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Margaret Sambiria

Margaret Sambiria (in Danish: Margrethe Sambiria, Sambirsdatter or Margrethe Sprænghest; c. 1230 – December 1282) was Queen of Denmark by marriage to King Christopher I, and regent during the minority of her son, King Eric V from 1259 until 1264. She is the first woman confirmed to have formally ruled as regent of Denmark. She was the reigning fief-holder of Danish Estonia in 1266–1282.

Life
Margaret was born around 1230 to Sambor II, Duke of Pomerania and Matilda of Mecklenburg.

She had a Danish connection from her maternal grandparents Henry Borwin II, Lord of Mecklenburg and Lady Kristina from Scania, who was reportedly a daughter of the Danish magnate Galen clan from Eastern Denmark, and related to the Hvide clan of Zealand. Margaret received her first name, then yet relatively rare in North Germany and Poland, in honor of her maternal Scandinavian relations, where the name Margaret came in the late 11th century with the family of Inge I of Sweden, presumably of her aunt, the countess of Schwerin, and her great-aunt, the Princess of Rugia.

Queen
In 1248, she married Prince Christopher, the youngest son of Valdemar II of Denmark and Berengária of Portugal. In accordance with the then succession custom of agnatic seniority, her husband ascended the throne of Denmark in 1252. Margaret was crowned with him on 25 December 1252 at Lund Cathedral.

Already as queen, Margaret was reportedly involved in politics. During the reign of Christopher, there was a conflict between the king and Jakob Erlandsen, Archbishop of the Diocese of Lund who demanded autonomy of the church from the crown, with the right to hold his own armies, a demand which lead to his arrest. This was a conflict which Margaret was to inherit as regent.

Regent
Her husband died on 29 May 1259, rumored to have been poisoned. Their son and heir Eric V of Denmark was a child, and Margaret was made regent until her son's maturity in 1264. This was unprecedented in Denmark, as no queen or queen dowager, as far as it is known, had until then formally and officially have the mandate as regent of Denmark.

Regent Margaret was faced with the unresolved conflict between the crown and the archbishop Jakob Erlandsen. She was forced to release the archbishop to consolidate her position as regent, but resolved the conflict of power between the church and the crown by banishing the archbishop from the kingdom: the question of the church's autonomy from the Danish crown was not settled until some years after her son's maturity, but Margaret continued to negotiate with the Pope until she solved the matter, even after her mandate as regent was terminated.

She was also faced with having to protect her son's right to the throne against the claims of the sons of her brother-in-law Abel of Denmark, whose claims to the throne was raised by Abel's widow Matilda of Holstein, as well as given the responsibility of the four daughters of her other brother-in-law Eric IV of Denmark, Sophia, Ingeborg, Jutta and Agnes. Her son's succession overrode the rights of the descendants of earlier monarchs, counter to the dictates of agnatic seniority.

The conflict with the sons of Matilda of Holstein resulted in warfare with the counts of Holstein. After a loss in Lohede in 1261, Margaret, together with her son, the young Eric V were imprisoned by the Count of Holstein. They soon managed to escape with help from Albert of Brunswick. She was not able to prevent the marriage alliances between Abel's widow Matilda of Holstein and Birger Jarl, or Eric IV's daughters Sophia and Ingeborg to the kings of Norway and Sweden, but she was able to prevent Eric IV's remaining daughters Jutta and Agnes from similar marriage alliances by placing them in the convent St. Agnes' Priory, Roskilde.

In 1263, Margaret successfully wrote to Pope Urban IV, asking him to allow women to inherit the Danish throne, in a final effort to prevent the claims of the Abel-fraction on the Danish throne. This would make it possible for one of Eric's sisters to become reigning Queen of Denmark in the event of Erik V's dying before he had any children.

In her own time, Margaret had a reputation as a competent and enlightened regent. Her nicknames, "Sprænghest" ('Burst-horse') and "Sorte Grete" ('Black Greta') reveal a strong-willed, energetic personality.

Later life
Margaret retired as regent in 1264, when her son was declared an adult, and she officially settled with her own court in her personal residence Nykøbing Slot on Falster. She continued to play a role in Danish politics and kept an interest and certain influence over Danish state affairs.

In 1266, her son the king granted her the rulership of Danish Estonia, and made her ruling countess of the province for life. She actively settled the affairs of Estonia from her residence in Denmark until her death.

In 1270 she founded and donated money to the Abbey of the Holy Cross in Rostock.

She died in December 1282 and was buried in the church of the Cistercian Doberan Abbey on the Baltic Sea coast of Germany.

Children
Margaret and Christopher had three children:
 * Matilda (died 23 April 1299/19 November 1300), married to Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel.
 * Margaret (died 1306), married count John II of Holstein-Kiel.
 * Eric V of Denmark (1249–1286).

Related reading

 * Anne J. Duggan, ed (2002) Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe (Boydell Press) ISBN 9780851158815
 * John Carmi Parsons, ed (2016) Medieval Queenship (Springer Publishing Company)  ISBN 9781137088598

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Penny Lernoux

Penny Lernoux (January 6, 1940 – October 9, 1989) was an American educator, author, and journalist. She wrote critically of United States government and Papal policy toward Latin America.

Life and works
Lernoux was born into a comfortable Catholic family in California and excelled in school. She enrolled in the University of Southern California in the late 1950s and, after being nominated to Phi Beta Kappa, qualified as a journalist for the United States Information Agency (USIA), a government arm devoted to promoting U.S. policy overseas. Lernoux began working in Latin America in 1961, just before the Second Vatican Council. She worked in Rio de Janeiro and Bogotá for the USIA until 1964 and then moved to Caracas to write for Copley News Service, to which she remained bound by contract until 1967.

By this time, Lernoux had grown aware of extreme contrasts between the wealth of Latin American politicians, businessmen and landlords, on the one hand, and the poverty of the region's masses, on the other. She adopted a radical view of Jesus Christ and tried to relate his teachings to Latin American struggles against economic exploitation and military dictatorship. As she became a freelance writer, Lernoux gravitated toward new Latin American expressions of Catholicism, notably base communities and liberation theology. Lernoux attracted major attention from her first book Cry of the People: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America, published in 1977. The book outlined her discoveries about Latin American history and extreme social inequality. Cry of the People won a Sidney Hillman Foundation Book Award in its third (1982) edition.

At that time, Lernoux joined the National Catholic Reporter as a Latin American correspondent and continued freelance reporting, most notably for The Nation. In the early 1980s Lernoux broadened her horizons to focus on international banking corruption. The topic was the theme of articles such as "The Miami Connection" (The Nation, February 18, 1984). Her second book, also published in 1984, In Banks We Trust: Bankers and Their Close Associates: The CIA, the Mafia, Drug Traders, Dictators, Politicians and the Vatican. The book exposed links from international banks to governments, the Catholic Church and organized crime, and how their corruption fueled the Third World debt crisis.

For the rest of her life, Lernoux focused largely on the clamping down on dissent by John Paul II and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI). This was the topic of her third book, People of God: The Struggle for World Catholicism, published in 1989 after years of research in Latin America and the United States. Unlike most of John Paul II's critics, Lernoux described his attempt to fortify an authoritarian model of the church as an effort to restore preconciliar (e.g. pre-Vatican II) Roman Catholicism. The book documented the church's dismissal of scholars who questioned John Paul II's papacy. It also dissected various groups struggling for control of the church and examined the popularity of Opus Dei, Communion and Liberation, the Knights of Malta and Tradition, Family and Property.

Death
After the publication of People of God, Lernoux left Bogotá to work on a fourth book. This one focused on the Maryknoll Sisters. Later that year she was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Lernoux died on October 9, 1989, aged 49, a month after being hospitalized, leaving behind her husband Denis Nahum and their daughter Angela. Her husband, Denis Nahum, was born to a British Jewish family in the United Kingdom. They married in Miami, Florida. Denis died in 1997 in a traffic incident in Bogotá, Colombia, while their daughter Angela was driving.

Her book was finished by Arthur Jones and Robert Ellsberg, and published in 1993 as Hearts on Fire: The Story of the Maryknoll Sisters.

Legacy
The Penny Lernoux Papers are held by the Marquette University Special Collections and University Archives. Lernoux was memorialized by the Penny Lernoux Memorial Library in Minneapolis until its parent organization closed in August 2007.

Books

 * In Banks We Trust—Bankers and Their Close Associates: The CIA, the Mafia, Drug Traders, Dictators, Politicians, and the Vatican. New York: Anchor Press (1984). ISBN 978-0385183291..
 * Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture, and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday (1980). ISBN 0385183291.
 * Republished (1982). New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0140060478, with new preface and subtitle: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America—The Catholic Church in Conflict with U.S. Policy.
 * Republished (1991). New York: Penguin Books, with a new afterword by George Black.

Articles

 * "Illusions of Agrarian Reform." The Nation (Oct. 15, 1973).
 * "Nicaragua on the Brink." Inquiry (Mar. 6, 1978), p. 5.
 * "Fascism in Brazil." Inquiry (Nov. 27, 1978), pp. 12–16.
 * "Trading in Repression." Inquiry (Dec. 11, 1978), pp. 8-11.
 * "Corrupting Colombia." Inquiry (Sep. 30, 1979), pp. 13-19.
 * "The Latin American Church." Latin American Research Review, vol. 15, no. 2 (1980), pp. 201–211. Latin American Studies Association..
 * "Grassroots Churches Unite Latin American Communities." Berkeley Barb, vol. 30, no. 11 (Feb. 21, 1980), p. 9..
 * "Blood Money." Penthouse (Apr. 1984).
 * "When Republics Go Bananas." Massachusetts Review, vol. 27, no. 3/4 (Fall/Winter 1986), pp. 473–484..
 * "Vatican Silences Brazilian Bishop." National Catholic Reporter (Sep. 30, 1988), p. 7.
 * "Casting Out the 'People's Church.'" The Nation (Aug. 27–Sep. 3, 1988).
 * Republished as The Nation: 1865-1990: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture, edited by Katerina Vanden Heuvel. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press (1990), pp. 416-422.
 * "Casaldáliga Case Begs Question: Who in Rome Muzzles Bishops?" National Catholic Reporter (Oct. 7, 1988), pp. 1, 4.
 * "The Papal Spiderweb: Opus Dei & The 'Perfect Society.'" The Nation, vol. 248, no. 14 (Apr. 10, 1989), pp. 469, 482-487.
 * "Who Knows? The Knights of Malta Know." National Catholic Reporter (May 5, 1989)
 * "A Society Torn Apart by Violence." The Nation (Nov. 7, 1997), pp. 512–514

Book reviews

 * "Isle of the Damned." Review of Written in Blood, by Robert Debs Heinl, Jr. and Nancy Gordon Heinl. Inquiry (Feb. 19, 1979), pp. 27-29.

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Deux-Montagnes station

Deux-Montagnes station is a future terminus station of the Réseau express métropolitain (REM) in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec, Canada. REM service at the station is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2024. The station will serve as the terminus of the Deux-Montagnes branch of the REM.

Until the end of 2020, Deux-Montagnes was a commuter rail station operated by Exo and was the northern terminus of the Deux-Montagnes line.

Origin of name
Deux-Montagnes takes its name from Deux-Montagnes, the municipality where it is located, although this station took the name of the original Gare Deux-Montagnes, now Grand-Moulin station. The building serves as municipal offices, as well as a passenger waiting area for the connecting routes. Outside of the building, is the former CN 6710, a GE boxcab electric-powered locomotive that brought trains through the Mount Royal Tunnel until 1995.

Location
The station is located at 400, boul. Deux-Montagnes, near Autoroute 640 (exit 8). The station is also served by pedestrian walkways and bicycle routes in Deux-Montagnes.

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Momoko Tsugunaga

Momoko Tsugunaga (嗣永 桃子) is a former Japanese singer, actress, and radio personality. Tsugunaga joined Hello! Project as a member of Hello! Project Kids at the age of 10 and later became part of the girl groups Berryz Kobo and Buono! Following Berryz Kobo's hiatus, she became the playing manager of Country Girls. In 2017, Tsugunaga retired from entertainment to become a kindergarten teacher.

2002–2004: Hello! Project Kids and ZYX
In 2002, Tsugunaga auditioned for Hello! Project Kids with the song "Koi wo Shicchaimashita!" by Tanpopo. Her audition tape was aired on Morning Musume's variety show Hello! Morning. She was placed in the group with 14 other girls. In the same year, she starred in the movie Koinu Dan no Monogatari as the main character, Mao Morishita.

In 2003, Tsugunaga appeared in the music video for Miki Fujimoto's "Boogie Train '03." She also became a member of the subgroup ZYX along with Mari Yaguchi from Morning Musume, Erika Umeda, Maimi Yajima, Saki Shimizu, and Megumi Murakami. They released their debut single, "Iku ZYX! Fly High" on August 6, 2003, followed by "Shiroi Tokyo" on December 10, 2003. Later, in 2004, she participated in singing "All for One & One for All!", a collaboration single released by all Hello! Project artists under the name "H.P. All Stars."

2004–2015: Berryz Kobo and Buono!
In 2004, Tsugunaga was one of the eight girls from Hello! Project Kids were selected to form Berryz Kobo. Berryz Kobo debuted on March 3, 2004, with the single "Anata Nashi de wa Ikite Yukenai", and she was one of the lead singers of the group. From 2009 until 2014, Tsugunaga also hosted a radio show titled "Momoko Tsugunaga from Berryz Kobo's Pri-Pri-Princess."

Continuing with her "Momochi" personality, Tsugunaga released a solo song and music video called "Momochi! Yurushite Nyan Taiso", which was released as a B-side to Berryz Kobo's 29th single, "Cha Cha Sing."

In 2007, Tsugunaga also became part of the subgroup Buono! with Miyabi Natsuyaki and Airi Suzuki from Cute. The group formed to perform the opening and ending songs for the anime Shugo Chara! They released their first single, "Honto no Jibun", on October 31, 2007. After the show's end, Buono continued on as a side project until its disbandment in 2017.

2015–2017: Country Girls and retirement
In 2014, Berryz Kobo announced they would end activities the following year. After Berryz Kobo went on hiatus, Tsugunaga took on the role as the "playing manager" for the girl group Country Girls, a revival of a Hello! Project group formerly under the name Country Musume.

On November 5, 2016, at Shinjuku ReNY, during Country Girls' second anniversary event, Tsugunaga announced that she would retire from the entertainment industry the following year to become a kindergarten teacher. To commemorate her graduation, a compilation CD album titled Tsugunaga Momoko Idol 15 Shuunen Kinen Album Arigatou Otomomochi (嗣永桃子 アイドル15周年記念アルバム ♡ありがとう おとももち♡) was released on June 21, 2017, with songs selected by fan vote. Tsugunaga held her final concert on June 30, 2017, in an outdoor venue at Odaiba, exactly 15 years after her debut in Hello! Project Kids. 8,000 people attended the concert, including Berryz Kobo and Cute.

Public image
During Berryz Kobo's later years, Tsugunaga became known as the "cutesy character" of the group and with her mannerisms and twintail hairstyle. She was often referred to by the nickname Momochi (ももち) in media and press. After Berryz Kobo went on hiatus, she began playing down her "Momochi" image and stopped wearing her hair in twintails, citing that she has grown up.

Education
Tsugunaga majored in education and graduated from Kokugakuin University in 2014.

Photobooks

 * Momo (momo) (June 19, 2007, ISBN 978-484704018-4)
 * Momo16 (Momoiro) (momo16 -ももいろ-) (March 19, 2008, ISBN 978-404895015-2)
 * Momo no Mi (桃の実) (November 21, 2008, Wani Books, ISBN 978-4847041389)
 * Momochiiii (momochiiii) (August 21, 2009, Wani Books, ISBN 978-4847041921)
 * Momochi Zukan (ももち図鑑) (October 20, 2010, Wani Books, ISBN 978-4-8470-4322-2)
 * Hatachi Momochi (はたち ももち) (March 6, 2012, Wani Books, ISBN 978-4-8470-4444-1)

Photo-essays

 * Momochi no Kimochi (ももちのきもち) (Photographic essay, June 22, 2013, Wani Books, ISBN 978-4-8470-4559-2)

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Rudolf Carl von Slatin

Major-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, Geh. Rat, (7 June 1857, in Ober Sankt Veit, Hietzing, Vienna – 4 October 1932, in Vienna) was an Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in Sudan.

Early life
Rudolf Carl Slatin was born in Ober Sankt Veit near Vienna, the fourth child of the merchant Michael Slatin, who had converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism, and his second wife, Maria Anna Feuerstein. Their other children were the twins Maria and Anna (born in 1852), Heinrich (1855), Adolf (1861), and Leopoldine (1864). Their father died on 13 March 1873, while Rudolf was at the Vienna Handelsakademie (commercial academy). While there, he heard that a German bookseller in Cairo was looking for an assistant. Rudolf traveled to Trieste and five days after that to Alexandria. He worked in the bookstore until he travelled with the German businessman and consul Rosset to Khartoum.

From Khartoum, Slatin went through Kordofan to Dar Nuba, exploring the mountains of that region with the German explorer and ornithologist Theodor von Heuglin. He was forced to return to Khartoum, when the local population rebelled against the Egyptian government. There, Slatin met Dr. Schnitzer, later famous as "Emin Pasha", and with him intended to visit General Charles George Gordon at Lado, Gordon at that time being Governor of the Equatorial Provinces. Slatin, however, was obliged to return to Austria without accomplishing his desire, though Emin did go to Lado and at Slatin's request recommended the young traveller to Gordon for employment in Sudan. Slatin left Africa in order to serve his conscription order in the Austrian army. On 25 September 1876 he joined his unit the 12. Feldjägerbatallon as recruit, and one year later, he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserves of the 19th Infantry Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

In 1878, while Slatin was serving as a lieutenant in crown prince Rudolf's regiment in the Bosnian campaign. he received a letter from Gordon inviting him to Sudan, where Gordon had become the Governor-General. At the close of the campaign, Slatin received permission to go to Africa. He started his travel via train and ship on 1 December 1878 and arrived in Khartoum in January 1879. After a brief period as financial inspector, Slatin was appointed Mudir (governor) of Dara, the south-western part of Darfur,   a post he held until early in 1881, when he was promoted Governor-General of Darfur by Muhammad Rauf Pasha and given the rank of bey.

Surrender of Dara
While administering Dara, Slatin conducted a successful campaign against one of the Darfur princes in revolt, and later, as governor of Darfur. Early in 1882 the Rizeigat tribesmen of Southern Darfur rebelled, led by Sheikh Madibbo ibn Ali, a convert to the cause of the religious leader known as the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad. Slatin gallantly defended his province and though he fought many successful battles, he gradually lost ground. At Om Waragat he lost 800 of his men in the first 20 minutes of the battle and was himself wounded three times but managed to fight his way back to Dara. Believing his troops attributed their failure in battle to the fact that he was a Christian, Slatin publicly adopted Islam in 1883 and took the Islamic name, Abd al Qadir.

The Mahdists then captured el Obeid, the capital of Kordofan, severing all Slatin's links with Khartoum. When Hicks Pasha's expedition was annihilated at the Battle of Shaykan in 1883, Slatin finally surrendered to his old enemy the Mahdist Emir Madibbo, refusing to make any further sacrifice of life in a hopeless cause. When the Mahdists reached Khartoum, an attempt was made to use him to induce the commander Charles George Gordon, now Governor-General of Sudan, to surrender. This failing, Slatin was placed in chains, and on the morning of 26 January 1885, an hour or two after the fall of Khartoum, Gordon's head was brought to the camp and shown to the captive. After the sudden death of the Mahdi the same year, Slatin was kept at Omdurman by his successor, the Khalifa Abdullahi, being treated alternately with savage cruelty and comparative indulgence. During his captivity, he worked as adviser and interpreter for the Khalifa, and was made to serve in his personal retinue of bodyguards.

Escape from captivity
At length, after over eleven years captivity, he was able to escape, with the help of Sir Reginald (then Major) Wingate of the Egyptian Intelligence Department and, in a perilous 1000 km and three-week journey across the desert, reaching Aswan, Egypt in March 1895. In a remarkable book, Fire and Sword in the Sudan, written in the same year and issued in English and German in 1896, Slatin gave not only a personal narrative of fighting and serving the Mahdists but a comprehensive account of the Sudan under the rule of the Khalifa. The book, edited by F. R. Wingate, became a bestseller. The German version was published by the Brockhaus Verlag in Leipzig entitled "Feuer und Schwert im Sudan. Meine Kämpfe mit den Derwischen, meine Gefangenschaft und Flucht.1879–1895." His book became an important inspiration for the German author Karl May and his trilogy "Im Lande des Mahdi". He also published another book entitled "Elf Jahre in der Gefangenschaft des Mahdi".

Raised to the rank of Pasha by the Khedive, Slatin was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of the Bath by Queen Victoria. In autumn 1895, he was granted an audience with Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Queen Victoria made him an honorary Member (fourth class) of the Royal Victorian Order in 1896.

On the eve of his surrender to the Mahdi at Christmas 1883, he had resolved, if he regained his liberty, to use the knowledge he would acquire while in captivity for the eventual benefit of the country, and after a year's rest he took part, as an officer on the staff of the Egyptian army, in the campaigns of 1897–98 which ended in the capture of Omdurman.

Further service
For his services in these campaigns, he was created an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George by Queen Victoria in 1898 and in 1899 was knighted by Franz Joseph I of Austria. Also in 1899, he was made a brigadier-general in the British Army. In 1900 he was appointed inspector-general of the Sudan, in which capacity his mastery of Arabic and his profound knowledge of the land and peoples proved invaluable in the work of reconstruction undertaken by the Anglo-Egyptian government in that country. He was a close friend of the governor-general, F. R. Wingate, and was free to define his role as inspector-general without much interference from his colleagues and superiors. Never before or since did any official hold the title of inspector-general. He was a frequent guest of Queen Victoria.

In 1906, he was ennobled by Franz Joseph I of Austria. He was since styled "Freiherr von Slatin". In 1907, he was made an honorary major-general in the British army and in 1909 he was created an honorary Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order by King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. His rank in the Austro-Hungarian Army always remained Leutnant d.R.

His position as inspector-general of the Sudan terminated in 1914 due to the commencement of hostilities in World War I between Great Britain and Austria-Hungary.

He then headed the prisoners-of-war section of the Austrian Red Cross. He was awarded with the title Geheimrat by Franz Joseph I of Austria in December 1914.

He was involved in the plans of Charles I of Austria to get a separate peace with Great Britain and France.

Later life
He received absolution from the Pope for his conversion to Islam, which he had reversed.

During the years he served the British Empire, he became acquainted with Robert Baden-Powell and became his friend. So it was not surprising that he was asked to serve within the new founded Austrian Scout organisation. From 1914 to 1918, he was the Honorary Chief Scout of the Österreichischer Pfadfinderbund. In January 1929, a letter of Rudolf Carl von Slatin is published under the title Ehrenbundesfeldmeister (National Chief Scout) in the Austrian Scout Magazine "Unser Weg".

He was also an honorary member of the Royal Geographical Society.

In 1918, on behalf of the Austrian government led by Renner, he was instrumental, through his British contacts, in ensuring the supply of food and coal from Czechoslovakia for the beleaguered and starving inhabitants of Vienna. For this he was made an honorary citizen of Vienna in June 1932.

In 1919, he was a member of the Austrian delegation in St. Germain. and was responsible for the repatriation of Prisoners of War.

In 1919, a Scout group of the Österreichischer Pfadfinderbund in Klosterneuburg was named Slatin Pascha.

In November 1918, after the war, Slatin moved to Switzerland. In 1922 after the early death of his wife he moved to the South Tyrol and lived in a villa in Obermais a quarter of Meran. Every summer, with his daughter, he would visit his old Sudan comrades in England.

In November and December 1926, he visited the Sudan once again.

In June 1932, he and his daughter Anne Marie were guests of George V.

Personal life
On 21 June 1914, Rudolf Carl von Slatin married Baroness Alice von Ramberg. The wedding took place in the Votivkirche in Vienna. Together, they were the parents of:

 * Baroness Anne Marie von Slatin (1916–2007), who married Prince George Vladimirovitch Galitzine (1916–1992), son of Prince Vladimir Galitzine, in London in 1943.

He died on 4 October 1932, during an operation for cancer in Vienna,  and was buried on 6 October in the cemetery of Ober St. Veit, a suburb of Vienna. The Austrian government lauded him as a historical statesman and ordered a state funeral. His headstone lists his name as "Rudolf Statin Pascha".

Memory and legacy
In 1936, a drinking fountain was erected in Khartoum in his memory, but the bronze portrait plaque and dedication were removed in 1956 by the Sudanese government, after Sudan became independent. A Commemorative plaque is placed on his former house in Khartoum.

The Spitzvilla in Upper Austria near Traunkirchen is a memorial site for Rudolf Carl von Slatin. He bought it in 1897 and there entertained many grand persons of his epoch.

In 1967 the public-service German television channel ZDF produced a movie in two parts about Rudolf Carl von Slatin. It was titled Slatin Pascha. A documentary film about Slatin Pascha, Sudanese history and Sudan today was produced by Thomas Macho for the Austrian company Fischer Film in 2011. The film, entitled "Slatin Pasha-On Her Majesty’s Service" (Slatin Pascha-Im Namen ihrer Majestät) started in the Austrian Cinemas on 1 June 2012.

At the Austrian National Jamboree in 1961 a Subcamp was named Slatin Pascha.

An Old Scouts Guild, affiliated with the Pfadfinder-Gilde Österreichs is named Slatin Pascha. An Old Scout Group, belonging to the Österreichischer Pfadfinderbund in Vienna is named Slatin Pascha. A Scout Group in Vienna, belonging the National Scout Organisation Pfadfinder Österreichs, was also named Slatin Pascha.

In October 2011 a stamp was issued commemorating Slatin Pascha, Emmerich Teuber and the Viennese Scoutleader Kara Barteis.

His captivity and escape inspired the comics creators Mino Milani and Sergio Toppi for a comic story with the title "L'Uomo del Nilo" (The man of the Nile) in a series with the title "Un uomo un'avventura" (A man, an adventure) by Sergio Bonelli Editore

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Vfd anyone? Or if not NPOV, possibly "original research"?GraemeLeggett 11:42, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I think there's enough there for an article, but it needs a new title and introduction — the present one is obscure and not really related to WW2, in which "precision bombing" was rarely possible or even intended. Grant65 (Talk) 13:40, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

G65, you've missed the point of the article. The stuff about modern precision bombing is context. OTOH, I think there is scope for an article like "Comparison of accuracy of contemporary and WW II bombs" as this is the subject of a variety of popular and sustained misconceptions. It seems a good article on the topic of the title. Mr. Jones 09:06, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

I think that article comes close to consensus -- except for the Atomic Bombings where NPOV may be close to impossible. It does need to be sourced and some general cleanup would be good. Robert A West 19:27, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The question of weapons accuracy goes all through military history, where each war fuels technological advancement, to improve prior weapons, that the military leaders have trained their troops on the basis of. In the US Civil War, the death rate at Gettysburg was much larger than most battles of the Napoleonic era, because the troops had been drilled on long guns whose accuracy and range had vasly improved, without changing tactics to compensate for that.  In WW II, advances in machine guns, and WMD were a huge surprise. User:AlMac|(talk) 12:14, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Total War when invented
I changed a section of the introduction to read:
 * Prior to the 20th century, the proportion of non-combatants who died as a direct result of war was low compared to the deaths of combatants, but with the increasing mechanization of war, successive wars saw an increase in non-combatants’ deaths. However, there were numerous cases in Central European history, where nations would invade others, kill off or enslave the entire population, so as to colonize the territory with their people, only to have the same done to them a generation or so later. Total war, a modern invention meaning the commitment to war of an entire nations, resources and peoples blurs what constitutes a legitimate target, when the civilian population itself is also a form of materiel

I need to cite some of those Central European cases so you know what I am getting at. This concept of total war was not something invented by WW II, it just got greater publicity due to the growth in democracies and news media. User:AlMac|(talk) 12:20, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Genghis Khan is probably the first military leader to wage Total war in most European history books, but he did not start it. He had sent ambassadors to some city in Persia, when he wanted to get in on the caravan trade to China, at which point he was ruthless organizing among his own people, but not in warring outside the Mongols.  That city killed all of his peaceful envoys, quite brutally, so he attacked the city, killed all the occupants, salted the earth so nothing could grow there, and forbade people, on pain of death, to mention the city name again. To this day, history only knows what happened, not the name of the city.
 * The death rate in Europe thanks to the Mongol invasion, as a proportion of the total population, was probably greater than what happened in WW II.
 * One of the causes of the current war on terrorism was the conflict between Christianity and Islam, known today as the Crusades. There was also the effort to convert people to a particular religion, such as the Inquisition.  This was not a conflict where civilians were spared, rather it was one that specifically targeted civilians.
 * Poland and some other nations were overrun numerous times in medieval times, in fact the definitions of borders between Central European nations was redrawn many times, and each time the civilian population in the areas that changed hands, took casualities far out of proportion to the military casualities.
 * Look at map of Europe before and after WW I, and a few hundred years further into the past. Whole peoples were obliterated. When Austria Hungary Russia and other empires lost WW I, and the other peoples grabbed the territory, they were just trying to recover what had been taken from them centuries earlier.
 * The breakup of Yugoslavia into what is wanted by various peoples of the Balkans is the best contemporary example of what was going on for centuries, long before WW II. For each special interest culture there, they see an opportunity to recover what had been taken from them centuries ago.

 * To quote the Total War article, "total war is a 20th century term". I might be willing to accept a slightly wider definition, which the article addresses, but the Mongols, the Crusaders, &c, &c, were not waging total war. If you associate total war with vernichtungskrieg, that's fine, but that isn't how WP or most comentators define things. Wars of annihilation have clearly always been possible, and have been implemented, total wars have not. Be that as it may, this article is certainly in need of attention. Angus McLellan 22:51, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

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I have redirected this article to Strategic bombing during World War II because they've covering the same content, except that the other article is larger, more heavily edited, and referenced. Tuba mirum 13:06, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Well done I agree with the redirect. --Philip Baird Shearer 16:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

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Richard Nolan (disambiguation)

Rick Nolan is a Minnesota politician.

Richard Nolan may also refer to
 * Dick Nolan (American football) (1932–2007), American football player, father of Mike Nolan, former head coach of San Francisco 49ers
 * Dick Nolan (musician) (1939–2005), Canadian singer, songwriter, and guitarist
 * Richard Thomas Nolan (born 1937), retired Episcopal clergyman, philosophy/religion professor, and author
 * Richard J. Nolan (1848–1905), Medal of Honor recipient
 * Richard C. Nolan, American football coach
 * Richard L. Nolan, American business school professor

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The Paleface (1948 film)

The Paleface is a 1948 American Comedy Western film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bob Hope as "Painless Potter" and Jane Russell as Calamity Jane. In the movie, Hope sings the song "Buttons and Bows" (by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans). The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year.

The film had a sequel, which is written and directed this time around by its co-writer Frank Tashlin, called Son of Paleface, in 1952. In 1968, Don Knotts remade the film as The Shakiest Gun in the West.

Plot
Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) is busted out of a sheriff's jail by a couple of government agents under Governor Johnson (Charles Trowbridge) and Commissioner of Internal Affairs Emerson (Stanley Andrews). Johnson and Emerson wish to hire her to uncover white traders illegally selling guns to an Indian tribe near Buffalo Flats, one of the frontier areas; because the agents they previously sent to investigate have turned up dead, they feel they need a new approach and have conceived a plan to use Jane, both as a woman and skilled gunfighter. In return for her services, Johnson and Emerson offer her a full pardon for her past crimes.

The plan is for Jane to meet in Port Deerfield with Jim Hunter, another government agent, pose with him as a married couple, and join a settler's trek to the area where the gun running is taking place. However, the mastermind behind the gun smuggling is revealed to be Jasper Martin (Jackie Searl), Johnson's secretary. Jane finds Hunter dead and herself hounded by assassins. Evading an attempt on her life, she hitches a ride with Peter "Painless" Potter (Bob Hope), a travelling dentist fleeing town following one of his habitual blunders, and marries him to maintain her cover and to coerce him into joining the wagon train. The gun smugglers also join, to ensure delivery of a stash of dynamite and to track the federal agent sent to thwart them, believing Potter is their target. After Potter mistakenly leads part of the wagon train into Indian territory, and while they are taking a rest at a log cabin, they are attacked by the Indians. Locked out, Potter hides inside a barrel and shoots wildly while Jane secretly takes out several Indians from inside. Potter is credited with this achievement, reinforcing the smugglers' assumptions.

After arriving in Buffalo Flats, Jane meets with her contact, Hank Billings (Clem Bevans), and tasks him to find out where the dynamite will be delivered. Meanwhile, the smugglers concoct a plan which results in Potter incurring the wrath of Big Joe, a bad-tempered gunslinger (Jeff York). When this clash leads to a duel, Jane initially plans to allow Potter to be killed, to throw off the smugglers, but instead ends up aiding him again because she wants to use him as a decoy and because she has begun to fall in love with him.

The same night, Billings reports to Jane that the conspirators have hidden the dynamite in the undertaker's shop, then dies from an arrow in his back. Jane manages to manipulate Potter into going to the undertaker's to scope out who comes to pick up the dynamite; she prepares to follow in his wake, but both are captured by the smugglers and taken to the Indians' camp, where Martin has arrived with the rest of his weapons shipment. In order to punish Potter for killing their braves, the medicine man (Henry Brandon) prepares to have Potter ripped apart by two bent-down trees, but the contraption instead catapults Potter into the forest, leading to the medicine man being banished. While returning to the camp to free Jane, Potter comes upon the medicine man, knocks him out and takes his clothes as a disguise.

Ignorant about the medicine man's banishment, Potter prepares to free Jane when the tribesmen close in on him. Taking a powder flask, Potter strays through the camp, laying a powder trail that eventually ignites and blows up some of the smuggled weapons. In the confusion, Jane and Potter escape in Potter's wagon, which is loaded with the dynamite, with the Indians and smugglers on their tail. After Potter drops a lit dynamite stick, he and Jane abandon the wagon just as the smugglers reach it and get themselves blown up. With the mission accomplished, Jane and Potter embark on their honeymoon for real. As the film ends, Jane (in Potter's stead) falls victim to one of the film's running gags.

Cast

 * Bob Hope as Painless Potter
 * Jane Russell as Calamity Jane
 * Robert Armstrong as Terris
 * Iris Adrian as Pepper (singing voice dubbed by Annette Warren)
 * Bobby Watson as Toby Preston (as Robert Watson)
 * Jackie Searl as Jasper Martin (as Jack Searl)
 * Joseph Vitale as Indian Scout
 * Charles Trowbridge as Gov. Johnson
 * Clem Bevans as Hank Billings
 * Jeff York as Big Joe
 * Stanley Andrews as Commissioner Emerson
 * Wade Crosby as Jeb
 * Chief Yowlachie as Chief Yellow Feather
 * Iron Eyes Cody as Chief Iron Eyes
 * John Maxwell as Village gossip
 * Tom Kennedy as Bartender
 * Henry Brandon as Wapato (Medicine Man)
 * Francis McDonald as Lance
 * Frank Hagney as Greg
 * Skelton Knaggs as Pete
 * Olin Howland as Undertaker
 * George Chandler as First Patient
 * Nestor Paiva as Second Patient

Production
The Paleface was filmed at the now defunct Conejo Valley Airport and also at Deerwood Stock Farm, both in Thousand Oaks, California.

The Painless Peter Potter character was to some extent inspired by a real dentist named Painless Parker.

Reception
The Paleface was a critical and commercial success, earning $4.5 million in domestic rentals, which made it Paramount's most successful film of 1948.

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a score of 100% based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. Variety wrote that the film is "a smart-aleck travesty on the west, told with considerable humor and bright gags" and that "Bob Hope has been turned loose on a good script."

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
 * 2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
 * "Buttons and Bows" – #87

The film is listed in the reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.

Radio adaptations
The Paleface was presented on Stars in the Air March 6, 1952. The 30-minute adaptation starred Bob Hope and Jane Russell recreating the roles they had in the film. Hope and Russell also starred in an adaptation on Screen Directors Playhouse on March 3, 1950.

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Has John De Mol left the company
Has John De Mol left the company ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.240.10.120 (talk • contribs)

 * He has and made $1 billion for his trouble. He is running a production company that are producing the Dutch version of Big Brother. His sister presented the Dutch version of Deal or no Deal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Macbet (talk • contribs)

 * He actually is setting up a new media company named Talpa Media (Talpa is de Mol’s last name in latin) which has just launched a television station in the Netherlands, and international radio stations in Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark. Just a while ago he build a new creative television company in Sweden. He plans to launch a second TV station in early 2007, also in the Netherlands. He's ready to take the world over... again . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.206.20.237 (talk • contribs)

Endemol Rumored to be on the bidding block
https://www.reuters.com/article/endemol-ma/rpt-content-hungry-bidders-circle-big-brother-maker-endemol-idUSL8N1U1141

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-endemol-m-a/content-hungry-bidders-circle-big-brother-maker-endemol-idUSKBN1JU2HL

According to this Reuters July 4th, 2018 Report that Endemol Shine Group Assets is rumored to go to several candidates in the Bidding process. The Candidates are Liberty Global, ITV, RTL Group’s FremantleMedia and LionsGate Entertainment were all named to be in talks to get Endemol's assets. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:C600:8270:9CE7:8768:A264:24F4 (talk) 15:10, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Films
Does Endemol deal in film production at all?--Shtove 12:15, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Ick Reality Show?
Under the Mexico heading - "Endemol Mexico also produced 2 seasons of ick reality show Fear Factor, also having VIP versions."

Not sure what this should be, but pretty sure 'ick' shouldn't be there. --Spesek (talk) 02:01, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

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Neil Gow

Neil Gow (1907–1919) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire who won the classic 2000 Guineas in 1910. In a racing career that lasted from spring 1909 until July 1910 the colt ran ten times and won seven races, attracting attention both for his racing ability and for his difficult and unpredictable temperament. He raced four times against the 1910 Epsom Derby winner Lemberg, winning twice outright and dead-heating on a third occasion. Neil Gow was one of the best British two-year-olds of 1909, when he won the National Stakes at Sandown Park, the Imperial Produce Stakes at Kempton Park and the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster. After winning the Craven Stakes on his first appearance of 1910 he overcame a strong field to win the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket. He finished fourth in the Derby and then dead-heated in the Eclipse Stakes. He was injured in training later that year and was retired from racing at the end of the season. He had limited success as a breeding stallion before his death in 1919.

Background
Neil Gow was a chestnut horse with a white blaze and four white socks bred by his owner Lord Rosebery, the former British Prime Minister. His sire, Marco, a male-line descendant of the Godolphin Arabian, was a versatile breeding stallion whose progeny included winners of the Grand National (Sprig) and Kentucky Derby (Omar Khayyam). Neil Gow's dam Chelandry won the 1000 Guineas in 1897 and became an outstanding broodmare, whose descendants included Gallant Fox, Never Say Die and High Chaparral.

Rosebery named the colt after the Scottish fiddler Niel Gow but "corrected" the spelling. He sent his colt into training with Percy Peck at his stable in Exning, Suffolk.

1909: two-year-old season
Neil Gow made his debut in the Woodcote Stakes at Epsom Downs Racecourse in June. He failed to settle in the race and finished unplaced behind Varco. In the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot later that month he finished third to an Admiral Hawke (a brother of Pretty Polly). On his next appearance he ran in the £5,000 National Breeders' Produce Stakes over five furlongs at Sandown in July and won easily from sixteen opponents despite being left behind at the start. Later in July he won a Prince of Wales's Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse, establishing himself as one of the leading British colts of his generation.

Neil Gow was then sent to Doncaster for the six furlong Champagne Stakes in which he again met Admiral Hawke as well as the unbeaten Lemberg who was made odds-on favourite after his win in the New Stakes. Neil Gow won impressively, leading to his being described as "probably the best two-year-old in England". Lemberg went on to beat Whisk Broom II in both the Middle Park Stakes and the Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket in October. On Neil Gow's final appearance of the season he was opposed by only two rivals in the £3,000 Imperial Produce Stakes at Kempton Park on 8 October. In a performance reminiscent of his run at Sandown, the colt was left ten lengths behind the other runners at the start, but recovered to catch Sunningdale in the closing stages and won by a head.

His win at Kempton took Neil Gow's earnings for the season to £10,306, making him the third most financially successful horse of the British season, behind the classic winning three-year-olds Bayardo and Minoru. In October, Neil Gow was given top weight in the Free Handicap, a rating of the year's best two-year-olds, three pounds above Lemberg who was in turn five pounds clear of Admiral Hawke and Whisk Broom. Concerns were however expressed about the colt's temperament, which had reportedly grown "worse with every public appearance".

1910: three-year-old season
Before the season began, there was much speculation concerning the riding plans of the American jockey Danny Maher. According to reports in the Telegraph he was offered £3,000 to partner Lemberg in the classics, but accepted a rival offer of £5,000 to ride Neil Gow, contingent on his winning the Derby. The booking of one of a leading jockey was seen as particularly important, given Neil Gow's reputation as a difficult horse to ride.

On his first appearance as a three-year-old, Neil Gow, carrying a ten-pound weight penalty, was matched against Whisk Broom in the Craven Stakes over Newmarket's Rowley Mile course on 14 April. He appeared beaten when losing his place two furlongs from the finish but produced an "extraordinary" run to overtake his rivals and won by three lengths despite being eased down by Maher in the closing stages. On a warm, sunny afternoon thirteen days later, Neil Gow started 2/1 favourite for the 2000 Guineas over the same course and distance, with Lemberg on 7/2. He was less troublesome before the race than he had been in the past, started reasonably well, and was able to track Lemberg throughout the race. The two favourites drew clear of the rest in the final furlong and Neil Gow, under a vigorous ride from Maher, prevailed by a short head in a “superlative” driving finish, with Whisk Broom two lengths back in third place.

Although he been beaten Lemberg on both their meetings, Neil Gow did not start favourite for the Derby. He was regarded as a doubtful stayer with an unreliable temperament although his defenders ascribed his occasionally difficult behaviour to "playfulness". His chances were compromised when he “sprang a curb” (became lame owing to a swollen hock) in one of his final training gallops, but he was allowed to take part as Rosebery did not want to let down members of the public who had already wagered on the horse. At Epsom on 1 June he started second favourite in front of a crowd estimated at 250,000, many dressed in black as a mark of respect to the recently deceased King Edward VII. Neil Gow became agitated and gave trouble at the start and failed to reproduce his best form finishing fourth of the fifteen runners behind Lemberg, Greenback and Charles O'Malley.

At Sandown on July Neil Gow faced Lemberg for the fourth and final time in a much anticipated contest for the Eclipse Stakes, then the most valuable race in England with a prize of £10,000. The relative merits of the two were much discussed and the race was expected to decide which of them would be regarded as the "horse of the year". Maher allowed the colt to settle towards the back of the six runner field while Bernard Dillon positioned Lemberg directly behind the pacemaker. Lemberg took a clear lead early in the straight but Neil Gow reduced his advantage and drew level twenty yards from the finish. The pair crossed the line together after a "sensational battle" and a dead-heat was declared. After what was described as the "race of the century", the owners agreed to divide the prize rather than subject their horses to a deciding heat. The contests between Neil Gow and Lemberg drew comparisons with the nineteenth-century rivalries, including those between The Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur (1850–1851) and between Bend Or and Robert the Devil (1880–1881). Neil Gow's share of the prize money took his earnings for the season to £11,635.

Neil Gow was prepared for a run in the St Leger but was withdrawn a week before the race after being injured in training. The injuries to his forelegs proved so serious that the colt was retired from racing and sent to stud.

Assessment and honours
In their book, A Century of Champions, based on the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Neil Gow a "superior" winner of the 2000 Guineas.

Stud record
Neil Gow stood as a stallion in England for eight seasons with mixed results. His most successful runner was Re-Echo who won the Cambridgeshire Handicap as a three-year-old in 1922, and was later exported to Argentina where he sired the undefeated champion Payaso. Neil Gow had some impact as a sire of broodmares, with his daughters producing the Oaks winners Rose of England and Chatelaine. He died on 21 April 1919.

Sire line tree

 * Neil Gow
 * Re-Echo
 * Payaso

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I Recently submitted and idea too their inventors group, they responded with what is called a contract for them to produce the product. Now they require $500.00 license/Patent before we go into production. My question is, are there any public records why I should not trust them?

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All news stations on Wikipedia have a list of the current and former news personalities at the station. For whatever reason, User "Sphsu" has removed this list on only this news station. In addition, a new meteorologist has recently joined the station.

I request that this section be added back just below the sentence "Formerly the market leader in ratings, WMC typically trails WREG by several ratings points, if not more.", under the heading "News Operation". Remove current "Former-on air staff" in lieu of a more expansive list at the bottom of this request.

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Newscast titles

 * Television 5 News/TV–5 News (1960–1970)
 * 5 on The Scene News (1970–1974)
 * NewsCenter 5 (1974–1976)
 * Action News 5 (1976–2014)
 * WMC Action News 5 (2014–present)

Station slogans

 * "The NewsCenter of The Mid–South" (1983–1989)
 * "The Mid–South's Only 24–Hour News Channel" (1990–1995)
 * "The Mid–South's News Leader" (1990–2001)
 * "Coverage You Can Count On. Every Day." (1992–1999)
 * "First To Care. First To Serve." (2014–present)

Current on-air staff

 * Anchors

 * Lindsey Brown - weekday mornings (4:30-7:00 a.m.) and weekdays at noon; also reporter
 * Andrew Douglas - weekday mornings (4:30-7:00 a.m.); also reporter
 * Kym Clark - weekday mornings (4:30-7:00 on WMC and 7:00-8:00 a.m. on WMC-DT2 Bounce TV)
 * Jarvis Greer - weekdays at 4:00 p.m.; also weeknight sports director
 * Pam McKelvy - weekdays at 4:00 p.m. (formerly at WREG 3)
 * Joe Birch - weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m.
 * Ursula Madden - weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m.
 * Kontji Anthony - weekend mornings (8:00-10:00 Saturdays and 8:00-9:00 a.m. Sundays); also reporter
 * Anna Marie Hartman - Saturdays at 6:00 and weekends at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
 * Ben Watson - Sunday mornings (8:00-9:00 a.m.); also weekday morning reporter

WMC Action News 5 Storm Tracking Team
 * Ron Childers (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and NWA Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m.
 * Dave Brown (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and NWA Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weeknights at 6:00 p.m.
 * Andrew Kozak (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist) - meteorologist; weekday mornings 4:30-7:00 on WMC and 7:00-8:00 a.m. on WMC-DT2 Bounce TV
 * Spencer Denton (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and NWA Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekdays at noon and 4:00 p.m.
 * Tim Van Horn - meteorologist; weekend mornings (8:00-10:00 Saturdays and 8:00-9:00 a.m. Sundays), Saturdays at 6:00 and weekends at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m.
 * Bailey Melton - meteorologist; fill-in

Sports team
 * Jarvis Greer - sports director; weeknights at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m.
 * Carrie Anderson - sports reporter/anchor; Saturdays at 6:00 and weekends at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m.
 * Ari Alexander - sports reporter/producer; fill-in weekend anchor

'''Reporters

 * Janice Broach - general assignment reporter
 * Michael Clark - North Mississippi reporter
 * Janeen Gordon - weekday morning traffic reporter
 * Shay Harris - general assignment reporter
 * Sasha Jones - general assignment reporter
 * Nick Kenney - general assignment reporter
 * Jason Miles - general assignment reporter
 * Amy Speropoulos - weekday morning reporter
 * Lauren Squires - general assignment reporter
 * Andy Wise - chief consumer investigator

Former on-air staff
--end source--
 * Lance Russell - freelance host; best known as the host of the live Championship Wrestling program on Saturday mornings (joined the station in 1977 from WHBQ-TV)
 * Dick Williams - host of Magicland (1966–1989)
 * Jack Eaton
 * Donna Davis - anchor
 * Richard Ransom - anchor; now at WREG
 * John Bryant - weather
 * George Brown - reporter; now at WREG
 * Joyce Peterson - anchor; moved to WATN until 2014
 * Darrell Phillips - reporter; now an attorney
 * Carrie McClure - anchor; now at WFAA-TV
 * Mike Puccinelli - anchor; now at WBBM-TV

 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. -- Red rose64 (talk) 09:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

News Personality Listing
All news stations on Wikipedia have a list of the current and former news personalities at the station. User "Sphsu" has removed this list on only this news station. In addition, a new meteorologist has recently joined the station. Also, "Sphsu" has deleted the Newscast Titles, which is commonplace for all news station Wiki articles.

All necessary info can be found here: http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/category/5645/news-team-biographies

In addition, it makes no sense to have a "Former on-air staff" section, but not list the "Current on-air staff"...

I've put in an edit request to return this information. — • ) 01:25, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * "All news stations" There has been a consensus developing against these. Most of the time they are just a list of non-notable people. If there are, in fact, notable staff members whose presence can be cited beyond those of the station itself, they can be included, but not like this. ViperSnake151   Talk  15:08, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * False, I have removed staff lists on WIBW-TV and WSAV recently. And as you point out in one of your edit summaries I cannot do them all over night, so I have been doing them when I do other edits on station articles. I have run across other that have been informed of this consensus on other station article talk, only for them (or a new editor) to come back return the information. It also customary only to have the current newscast branding.
 * Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material also gives the reasoning for not adding this information. Previous consensus was reached here:
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television_Stations/Archive_9
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television_Stations/Archive_10
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television Stations/Archive 9
 * There were probably more, you can go find them. Spshu (talk) 17:56, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

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Castaic Dam

Castaic Dam is an embankment dam in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, in the unincorporated area of Castaic. Although located on Castaic Creek, a major tributary of the Santa Clara River, Castaic Creek provides little of its water. The lake is the terminus of the West Branch of the California Aqueduct, part of the State Water Project. The dam was built by the California Department of Water Resources and construction was completed in 1973. The lake has a capacity of 325,000 acre.ft and stores drinking water for the western portion of the Greater Los Angeles Area.

Dimensions
Castaic is an earth-fill dam with its surfaces covered with boulders and cobble-sized rocks to prevent erosion. The dam is 340 ft high above the streambed, 425 ft above the foundations, and 5200 ft long, containing 44 e6yd3 of material. The maximum thickness of the base is 2350 ft. Flood waters are released through an ungated, concrete overflow spillway on the west side of the dam, emptying into a stilling basin called Castaic Lagoon (colloquially referred to as the "Lower Lake", while the larger Castaic Lake is called "Upper Lake" ). The total storage capacity of Castaic Lake is 325000 acre feet, of which 31000 acre feet is considered active capacity and 294000 acre feet are considered inactive. The inactive capacity is only used during periods of extended drought or interrupted water delivery, most recently in 2014. At maximum water elevation of 1515 ft AMSL, the lake covers 2235 acre, with 29 mi of shoreline. The much smaller Castaic Lagoon can hold 5560 acre feet and covers 200 acre.

Water supply
Castaic Lake is the lower and larger of two main storage reservoirs for the West Branch of the California Aqueduct. Water drawn from the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta is transported down the San Joaquin Valley via the California Aqueduct and pumped over the Tehachapi Mountains, where it splits into the East Branch – providing water for Riverside and San Bernardino and eastern Los Angeles Counties – and the West Branch, which supplies western Los Angeles and parts of Ventura County. The West Branch first enters Pyramid Lake, formed by Pyramid Dam, before traveling through the 7.2 mi Angeles Tunnel to the upper end of Castaic Lake. Together, the two reservoirs can store 505000 acre feet, or about a year's supply of water. During normal operations, Castaic Lake serves as a regulatory reservoir for water delivered through the California Aqueduct, releasing it at times of peak demand. However, the dam and lake was also built to provide a pool of "emergency storage" that can be drawn down if water deliveries from northern California are interrupted, whether due to construction, equipment malfunction or severe drought.

Below the dam, the majority of the water flows to Los Angeles via a system known as the Foothill Feeder, operated by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The water travels about 20 mi south via a 16.75 ft diameter pipeline to the Jensen Filtration Plant near San Fernando, where it connects to the municipal water system. The mostly underground, pre-stressed concrete pipe has walls nearly 4 ft thick. Water from the Foothill Feeder is stored in the smaller Los Angeles Reservoir in the San Fernando Valley. The water continues south via the 45 mi Sepulveda Feeder, which provides water to Los Angeles proper and other municipalities in south Los Angeles and Orange Counties. The main customer water agencies are the Central Basin Municipal Water District, West Basin Municipal District, and Municipal Water District of Orange County. As many as 12 million people in these areas receive their full or supplemental water supply from Castaic Lake and the feeder system.

A smaller portion of the water supply is distributed by the Castaic Lake Water Agency. The service area covers about 195 mi2 in Ventura and north Los Angeles counties, providing water to about 287,000 people. The main constituents of the agency include the Los Angeles County Waterworks District No. 36, Newhall County Water District, Santa Clara Water Division, and Valencia Water Company.

Power generation
The 11 MW Foothill Feeder hydroelectric power plant is located at the base of the dam and generates electricity when water is needed in Los Angeles. In 2009, the Foothill Feeder plant generated 49 million kilowatt hours (KWh).

The 1,495 MW (Nominal) Castaic Pumped-Storage Plant is located at the upper end of the west arm of Castaic Lake. The Elderberry Forebay Dam separates the upper arm from the rest of Castaic Lake, maintaining a small pool for power generation known as the Elderberry Forebay, serving as the lower reservoir of the pumped-storage operation. Pyramid Lake, located 7.2 mi to the west, serves as the upper. When demand for electricity is high, usually during the afternoon, water is withdrawn from Pyramid Lake and released into Castaic Lake. At night, when demand is low, water is pumped back into Pyramid Lake. The sale of peak electricity reduces the Department of Water Resources' overall electric costs for operating the California Aqueduct.

In 2009, the Castaic pumped-storage plant generated a net 465 million KWh.

Safety
Due to seismic vulnerabilities, and its proximity to the San Andreas Fault, the dam has one of the lowest safety ratings in Los Angeles County.

title: Castaic Dam