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Talk:Albany, New York

GA check
I am working my way through the Good articles listed at Places; having a quick look to see if they still meet the Good article criteria. I have landed on this article. After I've had a quick look, I'll leave a note here indicating if I have concerns or not.

In general, I see the process as this: 1) Give the article a quick look to see if there are obvious issues: maintenance tags, unsourced sections, excessive media, etc, resolving any minor issues as I do so; 2) If I have concerns, open a GAR to see how serious those concerns are, resolving them myself if they are not serious; 3) If during the GAR I feel that there is significant work to be done (more than I can or am willing to do myself), I will put the GAR on hold and notify the main contributors.

My aim and intention is to keep the article listed - I would rather the article was improved and kept listed than the article is delisted. Where a delisting seems likely due to the amount or nature of work needed being greater than I am able or willing to do alone, and the main contributors are unavailable or unable for whatever reason to do the work, then appropriate WikiProjects will be notified at least seven days before a delisting would take place.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  21:32, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

 * This is a very well researched and attractively presented article, with a professional level of prose. I don't have any serious concerns; however, points for consideration:
 * At 61 kB (10142 words) of "readable prose", the article is over the limit of the average concentration span so is demanding a lot of the reader, and has exceeded what is generally considered WP:TOOBIG for Wikipedia. Long articles can be off-putting for a number of readers; some people may not engage with the article due to its size, or find it tiresome to navigate for the information they want. Some serious consideration could be given to trimming this to a manageable size in order to encourage more readers to engage with it, and to make it more manageable and enjoyable for those readers who do engage with it. To balance that, there are times when an article's size is justified by the depth, range and complexity of the topic. However, to put it into context, Bulgaria is 44 kB (6953 words), China is 65 kB (10266 words), and Malaysia is 52 kB (8281 words).
 * The article is richly illustrated. However, thought could be given to how helpful many of these images are: there are three images crammed into the Transport section, giving us illustrations of the airport, a station, and the port, each of which has their own article, which a reader could visit if they want to know what the airport or station look like. WP:MOSIM advices that images should not sandwich text - something that happens in several places. Some reduction of images might be useful.
 * The WP:Lead would benefit form some attention. There are several short paragraphs, and the information may not be presented in the best order. MOS:INTRO advises that the opening paragraph should define the topic. When asked to describe the essential points of Albany, that it is one of the oldest surviving settlements from the original thirteen colonies is perhaps more important than that population was 97,856 in 2010.
 * ✅ Though I feel the above points somewhat distract from what is otherwise an excellent article, they are debatable editorial points, and are not serious enough to further question the listing.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  18:30, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Albany, NY Fire Department Suggestion
Can someone please help link to this orphaned article? Gbawden (talk) 07:18, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

 * I have added a link to Template:Albany, New York, which is at the bottom of the article. --Albany NY (talk) 18:46, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

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Needs Updating
I don't have time right now to gather the references to update this article, but in case someone else can get to it, I'm noting that the information about the public and charter schools is out of date. Several more charter schools have been closed in the last few years and according to the school district enrollment is increasing in their schools is increasing because of these closures, as well as increases in the school age population. Perhaps it would be better to eliminate such facts rather than have data that needs frequent updating to stay accurate.samtha25 (talk) 19:19, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Agreed, it is grossly out of date and the city school district's *increase* in enrollment is dramatic. Will hunt down some refs. DMorpheus2 (talk) 18:54, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

 * Done DMorpheus2 (talk) 18:46, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Montage
What's the reasoning for removing the montage? I don't think age really matters, the (blocked) editor is throwing out the baby with the bathwater on this. It's not as if the skyline has been drastically altered.

If the disruptive editor keeps this up I will escalate the situation to ANI or SPI. Buffaboy talk 23:18, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 December 2015
The article states that "Beverwijck" translates as "Beaver District" in English. That is not correct. It is a literal translation of the words "bever" and "wijck" (modern Dutch: wijk), but Beverwijck was named after its Dutch counterpart in the province of North Holland and that name has nothing to do with beavers. You may check this reading the history of the Dutch village of Beverwijk.

82.95.79.140 (talk) 07:35, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Padlock-silver-open.svg Not done: The page's protection level has changed since this request was placed. You should now be able to edit the page yourself. If you still seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. sst✈(discuss) 04:30, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Bias in intro section?
Much of the text in the introduction section sounds like it was written as a promotion for Albany. Such examples include "It marshalled the power of immigrants and their descendants in both cities", " Albany is known for its rich history, commerce, culture, architecture, and institutions of higher education", and "Albany has been a center of higher education for over a century", whatever that means. (Maybe define the meaning of "center"?) Also, there are several paragraphs of "Albany had the first x" between citations 11 & 12 that aren't cited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:E488:5500:C132:6DBD:F85D:9AFA (talk) 05:32, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

 * Fair enough. It really should include the popular image of Albany as the USA's center of political corruption DMorpheus2 (talk) 15:34, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Fortune 500 headquarters
The second paragraph of this article is mostly incorrect. I am certain that most of the companies listed here (merrill lynch, american express, goldman sachs, general electric) are not headquartered in Albany. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.252.38.101 (talk) 13:42, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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Dubious elevation
Currently the info box says
 * Lowest elevation (Sea level (at the Hudson River))	0 ft (0 m)

I'm deleting this because its location on the Hudson River is not at sea level (if it were, the river would not flow to the sea). Hopefully someone can find a source with the correct info (and check if the figure for highest elevation is correct). Loraof (talk) 19:11, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

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 * I noticed 2 feet as its lowest elevation. The Poughkeepsie article states a zero elevation, so there seems to be a pattern of using the river as a zero datum. 68.196.165.94 (talk) 01:10, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

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Last update:  — mark ✎ 02:35, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) Restructure article.
 * 2) Expand theoretical background
 * 3) Allolexy, polysemy
 * 4) More on history
 * 5) More practical examples of its use (Goddard 1998, Wierzbicka 1988, G&W 1994, G&W 2002)
 * 6) References: weed out the less central ones, or better yet, divide them in basic and secondary literature
 * 7) Theoretical context: relation to other semantic theories and to cognitive linguistics; opposition to 'objectivist semantics' (like Lakoff).
 * 8) Psychological reality and status of semantic primitives
 * 9) Criticisms & problems (Ameka 1994, Van Driem 2004, Lakoff 1987:279-280, Goddard 1998)

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Yaşar Kemal

Yaşar Kemal (born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli; 6 October 1923 – 28 February 2015) was a Turkish writer of Kurdish origin and human rights activist and one of Turkey's leading authors. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of Memed, My Hawk.

An outspoken intellectual, he often did not hesitate to speak about sensitive issues, especially those concerning the oppression of the Kurdish people. He was tried in 1995 under anti-terror laws for an article he wrote for Der Spiegel highlighting the Turkish Army's destruction of Kurdish villages during the Turkish–Kurdish conflict. He was released but later received a suspended 20-month jail sentence for another article he wrote criticising racism in Turkey, especially against the Kurds.

Early life and education
Yaşar Kemal was born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli to Sadık and Nigâr on 6 October 1923 in Hemite (now Gökçedam), a Turkmen hamlet in the province of Osmaniye in southern Turkey. He was born into the only Kurdish family in the village  but didn't face discrimination despite his ethnic difference. Kemal had a difficult childhood, and his family had to flee from Van province to Diyarbakır province. From there, they were deported to Adana province. He lost his right eye in a knife accident while his father was slaughtering a sheep for Eid al-Adha. When he was five years old he witnessed his father being stabbed to death by his adoptive son Yusuf while praying in a mosque. These traumatic experiences left Kemal with a speech impediment, which lasted until he was twelve years old. At nine, Kemal began school in a neighbouring village; he continued his formal education in Kadirli in Osmaniye province.

Kemal was a locally noted bard even before he began school but was unappreciated by his widowed mother until he composed an elegy on the death of one of her eight brothers, all of whom were bandits. He became interested in writing as a means to record his work after talking to an itinerant peddler, who was doing his accounts. His village paid his way to university in Istanbul.

He worked for a while for rich farmers as a labourer in the Çukurova cotton fields, ostensibly guarding river water against poor farmers' unauthorised use for irrigation. However, he actually taught the poor farmers how to steal the water undetected, by taking it at night. Later he worked as a letter-writer, then as a journalist, and finally as a novelist. The Turkish police confiscated his first two novels. In 1950, Kemal was imprisoned for alleged communist activities. He visited Akdamar Island in 1951, where he saw the beginning of the planned demolition of the island's Holy Cross Church. Using his contacts, he helped stop the demolition (the church was restored by the Turkish government in 2005).

Professional and political career
He then moved to Istanbul to work for the Cumhuriyet newspaper, where he adopted his pen name.

In 1962, Kemal joined the Workers Party of Turkey (TİP) and "served as one of its leaders until quitting after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968". In 1967, Kemal established the Marxist magazine Ant together with Dogan Özgüden and. The magazine published articles about Engels, Marx, Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. In the aftermath of the military coup in 1971, the magazine was closed during the crackdown on left-wing politicians. Because of the spate of political assassinations during the 1976–1980 political violence in Turkey, Kemal moved to Sweden for a time. He was often arrested for his political activities. In 1995, he was prosecuted for making separatist propaganda after writing an article for Index on Censorship, because of his support for Kurdish dissidents. He was sentenced to 20 months and received a suspended sentence in March 1996. In December 2000, he was involved in negotiations over the hunger strikes against the F-Type prisons.

Later years and death
On 14 January 2015, Kemal was hospitalised at Istanbul University's Çapa Medical Faculty, due to respiratory insufficiency. During the afternoon of 28 February 2015, he died in the intensive care unit, where he had been admitted for multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, Following a religious funeral service held at Teşvikiye Mosque, attended by former Turkish president Abdullah Gül, political party leaders, high-ranking officials and an enormous assembly of mourners, he was buried on 2 March 2015 beside his first wife Thilda's grave in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery. Kemal was survived by his wife Ayşe Semiha Baban and his adoptive son, visual artist Ahmet Güneştekin.

Works
In 1943 Kemal published his first book Ağıtlar ("Ballads"), a compilation of folkloric themes. This book brought to light many long-forgotten rhymes and ballads, which he had begun to collect at the age of sixteen. He penned his first tale Pis Hikaye ("The Dirty Story") in 1944 while serving in the military in Kayseri. His stories Bebek ("The Baby"), Dükkancı ("The Shopkeeper") and Memet ile Memet ("Memet and Memet") were published in 1950. Then he published a book of short stories Sarı Sıcak ("Yellow Heat") in 1952. His books initially focused on the lives, sufferings and toil of the people of the Çukurova plain. Kemal used the legends and stories of Anatolia extensively as the basis for his works.

In 1955 he received international acclaim with the publication of Memed, My Hawk (İnce Memed). In this book, Kemal criticised the fabric of society via a protagonist who flees to the mountains as a result of the oppression of the ağas. One of the most famous writers in Turkey, Kemal was noted for his command of the language and his lyrical descriptions of Turkish rural life. He won nineteen literary prizes over his lifetime and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. Produced by Fuad Kavur, in 1984,MEMED MY HAWK was made into a film of the same name, starring Peter Ustinov and Herbert Lom. Although the film enjoyed a Royal Première in London and had theatrical runs in US and Europe, in Turkey it was banned and remains so to this day- 2023.

His 1955 novel Teneke was adapted into a theatrical play, which ran for almost a year in Gothenburg, in Sweden, the country in which he lived for about two years in the late 1970s. Italian composer Fabio Vacchi adapted the same novel with its original title into a three-act opera, which premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy, in 2007.

Personal life
In 1952, Yaşar Kemal married Thilda Serrero, a member of a prominent Sephardi Jewish family in Istanbul. Her grandfather, Jak Mandil Pasha, was the chief physician of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. She translated seventeen of her husband's works into English. In 2001 Thilda predeceased Yaşar, dying, aged 78, from pulmonary complications in an Istanbul hospital. She was buried in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery. Thilda was also survived by her son Raşit Göğçel and a grandchild.

Yaşar Kemal remarried on 1 August 2002. His second spouse was Ayşe Semiha Baban, a lecturer in public relations at Istanbul Bilgi University in Istanbul who had been educated at the American University of Beirut, Boğaziçi University and Harvard University.

Literature prizes

 * "Seven Days in the World's Largest Farm" reportage series, Journalist's Association Prize, 1955
 * Varlik Prize for Ince Memed ("Memed, My Hawk"), 1956
 * Ilhan Iskender Award for the play adapted from his book of the same name, Teneke ("The Drumming-Out"), 1966
 * The International Nancy Theatre Festival – First Prize for Uzun Dere ("Long Brook"), 1966 -Theater adaptation from roman Iron Earth, Copper Sky.
 * Madarli Novel Award for Demirciler Çarşısı ("Murder in the Ironsmith's Market"), 1974
 * Choix du Syndicat des Critiques Littéraires pour le meilleur roman etranger (Eté/Automne 1977) pour Terre de Fer, Ciel de Cuivre ("Yer Demir, Gök Bakır")
 * Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger 1978 pour L'Herbe qui ne meurt pas (Ölmez Otu); Paris, Janvier 1979.
 * Prix mondial Cino Del Duca decerné pour contributions a l'humanisme moderne; Paris, Octobre 1982.
 * The Sedat Simavi Foundation Award for Literature; Istanbul, Turkey, 1985.
 * Premi Internacional Catalunya. Catalonia (Spain), 1996
 * Lillian Hellman/Dashiell Hammett Award for Courage in Response to Repression, Human Rights Watch, USA, 1996.
 * Stig Dagerman Prize (Stig Dagermanpriset), Sweden, 1997.
 * Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, Frankfurt, Germany, 1997.
 * International Nonino Prize for his collected works, Italy, 1997
 * Bordeaux, Prix Ecureuit de Littérature Etrangère, 1998
 * Z. Homer Poetry Award, 2003
 * Savanos Prize (Thessaloniki-Greece), 2003
 * Turkish Publishers' Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003
 * Presidential Cultural and Artistic Grand Prize, 2008
 * The Bjørnson Prize (Bjørnsonprisen), Norway, 2013.

Decorations

 * Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur de France; Paris, 1984.
 * Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, 1989.
 * Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur de France; Paris, 2011.
 * Krikor Naregatsi Medal of Armenia, 2013.

Honorary doctorates

 * Doctor Honoris Causa, Strasbourg University, France, 1991.
 * Doctor Honoris Causa, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey, 1992.
 * Honorary Doctorate, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2002
 * Honorary Doctorate, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey, 2009
 * Honorary Doctorate, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009
 * Honorary Doctorate, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014

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Attwater's prairie-chicken

Attwater's prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) is a highly endangered subspecies of the greater prairie-chicken that is native to coastal Texas and formerly Louisiana in the United States.

Description
Attwater's prairie-chicken measures 17–18 in (43-45.5 cm) and weighs roughly 1.5 to 2.0 lb (0.7 to 0.9 kg). It has a 28-in (70-cm) wingspan. These grouse have strong vertical bars of dark brown and buff-white pattern over the mantle, flanks, and underparts. The species exhibits sexual dimorphism, with the males having elongated feathers, called pinnae, erected to form what looks like ear-like structures. The male also has as a bright orange or golden air sac on either side of his neck, which he inflates during mating displays. They have a lifespan of 2–5 years.

Habitat and range
T. c. attwateri is endemic to the Western Gulf coastal grasslands. Its range historically stretched west from Bayou Teche in Louisiana to the Nueces River in Texas, possibly as far south as Tamaulipas, Mexico, and inland for 75 mi. This covered an area of 6 million acres (24,000 km2). Today, populations exist in the wild at two locations: the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas, and on private lands in Goliad County.

Reproduction
The mating display can be seen January through mid-May, peaking in mid-March, when the birds gather in small groups on short grass, bare ground, or hilly areas to choose a mate. This area is called a lek or "booming ground." In these areas, the females watch the males and choose their mate. The male emits a booming, "woo-woo" sound from his neck sack, causing it to inflate, and struts around to attract a female. Some of the traditional dances of the North American Plains Indians are based on this booming display.

In late spring, the hens lay 10 to 14 eggs in nests on the ground, hidden in tall grass. The eggs hatch about 26 days later. Only about 3 in 10 eggs hatch and the others are lost to predators. The chicks stay with the hen for about six weeks.

Diet and predation
This species has a diverse diet, eating grass shoots, petals of flowers, seeds, and insects such as grasshoppers. Their predators include hawks, owls, coyotes, raccoons, skunks, opossums, and snakes. Chicks are susceptible to flooding.

Conservation
In 1900, up to 1,000,000 Attwater's prairie-chickens inhabited the coastal grasslands. Loss of habitat is believed to be the prime reason for their decline. One of the major factors contributing to the habitat loss was the widespread planting, beginning in the early 1900s, of Chinese tallow trees (Triadica sebifera) to establish a soapmaking industry. Since that time, T. sebifera has proven to be an aggressive invader of the coastal grasslands, where it displaces the diverse native plant assemblage that was dominated by prairie grasses and forbs with dense, near-monospecific stands that significantly alter biotic and abiotic ecosystem processes. Coastal prairies have also declined with the invasion of non-native grasses such as Old World bluestems which create monocultures and change the structure of native grasslands. Urbanization has further contributed to habitat loss. As a result of these changes over the last 100 years, the grassland ecosystem where Attwater's prairie-chicken once thrived exists in small, scattered patches whose continued existence is threatened. Where once grazing plains bison and periodic wildfires due to lightning reduced brush, the birds now have difficulty making their way through thick undergrowth. Other, less-apparent changes in the ecosystem possibly have had an effect as well.

A 1937 study recorded about 8,700 Attwater's prairie-chickens remaining in four Texas counties. Attwater's prairie-chicken has been on the endangered species list since March 1967 when an estimated 1,070 birds were left in the wild. By 2003, fewer than 50 birds remained in the wild.

In 1999, The Nature Conservancy decided to permit new drilling close to primary breeding grounds on Texas land owned by the Conservancy. That harmed the prairie-chicken population at that location in the view of some organizations, including the Wildlife Society. The number of Attwater's prairie-chickens nesting on the land owned by the Conservancy fell from 36 in 1998 to 16 in 2003. Attwater's prairie-chickens have since disappeared from the site.

In 2014, an estimated 260 birds remained, with about 100 living in the wild. Captive-breeding programs are underway at places such as Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Abilene Zoo, and Caldwell Zoo (Tyler, TX). Through a partnership with the Houston Zoo, a captive-breeding flock is residing on the grounds of the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center near Clear Lake.

In 2016, the population declined to 42 birds following heavy spring floods, which wiped out an entire generation of eggs. Hurricane Harvey in 2017 was even more disastrous, likely killing at least 32 birds, with only five females found during the post-hurricane survey of the area. However, in the spring of 2018, the estimated wild population was 12. As of February 2019, with the Houston Zoo having released many individuals the previous year, the wild population was around 200. Since then, the wild population has decreased again. A count done later that year indicated only 108 birds remaining and a report from February 2021 stated fewer than 100.

In popular culture
In 2023 Attwater's prairie-chicken was featured on a United States Postal Service Forever stamp as part of the Endangered Species set, based on a photograph from Joel Sartore's Photo Ark. The stamp was dedicated at a ceremony at the National Grasslands Visitor Center in Wall, South Dakota.

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Himatangi

Himatangi is a small settlement in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located at the junction of State Highways 1 and 56, 25 kilometres west of Palmerston North, and seven kilometres east of the coastal settlement of Himatangi Beach.

The area has two marae:
 * Motuiti Marae and its Rakau or Paewai meeting house is affiliated with the Rangitāne hapū of Ngāti Mairehau and the Ngāti Raukawa hapū of Ngāti Rākau.
 * Paranui Marae and its Turanga meeting house is affiliated with the Ngāti Raukawa hapū of Ngāti Te Au and Ngāti Tūranga.

About 50 Māori land blocks are located between Himatangi and Foxton to the south.

History
The area was largely undeveloped with rough terrain in 1942, according to a photograph held in the National Library of New Zealand.

Himatangi was once the location of the junction between the New Zealand Railways Department's Foxton Branch railway and the Manawatu County Council's Sanson Tramway. Both lines are now closed; use of the Tramway ceased in 1945, followed by the Branch in 1959.

In 2005, a study found agricultural pesticides were being rapidly leached into the sandy soil at Himatangi.

In 2009, planning approval was granted for the building of a piggery after the landowner agreed to reduce from what he originally proposed.

In 2014, the community was used as a trial community for the Horizons Regional Council's emergency readiness plan. The landowner and New Zealand Pork Board had been considering legal action through the Environment Court.

In 2019 a regional bus service between Levin and Palmerston North was introduced, providing a weekly return service between Himatangi and Foxton.

Demographics
Oroua Downs statistical area, which also includes Himatangi Beach and Tangimoana, covers 124.62 km2 and had an estimated population of as of  with a population density of  people per km2.

Oroua Downs had a population of 1,254 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 210 people (20.1%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 87 people (7.5%) since the 2006 census. There were 540 households, comprising 642 males and 612 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.05 males per female. The median age was 48.0 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 207 people (16.5%) aged under 15 years, 192 (15.3%) aged 15 to 29, 606 (48.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 249 (19.9%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 88.8% European/Pākehā, 16.0% Māori, 1.9% Pacific peoples, 2.9% Asian, and 2.2% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 10.0, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 57.7% had no religion, 26.8% were Christian, 0.7% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.2% were Hindu and 2.9% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 120 (11.5%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 327 (31.2%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $26,700, compared with $31,800 nationally. 123 people (11.7%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 477 (45.6%) people were employed full-time, 147 (14.0%) were part-time, and 42 (4.0%) were unemployed.

Education
Oroua Downs School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 8 students, with a roll of  as of.

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Foxton Beach

Foxton Beach is a small settlement in the Horowhenua District of the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located on the South Taranaki Bight at the mouth of the Manawatu River, 35 kilometres southwest of Palmerston North, and six kilometres west of Foxton. Foxton Beach has a permanent population of around 2000 people. The town is a popular holiday destination due mainly to its beach and the bird sanctuary at the Manawatu Estuary.

History
Te Wharangi was a large Māori settlement at the location and a riverside fishing station where canoes could be tied up.

European settlement began in the 1840s, when it became a staging point for horsedrawn travel along the coast between Wellington and Whanganui. It later became a centre for export of flax and timber by steamer.

Demographics
Foxton Beach is defined by Statistics New Zealand as a small urban area and covers 2.64 km2. It had an estimated population of as of  with a population density of  people per km².

Foxton Beach had a population of 1,884 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 264 people (16.3%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 183 people (10.8%) since the 2006 census. There were 822 households, comprising 912 males and 972 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.94 males per female. The median age was 57.7 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 228 people (12.1%) aged under 15 years, 165 (8.8%) aged 15 to 29, 822 (43.6%) aged 30 to 64, and 669 (35.5%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 89.8% European/Pākehā, 16.9% Māori, 1.3% Pasifika, 1.0% Asian, and 1.4% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 8.3, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 52.9% had no religion, 33.3% were Christian, 1.1% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.2% were Hindu, 0.5% were Buddhist and 1.6% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 165 (10.0%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 516 (31.2%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $23,800, compared with $31,800 nationally. 159 people (9.6%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 597 (36.1%) people were employed full-time, 207 (12.5%) were part-time, and 54 (3.3%) were unemployed.

Geography and nature
Foxton Beach is located on the Manawatu Estuary at the mouth of the Manawatu River. The style of houses built in new subdivisions indicate that the permanent population is growing.

The estuary is a Ramsar site and an internationally recognised bird sanctuary, where migrating and New Zealand native birds enjoy the mudflats and wetlands. It is a feeding spot for migrating godwits.

The council has built storm surge protection consisting of concrete barriers and small hill-like barriers with a path on top, which are connected to Sunset Walk, a riverside walkway.

Recreation
The river has recreation opportunities such as bird watching, water skiing and fishing. Manawatu Marine Boating club is located at the Foxton Beach Wharf on the river. Holben / Te Wharangi Reserve has a playground, soundshell (stage) and skate park.

The beach is popular for swimming in summer and is patrolled by the Foxton Surf Life Saving Club.

Education
Foxton Beach School is a coeducational state full primary school (years 1-8) with a roll of  and a decile rating of 3.

The nearest secondary school is Manawatū College in nearby Foxton.

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Stan Ridgway

Stanard "Stan" Ridgway (born April 5, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter, and film and television composer known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums. He was the original lead singer and a founding member of the band Wall of Voodoo.

Early life
Stan Ridgway was born in Barstow, California, in the "high desert", and raised in Los Angeles. He claims to have been a budding ventriloquist who spent his first night in jail at the age of 12 for stealing street signs. Ridgway also had a childhood fascination with folk music, pestering his parents until they bought him a banjo at the age of 14.

Wall of Voodoo
The band was named by Ridgway before their first show, in reference to a comment made by a friend, while recording and overdubbing a Kalamazoo Rhythm Ace drum machine, which was a gift from voice actor Daws Butler. While listening to some of the music created in the studio, Ridgway jokingly compared the multiple-drum-machine and Farfisa-organ-laden recordings to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, whereupon the friend commented it sounded more like a "wall of voodoo" and the name stuck.

Wall of Voodoo's music was a mix of new wave and Ennio Morricone's Spaghetti Western soundtracks of the 1960s. Adding to the music's distinctiveness was percussive and textural experimentation, i.e. mixing drum machines with unconventional instruments such as pots, pans and various kitchen utensils, raw electronics with interlocking melodic figures as well as twangy spaghetti-western guitar. On top of the mix was Ridgway's unusual vocal style and highly stylized, cinematic narratives heavily influenced by science fiction and film noir, sung from the perspective of ordinary people and characters wrestling with ironies inside the American Dream.

Solo career
Ridgway embarked on a solo career in 1983, shortly after Wall of Voodoo's appearance at the US Festival that same year. After collaborating on the song "Don't Box Me In" with Stewart Copeland from the Police for the soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish, starring Mickey Rourke, Matt Dillon and Dennis Hopper, he released his first proper solo album, The Big Heat (1986), which included the top 5 European (including UK) hit "Camouflage". This was followed by numerous other solo recordings: Mosquitos (1989), Partyball (1991), Black Diamond (1995), and Anatomy (1999), The Way I Feel Today (1998), a collection of big band standards, and Holiday in Dirt (2002), a compilation of outtakes and previously unreleased songs. Ridgway's album Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads and Fugitive Songs (2005), features the narrative song, "Talkin' Wall Of Voodoo Blues Pt. 1", a history of his former band in song.

Ridgway's album Holiday in Dirt was a quasi-cinematic project, with the release of the album accompanied by a showing of 14 short films by various independent filmmakers, each film a visual interpretation of one of the songs on the album. A compilation DVD of the films was released in February 2005.

In 1994, Ridgway began work on a new project in the form of a trio called Drywall, the other members of the trio being Ridgway's wife, keyboardist/vocalist Pietra Wexstun of the band Hecate's Angels (who had previously worked with Ridgway on Mosquitos and Partyball), and former Rain Parade drummer Ivan Knight. In 1995, Drywall released its first album (first of a "trilogy of apocalyptic documents"), titled Work the Dumb Oracle. A short film directed by Carlos Grasso, titled The Drywall Incident, was released the same year. An extended, instrumental soundtrack album for The Drywall Incident was released in 1996.

Ridgway and Wexstun also collaborated and forayed into new musical territory, composing a suite of mostly instrumental and orchestral pieces to accompany an exhibition of postmodern surrealist artist Mark Ryden's paintings after being introduced by a mutual friend, Sean P. Riley, who toured with Wall of Voodoo on their 1982 "Call of the West – Tour of Virtue" as the band's merchandiser. The album was released on CD in 2003 as Blood – Miniature Paintings of Sorrow and Fear in a unique 3-panel packaging design by the artist, which quickly sold out of its limited pressing of 7,500. Ridgway plays banjo and harmonica in Wexstun's group Hecate's Angels.

Stan Ridgway and Drywall regrouped in 2006 to release the album Barbeque Babylon, the third "apocalyptic document" with the single "The AARP Is After Me". The new Drywall lineup features Rick King on guitars and bass and Bruce Zelesnik on drums and percussion. In 2008, Ridgway and Wexstun released Silly Songs for Kids Vol. 1, a collection of children's songs that feature the duo and also saxophonist and woodwind player Ralph Carney.

Ridgway has also contributed to albums and projects by producer Hal Willner, Frank Black and the Catholics, the Flesh Eaters, the Divine Horsemen, The Ray Campi Quartet, the Fibonaccis, and Roger McGuinn.

Discography

 *  Wall of Voodoo (1980)
 *  Dark Continent (1981)
 *  Call of the West (1982)
 * The Big Heat (1986)
 * Mosquitos (1989)
 * Partyball (1991)
 * Songs That Made This Country Great (1992)
 * Black Diamond (1996)
 * The Way I Feel Today (1998)
 * Anatomy (1999)
 * Holiday in Dirt (2002)
 * Snakebite (2004)
 * Neon Mirage (2010)
 * Mr. Trouble (2012)
 * Priestess of the Promised Land (2016)

Film scores

 * Rumble Fish (1983), directed by Francis Ford Coppola (end title song "Don't Box Me In" with Stewart Copeland)
 * Terminus (1987), directed by Pierre-William Glenn (title song "End Of The Line")
 * Slam Dance (1987), directed by Wayne Wang (song "Bing Can't Walk")
 * Pump Up the Volume (1990), directed by Allan Moyle (song "Talk Hard")
 * Future Kick (1991), directed by Damian Klaus (score)
 * Floundering (1994), directed by Peter McCarthy (title song & "My Drug Buddy" (later renamed "Amnesia" when released on Holiday in Dirt))
 * September Songs – The Music of Kurt Weill (1994), directed by Larry Weinstein (singer Cannon Song).
 * Box of Moonlight (1996), directed by Tom DiCillo (writer: "Mexican Radio" – as Stanard R. Funsten)
 * Melting Pot (1997), directed by Tom Musca (score)
 * Death Smokes a Big Cigar (1997), directed by Franco Riccardi (score)
 * Error In Judgment (1998), directed by Scott Levy (score)
 * Desperate But Not Serious (1999), directed by Bill Fishman (score)
 * Speedway Junky (1999), directed by Nick Perry (score)
 * The Keening (1999), directed by Alex & Andrew Smith (score)
 * Simpatico (1999), directed by Matthew Warchus (end title song)
 * $pent (2000), directed by Gil Cates Jr. (score)
 * Vengeance (2001), directed by Brian Belefant (songs)
 * Desert Saints (2002), directed by Richard Greenberg (song)

Related artists

 * Wall of Voodoo
 * Pete McRae
 * Hal Willner
 * Frank Black and the Catholics
 * The Flesh Eaters
 * Divine Horsemen
 * The Fibonaccis
 * Roger McGuinn

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David Young (Ontario politician)

David S. Young (born c. 1957) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2003. He represented the riding of Willowdale and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.

Background
Young was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He was educated at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto, and practised law after his graduation. He worked at the firm of Benson McMurtry from 1981 to 1987, and has been a partner in Benson Percival Brown since 1987. Young has also served as a director of the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem, and was for ten years an executive member of the Ratepayer's Association.

In 2021, David was awarded the Gold Key Achievement Award by the Osgoode Hall Alumni Association. The award recognizes exceptional professional success and leadership and is bestowed upon candidates that have demonstrated a record of professional accomplishment, leadership and contribution to the community.

He and his wife Ellen live in Toronto, Ontario, where they raised three children.

Politics
He began his political career as a school trustee, serving on the North York Public School Board from 1991 to 1997. In the provincial election of 1999, he was elected to the Ontario legislature for the north Toronto riding of Willowdale, defeating Liberal candidate Fahimeh Mortazavi by about 3,500 votes.

Young was named Attorney General and Minister responsible for Native Affairs in the government of Mike Harris on February 8, 2001. He was generally regarded as one of the more centrist figures in Harris's government, and supported Ernie Eves to replace Harris as Premier in 2002. When Eves was sworn into office on April 15, 2002, he kept Young in the Attorney-General's portfolio.

In 2002, Young introduced the Legal Aid Services Amendment Act (Bill 181), which permitted Legal Aid Ontario to hire staff lawyers and contract with individual lawyers and law firms. The Bill was intended to improve Ontario's justice system by granting Legal Aid Ontario enhanced flexibility to permit them to enter into fee-for-service agreements with qualified lawyers and law firms to provide legal aid services in a given community, and expand the functions of family and criminal law duty counsel. Critics argued against the intermingling of the private and public sectors, and suggested that the Bill would lead to a two-tiered legal system in Ontario. Young also increased the hourly payment rates of Legal Aid Ontario workers by 5% an hour.

After a cabinet shuffle on February 25, 2003, Young became the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

Many expected that Young would be re-elected in the provincial election of 2003, despite a general decline in Tory support throughout Toronto. Young's performance in cabinet was generally respected, and he was sometimes described as a possible successor to Eves as party leader. The provincial trend, however, was too much to overcome: the Tories were defeated in all of their Toronto seats, and Young lost the Willowdale riding to Liberal candidate David Zimmer by 1,866 votes.

In 2014, David served as a senior advisor, executive committee member and legal counsel to the successful John Tory campaign for Mayor of Toronto.

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David Young

David or Dave Young may refer to:

Entertainment

 * David Young (Canadian playwright) (born 1946), Canadian playwright and novelist
 * David Young (novelist) (born 1958), British novelist
 * David Young (judge), daytime court television show judge in Miami
 * Judge David Young, daytime court television show
 * David Young (TV producer), British game show producer
 * David Young (Neighbours), fictional character on Australian soap opera Neighbours
 * David Young, founding editor of the Farmers' Almanac, 1818
 * David Young, writer and actor for CollegeHumor web site

Music

 * David Young (saxophonist, 1912-1992), American jazz tenor saxophonist
 * Dave Young (bassist) (born 1940), Canadian jazz double bassist
 * David Young (guitarist) (1949–2022), English musician, record producer and sound engineer
 * Dave Young (musician) (born 1982), Canadian rock musician
 * David Young (musician) (active from 1990), American recorder musician
 * David Young (composer), American video game music composer

Politics

 * David Young (Labour politician) (1930–2003), British Labour Party MP, 1974–1997
 * David Young, Baron Young of Graffham (1932–2022), British politician and Cabinet minister from the 1980s
 * David Young (Ontario politician) (born 1957), Canadian politician in Ontario
 * David Young (Watergate) (born 1936), member of a covert ops team under U.S. President Richard Nixon
 * David Young (Iowa politician) (born 1968), former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
 * David Young (North Carolina politician) (born 1959), businessman and Chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party
 * Dave Young (Colorado politician), member of the Colorado House of Representatives
 * David Young III (1905–1977), American politician in New Jersey
 * David Young (Louisiana politician), state senator
 * David Young (diplomat), American diplomat
 * Andrew Clarence David Young (1899–1988), Chief Magistrate of the Pitcairn Islands

Football and rugby

 * David Young (footballer, born 1945), English footballer for Newcastle, Sunderland, Charlton, and Southend in the 1970s
 * David Young (Australian footballer) (born 1954), Australian rules footballer for South Melbourne and Collingwood
 * Dave Young (American football) (1959-2023), tight end selected in the 1981 NFL Draft
 * David Young (footballer, born 1965), English footballer for Darlington in the 1980s
 * David Young (gridiron football) (born 1979), defensive back selected in the 2003 NFL Draft
 * Dai Young (born 1967), Welsh rugby union and Rugby league international and British Lion
 * Dave Young (rugby union) (born 1985), Irish rugby union player
 * Dave Young (footballer), former Wigan Athletic player

Other sports

 * David Turquand-Young (1904–1984), British modern pentathlete
 * David Young (swimmer) (1907–1988), American Olympic swimmer
 * David Young (Fijian swimmer) (born 2005), Fijian swimmer
 * David Young (wrestler) (born 1972), American professional wrestler
 * David Young (cricketer) (born 1977), English cricketer
 * David Young (basketball) (born 1981), drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics
 * David Young (hurler) (born 1985), Irish sportsperson
 * David Young (rower), English rower
 * David Young (discus thrower), Scottish athlete

Other

 * David Young (bishop) (1931–2008), British Anglican bishop; Bishop of Ripon
 * David Young (cleric) (1844–1913), Wesleyan minister and historian
 * David G. Young III, U.S. Air Force general
 * David Young (British Army officer) (1926–2000), General Officer Commanding Scotland
 * David Allan Young (1915–1991), American entomologist
 * David M. Young Jr. (1923–2008), American mathematician
 * David Young (bomber), former policeman who took hostages at an elementary school in Cokeville, Wyoming, 1986

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User:Ben Standeven

Cousin of the famous Mike Standeven.

Mobygames top 250 CRPGs
[other than this, got everything from A to Bl]
 * Ancients 1: Death Watch, (and Ancients 2: Approaching Evil), by Farr-Ware

 * Breath of Fire (1993)
 * Breath of Fire II (1994, Eu 1996)
 * Breath of Fire III (Sep 11, 1997)
 * Breath of Fire IV (PC 2003/Con 2000)
 * Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday (PC 1990/Con 1991)
 * Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed (PC 1992)
 * Castle of the Winds (PC 1989)
 * Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (uhh...)
 * Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye (seems to be a TBS, not an RPG)
 * Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess (first-person adventure game, but PC 1989)
 * Champions of Krynn (PC 1990)
 * Chrono Cross (Con 1999)
 * Chrono Trigger (Con 1995)
 * Cobra Mission (PC 1991/2)
 * Curse of the Azure Bonds (PC 1989, Con 1991)
 * Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas (PC 1999; non-RPG)
 * D2 (video game) (Console action/RPG/Survival horror, 1999)
 * Dark Cloud (Action/RPG, Dec 2000 J, and pres. later for NA)
 * Dark Legions (Action strategy, 1994)
 * The Dark Queen of Krynn (1992)
 * Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (1993)
 * Darklands (1992)
 * Darkstone (1999, action RPG)
 * Death Knights of Krynn (1991)
 * Deus Ex (2000; action RPG)
 * Diablo (Dec 31, 1996)
 * Diablo II (2000)
 * Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (2001)
 * Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku (Action RPG, 2002)
 * Dragon Lore: The Legend Begins (1994)
 * Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern (adventure game, 2001)
 * Dungeon Hack (roguelike, 1993)
 * Dungeon Master (1997)
 * Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep (J 1994, 1996)
 * Dungeon Siege (Apr 5, 2002)
 * The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard (adventure game/hybrid[?])
 * The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2001, right?)
 * The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal (2002, right?)
 * The Elder Scrolls: Arena (1994)
 * The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (1996)
 * Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (Survival horror, 1990)
 * Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall (1995)
 * EverQuest (MMO 1999)
 * Exodus: Ultima III (1983)
 * Eye of the Beholder (1991)
 * Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon (1991)
 * Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor (1993)
 * Fallout (1997)
 * Fallout 2 (Sep 1998)
 * Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel (14 Mar 2001)
 * Final Fantasy (1987)
 * Final Fantasy Adventure (1991)
 * Final Fantasy II (1988)
 * Final Fantasy III (1990)
 * Final Fantasy IV (1991)
 * Final Fantasy IX (2000)
 * Final Fantasy Tactics (1997, 1998 NA)
 * Final Fantasy V (1992)
 * Final Fantasy VI (1994)
 * Final Fantasy VII (1997)
 * Final Fantasy VIII (1999)
 * Final Fantasy X (2001)
 * Fountain of Dreams (1990)
 * Gauntlet Legends (1998)
 * Gemfire (wargame)
 * Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Grey Wolf
 * God of Thunder (puzzle game)
 * Golden Sun (2001)
 * Gothic (2001)
 * Gothic II (Nov 2002, Oct 2003 NA)
 * Grandia II (2000)
 * Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II
 * Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite! (Adventure game, Apr 2001)
 * Harvest Moon: Back to Nature (Dec 1999)
 * Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland (2001)
 * Diablo: Hellfire (1997, right?)
 * Hero's Quest: So You Want To Be A Hero (Oct 1989)
 * Heroes of the Lance (Jan 1988)
 * Icewind Dale (2000)
 * Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter (2001)
 * Ishar: Legend of the Fortress (trilogy: 1992, 1993, 1994; Crystals of Arboria 1990) FR
 * J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I (1990)
 * J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II (1991?)
 * J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth (1988)
 * Jagged Alliance (Tac 1994)
 * Jagged Alliance 2 (Tac 1999)
 * Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games (Tac 1996)
 * King's Bounty (Tac 1990)
 * Kingdom Hearts (Mar 2002)
 * Knights of Legend (1989)
 * Knights of Xentar [1991 J, 1995 NA]
 * Koudelka [1999.5]
 * Lands of Lore III [1999]
 * Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny (199?)
 * Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos [1993]
 * The Legacy: Realm of Terror (SH 1992.5)
 * The Legend of Dragoon (1999 +- 1m)
 * Legend of Mana (1999)
 * The Legend of Zelda (1986)
 * The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991)
 * The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000)
 * The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
 * Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (orig: 1994/5)
 * Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete (orig: 1992)
 * Magic: The Gathering - Interactive Encyclopedia
 * Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim (2000)
 * Mars Saga (comp 1988)
 * Master of Magic (1994)
 * Mega Man Battle Network 2 (2001.5)
 * Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World (1988)
 * Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra (1991)
 * Might and Magic IX (2002)
 * Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven (1998)
 * Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor (1999)
 * Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen (1994?)
 * Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight (action-RPG 1991)
 * Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero (1997 action-adventure)
 * NetHack (1987; Hack is 1982, Rogue is 1980)
 * Neverwinter Nights (2001?)
 * Nox (ARPG 2000)
 * The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) (1974 [dev 1971]; uhh...)
 * Parasite Eve (1998)
 * Parasite Eve II (1999/2000)
 * Phantasy Star Online (2000/1)
 * Pirates! Gold (T/OS game; 1987)
 * Planescape: Torment (Dec 12, 1999)
 * Pokémon Silver (1999/2000)
 * Pool of Radiance (1988)
 * Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (2001)
 * Pools of Darkness (1991)
 * Princess Maker 2

 * Quest for Glory I: see Hero's Quest.
 * Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
 * Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
 * Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
 * Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire
 * Rage of Mages (1998)
 * Raymond E. Feist's Return to Krondor (1998)
 * Revenant (game) (1999)
 * Rogue: The Adventure Game (1980; relevant release is probably 1984 for Mac, Amiga, ST; or 1988 for CPC C64, A8, ZX)
 * Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire (Feb 1994, J PC98; et al)
 * Sea Dogs (dab)
 * Secret of Mana (1993)
 * Secret of the Silver Blades (1990)
 * Seiken Densetsu 3 (1995)
 * Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic (1989)
 * Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator (1999)
 * Shadow Hearts (2001)
 * Shadowrun (dab)
 * Shannara (dab)
 * Shenmue (1999)
 * Shenmue II (2001)
 * Shining Force II (1993)
 * Silver (game) (1999)
 * Skies of Arcadia (2000)
 * Space Rogue (1989)
 * Spycraft: The Great Game (sounds like an interactive movie; 1996)
 * Star Ocean: The Second Story (May 1999 NA)
 * Starflight (T/OS hybrid; 1986)
 * Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula (T/OS hybrid; 1989)
 * Stonekeep (1995)
 * Stronghold (game) (dab; but none seem to be RPGs)
 * Suikoden II (1998 J, 1999 NA, 2000 EU)
 * Summoner (game) (ARPG, PS2 Oct 24, 2000 NA, et al.)
 * Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (mar 9 J, may 13 NA, 1996)
 * Superhero League of Hoboken (PC, 1994)
 * Syndicate (game) (1993)
 * System Shock 2 (1999)
 * Tales of the Unknown, Volume I: The Bard's Tale (1985)
 * Threads of Fate (PS; 1999, 2000 NA)
 * Times of Lore (1988)
 * Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress
 * Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (1985)
 * Ultima IX: Ascension (1999)
 * Ultima Online (Sep 24, 1997)
 * Ultima Online: Renaissance (May 4, 2000)
 * Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds (1993)
 * Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (March 1992)
 * Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (1988)
 * Ultima VI: The False Prophet (1990)
 * Ultima VII, Part Two: Serpent Isle (1993)
 * Ultima VII: The Black Gate (Apr 16, 1992)
 * Ultima VIII: Pagan (1994)
 * Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams (1991)
 * Uncharted Waters (OS/T; 1991)
 * Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons (OS/T; 1994)
 * Uplink: Hacker Elite (2001; is RPG?)
 * Vagrant Story (ARPG; PS 2000)
 * Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption (2000)
 * Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (RTS; July 2002)
 * Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War (TBS; 1999)
 * Warhammer: Dark Omen (RTT; )
 * Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat (RTT; Nov 1996)
 * Wasteland (1988)
 * The Wheel of Time (dab)
 * Wild Arms (1996)
 * Wizardry 8 (2001)
 * Wizardry Gold (1996)
 * Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant (1992)
 * Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (1980)
 * Wizards & Warriors (platformer, NES; Dec 1987)
 * Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire (1990)
 * X-Men 2: The Fall of the Mutants
 * Xenogears (PS: Feb 1998)
 * Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht (PS2: 2002)
 * Ys (video game series) (PC88: 1987 et al)
 * Yu-Gi-Oh!: Forbidden Memories
 * Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES: Jan 14, 1987)

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Malvaviscus

Malvaviscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. Common names for species in this genus include Turk's cap mallow, wax mallow, sleeping hibiscus, and mazapan. It belongs to a group of genera that differ from the closely related Hibiscus in possessing a fruit divided into 5 separate parts (a schizocarp), and having a style surmounted by 10, rather than 5, capitate or capitellate stigmas. Among those genera Malvaviscus is distinguished by having auriculate petals and red, fleshy fruits. The generic name is derived from the Latin words malva, meaning "mallow," and viscus, which means "sticky," referring to the mucilaginous sap produced by members of the genus. The fruit can be used to make jelly or syrup. Both the fruit and flowers are used to make herbal teas.

Selected species

 * Malvaviscus achanioides (Turcz.) Fryxell
 * Malvaviscus arboreus Cav. (Southeastern United States, Mexico, Central and South America)
 * Malvaviscus arboreus var. arboreus
 * Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii (Torr. & A.Gray) Schery (= Malvaviscus drummondii Torr. & A.Gray )
 * Malvaviscus arboreus var. mexicanus Schltdl.
 * Malvaviscus concinnus Medik.
 * Malvaviscus conzattii Greenm.
 * Malvaviscus palmanus Pittier & Donn.Sm. (Costa Rica)
 * Malvaviscus penduliflorus DC. (=M. arboreus var. penduliflorus (DC.) Schery )
 * Malvaviscus williamsii Ulbr.

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1961 West German federal election

Federal elections were held in West Germany on 17 September 1961 to elect the members of the fourth Bundestag. The CDU/CSU remained the largest faction, winning 242 of the 499 seats. However, the loss of its majority and the All-German Party losing all its seats led to the CDU having to negotiate a coalition with the long-term junior coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, leading to a demand for long-term chancellor Konrad Adenauer to leave office in 1963, halfway through his term.

Campaign
For the first time, the SPD announced a Chancellor candidate who was not chairman of the party: Willy Brandt, the Governing Mayor of West Berlin. After the building of the Berlin Wall, he gained more and more sympathy, while chancellor Konrad Adenauer was criticised for not showing enough support for the people of West Berlin. Adenauer had to save the absolute majority of CDU and CSU, but, considering his age and his long term as chancellor, there were big doubts if he should lead the country in a fourth term.

Aftermath
The absolute majority was lost by the conservative union due to the gains of the liberal FDP under Erich Mende. From 1961 on, the Union, SPD and FDP established an electoral "triopoly" in the Bundestag that would last until 1983.

Konrad Adenauer remained Chancellor, building a coalition between the CDU/CSU-FDP. In 1962 he had to announce a fifth cabinet: The FDP had temporarily left the coalition after the secretary of defense, Franz Josef Strauß (CSU), had ordered the arrest of five journalists for publishing a memo detailing alleged weaknesses in the German armed forces (known as the Spiegel scandal). In 1963 Adenauer finally retired; Ludwig Erhard took over his position as head of the coalition government.

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Talk:Wasserkuppe

Usefulness / function to be mentioned
Wasserkuppe has a plateau. With a slight slope?

A plateau surrounded by slopes shields off winds from all directions, wind are deflected from the surface to a certain height. Important is the abundance of trees and bushes. If the plateau has a slight slope, that helps to start a glider by rubber rope and running persons. As persons may run slightly downhill and horizontal flight is sufficient to gain height over ground. Thermal upwind may be expected over the soutward slope of the mountain rim.

Wasserkuppe seems to be 500 km away from the Alps in the south and 500 km away from the sea in the north.

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Stratobowl forms a bowl-shaped depression surrounded by soft mountains.

A bowl with slopes around (like a very flat volcano with crater) acts even better in shielding winds. During a night air cools down and sits like a lake (temperature inversion) in the bowl. Best to start delicate high altitude ballons (non-elastic, only partially filled). No vegetatio (?) helps to lay out the folded balloon before gas filling starts.

For a several hours (daylight time of 12 and more hours) lasting balloon it is helpful, that land stretches about 1000 km in every direction. High altitude means chance of quick winds. Stratobowl is about 1000...1500 away from higher mountains an the Great Lakes, from Mexico and the nearly uninhabited noth of Canada and about 2000 km from the sea, Pcific as well Pacific.

--Helium4 (talk) 16:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

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Talk:Cartesian diver

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Aquapets uses a pair of thin clear threads to make the creatures dance underwater. I removed the reference to this product.

You can MAKE Cartesian divers out of more things the a eye dropper & a pen cap.

Removed reference to a device falsely referred to as a cartesian diver. A funnel full of marbles isn't a "cheat", it is a funnel full of marbles. The cartesian diver is an exercise in pressure/density relationships, the funnel model formerly described was only appropriate as an example of metastability in a dynamic system, and a poor one at that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.59.65.149 (talk) 14:49, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

The description of the diver is not very clear. It should be stated that it is open at the bottom to allow influx of water when the pressure increases. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.186.154.156 (talk) 11:13, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

"If the weight of displaced water exactly matches the weight of the diver, it will neither rise, nor sink, but float in the middle of the container."
I know what this is trying to say but it's technically wrong and violates Newton's First Law of Motion. Saying that, I can't think of a clear way to state it correctly. Any suggestions?78.86.61.94 (talk) 12:25, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

I think I inadvertently fixed this. Xarqi (talk) 02:00, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Explanation
The explanation says that as the pressure increases, the air bubble shrinks, more water enters the diver, and so it is heavier. I sealed my diver at both ends, so the air volume will stay the same, and the water cannot enter. The experiment still works. Does this invalidate this explanation? 98.218.33.237 (talk) 19:37, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

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Cornflake toys
I think the plastic divers in 1950's cornflake packets worked on an entirely different principal. You had to charge them with baking soda which reacted with the water to produce CO2 gas. Where would a '50's child have got the flexible external clear container from? 83.244.140.142 (talk) 19:57, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

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Talk:Mario Party

Semi-protected edit request on 21 June 2020
Under GAMES -> MAIN SERIES -> MARIO PARTY (1998), in the second-to-last sentence of the first paragraph, change "eighth" to "eight". Reason: Grammatical Error 98.213.10.152 (talk) 17:55, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done --  S. Hinakawa  (talk) 18:33, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 October 2020
Fix the following typo in this sentence: The latest instalment in the series, Super Mario Party, was released on October 5, 2018 for the Nintendo Switch. Fix "instalment" to "installment". 176.222.226.5 (talk) 19:46, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: This article is using British English, thus, this spelling is correct. Dylsss (talk) 21:54, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Mario Party images
I have noticed that there are two screenshots in this article sourced from the first Mario Party game. These images fit the article, but the first game's article does not have a screenshot. Should one of those be moved to that game's article? If so, should we replace said image with another from a different Mario Party on this article? (Oinkers42) (talk) 23:52, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

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Ngazargamu

Ngazargamu, Birni Ngazargamu, Birnin Gazargamu, Gazargamo or N'gazargamu, was the capital of the Bornu Empire from ca. 1460 to 1809. Situated 150 km west of Lake Chad in the Yobe State of modern Nigeria, the remains of the former capital city are still visible. The surrounding wall is 6.6 km long and in parts it is still up to 5 m high.

The capital city was built in c. 1488, during the reign of Mai Ali Gazi (1476–1503). It was located in the fork of the Komadugu Gana River and the Komadugu Yobe, near present-day Geidam.

The city became Bornu's leading center for Islamic education under Idris Alooma.

In 1808, Gazargamo was taken by the Fulani Jihad.

Toponymy
The first segment of N'gazargamu, which is N'gasar, indicates that the earlier residents of the area were known as either N'gasar or N'gizim. The latter segment of the word, gamu or kumu, shares similarities with the initial portion of the name Gwombe and can signify either (i) a leader or monarch or (ii) a revered ancestral spirit.

Based on the Kanuri pronunciation, the correct spelling of the city is Birni Gazargamu. The spellings N'gazargamu or Birnin Gazargamu are likely of Hausa origin.

History
During the late 14th-century, the Sayfawa dynasty, which had ruled Kanem for centuries, fled their capital of Birni Njimi due to a civil war. They settled in Bornu, a southern province of Kanem. The civil war continued throughout much of the 15th-century until the reign of Ali Gaji, who succeeded in defeating his rivals and brought an end to the war. Ali Gaji then established Birni Gazargamu, a fortified city that served as the capital of Kanem-Bornu until the 19th-century.

Little is known of the physical appearance or population of the city. The city was surrounded by a circular wall spanning approximately two kilometers in diameter, with the Mai's palace, constructed of red bricks, occupying its center. A description of the city was given by one Mallam Salih ibn Ishaku and translated by H R Palmer:"At N'gazargamu [sic] there were six hundred and sixty roads cleared and widened, called Le. Sixty of these roads were well known to the Amir [Mai], for he traversed them, but many of the roads were unknown to the Amir since he did not traverse them and so did not know them . . . There were four Friday mosques. Each of these mosques had an Imam for Friday who led the Friday prayer with the people. At each mosque there were twelve thousand worshippers."Gazargamu emerged as a major trading hub within the Sudan region. By the 17th-century, the city's markets attracted caravans from various directions: Tunis, Tripoli, and Cairo in the north; Timbuktu, Awdaghust, Agades, and Gao in the west; and Kordofan and the Nile regions in the east. These trade caravans transported a variety of goods, including silk, carpets, weapons, and books from the Middle East; paper and glass beads from Venice; leather products, copperware, and tobacco from the Maghreb; and gold and kola nuts from Ashanti in the south.

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Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge is a federally protected refugium encompassing one of the largest remnants of coastal prairie habitat remaining in southeast Texas, United States, and home to one of the last populations of critically endangered Attwater's prairie chickens, a ground-dwelling grouse of the coastal prairie ecosystem.

The 10,528-acre (43-km2) refuge, located in eastern Colorado County, about 60 miles (100 km) west of Houston, Texas, was established in 1972, and is one of a handful of national wildlife refuges managed specifically for an endangered species. In 1968, Attwater Prairie Chicken Preserve was designated as a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service.

In the mid-1960s, the World Wildlife Fund purchased 3500 acre of land to preserve some remaining coastal prairie for Attwater's Prairie Chicken. The land was transferred to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1972, which brought the refuge up to its current acreage.

Many of the Attwater's prairie chickens in the refuge are hatched at captive-breeding programs at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Texas A&M University, SeaWorld San Antonio, Abilene Zoo, Caldwell Zoo, Houston Zoo, and San Antonio Zoo. Chicks are fitted with a radio transmitter and released at the refuge once they are capable of independent survival.

To maintain the prairie ecosystem, the refuge staff does prescribed burns of 2000 to 3000 acre annually in January or February. The burns help invigorate the grasses by removing dead stems, and control the growth of brush and invasive species of plants. The staff also converts formerly cultivated land in the refuge back to prairie by replanting native grasses.

Over 250 species of birds in addition to Attwater's prairie chicken have been observed in the refuge. Some of these include the fulvous whistling duck, black-bellied whistling duck, white-tailed hawk, crested caracara, scissor-tailed flycatcher, dickcissel, roseate spoonbill, anhinga, Sprague's pipit, and sandhill crane. Mammals in the refuge include plains bison, thirteen-lined ground squirrel, bobcat, coyote, nine-banded armadillo, and white-tailed deer. American alligators share the ponds with softshell turtles. American bullfrog and upland chorus frog calls are heard in the refuge.

Indian paintbrush, bluebonnets, and butterfly milkweed are some of the many wildflowers that bloom in the park.

The refuge has an auto tour and two hiking trails. The auto tour loop winds through 5 miles (8 km) of coastal prairie habitat. The Pipit Trail to the Refuge Lake is 1.5 miles. The Sycamore Trail transects 1.2 mi of coastal prairie and a section of forest in the Coushatta Creek bottomland.

The San Bernard River runs on the eastern boundary of the refuge.


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Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum

Subconscious Dissolution Into the Continuum is the fourth studio album by the British doom metal band Esoteric. It was released on 28 June 2004 through Season of Mist records, and is engineered, mixed and mastered by Esoteric at Priory Recording Studios. Artwork by Chris Peters.

Credits

 * Gordon Bicknell -- Guitar
 * Greg Chandler -- vocals, guitar
 * Steve Peters -- Guitar, bass guitar
 * Keith York -- drums
 * Trevor Lines -- Session bass guitar