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Page move
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.au (domain name) → .au
The domain name is primary usage, and aligns page naming with the 200+ other ccTLDs. .au is currently a redirect to this page. File format usage is very much secondary, and is disambiguated. -- kjd 14:13, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Primary vs. secondary usage is very much debatable; neither usage is overwhelmingly predominant.  That said, the article should properly be at .au (top-level domain).  ADH (t&m) 14:27, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - one look at Template:CcTLD should be enough to settle the debate. --Boco XLVII 21:41, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If you're referring to the fact that .au is one of only two top-level domains disambiguated in this manner, I'd like to point out that I could just as easily argue that Georgia (U.S. state) is mistitled based solely on Template:United States—perhaps more persuasively, as it's the only disambiguated state article, whereas there are two exceptions in your example. Obviously, neither argument carries much weight.  ADH (t&m) 22:04, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:00, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - consistency wins here. Also, the audio file extension is simply "au", without the separator. -- Netoholic @ 22:03, 2005 Feb 8 (UTC)
 * Support - makes a lot of sense. Longhair 00:01, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support, echoing Netoholic. Rd232 00:02, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support, the disambiguation notice (which could also be added to .so) suffices to dispel any possible confusion. — Ливай | ☺ 00:56, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. --Evil Monkey∴Hello 22:02, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support, what's the value in redirected ".au" to ".au (domain name)"? Nothing. Cburnett 07:31, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

.oz
what about .oz in future? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.81.170 (talk) 03:23, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

It would appear that .oz continues to exist as an OpenNIC TLD. See also http://wiki.opennicproject.org/OpenNICNamespaces. They document it as:
 * dot OZ is the TLD (Top Level Domain) custom made for Australians, but still available to everyone. dot OZ is targeted to those who may want a domain with the cultural association with Australia, but without the requirements of .com.au, net.au or org.au registrations.

What would be an appropriate way to include this information in Wikipedia? It's not part of the .au TLD, but it is a current TLD for Australians designed to take the place of the one that was migrated to .oz.au. Shamino (talk) 02:11, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

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Substituted at 05:42, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Remove 3 names of businesses that were the first to get certification
There is no need for those 3 business to be named in the article. It add nothing to the quality of the content and the link seems to be doe to get higher SEO. (who cares if they were the first to be certified, as all business must now be certified). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.47.158.38 (talk) 06:16, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

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MMST

MMST (Hebrew: MMŠT) is a word written in Paleo-Hebrew abjad script. It appears exclusively on LMLK seal inscriptions, seen in archaeological findings from the ancient Kingdom of Judah, whose meaning has been the subject of continual controversy.

ממשת transliterations into Latin alphabet

 * Mamsatt (Ginsberg, 1948)
 * Mamshat & variants
 * Mamshath (Conder, 1901)
 * Mamshat (Sellers and Albright, 1931)
 * Mamschat (Galling, 1937); reads in German like Mamshat in English
 * Mameshat (Yeivin, 1961)
 * Mamshet (Aharoni, 1960)
 * Mamshit & variants
 * Mamshith (Driver, 1909)
 * Mamshit (Vilnay, 1960)
 * Memsath (McCown, 1947)
 * Memshat & variants
 * Memshat (Bliss, 1900)
 * Memshath (Macalister, 1905)
 * Mimshat (Macalister, 1925)

A place?
Charles Warren excavated the first two specimens in the original 1868–1869 excavations at Jerusalem (Warren, 1870); however, those were both only partial impressions showing the final two letters ST. The first complete inscription was published by F. J. Bliss after excavating it from Tell Ej-Judeideh (Bliss, 1900), later determined to be biblical Moresheth-Gath. Beginning then, here is a list of all the ancient sites scholars have associated with it:
 * Moresheth-Gath (Clermont-Ganneau, 1899)
 * Mampsis (also known as Kurnub; Hommel, 1901)
 * Mareshah (Vincent, 1907)
 * Tel Masos (see articles Tel Masos (fr) in French, and תל משוש (he) in Hebrew Wikipedia; also known as Tell el-Meshash or Khirbat al-Mishash; Abel, 1938)
 * An unknown site near Gezer such as Emmaus (Albright, 1943)
 * Jerusalem (via MMS[L]T) or one of its suburbs (Ginsberg, 1948)
 * Tel 'Erani (Yeivin, 1961)
 * Tel 'Ira (see French article Tel Ira in French Wikipedia; Yadin, 1961)
 * An unknown site between Bethlehem & Hebron (Lang, 1972); Bethlehem vicinity preferred (Rainey, 1982)
 * An unknown site between Beth Shemesh & Aijalon such as Emmaus (Lang, 1972)
 * Emmaus (also known as Amwas; Lemaire, 1975)
 * Ramat Rachel (Barkay, 1993)

These proposals fall into two main streams of thought. One school places MMST in a geographical region based on the identification of three other regions surrounding Hebron, Sokho, and Ziph (the other words on the LMLK seals). The chief problem is that the majority of the seal impressions were not found in any particular region associated with one of the four inscriptions. For example, the majority of HBRN stamps were found at Lachish significantly to the west. An alternative strategy identifies MMST in the vicinity of Jerusalem (which includes Ramat Rachel) based upon the datum that the majority of MMST stamps were excavated in and around there. The chief problem is that there were more HBRN stamps than MMST found at Jerusalem and more Z(Y)F stamps than MMST found at Ramat Rachel (Grena, 2004, pp. 354–360).

In further support of a place name interpretation is the notion that MMST was lost from the Hebrew Masoretic version of the Book of Joshua, but preserved in a form corrupted beyond recognition through Greek transliteration in the Septuagint. The Septuagint version contains eleven additional place names, one of which could correspond to the lost MMST (Rainey, 1982, p. 59; cf. in the New Revised Standard Version):

"...eleven cities, and their villages..."
 * Theco
 * Ephratha (Baethleem)
 * Phagor
 * Aetan
 * Culon
 * Tatam
 * Thobes
 * Carem
 * Galem
 * Thether
 * Manocho

A person?
In 1905, R.A.S. Macalister suggested that MMST could also mean Mareshah, but instead of identifying it with the town, he proposed that the seal referred to a potter (or family of potters).

A proclamation?
If the LMLK seal inscriptions were votive slogans or mottoes instead of geographical places, MMST may share the same etymological root as MMSLTW (Strong's Concordance #4475), a Hebrew word used in the Bible translated alternately as domain, dominion, force, government, power, realm, responsibility, rule. (See, , , , , , , .) The parallel passage found in and  deserves special attention for its association of the word in the same chronological context as the LMLK seals:

 * And Hezekiah was attentive to them, and showed them all the house of his treasures--the silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory--all that was found among his treasures. There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

Likewise :

 * After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem (but he and all the forces with him laid siege against Lachish), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were in Jerusalem...

Note that Ginsberg suspected such a literal reading of the inscription in a paper presented in 1945, but changed to the geographic association with Jerusalem in 1948.

Note also the well-known Moabite inscription from Kerak that begins with the fragmented phrase ...MSYT MLK. While we may never know if the first word is a compound of KMS, the Moabite deity mentioned in the Bible as Chemosh, the MMST on the LMLK seals may have been "MMSYT" written scriptio defectiva with a possible relation to the Arabic "mumsa", "place where one spends the night".

A tax?
Recently, Daniel Vainstub pointed out that some of the MMST seals appear to include the Hebrew letter נ (nun) between the two letters מ (mem) or א (aleph) over the space between the ש (shin) and ת (tav). Vainstub suggested that the more common MMST (i.e., without additional letters) was a short-form of the Hebrew מ-משאת (from the mas'et), which was an ad-hoc tax of agricultural products occasionally used by the kings of Judah. At times, makers of the MMST seals preferred to use longer forms of the word. The appearance of the letter nun signifies the longer מן משאת, which has the same meaning as ממשאת (from mas'et) or ממשת (likewise).

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If 1656 was the date of the invention of hte first pendulum clock, then they have not been around "since ancient times". Nik42 04:02, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Any one willing to put something in about clock work? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.129.45.215 (talk) 11:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Copyright problems?
I've submitted the possible problem, then I did this: Googling these two strings with quotes, first from the about.com site "This allows the master pendulum" and this slightly different string from the article: "This allowed the master pendulum" both give many copies of the disputed text. It's hard to know which one would legitimately hold the copyright, or if it's public domain and now on sites that surely claim copyright to all their material such as about.com. Now I don't know if I did the right thing.

A couple of comments

 * 1) According to R.T.Gould ("the Marine Chronometer") the mercury bob pendulum came before the gridiron, but the gridiron worked better if the temperature changes rapidly.
 * 2) I don't see how the grasshopper escapement is an exception to the general description (which is excellent).  The animation referenced in the Grasshopper escapement article shows that.  If you meant to say that there are escapements where the impulse to the pendulum does not directly come from the gear train, that's true -- those are gravity escapements.  The Big Ben escapement is a classic example, and so is the Shortt clock.  I don't think the Grasshopper is, though.  Actually, a gravity escapement could be viewed as the limiting case of a remontoire -- rewound each tick.
 * 3) Nice description of the Shortt clock.  It would be worthwhile to mention that it's a derivative of the Synchronome, invented by Frank Hope-Jones.  Both are described in Hope-Jones's book "Electric Timekeeping". Paul Koning

Fedchenko?
Is there a source for the Fedchenko clock? The Shortt clock is well documented but I haven't succeeded in finding details about Fedchenko's clock. The one article I found (about a hobbyist's copy of the design) didn't sound like anything that could come close to challenging the Shortt clock. Paul Koning 16:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

take a look here: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1957SvA.....1..637F  HH93.216.76.154 (talk) 19:59, 11 February 2011 (UTC))

Torsion-spring pendulum or Torsion pendulum?
Hope this isn't nitpicking, but I think the more widely-used term for this type of pendulum is 'torsion pendulum', although 'torsion-spring pendulum' is more specific and distinguishes it better from the ordinary type of pendulum. I googled both terms and there are a lot more webpages that refer to 'torsion pendulum' clocks. Also, there is a Torsion pendulum clock article that should be linked to this section. What about changing the name of this well-written section to Torsion pendulum? --Chetvorno 21:18, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I don't think either name makes sense. The object described there is a balance, not a pendulum. So I would call it either torsion balance, or torsion spring balance -- because the thing is a balance and its balance spring is a torsion spring. Paul Koning 14:26, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I think the difference is functional, not structural. Torsion pendulums used in scientific experiments as sensitive balances to measure forces, as in the Cavendish experiment, are generally called torsion balances. Torsion pendulums used as harmonic oscillators, for their vibrating, timekeeping properties, as in anniversary clocks are called torsion pendulums. --Chetvorno 14:01, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I hope no one minds, I changed the term. --Chetvorno 14:01, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

"pushes"?
Is there a good reason to use the fuzzy term "pushes" instead of the precise term "impulses"? Paul Koning (talk) 12:00, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

homework
hey i had to answer this question on my homework about this clock and this has got to be the most orignal name ever i mean penuloum i spelt that wrong i no but i think u get my point and i rly want a clock like this one for my house when i get older! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.56.210.205 (talk) 01:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

plagiarised section
I just removed a section entitled "pendulum parts" which was located below "escapement". It was a less-informative rehash of the mechanism section, which had apparently been taken directly from another website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.246.103.93 (talk) 18:22, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Something wrong with the maths here?
"at an amplitude of 23° it loses 1% or about 1 minute 25 sec. per day, compared to its rate for small swings" Roly (talk) 16:25, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

No reply to this so I assume 1% should be 0.1%. I have changed this. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Roly (talk) 15:20, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

 * Good try, and something is cleary wrong as 1% of a day is 14 minutes 24 secs. However, as Pendulum makes clear, the time period of a pendulum is increased by about $$100\times\theta^2/16$$ percent ($$\theta$$ in radians), so it is indeed a 1% increase that corresponds to a swing of 22.9°. For a 0.1% increase we need a more realistic 7.2°.
 * As it happens, this information was deleted entirely a few hours after you changed it, which I think is a pity. A simple statement to the effect that a swing with amplitude 7.2° is sufficient to cause an error of 0.1% or 1 minute 25 sec. per day does point up the fact that a simple pendulum is nowhere near as isochronous as you might think. Wellset (talk) 15:11, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Language problem
What? 50.255.135.49 (talk) 15:27, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks like vandalism. I've reverted it. --Roly (talk) 16:27, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

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Jurassic Park video games

Numerous video games based on the Jurassic Park franchise have been released. Developers Ocean Software, BlueSky Software and Sega produced various games in 1993, coinciding with the first film, Jurassic Park. In 1997, several developers, including DreamWorks Interactive and Appaloosa Interactive, produced various games for nine different platforms to coincide with the release of the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

For the 2001 film, Jurassic Park III, a total of seven games were produced, including three for the Game Boy Advance and three PC games. A park-building game, Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, was released in 2003. Jurassic Park: The Game, released in 2011, takes place after the events of the first film. Lego Jurassic World was released in 2015 and is based on the first four films. Subsequent games have continued to use the Jurassic World name, including Jurassic World Evolution, another park-building game that was released in 2018.

Since 1994, a number of other video games, not based directly on any of the films, have also been released.

Jurassic Park (1993)
Ocean Software released three distinct Jurassic Park games optimized for different platforms, while Sega released four distinct versions of Jurassic Park for five different platforms. In each version, the player has to complete several objectives to finish the game and escape the island of Isla Nublar.

Ocean Software
Ocean Software devoted two of its development teams to work on several Jurassic Park games, making it the biggest film license that the company had ever worked on.

Jurassic Park, released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Nintendo's Game Boy, is an action-adventure game played from an overhead perspective, with various goals that loosely follow the plot of the film. The NES version was released in June 1993, followed shortly by the Game Boy version, which is a port of the earlier version.

Another variation was the Super NES version of Jurassic Park, which incorporates isometric gameplay for outside environments but uses a first person perspective for indoor environments. Objectives include turning on the park's power system and rebooting the main computers, as well as collecting raptor eggs.

Ocean also released a computer version of Jurassic Park for DOS and Amiga. As in the Super NES version, the PC version also features isometric and first-person shooter perspectives.

Sega
Sega published a side-scrolling platformer action game titled Jurassic Park for the Sega Genesis. Developed by BlueSky Software, the game can be played in two modes, either as Dr. Alan Grant or as a Velociraptor. Playing as each provides the user with an alternative story and different levels.

Another Jurassic Park game, developed and published by Sega, was released for the Game Gear and Master System in 1993. It is a side-scrolling platform game which includes several driving levels.

A point-and-click adventure game, titled Jurassic Park as well, was released in 1994. It was developed and published by Sega for the Sega CD (also known as the Mega-CD). The game's events take place after the film. The player controls a scientist who becomes stranded on Isla Nublar after a helicopter crash. The player must search the island to retrieve eggs from seven different dinosaur species and place them in an incubator at the Jurassic Park visitor center.

Also in 1994, Sega released a rail shooter arcade game titled Jurassic Park. It features missions that involve the player using a joystick to protect a vehicle by shooting any targets that appear on screen. The machine's cabinet resembles the rear of the film's Ford Explorer tour vehicles and contains hydraulic pistons to move the seat according to action on the screen.

Sequels and other games (1994–1996)
A sequel to the Sega Genesis version of Jurassic Park, entitled Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition, was released in 1994, and immediately follows the events of its predecessor. In it, Grant's helicopter crashes on Isla Nublar after taking off from the island. Now he must deal not only with dinosaurs, but InGen soldiers as well. As in the game's predecessor, the player can play as either Grant or a Velociraptor.

Additionally, Universal Interactive released Jurassic Park Interactive exclusively on the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer in 1994. The game plays out through eight different minigames and features FMV segments starring look-alikes of the main characters. Also in 1994, Hi Tech Entertainment released Jurassic Park: Paint and Activity Center, a painting activity game for DOS.

Ocean developed an action side-scrolling platform game titled Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues and released it for the SNES and Game Boy in 1995. The SNES version uses an original story and is a sequel to the film, while the Game Boy version reuses the film's plot. In the SNES version, which takes place one year after the events of the film, the player controls Dr. Alan Grant, who is sent to Isla Nublar by John Hammond to prevent BioSyn (a rival genetics company) from stealing dinosaurs from the island.

On August 12, 1996, Universal launched an online game titled Jurassic Park – The Ride Online Adventure, to promote Jurassic Park: The Ride. In the game, the player controls Jurassic Park's director of operations, who must stop an escaped Velociraptor that is wondering inside a compound, where the game takes place. The player must walk through hallways while avoiding the Velociraptor. The player must search in offices and other rooms for objects that can be used and combined with one another to stop the Velociraptor or gain entry to new areas. The game includes a feature known as the "IntraNet", which contains files on the park's employees and records, as well as information on InGen and its dinosaurs.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
To coincide with The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the second film in the series, studio DreamWorks utilized its internal software company, DreamWorks Interactive, to create their own game.

For the PlayStation and Sega Saturn, DreamWorks and Appaloosa Interactive developed The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a side-scrolling platform game portrayed in a 3D rendered environment. The game has five playable characters and 30 levels. In 1998, an updated version of The Lost World: Jurassic Park was released for the PlayStation, with improved gameplay.

Appaloosa Interactive developed another version of The Lost World: Jurassic Park that was published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. Played from an overhead view, the game contains levels brought together by four hub areas on Isla Sorna and also contains four unique boss levels. It also has driveable vehicles, a large number of dinosaurs, and a GPS system used for mission objectives.

Four versions of the game were developed and published by different companies for handheld game consoles, including the Game Boy, Game Gear, and Tiger Electronics' Game.com and R-Zone consoles.

DreamWorks also released Chaos Island: The Lost World, a strategy video game for Microsoft Windows, with similar gameplay to Command & Conquer. The game is played across 12 levels, and involves the player creating dinosaurs that can be controlled and used against enemies. Six actors from the film provided their voice to the game.

An arcade game titled The Lost World: Jurassic Park was also released by Sega, and made use of the Model 3 arcade hardware.

In 1998, a first-person shooter titled Trespasser was released for Windows, billed as a digital sequel to the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The game was highly ambitious with one of the first large scale physics engines in an action game. The developer was pushed by the publisher. This meant many elements of the planned game design were shelved and many bugs, some major, still remained in the game, resulting in negative critical reception. In April 2002, the game received a large modding community called TresCom, which released many patches and graphical updates for download on their forums.

Warpath: Jurassic Park (1999)
In 1999, DreamWorks released Warpath: Jurassic Park, a fighting game for the PlayStation, featuring 14 playable dinosaurs and arenas based on locations from the first two films.

Jurassic Park III (2001)
To coincide with the third film in the series, Jurassic Park III, a number of video games were released for the PC, arcade and Game Boy Advance.

Knowledge Adventure developed and published two video games aimed primarily at a younger target audience: a side-scrolling platformer titled Jurassic Park III: Dino Defender; and Jurassic Park III: Danger Zone!, in which the player moves around on a virtual board game map. Later that year, Knowledge Adventure produced Scan Command: Jurassic Park, which utilized a portable barcode scanner accessory known as the Scan Command.

A light gun arcade game titled Jurassic Park III was developed and published by Konami in 2001. Player(s) control(s) the mercenary team sent to Isla Sorna to rescue survivors. AllGame's Jon Thompson rated it three and a half stars out of five, criticizing its outdated graphics while praising the music and sound.

Also in 2001, Konami published three games for the Game Boy Advance, two of which were also developed by the company:

 * Jurassic Park III: Island Attack was developed by Mobile21. The game is an isometric action-adventure game, where one plays as Dr. Alan Grant trying to escape Isla Sorna by traversing the 8 different game environments to reach a rescue boat. The game allows the player to choose to run from many of the enemies encountered, or collect and use items to destroy them.
 * Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor is a side-scrolling platformer with many puzzle-solving elements. The game allows the player to play as either a professional photographer or pilot to search Isla Sorna for the DNA of dinosaurs. Each level involves fighting dinosaurs while searching for all of the DNA to open the exit. Then, using the collected DNA, the player must correctly create different species of dinosaurs, which becomes increasingly complex as the game progresses.
 * Jurassic Park III: Park Builder is a construction and management simulation game viewed from an omnipotent perspective. In the game, the player creates a virtual amusement park that includes rides, shops, food outlets, and dinosaur facilities.

Announced in 2001, Jurassic Park: Survival was a third-person adventure game in development by Savage Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, as well as the GameCube and PC. However, due to conflicts with Vivendi Universal over payments, the game was canceled.

Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure (2001)
In 2001, Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure was released for the GameCube. Based on many of the Universal theme park rides, the Jurassic Park ride requires the player to take control of a gun turret on the back of a Jeep to defend against dinosaurs.

Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Battles (2002)
A PC game titled Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Battles, also produced by Knowledge Adventure, was released on September 10, 2002. Dinosaur Battles is basically Scan Command: Jurassic Park without the portable scanner accessory. The game involves a group of young explorers stranded on Isla Sorna, where the evil Dr. Corts (voiced by Kath Soucie) has carried out experiments to control dinosaurs and pit them against each other for fights.

The game features six playable creatures throughout the game, each one with six primary skills to defend against Corts' creatures. Before playing against enemies, the player must arrange pieces of dinosaur DNA to enable each creature's skills. Unlike Scan Command, which requires the player to scan barcodes to receive DNA, Dinosaur Battles presents the player with a list of more than 500 DNA pieces.

The game primarily consists of the player controlling a creature from a top-down perspective while carrying out tasks such as locating certain facilities. During this portion of the game, enemy dinosaurs often randomly challenge the player to a battle. The player can fight or choose to abandon the battle. In 2018, Zack Zwiezen of Kotaku ranked the game among the "weirdest" Jurassic Park games ever released, stating that it was like Warpath: Jurassic Park but with an "unnecessary and weird" storyline and "less fun" combat.

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (2003)
In March 2003, Vivendi Universal Games released Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, a park-building video game developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment that allows players to recreate their own Jurassic Park, featuring 25 dinosaurs and a multitude of rides, shops and other attractions. The game was released on Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC.

Jurassic Park Institute Tour: Dinosaur Rescue (2003)
Jurassic Park Institute Tour: Dinosaur Rescue is an action video game featuring a collection of minigames. It was developed and published by Rocket Company and released for the Game Boy Advance exclusively in Japan on July 18, 2003. The game was sold exclusively through the Jurassic Park Institute Tour, a large educational travelling exhibition in Japan. In 2018, Zack Zwiezen of Kotaku noted that the minigames were "simple, but the art is colorful and cute".

Later Jurassic Park games (2007–2015)
In August 2007, Brighter Minds Media, Inc. and Universal released Jurassic Park Explorer, an interactive DVD game and board game that are played together. The goal of the game, set on Isla Sorna, is to resurrect dinosaurs by progressing along the game board and completing each of the DVD game's seven mini-games. The DVD game also includes over 300 dinosaur trivia questions and clips from the first three films.

In August 2010, Gameloft released Jurassic Park, an action/adventure mobile game based on the first film. As Dr. Alan Grant or Dr. Ian Malcolm, the player must escape from Isla Nublar while fighting against dinosaurs, mercenaries, and poachers. The player can also play as a T. rex. Jurassic Park: The Game, a four-part episodic adventure game series set after the events of the first film, was developed and published by Telltale Games on November 15, 2011, for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and Mac.

Jurassic Park is among the films featured in Universal Movie Tycoon, an iPhone game developed and published by Fuse Powered Inc. in March 2012. In the game, the player creates a movie studio and subsequently recreates films that were released by Universal Pictures. Jurassic Park Builder, developed and published by Ludia in July 2012, is a construction and management simulation video game in which the player builds a Jurassic Park theme park. An Aquatic Park with aquatic animals and a Glacier Park with extinct animals from the Cenozoic era can also be constructed.

A fan-created project, titled Jurassic Park: Aftermath, is not a full video game, instead featuring Isla Nublar's Jurassic Park as an interactive environment that can be explored. The project had been in development since at least March 2013, using the CryEngine 3 game engine, but development had been suspended by May 2016. A new arcade game, titled Jurassic Park Arcade and developed by Raw Thrills, was released in March 2015, and is based on the original trilogy in the film series.

Jurassic World trilogy
There have been several video games based on the Jurassic World trilogy. Ludia released an updated version of Jurassic Park Builder in April 2015, titled Jurassic World: The Game, for iOS mobile devices.

Lego Jurassic World
Lego Jurassic World, an action-adventure video game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, was released for eight different game systems on June 12, 2015, coinciding with the film's theatrical release. An OS X port by Feral Interactive followed shortly thereafter, on 23 July. The game is based on the series' first four films, and was later released for Android and iOS on March 31, 2016. A Nintendo Switch version was released on September 17, 2019.

Jurassic World Survivor
By June 2014, Cryptic Studios was developing a third-person open-world video game, similar to H1Z1 and based on Jurassic World, in which the player would assume the role of Owen Grady. The game was being developed with the Unreal Engine 4 game engine, and was nearly finished when it was cancelled in May 2015, after the closure of Cryptic Studios' Seattle location. It was to be released on Steam, Xbox Live, and the PlayStation Network. In June 2016, the game was reported to be in development by a different studio (later revealed to be Splash Damage), with Perfect World Entertainment as publisher. In October, Perfect World reserved a web domain for the game at JurassicWorldSurvivor.com. Two months later, the company filed a trademark for Jurassic World Survivor.

Jurassic World Alive
Jurassic World Alive, a Pokémon Go-style game, allows the player to build a collection of dinosaurs that can be used in battles against other players. The game also allows players to create their own dinosaurs using hybrid DNA as well as fusing dinosaurs with Cenozoic and Paleozoic creatures. The game was developed by Ludia and co-published with Universal, and released in May 2018 for iOS and Android. The game included more than 100 dinosaurs upon its release, and more are expected to be added in regular updates. The game was first released in Canada on March 14, 2018.

Jurassic World Evolution games
Jurassic World Evolution is a park-building game released in June 2018, coinciding with the release of the fifth film, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The game is based on the 2015 film, and was developed and published by Frontier Developments. In addition to management and simulation, the game also features creature development. A Nintendo Switch port of the game, titled Jurassic World Evolution: Complete Edition, was released on November 3, 2020.

Jurassic World Evolution 2, also by Frontier, was released on November 9, 2021, on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and Series S. It is set after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

An untitled third game by Frontier is scheduled to release between June 2025 and May 2026.

Jurassic World Aftermath
Jurassic World Aftermath is a virtual reality game for the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2. Developed by Coatsink, it was released on December 17, 2020. The game takes place on Isla Nublar, two years after the events of Jurassic World, and prior to the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Much of the gameplay is focused on the player avoiding raptors in a facility. In 2021, Coatsink released Jurassic World Aftermath: Part 2, a continuation in the form of paid downloadable content.

Other games
Characters and settings from Jurassic World appear in the 2015 crossover toys-to-life video game Lego Dimensions. Online slot developer Microgaming released Jurassic World, a slot game for desktop and mobile devices, on June 20, 2017.

A virtual reality game titled VRSE Jurassic World was created by Skyrocket, LLC. In the United States, the game was released for iOS on August 8, 2017, while an Android version was released the following month.

Jurassic World VR Expedition, another virtual reality game, launched in June 2018. It is exclusive to the Dave & Buster's chain, and debuted at all 114 locations in the U.S. The game uses HTC Vive headsets and supports up to four players, and takes place after the events of the first Jurassic World film. As park rangers, players are tasked with rounding up dinosaurs that broke free during the film. The in-game dinosaurs were developed using digital models created by Industrial Light & Magic for the films. Jurassic World VR Expedition was well received.

In August 2020, Mojang Studios released a Jurassic World-themed package of downloadable content (DLC) for its online game Minecraft.

An iOS and Android mobile game, Jurassic World Primal Ops, was developed by Behaviour Interactive. It is an action-adventure game viewed from a top-down perspective. The player traverses North America rescuing dinosaurs from poachers, mercenaries, and science research. Rescued dinosaurs become battle companions, each with their own ability. The game received a soft launch in certain countries in January 2022, and was officially released on June 30, 2022.

Jurassic Park: Classic Games Collection
In 2023, Limited Run Games announced plans to re-release several games to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the original Jurassic Park film. Jurassic Park: Classic Games Collection is a compilation of the following games: The collection introduces gameplay improvements, such as save states, in-game maps, and a rewind option. The collection was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, and received a digital release on November 22, 2023. Limited Run Games will also re-issue the individual games on cartridges to be played on the original consoles.
 * Jurassic Park (1993) for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy
 * Jurassic Park (1993) for the Super Nintendo
 * Jurassic Park (1993) for the Sega Genesis
 * Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition (1994) for the Sega Genesis
 * Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues (1994/95) for the Super Nintendo and Game Boy

Several critics rated the collection 3 stars out of 5, offering praise for the gameplay improvements. However, Benjamin Jakobs of Eurogamer felt there should have been more new features and improvements. The game lineup received some criticism. Chris Jackson of Starburst noted the absence of obscure games that "might have made for a more interesting and varied collection". He further wrote that while the included games had not aged well, the collection would appeal to those who grew up with them. PJ O'Reilly of Nintendo Life rated it 6 out of 10 and praised the improvements as well, but also criticized the lineup, writing that the collection "sticks resolutely with older games that haven't aged particularly well, failing to show off any of the variety or inherent goofiness in some of the many different titles that these movies have produced over the decades."

Jurassic Park: Survival
Jurassic Park: Survival is an upcoming action-adventure game from developer and publisher Saber Interactive. Announced in December 2023, it will release for the PlayStation 5, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox Series X/S. It is expected to release some time after 2024. It is unrelated to the canceled 2001 game also known as Jurassic Park: Survival.

The game is set one day after the events of the first Jurassic Park film, and will include locations and dinosaurs featured in the film, as well as new ones. The player assumes the role of Maya Joshi, a young InGen scientist who was left behind on Isla Nublar. The game is played from a first-person perspective and the player must explore the island while avoiding its numerous dinosaurs, who exhibit distinct and adaptive behavior. The player can outsmart the dinosaurs, with stealth emphasized over combat.

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Sons of the Dark

Sons of the Dark is a book series that was spun off from Lynne Ewing's best-selling Daughters of the Moon series.

This series is about four very different young teenage boys living in Los Angeles. They are all immortal and all four have to try to fit in. Each boy also fights his dark side. They each have different powers and the Sons must complete their destinies and stop the people of Nefandus from invading the Earth's realm.

Due to poor book sales, the series has been discontinued. The Sons' fate is told in the last Daughters of the Moon book.

Introduction
Four guys living in Los Angeles: A rock star, a rebel, an artist, and a shaman. Like most students at Turney High School, they're just trying to survive. But for these four—Renegades on the run from the sinister world of Nefandus—survival means learning how to control their powers and fulfill their destiny as Sons of the Dark.

The Sons of the Dark and others
Omer "Obie" Ostrov

Once a Visigoth warrior, Obie is now a high school student and trying hard to control his wild impulses while still performing in his band. In 361 AD, after he was born, his aunt tried to kill him but his mother saved him by committing him to the Legend. He has the power to cast spells with the Rune stones his mother gave him. He is first introduced in Barbarian (Book #1). His aunt lives in Nefandus and she is jealous of his power. He plays in a band called Pagan after he escapes Nefandus. In the end, he sacrificed himself so Catty would stay alive and destroy the Atrox.

Samuel Reardon

Samuel is from the pioneer times. He shows up for the first time in Escape (Book #2). He was captured with his friend Macduff in 1768. He discovers that he has the power to call on animals and sometimes turn into them. He and Maddie, a girl he meets when he escapes Nefandus, have an on-and-off relationship. In the end, he sacrificed himself so Catty would stay alive and destroy the Atrox.

Kyle Ormond

From the modern times, he never knew who his real parents were. In Outcast (Book #3), he discovers who he is: his father is a powerful demon, he created his favorite foster parent and his "twin brother" Kent with his power of projection, and that his destiny and Catty's, a Daughter of the Moon whom he dated, are intertwined. His mother escaped Nefandus with Kyle to protect him from the Regulators after he was born. He was named by the nurses in the hospital he was born in. He escaped Nefandus with the help of a monk. In the end, he sacrificed himself so Catty would stay alive and destroy the Atrox.

Yaolt "Berto" Roberto Ehecatl

Berto is from the Toltec Nation. He has the power of astral projection. He was going to be sacrificed to his god, Tezcatlipoca, but was kidnapped by Obie's master, Hawkwick, and a demon named Semihazah. They took him to Nefandus in 1000 BC. His book is Night Sun (Book #4). He is an entrance guard at a club called Quake. In the end, he sacrificed himself so Catty would stay alive and destroy the Atrox.

Ashley

Showing up for the first time in book 2, she is a venatrix, a servus who is a bounty hunter. She is from Mesopotamia. She and Berto were lovers when they were together in the digs. After they escaped, she became a bounty hunter because for each servus she returns, her ability to time-travel is extended. In book 2, she helps Samuel receive his power. Apparently, she and Klye also have history together. In book 4, she tells Berto the rest of the Legend, asks him to join evil's side, and reveals that she has a son. She tells Berto that she has to return before the night sun to change her son's destructive fate. He agrees and she takes him to Nefandus. After she is told that she can go home, she does so and succeeds in changing her son's fate.

Madison-Maddie Sledgeheimer

Sledge's younger sister, she is in involved the occult and believes in the supernatural. In book 2, she meets Samuel in a graveyard, trying to help her friend Emily, whom she believes was attacked by a vampire named Macduff. She gets kidnapped in Nefandus but the Sons help her escape. Obie erases her memory to protect her. In book 4, Obie's spell is wearing off and she begins to remember and also see things. She helps Berto even though she didn't understand what she was doing and she tries to tell him the dangers they face but before Berto can stop Obie, once again her memory is erased. She and Samuel have an on and off relationship.

Book summaries
Book #1: Barbarian

Obie hates Los Angeles and all the junk that goes with it—especially trying to fit in at Thomas Turney High School. But with bounty hunters trying to capture him, his Renegade roommates urge him to lie low with his band and forget about ever getting back home. It's hard to blend in at school, though, when you've just made enemies with the football team. Obie can't keep away from Allison, the most popular girl in school and the girlfriend of the star quarterback, Sledge. And when his true love, Inna, shows up and pleads for his help, Obie must return to the one place he fears most.

Book #2: Escape

Samuel has just landed in modern-day L.A. He is totally lost until the beautiful Ashley shows up and promises to help him travel back in time to find his family. But the Sons of the Dark believe that Samuel is the fourth, the one they've been waiting for. They urge him not to believe in Ashley—she is only using him to destroy them all. But Samuel knows Ashley is his only hope for finding his way home. Should he trust her? Even if it means turning his back on the Sons of the Dark?

Book #3: Outcast

Kyle knows his roommates hate it when he tells them what to do—but he's the only one from modern-day L.A., and the only one with a clue about how to blend in. But lately, the Sons are more than just annoyed with Kyle—they've started spreading vicious rumors about him behind his back. Even Emily, a girl he barely knows, accuses him of terrible betrayal. Now Kyle is being haunted by someone, or something, from the childhood he's tried hard to forget. And without his friends to help him, Kyle may be no match for the evil from his past.

Book #4: Night Sun

Students from Turney High School are disappearing without a trace, except for a perfect black circle burned into the pavement. Wild speculation is flying through the halls. Some think it has to do with the coming solar eclipse, and others think alien abductions are to blame. Berto has a different theory. And if he's right, the Legend of Four is about to come true: four will venture in, but only one will venture out. Kyle, Obie, Samuel, and Berto must go to Nefandus and find the kidnapped teenagers—but which of the Sons of the Dark will survive?

Preferred reading order

 * Daughters of the Moon 1-11
 * Sons of the Dark 1-2
 * Daughters of the Moon 12
 * Sons of the Dark 3-4
 * Daughters of the Moon 13

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Michael Ealy

Michael David Brown (born August 3, 1973), professionally known as Michael Ealy, is an American actor. He is known for his roles in Barbershop (2002), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Takers (2010), Think Like a Man (2012), About Last Night (2014), Think Like a Man Too (2014), The Perfect Guy (2015), and The Intruder (2019). He has a number of starring and recurring roles on numerous television sitcoms.

Early life
Ealy was born in Washington, D.C., and was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. Ealy went to Springbrook High School and graduated from the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland in 1996 with a degree in English. His mother worked for IBM and his father was in the grocery business.

Career
He started his acting career in the late 1990s, appearing in several off-Broadway stage productions. Among his first film roles were Bad Company and Kissing Jessica Stein. His breakout role came in 2002's Barbershop, in which he plays reformed felon Ricky Nash, a role that he reprised in the 2004 sequel, Barbershop 2: Back in Business. In 2003, he played the role of Slap Jack in the second installment of the Fast and the Furious film series, 2 Fast 2 Furious. Later in 2004, Ealy appeared in Never Die Alone with DMX. He also appeared in Mariah Carey's music video for her hit single "Get Your Number" from her 2005 album The Emancipation of Mimi.

In 2005, Ealy co-starred in the Television film version of Their Eyes Were Watching God, produced by Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones, and starring Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry. The same year, he starred in the independent film Jellysmoke, directed by Mark Banning. He starred in the Showtime television series Sleeper Cell, the first season of which aired December 4–18, 2005, and the second season of which, Sleeper Cell: American Terror, aired December 10–17, 2006.

On December 14, 2006, Ealy was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in Sleeper Cell: American Terror in the category Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. In December 2008 he was featured in the movie Seven Pounds alongside Will Smith as Ben Thomas. He also starred as the male lead in Beyoncé's "Halo" music video, and as CIA Field Officer Marshall Vogel in the ABC television series FlashForward.

Ealy also appears in the limited-edition coffee table book (About Face) by celebrity photographer John Russo, published by Pixie Press Worldwide. In 2009, Ealy performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

In 2010, Ealy appeared as attorney Derrick Bond in the second season of The Good Wife. He co-starred in the 2010 action movie Takers as Jake Attica and appeared as Travis Marks in USA Network's original series Common Law about two cops who have to go to couples counseling because they argue too much. Common Law premiered following Fairly Legal on Friday, May 11, 2012.

Ealy appeared as Dominic in the 2012 ensemble comedy Think Like a Man and its 2014 sequel, Think Like a Man Too, and appeared as "Papa Joe" in the 2012 inspirational film Unconditional. He appeared opposite Think Like a Man co-star Kevin Hart in the 2014 remake of About Last Night.

In 2013, Ealy signed on to play co-lead "Dorian" in the Fox television series Almost Human. The sci-fi police procedural takes place in the year 2048 and follows the relationship between two cops as they struggle to solve futuristic crimes that involve complex technology. Ealy depicts the android "Dorian", an older, "DRN" android model that is considered to be less reliable due to its artificial emotions and that is tasked with protecting his partner John Kennex (Karl Urban). The show aired for one season on Fox from 2013 to 2014.

In 2015, Ealy played serial killer "Theo" in season 3 of the Fox television series The Following. He starred as Eric Warner in the second season of the ABC mystery crime series Secrets and Lies, which aired in the fall of 2016. From 2017 to 2019, Ealy starred in the fourth, fifth and final season of Being Mary Jane opposite Gabrielle Union. 2019 also saw Ealy star in Stumptown on ABC alongside Cobie Smulders, Jake Johnson and Camryn Manheim.

Personal life
In October 2012, Ealy married Afghan-American entrepreneur Khatira Rafiqzada, his girlfriend of four years, in a ceremony in Los Angeles, and together they have a son and a daughter.

Ealy is a fan of the Washington Commanders.

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Francisco Assis

Francisco José Pereira de Assis Miranda (born 8 January 1965) is a Portuguese politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Socialist Party. He was part of the Party of European Socialists from 2004 to 2009, and again from 2014 until 2019. He is also a former mayor of Amarante, having been in office from 1989 to 1995, and member of the Assembly of Republic on two occasions, the first from 1995 to 2004 and the second from 2009 to 2014.

Assis was elected a Member of the European Parliament in the 2024 European election, and is expected to be sworn-in in the upcoming Tenth European Parliament.

Role in national politics
Assis challenged incumbent António José Seguro for the party leadership in 2011. When the right-wing coalition government of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho lost its absolute majority in parliament as a result of the 2015 Portuguese legislative election, Assis condemned what he described as "left-wing fantasies" within his own Socialist Party, describing any attempt at an agreement with the Portuguese Communist Party and the Left Bloc as "absurd". On 24 November 2015, Socialist leader António Costa was appointed as Prime Minister after forming a parliamentary alliance with three left-wing parties. Assis publicly voiced his opposition against the new coalition agreement, which he reaffirmed in the context of the 2017 Portuguese local elections and in the aftermath of the October 2017 Iberian wildfires.

Member of the European Parliament (2014–2019)
Ahead of the 2014 European Parliament election in Portugal, the Socialist Party named Assis at the top of their list. Following elections, he became a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. He was also the chairman of the parliament's delegation for relations with Mercosur. Assis has been a political commentator for television programmes on TV stations SIC Notícias and TVI 24 and a columnist for the newspaper Público.

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Category:Cincinnati Royals players

This is a list of basketball players who played for the NBA franchise now known as the Sacramento Kings when it was known as the Cincinnati Royals.

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Luís Capoulas Santos

Luís Manuel Capoulas Santos (born 22 August 1951) is a Portuguese politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture, Forests and Rural Development.

Life before politics
Capoulas Santos was born in Montemor-o-Novo. He is a licenciate in Sociology from the University of Évora. He worked as a secondary education teacher before taking a position as a technician in the Ministry of Agriculture.

Political activity
His political career started in 1976, after being elected as a member of the City Council in his home city of Montemor-o-Novo.

He was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 1991, and took office as Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries in 1998, replacing Fernando Gomes da Silva, under whom he was Secretary of State. He kept the office until 2002, when the government led by António Guterres resigned after a landslide defeat in local elections.

Capoulas Santos was elected Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists, between 2004 and 2014.

He returned to the Ministry of Agriculture in 2015, after the nomination of António Costa as Prime Minister.

Honours

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Guadalupe River (Texas)

The Guadalupe River  runs from Kerr County, Texas, to San Antonio Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, with an average temperature of 17.75 C. It is a popular destination for rafting, fly fishing, and canoeing. Larger cities along it include Kerrville, New Braunfels, Seguin, Gonzales, Cuero, and Victoria. It has several dams along its length, the most notable of which, Canyon Dam, forms Canyon Lake northwest of New Braunfels.

Course
The upper part, in the Texas Hill Country, is a smaller, faster stream with limestone banks and shaded by pecan and bald cypress trees. It is formed by two main tributary forks, the North Fork and South Fork Guadalupe Rivers. It is popular as a tubing destination where recreational users often float down it on inflated tire inner tubes during the spring and summer months. East of Boerne, on the border of Kendall County and Comal County, it flows through Guadalupe River State Park, one of the more popular tubing areas along it.

The lower part begins at the outlet of Canyon Lake, near New Braunfels. The section between Canyon Dam and New Braunfels is the most heavily used in terms of recreation. It is a popular destination for whitewater rafters, canoeists, kayakers, and tubing. When the water is flowing at less than 1000 cuft/s there could be hundreds if not thousands of tubes on this stretch of it. At flows greater than 1000 cuft/s, there should be very few tubes on the water. Flows greater than 1000 cuft/s and less than 2500 cuft/s are ideal for rafting and paddling. The flow is controlled by Canyon Dam, and by the amount of rainfall the area has received. It is joined by the Comal River in New Braunfels and the San Marcos River about two miles (3 km) west of Gonzales. The part below the San Marcos River, as well as the latter, is part of the course for the Texas Water Safari.

The San Antonio River flows into it just north of Tivoli. Ahead of the entry into the San Antonio Bay estuary, it forms a delta and splits into two distributaries referred respectively as the North and South parts. Each distributary flows into the San Antonio Bay estuary at Guadalupe Bay.

History
The river was first called after Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe by Alonso de León in 1689. It was renamed the San Augustin by Domingo Terán de los Ríos who maintained a colony on it, but the name Guadalupe persisted. Many explorers referred to the current Guadalupe as the San Ybón above its confluence with the Comal, and instead the Comal was called the Guadalupe. Evidence indicates that it has been home to humans for several thousand years, including the Karankawa, Tonkawa, and Huaco (pronounced like Waco) Indians.

Being led by Prince Solms, 228 pioneer immigrants from Germany traveled overland from Indianola to the site chosen to be the first German settlement in Texas, New Braunfels. Upon reaching the river, the pioneers found it too high to cross due to the winter rains. Prince Solms, perhaps wishing to impress the others with his bravado, plunged into the raging waters and crossed the swollen river on horseback. Not to be outdone by anyone, Betty Holekamp immediately followed and successfully crossed the river. Thus Betty Holekamp is known as the first white woman to cross the Guadalupe on horseback.

1987 flood
On July 17, 1987, a sudden flash flood swept a bus full of children away at a low water crossing. The incident occurred near the town of Comfort, Texas, which lies about 50 mi northwest of San Antonio. At the time, the Pot O' Gold Ranch, which is situated on the south side of the river about two miles southwest of Comfort, was hosting a church camp, with over 300 children from various churches attending. On the night of July 16 and into the morning of the 17th, almost 12 in of rain had fallen across the Texas hill country to the north, triggering immense flooding on the Guadalupe River. The camp was scheduled to end on the 17th and the children were to be headed home later that day, but camp supervisors at the ranch decided to evacuate the children early that morning before it rose too high. At around 9am that morning, the children were loaded into buses and the buses were directed to a low water crossing.

While most of the buses managed to make it across, one bus from the Seagoville Road Baptist Church/Balch Springs Christian Academy in the Dallas suburb of Balch Springs was swept away, along with Pastor Richard Koons, his wife Lavonda, chaperons Allen and Deborah Coalson, and thirty-nine children, ranging in age from 8 to 17. The vehicle had been among the last to leave the camp and proceed alongside the flooded crossing, but when the bus stalled due to rapidly rising waters, Koons and Coalson attempted to get the children to safety by instructing them to form a human chain so that they could reach shore hand in hand. As this was attempted, a sudden rush of water broke the chain and swept them all away. Rescuers from the Texas Department of Public Safety and the US Army's 507th Medical Division managed to save all four adults and twenty-nine of the children via helicopters. The last survivor was rescued from the river around 11:30am, and by that afternoon two children had been confirmed dead, with eight still missing. The first confirmed fatality was 14-year-old Melanie Finley, who after being lifted from the river by helicopter lost her grip on the rope and fell to her death. The second fatality was thirteen-year-old Tonya Smith, who was found entangled in barbed wire two miles downstream from where the bus was washed away. Several parents of the children descended on Comfort, most staying at a makeshift shelter set up by town residents and the American Red Cross at the Comfort Elementary School. Six more bodies were recovered from the river on July 18, identified as Lagenia Keenum, 15; Michael Lane, 16; Michael O'Neal, 16; Cindy Sewell, 16; Christopher Sewell, 13; and Stacey Smith, 16 (Sister of Tonya Smith). The following day, the ninth and final body was recovered from the river, identified as 14-year-old Leslie Gossett. The body of 17-year-old John Bankston Jr., the oldest of the ten victims, was never found.

In the summer of 1988, near the edge of the river and at the foot of the driveway to the Pot O' Gold Ranch, a memorial plaque was dedicated to the children who died as well as those who survived. On April 18, 1989, the story of the deaths and rescues was shown as the pilot episode of Rescue 911, and in 1993 was made into a television movie called The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? The film followed the experiences of some of the children and their families, and starred Joe Spano as Reverend Richard Koons.

River conditions
The river's conditions can change rapidly. Its flow is set by the dam at Canyon Lake and operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. It is highly regulated and well maintained to ensure safety. It is, however, prone to severe flooding. During the rainy seasons the water can reach well above the banks and exceed "normal" levels, in which case it can become life threateningly dangerous due to swift currents. If the flow gauge exceeds 1000 cuft/s at the Sattler Gage, it is generally considered by local authorities as too dangerous for recreational purposes for all except expert kayakers and/or whitewater rafters. On October 31, 2013, the part in New Braunfels rose from 74 to 33500 cuft/s in one hour and fifteen minutes due to locally heavy rainfall.

Uses
Fly fishing for rainbow, and brown trout below Canyon Lake is extremely popular along the entire river, anglers can catch guadalupe bass, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, rio grande cichlid, striped bass and white bass. Tailrace fishing is also common below many of the weirs, spillways and dams such as West-point Pepperell Dam located on the north end of Lake Dunlap within the City Limits of New Braunfels.

The Mandaean-American community of San Antonio regularly performs masbuta (baptism) rituals in the Guadalupe River.

Points of interest

 * Riverside Nature Center, Kerrville, Texas

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Category:Rochester Royals players

This is a list of people who have played for the Rochester Royals franchise (known today as the Sacramento Kings).
 * Note: The Rochester Royals played in the National Basketball League between 1945 and 1948 before moving to the BAA/NBA. Regardless of the league the Royals were in at the time of the player suiting up for the squad, he qualifies for inclusion in this category.

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Bob McAdorey

Robert Joseph McAdorey (July 24, 1935 – February 5, 2005) was a Canadian television and radio broadcaster, most noted for his roles as a radio DJ for Toronto radio station CHUM in the 1960s, and as an entertainment reporter for the Global Television Network in the 1980s and 1990s.

Background
McAdorey was born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He attended Stamford Collegiate, where as a Catholic he was one of just two students exempted from the Protestant school's religious classes, alongside the Jewish Barbara Frum. He got his start in broadcasting with local radio station CHVC as a copywriter and advertising announcer.

While at CHVC, his quick thinking salvaged a Christmas broadcast that was going awry; the announcer playing Santa Claus was drunk and behaving obnoxiously, to the point that the actress playing Mrs. Claus was refusing to work with him, and McAdorey immediately jumped in to play "Sammy Snowflake" so that Santa could be pulled off the air. Within a few weeks, he was the station's new on-air morning host.

He subsequently worked in various other media markets including Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and Guelph, Ontario. While in Guelph, he also served a two-year term on Guelph City Council.

In his early career he was often described as looking like Buddy Holly, while as he aged he was occasionally mistaken in public for Kenneth D. Taylor.

CHUM
McAdorey joined CHUM in 1961 as the afternoon host and program director. In this role, he became one of the most influential radio personalities in all of Canada in the era, with the Toronto Telegram writing in 1966 that "Bob McAdorey, whose face is as well known in Toronto as Mayor Givens, has the most power to dictate what pop music Ontario teens listen to."

McAdorey and his CHUM colleagues Mike Darow, John Spragge and Garry Ferrier sometimes performed together as a pop vocal quartet called The CHUMingbirds, who recorded the single "Brotherhood of Man" for release on Quality Records in 1964. In this era, he was also the host of the teen dance show Hi Time on CFTO.

When the station moved to a more strictly formatted, less personality-centred sound in 1968, McAdorey left the station, and later worked at CFGM and CFTR.

Television career
McAdorey joined the fledgling Global Television Network in Ontario in 1976 on contract producing humorous pieces for Global's newscast, and hosted a late-night satirical news commentary show, Mac, from 1979 to 1980.

Beginning in 1981 he appeared as co-anchor with John Dawe and Mike Anscombe of the station's News at Noon. The show's concept was to reinvent the idea of a noon-hour newscast, adding entertainment and lifestyle features instead of just rehashing the headlines; by 1983 the show was being hailed for its "three nice guys" vibe and was attracting unusually strong ratings for a noon-hour newscast. McAdorey was briefly fired from the station in 1983 for filing a report which management deemed inappropriately humorous and unprofessional, but was hired back within days after many of the station's viewers called and wrote letters in protest. He was also a contributor to the station's other newscasts as an entertainment reporter.

From 1991 to 1997 he also hosted Entertainment Desk, a half-hour daytime entertainment news show. In 1995, when Stamford Collegiate launched a new media production program, it named a production studio in honour of McAdorey, alongside facilities named in honour of Frum and another famous alumnus, James Cameron. In late 1996 he was forced to take a medical leave of absence for several weeks after suffering a head injury in a fall.

In July 2000, he retired, against his wishes, from Global due to the station's policy at the time of mandatory retirement at 65.

McAdorey returned briefly in 2001 to give movie reviews, but spent most of his final years in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

Death
In February 2005, he died in a hospital in St. Catharines, Ontario after a prolonged illness, at the age of 69.

He had one daughter, Colleen, who was married to McAdorey's television colleague Jim Tatti. His wife Willa, and two other children, predeceased him.

He was also the uncle of Michelle McAdorey, a singer and songwriter who led the band Crash Vegas in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Paulo Casaca

Paulo Casaca (born 2 July 1957, in Lisbon) is a Portuguese politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for Portugal's Socialist Party (Partido Socialista) and was also a part of the Party of European Socialists from 1999 to 2009. He was also a member of the regional Azorean and Portuguese parliaments.

Paulo Casaca is the founder and executive director of the "South Asia Democratic Forum," as well as the founder of the international co-operation association registered in Brussels, ARCHumankind, "Alliance to Renew Co-operation among Humankind", founder of the "Euro Reform Initiative", of the consultancy company on sustainable development registered in Brussels, "Less Means More", and Land and Energy Sustainable Systems. Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the US in the first semester of 2010; team leader of a report commissioned by the US-based NGO Committee to Study the Organization of Peace "A Green Ray over Iraq" presented to the UN last March.

Paulo Casaca was a Member of the European Parliament for ten years where, namely, he chaired the delegation for relations with NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He was a councilor in the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union from 1996 to 1999, Chief of Staff of the Minister for Territorial Planning and Public Works from 1995 to 1996, and economics advisor for the Socialist fraction in the national parliament from 1989 to 1990,1992, and 1994 to1995.

Previous to this position, he was a councillor in the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union from 1996 to 1999, chief of staff of the Minister for Territorial Planning and Public Works in 1995/1996, economics advisor for the socialist fraction in the national parliament and Founder of Amnesty International section in Ponta Delgada, Azores. During his academic career, Paulo Casaca lectured at the Economics Departments of the Lisbon Accounting Institute and at the University of the Azores in 1980 and was then invited as a professor at the Lisbon Technical University.

He is the author of several books and reports on the economic and social affairs, Human Rights and the issue of religious fanaticism.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stop auto at alley

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 13:30, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Stop auto at alley
This page is unencyclopedic - its about obscuring letters from a sign to make it say something else. Evil Monkey∴Hello 04:07, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)

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 * Delete This article is unencyclopedia. It is unnecessary. Cabhan 04:10, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. But oh my god, this is perhaps the most mundane and worthless article subject I have ever seen.  Maybe that's worth something?  Postdlf 05:25, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Cleduc 06:03, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, trivial, article as it stands is un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 06:11, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. At first I thought it should be merged with graffiti, but no, just delete. — Brim 10:02, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. If appropriately renamed this could easily form the basis for a fascinating article on a very prevalent graffiti subset. Similar modifications to printed signage have been in circulation for years on Sydney's suburban trains, and a proper exposition of the phenomenon, and its localized variants is exactly the sort of thing Wikipedia can and should excel at documenting.--Centauri 11:40, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I normally enjoy little cultural tidbits more than most people, but this one is just far, far too minor to belong here. Mildly funny though. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  14:52, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, vandalistic article about vandalism, unhelpful, WP not a DIY guide for vandals, unencyclopedic subset of graffiti vandalism. Wyss 19:47, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unencyclopedic. Carrp | Talk 03:49, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)