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USS General Pike

USS General Pike was a corvette in the United States Navy, which took part in Engagements on Lake Ontario during the Anglo-American War of 1812. She was launched in June 1813 and took part in several indecisive battles on the Great Lakes. She was laid up at the end of the war and was sold in 1825.

Origin
She was named for Brigadier General Zebulon Pike, who was killed by an exploding enemy magazine at the Battle of York on 26 April 1813. The ship was laid down on 9 April 1813 at Sackets Harbor, New York, by Henry Eckford, a New York City shipbuilder who supervised the construction of warships on Lake Ontario. The ship was roughly the same dimensions as the frigate USS Essex (1799), and the largest yet built on any of the Great Lakes.

From the outset, Commodore Isaac Chauncey, the American naval commander on the lakes, wanted the new ship to be armed with a broadside of long guns with longer range than the carronades mounted on most of the vessels of the opposing British squadron. General Pike was therefore fitted with 26 of the Pattern 1794 24-pounder long guns originally fitted to the USS Constitution, but since replaced. Two of these guns were mounted on pivots on the topgallant forecastle (a platform above the forward gun deck) and the poop deck, and could fire on either broadside.

On 29 May, the British under Lieutenant General Sir George Prevost and Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo attacked Sacket's Harbor, intending to destroy General Pike before it could be launched. During the resulting battle of Sackett's Harbor, the Americans feared that the town was about to be captured and prematurely set fire to General Pike and vast quantities of stores. The British called off the attack at this point and the ship was saved, although $500,000 worth of materials had been destroyed.

Service history
General Pike was launched on 12 June. Master Commandant Arthur Sinclair was appointed to command. The fitting out and setting up of rigging was delayed by the loss of the stores during the earlier battle but the ship was made ready to sail by July and joined Chauncey's squadron on 21 July. From then until the end of the year, General Pike usually served as Chauncey's flagship. She sailed to the head of Lake Ontario, arriving off Niagara on 24 July. While cruising the lake, General Pike engaged British ships under Commodore Yeo in an indecisive battle on 10–11 August.

General Pike returned to Sackett's Harbor on 13 August and provisioned before returning to the head of the lake to search out British ships. After almost a month of manoeuvering and stalking to gain an advantage over the British, the ship was engaged in a brief encounter against the British off the mouth of the Genesee River on 11 September. On 28 September the two forces again met at York Bay, and engaged in a fierce, but ultimately still indecisive battle. As Chauncey had hoped and Yeo had feared, General Pike's heavy broadside partly dismasted Yeo's flagship, the sloop of war HMS Wolfe (1813). The British squadron immediately fled downwind into Burlington Bay. The Americans could not overtake the British as many of the fastest American vessels were towing the slowest schooners to prevent them being left behind. General Pike was towing the schooner Asp and Chauncey refused to cast loose the tow during the chase. Chauncey called off the chase when the British anchored in Burlington Bay and the rising wind threatened to drive both squadrons onto the lee shore, which was British territory.

General Pike had inflicted heavy damage, but because the British fire had been concentrated on her, had also suffered severely. Wolfe had brought down her mizzen topmast and during the pursuit, the main topgallant mast had also fallen and the rigging of the foremast and bowsprit had been damaged. There were several hits below the waterline forward, and a cannon had exploded, killing or wounding twenty men and damaging the topgallant forecastle. Four other guns also were badly cracked and threatened to burst.

After returning to Sackett's Harbor for repairs early in October, General Pike supported troop movements against the British at the lower end of Lake Ontario until mid-November when she returned to the Niagara Peninsula to cover the transfer of American troops from Fort Niagara to Sackett's Harbor. She remained at Sackett's Harbor during the winter months. Sinclair had received promotion to Captain during the year and asked for an independent command. He was later appointed to command on Lake Erie. His replacement in command of General Pike was Master Commandant William M. Crane.

Throughout the remainder of the War of 1812, General Pike continued to operate with Chauncey's squadron, although no longer as flagship once Chauncey had commissioned two larger frigates. After the British withdrew blockading ships from Sackett's Harbor early in June 1814, General Pike joined other American ships in a counter-blockade of the British squadron at Kingston. The Americans kept Yeo's ships confined to Kingston harbor, and General Pike cruised Lake Ontario freely from the head of the St. Lawrence River to Sackett's Harbor until October, when the American squadron withdrew into its base.

Fate
Following the end of the war, General Pike was laid up at Sackett's Harbor. She was sold in 1825.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nizhal Thangals

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep and move. Eugene van der Pijll 19:57, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Nizhal Thangals
This appears to be a hoax. Google search reveals one result. Author can't decide on how to spell this word; I have tried multiple spelling combinations but none bring up relevant results.  Barfooz  (talk)  02:43, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC) (Vote changed, see below)
 * It's not so much of a hoax as it is an obscure sect of Hinduism. I suspect that this article, like every thing else the author has created, is copyvio from .  In any case, I vote Delete, not notable.  --Xcali 02:56, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sure he was inspired by that content, but I have no idea how he made up the title of this article then, because those keywords aren't found anywhere in that content. *shrug* -- Barfooz  (talk)  03:00, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. This may be one of those rare cases when a legit term is not to be found on Google because it is most likely to be used by those farthest removed from posting stuff on the internet. I'm not comfortable calling for its deletion. -- BD2412 talk 03:25, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
 * So then we shouldn't delete it because it can't be verified? Delete unless proven to be real.  RickK 04:26, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * I wasn't voting either way, just hoping someone would have some idea where to look to confirm/debunk. -- BD2412 talk 04:29, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)

 * Well, looks like this is real. (half way down the page). Good hunch, BD2412. Accordingly I am changing my vote to Keep and will rewrite the article as a pennance for my sin. -- Barfooz   (talk)  04:49, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * That's done. I'm slapping a disputed tag on it in the hopes that someone can verify the facts. I'm not really happy with the source of the information. Also, if this survives, it needs to be moved to Nizhal Thangal. -- Barfooz  (talk)  05:02, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete even if someone can find it verifiable this certainly isnt notable. JamesBurns 05:29, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Notability's not a criterion for deletion. Notability is subjective. See Notable for more discussion of this. And most of all, I don't think we are qualified to make the decision about whether this is notable. Perhaps this is a quite important phenomenon in India. -- Barfooz  (talk)  06:22, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Nizhal Thangal. Verified by User:Xcali and User:Barfooz and NPOV. Well done. Double Blue  (Talk) 15:44, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, per Double Blue . -- BD2412  talk 21:14, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
 * Keep and Move I agree with BD2412 that I don't know enough to vote on the basis of notability here.  Since it has been verified, this needs to stay in the hope that a knowledgeable contributor will flesh it out one day. Xoloz 03:47, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:Judsons164

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Judson. It seems you have a wealth of information about the Knights of Pythias - May I suggest you turn your attention toward improving and expanding the organization's current stub article? Placing a link in Charity isn't likely to help inform users. I've added Knights of Pythias to Category:Charities. Thanks! --FCYTravis 03:31, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

David Judovin (Votes for Deletion)
Someone has listed your article on votes for deletion (Votes for deletion/David Judovin). Generally, for people to have an article about them on Wikipedia, they must have some level of "notability" that makes them an "encyclopedic" subject. If your article is about you, you may want to move it to your User:Judsons164 page which is currently empty. The user page can be edited like any other page. Alternatively, there are some genealogy wikis (for example, ) where personal information is welcomed.
 * DS1953 04:32, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Joel Katz
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KLUC-FM

KLUC-FM (98.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station located in Las Vegas, Nevada. KLUC airs a mainstream Top 40 music format. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station's studios are located in the unincorporated Clark County area of Spring Valley, while its transmitter is atop Black Mountain in Henderson.

History
Rainbow, Inc., owner of KRBO (1050 AM), obtained a construction permit for a new FM radio station in Las Vegas on March 22, 1961. The unbuilt station, originally dubbed KRBO-FM, was sold along with the AM station to Meyer (Mike) Gold the next year; Gold built it and signed it on as KLUC-FM in 1963.

It was acquired by the KLUC Broadcasting Company in 1970. KLUC renamed itself Western Cities Broadcasting in 1979 to reflect its station holdings in Las Vegas; Tucson, Arizona; and Sacramento, California. Western Cities was able to make the Top 40 station a ratings and revenue leader in the late 1970s through the 1980s. Western Cities was acquired by Nationwide Communications in 1985.

KXNO (the former KRBO/KLUC AM) and KLUC-FM were sold in 1996 for $11 million to American Radio Systems of Boston, with Nationwide noting that Las Vegas did not fit its corporate strategy of concentrating on top-25 markets. The station continued to play a slightly broader mix than a typical Top 40; it was also the recognized primary commercial outlet for urban music in the city, playing more rap in the evenings. In 1998, American Radio Systems merged with CBS Radio.

On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17.

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Mezzo

Mezzo is the Italian word for "half", "middle" or "medium". It may refer to:

Music

 * Mezzo-soprano or mezzo, a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices
 * Mezzo forte ("medium-loud") and mezzo piano ("medium-quiet"), musical terms for dynamics
 * Mezzo staccato, an articulation halfway between legato and staccato

Other uses

 * Mezzo (artist) (born 1960), a French cartoonist
 * Mezzo Buttress, a glacier in Antarctica
 * Mezzo DSA, a 2003 anime series, the sequel to the Mezzo Forte anime movie
 * Mezzo Forte, an anime movie
 * Mezzo Mix, a beverage sold by Coca-Cola in Germany, Finland and Austria
 * Mezzo TV, a television channel in France
 * Mezzo, a common name in the 19th century for the island of Lopud, Croatia

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IDC (musician)

IDC is David McCarthy, an English recording artist and DJ from London, England.

An extensive programme of DJ dates at major European music Festivals, headline sets at 'Top 100' club venues throughout Europe and SE Asia and a succession of critically acclaimed releases have established him as a respected figure in international electronic music.

A major interview feature in leading international dance music publication DJ Mag declared "Electro iconoclast IDC isn't your typical DJ/producer – he's more like a multi-instrumentalist mix between Brian Wilson and DFA's James Murphy"

IDC's releases have consistently received 5 star press reviews, starting with his debut single 'Scratch', through to the release of his debut album 'Overthrow The Boss Class' in 2008 and continuing with subsequent album and single releases.

Second album 'The Sun Is Always Shining Above The Clouds' saw the world's biggest selling dance magazine Mixmag write "IDC is back with a rich and diverse album made across five studios over 18 months" and make lead single "Eins Deux Tres" 'Tune of the Month', describing it as "a beautifully compelling collage of Beach Boys-like vocal harmonies and electronic voices."

The album received an audiophile re-release in 2017 in an expanded re-mastered form addressing Loudness War issues which surrounded the original version.

The third album from IDC is expected in 2018.

Recordings
IDC's debut single release 'Scratch' was likened to the output of DFA Records, described as "pushing the boundaries of electro-disco" in DJ Mag and was one of the last records to be championed by John Peel on his legendary BBC radio show.

2007 release "Stomp" was called "one seriously heavy slice of deviant dancefloor electro" in another 5 star review in iDJ, with crossover potential compared to The Prodigy in DJ Mag and named 'Record of the Week' in places ranging from UK dance music mag legend DMC Update to John Kennedy's X-Posure show on XFM.

The following single 'Akai Elvis' nudged the UK charts with DJ Mag writing "you can instantly hear why it's getting the same kind of response LCD Soundsytem's Losing My Edge got before it reached saturation levels."

Debut album
August 2008 saw the release of the debut IDC album 'Overthrow The Boss Class'. The ten track collection was recorded in London and Brighton, with McCarthy taking on all writing, performing and production duties, except for a guest vocal on the track 'Modern Touch' by Martin Andrews from the group 'Volunteer'. 'OTBC' was mastered at The Soundmasters by Streaky Gee, whose credits include The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, Death in Vegas and The Stone Roses.

Once again superlative reviews followed, with a 5 star 'Recommended Album' review in International DJ Magazine calling it "2008's 'We Are the Night (Chemical brothers)'" and DJ Mag raving "there's a simplicity and fun to the production – a sense of delirious enjoyment rather that trying to be clever – that gives it an instantly accessible appeal."

DJ legend Mark Moore singled out the track 'Modern Touch' for particular praise in his monthly review column by writing "I shall go on record as declaring this as 2 minutes 53 seconds of perfect pop. Once it's over you just have to play it again... and again."

April 2009 saw the release of IDC's first post debut album material, with the track 'Imaginary Bones' being released as an extended single package featuring Lo Fidelity Allstars' Phil Ward on vocals on two distinct versions taken from different recording sessions, along with several remixes. The main 'dance' version featured heavily at various parties at WMC Miami. iDJ magazine said ""this raucous romp could well be IDC's biggest club monster to date" and DMC Update made it five star single of the week saying "this is the most pissed up, drugged up, headfuck of a record that I've heard in a very long time, it makes The Prodigy sound like they've got The X Factor."

The 'alternate version' featuring a full band and horn section picked up UK BBC Radio 1 airplay and led to a 'live band' session on John Kennedy's X-Posure show on XFM. The session featured three tracks recorded live at Capital Radio's Leicester Square studios, with McCarthy on bass and vocals joined by Seamus Murphy, Phil Ward and Martin Andrews.

2009 saw extensive periods in recording studios, with parts recorded in London, Brighton, Edinburgh and New York. The first fruits of these sessions was released as a 'free download' track the end of 2009. 'This Is Not A Riot' featured samples of crowd chants recorded at various demonstrations around the world, as well as the sampling of the LRAD Long Range Acoustic Device riot control sonic weapon.

The track received national UK radio airplay on BBC Radio 1 with Rob Da Bank calling it "revolutionary rave". and went on to be referenced as "riot-folk" by the world renown monthly magazine Fortean Times which officially acknowledged the track as the first-ever musical work to feature the LRAD.

June 2010 saw the release of single 'Daytime Radio Hit', ironically named due to the inclusion of the expletive-laden guest vocals of Holly from The New York Chimes which resulted in the only radio airplay coming from longtime supporter John Kennedy on XFM with an exclusively created 'bleeped' version. Dance press reviews continued to be highly positive, with iDJ calling it "jaunty electro boogie" and DJ Mag citing it as "an aptly-named DFA-style grooveathon."

Second album
The second IDC album 'The Sun Is Always Shining Above The Clouds' was released in August 2011. Mixmag wrote "IDC is back with a rich and diverse album made across five studios over 18 months" and DJ Mag called it "a brilliant work" giving a rating of 9 out of 10.

"Eins Deux Tres" was the lead single from the album and it was awarded 'Tune of the Month' in Mixmag describing it as "a beautifully compelling collage of Beach Boys-like vocal harmonies and electronic voices. There's a Mobyness about its uplifting chords while the range of quirky samples and strings are reminiscent of The Avalanches. The best tri-lingual track we've ever featured!". DJ Mag gave it 9/10 writing "an explosion of ELO strings over a 'One More Time' rhythm stomp, never mind 'Money Shot' of the month, I think this is 'Single of the Year'"

'TSIASATC' album track 'Everybody' was released as an EP in 2012 which included an extended version and several remixes. It was declared "an essential must-have electro package for 2012" in a 9/10 review in DJ Mag.

In 2013 'Everybody' appeared on the soundtrack of the motion picture Make your Move 3d.

Later in the year stand-alone single 'The Man with The Last Laugh' was released and received yet another 9/10 in DJ Mag: "This 21st century John Barry-style megatune gets a much deserved full release. The campaign for a dance track James Bond theme starts here!"

2014 saw the tenth anniversary of debut single 'Scratch' celebrated with a re-issue which included a brand new '2014TYL' version remixed by IDC. The other tracks from the original vinyl release were made available digitally for the first time.

'What's going On Here?' was released as a single in January 2015. It came backed with a live full-band version of 'Imaginary Bones'. 'Assemble The Musi8ians' followed later that year and 'Sugar Coated Bullet' was the most recent new material release in 2016.

DJ
IDC's DJ career began around 2005 with guest headline sets at major electro clubs of the time such as Nag Nag Nag in London and Rio in Berlin, following on from the release of his acclaimed debut single.

Dates then extended around Europe, most notably headlining a dance stage at Szegit Festival in Budapest and beginning an ongoing series of regular headline appearances at the 3,000 capacity Sala 1 of Razzmatazz Barcelona, which he has now played on over 30 occasions.

One New Year's Eve set at Razzmatazz led to a two-page review in International DJ Magazine calling IDC "the future king of electronic rock'n'roll"

DJ Magazine ran a feature on IDC saying "he makes music that sounds like a washing machine on crack – no wonder the likes of Mark Moore, Erol Alkan, Radio One's Pete Tong and XFM's John Kennedy are all over his tunes" and dates continued around Europe and at major UK venues such as Together at Turnmills in London, Stealth in Nottingham and festivals such as Bestival.

International headline set at clubs such as Zouk Singapore and Volar Hong Kong extended IDC's reputation to SE Asia and further UK DJ dates, including 'special guest' support slots to 2ManyDJs and Calvin Harris, raised his profile at home, leading to a return to Bestival for a prime-time Friday night slot on the main Bollywood dance stage.

DJ Mag stated "IDC is a genius" and iDJ called him "clearly one of electronic music's finest purveyors".

Although 2013 onwards has been almost entirely dedicated to studio work, a reduced DJ schedule has subsequently included a special set at Razzmatazz Barcelona as part of the Stone Roses first official comeback gig and a number of London club dates.

The Sun Is Always Shining Above The Clouds (2011)
Track listing : indent=1|

The Protagonists

I Love

Daytime Radio Hit

Light The Place Up

Eins Deux Tres

Everybody

If You Stand For Something (You Won't Fall For Anything)

A Hollyoaks Life

Imaginary Bones

Culture Supervisor

Overthrow The Boss Class (2008)
Track listing : indent=1|

Slowride

Scratched

Stomp

Modern Touch

Boss Klass

Recidivist

Cutie

Bolshy Beats

Akai Elvis

St Mawes

Singles
indent=1|

Sugar Coated Bullet (2016)

Assemble The Musi8ians (2015)

What's Going On Here? (2015)

Scratch 10YL EP (2014)

The Man with the Last Laugh(2013)

Everybody (2012)

Eins Deux Tres (2011)

Daytime Radio Hit (2010)

This Is Not A Riot (2009)

Imaginary Bones (2009)

Modern Touch (2008)

Bolshy Beats (2008)

Akai Elvis – The Remixes (2008)

Akai Elvis (2007)

Stomp (2007)

Payola (2005)

Scratch (2004)

Other activity
IDC's own Brighton club residency "Dirty Weekend" was featured in a major undercover-filming news exposé on European satellite TV channel Sky News regarding the contemporary use of laughing gas in clubs in the UK. The story was picked up by UK national tabloid papers and the dance press and used by the authorities as a reason to clamp down on the sale of for recreational purposes.

Official IDC remix releases of other artists have appeared on major labels such as Sony/BMG, Universal, Astralwerks and EMI as well as on respected independent dance labels including Bad Life and Hottwerk.

Early notable unofficial mash-up re-workings included a version of The Ting Tings song "Great DJ", which used the unreleased demo version as the source material and became a big download hit via music blogs and the Hypemachine site well before the band became widely known.

IDC's initial illicit productions received radio airplay around the world, establishing him at the forefront of the UK bootleg movement and leading him to become one of the main contributors to the MTVMash weekly show for MTVNE, creating exclusive tracks for the two season series. His productions included the only official Outkast mash-up, "Hey Mug", which mixed Hey Ya! with English band The Streets and was cleared for use by Andre 3000 himself.

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Talk:World Esperanto Congress

I have removed the line in the table that claimed that the 2016 UK will be in Santiago. The UEA won't be coming out with an official statement on the location of the 101st UK until Spring 2014. At the UK in Reykjavik, the head of Esperanto-USA mentioned the hope of a UK in San Diego. The representative of the Chilean group simply offered greetings. Jaidit (talk) 16:49, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

please note, the table was taken from the German encyclopedia so some city names may not be translated yet. Revolución 02:48, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Anyway, Santiago is a different place from San Diego. Dawud (talk) 07:08, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

When will a universal congress take place in Africa? Kiam universala kongreso okazos en afriko?

 * If this list of places represents the Esperanto-speaking community, then it looks like that community is about 90% or so in Europe - apart from a few meetings in Japan, S.Korea, P.R.China and Cuba, hardly any seem to be outside of Europe. i guess this can be understood: Latin Americans get by with spanish/portuguese as being close enough to each other and understood in the whole region, North Americans and Africans have English and French as a lingua franca. Since European colonisation of East Asia failed, a lot of people in Europe and Asia who want an easier alternative to English can understandably feel that Esperanto could be a good intermediary language... Boud (talk) 22:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

 * They try to alternate between Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The scheme (which does tend to shortchange Africa, as you say) has little to do with where E-ists are concentrated. For example, Iran has a large-ish community, but would be unable to meet the conditions of a UK (such as guaranteeing visas for participants, not to mention their freedom of speech). Europe does seem to attract the most participation--whether because more E-ists live there, or because Europeans have more time and money to waste on artificial language pursuits.Dawud (talk) 07:07, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

World or Universal?
I think the headline should be "Universal Congress of Esperanto", not "World".

This is the literal translation. Besides, there are several World Congresses of Esperanto each year (e. g. the SAT congress), but only one of them is universal (i. e. not specialized).

Gunnar Gällmo (talk) 14:11, 4 October 2010 (UTC) (bug report) the number of participants is sorted alphabetically, not numerically! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.195.201.19 (talk) 16:12, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

The title of the article
The official English name of the event is “World Esperanto Congress” (see at the website of UEA: http://uea.org/kongresoj/partners). I have succeeded in changing it in the article itself, but it needs to be changed also in the title. Who can help me with it? --Fiskot (talk) 22:36, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Marek Mazurkiewicz (talk) 17:37, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, why not. I filed the WP:RM as uncontroversial technical request, I doubt there will be any serious opposition to the move.  // Halibutt 13:05, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coat of arms of Dagestan

This should be deleted because it just redirects to Dagestan. ---User:Hottentot
 * Which is not a reason for deleting it. It's a perfectly reasonable redirect, and gets the searcher right to the information s/he is seeking. Denni ☯ 19:18, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul weiss

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep, although it was moved to the correct capitalization at Paul Weiss. Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:55, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Paul weiss
Textbook vanity page created and abandoned by apparent student of Mr. Weiss -- Norvy (talk) 02:49, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Barfooz  (talk)  03:22, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I don't know anything about nanotechnology but Dr. Weiss is the Director, Center for Molecular Nanofabrication and Device, Eberly College of Science at Penn State.  In addition, his list of publications and awards is extremely lengthy. See his c.v. here or his publications.  In addition to his own writings, a Google search turned up many other publications that he has been cited in. DS1953 04:26, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. The Weiss Group at Penn State which he heads seems to be conducting important research on atomic-scale physics and chemistry. Capitalistroadster 05:23, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Paul Weiss, keep and expand. Seems to be a noted physics researcher. Has won many awards to boot. JamesBurns 05:33, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Move as per User:JamesBurns. Double Blue  (Talk) 15:47, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Move as per User:JamesBurns. Falphin 01:32, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I decided to be bold and move to Paul Weiss with appropriate capitalization.  If anyone wants to expand, be my guest.  Keep, delete, whatever is necessary, but it should be at its correct location no matter what.   ral  315  00:14, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Coat of arms of Dagestan

This should be deleted because it just redirects to Dagestan.
 * This is no longer the case. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 10:05, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

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London Bridge (Lake Havasu City)

London Bridge is a bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, United States. When it was built in the 1830s, it spanned the River Thames in London, England. In 1968, the bridge was purchased from the City of London by Robert P. McCulloch. However, McCulloch only had the exterior granite blocks from the original bridge cut and transported to the United States for use in the construction of a new bridge in Lake Havasu City, a planned community he established in 1964 on the shore of Lake Havasu. The only parts of the “New London Bridge” that made it to Arizona were the exterior masonry. The Arizona bridge is a reinforced concrete structure clad in the original masonry of the 1830s bridge. The bridge was completed in 1971 (along with the Bridgewater Channel Canal, separating the peninsula from the mainland), and links mainland Lake Havasu City with Pittsburgh Point. The "rededication" of the London Bridge took place on October 10, 1971.

History
The 1831 London Bridge was the last project of engineer John Rennie, and was completed by his son, John Rennie. By 1962, it was not sturdy enough to carry the increased load of traffic; the bridge was sold by the City of London in April 1968 to make way for its replacement.

The purchaser, Robert P. McCulloch, was an entrepreneur and real estate developer who founded Lake Havasu City. He installed the bridge to attract tourists and retirement home buyers to his properties there.

Purchase and transfer to Arizona
The community first started as an Army Air Corps rest camp, called "Site Six" during World War II on the shores of Lake Havasu. In 1958 McCulloch purchased 3,353 acre of property on the east side of the lake along Pittsburgh Point, the peninsula, intending to develop the land. But the real estate agents could not bring in prospective buyers, because the land was far from centers of population and had a very hot, arid climate. McCulloch's real estate agent, Robert Plumer, learned that London Bridge was for sale and convinced McCulloch to buy it and bring it to the area to attract potential land buyers. The initial response from McCulloch was, "That's the craziest idea I have ever heard," but after consideration, he decided to go ahead and purchased it for £1.02 million ($2.46 million at that time).

There is a popular rumor that the bridge was bought in the mistaken belief that it was London's more recognizable Tower Bridge,  but the allegation was vehemently denied by both McCulloch and Ivan Luckin, who arranged the bridge's sale.

The bridge's facing stones were removed, with each numbered and its position catalogued. After the bridge was dismantled, the stones were transported to a quarry in Merrivale, Devon, where 15 to 20 cm were sliced off many of the original stones.

Plumer arranged with a cargo shipping company that was going to sail a newly built ship, without any cargo, from the U.K. to the U.S. Plumer negotiated to pay for all the voyage's operating costs, in return for carrying the bridge stones as cargo to the U.S., which was far less than the going rate shipping costs.

The new ship transported the bridge in pieces through the Panama Canal and unloaded it at the Port of Long Beach, California. From there, the bridge was transported overland to Lake Havasu City, where re-assembly began in 1968.

Reconstruction in Lake Havasu
On September 23, 1968, the bridge's foundation stone was re-laid at the reconstruction site in Arizona by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Lord Mayor of London. A new concrete interior structure was clad in the original stonework. The reconstruction took slightly over three years and was completed in late 1971 by Sundt Construction.

The bridge was not rebuilt over a river, but was put up on land between the main part of the city and Pittsburgh Point, which at that time was a peninsula jutting into Lake Havasu. Once completed, a construction company dredged the Bridgewater Channel Canal under the bridge, across the neck of the Pittsburgh Point peninsula. The canal separating it from the city made Pittsburgh Point an island. As a result, the bridge now traverses a navigable shortcut between the Thompson Bay in Lake Havasu, south of Pittsburgh Point, and the northern part of Lake Havasu.

Use as a tourist attraction
After the bridge was reconstructed, prospective buyers of land were attracted to visit the bridge and take a tour of properties for sale. Land sales improved, and McCulloch recouped all his expenses on the purchase and shipping of the bridge. Since he had obtained the land at no cost, the sale of the properties paid for the bridge and more. Recent years have seen much development in the area of the bridge to increase tourist interest.

The original "English Village" was an open-air mall with a hedge maze and historical museum built in faux-English style. It deteriorated over time and sections of the mall were leveled. The Lake Havasu City Convention & Visitors Bureau has undertaken a revitalization of the English Village, with conversion of the mall to condos proposed in 2011 by Virtual Realty Enterprises, its current owner.

On June 16, 2014, The Sun published a false story claiming Lake Havasu City’s beloved London Bridge was being torn down to build an attraction for selling marijuana and drug paraphernalia to tourists. Doug Traub, President & CEO of the Lake Havasu City Convention & Visitors Bureau (now Go Lake Havasu) responded by demanding a retraction. The conflict was picked up by publications around the globe. After two weeks, the British tabloid removed the story from circulation and printed a correction.

In popular culture

 * The 1972 musical variety television special The Special London Bridge Special with Tom Jones and Jennifer O'Neill was shot in Lake Havasu City to celebrate the London Bridge.
 * The 1983 American psychological thriller Olivia used the relocation of the bridge as a central plot device.
 * The 1985 made-for-TV movie Bridge Across Time, a supernatural crime drama, used the relocation of the bridge as a plot device. In the film, the spirit of Jack the Ripper was somehow transported to 1980s Arizona along with a stone from London Bridge, resulting in a murder spree.
 * The 1987 made-for-TV movie The Return of Sherlock Holmes has Holmes, lost in the Arizona desert, come upon London Bridge, believing he has stumbled into a heavenly facsimile of London.
 * The London Bridge is featured in the 1987 film Million Dollar Mystery.
 * The 1993 movie Falling Down has Robert Duvall's character as the detective tracking Michael Douglas through Los Angeles planning to move to London Bridge with his wife after his retirement begins at the end of his last day on the job.
 * The paranormal television series Ghost Adventures covered the story of the London Bridge, in the episode "London Bridge".
 * In the song "London Homesick Blues" by Gary P. Nunn, a reference is made with the line "Even London Bridge has fallen down and moved to Arizona". This song was the theme song for Austin City Limits television show from 1977 to 2004.
 * On May 8, 2010, Lake Havasu City’s Doug Traub arranged for magician and escape artist Criss Angel to film an episode from                                                                                the London Bridge for his A & E Network TV series Mindfreak while bound in chains, locked in a cage with his feet encased in cement, and lowered underwater into the Channel from a construction crane.

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Talk:Ransom Everglades School

POVness
It's too cheerleaderish. I encourage those with sufficient information to rewrite it in a more neutral manner. --Nlu (talk) 16:55, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I am currently attending this school, and I agree that it might be too "cheerleaderish." For this reason, I have edited the parts that originally said that "it is Miami's premier prep school" to say that it is "one of Miami's preimer prep schools." I hope this makes the article more neutral. User:LongWalkShortPier 21:05, 24 May 2006 (EST)

Ransom Everglades is Miami's premier prep school. There are other good schools, but none match the repuatation and university matriculation statistics of which Ransom can boast. A higher percentage of the graduating class attends Ivy League Universities than any other high school in Florida and top 10 in the entire United States.

Where are you getting those statiscitics, bucko? Or is it another one of those typical Ransom delusions of their own greatness? You write like a bureaucrat and you think like one too. Wikipedia better not moderate this shit, it's the goddamn discussion page.

The Miami New Times voted Ransom Everglades the Best Private School in Miami for 2006. Here's a link: http://listings.miaminewtimes.com/gyrobase/BestOf/BestOfAward?Year=oid%3A118560&Section=oid%3A13683&oid=oid%3A120454 User: Longwalkshortpier

Bottom line is that Ransom is the best school in Miami by a long shot, best school in Florida, and damn near the best in the Southeastern United States. You guys can continue with your banter, but to be honest, your jealousy and inferiority complexes are just cluttering up this discussion page with forced criticisms like "cheerleaderish" and "one of the best". I mean let's be serious, if those are the worst two things you can say about a school that ranks number one in the state of Florida for putting out Ivy League attendees, then your argument honestly holds no water, and you're better suited getting off of Wikipedia and putting in a little more study time so that you can try to join us Ransomites at the top Universities and Colleges in the nation.

P.S. Let it be noted that we are speaking about a school that has produced the likes of "Los Tres Banditos" A.K.A Miguel "Stinky Pinky" Tamayo, Anthony "Oh So" Fine, and the incomparable Fernando "El Creep" Rodriguez-Vila.

It should be noted that the greatness refers only to academic standards, as Ransom athletics are a joke. I do realize that this is redundent after correction 1, but since non-Ransomites are reading this, I figured I should put it in layman's terms. Additionaly, the "Tres Banditos" have the honor of being the first students to ever be arrested on the Ransom Everglades campus. Icontainmultitudes 21:49, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Sigh. Ah, the self-righteousness of the rich. College and other bright people are going to come as a shock to some of you. That said, here are my rambling experiences at and views of Ransom-Everglades, biased as they are. I went to Ransom in the mid-80s, when the school was going through (yet another) shift: FROM being a small, good, somewhat-expensive-but-not-ridiculously-so private school with lots of middle class students and a -few- ultra-rich students, focussed primarily on academics and not on marketing, TO being a well-marketed breeding ground and finishing school for the rich. Basically, my fam. was on the losing side of the fight, and there was one, to try and keep it high-quality rather than luxe. Facilities were decent-ish, but not particularly special. Instead, the nouveau riche of the city and especially of various fascistic South American countries decided to use it as a launch pad for their families' ambitions in the United States, and a highway to the Ivies. According to the ---faculty--- who stuck around, some of whom I'm still in touch with, students have been generally declining ever since this fight was lost. There are certainly other private schools in Miami that are -as- good academically ---in the opinion of RE's current faculty themselves--- but certainly none with the connections that current students' families and recent alums have, Belen having faded over the years. My own sense is that the school used to be a -lot- more libertine and intellectually exploratory even though we certainly had our share of Hufflepuffs. I myself believe that approach to education and wisdom and life experience of faculty is more important than facilities or endowment, and I no longer see that approach in place at Ransom-Everglades. In my opinion, it's a decent school that is remarkably well marketed, with an excellent alumni base that helps promote the *owd sod*. If the place drives you ripshit, you're probably one of the smarter students there. If you think it's perfect the way it is, you're probably going to have a brilliant and successful career followed by an afterlife in the hot place. ;) -Fr. Wolf

Also, a question: What did three students get arrested for on campus? The faculty used to get quietly stoned on occasion with the students; please tell me it's not drugs and more of Ransom's current oh-so-politically correct in loco parentis bullshit/marketing. . . I read the garbage that comes out in the alumni newsletter, and just shake my head. -Fr. Wolf

Finally. . . we always sucked at athletics. I think it's just too small a school to be particularly good at it. We were usually evenly matched with Palmer, which was about our size. -Fr. Wolf

For current students or alumns interested in a longer discussion about the place, please feel free to visit my userid site on Wikipedia for a venue; this site does seem to be edited overly much. If any students or alums are currently dealing with drug-related issues or child abuse, and have no one else to talk to, feel free to contact me for support through the *email this user* option on my userid page. - Fr. Wolf

Gah. Three vandalisms of what I wrote in 24 hours, with no discussion on this board before junking my text. . . which is what this board is for. I also note that previous critics of the school have had "I am a fag" used to replace their userid data. That would, of course, touch upon the *intellectually exploratory* comment I made earlier, along with one I made tonight in the temp comments under News discussing *academic honesty*. . . thus proving the point of pretty much anyone on this page who criticized the school. If calling people fags and just erasing whatever they write is the best Ransom's defenders can do at this point, then the school - or its lackeys at the very least - really have gone to the dogs. - Fr. Wolf

Fr. Wolf, while I acknowledge your point of view of drug use during the 80's and 90's, because I was not present to hear about the actual drug use, I would like to dispute your claim that drug use at Ransom is "unlikely to have changed recently." I am a student here, and no rumors of drug use have passed my ears. The caption that you have added is an assumption, and as an encyclopedia article, that assumption has no place in this article. Also, overall, I have some general problems with overall neutrality. For example, when you say tuition is "remarkably" expensive, rather than just expensive. While I realize that you have issues with the school, I do not think this Wikipedia article is the place to vent them.

Ugh. The school really has gone to the dogs. Let's take your rebuttal apart point by point. Ok, to begin with, a primary source is usually not considered to be a point of view. So, you can acknowledge my *experiences* during the 80s and 90s, but calling them a point of view is an attempt to denigrate the quality of the information. Secondly: the sentence as published is "Certain alumni feel that . . . (and is not likely to have changed recently)." The sentence states that certain alumni feel the situation is not likely to have changed recently. Do you disagree that certain alumni feel that way? Third: If your position is that there is *no* drug use at Ransom today, then my sense is that you simply aren't aware of it, and either aren't old enough to be involved or are not connected to students who use drugs. If the school really did have *zero* drug use among students, it is likely that the school would be shouting this fact from the rafters. Tuition, at $21,600/year, is in fact remarkably expensive for a day school, or for many colleges. Note that the University of Florida is currently about $3,000/year for in-state students. . . if you don't feel $21k is a lot of money, then I'm certainly not going to convince you of that, but I would point out that the median income for a four-person family in Florida, *pre-tax*, is 58,605, which suggests a post-tax income of ~$38k. Note that the current endowment of $15M is more than many small colleges of similar size. As for your comment on neutrality, I would argue that only stating the positive aspects of a place is not in any way, shape, or form "neutral". Finally: it's an old rule of logic that the competence (or, I would extend, viewpoint) of a speaker has no relevance to the truth of what he says. Is anyone teaching textual analysis, logic, or rhetoric at the "owd sod" any more? These are admittedly dangerous tools with which to arm students, but for $21k/year. . . - Fr. Wolf.

In response to some of your statements, Fr. Wolf I agree that the article should not be an advertisement of Ransom Everglades. However, your negative viewpoint of the school should not be addressed on Wikipedia as there is a policy of being neutral. Also, your point that drugs were a major problem at the school is not verifiable. I understand you consider yourself a primary source, but your statements are not analytical of the school as a whole. As a student at Ransom, I do believe that some students may use drugs or alcohol, but the use is not on epidemic proportions and is especially not comparable to the drug and alcohol use of other schools in the area (especially some of the public schools). Also, you should reconsider using Wikipedia as a venting grounds. I realize that you have some sort of distaste for the school, but your being rediculous by using Wikipedia for opinions. - Longwalkshortpier Nov. 11, 2006

Here are some more general statements on the article 1. I deleted the part of the article mentioning how financial aid is aimed at blacks and minorities. There is no evidence to back that statement up at all. And, because I am also a primary source as I attend Ransom, there is no evidence to suggest that trend from the students or faculty there. 2. The article needs a little bit of an overhaul on the adjectives describing the school as superior. While there is evidence to suggest it is a very good school, Wikipedia is just not the place to advertise. -Longwalkshortpier Nov 11, 2006

Leaving out negative information also skews an article. You have repeatedly vandalized this article, which is against the rules and definitely the spirit of Wikipedia. Deleting parts of articles simply because *you* disagree with them or *you* lack evidence to their veracity, if followed, would lead to most of Wikipedia being deleted. Do you have personal knowledge of the Egyptian line of kings? Might want to delete parts of those articles, too, right? As to my "distaste" for the school, I would point out that I earlier stated that *In my opinion, it's a decent school that is remarkably well marketed, with an excellent alumni base that helps promote the *owd sod**. You are thus also currently violating Wikipedia's *assume good faith* policy, without much reason. I could take your argument apart, point-by-point, the way I did last time, but it's not worth it. You will not respond to specific rebuttals, and you continue to simply vandalize this article. Given that no consensus can be reached about the facts of this school, and that Wikipedia's rules and guidelines are being pointedly ignored, it's probably best just to delete this article. - Fr. Wolf

Fr Wolf: First off, I am not "Vandalizing the article." You have stated that you could take my argument apart, so why don't we break this article down before we consider deleting. Let's deal exclusively with facts. Obviously there is a conflict of interest here, so let's break all of this down. "Admissions is competitive, and tuition is remarkably expensive. Financial aid is available, weighed towards black students and underrepresented minorities." The phrase "tuition is remarkably expensive" is true when we compare Ransom to a public school. $20,000 is not, however, remarkably expensive when compared to other schools in the area. I think that simply stating that tuition is around $20,000 without financial aid is enough. The statement that financial aid is weighed towards black students and underrepresentated minorities is absolutly rediculous. Can you explain to me where this information came from? "Certain alumni feel that coverups of drug use among and child abuse of students attending were excessive in the 80s and 90s even for a school of this socioeconomic type (and are unlikely to have changed recently). However, the lack of a normative statistical continuum for schools in this price range is acknowledged" Because I did not attend the school during the 80s or 90s (as I attend Ransom now), I believe that keeping this part in the article is allright. However, using the term "coverups," in this instance, does not give enough information about that situation. Are you meaning to say that the school tried to shut some people up or that Ransom simply did not publish information about its "drug problem" in school publications? Otherwise, this Italic textmightItalic textbe a necessary part of the articl "It is a prestigious and extremely well-marketed preparatory school in Miami, with an excellent record of sending students to Ivy League and other top tier schools, and a challenging and wide ranging academic program. The school has some of the best course offerings and facilities in South Florida for a school of its size, and some people feel it is comparable to a small college. Despite its size, a comprehensive sports program exists, including a nationally ranked sailing team" You may agree with me on this, Fr. Wolf. This part of the article seems like a direct advertisement for the school. Any suggestions on toning this down a little bit? In short, I just want to say that this article should not be deleted. Maybe the article needs to be limited in that there is no original research or opinions by those who attend or work at the school. - Longwalkshortpier

It is unfortunate to see bitter alumni attempting to defile the name of their alma mater because of a poor experience they had with the institution. Furthermore, wikipedia should not be a subjective encyclopedia but rather define Ransom Everglades as objectively as possible. This debate has become immature and rather pointless, losing sight of the issue at hand. Quite frankly, I could give a hoot as to what you think about the school Wolf, or what your children think, just as my opinion would not change your's. I could choose to rant and rave about Ransom (and I would focus soley upon my academic experience as well as the incredible experience I had with the professors that teach there) but that is not the point of this article. So, how about you stop your mongering, suck it up, and put your ill-sentiments either in a letter addressed to the school or to your psychiatrist where they would be more appropriate. (and if you are really looking for someone to tear apart your arguments piece by piece, i am more than happy to oblige, though there are other ways to sate your desire for confrontation). You may not believe that Ransom provides one of the top educations in the country, and I'm not saying that it does or does not, but I hardly believe that you are in an appropriate position to qualify the school by any terms, unless of course that is part of your job title. The point is that no one should. Readers should be informed of the facts and allowed to make their own decisions based upon objective information. SO, lets keep this article as fruitful of facts and unbiased as possible... shall we Wolf? - Dr. Manduca Sexta

Mr. Wolf, breathe; try and be a little more objective; save the self-righteousness of the rich speech for another time and place; numbers don't lie:

WSJ Study of Most Successful Matriculation: RE is one of two schools in FL on the list (the higher ranked school) http://webreprints.djreprints.com/wsj_tuition_040104.pdf

2006 Miami New Times Best Private School http://bestof.miaminewtimes.com/bestof/award.php?award=120454

2005 USA Today Highest Percentage of Calculus AB Mastery in the Country http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2005-01-25-ap-list_x.htm

2007 High School Academic Nationals, 56th in the country and the only Miami-Dade County school in the top 160; not to mention RE sent freshmen and sophomores http://www.naqt.com/hsnct/2007/results/standings.html

2007 Florida High School Academic Championship, RE places 1st in Div I (3rd collectively) http://www.geocities.com/tvitello/FLNAQT2007_standings.html

...and before you begin another rant about the selfish ambitions of the nouveau riche, why don't you reflect a bit on Ransom Everglades' Summerbridge Program, "the only independent school program in Florida to receive federal funding under the 21st Century Learning Centers program". $2.3 million federal grant? A faculty comprised by mostly Ransom Everglades' volunteers? I think the National Associaton of Independent Schools says it best, "It provides a model for public/private partnership in education, and an example of the lasting contribution independent schools can make in strengthening their local communities." (http://www.nais.org/conferences/index.cfm?itemnumber=146238&sn.ItemNumber=517&tn.ItemNumber=146239#RES)

Anyone with an objective argument? Ransom Everglades is without a doubt Miami's premier prep school. ~RE Alum '05

I do actually have quite a large point based on the posting of the two pornographers as alums of Ransom. While, as I student, I have heard rumors (at Ransom, as I am a student there), but that has been the only other outside sources I have ever seen relating to them attending Ransom. I will delete it, as an internet search reveals no backup information for Kristopher Hinson or Penn Davis attending Ransom. If someone finds information that states they attended the school, then it must be put back up despite the embarrasment to the school. Longwalkshortpier July 1 2007

I have attended Ransom. All I have to say is that this school is not cracked up to what everybody thinks it is. It is NOT one of the best schools in Miami. I think that it has an amazing reputation but it just isn't as great as its supposed to be.

Response to post directly above: Relatively recent Ransom alum here. Ransom is not a Bronx High School of Science or a Stuyvesant or other similar high school, i.e. high schools where admissions standards are highly meritocratic and "soft" factors like the wealth a prospective student's family can bring to the table or legacy status dont have much, if any, pull. But I think it's fair to say that Ransom is similar, though probably not quite on par with, elite preparatory schools in New England and New York City. These schools do have high merit-based admissions standards, which translates into, for the most part, impressive student classes. But elite private schools like those in the Northeast do admit some students who otherwise would not be admitted based solely on their merit credentials because of special relationships those students' families have with the relevant institutions. This is not just at the high school level - Harvard, Yale, Princeton et. al. have their fair share of legacy and athlete admits. Unless things have changed since I was at Ransom, I think it's pretty clear that a given Ransom class is probably at least somewhat "better" than any other class of that year in the Miami area, if we define "better" to mean the overall academic/intellectual ability of the class. Every Ransom class has its share of people who aren't the brightest bulbs, but that's true of every class at every high school in the country, except perhaps for schools like Stuy and Bronx, which are pretty much totally merit-based.

Ransom Sucks- class of 2003 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.46.175.116 (talk) 07:54, 5 September 2007 (UTC) Wow, I was bored at work and found this. I'm a Ransom alum from the early 90's and there were many intelligent students attending the school. Many of those students families are very stable financially. Me, I was a scholarship kid. I was lucky and recieved an excellent education which has served me well in my professional life. All that being said, some students did take some drugs, or drink too much, or cheat on an occasional test, etc. However, from my experience compared to what I saw in college and in life the numbers were no greater at Ransom than in other similar schools. And it's hard to question the academic achievments of many students. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.244.4.189 (talk) 22:37, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

As an alum 3-4 years out of school I have to say that Ransom is a very good academic institution. I would agree that the average student is of a higher caliber than at comparative schools in the state. It would be folly, however, to say that the best students at Ransom are better than those at surrounding public and private schools. Looking at the list of recent alumni, not many have achieved much of note compared to Palmetto High and Gables High students (for examples).

 * It's been some time and many edits since the above discussion on Point of View issues. I've removed or rewritten many sentences that were controversial, see my notes below. If no one has objections I'll remove the POV tags now. I believe the citations also really help set the tone of the article as a factual and neutral summary of the school, as opposed to a place to make partisan claims or views about the school. It's much more encyclopedic now, in my opinion. - Owlmonkey (talk) 00:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Protection from vandalism
Personally, I think this article should be placed under temporary restrictions against unauthorized edits. This page is a top target. Here's some recent nonsense in the article.

"Random Everglades boys can primarily be noticed by their vacant expressions and greasy faces. To compensate for their impotence, they generally display simian aggression. You can usually notice them from their oversized basketball shorts and pristine white basketball loafers. Girls can be noticed by their legs, which are always spread open. A not unpleasant smell usually billows from their vaginal crevices."

Can someone delete this paragraph from the article? Thanks. CapeVerdeWave ( talk ) 24:51, 4 October 2007

 * if there is concern about ongoing vandalism to this page we can request semi-protection so that anonymous edits will be disallowed but established wikipedia editors may still contribute to the page without obstacle. I'd recommend that before going to full protection. - Owlmonkey (talk) 00:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Wow
I graduated in 1959 -- I was Valedictorian, but there were only 11 students! A great English teacher, I can't remember much about the others except that the French and history teachers were not very good at all (the history teacher simply read to us from the textbook). Still, I went to Yale from there and probably wouldn't have if I'd stayed at Coral Gables High. Seems to have changed a wee bit since. Dougweller 18:13, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Major rewrite
I took a stab at adding badly needed citations, and in doing so corrected a number of inaccuracies. There is still some language here that is slightly POV that needs correction, in my mind. But I'm quite open to discussing and revising all of my edits. Please leave comments for me here. I will watch this page for changes. I'd like to suggest though that after these edits, and perhaps some additional minor ones to provide real sports and matriculation details, that we can remove the 'cleanup' tag and the 'POV' tag. Please comment here about that as well. For disclosure, I graduated from this school in 1988. But I believe I can edit the article from a neutral point of view. - Owlmonkey (talk) 18:10, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * ok, i think i've rewritten what remained in the article that lacked neutral, encyclopedic writing. I invite your comments or discussion about the edits here. In my mind the article now satisfies any POV concerns and cleanup needs. If there is no comments or complaints in a week I'll remove the POV and cleanup tags on the article. The sports claims I removed, if anyone could find citations for them, would be wonderful to ad back though. There may be some specific sports accomplishments with valid, neutral, third-party citations that we could put back. I just couldn't find any in my searches to substantiate the claims in the article. So I removed them. I imagine some sports news articles about ransom might provide scholarly research on Ransom's history with respect to sports. But all I could find in my searches were mentions of specific games or seasons and standings versus other schools in their division. Nothing notable particularly. - Owlmonkey (talk) 00:20, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * lacking any opinions here I'm removing the tags now, please feel free though at any time to comment here or propose adding them back. I'd be quite excited to have more of a conversation here about this page and how to improve it collaboratively. Best to you all. - Owlmonkey (talk) 19:17, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Debate
Ransom has a very effective debate program. The team won the Nationals Debate tournament in Public Forum in 2007, Emory Barkley Forum in Public Forum in 2008, and the Florida State tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate in 2008. - Rogue —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.34.252.55 (talk) 02:28, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Not sure where to add that to the article. Google finds references to the wins, including the national championship last summer, easily enough. So it would be easy to cite. But in the context of being encyclopedic, we probably shouldn't have lists of accomplishments by themselves. See the Stuyvesant High School article for an example of a high school with a lot more content; perhaps move in a direction like that in terms of prose? In that case we should perhaps mention the debate as an academic club or program and perhaps mention the national wins in the same sentence. Will you take a stab at adding it? - Owlmonkey (talk) 07:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I want to revive this post, Ransom has had one of the best debate programs in South Florida. I will be happy to provide all details necessary, but since 2007 the school has won numerous major tournaments in Public Forum including Emory back-to-back years, Crestian multiple times, Blue Key '09, they've had semi-finalists at major tournaments like Glenbrooks and Tournament of Champions, etc. Since 2007 Ransom really has become a national powerhouse in debate — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.60.201.31 (talk) 04:52, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Sixth Grader Jack Davis
I just reverted an inclusion of Jack Davis as a notable alumni, for one because he's not yet an alumni (still a student) and two because there is no wikipedia article about him specifically as notable. But I'm curious what people think about attempting to establish notability for him and creating an article about him. Here are some links to stories about the young man:    I doubt he meets WP:BIO requirements though. Maybe the law if passed could have an article and then he could be mentioned there. Thoughts? - Owlmonkey (talk) 22:53, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

there is no need for this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.2.81.118 (talk) 19:56, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Devi Sridhar
I didn't add the reference initially, but I tend to agree that she is notable simply because of her age as a Rhodes Scholar winner. Not only that, but since leaving ransom she completed an undergraduate degree, then a masters and doctorate in philosophy at Oxford University. She now works as a post doctorate fellow at Oxford and has over twenty publications. This is all before the age of about 22. The following was in the article before it was reverted twice by user who omits any reasoning for removal so far. Any other opinions on this? - Owlmonkey (talk) 19:10, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Devi Sridhar - Youngest American Rhodes Scholar (at age 18) since creation of award.Sridhar bio The Hindu (January 2004) On the road to success The Miami Hurricane Youngest Rhodes scholar on way to success Oxendine Publishing UM student does it all
 * I'm afraid that isn't enough. We've got our own criteria for academics, read them here: WP:ACADEMIC. Why, even I don't qualify for an entry on this article. :-) dougweller (talk) 20:09, 13 November 2008 (UTC) - class of '59
 * Fair enough, I'm probably just star struck. :) And she would likely need to be included on Notable Rhodes Scholars too and meet the editors consensus there. - Owlmonkey (talk) 19:29, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * She's certainly impressive, you could try that article. I've fixed the links, just use open and close square brackets, not ref. It was a boys only school in my time, sigh. dougweller (talk) 19:46, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Coconut Grove vs Miami
The administrator asks what happened In August 2008. At that time Comayagua99 made the exact same change to the article. This discussion then occurred on Comayagua99's and GroveGuy's talk pages:

Coconut Grove is not a city, it's a neighborhood within the City of Miami despite what Ransom Everglade's website says. Look it up! :) --Comayagua99 (talk) 19:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Dear Comayagua99 - I can see by your edits you are interested in the geography of Dade County. Let me tell you a little history. Have a look at this map: [] This shows our county at about the time the school was founded. Of the settlements designated then only three remain today: Hypoluxo, Miami, and Coconut Grove. The school was founded in 1893 as Pine Knot Camp. In 1895, one year before the city of Miami was incorporated, Coconut Grove had the only hotel between Palm Beach and Key West and the first swimming pool and tennis courts in the area; at this time there were about six people in the settlement called Miami. In 1919 the town of Coconut Grove was incorporated. In 1925, fearful that Coral Gables would outgrow it, Miami underhandedly engulfed Coconut Grove, Silver Bluff, and several other neighborhoods. Trivia: streets in the Grove are named the opposite to those in Miami; thus "Grand Avenue" and "Virginia Street". So, although Coconut Grove is legally a part of Miami, we Grovites fiercely defend our separate identity; continue to improve other Wiki areas but please leave Ransom Everglades alone. --GroveGuy (talk) 01:27, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I understand that. Coconut Grove was it's own city before, but not anymore. It's a common misconception to think Coconut Grove is it's own city, when it is just a neighborhood within the City of Miami. "Coconut Grove, Florida" does not exist. "Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida" however, does. --Comayagua99 (talk) 14:14, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Comayagua99 - On my talk page you said that ''"Coconut Grove, Florida" does not exist. "Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida" however, does''. You are WRONG. Go to the post office website: http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp and look up Ransom-Everglades' address: "3575 Main Highway" city:"Coconut Grove" state:"FL". The US government will confirm that "Coconut Grove" exists. And they will confirm that "Coconut Grove, Miami" does NOT exist. --GroveGuy (talk) 23:31, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Again, it's a common misconception to believe Coconut Grove is it's own city. It's a neighborhood within the City of Miami. See: http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/NETS/pages/AboutNET/DistrictMapLarge.asp. Hope that helps clarify things. :) --Comayagua99 (talk) 01:30, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Comayagua99 - This dispute with you is fun. Your citing the City of Miami's NET map bolsters my viewpoint. This is just a map of administrative areas. This means that the Ransom-Everglades page should say "North/East Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida." Try sending some mail to an address in Flagami or Downtown ! Also, you might ponder why there are two NET offices in Coconut Grove. --GroveGuy (talk) 04:19, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

After this back and forth, Comayagua99 let the article remain as Coconut Grove. Also, here is a copy of the title page of a typical yearbook: http://www.grovebook.com/images/Ransom1959.jpg I don't think the distinguished editors had to think twice about the words found here. Further, here is an image of the oldest known promotional brochure: http://www.grovebook.com/images/AFS1904.jpg  Again, no mention of Miami. I think the article should continue as it was before Comayagua99's edit. GroveGuy (talk) 17:58, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I used to live in the Grove and I went to Ransom. The link should go directly to our article - if you want to try to change the namne of the article, you can try. But our readers should not have to go to a link to find out that Coconut Grove is in the City of Miami. Miami calls it 'Miami's Village' (for publicity purposes anyway) . Dougweller (talk) 21:07, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

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Dianthus barbatus

Dianthus barbatus, the sweet William, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to southern Europe and parts of Asia. It has become a popular ornamental garden plant. It is a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant growing to 13–92 cm tall, with flowers in a dense cluster of up to 30 at the top of the stems. Each flower is 2–3 cm diameter with five petals displaying serrated edges. Wild plants produce red flowers with a white base, but colours in cultivars range from white, pink, red, and purple to variegated patterns. The exact origin of its English common name is unknown but first appears in 1596 in botanist John Gerard's garden catalogue. The flowers are edible and may have medicinal properties. Sweet William attracts bees, birds, and butterflies.

Description
Sweet William grows in the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans, with a variety disjunct in northeastern China, Korea, and southeasternmost Russia. It grows to 13–92 cm tall (depending on the variety), with green to glaucous blue-green tapered leaves 4–10 cm long and 1–2 cm broad. The flowers are produced in a dense cluster of up to 30 at the top of the stems (known as an umbel) and have a spicy, clove-like scent; each flower is 2–3 cm diameter with five petals with serrated edges; in wild plants the petals are red with a white base.

There are two varieties:
 * Dianthus barbatus var. barbatus. Southern Europe. Leaves broader, up to 2 cm broad.
 * Dianthus barbatus var. asiaticus Nakai. Northeastern Asia. Leaves slenderer, not over 1 cm broad.

English name

Many legends purport to explain how sweet William acquired its English common name, but none is verified. It is often said to honour the 18th century Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. As a result of the Duke's victory at the Battle of Culloden and his generally brutal treatment of the king's enemies, it is also claimed that the Scots sometimes call the flower "stinking Billy". Though this makes a nice story, it is entirely untrue. The Scots sometimes refer to the noxious ragwort as stinking willy in memory of the infamous Duke. Phillips speculated that the flower was named after Gerard's contemporary, William Shakespeare. It is also said to be named after Saint William of York or after William the Conqueror. Another etymological derivation is that william is a corruption of the French oeillet, meaning both "carnation" and "little eye". Sweet William is a favourite name for lovelorn young men in English folkloric ballads, e.g., "Fair Margaret and Sweet William".

Cultivation and uses
Sweet William is a popular ornamental plant in gardens, with numerous cultivars and hybrids selected for differing flower colour, ranging from white, pink, red, and purple to variegated patterns.

The plant was introduced to northern Europe in the 16th century, and later to North America and elsewhere, and has become locally to widely naturalised in these areas.

John Gerard praises its beauty but omits any reference to medicinal uses. Its height makes it convenient for flower arrangements. In the Victorian language of flowers, sweet william symbolizes gallantry. The plant is widely used in borders, rock gardens and informal country cottage style gardens. Sweet William is a good candidate for a naturalistic garden because its nectar attracts birds, bees, and butterflies. Its flowers are considered edible. Sweet William is a species of Dianthus. It thrives in loamy, slightly alkaline soil with sun to partial shade. Propagation is by seed, cuttings, or division, but seeds of cultivars will not breed true. If it is planted from seed after the last frost, it will flower in the second year. If it is planted in flats before the last frost and then transplanted, it may flower in the first year. Some gardeners recommend deadheading to encourage further flowering. The plant is self-seeding. Sweet William can suffer from Fusarium Wilt which causes the leaves to curl or droop down.

In 1977, the question of possible medical uses was revisited by Cordell. Saponins were found in Sweet William, but there has been little follow-up.

At the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on 29 April 2011, Catherine Middleton included Sweet William in her bouquet, a tribute to her bridegroom.

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ImaginAsian

ImaginAsian Entertainment, Inc was a multimedia company founded by Michael Hong and Augustine Hong and a group of investors that recognized the emerging importance of "all-things Asian." Based in New York City, its main attraction was a television network, iaTV, which premiered in 2004 and which focused on entertainment featuring Korean, Japanese, and South-East Asian content. The channel competed in certain markets with AZN Television until April 2008, when the competing network ceased broadcasting. ImaginAsian itself ceased operations in 2011, selling its channel slot to CJ E&M for broadcast of the world feed of Mnet.

They also operated The ImaginAsian, a renovated movie theater located in Midtown Manhattan that shows only first-run and classic East Asian films, as well as several film festivals per year. The company renovated a second former movie theater in Los Angeles that opened in December 2007, the former Linda Lea Theater, which originally showed Japanese films and served the Little Tokyo area before shuttering in the 1980s.

In addition, past divisions of the company consisted of iaLink, ImaginAsian Entertainment's monthly on-line magazine, which at one point had over ten million subscribers, ImaginAsian Pictures and Home Entertainment, a film and DVD distribution division that released several DVDs of East Asian films and iaTV original shows, and the successful theatrical and DVD release of the Vietnamese American film Journey from the Fall, and iaRadio, a block of radio programming both streamed on-line as well as made available on certain terrestrial stations.

List of corporate affiliates

 * ImaginAsian Entertainment (IAEI) is the corporate parent
 * ImaginAsianTV (iaTV) is the television network
 * ImaginAsian Radio (iaRadio) is a streaming online radio
 * iaLink is an online e-zine
 * The ImaginAsian Theater, a movie theater in New York City which is now owned by Phoenix Theatres
 * ImaginAsian Pictures is for the creation, distribution, and promotion of films
 * ImaginAsian Home Entertainment is the DVD and home video division
 * The ImaginAsian Center is the film/event theatre in the Gallery Row area of Los Angeles, California, which opened on December 1, 2007. The Los Angeles center seems to have stopped operations in October 2008, though its web site (https://web.archive.org/web/20090105222531/http://www.theimaginasian.com/la) is still up.

Television programs
• Asian Charlie's Angels

• All About Eve

• Bare Beauty

• Bloodhound: Vampire Gigolo

• Comedy Zen

• Couple or Trouble

• Explore Asia

• Extreme Gourmet

• Full House

• Finding My America

• High Fly

• It Started With a Kiss

• Jo Jo New York

• "Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot"

• Kikay Machine

• Movies for the ImaginAsian

• Pacific Fusion

• Pancrase: Legends of Mixed Martial Arts

• Party Guide for an Urbanite

• Parental Guidance

• Phoenix

• Princess Hours

• Sidestitch

• Sunflower

• Soulmate

• The Great Horror Family

• Tracking Your X-Boyfriend

• Uncle Morty's Dub Shack

• Valley of Love

• White Blouse

• Winter Sonata

Japanese
• Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales

• Black God: The Animation

• Cat's Eye

• Elemental Gelade

• Figure 17

• Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

• Gravitation

• Hikaru no Go

• Human Crossing

• Initial D

• Jing: King of Bandits

• Kamichu!

• Kiba

• Kino's Journey

• Kurogane Communication

• Kyo Kara Maoh!

• The Law of Ueki

• Mars Daybreak

• My-HiME

• NieA_7

• Nobody's Boy: Remi

• Paradise Kiss

• Pani Poni Dash!

• Scrapped Princess

• Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars

• Super Dimension Century Orguss

• The Twelve Kingdoms

• Wedding Peach

Korean
• Guardian Fairy Michel

• Hermos: The Green Chariot

• Restol SRS

• Spheres

Cable/satellite providers

 * New York, New York – Time Warner Cable Channel 560
 * Hudson Valley, New York – Time Warner Cable Channel 560
 * Los Angeles, California – Time Warner Cable Channel 157
 * Charter Communications Channel 143
 * Champion Broadband Channel 196 (Arcadia, Monrovia and Pasadena)
 * San Francisco, California – Comcast Channel 28
 * Princeton, New Jersey – Patriot Media Channel 149
 * Houston, Texas – Comcast Channel 241
 * TVMax Channel 109
 * Fision Channel 349
 * Dallas, Texas – Time Warner Cable Channel 342
 * Fairfax County, Virginia – Cox Communications Channel 465
 * Hawaii – Oceanic Time Warner Cable Channel 134

Broadcast television stations

 * Edison, New Jersey – WDVB-CA (Formerly W36AS) Channel 39 (Middlesex, Monmouth, Essex and Union Counties)

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WTMX

WTMX (101.9 FM "The Mix") is a hot AC radio station in Chicago, Illinois. Licensed to Skokie, it is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting. WTMX has its studios located at One Prudential Plaza and its transmitter co-located atop Willis Tower (the former Sears Tower).

WTMX broadcasts in the HD digital hybrid format.

WRSV
The station began broadcasting August 18, 1961, and held the call sign WRSV, which stood for "Radio Skokie Valley", its owner at the time. Radio Skokie Valley was owned by M. Earlene Stebbins. The station aired a full service format, with a wide variety of local programs along with classical music and standards.

The station originally broadcast at 98.3 MHz. Its transmitter was located in Skokie, Illinois, and had an ERP of 1,000 watts at a HAAT of 125 feet. The station's frequency resulted in interference problems with 98.7 WFMT. To eliminate this problem, WRSV's frequency was changed to 101.9 MHz in 1966. The frequency became available in 1964, when 101.9 WCLM in Chicago had its license revoked.

In 1969, the station's transmitter was moved to the Civic Opera Building and its ERP was increased to 12,000 watts. In 1970, controlling interest in Radio Skokie Valley was sold to Bonneville International for $479,000.

WCLR
On December 10, 1970, the station's call sign was changed to WCLR, standing for "clear", a theme that was used heavily in its advertising. WCLR aired a beautiful music format through 1975. WCLR played approximately 75% instrumentals, along with contemporary easy listening vocals and a few standards. In 1971, the station's transmitter was moved to the John Hancock Center, and in 1974 its transmitter was moved to the Sears Tower.

In 1975, the station shifted to middle of the road (MOR) format, with an 80/20 vocal to instrumental ratio, in contrast to its previous strong emphasis on instrumental music. The station played a mixture of pop standards, easy listening, and soft rock.

By the early 1980s, WCLR's format had shifted to adult contemporary. The station aired a Saturday night all-request oldies program in the 1980s, hosted by Peter Dean. In the late 1980s, WCLR was branded "Chicago's Lite Rock".

WTMX
On February 21, 1989, the station's call sign was changed to WTMX, and it became known as "The New Mix 102", airing a mix of adult contemporary and oldies. By 1992, the station's format had shifted to hot AC.

In the mid 1990s, the station shifted towards a modern AC/modern rock format, and on January 25, 1996, it adopted the slogan "Today's Rock Mix". By 2006, the station's format shifted to Adult Top 40.

On January 19, 2011, Bonneville International announced the sale of WTMX, as well as 16 other stations, to Hubbard Broadcasting. The sale was completed on April 29, 2011.

From September 1996 until 2017, WTMX was home to the "Eric & Kathy" morning show hosted by Eric Ferguson and Kathy Hart. The show drew consistently strong ratings, and the duo was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2016. In April 2017, Kathy Hart left the program, and on September 7, 2017, Hubbard Radio announced that she would not be returning to the station. Ferguson continued to host mornings, along with Melissa McGurren, Brian "Whip" Paruch, Violeta Podrumedic, Melissa "MelD" Dever, Cynthia DeNicolo and John "Swany" Swanson, and the show was rebranded as "Eric in the Morning with Melissa and Whip". During the COVID-19 pandemic, Melissa "MelD" Dever and Cynthia DeNicolo were laid off from the show. On June 18, 2020, an internal restructure of talent was announced with the Nikki hosting the Midday show, Chris Petlak with Lisa Allen hosting Afternoon MIX, and Jordan "Dash" Orman–Weiss hosting the evening show and THE MIX New Music Club.

On December 16, 2020, after 22 years with WTMX, it was announced that Melissa McGurren had unexpectedly declined a contract extension and departed the station. Ferguson himself would depart the station on October 29, 2021, with him and Hubbard releasing a statement that he and the station agreed that he would depart after allegations of sexual harassment by Ferguson, including McGurren being a constant target of it, began to surface. On January 18, 2022, the station announced that afternoon host Chris Petlak would join Nikki, Whip, Violeta, and Swany as host of "The Morning MIX".

WTMX HD2 was rebroadcast on 103.9 W280EM from December 2014 to September 2016. Initially airing a Christmas music format, it adopted a smooth jazz format branded "103.9 The Groove" on December 26, 2014. W280EM's owner, Windy City Broadcasting, was fined $8,000 in March 2022, following an informal objection filed by Albert David, as its owner had never informed the FCC that the translator had switched from rebroadcasting WTMX-FM HD2 to WLEY-FM HD2 or of it being taken silent in May 2020.

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Brian Daley

Brian Charles Daley (December 22, 1947 – February 11, 1996) was an American science fiction novelist. He also adapted for radio the Star Wars radio dramas and wrote all of its episodes.

Biography
Daley was born in Englewood, New Jersey at Englewood Hospital, to Charles and Myra Daley. He had an older brother, David, and younger sister, Myra. He grew up in Rockleigh, New Jersey and graduated from Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan in 1965. He then joined the army and served a year-long tour of duty in Vietnam.

After the army, he attended Jersey City State College, now New Jersey City University, majoring in media. During this time, he wrote his first novel, The Doomfarers of Coramonde. He went on to write the first Star Wars spin-off novels, The Han Solo Adventures. Han Solo at Stars' End, the first book of the trilogy, was a New York Times bestseller. Daley also adapted the original Star Wars film trilogy as a series of radio dramas for National Public Radio.

Daley also wrote under the pseudonym Jack McKinney with his good friend of 20 years, James Luceno. Together, they wrote over 20 Robotech novels and collaborated on the Black Hole Travel Agency series. Luceno is responsible for editing the 1,600-page manuscript of Daley's GammaLAW quartet, which was published posthumously. Daley and Luceno were also amongst a team of writers for the 1986 television cartoon series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers.

Lucia St. Clair Robson, an author of historical fiction, was Daley's partner of 14 years.

Daley died in Maryland of pancreatic cancer on February 11, 1996, only hours after celebrating the completion of production on the Return of the Jedi radio drama with the cast and crew. The show is dedicated to his memory.

Coramonde

 * The Doomfarers of Coramonde (1977) ISBN 0-345-25708-1
 * The Starfollowers of Coramonde (1979)

The Han Solo Adventures

 * Han Solo at Stars' End (1979)
 * Han Solo's Revenge (1979)
 * Han Solo and the Lost Legacy (1980)

The Adventures of Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh

 * Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds (1985) ISBN 0-345-314-87-5
 * Jinx on a Terran Inheritance (1985) ISBN 0-345-31488-3
 * Fall of the White Ship Avatar (1986) ISBN 0-345-32919-8

Robotech
Written with James Luceno under the shared pseudonym of Jack McKinney.

 * Robotech
 * No. 1 Genesis (1987), ISBN 0-345-34133-3
 * No. 2 Battle Cry (1987), ISBN 0-345-34134-1
 * No. 3 Homecoming (1987)
 * No. 4 Battlehymn (1987), ISBN 0-345-34137-6
 * No. 5 Force of Arms (1987), ISBN 0-345-34138-4
 * No. 6 Doomsday (1987), ISBN 0-345-34139-2
 * No. 7 Southern Cross (1987), ISBN 0-345-34140-6
 * No. 8 Metal Fire (1987), ISBN 0-345-34141-4
 * No. 9 The Final Nightmare (1987), ISBN 0-345-34142-2
 * No. 10 Invid Invasion (1987), ISBN 0-345-34143-0
 * No. 11 Metamorphosis (1987), ISBN 0-345-34144-9
 * No. 12 Symphony of Light (1987), ISBN 0-345-34145-7
 * No. 18 The End of the Circle (1990), ISBN 0-345-36311-6
 * No. 19 The Zentraedi Rebellion (1994), ISBN 0-345-38774-0
 * No. 20 The Masters' Gambit (1995)
 * No. 21 Before the Invid Storm (1996)
 * The Sentinels
 * No. 1 The Devil's Hand (1988), ISBN 0-345-35300-5
 * No. 2 Dark Powers (1988), ISBN 0-345-35301-3
 * No. 3 Death Dance (1988), ISBN 0-345-35302-1
 * No. 4 World Killers (1988), ISBN 0-345-35304-8
 * No. 5 Rubicon (1988), ISBN 0-345-35305-6

Some of the Robotech novels were later republished as compilation editions.

The Black Hole Travel Agency
Written with James Luceno under the shared pseudonym of Jack McKinney.

 * Event Horizon (1991)
 * Artifact of the System (1991)
 * Free Radicals (1992)
 * Hostile Takeover (1994)

NPR dramatizations
Expanded dramatizations of the Star Wars movies for National Public Radio.
 * Star Wars (1981)
 * The Empire Strikes Back (1983)
 * Return of the Jedi (1997)

GammaLAW
Edited by James Luceno, and published posthumously.

 * Smoke on the Water (1997)
 * Screaming Across the Sky (1998)
 * The Broken Country (1998)
 * To Water's End (1999)

Other novels

 * Tron (novelization of the film Tron, 1982)
 * A Tapestry of Magics (1983)
 * Kaduna Memories (written with James Luceno under the shared pseudonym of Jack McKinney, 1990)

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Sanidine

Sanidine is the high temperature form of potassium feldspar with a general formula K(AlSi3O8). Sanidine is found most typically in felsic volcanic rocks such as obsidian, rhyolite and trachyte. Sanidine crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system. Orthoclase is a monoclinic polymorph stable at lower temperatures. At yet lower temperatures, microcline, a triclinic polymorph of potassium feldspar, is stable.

Due to the high temperature and rapid quenching, sanidine can contain more sodium in its structure than the two polymorphs that equilibrated at lower temperatures. Sanidine and high albite constitute a solid solution series with intermediate compositions termed anorthoclase. Exsolution of an albite phase does occur; resulting cryptoperthite can best be observed in electron microprobe images.

Occurrence
In addition to its presence in the groundmass of felsic rocks, sanidine is a common phenocryst in rhyolites and, to a lesser extent, rhyodacites. Trachyte consists largely of fine-grained sanidine.

Fallout ash beds in sedimentary rock of the western United States have been classified in part by whether sanidine phenocrysts are present and, if present, whether they are sodium-enriched. W-type rhyolite ash beds contain sodium-poor sanidine; G-type rhyolite ash beds contain sodium-rich sanidine; and dacite fallout ash beds frequently lack sanidine. Because of their high potassium content, sanidine phenocrysts are also very useful for radiometric dating of rhyolite ash beds by the K–Ar dating method.

Composition
Although the ideal composition of sanidine is 64.76 wt% SiO2, 18.32 wt% AlsO3, and 16.72 wt% K2O, natural sanidine incorporates significant sodium, calcium, and iron(III). Calcium and sodium substitute for potassium (with concurrent substitution of additional aluminum for silicon, in the case of calcium) while ferric iron substitutes for aluminum. A typical natural composition is:

At elevated temperature, a complete solid solution exists between sanidine and albite. Rapid cooling of the sanidine freezes the composition, though most sanidine is cryptoperthitic, showing separate layers of low-sodium sanidine and albite at a sub-micron scale that can be detected only by X-ray crystallography or electron microscope methods.

Order-disorder transitions
The crystal structure of ideal potassium feldspar has four sets of tetrahedral sites, each capable of accepting either an aluminum or a silicon ion. These are labeled the T1o, T1m, T2o, and T2m sites. In sanidine, the aluminum and silicon are distributed randomly among all four sites, and the T1o and T1m are mirror images of each other, as are the T2o and T2m sites. This produces a crystal with monoclinic symmetry. With slow cooling, the aluminum becomes concentrated in the T1 sites but remains randomly distributed between T1o and T1m sites. The resulting orthoclase crystal retains monoclinic symmetry but with different crystal axis lengths. Further cooling causes the aluminum to concentrate in the T1o sites, breaking the monoclinic symmetry and producing triclinic microcline. Each transition requires exchange of ions between tetrahedral sites, which takes place at measurable rates only at high temperature.

Sanidine and genesis of magmas
Pure sanidine melts incongruently at 1150 °C, yielding solid leucite and liquid. A mixture of sanidine with silica in the form of tridymite melts at a eutectic temperature of 990 °C, which defines the "granite" eutectic. The temperature at which granite begins to melt is lowered by several hundred degrees by the presence of water.

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The Morning After (Maureen McGovern song)

"The Morning After" is a song written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn for the 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure, winning Best Original Song at the 45th Academy Awards. Following this success, Maureen McGovern recorded a single version that became a No. 1 hit in the US for two weeks during August 1973, with Gold record sales. Billboard ranked it as the No. 28 song for 1973.

Beginnings
The song was written in March 1972 by 20th Century Fox songwriters Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, who were asked to write the love theme for The Poseidon Adventure in one night. The finished product was called "Why Must There Be a Morning After?" but changes by the record label resulted in the more optimistic lyric "there's got to be a morning after".

In the film the song is performed by the character of Nonnie, played by Carol Lynley, but actually sung by the vocal double Renee Armand. It appears twice: during a warm-up rehearsal and then later during the New Year's Eve party early in the film, before the passengers must escape the sinking wreck. The title appears in the end credits as "The Song from The Poseidon Adventure".

Personnel

 * Maureen McGovern - vocals
 * Joe Hudson - arrangement, conductor
 * Bob Fraser - guitar
 * Bill Severance - drums, percussion


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DeeDee Deluxx

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 06:48, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

DeeDee Deluxx
While I'd love to speedy, she does get nine Google hits and the page is correct about gigantic mammaries. Denni ☯ 02:55, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
 * Gosh, I know this is awful, but Double-D-lete. Not notable. -- BD2412 talk 03:31, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
 * She sounds notable, but not in the wikipedian sense. Delete. DS1953
 * Although there is precedent for articles about big-busted adult entertainers, this one doesn't seem to be, er, big enough. Delete 23skidoo 06:23, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * DeeDee Delete. not notable. Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:30, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd like to vote expand :-) but delete. How does one verify she is the biggest? Double Blue  (Talk) 15:55, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I wouldn't mind verifying! :D --Phroziac 17:48, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .


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Talk:Irony
Apparently the photo, the caption and the accompanying text are not putting across clearly enough what "visual irony" means and why this is a good example of it, or you wouldn't have tried to remove it. Come and discuss why this isn't coming across clearly, so that we can improve the explanation of "visual irony" --Wetman 06:22, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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