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Kennedy Town

Kennedy Town is at the western end of Sai Wan on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It was named after Arthur Edward Kennedy, the 7th governor of Hong Kong from 1872 to 1877. Administratively, it is part of Central and Western District.

Due to its distance from major commercial cores and longtime inaccessibility by train, town development was less vigorous than in other parts of urban Hong Kong. But since the MTR was extended to the area in 2014, it is rapidly gentrifying, with many older businesses, such as vehicle repair workshops and cha chaan tengs, making way for new luxury developments, as well as high-end bars and restaurants.

Geography
Kennedy Town occupies the northwestern part of Hong Kong Island. It is bordered by the Belcher Bay of Victoria Harbour to the north, by Sulphur Channel to the west, Shek Tong Tsui to the east and Mount Davis and Lung Fu Shan to the south.

Historically, the district's western limit was legally defined as the western boundary of the City of Victoria. However, post-war development south of the boundary – Kennedy Town Service Reservoir Playground, Shun Hing College, Smithfield Garden, Mei Wah Mansion, Wah Fai House, and west of the boundary – Serene Court, The Sail at Victoria, and Island West Transfer Station, are all widely considered part of Kennedy Town. Kennedy Town Service Reservoir Playground, Lap Chee College of Shun Hing College, Block A of Smithfield Garden, Wah Fai House, and Serene Court straddle the boundary of Victoria. Since the borders of Kennedy Town have not officially been redefined, the above properties are technically either partly or entirely outside of Kennedy Town. The eastern boundary was not de jure defined but nevertheless de facto formerly defined as the alley between Belcher Court and Nam Hung Mansion. The border is also evidenced by the bend in the street grid, of which the alley is the axis. Due to the lack of space to relocate the Kennedy Town Swimming Pool for the Kennedy Town station, it had to be moved to Shek Tong Tsui. As a result, the border was de facto redefined as Collinson Street. Phase I of the Kennedy Town Swimming Pool is in Kennedy Town while Phase II is in Shek Tong Tsui. The elderly home in front of The Belcher's, Jockey Club Student Village I, and the Centennial Campus are in Kennedy Town, while The Belcher's itself and the part of The University of Hong Kong from the Chow Yei Ching Building to The Kadoorie Biological Sciences Building are in Shek Tong Tsui.

In 1886, when Arthur Edward Kennedy was governor, land was reclaimed along the coast of Kennedy Town. It formed a narrow coastal strip of land that included the Kennedy Praya and the coastal area from Beach Street via Collinson Street to Shek Tong Tsui. Additional land was reclaimed along the coast of Kennedy Town between 1933 and 1939, but works were suspended before the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941. Further reclamation was conducted at the end of the 20th century.

For district council elections purposes, the area roughly corresponds to the "Kennedy Town and Mount Davis", "Kwun Lung" and "Sai Wan" constituencies. The boundaries of such constituencies may be subject to modification.

History
Kennedy Town is the western section of the historical Victoria City. In 1903, the Hong Kong Government erected seven boundary stones for the city, inscribed "City Boundary 1903". One of them is located next to the Kennedy Town Temporary Recreation Ground at Sai Ning Street (西寧街).

Streets
Streets in Kennedy Town include:

 * Belcher's Street
 * Catchick Street (吉席街). Named after Sir Catchick Paul Chater, it was named "Chater Street" until 1909, and was renamed to avoid confusion with the street in Central.
 * Davis Street
 * Forbes Street
 * Sands Street
 * Hau Wo Street
 * Ka Wai Man Road
 * Kennedy Town Praya (堅彌地城海旁)
 * New Praya, Kennedy Town (堅彌地城新海旁)
 * North Street
 * Pokfield Road
 * Smithfield
 * Victoria Road

Housing
Two of the earliest public housing estates of Hong Kong are located in Kennedy Town: Sai Wan Estate, completed in 1958, and Kwun Lung Lau, built in 1967. More recent luxury residential developments include, The Merton, completed in 2005, which is a high-rise private housing development in the area, as well as Manhattan Heights completed in the year 2000. There are approximately 138 developments in the area.

Following the new MTR extension, new land for potential property developments in the district is in high demand. In a District Council meeting concerning the development of west Kennedy Town in March 2015, the proposed rezoning plan gained general support despite some expressing their worries about the community's carrying capacity. Outlined areas to be rezoned and redeveloped include the ex-Mount Davis cottage area on Victoria Road, the Hong Kong Academy temporary campus and former Police Married Officers Quarters on Ka Wai Man Road, as well as the ex-Kennedy Town Incinerator and Abattoir site on Cadogan Street. The project is expected to provide about 3,000 public and private residential units. For the long-discussed redevelopment project regarding the district's half-century-old buildings, the Housing Authority admitted they have no plans to implement it after considering the costs and effects to rebuild and relocate, which will foreseeably increase the public housing burden.

Historic buildings
Historic buildings and places in Kennedy Town include:
 * Lo Pan Temple, a Grade I historic building
 * Elliot Pumping Station & Filters Senior Staff Quarters, No. 77 Pok Fu Lam Road, a Grade II historic building
 * Elliot Pumping Station & Filters Workmen's Quarters, a Grade III historic building
 * Elliot Pumping Station & Filters, Treatment Works Building, a Grade III historic building
 * Ex-Western Fire Station, No. 12 Belcher's Street, a Grade III historic building. Converted into the Po Leung Kuk Chan Au Big Yan Home for the Elderly.

Facilities

 * Smithfield Municipal Services Building (士美菲路市政大廈), located at 12K Smithfield, at the corner with Rock Hill Street.
 * Kennedy Town Community Complex, located at 12 Rock Hill Street, adjacent to Smithfield Municipal Services Building. The 16-storey building was completed in May 2006 and won a Certificate of Merit in the 2006 Design Award Scheme.
 * Kennedy Town Swimming Pool, located at 2 Sai Cheung Street North, next to Belcher Bay Park. It opened on 11 May 2011, replacing the swimming pool at Smithfield, demolished to facilitate the construction of Kennedy Town station.
 * Cadogan Street Temporary Garden.
 * Kennedy Town Fire Station, located at the northern end of Smithfield, at the corner with New Praya.
 * Victoria Public Mortuary, located at 34 Victoria Road.

Parks

 * Belcher Bay Park
 * Cadogan Street Temporary Park
 * Forbes Street Temporary Playground
 * Instagram Pier
 * Kennedy Town Temporary Recreation Ground at Sai Ning Street

Demographics
The neighbourhood is primarily Chinese, but a growing number of expats are moving into a number of luxury buildings built along the waterfront.

Transport
The western terminus of the Hong Kong Tramways is located in Kennedy Town next to The Merton in Catchick Street.

Kennedy Town is also served by Kennedy Town station, opened in 2014 as part of an extension of the Island line of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR).

Education
Kennedy Town is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 11. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and the following government schools: Bonham Road Government Primary School and Li Sing Primary School (李陞小學).

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Australasian shoveler

The Australasian shoveler (Spatula rhynchotis) is a species of dabbling duck in the genus Spatula. It ranges from 46 to 53 cm. It lives in heavily vegetated swamps. In Australia it is protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974. They occur in southwestern and southeastern Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. The male has a blue-grey head with a vertical white crescent in front of the eyes.

Naming
The common name for the species Spatula rhynchotis is Australasian shoveler no matter which country it is found in. It was previously categorised as two subspecies: Other names used include: spoonbill, shoveler, spoony, spoonie and shoveller. The Māori name of kuruwhengi is still valid.
 * S. rhynchotis rhynchotis Australian shoveler, the nominate race, occurs in southwestern and southeastern Australia and Tasmania.
 * S. rhynchotis variegata New Zealand shoveler, occurs in New Zealand.

The Australasian shoveler was described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801.

Courtship and breeding in New Zealand
Courtship in New Zealand starts around August which involves vocalisations from the drake (male) accompanied with head-bobbing whilst swimming toward the duck (female). The most heard vocalisations are from the drakes in the form of a "Sock, sock-sock, sock, sock-sock". Often several drakes will pursue an already paired duck: Generally the mated males are aggressive and will not tolerate this behavior from the bachelors, and fighting may ensue. Courtship flights are common in the morning and evenings mostly, where the duck is followed in a short rapid flight by one or more (usually two) drakes. This tests the speed and agility of the drakes. The duck may be biased in picking the 'winner' in these tests however, especially if she has paired with one of the competitors. She will even sometimes excrete mid-flight on a pursuing male if he is especially not to her fancy. There is a clear and unexplained sex ratio difference with a lot more males to females. This difference is not present in broods of ducklings however. Males with a lot of white breast feathers are not usually paired. These white feathers are often a sign of an older shoveler as first year males almost never have them. Mating will occur as early as August, though nesting rarely happens until at least October.

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Min River

Min River or Minjiang may refer to:

 * Min River (Sichuan) (岷江), in Sichuan, China
 * Min River (Fujian) (闽江), in Fujian, China

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Chiloé wigeon

The Chiloé wigeon (Mareca sibilatrix), also known as the southern wigeon, is one of three extant species of wigeon in the genus Mareca of the dabbling duck subfamily. This bird is indigenous to the southern part of South America, including the Chiloé Archipelago. In its native range, it is called the pato overo ("piebald duck") or pato real ("royal duck"), although the latter name also refers to the Muscovy in the wild. Its specific epithet, sibilatrix, means 'whistler', referring to the bird's.Its name comes from its residence,the Chloe Archipelago

Description

The Chiloé wigeon has a body length of 46 to 56 cm and a wingspan of 75 to 86 cm. The wing length is about 25 cm and the weight is approximately 800 g.

This bird has an iridescent green-blue cap on its head, and a bluish gray bill with a black tip. The cheeks and forehead are white, the eyes are dark brown, and there is a white auricular patch. The neck and occipital part of the head are black. The breast is barred black and white and the plumage of the wings is gray and white. The flanks of males are rust colored, and light brown on females. The legs and feet are gray.

Sexual dimorphism is relatively subtle in this species of wigeon. Males are usually somewhat larger and heavier, and with somewhat brighter plumage and more strongly pronounced iridescence of the cap. Apart from these features, it can be difficult to distinguish the two sexes. Juveniles resemble adult birds, but the rust coloring on the flanks is diminished or absent.

Distribution and habitat

This duck is indigenous to the southern part of South America, where it is found on freshwater lakes, marshes, shallow lagoons and slow flowing rivers. Vagrants have been observed in South Georgia, South Orkney and the South Shetland Islands.

It breeds primarily in Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile. The northern border of the breeding range is in Argentina at 36° S and Chile at 40° S. It also breeds sparingly in the Falkland Islands. It migrates to southeastern Brazil for the winter.

It was first introduced to Europe in 1870; it soon bred in zoos.

Because the Chiloé wigeon is widely distributed and has a large, stable wild population, it is categorized as least concern by the IUCN.

Ecology and behavior

The Chiloé wigeon displays a variety of behaviors depending on habitat. It is an omnivore, feeding predominantly on aquatic plants and grass, and occasionally coastal algae.

This monogamous species breeds in the austral spring, between September and December. Pairs inhabit very small breeding territories, building their nests in grasses and under bushes. The female lays eight to ten white or cream-colored eggs. After a gestation period of approximately 24–25 days the ducklings are born. The father helps raise the ducklings; however, he leaves the family after the offspring molt.

Captive hybrids with the Philippine Duck (Anas luzonica) have been described.

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Talk:Sailor Moon (English adaptations)

Manga translators?
I noticed there is no mention of who translated the Sailor Moon manga for Mixx/ Tokyopop. Does anybody know? (or is this not relevant enough for this article?)--VArakawa (talk) 13:59, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Possibly it's something that was only known by those within the company. I do not own the Tokyopop manga, so I can't check for details... but all I know is, i've pre-ordered the re-published MANGA that will be out in September :) & with correct translations (hopefully) all will be well. In my opinion, if the MANGA sells well this time, we might see Naoko giving the US the rights to make a proper translation of the ANIME also. ~ Fighter4luv (talk) 01:01, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

 * There's some copies in a store I know so I can check them. Going by how quickly SM stuff goes, I'd say an anime would sell. 陣 内 Jinnai 01:39, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

DiC's supposade "breach of contract"
I have been asking around on this and no known Sailor Moon fan can find a source to say as such, so it has come to my attention that this information is false. If DiC had indeed breached it's contract it wouldn't have been able to distribute the Sailor Moon series on DVD in 2002 with ADV. As such I have changed the post to the following: "DiC for reasons unknown did not end up dubbing the rest of the Sailor Moon series. Cloverway Inc., the international branch of Toei Animation, the Japanese studio that produced the original version of the anime, ended up with the distribution rights to Sailor Moon S and SuperS because of the show's ongoing popularity."

If anyone finds a reliable source as to the truth of DiC actually breaching it's contract I believe it needs to stay as this as there is no proof or source that they actually breached their contract and saying so is false information. JamesAlan1986 (talk-Contributes) 08:03, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Agreed. I honestly don't think DiC breached it's contract. Otherwise, they would've LOST the franchise. All that happened was that they simply didn't get any more of it. I think they felt they had enough episodes banked up to make money off of, and felt no need to produce the last two seasons or the movies, so the license passed to Toei's US branch. What you have is fine. --Geoffman13 (talk) 04:31, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

The Movies were released 2 years after the dubbing of R, during the dubbing of S and before the dubbing of SuperS
They were all released in the year 2000 as says amazon.com: Sailor Moon R The Movie - Promise of the Rose: February 8, 2000, Sailor Moon S The Movie - Hearts in Ice: May 23, 2000, & Sailor Moon SuperS The Movie - Black Dream Hole: August 15, 2000. JamesAlan1986 *talk 08:40, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Original research
Article has loads of specific trivia where they are not supported by souces which is considered original research not only that but it also holds more sections without barely any citation at all. And some don't even have any refs. So some of thatcan be considered original research.Lucia Black (talk) 15:54, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

 * I've changed the template to a refimprove - that seems more in line with what you're saying here than the OR template. --Malkinann (talk) 19:57, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

 * I was also refering to OR. In which there is, such as sections related to alterations.Lucia Black (talk) 05:11, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

 * Could you please be more specific? The alterations sections are reliably sourced.  --Malkinann (talk) 11:02, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * No they're not.Lucia Black (talk) 16:59, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

 * Animefringe is a reliable source, and it is used to source that section. Could you please be more specific as to what the article needs?  --Malkinann (talk) 19:25, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Due to closure of mediation...
Unfortunately, mediation had to be closed for things that couldn't be helped. Regardless, mediation itself showed a consensus to merging this with the main article. So i believe making the effort to clean up and simplify the information to merge back with the main article shouldn't be a problem even if one person opposes. What i initially thought would be simplifying and merging the manga aspects, as that is the easiest to merge back. Also the least sourced, so not alot of information is going to be saved. Would that be a good idea?Lucia Black (talk) 17:38, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Support - obviously, this would be a great idea. Given the fact that this has gone through several disputes and the mediation case showed a strong consensus to merge the articles into one, it's very clear that we need to clean the article up and simplify it. Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 18:13, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * STRONG OPPOSE - Would create another situation similar to the Digimon articles and the Price is Right Pricing Game articles.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 23:47, 14 February 2012 (UTC)Chris
 * STRONGLY DISAGREE - Are you dumb? There is no way you should merge this article just because you think it's not necessary. It is completely necessary to not merge. DiC did so much for Sailor Moon, they saved it from another company who wanted to make Sailor Moon look like a joke and turn it into something that's called now Saban Moon. Without DiC we probably never would've gotten Sailor Moon, don't you dare merge this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LizzyMi (talk • contribs) 00:09, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Im starting to suspect sockpuppetry but i should give good faith. Tomballguy: what situation would that be? LizzyMi: its not the article isnt necesarry, its that its the same topic as the main article where it covers anime and manga, why separate information of english articles and so. This isnt about DiC, this is about it being the same topic. And it is a strong Point of view fork and synthesis. Please look up WP:POVFORK and WP:SYNTHESIS. Plus for now we are discussing to merge it completely after we clean it up and fix it. AND this is about starting off with merging the manga section.Lucia Black (talk) 00:41, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * First of all, I don't use sock accounts. Second, the situation I'm referring to is unnecessary mass deletion/merging. Yes, this article has it's flaws, but that's no reason to merge/delete; we can still fix it, can't we?

Please, just look it into your heart to give the article another chance.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 00:54, 15 February 2012 (UTC)Chris

 * No sock-puppetry here, I can promise that. We both just share same beliefs, this is very important to the both of us. I think it's important to keep it because the english adaption for anime is a lot more different than the manga. We need it to be remembered not forgot if you merge there will be on a few short sentences on this topic. Sailor Moon mustn't be forgotten. I only recently started to watch Sailor Moon when I was a child I never watched it but I always remembered the Sailor Says at the ending of the show for watching one or two episodes at my friends house. I never saw the other side of Sailor Moon. So in conclusion it's important to keep this page because in the near future when someone wants to remember Sailor Moon they have something to remind them of what it is and was. It may have not been what people were or are looking for but it is something that was and will always be remembered. User:LizzyMi

No. You dont understand the issue of the very existence of this article. The article is about the same media. This has nothing to do with mass deletion. The article's very existence is WP:POVFORK and WP:SYNTHESIS. look it up before you respond.Lucia Black (talk) 01:30, 15 February 2012 (UTC) The article's existent "literally" impossible to stay without failing neutral point of view. To say english version is subjectively more notable than the original version by the differences shows how bias this is. This article is all about distribution and localization of Sailor Moon media covered in the main article. Obviously cleaning up the article is part of merging it. For one has several unreliable sources and too intricate on the differences such alterations and censorship. Saban Moon is completely different and could be mentioned. If youre so worried about article count merging this with the main article will be enough to split the anime from the main article.Lucia Black (talk) 02:31, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Dully noted. Can't we still just resolve this by fixing the article instead of deleting/merging?--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 02:08, 15 February 2012 (UTC)Chris

 * I'm still not convinced. Please, just think about this very carefully... I know this article has several mistakes (such as a non-neutral point of view) within, but that's not a reason to kill it.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 03:10, 15 February 2012 (UTC)Chris
 * The existence of the article itself fails Nuetral Point of View, we can clean it up, remve intricate detail, and trivial information and it will still fail nuetral point of view. It is plenty reason to merge the article.Lucia Black (talk) 03:19, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Its like WP:POVFORK and WP:SYNTHESIS was overlooked.Lucia Black (talk) 10:44, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Your statement (and policies you mentioned) still don't mean anything... (Serena's voice) Sorry, I refuse to give up.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 18:02, 15 February 2012 (UTC)Chris

You all are making it sound like you all just want to delete this to tick the fans off. Just because this article has some faults does not mean it should be deleted/merged, REGARDLESS of WP:POVFORK and WP:SYNTHESIS.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 19:29, 15 February 2012 (UTC)Chris
 * Support - FAR too much information is unsourced, original research, and/or unverified generalities and commentary talking on behalf of the fanbase and their reactions. I especially support this if there was prior consensus in favor it doing this as well. Sergecross73   msg me   18:10, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * If this is in response to what I said, it's not that I'm trying to upset any such fanbase, it's just that unsourced, unverifiable generalities don't belong on Wikipedia. Now, if there's an article on the Yahoo News Page that documents how fans are upset, then great, include it. But when some random editor goes and takes it upon their self to speak upon "the fanbase" without any reference point, that's not acceptable. Who are they to speak for everyone else, and who's to say their interpretation was accurate?
 * My stance is, by the time all the unsourced/origina research/fan speculation is removed, the article will be significantly smaller, it'd make more sense to just merge. Sergecross73   msg me   19:49, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * And you are still upsetting ME, as part of a fanbase. We're alot stronger and powerful than Wikipedia's biased guidelines restricting free knowledge. And you know it, do you?--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 20:02, 15 February 2012 (UTC)Chris
 * I'm not sure I followed any of that actually. But in general, if you wish to accomplish anything, I'd suggest learning/following guidelines of Wikipedia, or going somewhere that has looser standards, like a Sailor Moon wikia or fansite or something. Sergecross73   msg me   21:23, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Let the real fans decide if this article should stay; most of the people who support the deletion/merging, it would appear to me, are anime purists.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 21:37, 15 February 2012 (UTC)Chris
 * This is exactly what I'm talking about; that's the mentality of a fansite or wikia. Unless you start backing up your argument with policy, or start supporting the content of the article with a lot more reliable sources, you're not going to win any arguments. Sergecross73   msg me   21:40, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * As long as I have the right under the United States Constitution to allow people to have free knowledge (do not throw anything else in my face), as long as I have support from other fellow dub moonies, this article stays. May I suggest you stop arguing with me, and save the article.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 21:47, 15 February 2012 (UTC)Chris
 * The fact that you think that the US Constitution somehow protects this Wikipedia page's existence is so ridiculous I don't know how to respond. And so I won't. I'm done arguing such a non-sensical viewpoint. Sergecross73   msg me   22:03, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Tomballguy, you just dugged your own grave. Ignoring policies and relying on fanbase and somehow claim that wikipedia's policy is bias? Do you know what bias means? Because its a bit ironic for you to be claiming wikipedia's policy to be bias when you yourself hold no ground. And no, articles shouldnt exist regardless of policies. We arent here to please fanbase. Either ffollow the rules, i origially assumed good faith, but at this point you made it obviously clear its about WP:IDONTLIKEIT. So your vote is defintely not going to be considered at all.Lucia Black (talk) 22:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Listen now, I tried assuming good faith here myself, but everyone just kept forcing me to take extreme measures. We either save the article, or just leave it alone; it does NOT deserve to die.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 23:01, 15 February 2012 (UTC)Chris
 * You want to ignore the rules and poicies. How can we even consider what you want? Read WP:IDONTLIKEIT.Lucia Black (talk) 23:04, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Been there, done that, but it still does not convince me to drop my argument.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 23:05, 15 February 2012 (UTC)Chris
 * You have no argument...you yourself are bias, because you choose pleasing fanbase than providing the best qualty articles.Lucia Black (talk) 23:09, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Please, just give it another chance to live. I am not attacking anyone, I am not legally threatening anyone, I am just saying that Wikipedia's Policies are too restrictive on topics like this. I beg of you.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 23:10, 15 February 2012 (UTC)Chris

No...policies are restricting so bias articles such as these wont exist. This is definitely BAD FAITH on your part. You provide no argument and beg for it to be kkept. If you want to be a good editor then follow the policies wikipedia gives. Nuetral point of view is one of the BIGGEST aspects Wikipedia aims for, and this article interferes. Go to wikia if you want,but here no one is goiing to listen to an immature fan. And sorry if its uncivil, but its true. Its immature of you to beg editors t keep an article to please fans. You can rest assure, we are acting in good faith because we are NUETRAL despite being fans ourselves. I am done.Lucia Black (talk) 23:22, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * ...(Serena's voice) I won't lose to you! (walks away)--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 23:32, 15 February 2012 (UTC)Chris

WP:NOTDEMOCRACY. Tomballguy and LizzyMi's arguments are not valid. This article should be broken up and merged into Sailor Moon. The difficult part is finding someone who will do the accurately sum up parts into concise paragraphs. A lot of the trivia information can be cut from this article such as what episodes were omitted or specific edits. DragonZero ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 22:56, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

 * Support merge as a content fork unnecessarily synthesising two existing articles.  Claret Ash  09:51, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
 * No, this article contains with no doubt, useful info, that if merged, will only make the main article too large.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 23:27, 19 February 2012 (UTC)Chris

 * Doesn't matter. Useful info isn't an excuse for merge and once merged it'll be easier to split an anime article.Lucia Black (talk) 03:52, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
 * NO, YOUR MERGE WILL ONLY MAKE THINGS HARDER.--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 04:28, 21 February 2012 (UTC)Chris

Harder on what/whom? You rely on subjective reasons.Lucia Black (talk) 11:53, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I came across this discussion while looking through Yahoo! Answers threads, and I came across this one, which appears to be from User:Tomballguy above. I haven't looked into the full background of this dispute, and I don't really have an opinion on this matter. However, since I read through the Y! answers thread, I thought I'd make a few observations that will hopefully help clear this issue up. Looking over the article, I agree that the article isn't written in a neutral point of view and I do see quite a few unsourced statements made throughout this article. With that said, I see that there are 64 references here, and many of the references specifically discuss the adaptations, rather than the main series. With that many references, a separate article might be warranted, if there is enough content. Adaptations of Sailor Moon might be a better title though, as it would allow the article to have a broader scope and it would be less region specific. If there isn't enough content, then it probably needs some heavy cutting before it could reasonably be merged to the main article. There are 5182 words in this article. The main Sailor Moon article has 6122 words. Directly merging the two would make the main article excessively long. Well, I hope this helps resolve this dispute. Best, Alpha_Quadrant   (talk)  03:56, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Incase anyone is convinced of this, the issue is content fork, there is no sources proving the english version to be significantly more important over the japanese version. While the main article covers english reception. Merging it little by little would work and "Adaptation of Sailor Moon" is still inacurate, adaptations are anime, live action series, films etc. Adaptations arent by localization and distribution. A more accurate name is Localization of Sailor Moon. Still, the issue isnt about enough content not enough to separate from the main article. One of them holds english reception and its not this one.Lucia Black (talk) 11:47, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you going to be the one who will work on the merge? A consensus to merge might be pointless if no one plans on doing the merge after all this discussion. DragonZero  ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 13:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * And at the same time not supporting only leaves more damage i plan on doing it but not all at one. I will make a sandbox version of this article and fix it, and you are all welcome to contribute too but this is a lil more negative that wont move anything forward.Lucia Black (talk) 13:42, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * @Alpha Quadrant, fair enough. Maybe I should just stop overreacting...--I'm a Graduate! (talk) 20:33, 22 February 2012 (UTC)Chris

I am removing merge tags
The discussion can continue. I see no need to leave the tags on for years. I don't have an opinion one way or another, but leaving them on for so long just makes WP look like we don't maintain or articles in a timely fashion. I will wait a few days for responses before removing them.--Canoe1967 (talk) 01:20, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Better to leave it as it is incase multiple editors manage to find a way rather than hoping they run into the discussion.Lucia Black (talk) 11:05, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I didn't read through all the discussion. Could someone put in a nutshell why the articles need to be merged. It seems like a very tedious process, information could be deleted, and links between each article could have the same effect?--Canoe1967 (talk) 15:55, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * WP:CONTENTFORK, WP:SYNTHESIS. The article separates english localization and distribution of the same media. t treats the media as if it were different, but its not.Lucia Black (talk) 03:17, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

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Kerf (disambiguation)

Kerf is the width of a saw cut.

Kerf may also refer to:

 * Kerf, molten metal and metal oxide blown out when metal is cut by an oxy-gas torch: see Oxy-fuel welding and cutting
 * Kerf (sculpture), a pair of cast-concrete works by Thomas Sayre in Portland, Oregon, US
 * Kerf, a poetry collection by Peter Sanger
 * Kerf dust, a byproduct of sawing silicon ingots into wafers, esp. in production of Photovoltaics
 * The Kerf, a poetry publication of the College of the Redwoods, Del Norte Center for Writing in Crescent City, California
 * Kerala E.N.T. Research Foundation (KERF), a hospital at Kollam in Kerala, India

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Police division

A division was the usual term for the largest territorial subdivision of most British police forces. In major reforms of police organisation in the 1990s divisions of many forces were restructured and retitled Basic Command Units (BCUs), although some forces continue to refer to them as divisions.

The term was and used in many other countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth.

United Kingdom
The term has existed since the creation of police forces in the early 19th century. Most police forces were divided into divisions, usually commanded by a Superintendent. Divisions were usually divided into Sub-Divisions, commanded by Inspectors (or, in the Metropolitan Police, Sub-Divisional Inspectors, a higher rank). Some rural forces did not acquire this further organisational level until well into the 20th century, however. Sub-divisional commanders were later regraded as Chief Inspectors in most forces. In London, divisions were later grouped together as districts, each commanded by a Chief Constable and later a Deputy Assistant Commissioner.

Each division could cover a wide rural area, a substantial town, or a portion of a city, depending on the population (London, for instance, was divided at one point into 67 Metropolitan Police divisions and sub-divisions and a further four City of London Police divisions). In 1949, the Metropolitan Police regraded its divisional commanders as Chief Superintendents and most other forces followed suit. With the reforms of the 1990s, sub-divisions and divisions acquired a variety of new names - for instance, in 1999 the Metropolitan Police replaced its divisions with "Borough Policing", whose boundaries were based on the 1965 London boroughs.

Metropolitan Police divisions, 1829–1999
1829 • A (Whitehall)

• B (Westminster)

• C (St James's)

• D (Marylebone)

• E (Holborn)

• F (Covent Garden)

• G (Finsbury)

• H (Whitechapel)

• K (Stepney)

• L (Lambeth)

• M (Southwark)

• N (Islington)

• P (Camberwell)

• R (Greenwich)

• S (Hampstead)

• T (Kensington)

• V (Wandsworth)

Later additions by formation date • W (Clapham) (1865)

• X (Willesden) (1865)

• Y (Highgate) (1865)

• J (Bethnal Green) (1886)

• F (Paddington) (1886)

• Z (Croydon) (1921)

• Q (Kilburn) (1965)

• I (Heathrow) (1984)

Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Police Force divides its territory into 23 divisions or districts, each reporting to one of the six regions.

India
In India, the equivalent to a division is a Police District. Policing in India is on a state basis, and every state is divided into a number of districts. Each district is headed by a Superintendent of Police. The district is subdivided into Sub Divisions, each commanded by a Deputy Superintendent of Police. Sub Divisions are further divided into Police Circles. In the case of a district including large cities, two separate police districts are created, known as the City Police District, headed by a Commissioner, and the Rural District Police, headed by a Superintendent.

Republic of Ireland
In the Republic of Ireland, the Garda Síochána divides its operational area into 26 divisions, which in turn report to one of four regions. Most, but not all of these divisions, are aligned to county borders. Each division is commanded by a Chief Superintendent. Divisions are further divided into districts, commanded by a Superintendent.

Singapore
The Singapore Police Force divides the city-state into seven divisions of varying physical sizes and population. These boundaries tend to be demarcated in terms of cases handled by observing criminal trends over time, instead of being based on area or population sizes alone.

Canada
A few police departments in Canada use divisions to represent stations or patrol areas, but some are a mix of operational and administrative units with the force.

A few police agencies using divisions include:

 * Peel Regional Police - 5 (4 geographic and 1 operational)
 * Ottawa Police Service - 3 (geographic)
 * Edmonton Police Service - 5 (geographic)
 * Halifax Regional Police - 4 (3 geographic and 1 operational)
 * Hamilton Police Service - 3 (geographic)
 * Toronto Police Service - 17 (geographic)
 * Vancouver Police Department - 3 (operational)
 * Victoria Police Department - 6 (operational and administrative)
 * Waterloo Regional Police Service - 5 (geographic)
 * Winnipeg Police Service - 5 (geographic)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old Frankish language

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep.

Seems like rubbish, or at least not notable. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:12, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, quite notable. Needs lot of work though. --fvw* 04:47, 2004 Nov 26 (UTC)
 * Keep and list on RfE. I can't believe the linguistic folks and medievalists have allowed this to be in this state.  (I can't help, unfortunately.)  Geogre 06:03, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Strong keep, article already has a cleanup tag. [[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 06:05, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Needs cleanup and expansion, not deletion. jni 09:20, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: There already is a redirect from frankish to an article at franks. Maybe move this to frankish (language)? Or even to frankish? Anyway, I've put in some wikilinks. No vote as yet. Andrewa 09:25, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: I went looking through to try to find this. I thought this was a bad duplicate, since obviously we'd have an article at Frankish.  Well, Frankish redir to Franks, where there is a line saying there is the language Frankish language which goes to a disambig. to....  Old Frankish language.  Four steps to get at what should naturally be at Frankish.Geogre 14:01, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: Isn't is Wikipedia standard to add the word "language" to all language article titles? Spanish language, English language, etc.  RickK 00:23, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: You're right, but the inconsistency is in academics. Where "Spanish" could be the adjective, "Frankish" is kind of rarely used that way.  At any rate, it's rare enough that we ought to at least be able to cut down one step in the redirect train.  "Frankish" ought to be a disambiguation to the language or the people (as there is no country to which it could refer). Geogre 03:21, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Move to Frankish sounds good. Dr Zen 10:07, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * KEEP There seems to be a dislike of rare languages on Wikipedia. If there is space for the Klingon Language then there should be room here for real languages. -Ms. Greenberg 14:21, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, definitely. FWIW, Frankish language is a disambig.  Most knowledge of Old Frankish comes from reconstructions; there aren't any extended texts AFAIK and few inscriptions.  Smerdis of Tlön 15:39, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. Really interesting topic, too, and I wish I knew enough about it to fill out this article (hope someone else does). Antandrus 03:27, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep but do not move. While "Frankish" is rarely used as an adjective, it is sometimes used that way.  (Fairly frequently in the current links that show up in "what links here" to the Frankish redirect page.)  The way to shorten the redirect train is to go back and pipe the links to the correct destination.  (forgot to sign my vote earlier.  sorry) Rossami (talk)

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Kodori Valley

The Kodori Valley, also known as the Kodori Gorge (კოდორის ხეობა, Кәыдырҭа), is a river valley in Abkhazia, Georgia's breakaway autonomous republic. The valley's upper part, populated by Svans, was the only corner of the post-1993 Abkhazia directly controlled by the central Georgian government, which since 2006 officially styles the area as Upper Abkhazia (Geo. ზემო აფხაზეთი, Zemo Apkhazeti). On August 12, 2008, Russo–Abkhazian forces gained control of the Upper Kodori Valley, previously controlled by Georgia.

Description

The Upper Kodori Valley lies in the upper reaches of the Kodori River in northeastern portion of Abkhazia, about 65 km (40 miles) inside an official administrative boundary of the region with the rest of Georgia. It is about 30 km (20 miles) down the coast from Abkhazia's capital Sukhumi. At an elevation of 1,300 to 3,984 meters, the area covers a range of landscapes from coniferous mountain forest to intermittent snow cover.

The climate is alpine and winters are snowy. Annual precipitation 1,600 to over 2,000 mm (120 mm in January, 160 mm in April, 180 mm in July and 160 mm in October). Over 30 days with heavy rains per year. Around 180 days with snow cover. Mean temperature: January: -3 C, April: 3 C, July: 14 C and October: 5 C. Mean maximum temperature in July: 28 C.

The valley is populated by several upland villages; these are Lata, Omarishara, Shkhara and Zemo Azhara. Administratively, it was de facto and de jure a part of Upper Abkhazia (prior to August 2008), but the Republic of Abkhazia claims it as part of the Gulripshi District. According to the last Georgian census (2002), the population of the former Georgian-controlled part of the valley was 1,956, of which were 1,912 ethnic Georgians (Svans).

The population of the Upper Kodori Valley in 2011 was 196, mostly ethnic Georgians (Svans). Russian state media outlet Sputnik claimed there were about 100 people in Azhara in 2020, who mostly engaged in beekeeping and animal husbandry. The residents of Azhara did not have Abkhazian passports.

History
The Abkhazian historic regions of Dal and Tsebelda occupied most of the Kodori Valley before the incorporation of Abkhazia into Russian Empire from 1810 to 1864. Its highland communities were independent of the central authority of Shervashidze-Chachba princes. In the 1840s, Imperial Russian soldiers started a series of massacres and ethnic cleansing. In January 1841, Russian troops massacred the Svan and Georgian populations in Kodori valley, specifically in the village of Dali. It is estimated that 90 Svan surnames went extinct as families were killed and few deported. As a result, the ethnic cleansing continued until the late 19th century, in 1866 the uprising of almost all the Abkhaz of these lands became muhajirs and the now depopulated territory of the former District of Tsebelda was placed under a special "settlement curator." Armenians, Georgians (Megrelians) and Russians populated the lower part of the valley, while Svans settled in its upper part (beyond the village of Lata).

Recent history
The village of Lata was taken by Abkhazian forces on March 24 and 25, 1994. According to the Moscow Agreement, signed in May 1994, the ceasefire line was drawn to the north-east of it so, so that the Upper Kodori Valley would remain outside of the control of Abkhazian authorities. Together with the Gali district, it is one of the two areas that remain populated by Georgians in the post-war Abkhazia.

Under UMOMIG's (United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia) expanded mandate laid out in Resolution 937 (1994), the mission was given two tasks in the Kodori Valley:

1. Monitor the withdrawal of troops of Georgia from the Kodori Valley to places beyond the boundaries of Abkhazia. 2. Patrol the Kodori Valley regularly.

Despite no subsequent real military activity in the Kodori corridor, several dangerous incidents occurred:
 * Hostages: Three hostage-taking incidents involving UNMOs have occurred in the Kodori Valley: In October 1999, June 2000 and December 2000. In each case the hostages were released.
 * Kodori Valley helicopter attack: On October 8, 2001, a UNOMIG helicopter was shot down by unknown attackers, killing all nine aboard.
 * 2001 Kodori crisis: In the fall of 2001 a group of Chechen fighters, led by the commander Ruslan Gelayev, entered the gorge from the Georgian side, causing a major flare-up in Georgian-Abkhazian relations. The Russian air force carried out air strikes on the fighters and according to the local authorities, around 15% of the population fled their homes and sought refugee status in Tbilisi. Georgia responded by moving troops into the area, a step condemned by Abkhazia and the UN. The Chechens were eventually defeated by Russian and Abkhazian forces.
 * Russian military incident: On April 2, 2002, Georgian and Abkhazian sides signed a demilitarization agreement for Kodori Gorge. UNOMIG-monitored withdrawal of 350 Georgian troops ended on April 10, however, 100 Russian ground forces entered the Kodori Gorge, without having any peacekeeping mandate, on the morning of April 12. They were soon surrounded by the Georgian Defence Ministry forces. A likely armed conflict was prevented by President Eduard Shevardnadze, going to Kodori to bring the situation under control. The UN representatives in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict theater also condemned the Russian action. On April 14, a Russian military unit left the gorge.
 * In 2003 UNOMIG ceased the monitoring operation following a hostage-taking incident.
 * 2006 Kodori crisis: In July 2006, Georgia sent the Interior Ministry special forces to disarm the local paramilitary leader, Emzar Kvitsiani. With the restoration of the Georgian jurisdiction in the area, the President of Georgia ordered the Tbilisi-based Government of Abkhazia-in-exile to relocate to the gorge which would function as a temporary administrative center of breakaway Abkhazia. For this purpose, a major rehabilitation project was launched by the Georgian government, to adjust the valley's infrastructure to its new political function. Georgia offered the UNOMIG to monitor the upper part of the gorge simultaneously with the Separatist-controlled Lower Kodori Valley, but refused to allow the Russian peacekeeping forces to participate in the monitoring operation. Later Georgia allowed Russian peacekeepers to take part in the process.
 * In 2006 the UNOMIG issued 13 violation notices to Georgia for moving troops and arms into the security zone as well as for obstructing the movement of UN observers contrary to the stipulations of the 1994 Moscow Agreement. In the same period the Abkhazian side received two violation notices for obstructing the movement of UN observers.
 * A joint patrol of the UN observers and Russian peacekeepers found the presence of 550 personnel from the Upper Kodori Gorge as a result of monitoring, carried out on October 12, 2006. They agreed that the presence of police forces in Upper Kodori Gorge is technically not a violation of the 1994 Moscow ceasefire agreement which bans the deployment of army troops in the area. The UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) said on October 13 that monitoring had also revealed the presence of mortars and an anti-aircraft gun in the gorge which, according to the Georgian side, was seized from the local militia group in an operation carried out in late July.
 * 2007 Georgia helicopter incident: On the night of March 11, 2007, three MI-24 attack helicopters bombarded the village of Chkhalta which served as the temporary headquarters of the Government of the Abkhazian Autonomous Republic. The government headquarters were damaged, but there were no injuries. Georgia accused Russia of carrying out the attack. Russia has officially denied carrying out the attack, however, a Russian official had stated that this was a "very clear signal" for Georgia.
 * September 20, 2007, incident - The Georgian Ministry of Interior reported an armed clash with an Abkhaz subversive group which attempted to penetrate the Georgian-controlled area where the construction of a new road was underway. Two Abkhaz militiamen were killed, one wounded and six detained by the Georgian police unit. The Abkhaz leader, Sergei Bagapsh, had earlier warned that the de facto authorities reserved to themselves the right, to undertake measures at any time, to gain control of the Upper Kodori Valley. The same day, an armed clash between Russian peacekeepers and Abkhaz border guards left two dead.
 * 2008 South Ossetia war - Soon after the start of the conflict, Abkhaz forces began the artillery bombardment of the Upper Kodori Gorge with the declared goal of pushing Georgian forces out of it. Georgian sources claimed Russian aircraft attacked Georgian-controlled villages in the valley. UNOMIG observers withdrew from the valley after Abkhazian authorities asked them to do so "for security reasons." On August 12, 2008, Abkhazian forces gained control of most of the Kodori Valley, previously controlled by Georgia.

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List of harbours in Hong Kong

The following is a list of (natural) harbours in Hong Kong:

 * Victoria Harbour (維多利亞港, 維港)
 * Aberdeen Harbour (香港仔海港)
 * Double Haven (印洲塘)
 * Port Shelter (牛尾海)
 * Inner Port Shelter (西貢海)
 * Tolo Harbour (吐露港)
 * Tai Tam Harbour (大潭港)
 * Rocky Harbour (糧船灣海)
 * Three Fathoms Cove (企嶺下海)

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Svan

Svan may refer to:
 * Svan people, an ethnic group of the Georgian people
 * Svan language
 * Svaneti, a region of Georgia
 * Lusaghbyur, Shirak, Armenia, formerly called Svan
 * Anaco Airport, ICAO code
 * Gunde Svan, former Swedish top-level cross-country skier

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GURPS Technomancer

GURPS Technomancer is a techno-magic campaign setting by David Pulver, published in 1998 by Steve Jackson Games as for the GURPS role-playing game system.

Contents
GURPS Technomancer provides a setting in an alternative modern Earth where magic co-exists with technology.

The premise of this world setting is that the detonation of the first atomic bomb by the United States triggered a transformation of reality. The mushroom cloud became a permanent magical tornado emitting bolts of red lightning. The resulting wave of magical energy and fallout also modified the genes of countless new-born children. This created both magically apt individuals as well as chimeras — people with some animal traits.

The campaign book contains a post-event timeline; a set of new magic spells suitable for the campaign; rules for mixing magic with modern technology; descriptions of the emergent non-human creatures; 20 character templates for campaign-specific careers; character-building advantages, disadvantages, skills, and equipment; a detailed description of the effects of magic on our society; information on various organizations, and a geography of locations significantly affected by the release of magic.

Listed as requirements to use the book are the GURPS Basic Set (3rd edition revised) and GURPS Magic (2nd edition). GURPS Grimoire is also recommended for use in expanding the list of available spells.

Publication history
GURPS Technomancer was published in 1998 by Steve Jackson Games. The book is 128 pages in length with monochrome illustrations and an index. The jacket is stiff paper and is illustrated in color. The book was edited by Sean Punch.

Sean Punch became the new line editor for GURPS in 1995, and Steve Jackson Games began to limit their licensed products and focused instead on more historical books and original settings, which resulted in books such as GURPS Technomancer.

Reviews

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Cape shoveler

The Cape shoveler or Cape shoveller (Spatula smithii) is a species of dabbling duck of the genus Spatula. It is resident in South Africa, and uncommon further north in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, southern Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Zambia.

This 51–53 cm long duck is non-migratory, but undertakes some local seasonal movements. It is gregarious when not breeding, and may then form large flocks.

This species has a large spatulate bill. Adults have speckled grey-brown plumage and dull orange legs. As with many southern hemisphere ducks, the sexes appear similar, but the male has a paler head than the female, a pale blue forewing separated from the green speculum by a white border, and yellow eyes. The female's forewing is grey.

Cape shoveler can only be confused with a vagrant female northern shoveler, but is much darker and stockier than that species.

It is a bird of open wetlands, such as wet grassland or marshes with some emergent vegetation, and feeds by dabbling for plant food, often by swinging its bill from side to side to strain food from the water. This bird also eats molluscs and insects in the nesting season. The nest is a shallow depression on the ground, lined with plant material and down, and usually close to water.

This is a fairly quiet species. The male has rarr and cawick calls, whereas the female has a quack.

The Cape shoveler was described by the German ornithologist Ernst Hartert in 1891 under the present binomial name Spatula smithii. The specific epithet commemorates the Scottish zoologist Andrew Smith.

The IUCN Red List sets the conservation status of the Cape shoveler as least concern.

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Palo Alto High School

Palo Alto Senior High School, commonly referred to locally as "Paly", is a comprehensive public high school in Palo Alto, California. Operated by the Palo Alto Unified School District, the school is one of two high schools in the district, the other being across town: Gunn High School, with which Paly has a rivalry.

Palo Alto High School was originally established as a private school in 1894. The school was later established as a public school four years later, and a new campus was built in 1918. The school's property is adjacent to Stanford University, who provided the land for the school.

The school admits roughly 500 students each year and features various extracurriculars, including a variety of student-led publications, glassblowing, robotics, and a theater program. It is a two-time National Blue Ribbon School.

History
Palo Alto Senior High School initially opened in 1894 as a private school. At the time of its opening, the school consisted of 24 students to 3 teachers. The school would later become a public school in 1918. Classes were initially held in the Channing Avenue Grammar School; a three-room high school was later built using funds from a trustee. An expanded campus began construction in 1917 and finished construction by December 1918.

Demographics
2021–22

 * 2,010 students: 1,042 Male (51.8%), 968 Female (48.2%)

2015–16
 * 1,994 students: 982 Male (49.6%), 1004 Female (50.4%)

Student media
In October 2014, a new Media Arts Center (MAC) was unveiled at Paly. The MAC is the hub of journalism at Palo Alto High School.

Year-round student publications
These publications have a dedicated class associated with them.

 * The Campanile is the high school's newspaper. It prints 24 broadsheet pages once every three weeks. The Campanile has been in the National Scholastic Press Association Hall of Fame since 2004, and has also won four Pacemaker awards as well as a West regional award for editorial excellence from Time.
 * C Magazine is the high school Arts and Culture Magazine. C Magazine has won a Gold Crown award from Columbia Scholastic Press Association in 2015 and 2016.
 * Verde is Paly's school magazine publication, founded in 1999. It is published five times each year and available online. Verde has won Pacemaker and Gold Crown awards for scholastic journalism, including the 2005 Gold Crown award in the Newspaper category. In 2006 Verde won the Best in Show at National Journalism Convention held in San Francisco. In 2008 Verde was one of four newsmagazines awarded the Pacemaker award from the National Scholastic Press Association. In 2023, Verde was named Best in Show in the Newsmagazine category for schools with 1,800 or more students.
 * Viking is Paly's sports magazine publication, published five times each year and available online. Founded in 2007, Viking was the first publication at the high school level to solely cover athletics in the country. It won the National Scholastic Press Association's Student Journalist Impact Award in 2008.
 * The Paly Voice, launched in 2003, is Paly's online news source. It features searchable archives of all other Paly publications as well as exclusive online content. In the spring of 2005, the site won both the People's Voice and Overall Webby Award in the "Student" category.
 * InFocus is Paly's broadcast TV news program. Founded in 1998, it airs daily during school.
 * Madrono, the Palo Alto High School yearbook founded around 1918, has won numerous awards; one of the most prestigious being a gold medalist for the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. It will publish its 103rd issue in 2022.

Additional student publications
These publications are clubs but do not have a dedicated class.

 * Proof is Paly's arts and entertainment magazine. It was first published second semester of the 2009–10 school year.
 * Agora is Paly's foreign affairs magazine. First published in 2012, it is the first high school foreign affairs publication in the country. It publishes once a semester.
 * Littera is Paly's club literary magazine. The club was created in the fall of 2018. It publishes an online issue every semester.

Athletics
Titles won by teams from Palo Alto High School range from CIF State Championships in Boys Varsity Basketball in 1993 and 2006, a football Division I state championship in 2010, volleyball Division I state championships in 2010 and 2011, to CCS Championships in Football in 1995, 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2022 and countless CCS titles in other sports. In 2010, both the Boys and Girls Lacrosse teams won the inaugural Santa Clara Valley Athletic League Championships.

Paly has 25 varsity teams, including football, swimming, as well as badminton, softball, basketball, track and field/cross country running, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, volleyball, water polo, field hockey, ice hockey, and wrestling teams. Since 2023, former NFL quarterback Andrew Luck, drafted first overall by the Indianapolis Colts in the 2012 NFL draft and four-time NFL Pro Bowler, has served as an assistant coach to Paly's football team. The school is also home to several athletic clubs, including an Ultimate Frisbee Club.

Notable alumni

 * Davante Adams (2011), NFL wide receiver
 * Jeremy Anderson (artist) (attended 1940s), sculptor, professor of art
 * Rink Babka (1954), Olympic discus thrower
 * Joan Baez (1958), folk singer
 * Lisa Brennan-Jobs (1996), writer and daughter of Steve Jobs
 * Charles Brenner (1961), APL implementer and forensic mathematician
 * Ron "Money-B" Brooks (1987), rapper (Digital Underground)
 * Ron Christie (1987), Republican political strategist
 * Birge Clark (1910), architect
 * Whitfield Crane (1986), rock singer (Ugly Kid Joe)
 * Aarón Díaz (2001), Mexican-American actor and model (Quantico)
 * Tim Dickinson (1992), political journalist (Rolling Stone, Mother Jones)
 * Dave Feldman (1983), sportscaster (CSN Bay Area)
 * Karen Joy Fowler (1968), author (The Jane Austen Book Club)
 * Dave Franco (2003), actor (Scrubs, 21 Jump Street, Now You See Me)
 * James Franco (1996), actor (Spider-Man trilogy, Pineapple Express, Milk, 127 Hours)
 * Tom Franco (1998), artist
 * Erle Stanley Gardner (1909), detective fiction author & creator of Perry Mason
 * Ariel Gore, writer, she attended for two years and has written about the experience.
 * Charles Haid (1961), actor and director, (played Andy Renko on TV series Hill Street Blues)
 * Jim Harbaugh (1982), football player and coach, current coach of the LA Chargers
 * Peter Hansen (1997), football coach
 * Douglas Hofstadter (1961), professor of cognitive science and author
 * Allan Hoover (1925), financier, son of President Herbert Hoover
 * Jon Huntsman, Sr. (1955), billionaire founder of Huntsman Corporation
 * KeeSean Johnson (2014), football player
 * Ollie Johnston (1930), Academy Award-winning Disney animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia)
 * Morris Kirksey (1913), gold medal-winning sprinter and rugby player at the 1920 Summer Olympics
 * Bill Kreutzmann (1965), drummer (Grateful Dead)
 * Bill Lane, Sunset magazine publisher, American diplomat, and philanthropist
 * Cory Lerios, founding member of the band Pablo Cruise
 * Jeremy Lin (2006), basketball player
 * Jim Loscutoff (1948), basketball player, won seven NBA championships with the Boston Celtics
 * John Markoff (1967), New York Times journalist and author
 * Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (1963), musician (Grateful Dead) (didn't graduate)
 * Rob Minkoff (1980), film director and animator (The Lion King, Stuart Little)
 * Sean Nolan (1990), Olympic water polo team, Sydney 2000
 * Jesse Moss (1988), documentary filmmaker
 * Hank Norberg, football player
 * Teresa Noyola (2008), soccer player
 * Téa Obreht (2002), novelist (The Tiger's Wife)
 * Luke Paquin (1996), guitarist (Hot Hot Heat)
 * Joc Pederson (2010), Major League Baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants)
 * Stu Pederson (1978), Major League Baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers)
 * Bill Pidto (1983), sportscaster (ESPN, MSG Network)
 * Hal Plotkin (1975), journalist and activist
 * Keith Raffel (1968), technology executive, novelist, US Senate aide
 * Tom Ritchey (1974), (Ritchey Design), cycling engineer and pioneer of the mountain bike
 * Dave Schultz (1977), 3x NCAA Champion, Olympic and world champion wrestler
 * Mark Schultz (1978), 3x NCAA Champion, Olympic and world champion wrestler
 * Joe Sebok (1995), professional poker player
 * Joe Simitian (1970), California State Senator (2004–12) and former California State Assemblyman (2000–04)
 * Grace Slick (1958), rock singer (Jefferson Airplane) (attended 1–2 years, but graduated from Castilleja)
 * Les Steers (1937), high jumper
 * Tom Stern (1964), Oscar-nominated cinematographer (Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Changeling)
 * Dink Templeton (1915), multi-sport athlete, 1920 Olympic gold medalist and Hall of Fame Stanford track & field coach
 * Christopher Tin (1994), Grammy Award winning composer
 * Molly Tuttle (2011), Grammy Award-winning Bluegrass musician
 * Lew Welch, Beat poet, educator, and writer
 * Tad Williams (1975), author (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch science fiction/fantasy series)
 * Kirk Wise (1981), film director/animator (Beauty and the Beast, Atlantis: The Lost Empire)
 * Remi Wolf (2014), Pop/funk singer-songwriter and former reality TV contestant
 * Ron Wyden (1967), U.S. Senator from Oregon (1996– )
 * Lily Zhang (2014), U.S. Olympic table tennis player, London 2012
 * Jan Zobel (1965), accountant and LGBTQ community organizer in Bay Area

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Comenius University Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics

The Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics (FMPH; FMFI; Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky; colloquial: Matfyz) is one of 13 faculties of the Comenius University in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. The faculty provides higher education in mathematics, physics and informatics, as well as teacher training in subjects related to these branches of study. It was established in 1980 by separating from the Faculty of Natural Sciences under the name of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (Matematicko-fyzikálna fakulta). Its name was changed to the contemporary name in 2000.

In 2015, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics was ranked first in the group of natural sciences in the ranking of faculties in Slovakia by the Academic Ranking and Rating Agency (ARRA).

The campus is located in Mlynská dolina in Bratislava, along with the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Comenius University, the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Slovak University of Technology.

Endowment of the faculty in 2015 was €11.7 million.

Mathematics

 * Department of Algebra, Geometry and Didactics of Mathematics
 * Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
 * Department of Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Mathematics

Physics

 * Department of Astronomy, Physics of the Earth and Meteorology
 * Department of Experimental Physics
 * Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics
 * Department of Theoretical Physics and Didactics of Physics

Informatics

 * Department of Applied Informatics
 * Department of Informatics
 * Department of Informatics Education

Study programmes
The faculty offers undergraduate and postgraduate education in the fields of mathematics, physics, informatics and teaching.

Undergraduate

 * Mathematics
 * Economic and Financial Mathematics
 * Managerial Mathematics
 * Insurance Mathematics

Postgraduate

 * Computer Graphics and Geometry
 * Economic and Financial Mathematics
 * Mathematics
 * Managerial Mathematics
 * Probability and Mathematical Statistics

Undergraduate

 * Physics
 * Technical Physics
 * Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Physics
 * Biomedical Physics

Postgraduate

 * Astronomy and Astrophysics
 * Biophysics and Chemical Physics
 * Biomedical Physics
 * Environmental Physics, Renewable Energy Sources, Meteorology and Climatology
 * Nuclear and Sub-nuclear Physics
 * Optics, Lasers and Optical Spectroscopy
 * Physics of the Earth
 * Plasma Physics
 * Solid State Physics
 * Theoretical Physics

Undergraduate

 * Informatics
 * Applied Informatics
 * Bioinformatics
 * Data science

Postgraduate

 * Informatics
 * Applied Informatics
 * Cognitive Science

Teacher training
Teacher training forms a separate group of study. Physical education instruction is provided by the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports and English is provided by the Faculty of Arts. Special teacher training is also offered for those graduates of the faculty following a non-teaching course of study who are interested in gaining the Teacher Certificates for secondary schools.

Undergraduate

 * Teaching of descriptive geometry in combination with mathematics
 * Teaching of informatics in combination with mathematics, physics and biology
 * Teaching of mathematics in combination with physics, informatics, descriptive geometry and physical education
 * Teaching of physics in combination with mathematics or informatics

Postgraduate

 * Teaching of descriptive geometry in combination
 * Teaching of informatics in combination
 * Teaching of mathematics in combination
 * Teaching of physics in combination

Facilities

 * Faculty library (located in the pavilion of Mathematics)
 * Astronomical Observatory of Modra

ŠKAS
Student House of the Academic Senate of FMFI UK (ŠKAS; Študentská komora Akademického senátu FMFI UK) is an association representing students in the academic senate of the faculty. The student representatives are voted by students of the faculty in annual election.

ŠKAS organizes events such as Deposition (Beánia Matfyzákov), Christmas cabbage soup and punch (Vianočná kapustnica a punč), Ball of FMFI UK, Doors Open Day and Freshers' week. ŠKAS also maintains a student room Cauchy Clubroom (Cauchyho klubovňa), various free time facilities at the faculty and publishes an online guidebook for new students.

Publishing
The faculty publishes open access academic journals:

 * Acta Mathematica Universitatis Comenianae
 * Acta Physica Universitatis Comenianae

Notable alumni and academic staff

 * Vladimír Černý – physicist, independently described simulated annealing in 1985
 * Martin Mojžiš – popular Slovak theoretical physicist
 * Martin Benko – director of the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute


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