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Susie Castillo

Susie Castillo (born October 27, 1979) is an American actress, tv host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 2003. She competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe pageants. She pursued a career in the media, making various television appearances and hosting shows such as MTV's Total Request Live as a VJ.

Early years
Castillo was born in Methuen, Massachusetts, to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother who were divorced when she was a child. After her father abandoned the family, her mother moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, worked several jobs in order to defray living and educational expenses for her family. She was greatly influenced by her Puerto Rican heritage, though she has stated she considers herself both Puerto Rican and Dominican.

By 1996, at the age of 16, Castillo had already become a professional model appearing in many teen magazines and commercials. Upon graduating from Methuen High School, she enrolled at Endicott College, and in 2001 earned a bachelor's degree in Interior Architecture and Design. She received the Capstone Award in recognition of her senior thesis. She is a member of Kappa Delta sorority.

Miss Massachusetts Teen USA
Castillo won her first pageant title in November 1997, when she beat over forty other contestants to become Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1998. Castillo's sister titleholder, Miss Massachusetts USA 1998 Shawnae Jebbia went on to win the Miss USA title in February the following year.

Castillo represented her state in the Miss Teen USA pageant held in Shreveport, Louisiana on August 17, 1998. Although the pageant was usually broadcast live, that year's telecast was delayed due to a speech by then-President Bill Clinton regarding his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. She also won the Clairol Herbal Essence Award that year. The pageant was won by Vanessa Minnillo of South Carolina.

Miss Massachusetts USA and Miss USA
In November 2002, Castillo participated in the Miss Massachusetts USA Pageant held at Bridgewater State College in the town of Bridgewater, and won the title. Castillo was the state's first Latina titleholder. She went on to compete in the Miss USA 2003 pageant held in San Antonio on March 24, 2003. Castillo won the Miss USA title in the nationally televised event, becoming Massachusetts' second titleholder, and the fourth former Miss Teen USA state titleholder to win the pageant. She was the third Hispanic to win Miss USA after Laura Harring in 1985 and Lynnette Cole in 2000. In addition she was the first woman with Dominican ancestry to win the title as well as the second woman with Puerto Rican ancestry to win after Lynnette Cole.

As Miss USA, Castillo represented the Miss Universe Organization, making appearances for charities throughout the United States. Her "sister" 2003 titleholders were Amelia Vega (Miss Universe, of the Dominican Republic) and Tami Farrell (Miss Teen USA, of Oregon).

Miss Universe
Castillo traveled to Panama City, Panama, to compete in the Miss Universe 2003 pageant in May. Her national costume was "Wonder Woman". Castillo placed among the 15 semifinalists. She placed 13th overall, like her placement at Miss Teen USA. The pageant was won by Amelia Vega of the Dominican Republic. Contrary to popular belief, it was not the first time that two Dominican women or two Puerto Rican women participated in the pageant's history because the contestants that represented Italy (Denny Mendez) and the Dominican Republic in the 1997 edition were both of Dominican ancestry and the contestants that represented USA (Lynnette Cole) and Puerto Rico in the 2000 edition were both of Puerto Rican ancestry.

Film and television

Castillo has made guest appearances on the following shows: On-Air with Ryan Seacrest (April 5, 2004), My Wife and Kids (October 5, 2004), where she was cast as Sharon, Half & Half (October 18, 2004) cast as Shaunie. In August 2005, Castillo co-hosted the Miss Teen USA 2005 pageant alongside Passions actor Galen Gering. The event was won by Allie LaForce of Ohio.

Castillo worked as a MTV VJ and host of TRL, and helped with the launch of Mi TRL on MTV Tr3s in September 2006. She also played the role of Mercedes Hernandez in the TBS show Tyler Perry's House of Payne in a select number of episodes in season 5.

In 2008, Castillo hosted the ABC Family reality television series, America's Prom Queen. With Michael Flatley, she is the co-host of the NBC dance-competition series Superstars of Dance in 2009. Castillo co-hosted the 2008 Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day on August 23 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Canter in New York City. Nickelodeon's Quddus was Susie's co-host.

Castillo was a host of the school renovation reality series School Pride, which aired on NBC in 2010. She also appeared in the 2011 film A Holiday Engagement. In 2023, Castillo portrayed Principal Ramirez in The Really Loud House.

Modeling
In 2007, Castillo became a spokeswoman for Neutrogena. Castillo's work for Neutrogena includes serving as the "virtual host" of the company's promotional web site, The Big Blush. She also signed on as the brand ambassador for Charlotte Russe (retailer) and Gossip Girl stylist, Eric Daman, who is going to help her design her own line influenced by her Latino heritage. In 2013, Castillo began appearing as 'Becky', a hand model, in Palmolive's Soft Touch dish soap commercials.

Personal life
On October 7, 2006, Castillo married Matthew Leslie in a quiet ceremony in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The two met shortly after Castillo won Miss Massachusetts Teen USA, Leslie proposed to Castillo during an appearance on the talk show On-Air With Ryan Seacrest in April 2004, just prior to Castillo passing on her crown during the Miss USA 2004 pageant. During her spare time Castillo does volunteer work for HAWC (Help for Abused Women and Children), the Lawrence Girls Club and for the Latinas Against Sexual Assault.

On April 27, 2011, Castillo issued a statement attacking the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), alleging that she had been groped and touched inappropriately four times during the enhanced pat-down. She released a blog post and video describing the experience, and created an online petition demanding an end to the "enhanced" pat-downs.

Castillo is a vegan and posed nude for a PETA anti-fur campaign, stating that she had always loved animals. Castillo urges the beauty pageant industry to stop awarding fur coats as prizes while exposing animals to unnecessary torture "in the name of fashion".

She was diagnosed with endometriosis, Castillo later discovered that her anti-Müllerian hormone levels had plummeted as a result of the procedure, Doctors informed her she had a 16% chance of conceiving even with in vitro fertilisation.

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Is this really encyclopedic content? DEL Who 04:52, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC) Its been fixed. --Haradrim
 * Delete, major POV, and almost no content if that was removed.-gadfium 04:54, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Vogue (KMFDM song)

"Vogue" is a song by industrial rock band KMFDM from their 1992 album Money. The song hit No. 19 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play Songs chart in May 1992. The tracks on the single are also included on the singles compilation album, Extra, Vol. 1. The single version is an extended 12" mix that differs from the album version, featuring more guitar-work.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Sascha Konietzko unless otherwise noted.

Personnel

 * Dorona Alberti – vocals
 * En Esch – vocals (1, 3, 4)
 * Sascha Konietzko – vocals, bass, synths, programming
 * Günter Schulz – guitars

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Great Chrysanthemum Diamond

The Great Chrysanthemum Diamond is a famous diamond measuring 104.15 carats (20.830 g) with a pear-shaped modified brilliant cut, rated in colour as Fancy Orange-Brown and I1 clarity by the Gemological Institute of America. The Great Chrysanthemum is roughly the same size as the re-cut Kohinoor and almost three times the size of the Hope Diamond, The Great Chrysanthemum has the dimensions of 39.10 x 24.98 x 16.00 mm. and features 67 facets on the crown, 57 facets on the pavilion and 65 vertical facets along the girdle. The diamond, designed as a pendant, became the central focus of a necklace with 410 oval, pear-shaped, round and marquis diamonds.

The Great Chrysanthemum, considered one of the most famous diamonds in the world is the 2nd largest pear-shaped brown diamond and the 5th largest of all Fancy brown diamonds in the world.

History
The Great Chrysanthemum Diamond was discovered in 1963 at the Kimberley Mines in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Weighing in at 198 carats, the rough diamond is one of about only 300 diamonds in the entire world which weigh in excess of a hundred carats. Julius Cohen, one-time protégé of Harry Winston and custodian of the Hope Diamond, purchased the rough stone from its original owners, saving it from the fate of being cut in two. It was Cohen who christened the stone the Great Chrysanthemum, after attending the Chrysanthemum Ball in San Antonio, Texas. When Cohen later learned through Ms. Craggett, his assistant, that the word Chrysanthemum meant "gold flower" in Greek, Cohen made it official.

Under the direction of Cohen, the Great Chrysanthemum was later cut and crafted by S & M Kaufmann of New York. Cohen fashioned the fancy, rich golden-brown stone into a pear-shaped, faceted diamond. A letter dated October 15, 1973 to Julius Cohen from Paul E. Desautels, curator of the Division of Mineralogy of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, expressed the desire to acquire the Great Chrysanthemum for its, at the time, 15 year old national gem collection. In the letter, Desautels promises that the Great Chrysanthemum would be in good company alongside the famous Hope Diamond, the Portuguese Diamond, and the Eugénie Blue. Cohen eventually brought the Great Chrysanthemum to the Smithsonian for display and attaching it briefly alongside the Hope Diamond.

The Great Chrysanthemum has been shown in a number of diamond exhibits throughout the United States. In 1965, the Chrysanthemum was named a winner of one of the Diamonds International Awards and was placed on display in the Rand Easter Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was one of five featured stones brought out to celebrate the 100th year of discovery of diamonds in the famous Kimberley mines. Julius Cohen initially sold the diamond to an unknown buyer. The diamond returned to the world stage in 2003 when the jeweler to the English royal family, Garrard & Co, purchased the stone. The Great Chrysanthemum was featured prominently in Garrard's 2007 catalogue that also featured Princess Diana's heirloom engagement ring. Since then, it has gone on display once again, most notably in recent years by such high profile personalities as filmmaker and former First Lady of San Francisco, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who wore the diamond to a “Women of Power” event in 2008. Garrard reportedly sold the Great Chrysanthemum to a foreign anonymous buyer.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terinom

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. — Xezbeth 09:55, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

Terinom
I don't see any evidence that this is real, nothing comes up when I search. Ad at best.  Delete Rx StrangeLove 04:55, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * According to Whois, terinom.com does indeed belong to someone named Eric Brown, and it contains a Flash application with two broken links. No idea what this is supposed to be. Delete. android↔talk 05:06, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, some sort of, um, ad? Something. Yeah. Master Thief Garrett 05:42, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Ada Kok

Aagje ("Ada") Kok (born 6 June 1947, in Amsterdam, North Holland) is a former Dutch swimmer who ranked among the world's best in the butterfly stroke category during the 1960s.

Her international career started in 1962 when, at the age of fifteen, she took the European title in the 100 m butterfly in Leipzig. She was also part of the silver 4×100 m medley relay team. At the Tokyo Olympics two years later she finished second in both events. She was also good at freestyle swimming, which showed when she took second place in the 400 metres at the 1966 European Championships in Utrecht. In the same tournament she also won the 100 m butterfly and the 4×100 m relay. She achieved nine world records between 1963 and 1967 in the 100 m and 200 m (not introduced until later).

Kok reached her peak at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. She won the gold medal in the 200 meter butterfly race in a time of 2:24.7, beating the East German Helga Lindner by 0.1 seconds. The 100 meter butterfly race in that Olympic Games ended in disappointment for her, when she did not feel well beforehand, and finished in fourth place..

Normally after a race there were always people around me. This time nobody. Nobody. I suddenly felt so abandoned and alone. Then under the shower I lost control and cried my eyes out.'

For the 200 meter final, I was so stiff and rigid that I couldn't even see myself getting my tracksuit bottoms off. My fingers couldn't get the zipper undone. An official had to help me with it. I don't remember anything now of the first hundred metres. It's a black hole. Well anyway, after 150 meters I was in the lead. Twenty meters from the finish, I saw someone (Lindner) catching up with me. I thought, "Jesus, no, she is not getting past me." Fortunately, I was able to keep in front.

In her memoirs written by Henk Lichtenveldt, she stated:

Approaching the podium of honor I felt like I was walking on clouds. I had to contain myself because I wanted to rush over the stands skipping like a foal. This was the crowning moment in a great swimming career.

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Talk:Wingham, New South Wales

Which century?
"turn of the century" in the Tourism section needs clarifying - which century?

--Stephen 09:30, 24 May 2005 (UTC) Although not the author of this particular comment, I would suggest that services were held in Gaelic until 1900. I know the man who was minister there during the 1990's (and probably still is minister there), and I don't think he speaks Gaelic. Also I have been present at John Know church for a missions' night, not for a service, and I am reasonably sure no one was speaking in Gaelic. I shall rectify the situation.

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Talk:Carrier Global

Created temp page
Hi, just mentioning the non-copyright violation temp page for this article created Carrier Corporation/Temp. It will be moved to Carrier Corporation once I deal with the copyvio version (shortly). Bumm13 03:40, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed that the subsidiary International Cold Storage is not listed on this page. I'm only a newbie and not familiar with the coding, so I'm just mentioning it here, and the url https://www.icsco.com .Partsguyjim (talk) 18:24, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Carrier is certified by AHRI not AHAM. Also Carrier is no longer the global leader - that would be Diakin AC (japan)Still the largest in the US. 487 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.249.47.71 (talk) 13:02, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

We were asked to create the Carrier Enterprise Canada article by Carrier Canada. The text that was in the article was approved by Carrier Canada Mykul portal (talk) 19:11, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

World's Largest?
OK, let me phrase my question a different way. Can anyone cite a reference for the claim that Carrier is the "world's largest" manufacturer of HVAC systems? Their own web site only claims that they are a "world leader" which could mean anything. 86.136.89.48 (talk) 19:38, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm unconvinced by this claim. I'm not sure this company is very big outside of America. The Japanese and Korean brands (Daikin, Mitsubishi, Samsung etc.) are certainly the most common here in the UK at least. 193.113.37.7 (talk) 12:13, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * And the UK is only the size of Oregon, and (in my experience) is mostly not air-conditioned. :-) Here's the UK Faq, since I'm guessing Search Engines must be taxed where you are... []. Markvs88 (talk) 13:25, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * When was the last time you visited the UK? Almost all hotels, offices and shops are now air-conditioned here, as are an increasing number of homes. According to Wikipedia, the population of Oregon is only about 3.5 million. the UK's population is closer to 60 million. Hardly comparable. I remain unconvinced that Carrier is the "largest" HVAC company in the world. There's a lot of the world that isn't America. 193.113.37.9 (talk) 12:14, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2008. (And if you think you've seen AC, try shopping/dining in midtown Manhattan!) Anyway, I had to buy a fan because there wasn't none and no AC in our hotel. (A 30-room 3 star in Victoria). The pubs I visited typically were not, excepting a few in SoHo and one in Warwick. Maybe you wait until it's 32C+ to turn 'em on? :-) In any event, as I said the *size* of the UK is roughly equal to Oregon: 243,610 (UK) vs. 251180 (Oregon) in square kilometers. My point being that it's a relatively smaller country and so the number of buildings utilizing AC is still going to be less than in the US, Germany, France, et al given their warmer climate and greater areas. Unless you can find a claim to the contrary, it's a fact from Carrier's own pages. I'd think their competition would take umbrage for false advertisting if it weren't true. Best, Markvs88 (talk) 13:40, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The Carrier website currently only claims that they are "the world leader in Air Conditioning" this is not the same as saying it is the largest. Midea claim to be the largest on their Australian website (http://www.mideaair.com.au/(S(l0bhh5n4x4gttyjz4jdfipjk))/About.aspx) which also refers to "Expected sales of over 17 million units in 2008". Tctwood (talk) 01:55, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Carrier Canada asked us to create the Carrier Enterprise Canada Wikipedia page CarrierCanada (talk) 16:36, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Carrier Enterprise Canada
I'd like to proposed a merge here of Carrier Enterprise Canada: there doesn't seem to be anything particularly notable about Carrier Canada that can't be covered here. Altered Walter (talk) 16:43, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

We were asked to create the Carrier Enterprise Canada article by Carrier Canada. The text that was in the article was approved by Carrier Canada Mykul portal (talk) 19:25, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't that be WP:COI? --Vincent Liu (something to say?) 13:12, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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Public or private company?
Is it a public or private company? What stock exchange is it listed on? Who are key people? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SPC5fyi (talk • contribs) 21:23, 2 December 2016 (UTC) Carrier is owned by United Technologies a publicly traded company so it is public — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.64.12.121 (talk) 19:00, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Need for Page Changes
When UTC announced they'd be spinning off Otis and CCS, they also renamed CCS as "Carrier." As such, I think there needs to be a restructuring of pages. At the very least, CCS should be renamed "Carrier" (Business).

If people want to keep that page separate from this one, maybe this becomes "Carrier (Brand)."

Anyhow, "UTC Climate, Controls & Security" has been obsoleted by UTC.

73.219.130.82 (talk) 21:19, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

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I need my sim puk code
Puk code 105.113.32.85 (talk) 14:49, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

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User talk:Ginovives

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Because you did not list a source to the image you uploaded, it was eventually deleted. Currently there is no image on wikipedia named "Fahr.jpg" anymore. But if you go to Image:Fahr.jpg, you will see an image with the same name that somebody uploaded on Wikimedia Commons – a sister site that stores free content images, sound and other multimedia files. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 09:00, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

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Access Linux Platform
Access Linux Platform has been proposed for deletion. Please see the article for details. NickelShoe 23:16, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

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KXNW

KXNW (channel 34) is a television station licensed to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, United States, serving Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas River Valley as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. (While Eureka Springs is located in the Springfield, Missouri, media market, Nielsen considers this station to be part of the Fort Smith–Fayetteville market.) The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Rogers-licensed NBC affiliate KNWA-TV (channel 51) and Fort Smith–licensed Fox affiliate KFTA-TV (channel 24). The three stations share studios on Dickson Street in downtown Fayetteville, with a satellite studio in Rogers and a news bureau and sales office on Kelley Highway in Fort Smith. KXNW's transmitter is located on Humphrey Mountain near Garfield.

Even though KXNW broadcasts a digital signal of its own, its broadcasting radius does not reach Fort Smith. Therefore, the station is simulcast in high definition on KFTA-TV's fifth digital subchannel from a transmitter in unincorporated northeastern Crawford County (south of Artist Point). Instead of channel 24.5, KFTA-DT5 maps to channel 34.1.

History
Channel 34 began operations on June 19, 2000, as KWBS-TV, which stood for "WB Springfield"; however, original station owner Equity Broadcasting decided to make another new station, Harrison-based KWBM (channel 31), as the WB affiliate for Springfield, and KWBS instead affiliated with Pax (now Ion Television). KWBS dropped the Pax affiliation in 2003 in favor of the Equity-owned Lick TV, which was a short-lived network that broadcast professional wrestling events. One year later, the station dropped that network and finally affiliated with The WB as its Northwest Arkansas affiliate. This was accompanied by a call-letter change to KWFT.

After it was announced in January 2006 that The WB and UPN would close down to form The CW in September, KWFT changed its call letters to KBBL-TV on July 6, 2006. However, its Fort Smith repeater retained the KWFT-LP call sign, which to this day it still uses. The KBBL-TV call letters were almost certainly not inspired by the KBBL-TV of The Simpsons, even though both stations are located in a DMA with the same name as the Simpsons' fictional hometown. Equity likes to use former radio call letters from its hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, as TV call letters, and the KBBL call sign was once used by a Little Rock radio station.

Around the same time as the call letters changed, KBBL-TV was announced as joining the Retro Television Network (then owned by Equity) after The WB ceased operations, but as a result of KPBI-CA (channel 46) losing its Fox affiliation to then-NBC affiliate KFTA-TV (channel 24) and joining MyNetworkTV, channel 34 changed its call letters to KPBI on September 22, 2006, and began to carry KPBI-CA's programming schedule (KFDF-CA, the station that was originally scheduled to join MNTV, ended up becoming the RTV affiliate).

After failing to find a buyer at a bankruptcy auction, KPBI was sold to Pinnacle Media in August 2009 (after having initially been included in Silver Point Finance's acquisition on June 2 of several Equity stations ) with Pinnacle assuming control under a local marketing agreement with soon-to-be-former owner Equity on August 5 of that same year. Pinnacle Media officially took ownership on November 3, 2009, and was restructured into Riverside Media in August 2010 with a change in the minority (40%) ownership in the company.

It was announced on August 12, 2009, that KPBI would switch to RTV, which had been dropped from KFDF in January after the network severed its ties with Equity. As of October 30, 2011, KPBI has dropped from RTV in favor of the MeTV programming. In 2010, KFSM-TV launched a second digital subchannel affiliated with MyNetworkTV.

Purchase by Local TV and then by Tribune
On September 1, 2011, Local TV, owner of CBS affiliate KFSM, filed papers with the Federal Communications Commission to purchase KPBI for $784,000 through a "failing station" waiver. This is necessary because the Fort Smith-Fayetteville DMA has only seven "unique" full-power television stations (though the ABC affiliate KHOG-TV is a satellite of Fort Smith-based parent KHBS, the FCC considers the parent and its satellite together as all one unit). That number of unique full-power stations is normally not enough to legally support a duopoly. The sale to Local TV was completed on January 5, 2012; on that day, the station's callsign was changed to KXNW.

Immediately upon consummation, all remaining MeTV and RTV programming was dropped in favor of a simulcast of KFSM digital subchannel 5.2, which carries MyNetworkTV programming (also on KFSM-DT2) during primetime hours on weeknights, syndicated programming during the daytime hours and at select time periods on weekend mornings and afternoons and a part-time affiliation with Antenna TV on weekdays from 1 to 7 a.m., Saturdays from 1 to 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., and Sundays from 6 to 8 and 9 to 10 a.m., and midnight to 6 a.m. In addition, KXNW's digital subchannel 34.2 dropped Univision and began simulcasting KFSM's CBS-affiliated main channel 5.1. As of 2016, KXNW added a simulcast of KFSM-DT3 on 34.2, resulting in the KFSM-DT1 simulcast moving to a new 34.3 subchannel.

On July 1, 2013, Local TV announced that its stations would be acquired by the Tribune Broadcasting. The sale was completed on December 27. With the completion of the deal, KFSM and KXNW became Tribune's smallest stations by market size (previously, the company's New Orleans duopoly of WGNO and WNOL-TV held this distinction).

Aborted sale to Sinclair Broadcast Group
On May 8, 2017, Hunt Valley, Maryland–based Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that it would acquire Tribune Media for $3.9 billion, plus the assumption of $2.7 billion in debt held by Tribune. Had the deal received regulatory approval, the transaction would have given KFSM and KXNW new sister stations in the company's ABC affiliates in bordering markets, KTUL in Tulsa and KATV in Little Rock. Three weeks after the FCC's July 18 vote to have the deal reviewed by an administrative law judge amid "serious concerns" about Sinclair's forthrightness in its applications to sell certain conflict properties, on August 9, 2018, Tribune announced it would terminate the Sinclair deal, intending to seek other M&A opportunities. Tribune also filed a breach of contract lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court, alleging that Sinclair engaged in protracted negotiations with the FCC and the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division over regulatory issues, refused to sell stations in markets where it already had properties, and proposed divestitures to parties with ties to Sinclair executive chair David D. Smith that were rejected or highly subject to rejection to maintain control over stations it was required to sell.

Sale to Nexstar Media Group
On December 3, 2018, Irving, Texas–based Nexstar Media Group—which owns NBC affiliate KNWA-TV (channel 51) and Fox affiliate KFTA-TV—announced it would acquire the assets of Tribune Media for $6.4 billion in cash and debt. Nexstar was precluded from acquiring KFSM and KXNW directly or indirectly, as KFSM and KNWA both fall within FCC criteria prohibiting common ownership of two of the four highest-rated television stations in any market nor does it allow ownership of more than two stations in the same media market. Therefore, Nexstar was required to sell either KNWA/KFTA or KFSM/KXNW to a separate, unrelated company to address the ownership conflict.

On March 20, 2019, McLean, Virginia–based Tegna Inc. announced it would purchase KFSM-TV from Nexstar upon consummation of the merger, as part of the company's sale of nineteen Nexstar- and Tribune-operated stations to Tegna and the E. W. Scripps Company in separate deals worth $1.32 billion. KXNW was not named in the sale, which opens the possibility of either the formation of a de facto triopoly between KFTA and KNWA (which Nexstar retained through an existing satellite station waiver that predated KFTA's conversion into a separately programmed Fox affiliate in 2006) or the retention of its existing duopoly partnership with KFSM, pending disclosures by Nexstar in subsequent paperwork concerning the deal. Ultimately, Nexstar opted to retain KXNW. This was allowed since KXNW's city of license is in the Springfield market, though it is a Fort Smith–Fayetteville station.

Newscasts
On March 12, 2012, KXNW began airing a weekday morning newscast at 7 a.m. and a nightly newscast at 9 p.m. that are produced by KFSM. The latter newscast competes with the primetime newscast, which airs seven days a week on KFTA-TV (one hour on weekdays, and a half-hour on weekends).

As of September 19, 2019, KXNW no longer broadcasts newscasts from KFSM due to KXNW being bought by Nexstar Media Group and KFSM's acquisition by Tegna.

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, at the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KPBI was required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash cut").

, this station was scheduled to go dark in 2009. According to the station's DTV status report, "On December 8, 2008, the licensee's parent corporation filed a petition for bankruptcy relief under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code... This station must obtain post-petition financing and court approval before digital facilities may be constructed. The station ceased analogue broadcasting on February 17, 2009, regardless of whether digital facilities were operational by that date. The station filed authority to remain silent if so required by the FCC."

While the DTV Delay Act extended this deadline to June 12, 2009, Equity applied for an extension of the digital construction permit to retain the broadcast license after the station goes dark.

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John Minton (artist)

Francis John Minton (25 December 1917 – 20 January 1957) was an English painter, illustrator, stage designer and teacher. After studying in France, he became a teacher in London, and at the same time maintained a consistently large output of works. In addition to landscapes, portraits and other paintings, some of them on an unusually large scale, he built up a reputation as an illustrator of books.

In the mid-1950s, Minton found himself out of sympathy with the abstract trend that was then becoming fashionable, and felt increasingly sidelined. He suffered psychological problems, self-medicated with alcohol, and in 1957 died by suicide.

Early years
Minton was born in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, the second of three sons of Francis Minton, a solicitor, and his wife, Kate, née Webb. From 1925 to 1932, he was educated at Northcliff House, Bognor Regis, Sussex, and then from 1932 to 1935 at Reading School. He studied art at St John's Wood School of Art from 1935 to 1938 and was greatly influenced by his fellow student Michael Ayrton, who enthused him with the work of French neo-romantic painters. He spent eight months studying in France, frequently accompanied by Ayrton, and returned from Paris when the Second World War began.

In October 1939 Minton registered as a conscientious objector, but in 1941 changed his views and joined the Pioneer Corps. He was commissioned in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1943, but was discharged on medical grounds in the same year. While in the army, Minton, with Ayrton, designed the costumes and scenery for John Gielgud's 1942 production of Macbeth. The settings moved the piece from the 11th century to "the age of illuminated missals"; The Manchester Guardian wrote that they "should be long remembered". In the same year he and Ayrton held a joint exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London. The Times wrote, "Mr. Minton is seen to have an overcast, gloomy realism, and much intensity of feeling, which he expresses in dark colour schemes, both in a curious and effective self-portrait and in paintings of streets and bombed buildings." Minton's early penchant for dark colour schemes can be seen in his 1939 Landscape at Les Baux, in the Tate Gallery.

Teacher, painter and illustrator
From 1943 to 1946 Minton taught illustration at the Camberwell College of Arts, and from 1946 to 1948 he was in charge of drawing and illustration at the Central School of Art and Design. At the same time he continued to draw and paint, sharing a studio for some years with Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde, and later with Keith Vaughan. Reviewing a 1944 exhibition, The Times remarked that Minton was clearly in the tradition of Samuel Palmer, something frequently remarked on by later critics. Minton's output was considerable. Between 1945 and 1956 he had seven solo exhibitions at the Lefevre Gallery, notwithstanding his work as tutor to the painting school of the Royal College of Art in 1949, a post that he held until the year before his death. Minton's appearance in this period is shown in a 1952 portrait by Lucian Freud, as well as in self-portraits. In the 1940s he, Freud and fellow artist Adrian Ryan had been in a homosexual love triangle.

Minton's range was wide. Although he is best remembered as an illustrator, he also worked on a very large scale, with unusually big paintings for the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain and "two vast set-pieces" for the Royal College of Art, and at the Royal Academy a huge painting of the soldiers dicing for the garment of Jesus, described by The Manchester Guardian as "one of the most elaborate and serious paintings with a religious theme produced since the war."

He designed textiles and wallpapers; he produced posters for London Transport and Ealing Studios; and he was highly regarded as a portrait painter. He also worked in collage. He painted scenes of Britain, from rural beauty to urban decay, and travelled overseas, producing scenes of the West Indies, Spain and Morocco. The Times wrote, "Even when they were ostensibly of Spain and Jamaica, Minton's landscapes looked back to Samuel Palmer for their mood. They were densely patterned and luxuriantly coloured, and it was always the fullness and richness of the scene which attracted his eye and which he painted with such evident enjoyment."

Minton's posthumous fame is principally as an illustrator. Many of his commissions for illustrations came from the publisher John Lehmann. Both men were homosexual, and they were so much in one another's company that some people supposed that they were partners, though the biographer Artemis Cooper thinks it unlikely. For Lehmann, Minton illustrated A Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking (the first two books by the food writer Elizabeth David), travel books such as Time was Away – A Notebook in Corsica, by Alan Ross, and fiction, including Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. He also produced dustwrappers for many publishers including Michael Joseph, Secker and Warburg and Rupert Hart-Davis. One such notable book jacket was for H. E. Bates The Country Heart (Michael Joseph 1949).

Although Minton was respected both by the conservative Royal Academy and the modernist London Group, he was out of sympathy with the abstract painting that began to prevail during the 1950s, and he felt increasingly out of touch with current fashion. He suffered extreme mood swings and became dependent on alcohol. In 1957, he took an overdose of sleeping tablets to take his own life at home, 9 Apollo Place, Chelsea, London, and died on the way to St Stephen's Hospital, Chelsea. He left an estate valued at £13,518, worth £416,997 in 2023.

Memorials
A major exhibition to mark Minton's centenary took place at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester from 1 July to 1 October 2017, co-curated by the Gallery's Director Simon Martin and Minton's biographer Frances Spalding, and is the first exhibition in a museum since the 1994 touring Select Retrospective.

Minton was the subject of the song "The Ghost of Mr. Minton" by London-based pop group Would-Be-Goods on their 2008 album Eventyr. A quote from Minton, "We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other" inspired the title of the Van der Graaf Generator album The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other.

In the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's entry on Minton, Michael Middleton writes: "Minton is often seen as an illustrator rather than a painter. He certainly extended and enriched the English graphic tradition. In all his varied output, however, may be sensed an elegiac awareness of the evanescence of physical beauty that is entirely personal. His work is to be found in the Tate collection, and many public and private collections at home and abroad. A retrospective exhibition of 1994, curated by his biographer, Frances Spalding, provided a convincing reminder of the range of his gifts. For the historian he must remain a potent symbol of his period."

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John Minton

John Minton may refer to:

 * John D. Minton Jr. (born 1952), Kentucky Supreme Court judge
 * John Minton (artist) (1917–1957), artist and illustrator
 * Big John Studd (1948–1995), wrestler

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Principle of plenitude

The principle of plenitude asserts that the universe contains all possible forms of existence. Arthur Lovejoy, a historian of ideas, was the first to trace the history of this philosophically important principle explicitly. Lovejoy distinguishes two versions of the principle: a static version, in which the universe displays a constant fullness and diversity, and a temporalized version, in which fullness and diversity gradually increase over time.

Lovejoy traces the principle of plenitude to the writings of Plato, finding in the Timaeus an insistence on "the necessarily complete translation of all the ideal possibilities into actuality". By contrast, he takes Aristotle to reject the principle in his Metaphysics, when he writes that "it is not necessary that everything that is possible should exist in actuality".

Since Plato, the principle of plenitude has had the following adherents:

 * Epicurus reiterated the principle in fr.266 Us. His follower Lucretius (DRN V 526-33) famously applied the principle to the sets of multiple explanations by which the Epicureans account for astronomical and meteorological phenomena: every possible explanation is also true, if not in our world, then elsewhere in the infinite universe.
 * Augustine of Hippo brought the principle from Neo-Platonic thought into early Christian Theology.
 * St Anselm's ontological arguments for God's existence used the principle's implication that nature will become as complete as it possibly can be, to argue that existence is a "perfection" in the sense of a completeness or fullness.
 * Thomas Aquinas accepted a modified form of the principle, but qualified it by making several distinctions that safeguard the freedom of God.
 * Giordano Bruno's insistence on an infinity of worlds was not based on the theories of Copernicus, or on observation, but on the principle applied to God. His death may then be attributed to his conviction of its truth, as he refused to recant even while facing capital punishment for his view about this and other matters, which caused him to be convicted of heresy.
 * Spinoza, according to Lovejoy, "expressed the principle of plenitude in its most uncompromising form" and "represented it as necessary in the strict logical sense".
 * Kant believed in the principle but not in the possibility of its empirical verification.
 * Leibniz believed that the best of all possible worlds would actualize every genuine possibility.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Transvergence

 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 deleted already. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:39, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Transvergence
A link to someone's original research/deep thoughts. Gazpacho 05:03, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no original research. copyvio, added copyvio info. Master Thief Garrett 05:48, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no original research. Oliver Keenan 10:03, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
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1998 Lower Saxony state election

The 1998 Lower Saxony state election was held on 1 March 1998 to elect the members of the 14th Landtag of Lower Saxony. The incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) government led by Minister-President Gerhard Schröder was returned with an increased majority. Schröder was subsequently re-elected as minister-president.

Schröder took the election as a test run for a potential federal election in September. He said that if the SPD received less that 42 percent of the vote, he would rule out a bid to become the party's chancellor candidate. Achieving 47.9 percent of the vote, he later announced his (successful) candidacy and went on to form the first federal SPD-led government since 1982.

Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the 13th Landtag of Lower Saxony.

Election result
! colspan="2" | Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! Seats % ! colspan=8| ! align=right colspan=2| Total ! align=right| 4,314,932 ! align=right| 100.0 ! align=right| ! align=right| 157 ! align=right| 4 ! align=right| ! align=right colspan=2| Voter turnout ! align=right| ! align=right| 73.8 ! align=right| 0.0 ! align=right| ! align=right| ! align=right|
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 * align=left | Social Democratic Party (SPD)
 * align=right| 2,068,477
 * align=right| 47.9
 * align=right| 3.6
 * align=right| 83
 * align=right| 2
 * align=right| 52.9
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 * align=left | Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
 * align=right| 1,549,227
 * align=right| 35.9
 * align=right| 0.5
 * align=right| 62
 * align=right| 5
 * align=right| 39.5
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 * align=left | Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne)
 * align=right| 304,193
 * align=right| 7.0
 * align=right| 0.4
 * align=right| 12
 * align=right| 1
 * align=right| 7.6
 * align=right| 12
 * align=right| 1
 * align=right| 7.6
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left | Free Democratic Party (FDP)
 * align=right| 209,610
 * align=right| 4.9
 * align=right| 0.5
 * align=right| 0
 * align=right| ±0
 * align=right| 0
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left | The Republicans (REP)
 * align=right| 118,975
 * align=right| 2.8
 * align=right| 0.9
 * align=right| 0
 * align=right| ±0
 * align=right| 0
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left | Others
 * align=right| 64,450
 * align=right| 1.5
 * align=right|
 * align=right| 0
 * align=right| ±0
 * align=right| 0
 * align=right| 0
 * align=right| ±0
 * align=right| 0
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National Lacrosse League (1974–75)

The National Lacrosse League was a box lacrosse league that lasted two seasons: 1974 and 1975. It is not related to the current National Lacrosse League.

Originally conceived by hockey owners as a means to fill their arenas in the summer months, the league was not very successful, with only Philadelphia and Montreal drawing sizeable crowds. The league folded in 1976 after the demise of several franchises and the inability of the Montreal franchise to play home games in 1976 because of the Summer Olympics.

Like the current NLL, the majority of the league's players were from Canada.

Besides featuring NHL players such as Rick Dudley (Rochester) and Doug Favell (Philadelphia), the league also included Bruce Arena (Montreal)—who went on to greater fame as the head coach of the United States men's national soccer team.

History
The type of play during this short-early lived era of the NLL was a faster paced game, played more like an NHL style as opposed to the basketball style of the current league. Equipment differences include no face guards and wooden sticks. The 1976 season was cancelled due to three of the six teams going bankrupt and the Montreal team having to go two months without a home game because the 1976 Olympics would be using the Montreal Forum for boxing. After the 1975 season, there would not be another professional lacrosse league in North America until the birth of the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League in January 1987.

Teams

 * Maryland Arrows (1974–1975)
 * Montreal Quebecois (1974–1975)
 * Philadelphia Wings (1974–1975) 1
 * Rochester Griffins (1974)/Long Island Tomahawks (1975) 2
 * Syracuse Stingers (1974)/Quebec Caribous (1975)
 * Toronto Tomahawks (1974) 2/Boston Bolts (1975)

 * 1The Philadelphia Wings in this league are not related to the modern Philadelphia Wings of the modern National Lacrosse League.
 * 2The 1974 Toronto team and the 1975 Long Island team had the same name (Tomahawks), but they were separate franchises.

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Pulau Besar

Pulau Besar (meaning Big Island in Malay language) may refer to:

 * Pulau Besar (Johor), an island in the South China Sea off the east coast of Johor, Malaysia
 * Besar Island, Malacca, an island in the Strait of Malacca off the coast of Malacca, Malaysia

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User talk:Magicalpath

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome!
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Image copyright tags
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copyvio
If you are the copyright holder of an article that has been marked as a copyright problem, you must follow these steps:
 * 1) You must indicate that you are indeed the copyright holder on the article's talk page. In your case, the page is Talk:Tattva.
 * 2) You must find the article's listing on Copyright problems and also indicate there that you are the copyright owner.

Sorry, but that is the policy. And I'm afraid some users paste the copyvio message without looking at the article contents. Next time, be sure to write a note that you are indeed the copyright holder on the article's talk page. Zzyzx11 | Talk 07:17, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry, but the copyright problem notice on Tattva might last for 7 days as the issues there seem to get backed up. Oh, here's a suggestion: If you are currently working on an article, you can place   at the top. It will display this message:

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Category:Wikipedians in New Zealand
Hi, You might want to consider adding User NZ res to the top of your user page, which will add you to this category automatically and also add a nice graphic. Onco_p53 22:30, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Tattva-Vayu-Air.gif
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Psychosynthesis article
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Proposed deletion of Tattva vision

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Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay
Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics.  Schwede 66  09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition

Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition is a 2005 racing video game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. It is the third installment in the Midnight Club series. Like previous installments in the series, the game is an arcade-style racer and focuses on wild, high-speed racing, rather than realistic physics and driving. The name is derived from a partnership between Rockstar and DUB Magazine, which features heavily in the game in the form of DUB-sponsored races and DUB-customized vehicles as prizes.

Players race through open world recreations of San Diego, Atlanta, and Detroit listening to 98 (124 in the Remix version) licensed music tracks that include hip hop, rock, and other genres. The game features a number of graphical views after the player crashes into certain objects, or travels across particular stretches of road. There is also the ability to customize a player's vehicle. Other than modifying the external looks, the vehicle's performance can also be improved (with the exception of all "A" Class non-motorcycle vehicles). Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition is the first game in the series to feature licensed vehicles.

Gameplay
Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition is an open world racing video game and the first game in the series to include car modification, both visual and performance. By winning races, the player unlocks new cars and options to customize them with. These options include enhancing the performance, adding vinyls and new paint jobs, and physically modifying the car by changing parts such as wheels, bumpers, spoilers, neon, hoods, and engine components. The cars are divided into four classes: D, C, B and A, depending on their performance.

There are five types of races in the game: Ordered Race, Circuit Race, Unordered Race, Autocross Race, Track and Frenzy. In ordered races the player races through the city on a course marked by yellow-orange flares to reach a finish line. In circuit races the player races along a circuit course through the city for a set number of laps. In unordered races the player is free to go through scattered checkpoints in any order before crossing the finish line. Autocross races take place in a walled-in circuit of the street with no traffic or police, the goal being to finish the circuit faster than a set time. Track events, available in arcade mode, are similar to autocross races, except that the player competes against other races inside the barricaded track, often taking more damage. Frenzy events also available in Arcade, are time trial races where the player gets every 15 second a nitrous boost, also the handbrake won't work and the race only ends when the time is over.

Players can also create their own races in the Race Editor (not available in the PSP version). Players can create either a circuit, ordered or unordered race by placing checkpoints throughout the city, and can change racing conditions such as traffic, weather, and time of day.

Vehicles
There are seven types of cars: Tuners, Luxury Sedans, SUVs/Trucks, Exotics, Muscle Cars, Sport Bikes, and Choppers. As the game continues, different clubs that drive a specific type of car will invite the player to race with them: American Royalty Car Club (Muscle Cars), Big Playas (SUVs/Trucks), By Invitation Only (Exotics), Chopper of America Bike Club (Choppers), Luxury Rollers (Luxury Cars), Original Riders (Sport Bikes) and Unbeatable Street Racers (Tuners). If the player beats a club in three races they unlock a special ability for that class. Tuners, Sport Bikes, Exotics, the Lexus SC430 and Mercedes Benz SL 500 (R230) (along with its higher-performance AMG variant, the SL 55) get "Zone" (a form of bullet time which allows for more precise handling at high speeds), Trucks/SUVs and Luxury Cars get "Agro" (which allows the vehicle to plow through traffic and other obstacles without taking damage or slowing down), and Muscle Cars and Choppers get "Roar" (the only offensive ability, it launches a sonic wave that blows away any vehicles in its path).

Multiplayer
The game includes an online mode, where players can race with other players from all around the world. There are also many clubs available to join, but players can also start and manage their own. Most offline modes are available for play online, while in online mode it is possible to chat in-game, including a cruise mode, capture the flag, circuit racing, ordered racing, unordered racing, tag, paint and Autocross. Tracks created via the Race Editor offline can be used Online. On Xbox Live, the game also supports voice chat.

San Diego
The player begins in San Diego by meeting Oscar (David Barrera), the mechanic of Six-One-Nine Customs, a tuning garage in San Diego. Oscar guides the player through the game by providing helpful tips and information about races. The player begins with a choice of six cars: a 1964 Chevrolet Impala, a 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, a 2004 Dodge Neon SRT-4, a 2004 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT-S, a Volkswagen Golf R32 Mk4, or a 2004 Volkswagen Jetta (Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Remix added the option of a Scion tC). As the player wins races new customization options and cars are unlocked for purchase.

The street racers available to challenge at the beginning of the game are: Vanessa (Mitsubishi Eclipse GT-S), Bishop (Lexus GS430), and Carlos (1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo). Beating each of these street racers will unlock an invitation to challenge a racing club the rival racer is part of; Vanessa unlocks the Unbeatable Street Racers (Tuners; which rewards the player with a Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34)), Bishop unlocks the Luxury Rollers (Luxury Sedans; which rewards the player with a Mercedes-Benz CL 55 AMG (C215)) and Carlos unlocks the American Royalty Car Club (Muscle Cars; which rewards the player with a Chevrolet Corvette (C3)) Beating two of these street racers will allow the player to challenge Phil for ownership of his Hotmatch Cuevito, and an invitation to challenge the Chopper of America bike club. Once the player defeats Phil, along with winning one of the three initial tournaments, Vanessa will challenge them again, this time, driving an upgraded Mitsubishi Eclipse GT-S.

After defeating all racers (except for one of Bishop or Carlos) and winning one of the tournaments in San Diego, the player is introduced to Vince (Kiff VandenHeuvel), a mechanic from Detroit. Oscar mentions that the player has been building a reputation as a skilled racer, and that there are some big time races in Atlanta that the player may be interested in. He tells the player to go to the shipping company to make the trip.

Atlanta
The player arrives at a garage in Atlanta called "Apone Team Racing". The owner, Apone (Dexter Tillis), introduces himself, but is distracted by his most prized possession: a 1964 gold painted Chevrolet Impala that he customized and is constantly tinkering with. In Atlanta, the player is challenged by three racers. There is also a tournament going on, for which the prize is a "DUB'd-Out" 2004 Cadillac Escalade EXT. After defeating all racers (except for either Dre and Cheng or Vito and Naomi) in Atlanta, Apone mentions that there are more races going on in Detroit and that he thinks it is a good idea for the player to check it out.

Street racers in Atlanta are: Roy (1969 Dodge Charger R/T, later a 1999 Dodge Charger R/T Concept), Dre (2005 Cadillac Escalade (second generation)), Cheng (Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII), Vito (Ducati Monster S4R), Lamont (Chevrolet Silverado SS; later returns in a Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Strassenversion during the US Championship) and Naomi (Hotmatch Skully). Defeating Vito unlocks the Original Riders (Sport Bikes), defeating Dre or Lamont unlocks the Big Playas (SUV/Trucks).

Detroit
The player arrives in Detroit and sees a familiar face, Vince. Remembering him, he welcomes the player to town and his shop. He later points to a Lamborghini Murciélago and says it is the prize to whatever car club turns out the best street racer. A familiar face from Atlanta comes to Detroit, Roy, who is a plot-affected racer but is never seen or mentioned. The player races them a couple of times, as well as the car clubs. Early in the player's Detroit career, a tournament is held and a 1949 Chevrolet Fleetline (as Oscar describes it "Just the car to win in Detroit!") is the prize. Upon defeating Ceasar in his first encounter, the player scores a challenge from the By Invitation Only Exotic Car Club. Defeating them earns the player a special, rare 2004 Chrysler ME Four-Twelve (with "Zone" for Exotics being unlocked after the third race). After defeating all racers in Detroit, the player races certain drivers twice in a series titled U.S. Championship Series, which takes place in all three cities. and upon defeating them, is crowned the victor of the U.S. Champion Series. Afterwards, the player returns to Vince's and is rewarded the Lamborghini Murcielago from before. Vince says: "It should be driven with respect, and not by some San Diego swinger who thinks he's hot stuff or something".

Street racers in Detroit are: Roy (returning with a Dodge Viper GTS-R Concept; and eventually with a McLaren F1 LM), Spider (Hotmatch D'Elegance), Leo (1981 Chevrolet Camaro Z28), Ceasar (Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, later a Lamborghini Gallardo and eventually a Chrysler ME Four-Twelve), Kioshi (Aprilla RSV 1000 R Mille Factory, later a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R), and Angel (Saleen S7; later a Cadillac Cien).

Development
According to the developer Rockstar San Diego, the three cities present in the initial 2005 release of the game were chosen due to their significance to the game's automotive and racing themes. Atlanta was chosen for its pioneering of automobile customization, Detroit due to its status as the birthplace of the U.S. automobile industry, and San Diego for its influence on the development of street racing culture.

Rockstar Games also developed a Remix version of the game, which was released in March 2006.

Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Remix
Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Remix is a revised edition of Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition. It is available as a Greatest Hits release on PlayStation 2 and a Platinum Hits release on Xbox (the remix edition of the game is not available for the PlayStation Portable). The game was released on March 13, 2006, or exactly eleven months after the original version's release. It was released on December 19, 2012, on PlayStation Network for the PS3, but was removed after a passing of time due to licensing issues.

The game features all of the cities, vehicles, music, and other features from Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition. This version of the game also allows the player to import the original game data on their memory card to Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Remix to make up for lost progress, thus saving the player from starting all over again.

The following features were added in Remix:
 * 24 new vehicles (including some from brands not in the original version, such as GMC, Infiniti, Pagani, and Scion).
 * Tokyo, as a returning city, which is a slightly updated version of the Tokyo city from Midnight Club II. It serves as optional career mode, Tokyo Challenge.
 * 25 new licensed songs.
 * Additional races and battle maps.
 * Recolored Menu UI, being recolored from a mostly blue/gold UI to a red/black/silver colored user interface.

Soundtrack
The following music can be found in Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition and the Remix soundtrack is also included. Musical artists found in the game include numerous Army of the Pharaohs members, The Game, Paul Wall, T.I., 50 Cent, Big Tymers, Mannie Fresh, Fabolous, Bump J, Calyx, Deep Blue, Ash, Aztec Mystic, Jimmy Eat World, Kasabian, Marilyn Manson, The Explosion, Nine Inch Nails, Sean Paul, Pitbull, Lil Wayne, and other artists. The soundtrack consisted of 99 tracks. The Remix's soundtrack consisted of 25 extra tracks; 124 tracks altogether. A large number of Detroit techno artists are also featured on the soundtrack, reflecting the game's setting.

Reception
The PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions of Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition received "favorable" reviews, while the PSP version received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

The game has sold at least 1.1 million copies worldwide on the PS2 version, and 3.64 million copies worldwide on the PSP version. The PlayStation Portable release received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom.

Remix
The Dub Edition Remix received "favorable" reviews, more so than the original, according to Metacritic.

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John Levén

John Gunnar Levén (born 25 October 1963) is a Swedish bassist in the rock band Europe. Levén and vocalist Joey Tempest are the only band members who have performed on all of Europe's studio albums.

Career
Levén was born in Stockholm. When he was seven years old, he and his family moved to the suburb Upplands Väsby, where several members of Europe grew up. He joined the band in 1981, replacing Peter Olsson. In 1985 Levén was the one who suggested that Tempest should write a song based on an old keyboard riff that the vocalist had written around 1981-82. The result was the song "The Final Countdown".

After Europe went on hiatus in 1992, Levén recorded and toured with bands like Brazen Abbot, Clockwise, Last Autumn's Dream, Southpaw, Europe colleague John Norum and former Black Sabbath / Deep Purple vocalist Glenn Hughes.

Europe reunited in 2003, and Levén co-wrote the single "Always the Pretenders" from the 2006 album Secret Society, with Tempest. He also co-wrote the song "The Beast" on the 2009 album Last Look at Eden.

Personal life
Levén has three sons, Daniel, Alex and Adrian.

Europe

 * Europe (1983)
 * Wings of Tomorrow (1984)
 * The Final Countdown (1986)
 * Out of This World (1988)
 * Prisoners in Paradise (1991)
 * Start from the Dark (2004)
 * Secret Society (2006)
 * Last Look at Eden (2009)
 * Bag of Bones (2012)
 * War of Kings (2015)
 * Walk the Earth (2017)

Other artists

 * Glenn Hughes - From Now On... (1994)
 * Glenn Hughes - Burning Japan Live (1994)
 * Thin Lizzy Tribute - The Lizzy Songs (1995)
 * Johansson Brothers - Sonic Winter (1996)
 * Brazen Abbot - Eye of the Storm (1996)
 * Clockwise - Nostalgia (1996)
 * Brazen Abbot - Bad Religion (1997)
 * Clockwise - Naïve (1998)
 * Southpaw - Southpaw (1998)
 * Thore Skogman - Än Är Det Drag (1998)
 * Nikolo Kotzev - Nikolo Kotzev's Nostradamus (2001)
 * Brazen Abbot - Guilty as Sin (2003)
 * Last Autumn's Dream - Last Autumn's Dream (2003)
 * Jayce Landberg - Good Sleepless Night (2010)
 * Crowne - Kings in the North (2021)

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Naïve / The Days of Swine & Roses

"Naïve"/"The Days of Swine & Roses" is a split single released by KMFDM and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. "Naïve" is the title track from the KMFDM album Naïve. "The Days of Swine & Roses" originally appeared on the My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult album Confessions of a Knife. An edited version of the Thrill Kill Kult remix of "Naïve" was made into a music video, and reached No. 21 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play Songs Chart on March 23, 1991. "The Days of Swine & Roses" was ranked No. 61 on COMA Music Magazine's 101 Greatest Industrial Songs of All Time.

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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:41, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Virgin Killer
Just plain useless Squash 05:12, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not encyclopaedic. Megan1967 05:23, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Master Thief Garrett 05:52, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC) Keep, clean up, etc. as per Isaac R. Master Thief Garrett 07:02, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and clean up. The band mentioned is pretty major, judging from Google and Amazon. I don't know whether "virgin killer" means what he thinks it means, but that's a issue, not a  . The opinions about validity have to be removed or NPOVed, of course. ---Isaac R 06:36, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I have removed the content relating to the disputed meaning of "Virgin Killer" (I can't find any information that supports this meaning) and have made the Scorpions album the focus of the page instead). The only non-musical reference that I can find to "Virgin Killer" is a term relating to somebody committing their first murder. TigerShark 14:34, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I would have just deleted the editorial comments, leaving the definition in place. If you're not convinced the definition is accurate, you can add a template indicating the material is disputed or controversial. ---Isaac R 17:06, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup —Wahoofive (Talk) 21:10, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand from substub. Capitalistroadster 04:43, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * keep why would this be useless Yuckfoo 16:31, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Absolutely keep, but also expand to make the article worth existing. --BDD 14:47, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Trinity Alps

The Trinity Alps are a mountain range in Trinity County and Siskiyou County in Northern California. They are a subrange of the Klamath Mountains located to the north of Weaverville.

Geography
The Trinity Alps are within the Pacific Coast Ranges physiographic region, in the Klamath Mountains System, which lies between the California Coast Ranges to the west and the Cascade Range to the east. Elevations range from 1350 ft to 9001 ft on Thompson Peak. Other notable peaks include Granite Peak (8,094 ft) and Ycatapom Peak (7,593 ft). The Trinity Alps are noted for their scenic views and alpine environment. The range's alpine flora differs from that found in the Sierra Nevada or the Cascades. Within the Klamath Mountains, adjacent subranges of the Trinity Alps include the Salmon Mountains and Scott Mountains.

The Trinity Alps Wilderness covers 517000 acre, making it the second largest wilderness area in California. The area was formerly known as the Salmon-Trinity Alps Primitive Area since 1932 until a series of expansions.

Glaciers, snowfields, and ice fields
The lowest snowfield in California that does not disappear except in the extreme runs of dry years is located above Mirror Lake at an elevation of 6600 ft.

Research had shown that some glaciers in the Trinity Alps were more resistant to the effects of global warming than are other California glaciers. According to recent, but incorrect, USGS maps, 35 permanent bodies of snow and several tiny glaciers dotted the highest peaks of the Alps.

The only glaciers to survive to the 21st century were the Salmon Glacier and the Grizzly Glacier, a 15 acre icefield on the north side of Thompson Peak, which showed crevasses indicating true motion even on so small an icefield. The Salmon Glacier went extinct in 2015. The Grizzly Glacier was declared extinct in the fall of 2022.

Temporary glacier
On the ridge south of Sapphire Lake is an unusual phenomenon consisting of a temporary glacier, versus an inactive snowfield that melts out in dry years. Following years of heavy accumulation, an icefield appears in this fully sheltered north-facing cirque that can show active crevasses and seracs some tens of feet high. But this ice body, at an elevation of only 7500 ft in a region experiencing a long, hot dry season from about mid May to mid October, can disappear completely during a run of drier years.

Studies of lichen collars indicate that the site near Kalmia Lake is the snowiest spot in the State of California, receiving snow accumulation in excess of the Lake Helen snowcourse on Lassen Peak, by far the snowcourse with greatest late winter snow accumulation in California. This in turn is consistent with the fact of an active glacier under Thompson Peak, while, in contrast, no such active glacier exists under Brokeoff Mountain west of Lassen Peak, higher than Thompson Peak and presenting an ideal NNE-facing zone in the area of maximum snow accumulation beneath an almost-vertical cliff face 1000 ft high. Sufficient snow does accumulate under Brokeoff that in some years the snowfield there experiences incipient glacial motion. Two moraines below it, one very recent, provide clear evidence at least of mass transport in the recent past at that site. These moraines are quite a bit smaller than those found below the Thompson Peak glacieret.

Flora
The Trinity Alps section of the Klamath Mountains Ecoregion is botanically outstanding by having the second greatest number of conifer species of any place in the world. Russian Peak, in the Russian Wilderness just north of the Trinity Alps, has the greatest number of conifer species in North America. So many genera and species of conifers exist together because the Trinity Alps are at the intersection of the Mediterranean climate of the south and the Northwestern coastal climate, which has a shorter dry season.

Northern tree species, such as subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa), Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis), and Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) are found here, as well as southern trees, such as incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens), ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), and white fir (Abies concolor), plus unique populations of foxtail pine (Pinus balfouriana) and weeping spruce (Picea breweriana).

Other plants along the trails include the carnivorous California pitcher plant (Darlingtonia californica), the showy pinkish Lewisia cotyledon, and the rare Trinity Alps endemic wildflower Trinity penstemon (Penstemon tracyi). Sagebrush is found on ridges in the Scott Mountains.

Large fires have burned through some of the forests in the wilderness, including much of the 105855 acre Iron/Alps Complex fire in 2008.

Fauna
Most of the lakes have been stocked with rainbow, brown or brook trout, and some have self-sustaining populations. The major streams of the North Fork Trinity River and New River watersheds have spawning chinook salmon, and some have steelhead.

The Trinity Alps are home to much wildlife, including: American black bear, mountain lion, bobcat, blacktailed deer, lizards, chipmunks, and a great number of bird species. Deer and black bear are commonly seen. Less common but present are mountain lion, pine marten, fisher, and wolverine. Rough-skinned newts are commonly found in ponds and lakes. The Trinity Alps may be home to a cryptozoological phenomenon, the Trinity Alps Giant Salamander.

Geology
Geologically, the Trinity Alps consist of a mixture of igneous, granite and metamorphic peaks. In the eastern mountains are the Red Trinities, due to reddish ultramafic peridotite; in the central granitic batholith are the White Trinities; and in the western mountains are the Green Trinities, due to more extensive forest cover. The region contains much pine and fir forest as well as meadows, creeks, and lakes.

Recreation
The US Forest Service, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, manages most of the Trinity Alps Wilderness. The northern boundary extends into the Klamath National Forest, and the western boundary extends into the Six Rivers National Forest. There are also private inholdings, especially in the eastern portions. The wilderness contains hiking trails, backcountry camping, and scenery. Access is off California State Route 299 on the south, CA Route 3 on the east, and various old logging and mining roads on the north and west. Wilderness permits are required for hiking. The Pacific Crest Trail connects the northeast corner of the Trinity Alps to the Russian Wilderness and Marble Mountain Wilderness to the north and the Castle Crags Wilderness in the Trinity Divide to the east.

Less-visited areas include New River, Salmon Mountain, Horse Linto Creek, Pony Buttes, and Limestone Ridge in the west, and Packers Peak, Deadman Peak, and Eagle Peak in the Scott Mountains. Most of the area is visited much less heavily than many other wilderness areas in California, such as in the High Sierra of Yosemite National Park and Kings Canyon National Park, but more heavily than the nearby Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness.

The most popular destinations beyond the trailheads are Canyon Creek Lakes, Emerald and Sapphire Lakes on the Stuart Fork, and Granite Lake on the Swift Creek trail. The western ridges are mostly lower in elevation with fewer lakes, and ridgetop trails there can be hot and dry in the summer. Trails do not reach all of the lakes; cross-country routes are possible.

The Trinity Alps overlook Trinity Lake to the east, a large reservoir of the federal Central Valley Project on the Trinity River. Hunting occurs for deer, bear, and bandtailed pigeon in season. Rock climbing is excellent in the areas with granite cliffs, such as Caribou Peak and Sawtooth Ridge.

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NBA Live 2001

NBA Live 2001 is the 2001 installment of the NBA Live video games series. The cover features Kevin Garnett as a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves. The game was developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports Label. NBA Live 2001 is followed by NBA Live 2002. The PC version of the game for the second year included EA's "Face in the Game" feature that debuted in NBA Live 2000, allowing players to use custom facial photographs on created players.

Reception
The PlayStation and PC versions received "generally favorable reviews", while the PlayStation 2 version received "average" reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. Emmett Schkloven of NextGen said of the PS version, "If you like the franchise, it's a mild improvement. If you're not crazy about videogame basketball, this will not be the game to convert you." Rob Smolka of the same magazine later said of the PS2 version, "It's good looking and [it] plays well, but it isn't quite the leap it should (and arguably could) have been." In Japan, where the same console version was ported and published by Electronic Arts Victor on February 22, 2001, Famitsu gave it a score of 29 out of 40.

Gil Alexander Shif of GameZone gave the PC version 9.5 out of 10, calling it "the best basketball game you can buy for the PC, period." However, Michael Lafferty gave the PlayStation version 8 out of 10, calling it "a wonderful journey with the elite of the basketball world, providing a variety of options that will appeal to a variety of players and skills." William Abner of Computer Games Strategy Plus gave the PC version three stars out of five, saying, "NBA Live 2001 isn't a bad game. In fact, if you skipped last year's version you'll probably want to check it out. For longtime fans of the series there simply isn't enough new stuff to get excited about, however, and for every improvement there are missing features and lingering problems that drag the game down."

Human Tornado of GamePro said of the PlayStation version in one review, "If you want a game that's more tailored to individual play rather than team cooperation, then NBA Live is a great choice. It also ekes out a slightly better score on the graphics front, and there are some extra bells and whistles like the one-on-one game. Still, this year's hoops head-to-head is a very close call. Both ShootOut and Live will give gamers a run for their money, and they both have excellent production values. For this season it's really just a matter of taste." In another GamePro review, Dan Elektro said of the same console version, "As usual, it's EA's attention to detail that lifts Live up above the competition. The changes aren't too dramatic from last year – they're tweaks, really – but the improved graphics and new Challenge mode make it worth the price. If you're looking for the best of the class of '01, Live is it." However, Uncle Dust said of the PlayStation 2 version, "This ProReview may sound like a long list of complaints, yet overall NBA Live 2001 is the best hoops game on the PS2."

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NBA Live 2002

NBA Live 2002 is the 2002 installment of the NBA Live video games series. The cover features Steve Francis as a member of the Houston Rockets. The game was developed by EA Sports and released on October 30, 2001, for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation, and November 15, 2001, for the Xbox. This game was commentated by Don Poier and former NBA player Bob Elliot. It was a launch title for Xbox in North America and Europe.

Soundtrack

 * Moka Only - Crunch
 * Moka Only (feat Abstract Rude) - Rolling Along
 * Swollen Members - Lady Venom
 * Swollen Members - Deep End
 * The Crystal Method - The Winner

Reception
The PlayStation and Xbox versions received "generally favorable reviews", while the PlayStation 2 version received "average" reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. NextGen said in its final issue, "This Xbox version of EA Sports' hoops series is basically the same game you can find on every other platform – in other words, chock full of uninspiring graphics, plodding gameplay, and clumsy controls." In Japan, where the PlayStation 2 version was ported and published by Electronic Arts Square on January 1, 2002, followed by the Xbox version on March 7, Famitsu gave it a score of 29 out of 40 for the former, and 28 out of 40 for the latter.

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NBA Live 2003

NBA Live 2003 is the 2002 installment of the NBA Live video games series. The cover features Jason Kidd as a member of the New Jersey Nets. The game was developed by EA Canada and released on October 8, 2002 for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube consoles and November 14, 2002 for Microsoft Windows. It was the last NBA Live game to be released on the original PlayStation. The game includes a soundtrack, which is the first video game soundtrack in history to be certified Platinum by the RIAA, selling over 1,300,000 copies worldwide.

Reception
The game received "favorable" reviews on all platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, where the PlayStation 2 version was released on November 28, 2002, Famitsu gave that console version a score of 32 out of 40. NBA Live 2003 was a runner-up for GameSpot's annual "Best Sports Game on PC" award, which went to Madden NFL 2003. It was also nominated for GameSpot's annual "Best Traditional Sports Game on GameCube" award, but lost to NFL 2K3. During the AIAS' 6th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, NBA Live 2003 received a nomination for "Computer Sports Game of the Year", yet ultimately lost to Madden NFL 2003.

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I could use some help with the Hobart and William Smith Colleges article. There's lots of good resources out there in the archives (even online) and the like. Just letting you know that I'm working on it. --circuitloss 17:48, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

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NBA Live 2004

NBA Live 2004 is the 2004 installment of the NBA Live sports video game series. The game was developed by EA Canada and released in 2003. It is graphically similar to NCAA March Madness 2004 and has the same create-a-player models. It was the last EA game to include Michael Jordan. The cover shows Vince Carter as a member of the Toronto Raptors; in Spain it is Raul Lopez instead. This was also the first game to feature the Charlotte Bobcats, who would play their first season of basketball in the fall of 2004. Since the game's rosters were finalized before the Bobcats would host their expansion draft, the Bobcats' lineup consisted of players named after their specific positions; for example, the point guard was named "Point Guard".

Modes
Season play allows the player to choose an NBA team to compete for the season trophy. Players can also choose how many games there are during the season. A custom player option also allows game players to create their own team of NBA players. There is also a Roster management where game players can buy and sell players from various teams in the NBA.

Dynasty is a gameplay mode that shares similarities with the traditional season mode but introduces unique features and objectives. In Dynasty Mode, teams compete for the Dynasty Trophy. Players earn points through gameplay, which can then be utilized for improvements like player skill levels. These points can be allocated to conduct individual or team training sessions, aiming to enhance the skill levels of the player's team. Additionally, points can be spent in the 'NBA store', where a variety of items such as shoes, jerseys, headbands, and socks can be purchased to customize the player characters. A key aspect of Dynasty Mode involves the drafting and development of new players, emphasizing long-term team building, and management strategies.

One on one allows two players to compete on either a gym or street court.

Training allows for practicing and improving court skills.

Reception
The game received "favorable" reviews on all platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave the PlayStation 2 version a score of three, eights and one, seven for a total of 31 out of 40.

During the AIAS' 7th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, NBA Live 2004 received a nomination for "Outstanding Achievement in Licensed Soundtrack", which was ultimately awarded to SSX 3.

title: NBA Live 2004