purpose computer labs that remain open to students until 5:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, during the school year.
 * A Smaller Learning Communities grant for $300,000 was received from the U.S. Dept. of Education to improve programs such as middle to high school transition.
 * The Character Counts program has been implemented in all elementary, middle and high schools.
 * RCPS has over 4,000 computers, which are deployed in every classroom, office, library, and computer lab. Middle school students take two year-long computer technologycourses.
 * The Career Cluster Program provides a focused program to assist participating students with a seamless transition from school to work. RCPS is supported privately by the Rockingham Educational Foundation, Inc. During the 2006–2007 school year, the Foundation will contribute approximately $75,000 in support of a variety of school initiatives and student scholarships.
 * The Rockingham Educational Foundation provides a Teacher Supply Depot for classroom teachers. The Depot is a warehouse where teachers can select hundreds of free items for classroom usage.
 * Summer Science Camps are conducted at all elementary schools through a contribution from Merck & Company, Inc. to the Rockingham Educational Foundation, Inc.
 * The three high schools collaboratively publish a monthly community newspaper called, etc... It has a circulation of about 30,000.
 * During 2005–2006, 3,524 parents, college and high school students, business people, members of civic groups, and others volunteered in our schools. They donated over 113,786 hours of service.
 * All teachers are required to possess eight Technology Standards for Instructional Personnel.
 * Many teachers have achieved certification based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers.
 * Over 37% of Rockingham County teachers have master's degrees.
 * Elementary and middle schools provide after-school tutoring and homework assistance.
 * Each high school sponsors a Future Educators Association and teaching mentorships for credit.

High schools

 * Turner Ashby High School
 * Broadway High School
 * East Rockingham High School
 * Spotswood High School

Middle schools

 * Elkton Middle School
 * J. Frank Hillyard Middle School
 * Montevideo Middle School
 * Wilbur S. Pence Middle School

Elementary schools

 * Cub Run Elementary School
 * Elkton Elementary School
 * Fulks Run Elementary School
 * Lacey Springs Elementary School
 * Linville-Edom Elementary School
 * McGaheysville Elementary School
 * Mountain View Elementary School
 * John C. Myers Elementary School
 * Ottobine Elementary School
 * Peak View Elementary School
 * Plains Elementary School
 * Pleasant Valley Elementary School
 * River Bend Elementary School
 * South River Elementary School
 * John Wayland Elementary School

Other schools

 * Massanutten Technical Center
 * Rockingham Academy

Awards

 * Rockingham County Public Schools is one of only 24 school divisions in Virginia which met or exceeded No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) achievement objectives during the 2005–2006 school year. Rockingham County was one of the largest school divisions on this elite list.
 * Congressman Bob Goodlatte recognized Montevideo Middle School Instructional Technology Resource Teacher Joe Showker with a Children's Champion Award for his work with the Web Wise Kids (WWK) program throughout Virginia.
 * The newest grant news would be for our Title I school that were recognized as Distinguished Title I Schools and received Academic Achievement grants. Fulks Run and South River Elementary Schools each received $17,000 for the past two years of SOL Assessment achievement.  Pleasant Valley and Mountain View Elementary Schools received $8,500 each for their students' SOL Assessment achievement.
 * RCPS teacher, Janis Churchill, was selected as the outstanding elementary school technology teacher in Virginia by the International Society for Technology in Education Association.
 * For their work during the 2005–2006 school year, numerous RCPS teachers received Shenandoah Valley Economics Awards, and many of those teachers received state-level recognition.
 * J. Frank Hillyard Middle School teacher, Allen Ruliffson won the Virginia Economic Teacher of the Year Award.
 * High school agriculture, business, family and consumer sciences, health sciences, marketing, technology, and trade and industrial students competed in regional, state, and national level competitions, receiving numerous individual and team awards. Students served as regional and state officers of their career and technical education youth organizations. Annually, RCPS middle and high school students win scholarships from the State Fair of Virginia and other agencies as a result of their participation in career and technical programs.
 * The Spotswood High School Chapter of the Future Educators of America (FEA) received an invitation to present at the 2007 National Conference for FEA.
 * Rockingham County employs 11 teachers that have earned certification as master teachers by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards.

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User talk:Mihirbhakta

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Luis Rodríguez-Varela

Luis Manuel Valentín Rodríguez-Varela y Sancena (13 February 1768–1826), also known as El Conde Filipino (literally, "The Philippine Count" in Spanish), was a Philippine protonationalist who flourished during the Spanish colonial era.

An insular Spaniard and an ilustrado who went to school in France, Rodríguez-Varela published a series of books advocating social change in the Spanish Philippines, inspired by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. His most important work is El parnaso filipino, published in Sampaloc, Manila in 1814.

He advocated the opening of local colleges to teach subjects such as mathematics, medicine, and navigation, as well as free primary schools for the poor. Rodríguez-Varela also believed that foreign powers held too much influence over the local economy, and he accordingly worked to limit Chinese intrusion in the region by bolstering the local business associations.

Along with José Ortega, Rodríguez-Varela was one of several people expelled from the island by Governor Juan Antonio Martínez on February 18, 1823, when they were accused of conspiring against the local Spanish government.

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Talk:IndyCar (disambiguation)

New to using sections?
 See also Talk:Champcars for much more on the same subject.

This article should absolutely NOT be merged with Champcars. In the truest sense of the word, Indycar can only currently refer to cars which run the Indy 500, which are the IRL-spec. In the interests of fairness and historical accuracy this provides just a generic meaning for the word, and points to both acceptable classes of car. Kurohone 05:38, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * The problem is that this is today's status, whereas in the past the terms "IndyCar" and "ChampCar" were synonomous. For instance, before the creation of CART, USAC sanctioned not only the Indy 500, but a whole long series of races (venues varied, but it usually included Milwaukee, Riverside in California, a couple of tracks in Pennsylvania, etc - I'll have to go get all my USAC yearbooks from the 60's and 70's for details) - and those cars were called Champ Cars (also Gold Crown cars - the Silver Crown series of today existed back then, and the Champ Cars were one step up).
 * After CART split off, USAC still sanctioned one race (the Indy 500), but the car specs for CART and the Indy 500 were identical. And those cars were also called Champ Cars. Etc, etc.
 * So, yeah, it does need to be one article. Now, I'd have put it at IndyCar, myself, but it doesn't matter that much to me. Noel (talk) 06:04, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I've also removed the External Links which only pointed to IRL sites...the IRL article already has links, we don't need duplication on what is essentially a redirect stub. Kurohone 05:44, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Jnc, from 1996 to the present, the term cannot be applied to Champ Cars - per lawsuits and legal action the ability of CART to use "IndyCar" was removed - hence the series was renamed to the FedEx Championship Series. IndyCar is today a trademark of the IRL and to apply the term to Champ Cars is technically and legally incorrect. "Champ Car" is the technical and legal name for the cars which race in the Champ Car World Series. It should NOT be one article - Champ Cars and IndyCars are TWO different cars built to two different sets of specifications which race in TWO different incompatible series. --FCYTravis 20:18, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I understand that that is true for 1996-today, but it most definitely not true of prior time periods. And the Wikipedia doesn't just document today, but also history. And historically, "Champ" cars ran the Indy 500, and were thus "Indy" cars.
 * For instance, I am looking at the official 1967 USAC Yearbook, and it describes the cars as "Championship", see. e.g. page 14. You will find the Indy 500 for that year on page 34 - run in the "Championship" car division. (The Yearbook also includes "Sprint Car", "Stock Car", and "Midget" divisions.) The shorted form "Champ" is also used in official USAC publications - e.g. I'm looking at "USAC News" for January 31, 1969 (Volume 1, Number 4) where on page 1 the series is described with "Champ". So it's not just slang.
 * Interestingly, I just looked carefully through the 1966 and 1967 Official Program for the 500, and they don't call them either - they just call them "cars".
 * Clearly, the article needs to explain the situation for the post-1996 period, that the terms are not synonomous then. However, in other periods they were synonyms, and the article needs to reflect that too.
 * Sure, we could have separate ChampCar (1996-present) and ChampCar (whenever-whenever) articles, with a disambiguation page at ChampCar, but that would IMO be really silly. Noel (talk) 23:39, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I think the ChampCar page as it currently exists is starting a reasonable point in that direction, by listing the pre-1979 USAC champions under them. Basically, until 1996 'IndyCar' was a just a popular-usage misnomer; noone 'offically' called their cars that, to my knowledge.  But few people outside fans know that it was incorrect.  This page I think should provide a gentle nudge towards one of the two 'correct' car types, and certainly not be tied to anything specific. Kurohone 04:07, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Check out e.g. Doug Nye, McLaren: The Grand Prix, CanAm and Indy Cars (1988); Alan Henry, March: The Grand Prix and Indy Cars (1989); Mike Lawrence, The Story of March (1989; Chapter 17 "March Discovers America" speaks of them building an "Indycar" in 1981); Doug Nye, The Single Seat Lotus: Formula 1 and Indy Cars (1978). Most of these books were done with the assistance of the factories, so I think it's incorrect to say that "noone 'offically' called their cars that". Heck, Colin Chapman even wrote the intro for the Lotus book, you don't get much more official from Lotus than that! Noel (talk) 05:38, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * PS: Having said that, I am generally in agreement that the page should point people toward the correct page, for people who are interested in the post-'95 cars. Clearly, for that period the two are different things. I would have been happy to put it all on one page, but if people prefer two separate ones for the post-'95 period that's fine with me. Noel (talk) 06:29, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * IndyCar most certainly WAS an official name before 1996 - the series operated by CART was called the IndyCar World Series from 1980 to 1997 - it was just the IndyCar Series in 1979. The entire branding was based around IndyCar until the formation of the IRL in 1996 forced legal battles over the name, which CART had licensed from IMS. The result of that litigation was that CART changed the name of its cars and series to "Champ Car" and "Championship Series" respectively - and the IRL was prohibited from using "IndyCar" as the name of its series until 2003. In 2003, the IRL took advantage of the legal allowance and renamed itself "IndyCar Series." End result: they are TWO SEPARATE SERIES with TWO SEPARATE CARS with TWO SEPARATE SANCTIONING BODIES. IndyCars are not legal to race in Champ Car races and Champ Cars are not legal to race in IndyCar races. I do not see why you persist in the fiction that Champ Cars are IndyCars. That was ONCE true - but it is NOT true today. By your logic, we should merge F1 into IndyCar because from 1950 to 1959, it was legal to race F1 cars at Indianapolis. --FCYTravis 04:50, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * It's not a "fiction" - I went to great trouble to pull down the official publications of the relevant sponsoring bodies and give you title and page citations to their use of the term.
 * Which you basically concur with, saying "That was ONCE true". Yes, exactly. And an encyclopaedia contains information about the past as well as the present. And in writing about those past cars, their formal name is "Championship" or "Champ" cars. Noel (talk) 05:45, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * To reply to myself - CART renamed its series "Champ Car" based on that long USAC and AAA tradition. Certainly the "Champ Car" article should and DOES mention that part. The series claims the pre-1979 races as part of its heritage - essentially, Champ Car is the continuation of the lineage of the AAA and USAC National Championship Trail. All of which is included in the "Champ Car" article. I would not be opposed to creating a new page called "Champ Car World Series" and adding the more series-specific information there, but merging "Champ Car" and "IndyCar" conflates and synonymizes two different spec cars built for different series, to different rulesets and run by completely divergent and usually-conflicting sanctioning bodies. There is a lot of history and politics involved in the history of USAC, CART and the IRL, and because of that, we need to be as specific as possible to avoid confusing readers as to what is what today. IRL = IndyCar. Champ Car World Series = Champ Car. --FCYTravis 05:10, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I'll bet that the IRL would make exactly the same claim to the heritage - and would no doubt claim that its ties to the Indy 500 give it the better title. (I personally don't give a hoot - the whole dispute leaves me cold.) So that line of reasoning's not too useful.
 * Interestingly enough, they don't - reason being that CART "got there first." The IRL has never claimed that its champion is part of the "National Championship Trail" lineage. If you go to the IRL Web site there is not a single mention of races other than Indy before 1996. They've never claimed to be a part of it. Conversely, official Champ Car releases, Web sites and documents contain links back. Case in point - the 2003 Media Guide contains complete records of the National Championship dating back to 1909, including champions, race winners, track records and schedules of every National Championship season conducted by the AAA, USAC, SCCA/CART and finally CART. Included even are results of the rump 1979 USAC season run in competition with CART. The history clearly shows that there is one series that has linked itself with the National Championship Trail history, and that series is Champ Car.--FCYTravis 07:05, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't know offhand what to do with the pre-'95 history and all. I'll have to ponder that for a bit. The thing is that pre-'95, there was only ever one national champion in any year. Yes, the sanctioning body changed over time (AAA -> USAC -> CART), but there was always only ever one person each year, for all those decades. It would be nice to keep that all together in one place. Post-'95 there are two competing ones, and that's where it gets difficult.
 * Now that I've thought about it some, though, there's a problem, which is that if we put the '79-'95 champions on a unified "national champion" page, and have two pages for post-'95, then the CART people are split across two pages (pre and post '95). ::: So this is what seems best. Let's move the list of champions to a new page, List of US Open-wheel National Driving Champions (by analogy with List of Formula One Champions, etc), although it doesn't have to be exactly that title - anything roughly like that would be fine with me. Then, on that page, we have 4 sections: "AAA", "USAC", "CART", and "Post-'95", with for each of the first three, a couple of sentences at the head describing the way things were, and then the list of winners (and years) for that regime. In the "Post-95" section we have a header at the top describing the split (as long or short as you want), then two sub-sections: "CART/OWRS" (or whatever), and "IRL", and then the two separate lists. (If this sounds similar to the way Wikipedia deals with competing royal houses, it is, quite deliberately!)
 * Then the IRL and CART-OWRS pages can be about their cars, etc How does that sound? Noel (talk) 06:22, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a reasonable and appropriate way to do things - and it will certainly "shorten up" the Champ Car and IndyCar pages without the clutter of endless lists at the bottom.--FCYTravis 07:08, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

IndyCar/Indy Racing League
The majority of the IndyCar article is already covered under Indy Racing League, to a casual fan they are both one in the same.

The article for ChampCar is what a single IRL article should look like.

 * Since the term "IndyCar," and thus the term "IndyCar Series" now flatly refers to the "Indy Racing League," there is no need to have a seperate page. The spirit of the page is not directed towards "Indy cars" (i.e., open wheel cars in general...that topic is better served over at American Championship Car Racing and Open wheel car) I support the merging of the topics.
 * As a side note, I think "Indy Racing League" should remain as the page, and "Indycar" should redirect to "Indy Racing League" Doctorindy 17:08, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Reading some of the discussion above, which appears to be about 2 years old now, there needs to be some clarification on what IndyCar currently refers to, and how it was used previously. I think there is enough text in both articles to merge and creat a clearer picture about the history of the use of the name. As I have been generating pages for each of the Indycar series races, I have made it clear that open wheel races held prior to the IRL (sanctioned by AAA?USAC/CART/CCWS) were "different," but generally a lot times they can be regarded as the same "event" throughout the years. Doctorindy 17:13, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * How about the IndyCar becomes a disambiguation page, with all the information about the modern IRL IndyCar Series on the Indy Racing League page, and all the information about the former CART PPG IndyCar World Series is on the Champ Car page?65.49.221.155 05:32, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a worthy idea to think about. The entire organization of American open wheel racing on Wiki is still a mess, and that could mark at least some progress in cleaning it up. Doctorindy 21:09, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It would also be possible to simply have the history of the IndyCar name in this article, and then point people to the articles for the respective series (IRL Indycar post-2003, and CART PPG IndyCar pre-1997) --CorSter 04:21, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * (deindent) The disambiguous link type article is an interesting solution! Maybe there could be a series of links to articles, with a small paragraph (or less) describing what the link covers. Here's a first stab at the concept, the names need to be adjusted:
 * AAA - (19?? - 19??) original sanctioning body of the racing genre
 * USAC - (19?? - 196?) sanctioned the series until ...
 * CART - (196? - 199?) A description of the series before the split
 * IRL - (199? - present) Tony George decided to create his own sanctioning body for sanctioning the Indy 500.
 * Champ Car after split - A description of the current series after the split

Doctorindy 20:35, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the generally accepted dates are
 * AAA 1909-1955
 * USAC 1956-1979 (two series in '79)
 * CART 1979-2003 (two series in '79)
 * IRL 1996-present
 * Champ Car 2004-present (post CART years)

I will post messages on WikiProject NASCAR and WikiProject IROC to illicit conversation here.

I think that the Open wheel car article needs to remain as it is, as it explains the variety of cars that fit in that category. Royalbroil 04:30, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

"I am Indy"
I was wondering if I should create a separate article regarding Indy’s official theme song, “I am Indy”. The song is the first official theme song for a modern professional sport. The new article could explain its purpose in Indy’s marketing campaign, list its lyrics, and have more information about its authors. Does this sound good idea? Would it be better to just create a separate subheading within this article? Master Strike 19:19, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * If you have more than a few sentences, then Be bold and Go for it! There are probably thousands of notable songs on here. It should meet the WP:MUSIC guideline by the criteria: "Has performed music for a work of media that is notable, e.g. a theme for a network television show. (But if this is the only claim, it is probably more appropriate to have a mention in the main article and redirect to that page.) " Thank you for your interest in Wikipedia! RoyalbroilTalk  Contrib 13:39, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Okay but I might need lots of help since I'm still new to Wikipedia. Master Strike 19:05, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation
I think we have some agreement about making IndyCar a disambig page. I can think of three links off the top of my head..
 * Indycar---> or "Indy car", referring to the style of car....direct to Open wheel car
 * Indycar---> referring to the CART series basically called the "Indycar World Series" (1979-1991) and "IndyCar" (from 1992-1997)....direct to Champ Car
 * Indycar---> Referring to the IRL, which adopeted the name 2003-present....direct to Indy Racing League

I think that all of the text present in the current IndyCar article can be merged into the Indy Racing League article, specifically under the heading "History of the IndyCar name" and under a seperate header describing the current IndyCar Series in short detail. I notice there is only passive mention of the "IndyCar Series"

If there is no noticeable objection in the next few days, I'll procede with the merging/redirecting of the articles shortly. Doctorindy 17:40, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree about creating a disambiguous page. I think it should have an atypically long description compared to most dis. pages. It should include the names and dates, and a sentence or two per link. In my mind a fair bit of the data should remain, with the exception of the longest paragraph, but the format of the article should change. The song should be broken out into its own article (per above). We can work out those details after you create the disambiguous page. I propose creating a temporary subpage such as Indycar/Proposed due to my unusual suggestion. We can work out the details there. We can have the page deleted after we work it out. We should keep the discussion here, to make the deletion easier. RoyalbroilTalk  Contrib 14:02, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree with this 100%--74.108.99.181 00:59, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I love the direction that this article has taken. Great job of grabbing the lead, doctorindy! RoyalbroilTalk  Contrib 00:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Intention?
What is this article about? It is marked as a disambiguation page, but it doesn't disambiguate anything, and doesn't follow WP:MOSDAB. The page contains several assertions that are unreferenced, and seems quite POV -- quite an accomplishment for a disambiguation page. Indy Cars have a long history; why isn't it written-up here? -- Mikeblas 14:45, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

 * The history of IndyCars are under the CART (Champ Car) and Indy Racing League pages, respectively, based on the series that sanctioned them at the time (CART prior to 1996, IRL after 1996). CorSter 06:01, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * This page was created after a very long discussion (see above). The page has its unusual format because the history of the series involved required a long discussion to explain the difference between each. There are numerous series involved including forks in the evolution of the cars. There are currently two series running the cars. It is an unusual disambiguous page due to the unusual circumstances. Note that WP:MOSDAB is a guideline, and this is the occasional exception. The page is the core of WikiProject American Open Wheel Racing. No clean way to deal with the problems was found. You can propose a better way to deal with this page at WP:AOWR. Royal broil  12:56, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

History of the IndyCar name
This new section was added by User:GoldDragon. We arrived at the unusually long disambiguous page as a earlier compromise, which was against the Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) guideline. Since guideline can be broken with consensus, this is fine, and the discussion has been used to justify its former state. Now there is much more text, discussion should determine whether or not this section should be kept. Or should the page be not marked as disambiguous? Please comment below. Royal broil 12:51, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep the section. The only change is adding the history of the term. The disambiguous portion of the page is still used and relevant. I could see removing the disambiguous template from the page though. I could go either way on that topic. Royal broil  12:51, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge the separated sections into a cohesive single article. As the term originated from the people/fans, not from a corporate entity, and referenced the literal "Indy cars/machines," its development over time should be elucidated furst, and the current uses of it should be catalogued thereafter. --Chr.K. 23:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't understand. You want the text simplified. What do you want to merge it into? Royal broil  05:03, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The article is currently divided into two major sections: the disambiguation, and then the history. But as the term has only one single origin, both sections can and should be merged into one whole, starting out with an explanation of where the term came from, then proceeding to explain the development of the different forms it might now be applied to. I.e., disambiguation is not what is necessary so much as elaboration, as to how the subsets developed into present form. --Chr.K. 01:49, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok. You want to change the page from a disambiguous page plus history into history text with wikilinks. Then it would no longer be a disambiguous page. How would this new direction for this article differ from the current American Championship Car Racing article? Royal broil  04:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The American Championship Car Racing article currently focuses primarily on the history of the sport, especially the politics that have made it what it is, with very little information on the technical specifications that distinguish the machines themselves from either Formula One or any similar type of open-wheel racing cars. Emerson Fittipaldi once gave an ITV interview wherein he described such differences, most notably how the Indycars are heavier than their international counterparts in order to account for the much higher speeds they reach, and how the engines are designed to take a steadier constant stress than their F1 counterparts but accordingly sacrifice velocity derivation and gearshifting time in order to achieve such. Maybe this means there should instead be an American Championship Car article which includes direct comparisons between the two major American open-wheel racing series technical regulations as well as between American and international standards, but on the whole, we have a split page, wherein its both the beginnings of historical explanation of how the term has become what it has in the modern day, but also in dividing matters up at the top of the page. Is this page to be disambiguation of the name, or specification of the THING itself? To effectively glue both together, either in this article or others, seems to me a bit...amateur in style, not to offend anyone? I think we can do better. Thoughts. --Chr.K. 20:32, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your patience. I think I finally understand now. You are suggesting that the article should have a section showing the history of the term, then the article would have a section discussing the current use of the term. Your proposal sounds reasonable. A comparison article between numerous genres of motorsports has been suggested at WP:MOTOR here. Please bring it up there for the conversation needs reviving anyhow. It would be appropriate to compare the two series in this article even if it would duplicate something that would exist somewhere else. Royal broil  00:55, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Minor Updates
I've made a few updates to the page; first off, I moved IndyCar Series above IndyCar World Series since the latter is a league that is no longer operating. Secondly, I changed to the wording of the World Series section to the past tense to reflect that it is not in existence, and also mentioned that it CCWS merged with the IRL. Charles 22:30, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Move
An uncontroversial move of this article took place without discussion or mention on this talk page. I dispute the move, so I moved the article back pending a discussion. The IRL's official website and other media outlets at a google search all use the CamelCase "IndyCar".  Royal broil  03:07, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, IndyCar is the form of the term that is technically correct in any sort of print. -Drdisque (talk) 03:11, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

1 for 9
This is a very poor DAB. I realize that editors of this DAB believe that they've received a special waiver but there is no arguing that this in no way complies with MoS:DAB. Reviewing the "dos and don'ts" (WP:DDD) this guy breaks most of them:

Disambiguation pages are not articles – they are navigation aids! --Hutcher (talk) 03:02, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Red x.svg familiar with WP:DAB and MoS:DAB.
 * [[File:Green_check.png]]Put the link at the start of each entry, if possib
 * Red x.svg descriptions short.
 * Red x.svgize the page to simplify navigation.
 * Red x.svg fragments, not complete sentences, in entries.
 * Red x.svg to a primary topic, if there is one, at the top.
 * Red x.svg to Wiktionary using when appropriate.
 * Red x.svg incoming links to point to the right target article.
 * Red x.svgder joining WikiProject Disambiguation.
 * I'll be back next year to clean-up this mess again :S --Hutcher (talk) 03:51, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Indy Racing League name change to IndyCar
Just a heads-up that the new CEO Randy Bernard will be getting rid of the IRL name January 1st, 2011 and changing the name of the series sanctioning body to IndyCar. Froo (talk) 02:26, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Simplified Disambiguation page
Hello, all. Folks, most of the discussion above is no longer germane because this page has gradually been simplified to the point where it is now a true Disambiguation page. Readers can find this page and then go directly from it to the page they want to peruse. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 19:18, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

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This user moved Talk:Ambition (card game), then moved the page again, then left a message for me asking me to delete the page as vandalism. It was vandalism, all right -- page move vandalism -- an attempt to erase the record of the talk page. The page has been restored to its proper location and this user has been blocked with an expiratory time of indefinite. SWAdair | Talk 05:39, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Jackknife Bascule Bridge

The Jackknife (or Jack-knife) Bascule Bridge is a bascule bridge that spans the Kaministiquia River at Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, to link the city to Mission Island, one of two islands in the Kaministiquia River delta. The bridge was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway between August 1910 and April 1913. The contractor for the abutments and piers was Alexander Charles Stewart (1867–1944). The bridge had two decks, the lower deck for trains and the upper deck for vehicular road traffic.

The vehicular portion of the bridge was replaced by the Island Drive Bridge, which connects neighbouring McKellar Island to the mainland, in 2003. The connecting roadways and upper deck of the Jackknife Bridge were dismantled in 2004, but the lower deck continues to function as the only rail link to the islands.

General overview
The Jackknife Bascule Bridge has a road width of 29 feet (or 8.84 meters. The length of the entire bridge is 374 feet (or 114 meters) in size.

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Wikipedia:School and university projects/Open Source Culture/Eldred

Eldred v. Ashcroft, 239 F.3d 372 (2003)
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) was constitutional. The 7-2 decision found that retroactive copyright extension was legal and that a copyright extension was not contrary to the Copyright Clause's idea of securing author's rights for limited times. This was not the first copyright extension act - there were extensions in the 1790, 1831, 1909, and 1976 acts as well. The decision is controversial because constant extensions may effectively grant a perpetual right over a work regardless of how limited the times are (when each copyright is set to end, it can be extended via legislation


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Northrop M2-F3

The Northrop M2-F3 was a heavyweight lifting body rebuilt from the Northrop M2-F2 after it crashed at the Dryden Flight Research Center in 1967. It was modified with an additional third vertical fin - centered between the tip fins - to improve control characteristics. The "M" refers to "manned" and "F" refers to "flight" version.

Development
Early flight testing of the M2-F1 and M2-F2 lifting body reentry configurations had validated the concept of piloted lifting body reentry from space. When the M2-F2 crashed on May 10, 1967, valuable information had already been obtained and was contributing to new designs.

NASA pilots said the M2-F2 had lateral control problems, so when the M2-F2 was rebuilt at Northrop and redesignated the M2-F3, it was modified with an additional third vertical fin - centered between the tip fins - to improve control characteristics.

After a three-year-long redesign and rebuilding effort, the M2-F3 was ready to fly. The May 1967 crash of the M2-F2 had torn off the left fin and landing gear. It had also damaged the external skin and internal structure. Flight Research Center engineers worked with Ames Research Center and the Air Force in redesigning the vehicle with a center fin to provide greater stability. At first, it seemed that the vehicle had been irreparably damaged, but the original manufacturer, Northrop, did the repair work and returned the redesigned M2-F3 with a center fin for stability to the FRC.

While the M2-F3 was still demanding to fly, the center fin eliminated the high risk of pilot-induced oscillation (PIO) that was characteristic of the M2-F2.

Operational history
First flight of the M2-F3, with NASA pilot Bill Dana at the controls, was June 2, 1970. The modified vehicle exhibited much better lateral stability and control characteristics than before, and only three glide flights were necessary before the first powered flight on November 25, 1970. The 100th flight of the heavy-weight lifting bodies was completed on October 5, 1972, with pilot Bill Dana soaring to an altitude of 66,300 feet (20,200 m) and a Mach number of 1.370 (about 904 mph) in the M2-F3. Over its 27 missions, the M2-F3 reached a top speed of 1,064 mph (Mach 1.6). Highest altitude reached by the vehicle was 71,500 feet (20,790 m) on December 20, 1972, the date of its last flight, with NASA pilot John Manke at the controls.

A reaction control thruster (RCT) system, similar to that on orbiting spacecraft, was also installed to obtain research data about their effectiveness for vehicle control. As the M2-F3's portion of the lifting body program neared an end, it evaluated a rate command augmentation control system, and a side control stick similar to side-stick controllers now used on many modern aircraft.

NASA donated the M2-F3 vehicle to the Smithsonian Institution in December 1973. It is currently hanging in the National Air and Space Museum along with the X-15 aircraft number 1, which was its hangar partner at Dryden from 1965 to 1969.

 * M2-F3 pilots
 * William H. Dana - 19 flights
 * John A. Manke - 4 flights
 * Cecil W. Powell - 3 flights
 * Jerauld R. Gentry - 1 flight
 * Most of text taken from NASA Dryden webpage.

Aircraft serial number

 * NASA M2-F3 - NASA 803, 27 flights

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Succession to the Spanish throne

Succession to the Spanish throne follows male-preference cognatic primogeniture. A dynast who marries against the express prohibition of the monarch and the Cortes Generales, the legislative chamber of Spain, is excluded from the succession. Upon proclamation by the Cortes Generales, the monarch is to take an oath to discharge his duties faithfully, to abide by the Constitution and the law and ensure they are abided by, and to respect the rights of the citizens and of the Autonomous Communities.

Line of succession
The 1978 Constitution of Spain establishes the succession in favor of the heirs of King Juan Carlos I. King Juan Carlos I (b. 1938)
 * [[Image:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] [[Image:Heraldic Royal Crown of Spain (Version of the Royal Arms).svg|15px]] King Felipe VI (b. 1968)
 * Heraldic Crown of the Prince of Asturias.svg (1) Leonor, Princess of Asturias (b. 2005)
 * Heraldic Crown of Spanish Infantes.svg (2) Infanta Sofía (b. 2007)
 * Heraldic Crown of Spanish Infantes.svg (3) Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo (b. 1963)
 * Corona de Grande de España.svg (4) Don Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón, Lord of Tejada (b. 1998)
 * Corona de Grande de España.svg (5) Doña Victoria de Marichalar y Borbón, Lady of Tejada (b. 2000)
 * Heraldic Crown of Spanish Infantes.svg (6) Infanta Cristina (b. 1965)
 * Corona de Grande de España.svg (7) Don Juan Urdangarin y Borbón (b. 1999)
 * Corona de Grande de España.svg (8) Don Pablo Urdangarin y Borbón (b. 2000)
 * Corona de Grande de España.svg (9) Don Miguel Urdangarin y Borbón (b. 2002)
 * Corona de Grande de España.svg (10) Doña Irene Urdangarin y Borbón (b. 2005)

Succession uncertainties

Section 1 of Article 57 of the 1978 Constitution of Spain provides that The Crown of Spain is hereditary to the "sucesores" of His Majesty Don Juan Carlos I de Borbón. To date, no clarification has been made whether this provision includes anyone beyond the direct descendants of King Juan Carlos. Successors may not be presumed to be synonymous with descendants. Section 3 of Article 57 further states that should all the lines designated by law become extinct, the Cortes Generales shall provide for succession to the Crown in the manner most suitable for the interests of Spain.

Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz and Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria, sisters of King Juan Carlos, respectively renounced their rights to the succession upon marriage but before the adoption of the Constitution. Similarly, the rights of earlier generations are clouded by renunciations and unapproved marriages which may or may not exclude them from succession.

Section 5 of Article 57 provides that abdications and renunciations and any doubt in fact or in law that may arise in relation to the succession of the Crown shall be settled by an organic act. Unless and until one clarifies the rights of the extended Family of the King, it is unknown who or if anyone follows Infanta Cristina's descendants in the line of succession.

Possible interpretations
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona (1913–1993)
 * The Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Cortes Generales, has the constitutional responsibility to clarify the succession when doubt arises. If "sucesores" is deemed to mean direct descendants, the succession ends with the heirs of Infanta Cristina.
 * If the renunciations by Infanta Pilar and Infanta Margarita are not deemed valid, their descendants would follow the line of succession:
 * [[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] King Juan Carlos I (b. 1938)
 * Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz and Viscountess of La Torre (1936–2020)
 * (11) Don Juan Gómez-Acebo y Borbón, 3rd Viscount of La Torre (b. 1969)
 * (12) Don Nicolás Gómez-Acebo y Carney (b. 2013)
 * (13) Andrés De Follonosa y Marquïna- Viscount of La armería,Earl of La Mancha (b. 1998)
 * (14) Alejandro Gómez-Acebo y Cano (b. 2004)
 * (15) Guillermo Gómez-Acebo y Cano (b. 2005)
 * (16) Álvaro Gómez-Acebo y Cano (b. 2011)
 * (17) Don Luis Gómez-Acebo y Borbón (b. 1973)
 * (18) Luis Felipe Gómez-Acebo y Ponte (b. 2005)
 * (19) Juan Gómez-Acebo y Ponte (b. 2016)
 * (20) Laura Gómez-Acebo y Ponte (b. 2006)
 * Don Fernando Gómez-Acebo y Borbón (1974–2024)
 * (21) Nicolás Gómez-Acebo y Halamandari (b. 2016)
 * (22) Doña Simoneta Gómez-Acebo y Borbón (b. 1968)
 * (23) Luis Juan Fernández-Sastrón y Gómez-Acebo (b. 1991)
 * (24) Pablo Fernández-Sastrón y Gómez-Acebo (b. 1995)
 * (25) María de las Mercedes Fernández-Sastrón y Gómez-Acebo (b. 2000)
 * (26) Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria and Hernani (b. 1939)
 * (27) Don Alfonso Zurita y Borbón (b. 1973)
 * (28) Doña María Zurita y Borbón (b. 1975)
 * (29) Carlos Zurita y Borbón (b. 2018)

Planned absolute primogeniture
In its 2004 election manifesto, the victorious Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) included plans to adopt absolute primogeniture, a proposal which was supported by the leader of the main opposition party, the conservative People's Party. It was initially thought that the change would only apply to future generations but with all the major political parties in agreement that the system of male-preference primogeniture conflicts with the constitutionally established principle of gender equality, it was planned that the law would be changed before Letizia, then the Princess of Asturias, bore a son, thereby demoting Infanta Leonor in the line succession. The subsequent announcement, in 2006, that the Princess was pregnant with a second daughter, however, removed any immediate urgency in the passage of the necessary legislation.

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Elementary class

In model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, an elementary class (or axiomatizable class) is a class consisting of all structures satisfying a fixed first-order theory.

Definition
A class K of structures of a signature σ is called an elementary class if there is a first-order theory T of signature σ, such that K consists of all models of T, i.e., of all σ-structures that satisfy T. If T can be chosen as a theory consisting of a single first-order sentence, then K is called a basic elementary class.

More generally, K is a pseudo-elementary class if there is a first-order theory T of a signature that extends σ, such that K consists of all σ-structures that are reducts to σ of models of T. In other words, a class K of σ-structures is pseudo-elementary if and only if there is an elementary class K '  such that K consists of precisely the reducts to σ of the structures in K ' .

For obvious reasons, elementary classes are also called axiomatizable in first-order logic, and basic elementary classes are called finitely axiomatizable in first-order logic. These definitions extend to other logics in the obvious way, but since the first-order case is by far the most important, axiomatizable implicitly refers to this case when no other logic is specified.

Conflicting and alternative terminology
While the above is nowadays standard terminology in "infinite" model theory, the slightly different earlier definitions are still in use in finite model theory, where an elementary class may be called a Δ-elementary class, and the terms elementary class and first-order axiomatizable class are reserved for basic elementary classes (Ebbinghaus et al. 1994, Ebbinghaus and Flum 2005). Hodges calls elementary classes axiomatizable classes, and he refers to basic elementary classes as definable classes. He also uses the respective synonyms EC$$_\Delta$$ class and EC class (Hodges, 1993).

There are good reasons for this diverging terminology. The signatures that are considered in general model theory are often infinite, while a single first-order sentence contains only finitely many symbols. Therefore, basic elementary classes are atypical in infinite model theory. Finite model theory, on the other hand, deals almost exclusively with finite signatures. It is easy to see that for every finite signature σ and for every class K of σ-structures closed under isomorphism there is an elementary class $$K'$$ of σ-structures such that K and $$K'$$ contain precisely the same finite structures. Hence, elementary classes are not very interesting for finite model theorists.

Easy relations between the notions
Clearly every basic elementary class is an elementary class, and every elementary class is a pseudo-elementary class. Moreover, as an easy consequence of the compactness theorem, a class of σ-structures is basic elementary if and only if it is elementary and its complement is also elementary.

A basic elementary class
Let σ be a signature consisting only of a unary function symbol f. The class K of σ-structures in which f is one-to-one is a basic elementary class. This is witnessed by the theory T, which consists only of the single sentence
 * $$\forall x\forall y( (f(x)=f(y)) \to (x=y) )$$.

An elementary, basic pseudoelementary class that is not basic elementary
Let σ be an arbitrary signature. The class K of all infinite σ-structures is elementary. To see this, consider the sentences

 * $$\rho_2={}$$ "$$\exist x_1\exist x_2(x_1 \not =x_2)$$",

 * $$\rho_3={}$$ "$$\exist x_1\exist x_2\exist x_3((x_1 \not =x_2) \land (x_1 \not =x_3) \land (x_2 \not =x_3))$$",

and so on. (So the sentence $$\rho_n$$ says that there are at least n elements.) The infinite σ-structures are precisely the models of the theory

 * $$T_\infty=\{\rho_2, \rho_3, \rho_4, \dots\}$$.

But K is not a basic elementary class. Otherwise the infinite σ-structures would be precisely those that satisfy a certain first-order sentence τ. But then the set $$\{\neg\tau, \rho_2, \rho_3, \rho_4, \dots\}$$ would be inconsistent. By the compactness theorem, for some natural number n the set $$\{\neg\tau, \rho_2, \rho_3, \rho_4, \dots, \rho_n\}$$ would be inconsistent. But this is absurd, because this theory is satisfied by any finite σ-structure with $$n+1$$ or more elements.

However, there is a basic elementary class K '  in the signature σ' = σ $$\cup$$ {f}, where f is a unary function symbol, such that K consists exactly of the reducts to σ of σ'-structures in K ' . K '  is axiomatised by the single sentence $$(\forall x\forall y(f(x) = f(y) \rightarrow x=y) \land \exists y\neg\exists x(y = f(x))),$$, which expresses that f is injective but not surjective. Therefore, K is elementary and what could be called basic pseudo-elementary, but not basic elementary.

Pseudo-elementary class that is non-elementary
Finally, consider the signature σ consisting of a single unary relation symbol P. Every σ-structure is partitioned into two subsets: Those elements for which P holds, and the rest. Let K be the class of all σ-structures for which these two subsets have the same cardinality, i.e., there is a bijection between them. This class is not elementary, because a σ-structure in which both the set of realisations of P and its complement are countably infinite satisfies precisely the same first-order sentences as a σ-structure in which one of the sets is countably infinite and the other is uncountable.

Now consider the signature $$\sigma'$$, which consists of P along with a unary function symbol f. Let $$K'$$ be the class of all $$\sigma'$$-structures such that f is a bijection and P holds for x iff P does not hold for f(x). $$K'$$ is clearly an elementary class, and therefore K is an example of a pseudo-elementary class that is not elementary.

Non-pseudo-elementary class
Let σ be an arbitrary signature. The class K of all finite σ-structures is not elementary, because (as shown above) its complement is elementary but not basic elementary. Since this is also true for every signature extending σ, K is not even a pseudo-elementary class.

This example demonstrates the limits of expressive power inherent in first-order logic as opposed to the far more expressive second-order logic. Second-order logic, however, fails to retain many desirable properties of first-order logic, such as the completeness and compactness theorems.

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Venture (TV series)

Venture was a weekly Canadian business news television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1985 to 2007. The show aired both news reports and documentary features on news and issues in business and finance.

The program launched in January 1985, initially airing on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. In its second season it was shifted to Sunday nights, airing after the network's Sunday night newscast Sunday Report. It remained in that time slot until Sunday Report was expanded into the full one-hour CBC News: Sunday Night in 2004, at which time it moved to 7 p.m. Sunday evening.

Its original host was Patrick Watson, who left in 1987 to work on the documentary series The Struggle for Democracy. He was succeeded by Robert Scully, whose concurrent hosting of the news talk show Scully Rencontre on Télévision de Radio-Canada made him the first person in Canadian television history to simultaneously host programs on both the English and French services of the CBC. Scully hosted until 1997, when he was succeeded by Dianne Buckner, who hosted for the remainder of the show's run.

Venture ' s special features included a recurring documentary series called Back to the Floor, in which a chief executive officer works at an entry-level job within their own company for a day. Back to the Floor was a Gemini Award nominee for Best Reality Program or Series at the 19th Gemini Awards in 2004; the following year, the program won the award for the episode "The Town Doctor".

In the show's final season, Buckner was also concurrently host of Dragons' Den, CBC's new reality series centred on entrepreneurship. On April 4, 2007, CBC announced the cancellation of Venture. The final episode was broadcast on September 2, 2007.

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Wassoulou music

Wassoulou (Wasolo) is a genre of West African popular music named for the Wassoulou cultural area.

Wassoulou music is performed mostly by women. Some recurring themes in the lyrics are childbearing, fertility, and polygamy. Instrumentation includes soku (a traditional fiddle sometimes replaced with modern imported instruments), djembe drum, kamalen n'goni (a six-stringed harp), karinyan (metal tube percussion) and bolon (a four-stringed harp). The vocals are often passionate and emphatic, and delivered in a call-and-response pattern.

Prominent Wassoulou artists include Nahawa Doumbia, Oumou Sangaré, Coumba Sidibe, Dienaba Diakite, Kagbe Sidibe, Sali Sidibe, Jah Youssouf, and Fatoumata Diawara.

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Talk:Charles Bent

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the sentence “He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point.” Because a quick review of Lavender’s Bent Fort not only does not mention West Point, but says that Bent attended Jefferson College, now Washington and Jefferson College. If you have thoughts that West Point belongs here please show up with your reference. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 22:12, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

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Saint-Mihiel

Saint-Mihiel is a commune in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region in Northeastern France.

Geography
Saint-Mihiel lies on the banks of the river Meuse.

History
A Benedictine abbey was established here in 708 or 709 by Count Wulfoalde and his wife Adalsinde. The library, containing over 9,000 works, is still on the original site.

During World War I, Saint-Mihiel was captured by the Germans in 1914, and was recaptured during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel by the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) from 12 September to 19 September 1918.

Features
Saint-Mihiel is known for its sculptures by Renaissance sculptor Ligier Richier (1500–1567).

Saint-Mihiel serves both as the starting and ending point of the 2014 video game Valiant Hearts: The Great War.

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Vince DiCola

Vincent Louis DiCola (born November 11, 1957) is an American composer, keyboardist and arranger. He has composed scores for films such as Staying Alive, Rocky IV, and The Transformers: The Movie. DiCola also pioneered the use of sequencers on his soundtrack recording for Rocky IV, one of the first to exploit the Fairlight CMI and Synclavier II's computer's sequencing capabilities.

Life and career
DiCola was born in 1957 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Italian-American parents. After majoring in percussion in college, DiCola began his professional music career upon moving to California in 1981. One of his early credits as a session musician was his synthesizer performance on Juice Newton's albums Dirty Looks and Old Flame released in 1983 and 1985, respectively. His first major break came when he was chosen to co-write several songs on the Staying Alive soundtrack (1983) with Frank Stallone. Following his work on the Staying Alive project, he was recruited by Sylvester Stallone to write the original score for Rocky IV (1985), followed by scoring The Transformers: The Movie (1986). Since then, he has been active in the capacity of producer, recorded and performed as both a solo artist and member of several bands, and continues to work as a session musician and contributor to film soundtracks as composer and performer.

DiCola counts Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer among his biggest influences in progressive rock music. He also admires film-music composers Thomas Newman, John Powell and Jerry Goldsmith.

Awards
In 1983, DiCola was a co-nominee for the Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special Grammy for co-writing the soundtrack of the movie Staying Alive, in spite of the poor critical reception of the film. He also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song – Motion Picture for the song "Far from Over", which he co-wrote with Frank Stallone for the same film.

At the time, critics didn't appreciate his usage of electronic music in the Rocky IV soundtrack and he received a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Musical Score as a result.

Transformers
DiCola has had enough of a cult following amongst Transformers fans to have warranted the release of several albums of music related to the Transformers movie, as follow-ups to the release of the original 1986 The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack.

First released as a BotCon'97 exclusive, the 2-CD set Til All Are One contains the first full score of the movie. BotCon 2001 saw the releases of The Protoform Sessions (featuring demos and rarities and including extended commentary from DiCola) and Artistic Transformations: Themes and Variations, containing solo piano renditions of songs from the soundtrack, as well as another complete score on a single disc named Lighting Their Darkest Hour.

He has been a guest at multiple Transformers conventions, including appearances at BotCon'97, BotCon'98, BotCon 2000 and The Official Transformers Collectors' Convention 2004 in Rosemont, Illinois.

An interview with DiCola was included on the Region 1 DVD release of The Transformers: The Movie released by Rhino Entertainment in the year 2000. However, this interview is not present on the 20th Anniversary Edition released by Sony and BMG in 2006.

DiCola credits his work on Transformers with getting his music exposed to a much wider audience and getting him the most attention and fame he has had as an artist.

Solo works
DiCola released his first solo work in 1986, an album simply titled Piano Solos. He later worked both as an arranger and performer on a 1991 multi-artist project called Artfully Beatles, which led him to release Artistically Beatles, an album of ten Beatles songs he arranged and performed, in 1993.

An additional solo album called Falling Off a Clef was released in 2004. In the same year, he completed the soundtrack to the low-rated 2004 film Sci-Fighter, collaborating with the composer Kenny Meriedeth in October 2003, using Kenny's synthesizer and sound banks. The album Falling Off a Clef contains six new tracks (Castle of the Gods suite, Alien March, Fallen Angel, FS#7, A. P.B., Castle of the Gods Variation) + a selection of 20 tracks from Sci-Fighter soundtrack.

Other works
In addition to his solo work, DiCola has worked with various musical groups.

In 1991–1992 he began working with the 5-piece rock band Storming Heaven, releasing the album Life in Paradise in 1996. In addition to DiCola on keyboards, guitar and vocals, the Storming Heaven lineup included lead vocalist Rick Livingston, Jethro Tull drummer Doane Perry, guitarist Curtis Taylor, and keyboardist Casey Young. Life in Paradise was written during 1991.

The band was originally formed in January 1991. They spent the first half of the year creating the start of a musical suite entitled "Jessie's Journey", an idea that later was abandoned in favor of individual songs. "It was supposed to be an entire album based on a kind of science fiction theme. Those first four songs ("Cross the Line", "Red Knight", "The Passage" and "Dream House"), they're sort of like the opening four songs of a suite."

Around the same time in 1996, DiCola, Storming Heaven bandmate Doane Perry, and Tower of Power vocalist Ellis Hall formed a soul/progressive-rock trio named Thread and released their one and only self-titled album on CD.

In 1999, he recorded experimental and largely improvisational instrumental tracks under the name of The Firing Squad. These recordings remain officially unreleased but several tracks have been posted on YouTube.

In 2001, he worked again with Perry and released In-VINCE-ible!, a collection of diverse works from various past projects, with ex-members of Santana and Chicago assisting as session musicians, and featuring several special guests including Steve Walsh of Kansas and his Storming Heaven bandmates.

DiCola appeared as keyboardist on the first Hughes Turner Project album HTP in 2003.

He and Perry once again formed a trio, this time with bassist Paul Ill and called DPI, to release a three-track EP called Found Objects in 2006. Previously the trio had worked with vocalist Vincent Kendall and guitarist Reeves Gabrels in releasing a 42-minute suite called "Pity the Rich" based on recordings made at the same time. The jam-session style recordings for these releases were originally intended to be part of a new DiCola solo instrumental release, but while editing the tracks in his home studio DiCola felt they had the feel of a project for a band and chose to expand his original plan to include the other performers.

In 2007, "Paulie's Robot" from Rocky IV was used in the episode of Family Guy, "Movin' Out", and in 2010, "Training Montage", also from the Rocky IV soundtrack, was used in the episode "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side".

In 2008, he was featured on the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Original Soundtrack and was responsible (along with guitarist Doug Bossi) for arranging the series theme, "Moon Over the Castle", which was written by Masahiro Andoh of T-Square, with which DiCola worked on their 2001 album Truth 21c (released as T-Square Plus).

He described his work on the Gran Turismo's soundtrack's project in an interview with Music4Games, noting that he collaborated with T-Square and Doug Bossi on the project, and looks forward to becoming involved with game music in the future.

In 2009, he composed the song "Bound and Gagged" as a submission for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The track featured DiCola on keyboards and drums, Kenny Meriedeth on guitars, and Rick Livingstone on vocals but was not selected by Michael Bay for the Transformers II soundtrack.

In 2011, he began composing music for the video game Saturday Morning RPG from Mighty Rabbit Studios. The game released on the iTunes App Store in March 2012.

In 2012, DiCola recorded the official theme for Chikara's King of Trios professional wrestling event, alongside Kenny Meriedeth.

In 2013, DiCola released a Christmas medley that was featured as a part of the Saturday Morning RPG soundtrack ahead of a planned full soundtrack release for the game.

In 2014, DiCola along with Kenny Meriedeth, wrote the music for Angry Birds Transformers for Rovio.

DiCola also wrote original music for the video game Transformers: Devastation.

In 2016, DiCola also alongside Meriedeth wrote original music for the video game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan.

In 2019 DiCola features on the song "This Isn't Love" from the album Exhibits by the rock band Work Of Art. He also toured in 2019 with Glenn Hughes playing keyboards on his 'Glenn Hughes Performs Classic Deep Purple' tour.

Filmography

 * Staying Alive (1983)
 * Rocky IV (1985)
 * The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan - Video Game (2016)

Discography

 * Piano Solos (1986)
 * Artistically Beatles (1993)
 * Life in Paradise (1996, as member of Storming Heaven)
 * Thread (1996, as member of Thread)
 * In-VINCE-ible! (2001)
 * Falling off a Clef (2004)

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