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User:Pedant/Terry Teene

Terry Teene is one of many aliasis of a semi-famous actor/singer-songwriter/performer named TERRY BLAINE KNUTSON. This man, Terry Knutson, is actually my father and many things he has done in his lifetime are actually true. He was the proprieter of Ronald McDonald, he wrote and sung "Curse of the Hurse" and acted in many movies/television shows. If you have any doubts or want to verify any information about "Terry Teene", "Clownzo", "Tobo the Clown" or "Terry B. Knutson" You can email me at suicideserialkiller@yahoo.com. or check out this website --> http://www.rockabillyhall.com/TerryTeene.html Thank you. Sincerely, His Own Son- Kelly B. Walker-Knutson

P.S. as for the below quote "(who has never even tasted beer, he's so moral)" this is very true. My father never drank even a sip of beer, nor coffee, and rides his bike to church every sunday.

Not notable. Even tho' according to the article, "Terry Teene wrote and performed the song Pussy Galore for the James Bond thriller Octopussy...and literally hundreds of other songs...Though Terry Teene has recorded more songs than Madonna...", neither IMDB nor allmusic.com know anyone named "terry teene", "terry knutsen", "terence knutsen", or "terry knutson". allmusic credits other artists for the song "Pussy Galore meets Bond". One google hit for "ToBo the clown"--a username in a public message forum. Of the 21 displayed hits for Clownzo (most are for "Interdimensional Clownz, by T. L. Winslow. Explore the parallel dimension of Clownzo..."--unrelated) the only ones about this guy are VfD (#1 hit--his name was mentioned in the Glenn Nolastname discussion), and some 1992 articles about his being 'convicted on six counts related to his messy house and property'. ""Curse of the Hearse" only gets 114 hits, #1 of which is on a website titled "SCBD The Chart of the Flops", which makes me think it's not very notable. This article seems to border on vandalfiction (or whatever the common term is), altho', in fairness, I have to mention that the contributor has also added a great deal of interesting info that appears to be accurate in some previously under-covered areas such as boomerangs and people associated with the Grateful Dead. Regardless, one little-heard of single, and some minor convictions, I don't think add up to notablity. Niteowlneils 02:35, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC) "Terry Teene wrote and performed the song Pussy Galore

People have tried to substantiate the articles? How? Using google? The very nature of these folk is that they are somewhat obscure...

Want to substantiate who was the first live and first tv, ronald mcdonald?

not on the net, and not from mcdonalds, they are very secretive about it, as they have been involved in messy lawsuits about it... including one with george Voorhees that even he can't discuss, but which resultedin an injuntion preventing him from using the character or likeness. It's public record though,someone able enough to go to the court housecould buy a copy for 6 dollars once they knew the titleof the case... I don't so I didn't mention it,,,

but you can contact willard scott, he will tell you he was the first television ronald mcdonald this can be verified from an archived copy of the mcdonalds website, which I posted alink to, which Icould find if you hadn't deletedit.

and from the 3 ads themselves, which I will happily post if I can get permission. or can email to you if you are interested.

You can note that on the first ad, A child states,"you really are ronald mcdonald!"

Ronald is already a known character before the ad! the first ad!

How? digging further, you find a picture of "Ronald Mcdonald (George Voorhees)entertains his fans at the Grand Opening of a localMcDonald's restaurant"

Why isn't this on mcdonald's site? they have a corporate interest in ronald, and want a younger clown with a more clean cut appearance, the original 2 versions ronald were a little bit 'old' and a little bit 'icky' looking by TV advertising standards of today.

I've seen the costume, saw the newspaper clipping, this is not original research it is a compilation, the willard scott material, at one time, was on the net but apparently you can barely even say McDonald's without cease and desist orders from on high, no matter where you are hosted, so maybe it's not there.

but really? is the wikipedia supposed to be a repository of information of encyclopedic nature? or only things that anyone can find on the web? if the latter is the case, why a wiki at all?

and I have seen short-lived websites with the geo.voorhees stuff, but I personally have seen the costume and interviewed both terry teene(who has never even tasted beer, he's so moral) and george, additionally there were hundreds of unavailable witnesses.

if it has to be verifiable on the net, then delete Art Carbecause you won't find Guitcycle, Eelvisa, or Nevada Car on the net... you won't get a quote from the owner of any of these cars...

What is the World Record longest time in the Fast Catch event in boomeranging? Not on the net,it would take good research just to find that one at all...unless you had a dozen eyewitnesses who all would eagerly tell you the drama a man with two throwing sticks can create in one minute,eight point nine seconds, in an event that is supposed to be over in well under 20 seconds. Find that on google.And yet that record has held and will likely hold a long time. 12 years so far.

If its a matter of it being false, well, actually it's true, everything I posted, except one glaring error (goldfinger was the movie, not octopussy, the one Terry Teene wrote pussy galore for (wasn't in the movie, but it's on vinyl)(personally, I'd be quite happy not to see that on wikipedia, I was just transcribing stuff wholesale from my notes. Actually I'd be happy if I never see that word again unless there are mammals of the species felis involved)

if it needs to wait until it comes out in my book it will be too late, I won't live that long, and I don't think too many people are left that can tell some of these stories ... should they be lost to history?

 * The burden of substantiation is on people who contribute material. Many contributors, including myself, don't always substantiate things as well as we should, but when challenged it is the contributor's job to answer the challenge by supplying verifiable information. When an article gives the impression of being fishy, some VfD participants will perform some quick checks, including Googling, as a form of "due diligence" to make sure we don't delete material that is easily verifiable. If the consensus of the discussants, based on our own knowledge and a little rough-and-ready due-diligence research, is that it still looks wrong, out it goes—unless someone—the contributor or someone else—presents information that changes our mind. If you look at VfD discussions, you will see that changes in opinion as the discussion progresses are very common. The reason for the long discussion is to give time for anyone interested to bring evidence to light.
 * If you wish to prevent the article from being deleted, what you must do is to create a rough consensus among the participants in this discussion. It's very unlikely that you can do this by attacking judgements that have already been made based on the information at hand. The most likely way to change peoples' minds to introduce new, verifiable information.
 * There's nothing wrong with deleting articles that are accurate but insufficiently. The articles can always be recreated when someone takes the trouble to substantiate them. There's no rush at all on putting things into Wikipedia; we're not trying to scoop anybody.
 * And we are not a channel for first publication of anything. If you have wonderful material that exists only as oral history, it is not Wikipedia's job to preserve it. You must find some other way of preserving it. Then, in a few years, when we can read books about it, see that people are talking about it on Usenet, etc. if someone then writes an article about it, there will be a basis for accepting it. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 14:38, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Canonical (company)

Canonical Ltd. is a privately held computer software company based in London, England. It was founded and funded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects. Canonical employs staff in more than 70 countries and maintains offices in London, Austin, Boston, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo and the Isle of Man.

Projects
Canonical Ltd. has created and continues to back several projects. Principally these are free and open-source software (FOSS) or tools designed to improve collaboration between free software developers and contributors. Some projects require a Contributor License Agreement to be signed.

Open-source software

 * Ubuntu, a Debian-based Linux distribution with GNOME (formerly with Unity) desktop
 * Ubuntu Core, tiny, transactional version of Ubuntu
 * GNU Bazaar, a decentralized revision control system
 * Storm, an object-relational mapper for Python, part of the Launchpad code base
 * Juju, a service orchestration management tool
 * MAAS, a bare-metal server provisioning tool
 * cloud-init, the de facto standard for the initial setup of virtual machines in the cloud
 * U1DB is a cross-platform, cross-device, syncable database application programming interface (API). It allows applications to store JSON documents and synchronize them between machines and devices.
 * Upstart, a discontinued event-based replacement for the init daemon
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 * Blueprints, a tool for planning features of software,
 * Code, hosting of Bazaar branches,
 * Answers, support tracker,
 * Rosetta, an online language translation tool to help localisation of software (cf. the Rosetta Stone),
 * Malone (as in "Bugsy Malone"), a collaborative bug-tracker that allows linking to other bug-trackers,
 * Soyuz, a tool for creating custom-distributions, such as Kubuntu and Xubuntu.

Other projects and services

 * Landscape, a proprietary web service for centralized management of Ubuntu Linux systems
 * Ubuntu One, a discontinued service since 2014 for file synchronization and other uses
 * Ubuntu Advantage, a commercial support service that covers Ubuntu and other Canonical products
 * Multipass, launched in 2019, provides a command line interface to launch and manage virtual machine instances of Linux in Windows, macOS and Linux.

Joint ventures

 * Windows Subsystem for Linux, with Microsoft

Business plans
In 2007, Canonical launched an International online shop selling support services and Ubuntu-branded goods; later in 2008 it expanded that with a United States-specific shop designed to reduce shipment times. At the same time, the word Ubuntu was trademarked in connection with clothing and accessories.

In a Guardian interview in May 2008, Shuttleworth said that Canonical's business model was service provision and that Canonical was not yet close to profitability. Canonical stated that it would wait three to five years to become profitable. Shuttleworth regarded Canonical as positioning itself as demand for services related to free software rose. This strategy has been compared to Red Hat's business strategies in the 1990s. In an early-2009 New York Times article, Shuttleworth said that Canonical's revenue was "creeping" towards US$30 million, the company's break-even point.

Canonical achieved a small operating profit of $281,000 in 2009, but until 2017 struggled to maintain financial solvency and took a major financial hit from the development of Unity and Ubuntu Touch, leading to an operating loss of $21.6 million for the fiscal year 2013. The company reported an operating profit of $2 million in 2017 after shutting down the Unity development team and laying off nearly 200 employees. The company now plans to focus on its server and professional support solutions, which have proved to be most profitable. Through this, Canonical plans to maintain solvency and achieve long-term profitability. In 2022, Ubuntu made a profit of £0.52m on revenues of £14.31m.

Canonical reported a revenue of $175M in 2021.

Subsidiaries

 * Canonical Group Ltd is located in London.
 * Canonical USA Inc. is located in Boston, Massachusetts and Austin, Texas.
 * Canonical China Ltd is located in Shanghai and Beijing.
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 * Canonical Limited is located in Isle of Man and Tokyo (Japan).
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Canonical has more than 1200 employees. The head office is in London on the 5th Floor of the Blue Fin Building, Southwark Street, having previously moved from the 27th floor of Millbank Tower. In the summer of 2006, Canonical opened an office in Montreal to house its global support and services operation. Taipei 101 is also home to a Canonical office. There was formerly an OEM team in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States.

Current
Notable current employees of Canonical include:
 * Mark Shuttleworth, CEO and founder of the Ubuntu project, former Debian maintainer of Apache and founder of Thawte Consulting (2004–), CEO until March 2010 and from July 2017 to present
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 * Stuart Langridge (2009–2013)
 * Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community leader (2006–2014)
 * Björn Michaelsen, founding member and director at The Document Foundation, LibreOffice contributor (2011–2017)

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Link
Links: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=+site%3Afci.be+%22havanese%22 Gangleri 02:52, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)

what does a show-dog havanese look like?
the caption of the photo says it shows the dog in a "puppy cut" which is preferred by many non-show-dog owners. what other appearance would the dog have? Thomas144 13:59, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Show Havanese are shown with an unclipped coat. The only alterations that are permitted are trimming of the paw hair and hair in the corner of the eyes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.205.202.165 (talk) 04:54, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Should we merge the article on the "Havana silk dog" into this one?
The article on the Havana silk dog seems to be dealing with essentially the same breed, and is not nearly as complete. Should we merge anything new out of that section into this one, and then redirect it here? EastTN (talk) 16:10, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

No. The Havana Silk Dog is a seperate breed. It would be like merging the American Cocker Spaniel and the English Cocker Spaniel. Let's just leave them alone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bespeckled one (talk • contribs) 21:55, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Another No. Although I am not really happy about the idea of creating "new" ("rare") breeds out of established breeds since it usually is accomplished by further narrowing an already narrow gene pool, that has nothing to do with whether or not the new breed is something separate from the original. The Havana Silk Dog does not appear to be a breed created for marketing purposes by a single kennel, but rather has a breed club "incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a not-for-profit organization" and claims at least 300 members (this from their website.) Leave them as separate articles. --Hafwyn (talk) 02:55, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

As a Havanese owner and enthusiast, I say "no," also, and everything I know about the subject suggests that the so-called Havanese Silk Dog is a breed created for marketing purposes. Definitely do not merge--may add credibility to a movement that is clearly condemned by the Havanese Club of America (See http://www.havanese.org/Letter_to_AKC_Judges.doc). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.124.33.99 (talk) 19:27, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely not. There is no need for a Havana Silk Dog page except maybe a link directly from it to the Havanese page. Both are referring to the same dog-An AKC registered HavaneseAeky1 (talk) 17:08, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

It sounds like the HSD is a marketing breed, then, and its page should be trimmed down or removed, replaced by a mention on Havanese? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dlo66 (talk • contribs) 00:23, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Definite "NO"! The Havana Silk Dog is a breed that is being refined by selecting away from the health problems that plague the Havanese due to a small gene pool. Havana Silk Dogs were the precursors of the Havanese and as such, a separate breed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.10.135.26 (talk) 21:52, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Dogs accepted into the Havana Silk Dog Association of America are also eligle to be registered with the AKC as Havanese. A lot of people are offended by the idea of excluding dogs from a registry but that's the way it is. Until the parent club for Havanese petitions the AKC to split the breed any dogs registered with the AKC as Havanese are indeed Havanese even if they are dual registered. It is acceptable to start a registry with any dogs anyone chooses. The HSDAA has now over 500 dogs registered, the last time I checked, and had their first National Specialty in an oceanfront hotel ballroom with close to 90 dogs entered who all looked like the same breed. All dogs accepted for breeding submit DNA, have hands on evaluation including to be shown that they are free from Chondrodysplasia, and must PASS REQUIRED health tests. Of course they were selected from the same gene pool as Havanese but have specific things that they are bred away from that are detrimental to the breed. Since they are still AKC Havanese they should still be included in any discussion about Havanese. signed HSDAA enthusiast  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.164.193.129 (talk) 03:07, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Update They're effectively merged now, because I blanked Havana silk dog and redirected it here. The article was nothing but copyvio, and older revisions of it were all like two or three words long.  So for the moment, it makes more sense to redirect it here and maybe include a couple sentences in here explaining the difference between the two.  If someone gets enough material to write a real article about "Havana silk dog," then they can reinstate that article....but only if there's enough to write a real article.  If someone plagiarizes there again I will kick their butt. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 02:01, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Havanese- Scratching, itchy, dandruff
Hi, Our Havanese seems over the last few months been scratching alot. Some say its dandruff, some say its dry skin. Is there something that we can give our dog to reduce this scratching. She is bathed and combed on a regular basis but she still scratches alot. She must be very uncomfortable. She is three years old and this only started in the last white.

Thanks for the help.

Marilyn: marilyn.fregeau@sympatico.ca —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.226.189.136 (talk) 19:47, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Scratching has many different causes. Could be parasites, scabies or possible allergies too. The best would be to disclose those, by taking the dog to a veterinarian. On the other hand bathing the dog to often may also cause this sometimes. I would wash the dog now with only clean water and than would stop bathing her for at least 4 weeks, and see what happens. Dogs don’t need bath more often than once a month, unless they get very dirty for some reason. And change the shampoo you are using now. Find a special mild dog shampoo (antiallergic, if possible).

Warrington (talk) 21:48, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Grizzly Bear?
There's no way these things can kill grizzly bears, is there? Someone needs to edit this article... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.108.136.80 (talk) 01:51, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

potty Training
This dog is the best ever - soooo smart, I trained mine to ring the bell to go out when he has to go potty. Makes life sooo easy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.116.232.141 (talk) 22:43, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Im looking into gettinga Havanese. Are they easy to house break or not? please help!

-Tori —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.99.2.143 (talk) 02:22, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

New Yorker excerpt
This is to the addition to the article page about, it seems, typical Havanese character trait called "run-like-hell". I post the entire excerpt here in case a few people can not access The New Yorker.

It is by Adam Gopnik, "Dog Story, How did the dog become our master?" of Aug 8, 2011. He got a Havanese for his daughter. He writes: (pg 47) "But she had another side, too. At the end of a long walk, or a prance around the block, she would come in with her usual happy hop, and then, let off her leash, she would growl and hiss and make Ewok-like noises that we never otherwise heard from her; it was a little scary at first, like the moment in "Gremlins" when the cute thing become a wild, toothy one. Then (pg 48) she would race madly from one end of the hall to the other, bang her head, and turn around and race back, still spitting and snorting and mumbling guttural consonants to herself, like a mad German monarch. Sometimes she would climax this rampage by pulling up hard and shoiwng her canines and directing two sharp angry barks at Olivia, her owner, daring her to do something about it. Then, just as abruptly, Butterscotch would stop, sink to the floor, and once again become a sweet smiling companion, trotting loyally behind whoever got up first. The wolf was out; and then was tucked away in a heart-drawer of prudence. This behavior, Olivia assured us, is a Havanese breed trait, called "run-like-hell", though "Call of the Wild" might be a better name. (Olivia spent hours on the Havanese forum, a worldwide chat board composed mostly of older women who call themselves the small dogs' "mommies" and share a tone of slightly addled coziness, which Olivia expertly imitated....)"WHEELER (talk) 16:49, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Official Havanese Song?
Can I post a song I made up for Havanese? It is sung to the music of "The Siamese Cat Song" from "Lady and the Tramp". The lyrics are ... I am Havanese if you please I am Havanese if you don't please I am a former resident of Cuba I was smuggled over in a Tuba ... that's all I got right now.

67.170.200.114 (talk) 04:38, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Temperament
There seems to be a dissonance between the intro, that states "Havanese will not thrive in an environment where they are isolated for several hours each day", and the Temperament section that pretty much states the opposite: "[...] does not mind spending time away from their owners, as they are very self entertaining dogs. The Havanese is an ideal dog to have in a low maintenance household. [...] They do not mind being kept outside as they are fine with playing with their toys". Sebbarre (talk) 22:32, 17 November 2012 (UTC)My Havanses plays by himself, pulls out his toys and he throws them around, found this out when i left to work and looked inthe living room window to see him go for his toys, also the toys would be all over the house when i come home from work, so I also don't agree with them not like being isolated, but then I built a window seat for him and loves his watching people, cars, birds go by. but then he does have free run of the house.

Merge, round 2
It was suggested before, and the consensus seemed to be to redirect it here, but at some poibnt the article was recreated. I propose that Havana silk dog be merged or redirected here. Despite claims that it is a separate breed of dog from the Havanese, it is referred to here, here, here, here, here, and here as an alternate name for the Havanese. -- T K K  bark !  15:08, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree, merge the two articles, with a redirect from Havana silk dog. WP has an ingenious idea called "sections" which allows different aspects of the same subject to be described in a single article. Narky Blert (talk) 21:21, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

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Potential Improvements
Hello fellow Wikipedians, I will be working on this article for the next couple of weeks for my Technical and Professional Editing class at Texas A&M University. I hope that my potential contributions, along with your welcomed suggestions for improvement, will help this article get one step closer to being classified as an A-class article. Here are some of my ideas: If anyone has any other ideas or objections - please feel free to disclose! I am open to all feedback and more than willing to work together to improve this article. Ands1234 (talk) 22:20, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I believe the lead contains some great information in some areas, but, in others, provides too much detail that could be found in later sections. If it was revised to summarize only the most important parts of the article, it would give readers a better overview of the article's content.
 * The "Description" sections contains some sentences that reflect opinions (for example, the first sentence describes the breed as sturdy but not overly delicate). With a more neutral point of view, the depth of the detail provided would really stand out.
 * The same improvements could be applied to other sections, like the "Coat" section. These sections should be strictly informative to give readers an unbiased overview of the breed. A neutral description of the various types of Havanese coats would give this section a major boost.
 * The "Temperament" sections needs additional citations. If anyone knows of any good articles to reference for this section, please share!

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Sterno

Sterno is a brand of jellied, denatured alcohol sold in and meant to be burned directly in its can. Popular both in commercial food service and home entertainment, its primary uses are as a fuel for heating chafing dishes in buffets and serving fondue. Other uses are for portable stoves and as an emergency heat source. It is also used with toy and model steam and other external combustion engines.

The flame is typically lit with a match or lighter and extinguished by placing the lid over the can to starve it of air, though any noncombustible cover will do.

History
The Sterno brand and trademark is owned by Sterno Products, a portfolio company of Westar Capital LLC, based in Corona, California. The brand was purchased from Blyth, Inc. in late 2012. Blyth had acquired the business from Colgate-Palmolive in 1997.

The name comes from that of the original manufacturer, S. Sternau & Co. of Brooklyn, New York, a maker of chafing dishes, coffee percolators and similar appliances since 1893. It had previously applied the name to its "Sterno-Inferno" alcohol burner. In 1918, it promoted its Sterno Stove as being a perfect gift for a soldier going overseas. In his book With the Old Breed, E. B. Sledge describes its use on the battlefields of the Pacific Theatre in 1944 and 1945.

Discovered around 1900 as a byproduct of the nitrocellulose manufacturing process, Sterno is made from ethanol denatured by adding methanol, water, and an amphoteric oxide gelling agent, plus, in recent decades, a safety dye that gives it a characteristic pink color. The methanol is added to denature the product, which is intended to make it too toxic for consumption. Designed to be odorless, a 7 oz can will burn for up to two hours.

Abuse
Sterno contains methyl alcohol which makes it poisonous. In spite of this there are many instances of people drinking Sterno to become intoxicated as a form of surrogate alcohol.

Moreover, the methanol can cause permanent blindness by destruction of the optic nerves. Bluesman Tommy Johnson alludes to the practice in his song "Canned Heat Blues" recorded in 1928. (The blues band Canned Heat derived their name from the song.)

The practice is said to have become popular during Prohibition and during the Great Depression in hobo camps, or "jungles", when the Sterno would be squeezed through cheesecloth or a sock and the resulting liquid mixed with fruit juice to make "jungle juice", "sock wine", or "squeeze".

The 1956 American documentary On the Bowery includes footage of three homeless men straining Sterno cooking fuel to make "squeeze" and then drinking the alcohol.

In an article for the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1961, Capt. James H. Shinaberger, MC, writes about a study of three people who had suffered methanol poisoning as a result of drinking Sterno. One of the patients "had been drinking Sterno for about a week and had been in the city prison for 48 hours when severe abdominal pain and vomiting occurred".

In December 1963, a rash of 31 deaths in Philadelphia's homeless population was traced to a local store that knowingly sold Sterno to people for them to consume and get drunk.

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Wally Amos

Wallace "Wally" Amos, Jr. (born July 1, 1936) is an American television personality, entrepreneur, and author from Tallahassee, Florida. He is the founder of the Famous Amos chocolate-chip cookie, the Cookie Kahuna, and Aunt Della's Cookies gourmet cookie brands, and he was the host of the adult reading program, Learn to Read.

Early life and education
Amos was born to Wallace & Ruby Amos. He was born and raised in Tallahassee, Florida, until he was 12 years old. When his parents divorced, he moved to New York City with his aunt, where he enrolled at the Food Trades Vocational High School. He showed his interest in cooking at a young age. It was from his aunt Della Bryant, who would bake cookies for him, that Amos later developed his chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Shortly before graduation, Amos dropped out of high school to join the United States Air Force. He served at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1954 until 1957. He earned his high school equivalency diploma before being honorably discharged from the military.

Career
Returning to New York City, Amos went to college to become a secretary, and after graduating, took a mailroom clerk job with the William Morris Agency. Eventually, he became the agency's first African American talent agent. He signed Simon & Garfunkel and headed the agency's rock 'n' roll department. Amos attracted clients by sending them chocolate chip cookies along with an invitation to visit him. He represented musicians such as The Temptations, Sam Cooke, and Marvin Gaye. In 1975, a friend suggested to Amos that he set up a store to sell his cookies, and in March of that year, the first Famous Amos cookie store opened in Los Angeles, California. He started the business with the help of a $25,000 loan from Marvin Gaye and Helen Reddy. The company began to expand, and eventually, Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies could be found on supermarket shelves across the United States. He became such a known figure culturally that he appeared as himself in the Taxi episode "Latka's Cookies", in 1981. Thanks in part to the success of his cookie company, he was hired to deliver speeches. He has written 10 books, many of which have a self-help theme, including The Cookie Never Crumbles and The Power in You.

In 1979, Amos' long-time friend and publicist John Rosica introduced him to Literacy Volunteers of America. Amos has advocated literacy and helped thousands of adults learn to read. In 1987, he also hosted a television series designed to teach others how to read, entitled Learn to Read, produced by Kentucky Educational Television and WXYZ-TV.

In 1986, Amos was awarded the Entrepreneurial Excellence Award by President Ronald Reagan at the White House Conference on Small Business.

Due to financial troubles, Amos was forced to sell the Famous Amos Company, and because the name "Famous Amos" was trademarked by his former company, he had to use The Uncle Noname's Cookie Company as his new company's name. A Famous Amos distributor at the time, Lou Avignone, heard Amos on a local radio talk show and, inspired by Amos' story of his early business success with Famous Amos and his spirit, contacted Amos with the idea for starting a new business. In 1994, the two became partners and subsequently launched Uncle Noname Gourmet Muffins. The company focused on fat-free, nutritious muffins at that time. Uncle Noname became Uncle Wally's Muffin Company in 1999. The muffins are sold in more than 3,500 stores nationwide.

In 2014, an article in Fortune magazine lauded "The cookie comeback of 'Famous' Wally Amos" as Amos brought back his handmade cookies under a new name The Cookie Kahuna. These cookies were marketed in a store in Hawaii, where Amos was based. They come in the flavors original chocolate chip, chocolate chip with pecans and butterscotch with macadamia nuts.

In 2019, Amos was called "the King of cookies" by NBC affiliate KSNV-TV in Las Vegas.

In 2020, Content Media Group released a documentary on the life of Wally Amos, The Great Cookie Comeback: reBaking Wally Amos. The film was directed by Jeff MacIntyre.

Personal life
On July 1, 1979, Amos married Christine (Harris) Amos, who later helped him design the early merchandise and packaging for Famous Amos cookies. Wally Amos has 4 children: Michael Amos, Gregory Amos, Sarah Amos, and musician Shawn Amos.

Amos had lived in Hawaii from 1977 until 2018. Amos currently resides in Columbia, South Carolina, where he was working on Aunt Della's Cookies as of 2018.

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Category talk:Urology

From Urology
 * It is "multidisciplinary" in that the discipline includes management of "medical" (ie., non-surgical) problems such as urinary infections and "surgical" problems such as the correction of congenital abnormalities of the urinary / reproductive systems

It is not a subset of surgery, but covers several fields: Am I reading this right?--ZayZayEM 03:00, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Cessnock, New South Wales

Cessnock is a city in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, about 52 km by road west of Newcastle. It is the administrative centre of the City of Cessnock LGA and was named after an 1826 grant of land called Cessnock Estate, which was owned by John Campbell. The local area was once known as "The Coalfields", and it is the gateway city to the vineyards of the Hunter Valley, which includes Pokolbin, Mount View, Lovedale, Broke, Rothbury, and Branxton.

History
The Wonnarua people are the Traditional Owners of the Cessnock area. Many were killed or died as a result of European diseases after colonisation. Others were forced onto neighbouring tribal territory and killed. The city of Cessnock features many Indigenous place names including Congewai, Kurri Kurri, Laguna, Nulkaba and Wollombi.

Lying between Australia's earliest European settlements – Sydney, the Hawkesbury River and Newcastle, pastoralists commenced settlement of the land in the 1820s. Cessnock was named by Scottish settler John Campbell, after his grandfather's baronial Cessnock Castle in Galston, East Ayrshire, to reflect the aristocratic heritage and ambitions for this estate. The township of Cessnock developed from 1850, as a service centre at the junction of the Great North Road from Sydney to the Hunter Valley, with branches to Maitland and Singleton.

The establishment of the South Maitland coalfields generated extensive land settlement between 1903 and 1923. The current pattern of urban development, transport routes and industrial landscape was laid at this time. The surveying of the Greta coal seam by Professor Edgeworth David around 1888 became the impetus for considerable social and economic change in the area with the development of the coal mining industry.

Demographics
According to the 2021 census, there were 63,632 people in the Cessnock LGA.
 * Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 10.2% of the population.
 * 87.9% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 1.9%, New Zealand 1.0% and Philippines 0.5%.
 * 90.1% of people spoke only English at home.
 * The most common responses for religion were No Religion 41.1%, Anglican 19.2% and Catholic 17.7%.

Economy
The decline of mining on the South Maitland Coalfields has been paralleled by growth in the wine industry and better access to other employment centres.

The Hunter Valley wine-growing area near Cessnock is Australia's oldest wine region and one of the most famous, with around 1800 ha under vine. The vineyards of Pokolbin, Mount View and Allandale, with their rich volcanic soils tended by entrepreneurial vignerons, are also the focus of a thriving and growing tourism industry. The extension and eventual completion of the F3 Freeway, created a property and tourism boom during the 1990s.

Cessnock has begun to develop other tourist ventures beyond the wine industry such as championship golf courses, hot air ballooning, sky-diving, and guest house accommodation.

The city council has actively pursued a policy of urban renewal in the city centre since 2001. The local council was one of the first to introduce a recycling program for waste disposal in the state.

Most employment comes from the local port city of Newcastle, the nearby major centres of Maitland and Singleton and in service industries in the local council area, which comprises many small towns, such as Kurri Kurri, Weston, Neath, Abernethy, Kearsley and Pokolbin.

Geography
The town is located in the rich alluvial and volcanic soils of the Hunter Valley. Rich coal seams underlie much of the area. The Brokenback Range (part of the Great Dividing Range) rises to the west of the city. The Hunter River flows down the Hunter Valley approximately 20 km to the north. Cessnock lies within the Hunter Valley Important Bird Area.

Climate
Cessnock has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) with hot summers and cool winters, similar to Penrith, a suburb in Greater Western Sydney to the south. Summers may be dry due to their inland location, but humid days are not uncommon. Winters are usually dry with cold nights, which may be frosty.

Education

 * Primary schools
 * St Philip's Christian College
 * Cessnock Public School
 * Nulkaba Public School
 * Cessnock East Public School
 * Bellbird Public School
 * Cessnock West Public School
 * Kearsley Public School
 * St Patricks Primary School

 * High schools
 * Cessnock High School
 * Mount View High School
 * St Phillips Christian College

 * Tertiary facilities
 * Hunter Institute of TAFE Cessnock Campus

Media
Cessnock is serviced by a number of regional newspapers, radio stations and television stations.

Print

 * The Cessnock Advertiser; an adjunct to the Mercury and is published every Wednesday. With a circulation of approximately 17,000
 * Maitland Mercury
 * Newcastle Herald

Radio
Radio stations include:

AM stations

 * 2HD (commercial)
 * ABC Newcastle
 * 2HRN (off band commercial)
 * Sky Sports Radio (as part of statewide network)

FM stations

 * KOFM 102.9 FM (commercial)
 * Hit106.9 Newcastle 106.9 FM (commercial)
 * New FM 105.3 FM (commercial)
 * 2NUR 103.7 FM (community)
 * 2CHR (Central Hunter Radio) 96.5 FM – (community)
 * Rhema FM Newcastle 99.7FM (Christian)

Digital Media
Cessnock was featured in national tech news in 2020 with the release of a video game called Cessnock.Life, which is a fictional simulation game based in Cessnock.

Performance Arts Culture Cessnock (PACC)
The PACC is a Local Government owned theatre that holds concerts, plays and community events. Originally opened in 2008 and known as the Cessnock Performing Arts Centre it frequently has acts shows such as comedians, tribute bands and musicals, as well as other events such as drama lessons.

Sport
The city has many sporting facilities. The city competes in several regional sporting competitions, particularly the Cessnock Goannas competing in Newcastle-based rugby league competition. Some very successful sporting players can trace their roots to the local district, including Australian Rugby League representative players and brothers Andrew and Matthew Johns. World-renowned golfer and TV commentator Jack Newton is also from Cessnock. His annual Sub-Juniors Golf Tournament has unearthed some talented young golfers and is held on the local championship courses of Pokolbin. Cessnock was the base camp for the Japan national football team during the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.

Transport
For a century Cessnock was served by the South Maitland Railway network, originally constructed for the coal industry, but which at one time had considerable passenger services terminating at Cessnock railway station, including a direct train to Sydney known as the Cessnock Flyer.

The Sydney–Newcastle Freeway's Cessnock exit at Freemans Waterhole provides one of the main road connections from Sydney to Cessnock via The Gap, a pass through the Watagan Mountains range just north of Mount Heaton.

Until the Hunter Expressway opened in 2014, linking the New England Highway at Branxton and the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway at West Wallsend, through traffic passed through Cessnock.

The local airport is placed just to the north of the city, at the entrance to the Vineyard District. It has a small public passenger terminal and also serves as the base for aviation training organisations such as Avondale College's school of Aviation and Hunter Valley Aviation. The airport is not served by RPT flights. Access by air to the region is by Newcastle Airport at Williamtown, 53 km away.

The local bus service is run by Rover Coaches which provide services to Maitland, Newcastle and Morisset and school bus services.

Notable people

 * Douglas N. Daft, businessman; CEO of Coca-Cola (2000–2004), and Corporate Director of Wal-Mart
 * Joel Edwards, rugby league player
 * Andrew Johns, rugby league player
 * Matthew Johns, rugby league player
 * Gavin King, journalist; newspaper columnist
 * Bruce Litchfield, architect
 * Kenneth Neate, opera singer
 * Jack Newton, professional golfer
 * Bill Peden, rugby league player
 * Frank Rickwood, President of BP Alaska, Chairman of Oil Search
 * Don Schofield, Rugby League Player
 * Simon Whitlock, Professional Darts Player
 * Rod McCormack, Multi Time National Guitar and Banjo Champion, Australian Musician of the Year,
 * Jeff McCormack, Multi Golden Guitar winner, Australian Musician of the Year

National Estate
Greater Cessnock contains a number of buildings and sites that are on the Register of the National Estate.

 * Court House, Branxton
 * Police Station and Residence, Branxton
 * Former Court House, Greta
 * Kurri Kurri Hotel, Lang and Hampden Streets, Kurri Kurri
 * Richmond Main Colliery, Mulbring Rd, Pelaw Main
 * Laguna House, Laguna
 * Post Office, Wollombi
 * Endeavour Museum (former Court House), Wollombi
 * Public School, Wollombi
 * St Michael's Catholic Church, Wollombi
 * St John the Evangelist Anglican Church, Wollombi
 * Stanford Main No.2 Colliery Pit Head Building, Brick Cottages
 * Aboriginal Rock Carvings Site, popularly known as Baiame Cave, Milbrodale Area

Crime
In 2021, Cessnock had an amphetamine use/possession rate of 137.1 per 100,000, which is significantly higher than the NSW state average of '90.0 per 100,000.

The suburb of Cessnock had an assault incidents crime rate of 1264.6 per 100,000 people in 2019, which is significantly higher than the NSW state average of 822.3 during the same period.

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