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Centre for Social Justice

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) is an independent centre-right think tank based in the United Kingdom, co-founded in 2004 by Iain Duncan Smith, Tim Montgomerie, Mark Florman and Philippa Stroud.

Political positions
The organisation's stated aim is to "put social justice at the heart of British politics". While the think-tank states it is politically independent, it was labelled one of the most influential on the British Conservative Party under the leadership of David Cameron.

Policy programmes and impact
One of the CSJ's most notable reports was Breakthrough Britain. It has also produced well-publicised reports on gang culture, modern slavery, addiction, family breakdown, and educational failure. In 2012 the CSJ announced that it would carry out the study Breakthrough Britain II. The CSJ has also played important roles in the design and development of Universal Credit and in championing the introduction of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

2019

 * A report called on the government to increase the state pension age to 75.

2018

 * A Woman-Centred Approach called on the government to scrap plans for up to five new women's prisons and to put funds towards community-based alternatives. The Ministry of Justice subsequently announced that plans for new women's prisons were being abandoned and set out proposals to pilot five residential centres for women in the community.

2017

 * Housing First recommended placing homeless people dealing with problems such as alcohol and drug abuse in permanent accommodation and giving them access to care and training. The approach, known as Housing First, had been tried out in the United States and adopted by Finland with positive results. Conservative Communities Secretary Sajid Javid had said that he was keen to examine the scheme. While the CSJ called for a nationwide roll-out of Housing First, the Government announced and allocated £28m funding for a number of Housing First pilot sites in the West Midlands, Liverpool and Manchester.
 * Growing the Local called on the government to give Police and Crime Commissioners additional flexibility to increase the police precept, a set of proposals subsequently adopted and providing additional resources for policing and crime.
 * Lowering the Stake on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals called on the government to reduce the stake from £100 to £2 for fixed odds betting terminals, which the government duly did in 2018.

Structure and operation
Initially the CSJ's work was project-based with projects and staff members changing regularly. Recently, however, under Andy Cook, the latest Chief Executive, the CSJ has created a number of dedicated policy units with specific unit heads to lead on their designated area. The CSJ also has an alliance of "front line poverty fighting charities" and runs an annual Centre for Social Justice Awards ceremony celebrating some of the best voluntary and non-profit organisations in the UK. In addition the CSJ regularly holds events at the major political party conferences.

Notable members
Past and present:
 * Iain Duncan Smith
 * Tim Montgomerie
 * David Blunkett MP, Co-Chairman of the CSJ Advisory Council
 * Johan Eliasch, Chairman and Chief Exec, Head N.V ; Chairman, Cool Earth; Prime Minister's Special representative on deforestation and clean energy
 * Frank Field MP, Member of Parliament for Birkenhead (Independent)
 * William Hague MP, former Foreign Secretary, former leader of the Conservative Party, former Member of Parliament for Richmond, Yorkshire (Conservative)
 * Syed Kamall MEP, Co-founder of Global Business Research institute, MEP for London (Conservative)
 * Paul Marshall, Chairman of Management Committee of Centre Forum; Adviser to Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party
 * Kevin Tebbit, Former Director of GCHQ and former Permanent Under Secretary of the Ministry of Defence
 * Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster
 * Claire Coutinho MP, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero

Funding
In November 2022, the funding transparency website Who Funds You? gave the CSJ an E grade, the lowest transparency rating (rating goes from A to E).

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Rondebosch Boys' School

Rondebosch Boys' School may refer to:
 * Rondebosch Boys' High School
 * Rondebosch Boys' Preparatory School

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User:Chungpui~enwiki

Chungpui from Chinese Wikipedia. zh:User:Chungpui

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Schleicher ASK 21

The ASK 21 is a glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) two-seat glider aircraft with a T-tail. The ASK 21 is designed primarily for beginner instruction, but is also suitable for cross-country flying and aerobatic instruction.

Design and development
The ASK 21 was designed by Rudolf Kaiser to replace the popular ASK 13, providing a modern two-seat aircraft bridging the gap between initial training and single-seat performance flying. The ASK 21 is the first full-GRP two-seater produced by Schleicher, flying for the first time in February 1979 (6.2.1979). Production also began in 1979, remaining in production to this day (May 2024), over 900 units completed. In December 2004 the ASK 21 Mi, a self-launching version, made its first flight. In 2003 the operating time was extended to 18,000 hours A revised and improved version, the ASK 21B was introduced in 2018.

Construction
The two seats are in a tandem arrangement with dual controls, adjustable rudder pedals and seatbacks. The fuselage consists of a tubular sandwich and thus offers passive safety with low weight. The two-piece, mid-set, cantilever wing is a single-spar glass-fiber construction without flaps, but with upper side Schempp-Hirth-type air brakes. The wingtips curve downward, providing tip skids that allow take-offs without a wing helper (small wheel added with ASK-21 mi). The T-tail possesses a fixed horizontal stabilizer and an elevator with spring trim and automatic connections. The undercarriage consists of two or three fixed wheels. The main wheel lies behind the centre of gravity and has a hydraulically operated disc brake. Checking the tire pressure is hindered by the need for removing the wheel fairing. The tail unit has a rubber skid or a tailwheel.

Flight characteristics
The thick wing profile gives good low-speed characteristics (nominal stall speed approximately 65 km/h or 35 knots). The flight characteristics are docile; its stall is gentle, with ample vibration warning, and is easily recoverable. The nose does not noticeably drop, but the variometer indicates a high rate of descent and the vibration continues until back pressure is released and stall recovery is initiated.

The glider has little tendency to enter a spin. In order to make spinning possible for training purposes or demonstrations a spin kit is available from the manufacturer. It consists of ballast discs applied to the tail to change the center of gravity according to the weight of the crew. With this device the ASK 21 when slowed to stall speed with rudder input drops one wing and begins to rotate. Recovery is standard, utilizing neutralized ailerons, full opposite rudder until the rotation stops and then centralizing the rudder, relaxing back pressure to break the stall, and then easing the stick back to pull out of the dive.

When entering a side slip, which is not uncommon as an energy management technique, the rudder can aerodynamically over centre, requiring an input from the pilot for the rudder pedals to return to neutral.

Variants

 * ASK 21
 * Production sailplane

 * ASK 21 Mi
 * Self-launching sailplane, as ASK 21 with a retractable IAE R50-AA rotary engine with a fixed pitch propeller mounted behind the wing.

 * Vanguard TX.1
 * The ASK-21 acquired by the UK Ministry of Defence for use by the Air Cadet organisations.

 * ASK 21B
 * Improved version of the original ASK 21. New features: automatic control connections, internal spin ballast, revised canopy, more effective ailerons.

Current

 * Royal Australian Air Force
 * Australian Air Force Cadets - 11
 * Portuguese Air Force
 * Portuguese Air Force Academy
 * Portuguese Air Force
 * Portuguese Air Force Academy

Former

 * Royal Air Force for Air Training Corps (Vanguard TX.1)
 * Royal Air Force for Air Training Corps (Vanguard TX.1)

Civilian

 * Association de Vol à Voile Champlain - 2
 * Cu Nim Gliding Club
 * Great lakes Gliding Club
 * Rideau Valley Soaring School
 * Southern Ontario Soaring Association - 3
 * York Soaring
 * Youth Flight Canada
 * Yorkshire Gliding Club - 2
 * Devon and Somerset Gliding Club
 * Cambridge Gliding Centre - 2
 * London Gliding Club - 7
 * Buckminster Gliding Club
 * Midland Gliding Club
 * Cranwell Gliding Club
 * Kent Gliding Club
 * Scottish Gliding Union
 * Mid Atlantic Soaring Association - 2
 * Texas Soaring Association
 * Caesar Creek Soaring Club - 2
 * Mid Atlantic Soaring Association - 2
 * Texas Soaring Association
 * Caesar Creek Soaring Club - 2

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Talk:Harvard-Westlake School

Possible confusion
I'm guessing that this school has absolutely nothing to do with Harvard University; it would be great if someone could please confirm this and add this to the article. The name of the school is so similar, it would be good to make that clarification in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.206.196.96 (talk) 22:27, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Sir: "Little," but not "absolutely nothing." The Harvard High School, from which the Harvard-Westlake school takes part of its name, licensed the name from Harvard University nearly a century ago, which sought a west coast prep school to provide more students. The article ought to mention this. Non Curat Lex (talk) 08:55, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

To Both: Harvard School (pre Harvard-Westlake) was named after John Harvard of Southwick, bourough of London. Harvard was educated at the St. Savior's Grammar School in Southwark, where his father was governor. John Harvard was the grandson of Thomas Rogers, an intellectual and associate of William Shakespeare. It was Thomas Rogers (John Harvard's grandfather) and his mother, Katherine Rogers Harvard, who influenced John Harvard's thirst for the arts and literature. Harvard received his Bachelors degree from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. John Harvard emigrated to New England and settled in Charleston where several of his contemporaries had preceded him in migration. John Harvard became minister of the Church of England in Charleston (Episcopal). The Chapel on the campus of Harvard School (now Harvard-Westlake) is named St. Savior's Chapel, after the grammar school attended by John Harvard. Harvard University was named after John Harvard's substantial library and half his estate was donated to the new college near Cambridge, Mass. The university was later named in his honor. Harvard School of North Hollywood shares name only. As mentioned below, never was there any formal relationship between Harvard University (supposedly seeking a source of well prepared and educated students for its university ranks). The source of the name, John Harvard, is the same and this is the only connection between the two. Harvard School, and now Harvard-Westlake is unquestionably the premier college preparatory private secondary school in the western United States. Because of Harvard-Westlakes' stringent academic program and high achievement levels of its students, its graduates, with rare exception, "choose" the institution of higher education they wish to attend. RDC, Graduate Harvard School, 1967. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.194.67.87 (talk) 18:37, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Accusations of Advertisment
I also feel that this reads like an ad, particularly the way the facilities are described (boosterism and too much detail) also far too much detail re curriculum, this isn't the school's website! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.106.235.164 (talk) 23:56, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Harvard-Westlake the best private secondary school in Los Angeles. This had been shown in multiple instances, most recently by Forbes magazine that ranked Harvard-Westlake the #12 private prep school out of its top 20 in the country. Harvard-Westlake was one of two west coast schools ranked in the top 20, the only one from Los Angeles. The wiki article for the school should convey that Harvard-Westlake is one of the best -- how else is this conveyed without mentioning the schools superior academics, arts programs and athletic programs? 71.130.56.90 (talk) 05:13, 22 December 2010 (UTC)Los Angeleno

If you're going to call this article an advertisment, you would be best served to tell me what part of it seems to you as such. With all due respect, simply objecting to the word "illustrious" will not suffice. Not only was the section for performing arts written by an unbiased source familiar with Los Angeles high school performing arts, but the department is also indeed illustrious. I beg of you to find a more accomplished secondary school program in this capital of media and entertainment.

Furthermore, whether you like it or not, Harvard-Westlake is indeed considered by the eligible and informed residents of this city, the city from which most of its students come, to be the best private secondary school. Or do you consider a 99% (278/280) college matriculation rate not deserving of your most desired pride? If so, perhaps you should see the rate for the rest of Los Angeles, or your own high school--that is, assuming you attended. --Cjmsheng 17:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

There are many other private secondary schools with 100% college matriculation rates that are considered "illustrious" and the "best private secondary school" in los angeles. i again refer you to Polytechnic School and Westridge School for Girls. Kiwidude 19:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

 * The general rule on Wikipedia is to show why something is important or "illustrious" rather than simply asserting that it is so. If the school has received awards for its performing arts department, or if alumni have gone on to successful careers in that field, or whatever the metric of illustriousness is, let's mention those instead. Avoid peacock terms. -Will Beback · † · 22:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Worthy of further note might be the lack of less "illustrious" comments pertaining to the school's history and present. The article contains neither any mention of the rather widely publicized legal action taken against the school in recent years nor a section pertaining to the common complaints of stress, drug use, lack of sleep, etc. lodged by students. This article may not be an advertisement per se, but I would not think it outrageous to question its neutrality. 207.153.112.110 16:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)hwstudent

Stress, drug use, et. al. pertains to specific students and not the school as a whole, nor do you have any published evidence as to the incidents to which you refer. If at some point you come across something of that nature, then by all means feel free to summarize it. And whoever tagged this as advertising probably should be so good as to point out exactly where he or she or it sees it.

ranking
whats H-W's ranking among other high schools (in the state, country whatever)?

 * i've never seen rankings for private schools.Kiwidude 01:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

 * By reputation, one of the best.--Cjmsheng 20:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

 * By reputation, never heard of it. -ACH

 * The school's reputation doesn't establish ranking and should not be the basis of information in this article. Kiwidude 05:19, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

 * The school's reputation does not establish ranking; however, its reputation is a major reason why it even has a page. The author of this page would not have found it necessary to lose complete focus at work and write the entire article if Harvard-Westlake's reputation for sending bright and young, though desperately naive, alumni to top colleges and universities did not preceed it. --Cjmsheng 11:01, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

 * There are loads of schools like that check out Polytechnic School. Kiwidude 16:42, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Therefore loads of schools have pages. --Cjmsheng 05:11, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Kiwidude did you go to poly?76.172.71.118 10:21, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Here is a link to the Forbes Magazine's Top 20 Prep Schools in the US. Forbes link. 71.130.56.90 (talk) 05:22, 22 December 2010 (UTC)Wolverine

Motto
The correct translation of "possunt quia posse videntur" (and I'm a Harvard-Westlake Latin student) is "They can because they are seen to be able [to]" from the Aeneid, Book 5, line 231. Colloquially this is interpretted as "They can because they think they can," and indeed it was intended as such by Vergil, but the direct translation is incorrect. --Cjmsheng 03:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

it shows in your attitude--76.80.210.38 06:21, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Commentary
Let's keep the opinions and frivolity to a minimum. --Cjmsheng 05:48, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I really don't care. Kiwidude 16:59, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Students and Alumni of Note
The title of this section is neither "Students with Famous Parents," "Students that May or May not have Appeared in the Los Angeles Times," nor "Students who have been Talked About on Campus". Stop listing people who only have the potential to become famous. Astronauts, yes; LA City Council members, yes; college freshman basketball players, et cetera, no. --Cjmsheng 20:09, 28 July 2006 (UTC) Tori Spelling did NOT graduate from HW, therefore she is not an alumna. She should be removed from this list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.83.154.36 (talk) 15:47, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Currently Being Updated
I will submit a replacement for this page within days.--Cjmsheng 21:31, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * done.

 * Excellent work. -Will Beback 20:26, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Student Life
Anyone want to write the section on student life?--Cjmsheng 01:00, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I have added a brief section on the less-savory elements of student life. It requires clean-up, but the points addressed are, I should think, quite necessary to preserve the neutrality of the article. 207.153.112.110 16:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)hwstudent

 * Please don't insert unsourced POV. If there's been a newspaper article covering topics of drug use or sleep deprivation then we can summarize that. But personal knowledge isn't sufficient. -Will Beback · † · 19:44, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Location
The Middle School is not located within the gates of Bel Air, therefore it is not a part of Bel Air proper. Since it's off Sunset, north of Wilshire, east of Beverly Glen, west of Beverly Hills, and somewhere boxed in between Westwood, Little Holmby, Bel Air, and Beverly Hills, it more or less counts as Holmby Hills.

Sir: More or less? It IS in Holmby Hills. However, most people do not know where that is or what it means. Non Curat Lex (talk) 09:03, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

The reference to North Hollywood is not correct. Because it's just a few hundred yards south of Ventura Blvd. in the Valley, I think that's Sherman Oaks, but who knows what the school describes as its location. North Hollywood is far away.Link2dan (talk) 20:11, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

 * The address of the main campus is 3700 Coldwater Canyon Avenue, North Hollywood, CA 91604 . Neighborhood borders aren't as distinct as we'd like. In any case, they've called their location "N.H." for decades. ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 20:56, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Academics
The opening paragraph of the Academics section does not make sense: "The academic program at Harvard-Westlake is regarded as one of the most rigorous in the country. However, this reputation is somewhat misrepresented; while the school does offer a veritable plethora of classes, especially in the junior and senior years, many of which are College Board Advanced Placement, the school’s requirements for graduation are relatively stringent." Rigorous and stringent mean the same thing. If the intended meaning of this statement is indeed correct, then a better word should be used. Dbf2112 16:36, 27 August 2006 (UTC)dbf2112

 * How about now? --Cjmsheng 10:51, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Please stop taking down the notation regarding the cheating scandal. As much as it may be a stain on the schools public image, I think it's an important event that necessitates publication in a public forum. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.170.71.119 (talk) 17:53, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Performing Arts
If no one minds, im gonna do a performing arts section....Julesrules989 06:07, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Michael Chang
Didn't Michael Chang (tennis) go to H-W? jengod 20:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I can't be sure, but that's one alumnus we definitely don't have hanging in the trophy cabinets or in the gym, so I seriously doubt it.

Vandalism
There are some nice nuggets of vandalism flavoring this page, such as "I like sex" and "they pretty much rock at every sport". It would probably benefit the article if someone went through and weeded them out. (It's not a simple revert job, several edits have been made since some of the comments were added. Look at the edit of User:Hipponotretro for a starting point.)

Have fun.Branman515 04:58, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Extravagance
This page is very extravagant, espesically the "Athletics'" "Philosophy (verbatim)" section in addition to many other sections. This should be noted and acted on in order to follow Wikipedia's philosophy of equality in acticles and unbiased opinion in such acticles.

Can the person above even spell? "espesically" is spelled especially, and "acticle" is spelled article. --68.4.73.34 (talk) 03:42, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Links
Why are there so many citations which don't link anywhere? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.122.11.33 (talk) 02:33, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

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Dubious
The boosterism in this article is unlike anything I've ever seen in my years patrolling college and university articles. Pretty much everything tagged with a "dubious" needs a citation or is liable to be stripped out. I'll set June 1 as a deadline and check back in to see how things are going. And please, don't try any WP:WAX, I've heard it all before. Madcoverboy (talk) 05:28, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * As has been mentioned before, this article indulges in the worst types of self-promotion that the WP:PRESTIGE, WP:SOAP, WP:PEACOCK caution against. I've gone through and trimmed out some of it since I couldn't conscience letting it remain. I left in the most egregious examples so that people would read the talk page. :) If you have a problem with it, I'd be glad to talk it over with you and bring more eyes here to improve it. Madcoverboy (talk) 05:39, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * As a sign of good faith and being bold, I fixed the bunching problem you had with the section edit boxes and wikified your alumni list. Madcoverboy (talk) 05:55, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I have some citations for these "dubious" claims, but i am unaware how i should best format them. May I please have some suggestions? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.172.56.115 (talk) 05:24, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Proposal re: Notable Alumni
The list of notable alumni is lengthy; it could be even lengthier. Should "Notable Harvard-Westlake Alumni" be its own article? Discuss... Non Curat Lex (talk) 01:35, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Stephen Fishback: Notable Alumnus?
Fishbach appeared in 15 aired episodes of the show "Survivor."

Fishbach is referenced repeatedly in established Wikipedia articles (on the Survivor: Tocantins page plus seven others).

Other "Survivor" runners-up (and less successful stars of the show) have been deemed sufficiently inclusion-worthy by Wikipedia standards.

Fishbach is listed at IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3279295/).

Fishbach writes the "Survivor" column for People magazine (http://search.people.com/TIISearch/people/search/search.html?search=stephen+fishbach&bu=&searchSubmit.x=0&searchSubmit.y=0).

Conclusion: Stephen Fishbach meets the criteria for inclusion here according to WP:BIO

Jtropp1 (talk) 22:09, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Some of the arguments are slightly off (see WP:OSE), but if the article for Stephen Fishbach stays around, it makes sense to include as notable alumni here. If the article goes away through the deletion process, it's inappropriate. Thanks for creating the article, it's easier to discuss inclusion that way. tedder (talk) 23:17, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

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Someone's got to mention their debate team. Harvard-Westlake is one of the best debate powerhouses in the country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.72.49.89 (talk) 03:58, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
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WHQC

WHQC (96.1 FM, Hits 96.1) is an American radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina. Licensed to serve the city of Shelby, North Carolina, it is owned by iHeartMedia. WHQC broadcasts a gold-based Top 40 (CHR) format branded as "Hits 96.1". Its transmitter is located in Dallas, North Carolina, and its studios are located along with the rest of iHeartMedia's Charlotte stations in the Wood Ridge Center office complex off Billy Graham Parkway in south Charlotte. WHQC's primary competitor is WNKS, owned by Beasley Broadcast Group.

WHQC is licensed to broadcast in the HD Radio format. The HD1 channel is a simulcast of the analog programming, while the HD2 channel is known as "Air1" which programs contemporary worship music on W262BM 100.3 FM and the HD3 channel airs a contemporary Christian format called "HIS Radio".

History
The station was established in 1948 as WOHS-FM, which complemented its AM sister station WOHS out of Shelby, North Carolina. In 1978, the station increased its signal power to cover the far western portion of Charlotte and expanded its coverage as WXIK, adopting a Top 40 format as "K-96" that was heavy on "deep cut" rock hits. Air staff at WXIK included longtime PD/MD Jeffrey Owens, longtime Shelby personality Andy Foster, Vince Goolio, J. Worthington Smith, Eddie Bridges, Dawne Conrad, Don Richards, Rusty Price, Kent Dorsey, Scott Miller, Jeff Champion, and Bob Davis. On February 27, 1987, at 5:30 a.m., the station boosted its signal again to a full 100,000 watts, allowing it to cover the entire Charlotte area. At the same time, the station adopted a gold-based adult contemporary format under new call letters, WWMG (Magic 96). By early 1989, the station flipped to oldies.

As WWMG, the station was Charlotte's radio home of the North Carolina Tar Heels from 1991 to 1995.

Even though the oldies format remained successful for nearly two decades, its later years deemed less successful. At Midnight on September 1, 2004, after playing "American Pie" by Don McLean, WWMG began stunting. At 3 p.m. the following day, WWMG flipped to Rhythmic Top 40, branded as 96.1 The Beat. The WIBT calls were chosen shortly afterwards, even though it created confusion between it and Charlotte station WBT, which also has a spot on the FM dial as well.

Despite the controversy that ensued, WIBT became a success story when it went to #1 in the Fall 2004 Arbitron ratings. As a Rhythmic Top 40 formatted station, WIBT was in competition with long-time Urban heritage station WPEG and Pop station WNKS. Although its music tended to favor hip hop, WIBT played pop and dance crossovers that were hits. In early September 2010, WIBT segued into a mainstream CHR format, going head-to-head with WNKS with the positioner "All The Hits". On December 10, 2010, after the station saw its ratings slip from 5.8 in Arbitron's September PPM to a 4.1 in November's PPM ratings report, WIBT rebranded as Channel 96-1, retaining the "All The Hits" positioner. On August 31, 2011, WIBT changed their call letters to WHQC.

Christopher "Brotha Fred" Frederick's last night co-hosting Fox News Edge on WCCB was December 16, 2010. The next day, WIBT announced that Frederick, the station's morning co-host since June 2006, would begin originating the show from Chicago on January 3, 2011. Joining Frederick would be David L, who was already part of the WIBT show, and Angi Taylor of Chicago. Frederick's "AM Mayhem" would also be heard on Chicago's WKSC-FM as well as WMKS in High Point and WKXJ in Chattanooga.

On December 16, 2011, it was announced that longtime Charlotte morning radio hosts Ace & TJ would be replacing Fred, beginning January 5, 2012. Ace & TJ left the station in July 2021, and moved back to their former station WNKS in July 2022 in a mid-morning timeslot.

Brooke Morrison joined the Channel 96-1 team for afternoons on March 26, 2018, after being the producer for Nina Chantele on KRRL in Los Angeles.

On January 4, 2019, WHQC rebranded as Hits 96.1.

On-air personalities Miguel & Holly joined WHQC as the new morning show in March 2022.

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Domdaniel

Domdaniel is a fictional cavernous hall at the bottom of the ocean where evil magicians, spirits, and gnomes meet.

Overview
Domdaniel was first mentioned in the continued story of the Arabian Nights by Dom Chaves and Cazotte (1788–1793). It was described as being located in the sea near Tunis. In this hall, the ruler Zatanai held his court, which included the magician Maugraby and his students.

Robert Southey later used Domdaniel in his multi-volume oriental poem Thalaba the Destroyer (1797). The hero of Southey's story, Thalaba, is the son of Hodeirah and the last surviving member of his family. It had been prophesied that the spirits of the Domdaniel were destined to be destroyed by a member of that family, so they sought to put an end to it.

One of the magicians named by Southey as dwelling in Domdaniel was Abdaldar. He was selected by lot to hunt down Thalaba and slay him. But the youth Thalaba accomplishes the destruction of the magicians in the final volume of the poem despite their efforts to kill him and his surviving family.

Nathaniel Hawthorne used Domdaniel in his romance The House of the Seven Gables: "Hepzibah put her hand into her pocket, and presented the urchin, her earliest and staunchest customer, with silver enough to people the Domdaniel cavern of his interior with as various a procession of quadrupeds as passed into the ark".

In T.H White's book The Sword in the Stone Merlin, before his famous duel of magic with the witch Madam Mim, says: "Now we shall see how a double first at Dom-Daniel avails against the private tuition of my master Bleise".

H. P. Lovecraft used Domdaniel in the short story He (1925), as follows: ...heard as with the mind's ear the blasphemous domdaniel of cacophony...

British author Angie Sage used the name DomDaniel (styled this way) to name the main foe of her fantasy novel series Septimus Heap.

Domdaniel is the headquarters of the Spanish Inquisition in Neil Gaiman's graphic novel Marvel 1602 and includes large caverns. Domdaniel secretly served as the headquarters of Grand Inquisitor Enrique and The Brotherhood of those Who Will Inherit the Earth. Gaiman also made reference to Domdaniel in Sandman #19, referring to Auberon, the King of Faerie, as "Auberon of Dom-Daniel", and again in The Books of Magic #3 where Doctor Occult lists Dom-Daniel as one of the names of the land of Faerie.

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Glitter (disambiguation)

Glitter is a mixture of shiny, flat reflective particles.

Glitter may also refer to:
 * Glitter (chimpanzee)
 * Glitter bombing, a form of civil disobedience

Film and television

 * Glitter (film), a 2001 American romantic musical drama starring Mariah Carey
 * "Glitter" (How I Met Your Mother), a television episode
 * Glitter (American TV series), a 1984 American television drama series
 * Glitter (Polish TV series), a 2022 Polish drama television series

Music

 * Glitter rock, also known as glam rock
 * Gary Glitter (Paul Francis Gadd, born 1944), English pop star and convicted sex offender
 * The Glitter Band, Gary Glitter's former background band

Albums

 * Glitter (Gary Glitter album), 1972
 * Glitter (soundtrack), to the 2001 film
 * Glitter (Kaya album), 2006
 * Glitter (070 Shake EP), 2018

Songs

 * "Glitter" (No Age song)
 * "Glitter" (Perfume song)
 * "Glitter" (Benee song)
 * "Glitter" (Tyler, the Creator song)
 * "Glitter"/"Fated", a 2007 song by Ayumi Hamasaki
 * "Glitter", a song from the 1997 album Generation Swine by Mötley Crüe
 * "Glitter", by Todrick Hall from Haus Party, Pt. 1

Other

 * Glitter, Stephanie Harrington, a character from the Marvel Comics series D.P. 7

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why did you block me? what does this mean? caught doing what?--Archive13 23:23, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
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The Soddit

The Soddit or Let's Cash in Again is a 2003 parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, written by A.R.R.R. Roberts. The book jacket states: "Following on (inevitably, some might say) from the frankly unlikely success of Bored of the Rings comes a new book from an entirely different author that parodys [sic] Tolkien's other (and undoubtedly shorter) masterpiece."

The book consists of primarily slapstick-style jokes, with characters of slightly different names from the original ones (for example, Bingo as opposed to Bilbo) and a slightly altered main storyline. As the book progresses, the story departs further and further from the original storyline that it parodies. It is also illustrated in 'Glorius Mono-colour' (again stated on the book jacket) by Douglas Carrel.

Plot summary
The story starts with a peaceful Soddit called Bingo who is visited by a wizard, Gandef, and a party of dwarfs led by Thorri and Mori who ask Bingo to come with them on a quest to "the Only Mountain" where "Smug the Dragon" lives. After a few drinks, Bingo accepts, not knowing what they were actually searching for. "Gold, boyo gold, la, look you."

On the way, they have many adventures and close shaves, including their ponies drowning in the river and losing all luggage but one helmet. Roberts says he wanted the company fighting through the Piccadilly flea circus and fighting the Daleks from Doctor Who, but he says it was cut for time. They have a nasty run in with some trollops, who plan to eat them, successfully squash four dwarfs, but they annoy the wizard Gandef, who temporarily turns them to mounds of sand as opposed to real stone. While at the tree village of Riverdale, Ellesquare and the other Tree Elves of the high council ridicule the dwarfs for their loss of their four comrades and call it "carelessness." The company entered the mountains after Gandef struggled to open the door until he coughed, which was apparently the password. In the mountains, they encounter Gobblins, which are evil turkeys, who take them to their town, but the dwarves all fight out, Gandef repeatedly decapitates countless Gobblins while in combat, a fifth dwarf dies in friendly fire from Gandef and Bingo gets lost by falling down the abyss. He falls into a cavern, where he meets a morose philosopher named Sollum. He challenges him to a game of riddles; with the cannibalistic philosopher seeing Bingo's presence as the only delightful moment in his life. Bingo wins the riddles, and asks what he wins, but then remembers he found a Thing® that was created by evil dark lord Sharon and is Sollum's. So the philosopher tries to eat him, but he escapes due to the Thing®'s super-speed.

After reuniting with the party, the dwarfs are chased by non-sentient wolves and hide up a tree, though not before a sixth dwarf is eaten. The wolves flee after Gandef sets them on fire, allowing the company to simply climb down the tree and walk away. Gandef plans to take them to a mill, which is "famous" but when they arrive they find it has been accidentally burned by the wolves. Then they go to see a fearsome ABBA-quoting maniac, Biorn the bear-man, who is reputed to change from man to bear at night, but later during the visit they find he is just a totally crazy, naked man who thinks he can transform. They shut him outside his house to calm him down, and then they move on leaving him to mumble. The next bit is the "enchanted" forest of Myurkywood, which has been under an illusion spell for some time. As in the original, the streams are magic, and turn to rapids quick. They meet highly bitter, political spiders in the forest who want to lay eggs in their beards, but Bingo realizes the Thing® can get them out of their peril, which it does. It works by reversed spells, but a seventh Dwarf dies from using it to heal his ankles. Then, they find a brewery, where the men are morbidly obese Dwarfs and drunk and want to drown them because they can't sing. After unintentionally using the Thing® to obtain drunken immunity, Bingo gets them out.

They get to Lakeside, where they go off to the Only Mountain, where Bingo asks if the dwarves are going to finally tell him why he's there. Upon hearing that he has to go down a chimney, Bingo is accidentally thrown down said chimney when Mori promises to tell him the truth, and meets the dragon Smug, who is actually very friendly and even offers him tea. Smug says he hasn't made any enemies and doesn't know of anyone who would kill him. He is worried he has driven away the Lakesiders' business, so he says he'll fly over to talk. But the dwarves are angry and tell Bingo that Gandef was a dwarf, he has changed into a wizard, and he'll now change into a dragon because that's nature and that's where dragons come from. Smug is shot dead at Lakeside by Lard the Bowman, and twenty thousand gobblins led by the Great Gobblin attack, but the six remaining dwarves led by Mori, five hundred men led by Lard, five hundred elves led by Ellesquare, and Bingo, led by himself, fight them. At the end, most of the men and elves are massacred, three more Dwarfs die, Mori is severely injured and the gobblins swarm round them demanding the Thing®, but Bingo tricks them by giving them the Barking Stone, which they believe is the Thing® and whispers in it "war", which causes Gandef's dragon breath to erupt from the Only Mountain's chimney and kill all the gobblins, which encircles the remaining soldiers of the other four armies. After the Battle of the Five Armies has ended, Mori dies in Bingo's arms, which finishes off in a style of a Looney Tunes ending and thus only two dwarfs of the company have survived the quest. Gandef is confirmed and revealed to be a dragon, who can't remember that he wiped out the gobblin army and saved the survivors single-handedly, before flying Bingo home.

Standard edition
343 pages, miniature edition. Published by Gollancz of the Orion Publishing Group, London, England. ISBN 0-575-07554-6.

The story was also produced in Abridged Audiobook form by Orion Audio Books. The product contains three CDs, runs for 4 hours, and is read by Mark Perry. ISBN 0-7528-6165-4.

Parodies
In 'The Soddit' there is a small message claiming that it is not "The first few minutes of a prologue of "A MAJOR NINE-HOUR EPIC!!!". Also, at the end, it has various fake books being advertised, including 'The Spuddit' which is a parody of 'The Soddit' where the parts are taken by potatoes. However, this is a joke and there is no such book (as yet).

Reception
Steven H. Silver delivered a favourable review of the book in 2004. He observed that Roberts used Tolkien's own "excesses which readily give themselves to parody". According to Silver, The Soddit had not simply become a joke, but is a full novel with deep characters and new parts in the plot.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carlucci weyant

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Carlucci weyant
Crystal ball, nn. No evidence of the numerous scholarships. Probably unintentional: ''Carlucci was a victim of a drive by shooting. Sticking to his guns ...'''  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   23:25, 7 October 2005 (UTC) Hey I saw him with Billy Zane!
 * Delete vanity.--Alhutch 00:04, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * outstanding actorsaw him in a screening for a film, not sure which but very good. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.226.46.135 (talk • contribs) 10:48, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Netroots

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This is a rather simplistic definition, isn't it? Netroots is simply an ATM? I submit that netroots involves grassroots activism, get-out-the-vote efforts, political framing, debate and exchange of ideas, messaging, and interconnecting local and regional efforts.

Should we have links that are examples of netroots?

6/27 edited out a massive link plug for 'mitt romoney'.

Nutroots
Why does "Nutroots" redirect here without an explanation as to the meaning of the term? --72.197.101.11 03:07, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, just four days later it doesn't. It deserves mention; "nutroots" is becoming a very popular pejorative and isn't included, while ridiculous neologisms like "blogswarm" are. For the record, "blogswarm" redirects to "blog" with no explanation of just what a "blogswarm" is supposed to be. Adding a fair explanation of "nutroots is on my to-do list. Actually, it is my to-do list. --BDD 19:53, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

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Nic Robertson

Nic Robertson (born 1962) is the international diplomatic editor of CNN.

Career
Robertson joined CNN in 1990 and is currently the network's international diplomatic editor, based in London. His reporting has focused on global terrorism and armed conflict, particularly in Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya.

In the 1990s, Robertson covered the breakup of Yugoslavia as a producer and reported from Baghdad, Iraq, during the First Gulf War. He was one of very few Western broadcast journalists reporting from Afghanistan at the time of the September 11 attacks in 2001. He reported from Iraq in 2002 and early 2003 in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq by the United States; from New Orleans in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; from Beirut in 2006 during the Israel-Lebanon crisis; and from Norway in the aftermath of the 2011 massacre perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik. During the Arab Spring, Robertson reported from Libya, covering the Libyan Civil War and interviewing Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Al-Saadi Gaddafi (the sons of Muammar Gaddafi) and Iman al-Obeidi. Robertson reported from Bahrain during the Bahraini uprising of 2011 and was the only Western television journalist to interview Salman, Crown Prince of Bahrain. He went into Gaza on an embed with the Israeli army during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.

Awards
Robertson has won two Overseas Press Club Awards, two Peabody Awards (2002 and 2012), an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, and several Emmy Awards, including a 1992 News & Documentary Emmy for Saving Somalia. Robertson's 2002 Peabody Award was for Terror on Tape, his reporting on al-Qaeda training videos in Afghanistan.

Robertson's CNN report Syria: Frontline Town – Zabadani won him both the 2012 Prix Bayeux TV War Correspondent of the Year award and The New York Festivals 2013 Award for Coverage of a Continuing News Story.

Robertson's documentary World's Untold Stories: Secrets of the Belfast Project, which revealed new evidence on Sinn Féin-IRA connections, won a Foreign Press Association Member Award.

People magazine voted him "Sexiest News Correspondent" in 2001.

Film portrayal
Robertson was portrayed by the actor Matt Keeslar in the movie Live from Baghdad.

Personal life
Robertson is a native of the UK and is married to former CNN correspondent Margaret Lowrie. The couple have two daughters. They live in London.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plantanos Joe

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Plantanos Joe
Hoax? No Google hits at all for that spelling; nothing relevant for "Platano(s)/Plátano(s) Joe" (Banana Joe) either; someone who "revolutionized the world of blues" should have left some trace somewhere! Flapdragon 23:29, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom.  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk  05:30, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I could not find any reference on Google either.--Bkwillwm 18:22, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:HoCkster

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. --Ashenai (talk) 23:30, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish Jacobite Party

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The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash talk 23:22, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Scottish Jacobite Party
Scottish Jacobite Party is a hoax started by one of the regular commenters at Politicalbetting.com blog. The commenter in question is the in-house "joker" of the community. No such party has been registered with the Electoral Commission, and at the website (which is used as his link by the commenter at Politicalbetting.com) the "people" page is blank, and the registration with the Electoral Commission is "pending".--Mais oui! 23:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC), Keep Thanks to Big Jim for finding that registration: I had searched, and have re-searched the EC website, and I STILL cannot find that Registration page with any combination of search terms. I still think that more should be added to the article about the comedic nature of the party, lest the gullible be deceived. Bloomin expensive joke though, but then so was the Monster Raving Looney Party.--Mais oui! 17:53, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, for some reason the search function doesn't seem to scan the registers, but you can find it through > Regulatory Issues > Registers > Register of political parties, then pick it from the list, then press search. Very odd. Anyway, it's definitely there. sjorford  #£@%&$?!  19:33, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now.  Delete; even though the lead claims that the article is about the hoax, the rest of the article describes it as if it were real. —Cryptic (talk) 07:48, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Seems to be a work of political dada. linas 23:21, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --Rogerd 03:28, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep According to this website 1 they are in fact a registered party with the Electoral Commission. Can you state for certain that they aren't when this would evidence that they are.  If it is the case that they are in fact registered (as it would appear they are) there is nothing in the article text that is inaccurate thus no justification for deleting the article!  Whether they are a serious party or not is indeed up for question, but if we include the Official Monster Raving Loony Party then why not this mob? Big Jim Fae Scotland 12:42, 10 October 2005

 * Keep - it looks as if they are indeed registered with the Electoral Commission, which is a big effort to make for a pure hoax. sjorford #£@%&$?!  12:47, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - as per Big Jim Fae Scotland Keresaspa 13:52, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - have heard of them vaguely but didn't know they were a hoax.
 * Keep - worth keeping, although the article itself needs some work.Wikipeterproject (talk) 19:49, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tómas Michael Reynisson

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Tómas Michael Reynisson
Ego-page Stalfur 23:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. - Stalfur 23:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN. -- Egil 14:21, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

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Samuel Morison Brown

Samuel Morison Brown (February 23 1817 – 20 September 1856), Scottish chemist, poet and essayist.

Life
Brown was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the fourth son of Samuel Brown, the founder of itinerating libraries, and grandson of John Brown, author of the Self-Interpreting Bible. In 1832, he entered the university of Edinburgh, where, after studying in Berlin and St. Petersburg, he graduated as MD in 1839. About 1840, he was engaged in experiments by which he sought to prove that carbon in certain states of combination is susceptible of conversion into silicon, and his failure to establish this proposition had much to do with his want of success as a candidate for the chair of chemistry at Edinburgh in 1843.

He held the doctrine that the chemical elements are compounds of equal and similar atoms, and might therefore possibly be all derived from one generic atom. In 1850 he published a tragedy, Galileo Galilei, and two volumes of his Lectures on the Atomic Theory and Essays Scientific and Literary appeared in 1858, with a preface by his kinsman Dr. John Brown, the author of Horae Subsecivae.

He was also the author of "Lay sermons on the Theory of Christianity."

He died in Edinburgh.

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Talk:Myriad Search

Articles for Deletion debate
This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. -Splash talk 23:35, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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Walnut Grove, Langley

Walnut Grove is a town centre (approx pop. 23,295 ) located within the Township of Langley, British Columbia.

"Walnut Grove" is located at cross roads north of Highway 1. To the north lie the cities of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, connected by the Golden Ears Bridge. To the south is Langley City and Surrey is on the west. East of Walnut Grove lies the historic community of Fort Langley and other cities such as Abbotsford

Community Amenities
The Walnut Grove Community Centre hosts an olympic sized swimming pool, gymnasiums, meeting rooms, fitness facility, library and skate park.

To the north of the community centre is a full sized running track, adjacent to the high school.

Fire Hall
There is full-time fire protection provided by the Township of Langley Fire Hall 8

Policing
As with other town centres in Langley, policing is provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A community police station is located in a strip mall in Walnut Grove.

Health Care
There is a BC Ambulance Service station in the community with full-time staffed ambulances.

Transportation
Major roads include the Trans Canada Highway, Golden Ears Bridge, 200 Street and 88th Avenue. Bus Service is provided by TransLink.

Schools

 * West Langley Elementary School
 * Alex Hope Elementary School (includes a French Immersion program)
 * Gordon Greenwood Elementary School
 * Dorothy Peacock Elementary School
 * James Kennedy Elementary School (includes a French Immersion program)
 * Topham Elementary School
 * École Des Voyageurs (Francophone--belongs to Conseil Scolaire Francophone School District #93)
 * Walnut Grove Secondary School

Businesses
Walnut Grove is home to many businesses, both independent and chain. There are several shopping plazas and two major grocery stores in the community. The Trans-Mountain Pipeline runs through the middle of the community underground, transporting crude oil from Alberta to the Coast. The community is located next to the North Langley Industrial Area - often referred to as Port Kells.

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Talk:Kinky Friedman

...to Jewish parents
Why is it noteable that he was born "...to Jewish parents"? Does the religion of a person parents always merit coverage in similar types of articles? --NightMonkey 23:37, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Follow his campaign as well as his persona and you'll realize that being a "Jewish cowboy" is important to him.
 * Is his current religion Jewish, messianic Jewish, or Christian?

People who knew Kinky before he was Kinky will probably agree with me that ever since he and his sociologist brother Roger put on Saturday Night Live type sketch comedy -- "I Want My Burpo" -- for Echo Hill Ranch summer camp children in the mid 1960's, Kinky has since his youth and before he was a well known entertainer had the same sense of humor he has today. That has included, for example, telling an interviewer some years ago that he was raised on a ranch called "Rio Duckworth", when in actuality he was raised in Austin, Texas for most of his childhood, while spending summers at the Echo Hill Ranch Summer Camp for mainly Jewish children mainly from Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.55.97.232 (talk) 07:04, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

 * I read sometime awhile back that he is Jewish Conservative congregation.-- Dakota ~   °  01:11, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I believe he does identify as Jewish, although his works and interviews indicate that he is a very secular Jew. Further, he tends to use his Jewish identity to lend him outsider status. Heck, you don't call your band, "Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys" without SOME good reason. Even back in the 1970s, if he'd used that name for the band WITHOUT being Jewish, he would've been in for a world of trouble, even from Texans.

OZ COMMENT from central Sydney Kinky's work first sprang into my life just before last Christmas. As the child of a half Jew half Irishman and quarter jew anglican mother whose mother was a Scot, both parents with the surname instantly recognized for its extreme jewishness, Dear reader: google "cohenine"&"national geographic", Friedman's analysis of his heritage with a post modern almost secular appreciation and chef like rehashing of the relevance of his strange adventures to the eternal renewal of the moral recommendations of and examples set by Jesus, overlaid with a humour not just present but literally steeped in funny shit,is massive! I'm hooked. If the Kinkster becomes President of the USA, in 2008, I predict that he will make Cuba the 51st state, in order to lower the price of premium stogies. I can't wait to procure copies of his vinyl records, as no one I know owns any. PS I always wondered how a god fearing, christian of liberal and jewish upbringing might think. I get you loud and clear, Oh very late arriving babyboomer intellectual. AC BA LlB (uniSyd-1978) 60 Park Street, Sydney Feb 3, 2006

We NEED a page on Little Jewford. 24.13.86.24 10:21, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Notable fact, or campaign slogan?
A user has attempted to wipe out the following from the article, saying "Removed campaign slogan; this article is virtually indistinguishable from Friedman's own press releases."
 * If successful, Friedman would be the first Independent candidate elected to the post since Sam Houston in 1859, as well as the first Jewish governor of Texas.

I reverted the change, noting "Revert. Statements are factual and notable." The user reverted back, saying "The comparison to Sam Houston is not objective; it's a campaign talking point. Please don't put that line back in! It's biased!"

Rather than engage in a revert war, I am following the suggestion in Resolving disputes and asking for suggestions.

Would it be fair to point out that this user has all of three edits to their credit -- two of which are noted above? Perhaps it's more fair to point out that the user has not bothered to create an account, which makes his/her contributions hard to trace. The campaign is going to be heated -- we should expect opponents of all five candidates (R, D, Libertarian, and Ix2) to attempt to make inappropriate tweaks. I'm no expert, but I tend to give more respect to the opinion of someone with an edit history and a username ahead of an IP address with three edits total. That doesn't mean that logged-in users are devoid of bias, of course -- it just makes the bias easier to track.

I say that the statement of fact, that there hasn't been an independent candidate elected Governor since Sam Houston, should remain. Both on Kinky's page, and on Carole Keeton Strayhorn's as well. In fact, I'm going to add the statement to the introductory paragraph of her page. It's a defining element of both campaigns. --Robertb-dc 20:08, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

To be fair, its not the most significant statement, nothing ever happens until it happens the first time. BUT, since when do we remove statements just because they are campaign slogans. Often, the major slogans are defining points that need to be put in the article. For example, a quick check of the Rick Perry article shows this quote, "If he is reelected, and serves a full second term, Perry would become the longest serving governor in Texas history, with 10 years of total service." Its his slogan and its an 'if then' statement. And noone is suggesting that it should be removed. I vote that we should restore Kinky's statement to the article. SteveHopson 20:40, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Agreed. I've placed it back in. - TexasAndroid 12:58, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Go Kinky, Go!
If this man wins, I will take back every bad thing I've ever said about Texas. And there's been quite a few of them. Wandering Star 04:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * And I will take back every bad thing I've said about overuse of Userboxes. :) --Robertb-dc 22:20, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Updated Poll numbers (newbie don't shoot)
I posted an update of poll numbers. (I tried to copy the style from the previous sentence as much as possible)

I wasn't sure about the old numbers, so I left them intact. (It may help giving an idea of a trend, but the 2 poll sources are different).

Should this be broken out into a separate section apart from the main intro? (Possibly called 2006 Polls/Results (results would eventually go here))

James968 07:05, 21 September 2006 (UTC)james968

Tagged without discussion
An editor who was frustrated with the lack of discussion of Kinky's recent, racially-tinged comments, saw fit to add the tag to the article. That tag says "Please discuss this issue on the talk page", but the editor chose not to do so. Without anything more than his edit comments ("I will probably vote for Friedman. Article is not NPOV and it is like supporting him. Especially no mention of critics that called him a "racist" for some remarks. article needs to clean up.") to work from, I'm removing the Cleanup tag. The article is probably about as cleaned-up as is possible for an active candidate in an election that's 5 weeks away. --Robertb-dc 16:11, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Not to mention that the person who added the clean-up tag then proceeded to add a fairly good paragraph on the whole controversy himself. So his complaints that the page did not mention the problems were invalidated by him shortly thereafter. - TexasAndroid 16:22, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey now, I'm not doing a wiki-hit job on Mr. Friedman. All because only one of my edits in this article is "Criticism" section doesn't mean I'm "frustrated" about the state of the article. If it is in the recent news article reported by major news media, it should be at least mention in the person's bio article. I'm not a low-life person who just edits Wikipedia just to criticize a person. Heck if you read the Los Angeles Times overview of the Texas gov race, they mentioned it in a paragraph. The reason why I put the clean up (which is my fault for not following directions), this article in the second half is mostly one sentence paragraphs (A lot of them for an "encyclopedia" article. Some of one sentences could be merged into one paragraph to represent a "main idea."), many bullet points (Not an article but an unoriginal designed PowerPoint presentation?), and some of the quotes should only be in Wikiquote. That is my "Point of View" it fits the "poorly formatted" criteria of a clean up. I don't care. I wouldn't mind if you just delete the clean up tag just with an edit summary. I'm sort of insulted by this by mentioning it in the discussion page. --Oskar Mayer Nguyener 23:51, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh I had to get this out of the way, I'm not like currently mad at you for putting this in the discussion. :-P --Oskar Mayer Nguyener 00:08, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Problem is, when you added the tag, you gave us none of the above information to build off of. The only thing you left for us regulars to have even the slightest hint of why you felt the clean-up tag was needed was the comment about the criticism, which you then fixed yourself.  None of the rest of the above was stated.  How are we supposed to know what you feel needs to be cleaned up if you do not say what feel needs to be cleaned up? - TexasAndroid 13:19, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Very good points, Mr. Mayer. I'm sure the article will get a nice shiny polish after the elections.  I'll admit, the use of bullet points is probably a bit of a crutch.  But the quotes are apropos, I believe, because Kinky is largely *defined* by his quotability -- a fact lauded by his supporters and derided by his detractors.  I don't think it's time to move them out of the article, at least not yet. --Robertb-dc 14:42, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

"Crackheads and thugs" Racism by editor
I see that one section says that "Friedman has been accused of making racially offensive remarks by his critics. In 2006, Friedman referred to some of the Hurricane Katrina evacuees as "crackheads and thugs" during a speech about Houston's rising crime"

That's pretty racist. Not by Kinky, but by the person that wrote that. He never mentioned a race and obviously you think that all crackheads and thugs are of a different race than white. Let's grow up people. I'm in favor of removing that section. Any takers?
 * Okay, I will repeat again, I wasn't doing a wiki-hit job. (see a previous discussion) Have to defend my editing. I rarely do political articles. (see my contributions which is mostly North Texas regions-related articles, American pop culture, NFL, geek culture, and video games) Yes, I should have phrased that better and it could be portrayed point-of-view. Plus, I actually sourced my material which are well known i.e., The Los Angeles Times and an Associated Press article hosted by Fox News. It is not a weblog or some radical media group. Do a Google News search: "Kinky Friedman".  Excerpts of a well-known news source article (Reuters) overview Mr. Friedman's  on his stands and supports. They also mention this: "Such comments could be construed as code for race-baiting -- most evacuees are black -- but Friedman says he is an "equal opportunity offender" and that attempts by other candidates to tar him with the brush of racism on past comments were unfair." Oh well I'm a racist even though I'm in a minority race in Texas (not white and Hispanic) and not African decedent. --J. Nguyen 02:22, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

 * My claim still stands the same. I don't care what sources you got it from. The fact that you got it from a mainstream source just shows how racist they are. It is an opinion and opinion does not belong on Wikipedia. Plain and simple.

--Original author of "'Crackheads and Thugs' Racism by editor"
 * Okay, then we shouldn't source any mainstream respectable (oh my gosh, an opinion!) sources such as the New York Times who posts these information just blogs or even worse Wikinews on any factual events that you don't agree with. That is pretty much censorship that you're trying to promote. It isn't like I'm only promoting one side of the argument when I wrote the section. --J. Nguyen 02:18, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

 * No, you are promoting the spread of lies and bigotry. What you posted was a racist comment and it should not be there in the first place. --Original author of "'Crackheads and Thugs' Racism by editor"

 * When Kinky refers to the "Katrina evacuees" as "crackheads and thugs" the accusers obviously believe we know who he means, not because all members of a particular race are crackheads and thugs, but because we know what the racial makeup of the displaced is, particularly the poor and displaced. Also modern racists often speak in vague terms but specific phrasing, relying on mutual understanding between like-minded poeple who pick up on the phrasing and recognize one of their own. I'm not positive this was Kinky's intent, and I'm positive he didn't mean for anyone not racist to pick up on it if that was intention. However, note the comment didn't say that he did make racially offensive comments. Only that he was accused of them. Although I know it's irrelevant here, personally I think whether consciously or not his comments were clearly racially motivated. -Gripdamage 16:46, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

I think an equally, or even better case can be made for the comment was something other than racially motivated. New Orleans did have high crime rates and the highest murder rates in the country. There is also a history of awful unemployment and poverty rates. It could be argued that Kinky was being dismissive of the poor or more specifically the urban poor, without regard to race. To accuse someone of subconscious or unconscious racism and sending vague, racially coded messages borders on the paranoid. Cuvtixo 15:02, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

 * The thing is, he has a history of making racist remarks... search on +"kinky friedman" +racist, you'll find any number. Шизомби (talk) 02:03, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Bowling ball
Should we include in the controversy section, the joke about Houston's absence of bowling balls? "Then I come down to Houston, I went to a bowling alley. I couldn't go bowling, there were no bowling balls. The people here throw 'em all in the sea—they thought they were nigger eggs."Xparasite9 17:13, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * If you could come up with a reliable source for that that shows that Friedman actually said that joke, then yeah. But I'm very skeptical that you will be able to provide such a source.  That is not the type of joke that I would expect from him in the slightest.  Also, given the play that was given to the things he *did* say, if he had made a joke as inflamitory as that, I suspect it would have come out big time during the campaign. - TexasAndroid 17:41, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, no offense, but if you didn't hear about that on the news, you must have been under in a spider hole, under a rock. It was talked about on the radio talk shows so much, I couldn't find a station that wasn't discussing this. However, I don't know where I could find such proof, but he did say it.Xparasite9 19:07, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I may have heard someone on the radio say that Kinky parted the Galveston Bay so he could get some fresh shrimp, but that don't make it true. --Robertb-dc 16:24, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 * They actually had a recording of that. They played it once, then they bleeped the "N-word" every time they played the audio clip afterwards. -24.155.172.0 01:22, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Then you should really be able to easily able to find a link to a source that fulfills WP:RS, and establishes that Friedman said this joke. - TexasAndroid 21:26, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Clean-up
As someone mentioned, the political section, particularly a lot of the quotes, was useful and important during the election, but does not really add much on a going-forward basis. So I plan to start trimming out a good bit of that stuff within the next few days. I wanted to toss a notice up here, first, in case anyone wanted to protest this action ahead of time. - TexasAndroid 18:29, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 * OK. I said I would do it well over a year ago, and I finally got around to it.  IMHO, in the grand scheme of thing, Kinky's failed 2006 run for govenor does not require anywhere near the space it had.  I have left the issues and positions section, as those will still be relevant if he runs again in 2010, but most of the rest was IMHO really not needed. - TexasAndroid (talk) 17:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

"Big Dick"
Seem to recall that for awhile in the 70's and/or 80's he was identifed as Kinky "Big Dick" Friedman (and magazines were able to get away with it because his given name is actually Richard = Dick). Anyone got a source for this and can put it in the article. It's why I came to it in the first place, because he was trivia question on Cash Cab. RoyBatty42 07:46, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

When he calls into the Imus in the Morning program, Don Imus introduces him as Richard "Kinky" "Big Dick" Friedman. I also did a quick Google of the full name (Richard Kinky Big Dick Friedman) and found an article that says he uses the second sobriquet on his answering machine. I think it should be added. 74.72.114.52 (talk) 20:23, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

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 * http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/19/sunday/main788935.shtml CBS News, Aug. 21, 2005: Kinky Friedman Turns To Politics
 * Kinky Friedman Turns To Politics, Humorist, Musician, Writer, Is Now Gubernatorial Hopeful In Texas - CBS News

Looking ahead
When the 2010 campaign starts to have actual news, I envision a bit of a restructuring of the politics section. I envision:
 * The line for the Justice of the Peace run
 * A section for "2006 Texas Gubernatorial Campaign", consisting of the rest of the current politics intro section.
 * A section for "2010 Texas Gubernatorial Campaign", consisting at the start with what is now in the "Future plans" section.
 * Finally, the "issues and positions" section, which applies to both, would come last.

Anyone have any issues with this structure? (I'll take silence as a lack of issues. :)) - TexasAndroid (talk) 14:04, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Perry/Friedman in 2012
I was reading that if Perry gets the Republican nomination one of the challenges will be to find a vice president who does not out do Perry, meaning Perry will need someone who is less intelligent than he is. Some people are speculating a Perry/Friedman ticket, sort of a Dumb and Dumber combination. Should something like this be put in the article, or would that make Rick Perry look bad? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.183.68.48 (talk) 01:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Chess relevance
Re: "Friedman had an early interest in both music and chess, and was chosen at age 7 as one of 50 local players to challenge U.S. grandmaster Samuel Reshevsky to simultaneous games in Houston. Reshevsky won all 50 games, but Friedman was, by far, the youngest competitor."

I'm not convinced this information is sufficiently significant to warrant inclusion in the article. If Friedman had faced a grandmaster in real tournament play at any age, that would be an accomplishment, but participating in informal play in which a grandmaster takes on fifty opponents simultaneously and defeats them all is really no distinction--even if you're only seven. The passage seems to be implying that the distinction rests on having been chosen, but the article doesn't even hint at how he was chosen, and if that method did distinguish Friedman then the method should be what is described in the article, not the game with Reshevsky. There's nothing here that I see to indicate that the contestants weren't chosen more or less at random. TheScotch (talk) 06:25, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

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"Muttering like a Crack Addict Nigger in His Cell" Quote from Friedman's Book
When Friedman was a candidate there was a significant kerfuffle in the media over a quote in one of his books. The Media tried to paste the label "racist" on Freidman because in one of his books, a fictional character was described (very roughly, remembering as best as I can here) "...muttering to himself like a crack addict nigger in his cell...", or thereabouts. I came here hoping to get the full quote (to use elsewhere), and the entire incident goes unmentioned in this Article. So, 1) Can we get the full & correct quote, and it's source, for future possible use, and 2)  Does anyone else agree with me that the quote and the media blow-up is significant/noteworthy enough to be included in this Article?Tym Whittier (talk) 01:48, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

 * Can you can find any related citations to better support and explain this point about it affecting his political campaign? Jooojay (talk) 18:36, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

 * No, and I looked. I remember it made a media "splash" for a few days during the campaign, but I can't find any references to it.  It was talked about quite a bit on a.m. talk radio.  It never occurred to me that it might not have made it into any kind of TV or print media.Tym Whittier (talk) 01:41, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

A "full-blooded Jew"?
Under the heading "Other work and references in popular culture", it states "Friedman claims to have been the first full-blooded Jew to take the stage at the Grand Ole Opry." The phrase "full-blooded Jew" is nonsensical. The closest thing to a "full-blooded Jew" would be someone whose DNA is 100% Semitic, which Friedman's clearly isn't; as the descendant of Russian Jews, he's Ashkenazim, so most of his genetic background is actually European. It doesn't matter if the editor is saying that Friedman was merely making a claim; that would be no more notable than any other claim he might have made. Like much of the article, which is unsourced and reads like a promotional piece, that claim needs to be removed. Bricology (talk) 18:55, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Does kinky Friedman still tour with his band? 70.44.235.79 (talk) 02:01, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

 * @70.44.235.79 Hope Kinky can come to Maravilla to talk to our people. Would be great. Can contact me. Ken Rochlen 248 701 9660
 * Thanks
 * Hi to Kinky. Good health 2603:8080:2CF0:77A0:66C6:7D7F:5E9D:4AEC (talk) 15:17, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Death date
Does the problem stem from his having been found dead on the morning of June 27 with no medical or other indication of whether he died before midnight or after midnight? If so perhaps the text could be June 26/27.

It doesn't really help here, but since Jewish days are from sunset to sunset the Jewish date is certain. Mcljlm (talk) 02:26, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

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The Reformed Churches of New Zealand are one of the few Calvinist churches internationally to subscribe to both the Three Forms of Unity (common among Reformed churches with origins in the European continent, especially the Netherlands) and the Westminster Confession of Faith (common among Reformed or Presbyterian churches with origins in the British Isles).

Form of governance
The Reformed Churches of New Zealand hold to the system of presbyterian church governance. Each church has a ruling Session composed of elders and one or more ministers (also known as teaching elders). Churches which have no minister are said to be vacant. Each church also has deacons who are charged with maintaining the temporal well-being of church members and with alleviating social distress. In larger churches deacons meet in their own Deacons’ Courts, while in smaller churches they meet together with the rest of the session. Only men are eligible to serve in the offices of minister, elder and deacon.

These churches belong to one of three regional presbyteries which meet three times per year to discuss matters of common interest and to provide mutual oversight. They also meet in synod once every three years to discuss matters of joint interest and to manage activities pertaining to the denomination. Rights of appeal to presbytery and synod are available.

Ecumenical contacts
The Reformed Churches of New Zealand is a member of the International Conference of Reformed Churches. Sister-church relationships are held with churches abroad which hold to similar doctrine and practice.
 * Sister churches:
 * Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia
 * Free Reformed Churches of Australia
 * Presbyterian Reformed Church (Australia)
 * Orthodox Presbyterian Church (USA)
 * Canadian and American Reformed Churches
 * United Reformed Churches in North America
 * Reformed Churches in South Africa (Gereformeerde Kerke in Suid-Africa)
 * Churches in ecumenical fellowship:
 * Christian Reformed Churches of Australia
 * Other churches with which contact is had:
 * Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand

History
Calvinist churches have their origins in the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the late 1940s a wave of migrants from the Netherlands settling in New Zealand expected to find their spiritual homes in existing churches of Calvinist persuasion. Instead, they found departures from Calvinist doctrine and practice that they could not overlook. Discussions began in Auckland in 1951 with a view to establishing an indigenous Calvinist denominations. A minister from the Netherlands, Rev J W Deenick, arrived in 1952 to support the fledgling group. The official establishment of the Reformed Churches of New Zealand took place in 1953 at a synod in Wellington, with churches from Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch represented. By the end of that year, further churches began meeting in Hamilton, Nelson and Palmerston North, and a former Presbyterian congregation from Howick (now Bucklands Beach) joined. A further 15 member-churches have since been formed.

Worship
The churches hold worship services twice each Sunday and generally on Christmas Day, Good Friday, Ascension Day and New Year's Eve. Preaching from the Bible is the central element of worship. Preaching is by ordained ministers, or alternatively sermons written by an ordained minister may be read by a lay male session appointee when a minister is not available. Sung praise and corporate prayer are the next most significant elements of worship. The denominational psalter/hymnal, Sing to the Lord, is the main source of hymnody, in which the singing of the Psalms features strongly. Corporate confession of sin and the assurance of God's pardon are an integral part of Sunday morning worship, while in the second service one of the creeds is usually recited in unison.

The sacrament of the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion) is celebrated at least three-monthly. The sacrament of baptism is administered to new converts and to the infant children of confessing church members.

Latest synodical appointments

 * Standing committees
 * Church Extension Committee
 * Church Order Committee
 * Hymnal Committee
 * Interchurch Relations Committee
 * National Diaconate Committee
 * National Publishing Committee
 * Overseas Mission Board
 * Remuneration Committee
 * Synodical Interim Committee
 * Study committees
 * Church Visitation Committee
 * Conversion Therapy Response Committee
 * National Diaconate Review Committee
 * Other appointments
 * Stated Clerk
 * Deputies for Students to the Ministry
 * Synodical Archivist
 * Synodical Liaison to Calvinist Cadet Corps
 * Synodical Treasurer
 * Webmaster
 * Yearbook Editor

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