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Abraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles, California)

Abraham Lincoln High School, usually referred to simply as Lincoln High School, is a secondary school located in the Lincoln Heights district of Los Angeles, California, United States. Located in the East Los Angeles-area community, surrounded by El Sereno, Chinatown, Boyle Heights and Cypress Park. The school is named after Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, and was one of the first public high schools established in California. It is one of the District 5 high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the US.

Lincoln students are drawn from Chinatown and other areas. Cypress Park residents may attend either Lincoln or Franklin High School.

History
The early history of Lincoln High School is unusually complicated because, over the years, it has served all three of the typical grade configurations—elementary school, middle school and high school. What eventually became Lincoln High School was originally established in 1878 as Avenue 21 Grammar School. By 1913, the Avenue 21 school had become an intermediate school and its student population had grown to the point that a new campus was needed. That year the intermediate school moved to the present Lincoln High School site, and the curriculum expanded to include the senior high school grades. This marks the true beginning of Lincoln High. Pending the construction of a new school (the current site) on the former mansion property of Charles Woolwine, the Avenue 21 intermediate school moved its location to the hillside site (now the current physical education and track field), where students studied under the trees. In the early 1970s, students from all six upper grades attended the school together.

In 1878, the plant was extended across Lincoln Park Avenue, which is now the current site. In 1881, the school added a gymnasium. In 1924, a science building was added. The present school was built extensively in the 1940s under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration reform. Much of the construction and renovations occurred after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, which damaged the gymnasium, the auditorium, the music building, the library and the English building. Jim Tunney Stadium, home to Lincoln's football and track teams, was built during the reconstruction of Lincoln High School.

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

Beginning in the latter part of the 1960s, Lincoln High School became a focal point for the emerging Chicano civil rights movement that was fueled by student activism which called for a more culturally sensitive educational curriculum and access to college preparatory courses for Mexican American students. Encouraged by Sal Castro, who championed equal educational opportunity as a Lincoln High faculty member, students at Lincoln organized a mass walk-out in protest of sub-standard facilities, vocational program tracking for Chicano youth and discriminatory practices which excluded them from advanced college prep courses. In March 1968, Lincoln High students led the first wave of what became the largest student strike in the history of public education in US. The "Blow-out" was joined by students from at least three other area high schools, among them Garfield, Roosevelt, Lincoln, Belmont and Wilson.

In 2009 the opening of the Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez Learning Centers relieved Lincoln.

In 2015, Lincoln High School's baseball team won the CIF Los Angeles City Section Division II baseball championship, defeating Cesar Chavez High School of San Fernando by a score of 3–0 in a game played at Dodger Stadium. It was the school's second baseball championship, and the first one since 1935.

Demographics
Lincoln is mainly made up of a large Hispanic and Asian student body, though there is a smaller African-American and White student population.

In 2019, Lincoln serves around 1,005 students in grades nine to twelve, with a student-teacher ratio of 19:1 (54 full-time teachers).

The racial/ethnic enrollment breaks down as the following (as of the student class of 2008–2009):
 * American Indian - 0.3%
 * Asian - 30.8%
 * Filipino - 0.3%
 * Pacific Islander - 0.1%
 * Black - 0.9%
 * Hispanic - 80.1%
 * White - 0.5%

Overview
In 2008, Lincoln was ranked as the 900th best high school in the US in the Challenge Index.

US News 2021 Rankings
 * 55 in Los Angeles Unified School District High Schools
 * 249 in Los Angeles metropolitan area high schools
 * 387 in Magnet high schools
 * 587 in California high schools
 * 3,841 in national rankings

US News 2020 Rankings
 * 94 in Los Angeles Unified School District High Schools
 * 234 in Los Angeles metropolitan area high schools
 * 374 in Magnet high schools
 * 565 in California high schools
 * 3,810 in national rankings

US News 2019 Rankings
 * 241 in Los Angeles metropolitan area high schools
 * 350 in Magnet high schools
 * 566 in California high schools
 * 3,926 in national rankings

Magnet
Lincoln High School's Magnet program was established in 1999. The Magnet program has a maximum of 226 students, ranging from grade levels 9 to 12. The program offers opportunities for students to participate in courses and activities with an emphasis on science, mathematics and technology.

Science Bowl
Lincoln has a Science Bowl team that has been running for fifteen years. Lincoln has two teams with 5 students in each team. Competing students must have a knowledge base in astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics and general science. Science Bowl uses a buzzer system, in which students must buzz in and wait to be recognized by a moderator before proceeding to answer a question. Lincoln has consistently scored in the top five in the Regional Science Bowl competition.

Academic Decathlon
Lincoln maintains an Academic Decathlon program for its students. Competing students in the program are placed into one of three teams based on their skill level: Varsity, Scholastic and Honors. The program covers language & literature, economics, art, music, mathematics, social science and science. In addition, students are required to write essays, participate in interviews, give speeches and take part in a Super Quiz, which focuses on a selected subject determined by the United States Academic Decathlon each year.

Speech and Debate
Formed in 2008, Lincoln is one of the 15 schools that are a part of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Debate League (LAMDL). LAMDL is one of the networks of Urban Debate Leagues that promotes debate for many urban high schools. In 2009, the Los Angeles Urban Debate League (as it was previously known) merged with a USC's Neighborhood Debate League, creating LAMDL.

Lincoln has a highly successful policy debate team, competing and winning major tournaments both locally and nationally. Lincoln has won some of the most prestigious tournaments in California, including the California State Invitational held at the University of California Berkeley as well as the Pepperdine Invitational Debates, and clearing into eliminations in tournaments like the University of Southern California's David Damus Trojan Championships. In 2009, Lincoln won four of the six local tournaments, winning City Championships, and, in 2010, won five of the six local tournaments. In 2009, Lincoln debated at the Chase Urban Debate Nationals, held in Chicago, and returned to the Nationals again in 2010, clearing into eliminations, and again in 2011, placing fifth overall.

Academic Performance Index (API)
API for Lincoln High School.

Feeder Patterns
A majority of the students come from Florence Nightingale Middle School, El Sereno Middle School.

Notable alumni

 * Rodolfo Acosta, actor
 * Gregory Ain, architect
 * Ethel Percy Andrus, principal 1917–1944, founder AARP, first female high school principal in California
 * Sam Balter (1909–1998), basketball player
 * Eddie Cano, Afro-Cuban jazz and Latin jazz pianist
 * Gaylord Carter, organist
 * Bobby Castillo, former Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins pitcher
 * Sal Castro, activist (faculty)
 * Eldridge Cleaver, writer - Soul on Ice
 * John Conte, actor
 * John Doucette, actor
 * Sue Kunitomi Embrey, Japanese-American teacher, activist and Manzanar intern
 * Moctesuma Esparza, director, producer
 * Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein; 1908–1987), boxer who twice won the World Welterweight Championship
 * Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress/singer
 * John Huston, director/actor
 * Fidel LaBarba, boxer, sportswriter, gold medalist 1924 Olympics (Paris)
 * José Limón, choreographer
 * Carlos R. Moreno, California Supreme Court Justice (Cl. of 1966)
 * Sadao Munemori, Medal of Honor recipient
 * Jeanette Nolan, actress
 * Robert Preston, actor
 * Ref Sanchez, actor and fashion photographer
 * Jim Tunney, L. A. Unified School District administrator, NFL referee
 * Alberto Valdés (painter), class of 1936
 * Kenny Washington, (NFL) professional American football player
 * Robert Young, actor

Media
Abraham Lincoln High School is used prominently as both itself and the fictional "Clayton College" in the 1927 Buster Keaton film College and briefly appears at the end of the movie Walkout (a real life video in the end credits).


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The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 19:52, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

Neil Martin
This subject is not notable. Deb 22:20, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Another Tory boy, big ego, little to show for it, delete Dunc|☺ 23:19, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete notability not established. JamesBurns 07:28, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete evidence of notability not in article. Friday 13:24, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:KramarDanIkabu/OSC Project

This is a project I'm doing for my major project in Computer Network Systems. Anyone who wishes can come and edit it to help show off the real power of Wikipedia. If you need some links to help, check out these: Not to mention checking out the links on those pages if they help you. KramarDanIkabu 22:21, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

WHERE DID YOU GO??!?!?

Alright, I'm trying to get the order we have to go in for pages.
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Godzilla Vs. Deathra
no google evidence of it's existence Melaen 22:21, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment There is a new Godzilla series underway, and it's possible this is simply mistitled. I can't really vote on this unless someone better versed on the franchise can confirm or deny this film's existence. The fact it has yet to film isn't grounds for deletion as we have plenty of articles on planned movies. 23skidoo 23:35, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Link within article details a director's desire to make the film... he doesn't have the money though. Delete, for every movie that actually comes out, there's literally thousands of people pitching one.  Dcarrano 00:53, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * now it is a redirect to Godzilla 3D to the MAX --Melaen 21:26, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete speculation, Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. JamesBurns 07:29, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
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How to cite quotes from Aristotle
There's more information on this here (search the page for Meteorology), but I didn't want to add too much because I'm not sure about the proper way to handle references. 128.148.123.31 22:22, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The proper way to make references is by Bekker numbers. The lack of these references in the page you link shows its deficient quality.  I added the reference (339a36-b2) to one quotation.  All quotations should be so referenced (preferably by the person introducing them)! Wareh 18:21, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * It's amazing what you'll do when your wife is getting the baby to sleep and the brownies are cooling. All the passages quoted by this dubiously constructed article now at least have correct Bekker references.  Wareh 23:40, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

page name
Shouldn't this be "Meteorology (text)"? -Ravedave (help name my baby) 19:44, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Dated
What's the oldest known surviving text for this? Faro0485 (talk) 01:48, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Wang Chong Not Related
We should remove Wang Chong from the related section, this individual appears to be irrelevant to the article subject, his existence occurred hundreds of years after the existence of the article subject. 130.56.92.144 (talk) 23:53, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Aristotle’s Mineral Exhalations
Although Aristotle did not focus on the mineral world, he did touch upon the subject in the course of meteorological and microphysical considerations. In the Meteorologica,4 he describes the formation of mineral substances5 in terms of subterranean exhalations generated by solar warmth penetrating the earth’s surface and accumulating at depth. This heat could reach subterranean moisture and create a moist exhalation, whereas a dry exhalation was formed by the action of this heat on underground earthy material.6 Aristotle’s physical system considered substances that can exist in both liquid and solid states to be composed of elemental water or a mixture of the elements earth and water, with heat or cold serving as the solidifying agents.7 Aristotle saw the fusibility of the metals as indicative of a liquid component, whereas their erstwhile solidity showed them to also contain a considerable proportion of elemental earthiness. Thus, the metals were considered as composite substances, composed generally of “watery” and “earthy” material. I took this from AMBIX, Vol. 53, No. 1, March 2006, 43–65 © Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry 2006 DOI 10.1179/174582306X93183 The Mineral Exhalation Theory of Metallogenesis in Pre-Modern Mineral Science JOHN A. NORRIS This theory is very important (or was until the 18th century) I hope some one can find the time to add it here.J8079s (talk) 17:23, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Wind rose
Hi. I just wrote up a rather large article on Classical compass winds. Since a good chunk of it is based on Aristotle's Meteorology, I wanted to include a brief summary and reference (and maybe one of the diagrams) in this article. Unfortunately, I am not sure where to insert it here (I only read the section on winds and am not sure where exactly it fits viz. the rest of the book, as categorized in this article. Moreover, I'm rather mystified by "Bekker numbers"). If anyone could elucidate, or insert a note, I'd much appreciate it. Walrasiad (talk) 04:09, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your interest. The basic problem is that this article is a low-quality primary-source-based article with a few random vignettes in lieu of a discussion of the subject according to what reliable sources say. That said, this would actually make it very easy for you to write up a new section "Describes Classical compass winds." Where to insert it is not a big issue: at the end or wherever makes sense to you (the current sections are not sequential: perhaps they should be rearranged). If you write something and put it in the "wrong" place, we'll love you for it nonetheless, and anyone who cares is welcome to move it!
 * Bekker numbers are the standard system of citation when quoting Aristotle. Book/chapter numbers as you used at CCW are fine too. Anyway, you can see from the marginal numbers and letters here that the Bekker reference for Meteorology II.6 (which I believe is what you're interested in) is approximately 363a21-365a12.
 * If you do add a section here, and if you do quote here (or elsewhere) a short text of Aristotle, it is appropriate to give the Bekker reference if possible, as this will enable readers to find the passage with greater precision. Wareh (talk) 02:40, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Peer review of your article "Meteorology (Aristotle)" by a fellow student of History of Science course
Hello fellow student or scholar. I am here to review the article, and eventually copy-edit the article. I added the banner showing "subject of an educational assignment" at or near the top this talk page. Your introduction seems good. However, I think the phrase "ca 800 CE" might be expanded for clarity, so it could be written "circa 800 BCE" if this is what you really mean to convey to the reader. Also, several photos should be in the article as illustrations of the major points and concepts, or at least one photo should be there to illustrate the overall concept of Aristotle's meteorology. If I'm not mistaken, the big deals missing from the article are any primary sources that can be cited as references, by using the \ tag (without slashes). If this link to a kind of Meteorology book by Aristle is a viable source from MIT then it could be cited as a reference, again using the \ tag code. Otherwise, the article generally alright. Petesimon2 (talk) 05:39, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

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Wind flow
I think what's missing in this article is something very important which is Aristotle description of the wind flows in book 1 Chapter 13. He describes it like a fluid which we take for granted in today's English language. He many not be the first but his earliest evidence we have it seems:

Εἰσὶ δέ τινες οἵ φασι τὸν καλούμενον ἀέρα κινού- μενον μὲν καὶ ῥέοντα ἄνεμον εἶναι

105.226.56.148 (talk) 13:41, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Text Reliability
The article doesn’t discuss whether or not the text we have today is authentic considering the conquest of Egypt. 105.224.251.80 (talk) 06:56, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

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Chord organ

Chord organ is a kind of home organ that has a single short keyboard and a set of chord buttons, enabling the musician to play a melody or lead with one hand and accompanying chords with the other, like the accordion with a set of chord buttons which was originated from a patent by Cyrill Demian in 1829, etc. (See Accordion  )

Initially, the chord organ was invented as a kind of electronic home organ by Laurens Hammond in 1950. This was followed by the reed chord organ (c. 1959) and Optigan (c. 1971). The sound of the reed chord organ is somewhat similar to the harmonium or the accordion.

History
The Chord Organ was first introduced by the Hammond Organ Company in 1950. It was invented primarily by John M. Hanert, who was Hammond's primary musical engineer at the time. He had previously developed the Novachord and Solovox, two instruments which used vacuum-tube circuitry rather than tone or phonic wheels to generate the tones as in a Hammond Organ.

The Chord Organ, as the name implies, used a left-hand panel with buttons to play harmony; however, instead of a Stradella-type chord and bass arrangement, a completely new design was implemented. 96 separate chord buttons provided Major, Minor, 7th, Diminished, Augmented, Major 6th, Minor 7th and 9th chords for all twelve musical keys. Two bass pedals, played by the left foot, sounded the "root" and "fifth" of each chord, and rhythm was added by means of a bar struck by either the palm or the thumb of the left hand.

The Chord Organ incorporated elements of both the Novachord and the Solovox in that the right-hand 37-note keyboard could play both chords and single notes. An "Organ" section provided String and Flute sounds which were polyphonic, while a "Solo" division permitted the organist to play single-note melodies superimposed over the polyphonic "Organ" division. The Solo division operated essentially identically to the Solovox - one group of controls determined the register or pitch in which the Solo division would sound while another group of controls allowed the player to filter the sound in various ways ("timbre" controls).

There were five different versions of the basic Chord Organ, which was called the "S" series. The original model "S" used octal tubes and one 12" speaker while the "S-1" used miniature tubes and one 12" speaker. For the "S-4," two 10" speakers were substituted for the single 12" speaker and the wood cabinet was re-designed. The "S-6," the most popular model, added the ability to add Percussion to the Solo division, thereby allowing the instrument to imitate instruments such as Banjo, Hawaiian Guitar, etc. The "S-100," the last revision of the "S" series, added built-in Stereo Reverberation, substituted an Expression Pedal for the expression lever used on previous models, and featured a re-styled cabinet design as well as a separate ON/OFF Power Switch (on previous models, power was turned on by swinging the expression lever down similar to the Solovox).

An additional Chord Organ was manufactured for a brief time in the mid-'60s (the 2000 series), which had a simplified chord panel (Major, Minor, 7th and Diminished chords only) and traditional organ-type voices for the right-hand keyboard. This model also used solid-state circuitry.

In addition to Hammond, Wurlitzer, Farfisa and Estey Organ made electronic chord organs.

In 1958, Magnus Organ Corporation introduced its electric chord organs, similar to electrically blown small home reed organs. Since then, chord organs were generally designed as instruments for beginners, and separated from the mainstream of home electronic organs. In addition to Magnus, Emenee, Bontempi and Belcanto made electric chord organs.

Chord organ musicians

 * David Bowie on "Memory of a Free Festival" on his second album, David Bowie, AKA Space Oddity.
 * Hal Shutz on "Organ and Firelight," Columbia album CL-906
 * Jesse Crawford on four albums for Decca: "Popular Encores," "Pops by the Poet," "Hits on the Hammond" and "Beautiful Dreamer."
 * Jessie Leeds (daughter of Jesse Crawford) on Decca album, "Popular Organ Favorites."
 * Judd Taylor, in conjunction with Porter Heaps on Columbia album "A Mighty Fortress."
 * Rami Jaffee
 * Daniel Johnston
 * The Microphones/Mount Eerie
 * Modest Mouse (on the album Sad Sappy Sucker).
 * The Music Tapes
 * Benevento/Russo Duo
 * Elliott Smith
 * Cortney Tidwell
 * The Residents (Prior to The 13th Anniversary Tour)

Chord organs have seen a recent revival amongst minimalist and ambient musicians.

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David Fricke

David Fricke (born 1952 (age 47)) is an American music journalist who serves as the senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine, where he writes predominantly about rock music. One of the best known names in rock journalism, his career has spanned over 40 years. In the 1990s, he was the magazine's music editor before stepping down.

Early life and education
Fricke graduated from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1973.

Career
The first concert that Fricke attended was a show by Pink Floyd. His love of live music inspired him to pursue a career in music journalism. He has recalled meeting George Harrison, at a promotional event in Washington, DC for the former Beatle's Thirty Three & 1/3 album, as a particularly "remarkable moment", saying, "it changed the way I listened to his music ... I had spoken to the man, not the History."

Before joining Rolling Stone, where he became senior editor, he wrote for Circus, Trouser Press, Synapse, and Good Times. He has since written for Melody Maker, Mojo, and JazzTimes.

Fricke has been nominated for a Grammy Award for his album liner notes and is a three-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism. He has appeared on the Classic Albums documentaries on the making of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, Cream's Disraeli Gears, Def Leppard's Hysteria, Nirvana's Nevermind, Metallica's Black Album, Peter Gabriel's So, Frank Zappa's Apostrophe and Over-Nite Sensation as well as Rush's Moving Pictures and 2112 albums. Fricke has also appeared on a number of Lou Reed documentaries and in the Wilco documentary I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.

The Domino Recording Company released the North American version of the 30th anniversary reissue of Aztec Camera's debut album, High Land, Hard Rain, in 2014 with liner notes written by Fricke.

As of 2013, he was creator of the "Fricke's Picks Radio" podcast and the Alternate Take blog in Rolling Stone, as well as serving as the Host of the Friday Night Affair on “Tom Petty Radio”. He is currently a DJ at Sirius XM Radio.

Liner notes
Fricke has written liner notes for a number of albums, compilations and box sets, including:
 * The 1979 Kevin Roth album New Wind
 * The 1993 Moby Grape compilation Vintage: The Very Best of Moby Grape
 * The 1993 John Prine compilation Great Days: The John Prine Anthology
 * The 1993 Led Zeppelin compilation Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2
 * The 1994 Hüsker Dü live album The Living End
 * The 1995 Velvet Underground box set Peel Slowly and See; the 1997 "Fully Loaded" reissue of Loaded
 * The Byrds 1996–2000 CD reissue series
 * The 1997 Simon & Garfunkel compilation Old Friends
 * The 1997 Paul Kelly compilation Songs from the South
 * The 1998 Metallica covers compilation Garage Inc.
 * The 1998 Long Ryders 2-CD compilation Anthology
 * The 1999 Captain Beefheart box set Grow Fins: Rarities 1965-1982
 * The 1999 Jimi Hendrix live compilation Live at Woodstock
 * The 1999 Ramones compilation Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology
 * The 2002 Nirvana "best-of" compilation Nirvana
 * The 2003 AC/DC Back in Black reissue Back in Black (remaster)
 * The 2004 George Harrison box set The Dark Horse Years 1976–1992
 * The 2005 Violent Femmes "best of" compilation Permanent Record: The Very Best of Violent Femmes; the 2024 box set Violent Femmes
 * The 2006 Def Leppard 20th Anniversary Hysteria "Deluxe Edition"
 * The 2006 Frank Zappa box set The MOFO Project/Object
 * The 2007 The Church "best of" compilation Deep in the Shallows
 * The 2007 Led Zeppelin "best of" compilation Mothership
 * The 2008 Billy Joel box set The Stranger 30th Anniversary Edition
 * The 2009 Frank Zappa box set Lumpy Money
 * The 2009 Grateful Dead box set Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings
 * The 2013 The Numbers Band (a.k.a. 15-60-75) reissue Jimmy Bell's Still In Town (1975)

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WeBuilder 2005
Advertising, non notability Melaen 22:23, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agreed. Gwk 22:29, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
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Butleigh

Butleigh is a small village and civil parish, located in Somerset. The nearest village to it is Barton St David, and it is located a short distance from Glastonbury and Street. Its population is 823. Butleigh has a church, small village shop, a Church of England primary school and Butleigh Nursery School.

History
Butleigh was mentioned in the Domesday Book, belonging to Glastonbury Abbey. It had two separate entries, with the names Bodeslege and Boduchelei.

The parish of Butleigh was part of the Whitley Hundred.

Butleigh Court, which was abandoned for many years and has now been brought back into use, is noted for its interesting architecture including the tall carved chimney stacks, which are all different. Another interesting landmark is the cedar avenue, just outside the village. It was built in 1845 by J. C. Buckler, for Henry Neville-Grenville, on the site of an earlier building.

The village history is told in a slim book, Butleigh: One Thousand Years of an English Village, by E. F. Synge, a former vicar at the parish church. A reconstruction of life of one farm worker, John Hodges, who lived in the village during the Victorian era, is illustrated at the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury.

There is the lofty column on the nearby Combe Hill of the Admiral Hood Monument raised to the memory of Sir Samuel Hood on a hill near Butleigh, and in Butleigh Church is another memorial, with an inscription written by Robert Southey.

Although closed since 2021, the village is home to a 16th-century pub called The Rose and Portcullis. Efforts to find a new tenant have so far proven futile.

Governance
The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of Mendip, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. Mendip is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks and tourism. (Before 1974, Butleigh was part of Wells Rural District. )

Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing and fire services, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning.

The village forms part of the 'Butleigh and Baltonsborough' Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom. From Butleigh the ward goes east to Baltonsborough then south to Lydford-on-Fosse. The total population of the ward as at the 2011 census was 2,198.

It is also part of the Somerton and Frome county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election, and was part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament prior to Britain leaving the European Union in January 2020, which elected seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

Religious sites
The Church of St Leonard dates from the 14th century, and was restored and extended in the middle of the 19th century by J. C. Buckler. It has been designated as a grade II* listed building.

Notable people
1st Viscount Admiral Hood
 * William Robert Cornish (1828–1896) was a British physician who served in India for more than thirty years and became the Surgeon-General—head of medical services—in the Madras Presidency.

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Blue Fin

Blue Fin is a 1978 Australian family film directed by Carl Schultz and starring Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe and Elspeth Ballantyne. It is based on a 1969 Australian novel written by Colin Thiele.

Plot
Based on the children's novel by South Australian author Colin Thiele, this is a father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident-prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile his past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.

Twelve-year-old Steve Pascoe is nicknamed 'Snook' by everyone in Port Lincoln. He's thin and long-faced, like the fish he's named after. At school he's no good at sport and, at home, his father scorns him. Snook joins his father and fellow crewmen on a tuna-fishing expedition, when disaster strikes. It is up to Snook to save himself and his father from a desperate situation.

Cast

 * Hardy Krüger as Bill Pascoe
 * Greg Rowe as Steve "Snook" Pascoe
 * Liddy Clark as Ruth Pascoe
 * Elspeth Ballantyne as Mrs. Pascoe
 * John Jarratt as Sam Snell
 * Hugh Keays-Byrne as Stan
 * George Spartels as Con
 * John Frawley
 * Terry Camilleri as Truckie

Production
The film is an unofficial follow up to Storm Boy (1976) with the same writer and star, also adapted from a Colin Thiele novel. The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) did not want to use Henri Safran as director, though, so employed another director from the ABC, Carl Schultz.

The film was shot in Streaky Bay in mid 1978.

Reshoots
During post production editor Rod Adamson claimed the film would not cut together. Five weeks after filming had completed, Schultz had to leave the film to take up a directing job at the ABC. Accordingly, Matt Carroll of the SAFC called in Bruce Beresford, who was under contract to them, to re-shoot some sequences. Some of these had to be done using a body double for Hardy Kruger since he had returned to Europe. Schultz was supportive of Beresford stepping in but was unhappy with the fact he supervised the final re-cut.

Proposed Remake
In 2017 it was announced the movie would be remade.

DVD release
A DVD was released on 1 January 2003.

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Evangelical Press Association

The Evangelical Press Association is a professional association serving the Christian periodical publishing industry, including magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and content-rich websites. Its members produce some 200 periodical titles with a combined circulation of over 15 million. EPA is a religious and educational non-profit corporation under the laws of the state of California. It is managed by an executive director, who is responsible to a board of six directors.

Goals
The EPA seeks to promote the cause of evangelical Christianity and to enhance the influence of Christian journalism by:
 * providing resources and training to enhance competency and effectiveness;
 * promoting the highest standards of professionalism, accountability, and authenticity of viewpoint;
 * fostering Christian fellowship among members of the Association;
 * rendering practical assistance;
 * stimulating mutual helpfulness among members;
 * and encouraging high ethical and technical standards in the field of Christian journalism.

Beginnings
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In the fall of 1947, a handful of editors met at the convention of the National Sunday School Association and began to talk about an association of evangelical editors. Dr. James DeForest Murch, editor of United Evangelical Action, took the lead and called together a pro tem committee in Chicago on May 6, 1948. Thirty-five editors met at the Congress Hotel in Chicago. They officially organized the Evangelical Press Association, adopted the doctrinal statement of the National Association of Evangelicals and wrote the statement of purpose printed above. On April 4–6, 1949, the first annual convention of the EPA met in Chicago with 103 publications represented.

In September, 1951, the association mailed the first copies of a news service to its members. It was produced by volunteers who sent out ten releases in the first five months. In 1952 it became a weekly service with a subscription rate of $10 a year. That year also the association began its newsletter, Liaison. In 1954 the association adopted a code of ethics and began an awards program.

EPA has held an annual convention each year since 1949. The conventions were held in Chicago until 1957, then moved to a different city each year after that. The conventions were held in January until 1963 when the date was changed to April or May.

As the association grew, it demanded an executive secretary to carry on the administrative work and edit the news service. This became a half-time paid position. In 1978, the job of executive secretary was changed to executive director, and the director was charged with giving vision and leadership to the organization. The news service was licensed to an independent news organization, and in 1994 the news service was sold.

Programs and services
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Held each Spring, the annual convention is the focal point of the EPA year. The 3-day convention rotates among major cities throughout the U.S. The goal is to provide three days of learning, sharing, networking, and fellowship, as well as to conduct official association business.

EPA conventions offer speakers of national stature, the annual awards contest, the annual membership meeting and election, occasional tours, and a wide variety of workshops designed for editors, writers, graphic designers, photographers, social media managers, web content managers, and business personnel—from beginners to veterans, and for both print and digital application.

EPA hosts two annual contests: the Awards of Excellence contest (for a publication as a whole) and the Higher Goals contest (for the individual pieces produced—writing, photography, design, etc.).

Other programs and services include press credentials, one-on-one publication critique, scholarships for undergraduate journalism students, an ethics committee to hear complaints, webinars, a legal hotline and various member benefits and discounts from selected suppliers.

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The Beautiful Letdown

The Beautiful Letdown is the fourth studio album by alternative rock band Switchfoot, released on February 25, 2003, by RED Ink Records, and later re-released through Sony Music. It marked the band's first release on a major label and their first release with keyboardist Jerome Fontamillas. The album was produced by John Fields and Switchfoot and recorded over a span of around two weeks; all songs on the album were written either in part or entirely by lead singer Jon Foreman.

The album thematically covers the human condition, with its lyrics expressing a "dissatisfaction with the status quo"; it focuses more on asking questions rather than answering them, a writing style Foreman described as "Socratic". Compared to the band's previous "lo-fi" efforts, The Beautiful Letdown adopts a more "polished" production style. Musically, the album has been described as alternative rock and post-grunge while also incorporating electronic instruments and digital effects. The album received acclaim from critics. It received praise for its musical diversity and for discussing difficult themes and spiritual topics without being evangelistic. The Beautiful Letdown and its singles were nominated for multiple awards at the 35th GMA Dove Awards and 36th GMA Dove Awards, winning several of them. Critics labeled it one of the best Christian albums of 2003 and the 2000s, and it has since been regarded as one of the best Christian albums of all time.

The album sold 14,000 copies in its first week; the singles "Meant to Live" and "Dare You to Move" became mainstream hits, charting in the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the top ten on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. Their crossover success led The Beautiful Letdown to ultimately peak at number 16 on the Billboard 200, and it spent the 10th-longest run on the chart of the 2000s. It spent a record-breaking 38 weeks atop the Billboard Christian Albums chart, and ranked as the second-best-selling Christian album of the 2000s. Five of its singles ultimately peaked at number one on at least one Christian radio format. The Beautiful Letdown has been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and certified gold by Music Canada; as of 2023, it has sold over three million copies.

Background and recording
The Beautiful Letdown marked Switchfoot's first album released on a mainstream record label; their prior three albums had been released on Christian music labels. Lead singer Jon Foreman felt that the decision of Columbia Records to sign the band was interesting given how "spiritually driven" the album is. Prior to recording the album, the band added a new member, keyboardist Jerome Fontamillas. A longtime friend of Foreman, Fontamillas quit his day job as a "suit" in an office building and asked to join the band as a keyboardist. The album was recorded quickly, over a span of around two weeks. Foreman said this is the "best way" to make an album because it "hits hard" and allows "the mistakes and the beautiful parts" to be together. Switchfoot did not want to "waste time screwing around in a $1000 a day studio"; the album was pre-produced in Foreman's bedroom and recording was handled over a two-week session with minimal breaks.

According to Foreman, many of the songs on The Beautiful Letdown were written years before the album was recorded. Switchfoot opted to re-record "Dare You to Move" - a song previously on their 2000 album Learning to Breathe - because they felt it "hadn't lived its shelf life yet"; in addition to regarding it as a "defining song" that they wanted people being introduced to their music to hear, they felt that years of performing it live had given them a better idea of how they wanted it to sound.

The Beautiful Letdown was produced by John Fields and Switchfoot; Charlie Peacock was also credited with production on "Dare You to Move". The album was recorded at Mansfield Lodge, Jon Foreman's house, and Sage and Sound, and it was mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios, Image Recording Studios, South Beach Studios, and Ocean Way Recording. The album artwork for The Beautiful Letdown was taken at a hotel pool in north Los Angeles. Originally, the band had purchased a cheap guitar with the intent of breaking it in half and setting it on fire. However, the hotel did not allow the band to set the guitar on fire, and Jon Foreman became "too attached" to the guitar to break it in half. Instead, they threw the guitar on the bottom of the pool.

Composition
The Beautiful Letdown has been described as a post-grunge, and alternative rock. Compared to their previous "lo-fi" efforts, it sports a greater emphasis on rock and has a higher production quality. It also incorporates electronic instruments, synthesizers, and digital effects. The album's lyrical themes cover "doubt, questioning, and fear" and the human condition; Jon Foreman described it as "an honest attempt to reflect on the great and terrible aspects of being human, the tension of existence." Most songs on the album express a "dissatisfaction with the status quo." Christianity Today writer Russ Breimeier noted that the track order thematically follows the spiritual path to Christianity but rarely mentions Jesus or explicitly spiritual themes overtly; this approach had previously achieved commercial success through crossover bands like Jars of Clay, dc Talk, and P.O.D. Mark Joseph of National Review said that The Beautiful Letdown generally eschews answering questions and instead focuses broadly on asking questions, with answers "[finding] their voice in lines that could be easily missed." Joseph compared this lyrical approach to that of Jesus, who frequently asked vague or cryptic questions aimed at "those who have ears to hear." Foreman described this lyrical approach as "Socratic", "where the listener is actually the one who is being forced to think and ask themselves the question."

"Meant to Live" features "chunky", distorted guitars and presents an "a simple, yet impassioned plea for us to stop, look at our lives and evaluate what's really important", with the bridge expressing a longing for more than the "wars of our fathers" and instead for "second life." Although interpreted by some as a criticism of the Iraq War, the song was written before the war. According to Jon Foreman, the lyrics of "Meant to Live" are about "being put off by pop culture... It's a song that [says], 'When I look at the magazine pages or a TV screen, I know there's nothing they can sell me that will satisfy me. And when I look at the sunset or the stars, I am reminded that there's something inside of me that's meant to live for more than what pop culture often sells us." "This Is Your Life", a ballad with electronic influences, opens with electronic instruments before shifting to incorporate acoustic guitar and drums. The song focuses on the theme of living in the moment instead of for yesterday, declaring that "today is all you've got now/and today is all you'll ever have." The chorus asks the listener if their life is what they imagined it would be when they were younger. "More Than Fine", an alternative pop song; Stephanie Ottosen of CCM Magazine compared its musical style to the work of John Mayer. The song encourages listeners to look inward and to not be content with things as they are. Foreman described the song as being inspired lyrically by punk music's "commitment to change" and lack of contentment with how things are, and said it could be considered a "punk tune disguised as pop."

The upbeat rock song "Ammunition" presents mankind as "the fuse and ammunition" responsible for the human condition. It features distorted guitars and an aggressive music style comparable to the garage rock style of Switchfoot's first album, The Legend of Chin (1997). "Dare You to Move" was originally written for and featured on the band's previous album Learning to Breathe. According to Jesse Lord of IGN, it musically adopts a slower tempo mixed with "elements of hard rock". It presents a contrast between "who you are and who you could be" and urges the listener to live for the day. "Redemption" adopts a musical style similar to that of Learning to Breathe. The title track is the longest on the album and focusses on the themes of not belonging in the world and the futility of pursuing wealth. "Gone", an upbeat alternative hip hop and alternative rock song, discusses the inevitability of death; its musical style, incorporating "hip-hop beats, lite-funk guitar, [and] free-associative barbershop harmonies", was compared to Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life". "On Fire", a "gentle" ballad, is one of the slower-tempo songs on the album. "Adding to the Noise", a rock song, criticizes radio and media for creating hype and "noise." It also questions the band's place and tells listeners to stop listening to them if they are adding to the noise. The album closes with "24", a ballad that lyrically focuses on belief in the midst of questions and the progress to become more like Christ. Foreman described the song as about "wanting to be united in one person" and as his personal favorite song on the album.

Critical reception
According to Christianity Today, The Beautiful Letdown received "universal acclaim" from critics. It received four out of five stars from Allmusic, and reviewer Johnny Lotfus praised it as being "melodic and well paced" despite feeling that it was "kind of all over the place" musically. Russ Breimeier of Christianity Today gave it five out of five stars, calling it as "wholly satisfying modern-rock effort" while praising the album's "thought-provoking" lyrics and production value, pointing to "Dare You to Move" as being "clearly an improvement" over the previous version on Learning to Breathe. The Beautiful Letdown received an honorable mention from Robert Christgau, who praised the album's lyrical focus and listed "Ammunition" and "Gone" as its highlights. The album received ten out of ten squares from Tony Cummings of Cross Rhythms, who called it a "truly brilliant album" and praised its heavier musical tone compared to the band's previous albums, describing it as "harder and punchier than ever". IGN's Jesse Lord gave the album a score of 9.0 out of 10, offering praise for its lyrics for drawing from the band's Christian beliefs but for not being "overtly preachy". Pär Winberg of Melodic gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars and described the album as "easily [Switchfoot's] best to date" and a "sure buy".

CBN reviewer Mark Weber applauded The Beautiful Letdown as being "musically potent" and "hopeful". Stephanie Ottosen of CCM Magazine called the album a "thinking man’s rock ’n’ roll" and praised it being "one of the best [albums] I’ve heard in some time". Mikael Wood of Village Voice said it "might be the most intelligent, least hysterical piece of alt-rock evangelism I’ve ever heard" and praised its musical diversity. Gary Glauber of PopMatters called the album "well executed and well produced" and praised its lyrical focus on the "human condition", saying that "when rocking out to them on some beach somewhere, it's cool to think that some folks might just stop for a second and ponder the meaning of life." In National Review, Mark Joseph favorably contrasted the album's lyrical focus on "profoundly disturbing and troubling questions" on the meaning of life with the "comfortable, safe, and nice American brand" of evangelical Christianity. He also lauded the band for focusing more on presenting questions to listeners and encouraging them to "change themselves from within" rather than offering specific answers, noting parallels to Jesus's approach in the gospels. Jesus Freak Hideout writer Blake Garris gave The Beautiful Letdown 4.5 out of 5 stars and felt that it would allow Switchfoot to go from "one of Christian music's best kept secrets" to a successful mainstream band.

HM writer Doug van Pelt awarded the album 2.5 out of 5 stars, while managing editor David Allen gave it 2 out of 5 stars. Indie rock editor Chris Rose said "there is one word in the title of Switchfoot’s latest project that could accurately describe the entirety of the CD – and it is not 'Beautiful'". Rose lambasted the album as having "songs and instruments watered-down with mediocrity", and said it was "well produced" on the whole but "machine-fed and extremely CCM".

Awards and accolades
At the 35th GMA Dove Awards, The Beautiful Letdown won the award for Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year. "Meant to Live" won the award for Rock/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year and was also nominated for Song of Year, "Ammunition" won the award for Rock Recorded Song of the Year, and "Gone" was nominated for Rock/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year. "Meant to Live" was nominated again for Song of Year at the 36th GMA Dove Awards along with "Dare You to Move", which won the award for Rock/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year. The Beautiful Letdown won the awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Album at the 2003 San Diego Music Awards, and at the 2004 San Diego Music Awards, "Dare You to Move" won the award for Song of the Year.

The Beautiful Letdown was ranked as the best Christian album of 2003 by Christianity Today. Jesus Freak Hideout's staff all listed the album as the best or second-best album of the year and Kevin McNeese of New Release Today placed it among his top ten albums of the year. It has since been regarded as one of the best Christian albums of all time. In 2010, HM ranked The Beautiful Letdown as the 11th-best Christian rock album of all time and repudiated their initially negative review of the album as "wrong"; in 2016, van Pelt described his unfavorable review and the magazine's initial assessment of the album as "wrong". Alex Eaton of The Buffalo News described it as "arguably the best and most influential Christian album of all time" in 2011. In 2016, Kevin Sparkman, the managing editor of CCM Magazine, described The Beautiful Letdown as "the album of the 2000s" and noted that "Dare You to Move" had "transcended genres and formats". The magazine also ranked it as the band's best album in 2019. In 2015, Joel Heng Hartse of Christianity Today called the album the last of the "golden era" of contemporary Christian music.

Release and promotion
When Columbia Records signed Switchfoot from Sparrow Records, Columbia gained the rights to sell the band's records to mainstream outlets while Sparrow retained the right to sell them in the Christian market. Mainstream sales of The Beautiful Letdown were handled by the Columbia-owned RED Ink Records, while sales to Christian outlets were handled by Chordant, which was a distributor of EMI Records.

Although the band had signed to a major record label, support from Sony itself was lacking. Prior to promotion, the band went to New York City to perform some of the songs for record executives. According to Foreman, the performance went poorly; the record executive went into a "profanity-induced tirade" midway through the first song. As a result, the band received no support from the label for touring, marketing, or radio. According to Jim Farber of the New York Daily News, this deal, combined with the album's mainstream release on the "tiny farm label" Red Ink, was a sign that Columbia had "little faith" in the band. Originally, the album was planned for a release in October 2002, but this release was pushed back to February 2003. Jon Foreman attributed the delay in release to the size of Sony Records and said it "just takes a little bit longer" when working with a "big battleship" of a company. In hindsight, Foreman felt the relegation to Red Ink was "actually the best thing that could’ve happened to us, because not only did everyone at Red Ink believe in this album and fight for it, it galvanized why we do what we do, and the idea that we don’t play music for the people who don’t understand it. We’re not for everyone, we’re going to be for ourselves. Irrespective of whether people get it or not, we’re going to sing our songs."

"More Than Fine" was released as the first single to Christian radio while "Meant to Live" was released as the first single to the Christian rock, college, and alternative radio formats; the singles reached the number one position on the Radio & Records Christian CHR and Christian Rock charts, respectively. According to Billboard, The Beautiful Letdown sold 14,000 copies in its first week; 70% of sales came from Christian bookstores. The album opened at number 85 on the Billboard 200 and number two on the Billboard Christian Albums chart.

"Gone" began charting on Christian radio in June 2003, peaking at number one on the Christian CHR chart. By the time "Gone" had spent its fifth week atop the Christian CHR chart in October 2003, "Meant to Live" had advanced to the top 20 on the alternative radio charts. "Meant to Live" reached its peak of number five on the Billboard Alternative Songs in January 2004 and in 2004 it charted in the top 10 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 and Pop Airplay charts and number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also charted internationally, peaking at number 29 in the UK, number 52 in Australia, and number 92 in the Netherlands.

"Dare You to Move" was released to Christian radio on February 2, 2002 and peaked at number one on the Christian CHR chart. "Dare You to Move" also achieved success on mainstream radio, reaching the top ten on the Alternative Songs, Adult Top 40, and Pop Airplay charts, number 17 on the Hot 100,   and number 35 in Australia. Another single, "This Is Your Life", became the album's fifth number-one single on Christian radio and also charted on the Alternative Songs and Adult Top 40 charts.

The crossover success of "Meant To Live" and "Dare You to Move" led to an increase in sales for The Beautiful Letdown in both the Christian and mainstream markets. It reached the peak position of the Christian Albums chart on January 17, 2004, its 45th week on the chart; It would ultimately spend 38 weeks atop the Christian Albums chart, the longest run at the top spot since the chart had switched to a weekly format in 1995. The Beautiful Letdown had sold 435,000 copies by March 2004, and by June 2004 it had sold over a million copies on the RED Ink label, which led Columbia records to move the album to the Sony Music label. It reached its peak of number 16 on the Billboard 200 in July 2004 and by October 2004 it had sold another 500,000 copies on the Sony Music label. According to Billboard, The Beautiful Letdown ranked as the 40th-best selling album of 2004 and the bestselling Christian album of 2004. In 2005, it ranked as the 98th-best selling album and the second-best selling Christian album. The Beautiful Letdown would ultimately spend 118 weeks on the Billboard 200, the tenth-longest run on the chart of the 2000s.

As of January 2007, The Beautiful Letdown had sold 2.6 million copies in the United States, and it has sold 2.7 million copies as of 2013. It ranked as the 198th-best selling album of the 2000s in the United States and the second-best selling Christian album of the 2000s, behind only P.O.D.'s Satellite. The album has been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), signifying shipments of over three million copies in the United States, and it has been certified gold by Music Canada, indicating shipments of 50,000 copies. As of September 2023, the album has sold over three million copies.

Reissues
A special edition version of The Beautiful Letdown featuring a bonus DVD was released in June 2004. The DVD included a music video for "Dare You to Move", a featurette on the making of the music video, an acoustic performance of "On Fire", and excerpts from the band's Switchfootage DVD, as well as two audio tracks - "Monday Comes Around", a song which was included on early promotional copies of the album but was ultimately excluded from the commercial release, and a live performance of "Meant to Live". The album was released on DualDisc in January 2005, with the DVD side featuring the entire album in 5.1 surround sound as well as additional video content.

The Beautiful Letdown received a hybrid Super Audio CD release in December 2005 and a digital "Deluxe Edition" of the album was released in 2007 featuring "Monday Comes Around" and as well as an alternate version of "Dare You to Move" and an acoustic version of "Meant to Live". The album was released on vinyl for the first time in December 2014.

On May 5, 2023, the band released The Beautiful Letdown (Our Version), a re-recorded version of the album. A deluxe edition, released on September 15, 2023, includes contributions from Relient K, Owl City, Ryan Tedder, Sleeping at Last, Noah Gundersen, Ingrid Andress, Jon Bellion, Jonas Brothers, Tyler Joseph, and others.

Personnel
(Credits from the album liner notes)

Switchfoot

 * Chad Butler
 * Jerome Fontamillas
 * Jon Foreman
 * Tim Foreman

Additional musicians
 * John Fields – keyboard, FX, percussion, tasty bits
 * Stephan Hovsepian – violin
 * Ameena Khawaja – cello

Technical and miscellaneous
 * Mike Buzbee – computers
 * Dorian Crozier – computers
 * Erin Familia – assistant
 * John Fields – production, recording, mixing
 * Chris Lord-Alge – mixing ("Meant to Live)
 * Tom Lord-Alge – mixing ("This Is Your Life", "Dare You to Move")
 * Charlie Peacock – production ("Dare You to Move")
 * Jack Joseph Puig – mixing ("More Than Fine", "The Beautiful Letdown", "On Fire")
 * Aaron Redfield – drum tech
 * Ted Reiger – assistant
 * Switchfoot – production, remix ("Dare You to Move")

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King Center

King Center may refer to:

 * Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, Atlanta, Georgia
 * King Center for Nonviolent Social Change
 * King Center for the Performing Arts, Melbourne, Florida

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Category:Astral Media

This category lists all assets of the Canadian media corporation Astral Media. It also includes notable current or former employees, executives, and owners of the company.

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Richard Gibson

Richard Gibson (born 1 January 1954) is an English actor, best known for his role as the archetypal Gestapo Officer Herr Otto Flick in the BBC hit sitcom series, 'Allo 'Allo!.

Career
Gibson was born in Kampala, Uganda, before the country gained independence from the UK. He was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and educated at St Paul's Cathedral School, Radley College near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and the Central School of Speech and Drama.

He took part in 'Allo 'Allo! during the vast majority of the series. Dressed in an ankle-length leather coat and with the obligatory stiff-legged limp and walking stick, Herr Flick spent his life suppressing peasants, seducing Helga, the German town Commandant's assistant, and vainly trying to get his hands on the original of the painting The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies by Van Klomp.

Gibson then toured with the group when 'Allo 'Allo! transferred to the stage and had successful tours both in the United Kingdom and abroad. The stage version of the show gave rein to his other skills, and he was able to demonstrate his mastery of the violin.

He played Sunning in the 1971 BBC1 television series Tom Brown's Schooldays. His first film role of note was in the 1971 film The Go Between, in which he played Marcus Maudsley, school friend of Leo Colston (Dominic Guard) who passed messages between Julie Christie and Alan Bates, and he also played young Tony Farrant in the 1973 film version of England Made Me. He has also played a wide variety of roles on stage and the TV screen, and in 2006 was a regular guest on The Daily Telegraph's World Cup Pubcast, where he usually took the role of Herr Flick, providing a more biased view of the proceedings. In 2003, he guest starred in the Doctor Who audio drama Flip-Flop.

He has divided his time between Ireland and the UK, and continues to work in films, television, and theatre as well as working as a sub-editor for newspaper publications.

Owing to the enduring popularity of '''Allo! 'Allo!'', he and Kim Hartman have formed a Flick and Helga fan club and made numerous cabaret appearances, using songs and sketches in character. In 2012, as guest speakers on the Fred Olsen ships, Boudicca and Balmoral, they travelled to the Canary Islands and up the Amazon River. In 2014, they were also guest performers at the Malfest Arts Festival in Malpas, Cheshire, and appeared at the War and Peace Show at the Hop Farm in Kent. In 2014 Gibson appeared with fellow 'Allo, 'Allo! cast members at the Sofia International Film Festival. Gibson also works as a radio actor, scriptwriter and voiceover artist.

He has claimed that, while a chorister, he sang at the funeral service of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965, and was paid £2 10s for his work on the day.

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User:Ruuster

Wikipedians;

I am researching for a book of fiction. I require a number of terms and phrases which might be uttered by a character, an imam, speaking in, "classical", arabic. Since the book shall be in English, I shall need the phonetic English, 'interlinear', translation to subscribe the Arabic text.

Examples of what I am purposing to include might be: (a) what might be the Classical Arabic equivalent phrase used to describle a soiled garment discarded by a woman after her monthly visitation? And (b), the Classical Arabic equivalent phrase for a pot of boiling/stewing monkey meat (haram).

This is my first post on this site. I've read all the pages and links on Wikipedia that my eyes can stand, but if I am in the wrong place, I apologise. Any help in locating an appropriate source which can further my research will be greatly appreciated.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freewebs

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The result of the debate was Keep. NSR (talk) 10:17, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Freewebs
Article on a subject I just deleted through vfd process, see Votes for deletion/Free Webs however this article has been around a lot longer, so I don't know if it's a candidate for speedy deletion. Francs2000 | Talk 22:30, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, "steadily increasing" popularity usually means "no one knows who the hell we are." Anyway, same subject = same treatment regardless of whether it was initially noticed or not.  Keep due to exceptional Alexa.  Dcarrano 01:01, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Alexa ranking 245. Seems popular enough to be notable. TheCoffee 07:49, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * And the previous VFD was because the article was advertising/spam... this one I couldn't call advertising. TheCoffee 07:51, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep notable MLSfreak777 10:08, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

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There are varying reports of when her novels came out. Anyone know the correct years they were released?
 * --Courtkittie 9 July 2005

Guitar Girl (Sarra Manning) Anyone know Sarra Manning's house adress?
Does anyone know Sarra Manning's adress? i need to know because i need her to write a sequel to guitar girl, because the ending made me cry and left me feeling like there is no hope/no, LOVE. I need her to write a seaquel to make Molly and Dean back together. I really need them to or it will crush my dreams in life. I want my life to be like the book up to where they are out in the open and good together. Then if my life carried on like the book I think I would die. PLEASE HELP!!!

 * ... we need a new wikipolicy -- get a grip. --In ur base, killing ur dorfs 21:31, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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PLAF

PLAF may refer to:

 * Phil Lesh and Friends
 * Pluggable look and feel in Java Applications
 * People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam—Viet Cong's army

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Talk:Newfoundland Commission of Government

I don't think this qualifies as a stub - it is well written and although very small, it is still informative. I'm going to remove the stub tag.


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John Henry Patterson (Medal of Honor)

John Henry Patterson (February 10, 1843 – October 5, 1920) was a Union officer during the American Civil War and a recipient of the Medal of Honor for courage under fire at the Battle of the Wilderness.

Biography
Patterson was born in Selkirk, New York and was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the newly created 11th Infantry Regiment in May 1861. On May 5, 1864, under heavy fire from Confederate forces, Patterson left cover to rescue a wounded officer, who was in danger of both capture and death, as the forest near where he had fallen had caught fire during the battle. Patterson picked up the officer and carried him several hundred yards to safety.

Patterson remained in the Regular Army after the war. He rose through the officer ranks and became the commanding officer of the 20th Infantry Regiment on 28 September 1898. At the same time, he was promoted to Brigadier General in the U.S. Volunteers and held that position until he was promoted to Brigadier General in the Regular Army on 18 January 1899. He retired shortly afterwards on 6 February 1899.

General Patterson was a companion of the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

Medal of Honor citation

Rank and Organization:
 * First Lieutenant, 11th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864. Entered service at: New York. Birth: New York. Date of issue: July 23, 1897.

Citation:
 * Under the heavy fire of the advancing enemy, picked up and carried several hundred yards to a place of safety a wounded officer of his regiment who was helpless and would otherwise have been burned in the forest.

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Talk:Sealink (U.K.) Ltd

Suggestion to Merge
it seems fairly redundant to me to have the two articles - one for the company, one for the brand. MrWeeble 22:33, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

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Engel (role-playing game)

Engel (German for angel or angels) is a role-playing game. The original German version uses a rule system in which the gamemaster and players draw associative, tarot-like cards instead of rolling dice to determine the outcome of an event (this system is called the Arcana system in the original German version). The English version of Engel does not include the Arcana system at all; it is based on the d20 System instead. The German version includes d20 rules in addition to the Arcana system. The game was published by the German publisher Feder&Schwert (German for "Feather&Sword"), who also published the World of Darkness RPG series in Germany and used to publish the Dungeons & Dragons series.

Setting
In the flooded, quasi-medieval Europe of 2654, massive islands are the domains of the orders of the Angelitic Church. The Engel, seemingly the angels of Judeo-Christian belief, patrol the skies from their fortresslike Heavens, ceaselessly striving to defend the people of Europe against the hordes of the verminous [Dreamseed]. The eternally youthful Pontifex Maximus in Roma Æterna, in Italy, presides over a bureaucratic and autocratic church, having combined religious and secular power into a perfectly integrated whole. Within its dominion, dark riders take a tithe of every village's children for the unknown purposes of the church. Many of the cities have broken away from the direct command of the Church, coming under the sway of Junklords (Diadoches) who keep alive what remains of antediluvian technology. In the face of very real and very quantifiable evil, the people of Europe increasingly turn away from the direct political, cultural, and spiritual leadership of the church. As the numbers of the Engel plateau, players must navigate politics, war, and faith as the guardians of Europe.

Angelic Orders
Five orders of angels serve mankind and the Angelic Church in Roma Æterna. The Michaelites are the leaders of the hosts; the Urielites are the messengers of the Lord; the Gabrielites are the angels of death; the Ramielites are the keepers of knowledge; and the Raphaelites are the divine healers.

 * The Order of Michael
 * Named after the archangel Michael, the members of this order are trained in the arts of strategy, tactics and leadership. With their unique mental powers, they are the perfect commanders of the heavenly hosts. Like the archangel himself, the Michaelites are deemed the purest and most godlike of all angels. Their crest features a radiant crown and a key.
 * The Heaven of the Michaelites stands in Roma Æterna. Their traditional color is gold.

 * The Order of Uriel
 * Named after the archangel Uriel, this order keeps the knowledge of the ways of the Lord. The Urielites are the scouts and messengers among the angels. As such, their gift enables them to find their way even in the dark of night or in the middle of a thunderstorm. They are also very capable foragers, and can find food and water in the loneliest desert. The all-seeing eye is their crest.
 * The Heaven of the Urielites has been erected in Mont Salvage in the Pyrenees. Their colour is green.

 * The Order of Gabriel
 * Named after the archangel Gabriel, this angelic order is the most widely feared. These warriors of God, also called the angels of death, are trained to fight and kill in every imaginable way. With the flaming sword, which is also the symbol of the order, they deal out the Lord's judgment.
 * The Heaven of the Gabrielites is located near the ancient German town of Nürnberg. The colour of their order is black.

 * The Order of Ramiel:
 * This order follows the archangel Ramiel or Jeremiel. The Ramielites are the keepers of knowledge and the sages among the other orders. Their divine gift lets them see the past as well as the future. Their crest is the book and the alpha and omega.
 * The Heaven of the Ramielites is located in the ancient Czech town of Prague, the new Venice of the east. The colour of their order is blue.

 * The Order of Raphael
 * This order, named after the archangel Raphael, is accustomed to the ways of healing. A touch of their hands can soothe pain, heal wounds, and even banish misery. Many Raphaelites refrain from violence completely and do not even carry weapons. Their crest shows the healing hand.
 * The Heaven of the Raphaelites is located near Grenoble in the French Alps. Their colour is white or silver.

Mechanics
The book follows the standard d20 System convention of six primary statistics, classes, levels, experience points, feats, and skills. Normal humans have access to only the aristocrat, commoner, expert, fighter, rogue, and warrior classes. The Engel have access to special classes and abilities restricted to their bands; unlike humans, they are incapable of multiclassing. There is no magic; there are only Potestas (powers), which work as skills restricted by the Engelic band the player chooses. Such powers drain the hit points of the Engel; a similar but less harmful mechanic is found in the Star Wars d20 Roleplaying Game.

All core mechanics are included, in abbreviated form, in the Engel Corebook. Equipment of the quasi-medieval setting of Engel is described, along with rules for pre-Flood artifacts such as firearms, grenades, and ceramic armor. A small selection of NPCs and sample player characters is provided, along with a map of the new Europe and a more-or-less complete history of the World of Engel since the Flood. Certain sections are explicitly forbidden for players to read, as they contain spoilers about the overall plot. Nonhuman NPCs (the Dreamseed creatures) are only briefly detailed though frequently mentioned; they are detailed in the supplement Creatures of the Dreamseed, released in 2002.

Publication status
Described by Shannon Appelcline as "Perhaps the most unusual d20 book published directly by White Wolf was Engel Corebook (2002), a very early OGL-licensed release that took a German post-apocalyptic fantasy game [...] previously published by Feder & Schwert and converted it to d20." Appelcline stated that "It was notable as a rare German game that (sort of) made it to the American market, but ultimately failed because of a lack-luster d20 conversion." Appelcline went on to say that "White Wolf's Engel Corebook (2000) had been the first real look at a German RPG in the US — except that White Wolf converted it to d20, which probably removed much of its novelty. Unfortunately, FanPro's The Dark Eye didn't make any waves either, perhaps because it was a fairly traditional FRPG. As a result, FanPro only supported the game with two supplements."

Engel is no longer being actively supported by Sword & Sorcery Studios and the line was dropped in 2004, although copies of the Corebook are available in their online store. Creatures of the Dreamseed is not in stock and is only available through third parties.

A graphic novel set in the world of Engel, Pandoramicum, details some of Engel's history leading up to the current events in the Engel Corebook. It too is out of print.

Order Book: Michaelites, a supplement detailing one of the orders of Engel, was also released prior to the product line's cancellation. It is no longer in stock.

The 2001 album Engel by the English duo In the Nursery was commissioned by Feder&Schwert as an album of music inspired by the game.

Reviews

 * Envoyer (German) (Issue 62 - Dec 2001)

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Elspeth Ballantyne

Elspeth Ballantyne (born 1939) is an Australian retired actress, who appeared in productions in theatre, television and films over a career that spanned nearly 60 years, a veteran of the industry having started her career as a child actor and becoming a staple of the theatre starting from 1947, in a production of Macbeth and by the age of 15 in 1954 had turned pro., performing in stage roles for the next 37 years, including a stage play tour of the United Kingdom of her iconic "Prisoner" role at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham.

Ballantyne is probably best known for her small screen roles in numerous TV serials. Her first major TV role was in the serial Bellbird in 1967 as librarian Laura "Lori" Chandler (formerly Grey), opposite actor Dennis Miller, whom she would marry the following year, she remained in the role until 1971.

She became a staple of the early Crawford Production serials in the 1970s, however became best known for her role in the TV cult series Prisoner (known internationally as Prisoner: Cell Block H) from 1979 to 1986 as original character of firm but fair Prison Officer Meg Jackson (later Morris). She was the only actress to appear in the series' full 8-season run. After Prisoner she took guest roles in The Flying Doctors and G.P., before regularly appearing in the soap opera Neighbours as coffee shop owner Cathy Alessi, the wife of Benito Alessi (George Spartels) and the mother of Rick and Marco Alessi (played by Dan Falzon and Felice Arena), as part of a new Italian family that was introduced to the series in 1992. She left the show the following year.

Subsequently, she appeared in guest parts on TV dramas Blue Heelers, The Secret Life of Us' and All Saints and miniseries Paper Giants: Magazine Wars'' (2013)

She has featured in film roles (with features and telemovies) including The Caterpillar Wish (2006), Moonlight and Magic (2007), Red Hill (2010), Boronia Boys (2009) and sequel Boronia Backpackers (2011)

Early life and career
Elspeth Ballantyne was born into a show business family in Adelaide, South Australia, the daughter of Gwenneth Ballantyne (nee Richmond ), an actress and teacher and Colin George Sandergrove Ballantyne, a prominent theatre entrepreneur, who would give lectures to the young Elspeth on the likes of Shakespeare, Jonson, Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg her father began his career as a photographer, before becoming a stage actor, producer and director and theatre impresario as an arts administrator who was head of the South Australian Theatre Company, (the predecessor as the State Theatre) Company. Having started her career as a laboratory technician at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, she decided upon an acting career and attended drama school, at NIDA

After NIDA, her father wanted her to join the Young Elizabethans; instead she chose to work with Raymond Westwell and Joan MacArthur in Perth, while they were establishing the National Theatre Company. Subsequently she and her brother Guy appeared in plays by her father, including as the aparrition of MacBeth, and then took roles in the Alan Hopgood "football play" And the Big Men Fly and A Cheery Soul by Patrick White

Bellbird, Prisoner and Neighbours
Ballantyne appeared in three iconic small screen roles, starting with the serial Bellbird broadcast by the ABC as librarian Lori Chandler and subsequently moved to commercial TV playing firm but compassionate prison officer Meg Jackson Morris in the soap opera Prisoner. Ballantyne was the only actor to stay with the series for its entire eight-year run. She later reprised her famous role of Meg in the original stage tour of Prisoner: Cell Block H – The Stage Play, which toured the UK in 1989.

In the early 1990s, she had a stint in Channel Ten soap opera Neighbours, as part of the Italian Alessi family.

Film roles
She has appeared in feature films The Caterpillar Wish as Mrs. Woodbridge, and in Moonlight & Magic as thrift shop owner Desma. Ballantyne also appeared in the drama short film Twenty Five Cents (2007), and as the wheelchair-bound matriarch in the short The Last Tupper (2011). She played Maxine Danials in the Boronia movies Boronia Boys (2009) and Boronia Backpackers (2011) and Paper Giants: Magazine Wars in 2013.

Personal life
Ballantyne was married to actor Dennis Miller from 1968 to 1977. Both had leading roles in the long-running series Bellbird. They have two sons together: Matthew and Tobias. She is the sister of film producer Jane Ballantyne.

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Villa Nova Atlético Clube

Villa Nova Atlético Clube, commonly known as Villa Nova, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais. The team plays in Série D, the fourth tier of the Brazilian football league system, as well as in the Campeonato Mineiro, the top tier of the Minas Gerais state football league.

History
Villa Nova is the second oldest active club of Minas Gerais. The club was founded on 28 June 1908, in Nova Lima, by English factory workers and miners of Morro Velho Mining Inc.

The 1930s were the club's greatest era. Villa Nova won its first state title in 1932 and won the first three championships in the professional era, in 1933, 1934 and 1935. The yellow star in the club's logo allude to these titles.

Villa won the Campeonato Mineiro again in 1951, defeating Atlético Mineiro in the finals at Independência. Martim Francisco, coach of the club in 1951, was pointed out as the inventor of 4-2-4 in the book 'Inverting The Pyramid' by Jonathan Wilson, which chronicles the evolution of football tactics.

In 1971, Villa Nova won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B first edition, after beating Remo in the final. The green star in their logo symbolizes this national title.

Stadium
Villa Nova's stadium is Estádio Castor Cifuentes, also known as "Alçapão do Bonfim". It was built in 1908 and rebuilt in 1989. Currently, has a maximum capacity of 5,160 people.

National

 * Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
 * Winners (1): 1971

State

 * Campeonato Mineiro
 * Winners (5): 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1951
 * Runners-up (6): 1937, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1953, 1997
 * Taça Minas Gerais
 * Winners (2): 1977, 2006
 * Runners-up (2): 2009, 2012
 * Campeonato Mineiro Módulo II
 * Winners (2): 1995, 2021

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AwesomeFunny

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The result of the debate was no consensus, so kept.

AwesomeFunny
Delete - self-promotion NAF 03:24, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete self promotion for a non notable website. JamesBurns 07:32, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Flashcruft. Alexa traffic rating over 600K, not significant. Friday 13:25, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I don't believe that the article is self-promotion, and I would like to mention that the article previously came up for Deletion in May (see archive), with no consensus. EvilPhoenix talk 22:03, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * AwesomeFunny was well-known because of an internet fad, and has been steadily losing popularity. Thus, it is useful to reconsider deleting the page now, as the site is all the more nn and the Alexa rating is low. Mimsy Borogoves 13 July 2005 17:09 (UTC)
 * Ah, but its supposed major claim to fame, How to Kill a Mockingbird, looks likely to go.   Delete per Friday.  Dcarrano 01:06, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article is no big deal (although I admit I did vote keep last time). But there's also a principle here: If this content was ever encyclopedic, then it still is. Maybe we should tighten up our practice on Internet phenomena generally, that would wash. But deleting an article on the grounds that it was once significant but isn't now is a very dangerous precedent, and that seems to be the sentiment above. The article itself might be considered a candidate for redirect and merge, just so long as the content is preserved, and the redirect makes it still accessible. But that doesn't need a VfD discussion. Food for thought? Andrewa 00:21, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * That's a big "if." It never was encyclopedic, and half of it was wrong until my recent edit. (Check out the history for references to the fictional legal battle between Awesomefunny and its "rival," Funnyawesome.) Awesomefunny is not an internet phenomenon, even if "How to Kill a Mockingbird" was. And you will notice that the HTKAM wikipedia entry has been deleted. There is no matter of dangerous precedent here. The article should be deleted, not because it was once important but is no longer popular, but because it was never important, because it is self-promotative (which it clearly is, as it contains references mailing list content), because it is unencyclopedaic. Now that HTKAM is gone, Awesomefunny should follow. Mimsy Borogoves 16 July 2005 00:05 (UTC)
 * Comment: Agree with some of this. If this survives VfD (and to me it looks close) then I'll be nominating HTKAM on VfU to make it a redirect to AwesomeFunny, I think that's the correct process and I can't see how we can have it both ways. Agree that if the argument is that AwesomeFunny was never really encyclopedic, then there's no dangerous precedent. But that's a big if itself considering previous Alexa rankings, surely? This is just the sort of content that it's important to preserve, otherwise it will be lost. No change of vote. Andrewa 17:55, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Andrewa. Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:57, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep: HTKAM was tried on number of hits rather than its actual quality, and the site's responsible for other good productions too.
 * Comment: Please sign your votes, and don't remove the VfD notice, it's considered vandalism. Your vote will count largely according to your contribution history, and that did not help it at all. Andrewa 17:46, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not appropriate to remove comments by other users. Its looked at as bad form. Also, I don't believe anonymous votes even count for deletion debates. Further, articles may be brought up multiple times on VfD, so there's no need to remove the tag just because it has been on VfD before. EvilPhoenix talk 21:10, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry. I didn't mean to break Wikipedia, but the comment was addressed to me so I felt I had the right to remove it. I'm also sorry I don't sign my posts, but that's my style. I don't see why I have to sign them, I've seen other people vote anonymously. Also, I'd rather people didn't sign them for me: you can check the history page to see who the editor is.

 * Comment: I think they do count, but I don't think they count for much. VfD is a bit different to national elections and the like, in that it's difficult to police someone creating a new userid each month, for example, and contributing (and voting) under each. So the admins in practice weight the votes in a quite subjective (and I believe intelligent, fair and reasonable) way. And it works quite well enough. Part of the theory behind this is that borderline votes like this one don't really matter a lot. The credibility and integrity of Wikipedia are not at risk at all here either way, regardless of what some may think. No change of vote. Andrewa 07:45, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Evidence for the article's claims of notability is lacking, and those claims are weak even if they were established.  WP is not a web directory. Quale 07:56, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, this has already passed through vfd (no consensus, but I still feel it should be kept. RickK, in response to your last comment: I find it unusual that I would have heard of it since I don't cruise the 'net for humour. It's not the best reasoning, but I figured if I've heard of it, it must be at least slightly notable. How to Kill a Mockingbird was pretty popular.). ✏ Oven Fresh  ²  20:54, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Richard Barrett (lawyer)

Skinheadz
Why do we keep adding a "pipe" to the link to Skinheadz so that it appears to be a link to Skinhead? They are two different articles and should not be confused. -Willmcw 22:36, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Need sources
>"The thesis has been attacked by Communists for its stance in favor of repatriation, Eugenics and patriotism."

Anyone have a source for this statement? Kaldari 01:32, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I cleaned the article up for better writing style, order and formatting. I also added citation requests, because some of the claims are questionable and should not be blindly accepted.Spylab 16:59, 30 September 2006 (UTC)Spylab

RfC
An RfC: Which descriptor, if any, can be added in front of Southern Poverty Law Center when referenced in other articles? has been posted at the Southern Poverty Law Center talk page. Your participation is welcomed. – MrX 17:14, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Why is McGee's prison number listed here? Seems odd. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.97.157.104 (talk) 00:44, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

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First North Western

First North Western was a train operating company in England owned by FirstGroup that operated the North West Regional Railways franchise from March 1997 until December 2004.

History
In the lead up to the privatisation of British Rail, the North Western section of Regional Railways was established. For a brief period from 1989, this section was operated under the short-lived Network NorthWest brand name, before becoming North West Regional Railways. The franchise was awarded by the Director of Passenger Rail Franchising to Great Western Holdings, with operations commencing on 2 March 1997 under the North Western Trains brand.

On 27 October 1997, a new livery of dark blue with a gold star was unveiled. In March 1998, First bought out the other shareholders in Great Western Holdings. The business was rebranded from North Western Trains to First North Western in November 1998 with First's corporate blue, pink and white livery adopted.

Services
First North Western operated a mix of urban and rural passenger services in North West England and North Wales, radiating out from Manchester to Birmingham, Chester, Holyhead, Liverpool, Blackpool North, Windermere and Sheffield.

In May 1998, North Western Trains commenced services from Manchester Airport and Rochdale to London Euston. The Manchester Airport service ceased in May 1999 and the Rochdale service in May 2000.

From May 2003, services from Manchester ceased operating south of Stoke-on-Trent and Crewe.

Rolling stock
First North Western inherited a fleet of Mark 2 carriages, Class 101, 142, 150, 153, 156 and 158 diesel multiple units, and Class 309 and 323 electric multiple units. The Mark 2 carriages were generally hauled by EWS Class 37 locomotives and were used on North Wales services.

To operate the Manchester Airport to London Euston services, two Class 322s were hired from West Anglia Great Northern.

First North Western ordered 11 two-carriage and 16 three-carriage Class 175 Coradia 1000s to replace the Mark 2 carriages, Class 101s and Class 309s. Originally some were to be Class 180 Adelantes, capable of running at 125 mph, but this was later changed to an all-Class 175 fleet.

Problems with the Class 175s saw locomotive-hauled trains reinstated on North Wales services from June 2002, with EWS Class 47s and First Great Western Mark 2 carriages.

In February 2004, Class 31 locomotives were hired from Fragonset to top and tail Mark 2 carriages on Blackpool to Chester services.

Depots
First North Western's diesel fleet was maintained at Newton Heath Depot, and the electric fleet at Longsight Depot. The Class 175s were maintained at a purpose built depot in Chester.

Demise
In 2000, the Strategic Rail Authority announced that it planned to create a new TransPennine Express franchise transferring First North Western's Barrow-in-Furness and Windermere services, with the North Wales Coast Line services transferred to a new Wales & Borders franchise and the remaining services combined with those of Arriva Trains Northern to form a new Northern Rail franchise.

On 28 September 2003, the North Wales Coast Line services transferred to Wales & Borders.

In July 2003, the Strategic Rail Authority awarded the TransPennine franchise to FirstGroup/Keolis with services operated by First North Western transferring to First TransPennine Express on 1 February 2004.

In July 2004, the Strategic Rail Authority awarded the Northern Rail franchise to Serco-NedRailways with the remaining services operated by First North Western transferring to Northern Rail on 12 December 2004.

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