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Meego (TV series)

Meego is an American science fiction sitcom television series that ran for six episodes from September 19 to October 24, 1997, on the CBS television network as part of its Friday night Block Party program block; after its cancellation, seven additional episodes that were produced but left unaired in the United States were aired in some international markets (such as on Sky1 in the United Kingdom).

Created by Ross Brown, and developed by Thomas L. Miller, Robert L. Boyett, and Michael Warren, the series starred Bronson Pinchot in the title role as an alien masquerading as a human being who, after his spaceship crashlands on Earth, unexpectedly becomes the nanny to a single father's three children.

Synopsis
Meego (Pinchot) is a 9,000-year-old shape-shifting alien from the planet Marmazon 4.0. After his spaceship crashes, he is discovered by three children; Trip (Erik von Detten, later played by Will Estes), Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg) and Alex Parker (Jonathan Lipnicki). They live with their single father, Dr. Edward Parker (Ed Begley Jr.) and pass Meego off as human (he does not want anyone to know that he is extraterrestrial, and tells people he is from Canada instead). Although he plans to go home as soon as his ship is repaired, he becomes attached to the children and decides to remain on Earth to care for them.

Main

 * Bronson Pinchot as Meego
 * Ed Begley Jr. as Dr. Edward Parker
 * Michelle Trachtenberg as Maggie Parker
 * Erik von Detten (pilot episode only) and Will Estes (episodes 2–13) as Trip Parker
 * Jonathan Lipnicki as Alex Parker

Notable guest stars

 * Jaleel White in the episodes "Love and Money" and "The Truth About Cars and Dogs" (though seen wearing Urkel's eyeglasses, he appears here in uncredited, non-speaking roles as a disgruntled repossessor and a man who blows a whistle at a pinewood derby race).
 * Three cast members of Gilligan's Island, Bob Denver, Dawn Wells, and Russell Johnson, had a guest appearance on the episode "Mommy 'n' Meego", which was unaired in the United States.

Home exteriors
The exteriors of the Parker family home on Meego had been recycled from an earlier Miller-Boyett series, On Our Own. The footage of the home was filmed in a suburb of St. Louis, where On Our Own was set; however, in episode "Magic Parker", reference is made to "the greater Chicago area".

Broadcast
Meego was commissioned specifically for the CBS Block Party, an effort to compete with TGIF, the long-running family comedy block on ABC. Incoming CBS head Les Moonves saw an opportunity to take advantage of an ownership change at ABC (then being acquired by The Walt Disney Company, which was reshaping TGIF into a more teen-oriented block) and offered Miller-Boyett Productions US$40 million to bring two of TGIF's programs, Family Matters and Step by Step, to CBS. As part of the deal, Miller-Boyett also received the right to produce a new show, which became Meego.

Meego was unusual among the shows in the CBS Block Party in that it was targeted mainly at children, instead of the whole family. This was a factor in the show's failure; by this point, the show's lead-in, Family Matters, consisted mostly of a cast of young adults, and its lead-out, The Gregory Hines Show (the only show on the block to be produced by CBS and Columbia TriStar Television and with no ties to either Warner Bros. or Miller-Boyett), was also a mostly adult-oriented sitcom. Another factor in the show's failure was its direct competition; Boy Meets World, the program that aired on TGIF opposite Meego, reached its peak in number of viewers during the 1997–98 season. Meego was pulled from the air after six episodes. After holiday specials filled the slot for the next several weeks, Kids Say the Darndest Things replaced Meego on the CBS schedule in January 1998.

Critical reception
The show received mixed to negative reviews.

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User talk:Swmeyer

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Your issues with intelligent design related articles
Seeing your willingness to take what the Discovery Institute and it's officers say at face value, I can understand your frustration with articles that highlight the fact that the institute and its officers, Meyer, Dembski, Wells, Johnson, and others, have an explicitly stated subtext to their agenda that they have been pursuing. It might help if you'd first read Johnson's book Darwin on Trial, in which he states explicitly what the articles now report and you find issue with. Also, take the time to read and consider this interview of Johnson. In it he lays out exactly what in the articles you claim is POV.

You may want to reconsider your own strategy here. Going to every ID-related article to dispute well-supported, long-standing content in favor of content that is in line with the agenda-driven dissembling that the articles allege is 1) not contributing to wikipedia's goal, which is compiling a complete and factual encyclopedia, and 2) likely to result in your being viewed as having an ideological ax to grind. I'm not expecting to convince you of anything here, but I merely offer these things as something to think about. FeloniousMonk 02:25, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

I thought Wikipedia was to assume good faith--your assumption that I am not familiar with what he has said isn't.Swmeyer 03:42, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * FeloniousMonk is right. You'll never be able to keep up this pace. Slow down. Try to become a regular editor, without upsetting the balance. Creationist editors often give up, after an energetic and promicing start. They end up leaving in a huff, blaming 'evolutionist bias', or turn to vandalising out of spite or frustration. You seem to be enthused now, but you'll never be able to keep it up. Remember, you are up against a lot of people who have been here longer than you, and who have created most of the archived talk. Please, come to the table. Let's discuss specific problems within the ID, creationism and evolution articles.
 * Wikipedia needs a few good creationist editors who are willing to compromise. -- Ec5618 06:10, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Ec5618, thanks for your thoughts. I am not a creationist, and I'm especially not one if meant by that is a young-earth creationist.  However, I do think ID is currently being handled in a way on both sides that I'd like to see change (ID proponents seem to exaggerate in some instances while Darwinian evolutionists tend to discount without really allowing for the possibility of hearing ID in most cases).  I guess I should declare my perspective on my page.  Thanks for chiming in--it has precipitated this.
 * Swmeyer 14:19, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Naturalism
Joshua did not violate the three-revert rule, as I understand it. The rule is that someone may not make more than three reverts to a page in one day, which means that four reverts can be made, and I only see Joshua making three. I have not really looked at his edits much, but keep discussing the articles with him on the talk pages, you both seem like good contributors and I think you can resolve this. I have never edited artices about these subjects before and only know basic information about them, but you can contact me if you need any more help. Academic Challenger 04:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Warning about disrupting Intelligent design
Once again, I am cautioning you against about disrupting ID related articles with specious objections to well-supported content. That includes tying others up with repeated objections that have been shown to be groundless or ill-conceived, and tossing NPOV templates or ersatz "warning" messages on articles whose content is well-supported but you happen to disagree with. You've been campaigning at the ID article for nearly a week now. But the general consensus from objective, regular editors, in other words, non-ID pushers, is that the article is accurate and neutral. That ID pushers there disagree is not justification for a NPOV template. Long term contributors to this article have been tolerant of other pro-ID editors in the past, but your actions have been disruptive and you're on your second warning. Based on the above post, I suspect you're being disruptive at other articles as well. This needs to stop. FeloniousMonk 06:21, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * That a fellow traveler or two may share the same goal as you, ridding the ID article of criticisms and content that connects it to creationism and religion, is not proof that the article violates NPOV. You've been pushing pro-ID content in this article and others since you arrived. You need to decide whether you are here to write an accurate and neutral encyclopedia, or whether you are here to push pro-ID content. FeloniousMonk 07:34, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I concur. Dunc|☺ 11:56, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeah I've read the talk page many times, believe me. But I mostly see you and Felonious Monk bickering about non neutral point of view.  I was looking for some reason beyond "ID is science" as to how ID is different than creationism.  I know it is supposedly different b/c ID doesn't say that the creator is the Christian "God," but I was under the impression that it still needs a "creator" (or a "designer").  So that was more along the lines of what I was asking.  Your response was helpful, and the link to the naturalism talk page was good, too.  Maybe the more specific question I asked on your talk page (here) will help though.  And whoever posting after you on the ID page brings up the same point (more or less). -Parallel or Together? 22:18, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Intelligent design and promoting pov
Before I break the news at Talk:Intelligent design about what I've found at the www.uncommondescent.com archives, I wanted to give you a chance to explain yourself. Correlating posts there to edits here, I'm reasonably certain that you are the user "MWC" there. There you've participated in coordinating and conducting a pov campaign at wikipedia. Any comment? FeloniousMonk 05:41, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

 * So what exactly is supposed to be the problem with trying to correct a POV bias and asking for help for information? Parableman 10:46, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

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Rebecca Zadig

Rebecca Zadig (born July 27, 1982) is a Swedish singer․

Career
Rebecca Zadig was featured in Arash's song "Temptation". This song is a newer version of her own song "Temptation" which also featured Arash (then known as 'Alex'). Lyrics of the two songs differ considerably. While Rebecca's song is in English with a solo by Arash in Persian, Arash's version is a Persian song with an English chorus.

Rebecca Zadig also sang in the song "Bombay Dreams" with Aneela in 2004 and has been featured in "Mitarsam" (also called "Suddenly") - singles from Arash.

In live performances of Arash, for example the one he did on "Live in Sopot" at the Polish television, and in others, Rebecca Zadig sang the song with Arash, although the recorded version of the song "Arash" is normally sung by Helena (who does not appear in public).

She also works in fashion and underwear design.

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Political socialization

Political socialization is the process by which individuals internalize and develop their political values, ideas, attitudes, and perceptions via the agents of socialization. Political socialization occurs through processes of socialization, that can be structured as primary and secondary socialization. Primary socialization agents include the family, whereas secondary socialization refers to agents outside the family. Agents such as family, education, media, and peers influence the most in establishing varying political lenses that frame one's perception of political values, ideas, and attitudes. These perceptions, in turn, shape and define individuals' definitions of who they are and how they should behave in the political and economic institutions in which they live. This learning process shapes perceptions that influence which norms, behaviors, values, opinions, morals, and priorities will ultimately shape their political ideology: it is a "study of the developmental processes by which people of all ages and adolescents acquire political cognition, attitudes, and behaviors." These agents expose individuals through varying degrees of influence, inducing them into the political culture and their orientations towards political objects. Throughout a lifetime, these experiences influence your political identity and shape your political outlook.

Agents of socialization
Agents of socialization, sometimes called institutions, work together to influence and shape people's political norms and values. In the case of political socialization, the most significant agents include, but are not limited to, families, media, education, and peers. Other agents include religion, the state, and community. These agents shape your understanding of politics by exposing you to political ideas, values, and behaviors.

Family
Across the decades, literature has heavily emphasized that the agent of the family is the most influential, with literature suggesting that family and the transmission of attitudes from parent to child are the most prominent agents of socialization. This claim has found especially strong support for the transmission of voting behaviour, partisanship and religious attitudes. Especially in contexts of high politization and homogeneity in political views, transmissions are argued to be higher. Literature examines how aspects of family structures and dynamics change the varying influence of the offspring's values as a function of the distribution of their parent's attitudes. Families perpetuate values that support political authorities and can heavily contribute to children's initial political ideological views, or party affiliations. Literature suggest that the transmission of intergenerational political attitudes shows a strong lineage concerning their parents and siblings. Families have an effect on "political knowledge, identification, efficacy, and participation", depending on variables such as "family demographics, life cycle, parenting style, parental level of political cynicism", interest and politization, and "frequency of political discussions", as well as the saliency of the issues that are being discussed.
 * Parents: Earliest literature of the influence of parents suggests that the varying ways parents raise their children become a significant catalyst in influencing their political attitudes, and behaviour. However, the initial view of parent-youth political socialisations studies of the simple inheritance of partisan views from parents to their children has been challenged by various studies, arguing that while the family still plays an important role in the political orientation of their offspring, the intensity is reduced over time and also taking other influential aspects into account.   The most frequently found correlation of intergenerational transmission between parents and their children is partisanship and religious beliefs. What has been found is that especially salient and frequently discussed topics are more likely to transmit, and stronger transmissions occur in highly politicised households with homogenous views on political issues. It is further argued that the different methods of raising a child result in the child establishing formative values about all aspects of one's social life, such as religion and cultural traditions. . Especially the parenting style has been argued to be influential, with nurturant parenting resulting in more liberal views, and strict parenting promoting conservatism. This is argued to be due to a state-family heuristic, which assumes that complex phenomena such as politics and the state- society-relationship are understood from what we know from parent-child dynamics. In turn, suggesting that approaching social institutions in this context is vital as they bring a primary influence as opposed to economic or more formative organizations. Literature also suggest that predjudice influence from parents was found to be more influential towards political attitudes rather than economic and social stratification. Ultimately, literature has found it significant in studying the transmission of attitudes from parent to child as parents are generally more conservative, commonly associated with traditional attitudes and pushing towards continuity, opposite of their offspring.
 * Siblings: The composition of the household in terms of the sex of the siblings has been argued to influence boys in becoming more or less conservative. What has been suggested is that for boys, having sisters influences them to develop more conservative views on gender roles and partisanship. This has been argued to be caused by a different approach to child raising and the division of household chores that varies in families depending if there are sons and daughters, or just sons. Therefore, if brothers do have sisters, they are less likely to be exposed to traditionally feminized household chores, wherefore they might adopt this view on gender roles and in turn also hold more traditional views in politics. Furthermore, literature suggests that children and adolescents are far more successfully socialized with cohort-centric attitudes with siblings close in age. Thus, this cohort-centric difference of multiple generations within the family with parents and siblings supports the idea that siblings who share the core agents of familial socialization develop coherent political attitudes. Linkage to the transmission of political attitudes via siblings include social trust and civic engagement.

Media
Mass media is not only a source of political information; it is an influence on political values and beliefs. The culmination of information gained from entertainment becomes the values and standards by which people judge. Most people choose what media they are exposed to based on their already existing values, and they use information from the media to reaffirm what they already believe. From news coverage and late-night programs, to exposure to social media apps, present varying political stances that are often associated with increasing political participation. However literature suggests that media coverage increasingly motivates users to delve into politics, as media outlets are leaning toward what stories will get them more views and engagement. In turn, suggesting that having more political motives and financial motives presents more partisanship polarization if it means they will have an increase in viewership. These reinforced segments that bring more viewership have been proven to be more likely for individuals to rewatch or pay for reinforcing congruent evidence. Suggesting that reinforced media segments become confirmatory evidence that continuously polarizes biased political information. This has become the perfect environment to enhance partisan polarization among voters through national outlets that reinforce extremist positions. These extremist positions have consistently found their way into partisan positions that have moved both parties towards supporting more extremist values, increasing mass partisan polarization. Ultimately, however, the common core of information, and the interpretation the media applies to it, leads to a shared knowledge and basic values throughout a given entity. Most media entertainment and information does not vary much throughout the country, and it is consumed by all types of audiences. Although there are still disagreements and different political beliefs and party affiliations, generally there are not huge ideological disparities among the population because the media helps create a broad consensus on basic US democratic principles.Overall, the increase in the media market demand for viewership has encouraged more polarized political discourse, and with advancing technologies, our dependency on the Internet and the media's vulnerability will only continue increasing. In turn, making it more vital in addressing the threat misinformation holds to the integrity of democracy.

 * Print Media: In the case of print media, it is the oldest form of political socialization of media, as this includes books and poems. and newspapers. Until 1900, after the invention of radio, print media was the primary way individuals received information that shaped their political attitudes and beliefs. Studies show two-thirds of newspaper readers do not know their newspaper's position on specific issues- and most media stories are quickly forgotten. Older people read more newspapers than younger people, and people from the ages of twelve to seventeen (although they consume the most media) consume the least amount of news.
 * Broadcast Media: Media influence in political socialization continues with both fictional and factual media sources. Adults have increased exposure to news and political information embedded in entertainment; fictional entertainment (mostly television) is the most common source of political information. The most common form of broadcast media is television and radio, increasing attention to politics as people become more informed with information and beliefs shaping political attitudes. Studies on public opinion of the Bush administration's energy policies show that the public pays more attention to issues that receive a lot of media coverage and form collective opinions about these issues. This demonstrates that the mass media's attention to an issue affects public opinion. More so, extensive exposure to television has led to "mainstreaming," aligning people's perception of political life and society with television's portrayal of it.
 * Digital Media: Digital media, such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Twitch, accounted for viewership rates of 27.9 billion hours in 2020. examples of digital media include content created, distributed, and viewed on a given platform that one views from a digital electronic device. In turn, increases political polarization, with the recommended algorithms that confine users to echo chambers and content they agree with and enjoy while also increasing their political polarization.
 * Social Media: The role of social media in political socialization, from scrolling on TikTok to checking the trending page on Twitter, has increasingly become powerful in presenting news and varying political perspectives. This shows political socialization at the palm of your hand with the constant production of new content, bringing a new variable in its infancy and shaping how people establish their political beliefs. The media has significantly increased the number of users who cover relevant political information, increasing exposure to political discourse. These platforms have created the perfect environment for individuals to be presented with and reinforce their beliefs through the advancing programming of echo chambers. Algorithms are increasingly confining users in a cycle of content-related videos. This gives media outlets an increasing power to manipulate biased presented news as supporting evidence to a partisan issue, reinforcing confirmatory information to potential false realities shaped by misinformation. Exposure to political accountability through the media motivates increasing polarization as it exposes how potential candidates stand on a given issue.

Education
In the numerous years in school, through primary, secondary, and high schools, students are taught vital political principles such as voting, elected representatives, individual rights, personal responsibility, and the political history of their state and country. There is also evidence that education is a significant factor in establishing political attitudes during the crucial period of adolescence, with three central themes examining how civic courses, teachers, and peer groups often provide alternative perspectives to their parent's political attitudes. In turn, identifying that civic influences towards change in an educational setting are vital in establishing generational political differences during socialization during adolescence. Other literature has found that involvement with high school activities provides adolescents with direct experience with political and civic engagement and implementing activist orientations toward one's attitudes with increased political discourse.

Religion
Religious beliefs and practices influence political opinions, priorities, and political participation. The theological and moral perspectives offered by religious institutions shape judgment regarding political attitudes and, ultimately, translate to direct influence on political matters such as "the redistribution of wealth, equality, tolerance for deviance, individual freedom, the severity of criminal punishment, policies relating to family structure, gender roles, abortion, anti-gay rhetoric, and the value of human life."

The State
State governments can control mass media to "inform, misinform, or misinform the press and thus the public '', a strategy referred to as propaganda. The ability to control agents of socialization, such as the media, brings control to the state to serve a political, economic, or personal agenda that benefits the state.

Community
Community mobilization brings significant experiences of political socialization events that could influence one's political attitudes with a collective community goal. An example is how Prop 187 was specifically targeting illegal immigrants in LA County within the state of California. Given the severity of the policy targeting a specific community, this created a mass mobilization of the Latino and immigrant community, creating a voting bloc that prevented the initiative of Prop 187. Harvey Milk was a significant political mobilizing the queer community during the 1978 race for California governor with increasing support for Prop 6, a law that would mandate firing any queer teacher or employee in any California public school. As this threatened the queer community and increased immigration of gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals, specifically in the San Francisco area, Milk was able to mobilize the queer community to gain enough momentum to vote against Prop 6 successfully. This could have been a pivotal introduction to political participation for those in these areas, motivating many to continue voting in future elections. In many cases, the experience of community mobilization is the first introduction to political policies and political participation, starting their political journey connected with their home.

Region
Geographical location also plays a role in one's political media socialization. For example, news outlets on the East Coast tend to cover international affairs in Europe and the Middle East the most, while West Coast news outlets are more likely to cover Asian affairs; this demonstrates that community region affects patterns in political socialization. The region is also significant for specific political attitudes. Living near the Pakistan-India border, an individual will likely have solid political attitudes toward the Pakistan-India tension. Given the socialization of their parents, cousins, grandparents, peers, and education, all have a significant role in teaching their youth about the relationship one has with the other state. Suppose one immigrated from Cuba to the United States. In that case, they will be the political socialization inclination to obtain conservative attitudes in the United States because of the regional movements from a leftist government in Cuba.

Childhood
Political socialization begins in childhood. It has been found that family is the first main influence, and following social circles are often chosen based on these initial views. Therefore, views are assumed to persist. Research suggest that family and educational environment are the most influential factors in socializing children. In terms of family, in early childhood, indirect exposure, such as parenting styles, or sibling composition might be more relevant, than direct political discussions. However recent literature suggest that increasing influence is coming from mass media such as digital and social media. On average, both young children and teenagers in the United States spend more time a week consuming television and digital media than they spend in school. Young children consume an average of thirty-one hours a week, while teenagers consume forty-eight hours of media a week. Given that childhood is when a human is the most impressionable the influential of agents of socialization is significant as children's brains are "prime for learning", thus more likely to take messages of political attitudes of the world at face value.

Adolescence
With media influence carrying into adolescence, high school students attribute the information that forms their opinions and attitudes about race, war, economics, and patriotism to mass media much more than their friends, family, or teachers. Other literature suggests that political identification and political participation often stem from values and attitudes attained during one's adolescence. The literature argues that pre-adult socialization in both childhood and adolescence has a longstanding and stable catalyzing influence from political events. This political socialization of these catalytic events establishes predispositions that are often felt by mass and collective political socialization. Literature also suggests that adult political participation shows a longitudinal influence from adolescent forces of political socialization, with three models assessing the effects of parental influence in the context of socioeconomic status, political activity, and civic orientation. A decade later, this literature observed a longitudinal impact of socialization that stems from adolescent political socialization. Literature found that parents' socioeconomic status and high school activities impact the most, although the family is an important and stable agent of socialisation, especially if views and stances are consistent, stable, clear, salient and frequently communicated, which favours higher transmission rates. Primary carriers of pre-adult political socialization play a crucial role in later political participation, with the parent political participation model contributing to an understanding of political activity. This literature suggests that political socialization during the adolescent period significantly influences political participation and voting behavior. It is argued that views persist when the initial socialisation in the family has been strong, hence views have been strongly formed when the adolescents enter adulthood.

Adulthood
While political socialization is lifelong process, after adolescence, people's basic values generally do not change. Most people choose what content they are exposed to based on their already existing values, and they use information from a favorable source to simply reaffirm what they already believe. Internal outcomes during adulthood can have far more significant development if these beliefs remain constant over time, especially if an attitude is present for the remainderdisambiguated of one's adolescence, the odds of that belief being consistent during adulthood are very likely.

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Juan Rodriguez (trader)

Juan Rodriguez  (Dutch: Jan Rodrigues, Portuguese: João Rodrigues) was the first documented non-indigenous inhabitant to live on Manhattan Island. As such, he is considered the first non-native resident of what would eventually become New York City.

As he was born in the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, the first colony of Spain, to a Portuguese sailor and a West African woman, he is considered by many to be the first person of European and/or West African origin to settle on the island of Manhattan.

Biography
Rodriguez was born in the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic) to an African woman and a Portuguese sailor, in an era in which a tenth of the Dominican population was born in Portugal, which at that time was in dynastic union with the Spanish Crown (see Iberian Union).

Raised in a cultural environment in the Spanish settlement of Santo Domingo, Rodrigues was known for his linguistic talents and was hired by the Dutch captain Thijs Volckenz Mossel of the Jonge Tobias to serve as the translator on a trading voyage to the Lenape island of Mannahattan.

Arriving in 1613, Rodrigues soon came to learn the Algonquian language of the Lenape people and married into the local community. When Mossel's ship returned to the Netherlands, Rodrigues stayed behind with his Lenape family and set up his own trading post with goods given to him by Mossel, consisting of eighty hatchets, some knives, a musket and a sword.

He spent the winter without the support of anchored ship, at a Dutch fur trading post on Lower Manhattan that had been set up by Hendrick Christiaensen in 1613. This small settlement and others along the North River, such as Fort Nassau (Albany), were part of a private enterprise. In 1621 the Dutch Republic firmly established its claim to New Netherland and offered a patent for a trade monopoly in the region. In 1624, a group of settlers established a small colony on Governors Island. Together with a contingent of coming from the Netherlands that same year, the traders established in the settlement of New Amsterdam.

Report of Adriaen Block
In the early spring of 1613, fur trader Adriaen Block complained bitterly that a competitor, Thijs Volckenz Mossel, commander of the Jonge Tobias, had tried to "spoil the trade" by offering three times more for a beaver than Block did. In his report against Mossel, which he submitted to the Amsterdam Notary upon his return to Holland, Block topped off his list of accusations against Mossel with his outrage that

"crewman Rodrigues had become a permanent fixture in the Manhattan frontier, trading and living alone among the natives. When the said Mossel sailed away from the river with his ship, Rodrigues, born in Sto. Domingo, who had arrived there with the ship of said Mossel, stayed ashore at the same place. They had given Rodrigues eighty hatchets, some knives, a musket and a sword."

According to Block, Mossel denied that Rodrigues was working on his behalf. Rodrigues had taken it upon himself to gain friendship with the natives, set up a trading post, and live comfortably on Manhattan Island.

Mossel declared that

"this Spaniard [Rodrigues] had run away from the ship and gone ashore against his intent and will and that he had given him the said goods in payment of his wages and therefore had nothing more to do with him."

Block closed his report by writing that he knew of no other crewman who stayed behind but Rodrigues. The natives, who preferred the goods and ironware sold by Rodrigues over their own, seemed to have accepted him as the island's first merchant.

By the autumn of 1613, three Dutch ships had arrived: De Tijger, captained by Block; the Fortuyn, captained by Hendrick Christiaensen; and the Nachtegaal, captained by Mossel. This time it was Christiaensen who wrote about Rodrigues. His log states that Rodrigues came aboard the Nachtegaal, presented himself as a freeman, and offered to work for Christiaensen trading furs. The historical record leaves us with few details about the remainder of the life of Jan Rodrigues.

Legacy
A mural created by Creative Arts Workshops for Kids in 2009, in sponsorship with the Harlem River Park Task Force, Harlem Community Development Corporation and New York State Department of Transportation, depicts an image of Jan Rodrigues as he might have appeared in 1613.

Juan Rodríguez Way
In October 2012, the New York City Council enacted legislation to name Broadway from 159th Street to 218th Street in Manhattan after Juan Rodríguez. The neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood in Upper Manhattan have a substantial Dominican community. The first street sign was put up in a celebration with a small ceremony at 167th Street and Broadway on May 15, 2013.

Fiction
Writer John Keene published a brief, fictional version of Juan Rodríguez's (Jan Rodrigues's) story, entitled "Mannahatta", focusing on the trader's decision to flee the Dutch, in the Winter/Spring 2014 issue of the literary journal TriQuarterly. A revised version of the story appears in his 2015 collection Counternarratives, published by New Directions.

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User:Ed Poor/pages

These are pages which I created and have stood the test of time. Some have never been edited by anyone else. (The oldest one on the list is about to get deleted.)

 * 1) evolution poll 2001/11/30
 * 2) Help:Pipe trick 2005/7/7

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Talk:Bay Buchanan

Latter Day Saints
I don't think her brother is. did she marry a Mormon?
 * Converted in 1976, from Roman Catholic, according to this. --71.254.103.95 00:11, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Impeachment hearings
It's a biographical article. So someone criticized her. It's unsourced and gets removed for that reason. Even with a source, we'd have to discuss its biographical significance. patsw 15:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

"Booed"?
I removed an incredibly un-encyclopedic reference to criticism by the anonymous "many". I invite the curious to go to the video which is online (at least as of June 3) at Comedy Central. The "booing" actually starts with the sarcastic remark by Steve Colbert that he, lacking the time to read the immigration bill, would hire a Mexican to do so. (By the way, that was a very unoriginal joke by May 23.) Colbert was winding down the 10 minute segment -- this was in the final three seconds of the clip. Having watched many such shows, it's an invitation for the guest, Bay Buchanan in this case, to continue the joke by making a equally biting sarcastic rejoinder and go to the commercial on a laugh -- It is Comedy Central, after all. Her six word response to Colbert was that she would hope that Colbert could find one (i.e. the Mexican who would read the immigration bill on behalf of Steve Colbert) who could read English.

Neither Colbert's remark, nor Buchanan's, was funny, and a lame joke could be a equally valid reason for the booing. It certainly doesn't reveal any hidden racism on the part of either. What Colbert and Buchanan said is verifiable above at least until Comedy Central rotates it out. The "many" who criticized Colbert and Buchanan was, of course, uncited. patsw 04:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Maiden name
Maiden name needed. Badagnani (talk) 09:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Just a wild guess here, but if she is Pat Buchanan's sister then it follows that IS her maiden name. SteveCoppock (talk) 23:50, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Partisan "criticism"
I removed the Media Matters blurb about "accusations [sic] of dishonesty". First of all, it's not notable, as it somehow suggests Buchanan's claims were unique or even in the minority. This was all over TV when Hillary and Chelsea's conflicting accounts emerged. See here, here, here (transcript), here, and here for other claims of "lying".

Does anyone really expect every piece of criticism by partisan sites like Media Matters, Think Progress, Newsmeat, Hot Air, Ann Coulter, etc. to be included one Wikipedia pages? These are *encyclopedia* articles for goodness sake, not blogs. One blog's criticism is nowhere near notable enough to paste on right under a Wikipedia biography. Frankly, it makes the quality of this encyclopedia look embarrassingly shoddy. Time should be spent documenting information you'd find in typical Britannica or Encarta biographies, in addition to *major* scandals, recent notable events, and the like. The opinion of "Matthew Gertz" is hardly any of those things. At the bare minimum, I could see this being used as a single-sentence addendum to a paragraph about her book, but certainly not a separate "accusations [sic] of dishonesty" section—as if it's pre-Iraq war intelligence controversy/the Enron scandal were talking about.— DMCer ™  09:37, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

change title name to Bay Buchanan
She is always referred to as Bay Buchanan not by her given name.--Levineps (talk) 01:37, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree completely. For what it's worth, Google currently shows 1230 hits for "Angela Marie Buchanan", 67800 for "Bay Buchanan". It's obviously the more common name for sourcing. The first section of WP:NAME is titled "Use the most easily recognized name", and that applies here. Rklear (talk) 17:43, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Shouldn't we have her nickname's origin?
While Patrick Buchanan's little sister is universally known in the media as "Bay", don't Wikipedia readers deserve to know the derivation of that unusual moniker? [signed] FLORIDA BRYAN — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.99.20.254 (talk) 22:13, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
 * If you have sourcing go ahead and add the nickname origin. Flyte35 (talk) 23:17, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

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Rose engine lathe

A rose engine lathe is a specialized kind of geometric lathe. The head stock rocks back and forth with a rocking motion and/or slides along the spindle axis in a pumping motion. A rosette or cam-like pattern mounted on the spindle is controlled by moving against a cam follower(s) while the lathe spindle rotates. Rose engine work can make flower patterns, as well as convoluted, symmetrical, multi-lobed geometric patterns. The patterns it produces are similar to that of a Spirograph, in metal. No other ornamental lathe can produce these "rose" patterns. The decoration produced by a rose engine lathe is called guilloche. It sometimes confused with "jewel finishes" or engine turning, a much cheaper process of making swirly marks in metal by a rotating abrasive peg or pad, which is repeatedly applied to the surface to make a pattern of overlapping circles. Jewel finishes used to be common on stereo faceplates and automobile interiors.

The patterns of United Kingdom's first postage stamps (known as the "line engraved" series), including the Penny Black of 1840, were based on rose engine patterns. The die used to prepare the printing plates was partially created by means of the rose engine, which produced a complicated pattern on a separate piece of metal. Rollers were then used to transfer this pattern to the die, where it formed the background and border patterns (the head, corner decoration and lettering were hand-engraved). This pattern made the stamps difficult to forge, and PB&P (known from 1852 as Perkins, Bacon & Co.) held the contract for forty years, during which time the designs of the stamps which they printed changed little.

Karl Faberge used the rose engine to create his signature decoration, guilloché enameling, for his famous Fabergé eggs created for Tsar Alexander III of Russia. The rose engine cut a series of parallel lines into the metal surface onto which the enamel was applied.

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Priceless (horse)

Priceless was a horse ridden by British rider Virginia Leng. She competed the gelding in the sport of eventing. Priceless won four team gold medals for Britain, as well as the Badminton Horse Trials and Burghley Horse Trials.

In every three-day event in which he competed, Priceless never had a cross-country penalty (a feat considered amazing by the eventing community), and did not have a stop the whole of his career. Priceless was excellent on cross-country, being fast, careful, and a good jumper, with great form and scope. Perhaps this was the reason he was never out of the top twelve in any three-day event.

Priceless won eight medals at international championships: four team golds (1981 and 1985 European Championships and the 1982 and 1986 World Championships), one team silver (1984 Olympic Games), two individual golds (1985 European Championships and 1986 World Championships) and one individual bronze (1984 Olympic Games). He is one of the rare horses to have held both European and World team and individual titles concurrently, in addition to Cornishman V and Toytown. He is also the only horse to have won the Burghley Horse Trials twice.

After his eventing career, Priceless fox hunted with his owners, before retiring on Leng's farm. He was euthanized at the age of 28.

Quotes about Priceless
"Partnerships like that usually happen once in a lifetime." Lucinda Green

"He's never stopped at a jump, which is quite remarkable. He's one of the all-time greats." Richard Meade

"He's a bit of a legend. I'd read and heard a lot about him before I ever saw him but it wasn't until the team started training together for the 1984 Olympics that I realised quite how brilliant he was. In the flesh he looks like a very large pony, and when he wasn't fit you might have wondered if he'd be capable of Three-Day eventing. Once you study him in action though, he leaves you no doubt. Throughout the team training he stood out above the rest. He did everything that bit better. He excelled in everything he did, particularly when he had an audience. He always thought he was special and he was jolly well right." Ian Stark

"On the day of the cross-country at the Los Angeles Olympics, Ginny and Priceless set off early I wanted a shot of them jumping the Crescent Oxer which I knew could be spectacular if - as Dot had told me - they took the direct route through the centre. If they had decided to choose the easy way round the side I would have missed my picture altogether. It was a gamble, especially as no one before them took the central route and a lot of the riders seemed to be making heavy weather of the course. The gloomy predictions that no one would clear seemed to have a ring of truth. Then Priceless and Ginny appeared, heading straight for the centre of the oxer. It was the most enormous fence, but they just sailed over it. As they carried on round the course, I could hear the commentator saying. "Clear, clear, clear." and it was as if a cloud had lifted." Kit Houghton, Equestrian Photographer

Competition record
1986
 * 10th Thirlestane Castle Advanced
 * 2nd Gatcombe Park Advanced
 * Individual Gold, Team Gold World Championships at Gawler CCIO ***

1985
 * Individual and Team Gold at the European Championships at Burghley
 * 2nd Locko Park Advanced
 * 4th Holker Hall Advanced
 * 1st Badminton Horse Trials CCI****
 * 1st Brigstock Advanced
 * 2nd Rushall Advanced

1984
 * Individual Bronze & Team Silver medals Los Angeles Games
 * 9th Castle Ashby Advanced
 * 2nd Tweseldown OI
 * 1st Brigstock Advanced

1983
 * 1st Burghley Horse Trials
 * 4th Gatcomb Park Advanced

1982
 * Team Gold, 7th Individually World Championship at Luhmuhlen CCIO ***
 * 1st Locko Park Advanced
 * 4th Badminton Horse Trials CCI ****
 * 1st Brigstock Advanced
 * 3rd Frensham Advanced

1981
 * 6th Individually, Team Gold European Championship at Horsens CCIO ***
 * 1st Locko Park Advanced
 * 4th Dauntsey Advanced
 * 8th Badminton Horse Trials CCI ****
 * 3rd Brigstock Advanced

1980
 * 6th Burghley Horse Trials

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Hartlaub's spurfowl

Hartlaub's spurfowl or Hartlaub's francolin (Pternistis hartlaubi) is a species of bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is endemic to the escarpment zone of Namibia and Angola. The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub.

Taxonomy
Hartlaub's spurfowl was described in 1869 by the Portuguese naturalist José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage from a specimen collected in Huíla Province, Angola. He coined the binomial name Francolinus hartlaubi. The species is now placed in the genus Pternistis that was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler in 1832. The specific epithet hartlaubi was chosen to honour the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2019 found that Hartlaub's spurfowl was basal to the other species in the genus. Hartlaub's spurfowl is considered as monotypic: the subspecies ovambensis, bradfieldi and crypticus have been described but are not recognised.

Description
Hartlaub's Spurfowl is the smallest African spurfowl and is highly sexually dimorphic both in plumage and in size. The male is on averages 28 cm in length and weighs 245 –; the smaller female is around 25 cm in length and weighs 210 –. The male has a dark brownish forehead, a prominent white eyestripe and rufous ear coverts. The upperparts are brown-grey with darker bars and streaks. The underparts are pale grey with extensive dark streaks. The is brownish and the  is yellow. The legs are yellow with flattened spurs. The female has upperparts that are similar to those of the male. The underparts, head, neck are a dull rufous without the brown streaking. Both sexes have disproportionately large bills. The juvenile male is similar to the adult male but has finer streaking on the upperparts. The young female is similar to an adult.

Distribution and habitat
Hartlaub's spurfowl is endemic to southwest Africa, occurring only in northcentral to northwestern Namibia and a small area of southwestern Angola.

Hartlaub's spurfowl is an inhabitant of medium-altitude arid and semiarid regions from 800 - 1600 m. Throughout its range, its preferred habitat consists of higher ground, mostly on rocky granite and sandstone outcrops (koppies to locals), surrounded by semidesert steppe. Invariably, relatively dense grass and shrubbery are associated with these outcrops.

The red-billed spurfowl (Pternistis adspersus) and the Orange River francolin (Scleroptila gutturalis) occur alongside this species, but they occupy different habitats. Red-billed spurfowls prefer bush along watercourses and Orange River francolins can be found on the slopes leading up to the rocky outcrops occupied by Hartlaub's spurfowl.

Breeding
Hartlaub's spurfowls appear to be perennially territorial, with variable numbers of boundary call sites demarking each territory. Call-sites are used by territorial pairs on a regular basis, for daily bouts of antiphonal duets. The frequency of use of particular call-sites appears to be influenced more by the presence (vocalizations) of un-mated females on particular boundaries, than by the daily duetting of neighbouring pairs. The mean territory size of Hartlaub's francolin pairs is 40863.9±12016.1 square metres (n = 12 pairs). Dependent on annual breeding success and offspring survival, the mean population density of the study area during 1983 through 1989 ranged from one bird in 0.82 ha to one bird in 2.04 ha, with an average annual population density of one bird in 1.43 ha. There was no significant difference in outer convex polygon areas determined by call sites and radio-telemetry. However, core ranges and utilization distributions of pairs, and, in particular, the multiple nuclei of different daily activities could only be distinguished by radio-telemetry. The 90% multiple nuclei of seasonal distribution are correlated with patchy distribution of food resources favoured by females, and, whilst rearing young, the distribution of insects, and especially cryptic termites.

Antiphonal duets of territorial pairs are audibly distinguishable, on the basis of temporal and structural differences in the female vocal elements of duets. Territorial pairs use antiphonal duets on a daily basis to advertise their presence, and such calling was most frequent shortly after sunrise. Un-mated females call far more frequently than territorial pairs, often throughout the day, with peaks at shortly after sunrise and before sunset. Playback experiments with the advertising calls of un-mated females within territory boundaries of established pairs, elicited vigorous vocal and behavioural responses from territorial females. Male calls are more conservative than female calls, with females using a wider repertoire of vocalizations.

The mating system of Hartlaub's spurfowl can be described as a female dominated resource defence monogamy. Perennial territorial resources (food, traditional call-sites, refuge and suitable nest-sites) are primarily defended by female Hartlaub's francolins. By excluding other females from the vicinity of the resource, the defending female can count on male visitation, life-mating and thus biased mating access with guaranteed fertilization. The pair bond is maintained by ritualised behaviours, including pair-distinct (female initiated) antiphonal duetting and reverse mounting during courtship and incubation. Operational sex ratios are "female skewed" and probably strongly influenced by predation, with noticeably large numbers of strongly- vocal female 'floaters' and a virtual absence of un-mated males. It is unusual that this sex-role reversed monogamy occurs in a species which is strongly sexually dichromatic and dimorphic, with the males more brightly coloured and somewhat larger than females.

Food and feeding
Habitat use, foraging behavior, and diet of male and female Hartlaub's spurfowl are related to the availability of corms, seed, and insects of different sizes in different habitats. They primarily forage on granitic outcrops, and use a variety of feeding techniques, with significant sexual differences in foraging behavior, and to a lesser degree, dietary composition.

Males consume a greater diversity of food items than females, although considerable dietary overlap occurs between the sexes, and sexual differences in feeding techniques result in some food items being prioritized by each sex. In particular, distinct functional differences results from females' almost exclusive digging habits, in contrast to males' wider range of foraging techniques, including an apparently male-specific foraging technique of exposing cryptic termites.

The relatively larger-billed females specializes on digging out the corms of Cyperus spp., which within the species, appears to be primarily carried out by females, with males spending proportionally more time foraging for a more diverse diet of insects and seed. This sexual difference in diet is thought to be adaptive, in response to predator and sexual selection pressures. The relatively narrow dietary spectrum of females may be a causative factor in vigorous perennial defence of territorial resources.

Hartlaub's spurfowl occur in pairs or small family parties up to four, and are inconspicuous unless calling. They are not easily flushed, preferring to hide between boulders. Flushed birds utter a rapid, chattering 'krak', flying rapidly.

Status
Hartlaub's spurfowl is not especially common throughout its limited range. The Namibian population is estimated at c. 26 000 birds. However, its conservation status is not threatened, probably because its habitat is of little commercial value to humans at this stage. Granite mining activities are a potential threat to their habitat. Though spurfowls are gamebirds, Hartlaub's is too small to be of any special culinary value.

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DTN

DTN or DtN may refer to:
 * Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
 * Delay-tolerant networking, or Disruption-tolerant networking, an approach to computer network architecture
 * DTN (company), provider of specialized news services with data from financial markets, weather, etc.
 * Decision Theater North, an immersive visualization space for complex decision making in Fairbanks, Alaska
 * Down to Nothing, a straight-edge hardcore band from Richmond, Virginia
 * Dorsal tegmental nucleus, a brain region
 * Dictius Te Necare (Latin: "You must kill yourself") a 1996 album by German black metal band Bethlehem
 * Daystar Television Network, an evangelical Christian television broadcaster
 * the IATA airport code for Shreveport Downtown Airport in Shreveport, Louisiana

 * the UK railway station code for Denton railway station in Denton, Greater Manchester
 * the term downtown

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Talk:D&C

Clearing links to this disambiguation page
Links to this page from the main article space have been redirected to more appropriate targets. Courtland 23:21, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:North Kent Marshes

This article is clearly an environmentalist screed, attacking the government. I haven't just removed (or rather, burnt and replaced) the offending sentences because the partisanship of the edits makes me wonder whether the envionmental data given here might be exaggerated or taken out of context here, too. This needs someone who knows what they are talking about to fix. Morwen - Talk

I don't know the details, but I grew up in area and the environmental statements look broadly right and in context to me. Will do some work on this article when I have the data. JackyR 00:00, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

I have examined the page, and except for one sentence, the content seems fine. I am a former member of Medway Council (Labour) and we were very protective of the marshes, though nothing would convince some of the more suspicious locals. The offending sentence is interesting and can be dissembled;
 * With a flagrant and total disregard for these established facts the incumbent administration in overall control of the British economy (The Labour government) has publicly expressed a view that this area (included in the 'Thames Gateway') should be built upon to the extent that it becomes a suburb of greater London.

It is true that the area is within the Thames gateway proposal region. It is false that there was a flagrant and total disregard. Regard was made, but the decision was made on a greater good criteria. The Thames gateway proposals do not however make a significant inroad into the North Kent Marshes, though with greater population in Kent they will be under more pressure. Little building on the marshes if any is proposed. It is false that they will become a suburb of London, as the Gateway proposals are keener to develop new cities. There is considerable concern within Kent about newbuild, and concern about shortage of water to support the population.

A fairer statement may be.
 * For centuries, the North Kent Marshes have been threatened with environmental change due to their proximity to London. Inclusion in the Thames Gateway Project is seen as the latest threat.

For that I cite, naval shipbuilding on the Medway, the convictships, British Fleet at the Nore. so that takes it bake 500 years.

ClemRutter

"incumbent administration in overall control of the British economy (The Labour government)" What a stupid phrase! How about substituting simply "the British gGovernment"? Emeraude 14:02, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

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RE/MAX

RE/MAX, short for Real Estate Maximums, is an American international real estate company that operates through a franchise system.

As of 2015, RE/MAX had more than 100,000 agents in 6,800 offices. RE/MAX operates in over 100 countries and territories.

Early history: 1970–76
RE/MAX was founded in January 1973 by Dave Liniger and Gail Main (who later married Liniger and became Gail Liniger) in Denver, Colorado.

The company was established with a maximum commission concept, meaning that agents would keep nearly all of their commissions and pay their broker a share of the office expenses, rather than paying their broker a share of the commission of each sale, which is common in residential real estate.

In 1975, Dennis Curtin purchased the first RE/MAX franchise outside of Colorado, in Kansas City, Missouri. The company grew to 100 franchises in two years. RE/MAX held its first convention in Las Vegas in 1976, which became an annual event.

International expansion: 1977–98
RE/MAX opened its first office outside the United States in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1977, started by Don Fernie as RE/MAX South. By 1981, the company had 30 franchises in Canada, and in 1987, RE/MAX became the top real estate company in Canada.

In 1978, the RE/MAX Hot Air Balloon—a red, white and blue hot air balloon—was introduced, taking its maiden flight at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta in New Mexico. A year later in 1979, the balloon became the company's official logo.

In 1994, the company expanded outside North America with the establishment of RE/MAX Europe. Regional operations expanded in Germany, Italy, Spain, and South Africa.

In November 1994, the RE/MAX Satellite Network (RSN; renamed RE/MAX University in the 2000s)—a satellite training system for real estate—was launched in the US, debuting at the National Association of Realtors Convention in Anaheim, California. The RSN offered training, professional designation courses, and company news.

RE/MAX expanded to Australia and New Zealand in 1996.

In 1998, Liniger attempted the first manned balloon flight around the world in a stratospheric gas balloon. The flight was canceled due to design and weather problems.

Online expansion and IPO: 2006–present
In 2006, RE/MAX began to list all U.S. homes for sale on its website, including homes being sold by competitors. By 2009, the company had franchises in 70 countries.

In April 2010, the Obama administration announced the "Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives" (HAFA) program. The day the announcement was made, leaders from the U.S. Treasury Department and Bank of America participated in a live, national broadcast detailing the initiative at RE/MAX Headquarters in Denver. By 2011, the company had more than 6,000 franchises.

In 2013, UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk released a report which alleged that real estate groups, such as RE/MAX, found to promote or sell properties in Israeli settlements may be held liable for complicity in the crime of promoting settlement activity in occupied territory. As of November 2015, RE/MAX Israel was still selling properties in 18 different Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

RE/MAX Holdings Inc raised $220 million in its initial public offering (IPO) in 2013. A secondary offering was completed of approximately $185 million in November 2015. REMAX Holdings owns 58.3% and RIHI owns 41.7% of RE/MAX LLC. Total diluted share count (public and private) as of December 31, 2015, was 30.2 million shares.

The company expanded into China in 2014 by opening an office in Beijing. The company had more than 15,000 agents in Europe. As of 2016, RE/MAX operates in about 100 countries and has more than 115 hot air balloons in operation, the largest corporate hot air balloon fleet in the world.

In 2016, they named Re/Max Results, a franchisee covering most of Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin as their largest franchisee with more than 1200 agents, and averaging more than 20 transactions per agent.

In 2018, former president of the company Geoff Lewis, and Liniger stepped down from their roles to retire. Responsibilities were handed to CEO Adam Contos. In 2018 it was announced that Liniger had violated company ethics with a multi-million-dollar loan of his own personal money to Contos.

Subsidiaries
In addition to RE/MAX LLC, RE/MAX Holdings, Inc. owns two other brands.

Motto Mortgage (Motto Franchising, LLC) is the first national mortgage brokerage franchise brand in the United States. Motto was launched by RE/MAX in 2016.

Wemlo (stylized as wemlo) is a fintech company that provides third-party mortgage loan processing services. The company was founded in early 2019 as a startup in Florida by David Rogove and Steven Gelley. RE/MAX Holdings announced its acquisition of wemlo on September 1, 2020.

Philanthropy
In 1992, RE/MAX became a sponsor of Children's Miracle Network. The company hosts art auctions, organizes golf tournaments, and encourages agent fundraising activities. Collectively, all RE/MAX affiliates have raised $147 million for the Children's Miracle Network hospitals in over 20 years of sponsorship.

In 2002, the company became a sponsor of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Race For The Cure events in the United States.

Local offices use hot air balloons for educational programs and non-profit organization fundraisers.

Recognition
RE/MAX University has been featured in Training Magazine's Top 125 US Organizations recognizing employee development.

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Talk:Helensburgh and Lomond

Why redirect to Argyll and Bute?
I believe this ward has history also as a ward of Dumbarton district. (Wouldnt be surprised if it no longer exists, or will cease to exist when ward boundaries are redrawn to create multi-member STV wards in 2007.) Laurel Bush 10:12, 25 April 2006 (UTC).

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HMNZS Resolution

HMNZS Resolution (A14) was a hydrographic ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). Originally the United States Naval Ship USNS Tenacious (T-AGOS-17), the Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship was used by the United States to locate and track Soviet submarines from 1989 to 1997, when she was transferred to the RNZN for use as a hydrographic survey ship. She served until 27 April 2012. She was subsequently sold to EGS Group, a private surveying company, and renamed RV Geo Resolution.

Construction
The ship's construction contract was awarded 20 February 1987 to VT Halter Marine, Inc. of Moss Point, Mississippi, under then name Intrepid. Her keel was laid down 26 February 1988, she was launched 17 February 1989 and commissioned as USNS Tenacious on 29 September 1989. The renaming was prompted by protests from veterans of the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11), who felt that the surveillance ship was not a fitting vessel to carry on the carrier's name.

United States
During the Cold War, Ocean Surveillance Ships patrolled the world's oceans searching for Soviet Navy submarines. Data was collected using the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS), consisting of listening devices and electronic equipment that transmit the acoustic data via satellite to shore for analysis. SURTASS is a linear array of 8575 ft deployed on a 6000 ft tow cable and neutrally buoyant. The array could operate at depths between 500 and 1500 ft.

Tenacious was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and sold to New Zealand on 6 February 1997.

New Zealand
On commissioning into the RNZN on 13 February 1997, the ship was renamed HMNZS Resolution, after the sailing sloop HMS Resolution (1771), used by James Cook during his second and third voyages of exploration, in recognition of the extensive hydrographic survey work done by Cook. Resolution replaced HMNZ Ships HMNZS Tui (1970) and HMNZS Monowai (A06) as the navy's primary survey and acoustic research vessel. She undertook various marine survey tasks, including for the Land Information New Zealand agency. SMB Adventure was operated by Resolution as a tender and survey motor boat.

Resolution sponsored a scholarship for under-privileged high school students to participate in a 10-day passage on the sail training ship Spirit of New Zealand. On occasion, university and high school students were embarked aboard Resolution as part of the 'Students at Sea' programme.

On 22 February 2011, Resolution was underway off Christchurch when the 2011 Canterbury earthquake occurred. NZ Navy Today said later : '..the feeling onboard was that the engines had been set in full astern with associated shuddering and shaking. It was only when a dust cloud over Christchurch was observed and chatter on VHF soon alerted the bridge team of the enormity of the disaster. With Captain Dean McDougall (CTU 654.0.1, Captain Fleet Operational Support) in an established headquarters on HMNZS Canterbury in Lyttelton, Resolution reported for duty and was subsequently called in to conduct a hydrographic confidence survey of the main channel into the Port of Lyttelton.

Resolution was decommissioned at Devonport Naval Base on 27 April 2012. She was subsequently sold to EGS Group, a private surveying company, and renamed RV Geo Resolution. Following the sale she left Devonport Naval Base for the final time on 11 October 2014.

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Cannabis Cup

The High Times Cannabis Cup is a cannabis festival sponsored by High Times magazine. The event features judges from around the world who sample and vote for their favorite marijuana varieties, with cups (trophies) being awarded to the overall winner in the cannabis variety competition. Since 1997, the Cannabis Cup festival has hosted induction ceremonies for the Counterculture Hall of Fame.

Founded in 1988 by High Times editor Steven Hager, the Cannabis Cup is usually held each November in Amsterdam. The first U.S. Cannabis Cup was held in 2010; High Times now holds Cannabis Cups in Northern and Southern California, Denver, Michigan, Seattle, and Oregon. The High Times Medical Cannabis Cup recognizes medical marijuana in states that have passed medical marijuana laws.

The High Times Cannabis Cup also includes live music, educational seminars, and an expo for marijuana-related products from cannabis-oriented businesses.

History
A DVD called High Times Presents: The Cannabis Cup was made after the 2003 festival.

The 20th High Times Cannabis Cup, held in 2007, featured hosts Tommy Chong and Redman; a film of the 2007 festival was released in the summer of 2008.

In 2010, Dutch police raided the Amsterdam Cannabis Cup location. That same year, High Times mounted its first Cannabis Cup in the United States, also inaugurating the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup, an annual event celebrating medical cannabis. The first Medical Cannabis Cup took place in San Francisco, California, on June 19–20, 2010.

In 2014, after 27 years, Amsterdam held what appeared to be its final High Times Cannabis Cup. This decision was partly due to the growing uncertainty about Dutch cannabis laws, the newly available legal cannabis locations in the United States and various other countries, and the after-effects of the 2010 raid. (The Cannabis Cup later returned to Amsterdam.)

In 2017, the festival celebrated its 30th anniversary, with the award show hosted by Danny Danko.

In 2018, the festival was held in the middle of summer, on 13th to 15 July, veering away from its usual schedule.

Categories
Award categories include Best New Product, Best Booth, Best Glass, Best Hash, and Best Nederhash (hashish that is produced only in the Netherlands). A team of VIP judges decides which seed company has grown the Best Indica, Best Sativa, and Best Hybrid Strain, and which company has produced the Best Nederhash and Best Imported Hash.

The U.S. Cannabis Cup recognizes marijuana in states that have passed laws that legalize marijuana for adult, recreational use. Teams of expert judges vote on Best Indica, Best Sativa, Best Hybrid, Best Concentrates, Best Edibles, and Highest Level of CBD in cannabis products (All cannabis products are tested for THC content and CBD content by independent cannabis-testing laboratories). At each U.S. Cannabis Cup expo, festival attendees vote for Best Booth, Best Products, and Best Glass.

Counterculture Hall of Fame
The Counterculture Hall of Fame celebrates the history of the counterculture and the people who helped shape it. Previous inductees include Bob Marley (1997), Louis Armstrong (1998), William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac (1999), Bob Dylan (2002), Jack Herer (2003), Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin (2007), Peter Tosh (2008) Tom Forcade (2009) and Coke La Rock (2010). John Griggs, BEL (2011), Steven Hager (2012), Ben Dronkers (2013), and Alexander Shulgin & Ann Shulgin (2014).

Overall Cannabis Cup

 * 1) 1st Cup 1988 — Skunk #1 from Cultivator's Choice
 * 2) 2nd Cup 1989 — Early Pearl/Skunk #1 x Northern Lights #5/Haze from the Seed Bank
 * 3) 3rd Cup 1990 — Northern Lights #5 from the Seed Bank
 * 4) 4th Cup 1991 — Skunk from Free City
 * 5) 5th Cup 1992:
 * 6) Haze x Skunk #1 from Homegrown Fantasy
 * 7) Master Kush Winner— Hindu Kush X Skunk #1
 * 8) 6th Cup 1993:
 * 9) Haze x Northern Lights #5 from Sensi Seed Bank
 * 10) Master Kush Winner — Hindu Kush X Skunk #1
 * 11) 7th Cup 1994 — Jack Herer from Sensi Seed Bank
 * 12) 8th Cup 1995 — White Widow from the Green House
 * 13) 9th Cup 1996 — White Russian from De Dampkring
 * 14) 10th Cup 1997 — Peace Maker from De Dampkring
 * 15) 11th Cup 1998 — Super Silver Haze from the Green House
 * 16) 12th Cup 1999 — Super Silver Haze from the Green House
 * 17) 13th Cup 2000 — Blueberry from the Noon
 * 18) 14th Cup 2001 — Sweet Tooth from Barney's
 * 19) 15th Cup 2002 — Morning Glory from Barney's
 * 20) 16th Cup 2003 — Hawaiian Snow from Green House
 * 21) 17th Cup 2004 — Amnesia Haze from Barney's
 * 22) 18th Cup 2005 — Willie Nelson from Barney's
 * 23) 19th Cup 2006 — Arjan's Ultra Haze #1 from Green House
 * 24) 20th Cup 2007 — G-13 Haze from Barney's
 * 25) 21st Cup 2008 — Super Lemon Haze from Green House United
 * 26) 22nd Cup 2009 — Super Lemon Haze from Green House United
 * 27) 23rd Cup 2010 — Tangerine Dream from Barney's
 * 28) 24th Cup 2011 — Liberty Haze from Barney's
 * 29) 25th Cup 2012 — Flower Bomb Kush from the Green House
 * 30) 26th Cup 2013 — Rollex OG Kush from The Green Place
 * 31) 27th Cup 2014 — MaraDawg Blue Flake Cheese Pearl from Chopper Special

17th Cup (2004) winners

 * Overall Cannabis Cup

 * 1) Amnesia Haze by Barney's Breakfast Bar
 * 2) Killer Green by Katsu
 * 3) Jack Flash by Sensi Seeds

 * Indica Cup

 * 1) God Bud by BC Bud Depot
 * 2) MK Ultra by TH Seeds
 * 3) L.A. Confidential by DNA Genetics

 * Sativa Cup

 * 1) Love Potion No. 1 by Reeferman Seeds
 * 2) Arjan's Haze No. 1 by Green House Seeds
 * 3) Sage 'N Sour by TH Seeds

 * Import Hash Cup

 * 1) Caramella Cream by Barney's Breakfast Bar
 * 2) Royal Cream Gold by Rokerij
 * 3) Nepal Pollen Shoe by Green House Seeds

18th Cup (2005) winners

 * Overall Cannabis Cup

 * 1) Willie Nelson by Barney's
 * 2) Arjan's Schoenmaker Zwevers Ultra Haze 2 by Green House
 * 3) Silver Haze by Coffeeshop Dampkring

 * Indica Cup (Seed Company)

 * 1) Lavender by Soma Seeds
 * 2) LA Confidential by DNA
 * 3) Sensi Star by Paradise Seeds

 * Sativa Cup (Seed Company)

 * 1) Martian Mean Green by DNA
 * 2) Nebula by Paradise Seeds
 * 3) Kushage by THSeeds
 * 4) Romulan by Meekseeds

 * Import Hash Cup

 * 1) Caramella Cream by Barney's
 * 2) Rifman Malika by De Dampkring
 * 3) King Hassan by Green House

 * Nederhash Cup

 * 1) Waterworks by De Dampkring
 * 2) Kadni Bubble by Barney's
 * 3) Arjan's Ultra 2 Haze Hash by Green House

 * Glass Cup

 * 1) Triple Perculator by Green Devil
 * 2) D-Line by DNA
 * 3) Opal Smooth by ROOR Glass

 * Product Award

 * 1) Vapezilla by Wicked Roots
 * 2) Pollinator by Bubblator
 * 3) Mini Matches by De Dampkrin
 * 4) Phil Lesh Kadeshhh by Golden Bud of Unlimited Tokevotion

19th Cup (2006) winners

 * Cannabis Cup

 * 1) Arjan's  Ultra Haze #1 - Green House
 * 2) G13 Haze - Barney's
 * 3) Martian Mean Green - Grey Area

 * Sativa Cup

 * 1) Mako Haze - Kiwiseeds
 * 2) Opium - Paradise Seeds
 * 3) Blue Cheese - Big Buddha Seeds

 * Indica

 * 1) Big Buddha Cheese - Big Buddha Seeds
 * 2) Fruity Thai - Ceres Seeds
 * 3) Night Shade - Barney's

 * Hash

 * 1) Sexpot Holland- Netherlands, Holland Home Brew
 * 2) Carmello Cream - Barney's
 * 3) Carmello Royale - Green House
 * 4) Rifman's Noor - De Dampkring

 * Nederhash

 * 1) Barney Rubble - Barney's
 * 2) Water Works - De Dampkring
 * 3) Master Kush Isolater - Green House

 * Product

 * 1) Super Vapezilla - Wicked Roots
 * 2) Portable Vortex Gravity Bong - Gravity Vortex
 * 3) Aleda Papers - Aleda

 * Expo

 * 1) Barney's Farm
 * 2) Green House
 * 3) Wicked Roots

20th Cup (2007) winners

 * Cannabis Cup

 * 1) G-13 Haze - Barney's
 * 2) Chocolope - Grey Area
 * 3) Super Silver Haze - Green House United

 * Indica Cup

 * 1) Top Dog - Amnesia Seeds
 * 2) Crimea Blue - Barney's Farm
 * 3) Reserva Privada #18 - Reserva Privada

 * Sativa Cup

 * 1) Kaia Kush - Apothecary
 * 2) Tasman Haze - Kiwi Seeds
 * 3) The Purps - BC Bud Depot

 * Neder Hash

 * 1) Violator Ice-o-lator - Barney's
 * 2) Bubble Mania - Green House United
 * 3) Grey Crystals - Grey Area

 * Import Hash

 * 1) Triple X - Barney's
 * 2) King Hassan Supreme - Green House United
 * 3) Rifman's Habibi - De Dampkring

 * Product Cup

 * 1) Barney's Gift Bag - Barney's
 * 2) Portable Vortex Gravity Bong - Gravity Vortex
 * 3) Vaporstar Vaporizer by Vaporstar

 * Best Booth

 * 1) Barney's Farm
 * 2) DNA Seeds
 * 3) Green House Seeds

21st Cup (2008) winners

 * Cannabis Cup

 * 1) Super Lemon Haze - Greenhouse United
 * 2) Utopia Haze - Barney's
 * 3) Chocolope - The Green Place

 * Indica Cup

 * 1) Mt. Cook - Kiwi Seeds
 * 2) Cheese - Homegrown Fantaseeds
 * 3) LSD - Amnesia Seeds

 * Sativa Cup

 * 1) Utopia Haze - Barney's
 * 2) DeLaHaze - Paradise
 * 3) Cannatonic - Resin Seeds

 * Neder Hash

 * 1) Royal Jelly - Barney's
 * 2) Greenhouse Ice - Greenhouse
 * 3) Grey Crystal - Grey Area

 * Import Hash

 * 1) Triple Zero - Barney's
 * 2) Super Palm - Greenhouse
 * 3) Shiraz - Amnesia

 * Product Cup

 * (tie) 1. BC Chillum - Barney's
 * (tie) 1. Pocket Alchemy - DNA
 * 2. Bubble Bags - Bubble Bags
 * 3. Glass Vaporizer - Herborizer

 * Best Booth

 * 1) Barney's

 * Glass Cup

 * 1) AK - DNA Genetics
 * 2) Mr Nice Custom - RooR
 * 3) MOE - Green Devil

22nd Cup (2009) winners

 * Cannabis Cup

 * 1) Super Lemon Haze - Green House
 * 2) Vanilla Kush - Barney's
 * 3) Head Band Kush - The Green Place

 * Indica Cup

 * 1) Starbud - Hortilab
 * 2) OG18 - Reserva Privada
 * 3) Kush D - AllStar Genetics

 * Sativa Cup

 * 1) Super Lemon Haze - Green House
 * 2) The Purps - BC Bud Depot

 * Neder Hash

 * 1) Royal Jelly - Barney's
 * 2) Greenhouse Ice - Green House
 * 3) Grey Crystal - Grey Area

 * Import Hash

 * 1) Rif Cream - Greenhouse
 * 2) Triple Zero - Barney's
 * 3) Azilla - Amnesia

 * Product Cup

 * 1) Vapor Swing - Original Design by HMK
 * 2) Incredibowl i420 - Incredibowl Industries
 * 3) Strain Hunters DVD - Green House

 * Best Booth

 * 1) Greenhouse Seed co
 * 2) Barney Farm
 * 3) Big Buddha Seeds

 * Glass Cup

 * 1) RooR Excalibur
 * 2) shattered dreams
 * 3) Incredibowl i420 - Incredibowl Industries

23rd Cup (2010) winners

 * Cannabis Cup

 * 1) Tangerine Dream – Barney's Coffeeshop
 * 2) Super Lemon Haze – Greenhouse United
 * 3) L.A. Cheese - The Green Place

 * Indica Cup

 * 1) Kosher Kush – Reserva Privada
 * 2) Cold Creek Kush - TH Seeds
 * 3) White OG - Karma Genetics

 * Sativa Cup

 * 1) Acapulco Gold – Amnesia Seeds
 * 2) Chocolope – DNA Genetics
 * 3) Sour Power - Hortilab

 * Neder Hash

 * 1) Tangerine Nectar Ice-O-Lator - Greenhouse
 * 2) Tangerine Nectar Iceolator- Barney's
 * 3) Grey Area Crystal - Grey Area

 * Import Hash

 * 1) Caramella Cream- Barney's Coffeeshop
 * 2) Rif Cream – Greenhouse United
 * 3) Twizla – The Green Place

 * Product Cup

 * 1) Barney's Bud Scope – Barney's
 * 2) Strainhunters India DVD - Greenhouse Seed Co.
 * 3) - Vapir

 * Best Booth

 * 1) Barney Farm
 * 2) Greenhouse Seed Co.
 * 3) Attitude Seed Bank

 * Glass Cup

 * 1) Ghost - RooR
 * 2) The Klingon – The Cali Connection
 * 3) Dragon Bong – Dragon Bong & Earth Spirit

 * Freedom Fighter of the Year

24th Cup (2011) winners

 * Cannabis Cup

 * 1) Liberty Haze – Barney's Coffeeshop
 * 2) Hawaiian Snow – Greenhouse United
 * 3) Buddha Tahoe - The Green Place

 * Indica Cup

 * 1) Kosher Kush - Reserva Privada
 * 2) Star Bud - Hortilab
 * 3) Tahoe OG - Cali Connection

 * Sativa Cup

 * 1) Moonshine Haze - Rare Dankness Seed co
 * 2) Electric Lemon Haze - TH Seeds
 * 3) Dominator - Karma Genetics

25th Cup (2012) winners

 * Cannabis Cup

 * 1) Flower Bomb Kush - the Green House Coffeeshop
 * 2) Shoreline - the Green Place
 * 3) Evergrey - the Grey Area

 * Indica Cup

 * 1) Kosher Kush – Reserva Privada
 * 2) True OG - Elemental Seeds
 * 3) SFV OG Kush - Cali Connection

 * Sativa Cup

 * 1) Amnesia Haze - Soma's Sacred Seeds
 * 2) Sour Amnesia - Hortilab
 * 3) Green Shack - Strain Hunters Seedbank

 * Hybrid

 * 1) Loud Scout - Loud Seeds
 * 2) Rock Star - Bonguru Seeds
 * 3) Rug Burn OG - Rare Dankness Seedse

 * Neder Hash

 * 1) Lemon Crystal - the Green House Coffeeshop
 * 2) Grey Crystal - the Grey Area
 * 3) M.O.G - the Green Place

 * Seed Company Hash

 * 1) The Wheezy - Reserva Privada
 * 2) Tangerine Compound - Rare Dankness Seeds
 * 3) The Tangie - DNA Genetics

 * Import Hash

 * 1) Sharkberry Cream - the Green House Coffeeshop
 * 2) Twizzler - the Green Place
 * 3) Maroc Lemon Haze - The Bushdocter

 * Product Cup

 * 1) Big Buddha Seeds Goodie Bag - Big Buddha Seeds
 * 2) PUFFiT Inhaler/Vaporizer - VapoShop and Discreet Vape
 * 3) Tiny Sister - Roor

 * Best Booth

 * 1) Big Buddha Seeds
 * 2) Cali Connection
 * 3) Roor

 * Glass Cup

 * 1) Drill Bill - Roor Glass
 * 2) Puk Pipe - Puk Pipe
 * 3) The MF Doom Borch - DNA Genetics and Hitman Glass

 * CBD Award

 * 1) Lion's Tabernacle - Cali Connection

 * Freedom Fighter of the Year

 * 1) Mason Tvert

 * Dutch Master Honorees

 * 1) Wernard Bruining and Nol van Schaik

26th Cup (2013) winners

 * Cannabis Cup

 * 1) Rollex OG Kush – the Green Place
 * 2) Flowerbomb Kush – the Green House
 * 3) Tangie - the Bushdoctor  Coffeeshop

 * Indica Cup

 * 1) Whitewalker OG – Gold Coast Extract
 * 2) True OG - Elemental Seeds
 * 3) KnightsBridge OG – Lady Sativa Genetics

 * Sativa Cup

 * 1) Tangie – Reserva Privada
 * 2) Sour Power - Hortilab
 * 3) Headbangar- Karma Genetics

 * Hybrid

 * 1) Somari – Soma's Sacred Seeds
 * 2) Girl Scout Cookies – Tahoe Wellness Cooperatives
 * 3) Dieseltonic – Resin Seeds

 * Neder Hash

 * 1) Lemon Crystal - the Green House Coffeeshop
 * 2) Shoreline Solventless - the Green Place
 * 3) Tangie Wax – the Bushdoctor Coffeeshop

 * Seed Company Hash

 * 1) Lemon Cleaner OG Nectar – TCLabs/TerpX/EmoTex
 * 2) Whitewalker OG – Gold Coast Extracts
 * 3) Chemblend Solventless Wax – Elemental Seeds/Essential Extracts/ Johnny Trill

 * Import Hash

 * 1) Twizzla - the Green Place
 * 2) Chemdog Cream- the Green House
 * 3) Maroc Lemon Haze - The Bushdocter

 * Product Cup

 * 1) Buddha Giftbag - Big Buddha Seeds
 * 2) Cloud V – Cloud V
 * 3) Sublimator - Sublimator

 * Best Booth

 * 1) Big Buddha Seeds
 * 2) Devil's Harvest
 * 3) Sensi Seeds

 * Glass Cup

 * 1) Master Yoda/Big Buddha Seeds – Honey Collabs Collection
 * 2) Loud/Silka – Sika Glass
 * 3) Ray Pack - Roor

 * CBD Award

 * 1) Cannatonic- Elemental Seeds

 * Inductee High Times Hall of Fame

 * 1) Ben Dronkers

27th Cup (2014) winners

 * Cannabis Cup

 * Best Coffeeshop Flowers:
 * 1) Barney's Coffeeshop- Cookies Kush
 * 2) Green Place - OG Reekn
 * 3) The Green House - Pure Kush

 * Best Sativa by a Seed Company:
 * 1) Crockett Family Farms - Tangie Crockett's Cut
 * 2) DNA Genetics - Tangie
 * 3) PhenoFinders - Lemon Bubble

 * Best Indica by a Seed Company :
 * 1) The Vault Genetics - Colorado Bubba
 * 2) True Canna Genetics - The Truth
 * 3) DNA Genetics - Kosher Kush

 * Best Hybrid by a Seed Company:
 * 1) The Vault Genetics - Larry OG
 * 2) Rare Dankness Seeds - Star Killer
 * 3) BC Bud Depot - Night Nurse

 * Best Import Hash (Concentrates) by a Seed Company:
 * 1) Loud Pack Extractions & Greenwolf, LA - Super Lemon OG Concentrate
 * 2) Oasis Medical Seeds in Flint, MI - Paris OG Shatter Dab Vader
 * 3) DNA Unlimited - Lemon OG 18 Live Resin

 * Best Neder Hash by a Coffeeshop:
 * 1) Barney's Coffeeshop - Cookies Ice-Cream
 * 2) The Green House -Green House Ice
 * 3) The Grey Area - Grey Crystan

 * Best Import Hash Coffeeshop:
 * 1) the Green House - Super Lemon Haze Cream
 * 2) Barney's Coffeeshop - Carmella Cream
 * 3) The Green Place - Twisla

 * Best Neder Hash by a Seed Company:
 * 1) The Vault Genetics - The Kong 73 Non-Solvent Hash
 * 2) DNA Grow Your Own - Betty Ross
 * 3) Drysift by House of the Great Gardener -Barb 99

House of the Great Gardener - CBD Rene
 * CBD Flowers:

 * CBD Concentrate:
 * 1) CannaVest - CBD Simple

 * Best Product:
 * 1) The Loud Seeds Gift Bag
 * 2) Devil's Harvest
 * 3) Sensi Seeds

 * Best Glass:
 * 1) Roor
 * 2) Flav421 History in the Making by the Dampkring Gallery
 * 3) Team Japan Onigari/ Demon Hunter by the Dampkring Gallery

Australian Cannabis Cup
The Australian Cannabis Cup is an annual cannabis competition held in Nimbin, New South Wales, Australia. It has been celebrated since before 1995 and is known for recognizing excellence in cannabis produce.

The event features judges from around Australia who sample and vote for their favourite cannabis varieties, with cups (trophies) being awarded to the overall winner in the cannabis variety competition and in the best wax, dabs and rosin categories.

History
The Australian Cannabis Cup gained national attention in 1995 when it was featured in a documentary by 60 Minutes. Over the years, the event has evolved, with a focus on two primary categories: buds/flowers and extracts like oils and hash. In recent years, Alec ‘Craze’ Zammitt and Will Stolk, members of the 420 cannabis protest group 'Who Are We Hurting?,' have documented the event through video coverage.

Categories
Award categories include Best Flower, Wax or Dab, Best Hash, (hashish that is produced only in Australia). A team of  judges decides which grower  has grown the Best Indica, Best Sativa, and Best Hash.

The U.S. Cannabis Cup recognizes marijuana in states that have passed laws that legalize marijuana for adult, recreational use. Teams of expert judges vote on Best Indica, Best Sativa, Best Hybrid,

While in Australia the illegality of Cannabis has made the Cannabis Cup more of an underground hush ,hush affair for members of the tight nit cannabis community.

Impact
This event has played a significant role in showcasing and pushing for change within the cannabis community in Australia and raising awareness about medicinal cannabis, which began being prescribed en masse to the public in 2018.

Community Involvement
More than just a competition, the Australian Cannabis Cup fosters community and camaraderie among cannabis enthusiasts and positively impacts the local Nimbin community.

Legal Considerations
The event operates in a legal landscape where recreational cannabis remains illegal at the federal level in Australia. Nevertheless, changing attitudes toward cannabis legislation and the growing medicinal cannabis industry have influenced the event's reception and its role in the broader discourse on cannabis in Australia.

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