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Category talk:New Zealand

Suggestion re "hypercategory" and "subcategories" (NZ, NZ locations, etc)
Over the past week or so, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the New Zealand and New Zealand locations categories and how they overlap. I know I’m new here and don’t want to come across bouncing on anyone’s toes like a deranged tigger, but I think I’ve hit on a possible solution to this which also makes the categorising of New Zealand pages a lot more logical - I’d appreciate some feedback on it (for that purpose I’m putting this argument on a couple of different discussion pages in the hope that more people see it.

IMO, the New Zealand category is the top category - a hypercategory covering all NZ pages. It should have several subcategories, including the NZ locations one - others could include NZ history, NZ Maori, NZ politics, NZ arts and literature, NZ people, NZ sport etc. Each of those could then have its own subcategories: NZ locations could have NZ islands, NZ mountains, NZ rivers, Canterbury, Taranaki, Otago, etc.; NZ history could have Pre-European history, 19th century history, NZ at war, plus a link to NZ people and NZ politics, etc; NZ Maori could have Maoritanga, Maori folklore and legends, Pre-European History, Maori and politics, etc.; and so on.

About 90% of the straggly articles currently cluttering up the lists at New Zealand and New Zealand locations would then find natural homes in the subcategories. Only articles which didn’t belong in any category, or covered several categories, would need to be listed there. The hypercategories would become simply the lower part of a tree that branches into more readily understandable branches. It wouldn’t take much work - simply recategorising the pages currently listing only to New Zealand which should go into subcategories, and slowly adding other pages found to the categories to which they belong. Grutness 00:09, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Didn't he do well? Grand job. We could do with thousands more immigrants of that calibre. Now to see whether the current 48 listed "articles" (including one I have just added) lead to ideas for further subcategories. Robin Patterson 07:38, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * :) I did a fair amount - including most of the geography-related ones - before I ran out of steam. It would be great to get all the others organised away in the same way, though. The NZ biography and culture sections in particular could still do with a good tidy-up. Grutness...  wha?  09:52, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Skyhawk

Skyhawk may refer to:

Aircraft and military

 * Cessna 172 Skyhawk, a single-engine, four-seat light airplane
 * Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, a ground-attack jet aircraft
 * Seibel S-4, a helicopter evaluated by the United States Army under the designation YH-24 Sky Hawk
 * SkyHawks Parachute Team, the Canadian Forces parachute demonstration team
 * Sky Hawk, an Iranian experimental air-to-air version of the MIM-23 Hawk air defense missile

Automobiles

 * Buick Skyhawk, a compact car built from 1975 to 1989
 * Studebaker Sky Hawk, a 1956 two-door coupe automobile

Other uses

 * Skyhawk (mascot), a mascot for the Atlanta Hawks professional basketball team
 * Skyhawk, the mascot of Stonehill College, a Division I College in Easton, MA
 * Tennessee–Martin Skyhawks, an athletic program of The University of Tennessee at Martin
 * Skyhawk (Cedar Point), a flat ride at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, US
 * Skyhawk (comics), a Marvel Comics character
 * Sky Hawk, a 1976 electro-mechanical game by Nintendo that features 16mm film-based visuals.
 * Skyhawks (TV series), an animated cartoon television series sponsored by Mattel Toys
 * Sky Hawk (manga), a Japanese manga series
 * The Sky Hawk, a 1929 film
 * A neighborhood in Santa Rosa, California

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Barwani

Barwani or Badwani (Baḍwāni) is a municipal town in Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh, India, that is situated near the left bank of the Narmada River. It is the administrative headquarters of Barwani district and has also served as the capital of the former princely state of Barwani. Barwani is only accessible by road.

Origin of name
The name Barwani originated from the words Bad and Wani. The Forests of "Bad" surrounded the city in old times and "Wani" is an old word meaning "the garden", translating to the Garden of Bad. Despite its official spelling, Barwani is pronounced as "Badwani".

Geography

Barwani is located at 22.03°N, 74.9°W. It has an average elevation of 178 meters (583 feet). The Narmada River flows through Barwani; it is 5 km from the city centre. The maximum temperature of Barwani in April and May used to reach 48 °C (118 °F), making it one of the hottest places in Central India. However, in recent years, it has cooled down.

The hills of the Satpura Range surround Barwani. The city is also called the "Paris of Nimar" ("area beyond Neem trees"). Nimar is split into East Nimar and West Nimar; Barwani lies in West Nimar. The annual rainfall of Barwani is around 15 in, though since 2006 it has increased significantly. Barwani is famous for its papayas and Bawangaja, a Jain holy place 8 km from Barwani.

Transport
Barwani has no immediate connectivity through rail but is easily accessible via roadways. The nearest airport is indore.

Railways
Barwani has no direct rail connectivity the nearest station to the town is at Indore. Western Railways (Ratlam Mandal) has a reservation counter in Ambedkar Park on Rajghat Road. There is also a railway station at Khandwa on the Central Railway, which is 180 km from Barwani via State Highway 26.

Roads
Barwani is well connected to other parts of Madhya Pradesh and other states via national and state highways. The town is connected to the Agra-Bombay national highway number three by the Khandwa-Baroda interstate highway no. 26 at a distance of 51 km at Thikri. Bus services connect the town with the major and minor cities near Barwani, including Indore, Khandwa, Dhar, Barwaha, Khargone, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Vadodara.

Demographics
As of the 2011 Census of India, Barwani had a population of 55,504, consisting of 28,437 males (51%) and 27,067 females (49%).

The population of children aged 0–6 was 6,961 (12.54%). In Barwani Municipality, the male-to-female sex ratio is 1,000:952 against the state average of 1,000:931. The child male-to-female sex ratio in Barwani is around 1000:919, compared with the Madhya Pradesh state average of 1000:918. The literacy rate of Barwani City is 82.10% compared with the state's average of 69.32%. In Barwani, male literacy is around 87.17%, while the female literacy rate is 76.80%.

Schedule Tribes (ST) constitutes 23.29% while Schedule Castes (SC) were 9.95% of the population in Barwani.

Out of the total population, 18,438 were engaged in work or business activity. Of these, 13,957 were males and 4,481 were females. In a census survey, a worker is defined as a person who does business, job, service, and cultivator and labour activity. With 18,438 people in the working population, 89.06% were engaged in Main Work while 10.94% of total workers were engaged in marginal work.

Economy
Economically, Barwani engages in agricultural crops and wood, with several other small industries developing in the area.

Main festivals
The major festivals of Holi, Raksha Bandhan, Ganesh Utsav, Navratri, Dussehra, Deepavali, Muharram, Gudi Padwa, Gangaur, Bhai Dooj, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, Christmas and Naga Panchami are all celebrated with equal enthusiasm. Barwani is known for (झाकी) (glimpse or view) during Ganesh Utsav and Tajiye during Muharram.

Places of interest

 * Bawangaja (Jain Mandir)
 * Rajghat (Narmada River)

Healthcare
Barwani is prominent in the Nimar and Malwa regions for its healthcare facilities and its private hospitals. Barwani District Hospital is one of the oldest hospitals in Madhya Pradesh.

Notable people

 * Dr. Anil Kakodkar, India's eminent nuclear physicist, and former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy, was born in Barwani.

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Talk:Niklaus Wirth

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"Europeans tend to pronounce his name properly, as Nih-klaus Virt, while Americans usually mangle it into something like Nickles Worth. That is to say, Europeans call him by name while Americans call him by value."

That has to be the best programming joke I've ever heard. The links complete it. I laughed for a minute straight. I hope it's left in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BlueNight (talk • contribs) 05:27, 16 August 2004 (UTC)

Dead?
Hi, in den de:Niklaus Wirth an IP claimed Niklaus Wirth died today (June 12.) Can anybody confirm this, or did I do right when I reverted that "vandale"? --Wirthi 10:19, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Guess I was right in reverting the edit. I'm glad Mr. Wirth is still with us. --Wirthi 08:39, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks like he actually did pass this time :( 172.56.153.137 (talk) 20:53, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Quotes
I'm pretty sure "Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler." was originally Einstein, and a couple of webpages seem to suggest that Wirth made this Einstein quote one of his mottos. --131.111.8.102 14:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

source of the quote?
Is the quote "C++ is an insult to the human brain" really wirth's? I can't find it in any search on the web.. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 90.153.128.15 (talk) 20:24, 11 May 2007 (UTC).

I took the liberty to remove it. 129.34.20.19 20:46, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Everything is software, but software is not everything.
Hello everyone,in my opions, The abundance of powerful hardware seems to have made good software superfluous. Programming languages must be defined without reference to any interpreting mechanism, such as a computer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.139.87.25 (talk) 13:13, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

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Idiotic editing
I removed, the answer is in the second half of the sentence- "those interested in numerical mathematics", and the end of the sentence is a citations as well. Will you morons who are ruining Wikipedia with stupid useless markups. Tumacama (talk) 00:23, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

I don't know why you think available sources, from technical publications no less, not gossip rags. I'm hoping this was added before the numerous sources were. If not please do yourself a favor and kill yourself. Refraining from editing is not enough for idiots like you. Tumacama (talk) 00:23, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

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Vagrant Records

Vagrant Records is an American record label based in California. It was founded in 1995 by Rich Egan and Jon Cohen. The label focuses on rock, but features artists in a variety of other genres including folk, soul, electronic, and pop. It is home to artists such as The 1975, Death Spells, Eels, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, CRUISR, Active Child, PJ Harvey, School of Seven Bells, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, James Vincent McMorrow, Black Joe Lewis, Wake Owl, Blitzen Trapper, and Bombay Bicycle Club. Originally, Vagrant Records was mostly focused on emo bands such as Dashboard Confessional, Saves the Day, The Get Up Kids, Senses Fail, and Alkaline Trio. The label is considered one of the pre-eminent labels of the emo music scene.

In 2014, Vagrant was acquired by BMG Rights Management. Co-founder Jon Cohen then became BMG's executive vice president of recorded music, until he left the company in September 2017. It remains to be distributed autonomously (outside of BMG's main distribution partner Warner Music Group), by affiliated labels in selected countries.

History
The first band signed by Vagrant Records was Boxer and their album, The Hurt Process, released on May 5, 1998. The pop-punk album notably featured drummer Chris Pennie, who would go on to play with Dillinger Escape Plan and Coheed and Cambria.

The Get Up Kids
In 1999, Vagrant Records signed Kansas City, Missouri, band, The Get Up Kids, and the band's Vagrant debut, Something to Write Home About, was released in September 1999. Egan and Cohen borrowed $50,000 from Cohen's parents to fund the recording of the Get Up Kids album, derived from the mortgaging of the family house. The album was wildly successful, and single-handedly made Vagrant Records one of the top independent labels in the country.

Rapid growth
They signed Los Angeles punk rock trio Automatic 7 and released the band's 2nd album Begger's Life on July 25, 2000. They followed this by signing and releasing albums from heavyweights in the emo scene like Alkaline Trio, Saves the Day, and Dashboard Confessional. In June 2001, the label signed a distribution deal with JCOR Records, which in turn was distributed by Universal Records. It allowed Vagrant's releases to be available in stores via Universal's distribution methods. In March 2002, the label made a distribution deal with Festival Mushroom Records, who would handled Vagrant's releases in Australia. Vagrant would later enter into a deal with Interscope Records. In June 2002, the label signed a deal with Motor Music, which handled distribution and promotion for Vagrant's releases in Germany. Dashboard Confessional's video for Screaming Infidelities, directed by Maureen Egan and Matthew Barry, earned Vagrant the MTV2 award at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards. Rich Egan is cited as saying the MTV Video Music Award win "changed everything" for the label.

Paul Westerberg
The label then went on to release solo material from The Replacements frontman, Paul Westerberg, signifying an initial departure from its roots of nineties punk and emo.

Genre diversification
They soon signed Eels and released their album Blinking Lights and Other Revelations. In 2005, the label acquired New York City indie label Startime International, with whom they co-released albums from The French Kicks and The Futureheads. During that time, Vagrant signed The Hold Steady and The Lemonheads.

Poquito Records
In 2006, Vagrant formed a children's label imprint, Poquito Records, and released Vagrant artist The New Amsterdams' side-project The Terrible Twos' debut album If You Ever See an Owl.

Density Records
In April 2007, Vagrant formed another imprint label, Density Records, which will release heavier material than has traditionally been released on the label.

On August 5, 2009, Rammstein, the Berlin-based industrial metal sextet, signed a US marketing and distribution deal with Vagrant Records.

Current bands

 * Active Child
 * Alexander
 * Band of Skulls
 * Benjamin Francis Leftwich
 * Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
 * Blitzen Trapper
 * Brooke Fraser
 * California Wives
 * CRUISR
 * Death Spells
 * Dustin Kensrue
 * Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
 * Eels
 * The Elected

 * French Kicks
 * The Grates
 * The Hold Steady
 * LP
 * Mayer Hawthorne
 * Missy Higgins
 * MonstrO
 * The Night Marchers
 * Pete Yorn
 * PJ Harvey
 * Reptar
 * Rogue Wave
 * Sublime with Rome (Europe)
 * The Terrible Twos
 * Wake Owl
 * The 1975

Former bands

 * Ace Enders and a Million Different People
 * Albert Hammond Jr.
 * Alkaline Trio
 * Alexisonfire
 * The Anniversary
 * The Appleseed Cast
 * The A-Sides
 * Audio Learning Center
 * Automatic 7
 * Bad Suns
 * Balance and Composure
 * Biology
 * The Bled
 * Bloc Party
 * Bombay Bicycle Club
 * Boxer
 * City and Colour
 * The Comas
 * A Cursive Memory
 * Dashboard Confessional
 * Dr Manhattan
 * Emanuel
 * Face to Face
 * FACT
 * Far
 * From Autumn To Ashes
 * The Futureheads
 * The Get Up Kids
 * Hey Mercedes
 * The Hippos
 * The Hold Steady
 * Horse the Band
 * Hot Rod Circuit
 * The (International) Noise Conspiracy
 * J. Roddy Walston and the Business
 * John Ralston
 * Justin Townes Earle
 * Koufax
 * The Lemonheads
 * Matt Pryor
 * Moneen
 * Murder by Death
 * The New Amsterdams
 * The Night Marchers
 * No Motiv
 * Olivia Broadfield
 * Protest the Hero
 * Paul Westerberg
 * Placebo
 * Reggie and the Full Effect
 * Rocket From The Crypt
 * Saves the Day
 * School of Seven Bells
 * Senses Fail
 * So Many Dynamos
 * Stars (except Canada)
 * Thrice
 * Two Tongues
 * Viva Death
 * Warship
 * Waylon Jennings & The .357's

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Talk:Brit Hume

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Brit Hume is now a commentator and a former journalist.

I don't watch MSNBC and I don't watch Fox. YOu must elimate the word journalist from anyone who appears regularly on the Fox "news" network. If you offer opinions on political matters, you are no longer a journalist. Likely the same for MSNBC (just going by rumors on that one because I have never seen it.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rhusick (talk • contribs) 04:19, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

"Media Matters" as a source?
Wikipedia used to be pretty reliable as far as sourcing from its contributors, but when we start seeing numerous statements backed up by "Media Matters", a radical liberal front group co-founded by Hillary Clinton, it brings into question the seriousness of this site as a reference tool.

I totally agree with this observation, is an almost verbatim rant by Keith Olbermann the proper basis for a 'controversy' section which then references "Media Matters" and Olbermann as sources taking issue with the relatively small perceived distortion of a Frankline Delano Roosevelt quote? This entire section, which is devoted to this 'controversy' reeks of a partisan political accusation and an attempted smear of Hume. With a lack of a source outside the liberal-based "Media Matters" organization this entire section needs to be removed. This is exactly the type of slanted referencing that needs to be removed from wikipedia as a whole. CyberCosmiX (talk) 22:40, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Come on, one thing Brit Hume has said on the news that a liberal group and liberal Kieth Olbermann disagrees with and your going to put it up under his biography as a big controversy? I'm going to check the bio's of other journalists to see if you list all the myopic reporting conservative groups and conservative pundits have pointed out they have done over the years. June 16, 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.217.98 (talk) 00:03, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

It depends on what you are using it as a source for. They catalog on the record statements made by media personalities. And they also provide a source for left of center criticism of media personalities. 24.207.226.140 (talk) 12:18, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

If radical leftists sites are now deemed reliable then by the same logic they shouldn't mind radical right-wing sites... Except neither would be very 'NPOV' and usually "NPOV" leans more leftward which is why there is an article about the bias of Wikipedia. Invmog (talk) 16:59, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Social Security controversy
I've added a section about controversy over Hume's remarks on social security. I haven't found any kind of response by Hume or FOX News, if there is one. Has anyone else? I think we should include it for NPOV if it exists. T IMBO  ( T A L K )  21:13, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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I think by creating an entire section on the "controversy" surrounding Hume's comments on Social security is making a mountain out of a molehill big time, clearly not at the level of warranting an entire section on this. Let me say upfront that I haven't read anything from FDR which suggests that social security be completely replaced by private investment. So Hume's critics are right to make that point. But FDR most definitely proposed that a portion of the SS program consist of voluntary private annuities. See here.

Hume was correct to point out that FDR proposed a plan which included private investment accounts. And the entire discussion at that time was in the context of Bush's proposed changes to the SS benefit system, which, like FDR's proposal, included the option to have private accounts managed by the govt. This portion of the Hume quote in the wiki is 100% true and supportable:

But it turns out that FDR himself planned to include private investment accounts in the Social Security program when he proposed it.

What is more objectionable is the rest of Hume's statement characterizing what FDR allegedly said (and I agree that FDR never said or implied this)

"..government funding, "ought to ultimately be supplanted by self-supporting annuity plans."

But I just don't get the big reaction over it. This is a minor error, and when considered in the context of the discussion, not a big deal. Listing this as a significant controversy in Brit Hume's Wiki bio is nitpicking to the extreme if you ask me.

EruditeHillbilly (talk) 21:27, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Social Security controversy
I've added a section about controversy over Hume's remarks on social security. I haven't found any kind of response by Hume or FOX News, if there is one. Has anyone else? I think we should include it for NPOV if it exists. T IMBO  ( T A L K )  21:13, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I would suggest getting another source besides Media Matters, which has been said to be indirectly funded by Bush opponents like George Soros. And what was Hume quoting from? Can the document be found online? Criddic (talk) 04:45, 13 May 2008 (UTC)Criddic

Media Matters is legitimate, no one has yet disproved anything they recorded. Soro gossip is a myth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.44.165.66 (talk) 22:53, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

"Controversy"
Most of these controversies are irrelevant. First, the Iraq War quote on stats was a fairly common argument at the time. It wasn't necessarily phrased that way, but the point was often made that statistically it was more dangerous to live in various other places rather than Iraq. But Hume didn't make the argument up, he just cited it and others disagreed with the common argument There was no "controversy". The second bit on Iraq was simply a statement made by Hume with the disclaimer "this was controversial" by it, without any kind of points as to why it was a controversy or a any source to back it up. The Kerry-Bush comment was simply a comment on the total number of Kerry adds, not proportions, etc., and was simply someone disagreeing with the argument. Again, a disagreement, not a controversy. The award he received is called a controversy because a single person didn't like it, and even they were dismissed by the committee handling the award. Again, hardly a controversy. The only thing that is legitimate is the Social Security Reform piece. It deals specifically with Brit Hume, and works under the allegations that he was intentionally twisting the quote, rather than someone simply not likeing an argument. I don't remember the public attention it garnered, but I don't believe it was enough to be qualified as a "controversy", but I can't disprove it, so I'll leave it for now. The others, though, have to go. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ultimahero (talk • contribs) 10:47, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It was certainly controversial, especially given the absurd and false "statistics" that he used (comparing US forces in Iraq to the population of California, because they're "roughly the same geographical size") to make it seem like the murder rate in California was higher than the death rate of troops in Iraq. Also, a future United States Senator was among those who publicly criticized Hume for it. 24.214.230.66 (talk) 06:29, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Add Category:Fox News Channel
Add Category:Fox News Channel —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.99.28.44 (talk) 17:41, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

The entire article needs to be rewritten, and I have reported this article to Wikipedia.
I have reported this article to Wikipedia. The entire article is biased against the subject. There are so many obvious POV violations, that it is absurd. Media Matters is not a reliable source. The entire Social Security "controversey" section should be deleted without delay. It is an ad hominem attack against Mr. Hume. The entire biography is slanted against ths ubject, clearly written by individuals with a political agenda and not in good faith. It is supposed to reflect proper Wikipedia biographical standards, not be a political opinion piece as to why individuals hate Mr. Hume. This entire article is pathetic, and beneath contempt, even by Wikipedia standards. I would also like it explained as to why this article was "locked" so that it is difficult to edit in its current iteration.

Do not ruin Wikipedia for students attempting to gain accurate knowledge or use Wikipedia for studying. The article is so poorly written that it should be entirely rewritten. Rpchristiano (talk) 02:52, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Controversies section
I just removed the controversies section. That is absolutely ridiculous. I can't believe there were three paragraphs devoted to what Keith Olbermann believes to be a historically inaccurate comment, and a minor one at that. Keith Olbermann wanted Brit Hume to resign??!!! If anything, we should add a criticism on Keith Olbermann's page for that stupid comment! -Brad Kgj08 (talk) 04:33, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

 * So, edit it, condense it, but don't just remove it because you don't like it. -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 12:37, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

 * I removed it because it is so insigificant. In a biography that is only a few paragraphs long as it is, why should three paragraphs be devoted to how some people think that Mr. Hume made a historically inaccurate remark.  If we did that with everyone, our wikipedia articles would be hundreds of pages long.  Look at all the people that take people's remarks out of context.  People are taking John McCain's 100 year comment completely out of context.  That doesn't mean that we need a section devoted to the issue for the thousands of people who have twisted John McCain's words.  And even if you don't personally believe that people are taking McCain's comments out of context, there are a lot of people that do, just as there may have been a lot of people who thought Brit Hume took FDR's words out of context.  The section is completely worthless and insignificant. -Brad Kgj08 (talk) 02:50, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

 * ... in your personal opinion. Others like me respectfully disagree.  --Art Smart (talk) 03:54, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You have not explained how this is significant. This is an extremely insignificant issue, and Brit Hume may or may not have taken it insignificantly out of context.  Does this issue warrant 1/3 of the entire biography on Brit Hume?  Is it actually that important? -Brad Kgj08 (talk) 21:41, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hiya, popping in as an uninvolved administrator. I have no opinion on the information, but do want to see policies upheld, especially Biographies of living people and undue weight.  But ultimately, the decision on content rests with the editors here.  My main advice is, if someone doesn't like what's in the article, edit it down.  But please do not remove reliable sources.  The information from those sources can definitely be decreased, but deleting sources themselves is not wise. --Elonka 21:54, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sources like Media Matters? Kgj08 (talk) 22:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I am not familiar with the particular source or statement that you're talking about, so can't really offer an opinion. Where there is dispute on whether a source is reliable or not, it's a good idea to bring it up on the talkpage. If consensus cannot be reached on the talkpage, then you can post about it at the reliable sources noticeboard to get more opinions. --Elonka 16:43, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Media Matters despises Mr. Hume. It is a political opinion/commentary -based website and should not be included as a source for a biography. A controversy section is legitimate in a biographical pice, it should not be over four paragraphs long. That is biased and unfair by any measure. How would you like the totality of your own biography to consist of only the controversies in your life? The balance of the article is entirely skewed against the subject and the entire article should be rewritten. Rpchristiano (talk) 17:34, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

I think the consensus is that this controversies section is outrageous, the sources are biased, and the whole thing is blown way out of proportion. I'm not going to completely remove it (even though it should be) but I'll drop it down to one sentence. Anything beyond that is absurd. 68.198.48.12 (talk) 02:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Well nevermind I guess I can't edit it. It's protected. Wikipedia is great - lock the articles after sufficient liberal bias has been inserted. 68.198.48.12 (talk) 03:01, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

This Article Should Be Unlocked
A consenus has been reached to edit this article in accordance with proper Wikipedia standards. The article in its current iteration is unacceptable. Whomever locked the article must unlock the article. I have issued a complaint with Wikipedia. This article has obviously been locked to preserve the current bias against the biographical subject. Unacceptable and shameful Rpchristiano (talk) 04:47, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

College Major
Does anyone know what Mr.Hume's major was in college? Would anyone like to add it to the appropriate section?64.90.25.125 (talk) 01:39, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Retirement
As of today he is no longer anchoring Special Report, it remains unseen if he will still act as a panelist on Fox News Sunday. I forgot what his title was today, senior political commentator or something of that sort, this also needs to be added to the page. It really needs a total rewrite... --Tyler (talk) 03:31, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Religion?
Should there be a bit about that considering its growing importance to him after his son's suicide and his recent statement?--T. Anthony (talk) 01:27, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

I think this is fair. The context of his statements are important. There also should be an effort to link to discussions on the merit of his criticism of Buddhism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LynnCityofsin (talk • contribs) 21:03, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Can We Have the Religion Section Re-Written by a Native Speaker of English?
The grammar and syntax are absolutely dreadful:

"This explanation also drew criticism as having been trying to defend his previous actions." Whaaaaaaaaat??????

"This being in the aftermath of his son's death by suicide in 1998." Can we say "sentence fragment"?

Also, why is Hume's opinion of Wood's beliefs offensive, while Olbermann's criticism of Hume's beliefs is not? Seems like a big double standard here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.29.40.2 (talk) 15:10, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

 * I agree. Invmog (talk) 22:09, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Dunno who "Olbermann" is but can reply that Hume's proselytizing, or for that matter anyone pushing a comprehensive system of "faith" or irrationality would be offensive to my reason if the senses weren't dulled to it by this time. Perhaps that's "Olbermann"'s perspective as well. 72.228.150.44 (talk) 15:38, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Presume it's this person, who would appear to be a fellow right wing traveler, but guess it's just the right wing skewing of things American generally and that media operation in particular that he's considered a "liberal". So unlikely he would be advancing a reason based rejection of the Abrahamic cults. After reading article and giving benefit of the doubt struck the last sentence though it is probably true. 72.228.150.44 (talk) 01:16, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Damn it Colbert...
You and your renaming of things that makes me vandalize Wikipedia!! Brit Hume is now Free Hume!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.243.237.145 (talk) 05:54, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

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Garth Hudson

Eric "Garth" Hudson  (born August 2, 1937) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist best known as the keyboardist and occasional saxophonist for rock group the Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. He was a principal architect of the group's sound, described as "the most brilliant organist in the rock world" by Keyboard magazine. With the deaths of Richard Manuel in 1986, Rick Danko in 1999, Levon Helm in 2012, and Robbie Robertson in 2023, Hudson is the last living original member of the Band.

A master of the Lowrey organ, Hudson's other primary instruments are piano, accordion, electronic keyboards, and saxophones (alto, tenor, soprano, baritone, bass). He has been a much-in-demand and respected session musician, performing with dozens of artists, including Elton John, who has cited him as an early influence.

Early life
Hudson was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. His parents, Fred James Hudson and Olive Louella Pentland, were musicians. His mother played piano and accordion and sang. His father, a farm inspector who had fought as a fighter pilot in World War I, played drums, C melody saxophone, clarinet, flute and piano. Hudson moved with his family to London, Ontario, around 1940. Starting piano lessons at an early age, Hudson also played organ at his church and his uncle's funeral parlour, and performed country songs on the accordion Classically trained in piano, music theory, harmony and counterpoint, Hudson wrote his first song at the age of eleven and first played professionally with dance bands in 1949, at the age of twelve. He attended Broughdale Public School and Medway High School before studying music (primarily Bach's chorales and The Well-Tempered Clavier) at the University of Western Ontario. During this period, he grew increasingly frustrated with the rigidity of the classical repertoire, leading him to drop out after a year.

In 1956, he joined London band the Silhouettes. The group relocated to the Windsor/Detroit area where work was more plentiful. It was there, in 1958, that the Silhouettes joined with fellow Londoner Paul "London" Hutchins and became Paul London and the Capers. Hudson primarily played saxophone in the group, and some piano in a style inspired by Johnnie Johnson, but saw his first Lowrey Organ at a show in Detroit and determined that he would get one. The group found moderate success and plenty of work, recording a few songs in Toronto in 1960, changing their name to "...Kapers" with a 'K', recording a few more songs at Chess Studios in Chicago.

Hudson was first approached by Ronnie Hawkins and Levon Helm in the summer of 1961, after a Kapers show in London, and asked to join the Hawks, an offer he declined. The Hawks persisted, and in December 1961, Hudson agreed to join the band on two conditions: that Hawkins buy him a Lowrey organ, and that he be paid an extra $10 a week by each of the other band members to give music lessons to the other Hawks. This second condition was in part to justify the move to his parents, who he feared would think he was squandering his years of music education by playing in a rock and roll band. Discussing the thinking behind his early fears in The Last Waltz, Hudson told interviewer-director Martin Scorsese: "There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work. They knew how to punch through music that would cure and make people feel good."

When the 24-year-old Hudson joined the Hawks, the backing band for Ronnie Hawkins, the band already consisted of 21-year-old Levon Helm on drums, 18-year-old Robbie Robertson on guitar, 18-year-old Rick Danko on bass and 18-year-old Richard Manuel on piano. The lineup that would become the Band was now complete.

Lowrey organ
Hudson was one of the few organ players in rock and roll and rhythm and blues to eschew a Hammond organ. Upon joining the Hawks, Hudson took the opportunity to negotiate the procurement of a new Lowrey organ as part of his compensation. The Lowrey organ offered a different mix of features, and Hudson stayed with Lowrey right through Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, Bob Dylan and the Band, playing three different models: originally a Festival (FL) console, which was replaced by a Lincolnwood TSO-25 during 1969, and later still a horseshoe console H25 model, as depicted in The Last Waltz.

The Band: 1965–1976
Under the strict supervision of Hawkins, the Hawks became an accomplished band. They split from Hawkins in 1963, recorded two singles and toured almost continually, playing in bars and clubs, usually billed as Levon and the Hawks. Hudson started work as a session musician in 1965, playing on John Hammond, Jr.'s So Many Roads along with Robertson (guitar) and Helm (drums).

In August 1965, they were introduced to Bob Dylan by manager Albert Grossman's assistant, Mary Martin. In October, Dylan and the Hawks recorded the single "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?", and in January 1966 they recorded material with Dylan for what would turn into the Blonde on Blonde album. Dylan recruited the band to accompany him on his controversial 1966 "electric" tour of the United States, Australia and Europe. (An album of Dylan's 1966 performance with his band, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert, was finally released in 1998.) Subsequent to Bob Dylan's motorcycle accident in July 1966, the group settled in a pink house in West Saugerties, New York, near Woodstock. Dylan was a frequent visitor, and Hudson's recordings of their collaborations resulted in The Basement Tapes.

By 1968, the group recorded its debut album, Music from Big Pink. The album was recorded in Los Angeles (at Capitol) and New York (at A&R Studio). Capitol originally announced that the group would be called the Crackers, but when Music From Big Pink was released they were officially named the Band. The album includes Hudson's organ showcase, "Chest Fever", a song that in the Band's live shows would be vastly expanded by a solo organ introduction, entitled "The Genetic Method", an improvisational work that would be played differently at each performance. An example can be heard on the live album Rock of Ages. Hudson is also adept at the accordion, which he played on some of the group's recordings, such as "Rockin Chair", from The Band; the traditional "Ain't No More Cane", from The Basement Tapes; Dylan's "When I Paint My Masterpiece"; and Bobby Charles's "Down South in New Orleans" during The Last Waltz. His saxophone solo work can be heard on such songs as "Tears of Rage" (from Big Pink) and "Unfaithful Servant" (from The Band). Hudson is credited with playing all of the brass and woodwinds on the studio version of "Ophelia" from the 1975 album Northern Lights - Southern Cross. This album, the first to be recorded in the Band's Shangri-La recording studio in Malibu, California, also saw Hudson adding synthesizers to his arsenal of instruments.

Hudson provided innovative accompaniment. For example, the song "Up on Cripple Creek" features Hudson playing a clavinet through a wah-wah pedal to create a swampy sound reminiscent of a Jew's harp or the croak of a frog. This clavinet–wah wah pedal configuration was later adopted by many funk musicians.

The initial iteration of the Band made its final bow as a touring band with a lavish final concert on Thanksgiving Day 1976 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, an all-star tribute concert documented in The Last Waltz.

The Band reformed: 1980s–1990s
The Band released one more album after the Last Waltz, Islands, and then dissolved. By then, Hudson had married his singer/actress wife, Maud. He had his own property, Big Oak Basin Dude Ranch, in Malibu, which was destroyed by wildfires in 1978, after extensive renovations that included an impressive studio.

He was active during this period as a session musician, performing on movie soundtracks and albums by many other artists, including Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison (Wavelength) and Leonard Cohen (Recent Songs). He composed music for Our Lady Queen of the Angels, a multimedia show created for the Los Angeles bicentennial in 1980. In the early 1980s he accompanied the Call on one of their albums and appeared with them in a music video which was played on MTV. He can be seen playing two separate keyboards in the Call's video of "the walls came down"

The Band reformed in 1983, with all the original members except Robbie Robertson. Richard Manuel, who had lived at Hudson's ranch in 1978, died by suicide in 1986. Supplemented by a rotating roster of additional musicians, the Band continued to tour, releasing three albums in the 1990s.

In 1988, Hudson recorded "Feed the Birds" on Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films, produced by Hal Willner.

In 1990 Hudson, playing accordion and soprano saxophone, along with bandmates Levon Helm and Rick Danko, who harmonized with the vocalists, took part in Roger Waters's massive performance of The Wall at the Berlin Wall.

As a member of the Band, Hudson was inducted into the Juno Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

He has played on various solo efforts of his bandmates Rick Danko, Levon Helm, and Robbie Robertson.

Solo artist: 2001–present
Hudson released his first solo album, The Sea to the North, on September 11, 2001. In 2002, with his home in foreclosure and Robertson having bought out his stake in the Band, Hudson was forced to declare bankruptcy for the third time. He continued to record and perform. On July 13, 2002, he was honoured with the Canada South Blues Society's Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 2002, he joined with former Flying Burrito Brothers' pedal steel player Sneaky Pete Kleinow to form Burrito Deluxe, with Carlton Moody of the Moody Brothers on lead vocals and guitars, bassist Jeff "Stick" Davis of the Amazing Rhythm Aces and drummer Rick Lonow. The group recorded two albums, Georgia Peach and The Whole Enchilada, before Kleinow departed in 2004 because of health problems.

In 2005, Hudson formed his own 12-piece band, the Best!, with his wife, Maud (who died on February 28, 2022), on vocals. That same year, Garth and Maud Hudson released Live at the Wolf, a piano and vocal album recorded live at the Wolf Performance Hall in London, Ontario.

On November 20, 2005, Hudson received the Hamilton Music Award for Best Instrumentalist.

He continues as a much-in-demand session player, performing with such artists as Neko Case (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and Middle Cyclone), Chris Castle (Last Bird Home), Teddy Thompson (Separate Ways), the Secret Machines (Ten Silver Drops), the Sadies (Live 2006), the Lemonheads, Jonah Smith (2006 self-titled debut), Yesterday's News (The Northside Hotel), Billy the Kid (The Lost Cause) and others. He contributed an original electronic score to an off-Broadway production of Dragon Slayers, written by Stanley Keyes and directed by Brad Mays in 1986 at the Union Square Theatre in New York. The production was restaged with a new cast in Los Angeles in 1990.

A few of the artists Hudson performed with in 2006 are Ronnie Hawkins, the Sadies, Neko Case, Heavy Trash, John Hiatt, the North Mississippi All-Stars, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, and Chris Zaloom, some of which were recorded. Hudson and his talent on piano are prominently featured in the 2007 Daniel Lanois DVD documentary Here Is What Is.

In 2010, Hudson released Garth Hudson Presents: A Canadian Celebration of the Band. The album features Canadian artists covering songs that were recorded by the Band. Hudson plays on every track and co-produced the album with Peter J. Moore. Acts that appear on the album include Neil Young, Bruce Cockburn, Blue Rodeo, Cowboy Junkies, the Trews, Great Big Sea, Hawksley Workman, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Chantal Kreviazuk, Raine Maida and Ian Thornley.

Garth Hudson made his most recent public appearance on April 16, 2023, performing in Kingston, New York, in the Flower Hill House Concert No. 6, where he played Duke Ellington‘s “Sophisticated Lady”.

As a solo artist

 * Canada South Blues Society – Lifetime Achievement Award, 2002
 * Hamilton Music Scene – Instrumentalist of the Year, 2005
 * Dofasco Hamilton Music Awards – Lifetime of Achievement Award, 2007
 * Blues Hall of Fame – inducted as a "Legendary Blues Artist", 2012
 * London Music Hall Of Fame – inducted 2014
 * Member of the Order of Canada, 2019

As a member of the Band

 * Juno Award's Canadian Music Hall of Fame – inducted 1989
 * Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – inducted 1994
 * Grammy Awards – Lifetime of Achievement Award, 2008
 * Canada's Walk of Fame – inducted 2014

Film credits
Hudson is credited in the following films:
 * 1978 The Last Waltz (performer)
 * 1980 Raging Bull (additional music composer)
 * 1983 The King of Comedy (additional music)
 * 1983 The Right Stuff (additional music composer)
 * 1986 Man Outside (actor – Cheney/additional music)
 * 1990 The Wall – Live in Berlin (performer)
 * 1993 The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (performer)
 * 2003 Festival Express (performer)
 * 2008 Here Is What Is (performer)
 * 2013 Love for Levon (performer)

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Wikipedia talk:ArbCom election results

Err... so the first two were elected? Graft 05:34, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes. I've changed the page to make this clear. Angela. 00:59, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)

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Owned (slang)

Owned is a slang word  that originated in the 1990s among hackers where it referred to "rooting" or gaining administrative control over someone else's computer. The term eventually spread to gamers, who used the term to mean defeat in gaming. Other variations of the word owned include own3d, 0wn3d, pwned, pwnt, POWER OWNED, pooned and rooprad, terms which incorporate elements of leetspeak.

In 2009, Newgrounds described a security vulnerability in ActiveX as leaving Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server users open to a "Browse-And-Get-Owned" attack.

Owned has now spread beyond computer and gaming contexts and become part of standard slang, especially in social media, and is typically used to signify severe defeat or humiliation, usually in an amusing way or through the dominance of an opposing party, in diverse contexts ranging from sports to politics (e.g. "Obama owns Fox News" or "Trump just rooprad CNN").

Origins
The Jargon File, a historical glossary of computer slang, defines the hacker usage of owned as "your condition when your machine has been cracked by a root exploit, and the attacker can do anything with it."

The term's original usage was close to that of the traditional meaning of the word own – for instance, "I owned the network at MIT" indicated that the speaker had cracked the servers and had the same root-level privileges that the legitimate owner of the servers had. By 1997, owned appeared in text illicitly added to websites in website defacements.

Usage in gaming
The term "owned" subsequently spread to gaming circles, where it was used to refer to defeat in a game. For example, if a player makes a particularly impressive kill shot or wins a match by an appreciable margin in a multiplayer video game, it is not uncommon for him or her to say owned to the loser(s), as a manifestation of victory, a taunt, or provocation. Ownage has become a modern equivalent to "turkey shoot"; applicable when an experienced faction predictably annihilates a beginner or disadvantaged faction. In slang form, owned can be an adjective (He is owned), owning can be a verb (He is totally owning that guy.), and ownage can be a noun.

The phrase "own" can not only refer to defeating one particular player or team, but it can also be used to indicate total domination of the competition. The racing video game Need for Speed: Nitro follows this definition by awarding a special bonus called "Own it", in which a player earns points for every second they spend in first place, while also expressing their dominance visually to other opponents by painting every portion of the course where they lead with their tag and colors.

Usage in politics
In the late 2010s, the concept of ownage (specifically, "owning the libs") has become a defining ethos of right-wing politics in the United States. Ben Shapiro describes the concept in the National Review: "Here’s the process for how to own a lib, by the current logic: First, you say something that “triggers the libs”; then, when they make clear that they’re triggered, you mock them; then, by virtue of your mockery, you own them. What you choose to do with the libs you own is irrelevant; mere pride of ownership is the important thing."

In other words, Republicans and conservatives may often prioritize opportunities to make Democrats and liberals feel bad, sometimes to a greater degree than actual policy achievement. Statements intended to upset liberals tend to be about topics known as culture war issues.

This pugilistic style of politics is especially popular with Donald Trump and his supporters. However, it is a controversial practice inside and outside the Republican party. For example, Nikki Haley said "I know that it's fun and that it can feel good, but step back and think about what you're accomplishing when you do this — are you persuading anyone?"

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USS Oneida (1809)

The first USS Oneida was a brig of war in the United States Navy during the War of 1812.

Oneida was built at Oswego, New York 1808–1809, under contract awarded by her first commanding officer, Lieutenant M. T. Woolsey, to Henry Eckford and Christian Bergh. Although her displacement was 243 tons by carpenter's measurement, her draft could compare with a sloop of 80 tons. This enabled her to enter the rivers feeding Lake Ontario without fear of grounding. She was delivered by the contractors in the spring of 1809, but was not equipped and sent upon the lake until the fall of 1810.

War of 1812
Oneida operated principally from Sackets Harbor, New York, not far from the commencement of the St. Lawrence, while the British port of Kingston lay nearly opposite in Canada.

First Battle of Sacket's Harbor
On 5 June 1812, Oneida captured the British schooner Lord Nelson, while enforcing the Embargo Act of 1807. On 19 July, the British squadron sailed on Sackets Harbor where Oneida and her prize were anchored. After failing to gain the open lake, Oneida anchored again near a bank in a position to rake the harbor entrance. She mounted the guns from her off side ashore and presented a full battery. After an exchange of cannonade, of two hours duration, the British squadron broke off the engagement and sailed for Kingston, Canada.

USS Oneida vs HMS Royal George

On 8 November, Oneida, flying the broad pennant of Commodore Isaac Chauncey, sailed from Sackets Harbor to intercept British ships conveying supplies to the Army at Kingston. The sloop HMS Royal George (1809) was sighted and chased into the Bay of Quinte and lost sight of during the night. Sighted again the following morning, the chase was resumed. Oneida brought up the rear of the squadron to allow the heavy guns of her schooners to open way for a close attack. Royal George cut her mooring cables and attempted to make further headway up the channel, finally making fast to a wharf under the protection of troop muskets. Royal George suffered extensive damage, and Oneida had some damage aloft with one seaman killed and three wounded, but a gale ended the engagement and the Americans returned to Sackets Harbor.

Battle of York
On 25 April 1813, along with other ships of the American squadron, Oneida set sail from Sackets Harbor and arrived off York, Canada (now Toronto) on 27 April with troops under General Zebulon Pike embarked. Boats were hoisted out and within two hours the brigade was ashore, soon capturing York despite the loss of General Pike. On the night of 26 May she again embarked troops and artillery and set sail with the squadron for Fort George, Canada. A landing was made about 9 a.m. on 27 May, and by noon the town and fort were taken.

Oneida made a second unopposed landing at York on 27 July liberating prisoners and seizing provisions. On 31 July 1814, Oneida made for the Niagara River to blockade British ships anchored there. She was assisted by the brig USS Jefferson (1814) and the schooner USS Sylph (1813), while the remainder of the American Squadron blockaded Kingston. The blockade was lifted in September 1814, and Oneida returned to Sackets Harbor. Ice closed the lake in November, and peace was declared the following month.

Postwar
Oneida was sold 15 May 1815, but afterwards was repurchased by the Navy, laid up at Sackets Harbor, and finally sold in 1825 to a timber company in the village of Clayton, New York.

Oneida worked as a timber ship for several years before sinking in French Creek Bay near Clayton sometime in the 1830s. One of the ship's cannons is currently in Clayton's Memorial Park, while one of its anchors is in the possession of French Creek Bay Marina.

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Bellarmine College Preparatory

Bellarmine College Preparatory is an all-boys, Jesuit, private secondary school located in San Jose, California. Founded in 1851, it is the oldest Jesuit secondary school in California and the second-oldest west of the Mississippi River.

Overview

A Roman Catholic school in the tradition of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Bellarmine is a member of the West Catholic Athletic League, the Jesuit Schools Network, and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

As of 2021, Bellarmine led the CIF Central Coast Section with 140 Division 1 titles. Bellarmine's Speech and Debate Team was ranked in the top 10 programs in the country with its policy debate team ranked #1 after winning the triple crown (NDCA Championship, Tournament of Champions (debate) and NDSA Nationals) in 2021. In addition, the school's FIRST Robotics Competition team, Team 254: The Cheesy Poofs, has been the World Champion (2011, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2022) for 4 of the past 10 years. The school's publications include its student newspaper, The Bell Online, and its yearbook, The Carillon.

The school is reputed for its graduates’ contributions and powerful influence in the Bay Area. Bellarmine's list of notable alumni includes 4 Olympians (six Gold Medals combined), 2 living Billionaires, 3 Mayors of San Jose, the former team owners of the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics, 3 World Series Champions, 5 Super Bowl Champions, 1 Academy-Award Winner, 1 Pulitzer Prize Winner, 28 Professional MLB athletes, numerous award-winning authors and several state politicians. Previous Bellarmine alumni have won prestigious postgraduate scholarships including the Rhodes Scholarship, Marshall Scholarship, Schwarzman Scholarship, MacArthur Fellowship, and the Fulbright Awards.

History

Bellarmine was founded in 1851 by Fr. John Nobili, S.J., and his companions, as Santa Clara College, a school for secondary and college-age students. In 1912, the college was separated into 2 schools - Santa Clara University and Santa Clara Prep. After sharing the same campus for thirteen years, the secondary school moved to its current College Park Campus after purchasing the land from the University of the Pacific (then known as the College of the Pacific) for $77,500. In 1926, the renovated school opened its doors to a student body of 200 registered students.

In 2011, the Lorry I. Lokey Academic Center was completed after a $15 million gift from the family of the philanthropist and founder of Business Wire. This was the single largest gift in the school's history. The new center houses over 27 classrooms, a faculty lounge and the Craft-Malcolm Family Academic Resource Center.

The College Park Caltrain station is adjacent to the campus since its inception and has been a historic presence for Bellarmine's metropolitan community. Over 140 students take the train to school everyday from San Mateo county to Gilroy. The station is served by only 4 trains a day, timed to correspond with the school's hours. In recent years, amidst discussion of the station shutting down, the school has lobbied Caltrain to avoid cutting service to the station.

Academics
As of 2020, Bellarmine's current enrollment size is approximately 1,655 students. The average class size is 22.5 and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13:1. For the Class of 2019, 99.2% of students went to attend college. 94.7% of graduating seniors were attending a four-year institution.

Football
The Bells Football team represents Bellarmine College Preparatory in the West Catholic Athletic League (WCAL) of the CIF Central Coast Section. The team has 20 WCAL Titles and 8 CCS Championships in program history. The Bell's Football team is currently headed by former San Diego Chargers coach and 2-time Super Bowl Champion with the Denver Broncos David Diaz-Infante. He took over from Bellarmine alum Jalal Beauchman who led the Bells to a NorCal Championship in 2022. In 1965, the John Hanna-coached Bells outscored opponents 310–6 during a 31-game winning streak to earn the first of two state titles (the other was in 1981).

Soccer
The Bellarmine Soccer team is noted for the league's longest winning streak of 17 consecutive titles under Coach Patrick Lowney. The Bellarmine's 2002 varsity soccer team had a perfect 25-0-0 season. As of 2021, the soccer team coached by Conor Salcido '07 has won 3 of the past 5 CCS Open Division titles, a NorCal CIF Division 1 Title, and finished the 2021 season ranked #4 in the nation by Top Drawer Soccer and CBS Sports.

Robotics
The Robotics Team, named The Cheesy Poofs, has over 100 members. The high school competes in two different divisions: FTC and FRC. The team has won the World Chairman's Award (the highest award in FIRST) in 2004, and the World Championships 5 times (the most of any FIRST team) in 2011, 2014, 2017, 2018, and 2022. The team also holds the record for most regional events won, having 44 regional wins to their name. In 2008, Bellarmine first entered VEX Robotics and in 2009–2010 won 16 regional competitions, 7 of them in international competition. In the 2010–2011 season, Bellarmine's VEX team 254A won the VEX World Excellence Award, the highest it confers. In 2014, the team won three regionals, the Curie Division, and World Championships. The school shares a partnership with NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. In 2022, Bellarmine's Team 254F won the VEX World Championships in Dallas Texas.

Student media & publications
In 2008, Bellarmine began its own radio station, KBCP The Bell, as a legal, unlicensed station at 1650 AM which reaches a 1-mile radius of the school. Programs include 30-minute newscasts, sports shows, daily music shows, and political talk radio.

Speech and debate
In 1994, Bellarmine won the team speech and debate National Forensic League Championship in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2003 and 2004, the team won the California State Championship, then came in second in the state in 2005 when it was ranked as one of the top two teams in the nation. In 2006, its policy debate team captured the National Championship. For nine years, 2006–2014, Bellarmine's Speech and Debate program won the California State Championship, as well as in 2022. The program trains students in 12 speech events and 6 debate categories. In 2021, Bellarmine won the Policy Debate Championship, 2nd place in Congressional Debate, Top 10 in International Extemp & National Extemp and received the Bruno E. Jacobs Award, which is given to the school who has the greatest number of cumulative rounds at the national tournament across the years. Its rival high school in speech and debate is Leland High School (San Jose, California).

In popular culture

 * Bellarmine's College Park Caltrain station is mentioned in Jack London's 1903 novel The Call of the Wild as the location at which the stolen canine protagonist is fenced, beginning his journey away from civilization.
 * In his 1960 Lonesome Traveler collection, American poet Jack Kerouac writes about watching the Bells play football in "October in the Railroad Earth."

Notable alumni

 * Marv Owen '24 - MLB (1931–1940)
 * Nello Falaschi '31 - played for NFL's New York Giants
 * John W. Gallivan '33 - publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune, 1960–1984
 * Leo Righetti '44 - baseball player
 * Conn Findlay '48 - holds four Olympic medals, three in rowing (1956 gold, 1960 bronze, 1964 gold) and one in sailing (1976 bronze)
 * Wayne Belardi '48 - MLB first baseman
 * John Vasconcellos '50 - California State Senator
 * Joe Albanese '51 - Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher
 * Jim Beall '70 - politician
 * Dennis Crosby '52 - singer and actor
 * Phillip Crosby '52 - singer and actor
 * Jim Small '55 - MLB (1955–1958)
 * Stephen Schott '57 - former owner of Oakland Athletics
 * John A. Sobrato '57 real estate developer
 * Billy Connors '59 - MLB pitcher and coach
 * Ming Chin '60 - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
 * Frank Bergon '61 - writer
 * Bob Gallagher '62 - MLB (1972–1975)
 * Tom McEnery '63 - 61st Mayor of San Jose
 * Dan Pastorini '67 - NFL quarterback (1971–1981, 1983), Super Bowl XV champion; played in 1975 Pro Bowl
 * Jim Wilhelm '70 - MLB (1978–1979)
 * Frank C. Girardot ‘79 - Author "Name Dropper: Investigating the Clark Rockefeller Mystery"
 * Nick Holt '81 - defensive coordinator of Purdue Boilermakers, former head coach of Idaho Vandals
 * Sal Cesario '81 - NFL offensive guard
 * Erik Howard '82 - played for NFL's New York Giants, New York Jets
 * David Diaz-Infante '82 - played for NFL's San Diego Chargers, Denver Broncos, Philadelphia Eagles
 * Randy Kirk '83 - NFL (1987–1999)
 * Pablo Morales '83 - Olympic gold and silver medalist (1979–1983)
 * Tony West '83 - 17th United States Associate Attorney General and current chief legal officer of Uber
 * Jim Wahler '84 - played for NFL's Phoenix Cardinals, Washington Redskins
 * Greg Gohr '85 - MLB (1993–1996)
 * Ron Caragher '85 - NCAA football head coach
 * Kelly Grovier '87 - poet and literary critic
 * Ed Giovanola '87 - MLB (1995–1999)
 * Sam Liccardo '87 - Mayor of San Jose (2015–)
 * Stephen Mirrione '87 - Academy Award-winning film editor for Traffic
 * Chris Kelly '87 - Co-Owner Sacramento Kings, Former Chief Privacy Officer Facebook
 * Viet Thanh Nguyen '88 - 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction for his novel The Sympathizer
 * Ralph Alvarado '88 - Kentucky State Senator
 * Joey Manahan '89 - Hawaii State Representative and Honolulu City Councilman
 * John B. Owens '89 - United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit judge
 * Nick Hatzke '91 - MLS player (2007–09), Houston Dynamo
 * Gregg Hurwitz '91 - author
 * Kevin McMahon '90: track & field athlete at 1996 and 2000 Olympics; teaches in Bellarmine's Visual and Performing Arts department
 * Justin Baughman '92 - MLB second baseman
 * Pat Burrell '94 - MLB outfielder
 * Bassnectar (Lorin Ashton) '96: musician
 * Helmy Eltoukhy '97 - co-founder & CEO of biotech startup companies Avantome and Guardant Health
 * Kevin Frandsen '00 - MLB player, San Francisco Giants (2006–2015)
 * Craig Bragg '00 - National Football League (NFL) wide receiver
 * Copeland Bryan '01 - NFL defensive end
 * Brian Armstrong '01 - Founder and CEO of Coinbase
 * Matt Mahan '01 - 66th Mayor of San Jose
 * Sunkrish Bala '02 - actor
 * Jose Moreno Brooks '03 - actor
 * Francis Maka '03 - linebacker, San Jose SaberCats of Arena Football League
 * Eric Thames '04: MLB player (2011–2012, 2017–2020)
 * Alex Brightman '05 - actor
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 * Tommy Medica '06 - MLB (2013–14)
 * Mark Canha '07 - MLB first baseman
 * Erik Goeddel '07 - MLB pitcher, New York Mets (2014–present)
 * Austyn Carta-Samuels '09 - professional gridiron football player and coach
 * Michael Clay '09 - Special teams coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles
 * Mitchell Harrison White '13 - MLB pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers
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Template talk:Administrative divisions of Quebec

Gigantic
This infobox is gigantic. Is there no way to trim it down? Bryan 05:43, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * This infobox is more than gigantic, and it would be possible, only perhaps more work than is worth, to split it by region. --Valmi 04:46, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

All right, I just created 17 new templates, and will try applying them to cities and MRCs right away. These templates now deprecated by :

 * Template:Abitibi-Témiscamingue - done
 * Template:Bas-Saint-Laurent - done
 * Template:Capitale-Nationale - done
 * Template:Centre-du-Québec - done
 * Template:Chaudière-Appalaches - done
 * Template:Côte-Nord - done
 * Template:Estrie
 * Template:Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine
 * Template:Lanaudière
 * Template:Laurentides
 * Template:Laval region
 * Template:Mauricie - done
 * Template:Montérégie - done
 * Template:Montréal region
 * Template:Nord-du-Québec
 * Template:Outaouais
 * Template:Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean

--Valmi 05:48, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * That's much better than the idea I was considering: 4-point font. :) Bryan 05:57, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * In the same line of thought, I was also considering deleting it altogether. I'm still not sure which would have been the better option. ;-) --Valmi 06:03, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

redesign
See Canadian wikipedians' notice board/discussion. Circeus 18:41, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Proposed merge with regional templates
Qyd has proposed merging the content of regional templates such as Template:Estrie into the present template as optional portions of this template. Although I think this is by no means disastrous, I still think it would be best to leave the regional templates separate. Here are a few reasons: Generally speaking, I think doing away with the regional templates takes away a certain degree of flexibility to modify them in future in ways that perhaps wouldn't make sense for anything that is a portion of the present template. Joeldl (talk) 06:03, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) The main reason: readers looking at an article on some small town somewhere may not think to open a template called "Subdivisions of Quebec" in order to find other small towns within the same region.
 * 2) It is best to keep the size of this template down, especially since in future other subdivisions may be included, such as regional county municipalities, of which there are many.
 * 3) A one-size-fits-all approach complicates adaptation of the regional portions to peculiarities of the regions. For example, Template:Nord-du-Québec has a line with Aboriginal administrations. Template:Urban agglomeration of Montreal could eventually contain a line with all the boroughs of Montreal, and perhaps other links connected in some way or another with local government in Montreal, some of which may not even be subdivisions, but which we would want in the same place as the boroughs, municipalities, etc.
 * 4) People will be less likely to want to modify the regional portions if they are part of a gigantic template with complex syntax.
 * 5) The regional templates document criteria for inclusion of municipalities. These criteria differ by region. While it is possible in theory to include them in the "Subdivisions of Quebec" template, the documentation for it is already massive and it would be further complicated by doing this individually for different regions.

 * In the "inclusionist" form, the template has the following advantages:
 * Effectively combines 17 templates, eliminating the need of having multiple templates at the bottom of articles
 * The optional switch system allows for a number of combinations, preventing the template to be too overblown, while displaying all relevant links (and only the relevant links).
 * Accessibility is indeed lower, as the template becomes more intricate, however, being a template, and not in article space, WP:ACCESS is not an issue. The documentation should not be included in the navbox, instead it should show up in the relevant articles (Navboxes should serve for article navigation only). --Qyd (talk) 15:30, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment requested at WT:CANADA, WP:CANBOARD and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Quebec. --Qyd (talk) 16:56, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I have to say that I find Qyd's position more compelling. And, frankly, anything that reduces template clutter is a blessed thing.  Skeezix1000 (talk) 21:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

 * By "inclusion criteria" for municipalities, I meant criteria for inclusion in the lists, since it's not feasible to include every municipality in a region. About access, I think the fact that editors are human too can be taken into account. What would Qyd's view be about a template similar to Template:Toronto for a region? Generally, one might expect that at first such a template would have only a handful of items in addition to subdivisions of the region. Should that all be put in the Subdivisions of Quebec template? Should it eventually be split off, once it got big enough? Joeldl (talk) 04:45, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't see that happening. Regions are not that distinct when it comes to history, culture, amenities (as opposed to a particular large city such as Toronto). However, a template of that type should not be combined with this navbox, which shouldn't go beyond subdivisions and communities. Sure, if you think there is enough material (History of Nord-du-Québec, Culture of Nord-du-Québec, etc), those items could be grouped in the regional navbox Template:Nord-du-Québec if they are to be re-purposed.--Qyd (talk) 13:24, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I think regions like Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean are as distinct as Toronto, but as a practical matter there are fewer English-speaking Wikipedians with knowledge of them, especially the ones other than Montreal. Where do you think items like Cree Regional Authority should go? It makes sense to me that people wanting to navigate to Chisasibi, Quebec might also want that in the same place. Joeldl (talk) 02:40, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Why should there be "enough" material? Currently, it's very easy to just add a line to one of the regional templates, perhaps for one or two items. One might even at first have a line called "other topics," adding for example James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement to Template:Nord-du-Québec or Asbestos Strike to Template:Estrie. A good example of this kind of template is Quebec City. It would make particularly good sense to have those items relating to government in the region in the same place as the subdivisions. Joeldl (talk) 05:09, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Cultural regions of Quebec -

70.51.8.110 (talk) 07:13, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Montreal
 * 2) Quebec City
 * 3) Lac St. Jean
 * 4) Gaspesie
 * 5) North Shore
 * 6) Eastern Townships
 * 7) Ottawa Valley
 * 8) Laurentians
 * 9) New Quebec (northern Quebec)
 * 10) Magdelan Islands
 * 11) St. Lawrence Valley
 * Sounds good; as long as those topics are region specific, I suppose it's a good idea to group them in the regional navbox. The links should be concise, however ("Regional county municipalities and equivalent territories(*)" is is a bit too long of a link title, it clutters the navbox, "Counties" would do for the purpose, as the meaning is detailed in the article linked). Cheers. --Qyd (talk) 14:08, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm opposed to "counties" because it seems inaccurate to me. I've never seen any sources refer to them that way. If being concise is important, then "RCMs and TEs" is perfectly acceptable, or "RCMs and equivalent". The French Wikipedia uses "MRC et territoires équivalents (*)". See fr:Modèle Palette Estrie. It's true that non-Quebecers might not understand "RCM" but I feel accuracy is more important. Can you find sources referring to them as "counties"?Joeldl (talk) 01:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It's defined as "county-like political and geographic unit" in Regional county municipality. Regional municipality is also defined as "a county level municipal government". If the territories are considered equivalent to RCM's, can't we just call them that, instead of being overly verbose? To me it seems that it just loads the template, but than, again, I don't live in Quebec, and might miss some of the finer nuances. --Qyd (talk) 03:32, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know what's meant by "county-like". In any case, I haven't ever seen them referred to as counties. There used to be things called counties in Quebec, and I'm not certain to what extent RCMs are like those. Regardless, I think what matters is usage. Do you believe they are sometimes referred to this way? Joeldl (talk) 08:25, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The MRCs are a supra-municpal organization level, while the administrative regions are a sub-provincial organization level. In the US, these are generally the same, and are counties, unless a metro region is bigger than a county. The MRCs are smaller than regions. The old counties, townships, and parishes of Quebec are similar to MRCs in level (above town, village, city)... But Metro Montreal is larger than two regions contained within it, and contains parts of other MRCs... So if MRCs are Counties, then regions are Duchies, of Quebec. 70.55.88.176 (talk) 07:25, 10 May 2008 (UTC)


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Category talk:Basketball players

It doesn't seem very NPOV to me to categorize male basketball players as "basketball players" and female basketball players as "Women's Basketball players". Should we merge the two or rename this category "Men's Basketball players"? Sarge Baldy 05:46, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)

I think rename, except categories can't be renamed. RickK 06:13, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Not directly, though you can change the code on all the pages to a new category and delete the old. Sarge Baldy 07:43, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)

Be consistent with other sports: move the female players into this category, and delete Category:Women's basketball player (sic). -- Avaragado 08:00, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Agreed, and done. I don't care much for segregation either. Sarge Baldy 15:04, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

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Jackie Stiles

Jackie Marie Stiles (born December 21, 1978) is an American college basketball coach who was formerly an assistant coach for the University of Oklahoma women's basketball team and at Missouri State University. Stiles set several scoring records while playing shooting guard in college and was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.

High school
Born in Kansas City, Kansas and raised in Claflin, Stiles played for Claflin High School, where she was named a WBCA All-American. She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game where she scored eighteen points and earned MVP honors.

Stiles won 14 individual state titles in track and field, a state record that still stands.

College
Stiles played college basketball at Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University) from 1997 to 2001. While there, she became the first NCAA Division I women's player to score more than 1,000 points in a season, scoring 1,062 in her senior year. That year, she won the Wade Trophy, which honors the best women's basketball player in the college ranks, as well as the Broderick Cup, which honors the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. She competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 2000 Jones Cup Team that won the gold in Taipei, Taiwan.

During her four collegiate years, Stiles scored 3,393 points, a career total that stood as a record for Division I women's basketball until it was broken by Kelsey Plum in 2017. On March 10, 2000, she scored 56 points against Evansville, which stands as the sixth highest number of points in a single Division I game. In her senior season, Stiles scored 41 points to help fifth seed Missouri State upset top seed Duke in the 2001 Sweet 16.

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College
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† Missouri State since 2005.

USA Basketball
Stiles was named to the USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team (now called the U18 team). The team participated in the third Junior World Championship, held in Chetumal, Mexico in late August and early September 1996. The USA team won their early games easily, but lost by four points to the team from Brazil, ending up with the silver medal for the event.

Stiles was named to the USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team when it was invited to the 1997 FIBA Junior World Championship (now called U19) held in Natal, Brazil. After beating Japan, the next game was against Australia, the defending champion. The USA team pulled out to a 13-point lead in the second half, but gave up the lead and lost the game 80–74. The USA rebounded with a close 92–88 victory over Cuba, helped by 23 points each from Maylana Martin and Lynn Pride. The USA then went on to beat previously unbeaten Russia. After winning the next two games, the USA faced Australia in the gold medal game. The USA team has a three-point lead late, but the Aussies hit a three-pointer with three seconds left in regulation to force overtime. Although the Aussies scored first, the USA team came back, then pulled into the lead and held on to win 78–74 to earn the gold, and the first medal for a USA team at a Junior World Championship. Stiles averaged 1.0 point per game.

Stiles was named to the team representing the US in 2000 at the William Jones Cup competition in Taipei, Taiwan. The USA team started strong with a 32-point win over the host team, the Republic of China National Team. They then beat South Korea easily and faced Japan in the third game. Japan started out strongly, and had an 18-point lead in the first half. The USA then out scored Japan 23–3 to take a small lead at the half. The USA built a ten-point lead, but Japan cut it back to three with under a minute to go. Kelly Schumacher grabbed an offensive rebound and scored to bring the lead back to five points and the team held on for the win. The USA team beat Japan 83–80. The final game was against Malaysia, but it wasn't close, with the USA winning 79–24, to secure a 4–0 record for the competition and the gold medal. Stiles averaged 6.8 points per game.

Professional playing career
Stiles' pro career started promisingly. In the 2001 WNBA draft, she was selected fourth overall by the Portland Fire, and was later voted the Rookie of the Year. Later in her WNBA career, Stiles suffered numerous injuries, including 13 surgeries.

After the Fire folded in 2002, Stiles was selected 14th by the Los Angeles Sparks, but did not play that season, spending rehabilitation time for her injuries.

In 2004, Stiles signed with the Lubbock Hawks (in Lubbock, Texas) of the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL). After a season, Stiles took on competitive cycling.

In 2006, Stiles played briefly for the Canberra Capitals of the Women's National Basketball League in Australia before retiring due to injury.

After retiring from playing professional basketball, Stiles founded J. Stiles Total Training in 2007.

Coaching career
In August, 2012, she accepted a women's basketball assistant coach position with Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. On April 18, 2013, it was announced that Stiles would be returning to her alma mater as assistant coach for the Lady Bears women's basketball team. On April 24, 2019, it was announced that Stiles was hired as an assistant coach for the University of Oklahoma's women's basketball team. Stiles was hired at Tulsa in late April 2021 joining new Golden Hurricane head coach Angie Nelp's inaugural staff. It was reported on June 21, 2021 that Stiles stepped down from the Tulsa staff.

Awards and honors
Stiles was the 2001 winner of the Wade Trophy, Honda Sports Award for basketball, and the overall Honda-Broderick Cup winner for all sports.

She was one of 11 honorees inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in the Class of 2007. She was also inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame (Class of 2016) on June 11, 2016.

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HD 209458

HD 209458 is a star with an orbiting exoplanet in the constellation Pegasus. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 7.65 and an absolute magnitude of 4.28. Because it is located at a distance of 157 ly from the Sun as measured via parallax, it is not visible to the unaided eye. With good binoculars or a small telescope it should be easily detectable. The system is drifting closer with a heliocentric radial velocity of −14.8 km/s.

The spectrum of HD 209458 presents as a late F- or early G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of F9 V or G0 V, respectively. It is roughly 3.5 billion years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 4.2 km/s. The star displays a moderate amount of magnetic activity in its chromosphere. It has a 15% greater mass than the Sun and a 20% larger radius. The abundance of iron, a measure of the metallicity of the star, is solar. HD 209458 is radiating 1.8 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,071 K.

Because the planet transits the star, the star is dimmed by about 2% every 3.5 days making it an extrinsic variable. The variable star designation for HD 209458 is V376 Pegasi. It is the prototype of the variable class "EP" in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars, defined as stars showing eclipses by their planets.

Planetary system
In 1999, two teams working independently (one team consisted of astronomers at the Geneva Observatory, the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and the Wise Observatory; the second group was the California and Carnegie Planet Search team) discovered an extrasolar planet orbiting the star by using the radial velocity planet search method. Soon after the discovery, separate teams led by David Charbonneau and Gregory W. Henry were able to detect a transit of the planet across the surface of the star making it the first known transiting extrasolar planet. The planet received the designation HD 209458 b.

The planet is now under even more public scrutiny with the announcement that its atmosphere contains water vapor. Astronomers had made careful photometric measurements of several stars known to be orbited by planets, in the hope that they might observe a dip in brightness caused by the transit of the planet across the star's face. This would require the planet's orbit to be inclined such that it would pass between the Earth and the star, and previously no transits had been detected.

Travis Barman at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona analyzed the emission spectrum of this planet in 2007, and believes that its atmosphere contains water vapor, although previous research in 2007 suggests that the atmosphere is composed mostly of silicate clouds. A spectrum taken in 2020 detected either sodium or titanium oxide in the planet's atmosphere. A later study in 2021 did not find any molecular absorption features in the planetary atmosphere at all.

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Rohilkhand

Rohilkhand (today Bareilly, Moradabad, Badaun and Rampur) is a region in the northwestern part of Uttar Pradesh, India, that is centered on the Bareilly and Moradabad divisions. It is part of the upper Ganges Plain, and is named after the Rohilla tribe of Pathans. The region was called Madhyadesh and Panchala in the Sanskrit epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. During the colonial era in India, the region was governed by the Royal House of Rampur.

Etymology
Rohilkhand means "the land of the Rohilla". The term Rohilla first became common in the 17th century, with Rohilla used to refer to the people coming from the land of Roh, which was originally a geographical term that corresponded with the territory from Swat and Bajaur in the north to Sibi in the south, and from Hasan Abdal (Attock) in the east to Kabul and Kandahar in the west. A majority of the Rohillas migrated from Pashtunistan to North India between the 17th and 18th centuries.

Geography
Rohilkhand lies on the upper Ganges alluvial plain and has an area of about 25000 km2 (in and around the Bareilly and Moradabad divisions).

The Ganges Doab to the south and west, Kumaon to the north, Nepal to the east, and the Awadh region to the southeast mark its borders.

History
The Rohilla Afghan leader Daud Khan led the settlement in the Katehar region in northern India under orders of the Mogul emperor Aurangzeb (ruled 1658–1707) to suppress the Katheria Rajput uprisings. Rajput's first king was Raja Ram Singh Katheria. These katheriya Rajputs contained 18 clans of Rajput Vansh, including the Chauhan, Rathore, Gehlot, Sisodia, Nikumbh, and Pundir. Originally, some 20,000 soldiers from various Pashtun tribes (Yusafzai, Ghori, Osmani, Ghilzai, Barech, Marwat, Tareen, Kakar, Naghar, Afridi and Khattak) were hired as soldiers by the Mughals. Aurangzeb was impressed with their performance and an additional force of 25,000 Pashtuns was recruited from modern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Afghanistan and were given respected positions in the Mogul Army. Most Pashtuns settled in the Katehar region and brought their families from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Afghanistan. During Nadir Shah's invasion of northern India in 1739, led by the general Ahmed Shah Abdali, a new wave of Pashtuns increased the population to over 1,000,000. Due to the large settlement of Rohilla Afghans, the Katehar region became known as Rohilkhand. Bareilly was made the capital of the Rohilkhand state and it became Pashtun majority city with Gali Nawaban as the main royal street. Other important cities were Moradabad, Rampur, Shahjahanpur, and Badaun.

In 1752, the Maratha were asked by Safdarjung, the Nawab of Oudh, to help him defeat Pashtun Rohilla. The Maratha forces and Awadh forces besieged the Rohillas, who had sought refuge in Kumaon, but had to retreat when Ahmad Shah Abdali invaded India.

After the Third Battle of Panipat, thousands of Pashtun and Baloch soldiers settled in northern India. These diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic groups merged over time to form the Urdu-speaking Muslims of South Asia.

During the Capture of Delhi (1771), Marathas defeated Rohilla chieftain Zabita Khan. After taking control of Delhi, the Marathas sent a large army in 1772 to punish Afghan Rohillas for their involvement in Panipat. They desecrated the grave of Rohilla chieftan Najib ad-Dawla and captured Najibabad. With the fleeing of the Rohillas, the rest of the country was burnt, with the exception of the city of Amroha, which was defended by some thousands of Amrohi Sayyid tribes. The Rohillas who could offer no resistance fled to the Terai region. Though the Marathas left Rohilkhand hastily due to the arrival of the monsoon, which was difficult for their armies, their threat forced the Rohillas to seek an alliance with the Nawabs of Awadh.

In the presence of Robert Barker, the commander of the British East India company troops at Awadh, a treaty was signed between Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula and Hafiz Rahmat Khan on 15th June 1772, which ensured the safety of Rohilkhand by Awadh and its British allies from the Marathas in exchange for Rs 40 lakh. The families of the Rohilla chiefs imprisoned by the Marathas were also released, through the intervention of the Nawab.

In 1773, the Marathas once again crossed the Ganges at Ramghat in Badaun, and advanced towards Rohilkhand. The Nawab of Awadh with his British allies came to the aid of the Rohillas and the Marathas were forced to retreat. The Nawab of Awadh now demanded the payment that had been promised for his help. But Hafiz Rahmat Khan refused by sending letters to the Nawab and the British, pleading his inability to pay due to internal strife and discontent among his dependent chiefs.

This led to the First Rohilla War. Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula’s troops, supported by British troops, invaded Rohilkhand. Hafiz Rahmat Khan was killed in the ensuing Battle of Miranpur Katra in 1774

Rohilkhand fell to Awadh, and was plundered and occupied. The majority of the Rohillas left. They fled across the Ganges in numbers, to start a guerrilla war; or emigrated. A Rohilla state under British protection was set up in Rampur. Faizullah Khan managed to become the nawab of the newly created Rampur State.

The whole of Rohilkhand (including Pilibhit and Shahjanpur) was surrendered by Saadat Ali Khan II to the East India Company by the treaty of 10 November 1801.

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Talk:Transcendentalism/Archive

Transcendentalism was revived in California, USA on 9-11-2001 by Kurt Kawohl.

- http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Culture/Showcase/Stories2/kawohl1_transcendentalism1_novel.html

http://www.transcendentalism.us/

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Kurt Kawohl, author of Transcendentalism - A New Revelation receives letter of endorsement from President George W. Bush.

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Kurt Kawohl, author of Transcendentalism - A New Revelation sent a letter to the Office of Homeland Security outlining his plan as to how Transcendentalism, which stands for religious rationality can aid in quelling terrorism.

Kurt stated:

In this 21st Century the Age of Technology, we are still plagued by religious beliefs that are contributing causes toward terrorism, killings and wars between nations. Transcendentalism was revived on 9-11-01 and will make tedious efforts to bring religious rationality into play.

In New England in the 19th-century Transcendentalists were known as writers and philosophers who adhered to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of man, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths. The term Transcendentalism was derived from the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) who considered it a philosophy which holds that reasoning is the key to understanding reality and called "all knowledge transcendental which is concerned not with objects but with our mode of knowing objects?. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s interpretation of Transcendentalism was that it was a transcendental character or quality, a philosophy which stressed intuition and spirituality.

The Wikipedia Encyclopedia describes Transcendentalism as a conglomeration of similar, but diverse ideas about literature, religion, culture and philosophy. Transcendentalism itself is difficult to define concisely, due to the diverse expressions of those involved in the movement. However, the main tenet of transcendentalists is the desire to go beyond (transcend) the prevailing literature and philosophies of the masses in order to improve society. One of the reasons that transcendentalism spans so many disciplines is due to this strength of this desire amongst those involved.

Your endorsement of Transcendentalism in this 21st Century will greatly aid in bringing religious rationality to our country. The USA has always led the world with its innovations. We can only hope that this rationality will quickly spread to other nations.

Sincerely, Reverend Kurt Kawohl

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The following letter, signed by President Bush, was received by Kurt Kawohl.

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The White House, Washington

September 3, 2003

Reverend Kurt Kawohl 2111 Yacht Wanderer Newport Beach, California 92660-6727

Dear Reverend Kawohl:

Thank you for your letter about issues affecting our national security and the people who protect our Nation. I appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.

Today, the United States faces grave new dangers. The threats to our Nation have changed, and we are now engaged in a war that is unlike any other in our history. Our country is leading a global coalition of more than 90 nations to confront terrorism, and we are making progress through diplomacy, the disruption of terrorist finances, and where necessary, military action. As we work to defend freedom, secure our homeland, and extend peace and opportunity to people around the world, it is critical that our military remain strong, capable, and modern.

My highest priority is protecting the American people, and the current threats to our country demand that this year?s budget lay the foundation for a sustained, long-term investment in our Nation?s security. Currently, there are about 300,000 American troops deployed and forward-stationed around the world, and it is vital that they receive the best training, equipment, and resources. This year?s budget also follows through on our commitments to improve the quality of life for our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and their families through increased pay and improved housing.

Our military is also changing to meet new challenges, and we must facilitate this transformation. Over the past year, we have revamped our military strategy, aligning the structure of our forces and the priorities of our budget accordingly. By funding new technologies, developing innovative war-fighting concepts, and investing in improved intelligence and analysis capabilities, we are creating the military of the future. As Commander in Chief, I am proud of the men, women, and families who devote their lives to our Armed Forces. These immensely brave Americans help protect the ideals that make our Nation strong, and they deserve our thanks and full support. We will continue to provide the defense capabilities that enable our country to protect our citizens and contribute to a world of peace and stability for all.

Thank you for writing me about this important issue. Best wishes.

Sincerely, George W. Bush

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 * Okay, so the president's staff answer all his mail with canned speeches about whatever they want to tell us this month. This has nothing to do with transcendentalism, and very little to do with George W. Bush. Vicki Rosenzweig 23:55, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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Vicki Rosenzweig The letter was sent to the Office of Homeland Security requesting endorsement of Transcendentalism in order to help quell terrorism. (quote: Your endorsement of Transcendentalism in this 21st Century will greatly aid in bringing religious rationality to our country. The USA has always led the world with its innovations. We can only hope that this rationality will quickly spread to other nations.)

I assume that this is as close to an endorsement as anyone can expect.

Please note that Wikipedia was also mentioned in my letter ...hopefully with efficacious results...this will also be included in several press releases. User:Kkawohl

 * An actual endorsement would have mentioned Transcendentalism, but you're not likely to get that from Bush, whose specific Christian beliefs have been well-publicized. What you got was "Thank you for writing, here's my position on this issue, thanks again for writing" with no actual mention of what you said in your letter. Vicki Rosenzweig

Kkawohl, no self promotion please. Mintguy 20:56, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Reverting: talk pages are for discussion of articles, not for nonencyclopedic material that duplicates what's found on other web sites. Vicki Rosenzweig 22:10, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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Talk:George M. McCune

PLAGIARISM
Whole passages of this article are word for word rip off, of the cited sources.

Early Death
How/why did he die so early????? Someone please add the answer to the article. --Shultz 07:56, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

title: Talk:George M. McCune


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Category:Fictional serial killers

 * For articles about characters who have murdered multiple people in a single incident, see Category:Fictional mass murderers.

title: Category:Fictional serial killers