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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Barney & Friends episodes

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

The result of the debate was keep. Barely. Woohookitty 06:58, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

List of Barney & Friends episodes
Um, since I hate Barney more than Hitler? No? Ok, how about "not ecyclopedic"? brenneman (t) (c) 02:44, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. We have so many episode list articles that there is a well-populated category.  Mass media pop culture is encyclopedic under our guidelines and precedents, as long as it's approached in an encyclopedic manner rather than a fanboy perspective.  Postdlf 02:52, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that list out to me. No disageement about the validity of pop culture for inclusion, just of the merits of a list of this nature. Is there any reason these aren't merged into their parent articles? (Changing this into an unfortunate pseduo vote for merge.)  brenneman (t) (c)  03:07, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Length of the article is usually the concern for splitting these off, because these will typically have episode summaries added that would just make the main article far too long. In this case, given the current size of Barney and Friends, I'm fine with merging until the content grows enough to necessitate splitting back off.  Postdlf 03:27, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Besides length, I have also noted that FAC nominations tend to hit a brick wall if the articles are too list-heavy. If anyone wants to put the main article up for Featured Article status, they pretty much need to spin lists off into their own articles. 23skidoo 13:00, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Merge with Barney and Friends. -- BD2412 talk 03:19, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into higher level article. I think it is reasonable to have this content in Wikipedia and since Barney and Friends is not too long (yet) there's no reason the episode list cannot live there.  I prefer to avoid splitting up information and I see no good argument for having this list live on a separate page from its parent content.   Tobycat 04:45, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Barney and Friends, as episode lists belong on the show's main page.  And I swear, one day I'll remember to sign more than 50% of my votes without having to edit twice.  The Literate Engineer 04:47, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Barney and Friends, as per Literate Engineer. JamesBurns 08:31, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and NOTE: I've expanded this list heavily and it now has 188 episodes (up from the previous 35) across 9 seasons. It's probably now too long to merge into Barney & Friends. TheCoffee 12:12, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep due to precedent and I think the list would make the main article too top-heavy. I'd rather see an episode list than an attempt at doing individual episode articles, though. 23skidoo 12:54, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I hate this Barney crap, but it should stay. Youngamerican 15:03, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Merging would make the main article bloated with episode names. Sam Vimes 15:08, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Barney and Friends.  Dcarrano 16:06, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep It's too big for merging and could probably be expanded to include a synopsis for each episode, etc. Besides, you're only picking on this show 'cause its demographic is too young to defend it. I Boo you, sir! (Obviously within the terms of WP:NPA). Flowerparty 17:06, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Too long now for a merge and no one can say Barney isn't a notable figure =) Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 21:02, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Reasons for deletion are very unimpressive.  Moncrief 21:35, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as per above royblumy 22:04, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Postdlf. I would suggest merging, but as per Sam Vimes & Flowerparty, it shouldn't be merged. --Markaci 2005-07-14 T 02:46:30 Z
 * Keep I have kids and I was looking for this information. It is useful and is popular culture. --Alvaro Ledesma 17:27, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * keep just because you hate something you dont erase it guy Yuckfoo 17:26, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep! Barney rocks and for those who need episode titles, they can get them. I Boo anyone who wants to delete this page. SonicHOG, Owner of Barney HQ message board 16:46, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
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Trespass to land

Trespass to land is a common law tort or crime that is committed when an individual or the object of an individual intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) enters the land of another without a lawful excuse. Trespass to land is actionable per se. Thus, the party whose land is entered upon may sue even if no actual harm is done. In some jurisdictions, this rule may also apply to entry upon public land having restricted access. A court may order payment of damages or an injunction to remedy the tort.

By law, trespass for mesne profits is a suit against someone who has been ejected from property that did not belong to them. The suit is for recovery of damages the trespasser caused to the property and for any profits he or she may have made while in possession of that property.

For a trespass to be actionable, the tortfeasor must voluntarily go to a specific location but need not be aware that he entered the property of a particular person. If A forces B unwillingly onto C's land, C will not have action in trespass against B because B's actions were involuntary, but C may instead claim against A. Furthermore, even if B voluntarily entered C's land, if B was deceived by A as to the ownership or boundaries of C's land, A may be jointly liable with B for B's trespass.

In most jurisdictions, if a person were to accidentally enter onto private property, there would be no trespass, because the person did not intend any violation. However, in Australia, negligence may substitute the requirement for intent.

If a trespass is actionable and no action is taken within reasonable or prescribed time limits, the landowner may forever lose the right to seek a remedy, and may even forfeit certain property rights in the case of adverse possession and easement by prescription.

Trespass may also arise upon the easement of one person upon the land of another. For example, if A grants B a right to pass freely across A's land, then A would trespass upon B's easement by erecting a locked gate or otherwise blocking B's rightful access.

In some jurisdictions trespass while in possession of a firearm, which may include a low-power air weapon without ammunition, constitutes a more grave crime of armed trespass.

The maxim "cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad infernos" (whoever owns the land owns it all the way to heaven and to hell) is said to apply, however that has been limited by practical considerations. For example, aerial trespass is limited to airspace which might be used (therefore aeroplanes cannot be sued). Landowners may not put up structures to prevent this. The courts have been more lenient with putting up structures to prevent underground trespass. The Kentucky Court of Appeal in Edwards v Sims (1929) 24 SW 2d 619 seems to affirm the maxim without qualification, whereas the New South Wales Supreme Court in Australia seemed more reluctant to do so in Di Napoli v New Beach Apartments (2004) Aust Torts Reports 81-728. There is therefore an asymmetry between aerial and underground trespass, which may be resolved by the fact the ground is almost always used (to support buildings and other structures) whereas airspace loses its practical use above the height of skyscrapers.

There may be regulations that hold a trespasser to a higher duty of care, such as strict liability for timber trespass (removing trees beyond a permitted boundary), which is a type of trespass to chattels as a result of a trespass to land.

Some cases also provide remedies for trespass not amounting to personal presence, as where an object is intentionally deposited, or farm animals are permitted to wander upon the land of another. Furthermore, if a new use of nearby land interferes with a land owner's quiet enjoyment of his rights, there may be an action for nuisance, as where a disagreeable aroma or noise from A drifts across the land of B.

Trespass ab initio occurs when a person is granted access to land but then abuses that access. The entry to the land is considered to have been a trespass from the beginning. This applies only to access given by law, not to access given by a person (as established by the Six Carpenters' Case).

Ireland
Trespass in Republic of Ireland law is similar to trespass in English law. The Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 made it an offence "for a person, without reasonable excuse, to trespass on any building or the curtilage thereof in such a manner as causes or is likely to cause fear in another person". The Criminal Law (Defence and the Dwelling) Act 2011 allows use of reasonable force against someone entering a dwelling "as a trespasser for the purpose of committing a criminal act".

England and Wales
In English law, trespass to land involves the "unjustifiable interference with land which is in the immediate and exclusive possession of another". Land is defined as the surface, subsoil, airspace and anything permanently attached to the land, such as houses. It is not necessary to prove that harm was suffered to bring a claim, and is instead actionable per se. While most trespasses to land are intentional, it can also be committed negligently. Accidental trespass also incurs liability, with an exception for entering land adjoining a road unintentionally (such as in a car accident). Although previously a pure tort, the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 created some circumstances in which trespass to land can also be a crime.

Scotland
Trespass is an offence under Scots Law; however, the legislation was amended under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 which established universal access rights to most land and inland water. These reforms do not apply (hence trespass remains an offence) to:
 * Houses and gardens, and non-residential buildings and associated land;
 * Land in which crops are growing;
 * Land next to a school and used by the school;
 * Sports or playing fields when these are in use and where the exercise of access rights would interfere with such use;
 * Land developed and in use for recreation and where the exercise of access rights would interfere with such use;
 * Golf courses (although a golf course may be crossed provided no games of golf are interfered with);
 * Places like airfields, railways, telecommunication sites, military bases and installations, working quarries and construction sites; and
 * Visitor attractions or other places which charge for entry.

United States
In most states, a criminal trespass to land is defined by statute and constitutes a misdemeanor. In some states, it may be a felony under certain circumstances (e.g., trespassing on a research facility or school property). Remedies between private parties for trespass may include an injunction or money damages.

Since 2021, the National Guard has enforced trespassing law more aggressively through Operation Lone Star. While immigrants entering at lawful entry points are processed through federal immigration authorities, this new initiative has resulted in the mass arrest of asylum seekers through enforcement of Texas state trespassing law when migrants fail to present themselves at a lawful entry point. Over a period of seven months, 40% of all Texas state police arrests were solely for trespassing.

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Richard Murphy (poet)

Richard Kerr Murphy (6 August 1927 – 30 January 2018) was an Anglo-Irish poet.

Early years
Murphy was born to an Anglo-Irish family at Milford House, near the County Mayo–Galway border, in 1927. He spent much of his early childhood in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where his father William Lindsay Murphy served in the Colonial Service and was active as mayor of Colombo, later becoming Governor General of the Bahamas (in succession to the Duke of Windsor). Murphy received his education at the King's School, Canterbury and Wellington College. He won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford at the age of 17, where he studied English under C.S. Lewis. He was later educated at the Sorbonne, and ran a school in Crete between 1953 and 1954. In his Archaeology of Love (1955), Murphy reflects on his experiences in England and Continental Europe.

His childhood in Ireland was documented in the film The Other Irish Travellers, made by his niece Fiona Murphy.

Return to Ireland
In 1954, he settled at Cleggan, on the coast of Galway. Several years later, in 1959, he purchased and renovated the Ave Maria, a traditional hooker-type boat, from Inishbofin fisherman, Michael Schofield, which he used to ferry visitors to the island. He purchased Ardoileán (High Island), a small island in the vicinity of Inishbofin, in 1969.

Personal life
Murphy married Patsy Strang. From 1971, he was a poet-in-residence at nine American universities, in Princeton turning his office also into his bedroom, Joyce Carol Oates writing a short story about this. In later years he lived in Sri Lanka, having previously divided his time between Durban, South Africa, where his daughter and her family reside, and Dublin. He was the maternal grandfather of YouTuber Caspar Lee. A memoir of his life and times, The Kick, was published by Granta in 2002, constructed from detailed diaries kept over the course of five decades.

Murphy died at his Sri Lanka home on 30 January 2018.

Awards and honours

 * AE Memorial Award for Poetry, 1951
 * First prize, Guinness Awards, 1962
 * British Arts Council Award, 1967 and 1976
 * Irish Arts Council Award (Marten Toonder), 1980
 * Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1969
 * Member of Aosdána, Ireland, 1982
 * American Irish Foundation Literary Award, 1983
 * Included in the Oxford Companion to English Literature, 1985
 * Poetry Book Society Translation Award, London, 1989
 * Society of Authors Foundation Award, 2002

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Mandurriao Airport

Mandurriao Airport, also known as Iloilo Airport during its operation, was an airport that served the area of Iloilo City and the province of Iloilo in the Philippines. The airport was located 5 km northwest of downtown Iloilo City in the district of Mandurriao. It was the fourth-busiest airport overall and the busiest domestic airport in the Philippines, accommodating over 700,000 passengers and over 5,000 tons of cargo in 2005. During the construction of the new Iloilo International Airport, it was also known as Iloilo-Mandurriao Airport.

Having been in service since the 1930s, Mandurriao Airport has since been replaced by the Iloilo International Airport located in the municipalities of Cabatuan and Santa Barbara, and was subsequently decommissioned on June 14, 2007. A sprawling business district, known as Iloilo Business Park occupies the airport site.

As a World War II airfield
Mandurriao Airport was built in 1937 and also served as a World War II airfield. By 1942, the airfield was captured by Japanese forces until the US Army recaptured it in 1945.

As a civilian airport
The year 1981 saw the arrival of Pope John Paul II to the province of Iloilo as one of his stops during his 1981 Philippines visit, with the airport being used to facilitate his landing. A 2202 m2 passenger terminal building was built in 1982.

However, in the 1990s, problems in Mandurriao Airport began to rise due to the liberalization of the Philippine aviation industry and the rise of air travel in the country. The increasing incidents of terrorism in the Philippines forced aviation officials to restrict airport access only to passengers, the sealing of doors and windows at airport terminals being an essential component thereof. However, the terminal's architecture, which took advantage of natural ventilation, had posed problems for passengers, causing six to twenty-three air-conditioning units to be installed. Another barrage of problems hit the airport, which included outdated facilities, more poor passenger comfort, and others. Passenger complaints also focused on having their baggage manually checked due to the updated machines being for the sole use of Philippine Airlines. The airport complex likewise was located directly alongside major city thoroughfares, in particular the city's main highway, the Tomás Confesor Highway, which complicated the flow of traffic in and around the area.

Closure and redevelopment
In 1995, a proposal of building a new airport outside of the city was announced, selecting Cabatuan as the new airport site in 1997. On June 13, 2007, at 6:20 pm PST, a Manila-bound Cebu Pacific Airbus A319 became the last commercial flight to depart the airport. The airport was formally decommissioned at 5:00 am PST the following day, coinciding with the simultaneous commissioning of the Iloilo International Airport.

The 54 ha property was sold for bidding and redevelopment. After delays, Megaworld acquired the site for Php 1.2 billion (roughly $2.5 million) to be developed into a mixed-use residential and commercial complex, now known as the Iloilo Business Park.

Iloilo Convention Center, which occupies the former site of the airport's passenger terminal (demolished between 2012 and 2013), played host to the APEC Finance meetings in 2015.

The former control tower of Mandurriao Airport remained standing for thirteen years after the airport's closure until its demolition in 2021. It used to serve as a monument to Iloilo's aviation history and Philippine aviation history and also acted as a homage to Pope John Paul II and his 1981 visit to the Philippines, which included Iloilo as a stop.

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SYR2: Slaapkamers met slagroom

SYR2: Slaapkamers met slagroom is an EP by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released on 12" vinyl on September 2, 1997, and was the second in a series of experimental and mostly instrumental releases issued on the band's own SYR label.

Background
SYR2 followed the band's tradition of having the liner notes of SYR releases written in foreign languages, in this case, Dutch. "Slaapkamers met slagroom" is Dutch for "bedrooms with whipped cream".

An error in the original production of the vinyl resulted in a small number of the initial pressings accidentally being on black vinyl. It is unknown how many of these were produced. After realizing this, the remaining production of the vinyl version was on clear blue vinyl.

An abbreviated version of the instrumental 17-minute title composition (with added vocals courtesy of Kim Gordon) appeared on the group's 1998 album A Thousand Leaves as the song "The Ineffable Me". Additionally, a melody from "Stil" was fleshed out to create the song "Snare, Girl", also from A Thousand Leaves.

Personnel
Sonic Youth

 * Thurston Moore
 * Kim Gordon
 * Lee Ranaldo
 * Steve Shelley

Technical

 * Wharton Tiers – engineering
 * Greg Calbi – mastering
 * Chris Habib – sleeve design

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CKTG-FM

CKTG-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 105.3 FM in Thunder Bay, Ontario, owned by Acadia Broadcasting. The station broadcasts a country format using the on-air brand name as Country 105.

History
The station was launched in 1944 as CFPA at 1230 kHz, an AM Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Dominion Network station owned by local businessman Ralph Parker. When the Dominion Network dissolved in 1962, CFPA transferred its affiliation to the main CBC Radio network. It ceased airing CBC programming in 1972, adopting a country music format.

In 1980, the station was purchased by Leader Broadcasting and adopted the call sign CJLB. In 1988, the station was acquired by Newcap Broadcasting. On July 27, 1984, CJLB became an affiliate of American Top 40 with Casey Kasem.

In 1986, CJLB received CRTC approval to add a low-power FM transmitter in Nipigon/Red Rock on 96.3 MHz to rebroadcast the programs of CJLB Thunder Bay. CJLB applied to move Nipigon's frequency to 96.1 MHz, and it is uncertain if this was ever implemented.

In 1995, Newcap entered a local marketing agreement with Dougall Media, giving Dougall the right to manage the station. On November 2, 1994, CJLB was given approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to convert to FM. In 1996, the station moved to 105.3 MHz.

In 2002, CJLB adopted a hot adult contemporary/CHR format as Hot 105. In 2004, Dougall terminated the LMA when Newcap applied to purchase CJUK. Newcap changed CJLB's callsign to its current CKTG calls and adopted its current classic rock format as 105.3 The Giant in early 2005. In mid-2005, CFQK-FM in Kaministiquia, Ontario, located near Thunder Bay which had no affiliation with CKTG dropped their "Larry FM" variety hits format for Hot AC/Top 40 as HOT FM.

On March 16, 2009, CKTG became the first radio station in Canada to carry The Bob & Tom Show, a syndicated radio show from the United States.

On July 14, 2009, Newcap announced it would be selling CKTG and sister station CJUK-FM to Acadia Broadcasting for $4.5 million CAD plus working capital. The sale received CRTC approval on December 2, 2009.

In early October 2010, CKTG-FM changed its format again, to adult hits, playing a variety of music "From the '60s, 70's, 80's and beyond", and re-branded as The New Giant FM.

In March 2014, CKTG made the change to its format, switching to country re-branded as Country 105.

When atmospheric conditions are right, CKTG can be heard across Lake Superior in Munising and Marquette, Michigan.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Filler fan

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The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 11:17, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Filler fan
Delete neologism/message board vanity. Postdlf 02:50, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable fan forum promo. JamesBurns 08:33, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN and tedious to read A curate's egg 15:09, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism. Dcarrano 16:09, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above royblumy 22:03, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
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Goodnight Vienna

Goodnight Vienna is the fourth studio album by Ringo Starr. It was recorded in the summer of 1974 in Los Angeles, and released later that year. Goodnight Vienna followed the commercially successful predecessor Ringo, and Starr used many of the same players, including Billy Preston, Klaus Voormann, Robbie Robertson, Harry Nilsson, and producer Richard Perry. The title is a slang phrase meaning "it's all over".

Background and recording
While all three other former Beatles had contributed to Ringo (1973), only John Lennon contributed to Goodnight Vienna. On 17 June 1974, Starr called Lennon, who was about to record his Walls and Bridges album, and asked him to write a song he could include on his next album. Lennon wrote what became the title track, "Goodnight Vienna". A demo of "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" was recorded by Lennon on 28 June, with the session musicians from Walls & Bridges and sent to Starr in advance of the sessions. Besides writing and playing piano on the title track, Lennon suggested Starr cover The Platters' hit "Only You (And You Alone)" playing acoustic guitar and providing a guide vocal for Starr to follow. Starr's versions of both "Only You (And You Alone)" and "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" were recorded at a session produced by Lennon. Elton John also contributed a track, "Snookeroo", co-written with Bernie Taupin. Harry Nilsson gave Starr the track "Easy for Me", which he later recorded his own version of for his Duit on Mon Dei album.

Release
"Only You (And You Alone)", backed with "Call Me", was issued as an advance single from the album in the US on 11 November 1974, before the album was released. In the US the song reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. Goodnight Vienna was released on the same day as the "Only You (And You Alone)" single in the UK on 15 November. The album reached only number 30 in the UK, and would be Starr's last chart album in his homeland until 1998. The album was released in the US on 18 November, and peaked at number 8, ultimately going gold, and its reviews were generally favourable. It was also originally released in quadrophonic. A promo film for "Only You (And You Alone)" was aired on Top of the Pops on 19 December. On 27 January 1975, "No No Song", backed with "Snookeroo", was released in the US, reaching number 3. Nearly a month later, on 21 February, "Snookeroo" was released as a single in the UK, backed with "Oo-Wee".

On 2 June, a special edit of "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" and "Goodnight Vienna (Reprise)" was released as a single, backed with an edit of "Oo-Wee", in the US. The cover artwork for Goodnight Vienna was based on a still from the classic 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still, with Starr's head replacing that of actor Michael Rennie shown standing behind the robot Gort. Rennie's character was the alien Klaatu.

A television commercial, which featured a voiceover from Lennon, depicted the album cover's flying saucer (with Starr) over Los Angeles—landing on the roof of the Capitol Records Building in Hollywood. The commercial was produced by Vidtronics Company Inc. and directed by Stanley Dorfman. Starr returned the favour and did the voiceover for the commercial for Lennon's Walls and Bridges album. Immediately after filming the commercial, on 14 November 1974, the promo film for "Only You (And You Alone)" was filmed. During the video Starr and Nilsson mimed to the song, on top of the Capitol Records Building. A lightweight flying saucer and a forty-foot robot named 'Gort' were placed on the building, accompanied by Starr in a spacesuit, and Nilsson sitting in a rocking chair smoking a cigarette in a brown dressing robe, reading that morning's Los Angeles Times, with a front-page photo showing Starr in his space costume. An orange-clad marching band, and forty actors (who formerly played Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz) danced below them at street level. The video aired on BBC TV's Top of the Pops show, on 19 December.

Goodnight Vienna was reissued in the US, this time by Capitol in February 1981. The album was remastered and reissued on CD on 30 November 1992 in the UK, and on 23 March 1993 in the US, with three bonus tracks: 1972 hit single "Back Off Boogaloo", its B-Side "Blindman" and an extended version of the McCartney-penned "Six O'Clock", a shorter version of which had earlier appeared on the LP version of Ringo.

Track listing
Side one
 * 1) "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" (John Lennon) – 2:35
 * 2) "Occapella" (Allen Toussaint) – 2:55
 * 3) "Oo-Wee" (Vini Poncia, Richard Starkey) – 3:45
 * 4) "Husbands and Wives" (Roger Miller) – 3:34
 * 5) "Snookeroo" (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) – 3:27

Side two
 * 1) "All by Myself" (Poncia, Starkey) – 3:21
 * 2) "Call Me" (Starkey) – 4:07
 * 3) "No No Song" (Hoyt Axton, David Jackson) – 2:33
 * 4) "Only You (And You Alone)" (Buck Ram) – 3:26
 * 5) "Easy for Me" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:20
 * 6) "Goodnight Vienna (Reprise)" (Lennon) – 1:20

1992 bonus tracks
 * 1) "Back Off Boogaloo" (Starkey) – 3:22
 * 2) "Blindman" (Starkey) – 2:46
 * 3) "Six O'Clock (Extended Version)" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney) – 5:23

Personnel

 * Ringo Starr – lead vocals, drums, percussion
 * Jim Keltner – drums
 * John Lennon – piano, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
 * Carl Fortina – accordion
 * Richard Bennett – electric guitar solo
 * Dennis Coffey – guitars
 * Steve Cropper – electric guitar
 * Jesse Ed Davis – electric guitar
 * Vini Poncia – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
 * Robbie Robertson – guitars
 * Alvin Robinson – guitar
 * Lon Van Eaton – guitars
 * Klaus Voormann – bass guitar
 * Richard Perry – bass guitar, backing vocals
 * Dr. John – piano, backing vocals
 * Elton John – piano
 * David Foster – piano
 * Tom Hensley – electric piano
 * Nicky Hopkins – electric piano
 * Lincoln Mayorga – piano
 * Billy Preston – electric piano, clavinet
 * James Newton Howard – synthesizer
 * Gary Wright – keyboards
 * Chuck Findley – horns
 * Bobby Keys – horns
 * Trevor Lawrence – horns
 * Lew McCreary – horns
 * Steve Madaio – trumpet
 * Madeline Bell – backing vocals
 * Lesley Duncan – backing vocals
 * Jean Gilbert – backing vocals
 * Jimmy Gilstrap – backing vocals
 * Joe Greene – backing vocals
 * Ira Hawkins – backing vocals
 * Clydie King – backing vocals
 * Lynda Laurence – backing vocals
 * Harry Nilsson – backing vocals
 * May Pang – backing vocals
 * Masst Alberts – backing vocals
 * Derrek Van Eaton – backing vocals
 * Cynthia Webb – backing vocals

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John Lennon wasn't the only contributor from The Beatles
A two-second search produces this hit on the notoriously-scrupulous site Discogs:

http://www.discogs.com/Ringo-Starr-Goodnight-Vienna/release/4119998

You can clearly see that Paul plays on one of the tracks, while George produces on another. So all four Beatles 'contribute' to this album. Will check back at a future point to see if this odd statement has been amended, and if not I'll do the necessaries. Blitterbug 08:14, 25 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blitterbug (talk • contribs)

The page is info on the original album. You're referring to the reissue which includes "bonus tracks" -- the 1970 single Back Off Boogaloo and the 1973 tracks originally from the "Ringo" album" so it's correct as is. Hotcop2 (talk) 11:35, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Those garner some mention here. Seven years on and this is still a very Lennon-heavy article for a Ringo solo album. Morganfitzp (talk) 13:25, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

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The cover
What’s the story behind the album’s cover? It’s one of the most iconic of its era and worthy of a section devoted to it. Morganfitzp (talk) 13:23, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

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Talk:Mark Millar

Liberal?
The Ultimates has a "liberal-based plot"? Where did that come from? The demiurge 02:50, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

 * I believe the comment was suppose to cover Millar's overall writing style. and in effect bring the thought of his background dealing with solicalist - his father - as an influence for his writing, although in Superman: Red Son he seem to illustrait a sort of anti-socialist view on that Elseworld title.  However his portrayal of Captain America is not a rabbid Right Winger he is probably the closest to one as Millar could stand to get to.  I mean anyone who try and censors naked pictures of Lindsey Lohan off the internet must rub Millar the wrong way (reference recent article from Wizard Magazine on Millar and Hitch).

 * Captain America is not and has never been a Right winger. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.204.8.51 (talk) 01:09, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

It depends on the writer. 65.183.214.150 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:34, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Arranged Marriage
Please provide a link for the claim that Millar has had an arranged marriage. This seems utterly insane and I suspect that this is a joke. Also please provide a reference for the Ken Livingstone comment. Otherwise, I shall delete both of these at the end of this week. Thanks Vizjim 18:10, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Millar's arranged marriage is a matter of verifiable fact and is an interesting aspect to his life. It makes the reading of 'Chosen' much more enlightening.
 * As Vizjim requested, please provide a link or a proper citation for that claim. -- markus n 10:36, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Look, the sum totality of human knowledge is not contained on the internet. I know this fact to be true. Not every single word on Wiki can be backed up by another link. Now this will be the 'source' for other people wanting to prove this fact. It is true. It is important. Millar often makes bold claims and issue out of his religion. This is an aspect of his religion. It is true - it remains.

At least tell us how you know it, maybe? And which religion are you thinking of? I understood (though I may be wrong) that he was brought up a Catholic - not a religion famed for its arranged marriages... Vizjim 18:56, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

George Galloway
There is nothing about Ken Livingstone in the bio. There is something about George Galloway though, which can be verified by reading either published issue of Unfunnies.

 * Troy Hicks, the only human character in the Unfunnies doesn't bare much more than a superficial resemblance to George Galloway. I don't see this as any form of verification as Galloway isn't the only person in the world with a moustache. Stx 09:37, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * IT is a photograph of George Galloway being used. A photograph. Come on!

There are 5 or 6 different photographs of a man not entirely dissimilar to George Galloway through the two published comics, but I disgree with your assertation that it is him. Also, it's not an uncommon look for males of that age and stature in the west of Scotland. Stx 10:40, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't think you understand. They are photographs of Galloway. If you use Google Search, they are the photographs you find. It is categorically Galloway.

 * The final page of Unfunnies #2 depicts the Troy character holding a shotgun, but I cannot find a corresponding image of Galloway using Google image search. For such a noted antiwar campaigner, I'm surprised no-one has a reference to the image in question if it is indeed him. Stx 15:33, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Informercial
Please keep the marketing maelstorm out of encyclopaedic material...

Some of the article parts read like a used car sales man, particularly the ones that keep repeating is an awesome, amazing, lauded, spectacular, most popular, everything of comics or the internet.

He's not particularly Jack Kirby ya know...

Millar is all about the self promotion. But zero chance of getting that onto this page. Even with citations his fanboy army kept deleting. sigh. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.68.249.128 (talk) 21:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Video Games are for Pedophiles? And other comments
http://kotaku.com/gaming/mark-miller/marvel-comic-writer-games-are-for-pedophiles-240281.php

Do you think this is worth mentioning? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mavrickindigo (talk • contribs) 19:53, 2 March 2007 (UTC).
 * I'm certainly willing to rip him a new one over that. I found it very offensive, being a gamer.--71.156.60.219 07:07, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It's definitely worth mentioning, especially considering this link where he says a lot more on the subject just underneath the picture of his game systems. (I'd edit it myself but I'm still trying to lurk and learn). DocRiff 11:24, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Related: http://forums.millarworld.tv/index.php?showtopic=83636 This is a post by Miller himself where he talks about the LHC. "Where the fuck is James Bond and why isn't he KILLING these French fucks before they even push the button?" also, "Europeans creep me out, but none more so than Euro-SCIENTISTS. I declare a Jihad on all these boffins who risk reality itself in the name of their curiosity. No wonder Pol Pot killed everyone who wore glasses." It might be worth putting something in the article about his, um, excessive comments. Seer (talk) 02:08, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

I think that there's definately scope to mention these comments. I don't have a link onhand, but I think that his 'idea' for a story about Wonder Woman being raped is also worth including. His online presence is significant to his career and the way that he is perceived by the comics community as a whole. Euchrid (talk) 16:34, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Negative Statements
Please remember that if you are saying something negative about someone you're going to need a cite for it, as per WP:BLP. "The other links support it" doesn't cut it. And yes, critical comments *are* held to a huigher standard than onesin praise, again see WP:BLP. Also even if you have a cite theres a possibility that your comment might be deleted anyway, due to issues of tone and weighting. Again reading WP:BLP will help you make best judgement on that.

Thank you

Artw 22:02, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

To what level is Millar involved with the Youngblood Bloodsport Comics? It's content is very trash but it has Millar's name on it? Did he write it? Plot it? Or just gave pointers to Liefeld to make the comic?

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Superman
Should his interest for making a Superman film that revamps the whole franchise be mentioned? There are soem news about this, he has said he´s even thought of a director for it...Franshu (talk) 18:46, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

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 * Done. It is missing a photo and there are a lot of statements that are unsourced. I'll return and flag them. (Emperor (talk) 03:09, 13 August 2008 (UTC))

He was born in 69 not 72

 * The source provided for Millars birth clearily says that he was born in 1969. Unless the anon editor can provide a source that contradicts this then he/she should stop adding back information that is innacurate. At least give an explanation on the talk page of why you feel he was born in 72 instead of just madly reverting it.annoynmous 19:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Mark Millar, date of birth incorrect.
Hello.

Mark Millar's year of birh was 1972 according to his bio on his website (http://www.millarworld.tv/bio.html), not 1969. Is there any way this can be changed?

thank you

Maiatzm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maiatzm (talk • contribs) 15:21, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

 * The source being used for 1969 is the comicbookdb and we should avoid using such tertiary sources as direct references for anything (although they are useful for general ones to support publication details) - see what I wrote here on the usage of such sources. It should never be used for biographical information as a) it is unsourced and b) it usually draws that information from here (in fact users occasionally just dump the biography form here in there with no credit and this should be reported if you see it as it violates their policies - they may as well save themselves the effort and add a link here instead). So we should remove the 1969 dob and replace it with 1972 sourced to the individual - it is oretty clear cut unless anyone has another reliable source for the dob that suggests he is lying about his age (which I might imagine could happen with aging actresses but here?). The comicbookdb link should be returned to the general "References" section. I will make these changes in the next day or so (and hopefully we can unprotect the article again) unless someone has a good source which says something different. (Emperor (talk) 04:58, 6 October 2009 (UTC))

 * OK I've made those changes. I won't unprotect it as I'll see if anyone objects to that but I am on pretty solid ground. (Emperor (talk) 01:23, 7 December 2009 (UTC))

 * This from the Bio section of his official page:

Multi award-winning writer Mark Millar has revamped the X-Men, broke Spider-Man sales records, brought the Fantastic Four into the 21st Century and made Superman a communist. He is also the writer of the US industry's biggest-selling comic book of the past decade, Marvel's Civil War, published in 2007. His Wanted comic series was the industry's biggest-selling creator-owned book of the last ten years until he smashed his own record with Kick-Ass, each issue selling more than Spider-Man and X-Men from issue one with an unprecedented five printings every issue. Both properties were sold as movies before the first issue hit the stands and everything Millar has ever created is in various stages of theatrical development. Wanted starred Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy. Kick-Ass stars actor Nicolas Cage.

Outside comics, Millar has been praised by Marvel Studios and screenwriter Zak Penn for creating the template for their 2008-2012 line-up of movies, their 2011 and 2012 Captain America and The Avengers movies based on Millar's Ultimates monthly series. He cast Samuel L Jackson as the leader of this super-team and his influence extends into every Marvel movie on their upcoming slate. Although busy creating his own movies and comic-books now at Millarworld, Millar remains under contract at Marvel to write their most high-profile projects.

 * As you can see there is nothing in this section saying he was born in 1972. The only source for his age that has been given so far is for 1969. Not one solid source has been given for this 1972 claim and until someone can find one it should remain 1969. annoynmous 09:36, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Now here is an odd thing. His bio did indeed say he was born in 1972 when we had this debate. Looking at the page now he has stripped a lot of information out of it. Soooooo I thought I'd dig the earlier version out of the Internet Archive but it hasn't been updated since 2008. However, it is clear from that that he did indeed give his birthday as 1969 but seems to have changed it to 1972 since the last time his site was indexed. So it appears the assumption that he'd be the best person to know his birthday may have been a little undermined and it is indeed 1969. (Emperor (talk) 02:38, 4 March 2010 (UTC))

Best selling British comic-book writer??
1) He's not British. 2) No citation. 3) Can't find a source. Therefore, it should be removed.
 * Done, along with a lot of other unsourced material. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 03:22, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

'Hollywood comic writer backs Salmond'
[http://www.scotsman.com/news/Election-update-SNP-launch-manifesto.6751716.jp "Mark Millar, the Hollywood comic book writer behind hits like Kick-Ass, has backed Alex Salmond and the SNP in the Holyrood election. Millar, 40, from Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, said: "He is the best in the country - and I am including Westminster. He is a guy you want in charge." "], The Scotsman, 14 April 2011 --Mais oui! (talk) 11:36, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Themes
There's a distinct theme running through Millar's work, blurring the boundaries of fictional worlds. Characters interact with comics within the narrative universe (Marvel 1985), break the 4th wall to address the reader (Wanted) or take inspiration from comics or films (Kick-Ass, Nemesis).

No reference but it's there in his books, particularly in Millarworld.

Valid material? —Preceding unsigned comment added by GS(v) (talk • contribs) 20:50, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

 * If there's no reference for it, then we can't add it, per WP:V and WP:NOR. Nightscream (talk) 22:32, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Typo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Millar#Marvel_Comics "Titles published by Mavrel include:" I'm apparently not "established" enough to make the edit myself. Devlogic (talk) 15:55, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Consultant at Fox pictures
Any information regarding his induction as a consultant on the future marvel films at Fox? this is his current status. and needs to be updated, whether you hate him or not. this is Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.155.153.154 (talk) 07:29, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

 * New sections go at the bottom, not the top, and without any extra line breaks. Nightscream (talk) 15:26, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

 * There's no information regarding him being a consultant for Fox's "MCU", although it's been said that he is indeed one of their creative force behind making a coherent Universe of films that are connected. How come this is still not stated? There are multiple sources to back up this fact. 71.188.17.123 (talk) 06:59, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Infobox photo
I've recently taken a bunch of photos of Millar, including three portrait shots. However, he is not in formal wear as he was in the October 2010 photo that is currently in the Infobox. Should we change it to one of the new ones, or keep the old one? It's not like his appearance has changed all that much in three years. Nightscream (talk) 06:53, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I like the current photo, as the subject stands out better. Sea photo Talk 14:55, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

 * I actually like the current one as well. Less background noise, and, more subjectively, his expression seems more natural. Why mess with a good thing?  : )   —Tenebrae (talk) 17:04, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I like the 1st one of the new set. But you might try cropping it to head/neck and collar. — Cirt (talk) 17:08, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * All good photos, but I'd stay with the original one. The contrast is better, and there's not that much change. Well done. Dayewalker (talk) 17:29, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Good photos but stay with current photo. He hasn't changed in any meaningful way. Doczilla  @SUPERHEROLOGIST 19:18, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The original photo seems fine to me, although there is nothing wrong with the other three. BOZ (talk) 19:54, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Current photo, mainly because his face is too red in the others.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:20, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I like the current photo better. The contrast is better and the suit is nicer. David A (talk) 19:15, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Starlight Comic #1 and Starlight Fox film adaptation
Source(s): Starlight #1 - https://www.imagecomics.com/content/view/interview-mark-millar-on-starlight-and-the-millarworld-universe, http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/12/02/mark-millar-confirmes-starlight-comic-with-goran-parlov/ and Starlight Film adaptation - http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fox-talks-pick-up-mark-665693  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.188.17.123 (talk) 06:55, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Credit for Avengers film
Would it be correct to give Mark Millar some credit for the 2012 Avengers film? There are elements taken from the Ultimates: Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, SHIELD putting the team together, and battling the Chitauri. It's not a direct adaptation, but neither was Captain America: Civil War nor will Logan be exactly like Old Man Logan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.81.156.221 (talk) 02:00, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Millarworld to be a standalone article
This is a discussion to decide whether Millarworld should be a separate article from Mark Millar. Personally, I am in support of this as Netflix has just acquired the company. Inevitably, future information about Millarworld will be less about Mark Millar's involvement with the company, and more about Netflix's influence in developing the company to fit within the Netflix brand. Iftekharahmed96 (talk) 11:43, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Seems a logical next step. Artw (talk) 13:24, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks like we have two people in agreement so far, I'll conduct the article split if one more person agrees to this proposition. Iftekharahmed96 (talk) 16:18, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I dunno: Since Millarworld is all written by Millar and isn't publishing anything not by Millar, I think there'd be a lot of overlap and repeated material. We don't really have separate articles for Lauren Shuler Donner and The Donners' Company . --Tenebrae (talk) 22:32, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * We can just transfer all of the information about Millarworld from the Mark Millar page into the Millarworld article. Mark Millar still makes headlines and conducts interviews outside of just Millarworld. Iftekharahmed96 (talk) 23:05, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Only three editors seem to have commented so far. Given lack of clear consensus, I'd suggest using the procedure at Splitting. That'll get a split discussion posted automatically at Category:Articles to be split from August 2017 and generate a more thorough discussion. If splitting is a good idea, it should gain consensus. Note that I'm not necessarily against the idea, but I do believe we need to have more editors than this discussing the pros and cons. --Tenebrae (talk) 17:47, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

I've decided to split the article in advanced. The notice has been around for quite a while now, and nobody has outright contested against the split. Millarworld as a standalone article will pass notoriety, alongside this, it's easier to link it to Netflix (as Millarworld is a registered legal entity). Iftekharahmed96 (talk) 12:45, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

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Bill Odenkirk

William Leonard Odenkirk (born October 13, 1965) is an American comedy writer.

Biography
Odenkirk was born in Naperville, Illinois. He is the younger brother of American actor and comedian Bob Odenkirk, and worked as a writer, producer and actor on the HBO sketch comedy TV show Mr. Show with Bob and David, which featured his brother as co-star. Odenkirk went on to write for Tenacious D, Futurama, and Disenchantment. He has written and executive produced episodes of The Simpsons. He holds a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Chicago.

Tenacious D episodes
He is credited with writing the following episodes, along with Jack Black, David Cross, Kyle Gass, Tom Gianas, and Bob Odenkirk:
 * "Death of a Dream"
 * "The Greatest Song in the World"
 * "The Fan"
 * "Road Gig"

Futurama episodes
He is credited with writing the following episodes:
 * "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" (2000)
 * "A Tale of Two Santas" (2001)
 * "Insane in the Mainframe" (2001)
 * "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" (2003)
 * "The Farnsworth Parabox" (2003)

The Simpsons episodes
He is credited with writing the following episodes:
 * "Treehouse of Horror XV" (all three segments) (2004)
 * "The Seven-Beer Snitch" (2005)
 * "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" (2006)
 * "Crook and Ladder" (2007)
 * "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" (2008)
 * "Million Dollar Maybe" (2010)
 * "Love Is a Many Strangled Thing" (2011)
 * "Adventures in Baby-Getting" (2012)
 * "Pulpit Friction" (2013)
 * "Super Franchise Me" (2014)
 * "To Courier with Love" (2016)
 * "The Last Traction Hero" (2016)
 * "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me" (2017)
 * "Forgive and Regret" (2018)
 * "The Fat Blue Line” (2019)

Disenchantment episodes
He is credited with writing the following episodes:
 * "Steamland Confidential" (2021)
 * "Love Is Hell" (2022)

Guru Nation project
The untitled series is in development for Paramount+ and is being developed by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross.

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Zorica Pantić

Zorica Pantić, also known as Zorica Pantić-Tanner, born 1951 in Yugoslavia, is a professor of electrical engineering and past president of Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

Pantić was previously the founding dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and director of the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University. She served as president of Wentworth Institute of Technology from 2005 to 2019.

Early life and education
Zorica Pantić received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Niš, Yugoslavia (Serbia), in 1975, 1978, and 1982, respectively. She has 30 years of academic and teaching experience. She served on the engineering faculty of the University of Nis (1975–1984), San Francisco State University (1989–2001), and the University of Texas at San Antonio (2001–2004). She was a Fulbright Fellow and a visiting scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1984-1989.

Affiliations
She is a senior member of IEEE and served on various committees of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (EMC-S) until 2004. She served on the EMC-S Board of Directors and as chair, vice-chair, treasurer, and secretary of the Santa Clara Valley EMC-S Chapter. She is also a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and serves on the ASEE Projects Board, President's Award Committee, and Contact Committee.

She is a member of the IEEE Women in Engineering, Society of Women Engineers, and American Society for Higher Education, as well as a member of the Engineering Deans Council and the EDC Public Policy Committee. She served on various National Academy of Engineering panels and committees. Pantić received the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year award from the San Antonio Women Chamber of Commerce and is a graduate of the Leadership America program.

Research publications
Pantić has published more than 80 journal and conference papers. Her research areas have included uniform antennas, microwave transmission lines, the finite element method, and electromagnetic emissions.

At University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)
As the engineering dean at UTSA, she spearheaded the College of Engineering's and UTSA's efforts to become a flagship university in the state of Texas and a top-tier research university in the U.S.

During her tenure, the college started three new Ph.D. engineering programs (biomedical, electrical, and environmental) and one M.S. program (computer engineering). The college created a new Department of Biomedical Engineering and a Center for Response and Security Engineering and Technology, doubled the number of faculty, and increased its research funding tenfold to $7 million in active grants.

Pantić also secured $2.5 million in federal funding to establish a Material Science and Engineering Laboratory at the former Kelly Air Force Base. Through strategic partnerships with various state and national agencies, national companies and small businesses, she raised more than $5 million in various donations and equipment grants.

She revived relationships with engineering alumni and was instrumental in securing a $250,000 endowment donation, the single largest alumni gift to the college and UTSA. In her last four years, the college increased its enrollment by 75%, being especially effective in attracting female students (83% enrollment increase) and minorities (50% of students are Hispanic).

At San Francisco State University
While at SFSU, Pantić improved the engineering programs in quality, size and visibility, and, as a result—for the first time in SFSU history – the programs were ranked among the top 50 undergraduate programs by U.S. News & World Report.

She established a Partnership for Engineering Education that resulted in a 30 percent enrollment increase and played a crucial role in shaping and bringing to life a partnership with a neighboring community college to offer upper-division engineering courses there.

This project serves as a blueprint for cooperation between the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system, of which San Francisco State is a member, and California's community colleges. Through a partnership with the local chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a major grant from the National Science Foundation, she established a Center for Applied Electromagnetics that supports undergraduate and graduate research.

Pantić was active in state-level fundraising for engineering programs. She worked with fellow CSU Engineering deans on the successful $10-million California Workforce Initiative to support strategic disciplines such as agriculture, biotechnology, computer science, engineering, and nursing. She also served on the Executive Committee of the Texas Engineering and Technology Consortium, a private-public partnership that raised $8 million to increase the number of engineering and computer science graduates in the state of Texas.

President of Wentworth Institute
Pantić's appointment as Wentworth Institute of Technology's fourth president was announced on June 8, 2005. She took office August 1, 2005 and was the first female engineer to head an institute of technology in the United States. She was formally installed as president of Wentworth on April 5, 2006.

Pantić retired as President of Wentworth on May 31, 2019, after 14 years at its helm.

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Bagley-Keene Act

The Bagley-Keene Act of 1967, officially known as the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, implements a provision of the California Constitution which declares that "the meetings of public bodies and the writings of public officials and agencies shall be open to public scrutiny", and explicitly mandates open meetings for California State agencies, boards, and commissions. The act facilitates accountability and transparency of government activities and protects the rights of citizens to participate in State government deliberations. Similarly, California's Brown Act of 1953 protects citizen rights with regard to open meetings at the county and local government level.

The act also reaffirms, "The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created."

Select provisions of Act
Except as otherwise provided, State bodies shall provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the State body on each agenda item before or during the state body's discussion or consideration of an item. However, the Act allows a great many exceptions to this provision.

Notice of State body meetings shall be provided to any person who makes such a request in writing at least 10 days in advance. Notices shall include a specific agenda for meetings, including the items of business to be transacted or discussed, and no item shall be added to the agenda subsequent to the notice. Agendas of public meetings and other writings, when distributed to the members of a state body for discussion or consideration at a public meeting of such body, are public records under the California Public Records Act.

State bodies may, however, take action on non-agendized items of business under certain circumstances, most notably upon a determination by a majority vote of the State body that an emergency situation exists.

Any person attending an open and public meeting of a State body shall have the right to record the proceedings on a tape recorder.

Each member of the state body shall be provided a copy of the Act upon his or her appointment to membership or assumption of office.

No State agency shall conduct any meeting or function in any facility prohibiting admittance to any person on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, or sex.

Act's preamble
Section 11120: It is the public policy of this state that public agencies exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business and the proceedings of public agencies be conducted openly so that the public may remain informed. In enacting this article the Legislature finds and declares that it is the intent of the law that actions of state agencies be taken openly and that their deliberation be conducted openly. The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created. This article shall be known and may be cited as the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act.

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HMS Birmingham (1913)

HMS Birmingham was lead ship of the Birmingham group of three ships of the Town-class cruiser (1910) of light cruisers built by the Royal Navy. Her sister ships were HMS Lowestoft (1913) and HMS Nottingham (1913). The three ships were virtually identical to the third group of Town-class ships, but with an additional 6 in gun worked in on the forecastle.

History
Birmingham, a two-screw ship, was built at Elswick, launched on 7 May 1913 and completed on 30 January 1914. She joined the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet in 1914, visiting Kiel in June that year.

On 9 August 1914, she spotted the SMU U-15 (Germany), whose engines had failed as she lay stopped on the surface in heavy fog, off Fair Isle. The crew of Birmingham could hear hammering from inside the boat from attempted repairs, and so fired on her but missed. As the U-boat began to dive, she rammed her, cutting her in two. U-15 went down with all hands, the first U-boat loss to an enemy warship. Birmingham also sank two German merchant ships that year and took part in the Battle of Heligoland on 28 August, and the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915.

In February, she joined the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron, attacking a u-boat on 18 June 1915 without success.

She also took part in the Battle of Jutland as a member of the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron, during which she sustained damage caused by splintering during the night of the battle.

After the First World War, she was flagship to the 6th Light Cruiser Squadron in 1919–1920, after which she was transferred to the Nore from 1920 to 1922. Considered (with two other two shaft 'Towns') for conversion to a minelayer, but the idea was not pursued. She was recommissioned in November 1923 to the Africa Station with the 6th Light Cruiser Squadron as Flagship, relieving Lowestoft. She then continued to serve in foreign stations until being sold in 1931. She arrived at the yards of Thos. W. Ward, of Pembroke Dock on 12 March that year to be broken up.

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Talk:Puppeteer

Comments
This entry is highly misleading, as it overemphasizes American puppeteers that can be found in mass-entertainment like TV and Film. The real art of puppetry and puppeteers has a much broader and richer tradition. In the spectrum of puppetry, TV and Film is a very narrow band. Unfortunately the power of mass media diminishes and ignores the phenomenal work of artists who have worked in puppetry for generations all over the globe.

That's a very good point. Perhaps there are some suggestions for other traditions of puppetry that could be added.

I agree with the observation above, and the ensuring suggestion. I have therefore humbly attempted to fill in the most rudimentary outline of the grand European and Asian puppet theater traditions. I humbly leave it to more learned members of the puppet community to expand upon these entries, as they are beyond my personal field of expertise.--Peter puppet 07:23, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I added some popular forms of puppetry in SE Asia. I will actually be expanding on water puppetry shortly. (After I finish my final project on it :P) --Framed0000
 * Thanks for doing that. A lot more should be added to this including dates and more details. Morganfitzp 03:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I reverted and moved a couple of deletions: – Morganfitzp 02:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Sergey Obraztsov deserves to be in here, but not as the 3rd paragraph. I moved him to the European section since the Modern section begins with Henson/Oz.
 * An external link to either Kelly Mogg's or K. Ruby's histories of radical puppetry should be in here. Yes, these are people's histories, and puppeteers are people. I've retitled the link to make more sense.

A major problem with this article is that it is supposed to be about puppeteers, not puppetry. While the two are obviously related, the sections on puppetry and it's history that are not specific to a puppeteer are more appropriate for the puppet article. I have taken the content referring to puppetry's development as an artform and moved it to the puppet article, where it was needed. I think the African Puppetry section is an excellent idea, but also more appropriate in the puppet article.

I've renamed the section discussing Henson, Oz and Obraztsov "Famous Puppeteers" and made the lists of puppeteers a sub-section of that. Someone may want to clean up or renamed that section if need be.

There should be a wholly separate article for "puppetry." It's crazy that there is not one. Any takers?

African puppetry
This article could do with a section on African puppetry. There isn't much written about it on the Web. Morganfitzp 13:58, 4 July 2006 (UTC) I guess this is because there is very little in the way of puppetry connected with Africa. The theatrical culture was more storytelling based and also a lot of ritual and dance using mask. It's a fascinating and dynmaic cultural tradition but not one generally connected with puppetry.

Question: what is the difference between puppeteers and ventriloquists?

A ventriloquist uses a ventriloquist dummy and pretends to have a conversation between himself and a the ventriloquist dummy. The ventriloquist pretends to disguise the fact that he is producting the voice for the ventroliquist dummy which is he actually making in addition to manipulating the dummy. It is a very limited form of puppetry. Most puppeteers do not limit themselves to such a narrow area.

 * The above is simply not the case. Africa has an extremely rich puppetry tradition and indeed the use of puppetry in religious ritual drama, closely related to masked performance, is absolutely central to a wide range of African theatrical forms. This is well documented in 'Emotions in Motion: La Magie de L'Imaginaire' by E.A.Dagan ISBN 0-9693081-5-9, and elsewhere.

 * I think the main point is that the Puppeteer page should only really be an addendum to a serious Puppetry page, and the current Puppetry page (where African puppetry needs to be covered as a sub-topic) is generally very poor and needs a total rewrite. This is a daunting task I've occasionally considered undertaking but it needs a substantial effort of time and research. Bob 19:11, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Since writing the above I realise that a search in wikipedia for 'Puppetry' is redirected to 'Puppeteer'. It's the entry on 'Puppet', which I suggest should contain the generic definition and history of puppetry, that is very poor. Bob 08:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * As a footnote to the above - the Puppet and Puppetry pages have now been reworked. Puppet is an exploration of types of puppet; whereas Puppetry is a cultural history of forms of puppet theatre. Bob (talk) 07:27, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Removal of notable puppeteer named without discussion - March 2008
A couple of users have decided to casually remove names of well-known puppeteers without credible discussion or knowledge of who these puppeteers are. It would be wise to think before casually removing information from wikipedia and depriving others of the right to obtain information. Finneganw 15:20, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Your additions were inapropriate. . Unreferenced redlinks are unhelpful to readers. Empty redlinks do not add any content or meaning to Wikipedia.--Hu12 (talk) 14:28, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

(talk) you will note quite clearly, if you look at the page, that considerable information has been added to notable puppeteers who were formerly only redlinks. They should not have been removed given their acknowledged and verifiable prominence as puppeteers. The situation should now be rectified. As you know, wikipedia readers are capable of reading not just a redlink but also information associated with it. Thanks for your understanding. Yours in good faith.Finneganw 19:02, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Puppeteers Vs. Ventriloquists
Some of the names on this list (Edgar Bergen, Shari Lewis, Paul Winchell) are actually ventriloquists, not puppeteers. There is a huge difference. --184.34.36.15 (talk) 04:24, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Puppeteers
Do we need list all the Puppeteers in this article? This creates a long list and make the article is very unbalanced. They are in Puppeteer category btw. Alphama (talk) 05:27, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Merge with Puppet??
This article is little more than a list of notable puppeteers. Should it not be muerged with Puppet? 97.67.165.50 (talk) 17:41, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

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Smectymnuus

Smectymnuus was the nom de plume of a group of Puritan clergymen active in England in 1641 during the reign of Charles I. It comprised four leading English churchmen, and one Scottish minister (Thomas Young). They went on to provide leadership for the anti-episcopal forces in the Church of England, continuing into the Westminster Assembly, where they also opposed the Independent movement.

The name is an acronym derived from the initials of the five authors: Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew Newcomen, and William Spurstow. Their first pamphlet, ''An Answer to a booke entituled, An Humble Remonstrance. In Which, the Original of Liturgy and Episcopacy is discussed'', appeared in March 1641. The pamphlet was written in response to Joseph Hall's An Humble Remonstrance to the High Court of Parliament. It is thought that John Milton wrote the postscript for Smectymnuus's reply.

This response provoked Hall to write another reply: A Defence of the Humble Remonstrance, against the Frivolous and false Expectations of Smectymnuus. Smectymnuus answered Hall again with there A Vindication of the Answer to the Humble Remonstrance, from the Unjust Imputations of Frivolousnesse and Falsehood.

Milton also published two tracts defending the Smectymnuus group from Hall: Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnvvs (1641) and Apology for Smectymnuus (1642). Thomas Young was a former tutor and close friend to Milton.

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User:Flyingsquirrel~enwiki

Also known as Darcy Casselman (hey, you never know).

Darcy's a software developer, casual Doctor Who and anime fan and occasional pedant. The latter is why he's here, probably. He grew up in Belleville, Ontario and currently lives and works in Waterloo, Ontario.

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User:Theevamonkey

Hi, my name is Aaron, you may know me as the webmaster of Eva Monkey, and I frequent a number of Evangelion forums, sites, communities, and mailing lists, under the handle "The Eva Monkey". You may find me lurking around, contributing to the Evangelion page, but not much else.

--Aaron Clark

Webmaster, Eva Monkey, an Evangelion fan site

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Talk:Westtown School

NPOV
"The school also boasts enthusiastic PR consultants, who spend great amounts of time to keep the Westtown's Wikipedia page in line with its most recent brochure." Whoever posted this has a great sense of humor.140.232.180.133 (talk) 01:31, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

I go to class in the griffith science center almost every day and its a bit of a stretch to call it "state of the art." This article seems like it was written by a school administrator, it almost reads like an advertisement.

I'm takign out that bit about the granolithic because I walk on it every day and its just a really long mostly-cement (there's some small laid-stone parts) sidewalk, it's nothing special. Lophoole 20:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Lophoole

I go to Westtown and I feel like this article was written by some really annoying PR-type who the school pays way too much to get onto Wikipedia and make the school look much better than it really is. This page wasn't always like this; this advertising, which must've been done by the school, must be relatively recent. just deleting the page on westtown would be just fine with me. especially if it came back as a stub, most of the info currently on the page is pure-BS that just worships every aspect of Westtown. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.39.174 (talk) 20:10, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

I second the above statements, I'm a recent alumnus the science center is about as far as anything built in the early 70's and not renovated or updated since can be. This entire article is written like an ad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.239.183.26 (talk) 22:54, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

notable alumni
The inclusion of Andrew Kane '02 as a 'notable graduate' seems quite premature. This seems more likely a demonstration of a idiosyncratic fan obsession or a shameless self-promotion.

Though every child is honored at a friend school, introducing graduates who are visible to the culture at large can hardly be described as celebrity worship. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leontes (talk • contribs) 22:56, July 22, 2005

While Andrew Kane '02 may be premature, the elimination of all notable alumni seems extreme. Many articles on other academic institutions contain a list of notable graduates. Why not the case here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.82.68.77 (talk) 15:33, September 18, 2005

Wasn't the inventor of the Flexi Flyer sled a Westtown alumnus? Why isn't he included on this list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.58.223.11 (talk) 00:44, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I have included Samuel Leeds Allen, who invented the flexible flyer, to the notable alumni section.140.232.180.133 (talk) 00:20, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

this article is an advertisement
Darryl.jensen (talk) 20:09, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

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SYR3: Invito al ĉielo

SYR3: Invito al ĉielo is an album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released on March 2, 1998, and was the third in a series of experimental releases issued on the band's own SYR label. SYR3 marked the beginning of the band's collaborations with producer and musician Jim O'Rourke; his continuing work with the group after SYR3 resulted in O'Rourke becoming an official member of Sonic Youth by 2002's Murray Street.

Background
SYR3 followed the band's tradition of having the liner notes for SYR releases written in foreign languages, in this case, using Esperanto. "Invito al ĉielo" translates to "An Invitation to Heaven". However, the words that Kim Gordon sang were in English.

Personnel
Sonic Youth
 * Thurston Moore – vocals, guitar
 * Kim Gordon – vocals, bass
 * Lee Ranaldo – vocals, guitar
 * Steve Shelley – drums
 * Jim O'Rourke – bass

Technical
 * Wharton Tiers – engineering
 * Greg Calbi – mastering
 * KPG (Kevin Gray) – mastering

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Infinite precision arithmetic

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

The result of the debate was redirect to Arbitrary precision. -- BD2412 talk 20:20, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Infinite precision arithmetic
Quite difficult to form an opinion based upon what currently exist. However this turns up very little, and Wolfram has nothing. brenneman (t) (c) 02:58, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even if the subject itself has any merit, this article certainly has none. —Cleared as filed. 05:51, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The subject is a minor, but notable corner of computer science. The external link which I found - - is what this article should be. -- RHaworth 09:38, 2005 July 13 (UTC)
 * Delete content, list on requested articles. Radiant_ >|< 13:07, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Subject is notable, but as has been said, the content is essentially meaningless. Delete unless significantly cleaned up. Redirect to Arbitrary precision, which I have a bit of experience in this area, so I might clean it up myself. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  13:53, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Arbitrary precision, the more common name for this concept. Both are rather dismal, though. -- Plutor 14:27, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Arbitrary precision. There is nothing to merge. -- RHaworth 15:57, 2005 July 13 (UTC)
 * Redirect as per RHaworth. Redundant topic. Darksidex 17:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect, although that other article sucks too.  Grue   21:24, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I'll take a look at that one tonight if I have the time. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  21:42, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Article as it stands now is nonsensical yammering. ~ WCFrancis 00:11, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Twice a Fortnight

Twice a Fortnight is a 1967 British sketch comedy television series with Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Jonathan Lynn and Tony Buffery.

Graeme Garden suggested to the director, Tony Palmer, that Michael Palin and Terry Jones be included in the cast and writers of the show. All episodes are now lost as a result of the BBC wiping the tapes.

Influences of the series
As in the case of the radio comedy programme I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, and the television comedy programmes At Last the 1948 Show, Do Not Adjust Your Set and Broaden Your Mind, Twice a Fortnight was considered an excellent training ground, in both writing and acting, for the future stars of both Monty Python and The Goodies, as well as for the future co-writer of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

Graeme Garden appears briefly as Max Von Sydow in the trailer for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in reused footage from Twice a Fortnight.

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Hector Pieterson Museum

The Hector Pieterson Museum is a museum located in Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa. Located two blocks away from where student protester Hector Pieterson was shot and killed on 16 June 1976, the museum is named in his honour and covers the events of the anti-Apartheid Soweto Uprising, where more than 170 protesting school children were killed.

The museum features films, newspapers, personal accounts and photographs, the most famous being the iconic photo by Sam Nzima.

The Hector Pieterson Museum became one of the first museums in Soweto when it opened on 16 June 2002. A companion museum nearby is Mandela House, the former home of Nelson Mandela and his family, which has been run as a museum since 1997. The total cost of the Hector Pieterson Museum project was Rand 23.2 million, which was covered by a 16 million rand donation by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and a 7.2 million rand donation from the Johannesburg City Council.

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Allan Louisy

Sir Allan Fitzgerald Laurent Louisy (5 September 1916 – 2 March 2011) was the second prime minister of independent St Lucia, following Sir John Compton in office. He was born in Laborie on 5 September 1916 and served as a judge before being elected to parliament in 1974.

Louisy was Leader of the Opposition from 1974 to 1979. In the 1979 general elections, Louisy became Prime Minister following the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) victory. He also held the additional portfolio of Minister of Finance.

He was succeeded as Prime Minister by Winston Cenac. After retiring from politics, Sir Allan Louisy continued working as a consultant and as a lawyer. He was also actively involved in the trade union movement.

In his later years, he retired to his home in Saphyr Estate, and continued to spend his time volunteering in Laborie. He was knighted on 31 March 2005, recognizing all his accomplishments and benevolence during his lifetime.

He died on 2 March 2011 at home, surrounded by family.

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CHRY-FM

CHRY-FM (branded as VIBE 105) is a Canadian radio station. It is run by Canadian Centre for Civic Media and Arts Development Inc. broadcasting at 105.5 MHz in Toronto, Ontario and has also served as a community radio station for the residents of the Jane and Finch corridor in North Toronto. CHRY's studios are located at York University's Student Centre, while its transmitter is located on top of the Vanier College residence building.

History
CHRY was founded as a closed-circuit cable radio service, called Radio York, in 1965, and was located on the top floor of Vanier College and served campus residences and the cafeteria located at Central Square. On June 1, 1986, upon successful application to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a broadcasting licence, began to broadcast as CHRY at 50 watts, with a transmitting antenna located on the top of Vanier College's residence building. As well, on this day, it became incorporated as CHRY Community Radio, Inc.

In 1997, it moved from its old Vanier College studios to the fourth floor of York University's Student Centre, where it is today. This move was financed by a $40,000 loan from the undergraduate student association, which was forgiven four years later. A limitation to CHRY was that its licence was Class B, which effectively meant that it was "unprotected" legally from claims of signal interference, effectively requiring it to cease operations if another broadcasting interest was affected in some way by CHRY's operation. However, in 2006, the CRTC accepted CHRY's application to reclassify its licence from "Class B" to "Class A", thus effecting "protected status" for the radio station.

CHRY serves the north western part of Toronto. Prior to its relaunch in 2015, more than one-third of its schedule is devoted to the music and culture of the Caribbean. It employs two full-time staff, several other part-time staff, and is supported by the work of over one hundred volunteers from both York's student body and the surrounding community.

On May 1, 2015, CHRY cancelled all of its existing programs, dismissed all of its volunteers and rebranded itself as "VIBE 105", adopting an "urban alternative" format which it describes as "a diverse and metropolitan blend of Cultural, Electronic and Remix programming" which includes Electronic, Remix, Reggae, Soca, Afrobeat, Hip hop and R&B. The station will also air talk programming. Volunteers are to be in supportive roles while on air talent will be professionalized in a departure from the station's long time commitment to community radio.

The dismissed programmers organized community meetings and campaigning under the name #SAVECHRY in an unsuccessful effort to overturn the station's decision.

In 2016, the station applied for a license to add a nested FM repeater on 105.3 (with an average power of 92 watts, maximum of 155), with a transmitter located at 100 Wingarden Court in Scarborough (co-located with CJRK-FM). This was denied on June 16, 2017.

Financial support
CHRY is supported in part by student levy (contributions via the York University Graduate Students Association and York Federation of Students (YFS)), through occasional grants for which the station is eligible due to its charitable status, by York University through occasional workstudy grants, and by its listenership through pledges. The rest of its funding is from advertising revenue.

Alumni

 * Matt Galloway CBC Radio host, former CHRY music director
 * Danko Jones - musician, former CHRY DJ
 * Dallas Good - lead singer of the Sadie's, former CHRY DJ.

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A Star Called Henry

A Star Called Henry (1999) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. It is Vol. 1 of The Last Roundup series. The second installment of the series, Oh, Play That Thing, was published in 2004. The third, The Dead Republic, was published in 2010. The book follows the early life of Henry Smart, from his childhood in the slums of early 20th century Dublin to his involvement in the Easter Rising and the Irish War of Independence.

Plot summary
The novel is set in Ireland in the era of political upheaval between the 1916 Easter Rising and the eventual truce signed with the United Kingdom in 1921, seen through the eyes of young Henry Smart, from his childhood to early twenties. Henry, as a member of the Irish Citizen Army, becomes personally acquainted with several historical characters, including Patrick Pearse, James Connolly and Michael Collins. Energized by Sinn Féin's victory in the general election of 1918 and the party's establishment of the independent Irish Republic, Henry trained the men in the Soloheadbeg Ambush, the first engagement of the Irish War of Independence.

Later, he becomes a gunman in the ensuing guerilla war against the British, setting barracks on fire, shooting G-men and training others to do the same. At the end of the novel, Henry comes to think that the endless violence and killing of innocent people has little to do with the concept of a free Ireland, or the prospect of a better life in Ireland and more about personal gain.

History vs Fiction
In the novel, Doyle takes an approach similar to Little Big Man, Forrest Gump and Zelig in introducing a fictional character in an historical setting and having that character interact with real historical characters. An early example in the novel is when James Connolly shows Henry a draft of the 1916 proclamation and Henry suggests adding the line "cherishing all the children of the nation equally".

Cover
One cover to "A Star Called Henry" features a young member of the Irish Republican Army on patrol. The young man in question is Phil McRory.

Reception
While Doyle had addressed issues in his previous novels that indicated his revisionist and atheist perspective on Irish history before, in A Star Called Henry he tackled these ideas at a far more ambitious scale. Many reviews of the book took issue with his political opinions rather than the novel itself; however, aspects of the writing were criticised too. The novel was nominated for a Bad Sex Award in 1999.

Irish reviewers with their own opinions of Irish history tended to be more reserved in their appraisal of the novel than British and American reviewers. Richard Bernstein in The New York Times noted that "Doyle's new novel never lets up. It is an unrelenting tumult of events recounted with tremendous verbal intensity. But it also seems much of the time to be tumult and intensity for its own sake -- a contrived larger-than-lifeness." and that "The prodigal, extravagant quality of Doyle's new book is evident from the beginning ...". The A.V. Club described it as "extraordinary" and said that "Doyle has fashioned a gratifyingly complex character around which to build his series".

In The Guardian, Roy Foster notes "The novel's greatest triumph is to recreate this world in Doyle's distinctive shorthand, without any creaky historical set pieces, and make it utterly convincing".

In German-speaking countries it provoked mixed reactions. Reviewers with a penchant for Irish literature and history tended to rate it positively, while critics without this specialist knowledge sometimes rejected the novel. Doyle's language in particular is controversial, the content is perceived as too vulgar and unnecessarily brutal, the style is too artificial.

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