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CKDU-FM

CKDU-FM (88.1 MHz) is a non-profit radio station broadcasting from the campus of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It airs a campus radio format serving the Halifax Regional Municipality area and is operated by the not-for-profit CKDU-FM Society. Its mandate is to provide the Halifax area with an alternative to public and private radio broadcasting. The 2,460 watt transmitter reaches the urban core of Halifax and adjacent communities.

History
CKDU evolved from the Dalhousie University radio club, Radio Tiger, which dated back at least to the 1950s. In 1975, the station was dubbed CKDU and began broadcasting via closed circuit to Dalhousie residence halls from the Dalhousie Student Union Building (the SUB). After a successful student referendum to fund the station, and approval from the CRTC on October 10, 1984, CKDU started broadcasting on 97.5 FM with only 33 watts. The signal was sufficient to cover the area around the university, with poorer reception throughout the rest of the city. At the time of launch the station was managed by Doug Varty, formerly of CHSR-FM in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and Keith Tufts, later to found alternative performance venues the Club Flamingo and the Pub Flamingo.

The station's programming was initially heavily weighted to what was then considered "alternative" popular music, including such artists as Bauhaus, Ministry, Kate Bush and the Cure. In addition, the station broadcast several magazine style information programs during the day. In late 1985, Mark MacLeod was hired after working at CHMA-FM in Sackville, New Brunswick, to become the station's program director. Working with other station staff, he diversified the station's music programming to include more jazz, world music, and other specialty genres.

In 2000, CKDU-FM received permission from the CRTC to upgrade its transmitter to a power of 3,200 watts. On February 14, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. AST, the station moved from 97.5 MHz to 88.1 MHz.

On April 9, 2010, CKDU received approval to decrease its power from 3,200 watts to 2,460 watts. But it improved its tower's height above average terrain to 156.5 m. So while its power was lower, its coverage area remained roughly the same.

Programming
The programming on CKDU tends to be eclectic. In-house policy is that anything that is commonly heard on a commercial or public (i.e. the CBC) radio station should not be heard on CKDU. CKDU's license also prohibits it from playing selections that have made certain charts such as the Billboard Hot 100 chart, preventing it from entering into competition with local commercial Top 40 stations.

CKDU is one of the few radio stations based in the Maritimes where one can hear local hip-hop, live electronic music, liberal and anarchist news shows, and the like. CKDU also hosts a number of shows programmed by ethnic minorities in the Halifax area, frequently broadcasting in their native languages rather than either of the official languages of Canada. Most CKDU programming is either a weekly show with occasional specials. During the 1980s, CKDU hosted a queer show called “The Word is Out”, that was organized and coordinated out of Dalhousie University. The radio show discussed news and current affairs impacting the queer community at the time. Most notably, the show openly discussed the AIDS epidemic occurring around the world and specifically referenced how it affected people in Halifax. As a station regulated by the CRTC, CKDU is also bound by Canadian Content regulations.

Membership
CKDU relies on its membership both for its day-to-day operations and for programming. While all members of the Dalhousie Student Union are automatically members of CKDU-FM, membership is also open to others who wish to pay dues and meet time, training and other membership requirements.

It is reasonably straightforward to become a programmer at CKDU-FM. One puts in approximately 10 hours of volunteer work doing things like staffing phones and putting up flyers and then is eligible for CKDU membership and programming privileges after a short training course is completed.

Funding
CKDU is supported for the most part by the Dalhousie Student Union. However some of its operating budget comes from fundraising drives conducted each year and for sales of advertising and sponsorships. There are only a few paid staff at the station.

CKDU runs ad spots from a variety of advertisers, usually local nightspots and other businesses aimed at young adult clients. The station also airs community announcements for no fee. The fundraising drives are conducted both by calling previous supporters of the station and by soliciting donations on air. On air donations are sometimes rewarded with prizes of some kind, supplied by the programmer or local businesses. In addition, government and some other grants help with both general revenue and funding for specific projects.

Facilities
CKDU is located on the fourth floor of the Dalhousie Student Union Building (6136 University Ave.) and is accessible to the general public. The facilities consist of a main lobby/waiting room, three offices for the paid station administration, the station's record collection room, a maintenance room, a production studio (PCR) and the Master Control room (MCR) itself.

The broadcast booth houses the station's CD collection, as well as new releases for easy access by the programmers. The equipment consists of a pair of Technics SL-1200s, a mixer and mixing board, a number of CD decks, an audio-enabled computer, inputs for external devices, and a reel-to-reel machine. The booth is furnished with numerous chairs for the programmers and guests.

CKDU Online
CKDU is available online at its website: www.ckdu.ca

CKDU presenters and alumni

 * Buck 65 - hip-hop artist, hosted the show "The Bassment", later renamed "The Treatment"
 * Jesse Dangerously - nerdcore hip hop artist and former host of "The Pavement", renamed from "The Treatment"
 * Jane Farrow - worked as program director and show host, later worked as a producer and show host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 * Jay Ferguson of the band Sloan produced and hosted a music program on CKDU-FM in the 1980s.
 * Skratch Bastid - hip-hop DJ, also hosted "The Treatment"
 * Matt Murphy - hosted Little Orton Hoggett radio show, musician in The Super Friendz and TUNS
 * Lex Gigeroff - former manager in the early FM days, later credited as a creator of scifi show Lexx
 * Mike Catano - member of indie rock band North of America amongst others
 * Walter Kemp, host of "Saturday Morning Musical Box" (classical music) since 1985.
 * Bev Lamb, host of "Touchstone", (folk music) since 1985.

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Hey John, I tried to sneakily vandalize your userpage, but somebody reverted it back instantly! Damn. Anyway, drop me a line since we don't talk so much anymore. --C S (Talk) 23:41, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

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Sittingbourne railway station

Sittingbourne railway station is on the Chatham Main Line and the Sheerness Line in north Kent. It is 44 mi down the line from London Victoria. Train services are provided by Southeastern. Ticket barriers are sometimes in operation, depending on the time of day.

Facilities
Two new lifts linked by a new footbridge have created a step-free route between the station entrance and platforms to provide better access to train services. The improvements have been funded through the government’s Access for All programme and cost around £1,800,000.

The work has also included a series of enhancements to station facilities funded through the National Stations Improvement Programme and include relocating and increasing the number of cycle parking spaces outside the station; renovating all passenger toilets; creating new waiting shelters on the platforms and a new waiting room on platform; repositioning the ticket gates to create more space for passengers in the ticket office; and installing a new customer information screen and non-slip flooring in the ticket office.

The Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway's station, at Sittingbourne Viaduct, is a short walk away.

Accidents and incidents

 * In January 1861, a passenger train was derailed. One passenger was killed.
 * On 31 August 1878, a passenger train collided with some goods wagons. Five people were killed.
 * On 27 July 1966, a freight train was derailed at Sittingbourne West Junction. The line was blocked for two days.

Services
All services at Sittingbourne are operated by Southeastern using  and  EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

 * 2 tph to London St Pancras International
 * 2 tph to London Victoria
 * 1 tph to Faversham
 * 1 tph to Dover Priory via Canterbury East
 * 2 tph to Ramsgate
 * 1 tph to Sheerness-on-Sea

Additional services including trains to and from London Bridge and London Cannon Street call at the station in the peak hours.

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 * Restored per Requests_for_undeletion. Being a product cover, it still needs a fair use rationale.--Tikiwont (talk) 10:03, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

 * Copied from WP:REFUND. I have been reviewing the situation and here are some remarks:
 * 1) There only was a boilerplate non-free notice posted on my talk page. Nothing about (lack of notice for) fair use or cover art being at the heart of the problem. TBH that is not very helpful either.
 * Well at least it links to Non-free use rationale guideline which mentiones two points, 1) An appropriate copyright tag explaining the basic claim of fair use. and 2) A detailed fair use rationale (FUR)
 * 1) I see in the history that an actual fair use notice was already added to the page right after it being marked for deletion. Err... somewhat contradictory actions?
 * The tagger added non-free product cover which describes the copyright status as possible fair or cover art, maybe to adress the lack of specifics you notice above. What has been missing is the detailed FUR, rationale Non-free use rationale
 * 1) A few days after being marked for deletion, a bot tagged it for resize. It was deleted regardless without being resized.
 * Actullay that was not the deletion reason, rather it should have been resized if kept for which the FUR tag needs to be added.
 * 1) It is still tagged for being resized now. But according to [Category:Non-free Wikipedia file size reduction request] and User:DASHBot it should happen automatically? It didnt seem to have happened over the last few days since the file was restored, though. Indeed, according to [|DASHBot uploads] no resizing has happened since november 24th.
 * Seems the bot isn't doing that. Needs to be checked.
 * 1) Before I noticed the FUR on the restored image, I went looking for what to do myself. I got lost in a swamp of copyright templates and rationales. I still wouldn't know what to actually add. In fact, I now know that resizing should happen because the image was tagged that way. But I wouldn't have known without that tag. Or what size it is supposed to be at. (I can only assume now that it is max 400px in any direction because of a notice at the top of the [Category:Non-free Wikipedia file size reduction request] page)

I dont believe the photograph itself is really worth much discussion over. It's not that awesome. But the above points highlight IMO that at some points, WP processes, guidelines and "documentation" have turned wrong and could use some serious review and redesign - read: simplification. Heck, I am adding all these comments here; but it's likely not the appropriate location either.
 * I gather that a clear info like Please fill out Non-free use rationale as in File:Beers of Stone Brewing Company.jpg would have been more helpful, at least in my own note above.

Filipvr (talk) 13:44, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I certainly agree that rules have become complicated here. With respect to the fair use of non free imags, its role in a free encyclopedia has been somewhat controversial, so maybe it is even somewhat more convoluted than usual. I'm not that versed there myself, so I take the opportunity to review a few thinsg and aswere above in detail. I would be great if you stick around to follow-up either with particular topics or helping others. mIght be a useful wiki project becuase many FURS can be fixed easily. --Tikiwont (talk) 09:34, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

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Batna (city)

Batna (باتنة, ) is the main city and commune of Batna Province, Algeria. With a population of 290,645 (2008 census) it is the fifth largest city in Algeria. It is also one of the principal cities of the Chaoui area and is considered the capital of Aurès.

History
Batna was inhabited by Chaoui tribes and there were previous settlements in the area but they were in ruins by the 18th century. The first solid foundations (a military encampment) of the city were erected by a French garrison in 1844, with a strategic mission to create a permanently guarded access point for the main Sahara road. Batna's geographical location offers a natural break through the Atlas Mountains. The ancient cities of Timgad and Lambese, built around the first century CE, are living examples of the importance that the Romans gave to commercial control over the region.

Signature and proclamation of the Algerian revolution Batna
The inhabitants of the city revolted against the French authorities at the beginning of colonization. Thereafter they organized the Algerian revolution against French colonialism.

The first Batneens adhered to Messali Hadj (PPP), as did the Ulemas Ben Badis and the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Freedoms (MTLD), and together they organized the great historic summit of 22, June 25, 1954.

The Algerian revolution started at Batna under the chairmanship of Batnéen Mustapha Benboulaïd (FLN). Batna was the first military region of Algeria (zone 1) (1954–1962).

On the night of November 1, 1954, the barracks of the city of Batna were attacked by the mujahedeen. Batna was the command headquarters of the Algerian revolution until independence.

Bombing
On September 6, 2007, Batna saw a massive Al-Qaeda suicide bombing. The bombing, which took place shortly before the visit of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, resulted in approximately 15–20 deaths and 107 injuries as the bomber detonated his device among a crowd waiting to see the President, who was at the end of a three-day tour of eastern Algeria. The bombings were condemned by the UN Security Council.

Climate
Located in the Aurès Mountains (part of the Atlas Mountains), at 1,048 m above sea level, Batna has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSk) with Mediterranean influences and an average annual precipitation of 326 mm. Summers are moderately hot (by Saharan standards) and dry and winters are chilly and wetter, with the possibility of snowfall.

Entertainment
Many entertainment resorts are spread across the town. Regarding sports activities the most important destinations are the 1st November Stadium (Stade du premier Novembre), and Seffouhi Stadium, which is used mainly for soccer clubs and festivals (CAB & MSPB are the biggest teams in the city), in addition to the Scholar Stadium. For cultural activities there is the Théâtre régional de Batna, and also a municipal Cultural House, which is located behind the Prefecture and covers many cultural and educational activities, in addition to the Islamic Cultural Center in the heart of the city and the Youth House in Cite Ennaser. For children, an attraction park is located in Kechida, which is approximately a ten-minute drive from the downtown area.

Dining and nightlife
With regard to night life, due to some religious and cultural limitations, there are almost no night clubs in the city. However, the existing nightlife is concentrated in the heart of the city, around Les allées Benboulaïd and "STAND" areas, especially during summer break. Downtown Batna has plenty of cafés, traditional restaurants (Chouwaya) or GARGOUTTIER, Pizzerias, French and oriental bakeries, and a limited number of luxury restaurants. Many festivities take place in allées Ben Boulaïd area, mainly in the season of International Timgad Festival (usually between 4–15 July every year). The most attractive exciting places surrounding the city are, Lambese (also called Lambaesis), Timgad, Ghoufi, Chelaalaa, and Belezma National Park.

Districts and urban areas of the city

 * Town center

 * Le Quartier du Stand

 * Bouzourane

 * Cité 20 Août

 * Hai An Nasr

 * Cité 84 Log.

 * La Verdure

 * Cité Chikhi

 * Cité 800 Log.

 * Cité 500 Log.

 * Cité 1020 Log.

 * Kechida

 * Erriadh

 * Moudjahidines

 * Cité 1272 Log.

 * La SAE

 * Tamechit

 * Sonatiba

 * Cité Chouhada

 * Kemmouni

 * El Boustane

 * Bouakal

 * Z'Mala

 * Douar Eddis

 * Ezzohour

 * Cité Lombarakia

 * Parc à fourrage

 * Cité Zemmouri

 * Cité Salsabil

 * Cité Bouarif

 * Route de Tazoult

 * La Zone Militaire

 * La Zone Industrielle Batna

Monuments

 * Buttafoco Camp Monument

Notable residents

 * Houria Aïchi, musician
 * Ali Benflis, Former Head of Government of Algeria
 * Ishem Boumaraf, singer
 * Marcel Deviq, French engineer and politician
 * Rachid Mouffouk, sculptor
 * Liamine Zéroual, sixth President of Algeria

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Coronado Islands

The Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado or Islas Coronados; Islands of the Coronation(s); Kumeyaay: Mat hasil ewik kakap) are a group of islands located 13 km off the northwest coast of the Mexican state of Baja California. Battered by the wind and waves, the rocky islands are mostly uninhabited except for a small military detachment and a lighthouse keeper. Despite their barren appearance, they serve as a refuge for seabirds and support a sizable number of plants, including 6 endemic taxa found only on the islands. The waters around the islands support a considerable amount of diverse marine life.

Used extensively and intermittently by the indigenous peoples for thousands of years, the first European explorers sighted them in 1542. Centuries later, they served as weekend getaway locations, secret gambling spots, and smuggling sites until the Mexican Navy clamped down on trespassing. The tied island city of Coronado, California, 17 mi to the north, was named in honor of the islands after an 1886 naming competition. During World War II, the islands were utilized in joint training exercises between Mexico and the United States, but gained notoriety when future founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, shelled the inhabited island, earning the ire of the Mexican government. Today, the islands are a Mexican wildlife refuge; visitors may anchor, scuba, and snorkel, but setting foot on the islands is prohibited without special permission from the government.

Geography
The Coronado Islands are located within the central portion of the Southern California Bight, on the continental margin within Mexico's exclusive economic zone. The islands are exposed continental blocks, produced by the shear zone of the Pacific and North American plates. To the west, underwater cliffs border a deep channel over 1100 m in depth. The largest and closest island, South Coronado, is located approximately 13 km off the Mexican mainland and 12 km south of the maritime border with the United States. The islands are under the jurisdiction of Mexico and Tijuana Municipality in the state of Baja California.

The archipelago is composed of four main islands spread out over 8 km.

 * Coronado Norte (North Coronado or North Island) is located at 32.43333°N, -117.3°W and has a surface area of 48 ha. It has no bay but boats can anchor on a jetty on the eastern side. It is large enough to support numerous microhabitats for plants, and has a climate similar to southern Point Loma.
 * Pilón de Azúcar (Pile of Sugar or Middle Rock) is located at 32.41667°N, -117.26667°W and covers 7 ha. The island has a rocky guano-washed hill on the southern side, and a smaller ridge on the north side, separated by a amphitheater-shaped depression between them. The island is composed of barren, infertile sandstone, with little vegetation. A few succulent plants, such as Opuntia spp. and Dudleya spp. are present on the southern hill, although the soil tends to slough off the slopes. In the basin, straddling both peaks, herbaceous and woody plants occur in the more soil-rich depression.
 * Coronado Centro (Central Coronado or Middle Island) is located at 32.41667°N, -117.26667°W and covers 14 ha. This island forms a steep-hill with a peninsula-like structure on the northeast side, which creates a protected cove known as Moonlight Cove. This island is extensively weathered and beaten, with unstable material giving way in handful to slope-sized masses. The unstable and barren nature of this island is likely a result of the heavy use by breeding and roosting sea birds combined with unstable substrates. The only abundant plant community occurs on the southwest, windward side of the island.
 * Coronado Sur (South Coronado or South Island) is located at 32.41667°N, -117.25°W, and covers 183 ha. It is 3.2 km long and 800 m wide. It has the only bay of the islands, called Puerto Cueva Cove, located one quarter the way down on the east side. The island has two main peaks, Middle Peak, located about one-third the way down the island with an elevation of about 180 m, and South Peak, approximately 160 m high. On the west side there is a cove known as Seal Cove. There are roughly a half dozen structures above Puerto Cueva, and two navigational lights at the northern and southern ends of the island. Apartamento guardafaros.jpg

Indigenous peoples and Spanish discovery
The islands had been occupied by humans for over 1,000 years. As the islands lack any fresh water, permanent settlements would have not been feasible in the past. However, the islands were frequently visited by the local indigenous peoples (such as the Kumeyaay), who likely set up small and temporary encampments, possibly for retreats or other spiritual/sacred practices; ancient artifacts have been collected from both islands. North Island has artifacts that include teshoa flakes, and a midden on the saddle of the island. A small cave, dubbed Pirate's Cave, was reported to have had remains of ceramics. On South Island, numerous other middens exist. The artifacts may be from the La Jolla complex of peoples. Anthropologist J.P Harrington recorded the Luiseño word for the islands as "mexéelam." The Kumeyaay called the islands mat hasil ewik kakap.

Subsequent archaeological expeditions have corroborated reports of ceramic artifacts on the islands, with ceramic fragments found also on South Island. These ceramic fragments appear to have been fired in an open oven, and were likely used as cooking pots. Analysis of the artifacts suggests their production techniques are consistent with those of Yuman ceramic manufacture. Radiocarbon dating of abalone shells within the vicinity of the ceramic artifacts suggest that site was occupied intermittently from at least 1390 to 820 calibrated years BP. In 1542, Portuguese explorer (later naturalized Castilian) Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo was the first European to notice the islands, describing them as Las Islas Desiertas (the desert islands) due to their barren lack of soil. In 1602 the priest for Sebastián Vizcaíno's expedition, Father Antonio de la Ascención, called them Los Cuatro Coronados (the four crowned ones) to honor the four brothers who died for their Christian faith. They are also known by a number of other names, with later fisherman, upon seeing floating coffins, ghostly faces and shrouded bodies amid the rocks dubbing them Old Stone Face, The Sarcophagi, Dead Man's Island, and Corpus Christi. They have also been referred to as the Sentinels of San Diego Bay.

Commercial ventures
Starting in the 1860s, advertisements for day trips to the islands began making appearances in local newspapers. At the same time, commercial fishing ventures also started, focusing mostly on rock cod.

In 1872, the Mexican Navy began visiting the islands to prevent trespassing and reduce the damage from human impact, although business ventures still proceeded regardless. That same year, building stone of high quality was discovered on North Island. Colonel Manuel Ferrer and Tore Fidel Pujal, the editor of the newspaper La Baja California, secured the North Island in 1873, planning to use the stone. The last newspaper report of this venture was in 1882. At one point, the islands were used as a way station in the smuggling of Chinese immigrants into California. This ended after a group of Chinese were found starving and abandoned on the island.

In the 1920s and 1930s, during prohibition, the cove on the northeast side of South Coronado Island was used as a meeting place for alcohol smugglers. Since it was the time before radar, and as foggy nights are common on the islands, the large number of boats frequently resulted in collisions. There was so much traffic that a famous casino, an elaborately constructed two-story building known as the Coronado Islands Yacht Club, flourished well into the Depression. The casino was forced to change trajectory after the Mexican government made gambling illegal only eighteen months after it opened, re-opening the next year as a weekend getaway hotel. It later served as a garrison for Mexican soldiers who had their provisions shipped from the mainland. The structure was ultimately destroyed in the high winds and waves of a storm in 1988. Only the stone foundation remains though the name Smugglers Cove, and more rarely Casino Cove, adorn modern maps.

Around the same time that other boats visited the islands to escape prohibition, during the 1930s, the Star and Crescent Company also made frequent boat excursions to the islands. These were suspended for some time, before briefly starting back again in 1958, with the steamer Silver Gate towing a glass bottom boat to the cove on South Coronado.

World War II and after
In 1942, Mexico entered the Second World War. Shortly after, the islands were utilized by Mexico and the United States as a site for military exercises. The island was garrisoned by a small detachment of the Mexican Navy, and foxholes were excavated on South Island during this period.

In May 1943 the U.S. Navy's USS PC-815, commanded by L. Ron Hubbard, the future founder of Scientology, conducted unauthorized gunnery exercises involving the shelling of the Coronado Islands, in the belief they were uninhabited and belonged to the United States. Unfortunately for Hubbard, the islands belonged to Mexico and were occupied by the Mexican Navy. The Mexican government complained and Hubbard was relieved of command.

In October 1944, Lieutenant Robert D. Cullinane, flying a Consolidated PB2Y-3 Coronado, BuNo 7051 of the VPB-13 patrol bombing squadron, perished along with the 12 members of his crew in a crash on South Coronado. Wreckage belonging to the aircraft is located on the western-facing slope of South Island.

The Coronado Islands are under the jurisdiction of the municipality of Tijuana, Baja California, as ruled in the books of the Baja Californian Government, published on December 20, 1959. Today, the only inhabitants of the island are Mexican Navy personnel and a lighthouse keeper on South Island. As the islands are a natural protected area, access to the islands is restricted to governmental personnel and permitted scientists. Although landing on the islands is prohibited, the waters around them are still a frequent destination for divers, snorkelers and fishermen.

Plant communities
The topography, soil, and human impact each have effects on the vegetation of the islands, creating varying characteristics on each island. However, the vegetation of the Coronado Islands is mostly dominated by maritime succulent scrub, a plant community within the sage scrub ecosystem of North America, characterized a predominance of succulent plants and a dependence on ocean fog as a consistent source of moisture. It forms a transitional zone between the Mediterranean ecosystems of the California Floristic Province and the subtropical deserts of western North America. It includes a number of species characteristic of the coastal sage scrub, but is complemented by a wide assemblage of endemic species, giving it the greatest species richness of any of the sage scrub communities. Some taxa representative of this environment include succulents such as liveforevers (Dudleya spp.), and cacti like the coastal cholla (Cylindropuntia prolifera), coastal prickly pear (Opuntia littoralis) and the golden-spined cereus (Bergerocactus emoryi).

This habitat is most typical of northwestern Baja California, ranging from the town of San Vicente to the vicinity of Punta San Carlos, a coastal swathe of about 175 km. It occurs farther north, but in a more fragmented pattern, occupying the fringe coastal bluffs and mesas up to the Mexico–United States border and sparsely north to Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve in San Diego County, California. It is also present on the other offshore islands of the region, including Isla San Martin and Todos Santos Island, but also portions of San Clemente and Santa Catalina Island in the southern Channel Islands of California.

On South Island the area at the extreme northern end, near the lighthouse, has diverging vegetation. Here, the vegetation takes on an aspect of coastal sage scrub. Coastal sage scrub consists of low-growing, aromatic and more herbaceous plants with soft, drought-deciduous leaves as opposed to those of the succulent scrub. The dominant plants found in this area include California sagebrush (Artemisia californica), lemonade berry (Rhus integrifolia), California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) and toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia). This area is the only location on South Island where Eriogonum fasciculatum, Heteromeles arbutifolia, and broom baccharis (Baccharis sarothroides) grow. Also present on the north end, but on the east slope, is the endemic Galium coronadoense and Galium angustifolium. Non-native plants such as crystalline ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum) are present in disturbed areas, especially along trails. Interestingly, this non-native plant provides shelter for the commonly-occurring endemic rattlesnake.

Taxa
Despite the barren, rocky appearance of the islands, they support a large number of plant species. The following is a comprehensive, but not complete, list of the native plants present on the islands.

Anacardiaceae Apiaceae Asteraceae Boraginaceae Brassicaceae Cactaceae Caryophyllaceae Chenopodiaceae Cleomaceae Convolvulaceae Crassulaceae Cucurbitaceae Euphorbiaceae Fabaceae Hydrophyllaceae Liliaceae Malvaceae Montiaceae Nyctaginaceae Orchidaceae Papaveraceae Plantaginaceae Poaceae Polemoniaceae Polygonaceae Polypodiaceae Pteridaceae Ranunculaceae Resedaceae Rhamnaceae Rosaceae Rubiaceae Sapindaceae Saxifragaceae Solanaceae Themidaceae Urticaceae Zosteraceae
 * Rhus integrifolia
 * Apiastrum angustifolium
 * Daucus pusillus
 * Amblyopappus pusillus
 * Artemisia californica
 * Baccharis sarothroides
 * Chaenactis glabriuscula var. glabriuscula
 * Encelia californica
 * Eriophyllum confertiflorum
 * Hazardia berberidis
 * Hazardia orcuttii
 * Lasthenia coronaria
 * Lasthenia gracilis
 * Leptosyne maritima
 * Logfia filaginoides
 * Malacothrix foliosa
 * Malacothrix insularis
 * Malacothrix similis
 * Perityle emoryi
 * Pseudognaphalium biolettii
 * Pseudognaphalium microcephalum
 * Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum
 * Rafinesquia californica
 * Stephanomeria diegensis
 * Uropappus lindleyi
 * Cryptantha intermedia
 * var. intermedia
 * var. ''johnstonii
 * Cryptantha maritima var. maritima
 * Descurainia pinnata
 * var. brachycarpa
 * var. glabra
 * Lepidium oblongum var. insulare
 * Bergerocactus emoryi
 * Cylindropuntia prolifera
 * Mammillaria dioica
 * Opuntia littoralis
 * Opuntia oricola
 * Silene laciniata ssp. laciniata
 * Spergularia macrotheca var. macrotheca
 * Aphanisma blitoides
 * Atriplex canescens ssp. canescens
 * Atriplex pacifica
 * Atriplex serenana var. davidsonii
 * Chenopodium californicum
 * Extriplex californica
 * Suaeda taxifolia
 * Peritoma arborea var. globosa
 * Calystegia macrostegia
 * ssp. cyclostegia
 * ssp. intermedia
 * Dichondra occidentalis
 * Crassula connata
 * ''Dudleya anomala
 * Dudleya attenuata ssp. attenuata
 * Dudleya candida
 * Dudleya lanceolata
 * Dudleya × semiteres''
 * Marah macrocarpa var. macrocarpa
 * Euphorbia misera
 * Acmispon glaber
 * Acmispon maritimus ssp. brevivexillus
 * Acmispon watsonii
 * Astragalus trichopodus var. lonchus
 * Lupinus succulentus
 * Lupinus truncatus
 * Trifolium willdenovii
 * Vicia hassei
 * Eucrypta chrysanthemifolia var. chrysanthemifolia
 * Phacelia distans
 * Phacelia ixodes var. plumosa
 * Pholistoma auritum
 * Pholistoma racemosum
 * Calochortus splendens
 * Malva occidentalis
 * Cistanthe maritima
 * Claytonia perfoliata ssp. mexicana
 * Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
 * Piperia cooperi
 * Eschscholzia californica
 * Eschscholzia ramosa
 * Papaver heterophyllum
 * Antirrhinum nuttallianum ssp. subsessile
 * Collinsia heterophylla var. heterophylla
 * Nuttallanthus texanus
 * Achnatherum diegoense
 * Agrostis pallens
 * Bromus arizonicus
 * Bromus carinatus
 * Distichlis spicata
 * Elymus condensatus
 * Elymus triticoides
 * Melica imperfecta
 * Muhlenbergia microsperma
 * Nassella pulchra
 * Gilia achilleifolia ssp. abrotanifolia
 * Linanthus dianthiflorus
 * Eriogonum fasciculatum
 * Pterostegia drymarioides
 * Polypodium californicum
 * Pellaea andromedifolia var. pubescens
 * Pentagramma triangularis
 * Clematis pauciflora
 * Delphinium parryi ssp. maritimum
 * Oligomeris linifolia
 * Rhamnus insula
 * Heteromeles arbutifolia
 * Galium angustifolium ssp. angustifolium
 * Galium aparine
 * Galium coronadoense
 * Aesculus parryi
 * Jepsonia parryi
 * Lycium californicum
 * Nicotiana clevelandii
 * Solanum americanum
 * Dichelostemma capitatum ssp. capitatum
 * Parietaria hespera var. californica
 * Phyllospadix scouleri

Fauna
There are colonies of birds that nest on the islands and can be spotted in the nearby waters like gulls, cormorants, pelicans, storm-petrels, and alcids. The Coronado Islands have the largest known colony of the rare Scripps's murrelet. Pilón de Azúcar, better known as Middle Rock, is host to the northernmost nesting colony of brown boobies on the west coast of North America.

Ten species of reptiles and amphibians are also found on the islands. The best known is the Coronado rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus caliginis), which is a smaller subspecies than the one found on the mainland. There is also the Coronado Island gopher snake, which feeds off birds' eggs, the Coronado skink, which is found on all four islands, and the arboreal salamanders which live on the three biggest islands. Southern alligator lizards are found on the north, south and central islands.

There are two types of land mammals on the islands: rabbits and mice. How they reached the islands is currently unknown.

Sea mammals are plentiful and it is not uncommon to see groups of California sea lions and seals. Middle Island is home to a small colony of northern elephant seals.

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 * It is evident in the dominant discourses in the business of commercial and academic study of the management of software development. This provides an illustration of how ontological reductionism is often present as an unquestioned pre-understanding by members of these communities.

 * As an example consider the use of the term "process" as it is commonly used to describe the of development of software products. Here a "process" is used as a representation of a system of transformation applied to defined inputs and which produces defined outputs.  Defined inputs are transformed through a process to produce a defined output.  At its simplest conception a process is an open-ended input/output system similar to or equivalent to algorithmic functions in mathematics and physics.  This use is clearly described when reading either ISO 9001:2000 or ISO/IEC 12207 and conveys the unsubstantiated and unchallenged assumption that a process is a separable standalone unit of work, production or product transformation.  Furthermore, a "process" is assumed to be coupleable such that the outputs of one process can be coupled to the input of another process.  In this way separate ontologically reduced atomic processes can be coupled, joined or grouped together to create a larger system of processes which may in turn be represented as a higher-level process.

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Västgötalagen

Västgötalagen ( or ) or the Västgöta (Westrogothic) law is the oldest Swedish text written in Latin script and the oldest of all Swedish provincial laws. It was compiled in the early 13th century, probably at least partly at the instigation of Eskil Magnusson and was the code of law used in the provinces of Västergötland and Dalsland and in Mo härad during the latter half of that century. The earliest complete text is dated 1281. Small fragments of an older text have been dated 1250.

This legal code exists in two versions, Äldre Västgötalagen and Yngre Västgötalagen (the Elder and Younger Westrogothic law, respectively). A first printing in modern times was published by Hans Samuel Collin and Carl Johan Schlyter in 1827 (which made the text the subject of the earliest known stemma), and a new edition by Gösta Holm in 1976.

The oldest manuscript of Äldre Västgötalagen contains other material added by a priest called Laurentius in Vedum around 1325. This material is of varying nature, including notes on the border between Sweden and Denmark and lists of bishops in Skara, lawspeakers in Västergötland and Swedish kings. The latter begins with Olof Skötkonung and ends with Johan Sverkersson.

In these years, Swedish men left to enlist in the Byzantine Varangian Guard in such numbers that Västgötalagen declared no one could inherit while staying in "Greece"—the then Scandinavian term for the Byzantine Empire—to stop the emigration, especially as two other European courts simultaneously also recruited Scandinavians: Kievan Rus' c. 980–1060 and London 1018–1066 (the Þingalið).

The Older Västgöta Law
The Older Västgöta Law, as other medieval Swedish laws was divided into balkar and then flockar. Below are the titles as indicated by rubrics in the Codex Holmiensis B 59; in one case, the rubric is clearly miswritten.
 * Kirkiu bolkær - About the Church
 * Af mandrapi - About Manslaughter
 * Af særæmalum - About Wounds
 * Af vaþæ sarum - About Accidental Wounds
 * Bardaghæ bolkær - About Fights
 * "Arþær bolkær" - About Non-Compensable Crimes
 * Arfþær bolkær - About Inheritance
 * Giptar bolkær - About Matrimony
 * Retlösæ bolkær - About Lawlessness
 * Iordþær bolkær - About Land
 * Huru myulnu skal gæræ - How a Mill Shall Be Built
 * Þiuuæ bolkær - About Thieves
 * Fornæmix sakir - Cases of Illegal Appropriation
 * Fornæmix bolkær - The Book of Illegal Appropation
 * Lecara rætar - Jester's rights

After this follows other headings in the manuscript, some of which are related to laws and some that are of the interests of an antiquarian.

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Milford, New Zealand

Milford is a suburb located on the North Shore, Auckland. It is located on northern side of Lake Pupuke. It also has a popular swimming beach, which runs some two kilometres from Black Rock in the south to Castor Bay in the north. The Wairau Creek reaches the sea at the Hauraki Gulf at the northern end of Milford Beach, and its lower tidal reaches host the Milford Marina.

Etymology
The first references to Milford Road date from 1892, and the first references to Milford Beach from 1894. The Milford housing estate is first mentioned from 1910, and some of the earliest references to Milford as a suburb date from 1912. The name's origin is associated with early resident Edwin Harrow who settled in the area in 1881. The name is either a reference to Milford House, one Harrow's residences on the shores of Lake Pupuke where his wife lived after they separated, or to his hometown, Milford Haven in Wales.

Geology

The North Shore is primarily uplifted Waitemata Group sandstone, that was deposited on the sea floor during the Early Miocene, between 22 and 16 million years ago. Milford is home to Lake Pupuke, a volcanic maar which is one of the oldest known features of the Auckland volcanic field, erupting an estimated 193,200 years ago. During the eruption of Lake Pupuke, two lava flows travelled eastwards through the area, burning vegetation and encasing the lower 1–2 metres of the tree trunks in lava. The lava solidified into basalt rock, creating the Takapuna Fossil Forest, which was exposed an estimated 7,000 years ago due to coastal erosion.

Prior to human settlement, pōhutukawa trees dominated the coastal margins of the North Shore. The inland North Shore was a mixed podocarp-broadleaf forest dominated by kauri. To the southwest of Milford is Smiths Bush in the Onewa Domain, a remnant native forest, dominated by kahikatea and taraire trees.

Geography
Milford is located on the northern shores of Lake Pupuke, to the west of Milford Beach. A rock formation called Black Rock is found at the eastern end of Milford Beach. Milford is surrounded by the suburbs of Takapuna, Wairau Valley, Forrest Hill and Castor Bay. The Wairau Creek flows through the North Shore, and enters the Rangitoto Channel of the Hauraki Gulf at Milford. The highest point in the suburb is 49 m above sea-level, at the northwestern end of Belmont Terrace.

Māori history
Māori settlement of the Auckland Region began around the 13th or 14th centuries. The Devonport-Takapuna area was one of the earliest settled in the region, known to be settled by the Tāmaki Māori ancestor Peretū. Toi-te-huatahi and his followers settled and interwed with these early peoples. The pā to the north of Milford at Castor Bay, Te Rahopara o Peretū, takes its name from Peretū.

Milford Beach was traditionally known by the name Onemaewao ("The Beach of Maewao"), referring to supernatural beings who in traditional stories lived on the North Shore, Motutapu and Motuihe. Traditional stories tell of a party of Maewao, foraging for shellfish at the beach, perishing when the sun rose.

The warrior Maki migrated from the Kāwhia Harbour to his ancestral home in the Auckland Region, likely sometime in the 17th century. Maki conquered and unified many the Tāmaki Māori tribes as Te Kawerau ā Maki, including those of the North Shore. After Maki's death, his sons settled different areas of his lands, creating new hapū. His younger son Maraeariki settled the North Shore and Hibiscus Coast, who based himself at the head of the Ōrewa River. Maraeariki's daughter Kahu succeeded him, and she is the namesake of the North Shore, Te Whenua Roa o Kahu ("The Greater Lands of Kahu"). Many of the iwi of the North Shore, including Ngāti Manuhiri, Ngāti Maraeariki, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Poataniwha, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki and Ngāti Whātua, can trace their lineage to Kahu.

The headland above Milford beach north of the Wairau Creek mouth was the location of a defensive pā known as Wairoa Pā.

In the 17th century, Ngāti Pāoa attacked the settlements around the Waitematā Harbour, later intermarrying with the Te Kawerau ā Maki and Ngāi Tai people of the southern North Shore. During intertribal war with Ngāpuhi, the pā at Maungauika / North Head was sieged in 1793, leading Ngāti Pāoa to refocus their settlements on Waiheke Island until the 1830s. During the early 1820s, most Māori of the North Shore fled for the Waikato or Northland due to the threat of war parties during the Musket Wars.

Early colonial period

The Milford area was purchased by the Crown on 13 April 1841 as a part of the Mahurangi Block. The first European farmers arrived in the area in 1847. Early European settlers were predominantly from England, Scotland and Ireland, and they established farms around the lake. Crops such as wheat, maize, barley, potatoes and kūmara were grown at these farms, and homesteads planted single acre orchards dominated by plums, apples and peaches. The Milford area was original known as Campbell's Bush, after John Logan Campbell, who had purchased vast tracts of the North Shore, including the location of modern Kitchener Road in Milford.

By the late 1880s, Takapuna and Lake Pupuke had developed into a destination for tourists, with Lake Pupuke being the main attraction. The increase in tourists encouraged farmers to subdivide their lands. The Lake Hotel was constructed, and large summer residences were constructed on the shores of the lake. The Takapuna and Milford Beach areas, as well as the land surrounding Lake Pupuke soon became popular spots for wealthy businessmen building summer homes to entertain in a rural surrounding, and eventually, many moved here permanently, commuting to work in Auckland via ferry.

James Sheriff operated a kauri gum store at Milford, near the Wairau Creek. Due to Sheriff's home and store, Milford became a point where goods were traded between Auckland and the farms surrounding Milford. By 1900, the Wairau Estuary was increasingly polluted, as the stream's catchment had been converted to pasture.

Suburban development

In 1910, a private tramway was established, which conveyed passengers from Milford to the ferry at Bayswater. A group of local businessmen proposed the tramway to Auckland Electric Tramways as a way to improve property prices in Takapuna. After the company declined their request due to the low population of the area, the businessmen established the Takapuna Tramways and Ferry Company Limited, operating both the tram and ferry. The plan was a success, leading to rapid suburban development in Takapuna. The tramway soon became unpopular due to competition, and closed 17 years later on 26 April 1927. The trams led to suburban development at Milford, transforming the area from a rural area into a holidaying community. As a part of the suburban development, a tall footbridge over the Wairau Creek was constructed between Milford and the cliffs of southern Castor Bay.

By the 1920s, Milford became a centre for entertainment. In 1922, two competing cinemas were established in Milford, the Milford Picture Drome and the Bridgeway Theatre. In January 1929, Ye Olde Pirate Shippe was opened. An elaborate dance hall and restaurant designed by James Fletcher to look like a pirate ship, the venue was a popular destination for Aucklanders. This was joined by the Milford swimming pool, opened in 1936. In 1927, the Inga Road bridge was constructed. During World War II, American troops often frequented the pirate ship. Milford lost its prominence as a tourist destination after the war. The pirate ship was demolished in the 1950s, and the pools were removed in 1957.

During the 1920s, Mr. Sands operated a scoria and basalt quarry at Milford, quarrying the small volcanic cone adjacent to Lake Pupuke. The first concrete road was constructed between Milford and Bayswater, and in the mid-1920s a sewage outlet was constructed at Black Rock in Milford.

The Auckland Harbour Bridge opened in 1959, connecting the North Shore to Auckland City in the south. The bridge caused suburbanisation across the North Shore, and led to Milford transitioning from a holiday community to a residential suburb in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1968, an apartment building called the Circle was constructed at the former Goldie family estate, purported to be the first apartment building with 360 views in New Zealand. In the same year, the Milford marina was constructed at the mouth of the Wairau Creek. Two years later, the historic footbridge was demolished. Intended to be reconstructed soon afterwards, the Milford Cruising Club and members of the Takapuna Community Board blocked reconstruction. In 1975, the marina was expanded, which led to a boating industry developing at Milford.

In December 1994, the Milford Shopping Centre opened. It was sold to new proprietors in 2006, and covers 14,000 m2. It consists of 757 carparks and 65 retailers, including The Warehouse and a Countdown supermarket.

In December 2015, the Wairau Stream Pedestrian Bridge was opened.

Demographics
Milford covers 1.53 km2 and had an estimated population of as of  with a population density of  people per km2.

Milford had a population of 5,019 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 252 people (5.3%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 246 people (5.2%) since the 2006 census. There were 2,025 households, comprising 2,358 males and 2,664 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.89 males per female, with 720 people (14.3%) aged under 15 years, 822 (16.4%) aged 15 to 29, 2,262 (45.1%) aged 30 to 64, and 1,215 (24.2%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 72.4% European/Pākehā, 4.1% Māori, 1.2% Pacific peoples, 24.3% Asian, and 3.4% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 40.4, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 50.5% had no religion, 37.8% were Christian, 0.1% had Māori religious beliefs, 1.0% were Hindu, 1.3% were Muslim, 1.5% were Buddhist and 2.1% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 1,602 (37.3%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 408 (9.5%) people had no formal qualifications. 1,182 people (27.5%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 1,980 (46.1%) people were employed full-time, 585 (13.6%) were part-time, and 126 (2.9%) were unemployed.

Local government
The first local government in the area was the Lake Highway District, also known as the Takapuna Highway District, which began operating 1867. In June 1889 the road board was dissolved, in favour of Takapuna being under the direct control of the Waitemata County Council. The Borough of Takapuna was established on 1 July 1913, after 73% of electors in Takapuna voted for independence from the Waitemata County, which included Milford.

After significant growth in population, Takapuna Borough became Takapuna City in 1961. In 1989, Takapuna City was merged into the North Shore City. North Shore City was amalgamated into Auckland Council in November 2010.

Within the Auckland Council, Milford is a part of the Devonport-Takapuna local government area governed by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. It is a part of the North Shore ward, which elects two councillors to the Auckland Council. For national politics, Milford is part of the electorate, which is currently represented by National member of parliament Simon Watts.

Notable people

 * C. F. Goldie – artist
 * Harry Lyon – musician, member of Hello Sailor
 * Dave McArtney – musician, member of Hello Sailor and the Pink Flamingos
 * Don McGlashan – musician, member of Blam Blam Blam and The Mutton Birds

Amenities

 * Milford Beach is one of the most popular beaches on the North Shore. By the 1920s, the beach had increased in popularity enough that the Milford Surf Life Saving Club was formed in 1926, followed by the Milford Girls Surf Club in 1937.
 * Milford Marina, established in the Wairau Creek estuary in the 1960s.
 * Milford Reserve is a public park in Milford, and the former location of the pirate ship dance hall. It is the home of the Milford Cruising Club, the Wairau Stream Pedestrian Bridge to Castor Bay, and Beacon, a 2020 sculpture by Cambodian-New Zealand artist Lang Ea.
 * Lake Pupuke, a freshwater lake located between Milford and Takapuna. Sylvan Park is a nature reserve and park purchased in 1924, which features native karaka, pūriri, taraire and kōwhai trees. The park is a popular location for sailing and rowing events on the lake.
 * Brian Byrnes Reserve, home to the Milford Bowling Club, established in 1975.
 * Milford Centre, a shopping centre in Milford.
 * St Paul's Anglican Church Milford. First holding services from 1914, the first church building in Milford was constructed in 1927. The current church was constructed in 1955.
 * Milford Baptist Church
 * Saint Vincent de Paul Church, a Catholic church constructed in 1949.

Education
Carmel College is a girls' secondary (years 7-13) school with a roll of. It is a state integrated Catholic school, which was founded in 1957.

Milford School is a coeducational contributing primary (years 1-6) school with a roll of. It opened in 1926 as a spillover from Takapuna School, and became an independent school in 1946.

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Bernard King

Bernard King (born December 4, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player at the small forward position in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 14 seasons with the New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, and Washington Bullets. King is a four-time NBA All-Star, four-time All-NBA selection and led the NBA in scoring in the 1984–85 season. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2013. His younger brother, Albert, also played in the NBA during his career.

New Jersey Nets
King attended college at the University of Tennessee and played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers. The New York Nets selected King with the seventh overall pick in the 1977 NBA draft, Months later, the Nets relocated from Uniondale, New York, to New Jersey and became known as the New Jersey Nets.

In 1977–78, his rookie season, King set a New Jersey Nets franchise record for most points scored in a season with 1,909, at 24.2 points per game. For his efforts, he was named to the NBA all-rookie first team and placed third in NBA Rookie of the Year voting, behind Walter Davis and Marques Johnson. He would surpass this record with his 2,027-point season in 1983–84, earning the first of his back-to-back All-NBA First Team selections.

Utah Jazz
King played for the Utah Jazz in the 1979–80 season and averaged 9.3 points per game in 19 games.

Golden State Warriors
The Jazz traded King to the Golden State Warriors before the 1980–81 season. Over two years, he averaged 21.9 points per game, in his first year playing alongside players such as 1980 NBA All-Star World B. Free, Joe Barry Carroll, and Clifford Ray and 23.2 points per game in his second year with the team. Just before the start of the 1982–83 season, King was traded to the New York Knicks in exchange for Micheal Ray Richardson.

New York Knicks
On a Texas road trip on January 31 and February 1, 1984, King made history by becoming the first player since Rick Barry in 1967 to score at least 50 points in consecutive games. He scored 50 points on 20 for 30 shooting with 10 free throws in a 117–113 Knicks' victory over the San Antonio Spurs on January 31. King followed this with another 50-point performance at Dallas, setting a Reunion Arena single-game scoring record in the process. He scored 11 points in both the first and second quarters and 14 points in both the third and fourth quarters. King drew 13 fouls on Dallas Mavericks defenders, including Mark Aguirre, who fouled out. King shot 20 for 28 from the field with 10 free throws in the 105–98 win over the Mavericks.

The next season, on Christmas Day, 1984, King lit up the New Jersey Nets for 60 points in a losing effort, becoming just the tenth player in NBA history to score 60 or more points in a single game. King had scored 40 points by halftime, and finished the game with 19 of 30 shooting from the field and 22 of 26 from the free throw line.

At the peak of his career, however, King suffered a devastating injury to his right leg while planting it under the hoop attempting to block a dunk by Kansas City King Reggie Theus. The March 23, 1985, injury, which included a torn anterior cruciate ligament, torn knee cartilage, and broken leg bone, required major reconstruction, causing King to miss all of the 1985–86 season. To that point no NBA player had returned to form after such a potentially career-ending injury, surgery, and loss of time.

Rehabilitating completely out of the media spotlight, King drove himself back into competitive shape. Despite averaging 22.7 points per game during his first six games back, he had not recovered his pre-injury explosiveness and was released by the Knicks at the end of the 1987 season.

Washington Bullets
King spent the 1987–88 season climbing back to his former stature as a scorer with the Washington Bullets. That season, during which King, fellow all-star journeyman Moses Malone, and Jeff Malone teamed up to form a formidable trio, would be the only time Washington made the playoffs during King's tenure. In the first round, the Bullets lost a contested five-game series 3–2 against the up-and-coming Detroit Pistons, who would go on to make the NBA Finals.

On November 3, 1990, King scored 44 points in a win over Michael Jordan and the Bulls, which was the most points King had scored in a game since his devastating 1985 knee injury. On December 29, in a game against the Denver Nuggets, King scored a season high 52 points in a 161–133 victory. It was the most points a Washington player had scored since the team moved from Baltimore in 1972. That season, King was selected to his fourth all-star team.

From 1989 to 1991, King averaged 20-plus points in three consecutive seasons. His scoring average peaked at 28.4 points per game at age 34 in 1991, which included ten games where King scored more than 40 points.

New Jersey Nets
After a year-and-a-half hiatus due to yet another knee injury, King returned for a 32-game stint with the New Jersey Nets at the end of the 1992–93 season, until knee problems forced him to retire from the NBA permanently.

Player profile
At 6ft 7in and 205 pounds, King was an explosive, high-scoring small forward utilizing long arms and a quick release. King was a tremendous scorer, and led the NBA in scoring in the season with 32.9 points per game.

NBA career statistics
King retired with 19,655 points in 874 games, good for a 22.5 points per game average and number 16 on the all-time NBA scoring list at the time of his retirement.

Awards and recognition
At the age of 24, King won the NBA Comeback Player of the Year Award for his play during the 1980–1981 season with the Golden State Warriors. That year, King averaged 21.9 points per game after having played just 19 games the season before with the Utah Jazz.

On February 13, 2007, Bernard King's number 53 was retired at the halftime of the Tennessee-Kentucky basketball game at Thompson–Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tennessee. His jersey number was the first jersey number retired by the Volunteers, who later retired the number of Ernie Grunfeld, King's former teammate. The late 1970s Tennessee men's basketball team was known as the "Ernie and Bernie Show" (in reference to Grunfeld and King) and is viewed by many as the golden age of UT men's basketball. During an ESPN interview after halftime, King stated he had not returned to the University of Tennessee in more than 30 years, but expressed his sincere appreciation to the university and his plans to return again. His reason for not visiting his alma mater was simply that he had not been asked. King's ceremony punctuated an 89–85 Tennessee victory over the visiting Wildcats.

During the 2006 NBA All-Star Game, a panel of basketball analysts for the TNT network selected Bernard King as one of nominees of the "Next 10", a list of 10 unofficial additions to the NBA's 50 greatest players list in honor of the NBA's 60th anniversary.

In 2013, he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame with inductees such as Rick Pitino and Gary Payton.

Broadcasting career
King is now working as a part-time broadcaster for NBA TV as well as the MSG Network, filling in on some occasions as color commentator when Walt Frazier is on vacation.

Acting career
King made an appearance in Miami Vice as Matt Ferguson, son of Judge Roger Ferguson (played by Bill Russell), a basketball star with the fictitious Florida Sunblazers in the episode "The Fix". He also appeared in the 1979 movie Fast Break (with Reb Brown).

Legal Troubles
In July 1977, a month after being drafted by the Nets, King was arrested and charged with burglary for breaking into a UT athletics building to steal a television set. He had earlier been suspended from the Tennessee team after being arrested for marijuana possession (later acquitted), drunk driving, and resisting arrest (all later dropped), which stemmed from an arrest after police were called by a woman who said a man was trying to break into her apartment, and upon arrival they found King in the hallway.

In December 1978, King was arrested by the NYPD while sleeping in his car with "less than $10 worth" of cocaine on hand, and was charged with several misdemeanors, later dropped.

In January 1980, King was arrested in Salt Lake City after complaint of forcible sexual assault by a woman. Facing a possible 10-year sentence, he took multiple lie detector tests to support his assertion that he had been so intoxicated he had no recollection of the events in question. That June, he would plead guilty to a reduced charge of attempted forcible sexual abuse, and received a fine and suspended sentence.

In his 2017 autobiography, King would say that he battled alcohol addiction in the late 1970s, and that it was "the darkest period of my life". Following his early-1980 arrest, he spent a month at a California rehab center, and then sought help through Alcoholics Anonymous.

After his playing career was over, more troubles followed. In August 1994, an intoxicated King was arrested in New York and charged with assaulting a 22-year-old woman in his apartment, after allegedly grabbing her around the neck in an altercation (for which she was treated for bruises at a local hospital). In October 2004, King was again arrested in New York for battery of his wife Shana, who told authorities he had pushed her to the ground three times; the incident left her black and blue with bruises on her eye and swelling on her forehead. The charges were dropped after King agreed to marriage counseling sessions, but the incident cost King a promotional relationship with local property developer Bruce Ratner, as well as resulting in his name being removed as an honoree of the Brooklyn Public Library.

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User:REM

僕のハンドルは「佐竹涼一郎」、もしくは「REM」、もしくは「参謀中佐」といいます。 ウィキの日本語版では参謀中佐と名乗っています。

The steering wheel on my web is said, "Ryoichiro Satake(佐竹涼一郎)" or "REM" or "Staff commander(参謀中佐)". I in "Japanese" version of Wikipedia am introducing myself, "利用者:参謀中佐". 利用者:参謀中佐

実を言うと僕の打ち込んだ英語ほど怪しいものはない。 何があやしいかって言えば、中学・高校・大学と英語ではろくな目にあっていないからだ。 大学じゃ、必修なのに落として再履修だったし……(TдT) そんなわけで、自動翻訳にかけて出てきたものに多少手を加えている。 まあ大目に見てやって下さい（笑）

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Faversham railway station

Faversham railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the town of Faversham, Kent. It is 51 mi down the line from London Victoria. The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern.

History
The original 1858 station (built for the East Kent Railway) was rebuilt in 1898 and is an example of London, Chatham & Dover Railway architecture. The buildings are Grade II listed, and have been well maintained by Network Rail in recent years. A brick engine shed (also Grade II listed ) has, however, fallen into ruinous condition at the junction to the east of the station, mainly due to its inaccessibility. A further engine shed, formerly on the Faversham Creek spur has now been renovated and converted as offices. Sidings and other small buildings remain, some a legacy from pre-electrification days (1959) when Faversham Shed (73E) was of some importance. The spur line to Faversham Creek has now disappeared and incorporated into a housing development. The track ran along Standard Quay (a building beside the creek). In 1967, the track on Standard Quay was lifted, although a tiny section survives and Iron Wharf still has a few railway goods vans, now used by the boating fraternity. The brick built signal box dated from 1959 when electrification was completed. In 2009 preparatory works were completed before services to London St Pancras via Ebbsfleet International commenced on 13 December 2009. This forms part of the UK's first domestic high speed service (beyond Gravesend) with typical journey times of around 65 minutes. The Chatham Main Line was re-signalled east of Faversham during 2011, and the Faversham signal box was decommissioned in late December (still remaining in situ in August 2014). Signalling responsibilities were transferred to the power box at Gillingham.

Faversham had a barrow crossing but the section to platforms 1 and 2 was removed in 2009 to enable a platform extension as part of a multimillion-pound signalling and platform upgrade. Replacement 'platform' lifts were installed in March 2012, but they were not in use until later in the year. Replacement lifts were installed in December 2018 in a joint project between Southeastern Railway and Network Rail. They are of a better design with automatic sliding doors, one-touch operation and incorporating cctv at all levels and inside the fully enclosed lift car; they were officially opened by the Faversham MP Helen Whately on 14 December 2018.

Accidents and incidents

 * In May 1862, a passenger train was derailed due to defective track. Three people were killed.

Services
All services at Faversham are operated by Southeastern using  and  EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

 * 2 tph to London St Pancras International
 * 2 tph to London Victoria
 * 1 tph to Dover Priory via Canterbury East
 * 2 tph to Ramsgate

Additional services including trains to and from London Bridge and London Cannon Street call at the station in the peak hours.

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Screenshot of the opening title sequence of from the BBC television serial Quatermass and the Pit

Source : Screenshot from a DVD copy of Quatermass and the Pit created and uploaded by User:Angmering. Image copyright for the production is owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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 * The article is about a BBC television drama programme from 1958, and as such is almost impossible to illustrate without using copyrighted images. This is an alternative to that.

 * The image is used for informational purposes only and is not believed to detract from the original production in any way.

 * The production is a major example of BBC television drama and British science fiction on television.

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Cindy (film)

Cindy is a 1978 American musical television movie, shot on videotape and first broadcast on the ABC television network, with an entirely African-American cast. Directed by William A. Graham, the film is an urbanized retelling of Cinderella.

Plot
After World War II, Cindy (Woodard) has moved from the south to live in Harlem with her newly blended family. She finds herself constantly abused by her stepmother and stepsisters. Her father (Mitchell) provides some comfort but cannot prevent the abuse entirely. One night, she meets Captain Joe Prince (Davis) and is swept off her feet. A romance soon ensues.

Cast

 * Charlayne Woodard as Cindy
 * Cleavant Derricks as Michael Simpson
 * Mae Mercer as Sara Hayes
 * Nell Carter as Olive
 * Alaina Reed Hall as Venus
 * Scoey Mitchell as Cindy's Father
 * Clifton Davis as Captain Joe Prince
 * W. Benson Terry as Miles Archer

Musical numbers
All songs are composed by Stan Daniels, unless otherwise noted.
 * "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" (Charles Wesley)—Cindy and Cast
 * "Sugar Hill Ball"—Olive, Venus, and Cindy
 * "Your Feet's Too Big" (Fred Fisher, Ada Benson)—Fats Waller
 * "Men's Room Attendant"—Cindy's Father and Male Chorus
 * "When It Happens"—Joe, Cindy, Olive, Venus, and Sara
 * "Love Is the Magic"—Cindy

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Sunset High School (Portland)

comments taken from kingturtle's talk page
I've been looking for the Votes for Deletion log showing where there was a consensus to blank Westview High School (Beaverton), Southridge High School, Sunset High School (Portland) and redirect them to Beaverton School District. Were they nominated for deletion, or did the discussion just take place at Talk:Sunset High School (Portland)? Thanks much. --BaronLarf 17:34, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * The discussion took place in VfD and is archived in Talk:Sunset High School (Portland)]. I am using that discussion to justify my actions of the other two high school articles in question. The general question regarding such schools is listed in [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy/schools and Are high schools encyclopedic?. Kingturtle 20:36, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't see a consensus to merge here; I count 3 deletes, 4 keeps and 1 merge.  Either way, when there is a lack of consensus, the result should be to keep.  I realize that merging and redirecting isn't considered deletion by some, rather just a form of being bold.  I don't believe that the two articles you reference are wikipedia policy. Since I doubt that we can come to agreement on this, and since these articles are being blanked and redirected, reverted, then reverted back, etc, perhaps this should be brought to VfD again for community comment.  Cheers. --BaronLarf 01:43, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * That VfD discussion culminated on 29 Nov 2003 with Martin saying The "result of the debate" (read, what I decided to do) was to redirect it to Beaverton School District, which already had most of the info from here.. I recently came across the Sunset High School (Portland) article while doing some Random Page edits. I read the TALK page and saw that the redirect had been removed, and so I put the redirect back. Kingturtle 01:48, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

the issue of school articles
I have given up on the school issue. Schools are not inherently notable and should be decided on a case by case basis, but the radical inclusionists have won, and I've stopped voting. RickK 02:13, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

I voted on the issue you left for me. --Spinboy 02:29, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I am not so interested in simple votes either way. I want us to put together a policy that we can all agree on. Kingturtle 02:31, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure why this school issue has dragged on for so long. Most other subjects that were major and contentious VfD issues a year ago (lists of trivia, recipes) have largely been settled and now rarely appear on VfD.  For schools this has not been the case. There was even a poll done awhile ago that had a large turnout, for the time, and reached a strong consensus that in general articles on schools should not be deleted.  This poll led to only a temporary cease-fire and by last fall schools again began appearing en masse on VfD with some of them getting deleted. It would be great to establish a broad consensus (or even revive the old one) but it is pointless if it only lasts a short while. - SimonP 02:53, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * I would like to create a consensus on this, but efforts to do so in the past have failed. SimonP is the only person who thinks that said poll establishes a clear consensus (the article in question clearly explains why it isn't consensual). In general, people judge articles on their merit - for instance, articles on people can clearly be sorted into noteworthy and vanity, and the latter deleted (with some discussion on VfD). For reasons that elude me, people react very angrily and strongly to anything related to high schools, resulting in polarizing factionalism which seems to make discussion impossible.
 * Thus, several people vote an automatic 'keep' on high schools on general principle, and other people react to that by voting an automatic 'delete' on general principle. Both are not particularly useful. The end result is that school articles are kept or deleted not on their merit, but on whoever happens to be voting that week, and whatever admin happens to be closing the vote. That is unWikiPedic. Someone has reacted to this by attempting to gather as many votes in his favor as possible, but thankfully that person has now been blocked for disruption. Votes are not discussion. WP:WIN a democracy. Polls are evil. Etc.
 * Anyway to get back to the policy issue - what I'd suggest is that 1) you wait a couple of weeks until the current hotheadedness has boiled down a bit; then 2) create a Wikipedia page to discuss this (by which I specifically do not mean vote on this) (and also this shouldn't be a VfD article but rather something like Wikipedia/School discussion) and 3) advertise this page on the Village Pump, on WP:Watch, on Wikiproject:Schools and on VfD, and wherever else you think is appropriate.
 * Hope that helps. Yours, Radiant_* 09:57, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually after the poll many users felt that consensus had been established . There was then a period of several months when few schools were listed and pretty much none were deleted. (See the earliest section of Votes for deletion/High schools). By the time schools began to be relisted, however, the cast of characters on VfD had largely changed and the poll was mostly forgotten. - SimonP 12:04, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * In other words, the consensus has since changed, and thus said vote is no longer relevant, and you cannot hold current people to a past consensus. Radiant_* 12:19, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * That would be true if VfD was an accurate measure of the general consensus. As I recall the era before the first poll was similar to how it is now with a fair proportion of nominated schools getting deleted. I was thus quite surprised by how clearly the outcome of that poll was pro-schools.  VfD, not unsurprisingly, tends to attract those people interested in deleting things. Polls brought to the attention of wider community (e.g. those on recipes, fame and importance, and schools one) tend to get a more liberal outcome than the many smaller polls on VfD. For instance see the votes on Talk:List of recipes/Delete, it shows several standard votes that had unanimity in favour of deletion and the main poll that saw an even split between keeps and deletes. - SimonP 21:06, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * Point is you can't generalize and assume that something that was true two years ago still holds true now, or that something applying to recipes necessarily applies to schools. That is called a false cause. By the way there are a number of strong inclusionists that frequent VfD - such as yourself, Kappa, and David Gerard. So it's simply not true that VfD is obviously biased towards deletionism. By the way why are we discussing this on Kingturtle's talk page? Radiant_* 23:04, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * I personally would not describe myself as an inclusionist I agree with 99.9% of deletions and for long periods I was the person who did much of the deleting. I also don't think I vote much on VfD. At most I comment on one or two articles per day. Also that there are people doing yeoman's work such as Kappa and David Gerard does not disprove that there is a bias. I did an analysis of VfD over a period of a few days back in January. I found that a group of ten users cast 49% of all VfD votes. These were Geogre, Improv, Bill, Siroxo, Dpbsmith, Nadavspi, RickK, Mandel, Wile E. Heresiarch, Chriscf, and Meelar. Of that group there was only one person who consistently voted to keep disputed articles (Siroxo) and five who consistently supported deletion (Geogre, Improv, RickK, Mandel, and Wile E. Heresiarch). This conversation is getting off topic, however, and we should probably stop bombarding Kingturtle's user page. - SimonP 05:18, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Sorry to bother you, Kingturtle. Consider this the modern version of Plato's Dialogues :) Radiant_* 07:53, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)


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Summary
Screenshot of actor Cec Linder from the BBC television serial Quatermass and the Pit

Licensing
Source : Screenshot from a DVD copy of Quatermass and the Pit created and uploaded by User:Angmering. Image copyright for the production is owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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 * The production is s a major example of BBC television drama and British science fiction on television.

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Pok

Pok or POK may refer to:
 * Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, the name used by India for the portion of Kashmir under Pakistani administration
 * Pantoate kinase or PoK, an enzyme
 * P.O.K. (Podosfairikes Omades Kentrou), a former coalition of football teams of Athens
 * Pok (genus), a Hungarian medieval clan
 * Pok, a character in the Pok & Mok animated series
 * Pok, a dialect of the Sabaot language of Kenya
 * Pok, Malaysia, a settlement in Sarawak, Malaysia
 * Pokesdown railway station's station code
 * Prophecy of Kings, an expansion to the 2017 board game Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition

People with the surname

 * Pok Shau-fu (1909–2000), Hong Kong journalist
 * Pál Pók (1929–1982), Hungarian water polo player

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Svansven

 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. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 15:38, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Svansven
"Svansven is a website with pictures and stories about one certain groups of teenagers living in the city of Stavanger, Norway." Its main page hit counter, starting almost exactly two years ago, shows 11579 visits, or just shy of 16 per day on average. It is the top Google result for "Svansven," but there are very few. Samaritan 11:12, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to norwegianwiki and then VfD it over there. Norwiki is much better able to figure out if this should be deleted. Klonimus 16:00, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, about as non-notable as it gets, and don't foist this off on no: unless it's actually written in Norwegian. —Korath (Talk) 01:13, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, NN website. Radiant_* 08:09, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.