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Chief of Defence (Denmark)

The Chief of Defence of Denmark (Forsvarschefen), acting under the statutory responsibility of the Minister of Defence, is the chief of defence and commander of the Royal Danish Army, the Royal Danish Navy and the Royal Danish Air Force. The Chief of Defence is the principal military adviser to the Minister of Defence and the head of the Defence Command.

The Chief of Defence is the highest-ranking military officer on active duty in the Danish Armed Forces and has the rank of four-star General (or Admiral if from the Navy) (OF-9), and supervises roughly 93% of all military spending in Denmark.

The Danish Home Guard and Defence intelligence is directly under the Ministry of Defence, only in times of war will the Home Guard Command be transferred to the Defence Command, and thus come under the authority of the Chief of Defence.

The job was traditionally rotated evenly between the army, navy and air force. This tradition was abandoned in 2012. There is no fixed length of time associated with the position, the contract however currently has to be renewed every 5 years.

List of officeholders
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 * Admiral
 * Admiral
 * 1 October 1950
 * 30 September 1962
 * Navy
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 * General Kurt Rudolph Ramberg.jpg
 * General
 * 1 October 1962
 * 30 November 1972
 * Air force
 * 3
 * General Otto Blixenkrone-Møller.jpg
 * General
 * 3
 * General Otto Blixenkrone-Møller.jpg
 * General
 * 1 December 1972
 * 30 April 1977
 * Army
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 * General
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 * General Knud Jørgensen.png
 * General
 * 1 May 1977
 * 30 September 1984
 * Air force
 * 5
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 * General
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 * General Otto K. Lind.png
 * General
 * 1 October 1984
 * 30 November 1985
 * Army
 * Army

Sven Eigil Thiede (1924–2005) Jørgen Lyng (born 1934) Hans Jørgen Garde (1939–1996) Christian Hvidt (born 1942) Hans Jesper Helsø (born 1948) Tim Sloth Jørgensen (born 1951) Bjørn Bisserup (born 1960) acting Knud Bartels (born 1952) Bjørn Bisserup (born 1960) acting Peter Bartram (born 1961) Bjørn Bisserup (born 1960) Flemming Lentfer (born 1964) Michael Hyldgaard (born 1964) acting
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 * Admiral
 * Admiral
 * 1 December 1985
 * 31 October 1989
 * Navy
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 * General
 * 7
 * Official Jørgen Lyng portrait.jpg
 * General
 * 1 November 1989
 * 31 March 1996
 * Army
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 * Admiral Hans Jørgen Garde.jpg
 * Admiral
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 * Admiral
 * 1 April 1996
 * 3 August 1996 †
 * Navy
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 * style="background:#e6e6aa;"| 3 August 1996
 * style="background:#e6e6aa;"| 20 August 1996
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 * 20 August 1996
 * 30 September 2002
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 * General
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 * General Hans Jesper Helsø.jpg
 * General
 * General
 * 1 October 2002
 * 31 July 2008
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 * 1 August 2008
 * 4 October 2009
 * Navy
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 * 5 October 2009
 * 15 November 2009
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 * 16 November 2009
 * 2 January 2012
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 * Lieutenant general
 * 2 January 2012
 * 20 March 2012
 * Army
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 * General
 * 20 March 2012
 * 10 January 2017
 * Army
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 * Bjørn Bisserup General 2017.jpg
 * General
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 * General
 * 10 January 2017
 * 1 December 2020
 * Army
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 * 1 December 2020
 * 3 April 2024
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 * General
 * 3 April 2024
 * Incumbent
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Urban adult contemporary

Urban adult contemporary, often abbreviated as urban AC or UAC, (also known as adult R&B, ) is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format. Radio stations using this format usually would not have hip hop music on their playlists, and generally include some mix of contemporary R&B and traditional R&B (while urban oldies stations emphasize only the latter). Urban adult contemporary playlists generally consist of many different genres that originated amongst Black Americans including R&B, soul, funk, disco, jazz, pop, hip-hop, electro, quiet storm, gospel, new jack swing, and hip-hop soul.

Summary
The format usually plays some classic R&B hits, as well as hits that are ten years old or more. Classic dance music also has a great impact in this format. Disc jockeys use a more relaxed sound than their younger counterparts. News and current events have a major impact on the older audience. Around the evening, urban AC stations play smooth jazz during the Quiet Storm program. Many of the urban AC radio stations implement slogans such as "Classic Soul & Today's R&B", "(City/Region)'s Old School and R&B Station", "The Best Mix of R&B", and "(City/Region)'s R&B Leader." Some popular nicknames for urban oldies stations include "Magic" (borrowed from the adult contemporary format), "Mix" and "Star" (both borrowed from the Hot AC format), and "KISS-FM" (borrowed from top 40/CHR). WBLS in New York City, which is the flagship station of the urban contemporary format, was one of the first stations to introduce the urban AC format in 1994. WRKS-FM (also in New York City) introduced the first 24-hour classic soul radio station in the country. Urban AC stations usually target the 18-49 and 25-54 age groups.

Many urban AC stations rely heavily on syndicated programming such as The Steve Harvey Morning Show and The D. L. Hughley Show. Cumulus Media Networks also operates a 24/7 urban AC format delivered to affiliated stations via satellite, called "The Touch", which is common on smaller- and medium-market stations featuring the urban AC format.

KJLH in Los Angeles is one urban AC station whose playlist heavily emphasizes current material.

While artists were once reluctant to be on urban AC because it made them look "old", by 2024, young people had become a major part of the format. With mainstream urban becoming more of a hip-hop format, R&B was less of a factor there. Urban AC played more of a role in introducing records and artists than it had been. It was also more popular than mainstream urban.

Urban oldies
"Urban oldies" refers to R&B music dating back to the late 1950s/early 1960s through the early 1990s. Although African Americans are the primary audience, radio stations playing this type of music often attract White listeners because R&B is one of the roots of rock and roll. A more mass-appeal version of the format is rhythmic oldies, which attracts both white and black listeners, as well as Latino listeners (particularly in the Southwest United States). One of the first stations to play this type of music was WRKS-FM (98.7 Kiss FM). In December 1994, Emmis Broadcasting transformed Kiss FM into the first station to play urban oldies music on a regular basis. The format was an instant hit with black and white listeners around the Greater New York area, reaching to number two on the Arbitron ratings.

Before WRKS, many of the stations playing this music were on AM radio. Primary artists included The Isley Brothers, McFadden & Whitehead, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations. One of the first stations to try the format was WSID in Baltimore in the late 1950s/1960s/1970s. WDGS in the Louisville market had a full-range urban AC format, with no rap music, as early as 1985. WDGS neatly substituted jazz, blues and urban/soul gold for the 35% of the playlists that were rap/hip-hop at the time, while playing 65% non-rap urban currents, to wide acclaim. WJMO in Cleveland and WVOL in Nashville were some of the early converts. KHYS in Houston switched to the format in 1999. KCJZ in San Antonio followed suit 7 months later. Early in 1994, M Street Journal reported 33 radio stations in the format, compared to 14 a year earlier. Many of these were affiliates of the Satellite Music Network format Urban Gold, which had 27 stations six months after starting October 1, 1993. Steve Harris, the SMN manager for urban radio, said no black radio stations had targeted adults over 35. Consultant Tony Gray said older adults did not like contemporary music, which had few tunes that had proved they could stand the test of time. And hip hop was becoming a bigger part of contemporary radio. Another factor was the availability of older records in remastered form. Hurricane Dave Smith of WJJJ in Pittsburgh, which had switched from smooth jazz, doubted the format would succeed on FM radio, but he believed listeners who enjoyed older songs were used to AM. Sean Ross of WGCI in Chicago believed the format could work either place, but stations that selected it would be those desiring something different. The satellite format focused on the years 1967 to 1978, but also played songs from as far back as 1963 and as recent as the early 1980s. Included were both ballads and uptempo songs. WGCI even played songs from the 1950s, including Unforgettable by Nat King Cole, though Ross said even teenagers liked the station because they had learned about older songs from their parents, and because newer versions of old songs were being recorded. Other stations included WRBO 103.5 in Memphis, WNPL in Nashville, KMEZ in New Orleans and WPLZ in Richmond.

In addition to WRBO, urban oldies stations include WATV (AM) in Birmingham, Alabama, and KAJM in Phoenix. Some urban oldies stations refer to this format as "old school," for example, WOSL in Cincinnati.

Name controversy
There is disagreement in the music industry over the use of the term urban in describing music genres and formats. In June 2020, Republic Records and artist management company Milk & Honey stated that they would drop the use of the word in relation to music of a black origin. These decisions came in the wake of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police and the subsequent protests.

Lance Venta of radio industry publication RadioInsight claimed that the term urban is outdated in that R&B and hip hop music have gained massive popularity outside the inner cities and the descriptor should not serve as a euphemism for "black music". He recommended substituting the terms adult R&B for the urban adult contemporary format and hip hop for urban contemporary.

Myron Fears, operations manager and program director of the black owned Carter Broadcast Group in Kansas City, defended the use of the urban tag. Responding to Republic's elimination of the term, he expressed concern that the action diminishes the status of black music executives within record companies and the industry as a whole: "I do not think it’s a great idea because it nullifies all the hard work that past African American music executives built. This potentially leads to the dissolving of people and positions within the Urban music division. Hip Hop and R&B is leading the way for the surge in music sales and usage of streaming. Are the other positions, titles and departments within a record company going to change or dissolve? ... Do they realize the cultural power of Urban Music?"

- Myron Fears, Carter Broadcast Group operations manager/program director

In 2024, Billboard quoted P Music Group founder Michael Paran, who said of the magazine's Adult R&B chart, "the chart is named wrong ... Let's call it what it is: It's just R&B." More younger people were showing up on a chart that had been dominated by "legacy acts".

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Cheltenham Spa railway station

Cheltenham Spa railway station serves the spa town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England. Situated on the Bristol-Birmingham main line, it is managed by Great Western Railway, despite most services being operated by CrossCountry which does not manage any stations. It is located about one mile from the town centre. The official name of the town is simply Cheltenham but, when the station was renamed in 1925, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway chose to add Spa to the station name. It is a key regional interchange and is the busiest station in Gloucestershire, as well as one of the busiest railway stations in South West England.

History
The first railway to Cheltenham was the broad-gauge Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway (C&GWUR), authorised by Act of Parliament in 1836, and opened between Cheltenham and Gloucester in 1840. In the same year, the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (B&GR) opened its line between Cheltenham and Bromsgrove, whence trains ran on mixed-gauge tracks to Gloucester. Both railways had their own stations, but the B&GR station, which was then on the edge of the town and was named Lansdown after a housing development in that area, is the only one remaining. The buildings were designed by the architect Samuel Daukes and the station was opened by the B&GR on 24 June 1840 as Lansdown.

The C&GWUR was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1844, and the B&GR by the Midland Railway in 1846. Within the town, there were three other passenger railway stations: Malvern Road, St James's and Cheltenham South and Leckhampton; there was also High Street Halt and the Racecourse Platform, open only on race days.

From 1892 there was a route from Cheltenham to the docks at Southampton, via Andoversford and the Midland and South Western Junction Railway.

The station was renamed Cheltenham Spa (Lansdown) on 1 February 1925 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and renamed again as Cheltenham Spa by British Railways at some point after 1 January 1948.

Stationmasters

 * William Turnbull 1844–1872 (discharged for failing to report his ticket collector for fraud)
 * Joseph Vizard Bendall 1872 –1900 (formerly station master at Harpenden)
 * Henry Ward 1900–1907 (afterwards station master at Bedford)
 * Horace E. Horne 1907 –1909 (formerly station master at Harpenden)
 * Charles Williams 1910–1913 (formerly station master at Hay)
 * G.Preston Heggs 1913–1914 (afterwards station master at Sheffield)
 * Henry Pitt 1914 -1918 (formerly station master at Rushden)
 * Arthur Ernest Chandler 1918–1928 (afterwards station master at Burton upon Trent)
 * John Richard Needham from 1956 (formerly station master at Lancaster Green Ayre)

Services

Cheltenham Spa station is served by 8 to 12 trains every hour during the daytime on Mondays to Saturdays; services are less frequent on Sundays. Three train operating companies services stop here:

 * Great Western Railway operates approximately hourly trains to Swindon via Gloucester; some services extend through to, Reading and London Paddington. One train to/from London Paddington per day is extended to Worcester Shrub Hill, calling additionally at Ashchurch for Tewkesbury. GWR also operates local services on the Bristol (Temple Meads/Parkway) to Gloucester and Worcester Shrub Hill route; these serve Cheltenham every two hours each way, with some southbound services continuing onwards to Westbury and Weymouth.

 * CrossCountry trains call on three routes: Cardiff Central to Birmingham New Street/Nottingham; the longer-distance Penzance/Plymouth - Glasgow Central route, with extensions to Aberdeen; and Bristol Temple Meads – Manchester Piccadilly. All three of these services run hourly each way, giving a net half-hourly service to Bristol Temple Meads and three departures per hour to/from Birmingham New Street. CrossCountry also operate a morning service to Stansted Airport and summer Saturday trains to Newquay.

 * Transport for Wales operate approximately hourly trains on a route to Maesteg, via Newport, Cardiff Central and Bridgend; TfW also run a service between Chepstow and Gloucester.

Redevelopment proposals
In early 2012, Cheltenham Council released a concept statement promoting various enhancements at the station. In March 2013, the Gloucestershire Local Transport Body (LTB) asked for bids from the local area for transport projects which could be funded in the period 2015 to 2019. A proposal to significantly enhance the station with new passenger facilities, and install a new south-facing bay platform to enable trains to reverse and increase capacity, was put forward.

During the development phase of the submission, it was found that two new bay platforms were required. This configuration formed the basis of a station regeneration proposal that was submitted to the Gloucestershire Local Transport Body for consideration in early March 2013. Following short-listing to stage 2, a second funding proposal was submitted in May 2013. Proposals for the station and various other transport schemes were published for public consultation on the LTB website in the same month, and the LTB allocated £3.3million to the scheme, which had an estimated total cost of £20million.

In February 2014, the scheme was shelved after both Network Rail and train operator First Great Western refused to back the portion of the proposals relating to the additional platforms, though they were supportive of the need to upgrade other passenger facilities, i.e. station building & taxi/bus interchange improvements and better car parking.

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Charles Shepherd

Charles Shepherd may refer to:

 * Charles Shepherd (photographer) (died 1878), British photographer
 * Charles Shepherd (character), a character in Ice, a Christian science fiction novel
 * Charles Shepherd (boxer) (born 1970), former British, Commonwealth and World Super Featherweight boxing champion
 * Charles Shepherd (field hockey) (1887–1968), Welsh field hockey player
 * Chuck Shepherd, editor of News of the Weird

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Mechanised Infantry Regiment

The Mechanised Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army, comprising 27 battalions (including 3 tracked and 2 wheeled reconnaissance and support battallions) dispersed under various armoured formations throughout India. Together with the 23 battalions of Brigade of the Guards, they form part of the Mechanised Infantry arm, which along with the Armoured Corps form the Mechanised Forces.

History
The Mechanised Infantry Regiment is one of the youngest regiments in the army and was the mastermind of General K Sundarji, who had the foresight to cater to the needs of a modern army. After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, a need was felt to give infantry battalions greater mobility, especially when operating with armoured formations. In 1969, 1st Madras became the first infantry unit to be equipped with the armoured personnel carrier (APC) TOPAS. In 1970, nine more of the oldest battalions from various infantry regiments were equipped with APCs, these included TOPAS, SKOT and BTR-60. These battalions remained affiliated with their erstwhile Infantry Regiments and Regimental Centres and did not form a separate regiment. Eventually, fourteen old infantry battalions were mechanised.

During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, some of these battalions saw action as part of combat groupings with armoured units for the first time. The APCs were replaced with BMP-1 Infantry Combat Vehicles between 1977 and 1978. The need for something more concrete and viable was felt, along with a need to develop a common battle and training philosophy with regards to the type of tactics. This necessitated the raising a totally new arm in the Indian Army, resulting in the various mechanised battalions being brought together under a single cap badge as the Mechanised Infantry Regiment, which was raised with fourteen battalions on 2 April 1979 and the affairs of the regiment were transferred from Directorate General of Infantry to Armoured Corps Directorate, which was renamed the Directorate General Mechanised Forces in 1986. Gen K Sundarji was appointed the first Colonel of the Mechanised Infantry Regiment, the post he held till his retirement. The regiment saw a rapid expansion in the 1980s. Mechanised infantry battalions numbered 15 to 26 have been raised on all-India mixed class composition, unlike the older units, which were single class ones. The only exception was 20 Rajput, which joined the regiment as the 24th battalion in April 1992. The Mechanised Infantry Regiment has been involved in Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka, Operation Rakshak in Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir and Operation Vijay in Jammu & Kashmir. It also took part in UN Peacekeeping Operations in Somalia, Congo, Angola and Sierra Leone.The Regiment is affiliated to the Indian Naval Ship Gharial.

Mechanised Infantry Regimental Centre
The Mechanised Infantry Regimental Centre was established in 1979 at Ahmednagar and it spread over 2179 acres. It trains approximately 950 recruits annually. It has three training battalions: Infantry Training Battalion, Composite Training Battalion and Driving and Maintenance Battalion.

Quarter Guard
The Quarter Guard of the MIRC was created on 9 August 1979 during the first biennial conference. After the sanction of KLP, the present Quarter Guard was conceptualised in half circular area with front wide platform. The new Quarter Guard was completed in 1986. The Quarter Guard has 18 internal rooms as well as an armour shop and a guard room. To the right and left side of the guard are two guns and two cannons that symbolise the strength of soldiers.

Military Band
The MIRC Band is based at Ahmednagar and serves all regimental duties related to musical support. The band was formed during April 1982 under the auspices of Brigadier Tilak Raj. The band has held the honour of performing at national events such as the Beating Retreat, Army and Republic Day Parades, as well as events at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. It also has performed at the 2007 Military World Games, the 2010 Commonwealth Games, and the 2001 Mumbai International Fleet Review among others.

Regimental museum
The MIRC Museum was founded and inaugurated on 9 February 2000 by Lieutenant General Pankaj Joshi, the then Colonel of the regiment. The museum is currently housed at the ground floor of Mechanised Bhavan. The museum houses the regimental colour, as well as the history if the MIRC and mementos from Colonels of the regiment.

Equipment

 * BMP-2 Infantry Fighting Vehicles
 * TATA Kestrel

Battalions of the Mechanised Infantry Regiment
The regiment consists of the following battalions.

External Media

 * Indian Army Mechanised Infantry describing the weapons, vehicle and soldiers
 * Images of the Mechanised Infantry showing the combat vehicles.

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Talk:Society for Individual Freedom

Lack of citations, particularly related to SIF's role in establishment of the Parliamentary Commissioner.
Can anyone help? Having looked at this article, and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman I can't find a single reliable source citing the SIF, the PO article merely re-referencing this article. Nor is it mentioned on the PO's home page -which I had hoped to use. Whilst I don't doubt that either that SIF campaigned for the PO or that the PO was established, I can't see any evidence that its role was significant. I have no agenda, one single decent independent source will suffice. Regards JRPG (talk) 15:35, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

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Moved to Brigade of The Guards as this is the official title.--Degen Earthfast (talk) 01:35, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 01:43, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

U.F.U. and Ufu

 * Delete as vanity. FreplySpang (talk) 22:31, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Vanity. Zzyzx11 | Talk 03:09, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Hey
Do you have any profiles on other sites? i sure do. go here too talk ok :) http://www.chatzy.com/195580427787 Amreatsf4620 (talk) 14:43, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Ill be calling you in the next few days :D Amreatsf4620 (talk) 14:44, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

i be sorrys ._. im so busy >< i got offered a job working for a hobby shop ect ect

if you have msn yahoo or aim let me know cause i have all 3

Amreatsf4620 (talk) 13:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Zilla died. Period.
There is no proof whatsoever that Zilla survived. Godzilla's breath in Final Wars is far stronger than any human weapon used in "Godzilla (1998)".

Unless you can find official proof from Toho, Zilla is officially dead. 87.102.75.202 21:47, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

 * He could have burrowed underground before Godzilla fired at him. Besides, the real evidence is from the series, judging from how tough and invulnerable he was in there. Scorpionman 12:43, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Besides, I said nothing about there being proof. I said there was a chance! There is a chance he could have survived, considering his speed. And since Toho is racist and anti-American, there's no way you could get proof from them, not that we need it from them. Scorpionman 12:46, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

The Zilla from the film and the series are two different creatures. Whether or not you have an agenda against Toho is totally irrelevant. And, actually, yes, we do need proof from them. They own the character, they can do what they want with it. Unless something official is published by them, then Zilla is officially dead. Fan speculation has no place here. 87.102.75.202 17:05, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

 * They do not own it! TriStar owns it! They invented it! Scorpionman 22:50, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Wrong. Tristar did not "invent" Zilla, as you put it, he was meant to be a new Godzilla, and as such was joint property, seeing as Toho owns the rights to what was officially meant to be the same character as theirs. Starring in Final Wars was a testament to that. Plus, not even Tristar has commented on the possibility of Zilla surviving. Therefore, anything you write regarding a theorized survival is nothing but fan speculation, which on wikipedia, is considered vandalism. 87.102.38.72 22:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Ah, actually, somebody may of misinformed you about policy, but writing speculation into articles is certainly not vandalism, but rather, original reaserch. Both, of course, should be removed from articles, but unlike original reaserch, vandalism is done in bad faith, often with highly malicious intentions to deliberatly damage Wikipedia articles. Homestarmy 23:05, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Vandalism nothing! I wasn't even the first one to put it in. So who owns the Japanese version of Kong? Since that's just a new version of the original King Kong, technically we should own it, right? Scorpionman 23:30, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Changes nothing. Limit personal speculation to Discussion Forums where it belongs.87.102.38.72 00:03, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Zilla lives! Scorpionman 03:28, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
 * And I've got nothing against Toho. I have everything against directors who continually portray Americans as slothful, slobbering pigheaded buffoons who sit around their cars and bellow at one another, and the U.S. Military as vicious monsters, and furthermore who refuse to use any CGI at all because it's not "traditional" and it's American! That kind of crap pisses me off. Scorpionman 15:49, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

'''Godzilla lived alongside man approximately 6000 years ago. The Bible gives us proof of this. Godzilla was created on the fifth day, possibly the sixth day. It's difficult to say, because Godzilla lives in the water as well as on land. But man was definitely created on the sixth day, and Godzilla and man lived side-by-side. Also, Godzooky was there. They were happy until Eve came and ruined everything.''' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.186.72.63 (talk • contribs)

 * I'm really not sure what the heck you're talking about, but it has little to no relevance to our discussion here. If you're anticreationist, please don't drag that silly debate into this discussion. Scorpionman 00:17, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm still waiting for your call..........Amreatsf4620 22:22, 12 July 2007 (UTC) Just sent the number to your email Amreatsf4620 20:37, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Punctuated Equilibrium
I'm not trying to be a jerk but I read one of your old comments regarding evolution and I felt compelled to respond. You seem to acknowledge that mutations and natural selection can occur over a few generations (e.g. a colony of bacteria developing resistance to a pathogen) but you also seem to think that evolution isn't powerful enough to explain speciation over billions of years. You may want to read up on punctuated equilibrium; it's a pretty convincing explanation on how speciation occurs. Punctuated equilibrium also explains some really interesting effects such as weird genetic defects which occur in the short-run (in evolutionary time-scales of course) to small groups that reproduce only within themselves (e.g. the Amish and other isolated communities).--Ambigera 05:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Not trying to be a jerk but I'm through with this debate. Yes I know about punctuated equilibrium but really there's no proof that it exists because it's not testable. Scorpionman 02:16, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for your contributions to Sucanat. I removed the "Notability" tag, as I believe Sucanat is notable, and I made some edits - I'd be interested to have you look it over and improve it further (or fix any errors I made) as you see fit. -- GeĸrίtzĿ...•˚˚ 16:22, 14 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gekritzl (talk • contribs)

 * No problemo! I'll see if there's anything I need to do, although I think it's pretty good as it stands Scorpionman 00:55, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Image review
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 * Oops, sorry about that. Thanks Scorpionman (talk) 22:42, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

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Agreed
Hey Scorp-man,

I agree with you dude on the Great Flood talk article. But what can you do? People will be people and call things what they will. It's important that people see God's love for them but on you user page, I think you should reword what you say "we Christians should try to convert others." We humans cannot convert anybody. It's only God that shows people that light. We simply are his instruments at times to guide people along. It's not about religion remember and numbers; it's about relationship! Anyway, we have to make sure we are ready for Jesus' return - this planet's going crazy and will be over soon sadly. Chat with you later! God bless. (in case you are wondering, I'm Christian - just Christian: I don't believe in all these sects caused by man's constant bantering and bickering with each other - my religion is simply Jesus lol) ~ GoldenGoose100 (talk) 19:16, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

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 * Go ahead and delete it if you want...I just wanted the page to look more colorful. Scorpionman (talk) 13:58, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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Birds
Hello Scorpionman,

In the reptiles article discussion page you said :

"In cladistic classification, birds are reptiles. In Linnean classification, they're not"

In fact birds never were considered reptiles in any classification system. In modern cladistic classification reptiles not even exist... So you are right: birds are not reptiles, they are dinosaurs, tetrapods etc, but not reptiles.

Cya !

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John "Grizzly" Adams

John Boyden Adams (also known as James Capen Adams and Grizzly Adams) (October 22, 1812 – October 25, 1860) was a famous California mountain man and trainer of grizzly bears and other wild animals he captured for menageries, zoological gardens and circuses.

Early years
Grizzly Adams was born John Boyden Adams to Eleazar Adams and Sybil Capen on October 22, 1812. His parents were of English ancestry. Born and raised in Medway, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, he received little to no education. Adams began as an apprentice in the footwear manufacturing industry at age fourteen. At age twenty-one, he left that occupation, seeking to satisfy his true love – the outdoors and nature. He signed on with a company of showmen as a zoological collector. John hunted and captured live wild animals in the wildest parts of Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire, where he honed his woodsman, survival, and marksmanship skills. However, Adams told Hittell, his hunting and trapping career ended abruptly when he received severe back and spine injuries from a Bengal tiger he was attempting to train for his employers. Not wanting to become a burden on his family, after a year of recuperating he returned to his cobbler's bench in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1836, John married Cylena Drury and they had three children: Arabella, Arathusa, and Seymour.

California and Western States, 1849–1860
In 1849 with the California Gold Rush in progress, John invested his life savings of over $6,000 (~$ in ) to buy a large supply of footwear, and had it shipped to St. Louis, Missouri. He intended to sell his goods at great profit to the thousands of forty-niners passing through St. Louis. Through no fault of his own, he lost the entire investment in the St. Louis wharf fire. Shortly thereafter, John's father committed suicide; – it is possible that he had invested heavily in John's plans. At this point, John felt he had nothing to lose. He had a touch of gold fever and a yearning for adventure. He knew even if he failed to recoup his lost investment in the mines, he could at least support himself by hunting and trapping in the untapped wilds of California. He left his family and relatives behind in Massachusetts and joined the 49ers on their way to California. On his journey via the Santa Fe and Gila trails, he twice survived near fatal illnesses and arrived at the gold fields of California late in 1849.

Adams tried his luck at mining, hunting game to sell to the miners, trading, and finally, ranching and farming. At times he was rich and then, just as quickly, broke. Late in 1852, having lost his ranch outside of Stockton, California, to creditors, he took the few items he could salvage and headed into the Sierra Nevada mountains to get away from it all. With the help of the local Miwok Indians, Adams built a cabin and stable and spent the winter alone in the Sierra. John was an expert hunter and his New England training in shoemaking and leather craft gave him the necessary skills to fashion buckskin clothing and moccasins (the clothing he adopted as normal attire for the remainder of his life). He also made his own harness, pack saddles, snowshoes and other items he needed.

Adams traveled great distances from his California base camp on foot, on horse or mule, or in an ox-drawn wagon. In 1853, he made a hunting and trapping expedition some 1,200 miles (1930 km) from his base camp in California to eastern Washington Territory (what is now western Montana). While there, he caught a yearling female grizzly that he named Lady Washington. Even though she was already a year old and very wild, he managed to tame her and taught her to follow him without restraint. Later, he trained her to carry a pack and then to pull a loaded sled. She even cuddled up near John to keep him warm in freezing conditions. Eventually, Lady Washington allowed John to ride on her back.

In 1854, Adams retrieved a pair of two-week-old male grizzly cubs from the den of their mother near Yosemite Valley. He named one of them Benjamin Franklin. Ben saved John's life a year later in 1855, when a mother grizzly attacked Adams. John and Ben both bore the scars of that attack the rest of their lives. The head injury John received in the attack led to his demise five years later. In the summer of 1854, John traveled to the Rocky Mountains to hunt and collect more live animals. He and his hunting companions sold meat, hides and some live animals to the emigrants along the Emigrant Trails near where the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail split away from each other (southwestern Wyoming). They also sold and traded at Fort Bridger, Wyoming and Fort Supply. During this expedition, Lady Washington had a rapacious encounter with a Rocky Mountain grizzly. The mating resulted in a male cub that was born the next year when she was with Adams in Corral Hollow on the eastern side of the California coastal mountains. Adams christened her cub General Fremont, in honor of John C. Fremont.

In the winter of 1854, Grizzly Adams captured a huge California grizzly in the largest cage trap Adams had ever constructed. John named him Samson. When the bear was later weighed on a hay scale, it tipped the beam at 1,500 pounds (one of the largest grizzly bears ever captured alive).

During 1855, Adams and his companions hunted and trapped game in the California Coast Range mountains, journeyed to the Kern River mines, then proceeded southward to the Tehachapi Mountains and Tejon Pass. Returning from the Tejon Pass area, Adams followed the Old Spanish Route via San Miguel and San Jose. Due to interest of the curious people the group met, John set up impromptu shows of his bears and other animals he had collected on his summer excursion. These shows, a precursor to his circus career, were conducted in San Miguel, Santa Clara, San Jose, the redwoods and finally San Francisco.

In 1856, John retrieved all of his animals from Howard's Ranch near Stockton, California, where he had left them to be cared for while he was absent. He then opened the Mountaineer Museum in a basement on Clay Street in San Francisco. Due to notices T. H. Hittell printed in the San Francisco daily Evening Bulletin, Adams' show drew many more patrons. Soon thereafter, Adams was able to move his menagerie and museum, now called the Pacific Museum, to a better location. The new building could accommodate larger audiences and house more animals and displays. By 1858, he was referred to as the "Barnum of the Pacific", in a San Francisco newspaper. In January, 1858, tragedy struck when noble Ben, John's favorite grizzly, died of an illness for which no remedy could be found. Adams was devastated at the loss, but continued to show his animals daily. He also continually added more animals and other attractions to his museum. In 1859, due to such overextensions, he lost his museum building to creditors. However, he was able to save most of his menagerie, which he relocated temporarily to another building.

Grizzly Adams' health was deteriorating and he knew his life would soon end. Since he had been away from his wife in Massachusetts for over ten years, he wanted to earn enough before he died to leave her a comfortable sum. He made arrangements to relocate his menagerie and collections to New York, in hopes of joining P. T. Barnum as a part of his show. On January 7, 1860, Adams and his menagerie departed from San Francisco on the clipper ship Golden Fleece on their way to New York City via Cape Horn, a $3 1/2$-month voyage.

In New York City, Grizzly Adams, still representing himself as James Capen Adams, joined with Barnum to perform his California Menagerie in a canvas tent for six weeks. His health continued to decline and after a doctor told him he had better settle his affairs, Adams decided he would sell his menagerie to Barnum. However, disregarding his doctor's prognosis, he managed to persuade Barnum to agree to let him perform his animals for another ten weeks for a $500 bonus. Adams' willpower held out for the full contract, though at the end he could hardly walk onto the stage. From the proceeds of the sale of the menagerie and the bonus, he had accomplished his goal of providing a comfortable sum for his wife.

Death
Adams suffered head and neck trauma during a grizzly attack in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California in 1855. His scalp was dislodged, and he was left with a silver dollar-sized impression in his skull, just above his forehead. Adams had made pets of several grizzlies, and often wrestled with them while training them and in exhibitions. During one such bout, his most delinquent grizzly, General Fremont (named for John C. Fremont), struck Adams in the head and reopened the wound. It was subsequently reinjured several times, eventually leaving Adams' brain tissue exposed.

The damage was further exacerbated while Adams was on tour with a circus in New England during the summer of 1860, when a monkey he was attempting to train purportedly bit into the wound. After more than four months performing with his California Menagerie, complications from the injury led to Adams' inability to continue with the show. After completing his contract with P. T. Barnum, he retired to Neponset, Massachusetts, where he died of illness (possibly meningitis) just five days after arriving at the home of his wife and daughter (October 25). Upon hearing of Adams' death, Barnum was deeply grieved.

Adams was interred at the Bay Path Cemetery in Charlton, Massachusetts. It is believed P.T. Barnum commissioned the creation of his tombstone. Also buried there nearby are his mother, father, a sister, his wife, his son and one of his two daughters.

Association with Theodore H. Hittell and Charles C. Nahl
During Grizzly Adams' exhibition of his grizzly bears and other trained animals in San Francisco, he was working with Hittell from July, 1857 until December 1859. Hittell listened to Adams narrate his adventures almost daily for an hour or so and took careful notes, cross-questioning Adams to assure he had it straight. Adams knew, and was apparently flattered by the fact Mr. Hittell intended to write a book based upon Adams' talks. Also, during this time, the artist Charles C. Nahl took an interest in Adams' grizzlies and, working with Hittell, prepared illustrations (one of which is at the head of this article) that would be used in Hittell's forthcoming book. One of his paintings eventually became the model for the grizzly bear on California's State Flag. In 1860, after Adams had relocated to New York, Theodore H. Hittell published his book, The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California, in San Francisco, and then later that year, in Boston.

Association with circus people
In 1833, John Adams hired on as a wild animal collector with a group of showmen. Several menageries were active in the New England area at this time, probably the largest was the June, Titus Company's National Menagerie also known as, Grand National Menagerie. Boston, Massachusetts was the venue for many such menageries while Adams was living there, so he had the opportunity to meet and interact with the proprietors and performers. There were also circuses and menageries on the Pacific Coast when John reached California, one of which was the Joseph A. Rowe Olympic Circus that performed in San Francisco and Sacramento, California, at the time he arrived. On two occasions, Adams told Hittell he had contact with an acquaintance from New England. This person most likely was in some way connected to the circus/menagerie business. Adams told Hittell that the man was his brother, "William", although Adams didn't have a brother by that name. According to Earle Williams, the property that Adams ranched near Stockton, California, in 1852 was the same land that was later acquired by Henry C. Lee and John R. Marshall, proprietors of the Lee and Marshall Circus.  Lee hired a man by the name of David Howard to run the ranch which was about eight miles (13 km) southeast of Stockton, on Mariposa road. Grizzly Adams often left his stock and captured animals at "Howard's Ranch" to be cared for by Howard and Lee's circus people. Lee's circus used the ranch to keep their circus stock, wagons and other items in the circus' winter off-season. According to Williams when Grizzly Adams established his Mountaineer Museum in San Francisco, in 1856, the menagerie was a part of Lee's Circus, as a side show. Adams and a couple of his bears appeared with Rowe's Pioneer Circus in November. In 1857, Adams had a partner named Sheppard. In 1859, T. W. Tanner was a partner with Adams (this may have been the man who owned a half-interest in Adams' Pacific Museum, prior to Adams leaving for New York in January, 1860). When Adams arrived in New York City in April 1860, he discovered while talking with P.T. Barnum, that Barnum had bought the one-half interest of Adams' California Menagerie, (possibly from Tanner). On April 30, 1860, Adams and Barnum opened the California Menagerie in a canvas tent on the corner of Broadway and Fourth Street in New York City  The show ran for six weeks. Adams health was failing, and he sold the remaining interest in the menagerie to Barnum. Adams then went on a summer tour of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire as part of Nixon & Company's Circus. He continued to perform with his bears and other trained animals until late October, 1860.

Ties to the Adams family of New England
John Adams was a member of the Adams family of New England that included many important men and women who contributed to the founding and early history of the United States. His great-great-great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams (1583–1646), emigrated with his family from England to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1632, and thus established the famous Adams family in America. Henry's descendants include the patriot Samuel Adams and two presidents, John Adams and President Adams' son, John Quincy Adams. Grizzly was born in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, and was surrounded by relatives and cousins. During Grizzly Adams' childhood, President John Adams lived within a short buggy ride of him in Quincy, Massachusetts. The subject of this article, John Adams, was the third child and first son born to Eleazer Adams (1776–1849) and Sybil (Capen) Adams (1785–1844). He had seven siblings, Susan B., Almy, Charles, James Capen, Zilpha, Francis and Albert. John married Cylena Drury in 1836. They had three children: Arabella, Arathusa Elizabeth, and Seymour. His son, Seymour, never married, so there were no male descendants of Grizzly Adams bearing the Adams surname. John's younger brother, James Capen Adams, (the alias used by "Grizzly" Adams), married and fathered seven children. Curiously, when Grizzly Adams toured in Connecticut with the circus during the summer of 1860, his brother (the real) James Capen Adams and his family were living in Norfolk, Connecticut, at the time.

Legacy
In his few years of hunting, John "Grizzly" Adams accomplished astonishing feats. Richard Dillon considers him to be "the greatest California mountain man of them all", and McCracken labels him the "Fabulous Mr. 'Grizzly' Adams." Modern hunters with high-powered precision weapons rarely get up close and personal with their game the way Adams did. He never hesitated to resort to hand-to-paw or knife-to-claw combat when necessary, and he captured more grizzlies alive in those few years than any other man has. In addition, he captured a wide variety of other wild animals, totaling in the hundreds, for menageries and zoos. Although Grizzly Adams did kill a number of bears, including grizzlies, he did so for food or their furs and hides. He was not a conservationist as the term is used in modern times. He did, however, genuinely love the outdoors, wildlife and unspoiled nature; he hated waste. The Western Hall of Fame celebrated Adams' achievements in 1911 with the "Heroes of California" honor.

Zoological Gardens
His Mountaineer Menagerie was the largest collection of live and mounted animal specimens on the West Coast. This collection became the Pacific Museum in San Francisco, where he and his animals entertained and educated people from far and wide. He was referred to as "the Barnum of the Pacific" in an article published in a San Francisco newspaper. His exhibitions also inspired others to campaign for the establishment of zoos, partially resultant of which were the establishment of Woodward's Gardens and, later, the famous Fleishhacker Zoo in San Francisco. On the East Coast, the Zoological Gardens in New York's Central Park was established in 1860 and in 1899 the Bronx Zoo was opened.

Flag of California
Charles C. Nahl, using Adams' grizzlies as models, made drawings, etchings and paintings of grizzly bears in various scenes. His sketches (including the one at the top of this article) were used to illustrate Hittel's book about Adams. Nahl's 1855 painting of a California grizzly portrayed Adams' bear Samson, which the mountain man had brought to San Jose and San Francisco to display that year; this image ended up being the source for the California Bear Flag, for which the official design specifications were put into law in 1953. The legislation also established the grizzly as California's state land animal.

Observations of grizzlies
Although not educated as a naturalist in a college or university, Adams learned the habits and facts of grizzly life first-hand through his observations while hunting and trapping them. Because of this, he came to know more about the California grizzly bear than anyone else. The information that Adams narrated to Hittell was published in the book The Adventures of James Capen Adams. His lore has been indispensable to naturalists including Storer and Wright, as well as to historians.

Media presentations
Adams was a famed United States outdoorsman, animal collector/trainer and an owner/performer in his own menagerie and later a partner of P. T. Barnum's shows. A biography was published about Adams the year he died. He was the central character in Charles E. Sellier's 1972 novel The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. As a character in film and television, Adams has been played by:
 * John Huston in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
 * Dan Haggerty in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1974, 1977–1978, 1982)
 * Gene Edwards in The Legend of Grizzly Adams (1990)
 * Tom Tayback in Grizzly Adams and the Legend of Dark Mountain (1999)
 * Jeff Watson in P.T. Barnum (1999)

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Ralph MacSweyn

Donald Ralph "Big Mac" MacSweyn (September 8, 1942 – May 21, 1995) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played 47 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers from 1968 to 1972 and 147 games in the World Hockey Association (WHA) with the Los Angeles Sharks and Vancouver Blazers from 1972 to 1974. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1964 to 1978, was spent in the minor leagues.

Playing career
A native of Laggan, Ontario, MacSweyn played for teams in the NHL, EHL, WHL, AHL, WHA, SHL, NAHL, SLSHL, and the OIHA.

MacSweyn was a member of the EHL North First All-Star Team in 1967, member of the AHL First All-Star Team in 1971, and a member of the AHL Second All-Star Team in 1972.

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MacSweyn retired from playing hockey in 1977. After his retirement, MacSweyn returned to his family farm and also was involved in coaching his daughter's hockey team. In 1993 MacSweyn was inducted into the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame in Glengarry, Ontario. On May 21, 1995, MacSweyn died in Glengarry, Ontario, at the age of 52. He was survived by his wife and two daughters.

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