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Cartwright, Manitoba

Cartwright is an unincorporated urban community in the Cartwright – Roblin Municipality within the Canadian province of Manitoba that held village status prior to January 1, 2015. It was originally incorporated as a village on December 31, 1947.

History
Situated along the Badger Creek, the original location of Cartwright (also known as the Badger, or Old Cartwright) was established in 1879 by pioneers following the Boundary Commission Trail. Old Cartwright began on two townsites, one owned by P.C. McKibbin, the other by J.C. Waugh. The two men admired Sir Richard Cartwright and agreed to name their communities "Cartwright."

Waugh's land, being directly on the Boundary Commission Trail, became the area truly considered Cartwright.

In 1885, the location of Cartwright was moved 3.2 kilometres south to its present location to coincide with the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway line through that area. Cartwright's original location was along the Badger Creek and the Boundary Commission Trail and was known as the Badger, about two miles north of where it is today. Cartwright moved to its current location in 1885 with the building of the railway through this area. The community of Cartwright is located at the corner of Highway #5 and Highway #3 in the RM of Roblin, within the Province of Manitoba, in Canada. Ponderosa Days, Cartwright's annual summer celebration, is held on August long weekend.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cartwright had a population of 353 living in 172 of its 188 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 352. With a land area of 1.88 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Industry
Primarily a farming community, Cartwright does include manufacturing industry, including trailer manufacturing, a trailer parts supply company, a small mechanic shop, an Ag and Auto repair shop, a farm supply store, "Ready To Move" or "RTM" house construction, cabinet-makers, and associated supply retailers.

Southern Manitoba Review
The local newspaper, the Review, was started in 1899 by Robert J.C. Stead; in 1904 the paper was renamed The Southern Manitoba Review. In 1908 the paper was taken over by Stead's brothers-in-law, D.J. and Will Wallace and continues to operate in the Wallace family, today.

Places of interest

 * The Clay Banks (buffalo jump), a site about 2,500 years old, used by Sonata and Besant First Nations as a hunting tool. Hunters would stampede American Bison over these cliffs, later carving up the animal carcasses below for use as food, tools, and clothing.
 * Heritage Park Museums, a collection of historic buildings including a shoe repair shop, post office, Manitoba Telephone System building, and a single-room school house. Each building contains a collection of artifacts relating to the building's former use.
 * Blacksmith Museum, a fully restored and working blacksmith's shop. Opened upon request.
 * Badger Creek Crossing Cairn, marking the original site of Old Cartwright.
 * Cartwright Town & Country Golf Club, a 9-hole golf course.
 * Rock Lake Beach, approximately 18 km north of Cartwright, features lots for cabins, fishing, boating and other water recreation.

Notable people

 * Bill Robinson, ice hockey centre
 * Robert J.C. Stead, writer

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This Year's Girl (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"This Year's Girl" is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season of the American supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Written by Doug Petrie and directed by Michael Gershman, it originally aired on The WB on February 22, 2000. In the series, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a Slayer, a teenage girl endowed with superhuman powers to fight evil forces. "This Year's Girl" is the first half of a two-part story arc featuring the return of the rogue Slayer Faith (Eliza Dushku), who Buffy put into a coma in the season three finale. In this episode, Faith wakes up to find that months have passed and the Mayor (Harry Groener) is dead. She then exacts revenge by swapping bodies with Buffy in a cliffhanger ending.

Petrie used various scenes to emphasize Faith's loneliness and resentment of Buffy. Faith's arc is also tied in with characters like Riley Finn (Marc Blucas) and Spike (James Marsters), who are experiencing identity crises of their own. The episode features a series of dreams from Faith's perspective which show her being pursued by a homicidal Buffy. Academic sources have interpreted these dreams as manifestations of Faith's feelings of betrayal and fear, as well as her guilty conscience catching up to her. Faith's dreams also include references to past and future episodes.

"This Year's Girl" was watched by 5.75 million viewers. The episode mostly lays the groundwork for the subsequent "Who Are You?", but critics were still excited to see Faith and the Mayor again, with Vox Constance Grady saying the rogue Slayer's return was a refreshing break from the season's "dull" main narrative. The ending fight between the two Slayers was also praised for its brutal destructiveness.

Background
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American supernatural drama television series created by Joss Whedon that ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003. In the series, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a Slayer, a teenage girl endowed with superhuman powers to fight vampires, demons and other evil forces. With her mother Joyce (Kristine Sutherland), she moves to the fictional town of Sunnydale where she befriends Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon), both of whom help her in the fight against evil. They are guided by Buffy's Watcher, Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head). The group collectively refer to themselves as the Scooby Gang.

In season three, Faith (Eliza Dushku) is introduced as a new Slayer with a rough upbringing. Faith originally joins the Scooby Gang but betrays Buffy to team up with the evil Mayor (Harry Groener). Buffy and Faith fight in the season finale "Graduation Day", which ends with Buffy stabbing Faith and Faith falling into a coma. Season four begins with Buffy and Willow as freshmen at the University of California, Sunnydale. Buffy discovers a covert military organization hidden beneath the campus called the Initiative that captures and performs experiments on vampires and demons. One of their experiments is a monster known as Adam (George Hertzberg) who turns on them and escapes. Buffy also begins dating an Initiative soldier named Riley Finn (Marc Blucas).

Plot
Faith lies unconscious in a hospital bed where she is plagued by bad dreams involving Buffy. She finally awakens from her coma to find that Buffy has killed the Mayor and eight months have passed since the high school's graduation day. Meanwhile, an injured Riley defies his fellow soldiers and leaves the Initiative complex. He is reunited with a relieved Buffy who promises to help him find his purpose beyond the Initiative.

At Giles's house, the Scooby Gang discuss Adam's recent killing spree, unaware that Faith is right outside spying on them. A phone call informs Buffy that Faith is awake and on the loose. The Gang are unsure of how to deal with Faith, but Buffy is hopeful that Faith has had a change of heart since regaining consciousness. The next day, Buffy and Willow are confronted by Faith on campus. Faith blames Buffy for ruining her life and wants revenge. The two Slayers fight briefly before the police arrive and Faith flees. That night, a Watchers' Council retrieval team arrives in Sunnydale to track down Faith.

While wandering around town alone, Faith runs into a demon who gives her a videotape containing the Mayor's farewell message to her. Faith learns the Mayor has left her a magical device that can help her get back at Buffy. She goes to Buffy's house and takes Joyce captive. Buffy comes to her mother's rescue and the Slayers fight. Just as the police arrive, Faith uses the Mayor's gift to swap bodies with Buffy and then knocks Buffy, now in Faith' body, unconscious.

Production and writing
"This Year's Girl" is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season of Buffy, and the seventy-first episode of the series overall. It was written by Doug Petrie and directed by Michael Gershman. The episode originally aired on The WB on February 22, 2000.

"This Year's Girl" is the first half of a two-part story arc featuring the return of the rogue Slayer Faith, followed by "Who Are You?". Faith was Petrie's favorite Buffy character and he loved writing from her perspective. The episode explores Faith's yearning for a family following the death of her father figure, the Mayor, and her resentment towards Buffy for having a loving home. In his DVD commentary, Petrie said the scenes of Faith wandering around Sunnydale were difficult to write because he had to convey Faith's loneliness without any dialogue. He used a shot of a father and young daughter walking past Faith in the streets, as well as Faith's interactions with Buffy's mother, to convey Faith's longing for parental love. Petrie also wrote a fireplace into the scene in which Faith spies on Buffy in Giles's house. Even though it was very troublesome for the production to shoot with real fire, Petrie wanted to create a homely atmosphere in the scene to emphasize Giles and Buffy's father–daughter relationship in contrast to Faith's isolation. Faith's struggle to find her place in the world without the Mayor is tied in with other characters who are also facing identity crises of their own; namely Riley, who is questioning his identity beyond being a soldier, and Spike, who is questioning his identity beyond being evil. The body swap at the end of the episode is revealed to viewers through "Buffys use of Faith's catchphrase "five by five".

Petrie almost titled the episode "Rise and Shine" because he liked the irony of it having such a pleasant sounding name. He eventually went with "This Year's Girl", which, according to Buffy scholar Nikki Stafford, is both a reference to the 1978 Elvis Costello song and the 1994 Pizzicato Five song from their Five by Five EP. After the originally planned shooting had been completed, it was discovered that the episode would be nine minutes too short. It was Whedon's idea to film additional scenes of the Scooby Gang searching for Faith to fill the remaining time. As the two-parter of "This Year's Girl" and "Who Are You?" form a standalone story arc within the fourth season, Petrie added a scene in which the characters discuss Adam and the Initiative to keep the season's main narrative in the viewers' minds. Petrie included homages to other films in the episode; the scene in which the Scooby Gang find a dead demon strung up like a piece of art was inspired by The Silence of the Lambs (1991), while the shot of Faith crawling out of a grave into the pouring rain was inspired by The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

Analysis
"This Year's Girl" features dreams from Faith's perspective for the first time in the series, whereas previous dream sequences were almost always from Buffy's perspective. According to Petrie, Faith dreams about the things she desires such as having a loving father in the form of the Mayor. Her dreams paint her as an innocent girl with Buffy as the villain who shows up to destroy her idyllic life.

Whedon wanted the Slayers to be doing something mundane together and thus Faith's first dream opens with them making the bed in Buffy's room. Critic Donald G. Keller argues this dream is a continuation of a similar dream Buffy had in "Graduation Day Part 2", with both dreams highlighting the Slayers' deep connection amid the same peaceful atmosphere and incidental score. For Keller, the domesticity represents Faith's desire to be a part of Buffy's home life. Faith's feelings of resentment and betrayal manifest as the tranquil dream takes a sudden dark turn; the knife Buffy stabbed Faith with in "Graduation Day Part 1" is still in her gut and a homicidal Buffy plunges it even further in. Faith also mentions a "little sis coming" in the dream, foreshadowing the arrival of Buffy's younger sister Dawn Summers in the fifth season. Much like the homely atmosphere of the first dream, Faith's second dream opens with her and the Mayor having a picnic. Keller found the dream evokes biblical imagery, likening the idyllic park setting to the Garden of Eden. The grass snake the Mayor comes across is a reference to his transformation into a giant snake-like demon in "Graduation Day Part 2". Once again, Buffy interrupts and destroys Faith's paradise by stabbing the Mayor. According to Keller, this scene is both a manifestation of Faith's fear that Buffy will kill the Mayor in the real world and a "message from beyond" that she already has. In the third dream, Buffy chases Faith into an open grave but only Faith emerges into the pouring rain. Keller summed up the use of symbolism in this dream, writing, "In short: thunder signals the imminence of change, lightning the moment of change, and rain the renewal of life. And Faith wakes up."

In their book discussing existentialism in Whedon's works, Michael J. Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb analyzed the episode through the lens of Jean-Paul Sartre's concept of "the Look of the Other", whereby an individual's self-identity is predicated on how others perceive them. They interpret Faith's repeated dreams of being pursued by Buffy as her subconscious attempt to escape Buffy's judgment and the accompanying guilt it brings. When Faith wakes up and the two Slayers meet again, Richardson and Rabb note that Faith's first instinct is to deny being affected by Buffy's judgment, saying, "You're not me." However, they argue, Faith is beginning to acknowledge her guilty conscience in this scene as evidenced by her claim that there is no such thing as an innocent person. Therefore, "Faith must realize at some level that she herself is not innocent, but is in fact guilty of horrendous crimes."

Reception
The original broadcast was watched by 5.75 million viewers, making it the 88th most-watched prime time network television program for the week of February 21 to 27, 2000.

Retrospective critics have noted that "This Year's Girl" is mainly used to set up the plot twist for the next episode. Even then, BBC Cult TV Kim still found the episode really fun and credited the writers with integrating a returning character like Faith into the season so well. The A.V. Club Noel Murray said that by showing the audience Faith's point of view at the start, "This Year's Girl" helps build sympathy for the character in a way that is key for the next episode to resonate. Paste Mark Rabinowitz felt the episode's slow pacing works much better when watched jointly with "Who Are You?", and together, the two-parter is the "gold standard" for body-swapping storylines.

Stafford was excited to see the Mayor again and said Faith's return had been eagerly anticipated by viewers. BBC Cult TV James said the "endearingly evil" Mayor stole the show with just two scenes. He also found Faith's return refreshing after a run of dull Buffy episodes. His colleague Steve thought the Mayor's taped message was a standout and praised Dushku's acting in that scene, writing, "[her] silent reactions were affecting and sympathetic in a role that rarely allows for subtlety". Re-examining the series for its 20th anniversary, Vox Constance Grady also found Faith's return an exciting break from the boring Initiative-focused plot lines. Grady noted "This Year's Girl" is not as much of a triumph as "Who Are You?", but the episode still emphasizes how someone like Faith, who can get under Buffy's skin, makes for a much better antagonist than the impersonal Initiative.

USA Today Robert Bianco gave the episode 3.5 stars out of 4 at the time of its broadcast. While Bianco felt there was occasionally too much going on, he noted that all the storylines were skillfully tied together to lead into the next episode. Another contemporary critic, the New York Daily News' David Bianculli, thought the episode "ups the ante incredibly" on the season's already complicated plot twists, and said the cliffhanger ending was one of the most shocking twists he had seen on television recently. In hindsight, Stafford called the body-swap ending an "inspired" choice, while Keith Topping said this episode is proof that anyone who says the fourth season of Buffy did not reach the high points of previous seasons is wrong.

In their retrospective analyses, WhatCulture's David Hawkins and Rolling Stone Jack Francis both rated the episode highly, ranking it the 6th and 22nd best episode (out of 144) of the series respectively. Francis said the episode continues the show's record of Buffy–Faith fight scenes that are "powerful and full of tension", while Hawkins loved the brutality of the Slayers' ending fight in Buffy's house. The ending fight placed third on Simon Franklin's list of the best Buffy fights for WhatCulture. Franklin emphasized how violent and destructive the fight gets, and called its conclusion "one of the greatest surprises" of the series. Similarly, Alyx Dellamonica of Tor.com deemed the ending fight their "all-time favorite" of the series, saying the tension was heightened by "the familiarity of the setting and the scale of the destruction".

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Talk:Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument

Please clarify effect of reduction
Is the size listed before or after the decision by President Trump to greatly reduce the area? Do the three areas remaining correlate to Grand Staircase, the Kaiparowits Plateau, and the Canyons of the Escalante? Are there any plans to change the names? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.175.220.10 (talk) 14:17, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Controversy section
8-26-2005 Rewrote Controversy section for NPOV. If you object to my rewrite as being too environmentalist-friendly, I would appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with you to write an acceptable NPOV article, rather than getting into an edit-war. Please contact me with proposed changes (if you want). Ratagonia. Ratagonia 05:14, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

OutdoorZen.org
I removed the link http://www.outdoorzen.org/site/beta/escalante/ from the External Links section. Apparently this is controversial, so I would like to open a discussion on the link's appropriateness. I removed the link because:

 * Registration is required to access some content ("Area Guides in PDF").
 * The site seems information-light; I'm not sure what it adds in an encyclopedic sense.
 * In particular, it's linked as "Canyoneering and Hiking Information", but I couldn't find much information: under "Information" section of the site is a brief section on ethics plus a passage excepted from one of Michael Kelsey's guidebooks, and that's it as far as I can tell.

Other thoughts? --R27182818 15:14, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

I reverted your removal of the link because I felt the claim was inaccurate ("registration required...", not really). But I support removal of the EL for the reasons stated above - it is information-light, thus not a good candidate for inclusion. Ratagonia 16:44, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

"Danger" section
As of today there's a new section entitled "Danger", which reads:

 * Several tourists have become lost, often from blindly or incorrectly following GPS navigation devices that don't always indicate the condition of smaller dirt roads or tracks. [4]

 * In 2003 a young couple was stranded for six days by a powerful snowstorm. The young woman died, but the man survived after he was found 15 miles from their buried vehicle on Four Mile Bench road.[4]

I don't think that this section belongs in this particular article, because it's not a problem unique to the GSENM but rather a problem with tourists and/or GPS devices in wild places in general. Comments? --R27182818 (talk) 14:47, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Given lack of comment, I removed the section. --R27182818 (talk) 15:56, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Sorry for the delay in replying. I agree that incorrect use of GPS or simply getting lost, because of it can happen anywhere, but in this particular park it seems to happen frequently enough and is potentially life threatening. One person died and another group was lucky to be found. A park spokesperson says dozens of groups have become lost since the park opened in 1996. It seems the unique terrain and or dangerous conditions make this a noteworthy fact. Perhaps a citation of the danger relative to other parks (more? less?) can be found, it would make an interesting addition, but people dying is noteworthy. I have restored the section. — Deon Steyn (talk) 11:43, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Hi Deon. Thanks for participating.

 * I think you are correct: in order to keep the section, we need some verifiable evidence that the situation is meaningfully different from other parks/public lands in order to make the section appropriate. I don't think the evidence you cite above is enough, particularly given the lack of links. --R27182818 (talk) 14:23, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I am unsure on the appropriateness of this section, but... GSEM is unlike other US National Parks and Monuments in that there are many (non-controlled) entrances and very few signs.  Most Parks and Monuments are pretty 'civilized' - ie, tourists can go there, get a map and obtain substantial information on where to go and what to see.  GSEM is not like that. Ratagonia (talk) 15:27, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

 * That's a good point. I would modify your assertion slightly. Many Western parks have large "wild" areas with non-controlled entrances and very few signs (e.g., Grand Canyon NP). What makes GSEN unusual is that is lacks the "civilized" core that other parks have. There are visitor centers, but they're outside the park, and there aren't any developed attractions.

 * I don't think that affects my central argument, though, which I will restate slightly in light of your input: in order to justify the section, we need verifiable evidence that the situation is meaningfully different from other uninhabited rural areas of the American West. --R27182818 (talk) 00:57, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I disagree. There is no reason to prove that this park is more dangerous than other parks in order to justify this section. What I meant — and what I said — is that if there is additional information stating that errors of navigation are more or less common (or potentially fatal) in other parks then it can be added. If people also get lost and die in other parks then they also need sections describing this. People died and headline news articles followed, this merits inclusion regardless of whether we think it's okay or "par for the course". — Deon Steyn (talk) 06:36, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Here's why I object to the section:

 * 1. It's not verifiable: there are no citations.

 * 2. It's not encyclopedic. I'd say useful questions about the getting-lost are things like how often do people get lost? and how does the getting-lost situation compare with other places?. The section as it stands simply asserts GSEN is dangerous without quantifying how dangerous or in comparison to what. You've cited anecdotes but no evidence. (Wikipedia is not a travel guide nor a newspaper.) The article Grand Canyon has a nice section on this sort of thing; if the section were modified to be more like that one I would support it.

 * So here's a question for you: what useful, encyclopedic questions posed by a reader can be answered by the section as it stands? --R27182818 (talk) 19:08, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 * On my personal site I have a link to appropriate precautions for wildland hikes - the simple stuff like enough water (with caution about winter dry air), wildlife, etc. Should such a general article be created it would likely be attacked by the deletionists as being to "how to". Such an article could be linked to by a number of WP wildland articles however. Any consensus concerning such an article? I am willing to release all of the referenced article text to a free license. (My apologies for the typography on the site - I just ported to a new server that has some differences in HTML serving) - Leonard G. (talk) 03:55, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Leonard, that content would surely be welcome. I don't think it merits its own article, but I'm sure you could work it into the hiking or backpacking articles, perhaps in a "Risks" section. Poke around a bit in that sphere and see where it fits. --R27182818 (talk) 14:58, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Third Opinion
In my opinion automobile traffic within the park is a greater hazard than getting lost using GPS equipment. I don't think the section is appropriate. A listing of all potential hazards would be endless and mostly obvious and not helpful, notable, useful or interesting --Calamitybrook (talk) 02:57, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Danger section voting
Editors: please vote Keep or Delete, perhaps with a BRIEF explanation.Ratagonia (talk) 18:51, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Delete: people die all over. In the backcountry people die when they get lost.  Non-notable. Ratagonia (talk) 18:51, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Delete: for reasons I cited above.Calamitybrook (talk) 03:04, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Delete: non-encyclopedic; see above. --R27182818 (talk) 05:01, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

It seems like we have consensus. I removed the section --R27182818 (talk) 16:15, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

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Gidget

Gidget is a fictional character created by author Frederick Kohner (based on his teenage daughter, Kathy) in his 1957 novel, Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas. The novel follows the adventures of a teenage girl and her surfing friends on the beach in Malibu. The name Gidget is a portmanteau of "girl" and "midget". Following the novel's publication, the character appeared in several films, television series, and television movies.

Novels
The original Gidget was created by Frederick Kohner in his 1957 novel Gidget, The Little Girl with Big Ideas (reprinted numerous times under the shortened title Gidget, by which it is more widely known), written in the first person and based on the accounts of his daughter Kathy (now Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman) of the surf culture of Malibu Point. The novel was published by Putnam. Kohner, a prolific screenwriter with one Academy Award nomination, published seven sequels to this novel, five of them original novels:
 * Cher Papa (1959)
 * The Affairs of Gidget (1963)
 * Gidget in Love (1965)
 * Gidget Goes Parisienne (1966)
 * Gidget Goes New York (1968)

Kohner also wrote two novelizations adapted from films of the same titles, based on original stories by Ruth Brooks Flippen.
 * Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
 * Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)

Frederick Kohner
Kohner, a Czechoslovakian Jew, worked in the German film industry as a screenwriter until 1933 when he emigrated to Hollywood after the Nazis started removing Jewish credits from films. Over the coming decades, Kohner and his wife Franzie raised their two daughters by the beach, while he toiled as a screenwriter for Columbia Pictures. As his children grew into American teenagers, he noticed that his daughter Kathy in particular was drawn into a very specific, regional, contemporary slice of American teenaged culture – the surf culture.

Surfing was a then-minor youth movement that built its foundation around a sport, love of the beach, and jargon that must have proved a challenge to an Eastern European immigrant. The details fascinated Kohner, who was empathetic with his daughter's feminist intention to participate in a "boys-only" sport. A book was conceived and Kathy became her father's muse as he delved into the surfing world with his daughter as his guide. Over a six-week period, Kohner wove the stories she told into a novel, which he titled upon completion with her nickname, Gidget.

In the original novel, Gidget gives her name as follows: "'It's Franzie,' I said. 'From Franziska. It's a German name. After my grandmother.'" She does not give us her last name. In subsequent novels, her name is Franzie Hofer. In the films in which she appears, following World War II, her name is changed to a more English-sounding Frances Lawrence, and the names of some other characters are changed, as well. In the 1960s television series (episode 16, "Now There's a Face"), Gidget gives her full name as Frances Elizabeth Lawrence.

Kohner also wrote other novels about the experiences of different teenaged girls, including The Continental Kick, Mister Will You Marry Me?, and The Gremmie, as well as nonfiction books such as the biographies Kiki of Montparnasse and The Magician of Sunset Boulevard.

Films
Kohner sold the movie rights to Columbia Pictures (through the William Morris Agency) for $50,000, then giving five percent of this to his daughter Kathy.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the character Gidget (the prototypical beach bunny) was adapted for three films, all directed by Paul Wendkos and released by Columbia Pictures:
 * Gidget (1959), starring Sandra Dee (screenplay by Gabrielle Upton)
 * Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961), starring Deborah Walley
 * Gidget Goes to Rome (1963), starring Cindy Carol

The first film also featured a young Yvonne Craig and Tom Laughlin, long before Laughlin became known as Billy Jack and Craig as Batgirl and her alter-ego Barbara Gordon in the final season of Batman. The later two films were billed as sequels to the first, and an attempt was made at continuity other than in with most of the cast. Only James Darren, playing Gidget's boyfriend Moondoggie, has the same major role in all three films. For Gidget Goes Hawaiian, some scenes from the first film were reshot with the new cast, to be used as flashbacks.

Television
In 1965, the character was adapted for television in the Screen Gems sitcom series Gidget, starring Sally Field. Don Porter, who had played Gidget's father in "Gidget Goes to Rome", reprised the role for the show. The series reintroduced Larue, a timid, awkward girl who often accompanied Gidget on her zany escapades, and an older married sister Anne Cooper (Ann Cooper in the novels), both of whom had appeared in the original 1957 novel, but were absent from the motion pictures.

In 1969, Karen Valentine starred as Gidget in the telemovie Gidget Grows Up, freely adapted from the 1968 novel Gidget Goes New York, but also functioning as a sequel to the 1965 sitcom series.

In 1972, another telemovie was made, titled Gidget Gets Married, in which Gidget finally married longtime boyfriend Moondoggie. Monie Ellis played the title role. This incarnation of Gidget is unique in that it gives Moondoggie's real name as Jeff Stevens. In the novels, the other telemovies and The New Gidget, he is Geoffrey H. Griffin (the middle initial is mentioned only in the first novel); in the Hollywood films and the sitcom Gidget, he is Jeffrey Matthews. Later that year, Hanna-Barbera produced a 60-minute animated feature for television, Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection, with Kathy Gori as the voice of Gidget. It was broadcast as part of the Saturday-morning series The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie.

In 1985, a follow-up of the 1965 sitcom series was launched with the telemovie Gidget's Summer Reunion, starring Caryn Richman as a grown version of the character played by Sally Field. This was followed by a sitcom series The New Gidget, which ran for two seasons, 1986–1988.

Stage
In 2000, Francis Ford Coppola staged a musical adaptation of Gidget with a cast of students from the Orange County High School for the Arts, calling it "sort of a Catcher in the Rye for girls". Coppola wrote the book and cowrote the score with John Farrar, and Krysta Rodriguez played Gidget.

In 2007, Terry McCabe and Marissa McKown adapted a stage play Gidget from Kohner's 1957 novel. It was performed at City Lit Theater in Chicago in May and June 2007, directed by Marissa McKown and starred Sabrina Kramnich as Gidget.

Gidget timeline

 * 1941 Kathy Kohner born.
 * 1956 Kathy Kohner learns to surf and is nicknamed "Gidget".
 * 1957 Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas published.
 * 1959 Motion picture Gidget released, Cher Papa published.
 * 1961 Motion picture Gidget Goes Hawaiian released, novelization Gidget Goes Hawaiian published.
 * 1963 The Affairs of Gidget published, motion picture Gidget Goes to Rome released, novelization Gidget Goes to Rome published.
 * 1965 Gidget in Love published, sitcom series Gidget first airs.
 * 1966 Gidget Goes Parisienne published, sitcom series Gidget canceled.
 * 1968 Gidget Goes New York published.
 * 1969 Telemovie Gidget Grows Up airs.
 * 1972 Telemovie Gidget Gets Married airs, animated feature Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection airs.
 * 1985 Telemovie Gidget's Summer Reunion airs.
 * 1986 Frederick Kohner dies, sitcom series The New Gidget airs.
 * 1988 Sitcom series The New Gidget canceled.

In popular culture

 * The Brunettes have a song titled "Too Big for Gidget".

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Utah Grizzlies (1995–2005)

The Utah Grizzlies were an ice hockey team in the International Hockey League (IHL) and American Hockey League (AHL). They originally played at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, before relocating to the E Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Valley City in 1997. After the 2004–05 season, the franchise was suspended. It was sold in 2006 and moved to Cleveland where it returned to play in 2007 as the Lake Erie Monsters. A new Utah Grizzlies franchise in the ECHL began play in 2005.

History
The original Utah Grizzlies moved to Utah in 1995 after one IHL season in Denver, Colorado, as the NHL's Quebec Nordiques relocated to Denver to become the Colorado Avalanche. The Grizzlies were admitted to the AHL in 2001 after the IHL folded. They played their home games in the Delta Center until the E Center was built a few seasons after their arrival in Salt Lake.

While in Denver, the Grizzlies won the 1994–95 Turner Cup, the championship of the IHL. After relocating to the Salt Lake City area, the Utah Grizzlies once again marched to victory in the IHL playoffs. Utah swept the Orlando Solar Bears in four games to win the 1995–96 Turner Cup. The fourth (and final) game of the series was played in the Delta Center; 17,381 fans attended, which, at the time, set a national record for largest attendance at a minor league ice hockey game.

The franchise was granted a voluntary suspension for the 2005–06 season, and on May 16, 2006, it was sold to an ownership group from Cleveland led by Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Quicken Loans. The franchise was moved to Cleveland to replace the departed Cleveland Barons and resumed play in 2007 as the Lake Erie Monsters.

After the suspension of the IHL/AHL Grizzlies, a new ownership group purchased the Utah Grizzlies identity and resurrected a team of the same name in the ECHL that started playing in the 2005–06 season.

Market facts
The Salt Lake City market was previously served by:
 * Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the WHL (1969–74)
 * Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the CHL (1974–84)
 * Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the IHL (1984–94)

The franchise was replaced by:
 * Utah Grizzlies of the ECHL (2005–present)

Affiliates

 * New York Islanders (1995–98)
 * Dallas Stars (2000–04)
 * Phoenix Coyotes (2004–05)

Season-by-season results

 * Denver Grizzlies 1994–95 (International Hockey League)
 * Utah Grizzlies 1995–2001 (International Hockey League)
 * Utah Grizzlies 2001–05 (American Hockey League)

Single season

 * Goals: 46 🇺🇸 Kip Miller (1994–95)
 * Assists: 60 🇺🇸 Kip Miller (1994–95)
 * Points: 106 🇺🇸 Kip Miller (1994–95)
 * Penalty minutes: 317 🇨🇦 Mike MacWilliam (1995–96)
 * GAA: 2.21 🇨🇦 Rich Parent (1999–00)
 * SV%: .928 🇨🇦 Wade Flaherty (2001–02)
 * Wins: 45 🇸🇪 Tommy Salo (1994–95)
 * Shutouts: 5 🇨🇦 Mike Bales (2000–01)

 * Goaltending records need a minimum 25 games played by the goaltender

Career

 * Career goals: 111 🇨🇦 Chris Taylor (1994–98)
 * Career assists: 167 🇨🇦 Chris Taylor
 * Career points: 278 🇨🇦 Chris Taylor
 * Career penalty minutes: 694 John Erskine (2000–03)
 * Career goaltending wins: 73 🇸🇪 Tommy Salo (1994–96)
 * Career shutouts: 7 🇸🇪 Tommy Salo
 * Career games: 440 🇨🇦 Gord Dineen (1994–2000)

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Andrey Chokhov

Andrey Chokhov, also spelled Chekhov (Андрей Чохов (Чехов) in Russian) (c. 1545 – 1629, allegedly 8 December, Moscow) was a highly prominent Russian cannon and bell caster. He worked in Moscow at the Cannon Yard for more than 40 years, where he was responsible for casting many heavy weapons. Over 20 were documented, from 1568 to 1629, including the Tsar Cannon cast in 1586. His traditions were continued by the Motorin family.

Biography
Andrey Chokhov was born in about 1545, and entered the teaching of the well-known master cannon caster Kashpir Ganusov at a very young age, and stood out from the mass of Ganusov's students who performed regular work.

Chokhov took the lead in casting cannons in Moscow in 1590.

Chokhov as cannon maker

Andrey Chokhov began his career at the Cannon yard in Moscow during the reign of Ivan the Terrible in the 1550s as an apprentice to a German (?) caster Kashpir Ganusov (russified name). In the 1570s, Chokhov became one of the leading Muscovite casters and supervised production of heavy battering weapons, such as siege arquebus Лисица (Vixen) and battering ram Собака (Dog) (both made in 1575), big cannon Волк (Wolf; 1576-1577), and a colossal arquebus Инрог (Unicorn), which would become the largest cannon of the Russian siege artillery (1577; weight - 7,134 kg; displayed in St. Petersburg). In 1586, Andrey Chokhov founded his famous Tsar Cannon (Царь-пушка), a masterpiece of the casting art of the second half of the 16th century.

Chokhov as bell maker
Andrey Chokhov is also known as a bell founder.

In 1594 and 1603, he cast two huge bells (called благовестники, or blagovestniki) weighing 625 poods (10.2 metric tons) and 1,080 poods (17.8 t), correspondingly. These bells were donated by Boris Godunov to the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra. In 1621, Andrey Chokhov and other masters cast four bells for the Ivan the Great Bell Tower (one of them called Глухой (Muffled) can still be seen in the middle tier of the bell tower). In 1622, Chokhov cast a 20-ton bell called Реут (Reut).

His biggest bell weighing 40 tons (cast in 1600) didn't survive to this day, as well as the so-called Godunov Bell (also known as Old Assumption Bell, or Resurrection Bell), which would be destroyed by fire in 1701.

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1924–25 WCHL season

The 1924–25 WCHL season was the fourth season for the Western Canada Hockey League. With the collapse of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), two teams, the Vancouver Maroons and Victoria Cougars joined the WCHL. Six teams played 28 games each.

Final standings
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points

League championship

 * Bracket

The Victoria Cougars defeated the Saskatoon Crescents in the WCHL semi-final. Source: Coleman(1966)
 * Semi-final

The Victoria Cougars then defeated the Calgary Tigers in the WCHL final.
 * Final

Source: Coleman(1966)

Stanley Cup Finals
The Victoria Cougars faced the National Hockey League champion Montreal Canadiens in a best-of-5 series for the Stanley Cup. Victoria defeated Montreal, 3 games to 1, marking the only time since the inception of the NHL in 1917 that the NHL champion did not win the Cup and the final time this would happen.

Source: Coleman(1966)

Goaltending averages
Source: Coleman(1966)

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User talk:Ratagonia

Welcome!

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Zion National Park
Nice edits! :) --mav 16:58, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Pekmez
Can you have a look at pekmez and clean it up? Nice edits for Zile.Ugur Olgun 14:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Yvon Chouinard
Thought you'd like to know, that the WikiProject Climbing collaboration for the first half of December is Yvon Chouinard, which you've edited before. Please help improve the article to at least Good Article status. Thanks. ⇒   SWAT Jester    On Belay!  23:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome
Rat, thanks for the welcome to wiki on my talk page. I'm looking forward to contributing to the climbing related articles wherever I can!

Jnoring 01:28, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Smee
Please see User:Justanother/Smee (formerly Smeelgova). Thank you. --Justanother 17:57, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

In-line citations
Thanks Rat. Haven't figured out how to do this - where can I learn? Tell me here. Please note that my external link was to the section of the Warren Report that deals with the history of presidential assassinations, with emphasis on Lincoln. Your ref. only goes to a discussion of the Warren Report with an internal link which doesn't do that. For some reason section 7 doesn't come up. (Later), well, I fixed it with a direct link to Appendix 7. ( JohnClarknew 05:05, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I see you fixed it to work correctly, and I thank you for the instruction on my page JohnClarknew 15:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Snow-job on Scientology and Werner Erhard Article
Hello Ratagonia. Just got back on after having dealt with some especially horrendous personal business for a week. Thanks for bringing the point home on those three references. Yes, original research was NOT THE POINT!! Ftord1960 22:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Sherpa people fix
Many thanks for fixing my error at Sherpa people. No idea how I managed to re-introduce that. Kuru talk  23:05, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Ultralight Backpacking
Thanks for your edit to Ultralight backpacking, but I have reverted the edit you made and reverted the (fact) back to (jardine). Perhaps page numbers, as you suggest, is a good idea, but not essential, and my understanding is placing page numbers for each reference will completely overwhelm the References section with a single book as the reference - unless there is a better way to do I do not know about. Perhaps this is something that should be discussed on the talk page of the article. --Naturespace (talk) 02:35, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Wilderness Diarrhea Article Getting Killed
Hi Rat:

Dunno if you're active, but it seems remotely possible you'd be interested in this. Wilderness Diarrhea is getting merged into Travelers Diarrhea by a couple of zealots who seem to have no concept of outdoor interests.

I get around a lot in the outdoors and rarely treat water, but WD had some good stuff in int.

 * After a couple of weeks of calm discussion, I went ballistic and no longer want to participate. Rational voices might help.

Calamitybrook (talk) 02:55, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

FAR notice
nominated Zion National Park for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Cirt (talk) 04:00, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

United States invasion of Panama
Hi, I wanted to talk to you about your edits on Operation Just Cause. As you can see, there was a discussion months ago in which we agreed to maintain a non-biased Point of View towards the results of the movilization. As you can see, we allowed US troops to remain on the nation, meaning that it was not an invasion. This is also on the article's Talk page in case you want to verify it. 201.218.86.201 (talk) 20:23, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Proposal for Mountaineering and Climbing Project
Hi, my name is Jarhed and I am an amateur rock climber and mountaineer. I recently reviewed some of the articles on these subjects, and I believe that they could use the attention of interested editors such as yourself. I have proposed a new project on these topics and I am interested in your opinion. You can find the proposal here: Mountaineering and Climbing Project Proposal. Thank you for your time, and have a great day.Jarhed (talk) 21:55, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Nice work!
Hey, nice work adding notable ascents and AAJ references to lots of articles. Thanks! -- Spireguy (talk) 02:14, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Grades
Do you really consider 5.9 to be 6a? Steple (talk) 19:07, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Book
I assume you mean you ordered Landmarks in the Landscape, not the sourcebook, which is more prosaic. You'll like Landmarks, although Kaiser could have a less academic writing style. His book on Adirondack-style architecture is a bit of a disappointment.  Acroterion  (talk)  00:16, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Thank you, Acroterion. Yes, the Landmarks book which looks wonderful.  My apologies if any vitriol was perceived in those exchanges.  Ratagonia (talk) 01:00, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * None taken. There's a great deal of context to be gained by combining the stubs, but it's easier to start out with the stubs and combine if necessary, at least for me. Many of the virtues in the Park Service design of the 20s and 30s are found in the small-scale work, which was, taken as a whole, profoundly influential. The Landmarks book got me interested in the style. The Zion chapter's only about ten pages long, though. You might like to look at some of the HABS documentation for the Zion – Mount Carmel Highway, specifically this describing the tunnel construction; it's quite interesting once you've got it big enough to read on the screen.    Acroterion  (talk)  01:23, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I found that a few months ago. There is a good, small book out on the Tunnel which is fun, and alludes to an earlier, non-condensed book on the tunnel that I have not found yet. Tom.  Ratagonia (talk) 01:50, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * By the way, since you seem to be rather accomplished photography-wise and you're on the spot, any and all pictures you care to contribute would be welcome.  The picture of the Lodge shows a correctly-exposed turkey, but the lodge is a big brown blob in the background. It doesn't have to be commercial-grade art or something you'd rather sell: nice clear encyclopedic descriptions are the thing, with the general composition style of HABS documentation.   Acroterion  (talk)  19:24, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I noticed that, kinda lame. There should be better photos available in the NPS Archive, or I can go shoot a pic next time I am down that way (might), which means I should FINALLY figure out how to release photos to the Wiki! Ratagonia (talk) 21:36, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Accusation against you
Hi Ratagonia

Are you aware of this accusation against you: [Proposed_topic_ban_on_Landmark_Education_SPAs] even though you don't seem to have edited on related topics in the last year or so. This looks like an attempt to condemn you without giving you an opportunity to defend yourself. DaveApter (talk) 15:03, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Remarkable. Is there a place to respond to this? The noticeboard discouraged discussion on that page.  Ratagonia (talk) 15:22, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Your reverts at Talk:Werner Erhard
Please stop. The archiving was already extended, from one month to 3 months, and from a minimum of one thread remaining on the page, to five. Cirt (talk) 00:49, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Please engage in discussion in the subsection I started at the bottom of the talk page, instead of reverting archival of three-month-old threads. Cirt (talk) 00:51, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Cirt (talk) 01:14, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

January 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit that you made to the page Whale Whores has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Please use the sandbox for testing any edits; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing for further information. Thank you.  SoSaysChappy   (talk)  05:57, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Royal Robbins
Nice set of improvements. Good work! Cullen328 (talk) 04:04, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Snowded and Lam Kin Keung / HeadleyDown Meat/Sockpuppetting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/HeadleyDown

http://sites.google.com/site/sockmasterouting/ []

A detailed run-down of HeadleyDown and his meat/sockpuppets is here: https://sites.google.com/site/exposingsocks/ []

http://www.nlpconnections.com/forum/15975-master-sock-puppeteer-outed.html []

http://www.nlpconnections.com/forum/15975-master-sock-puppeteer-outed-2.html []

Note the comment: by James Donnelly
 * I am a skeptic myself like some other NLPers. However, the NLP article is far from balanced. It looks like a blatant attack on NLP. The website you linked is quite clear on one thing: Pro NLPers have never been banned. That should tell you something: Wikipedians other than youself realize your editing is highly biased. Of course they allow others in to balance the picture.Good luck with promoting your side and routing your foes. I think it will backfire badly though. You and your pseudoskeptic friends will just end up getting banned again. CheersJamesD

Here's what happened the last time: []

And last but not least, the Wikipedia ban on HeadleyDown+sock/meatpuppets and any reincarnation of him, based upon BEHAVIOR. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.243.106.37 (talk) 16:44, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Re: Xixabangma
Ratagonia, thanks for your comments. A couple of thoughts for you from the perspective of a closing admin. First, I have learned over my tenure working on WP that everything works the smoothest when its dealt with in the right place. A requested move discussion is just about one thing, should the current article title move to another article title at this point in time--nothing more, nothing less. Whatever the discussion decision is, it is in a sense temporary because nothing prevents the article title from changing in the future given the right consensus to do so. WP:WIP tells us that that although Xixabangma may not be the perfect title, at this moment in time, its doing no harm to the project and readers will hopefully find the mountain article and its content useful. Contrary to want you might think, my close did not, and should not be construed to have sanctioned or put a stamp of approval on another editors action. To many of our discussions fall into the trap of becoming behaviorial discussions as this one did to some extent. When that happens, everyone, including those who have to review the discussion get distracted from the objectives of the discussion. An RM discussion is not, and should not be a behaviorial dispute resolution discussion, there are other forums for that. When discussions are marred with emotion, rationalization, and yes, bad behavior--I think that was reflected in the way the searches were made and presented by the various parties in this case--I become cautious. There are only two outcomes to an RM discussion--Consensus to move to a new title at this time or no consensus to move to a new title at this time. Neither outcome is permanent. I have left some other suggestions on this for moving forward, and would suggest that if editors feel strongly about the behavior of another editor, then those issues should be raised in the right forums so they can be dealt with rationally. A global collaborative community such as WP is hard work, so lets get back to it. --Mike Cline (talk) 08:46, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Poll to determine support for move from Shishapangma to Xixabangma
You have been involved in the recent naming discussion at Talk:Xixabangma. There is a new poll to determine support for the move from Shishapangma to Xixabangma. If you are interested, please provide your opinion here.--Wikimedes (talk) 00:53, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Image source: Image Z24.2140, linked at. Pre-1923.

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Talk:Medical algorithm

Please check DVT link
Just added a link on the term DVT to the article; but the linked article is also unclear, so I was hoping somebody knowledgable on the subject could clarify the acronym--Pariah 04:34, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Generalizations
I removed some of the generalizations in this article. Some of the content is obvious and does not necessarily need to be stated formally: "There is a temptation to introduce algorithms that do slowly something that doctors do well and quickly. Such algorithms need to balanced against various other considerations." Andrew73 19:00, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It could be stated better. An example is some of the content of NHS Direct decision algorithms, the temptation is to build controls into medical record sosftware such as that proposed by the NHS which requires stepping through an algorithm slowly to reach an obvious conclusion.  WHereas the proper use of such algorithms is to handle difficult things...  19:24, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Algorithm(Medical) also exists
Midgley 19:08, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Medical algorithm in the DRAKON language
I ask your advice about Medical algorithm for treatment of atrial fibrillation.

I have placed this medical algorithm for treatment of atrial fibrillation in the Russian Wikipedia (Медицинский алгоритм and Фибрилляция предсердий) — see the illustration on the right.

I want to ask. Maybe, this illustration should be placed into Medical algorithm also. Or will it be wrong? How do you think?

--Владимир Паронджанов (talk) 06:34, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

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Talk:Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad

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The City of Beacon did not exist until 1913 when Matteawan and Fishkill Landing were merged. The Hudson River terminal of the ND&C RR was at Dutchess Junction about 2 miles south of Fishkill Landing. Their ferry dock, roundhouse, engine and car shops and other railroad buildings were at Dutchess Junction. When the CNE took over in 1905 they began to dismantle the ND&C facilities. The repair shops were sold for salvage in 1907 but local train service continued under the CNE until 1916. The CNE was absorbed into the New Haven RR in 1927.

The D&C RR became part of the New York Boston and Northern in late 1872 but the name became New York Boston and Montreal in early 1873. The Clove Branch and the D&C were to become part of a main line from New York City to Montreal Canada to compete with the New York Central Hudson Line. Later in 1873 the NYB&M went bankrupt and the line was never completed. The lines reverted the Clove Branch and the D&C which declared bankruptcy in 1874. The ND&C was formed out of the old D&C in 1877. The ND&C was purchased by New Haven RR money in 1905 and the CNE was given the job of running it.

The correct spelling for the City of Newburgh is with a letter h on the end.

Bernard Rudberg   Author of "Twenty Five Years on the ND&C"

 * Thanks for the input. (northwest) and  (southwest) are my sources for this area. I see that in 1892 Beacon was Matteawan, but the 1902 map shows Beacon. Additionally, by 1892, the line to the major docks at Matteawan/Beacon existed, and Dutchess Junction looks like just a junction - I can't see how there could have been docks there.
 * As for the spelling of Newburg(h), are you sure that's not the same issue as with Pittsburg(h), which had no H from 1891 to 1911?
 * With the line to Montreal, that's covered in more detail at New York, Boston and Northern Railway. Though maybe this article could use another sentence or two on it. --SPUI (talk) 05:02, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * By the way, I've seen mention of a graded but never-used alignment of the NYB&N, but a detailed look at topo maps of the area reveals nothing - do you know anything about this? --SPUI (talk) 05:03, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

(from Talk:Central New England Railway) "The western terminal of the ND&C RR was at Dutchess Junction on the Hudson River south of Fishkill Landing. The tracks from Hopewell Junction to the Hudson River are still active and owned by Metro North RR"

 * Neither nor the aerial photo shows evidence of the line to Dutchess Junction existing. What is shown is the line to Beacon, with an apparent track connection about halfway to the old docks. --SPUI (talk) 05:08, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Take a look at a current Rand McNally map of New York State. You will find a letter h on the end of Newburgh. I have an 1891 map which also has the h on the end.

A friend of mine and I are in the process of writing a book about the NYB&M that was never completed. By the way, the name New York Boston & Northern lasted only about 3 months from November 1872 till January 1873 when it became New York Boston & Montreal. We have hiked most of the old roadbed and there is ample evidence in bridge abutments etc. The line failed in 1873 so the woods have taken over in most places. This story is outlined in my book "Twenty Five Years on the ND&C" which includes a chapter on the Clove Branch and NYB&M. It is still in print if you want to read it. I ran across quite a bit of erroneous information floating around when I researched that book. My book about the ND&C is based on the original hand written record books which are now at the Beacon Historical Society. When the old headquarters building was renovated, the workers found the books in the loft. There are 48 volumes of the 11 X 17 ledger books with 700 pages in each volume for a total of over 30,000 pages of original ND&C records. The oldest is dated 1879 and the newest is 1904. I have read every page.

As for the terminal of the ND&C, it was definitely at Dutchess Junction 2 miles south of Fishkill Landing. It was active until 1916 on the CNE schedules. The City of Beacon did not exist at the same time as the ND&C RR. The ND&C became part of the CNE Rwy 8 years before the City of Beacon was created. There is a Mountain nearby called Mt Beacon and some people began using the term Beacon very early back as far as the revolutionary war but it was not an official city until 1913, well after the ND&C was gone. Actually, the first mayor was an ex ND&C conductor named Frost.

The current rail line to the Beacon waterfront that used to be the CNE connection to Fishkill Landing was built by the NY&NE RR in 1881. The line to Dutchess Junction and the D&C/ND&C dock dates to 1869 and it was torn out sometime after 1916. The Dutchess Junction ferry was in full operation years before the Fishkill Landing yard was built with fill over part of the Hudson River mud flats. The steam boat "Fanny Garner" served Dutchess Junction and Newburgh for many years. Most of the freight traffic across the river was Pennsylvania coal in train cars on the decks of barges with rails on them. This train car traffic at Dutchess Junction and later at Fishkill Landing became obsolete when the big bridge in Poughkeepsie opened in December 1888. By 1904 the Fishkill Landing freight ferry was abandoned by the New Haven RR. There was still a passenger shelter at Dutchess Junction on the NYC as late as 1950. I can send you a photo of it if you like.

The dates for the Clove Branch are not correct. The Clove Branch hauled iron ore out of Sylvan Lake starting in 1869. It was supposed to be a part of the NYB&M which failed in 1873. It continued to haul iron ore and was extended out to Clove Valley along the old NYB&M roadbed in 1877. The Clove Branch was abandoned and torn out in 1898.

Any time you are interested, just give me a yell and I will show you what is left of Dutchess Junction and the NYB&M.

Bernie Rudberg

 * I stand corrected - I see the pilings from what was probably the old dock on . However, I still can't find the NYB&M grading - can you give me a pointer for where that might be, like a nearby town or where it crosses a road?

 * I've done some rewriting on this article. I'm a bit confused about the post-reorganization history though. Apparently the NY&NE leased it at first, as they built the line to the docks at Beacon. The NYNH&H leased the NY&NE in 1898, but you say the NYNH&H bought the ND&C in 1905, assigning it to the CNE (which it had acquired in 1904). Did the NY&NE lose the ND&C during its 1884-1895 bankruptcy? If so, was it operated independently until 1905? --SPUI (talk) 00:30, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I've corrected the Clove Branch - I don't understand how it would have tied into the NYB&M though. The NYB&M would have merged with the D&C near Hopewell, which puts it too far west for the Clove Branch east of Sylvan Lake to be useful. I had assumed the part west of there would have been used for the NYB&M, but you say the part to the east was graded for the NYB&M. Where would the NYB&M and D&C have merged? --SPUI (talk) 00:52, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

I just added a couple paragraphs and now they are gone. What gives ?

Bernie Rudberg

 * Did you get an edit conflict message? The only contributions from you and your IP are on this talk page (and the CNE talk page); thus either you got an edit conflict or didn't hit save. Try going back and resubmitting (assuming your browser saved the text). --SPUI (talk) 01:08, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

A few maps show a branch running north-northwest from the ND&C south of Millbrook. Any idea what this was? And a map that shows the NYB&M! --SPUI (talk) 01:33, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

This is getting frustrating. It did it bagain after I retyped the text. Can we talk over normal E-Mail instead ? BRudberg@frontiernet.net

I will try again

Both the D&C and the Clove Branch were supposed to be part of the NYB&M. The original Clove Branch went only as far as Sylvan Lake iron ore mines. The NYB&M wanted to extend it eastward and also use the north end of the D&C to get to another link to Chatham in Columbia County. These little towns were destined to be stops on the main line to Montreal but it all ended in the financial panic of 1873.

The Clove Branch hauled iron ore out of Sylvan Lake through a connection with the D&C/ND&C at Clove Branch Junction. The eastern end of the Clove Branch was supposed to connect with a line coming north from Carmel. If you look at Terraserver maps and aerial photographs of Clove Valley you can see the old NYB&M route just east of route 55. It makes a sweeping curve south toward Whaley Lake. Beyond that it crosses I 84 near exit 17 and goes through Lake Carmel. Farther south it connects with the other railroads just north of route 6 in Carmel.

By the way, the pilings in the map you posted are the remains of a trestle built by the BH&E. They were trying to build a deep water port on Dennings Point when they went bankrupt in 1870. The trestle was never completed and the pilings are a hazard to boats to this day.

Now back to the NY&NE. When the NY&NE completed the old BH&E line from Connecticut into Hopewell Junction in 1881 they leased trackage rights from the ND&C. The rights ran from Hopewell Junction to Wicopee Junction just west of Matteawan. At that point the NY&NE built the rails down to Fishkill Landing which are still in place today. The other line down to Dutchess Junction continued until after 1916. it was still listed on the CNE schedules in 1916. After that it was torn out.

Those trackage rights were still active after the NY&NE became the NE RR and later part of the New Haven RR. During those years both railroads ran both freight and passenger trains in both directions on one set of single tracks. It was a traffic nightmare considering the only communications was telegraph and later telephone to control things. That situation lasted more than 20 years.

When the New Haven RR money bought up all the small lines, all they really wanted was the big Poughkeepsie bridge and the Maybrook Line. As soon as they had control they began to dismantle all the east-west lines except the Maybrook and the branch to Beacon from Hopewell Junction. By 1938 they had torn out the ND&C and sold the rails for scrap to Japan. You know what Japan did with all that steel just three years later at Pearl Harbor. That was Dutchess County's contribution to the war effort.

Bernie Rudberg

I have found out that it works if I type the page into Word Perfect and then do a cut and paste into Wikipedia. It is clumsy but at least it works.

Bernie Rudberg

By the way, the map references 5 and 6 above took me off into Maryland and some medical map. ? ?

Bernie Rudberg

 * I tried looking some more for the grade without success, but I'll keep trying. All I see is the old BH&E, still in use.

 * So did the ND&C remain independent until 1905?

 * The Maryland and medical maps are correct - zoom in where the D&C would be. I cropped the one showing the NYB&M, highlighted it and uploaded it at Image:NYB&M.jpg. --SPUI (talk) 02:58, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

The connections at the northern part of the D&C were supposed to be links in the NYB&M but they were never completed. The Rutland in Vermont was also part of the NYB&M route to Montreal.

Yes, the ND&C survived on it's own terms until 1905 when it was bought out by New Haven money and given to the CNE Rwy to run. What saved them many times was the rental money for the NY&NE trackage rights. When the CNE took over they promptly disposed of the engine repair facilities and shops at Dutchess Junction. Everything, including the carpenter shops, brass foundry, paint shops etc etc all went to salvage by 1907. The only thing left active was the Dutchess Junction station. Even that was abandoned in 1916 when the last passenger train left Dutchess Junction for Matteawan. There was still a small passenger shelter there as late as 1950 along the New York Central tracks.

If I send you some GPS numbers maybe you can locate the map spots I am talking about. Do you speak GPS ?

Bernie Rudberg

 * Do you have the lat/long (assuming that's not the same as the GPS numbers)? --SPUI (talk) 03:49, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

I am looking at the following location.

UTM 18 609454E 4609746N (WGS84/NAD83) USGS Verbank Quad

(NAD27) USGS Verbank Quad

41° 37' 54"N, 73° 41' 11"W (NAD27) USGS Verbank Quad

This is on a topozone map. That point is just about in the center of the curve going south to cross route 55 and pass by Whaley Lake very near the existing line. If you look at the elevation lines on the USGS map you can see small notches where the roadbed was cut near swamp road and going south alongside Beach Road. There is much more but that will be a start.

Aerial photos of this area show the curve in the background of fields and trees.

Bernie

Farther south, the roadbed crosses the Gardner Hollow Brook just south of the Prison Reservoir. At that point there are large stone abutments for a bridge that was never built.

Lat lon is 41° 36' 36"N, 73° 39' 50"W (NAD27) USGS Poughquag Quad or (NAD27) USGS Poughquag Quad

Bernie Rudberg

Still farther south the NYB&M diverged from the exiting line toward the west. It ran along the shore of Lake Dutchess at the following point.

(NAD27) USGS Poughquag Quad

41° 31' 08"N, 73° 40' 08"W (NAD27) USGS Poughquag Quad

After that it crossed I 84 east of exit 17 and went into Lake Carmel.

Bernie

Farther south in Carmel, just north of route US 6 you can see the embankment where it would have connected to the line marked CONRAIL.

41° 25' 11"N, 73° 40' 13"W (NAD27) USGS Lake Carmel Quad

USGS Lake Carmel Quad

It is getting late. It is 1:00 AM here. I think I will hit the sack. I will check with you again tomorrow.

Bernie Rudberg

 * OK, I've started on a map at Image:P&D.jpg. Was the whole thing graded, or only portions? I was expecting this to be easier - I guess I'm used to higher-engineered lines like the Southern New England Railway, where it's really obvious on a topo map. --SPUI (talk) 07:37, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Don't forget, the trees and brush have been growing over this line for 130 years and there has been a lot of farming and houses built in that time. If you give me an E-Mail address I can send you a marked up map from my files.

Bernie Rudberg

 * Can you send it to drspui at gmail dot com? Thanks. --SPUI (talk) 15:22, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

I sent 4 notes with attachments.

I have similar maps of other old rail lines in Dutchess County. ND&C, P&E, P&C, R&C etc.

(Bernie, can I get a copy of these maps? Email is nelson@crynwr.com .  RussNelson 23:10, 16 February 2006 (UTC))

Bernie Rudberg

 * Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. I think I'm going to give up on making the map, as I really can't find the grade in many areas. A question - do you know when the NYNH&H gained control of the Poughkeepsie and Eastern? --SPUI (talk) 01:56, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Did you get the four pages I sent ? The route was marked in red on those maps.

The P&E became part of the CNE/NH organization in 1907. The NH money financed the deal and the CNE was given the job of running the P&E.

Bernie Rudberg

 * Yeah, I got the maps - I just can't find large parts of the grading on topos or aerials. If I visit the area I may check it out though. If you ever visit eastern Massachusetts I recommend the Southern New England Railway, especially the three-level crossing. --SPUI (talk) 03:21, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * As for the P&E, did the NYNH&H gain control prior to the 1907 merger? --SPUI (talk) 03:35, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

The P&E was in financial trouble from day one. It never really made any money. It went bankrupt and changed names several time. In 1884 it sold off parts the trackage to keep going. As far as I know it managed to stay independent until it was merged into the CNE in 1907.

Bernie

Map needed
This needs a linear map, similar to that of the Maybrook Line. Actually, a lot of the former New York and New England Railroad and Central New England Railway articles in Upstate New York need those. -User:DanTD (talk) 20:31, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * See *Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad on Google Maps Mannanan51 (talk) 21:34, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Route Map creek?
Wappinger's Creek runs through Pleasant Valley, past Manchester Bridge (Van Wagner's), down to Red Oaks Mill along 376 and down to Wappinger's Falls. It does not empty into the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie as your map indicates. 2600:100B:B1C6:5CBF:0:1F:B3B1:9D01 (talk) 01:36, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Do you mean this map, or the interactive map in the infobox? The former does not show Wappinger's Creek; you may be confused by the blue line that shows the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway. The latter uses an OpenStreetMap basemap that appears to be correct. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:59, 27 May 2024 (UTC)


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BattleDragons

BattleDragons is a role-playing game published by Spartacus Publishing in 2002. BattleDragons lets the player create and control one of the eight different dragon races in the Seven-Tiered world. It can be played as a role-playing game or a tabletop war game.

Game setting
BattleDragons is played on the Seven-Tiered world created by the gods. The world consists of seven separate worlds layered on top of each other connected by The Tower. Other than dragons there are twelve intelligent races located on the worlds. (Human, Dwarf, Elf, Goblin, Orc, Ogre, Cherub, Fae, Centaur, Mer, Giant and the Titan)

Dragon creation
Each of the eight dragon races (Great, Mystic, Hydra, Wyvern, Basilisk, Wyrm, Feathered serpent, Bipedal) starts with a set number of creation points to spend on basic statistics, armor, weapons and other powers. Armor points work as the dragon's scales as damage is done they get ripped off lowering the dragon’s protection. There are several types of weapons for dragons to use including claws, teeth, horns, eyeblasts, poison, and breath attacks. Other powers to spend points on are wings, extra senses and magic.

Game mechanics
BattleDragons uses a dice pool of ten-sided dice and a target number for most actions. The target number is found by starting with a base number and adding any good or bad modifiers to the chance and rolling the character's pool of dice. Every roll lower or equal to the target number counts as one success. The more successes scored the better the task is performed.

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Talk:Meryl Streep

Commas for Africa
Take, for example, this sentence in the Personal Life section: "In 1985, the family moved into a $1.8-million private estate in Connecticut and lived there until they bought a $3-million mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, in 1990." What in GOD'S NAME is the first comma for? It's like it's been written by a millennial. 122.58.219.76 (talk) 11:15, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

 * What does Africa have to do with it?
 * Whether by "first comma" you mean the one after "1985," or maybe the one after "Brentwood," the short answer is that that's how it's done by educated people.
 * For 1985: "You should use a comma when you start a sentence with an introductory prepositional phrase. This is a phrase that gives you the time, location, or context for the rest of the sentence."
 * For Brentwood: "Anytime you use a geographical name that includes multiple elements, you should separate the elements with commas."
 * https://prowritingaid.com/when-should-a-comma-be-used This was the first Google hit that seemed pertinent, but I can pull up more if you like.
 * By the way, labels like "millennial" are fallacious, to begin with. They also tend to be rude and inflammatory. Somewhat the same could also be said about the use of the deity's name, especially shouted in all caps. And no, I'm not a millennial. Dgndenver (talk) 11:37, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 April 2024
Fix reference 270 and update Golden Globe Awards nominations to 34! 2804:7F2:5AD:51C1:3829:2F46:9ADC:68EC (talk) 21:59, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I've fixed the reference, but the source cited for the number of Golden Globe Awards still says she has 33 nominations (perplexingly, the body text of the source says she had 30 nominations, but cross checking with the list of nominations at the bottom shows that 33 is the correct number). Liu1126 (talk) 22:13, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I think that source was poorly maintained; I've changed it to a more accurate (and secondary source). I've also marked this as answered now; for the number to change to 34, @2804:7F2:5AD:51C1:3829:2F46:9ADC:68EC, please add a reliable source to back it up. Thanks. Irltoad (talk) 21:49, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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Include guard

In the C and C++ programming languages, an #include guard, sometimes called a macro guard, header guard or file guard, is a particular construct used to avoid the problem of double inclusion when dealing with the include directive.

The C preprocessor processes directives of the form  in a source file by locating the associated   on disk and transcluding ("including") its contents into a copy of the source file known as the translation unit, replacing the include directive in the process. The files included in this regard are generally header files, which typically contain declarations of functions and classes or structs.

If an #include directive for a given file appears multiple times during compilation (i.e. because it appeared in multiple other headers), the file is processed again each time. However, if certain C or C++ language constructs are defined twice, the resulting translation unit is invalid. #include guards prevent this erroneous construct from arising by defining a preprocessor macro when a header is first included, and detecting its presence to skip the file's contents on subsequent inclusions.

The addition of #include guards to a header file is one way to make that file idempotent. Another construct to combat double inclusion is #pragma once, which is non-standard but nearly universally supported among C and C++ compilers.

Example
The following C code demonstrates a real problem that can arise if #include guards are missing:

Result
Here, the file "child.c" has indirectly included two copies of the text in the header file "grandparent.h". This causes a compilation error, since the structure type  will thus be defined twice. In C++, this would be called a violation of the one definition rule.

Example
In this section, the same code is used with the addition of #include guards. The C preprocessor preprocesses the header files, including and further preprocessing them recursively. This will result in a correct source file, as we will see.

Result
Here, the first inclusion of "grandparent.h" has the macro  defined. When "child.c" includes "grandparent.h" at the second time (while including "parent.h"), as the  test returns false, the preprocessor skips down to the , thus avoiding the second definition of. The program compiles correctly.

Discussion
Different naming conventions for the guard macro may be used by different programmers. Other common forms of the above example include,   (with the appropriate time information substituted), and names generated from a UUID. (However, names starting with one underscore and a capital letter (C and C++) or any name containing double underscore (C++ only), such as  and , are reserved to the language implementation and should not be used by the user.  )

Of course, it is important to avoid duplicating the same include-guard macro name in different header files, as including the 1st will prevent the 2nd from being included, leading to the loss of any declarations, inline definitions, or other #includes in the 2nd header.

Difficulties
For #include guards to work properly, each guard must test and conditionally set a different preprocessor macro. Therefore, a project using #include guards must work out a coherent naming scheme for its include guards, and make sure its scheme doesn't conflict with that of any third-party headers it uses, or with the names of any globally visible macros.

For this reason, most C and C++ implementations provide a non-standard  directive. This directive, inserted at the top of a header file, will ensure that the file is included only once. The Objective-C language (which is a superset of C) introduced an  directive, which works exactly like , except that it includes each file only once, thus obviating the need for #include guards.

Other languages
Some languages support specifying that the code should be included only once, in the including file, rather than in the included one (as with C/C++ include guards and ):

 * PL/I uses the  statement as the equivalent to C's   directive. IBM Enterprise PL/I also supports the   statement which will "incorporate external text into the source program if it has not previously been included." (It also offers an   statement, similar to a   statement, which will ignore the second and subsequent occurrences of an   with the same name.)
 * Objective-C's  directive (see above)
 * PHP's

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Sri Aman Division

Sri Aman Division is one of the twelve administrative divisions in Sarawak, Malaysia. Formerly part of the Second Division, which included Betong, Sri Aman Division has a total area of 5,466.7 square kilometres. It was formerly known as Simanggang District.

Sri Aman Division contains two administrative districts: Sri Aman and Lubok Antu. The total population is 93,379. The population is generally culturally mixed, with Iban, Malay and Chinese predominating.

The economy of the division is mostly agricultural. Sri Aman Division is in the largest farming area of Sarawak.

The Division also contains the Batang Ai National Park and the Maludam National Park, and tourism, especially ecotourism, and cultural tourism to the Iban longhouses is an important part of the local economy.

History
The Second Division of Sarawak was established on 1 June 1873. It was later renamed to Simanggang Division. The Division was renamed to Sri Aman Division in March 1974.

Sri Aman Division was originally made up of four districts, which were Sri Aman, Lubok Antu, Betong, and Saratok together with 9 smaller districts including Pantu, Lingga, Maludam, Engkilili, Spaoh, Debak, Pusa and Roban.

After the establishment of Betong Division on 26 March 2002, Sri Aman Division comprises only 2 districts and 3 smaller districts, which were Sri Aman and Lubok Antu Districts whereas the smaller districts covers Engkilili, Lingga and Pantu.

Administration
The land area of the division is 5,466.25 km2 and the population is around 90,000 people. The division's main economy source is agriculture, with palm oil, padi, pepper and cocoa being the main crops.

Resident's Roll of Honor
Below is the Resident of Sri Aman Roll of Honor, dating back to its formation in 1869:

 * James Brooke Cruickshank (1869–1870) – the first Resident
 * Henry Skelton (1870–1873)
 * Francis Richard Ord Maxwell (1872–1881)
 * Henry Fitzgibbon Deshon (1879–1892)
 * Demetrius James Sandford Bailey (1888–1908)
 * Rajah Muda Charles Vyner Brooke (1898–1899)
 * Arthur Bartlett Ward (1899–1901)
 * Frederick Ambrose Wilford Page Turner (1915–1930)
 * John Beville Archer (1930–1934)
 * Adam Philip Mcdonald (1934–1936)
 * Hugh Edward Cutfield (1936–1941) (Sarawak was then occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1945)
 * J.C.H. Barcroft (1946–1947) (Sarawak became a British Colony in 1946)
 * W.P.N.L. Ditmas (1947–1951)
 * A.F.R. Griffin (1951–1953)
 * M.J. Forster (1953–1955)
 * A.J.N. Richards (1955–1962)
 * J.F. Drake-Brockman (1962–1963) (Sarawak became independent, then part of Malaysia in 1963)
 * G. Lloyd Thomas (1963–1965) – last foreigner to hold the position of Resident
 * Peter Tinggom (1965–1967) – first local to be appointed as Resident
 * William Nais (1967–1970)
 * Tuan Hj Yusof Bin Tuan Hj Arbi (29.01.1970–16.02.1973)
 * Tuan Hj Mohd Fauzi Bin Hj Abd Hamid (16.02.1973–19.05.1980)
 * Mohd Hanis Bin Mahlie (20.05.1980–05.08.1983)
 * Dr Yusoff Bin Hj Hanifah (06.08.1983–15.08.1984)
 * Tuan Hj Abu Kassim Bin Hj Abd Rahim (16.06.1984–01.11.1986)
 * Michael Pilo Ak Gangga (01.11.1986–20.03.1987)
 * Tuan Hj Abu Kassim Bin Hj Abd Rahim (21.03.1987–30.12.1988)
 * Peter Nyaed Juses(31.12.1988–19.03.1989)
 * Tuan Hj Mohd Iskandar Bin Abdullah (20.03.1989–18.06.1991)
 * Noel Hudson Laga (19.06.1991–02.02.1993)
 * Waslie Bin Ramlie (26.02.1993–05.03.1993)
 * Peter Nyaed Juses (06.03.1993–06.09.1993) – Reappointed for the 2nd time.
 * Waslie Bin Ramlie (06.09.1993–15.03.1997) – also reappointed for the 2nd time.
 * Salleh Bin Yusop (14.04.1997–31.12.1998)
 * Ganie Ugay (02.01.1999–28.03.2000)
 * Patrick Engkasan Ak Entabar @ Digat (01.03.2000–30.11.2002)
 * Dr Ngenang Ak Jangu (02.12.2002–02.12.2006)
 * Abg Shamshudin Bin Abg Seruji (03.01.2007–15.11.2010)
 * Abd Rahman Sebli Bin Senusi (01.12.2010–04.08.2011)

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