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The Orlons

The Orlons are an American R&B group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that formed in 1960. The group won gold discs for three of their singles.

Career
The quartet consisted of lead singer Rosetta Hightower (June 23, 1944 – August 2, 2014), Shirley Brickley (December 9, 1944 – October 13, 1977), Marlena Davis (October 4, 1944 – February 27, 1993), and Stephen Caldwell (born November 22, 1942).

Before they became the Orlons, they were an all-girl quintet called Audrey and the Teenettes. They formed in the late 1950s in junior high school and consisted of Hightower, Davis, and three Brickley sisters: Shirley, Jean, and Audrey. However, after the Brickleys' mother did not permit 13-year-old Audrey to sing in certain nightclubs with the group, she and Jean quit, making the group a trio.

In high school, the group's three remaining members discovered fellow student Stephen Caldwell, who was lead singer of a local group called the Romeos. Impressed, they invited him to join the group in 1960 and named themselves the Orlons as a tongue-in-cheek nod to the friendly rivalry they had with a popular group at their high school, the Cashmeres. (Orlon was a brand name for the widely used synthetic fiber acrylic.)

A high school friend, Dovells lead singer Len Barry, encouraged them to audition for Cameo-Parkway Records at the turn of the decade. The group took his advice in the fall of 1961, but were rejected at first, although the record label signed the group after two more auditions. Cameo executive Dave Appell appointed Hightower as the lead singer, and began writing songs for them.

In 1962, the group provided back-up vocals for Dee Dee Sharp's hits "Mashed Potato Time" and "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)". They later found fame with their first national hit, "The Wah-Watusi", which reached No. 2 in the US pop chart and which triggered the brief Watusi dance craze. They recorded their own versions of the Dee Dee Sharp songs for their debut album, The Wah-Watusi, which received a rating of 4.5 out of 5 from AllMusic in 2006. They had a second hit in the same year with "Don't Hang Up", a No. 4 hit on the pop chart. The group had three hits in 1963: "South Street", the group's last Top Ten hit, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard chart; "Not Me", which reached No. 12; and "Crossfire", the group's last hit, which reached No. 19.

They also recorded a version of the Bobby Rydell hit "The Cha-Cha-Cha", which includes the line "When you see the Wah-Watusi, you go a-ha-ha-ha," poking fun at their own hit.

Davis left the group in August 1963 and Caldwell quit the group in 1964, Sandy Person replaced Davis. A short-lived stint by Yvonne Young was followed by original Teenette, Audrey Brickley, Shirley's sister. By then, the group's popularity had waned in the United States. They continued to perform into the late 1960s with success in the UK. They disbanded in 1968 after Hightower decided to stay in England after a tour. Hightower had a successful career as a soloist and as an in-demand session singer, backing Joe Cocker, John Holt and other artists. She married record producer Ian Green.

In later years, Davis married and found work as an executive secretary, whilst Caldwell became a shop steward of the bus drivers' trade union, and then became the administrator of the union's legal fund in Philadelphia and served on the Philadelphia Board of Education for 29 years. In 1988, Caldwell and Davis re-formed the group with two new members and performed live on the oldies circuit until Davis' death in 1993.

On October 13, 1977, Shirley Brickley was shot dead by an intruder in her home in Philadelphia. Marlena Davis died of lung cancer on February 27, 1993 (aged 48). Audrey Brickley died of acute respiratory distress syndrome on July 3, 2005 (aged 58). Rosetta Hightower Green died in Clapham, London, on August 2, 2014, at the age of 70. Caldwell and Jean Brickley still perform as the Orlons with two of Caldwell's cousins, Alberta Crump and Madeline Morris.

In March 2012, Caldwell and Brickley took part in the benefit single "Mull of Kintyre", featuring Charlie Gracie with Clutch Cargo.

Awards
"The Wah-Watusi," "Don't Hang Up," and "South Street" each sold over one million copies and were awarded gold disc status.

Albums
(Chart positions and featured charted hits in parentheses)
 * 1962: The Wah-Watusi—Cameo C-1020 (U.S. Billboard No. 80)
 * 1963: All the Hits by The Orlons—Cameo C-1033
 * 1963: South Street—Cameo C-1041 (U.S. Billboard No. 123)
 * 1963: Not Me—Cameo C-1054
 * 1963: Down Memory Lane—Cameo C-1073

Compilation albums

 * 1963: Biggest Hits—Cameo C-1061
 * 1963: Golden Hits—Cameo C-1067 (Duet compilation with the Dovells)
 * 2005: The Best of The Orlons (Abkco compilation under series title: "Cameo Parkway 1961–1966")

Singles

 * *Compilations of various Cameo/Parkway artists

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Parche

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Rosetta Hightower

Rosetta Jeanette Hightower (23 June 1944 – 2 August 2014) was an American singer and the lead singer of the 1960s girl group The Orlons. She was born in Philadelphia.

As lead singer of The Orlons, the Orlons recorded several Top 10 U.S. hits between 1962 and 1964, including "The Wah-Watusi", "Don't Hang Up", "South Street", and "Not Me". In early 1962, The Orlons provided backing vocals on Dee Dee Sharp's "Mashed Potato Time" (#2 pop, No. 1 R&B). That spring, they recorded "The Wah-Watusi" which, in July 1962, made it in the Billboard charts to the No. 2 spot. Around the same time, they recorded back-up vocals on Dee Dee Sharp's second hit, "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)" which went to No. 9. The follow-up to "The Wah-Watusi", "Don't Hang Up" reached No. 4 pop and No. 3 R&B in the fall and winter of 1962. The Orlons' first major performance was at New York's Apollo Theatre with The Crystals, Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, Chuck Jackson, Tommy Hunt, and Gene Chandler. In 1963, they had hits with "South Street" (No. 3 Pop, No. 4 R&B) and "Crossfire" (No. 19 Pop, No. 25 R&B).

Hightower left the group in the late 1960s to pursue a solo career in the UK. She joined the ranks of the then-popular female session singers who backed many hit songs. This group included Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan, Kiki Dee, and Sue and Sunny. She recorded with Joe Cocker on his With a Little Help From My Friends album.

Moving permanently to England in 1970, Hightower married musician-producer Ian Green. She represented the US in Belgium for the first international singing contest ever held. She released numerous singles and at least two albums. In 1971, she was a backing vocalist for John Lennon's "Power to the People".

Death
Rosetta Hightower Green died in Clapham, London, on 2 August 2014, aged 70. Her son, Ian Green, Jr., works as Paul Oakenfold's main co-producer and remixer.

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Vipsania Marcella

Vipsania Marcella is a name retrospectively given by historians to a possible daughter or daughters of the ancient Roman general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and his second wife Claudia Marcella Major, the eldest niece of emperor Augustus.

History
It was once thought that Agrippa and Marcella only had one surviving child together, a daughter whom no real information about was available, this daughter was given a composite name to distinguish her from her sisters from Agrippa's other marriages. But as new information was discovered and men such as Quintus Haterius, Publius Quinctilius Varus, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus began to be speculated to have been Agrippa's sons-in-law by a daughter or daughters of Marcella opinions began to shift. Ronald Syme believed the wives of each men were three different people, one Vipsania who married Varus, a Vipsania who married Lepidus and one Vipsania who married Haterius, but Syme also argued that Haterius wife was a daughter of Agrippa by his first wife Pomponia, not Marcella. Meyer Reinhold rebutted and argued that Varus wife was the daughter of Pomponia, L. Koenen has entertained this possibility as well, while Franziska Knopf thought that Haterius wife could be Marcella's daughter. Some historians also think that Varus and Lepidus wives were not separate people. Nonetheless Syme's view hold majority opinion in the 21st century.

Cultural depictions
In Robert Graves' books, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, a single daughter of Agrippa and Marcella is mentioned to exist. She is depicted as having committed suicide for unexplained reasons early on, but later in the story Roman empress Livia claims that she killed herself over guilt for committing incest with her father, to secretly instigate his poisoning.

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Brien McMahon

Brien McMahon (born James O'Brien McMahon) (October 6, 1903 – July 28, 1952) was  an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States Senate (as a Democrat from Connecticut) from 1945 to 1952. McMahon was a major figure in the establishment of the Atomic Energy Commission, through his authorship of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (the McMahon Act).

McMahon served as chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy, and the first chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. McMahon was a key figure in the early years of atomic weapons development and an advocate for the civilian (rather than military) control of nuclear development in the USA. Also, in 1952, McMahon proposed an "army" of young Americans to act as "missionaries of democracy", which sowed the seeds for what later became the Peace Corps.

Early life and education
McMahon was born in 1903 in Norwalk, Connecticut. McMahon graduated Fordham University in 1924 and then Yale Law School in 1927. McMahon changed his name to Brien McMahon the same year as being admitted to the bar.

Justice career
McMahon began a practice in Norwalk and later served as a judge on that town's city court, appointed to the position by Connecticut Governor Wilbur L. Cross. However, McMahon quickly resigned to become special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1933. Attorney General Homer Cummings was also from Connecticut. In 1935, McMahon was appointed as United States Assistant Attorney General overseeing the Department of Justice's Criminal Division.

Among prominent cases associated with McMahon in the Criminal Division were the prosecutions of John Dillinger's lawyer, Louis Piquette (for harboring a criminal) and the trials of gangsters associated with 'Baby Face' Nelson.

However, the case that elevated McMahon to national renown and laid the foundation for his political career was the Harlan County Coal Miners' case. It was the first attempt to enforce the Wagner Act protecting unions. The case became famous, less for legal principles than for the violence and scandal surrounding the trial.

Although he lost, he "received wide public recognition and a reputation as a courageous and honest upholder of justice, both of which would further his political ambitions," according to a biography accompanying the introduction to his papers, held by the Georgetown University Library.

In 1939, McMahon left government service and resumed his law practice. In February 1940 McMahon married Rosemary Turner (June 21, 1917 – October 11, 1986), and they had a daughter, Patricia. Rosemary was the half-sister of the British politician and best-selling novelist (Lord) Jeffrey Archer (1940– ).

Congressional career
McMahon mounted a successful campaign for a Connecticut United States Senate seat in 1944, defeating incumbent John A. Danaher, with internationalism (McMahon) vs. isolationism (Danaher) a major point of debate.

On July 16, 1945, an atomic bomb was successfully detonated at Alamogordo, New Mexico, after which Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut called it "the most important thing in history since the birth of Jesus Christ." In late 1945, McMahon was appointed Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy, which explored legislative alternatives to the War Department sponsored May-Johnson bill. McMahon lacked knowledge about atomic energy, but saw the chairmanship as a means to assert himself as a new Senator, especially as the May-Johnson bill underwent increased attack from scientists and later lost support of the Truman White House.

On December 20, 1945, Brien McMahon introduced into the Senate legislation for an alternative atomic energy bill, which was quickly known as the McMahon Bill. The liberal bill placed control of atomic research in the hands of scientists and was broadly supported by scientists. McMahon himself framed the controversy as a question of military versus civilian control of atomic energy, even though the War Department bill was primarily a civilian bill as well. McMahon's Special Committee on Atomic Energy held many hearings during late 1945 and early 1946, thereby airing arguments about domestic postwar legislation for controlling atomic energy. In the spring of 1946, the McMahon Bill underwent major revisions in order to appease conservative elements in the Senate. The resulting bill passed the Senate and the House. On August 1, 1946, President Harry Truman signed the McMahon Bill into law as the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.

The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 created a special Congressional committee, the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Brien McMahon served as its first chairman in 1946, and again in 1949–1952. McMahon hired as the committee's executive staff director William L. Borden, who would play an influential role on the committee (and after McMahon's death, in the Oppenheimer security hearing).

The first atomic bomb test by the Soviet Union in August 1949 came earlier than expected by Americans, and McMahon immediately urged that U.S. production of atomic weapons be substantially increased. Moreover, during the next several months there was an intense debate within the U.S. government, military, and scientific communities regarding whether to proceed with development of the far more powerful hydrogen bomb, then known as "the Super". McMahon was strongly in favor of going ahead with the Super, and argued as much in a series of letters he wrote to President Truman. The senator rejected morality-based arguments against the hydrogen bomb based on it being inherently more destructive than previous weapons, asking "Where is the valid ethical distinction between" the World War II multi-day-and-night bombing of Hamburg, the firebombing of Tokyo, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and any future raid with whatever technology that caused mass casualties.

Connecticut voters reelected McMahon to his Senate seat in 1950. During his entire tenure in the Senate, he served as Secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference.

Presidential campaign, illness and death
Beginning in January 1952, McMahon was mentioned as a possible candidate in the 1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries, but he vacillated over whether he was actually running or not. His campaign slogan was to be, "The Man is McMahon", and his main campaign platform was the ensuring of global peace through strength of atomic weaponry. Then in March 1952 he fell ill and spent a week at Bethesda Naval Hospital; his condition would be determined to be lung cancer. From his sickbed, he sent a message to the Democratic state convention in Hartford, Connecticut saying that if elected president, he would tell the Atomic Energy Commission to manufacture thousands of hydrogen bombs. By the time of the 1952 Democratic National Convention in July, he was too weak to be considered an actual candidate, but the delegation from Connecticut initially cast their 16 votes for him as a symbolic gesture.

Brien McMahon served in the United States Senate until his death at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., on July 28, 1952, at age 48. His obituary was given front page, above the fold treatment in The New York Times. More than four years remained in his second Senate term.

Brien McMahon is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Norwalk.

Legacy and honors

A commemorative stamp honoring Brien McMahon and his role in opening the way to peaceful uses of atomic energy was issued by the United States on July 28, 1962, at Norwalk, Connecticut. The stamp features a portrait of McMahon facing a rendition of an atomic symbol.

Brien McMahon High School, in Norwalk, is named after him. Brien McMahon Hall, a residence hall at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, also bears his name.

Footage of McMahon is included in the 1982 documentary The Atomic Cafe giving a speech urging a reasoned response to the acquisition of atomic weapons contrasting with the more McCarthyite speeches of Republican Senators Owen Brewster, Richard Nixon and Democratic Representative Lloyd Bentsen.

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Talk:Peter Dunne

PoV
This is a page that could easily get PoV or result in a edit war, so good to get some disscussion going here. I would agree with the last revision that "supposed" common sense was PoV and should have been removed, but I question the change from tobacco industry to Taiwan so I put tobacco industry back in, but left Taiwan. Personally I have never heard of Peter Dunne supporting Taiwan, but I could be wrong.

Certainly IMHO one of the first things I would think of when considering Peter Dunne is his support for the tobbaco industry (for example he infamously described Smokefree legislation tobacco control officers as "Health Nazis").

I also added "opposition to drug law reform" since that is another well known policy (indeed United Future made it one of their three non-negoiatable conditions of ageeing to support the current government, that there would be no changes in the drugs laws).

I also wanted to make clear that the family values and common sense tags are controversial. Definately this is the first two things that you think about when considering Peter Dunne, family values and common sense, but it should be recognised that these are only claims that he makes - many people agree that his policies are common sense, but others completely disagree. The way I attempted to do this is rather clumsy and could be changed: "(self-described) family values and common sense."

cheers 203.167.245.16 03:14, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hey fantastic re-write Vardion. However, I'm not entirely sure that "Today, Dunne generally describes his policies as being based on common sense, and his supporters promote him as sensible and reasonable. Opponents are more inclined to criticise him as a right-wing conservative, pointing to his opposition to drug law reform, his support for the tobacco industry, and his party's emphasis on family values. His history in Parliament is also subject to debate — supporters say that his willingness to work with either side of the House is a sign of reasonableness, while critics accuse him of being opportunistic, and of doing deals with anyone who can offer him something." is really an accurate reflection of the situation. In particular I don't feel that any of drug law reform, tobacco industry, family values or opposition to civil union bill which I'm about to add can really be seen as a defining a party on the left to right wing continuium so can't really say "criticise him as a right-wing conservative, pointing to" ... the point I was trying to get across above was that his opponents think he is lacking common-sense in his policies and unreasonable in the way he deals with other politicians and parties. - Drstuey 11:16, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Photo
This REALY needs a photo. Is anyone going to a campaign stop if they can take and upload a picture it would be great. He is one of the only NZ Party leaders not to have one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tshiels1 (talk • contribs) 05:41, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Policies etc
It's good that people are paying attention to what Dunne's saying, however citing a Victoria University lecture goes against the confidentiality promise of MP addresses. Sorry. You'll have to verify Dunne's support for civil unions from somewhere else. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.73.75.243 (talk • contribs) 09:39 am, 17 May 2010

Criticisms
I have started off a section for criticisms of Mr. Dunne. This is a valid section and most people in his type of political position have a section like this in their WP bios. I can see that some people would like to just delete it wholesale, but I hope by putting this on the talk page first, I can convince people to work to improve the section rather than removing it. Just being pre-emptive here, but any wholesale deletion without an attempt to improve will be considered a malicious edit if not discussed here, hopefully this will resolve any edit wars before they start.118.90.33.176 (talk) 23:52, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I always prefer to see criticisms in the main body of text rather than as a separate section. To some extent, this is the case in the section "Fifth Labour Government".

 * The current criticisms section is purely about Dunne's policies on drug law reform and would be better entitled that. It uses far too much emotive language - words such as "oppressive", "undemocratically", and "obtuse". Overall, the section is trying to explain that Dunne's policies are wrong, but this is not appropriate for Wikipedia. To some extent, this could be improved by quoting specific organisations as criticising Dunne, rather than repeating their views as fact.- gadfium 20:48, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Peter Dunne has served as Associate Minister of Health (with particular responsibility for Drugs, Mental Health and Suicide Prevention) by both Labour-led and National-led governments, which demonstrates that the policies implemented in these areas have majority support across the political spectrum. Accordingly the current personal criticisms are the frustration of an extra-parliamentary fringe that no government gives weight to their views, which have no place in this section. P N Quinn (talk) 06:21, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Independent politician?
I see that the Speaker is now regarding Dunne as an Independent. To me, that is a technicality that ought to be discussed in the article, but I don't believe that it should be shown as such in the parlbox. He's still a member of United Future and the parlbox showing a change of allegiance is somewhat misleading. Yes, United Future has been de-registered, but it still exists as such, and Dunne is still a member of it (he's even its leader). So my suggestion is that the parlbox should be restored to what it was, and it should be the text that gives the full story. There will, of course, be dissenting views, and I for one won't start an edit war over this. I would like those who believe that a change in allegiance should be shown in the parlbox to explain on this talk page why they believe that it's the most appropriate course of action, though.  Schwede 66  05:41, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree. Dunne was elected to Parliament by standing for his seat on behalf of United Future, and he still represents this party. That the party has been deregistered in the meantime does not affect this. He could have stood without ever registering the party, and he would (assuming that made no difference to voters) have been elected as UF's MP. The registration only allows the party to appear on the party list, and Dunne is an electorate MP, not a list MP.- gadfium 06:09, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

 * Also agree that he should still be recognised as a UF politician - if he had been elected as a non-registered party politician in the first place then the party name would have been accepted, and if he is re-elected as an unregistered UF politician next year the same would apply. If he had left United Future then he would be an Independent, but it appears United Future (as a viable registered party) has left him. And I agree with gadfium, Dunne's electorate status is the most important aspect - in 2011 he was on the ballot and elected as United Future. Fan |  talk  06:59, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I made a custom parlbox line reflecting change of status (and removing list position) instead of the change of allegiance as recently added to article. Fan |  talk  07:11, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree with the above; the parlbox doesn't need to reflect the change in how parliament recognises him because he is still a part of UF and they are still a functioning party. Good work on the custom parlbox line Fanx, while personally I'd not have anything there I do think the custom line will stop anon's adding in other lines. Perhaps when/if UF is reregistered we can remove it altogether. Mattlore (talk) 07:20, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Good work, Fanx (as usual). I agree with you, Mattlore, regarding re-registration. Thanks for your input, Gadfium.  Schwede  66  07:36, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks: I agree that if the party is reregistered then the custom parlbox can be disposed of, and yes, its purpose is to be a compromise between those that see no change and those that wish to cast Dunne into the fringes, whether in parliament or in wikipedia. Fan |  talk  10:01, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

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Mike Riley (American football)

Michael Joseph Riley (born July 6, 1953) is an American football coach who was most recently the head coach of the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League (USFL). He has previously served as the head coach of two college football programs: Oregon State (1997–1998, 2003–2014) and Nebraska (2015–2017). Riley has also been the head coach of teams in four different professional leagues: the Canadian Football League (CFL), World League of American Football (WLAF), National Football League (NFL), and Alliance of American Football (AAF). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 1970s.

Early life and playing career
Born in Wallace, Idaho, Riley is the eldest of three sons of Bud and Mary (Shumaker) Riley. Bud was from a small town western Alabama (Guin, AL), served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and had played college football at the University of Idaho in Moscow under head coach Dixie Howell, a hall of famer as a player at Alabama. After graduation, Bud worked for a mining company in Wallace and was asked by town leaders to coach at the high school; Mary was from nearby Mullan, where her parents, Mike and Mary Shumaker, ran a hotel. The family of four, now with middle brother Ed, moved from Wallace down to Lewiston in 1959, where Bud was the head coach at Lewiston High School for three seasons.

They moved up to Moscow in 1962, when Bud became a collegiate assistant coach at his alma mater, the University of Idaho, under new head coach Dee Andros. Youngest brother Pete was born while the family lived in Moscow. After three seasons on the Palouse, Andros was hired at Oregon State in 1965 and Bud joined his first staff in Corvallis and stayed for eight seasons, first as the secondary coach and later as defensive coordinator. Bud went on to become a head coach in the CFL.

Riley had a peripatetic youth and spent his first 11+ years in northern Idaho, but considers Corvallis his hometown. He arrived in the spring of 1965, near the end of sixth grade, and stayed through high school.

High school
Riley was a hometown hero in Corvallis from his athletic days at Corvallis High School, where he led the Spartans as the starting quarterback to consecutive state title games in 1969 and 1970, both played in Corvallis at OSU's Parker Stadium. Corvallis High School had narrowly won the early season matchup in 1969, but came up well short against Medford in the A-1 state championship, 27–0.

They avenged the loss to the Black Tornado the following year in the regular season 28–14, and again in the AAA state final, 21–10, with left-handed option quarterback Riley throwing two touchdown passes in the second quarter to build a 21–3 lead at halftime. He completed five of nine passes for 76 yards; prior to the final, Riley had thrown only 41 times in 11 games, with 23 completions (and ten wins). He was a three-sport athlete at CHS, also lettering in basketball and baseball.

College
Riley graduated from CHS in 1971 and opted not to play his college football in the Pac-8, but for the Alabama Crimson Tide in the SEC under head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. He had family connections to the state and school: his father was born and raised in Guin and his uncle, Hayden Riley, was Alabama's assistant athletic director, head baseball coach (1970–79), and the former head basketball coach (1960–68). (Mike's cousin, Major Ogilvie, became a star running back for the Tide in the late 1970s; Ogilvie's mother Peggy was one of Bud Riley's five sisters.) In his four seasons at Alabama as a reserve defensive back, the Tide won four Southeastern Conference (SEC) titles and the 1973 UPI (Coaches Poll) national championship, though they lost the 1973 Sugar Bowl to Notre Dame on New Year's Eve. Until 1974, the final Coaches Poll was released before the bowl games.

Coaching career
Riley began his coaching career immediately after his playing days ended, first as a graduate assistant at California in 1975, and then as a graduate assistant at Whitworth in Spokane, where he received his master's in physical education.

In 1977, he was hired as the defensive coordinator and secondary coach at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. During his stay at Linfield he assisted head coach Ad Rutschman's Wildcats to a six-year record of 52–7–1, which included five conference titles and an undefeated NAIA Division II championship season in 1982.

CFL
Riley was hired as an assistant coach in the Canadian Football League in 1983 with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and was a part of their 1984 Grey Cup championship team.

Hired as the Bombers' head coach at age 33, Riley reportedly became the youngest head coach in CFL history in 1987 at Winnipeg but in fact was three years older than Bud Grant, who was 29 when he was hired as Winnipeg's head coach in January 1957 (Grant had turned 30 by the time he coached his first game that summer). Riley led the Blue Bombers from 1987 to 1990 and won two Grey Cups during his tenure.

WLAF
He also coached the San Antonio Riders of the defunct WLAF. He was intended to stay on as the Riders attempted to transition to the CFL (as the San Antonio Texans) for the 1993 CFL season, but the team folded before it could begin playing as a CFL team.

USC
Riley returned to the college ranks in 1993 when USC head coach John Robinson offered him the position of offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach; he later became assistant head coach. The Mesa Tribune named him the league's top assistant coach in 1993 after leading the Trojan offense to record setting numbers. USC quarterback Rob Johnson set numerous Pac-10 and NCAA records under Riley's tutelage and later became a fourth-round NFL Draft pick. "He's a player's coach, who gets the most out of you by treating you like normal", Johnson later said.

Riley remained at USC through the 1996 season, helping the Trojans to post-season victories in the Freedom, Cotton, and Rose Bowls. USC won an outright league title, shared another, and finished second once.

Oregon State
Riley was hired as the head coach at Oregon State in 1997 to replace Jerry Pettibone, who had resigned at the end of the 1996 season. Riley's initial contract was a five-year deal at $185,000 per year. In the Beavers first season under Riley, they posted a record of 3–8. This was a difficult season for Riley as he attempted to run his NFL-style offense with players recruited by Pettibone to run the wishbone triple-option. The 1998 season was a big step in the right direction, with the Beavers posting a 5–6 record, their best record since 1971. Two of the six losses were by a single point, to Washington and California in back-to-back games late in the season. This was followed by a last-minute loss to a highly ranked UCLA team. The 1998 season was capped off by a double-overtime 44–41 victory over the rival Oregon Ducks in the Civil War game.

Although his first stint with the Beavers only lasted two seasons, Riley is considered by many to have laid the foundation for the success of the Beavers in the years to come. The 1999 team, led by Dennis Erickson and built around players Riley recruited, posted a 7–5 record and earned a trip to the Oahu Bowl, which ended a streak of 28 straight losing seasons.

NFL
In January 1999, Riley left the Beavers to become the head coach of the San Diego Chargers of the NFL, signing a five-year deal at $750,000 per year. Riley coached the Chargers from 1999 to 2001, with a record of 14–34. In 2000, the Chargers had their worst season; they went 1–15, with their only win on a last-second field goal against the Kansas City Chiefs. Riley's last game was indicative of his last season, as the Chargers played well, but one poor play turned the tide. The 2001 Chargers ended their 5–11 season with a loss to the Seattle Seahawks, after Doug Flutie passed for 377 yards and drove for the tying field goal with 16 seconds remaining, but poor special teams play led to a long Seahawks kick return and subsequently a 54-yard winning field goal.

Riley was fired as head coach of the Chargers after three seasons and was an assistant coach with the New Orleans Saints in 2002. He was offered the Alabama job in December 2002 after Dennis Franchione left for Texas A&M. Riley was also under consideration for the UCLA job during that period.

Return to Oregon State
After spending the 2002 season with the New Orleans Saints, Riley returned to Corvallis to become the head coach at Oregon State in 2003 following Erickson's departure to become the head coach of San Francisco 49ers of the NFL. Riley agreed to a seven-year contract that started at $625,000 per year and increased incrementally to $950,000 in year seven.

Continuing on their new success, the Beavers won bowl games in 2003 and 2004 before having a down year in 2005.

After starting the 2006 season 2–3, the Beavers went 9–4 on the regular season, including an upset of #3 USC in Corvallis. The Beavers completed their impressive season with a win over Missouri in the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, ending their season with a 10–4 record.

In 2007, the Beavers again started 2–3 and finished 8–4 on the regular season, including an upset of #2 Cal in Berkeley. The Beavers finished the year 9–4 with a win in the Emerald Bowl in San Francisco over the Maryland Terrapins.

In 2008, Riley's Beavers knocked off #1-ranked USC 27–21 at Reser Stadium. The Beavers went into the Civil War with a chance to reach the Rose Bowl as Pac-10 champions but were defeated by Oregon, 65–38, and instead accepted another invitation to the third place Sun Bowl, where they beat Pittsburgh in a defensive struggle, 3–0.

Though winless in bowl games as a player, Riley had a 6–2 NCAA football bowl record as a head coach through the 2013 season, having won the 2003 Las Vegas Bowl, 2004 Insight Bowl, 2006 Sun Bowl, 2007 Emerald Bowl, 2008 Sun Bowl, and 2013 Hawaii Bowl. Riley was a combined 9–2 in bowl games as a head or assistant coach. In the 2009 Las Vegas Bowl, the Beavers lost to the BYU Cougars of the Mountain West Conference.

In Riley's second stint at Oregon State, the Beavers produced four NFL quarterbacks, Sean Mannion, Sean Canfield, Matt Moore, and Derek Anderson.

Following the 2009 season, Riley was rumored to be up for the USC vacancy created by the resignation of Pete Carroll. Those rumors were put to rest when Riley signed a three-year extension at OSU through the 2019 season.

During the 2012 season, Riley snatched his 75th career win surpassing Lon Stiner as Oregon State's all-time winningest coach. Riley completed his second stint at Oregon State with an 85–66 (.560) record in a dozen seasons. His 93 wins overall in 14 seasons at OSU are the most in school history.

Nebraska
On December 4, 2014, Riley was named head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

In his first season as head coach at Nebraska, Riley's Cornhuskers completed a 5–7 regular season (their first losing season since 2007) with numerous last second losses; notable among these was the Huskers' first game under Riley, wherein they lost to BYU, 33–28, on a last-second Hail Mary pass from the Cougars' backup quarterback, Tanner Mangum, to wide receiver Mitch Mathews (a loss which snapped Nebraska's streak of 29 consecutive home opener wins). Despite their losing season, however, the Cornhuskers were still invited to a post-season bowl game due to a lack of enough eligible teams to fill all bowl slots and the team high academic progress rate (APR). The Cornhuskers defeated the UCLA Bruins in the 2015 Foster Farms Bowl, finishing the season 6–7. 2016 saw improvement as the team began the season with seven straight wins and reached number 7 in the AP Poll, and finished 9–4 overall after losses to Wisconsin, Ohio State, Iowa, and Tennessee in the Music City Bowl. The Huskers significantly regressed in 2017, going on a four-game losing streak to finish 4–8, the school's worst record since 1961. The last three of those losses saw Nebraska surrender at least 50 points. Riley was fired following the season.

Second return to Oregon State
On December 7, 2017, it was announced that Riley would return to Oregon State to be the assistant head coach under newly hired Oregon State head coach Jonathan Smith, who had been both a player (1998) and a graduate assistant coach (2003) during Riley's first and second tenures as head coach at Oregon State.

San Antonio Commanders
In June 2018, Riley was named the head coach of the San Antonio Commanders of the Alliance of American Football.

Seattle Dragons
On June 6, 2019, Riley was named the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Seattle's new XFL team, the Seattle Dragons. He missed the first three games of the season for personal reasons.

New Jersey Generals
On January 6, 2022, Riley was named the Head coach and General manager for the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League. On January 1, 2024, it was announced the Generals would not be a part of the UFL Merger.

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User talk:Tairen

Welcome
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 * You're quite welcome. Just one note: sign your posts on talk pages with ~ (four tildes).  It automatiically includes your username and the date/time.  Thanks, Whosyourjudas (talk) 03:22, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~ ~ ~. Four tildes (~ ~ ) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome!
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Papoulis
If there is only one Papoulis then there is no point in making a disambig page - just make it a redirect. disambig pages are for search terms which can refer to more than one wiki article. --Bachrach44 14:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks, I considered the simple redirect but don't have the requisite experience to know for sure what to do. I appreciate the advice. Msa11usec 14:50, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PRFT

PRFT 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 DELETE. 4 votes to delete. Postdlf 02:29, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

PRFT
I can't find anything to verify this--PRFT gaming -perficient riprock gets zero hits, and other combinations didn't seem to find anything relevant either. Niteowlneils 03:15, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I can find no trace of this either. P. Riis 16:14, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: There was a "Flintstones" character named Dash Riprock, and there was a punk musician by that name. Possibly the latter, and possibly someone else entirely, has written a fiction.  Ok.  Not notable. 19:44, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. not notable -R. S. Shaw 22:55, 2004 Oct 19 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nonsense, vanity. "Dash Riprock" was one of the default player names in the original Escape Velocity too, BTW. 19:52, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Wait possibly not-notable, and I assume Dash Riprock is a pseudonym, but it's a common pseudonym apparently. And something about this seems to ring a bell... I suggest waiting a few days until ILIAD has a chance to finish a thorough search.  Suggest the author expand this article in the meantime, to aid in other editors being able to see it's alleged notability.  It seems I read some mention of this in print somewhere very recently... possibly in Wired or Animation magazine? I think it would be good to give this one a week (thats how long the longest ILIAD search seems to take.).Pedant 00:52, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)
 * I found this - http://prft.co.uk/ not quite sure what to make of it, sound kinda similar to the article, but i dunno. The bellman 08:38, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Umberto Tozzi

Umberto Antonio Tozzi (born 4 March 1952) is an Italian pop and rock singer and composer. Throughout his career, he has sold over 70 million records in different languages internationally, and his biggest international hits are: "Stella Stai", "Gloria", "Tu" and "Ti Amo".

Biography
Tozzi was born on 4 March 1952 in Turin, Italy. He is the second son of Nicola Tozzi, a police officer originally from Vico del Gargano, and Immacolata from Montesarchio. They immigrated to Turin in 1945.

In 1968, at the age of 16, Umberto Tozzi joined 'Off Sound', one of the many groups that performed in small venues around Turin. In Milan, he met Adriano Pappalardo, with whom he formed a 13-piece band and began a large-scale Italian tour.

In 1974 Tozzi had his first success as a songwriter, with the song "Un Corpo, un'anima" ("One Body, One Soul"), co-written with Damiano Dattoli and performed by Wess and Dori Ghezzi. It appeared on Canzonissima, an Italian music programme running from 1956 to 1974.

In 1976, he released his first album, Donna Amante Mia ("Woman, My Lover"), which contained the single "Io Camminerò" ("I Will Walk"), which was sung with great success by Fausto Leali. In 1977, "Ti Amo", one of Tozzi's most famous songs, was released. It stayed at number one on the Italian song charts for seven months and went on to become an international success throughout continental Europe. It also achieved decent success in the Americas and Australia, primarily in nightclubs. The single was awarded a gold record award in Australia, despite the fact that it only made number 25 on the charts there in late 1979. In 1978 he released Tu, another hit in Italy, and held an Australian tour, which was organized by the Italo-Australian promoter Duane Zigliotto and concluded at the Sydney Opera House with two full house concerts.

The following year Tozzi recorded one of his most famous songs, "Gloria", which became a major hit in Italy in 1979 and 1980. Jonathan King wrote English lyrics for the song, which became popular in the UK as well in 1979, and was sung and recorded by the English singer Elkie Brooks in 1980. A cover version of the song by the American singer Laura Branigan in 1982 caused the song to grow in popularity in the US as well. Branigan worked with the arranger and keyboardist of Tozzi's own version, Greg Mathieson, to give the song what she called "an American kick." The song reached the top of the charts, reached gold and platinum status in several countries, and stayed on the US pop charts for 36 weeks.

By late 1980 he released "Stella Stai", another one of his major hits. In the early 1980s, he released an album called Tozzi, which he recorded at a concert with a band of American musicians, and was his first live recording. Soon after, the Latin Group Menudo recorded the Spanish version of "Stella Stai", entitled "Claridad", which made it one of the highest-selling records in the whole of Latin America.

After a period of absence from the music scene, Tozzi returned in 1987 and won the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Si Può Dare Di Più" ("More can be given"), which he sang with Gianni Morandi and Enrico Ruggeri. In 1987 he also released "Gente Di Mare" ("People of the Sea"), which he performed with Raf at Eurovision, and won third place. In 1988, Tozzi released his second live album, The Royal Albert Hall. In the 1990s, Tozzi recorded several more songs such as "Gli Altri Siamo Noi" ("We Are the Others"), the album Equivocando ("Misunderstanding"), Il Grido ("The Outcry") and Aria e Cielo ("Air and Sky"). He also released a greatest hits compilation, Le Mie Canzoni ("My Songs").

In 2000 and 2005, he performed "Un'altra Vita" ("Another Life") and "Le Parole" ("The Words") at the Sanremo Music Festival. Between the two events, he also released a duet with the French singer Lena Ka of his classic "Ti Amo" as "Ti Amo (Rien Que des Mots)". Tozzi released another greatest hits compilation, a 2-disc set entitled The Best of, and another single, "E Non Volo". In January 2009 he released the single "Cerco ancora te", composed by Emilio Munda and Matteo Gaggioli.

In 2013, his re-edited version of "Gloria", sung in its original Italian, was placed by Martin Scorsese onto the soundtrack of the 2014 Academy Award nominated blockbuster, The Wolf of Wall Street.

Throughout his career, Tozzi has sold over 70 million records in different languages internationally.

Discography

 * Studio albums
 * 1976 - Donna amante mia
 * 1977 - E' nell'aria...ti amo
 * 1978 - Tu
 * 1979 - Gloria
 * 1980 - Tozzi
 * 1981 - Notte rosa
 * 1982 - Eva
 * 1984 - Hurrah!
 * 1987 - Invisibile
 * 1991 - Gli altri siamo noi
 * 1994 - Equivocando
 * 1996 - Il grido
 * 1997 - Aria & cielo
 * 2000 - Un'altra vita
 * 2005 - Le parole
 * 2006 - Heterogene
 * 2015 - Ma che spettacolo
 * Greatest hits albums
 * 1987 - Minuti di un'eternità
 * 1991 - Le mie canzoni
 * 1999 - Bagaglio a mano
 * 2002 - The Best of Umberto Tozzi
 * 2006 - Tozzi Masini
 * 2009 - Superstar
 * 2012 - Yesterday, Today
 * 2017 - Quarant'anni che ti amo
 * 2018 - Raf Tozzi
 * Live albums
 * 1980 - In Concerto
 * 1988 - Royal Albert Hall
 * 2009 - Non solo Live
 * 2017 - Quarant'anni che ti amo
 * 2017 - Quarant'anni che ti amo in Arena
 * 2019 - Due, la nostra storia

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Township (New Jersey)

A township, in the context of New Jersey local government, refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government. As a political entity, a township in New Jersey is a full-fledged municipality, on par with any town, city, borough, or village. They collect property taxes and provide services such as maintaining roads, garbage collection, water, sewer, schools, police and fire protection. The Township form of local government is used by 27% of New Jersey municipalities; however, slightly over 50% of the state's population resides within them.

Townships in New Jersey differ from townships elsewhere in the United States. In many states, townships can be an intermediate form of government, between county government and municipalities that are subordinate parts of the township, with different government responsibilities allocated at each level. In New Jersey, there are no subordinate municipalities located within a township, as townships are equivalent to all other forms of local municipalities.

Municipalities in New Jersey may be classified into one of five types, of which townships are one. Townships may retain the township form of government, or adopt one of the modern forms of government, which are not restricted to a particular type of municipality. In New Jersey, a municipality's name (such as X Township) is not necessarily an indication of its form of government.

In New Jersey, the township form of government consists of a three to five-member township committee usually elected at-large in partisan elections. At its organization meeting, held after an election, the committee selects one of its elected members to serve as mayor and preside at meetings. The other members of the township committee serve as commissioners of various township departments, overseeing the work of those areas along with overall legislative issues. Some mayors in this form of government also oversee specific departments. The mayor in this form of government is primarily ceremonial and has the same power as other township committee members. The mayor does hold the powers vested in all mayors under state law. One township committee member is elected deputy mayor each year. Some towns with this form of government rotate the mayor's office each year, while others elect the same mayor for 2–3 years in a row. Out of the 241 townships in the state, the township form of government is used by 141. On road signs, township is often abbreviated TWP or Twp. Some official documents abbreviate it as "Twsp."

History
Historically, a variety of legislation has been passed by the state legislature that has defined and refined the township form of municipal government:

The Township Act of 1798 was the first state legislation to incorporate municipalities. The government defined was a form of direct democracy, similar to the New England town meeting, in which the vote was available to all white males, at least 21 years old, who were citizens of New Jersey, and residents of the township for at least six months; and who paid taxes in the township, or who owned land, or rented a home in the township for a rent of at least five dollars a year. A group of five freeholders was elected to one-year terms on the Township Committee, which was responsible to oversee the expenditure of revenue in between town meetings.

The Township Act of 1899 abolished the town meeting and strengthened the role of the Township Committee, which was initially set at three and amended to allow for expansion to five members. Members were elected for staggered three-year terms.

The Home Rule Act of 1917 legally defined the term "municipality" and recognized five types of government: borough, township, city, town, and village and granted each equal legal standing.

The Township Act of 1989 simplified the much-amended Act of 1899. It retains a three or five member township committee serving staggered terms, whose members are generally elected at-large. The committee elects a mayor from among its members to serve a one-year term. Partisan elections are allowed under this law. Voters may initiate a referendum to change the membership to consist of either 3 or 5 members. While many township committees directly supervise the operation of their municipality, the revised act allows the committee to delegate all or a portion of its responsibilities to an appointed municipal administrator.

A number of municipalities changed to the Township type, or the Township form of government, between 1979 and 1982. A federal law, The State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 provided funding to the states to be divided between state and municipal governments. In 1981, states were removed from the program and the law was amended to provide direct grants to the most popular form of local government in the United States - townships. In Essex County alone, 11 municipal governments changed their form or name to take advantage of the program.

List of Townships
There are a total of 246 townships in the state, including:

 * Aberdeen Township
 * Alexandria Township
 * Allamuchy Township
 * Alloway Township
 * Andover Township
 * Barnegat Township
 * Bass River Township
 * Bedminster
 * Belleville
 * Berkeley Heights
 * Berkeley Township
 * Berlin Township
 * Bernards Township
 * Bethlehem Township
 * Blairstown
 * Bloomfield
 * Boonton Township
 * Bordentown Township
 * Branchburg
 * Brick Township
 * Bridgewater Township
 * Buena Vista Township
 * Burlington Township
 * Byram Township
 * Carneys Point Township
 * Cedar Grove
 * Chatham Township
 * Cherry Hill Township
 * Chester Township
 * Chesterfield Township
 * Cinnaminson Township
 * Clark
 * Clinton Township
 * Colts Neck Township
 * Commercial Township
 * Cranbury
 * Cranford
 * Deerfield Township
 * Delanco Township
 * Delaware Township
 * Delran Township
 * Dennis Township
 * Denville Township
 * Deptford Township
 * Downe Township
 * Eagleswood Township
 * East Amwell Township
 * East Brunswick
 * East Greenwich Township
 * East Hanover Township
 * East Windsor
 * Eastampton Township
 * Edgewater Park
 * Edison
 * Egg Harbor Township
 * Elk Township
 * Elsinboro Township
 * Evesham
 * Ewing Township
 * Fairfield Township, Cumberland County
 * Fairfield Township, Essex County
 * Florence Township
 * Frankford Township
 * Franklin Borough, Gloucester County
 * Franklin Township, Hunterdon County
 * Franklin Township, Somerset County
 * Franklin Township, Warren County
 * Fredon Township
 * Freehold Township
 * Frelinghuysen Township
 * Galloway Township
 * Gloucester Township
 * Green Brook Township
 * Green Township
 * Greenwich Township, Cumberland County
 * Greenwich Township, Gloucester County
 * Greenwich Township, Warren County
 * Haddon Township
 * Hainesport Township
 * Hamilton Township, Atlantic County
 * Hamilton Township, Mercer County
 * Hampton Township
 * Hanover Township
 * Harding Township
 * Hardwick Township
 * Hardyston Township
 * Harmony Township
 * Harrison Township
 * Hazlet
 * Hillsborough Township
 * Hillside
 * Holland Township
 * Holmdel Township
 * Hope Township
 * Hopewell Township, Cumberland County
 * Hopewell Township, Mercer County
 * Howell Township
 * Independence Township
 * Irvington
 * Jackson Township
 * Jefferson
 * Kingwood Township
 * Knowlton Township
 * Lacey Township
 * Lafayette Township
 * Lakewood Township
 * Lawrence Township, Cumberland County
 * Lawrence Township, Mercer County
 * Lebanon Township
 * Liberty Township
 * Little Egg Harbor Township
 * Little Falls
 * Livingston
 * Logan Township
 * Long Beach Township
 * Long Hill Township
 * Lopatcong Township
 * Lower Alloways Creek Township
 * Lower Township
 * Lumberton
 * Lyndhurst
 * Mahwah
 * Manalapan Township
 * Manchester Township
 * Mannington Township
 * Mansfield Township, Burlington County
 * Mansfield Township, Warren County
 * Mantua Township
 * Maple Shade Township
 * Maplewood
 * Marlboro Township
 * Maurice River Township
 * Medford
 * Mendham Township
 * Middle Township
 * Middletown Township
 * Millburn
 * Millstone Township
 * Mine Hill Township
 * Monroe Township, Gloucester County
 * Monroe Township, Middlesex County
 * Montague Township
 * Montclair
 * Montgomery Township
 * Montville
 * Morris Township
 * Morristown
 * Mount Holly Township
 * Mount Laurel
 * Mount Olive Township
 * Mullica Township
 * Neptune Township
 * New Hanover Township
 * North Bergen
 * North Brunswick
 * North Hanover Township
 * Nutley
 * Ocean Township, Monmouth County
 * Ocean Township, Ocean County
 * Old Bridge Township
 * Oldmans Township
 * Orange
 * Oxford Township
 * Parsippany-Troy Hills
 * Pemberton Township
 * Pennsauken Township
 * Pennsville Township
 * Pequannock Township
 * Pilesgrove Township
 * Piscataway
 * Pittsgrove Township
 * Plainsboro Township
 * Plumsted Township
 * Pohatcong Township
 * Quinton Township
 * Randolph
 * Raritan Township
 * Readington Township
 * River Vale
 * Riverside Township
 * Robbinsville Township
 * Rochelle Park
 * Rockaway Township
 * Roxbury
 * Saddle Brook
 * Sandyston Township
 * Scotch Plains
 * Shamong Township
 * South Brunswick
 * South Hackensack
 * South Harrison Township
 * Southampton Township
 * Sparta
 * Springfield Township, Burlington County
 * Springfield Township, Union County
 * Stafford Township
 * Stillwater Township
 * Stow Creek Township
 * Tabernacle Township
 * Teaneck
 * Tewksbury Township
 * Toms River
 * Union Township, Hunterdon County
 * Union Township, Union County
 * Upper Deerfield Township
 * Upper Freehold Township
 * Upper Pittsgrove Township
 * Upper Township
 * Vernon Township
 * Verona
 * Voorhees Township
 * Wall Township
 * Walpack Township
 * Wantage Township
 * Warren Township
 * Washington Township, Bergen County
 * Washington Township, Burlington County
 * Washington Township, Gloucester County
 * Washington Township, Morris County
 * Washington Township, Warren County
 * Waterford Township
 * Wayne
 * Weehawken
 * West Amwell Township
 * West Caldwell
 * West Deptford Township
 * West Milford
 * West Orange
 * West Windsor
 * Westampton
 * Weymouth Township
 * White Township
 * Willingboro Township
 * Winfield Township
 * Winslow Township
 * Woodbridge Township
 * Woodland Township
 * Woolwich Township
 * Wyckoff

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George Pake

George E. Pake (April 1, 1924 – March 4, 2004) was a physicist and research executive primarily known for helping found Xerox PARC.

Early life
Pake was raised in Kent, Ohio. His father was an English instructor at Kent State University. His mother was a schoolteacher.

Pake was exempted from service in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II due to scoliosis. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and his doctorate in physics at Harvard University in 1948.

Career
Much of his early research at Harvard University focused on the topic of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. There, he discovered the multiplet structure produced by the dipolar coupling of two nuclear spins. In his honor, this multiplet is now known as the Pake doublet and forms the basis for NMR-based inter-atomic distance measurements and molecular structure determination.

After four years as a physics professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Pake became the head of the physics department at age 28. He later went on to become provost of the university from 1962 to 1970 before leaving to serve as founding director of Xerox PARC.

Pake served on the President's Science Advisory Committee (1965-1969). He was president of the American Physical Society in 1977.

PARC assembled a first-rate collection of research talent, especially in the area of computer science. During Pake's years running Xerox PARC, the research center invented the laser printer and pioneered the use of a computer "desktop" which functioned by clicking on "icons." This has since become the computer industry standard.

Despite advocacy by Pake, the Xerox Corporation never chose to open a personal computer division. Pake left Xerox in 1986 to direct the nonprofit Institute for Research on Learning in Palo Alto. He remained director emeritus until the time of his death.

Late in life, Pake began writing two different books, both with the collaborator Andrew Szanton. Pake's death, of heart failure on March 4, 2004, in Tucson, Arizona, interrupted both book projects.

Awards
In 1986, Pake was awarded the illustrious IRI Medal from the Industrial Research Institute for recognition of his leadership in the field of technology and innovation. Pake was also a recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1987 and continued to visit PARC long after his 1986 retirement from Xerox.

George E. Pake Prize
Since 1984, the American Physical Society has been awarding the George E. Pake Prize, endowed in 1983 by the Xerox Corporation, to recognize outstanding work by physicists combining original research accomplishments with leadership in the management of research or development in industry.

Personal life
Pake married Marjorie Semon on May 31, 1947; they had four children: Warren, Bruce, Cathie and Steve.

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John Wright (New Zealand politician)

John Wright (born 1945) is a former New Zealand politician. He was a member of parliament from 1996 to 2002, representing the Alliance. Before entering Parliament he owned the Port-a-Loo company.

Early life and career
Wright was born in Ashburton in 1945. He grew up on a farm in Ashburton before becoming a panel beater and mechanic by trade. He later formed his own recycling and promotions business. He was then a sales and marketing manager for a plastics manufacturer.

He was a founding member and president of the Waimakariri Ratepayers and Residents Association. He was also a committee member of the North Christchurch Jaycees and Richmond Primary School Parent–teacher association.

Political career
Wright joined the Social Credit Party in 1977 and was a vice-president of the party from 1979 until 1986. He was part of the conference in 1985 that turned Social Credit into the Democratic Party. He was the Democratic candidate for in the 1990 election. In 1991, he became leader of the Democrats.

When the Democrats joined with three other parties to found the Alliance, Wright was active in building up the new organisation. He stood unsuccessfully for the Alliance in the Rangiora seat in the 1993 election, and then in the 1994 Selwyn by-election. In the 1996 election, the first conducted under the MMP system, Wright was elected to Parliament as a list MP, having been ranked in fourth place on the Alliance list. By this time, he was leader of the Democrats. He returned to Parliament in the 1999 election, and when the Alliance formed a coalition government with the larger Labour Party, Wright was appointed to a Parliamentary Undersecretary's role in the Economic Development, Revenue, Regional Development and Racing portfolios. He became the first (and only) Social Creditor to be part of the Executive.

In 2002, the Alliance began to collapse, with a rift opening between Parliamentary leader Jim Anderton and the organisational wing, led by Matt McCarten. When Anderton left the Alliance to establish a new party, the Progressive Coalition, the Democrats (including Wright) followed him. In the 2002 election, Wright was ranked in fourth place on the Progressive list, behind Anderton, Matt Robson, and new Democratic Party leader Grant Gillon. but as the party only won enough votes for two seats, Wright did not remain in Parliament.

Later, when the Democrats opted to split from the Progressives, Wright opposed the decision. He eventually opted to leave the Democrats in order to remain with the Progressives, and was joined by Gillon. He remained a member of the Progressives until the movement's dissolution in January 2012. After he failed to retain his seat at the 2002 and 2005 elections, Wright was forced to take on a job at a panel beater's shop until he was appointed a Member of the Transit board in 2005. During this time Wright had commented to Tracy Watkins, a Fairfax Media Reporter that although he had a cabinet full of $1000 suits the only clothes he actually needed were a $12 pair of Warehouse overalls. As of 2015, Wright no longer sits on the merged NZ Transport Agency Board and his current activities are unknown.

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John Wright

John, Johnny, or Johnnie Wright may refer to:

Academics

 * John Wright (doctor) (1811–1846), American doctor and botanist
 * John Henry Wright (1852–1908), American classical scholar
 * John Kirtland Wright (1891–1969), American geographer
 * John Farnsworth Wright (1929–2001), British economist
 * John P. Wright (philosopher) (born 1942), American philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University
 * John Paul Wright, American criminologist known for his work in biosocial criminology
 * John N. Wright, philosopher and Adjunct Research Fellow in Philosophy at LaTrobe University
 * John Wright (sociologist) (born 1946), American sociologist and Professor Emeritus of African American and African studies and English at the University of Minnesota

Literature

 * John Wright (poet) (1805–1843), Scottish poet
 * John Clifton Wright (born 1948), American sailor and author
 * John C. Wright (author) (born 1961), American science fiction and fantasy writer

Performing arts

 * Johnnie Wright (1914–2011), American country musician, singer, songwriter
 * Johnny Wright (guitarist) (1930–1988), American blues musician
 * John Wright (pianist) (1934–2017), American jazz pianist
 * John Robert Wright (born 1942), American actor, commonly known as Bobby Wright
 * Johnny Wright (music manager) (born 1960), American music act manager
 * John Wright (musician) (born 1962), Canadian drummer
 * John Wright (film editor) (died 2023), American film editor

Visual arts

 * John Michael Wright (1617–1694), Scottish painter
 * John Masey Wright (1777–1866), English watercolour-painter
 * John William Wright (1802–1848), English painter
 * John Christie Wright (1889–1917), Scottish-born Australian sculptor
 * John Lloyd Wright (1892–1972), American architect and toy designer
 * John Buckland Wright (1897–1954), New Zealand illustrator

Business and industry

 * John Wright (bookseller died 1658) (fl. 1602–1658), English publisher and bookseller
 * John Wright (businessman) (fl. 1724–1787), American businessman who established Wright's Ferry
 * John Wright (bookseller died 1844) (1770/1–1844), English bookseller, author, editor and publisher
 * John Wright (shipbuilder) (1835–1910), Scottish/Australian shipbuilder
 * Sir John Wright, 1st Baronet (1843–1926), British steel manufacturer

Military

 * John Wesley Wright (1769–1805), British Royal Navy commander and captain
 * John Gibson Wright (1837–1890), American Union brevet brigadier general during the Civil War era
 * John M. Wright (1916–2014), United States Army officer
 * John Wright (British Army officer) (1940–2016), British Army brigadier

Australia

 * John James Wright (1821–1904), Australian flour miller, councillor and politician
 * John Arthur Wright (1841–1920), Australian company manager, politician and railways commissioner
 * John Wright (Tasmanian politician) (1892–1947), Australian politician

U.K.

 * John Wright (Ipswich MP) (1615–1683), English politician
 * John Cecil-Wright (1886–1982), British politician, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Erdington
 * John Oliver Wright (diplomat) (1922–2009), British diplomat

U.S.

 * John C. Wright (Ohio politician) (1783–1861), U.S. Representative from Ohio
 * John C. Wright (New York politician) (1801–1862), American politician from New York
 * John Vines Wright (1828–1908), American congressman and state supreme court justice
 * John B. Wright (fl. 1868–1872), American tailor and legislator in South Carolina
 * John T. Wright (fl. 1952), African American politician
 * John F. Wright (1945–2018), American jurist, Nebraska Supreme Court justice
 * John A. Wright (born 1954), American politician, Oklahoma State Representative and Lieutenant Governor Candidate
 * John Wright (Missouri politician) (born 1976), American politician

Elsewhere

 * John Wright (New Zealand politician) (born 1945), New Zealand MP

Religion

 * John Wright (Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge) (died 1519), English priest and academic, Master of Trinity Hall
 * John Wright (archbishop of Sydney) (1861–1933), Anglican bishop in Australia
 * John Wright (cardinal) (1909–1979), American Roman Catholic cardinal

American football

 * John W. Wright (active 1894), American college football coach
 * John Wright (wide receiver) (born 1946), American football player
 * John Wright (American football coach) (born 1948), American college football coach

Association football (soccer)

 * Jocky Wright (John Wright, 1873–1946), Scottish footballer
 * John Stewart Wright (1890–1956), Scottish footballer
 * John Wright (footballer, born 1916) (1916–1999), English football half back for Darlington
 * John Wright (footballer, born 1933), English football goalkeeper for Colchester United
 * Johnny Wright (footballer) (born 1975), Northern Irish footballer

Cricket

 * John Wright (Sheffield cricketer) (1796–1857), English cricketer associated with Sheffield Cricket Club
 * John Wright (cricketer, born 1861) (1861–1912), English cricketer
 * John Wright (cricketer, born 1935), English cricketer
 * John Wright (cricketer, born 1954), New Zealand cricketer, former coach of the Indian cricket team

Other sports

 * John Wright (greyhound trainer) (1899–1980), English greyhound trainer
 * Johnny Wright (baseball) (1916–1990), American Negro league baseball player
 * John Wright (basketball) (1921–2008), American basketball player
 * Johnny Wright (boxer) (1929–2001), British Olympic boxer and referee
 * John Wright (ice hockey) (born 1948), Canadian ice hockey player
 * John Wright (curler) (fl. 1967), American curler
 * John Wright (rugby league) (fl. 1970s), New Zealand rugby league player
 * John "Rookie" Wright (born 1973), American handball player

Others

 * John Wright (1568–1605), English conspirator, member of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot
 * John Wright (inventor) (1808–1844), English surgeon and inventor
 * John Skirrow Wright (1822–1880), English pioneer and social improver

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Talk:USS Vincennes (1826)

Detail
lots of good detail on Vincennes here: http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/v3/vincennes-i.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfman (talk • contribs) 03:24, 19 October 2004 (UTC)

 * Indeed - DANFS text is PD, so we usually just suck the whole thing in verbatim, makes a good base for further improvement. Stan 05:11, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

merge
USS Vincennes (1826-1867) and this article are about the same vessel. I suggest that the material on that article be incorporated into this one since this article is using the guidelines for ship's naming conventions Naming conventions (ships). I'll consider doing it myself, if I get time to. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 06:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I believe malo is correct i created one of the articles in question and believe that they should be merged i see no reason for them not to be merged. -- danieljackson (tlk) (cntrbtns) 06:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Merge It's the same ship. Darkspots 14:48, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Agreed, merge. --Dumarest 11:40, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge No reason not to.Cromdog 00:52, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I performed this merge. All of (1826-1867) is now in this article. I did a bit of blending and some copyediting, but the article is still rough. Hult041956 21:41, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Note: Without editing them, I picked up and moved comments made by users danieljackson, Darkspots, Dumarest, and Cromdog. These comments had been made under separate first-level headings. I moved them into a single section, only for clarity of the record. I hope everyone's ok with this action; it was done with the hope that it was helpful. Hult041956 16:03, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Upgraded page
Replaced old blue infobox with newer type light blue infobox and added additional data into the new infobox. Made minor edits throughout, including headers, links, spelling, etc., and added See Also, cats, and more references. Compared data with DANFS and other sources, added refs, and removed tag.Wikited (talk) 15:59, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Named for town?
While the WWII cruisers were undoubtedly named after the town (the Tico class one was named after the battle), suspect that this Vincennes was named after the Revolutionary War battle(s). Unfortunately, the DANFS article collects all ships of the same name under the same heading so can't really differentiate much between them in terms of name origin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.1.168.113 (talk) 14:27, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

April 2012
I was going through the international cemetery list here: http://www.interment.net/data/japan/international_cemetery.htm In that list I saw this entry: Miller, John, d. Nov 18, 1854, "Capt AFT G US Navy USS Vincennes" The Vincennes did not travel through the Ryūkyū island chain until March the next year (1855). So, does that mean Capt John Miller died in Nov of 1854 and they held onto this body for four months before they buried him in Naha, Okinawa? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.135.6.211 (talk) 19:52, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Number of guns
The infobox states 18 guns (supported by DANFS) while the ship's momument states 24 guns (supported by image of same). Wonder why the discrepancy...? - w o lf  23:43, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

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Aero Bravo

Aero Bravo is a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer founded in 1993 in Belo Horizonte. The firm manufactures light aircraft of its own design and under license.

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Cover for the album Bif Naked by Bif Naked

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Overhead valve engine

An overhead valve (OHV) engine, sometimes called a pushrod engine, is a piston engine whose valves are located in the cylinder head above the combustion chamber. This contrasts with flathead engines, where the valves were located below the combustion chamber in the engine block.

Although an overhead camshaft (OHC) engine also has overhead valves, the common usage of the term "overhead valve engine" is limited to engines where the camshaft is located in the engine block. In these traditional OHV engines, the motion of the camshaft is transferred using pushrods (hence the term "pushrod engine") and rocker arms to operate the valves at the top of the engine. However, some designs have the camshaft in the cylinder head but still sit below or alongside the valves (the Ford CVH and Opel CIH are good examples), so they can essentially be considered overhead valve designs.

Some early intake-over-exhaust engines used a hybrid design combining elements of both side-valves and overhead valves.

Predecessors
The first internal combustion engines were based on steam engines and therefore used slide valves. This was the case for the first Otto engine, which was first successfully run in 1876. As internal combustion engines began to develop separately to steam engines, poppet valves became increasingly common.

Beginning with the 1885 Daimler Reitwagen, several cars and motorcycles used inlet valve(s) located in the cylinder head, however these valves were vacuum-actuated ("atmospheric") rather than driven by a camshaft as with typical OHV engines. The exhaust valve(s) were driven by a camshaft, but were located in the engine block as with side-valve engines.

The 1894 Diesel prototype engine used overhead poppet valves actuated by a camshaft, pushrods and rocker arms, therefore becoming the first OHV engines. In 1896, U.S. patent 563,140 was taken out by William F. Davis for an OHV engine with liquid coolant used to cool the cylinder head, but no working model was built.

Production OHV engines
In 1898, bicycle manufacturer Walter Lorenzo Marr in the United States built a motorised tricycle powered by a single-cylinder OHV engine. Marr was hired by Buick (then named Buick Auto-Vim and Power Company) from 1899–1902, where the overhead valve engine design was further refined. This engine employed pushrod-actuated rocker arms, which in turn opened poppet valves parallel to the pistons. Marr returned to Buick in 1904 (having built a small quantity of the Marr Auto-Car, with one of the first known engines to use an overhead camshaft design), the same year that Buick received a patent for an overhead valve engine design. In 1904, the world's first production OHV engine was released in the Buick Model B. The engine was a flat-twin design with two valves per cylinder. The engine was very successful for Buick, with the company selling 750 such cars in 1905, and the OHV engine has powered almost all Buick automobiles since then.

Several other manufacturers began to produce OHV engines, such as the 1906–1912 Wright Brothers Vertical 4-Cylinder Engine. In 1911, Chevrolet joined Buick in almost exclusive use of OHV engines. However, side-valve engines remained commonplace until the mid-to-late 1960s, when they began to be phased out for OHV engines.

Overhead camshaft engines
The first overhead camshaft (OHC) engine dates back to 1902, in the Marr; however, use of this design was mostly limited to high-performance cars for many decades. OHC engines slowly became more common from the 1950s to the 1990s, and by the start of the 21st century, the majority of automotive engines (except for some North American V8 engines) used an OHC design.

At the 1994 Indianapolis 500 motor race, Team Penske entered a car powered by the custom-built Mercedes-Benz 500I pushrod engine. Due to a loophole in the rules, the pushrod engine was allowed to use a larger displacement and higher boost pressure, significantly increasing its power output compared to the OHC engines used by other teams. Team Penske qualified in pole position and won the race by a large margin.

In the early 21st century, several pushrod V8 engines from General Motors and Chrysler used variable displacement to reduce fuel consumption and exhaust emissions. In 2008, the first production pushrod engine to use variable valve timing was introduced in the Dodge Viper (fourth generation).

Design

OHV engines have several advantages compared with OHC engines:
 * Smaller overall packaging: The cam-in-block design of an OHV engine results in a smaller overall size, compared with an equivalent OHC engine, which can have significant advantages in center of gravity and hood height.
 * Using the same cylinder head casting for both cylinder banks: A V-type engine design allows both cylinder heads to be mirror images of each other at the front of each cylinder bank. In a V-type OHV engine design, it is possible to use the same cylinder head casting for both banks, by simply flipping it around for the second bank. The General Motors LS-based small-block engine family is a popular example of these kinds of OHV V-type engines.
 * Simpler camshaft drive system: OHV engines have a less complex drive system for the camshaft when compared with OHC engines. Most OHC engines drive the camshaft or camshafts using a timing belt, a chain, or multiple chains. These systems require the use of tensioners, which add complexity. In contrast, an OHV engine has the camshaft positioned close to the crankshaft, which may be driven by a much shorter chain or even direct gear connection. However, this is somewhat negated by a more complex valvetrain requiring pushrods.
 * Simpler lubrication system: The lubrication requirements for OHV cylinder heads are much lower. as they lack a camshaft and related bearings to lubricate (rather they typically have a single camshaft within the block, where an OHC engine can have two per bank of cylinders, requiring oil passages into the cylinder head). OHV heads only need lubrication for the rocker arms at the pushrod end, trunnion, and rocker tip. This lubrication is typically provided through the hollow pushrods themselves rather than a dedicated lubrication system in the head. The reduced lubrication requirements can also mean that a smaller, lower-capacity oil pump is used.

Compared with OHC engines, OHV engines have the following disadvantages:
 * Limited engine speeds: Although OHV engines have simpler drive systems for the camshaft, there are a greater number of moving parts in the valvetrain (i.e., the lifters, pushrods, and rockers). Inertia from these valvetrain parts makes OHV engines more susceptible to valve float at high engine speeds (RPM).
 * Constraints on valve quantity and location: OHC engines often have four valves per cylinder, whereas it is rare for an OHV engine to have more than two valves per cylinder. In OHV engines, the size and shape of the intake ports as well as the position of the valves are limited by the pushrods and the need to accommodate them in the head casting.

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Bif Naked (album)

Bif Naked is the first album by Canadian singer Bif Naked, released in 1994. The album was originally released through Bif Naked's own label, Concrete. The album was later picked up by Aquarius Records, remixed, and re-released in 1996.

Track listing

 * 1) "Everything" (Bif Naked/John R. Dexter) – 4:08
 * 2) "Make Like a Tree" (Bif Naked/Harry Degen/Lionel Misomali/Doug Plavin) – 4:16
 * 3) "Daddy's Getting Married" (Bif Naked/John R. Dexter) – 3:42
 * 4) "Tell on You ("Letter to My Rapist")" (Bif Naked/John R. Dexter) – 2:28
 * 5) "Never Alone" (Bif Naked/John R. Dexter) – 3:57
 * 6) "Over You" (Bif Naked/Harry Degen/Lionel Misomali/Doug Plavin) – 4:27
 * 7) "Succulent" (Bif Naked/John R. Dexter) – 3:50
 * 8) "My Whole Life" (Bif Naked) – 4:12
 * 9) "The Letter" (Bif Naked/Brad McGiveron) – 5:06
 * 10) "My Bike" (Bif Naked/Brad McGiveron) – 4:37
 * 11) "The Gross Gross Man" (Bif Naked) – 1:21

Credits

 * Bif Naked – vocals
 * Russ Klyne – guitar
 * Niko Quintal – drums
 * Todd Simko – guitar
 * John Webster – keyboards
 * Jerry Wong – guitar
 * Rich Priske – bass

Production

 * Producer – John R. Dexter
 * Engineer – Drexel Molière
 * Assistant engineers – Zach Blackstone, Rod Michaels
 * Mixing – Drexel Molière

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