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Monster Bash

Monster Bash (called Graveyard during development) is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Apogee Software on 9 April 1993 for DOS. The game features 16-color EGA graphics and IMF AdLib compatible music. It was developed by Frank Maddin and Gerald Lindsly.

The game is divided into three episodes. The first episode of the game is available to download under a shareware license, but the two remaining parts of the game must be purchased. The registered game also removes advertisements and reminders of the benefits of purchasing the games from the first episode and enables cheat code functionality.

The game was re-released in 2014 on GOG.com with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

In 2021, a remaster of the game developed by Emberheart Games titled 'Monster Bash HD' was released on Steam and GOG.com.

Plot
The player controls Johnny Dash, whose pet dog Tex was captured by the game's main villain, Count Chuck. Aided by the friendly Bed Monster and Frank Lloyd Rat, Johnny enters the Underworld armed with a slingshot and an infinite supply of rocks to slay Count Chuck and his minions and rescue his beloved Tex, as well as many more captured pets.

Gameplay
Johnny must work his way through a total of 28 horror-themed levels. Throughout the levels, Johnny can collect candy for points, interact with objects and pickup various powerups. The three difficulty modes determine how many health points Johnny has. Any monster, enemy projectile or hazard that Johnny touches will deduct a health point from him. Health is replenished by collecting a heart. Certain hazards and deadly terrain will instantly kill Johnny and take a life away. Up to five lives can be regained by collecting a voodoo doll or earning 20,000 points. If all lives are lost, the game is over.

In each level the player has to release all pets from their cages, before making it to the exit to proceed to the next level. When entering a new level, all powerups are removed and Johnny's health is fully replenished. The player comes across various inanimate objects which they must interact with in order to complete the level. These include furniture that springs Johnny into the air, deployable ladders and flying broomsticks. At one point in each episode, Johnny will face his "Nemesis", a doppelganger of himself as a minor boss. At the end of an episode, the player must defeat a boss monster.

Johnny has an unlimited supply of rocks, and he can fire his slingshot either forward or diagonally up. Rocks move in a realistic projectile-like pattern, and can bounce off walls and other objects. As well as killing enemies, the player can also use the slingshot to position objects. The player can collect powerups for the slingshot that allow Johnny to shoot a limited quantity of more powerful projectiles, including larger rocks, missiles, and fireballs.

Enemies are based on horror-monsters, and include disembodied crawling hands, flying witches, zombies, demons, walking skeletons and werewolves. While some enemies appear in several levels, others only appear in theme-related levels. Some enemies take more hits to die than others, and a couple are invincible.

Release
Monster Bash was the first shareware game Apogee developed to take up a megabyte of disk space. To cater for users with slower modems and better commercialize the game, Apogee created a cut down version titled "Monster Bash Lite".

Reception
Monster Bash's three episodes were reviewed in 1993 in Dragon #200 by Sandy Petersen in the "Eye of the Monitor" column. Petersen gave the game 3 out of 5 stars.

Reviews

 * ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) (June 1993)
 * PC Joker (October 1993)

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Talk:Food preservation

Vandalism?
In the Irradiation section there is a part that says "and at higher doses inducing sterility". Is this vandalism? If it is not, then I don't understand its meaning and suggest that someone re-word this! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.230.9.250 (talk) 13:23, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Links
Sorry, I'm not trying to edit-war here! The links you put in do work, but underscores in text are very ugly (they may be hidden by the underlining on your monitorlbut they're not on mine; some people's stylesheets won't underline links at all). Food irradiation is almost always preferable to Food_irradiation (I don't even know why the other one works). As for the other link, I prefer the sentence without a capital letter in the middle, and I think "radiation treatment" fits the sentence better than "food irradiation" (and I linked to the same place). I apologize, though, for my first edit, which broke a link because I misspelled "irradiation". --Andrew 18:18, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Well I fine with you titling the links "food irradiation" or "Food irradiation" instead of "Food_irradiation" but not "radiation treatment", as radiation treatment sounds like and usually refures to radiation therapy in cancer treatment and would be confusing to readers. --BerserkerBen 14:41, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

urine flavor?
can somebody document the claim that "The addition of urine at the time of packing the fish into the ice is said to assist in preservation and to improve the flavour of the food when eaten"? i guess it could be true, but it sounds like a prank. assuming it's true, how many people are "saying" this? 2.5? thanks. SaltyPig 14:54, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * i googled the claim a bit, and found no corroboration. removed. SaltyPig 17:35, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well if Google contained all knowledge then we wouldn't need Wikipedia. Urine doesn't improve the flavour of fish. However, for rural coastal communities in northern Scandinavia, white fish caught in the Autumn is preserved by placing it in holes dug in the snow. The fish is then available throughout the time the sea is frozen over. To preserve it urine is added which increases the pH and helps to reduce the damage that freezing causes to fish flesh. This process is mimiciced in more urban Norway by the practice of treating cod with caustic soda (lye for american readers) which produces what the Norwegians regard as a delicay and the rest of the world has yet to develop a taste for. As to verification, the best way is to travel to north Norway and talk to the inhabitants. Don't denigrate knowledge because it isn't Googled. 195.92.168.175 20:09, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * where did i denigrate knowledge because it wasn't googled? i simply reported on what i'd done so far to verify the claim. perhaps you could share how you came by what you wrote above, and modify the article accordingly. however, i don't believe that what you wrote justifies putting the text in as it stood, nor am i bamboozled by your "as to verification" comment. i didn't mention anything about the best way to verify anything. i thought the claim might be a prank, and i removed it because nobody said anything in support of it. please don't build rabbit trails for a simple issue. SaltyPig 20:31, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * never mind. i'll leave this page to the wiki/urine aficionados. "it is said" i didn't have my Ps and Qs in order (egads), so i've reverted back the wonderful claim that "it is said" blah blah blah. let the experts handle this crucial issue. :P SaltyPig 21:38, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I've taken the liberty of taking it out again because it's original research if it doesn't cite a reliable source. See WP:V. - Taxman Talk 15:45, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

High pressure food preservation
There is still another method commercially used to preserve food products using high pressure treatments. This may warrant addition to your list. 67.162.160.230 04:32, 9 September 2005 (UTC)MikeG

What about smoking? Rossfi 03:36, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Lye
I believe the statement about lye under the pickling section is wrong. In none of the mentioned foods is lye used for preservation. Instead, lye is used to modify the food's taste and texture. In the case of olives it is used to remove the bitter flavor. Notice that the lye is then removed by multiple water baths. In the case of Lutefish and hominy the food is preserved by drying and the food is only soaked in lye, usually right before cooking, to modify its characteristics, but not for preservation. Alephone 03:20, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

aromatic plants
I think there is something useful that could be said about rosemary, etc. added to a sealed sack of carrots, potatos, etc., which seems to work for me.

These plants also seem to keep aphids, etc. from attacking leafy vegetables during growth.

image
There is an orphaned image that should be considered for addition in this article. A knowledgeable editor should look and the image; it should be deleted if it is not included. Jon513 12:23, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Irradiation
The present text is ridiculous, full of speculation, needs to be replaced by a factual description. Dieter E 08:34, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Please don't add metacommentary to article bodies, as you just did with the "preamble" you added. I've reverted this edit as it doesn't present any sources and reads like personal commentary (which it is).
 * From the look of your user page, reading WP:EXPERT would probably be beneficial. Expert editors are greatly appreciated, but the difficulty in establishing personal credentials on the anonymous Internet means that they need to follow the same editing procedures as other editors. Chris Cunningham 11:27, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

 * References on consumer groups and opponents' opinion are best provide from such people. If I would propose a reference to eg 'Food Irradiation Watch', other more moderate groups as Consumer International might be disappointed. Dieter E 12:27, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Please note also that 'processing by ionizing radiation' is a neutral and general, technological term; 'bombardment' is technically false and also misleading. Dieter E 12:27, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

 * It's a bland and imprecise euphemism. Bombardment is a neutral term in this context which describes the process, although I suppose we could make do with "exposure" if you really think it's important. It isn't "technically false" unless there's no radiation exposure at all. Chris Cunningham 12:58, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

I cannot accept the terminology 'bombardment', as it is technically false and loaded with emotions. For your consideration: Is a patient under X-ray exploration bombarded? Are people sitting under some light bombarded? Are people tanning in the sun bombarded? This is all photon irradiation, the same as the treatment or processing of food by ionizing radiation as gamma-rays and X-rays. Furthermore, also the treament by copuscular radiation is not considered as bombardment. For your consideration, are patients in tumor therapy bombarded by high-energy ekectrons, neutron, or even pions and other high-energy corpuscules. Finally, in radiation processing the essential effect is not the impinging of corpuscular or photonic particles, however the dissipation of ionizing energy as a consequence of the incoming radiation. And also the terminology of 'exposure' is technically false, as the beneficial effect is related to the absorption of energy. I am trying a different version and hope for your insight! Dieter E 17:50, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

 * As far as I'm concerned "bombardment" is neutral in every one of those cases, yes. "Processing", by comparison, is an utterly meaningless phrase (I can think of a good few examples of "processing" being used as a euphemism, and that's its obvious use here).
 * You've re-added the "not a panacea" text. This is not encyclopedic: it's commentary. We should not patronise readers by assuming that they need to be told that irradiation isn't a wonder-solution to preservation. It was obvious enough from the text. Chris Cunningham 05:59, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

bombardment:

I have to come back to the discussion about the most appropriate terminology in explaining the technique of food irradiation. 'Bombardment' is neither technically correct nor explains it the fundamentals of the process, it is just basically misleading. A bomb or a shell is a massive entity which is thrown or dropped to hit and damage by explosion. And bombardment is the activity of using a cannon in the field or an airplane in a bomb-raid. And the terminology of bombardment does not include the description of the damage caused.

The only appropriate terminology for food irradiation is processing food by ionizing radiation. Radiation processing is the terminology accepted in science and industry; and there is an International Meeting on Radiation Processing (www.IMRP2008.com). The clue in radiation processing is that in the matter irradiated ionization is caused which in consequence effects a range of material changes including the beneficial effects in food irradiation.

The general technical term for describing the production, handling, manufacturing of food and other materials is processing and engineering. Hence we understand food processing and food engineering, but not food bombardment. There is no 'radiation bombardment industry'.

The terminology of 'bombardment' might be used for the generation of X-rays (bremsstrahlung) where a target material (tungsten or tantalum) is 'bombarded' by high-energy electrons, the kinetic energy of which is converted mainly into heat and a fraction of X-rays. Gamma rays from radioactive isotopes and X-rays are photons which propagate as viasible light. And it is not suitable to state that sun-tanning is effected by the bombardment by UV-photons.

For this article we should accept the established terminology! Dieter E 16:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

HELP
Help wanted: Who could help to make visible the references incorporated in the text for 'irradiation' in a collection at the end of this WIKI-entry?? Dieter E 17:38, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

 * ✅. It's Template:reflist.
 * AVRS 18:12, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Merge - Food storage containers
Merge from Food storage container into this article

Completing another user's merge.

 * The benefit of merging depends on how it is done. Overall, I don't support it.  Food storage portrays a discussion on the optimal ways of holding food in defined spaces.  The discussion centres on suitable space, and environmental conditions within that space. There are elements of preservation in that discussion.  The art and science of food preservation deals with the properties of the food.  The food's reaction to the storage environment is just an element in this discussion.  If well merged, the discussion thread can flow smoothly and the transfer of knowledge will be complete to the learners.  Otherwise let us not merge them.  EddieGH  —Preceding unsigned comment added by EddieGH (talk • contribs) 18:45, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I do not support the merge. Food preservation is mainly concerned with the underlying mechanisms of extending the shelf-life of foods while food storage come under food packaging.(sudhirkumarjakh@gmail.com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.172.159.122 (talk) 05:32, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I support the merge. Shadowjams (talk) 04:22, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * disagree. Food storage is not the same as preservation (which often involves biochemical processes). The tone and focus of the two articles are different. Similarly, Food packaging (suggested elsewhere) is about commercial packing, not storage. FiveRings (talk) 08:22, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I support the merge. Although food storage is not technically the same as preservation, it's important to think of the readers and what they are looking for in terms of information.  I would also suggest adding some information about how long each preservation method keeps the food edible.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.10.225.247 (talk) 18:04, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Jam, etc
Why is there no mention in the article of preserving fruit in the form of jam/jelly? There is a section on sugaring, ie crystalized fruit, but this isn't the same thing at all. Obscurasky (talk) 08:38, 21 September 2010 (UTC) I disagree with the notion of merging food storage section with food preservation. In food preservation, we deal with the underlying principles of extending shelf-life of food while food storage containers comes under food packaging section. (sudhirkumarjakh@gmail.com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.172.159.122 (talk) 05:22, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Water Activity in Food
Water Activity in foods should be a brief section of this article with a proper link to the wiki of "Water Activity". Activities such as Drying, Salting, Sugaring, Jamming, and "adding preservatives" are all based on reducing Water Activity in food. See links for more information: http://www.cip.ukcentre.com/wa1.htm http://www.crees.org/forms/29.pdf

or simply google "water activity food spoilage" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.42.103.8 (talk) 22:24, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

What's the point of the table on the right hand side?
The table on the right seems very out of place as it merely replicates (albeit not fully) what's already written in the text. The last paragraph of the lede also seems like overkill and would be better pared down to just the most common types of food preservation. Comments anyone? Obscurasky (talk) 18:02, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * ok, I've removed the table, for the reasons given above. I'll stick it here for now, in case any one want's to salvage anything from it - and I'll remove it in about a week. Obscurasky (talk) 22:00, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

I don't work in this field, however, a table such as this could serve as a useful summation and quick reference (as a Nutrition Information table has a role elsewhere). Someone may have suggestions to improve it with extra columns e.g. risk/benefits, economics ,climate ? SignedJohnsonL623 (talk) 02:43, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

food storage optimum temperature
"Optimum temperature range for perishable food storage is 3 to 5 °C (37 to 41 °F)."

It seems that for most food the ideal optimum storage temperature would be just above freezing, about 1C, 33F. Is this true? Where can one find detailed facts, tables and graphs of storage time as a function of temperature for various foods? What temperatures are used for ideal commercial storage of various foods?-96.237.13.111 (talk) 14:31, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Sugar
The article doesn't seem to explain how sugar preserves food. Does it remove moisture, or does it prevent moisture re-entering previously desiccated food? Best Regards DynamoDegsy (talk) 19:29, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Each method should include average storage times and effect on nutrients
I think this article is only half as useful as it could be if it included some average storage times. How long do canned (home jars) foods last? How long does dehydrated food last if sealed? What about sealed with a desiccant packet? What about meats vs vegetables? Which methods are best for preserving nutrients? For someone searching for a "Food Preservation" article, that's probably the information they're most looking for. Perhaps a table comparing all of these things would be useful, much like tables on software articles that compare features. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.60.196.193 (talk) 09:55, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

What? No fermentation?
See the article on fermented foods for a long list of people places, and foods that are fermented.

146.226.30.27 (talk) 20:00, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Dr. Ari Brynjolfsson
A page noting the passing of Dr. Brynjolfsson as a decorated expert in the fields of food preservation has been created and those familiar with the subject matter are invited to contributed. Ari Brynjolfsson Orrerysky (talk) 18:05, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Potting
Shouldn't potting have its own section? It's storing something in fat rather than jelly, it's different to jellying though they are similar.Gymnophoria (talk) 17:00, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Traditional & Modern Sections
So last month I split up the methods into two sections: Traditional and Modern techniques. This was a major improvement in the ordering of information on the page, as modern industrial techniques have little in common with traditional techniques, are impossible for the average Wikipedian to implement, and chronologically succeed the traditional methods in every case.

Unfortunately someone misidentified the section headers for more indices, reverted the formatting to match and wrote a description for traditional. I am about to revert the revert. The new text would not normally be reverted — no real problem in presenting additional information generally — but in the case of this page it is already very long and the paragraph doesn’t contain any information that isn’t presented otherwise. Please message me if you have any concerns regarding this edit. — Muckapedia (talk) 16 e avr. 2014 13h36 (−4h)

Just noticed this Wikipedia Section formatting so edited my edits to conform. Hope this helps. — Muckapedia (talk) 16 e avr. 2014 13h55 (−4h)

redundancy
"Many processes designed to preserve food will involve a number of food preservation methods."

This is stating the same things twice. It's obvious that different food preservation methods involve many food processes.

redundancy
"Many processes designed to preserve food will involve a number of food preservation methods."

This is stating the same things twice. It's obvious that different food preservation methods involve many food processes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:7:8500:982:11CF:D850:2190:EA86 (talk) 23:24, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Sugar can preserve without boiling or "antimicrobials"
Sugar has the ability to preserve fruit without boiling first for jam or mixing it with an "antimicrobial" solution. This needs to be stated. It does not say how sugar works and an antioxidant. Preservation is in fact antioxidation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:7:8500:982:11CF:D850:2190:EA86 (talk) 23:24, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

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John Wesley Jarvis

John Wesley Jarvis (1780 or 1781 – January 14, 1839) was an American painter.

Early life and education
Jarvis was the great, great nephew of Methodist leader John Wesley, and was born in South Shields, England in 1780 or 1781. His father was an English mariner, who moved his family to the United States in the mid-1780s. The Jarvis family settled in Philadelphia where Jarvis spent his childhood and began his artistic training. He is known to have frequented the studio of the aging colonial-era portrait painter Matthew Pratt, and he knew the Danish painter Christian Gullager. His formal instruction began around 1796, when he became an apprentice to Edward Savage. He also spent time with David Edwin, an English engraver also employed by Savage.

Career
Jarvis moved to New York City in 1801 with Edward Savage. Within a year, he was working on his own as an engraver. In 1803, he entered into a partnership with Joseph Wood, which lasted seven years. Together, they executed engravings, miniatures, and larger portraits. Jarvis learned the technique of miniature painting from Edward Malbone. By the time he entered the partnership with Wood, he was producing his first oil paintings, operating a drawing school, and developing inexpensive silhouette portraits.

In New York City, Jarvis enjoyed great popularity, though his eccentric mode of life impacts his work. He visited Baltimore, Charleston, and New Orleans, where he entertained and painted portraits of prominent people. In New Orleans, then General Andrew Jackson sat for a portrait painted by Jarvis. He had assistants, including Thomas Sully and Henry Inman. He affected singularity in dress and manners.

In 1809, Jarvis married Betsy Burtis; she died four years later, in 1813. They had two children together. He parted with his family in order to seek portrait commissions in Baltimore. Although he made occasional trips back to his home base in New York City, he remained in Baltimore for several years. He maintained extended residences in other cities for most of the rest of his life.

During the 1820s and 1830s, while maintaining his residence in New York City, he worked in South Carolina, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Washington, Virginia, Ohio, and Georgia. His apprentice, Henry Inman, probably accompanied him on these trips until his term of service ended in 1822.

Jarvis rose to the top of his profession by 1814, when he took over an unprecedented commission for six full-length portraits of the naval heroes of the War of 1812 for the City of New York; Gilbert Stuart gave up the important project after a dispute with the patrons.

For over a decade, he remained the premier portrait painter in New York City, where he established important ties to the political, mercantile, and cultural elite. Jarvis maintained the status of a social outsider known for his ostentatious dress, flippant manner, and consumption of alcohol. He was celebrated as a hilarious storyteller, and his ties to the theater world were extensive.

In the 1820s, he experienced some personal setbacks. In 1823, he was sued successfully by his apprentice John Quidor for breach of contract. The following year, in 1824, he lost custody of his children in a court battle with his estranged second wife.

Death
A decade later, in 1834, Jarvis suffered a debilitating stroke while in New Orleans. Partially paralyzed and mentally incapacitated, he spent the rest of his life in New York City, where he cared for by his sister. In 1839, largely impoverished, he died in New York City.

Legacy
Examples of his painting are in the collections of the New York Historical Society, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Windsor uniform
I believe that the Windsor uniform is the coat that is used by the males in the Windsor family, a blue jacket (tuxedo style) with red cuffs and collar. This is a government uniform, that has varriation based upon rank. Used by ambassadors etc. Glenlarson 04:19, 16 Feb 2005
 * Explanation here: . The dinner-jacket the above editor is describing is called a Windsor something, but I'm not sure what. Giano 11:45, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Cheng Kung Senior High School
OK. I will revert it back to the last version but please wikify the article and point out its notableness or else it will be a vfd candidate next. Thank you. Just being a high school isn't notable enough for Wikipedia. --Woohookitty 18:19, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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 * I say delete it. It's grown into a lot of hyperbole. Paul Austin (talk) 17:10, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
 * ok, looks like I missed this one by a few months! Paul Austin (talk) 17:13, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

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KQQL

KQQL (107.9 FM, "KOOL 108") is a commercial radio station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul radio market and is licensed to suburban Anoka. It plays classic hits and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and offices are on Utica Avenue South in St. Louis Park.

KQQL's effective radiated power is 100,000 watts. The transmitter is off St. Francis Boulevard NW in Nowthen, Minnesota. It broadcasts digital radio using iBiquity's HD Radio format, with the HD2 subchannel airing the African-American-oriented Black Information Network service, and the HD3 subchannel carries a sports radio service known as "KFAN Plus". FM translator W227BF (93.3 FM) is fed by the HD2 subchannel, while K244FE (96.7 FM) is fed by the HD3 subchannel.

Programming
KQQL broadcasts a classic hits radio format known as "Kool 108". KQQL mainly plays 1980s and 1990s music with a few 1970s and 2000s songs heard each day. KQQL uses the slogan "Minnesota's Best Variety of the 80s and 90s". KQQL switches to all-Christmas music from early-November to December 26, using the slogan "Minnesota's Christmas Station".

KTWN
On August 1, 1968, the station signed on as KTWN, the sister station of KANO in Anoka (1470 AM, now KMNQ in Brooklyn Park). At first, KTWN’s effective radiated power was 57,000 watts on a 320-foot tower.

In the 1970s, KTWN cycled through several formats. For a time, it played beautiful music, then had a short stint as a classical music station, beginning September 1, 1974. Then, it tried a full-service Middle of the Road (MOR) format, focusing on the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities. From 1978 to 1983, KTWN carried a jazz format. At the time, the station was operated by Jack Moore, who had previously run WAYL, the market's leading beautiful music station.

B108 and Magic 108
The station was sold to a group calling itself KTWN-FM, Inc., with the new owners immediately switching the station's format to a soft adult contemporary and oldies hybrid on September 24, 1983. The call sign became KGBB ("B108").

Later, the station became "Magic 108" with the call letters KMGW (later KMGK). The station's signal limitations were a hindrance, with competition from full-market stations such as WLTE and KSTP-FM.

In the mid-1980s, KMGK got permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to become a full-powered station, increasing power to 100,000 watts on a tower more than 1,000 feet in height above average terrain (HAAT), making the station's signal equal to other major Twin Cities FM stations. In 1988, KMGK was acquired by Trumper Communications.

KQQL
On September 29, 1988, KMGK began stunting with a loop of various versions of the 1960s oldie "Louie, Louie". At Noon on October 3, the station was reborn as KQQL, "Kool 108". While some FM stations had oldies as part of their playlists, KQQL was the first all-oldies FM station in the Twin Cities area. The first song on "Kool 108" was "Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay" by Danny & the Juniors.

The oldies format originally spanned the era of the early days of Rock 'n Roll Music of the mid 1950s through the late 1960s. In the mid-1990s, some 70s hits were added. By 2000, the 1950s hits were removed, and the station shifted to hits of the 1960s and 1970s (with an occasional early 1980s song thrown in). For a brief time, KQQL was the FM flagship station for Minnesota Vikings football, with games being simulcasted with co-owned sports radio station KFAN.

Clear Channel ownership
In 1997, KQQL was acquired by Chancellor Media Corporation. Three years later, Chancellor was merged into Clear Channel Communications, based in San Antonio. (In 2014, Clear Channel changed its corporate name to iHeartMedia, Inc.)

In the early 2000s, KQQL began switching to Christmas music during the holiday season. It would usually begin on the Friday before Thanksgiving at 5 p.m and conclude at midnight on Christmas Day. KQQL would compete with CBS-owned adult contemporary station WLTE until that station flipped to country music in December 2011, which ended its Christmas music tradition. In 2008, KQQL started the Christmas music earlier than usual, on the weekend of November 15. This may have been triggered by WLTE flipping its format earlier in the week.

KQQL's format was tweaked again in 2006, to an oldies/classic hits hybrid, positioned as "Super Hits of the 60s & 70s". Some 1980s hits were also included. KQQL also began airing "American Top 40" episodes from the 1970s hosted by Casey Kasem. For a short time, KQQL also aired classic 1980s American Top 40 shows, but the station dropped the AT40 '80s broadcasts after the station cut back on playing '80s music.

On April 28, 2009, KQQL released all on-air personalities, including morning host Lois Mae and radio veteran Dan Donovan. Disk jockeys on KQQL were voicetracked from other Clear Channel stations, with news coming from KOA in Denver. However, in mid-2010, KQQL hired several new on-air personalities, including radio veteran and KARE 11 reporter Lee Valsvik.

On December 27, 2009, the station tweaked to a classic hits format and dropped most 1960s titles while adding some 1990s songs, with a primary focus on 1970s and 1980s hits. Direct competition with Cumulus Media's WGVX (Love 105) ended when that station switched formats to adult contemporary music in early 2012. At this time, AT40: The 80s returned, and Dick Bartley's Classic Countdown was added to the lineup.

In January 2019, KQQL slightly tweaked its format and officially dropped all music from the 1960s, and many hits from the 1970s while also adding some 2000s music. The station's format now primarily focuses on music from the 1980s and 1990s.

HD2
On April 25, 2006, Clear Channel Communications announced that KQQL's HD2 subchannel would carry a format focusing on hit music from the 1980s. The HD2 station, called "Kool 1-0-80s", showcased every song to ever hit the Top 40 in the 1980s.

During summer 2011, the HD2 subchannel changed its programming to a simulcast of AM all-sports sister station KFXN. On September 8, 2011, the "Score" sports format began airing exclusively on KQQL-HD2. The Score's former signal on 690 AM flipped to ethnic programming, mainly serving the Hmong community.

In August 2012, the HD2 subchannel was changed back to "Kool 1-0-80s", now using iHeartRadio's "My 80s" service, with many of the same 1980s hits format it had before.

On May 23, 2014, KQQL-HD2 flipped to urban adult contemporary, and began simulcasting on FM translator W227BF (93.3 MHz), licensed to Shoreview, Minnesota. Soon after, it started stunting with several types of music, changing every few days.

On June 13, 2014, KQQL-HD2 changed to an alternative rock format, branded as "ALT 93.3".

On June 29, 2020, 15 iHeart stations in markets with large African-American populations, including W227BF/KQQL-HD2, began stunting with African-American speeches, interspersed with messages such as "Our Voices Will Be Heard" and "Our side of the story is about to be told," with a new format slated to launch on June 30. On June 30, it was made official that W227BF/KQQL-HD2 would be a charter affiliate of iHeart's new Black Information Network, which is an all-news format specifically geared toward African-American listeners.

HD3
Around the same time, KQQL's "Kool 1-0-80s" format moved to KQQL's HD3 channel, feeding FM translator W244CS at 96.7 MHz, licensed to Calhoun Beach. The translator serves the Southeast metro area of the Twin Cities. On June 12, 2015, KQQL-HD3 and W244CS changed to an LGBTQ-centric dance/EDM format from iHeartRadio, branded as "96.7 Pride Radio".

On August 27, 2018, KQQL-HD3 and K244FE dropped the Pride Radio format and flipped to all-sports as "KFAN Plus". Pride Radio now is heard on the HD2 subchannel of co-owned KDWB-FM.

HD4
In July 2023, KQQL activated its HD4 sub-channel, simulcasting the K-Love network relayed on translators K260BA (99.9 FM) and K288GR (105.5 FM) due to ongoing tower maintenance at its primary station, KTCZ-HD2.

As of August 31st 2023, K288GR and K260BA have switched back to their relay on KTCZ-HD2 as tower maintenance finishes.

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Desert Botanical Garden

Desert Botanical Garden is a 140 acre botanical garden located in Papago Park, at 1201 N. Galvin Parkway in Phoenix, central Arizona.

Founded by the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society in 1937 and established at this site in 1939, the garden now has more than 50,000 plants in more than 4,000 taxa, one-third of which are native to the area, including 379 species which are rare, threatened or endangered.

Of special note are the rich collections of agave (4,026 plants in 248 taxa) and cacti (13,973 plants in 1,320 taxa), especially the Opuntia sub-family. Plants from less extreme climate conditions are protected under shadehouses. It focuses on plants adapted to desert conditions, including an Australian collection, a Baja California collection and a South American collection. Several ecosystems are represented: a mesquite bosque, semi-desert grassland, and upland chaparral.

Desert Botanical Garden has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride.

History
In the 1930s, a small group of local citizens became interested in conserving the fragile desert environment. One was Swedish botanist Gustaf Starck, who found like-minded residents by posting a sign, "Save the desert", with an arrow pointing to his home. In April 1934 they formed the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society (ACNFS) to sponsor a botanical garden to encourage an understanding, appreciation and promotion of the uniqueness of the world's deserts, particularly the local Sonoran Desert.

Eventually Gertrude Webster, whose home encompassed all of what is today the neighborhood of Arcadia, joined the Society. She offered her encouragement, connections and financial support to establish the botanical garden in Papago Park. Margaret Bell Douglas provided support as well, donating 1,500 specimens to the herbarium.

Webster served as president of the Society's first Board of Directors and Gustaf Starck, W. E. Walker, Rell Hasket, L. L. Kreigbaum, and Samuel Wilson were the five vice president. The latter also served as Treasurer. Paul G. Olsen was Secretary. In 1938, after much work by the ACNFS, the board hired the Garden's first executive director, George Lindsay, who oversaw the first planting on the grounds. The Desert Botanical Garden opened in 1939 as a non-profit museum dedicated to research, education, conservation and display of desert plants.

Education and art
The Garden offers specialized tours, workshops and lectures on desert landscaping and horticulture, nature art and photography, health and wellness.

The Garden presents Spring and Fall open-air acoustic concert series, art exhibitions, and Las Noches de las Luminarias since 1978. The Luminarias Festival became a Southwestern Holiday tradition featuring live music by the flickering lights of 8000 hand-lit luminaria.

Volunteerism
Volunteers were essential in the Garden's creation and development, when the staff was small and finances tight. These early supporters, including a few amateur botanists who donated their own plant collections, helped plan and execute plant sales, photography and art exhibits, and numerous public events.

Volunteers remain a Garden asset, sharing their time, talents and professional expertise. They work closely with staff to maintain the Garden's status as a premier plant research institution and serve as members of the Board of Trustees, setting policy and governing the Garden.

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Battlecars

Battlecars is a simple wargame based upon the Mad Max genre of a post-apocalyptic world dominated by aggressive, warring gangs. It was first published by Games Workshop in 1983 and the game designers were Gary Chalk and Ian Livingstone.

Gameplay
Each player has one or more "battlecars" that are equipped with machine guns, flamethrowers, spike droppers and the like, with much taken from the cinematic James Bond mythology of modified vehicles.

The simple game mechanics allowed for quick and entertaining game play, with damage being marked off using card counters. The game was too simple for some more mature players, given its relatively basic rules and lack of capacity to design unique vehicles. It is possible that the game was intended to capitalise on the popularity at the time of Car Wars game published by Steve Jackson Games. The game was not successful and has been forgotten by the general public. The production values of the game, however, were higher than those of the early versions of Car Wars.

History
One boxed expansion set for this game was released, Battlebikes, introducing motorcycles and also handling some errata.

A licensed Swedish language version of the game was published by Target Games under the name Combat Cars.

In 1984 The Black Sun Magazine published a set of rules by Michael Bradford called Battlechairs. The rules allowed players to field armoured wheelchairs driven by injured Battlecars drivers.

In the autumn of 1984, Games Workshop released Battlecars as a computer game for the ZX Spectrum. It was written by SLUG (a Harlow co-operative of ex-programmers from Red Shift). It was launched alongside two other Games Workshop titles, D-Day and Tower Of Despair.

AutoVentures also released supplements usable for Battlecars, and the company was later purchased by Task Force Games who continued the product line.

Later in the '80s Games Workshop released a new product named Battlecars, however this was for an expansion box of car models for their separate road-based wargame of Dark Future and was not connected to, or compatible with, the original game.

Reception
Chris Baylis reviewed Battlecars for Imagine magazine, and stated that "if you like mentally blowing away the guy who cuts you up on the motorway, then Battlecars will help you gain revenge and relieve the tension, without alerting the local constabulary."

Ian Waddelow reviewed Battlecars for White Dwarf #52, giving it an overall rating of 8 out of 10, and stated that "Battlecars is abstract, yet this is to its advantage. If you want quick, simple and fluid action, take a look at Battlecars."

Craig Sheeley reviewed Battlecars in Space Gamer No. 71. Sheeley commented that "Battlecars is an admirable boardgame, a simple wargame. But compare its limited movement and combat, its scanty number of options in auto selection, and its price to the somewhat more-complex but free movement and combat and bewilderingly large vehicle selection (including design-your-owns) in Car Wars, which retails for less than one-third the money. It's not likely that Battlecars is going to oust Car Wars for the number one position. However, if what you want is a simple, elegant game of auto-combat with a high price tag, then you might consider Battlecars. I'll stay with Car Wars."

Reviews

 * Casus Belli #18 (Dec 1983)
 * Asimov's Science Fiction v8 n10 (1984 10)
 * 1984 Games 100

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User:Ed Poor/ethnic

This is my public watchlist of articles related to ethnic civil-war type conflicts.

You are welcome to add to this list!

China

 * Mainland China
 * Politics of Taiwan
 * Talk:Elephant in the corner
 * Talk:Mainland China
 * Talk:One-China policy
 * Talk:Politics of Taiwan
 * User talk:Ed Poor
 * User talk:Instantnood/Archive 1
 * User talk:Instantnood
 * User talk:Wgfinley
 * Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)/NPOV
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List of pages

 * Kevin B. MacDonald, talk:Kevin B. MacDonald
 * Ethnocentrism, talk:Ethnocentrism
 * Afrocentrism, talk:Afrocentrism
 * Cultural relativism, talk:Cultural relativism
 * Eurocentrism, talk:Eurocentrism
 * American exceptionalism, talk:American exceptionalism
 * Culture of Critique, talk:Culture of Critique
 * Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion/Jewish ethnocentrism/Logs
 * Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents, talk:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
 * User talk:Mikkalai
 * User talk:Slim Virgin
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Bason

Bason is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Brian Bason (born 1955), English football player
 * Fred Bason (1907–1973), English bookseller
 * John Bason (born 1957), English businessman
 * Samuel Bason (1894–1986), American banker and politician

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John Souther

John Souther (March 1, 1816 – September 12, 1911) was the founder of Globe Locomotive Works, an American steam locomotive manufacturing company. In his obituary published in the Newton, Massachusetts, Town Crier, he is credited with designing the pattern for the fence around Boston Common. In 1852 he built the first Tunnel Boring machine using Charles Wilson's Patented design (Nos. 14,483 and 17,650). The machine was tried at the Hoosac Tunnel work but after only 12 feet the steel was not up to the test of grinding rock.

In 1854 Souther would build two 4-4-0 locomotives for the Fitchburg Railroad, the Hoosac and the Champion. He also built two 25-horsepower steam shovel for Norman Carmine Munson to use in filling the Boston Back Bay.

On his death in 1911, he was survived by a son and a daughter. Souther attended the funeral on May 4, 1870 of Zerah Colburn, the well-known locomotive engineer and journalist, who for a time (circa 1853) was employed by Souther.

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 * Source: A Geography for Beginners

 * Date: According to the title page the book was published in MDCCCLXIV, or 1864.

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Talk:MythBusters

Mythbusters: The Next Generation
Is the episode list (and the related detailed article) going to be updated with details from the relaunched show? Nutster (talk) 17:01, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I expect someone will do it eventually, if there is anyone interested in doing it. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 04:03, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Yep I see it in hindi version Dirty Socks need detergent (talk) 08:55, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

New hosts
No real mention of how the show returned with new hosts or anything about them in this article, feels incomplete DemonDays64 (talk) 23:10, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

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RSS
A user has proposed that featured articles should contain the little orange box indicating an RSS feed. I'm not sure this is a good idea. See General complaints. Bovlb 14:41:42, 2005-08-16 (UTC)

error w/ email?
What's up with the edir link for the email? Error? or is it on a transitional stage? It's very visual (Main Page), so action might be required quickly. -- WB 20:30, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

FA number
Why not adding the FA number to this template? 16@r (talk) 01:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Not done Because it would be a security risk to transclude a semi-protected, rather than fully-protected, template onto the main page. The semiprotection allows users to update the number; the number would likely get out of date if full protection were used. --ais523 10:24, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If this template is included on the main page, it shoud indeed be fully protected. And then I don't think it's a problem if it can be updated only by admins. Since the main page has a high-visibility, there is no chance for this to stay out-dated for more than a few minutes. So please give it a chance. 16@r (talk) 12:18, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Not done - ais523's reasons are good, and what would the number really add to the page? If we are going to change this, there should at least be wider discussion. Nihiltres { t .l } 19:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

By RSS
How about adding a link to this RSS feed (more info here) as an option to e-mail? Possibly using the well-known RSS icon:. /skagedal talk 15:32, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

"Archive" -> "This month"
Perhaps we should change the word "Archive" to "This month", because the page you see when you click on it lists all the FAs of this month. That isn't really an "archive", at least not yet. Cheers, theFace 19:43, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * "Archive" is still more descriptive than "This month". Now, if you were suggesting "Archive: This month", that'd make more sense. But for now, "Archive" is best. Gary King  ( talk  ·  scripts )  00:30, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I concur with Gary. Raul654 (talk) 02:25, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

align right, not float right
Please change this template to:

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There are two changes here. The main one being text-align: right; instead of float: right;. This is to prevent floated content from dropping out of floated containers (such as this template can be used in). Note that this is pretty much how this template used to work, albeit with align="right". An example of this float problem can be seen at:

 * User:Piotrus

It's likely elsewhere, too. This will also benefit redesigns of the main page, such as on offer at:

 * 2012 main page redesign proposal
 * (template is used in the TFA blurbs and this has long driven the use of tables for layout on pages such as the main page. which is a bad thing;)

The other change is just using actual endashes instead of character entities and &nbsp; with them per the usual MOS conventions. Note also, that the similar bit of the other TFA modules are already using text-align: right; to good effect. No baulking on this request, pls; it's a good and safe fix. Br'er Rabbit (talk) 06:37, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

 * ✅, cheers. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 11:11, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

 * Terima kasih. Now I can revert the middle bit of (after ln#149) and the IE7 & IE6 hacks that I would have had to add later. Br'er Rabbit (talk) 11:36, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Formal proposal to add About link to TFA blurb
Please discuss at Talk:Main Page. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  22:29, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

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User talk:FLakeland

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Thanks for the article on stage lighting - however we already have an article at Stage lighting. You might be better off adding to that than starting a new one.

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Talk:Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans

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Why on earth is this guy important, except the fact he has got some titles? (I got there through randompage). Samohyl Jan 18:26, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:List of gay pornographic magazines

Here is a list of gay porno magazines. Please feel free to add any information or additional titles that you may have. I have notwikilinked each individual title because I doubt that anyone is going to be writing an article about any one of these that would be long enough to warrant a separate article. Information relating to country of publication, publication dates, and focus of the magazine is probably all that will ever be accumulated about any of these magazines, so it would not seem to make sense to go about creating separate articles, let alone a whole bunch of red links to non-existent articles. Zeromacnoo 18:26, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Fair use
None of the images in this article are being used under the terms of fair-use. We may use the copyrighted images only to depict the specific issue in question, not the magazine generally. Additionally, most or all of the images are missing their detailed fair-use rationale. To remove all of the images without warning is a rather drastic change, mind you, so I thought I'd raise the problem for discussion first. --Yamla 23:33, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Please provide a source for the "not the magazine generally" claim. The images indeed depict the specific issues in question; these depictions are used as examples of the magazine generally. Template:Magazinecover, which is included on the image pages, provides a detailed rationale.

 * This is all standard practice; off the top of my head, People (magazine), Time (magazine), and Fortune (magazine) have copyrighted images of specific issues, used as fair-use representations of the magazine generally. Are you are prepared to remove those as well? PseudoAnon 07:15, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge
I think the page should be merged into List of pornographic magazines with Hetrosexual magz at the top and Homosexual magz at the bottom.Quinnzach 02:13, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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Pawan Kumar Chamling

Pawan Kumar Chamling Rai (born 22 September 1950 ) is an Indian politician and writer who served as the 5th Chief Minister of Sikkim from 1994 to 2019. He is the longest serving Chief Minister of Sikkim and India, surpassing Jyoti Basu. Chamling is the Founding President of the Sikkim Democratic Front. He also served as the Leader of the opposition, Sikkim Legislative Assembly in the year of 2019. He represents the Namchi-Singhithang constituency in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly since 2019 till 2024 and the Damthang constituency from 1985 to 1994. Prior to establishing the Sikkim Democratic Front, Chamling served as Minister for Industries, Information and Public Relations from 1989 to 1992 in Nar Bahadur Bhandari's cabinet.

Personal life
Chamling was born in Yangang, South Sikkim to Nepali parents Ash Bahadur Chamling and Asha Rani Chamling. Chamling is also a prolific Nepali language writer, and recipient of the Bhanu Puraskar (2010) awarded by Sikkim Sahitya Parishad. He writes under the pen name Pawan Chamling. Mr. Chamling has two wives and 8 children (4 sons and 4 daughters).

Political career
Chamling was elected as the president of Yangang Gram Panchayat in 1982. In 1985, he was elected to the Sikkim Legislative Assembly for the first time. After being elected for the second time from Damthang, he became the Minister for Industries, Information and Public Relations from 1989 to 1992 in the Nar Bahadur Bhandari cabinet. After a series of major political upheavals in Sikkim, Chamling formed the Sikkim Democratic Front on 4 March 1993.

Chamling is the second chief minister in India after Jyoti Basu, of West Bengal to govern a state five terms in a row, with his party Sikkim Democratic Front winning the 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly elections. His party first came to power in Sikkim after winning the 1994 Sikkim assembly elections. His popularity kept soaring in Sikkim due to his developmental work and for maintaining peace. In 2009, his party Sikkim Democratic Front won all 32 assembly seats in Sikkim Legislative Assembly.

In 2012, he faced allegations of corruption and Bhandari, his predecessor as CM, predicted that Chamling would go to jail if he lost his power. And his former comrade Tamang (Golay) developed differences with him and floated his own party. These developments created political challenge for him, but he managed to win the assembly elections of 2014, albeit with a much reduced majority.

Following win in 2014 assembly election, he was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Sikkim for the fifth consecutive time on 21 May 2014 by Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil, the Governor of Sikkim. He became the chief minister for a fifth time, a record previously held by Jyoti Basu who ruled West Bengal from 1977 to 2000.

His party SDF won 22 out of 32 assembly seats in the 2014 legislative assembly election. 18 months after the 2014 elections, on 30 November 2015, 7 out of 10 opposition MLAs joined the SDF party under the leadership of Pawan Chamling. The ruling front had 29 out of 32 assembly seats in the state.

Chamling resigned as CM after 2019 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election as former member Prem Singh Tamang's Sikkim Krantikari Morcha party formed the government by winning 17 seats out of 32. SDF party won the remaining 15 seats. Two of the SDF legislators had won from two seats each of which one had to be given up, reducing their strength to 13. In August 2019, 10 MLAs quit his party to join Bharatiya Janata Party and in the same month two other legislators joined Sikkim Krantikari Morcha. Thus making Chamling only MLA of the party.

Electoral records

 * Sikkim Legislative Assembly election

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USS Harpers Ferry

USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) is the lead ship of her class of landing ship dock of the United States Navy. This warship was named for the town of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, which, because of the U.S. arsenal there, was an important location during the Civil War. USS Harpers Ferry is assigned to the Navy's "Amphibious Group 1". The homeport of Harpers Ferry is at San Diego County, California. Harpers Ferry was previously stationed at the American Naval Base in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan before she was relieved in 2011 by USS Germantown (LSD-42).

Harpers Ferry's keel was laid down on 15 April 1991, at the Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans. The ship was launched on 16 January 1993. The vessel was commissioned on 7 January 1995.

Operational history
On 1 September 2002, Harpers Ferry relieved USS Germantown (LSD-42) as a forward-deployed warship based in Japan. In 2011, the two ships exchanged places again with Harpers Ferry returning to San Diego, California as its homeport.

Following the Cyclone Nargis disaster in Burma in 2008, and during the following "Operation Caring Response" humanitarian aid mission to Burma, Harpers Ferry steamed in Burmese waters from 13 May to 5 June, waiting for the Burmese junta government to allow American aid to be taken to its citizens. During this operation, she was a part of USS Essex (LHD-2)'s expeditionary strike group, which also included USS Juneau (LPD-10) and the guided missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG-89), However, in early June, with permission to enter Burmese airspace and land areas still not forthcoming from the Burmese government, it was decided to withdraw this aid mission and to return this Naval Task Group back to its previously-scheduled operations.

In October 2009, Harpers Ferry participated in humanitarian rescue operations in the Pangasinan province, of the Philippines, following the impact of Typhoon Parma (Pepeng) that caused serious flooding.

In early April 2010, the ship participated in the recovery efforts of the sunken Republic of Korea Navy ship ROKS Cheonan.

This ship was one of several participating in disaster relief after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

In December 2020 the U.S. Navy's Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels stated that the ship was planned to be placed Out of Commission in Reserve in 2024.

In April 2024, the ship participated in the Multilateral Maritime Exercise as part of Exercise Balikatan 39-2024. The maritime exercise involved ship contingents from the Philippine Navy, the United States Navy and the French Navy. She participated alongside BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PS-16), BRP Davao del Sur (LD-602), USS Somerset (LPD-25), and FS Vendémiaire (F734).

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French ship Annibal (1778)

Annibal was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, and was one of the earliest of his works. She was built at Brest in 1778.

American theatre in the War of American Independence
Annibal sailed out to the West Indies and took part in the Battle of Grenada under Lamotte-Picquet. In the Battle of Martinique, on 18 December 1779, Annibal single-handedly engaged seven ships of the line to protect a convoy, and withdrew without anyone being killed aboard. Annibal later took part in the action of 20 March 1780.

Indian theatre in the War of American Independence
She was then sent out to the East Indies under Suffren. Fortune and Annibal were the only two ships in the squadron not to have a copper sheathing.

At the Battle of Porto Praya, her captain, Achille de Trémigon, failed to understand Suffren's intentions to illegally attack the British fleet without consideration for the Portuguese neutrality, and followed Héros into the harbour unprepared for battle. Trémigon was killed by a cannonball that struck his leg, and First Officer Morard de Galles assumed command. After the battle, Suffren gave command of Annibal to Captain Bernard Boudin de Tromelin.

Sadras, Providien, Negapatam and Trincomalee in 1782 under Captain de Tromelin. The following year, she fought at the battle of Cuddalore under Captain d'Aymar.

Annibal was renamed to Achille in 1786 to prevent confusion with Petit Annibal.

French revolutionary wars
Achille served with the French Navy until 1794, when she was captured by the Royal Navy during the battle of the Glorious First of June. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy as the third-rate HMS Achille, retaining the French spelling of the name. However, she was in a poor state and was broken up at Plymouth in 1796, just two years after her capture.

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Philip Ziegler

Philip Sandeman Ziegler (24 December 1929 – 22 February 2023) was a British biographer and historian.

Background
Ziegler was born in Ringwood, Hampshire on 24 December 1929, the son of Louis Ziegler, an Army officer, and Dora Barnwell, a homemaker. He was educated at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, and went with the school when it merged with Summer Fields School, Oxford. He attended Eton College and New College, Oxford, graduating in 1951 with a first class degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford before joining the British Foreign Service. In the Foreign Service, he served in Vientiane where he worked with the US ambassador to Laos Charles W. Yost, Pretoria, and Bogotá, as well as with the Delegation to NATO in Paris.

Writing career
In 1967, he resigned from the Foreign Service, and joined the publishers Collins, which was, at the time, run by his father-in-law. Originally intending to be a novelist, he began a career as biographer with his life of Talleyrand's lover, the Duchess of Dino. He was editor in chief at Collins from 1979 to 1980. He was chosen as official biographer of Edward VIII, for which he was appointed CVO. Ziegler wrote for various journals and newspapers, including The Spectator, The Listener, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and History Today.

Personal life and death
In 1967, gunmen broke into Ziegler's family home in Bogotá and shot dead his wife, Sarah Collins. Ziegler was wounded in the attack. Ziegler married social worker Mary Clare Charrington in 1971; she died in 2017. Ziegler died from cancer on 22 February 2023, at the age of 93.

Works

 * Duchess of Dino (1962) on Princess Dorothea of Courland
 * Addington: A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth (1965)
 * The Black Death (1969)
 * King William IV (1971)
 * Omdurman (1973)
 * Melbourne: a Biography of William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1976) on Lord Melbourne the Prime Minister
 * Crown and People (1978)
 * Diana Cooper (1981)
 * Mountbatten. The Official Biography (1985)
 * Elizabeth's Britain 1926 to 1986 (1986)
 * Diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten 1920–1922: Tours with the Prince of Wales (1987) editor
 * Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, South-East Asia, 1943–1946 (1988)
 * The Sixth Great Power: Barings 1762–1929 (1988)
 * From Shore to Shore – The Final Years: The Diaries of Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1953–1979 (1989)
 * Edward VIII, the Official Biography (1990)
 * Brooks's: A Social History (1991) editor with Desmond Seward
 * Wilson: The Authorised Life of Lord Wilson of Rievaulx (1993) on Harold Wilson
 * London at War 1939–1945 (1995)
 * Osbert Sitwell (1998)
 * Britain Then and Now: The Francis Frith Collection (1999)
 * Soldiers: Fighting Men's Lives, 1901–2001 (2001)
 * Man Of Letters: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Literary Impresario Rupert Hart-Davis (2005)
 * Legacy: Cecil Rhodes, The Rhodes Trust and Rhodes Scholarships (Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2008)
 * Edward Heath (Harper Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0-00-724740-0
 * Olivier (MacLehose Press, 2013).
 * Between the Wars: 1919-1939 (MacLehose Press, 2016) ISBN 978-0857055217
 * The Black Death (2016)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carper Award

 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 KEEP or MERGE. dbenbenn | talk 22:29, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Carper Award
Not notable - and possible hoax Brookie 18:34, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Mmm, no, it does seem to exist (it's been mentioned in a motion passed by the House of Representatives of Georgia, what more do you want? ;-) ); but probably not worthy of its own article. I think it's capable of a Merge into  Academic Competition Federation and delete.
 * Unsigned by TSP. —Korath (Talk) 01:56, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but with reservations. Article needs clarification and expansion. Megan1967 05:02, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If it gets elaborated on, maybe even with a link to an actual page on Carper himself, then we should keep it. Otherwise, merge it.
 * Unsigned by 66.168.77.112; it is his only edit. —Korath (Talk) 01:57, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * I say keep it - I was looking up the award and was happy to find this, as is.
 * Unsigned by 24.6.209.7; it is his only edit. —Korath (Talk) 01:56, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, seems notable enough. JamesBurns 06:55, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Academic Competition Federation. —Korath (Talk) 01:56, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

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Dragon Fire

Dragon Fire may refer to:
 * In fiction and mythology, the ability of dragons to exhale fire, or any of several things which allude to this power
 * Dragon Fire (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland
 * Dragon Fire (novel), a 2000 political novel by journalist Humphrey Hawksley about a future war between China, Pakistan, and India
 * Dragon Fire (mortar), a heavy automated mortar under testing by the United States Marine Corps
 * Dragon Fire (film), a 1993 martial arts film starring several kickboxing champions
 * Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire, the final game in the Quest for Glory series by Sierra

Dragonfire may refer to:
 * Dragonfire (Doctor Who), a 1987 serial in the science fiction television series Doctor Who
 * Dragonfire (video game), a 1982 video game released by Imagic
 * Dragonfire (novel) an Andrew Kaplan spy thriller about a CIA agent trying to prevent another Southeast war
 * Alternate title of Tagget, a 1991 spy film/thriller
 * Dragonfire II: The Dungeonmaster's Assistant, a 1985 computer program for managing tabletop role-playing games
 * DragonFire (weapon), a British directed-energy weapon technology demonstrator

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User talk:Theviolinmasta

I deleted Life of Midori Goto; it seemed to come from a copyrighted website, and was redundant with the better named Midori Goto. Thue | talk 13:26, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Banana messenger

Banana messengers or fruit messengers were agents sent on US railroads to accompany shipments of bananas and other fruit. They were accorded special ticket rates, similar to those for railway employees and clergy, as late as the 1960s. The tickets were not honored on some premium trains. Reportedly, the reduced rate also applied to the return trip (sans bananas).

The name was also used to refer to some cabooses. Described in IC 9650-9956, these were steel underframe drover's cabooses built between 1897 and 1913, and reclassified as banana messengers sometime between 1955 and 1963. The last five were scrapped or sold between 1963 and 1971.

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Talk:Mr. Lif

Liftedly Man?
24.215.185.52 brought up the point (by vandalising the article) that Liftedly Man is not a Phish song. I looked at all of their listings at Amazon and didn't see any song by this name. However, Lif mentions in an interview at http://www.ink19.com/issues/october2002/interviews/mrLif.htm that he got his name from this song and that it was by Phish. Can anyone shed any light on this. Is it a song that they only performed but never recorded? Could Lif be talking about another band? TimMony 18:36, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

There is definitely not a Phish song called "Liftedly Man." Perhaps he misheard some lyrics or heard them correctly but doesn't know the name of the song?

- "Prog-hop"?? ummm... can we not? W guice 11:43, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps they performed it at a concert and Trey Anastasio played with the lyrics and turned Lifeboy into Lifetyman. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.172.169.7 (talk • contribs) 25 April 2006

God damn, Lif is amazing Co-signed! –FunkyVoltron talk 03:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

I haven't seen any articles where he says the Phish songs name is Liftedly or whatever, but I did read one where he says he created the character based on a Phish bass-line.. not that the Phish song was titled The Liftedly Man http://www.exclaim.ca/musicreviews/beatsandrhymes.aspx?csid1=81 GURT 19:55, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

From Mr. Lif's "Arise": "Since I was sent under the name of Lif, which means to uplift". There you go. Ideogon (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 04:26, 2 February 2009 (UTC).

Mr. Lif featured on Grieves track
Mr. Lif was featured on Grieves' CD Irreversible, on the song Irreversible. Source: Grieves CD that Mf. Lif signed. Or this itunes url http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=271139907&s=143441  67.171.2.226 (talk) 10:31, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

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User:Fgarlipp~enwiki

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Sikkim Democratic Front

Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) is a regional political party in the Indian state of Sikkim. It was the ruling party in Sikkim from 12 December 1994 to 23 May 2019.

History
The party was founded by Pawan Kumar Chamling in 1993. It has ruled the Sikkim state from 1994 to 2019 with Pawan Kumar Chamling as the chief minister. The party consolidated its position sweeping the 1999 and 2004 state elections. It won 31 of the 32 assembly seats in the 2004 election. In the 2009 assembly election, the party made a clean sweep, winning all 32 seats. It also retained the lone Lok Sabha seat. In 2014 assembly elections, SDF won 22 seats and retained power.

In May 2016, after the BJP led NDA formed its first government in Assam, a new alliance called the North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) was formed with BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma as its convener. The Chief Ministers of the north eastern states of Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland too belong to this alliance. Thus, the Sikkim Democratic Front joined the NDA led NEDA.

Pawan Kumar Chamling resigned as CM after 2019 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election as former member Prem Singh Tamang's Sikkim Krantikari Morcha party formed the government by winning 17 seats out of 32. SDF party won the remaining 15 seats. But in August 2019, 10 MLAs quit his party to join the Bharatiya Janata Party and in the same month two other legislators joined Sikkim Krantikari Morcha. Thus making Pawan Kumar Chamling the only MLA of his party.

Frontal Organisation

 * Youth Wing
 * Student's Wing
 * Women's Wing
 * Labour Wing
 * Cultivators and Organic Farmers Wing
 * Ex-servicemen Wing
 * Scheduled Tribe Welfare Wing
 * Scheduled Caste Welfare Wing
 * Drivers Wing
 * Traders Wing

Electoral records

 * Sikkim Legislative Assembly election

 * Lok Sabha election, Sikkim

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User:Kellic06

I played basketball for two years, for Holmes Jr. High School. I am now in the 11th grade at Da Vinci High School, and I do not play basketball. I did not play basketball this year or last year because I am recovering from an ankle injury. I enjoy watching the Sacramento Kings' games on TV, but I enjoy attending the games even more. The Kings' games are very interesting, and very entertaining to watch. Kings' fans have a reputation for being the noisiest. Arco Arena, where the home games are played, is located in Natomas, which is just outside of Sacramento. Recently, housing has been established in that area. Many of the citizens who have bought housing in that area have complained about the intensity of the noise coming from Arco Arena. Also, The Kings' players threatened to leave Sacramento if they did not get a new Arena. Overall, the Kings' have gone through a lot in the past couple of years. The Kings' have gone through many tradings of players and recieving of players fresh from other teams. Just last night they traded Chris Webber, and two other Kings' players. For many people, this is a good trade because they are not very fond of Webber, or C Webb. On the other hand, many people find that this is a bad trade, and think that they should not have traded Webber. Personnally I think this was a good trade, because I am one the people who are not so fond od "C Webb." All-in-all the Kings' have had good seasons and bad season, but their fans stick to them like glue.

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Mendenhall River

The Mendenhall River (Lingít: Woosh Ilʼóox̱ʼu Héen) is an Alaskan river north of Juneau in the Mendenhall Valley. The river begins at the Mendenhall Lake, at the base of the Mendenhall Glacier.

Rafting on the river
The Mendenhall is about six miles (9 kilometers) long, one mile (1.6 km) of which is whitewater. The most favorable months in which to raft on the river is May through September. The most active points along the whitewater section are Scott's Iatola (or Iatolla) Hola, Tourist Trap, and Pinball Alley. The whitewater ends near the Juneau International Airport.

Flooding
Minor flood stage for the Mendenhall River is 12 feet (3.7 m), and a level of 14 feet (4.3 m) is more likely to cause extensive problems. If the Mendenhall is at minor flood stage, however, it is likely that areas such as Montana Creek, Jordan Creek, and the Mendenhall Lake are also experiencing flooding at that time.

Interesting facts

 * On October 20, 1998, the river reached its then-greatest-recorded water flow of 12,400 cubic feet per second (350 m³/s).
 * Named in honor of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, the superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (1889–1894).
 * Since 2011, periodic glacial floods have occurred from the Suicide Basin through the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska. A major release in 2023 destroyed two buildings.

Points of interest

 * Brotherhood Bridge

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Albert Outler

Albert Cook Outler (November 17, 1908 – September 1, 1989) was a 20th-century American Methodist historian, theologian, and pastor. He was a professor at Duke University, Yale University, and Southern Methodist University. He was a key figure in the 20th-century ecumenical movement.

Biography
Outler was born and raised in Georgia and was an ordained Methodist elder who served in several appointments. He graduated from Wofford College and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale University, teaching at both Yale and Duke University before beginning a long tenure at Southern Methodist University in Texas. He taught courses in Christian history, Christian theology, Christian doctrine, and Wesleyan studies.

He was a delegate to Consultation on Church Union, served on the Faith & Order board of the World Council of Churches and was an official observer representing the Methodist at the Second Vatican Council. He was a key figure in the 20th-century ecumenical movement.

Theological contribution
Along with his contemporaries Colin Williams, Frank Baker, and John Deschner, Outler's work on John Wesley became a catalyst for contemporary Wesleyan scholarship.

Outler's contributions to Methodist history and theology include his book John Wesley for "The Library of Protestant Thought" series, the first book that argued for Wesley as an important theologian in the Western tradition, as well as his critical editions of Wesley's Sermons for the Works of John Wesley editorial project.

Outler is widely credited with being the first to recognize John Wesley's method for theologizing, via what Outler referred to as the Wesleyan Quadrilateral: scripture, church tradition, reason, and personal experience. This understanding of Wesleyan theology is prevalent throughout Methodism, particularly in the United Methodist Church. Using this model, Outler was a key figure in organizing the theological statement put forth by the United Methodist Church after its formation in 1968. Some argue that his most original contribution was the introduction of the concept of church "Tradition" into Wesleyan theology.

With his many references to the early church, Outler's work has proven very influential to those in the paleo-orthodox movement and contemporary evangelicalism, notably Thomas C. Oden, like Outler, a United Methodist clergyman.

He also wrote books and articles on patrology, psychotherapy, and theology. Many of his writings have been collected in the Albert Outler Library series by Bristol House publishers.

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Order of a kernel

In statistics, the order of a kernel is the degree of the first non-zero moment of a kernel.

Definitions
The literature knows two major definitions of the order of a kernel. Namely are:

Definition 1
Let $$ \ell \geq 1 $$ be an integer. Then, $$ K: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} $$ is a kernel of order $$ \ell $$ if the functions $$ u\mapsto u^{j}K(u), ~ j=0,1,...,\ell $$ are integrable and satisfy $$ \int K(u)du=1, ~ \int u^{j}K(u)du=0,~ ~j=1,...,\ell. $$

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/White Oaks High School

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White Oaks High School
Non-notable high school. DJ Clayworth 18:40, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for appalling lack of content and notability. Another bored student in the school library, another nanostub. - Lucky 6.9 18:56, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this useless sub-sub-stub. Gamaliel 20:26, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for lack of content. Article doesn't even tell me where the school is located and isn't linked in- or outside Wikipedia. Mgm|(talk) 20:36, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * It is in Oakville, Ontario.--Lucky13pjn 21:12, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, appears to be written by a bored student, possibly the name mentioned in the article. No useful information to merge with appropriate geographical article. Average Earthman 20:45, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, I briefly attended this high school a few years back and I know it does not deserve an article.--Lucky13pjn 21:12, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Incidentally, the correct name is White Oaks Secondary School. I'll change my vote if there are more notable alumni than golfer Adam Weir, or something really special about the school itself. Here's their brag sheet from the school web site: . --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 21:33, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Notability not established. Almost seems speediable for "little or no content". It would be exagerrating to call this a sub-stub. --BM 21:56, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The only thing that comes to my mind after reading it is "Who cares?" Zzyzx11 23:47, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Minor Alteration Maybe? It might be of more significance if there were more information about it. Until then, where the heck is Oakville? Frank12
 * Merge into appropriate Oakville and delete - Skysmith 11:07, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep we have university entries, why not schools. Beta_M talk, |contrib ( Ë-Mail )
 * We have school entries, why not students? Delete. —Korath (Talk) 08:22, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Because universities do scientific research, and schools do not. Delete. Radiant! 09:16, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Has potential to become encyclopedic. Allow for organic growth. --Andylkl 18:45, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable school. Carrp | Talk 20:01, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Where were all you voters on the many other school articles that slip under the radar? Delete. Lacrimosus 22:28, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sigh. I'll never win this battle, but I feel that all schools should have an entry on wikipedia, no matter how notable. We let all small towns have their own entry, don't we? Even towns of absolutely no import. We allow towns with populations of less than 100 people to have their own entries, and all the articles ever says is the stuff the robots put in there. Yet we don't allow individual articles for each school? I don't understand the difference. So I'll vote keep, even though I already know I've lost this one. Maybe my vote will convince someone else to rethink their position the next time a school article gets put up on VfD. Eric Herboso 22:33, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. Although this really is a crap article, it could help the Oakville page. And I think schools should get wiki entries. And students too if they're worth mentioning.
 * Vote was given by User:DavidMendoza. Please remember to sign your votes on VfD pages.

 * Keep - just about all schools pass the Pokemon Comparative Notability Test - David Gerard 22:59, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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