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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/America Adventure/2004 Oct 24

America Adventure was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to delete. Cool Hand Luke  05:42, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Non-notable. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:25, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Seems to be Engrish advertising copy from the old days, back when things ran under DOS. Consist to delte. Geogre 01:44, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks like a non-notable ad. Nadavspi 00:43, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete How'd this sneak past the Recent Changes watchers? Ashibaka ✎ 21:28, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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User:Martyman/My Images

This is a list of the images I have uploaded to Wikipedia (or wikimedia commons), most are of Canberra or the surounding area. All images are either owned by me or User:nyctopterus and are licensed under the GFDL

Please feel free to re-use these images on any other relevant articles on Wikipedia.

I have split this page up into sub-pages
 * Photos
 * Maps
 * Infobox maps of the ACT
 * Older maps of the ACT
 * Adelaide LGA Maps
 * Canberra Districts
 * Diagrams
 * Flags

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gavin Foley

Gavin Foley
I suggest merging with Zach Foley, however as this was listed as a speedy deletion I'm putting this to vote on VfD. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:29, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: I'd have made it speedy, only because it has all the hallmarks of a joke. The article tells us highly improbable things and then says that his only impact on society was the creation of a group that got disbanded.  Yet we're assured that he's a legend.  Again, it looks very much like a joke. I'm assuming that you've checked it and it's not.  I don't know about Zach Foley, but the article on Gavin is a goner. Geogre 01:48, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * It's not a joke page, and has no other criteria for it being a speedy deletion. I don't mind it being deleted, this just needs to go through VfD. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:44, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * D "brother of ... an obscure music star" Notability by association again.  Chris 02:23, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Incidentally, I have references identifying a "Zach Foley" in EMF, though I doubt it's but it's not the same person - the "real" one was born in 1970 and is still alive and died in 2002. Google for "Zach Foley" -EMF returns exactly 24 hits, of which not a single one refers ot this guy's brother.  Chris 02:25, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * PS - the article author removed the VfD tag, which I have duly replaced.

 * Delete. The brother of an obscure musical star definitely doesn't deserve an article. I don't think an obscure musical star deserves an article either. NeoJustin 4:03 Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable brother of "an obscure musical star". Yeah. Nadavspi 00:48, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)


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Spivey

Spivey may refer to:

People

 * Bill Spivey (1929–1995), American basketball player
 * Cayley Spivey (born 1998), American singer-songwriter
 * Dan Spivey (born 1952), American professional wrestler
 * Dorin Spivey, American boxer
 * Emily Spivey (born 1971), American television writer and producer
 * Gary Spivey (contemporary), American psychic
 * Jaquel Spivey (born 1998), American actor
 * Jim Spivey (born 1960), American middle distance runner and Olympian
 * Junior Spivey (born 1975), American professional baseball player
 * Michael Spivey (born 1960), British computer scientist
 * Mike Spivey (American football) (born 1954), American football player
 * Mike Spivey (law school administration) (born 1972), American legal academic
 * Nigel Spivey (born 1958), British professor of classical art and archaeology
 * Phil Spivey (born 1961), Australian hammer thrower
 * Victoria Spivey (1906–1976), American blues singer

Places

 * Mount Spivey, Alexander Island, Antarctica
 * Spivey, Kansas, United States, a city
 * Spivey Hall, on the campus of Clayton State University, Morrow, Georgia
 * Spivey's Corner, North Carolina, home of the National Hollerin' Contest, a hog calling contest

Other uses

 * Spivey Records, a specialist blues record label

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jill Valentine

Jill Valentine was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to redirect. Cool Hand Luke  05:44, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Belongs (if at all) in the article they note. — Bill 00:30, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Already in the fancruft article, so this exponential fancruft needs to be deleted as empty article with no information in it. Geogre 01:45, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * D+R No new information. Redirecting to Resident Evil in the absence of any notable RL people by that name. Chris 02:17, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect - interestingly, Jill appeared as a character in Marvel vs. Capcom 2. But that's about the extent of her pertinence beyond Resident Evil. Ian Pugh 02:56, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * It looks like it's already been made a redirect. Looks good to me. Making it a redirect discourages re-creation of an unnecessary article. [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 23:35, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect. — siro  χ  o  13:44, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

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Malcolm Margolin

Malcolm Margolin (born October 27, 1940) is an author, publisher, and former executive director of Heyday Books, an independent nonprofit publisher and cultural institution in Berkeley, California. From his founding of Heyday in 1974 until his retirement at the end of 2015, he oversaw the publication of several hundred books and the creation of two quarterly magazines: News from Native California, devoted to the history and ongoing cultural concerns of California Indians, and Bay Nature, devoted to the natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area. In the fall of 2017, he established a new enterprise, the California Institute for Community, Art, and Nature (California ICAN) to continue and expand upon the work that he began more than forty years ago.

Margolin is the author/editor of several books including The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area, named by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the hundred most important books of the twentieth century by a western writer. His essays and articles have appeared in a number of periodicals including The Nation, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times.

Early life and education
Margolin was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1940 to a Lithuanian mother and an American father. He attended Boston Latin School and Harvard University, where he earned a degree in English Literature in 1964. He met his wife Rina while attending Harvard; she was a psychology major at Radcliffe College.

After college he lived in Puerto Rico (1964–1966) and New York City's Lower East Side (1966–1968). He visited Yosemite National Park in the summer of 1967. In 1969, he moved with Rina to California.

Career
Margolin has lectured widely and has served as advisor and mentor to many other publishers. In addition to founding Heyday (1974), News from Native California (1987), and Bay Nature (2001), he co-founded the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (1997), an organization devoted to California folk arts, and has served on its board since its beginning. In 2001, he co-founded Inlandia Institute, a literary center in Riverside, California.

He currently serves on the Publication Committee of the Book Club of California and devotes time and effort to a number of environmental, cultural, and social justice organizations and causes.

Personal life
He has lived in Berkeley, California since the late 1960s, where he and his wife, Rina, have raised three children: Reuben (1970), Sadie (1974), and Jacob (1980).

Awards
He has received many honors including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, a Community Leadership Award from the San Francisco Foundation, a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and a Cultural Freedom Award from the Lannan Foundation.

In 2012 he received the chairman's Commendation from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the second person in the United States to be so honored.

 * 2001 – American Book Award for Publishing/Editing, Before Columbus Foundation
 * Award for Organizational Excellence, American Association of State and Local History
 * California Council for the Promotion of History Award
 * California Indian Health Services Award
 * "California State Assembly Resolution" honoring Heyday
 * Carey McWilliams Award for Lifetime Achievement, California Studies Association
 * Chairman's Commendation, National Endowment for the Humanities
 * Cultural Freedom Award, Lannan Foundation
 * Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists
 * Fred Cody Award, Bay Area Book Reviewers Association
 * Gerbode Fellowship
 * Helen Crocker Russell Award for Community Leadership, San Francisco Foundation
 * The Hubert Howe Bancroft Award, The Bancroft Library
 * Martin Baumhoff Award for Achievement by the Society for California Archaeology
 * The Oscar Lewis Award for Contributions to Western History, Book Club of California
 * Presidential Commendation, The Society for California Archaeology
 * Publishing Award, California Horticultural Society
 * Special recognition for leadership in the arts, California Arts Council

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Red Delicious

Red Delicious is a type of apple with a red exterior and sweet taste that was first recognized in Madison County, Iowa, in 1872. Today, the name Red Delicious comprises more than 50 cultivars. It was the most produced cultivar in the United States from 1968 to 2018, when it was surpassed by Gala.

History
The 'Red Delicious' originated at an orchard in 1872 as "a round, blushed yellow fruit of surpassing sweetness". Stark Nurseries held a competition in 1892 to find an apple to replace the 'Black Ben Davis' apple. The winner was a red and yellow striped apple sent by Jesse Hiatt, a farmer in Peru, Iowa, who called it "Hawkeye". Stark Nurseries bought the rights from Hiatt, renamed the variety "Stark Delicious", and began propagating it. Another apple tree, later named the 'Golden Delicious', was also marketed by Stark Nurseries after it was purchased from a farmer in Clay County, West Virginia, in 1914; the 'Delicious' became the 'Red Delicious' as a retronym.

Selective breeding and decline in demand
The apple became a victim of its own popularity. As consumers began to purchase more of their food from large supermarkets, the apple's popularity encouraged commercial growers to increasingly select for longer storage and cosmetic appeal rather than flavor and palatability, which resulted in a less palatable fruit. In particular the selection of redder fruit caused deselection of flavor, and the genes that produced the yellow stripes on the original fruit were on the same chromosomes as those for the flavor-producing compounds. Breeding for uniformity and storability favored a thicker skin. Later, as other cultivars entered supermarkets, demand for the 'Red Delicious' declined.

In the 1940s the apple was the most popular in the US. In the 1980s, 'Red Delicious' represented three-quarters of the harvest in Washington state, but the selection of beauty and long storage over taste was making the apples less popular, and demand was declining as supermarkets started carrying other varieties. By the 1990s, reliance on the now-unwanted 'Red Delicious' had helped to push Washington state's apple industry "to the edge" of collapse. In 2000, Congress approved and President Bill Clinton signed a bill to bail out the apple industry, after apple growers had lost $760 million since 1997.

Farmers began to replace their orchards with other cultivars such as Gala, Fuji, and Honeycrisp. By 2000, this cultivar made up less than one half of the Washington state output, and in 2003, the crop had shrunk to 37 percent of the state's harvest, which totaled 103 million boxes. Although Red Delicious still remained the single largest variety produced in the state in 2005, others were growing in popularity, notably the Fuji and Gala varieties. By 2014 the Washington Apple Commission was recommending growers plan to export 60% or more of production. In 2018 the Gala apple overtook US sales of the Red Delicious for the first time. Through 2020 production continued to decline. The COVID-19 pandemic was expected to further continue decline in demand as many cafeterias and other typical sales points for the apple were closed.

Sports (mutations)
Over the years many propagable mutations, or sports, have been identified in 'Red Delicious' apple trees.

Patented
In addition to those propagated without any legal protection (or cut out because they were seen as inferior), 42 sports have been patented in the United States:

Unpatented sports
In 1977, the application for #4159 noted the "starchy and bland taste of some of the newer varieties".

The plant patent for #4926 promoted the sport as a dwarfing interstock, a dwarfing rootstock for pears, or to produce "crab apple"-sized 'Delicious' apples.

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Split Rock

Split Rock may refer to:

United States

 * Split Rock, New York, also industrial disaster site
 * Split Rock, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
 * Split Rock Township, Minnesota

Rock formations

 * Split Rock (Bronx, New York), a boulder in Pelham Bay Park, New York City, United States
 * Split Rock, or Tracy's Rock, on the Moon
 * The Split Rock, a landmark in Easky, Ireland
 * Split Rock, Antarctica
 * Split Rock (Wyoming), along Sweetwater River

Other uses

 * Pleiospilos, a genus of South African succulent plants

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Hudson's Bay point blanket

A Hudson's Bay point blanket is a type of wool blanket traded by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in British North America, now Canada and the United States, from 1779 to present. The blankets were typically traded to First Nations in exchange for beaver pelts as an important part of the North American fur trade. The blankets continue to be sold by Canada's Hudson's Bay department stores and have come to hold iconic status in the country.

History
In the North American fur trade, by 1700, wool blankets accounted for more than 60 per cent of traded goods. French fur trader Germain Maugenest is thought to have advised the HBC to introduce point blankets.

Originally point blankets had a single stripe across each end, usually in blue or red. In the mid-1800s blankets began to be produced with a green stripe, red stripe, yellow stripe and indigo stripe on a white background; the four stripe colours were popular and easily produced using good colourfast dyes at that time. In 1798, a mill owner received a purchase order for "30 pair[s] of 3 points to be striped with four colors (red, blue, green, yellow) according to your judgement." to be manufactured in Witney, Oxfordshire, a town famous for its woollen blankets since the Middle Ages.

From the early days of the fur trade, wool blankets were made into hooded coats called capotes by both natives and French Canadian voyageurs, which were well-suited to Canada's cold winters.

Point system
Points are short black lines woven into the selvage of the blanket along the edge just above the bottom set of stripes. About 4 in in length (except in the case of half points, which are 2 in), they indicate the finished overall size (area) of a blanket and allow easy determination of the size of a blanket – even when folded. French weavers invented the point system in the mid-1700s since then, as now, blankets were shrunk as part of the manufacturing process. The word point derives from the French empointer, meaning "to make threaded stitches on cloth".

Over the centuries the sizes of blankets have shifted, particularly during the twentieth century as beds became larger. Blankets of 2.5, 3, 3.5 and 4 point were most common during the fur-trade era. Today, Hudson's Bay blankets are commonly found in point sizes of 3.5 (twin bed), 4 (double), 6 (queen) and 8 (king).

The misconception persists that originally the points were an indication of a blanket's price in beaver pelts or even its weight. The number of pelts required to buy a blanket ranged widely by time and location, regardless of its size. Thickness and quality are the same blanket to blanket, and a larger blanket will naturally weigh more.

Mackinaw jacket
In 1811, at Fort St. Joseph there was a shortage of greatcoats for the King's soldiers. The date was November 20, 1811, and British Army Captain Charles Roberts, wrote a letter to Captain Evans, Adjutant General in Quebec, making a requisition, written as follows:

"“All hopes having now ceased of the arrival of the schooner Hunter or any other vessel from Amherstburg with the clothing of the detachment, I am this day obtaining, upon my requisition to the storekeeper of the Indian Department, a consignment of heavy blankets, for the purpose of making them great coats, a measure the severity of the climate strongly demands and one, I trust, the commander of the forces will not disapprove of when he is informed that not a remnant remains of the coats served out to them in the year 1807 and that they have received none since.” – Captain Charles Roberts"

Roberts requisitioned HBC 3.5-point blankets from the British Indian Department to manufacture greatcoats for his troops. John Askin Jr., a Métis and keeper of the King's stores at the fort, hired local women to design and manufacture forty woollen greatcoats. Everyone was in agreement that the newly tailored greatcoats were of superior quality than the British Army standard-issue greatcoats and helped to increase the morale of the King's soldiers. At the beginning of the War of 1812, Roberts and his men occupied Fort Michilimackinac located at the present-day Mackinaw City, Michigan. Roberts ordered a new supply of Hudson's Bay point blankets for the upcoming winter to manufacture more greatcoats. This time Roberts had enlisted the aid of professional tailors and seamstresses to produce the greatcoats.

A despatch runner advised that the long length of the greatcoat was impractical for the deep snow drifts when travelling between Mackinaw and Montreal and requested it be replaced by the shorter double-breasted style, which became known as the Mackinaw jacket. At first, the Mackinaw jacket was produced in blue and was later replaced by the more popular red and black tartan pattern. The new design of the Mackinaw jacket was so beneficial for travelling through woods and trails that orders were received from people located from Fort William to Penetanguishene.

More than 100 years into the future, when the Hudson's Bay Company began to commercially sell point blanket coats, the Mackinaw jacket remained popular with their customers.

Current use
Versions of the blanket are available at Hudson's Bay stores throughout Canada. Solid colours are available, as is the classic pattern featuring the green, red, yellow, and indigo stripes. The blankets have always been made in England; today they are made by John Atkinson, a sub brand of A.W. Hainsworth & Sons Ltd.

Wools from Britain and New Zealand are used in the manufacture of blankets.

The official licensee allowed to import Hudson's Bay Blankets into the United States for commercial sale is Woolrich Inc. of Pennsylvania. Four U.S. retailers sell the blankets to consumers: Woolrich, L.L.Bean, Getz's Department Store in Marquette, Michigan, and Johnson Woolen Mills.

Collectibility

Genuine point blankets have become very collectible and could fetch prices up to thousands of dollars. The main determinants of value include age, size, colour, pattern rarity and condition. Particularly collectible point blankets are the Coronation blankets: the one produced for the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II brings approximately $600 if in mint condition while examples of the even rarer 1937 coronation blanket have sold for as high as $1300.

In 1890, HBC began adding labels to their blankets because point blankets of similar quality were being sold by HBC competitors from such manufacturers as Early's of Witney.

Harold Lee Tichenor, point blanket collector and consultant to Hudson's Bay Company, has written two books on point blankets and their collectability.

In April 2017, HBC updated the label, rotating it from vertical to horizontal, making it easy to display English and French on either side of the crest, which has been enhanced with red on the flag. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada in 2017, HBC added an additional label to the blanket: a picture of voyageurs in a canoe, with "Canada" printed at the top.

On 2 May 2020, HBC celebrated its 350th anniversary. It re-released a series of special, limited-edition blankets in a variety of historic colourways and patterns. It added a 'Special Edition' label with a picture of the sailing vessel Nonsuch and the words 'Celebrating HBC's 350th Anniversary'.

 * The Sky Blue Hudson's Bay Point Blanket – February
 * The Camel Hudson's Bay Point Blanket – March
 * The Ice Cream Hudson's Bay Point Blanket – April
 * The 350th Commemorative Hudson's Bay Point Blanket (Grey) – May
 * The Gold Hudson's Bay Point Blanket – June
 * The Scarlet Hudson's Bay Point Blanket – July

Name in First Nations languages
The Hudson's Bay blanket is called by different names in First Nations languages. Some examples are:
 * Baahlaads gyaa'adaay, Haida language
 * p̓a̱lx̱a̱lasǥa̱m, Kwakʼwala
 * ʔa·q̓unaq, Kutenai language

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Rave (disambiguation)

A rave is a kind of dance party.

Rave or Raves may also refer to:

Geography

 * Raves, Vosges, a commune in the Vosges département in France

Related to rave parties

 * Free party, an illegal rave

Computer

 * Rave language, a declarative modeling language used to model cost and legality in Jeppesen's Crew & Network Operation Management products

Art, entertainment, and media

 * Rave (film), a 2000 American film written and directed by Ron Krauss
 * Rave (magazine), an Indian music magazine
 * Rave (board game)
 * Rave Master, a 1999 anime and manga franchise, also known as Groove Adventure Rave
 * Rave Motion Pictures, a defunct movie theater company that is now part of Cinemark since 2013
 * Raves (band), a 1980s power pop group from Atlanta, Georgia, United States
 * The Rave, a concert venue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
 * Rave music
 * Dave "Rave" Ogilvie, a Canadian record producer, mixer, songwriter, and musician

Other

 * Rave (apple), also known as MN55 and First Kiss, an apple cultivar developed in Minnesota

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Raving

Raving may refer to:
 * Rave, a party
 * Raving, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
 * Official Monster Raving Loony Party, a single-issue, parodical political party in the United Kingdom
 * Raving (film), a film
 * Rayman Raving Rabbids, a Wii video game

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thames High School

Thames High School was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was 16 delete 11 keep (+1 believed to be sock puppet). No consensus, so article kept. Cool Hand Luke  05:50, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

School and non-notable. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:37, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Just a school like any other, only with less to say about it than most, it seems. Now I'm assured that a silent, non-voting majority wants all schools kept, but votes count.  This is a substub that says nothing about its subject and a subject that we have no reason to believe is of interest.  If it is of interest, then a phone book tells as much as this does. Geogre 01:50, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. No potential to become encyclopedic. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 02:11, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * D Nothing out of the ordinary here. Chris 02:31, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is just a school. I wish people would stop making articles about high schools. NeoJustin 03:32 Oct. 24, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. No potential to become encyclopedic. --Improv 17:35, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yet another non-notable school page. Nadavspi 00:56, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. A school. Intrigue 22:36, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Non-notable. Delete.  RickK 22:58, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep - Rick still won't read deletion policy - there is no mention of notability. Mark Richards 01:55, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Deletion policy IME is not an exhaustive list. Chris 12:44, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Once again, this is certainly open to interpretation, but as I (and apparently many other users considering the amount of times this is used as justification) read the policy, no potential to become encyclopedic is a category that includes notability.  I have not yet read an encyclopedia, whether general knowledge or on a specific topic, that includes everything on a subject.  Notability is an important part of being encyclopedic as encyclopedias by their very nature are supposed to distill what is essential about a field, casting off those things that are not worth mentioning.  One person's minutae is another person's key element, which is why we vote on these things rather than speedy them, but notability is a criteria. Indrian 02:01, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * You have not read an encyclopedia that has this information because Wikipedia is among the first of its kind. It is logical fallacy to say something is false/wrong because it was never done before (since by extention nothing would ever get done as there is always a first time for everything). --ShaunMacPherson 19:32, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I do not take kindly to being interrupted. Wikipedia is not among the first of its kind: it is among the first of its kind in a new medium.  This does mean that more information and more entries can be included, but that does not mean that standards should be relaxed to the point that wikipedia no longer resembles an encyclopedia.  There is no logical fallacy here.  You are more than welcome to disagree about what is notable or not, but limitless (or nearly so at least) capacity does not mean throwing out all standards, or even reducing them to a harmful degree. In my personal opinion, allowing in articles that fail a basic (and yes, inherently subjective) standard of notability is not condusive to constructing a good encyclopedia, and therefore, the entires in question are not encyclopedic and out of line with policy.  You are free to disagree with that opinion, just make sure you have the arguements of those who respectfully disagree with your view straight. You can rest assured that I will abide by the will of the group at large. Indrian 19:45, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * But the only reason articles of this sort do not "resemble an encyclopedia" is that deletionists kill them before they have time to develop. Wikipedia should have a much broader scope than any paper encyclopedia, because it can have a broader scope than any paper encyclopedia.  --L33tminion 16:24, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * Why do they need time to develop? If the person creating the article thinks this one school is so all-fired important, why don't they tell us what's so important about it to begin with?  Is five days such a hardship?  RickK 22:45, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep It is a stub, famous people likely graduated from this school. Give it time to grow, it is worthy. --ShaunMacPherson 19:32, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * This is a specious statement. Do you really believe that a famous person or people graduated from every single school in the world? RickK 22:45, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * keep: it's a stub of a school. Posiduck 19:36, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * ........ and your point is? Chris 03:49, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep - Wikipedia is not Britanica. If they could, they would likely put in articles about schools too - they can't, that's why people come here for them, which is why WP is becomming more popular. The Recycling Troll 19:52, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment I would certainly not trust the judgement of someone who makes edit comments like this, and I'm not even American. Chris 03:49, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Kill Gene Ward Smith 03:57, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Not to be lame, but please be a bit more tasteful in your VfD comments. This is a school we're talking about, and not everybody has such a sense of humour D:  — siro  χ  o  13:47, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - not enough info to merge into Skysmith 08:56, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * DELETE I hate articles about non-notable schools.--[[User:Plato|Comrade Nick @  )---^-- ]] 10:30, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. What Posiduck said.  -- WOT
 * Delete. Mikkalai 23:50, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Florescentbulb 23:52, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Sock puppet. RickK 22:45, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep - it's a real place. Trollminator 00:00, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * So is my bathroom. RickK`
 * Keep. Wikipedia is not paper, et cetera, et cetera.  -- [[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 04:58, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. — siro  χ  o  13:47, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep I have no objection to merging it into the place article and redirecting, but I see no goog reason to delete school stubs simply because they are school stubs. older ≠ wiser 15:03, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Deletion of this article does not improve Wikipedia.  People looking for information on this subject can only be inconvenienced by this delete, without making things better for the larger group who is looking for other information (as it is unlikely they would enter "Thames High School" into the search box if looking for other information that resides on Wikipedia).  Merely being about a school is a poor reason to delete a valid stub.  --L33tminion 16:19, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
 * People looking for information on this subject can only be inconvenienced by this delete. People looking for information on this subject are better off looking on Google for the school's official site and contact details.  Chris 04:44, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete --Josiah 06:07, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete --Nought 22:01, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. ugen64 01:37, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: no evidence of notability, not an article. Wile E. Heresiarch 02:21, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. I find this debate about schools rather amusing... what I think is that if it does no harm on Wikipedia, it should be left alone. Other than that, someone seriously needs to come up with a coherent policy regarding schools so we don't waste time arguing over every single school that comes up.Enochlau 04:49, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. I see no harm in keeping it. -- JamesTeterenko 06:20, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment. I thought that non-notability was really supposed to be the deletion criterion for schools below high school, and that high schools were sort of notable-until-proven-non-notable.  That having been said, if every school that now has random drug-testing is notable, way too many schools are becoming notable.  The only thing this school has going for it seems to be that it is a) really, really old by North American standards and b) not in North America
 * Rlquall 04:06, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Talk:Papyrology

Possible CopyVio?
The second two-thirds of the article are headed with: The following text is from the website of the Columbia University Advanced Papyrological Information System...

I searched a bit at the Columbia University Advanced Papyrologica Information Systems website, and I could find no reason to believe that the text is public domain. The text appears to be from a grant application to the NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities). Does such text automatically become public domain? -Rholton 00:38, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The APIS site is definitely intended for public use. Any restrictions are stipulated by the various participating members (as noted on the site). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kr2ft (talk • contribs) 15:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Modern papirologia
The modern papirologia born in Italy in Velletri in the museum of the famous Cardinal Stefano Borgia, with Charta Borgiana, a papyrus arrived in the West, which described a group of workers who worked at a water channel in Tebtynis 192-193 AD. Published in 1778  under the title:"Charta Papyracea Graece scripta Musei Borgiani Velitris" managing director — Preceding unsigned comment added by Metabo82 (talk • contribs) 00:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

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Saint Augustine Church (New Diggings, Wisconsin)

Saint Augustine Church is an early Catholic church built in 1844 in New Diggings, Wisconsin, during the area's lead-mining boom. The building was designed by pioneer priest and amateur architect Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, and survives unchanged from that early era.

Carlo Gaetano Samuele Mazzuchelli was born in Milan, Italy in 1806. He entered the Dominican Order, came to America at age 22, and became a priest in 1830. Father Mazzuchelli served for five years in Upper Michigan and northern Wisconsin, then moved to the lead region, where he served as missionary and priest to many far-flung miners and settlers. Mazzuchelli established more than 35 parishes and designed buildings for 20 to 25 of them.

Saint Augustine parish was founded in 1835. The current building was constructed in 1844, designed by Father Mazzuchelli himself. The priest mixed styles in ways that a trained architect might not have, but the end result is pleasing. Richard Perrin writes, "This building...is one of the genuine architectural gems in the state of Wisconsin...an important element of Wisconsin's cultural legacy."

The church is a small wooden structure on a limestone foundation. The general form of the building is Greek Revival, seen in the low-pitched roof and the cornice returns. But smaller elements are Gothic Revival: the pointed arches on the door and windows and in the corner pilasters, the pointed corbeling under the raking cornice. The walls are clad in 9-inch wood planks grooved to look like stone blocks. The exterior was never painted. On top is a spare bell tower styled like the rest of the church, topped with a small cross.

Inside the church are the original simple pews and finely carved altar rail. Three rooms behind the altar once provided living quarters for the priest whenever he stayed in the village. Father Mazzuchelli opened a school in these rooms in 1847 and staffed the small school with Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters.

In the 1960s some local Knights of Columbus began to restore the building. They rebuilt the foundation and replaced some parts of the bell tower. But after 120 years, they found much of the structure and wood sound. Since then the Father Mazzuchelli Assembly of the Knights of Columbus of Lancaster, Wisconsin has continued restoration.

Now in the Diocese of Madison, St. Augustine has not been an active parish for over a century. Some of Father Mazzuchelli's other church buildings survive with modifications, but only this one remains unchanged. This gives the church a special historical connection to Father Mazzuchelli, and it remains a place of pilgrimage. The building is open on Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m., and a memorial Mass is held annually on the last Sunday of August. A number of historical artifacts, such as account books, records, letters, and other materials are preserved in the archives at Sinsinawa Mound in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin.


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USS Barney (DD-149)

USS Barney (DD–149) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II, later redesignated AG-113. She was the second ship named for Commodore Joshua Barney.

Barney was launched on 5 September 1918 by William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, Philadelphia, sponsored by Miss Nannie Dornin Barney, great-granddaughter of Commodore Barney. The ship was commissioned on 14 March 1919, Lieutenant Commander James L. Kauffman in command.

Service history
Barney reported to Division 19, Atlantic Fleet, and engaged in fleet exercises and maneuvers along the east coast until 30 June 1922, when she went out of commission at Philadelphia. Recommissioned on 1 May 1930, Barney operated with Destroyer Squadron, Scouting Force, on the east coast and in the Caribbean Sea until transiting the Panama Canal in February 1932 to participate in fleet problems off San Francisco. Remaining on the west coast, she operated for a time in reduced commission with Rotating Destroyer Squadron 20 Scouting Force. In 1935 she cruised with Destroyer Division 3 to Alaska thence to Honolulu, and later to the Puget Sound area for fleet problems.

Returning to the east coast, she conducted cruises with the 10th Training Squadron until November 1936, when she was placed out of commission. Recommissioned on 4 October 1939, she served on patrol duty with the 66th Division, Atlantic Squadron, and during the following year with the Inshore Patrol, 18th Naval District Defense Force.

Between December 1941 and November 1943, Barney was assigned to the Caribbean area, escorting convoys between Trinidad British West Indies; and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. On 18 September 1942, she had a collision with the destroyer USS Greer (DD-145), resulting in severe damage and the loss of two of her crew by drowning. Both ships returned to Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands West Indies, where temporary repairs were made and then Barney departed for Charleston Navy Yard. Permanent repairs completed in December 1942, she returned to the Caribbean.

During 14 January–May 1944, Barney completed two convoy escort crossings to North Africa. From May 1944 until February 1945, she escorted convoys in the Caribbean. In March 1945, she was assigned to TE 25 and engaged in training exercises with submarines in Long Island and Block Island Sounds. On 30 June 1945, her classification was changed to AG-113. Barney was decommissioned on 30 November 1945 and sold for scrap on 13 October 1946.

Awards
Barney received one battle star for her escort of Convoy UOS 37 (11 April 1944 – 12 April 1944).

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Cool to Be You

Cool to Be You is the sixth studio album by the American punk rock band the Descendents, released on March 23, 2004, through Fat Wreck Chords. It was their first album of new studio material since 1996's Everything Sucks, which had been released through Epitaph Records. Following Everything Sucks, singer Milo Aukerman had returned to his biochemistry career while the other members—bassist Karl Alvarez, guitarist Stephen Egerton, and drummer Bill Stevenson—had continued with their other band All, releasing two more studio albums and a live album through Epitaph between 1998 and 2001 with singer Chad Price. Cool to Be You was recorded with Aukerman in 2002, but its release was delayed until 2004. The band switched from Epitaph to Fat Wreck Chords partly due to the enthusiasm of label head Fat Mike, who cited the Descendents as one of his favorite bands. Cool to Be You became the fourth Descendents release to chart, reaching #143 on the Billboard 200 and #6 amongst independent albums.

Background and recording
In 1987 Descendents singer Milo Aukerman had left the band to pursue a career in biochemistry. The remaining members—bassist Karl Alvarez, guitarist Stephen Egerton, and drummer Bill Stevenson—changed the band's name to All and released eight albums on Cruz Records and Interscope Records between 1988 and 1995 with singers Dave Smalley, Scott Reynolds, and Chad Price. Aukerman contributed occasional songwriting and backing vocals, and in 1995 decided to return to music. The members decided to operate as two bands, working with Aukerman as the Descendents and with Price as All. Both bands signed to Epitaph Records and the Descendents released Everything Sucks in 1996. Following the album's supporting tours Aukerman had returned to his science career, though he recorded backing vocals for All's 1998 album Mass Nerder. All also released Problematic in 2000 and Live Plus One in 2001, a double live album that included a Descendents disc recorded in 1996.

The recording sessions for Cool to Be You took place with Aukerman in February 2002 at The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado, with additional recording done in April at Planet of Sound in Wilmington, Delaware, and were produced by Stevenson. The band recorded the music for the songs live in the studio with minimal overdubbing, and Aukerman's vocals were recorded over the instrumental tracks. However, these recordings were not released for another two years. Stevenson explained that the gap of eight years between Descendents albums was due to the band members having children and to his father's death.

Release
For the release of Cool to Be You the Descendents signed to Fat Wreck Chords. Label head and musician Fat Mike was a longtime fan of the band, and his enthusiasm for working with them was a major factor in their decision to sign to the label. Stevenson commented that "If you've got the owner of the label saying he wants to put out a record by what is probably his favorite band of all time, that's rad. That's the best possible position for a band to be in." The album was preceded by the 'Merican EP, released February 10, 2004 and featuring the tracks "Nothing with You" and Merican" from the album as well as three B-sides from the album's sessions: "Here with Me", "I Quit", and "Alive". "Nothing with You" was released to radio the same day. Cool to Be You followed on March 23 and was released in both CD and LP formats, with a cover illustration drawn by Chris Shary depicting the band's Milo character drawn on graph paper.

Themes
The songs on Cool to Be You address topics including love and relationships, sociopolitical commentary, the death of parents, nerdiness, and flatulence. Merican", their first overtly political song, addresses positive and negative aspects of American history, celebrating cultural figures such as Otis Redding, Duke Ellington, and Walt Whitman while condemning slavery, Joseph McCarthy, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Vietnam War. Stevenson wrote "One More Day" about the death of his father, who he had taken in and cared for throughout the last year of his life: "He and I always had a terrible relationship. We spent a good part of my adult life being somewhat estranged from each other. He became ill and I took care of him for a little while. And then he died. That song is just about his and my relationship. Just to get that out of me and not holding it inside anymore, is a huge relief for me [...] Every single time I hear that song, it just freaks me out. I've never, ever written a song that's freaked me out that much."

Reception
Cool to Be You became the fourth Descendents release to chart, reaching #143 on the Billboard 200 and #6 amongst independent albums. Al Campbell of Allmusic rated it four stars out of five, commenting that "Like the Ramones before them, the Descendents' overall sound tends to be interchangeable, in the best possible way, with previous efforts. Why mess with a good thing? For instance, among these 14 tracks, 'Nothing with You' can be compared to 'Clean Sheets,' while 'Cool to Be You' and 'Mass Nerder' are anthems à la 'I'm Not a Loser' and 'I Don't Want to Grow Up. Aubin Paul of Punknews.org gave the album four and a half stars out of five, complimenting the band's ability to work in more mature subject matter while still maintaining the childish and self-deprecating humor that "is almost impossible to find anything but endearing and sympathetic." He particularly praised the band's musical abilities and Stevenson's production skills, saying that "Musically, the band hasn't changed drastically since 1982's Milo Goes to College; they're still focused on somewhat unorthodox melodies, anchored by an incredibly tight rhythm section and some guitar pyrotechnics. The band is clearly tighter and more comfortable with strong melodies, but with the exception of the omission of sub-30 second goof offs like 'Coffee Mug' and 'Weinerschnitzel', there is little that will alienate old fans. The production, by way of Stevenson (who has been producing one excellent sounding record after another at his Blasting Room studio) is the best yet, with every instrument clear and not one dominating. The common description of 'pop-hardcore' is still undisputed."

Personnel

 * Band
 * Karl Alvarez – bass guitar
 * Milo Aukerman – vocals
 * Stephen Egerton – guitar, recording engineer
 * Bill Stevenson – drums, producer, recording and mix engineer, mastering

 * Additional musicians
 * Chad Price – backing vocals

 * Production
 * Andrew Berlin – recording engineer
 * Fat Mike – sequencing assistant
 * Jason Livermore – recording and mix engineer, mastering
 * Brad Newsom – recording engineer

 * Artwork and design
 * Rodger Deuerlein – photography
 * Jeff Hagedorn – design, layout
 * Chris Shary – cover illustration
 * Stacie Stevenson – photography
 * Rachel Woliansky – photography

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Rupert Blue

Rupert Lee Blue (May 30, 1868 – April 12, 1948) was an American physician and soldier. He was the fourth Surgeon General of the United States from 1912 to 1920. He served as president of the American Medical Association in 1916–17.

Early years
Rupert Blue was born in Richmond County, North Carolina, and raised in Marion, South Carolina. He attended the University of Virginia (1889–1890) and earned his M.D. from the University of Maryland (1892). His first association with the Public Health Service (PHS), then known as the Marine Hospital Service (MHS), came through a nine-month internship (1 June 1892 to 2 March 1893), after which Blue applied for entrance into the MHS Regular Corps and was commissioned as an Assistant Surgeon on 3 March 1893.

Career
Blue spent his early years in the MHS at the front lines of turn-of-the-century public health, participating in the medical inspection of immigrants of the United States and battling outbreaks of epidemic disease. Then-Surgeon General Walter Wyman dispatched Blue twice to oversee rat eradication and urban sanitation programs after bubonic plague struck San Francisco, once in February 1903 during the San Francisco plague of 1900–1904, and again in August 1907 during a second series which followed the 1906 earthquake and fires.

During his initial deployment Blue acted as a middleman reporting back to Wyman concerning the political climate surrounding San Francisco. The majority of Blue's work consisted of acting as a mediator between the various branches of government who at the time were conflicted on their opinions of whether or not the bubonic plague was actually present in San Francisco. Upon arriving Blue was able to organize a conference between the federal, state, civil and business leaders of the area to discuss the sanitation conditions in Chinatown, where the majority of plague cases were aggregated within the city.

Blue's primary concern was to secure funding to improve the sanitation conditions of Chinatown through the implementation and maintenance of sanitation measures. These proposed measures consisted of vermin eradication, growing scientific evidence pointed to rats as carriers of the plague, and creating physical barriers between rats and humans through cementation of basement floors and walls.

This initial conference, organized by Blue, ended with the adaptation of a binding resolution that prioritized funding for sanitation campaigns throughout San Francisco until the city was declared plague free. This was the first time all levels of government had been able to put political differences aside and agree on a direction together. These conference meetings continued to occur on a biweekly notice, and eventually led to the creation of the Public Health Commission of California with Blue as its inaugural president in April 1903.

Funding for these sanitation campaigns lasted from 1903 through 1905 at which time San Francisco was declared plague free due to a decrease in mortality rate within Chinatown and the lack of any new cases reported to officials. The success of these sanitation programs were credited to Blue for his diplomacy skills among the different levels of government. With the implementation of these programs Blue was able to stem the plague and enable Wyman to avoid imposing a federal quarantine on the bay area.

In April 1905, with pressure from the municipal government of San Francisco and no new cases, Blue succeeded his position as head of the United States Public Health Service in San Francisco (after being appointed in May 1903) to Donald Currie before heading off to his next post. When he wasn't trapping rats and squirrels in California, Blue directed mosquito eradication efforts to control yellow fever in New Orleans (1905), at the Jamestown Exposition (1907), and in Honolulu (1911), to help Hawaii prepare for traffic to follow the opening of the new Panama Canal. In addition, he represented the United States on a number of sanitation projects in South America and attended the London School of Tropical Medicine (1910). Blue's successes in the field made his reputation. He was promoted to the position of Surgeon (17 May 1909), and after Wyman died unexpectedly, President William Howard Taft nominated Blue to serve as Surgeon General (13 January 1912 through 3 March 1920). Blue would go on to serve a second four-year term under President Woodrow Wilson (1916–1920).

Surgeon General Blue the plague fighter became an institution builder as well. He inherited the Act of 1912, which reoriented PHS toward research and public campaigns against disease. Passage of the Act of 1912 capped 6 years of lively debate about how to strengthen Federal public health efforts more generally. It designated the U.S. Treasury Department’s Marine Hospital and Public Health Service, rather than the Department of the Interior, as the lead Federal agency (and shortened the name to PHS), responsible not only for interstate quarantine and health services delivery to Federal wards but also for the health of the general public. The Act stepped up Federal public health activities, most notably in response to repeated outbreaks of typhoid fever that tore through cities and towns that drew drinking water from increasingly contaminated supplies. The Act of 1912 authorized Hygienic Laboratory investigations into water pollution's contribution to the disease burden, including a new field research station at Cincinnati, Ohio. Interstate guidelines were developed and put into effect to ensure potable water and pasteurized milk. PHS received authority to initiate field research independently of county and state health departments and to extend campaigns against infectious disease toward the control of occupational and environmental threats. During 1914 PHS opened an Office of Industrial Hygiene and Sanitation at the Marine Hospital in Pittsburgh, near the Department of the Interior’s new Bureau of Mines.

Under Blue's leadership, physician researchers at PHS turned the new science of bacteriology and the age-old practices of sanitation and public education to effective use against diseases linked to poverty in both rural and urban areas.

 * Dr. George McCoy documented tularemia’s bacterial origins.
 * Dr. Charles Stiles charted the extent of hookworm disease, and its positive correlation with insanitary soil conditions, throughout the Southeast.
 * Dr. Joseph Goldberger used field studies at Spartanburg, South Carolina and at the Greenfield prison farm to uncover the nutritional deficiencies at the root of pellagra (1914–1915).
 * Dr. Leslie Lumsden reduced the prevalence of typhoid fever through rural privy-building campaigns and spurred the establishment of the first full-time county health department, at Yakima, Washington (1911).
 * Dr. John McMullan brought his knowledge of trachoma treatment and prevention from work with immigrants to public health campaigns among American Indians and rural populations in the Ozarks and Southern Appalachian mountains, setting up the first of his temporary hospitals at Hindman, Kentucky (1913).

World War I
After the United States officially entered World War I on 3 April 1917, Blue oversaw a dramatic short-term expansion of PHS duties without the benefit of increased appropriations. The military draft underway by July 1917 meant the movement of hundreds of thousands of draftees to temporary encampments around the country, with few provisions for public health by the War Department or state health departments. In response, PHS established venereal disease control programs with funding from the Red Cross, provided industrial hygiene and health services for the thousands of workers laboring in war plants and the communities surrounding them, emptied swamps and sprayed for mosquitoes to prevent malaria, and built sanitary privies. Back in Washington, D.C., the Hygienic Laboratory produced vaccines against tetanus, diphtheria, typhoid, and smallpox. Blue's public health infrastructure was up and running by the time that Congressional support came, in the form of earmarked dollars and a statute covering the control and prevention of venereal disease (the Chamberlain Act of 1918).

During World War I, under SG Rupert Blue, cigarettes were issued as part of each fighting man's basic field rations kit. Recruiting and retaining physicians during wartime was a challenge to PHS, a situation made worse by the global Spanish influenza pandemic that reached the United States in September 1918. Blue had applauded President Wilson's Executive Order making PHS an arm of the military (issued in April 1917 and repealed in 1921), and subsequent moves to set officers’ pay and benefits on a par with those of the armed forces, but did not see passage of legislation creating a PHS Reserve Corps until October 1918, well into the flu pandemic. Pressure to add staff also came from Congress' mandate (1917) that PHS provide health services for disabled and, as of March 1919, all World War One veterans, through a new Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department. Over the following year, PHS assembled a network of fourteen district offices and transformed war surplus facilities into hospitals and clinics, scrambling for staff and resources to stretch the $10.5 million given by Congress to fund the new program.

Given his tenure during this period, it may not come as a surprise that Blue advocated enacting national health insurance, then known as universal sickness insurance, as part of an overall Federal public health strategy. Blue spoke not only as Surgeon General and on behalf of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers but also as President of the American Medical Association (1916–17).

A change in leadership at the Department of the Treasury, PHS' home, may have led to Blue's decision to step down from his posting as Surgeon General on 9 March 1920. He resumed the rank of Assistant Surgeon General and was assigned to Paris, France, to oversee PHS operations in Europe and to serve as U.S. delegate to the Office International d’Hygiene Public (1920–1923) and subsequently to the League of Nations.

After a full career at PHS, Blue retired from PHS on 1 December 1932. He was advanced to the rank of Vice Admiral in 1942. He died on 12 April 1948, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Family
Blue's brother was Rear Admiral Victor Blue.

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Prophecy (disambiguation)

Prophecy is a prediction or the disclosure of information that is not known to the prophet by any ordinary means.

Prophecy may also refer to:

Gaming

 * Prophecy (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion to the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game
 * Tomb Raider: The Prophecy, a 2002 Tomb Raider game for the Game Boy Advance by Ubi Soft
 * Wing Commander: Prophecy, the fourth direct sequel in Chris Roberts' Wing Commander science fiction flight simulator franchise
 * Guild Wars Prophecies, the first game in the Guild Wars series
 * Prophecy: The Fall of Trinadon, a 1989 game by Activision
 * In the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, there's an archetype of monsters named "Prophecy".

Music

 * Korg Prophecy, analogue modelling synthesiser made by Korg

Albums

 * Prophecy (Soulfly album), 2004
 * Prophecy (Capleton album), 1995
 * Prophecy (Fred Hopkins and Diedre Murray album), 1998

Songs

 * "Prophecy" (Mami Kawada song), 2009
 * "Prophecy" (Remy Zero song), 1998
 * "Prophecy" (Soulfly song), a song by Soulfly from the album Prophecy, 2004
 * "Prophecy", a tune by Diedre Murray from Prophecy (Fred Hopkins and Diedre Murray album), 1998
 * "Prophecy", a song by The Browning from End of Existence
 * "Prophecy", a song by Front Line Assembly from Implode
 * "Prophecy", a song by Iced Earth from Something Wicked This Way Comes
 * "Prophecy", a song by Mike Oldfield from Music of the Spheres
 * "Prophecy", a song by Judas Priest from Nostradamus
 * "Prophecy", a song by Queensrÿche from Queensrÿche (EP)
 * "Prophecy", a song by Zion I from Starship EP
 * "A Prophecy", a song by Asking Alexandria from Stand Up and Scream

Television

 * Dune: Prophecy (TV series), a 2020s TV show on HBO Max, formerly Dune: Sisterhood, based on Denis Villeneuve's film series based on Frank Herbert's novel series; this show derived from the novel Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert

Episodes

 * "Prophecy" (Legend of the Seeker)
 * "Prophecy" (Star Trek: Voyager)
 * "Prophecy" (Stargate SG-1)

Other media

 * Prophecy (film), a 1979 ecological horror film starring Robert Foxworth and Talia Shire
 * Prophecy (manga), a manga series by Tetsuya Tsutsui
 * Prophecy (Harry Potter), a prediction made by Sybill Trelawney in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

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Barnett Slepian

Barnett Abba Slepian (April 23, 1946 – October 23, 1998) was an American physician and abortion provider who was assassinated in his home by James Charles Kopp, a militant member of the US anti-abortion movement.

Life and career
Slepian was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Rochester, New York; his grandfather was a Jewish immigrant from Russia. Slepian graduated from the University of Denver with a zoology degree. He then graduated from Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara medical school in 1978.

Slepian worked at Buffalo Women Services in Buffalo, New York, providing abortion for members of the local and surrounding communities. He also ran his own private OB-GYN practice in Amherst, New York, where he also resided.

On October 23, 1998, Slepian had returned from synagogue, where he was attending a memorial service for his father, and was preparing soup in his kitchen when he was struck by a bullet fired through his window. The bullet shattered his spine and tore his aorta, barely missing his son's head as it exited. He died two hours later. Earlier that afternoon, Slepian's wife Lynne had forwarded a warning of potential attacks on her husband to a local police inspector.

Within days of Slepian's murder, anti-abortion groups rallied and staged clinic protests in Buffalo and Rochester, New York. While local leaders from both sides of the abortion debate decried these rallies as potential incitements to further violence, more extreme opponents of reproductive rights, such as Flip Benham of Operation Rescue, labeled calls for nonviolence "pitiful" and suggested that unless abortion was outlawed, "we are in store for more bloodshed in the streets—the likes of which will sicken even the sturdiest among us." This murder was the climax of a series of five sniper attacks in four years in northern New York and Canada. Slepian was the fourth doctor and up to that time the seventh person in the United States to be murdered for performing abortions.

Following Slepian's murder, Kopp fled the U.S., being placed on the FBI Top Ten Most Wanted list, but was arrested in France in 2001 and extradited. He was tried and convicted of second degree murder in Buffalo and is currently serving a 25 years to life term of imprisonment. Kopp was also convicted of federal charges and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The Ani DiFranco song "Hello Birmingham", from her 1999 album To The Teeth, was written as a response to the Slepian murder.

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Talk:Correlation ratio

[This article is] poorly explained. --Eequor 03:39, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Cleanup request
This article is incomprehensible to anyone unfamiliar with advanced statistical notation. It could be repaired with a concrete example and an intuitive, rather than symbolic or mathematical explanation. A graph or two would also help a lot. -- Beland 01:54, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * This is really part of a wider problem: currently large areas of the topic of statistics are very deficiently treated on Wikipedia. A few statistics articles are really good, some others are quite competent, but many are skimpy stubs, and this is one of those.  I may return here. Michael Hardy 02:27, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Please include more information

 * I have attempted an example --Rumping 00:35, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Anyone understands this thoroughly?
It is worth noting that if the relationship between values of $$x \;\ $$ and values of $$\overline{y}_x$$ is linear (which is certainly true when there are only two possibilities for x'') this will give the same result as the square of the correlation coefficient, otherwise the correlation ratio will be larger in magnitude. It can therefore be used for judging non-linear relationships.''

If you understand this thoroughly, please help improving this article and put it more clearly. I am very unhappy with this sentence, since I am not understanding it. I do not want to remove it, since there needs to be a reference made to the correlation coefficient and it seems that the original author knew about it. It would just be nice to convey this message comprehensively. Tomeasy (talk) 11:32, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Standard deviation
I have taken the later of the two following statements out, since I think it is wrong.
 * $$\eta^2 = \frac{\sum_x n_x (\overline{y}_x-\overline{y})^2}{\sum_{xi} (y_{xi}-\overline{y})^2}$$

which might be written as
 * $$\frac{{\sigma_{\overline{y}}}^2}{{\sigma_{y}}^2}.$$

The use of the sigma's implies that we should be dealing with standard deviations here. However, substituting their definition does not yield the given equation. Also it is not very clear to me, what standard deviation is precisely meant in the numerator. I tried interpreting it as the standard deviation of the category means, but it failed to yield the stated equation. Correct me, if I am wrong. Tomeasy (talk) 11:41, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

 * It doesn't look so bad to me, though there might be a need for further description. Clearly
 * $${\sigma_{y}}^2 = \frac{\sum_{xi} (y_{xi}-\overline{y})^2}{n}$$.
 * But $${\sigma_{\overline{y}}}^2$$ needs a definition. I would guess it was intended to be a weighted variance, using $$n_x$$ as the weights, of the form
 * $${\sigma_{\overline{y}}}^2 = \frac{\sum_{x} n_x (\overline{y}_x-\overline{y})^2}{\sum_{x} n_x} $$.
 * Then division gives the result --Rumping (talk) 22:29, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Looks convincing to me. So, if you want to include it with the appropriate definition of $${\sigma_{\overline{y}}}^2$$, please go ahead. T om ea s y T C 08:35, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I have proposed that this article be merged into intraclass correlation coefficient. The correlation ratio statistic and its population analogue are the same as the ICC (more specifically, the statistic is one of several ICC's in use, and the population value is identical). This particular use of the ICC is different from the usual uses of the ICC, so I would propose adding a new section to the ICC page explaining how the ICC can be used to identify non-linear relationships when data are observed with replication, and stating that the term "correlation ratio" is sometimes used when the ICC is applied in this way. Skbkekas (talk) 01:35, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Links to other languages
I've tried unsuccessfully to add a link to the same page in Spanish. Could someone do it? thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.193.138.41 (talk) 00:09, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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Franny Beecher

Francis Eugene Beecher (September 29, 1921 – February 24, 2014) was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1954 to 1962, and is best remembered for his innovative guitar solos that incorporated elements of jazz. He composed the classics "Blue Comet Blues", "Goofin' Around", "Week End", "The Catwalk", and "Shaky" when he was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley and the Comets. He continued to perform with surviving members of the Comets into 2006. In 2012, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Beecher as a member of the Comets by a special committee, aimed at correcting the previous mistake of not inducting the Comets with Bill Haley.

Career
By the time Beecher became associated with Bill Haley, he had already had a lengthy career as a guitarist, having performed and recorded with the Benny Goodman Orchestra, which he joined in 1948, at a time Goodman was experimenting with music in the bebop idiom. He also worked with other big bands, with singer and former Goodman "bop band" pianist Buddy Greco and the Sharps, as well as with several country western groups. He played guitar on the 1947 single by Buddy Greco "Baby I'm True to You" backed with "How Many Times", released as Musicraft 569, and the 1948 single "Lillette" backed with "A Stranger in Town", as Musicraft 588. His guitar work influenced young musicians playing the same venues in the Philadelphia/Reading area where the Comets were based, among them the guitarist and future legendary comic-book writer-artist Jim Steranko.

Beecher first worked with the Comets in fall 1954 as a session musician, replacing the recently deceased guitarist Danny Cedrone. Beecher's first work with Haley was the single "Dim, Dim the Lights". Beecher had to be instructed to make his guitar solos less jazzy. "They wanted to play a more basic style than I was used to, more country really, they called it rockabilly." At the time Beecher began working for Haley's group, Haley did not employ a full-time lead guitarist who would also play on live shows and TV appearances (such duties were usually handled by Haley himself or steel guitarist Billy Williamson). In August 1955, Beecher appeared for the first time on national TV with the Comets performing "Rock Around the Clock", and soon afterward was promoted to a full-time member of the band, appearing with the group in the films Rock Around the Clock (1956) and Don't Knock the Rock (1956), as well as several other film appearances: in Germany in 1958, Hier bin ich - hier bleib' ich (Here I Am, Here I Stay) (1959) and in Mexico in the early 1960s, such as Jóvenes y rebeldes (1961) and Besito a Papa (1961).

Beecher had the ability to send his voice into a high pitch (making it sound like that of a small child). This gimmick was used for the opening of the hit Haley single's "See You Later Alligator", "(You Hit the Wrong Note) Billy Goat" and "Rip It Up". According to Swenson, Beecher would also occasionally perform the voice during live shows, with Haley or Williamson humorously introducing him as a baritone. In 1959, Williamson and Beecher recorded a duet, "ABC Rock", in which Beecher sang two entire verses in his little-kid voice.

In 1958, Beecher and the other Comets recorded under the name The Kingsmen, releasing several 45 singles for East West Records. The single "Week End", released as East West 115 and backed with "Better Believe It", reached number 35 on the Billboard pop singles chart in November 1958. The follow-up single was "The Cat Walk" backed by "Conga Rock", released as East West 120. Beecher left the Comets in 1960 in order to work with a spin-off group called the Merri-Men which released a 45 single on Apt Records, "Big Daddy"/"St. Louis Blues"; he returned to the group in 1961 only to leave again in 1962. A few months later, he agreed to sit in with the band for a live album recording session for Roulette Records (the album was entitled Twisting Knights at the Roundtable). After Haley's death in 1981, Beecher toured with a short-lived Comets reunion group. Finally, starting in 1987, the surviving members of the 1954-55 Comets reunited and proceeded to tour the world and make new recordings for the next two decades. Beecher performed with this group until July 2006, after which the group announced he had retired; although it was announced that the 85-year-old guitarist would tour Europe with the Comets in early 2007, this did not occur.

Franny Beecher's compositions included "Blue Comet Blues", "Goofin' Around", "Shaky", "Tampico Twist", "The Beak Speaks", "Hot to Trot", "Beecher Boogie Woogie", "Whistlin' and Walkin' Twist", "The Catwalk", and "Week End", which was a chart hit with The Kingsmen, reaching no.35, co-written with Rudy Pompilli and Billy Williamson. "Week End" was recorded and released as a single by rock guitarist Link Wray in September, 1963 as Swan S-4154. Sid Phillips and His Band released "Week End" as a 45 single in the UK in 1958 on His Master's Voice. Red Price released "Week End" as a single in the UK on Pye Records in 1958.

With the Comets, Franny Beecher played a black 1956 Gibson Les Paul Custom which was given to him by the Gibson Guitar Company, then based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Gibson also gave Bill Haley a blonde 1956 Super 400 and a black 1956 Gibson L-7. The Les Paul Custom featured a pair of black single coil P-90 pickups, one of which was a bar magnet P-90. Earlier, he had played a Gibson L-5 acoustic with a cutaway body and a DeArmond pickup, as noted in Sound and Glory, page 100. He played an Epiphone Emperor when he was a member of the Benny Goodman band in 1948 and 1949, which he also played on the Ed Sullivan Show during a performance of "Rock Around the Clock". In the Mexican film Juventide y rebeldes (1961), he is playing either a Gibson ES-345 or ES-355 Stereo. His other guitars included a blonde 1959 ES-350T, which in his later years he no longer owned. He played a cherry sunburst Gibson ES-137 Classic in concerts and while touring. In October 2007, Beecher performed as a special guest of the Rib House Band at the Bridgeport Rib House in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania.

With Benny Goodman
Franny Beecher was the lead guitarist in the Benny Goodman Orchestra in 1948-49. He appeared on The Toast of the Town show (which later became The Ed Sullivan Show) on CBS television with the Benny Goodman band in December, 1948. He is featured on two Benny Goodman albums, Modern Benny on Capitol and Benny Goodman at the Hollywood Palladium. Personnel lists generally refer to him as Francis Beecher.

Modern Benny (Capitol ECJ-40001. Japanese release only) track list:

 * 1. Ma Belle Marguerite (2/10/1949)
 * 2. Having a Wonderful Wish (3/24/1949)
 * 3. That Wonderful Girl of Mine (3/24/1949)
 * 4. It Isn't Fair (3/24/1949)
 * 5. Fresh Fish (3/31/1949)
 * 6. The Hucklebuck (3/31/1949)
 * 7. Don't Worry About Me (3/31/1949)
 * 8. Little Girl Don't Cry (10/15/1949)
 * 9. Why Don't We Do This More Often (10/15/1949) Dolly Houston vocal
 * 10. Brother Bill (10/27/1949)
 * 11. Spin a Record (10/27/1949)
 * 12. I Had Someone Else Before I Had You (10/27/1949) Dolly Houston vocal
 * 13. You're Always There (10/27/1949)
 * 14. Let's Dance (3/25/1949) instrumental
 * 15. Undercurrent Blues (3/25/1949) instrumental
 * 16. Do Do Do (3/25/1949)
 * 17. Trees (3/25/1949) instrumental
 * 18. There's a Small Hotel (3/25/1949) instrumental (quartet)
 * 19. Jersey Bounce (3/25/1949) instrumental
 * 20. El Greco (3/25/1949) instrumental
 * 21. Lover Man (3/25/1949) Terry Swope vocal
 * 22. King Porter Stomp (3/25/1949) instrumental
 * 23. Clarinade (3/25/1949) instrumental

Death
Beecher died on February 24, 2014, in his sleep from natural causes. He was 92 years old.

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The Knobz were a fairly typical pop band of the 1980's New Zealand scene. Best described in an article of the time as XTC meets The Knack. However, several things set them apart from their contemporaries. They were the very first rock band to have a self funded single hit the top 5 in New Zealand and, on their own label - Bunk Records! They were self managed and toured extensively with good chart success for 2 singles and later, an album - Sudden Exposure. They were also a great live act and always entertained to the max. The band toured New Zealand before leaving for Australia in 1980 and they played the (mainly) Sydney scene with other acts of the period such as the Divinyls, Men at Work, Swanee, Moving Pictures etc. The band had disagreements over their keyboard player and three members left.Kiwi imports drummer Tim Powles (ex Flight X-7) and also the bass player from the same band, Warwick Keay joined their original songwriter Kevin Fogarty. The Knobz are long gone now but looking back, they epitomised the early 80s period when punk still held a slender audience and new romantic was starting to hit. Criticism leveled at The Knobz during and since their time was often unfair and not seen in the context of the times.They headlined Sweetwaters Friday night kiwi special and had 80,000 fans singing CULTURE. Many of the critics have been players from the same period and obviously people who perhaps envied the Knobz chart successes. They did break new ground and were a powerful live act.

Is the above a draft?PeterMan844 (talk) 03:11, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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Hugh S. Cumming

Hugh Smith Cumming (August 17, 1869 – December 20, 1948) was an American physician, and soldier. He served as the fifth Surgeon General of the United States from 1920 to 1936.

Early life
Cumming was born in Hampton, Virginia. He received his undergraduate education at Baltimore City College and then obtained medical degrees from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1893, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity, and the University College of Medicine (in Richmond, Virginia) in 1894 (the latter while serving as house doctor at St. Luke's Hospital in Richmond). In 1894, he obtained a commission as an Assistant Surgeon in the Marine Hospital Service, which was to become the Public Health Service and Marine Hospital Service in 1902 and then the Public Health Service in 1912.

Career
Cumming was assigned to a variety of posts during his early career in the Service, especially quarantine stations in the South and on the West Coast of the United States. He also served on immigration duty at Ellis Island, New York. For 3 years, from February 1906 to February 1909, Cumming was detailed to the office of the United States Consul General in Yokohama, Japan, where he was concerned with immigration and quarantinable diseases. From 1913 to 1919, he was assigned to the Hygienic Laboratory (forerunner of the National Institutes of Health) in Washington, DC. There he was placed in charge of an investigation of the pollution of tidal waters of Maryland and Virginia. One of his concerns was the shellfish industry, and the potential threat to human health from consuming oysters grown in waters polluted with sewage.

During World War I, Cumming was assigned to the United States Navy as a sanitary advisor. He was later ordered to Europe to study the sanitary conditions of the ports from which troops would embark and to confer with military authorities to take the necessary action to prevent the introduction of disease into the United States by returning troops. He was also a member of the Typhus Fever Commission to Poland.

Surgeon General
On 3 March 1920, Cumming was appointed Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. The Public Health Service (PHS) had been given the task in 1919 of providing health care for veterans, and the Service was still expanding and adjusting to this new responsibility when Cumming took office. In 1922, however, Congress created the Veterans' Bureau, and the responsibility for the health care of veterans was transferred from the PHS to the new Bureau. Another event of Cumming's early tenure was the creation of a national leprosy hospital in Carville, Louisiana in 1921 when the PHS took control of what had been the Louisiana Leper Home. The facility at Carville became a major center for leprosy treatment and research.

Soon after his appointment, Cumming inaugurated a plan for the medical inspection of immigrants abroad in the principal countries of origin. This plan reduced the number of immigrants who were turned back for medical reasons after making the trip to the United States. In the 1920s, the PHS also completed the development of a national maritime quarantine system by acquiring the last two quarantine stations operated by States.

The Narcotic Farms Act of 1929 authorized the PHS to establish a Division of Narcotics (the name was later changed to Division of Mental Hygiene) and to construct two hospitals for the treatment of drug addicts. Cumming also expanded the research activities of the Hygienic Laboratory, which in 1930 became the National Institute of Health. Under Cumming, the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps was also authorized to admit dentists, pharmacists, and sanitary engineers, the first expansion of the Regular Corps beyond physicians.

In 1930, the PHS was given the responsibility of providing medical and psychiatric care to Federal prisoners. Under the Social Security Act of 1935, the PHS was authorized to provide grants-in-aid to the States for the development of public health work.

Cumming served as President of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States in 1924 and as President of the American Public Health Association in 1931. In 1931 Cumming initiated "The Tuskegee study of untreated syphilis in the negro male"—begun in 1932, continued under Cumming's successors, ended in 1972. Cumming was also on the Advisory Board of the Eugenics Committee of the USA (ECUSA).

In 1935 Cumming was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. He also served for a period as Chairman of the Permanent Committee of the International Office of Public Health in Paris.

A collection of his papers are held at the National Library of Medicine.

Personal life
Hugh Cumming retired as Surgeon General and from active duty in the Public Health Service on 31 January 1936 as a rear admiral. He continued to serve as Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau until 1947. He died in Washington, DC, on 20 December 1948.

His son, Hugh S. Cumming Jr., was a career Foreign Service Officer who served as United States Ambassador to Indonesia.

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