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He is credited with the creation of the slime monster.

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Change "He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen manga with Dr. Slump"

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"He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen/shōjo manga with Dr. Slump"

There weren't separate categories for shōnen and shōjo that year. 84.251.32.130 (talk) 12:03, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Grammar frameworks

These theories of grammar are used to describe natural (human) languages.

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Category:Electric and electronic keyboard instruments

This category covers all electric and electronic keyboard instruments, including the Hammond Organ which is possibly unique in being neither a strictly electronic instrument nor an amplified version of an acoustic instrument, and is therefore described as being an electric instrument but not an electronic instrument.


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Category:Heavy metal songs

This is a category for articles about songs from various genres of heavy metal music.

If you find a stub article for a metal song, consider also adding metal-song-stub.

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Complex convexity

Complex convexity is a general term in complex geometry.

Definition
A set $$\Omega$$ in $$\Complex^n$$ is called $\Complex$-convex if its intersection with any complex line is contractible.

Background
In complex geometry and analysis, the notion of convexity and its generalizations play an important role in understanding function behavior. Examples of classes of functions with a rich structure are, in addition to the convex functions, the subharmonic functions and the plurisubharmonic functions.

Geometrically, these classes of functions correspond to convex domains and pseudoconvex domains, but there are also other types of domains, for instance lineally convex domains which can be generalized using convex analysis.

A great deal is already known about these domains, but there remain some fascinating, unsolved problems. This theme is mainly theoretical, but there are computational aspects of the domains studied, and these computational aspects are certainly worthy of further study.

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Henryk Gulbinowicz

Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz (17 October 1923 – 16 November 2020) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Wrocław from 1976 to 2004. Pope John Paul II made him a cardinal in 1985. In 2020, he was banned from making public appearances following a Holy See investigation that confirmed allegations that he had committed sexual abuse and evidence that he had been a secret police informant from 1969 to 1985. Following his death, Gulbinowicz was forbidden to have his funeral service at the city’s Cathedral of St. John the Baptist or to be buried in the cathedral.

Early life and priesthood
Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz was born on 17 October 1923 in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). He grew up in Szukiszki (Šukiškės). He entered the archdiocesan seminary where he completed his secondary studies, upon being transferred to Białystok.

Archbishop Romuald Jalbrzykowski ordained him as a priest on 18 June 1950, and he was an associate pastor at Szudzialowo. After a year of parish experience, he was sent to Lublin to continue his preparation in theology at the Catholic University of Lublin. He earned a doctorate in moral theology in 1955. From 1956 to 1959 he was university chaplain in Białystok. He then taught in the seminary at Warmia, while also working in the diocesan Curia of Olsztyn.

Episcopacy
On 12 January 1970, Pope Paul VI appointed him titular Bishop of Acci and made him apostolic administrator of the Polish section of the Archdiocese of Vilnius (Białystok). The following 8 February he received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. In charge of the church community, he was responsible for the reorganization of the diaconate and he also promoted the construction of new parishes. Beginning in 1944, despite wartime conditions, he furthered the growth of religious life in his area by creating in Białystok the Parish Catechetics Center and reviving the trimestral publication "Wiadomości Kościelne Archidiecezij w Białystoku" (Church news of the archdiocese of Białystok).

On 3 January 1976, he became Archbishop of Wrocław. While guiding this local church during these years, he created many pastoral centers in this large region. In addition, he founded the biweekly "Nowe Życie" (New Life) and crowned the statue of the Virgin as protector of the famous shrine of Wambierzyce in Lower Silesia, which is a pilgrimage center.

A few days before martial law was imposed in 1981, the local Solidarity union branch withdrew from its bank account 80 million zlotys, the equivalent of today's USD $100 million, and deposited the cash with Gulbinowicz, who hid it from the communist regime during Solidarity's delegalisation.

Cardinalate
On 25 May 1985 Gulbinowicz was created cardinal by John Paul II.

He was recognized as a voice of the moderate wing of the church in Poland. Where Cardinal Glemp of Warsaw warned priests against involvement with Solidarity, Gulbinowicz intervened with the Communist government on behalf of striking railway repair yard workers. In 1985 he identified the Church closely with Lech Wałęsa's leadership and told crowds of union-supporting pilgrims "Hang in there, as we are hanging in". A year later he told a similar crowd: "Only the right to organize independent organizations will enable Poland to overcome the severe political and economic crises troubling this country." At a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, he counselled patience with the post-Soviet government's attempts to rebuild Poland's economy and political institutions. He said "every thinking person in Poland understands that the good toward which the nation is moving must be paid for at the beginning with sacrifices.... Some laughed at our ideals, and even at the people who were faithful to those ideals" and said that Solidarity had proved faithful to its principles. He also avoided Glemp's "nationalist tones". When he welcomed the Pope to Wrocław, he spoke of tolerance and said the city was the work of various nationalities and religions over the centuries.

Resignation
Pope John Paul accepted his resignation as Archbishop of Wrocław on 3 April 2004, when he was thought to be 75 years old, the age at which bishops are required to submit their resignations. It then transpired that in 1942, as a young man, Gulbinowicz had falsified his birth records to escape being sent to a labor camp in Germany, listing the year of his birth as 1928 instead of 1923. Though the falsification suggested he was ordained a priest at a very young age, his correct age only became public in 2004 when an Italian newspaper noted that John Paul had accepted his resignation as Bishop of Wrocław at the age of 80, not 75. In 2005, with the end of Pope John Paul's life approaching, the birth-year discrepancy became more important and was published more widely. Had Gulbinowicz been born in 1928, he would be eligible to participate in a conclave to select John Paul's successor. With the correction, it was seen that he was past his 80th birthday and ineligible. Gulbinowicz told the Catholic Information Agency (Poland) that many of his peers employed this strategy and that after the war no one thought it necessary to restore his true birthdate to his documents. He said that his superiors had known the truth from the time he entered the seminary and that John Paul had known from before he became Pope. The correct birth date was printed in the Pontifical Yearbook presented to John Paul on 31 January 2005.

He was the author of a number of works in the new area of moral and doctrinal theology and on the formation of the clergy.

Sexual abuse allegations
On 6 November 2020, the Holy See's Nuncio to Poland announced that following a Vatican investigation regarding sex abuse allegations against Gulbinowicz, Gulbinowicz was now "barred from any kind of celebration or public meeting and from using his episcopal insignia, and is deprived of the right to a cathedral funeral and burial." He was ordered to pay "an appropriate sum" to his alleged victims.

Death
Gulbinowicz died on 16 November 2020 at 10:40am, just 10 days after the ruling against him was given, after having fallen unconscious in hospital. The cardinal was admitted to hospital in Wrocław on 10 November, just four days following the ruling. He died due to respiratory and circulatory failure after having suffered from acute pneumonia. His remains were cremated and the ashes interred on 23 November in secrecy at his family's tomb at Olsztyn, where his parents were interred.

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Batman: The Ride

Batman: The Ride is an inverted roller coaster based on the DC Comics character Batman and found at seven Six Flags theme parks in the United States. Built by consulting engineers Bolliger & Mabillard, it rises to a height of between 100 and 105 ft and reaches top speeds of 50 mph. The original roller coaster at Six Flags Great America was partially devised by the park's general manager Jim Wintrode. Batman: The Ride was the world's first inverted roller coaster when it opened in 1992, and has since been awarded Coaster Landmark status by the American Coaster Enthusiasts. Clones of the ride exist at amusement parks around the world.

History
The concept of an inverted roller coaster with inversions was developed by Jim Wintrode, the general manager of Six Flags Great America, in the early 1990s. To develop the idea for the park, Wintrode worked with Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard – from Swiss roller coaster manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard – and engineer Robert Mampe. The ride soft opened to the public on May 2, 1992, with an official opening one week later on May 9. The ride cost $7 million to build. At the time, it was the single biggest investment made by Six Flags Great America on one attraction.

Following the ride's success, then-parent company Time Warner devised an expansion plan to install clones of the original at the rest of the US parks in the Six Flags chain throughout the 1990s. In 1992, Six Flags Great Adventure announced the addition of Batman: The Ride in place of Lightnin' Loops. It opened to the general public on May 1, 1993. Six Flags Magic Mountain announced the addition of their installation on August 4, 1993. The attraction opened on March 26, 1994 as part of a new Gotham City Backlot section.

On September 7, 1994, Six Flags St. Louis announced that they would be receiving their installation of Batman: The Ride. The attraction opened on April 22, 1995 and was the first location to be a flipped clone and feature a different queue line. Six Flags Over Georgia announced the ride in 1996 as part of a new Gotham City section, which became the largest investment in 30 years for the park. It opened for the first time on May 3, 1997.

Six Flags Over Texas announced a copy of Batman: The Ride on November 4, 1998. The ride would sit next to Mr. Freeze, being located towards the back of the park in a new Gotham City area. Batman: The Ride made its debut at Six Flags Over Texas on May 26, 1999. This location features a unique loading station themed as the Wayne Foundation Industrial Park, unlike the others which are labeled Gotham Public Works. As new Batman films were being released, Six Flags St. Louis opened their installation to coincide with 1995's Batman Forever, while Six Flags Over Georgia debuted theirs to coincide with 1997's Batman & Robin.

In 2002, La Ronde in Montreal opened a mirror clone of the ride under the name Le Vampire (The Vampire). The name was the result of La Ronde, which is not a branded Six Flags park, lacking the necessary brand licensing agreement with Warner Bros. and DC Comics. It was expected to receive the Batman label when the park was scheduled to be converted to a Six Flags park in the mid-2000s, however, the plans were abandoned. Also in 2002, Warner Bros. Movie World Madrid opened another clone named Batman: La Fuga (Batman: The Escape).

The final installation was constructed at Six Flags New Orleans in 2003, which was formerly located at Japanese amusement park Thrill Valley, where it operated as Gambit from 1995 to 2002. In 2005, the effects of Hurricane Katrina resulted in Six Flags abandoning the New Orleans park. The coaster remained abandoned for two years and was then relocated to Six Flags Fiesta Texas, where it was refurbished and repainted. The ride reopened as Goliath on April 18, 2008.

From 2013 to 2015, the Batman: The Ride coasters at five locations operated backwards at different times throughout the three years. On February 1, 2018, it was announced that the St. Louis location would run backwards for the first half of the 2018 season.

Structure
The original installation of the ride at Six Flags Great America features a maximum height of 100 ft, while the installations to follow reached 105 ft. Each installation of Batman: The Ride has a track length of approximately 2700 ft. The rides reach a top speed of 50 mph and exert up to four times the force of gravity. There are five inversions, which are two vertical loops, a zero-g roll and two corkscrews.

Batman: The Ride clones operate with two steel and fiberglass trains, each containing eight cars. Each car seats four riders in a single row for a total of 32 riders per train.

The ride's original layout was specifically designed to fit in the Yankee Harbor (now DC Universe) themed area at Six Flags Great America, on the space previously occupied by Tidal Wave. The layout for each successive attraction is either identical or a mirror image of the original.

Color scheme
While some later Batman: The Ride clones opened with dark blue track and supports, the originals were all black. Over the years there have been modifications in Batman: The Ride color schemes, with more incorporating yellows, blues and purples. The original ride at Six Flags Great America retained the original black color scheme until 2004, when the track was painted yellow and supports dark purple. That year, the Six Flags Great Adventure location's original black color scheme was repainted with yellow track. For the 2010 season, the Six Flags Magic Mountain and Six Flags Over Georgia locations were both repainted with medium blue track. As of 2019, the only installation of Batman: The Ride to retain its all-black color scheme is Six Flags St. Louis.

Queue
The decorative theme of Batman: The Ride attempts to capture the spirit of the fictional Gotham City for those queuing to board the ride. As the queue moves through Gotham City Park, the theme transitions from bright and peaceful, to dark and ominous. Modeled after Nigel Phelps' award-winning art direction on the 1989 film Batman, the atmosphere indicates a crime-ridden and dirty environment, with discarded pieces of equipment, crumbling concrete, and in some versions, a Gotham City Police Department car riddled with bullet holes. After the outside queue, guests enter the ride structure through an entrance themed after an access to a storm drain. The ride passenger loading area is modeled after Batman's Batcave and features a replica of the Batsuit from the 1989 film.

Layout
Batman: The Ride begins with the track floor in the station descending. The train moves out of the station and up a chain lift hill. At the top of the hill, the train dips down through a Bolliger & Mabillard pre-drop, coasts down a 190-degree swoop to the left and drops into the first vertical loop. It then flips through a Heartline Spin (zero-G roll), followed by another vertical loop. The train then travels upward around a tight spiral to the left, then through a wider turn to the right, drops slightly and quickly turns through the first corkscrew (referred to as a "flatspin" by the manufacturer). Following this is a tight right turn and another flatspin, then a tight left turnaround before the train enters the final brake run.

Incidents

 * On May 26, 2002, a 58-year-old park employee working in the roller coaster's restricted area at Six Flags Over Georgia was killed after being struck in the head by the dangling leg of a 14-year-old girl riding in the front. The girl was hospitalized with a leg injury.
 * On June 28, 2008, a 17-year-old South Carolina teenager was killed after being struck by the Batman roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. The teen, who was on a trip to the park with his church's youth group, scaled two fences with a friend into a restricted area and walked into the ride's path. Although witnesses stated he was trying to retrieve his hat, a Cobb County police spokesman reported the teens were attempting to take a shortcut into the park.

Reception
Batman: The Ride has generally received positive reviews. The Dallas Morning News stated the ride "is proof that new thrills on the cutting edge of technology generate excitement". They also praise the theme of the "smooth-riding coaster" stating "the mysterious crime-fighter is a proven crowd-pleaser". American Coaster Enthusiasts have also praised the ride, awarding it Coaster Landmark status in 2005. They describe the ride as a "revolutionary design" which offers "unprecedented intensity, while maintaining remarkable smoothness, comfort, and pacing". Ultimate Rollercoaster describes Batman: The Ride as "the ride of your life". They state "the sensation created by an inverted coaster is very different from that of traditional roller coasters. It is a sensation that every coaster fan must experience".

Awards
In Amusement Today's Golden Ticket Awards for Best Steel Roller Coasters, Batman: The Ride ranked in the late 1990s before dropping off the poll and returning once in 2005. The original installation at Six Flags Great America was ranked 23 and 25 in 1998 and 1999, before returning in 2005 at position 45. In 1998, the Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags St. Louis installations ranked 19 and 21, respectively.

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Talk:Phil Crane

Ph.D.
What was Phil Crane's Ph.D. in? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.250.8.74 (talk) 01:10, 19 April 2005 (UTC)

 * History, I believe. LeoO3 08:28, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Nixon
I spoke with Mr. Crane last week and he was never a staff member to then former VP Richard Nixon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.231.249.141 (talk) 18:05, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Political Defeat
I'm curious. Crane was a GOP golden boy in the 1970s and early 1980s. Why did he just fall of the radar screen? Did he anger somebody? Was something going on? I always got the idea the GOP was treating him like a redheadded stopchild. Can this story be told? Yakuman 11:47, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 02:00, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Retirement?
The article speaks of "Crane's imminent retirement" as contributing to his defeat in 2004. If he were retiring, he'd not have been campaigning. If he'd promised to retire soon or some such thing, that needs to be clarified.Czrisher (talk) 15:31, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Tiger Cages of Vietnam
Is not Philip Crane's whitewashing of the USA-sponsored torture in Vietnam noteworthy? His claim that "the Tiger Cages are cleaner than the average Vietnamese home" angered even pro-USA Vietnamese.

Is not this as relevant to Crane's values as "The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. ... We value life and human dignity. They don't care about life and human dignity." is to General Westmoreland's? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.253.73.146 (talk) 21:56, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

BIAS
The part about the end of his career seemed very biased to me. I did not read the rest of it assuming it to be biased too. Lets work on being more fair guys. OK? --75.130.91.73 (talk) 21:33, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

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DCA

DCA may refer to:

Computers

 * Document Content Architecture, an IBM document standard
 * Dynamic Channel Allocation/Assignment, in wireless networks
 * DTS Coherent Acoustics in DTS (sound system)

Military

 * Defence Cyber Agency, a tri-service command of the Indian Armed Forces
 * Defense Communications Agency, former name of US Defense Information Systems Agency
 * Defensive counter air (Défense contre les aéronefs), French term for air defense
 * Deputy Commandant for Aviation, principal advisor on all aviation matters in the United States Marine Corps
 * Dual-capable aircraft, used in nuclear sharing

Organizations

 * California Department of Consumer Affairs
 * Department for Constitutional Affairs of the UK government, 2003-2007
 * DCA Design
 * Department of Civil Aviation (Australia)
 * Department of Civil Aviation (Thailand)
 * Digital Communications Associates, US company
 * Diyanet Center of America, Lanham, Maryland
 * Drum Corps Associates, a governing body of drum corps in North America
 * Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
 * Namibia Directorate of Civil Aviation
 * Christian Democracy for Autonomies, a former political party in Italy

Science and technology

 * Detrended correspondence analysis, a statistical technique
 * Dichloroacetic acid / dichloroacetate, an organic acid
 * Dichloroethanes, organic solvents
 * Digitally-controlled amplifier
 * Direct coupling analysis, a method for analyzing sequence data in computational biology
 * Directional component analysis, a multivariate statistical technique used in the atmospheric sciences
 * Drone congregation area, a location where bees gather to mate

Television, film, and music

 * Distributors Corporation of America, American film distribution company (1952-1959)

Transportation

 * Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Arlington County, Virginia, US, IATA code
 * Dutch Caribbean Airlines, former Netherlands Antilles airline

Other uses

 * Direct corporate access, part of UK Faster Payments Service
 * Dollar cost averaging, an investment strategy
 * Disney California Adventure, Anaheim, California, US
 * Debt Collection Agency, companies specialized in pursuing payments of debts

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Lac La Biche, Alberta

Lac La Biche is a hamlet in Lac La Biche County within northeast Alberta, Canada. It is located approximately 220 km northeast of the provincial capital of Edmonton. Previously incorporated as a town, Lac La Biche amalgamated with Lakeland County to form Lac La Biche County on August 1, 2007.

Etymology
The indigenous peoples of the area referred to the lake as Elk Lake (wâwâskesiwisâkahikan, tzalith tway). The earliest Europeans translated this name into English as "Red Deer Lake" and in French as "lac la Biche" ("lake of the doe"). Over time, the French name came to be used in English as well.

Historic voyageur highway
Lac La Biche was on the historical voyageur route that linked the Athabaskan region to Hudson Bay. David Thompson and George Simpson used the fur trade route via the Beaver River from the main Methye Portage route that reached the Athabasca River. Thompson was the first known European to record his sojourn on Lac La Biche. Thompson, who referred to the lake as Red Deers Lake, arrived October 4, 1798 and overwintered there. He entered copious notes in his diary on the Nahathaway (the Cree), their customs, traditions, and the Western Forest Land, including the large supply of whitefish and beaver.

Fur trade posts
Although the Montreal-based North West Company was already active in the area, Thompson established the first permanent settlement in Lac La Biche on his 1798 trip, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post which he named Red Deers Lake House. In 1799, Peter Fidler arrived in the area after Thompson's departure, and as the post. This new structure was known as Greenwich House. It was also abandoned by 1801, but Lac La Biche was established as a permanent place of residence for some French-Canadian and Métis freetraders and their families. Fur trade activity continued unbroken, due to the importance of the portage, and Lac La Biche was visited by fur traders such as Gabriel Franchère and Ross Cox. David Thompson returned in 1812.

Another temporary Hudson's Bay Company post was erected in 1817, but the portage was abandoned by the company in 1825. Almost no written records exist for the following two decades.

Oblate mission
A Roman Catholic mission was established in 1853 by Oblate missionaries. Historian Paul Robert Magocsi notes how the settlement grew over the next few decades: "'The French-speaking element, mostly from Red River, coalesced around the Mission. It formed a community that was tightly knit, even though the influence of the church lessened and the trend was towards marrying out and establishing nuclear families. Living was largely off the land; logging and road work provided intermittent wage labour. Many of the adults were trilingual, speaking French and Cree as well as English.'"

The Lac La Biche Mission is now a National Historic Site and Provincial Historic Resource. It was the site of one of the first residential schools in Alberta.

Treaties and insurrection
The Government of Canada sought to extinguish the First Nations' title to the land across the prairies, in order to open the land up to settlement. Treaty 6 was negotiated in 1876 and covered the lands to the south of Lac La Biche.

The new Hudson's Bay Company post at Lac La Biche was looted on April 26, 1885 during the North-West Rebellion by members of Big Bear's band. Their plan to loot the nearby Roman Catholic Mission was stopped by the local Cree and Métis population. Métis Scrip Records show many residents of the area were awarded scrip by the Government of Canada from 1885 until the 1920s.

Treaty 8, covering the lands north of Lac La Biche, was negotiated in 1899. This set the stage for rail and settlement.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lac La Biche had a population of 3,120 living in 1,198 of its 1,458 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 3,320. Lac La Biche County has a population of 7,673 and a retail trade area of 27,000. With a land area of 68.39 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lac La Biche had a population of 2,314 living in 895 of its 1,048 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2011 population of 2,520. With a land area of 6.05 km2, it had a population density of in 2016.

Lac La Biche County's 2016 municipal census counted a population of 2,682 in Lac La Biche, a NaN% change from its 2013 municipal census population of 2,895.

Economy
The community is supported by the oil patch, logging, forestry, agriculture, and commercial fishing.

Jamie Davis Towing (featured on the Highway Thru Hell reality show) has an operation in Lac La Biche.

Attractions
Lac La Biche is home to the Lac La Biche Golf Course, while numerous lakes and campgrounds provide outdoor recreation opportunities in the area, including Lakeland Provincial Park to the east. Lac La Biche County has a small museum dedicated to sharing the history of the area, it is located in the Jubilee Hall building, beside the recreation grounds where the baseball diamonds, splash park, and green space are also located.

Government
The Hamlet of Lac La Biche comprises Lac La Biche County's Ward 7. Omer Moghrabi was elected as mayor in 2017, Councillors Lorin Tkachuk and Colin Cote represent Ward 7 on Lac La Biche County Council. Provincially, the community has been represented by every major political party in Alberta history (expand table for details).

Infrastructure
Lac La Biche Airport (YLB) is located 1.5 NM west of Lac La Biche. It features a fully serviced 5700 by paved airstrip.

Education
The main campus of Portage College is located in Lac La Biche. The college has an ACAC hockey team named the Portage Voyageurs. The team's first season began in the fall of 2008.
 * Northern Lights School Division No. 69
 * Vera M. Welsh Elementary School (K-3)
 * Aurora Middle School (4–8)
 * J.A. Williams High School (9–12)
 * Lac La Biche Off-Campus (8–12)
 * Other
 * Light of Christ Catholic School (Preschool-Grade 11)
 * École Sainte-Catherine (K-4)

Media
Media outlets serving Lac La Biche and area include the Lac La Biche Post weekly newspaper and the Boom 103.5 radio station.

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Tagula Island

Vanatinai Island (also called Tagula and Sudest, for the names of the extreme capes of the island) is a volcanic island in the southeast of the Louisiade Archipelago within Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The reef-fringed island is approximately 360 km southeast of New Guinea and 30 km south of Misima. With an area of 830 km2, it is the largest island of the archipelago. Tagula town, the main settlement, is located on the northwest coast. The population was 3,628. The principal export is copra.

Geography
The island is 63 km long, stretching from Cape Tagula to Cape Sudest, and up to 13 km wide. A wooded mountain range runs through the length of the island, with the summit, Mount Riu (806 m) near the center. The most important peaks of the range are, from west to east:
 * Mount Madau (269 m)
 * Mount Gangulua (439 m)
 * Mount Riu (formerly called Mount Rattlesnake) (806 m)
 * Mount Imau (485 m)
 * Mount Arumbi (350 m)

Climate
Most of Tagula island has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) but the main settlement of Tagula, located in the northernmost and driest part of the island, has a tropical monsoon climate (Am).

History
The first recorded sighting by Europeans of Vanatinai Island was by the Spanish expedition of Luís Vaez de Torres on 14 July 1606.

The island was the site of a gold rush that began in 1888 and peaked in 1889. Gold was found in nearly all of the island's water courses.

Rambuso Village is located on the north coast of the eastern part of the island, where Rambuso Creek flows into the Pacific Ocean. Entry through the reef to the harbour is deep and easy to see during daylight. Many visiting yachts and local trading boats use this protected anchorage. In 2010 the villagers and several visiting yachties rebuilt the wharf and causeway. The villagers new slogan is "Rambuso Creek the gateway to Sudest". The new wharf helped Rambuso develop and now the busy town has some 500 citizens.

Transportation
The island has an airport, code (IATA-Code „TGL“) for public transport, near Tagula village.

Biodiversity
Several species are endemic to the island, including the aptly named Tagula white-eye, Tagula honeyeater and Tagula butcherbird. Among frogs, Cophixalus tagulensis is only known from Tagula.

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User:PatriceNeff/Legislative and executive chambers of the cantons

This is a list of the legislative and executive chambers of every canton of Switzerland in their original language.

1: Currently still 180. With the new constitution which just became effective there are only 150. So starting from the next period in 2007 there will be 150 people in the Grand Conseil.


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