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Hello to you, too! Alai 23:50, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

TX for your welcome, Alai.

fr:Cèdre à encens
Thanks for correcting my French errors at fr:Cèdre à encens! One small point, I noticed the link fr:Calocedrus decurrens is a redirect back to the page - MPF 01:05, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok I will create a stub about Calocedrus decurrens.Pixeltoo 01:22, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Metasequoia honshuenensis
Hi Pixeltoo - yes; the Flora of China reference states "Name appeared after publication of the family treatment for the Flora of China", so they had not had the opportunity to investigate it at the time they went to publication. They are merely listing the name as having been published, without comment. The Kew World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers (2nd edition 2003) dismisses it, as it also does Silba's "Metasequoia neopangaea" ("discovered" in a University gardens in New York!). The type specimen of "M. honshuenensis" is from a planted tree Riverside Municipal Park, near Grants Pass in Oregon; there is no evidence at all that it originates from any source other than the 1948 introduction from China. Silba is infamous among conifer taxonomists for his ludicrous proliferation of "new" taxa (of which there are dozens in his "Journal of the International Conifer Preservation Society", an unreviewed self-published publication - MPF 22:58, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi Pixeltoo - "I saw many other Araucaria taxons discovered by Silba in New Caledonia. Are they all factitious ?". There are 13 New Caledonia species (none named by Silba) accepted by the Kew Checklist and other botanists; others described by Silba are best ignored - MPF 23:25, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Nice catch
...on Onomatopoeia. I had to switch back and forth several times between the revisions before I saw the difference. I have deleted the image and warned the vandal. Kind regards, — mark ✎ 16:39, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

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It was a mishap, I meant to save it as DualCitizenMap.PNG, but I typed the name first then selected the file, which overwrote my custom name, without me noticing. When I noticed I didn't really care. I'll move it again to there then. +Hexagon1 (talk)  12:32, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Moved it. +Hexagon1 (talk) [[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|30px]] 12:37, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

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Image licenses
A number of your images (for instance, Image:Schema_ARNt_448_658.png, used on Transport RNA) seem to be licensed under the GPL. This doesn't really make sense, as an image is not software. Would you consider changing the license to something more appropriate, such as CC-BY-SA? DES (talk) 01:16, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. How should I credit you when using the image? DES (talk) 13:25, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I would prefer a name, if possible DES (talk) 11:47, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

re: de-orphaning script
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 * I tried emailing it to you, but you don't have your email enabled. -- JLaTondre (talk) 14:16, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
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Worms (family)
I caught your message at Phaedriel's talk. Unfortunately, she has not edited since September 2007, so she probably won't be prompt with your request. Taking a look at it, it was deleted because of WP:SU, the coordinated cleanup of the edits of a banned user. The information is now at Worm (disambiguation).  bibliomaniac 1  5  19:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it would be better off if you started the article at Worms family yourself, because the last one was essentially a copy and paste of the Jewish Encyclopedia.  bibliomaniac 1  5  00:04, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * After some thought I've undeleted it, moved it to Worms family, and cleaned it up. Please work on it.  bibliomaniac 1  5  23:45, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

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IUCN status
Please do not change correctly sourced IUCN conservation status assessments as you did here. mgiganteus1 (talk) 15:25, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Category:Black Sea
Is being only in hidden categories normal? I guess. If you look at the collection of categories named after something you get to Category:Eponymous categories. The reason these exist is the requirement that if you categorize a category, it should be valid for most of what is contained. I can't think of a category that covers, history, bodies of water, islands, drainage basins, ports, energy, and airbases, among others, what would be appropriate for all of this other then the Category:Eponymous categories tree? Note that I fixed an entry there that was a deletion discussion from 4 years ago that was plainly an error. While each case is different, in this one it would appear to be correct and appropriate. Vegaswikian (talk) 16:15, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

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User talk:Tailboom22

Welcome!

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I have two remarks. First, it is good not to use too many captial letters. See the manual of style above (it is good if you read it when you have time). So I put "See also" instead of "See Also".

Second, the variable names should be italic, so you should write q instead of just q. That will show up as italic q.

I moved your page "Fractional Order Control" to "Fractional order control", again for the reasons of not using too many capital letters.

Good luck and let me know if you have any questions! Oleg Alexandrov 23:57, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

PS It is good to "watch" all the aritcles you modify, that is, to put them on your "watchlist", and check that list later to see if other pople made any changes to your aritlces. Oleg Alexandrov 23:57, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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WRDC

WRDC (channel 28) is a television station licensed to Durham, North Carolina, United States, serving the Research Triangle area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Raleigh-licensed CW affiliate WLFL (channel 22). The two stations share studios in the Highwoods Office Park, just outside downtown Raleigh; WRDC's transmitter is located in Auburn, North Carolina.

Channel 28 is the third-oldest television station in the Triangle and was the market's NBC affiliate for its first 27 years of operation. It was perennially the third-rated station in the market and did not produce local newscasts for significant portions of its tenure with NBC, which contributed to the network moving to another station.

Prior use of channel 28 in Raleigh
Channel 28 in Raleigh was initially occupied by WNAO-TV, the first television station in the Raleigh–Durham market and North Carolina's first UHF station. Owned by the Sir Walter Television Company, WNAO-TV broadcast from July 12, 1953, to December 31, 1957, primarily as a CBS affiliate with secondary affiliations with other networks. The station was co-owned with WNAO radio (850 AM and 96.1 FM)), which Sir Walter had bought from The News & Observer newspaper after obtaining the television construction permit. After the Raleigh–Durham market received two VHF television stations in 1954 and 1956 (WTVD, channel 11, and WRAL-TV, channel 5, respectively), WNAO-TV found the going increasingly difficult, as did many early UHF stations. The station signed off December 31, 1957, and its owner entered into a joint venture with another dark UHF outlet that was successful in obtaining channel 8 in High Point.

WRDU-TV/Triangle Telecasters
In 1966, a major overhaul of the UHF allocation table moved the market's channel 28 allotment from Raleigh to Durham. On November 18 of that year, Triangle Telecasters, Inc., a group led by law professor Robinson O. Everett, applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build a new channel 28 station in Durham. The Everett group competed with a very similarly named company, Durham–Raleigh Telecasters (owned by the same interests that were building WCTU-TV in Charlotte), which also applied for the channel. Triangle Telecasters won out on April 29, 1968. Everett sold a minority stake to Charles Woods, owner of WTVY-TV in Dothan, Alabama. Other minority partners included then-mayor of Chapel Hill and WCHL founder Roland "Sandy" McClamroch, former Durham mayor E. J. Evans and former Raleigh mayor Jim Reid.

The new channel 28 began broadcasting on the afternoon of November 4, 1968, as WRDU-TV. The station had no single full affiliation: its first programs were an episode of the CBS soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing followed by the NBC soaps The Doctors and Another World. The new station's studios were on North Carolina Highway 54 in southern Durham, with a transmitter near Terrells Mountain in Chatham County.

The station's first broadcast day reflected the unusual situation in Raleigh–Durham television and which would ultimately have an impact on federal regulations. By then, the Triangle was one of the largest markets in the country with only two commercial television stations. WRAL-TV aired ABC full-time, while CBS and NBC were shoehorned on WTVD. In 1966, a columnist for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, opined that WTVD let NBC programs play a "poor second fiddle" to its primary affiliation with CBS. The area had not been allocated a third commercial VHF station; the nearest NBC affiliates were WITN-TV in Washington and WSJS-TV in Winston-Salem. Even though the All-Channel Receiver Act had only taken effect in 1964, WRDU-TV had one form of compensation the old channel 28 lacked: cable TV. After four years of deliberation by the Raleigh city council, Cablevision came to the city the same year the station launched, and WRDU was picked up by the Raleigh and Burlington cable systems almost as soon as it went on the air.

Even with a third station on the air, NBC allowed WTVD to retain right of first refusal for NBC programming. This situation allowed WTVD to continue its established practice of selecting the higher-rated NBC and CBS programs (just as WTVD had selected the higher-rated CBS and ABC programs when WNAO-TV was in business), leaving WRDU to carry the lower-rated shows from those networks as well as NBC's news programming. By November 1969, this situation prompted Triangle Telecasters to petition the FCC for recourse against WTVD taking shows back from them that they had previously rejected. In 1971, the FCC ruled in favor of Triangle Telecasters (in part due to the commission's then-policy of protecting the development of UHF stations), setting a precedent for similar cases elsewhere. The ruling forced WTVD to choose one network; it ultimately chose CBS, forcing NBC to sign with WRDU-TV by default ahead of the 1971–1972 television season.

NBC's affiliation with WRDU meant that Triangle television viewers, for the first time, finally saw the full schedules of all three networks on separate stations. However, it consigned NBC to a weaker UHF station in terms of personnel, programming, and signal. Channel 28's transmitter was located on the Orange–Chatham County line on the market's western fringe, providing only a Grade B signal to Raleigh proper and rendering it practically unviewable over the air in southern and eastern Wake County. In May 1969, WRDU set up a translator on channel 70 to improve its coverage in eastern Wake County; in 1972, that translator moved to channel 22 and from the top of the BB&T Building in downtown Raleigh to the top of a newly constructed retirement home nearby. Even then, one writer once called the signal "weak as a Carrie Nation cocktail".

Another problem of WRDU's early years was Triangle Telecasters' frequent preemption of network shows for syndicated programs. The Everetts believed they could get more revenue from local advertising than from network airtime payments, due to WRDU's low ratings keeping compensation rates very low in turn. The preemptions only increased during NBC's 1970s ratings struggles. At the time, NBC was considerably less tolerant of its stations substituting alternative programming for its feed than ABC or CBS. However, when NBC demanded that Triangle Telecasters clear the entire network schedule with no preemptions, the Everetts turned them down. NBC was in no position to do anything about it because of the lack of competition in the market. One time WRDU chose not to preempt a network program, it still faced criticism for different reasons; local religious leaders objected to the airing of Franco Zeffirelli's mini-series Jesus of Nazareth, arguing it would offend their beliefs. This was even though WRDU not only held the local rights to The PTL Club, but frequently preempted NBC programming in order to air Billy Graham crusades. The station was also the Triangle's home for the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon until 1979, when it moved to WTVD.

WPTF-TV/Durham Life era
By 1975, though it had outlived the original channel 28, the Everetts were running out of money and wanted out. Realizing that the station was on the verge of shutting down, the family began to look for a new owner. Despite WRDU's ratings struggles, at least three large media groups saw enough promise in the station to consider buying it, among them Scripps–Howard Broadcasting. After two years of negotiations, the Durham Life Insurance Company—which owned WPTF (680 AM), the Triangle's oldest radio station, and WQDR-FM (94.5, now 94.7)—bought WRDU-TV from the Everetts in May 1977 and changed its call sign to WPTF-TV on August 14, 1978.

This was Durham Life's second attempt to get into television. It was one of two applicants for channel 5 in the 1950s and had gone as far as buying cameras and rehearsing announcers. However, the FCC shocked Durham Life when it awarded the license to the much smaller Capitol Broadcasting, owner of WRAL-AM-FM radio, as WRAL-TV. Before buying channel 28, Durham Life had been interested in building a new station on channel 22, a Raleigh assignment that had been proposed for a station in the 1960s.

Durham Life had far more financial resources than Triangle Telecasters could have ever managed and invested a considerable amount of money into its new purchase. It built a new 1300 ft transmitter tower near Apex that gave the renamed WPTF-TV a coverage area comparable to those of WRAL-TV and WTVD. It also started a full news department—Woody Durham, the play-by-play voice of North Carolina Tar Heels sports, served as sports director —and purchased $500,000 in new equipment. It also added a weekday children's show entitled Barney's Army, which was hosted by the namesake Aniforms puppet and ran from 1979 to 1983, long after the genre had disappeared from most other American stations. The show consisted of short interstitials between cartoons and other children's shows, a viewer call-in game called TV Powww along with local musical acts and educational segments. This youth-centered daytime schedule came at the expense of the NBC soap opera Another World, which did not air on the station during its 90-minute expansion from 1979 to 1980; a station representative argued the syndicated shows were more profitable. The preemption of Another World came amid vehement opposition from the network and angry calls and letters from viewers who had actually watched the show on WPTF. Meanwhile, the next closest stations still playing the show in its regular time slot were WECT in Wilmington, WITN-TV in Greenville, and WAVY-TV in Portsmouth, Virginia, all of which were VHF stations. Likewise, the station's removal of Texas prompted viewer outrage; less than a year later, the station added the show back when the network moved it to a mid-morning time slot, NBC canceled it along with The Doctors: WPTF was the only NBC affiliate in North Carolina that still aired the latter show.

Amid indications that Durham Life was as willing to preempt NBC programming as the Everetts had been despite a more powerful signal, Channel 28 still faced the audience-loyalty problems it had under Triangle Telecasters. As NBC's ratings slump worsened, WPTF's already frosty relationship with NBC became even chillier. Even the network's few hits at the time, such as Diff'rent Strokes and The Rockford Files, performed poorly for the station, a problem compounded when NBC programming head Fred Silverman's theory of a "living schedule" did not generate the same success as it did at ABC. Channel 28's stronger signal did not result in a boost for its news ratings; in November 1979, WRAL's 6 p.m. newscast attracted a 30 rating, WTVD's a 16, and WPTF-TV's a measly 1. In 1981, Durham Life reorganized as a holding company, Durham Corporation; the reorganized company fended off two hostile takeover attempts later in the decade. While the radio stations continued to make money, the broadcasting division posted losses because of channel 28. Durham Life also continued to preempt NBC programming, albeit less often than the 1970s. Citing a scheduling problem with a syndicated special, WPTF-TV preempted Maya Angelou's TV movie Sister, Sister when NBC aired it, despite its being set in North Carolina and despite Angelou teaching at Wake Forest University. The station defended its programming philosophy by pointing to its most acclaimed and popular examples of first-run syndicated programs, such as The Muppet Show, and TV movies from Operation Prime Time.

Channel 28 also justified its reliance on syndicated programs by pointing out how they got higher ratings than its nightly news broadcasts. WPTF-TV dropped its 11:00 p.m. newscast in 1982, moving its early-evening newscast to 5:30 and delaying the NBC Nightly News to 7:00 p.m. so it could air Star Trek instead. It also dropped NBC News Overnight, arguing to a local newspaper that the station would lose money on the show compared to just showing nothing at all and signing off after Late Night with David Letterman. The following year, longform evening newscasts were dropped altogether, replaced with brief cut-ins throughout the day. The closest thing to a newscast on the station was a half-hour weekday newsmagazine, North Carolina Today.

WRAL and WTVD switched affiliations in 1985 after WTVD's owner, Capital Cities Communications, bought ABC. Despite an ad campaign designed to poke fun at the change, saying "you know where to find us" to point out that NBC was still in the same place, WPTF-TV saw practically no windfall from the switch. By the mid-to-late 1980s, even with NBC's powerful prime time lineup leading the network to first place only two years after finishing last, WPTF-TV remained stubbornly last in the Triangle television ratings. It even trailed WLFL, an independent station (and later, a Fox affiliate) that had only been on the air since 1981. Meanwhile, preemptions of NBC shows continued unabated. The station even preempted the popular prime time dramas Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere, prompting over 400 angry calls and letters to the station. One short-lived NBC daytime show called Fantasy went to UNC–Chapel Hill to hold auditions for guests despite the fact that WPTF-TV refused to air it. The show was canceled after only one season. By this time, NBC was running out of patience with WPTF-TV. According to Electronic Media magazine, the network had begun "continuing courtship" of WRAL-TV, a station that rejected the network's overtures out of a desire to avoid a second affiliation switch in three years, going as far as to sweetening the deal by offering the NBC affiliation in Charlotte to Capitol's newly-built WJZY with WRAL, which would in turn resolve NBC's continued issues with WPCQ-TV (now WCNC-TV) in that market.

Durham Corporation was able to make progress and begin making money again in its broadcasting unit in the 1980s. Full-length evening newscasts returned in 1986, and a year later the company moved WPTF-AM-TV and WQDR to new quarters in the Highwoods office complex costing $1 million. However, it still made very little difference in the ratings. The 6 p.m. edition of Newsbeat 28 not only saw no improvement on the same low ratings it garnered in the previous decade, but it trailed reruns on WLFL of the former NBC sitcom Gimme a Break!, with WTVD and WRAL maintaining their leads. The next year, WPTF-TV appeared on the cable system in Fayetteville for the first time, a move cited as key in increasing station circulation and giving it more parity with WRAL and WTVD. During this decade, the station broke new ground by broadcasting in 3D and stereo sound before other stations (and in the case of the latter, ahead of the network itself) while also being the first station in the area to accept condom ads.

In August 1989, Durham Corporation opted to focus on its core insurance business and announced it was placing WPTF-TV up for sale. Durham Life sought as much as $45 million for the station. Nature, however, derailed the station's attempts to turn its fortunes around. On December 10, 1989, WPTF-TV's three-year-old tower near Auburn collapsed in an ice storm that also brought down the nearby tower of WRAL-TV. The next day, Durham Corporation took WPTF-TV off the market due to the collapse; it had received lesser offers than it had expected. The first signs of trouble came earlier that year when a less severe ice storm still proved strong enough to knock the station off the air for 10 hours so maintenance workers could replace parts of a damaged transmission line. After temporarily broadcasting some programs over WYED-TV (channel 17) from Goldsboro and WFCT (channel 62) in Fayetteville, WPTF reactivated its old transmission facility near Apex, which it had used from 1978 to 1986, allowing the station to resume its broadcasts on channel 28 as usual. That same tower was dismantled several years later and then donated to classical radio station WCPE-FM, who reassembled it at a spot near its studios in Wake Forest in 1993. In 1991, WPTF-TV joined WRAL-TV on a newly built 1,989 ft broadcast tower at the latter's previous site, which also housed the signals for WRAL-FM, WQDR-FM, and several local low-power television stations.

Even when WPTF-TV began broadcasting on its own signal again, its nightly newscasts remained in the ratings basement, frequently being trounced by the newscasts on WRAL-TV and WTVD and reruns on WLFL. The station had also lost some ratings momentum with the tower collapse. In September 1990, channel 28 tried moving the 6 p.m. newscast to 7 p.m., displacing Hard Copy (a rare ratings success for the station) and airing after NBC Nightly News instead of before it, with Cheers reruns taking its old time slot. By this time, lead anchor and producer Terry Thill had been replaced by Ben Garrett. Moving the early newscast failed to improve ratings, as it now had to compete with Jeopardy! on WTVD and Entertainment Tonight on WRAL. By this time, their higher-rated competitors were also airing pre-6 p.m. newscasts. The firing of Terry Thill ultimately proved to be a grim harbinger of things to come for the news division. On top of that, the whole of Durham Life Broadcasting was suffering bad publicity due to Laurel Smith, general manager of WQDR-FM, facing accusations of sexual harassment by male employees while she was also involved in a child custody case with her ex-husband; a memo by company president Felton P. Coley told employees of the company's radio and TV stations, WPTF-TV included, not to talk about it publicly, a point made moot when she resigned.

Sale to FSF TV
While the company initially announced plans to retain its broadcasting properties, the interest of buyers in Durham Life itself resulted in a deal. Bev W. Landstreet III, an investor from Nashville, Tennessee, and owner of Financial Securities Fund L.P., had been attempting to buy Durham Corporation and its $8.2 billion portfolio of life insurance policies since 1983. When Durham instead opted to sell itself to Capital Holding of Louisville, Kentucky, Landstreet got the consolation prize: Durham Life Broadcasting. Landstreet immediately sold the radio stations to Curtis Media Group. He then formed FSF TV, Inc. to acquire channel 28, with Paul Brissette, a Boca Raton, Florida-based investor and president of Adams Television, as a minority partner. The new owners hired Vickie Street—former general manager of Adams-owned WWAY, the ABC affiliate in Wilmington—as general manager, answering directly to Brissette. Almost as soon as FSF took control in late July 1991, Brissette canceled the evening newscasts and fired virtually the entire news department. The news staffers were told of the decision just before the scheduled start of the 7 p.m. newscast and given just two hours to pack their things. Station officials said that the newscasts had not budged from last place despite numerous attempts at improvements. Brissette said that the newscasts' ratings were the most anemic he had seen in all of his years in television; they only attracted a two percent share at the time of their cancellation. This led Brissette and Landstreet to conclude that it would not be worth the effort to spend the money it would take to make the newscasts viable. Brissette also shuttered the public affairs department. The call sign was then changed to WRDC on October 25, 1991, after the three major cities in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill); the station branded as "TRI-28" (later rendered as "TRY-28").

FSF was able to make the station profitable almost immediately but faced the perception that it believed in making money rather than being a part of the community. In particular, the loss of news programming assured little to no goodwill from NBC about the future direction of the station. One disgruntled ex-employee bitterly suggested that the station's new call sign stood for "We Really Don't Care", while another compared the situation to the last episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in which the new owners of the fictional WJM fired all the employees of the nightly newscast except Ted Baxter. Some argued that a last-place newscast was better than nothing and that the Triangle needed more than two functioning news departments to adequately cover the market. Meanwhile, several stations in which Brissette had controlling interest not only had full-fledged newscasts but successful ones as well. The station continued to employ a single anchor/reporter to helm local cut-ins that would air in and around NBC network shows and syndicated programming. Even these news briefs were canceled in 1994, two years after WLFL had launched a 10 p.m. newscast, leaving WRDC as little more than a "pass-through" for network and syndicated programming. However, like its predecessors, FSF continued to preempt NBC shows to make more money off of airing Billy Graham crusades and other fare.

Switch from NBC to UPN
In March 1994, FSF sold channel 28 to Communications Corporation of America, headed by Tom Galloway. Despite hopes that Galloway would do something to fix what News & Observer media critic Bob Langford called "the worst NBC affiliate in the country", the ownership change would not be enough to save channel 28's affiliation with NBC. By this time, NBC's patience with WRDC had been exhausted after over a quarter-century of mediocrity at best on channel 28. It had perennially been one of NBC's weakest affiliates, even during its nationwide ratings dominance. The station's lackluster ratings in what had become one of the fastest-growing markets in the country were a particular embarrassment for a network still capitalizing on the success of the Must See TV campaign. Continuing preemptions and Brissette's all-but-nonexistent commitment to local news did not help matters.

NBC began to look to move its programming to another station at the end of its affiliation agreement with channel 28. Unlike in the 1970s, the establishment of new television stations in the Triangle and cable leveling the playing field between VHF and UHF outlets gave NBC flexibility in selecting a new local outlet for its programs. In 1994, NBC selected WYED-TV (channel 17, soon to become WNCN), licensed to Goldsboro but located just outside Raleigh in Clayton. WNCN had recently boosted its signal to 5 million watts to provide greater coverage to the Triangle. Additionally, channel 17's new owner, Outlet Communications, had very good relations with NBC; it owned WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, and WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio, which were two of NBC's strongest and longest-standing affiliates. Although WNCN had just affiliated with the new WB Television Network, NBC quickly cut a deal with Outlet to move its Triangle affiliation to WNCN on October 1, 1995, the day channel 28's affiliation agreement expired.

WRDC took on a secondary affiliation with UPN when that network launched in January. However, in anticipation of the switch, it began branding itself as "UPN 28" and all but stopped promoting NBC programming outside network hours; it also delayed UPN's Monday and Tuesday night slates to air on Friday and Saturday nights instead of NBC's weak prime time lineup, which WNCN aired on those nights until September.

The switchover took place on September 10, 1995—a month earlier than planned, by mutual agreement between the two stations—ending a 27-year partnership between channel 28 and NBC under four different owners. WNCN became the sole NBC affiliate in the Triangle, while WRDC became an exclusive UPN affiliate. That fall, the WB affiliation intended for WNCN went to newly launched WRAZ (channel 50), owned by Tar Heel Broadcasting and operated by WRAL-TV under a local marketing agreement, with the understanding that the new station would switch affiliations with WLFL three years later. In the wake of the switch, WRDC picked up several syndicated shows that WNCN no longer had time to air. This left WRDC with mostly talk shows on its daytime lineup. By then, Communications Corporation of America had contracted with Sinclair Broadcast Group, which was purchasing WLFL, to combine the two stations' operations under a local marketing agreement; Sinclair provided CCA 98 percent of the money to buy channel 28. The merged operation was housed at the former WRDC facility. WRDC was then sold to Glencairn Ltd., nominally headed by former Sinclair executive Edwin Edwards. However, the Smith family, founders and owners of Sinclair, held 97% of Glencairn's stock; for all intents and purposes, Sinclair now owned both stations. Similar arrangements were in place at Glencairn's other eight stations, leading to allegations that Sinclair was using Glencairn to make an end-run around FCC rules forbidding television station duopolies. Ties between WRDC and Sinclair were apparent even before the sale to Glencairn; Sinclair had put up 98 percent of the money Communications Corporation of America had used to buy WRDC. The FCC eventually fined Sinclair $40,000 for its illegal control of Glencairn but approved its direct acquisition of the Glencairn stations in 2001, after duopolies were legalized.

As a MyNetworkTV affiliate
On January 24, 2006, Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that The WB and UPN would merge their higher-rated programs onto a new network, The CW. The news of the merger resulted in Sinclair announcing, two months later, that most of its UPN and WB affiliates, including WRDC, would join MyNetworkTV, a new service formed by the News Corporation, which is also owner of the Fox network. WLFL, which had been a WB affiliate since 1998, took the CW affiliation a few months later.

On May 15, 2012, Sinclair and Fox agreed to a five-year affiliation agreement extension for Sinclair's 19 Fox-affiliated stations until 2017. This included an option, exercisable between July 1, 2012, and March 31, 2013, for Fox parent News Corporation to buy a combination of six Sinclair-owned stations (two CW/MyNetworkTV duopolies and two standalone MyNetworkTV affiliates) in three out of four markets; WLFL and WRDC were included in the Fox purchase option, along with stations in Cincinnati (WSTR-TV), Norfolk (WTVZ) and Las Vegas (KVCW and KVMY). In January 2013, Fox announced that it would not exercise its option to buy any of the Sinclair stations in the four aforementioned markets.

Subchannels
The station's ATSC 1.0 channels are carried on the multiplexed signals of other Raleigh–Durham television stations:

Analog-to-digital conversion
WRDC discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 28, on February 17, 2009, five months ahead of the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. It was one of three stations in the Triangle market, along with WLFL and WRAY-TV, that decided to switch on that date, even though the official transition date had been changed to June 12, 2009. Although it had an assigned digital channel that it would move to post-transition that differed from its original digital channel, WRDC continued to broadcast its digital signal on its pre-transition allocation (UHF channel 27). At noon on June 12, the station's digital signal relocated to UHF channel 28.

ATSC 3.0 lighthouse
WRDC serves as one of two ATSC 3.0 (Next Gen TV) stations in the Triangle, launching in November 2020. {{legend|#ffffd0|Subchannel streamed via the Internet }}

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Eau Claire City Council
Government documents are public domain? Says who? Brianjd 08:41, 2004 Dec 9 (UTC)

The very nature of them being created by public entities places almost all public documents in the public domain, with some exceptions (such as a state university publishing books, etc). Edwin 08:43, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

And where does this apply? My local government's website is definitely not public domain (I'm in Australia). Brianjd 08:44, 2004 Dec 9 (UTC)

Government pages in the US are almost always public domain Micah 08:47, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This may be an American tradition, although from what I understand Canadian customs in this area are similar. This would lead me to think that this descends from Common Law, but your experience in the Commonwealth of Australia contradicts this. So I'd have to say that I don't really know except that the US and Canada generally share this principle, with some exception. Edwin 08:49, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Since it is wrong to remove comments from others' talk pages, can you merge these comments into Talk:Eau Claire City Council? Brianjd 09:52, 2004 Dec 23 (UTC)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Thanks for your kind words. And thanks for helping improve the article. Tom - Talk 16:44, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

When you are ready
When you get to the point where you think you are ready to be an admin, I'd be happy to nominate you. I don't see anything wrong with your work so far. If you keep it up, and explore a little more deeply into the community, I think you would be a fine admin. Please don't take my remarks as anything personal or critical of your work. I'd just like to see a little bit more of it, before I would recommend that you be given the extra responsibility of being an admin. It's good to meet you. Pedant 21:55, 2004 Dec 10 (UTC)

Thank for for message above, I appreciate it! I will do what you propose. Edwin 21:56, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sure thing. Feel free to ask for any help or advice you might need. I may not have the answers, but I might point you in the right direction. See you around. thanks for the thank you note. Pedant 22:02, 2004 Dec 10 (UTC)

I'd like to second that. We need more Lutheran Administrators in order to advance our "secret" Lutheran "agenda" (which involves coffee and liturgically-themed jello). -[[User:Aranel|Aranel (" Sarah ")]] 01:59, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

American Lutheran Church
http://www.elca.org/archives/churchbodykey.html note that the elca itself use TALC to refer to the 1960-87 The Amer Luth Church

Response: Please sign your feedback. The term "ALC" was used extensively during the pre-ELCA era. "TALC" is generally only used on charts in order to distinguish the pre-60's ALC from the pre-ELCA ALC that ceased to exist in 1988. Thanks. Edwin

Law and Gospel on the LCMS Page
Please see the Talk:Lutheran_Church_-_Missouri_Synod, Law and Gospel. Thanks! Bob --CTSWyneken 02:37, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Hi Edwin. Thanks for pitching in on the ELCA page! Just a quick question: you changed the part on the ordination of women from saying that the ELCA ordains women "unlike the other Lutheran denominations in the United States" to "unlike most other Lutheran denominations." I'm sure you're right on this, but I'm just curious what other American Lutheran denominations do ordain women. (I know the LCMS, WELS, and ELS don't; but maybe there are some tiny ones that do?) Also I noticed you pulled out the external links to the groups promoting and opposing a more accepting stance on homosexuality. Was that because you thought the groups should get their own wikipedia articles, or did you think the external links were inappropriate for other reasons? Again, thanks for the work on that page. User:Ropcat 21:07, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The Lutheran Ministerium and Synod USA ordains women. The links werent inappropriate, but I intend to write full articles on these groups. EdwinHJ | Talk 02:45, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hi Edwin. I've never heard of the Lutheran Ministerium and Synod, so thanks for drawing that group to my attention. As for the ELCA internal groups, I'll be interested to see your articles on them. If you think of it, please drop me a note when you've put something up, as I'm eager to learn more. Best, User:Ropcat 06:19, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Presbyterian Church USA and Presbyterian Church (USA)
I'm confused by what has happened with Presbyterian Church USA and Presbyterian Church (USA) and how/why the latter article shows it is listed on Votes for deletion but does not appear on that page, but does have a deletion subpage: Votes for deletion/Presbyterian Church (USA). As near as I can figure, there were cut and paste moves made (which is a bad thing)--but I don't see why it should be listed for deletion. Can you shed any light on this? older ≠ wiser 20:53, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

It was apparently flagged for deletion due to some POV issues, but they have seemingly been resolved. Edwin 14:50, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Please add more info to this page if you can
I am trying to build up a more complete but still neutral page about Alliant Techsystems. MicahMN | Talk

I merge the Reform party of Minn with Indep party of minn because as you know it is the same party except for 5 years (1995-00) it was afflicated with the national reform party the info on the rpm page was basically the same as on the ipm page so it seem unnecessary to have two pages of basically the same info

Zap2It Movie Listings for 10 miles surrounding 55406
Zap2It LinkMicahMN | Talk

Laurie Coleman
Why do you refer to her (Laurie Coleman) as his current wife do you expect there to be a divorce soon? Plus do you speculate on other people ages?

Response: Please sign your comments. The 'current wife' remark should be stricken as you did, that is indeed better sounding. The age of a person is very appropriate for an encyclopedia entry. Since Mrs Coleman makes a point of hiding her age, that is worth noting. Thanks. Edwin 19:32, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Arrested Development
I didn't know this, but Gob on AD is actually G.O.B. which means "George Oscar Bluth II". More info from the cast page MicahMN | Talk

DVORAK
Thought you might like this new keyboard that may be better than your new Dvorak Keyboard... It has 53 keys. Check it out.

MicahMN | Talk 04:11, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

A suggestion for your user page
Edwin: I have recently learned that most wikipedia users find it to be in better form to have your user page be written in the first person, rather than thrid person. As you will see, I have recently made that change myself. This is only a suggestion. Also, you can create a simple English version of your user page as well if you wish. MicahMN | Talk

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Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union

The Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, usually known as CICCU, is the University of Cambridge's most prominent student Christian organisation, and was the first university Christian Union to have been founded. It was formed in 1877, but can trace its origins back to the formation of the Jesus Lane Sunday School in 1827 and the Cambridge Prayer Union in 1848. CICCU's stated purpose is "to make Jesus Christ known to students in Cambridge".

Currently CICCU runs two main outreach activities – 'Events Week' in Lent term, and 'Big Questions' lunches on Fridays in St Andrew the Great which feature short talks and Q&As about questions of life and faith – along with a variety of occasional events, and bigger activities in colleges.

Students in many other universities followed Cambridge's lead in forming their own Christian Unions, beginning with OICCU being founded in Oxford in 1879. Initially CICCU was part of the Student Christian Movement, which it left in 1910 to provide a specifically conservative evangelical ministry in Cambridge. Again, OICCU and other Unions followed them in this move, and together they founded the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions in 1928, which now the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship or UCCF. UCCF spread to Canada in the same year and later to the United States, Australia (Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students), New Zealand (Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship) and across the globe.

Membership declaration
Students who become members of CICCU are asked to sign the following statement, "I desire in joining this Union to declare my faith in Jesus Christ as my Saviour, my Lord and my God". This was one of the issues in the dispute with the SCM. However, this declaration is not necessary to attend any events, or become involved with helping.

Leadership
CICCU is led by Christian students from a wide variety of backgrounds, united in a common desire to "make Jesus Christ known to students in Cambridge." Past CICCU members have included Josh Moody, Basil Atkinson, Helen Roseveare, John W. Wenham, John Stott and Vaughan Roberts. The leadership operates on two levels – university wide and within colleges. A committee of eight students, known as the Exec organise CICCU. Two reps in each college lead college events and meetings.

Structure
There are weekly meetings in almost every college during term time – these include Bible study, prayer and praise. The college groups then meet together as a whole for Bible Teaching and prayer each week. The CICCU organises weekly talks, explaining what Christians believe, and discussion groups (Christianity Explored courses). The college groups organise termly events in the colleges where people can come and find out more about Christianity. Every year there is a high-publicity main event, during which events are held in most of the colleges and there are lunchtime and evening talks.

Doctrinal basis
CICCU adopts the doctrinal basis of UCCF, to which it is affiliated.

Controversy
Attitudes towards homosexuality have been a particular area of controversy, in particular during their 2004 Promise Week event, in which it was alleged that homosexual relations were equated with bestiality. CICCU members deny that their organisation is anti-gay, stressing "equality in the sight of God", and point out that they love homosexual and heterosexual friends equally, as does God..

Recent comment on the CICCU has been more ambivalent – surprised by the intense focus on sharing rather than simply maintaining their faith, but impressed by the warmth of their welcome, and the depth of their conviction.

Presidents
• 1877:  A. Coote

•         W. Mitchell-Carruthers

• 1877–78: J.C. Taylor

• 1878–79: G.H. Pole

• 1879–80: J. Harford-Battersby

• 1880-2: Names lost

• 1882–83: J.E.K. Studd

• 1883–84: I.B. Wane

• 1884–85: Hon. W.G. Scott

• 1885–86: E.D.M. Hamilton

• 1886–87: A. Klein

• 1887–88: R.M. Webb-Peploe

• 1888–89: D.W. Carr

• 1889–90: A. Rouse

• 1890–91: L.F.D. Blair

• 1891–92: C.T. Horan

• 1892–93: N. Bennett

• 1893–94: A.H. Swann

• 1894–95: F.T. Woods

• 1895–96: A.G. Dodderidge

• 1896–97: H.F. Buxton

• 1897–98: D.R. Barclay

• 1898–99: T.W. Thompson

• 1899–1900: J. Stenhouse

• 1900–01: W.G. Hardie

• 1901–02: R. Hodgkin

• 1902–03: S. Donnithorne

• 1903–04: G.A. Barclay

• 1904–05: D.P. Robinson (afterwards Brereton)

• 1905–06: J.R.S. Taylor

• 1906–07: A.E. Bradley

• 1907–08: R.L. Pelly

• 1908–09: H.N. Rodgers

• 1909–10: A.C.B. Bellerby

• 1910: G.F.B. Morris

• Lent 1911 – Easter 1912: H.W.K. Mowll

• 1912–13: G.B. Sellwood

• 1913–14: W.R.D. Robertson

• 1914–15: J.W.McK. Nicholl

• 1915–16: E.W. Hare

• 1916–17: G.R. Lindsay

• 1918–19: R.P. Dick

• 1919–20: B.G. Buxton

• Easter 1920: M.H. Webb-Peploe

• Michaelmas 1920: C.A. Martin

• Lent 1921 – Easter 1921: T.S. Goodwin

• 1921–22: C.H.M. Foster

• 1922–23: C.G. Webb-Peploe

• 1923–24: F.H. Pickering

• 1924–25: C.J.B. Harrison

• Michaelmas 1925: H.W. Boake

• Lent 1926 – Easter 1927: H.R. Gough

• 1927–28: K.H. Hooker

• 1928–29: N.A.L. Miller

• 1929–30: H.A.Evan Hopkins

• 1930–31: J.N.D. Anderson

• 1931–32: R.G. Allison

• 1932–33: R.J. Cobb

• 1933–34: C.G. Scorer

• 1934–35: H.T. Hughes

• 1935–36: B.C. Gough

• 1936–37: R.J. Knight

• 1937–38: R.J.B. Eddison

• 1938–39: D.C. Argyle

• 1939–40: F.D. Kidner

• 1940–41: R.F. Hettlinger

• Michaelmas 1941 – Michaelmas 1942: O.R. Barclay

• Lent 1943 – Easter 1943: J.D. Davis

• 1943–44: G.K. Barker

• 1944–45: J.H.F. Batstone

• 1945–46: R.S. Dell

• Michaelmas 1946: J.C. Pollock

• Lent 1947 – Easter 1947: J.A. Boyes

• Michaelmas 1947 – Lent 1948: G.F. Grobecker From this point the usual tenure was from the Easter Term of one year to the Lent Term of the next

• 1948–49: D.J. Drew

• 1949–50: J.F. Sertin

• 1950–51: J.T.C.B. Collins

• 1951–52: M.C. Griffiths

• 1952–54: Names lost

• 1954–55: A.A.W. Kimpton

• 1955–58: Name lost

• 1958–59: J. Morris

• 1959–63: Names lost

• 1963–64: S. Baldock

• 1964–69: Name lost

• 1969–70: M. Cuthbertson

• 1970–71: M. Elston

• 1971–72: D. Evans

• 1972–73: D. Hunt

• 1973–74: R. Capper

• 1974-75: P. Doyle

• 1975–76: J. Glauert

• 1976–77: J. Samuel

• 1977–78: J. Partington

• 1978–79: P. Weston

• 1979–80: J. Barclay

• 1980–81: J. Stuart

• 1981–82: T. Green

• 1982–83: T. Pickett

• 1983–84: C. Naylor

• 1984–85: Tim Law

• 1985–86: I. McIntosh

• 1986–87: V.E. Roberts

• 1987–88: A. Horn

• 1988–89: K. Green

• 1989–90: T Thomas

• 1990–91: T. Cole

• 1991–92: J. Moody

• 1992–93: G. Treece

• 1993–94: U. Mayr-Harting

• 1994–95: J. Rea

• 1995–96: D. Horrocks

• 1996–97: J. Sidders

• 1997–98: D. Gobbett

• 1998–99: S. Wearn

• 1999–2000: J. White

• 2000–01: R. Mann

• 2001–02: R. Evans

• 2002–03: K. Butler

• 2003–04: J. Percival

• 2004–05: G. Shearer

• 2005–06: D. Pfeiffer

• 2006–07: B. Monteiro

• 2007–08: C. Butler

• 2008–09: J. Young

• 2009–10: M. Pilkington

• 2010–11: P. Hammersley

• 2011–12: C. Nickerson

• 2012–13: M. Lewis

• 2013–14: A. Greaves

• 2014–15: J. Thompson

• 2015–16: G. Sterlini

• 2016–17: D. Palmer

• 2017–18: J. Payne

• 2018–19: T. Colpus

• 2019–20: T. Saer

• 2020–21: A. Webb

• 2021–22: K. Heasman

• 2022–23: P. McCartney

• 2023–24: D. Read

• 2024–25: T. France

Sources in the Cambridge University Library

Affiliation

 * UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship)
 * IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students)


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George Francis Lyon

George Francis Lyon (23 January 1796 – 8 October 1832) was an English naval officer and explorer of Africa and the Arctic. While not having a particularly distinguished career, he is remembered for the entertaining journals he kept and for the pencil drawings he completed in the Arctic; this information was useful to later expeditions.

Early life
He was born in Chichester, the elder son of Lieutenant Colonel George Lyon of the 11th Light Dragoons and Louisa Alexandrina Hart. She was in turn the second daughter of Sir William Neville Hart and Elizabeth Aspinwall. He was educated at Burney's Academy in Gosport, Hampshire.

Naval career
After joining the Royal Navy he was entered on the books of HMS Royal William (1692) at Spithead in 1808 before going to sea aboard HMS Milford (1809).

Niger River
In 1818, he was sent along with Joseph Ritchie by Sir John Barrow to find the course of the Niger River and the location of Timbuktu. The expedition was underfunded, lacked support and because the ideas of John Barrow departed from Tripoli and thus had to cross the Sahara as part of their journey.

A year later, due to much officialdom they had only got as far as Murzuk where they both fell ill. Ritchie never recovered and died there, but Lyon survived and travelled a little further around the region. Exactly a year to the day he left, he arrived back in Tripoli, the expedition being a complete failure.

Northwest Passage
Having been promised a promotion on his return, he now set about trying to pester the Admiralty into fulfilling their promise. He irritated enough people that his reward was, in 1821, to be given the command of HMS Hecla (1815) under William Edward Parry on his second attempt at the Northwest Passage. Among Lyon's lieutenants was Henry Parkyns Hoppner. The expedition also included Francis Crozier and James Clark Ross. Lyon received his promotion to captain on his return.

In 1824, he was given command of HMS Griper (1813), a ship that had proved itself a poor Arctic vessel on William Edward Parry's 1819 expedition. His goal was to sail to Hudson Bay and then north through Roes Welcome Sound to Repulse Bay and then go overland through unknown country to reach John Franklin's furthest east at Point Turnagain on the Kent Peninsula. The Inuit had told Parry that there was salt water three days' walk to the west, but this was apparently the Gulf of Boothia.

Hudson Bay was unusually ice-filled, and on 1 September 1824, near Cape Fullerton, just west of the entrance to Roes Welcome Sound, a storm drove the ship onto a rock or iceberg. All hands expected the ship to sink but when the gale died down it was still afloat. On 12 September, Griper was forced to anchor offshore in a gale with heavy seas and snow. It lost its anchor cables and the masts and rigging were badly damaged. Lyon took three weeks to work the hulk out of Hudson Bay. Arriving at Spithead without anchors the ship only stopped when it fouled a three-decker's mooring cables.

Later life and death
While he was well known in society, this last failure effectively saw him blacklisted in the Royal Navy and he never had another command. Having been made an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws (DCL) by the University of Oxford in 1825, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 15 November 1827. He died on 8 October 1832, on board the packet boat Emulous en route from Buenos Aires to Britain to be treated for eye problems.

Personal life
He married Lucy Louisa, younger daughter of the Irish revolutionary Lord Edward Fitzgerald, on 5 September 1825. They had a daughter, Lucy Pamela Sophia Lyon, born in September 1826. Lucy Louisa Lyon died that same month, while her husband was away in Mexico. He did not find out about her death until he landed at Holyhead, having survived the wreck of the ship bringing him home. His daughter went on to marry Reverend Thomas Ovens in 1849, had three children, and died in 1904.

An aspect of his personality that was rare at the time was his genuine interest in the "natives" of the countries he visited. Wearing a thawb and learning fluent Arabic, he managed to blend in with the inhabitants of North Africa; he was tattooed by the Inuit in the Arctic, using needle and sooty thread, and ate raw caribou and seal meat with them. The expedition achieved little, spending two years in the Arctic and getting only as far the Fury and Hecla Strait before being stopped by ice. But the information recorded about the Inuit tribes that he met proved valuable to later generations of anthropologists, such as Franz Boas and Knud Rasmussen, who relied on his journals as a reference point for their own observations.

Publications
He published at least three books about his adventures:
 * A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa in the Years 1818, 19, and 20..., London (1821)
 * The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon, of H.M.S. Hecla, During the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry (1824)
 * A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt To Reach Repulse Bay In His Majesty's Ship Griper, In The Year MDCCCXXIV, London (1825)

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Don't Let Me Down (The Farm song)

"Don't Let Me Down" is a single by Liverpool-based pop group The Farm released as the third and final single from their album Spartacus. It was released on 22 April 1991 (eight days before the album itself), having been produced by Graham "Suggs" McPherson of Madness. The single reached #36 on the UK Singles Chart.

The foot featured on the cover of the single is that of John Goldsmid, a model, socialite, and fashion designer, who was renting a studio next to the Farm when the record was released.

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Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, released in Japan as Super Puzzle Fighter II X (スーパーパズルファイターII X), is a tile-matching puzzle video game released in 1996 for the CP System II (CPS2) arcade board, by Capcom and its Capcom Coin-Op division. The game's title is a play on Super Street Fighter II Turbo (called Super Street Fighter II X in Japan), as there were no other Puzzle Fighter games at the time, and the game includes music and interface elements spoofing the  Street Fighter Alpha and Darkstalkers games. It was a response to Sega's Puyo Puyo 2 that had been sweeping the Japanese arcade scene.

A high-definition remake version titled Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, is available on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. A successor, Puzzle Fighter, was released for mobile devices in 2017. Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix was made backwards compatible on Xbox One in June 2019. In 2022, it was announced that Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo will be included as a part of both the Capcom Fighting Collection and Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium compilations on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One.

Gameplay
Puzzle Fighter is a puzzle game which is similar to the Sega arcade game Baku Baku Animal. As in the Capcom arcade game Pnickies, the player controls pairs of blocks ("gems" in game parlance) that drop into a pit-like playfield (twelve blocks tall by six blocks wide, with the fourth column from the left being thirteen blocks high). In Puzzle Fighter, however, gems can only be eliminated by coming into contact with a Crash Gem of the same color, which eliminates all adjacent gems of that color, setting up the potential for huge chain reactions. When gems are eliminated, "garbage blocks" called Counter Gems drop into the opponent's playfield; these will eventually become normal gems, but only after they count down to zero. Most Counter Gems start at "5" and are reduced by one each time a new pair of gems is dropped on that board. The only way to eliminate Counter Gems before they become normal gems is to place a Crash Gem of that color nearby so it eliminates at least one normal gem. If this is done, all Counter Gems immediately adjacent to the Crash Gem will be taken out as well. Additionally, gems of the same color that form squares or rectangles (of at least two blocks tall and wide) in the pit become a giant Power Gem of that size and color; eliminating these as part of a combo increases the number of Counter Gems that would otherwise normally appear on the opponent's board. The only other type of piece to appear is a diamond, which eliminates all the gems—normal, Power, Counter, and Crash alike—of whichever color gem it lands on. (This, too, will cause Counter Gems to appear on the opponent's board. The diamond is supposed to create half the number of Counter Gems as a normal chain reaction. However, there is a bug that allows players to bypass this reduction. ) The diamond piece appears every 25 pieces.

Puzzle Fighter borrowed rules originally found in Puyo Puyo 2 called Sousai (Garbage Countering). This will allow a player to counter and negate garbage being sent by the opponent with chains of their own. Sousai can also be used to send garbage back to the opponent, known as Garbage overflow.

During the game, super deformed versions of various characters from Capcom's two main fighting game series (Street Fighter and Darkstalkers) act out a comical battle based on how the game is going. Every time one player sends Counter Gems to their opponent, their character will perform a typical fighting-game action, anything from a taunt to a special move. The more Counter Gems the player sends over, the "bigger" the move the character will perform. These animations, however, are purely cosmetic and have no actual bearing on the gameplay other than to indicate the magnitude of the counters.

The game continues until one player's field reaches the top of its fourth column (which is where all new gems first appear). That player is the loser.

The Dreamcast version of the game adds three separate modes: X-Mode, Y-Mode and Z-Mode. Whereas X-mode is the original version of the core game, Y-Mode and Z-Mode have more drastic gameplay changes. Y-Mode makes the gems break as soon as three or more are aligned in a row, column, or diagonally, like in Columns, whereas Z-mode makes lines of gems rise up from the bottom of the screen, and the player controls a 2x2 square cursor, with which they rotate already-placed pieces, similarly to Tetris Attack.

Characters
The puzzle fighters on the roster are crossing over from Capcom's two major fighting game sequels that were recent at the time, such as Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge. A spin-off that uses most of these character sprites called Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix was released in 1997.

 * Ryu from Street Fighter
 * Ken from Street Fighter
 * Chun-Li from Street Fighter II
 * Sakura from Street Fighter Alpha 2
 * Morrigan from Darkstalkers
 * Donovan from Darkstalkers
 * Hsien-Ko (Lei-Lei in Japan) from Darkstalkers
 * Felicia from Darkstalkers

Consoles

 * Mei-Ling (Lin Lin in Japan) from Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
 * Hsien-Ko's twin sister who is actually the talisman on her hat and is playable in console only.
 * Anita from Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
 * A young girl who accompanies Donovan wherever he goes (console only as well).

Hidden Characters

 * Dan from Street Fighter Alpha
 * The game's instructor, tournament host, and "sensei" who is the exact opposite of Akuma in every way, his Puzzle Grid is the only one to be broken because he attacks with only red-colored counter-blocks, making the gameplay even more challenging.
 * Akuma (Gouki in Japan) from Super Street Fighter II Turbo
 * The arch-enemy of both Ryu and Ken, as well as the final boss. He breaks and enters into the Puzzle Fighting tournament to attack the leading challenger.
 * Devilotte from Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness
 * A hidden boss and playable character who is a tyrannical princess assisted by two lackies named Xavier & Jigokū Daishi, she traveled back in time from the future of 2099 to challenge the leading and unbeatable Puzzle Fighter. She can be obtained on consoles by holding the Start button with a new counter gem pattern.

Arcade
In Japan, Game Machine listed Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo on their August 1, 1996 issue as being the sixth most-successful arcade game of the month, outperforming titles such as Tekken 2.

The arcade game received positive reviews upon release. Reviewing the arcade version, a reviewer for Next Generation commented: "The gameplay is ferociously competitive, unfairly addicting, and as intuitive as riding a bike (once you've got the hang of it), and due to luck factor, the favor swings numerous times from winner to loser and back until the very last gem drops". Additionally praising the cutesy character art and the Capcom in-jokes incorporated into the backgrounds and soundtrack, he scored it four out of five stars. Computer and Video Games compared it favorably with Tetris and Columns, but said the "big difference is the way that gems of the same colour made into squares will join to make one giant bonus gem." They said that, "when it's this much fun, it's well worth a go."

Ports
The Saturn and PlayStation versions received generally positive reviews. Shawn Smith, Dan Hsu and Crispin Boyer of Electronic Gaming Monthly commended the game's kid-style characters, addictive gameplay, and elements of fighting game strategy. However, Dan Hsu and Sushi-X both criticized that it is too easy to drop a large number of unremovable blocks on an opponent's side, making the game too unbalanced, and Sushi-X deemed it overall average. Glenn Rubenstein of GameSpot was pleased by the fighting game strategy elements, graphic style, hidden in-jokes and Easter eggs, and replay value, and recommended it for puzzle game fans. GamePro's Para Noid was enthusiastic about the game, writing: "The one-player modes are entertaining, but the two-player head-to-head mode is where you get intense puzzle action, providing hours of enjoyment. Street Fighter and puzzle-game fans alike should definitely give this game a look." Major Mike of the same magazine likewise said that the game is addictive fun, particularly in two-player mode.

Unlike Dan Hsu and Sushi-X, a Next Generation critic argued that the ease of dropping stacks of blocks which cannot be removed until they turn back to regular gems adds to the excitement and strategy of the gameplay. However, he criticized the dull-witted battle quips and said the Street Fighter characters are out-of-place, suggesting they had only been included for their marketing value. Contrarily, Stephen Fulljames commented in Sega Saturn Magazine: "Puzzle Fighter's main strength is its World Warrior branding. Without it, it would be just another puzzle game, and a slightly flawed one at that. With it, it becomes an altogether more worthy product." He praised the selectable characters, fighting game elements, various play modes and graphics, while criticizing the player's overdependence on the appearance of trigger gems.

Accolades
Electronic Gaming Monthly named the Saturn and PlayStation versions a runner up for "Puzzle Game of the Year" (behind Bust-A-Move 3) at their 1997 Editors' Choice Awards.

In 2004, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo was inducted into GameSpot's list of the greatest games of all time.

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is a downloadable game in the Puzzle Fighter franchise for PlayStation 3 (via PlayStation Network) and Xbox 360 (via Xbox Live Arcade). HD Remix was announced to include several graphical upgrades in the interface, character sprites, and levels.

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix has updated high-definition graphics. Each of the four colours of the gems have been associated with an element and given a new animation. Backgrounds and characters have also been redrawn, while the character sprites have been run through a bilinear filter.

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix supports four players in multiplayer, spectator mode, online play and rankings. Also featured are the three gameplay modes included in the Dreamcast version: X-Mode, Y-Mode and Z-Mode, and an additional X' ("X dash") Mode which rebalances several characters' drop patterns for better competitive play.

On June 10, 2019, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix was released on Xbox One through backwards compatibility support of the original Xbox 360 version.

Changes from the original

 * Several characters were rebalanced by having their gem drop patterns altered.
 * Crash Gems now have elemental visual effects associated with them. Red gems are now Fire, Green gems are Wind, Blue gems are Water and Yellow gems are Lightning. This does not affect gameplay and is purely a visual alteration.
 * In the original Puzzle Fighter, the tempo of the music would gradually speed up the closer the player or their opponent was to losing the match. HD Remix does not feature this.
 * In addition to the standard difficulty selection (Easy, Normal, and Hard), home console ports of Puzzle Fighter let the player alter the default speed in which gems would fall (marked by a number of stars up to five). This setting was removed for HD Remix.
 * New game modes were added. X is the original Puzzle Fighter with original drop patterns, X' is the rebalanced version, Y is a connect-three based variant of the game, and Z is a completely different pre-generated rotating block style game.
 * A challenge mode called "Street Puzzle" was available in the original home console ports of Puzzle Fighter. In it, the player was tasked with defeating specific characters as a means to unlock bonus content. HD Remix removes "Street Puzzle" mode entirely, as well as most of the bonus content it would unlock. What little bonus content was not cut from HD Remix is available from the beginning of the game.
 * Dan's "Saikyo-Ryu Dojo" Tutorial has been removed, which was an attractive demo in the arcade version and a tutorial mode accessible from the main menu in previous home releases. In it, Dan would provide a comedic demonstration to show the player the basics of playing Puzzle Fighter. In HD Remix, it has been replaced with a four-page text-only tutorial under "How to Play" in Options.
 * The original Puzzle Fighter contained a number of different "Win Taunts" that a character would pick at random to say to the losing player after a match. HD Remix removes most of the "Win Taunts", leaving only one per character.
 * There are a number of palette errors in the sprites themselves. For example, during the Intermission featuring Akuma in his cave, all of the demons in the background have garbled colors.
 * The "diamond trick" glitch has been eliminated. Attacks using the diamond are always at 80% strength instead of 50% (used normally) or 100% (using a glitch).
 * Ken's stage is now a beach featuring chibi versions of other Street Fighter characters. In the original Puzzle Fighter, his stage was the city street setting from Street Fighter Alpha.
 * Ryu's stage is now his snowy stage from Street Fighter Alpha 2. In the original Puzzle Fighter, his stage was a night time version of his stage from Street Fighter Alpha.
 * There is now a gem editor mode which allows players to create their own custom drop patterns. The custom patterns are only allowed in specific gameplay modes.
 * An online multiplayer function was added.

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Hayes Valley, San Francisco

Hayes Valley is a neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California. It is located between the historical districts of Alamo Square and the Civic Center. Victorian, Queen Anne, and Edwardian townhouses are mixed with high-end boutiques, restaurants, and public housing complexes. The neighborhood gets its name from Hayes Street, which was named for Thomas Hayes, San Francisco's county clerk from 1853 to 1856 who also started the first Market Street Railway franchise.

Location
Although its boundaries are ill-defined, Hayes Valley is generally considered to be the area north and south of Hayes Street between Webster (near Alamo Square) and Franklin (near the Civic Center) Streets. Hayes Valley's commercial center comprises the section of Hayes Street running from approximately Laguna Street in the west to Franklin Street in the east, with extensions on perpendicular Gough and Laguna Streets.

As of April 2012, after changes to the district boundaries used by the Board of Supervisors, the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association considers the neighborhood as a whole to be bound by Webster Street in the west, Van Ness Avenue in the east, Fulton Street in the north, and Hermann Street and Market Street in the south, with extensions as far west as Fillmore, between Haight Street and Hermann Street, as far north as McAllister Street, between Franklin Street and Van Ness Avenue, and as far south as Market Street, between Buchanan Street and Laguna Street. (This definition overlaps considerably with the Lower Haight.)

The San Francisco Association of Realtors considers the Hayes Valley to be extending from McAllister Street in the north, to Market Street and Duboce Avenue in the south, Franklin Street in the east, and Webster Street (north of Fell Street) and Divisadero Street (south of Fell Street) forming the western boundaries. (This definition includes the entire Lower Haight within Hayes Valley.)

Adjacent neighborhoods include the Lower Haight and small parts of the Duboce Triangle and SoMa in the south, Alamo Square in the west, Civic Center in the east, and the Fillmore District to the north.

Public transportation
Hayes Valley is served by several San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) buses, including the #21, which runs through Hayes Valley on its east-west route between Golden Gate Park and the Ferry Building, the #5 (also east-west), the #22 (runs north-south along Fillmore Street) and the #6 and #7, which both run east-west along Haight. Hayes Valley shares the Van Ness Avenue Muni LRV car subway station with Civic Center, Mid-Market, and SoMa West. Here, residents can take J, K, M, L, N, and T cars throughout San Francisco.

History
Native people in many small bands, now referred to collectively as the Ohlone tribe, lived in San Francisco part of the year, gathering food in the Mission Creek area, which included seasonal Hayes Creek, and other parts of today's city. Hayes Valley would have been thickly covered with wildflowers every spring. When it was running in the winter, Hayes Creek cut diagonally through the current Hayes Valley. It is now underground year-round.

In 1776, local people came under the control of the Spanish empire with the Juan Bautista de Anza expedition, which established Mission San Francisco de Asís south of Hayes Valley.

19th century
After the 1849 California Gold Rush, Italian emigrants from around Genoa developed produce farms on the sandy soil of the Hayes Valley neighborhood.

The Western Addition was developed in the 1850s to expand the city to the west of Van Ness Avenue. Michael Hayes, who, in 1856, was on the committee which named the streets of this development, may have been instrumental in naming Hayes Street for his brother, Thomas, a large landholder in the neighborhood who was then serving as county clerk. Hayes Valley was built out with many grand Victorian residences, as well as the smaller residences built to house the craftspeople at work on the mansions. Primary streets with big houses were named for influential local citizens (Hayes and Gough) and families (McAllister), while streets with the smaller houses carry botanical names such as Lily, Ivy, Linden, and Hickory.

20th century
Hayes Valley south of McAllister Street was spared the fires that followed the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It was a multi-ethnic neighborhood, becoming, with the blossoming of the Fillmore district after World War II, an African-American neighborhood. As recently as the mid-1985, this neighborhood (and, indeed, the Western Addition in general) was considered one of the most dangerous places in the Bay Area.

21st century
Since the turn of the century, city-wide trends in gentrification resulted in a reduction in the diversity and character of the neighborhood. Realtors currently market the neighborhood to affluent customers.

Central Freeway
The elevated Central Freeway section of U.S. Route 101 was built in the neighborhood during the 1950s. Damaged during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, it was closed afterward and eventually demolished after campaign by local activists called for the removal. The destruction of the Central Freeway has spurred gentrification which has revitalized the neighborhood, and has made it one of the trendier sections of town with an eclectic mix of boutiques, high-end restaurants, and hip stores on Hayes Street.

In 2005, a section of the freeway was rebuilt to end at Market Street, with the new, tree-lined Octavia Boulevard running north through the Hayes Valley along the previous path of Octavia Street to Fell Street. Between Fell and Hayes streets at 37.77623°N, -122.42442°W, a neighborhood green terminates the boulevard, providing seating, green space, a play structure for children, and a changing exhibition of public art. It is named Patricia's Green for Patricia Walkup, a local activist who volunteered her time for many years to fight neighborhood crime, and co-led a campaign to tear down the remaining part of the Central Freeway that ran through Hayes Valley.

In 2010, the city-owned lots between Fell and Oak, and Laguna and Octavia, where the previous Central Freeway on- and off-ramps for Highway 101 were situated, were transformed into Hayes Valley Farm, an education and research project with a focus on urban permaculture and activating the urban commons. The project was founded on an interim use agreement between Hayes Valley Farm, the San Francisco Parks Alliance, and the Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development. Community volunteers had permission to use the 2.2 acre lot until the City moved forward with other development plans for the site.

In June 2012, the media reported that approval had been given for retail premises and housing to be built on the site. An Avalon apartment complex is currently under construction at the site.

Culture
In early 2013, the SFJAZZ Center, a brand new jazz concert hall, opened in Hayes Valley. It is considered the "first free-standing building in the West built for jazz performance and education."

Cerebral Valley
Cerebral Valley is a term to refer to the concentration of generative AI-focused communities, startups, and "hacker houses" that emerged in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco during the AI boom of the early 2020s. Events such as the Cerebral Valley AI Summit, hosted by Eric Newcomer and the voice-AI startup Volley, have since taken place in the neighborhood.

According to the Washington Post, investor Amber Yang of Bloomberg Beta popularized the term "Cerebral Valley" in January 2023 to refer to the concentration of AI-focused communities and "hacker houses" in the neighborhood.

Group hacker houses focused on artificial intelligence grew in popularity in the early 2020s due to layoffs in Big Tech, a return to in-person events after the COVID-19 pandemic, and lower barriers to entry to AI innovation. The Washington Post credited the rise in events and houses around AI as being part of the revival of the San Francisco tech scene. On app Partiful, event listings increasingly advertised their locations as "Cerebral Valley". By June 2023, the New York Times described Cerebral Valley as the center of the AI scene. Garry Tan of accelerator Y Combinator stated in April 2023 that Hayes Valley had become Cerebral Valley that year.

Many of the hacker houses in Cerebral Valley are based out of historic Victorian homes near Alamo Square. According to the San Francisco Standard, the hacker houses and associated "grind culture" are a return to the roots of Silicon Valley that led to the growth of companies like Facebook in the early 2000s.

Notable hacker houses in Cerebral Valley include AGI House and Genesis House, which was founded in March 2021.

Notable residents

 * George W.C. Baker, Los Angeles City Council member, 1931–1935, attended Hayes Valley Grammar School
 * David Hirota, Hayes Valley Mayor, 1999–2005

Notable buildings and structures

 * Charles Dietle House
 * Ida B. Wells Continuation High School
 * International High School of San Francisco
 * San Francisco Zen Center
 * SFJAZZ Center

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 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 SPEEDY DELETE. —Korath (Talk) 13:54, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

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God damn, I wish this sort of thing could be speedied. It doesn't matter what Spencer yells in the office when he is annoyed, dammit. DS 23:58, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete completely useless and a work of trolling. --Lan56 00:14, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * It can be speedy deleted, and it has been. RickK 00:25, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Good call. For the record, entire content of deleted article was as shown below: Dpbsmith (talk) 03:00, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * What Spencer yells when he's being annoyed in the helpline office. Also known as BBD. Not to be confused with BBQ. Misunderstood by all but a few NetTechs.

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Cleve Benedict

Cleveland Keith Benedict (born March 21, 1935) is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served one term in the United States House of Representatives for West Virginia's 2nd congressional district from 1981 to 1983.

Life and career
Benedict was born in 1935 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from The Hill School in 1953 and then studied at Princeton University, graduating with an A.B. in history in 1957. As part of his undergraduate degree, Benedict wrote a senior thesis titled "The Rise of the Natural Sciences and their Impact upon Oxford and Cambridge." He later attended a school for cattlemen in Kansas and settled near Lewisburg, West Virginia.

Benedict held several appointed positions in the Republican state administration of Arch Moore from 1969 to 1977. In 1970, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the state Senate's 11th District.

Benedict was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives in the 2nd congressional district in 1980. The incumbent, Harley O. Staggers, had retired and the Democratic Party had gone through a bruising 10-way primary election. The Democrats also faced the burden of the extremely unpopular federal administration of Jimmy Carter and state administration of Jay Rockefeller, both of whom carried the state, but lost the 2nd District by large margins.

Benedict won the general election and was subsequently appointed to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

In 1982, Benedict decided, at the urging of Howard Baker, to forgo re-election and challenge incumbent Senator Robert C. Byrd in the statewide race for the United States Senate. He was unsuccessful, although his campaign made great note of Byrd's record of high office in the Ku Klux Klan, his avoidance of service in World War II, and the fact that Byrd, then alone among members of Congress, owned no home in the state he represented. His campaign represented the last serious and well-funded effort to unseat Byrd, spending $1,098,218.

Benedict was then appointed as a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy. In 1988, he ran for statewide election as Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, winning by a large margin. He chose not to seek re-election in 1992, choosing instead to run for Governor of West Virginia. That November, he was defeated by a large margin in a three-way race. He finished behind incumbent governor Gaston Caperton.

Benedict has since retired to his dairy farm and has eschewed overtures to again seek elective office. He was a delegate to the 1996 Republican National Convention; however, he supported Democratic gubernatorial nominee Charlotte Pritt, who had run against Benedict and Caperton in the 1992 governor's race. Again in 2000, Benedict was elected as a delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention committed to George W. Bush. He received the second largest number of votes. In 2006, he opposed a 124-turbine, $300 million Beech Ridge Energy wind farm to be built in Greenbrier County.

Family
He is the son of Cooper Procter Benedict (1907–1968) and Laura DeLamater Benedict Beury (1911-d.). His parents married on April 14, 1934. He had a younger brother, Oakley DeLamater Benedict (1938–1940), who died young and was named after their maternal grandfather; and a younger sister, Elizabeth Hasbrouck Benedict Rice (b. 1941), named after their maternal grandmother. Cleve was named after their paternal grandfather, Rev. Cleveland Keith Benedict (1864–1936).

On his father's side of the family, he descends from Procter & Gamble co-founder William Procter and from Aaron Cleveland IV, the great-grandfather of 22nd and 24th President of the United States Grover Cleveland. On his mother's side of the family, he descends from the Hasbrouck family, industrialist Cornelius H. DeLamater, and Louis DuBois, a patentee (founder) of New Paltz, New York.

On August 10, 1957, in Winchester, Virginia, he married Ann Farrar Arthur (1933–2021), a native of Winchester. Together, they had three children: Cooper Procter Benedict II, Ruth Farrar (Benedict) Mercer, and noted author and college professor Pinckney Arthur Benedict. Pinckney named his son Cleveland Keith Benedict III after his father and great-grandfather.

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Saint Brieuc

Saint Brieuc may refer to:

 * Saint Brioc, an early 6th-century Welshman who became the first Abbot of Saint-Brieuc
 * Saint-Brieuc Challenger, a professional tennis tournament
 * Stade Briochin, a French association football team

Places

 * Saint-Brieuc, a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor Department in Brittany in north-western France
 * Arrondissement of Saint-Brieuc, France
 * Gare de Saint-Brieuc, a railway station
 * Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Brieuc
 * Saint-Brieuc-des-Iffs, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany, France
 * Saint-Brieuc-de-Mauron, a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany, France

title: Saint Brieuc