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Talk:Northern Illinois University

Division I status
What does this sentence mean: "NIU is one of only two public universities in Illinois that compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the highest levels of all sports, Division I." By my count, there are six other public universities that compete in Division I: Eastern Illinois, Illinois State, both Southern Illinois campuses, University of Illinois Chicago, and Western Illinois. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oscarfan (talk • contribs) 23:47, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

 * I agree. A lot of Illinois universities play Division I athletics. NIU competes in the Mid-American Conference for every sport, except men's soccer, which plays in the Missouri Valley Conference (same conference as ISU, SIU, and UIC). The current sentence is inaccurate and vague.
 * I think they meant to say, "NIU is one of only two public Division 1-A programs in Illinois", Division I-A being the highest level of college  football . The public aspect seems trivial. It's an oddly specific accolade. I think it should be removed or re-written. Something along the lines of:
 * NIU is one of only three universities in Illinois that compete in the NCAA at the highest level of football, Division I-A (FBS)
 * This seems like a more concise and notable fact than the previous one (the 3rd team is NU). Do any other public Illinois universities compete entirely in Division I? If not, then it could simply read:
 * NIU is one of only three universities in Illinois that compete in the NCAA at the highest level of Division I for all sports
 * *Edits highlighted in bold
 * Related Links:
 * National Collegiate Athletic Association
 * NCAA Division I
 * List of NCAA Division I-A football programs (FBS)
 * ~ ATeaDaze (talk) 23:44, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
 * ~ ATeaDaze (talk) 23:44, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

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Wilmington Friends School

Wilmington Friends School is a private Preschool-12 school in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, United States, near Wilmington. It is affiliated with the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers.

History
The school was founded in 1748 by members of the Wilmington Monthly Meeting of Friends.

Of the school, Delaware historian Benjamin Ferris wrote in the 19th century, "Thousands of children have there received the first rudiments of an English education."

In 1937, the Friends School moved from its original site to its current location in Alapocas, just outside the city of Wilmington. In 2019, it was announced that the school was selling its lower school building and constructing a new lower school on the middle and upper school campus. The building and about 20 acres of property is planned to be sold to the pharmaceutical research company Incyte.

Notable alumni

 * Ashley Biden, American social worker, activist, philanthropist, and fashion designer
 * Adam B. Ellick, correspondent for The New York Times who filmed a documentary about Malala Yousafza
 * Linda Holmes, NPR personality and writer
 * Matt Meyer, New Castle County Executive
 * Crystal Nix-Hines, United States Ambassador to UNESCO
 * Daniel Pfeiffer, politician and podcaster
 * Carol Quillen, president of Davidson College
 * Mabel Vernon, American suffragist, pacifist, and a national leader in the United States suffrage movement

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Talk:Smart card

Smart card vs. Draft:Complex Cards
Need your thoughts on whether a separate article should be created for Complex smart cards. I have not seen this term "complex card" or "complex smart card" used at all, but see it as an extension of the next generation of cards.

Pinging WP:TECH and other projects for input. AngusW🐶🐶F ( bark  •  sniff ) 14:04, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

In their general sense, smart cards are based on a single chip. Thus it makes sense to make a new article about complex smart cards as they include more than one chip and peripherals such as displays, keypads, fingerprints sensors, etc. Of course, the complex smart card article is to be referenced in the smart cards article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marseil (talk • contribs) 15:01, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

 * It's important to show at least one concrete example of a "complex" smart card; seems a bit hypothetical without that. Also, there should be at least one RS that formally defines the term "complex smart card". Finally, it's not clear why a complex smart card would necessarily have multiple ICs; it seems like it could have just a single IC plus peripheral. When these issues have been addressed then it could make sense to split it into a separate article. Lambtron  talk  15:50, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

 * I don't know if the title is quite right but that can always be changed and the draft does appear to offer a reasonable start on an independently notable subject (smart cards also that include displays, buttons, etc.). We could insist that this material be merged into this article but someone has to do that work before the draft expires and I think that would create an WP:UNDUE issue. Why not accept the draft and let editors work on improvements of the two articles and the relationship between them here in mainspace? ~Kvng (talk) 15:15, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

 * Actually, I could not find much references to "complex cards" or "complex smart cards" as most players in this field tend to define their cards by their core functionality: either a simple display, a DCSC (Dynamic Card Security Code), an OTP (One Time Password), or a fingerprint sensor. However, as technology and manufacturing methods between these functionalities are the same, I think it makes sense to have them all on a single article. More globally, a taxonomy for these topics can be:

Cards ---+--- magstripe cards +--- smart cards --+--- regular smart cards (one chip) +--- complex smart cards (more than one chip and peripherals aboard the card)
 * As complex smart cards constitute a topic in themselves (same set of technologies, same manufacturing methods, same players), it seems clearer to describe them as an independent article athn to merge them in the smart card article. Marseil (talk) 10:56, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

I renamed the article "Complex smart cards (Smart cards with peripherals)" to make this more explicit. A reference to the wording "complex cards" can be found at https://www.nagraid.com/en/solutions/complex-cards, at NiD, formerly NagraID, which is one of the major players in this field. Should this reference be included in the first lines of the article?
 * Other sources refer to "powered card technologies", "battery-free solution for payment cards", "battery-free display cards", "fingerprint cards", "OTP display cards", "chip-embedded power card", "power card", "display card", "biometric card", "biometric payment card", "biometric smart card", "payment display cards", "dynamic code card", "fingerprint biometric cards", "EMV biometric card", "Motion code", "F.Code", "powered display cards", "multicomponent and other complex cards".
 * None of these expressions is satisfactory as they are too specific, generally focusing on only one function. In fact, cards can be powered or not, they can include displays or not, they can support biometric functions or not, etc. What all these cards have in common is to be more complex both in terms of functionality and of manufacturing than regular smart cards.
 * So do you think the title "Complex smart cards (Smart cards with peripherals)" is more explicit? Marseil (talk) 14:01, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

I just changed the title to "Super smart cards" as this is the wording used by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) in this publication: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/76117 to describe cards with peripherals. Do you think this is inline with the requirement for evidence in independent, reliable, published sources? --Marseil (talk) 15:49, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

 * This citation is quite dated at 32 years old and I am not sure that terminology ever caught on, or is still used by IEEE. Are there any other sources, particularly more recent ones, confirming use of the terminology "super smart cards"? ExoticViolet (talk) 02:51, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

 * the current split proposal is not clear - there is a mix between smart card with multiple chips and smart card with more capacity . at the end Id on't understand the objective Tech Dir (talk) 15:47, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

 * Thus the HatNote atop the Smart card article has timed out ... it's now about 18 months. Nuts240 (talk) 19:19, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Page doesnt mention about Laser cards https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc#/media/File%3ADREXLER_LASER_CARD-01.jpg its also mentioned on BBC Micro Live S01E01 (5th October 1984). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.156.172.52 (talk) 10:46, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

The purpose of smart cards
I suppose I'm not quite an expert on smart cards, but isn't monitoring access just as valid of a use for smart cards as controlling access? I would think the first sentence would be better written with 'control or monitor access' instead of 'control access' but it's probably best to get a second opinion. Kelvinnkat (talk) 17:38, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/No O'Clock in the morning

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was speedy delete. – ABCD✉ 04:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

No O'Clock in the morning
Utterly non-notable (who's David Aaron (myst_hunter)? Google doesn't know). Delete. Dvyost 04:47, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism verging on nonsense. Cnwb 04:56, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete junk --Rogerd 05:57, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete hoax --Johntex\talk 08:58, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nomination. utcursch | talk 11:37, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Hornblower in the West Indies

Promotion to Admiral by Seniority
I took out the following paragraph as irrelevant:

''In the Royal Navy of the early nineteenth century promotion from Captain to Admiral was based solely on seniority. Hornblower was promoted to Captain in 1805. Compare with the distinguished officer Lord Thomas Cochrane, who was promoted to Captain in 1801, and was not promoted to Rear-Admiral until 1832. Seniority wouldn't have brought promotion to Rear-Admiral to Hornblower until the late 1830s or later.''

Cochrane was convicted for fraud (wether fairly or not) and struck off the Navy List in 1814. He was not eligible for promotion until he got a pardon and a reinstatement in 1832 (at which time he was promoted to rear admiral). So he is not a valid comparison. Feel free to salvage whatever is useful. --Stephan Schulz 04:48, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I found another example and re-instated that paragraph. Edward Berry, appointed Captain 1797, Rear-Admiral 1821.  FWIW, I think these dates show that when Cochrane was re-instated his reinstatement must have been with his original seniority.  --  Geo Swan 14:24, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Out of interest I looked at the biographies of a number of well-known RN officers for the dates of their promotions to Post-Captain and then to Rear-Admiral, and calculated the interval between them - the results are below:

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! Name || Capt. || Adm. || Yrs.
 * + Promotion to Captain
 * Hornblower || 1805 || 1818 || 13
 * Anson || 1724 || 1744 || 20
 * Byron || 1746 || 1775 || 31
 * Middleton || 1758 || 1787 || 29
 * Jervis || 1760 || 1787 || 27
 * Gambier || 1778 || 1795 || 17
 * Nelson || 1779 || 1797 || 17
 * Calder || 1782 || 1799 || 17
 * Saumarez || 1782 || 1801 || 19
 * Pellew || 1782 || 1804 || 22
 * Ball || 1783 || 1799 || 16
 * Moore || 1794 || 1815 || 21
 * Pellew || 1795 || 1810 || 16
 * Bligh || 1796 || 1810 || 16
 * Berry || 1797 || 1821 || 24
 * Hardy || 1798 || 1825 || 27
 * Cochrane || 1801 || 1832 || 32
 * }
 * '''Avg. (not counting Hornblower) 22 years 4 months
 * Pellew || 1782 || 1804 || 22
 * Ball || 1783 || 1799 || 16
 * Moore || 1794 || 1815 || 21
 * Pellew || 1795 || 1810 || 16
 * Bligh || 1796 || 1810 || 16
 * Berry || 1797 || 1821 || 24
 * Hardy || 1798 || 1825 || 27
 * Cochrane || 1801 || 1832 || 32
 * }
 * '''Avg. (not counting Hornblower) 22 years 4 months
 * Berry || 1797 || 1821 || 24
 * Hardy || 1798 || 1825 || 27
 * Cochrane || 1801 || 1832 || 32
 * }
 * '''Avg. (not counting Hornblower) 22 years 4 months
 * }
 * '''Avg. (not counting Hornblower) 22 years 4 months

This seems to show that Hornblower's elevation to flag-rank was extraordinarily rapid. C. Northcote Parkinson in his 'biography' of Hornblower puts this down to the fact that he was a member (even if only by marriage) of the influential Wellesley family. That said another famous fictional officer - Patrick O'Brian's "Jack Aubrey" - was made Post-Captain in 1804 and Admiral in 1816 - in only 12 years! -- dawkeye 21:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I added some more officers to the list. Our nautical fiction authors emphasis that the promotion from Captain to Admiral was strictly by seniority.  But the dates for Calder, Saumarez, Pellew and Ball diverge from that pattern.  Bligh had his promotion backdated.  to 1810, when he was actually promoted in 1811.  I read a biography of Bligh some decades ago that said he had to forgo his scheduled promotion to Admiral to take up his appointment as Governor of New South Wales.

 * Including the new individuals the average age is 21 years, 11 months. Geo Swan (talk) 06:53, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Someone mistakenly "corrected" Hornblower's reasonable date of promotion to mid-1920s. I changed it back.  Geo Swan (talk) 17:28, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

unsupported {merge} suggestion
User:ColourBurst suggested merging HMS Crab (fictional Hornblower vessel) into this article. They didn't offer any reasons as to why this would be a good idea.

Personally, I think it is a bad idea. Cheers! -- Geo Swan 17:25, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * There are lots of fictional ships from well-known novels, movies, or televion shows, that have articles written about them.
 * The Hornblower article has a section devoted to Hornblower's ships. HMS Crab is not the most important vessel HH sailed on.  But, the existence of a reproduction of a similar vessel, where interested readers can read about what sailing on an RN vessel of this size would really be like, makes her suitable for an article.

Very interesting discussion. Of course, let's remember we are dealing with fiction. In reading fiction, the public really doesn't care how accurate all of the details are, just as long as they have an exciting adventure to read. The reading public is gratified at Hornblower's rapid promotion with each daring adventure.

The Rev. J.C. Russell

Also writes: Has anyone ever attempted to write more sequels to these novels or proposed any spin-off characters and write about these?

69.68.95.170 12:47, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Date correction
Original Quote: "This one takes place when Britain is at peace, 1818–1821."

This can't be correct. The book starts with the chase after the "Daring". When Hornblower achieves to persuade the crew that Napoleon died one month ago, and a few days later learns that this lie was actually true, this must have been ca. May 30th 1821, as Napoleon died May 5th 1821. So the first chapter begins ca. End of April / beginning of May 1821. Additionally, Hornblower mentions in the beginning that it has been 6 years since Waterloo.

A map on the last page of the book shows Hornblower's voyages from June 1794 to October 1923. This matches the lenght of his service as rear-admiral in the West Indies, so the book ends Oct. 1823.

I corrected the date. Olagorie (talk) 17:48, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

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Corn-fed

Corn-fed, Corn fed, or Cornfed may refer to:
 * Corn-fed beef, beef from cattle that is raised on corn (maize) rather than pasture.

Comics and animation

 * Corn Fed Comics, an underground comix by Kim Deitch
 * "Cornfed", an android character from the Livewires comic book limited series
 * "Cornfed", a pig from the Duckman animated sitcom

Other

 * Corn-Fed:Cul-de-sacs, Keg Stands, and Coming of Age in the Midwest, a 2018 humor memoir by Melanie LaForce
 * Corn Fed (album), a 2006 album by Shannon Brown
 * Cornfed Derby Dames, a women's flat track roller derby league in Muncie, Indiana, United States

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Talk:USS Bagley (DD-386)

Page started
Wheh... ok, so I just started this page, and wow, I took the text from it's DANFS entry as I normally do for ships like this. But look at this. This is the most ridiculously long DANFS entry I've yet come across. Whoever wrote it is far too long winded for his own good. Given lots of it is an interesting read, but there is alot of info there that is all about the other ships the Bagley is with and not so much about the Bagley. So I editted the hell out of that article, and I chopped and chopped and tossed many a paragraph. If you feel more up to editting this better than I, by all means edit this as you see fit. -- Malo 04:48, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Friendly Fire Theory on the Canberra
At 14:21, 5 April 2006, 136.1.1.101 changed the article to say:

 * It is likely that one of these torpedoes exploded instead against Canberra's starboard side, as she soon developed a list to that side despite facing her port side to the enemy

As it lacked any supporting source citations, I reverted this claim of friendly fire. In reviewing the "official" accounts of the battle, I cannot find any confirmation that Bagley torpedoed Canberra. While there are allegations making this claim, others  dispute any friendly fire. While it is technically possible that Canberra was struck by a friendly torpedo, I do not feel we can honestly say that she was likey struck by Bagley. Doing otherwise strikes me as being a poster child for what wikipedia is not. --Kralizec! (talk) 21:40, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I added references and text giving more detail on the "friendly fire" theory. Cla68 00:47, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

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Lake Zurich High School

Lake Zurich High School, LZHS, or Lake Zurich Senior High School is a public four-year high school located in Lake Zurich, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, in the United States. It is part of Community Unit School District 95, which is home to five elementary schools and two middle schools, primarily taking students from Lake Zurich Middle School North and Lake Zurich Middle School South, but it also takes students from local parochial schools such St. Francis de Sales. Students from most of Lake Zurich, Hawthorn Woods portions of Kildeer, Deer Park, North Barrington and unincorporated areas such as Forest Lake and Echo Lake attend Lake Zurich High School.

History
Lake Zurich High school first opened its doors to students in 1926 as Ela-Vernon High School, serving Ela and Vernon Townships in Lake County, Illinois. In 1964, area residents built a second high school which was to be called Ela-Vernon East. A series of disagreements between Vernon Township residents and Ela Township residents led to the split of the school district and Stevenson High School opened in nearby Lincolnshire drawing students from the eastern half of Ela Township and all of Vernon Township. As a result of the split, a rivalry existed between the schools, and each fall the football teams competed for what was known as "The Cannon". The Cannon was a miniature steel replica of the real thing, and fired a blank shotgun shell when teams entered the field, and or scored a touchdown. The Cannon was retired in 1982, after Stevenson and Lake Zurich discontinued their football rivalry, as a result of a differing enrollment and different athletic conference affiliations. Lake Zurich won the last game involving the cannon in 1982. Students from most of Lake Zurich, Hawthorn Woods portions of Kildeer, Deer Park, North Barrington and unincorporated areas such as Forest Lake and Echo Lake attend Lake Zurich High School.

Athletics
Lake Zurich competes in the North Suburban Conference and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). The school's teams are stylized Bears.

The school has won 4 IHSA state championships, one in football (2007–08), one in cheerleading (2010–11) and the dance team has won two back to back state championships (2018/2019). The school has also won the Illinois State Lacrosse Cup (2012–13).

In 2006, the school installed artificial turf for its stadium, and again in the summer of 2014.

In early 2017, the families of two football players filed lawsuits alleging that they had been hazed in a way that included forced sex acts. The scandal caused the resignation of several people involved with the team, including the athletic director and the head coach. Without admitting wrongdoing, the district eventually settled with the alleged victims.

Activities
The Lake Zurich High School's (LZHS) Drama Department performance of "Urinetown" was selected by USA Weekend Magazine as a state winner (Illinois) for "Best High School Musicals in America". The cast and crew performed the play twice January 5–6, 2007 at the University of Illinois during the Illinois High School Theatre Festival. Other shows performed by Lake Zurich at the Festival include "The Wedding Singer" in 2009, "The Diviners" in 2005, and "Love/Sick" in 2017.

LZHS also has band, orchestra, and choir programs. Students participating in the 2013 IHSA Solo/Ensemble Contest earned 2nd place overall in class AA, with 675 points.

Notable alumni

 * Matt Blanchard, former American football quarterback
 * Anthony Castonzo, former American football offensive tackle
 * Charles M. Eaton Jr, a judge on the Fulton County Superior Court in the Atlanta Judicial Circuit.
 * Jack Lynn, former American football linebacker
 * Jack Sanborn, American football linebacker for the Chicago Bears
 * Hannah Welton, drummer for 3rdeyegirl

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User:Iris dela Cruz

Iris Dela Cruz (1977-present)

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Tracer gun

A tracer gun, sometimes known as a disc gun, is a kind of toy gun made of durable plastic. The toy shoots lightweight plastic discs roughly the size of a penny. Kids discovered it would also shoot U.S. pennies over a shorter distance. The discs used as ammunition for these guns are often sold with the label "Jet Discs." The firing mechanism is a spring, The magazine holds 20 "discs." Range is about 30 feet, and even then, accuracy is far from dependable. The trigger requires some force. The firing sound is a loud, low, and distinctive "snap!". Oftentimes the trigger will become loose and will take multiple attempts to shoot.

Early models
The gun was manufactured starting in the 1960s, at which time it was called the "Rapid-Fire Tracer Gun". It was available in greenish bronze or bluish silver. Many of these older guns were made by Ray Plastics Inc. in the United States under the brand name "Rayline". A rifle version of the tracer gun was also made, called the "Jet Disc Tracer-Scope". There was even a collectible Star Trek version, called the "Star Trek Tracer Gun" and "Star Trek Tracer-Scope", first made in 1966 and one of the earliest Star Trek licensed products. All versions, including the rifle, held 20 jet discs in an integrated spring-driven magazine.

The toy, including the Star Trek version, was sold in Canada under the "Grand Toys" brand.

Later models
In the 1990s, Chinese manufacturers produced a new batch of tracer guns based on the original models. Some simply had bright new colors and new names (e.g. "HIT THE TARGET"), but others sported new features. For example, the RFDS3816 "Rapid Fire Disc Shooter", distributed by MAGIC, had removable magazines; the DS3823 "Disc Shooter", by the same company, loaded from the left side instead of the right.

The jet discs themselves also varied slightly in size, from as small as 0.815" to as large as the original 0.856".

Use in the game Assassin
Tracer guns have often been used to play a game popular at high schools and colleges known as "Killer," "Killer Tag" or "Killer Assassination" that involves trying to "assassinate" the other players with toy weaponry. Tracer guns suit this kind of game well because they are cheap and easily obtainable, and their bright colors and low firing power (often, a target does not even know a shot has hit) help to address safety issues.

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KKFN

KKFN (104.3 FM, "Denver Sports 104.3 The Fan") is a commercial radio station serving the Denver-Boulder market. Owned and operated by Salt Lake City–based Bonneville International, KKFN airs a sports radio format. The station is licensed to Longmont, Colorado. Its studios are located in Greenwood Village, and the transmitter is in Lakewood on Green Mountain. KKFN runs local sports shows days and evenings, and carries ESPN Radio programming late nights and weekends.

Middle of the road (1964–1986)
In September 1964, KLMO-FM first signed on, a sister station to KLMO (then at 1050 AM, now KRCN at 1060 AM). Powered at 28,000 watts with a tower only 88 feet tall, unable to be heard throughout the Denver region, the station targeted Longmont, Boulder and the suburbs north of Denver. KLMO-FM simulcast the middle of the road music and news heard on its AM counterpart.

Adult contemporary (1986–1987)
In December 1986, KLMO-FM was sold to local owner Western Cities Broadcasting. Western Cities got the Federal Communications Commission to permit 104.3 to boost its power to 58,000 watts, now covering more of the Denver market. The station switched to an adult contemporary music format, changing its call sign to KQKS, and branded as "104.3 Kiss FM". In mid-1987, the branding was shortened to "KS104".

Top 40 (1987–1996)
On August 1, 1987, amidst heavy competition against three other AC FM's in the Denver market, and with only one Top 40/CHR station in the market, KQKS segued to a Top 40/CHR format. By 1989, the station evolved into a Dance-leaning Rhythmic Top 40 direction, but by 1993, KQKS started shifting back to a mainstream Top 40 direction again when it became the only Top 40 in the market.

However, by 1995, KQKS would see heavy competition from two stations in KWMX and KALC, both of which went after listeners by playing mainstream pop music. As a result, KQKS returned to rhythmic contemporary hits that year. But by 1996, KQKS would receive a major jolt when the station's DJs defected to another new rhythmic contemporary hit radio station, KJMN (JAM'N 92.1), and began attacking them on-air and on the streets.

In November 1996, Western Cities sold the station to Jefferson-Pilot.

Country (1997–2000)
On January 8, 1997, Jefferson-Pilot (which later became part of the Lincoln Financial Group) moved the KQKS call sign and Rhythmic Top 40 format to 107.5 MHz. With that switch, on January 18, Jefferson—Pilot placed a classic country format on 104.3 as KCKK, initially branded "Country 104.3" and later "K104.3, Denver's Country HIT Kicker." Jefferson-Pilot opened new studios in Lakewood for all of its Denver stations in mid-1997. (Lincoln Financial moved operations to Greenwood Village in 2006.)

Smooth jazz (2000–2008)
On September 1, 2000, the classic country format moved to AM 1600, with 104.3 flipping to Smooth Jazz after that format temporarily disappeared from Denver airwaves when previous Smooth Jazz outlet KHIH flipped to Top 40 earlier that day. KCKK switched call letters to KJCD (and the moniker “CD104.3”) shortly after the move. In June 2007, Lincoln Financial announced that would put its television and radio stations up for sale, including KJCD and its sister stations in Denver, although it would take another seven years before a deal was made.

Sports (2008–present)

On March 8, 2008, at 1 p.m., KJCD changed its format to all-sports, simulcasting KKFN, and rebranded as "104.3 The Fan". The call letters switched to KKFN-FM on March 12, 2008, and again to KKFN on March 1, 2009, once the sports format was moved completely over to the FM and the AM adopted an oldies format.

On December 8, 2014, Entercom made plans to purchase Lincoln Financial Group's entire 15-station lineup in a $106.5 million deal. On December 22, 2014, Entercom announced that it would spin off KKFN to the Pike's Peaks Trust, in anticipation of selling it to a third party group as part of a divesture deal. On June 26, 2015, the FCC green-lighted the deal, with KKFN becoming part of the Pike's Peaks Trust, splitting it from the other properties that became part of the Entercom acquisition. On July 14, 2015, the Department of Justice forced Entercom to spin off KKFN, KOSI, KYGO-FM and KEPN to Bonneville International in exchange for Bonneville's KSWD in Los Angeles (and $5 million) to meet ownership limits and satisfy total market revenue limits. Both Bonneville and Entercom began operating their new clusters via a Time Brokerage Agreement on July 17, 2015. The deal was officially consummated on November 24, 2015.

On January 3, 2023, KKFN officially rebranded as "Denver Sports 104.3 The Fan", while also expanding the "Denver Sports" brand to KEPN.

Programming
KKFN's lineup consists of Mark Schlereth and Mike Evans from 6:00-9:00 am, "The Player's Club" with Orlando Franklin, Chad Brown and Nate Jackson from 9:00-11:00am, Brandon Stokley and Zach Bye from 11:00am to 2:00 pm and The Drive with Derek Wolfe and Darren "DMac" McKee from 2:00-6:00 pm. Knowshon Moreno is the station's main fill-in host. KKFN remains the dominant sports ratings leader in Denver.

KKFN carries NFL play-by-play including Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Thursday Night Football, all NFL playoff games, and the Super Bowl. It also airs college football games including the College Football Playoff, the Daytona 500, the NBA Playoffs and NBA Finals. Weekday evenings and weekends are handled by ESPN Radio.

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/A Link to the Past

This nomination has been removed a few days early due to overwhelming opposition. Ac e  tic  ' Acid  23:55, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

A Link to the Past
FINAL (6/17/7) ended 23:55 October 9, 2005 (UTC)

– A Link to the Past has been a great user since his first edit in December 2004, being very active in cleanup projects and other Wikipedia activities. 4720 edits for those with editcountitis, well distributed throughout namespaces. Would make a good admin. Ral 315   WS  04:50, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
 * Mild lesbian acceptance - A Link to the Past (talk) 05:07, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) As nominator, of course.   Ral  315   WS  04:51, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Extreme DeCSS support, of course! I have seen this user around a lot. — J I P  | Talk 05:28, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support CambridgeBayWeather 06:25, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support - A clever, diligent editor --Knucmo2 09:33, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) I've seen a lot of ALTTP. --Merovingian (t) (c) 10:54, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Strong Support - A Link to the Past is dedicated to improving the quality of the encyclopedia. A few people would do well to remember what our goal is here. Rob Church Talk 18:17, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * He doesn't need the admin mop to improve the quality of the encyclopedia. --Angr/undefined 19:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Really? I'd love to contest this claim that those who improve articles are not worthy of admin status. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  15:02, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Angr said that you don't have to be an admin to improve Wikipedia, while you claim he said that if you improve Wikipedia you can't be an admin. If we denote "is an admin" with A and "improves Wikipedia" with I, this means that Angr said ¬∀x: Ix → Ax, while you said ∀x: Ix → ¬Ax. Angr's statement can be further expressed as ∃x: Ix ∩ ¬Ax. Your statement can be expressed as ∀x: ¬Ix ∪ Ax. These are not the same thing, because if we assume there are at least two Wikipedians in this Wikipedia, ∃ statements are not the same thing as ∀ statements. In fact, the statements are directly contradictory, as Ix contradicts ¬Ix and ¬Ax contradicts Ax, so in your version of Angr's statement, there can't be anyone who improves Wikipedia but is not an admin, because all users must either not improve Wikipedia, or be admins, or both. So therefore you have interpreted Angr wrong. — J I P | Talk 18:15, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) --Boothy443 | comhrá 06:30, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Too few edit summaries. Oleg Alexandrov 06:47, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose The discussion on Talk:Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back really disturbes me. I believe that comments such as the one A man in black cites and others on that page (such as  and ) is unacceptable for any wikipedian, let alone an administrator. And yes I realise that the discussion was frustrating, but an admin needs patience in boatloads, enough to be able to handle these things. However, from what else I have seen of A Link To The Past, he seems like a very good user, and I am willing to change my vote in a few months if this RfA fails (barring any similar incidents, naturally). gkhan 11:21, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) An excellent editor but a little too rash to be an admin at this point. Needs to have his edges dulled a bit. For example, this quote from August 25 regarding Adamwankenobi: I also see you're sixteen years old. That would explain it. Oh well, at least school will help keep you from burdening Wikipedia anymore. I'm trying to help Empire Strikes Back, and you put that shit back on. I have encouraged admins at the wikipedia channel to not take vandal shit from you, so I suggest you fix up your act, or your ass is going to be torn. Admittedly Adamwankenobi was a bad faith user, but admins must keep their cool. Regrettably I must oppose at this point. Sorry! Andre ( talk ) 13:32, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Oppose, per Andre. Needs to keep a cooler head. Christopher Parham (talk) 13:55, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Oppose. Following some of these links, there's just no way. So, yeah, blow me. I don't want to change it, so what? Are you gonna have a fucking heart attack over it? This is just Wikipedia. Just two days ago. Marskell 15:20, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Oppose: Lacks the patience and temperment to be an admin. --Durin 15:51, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Oppose, per above. →Jo urna list   >>talk<<  15:59, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Oppose. I'm sorry, ALTTP. Though he's generally a great editor and I'm always on his side in disputes, he's far too rash and prone to getting into heated arguments and revert wars (some of which have led to pages being protected). He's a great editor (I love the Wario and Lakitu articles)... but I don't think he would make a good admin, especially when dealing with frustrating users. Coffee 17:50, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Oppose, his recent outbursts of temper are just way to recent to be ignored. And for an 18 year old to mock a 16 year old for his youth, well, that's just the pot calling the kettle black. --Angr/undefined 19:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Oppose seems too angry to be an admin. I don't believe he'll make a good one I oppose. Private Butcher 22:37, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Oppose Needs to keep a cool head more. -Greg Asche (talk) 23:24, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) OpposeAn admin must be polite and calm at all times. -DDerby- (talk) 04:02, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Oppose per GregAsche. --WikiFanaticTalk Contribs 23:40, 6 October 2005 (CDT)
 * 15) Oppose excellent editor, tireless contributor, and all-around good bloke. However – darnit – needs to pay a lot more attention to being patient, civil, and avoiding personal attacks.  Promising to clean up one's act is all very well, but I don't think anyone should be up for adminship just four days after swearing at another user?  It's not enough to make good edits; an admin should be cool under fire. --fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 18:51, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Oppose per above. Type O Spud 20:43, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Oppose too hot headed, from my experience. --InShaneee 22:46, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) I must admit to moderately heated disagreements with ALTTP recently over stub categories. Not strong enough to oppose, but I'm a little wary of supporting. Grutness...  wha?  06:23, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) I'm a bit ambivalent, too, although the timing is unfortunate, as I'm currently engaged in a fairly heated debate with him. (If anything, his patience in that dispute is a point in his favor.) I have mixed feelings about his tendency to edit without edit summaries and his occasionally confrontational tone in talk pages and edit summaries (particularly when dealing with confrontations by other editors). If it weren't for that, I'd be inclined to support. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 06:39, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Since it's not really fair to be this critical without examples, here's one. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:11, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) I must admit that I don't like the answer to question 1 below at all;  if you're not ready to use Brainpower before deleting, blocking and especially closing AfD's or others.... I don't know what to say about this, but: are you taking the admin-stuff seriously at all? (and I don't mean to offend here, that's why I 'voted' neutral) Lectonar 10:42, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * And yes, I've seen that you meant it basically as a jest; I just don't feel thats easily recognisable Lectonar 10:49, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) I think that ALTTP is now making a good effort to be a more calm and civil editor, but I would like to see him demonstrate it over a few weeks at least. I appreciate his willingness to learn from this experience, and I look forward to supporting his next RfA. FreplySpang (talk) 22:43, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Neutral Good Editor but troubled by comments maybe in a few months --JAranda'' | yeah 00:06, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Neutral. There's already enough opposition so I'm not going to pile on, but I do think that taking the advice from this RfA would be beneficial. Carbonite | Talk 12:53, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Neutral I'd like to thank the candidate for answering my questions. Candidate is obviously a great editor, but like the opposition here I agree the candidate needs just a tad more time working out the personal part (which can be hard :-. Its also obvious that the candidate is making a commendable attempt to get better at it too, which is good :). Ryan Norton T 15:31, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * *grumble* I have several criticisms of this candidate. First off, the candidate floods peer review. Second, the answer to the first question makes me think twice. Third, a severe lack of edit summaries (in some cases). Ryan Norton T 05:22, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Taking on your comments in order: Yes, I admit that perhaps it was rude of me to flood the Peer Review with articles, no matter how legitimate they were. I apologize, although the way you worded it makes it seem like I do it on a regular basis. c_c
 * That was just a jest, basically, anything that I can do without having an innate knowledge in, say, HTML or C++ I'll be able to do.
 * Yes, yes, I had a speech on that, and I do have a problem with edit summaries. However, the only time I really made no edit summaries was that one time recently where I was stub-sorting. I was trying to get it done as soon as humanly possible, so I just c/ped the stub to be applied and saved. I'll try my hardest to remember to keep writing edit summaries. Thanks for your comments. - A Link to the Past (talk) 05:34, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response! I apologize if I was a bit terse... OK, so I've got one last question for you (and please realize these are just to address my own concerns as I'm very much undecided). At least from what I've seen you tend to drift towards owning articles, as statements such as Talk:Star_Wars_Episode_V:_The_Empire_Strikes_Back would indicate, and in general the disputes that follow. Am I incorrect? What do you think? Ryan Norton T 06:20, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't say owning, but I was being a pinch selfish with what I thought was quality. Although, the statements I made were in response to the additude that this is for Star Wars editors to edit. Also, Grutness, I don't quite recall conversing... @.@ - A Link to the Past (talk) 06:30, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Do the words "Video game company stubs" sound familiar? As I said, not nearly enough to oppose on, but it left me a little hesitant to support. Grutness...  wha?  23:52, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I realize I was testy with Clawson, and I do apologize for any aggression towards him, but in my own defense, the guy was ignoring what I was saying completely, and being respectful was not working to get him to stop ignoring what I was saying (he was saying that change was needed, and was ignoring me because I did not want change, and was demanding that I give a different change opposed to his change). - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:18, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * On edit summaries: Overall usage of edit summaries for this nominee is 45%. Over the last 500 edits, it's 66%. Thus, nominee is improving. There's more room for improvement though. --Durin 15:59, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * And, people, stop apologizing for not wanting to give me power. o_o Oh well - I'll just clean up my temper in the next few months. Also, yes, it was in jest, but you're misinterpreting the statement; it was to mean that I do not have expertise stuff like HTML, and that I could do simpler stuff. I'll change it to a less sarcastic statement. - A Link to the Past (talk) 18:27, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. Well, I'd say anything simple, I don't have an expertise in HTML or anything, I can just help with various tasks on Wikipedia. (deleting, (un)blocking, closing, (un)protecting, etc.)
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. Wario, Henry Fonda, Cat, Lakitu and Katamari Damacy, five articles that I have helped feature. Wario is my biggest work, where I contributed more content than anyone (A Man in Black helped out a lot too, however).
 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. Well, let's just say that in the past, I have let my temper get in the way of good judgement. Often, however, while i was at some fault for my temper being unleashed, there was fault in the receiver of my temper often, such as Adamwankenobi (who, after being blocked, returned and became a much better user). I plan on cleaning up my act, and promise to not abuse my power TOO much (if you didn't already get it, that statement was injest :). While I have a mean side if you look hard enough for it, I have a nice side - I rarely ever bite the newbies, and I strive to help improve the quality of Wikipedia. I have never been blocked, and I have never vandalized an article. I won't destroy you if you object, so don't worry. *waves*


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Canadian federal election results in Hamilton, Burlington and Niagara

This page shows results of Canadian federal elections in Hamilton, Burlington, and the Niagara Region.

Regional profile
This is arguably the most competitive region in Ontario and one of the most competitive in all of Canada, as all three major parties have significant strength. Traditionally a conservative-leaning area outside of Hamilton and Welland, the Conservatives won the majority of seats in the 1970s and 1980s, aside from 1974 when the Liberals did well, taking six of nine. Before that the Liberals had dominated the area in the 1960s and from 1940 to 1953 with the Conservatives dominating in the two late 1950s elections and in the 1920s and 1930s.

The entire area went for the Liberals in their sweeps of Ontario from 1993 to 2000, with the popularity of local left-leaning Liberal Sheila Copps and the prominence of her parents (Victor and Geraldine) at the municipal level in Hamilton being major factors.

Some of this changed in 2004, the year that happened to coincide with Sheila Copps' departure from federal politics. In Hamilton proper, the New Democratic Party managed to pick up one seat from the Liberals in 2004 and picked up two more in 2006 to sweep urban Hamilton. The Conservatives picked up two seats from the Liberals in 2004 and four more in 2006, leaving the Liberals with only Welland in 2006.

The 2008 and 2011 elections saw the Liberals shutout of the area as the NDP retained its stronghold in Hamilton and added Welland from the Liberals for four seats. The Conservatives claimed the other six ridings in the area each election from 2006 to 2011.

In the 2015 Liberal election victory, the Conservatives held the three most rural ridings plus Niagara Falls, while the NDP retained two of its Hamilton seats, the two fully within the city, but lost its Welland seat (realigned and renamed to Niagara Centre) to the Liberals who claimed the other five seats in the area.

In recent decades, the Liberals have support throughout the region, but no real stronghold of support, which means there are no real safe seats for the party in this area. Several ridings are competitive 3-way districts most elections, although Hamilton's four seats and Niagara Centre generally switch between the Liberals and NDP.

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Party rankings
Continuing the trend started in 2004, the Liberal lost all but one seat in the region but managed to arrive second in all the remaining 9 seats. The Conservatives and NDP managed to win 6 and 3 seats respectively but the Conservatives failed to arrive second in the 4 seats they lost and the NDP only arrived second in one riding.

Results by riding
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Party rankings
The Liberals recorded their third consecutive clean sweep of the region. The Canadian Alliance was much more competitive than the Reform Party in 1997, arriving second in all 11 ridings. Both the Progressive Conservatives and the NDP achieved worse results than in 1997.


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Super Secret Squirrels

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE.  Rob e  rt  17:21, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Super Secret Squirrels

 * Club vanity, and their greatest claim to notability is having their Wikipedia article deleted. Non-notable/vanity in pure form. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 04:51, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It was already speedy deleted.  I also appear to be in a revert war over at squirrel concerning whether the secret squirrels are notable enough to belong in that article.  --Aranae 04:58, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NN group of friends. They even state that their articles usually get deleted. Cnwb 05:39, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN --Rogerd 05:58, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable. They are wrong here, the articles are not being deleted because they're by anonymous authors, they're deleted because their subjects are not notable. — J I P | Talk 06:00, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Super Secret Speedy delete unverifiable nonsense. Let's help these squirrels remain secret. --Johntex\talk 08:59, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete, they admit to being deleted before and they're unverifiable by reliable sources. - Mgm|(talk) 09:03, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. utcursch | talk 11:37, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Secret Squirrel. This is very similar to the name of the re-hashed Secret Squirrel cartoons in the 1990s. Grutness...  wha?  12:05, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * ""Keep"". It's notable to about 1k people in the Washington, DC area.  It doesn't have anything to do with the Secret Squirrel cartoons.  I moved this over from Squirrel, because someone created it there, and it certainly doesn't belong there.  I added the "articles are deleted", because it kept getting yanked without listed reason, which, well, isn't exactly a model of politeness.  Looking through the Deletion Policy and What Wikipedia is Not, this seems a legitimate article.  It *doesn't* get deleted, I'll be glad to expand it beyond it's current near-stub state.  That said, please *don't* redirect it to Secret Squirrel, as the topics are entirely unrelated.  Talldean  14:05, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not really relevant whether or not there's a connection between what this article is currently about and Secret Squirrel. The main thing is that the current article is deletable, and it is viable that someone searching for the renamed "Super Secret Squirrel" cartoon would try searching with an -s on the end of the third word. that makes this title a reasonable redirect. Grutness...  wha?  07:47, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The cartoon is 'Secret Squirrel'. If they added a 'Super' to the beginning and pluralized it, that'd make more sense.  Thus, redirect probably isn't the best idea.   Talldean  14:05, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The 1990s remake was called "Super Secret Squirrel" - close enough that someone could get one letter wrong. Grutness...  wha?  23:14, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Please. (How's that for polite?). Marcus22 14:32, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, at least it's polite; I can't really ask for much more on this one.  Talldean  14:06, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No evidence of notability.--Isotope23 16:44, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep While I am new, the actual measurable notariety of this social group is effectively irrelevant to whether or not this article meets the grounds for deletion.  The idea is whether or not this article actually contributes to wikipedia as an encyclopedic article.  Ideally the test for this with respect to vanity articles is whether or not someone who is not a member or owner of the group would write an article about the group (in this case, since we are referring to a social group.)  I have done some basic research and have found independent references to them, specifically to their so-called "dj takeovers of clubs".  Furthermore, it can be argued that documentation of the social state of an existing counter-culture, regardless level of localization, is necessary.  Taking into consideration their "dj takeovers" at locations such as Nation in Washington, D.C. and Singapore Bistro (also in Washington, D.C.) it is evident that they play a role in the "rave" counter-culture of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.  Nation is a nightclub of nationwide notariety, on par with Twilo of New York, NY and Bed of Miami, FL.  We are fast approaching the effective end of the rave counter-culture in this portion of the United States.  This makes it ever more imperative that we document as much as possible of this important portion of American history.  This particular social group claims to be the evolution of a group that once contributed greatly to this counter-culture.  Lastly, it's necessary to define the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.  Currently the Washington, D.C. metro area is one of the largest metropolitan areas, encompassing a vast portion of northern Virginia, USA and Baltimore, MD, USA. Given this evidence, I see no reason to deem this article non-encylopedic, on the condition that it is expanded beyond the current stub-like state. Metagrapher 20:15, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable, completely unsourced. Quale 23:09, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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The Z Was Zapped

The Z Was Zapped (ISBN 0-395-44612-0) is a picture book by the American author Chris Van Allsburg originally published in 1987 by Houghton Mifflin. The book tells the story "in 26 acts", each showing how each letter in the alphabet caught some bad luck. The artwork has a stark look by using black and white pencil drawings. Each destruction of the letters take place on a proscenium theater stage.

Examples:
 * The A was in an avalanche.
 * The B was badly bitten.
 * The C was cut to ribbons.
 * The Z was zapped.

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Britannia, Ottawa

Britannia is a group of neighbourhoods in Bay Ward in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Ottawa River across from Aylmer, Quebec, adjacent to its namesake, Britannia Bay, north of Richmond Road, west of the Kichi Zibi Mikan and east of Boyce Avenue. The total population of this area was 6,692 as of the 2016 census. The area constituted a municipal ward from 1973 to 1994 (Britannia Ward).

The area has a mix of low and high income housing. The lower income areas of the area are closer to Richmond Road in the south, and the more affluent areas are located in the community of Britannia Village in the north, which includes the Britannia Yacht Club at the north end of Britannia Road.

Many of Britannia's old cottages live on as bungalows. It is surrounded by water, forest, and hills.

The Ottawa River Pathway is a very long segment of Capital Pathway along the south bank of almost the entire length Ottawa's portion of the Ottawa River. A bike path extends from Britannia some 12 kilometres to the Parliament buildings downtown. Today, there is probably no neighbourhood in Ottawa more mixed than Britannia forming a contrast with many of the homogenized satellite communities that have become Ottawa.

History
This land where Britannia stands was once a part of a large estate, owned by Captain John LeBreton in 1818. John LeBreton advertised the sale of real estate in the village area in 1828. LCol Joseph Bouchette referred to Lac Deschênes as Chaudiere Lake in 1832. Around 1876, an apple orchard near the head of the rapids was undermined and washed away during a big flood. The Britannia Methodist Church formed in 1873 and celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2013. The Church grew out of services held in the home of Ira Honeywell, the first settler in Nepean Township. Members had been meeting in homes since 1869. In 1911, the Neogothic Britannia Heights Methodist Church was erected at Carling & Richmond. Renamed the Britannia United Church in 1925 after the amalgamation of the United Church of Canada. After her congregation moved to Britannia United on Pinecrest Road in 1961, the building was used to sell Macintosh & Watts china, to sell paintings and as a construction shack until it burned down in 1975.

It was once a small mill owned by Mr John Jamieson to the west of Ottawa. A cottage town and boating club developed around the site of the old mill; Mr. John Jamieson made a pretty resort out of what was once a sand beach.

The Britannia Bay post office was established in 1889, under the community's first postmistress Mrs C Hand.

The "G.B. Greene", known as 'Queen of the River,' a double-decked side wheeler steamer built by the Upper Ottawa Improvement Company in 1896, took up to 250 passengers up the Ottawa River to Chats Falls on daily pleasure excursions. Although she was dismantled in 1946, her anchor remains at Britannia Beach today.

In 1899, the Ottawa Electric Railway Company built a street-car line to Britannia. In 1899, the Metropolitan Power Company was formed to construct a power house just north of the Britannia Boathouse Club with a 2000-foot canal to extend to the lower end of the Lac Deschênes Rapids. The area became popular at the turn of the century because the Ottawa Gas and Electric company extended the trolley line and created an amusement park at Britannia beach to encourage users of the trolley system to use the system on weekends. A cottage and beach community resulted.

The first trip of the Ottawa Electric Railway Car 202 Britannia-on-the-Bay on the Britannia Line was January 13, 1900. The electric line to the village on Britannia Bay was open for regular traffic in the spring 1900. By 1904, the trolley company had built a wide pier 1,000 feet long out into the river. Along the east side, there were cottages, and the Boat club house. Along the south side, the land between the road and the lake has been turned into a park, with pavilions and bath houses. The beach was ideal for bathing, since people could wade out almost to the end of the pier without danger. The village, with its two churches and neat cottages, was one of Ottawa's most fashionable suburbs in 1904. Justice Mosgrove had a 35-acre grape farm, not far from Britannia Park, on the river.

Albert Bedingfield's stencil designs, now in the Library and Archives Canada collection, were published by Britannia-Bay, Ottawa, Ont.

During World War I, men were encouraged to join the 207th (Ottawa-Carleton) Battalion, CEF at the Britannia Pier.

During World War II, the Princess Alice Barracks Cabin at Britannia Bay provided a summer home for Royal Canadian Air Force (Women's Division) personnel near the Britannia Boating Club's facilities for tennis, dancing and boating. Rented from the King's Daughter's Guild of Ottawa, the cabin featured 60 beds, a separate cookhouse and dining pavilion. The cabin had served the King's Daughter's Guild of Ottawa since 1913 as a Fresh Air Cottage for mothers and undernourished children. After the war, the Fresh Air Cottages were rented to families as year round apartments. During a kitchen fire at the Fresh Air Cottage on December 11, 1952, Roger Murphy, aged 2 died and 26 residents were left temporarily homeless. The Fresh Air Cottage on Cassels Street, was expropriated and demolished, and is now part of the conservation area around Mud Lake.

Rapid growth in all directions during the 20th century meant that it was soon surrounded by the western suburb of Nepean. Larger, modern houses were built in between cottages. Nowadays it is simply an out-of-the-way part of west end of Ottawa, featuring among other things Barks and Bubbles dog-washing business, Regina Street Public School, a movie theatre complex, Britannia Baptist Church, a Britannia Conservation area centred on the National Capital Commission's (Mud Lake), and Britannia beach.

Although Thomas Ahearn's hydroelectric project was abandoned as unfeasible, the unfinished canal was used in 1951 by Past Commodores Thomas G. Fuller and Reginald G. Bruce with volunteer labour provided by Club members as the basis of the Britannia Yacht Club protected harbour. Today, the BYC harbour provides 250 wet moorings, fuel and pump out facilities, for both sail and power boats.

The Britannia Water Purification Plant, commissioned and constructed between 1958 and 1961, is one of two water purification plants that serve the City of Ottawa's residents. The 23,000 m2 plant, which is situated on 18.7 hectares of city property draws from the Ottawa River and treats an average of about 175 megalitres of water a day.

The neighbourhood has a perhaps one of its kind 1967 EXPO style dome covering a local children's hockey rink that made it to the top 500 architecturally significant buildings in Canada in 2002 as voted by CIRA.

In 1976, an article in the Ottawa Citizen described real estate prices in Britannia and in the older Britannia Bay area: semi detached houses ($48,000), duplexes ($65–70,000), 3 & 4 story apartment buildings and is surrounded by highrises; 15 three story townhouses on Kehoe ($95–100,000); older converted cottages ($38–45,000); and two story townhouses on Bradford rented for $250–300 a month. In 1976, schools in the neighbourhood included Regina Public School, Grant School (now closed) and St. Leonard's School.

The neighbourhood and, is the former home of the Ottawa Folk Festival at Britannia Park.

In 2003, Canadian Hydrographic Service published "1550, Britannia Bay to Chat Falls", which was 4 maps on 1 sheet; Previous editions of the cartographic material were produced in 1961, '62, '69, '73, '77, '82, '86, and '96.

In 2003, the City of Ottawa erected a Heritage Designation plaque for William Murphy House, 127 Britannia Road. The house sustained major damage during a fire in April 2020, killing all three residents.

In 2010, the City of Ottawa erected a Heritage Designation plaque for Old St. Stephen's Church, 181 Britannia Road. "Built in 1892, Old St. Stephen's Church was one of two churches built to serve the fashionable 19th century resort community of Britannia, and is the only one remaining today. A vernacular interpretation of the Gothic Revival style, it features the pointed-arch windows and door, simple rectangular form and tower commonly associated with the style. Old St. Stephen's Church is now a private residence."

Sports
The Britannia Yacht Club was established in 1887. The Club house still retains its historic appearance. Members of the club have won many championships and Olympic gold medals. Canada's only Gold medal winner from the 1936 Summer Olympics, Frank Amyot, paddled these waters in the 1920s and 1930s. The Club's Dragon Lounge's bar was fashioned out of a dragon sail boat.

The Britannia Football Club began playing in 1882. Being one of the first Canadian football teams ever, they played the Montreal Football Club to a 0-0 tie on May 13, 1882. They competed in almost every Quebec Rugby Football Union season from 1882 to 1903

Sub-neighbourhoods

 * Belltown
 * Britannia Bay
 * Britannia Heights
 * Britannia Village
 * Britannia Woods
 * Lincoln Heights
 * Michele Heights

Notable residents

 * Adam Acres, a member of the House of Commons of Canada, owned a farm situated on Britannia Bay on the Ottawa River
 * Thomas Ahearn, was instrumental in the development of a 2000-foot canal just north of the Britannia Boathouse Club to generate electricity; The canal is now used by the Britannia Yacht Club as a sheltered harbour.
 * Dick Bell, a member of the Canadian House of Commons owned a farm "Fairfields", situated on Britannia Bay. The Dick Bell Park, which houses the Nepean Sailing Club was named in his honour.
 * Captain Thomas G. Fuller was a Canadian naval officer who earned renown in the Second World War for his actions as a member of the Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy. His estate was the Moorings across the street from the Britannia Yacht Club. He converted a former tugboat, G.B. Patee II, (1904), into a brigantine tall ship, the STV Black Jack. In the 1980s, he designed and built a brigantine, the STV Fair Jeanne, which was named in honour of his wife. Today, the ships are flagships of the Bytown Brigantine sail training program. His family firm, Thomas Fuller Construction is currently managed by 4 of his 6 children.
 * Ezekiel Stone Wiggins, a teacher, amateur meteorologist and his wife, writer Susie Anna Wiggins built Arbour House, a Designated Heritage Property 1994, as their summer home. Currently housing the Arbour House Studios, 105 Britannia Road, the corner tower, shingled gables and irregular plan are typical of the Queen Anne Revival-style.
 * Paul Wyczynski, Ottawa University Professor. In 1968 he was named Professor of the year.  From 1963 to 1969 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. In 1988 he was knighted by the French government, was named Officer of the Order of Canada in 1993, was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit by the government of Poland in 2001 and was awarded the Lorne Pearce Award by the Royal Society of Canada in 2006. Over his career he authored and co-authored more than 65 books and numerous articles.  He was a proud and dedicated resident of Britannia for almost 50 years until his death in 2008.
 * Alex Cullen and Theresa Kavanagh, former and current city councillors for the local ward.
 * Bruce Kirby 3 time Olympian in sailing. Designer of the single-handed Laser dinghy to the 12-meter class Louis Vuitton Cup yacht, Canada One. Member of the order of Canada and sailing hall of fame.

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KBFB

KBFB (97.9 FM) is a commercial radio station with an urban-leaning rhythmic contemporary radio format, known as "97.9 The Beat." It is licensed to Dallas, Texas and serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. KBFB is owned by Urban One. The studios and offices, along with sister station KZMJ, are in the Galleria Area in North Dallas.

KBFB has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter is off Plateau Street in Cedar Hill, amid the towers for other Dallas-area FM and TV stations. KBFB broadcasts using HD Radio technology. The HD2 digital subchannel simulcasts the Urban AC format of co-owned KZMJ.

The Belo/Cox years
The station traces its history back to a October 5, 1946 sign-on, owned by the Belo Corporation, and was the first FM radio station to go on the air in Texas. It was called KERA-FM but with no relation to the current KERA (FM) (90.1 FM), or KERA-TV.

Even before KERA-FM's first day on the air, there was an experimental FM station "W5X1C" that began tests on October 15, 1945, and another trial dating back to 1939. By 1947, KERA-FM had moved from its original home at 94.3 FM to 97.9 FM under the WFAA-FM callsign, initially simulcasting its AM sister station WFAA (570 AM). With FM broadcasting in its infancy, Belo decided that the FM simulcast was not worthwhile and took WFAA-FM off the air on September 1, 1950.

The frequency remained dormant until 1958, when Belo decided to revive WFAA-FM, receiving a construction permit and putting WFAA-FM back on the air on January 6, 1961. After simulcasting WFAA(AM) for a few years, a Beautiful Music format was established in 1965. The station played quarter-hour sweeps of mostly instrumental cover versions of popular songs, designed for relaxing or unobtrusive office listening.

On September 16, 1973, WFAA-FM flipped to album-oriented rock (AOR) as KZEW-FM, known to listeners as "The Zoo". It featured disc jockeys such as John LaBella and John Rody ("LaBella and Rody"), George Gimarc, Charley Jones, Dave Lee Austin, John B. Wells, Nancy Johnson, John Dew, John Dillon, Doc Morgan and Tempie Lindsey. The station's concept and programming were initially under the direction of Ira Lipson. The FM station shared studios with WFAA on the second floor of the facility. The FM station was so popular that in several years, WFAA switched to a classic rock format as KRQX.

In 1987, KZEW and KRQX were sold by Belo (which retained ownership of the Dallas Morning News and WFAA-TV) to Atlanta-based Cox Radio. On December 11, 1989, KZEW dropped the rock format and began stunting with Christmas music. On January 1, 1990, KZEW switched formats to soft adult contemporary, changing its call sign to KKWM and rebranded as "Warm 97.9". A year later, the station changed its call sign again, this time to KLRX, and updated their branding to "Lite 97.9".

The Infinity/CBS years
In 1993, the station was sold to Infinity/CBS Radio, and on October 15, at 7 p.m., KLRX flipped to a classic hits/classic rock format under the KRRW call letters, and branded as "Arrow 97.9".

On April 3, 1997, the station switched back to adult contemporary as B-97.9 and changed to the current KBFB call letters. Programming during the AC format included the syndicated call in and request show, "Delilah." After several years, Delilah's show shifted to then-sister station KVIL.

Rhythmic Contemporary
KBFB flipped to Rhythmic Contemporary as "97.9 The Beat" on September 26, 2000, after the station was sold to Radio One, a forerunner to today's Urban One. Since launch, the station has been in direct competition against longtime heritage urban station KKDA-FM. KBFB and KKDA-FM also had a competitor with former Rhythmic Contemporary rival KZZA until the station flipped to Spanish Oldies in 2008.

In the beginning, the morning show on the station was hosted by Russ Parr (who started his radio career at KJMZ in the Metroplex). In 2003, it was home to the Steve Harvey Morning Show through a syndicated simulcast from its sister station in Los Angeles, KKBT (also nicknamed "The Beat"). Eventually, Radio One switched KBFB's early slot to the Rickey Smiley Morning Show in 2005. Smiley was dropped in the fall of 2017, and was replaced with The Morning Hustle.

HD programming
Since the mid 2000s, KBFB has broadcast on HD Radio, though it never had a secondary HD multicast until March 2014. Since that time, KBFB-HD2 has simulcast Gainesville-based sister station KZMJ.

In February 2018, the station began broadcasting Vietnamese-language programming on HD3. This was later switched to a Regional Mexican format, also simulcasting on translators K293CM on 106.5 FM in Dallas and K225BR 92.9 FM in Fort Worth.

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Talk:Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel

Are these ships named after fox hints, as Wikipedia currently claims, or after the Hunt class destroyers, as the official Royal Navy page claims? There is a difference. I think I'd go with the Navy on this one...! Andrewa 04:53, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The Hunt class destroyers were named after fox hunts. Llammakey (talk) 16:49, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Propulsion
Why is there always this "1" in the propulsion section?! Greetings Kilon22 (talk) 14:54, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * It`s the result of a template change. There is an extraneous asterisk written in the infobox which results in an extraneous 1 on the displayed page. Easily fixable. Thanks for noticing! Llammakey (talk) 16:48, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

New Engine
HMS Brocklesby is currently (Aug 2016) in refit and one part of this refit is new engines - "the installation of the new fuel-efficient Caterpillar engines, the deep maintenance work on HMS Brocklesby includes replacing control systems and overhauling generators in order to extend her service life for another 15 to 20 years." Refit is due to complete in 2017. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 20.133.0.13 (talk) 13:10, 24 August 2016 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ulteama

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The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD✉ 04:34, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Ulteama
Unless something has changed recently, a group of friends who play Halo on the XBOX is definitely not encyclopedic. [ edit ] 04:53, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This is getting ridiculous. We need a speedy category for video game clubs and video game characters.  Jkelly 05:15, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NN group of friends. Cnwb 05:38, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN --Rogerd 05:55, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn per nominator --Johntex\talk 09:00, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. utcursch | talk 11:37, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. All of the votes above were deleted by User:128.61.66.138.  In a separate edit, User:128.189.155.63 added the following comment to the page, which was then blank except for the nomination: Are you joking! I read this entry and now im OBSESSED with Ulteama. Infact im doing my school research project on this god like group of people. I have reverted to Utcursch's edit. Chick Bowen 22:00, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * And now for my vote: Delete, unencyclopedic. Chick Bowen 22:00, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I don't think you all realise who these people are. They are not just "any" group of friends. They are actually THE BEST halo players in the world. Like the champions. If I read correctly in a PC gamer magazine, they have never been defeated. (comment left by User:24.64.223.203.)
 * Comment. Please note that this page has been repeatedly vandalized, most recently by 128.61.66.138 and 155.33.70.154. Chick Bowen 03:49, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

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The Chequer Board

The Chequer Board is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in the United Kingdom in 1947 by William Heinemann Ltd. The novel deals with the question of racism within the US forces during World War II and portrays black characters with sympathy and support. Shute began writing The Chequer Board in September 1945 and completed it in February 1946.

Plot summary
The story tells of the experiences of one John (Jackie) Turner, whom the doctors have given just one year to live as a result of a severe head injury sustained when the aircraft in which he was travelling was attacked by a German fighter in the Second World War. Turner decides to use his remaining time to trace the men he got to know while recovering in hospital.

The men were:
 * Flying Officer Phillip Morgan: the plane's British pilot.
 * Corporal Duggie Brent: a young British Commando, accused of murder.
 * Pfc Dave Lesurier: a black American serviceman, accused of attempted rape, in hospital after cutting his own throat while being pursued.

As the story unfolds, the reader learns that charges against Lesurier were dropped after an Army investigation and that he later returned to the English town near which he was stationed during the war. He marries the girl he was courting and becomes a draughtsman. Brent is acquitted of murder but served six months for manslaughter after successfully being acquitted at a court-martial. He is later found living close to Lesurier and working as a meat vendor. Morgan relocates to Burma and becomes a successful businessman, married into a strong local community.

Turner is contented by the thought that each man, who had helped with his recovery after the plane crash, had succeeded in making a good life in his own way. The novel ends with what will be his last visit to his medical specialist.

Underlying the novel is the Buddhist belief in reincarnation and redemption. Despite his shady past, it is indicated that Turner, through his attempts to help his fellow patients and his acceptance of his death, has moved closer to Nirvana.

Cultural background
The book's title is taken from Stanza XLVIX of Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Khayyám:

'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

The initial idea for The Chequer Board came about when Shute came across the book A Rising Wind (1945) by the American civil rights campaigner Walter White. Shute contacted White and a correspondence developed.

The portions of the book that take place in Burma were based on Shute's own experiences there during World War II. From the dust-jacket: "It was very difficult to feel these cultured brown girls, all speaking excellent English...were really any different from the girls at home." He also noted during the war the "popularity of American Negroes in England and the superior quality of the Burmese people", both of which are central to the book's story. Shute drew on the outbreak of racial violence in 1943 involving American soldiers stationed in the village of Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, in Northern England.

Shute was concerned that sales of the book in the United States would be reduced because of the book's open-minded handling of racial issues; as it turned out, sales soared. Shute and his wife travelled around the U.S. on Greyhound buses to "get in touch with the man on the street," finding the experience refreshing. Afterwards he wrote "Sincerity is the first attribute for making money in the business of writing novels."

Reviews

 * Punch: "As a novelist, Nevil Shute goes from strength to strength, experimenting, drawing out life as he sees it, and setting it before us in ordered pattern...The Chequer Board is a notable novel."
 * Daily Express: "A happy knack endows this story with a character who is slightly greater than life-size. It proves once again how the ordinary, the average, the season-ticket holder sitting next to you, can still, in the hands of an expert, furnish the very stuff of literature"
 * The New York Times: “Shute’s most significant book.”
 * Houston Post: “In the gripping, breathless tradition of a master craftsman.”
 * Kirkus Reviews: "In itself, each story has values, but the whole lacks the sense of suspense one looks for in Shute."

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Fish Called Martin

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The result of the debate was speedy delete as nonsense. Gamaliel 05:00, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

A Fish Called Martin
This article is nonsense. If anyone thinks it has any meaning, please clue me in.--Rogerd 04:55, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

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