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Alexz Johnson

Alexzandra Spencer Johnson (born November 4, 1987)  is a Canadian singer and actress. Her debut album Voodoo was independently released with her brother Brendan Johnson in 2010, followed by the demo release of The Basement Recordings in 2011, with its sequel, The Basement Recordings II, and EP Skipping Stone in 2012. The Basement Recordings III was released in 2013. A follow-up extended play Heart followed in 2014; with her sophomore effort Let 'Em Eat Cake being released October of that year. Johnson's third studio album A Stranger Time was released in 2017 and her fourth, Still Alive, in 2020. Johnson's fifth album is to be titled Seasons, she allowed her fans to vote for the title via her personal Patreon. An official release date has yet to be announced but she began announcing dates for an intimate Europe/ US Tour set to begin in the early spring of 2023 to promote its release.

Johnson is best known for her roles as Jude Harrison in the CTV series Instant Star, as Annie Thelen in the Disney Channel series So Weird, and as Erin Ulmer in the 2006 horror film Final Destination 3. She additionally guest starred as Saturn Girl, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, in the series Smallville. She was nominated three times for a Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series (Instant Star), winning the award in 2008.

Early life
Johnson was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, and raised in nearby Coquitlam. She is of Swedish, Scottish, and English descent. The sixth of ten children, Johnson says her family embraced the arts and being creative. One brother is an actor and screenwriter, another brother does graphic design, her younger brother performs music, and her brother Brendan is a singer-songwriter and music producer with whom she often collaborates.

From age three, Johnson often sang for her large extended family. By age six, she was receiving vocal training, participating in festivals with her local youth choir by age seven, and giving solo performances at school and community functions. At age nine, she had entered the P.N.E. talent search, becoming a finalist. She participated in many talent contests and festivals, winning a National Anthem Contest at the age of 11, with her rendition of the Canadian National Anthem, "O Canada", heard on national television. This resulted in radio and television interviews, as well as interest from management. That year, she was voted Best Anthem singer of the season by the Vancouver Sun.

Locally, Johnson was often referred to as the "West Coast Celine" and sang the Canadian National Anthem at games for the NHL's Vancouver Canucks and the NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies. She performed at charity events and fairs around the province, in addition to the BC Summer Games recording their theme song, "Reach for the Stars". She went on to appear on the Variety Club show singing a duet with Bob McGrath, sang the first set of songs at the Molson Indy (a major car race), and entertained on New Year's Eve at Planet Hollywood at the age of 12.

1997–2003: So Weird
Although Johnson was only focused on a music career at the time, she decided to pursue a career in acting at the age of 11, where she "walked into an acting agency and told them [she] wanted to sing". She landed auditions for commercials and a television pilot entitled "Most Talented Kids". in 1999.

Johnson auditioned for the Disney Channel original series So Weird, which was casting for a lead actress who could also sing for the final season of the show. At the age of 13, Johnson replaced the lead character in the Disney Channel series So Weird for the show's final season. Johnson portrayed the lead role of Annie Thelen, which combined her acting and musical talents. The role featured her singing alongside Mackenzie Phillips. She showed an interest in songwriting, co-writing one of the songs for the show.

On July 22, 2000, Johnson was featured in Billboard for the first time, she went on to be featured in sixteen different issues. Her highest ranking was number two in "The Top 10 Favorite Artist Picks" for "The Most Popular New Talent on Broadband Talent Net" as of June 2, 2001, after 33 weeks on. Her co-write from Disney’s So Weird, "Dream About You" charted six different times and came in at number one in "Radio Play Favorite Song Requests" for "The Most Listened-to New Tracks on Broadband Talent Net" on November 11, 2000. Her cover of Canadian girl group Prestige’s song, "Wishing Star" retitled as "Wishing On A Star", came in at number five in the same issue. Also "Sunshine Reigns", an early credited co-write with songwriters Trevan Wong and Doris Young, charted at number three on July 22, 2000.

In the year 2000, a song performed by Johnson entitled "Everything (Feels Like New)" was featured in the Disney Channel Original Movie The Other Me, starring Andrew Lawrence. She promoted the project by performing a few verses in an impromptu a capella that aired on Disney Channel during her Express Yourself interview feature that was highly circulated during commercial breaks at the time. A low quality demo of the song leaked in full online. However, a full studio version of the song was never released.

After the cancellation of So Weird, Johnson continued her interest in songwriting, co-writing with her brother Brendan Johnson. Several labels offered her contracts, but she held off, wanting more creative control and a hand in the songwriting. In 2001, Johnson teamed up with the production/songwriting team of Johnny Elkins and CJ Vanston. Her song "Transparent Lies", was recorded for a compilation album titled Fill Your Head. The album was compiled featuring several different artists with songs using certain words in order to help students with their SAT scores. Though it was initially released as a physical and digital compilation album, the physical is no longer in print, but a low quality digital copy can still be purchased for download from the original official website. Her work with Vanston and Elkins featured a more bubblegum pop sound than what she preferred and ended around 2003. Johnson continued to work with her brother Brendan recording their own music. These were the songs included on the demo CD sent to the executives of Instant Star with her audition tape.

In 2019 in an interview with The So Weird Podcast, Johnson confirmed that her So Weird and Cold Squad co-star Belinda Metz played a key role in her landing the role of Jude Harrison in Instant Star.

2004–2007: Instant Star
Throughout 2004, Johnson made various appearances on Canadian television series including The Chris Isaak Show, The Collector, and Cold Squad where she performed two original songs as twins Dierdre and Tricia Spence. Her Disney’s So Weird co-star Belinda Metz also plays both of her character’s mother. Years later, Tricia Spence’s swan song “Eight Days” was unofficially given to fans and posted online after much petition. In 2005 she made guest appearances in the made-for-TV films including Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, as well as the role of Angel DeSousa in the Lifetime film Selling Innocence.

In February 2004, Johnson sent in an audition tape to the producers of Degrassi: The Next Generation for their upcoming show Instant Star. They were specifically looking for a Canadian teen actress/vocalist to play the lead role, Jude Harrison. The first audition tape Executive Producer Stephen Stohn received was Johnson's via Canadian Singer-songwriter and actress Belinda Metz, and he was convinced she was perfect for the role. After its first season, Instant Star was nominated for three Gemini Awards (the Canadian equivalent of the American Emmy Award) in the category of Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series, including a nomination for Best Performance (Alexz Johnson). On August 28, 2007, the show received three more Gemini Award nominations, in the category of Best Children's or Youth Program or Series, including another for Best Performance (Alexz Johnson, in the episode, "I Fought the Law").

Johnson sang all of the songs that her character Jude, on Instant Star performed on the show. She recorded soundtracks for each of the four seasons of Instant Star: Songs from Instant Star, Songs from Instant Star Two, Songs from Instant Star Three, and Songs From Instant Star Four. She co-wrote five of the songs on the first season's soundtrack, including "24 Hours", "Let Me Fall", "Criminal, "Skin", and "That Girl", which Johnson had written before when she was fourteen. She also co-wrote "Frozen" & "Shatter Me", both of which were featured in the show but were never considered for the soundtrack.

Most of the original recordings for the originally planned debut album were written by Johnson in early 2005, but she had yet to find a major label to help create and release the songs. In early 2006, Johnson announced she was leaving the indie Canadian label Orange Records that released the first two soundtracks to Instant Star, in search of something to showcase her as an artist and not her fictional counterpart, Jude Harrison. Johnson auditioned for the role of Julie Christensen in the thriller Final Destination 3. She showed up at the audition in an all-black, punk rockish outfit, later claiming that she was in a bad mood. The casting directors concluded she was a better fit for the role of Erin Ulmer, a character with a bad attitude. Her performance attracted praise from some critics, including one (writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer) who said: "The characters are so loathsome, you're glad to see them go. Except for two: the goth couple Ian (Kris Lemche) and Erin (Alexz Johnson). He's a cynical know-it-all, like Dennis Miller with black fingernails; she's like Parker Posey with raccoon mascara.." In 2007, Johnson starred in the Lifetime film Devil's Diary, for which she received a Leo Award nomination, in the category of Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Feature-Length Drama.

2008–2009: Major label debut album
On August 26, 2008, Johnson was nominated a third time for a Gemini award. On October 21, 2008, she won the Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series, for the Instant Star episode "Let It Be". Johnson continued with Instant Star for four seasons, and expected to return for a fifth. This was interrupted when CTV and The N both pulled funding following the fourth season, which led to the cancellation of the series. This allowed Johnson to go back to focusing on her music.

After a showcase in New York City, Johnson met with several labels and producers and chose Capitol Records, which allowed her to work with Paul Buckmaster, though her brother was the main producer of the material at the time. In writing songs for the album, she worked with UK writers Martin Terefe and Sacha Skarbek as well as producer/songwriter Brio Taliaferro. On June 25, 2007, Johnson appeared on MTV Canada. She confirmed that all of her songs had been written and recorded. She planned on shopping for a label over the next few months and hoped to release the album in the winter.

On February 15, 2008, she announced that she had signed a record deal with label Epic Records (part of the Sony BMG group), expecting the album to be released in the fall. Having heard the first six songs, Stephen Stohn, in his MySpace blog of February 16, 2008, commented that, "they are just incredibly good – very different from the songs you've come to know through Instant Star, much more rhythmic, with almost a world beat." In an interview in 2008, she described her upcoming album as "pop with eclectic world rhythms and influences", citing influences from "older artists" such as Paul Simon, Kate Bush, and Annie Lennox, and saying that she was "trying to find a way to make those great older songs younger".

The producer for the album became Greg Wells after Johnson was introduced to him through his brother Rob Wells, one of the songwriters for Instant Star. The new arrangement with Epic Records also affected the line-up of artists for the Instant Star 4 soundtrack, as the record label allowed her a maximum of four songs on Instant Star 4. In her MySpace blog of February 15, 2008, Johnson indicated that she was planning an extensive tour around her new album, saying of her songs that, "I can't wait to perform them live! Looking forward to seeing all of your faces!" Johnson also began working with multi-instrumentalist Luis Conte and legendary strings expert Paul Buckmaster. Five songs were posted on her MySpace page by her record company on June 11, 2008. These songs were supposed to appear in her upcoming album and were entitled: "Easy", "Swallowed", "Chicago", "Golden", and "Running With the Devil".

Johnson appeared in the hit CW series Smallville episode "Legion", as the superheroine Saturn Girl. The episode aired on January 15, 2009. She was the second actress from Instant Star to appear in the show, the first one being Laura Vandervoort. She also appeared in the TV-film version of the Lois Duncan novel Stranger With My Face, in which she plays twin sisters who were separated at birth. She stated that the filming—which included a dramatic scene in which her two characters conflict through astral projection, leading to a fall off a cliff and into a waterfall—was so mentally and physically demanding, that she felt like she could never take on another role like it again. It premiered on Lifetime on August 29, 2009. The director of Stranger With My Face, Jeff Renfroe, greatly praised what he saw when working with Johnson and her costar Andrew Francis. "They're both young actors who came from the school of working from the gut and not trying to intellectualize everything."

Before the album's release date, Epic Records removed Johnson from their Artist Lists. Johnson later gave clarification on her website that launched August 11, 2009, saying "Epic has released over a third of their artists from their contracts and, la dee da... I'm one of those artists..." She also later clarified in an interview that the "head of the label who signed [her] ended up shifting to a different company. It led a lot of artists on Epic astray." She confirmed that due to losing her deal with Epic, she would be releasing a different album independently with her brother Brendan producing. She said she hopes that her unreleased debut album with Epic would see the light one day, noting that for now, the songs are still tied up in the arrangement with Epic.

2010–2011: Voodoo, Reloaded and The Basement Recordings
The independent release will be by the company which also runs her website – Laydee Spencer Music, Inc. Johnson released a list of songs that are going to be on her album in alphabetical order, and later requested fans to go through the clips of five upcoming songs on her site, and to recommend which should be the lead-off single. The tracks posted were: "L.A. Made Me", "Hurricane Girl", "Voodoo", "A Little Bit", and "Trip Around the World". It was announced that her debut album Voodoo would be released on March 30, 2010. The debut single, Trip Around The World, was released on February 2, 2010, along with a music video shot by Michael Maxxis. Johnson shared in an interview that her favourite songs of Voodoo are "Look at Those Eyes", "Voodoo", and "Gonna Get It".

Johnson informed her fans through her Twitter account and her official website that all the songs from Voodoo would be remixed by the Demolition Crew due to lack of airplay. The Demolition Crew undertook to make the songs more radio-friendly. She later released her remix album Reloaded, it was released on April 26, 2011. The first single, "Boogie Love" (The Demolition Crew Remix), was released on January 10, 2011, while the second one, "Look at Those Eyes" (The Demolition Crew Remix), was released on March 29, 2011.

She became a trending topic on Twitter for four days, due to the ABC Family television series Pretty Little Liars, playing "Time to Be Your 21", a song performed by Johnson in the series Instant Star, in the season finale. While trending on Twitter, she garnered attention from Demi Lovato and Nelly Furtado. Lovato has spoken several times about Johnson being her inspiration to start a career in music, while Furtado spoke about her single "Look at Those Eyes" calling it "an event". With the help of the Twitter trend, Johnson made the homepage of several online sites, including L.A. Times Ministry of Gossip Blog.

Johnson created a YouTube account where she posts videos of herself performing along with her brother Brendan James Johnson, and Jimmy Robbins. On June 22, 2011, Johnson held two live concerts on Stage It for fans around the world. The concerts were performed online via webcam. Though many of her songs had already been featured in several episodes. In June 2011 it was announced that Johnson would sing on the opening theme song of the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation Season 11. The idea came naturally as Demacio "Demo" Castellón was producing the track and asked her if she would contribute to it.

She revealed that she is writing for her next album and hoping to enter the studio by the end of the Summer to start recording. Johnson and her brother, Brendan Johnson, released a digital album of some of her previously unreleased demo's entitled, The Basement Recordings, on August 26, 2011. The sequel to the 2011 demo album The Basement Recordings, named The Basement Recordings II was released on May 1, 2012. On February 22, 2013, Johnson and her brother Brendan released the third installment in the series, The Basement Recordings III.

2012–2016: Skipping Stone, Heart and Let 'Em Eat Cake
Johnson announced her plans to release an EP featuring new material, and confirmed on October 29 that she was in New York filming the music video for her new single "Skipping Stone". She also confirmed that it would originally be a digital release, and following her Kickstarters Campaign, a physical release would follow. The video for "Skipping Stone" was released in December. Skipping Stone was released on January 24, 2012, that same day she launched a Kickstarter Campaign in order to raise funds for her upcoming U.S. tour. She set her goal for $30,000 in 60 days. For different money denominations, Johnson offered prizes. Examples included digital downloads of Skipping Stone, signed T-shirts and CDs, signed scripts, clothing from Instant Star, concert tickets, personalized emails phone calls, live performances, dinner and a broadway show, etc. Johnson unexpectedly reached her goal within 24 hours, confirming her ability to tour during the summer of 2012. Johnson reached $50,000 on day three, allowing her the opportunity to expand the tour and travel overseas. All money donated goes toward touring, recording, merchandise, and anything music related. On October 26, 2012, Johnson released a trailer for The Skipping Stone Tour Documentary which chronicles her summer on tour. Johnson released a live album, Live From The Skipping Stone Tour, a documentary, and a photo book containing photos from The Skipping Stone Tour on December 4, 2012.

Alexz revealed she had begun working on Heart in 2012. She worked with Bleu, Boots Ottestad, Wax Ltd, Jamie Hartman, Theo Katzman, and her brother Brendan James Johnson on writing the Extended-Play. Johnson later announced that she would collaborate with her fans in funding her next studio project through PledgeMusic.com. According to the site, Johnson has managed to gather 156% of the money needed for the production and release of her second album. Johnson launched a joint North American tour with Charlene Kaye, Misty Boyce, and Jay Stolar in the spring of 2013. On Christmas Day of 2013, she released the lead single from Heart, titled "American Dreamer", initially only to fans who had already donated, and pledged. The single was released publicly on January 10, 2014. On January 29, 2014, Johnson released the Extended-Play Heart, initially to pledgers only. It includes "American Dreamer" as well as three other tracks. While the EP was originally intended to be an album sampler, she clarified in an interview that the EP will stand on its own, and that the EP will feature only new tracks. Johnson was part of a European tour in support of the EP in early 2014, opening for Ron Pope and Wakey!Wakey!. Johnson was also the opening act for MAX on a North American tour.

Pledgers received digital copies of Johnson's sophomore album Let 'Em Eat Cake one week before the official release date of October 14, 2014. Alexz embarked on a tour in support of the album from October until December of the same year. Jared & The Mill and Patrick Droney joined her as special guests. From February to March 2015, Johnson had a five-week residency at The Hotel Cafe in Hollywood, CA. The song "Let 'Em Eat Cake" was featured in an episode of South of Hell starring Mena Suvari. The episode aired on November 27, 2015, on WE tv.

Johnson collaborated with Bleu on the project Johnson & McAuley. They released a self-titled EP in 2016. The duo released their first music video for "Illuminated Dream" on January 19, 2017.

On May 24, 2016, Johnson made her directorial debut with "Weekend" a music video for the band Dress Black. June 27, 2017, a second video for Dress Black's song "Single File Girl" was released also directed by Johnson.

2017–present: A Stranger Time and Still Alive
She began working on her third studio album, with Mark Howard producing the record. "Right Now" was released as the lead single from her third studio album on July 4, 2017. The studio album A Stranger Time was officially released on September 1, 2017, it is a nine track studio album. A music video for "Right Now" premiered on Johnson's YouTube channel on her birthday, November 4, 2017. The album is accompanied by multiple music video's, and a behind the scenes video of making the album. On March 9, 2018, she released her second live album titled Live from A Stranger Time.

In late 2019, she announced, via her official Instagram account, an upcoming fourth studio album. The singles "Weight" and "Running with the Devil", as well as a short documentary, The Longer Road, preceded the release of the album. Still Alive was released on May 8, 2020.

On March 16, 2023, Alexz Johnson released a new track titled “Ain’t That The Way” from her upcoming 5th studio album Seasons, set to release on April 7, 2023.

Influences and musical style
Alexz Johnson could be seen in 2001 during her episode with Disney Channel's Express Yourself citing Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Sarah McLachlan as vocal influences. She states: "Women who just write their own music and sing what they feel, it just really inspires me."

Johnson was quoted saying, "I love pop music, but kind of eclectic, creative pop." She has said her influences include Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, and Annie Lennox. She is also an admirer of Jason Mraz, The Civil Wars, and Sara Bareilles.

Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Billy Joel and Carole King have all influenced her writing growing up.

Philanthropy
During 2001, Johnson worked with World Vision, and had a section on her official site where fans could order shirts with a design done by Johnson and featuring her autograph. There were production problems and the shirts were never sent out. Johnson made an apology on her site and provided refunds to everyone who ordered one. In 2002, she performed as the opening act at Wayne Gretzky's celebrity dinner and auction, held in Edmonton, Alberta, to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald children's charity. Also in 2001 she performed, and visited the Nashville Kids Fair, she also hosted the event. During her time in Nashville, Johnson visited ill children in a local hospital. The trip was made as a part of an outreach program by Disney Channel, and Johnson visited children, with the dog who starred in the Disney original film Air Bud.

In 2002, Johnson shared the stage with David Foster, Michael Bublé, and Ed McMahon at a David Foster Foundation fundraiser. During 2002 and 2003, Johnson focused on her music, and decided to perform with several charitable organizations. She worked with David Foster, opening for his charity events for the David Foster Foundation. After the season premiere of the second season of Instant Star on The N she also did a public service announcement for Second Harvest, which had been assisting victims of Hurricane Katrina.

On November 21, 2008, Johnson was a special guest performer for a Women in Leadership (a Vancouver organization promoting women's role in the media) foundation called SuperWomen & Friends—A Red Carpet Gala.

In 2021 Johnson teamed up with Cameo.com, in which fans can purchase personal request videos, announcing that partial proceeds will benefit the Canadian Cancer Society.

Studio albums

 * Voodoo (2010)
 * Let 'Em Eat Cake (2014)
 * A Stranger Time (2017)
 * Still Alive (2020)
 * Seasons (2023)

Demo albums

 * The Basement Recordings (2011)
 * The Basement Recordings II (2012)
 * The Basement Recordings III (2013)

Remix albums

 * Reloaded (2011)

Live albums

 * Live from the Skipping Stone Tour (2012)
 * Live from A Stranger Time (2018)
 * Live in Bristol (2022) [available through Patreon subscription only]
 * Seasons Live from Los Angeles (2024) [available from Patreon store only]

Extended plays

 * Skipping Stone (2012)
 * Heart (2014)
 * Songs From Blue Season 3 (2014)
 * Johnson & McAuley (as part of Johnson & McAuley) (2016)
 * The Dishwasher (Original Short Film Soundtrack) (2016)

Soundtrack albums

 * Songs from Instant Star (2005)
 * Songs from Instant Star Two (2006)
 * Songs from Instant Star 3 (2007)
 * Songs from Instant Star 4 (2008)
 * Instant Star: Greatest Hits (2009)

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Hey Dad! Im proud to be the first one to officially welcome you to the wikipedia. I hope you enjoy it and stay for long here with us. Check Village pump and expect other messages from such administrators as Mav, a good friend of mine, and Arp, a huge aviation fan who is also a great friend. I love you! Tu hijo Tono

Welcome! Antonio has been a great asset to the project and I do hope you have a good time contributing around here. --mav 16:26, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi from Adrian Pingstone, it's great to have you contributing to Wikipedia. I've specialised in adding pics to articles as Antonio knows. I love playing with images and I love using my digital camera, so it all fits together nicely. Best Wishes, Adrian Pingstone 08:23, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

List Of Famous Puerto Rico
List of famous Puerto Ricans

A quick note to say thanks

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for your support in my request for adminship. It was certainly a wild ride, and I really appreciate you taking some time out to contribute. ClockworkSoul 16:31, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Congrats, It was an honor to vote for you. You have the education, dedication and ability to be a great administrator. Do a good job like you've been doing so far. I hope that you count me among your Wikipedian friends, for me it would be an honor. Tony the Marine
 * Thanks again, this time for your very kind words; I do indeed count you among my Wikipedian friends. I promise that I will strive to live up to your generous praise. ClockworkSoul 20:13, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Felipe Birriel
7'11" = (7*12+11)" = (84+11)" = 95" = (95*2.54)cm = 241.3cm

Is that correct? Brianjd

Hello
Hey, thanks for the welcoming. I am from Puerto Rico, currently living in Iowa City, Iowa. I hope I can contribute to your list of Puerto Rican famous people. You are right about a lot of puerto ricans not knowing where they come from, and there are even more people that don't even know what Puerto Rico is, which I hope we can change. Take care, and keep up the good work. Cjrs 79 21:56, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

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Friendly chat
Hi Tony! It was good to hear from you. Your Puerto Rican Christmas tradition is indeed interesting - I didn't know that children receive presents twice! But I think it's great that you celebrate the visit of the three wise men by giving presents, as they did.

Unfortunately, Christmas is excessively commercialized in New Zealand also, just like America. Too many people think it's just an occasion for spending money and overeating, forgetting the real significance of Christmas. Neverthess, it is still deeply meaningful to very many people, including me. What my family does ... My church has been holding a series of carol services, at which people gather in neighbourhoods to sing Christmas carols. We're also having a special Christmas production (a live drama) the Sunday before Christmas. On Christmas morning, I will attend a church service, then have Christmas dinner with my family, probably at the home of an aunt of mine. (She has no children of her own). After Christmas dinner, we'll exchange gifts. As we are in the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas falls in the middle of summer for us, so we usually have icecream-cake at Christmas time. We have kept, however, the Northern Hemisphere's tradition of pork or turkey for the main meal - even though it's a bit hot for it:-)

It was great hearing from you, Tony. I trust you and your family are all well. Have a great Christmas! David Cannon 22:46, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Block removal
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DYK
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Lynda Lopez, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page. I always enjoy seeing your new articles. 68.81.231.127 23:12, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, though I actually prefer other articles of yours, like Jesse Vassallo :) 68.81.231.127 08:18, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ramiro L. Colon
Hi, if a page is moved by a vandal, it's best not to edit the redirect to replace the content. It's much better to move the page back - which preserves the history. I'll fix the article now - that means it will be deleted for a moment, but hang on and it will be back in full. Thanks -- sannse (talk) 01:04, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Feliz Navidad and a question
"Traigo esta trulla para que te levantes....etc".. hehe, a cyber parranda for you. Merry Christmas to you too, Happy New Year, and feliz Día de Reyes, I hope you celebrate it with your family to keep the Puerto Rican traditions. I've been to Phoenix, nice place.. too hot too dry..hehe. But I will take you up on your offer... Cjrs 79 04:15, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

So, in your list of famous puerto ricans, who do you consider puerto ricans? First generation, second generation? I was just wondering. Or anyone with puerto rican ancestry? Cjrs 79 04:24, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer, a very good one indeed. I was just wondering, for example, you include Luis Miguel in the list, you do say he is Puerto Rican born, but he has never considered himself Puerto Rican, from what i've heard he was born in the island by chance, so I wouldn't include him. Thanks for the answer. I don't want to flood your talk page with my replies.. hehe.. take care Cjrs 79 06:16, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Wishing you the best
Thank you, and I wish you all the same. I hope you have a lovely Christmas and New Year period. :) Ambi 02:04, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you, Tony. I wish you a Merry Christmas, a happy New Year and a year of happiness and fulfillment. SWAdair | Talk 04:33, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind message, and all the same to you and your family. Andre ( talk )A| 05:08, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

Hello Marine
I would like to wish you a happy new year! MusiCitizen 19:32, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

Hmm - sorry. Try editing now - if you still can't send me another email... Evercat 03:12, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
Hey dad, Happy new Year! Antonio Spitfire Cobra Martin

Blocking
Hi. I didn't block you, but the IP adress of an anonymous user vandalizing Wikipedia. It seems you shared the same IP adress. Sorry very much for the inconvenience. I just unblocked the IP adress, and everything should be working again. The whole thing is a bit of a problem, because blocking is one of the few ways we have to fight vandalism, but it may also block legitimage users as for example you. Hopefully, in the next mediawiki version, a logged in user can still edit even if the IP adress is blocked. A temporary fix would be to log on to your internet provider again to receive a new dynamic IP adress if possible (seems to work for example at AOL) Again, very sorry for the inconvenience! (And thanks for the Toilet article compliments :) -- Chris 73 Talk 00:41, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)

Thank You
Thanks Tony for supporting me for Arb-com. Unfortunately I haven't been active here recently, which might have been a cause for my loss. Happy New Year to you also!--Plato 22:26, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wilkins
I noticed you listed Wilkins on VfD. Please remember that copyright violations should be listed at Copyright problems. Thank you! Mgm|(talk) 09:31, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Tony, I just got online and saw your note. It looks like Mgm took care of it.  In cases like that, anyone can mark an article as copyvio.  Just remove the text and replace it with  .  Then go to WP:CP and list it at the bottom of the page.  Happy editing!  SWAdair | Talk  03:55, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

¿Feliz Navidad?
Tony, thanks for the Happy Christmas message you left on my talk page. I've been absent from here for a couple of months, but I'm now (with some trepidation) thinking about making a return bid. I'll no doubt see you around; I've got one heck of a watchlist to work my way through. ''(Y saludos a Antonio también). –Hajor 00:21, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!
Just a quick "thank you" for voting me for admin. Now all I've got to do is find out how to use these worrying new powers... Grutness|hello? 06:22, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
A quick thanks for your encouraging words and for voting me to adminship. utcursch 08:27, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)

Saludos Antonio
Thanks for share your nice feeling. Have a nice trip and enjoy!!! Please, say hello to Milly. Otra cosa. Cuando vayas a Fenway Park, respira el aire del "Green Monster". En esa pared está escrita una buena parte de la historia del béisbol. Be kept in contact.

MusiCitizen 18:18, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)

Finally had a look at The 65th Infantry Regiment and fixed a few minor things. Took me a while! Good article! Everyking 14:31, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

DYK
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Pellin Rodriguez, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page. Warofdreams 11:25, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Coliseum of Puerto Rico
Hi Tony, check out Coliseum of Puerto Rico when you can please. That's the Choliseo, which I guess you have probably heard about. Unfortunately I don't know what's their official website. —Joseph | Talk 16:36, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

 * Actually the official name is "Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot" similar to the "Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré". Thanks a lot for your help Tony.   —Joseph | Talk 02:52, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)

Wilkins edit!
Hey, I will now remove both Vélez and Zambrana from the Wilkins article. As you can see in my username, I am related to Wilkins, and I rather have the article's title be plainly 'Wilkins'. On a side note, your sources seem to be incorrect as to the name of his mother, Dr. Aurea Ramírez, Dermatologist.

Thanks.

...Wilkins
Apparently you have protected the article from being editted, which will not allow me to correct the information you have kindly added. Please let me know if you could allow me to edit this article; at least the title, since Wilkins is in no way affiliated to the Zambrana lastname. Thank you.

Puerto Ricans in NASA
No problem! I'm always happy to do my part to make an already good article a little bit better. I took a quick look at it and fixed/improved a few things; hopefully I'll get a chance to go back over it again later. Everyking 04:02, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the barnstar! Everyking 22:30, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

wilkins
Thanks a lot man.

Irish surnames
Most of those surnames are indeed Irish with the exceptions of Bosch, which is German, Brocco, which sounds Italian, and Lind, which I'm not sure about at all. A good list of Irish surnames can be found here.

About the accents, I think it's because most people in America don't have any diacritics in their name, and Latinos born in the US are conforming to this.

Thanks for the nice comments, by the way! DO'Neil 07:40, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)

No problem! I fixed a few typos, but overall it looks pretty good already. Everyking 04:02, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

DYK
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Angel Ramos (educator), which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

Horizontal rule
Hey, thanks a bunch for taking care of it, Tony. Friends? You bet! Demi T/C 01:45, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)

Johnathan Dwayne
Based only on research (but the case looks strong), i made two big fixes to Johnathan Dwayne; i could be wrong, since your greater knowledge is obvious to me. (However, i didn't want to mess with your user page by fixing the spelling there.) --Jerzy (t) 22:20, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)

Flag
Gracias for the flag, really awesome gift. Cjrs 79 17:28, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)

Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez
Sorry, but I can't fix this at the moment because I would need to temporarily delete Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez to merge the histories, and this is one of the articles affected by the compressed revisions bug:
 * Can't delete this article because it contains new block-compressed revisions, which are not supported by the new selective undelete feature and could result in data loss if deletion and undeletion happened. This is a temporary situation which the developers are well aware of, and should be fixed within a month or two. Please mark the page for deletion, protect the page and wait for a software update to allow normal deletion. If there is an actual complaint from a copyright holder or other suitable legal complaint and they are unwilling to accept page blanking and protection as a temporary measure, please ask a developer for assistance.

Angela. 10:20, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Copyvio
Hello, Tony. Good catch on LaLa Vasquez. You almost had the tag right. What you do is erase the article content (to prevent copyvio material from showing) and replace it with the copyvio tag. The format is and sign it with four tildes. Then list the article at WP:CP and you're done. I took care of this one for you. Happy editing! SWAdair | Talk 16:58, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thanks for your thoughtful support on my RfA, particularly coming from someone with a wonderful attitude and contributions list like your own. I shall attempt to put my shiny new buttons to good use. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:31, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

OOH-RAH!
Hello, my friend. I saw you voting on Requests for Adminship and I followed the link to your userpage. I noticed you are a veteran of the Vietnam War. Sir, I have the utmost respect for you and for what you did. Although not everyone may agree on if we belonged in Vietnam or not, I am of the belief that ALL of our fighting men and women, be they Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, or Coastguardsmen, are to be respected and treated with honor and dignity. There are some of us younger folk who look up to those brave men and women and consider them to be our heroes.

Both of my grandfather's served in the wars; my father's father was in the Army and in the Marines as a Sherman mechanic; my mother's father was in the Air Force as an aircraft technician and modifier. I'm in the Civil Air Patrol as a cadet and am considering joining the Air Force as an officer. I have been known to walk up to people in uniform or men wearing baseball caps sporting their service ribbons at almost any place (amusement parks, diners, hotels, rest stops, etc.) just to shake their hand and say "Thank you". I wish I could do the same for you. Good sir, I thank you for being a Marine.

If you are interested, there's a group that you might be interested in joining: List_of_Wikipedians_by_military_branch. Linuxbeak 00:41, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

That's really something else. You never how strong a bond true friendship is until it's time to test the core meaning of it. God Bless You for your service to God, country and fellow brothers. Linuxbeak 01:54, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Hey, thanks a LOT for your vote at Featured article candidates/Civil Air Patrol/archive1!! I put a great deal of time into the article, and if it gets voted to featured article status, I'm going to go absolutely nuts (in a good way) in the IRC channel (and probably in real life too!). Linuxbeak 10:43, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

Featured article nomination
I think by accident you added your FAC nomination to the wrong subpage. I corrected this. It is now located at Featured article candidates/Military history of Puerto Rico if you want to keep track of it. K1Bond007 06:14, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

Military History of Puerto Rico
Hi Tony, thanks for your message. I enjoyed reading this article that you have written. I have to confess that my knowledge of pre-20th century Puerto Rican history is somewhat limited, I know Francis Drake attacked it and that's about it, and I found your article to be very interesting as well as informative. You've done a good job.

I've had a look through your bio and I have to say that I am very impressed and have a massive respect for much of what you have done. Firstly as a veteran, but secondly for your strength of belief in your roots. I too am the son of immigrants, although my parents' homeland Sweden does not suffer the same circumstances as Puerto Rico, and feel my roots are very important to me.

Anyway, I've rambled on enough. Hope to see you around, happy editing. Rje 11:02, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * What Rje said. Good luck, keep up the good work! I am looking forward to seeing the improvements during the next FAC!--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 19:22, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Tony, you've done a great job on that article. Mav did a little tweaking and rearranging, then I went over it looking for tiny details. I ended up voting support. Thank you for bringing that article to my attention. It was a good read, and I learned a lot. Keep up the good work. SWAdair | Talk 10:52, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Tony, you're quite welcome, and I really enjoyed the article--I hope it makes FA status. It's well-written and I wish we had a "Military history of country" at that level for everywhere.  Best wishes, Antandrus  (talk)  04:11, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Saludos Boricua! A great article, I wasn't even aware it existed. Does the main article of Puerto Rico has a reference to it? If not, it should, 'cause this is a great article and extreemly important. Keep up the good work!<> 22:41, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Marines Emblem
Hello. Can you change your Marine emblem pageimage on your user pag from the jpeg to Image:USMarineCorps.png? I want to delete the jpeg image, to be replaced by the nice png version. I see the two images are a little different. Are these two image interchangchable? --Berkut 02:22, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Military Rank
When you talk about Frances Vega on your article, you say she is Sp4c, I have a friend former army, who was actually her squad leader, who tells me the correct rank is SPC no Sp4c, and that rank is not used anymore.

It's a very good article, but are you sure about the 28 puertoricans, I think it is actully 32, but anyway, someone should ad the "as of today" before the number, so we can change it as it changes.

Do you think we should wait a bit more time for more contributions before nominating it for featured article?

take care amigo, Cjrs 79 21:08, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

 * You know my friend, you are right about the rank and I fixed it. I also added the word "over" because we won't know the exact total of casualties until the war is over.  I do think that the time for its consideration is right because history is a continuous process and the sacrifices made by the Puerto Ricans in war sould be told.

You're welcome
Let me know if you have any other featured article candidates coming up. And yeah, that's the great thing about Wikipedia. :) Regards, Andre ( talk ) 22:30, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

Military history of Puerto Rico
Hello,

Thank you for drawing my attention to this article. I gained a lot of knowledge from reading it. I was very impressed with its quality and hope that it becomes a featured article. I appreciate that considered me in your search for opinions.

Sincerely,

Acegikmo1 06:02, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Inline cites
By far the easiest inline referencing system we have is inote/template:explain-inote. This system creates invisible references that can only be seen in edit mode (thus only editors, not readers, can see them). An example in action is at History of the Grand Canyon area. Just click edit this page to see things like. This tells the editor exactly what work and what page number of that work was used as a reference for the previous sentence or sentences (I even add the section and paragraph number, but that is a bit excessive :). There is a current debate going on about how extensively we should be using inline cites for featured articles, but at least some are needed. Doing this while writing the article is much easier than going back to it later (especially when several sources were used). --mav 19:32, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

RFA
Hi Tony;

I'd like to nominate you for adminship. Do you accept? Linuxbeak | Desk 19:36, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * I would be honored, Tony
 * Your nomination is up. WP:RFA Linuxbeak | Desk 20:31, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Just to let you know, you're going to need to fill out the acceptance and the questions pretty soon. That way, people won't think you're ignoring it. Linuxbeak | Desk 21:07, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Hey Tony;

Looks like your RfA is going well, huh?! Last count was 28/4/3... even if those neutrals were counted as opposes, you would still have an 80% concencus. Looking good! Linuxbeak | Desk 23:22, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

Three days left, and you're at 31/4/3! I think you're going to make it!! :-D Linuxbeak | Desk 15:34, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Two days left! 33/4/3!! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 11:59, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

Exactly 24 hours left, and you're holding at 33/4/3. Gee, I wonder if you'll make it ;-) Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 20:27, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Military history of Puerto Rico
Hi Tony! I've just voted for your adminship promotion and wish you the best of luck with it. I'm sure you'll be approved this time - I'm sorry that your last two nominations failed, but I'm sure most people will realize that you've proved yourself. Your Puerto Rico articles are a very valuable asset to Wikipedia.

By the way, your Military history of Puerto Rico article is outstanding. The link to the featured article vote, however, doesn't seem to be working - it just goes to a blank page. Can you fix that - because I'd love to vote for it!David Cannon 11:27, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Stormie
I haven't really been following his edits lately, but his contributions page shows he was contributing a couple of days ago. Good look on your admin nomination. RickK 21:16, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

History writing on Wikipedia?
Hello,

I’m a historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) and we are very interested in digital historical works, including people writing history on Wikipedia. We’d like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Wikipedia, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish.

Thanks for your consideration.

Joan Fragaszy

jfragasz at gmu dot edu

RFA Message
Hi Tony: Thanks for the message. I was warmed by its tone. Good fortune with your RFA. It looks like you will make it this time and I look forward to seeing your increased community activity. --Theo (Talk) 23:28, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Mark Spitz
Why is he in the list of puerto ricans? Is he a Puerto Rican, I really don't know and the article doesn't say anything about it. By the way, I supported both the featured article nom for military history and your nomination... good luck on that one, but I'm sure you don't need any luck.Cjrs 79 23:54, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Interview
Yes, I think that's fine, as long as you make it clear that you're an editor of Wikipedia, and they don't get the impression you're actually talking on behalf of the Foundation or anything like that. Goog luck with the interview. Angela. 05:27, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

re: Friendly Chat
Thanks for the message. Yes, our paths have not crossed before, which is probably the main reason why I have not yet voted on your RFA yet. It is much easier to vote on somebody I know, or at the very least someone with a relatively low edit count. It is much harder to comb through 5220+ edits as you currently have. Hopefully, I'll have enough time to give you a fair and balanced comment on it before the May 31 deadline.

As you have read on my user page, one of my self-imposed restrictions on coming back from my Wiki-vacation was to never again self-nominate myself on RFA. I really do not want to think about that right now and would rather do some stuff behind the scenes. But if somebody nominates me, which probably will happen, I'll remember to let you know.

See ya around. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 11:42, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

WP:RFA
Hi Tony! Thanks for your enthusiastic support in my RfA - but maybe it's a little too enthusiastic - you voted for me twice! :-) FreplySpang (talk) 15:32, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

¡Hola Antonio!
If you get some time, could you create a stub for some old boricua baseball player like Tite Arroyo, Félix Millán, José Pagán or Terin Pizarro? You can check at my list of | Puerto Ricans in MLB. From 1942-2004, 214 boricuas appeared in major leagues. Only 40 of them has a wiki entry. It’s just a thought in case if you're interested. Take care, and good luck. MusiCitizen 20:49, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

RFA, etc.
Hi Tony! Delighted to support your Admin nomination, I'd actually been intending to nominate you myself by now, but as you've probably noticed I haven't been terribly active recently. I check my Watchlist and every now and then do a quick trawl of Recent Changes, but between being busy at work, the Super 12 rugby season, and playing World of Warcraft, I haven't had quite so much time for Wikipedia. :-)

Anyway, I think your nomination will be a success this time, so I hope I'm not premature in offering you my congratulations? Cheers! —Stormie 10:46, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Peruchin & Reggie
¡Hola Tony! Until I know, Cepeda’s father played with the New York Cubans and Jackson’s dad for the Newark Eagles. MusiCitizen 14:04, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I thought you might be interested in helping out on Wikiportal/Baseball. Danny 23:58, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Great! I look forward to your ideas and things. One of the important things to start with is to make sure the Baseball news is always up to date. We should also think of ways to change the featured article and picture regularly, and any other ideas you might have. Look forward to seeing you there. Danny 00:27, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Hi Tony!

I took a stab at merging Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and Arthur Schomburg - I merged it into Arturo Alfonso Schomburg since that was his birth name but I honestly have no idea which name he is better known by. I also tried breaking it into a couple of sections, one for his biography and one about his works. Not sure how well it works, but anyway, now that it's all in one place people can have a better go at polishing it.

By the way, I hit a couple of inconsistencies while merging them, I noted them down at Talk:Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.

p.s. I didn't get a chance to comment on Military history of Puerto Rico's Featured Article nomination, but I see that it has become an FA - congratulations, it's a splendid piece of work!! --Stormie 04:26, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

Question re: moving comment on RFA
Hiya!

I don't know that I would say it would be "improper" to move that comment, but I don't really think it's necessary.. especially since the vote is only a day and a half away from finishing, and at the moment is quite overwhelmingly positive. Might as well leave it how it is and not give anyone a reason to grumble. --Stormie 08:26, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Adminship
Marine 69-71:

I would like to give my congratulations for a beautiful RfA which ended which a vote count of 33/4/3. I am honored to bestow upon you your very own adminship. Congradulations! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 21:02, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 23:34, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Tony, congratulations on your promotion. Glad I voted for you because based on your contributions, you'll do fine. Wish me luck on my recent RFA nomination. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:48, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Congrats from me too - happy mopping! :-) FreplySpang (talk) 01:33, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Awesome news, congratulations... and have fun. Cjrs 79 02:20, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Tony, you're welcome, and congratulations! As Cecropia said, almost everything is reversible, so don't worry too much about making mistakes.  If you ever have any questions, feel free to ask.  SWAdair | Talk  05:37, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * You're welcome Marine, congratulations! Sjakkalle 06:11, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Congrats! No problems with the support - you will be a good admin. Grutness...  wha?  06:46, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Good luck. I am pleased that the consensus was in your favour. --Theo (Talk) 07:18, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Dad, you will always make me proud. Congratulations on your election and I love you very much.

God bless Antonio Your Son Martin

 * Congratulations, and welcome to the cabal! --Stormie 08:26, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Congratulations, Tony! I'm so glad you've made it - as I've said before, your promotion is overdue.  Thank you so much for all your kind words on my own talk page.  I, too, am glad to have met you via Wikipedia, and look forward to seeing more of you. David Cannon 10:42, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * ¡Felicidades, compañero! Hope you enjoy stamping on those vandals with your shiny new rollback button. (And thanks for the kind words, too.) –Hajor 12:55, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Congratulations, my friend. I'm sure you'll be an excellent admin. Andre ( talk ) 14:07, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi Tony--congratulations from me too; I'm quite happy to see you as a new admin; and keep writing, you do good work! Take care, Antandrus  (talk)  15:11, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Congrats, a bit late. — Dan | Talk 16:52, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Congrats!! a Puerto Rican admin! thats great!!! I look forward to working with you. We both entered wiki on May 2004, but you have achieved way much more than me! Keep up the good work!!!!!!<> 18:19, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Congratulations on your adminship. If you have any questions or just want to run ideas past me, please feel free.  RickK 22:27, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Congrats, Antonio. I'm happy with your happiness. MusiCitizen 22:49, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Joining the parade of congratulations! Glad to see you get promoted; I'm sure you'll use it well. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 23:15, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Hey! I already congratulated you, but who cares? Congrutulations on your promotion! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 02:51, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey Tony, thanks for your kind words, and vote in support of my admin nomination. And congratulations on your new adminship. Paul August ☎ 13:20, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for everything
Hi Tony!

Thanks a lot for everything! I noticed the barnstar just a few days ago but I wasn't able to thank you properly; I've been REALLY busy as of late. Thanks!!

Also, I really appreciate your vote on my RfA and you defending me. I don't know where that guy's vote came from, but it was certainly out of the blue. Thanks for being a pal!

God bless, Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 02:53, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

Administrator buttons
Hi Tony,

I checked the Bureaucrat Log and you should be looking at the buttons right now if you're logged in.

At the top of the page you should see tabs for "protect" and "delete" in addition to the usual ones. Also, when you are looking at an article diff between the current and last version you should see a "[rollback]" next to the current version. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 13:51, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Tony, there are no "buttons" as such, just extra items that weren't in your interface before. If you can't see these, please tell User:Tim Starling. He's a developer and can look at the database to see what's up. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 17:04, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: User talk:Marine 69-71/Archive 2


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List of historical highway markers in Hampshire County, West Virginia

This is a list of historical highway markers in Hampshire County, in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

West Virginia Memory Project markers
These markers were erected as part of the West Virginia Highway Historical Marker Program, which is currently managed by West Virginia Archives and History, a part of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History.

Capon Springs
Title: Capon Springs

Inscription: Capon Springs bears Indian name meaning the "Medicine Waters." Discovered in 1765. Famous resort of early days. President Franklin Pierce, Daniel Webster, and his guest, Sir Henry Bulwer, the British Minister, were among guests.

Location: West Virginia Route 259, Capon Lake

West Virginia/Virginia
Title: West Virginia/Virginia

Inscription: "The Mountain State"—western part of the Commonwealth of Virginia until June 20, 1863. Settled by the Germans and Scotch-Irish. It became a line of defense between the English and French during the French and Indian War, 1754-1763.

Named for Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen of England. Site of the first permanent English settlement, 1607, in America. One of the 13 original colonies. Virginia is the birthplace of eight Presidents of the United States.

Location: West Virginia Route 259, at state line

Northwestern Turnpike
Title: Northwestern Turnpike

Inscription: In 1784, Washington proposed the Northwestern Turnpike as an all-Virginia route to the Ohio. Authorized in 1827 and started in 1831, it remains a monument to the skill of its engineers, Charles Shaw and Colonel Claudius Crozet.

Location: U.S. Route 50, Capon Bridge

Fort Edwards
Title: Fort Edwards

Inscription: Troops from this fort under Captain Mercer were ambushed in 1756 and many were killed. The French and Indians later attacked the fort but the garrison, aided by Daniel Morgan and other frontiersmen, repulsed the assault.

Location: U.S. Route 50, near junction with County Route 14 (Cacapon River Road), Capon Bridge

Ice Mountain
Title: Ice Mountain

Inscription: Huge natural refrigerator, five miles north along North River, where ice is found for several hundred yards on the hottest summer days. Raven Rock, on North Mountain, offers one of the finest views in West Virginia.

Location: U.S. Route 50, at junction with West Virginia Route 29 North

Mount Bethel Church
Title: Mount Bethel Church

Inscription: The Presbyterians established a church near here in 1792. At first called the Mountain Church in 1808, it became the nucleus of Presbyterian work in Hampshire County under the auspices of the Rev. John Lyle. The Rev. James Black reorganized the congregation in 1812 and the newly formed congregation was named Mount Bethel. The present church, built of logs in 1837, is the oldest house of worship in this county.

Location: County Route 5 (Jersey Mountain Road), at junction with County Route 5/4 (Three Churches Hollow Road), Three Churches

Bloomery Gap Skirmish/Bloomery Iron Furnace
Title: Bloomery Gap Skirmish/Bloomery Iron Furnace

Inscription: February 14, 1862, Brigadier General Frederick W. Lander, commanding the 5th and 8th Ohio, 14th Indiana Infantry, and 400 men of the 1st West Virginia Cavalry, attacked a Confederate brigade of the 31st, 51st, 67th, and 89th Virginia Militia under Colonel J. Sencendiver. The Confederates were routed and fled toward Winchester. Lander returned to his camp at Paw Paw and Sencendiver again occupied Bloomery Gap.

The furnace was built, 1833, by Thomas Pastly and later was owned by Lewis Passmor. He placed a Mr. Cornwell in charge who operated it until 1848 when it was sold to S. A. Pancost. He and his heirs operated it until 1875 when the furnace was closed down. It was operated for a short time in 1880-1881. Annual capacity was 8500 tons. The iron was carried on rafts and flatboats down the Cacapon River.

Location: West Virginia Route 127 (Bloomery Pike), 2 miles east of junction with West Virginia Route 29

Oriskany Sand
Title: Oriskany Sand

Inscription: The massive sandstone forming the top of the exposure and the great arch is the Oriskany and the limestone below it is the Helderberg of the driller and geologist. The "Oriskany Sand", an important gas sand, has produced in excess of a trillion cubic feet of gas in West Virginia.

Location: U.S. Route 50/West Virginia Route 28, two miles west of Romney (missing)

Hampshire County/Virginia
Title: Hampshire County/Virginia

Inscription: Oldest county; established by the Virginia Assembly, 1754. Formed from Frederick and Augusta. Lord Fairfax, owner, named it for the English shire of the same name. Ice Mountain and Hanging Rocks are among its natural wonders.

Named for Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen of England. Site of the first permanent English settlement, 1607, in America. One of the 13 original colonies. Virginia is the birthplace of eight Presidents of the United States.

Location: West Virginia Route 127 (Bloomery Pike), at state line (missing)

Hampshire County/Morgan County
Title: Hampshire County/Morgan County

Inscription: Oldest county; established by the Virginia Assembly, 1754. Formed from Frederick and Augusta. Lord Fairfax, owner, named it for the English shire of the same name. Ice Mountain and Hanging Rocks are among its natural wonders. Formed, 1820, from Berkeley and Hampshire. Named for Gen. Daniel Morgan of the Revolutionary Army. Many of his renowned "Riflemen" were from the Eastern Panhandle, where he once lived. Famed Berkeley Springs here.

Location: West Virginia Route 9 West

Caudy's Castle
Title: Caudy's Castle

Inscription: Named for James Caudy, pioneer and Indian fighter, who took refuge from the Indians on a mass of rocks overlooking Cacapon River during the French and Indian War (1754–1763). From his position on the Castle of Rocks, he defended himself by pushing the Indians, one by one with the butt of his rifle, over the precipice as they came single file along the narrow crevice of rocks. They fell 450–500 feet to the base along the edge of the Cacapon.

Location: West Virginia Route 127 (Bloomery Pike), 1.5 miles east of West Virginia Route 29

Hampshire County/Morgan County
Title: Hampshire County/Morgan County

Inscription: Oldest county; established by the Virginia Assembly, 1754. Formed from Frederick and Augusta. Lord Fairfax, owner, named it for the English shire of the same name. Ice Mountain and Hanging Rocks are among its natural wonders.

Formed, 1820, from Berkeley and Hampshire. Named for Gen. Daniel Morgan of the Revolutionary Army. Many of his renowned "Riflemen" were from the Eastern Panhandle, where he once lived. Famed Berkeley Springs here.

Location: West Virginia Route 9 East (missing)

Braddock's Gap
Title: Braddock's Gap

Inscription: To the north, route of General Braddock's army in May, 1755, on way to attack the French at Fort Duquesne. His troops encamped at both Fort Capon and Fort Cox near here before resuming the journey which ended in defeat and death.

Location: U.S. Route 50 and West Virginia Route 29 (Bloomery Pike), near Pleasant Dale (missing)

Oriskany Sand
Title: Oriskany Sand

Inscription: The massive sandstone forming the top of the exposure and the great arch is the Oriskany and the limestone below it is the Helderberg of the driller and geologist. The "Oriskany Sand", an important gas sand, has produced in excess of a trillion cubic feet of gas in West Virginia.

Location: U.S. Route 50 and County Road 21, about 2 miles east of Pleasant Dale (missing)

Blue's Gap
Title: Blue's Gap Battle

Inscription: Confederate troops under Captain George F. Sheets were defeated by Colonel S. H. Dunning's 5th Ohio Infantry here, Jan. 7, 1862. North River Bridge and a number of buildings were burned by the Federals.

Location: U.S. Route 50, 14 miles east of Romney (missing)

West Virginia/Virginia
Title: West Virginia/Virginia

Inscription: "The Mountain State"—western part of the Commonwealth of Virginia until June 20, 1863. Settled by the Germans and Scotch-Irish. It became a line of defense between the English and French during the French and Indian War, 1754-1763.

Named for Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen of England. Site of the first permanent English settlement, 1607, in America. One of the 13 original colonies. Virginia is the birthplace of eight Presidents of the United States.

Location: U.S. Route 50, at state line (missing)

Hampshire County/Hardy County
Title: Hampshire County/Hardy County

Inscription: Oldest county; established by the Virginia Assembly, 1754. Formed from Frederick and Augusta. Lord Fairfax, owner, named it for the English shire of the same name. Ice Mountain and Hanging Rocks are among its natural wonders.

Formed from Hampshire in 1786. Named for distinguished Virginian, Samuel Hardy. In 1725, John Van Meter of New York visited the South Branch Valley. He praised it highly, so his sons acquired land and settled at Old Fields.

Location: U.S. Route 50, at county line near Intermont (missing)

High Knob
Title: High Knob

Inscription: This peak on Hampshire-Hardy line rises a thousand feet above the surrounding hills to a height of more than half a mile. From it can be seen points in three counties. It overlooks "The Trough," famed for its history and scenery.

Location: U.S. Route 220 (northbound) south of Hickory Hill Road, near Hampshire-Hardy border

Oriskany Sand
Title: Oriskany Sand

Inscription: The massive sandstone forming the top of the exposure and the great arch is the Oriskany and the limestone below it is the Helderberg of the driller and geologist. The "Oriskany Sand", an important gas sand, has produced in excess of a trillion cubic feet of gas in West Virginia.

Location: West Virginia Route 28 about 1.5 miles south of Springfield (missing)

Hanging Rocks
Title: Hanging Rocks

Inscription: Perpendicular cliffs rising nearly 300 feet above the South Branch of the Potomac. The scene of fierce battle between Delaware and Catawba Indians about 1736. Also scene of skirmishes between Northern and Southern troops in 1861.

Location: West Virginia Route 28, 4 miles north of Romney (missing)

Fort Forman
Title: Fort Forman

Inscription: Frontier outpost. From this county, Captain William Forman (Foreman), in 1777, led a company to the relief of Fort Henry at Wheeling. He, two sons, and many others were killed in an ambush by Indians at the "Narrows" near Moundsville.

Location: West Virginia Route 28, 3 miles north of Romney at Vance

Col. Claudius Crozet/Mechanicsburg Gap
Title: Col. Claudius Crozet/Mechanicsburg Gap

Inscription: Col. Crozet, born in France, 1790; came to America, 1816. He taught mathematics at West Point six years. Named chief engineer of Virginia (1824); surveyed Northwestern Turnpike, 1825. Died 1864; buried in Shockee Hills, Richmond.

Scenic canyon cut through Mill Creek Mountain by Mill Creek. Here an old Indian trail was the pathway from the Valley of Virginia to the Alleghenies, then the Northwestern Turnpike, now the George Washington Highway.

Location: U.S. Route 50/West Virginia Route 28, 2 miles west of Romney near Mechanicsburg

Indian Mound
Title: Indian Mound

Inscription: The Indian Mound Cemetery, which is 7 feet high and about 15 feet in diameter, is one of the largest remaining mounds in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. This mound has never been excavated but similar mounds of area dug by Smithsonian Institution suggest this mound might date between A.D. 500 and 1000, and have been constructed by Hopewellian peoples.

Location: Just west of Romney, U.S. Route 50/West Virginia Route 28

"Stonewall" Jackson/Romney in 1861–1865
Title: "Stonewall" Jackson/Romney in 1861–1865

Inscription: Jackson arrived here Jan. 13, 1862, after capturing Bath (Berkeley Springs). Leaving Gen. Loring, he returned to Winchester. Loring's protest caused Jackson to resign but he reconsidered and his Valley Campaign followed.

Sitting astride the natural invasion route from the Shenandoah Valley to the Potomac and B. & O. Railroad, Romney was scourged by both armies. No great battles were fought here, but during the War the town changed hands 56 times.

Location: Romney, Hampshire County Courthouse square, U.S. Route 50/West Virginia Route 28

Romney/Early Memorial
Title: Romney/Early Memorial

Inscription: Incorporated as a town, 1762. Owned and laid off as a town by Lord Fairfax. Named for one of the five English Channel ports. Not far away was Fort Pearsall, built, 1756, as Indian defense. Town changed military control 56 times, 1861–1865.

In 1866, Confederate Memorial Association was formed here, which on September 26, 1867, dedicated a monument to Confederate soldiers, one of the first erected anywhere. This was site of Indian cemetery long before white men came.

Location: Romney, Hampshire County Courthouse square, U.S. Route 50/West Virginia Route 28

W. Va. School for Deaf and Blind
Title: W. Va. School for Deaf and Blind

Inscription: Established, 1870. The Classical Institute was donated by the Romney Literary Society as the initial building unit. Co-educational school giving academic and vocational training to the State's deaf and blind youth.

Location: Romney, U.S. Route 50, West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind campus

Hampshire County/Mineral County
Title: Hampshire County/Mineral County

Inscription: Oldest county. Authorized, 1753, in act effective, May 1, 1754. Formed from Frederick and Augusta. Lord Fairfax, owner, named it for the English shire of the same name. Ice Mountain and Hanging Rocks are among its many natural wonders.

Formed from Hampshire in 1866 and named for its great mineral deposits. In Mineral County is Fort Ashby, the only standing unit in the chain of frontier forts which were built in 1755 under George Washington's order.

Location: West Virginia Route 28 near Springfield

Hampshire County/Mineral County
Title: Hampshire County/Mineral County

Inscription: Oldest county. Authorized, 1753, in act effective, May 1, 1754. Formed from Frederick and Augusta. Lord Fairfax, owner, named it for the English shire of the same name. Ice Mountain and Hanging Rocks are among its many natural wonders.

Formed from Hampshire in 1866 and named for its great mineral deposits. In Mineral County is Fort Ashby, the only standing unit in the chain of frontier forts which were built in 1755 under George Washington's order.

Location: U.S. Route 50/U.S. Route 220 near Junction (missing)

Hampshire County/Hardy County
Title: Hampshire County/Hardy County

Inscription: Oldest county. Authorized, 1753, in act effective, May 1, 1754. Formed from Frederick and Augusta. Lord Fairfax, owner, named it for the English shire of the same name. Ice Mountain and Hanging Rocks are among its many natural wonders.

Formed from Hampshire in 1786. Named for distinguished Virginian, Samuel Hardy. In 1725, John Van Meter of New York visited the South Branch Valley. He praised it highly, so his sons acquired land and settled at Old Fields.

Location: U.S. Route 220 near Purgitsville (missing)

Pin Oak Fountain
Title: Pin Oak Fountain

Inscription: Built by State Road Comm. and local artisans in 1932; land given by H.R. Edeburn. Crystal quartz quarried from behind nearby Bloomery iron furnace, and stone from hillside behind the fountain. Spring water, gravity fed from hill above, supplied area residents and travelers. Fountain was popular site for picnics, dances, courting, & auctions. Restored in 1988 and maintained by Pin Oak Extension Homemakers Club.

Location: West Virginia Route 29, Pin Oak, eight miles south of Paw Paw

Ice Mountain
Title: Ice Mountain

Inscription: Huge natural refrigerator, five miles north along North River, where ice is found for several hundred yards on the hottest summer days. Raven Rock, on North Mountain, offers one of the finest views in West Virginia.

Location: U.S. Route 50, at junction with West Virginia Route 29 North, near Pleasant Dale

Capon Chapel
Title: Capon Chapel

Inscription: Early settlers gathered at this spot under a large oak tree for religious occasions and family burials. Beneath the boards covering Capon Chapel is the original log structure built in the 1750s. It is one of the oldest church buildings in W. Va. still standing. The oldest graves are located in what is now lawn and parking area. The fieldstone markers were lost over the years.

Location: Christian Church Road (County Route 13) near Capon Bridge

Whipple Truss
Title: Historic Whipple Truss

Inscription: Built in 1874 on U.S. Route 50 near Romney and re-erected at the present site in 1939. In use until 1991, and made an historic site by the WVDOT in 1992. It is the oldest of the few Whipple Trusses left in WV.

Location: West Virginia Route 259 in Capon Lake


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Jim Gouk

James William Gouk (born April 15, 1946) is a Canadian politician.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Gouk began his political career out west as an alderman in Castlegar, British Columbia. Gouk would enter federal politics in 1993 when he was elected into the House of Commons of Canada. In the 1993 Canadian federal election he was elected in Kootenay West—Revelstoke with the Reform Party of Canada. In the 1997 Canadian federal election he was elected out of the West Kootenay—Okanagan riding. In the 2000 Canadian federal election, Gouk was elected after joining the Canadian Alliance from the Kootenay—Boundary—Okanagan riding. He was elected a fourth time in the 2004 Canadian federal election in the riding of Southern Interior, this time for the Conservative Party of Canada. An air traffic controller, businessman and realtor, he has been an opposition critic of Transport, Public Works and Government Services, Labour, and Via Rail before retiring from politics at the dissolution of parliament prior to the 2006 federal election.

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Dover-Sherborn High School

Dover-Sherborn High School, or DSHS, is a regional public high school in the town of Dover, Massachusetts, United States. It serves students from the towns of Dover and Sherborn, and is the senior school of the Dover-Sherborn Public School District, housing grades 9 through 12. It also hosts some METCO students. It is rated by Boston Magazine as the top High School in Massachusetts

History
Until the 1960s Dover and Sherborn sent their high school students to neighboring towns' high schools (Needham for Dover, Framingham for Sherborn). By the 1950s, the population boom was making it difficult for those schools to accept outside students, and the two towns created a regional school district. The first building was built on Farm Street in 1962. As the population continued to increase, the current high school was built on the same campus and completed in 1968. In 2004, a $43 million renovation on the campus was completed, which included a renovation of the high school building, the razing of the middle school (the original high school building) and the new construction of the middle school. The other schools in the district are Dover Sherborn Middle School (DSMS), Pine Hill School and Chickering School. The current principal of Dover Sherborn High School is John Smith, accompanied by assistant principal Timothy O'Mara.

In March 2020, the unprecedented disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic caused the school to transition to remote learning for the remainder of the academic year.

Academics
Academically, the Dover-Sherborn High School has been historically ranked as one of Massachusetts' top-performing public schools. For example, in 2015, "Newsweek" magazine ranked Dover-Sherborn High School as the 16th best high school in the country. In 2014, Boston Magazine rated Dover-Sherborn High School as the best public school in Greater Boston. From 2011 to 2019, Boston Magazine ranked the Dover-Sherborn School System as number one in Massachusetts. US News recognized this by including DSHS amongst the top 100 public high schools in America.

For the 2006–2007 school year, DSHS tenth-grade students ranked fourth in English and math among their peers on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exam. Ninety-six percent of the class of 2006 took the SAT I and 56% scored over 600 in the verbal section, 65% scored over 600 in the math section and 58% scored over 600 in the writing section. About 97% of all graduates attend college or university.

Extracurricular activities
The school offers sports including American football, soccer, cross country, golf, field hockey, basketball, alpine and Nordic skiing, swimming, baseball, softball, lacrosse, indoor and outdoor track and field, tennis, ice hockey, gymnastics, and sailing. The school is part of The Education Co-operative (TEC), which allows DSHS students to take part in internships with local companies and also enroll in TEC Classes.

The Chess Team became league champions in 2007. A DSHS student project officially represented MA State at the International Science and Engineering Fair hosted by Intel in 2006. In 2007, DSHS became home to a Siemens Competition Semifinalist.

The school's Drama Department puts on two productions each year: an autumn play and a spring musical. The program is supported by the local community through organizations such as Friends of the Performing Arts, The Mudge Foundation, The Dover-Sherborn Education Fund, and Len Schnabel of DesignLight. Theater productions are performed primarily at The Mudge Auditorium in the Lindquist Commons building. Some local productions are also performed at the Sherborn Community Center/1858 Town House. Productions include: Children of Eden, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Fiddler on the Roof, Seussical, The Importance of Being Earnest, Godspell, The Odd Couple, Anything Goes, Once Upon a Mattress, The Crucible, Pippin, and West Side Story.

Hall of Fame
Dover-Sherborn High School began inducting former athletes, coaches, teams, and contributors to an athletics Hall of Fame in 2018.

Class of 2018: Athletes: Patrick Bresnahan (student athlete) (2003); Molly Hoagland (1976); Jay Hughes (student athlete) (1969); KC Potts (1972); Harry Rose (student athlete) (1972); Arnold "Smokey" Whitman (1970) Coaches: William "Whitey" Davis, Boys Basketball, Boys Tennis, and Girls Tennis; Thomas Marlborough, Football Team: 1981 Boys Basketball Team

Class of 2019: Athletes: Jennifer Hodgson (Brady) (1984); Paula Majeski (1979); Christopher Pavlic (1989), Ellen Willey (Gelinas) (2002) Coach: Christopher Dubose, Boys Basketball and Girls Tennis Team: 1974 Field Hockey Contributor: Richard Wakely

Class of 2020: Athletes: Vicki Greymont (1983); Paige MacTavish (1990); Judd Smith (1992); Curt Wilson (1990) Team: 1970 Football Team Contributor: Jim Lorenzon

Championships

 * Girls Soccer: League Champions (1981, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2019), Sectional Champions (2010, 2011, 2019), State Champions (2011)
 * Boys Soccer: League Champions (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1999, 2011, 2016, 2017), Sectional Champions (2010, 2012), State Champions (1992, 2010)
 * Field Hockey: League Champions (1975, 1979, 1980, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 (Co-Champs), 2019, 2021 (Co-Champs)), Sectional Champions (2013, 2014, 2019), State Champions (2019)
 * Girls Cross Country: League Champions (2011 (Co-Champs), 2013, 2018, 2021), League Meet Champions (2010, 2011), Divisional Champions (2010, 2011)
 * Boys Cross Country: League Champions (2018, 2019), League Meet Champions (2018)
 * Golf: League Champions (1984, 2018, 2019, 2021), Sectional Champions (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021)
 * Football: League Champions (1970, 1978, 2021)
 * Boys Basketball: League Champions (1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–1969, 1969–1970, 1972-1973 (??), 1977–1978, 1978–1979, 1979–1980, 1980–1981, 1987–1988, 1988–1989, 1993–1994, 1994–1995, 2004–2005 (Co-Champs)), Sectional Champions (1979-1980, 1980–1981, 1992–1993, 1993–1994, 2018–2019), State Champions (1980-1981, 2018–2019)
 * Boys Indoor Track: League Champions (2017-2018, 2018–2019, 2019–2020)
 * Boys Ice Hockey: League Champions (1981-1982, 1982–1983, 1990–1991, 2009–2010)
 * Boys Alpine: League Champions (1985-1986, 1987–1988, 1988–1989, 1989–1990, 1991–1992, 1992–1993, 1993–1994, 1999–2000, 2000–2001, 2002–2003, 2003–2004, 2004–2005, 2009–2010, 2010–2011, 2011–2012, 2012–2013, 2013–2014, 2014–2015, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023), State Champions (1981-1982 (??), 1985–1986, 2014–2015)
 * Girls Alpine: League Champions (2009-2010, 2010–2011, 2011–2012, 2012–2013, 2013–2014)
 * Boys Nordic Ski: League Champions (2009-2010, 2010–2011, 2011–2012, 2012–2013, 2014–2015, 2015–2016)
 * Girls Nordic Ski: League Champions (2009-2010, 2010–2011, 2011–2012)
 * Boys Track and Field: League Champions (1970, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
 * Girls Track and Field: League Champions (2018)
 * Girls Tennis: League Champions (1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021), Sectional Champions (1994, 2009), State Champions (1994, 2009)
 * Boys Tennis: League Champions (1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021), Sectional Champions (1985, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021), State Champions (1985)
 * Boys Lacrosse: League Champions (2011, 2012 (Co-Champs), 2013, 2016 (Co-Champs), 2017 (Co-Champs), 2018, 2019, 2021), Sectional Champions (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021), State Champions (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021)
 * Girls Lacrosse: League Champions (2018, 2021), Sectional Champions (2021), State Champions (2021)
 * Sailing: League Champions (2011)

Notable alumni

 * Dan Bennett, Class of 1980, prosecutor, former Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety and Security
 * Paul Calello, Class of 1979, chairman Credit Suisse
 * Eli Dershwitz, Class of 2014, 2023 World Saber Champion, 2015 Under-20 World Saber Champion, and US Olympic saber fencer
 * Stephanie Deshpande, Class of 1993, contemporary American painter
 * Kenny Florian, Class of 1994, retired professional mixed martial artist for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Fox/UFC analyst
 * Dan Itse, Class of 1976, engineer, inventor, and member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
 * Marilyn Mosby, Class of 1998, lawyer, Former State's Attorney for Baltimore City, Convicted Felon.

 * Chad Urmston, Class of 1994, singer-songwriter of Dispatch and State Radio

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America Town

America Town is the second studio album by American pop rock artist Five for Fighting. It was released by Aware Records, a Columbia Records subsidiary, in 2000. It contains two of his most well-known songs, "Easy Tonight" and the Grammy-nominated "Superman (It's Not Easy)". The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on November 1, 2001, and Platinum on October 22, 2004. The album has sold over 966,000 copies in the United States as of November 2009.

Background and composition
John Ondrasik had been active in the Los Angeles music scene since the 1980s, but did not adopt "Five for Fighting" as his stage name until he signed with EMI Records in 1995. His first album, Message for Albert, came out through EMI in 1997 but EMI's American division closed shortly after Message came out. After EMI's collapse, Ondrasik briefly signed with Island Records, but then "PolyGram, Island's parent company, merged with Universal and he was lost in the shuffle". Ondrasik then signed with Aware and Columbia Records and began working on America Town. After being dropped from two straight record companies, Ondrasik, then in his mid-30s, believed America Town would be his "swan song".

America Town features ten new songs and two songs that were re-recorded from the ill-fated Message album ("Love Song" and "The Last Great American"). The hidden track, "Do You Mind", had also appeared on some versions of Message.

Ondrasik wrote all of the songs and lyrics. Gregg Wattenburg, the album's producer, played electric guitar throughout the album and provided backing vocals. Ondrasik also played electric guitar on "Michael Jordan" and "Boat Parade". Dorian Crozier was the drummer for all songs except "Love Song", which saw Robert Medici reprise the role (he had been the drummer on the Message for Albert version of the song). The bassists were Sheldon Gomberg and Mark Montague.

Critical reception
AllMusic called America Town "a bright and clean effort that delivers some heavy themes", and noted that "the focus is clearly on the lyrics, which are well written and effectively sung".

Commercial performance
"Easy Tonight" was released as the lead single. The second single, "Superman (It's Not Easy)" achieved mainstream success, peaking at number one on the Adult Top 40. Superman was nominated for a Grammy in 2002. Following the success of "Superman", "Easy Tonight" was released as a single a second time, reaching number 18 on the Adult Top 40. Two more singles followed ("America Town" and "Something About You"), but neither song replicated the mainstream success of "Superman" and "Easy Tonight".

The success of America Town meant that the album had not been Ondrasik's swan song, as he had anticipated. His third studio album, The Battle for Everything, came out in 2004 and was also certified platinum.

"Superman" was certified gold by the RIAA in 2005.

Track listing
All songs written by John Ondrasik.

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Cover art for the album "Welcome to the Infant Freebase" by The Soundtrack of our Lives

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Talk:Hi!

I agree with the redirect. Changing it to a redirect eliminites the need to maintain it.

 * My thoughts exactly. It's been deleted twice before, after being created by two different editors. -- Hadal 04:51, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Peace Arch Border Crossing

The Peace Arch Border Crossing is the common name for the Blaine–Douglas crossing which connects the cities of Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia on the Canada–United States border. I-5 on the American side joins BC Highway 99 on the Canadian side. Being the most direct route between the major cities of Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia, the crossing is the third-busiest on the border with up to 4,800 cars a day. Trucks and other commercial vehicles are prohibited from this location and use the Pacific Highway Border Crossing, which is 1.6 km eastward.

Canadian side
In 1882, the initial border station was established at Elgin on the Nicomekl River about 9 km northwest of the present crossing. The river was the only route for vessels serving the area. When the Semiahmoo Trail opened for vehicular traffic, a New Westminster–Blaine stage service was established. The opening of the New Westminster and Southern Railway in 1891 relocated the border station to a site at Douglas about 300 m west of the present Pacific Highway Border Crossing. The customs office was in the train station.

When the Great Northern Railway relocated its track via White Rock in 1909, the border station moved westward to the present location near the foreshore. The Port of White Rock provided administrative customs oversight. Oversight passed to New Westminster in 1927 and then to the Port of Pacific Highway in 1932. Canada built a large wooden border station in 1929, being replaced by a concrete structure in 1952. Enlargements were made in 1963. The present facility, which opened in 2009, included an increase in the number of lanes from seven to ten.

Peace Arch Park
Between the two border stations sits the Peace Arch Park, where visitors are free to cross the border within the confines of the park. The Peace Arch was erected in 1921 when a hotel and residences occupied much of the later park area. In 2010, the only time the Olympic torch left Canada was in crossing the border into the US side of the park.

US side
The original 1920s-era brick building underwent a major rebuild in 1979. The General Services Administration constructed the new state-of-the-art facility which opened in 2010 but was officially dedicated the next year. Wait times can be up to four hours; traffic lights exist on the southbound lane, with timers showing when the light will turn green so drivers can turn off engines.

Trains
US Border Agents from the Peace Arch Border Crossing meet Amtrak Cascades southbound trains to process declarations and finalize passengers' admission to the United States, although much of the work is done at Pacific Central Station's US border preclearance facility.

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User talk:Ronald F. Tacumba

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has now been reverted or removed. Please use Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles will be reverted quickly. Please see the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. -- Hadal 04:24, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal

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(see Accuracy_dispute)

IMHO, the recent change of these lines indicates a dispute.

 * Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal also known as the MMA is a major alliance of Islamic groups in Pakistan, which call themselves religious-political parties. It is seen by many as a fanatical group. Some claim the MMA is the political face of those religious groups labeled by the United States as terrorist groups.
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 * Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal also known as the MMA is a major alliance of Islamist groups in Pakistan, which call themselves religious-political parties. It is seen as a right wing group which although sympathetic to the Taliban, has so far been far more moderate and democratic than them.

If anything I am disputing this information as POV.--AI 04:25, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * None of the parties that the MMA comprises have ever been put on any terrorist list by the USA. Also describing MMA as "fanatical" is far fetched. Condeming the US or being opposed to American policy does not make one a "fanatic". The MMA won elections and their rule has been very different from the Taliban.

 * The person who is disputing my input needs to distinguish better between militant-political parties like Hezbollah and religious-political parties like the MMA. -- 4.153.240.211 18:51, 3 Jun 2005

Here my comment from the edit summary, which you apparently did not read: "Self proclaimed makes no sense here - which political party ever was not?"

BTW, if you claim something is POV, please give your reasons for that, not just the word POV. --Irmgard 20:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I read your edit summary and agree with you. However, the rv did more than just remove "self proclaimed".  I fixed this, and if there is still dispute over the introduction, lets hear it.--AI 20:37, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

war on terror mistake
"the MMA will destroy Pakistan"........that is more of an opinion....and not a fact supported by anything

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