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More hockey stats
Hello Mark! You helped me out last time in my quest for stats from many years ago in the NHL and I was wondering if you can help me out again for the 1950-51 NHL season. Google has failed me again and so have a few other sites I use regularly. First, I need help finding the rest of the stats for a goaltender named Al Rollins (minutes played, goals against (not average), and shut outs). Secondly, (i Know I am asking a lot) the playoff matchups between the Bruins vs. Leafs and Canadiens vs. Red Wings. All the tables are built, it is just a matter of pluggin in information, which I can't find. I would keep looking on the net (I assume that if I keep on looking, I will find the right info eventually), but I have to go to work now and don't have time. Thanks! Masterhatch 26 August 2005

 * I found Al Rollins' regular season stats, but I don't have any information on the playoffs. --93JC 18:47, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Masterhatch 28 August 2005

Intresting Ayyavazhi Family
Hai Mark, there are intresting articles about Ayyavazhi, a new religion on both mythology and religiosity. Wikipedia is rich with this topic in English, but poor in other languages. Since french is a leading language in Wikipedia it is better to translate the contents on this AYYAVAZHI family to french. - Paul Raj

Dodge Spirit replacement
Alright, I did my research, and it turns out the Spirit was the designated replacement for the Aries, while the Shadow was made to replace the Omni. If you don't believe me, check out these links...

http://www.allpar.com/eek/k/kron.html http://www.allpar.com/model/sundance.html

--ApolloBoy 23:58, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Check your discussion page for my reply. 93JC 02:12, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Hey, I was trying to tell you guys but somebody kept on putting Shadow replaces aries back in. --matador300 20:59, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Excuse me...
Why are you reverting my changes to the list of Chrysler platforms? The term "sport compact" is widely accepted by many auto enthusiasts, and a search for the term on Google turns up 5,510,000 hits! I'd like to know why you object to me using that term. --ApolloBoy 01:38, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

 * It's widely accepted by the pubescent ricers who use the term. No one, and I mean no one else uses the term. Except as a pejorative.
 * Beyond that it is, above all, ambiguous. There is no clear, concise definition. Even the "sport compact" article itself begins with a section entitled "Classification & debate". Coupé on the other hand begins with this:
 * "A coupé (from the French for "cut") or coupe is a car with a close-coupled interior offering either two seats or 2+2 seating."
 * Fits Talon/Laser and Daytona/Laser to a tee. That's why I keep changing it back. --93JC 04:35, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

 * And if you take a table like that, what as wrong with the AMC specifcations( otherthan it

looked awful) --matador300 21:04, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

About your Pontiac Phoenix pic...
Hi there, I saw the new Pontiac Phoenix image you uploaded. I am aware of the issues with my pic, but you may go ahead and replace my pic with yours. Besides, yours is of better quailty LOL --ApolloBoy 02:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Alrighty. :) --93JC 02:46, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting the strange vandalism to my userpage. =) --ApolloBoy 01:16, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. I've been watching 216.20.113.244 and 24.63.10.62 like a hawk, reverting any vandalism they'd performed (mostly changing table heading colours in automotive articles, as you've undoubtedly noticed). I guess Mr. 216.20.113.244 noticed you had been changing them back too, and decided it would be funny to make stupid, vandalistic edits to your user page.--93JC 22:07, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Infobox Automobile changes
FYI, as noted in the discussion page, I have changed the syntax for Template:Infobox Automobile in a few areas: "engine" and "body_style" are no longer plural; "shares_with" has become "related"; and "similar_cars" is now just "similar". Thanks for your contributions! --SFoskett 14:51, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Got it chief.--93JC 20:49, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

GM Minivans
Hi, I was wondering if you would support me in the discussion to keep the GM minivans separate, rather than merge them with the Chevrolet Lumina APV and Chevrolet Venture articles. I'd really appreciate your help ans support. -Bavaria 17:36, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Important WikiProject Automobiles Discussion
Hello! As a WikiProject Automobiles member, I just thought you might want to input your opinions on an important discussion we're currently having about whether articles regarding similar vehicles should be merged into one or split by brand. If you would like to comment or read further, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Automobiles. Thank you in advance for your thoughts and feedback. Airline 23:15, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Linking Dates
Hi! I noticed you re-wikified some non specific dates on Chevrolet Corsica. I just wanted to draw your attention to WP:CONTEXT and WP:MOSDATE, both of which recommend only specific dates (or those with special context) be linked. Just thought you should know, to save your effort in future. I was linking dates myself until someone told me. Best wishes, Rockpocket 04:07, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Good to know, thanks. --93JC 04:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

stampede city boy
hey, where do you live? I grew up in calgary, left in 68 just before it turned from mudhole cowtown to prairie metropolis. spent all my time in SW calgary. Gzuckier 18:09, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Request for comments on article naming
Talk:World Junior Ice Hockey Championships If you're interested. Thanks. ColtsScore 09:20, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Eagle Premier automotive flops
Please don't just delete this. It's not POV, it is quite verifiable from the other WP Pages. Please edit as you see fit, but the Premier was the most important Eagle car, and also the most important for Chrysler. I'll be looking for your version of this edit.

"At enormous expense, a new design and state of the art plant for created for the Eagle Premier which was far more advanced than K-car or Taurus derivatives, which unfortunatlely Americans preferred to continue to buy droves. The plans and factory would however be Chrysler's starting point for the highly successful LH sedans."

--matador300 19:31, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Please... "far more advanced than K-car or Taurus derivatives, which unfortunately Americans preferred to continue to buy in droves" is blatant POV. I have no idea why you're on this great crusade to make the Premier out to be the automotive messiah, but frankly I think everyone at the Automobiles Wikiproject is getting tired of it. Your wildly speculative assertions have no place here. You want to rant and rave about how great the Premier and AMC were, and how the Matador is a direct predecessor to the current Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger/Magnum, fine: start a blog. Or join an automotive forum. Until you start substantiating your heretofore dubious (dare I say bogus) claims take it somewhere else. --93JC 20:20, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 * The premier article pretty much verifies the claim that the Premier is the basis for the LH. If you can't state how removing this statement improves the article, then you are vandalizing by removing valid content. Your claim of POV is wrong, it's exactly why the premier failed, nobody cared, they kept buying more primitive cars. Now please leave the poor Premier alone. --matador300 20:58, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

 * You edited the Premier article, jackass. God you're full of shit... --93JC 03:55, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 * The article is also correct, and I'm full of facts, and your full of something else.--matador300 06:05, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

 * If you're so full of facts how about you show a shred of proof? Back up your facts by citing them. --93JC 16:06, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Speaking of facts, I didn't write this article:

Brampton Assembly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Brampton Assembly is a DaimlerChrysler automobile factory in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. The factory was opened by American Motors in 1986 as Bramalea Assembly, a state-of-the-art facility specifically designed to produce the Eagle Premier. It was acquired (along with the rest of AMC) by Chrysler in August 1987. Production of the Chrysler LH platform cars began in June 1992 and continued with the updated LH cars in 1997. Production switched to the rear-wheel drive Chrysler LX platform cars in January 2004.

The nearby Brampton Satellite Stamping plant opened in 1991.

[edit] Products 1988-1992 Eagle Premier 1990-1992 Dodge Monaco 1993-2004 Chrysler Concorde 1993-2004 Dodge Intrepid 1993-1997 Eagle Vision 1994-2001 Chrysler LHS 1994-1996 Chrysler New Yorker 1999-2004 Chrysler 300M 2005-present Chrysler 300 2005-present Dodge Magnum 2006-present Dodge Charger [edit] AMC

Now repeat after me, the previous large AMC car before the Premier was....

I believe an apology is due.... I have officially added you to my list of "bad guys". --matador300 07:19, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

AMC collectibles
So what's the REAL problem with that page? Somehow I don't think your edits were truly made in good faith. You realize that edits not made in good faith are in ... bad faith, right?? But in my short experience with WPers, it seems there's an awful lot of that going around and it's pretty much tolerated. --matador300 06:05, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

 * The "REAL" problem with that page is spelled out in the deletion notice at the top of the page: the subject does not merit having an article in Wikipedia. What is particularly notable about AMC collectibles? Over any other car collectibles? Jack squat, therefore it should be deleted. --93JC 15:49, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Sir, I suspect you harbor ill will towards my self and my contributions. Toy collecting is something that I do, and I take offence if you imply that the Hot Wheels Openfire is somehow less deserving of an article than the original AMC Gremlin. Do you also advocate deleting all articles about toys, and that Congress ban the publication of books and magazine on toy collecting? Do you have any expertise, knowledge, or credentials with regard to toy collecting? I suspect you do not own even one toy car, if you do please correct my impression. Please take your knocking down of other people's sandcastles elsewhere where you are better appreciated, and not causing hard feelings. --matador300 20:07, 9 July 2006 (UTC).
 * Who cares if 93JC doesn't have any "credentials" in the way of toy collecting (do they even exist?), what matters is that you don't seem to understand the concept of notability. Read this policy, and you'll soon see what we're getting at. Also, nobody has "sandcastles" at Wikipedia, because nobody owns an article, even ones that you created. Now stop trying to portray us as antagonists and understand Wikipedia policies throughly. --ApolloBoy 20:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I used to have hundreds of toy cars. What that has to do with the matter at hand is completely beyond me. Read Notability. Then read Notability again. And again, if you still haven't gotten the point: AMC TOYS ARE NOT NOTABLE. You want to write an article about toy cars? Fine, make one about ALL CARS, not just AMC cars. No one gives a shit about AMC toys, specifically. --93JC 22:33, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

 * "No one gives a shit about AMC toys, specifically". Actually, that is a verifiably false statement. You just made that up without thinking, didn't you? I am living proof of the existence of somebody who cares about AMC cars because that is a specialty field of mine, and for example, I can tell you that nobody ever made a toy of an ambassador. By the way, by using the word "shit" in a disrespectful manner, you are violating civility rules I believe, which leads me to believe your actions may not be in good faith, and deleting content not in good faith is vandalism.

 * Nothing in the passage you pointed me to bans the creation of a page that maps real cars to their replicas. The fact that classic auto magazines specifically mention certain models of replicas means that they are verifiable not only from their existence on web page listings, but also in printed magazines.

 * There is an article on Hot Wheels, and one on Matchbox. Why is the existence of a Hot Wheels Packin Pacer any less notable than a full size Pack Pacer? Where is the rule that a full size car merits a note, but a toy that fetches $5,000 on ebay is not worth noting?

 * I am sorry to say that unless I see a change in attitude, I must categorize both 93JC and Apolloboy as "bad guys" and I must treat you accordingly. --matador300 07:29, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm quaking in my boots. Let's set things straight:
 * 1) I don't censor my comments for the protection of your virgin ears. Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits.
 * 2) You're treading a few wikipedia rules yourself.
 * A peace offering: you write your car toy articles. If you can make them expansive, depthful articles I'll leave them alone. If they all turn out to be short lists they'll probably end up deleted anyway. By the same token, I expect you to learn to articulate your thoughts without being blatantly biased ("[The Eagle Premier was] far more advanced than K-car or Taurus derivatives, which unfortunately Americans preferred to continue to buy in droves" for example is POV. Remove 'unfortunately', as it is blatantly biased to the Premier, and 'far more advanced', as it is speculative and subjective, and you might have a NPOV phrase).
 * Fair? --93JC 17:39, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * "I must categorize both 93JC and Apolloboy as "bad guys" and I must treat you accordingly."
 * That IS NOT the way to behave on Wikipedia. If you get to the point where you categorize people as "bad guys", maybe you should relax and take a break. It does a body good... --ApolloBoy 18:10, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh yeah? Well heck geez darn it all tarnation to you all too. The bit about far more advanced was written by persons other than me (even though the Premier is one of the few cars even more obscure than the matador, it too eviddently as a fan base). I will try to reference articles to actual mentions in collecting books and magazines if it helps. A non-notable topic does not draw editors, so it says, so could you pleeez just give it a chance. There are certainly many mor popular cars that don't have collectible articles yet, so whether or not nobody gives a flying fart about AMC should not be a determining measure of "of note". Plus I hope the car article people don't start exercising  their clout over the poor little worthless toy car pages. --matador300 20:56, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Cavalier
What is your problem man? It says that Monza and Chevette covered Chevy sales until Cavalier. How does that say Cavalier does not replace Chevette? Can you even find one citation to directly support your unverifiable original research that the Chevette was not replaced by the Cavalier? What 4 door sedan or wagon did the Cavalier replace? They replaced the 5-door and 4 door chevette,that's what. I give you a citation and you invert the thesis. What car was the entry level US -built chevy?? Chevette. After Cavalir, what was US built entry level car? Cavalier. Why are you standing on this, it makes no sense, is somebody paying you to hold your unverifiable view? If people are this daft, it's no wonder I upset people. --matador300 19:35, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh, you're the guy that figured out this bit of WP OR?? No wonder --matador300 19:37, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Dodge Spirit replacement Alright, I did my research, and it turns out the Spirit was the designated replacement for the Aries, while the Shadow was made to replace the Omni. If you don't believe me, check out these links...

http://www.allpar.com/eek/k/kron.html http://www.allpar.com/model/sundance.html

--ApolloBoy 23:58, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * That was an old comment I made a long time ago when I didn't know so much about Wikipedia and why Allpar is considered an unreliable source. --ApolloBoy 20:42, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh Artie...
 * The entry-level Chevrolet before Cavalier: Chevette.
 * The entry-level Chevrolet after Cavalier debuted: Chevette
 * The entry-level Chevrolets after 1984: Sprint & Chevette
 * The entry-level Chevrolet after 1987: Sprint, until the Geo nameplate came into existence
 * The Edmunds article states the Cavalier replaced Monza. Just Monza. Monza replaced Vega. Just Vega. The entire article is built around the Vega -> Monza -> Cavalier ->Cobalt lineage. They mention the Chevette a grand total of once, stating the Cavalier was "above the decrepit Chevette". Besides, since you're so keen on EPA size classes, look them up: Chevette was subcompact, while Cavalier was compact. --93JC 19:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Go look at the talk again. Six articles. Everybody but you agrees the lineage of small chevys is Corvair, Vega / Monza, Chevette, and then Cavalier, including the Edmunds article you claim proves that the hatchback/notchback/4 dr/ wagon Cavalier only replaced the coupe Monza. You do know the Monza was a Mustang II mini-pony car right? It was absolutely not a 4 door family sedan. That was the Chevette's job. Is here some other lineage I should know about? You were aware of this lineage,  I hope. Or perhaps you dispute it. You can knock it off now and save yourself further humiliation, or I shall be forced to go to a real library and check out or buy a real book, and see who comes out on top. How could a car become a #1 seller in the US if it only replaced a sporty 2 door Mustang II competitor, instead of the entire Vega niche, which was mostly occupied by Chevette?? If I end up completely or mostly right, what would you do?? This is precisely how really silly information gets into WP and becomes impossible to fix because of stubborn folks like you, like the F-14 guy. --matador300 22:01, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Six "articles". Six anecdotes, one of which proves me right, one which calls them "import fighters", one which infers they were both cheap, one written by an amateur, one that infers they were outdated, and one that isn't an article at all. --93JC 23:01, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Contact
93JC, would you mind please shooting me an e-mail using the "E-mail this user" tool on my talk page? Thanks. Scheinwerfermann 17:38, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:1991DodgeSpiritES.jpg
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 * Meh, whatever. Delete it, I don't really give a shit. --93JC 02:35, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

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Ice Hockey Project discussion of hockey player notability and project scope
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Automotive article photos
Hi, 93JC. I'm trying to move the ball forward on this topic and hold namecalling and invective to a minimum here on WPA. If you have a moment and can add your thoughts, the odds of a productive outcome would likely improve. Thanks. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 22:35, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Seals seasons
Hello Mark. I just wanted to say that you have done some really great work on the NHL Seals seasons. I am impressed with the way you had all the trades outlined too. Nicely done Maple Leaf (talk) 00:32, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the pat on the back, it's very much appreciated. The Seals are a particularly tough team to research as they had very poor media coverage throughout their existence. The trades took a long time to compile, going through my copy of Total Hockey for the better part of a day. Hopefully I and others will get a chance to expand the content on the pages beyond the stats and trades. 93JC (talk) 01:57, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

1963 NHL Amateur Draft
As you seem to be the editor originally converting the NHL drafts to a tabled format I thought I would drop you a note. I've been cleaning up some of the NHL Draft pages and after fully converting the 1963 Amateur draft to wikitable I wanted to ask if this is the color you were going for? If so I'll continue to update the others in the series. If not please suggest a color more appropriate. Slysplace   talk   ♫  19:30, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Disregard, I've changed the color to something a bit darker, Matched it to the 2008 Draft and think I'll continue on this path for consistency sake Slysplace    talk   ♫  23:29, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

NHL standings templates
Didn't know I was reverting, as I created most of the Template namespace standings files, mostly from NHL seasons articles. This has been discussed at WT:HOCKEY. Bolding is the convention we use. We need to follow convention more, not less. Look over the vast majority of standings and that is what is in place. As for sorting, this was discussed also. It is most useful for the goals for/against and PIM categories. No sorting on the games played. Admittedly for some of the times when divisions were small, it doesn't mean much. Alaney2k (talk) 20:13, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

The Diacritics
I'm enjoying the discussion at WikiProject Ice hockey. However, I can't get too involved as my reputation is destroyed. Hopefully (someday) all dios will be eliminated. GoodDay (talk) 19:44, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The pro-diacritics arguments are just so bafflingly obtuse it's difficult to put into words! "But, but, if you don't include the diacritics then you'll screw up the pronunciation! The diacritics make it a totally different letter! Wah wah wah!" I'm all for including the native spelling in the lead (e.g. "Sandis Ozolinsh (Sandis Ozoliņš; ; born August 3, 1972) is a Latvian ice hockey player", etc.), but to have the foreign spelling overrule the COMMONLY ACCEPTED ENGLISH SPELLING is absolutely ridiculous. As if you or I have a fucking clue to how pronounce ņ anyway! 93JC (talk) 19:59, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Indeed. It's good to see you & others continuing the argument, as I tended to get too passionate about the topic. GoodDay (talk) 20:05, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Djssaso stance of English version is the wrong way & insulting is as immovable as my stance of Use the English version, no exceptions. GoodDay (talk) 15:58, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

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Archer Maclean

Archer Maclean (28 January 1962 – 17 December 2022) was a British video game programmer. He was the author of Dropzone which he developed for the Atari 8-bit computers and was ported to other systems. Maclean also developed the Commodore 64 version of International Karate and the sequel, IK+ which was developed for the Commodore 64 and ported to other systems. He was also known for his series of snooker and pool games, which commenced with Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker in 1991 (originally called 147).

Maclean left Awesome Studios—the studio he helped found and establish—in July 2005 and ran Awesome Play.

Maclean died on 17 December 2022, at the age of 60.

Early life
Maclean showed interest in electronics from an early age, being self taught by way of dismantling electronic devices. In 1972, he dismantled a television. In 1975, he commenced working part time in a television repair shop in Brentwood, Essex.

After a chance meeting with its owner in 1976, Maclean started part-time work at electronics company Ambit International. This work allowed Maclean to start spending "unfeasibly large amounts of money on computer hardware, as a school kid".

Works
Maclean's first game, Dropzone, was heavily influenced by Stargate and Defender.

Maclean's final title for Awesome Studios was Archer Maclean's Mercury completed in 2005. The follow-up versions were Mercury Meltdown for the PlayStation Portable, Mercury Meltdown Remix for the PlayStation 2, and Mercury Meltdown Revolution for the Wii. Maclean then developed a futuristic racing game, WheelSpin, for the Wii.

Maclean also wrote a monthly column for Retro Gamer magazine.

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Johnny Edwards (musician)

John Douglas Edwards is an American rock singer who sang for the bands Buster Brown, Montrose, King Kobra, Wild Horses, Northrup, Royal Jelly and is best known as the second lead singer of the rock band Foreigner.

Biography
Edwards' first band of note was Buster Brown from Louisville, Kentucky. Together with drummer James Kottak, who had joined the group for their 1985 sophomore album, Sign of Victory, Edwards was recruited by guitarist Ronnie Montrose to appear on his 1987 album, Mean. Now based in California, Edwards teamed up with the band Northrup whose members were approached by drummer Carmine Appice to join forces in a new version of King Kobra. The resulting King Kobra III' album was released in 1988 but Appice's focus was already on Blue Murder by then and King Kobra split up.

With Northrup not making any progress and a deal with Enigma Records falling apart, Edwards joined former Buster Brown and Montrose bandmate James Kottak, fresh out of Kingdom Come, and Kingdom Come guitarist Rick Steier in a new band called Wild Horses, championed by producer Keith Olsen. However, Edwards would end up leaving the band before their first album after receiving an offer to join Foreigner.

Mick Jones, the founding member, lead guitarist, and main songwriter of Foreigner had been at home recovering from having the flu. Jones was in the process of listening to audition tapes of various singers to replace the newly departed Lou Gramm when he came upon a cassette of Johnny Edwards. Upon hearing the demo tape, he jumped out of bed and shouted out, "This is it!", referring to Edwards as Jones' choice as Foreigner's new lead singer.

Released on June 14, 1991, Foreigner's new album, Unusual Heat had eleven songs in total, and ten of these were the combination of mainstay Mick, Johnny and co-producer, Terry Thomas, who had previously worked with Bad Company's lead vocalist, Brian Howe, on their last three albums as producer and songwriter.

In addition to providing lead vocals, Edwards was also an accomplished guitarist who not only played rhythm guitar but also played the lead guitar in the song "Mountain of Love", the fifth track on the Unusual Heat album. The Billboard 200 documented Unusual Heat at #117 on August 3, 1991. The album's first single, "Lowdown and Dirty" was included on the band's Rhino double-CD retrospective, "Juke Box Heroes". Edwards was not accepted by Foreigner fans, as he did not sound much like Lou Gramm. Unusual Heat was a commercial failure, and Gramm returned the following year, immediately ending Edwards' tenure as Foreigner's lead vocalist. In 1992, the reunited Gramm and Foreigner founder Mick Jones released The Very Best & Beyond, a greatest hits collection with three new songs. One of the tracks, "With Heaven On Our Side", was co-written by Johnny Edwards. At the time of his departure from Foreigner, Edwards had co-written ten songs with Jones, in anticipation of a follow-up album to Unusual Heat.

After leaving Foreigner, Edwards teamed up with former Kingdom Come guitarist Danny Steigerwald, aka Danny Stag, bassist David Seaton, and drummer Jeff Klaven, formerly with Cobra and Krokus, under the name Royal Jelly. The group's eponymous 1994 debut album was produced by Matt Wallace and released on Island Records. Despite its contemporary alternative rock flavor, it sank without a trace.

""It was the best thing I ever did musically. That's the only thing I've ever done that I can listen to today without throwing up. I always said if I could record one album I was proud of, I would be satisfied.""

 * – Johnny Edwards on his album with Royal Jelly

Edwards mostly retired from playing and recording music in 1995, returning to his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to raise a family. He later became associated with the telecommunications industry.

In 2001 an album of Northrup demos recorded in the late 1980s featuring Edwards on lead vocals, was released by Metal Mayhem Music under the name JK Northrup.

In a 2004 interview Jeff "JK" Northrup, Edwards' old bandmate and friend, discussed receiving an offer to record a new rock album with Edwards as vocalist. Edwards declined, choosing to remain outside music. Paul Shortino assumed lead vocals on the project. Edwards still contributed songwriting and co-lead vocals for two tracks on the album Afterlife, issued in 2004 on MTM Music.

Edwards made another guest vocal appearance on JK Northrup's 2007 album, Wired In My Skin providing lead vocals on the title track.

Edwards and Northrup also can be heard playing and singing together on two compilation rock albums released by the MelodicRock Records label and website.

Edwards is currently fronting Louisville, KY based rock band Bleu Phonque who released their eponymous debut album in 2018.

Discography

 * With Buster Brown
 * Loud and Clear (1984)
 * Sign of Victory (1985)

 * With Montrose
 * Mean (1987)

 * With King Kobra
 * King Kobra III (1988)

 * With Foreigner
 * Unusual Heat (1991)

 * With Royal Jelly
 * Royal Jelly (1994)

 * With JK Northrup
 * JK Northrup (2001)

 * With Shortino/Northrup
 * Afterlife (2004) (vocals on two songs)

 * With JK Northrup
 * Wired In My Skin (2007) (vocals on title track)

 * With Bleu Phonque
 * Bleu Phonque (2018)

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Talk:List of Final Fantasy locations

Necessary?
Not to rain on anyones hard work, but is this page really necessary, seems to border a lot like the old FF7 page with all the characters names on it. Need some opinions to see if it should be taken out.

This message is old, but I'm still replying. Since we've already made all Final Fantasy articles their own List of Final Fantasy locations pages, I think we should keep this one, it's just that right now, it doesn't have the standard of better pages like List of Final Fantasy IV locations, but it'll reach it eventually. – DarkEvil 18:47, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

Images
We should include images for all important locations like other articles, but this one gives a little bit more complecity to it since there is the old NES version on one hand with 8-bit graphics and then, there is the remake on PlayStation and Game Boy Advance with upgraded graphics (there is also the remake on the Wonderswan and MSX, but these are not the most important versions and the WonderSwan Color version resembles the PlayStation). Which image should we include for each location? Or maybe both? – DarkEvil 18:47, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Quentin Kawānanakoa

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Despite of perhaps presented claims, the Kawananakoa do not descend from the Kamehameha dynasty. Actually, Kamehameha dynasty went extinct in 1884, there is no known descendant left.

Kawananakoa descend from a first cousin of Kalakaua and from a sister of Kalakaua's queen - which facts may make them sort of collateral line of Kalakaua dynasty - or then not. However, there is additionally a big question mark in actual descent, as David Kawananakoa did not recognize his wife's first child as his own, and if she was not David's biological child, then there seems to be no descent through which Quentin could be of Kalakaua's relations. 217.140.193.123 20:08, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Prince Quentin's father was Edward Kawananakoa who was the son of Abgail Kawananakoa who was the daughter of Prince David Kawananakoa. through Prince David kawananakoa's father, David Pi'ikoi, prince kawananakoa is the grandson of kekahili, daughter of kamokuiki. kamokuiki is the mother of kapa'akea who is the father of the last monarchs. there you have it. yes, the kawananakoa lineage is a collateral line of the kalakaua's. their common anscestor was liliuokalani's and kalakaua's grandmother. mahalo 808Poiboy (talk) 18:54, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

 * This unfounded claim that Abigail Kapiolani Kawananakoa was illegitimate seems to be rooted in her omission from her father's will, but he did this and explained it was because she was legally adopted by her maternal grandmother Abigail Kuaihelani Campbell and was going to inherit part of her wealth under Hawaii Territorial laws. In the same legal statement linked, he list her as one of his three children. KAVEBEAR (talk) 05:24, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I see that. it is interesting that people think that she was an illegitimate child in general. I have heard about his will before. the house of kamakahelei and house of la'anui-wilcox-salzar uses the will against quentin for reasonable and legitimate reasons when deciding "which house would rule hawai'i if and when restored again". the will states that she's NOT IN THE LINE OF SUCCESSION when it comes to headship. (I have read this further. though it was Abigail campbell who adopted princess kekau, prince david apparently mentions accepting kekau as his adopted because he says "my wife and I have this daygiven in adoption). sadly in this specific newsletter I cannot find where he says that quinten Kawananakoa's grandmother is not allowed to inherite the right to succession but it is true. this is trubelsome but as I said this prince Quinten's cousin, he is still an ali'i nui, and we must honor that. especially with such a lineage which I am proud to be related to. how I am related is sadly not too publicly known about, but I am trying to slowly reverse that. there is a lot more first cousins then the kawananakoa's to the kalakaua family. proud to be one of them. mahalo 808Poiboy (talk) 05:41, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
 * The 1908 will adjustment refers to Quentin’s grandmother Abigail Kapiolani not Kekau who was not born yet. Abigail Kapiolani was adopted by her grandmother Mrs. Abigail Campbell and Kekau was adopted by her grandmother Abigail, the Princess David Kawananakoa. There has been multiple adoptions in the family. KAVEBEAR (talk) 09:59, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
 * wait Abigail was also adopted? that could be a problem in the line of succession. I have gone through the campbell-maipinepine lineage, and the ali'i genealogy is sadly quite weak. maybe they knew something that the rest of hawai'i lost. who knows. if only the adoptions were made by prince kawananakoa. that would be a very very strong hanai. there geneologies are probably the purest I have seen in modern times. 808Poiboy (talk) 17:25, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

The intro of this page reads:

Quentin Kawananakoa, formally Quentin Kuhio Kawananakoa (September 28, 1961- ), is the current head of the House of Kawananakoa and holds the title of prince and heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.

Saying that Kawananakoa "holds" the title of prince and heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii is pushing POV, IMO. It implies that the title held is an official style rather than a personal style. Thus, I'm changing the wording of the intro to replace "holds" with the less POV word "claims." 青い(Aoi) 10:30, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Could someone please clarify what college Kawananakoa attended? Thank you, 青い(Aoi) 08:33, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Besides that, could someone cite this article's sources? Thanks, 青い(Aoi) 09:45, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Is it just me or does this scream 'vanity edit'? Rex 21:03, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Not actually a vanity edit. This guy after all is a pretender of a fallen monarchy - such tend to have articles in WP as well as in other extensive encyclopedias. Cf e.g Louis Alfonso, Duke of Anjou. On the other hand, the content (which might be vanity if left to writing by supporters) is currently rather neutral. Of course, everyone should watch the contents, since articles of this sort of issues tend to become POV battlegrounds. 217.140.199.142 14:07, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Major rewrite
I recently reread over this article and noted that this article seems to treat his (legally unrecognized status) as heir to the Hawaiian throne as being more important than his very notable political career. Of course, his status as a pretender to the Hawaiian throne is very notable, however, I think this article should also emphasize his work as a politician. I'm currently working on a rewrite of this article, which I will post here when ready. Any comments and feedback would be greatly appreciated. 青い(Aoi) 08:21, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Once again
One MUST be careful about using the title "recognized" with a royal title, such as was done in this aection: In September 1995, Kawananakoa married Barbados native Elizabeth Broun. They had their first child in June 1996, Kincaid Kawananakoa. In December 1999, the couple had another child, Riley Kawananakoa. Both became recognized with the title of prince.

Recognized by whom? Certainly not the State of Hawaii or the U.S.. Perhaps a european or african or asian royal family? Maybe the king of Tonga, the last Polinesian monarch. Unfortunately we aren't told.

Contrary to popular belief, the US constitution doesn't prohibit citizen's from holding noble or royal titles. However, it does phohibit certain people from holding them. It is possible that this might apply to a member of the Hawaii State Legislature. It would certainly apply to a US senator, thus I doubt that Mr. Kawananakoa actively claims the title of prince these days, if ever. One would doubt his ability to pass on a title he doesn't claim.

I'm sure you own items that you haven't used for sometime, however they still remain your possession. He could publicly renounce it, but he hasn't. So used or not it is still there. My family does not use their titles in day to day dealings or introductions, however they remain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.235.3.239 (talk) 01:43, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

True, but he said once in an interview (sorry I don't have the source handy) that he neither uses nor rejects the title of prince. It's a sensitive point. If he had said "Dont call me Prince under any set of circumstances", he'd be disrespecting the Hawaiians as a people, to whom this genealogical stuff is quite important. It's a sensitive matter, you see---one of his recent predecessors, Abigail Kawananakoa, acted a lot more like a pretender (was very commonly called "The Princess", was mostly known as patroness of a bunch of charities, etc.); another, Edward Kawananakoa, also commonly called Prince, I remember once participating in a bigtime ceremony on the grounds of Iolani Palace also attended by the Head of State of Western Samoa and the King of Tonga and the pretender to the throne of Tahiti; ergo, I think it would be impossible for Quentin Kawananakoa to renounce entirely the wearing of the "Head of the House of Hawaii" hat. On the other hand, Hawaiian royalists have in fact commonly expressed disapproval of the degree to which this family, not just Quentin, is involved in partisan politics (the Republican Party).
 * Exactly. It can be argued that his first cousin once removed Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, is going to be the last of the Kawananakoa's to act like a royal. He as aspiring policitian cannot actually publicly endorse his royal status, but he can't disrespect the Hawaiian community which still view his family as the living representatives of the former monarchy. Whenever their is a parade, a national leader visiting Hawaii, or special event or anniversary at the Iolani Palace, one of his family members, alongside the governor of Hawaii, will be there since they are the closest relatives of King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani. His aunt, who married an Italian aristrocrat, was invited to an event hosted for a Japanese prince and princess. However the younger generation might be losing the attitude and treatments of the earlier generations.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 01:07, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

The Constitution doesn't prohibit people from HOLDING titles of nobility, or even from ACCEPTING titles of nobility from foreign governments; it prohibits Congress or the States from GRANTING such titles, and it prohibits any person holding a Federal or State office from accepting a title or emolument from a foreign prince without the consent of Congress. By custom, however, it is assumed that such titles have no legal standing under US or State law. Tom129.93.65.230 (talk) 04:19, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Kawananakoa's political career
Yes, this article gives Mr. Kawananakoa's political career short shrift! We have no idea from this article what issues he ran for Congress on, which is a pity because some of them, for example his strong support for President Bush in regard to the Iraq war, may have contributed to his defeat in famously liberal Hawaii!

It is hardly appropriate to put the word "prince" in front of his name when one is giving election statistics--the number of votes he received in the 2006 Republican primary, for example. In some other contexts it's perfectly appropriate, as for example when one is calling attention to his position as Head of the House of Hawaii ("pretender" or "heir to the throne", if you insist). Certainly he has a role in the Hawaiian community that has to do with his ancestry, and presumably he's proud of it. But that is, as the saying goes, a different hat he wears. He sure as anything doesn't call himself Prince Kawananakoa on his election campaign website, and if he did he'd be making a fool of himself. Nope. The campaign site, after introducing him, calls him plain "Quentin".

Mr. Kawananakoa may be a "pretender" technically speaking, but there's a world of difference between the life he lives and the way men like Leka of Albania, or the grandson of Haile Selassie, or Urberto of Italy, or the Count of Paris carry themselves. The one thing a serious claimant to any lapsed throne NEVER does is to run for a partisan political office! These guys consider such things utterly beneath their dignity. Some of Mr. Kawananakoa's immediate predecessors as Head of the House of Hawaii did act very much like royal pretenders--one thinks of Abigail Kawananakoa, who served as chair of Friends of Iolani Palace, was usually referred to as "the Princess", and made history by infamously sitting on Liluokalani's throne for a photograph and later saying "I can sit anywhere I want." That's not Quentin Kawananakoa by any means.

Other posts here are correct in asking "recognized as prince" by whom? The head of the House of Hawaii is often called Prince So-and-so or Princess So-and-so. It's an informal social title applied to the descendants of Hawaiian royalty, and it has no legal standing; U.S. citizens can't have actual legal titles of nobility and royalty---not Quentin Kawananakoa, not "Princess" Lee Radziwill, not anybody. Tom129.93.17.139 19:48, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Exactly. It can be argued that his first cousin once removed Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, is going to be the last of the Kawananakoa's to act like a royal. He as aspiring policitian cannot actually publicly endorse his royal status, but he can't disrespect the Hawaiian community which still view his family as the living representatives of the former monarchy. Whenever their is a parade, a national leader visiting Hawaii, or special event or anniversary at the Iolani Palace, one of his family members, alongside the governor of Hawaii, will be there since they are the closest relatives of King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani. His aunt, who married an Italian aristrocrat, was invited to an event hosted for a Japanese prince and princess. However the younger generation might be losing the attitude and treatments of the earlier generations.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 01:07, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

 * "The one thing a serious claimant to any lapsed throne NEVER does...": consider Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha for an extreme counterexample (he not only ran for office, he served). And he's not unique in running. See also Paul-Philippe Hohenzollern. - Jmabel | Talk 21:31, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I stand corrected. I should have said SELDOM rather than NEVER. Yes, there are counterexamples. In addition to the ones cited by Jmabel, I should have thought of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, a.k.a. Napoleon III. And while I'm not sure whether or not Dr. Otto von Hapsburg (for example) has ever been a candidate for elective office, it would not amaze anybody if he were to become one. (Come to think of it, Jonah Kalanianaole, though not a pretender, didn't exactly renounce all the perks of royalty and might have qualified as a borderline semi-exception.) My carelessness on that point deserves a slap on the hand at least. Tom129.93.65.230 (talk) 04:00, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Otto van Hapsburg is, as his Wikipedia states, "a former member of the European Parliament for the Christian Social Union (CSU) party." --Mikedelsol (talk) 07:38, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

I've changed the introduction to make his royal status come second after his political career. The article body itself has little to nothing to say about his royal status.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 01:19, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Compare Akahi Nui article
Seems to me the tone of this article is very different from that of Akahi Nui. I think the problem is probably there, not here. It starts right out with Quentin Kawānanakoa being called a "claimant" while Akahi Nui is called a "pretender". Both terms are equally valid for either, but "claimant" has more positive connotations. In any case, though, I'd expect the two to be handled more or less symmetrically.

I don't know the topic well. I came to this by way of WP:BLP issues in the Akahi Nui article. It would be much appreciated if someone who is working on this and has no ax to grind might come look at that other article as well. - Jmabel | Talk 21:26, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

 * I have now edited the Akahi Nui article to also use the term "claimant", and added each article as a "see also" in the other. - Jmabel | Talk 03:10, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

The difference with Akahi Nui is that if you meet him, he introduces himself as The King of Hawai'i, while Quentin Kawānanakoa does not use a title. However, above and beyond all this is the way Hawai'i establishes the King or Queen. They are chosen by the ruler and approved by the House of Nobles. Since both are currently absent, this would only affect one, Akahi Nui, as his title of King is self-given, while Prince Kawānanakoa's title is birthright. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.235.3.239 (talk) 01:30, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
 * This template is not meant to be a permanent resident on any article. Remove this template whenever:
 * There is consensus on the talkpage or the NPOV Noticeboard that the issue has been resolved
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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 23:49, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Descent
How do we know he is of Singaporean and Australian descent?--KAVEBEAR (talk) 04:13, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * They were added in these edits.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 04:17, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I removed them because I see no source for it. His mother Carolyn Willison Branch was from Pennsylvania and grandfather Andrew Anderson Lambert was born in Honolulu while all other ancestors were Hawaiian or mixed Hawaiian with English and Irish blood.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 04:23, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Hale o na Alii o Hawaii
I think he may be the Regent of the Hale o na Alii o Hawaii (House of Chiefs of Hawaii), founded by his grandmother Abigail Kapiolani Kawānanakoa, based the fact his float in the Kamehameha Day Parade preceded or led the group's float behind him.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 00:38, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * He is. I think the position reflects the headship of the family in Abigail Kapiolani Kawānanakoa's line, who was the first regent.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 02:28, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

who is 'he' in the last sentence?
It reads as if it is Riley, which is confusing, when it really means Quentin.--2607:FEA8:D5DF:F3D9:90A5:43E0:2661:3E2A (talk) 21:23, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

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American Foxhound

The American Foxhound is a breed of dog, closely related to the English Foxhound. They are scent hounds, bred to hunt foxes by scent. United States Founding Father George Washington was key to the breed's early development.

History
In 1650, Robert Brooke sailed from England to Maryland with his pack of hunting dogs, which were the root of several strains of American hounds. Dogs of this bloodline, known as "Brooke Hounds," remained in the Brooke family for nearly 300 years, possibly one of the longest documented breeding records for a single breed and family.

The American Kennel Club credits George Washington as the Father of the American Foxhound. Washington is said to have had a strong love for dogs that grew from his love of hunting for foxes. Washington bred the American Foxhound in hopes of breeding faster speed and tracking of foxes into the breed of hounds he already owned. He received French Foxhounds, Grand Bleu de Gascogne, (which look much like an American Bluetick Coonhound) as a gift from the Marquis de Lafayette. Around two years later, Washington acquired eight regular hounds from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and two “Slow Pace” hounds from England. The combination of those dogs, the French Foxhounds, and the dogs Washington kept, which were descended from Brooke's, create the present-day American Foxhound.

The American Foxhound originated in the states of Maryland and Virginia, where Washington lived, and is the state dog of Virginia.

The breed was developed purely for hunting foxes. With the importation (or migration) of the red fox, Irish Foxhounds were added to the lines, to increase speed and stamina in the dog, qualities still prevalent in today's dogs.

The breed was first recognized by the American Kennel Club in 1886. Today, there are many different strains of American Foxhound, including Walker, Calhoun, Goodman, Trigg, July and Penn-Marydel. Though each strain looks different, they are all recognized as members of the same breed. Most show hounds are Walkers, many of the pack hounds (used with hunting foxes on horseback) are Penn-Marydel and hunters use a variety of strains to suit their hunting style and quarry.

Appearance
While standards call for the American Foxhound to be about 21 – tall to the withers, and weigh anywhere between 55 - 71 lb, many of them are larger in structure (especially the show strains), with males standing 26 – and females 25 – and smaller in weight, typically between 45 –. The legs of a Foxhound are long and straight-boned. The foxhound's chest is rather narrow. It has a long muzzle, and a large, domed skull. The ears are wide and low-set. The eyes are hazel or brown, and are large and wide-set.

Coat
A close, hard hound coat of medium length, and any color, though the combination of black, white and tan is prevalent. American Foxhounds do tend to shed a good amount of hair, but a weekly brushing will decrease shedding.

Defining physical characteristics
The American Foxhound is known to have a musical bark, called a bay, when it is hunting that can be heard for miles, probably inherited from the Grand Bleu de Gascogne's signature howl. This is one reason why this breed does not do well in city settings.

The American Foxhound is taller and rangier than its cousin, the English Foxhound. If competing in a dog show, some physical characteristics that judges would look for would be a slightly domed skull, long, large ears, large eyes, straight muzzle, well laid-back shoulders, a moderately long back, fox-like feet, and a slightly curved tail. Though they are traditionally tri-colored (black, white and tan) they can be any color. They are one of the rarest breeds in the American Kennel Club.

Temperament
The American Foxhound has a very docile and sweet demeanor. A typical dog is gentle, easygoing, and gets along with children and other animals.

Activity level
The American Foxhound is a very active breed with very high energy. With longer legs bred into them, they are a very fast dog. They require a lot of exercise and do best in habitats where they have room to run.

Trainability
Obedience training is essential for this breed due to their independence and natural instinct to follow a scent. A Foxhound who picks up a scent will follow it while ignoring commands; training requires patience and skill because of the breed's independence and occasional stubbornness. Because of its strong hunting instinct, American Foxhounds should not be trusted off-leash. Most scent hounds are bred to give "voice," but the Foxhound does not make a good watchdog.

Health
This breed does not generally carry genetic disorders. However they can easily become overweight when overfed. A minor health risk in American Foxhounds is thrombocytopathy, or platelet disease. This comes from poorly functioning blood platelets and can result in excessive bleeding from minor bumps or cuts. The treatment is usually based on the severity of the disease. Owners will often have their American Foxhounds undergo blood tests so that the condition can be caught early on. While dysplasia was largely unknown in Foxhounds, it is beginning to crop up occasionally, along with some eye issues. It is not typical or customary for Foxhound breeders to screen for any hereditary disorders at this time. The breed's lifespan is generally 10–12 years.

Trigg Hound
The Trigg Hound (also known as the Trigg Foxhound or Hayden Trigg Hound) is a variety of the American Foxhound, developed in Kentucky by Colonel Haiden Trigg.

The Trigg Hound originated in Barren County, Kentucky, in the 1860s, when fox hunting enthusiast Colonel Haiden C. Trigg wanted to develop a faster hound than those available in his area. He used dogs from the Birdsong, Maupin, and Walker lines to develop his strain.

According to W. L. Porter in an article in The Chase, local fox hunters who saw the dogs purchased from Birdsong found them unattractive, but their performance was surprisingly good. Porter stated that the dogs were "racy built, crop ears, rough coated, bushy tails and chop mouthed and looked unlike any fox hound any of us had ever seen". Eventually, Trigg's breeding program became successful on a local and national level. In 1910, well-known big-game hunter Paul J. Rainey purchased twenty five hounds from Trigg and took them on a hunting trip in Africa, later buying more from Trigg, his son Alanson, and others. After Trigg's death, some fanciers began to lose interest and the strain declined in popularity, despite a small core of active breeders. After Rainey returned from his trips, however, he announced that the Triggs were the "best and most courageous hounds in the world," causing their popularity to rise again amongst hunters.

Male Trigg Hounds stand 23 to 24 inches (58 to 61 centimetres) at the withers and weigh 45 to 55 pounds (20 to 25 kilograms), while females stand 20 to 22 inches (51 to 56 centimetres) and weigh 35 to 45 pounds (16 to 20 kilograms). The variety has a long snout, hanging ears, and a short, smooth coat, and though it may come in any color, the Continental Kennel Club allows only tricolor and bicolor dogs. The Trigg Hound is obedient but "tenacious", and is well-suited to hunting because of its sense of smell and endurance.

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La Mega Media

La Mega Media, Inc., also known as La Mega Nota, is a chain of bilingual weekly newspapers, monthly magazines, and Spanish-language radio stations based in Columbus, Ohio, that serves Hispanic communities in several metropolitan areas of the United States such as Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Pittsburgh and North Kentucky.

History
The media company was founded in 1999 as TSJ Media, parent company of the monthly broadsheet newspaper The Spanish Journal (La Jornada Latina), which was published in Cincinnati. In 2006, TSJ News was bought by Blue Ash, Ohio–based Gate West Coast Ventures, LLC, which also owns the translation company Strategic Spanish. As a division of Gate West Coast, TSJ expanded to several other markets in the Midwestern United States. In 2019 TSJ Media, TSJ News and TSJ Radio was bought by Columbus, Ohio-based La Mega Media, Inc., creating the largest Hispanic media platform in the Midwest. La Mega Media's new service model offers content, promotions and entertainment by integrating the 3 radio stations – La Mega 103.1 FM in Columbus, La Mega 97.7 FM in Cincinnati, La Mega 87.7 FM in Cleveland, Newspaper La Mega Nota and the La Mega1 App

Publications
La Mega Media's print publications La Mega Nota are centrally produced in Cincinnati Ohio, while ads are sold by local staff throughout Ohio and Pittsburgh, PA. For the most part, the La Mega Nota publications are written in Spanish, although some sections may be written in English for ESL students.

Broadcasting
In September 2001, the Spanish Journal Network had a talk show on Christian radio station WTSJ 1050 AM (now WGRI; the calls standing for its initials were coincidental), called Noticiero Latino–Radio en Español. It ended on December 26, 2005 due to the end of their time brokerage agreement on that station.

After launching an information-by-telephone service (iNFO-TELEFONO) and converting the newspaper from a monthly publication to a weekly one, the Spanish Journal Network resumed broadcasts of Radio en Español in Spring 2005 on WDBZ 1230 AM, airing each Sunday with six hours of programming.

TSJ Media operates three Spanish-language radio stations, two of which it took over under Gate West Coast ownership, the third under Murray Hill Broadcasting:

 * WOXY "La Mega 97.7 FM" in Mason, Ohio (Cincinnati)
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Semantic differential

The semantic differential (SD) is a measurement scale designed to measure a person's subjective perception of, and affective reactions to, the properties of concepts, objects, and events by making use of a set of bipolar scales. The SD is used to assess one's opinions, attitudes, and values regarding these concepts, objects, and events in a controlled and valid way. Respondents are asked to choose where their position lies, on a set of scales with polar adjectives (for example: "sweet - bitter", "fair - unfair", "warm - cold"). Compared to other measurement scaling techniques such as Likert scaling, the SD can be assumed to be relatively reliable, valid, and robust.

The SD has been used in both a general and a more specific way. Charles E. Osgood's theory of the semantic differential exemplifies the more general attempt to measure the semantics, or meaning, of words, particularly adjectives, and their referent concepts. In fields such as marketing, psychology, sociology, and information systems, the SD is used to measure the subjective perception of, and affective reactions to, more specific concepts such as marketing communication, political candidates, alcoholic beverages, and websites.

Guidelines for using the SD
Verhagen and colleagues introduce a framework to assist researchers in applying the semantic differential. The framework, which consists of six subsequent steps, advocates particular attention for collecting the set of relevant bipolar scales, linguistic testing of semantic bipolarity, and establishing semantic differential dimensionality.

A detailed presentation on the development of the semantic differential is provided in Cross-Cultural Universals of Affective Meaning. David R. Heise's Surveying Cultures provides a contemporary update with special attention to measurement issues when using computerized graphic rating scales.

One possible problem with this scale is that its psychometric properties and level of measurement are disputed. The most general approach is to treat it as an ordinal scale, but it can be argued that the neutral response (i.e. the middle alternative on the scale) serves as an arbitrary zero point, and that the intervals between the scale values can be treated as equal, making it an interval scale.

Application in attitude research
The semantic differential is today one of the most widely used scales used in the measurement of attitudes. One of the reasons is the versatility of the items. The bipolar adjective pairs can be used for a wide variety of subjects, and as such the scale is called by some "the ever ready battery" of the attitude researcher. A specific form of the SD, Projective Semantics method uses only most common and neutral nouns that correspond to the 7 groups (factors) of adjective-scales most consistently found in cross-cultural studies (Evaluation, Potency, Activity as found by Osgood, and Reality, Organization, Complexity, Limitation as found in other studies). In this method, seven groups of bipolar adjective scales corresponded to seven types of nouns so the method was thought to have the object-scale symmetry (OSS) between the scales and nouns for evaluation using these scales. For example, the nouns corresponding to the listed 7 factors would be: Beauty, Power, Motion, Life, Work, Chaos, Law. Beauty was expected to be assessed unequivocally as “very good” on adjectives of Evaluation-related scales, Life as “very real” on Reality-related scales, etc. However, deviations in this symmetric and very basic matrix might show underlying biases of two types: scales-related bias and objects-related bias. This OSS design had meant to increase the sensitivity of the SD method to any semantic biases in responses of people within the same culture and educational background.

Five items (five bipolar pairs of adjectives) have been proven to yield reliable findings, which highly correlate with alternative Likert numerical measures of the same attitude.

Application in CIA psychological warfare
In 1958, as part of the MK Ultra program, the CIA gave Osgood $192k to finance a world-wide study of 620 key words in 30 cultures using semantic differential. The CIA used this research to create more effective culturally-specific propaganda in the service of destabilizing foreign governments. An example can be found in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, CIA-funded 1970-1973. Semantic differential was used to identify words that would most effectively engender a negative attitude in the Chilean population toward the socialist Allende administration.

Nominalists and realists
Theoretical underpinnings of Charles E. Osgood's semantic differential have roots in the medieval controversy between the nominalists and realists. Nominalists asserted that only real things are entities and that abstractions from these entities, called universals, are mere words. The realists held that universals have an independent objective existence. Osgood’s theoretical work also bears affinity to linguistics and general semantics and relates to Korzybski's structural differential.

Use of adjectives
The development of this instrument provides an interesting insight into the broader area between linguistics and psychology. People have been describing each other since they developed the ability to speak. Most adjectives can also be used as personality descriptors. The occurrence of thousands of adjectives in English is an attestation of the subtleties in descriptions of persons and their behavior available to speakers of English. Roget's Thesaurus is an early attempt to classify most adjectives into categories and was used within this context to reduce the number of adjectives to manageable subsets, suitable for factor analysis.

Factors of Evaluation, Potency, and Activity
Osgood and his colleagues performed a factor analysis of large collections of semantic differential scales and found three recurring attitudes that people use to evaluate words and phrases: evaluation, potency, and activity. Evaluation loads highest on the adjective pair 'good-bad'. The 'strong-weak' adjective pair defines the potency factor. Adjective pair 'active-passive' defines the activity factor. These three dimensions of affective meaning were found to be cross-cultural universals in a study of dozens of cultures.

This factorial structure makes intuitive sense. When our ancestors encountered a person, the initial perception had to be whether that person represents a danger. Is the person good or bad? Next, is the person strong or weak? Our reactions to a person markedly differ if perceived as good and strong, good and weak, bad and weak, or bad and strong. Subsequently, we might extend our initial classification to include cases of persons who actively threaten us or represent only a potential danger, and so on. The evaluation, potency and activity factors thus encompass a detailed descriptive system of personality. Osgood's semantic differential measures these three factors. It contains sets of adjective pairs such as warm-cold, bright-dark, beautiful-ugly, sweet-bitter, fair-unfair, brave-cowardly, meaningful-meaningless.

The studies of Osgood and his colleagues revealed that the evaluative factor accounted for most of the variance in scalings, and related this to the idea of attitudes.

Subsequent studies: factors of Typicality-Reality, Complexity, Organisation and Stimulation
Studies using the SD found additional universal dimensions. More specifically several researchers reported a factor of "Typicality" (that included scales such as “regular-rare”, “typical-exclusive”) or "Reality" (“imaginary-real”, “evident-fantastic”, “abstract-concrete”), as well as factors of "Complexity" ("complex-simple", "unlimited-limited", "mysterious-usual"), "Improvement" or "Organization" ("regular-spasmodic", "constant-changeable", "organized-disorganized", "precise-indefinite"), Stimulation ("interesting-boring", "trivial-new").

Nobel Prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman's doctoral thesis was on the subject of the Semantic Differential.

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Harry M. Rosenfeld

Hirsch Moritz "Harry" Rosenfeld (August 12, 1929 –July 16, 2021) was an American newspaper editor who was the editor in charge of local news at The Washington Post during the Richard Mattingly murder case and the Watergate scandal. He oversaw the newspaper's coverage of Watergate and resisted efforts by the paper's national reporters to take over the story. Though Post executive editor Ben Bradlee gets most of the credit, managing editor Howard Simons and Rosenfeld worked most closely with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on developing the story. Rosenfeld published a memoir including an account of his work at the Post in 2013.

Early life
Rosenfeld was born Hirsch Moritz Rosenfeld to a Jewish family in Berlin on August 12, 1929. His father worked as a furrier. His store was unscathed during Kristallnacht, when his family took refuge in the Polish Embassy in Berlin. They first applied to immigrate to the United States in 1934. After being held up due to the quota system, the application was approved five years later in March 1939, when he was ten. The family settled in The Bronx, New York City just before the Holocaust and Rosenfeld learned to speak English devoid of a German accent. After graduating from Syracuse University in 1952, he served in the US Army for two years. He was hired as an editor at New York Herald-Tribune. When a strike halted all New York papers for several months in 1963 he was offered a job in television, although chose to return until it ceased publication circa 1966. He was then hired by the Post, initially serving night shifts as deputy foreign editor. He also did graduate work in history and poetry at Columbia University and New York University.

Career
When Rosenfeld moved to the Metro desk at the Post, Bob Woodward, recently discharged from the United States Navy and with no journalism experience, applied for a job and accepted a two-week trial without pay in August 1970. When the trial was up, Woodward had written seventeen stories, not one of which was deemed publishable. Rosenfeld told Woodward to get some experience elsewhere and come back in a year. Woodward frequently scooped the Post at his new paper, the Montgomery County Sentinel, in the Washington suburbs, and kept phoning Rosenfeld for a job. Rosenfeld hired him, right after Labor Day 1971.

Rosenfeld fought to keep Woodward and Bernstein on the Watergate story at the Metro desk instead of giving it to reporters at the National Desk. As noted by Roger Ebert in the 1976 Chicago Sun-Times: "The Watergate story started as a local story, not a national one, and it was a continuing thorn in the side of the Post's prestigious national staff as Woodward and Bernstein kept it as their own."

Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham in her memoirs describes him as "an old-style, tough, picturesque editor, and another real hero of Watergate for us. From the outset, he thought of the story as a very big local one, seeing it as something on which the Post's local staff could distinguish itself.  He controlled the story before it regularly made page one of the paper, keeping it going on the front page of the metro section." The Post's attention to detail and strict rules produced, in Rosenfeld's words, "the longest-running newspaper stories with the least amount of errors that I have ever experienced or will ever experience."

In their 1974 account of the Watergate investigation titled All the President's Men, Woodward and Bernstein likened Rosenfeld to a football coach. They described how "he prods his players … pleading, yelling, cajoling." In the 1976 film All the President's Men, he was played by Jack Warden. Rosenfeld insisted on publishing a story about John F. Kennedy's extramarital affair with Ben Bradlee’s sister-in-law, Mary Pinchot Meyer, then learned he was demoted in the Washington Star.

Later career
Rosenfeld left the Washington Post in 1978 and moved to Albany, New York. He became editor of the Times Union and the Knickerbocker News, which went defunct in 1988. He retired in 1996, becoming the Times Union's editor-at-large. He continued to write weekly columns for that paper throughout his later years.

Rosenfeld wrote From Kristallnacht to Watergate: Memoirs of a Newspaper Man in 2013. The memoir detailed his childhood in 1930s Berlin under Nazi rule and his career path from the New York Herald-Tribune to The Washington Post. Six years later, he authored Battling Editor: The Albany Years, a sequel that described his newspaper editorship and community participation until into his retirement.

Personal life and death
Rosenfeld married Anne Hahn in 1953. They remained married for 68 years until his death. Together, they had three children: Susan, Amy, and Stefanie.

Rosenfeld died at his home in Slingerlands, New York, on July 16, 2021. He was 91, and suffered from COVID-19 related medical issues prior to his death.

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