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Invasion, U.S.A. (1952 film)

Invasion, U.S.A. (sometimes stylized Invasion USA) is a 1952 American drama film based on a story by Robert Smith and Franz Spencer and directed by Alfred E. Green. The film stars Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle and Dan O'Herlihy. Invasion, U.S.A. is set in the Cold War and portrays the invasion of the United States by an unnamed communist enemy which likely refers to the Soviet Union. It is typical of the Red Scare film genre, common throughout the 1950s.

Plot
In a New York City bar, the brooding, mysterious forecaster Mr. Ohman is sitting and drinking brandy. He gets into discussions with a cross-section of affluent Americans at the bar, including local television newscaster Vince Potter, beautiful young New York society woman Carla Sanford, a California industrialist, a rancher from Arizona, and a congressman. International news is bad, but the Americans do not want to hear it. While they all dislike communism and appreciate the material wealth they enjoy, they also want lower taxes and fail to see the need for industrial support of government. Ohman tells the others that many Americans want safety and security but do not want to make any sacrifices for it.

Suddenly the news becomes worse. "The Enemy" is staging air attacks over Seal Point, Alaska and then Nome. Paratroops have landed on Alaskan airfields. Soon, the enemy's plan of attack becomes clear: civilian airfields are captured as staging areas while military airfields are A-bombed. The US fights back and attacks the enemy's homeland with Convair B-36 missions, but the enemy steadily moves into Washington state and Oregon. Shipyards in Puget Sound are hit with atomic attacks causing massive casualties.

Meanwhile, the Americans at the bar scramble to return to their lives to do what they can against the enemy now that it is too late. Potter and Sanford fall for each other. He continues to broadcast while she volunteers to help run a blood drive. The industrialist and the rancher both return home to find themselves on the front lines. The former is caught in the battle for San Francisco, the latter in the destruction of Boulder Dam by a nuclear missile which results in a tidal wave, flooding most of the country and killing a family attempting to flee from it. The US president, whose face is never shown in front view, only in rear view, makes ineffectual broadcasts with inflated claims of counterattacks to rally the morale of the people. The enemy continues to advance with stealth attacks by troops dressed in American uniforms, including a paratrooper attack on the US Capitol that kills the congressman. New York is hit with an atomic bomb, and Potter is soon killed at Clara's apartment. Sanford, threatened with rape by an enemy soldier, narrowly escapes his assault as she jumps from the balcony, presumably to her death.

Suddenly, the image of her falling body appears in Ohman's brandy snifter. All five suddenly find themselves back in the bar since they have just emerged from a hypnotic state that Ohman had induced. After reassuring themselves that the recent events, including their deaths, did not really happen, they hurry off to take measures to boost military preparedness. Potter and Sanford "resume" their romance.

Cast

 * Gerald Mohr as Vince Potter
 * Peggie Castle as Carla Sanford
 * Dan O'Herlihy as Mr. Ohman
 * Robert Bice as George Sylvester
 * Tom Kennedy as Tim the Bartender
 * Wade Crosby as Illinois Congressman Arthur V. Harroway
 * Erik Blythe as Ed Mulfory
 * Phyllis Coates as Mrs. Mulfory
 * Aram Katcher as Factory Window Washer
 * Knox Manning as himself
 * Edward G. Robinson Jr. as Radio Dispatcher
 * Noel Neill as Second Airline Ticket Agent
 * Clarence A. Shoop as Army Major
 * Joseph Granby as President of the United States (uncredited)

Production
Invasion, U.S.A. was the second film from American Pictures Corporation, who had just made their first film, Captive Women. The company consisted of Albert Zugsmith, Peter Miller, Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen with Joseph Justman as producer. They planned to make six films a year for five years out of a fund of $3.5 million. Robert Smith wrote the script. The film had the co-operation of the US Civil Defense.

Harold Daniels was to direct but he was instead assigned to American Pictures Corporation's, Port Sinister, and Alfred E. Green replaced him. Ron Randell was meant to appear in the cast but had to pull out. William Schallert replaced Clete Roberts. Gerald Mohr replaced Michael O'Shea. Filming started 26 March 1952.

Zugsmith said the film was made for a cash budget of $127,000 with $60,000 deferred. He called the movie the way that he really learned filmmaking, and he got an education from Al Green and Ralph Black in particular.

"The Enemy" is never named but is clearly meant to be taken as the communist Soviet Union because of its approach through Alaska, pseudo-Slavic accents, and "People's Army" proclamations. Principal photography began in early April 1952 at Motion Picture Center Studios.

Much of the film's running time is taken up with WWII combat stock footage.

On a philosophical level, Invasion, U.S.A. is also often viewed as humorously (and unintentionally) ironic, as the lesson it communicates encourages citizens to subordinate their individual needs and desires to that of the state to combat communism.

Phyllis Coates and Noel Neill, two Lois Lane actresses, and William Schallert, a B-movie and TV stalwart, all have small parts in the film. O'Herlihy had the distinction of costarring in another Cold War drama climaxing with the nuclear destruction of New York, when he appeared in 1964's Fail Safe.

Reception and legacy
A contemporary review in Variety states: "This production imaginatively poses the situation of a foreign power invading the US with atom bombs. Startling aspects of the screenplay [from a story by Robert Smith and Franz Spencer] are further parlayed through effective use of war footage secured from the various armed services and the Atomic Energy Commission."

The film was commercially successful and brought in net profits of about $1.2 million, according to Zugmsith.

Invasion, U.S.A. was subsequently shown on television in the late 1960s but then was not widely viewed for a long time until in 1994, it was spoofed as Episode 602 on the movie-mocking television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 alongside the 1950 education short A Date with Your Family.

In 1998, Invasion, U.S.A. was released on VHS, then on DVD in 2002. A special edition in 2009 featured two original Civil Defense Department audio recordings on the alternate DVD audio track: The Complacent Americans and If the Bomb Falls: A Recorded Guide to Survival. The 1956 reissue theatrical trailer; and interviews with stars, Dan O'Herlihy, William Schallert and Noel Neill. The original and controversial "Red Scare" short Red Nightmare, narrated by Jack Webb, was also included in the bonus features.

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 * Brenda Barrie and The Binding have been deleted for inconsequential reasons and I request both articles be returned to Wikipedia. The material contained in the deletion debate which contains at least as many words as either of the deleted articles) contain a number of petty reasons that show lack of understanding, both of the subject matter and more importantly, the purpose of Wikipedia itself.

 * As to the first point, one editor asserts that the article is self-promotion due to the fact that the author's website has links to the two articles, but of course that is perfectly natural. Any author with a dedicated website (and that includes nearly all authors today) have links to external sources and reviews for the convenience of readers, primarily to take advantage of additional links to related Wikipedia and external information. Another would undelete only if total sales of The Binding exceeded 5,000; though I understand sales are approaching 5,000, I see no rationale to making that number a bar to inclusion in Wikipedia.

 * More important than any quibbles about Ms. Barrie's relative importance in the firmament, however, is that this type of deletion flies in the face of the philosophical underpinnings of Wikipedia itself. I have spent years earlier in my career as a journalist and later publisher of newspapers and magazines, and the constant battle was to fit all the information that should have been delivered to the public into the very limited editorial space available. This same constraint has been the burden of every encyclopedist since the 16th Century until the virtually unlimited space availability of the Web made Wikipedia possible.

 * It is my strong contention that the purpose of editors in Wikipedia is to ensure the greatest possible accuracy over all the varied content of Wikipedia, and not to impose artificial limits on the range of its content. After all, suppose one were to be researching the important authors of Winnipeg or of Manitoba and were to come upon lists that include 19 names, all with Wikipedia articles except for Brenda Barrie, who was named Woman of the Year in Communications by the YWCA in Winnipeg at one point, wrote a novel based on three Winnipeg Jewish men all born to Holocaust survivors in DP (displaced persons) camps in Europe shortly after the war, and is now executive director of the major Reform congregation in Santa Monica, California? Others in that list include Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize winner for her novel The Stone Diaries.

 * Wikipedia should over time begin to encompass the knowledge and intellectual capital of humanity. Who are these editors who imagine today what importance the future may place upon the first writer to explore in depth the anguish and guilt of middle-aged men of today struggling with the remnants of the Holocaust experience as it impacts their own lives and those of their wives and children; should they hide their Jewishness or embrace it, "suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles" as Shakespeare put in Hamlet?
 * Perhaps the deleting editors do not have appropriate background to understand that The Binding is not merely a commercial enterprise, but explores a deeply moving, highly personal and strongly felt anxiety within the American and world Jewish communities. Certainly the dozens of audiences Brenda Barrie has addressed over the past two years would testify to the importance of her subject and her novel.

 * I respectfully request that both articles be undeleted, and that in common decency, Wikipedia editors inform me of any future decisions regarding any articles I have posted, just as they should always do for any author's contributions. 216.115.237.30 09:29, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

 * You'll want to copy the above text and follow the steps here to list these two articles for review, since you seem to want them in article space. The section you posted in is intended for people who just want a courtesy copy, but don't yet want them in the space for articles. See Deletion_policy for the purpose of deletion review. The previous deletion discussion is here.--Chaser - T 22:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Penn State Dickinson Law

Academic Boosterism
Lets remember not to do this people. Some of the content of this article is exactly that and I am going to remove it. Please read. Academic boosterism —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.63.144.20 (talk) 04:09, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Seriously. This thing reads like a brochure from the admissions department. I was more curious about the history of the school, how and why a respected old law school was annexed by Penn State in the 1990s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.200.59.2 (talk) 19:23, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Penn state dickinson logo.jpg
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Title
Is there a reason the title contains an em dash instead of an en dash? —danhash (talk) 20:48, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

The recent separation of the school into two, separately accredited schools requires distinction between Dickinson Law and Penn State Law. The title should use a comma and present both schools as Penn State University, Dickinson Law and Penn State University, Penn State Law, which is not unlike the naming style of the University of California university system. ACarelock (talk) 17:08, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Duplicate articles?
I get two different articles, depending on whether I search for "Penn State Law" or "Dickinson Law".CountMacula (talk) 05:44, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Title
I know next to nothing about this school, but based on its webpage it currently seems to be marketing itself more as "Penn State Law" than as the "Dickenson School of Law." Shouldn't the title be changed to "Penn State Law" and the intro be changed to "Penn State Law (also known as the Dickenson School of Law)..."? --Nstrauss (talk) 21:18, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Requested move
Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law → Penn State University, Dickinson Law – As of June 2014, the ABA approved of Penn State University's proposal to operate the Law School as two independent and separately accredited law schools, Penn State University, Penn State Law and Penn State University, Dickinson Law. In order to provide clarity and consistency to users who may be looking for information on either law school, and to avoid the question of duplicate information, I'm requesting that this article is moved to reflect the separate school's naming convention. The University uses the phrase "Dickinson School of Law" to reference the former unified operation. ACarelock (talk) 17:32, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Not done at this time; please reinitiate discussion as necessary. As recently as November 10, the school was using "Penn State Dickinson School of Law" and "Penn State’s Dickinson Law" in the same press release, and no evidence has been presented that this is the new common name. Please note that Wikipedia does not necessarily use official names to name articles. Dekimasu よ! 01:47, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

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Talk:Nittany Lion

Guarding the Lion
With all due respect to the ROTC and the Lion Ambassadors, other members of the Penn State community participate in guarding the lion. Rob 02:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

lions eliminated?
I grew up in a rural part of State College and while I'm not 100% sure I'm confidant I've heard a mountain lion. I now live in northern Delaware and have definitely seen tracks in the White Clay Creek preserve near the De/Md/Pa corner so its a good possibility they've returned to central Pa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.21.196.64 (talk) 07:01, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Oh, I hope so! Can you find any official documentation? While I completely trust you, Wikipedia is more stringent. But as a Penn State Alum, I would love to hear that the lions have returned. 02:30, 3 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grumpy otter (talk • contribs)

See Eastern cougar for background. It's not clear if the eastern population was a separate subspecies or not, but either way, they're probably all dead (except in Florida). That doesn't mean that you didn't meet a mountain lion, but it means that it was probably an individual wanderer from the west. ―Toby Bartels (talk) 20:19, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Proposed merge of The Nittany Lion (song) into Nittany Lion
Pages are closely related topics and relatively short. Combining may better cover them without duplicating content. Ost (talk) 20:54, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable song for a leading national football program. Pennsylvania2 (talk) 20:21, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:List of Pennsylvania State University alumni

Ben Cohen '74 Colgate University
Ben Cohen is listed as both a graduate of Colgate University and Penn State. Which is it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.210.129.209 (talk • contribs) 18:17, 25 November 2005 (UTC).
 * Both Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield took Penn State's now famous "Ice Cream Short Course" in 1977—part of the continuing education program for post-graduates. —Xanderer 22:39, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

check for correction and maybe add
Lara Spencer, as mentioned in Penn Stater Magazine, Nov-Dec 2005, and on the web as well. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.36.32.33 (talk • contribs) 12:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC).

Aren't there More
As far as I can tell, Penn State does a poor job of promoting its prominent alumni. I can't find any official pages detailing alumni at any length, other than touting the number who exist. Can anybody add more, or find a list? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jackstone (talk • contribs) 05:37, 2 June 2006 (UTC).
 * I believe this is deliberate. The University doesn't want to offend by compiling a list of notable alumnæ and leaving someone out. After all, who would determine who was "noteworthy" and who wasn't? And what if they offend a potential alumni donor by their omission? —Xanderer 22:45, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Felipe Coronel/Immortal Technique
He didn't really graduate, does he count? Correct me, if I'm wrong. Thanks,

24.186.192.247 17:42, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

James Wines, architect (founder of SITE)
The internationally-celebrated 'green' architect James Wines currently teaches in the architecture department. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.80.33.32 (talk) 18:34, 26 March 2007 (UTC).

Merger proposal
I thought we had consensus at Articles for deletion/Major League Baseball players who played for Penn State for a merge. That page doesn't serve a purpose as a standalone, and as there's no baseball section at Penn State Nittany Lions, I'm proposing it be merged here. --Muboshgu (talk) 13:34, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * More than a year and no comments. I'm merging now. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:29, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

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John Myers (radio executive)

John Myers (11 April 1959 – 1 June 2019) was a British radio executive, consultant and presenter. He was Chairman of the UK Radio Academy Awards, The Commercial Radio Awards and owner of Myers Media. Myers developed the Century Radio brand for Border Radio Holdings in the early 1990s, launching two more stations later in the decade. He presented programmes under the pseudonym "John Morgan". He then became Chief executive of GMG Radio, developing the Real Radio, Smooth Radio and Rock Radio brands and overseeing GMG Radio's acquisition of the Century network from GCap Media. He served as Chief executive of The Radio Academy from April 2011 until June 2012 and the founding Chairman of TeamRock, retiring in May 2016.

In 2009, he was asked by the Labour Government to produce a report on the future of local radio in the UK ("The Myers Report") which was published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in April 2009. A number of his recommendations were taken up by the Digital Economy Act 2010, leading to, amongst others, mergers within the Heart and Smooth Radio networks. Myers reviewed efficiencies at four BBC radio stations during the first quarter of 2011 and, in late 2011, began reviewing BBC Local Radio stations in response to the Delivering Quality First cuts.

Early career
Myers started his radio career in 1980 as a Station Assistant for BBC Radio Cumbria. He was the station's first country music presenter while also presenting and producing a number of music programmes. He became a presenter in 1982 for Red Rose Radio and then, Radio Tees in 1984. In 1989 he became the programme controller and breakfast presenter for Red Rose Gold

While also in radio, he joined Border Television as a continuity announcer and programme presenter in 1985, and developed the long running Border Birthdays slot with a puppet called Eric the Monkey. He remained in television presentation for four years returning to Red Rose Radio in 1989. He became managing director of Border Radio Holdings in 1993, launching their independent local radio station, CFM. Myers presented the breakfast programme, the Friday night phone-in and a Sunday lunch-time programme, called 'fun on the phones'.

Century Radio
In September 1994, he launched Century Radio in North East England. He again presented the breakfast show, this time under the pseudonym of John Morgan. Myers later released a compilation cassette of the wind-ups from his show, and even a novelty single, called "Three Rosettes", under the further pseudonym of Mr Martin. He also co-presented other shows, such as the Sunday lunch time "Fun on the Phones".

During this time he also presented segments on Tyne Tees Television's magazine show. Ratings fell when Myers stepped down from presenting the breakfast show, and his replacement, Steve Coleman, was sacked after just three weeks. Myers returned for another 12 months until Paul Gough replaced him in 1997.

In 1997 Myers left the North East to launch 106 Century FM in the East Midlands. A year later the BBC television fly on the wall documentary Trouble at the Top followed the launch of 105.4 Century FM in North West England.

GMG radio (1999–2008)
Myers moved to Guardian Media Group (GMG) after the group announced plans to enter the commercial radio business. Sir Robert Phillis, the former GMG chief executive, enlisted Myers to establish GMG's radio division after seeing him on the documentary programme Trouble at the Top.

Myers became managing director of GMG Radio in 1999, winning the first licence for GMG, Real Radio (Wales), which launched in 2000. Myers resurrected the "Fun on the Phones" presenting as John Morgan, with John Simons occasionally presenting. The breakfast show was presented by Terry Underhill and Sarah Graham in the first few years of the station.

He became chief executive of GMGR in 2002, and joined the board of directors of the Guardian Media Group in 2006. In October 2006, GMG Radio bought the two remaining Century stations from GCap, bringing Myers to control the brand he started in 1994. During his nine years with the company, it was awarded four licences and made the purchase of: Scot FM from the Wireless Group; JAZZ FM; Paisley's Q96 from UTV; the two Century FM stations from GCap; and four Saga Radio stations.

In March 2007 he oversaw the launch of the Smooth Radio brand, the UK's first mainstream commercial stations to target the 40- to 59-year-old adult. The five existing Smooth FM and Saga stations were rebranded as Smooth Radio and the group launched the sixth station under this brand in North East England in January 2008. This was quickly followed by the launch of the group's second Rock Radio station in Manchester in May 2008. In December '08, GMGR was awarded the North Wales licence, which will allow Real Radio to be the first national commercial station in Wales.

In 2008 Myers convinced the GMG board to invest £1m in documentaries, a first for commercial radio, which were aired across the GMG network (apart from the Scottish stations). He stepped down from his role at GMG Radio to travel the world.

Later
In January 2009, he was asked by the Labour Government to undertake a review of commercial radio in the UK, which was published in April 2009. To stop a high percentage of commercial radio stations losing money, Myers recommended that regulators could remove the imperative for local radio to be produced from within a geographic boundary; tailored news feeds alluding to a geographic area could be produced from one big building. A number of his recommendations were taken up within the Digital Britain report and the Digital Economy Act 2010. The changes lead to Smooth Radio merging its five England stations into one quasi-national station, with local news feeds produced from GMG Radio's headquarters in Salford Quays, and Global Radio halving the number of its Heart stations through co-local content.

Myers was appointed chairman of Radio Tyneside, a hospital radio station serving patients in Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, in July 2010.

In November 2010, he was asked by the BBC to review efficiency at Radio 1, 1Xtra, 6 Music and Radio 2; this project is expected to conclude in March 2011. The Telegraph reported that the BBC needed to hire someone with expertise in commercial radio, but was not a "BBC hater". In late 2011, the BBC commissioned Myers to produce a report on how the corporation's local radio stations can best adapt to the Delivering Quality First (DQF) budget cuts. BBC English Regions said that Myers was to "advise us on how we can maximise productivity and deliver efficiency savings across local radio."

He assumed his role as Chief executive of The Radio Academy in April 2011, and left the role in June 2012. Through his company Myers Media he occasionally returned to the airwaves under his radio name of John Morgan. He joined Spectrum FM, an unlicensed or "pirate" radio station in Spain as a consultant and presenter of a weekly Sunday morning show.

In 2012, he became a visiting professor at the University of Cumbria; the institution also awarded him an honorary fellowship.

His autobiography, TEAM – It's only radio, was published in October 2012.

Awards
Myers was awarded a Fellowship in 2005 by The Radio Academy for his contribution to radio. In 2010 he was presented with an outstanding achievement award by The Radio Centre in recognition of his long service to commercial radio. He is a former board director of the RadioCentre, the Sony Radio Academy Awards Committee, and a past Chairman of The Radio Academy until March 2009. He was one of just 40 people inducted into the Radio Centre roll of honour in 2012.

Personal life
Myers has two children Kerry and Scott, and two grandchildren Mia and Marcus. Scott was a producer at Galaxy FM until 2007 and moved on to become the network producer for GMG in Salford. He was the producer of Capital Yorkshire's breakfast show, until September 2013 when he left to set up his own businesses.

Myers' death was announced on 2 June 2019.

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Alberta Football League

The Alberta Football League (AFL) is an amateur Canadian football league. The league's schedule runs from the start of June through to the end of September.

For the 2023 season the league had six teams. They are: Airdrie Irish, Calgary Wolfpack, Central Alberta Buccaneers, Cold Lake Fighter Jets, Edmonton Elite and Peace Country Cowboys.

History
The Alberta Football League was established in 1984 so that men over the age of 21 could continue to play organized competitive football within the province of Alberta. Before the creation of the league, the only way to play competitive football after university or junior was the Canadian Football League. In 1984–85 the league consisted of seven teams. They were: the Calgary Raiders, the Calgary Cowboys, the Calgary Crude, the Red Deer Redskins, the Rocky Warriors, the Hinton Grizzlies, and the Brownfield Bruisers.

In 1999, the AFL became a founding member of the Canadian Senior Football League, which is now known as the Canadian Major Football League. The CMFL is the national governing body for semi-pro Canadian football, that arrange the National Championship game (the Forster Memorial Trophy game). At first, AFL champs played against the winner of the Eastern Conference (the Manitoba Football League), but since 2002 that game has been played against the Northern Football Conference winners (teams from Ontario and Quebec).

League champions and finalists

 * 2023: Airdrie Irish: 18 – Cold Lake Fighter Jets: 39
 * 2022: Airdrie Irish: 0 – Cold Lake Fighter Jets: 55
 * 2021: Central Alberta Buccaneers: 47 – Edmonton Elite: 17
 * 2020: Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta
 * 2019: Central Alberta Buccaneers: 26 – Calgary Wolfpack: 30
 * 2018: Central Alberta Buccaneers: 7 – Fort McMurray Monarchs: 65
 * 2017: Calgary Gators: 32 – Fort McMurray Monarchs: 21
 * 2016: Fort McMurray Monarchs: 32 – Central Alberta Buccaneers: 23
 * 2015: Fort McMurray Monarchs: 24 – Calgary Gators: 37
 * 2014: Calgary Wolfpack: 25 – Calgary Gators: 15
 * 2013: St. Albert Stars: 16 – Calgary Gators: 41
 * 2012: Lloydminster Vandals: 62 – Calgary Wolfpack: 26
 * 2011: Calgary Wolfpack: 38 – Grande Prairie Drillers: 14
 * 2010: Lloydminster Vandals: 52 – Calgary Gators: 26
 * 2009: Edmonton Stallions: 39 – Calgary Wolfpack: 32
 * 2008: Calgary Wolfpack: 43 – Lloydminster Vandals: 21
 * 2007: Edmonton Stallions: 21 – Calgary Gators: 16
 * 2006: Calgary Wolfpack: 31 – Calgary Gators: 7
 * 2005: Calgary Wolfpack: 42 – Edmonton Stallions: 28
 * 2004: Calgary Wolfpack: 51 – Edmonton Stallions: 46
 * 2003: Calgary Wolfpack: 56 – Calgary Thunder: 35
 * 2002: Calgary Wolfpack: 49 – Calgary Gators: 15
 * 2001: Calgary Thunder: 16 – Calgary Gators: 14
 * 2000: Calgary Wolfpack: 30 – Calgary Thunder: 14
 * 1999: Calgary Wolfpack: 17 – Calgary Gators: 2
 * 1998: Calgary Gators: – Calgary Wolfpack:
 * 1997: Red Deer Sooners: 7 –  Edmonton Icemen: 3
 * 1996: Calgary Wolfpack: – Red Deer Sooners:
 * 1995: Calgary Wolfpack: – Red Deer Sooners:
 * 1994: Red Deer Sooners: – Edmonton Seminoles:
 * 1993: Red Deer Sooners: – Calgary Wolfpack:
 * 1992: Calgary Wolfpack: – Red Deer Sooners:
 * 1991: Red Deer Sooners: – Calgary Crude:
 * 1990: Calgary Wolfpack: – Calgary Crude:
 * 1989: Calgary Wolfpack: – Red Deer Sooners:
 * 1988: Calgary Raiders: – Calgary Crude:
 * 1987: Calgary Raiders: – Red Deer Redskins:
 * 1986: Calgary Raiders: – Calgary Crude:
 * 1985: Calgary Raiders: – Calgary Thunder:

Defunct AFL teams

 * Brownfield Bruisers – (1984–1985)
 * Calgary Cowboys – (1984–1988, 1991–1996)
 * Calgary Crude – (1984–1992)
 * Calgary Gators – (1998–2017)
 * Calgary Raiders – (1985–1988)
 * Calgary Coyotes – (2001–2003)
 * Calgary Razorbacks – (2004–2005)
 * Calgary Thunder – (2000–2007)
 * Edmonton Seminoles – (1993–1994)
 * Edmonton Garrison Army (2010–2012)
 * Edmonton Seahawks – (?–2009)
 * Edmonton Icemen – (1995–2004)
 * Edmonton Stallions (2002–2015)
 * Hanna Rams – (1976–1984)
 * Hinton Grizzlies – (1984–?)
 * Lloydminster Vandals – (2004–2018)
 * Medicine Hat Marauders – (2005–2006)
 * Okotoks Bearcats – (1995–1997)
 * Red Deer Redskins – (1985–1987)
 * Red Deer Sooners – (1988–1999)
 * Rocky Warriors – (1984–?)
 * Rocky Raiders – (1983–1984)
 * Wainwright Longhorns – (2005–2007)
 * Edmonton Renegades – (2009–2011)
 * Edmonton Raiders – (2016–2016)
 * Parkland Predators – (2017–2017)
 * St. Albert Stars – (?–2019)

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Talk:Penn State University Creamery

Rewrite?
I'd like to rewrite this article. The reason I'm asking here first is that I would like to change the referencing style and use the  tag. I'd like to cite some of the statements in the article that seem to be sourced from the Creamery site, and update some of the reference link targets that have changed and no longer work. Also the "somewhat controversial" statement seems unsupported.

I also have pictures of both the old and new Creameries. I have a picture of the Creamery sign they have near the front door that I might put in, but 3 pics for a short article might be too much. I also have info from the May 11, 2006 Collegian Magazine that I'd like to incorporate into the article. RockinRob Talk 01:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Go for it. --Jtalledo (talk) 17:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

New creamery
I'd just like to point out that the new creamery is now open so the pictures captions need to be changed, but i'm sure how to do that. I attend PSU and have eaten at the new building so this is first had knowledge. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.71.101.116 (talk • contribs).
 * You're right. Thanks for pointing this out; I'll fix it now. --Spangineeres  (háblame)  03:21, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Should this article be renamed to Berkey Creamery, per WP:NAMING#Use common names of persons and things? PSUMark2006  talk  |  contribs  00:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Image out of date
I posted an "outofdate" tag because the Creamery has been completed. Someone should take a recent photograph of the building without the construction next to it. --Quintin3265 (talk) 23:22, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Old Main (Pennsylvania State University)

Mule
There could be a mention of the mule Coaley, who carried the limestone used to build Old Main. Furthermore, the bones of Coaley still rest on campus in one of the Ag Hill buildings.
 * Do you have a reference for that? I've never heard of that, and I've been studying at PSU for a few years now. --Spangineer (háblame)  02:16, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * No, but I've seen Coaly's (I spelled it wrong before) bones with my own eyes. There use to be a little coffee shop in the HUB called Coaly's Cafe after the mule.  Anyway, I found this article: Coaly and the Sesquicentenial.  Apparently, the bones are now in the HUB somewhere.
 * Last year the bones were on display on the upper floor of the HUB, along with the story.--Joe 18:03, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The bones are in the HUB, near the HUB auditorium under the wall-mounted television last I checked. That Coaly story is told to visitors who take the Old Main bell tour, along with a story that talks about how pranksters used to carry the mule up the steps to the towers. It could use a reference though. --Jtalledo (talk) 18:20, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * There's also a short story about him with his bones. (I just found them!) --Spangineeres (háblame)  22:52, 16 December 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley

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Changing the reference from "branch campus" to "commonwealth location", as this is how Penn State officially recognizes non-University Park locations.Raymondofrish 28 June 2005 21:12 (UTC)

These are really two different branch campuses and probably should be two different articles.

I think the Lehigh Valley campus references (including in this article's title) can be removed since there is a stand-alone article at: Penn State Lehigh Valley. PAWiki 17:06, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kathy Coleman

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was speedy deleted by Khaosworks (no meaningful content) --cesarb 02:42, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Kathy Coleman
DeleteVanity? or something... you decide... definetly not Wikipedia material. Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 00:36, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

 * Surely a candidate for speedy delete. ··gracefool |☺ 00:42, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Speedy delete for no meaningful content or context. The subject is an actress from Land of the Lost, so not vanity. It's done. --khaosworks 00:47, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

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Akane Omae

Akane Omae (大前 茜) is a former Japanese voice actress. She was born in Saitama Prefecture, and retired in 2010.

Anime

 * Azumanga Daioh (Chihiro)
 * Chibi Maruko (Yoko)
 * Gravion (Cecil)
 * Hamtaro (Lazuli)
 * I My Me! Strawberry Eggs (Akane Kuise)
 * Negima!? (Sakurako Shiina)
 * Shigofumi (Miku Ayase)
 * Shrine of the Morning Mist
 * The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Sonou Mori)
 * Yakitate!! Japan (Kaede Matsushiro)

Drama CDs

 * I My Me! Strawberry Eggs (Akane Kuise)

Dubbing

 * Animal Rescue Kids (Carrie)
 * Babe in the City
 * Dennis the Menace
 * Hercules
 * Joan of Arc (child Jeanne)
 * Nim's Island (Nim (Abigail Breslin))
 * 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (Pixie)
 * Life with Derek (Marti Venturi (Ariel Waller))
 * Reservation Road (Emma Learner (Elle Fanning))
 * Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Yu-sun (Han Bo-bae))

Games

 * Imabikisō (Minagawa Kaori)
 * The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Princess Zelda)

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University High School (Irvine, California)

University High School (also known as UHS or "Uni") is one of six public high schools serving grades 9-12 in the city of Irvine, California, United States. It was established in 1970 and is situated on 55 acre of land in the southwestern portion of the city, adjacent to the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

The school comprises six main academic buildings, a performing arts theater, a band room for instrumental music, a swimming pool, eight tennis courts, an indoor gymnasium supplemented with other indoor athletic facilities, a stadium, and several practice fields. Housed within the facilities are the departments of English, world languages, math, science, social science, instrumental music, art, industrial technology, athletics, physical education, English proficiency programs, special education, and the Orange County Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program. The school colors are navy blue, Columbia blue, and white. The school mascot is Tommy the Trojan.

University High School was named the best public high school in California and 8th best public high school in America in 2011 by Newsweek. University was also the highest ranked institution on the list that was not a charter or magnet school.

Academics
University High School has consistently made Newsweeks list of Best High Schools, most recently ranking 102nd in 2013. It also ranked 117th in 2005, 156th in 2006, 76th in 2007, 156th in 2008 and 2009, 146th in 2010, and 8th in 2011. It also ranked 182nd on U.S. News & World Report's list of Best High Schools in 2013.

In May 1987, University High School was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as an exemplary school in the Secondary School Recognition Program. In 1988 and 1992, UHS was similarly recognized as a California State Distinguished School. University was accredited by Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) for six years in 2004 and also in 2010.

Academic teams
University High School is often noted for its various academic teams, including Physics Bowl, Science Bowl, Science Olympiad, Academic Decathlon, Model United Nations, International Space Settlement Design Competition, Speech and Debate and math competitions (including ARML, and Math Day at the Beach). These teams generally attain high scores, often winning prestigious awards such as Best Club Delegation at Berkeley Model United Nations (BMUN) in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2018 or first place at Math Day at the Beach for three years in a row (2008–2010). Its Academic Decathlon team reached the state finals of the California Academic Decathlon for the first time in 2018. University High School is also home to the largest and one of the most distinguished Junior Classical Leagues in the nation and an noteworthy chapter of the Junior State of America. Furthermore, University High has sent a team to the International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISSDC) for five consecutive years and has won the national competition in several divisions of the National History Day contest. University is also home to one of the most successful Mock Trial programs in Orange County, having won three of the last five county championships. University High School also has numerous students named semi-finalists for the United States Physics, Math, Biology, and Chemistry Olympiads. The school's Science Bowl team also advanced to the national competition in 2013, 2014, 2018 through 2021, and 2023, placing 4th nationally in 2013 and 2nd in 2023. University has also had Intel Science Talent Search finalists and semi-finalists,  Siemens Competition semi-finalists, and categorical winners at ISEF. University High has also has many students participate in the Irvine CubeSat Stem Program, as part of the NASA ELaNa program where they were able to contribute to building and launching multiple nanosatellites. Students who were similarly interested in aerospace engineering also participated in University High's Rocketry Club. Students participated in TARC (The American Rocketry Challenge), by building and launching model rockets.

Deaf program
Together with Venado Middle School, University High School hosts the Regional Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program for the Orange County Department of Education, a program that brings in deaf and hard of hearing students from all of Orange County as well as some students from nearby counties. The program provides interpreters, notetakers, and other special services, and serves as "a model of regionalized programming nationwide".

In 2009, University High won first place in the Deaf Academic Bowl.

Performing Arts
The school's marching band and color guard currently competes in the 5A division with over 140 members. In 2009, the UHS marching band formally changed their name from the "University High School Marching Band and Colorguard" to the "University High School Marching Trojan Regiment." In their 2010 season, the group won an unprecedented five out of six sweepstakes trophies at the Mayfair High School Tournament.

University High School is home to a colorguard program. During the fall, the colorguard accompanies the marching band in its competitive field show. In the winter and spring, the colorguard branches off and performs at competitions independently. In 2001, the University winterguard took home a gold medal in their division at the Winter Guard Association of Southern California Championships.

In addition to the marching band, University High offers students many other opportunities in instrumental and choral music, including three concert bands, four orchestras, three jazz bands, choirs, and an a-cappella group. Its orchestra and band students are often accepted into all-southern, all-state, and all-national ensembles.

In 2013, University High School's symphonic orchestra won second place at the ASTA All-National Orchestra Festival in Providence, Rhode Island.

The school's theater program puts on annual plays and musicals, and its dance program performs at school events, community events, and concerts.

Athletics
University High School offers more than 24 official athletics teams with numerous niche sports offered through school clubs. Some of the most popular sports include football, tennis, water polo, swimming, track and field, soccer, lacrosse, and basketball.

The University High School tennis teams have been especially prominent on campus, with the boys' junior varsity team going undefeated in 191 consecutive matches over multiple seasons. In addition, the boys' varsity team won the CIF championship five years in a row (from 2010 to 2014) and had a record of 137 wins and one loss in those five years. Numerous varsity team members are nationally ranked and are often recruited to top Division I NCAA programs. The girls' tennis team is notable as well, reaching the CIF Finals on numerous occasions and winning several Pacific Coast League championships in recent years. The boys' water polo team also performed well in 2021, winning PCL undefeated for the first time since 1991.

Student body
Among the 2,282 students enrolled in the 2021–22 school year, 38.98% were Asian, 32.75% Caucasian, 12.05% Hispanic/Latino, 2.47% African American, 1.70% Filipino/Pacific Islander, 0.18% American Indian, and 11.86% Other/Multi-Ethnic. As of 2013, University High School is attended by students from seventy-two countries who speak fifty-two different languages.

96% of the Class of 2013 UHS graduates entered post-secondary institutions of which 63% entered four-year universities and colleges. 33% of the graduates entered community colleges.

In 1992, Charles Keith, the assistant principal of University High School, stated that over 30% of the students were not native English speakers, that the students had origins from 54 countries, and that the students spoke 26 languages. In 1994, 54% of the students were white, 37% were Asian, 4.5% were Hispanic or Latino, and 3% were black.

Neighborhoods served
As of 1994, most students originate from the University of California, Irvine area.

Residents of the UC Irvine student family housing units (Palo Verde and Verano Place) are zoned to University High School. University High School serves the neighborhoods of Shady Canyon, Quail Hill, Laguna Altura, Turtle Ridge, Turtle Rock, University Park, some areas of Westpark, and apartment complexes near UCI.


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Fontconfig

Fontconfig (or fontconfig) is a free software program library designed to provide configuration, enumeration and substitution of fonts to other programs. Fontconfig was originally written and maintained by Keith Packard, and is currently maintained by Behdad Esfahbod.

Fontconfig is typically used on graphical Linux (and other Unix-like) desktops, such as Xorg and Wayland, where it remains an important part of handling fonts. However, it is also sometimes used on other platforms, notably including Windows versions of software that use Pango for laying out and rendering text, such as GIMP.

Usage
End-users can use fontconfig, directly or indirectly, to customize and configure fonts on the system.

Applications can use fontconfig in two ways:
 * 1) by querying it for the available fonts on the system, or
 * 2) by querying it for a font matching certain parameters (comprising a pattern) as closely as possible.

To perform font matching, fontconfig stores typesetting information about all of the installed fonts, including the name of the font family, style, weight, dots per inch (DPI), and Unicode coverage. This information is also used to perform font substitution.

Configuration
Fontconfig uses XML format for its configuration files. The document type definition (DTD) for fontconfig files is normally located at.

The master configuration file - usually  - references a few other configuration locations which may or may not exist:

A simple example of a configuration file:

Utilities
Fontconfig ships with eight command line utilities to manage and query fonts and the font configuration of the system:
 * : Lists all fonts fontconfig knows about or all fonts matching a pattern.
 * : Matches font-pattern (empty pattern by default) using the normal fontconfig matching rules to find the most appropriate font available.
 * : Creates a cache of all FreeType readable fonts in a specified directory or create a cache of all FreeType readable fonts from all directories specified in the configuration files.
 * : Reads the font information from cache files or related to font directories and emits it in ASCII form.
 * : Querys font files and reports resulting pattern(s).
 * : Scans font files and directories and reports resulting pattern(s).
 * : Lists best font(s) matching the supplied pattern(s).
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University High School (Los Angeles)

University High School Charter, commonly known as "Uni", is a public secondary school, built 1923–1924, and founded 1924, located in West Los Angeles, a district in Los Angeles, California, near the city's border with Santa Monica. University High is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The campus also holds Indian Springs Continuation High School. The school contains the Serra Springs, a sacred site of the Tongva–Gabrieleño native people and a registered California Historical Landmark.

History
While under construction it was known as Sawtelle High School, but it opened as Warren G. Harding High School when completed in 1924, after 29th President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923, served 1921-1923), who had recently died. The school was renamed in 1929 after the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) moved its campus from East Hollywood to Westwood, and the reputation of former President Harding had declined after the infamous  Teapot Dome scandal and other situations. The name University is supposed to have originated because it became a site where teachers-in-training from nearby UCLA worked as assistant teachers/interns.

The original administration building was designed by the firm Russell & Alpaugh and the construction process began in 1923. The style that was chosen recalls the Romanesque of Northern Italy and Spanish Mission style architecture. The administration building once displayed an octagonal tower and a portico, but these features were toppled in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. An original cafeteria building was located where the current cafeteria and theater stand today. Although the gymnasium and a beautiful and widely admired auditorium were condemned following the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, the school's original main building from 1924 remains in use. The music building and gym (rebuilt in the early 1980s) have been scheduled to be taken down because they sit on a fault line and therefore against district policy. As of July 2010, the music building is gone.

It was in the Los Angeles City High School District until 1961, when it merged into LAUSD.

Other
Music classes have been moved to another unused room near the top of the school. The gym was still in use while, on the south end of the campus, in what was formerly a student parking lot, a new gym facility was under construction in 2010. The current football stadium, last rebuilt following the 1994 Northridge earthquake, is named in honor of Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), of Pasadena, California, the first African American professional baseball player in Major League Baseball, playing in 1947-1956 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, who also previously attended nearby UCLA, 1939-1940.

Uni is one of a very few pre-World War II high schools in Los Angeles whose buildings have been at least partially spared by three major earthquakes since its inception. The main building presents a very traditional and dignified appearance, with weathered brick and arched doorways, such that the campus is popular with film crews (see ). One-third of its class of 1942 did not graduate because of the internment of Japanese-Americans.

In fall 2007, some neighborhoods zoned to have their students to attend Hamilton High School were rezoned to University High School.

In 2009, Mitchell Landsberg of the Los Angeles Times stated that the school was "struggling to regain its reputation as a center of excellence". That year, as part of a grant program, the Academy of Engineering was established at the high school.

For the entire 88-year history of University High, the football/baseball field had been without stadium lights until they were installed in the Spring of 2012.

Native American heritage
Located on Uni's campus are the Tongva Sacred Springs, California Historical Landmark #522. The springs, called "Kuruvungna" by the native Gabrieleno Tongva people, were used as a source of natural fresh water by the Tongva people since 400 BC, and they continue to produce 22,000-25,000 gallons of water a day. The springs are found at two separate locations on campus. The larger is now closed off from the rest of the campus and is under the care of the Gabrielino/Tongva Springs Foundation. Prior to its being fenced off, the area surrounding the springs and pond into which its waters feed was popular among the students as a place to meet and relax. The other spring is located on the northeastern edge of the so-called Girls' Field. A third spring was located farther north, near Texas Avenue, but it ceased to flow during the 1940s when a local water company began drawing from the aquifer.

The Portolá Expedition of 1769, one of the two expeditions that led to the founding of Los Angeles, camped at the Kuruvunga village while travelling along the route that would become known as El Camino Real. The name Serra comes from Father Junípero Serra the founder of the Alta California mission chain, who is reported to have said Mass to there. In the 1800s, the spring served as the water supply for the city of Santa Monica.

Construction at the school in 1925 unearthed evidence of a Native American village, and in 1975, a grave was discovered from what archaeologists now believe to be a burial site.

In 1980, Indian Springs Continuation High School, which is housed on the part of the campus where the springs are, was opened.

In 1992, tribal descendants, community members, and teachers and students from the school founded the Gabrielino/Tongva Springs Foundation, a non-profit foundation, to fight a proposed development a block north of the springs that would have cut off the springs' underground water source. They successfully fought the proposed parking structure, and since that time, the Foundation has been active at the springs.

That same year, the newly established Foundation held the first annual Life Before Columbus Day event. The event, which takes place just before Columbus Day every year and celebrates the history of the land and of the Tongva people, has been known to draw upward of 600 people some years, including Native Americans from various tribes, local politicians, community members, and students and faculty from the school.

The event includes tours of the Kuruvunga Village site and springs, performances by dancers from the Tongva and Aztec tribe, and storytelling from the Chumash tribe. There are also hands-on activities offered by authentic Native American vendors. The foundation currently leases the site from the Los Angeles Unified School District for their monthly ceremony and guided tours.

Wildcat
The weekly student newspaper, the Wildcat, is part of the High School National Ad Network. Print issues from the school's inception as Harding High are available in the journalism archives. More recent issues were previously archived online at the "My High School Journalism" site operated by the American Society of Newspaper Editors

The Worrier
The Worrier was an underground student newspaper that began in 1966. At least seven Worrier staff members were transferred to other high schools, suspended or put on probation.

Red Tide
The Red Tide was an underground campus newspaper that expressed far-left opinions on the Vietnam War, racism, and women's issues. Its first issue appeared in November 1971. Following the suspension of two students for distributing Red Tide #2, 500-700 Uni students occupied the administration building.

The Red Tide challenged the Warrior mascot as racist. Twenty-five years later, on September 8, 1997, the LAUSD Board of Education voted to remove the mascot as part of a ban on using Native American symbols. In 1995 LA and Bay Area Red Tide branches moved to Detroit, where they organized campaigns to free Gary Tyler and other campaigns against racism.

Mascot controversy

The school's mascot was formerly the Warrior, but was changed after the Southern California Indian Center petitioned the LAUSD to eliminate the mascots and names of all schools that had American Indian mascot and names. In 1997 the LAUSD decided to eliminate all American Indian mascots. The LAUSD decision was upheld in federal court, but the California Racial Mascots Act, a bill which would eliminate American Indian mascots and names statewide, was vetoed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger twice.

Towards the end of the 1997–1998 school year, students were allowed to vote on a new school mascot. Students chose the "Wildcats" over the "Gators" and "Jaguars". The Class of 1985 had, as a senior project and gift to the school, painted a large Warrior mascot on the south entrance to the gym building. Shortly after the mascot change, this was painted over with its feline animal replacement.

School information

 * Los Angeles School District provides open enrollment dates which start late April and the beginning of March. Best way to contact schools is by phone or email. University High School provides tours; however, before and during enrollment, parents are able to submit a variety of applications for the students to enroll in different schools.
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 * School provides transportation
 * Three languages are taught at 'Uni': French, Spanish, and Mandarin.
 * Extracurriculars for boys and girls.

Demographics
According to the School Information Branch:
 * In 2008-09, 61.5% of students were Latino or Hispanic and 17% were African-American. 48.5% of students were female.
 * In 2009-10, 62.5% Hispanic/Latino, 8.6% White, 16.3% African-Americans, 0.3% Pac Isl, 0.0% Filipino, 12.2% Asian and 0.1% AI/Alsk
 * In 2010-11 61.0% Hispanics/Latino, 17.6% African-Americans, 8.9% White, 0.3% Pac Isl, 2.0% Filipino, 9.9% Asian, and 0.4% Al/Alsk
 * In 2011-2012 58.7% Hispanics/Latino, 16.7% African-Americans, 10.9% White, 0.5% Pac Isl, 2.1% Filipino, 10.5% Asian, and 0.5% Al/Alsk
 * In 2012-13, 59.5% were Latino or hispanic, 9.7% were White, 17.9% African-American, 0.4% Pac Isl 1.9% Filipino, 10.0% Asian, and 0.6% AI/Alsk
 * In 2018-19, 53% of students were Latino or Hispanic, 25% African-American, 12.8% white, 6.8% Asian, 1.9% Filipino.

Attendance area
Neighborhoods served by University High are parts of West Los Angeles, including portions of Brentwood Beverly Hills Post Office (BHPO), Westwood, Bel-Air, and the Wilshire Corridor.

Like other Westside high schools such as Westchester and Palisades, University High School enrolls a diverse mix of students from its enrollment area and various parts of the city; on top of Westside neighborhoods, Uni draws students from areas such as Koreatown and South Los Angeles. The school also enrolls many Capacity Adjustment Program students which come from areas zoned to heavily overcrowded high schools.

Two new LAUSD high schools opened in fall 2005, four more in fall 2006, and one more in fall 2007, decreasing the number of transfer students in other high schools.

Name Change
Starting in the 2018-2019, University became an affiliated charter school and changed its name to University High School Charter. Affiliated charter schools receive flexibility in the utilization of the charter school categorical block grant (for those applicable affiliated charter schools that receive it) areas of curriculum and professional development; some aspects of local school governance; and some aspects of employee selection. It is not necessary to utilize the District’s permit process if accepted to an Affiliated Charter School. It is a community school that welcomes students from all over Los Angeles. However, non-resident students are required to complete this Unified Enrollment application.

Ficus tree preservation
Underground water from the Kuruvungna springs sustains seven mature Indian Laurel Ficus trees on the campus which line a walkway between the classroom building and one of the two teachers' parking lots. In September 2002, LAUSD Area D announced that it would remove the seven ficus trees lining the outside of the classroom building, because the roots had grown into and were pushing up the concrete in the parking lot causing a potential hazard.

In response to the removal announcement a campaign was launched to stop the removal of the trees. Notably, a student petition got 1,200 signatures (about half of the student population), and community involvement came from the city of Santa Monica and from the neighborhood councils of Brentwood and West Los Angeles.

In response to the public outcry, the LAUSD held meetings to determine what would happen to the trees. Walter Warriner, the Arborist of the city of Santa Monica proposed installing Rubbersidewalks by Rubbersidewalks, Inc., which could be easily lifted in order to prune the tree roots for maintenance. After months of negotiations, the LAUSD decided not to remove the trees and agreed to install Rubbersidewalks, making University High School the first high school in the United States to use Rubbersidewalks in order to preserve its trees. Installation for the Rubbersidewalks started on November 20, 2003, over a year after the LAUSD had originally condemned the trees. Installation of the Rubbersidewalks was covered by Huell Howser for California's Gold. The episode covering Uni High's Rubbersidewalks aired on KCET on January 28, 2004. Rubber asphalt was also used to repave the pushed up concrete in the teachers' parking lot.

Filming on campus
The school, which has been able to maintain much of its original architecture, is one of the few Los Angeles schools with buildings constructed before World War II. Its brick facades, wide hallways, and "unique east coast look" make the school an attractive place to film. The administration, which allows filming during school hours, moves classes as needed and allows productions to make minor changes to the campus, has a long history of bringing in filming (and the money that goes with it) to the school.

The use of the school for filming is a controversial one. Filming often takes place during school hours, and students and teachers are moved from classrooms and walkways are blocked off as needed. The school often undergoes renovations for filming, anything from retiling and painting, to temporary removal of furniture and lockers. These disruptions are a cause for students and teacher complaints.

Past articles in the Wildcat addressed not only the disruption to students, but how the money made from the constant filming is spent. Editorials have complained about the portion of the money that goes to the LAUSD, and the way the money is spent by the school.

University High charges the standard district fee for each day of filming (currently $2,500). A portion of the money earned goes to FilmL.A., Inc., formerly named the Entertainment Industry Development Corporation, which acts as an intermediary between the LAUSD and the entertainment industry. The name change, which followed the naming of a new president and finance chief and came as the company was preparing to relocate its headquarters and implement a revised contract with the Los Angeles City Council, helped distance the private non-profit from its "bureaucratic and scandal-ridden image."

In March 2005, the LAUSD entered into a new three-year contract with the EIDC, after soliciting bids from other vendors. Ruben Rojas, the LAUSD's director of revenue enhancement, said that the district choose to continue working with the EIDC because of "its proven track record and ability to deal with complex film-permitting issues.". Indeed, during that time, FilmL.A. expanded the number of schools that had hosted on-location filming from 19 schools to more than 200 schools: coordinating 1,500 film shoots at 250 LAUSD sites. The LAUSD's filming profits for the 2003-2004 school year generated almost one million dollars, and the district is on target to for an annual film revenue increase to at least $1.5 million.

The doubling of the LAUSD's film revenue in the four years since FilmL.A. was original hired in March 2002 was a contributing factor to Burbank Unified School District's decision to hire Film L.A. in July 2006.

Under FilmL.A.'s current contract with the city, the company receives "a 16% management fee based on the total use fee". 75 percent of the remaining filming monies go to the individual schools that host the on-location shooting to be used at the school's discretion, and 25 percent goes to a district fund that benefits schools that do not generate film revenues of their own.

Uni High distributes among the departments the first $12,000 made each year from on-campus filming. The Budget Committee makes spending recommendations for any additional monies. Recent budget cuts have made filming at schools more attractive. In 2004, the number of schools volunteering to be film locations grew from 19 to 160 and the district's annual film revenue doubled to $1 million. In 2005, LAUSD officials revised the district's fee structure for the first time since 1992. The revision included extending a full day of shooting from 14 to 15 hours, and a daily rate increase from $1,700 to $2,500.

Uni has been noted in the press as being one of the more popular schools for filming, even compared to other local schools with similar structure and appearance. Between 2001 and 2003, 38 movies, TV shows and commercials were filmed at University High. This popularity, with both its positive and negative impacts, is credited to the Assistant Principal who is responsible for the filming on campus.

In November 2006, Drillbit Taylor, starring Owen Wilson began filming at Uni. As of April 2007, the $90,000 received for this production is the most that the school has made on an individual filming contract. Uni underwent massive renovations in order to prepare for the filming of Drillbit Taylor. The interior and exterior of the main building were painted, and the main building was retiled as well. The facade of the building was altered to read "McKinley High School", and plants and grass patches were added throughout the school.

These changes were unusual not only because the extent and timing of the changes meant that construction took place during the school year, but also because Drillbit Taylor production did not pay for the re-tiling. The district had provided money to re-tile floors throughout the LAUSD, so the re-tiling of the floors itself was not unusual or controversial. However, as the film's production needs guided the color choices for the re-tiling and the schedule for construction, many students were upset by the behavior of the movie company and the school.

Below is an incomplete list of productions that have filmed at University High:

Movies

 * Billie, 1965
 * Pretty Maids All in a Row, 1971
 * Brian at Seventeen, 1971
 * Fatal Games, 1984
 * Rock ‘n’ Roll High School Forever, 1991
 * Jawbreaker, 1999
 * Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth, 2000
 * The Hot Chick, 2002
 * The Battle of Shaker Heights, 2003
 * Bruce Almighty, 2003
 * Raise Your Voice, 2004
 * Surviving Christmas, 2004
 * Freedom Writers, 2007
 * Drillbit Taylor, 2008
 * Miss March, 2008
 * Pineapple Express, 2008
 * Superhero Movie, 2008
 * Starstruck 2010
 * Valentine's Day, 2010
 * Detention, 2011
 * Straight Outta Compton, 2015
 * The Wedding Ringer, 2015
 * The Fallout, 2021

Television

 * My So-Called Life, 1994–1995
 * 7th Heaven, from 1996–2007, University High served as Kennedy High School
 * Even Stevens, aired 2000 - 2003
 * Lizzie McGuire, aired 2001–2004
 * Arrested Development, aired 2003–2006
 * Joan of Arcadia, aired 2003–2005
 * Oliver Beene, 2003–2004
 * Parenthood, aired March 2010
 * Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior aired 2011, Episode "Here Is the Fire"
 * Shameless (American TV series) aired 2011-2021

Individual episodes

 * Amazing Stories, episode 102, "The Main Attraction", aired October 6, 1985
 * Charmed, episode 76, "A Paige From the Past", aired January 17, 2002
 * The Flannerys, pilot, shot 2003
 * The Division, season finale, shot May 2004
 * High School Undercover, pilot, shot March 2004
 * JAG, shot March 2004
 * Filmore Middle, pilot, shot 2005
 * Day Break, pilot, shot 2007
 * Privileged, 2008
 * 90210, "The Dionysian Debacle", filmed in early 2009
 * Ghost Whisperer, filmed on October 12, 2009
 * Lincoln Heights, summer 2009
 * Modern Family, aired 2011
 * The Mentalist, aired 2012
 * Fresh Off the Boat, Season 4 Episode 9, 2017
 * The Orville, Season 3 Episode 3, 2022

Other

 * The Crystal Method's music video "Name of the Game", 2002
 * JoJo's music video "Leave (Get Out)", 2004
 * Jordan Pruitt's music video "Outside Looking In", 2006
 * Khalid's music video "Young Dumb & Broke", 2017

Notable alumni

 * List of University High School (Los Angeles) alumni

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Although Britannica places his birth in 1932, other sources differ between 1932 or 1930.

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WHY does this article half talk like he is dead half like he is alive... Is this guy alive or dead — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.8.243.117 (talk) 04:06, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
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Nothing is known about Vatsyayana's life except for the book. I suspect the statement about prostitutes is pure speculation. If you have a citation for it, add it back along with the citation. Arvindn 00:44, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Vatsyayana's dates

On the question of dates, the Kamasutram itself states that the material had existed for a long time before Mallanaga Vatsyayana summarised it in its present form (the shlokas minus the Jayamangala commentary). I don't know on what basis John Keay quotes the 2nd century CE but it is entirely possible as no one actually knows when Vatsyayana lived, so the comments about the Gupta period and Keay's statement being dubious have no foundation in fact and should certainly be removed. In my own translation I made it clear that my placement of the text in the Gupta period was a guess, based on Vatsyayana's descriptions of daily life, arts and culture and his knowledge of geography.Indrasinha (talk) 10:16, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

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Ponterwyd

Ponterwyd is a village in Ceredigion, Wales. It lies in the Cambrian Mountains of Mid Wales, approximately 12 mi east of Aberystwyth on the A44 road.

Historical background
Ponterwyd's rich history is evident throughout the village. At the village's heart lies Yr Hen Bont (The Old Bridge), a steep single arch late 18th-century stone bridge, which is adjacent to a late Georgian chapel. Buildings in Ponterwyd range in date from the Georgian period to the 1980s, when a development of bungalows named 'Penlon' was added to the village.

The village is the home of "Bwlch Nant yr Arian", a Natural Resources Wales centre where up to 150 red kites are fed daily.

The village pub," The George Borrow Hotel", is named after writer George Borrow who travelled through Wales on foot in the 1860s.

Notable people

 * John Rhys was born at Ponterwyd

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Stanley Weyman

Stanley Weyman may refer to:

 * Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), English novelist
 * Stanley Clifford Weyman (1890–1960), American multiple impostor

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Pem Dorjee Sherpa

Pem Dorjee (पेम्दोर्जी शेर्पा; born 1982) is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer born in Chyangba, a small, remote village south of Mount Everest in Khumbu, Nepal.

Dorjee has climbed Mount Everest two times, the second time with his girlfriend Moni Mulepati where they exchanged wedding vows on May 30th of 2005, and thus became the first couple to be married on top of Mount Everest while on the Rotary Centennial Everest Expedition. They also hoisted the flag of Rotary International, a club with which Dorjee has frequently been involved, in honor of its centennial year.

Aside from his mountaineering achievements, Dorjee has worked on improving the quality of life in his home village of Chayangba. Dorjee has organized service projects such as dental, eye, and other health projects, as well as funding to build libraries, schools, and drinking water systems in his village and other remote villages in Nepal.

Dorjee is certified as a Trekking and Mountaineering Guide by the Nepalese government. He is also an active member of the American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA), American Alpine Club, Nepal Mountaineering Association, and Everest Summiteers Association. Dorjee recently hiked 3,100 miles along the Continental Divide Trail from the Mexico–US border to the Canada–US border as part of the Rotary CDT Challenge, a fundraising effort by Rotary International to build a continuous trail. Dorjee and his wife own the gift shop The Himalayan Bazaar and the tour and trekking company Imperial Expedition.

Records
Dorjee and Moni Mulepati were the first couple to marry on top of Mt. Everest on 30 May 2005.

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Media in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee is the 29th largest media market in the United States with roughly 966,000 homes, 0.8% of the country's media market.

Daily newspapers

 * The Tennessean

Weekly newspapers

 * La Campana - Spanish newspaper
 * NashVegas Insider
 * Nashville Business Journal
 * The Nashville Pride
 * Nashville Scene

Monthly newspapers

 * The Contributor

Monthly magazines

 * Nashville Music Guide
 * NATIVE

Defunct newspapers

 * All The Rage — entertainment and events
 * The City Paper (general news and opinion; originally Monday-Friday, later twice weekly, and then weekly; published November 1, 2000 — August 9, 2013)
 * The Daily American, (1876–1894) and The Nashville American (1894–September 25, 1910); merged into The Tennessean
 * The Labor Advocate (weekly 1902–1939)
 * Nashville Banner (ceased publication February 20, 1998)
 * Nashville Business in Review (1995–1997); later published as In Review (1997–1999) — alternative weekly (later biweekly) tabloid
 * Nashville Globe and Independent — African-American weekly (ceased publication in July 1960)
 * Nashville Times (weekly November 11, 1937–May 26, 1938, then daily; ceased publication July 28, 1940)

Defunct magazines

 * Advantage, The Nashville Business Magazine (monthly, 1978–1989, published by Advantage, Inc.)
 * Aluminum Magazine (monthly, June 1999 to August 1999)
 * Nashville (monthly, January 1963–April 1970)
 * Nashville (monthly, approx. 1978–1990, published by Advantage Publications Inc.)
 * Nashville Life (bimonthly, 1994–1999, published by Eagle Communications Inc.)
 * Tag Magazine (monthly)

Online news and blogs

 * NashvillePost.com
 * AntiochTenn.com
 * StyleBlueprint

Broadcast
Nashville is home to the nation's 30th largest television market, covering all of Middle Tennessee and parts of south central Kentucky. This list includes full-power TV stations in the market, as well as low power television stations licensed for Nashville itself:

 * * indicates construction permit for LD (low-power digital TV)

Cable
Cable stations based in Nashville include Country Music Television and NRB Network. The Nashville Network was also based in Nashville until it closed in 2000.

Radio
Nashville is ranked by Arbitron as the 44th-largest radio market in the United States and its territories.

Its stations, licensed to Nashville and surrounding cities, include:

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Arima (disambiguation)

Arima may refer to:

Places

 * Arima, a borough and town in eastern Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.
 * Arima (Cilicia), a town of ancient Cilicia, now in Turkey
 * Arima, Syria, a village in the Aleppo Governorate in Syria
 * Arima Onsen, a hot springs resort area in Kobe, Japan
 * Arima, a place where, according to Hesiod, Echidna dwells

People

 * Hizen-Arima clan, a Japanese family of daimyo
 * Arima (surname), a Japanese surname

Acronym

 * ARIMA, autoregressive integrated moving average, model in statistics

Others

 * Arima (parliamentary constituency), an electoral district in Trinidad
 * Arima (beetle), a genus of leaf beetles (subfamily Galerucinae)
 * Arima, a synonym for the moth genus Spargania
 * Arima Kinen, horse race in Japan

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Languages of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani is the sole official language of Azerbaijan and is spoken by the majority of its population. However, several minority languages also exist in the country, including Lezgian, Talysh, Avar, Russian, and Tat. Additionally, languages such as Tsakhur and Khinalug are spoken by a small percentage of the population.

General
The primary and official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, a Turkic language closely related to and partially mutually intelligible  with Modern Turkish and Khorasani Turkic. Together with Turkish, Turkmen and Gagauz, Azerbaijani is a member of Oghuz branch of southwestern group Turkic language family.

Present
According to the 2009 census of the country, Azerbaijani is spoken as a native language by 92.5% of the population, whereas Russian and English play significant roles as languages of education and communication. More than half of Azerbaijani speakers are monolingual. Lezgian, Talysh, Avar, Georgian, Budukh, Juhuri, Khinalug, Kryts, Jek, Rutul, Tsakhur, Tat, and Udi are all spoken by minorities. All these (with the exception of Armenian, Lezgian, Talysh, Avar, and Georgian, which have a much larger number of speakers outside Azerbaijan, but nevertheless are steadily declining within Azerbaijan) above-mentioned languages are endangered languages which are threatened with extinction, as they are spoken by few (less than 10,000) or very few (less than 1,000) people and their usage is steadily declining with emigration and modernization.

According to 2019 research, English language proficiency in Azerbaijan was the lowest among surveyed European countries.

An entire issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, edited by Jala Garibova, was devoted to the matter of languages and language choices in Azerbaijan, vol. 198 in 2009.

Azerbaijan has not ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages to which it became a signatory in 1992, under the Popular Front. In 2001, the then President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev issued a statement whereby "the Republic of Azerbaijan is not in the power to guarantee the implementation of the Charter regulations until its territory occupied by the Republic of Armenia is liberated".

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Lorne Mayencourt

Lorne Mayencourt (born 1957) is a Canadian politician, who formerly represented the electoral district of Vancouver-Burrard in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a member of the BC Liberal party.

Career
Mayencourt was first elected in the 2001 provincial election, defeating New Democrat opponent Tim Stevenson. He was previously the founder and, for its first five years, executive director of the Vancouver Friends for Life Society, which supports people living with AIDS, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.

He is the founder of the BC New Hope Recovery Society and Baldy Hughes Therapeutic Community in North Central BC which supports addicts in a long-term recovery community.

In the 2005 election, conflicting results throughout the night had both Mayencourt and Stevenson declared the victor in Vancouver-Burrard, and the uncertainty continued for several weeks. In the final count of regular ballots, Stevenson was declared the winner by 17 votes; however, when absentee ballots were counted on May 30, Mayencourt was declared the winner by a margin of 18 votes. After a judicial recount, Mayencourt was declared the victor by 11 votes.

He is known for his Private Member's Bill called the Safe Streets Act (2004), which aimed to deter aggressive panhandling. He chaired the provincial Safe Schools Task Force (2003) and introduced the Safe Schools Act (2005) to combat bullying in the school system based on racism, sexism and homophobia. He introduced the Apology Act to facilitate sincere and timely reconciliation between government, business and citizens.

Mayencourt announced that he would not run in the 2009 provincial election, and resigned early to run as the Conservative Party of Canada's candidate in Vancouver Centre for the 2008 general election. He lost to incumbent Liberal MP Hedy Fry.

Mayencourt announced that he would seek the BC Liberal Party nomination in the riding of Vancouver-False Creek for the 2013 British Columbia general election after the current incumbent Mary McNeil announced she would not be seeking another term. His main competition was former Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan, who ended up winning the nomination and subsequently winning the election.

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Ringgold, Virginia

Ringgold is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County in the U.S. state of Virginia with a postal zip code 24586. The local high school is Dan River High School.

The community was named after Maj. Samuel Ringgold, a hero of the Battle of Palo Alto in the U.S.-Mexican War.

Ringgold lies twenty minutes' drive away from Danville, Virginia. Southern Ringgold touches the southern border of Virginia and North Carolina.

Notable residents

 * Trey Edmunds, running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers
 * Tremaine Edmunds, linebacker for the Chicago Bears
 * Terrell Edmunds, safety for the Philadelphia Eagles

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