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Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant

Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Forsmark, Sweden that provides 14% of Sweden's total electricity output, and also the site of the Swedish Final repository for radioactive operational waste. It is operated by a company mainly owned by Vattenfall.

The radiation monitors at Forsmark were the first outside the Soviet Union to detect the elevated radiation levels resulting from the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986, over 1,000 km away, forcing the Soviet government to publicly acknowledge it after two days of them trying to cover it up.

Reactors
Forsmark NPP has three Boiling water reactors:

 * F1 with an ABB Atom BWR 69 at 2928 MW thermal and 1010 MWe net was first connected to the grid on 5 June 1980, and commenced commercial operation on 10 December 1980. It has two turbo-alternators.
 * F2 with an ABB Atom BWR 69 at 3253 MW thermal and 1120 MWe net was first grid connected on 15 December 1980 and commenced commercial operation on 7 July 1981. It is a twin of Unit 1.
 * F3 with an ABB Atom BWR 75 at 3300 MW thermal and 1190 MWe net and was first grid connected on 3 March 1985 and commenced commercial operation on 21 August 1985. It is a later design with one turbo-alternator.

Other facilities
West of Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is the static inverter of the Fenno–Skan HVDC connector between Sweden and Finland.

Waste disposal
Forsmark is the proposed site for the long-term burial of all spent fuel from Swedish nuclear power reactors, using the KBS-3 process. The new site will be located next to the already existing final repository for radioactive operational waste, but the two will not be connected with each other. The municipal councils of Oskarshamn and Östhammar have voted in favour of the repository, and the final decision needs to be made by the Swedish government. On January 28, 2022, the government approved the construction of the encapsulation and final repository plants.

July 2006 incident
On 25 July 2006, one reactor was shut down after an electrical fault. According to the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspection authority SKI, the incident was rated 2 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Initially it was rated 1 since two generators remained online. But once it was discovered that all four generators could have failed due to the same fault, the event was upgraded to 2.

The first proximal cause of the accident was maintenance work in the adjacent high-voltage yard by the Swedish grid operator Svenska kraftnät. An incorrect interlock procedure caused a disconnector to open which sustained an arc that caused a two-phase short circuit in equipment directly adjacent to the plant. This short caused the station generators to disconnect from the grid and, due to the failure of further safety systems this disconnection, in turn, led to a large overvoltage on various supplies within the station. The overvoltage caused failure of the control circuitry of two of the four redundant UPS systems which supplied the safety critical equipment at the plant, including cooling pumps and control circuitry. Though diesel generators started correctly even on these two systems, the lack of control circuitry led to their being unable to engage with their corresponding circuits. The other two UPS systems functioned correctly, surviving the overvoltage, probably due to an undetermined subtle difference in wiring or equipment between the two pairs of units. The reactor fully and effectively scrammed immediately on detecting these supply failures, however staff relied on neutron detector readings to determine reactor state due to lack of information on control rod state. At all times effective cooling was maintained by the pumps operating on the two functioning circuits. Though a number of options remained to operators, had further equipment failed, a single cause (one short-circuit) leading to such a cascade of failures was seen as a challenge to the principle of redundancy and safety in depth.

At the request of the Swedish Government, IAEA launched an OSART mission to Forsmark.

Lars-Olov Höglund, a former construction chief at Vattenfall, claimed it was the most serious nuclear incident in the world since the Chernobyl disaster and it was pure luck that prevented a meltdown. Both the SKI and the safety chief of Forsmark power plant disagree with that opinion and state that the incident was serious but the description provided by Höglund was incorrect and there was no real risk of a meltdown. Höglund has personally been involved in a legal dispute with Forsmark Nuclear powerplant for several years in connection with his private business.

However, Kjell Olsson, a researcher at SKI, later stated in an informal discussion with schoolchildren that a meltdown technically could have developed from the incident. The agency later stated that the failing safety system proved to be linked together in a delicate, extremely serious way.

On March 14, 2011, Höglund commented that the Fukushima-disaster parallels the Forsmark incident, i.e. failing UPS system backup, and repeated his statement from 2007 that "only luck" prevented a meltdown at the Swedish plant.

February 2007 shutdown
On February 3, two units at Forsmark were shut down to inspect a rubber seal in one of the safety systems. On Forsmark 1 this seal needed to be replaced, a job that would take approximately one month. Unit 2 was cleared by the regulator SKI and was free to restart.

In January an internal report made by a few employees at Forsmark who were concerned over a "degrading safety culture" was leaked to media who ran an extensive story on it. In the storm following the report the Forsmark CEO chose to resign. Forsmark was already under way to implement a 60-point program designed to improve safety culture, designed shortly after the event in July 2006.

January 2022 drone sighting
On January 17, the Swedish Security Service took over an investigation into unauthorized drones seen flying over Forsmark and the Oskarshamn and Ringhals nuclear plants.

Incursions by activists
In June 2010, Greenpeace activists invaded Forsmark to protest the then-plan to remove the government prohibition on building new nuclear power plants. In October 2012, 50 anti-nuclear activists used special ladders to scale security fences. Greenpeace said that its non-violent actions were protests against the continuing operation of these reactors, which it says are unsafe in European stress tests, and to emphasise that stress tests did nothing to prepare against threats from outside the plant. A report by the Swedish nuclear regulator said that "the current overall level of protection against sabotage is insufficient". Although Swedish nuclear power plants have security guards, the police are responsible for emergency response. The report criticised the level of cooperation between nuclear site staff and police in the case of sabotage or attack.

Local geology
The geology around Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant has been investigated in detail by various researchers and research groups. It has been of particular interest to understand the long-term geologic stability of the area. A 2018 study found that the area of Forsmark, whose surface belongs to the Sub-Cambrian peneplain, lost 2 to 3 meters of crystalline bedrock due to erosion during the last glaciation. This erosion consisted mostly of plucking of bedrock sheets and abrasion. The same group of researchers estimates the total erosion in the last million years to be in the order of 20 to 40 m.

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George Albert Kerr

George Albert Kerr (January 27, 1924 – May 21, 2007) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of John Robarts and Bill Davis. Kerr was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party and was the first person to hold the portfolio of environment minister in any provincial or federal cabinet in Canada.

Background
He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and educated at the University of New Brunswick and Dalhousie Law School. He worked as a lawyer.

Politics
He served on the town council of Burlington, Ontario, from 1955 to 1957 and from 1960 to 1962.

Kerr was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1963 provincial election, defeating Liberal Party candidate Owen Mullin by 6,372 votes in Halton. He served as a backbench supporter of Robarts's government for four years, and was re-elected in the 1967 election. He was appointed to cabinet on June 5, 1969, as Minister of Energy and Resources Management.

Kerr was the only cabinet minister to support Darcy McKeough's bid to succeed Robarts as party leader at the 1971 Progressive Conservative Party leader leadership convention. McKeough was eliminated on the second-last ballot, and, with Kerr, gave his support to Bill Davis.

Davis won the contest, and initially retained Kerr in the Energy and Resources Management portfolio. In that role, Kerr oversaw the Ontario government's response to the discharge of about 10000 kg of mercury from the Dryden Chemical Company's chloralkali plant, into the headwaters of the 235 km-long Wabigoon River on Lake Wabigoon in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario from 1962 until 1970, which caused mercury contamination in the region's lakes and rivers. On April 6, 1970, he closed commercial fisheries and issued warning against consumption of fish in the area. According to a 2018 article in The Guardian, in August 1970 Kerr had reassured the local community that the Wabigoon river would recover naturally within twelve weeks without government intervention or a clean up. In a speech to the Ontario parliament in 2010, MP Norman W. Sterling, said that Kerr had made up the estimate of twelve weeks, and quoted Kerr as saying, "If I had said it was going to be flushed out in one or two years, they would never have believed me." Sterling's words were "met with laughter in the Ontario parliament".

On July 23, 1971, he was named Minister of the Environment, the first such Cabinet minister in Canada.

Following the 1971 election, Kerr was named as Minister of Colleges and Universities. On September 28 of the same year, he was again transferred to become Provincial Secretary for Justice. This post was a "super-ministry", overseeing the offices of the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, the Minister of Correctional Services and the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs. While a strong position in theory, the office lacked defined administrative objectives, and ministers who held the position were often marginalized in legislative debates.

On February 26, 1974, Kerr was relieved of this position and named as Solicitor-General. He temporarily resigned from cabinet on February 21, 1975, after allegations that he had solicited and received money from a man involved in a harbour scandal in Hamilton. Kerr protested his innocence, but argued that he could not function as the province's Solicitor-General while the matter was unresolved. A subsequent investigation found no grounds to warrant charges against Kerr, and he was briefly returned to cabinet before leaving again on July 18.

The Progressive Conservatives were reduced to a minority government in the 1975 provincial election. Kerr, re-elected for the new constituency of Burlington South, was returned to cabinet on October 7 as Minister of the Environment. He held this position until January 21, 1978, when he was again named Solicitor-General and Provincial Secretary for Justice.

He resigned a second time as Solicitor-General after he made a telephone call to an assistant crown attorney on behalf of a constituent who was facing trial for driving while his licence was suspended. The call quickly became public and Kerr resigned from cabinet on Sept. 9, 1978.

Kerr was re-elected in the 1981 provincial election, and served as a government backbencher for the next four years. He retired from the legislature in 1985.

Kerr died on Victoria Day, 2007.

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Apodicticity

"Apodictic", also spelled "apodeictic" (ἀποδεικτικός, "capable of demonstration"), is an adjectival expression from Aristotelean logic that refers to propositions that are demonstrably, necessarily or self-evidently true. Apodicticity or apodixis is the corresponding abstract noun, referring to logical certainty.

Apodictic propositions contrast with assertoric propositions, which merely assert that something is (or is not) true, and with problematic propositions, which assert only the possibility of something's being true. Apodictic judgments are clearly provable or logically certain. For instance, "Two plus two equals four" is apodictic, because it is true by definition. "Chicago is larger than Omaha" is assertoric. "A corporation could be wealthier than a country" is problematic. In Aristotelian logic, "apodictic" is opposed to "dialectic", as scientific proof is opposed to philosophical reasoning. Kant contrasted "apodictic" with "problematic" and "assertoric" in the Critique of Pure Reason, on page A70/B95.

Apodictic a priorism
Hans Reichenbach, one of the founders of logical positivism, offered a modified version of Immanuel Kant's a priorism by distinguishing between apodictic a priorism and constitutive a priorism.

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Talk:Eucalyptus marginata

earlier comments
I suggest moving (copy-paste) this to Jarrah (which is currently a disambiguation page) and creating a new Jarrah (disambiguation) page. None of the other Jarrah articles on the disambig page claim or attempt to claim ownership of Jarrah. Jarrah (the tree) is by far the most notable subject of the 4 listed. Comments? -- Moondyne 01:17, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree. But copy-paste is considered bad form because it wipes out the article history.  It would be better to move Jarrah to Jarrah (disambiguation), then ask an admin to move Jarrah (tree) to Jarrah. User:Hesperian 03:11, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * WP:RM has a big backlog at the moment and I just went through a recent issue renaming another article and got told to be bold unless it's controversial (and I don't believe this is). I wanted a second opinion before proceeding though. Edit history would stay with Jarrah (tree) (which becomes a redirect), which could be noted in the Jarrah talk page. -- Moondyne 03:22, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Consider it done.--nixie 04:02, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I take issue with Moondyne's 'notability' criteria. As west australians (in lower case) we consider the tree the most immediate to our concerns. (And in the disambig in lower case?) "wassalam aleikum" to the other jarrahs!

As for ownership - the cultural relativity isse is another one again.
 * Our friends "over there" who dominate wiki know of a coffee with that label (and here we get into a similar issue with the java disambig and redirect wars, " our friends over there" havent even heard of java the island! only the coffee or the programming language). I do think we should be more careful in our evalutation of notability. Nevertheless, it's been done - so be it!User:SatuSuro 03:09, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically disagree. Of the people who search for "Java" in this encyclopaedia, the breakup of intentions might be something like:
 * Java the computer technology, 50%
 * Java the island, 40%
 * any other meaning for Java, 10%
 * The even spread of intended meanings makes a disambiguation page the most appropriate page to put at Java. Contrast this with the intentions of people who search for "Jarrah" in this encyclopaedia, which probably breaks up something like:
 * Jarrah the tree/timber, 96%
 * Jarrah the record label, 2%;
 * Jarrah the coffee, 1%
 * any other meaning for Jarrah, 1%;
 * The heavy skew towards a particular meaning makes the positioning of the tree article at Jarrah entirely appropriate. User:Hesperian 04:15, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Wow, well argued - even if only from "might" and conjecture...

If ony we had interactions like that in some of the other disambig arguments, life would be so much easier. Point taken, and well said! It is a real pity wikipedia didnt have some sort of tabulation software that might verify Hesperian's point!User:SatuSuro 04:42, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

 * You're quite right that it is conjecture. Even though there is no real basis to the figures, but I don't think you would seriously argue the overall point, i.e. that "Java" has an even spread of meanings whereas "Jarrah" does not.  It is a pity this information about disambiguations isn't being collected / made available, isn't it? User:Hesperian 05:13, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

principal hardwood?
 it is the principal hardwood tree harvested in Australia for timber.

I find this hard to believe, I think even Eucalyptus regnans would beat out Jarrah, let alone the vast amounts harvested in Indonesia. Is there a reference for this? njh 23:34, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

It is the principal native hardwood timber of Western Australia (ToddBrittain 31/7/08)

Vast amounts harvested in Indonesia are, by definition, not harvested in Australia, so this point is irrelevent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.39.162.130 (talk) 14:56, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Diction?
I haven't done the edit, because I wanted the discussion first.

English is wonderfully rich in dialects.

The main one(s) where Jarrah grows would spell the colour "grey" not "gray", and would call them sleepers not crossties. Anyone agree with me that (pace our friends over there) we should "naturalise" the diction of this article? TIA. Callophylla 02:02, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely ! Here in WA they have always been called 'Sleepers'. 'Crossties' is a foreign description. It is most important to use the vernacular of the local timber industry when describing them.(ToddBrittain 31/7/08)

 * Actually I disagree. However, you apparently have Wikipedia policy behind you. --Ptcamn 03:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

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Toodyaypedia article QR code in place Elrebe56 (talk) 06:20, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Seeds in 1802
''Eucalyptus marginata was first formally described in 1802 by James Edward Smith, whose description was published in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Smith noted that his specimens had grown from seeds brought from Port Jackson...''

I’m dying to know how seeds from a tree endemic to SW WA got to Port Jackson in 1802. Whaling ships? Matthew Flinders? Convict ships stopping in SW WA on their way to Sydney? MBG02 (talk) 08:19, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

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Category:Gibberish language

These articles are devoted to gibberish, or nonsensical, languages.

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Tendon reflex

Tendon reflex (or T-reflex) may refer to:

 * The stretch reflex or muscle stretch reflex (MSR), when the stretch is created by a blow upon a muscle tendon. This is the commonly used definition of the term.  Albeit a misnomer, in this sense a common example is the standard patellar reflex or knee-jerk response. Stretch reflex tests are used to determine the integrity of the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system, and they can be used to  determine the presence of a neuromuscular disease.
 * The term "deep tendon reflex", if it refers to the muscle stretch reflex, is a misnomer. "Tendons have little to do with the response, other than being responsible for mechanically transmitting the sudden stretch from the reflex hammer to the muscle spindle. In addition, some muscles with stretch reflexes have no tendons (e.g., "jaw jerk" of the masseter muscle)".

 * The Golgi tendon reflex, which is a reflex to extensive tension on a tendon; it functions to protect musculoskeletal integrity. The sensory receptors for this reflex are anatomically located deep in the tendon, while the sensory receptors for the MSR are inside the muscle. Therefore, the Golgi tendon reflex can be referred to as the deep tendon reflex.

Testing
As wrongfully referring to a muscle stretch reflex, to test the reflex, tap on the tendon. In a healthy individual the intensity on both sides is equal. This means that the connections between the spinal cord and the muscles are undamaged.

Main spinal nerve roots involved:
 * Biceps (C5, C6)
 * Brachioradialis (C6)
 * Triceps (C7)
 * Patellar (L4)
 * Achilles tendon (S1)

Functions of Golgi tendon reflex
The Golgi tendon reflex is a response to extensive tension on a tendon. It helps avoid strong muscle contractions which could tear the tendon from either the muscle or bone. In sports, quick movements can damage the tendon before the reflex can occur. The tendon reflex also helps spread the workload more evenly over the entire muscle by preventing "muscle fibers connected with overstimulated tendon organs so that their contraction is more comparable to the contraction of the rest of the muscle."

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The Honeydrippers

The Honeydrippers were an English rock and roll band of the 1980s. Former Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant formed the group in 1981 to satisfy his long-time goal of having a rock band with a heavy rhythm and blues basis. Formed originally in Worcestershire from an existing cover band, it has had many members come and go, including fellow former Led Zeppelin member Jimmy Page; Jeff Beck (a former Yardbirds member like Page); and other friends and well-known studio musicians including original Judas Priest guitarist Ernest Chataway. The band released only one recording, an EP titled The Honeydrippers: Volume One, on 12 November 1984.

The Honeydrippers peaked at number 3 in early 1985 on the Billboard Hot 100 with a remake of the Phil Phillips' tune "Sea of Love", and hit number 25 with "Rockin' at Midnight", originally a Roy Brown recording and a rewrite of "Good Rockin' Tonight." With the EP's success, Plant stated that a full album would be recorded, but it never was.

Origins
There are a number of views on the origin(s) of the name Honeydrippers. Paul Stenning (2008) says Plant joined a Midlands blues cover band called "The Honeydrippers". In this telling, the band and its name existed prior to Plant: it is unstated who came up with the name and what it means. In Paul Rees's 2013 biography, Plant joined a "makeshift" cover band, and Plant gave the band its name, inspired by Roosevelt Sykes, an American blues singer known as "Honeydripper". Jean-Michael Guesdon in his 2018 book Led Zeppelin, All the Songs says the name is an allusion to the Led Zeppelin song Black Dog, which contains the lyric "Watch your honey drip, can't keep away". Another theory is it's derived from ‘40s R&B star Joe Liggins, his most popular song was The Honeydripper, and it was also the name of his backing band. The term "honeydripper" is black slang for the vagina or a female lover; it can also mean a male lover who frequently says ("drips") sweet nothings to his female lover.

Members
Original lineup (1981)
 * Robert Plant – vocals
 * Andy Silvester – guitar
 * Kevin O'Neill – drums
 * Ricky Cool – harmonica
 * Jim Hickman – bass
 * Keith Evans – saxophone
 * Wayne Terry – bass
 * Robbie Blunt – guitar

The Honeydrippers: Volume One lineup (1984)
 * Robert Plant – vocals
 * Jimmy Page – guitars
 * Jeff Beck – guitars
 * Paul Shaffer – keyboard
 * Nile Rodgers – guitar, co-producer
 * Wayne Pedzwater – bass
 * Dave Weckl – drums
 * Brian Setzer – guitar (guest appearance)
 * Keith "Bev" Smith – drums

Discography

 * The Honeydrippers: Volume One (1984), US number 5, US R&B number 67, UK number 56

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User:Dauster

Bill Dauster is a lawyer, economist, speechwriter, For speeches from the 1990s and 2000s, see “A Progressive Voice”. For some speeches on which he worked with Senator Chris Van Hollen, see, e.g., Congressional Record, volume 163, pages 103–05 (January 5, 2017) (statement of Senator Chris Van Hollen on the budget resolution to repeal the Affordable Care Act); Congressional Record, volume 163, pages S625–26 (February 2, 2017) (on the resolution to disapprove of the Interior Department rule on stream protection); Congressional Record, volume 163, pages S644–45 (February 2, 2017) (on the resolution to disapprove of the Securities and Exchange Commission rule on disclosure of foreign payments); Congressional Record, volume 163, pages S1168–69 (February 15, 2017) (on the resolution to disapprove of the Social Security Administration rule on background checks for gun purchases); Congressional Record, volume 163, pages S1620–21 (March 7, 2017) (on the resolution to disapprove of the Bureau of Land Management planning rule); Congressional Record, volume 163, page S1663 (March 8, 2017) (on the resolution to disapprove of the Department of Education teacher preparation rule); Congressional Record, volume 163, pages S1679–81 (March 8, 2017) (on the Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act); Congressional Record, volume 163, page S1711 (March 9, 2017) (on the resolution to disapprove of the Department of Education accountability rule); Congressional Record, volume 163, pages S1741–42 (March 9, 2017) (on the 75th anniversary of the Applied Physics Laboratory); Congressional Record, volume 163, pages S1789–91 (March 14, 2017) (on the American Health Care Act); Congressional Record, volume 163, pages S1870–71 (March 21, 2017) (on the resolution to disapprove of the wildlife taking rule); Congressional Record, volume 163, pages S1913–14 (March 22, 2017) (on the resolution to disapprove of OSHA's injury records rule); Congressional Record, volume 163, page S1949 (March 23, 2017) (on the resolution to disapprove of the Federal Communications Commission Broadband rule); Congressional Record, volume 163, at pages S2090–91 (March 29, 2017) (on the resolution to disapprove of the IRA rule); Congressional Record, volume 163, page S2131 (March 30, 2017) (on the resolution to disapprove of the family planning rule). and lecturer who has served on United States Senate, White House, and political campaign staffs since 1986, and currently is Deputy Staff Director at the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (the HELP Committee).

From 2011 to 2017, Dauster was Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for Senate Majority Leader and then Democratic Leader Harry Reid.See, e.g., Dmitriy Shapiro, "Harry Reid Remembered for Deep Identification with Jewish Community and Israel," Cleveland Jewish News, Jan. 5, 2022, 4:24 PM; Caitlin Emma, "Sanders Amasses Budget Arsenal To Enact $15 Minimum Wage," Politico, February 2, 2021; Jake Johnson, "Bolstering Reconciliation Case, Study Shows $15 Wage Would Boost Federal Budget By $65 Billion," Common Dreams, February 1, 2021; Niv Elis, "Progressives Push Controversial Proposal on Budget Reconciliation," The Hill, January 21, 2021; Niv Elis, "Byrd Rule, Politics Threaten $15 per Hour Minimum Wage," The Hill, January 28, 2021; Andrew Duehren and Richard Rubin, "Democrats See Path to Biden’s Covid-19 Relief Bill Without GOP Help,", Wall Street Journal, January 26, 2021; David Lerman, "Minimum Wage Boost Likely Headed for Budget Reconciliation Bill,"Roll Call, January 25, 2021; Paul M. Krawzak, “Impeachment Trial Could Knock Biden Virus Aid Plan Off Course,” Roll Call, January 22, 2021; Paul M. Krawzak, "Top Budget Expert Makes Case for Minimum Wage in Reconciliation," Roll Call, January 22, 2021; Kate Riga, “With Fresh Obstructionist Demands, McConnell Dares Dems To Blow Up the Filibuster,” Talking Points Memo, January 21, 2021; Naomi Lim, "Loeffler under Pressure To Dispute Electoral College Results on Jan. 6," Washington Examiner, December 11, 2020; Naomi Lim, "Senate Gridlock Could Keep Biden from Satisfying Liberals," Washington Examiner, November 23, 2020; Kate Riga, [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/biden-senate-republican-mcconnell "Without a Blue Senate, a Pres. Biden Would Have To Dramatically Adjust His Expectations,"] Talking Points Memo, November 4, 2020; Naomi Lim, "Liberal Policy Agenda Could Lose Out as Campaigns Focus on Halting Coronavirus," Washington Examiner, March 21, 2020; Naomi Lim, "Amy Klobuchar resurgent among 2020 Democrats thanks to Iowa boomlet," Washington Examiner, December 11, 2019; Paul M. Krawzak, "New Legislative Affairs Chief Ueland Has His Work Cut Out for Him," Roll Call, June 17, 2019; Brian Abrams, Obama: An Oral History, pages ix, 291, 305, 306, 308 (New York: Little a, 2018) ISBN 978-1503951662; Margot Sanger-Katz, "Byrd Bath: Seven Provisions That Could Disappear From the Senate Health Bill," The New York Times, July 21, 2017; Lori Montgomery, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/departure-of-gop-operatives-could-imperil-debt-limit-talks/2013/08/08/9f595306-0037-11e3-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html “For GOP, Who’ll Make the Deal? Key Aides’ Departures Darken Outlook for Accord on Debt,”] The Washington Post, August 9, 2013, pages A1, A12 (calling Dauster “a senior aide handling policy and floor operations for Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid”); Sahil Kapur, "Democrats Risk Unintended Medicare Cuts if They Pass Partisan Covid Relief," NBC News, February 1, 2021 (calling Dauster "a policy aide when Harry Reid of Nevada was the to Senate Democratic leader"); Mark Tapscott, "Unfunded Social Security, Medicare Obligations Ignored During Star-Studded Federal Budget Reform Summit," The Epoch Times, Feb. 26, 2020. Dauster has been a longtime counsel to Senate Democrats Emmarie Huetteman, "Senate Republicans Throw the Brakes on Timing for Becerra Hearings," Kaiser Health News, December 8, 2020 ("Bill Dauster, who advised Democrats on the Senate’s procedural rules for decades"); Jonathan Nicholson, "Pelosi Says She Has ‘Arrows in my Quiver’ on Court Fight, but Unclear What They Are," Market Watch, September 21, 2020 (calling Dauster "a former long-time Democratic aide who wrote a book on Senate procedure"); Naomi Lim, "Arizona Looms Large as Biden Battleground State," Washington Examiner, May 5, 2020 (calling Dauster "a Democratic Senate, White House, and campaign veteran"); Emmarie Huetteman, "Make Room For Baby: After Giving Birth, Duckworth Presses Senate To Bend Rules." NPR, April 11, 2018 ("Bill Dauster, who advised Democrats on Senate procedure for decades"); Emmarie Huetteman, "Make Room For Baby: After Giving Birth, Duckworth Presses Senate To Bend Rules," Kaiser Health News, April 11, 2018 ("Bill Dauster, who advised Democrats on Senate procedure for decades"); Paige Winfield Cunningham, "Senate staffer speaks softly but carries big stick: Parliamentarian will decide if GOP can follow through on Obamacare," The Washington Post, May 30, 2017, page A15 ("Bill Dauster, a longtime counsel to Senate Democrats"). and has been called a "top budget expert," a "leading authority on federal budget law and Senate rules," "a formidable advocate," a "secret weapon," and "a legendary figure on Capitol Hill." Lawrence O'Donnell called Dauster “the nicest man in the world.”

Dauster has served as Staff Director or Deputy Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Budget; See, e.g., U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Printing, 1995–1996 Official Congressional Directory, 104th Congress, 1st Session, 1995, Senate Publication 104-14, page 362 (Democratic Chief of Staff/Chief Counsel); Congressional Record, volume 141, page S7445 (May 25, 1995) (statement of Senator James Exon); Congressional Record, volume 141, page S9410 (June 29, 1995) (statement of Senator James Exon); Congressional Record, volume 142, page S5550 (May 23, 1996) (statements of Senators Pete Domenici and James Exon); Congressional Record, volume 142, pages S6183 (June 13, 1996) (statements of Senators James Exon and Tom Daschle). See also U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Printing, 1993–1994 Official Congressional Directory, 103d Congress, 1st Session, 1993, Senate Publication 103-8, page 394 ISBN 0-16-041175-0 (Chief Counsel); U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Printing, 1991–1992 Official Congressional Directory, 102d Congress, 1st Session, 1991, Senate Publication 102-4, page 400 (Chief Counsel); U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Printing, 1989–1990 Official Congressional Directory, 101st Congress, 1st Session, 1989, Senate Print 101-29, page 341 (Chief Counsel); U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Printing, 1987–1988 Official Congressional Directory, 100th Congress, 1st Session, 1987, Senate Print 100-31, page 455 (Chief Counsel); "Staff Working Files of the Committee on the Budget from the 94th through 107th Congresses," National Archives. Labor and Human Resources; Finance; See, e.g., Congressional Record, volume 151, page S7765 (June 30, 2005) (statement of Senator Chuck Grassley); Congressional Record, volume 151, page S13563 (December 14, 2005) (statement of Senator Chuck Grassley); Congressional Record, volume 152, page S6769 (June 29, 2006) (statement of Senator Chuck Grassley); Congressional Record, volume 152, page S9610 (September 14, 2006) (statement of Senator Chuck Grassley); Congressional Record, volume 152, page S10813 (September 29, 2006) (statement of Senator Max Baucus); Congressional Record, volume 153, page S1572 (February 5, 2007) (statement of Senator Ted Kennedy); Congressional Record, volume 153, page S14728 (December 4, 2007) (statement of Senator Chuck Grassley); Congressional Record, volume 154, page S4241 (May 15, 2008) (statement of Senator Chuck Grassley); Congressional Record, volume 154, page H4391 (May 21, 2008) (statement of Representative Tom Price); Congressional Record, volume 154, page H8153 (September 16, 2008) (statement of Representative Eric Cantor); Brian Abrams, Obama: An Oral History, pages ix, 49, 120 (New York: Little a, 2018). and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees; Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council; and Legislative Director or Policy Director for Senators Russ Feingold, Harry Reid, and Chris Van Hollen. Dauster has worked for eleven Senators—Senators Lawton Chiles, Jim Sasser, James Exon, Frank Lautenberg, Ted Kennedy, Paul Wellstone, Russ Feingold, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Chris Van Hollen, and Bernie SandersHolly Otterbein, “Sanders Shakes Up Senate Staff,” Politico, February 3, 2021; Laura Litvan, "Sanders Taps Budget-Rules Expert to Push Bill: Stimulus Update," Bloomberg News, February 4, 2021; Rachael Bade, Tara Palmeri, Ryan Lizza, and Eugene Daniels, “POLITICO Playbook,” Politico, February 4, 2021; Alexander Bolton, “Little known Senate referee to play major role on Biden relief plan,” The Hill, February 4, 2021; Max Greenwood, “Sanders Replacing Top Staffers with Campaign Aides,” The Hill, February 4, 2021; Jonathan Nicholson, [https://www.marketwatch.com/story/whats-next-for-coronavirus-stimulus-a-series-of-hurdles-11613504656 "What’s next for coronavirus stimulus? A series of hurdles,"] ‘’MarketWatch’’, February 16, 2021; Tara Golshan, “Bernie Sanders Has A Secret Weapon In Pushing Democratic Policy Through Senate: Veteran political aide Bill Dauster came out of retirement to pass some of Democrats’ biggest policy priorities,” HuffPost, March 18, 2021; see also "Uncertain prospects," CQ Budget Tracker, June 24, 2021; Jane Mayer, "The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees," The New Yorker, April 16, 2022. —and President Bill Clinton.

Senator Reid, a baseball fan, called Dauster his “utility man,” saying of Dauster, “He can catch, pitch, play any position on the field. He has been great for me. I appreciate Bill’s work very much.” Senator Reid said, “Bill Dauster. . . is with me virtually every day, every place I go.” Senator Reid also said of Dauster: “Nobody on Capitol Hill better understands policy or legislation than Bill. Anytime legislative staff — not just mine, but anyone's staff in the Senate — has an issue dealing with legislation, they know Bill will be available. I admire him. He is a fine man. I so appreciate the example he sets in being good to everybody.” Senator Reid said, “You name it, Dauster has done it.”

Senator Reid’s successor as Democratic Leader, Senator Chuck Schumer, called Dauster “one of the great staffers I have met in all the years I have been here in the Senate.” Senator Schumer said, “He came up with great ideas. He was a great sounding board for me.” In response to Senator Schumer’s speech, the office of Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah tweeted "Best wishes," noting that Dauster had “been a staple of this institution for decades.” Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin said, “Bill Dauster knows more about the rules of the Senate than probably anyone since Senator Robert C. Byrd. That has made him something of a legend in the Senate, on both sides of the aisle.” Senator Chris Van Hollen said, “Among. . . staff, there is perhaps no greater giant of the Senate than Bill Dauster.” Senator Van Hollen said that Dauster “built a reputation as an honest broker, a brilliant dealmaker, and an incredibly generous soul.” Senator Jay Rockefeller said that Dauster “keeps in touch with everybody and everything.”

Senator Max Baucus said of Dauster, “Many people know. . . Bill. Bill has served the Senate in many capacities, particularly with his expertise in budget matters and Senate procedures. He was invaluable to me.” Senator Paul Wellstone called Dauster “a close friend that many staffers know well and I think many Senators know well because of his brilliance and also because he is sort of a perfect example of someone who really lives such an honest life.” Senator Wellstone continued, “He treats all of us, regardless of our political viewpoint, with such generosity.”

Senator Ernest Hollings called Dauster “one of the most respected and expert voices on the budget” and “an invaluable resource to all Democratic Senators.” Senator Hollings continued, “Bill doesn't take himself seriously. He takes the issues seriously. . . . He personifies a true servant, not only of this great institution, but of the people we serve. Blessed with enormous intellectual skills, Bill has also exhibited great compassion for the less fortunate among us, especially America's children and the disabled.” Senator James Exon said “everyone recognizes [Dauster] is one of the true experts on our budget.” Senator Jim Sasser said Dauster was “always my strong right arm.” Senator Lawton Chiles called Dauster “gifted” and said, “Bill is self-effacing. But his modesty can't conceal his ability.”

Dauster helped manage Senate passage of several budget resolutions and budget reconciliation bills, the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings restoration of 1987, the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, President Clinton's first budget in 1993, the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, the Further Continuing Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 1996, the Children's Health Insurance Program, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold), the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, the Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act, the Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004, the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, the Elder Justice Act of 2004, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Pension Protection Act of 2006, the SAFE Port Act of 2006, the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the Children's Health Insurance Act of 2007, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, the Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act of 2008, the Affordable Care Act, the Budget Control Act of 2011, the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011, the 2012 farm bill, the 2012 highway bill, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, the Water Resources Development Act of 2013, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, the 2013 filibuster reforms, the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2013, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

Dauster has written five books — Congressional Budget Act Annotated; Budget Process Law Annotated; Budget Process Law Annotated: 1993 Edition; Trade Promotion Authority Annotated; and The Congressional Budget Process — and numerous articles. "Does God Get Inside Your Head?" Washington Jewish Week, February 1, 2024, page 23; "Why Help Those in Need?" Washington Jewish Week, August 10, 2023; "Why Did Eliezer Change His Story?" Washington Jewish Week, Nov. 17, 2022, page 24; Remembering Sen. Harry Reid, Soft-Spoken Man of Consequence," Talking Points Memo, December 29, 2021, 2:05 PM; "Work-Torah Balance," Washington Jewish Week, July 29, 2021, page 21; "Parshat Eikev: Work-Torah Balance," Baltimore Jewish Times, July 30, 2021; “What’s God Like?” Washington Jewish Week, March 4, 2021, page 32; “Congress Should Use the Budget To Raise the Minimum Wage,” Roll Call, Jan. 22, 2021; “Chuck Schumer Must Abolish the Filibuster — It’s the Jewish Thing To Do,” The Forward, Jan. 21, 2021; "The Great Holdup: How the Senate and the Filibuster Thwart Gun Legislation Most Americans Want," Legislation and Policy Brief (of the American University Washington College of Law), volume 9 (number 1) (May 2020), pages 37–56; "When Leaders Do Wrong," Washington Jewish Week, March 26, 2020, page 35; "Why Didn’t God Stop Them?" Washington Jewish Week, Jan. 9, 2020, page 31; "Five Questions about Ethics in Political Communication," George Washington University Project on Ethics in Political Communication, July 24, 2019; "What Was So Bad About Korach?" Washington Jewish Week, July 4, 2019, page 21; "Who Is Our Neighbor?" Washington Jewish Week, May 9, 2019, page 28; "Breaking News: He Admitted He Was Wrong," Washington Jewish Week, November 29, 2018, page 24; “Back to College!” Congregation Beth El Scroll, October 2018, pages 3–4; "Why Is Justice Important?" Washington Jewish Week, July 19, 2018, page 28; reprinted Aug. 8, 2019, p. 30; "Seeing Our Way Clear of Corruption," Baltimore Jewish Times, January 31, 2018; "Pharaoh’s Administration Offers a Cautionary Tale for Today," Washington Jewish Week, January 11, 2018, page 19; "Mixed Feelings About Kingship," Congregation Beth El Scroll, July-August 2017, page 6; “The Senate in Transition or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Nuclear Option,” N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation & Public Policy, volume 19 (number 4) (December 2016): pages 631–83; “Why Study with a Torah Study Group?” Congregation Beth El Scroll, May 2015, pages 4–6; “Frankly Left-Handed,” Congregation Beth El Scroll, March 2010, page 4; “The Congressional Budget Process,” chapter 1 in Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy, edited by Elizabeth Garrett, Howell Jackson, and Elizabeth Graddy, pages 4–38 (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Byrd Rule Annotated, October 2005; “We Cannot Buy Golden Opportunities With Tin-Cup Budgets” (with Paul Wellstone), The Progressive, January 1999, pages 44–47; “The Monster that Ate the United States Senate,” Public Budgeting & Finance, volume 18 (Summer 1998), pages 87–93; “Trickle Down Snake Oil System,” The Sunday Journal (of suburban Washington, D.C.), January 5, 1997, page A4; “Clinton Rewards Loyalty with More of the Same,” The Sunday Journal, December 29, 1996, page A4; “Diet COLA Will Be Hard To Swallow,” The Sunday Journal, December 22, 1996, page A4; “Love Is Blind: People Should Honor All Kinds of Marriages,” The Sunday Journal, December 15, 1996, page A4; “Privatizing Social Security a Risk,” The Sunday Journal, December 8, 1996, page A4; “Thanksgiving Is a Reminder that Life Here Is Pretty Good,” The Sunday Journal, December 1, 1996, page A4; “It’s Not Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: The Senate Filibuster Ain’t What it Used To Be,” Washington Monthly, November 1996, pages 34–36; “Campaign Financing a High Price To Pay,” The Sunday Journal, November 24, 1996, page A4; “Who Needs Term Limits When We’ve Got Elections?” The Sunday Journal, November 17, 1996, page A4; “Clinton’s Bid To Make History,” The Sunday Journal, November 10, 1996, page A4; “High Stakes for Foreign Policy in Senate Elections,” The Sunday Journal, November 3, 1996, page A4; “Ending Corporate Tax Breaks,” The Sunday Journal, October 27, 1996, page A4; “The Page-Turning Tomes of Presidential Candidates (Yawn),” The Sunday Journal, October 20, 1996, page A4; “Newt’s Congress Talks Big Game but Strikes Out on Delivery,” The Sunday Journal, October 13, 1996, page A4; “Five-Man Senate? Rewriting the Rules on Conferences,” Roll Call, October 10, 1996, page 5; “The Government Shrank, but No One Really Cared,” The Sunday Journal, September 29, 1996, page A4; “Education or Catastrophe? Congress Battling Legislation,” The Sunday Journal, September 22, 1996, page A4; “Dole’s Tax Cuts: U.S. Bankruptcy or Economic Gain,” The Sunday Journal, September 15, 1996, page A4; “Senate E-Mail Rules Are No Joke,” The Hill, September 11, 1996, page 19; “Protecting Social Security and Medicare,” Harvard Journal on Legislation, volume 33 (Summer 1996), pages 461–509; “The Day the Senate Died: Budget Measure Weakens Minority,” Roll Call, May 30, 1996, page 5, reprinted in Congressional Record, volume 142, pages S6135–36 (June 12, 1996); [http://articles.latimes.com/1996-03-25/local/me-50917_1_responsible-budget “Who Will Care for Our Matthews? The Governors’ Proposals for Medicaid, Welfare Remove the Safety Net for Those Who Cannot Care for Themselves,”] Los Angeles Times, March 25, 1996, page B5; “Budget Process Issues for 1993,” Journal of Law & Politics (of the University of Virginia School of Law), volume 9 (Fall 1992), pages 9–38; “Budget Emergencies,” Journal of Legislation (of Notre Dame Law School), volume 18 (Spring 1992), pages 249–315.

From 2019 to 2021 he was a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn in Washington Program, where he taught about the balance of power between Congress and the President, and of American University’s Washington College of Law, where he taught Congressional Procedure. He has guest lectured at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago Law School, the New York University School of Law, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, the University of Southern California, the University of Alabama School of Law, the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, the University of Maryland's Carey School of Law, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, the American University’s Washington College of Law, Catholic University's Columbus School of Law, Columbia University School of Social Work, the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University, Salem State University, and the National War College.

Dauster received a bachelor's degree in international relations, economics, and political science (magna cum laude) from the University of Southern California, a master’s degree in economics from the University of Southern California, and a Juris Doctor from the Columbia University school of law. He worked as an associate attorney at the New York City law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

From 2018 to 2020, Dauster was a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he took classes in Jewish Studies. He is married to Federal Election Commissioner Ellen Weintraub.

Dauster has studied Torah at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City; Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland; Congregation Beth El in Bethesda, Maryland; Johns Hopkins University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute; The Foundation for Jewish Studies of Maryland; LimmudFest New Orleans; OASIS lifelong learning; the University of Maryland, College Park; and on Capitol Hill.

Since October 2005, he has written and expanded Wikipedia articles on each of the 54 weekly Torah portions. For profiles of Dauster’s Torah Wikipedia editing, see Dan Schere, "How Bill Dauster coped with Capitol Hill stress," Washington Jewish Week, June 14, 2017; David Gutman. “Senate Staffer Writes on U.S. Law by Day, Jewish Law by Night.” La Crosse Tribune. (September 29, 2012). Similar stories ran in The Detroit News; The Herald-Sun of Durham, North Carolina; The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina; The Telegraph of Macon, Georgia; The Herald of Rock Hill, South Carolina; the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin; The Bellingham Herald; the Idaho Statesman; the Billings Gazette; The State of Columbia, South Carolina; the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin; The Observer of Corning, New York; The Paducah Sun; the Tri-City Herald of Kennewick, Washington; the Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia; The Bradenton Herald; The Beaufort Gazette; Politico; “Senate Legal Expert Drawn to Torah Produced Detailed Web Analysis of Scripture,” Press-Register (of Mobile County, Alabama) (October 5, 2012), page 2D; “Senate Legal Expert Drawn to Torah Produced Detailed Web Analysis of Scripture,” The Birmingham News (October 5, 2012), page 2H; Star-News (of Wilmington, North Carolina), (September 29, 2012), page 6B; “Torah Study Labor of Love for Senate Staffer,” The Monterey County Herald (September 29, 2012); “Senate Staffer Writes on U.S. Law by Day, Jewish Law by Night,” Deseret News (September 29, 2012); “Washington: Senior Aide to Harry Reid Writes About Torah Law After Hours,” Vos Iz Neias? (September 29, 2012); “US Law by Day, Jewish Law by Night; Senate Staffer Has Produced Some of the Web's Most Detailed Analysis of the Torah,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (September 28, 2012), page A-6; “Senate Staffer Writes on U.S. Law by Day, Jewish Law by Night,” Press & Dakotan (of Yankton, South Dakota) (September 28, 2012), page 6A; “Senate Staffer Writes on U.S. Law by Day, Jewish Law by Night,” The Kansas City Star (September 27, 2012); “Senate Staffer Writes on U.S. Law by Day, Jewish Law by Night,” The Charlotte Observer (September 26, 2012); “Senate Staffer Writes on U.S. Law by Day, Jewish Law by Night,” The Sacramento Bee (September 26, 2012); “Senate Staffer Writes on U.S. Law by Day, Jewish Law by Night,” Sun Herald (of Biloxi, Mississippi) (September 26, 2012). For another profile, see Marilyn Werber Serafini, “Nose in the Scrolls,” National Journal, Oct. 11, 2008. He has originated or significantly expanded the following Wikipedia and Wikisource articles and sections of articles:

On Torah:
Abraham Lubin, Acharei Mot, Adda bar Ahavah, Avot 1:12, Avot 1:13, Avot 1:15, Avot 1:16, Avot 1:17, Avot 1:18, Avot 2:1, Avot 2:2, Avot 3:1, Avot 3:2, Avot 3:6, Avot 5:4, Avot 5:6, Avot 5:8, Avot 5:21, Avot 6:10, Avot 6:11, Avot Chapter 2, Avot Chapter 3, Avot Chapter 4, Avot Chapter 5, Avot Chapter 6, Balak (parashah), Bava Kamma 9:5, Bava Kamma Chapter 1, Bava Kamma Chapter 9, Bava Metzia 9:11, Bava Metzia 9:12, Bava Metzia Chapter 9, Bechukotai, Behaalotecha, Behar, Bemidbar (parashah), Bereshit (parashah), Beshalach, Bethuel, Bible Review, “Bibliography” in Book of Genesis, Bo (parashah), Chayei Sarah, Chukat, Congregation Beth El (Bethesda, Maryland), Daughters of Zelophehad, Devarim (parashah), Eikev, Emor, Genesis Rabba, Haazinu, Hayim Lapin, Herb Levinson, “In rabbinic literature” in Melchizedek, Jacob Milgrom, Jeshurun, Joshua ben Levi, Kedoshim, Keritot 6:9, Keritot Chapter 6, Ki Tavo, Ki Teitzei, Ki Tissa, Korach (parashah), Lech-Lecha, Leviticus Rabbah, “List of Haftarot“ at Haftarah, Makkot 3:9, Makkot Chapter 3, Man of God, Martha daughter of Boethus, Masei, Matot, Metzora (parashah), Miketz, Milcah, Mishpatim, Modeh ani, Naso (parashah), Nedarim 11:3, Nedarim Chapter 11, Nitzavim, Noach (parashah), Numbers Rabbah, Nun (biblical figure), Oktzin Chapter 1, Paddan Aram, Parah 8:3, Parah Chapter 8, Pekudei, Pesachim 1:4, Pesachim 1:5, Pesachim 1:6, Pesachim 1:7, Pesachim 9:1, Pesachim 9:2, Pesachim 9:3, Pesachim 10:1, Pesachim 10:2, Pesachim 10:3, Pesachim 10:4, Pesachim 10:5, Pesachim Chapter 9, Pesachim Chapter 10, Pinechas (parashah), Re'eh, Seder Tahorot, Shemini (parashah), Shemot (parashah), Shlach, Shofetim (parashah), Shoftim, Tamid 5:1, Tamid Chapter 5, Tazria, Template:Weekly Torah Portions, Terumah (parashah), Tetzaveh, Toledot, Tractate Bava Kamma, Tractate Bava Metzia, Tractate Keritot, Tractate Makkot, Tractate Oktzin, Tractate Parah, Tractate Tamid, Tzav, Va'eira, Va'etchanan, Vayakhel, Vaychi, Vayeira, Vayelech, Vayeshev, Vayetze, Vayigash, Vayikra (parashah), Vayishlach, V'Zot HaBerachah, Walter Brueggemann, and Yitro (parashah).

Since July 2008, he has also uploaded images related to the Hebrew Bible at Wikimedia Commons. See his page there.

On government:
Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, “Commissioners” in Federal Election Commission, Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Congressional Review Act, Fast track (trade), Finance Committee (disambiguation page), Gary B. Myrick, Independent Payment Advisory Board, Jack Lew, Lawrence O'Donnell, Lula J. Davis, Reconciliation (United States Congress), Robert A. Sunshine, Terrell McSweeny, United States Congress Conference committee, United States Congress Joint Committee on Taxation, and United States National Economic Council.

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David Smail is the name of:

 * David Smail (golfer) (born 1970), New Zealand golfer
 * David Smail (psychologist) (1938–2014), author and former head of clinical psychology services in Nottingham, UK

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Talk:Mud wrestling

excitement
The excitement of mud wrestling arises from a number of factors. Firstly, the mud provides a glorious sheen on the bodies of the wrestlers which accentuates their attractiveness. Secondly, the randomness of the fight allows for more unconventional glimpses of the wrestlers' bodies than in normal striptease. Thirdly, the fight usually results in the accidental, or deliberate, removal of the wrestlers' bikinis, with the expected rise in audience excitement. Fourthly, there is an obvious pseudo-lesbianism to the wrestling.

Pop culture
There should be a section that lists mentions of mud wrestling (and jelly wrestling) in TV and movies. I would create one now, but first I need to confirm whether Hill Street Blues is the show I'm remembering that had a mud wrestling scene. I know that A Different World had an episode in which a student and a professor each separately mention plans to see a "don't-miss" match-up at a local mud-wrestling event. Coupling also mentions jelly wrestling, which is how I ended up here in the first place. In Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13,Goku mentions to Gohan that ChiChi's shopping scene is like the mud wrestling video Goku showed him. Lawikitejana 07:42, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

American style mud wrestling first started in a bar in Pennsylvannia somewhere in 1974-1976. The movie 'Zardoz' (1974) also had a mud wrestling scene. 63.215.28.20 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:27, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

This article completely ignores that most cultures (Greek & Roman in particular) did ALL of their wrestling in oil. This was to increase the difficulty and help develop strength and technique. People who could not afford the oil used mud. In addition, wrestling in a special clay mix has been a standard (if minor) competition in Germany involving men of exceptional fitness.Aaaronsmith (talk) 03:33, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I think there was a moment in the movie "UHF" directed by "Weird Al" Yankovic in which "celebrity mud wrestling with Mikhail Gorbachev" was mentioned as an upcoming show. I don't own the movie so I can't remember for sure, but it would be good to add that if I'm right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.82.194.240 (talk) 01:45, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Chewby Maulba
Citation needed  The best mud wrestler in the world is Chewby Maulba. Boils (talk) 23:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

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Scipio Spinks

Scipio Ronald Spinks (born July 12, 1947) is an American former right handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1969 through 1973 for the Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals.

Life and sports
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Spinks was a promising prospect until injuries prematurely ended his career. Spinks graduated from Harlan High School in Chicago and was drafted by the Astros organization in 1966. That August, he set a record in the Northern League by striking out 20 batters in a game. In 1968, he went 9–6 with a 2.27 earned run average in the Carolina League. He was shuttled between Class AAA and the major league club for the next few seasons. The hard-throwing Spinks had control problems but also struck out an average of one batter per inning in the American Association.

Spinks was traded along with Lance Clemons from the Astros to the Cardinals for Jerry Reuss on April 15, 1972. He started the season with the major league club and pitched well. By midseason, he was third in the National League in strikeouts, behind only Steve Carlton and Tom Seaver. Spinks finished with a 2.67 ERA.

Spinks was exceptionally fast for a pitcher, and for that reason the Cardinals frequently used him as a pinch runner. Spinks' career was drastically altered on July 4, 1972. While scoring from first on a double, he ran into Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench in a collision at home plate. While Spinks scored, he tore ligaments in his right knee during the collision, and missed the rest of the season. In 1973, he pitched just eight games before coming down with a shoulder injury. Just before spring training 1974, Spinks was traded to the Chicago Cubs for Jim Hickman. He spent the next three years in the Cubs, New York Yankees and Astros organizations, but never recovered and finally retired in 1976. Meanwhile, Reuss would go on to pitch for another 18 years.

Post MLB career
After his playing career ended, Spinks became a scout and a pitching coach in the San Diego Padres and Houston Astros organizations. He currently lives in the Houston area with his wife and as of 2016 is a pro scout for the Arizona Diamondbacks' organization. He is currently the head coach for the University of Houston-Downtown Gators baseball organization.

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Talk:Robert Coover

Robert Chapin Coover
He was published as "Robert Chapin Coover" in the early 1960's - is there any story behind this?--2001:9E8:566E:BE00:190D:82E6:92DF:CDD1 (talk) 15:28, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Splinter of the Mind's Eye

Quote: "Additional inconsistencies exist such Luke having to recharge his lightsaber (which is revealed in other EU sources as having a lifelong power source)." Mace recharges his lightsaber in Shatterpoint, but that was after it'd been used extensively. -LtNOWIS 01:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Novel's relation to ESB and Jedi?
This novel has many of the same elements later used or planned to be used in ESB, such as Mimban == Dagobah, and the rebel base, the crash site, and a neutral planet all in the same system (Hoth, Bespin, and Dagobah were originally all in the same solar system, in Leigh Brackett's version of the story).

In regards Jedi, the furry, primative Coway effectively battle the Stormtroopers, much as the Ewoks did on Endor. Also, the "Yuzzim" were in an early version of the ROTJ script, mentioned in (iirc) _The Art of Return of the Jedi._

Are there other relations, and would it be worth putting these in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.148.235.6 (talk • contribs) 17:25, 16 November 2006

 * Apparently, there was once a trivia section with the following info. (this has since been cleaned up):
 * Some elements appear in the novel which may have inspired similar elements in later Star Wars films, such as:
 * Moving objects with the Force. This was seen in The Empire Strikes Back.
 * The setting of a dense, foggy planet. This was also seen in The Empire Strikes Back
 * Darth Vader has the ability to jump very high. Luke and Darth Vader have the ability to do this in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
 * Darth Vader has the ability to shoot balls of white energy by making a fist, which Luke repels by raising his arms. The Emperor has the ability to shoot lightning in Return of the Jedi.
 * C-3PO mentioning that Darth Vader knows "all the proper code words and commands" to shut him down. This would make sense, given the revelation in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (released in 1999) that Vader himself built Threepio when he was a little boy. Whether George Lucas developed this story element at that point is unknown.

142.167.183.128 (talk) 02:04, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

About the trivia
In the last line, it says:

"In the novel (released in 1978), C-3PO mentions that Darth Vader knows "all the proper code words and commands" to shut him down. This would make sense, given the revelation in Star Wars—Episode I: The Phantom Menace (released in 1999) that Vader himself built 3-PO when he was a little boy. Whether George Lucas developed this story element at that point is unknown."

It doesn't make much sense, given the fact that C3PO's memory was deleted at the end of Episode III. Should this entry be deleted? Fyxr 20:11, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Base commands wouldn't necessarily be stored in the same place as regular memories (read-only memory, as opposed to read/write memory). That way you could wipe a droid but it would still retain its original functionality (otherwise you'd have to re-teach C-3PO thousands of languages with each wipe). It makes sense to me. EVula // talk // ☯  // 22:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

- In 'trivia' it says:

"At the time it was written, the familial relationship between Luke, Leia, and Darth Vader — that Luke and Leia were siblings, and Vader their father — had yet to be conceived by George Lucas. Therefore, some inconsistencies with the later films are evident and unavoidable, most noticeably the sexual tension depicted between Luke and Leia in this book which in retrospect would be considered inappropriate. Although Lucas claims to have had the Star Wars saga mapped out even at this early stage, the fact he allowed this plot element to remain in Foster's novel provides evidence that he hadn't yet conceptualized the family connection between the three characters at this point."

This doesn't make sense. There is "sexual tensions" between Luke and Leia in the movies as well. At one point Leia even kisses Luke on the mouth to make Han Solo jalous (neither she og Luke know they are related). So WHY does this novel "provide evidence that he (Lucas) hadn't yet conceptualized the family connection between the three characters at this point"?

 * EXACTLY - I think that entry should be removed. Coupled with Lucas' repeated statements that he had conceptualized the series by the release of Episode IV, that entry is a complete fallacy.

 * I agree - in addition this book came out in 1978 and Lucas may not have been exercising the rigorous controls he later did - this was the same year the Holiday Special was made. I'm deleiting the section now. Timrollpickering 14:57, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I disagree - While Lucas may have already determined the familial relationship in his draft story outline before Ep 4. and hid it from the audience until Ep. 6, I believe he was very careful to show Luke/Leia's interactions to be harmless, sexless and plutonic. (Did anyone really feel that Leia was being sexually forward with Luke when she kissed him in front of Han? I didnt.  Even at age 8.  Kissing Luke on the cheek before swining across the bridge... i think it was enough of a romantic display to appease the needs of Hollywood execs but not very suggestive.)

 * What made SOTME's inclusion of this sexual tension innappropriate in retrospect was the reader's ability to know what is going on in the character's head, which was clearly sexual and romantic. In the case of the book, there is a clear building of a romantic story arc.

 * But all of the above is really academic. Since this story was developed as a low-budget alternative to continuing Lucas' story arc if Ep 4 didnt work out, it could be argued that this book was never supposed to be apart of Lucas' "official" universe and therefore isn't restricted by the relationships that did later emerge in his extended narrative.

 * In fact, it is a great example that Lucas' did a great job of hiding Luke/Leia's true relationship, even from Alan Dean Foster, who understandably decided to continue a potential romantic relationship that was hinted at in EP4.
 * Jfdonohoe 16:44, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

 * You people are idiots if you take the word of Lucas that the Star Wars franchise was all planned out from the beginning. It wasn't. Not only is there much evidence to the contrary, but Lucas even said HIMSELF that he made it up as he went along years ago - before he turned to the dark side, that is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.250.10.139 (talk) 15:16, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Reference to Han Solo and Chewbacca added.Locutus1966 (talk) 15:16, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

It is not an "inconsistency" for Vader to state he knows something which is not true. He could simply be mistaken. Cospelero (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 10:32, 19 April 2012 (UTC).

Space station or space port?
I haven't read the book since the mid-eighties, and I don't remember the narrative particularly well: however, I've changed the sentence "They begin looking for a space station to get off the planet but instead find a town..." to "looking for a space port..." as I assume they were trying to find a ground-based settlement where they could acquire a spaceship, rather than an orbiting outpost. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 08:42, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

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Kasturba Medical College

Kasturba Medical College, Manipal and Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, together known as KMC, are two private medical colleges in the state of Karnataka, India, established in 1953 and 1955. The colleges are constituent units of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, an Institution of Eminence and deemed university.

Early years
The colleges were established as a single institution in 1953 by T M A Pai with the pre-clinical section at Manipal and the clinical section in Mangalore at Wenlock District Hospital. Manipal and Mangalore were then a part of the erstwhile Madras state. The government of Madras granted land to establish a college and permitted the use of government hospitals for training medical students. The first batch of students arrived in Mangalore in 1955 for their clinical training. In 1956, the colleges became part of the expanded Mysore state which was then renamed as Karnataka.

Separation
The clinical program commenced at Manipal in 1969 with the setting up of Kasturba Hospital. The colleges were later separated with the establishment of a pre-clinical section in Mangalore. Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore is attached to three government hospitals and was the first medical institution in India to be established as a public-private partnership.

Affiliation with public universities
From their establishment in 1953, until 1993, the colleges were affiliated with public universities in Karnataka. The colleges were affiliated to Karnatak University from their establishment until 1964. They were affiliated to Mysore University from 1965 to 1980 and to Mangalore University from 1981 to 1992.

Deemed University
In 1993, KMC Manipal and KMC Mangalore, along with colleges of dental surgery in Manipal and Mangalore were given deemed university status to form the Manipal Academy of Higher Education. In 2017, KMC Mangalore agreed to build a super specialty hospital at District Wenlock Hospital and extended its public private partnership with the government of Karnataka for another 33 years, i.e., until 2050.

Manipal
KMC Manipal is located in the university town of Manipal, a suburb in Udupi, Karnataka. It is situated within the campus of Manipal Academy of Higher Education. The campus at Manipal has a large Health Sciences Library and a Museum of Anatomy and Pathology.

Mangalore
KMC Mangalore is located in Mangalore. The campus at Mangalore is split into the Centre for Basic Sciences at Bejai and the main campus at Light House Hill Road. The campus includes six teaching hospitals, the T M A Pai Convention Centre and a large indoor sports complex.

Connectivity
The colleges are 60 km apart.

Courses
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) is the basic undergraduate medical degree awarded by the Manipal Academy of Higher Education at both the colleges after nine semesters of coursework and one year of internship. Postgraduate Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Master of Surgery (MS) are awarded after three years of residential training. Integrated MD–PhD and PhD Programs to train physician-scientists to take up a research career. Postdoctoral Doctorate of Medicine (DM) and Master of Chirurgiae (MCh) degrees are awarded after three years of postdoctoral super specialty training as a senior resident.

Rankings

 * KMC Manipal and KMC Mangalore were ranked 10th and 30th respectively among the medical colleges of India in the NIRF 2023 Rankings.
 * Manipal Academy of Higher Education was ranked 6th among universities in India in the NIRF 2023 Rankings.
 * Manipal Academy of Higher Education was ranked in the 351-400 rank bracket in Medicine in the QS World University Rankings 2021, the third in India after AIIMS, New Delhi and PGIMER, Chandigarh.

Admission
KMC Manipal and KMC Mangalore admit 250 students each for the undergraduate MBBS course. Admission is based on the 'All India Rank' obtained in NEET (UG) conducted by NTA. 20% of the MBBS seats in KMC Mangalore are retained for candidates from Karnataka as part of the public private partnership. Admissions to postgraduate and super specialty courses are based on the rank obtained in NEET (PG) and NEET (SS) respectively. Admissions to nursing, physiotherapy, psychology and other allied health courses are based on the score obtained in the Manipal Entrance Test.

Examinations
The examinations at KMC Manipal and KMC Mangalore are conducted by the Manipal Academy of Higher Education according to guidelines laid down by the National Medical Commission. All exams are paperless and are written on a biometric secured tablet using a stylus.

KMC Manipal

 * Kasturba Hospital, Manipal
 * Dr. TMA Pai Hospital, Udupi

KMC Mangalore
Unlike most medical colleges in India, KMC Mangalore is attached to both government and private hospitals.
 * Wenlock District Hospital
 * Lady Goschen Hospital
 * KMC Hospital, Attavar
 * KMC Hospital, Ambedkar Circle
 * Regional Advanced Pediatric Care Centre
 * Dr. TMA Pai Rotary Hospital, Karkala

Manipal Hospitals
Manipal Hospitals is a chain of multi-specialty hospitals in India. The hospitals trace their origins to the Kasturba Medical College. It is the second largest healthcare provider in India. Its network spread across 28 locations in India. The first hospital of the chain was established in 1991 in Bengaluru. In 1997, the second hospital of the chain was established as KMC Hospital (Ambedkar Circle), a 251-bed tertiary care hospital and also a teaching hospital of the Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore.

Manipal Hospitals uses IBM Watson for Oncology since 2016. Watson is the first commercially available cognitive computing cloud platform that analyzes high volumes of data understands complex queries and proposes evidence based answers for them. Manipal Hospitals have become the first in the country and the second in the world to implement IBM Watson for diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

In April 2019 Manipal Hospitals was looking forward to acquire Medanta Hospitals. The deal however fell through since the two parties could not agree on the share price.

In 2021, Manipal Hospitals acquired Columbia Asia's India hospital chain for Rs 2,100 crore.

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Talk:Dog intelligence

Dog & Intelligence in the same sentence
Sure this is a contradiction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.129.25.28 (talk) 23:11, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Please stop this trolling already. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ramdrake (talk • contribs) 23:22, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Signed for archiving purposes only.  William Harris  |talk 10:11, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Uncited statement.
"researchers have as much difficulty agreeing on a method for testing canine intelligence as they do for human intelligence."

Not only is there no citation for this statement, but it's also rather nonsensical, as mainstream science couches the evaluation of human intelligence firmly in IQ. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.72.236.71 (talk) 19:31, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Redevelopment
Taking into consideration many of the comments post here over the last 6 years, that the page had some good citations and some poor ones, that it had much uncited conjecture, and the fact that it had little structure at all, I have taken the liberty of completely redeveloping this article. I trust that it is of more use to readers now. Regards, William Harris  •   talk •   05:00, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Structure
This article on "Dog intelligence" now has a section on "Intelligence". This seems a little odd to me. DrChrissy (talk) 11:59, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Because the opening sentence needs to be reflected in the body somewhere with citation, something that now appears to have been lost due to some recent "guild editing". Regards,  William Harris  |talk 10:20, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

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KTBZ-FM

KTBZ-FM (94.5 MHz) is a commercial Mainstream Rock/Alternative Rock radio station licensed to Houston, Texas. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station serves Greater Houston. The KTBZ-FM studios are located in Uptown Houston, while the station transmitter is located near Missouri City, Texas; KTBZ-FM has an effective radiated power of 100,000 watts.

KTBZ-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio format, with its HD2 subchannel carrying a simulcast of co-owned KBME "Sportstalk 790", and its HD3 subchannel carrying a simulcast of co-owned KPRC.

History
The station first signed on the air October 15, 1960, as KARO. The station was owned by San Diego-based Multi Casting, Inc. and broadcast at only 7,600 watts. In 1964, the station got an increase in power, first to 12,500 watts, and later to 45,000 watts, under the ownership of Apollo Broadcasting. In 1969, the station was acquired by Entertainment Communications, Inc., which later became Entercom, and is now known as Audacy.

The station would switch to classical music as KLEF, which stood for Clef, a musical symbol used to denote pitch in sheet music. KLEF was Houston's leading classical outlet for 22 years. The station got a boost to 100,000 watts effective radiated power (ERP), covering much of Southeast Texas. By the mid-1980s, interest in classical music had declined and management decided to go with a more mass-appeal format.

On March 13, 1986, the station became KJYY, "Joy 95", with a soft adult contemporary format. Then in 1988, it became KLDE, branded as "Oldies 94.5". At the time, the station was owned by Entercom. The station was operated under the direction of a variety of program directors, including RC Rogers, Bob Harlow, Dennis Winslow, Ron Parker, and Ed Scarborough. Past general managers include Steve Shepard, Chris McMurray, Chris Wegman, and Caroline Devine.

Bonneville International later bought the station, with AM/FM, Inc. taking over in 1998.

Due to the 2000 merger of Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) and AM/FM, Inc., and the need to stay within the Federal Communications Commission's station ownership cap, KLDE's intellectual property was sold to Cox Radio, for the 107.5 frequency, which at the time aired an alternative rock format as "The Buzz", KTBZ.

It was announced and understood that KLDE's format would stay intact with the ownership change and frequency move. However, on-air personalities continually announced that "The Buzz" would cease operations at 107.5 on July 18 and began a "Save the Buzz" campaign, sending Buzz listeners looking for information on the station's "impending demise" of the alternative format.

When the actual purpose of the "Save the Buzz" campaign was discovered to be a marketing ploy, an online forum maintained by KTBZ was shut down in order to attempt to keep the information from spreading as concerned listeners began to post their findings. Regardless, it did not prevent listeners from distributing banners throughout Houston and painting "Save The Buzz" slogans on car windows throughout the City.

A few weeks prior to the pending July 18 switch, KTBZ staged a public rally, at which a representative from parent company Clear Channel Radio came to read a statement. The representative said in response to the overwhelming response of listeners and the general community, The Buzz would be saved due to the public outcry, moving to KLDE's 94.5 FM facility, promoting a much stronger signal for the alternative format, creating the marketing strategy of a "Bigger, Better Buzz".

Just before 8:00 p.m. on July 18, 2000, KTBZ and KLDE each played a pre-recorded lead-in to the station switch. KLDE had their air staff riding in a transporter across the dial to 107.5 FM, while KTBZ led a one-minute countdown as they "faded" off of the 107.5 frequency. At exactly 8:00 p.m., the stations simultaneously exchanged frequencies; KTBZ's montage led in with "Turn on the Juice!", while KLDE's air staff "crash-landed" on 107.5. Both stations celebrated the move with their own "Switch Parties"; The Buzz presented a free concert starring Stone Temple Pilots that was broadcast live on air from The Aerial Theater in downtown Houston as "94.5 The Buzz", while "Oldies 107.5" marked the transition by playing 48 hours of non-stop music. This officially completed the "trade" in ownership.

On January 11, 2001, KTBZ was modified to KTBZ-FM, as a similarly branded, co-owned sports radio station in Tulsa became KTBZ.

In December 2003, the station's new program director Vince Richards fired the entire on air staff. For weeks, the station had no personalities, with a message between songs saying, "We're building a bigger, better Buzz." In January 2004, the station relaunched with new DJs and harder rock sound.

The current weekday on-air lineup includes The Rod Ryan Show on mornings, Jeremy on middays, Theresa on afternoon drive, and Karah Leigh at night.

KTBZ-FM HD subchannels
KTBZ-FM began transmitting in the HD Radio hybrid format in January 2006. KTBZ-FM-HD2 has gone through three different format changes: from 2006 to 2009, it was alternative rock "Liquid Buzz" (with a different playlist from the main station). From 2009 to 2015, it was "94-5 The Rock, Houston's Rock Station", playing active rock and classic rock. In 2015, KTBZ-FM-HD2 flipped to Regional Mexican music as "La Mejor", and began simulcasting on FM translator K283CH (104.5 FM). On September 7, 2017, at 9 a.m., KTBZ-FM HD2 dropped the 104.5 translator, and began retransmitting on two co-owned translators on the 102.5 frequency, K273AL (licensed to Porter) and K273CW (licensed to Houston). 104.5 switched to an urban AC format, branded as "104.5 KISS-FM", and relayed by iHeartMedia sister station KQBT HD-2.

"La Mejor", which was a simulcast of KJOZ, moved to the newly created HD3 channel of KTBZ-FM, while the HD2 channel began airing a simulcast of sports radio-formatted KBME. KTBZ-FM HD3 was being used to feed Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna's FM translator 105.3 K287BQ. However, the translator has been taken silent and has an application to move its transmission site to a location in southwest Houston, due to several complaints filed by co-channel KTWL owner Roy E. Henderson, and numerous citizens within the protected contour of the full power facility. This forced the FCC to require Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna to take the translator off the air until the interference was eliminated.

As of October 18, 2018, an Informal Objection was filed with the FCC by James B. Davis, of Cypress, Texas, regarding the proposed move of K287BQ to the new location. Davis' claim is that K287BQ would still interfere with the KTWL protected contour at the new site, and asks for the Commission to require the translator to move off of channel 287 (105.3 MHz) entirely. As there is no open channel/frequency available in the immediate Houston area for the translator to move to without causing interference to another established licensed facility, a frequency change would likely prove difficult for the owners.

Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna is facing similar interference complaints against co-owned translator 103.5 K278CR, also licensed in Houston, due to interference issues with low powered facility KCYB-LP, licensed to Cypress, and an Informal Objection has also been filed by Davis to keep the group from purchasing a full powered facility west of Houston, licensed as KJJB in Eagle Lake, on the grounds that the facility's broadcasting activities in question have existed since licensed.

KTBZ-FM-HD3 has since flipped to a simulcast of co-owned talk radio station KPRC.

Buzzfest
Initially, once a year, KTBZ-FM promotes a live concert, originally called the Buzz Festival, now known as Buzzfest. In 2001, Buzzfest moved to twice a year, with one show in the Spring and the other taking place in the Fall of each year.

Buzzfest performers:

1995: Bush, Our Lady Peace, Matthew Sweet, No Use for a Name, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, The Nixon's, Maids of Gravity, Face to Face, POL, Phunk Junkeez

1996: Toadies, The Hunger, God Lives Under Water, Gravity Kills, The Nixon's, Lush, 22 Brides, Atticus Finch, Poe, Too Much Joy, Modern English

1997: Matchbox Twenty, Silverchair, Buck O' Nine, Cowboy Mouth, 7 Mary 3, Abra Moore, Artificial Joy Club, Old 97's

1998: Spacehog, Foo Fighters, Our Lady Peace, Creed, The Hunger, Black Lab, Big Wreck, Mighty Joe Plumb, Cool for August, Athenaeum, Los Skarnales, Riverfenix, Bluebird, Train in Vain, Face Plant

1999: Collective Soul, Eve 6, Better than Ezra, The Flys, Soul Coughing, Sponge, Jude, My Friend Steve, Tin Star, Chlorine, Lit, Tommy Hendrickson, Train, GPR

2000: Third Eye Blind, Lit, Tonic, The Flys, Oleander, Stroke 9, Owlsey, Radford, Stir, Frankie Machine, Peter Searcy, Papa Roach, Joe 90, Mars Electric

2001 - Spring: Offspring, Linkin Park, Eve 6, Train, Oleander, Orgy, Spacehog, Dust for Life, Dexter Freebish, Electracy, Lucky Boys Confusion

2001 - Fall: Fuel, Nickelback, Saliva, Alien Ant Farm, Tantric, Joy Drop, The Calling, Remy Zero, Bliss 66, 8 Stops 7, Default, Transmatic, Apex Theory, Pressure 4-5

2002 - Spring: P.O.D., Puddle of Mudd, Sum 41, Drowning Pool, Unwritten Law, Adema, Gravity Kills, Pressure 4-5, Earshot, Mest, Course of Nature, Abandoned Pools, Trik Turner, 30 Seconds to Mars

2002 - Fall: Everclear, Boxcar Racer, Hoobastank, Saliva, Earshot, Greenwheel, Sugarcult, Seether, Audiovent, OK Go, The Used, The Exies, H2O, Hometown Hero

2003 - Spring: Godsmack, Stone Sour, Seether, Taproot, Evanescence, The Used, Maroon 5, The Exies, Powerman 5000, All American Rejects, Breaking Benjamin, Trapt, Systematic, Skrape, Off by One, RA

2003 - Fall: Staind, Fuel, Trapt, The Ataris, Eve 6, Alien Ant Farm, Fountains of Wayne, Vendetta Red, Static X, Smile Empty Soul, Socialburn, Switchfoot, Billy Talent, Yellowcard, 3 Days Grace

2004 - Spring: Puddle of Mudd, Trapt, Hoobastank, Sevendust, Everlast, 3 Days Grace, Thrice, Lo Pro, Thornley, IMA Robot, Strata, Cold, Drowning Pool, Smile Empty Soul, Finger Eleven, Lost Prophets, Marcy Playground

2004 - Fall: Velvet Revolver, Chevelle, Seether, Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, Story of the Year, Riddlin Kids, Papa Roach, Authority Zero, Earshot, Skindred, The Exies, My Chemical Romance, Burden Brothers, The Vanished

2005 - Spring: 3 Doors Down, Mudvayne, Trust Company, The Used, Wakefield, Papa Roach, Unwritten Law, Alter Bridge, No Address, Snow Patrol, Sum 41, Breaking Benjamin, Theory of a Deadman, The Exies, Glass Intrepid

2005 - Fall Buzzfest was supposed to be held at Minute Maid Park, but because the Houston Astros advanced to the 2005 World Series that was held at the same time, it was moved to the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands. This turned out to be a major problem for the public, because the Woodlands could not honor the tickets sold for Minute Maid Park. Fans had to turn in their Minute Maid Park tickets for refunds, and then make the additional effort to purchase Woodlands tickets, with the change of venue announced less than one week before the concert. Performers were: Audioslave, Nickelback, Seether, Cold, 10 Years, Institute, 30 Seconds to Mars, Hinder, Boys Night Out, Fallout Boy, Bloodhound Gang, Yellowcard, Coheed & Cambria, Vaux, Dredg, The Starting Line, Motion City Soundtrack, Panic! At the Disco

2006 - Spring: Staind, Shinedown, Blue October, 10 Years, Evans Blue, People in Plains, Huck Johns, Hoobastank, Trapt, Three Days Grace, Hinder, Buckcherry, Candlebox, Bril, Hurt

2006 - Fall: Alice in Chains, Breaking Benjamin, Lostprophets, Panic Channel, Hurt, 18 Visions, Stone Sour, Evans Blue, Crossfade, Everclear, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, OK Go, Boys Like Girls

2007 - Spring: Seether, Puddle of Mudd, Three Days Grace, Papa Roach, Hinder, Jet, Chevelle, Smile Empty Soul, Blue October, Buckcherry, Finger Eleven, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Saosin, The Exies, The Vanished, Autovein

2007 - Fall: Smashing Pumpkins, Finger Eleven, Chris Cornell, Earshot, Evanescence, The Bravery, Evans Blue, The Starting Line, Alter Bridge, Sick Puppies, Sum 41, Fair to Midland, Fuel

BuzzFest XXII was scheduled for October 26, 2008. The extensive artist lineup included such names as The Offspring, Staind, Seether, Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd, 10 Years and more. However, due to extensive damage to the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion caused by Hurricane Ike, the show was forced to be canceled.

2013 - Spring (Buzzfest 30): Shinedown, Bush, Stone Sour, Papa Roach, P.O.D., Sick Puppies, Hollywood Undead, The Dirty Heads, Oleander, IAmDynamite, A Silent Film, The Virgin Mary's, Youngblood Hawk, Beware of Darkness

2013 - Fall (Buzzfest 31): Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington, Chevelle, Cage the Elephant, Blue October, The Dirty Heads, 10 Years, The Mowgli's, Oleander, New Politics, Middle Class Rut, IAmDynamite, The Virgin Marys, Nico Vega

2014 - Fall (Buzzfest 32): Chevelle, P.O.D., Papa Roach, The Dirty Heads, Cage the Elephant, Evans Blue, Young the Giant, New Politics, Switchfoot, Bear Hands, Big Data, Bad Suns, Milky Chance, New Medicine

2015 - Spring (Buzzfest 33): Godsmack, The Dirty Heads, Breaking Benjamin, Holywood Undead, AWOLNATION, New Politics, Buckcherry, Robert DeLong, Joywave, Art Alexakis, Young Guns, IAmDynamite, Not In The Face, Within Reason

2015 - Fall (Buzzfest 34): Papa Roach, Bring Me the Horizon, Our Lady Peace, Yelawolf, P.O.D., Pop Evil, Panic! at the Disco, Candlebox, Big Wreck, Atlas Genius, The Struts, Issues, Wolf Alice, Pvris

2016 - Spring (Buzzfest 35): Cage the Elephant, AWOLNATION, The Offspring, Fitz and the Tantrums, Blue October, Everclear, Toadies, The Struts, Joy Formidable, Big Data, Nothing But Thieves, New Beat Fund, Andrew Wyatt

2017 - Spring (Buzzfest 36): Godsmack, Breaking Benjamin, Toadies, Filter, Red Sun Rising, Missio, Badflower, P.O.D., New Politics, Highly Suspect, PVRIS, The Unlikely Candidates, Dreamers, Bleeker.

2018 - Fall (Buzzfest 37): A Perfect Circle, Dirty Heads, Chevelle, Mike Shinoda, Scott Stapp, Puddle of Mudd, The Struts, The Nixons, Badflower, The Blue Stones, Grandson, Hold On Hollywood, Bear Hands, Kulick

Awards
In 2007, the station was nominated for the top 25 markets "Alternative Station of the Year" award by Radio & Records magazine. Other nominees included WBCN in Boston; KROQ-FM in Los Angeles; KITS, in San Francisco; KNDD in Seattle; and WWDC in Washington, D.C.

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Talk:Dragostea

"Dragoste" is the Romanian word for "love." This redirecting article was likely made by someone who misinterpreted the song title "Dragostea Din Tei," commonly translated as "The Love Beneath the Linden Trees."

I move that this page be deleted. -Typhlosion 01:27, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

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9-second audio clip of Rahsaan Roland Kirk playing flute

 * typical example of Kirk's technique of singing while playing an instrument (producing chords) and also his use of extramusical sounds (here, a whistle siren)
 * Ogg Vorbis, Stereo, 22050 Hz
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 * 9.17 sec
 * Fair-use rationale: sound clips serves to give example of Rahsaan's technique of singing while playing a wind instrument

Source

 * Kirk, "Rahsaan" Roland (Flautist, etc.). (1967). Laugh for Rory. In Inflated tear [Compact disc recording].

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