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Bruce Weitz

Bruce Peter Weitz (born May 27, 1943) is an American actor known for his role as Sgt. Michael "Mick" Belker in the TV series Hill Street Blues, which ran from 1981 until 1987. For his role in the series, he received six nominations for Emmy Awards and two for Golden Globe Awards, winning the 1984 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Early life
Weitz was born on May 27, 1943, in Norwalk, Connecticut, the son of Sybil (née Rubel), a homemaker, and Joseph Weitz, who owned a liquor store.

Career
Weitz appeared in the films Deep Impact, Half Past Dead and El Cortez. His guest appearances on television include NYPD Blue, Quincy, Midnight Caller, Sisters, Superman: The Animated Series as Bruno Mannheim, JAG, The X-Files, The West Wing, and Highlander: The Series. Weitz portrayed Anthony Zacchara on General Hospital from 2007 to 2012.

Personal life
Weitz married actress Cecilia Hart in 1971; they divorced in 1980. Weitz has been married to Vivian Davis since 1986; they have one son. In 2001, Weitz was named honorary mayor of Reseda, Los Angeles.

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Talk:The gospel

Gospel
This article needs to be merged with Gospel. In fact there is little new content here that is not in the other article.

Peace be with you.--Zeth 00:04, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * [Support] At present, the article Gospel contains little information on "Gospel" besides the literary genre, specific examples of that genre, and canonical issues. The gospel, as Paul means it in his first letter to Corinthians, is not covered by the article Gospel.  If such an article exists (or were to exist) on Wikikpedia, I'd prefer that Good news (religion) redirected there. -Acjelen 00:57, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * [Support] Which is exactly why this article needs to be merged, not redirected. DA3N 16:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Gospel is "top" a top priortiy article for wikiproject Christianity. Good news is "low" and should be merged with gospel. This article is very poor in its present condition. If all the WP:OR were trimmed, there would not be much left. -- Secisek (talk) 22:25, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * How can you possible rate Good news (Christianity) LOW? It really ought to be rate TOP but I can live with HIGH.
 * Good news is Christianity. -- Carlaude (talk) 04:38, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Gospel is "top". Good news is "low" and should be merged with gospel. At present, it is a meandering, uncited theological piece. ECUSA is not even rated for Chirstianity - it high for the Anglicanism project and that project alone. I would mark mid or low for Christianity. If you don't like a rating, re-rate it. -- Secisek (talk) 22:22, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Gospel is "about the literary genre exemplified in the first four books of the New Testament". The Gospel as a literary genre is one meaning of the term "gospel" but it is not as important as the Evangelion of Jesus, which is the orginal use of the term "Gospel".
 * If you think the article is a poor article than reflect that in the rating of quality and not importance.
 * I am glad you are tring to "avoid stepping on toes" but I came to your page because you changed my rating, as soon as I had done it, without a explanation. -- Carlaude (talk) 04:13, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
 * [Support] As for Gospel being "about the literary genre exemplified in the first four books of the New Testament" - the limiting of that article and the existence of this article are violations of Content forking. The two should be merged. Again, when the long In Acts and Broader context in the Bible narrative are removed there isn't much here. Those two sections consist solely of WP:OR with bible citations (a primary source) to "back" the claims up. -- Secisek (talk) 10:10, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * This "Good news (Christianity)" article is in no way about the literary genre.

 * The "Gospel" article could be-- but is not-- about the message of Jesus in any way.

 * There is no content forking. There is really more confussion over how they are different than over them being the same.-- Carlaude (talk) 14:40, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

 * If you think this article is so poor, why don't you improve it first, then merge it with Gospel. -- Carlaude (talk) 14:42, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Why not improve it and then merge it with Law and Gospel, adding it in as section on the Good News?--192.160.64.49 (talk) 01:43, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Jesus, what a mess. Of course this should be merged. There isn't any concept of "gospel" in any religion except Christianity, except to the extent that any religion aims for some converts via a message. — Llywelyn II   12:23, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

What must be done to make this a valid article, or part of one.
WP:V Whether or not this article is merged, the theology presented in it needs to be sourced to a secondary source (i.e. theologians, textbooks) The Bible is a primary source and the view presented needs to be properly attributed and placed into context.

WP:NPOV As phrased, the article is a pretty good Sunday School lesson. That would be perfect on a Church's website, but violates NPOV here. There is nothing about contrasting views either within or outside of the Christian community. Remember that Wikipedia is not the proper place for advocacy of any sort. Robert A.West (Talk) 01:48, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Reply: Dear Robert,
 * Thankyou for your comments above. I will work on referencing to secondary sources over the coming weeks, and I will add a little more on contrasting views within and outside of the Christianity. But for now I will just make them a little more prominent, so do stay tuned.

 * I expanded the article in response to the need, as voiced by Acjelen, above (19 July 2005). It may not be perfect as it stands, but it does fill the above need for such an article, whilst not making any claims that the Christian message of the Good News is true.

 * The article specifically states that the message of the Good News is specifically a Christian message. It does not claim that the Good News is regarded as true by other religions or by a worldwide majority.  In fact, near the end of the article, it states, "As the content of the good news makes claims that Jesus is divine in nature, many people regard it as fictitious, inaccurate or simply irrelevant."  It also mentions that some branches of Christianity interpret the good news differently, "In some branches of the Christian church, the good news is interpreted to be simply a message that God loves humanity and wants people to love one another."  Nor does the article claim that the theological message itself is true.

 * The Wikipedia NPOV guidelines, include the following:
 * "NPOV says that the article should fairly represent all significant viewpoints, in proportion to the prominence of each. Now an important qualification. Articles that compare views need not give minority views as much or as detailed a description as more popular views, and may not include tiny-minority views at all (by example, the article on the Earth only very briefly refers to the Flat Earth theory, a view of a distinct minority). We should not attempt to represent a dispute as if a view held by a small minority deserved as much attention as a majority view, and views that are held by a tiny minority should not be represented except in articles devoted to those views."

 * I believe the article does not conflict with these for the following reasons:
 * 1. The article itself fits into the category in the NPOV guidelines above of "an article devoted to those views [of a minority]"
 * 2. Brief mention is made that some branches of Christianity hold a different view.
 * 3. Brief mention is made that many people regard the message as fictitious, inaccurate or simply irrelevant.
 * 4. It does not claim that the Christian Bible's message is true.
 * Fh1 14:19, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you in advance for doing the work on the sources.

 * I think the NPOV problems start with the title --use of Good News in this way characterizes a particular understanding of and approach to the Bible (viz Good News for Modern Man) which means that the assertion that this is believed by Christians vel non is misleading. And I am not even talking about Bishop Spong and his crew.  Moreover, it really does sound like the title of a Bible study course: "The Good News -- the grand narrative of salvation," and that doesn't help the impression of NPOV.  In contrast, "Biblical Narrative (Christian)" sounds more encyclopedic.  I guess what I am saying is that it would be a great title for EvangeWiki, but it seems out of place here.

 * Another problem is the lengthy unsourced quotation. In addition to being plagiarism (because of the lack of citation) an article that is dominated by one quotation is giving enormous weight to that view, and this is advocacy in effect if not in intention.
 * Hi Robert. Thanks for your helpful comments.  I'm gradually adding a few more links and a bit more on differing views.  Actually, that isn't a quotation, it is the article's own summary of the Good News according to the Bible writers. I have simply organized it chronologically according to generally accepted methods of Biblical Theology (it is in italics to set it apart from the rest of the article, hence it looks like a quotation).  There is necessarily enormous weight to that view because that is what the article is about: explaining what some of the different parts of the Bible and the different biblical authors teach about the Good News.  So I've clarified the title a little.  Yes, every Biblical scholar or Christian teacher would do it slightly differently, but there the main points would be similar.   Actually, in one sense you've hit the hammer right on the head in suggesting it would be a great title for EvangeWiki, as in its original meaning (before modern connotations relating to tele-evangelists etc), "evangelism" meant simply to explain what the Good News (euangelion/evangelion) is.  As the article is about the "Good News", the article _ought_ to be explaining what the Bible authors' teaching of the Good News is.  The difference is that here the article is not claiming the Bible writers are correct, or that the Good News is true: it leaves the reader to decide for himself or herself.  In fact it would be hard to imagine an article on the Good News that didn't try to explain that!  Regards, Fh1 09:31, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that an article on Christian understanding of the overarching narrative (I think the term metanarrative is both a neologism and a misnomer in this context) of the Bible is worthwhile, and I also wonder if this has not been treated elsewhere in Wikipedia. Robert A.West (Talk) 18:01, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Metanarrative is certainly a neologism; the OED cites it, with a hyphen, from 1976. I dislike what Fowler called bastard formations, but it is unneccesary here: a meta-narrative is one that discusses either itself, or the act of storytelling, which the Christian narrative does not - although it can be made to.

 * Any single retelling of the Message is necessarily PoV - other Christians would tell it differently. If the single retelling were the Apostle's Creed, for example, it might be defensible as Fh1 defends this, that nearly everyone agrees with it; but the Creed belongs on wikisource, not here. Septentrionalis 20:04, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, there is an article on the Apostles' Creed and it includes the Greek text.Robert A.West (Talk) 20:29, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * OIC. But that is discussing variations of a liturgical text. This isn't. Septentrionalis 21:37, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * What must be done to make this a valid article would be distinguishing it in some way from Religion or from Gospel. Since that hasn't been done over a span of decades, it should be merged back into Gospel. — Llywelyn II   12:26, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Meaning and Origin of Greek
This article is missing its an important attribute. That is an explanation of what the original Koine Greek word says in Koine Greek. The article tells us how it is translated which is definitely not the same as telling us what the Koine Greek meant. Here are two relevant examples of what is missing:
 * Pentecost (Ancient Greek: πεντηκοστή [ἡμέρα], pentekostē [hēmera], "the fiftieth day")
 * The term "Pentateuch" (Πεντάτευχος, literally "five cases") is a Greek word used to refer to the "Five Books of Moses." The first known use of this term dates to circa 150-175 CE, and it is used by Origen, Athanasius, and Tertullian, among others.
 * The term "Pentateuch" (Πεντάτευχος, literally "five cases") is a Greek word used to refer to the "Five Books of Moses." The first known use of this term dates to circa 150-175 CE, and it is used by Origen, Athanasius, and Tertullian, among others.

Nick Beeson (talk) 10:32, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Members of the Church of Christ denomination appear to have treated this article as their property... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.177.61.210 (talk) 06:36, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 23:21, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Good News (Christianity) → The gospel – "The gospel" on its own, almost always refers to the subject of this page, but "good news" is pretty rarely used. Per WP:THE, "the" is acceptable here because "the gospel" means something different from "a gospel", which usually refers to particular books. It also serves as a NATURAL disambiguator. "Gospel" should not be capitalized in this usage (see this, this, and this). JFH (talk) 20:37, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. Please note the current requested move Gospel → Gospels at Talk:Gospel/Archive 3. tahc chat''' 21:54, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I also prefer to "The Gospel" but "The gospel" is still better than no change. tahc chat 00:08, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Besides being contrary to common usage, what justification would you give under MOS:CAPS? --JFH (talk) 02:54, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

 * Support but preferably to The Gospel as per a slight preference in printed sources ; in my experience as well it is usually treated as a proper noun (and indeed currently is at this article, as well!). Red Slash 00:47, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
 * In the sources I gave, it's capitalized when it's a particular Gospel but not just the gospel, which is our subject. I think your ngram is probably picking up a lot of the Gospel according tos and Gospel ofs. Here's an attempt at a better ngram. --JFH (talk) 01:06, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, after thinking about it some more I think you're actually right. I no longer prefer the capitalized version and would prefer The gospel. Red Slash 02:11, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

 * Comment a related move request is occurring at Talk:Gospel/Archive 3 -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 03:36, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment. My personal preference would be to move this over the redirect at Evangelium to avoid confusion with Gospel (which I think is correctly titled), or perhaps to use the title Gospel (evangelium) for disambiguation. Between the current title and The gospel I'm on the fence; I don't consider either to be entirely satisfactory. Deor (talk) 16:11, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but WP:COMMONNAME would pretty much put the kibosh on that title (Evangelium). And no disambiguation necessary, really. Red Slash 01:49, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Evangelium isn't a disambiguator anyway, because the books are just as much evangelia and the gospel itself. If "the gospel" is too ambiguous I would reccomend Gospel of Jesus Christ. --JFH (talk) 14:00, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Support move to The Gospel per WP:COMMONNAME. "Good News" is not the common term in most mainstream churches. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:17, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment, if this gets moved to The Gospel it's going to be an outlier. Capitalization of "gospel" is almost always reserved for particular books, and I don't see any justification in MOS:CAPS for capitalizing here. --JFH (talk) 13:04, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
 * This Bible verse shows the word is not capitalized by mainstream translations. --JFH (talk) 16:39, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Evangel
Leaving aside the mess from having forked this in the first place and then moving it to such a bad/misformatted title, currently "Evangel" redirects here. Evangel can be the Evangelium, but more often it's the specific separate gospels or, still more often, the saints who wrote them. — Llywelyn II   12:32, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

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Yasuní National Park

Yasuní National Park (Parque Nacional Yasuní) is a protected area comprising roughly 10000 km2 between the Napo and Curaray Rivers in Pastaza and Orellana Provinces within Amazonian Ecuador. The national park lies within the Napo moist forests ecoregion and is primarily rain forest. The park is about 250 km from Quito and was designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve along with the adjacent Waorani Ethnic Reserve in 1989. It is within the ancestral territory of the Huaorani indigenous people. Yasuní is also home to two uncontacted indigenous tribes, the Tagaeri and the Taromenane. Many indigenous people use the riverways within the park as a main mode of travel. Several waterways in the area are tributaries that lead into the Amazon River, including blackwater rivers high in tannins boasting vastly different floral composition than the main riverways. The spine-covered palm, Bactris riparia, and aquatic plant Montrichardia linifera typically line the edges of these slow moving rivers, often referred to as Igapós.

The park contains an estimated 1.7 billion barrels of crude oil – 40 percent of Ecuador's reserves. Plans to extract this oil were met with resistance from Indigenous people, and criticised by scientists. In 2007, president Rafael Correa launched the Yasuní-ITT Initiative in an effort to protect the park's natural resources. The initiative promised to protect the park's biodiversity in exchange for compensation from the international community, but the effort did not raise enough money. Oil extraction began in 2016 and was expanded in 2019.

In August 2023, a referendum on oil exploration in the national park passed, requiring a halt to oil drilling in the national park.

Biodiversity
Yasuní National Park (YNP) is arguably the most biologically diverse spot on Earth and a convergence point for three unique regions, the Equator, Andes Mountains, and the Amazon rainforest. The park is at the center of a small zone where amphibian, bird, mammal, and vascular plant diversity all reach their maximum levels within the western hemisphere. Moreover, the park breaks world records for local-scale (less than 100 km2) tree, amphibian, and bat species richness, and is one of the richest spots in the world for birds and mammals at local scales as well. The park also harbors a lot of amphibian diversity compared to other sites sampled in the western Amazon. Reptile species in the park are also very high in diversity with 121 documented species found. In spite of covering less than 0.15% of the Amazon Basin, Yasuní is home to approximately one-third of amphibian and reptile species. The park also harbors high levels of fish diversity with 382 known species. Yasuní is also home to at least 596 bird species which comprises one-third of the total native bird species for the Amazon. The park is also rich in species of bats. On a regional scale, the Amazon Basin has an estimated 117 bat species, but on a local scale, Yasuní is estimated to have comparable richness. In a single hectare, Yasuní has over 100,000 different species of insects which is roughly the amount of insect species that can be found in all of North America. The park also boasts one of the world's richest levels of vascular plants. It is one of nine places in the world that has over 4,000 vascular plant species per 10000 km2. The park contains many species of trees and shrubs and holds at least four world records for documented tree and liana richness as well as three world records for diversity in woody plant species. The park also hosts a list endemic species such as 43 different species of vertebrates and 220–720 different plant species. Moreover, the park breaks world records for local-scale (less than 100 km2) tree, amphibian, and bat species richness, and is one of the richest spots in the world for birds and mammals at local scales as well. Within the northwest region of the park is a Forest Dynamics Plot, a 50 hectare research plot created in 1995 by a collaboration between Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador (PUCE), the Aarhus University in Denmark, and ForestGEO-STRI.

Mammals
Many types of mammals live within the national park both in water, on land, and in the air. Pteronura brasiliensis, commonly known as the giant otter, an endangered species endemic to rivers in and surrounding the national park, are forced to adjust to constant seasonal changes in water levels that concurrently alter food availability. A species of bat, Lophostoma yasuní, is endemic to the park, and the Amazon Basin has an estimated 117 bat species, but on a local scale, Yasuní is estimated to have comparable richness. Many species of monkey spend their lives coexisting among the tops of the canopy, including the Eastern Ecuadorian squirrel monkey (Saimiri cassiquiarensis macrodon) and Humboldt's squirrel monkey (Saimiri cassiquiarensis), pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea), Ecuadorian white-fronted capuchin (Cebus aequatorialis), Red-crowned Titi (Plecturocebus discolor), Napo saki (Pithecia napensis), Colombian red howler (Alouatta seniculus), white-bellied spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth), and brown woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha). These creatures are key components to many trophic levels of the ecosystem as they serve as seed dispersers and remove insects from plants for nourishment.

Herpetofauna

In spite of covering less than 0.15% of the Amazon Basin, Yasuní is home to approximately one-third of the amphibian and reptile species. The park holds a world record 150 amphibian species for places with comparable landscapes, and high amphibian diversity compared to other sites sampled in the western Amazon. Treefrog Osteocephalus Yasuní is named after the park. Reptile species in the park are also very high with 121 documented species found.

Fish
The park harbors high levels of fish diversity, boasting an estimated 500 species. However, this may be an underestimate of the amount of species actually present due to cryptic diversity, differences not easily seen morphologically but revealed using DNA studies, amongst species. The diversity of fish species in this region is influenced by seasonality and habitat, which is important for consideration when trying to capture the breadth of species encompassed in the waterways.

Birds

Yasuní is also home to at least 596 bird species which comprises one-third of the total native bird species for the Amazon. According to a field guide composed by PUCE, the area surrounding the Yasuní Scientific Research Station contain a large diversity of bird species including various predatory birds like falcons, hawks, and eagles and other birds such as macaws, antwrens, manakins, thrushes, and many other species. The diverse levels of canopy available have supported many different lifestyles for birds, including pollinators like hummingbirds who can often share close relation with certain plant groups.

Insects
This national park hosts very high levels of insect diversity and insect–plant mutualisms. In a single hectare, Yasuní has over 100,000 different species of insects which is roughly the amount of insect species that can be found in all of North America.

Plant Diversity
The park also boasts one of the world's richest levels of vascular plants. It is one of nine places in the world that has over 4,000 vascular plant species per 10,000 km2. The park contains many species of trees and shrubs and holds at least four world records for documented tree and liana richness as well as three world records for diversity in woody plant species. Several recent book publications in coordination with PUCE have provided comprehensive information about plant species within the Yasuní region, one of which details 337 plants, predominantly trees, endemic to the Yasuní Region. The park also hosts a list endemic species such as 43 different species of vertebrates and 220–720 different plant species.

Oil reserves
Yasuní National Park contains an estimated 1.7 billion barrels of crude oil – 40 percent of Ecuador's reserves – in the Ishpingo-Tiputini-Tambococha (ITT) oil fields. Oil exploration in the park began in 1995. In 2005, plans for additional oil roads into the park prompted environmentalists and scientists such as Jane Goodall, E.O. Wilson, and Stuart Pimm to urge the government to leave the resources untapped. Indigenous people and environmentalists called for a national referendum on the issue.

In response, President Rafael Correa launched the Yasuní-ITT Initiative to protect the park's natural resources in June 2007. The initiative promised to leave the park undisturbed in exchange for compensation from the international community. The government hoped to raise 50 percent of the value of the oil reserves, amounting to US$3.6 billion over 12 years. By 2009 pledges of support from around the world came to around $1.7 billion. Not drilling in the park would prevent 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the air, officials said. At the time, the plan was hailed by environmentalists as a precedent setting decision that would reduce the burden of environmental preservation on the world's poorer countries.

Actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Edward Norton, filmmaker and global ecological activist/scientist Michael Charles Tobias, and former Vice President of the United States Al Gore were among those who pledged support to the Ecuadorian government. Countries contributing funds included Turkey, Chile, Colombia, Georgia, Australia, Spain and Belgium. However, fundraising efforts were inhibited by Correa's insistence that Ecuador alone would decide how the funds would be spent.

In July 2013, Correa formed a commission to evaluate the Yasuní-ITT initiative's progress to date. The commission concluded that the economic results were not sufficient. On August 15, Correa scrapped the plan citing poor follow-through from the international community. "The world has failed us", he said, calling the world's richest countries hypocrites who emit most of the world's greenhouse gases while expecting nations like his to sacrifice economic progress for the environment. Through an executive order, he liquidated the Yasuní-ITT trust fund formally ending the initiative. Correa said that only US$336 million had been pledged, (in contrast to the $1.6 billion stated in the report cited above), and of that only US$13.3 million had actually been delivered.

Correa also said he had commissioned economic, legal, and technical studies on drilling in the region in preparation for the National Assembly formally opening the park to drilling. He said expanding Ecuador's oil production was essential to furthering his economic projects that won him widespread support among the nation's poor. He said the drilling would affect only 1% of the Yasuní basin. A spokesperson said the drilling could be conducted without damaging the environment. Environmentalists strongly objected to opening the park to oil exploration. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the presidential palace after Correa's announcement. The money pledged insured that it would be possible to fund the initiative, with support from the international community. Oil production accounts for one-third of Ecuador's national budget.

Oil drilling began in the park in 2016, and in 2019 President Lenín Moreno expanded the drilling area into the buffer zone intended to protect Indigenous communities.

2023 Ecuadorian Yasuní National Park oil exploitation referendum
A referendum on banning oil exploitation in Yasuní National Park was held in Ecuador on 20 August 2023 alongside general elections. If the proposal was accepted, a progressive withdrawal of all activities related to oil extraction would occur within one year from the announcement of the official results, and the state would not be able to take action intending to initiate new contracts to continue oil exploration in the block. The referendum was a popular initiative demanded by indigenous communities for more than ten years before being finally validated by the Constitutional Court in May 2023.

The proposal was approved. The choice was seen as a blow to President Guillermo Lasso, who had advocated for drilling. State oil company Petroecuador will have to dismantle its drilling operations in the area in the coming months.

Other threats to the park
Colonization, deforestation, illegal logging, and unsustainable hunting are affecting the park at present.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/BWLight

Wall-mounted light with shadows
I have always really liked this picture and wanted to add it to the shadows page, but that article already has many pictures of shadows. Recently I went to the lighting page and thought it would be an eye-catching addition. This is a self-nomination, as this is a picture I shot and uploaded.
 * Nominate and support. - Semiconscious  ( talk  · home) 00:06, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Nice picture! However, one problem is that one of the stated criteria is that a featured picture should add significantly to the information in an article. This might not really fit that criteria. Thus, the nomination might be more appropriate for the Wikimedia commons featured picture. Purkinje 01:54, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * That was my fear. I believe this photo would be a great picture for the shadows page, but there are several photos of shadows on there already. If people think this is worthy as a featured picture, but feel that in order to meet the criteria for article relevence it should go somewhere else, I am open to suggestions. Semiconscious  ( talk  · home) 08:38, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree, this looks like one for the Commons. But my, how that lighting article could use some better illustrations. -- Solipsist 19:21, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment, this might sound dumb, but look at the black box in the centre and then scroll up and down the image (you'll need full res), the light beams appear to be moving. Is that what it illustrates? --Fir0002 09:59, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

2/6/0 Jtkiefer  T - 02:26, August 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * This might be some type of center-surround type optical illusion. If someone writes and article about higher visual processing, this picture could definitely be featured. Purkinje 00:50, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * What about placing the picture in the article Optical illusion. With the revolation that the light seems to be moving when viewed at max res, this picture would add signifigantly to the article. Would that work? TomStar81 01:29, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The pic has a nice geometry, but there is not really much to see or recognize -- Chris 73 Talk 22:48, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose - doesn't seem to illustrate anything. It's not an illustrative shadow pic nor a clear lighting pic, although simply as a photo I like it a lot. But sadly not FPC material - Adrian Pingstone 08:37, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Hard to tell what it is. Enochlau 11:31, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose --ScottyBoy900Q ∞ 20:34, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose -- Longhair | Talk 05:11, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose in the words of Enochlau: "Hard to tell what it is." Ahkayah cuarenta y siete 21:30, 31 July 2005 (UTC)


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User talk:Leeroy Jenkins

Your changes to World of Warcraft
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Innes Road

Innes Road (Ottawa Road #30) is one of the most important corridors in the east end of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, running through the former cities of Gloucester and Cumberland. It is the main route serving Blackburn Hamlet and south Orléans, as well as several industrial and commercial areas in east Ottawa.

Features
The western section from St. Laurent Boulevard to Cyrville Road is a four-lane principal arterial road that primarily runs through industrial and light commercial areas with partial access control, although with an 80 km/h speed limit. Some residential frontage and considerable commercial frontage exists in the fairly congested section east of Highway 417, where Innes widens to six lanes up to Blackburn Hamlet and then becomes a divided four-lane road. The Canadian Conservation Institute is located in this section.

Innes splits in Blackburn Hamlet; The original alignment runs through the community as an undivided road with a lower speed limit of 50 km/h. The 3.3 km long Blackburn Hamlet Bypass (Ottawa Road 128) was built in the late 1980s; it is a divided expressway around Blackburn Hamlet maintaining 80 km/h, greatly speeding up the commute to Orléans.

Once in Orléans, Innes once again becomes a commercial/mixed frontage principal arterial road. This segment was widened from two to four lanes in the mid 2000s due to the urban sprawl of south Orléans. The most congested section is at Tenth Line Road, which has become the second commercial hub of Orléans (after Place d'Orléans). The speed limit through Orléans is 60 km/h although during the construction project it was reduced mostly to 50 km/h.

Once clear of Orléans (east of Frank Kenny Road), Innes becomes a rural road.

History
Innes Road, originally called the 3rd Line, was completed as a link between the communities of Blackburn and Cyrville in 1878. When the western portion of the road was widened and realigned in the 1980s, much of it ran north of, and parallel to, the original roadway. Part of the original road that still survives as Old Innes Road and Windmill Lane, and runs to Ritchie’s Feed and Seed Store and past other businesses.

Name origin
In 1960, the road was named after John Innes, who was Reeve of the Township of Gloucester from 1931 to 1939. Innes owned a dairy and mixed farm close to the present day intersection of Innes and Bantree Street. He was son to Alexander and Margaret Innes, originally of Aberdeen, Scotland.

A monument to John Innes was erected at the corner of Russell Road and Walkley Road in 1941, but was not maintained and it was removed when Gloucester was amalgamated into Ottawa. In Fall 2013, a new cairn with a commemorative plaque was placed in front of Gloucester Hall on Bank Street.

Major intersections

 * Ottawa Road 26 (St. Laurent Boulevard) (where it becomes Industrial Avenue)
 * Highway 417
 * Ottawa Road 128 (Cyrville Road)
 * Ottawa Road 27 (Blair Road)
 * Ottawa Road 27 (Anderson Rd)
 * Ottawa Road 30 (Blackburn Hamlet Bypass)
 * Ottawa Road 28 (Bearbrook Road)
 * Ottawa Road 30 (Blackburn Hamlet Bypass)
 * Ottawa Road 56 (Orléans Boulevard)
 * Ottawa Road 55 (Jeanne d'Arc Boulevard) & Ottawa Road 41 (Mer Bleue Road)
 * Ottawa Road 47 (Tenth Line Road)
 * Ottawa Road 57 (Trim Road)
 * Ottawa Road 33 (Frank Kenny Road)
 * Ottawa Road 35 (Dunning Road)

Communities

 * Cyrville
 * Pineview (http://www.pineviewottawa.com/)
 * Blackburn Hamlet
 * Chapel Hill (North and South)
 * Mer Bleue
 * Fallingbrook
 * Avalon
 * Notting Gate
 * Orleans
 * Gloucester

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User:Antaeus Feldspar/ApprovalWiki

To start: I am not suggesting that the wiki design I am about to propose should or must replace the current conventional wiki design used by Wikipedia. However, observations of how the current design works and sometimes fails to work has inspired an idea for a new design, the ApprovalWiki.

The ApprovalWiki differs from the standard wiki design in how it determines the "default content" of the page. The standard wiki design has a built-in policy that the last saved version of the page will be the version seen by all successive visitors, until a new version is saved over it. This enables vandalism and revert wars, and though measures exist to deal with both, they remain a nuisance and a problem.

The ApprovalWiki, on the other hand, solicits votes from its editors. Each editor is asked, for each version of the page, whether they Approve, Disapprove, or are Neutral on it. Each editor can also designate a single version of the page as their Preferred version; i.e., the one they think is the best so far. The ApprovalWiki then selects its default page version to present based on which page has received the highest percentage of Approve votes and Preferred votes. The Procrastinator 01:27, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * A *huge* problem like this would be that vandals would form leagues in where 4 random vandals would each edit a page before vandalising it, thereby getting a significant vote base for most articles (with average of 10 edits). Doing this once, they could effectively hostily takeover vast sections of a particular subject to a point that administrators would have to fix the mess. — HopeSeekr of xMule (Talk) 18:13, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * This is true, that vandals would band together and try to outvote the good editors to make a vandalized version to be the default. But I view this as an improvement over the current system, where all a vandal or a POV-pusher needs to do to make a vandalized version the default is just to sneak in at an unguarded moment. -- Antaeus Feldspar 23:30, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I believe Jimbo walles states that within some months this year the wikipedia 1.0 version will be published ,rendering wikipedia's articles a more stable form ,and rechecking the article(voting on it..) once a year or so.
 * Seems like you would often run into the problem that by the time you garnered enough votes for one version, another version would already be vieing for votes. Especially on articles that changed frequently, like Current Events. -- Yeago 02:46, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

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WLUK-TV

WLUK-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Suring-licensed CW affiliate WCWF (channel 14). The two stations share studios on Lombardi Avenue (US 41) on the line between Green Bay and Ashwaubenon; WLUK-TV's transmitter is located on Scray Hill in Ledgeview.

Early years with NBC and ABC
WMBV-TV, licensed to Marinette, Wisconsin (the callsign stood for "Marinette, Bay, Valley"), was approved for VHF channel 11 on November 18, 1953. M & M Broadcasting Company, owned by William Walker, announced the license grant after settling with a competing company for the rights to the license. An affiliation with NBC was confirmed on March 9, 1954. WMBV-TV signed on the air on September 11, 1954. Walker sold the station to Morgan Murphy Stations in 1958.

1959 saw several changes for the station. On February 1, WMBV swapped affiliations with WFRV-TV (channel 5), becoming an ABC affiliate. The station changed its city of license to Green Bay and on August 22, 1959, changed its call sign to the current WLUK-TV (in reference to its then on-air slogan "Lucky 11"), when it began broadcasting at full power from a new tower near Green Bay. WLUK first broadcast network programs in color in 1959 and local programs began to be broadcast in color starting in 1965. Morgan Murphy then sold WLUK to Post Corporation (a small media chain not affiliated with The Washington Post Company or its Post-Newsweek Stations division), whose properties included the Post-Crescent newspaper in nearby Appleton and a sister station in Marquette, Michigan, WLUC-TV. in 1965. In 1966, WLUK built a new studio and office building on Highland Avenue, which would eventually become Lombardi Avenue in 1968 after Vince Lombardi resigned his head coaching duties with the Green Bay Packers. It aired some local entertainment programs, including a Saturday night polka show and a daily children's cartoon show using the franchised Bozo the Clown character.

On April 18, 1983, WLUK reclaimed the market's NBC affiliation, when WFRV switched to ABC. In 1984, Racine native George N. Gillett's Gillett Broadcasting purchased Post Corporation. Gillett in turn sold the station to Burnham Broadcasting later that year, as the company's first television acquisition, in order to purchase the KKR stations (which included future fellow Fox station WITI in Milwaukee; WLUK was indeed sold due to adjacent market ownership regulations at the time by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)). For most of its second stint with NBC, WLUK largely downplayed its affiliation, even during the network's powerhouse days of the 1980s; it used the NBC Peacock only sparingly in the station's advertisements.

Fox affiliate
On July 29, 1994, Burnham Broadcasting sold WLUK-TV to SF Broadcasting – a joint venture of Savoy Communications and the Fox Broadcasting Company, then a division of News Corporation – for $38 million; the company later sold three of its other four stations (KHON-TV in Honolulu, WVUE in New Orleans and WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama) for $229 million on August 25 (a fifth Burnham station, KBAK-TV in Bakersfield, California, was excluded from the deal and was instead spun off to Westwind Communications, a new company that was formed by several former Burnham executives). As a result of the deal, SF Broadcasting announced that the four stations would become Fox affiliates; both Savoy and Fox shared ownership with Fox originally choosing to hold voting stock, ultimately opting not to retain it prior to the closure of the sale of the stations. The purchase was challenged by NBC, which filed a petition with the FCC on September 23, 1994, alleging that News Corporation had improperly set up a shell corporation to circumvent FCC limits on the amount of monetary capital that a foreign company is allowed to invest in an American television station in order to gain control of WLUK. NBC later withdrew its petition against the acquisition on February 17, 1995. The FCC approved the WLUK purchase on April 27, 1995.

WLUK became a Fox affiliate on August 28, 1995, swapping affiliations with WGBA-TV (channel 26), which had acquired the Fox affiliation three years earlier after WXGZ-TV (channel 32, now WACY-TV) shut down due to financial issues. Like most former "Big Three" network affiliates that switched to Fox during that time, WLUK picked up almost no syndicated programming from WGBA, though it was unnecessary because of WGBA's local marketing agreement with WACY-TV; WGBA's programming largely moved to that station instead. The final NBC program to air on WLUK was a repeat of the NBC Sunday Night at the Movies feature Wayne's World at 8 p.m. on August 27, 1995.

Because of Fox's 1994 acquisition of television rights to the NFL's National Football Conference, the switch made WLUK the unofficial "home" station of the Green Bay Packers after years on WBAY (and two years on WFRV), which became a major ratings draw (during the 1994 season, WGBA was the station of record for the Packers). Unlike the New World Communications stations that converted to Fox affiliates, WLUK carried Fox Kids programming, running it one hour earlier on weekday afternoons from 1 to 4 p.m. The station ran Fox Kids until the weekday block ended in December 2001 (when it had been pushed back to as early as 10 a.m.), and its successor Saturday morning children's blocks known as Fox Box and later 4KidsTV until the latter block ended nationally in December 2008, when 4Kids Entertainment and Fox parted ways due to a contract dispute. By the time 4Kids TV ended its run, Fox permanently discontinued providing network-supplied children's programming, replacing it with the infomercial block Weekend Marketplace.

Since channel 11 joined Fox, Packer football games have routinely drawn an 80% share of the viewing audience – far and away the highest-rated programs in the market, and through Fox's NFL rights deal, the station has broadcast two of the three Super Bowl games the Packers have appeared in, both victories, since 1994; Super Bowls XXXI and XLV, both by far the highest-rated programs in the Green Bay market's history.

On November 28, 1995, Silver King Communications (operated by former Fox executive Barry Diller) announced that it would acquire Savoy Pictures; at the time of the purchase, Silver King's existing stations had mainly been affiliates of the Home Shopping Network (both Silver King and HSN were later acquired by USA Networks). The sale of WVUE and the other SF stations was approved and finalized in March 1996, with its other assets being merged into the company that November. On April 1, 1997, Silver King subsequently sold the station, along with sisters WVUE, KHON and WALA to Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications for $307 million in cash and stock, as part of a sale of Silver King/USA's major network affiliates in order to concentrate on its formerly HSN-affiliated independent stations.

LIN Media ownership
On May 15, 2005, Emmis Communications announced that it would sell its 16 television stations, including WLUK-TV, in order to concentrate on its radio station properties. On August 22, LIN TV Corporation purchased WLUK in a $260 million deal that included WALA-TV and sister station WBPG in Mobile; WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana, and KRQE-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the sale closed on December 1, 2005.

On June 4, 2010, LIN TV entered into shared services and local sales agreements to operate CW affiliate WIWB (channel 14, now WCWF) as part of a deal involving LIN and ACME Communications-owned stations in markets where both companies owned stations. WLUK began to provide technical, engineering, promotional, administrative and other operational support services for WIWB, with advertising sales services under a related but separate joint sales agreement. That station moved its operations into WLUK's studios that August. LIN would purchase WCWF outright in April 2011, under a failing station waiver (an indication that the station was in an economically non-viable position, which permitted a duopoly even though Green Bay has only seven full-power stations, one fewer than that required by FCC rules to legally permit a duopoly between WLUK and WCWF if both were economically viable), creating the Green Bay market's first legal television station duopoly.

Sinclair Broadcast Group ownership
On March 21, 2014, LIN Media entered into an agreement to merge with Media General in a $1.6 billion deal. Because, at the time, Media General owned ABC affiliate WBAY-TV (which Media General acquired in 2013 as part of its merger with Young Broadcasting), and since WBAY and WLUK rank among the four highest-rated stations in the Green Bay market in total day viewership, the companies were required to sell either WBAY or the WLUK/WCWF duopoly to another station owner in order to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as planned changes to those rules regarding same-market television stations which would prohibit sharing agreements. To settle the situation, Media General announced on August 20, 2014, that it would keep WBAY, choosing to sell WLUK and WCWF to the Sinclair Broadcast Group as part of a multi-market deal (Sinclair would also acquire WJAR in Providence and WTGS in Savannah, while Media General would acquire Sinclair's WTTA in Tampa, WHTM in Harrisburg (which Sinclair, on behalf of Allbritton is planning on to divest) and KXRM-TV/KXTU-LD in Colorado Springs). WHTM's sale of Media General was explored nearly two months earlier, and it was completed, nearly three months before the Media General/LIN deal was completed.

Sinclair's acquisitions of WLUK and WCWF were completed on December 19, 2014, and expanded the company's presence in Wisconsin, as it already owned Fox affiliate WMSN-TV in Madison and the Milwaukee duopoly of CW affiliate WVTV and MyNetworkTV affiliate WCGV-TV. The deal also placed WLUK back under common ownership with dual NBC/Fox affiliate WLUC-TV in Marquette, which Sinclair acquired in 2013 (both WLUK and WLUC shared common ownership from 1963 to 1987 under Post and Gillett), though this reunion was a brief one, as on October 1, 2015, Sinclair struck a deal to sell WLUC to Gray Television in exchange for CBS affiliate WSBT in South Bend, Indiana, as part of station divestitures that Gray instituted in order to receive regulatory approval of its acquisition of the television stations operated by the latter station's longtime owner, Schurz Communications. That deal closed on February 16, 2016, separating the two stations once again. WLUC then became a sister station to another Green Bay station, WBAY-TV in January 2017 as the result of another divestiture required by the FCC in the Nexstar/Media General merger which required the selling of WBAY-TV to Gray.

On July 6, 2016, Sinclair and WLUK announced they had placed the winning bid with ESPN for the local syndication of that cable network's Monday Night Football games with the Packers for multiple years; the agreement would have also included the 2016 preseason Pro Football Hall of Fame Game on August 7, a day after Brett Favre's induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (this was due to regular rights carrier NBC passing the game to ESPN due to the 2016 Summer Olympics; the game was canceled an hour before kickoff due to poor field conditions). With Fox's acquisition of Thursday Night Football rights through the 2021 season, this assured WLUK a minimum of ten Packers games per season, barring any NBC or CBS cross-flexing.

Programming
From 1969 until 1972 when WPNE-TV (channel 38) launched, the NET/PBS show Sesame Street was broadcast on WLUK in the morning hours due to the lack of a public television station in the Green Bay area.

A longtime staple on WLUK's daily schedule was reruns of the NBC drama Little House on the Prairie; the station was one of the few in the nation to count Little House towards its fulfillment of educational and informational content obligations for young audiences, citing in part the series' inspiration from the Little House children's book series authored by state native Laura Ingalls Wilder. Little House was dropped from WLUK's daily schedule in September 2013, in part to make room for the new acquisition Live!. For that year, it purchased syndicated E/I programming on a barter basis for weekend airings to fulfill E/I requirements, which was reduced to an hour in mid-September 2014 as WLUK took the Fox-offered E/I block Xploration Station, which features two hours of compliant programming (as such, it was the first Fox affiliate owned-and/or-operated by Sinclair that carried the block, as the group's other Fox stations at the time carried E/I programs through existing contracts with syndicators of educational program content instead; the remainder of Sinclair's Fox-affiliated stations began carrying the Xploration Station block in September 2016 ).

Since becoming a Fox affiliate in 1995, WLUK has featured an extensive amount of local news coverage (see below). Local non-news programming includes Living with Amy, which debuted in September 2008 and currently airs in the 10 a.m. weekday time slot; hosted by former Good Day Wisconsin anchor Amy Hanten, Living features lifestyle, cooking, and paid business spotlight segments, with the cooking segments mainly sponsored by Kroger's Pick 'n Save and Copps stores (previously sponsored by Festival Foods), which has made a recipe compilation book featuring previous Living with Amy recipes available in-store.

During the Green Bay Packers season, WLUK airs an assortment of Packers-related programming, including Inside the Huddle, which offers previews, reviews, and analysis of Packer games on Sunday mornings and Monday evenings, as well as extended newscasts with training camp coverage. Also airing during the Packers season is The Better Half; hosted by Rachel Manek and airing Friday mornings at 10 a.m., the show features interviews, discussions, and advice from wives and girlfriends of Packers players and coaches. Wheel of Fortune is moved back an hour on nights when WLUK carries Thursday Night Football from Fox or a Monday Night Football game to lower schedule disruption.

News operation
WLUK-TV presently broadcasts 43 hours of local newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday and four hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among the Green Bay market's broadcast television stations and the second-highest among Wisconsin's television stations (behind fellow Fox affiliate WITI in Milwaukee, which carries 56 hours each week).

In addition to its main facilities, the station operates a Valley Newsroom on West College Avenue in Appleton along US 41. The station has its own weather radar, known as "Fox 11 StormTrackerX", at its main studios on Lombardi Avenue. The station also maintains a tower camera on its Doppler tower known as the "Lambeau Cam" which is mainly pointed in the direction of Lambeau Field.

The station dropped its nightly newscast in 1967 and did not resume regular local news broadcasts until 1971. However, WLUK did occasionally run documentaries and sports programs to fulfill FCC public service regulations as well as a weekly commentary by Appleton Post-Crescent editor John Torinus. After gaining the Fox affiliation in August 1995, this station expanded its local news offerings: in its first year with the network, local news ran on weekdays from 6 to 8 a.m. (the morning newscast being extended by one hour and syndicated programming filling the 8 a.m. hour to fill timeslots vacated by the departure of Today), 5 to 6:30 p.m. (with a half-hour added at 5:30 p.m. to fill the timeslot vacated by the departure of NBC Nightly News), and 9 to 10:30 p.m. The 10 p.m. newscast was eventually dropped by the early 2000s and replaced with syndicated programming, with the 6 p.m. show ended in 2005 when the station acquired the Sony game show rights, while the morning newscast expanded over time to four hours; additional morning newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays were added later in the 2000s. WLUK returned to airing a 10 p.m. newscast on September 21, 2015.

In 2007 (during Fox's coverage of the Major League Baseball League Championship Series), WLUK's 9 p.m. newscast began to air over a leased access channel on Time Warner Cable on nights in which Fox broadcasts sports programming or movies during the prime time hours that run into the 9 p.m. timeslot on channel 11; WCWF took over carriage of the preempted/delayed 9 p.m. newscasts in October 2010, as a result of the SSA between WCWF and WLUK. On June 5, 2007, WLUK replaced WGBA-TV as the provider of weather updates for the 11-station Midwest Communications radio cluster in Green Bay/Fox Cities and Sheboygan. In 2009, a new addition to the Lombardi Avenue studios was completed to expand the station's newsroom space, and is known as the "Fox 11 Digital Content Center".

Channel 11 was also the first local television station in the market to have full featured iOS and Android Market applications (for mobile phones and tablets). In March 2012, the station's newscasts were moved into the Content Center as the station prepared its studio and facilities for high definition broadcasting, and began construction of an HD-optimized news set. Beginning with the 5 p.m. newscast on April 23, 2012, WLUK became the third station in the Green Bay-Appleton market to begin broadcasting its local news programming in high definition. The station uses the AFD #10 flag to present its newscasts in letterboxed widescreen for viewers watching on cable television through traditional 4:3 sets.

Notable former on-air staff

 * Ross Becker-Buchberger – reporter (1974–1975) went on to report and anchor in Indianapolis, Los Angeles and for MSNBC
 * Jay Johnson – anchor (1982–1987); previously at WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin; elected to represent the 8th District in the U.S. House from 1997 to 1999 and was U.S. Mint Director from 2000 to 2001; died October 17, 2009
 * Kyra Phillips – now political reporter for ABC News
 * Bill Weir – now with CNN; former co-anchor of ABC's GMA Weekend and Nightline and sports anchor of WGN Morning News

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed: {{legend|#DFEBF6|Broadcast on behalf of another station}}

As part of a group affiliation deal between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media, WLUK launched Antenna TV, a digital subchannel on virtual channel 11.2, on January 1, 2016, as an affiliate with the Tribune-owned classic television network. On February 13, 2017, WLUK-TV added TBD, a new channel mainly featuring web videos targeting millennials to 11.3. WLUK's news and local content (outside sportscasts) is also available through Stirr, Sinclair's over-the-top streaming service.

Analog-to-digital conversion
WLUK-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 51 to VHF channel 11. On August 17, 2011, the station increased its transmitter power from 17.19 kW to 40 kW. Prior to this, Madison Fox affiliate WMSN-TV (a fellow Sinclair station pre-dating their ownership of WLUK) had broadcast its digital signal on channel 11, WLUK had to decrease its transmitter power to prevent interference with that station; when WMSN moved their digital channel to the UHF band to address reception issues in the Madison area, WLUK applied to the FCC to increase power once again.

As part of the FCC's spectrum repack, the station shifted from physical channel 11 to 12 on July 3, 2020, but continued to utilize virtual channel 11. Sinclair then moved the station to UHF physical channel 18 (still virtual channel 11) on September 1, 2022, in order to address oncoming concerns about the ATSC 3.0 rollout, along with improving WLUK's signal in general. The shift made Green Bay a 'UHF island' for both current iterations of ATSC. WCWF hosts WLUK's main channel in ATSC 3.0 on its bandwidth (remaining in 720p), and its own main ATSC 1.0 signal is transmitted using WLUK's bandwidth as a channel share.

Out-of-market carriage
In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, WLUK is only available over-the-air in Menominee County. A low-power digital translator, W40AN-D (channel 40) in Escanaba, operated until July 11, 2018. Despite this, WLUK was formerly carried by Charter Communications in the West and Central Upper Peninsula, along with WLUC-DT2 except in Gogebic County which is covered by the signal of Duluth, Minnesota's Fox affiliate KQDS-TV and the Eastern Upper Peninsula which is covered by WWUP-DT 10.2 (a high definition digital simulcast of Cadillac, Michigan's WFQX-TV). WLUK can also be seen on Charter in Ludington, Michigan, across Lake Michigan from the Green Bay area.

Retransmission controversies
Until April 2008, WLUK's high definition signal was only available over-the-air as the station had maintained edicts going back to its ownership under Emmis not to allow local cable or satellite providers to broadcast its digital signal without paid retransmission consent. LIN TV continued to apply this policy after its purchase of the Emmis stations and eventually extended it further to the remainder of its existing stations. Station officials kept their stance against local pay television providers defending the station's stance on WLUK's website and in on-air promotions. The first provider to carry WLUK-DT was Dish Network as part of a March 13, 2008, carriage agreement with LIN TV. Originally, the signal was to be added in May 2008, but Dish began offering HD feeds of the Green Bay stations early on April 16, surprised viewers with WLUK carried on channel 5163. DirecTV followed on June 8.

With retransmission agreements firmed up with the satellite providers, LIN TV began to pursue the market's major cable providers for new deals. Charter was the first to be affected with its carriage agreement with WLUK expiring on July 1. By June 11, Charter and LIN reached a new agreement under undisclosed terms and WLUK-DT began to be carried on digital channel 611 shortly thereafter; AT&T U-verse struck an agreement to carry the digital signal on June 30, 2008, while Comcast's Manitowoc system offered compensation to carry WLUK-DT on June 12 on digital channel 234. This left Time Warner Cable as the lone holdout in the area to carry the HD feed as the provider and LIN TV had not come to an agreement nationally.

With no success from either viewer pressure or contentious negotiations, the system was forced to pull WLUK from its systems on October 3, 2008. Time Warner quickly offered free antennas for customers to receive the station. WLUK encouraged viewers to switch to Dish Network and U-verse in order to continue to watch the station in some form. In the month that followed, the ratings of LIN TV stations affected by the Time Warner dispute plunged, while viewers complained about the loss of Green Bay Packers and MLB Playoff games on WLUK.

By the time of the 2008 World Series, Time Warner Cable made an odd but creative move to allow its viewers to watch the games by offering Fox Sports en Español on basic cable, which carried the Series in Spanish while encouraging viewers to turn down the Spanish play-by-play audio and listen to the game in English on ESPN Radio affiliate WDUZ. Eventually the two companies came to a new carriage agreement on October 29, and WLUK's analog signal was restored on the same day with WLUK-DT being added on digital channel 712 (currently 1012) shortly thereafter, giving the station's digital signal full cable and satellite carriage on par with the other "Big Three" network affiliates.

On March 5, 2011, WLUK was removed from Dish Network as LIN and Dish could not come to terms on a new carriage agreement, and was restored when a new agreement was reached on March 12. WCWF remained unaffected as LIN's purchase of that station had not yet been finalized and was under the terms of their pre-WLUK SSA carriage agreement negotiated with ACME Communications.

Removal from out-of-market cable providers
On September 4, 2012, WLUK's signal was removed by Charter Communications systems in the Upper Peninsula and Marquette, and from systems in Sheboygan County, Lomira (both with WITI in-market) and Montello (part of the Madison market served by WMSN-TV) on September 27, 2012. This was due not to either the station or LIN removing access to the station, but contractual agreements by the Fox network itself which disallow signal duplication of network programming by an out-of-market signal despite the station's longtime service to each area, a source of controversy already in other duplicative market areas in the past. The 'one station per system' rule ended up becoming contractually standard across the cable and broadcast television industries by the end of the decade. WLUK continues to present the forecasts on Midwest Communications' Sheboygan radio stations despite the loss of coverage on that city's cable provider. Despite the loss of cable carriage in the Upper Peninsula, it was still available to antenna viewers in Escanaba via W40AN-D until July 2018.

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One Magic Christmas

One Magic Christmas is a 1985 Christmas fantasy film directed by Phillip Borsos. It was released by Walt Disney Pictures and stars Mary Steenburgen and Harry Dean Stanton. It was shot in Meaford, Ontario with some scenes in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.

Plot
Saint Nicholas assigns the Christmas angel Gideon (Harry Dean Stanton) to restore the Christmas spirit of Ginnie Grainger (Mary Steenburgen), the mother of Cal (Robbie Magwood) and Abbie (Elisabeth Harnois). Her husband Jack (Gary Basaraba) has been out of work for six months, and they must vacate their company-owned house by the new year. Jack fixes bikes as a hobby and dreams of opening his own bike shop, which would use up all the family savings. Ginnie works as a grocery store cashier.

Two nights before Christmas Eve, Abbie meets Gideon while mailing a letter to Santa Claus. Gideon asks her to have her mother mail it instead and protects Abbie from being hit by a speeding car. Abbie gives the letter to her mother, but she refuses to mail it.

The family visits Jack's grandfather Caleb (Arthur Hill), who gives Abbie a snow globe of the North Pole. Gideon visits Abbie again and warns her that some bad things are going to happen, but she should not be afraid. He "accidentally" drops and shatters her snow globe, then magically restores it. Ginnie and Jack discuss their finances and Ginnie tells Jack he should find a new job instead of opening the bike shop. Frustrated, he leaves the house to go for a walk. She goes after him and meets Gideon. All the Christmas lights on the street around her turn off.

On Christmas Eve, on her way to work, Ginnie meets Harry Dickens, who is trying to sell some of his possessions in order to support himself and his son. Jack leaves the children in the car while he goes to the bank to withdraw some of their savings for Christmas shopping. Abbie leaves the car to see Ginnie at the grocery store across the street and tells her that Jack is at the bank. Ginnie leaves to stop him and her boss fires her. She returns Abbie to the car and enters the bank, which Harry is robbing at gunpoint. Jack attempts to calm Harry down, but he impulsively shoots and kills Jack. He flees in Jack's car with Cal and Abbie still inside. Ginnie takes Harry's car to chase after him, but runs out of gas before she can catch up to him. He swerves to avoid the police, but skids off a bridge into the river. Believing she has lost her husband and children, Ginnie returns to the house grief-stricken. Gideon rescues the children and the police bring them home. Ginnie tells them that their father is dead and is never coming home.

Abbie goes to the town's Christmas tree to find Gideon and asks him to bring back her father. He tells her he can't and the only one who can is Santa Claus. Gideon takes Abbie to the North Pole to see Santa, who informs her that he also cannot fix what has happened or make her mother feel better, but perhaps Abbie can. He shows her his workshop, which is a factory run by Christmas angels instead of elves. He retrieves a letter Ginnie sent him as a child and tells Abbie to give it to her mother.

Gideon returns Abbie to her house and she gives her mother the letter. Reading it makes Ginnie realize that the spirit of Christmas is to be thankful for what she has. She goes outside to mail Abbie's letter and says goodbye to Gideon. All the Christmas lights on the street come back on and it is the night before Christmas Eve again. Jack is alive.

The next day, Ginnie's boss gives her the day off so she can spend it with her family. At the gas station, she buys Harry's camp stove. He does not rob the bank. That evening, she attends the tree lighting in the village square and joins the participants in singing O Christmas Tree. Later, the family is celebrating Christmas at Caleb's and she writes a check to Jack for the bike shop as a Christmas present. Ginnie hears Santa downstairs and finds him putting presents under the tree. He tells her "Merry Christmas, Ginnie" and she says it in return.

Production
The idea for the picture originated in 1976 when director Phillip Borsos wrote a one-page story idea. He later co-wrote a first draft with Barry Healey, but the script was reportedly turned down by every Hollywood studio, although his efforts secured the commitments of actress Mary Steenburgen, and producer Fred Roos. The film was initially announced under the title of Father Christmas with Richard Farnsworth slated to star in the role of Gideon reteaming him with Borsos after the two had previously collaborated on 1982's The Grey Fox. Although the film was slated to begin shooting in December of 1983, the film was delayed due to financing problems resulting in the film's budget being scaled back from $9 million to $7.5 million. In February 1985, it was announced Walt Disney Pictures had come on board as a producer following Orion Pictures dropping out, and Disney would supply two-thirds of the budget (approximately $5.5 million) while Telefilm Canada’s Broadcast Fund would supply the remaining one-third. The following March it was announced that Harry Dean Stanton would be assuming the role of Gideon originally intended for Farnsworth. 300 locals served as background actors for a shopping mall scene, filmed in Feb 1985, and fifty shopkeepers agreed to replace their Valentine’s Day decorations with Christmas decorations for the scene. Additionally, residents on a street in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough decorated their homes with Christmas lights for the production. Snow had to be brought in by trucks, following an unseasonable thaw. Reportedly, five tons of snow were brought in from surrounding areas in more than 100 dump truck loads over a four-day period. Ironically, a blizzard blew in days later, and crew members had to remove the excess snow. Sleet, rain, fog, mud, and wind gusts up to fifty miles per hour made filming a challenge. The Toronto post office supplied 20,000 actual letters to Santa Claus for the scene at Santa’s workshop.

Prior to release, the film's title was changed to One Night Before Christmas before producers settle on One Magic Christmas for the final re-title. It initially received a PG rating from the MPAA, but switched to G after a successful appeal.

Release
The film was theatrically released in Canada and the United States on November 22, 1985. It opened in Brazil on December 18, 1985, in the UK the following year, on September 24, 1986, and in Australia on November 27, 1986. It was released in Uruguay on December 12, 1986, through VHS (Montevideo), and in Japan the following year, on November 25, 1987, on VHS.

It was released on DVD in the United States (Region 1) on August 21, 2001.

On December 4, 2012, Netflix released the DVD and later made it available to stream in the United States, France, and the Netherlands.

Box office
One Magic Christmas grossed $2,662,241 in its opening weekend in North America, November 22–24, 1985, and a domestic total of $13,677,222.

Critical response
One Magic Christmas has a 47% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 17 critics.

Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four, saying, "This is very unfortunate. What we have here is a movie with an intelligent screenplay, wonderful performances and skillful direction, but it is a tactical miscalculation from beginning to end", lamenting the misguided "sad, sad story."

Janet Maslin of The New York Times called the film "modern[,] with a gratifyingly old-fashioned feeling, some of which is a matter of its unself-conscious plainness".

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this page needs a disambiguation for Phil Campbell (musician). Alf 00:11, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MrRat

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page. Where can I find mr. Rat ?

The result of the debate was delete. Eugene van der Pijll 18:08, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

MrRat
Was listed for speedy but dosen't meet criteria. A developer of various Amazon.com related scripts. NSR (talk) 00:11, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Check out the talk page and you'll notice it has all 'Don't delete' votes. Before any stupid wikipedia freak puts a page on the 'Votes for deletion' page, maybe they should do some homework about the article. Amazon.com has even mentioned MrRat in press releases about there web services. Anonymous
 * this comment actually by anonymous user User:67.42.194.208, who created the MrRat article and later vandalized the VfD notice on it --Stormie 03:44, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * WHAT!!! All I did was add one word to correct it!!! You can take that stupid notice off now. Thank you! Anonymous (Yes, THAT Anonymous user.) — (Improperly signed comment actually by 67.42.194.208; user's 6th edit.)
 * You guys link to him at Internet phenomenon. Don't you want a page about the Internet phenomenon? I didn't think So, yah, I know, Wikipedia sucks. Real signiture my ***. Anonymous (Yes, THAT Anonymous user.) Make that the 7th edit.
 * Please stop signing your edits as User:Anonymous. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  02:03, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Article is mostly unsubstantiated claims and speculation, but if this guy's software is truly as notable and important as his anonymous fans say it is, then surely one of them can provide us with a source or three. Changing vote to regular ol' delete given sock/meatpuppet activity. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  02:03, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete agree with Android79. drini ☎ 03:42, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * As requested: Amazon's listing of Scripts for 'associates' Amazon don't make these links easy - I think I have correctly stripped out the SessionID - Amazon Products Feed second on the list under Associate Tools - Many of the authors of competing scripts write books, give interviews, etc - MrRat is generally absent from such activities - thus adding to the 'Who is MrRat' phenomena. Perhaps the article (and the Wikipedia) would have been better served had the article initially been created as a stub - it is certainly light on content and on substance, but then stubs are.
 * Delete as vanity, self-promotion, original research. Whatever. If someone wants to write an article about the real person behind it, may be encyclopedic. DavidH 05:40, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Since I'm a "stranger", I'd first of all better say that I have no connection with Mr. Rat, know almost nothing about him, and have no reason for bias, although I do use one of his free scripts.
 * Strong Keep I firmly feel that the 2 current entries for Mr. Rat should be kept. A search of either the  General Amazon Associates Discussion Board or the Amazon Associates AWS Discussion Board shows that his scripts are an overwelmingly important contributor to the success of the Amazon AWS project, and thus are an extremely important example of the practical use of XML and remote feeds.  As long as there are entries relating to XML, remote feeds, or the Amazon E-Commerce Service, the articles on Mr. Rat are also a major contribution to Wikipedia.
 * sole edit by anonymous User:62.0.112.191 --Stormie 08:05, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm the anonymous user who was apparently 62.0.112.191 a few hours ago. (I don't quite understand that, but it's not relevant here.  Maybe my router mysteriously rebooted and reconnected without my noticing, though I don't see how.)  Will I seem more respectable if I sign up for an identity?  I doubt that I'll be writing on Wikipedia much.  And if I do sign up, is there a way to aim my new-found respectability retroactively to this thread? Thanks. David.
 * Signing up for a username solely to vote in this discussion won't get you much of anywhere. Votes from usernames registered after the beginning of the discussion are routinely discounted, as are votes from anonymous or registered users with very few edits (which applies to most of the keep votes here, I'm afraid). This is to prevent the occurrence of sockpuppetry. As for your IP, it's certainly possible you got reassigned a new IP between your first and second comments; see Dynamic IP if you aren't familiar with this aspect of the Internet. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  02:03, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete beacuse, as written, it has way too much marketing.  If it was rewritten as a real article, and not a promotional advertisement, then it may have a chance.    And yes, I *use* mrrat's scripts. Eclipsed
 * Delete, vanity, nn, low quality, uninformative, ... Pavel Vozenilek 00:00, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - I don't see how it is possible to have an article about someone who is famous for his work without talking about his work! I have posted a request on the articles discussion page explaining the dilemna and asking Wikipedians for suggestions in how to move this forward. One or two of you have commented that there may be the basis of an encyclopedic article in there. Any constructive suggestions for how to move this forward - or comments on my earlier suggestion of marking the article as a stub, which is after all a marker for articles that need bulking out with more content - Dean Marshall.
 * edit by anonymous User:81.86.230.44, whose contributions have all been to the MrRat article and this VFD discussion --Stormie 08:06, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, even if the software were notable, he would not be. Dcarrano 13:35, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unverified, developer doesn't inherit the notability of the software he works on (not that amazon.com's software is notable anyway). Wile E. Heresiarch 14:29, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * STRONG KEEP. PERIOD. JEALOUSY = DELETE. MR.RAT MUST STAY. FEAR NOT OPEN SOURCE! AGREE WITH PREVIOUS COMMENT: Seems like sour grapes from the competition to me and if allowed to be deleted for such a reason it brings the viablity of Wikipedia itself into question. — (Unsigned comment by 61.149.10.136; user's 1st edit.)
 * Keep, MrRat is a well known figure among many Amazon Developers and the users of there Affiliate system. Without him, I personally could not have started my career in XML web apps as easy as I have.  His forums are a great help to many and his software, even though he is "mysterious", is well known.  I suggest we keep this and add more to it as we can to help others see a pillar of how to make money with open source.  Open source is the future and MrRat is helping many of us realize that future with no selfishness on his part.  His support is free, his script is free, and his forums are free.  I personally have donated money to his project as a thank you but its not a requirement to use his script.  This is my first post to Wikipedia and hopefully not my last, but please do not let my newness discount my comments towards this very generous and helpful person.  Thank you.  -SilentJoe User:SilentJoe
 * Re: Newness. Our votes are worthless. From a post above....'Votes from usernames registered after the beginning of the discussion are routinely discounted.' 67.42.194.208 - AKA Anonymous.

 * Delete this fanboy/resume/vanity cruft. — HorsePunchKid → 龜 23:31, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment Just like to point people to the article's discussion page for substantiation of the widespread adoption of MrRat's software from O'Reilly Media - ranked top 25 by downloads AND user rating - (every other software title in their top25 and their respective authors have articles in Wikipedia)- Dean Marshall (my last word on the subject).

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 * Hello, only a small comment from my site, sorry for my bad english, my native language is german. MrRat wrote the first open source application for Amazon Webservices AWS. His amazon products feed (APF) is one of the most suggested software from Amazon.com and in my opinion the most used Amazon software worldwide. (Most used affiliate software worldwide...) It is open source so everyone can use it without profit for MrRat and thats the best on it, because he coded this script for tousands of affiliates and websites in the world who earn money whith it every day. For me this script was the start in the world of webservices and XML and I'm sure without it webservices, Amazon usage of XML wo't be what it is today. Regards from Germany Frank — (Unsigned comment by 194.138.39.52; user's 37th edit. Contribution history suggests this is an IP shared by many editors.)
 * KEEP the Mr. Rat Entry in Wikipedia. Mr. Rat's script is the most widely used of the Amazon API scripts.  It has literally HUNDREDS of hacks and mods written for it and posted on the web, and probably THOUSANDS including those which are proprietary. The product is an open source script used by THOUSANDS of users on TENS-of-THOUSANDS of websites, and with a built-in ability to load and run special mods. Mr. Rat is nothing short of a PHENOMENON in the world of API scripting for automated web page creation, and his scripts work on the world's largest and most widely-distributed API - the Amazon.com API. Deleting Mr. Rat from the Wikipedia would show an extraordinary IGNORANCE of what is happening in the world of API scripting - a massive and growing phenomenon with THOUSANDS of users and TENS of THOUSANDS of websites. Come on Wikipedia, what's going on?   Does the category manager really not know of Mr. Rat?   Let's get with the program here. KEEP Mr. Rat entry.   Do NOT delete it. Kent Nelson http://www.hostingdude.com — (Unsigned comment by 68.202.167.253; user's 1st edit.)
 * Ditto everything in the above posting from HostingDude.com KEEP Mr. Rat. Mr. Rat's script is the finest and most widely used on the Amazon API.  I run hundreds of websites using it. DO NOT delete the Mr. Rat Entry. Ana Malave, Owner http://www.anabooks.com — (Duplicate vote by 68.202.167.253; user's 2nd edit.)
 * STRONG DISAGREE - As an avid and long time user of MrRat's scripts, I don't see what the hub bub is about here. He is an established author of widely used programs. I can't believe it was even considered for deletion. Seems like sour grapes from the competition to me and if allowed to be deleted for such a reason it brings the viablity of Wikipedia itself into question. — (Unsigned comment by Piwacket; user's 1st and only edit so far.)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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User:Eric Shalov/done

Some of the Wikipedia articles he's initiated or contributed to:

Los Angeles local interest

 * Glendale Community College - more details needed
 * Reseda, California
 * Winnetka, California
 * Farmers and Merchants Bank
 * Dominique Amestoy
 * Marian Otis Chandler
 * Alquist Priolo Special Studies Zone Act - perhaps a sample map?
 * Moorpark College - needs more detail (perhaps famous attendees?)
 * Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine - needs cleanup, more info

Geography

 * Mt. Woodroofe - more details needed (first to ascend?)
 * Baltic Exchange
 * St. James's Square - picture needed, more address details, more history
 * Ville Platte, Louisiana, United States - could use more modern day info
 * Eighty Four, Pennsylvania
 * Cape Bojador - needs categorization, map?
 * Minho River - Spanish communities along the Minho?
 * Yokneam - more foreign investment info, region details

Judaism and related

 * Sefer Torah
 * Stern College of Yeshiva University
 * Max Stern
 * Synagogue Council of America
 * Ephraim Buchwald
 * Chaim Soloveitchik
 * Shlomo Riskin
 * Nachman Bulman

Linguistics

 * Oropom language
 * Ticuna
 * Sogdian alphabet - needs categorization, picture of script
 * Chinese English Pidgin
 * Aymara - needs help

History/Politics/Religion

 * Operation Algeciras - needs more details, map?
 * Association for Cultural Freedom - needs pictures
 * Ngintaka
 * Commonwealth Club
 * John Randolph Club - could use a "People"/"Members" section
 * President’s Commission on the HIV Epidemic - needs member list, more details, categorization
 * Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS - needs member list, more details, categorization

Biographical

 * Abu al-Qasim
 * The Dresden Dolls
 * Siouxsie Sioux
 * Moses Sherman - needs more details, more wikilinking, picture
 * Arthur Vidrine - needs categorization, more wikilinking, picture
 * Christopher Beckwith - could use more details, birth categorization, picture?
 * João Fernandes Lavrador - needs categorization, more details, picture?
 * Yunus Qanuni - needs better categorization, more pictures, Arabic spelling of name
 * James D. Watkins - needs picture
 * John Hay Whitney - needs picture, better use of original text
 * William S. Farish - needs picture, more info
 * Edmund Glazer - needs details

Other

 * Reseda Odorata - needs categorization, picture
 * Page moved to Mignonette and expanded; pic added - MPF
 * Bridge Trilogy - needs categorization
 * Long Reach Ethernet - needs protocol history, categorization
 * Adam style - needs categorization, building examples
 * MRV Communications - needs details (from SEC filings?), subsidiaries
 * MOL Enterprise

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Donna Frye

Donna Frye (born January 20, 1952) is an American politician from San Diego. She was born in Pennsylvania and is one of three children. Frye was a member of the San Diego City Council, representing District 6 and a two-time candidate for mayor of San Diego. In July 2013 Frye was among the first to call on then-San Diego Democratic Mayor Bob Filner to resign over accusations of sexual harassment and assault.

Early life
Frye was born in 1952 in Pennsylvania, the second of three children. Her family moved to San Diego when her father took a civilian job with the Navy.

After a failed first marriage in late 1979, Frye had problems with alcohol abuse. That changed within months of meeting her current husband Skip Frye at a Mexican restaurant in December 1980, and Frye stopped drinking in early 1981. In 1988, they opened a custom-made surfboard shop in Pacific Beach and they married in 1990.

Political career
Frye first became concerned with coastal water pollution problems when her husband repeatedly became sick after surfing. She soon became an environmental and community leader. In 2001 she was elected to the San Diego City Council in a special election. She was later elected to full term on the council in the regular 2002 city council elections.

Frye ran for mayor of San Diego in the November 2004 run-off election between Dick Murphy and Ron Roberts as a write-in candidate, without having run in the primary. A plurality of voters wrote in her name, but a controversy arose when she lost the election because a number of voters did not fill in the bubble next to her written name or misspelled her name (usually spelling her last name "Fry"). If those votes had counted, Frye would have had more votes than either of the moderate Republican candidates officially in the runoff, but still far below a majority vote. Whether Frye would have been allowed to serve as mayor in any case is uncertain, as her write-in candidacy was at odds with the San Diego City Charter.

Dick Murphy was re-elected as mayor after a series of legal challenges to the election results, but resigned on July 15, 2005, as the city's fiscal crisis and legal woes with regulatory and law enforcement agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Bureau of Investigation worsened and became a matter of increasing public awareness.

Frye ran for mayor in the special election that took place on July 26, 2005, with a platform advocating open and honest government and restoring order to the city's financial situation, points found in nearly all of the candidates' platforms. Frye was endorsed by Mike Aguirre, the city attorney who has confronted the city council over releasing documents.

Frye placed ahead of ten opponents, including former police chief and runner-up Jerry Sanders (27%), by receiving 43% of the vote. However, a majority was needed to win outright, and so a run-off election was held between Frye and Sanders on November 8, 2005. Frye was defeated in this election, receiving 46.1% of the vote to Sanders' 53.9%. She did, however, win reelection to her council seat in the 2006 city council elections, retiring in 2010 due to term limits.

Post-political career
In December 2012, Frye joined the administration of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner in a new position he created called Director of Open Government. She resigned in April 2013 to become president of Californians Aware, a nonprofit that advocates for open government statewide.

In July 2013 she and two other former supporters of Filner publicly called on Filner to resign as mayor, alleging that he had sexually harassed numerous unnamed women by forcibly kissing them, fondling them and making sexually suggestive remarks. Though refusing at first to step down, Filner eventually resigned in August 2013. In October of that year, he pleaded guilty to state charges of false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery.

Recognition
Frye was nominated and inducted into the San Diego County's Women's Hall of Fame in 2011 for the 'Spirit 2011' title. The Hall of Fame's aim is to "acknowledge and honor women who have significantly contributed to the quality of life and who have made outstanding volunteer contributions in San Diego County." The annual Women's Hall of Fame induction is co-hosted by Women's Museum of California (Located in San Diego), Commission on the Status of Women, UC San Diego Women's Center, and San Diego State Women's Studies.

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Ballygally

Ballygally or Ballygalley (, IPA:[ˈbˠalʲəˈɟɛhlʲiː]) is a village and holiday resort in County Antrim, Northern Ireland which lies on the Antrim coast, approximately 3 mi north of Larne. It is also a townland of 769 acre and is situated in the civil parish of Carncastle and the historic barony of Glenarm Upper. It had a population of 821 in the 2011 census. It is located within the Mid and East Antrim Borough Council area.

Archaeology
Archaeological excavations undertaken in the area in the 1990s, identified the remains of several Neolithic houses approximately 500m from the shore of Ballygally Bay. The site contained a number of finds, including worked flints, pottery and stone axes.

Places of interest
Notable features include the headland of Ballygally Head, O'Haloran's Castle, The White Bear Rock, a sandy beach, Ballygally Castle and Ballygally Hall, which opened in 2011.

Ballygally beach is a destination for locals and for tourists, especially during the summer months.

Ballygally Castle, reputed to be the oldest occupied building in Ireland, has a reputation for being haunted. It sits in the middle of the village at the junction with the road to Cairncastle and contains a 4-star hotel with a bar and restaurant. The castle was built around 1625 for James Shaw of Greenock and is one of Ireland's best-preserved Scottish baronial style plantation houses. The bawn and walled garden are registered as Scheduled Historic Monuments at grid ref: D3725 0781.

Ballygally Hall is a two-storey building (funded by the Big Lottery, Larne Borough Council and NER) which opened in 2011 and includes a Spar shop with some Post Office facilities at ground level and a Community Hall on the first floor. The shop and restaurant, which previously existed on this site, were demolished in 2008. The Community Hall has weekly events and social activities throughout the year.

Cairndhu Golf Course, on top of Ballygally Head, overlooks the village and Carnfunnock Country Park (which offers a cafe, walled garden, caravan park and campsite, maze, children's playground, bouncy castle, mini-train rides, bungee runs, mini-golf, and nature walks) is nearby.

In 2014, Outdoor Recreation NI produced a report called 'Options to enhance access with the creation of a natural heritage trail between Ballygally Village and Carnfunnock Country Park' highlighting Ballygally's close links to the park.

Demography
Ballygally is classified as a small village or hamlet by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (i.e. with a population between 500 and 1,000 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 714 people living in Ballygally. Of these:
 * 21.6% were aged under 16 and 22.1% were aged 60 and over
 * 49.0% of the population were male and 51.0% were female;
 * 27.9% were from a Catholic background and 70.5% were from a Protestant background
 * 2.3% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed.

Biology
Ballygally Head was (in 1983) the only recorded location of Gelidiella calcicola from Northern Ireland.

Geology
Ballygally Head is a volcanic plug, the ancient cooled remains of the pipe of a volcano.

Wedges of agglomerate have been found around Ballygally Head, showing that there were several stages of eruption, allowing tuff to form before the vent was blown out and once more filled with magma. There are tall columns in places around Ballygally Head, similar to the basalt columns found at the Giant's Causeway, but these are dolerite, a rock similar to basalt but which cooled more slowly, held inside the volcano vent, and so had time to grow larger crystals.

Scawt Hill, another volcanic plug 5 km west north west of Ballygally, is an internationally important site for geology due to the rare minerals found there. It is a protected Area of Special Scientific Interest.

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Marie-Soleil

Marie-Soleil was a Canadian children's television show in the 1980s and early 1990s, which aired on many stations associated with the CTV Television Network. The show, starring children's entertainer Suzanne Pinel, used stories and songs to teach French to anglophone kids.

The series was initially produced by Mid-Canada Communications for the MCTV stations in Northern Ontario in 1984, and shot in Sudbury; however, as a resident of Ottawa, Pinel found travelling to Sudbury on a regular basis to film the show difficult to reconcile with raising her children, so after a single season it went on hiatus before production was relaunched on Ottawa's CJOH-TV in 1987.

The puppet character, an English-speaking dog named Fergus, was played by Jon Park-Wheeler. There was also a clown named Samuel, played by Suzanne Lalonde, who spoke with sign language for the hearing impaired.

The series was also later broadcast in reruns on YTV.

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User:Jacob Bean

I love when i get crapped on by french asains.

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Yash Ghai

Yash Pal Ghai CBE (born 20 October 1938) is a Kenyan academic in constitutional law. As of 2007 he is the head of the Constitution Advisory Support Unit of the United Nations Development Programme in Nepal. Until 2008, he was a Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Cambodia on human rights. In September 2008, he resigned his post, following bitter arguments with the Government of Cambodia. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2005.

Early life and education
His grandparents were from the Khukhrain family-group of Khatris, who came from the Punjab region of North India, and were part of the waves of Indian migration in East Africa, sponsored by the British Empire. His father sent Ghai to Oxford University to study.

Career
He was the Sir YK Pao Professor of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong starting in 1989. He has been an Honorary Professor there since his retirement in 2005. Prior to that, Ghai taught and did research in law at the University of Warwick, Uppsala University in Sweden, the International Legal Center in New York City, and Yale Law School. He has also taught courses at the University of Wisconsin Law School, as part of an exchange program. He was the Chairman of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (which attempted to write a modern constitution for Kenya) from 2000 to 2004. Professor Ghai is also recently selected by the Fijian Military Government to be the Chairperson of Fiji's Constitutional Committee.

Ghai has also advised and assisted NGOs on human rights law-related work. He drafted the Asian Human Rights Charter—A People's Charter, a project of the Asian Human Rights Commission.

Ghai has written several books on law in Africa, the Pacific islands, and elsewhere.

Honours and awards
Professor Ghai has received the following honours and awards:

Honours

 * 🇵🇬: Independence Medal, 1976
 * 🇻🇺: Independence Medal, 1979
 * New Hebrides: Queen's Medal for Distinguished Service, 1980
 * Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1980

Awards

 * 2001: Distinguished Research Achievement Award from the University of Hong Kong

Honorary

 * University of the South Pacific, Honorary degree, 1995
 * Society for Advanced Legal Studies, Honorary fellow, 1997
 * Law Society of Kenya, Honorary Life Member, 1998
 * Queen's University, Canada, Honorary Doctorate of Laws (LLD), 2014

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User:Andy29

My first contribution to Wikipedia was expanding the fleet section of Palmair, on the 18th July 2004, at 21:32.

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Suzanne Pinel

Suzanne Pinel, is a Canadian children's entertainer and former citizenship judge.

Using the stage name Marie-Soleil, Pinel performed for twenty years, using stories and songs to teach the French language to kids. She recorded albums, releasing her first disc in 1976, and starred in the television series Marie-Soleil.

In 1991, Pinel was made a Member of the Order of Canada for being "one of the great ambassadors of French-Canadian culture, this Franco-Ontarian teacher has helped promote bilingualism among both the younger and older members of the two language groups". In 2012, she was made a member of the Order of Ontario.

Before embarking on her career as a children's entertainer, Pinel studied nursing at the University of Ottawa. The university awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2002.

She was appointed a citizenship judge in 1997 and served until 2010. Since her term expired she has occasionally served as a guest presider at citizenship ceremonies.

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