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Imagery - Sacred Heart
The image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus reflects a distinctly nineteenth century spirituality and is not the best icon for the Catholic Church. I substituted it with the image of St. Peter's which is not only more timeless, but more fundamental to the unique history and identity of the Catholic Church vis-a-vis the other Christian churches. -Invincoli 21:32, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Actualy now that I changed it, I have some reservations. I still feel strongly about my initial argument mind you, but at 35px, the dome of St. Peter's is easily confused with that of St. Paul's in London or (gasp!) the Capitol Building in the United States. Any thoughts? -Invincoli 21:42, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Why is the Sacred Heart outdated? I don't quite get it. It's certainly old, but nothing in its article indicates that it's distinctly 19th century. --Joy [shallot]

 * Veneration of the Sacred Heart was first promulgated by Pope Pius VI in the late eighteenth century and only became widespread in the nineteenth century, as the article suggests. I am advocating a depiction of the Vatican since the primacy of the bishop of Rome as successor to Peter has been a defining aspect of the Catholic Church from the very beginning (I will not attempt to define the beginning here, but suffice it to say that it is quite a few centuries before Pope Pius VI!). - Invincoli 04:57, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, can you really find a clear symbol for that concept? I don't think we have widely recognized pictures of Peter. Whereas if you walk into a house that has the Heart stickers on the door, you're pretty sure you've come to a place where there are Catholics. Well, at least in my 90% Catholic country :) Only the rosary could be a more noticable Catholic symbol. Perhaps use that? --Joy [shallot]   12:43, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I think St Peter's Basilica is a pretty clear symbol of that concept since it is both the tomb of Peter and the seat of his successors in their capacity as Pope. I just wonder if the current image is recognizable enough to laypeople or if it might be confused with other domes around the world.

 * Exactly. That's why I figured the heart would be better - recognizable to laypeople. Guess not. Whatever. We apparently can't fit enough information about RC into a 50px space. --Joy [shallot]

 * My qualm about using the rosary as a symbol for the whole Catholic Church would be the same as using the image of the Sacred Heart, i.e. its use does not transcend the history of the Church; it's a representation of one aspect of the Church, but doesn't speak to the bigger picture. Also, devotion to Mary is common among non-Catholics (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox for example), some who also use the rosary and even recite the Ave Maria (I am thinking specifically of Anglicans here). So I don't think that's the best candidate either. --Invincoli 17:20, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

I definitely think an image of St. Peter's is better than the image of the Sacred Heart. When it was initially changed to the Sacred Heart image, I was surprised. I'm sure it was merely my ignorance, but I hadn't thought of the Sacred Heart as specifically Catholic. Whoops. Anyway. Maybe an image of the Vatican coat of arms? Or is that more for the political entity of the Vatican City? --User:Jenmoa 02:23, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Dividing the category
Hi, many of the RC-stub are actually nothing but RC Cathedral stubs. That's why I wonder if we can use also a template like this one :

 * If, in addition to its ecclesiatic role, the cathedral is significant for its architecture or art, why not just add the architecture stub in addition to the rc-stub? I see no problem with two stubs. In fact it may draw greater attention to the article and hence more contributors. -Invincoli 04:36, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Category:Architecture stubs

 * Well, actually, the only purpose of a RC Cathedral stub is to stop the inflation of RC-stub. Therefore, I think it would be a good idea to add an architecture stub in addition of the religious stub, but it should not prevent us fom creating a RC Cathedral stub, no ?--Revas 01:26, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Why the rename?
In December 2005, there are almost 800 articles that use "RC-stub". Why is it marked for a rename? What should we used instead? 69.181.82.102 03:47, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Requested move 1 June 2016

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved. Even though I took part in this vote, I'll close it now for WP:SNOW. (closed by a page mover) (non-admin closure).  Anarchyte  ( work  |  talk )   11:40, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Template:RC-stub → Template:Catholic Church-stub – More specific as well as consistant. Chicbyaccident (talk) 11:26, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Also, the lock of the template could well be lifted. Chicbyaccident (talk) 11:26, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Move to Template:Catholic Church-stub, surely? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:19, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, thanks for the correction. Chicbyaccident (talk) 21:15, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

 * Support the move to Template:Catholic Church-stub. I've filed an RFPP to get this unprotected and moved.  Anarchyte  ( work  |  talk )   08:29, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Thank you. Chicbyaccident ( Please notify with (Talk) 17:14, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

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User:Maury Markowitz/Manifesto for a Better Word Processor

What's this all about?
This page is an experimental effort to collect ideas from anyone who would like to see a better word processor. It started after a short brainstorming session after two of us were talking about FullWrite Professional, which many consider to be one of the best word processors ever written. But along with the good came the bad; it shipped two years late, filled with bugs, and had memory requirements that few machines could meet at the time. The market quickly forgot it, which is ok. But it also forgot all the good ideas it contained. That's annoying.

But what if you could do it all over? Well every so often someone does. For instance Apple just introduced Pages. What I, and hopefully many others, find frustrating are the features they could have simply lifted directly out of other systems and made their own better. The only other "new" word pros of recent history seem to be outright copies of Microsoft Word, in fact many of them boast that's what they are. *sigh* When Word is your goal, you're starting in the basement.

So that's that this page is all about. It's an attempt to collect up good ideas, not so much the particular implementations of those ideas (unless they're good too), but the ideas themselves reduced to their basic concept. So to make sure everyone knows what we should be looking at, let's make a list...

User:Maury Markowitz/Manifesto for a Better Word Processor/What programs do we need to study?

Keep the user in mind!
Certainly one of the biggest problems in the software industry is programmer myopia. This often manifests itself because the developer gets this really great idea to solve one group's problem, and then fails to consider users with similar, but slightly different, problems. Let's not make this mistake again.

For a word processor it seems there are a number of different types of users. Some just want to type, and then worry about cleanup and style later. Others play around with their document, trying out different styles and making lots of little edits. Some need WYSIWYG right from the start because that's how they think. Others don't want to see anything but text right up to the end. There's no reason why a product can't do both. So let's talk about that here...

User:Maury Markowitz/Manifesto for a Better Word Processor/Who are the users and what do they do?

We also need to consider those users who work from an outliner, a seemingly small but important group. This is why people talk about FullWrite even today, it's still mentioned as having the best integrated outliner of any WP ever. For those Word users out there thinking "why would anyone ever use one", just consider the possibility that Word's version is so crappy it's useless.

User:Maury Markowitz/Manifesto for a Better Word Processor/What makes a great outliner?

User:Maury Markowitz/Manifesto for a Better Word Processor/What sort of document views do we need?

Styles and Formats
Here's something to get you thinking: XML/HTML and CSS provide a fairly usable system for styling up documents. With a few additional "non-standard" tags,  for instance, the existing HTML standard could be easily adapted for markup of large documents. What's missing is a good layout system (CSS-P is a brain-dead system that cannot work, even in theory) and some easy way to create a single document with a printer and online layout maintained at the same time. So, lets consider:

User:Maury Markowitz/Manifesto for a Better Word Processor/What styles and markup do we need?

What you'd end up with is a document that would print exactly as it would from Word (or any other), yet display, without a single change, as a perfectly formatted web page.

Of course this might also cause a problem, because one thing we absolutely need is perfect Word compatibility. MS continues to make noise about going all-XML, but that remains to happen. There's a very big disincentive for them to do this anyway, Office is universal because its document format has become a sort of currency of its own. But the HTML system outlined above would nullify this advantage. Everyone can read HTML, it's even more universal than Word.

User:Maury Markowitz/Manifesto for a Better Word Processor/What formats do we need to support?

undo
Occasionally people open a document, accidentally delete a few lines, and then close the document, and reflexively click "yes" to the "do you want to save changes?" dialog.

What is a good way set things up such that the user can "undo" that unwanted change?

Is it better to
 * store the "undo information" in the file itself, like some word processors?
 * store the "undo information" in a separate file "next to" the original file in the same directory, perhaps with the same name but a ".~" extension, like the Vim (text editor)?
 * store the original version of the file in a file "next to" the original file with a ".bak" or ".orig" extension?
 * store the "undo information" for all files in a single centralized location, like most (version control) systems?

pre-emptive saving
Some people open up their word processor and type for an hour before even thinking about what name to give the file when they get around to saving it. Then they get upset when there is a tiny little power glitch and the computer forgets everything. Where should the program pre-emptively store that information, before the user decides on a name for that file?

HOW TO ADD TO THIS DOCUMENT
As this is an experiment, and not part of the wiki proper, it is important that you add new topics with the proper "Namespace". I recommend editing this page and copying one of the links, and then just renaming it.

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User:Stco23

Patrick Alan Butler (Born January 21 1981), My Name is Patrick Butler and I'am Autistic. My Favorite Wrestler is Stone Cold Steve Austin and he is the reason my users name is Stco23. One of my favorite shows is The Simpsons. I hope you enjoy me as a Wikipedian. Thank You.

Quote:It is my right is to make the right history, and to get rid of Vandalism, and to make sure everything is fair on this web site.

My Sandbox
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Links
Links to Autistic Wikipedians and non Autistic Wikipedians

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List of cities in French Guiana

This is a list of cities (communes) in French Guiana:

Villages

 * Acarouany
 * Alikoto Tapele
 * Antecume Pata
 * Apatou
 * Awala-Yalimapo
 * Balata
 * Balaté
 * Bélizon
 * Bellevue
 * Boniville
 * Cacao
 * Camopi
 * Cayenne
 * Charvein
 * Clément
 * Cormotibo
 * Coulor
 * Délices
 * Élahé
 * Espérance
 * Grand Santi
 * Guisanbourg
 * Île Portal
 * Iracoubo
 * Javouhey
 * Kaw or Caux
 * Kourou
 * Kulumuli
 * Macouria
 * Malmanoury
 * Mana
 * Maripasoula
 * Matoury
 * Montsinéry
 * Nouveau Wakapou
 * Ouanary
 * Paul Isnard
 * Pilima
 * Pointe Isère
 * Providence
 * Résidence Arc-en-ciel
 * Régina
 * Rémire
 * Rochambeau
 * Roura
 * Saint-Nazaire
 * Sainte-Rose-de-Lima
 * Saül
 * Sinnamary
 * St-Élie
 * St Georges de l'Oyapock
 * St-Jean
 * St-Laurent du Maroni
 * Talhuwen
 * Tonate
 * Tonnegrande
 * Trois-Palétuviers
 * Trois Sauts
 * Trou Poisson

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User talk:Salty Kid

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! --Lomn | Talk 21:33:20, 2005-08-17 (UTC)
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * Tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style

Thank you. I will check out those links. Salty Kid (talk) 23:01, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

First Joinee message?
Hello! Thanks for dropping by my talk page :) Yes, I use the forum, I'm Captain K. See you there! Kierant 17:53, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Controversies

 * Muhammad
 * For some reason, people seem to be afraid to admit that his wife was six years old at the time of their marriage. It is rather comical to watch Muslims argue that us big bad Christians are just harrassing them, and have no proof, when the information is taken directly from their Haddiths.

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Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English/Surudi Milli

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Surudi Milli
Surudi Milli, the national anthem of Tajikistan, needs translation (which should be either following or side-by-side with the Tajik lyrics).
 * I tried contacting the Tajik Embassy to the United States, but got no reply. -- Graham  ☺ | Talk 00:10, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I've linked the article to a translation I found on the web. I also removed the article from this Pages needing Translation category. I didn't paste the translation into the article itself because I'm unsure of the copyright issues involved... if someone's more knowledgable about copyright than me, feel free to address the issue. Andyabides 04:49, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Nope, that's link goes to a page that translates the national anthem of Kazakhstan, and that site's page on Tajikstan does not include a translation of the national anthem. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:41, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * We now have several transliterations, but still no translation. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:28, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm to give it a try.--Downtownee 21:29, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I chicken out. no time.--Downtownee 22:17, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I have emailed a Tajik noticeboard for more information, hopefully they should come back with an asnwer. -- Francs2000 | Talk [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] 22:07, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Woot! I am a God!  They have come back with a rough translation but will endeavour to deliver something more concrete over the next couple of days. -- Francs2000 | Talk [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px|  ]] 00:00, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Congrats! Great job! - Introvert   talk  00:46, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Cool! After almost a year, I was thinking this would never happen… -- Jmabel | Talk 06:32, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Well they haven't come back with a more exact translation after all, so a rough translation it shall have to remain. -- Francs2000 | Talk [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] 20:20, 22 August 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Dan Bylsma

Year 1 Coaching Record
I'm confused as to how the stats are place on Bylsma's coaching record. Surely Michel Therrien's points don't carry over into Bylsma's coaching career, and the points percentage shouldn't reflect that. I'd like someone more qualified to edit this, but if nothing happens over time, I will do it myself. Cornhusker1225 (talk) 15:15, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Bylsma name
Is Dan Dutch or Frisian? Bylsma is an awfully Dutch, and particularly Frisian, name. Him being from Grand Haven in West Michigan would seem to point toward to him being of that ancestary. --Criticalthinker (talk) 03:36, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't remember where the Dutch comes in, but you are correct, it is definitely a Dutch name. I used to go to church with Dan's family as a kid. His father Jay is part (mostly?) Navajo. While playing hockey for the Coyotes, Dan would come back during the off-season and play softball with the church team. He is a real down-to-earth guy. ~ C. Portenga —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.77.50.54 (talk) 12:40, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

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What's wrong with the Athletic?
It's not some gossip site. They have real journalist. Why revert my edit if it's just gonna be confirmed anyway?

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The Daily Howler

The Daily Howler is an American political blog written by Bob Somerby. It was perhaps the first major political blog, started in 1998. The style is by turns earnest and sarcastic. Somerby criticizes what he considers the media's frequently biased or lazy coverage. In his view, the media frequently latch on to a generally agreed "script" with little regard for facts that contradict the script. For instance, in the runup to the U.S. 2000 election it was frequently said or assumed that Al Gore was untruthful, but Somerby shows that much of what supposedly underlay that script was in fact untrue, misrepresented or greatly exaggerated. He also argues that the media frequently ignore substantive issues and concentrate on trivial ones instead (in the 2000 presidential election, for example, professing bewilderment in response to the candidates' budget proposals while writing repeatedly and at length about irrelevant issues such as Gore's choice of clothes, or in 2006 writing articles about Barack Obama's middle name.) Despite professing to be left of center in his politics, Somerby also critiques liberals in the U.S. mainstream media who he feels do poor journalism, such as Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann, both of MSNBC.

The Daily Howler critiques education writing, often by analyzing badly reported data on scholastic achievement in low income or minority populations. For example, Somerby dissected a 2005 PBS "feel good" documentary Making Schools Work that touted the achievements in a low-income school district. Somerby showed that the showcased test score gains were neither remarkable (they were similar to average statewide score increases) nor indicative of large achievement (as evidenced by NAEP national tests). On the other hand, journalist Robert Samuelson supported a claim that public schools have made minimal progress since 1970 by using aggregated and cherry-picked NAEP statistics. Somerby showed that Samuelson had hid the spectacular multiple grade-level increases in the achievement levels of African American students. Similarly, a Washington Post article turned Maryland's twelfth-in-the-nation average eighth-grade math score into "last among the 50 states" by looking at differences rather than absolute numbers. Among other frequent education themes, Somerby criticizes reporting on Teach For America and what he calls "high-minded" punditry.

In January 2010, Somerby started a companion blog How He Got There where he is posting a book on the 2000 U.S. presidential election piece-by-piece as he writes it.

Bob Somerby is also a professional stand up comic. He has appeared on Larry King Live, with Bill Maher, Bill O'Reilly and with Brian Lamb on C-SPAN. In college at Harvard, he was roommates with the actor Tommy Lee Jones and former Vice President Al Gore. After college he taught for twelve years in Baltimore public elementary schools.

Commentary
"A message to my fellow journalists: check out media watch sites like campaigndesk.org, mediamatters.org and dailyhowler.com. It's good to see ourselves as others see us. I've been finding The Daily Howler's concept of a media "script", a story line that shapes coverage, often in the teeth of the evidence, particularly helpful in understanding cable news."
 * From a Columbia Journalism Review article: Bob Somerby needs no introduction, of course, unless your days are spent solely in the brick-and-mortar world...
 * Paul Krugman opened one of his op-eds for The New York Times as follows:

 * From a Virginian-Pilot editorial writer: ...his persistent needling made something of a splash in state education circles last week. ... What he’s discovered about the way Virginia calculates school accreditation ratings ought to be far more broadly understood.

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Kasa (hat)

A kasa is any one of several traditional Japanese hats. These include and.

Grammar and etymology
is the correct way to pronounce the word when it stands alone. causes to change to  when it is preceded by another word specifying the type of hat, as in.

shares its etymology with the Japanese word for "umbrella" (also pronounced, but written as ).

Types of
A number of different styles of exist. Varieties of were used throughout most all levels of Japanese society.

Some types of include:

 * Ajirogasa (網代笠): a wickerwork kasa made of shaven bamboo or wood.
 * Amigasa (編み笠): a wickerwork . An is a straw hat of the type traditionally worn in some Japanese folk dances.
 * Fukaamigasa (深編み笠): a deep wickerwork.
 * Jingasa (陣笠): a type of commonly worn by samurai and  (foot soldiers). The samurai class in feudal Japan, as well as their retainers and footsoldiers, used several types of  made from iron, copper, wood, paper, bamboo, or leather.   almost always had crests on them.
 * Rōningasa (浪人笠): typically a conical with a flat top, often worn by.
 * Sandogasa (三度笠): a bamboo for traveling with a wide, flat shape that offered protection from the sun and rain. Favored by, couriers who regularly traveled between Edo and Kyoto.
 * Sugegasa (菅笠): a conical, pointed wickerwork made of sedge. This hat shape is called a nón lá in Vietnam or do'un in Cambodia.
 * Takuhatsugasa (托鉢笠): a Buddhist mendicant's . A woven rice-straw worn by mendicant Buddhist monks, the  is made overlarge and in a bowl or mushroom shape. Unlike an Asian conical hat, it does not come to a point, nor does it ride high on the head like a samurai's traveling hat, instead covering the upper half to two-thirds of the face, masking the identity of the monk and allowing him to travel undistracted on his journey.
 * Tengai (天蓋): (see )
 * Torioigasa (鳥追笠): a folded, famously worn for the Awa Dance Festival.
 * Yagyūgasa (柳生笠): the family crest of Yagyū clan, not an actual kind of.

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Lambda transition

The λ (lambda) universality class is a group in condensed matter physics. It regroups several systems possessing strong analogies, namely, superfluids, superconductors and smectics (liquid crystals). All these systems are expected to belong to the same universality class for the thermodynamic critical properties of the phase transition. While these systems are quite different at the first glance, they all are described by similar formalisms and their typical phase diagrams are identical.

Books

 * Chaikin P. M. and Lubensky T. C. Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) 1995, sect.9.
 * Feynman R. P. Progress in Low Temperature Physics Vol.1, edited by C. Gorter (North Holland, Amsterdam) 1955.

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Herculez Gomez

Herculez Gomez (born April 6, 1982) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a forward. He currently works as a commentator in both English and Spanish for ESPN.

Early life
Gomez, the oldest of five children, was born in Oxnard, California to Mexican-American parents. He grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and played on the soccer team at Las Vegas High School.

Early career
Gomez started his career in 2001 with Cruz Azul of the Mexican Primera División on their second-division squad, and transferred to second-division team Aguilas Blancas de Puebla later that year. The following season, he returned to the Primera División with Durango. However, playing opportunities were scarce for him there. The Los Angeles Galaxy staff noticed him during a friendly match and he joined the team in September.

MLS
Gomez broke his foot while on loan to the Seattle Sounders of the United Soccer Leagues, and recovery took a long time. When he was able to play again, he joined the San Diego Sockers of the Major Indoor Soccer League. He returned to the Galaxy for the 2005 season on a developmental contract, and played well enough to make it to the first team. His big chance came when Landon Donovan was called up to the national team. Donovan's absence gave Gomez many more starts at striker, and he was able to shine as a breakout goal-scorer.

He scored the game-winning goal in the 2005 U.S. Open Cup Final, then helped the Galaxy to a rare Cup 'double' when they also won the 2005 MLS Cup. Gomez ended the 2005 season with eighteen goals scored for the Galaxy (in all matches), and was voted by the local L.A. media as the year's Most Valuable Player.

Early in the 2006 season, Gomez was moved to the bench with then-coach Steve Sampson. Sampson used Gomez as a midfielder to see if he could score goals running at defenses. After Sampson's firing, however, Gomez scored several times under new coach Frank Yallop, and ended that season with five goals.

In December 2006, Gomez was traded to the Colorado Rapids along with Ugo Ihemelu in exchange for Joe Cannon. He scored the first goal in the history of Dick's Sporting Goods Park in his first game for Colorado, a 2–1 win over D.C. United on April 7, 2007. Gomez tore his ACL during training with the Rapids in September of that year and underwent a lengthy recovery process.

Gomez was traded to Kansas City Wizards in exchange for allocation money, a fourth round 2009 MLS SuperDraft pick and a first round 2009 MLS Supplemental Draft pick in September 2008. His only goal for the Wizards was an injury time winner against San Jose Earthquakes, a must win game in their 2008 play-offs push.

Mexico

After being released by Kansas City in late 2009, Gomez signed with Mexican club Puebla in January 2010. He scored ten goals in the 2010 Mexican season to tie for the lead for most goals; this feat marked the first time any American player led a foreign league in goals. He moved to Pachuca in the summer 2010 window.

Pachuca placed Gomez, along with its entire squad, on the transfer list. During the transfer window he moved along with teammate Braulio Luna to Estudiantes Tecos. Gomez scored his first goal for his new club in the second game of the Mexico Apertura season, coming in a 2–1 loss to San Luis. On August 19, Gomez scored the winner as a sub against his former club Pachuca.

Cash-strapped Estudiantes Tecos were forced into selling Gomez to league rivals Santos Laguna in December 2011. Gomez scored 11 goals in his first 12 appearances for the team across all competitions.

With Santos Laguna's 2012 Clausura victory, Gomez became the first player to have won both the MLS Cup and the Primera División championship. In 2013, he moved to Club Tijuana. After struggling with Tijuana, he was loaned to Tigres UANL for the 2014–15 season. However, he ended the season poorly with only one goal. His loan was not extended.

Return to MLS
In August 2015, Gomez joined Toronto FC.

After his release from Toronto at the beginning of the 2016 MLS season, Gomez joined Seattle Sounders FC. He won MLS Cup for the second time in his career. He retired following the season and joined ESPN as an analyst.

International career
Gomez was named to the United States roster for the 2007 Copa America and earned his first cap as a second-half substitute against Argentina, with his first start coming against Colombia.

After a lengthy absence from the national team, Gomez was named to the provisional 30-man U.S. squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup after a highly productive club season in Mexico. He scored a goal for the U.S. national team in a 4–2 friendly defeat to the Czech Republic on May 25; the next day he was named to the final 23-man squad. Gomez played in 3 out of the 4 games for the United States at the World Cup, including the round of 16 game against Ghana.

Gomez made his return to the national team in 2012, appearing in friendlies against Scotland and Brazil and scoring a goal against the latter. Later in 2012, he scored goals in World Cup qualifying against Antigua and Barbuda and Jamaica

His last national team appearance came during the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Broadcaster
In January 2017, Gomez announced his retirement from professional soccer, and joined the broadcasting team at ESPN. He typically appears as a studio analyst / pundit for ESPN FC, MLS games, and U.S. National Team games. Also, he is the co-host of several podcasts, most notably the Max and Herc podcast with Max Bretos, where they discuss news around Major League Soccer and the United States national team, and the Two on Tri podcast with Sebastian Salazar, where they discuss the Liga MX, the Mexico national team, and Mexican players abroad.

He and Salazar also host "Fútbol Americas" on ESPN+.

Personal life
Herculez is the brother of MMA fighter Ulysses Gomez.

Honors
LA Galaxy
 * MLS Cup: 2002, 2005
 * U.S. Open Cup: 2005
 * Major League Soccer Western Conference Championship: 2005

Santos Laguna
 * Mexican Primera División: Clausura 2012

Puebla
 * Copa MX: Clausura 2015

Seattle Sounders FC
 * MLS Cup: 2016

United States
 * CONCACAF Gold Cup: 2013

Individual
 * U.S. Open Cup Top scorer (Shared): 2005
 * Mexican Primera División Golden Boot (Shared): Bicentenario 2010
 * Copa MX Top scorer (Shared): Clausura 2015

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Osteochondrosis

Osteochondrosis is a family of orthopedic diseases of the joint that occur in children, adolescents and rapidly growing animals, particularly pigs, horses, dogs, and broiler chickens. They are characterized by interruption of the blood supply of a bone, in particular to the epiphysis, followed by localized bony necrosis, and later, regrowth of the bone. This disorder is defined as a focal disturbance of endochondral ossification and is regarded as having a multifactorial cause, so no one thing accounts for all aspects of this disease.

Osteochondrosis is a developmental disease. It usually occurs in an early stage of life. It has personified features as focal chondronecrosis and confinement of growth cartilage due to a failing of endochondral ossification. Fissures can develop from lesions over the top articular cartilage and form a cartilage flap and an osteochondral fragment. It is diagnosed as osteochondritis dissecans.

In animals
In dogs osteochondrosis is seen in elbow, shoulder, knee, and ankle joints. Elbow osteochondrosis is also known as "elbow dysplasia". There are three types of elbow dysplasia: fragmented medial coronoid process, ununited anconeal process and Osteochondritis dissecans of the medial humeral condyle.

Breeds that have the predisposition to these are Basset Hound, Labrador, Golden Retriever, and Rottweiler. Other breeds can also be diagnosed with this condition but it is not common.

One of the leading factors to some elbow osteochondrosis is that the radius and ulna are growing at different rates. In this situation, the stress to the joint surface is not even and can cause some form of osteochondrosis in the elbow when the puppy grows or make already existing elbow dysplasia even worse. Some of the breeds that are susceptible to that are for example Dachshunds, Corgis, Pugs, Bulldogs, and Beagles.

Signs and symptoms
These conditions nearly all present with an insidious onset of pain referred to the location of the bony damage. Some, notably Kienbock's disease of the wrist, may involve considerable swelling, and Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease of the hip causes the victim to limp. The spinal form, Scheuermann's disease, may cause bending, or kyphosis of the upper spine, giving a "hunch-back" appearance.

Symptoms in animals
The most common symptoms are lameness and pain in the affected joints. Animals may try to ease the pain and walk differently and the pain can be noticed by the change in animals walking style. The condition affects both sides (right and left leg). On most occasions, the other leg is worse. This can result that the dog starts encumbering the other leg and the healthier leg becomes more strained. Sometimes the symptoms are so mild or there are no symptoms which can make it hard to detect that there is something wrong with that dog.

Cause
The ultimate cause for these conditions is unknown, but the most commonly cited cause factors are rapid growth, heredity, trauma (or overuse), anatomic conformation, and dietary imbalances; however, only anatomic conformation and heredity are well supported by scientific literature. The way that the disease is initiated has been debated. Although failure of chondrocyte differentiation, formation of a fragile cartilage, failure of blood supply to the growth cartilage, and subchondral bone necrosis all have been proposed as the starting point in the pathogenesis, recent literature strongly supports failure of blood supply to growth cartilage as most likely. Osteochondrosis can be usually inherited.

Factors
There are four factors: genetics, environment, diet, and exercise.

Environment is found to be a key factor in osteochondrosis occurring. The environment is related to diet and exercise. If the dog has good facilities to live a healthy life, meaning having a good diet and enough and the right kind of exercise, osteochondrosis may never occur even if there would be genetic susceptibility. Sometimes even if the environmental conditions are optimal there is still a chance that osteochondrosis will occur in the animal.

Dogs are very susceptible to calcium when they are growing up. Too much calcium in a diet can affect how the bone starts ossifying. That's one of the reasons why a correct diet for young growing dogs is important.

Classification
In humans, these conditions may be classified into three groups:

 * 1) Spinal: Scheuermann's disease (of the interspinal joints) which is a curve in the thoracic spine.
 * 2) Articular: Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (or, avascular necrosis of the femoral head in the hip), Köhler's disease (of the tarsal navicular bone of the foot), Freiberg's infraction (of the second or third metatarsal of the foot and less frequently the first or fourth; sometimes called Freiberg's Infraction or Freiberg's disease), Blount's disease (tibia vara), Kienböck's disease (lunate),  Panner's disease (of the capitulum of the elbow). Other entities affecting mostly adults, but sometimes loosely lumped into these conditions include Preiser's disease (scaphoid) and Mueller-Weiss syndrome (tarsal navicular).
 * 3) Non-articular: This group includes Sever's disease (of the calcaneus, or heel), and other conditions not completely characteristic of the osteochondroses, such as Osgood-Schlatter's disease (of the tibial tubercle) and Sinding-Larsen-Johansson syndrome (proximal patellar tendon).

Treatment
There are many different kinds of treatments. One is to remove the loose piece of the leg. Or serving the branch of the lumbar muscle and ulnas attachment.

Most of the time if the osteochondrosis is in the shoulder joint, the veterinarian diagnoses it from X-rays or CT scans. Some studies show that osteochondrosis is more common in male dogs than in female dogs.

Prognosis
The term osteochondrosis has been used to describe a wide range of lesions among different species. There are different types of the prognosis: latens, which is a lesion restricted to epiphyseal cartilage, manifesta, a lesion paired with a delay in endochondral ossification, and dissecans which is a cleft formation in the articular cartilage. The prognosis for these conditions is very variable, and depends both on the anatomic site and on the time at which it is detected. In some cases of osteochondrosis, such as Sever's disease and Freiberg's infraction, the involved bone may heal in a relatively normal shape and leave the patient asymptomatic. On the contrary, Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease frequently results in a deformed femoral head that leads to arthritis and the need for joint replacement.

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Empress Chung

Empress Chung is a 2005 animated feature film, produced in North and South Korea and directed by Nelson Shin, on whose story the screenplay is also based.

Synopsis
In this adventure, based on a famous Korean folk tale, a daughter sacrifices herself to restore her blind father's eyesight.

Production
As a personal project, Shin spent eight years getting the project off the ground, including three and a half years of pre-production. The film was co-produced in North Korea by the Chosun April 26th Children Film Studio (also known as SEK), and the score was also recorded in the North by the Pyongyang Film and Broadcasting Orchestra. In a move unusual for the Korean film industry, the character voices were recorded in both the South and the North due to differences in dialect. For the definitive international release version, the South Korean dub is the one used.

Release
On August 12, 2005, Empress Chung became the first film to have been released simultaneously in both North and South Korea. The film was featured at the 2004 Annecy International Animation Festival, and was also recognized with several awards in Korea.

The film grossed US$140,000 on its opening weekend against a US$6.5 million budget, continuing a trend of under-performing animated features made for the Korean market.

Disappearance
Since the initial release, aside from few screenings across Europe, the film did not get an international theatrical release or home media release. Nowadays, the only things related to the film that are online is the trailer, sound test animation, some screenshots and a collection of children's books.

There has also been evidence suggesting despite not being released on DVD internationally or in South Korea, that it was released in North Korea because Johannes Schönherr has mentioned Empress Chung when talking about his latest North Korean DVD acquiring, however without more evidence it can neither be confirmed or disconfirmed whether North Korean DVD release is real.

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Chakrapani (filmmaker)

Chakrapani (born Aluri Venkata Subbarao; 5 August 1908 – 24 September 1975) was an Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He won two Filmfare Awards for Telugu films. He was also notable for his association with Vijaya Vauhini Studios, one of the largest studios in Asia at that time. Chakrapani was also a partner of Vijaya Productions along with B. Nagi Reddy and founder of Chandamama children magazine.

Early life
Chakrapani was born in Ithanagar village near Tenali, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, in a middle class agricultural family.

He learnt Hindi under the tutelage of the well-known author Vraj Nandan Sharma. Later, he taught himself Tamil, Sanskrit, and English and soon mastered all three languages.

Bengali literature
Chakrapani contracted tuberculosis in 1932 and had to stay at Madanapalle sanatorium for medical treatment. He learned Bengali during that time from another inmate recuperating from the illness. Initially, he started translating novels from Bengali to Telugu like Devdas as Devadasu (1933), Bada Didi. His translations of the novels of Sharat Chandra Chatterji became so popular in Telugu, the readers would not believe that the originals were written in Bengali language.

Film career
He was closely associated with Nagi Reddy, together they formed the Vijaya Vauhini duo. With his creative mind, he started writing short stories and novels in Telugu. He scripted the film Dharmapatni in 1940 for 'Famous Films', Mumbai. Well-known Telugu film producer B. N. Reddy invited him to Chennai to write the script for Swarga Seema. At this time, he came in contact with Nagi Reddy, became a partner and made movies under Vijaya-Vauhini banner. Together, they made successful movies like Patala Bhairavi, Maya Bazar, Gundamma Katha, Missamma, Shavukaru, and Appu Chesi Pappu Koodu that are still popular with Telugu speaking people. Both made 35 films in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia and Hindi languages.

Awards

 * National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada – Maduve Madinodu (1965)
 * Filmfare Best Film Award (Telugu) - Maya Bazaar (1957)
 * Filmfare Best Film Award (Telugu) - Gundamma Katha (1962)

Selected filmography

 * Dharmapatni (Telugu, 1941) (dialogue) (debut)
 * Dharmapatni (Tamil, 1941) (dialogue)
 * Swargaseema (1945) (dialogue) (story)
 * Shavukaru (1950) (writer)
 * Pelli Chesi Choodu (1952) (writer)
 * Chandraharam (1954) (writer)
 * Guna Sundari (1955) (Producer)
 * Missamma (1955) (writer)
 * Missiamma (1955) (writer)
 * Appu Chesi Pappu Koodu (1958) (adaptation)
 * Rechukka Pagatichukka (1959) (screen adaptation)
 * Gundamma Katha (1962) (story)
 * Manithan Maravillai (1962) (screen adaptation)
 * Julie (1975) (screen adaptation)
 * Sri Rajeswari Vilas Coffee Club (1976) (writer)
 * Swayamvar (1980) (story)

Producer

 * Sri Rajeswari Vilas Coffee Club (1976)
 * Julie (1975) (Nagi Reddi-Chakrapani)
 * Ganga Manga (1973)
 * Ram Aur Shyam (1967)
 * Maduve Madi Nodu (Kannada) (1965)(Nagi Reddi-Chakrapani)
 * Gundamma Katha (1962)
 * Manithan Maravillai (1962)
 * Appu Chesi Pappu Koodu (1958)
 * Maya Bazaar (1957)
 * Missamma (1955)
 * Chandraharam (1954)
 * Pelli Chesi Choodu (1952)
 * Patala Bhairavi (1951)
 * Shavukaru (1950)

Director

 * Sri Rajeswari Vilas Coffee Club (1976)
 * Manithan Maravillai (1962)

Chandamama
Both Nagireddy and Aluri came up with the idea of a story book for kids and children, and thus Chandamama was born. The first edition of Chandamama was released in July, 1947. They made Chandamama popular not only in Telugu language but in ten other Indian languages. He started in 1934 the monthly publication of Yuva magazine from Chennai which was later shifted to Hyderabad. Well-known writer Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao was a partner in this venture. Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao, a very close friend of aluri and a literary colossus in Telugu Literature, edited it for 28 years, till his death in August 1980.

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Samuel Sharp

Samuel or Sammy Sharp may refer to:

 * Samuel Sharp (surgeon) (1700?–1778), British surgeon and author, of Jamaican birth
 * Samuel Sharp (geologist) (1814–1882), English geologist
 * Sammy Sharp, 1920s footballer who played for Manchester City
 * Sam Sharp, 1973 co-founder of Loaf 'N Jug convenience stores

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Talk:State highways in California/Archive 1

''This page is an archive of discussions. Please do not modify it. If you wish to discuss these matters then please make a new section on the main talk page.''

Generally
Articles on numbered California state roads already exist under several articles entitled "California State Route n." -- knoodelhed 09:53, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

California many years ago adopted a road numbering policy for state-responsible highways, that (generally) allows for only one continuous road to have a given number - be it an interstate, a U.S. highway, or a California state route. An interstate and an SR can share a number (as with the 15 or the 110), as can a U.S. highway and an SR. An SR can inherit the number of a former U.S. highway it replaces (as with the 99 or the 66). This simplifies maintenance reporting procedures, allowing for example a caller to 800-427-road to get road safety information simply by inputting the number of the highway. -- knoodelhed 00:01, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * It would be helpful to have a clear summary of this incorporated into the introduction of this article. It certainly cause me some confusion in trying to understand why a CA-SR had been in the article for Interstate 110. See Talk:California State Route 110 for the gory details of my groping about in the dark. Of course, I only looked at the 110 section below--if I had read knoodelhed's paragraph above it would have saved me figuring it out on my own. I'll take a shot at adding it to the intro. older ≠ wiser 13:58, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

110
Does anyone know if Interstate 110 the same as California State Highway 110? jengod 07:19, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * It should be, or one would be an extension of the other. IIRC the portion departing northward from San Pedro is an interstate (and many years ago was designated CA-11), and if there is a CA-110 it would be a minor northern portion, much as CA-15 in San Diego ends where I-15 begins. -- knoodelhed 09:53, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, I happen to know. Interstate 110 is not the same as California State Highway 110.  They connect at the four level interchange just northeast of downtown Los Angeles, but were built at different times and from different governmental funds.

 * CA SR 110, originally opened in 1940 as the Arroyo Seco Parkway and ran from Pasadena to just shy of downtown Los Angeles (currently ending at the four level interchange). It was built from local funding. I - 110, on the other hand, is nowadays a federally designated Interstate (intersecting with Interstate 10) and runs from the four level interchange to the Harbor district in San Pedro.  It was fully completed in 1970, though the downtown LA portion was done by the mid - 1950s.

 * This same question could be asked about I-15/ CA-15, I-210/ CA-210, I-710/ CA-710, and I-238/ CA-238. --Rschen7754 04:54, May 3, 2005 (UTC)

Current CA SR 110/Pasadena Freeway

 * 1940: no route number/Arroyo Seco Parkway
 * 1966: U.S. Route 66/Pasadena Freeway
 * circa. 1970: CA SR 11/Pasadena Freeway
 * 1984: CA SR 110/Pasadena Freeway (number changed for number continuity to motorists when the Harbor Freeway won Interstate designation)

The Pasadena Freeway (CA SR 110) has been the 110 since 1984. It was CA SR 11, and the Long Beach Freeway (currently I-710) was CA SR 71. As far as I know, their numbers were changed when the Long Beach Freeway (now I-710) and the Harbor Freeway (now I-110) became part of the federal interstate system. The zero was added to the numbers because they are seen as branches of I-10 (the San Bernadino Freeway and the Santa Monica Freeway). These numbers were changed in 1984--NOT IN THE YEAR 2000. Just check your old Thomas Guides if you don't believe me.

These number changes unfortunately confused the numbering system of Los Angeles-area freeways; except for the 105 (completed in 1993), the 110, and the 710, the rest of the freeways follow a fairly consistent pattern: Even numbered freeways run east-west, and odd-numbered freeways run north-south. When they were still the 11 and the 71, this numbering system remained consistent. But because of federal interstate-highway rules, the local logic has been sacrificed to beauracratic inconsistency.

Another example of how inane the federal interstate-highway system is I-405. In Los Angeles, the 405 is known as the San Diego Freeway from its beginning in the San Fernando Valley until its termination into I-5 in Orange County (at which point the 5 becomes the San Diego Freeway). The next instance of I-405 is almost a thousand miles north in Portland, Oregon, where I-405 is a very short freeway that branches off of I-5. So the same interstate stops and then starts again--hundreds of miles away and in a different state.

Current I - 110/Harbor Freeway

 * 1952: unknown route number/Harbor Freeway
 * circa. 1970: CA SR 11/Harbor Freeway
 * 1984: I - 110/Harbor Freeway

As you can see, from after 1963, when California signed into law a bill simplifying route numbers in the state (Interstate, US, and CA routes), the route and highway shield of these two freeways were the same from for certain 1970 to circa. 2000: California SR 11. Because California State government was finally able to get U. S. federal dollars to maintain the Harbor Freeway portion, that portion had its highway shield and number change to conform with federal statutes - Interstate 110. (No more green and white shovel logo, now the red, white and blue Interstate logo) This caused the Pasadena Freeway portion of CA SR 11 to become CA SR "110" - to preserve the number continuity as an overall route.

In the Southern California area, they are still known by their directional word names: Pasadena Freeway and Harbor Freeway. Not the same name. Not built at the same time. But for the benefit of nonlocals - tourists and new residents - since around at least 1970 they have shared the same "number" designation only. Don't let the same number on (currently) different shields fool you into thinking they are one freeway. They aren't regarded as such. They are, though, two parts of the same overall route - a different thing altogether. Hope this sheds some light and perspective from a CalTrans point of view.

And yes, I've added this information and the distinction between particular named freeways - while acknowledging overall routes - to the "Interstate 110" article. My intent is to be useful, and use words with due care and precision. 209.221.223.140 20:27, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC) avnative

Maps
Does anyone know how to include a map of a highway in the article? Without violating copyright, of course. Looking at most of these, I don't see any maps, yet an article on a highway just cries out for a map. --Yath 11:30, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Proposal: titles only
This is a proposal to include only the title with each highway's article link. The descriptions, while small, are simply too much information to put on this page.

For example, this:

 * California State Highway 49 - The Gold Country Highway in the Sierra Nevada that passes through such historic gold mining communities as Sonora, San Andreas, Placerville, and Nevada City.

Should be changed to this:

 * California State Highway 49 - Gold Country Highway

I'm not saying every single entry should be changed, but most of them. --Yath 18:32, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I wrote a majority of the descriptions, but please feel free to change them. Keep in mind that a number of highways don't really have a title. Zzyzx11 23:55, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't understamnd the reason for the proposal. Too much information? Is that a problem? Maybe a second article would be appropriate if someone wants to see a mere list of numbers and titles. I think that the additional descriptions add information which isn't readily available elsewhere. I vote to keep the article as it is. Cheers -Willmcw 05:20, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

 * I think the one-line descriptions are extremely useful, and I suggest keeping them. This way a reader has some idea of the location and significance of a highway without having to read each individual article.  IMHO there aren't enough such annotated lists on Wikipedia. Antandrus 05:27, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

What to do with the very short state highways?
What should be done with some of the very short state highways? When writing an ariticle on CA-61 (Which is rather short itself), I saw that one terminus was with a CA-260, and another was with a CA-112. CA-260 is only a few blocks long and runs through the tunnels between Alameda and Oakland and CA-112 runs along one street in Oakland and San Leandro. They seem too short to deserve an entire article to themselves, but there isn't a list of them anywhere or anything like that. Octoferret 05:09, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * CA-112 and CA-260 are "hidden" -- they may be listed on maps and in the legislative code, but in real practice, the roads are both signed as part of CA-61. . Zzyzx11 09:43, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I just added CA-112 and CA-260 into the CA-61 article. Unsigned routes like those should be merge and redirect. As for other short routes, I guess it will depend on the situation. Zzyzx11 10:30, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Here's what I believe:
 * (1) Legislative routes that are signed as others (Routes 260 and 112 signed as Route 61; Route 164 signed as Route 19) should merge and redirect towards the signing route (Route 61 and Route 19, respectively).
 * (2) We should be mindful of routes that are constructed (that is, the route is assigned to a  traversable, state-maintained roadway) but are not signed at all.  If they are spurs of relatively longer routes, they should merge and redirect to the route it spun off from.  (Examples:  Routes 114 and 109, spinoffs of Route 84.)
 * (3) Routes that are unconstructed in their entirety and are nowhere else signed should either (a) have a brief mention on the List of California State Routes and nothing else or (b) placed in a new article serving as a collection of information describing these routes.
 * (4) Deleted routes that have never again shown up (e.g. Route 176, Route 206) are iffy.  Perhaps these should also be part of a single article describing deleted routes.
 * (5) The following routes should have their own articles:  (a) constructed but partially signed routes, (b) partly constructed routes (e.g. Route 65), (c) Any entirely unconstructed, deleted, or unsigned routes with significant and sufficient information (such as histories or points of interest) warranting an article.  Bennyp81, 17 Apr 2005

Terminal Island Freeway?
My Thomas Guide (©1997) show the Terminal Island Freeway as Route 103. Why isn't it in this list? (And as for the red-linked route article, why not create it as a redirect to the Terminal Island Freeway article?) Blank Verse  ∅  08:50, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * many, many routes are missing from this list. I've includded a new section under in which to put missing routes.  Please put a descirption of the rout in as well so i when i re-do the lists it will make my job easier! ^^  Thanks --atanamir 12:20, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

MISSING ROUTES FROM THELIST
--atanamir 22:58, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * SR 109 - description here
 * SR 242 - description here
 * SR 31 - description here
 * SR 71 - description here
 * SR 77 - description here
 * SR 83 - description here
 * SR 109 - description here
 * SR 142 - description here
 * SR 164 - description here
 * SR 184 - description here
 * SR 185 - description here
 * SR 202 - description here
 * SR 242 - description here
 * SR 244 - description here
 * SR 249 - description here
 * SR 263 - description here
 * SR 210 - description here
 * UPDATE - all routes, former and current, are now included in the list. Do you think we should keep the former ones in the list? --atanamir 03:43, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Retired US Routes
Shouldn't retired US routes go on the Deleted CA routes page? --Rschen7754 03:00, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Interstates and US Highways?
Someone has done a lot of work on the US Highways and Interstate routes on this page, but I'm not sure its appropriate for this location. This is supposed to be a page about state routes. Perhaps this data can be moved to another page? --ChrisRuvolo (t) 06:40, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * In california, caltrans considers all numbered routes to be state routes regardless of interstate and U.S. Hgihway funding status. Hence, they've been included onto this page.  I've noticed you've been taking off the other states' US Highway and Interstate listings as well. I won't go revert them because i don't know if the DOTs of the respective states differentiates between the US/Intrestate/State routes; but for california, they're all "state routes". atanamir 09:07, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Interesting, I didn't know that California didn't have that distinction. I've been removing the US Highways from pages that list "state highways" or "state routes".  I havn't been removing them from pages that list "numbered highways" because that doesn't make a distinction between the source of the highway route/funding/maintenance.  If you think these changes are widely inappropriate, feel free to revert them, but then I think the page title should be changed.  Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 18:37, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Deleted/ unconstructed CASRs
Because we have the unconstructed CASRs in a separate article, should we delete them from this article? It is unlikely that an article will be started for each individual route until the route is constructed. --Rschen7754 04:02, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)


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I agree,i've got South of 1-10 and the one he did with Mark Knopfler.--220.227.48.17 13:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

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Kelly Lamrock

Kelly Lamrock (born February 5, 1970) is a lawyer and political consultant in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. He was previously a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for Fredericton-Fort Nashwaak, and Minister of Social Development in the New Brunswick cabinet before opening Lamrock's Law in Fredericton.

Before politics
Kelly Lamrock was born in Saskatchewan on February 5, 1970. He moved with his family to British Columbia and lived there until his family relocated permanently to Fredericton, New Brunswick when he was eight years old. As a child Lamrock attended Garden Creek Elementary School and Albert Street Middle School. As a teenager he attended Fredericton High School. While there he competed in the World High School Public Speaking Championship, where he placed second, and was the winner of several national debating competitions.

He attended St. Thomas University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts, and the University of New Brunswick, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws. He was president of the student unions at both institutions, the first and so far the only student to have occupied both posts. He was also involved in national student politics; he served as president of the Canadian Federation of Students and then was a leader in the split within that organization that led to the creation of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA). He was the founding president of the New Brunswick Student Alliance, a provincial wing of CASA, during which time he authored "Open Doors, Open Minds" and "No More Smoke and Mirrors", two reports which led to his appearing before committees of the House of Commons of Canada and Senate of Canada, and led to a tuition freeze in New Brunswick.

Following graduation from university, Lamrock briefly ran his own law practice before becoming the Director of Policy and Communications for the New Brunswick Healthcare Association in 1998. In 1998 Kelly married Karen Lee, whom he met in university. The two were married at the Wilmot United Church in downtown Fredericton. In 2001, he became Director of Student Affairs at St. Thomas University.

Political career
Though he had often been associated with the New Brunswick New Democratic Party and helped write that party's platform for the 1999 provincial election, he soon became active in the New Brunswick Liberal Party. Lamrock chaired the party's policy renewal process in 2001 and was nominated as candidate for Fredericton-Fort Nashwaak under the Liberal banner in 2002.

He was elected to the Legislature in the 2003 election and joined the shadow cabinet as co-critic for Education and critic for Post-Secondary Education. In November, following the resignation of veteran Liberal legislator Bernard Richard, Lamrock was given the high-profile role of Opposition House Leader.

Throughout the remainder of the legislative session, Lamrock became one of the most high-profile members of the Liberal caucus and carried several high-profile critic portfolios in addition to his House Leader duties. In 2006, he delivered the opposition reply to the budget due to the absence of the finance critic for a family emergency.

Lamrock was re-elected in a largely redistributed district, though still named Fredericton-Fort Nashwaak, in the 2006 election. Following the election he was named to the cabinet as Minister of Education and was also given responsibilities for the Advisory Council on Youth and the Provincial Capital Commission.

In June 2009, Premier Graham shuffled his cabinet, moving Lamrock to the Social Development portfolio. In January 2010, Lamrock was named Attorney General of New Brunswick.

On September 27, 2010, Lamrock was defeated in the 2010 New Brunswick Provincial election, losing his seat to Progressive Conservative candidate Pam Lynch.

MLA for Fredericton-Fort Nashwaak
During the 2006 provincial election Kelly made a number of campaign promises to the constituents of Fredericton - Fort Nashwaak. Many of these promises related to issues that had been largely ignored by both Conservative and Liberal governments for years and, in some cases, decades.

The Marysville Bypass
The construction of a bypass system that would direct traffic around the community of Marysville had been a major issue of contention for nearly 30 years.

The bypass issue first emerged decades ago as the federal government began removing railway corridors that connected Fredericton and southwestern New Brunswick with central and northern regions of the province. In the absence of rail connections, automobile traffic increased along New Brunswick Route 8; much of that increase was transport trucks. Speed limits along Route 8 decrease quickly as the highway runs through the community of Marysville, serving as its Main Street. Many motorists and truckers do not adjust their speed limits and this has led to a number of serious accidents which compromised the safety of local residents.

Over the years, members of the community had organized to place pressure on the provincial government to build a bypass that would merge Route 8 with the old Trans-Canada highway alignment thereby redirecting traffic around the community and not through it. Despite community pressure on both Conservative and Liberal governments the Marysville bypass issue continued to be put on the back burner.

During the 2006 election campaign, Lamrock promised his constituents that the long sought after Marysville bypass would be constructed if he were elected to a Liberal government under Shawn Graham. On July 23, 2008, the first bucketful of soil was turned by an excavator, marking the beginning of the construction project and the end of the community's long fight to have it constructed.

The Marysville bypass project is funded through a federal-provincial partnership and enjoyed the support of all MLAs (Liberal and Conservative) whose ridings share Route 8 to northern New Brunswick. The entire project, which is part of a much larger infrastructure improvement project in New Brunswick, was slated to be completed by 2015.

Fredericton Community College
During his time in Opposition Lamrock took up the fight for the construction of a new community college in Fredericton. Once in power he continued to lobby his own government to construct a new campus to support the city's local tradespeople. Ultimately he was successful in his campaign to see the project realized, as Minister of Finance Greg Byrne announced in the 2009 budget released December 1 that construction would begin in January 2010 on a new community college campus in the city. "The $15-million facility, to be located on the University of New Brunswick campus, will cover 4,840 square metres (52,115 square feet) and accommodate programs in health, business administration, information technology, engineering technology and social services."

Cliffe Street Ramp
When constructed in 1981, the Westmorland Street bridge was built without a ramp on to Devonshire Drive. The "missing ramp", as it became known locally, remained a local irritant for citizens and the municipal government for years as it had been promised but continuously put off. In the 2006 campaign Lamrock campaigned on a promise to get the Cliffe Street ramp constructed. In March 2007 the Graham government announced funding for the project.

The project is now completed and includes an off-ramp onto Devonshire Drive that connects to Cliffe Street and Union Street. Major upgrades were made to the intersections at Cliffe Street and Union Street as well as to the intersection at Union Street and St. Mary's Street. St. Mary's Street has been made a provincially designated truck route, in an effort to minimize truck traffic in nearby residential neighbourhoods west of St. Mary's Street and along Main Street.

Investments in North Side recreation facilities
In 2007 Lamrock announced funding had been approved for the construction of playgrounds in Pepper Creek and Noonan. These communities have seen significant growth, particularly among young families. These two communities had originally asked the provincial government for playgrounds in 1999, but the Bernard Lord government did not move forward on the projects.

The Willie O'Ree hockey rink has been open since 2008, and the Royals Field has been refurbished as well.

Princess Margaret Bridge repairs
Lamrock successfully lobbied his government and Minister of Transportation Denis Landry for repairs to the Princess Margaret Bridge. The project began in 2009 after a 10 kilogram piece of concrete fell from the structure onto the roadway beneath. On January 12, 2010, the Department of Transportation announced that $30 million would be spent on upgrading and repairing the 52-year-old iconic structure in 2010-2011.

Minister of Education
Lamrock was named Minister of Education by Premier Shawn Graham in October 2006 after winning the Provincial General Election on September 27, 2006. He served as Minister of Education until Premier Graham's first major cabinet shuffle in June 2009. As Minister of Education, Lamrock instituted a number of policies aimed at re-orienting New Brunswick's educational system towards the realities of the globalized information economy.

"When Kids Come First"
"When Kids Come First" was Lamrock's five-year plan to accomplish what he saw as the necessary challenges facing the New Brunswick education system. Lamrock's vision was adopted by the Graham government as an integral part of the Liberal government's self-sufficiency agenda. "When Kids Come First" laid out three primary objectives:

 * 1) Every child will arrive at kindergarten ready to learn.
 * 2) Every child will leave Grade 5 having mastered the tools to learn - reading, writing and numeracy.
 * 3) Every child will graduate from high school having had the opportunity to discover his or her personal strengths and to find something he or she loves doing.

Behind these objectives was an implicit logic that recognized that the world continues to become smaller, and that while globalization was a fuzzy concept a decade ago, today certain aspects of it are solidifying into a new global reality. Lamrock explained the logic behind this plan in his introductory message:

"'In the future, companies will be able to move quickly to where the best trained employees are. If our kids don't read, write or do math well enough to learn new skills in a world of constant change, the jobs will move somewhere else - somewhere that did a better job of teaching them."

"One of the skills most in demand will be the ability to solve problems. Following instructions will be work done in low wage economies, or by machines. The people who control their economic future will be the kids who went through school solving problems and challenging themselves, not just following orders'."

"When Kids Come First" recognized that the educational system in New Brunswick was built on a pedagogical structure that was being challenged by the realities and demands of a globalized economy. Without question Lamrock's plan created some controversy as he began to implement his vision.

Literacy rates
Lamrock inherited an educational system that faced some of the most daunting challenges in the nation. In 2000, out of the 10 Canadian provinces, New Brunswick had the lowest literacy rates with only marginal improvement between 2000 and 2006 when Lamrock became Minister of Education.

As Minister of Education Lamrock oversaw an increase in per-student spending from $6,740 as of the 2005-2006 school year to $8,573 during the 2008-2009 school year. Increasing funding per student surpassed its desired results in 2009 when the Department of Education announced that 20% of Grade Two students could read at an exceptional level and 90% of students could read at an appropriate level for their age group. Overall between Anglophones and Francophones, student literacy rates in New Brunswick had increased by 11% since he had taken office in 2006.

In September 2009, Minister of Education Roland Hache recognized the accomplishments made by Lamrock during his time as education minister, stating, "the education system has undergone some very significant, yet very necessary, changes in the past few years. The knowledge and skills that students need to succeed in the workforce of tomorrow are very different from previous generations. It was essential that the education system be adapted to ensure that today's students have the tools they need."

Innovative Learning Fund
In addition to increased investment in students Lamrock's vision also called for an investment in teachers. The Innovative Learning Fund was established to "encourage, facilitate, recognize and reward innovative and creative instructional approaches that will increase student learning and academic performance, and enhance teaching practices." Under this program teachers, schools and school boards could apply for grants to fund projects aimed at creating innovative curriculum and teaching models.

To date the Innovative Learning Fund has distributed six million dollars to 612 projects in the Anglophone sector and just under six million dollars to 584 projects in the Francophone sector.

French immersion
On March 14, 2008, Lamrock announced the elimination of all public school French Second Language training prior to Grade 5 in New Brunswick, including the popular Early French Immersion program which started in Grade 1. Instead all students would have five months of "intensive" French in Grade 5, and there would be an optional Late French Immersion program starting in Grade 6. The logic behind the legislation was to allow Anglophone students to learn the basics of reading, spelling, and arithmetic in their mother tongue before introducing the French language into their studies. A number of studies argued that Early French Immersion hindered the ability of many Anglophone youth to grasp the elemental building blocks of their education as they had to learn a new language while simultaneously learning the basics of math and grammar. It also put non-bilingual parents at a disadvantage as they were often unable to assist their children with their homework. Introducing French Immersion in Grade 6 would allow Anglophone children the ability to grasp the necessary fundamentals of education while still providing enough time to become functionally bilingual by graduation. Despite the best of intentions public reaction was highly critical of the move, and groups called for Lamrock's resignation over the matter.

On June 11, 2008, Justice Hugh McLellan of the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick overturned Lamrock's decision of March 14, calling it unfair and unreasonable because he had not allowed enough time for debate before making his decision. In response, Lamrock announced a new consultation with a deadline of July 25, 2008, and stated that he would make a final decision on August 5. Electronic submissions to this new consultation were posted on the Government of New Brunswick's website.

On June 18, 2008, former leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party, Bernard Richard, who now held the position of provincial Ombudsman and Child and Youth Advocate, spoke out against Lamrock's plan. In his Report of the Ombudsman into the Minister of Education’s decision to modify the French Second Language Curriculum, Richard recommended that the government defer the consultation announced by Lamrock and delay implementation of the elimination of early French immersion until September 2009, citing:

 * Unfairness stemming from a lack of consultation
 * Unfairness due to insufficient notice prior to implementation
 * Decision premised upon a mistake of fact arising from errors in statistical analysis and other factual errors
 * Failure to consider all the evidence before the Commissioners and before the Minister
 * Bias arising from an alleged predetermination of the consultation outcomes
 * Determination of FSL policy on the basis of irrelevant grounds or considerations, or for an improper purpose
 * Failure to consider commitments of citizen engagement in the government response to the Commission on Legislative Democracy

On August 5, 2008, Lamrock and Premier Shawn Graham announced a revised plan for French Second Language Education, subsequent to the public consultation. In this new plan early immersion had been cut and middle immersion would be offered in Grade 3 as of 2010, following an introduction to French language and culture for all students starting in kindergarten, to be implemented in 2009. Students who were not in the immersion program would begin intensive French in Grade 5 as of September 2008, and a greater variety of options were planned for the higher grades.

In September 2009, Education Minister Roland Hache released statistics which were claimed to validate the reforms undertaken by Lamrock and Premier Shawn Graham. "Last year's reforms [2008] to French second-language programming have also had positive results, with 58% of Grade 5 Intensive French students now hitting the provincial target, as compared to only 2% under the previous Core French program." However, the education reforms had also resulted in a drop of 6 percentage points in Grade 5 math scores as well as declines in French Immersion reading and writing scores.

Minister of Social Development
In June 2009 Lamrock was moved to the Social Development portfolio in a cabinet shuffle.

Poverty reduction
As Minister of Social Development, Lamrock inherited a public engagement initiative, launched by Premier Shawn Graham, tasked with the job of studying poverty in New Brunswick and recommending measures to combat it.

The government engaged the public through a number of public forums held throughout the province between October 2008 and March 2009. The forums were organized to bring together government officials, business leaders, non-profit organizations, and individuals living in poverty to discuss what poverty means, what causes it, and what can be done to reduce it.

The public forums painted a very clear picture of the state of poverty in New Brunswick. While a number of themes emerged, the single most consistent opinion communicated was that the social assistance system, as it was constructed, further exacerbated poverty in the province. Rather than assisting people to regain their self-reliance, social assistance trapped people in poverty.

On October 7, 2009, in a speech to a group of Saint John business leaders, Lamrock openly challenged his own government, proposing to reform the social assistance program and raise rates that had been frozen in the Spring. Lamrock argued, "We can't ask people to live on less than $300.00 a month and wonder why they don't focus on work. It's because they focus on surviving... And I want to be really clear on this one, if we want people to be self-reliant, we can't have a myriad of complex rules that make people feel if they take one wrong step, they lose their cheques."

Lamrock's comments signaled a significant shift in the way the Department of Social Development would be run under his watch. He criticized the social assistance system, stating that its programs had functioned exclusively to "save money, not to help the poor. A new mandate comes down from Finance and we figure out which are the least vulnerable people who can be squeezed off the system... that's what's driven social assistance reform for 20 years and it has to stop."

On November 12 and 13, 2009, the final forum of the task force was held in Saint John. The participants agreed to the first poverty reduction strategy in New Brunswick in the report "Overcoming Poverty Together: The New Brunswick Economic and Social Inclusion Plan".

Among its recommendations the Poverty Reduction Plan suggested that three reforms needed to take place immediately:

 * 1) The elimination of the interim social assistance rate program (single employable people)
 * 2) Extend health card for persons exiting social assistance for up to 3 years until prescription drug program is introduced
 * 3) The household income policy will only be applied to social assistance recipients who are in spousal relationships (making it permissible for people on social assistance to have a roommate)

The Poverty Reduction Plan has been well received by groups who advocate on behalf of New Brunswick's poor. Brian Duplessis, the Executive Director of Fredericton Homeless Shelters, was encouraged by the steps Lamrock has taken, but argued that more needed to be done to address issues of deep poverty in New Brunswick.

Brian Duplessis; Brenda Murphy, coordinator for the Urban Core Support Network in Saint John; and Wendy McDermott, coordinator of Vibrant Communities Saint John, all agreed that while there is much work to be done, the steps undertaken by Lamrock were reforms that anti-poverty advocates have been lobbying the province to make for years.

Premier Shawn Graham stated, "What has been agreed is exceptional, and it will put us on the right path to achieving our poverty-reduction goals and helping thousands of New Brunswickers be more self-sufficient."

Extending health card benefits
On December 9, 2009, Lamrock announced the extension of the health card benefits up to three years for those exiting social assistance and entering the workforce. This extension was proposed by the poverty reduction task force as an interim solution to provide health and dental benefits until the province completed its prescription drug plan set to begin in April 2012. Extending health card benefits recognizes that many people on social assistance enter the workforce in minimum wage jobs that do not offer health and dental benefits.

Disability supplement reforms
On January 13, 2010, Lamrock rose in the New Brunswick Legislature to announce that reforms had been made to the provincial disability supplement program to ensure that those who exceeded the income threshold would not lose this vital supplement. Effective January 1, 2010, the disability supplement would eliminate income cutoffs and replace them with a declining scale system so that if a person was $6 over the threshold, he would not lose the entire supplement of $1000, but rather the supplement would decrease by $6 and the person would receive $994.

Increasing social assistance rates
On January 18, 2010, Lamrock rose in the New Brunswick Legislature to announce that reforms had also been made to the social assistance rates, increasing them by 82%. The rates which were under $300 had been increased to $536.

Eliminating the economic unit policy
On February 18, 2010, Lamrock rose in the New Brunswick Legislature to announce that the economic unit policy which prevented those receiving social assistance from having a roommate had been eliminated. All New Brunswickers receiving social assistance prior to January 1, 2010, would immediately benefit from this program. By June 30, 2011, the program would be extended to all recipients of social assistance who began receiving benefits after the January 1, 2010, cut off date.

Lamrock explained why the program was being rolled out in this way in the Legislature on February 18, 2010:

"I want to inform the House of the three steps that will be taken to change this policy forever. In the covenant for poverty reduction, there was an agreement that the government would excuse all those on social assistance today from the economic unit policy, except for spouses, who have an obligation to look after each other. That means that all those who are social assistance clients as of January 1 can now—and in the future—take on roommates or move in with a brother. A parent can move in with their adult child who can help look after them in tough times. That can happen. When we looked at it, we also decided that was not enough. We want to make sure that we are cementing this policy once and for all.

"Second, I want to let the House know that the department has begun the delicate work of redrafting the policy altogether. Certainly, no one in this House wants to see an 18-year-old be able to graduate from high school and go on social assistance while living with their parents. No one wants to excuse spouses from their obligation to look after each other for richer or for poorer. While being consistent with the charter and not discriminating, we want to make absolutely sure that we draft a policy that makes sense. We have committed, and we have ordered the department today, that that work is to be done by June 30, 2011, so that not only are we excusing the clients whom we are excusing today, but we are also going to fix it for everybody."

"Third, we also understand that while that important drafting work is being undertaken, there will be new applicants—those who may fall upon hard times and those who may be looking to share expenses or have a little bit of help. I am also pleased to inform the House that we have allowed the Minister of Social Development to make exemptions for new applicants. We will also set up a committee to advise the minister. It will be made up of the people living in poverty, the front line poverty advocates, and the community leaders who were part of the poverty reduction strategy in the first place. This will allow the minister to help all those who come looking for help, and who do not have anyone who should be expected to look after them, to be exempt from the economic unit policy. I also want to make it clear that the ministerial discretion is there to protect people. I will soon be making public a mandate letter to the committee with the principles that we intend to use.'"

The Opposition offered criticism to Lamrock's actions on the economic unit policy, which is part of a much larger Poverty Reduction Strategy, which the Conservative Party leader David Alward signed and lent his party's support to in Saint John in November 2009.

Attorney General of New Brunswick
On January 4, 2010, Premier Shawn Graham appointed Lamrock Attorney General of New Brunswick after his predecessor, Michael B. Murphy, resigned his seat in the legislature to spend time with his family.

Civil Forfeiture Act
As Attorney General of New Brunswick, Lamrock introduced the Civil Forfeiture Act to the legislature in mid-February 2010. Although this particular legislation had been promised by his predecessor, Lamrock followed through with its introduction.

Lamrock expressed his support for the Civil Forfeiture Act on his website kellylamrock.com.

"'This legislation closes an important loophole. Many drug houses and child pornography operations happen in rental properties with no clear tenant, but where dozens of people have access. We have properties laden with violence at night and discarded needles by morning where there is no reasonable doubt there is a crime. We have computers full of horrible videos of kids being tortured where by the sheer number of people with access, none can be convicted. When an item can be proven to be aiding an ongoing activity, and it can be proven the removal of the item will stop the crime, I think that is acceptable.'"

Kelly continued to explain his support for the legislation by stating,

"'While I am a critic of the fed's 'lock 'em up' approach, I see nothing progressive in leaving families in poor neighbourhoods like Doone Street (a struggling neighbourhood in Devon on Fredericton’s north side) to see crime and violence normalized for their kids when the crime is proven but the individuals are not.'"

Lamrock was quick to point out that this Legislation does not give police in New Brunswick the ability to violate civil liberties:

"'Any legislation, including this one, is subject to Charter scrutiny and the Canadian Charter of Rights trumps the Bill. In other words, protected rights, such as the right against unreasonable search and seizure under Section 8, cannot be subverted.'"

"'More directly the bill does not change the need for warrants, due process, limits on searches or evidentiary admissibility. The Civil Forfeiture Act allows the Crown, if it can prove property was used in the commission of a crime, to seize it. But to seize the property, the Crown still has to prove that in court with a right to legal defence. In proving that the property was used in commission of a crime they still follow the same procedures used in proving an individual committed a crime — no search without a warrant, no unreasonable searches, etc.'"

Acting Minister of Justice and Consumer Affairs
Lamrock was named Acting Minister of Justice and Consumer Affairs by Premier Shawn Graham on February 10, 2010, after the resignation of his predecessor Bernad LeBlanc.

Judicature Act
On February 18, 2010, Lamrock introduced the Judicature Act to the New Brunswick Legislature. The purpose of this act is to amend the Judicature Act which will provide sufficient authority to implement some of the recommendations made by the Family Justice Task Force. The act also creates a Master to divide the labour of the court in order to ensure the appropriate services are provided to those who need them and to help increase access to the Family Justice system.

Insurance Act
On February 24, 2010, Lamrock introduced the Insurance Act to the New Brunswick Legislature for first reading. The act would prevent insurance companies from using credit scores in determining the rates they charge New Brunswickers for home, car, and life insurance.

This legislation puts New Brunswick ahead of the curve on this matter. Currently Alberta and Ontario prevent insurance companies from using individual financial history for automobile insurance; the proposed legislation before the New Brunswick Assembly would go further to prevent financial history from being used for home and life insurance as well.

"If powerful companies can take advantage of consumers then the little guy can get hurt," Lamrock told reporters outside the house. "Government has to maintain the ability to step in and make sure that companies aren't using information that has nothing to do with your risk as a driver or homeowner in order to determine the price of your insurance."

"This will provide us with the ability to stop the practice of jacking up insurance rates based on irrelevant questions," Lamrock, the MLA for Fredericton-Fort Nashwaak said, adding that 40 years ago insurance companies asked race-based questions to identify risk. People's insurance premiums should be determined solely by the risk they pose to the insurer for claims."

Minister responsible for the New Brunswick Provincial Capital Commission
Lamrock was made the minister responsible for the New Brunswick Provincial Capital Commission by Premier Shawn Graham in 2006. The idea for the agency existed only as an idea which originated from a 2003 report commissioned by the previous Conservative government. On March 1, 2007 Lamrock and Premier Graham announced the creation of the non-partisan, arm's-length agency.

The creation of the Provincial Capital Commission also saw the creation of the Capital Region, a geographic space that includes nine electoral districts with its centre being the Legislative Assembly in downtown Fredericton, New Brunswick. The Provincial Capital Commission is responsible for protecting and celebrating the history and cultural diversity of New Brunswick.

I Walked with My Premier and MLA
Since its creation in 2007 the Provincial Capital Commission has begun a number of successful initiatives including "I Walked with My Premier and MLA" in the early fall of 2008 that saw more than 2000 students from across the province travel to Fredericton for a walk around the city with the premier and all the members of the Legislative Assembly.

Capital Encounters
The Capital Encounters program has been a wildly successful initiative that subsidizes travel expenses for schools who visit Fredericton. During the trip students tour the capital city, meet with their local MLA, and when the legislature is in session they sit in the public gallery and are formally introduced in the chamber to the speaker and the other members of the assembly.

Host communities for New Brunswick Day
In 2007 the Provincial Capital Commission instituted a host community for the traditional August 1 civil holiday New Brunswick Day. In 2007 the inaugural host community was the premier's hometown of Rexton, New Brunswick. In 2008 the host community was Shediac, New Brunswick; in 2009 it was McAdam, New Brunswick; and in 2010 Rexton once again played host to the celebrations.

Minister responsible for housing
Lamrock became the minister responsible for Housing in the cabinet shuffle on June 22, 2009. In this capacity he was responsible for issues related to low-income housing and seniors' housing within the province.

2010 election
In the 2010 provincial election, Lamrock lost his seat to Conservative challenger Pam Lynch.

Following the election, Graham resigned as Liberal leader and Lamrock was rumoured as a potential leadership candidate. On February 29, 2012, Lamrock announced through social media and his campaign website that he was entering the leadership race, but on May 17, he released a statement on his official blog announcing that he would not be seeking the leadership.

2013 switch to NDP
In February 2013, Lamrock switched to the NDP, under Dominic Cardy. He ran in the 2014 general election as an NDP candidate but lost to Green Party leader David Coon, coming in fourth place with 19.7% of the vote. Lamrock was appointed acting executive director of the party in 2016.

Post-political career
Lamrock's post-political career has seen him act as legal counsel on a number of high-profile legal cases, representing groups such as parents fighting school closures and massage therapists appealing mass suspensions by their professional associations. He co-founded Mostly The Moment Theatre Company in Fredericton. In 2016 Lamrock worked as a Parliamentary Affairs Consultant to the new elected parliament in Tunisia.

In 2021 the Higgs government appointed Lamrock to the new post of Child and Youth Advocate for New Brunswick.

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