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Charles A. Callis

Charles Albert Callis (4 May 1865 – 21 January 1947) was a leader and missionary in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was ordained an apostle by church president Heber J. Grant on October 12, 1933, and remained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until his death.

Early life
Callis was born on 4 May 1865, in Dublin, Ireland, to John and Susannah Charlotte Callis. While living in England, Callis met LDS Church missionaries in Liverpool and joined the church along with his three siblings and their widowed mother. The Callis family immigrated to the Utah Territory in 1875 and settled in Davis County, Utah, first in Bountiful and later in Centerville. At age 16, Callis moved to Coalville in Summit County, where he worked in the coal mines for 11 years.

His mother later married Thomas Wallace Williams on July 25, 1878, and they had several children.

In 1891, Callis was elected constable of Coalville. In 1892, he served as a missionary in Wyoming under the direction of the Summit Stake. From December 1892 until June 1895, he served as a missionary in the British Isles, including time in the Liverpool Conference. He later served as a missionary in Iowa.

In 1896, at the age of 31, Callis was elected to the Utah House of Representatives; he served in the 1st Utah State Legislature. In 1898, Callis became the attorney for Summit County.

In 1902, Callis married Grace Elizabeth Pack, a granddaughter of John Pack, and they were the parents of eight children.

Missions
Callis, his wife, and their two daughters moved to Florida in 1905 to perform missionary work. Callis was soon admitted to the Florida bar, and he worked to defend church missionaries in legal cases, such as the 1907 case against George Perry in Darlington, South Carolina. In 1907, the Callis family returned home to Utah, but were almost immediately sent back to the southern United States, this time with Callis appointed to head the South Carolina Conference.

In 1908, Callis was called as president of the church's Southern States Mission, succeeding Ben E. Rich. He held this position until his call as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve in 1933. When he began his tenure as mission president, he presided over 250 missionaries spread across 10 states.

Apostle
Callis became an LDS Church apostle on 12 October 1933, filling the vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve created by the death of James E. Talmage. Callis served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve until his death, with Henry D. Moyle filling the vacancy created by his death.

Richard E. Bennett wrote of Callis: "Today Elder Charles A. Callis is an almost forgotten figure among younger members of the Church. Yet to those who knew him, he was utterly memorable." Nephi Jensen, a fellow missionary who worked with him in Jacksonville, Florida, wrote:

"C. A. Callis in many respects [is] a very remarkable man. He is one of those heroic souls who have come up from the depths. A few years ago he was working in a coal mine in Utah, now he is a practicing attorney and has been admitted to the bar in two states. Without opportunities or aid from friends he has risen by the sovereignty of his determination to an enviable station in life. He not only acquired a knowledge of law by self effort but read widely on general subjects and trained himself in the art of public speaking. He is an able, pleasing and convincing orator."

The guiding light and inspiration for Callis was always Jesus Christ. He once said, “From my earliest recollections to the present time I have always had an abiding and intense love for my Savior. I cannot read the story of His sufferings and crucifixion without shedding tears.

As an apostle, Callis authored one book, Fundamentals of Religion (Deseret Book, 1945), a collection of seventeen lectures about the tenets of the LDS Church he gave over national radio in 1943.

Death
Callis died of a massive heart attack on 21 January 1947. His wife's death, which had occurred in October 1946, deeply affected Callis, and he never fully recovered from that loss. Callis died in Jacksonville, Florida, at the age of 81, the day after meetings were held to organize the church's first stake in the Southern United States. He referred to this event as the "crowning achievement" of his life. The day before he died, Callis told many at the church meeting that he saw his wife many times everywhere he went. That night, he wrote to his daughter: "The Lord gave me strength to go through with the organization. With his aid I am battling through. I feel that your mother is not far from us." Funeral services for Callis were held both in Jacksonville and in Salt Lake City. He was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Quotes
"The awakening of the conscience is the grandeur of the soul."

"In far too many cases riches and their owners change places—the riches own the owners. Money will become the master if it is not made to be the servant."

“The greatest thrilling experience that you and I can ever have in our hearts will be on those occasions when deep down we receive the witness that our acts and our labors are approved by our Heavenly Father.”

"This is the world in which to cultivate righteous tendencies and just causes that will produce, in the world to come, results and harvests of perfection and heavenly fruit."

Memorials
There is a plaque in St. Audoen's Park, Dublin, to commemorate the Birthplace of Callis.

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Punchy

Punchy may refer to:

 * Punchy, Hawaiian Punch's mascot
 * Dementia pugilistica, a neurological disorder which affects some boxers, also called punch-drunk syndrome
 * Punchy, Somme, a French commune
 * Punchy, a nickname for the town of Punchbowl, New South Wales, Australia
 * Punchy, a video game based on Punch and Judy

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Hogar CREA

Hogar CREA is an international drug rehabilitation institution founded in Puerto Rico. It is often referred to in the plural, Hogares CREA.

History
In 1968, José Juan García founded Hogar CREA. The acronym is for a Spanish phrase, comunidad de reeducación para adictos meaning 'community for the re-education of addicts'; crea is also a word meaning 'creates', and Hogar Crea translates to 'Home Creates'.

Participants were required to attend church services on Sundays until a court ruling changed that. Participants are known for selling desserts such as caramel custards. They also wash cars and do community service. The program is funded by both the United States federal government and the Puerto Rican government.

Hogares CREA has over 152 facilities worldwide. Besides Puerto Rico, facilities are also established in Florida, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Panama, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

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Categorization for articles on characters of the television series King of the Hill.

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Sylvester Q. Cannon

Sylvester Quayle Cannon (June 10, 1877 – May 29, 1943) was an American businessman, engineer, and religious leader who served as the sixth presiding bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1925 to 1938 and a member of church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1939 until his death. He was the son of George Q. Cannon, an apostle and member of the church's First Presidency.

Biography
Cannon was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He studied at the University of Utah and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. degree in mining engineering.

In 1899, Cannon began an LDS Church mission in Belgium. Cannon then served from 1900 to 1902 as president of the church's Netherlands–Belgium Mission. Cannon also served as Francis M. Lyman's secretary on a three-month trip to many nations along the Mediterranean and in the Middle East. From 1916 to 1925, Cannon served as president of the Pioneer Stake in Salt Lake City.

In 1925, Cannon became the Presiding Bishop of the LDS Church, succeeding Charles W. Nibley. Cannon's counselors were David A. Smith and John Wells.

In 1938, Cannon was released as Presiding Bishop and was succeeded by LeGrand Richards. At the same time, Cannon was ordained an apostle and made an "associate" of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a unique position that had never been filled before. When Quorum member Melvin J. Ballard died the next year, Cannon became a full member of the Quorum; he served in this position until his death.

Cannon died in Salt Lake City from encephalomalacia, or softening of the brain. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery.

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Alsea Bay Bridge

The Alsea Bay Bridge is a concrete arch bridge that spans the Alsea Bay on U.S. Route 101 (US 101) near Waldport, Oregon.

History
There have been two bridges on this site.

The first bridge was designed by Conde McCullough and opened in 1936. It was a 3011 ft long, reinforced-concrete combination deck and through arch bridge. The hostile environment caused significant corrosion to the steel reinforcements. In 1972 the Oregon Department of Transportation began projects aimed at extending the life of the bridge. By the mid-1980s it was decided to replace the bridge rather than continuing costly rehabilitation efforts. The first bridge was demolished in 1991. Construction of the second bridge, designed by HNTB, began in 1988, and it was opened in the fall of 1991 at a cost of $42.4 million. The bridge is 2910 ft in total length, with a 450 ft main span that provides 70 ft of vertical clearance. The bridge has a latex concrete deck and the piers are significantly thicker than normal in an attempt to thwart corrosion. Its life expectancy is 75 to 100 years.

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This category lists tennis players with Wikipedia articles who have notably represented Chile. Note that articles are sub-categorized by whether a player has done so in male or female competition, and also by particular notable competitions.

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Blyth Bridge

Blyth Bridge is a small hamlet in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, near to West Linton.

It is located in a bend on the A701 which goes from Moffat to Edinburgh, close to the junction with the East-West road the A72 which goes to Peebles.

Places nearby include the Lyne Water, Carlops, Romannobridge, and the Deepsyke Forest.

There is an aqueduct carrying a large water main which supplies Edinburgh and passes over Tarth Water.

There are a number of iron age forts on the hills nearby, and the historic Drochil Castle is a short distance away.

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SBY

SBY is an abbreviation that can stand for:

 * Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the 6th President of Indonesia
 * IATA code for Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport, Maryland, US
 * Selby railway station, North Yorkshire, England, National Rail station code
 * Shibuya Station, JR East station code
 * Stand-by (mode) of electronic device

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Carmine Appice

Carmine Appice (born December 15, 1946) is an American rock drummer. He is best known for his associations with Vanilla Fudge; Cactus; the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice; Rod Stewart; King Kobra; and Blue Murder. He is also Vinny Appice's older brother. Appice was inducted into the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2014. He is also a more than capable (fretless-) bass player, as can be heard on the "Guitar Zeus" albums, for example.

His best-selling drum instruction book The Realistic Rock Drum Method. was first published in 1972 and has since been revised and republished as The Ultimate Realistic Rock Drum Method. It covers the basic subjects of rock rhythms and polyrhythms, linear rudiments and groupings, shuffle rhythms, hi-hat and double bass drum exercises. Appice has claimed that he influenced John Bonham's use of bass drum triplets.

Career

Appice received classical music training, and was influenced early on by the work of jazz drummers Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa. Appice first came to prominence as the drummer with the late 1960s psychedelic band Vanilla Fudge. He contributed distinctive background harmonies with bassist Tim Bogert. After five albums, the pair left Vanilla Fudge to form the blues rock quartet Cactus, with vocalist Rusty Day and guitarist Jim McCarty. Appice and Bogert then left Cactus to join Jeff Beck in the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice. Appice joined Rod Stewart's backing band in 1976 co-writing songs such as "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" and "Young Turks". He also played drums on a track on Paul Stanley's eponymous solo album (1978).

He was a member of KGB, which featured Ray Kennedy, Ric Grech, Mike Bloomfield and Barry Goldberg. Appice has recorded with artists such as Stanley Clarke, Ted Nugent and Pink Floyd. He has also played with King Kobra and (alongside John Sykes) in Blue Murder. On May 23, 1981, Tom Bradley, the then Mayor of Los Angeles, proclaimed that day as Carmine Appice Day in the city, in recognition of the drummer's charitable and educational work. In late 1983 Appice toured with Ozzy Osbourne in support of his Gold-selling Bark at the Moon album, but shortly afterward was fired from the backing group. Though Osbourne had a good relationship with him, the singer's wife and manager Sharon detested Appice, and the decision to fire him was strictly hers.

Appice recorded Caso Cerrado (1995) with the Argentine guitarist Pappo. They were also joined by bassist Tim Bogert on four songs, including "P. B. A. Boogie". He spent 1999 touring Japan with Bogert and Char in a unit called CB&A, with a live album released the following year. In 2000, Appice formed the power trio DBA with Bogert and Rick Derringer, and was reunited once again with Bogert when they reformed Vanilla Fudge.

In 2005, he became an official supporter of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization which provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in less privileged public schools throughout the USA. He has personally delivered instruments to children in the program and has also performed at benefit concerts for the organization and sits on its Honorary board of directors.

In 2006, he formed the drum ensemble SLAMM in which Appice participated on drums playing alongside four young drummers; the resulting show has been described as "Stomp on steroids". The band filmed a promotional video for the Cable Network station ESPN, using a NASCAR garage as a set and mechanics' hardware as instruments. SLAMM was voted as the runner-up in the Drum magazine poll for Percussion Ensemble (2008) after a special appearance at the magazine's drum festival. The group also appears on the Modern Drummer festival DVD (2008).

He recorded Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus: Conquering Heroes (2009). This was the third album in his Guitar Zeus series. These albums have featured guitarists such as Jennifer Batten, Brian May, Ted Nugent, Richie Sambora and Yngwie Malmsteen.

Carmine Appice lives in New York with his longtime girlfriend, radio personality Leslie Gold, The Radiochick.

He lent his talents to the Sly Stone CD I'm Back! Family & Friends, on which he plays on the Sly classic "Stand!" It was released on August 16, 2011.

2011–2012 saw Carmine performing Drum Wars shows with his brother Vinny Appice and guitarist Michael Hund, as well a reformation of King Kobra with Johnny Rod, Mick Sweda, and David Henzerling, with Paul Shortino replacing Marcie Free on lead vocals. This lineup released an eponymous album, King Kobra, in April 2011 on the Frontiers label, which received critical acclaim. A new King Kobra album was released in 2013, titled King Kobra II, featuring the song "Have a Good Time", for which a music video was filmed in the fall of 2012 at Count's Vamp'd in Las Vegas Valley.

Appice published his memoir, Stick It!: My Life of Sex, Drums & Rock 'n' Roll, in 2016.

Appice was set to play with Vinnie Vincent in a mini-reunion show slated originally for December 2018 but moved to February 2019 before ultimately being completely canceled.

In 2021, Appice released "Energy Overload". The album is credited to Appice Perdomo Project which is a collaboration with Multi Instrumentalist Fernando Perdomo.

Albums
Appice (with his brother Vinny Appice)
 * Sinister (2017)

Carmine Appice
 * Rockers (1981)
 * Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus (1995)
 * Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus 2: Channel Mind Radio (1997)
 * Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus Japan (1999)
 * Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus Korea (2002)
 * V8 (2008)
 * Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus: Conquering Heroes (double CD) (2009)
 * Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus 25th Anniversary (2021)

Appice Perdomo Project (with Fernando Perdomo)
 * Energy Overload (2021)

Beck, Bogert & Appice
 * Beck, Bogert & Appice (1973)
 * Live in Japan (1973)

Blue Murder
 * Blue Murder (1989)
 * Nothin' But Trouble (1993)

Carmen Maki
 * Night Stalker (1979)

Cactus
 * Cactus (1970)
 * One Way...Or Another (1971)
 * Restrictions (1971)
 * 'Ot 'N' Sweaty (1972)
 * Fully Unleashed: The Live Gigs (2004)
 * Cactus V (2006)
 * Fully Unleashed: The Live Gigs Vol. II (2007)
 * Black Dawn (2016)
 * Tightrope (2021)

Char, Bogert & Appice
 * Live in Japan (1999)

Derringer, Bogert & Appice
 * Doin' Business As… (2001)

DNA
 * Party Tested (1983)

Jan Akkerman
 * Tabernakel (1974)

KGB
 * KGB (1976)
 * Motion (1976)

King Kobra
 * Ready to Strike (1985)
 * Thrill of a Lifetime (1986)
 * King Kobra III (1988)
 * Hollywood Trash (2001)
 * King Kobra (2011)
 * King Kobra II (2013)

Marty Friedman
 * True Obsessions (1996)

Michael Schenker
 * Temple of Rock (2011)

Mother's Army
 * Mothers Army (1993)
 * Planet Earth (1997)

Pappo's Blues
 * Caso Cerrado (1995)

Paul Stanley
 * Paul Stanley (1978)

Pearl
 * Pearl (1997)
 * 4 Infinity (1998)

Pink Floyd
 * "Dogs of War" from A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)

Rated X
 * Rated X (2014)

Rod Stewart
 * Foot Loose & Fancy Free (1977)
 * Blondes Have More Fun (1978)
 * Foolish Behaviour (1980)
 * Tonight I'm Yours (1981)

Sly Stone
 * I'm Back! Family & Friends (credited only to "Sly Stone") (2011)

Ted Nugent
 * Nugent (1982)

Travers & Appice (as duo with Pat Travers)
 * It Takes A Lot of Balls (2004)
 * Live at the House of Blues (2005)
 * Bazooka (2006)

Vanilla Fudge
 * Vanilla Fudge (1967)
 * The Beat Goes On (1968)
 * Renaissance (1968)
 * Near the Beginning (1969)
 * Rock & Roll (1969)
 * Mystery (1984)
 * The Best of Vanilla Fudge Live (1991)
 * 2001/The Return/Then And Now (2001)
 * The Real Deal – Vanilla Fudge Live (2003)
 * Out Through the In Door (2007)
 * Orchestral Fudge/When Two Worlds Collide (2008)
 * Box of Fudge (2010)
 * Spirit Of '67 (2015)

Vargas, Bogert & Appice
 * Javier Vargas, Tim Bogert, Carmine Appice: Featuring Paul Shortino (2011)

With others

 * Hear 'n Aid - "Stars" (1986)
 * Cozy Powell Tribute – Cozy Powell Forever (1998)
 * Moonstone Project – Time to Take a Stand/Hidden in Time (2006)
 * Who Are You – An All-Star Tribute to the Who (2012)
 * The Rod Experience – Rod Stewart Tribute Band, including original RS band members (2014)
 * Pat Travers - The Balls (2016)
 * Chris Catena's Rock City Tribe – Truth in Unity (2020)

Awards

 * Hollywood's Rockwalk
 * Modern Drummer: Best Rock Drummer – Editors' award (lifetime achievement)
 * Sabian Cymbals: Best Rock Drummer – lifetime achievement
 * Guitar Center: Legends' Award

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2004 California Proposition 59

Proposition 59 (or Senate Constitutional Amendment 1) was an amendment of the Constitution of California that introduced freedom of information or "sunshine" provisions. It was proposed by the California Legislature and overwhelmingly approved by the voters in an initiative held as part of the November 2004 elections.

Approval by the people
Proposition 59 was approved by the State Legislature as Senate Constitutional Amendment 1 of the 2003–2004 Regular Session (Resolution Chapter 1, Statutes of 2004). It was adopted by the California State Senate by a vote of 34-0 and the State Assembly by 78-0. It was then put to voters as a ballot proposition on 2 November 2004. It passed with 9,334,852 (83.4%) votes in favor and 1,870,146 (16.6%) against.

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The amendment adds to the state constitution Article I, Section 3 (b). Section 3 (a) is the provision of the Declaration of Rights that guarantees the right to freedom of assembly, the right to petition the government and the right to instruct one's elected representatives. The amendment added to these rights the following provisions:

Official summary
The official summary of Proposition 59 states that the purpose of the amendment is to

The Legislative Analyst's Estimate predicted only "potential minor annual state and local government costs to make additional information available to the public".

Explanation of provisions
According to The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press the effects of the amendment may be summarized roughly as follows:
 * First, it mandates access to government records and meetings of government bodies, and elevates this right of access to constitutional stature. Thus, all newly enacted state laws and administrative regulations must conform to the Amendment's provisions. The effect is to leave no doubt as to the importance of access to the people of California, and consequently to render ineffective the assertion, often made by government agencies to defeat access, that access in a particular case serves no public purpose. Similarly, it strengthens the case for access in cases where, under existing statutory exemptions, records can be withheld when the public's interest in non-disclosure clearly outweighs the public's interest in disclosure. This is so because most interests in non-disclosure are not constitutionally based and thus will be of significantly less importance when weighed against a now-constitutional right of access.
 * Second, unlike statutory rights of access under California's Public Records Act and The Ralph M. Brown Act, the Sunshine Amendment applies not just to the executive branch of government but to the judicial and legislative branches as well. While the Amendment expressly reserves existing protections for proceedings and records of the Legislature and rules adopted in furtherance of those protections, and maintains all other preexisting constitutional and statutory exemptions to the right of access to public records and meetings, these branches of government are now within the mantle of the public's constitutional right of access. In practice, what new rights of access this may bring remains to be determined, but arguably the right would include access to records and meetings of both the Legislature and the Judiciary not currently exempt from disclosure under existing authority.
 * Third, the Sunshine Amendment requires that court rules, statutes, or other authority be construed broadly when they further the public's right of access, and narrowly when they limit that right.
 * Fourth, when public bodies adopt new laws, court rules, or other authority that limit the right of access, they must now make express findings demonstrating the interest purportedly protected and the need for protecting that interest. Thus, the adoption of agency rules and regulations, for example, intended to impede public access will no longer be allowed on the whim of the agency's governing body but will require actual on-the-record findings demonstrating the need for secrecy and demonstrating how the exemption will achieve that need—findings similar to that required by a court before sealing a court record or closing a court proceeding.
 * Lastly, the Sunshine Amendment leaves intact the right of privacy guaranteed by the constitution by clarifying that it does not supersede or modify the existing constitutional right of privacy. And, disconcerting for proponents of access, the Amendment expressly does not affect existing statutory protections afforded peace officers over information concerning their official performance or professional qualifications.

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Galarrwuy Yunupingu

Galarrwuy Yunupingu (30 June 1948 – 3 April 2023), also known as James Galarrwuy Yunupingu and Dr Yunupingu, was an Indigenous Australian activist who was a leader in the Aboriginal Australian community. He was involved in Indigenous land rights throughout his career. He was a Yolngu man of the Gumatj clan, from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. He was the 1978 Australian of the Year.

Early life and education
Galarrwuy Yunupingu was born at Melville Bay, near Yirrkala, on 30 June 1948, and was a member of the Gumatj clan of the Yolngu people. His father, Mungurrawuy Yunupingu, was a well-known artist and leader of his clan; siblings included lead singer of Yothu Yindi, his brother Mandawuy Yunupingu; and several artist sisters, including Nyapanyapa Yunupingu and Nancy Gaymala Yunupingu.

He attended the Mission School at Yirrkala in his formative years, and moved to Brisbane to study at the Methodist Bible College for two years, returning to Gove in 1967.

Land rights
In the early 1960s, with his father, Gumatj clan leader Mungurrawuy, Yunupingu entered the struggle for land rights and helped draw up the Yirrkala bark petitions, which his father helped to paint. He came to national attention in the late 1960s for his role in the landmark, but unsuccessful Gove Land Rights Case. This legal action was the first by Indigenous Australians to challenge mining companies' rights to exploit traditional lands. He became a prominent leader and strong voice on behalf of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory and Australia, gaining the respect and admiration from many.

In 1975, Yunupingu joined the Northern Land Council (NLC), the authority appointed under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 to represent traditional Aboriginal landowners and Aboriginal people. He was chairman of the NLC from 1977 to 1980, an executive member until 1983 when he was re-elected as chairman. He has led a number of negotiations with mining and government bodies.

In 1988, Yunupingu and Wenten Rubuntja presented prime minister Bob Hawke, who was on a visit to the Northern Territory as part of Bicentennial celebrations, with a statement of Aboriginal political objectives, painted on a 1.2 m2 sheet of composite wood. This became known as the "Barunga Statement". Hawke responded by saying that he wished to conclude a treaty between Aboriginal and other Australians by 1990. In June 1991 the Aboriginal band, Yothu Yindi, whose lead singer was Yunupingu's younger brother Mandawuy Yunupingu, wrote and released the hit song "Treaty" to commemorate the Barunga statement. The brothers and the band wanted to highlight the lack of progress on the treaty between Aboriginal peoples and the federal government.

As chair of the NLC, Yunupingu led the Gagudju people in negotiations with mining and government bodies. Not opposed to mining in principle, Yunupingu saw it as a way for Aboriginal people to escape the welfare trap if it is conducted on the traditional owners' terms. These include a fair distribution of the economic benefits and respect for the land and specific sacred sites. He said: "We will continue to fight for the right to make our own decisions about our own land".

Later career
In October 2004, Yunupingu resigned from his position as chair of the NLC after 23 years in the role and around 28 as a member of the council. In June 2005 The Weekend Australian, based on information provided by his son and other relatives, reported that there was some discontent among the Yunupingu family and other community members about the distribution of mining royalties paid to the Gumatj Association.

In 2007 Yunupingu spoke about the need for action in reducing Indigenous poverty. In reference to the Howard government's Northern Territory National Emergency Response, known as "The Intervention", he said "The intervention was an incomplete process about which he would reserve his judgement until he knew what was working and what wasn't". In 2009 he spoke out against the inability of the government to provide adequate housing.

As of early 2009, he continued to live near Yirrkala, fulfilling his role as a senior ceremonial leader and community elder. He still held numerous positions on committees and organisations where he was able to share his wide experience with other Australians and promote the aspirations of his people.

Yunupingu was a member of the Referendum Council set up in 2015, which led to the Uluru Statement from the Heart in 2017. In November 2019, it was announced that Yunupingu would be one of 20 members of the Senior Advisory Group to help co-design the Indigenous voice to government set up by Ken Wyatt, the Minister for Indigenous Australians. The Group is co-chaired by Wyatt, Marcia Langton and Tom Calma.

Music
Yunupingu loved music and helped to guide his brother's band, Yothu Yindi, sometimes singing traditional elements of the band's songs. He also painted their album covers.

In the early 1970s, Yunupingu sang a song written by Ted Egan, called "Gurindji Blues", about the struggles of the land rights movement in the NT at the time. Released on RCA Victor in 1971, the single features Vincent Lingiari of Gurindji strike fame, who introduces the recording in Gurindji, followed by a translation into English. Yunupingu also sings on the B side of the record.

Health and death
In January 2010 he spent time in hospital after collapsing in a bank in Nhulunbuy. In late 2016, he had a kidney transplant.

Yunupingu died in the Northern Territory on 3 April 2023, at age 74, after a long illness. The Yothu Yindi Foundation described him as "a giant of the nation".

He was survived by two of his four wives, 12 children, including daughter Binmila, and many grand- and great-grandchildren. A statement signed by Binmila announcing his death, along with a recording of Yunupingu leading traditional song, was posted on the Yothu Yindi Foundation website, saying that ceremonies would be conducted in North Eastern Arnhem Land in coming weeks. It requested that only the name Yunupingu be used to refer to him, and only the images provided should be used. The statement included the words: "We remember him for his fierce leadership, and total strength for Yolŋu and for Aboriginal people throughout Australia. He lived by our laws always. Yunupiŋu lived his entire life on his land, surrounded by the sound of bilma (clapsticks), yidaki (didgeridoo) and the manikay (sacred song) and dhulang (sacred designs) of our people. He was born on our land, he lived all his life on our land and he died on our land secure in the knowledge that his life's work was secure."

Recognition
In 1978 Yunupingu was named Australian of the Year for his negotiations on the Ranger uranium mine agreement. He said the award 'would help him to shake off the image of ratbag and radical' and would give him "greater strength as an individual and as a leader". He also said it was a recognition for Aboriginal people as "the indigenous people of this country who must share in its future".

In the Australia Day Honours in 1985, James Galarrwuy Yunupingu was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his services to the Aboriginal community.

In 1998 Yunupingu was added to the list of 100 "Australian Living National Treasures" selected by the National Trust of Australia as leaders in society "considered to have a great influence over our environment because of the standards and examples they set".

In 2015, at the Garma Festival, he was honoured by the University of Melbourne with an Honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.). In a statement, Professor Margaret Sheil, Provost at the University of Melbourne, said the Honorary Doctor of Laws award to Yunupingu was to recognise and celebrate the significance of his work for Indigenous rights.

Yunupingu was one of three Indigenous Australians, along with Tom Calma and Lowitja O'Donoghue, honoured by Australia Post in the 2017 Legends Commemorative Stamp "Indigenous leaders" series to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum.

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Category:Peace Corps directors

This category is for persons who have been director of the Peace Corps.

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Matthew Cowley

Matthew Cowley (August 2, 1897 – December 13, 1953) was an American missionary in New Zealand and then served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1945 until his death.

Early life
Cowley was the son of Matthias F. Cowley and Abbie Hyde. He was also the half-brother of FBI agent Samuel P. Cowley. He was born August 2, 1897, in Preston, Idaho. That same year, Cowley's father was called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Matthew spent his childhood going to school and working on farms in the summer. He had a good sense of humor and enjoyed joking around. When Matthew was eight years old, his father resigned from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Cowley attended Latter-day Saints University in Salt Lake City. He was called as a missionary during his sophomore year in 1914.

Missionary service and career
In 1914, the 17-year-old Cowley became an LDS Church missionary. His original assignment was to serve in Hawaii, like his older brothers. However, his assignment was changed, and he went to New Zealand instead. There, he developed an unusual talent with the Māori language and a love of the Māori people. He revised the Māori translation of the Book of Mormon, which was then published in 1917. He also translated the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price into Māori, with the assistance of Wiremu Duncan and Stuart Meha. The translated version of these scriptural texts was published in 1919. His mission was extended to five years to complete these tasks. He returned from his mission to Salt Lake City in 1919; however, he continued to write letters to the Māori people throughout his life, and would later return to New Zealand.

After returning from his mission, Cowley attended the University of Utah for 2 years. After graduating he went to George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C. Cowley stayed in Washington, D.C., for 4 years, where he worked as an assistant to United States Senator Reed Smoot. He married Elva Eleanor Taylor in the Salt Lake Temple on July 13, 1922. After their wedding, they returned together to Washington, D.C. They had one daughter, Jewell.

While in Washington, D.C., Cowley was appointed Sunday School Superintendent in the local congregation, but was forced to resign due to his rigorous studies. Upon graduation, he returned to Salt Lake City, where he gained admission to the Utah State Bar Association in 1925. Afterwards, Cowley started his own law practice in Salt Lake City. He gave up his practice for a brief time from 1926 to 1928, when he served as Assistant County Attorney.

In 1938, Cowley was called to serve as president of the church's New Zealand Mission. He directed the affairs of the missionaries in New Zealand and oversaw church proceedings in the area. The mission included around 60 missionaries and 9,000 church members at the time, and Cowley was able to visit with many of the people he had met on his first mission. As World War II began, the church called the missionaries serving overseas back home to the United States, but Cowley and his family remained in New Zealand throughout the war. He was affectionately called tumuaki, meaning president, by the Māori members of the church. During his service, he adopted a Māori baby boy, Duncan Nopera Meha Cowley (Toni). Cowley was known by both members and non-members alike for his dedication to the Māori people. He returned home in 1945.

Apostle
Cowley was released as mission president in September 1945. In the church's general conference the following month, he was called to serve as an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, filling the vacancy caused by the death of church president Heber J. Grant. Cowley was ordained an apostle on October 11, 1945, by new church president George Albert Smith.

As an apostle, Cowley visited various church missions throughout the world, spoke in many conferences, and helped direct other church affairs. A few months later, in March 1946, he suffered a heart attack. Although he recovered enough to resume his church assignments, he was never as "robust in health" as before. In December 1946, Cowley was assigned as president of the church's Pacific Missions, a newly created position in which he oversaw several missions, including the Hawaiian, Central Pacific, Samoan, Tongan, Tahitian, Australian and New Zealand missions.

Cowley was known for being compassionate. He encouraged members of the church to openly welcome sinners rather than ostracize them. Cowley was also known for being an eloquent speaker and writer. A number of his sermons were compiled into Matthew Cowley Speaks, which was published after his death.

Death
Cowley died unexpectedly in Los Angeles, California on December 13, 1953, while visiting to attend services for the newly built Los Angeles Temple. He was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. George Q. Morris was called to fill the vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

External resources

 * Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand Biography
 * Collections related to Matthew and Elva T. Cowley in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University

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Henry D. Moyle

Henry Dinwoodey Moyle (April 22, 1889 – September 18, 1963) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Early life
Moyle was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to politician James Moyle and his wife Alice Dinwoodey. He studied at the University of Utah and served as an LDS Church missionary in Switzerland and in Germany. During World War I, Moyle served in the US military.

Moyle continued his studies at the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School. He was also a student at the School of Mines in Freiberg, Saxony. In 1920, Moyle was appointed to the position of United States attorney for the state of Utah.

Employment
Moyle was for many years a lawyer and a part-time member of the University of Utah faculty. He was also a businessman involved in various railroad, trucking, oil, insurance and finance businesses. During World War II, he was the director of the Petroleum Board.

LDS Church Service
From 1927 to 1937, Moyle was the president of the LDS Church's Cottonwood Stake, located in the south-east suburbs of Salt Lake City. He also served as chairman of the church's Welfare Committee.

Apostle and member of the First Presidency
Moyle was ordained an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on April 10, 1947. Moyle served as Second Counselor in the First Presidency to church president David O. McKay from June 12, 1959, to October 12, 1961, when he was called as First Counselor. He was First Counselor in the First Presidency until his death.

Moyle was a successful cattleman and originated the idea of the church establishing a cattle ranch in Florida. He was convinced that Florida's climate would prove ideal for raising cattle, as the key to success in that industry is growing grass. The church bought the original 54000 acre tract in 1950, and over 50 years, the ranch grew to more than 312000 acre. Deseret Cattle and Citrus Ranch, which is southeast of Orlando, is today the world's largest beef ranch, and the land is worth an estimated $858 million.

Moyle spearheaded much of the church's building program in the early 1960s. He believed that the Church Office Building, the headquarters of the LDS Church, should have been twice its size. He was also convinced that by building larger meetinghouses, the church would attract more converts. Moyle convinced McKay not to publish an account of church spending as was customary in order to hide the extent of the budget deficit caused by spending on buildings. By 1962, the deficit had reach $32 million. His optimistic building programs placed a considerable financial strain upon the church and McKay eventually relieved Moyle from many of his administrative responsibilities.

The controversial "baseball baptism" program was Moyle's idea to increase baptisms in order to fill the church meetinghouses. Missionaries would encourage young men to join sports leagues and used baptism as a prerequisite. Under this approach, large numbers of young men were baptized but very few were ever active in the church. The rush to baptize was accompanied with the establishment of baptism quotas for missionaries and memorized missionary discussions which were to be delivered verbatim to potential converts. The rest of the apostles were largely opposed to these changes, which led to Moyle being relieved of his responsibilities in the missionary department.

Moyle died of heart disease in Deer Park, Florida, aged 74, and was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Family
In 1920, Moyle married Clara Alberta Wright in the Salt Lake Temple; they were the parents of six children. One of his sons, Henry D. Moyle, Jr., was the first president of the French East Mission (based in Geneva, Switzerland) starting in 1961.

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Delbert L. Stapley

Delbert Leon Stapley (December 11, 1896 – August 19, 1978) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1950 to 1978.

Early life
Stapley was born in Mesa, Arizona Territory. He graduated from Mesa Union High School in 1914. As a youth, he rejected a chance at playing Major League Baseball so he could serve an LDS Church mission in the southern United States and because he didn't want to play on Sunday, the day Latter-day Saints observe as the Sabbath. Stapley remained physically active throughout his life, his favorite sport being golf.

Stapley was a missionary in the LDS Church's Southern States Mission from 1915 to 1917. After his mission, he was a U.S. marine in the First World War.

LDS Church service
Stapley had been stake president for three years before receiving a call to the apostleship on October 5, 1950. Stapley was also sustained as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve on October 5, 1950, at the church's October general conference, filling the vacancy caused by the death of George F. Richards. Stapley was notified of his new calling by church president George Albert Smith in the elevator bank of the Hotel Utah. Stapley organized the original Miami Stake in 1961. In 1969 he received the Silver Buffalo Award from the Boy Scouts of America.

Views on civil rights
A letter sent by Stapley illustrates his views on black people before they were more widely assimilated into the LDS Church. Dated January 23, 1964 and specifically stating he was not speaking for the church or in his position as an apostle, the letter urged Michigan Governor George W. Romney to back away from certain positions for civil rights, and he called the bill that became the Civil Rights Act of 1964 "vicious legislation." Romney is reported to have accelerated his engagement for civil rights shortly after he received the letter.

Death
Stapley delivered his last conference address in October 1977. The following April conference he was too ill to attend. Stapley died on August 19, 1978, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He suffered cardiac arrest at about noon while walking near his home. He was buried in the Mesa, Arizona cemetery.

At the time of his death, Stapley was the third apostle in line to the presidency of the church. His vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve was filled by James E. Faust.

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LeGrand Richards

LeGrand Richards (February 6, 1886 – January 11, 1983) was a prominent missionary and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He served as the seventh presiding bishop of the LDS Church from 1938 to 1952, and was then called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles by church president David O. McKay. Richards served in the Quorum of the Twelve until his death in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of 96.

Early life
Richards was born in Farmington, Utah Territory, to George F. Richards and Alice Almira Robinson. His father also served in the Quorum of the Twelve. As a young boy, Richards had several accidents that could have taken his life, including as a small child, when he was struck in the head by an axe as he approached from behind while his father was chopping wood. A few years later, Richards was thrown from a wagon by an agitated horse and both the wagon wheels rolled over his head. As a child, Richards attended the 1893 dedication of the Salt Lake Temple. Richards's church service began when he served a proselytizing mission to the Netherlands from 1905 to 1908.

After returning from his mission, Richards held various jobs in Salt Lake City, including doing audits in the office of the Presiding Bishopric. In 1909, he married Ina Jane Ashton (who normally went by Jane) in the Salt Lake Temple. They would become the parents of eight children.

Church service
Richards returned to the Netherlands as the presiding elder over the mission, accompanied by his wife, Ina Jane Ashton, from 1914 to 1916. Richards was ordained a high priest and bishop on June 29, 1919, by Charles W. Penrose, and presided over a Salt Lake City ward from 1920 to 1925. In 1926, he filled a short-term mission, primarily serving in Rhode Island. In the early 1930s, church president Heber J. Grant sent Richards to southern California with the plan to call him as stake president. However, the existing stake president called Richards as a bishop and convinced Grant to hold off on calling Richards as the stake president so local members would not feel that an outsider was being imposed on them as a leader. From 1931 to 1933, Richards presided over the church's Hollywood Stake.

In 1933 and 1934, Richards again lived in Salt Lake City, where he served on the stake high council of the Liberty Stake under stake president Bryant S. Hinckley. Richards served as president of the Southern States Mission from 1934 to 1937; he was called to this position to replace Charles A. Callis, who had been called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Richards served as the church's Presiding Bishop during and after the Second World War and began to adopt building programs to deal with the increased post-war growth in membership of the church.

Writings
Outside of his apostleship, Richards is probably best known for his widely distributed book, A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, which was first published in 1950. The commonly referenced work contains a comprehensive teaching outline designed to assist missionaries in their study and presentation of Mormonism. Based on a document titled, "The Message of Mormonism", which Richards developed in 1937 for missionaries during his tenure as president of the Southern States Mission, the book contains explanations and interpretations of many doctrinal positions of the LDS Church.

In 1955, Richards published ''Israel! Do You Know?'', an effort to demonstrate the links between Jewish traditions and beliefs and Mormonism; this document was produced in conjunction with an LDS Church program aimed at proselyting Jews living in Southern California.

Israel
Richards also played a role in Mormon connections with Israel. He was head of the Orson Hyde Foundation, which coordinated the donations that were used to purchase the land in Jerusalem that became the Orson Hyde Memorial Garden.

Tributes
In a memorial address read by his personal secretary after Richards's death, church president Spencer W. Kimball paid tribute to Richards as "one of the greatest missionaries of our time. He reminded me of a modern-day Apostle Paul. I can think of no one who has borne his testimony to the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ with deeper conviction or with greater fervor. With it all, LeGrand Richards was a perennial optimist and his words were a rare combination of wit and humor, comfort, encouragement, and wisdom. He rarely, if ever, delivered a message from a written text. He just spoke from his heart, drawing upon a lifetime of experience, study, and inspiration."

Place in history
Richards was the longest-lived LDS apostle until David B. Haight; both his father, George F. Richards, and grandfather, Franklin D. Richards, served as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Franklin D. Richards was also the nephew of Willard Richards, an earlier apostle of the church. LeGrand Richards is the grandfather of Tad R. Callister, a 21st-century leader in the LDS Church.

Publications

 * A Marvelous Work and a Wonder. Salt Lake City, Utah, first published in 1950, multiple editions. ISBN 0-87747-161-4.
 * Israel! Do You Know?, 1954.
 * Just To Illustrate, 1961. Salt Lake City, Bookcraft ASIN: B0007F8N8Y
 * LeGrand Richards Speaks, 1972. Salt Lake City, Deseret Book ISBN 978-0-87747-469-2

External resources

 * Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages
 * Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages

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Adam S. Bennion

Adam Samuel Bennion (December 2, 1886 – February 11, 1958) was a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Born in Taylorsville, Utah Territory, Bennion received degrees from the University of Utah, Columbia University, and the University of California. He also studied at the University of Chicago. He became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on April 9, 1953, filling a vacancy created by the death of John A. Widtsoe.

Bennion served less than five years in the Quorum of the Twelve before his death. He was replaced in the Quorum by Hugh B. Brown.

Biography
Adam S. Bennion was the son of Joseph B. Bennion and his wife, Mary Ann Sharp. Joseph died when Bennion was about two years old. After completing his early education in Taylorsville, Bennion went to study at the University of Utah. After his studies he became a teacher at LDS High School in Salt Lake City.

In 1911, Bennion married Minerva Richards Young, a daughter of Richard W. Young. The couple would eventually have three sons and two daughters. After their marriage, Bennion and his wife headed to New York City, where he completed a master's degree at Columbia University.

Bennion returned to Salt Lake City and became an English teacher at Granite High School. In 1913, he became the principal of the school. In the summer of 1914, Bennion took a course in Sunday school administration at the University of Chicago. The following year, he was appointed a member of the General Board of the Deseret Sunday School Union. About the same time, he joined the faculty of the University of Utah in the department of English. In 1915, Bennion was appointed a member of the Church Board of Education of the LDS Church.

In 1919, Bennion became the Superintendent of LDS Church Schools. From 1921 to 1923, he studied at the University of California–Berkeley and completed a doctorate. He then returned to the LDS Church schools, where he worked until 1927 when he began work for the Utah Power and Light Company (UP&L). During the 1920s, Bennion oversaw the expansion of the LDS Church's seminary program and trained seminary teachers at Brigham Young University's Alpine Summer School.

In 1944, Bennion resigned his employment with UP&L and ran as a Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate. He lost the election to Democrat Elbert D. Thomas. Bennion returned to UP&L; in 1947, he became the director of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.

In 1953, LDS Church president David O. McKay called Bennion as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Bennion served in this capacity until his death.

Bennion died in Salt Lake City and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery.

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/CyborgTosser

CyborgTosser
(24/5/4) ending 07:11, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

This user self nominated himself six weeks ago. He failed on the basis that he was too new with too few edits. Well time has passed, edit count has increased and CyborgTosser continues to make good solid contributions. He has asked me to renominate him, which I am very happy to do. His earlier request can be seen here

[Nominated by Theresa Knott]

User has 994 edits as of 07:23, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I accept the nomination. [[User:CyborgTosser|CyborgTosser (Only half the battle)]] 22:13, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 07:12, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Support. Good user, and I must protest the inevitable coming of the marauding edit count warriors. Ambi 07:30, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Last time I said "he has done good work, and is more active than most in discussing matters in article talk pages. Good admin material, imho," and that seems even more true now. —Stormie 07:51, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. Opposing based strictly on edit count seems pefectly silly to me. Sarge Baldy 07:53, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * 5)  — Kate Turner | Talk 08:22, 2004 Oct 16 (UTC)
 * 6) Support. Overdue.  "Too new" - he's been here since Sep '02! Very Verily  12:38, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 7) * I would like to point out that he is credited with but a handful of contributions before spring 2004, and these were anonymous contributions later re-attributed to him. Perhaps the Tosser himself can clarify for us whether all these early edits were indeed his. uc 20:26, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) **Interesting. Yes, I'd like an answer to that myself; it's possible some edits not by him were scooped up in this reassignment.  CT? Very Verily  00:12, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 9) ***All of the articles that were reattributed to me were actually written by me. [[User:CyborgTosser|CyborgTosser (Only half the battle)]] 18:20, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) ****Great, thanks. Very Verily 23:57, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 11) Has plenty of experience in time, if not edits. Kim Bruning 13:44, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 12) Happy to support now (did I last time? can't remember). -- Grunt 🇪🇺 14:34, 2004 Oct 16 (UTC)
 * 13) Sure.   – Andre ( talk )  17:00, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * 14) Good nomination. Support. --Lst27 15:53, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 15) I don't generally support cruelty to cyborgs, but.... ;-) func(talk) 16:03, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 16) ffirehorse 21:43, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 17) Antandrus 21:52, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)  Looking through his contribs, I see he is a very fine editor indeed.  For dyed-in-the-wool edit-counters, consider that his length of "service" here and the substantial nature of his edits offsets a seemingly low number.
 * 18) I supported last time too, and see no reason to change that. --Michael Snow 01:19, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 19) Wile E. Heresiarch 03:33, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 20) A low number of edits but they are good. {Ανάριον} 07:41, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 21) Fire Star 20:59, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 22) Would prefer more edits, but can hardly oppose in the above respectful company. JFW |  T@lk  23:58, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 23) I agree with Jfdwolff. --  ℛ yan! |  Talk  16:42, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * Yo, Cy...you got yourself some REAL heavy hitters in your camp. Good enough for me.  Support. - Lucky 6.9 23:23, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) I opposed his self-nomination, but that was mainly because I'm inherently skeptical of self-nominations. Strongly support. --Slowking Man 06:06, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) I don't believe that those who do non-controversial editing on non-controversial topics are any less deserving of adminship. —No-One Jones (m) 19:41, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) 172 -- you forget the first... I dunno, twenty admins, who most definitely had less than 1000 edits... ugen64 00:28, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) Johnleemk | Talk 10:17, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) See comments below.

Oppose
 * 1) Oppose.  User has less than 1000 edits.  Over 150 of those edits are on his own user page - User:CyborgTosser.  Also those edits often break down to many edits on one page (looking recently 14 for Symbolic combinatorics, 8 for Semi-empirical mass formula).  This user has mostly editted pages on music he likes, science fiction and electrical engineering.  He has not been involved at all in pages like this one (requests for adminship), votes for deletion or any other page which shows him having much interaction with other Wikipedia users.  This is something Johnleemk brought up during his previous self-nomination, and I concur with him.  We have no idea how he would act as an admin, since his interaction has been limited, and admin privileges are all about how he deal with interaction.  He edits pages in his fields of interest, occasionally posts on a discussion page, and once in a blue moon has a discussion on a discussion page.  Due to his limited number of edits, which are on his user page or the same pages multiple times in a small number of fields, and his lack of interaction with other users which is what admin power is all about, I oppose this nomination. Ruy Lopez 18:46, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose, for the reasons listed above. I've seen nothing that suggests that this person is cut out to be an administrator. The mostly non-substantive comments in support of this nomination have done nothing to persuade me to vote in favour. I have to wonder what qualifies a person for a position of authority who has not even interacted with the community in any significant way. The standard should be higher than that. Shorne 19:13, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Too few edits, and with only two days left has not accepted the nomination nor answered the candidate questions.  Lack of participation on this nomination page makes me very unimpressed. -- Netoholic @ 20:38, 2004 Oct 21 (UTC)
 * 4) Oppose. Too few edits. Kevin Baas | talk 21:34, 2004 Oct 21 (UTC)
 * 5) While I agree with the arguments above and as under "Neutral", I do not really understand the reasons why people then say they are neutral to the candidacy. :-> /Tuomas 23:47, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) uc 14:48, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC).  I previously supported, but I believe User:Ruy Lopez raises valid objections.  A careful review shows that many of CyborgTosser's contributions are indeed to pop culture articles and other ephemera, and I wasn't able to find much that really impressed me.  Therefore I am undecided for the time being.  uc
 * 2) Why do you want to become an admin? Get-back-world-respect 20:33, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Support -- a good contributor.  172, I don't know what you're talking about -- many admins were promoted with less than 1,000 edits (I think a significant minority or a majority of promotions from 7/2003 - 1/2004 were in that category), and I was promoted with less than 500 edits.  Jwrosenzweig 20:35, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC) Sorry, moved my vote because I think I should look into Ruy's comments more carefully.  I do still feel, however, that the 1000 and 2000 personal edit requirements aren't being reasonable, in light of past successful promotions.
 * I said that I did not recall a circumstance in which someone has been promoted with less than 1,000 edits, not that it never happened. It is still nevertheless rare. 172 22:56, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) Oppose. [Changing my vote to neutral in light of info provided to me by Jwrosenzweig ] 172 02:17, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) User has less than 1000 edits... I don't recall a circumstance in which someone has been promoted with less than 1,000 edits... I don't see a compelling reason for breaking an established precedent and waiting a bit longer for adminship, as I did with User:AndyL, User:Snowspinner, and User:Neutrality (who were here for less than three months when I nominated each of them, albeit on those occasions unsuccessfully) out of consideration of the huge scope of their contributions in a short time span. 172 20:30, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) *Changing my vote to neutral. 172 02:17, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * Mostly request for assistance and VFD. I revert vandalism when I see it, but I don't spend a lot of time looking at recent changes.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * System analysis, Theory of criminal justice, Symbolic combinatorics. I believe these articles to be well organized and informative.  Theory of criminal justice was intended to some extent as a starting point for other users to insert their own knowledge of the subject, but I feel that I did a significant amount of work in organizing and providing interesting examples for a subject that had previously hardly been mentioned in the encyclopedia.
 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and will deal with it in the future?
 * I have been in disagreement with other users on a couple occasions (best example Talk:Causes of sexual orientation) but I don't let it become an edit war. If I make a comment on a talk page and other users disagree, I usually step back and let someone else (hopefully someone more impartial) make the necessary edits to the article.

[[User:CyborgTosser|CyborgTosser (Only half the battle)]] 00:09, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Comments

I am surprised to see such a sudden turn of events in the voting, but hopefully it is not too late to address some of your concerns.

To address Netoholic's concerns, first, I didn't bother explicitly accepting accepting because I thought it was clear from the nomination that this was something I asked for. Ok, that was a mistake, but I have now accepted, so I hope this will no longer be a concern. Second, the Questions for the candidate section was added recently, not when the nomination was first posted. My "lateness" in answering them should not be taken as a lack of initiative on my part, and if you were interested in my answers to these questions, you could have looked at my old request. But I will answer the questions again and hopefully that will no longer be a concern either.

Now, to answer Ruy Lopez, yes, recently my edits have often broken down into several edits on a single page. But if you examine my earlier edit history, you will see that I never did that before my self-nomination failed on the basis of too few edits. I have noticed that many users work like this, especially when writing a long page, and decided that perhaps my previous habit of writing a long page in a single go was giving a skewed picture of the significance of my contributions. Apparently, this has created the opposite problem, where people look at pages where I made 10 consecutive edits and assume "Oh, he must have only worked on 1000 / 10 = 100 pages". If edit count is important to you, please look at more than the first page of my edit history before jumping to conclusions.

I still maintain that the contributions I have made are significant, even if the edit count is low. And I don't understand the concerns about the areas where the majority of my edits have been made. It is entirely inaccurate to say that my edits have been in a few limited areas. That aside, perhaps you won't find much on electrical engineering, computer science, music, or movies in a normal encyclopedia. But this isn't a normal encyclopedia.

Finally, to answer Get-back-world-respect's question, I want to be an admin because admins are who other users come to when they need help resolving for example a POV dispute, want help with an article, or just want a more experienced user's opinion on what is good or bad for the encyclopedia. I feel I am qualified to do these things, and I would like the chance. Probably the biggest reason I have had little involvement in sensitive discussions is that, as a non-admin, no one has asked me to help. [[User:CyborgTosser|CyborgTosser (Only half the battle)]] 00:01, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I've watched a lot of admin votes and often people comment something like "so-and-so waded into such-and-such page where there was an argument about some contentious thing (Israel/Palestine, Bush/Kerry or whatnot) and came to a resolution". I'm not saying that performing a feat like that is necessary to becoming an admin, that's like coming to plate and hitting a home run, but before becoming admins, people have been involved in resolving POV disputes, given advice on what is needed and the other things you mentioned.  You're a bit short on edits (though you will get there), but you've been mostly editting pages.  I don't think filling in complete articles on aspects of electrical engineering is a bad thing, they're needed.  I'm just curious how you would handle the types of responsibilities that an admin has.  Lots of admin nominees have been involved in resolving disputes, have given advice on what is needed and so forth before becoming admins, which I think is a good thing as we can see what kind of admins they will be.  A look at Requests_for_adminship/Rhobite shows user comments that make me see a good admin, and looking over his edits, he does seem to be "a model of NPOV and consensus building".  To me he is very qualified...Lucky 6.9 spends more time on cleanup than this sort of thing, but he's dealing with admin type stuff anyway, and I haven't looked over his history but if he's doing a good job of it I think he is admin-worthy as well (although some no's said he might be a bit too quick-tempered). Ruy Lopez 01:17, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I was originally planning to abstain, but Ruy Lopez urged me to vote, and so I have. I'm giving CyborgTosser the benefit of the doubt, as I find his case to be very similar to mine when I nominated myself for adminship. I myself was and still am quite quiet on dealing with matters most associate with adminship (practically all the articles I'm known for today were written after I became an admin; I never had a single dispute with another user until after I became an admin). However, I see nothing wrong with supporting a decent user — this should be no big deal. I hope this will urge CyborgTosser to be more active in participating on Talk pages; if you haven't run into trouble yet, you will, so you should prepare now. A good admin doesn't need to use his powers; I haven't deleted an article for weeks, nor even blocked anyone yet, nor protected a page...I've made very sparing use of my admin powers. Adminship is a sign that this user is a good one; the responsibilities assigned to admins are just additional privileges, and not mandatory to be used. All this is just my opinion, but I see no good reason to oppose for now. Johnleemk | Talk 10:17, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I still see no reason to give admin powers to someone who has had no interaction to speak of with the community. Who would ever make a "request for assistance" to this person? No one even knows him! And why is someone who doesn't interact with others so eager to assume leadership? Shorne 11:26, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Question for Ruy Lopez

Johnleenk's comment above made me wonder a little. Why did you urge him to vote on this issue? I checked you contributions and saw that you write this on several user pages:

Hi,I'm not sure if you've ever visited the Request for adminship page, but users can vote on which users get to be admins.

''':One vote going on now is Requests for adminship/CyborgTosser. I opposed his adminship because he doesn't have as many edits as most people need before getting to be admin (and much of them are things like 150+ edits of his own user page). But more importantly, I haven't seen him interacting much, and certainly have not seen him try to resolve something contentious like a Israel/Palestine page or something like that. Anyhow, if you're interested, give it a look. Ruy Lopez 19:27, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)'''

You appear to be asking people who do not frequent this page to vote on this matter? Why? As far as i know people do not usually go around canvassing votes for or against candidates on this page. Why are you doing it? You have also updated the vote tally several times on this page. Why? You seem overly interested in the out come of this vote for a disinterested party. Also one last question - I've just seen this edit to Xed's talk page and cant help but wonder if you opposition to CyborgTosser has anything to do with the fact that I nominated him? Of course you have every right to be interested in the outcome of a particular vote and you have every right to oppose the nomination of anyone you please but canvassing for votes is not how we normally do things here. Theresa Knott (Not the skater) 19:58, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Is this germane to the discussion of the nomination? Mentioning to a few people that a very questionable candidate has been nominated (by himself more than by you, incidentally) to become an administrator falls far short of canvassing for votes. I don't see anything wrong with what Ruy Lopez did. For the record, he did not post that message to my user page; I voted no because I feel that there is no evidence that the candidate would make a good administrator. As for "how we normally do things here", I have a number of complaints about that, but this is not the place to present them. Shorne 21:11, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * A very questionable candidate? (Come back Lir, plato and the rest of the red faction. At least when you lot were nominating each other we knew what very questionable was;-))Obviously i feel that it is appropriate to put it here because the vote isn't over yet, and the beviuor i was asking about is directly related to this page. It looks to me that Ruy appears very keen on the outcome of this vote and just wanted to know if he has other reasons to oppose the vote apart from the ones he stated.I did not mean to imply in any way that you or anyone else who oppose the nomination have been told to do so by Ruy. I would not insult you like that. You oppose this nomination - did you post a note on anyone's talk page stating that and asking them to come vote too? (I already know the answer is no) if there is nothing wrong in doing that why didn't you do it? Theresa Knott (Not the skater) 00:38, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, I did ask Theresa Knott to nominate me, but only because she expressed willingness to nominate me when I felt the time was right. In a number of nominations, I see comments like "this user is not already an admin?" and this leads me to believe that unfortunately a lot of good contributors go unnoticed for a long time even after they have exceeded everyone's expectations.  I suppose it is human nature for some users to be skeptical of self-nominations, but going so far as to be skeptical just because I am the one who originally took the initiative seems more than a little ridiculous.  IMO, all that means (for my nomination or any other under similar circumstances) is that before my nomination I had little interaction with those few users who choose to be very active on this page. [[User:CyborgTosser|CyborgTosser (Only half the battle)]] 23:54, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I agree with Shorne that this is probably not the best place for this discussion. I am of course sympathetic toward Theresa Knott's position in this matter because IMO she has the better attitude toward adminship, but unfortunately it appears my nomination has become entangled with a more sensitive issue regarding what is proper behavior in RFA.  I don't like being caught in the middle of this. [[User:CyborgTosser|CyborgTosser (Only half the battle)]] 23:54, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)


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George Q. Morris

George Quayle Morris (February 20, 1874 – April 23, 1962) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1954 until his death.

Morris was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Elias Morris and Mary Lois Walker.

George Teasdale, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, ordained George Q. Morris a Seventy on September 13, 1899. Morris was called on a mission to Great Britain in 1899, and served there until 1902. He was set apart as a president in the Second Quorum of Seventy August 19, 1904. He served as president of the Eastern States Mission from 1948 to 1951.

Morris married Emma Ramsey (1878–1964) on June 29, 1905; they had three daughters: Marian, Margery, and Helen.

Morris was a businessman. He was president of Elias Morris and Sons, a company involved in tile and gravestone production. He was president of Purdential Savings and Loan Association. He was heavily involved with the Boy Scouts as well.

From 1935 to 1937, Morris was the First Assistant to Albert E. Bowen, the Superintendent of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association (YMMIA). In 1937, when Bowen became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Morris succeeded him as YMMIA Superintendent. Morris held this position until 1948, when he was succeeded by Elbert R. Curtis.

Morris became a general authority of the LDS Church on October 6, 1951, when he was appointed an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Morris was ordained an apostle and became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on April 8, 1954, aged 80. He was selected and ordained by church president David O. McKay. Morris replaced Matthew Cowley in the Quorum, who had died the previous December. Morris was the oldest person in church history to become an apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve.

Morris died on April 23, 1962, aged 88, in Salt Lake City. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. His vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve was filled by N. Eldon Tanner.

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Hugh B. Brown

Hugh Brown Brown (October 24, 1883 – December 2, 1975) was an American attorney, educator, author and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and First Presidency. Born in Utah, Brown held both American and Canadian citizenship.

Brown was a talented speaker, and was well known for conveying religious principles and exhortations through accounts of events in his life. His grandson, Edwin B. Firmage, noted: "Possessed at once with a sense of humor that refused him permission to take himself too seriously, and a profound spirituality based on true humility before God, he moved thousands with a style of classic oratory that will be sorely missed."

Early life
Brown was born in Granger, Utah Territory, to Homer Manley Brown and Lydia Jane Brown. He later recorded the event of his birth: "It is alleged that I was born in Granger, Utah, in 1883, on the 24th of October. I was there but do not remember the event. However, my mother was an honest woman and I must take her word." His father had a small farm and orchard. When Brown was fourteen, Homer Brown left Utah with his oldest son to establish a farm in Spring Coulee, in western Canada. Brown was the oldest son left in Salt Lake City, and he and his sister Lillie, 18 months his senior, took care of the farm and orchard until their father sent for the family.

Brown was 15 when his family moved to what is now southern Alberta, which was then part of the Northwest Territories. Shortly after his 18th birthday, he traveled to Logan, Utah, to attend Brigham Young College. Brown also attended Utah State Agricultural College. Dr. John A. Widtsoe suggested a career in agriculture for Brown. After a brief period at the college, Brown was called to England as a missionary for the LDS Church and served under Heber J. Grant from 1904 to 1906. Upon his return, Brown married Zina Young Card, a childhood friend, in 1908. They settled in Alberta, and the first six of the couple's eight children were born there.

Military service
In 1912, Canadian leaders of the Church asked Brown to go to Calgary and take military training preliminary to organizing a Latter-day Saint contingent for the Canadian reserves. The reserve cavalry unit was established in 1914, with the outbreak of World War I, and became part of the Thirteenth Overseas Mounted Rifles in 1915. By 1917, Brown had achieved the rank of major in the Canadian military. He believed that he would have attained a higher rank without what Brown perceived as prejudice in the British Empire against the Church members. In one instance, he was told that he was denied further promotion; although the reason was not specified, Brown looked at the papers on the desk of the senior officer that stated, "This man is a Mormon."

Brown suffered what he believed were other injustices from the military establishment, including being forced by a superior officer to sell a beloved horse. The imperial military significantly influenced Brown, as shown in accounts of his service in his later writing, but he ultimately turned away from a military career.

Legal training
After returning to Canada, Brown was employed as a cowboy, a farmer, and a businessman. He renewed an interest in the study of law, which he began at the Law Society of Alberta prior to his military service, by working with Z. W. Jacobs, a Cardston barrister. Brown completed the five-year apprenticeship while he was working a farm he had purchased near Cardston. After passing the bar examination at the University of Alberta, he was admitted to the bar in 1921.

Health challenges
Brown suffered from a rare nerve disorder called trigeminal neuralgia (TN), also called Tic Douloureux, which has been called one of the most painful ailments known to mankind. He had the condition attacks intermittently for about 20 years of his life, from 1926. At Christmastime in 1944, while he was overseas during World War II, he sent a three-page, typewritten, single-spaced essay to his family, "An Unprofessional Analysis of 'Tic Douloureux' by a Surviving Victim." The letter stated that he would "be glad to say goodbye to it forever." Brown had surgery to sever his trigeminal nerve in 1945, but the attacks returned while he was teaching at Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1946. He later underwent surgery again at the Mayo Clinic, where a section of his nerve was completely removed, which made the left side of his head completely numb for the rest of his life.

LDS Church
Brown was called as president of the newly-formed Lethbridge, Alberta, Stake in 1921, which included all of Alberta north of the Lethbridge Airport and the Northwest Territories (including present-day Nunavut).

Brown and his family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1927. He quickly became a successful lawyer and a partner in a law firm with J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Albert E. Bowen, and Preston D. Richards. He formed a lifelong allegiance with the US Democratic Party, which led to an unsuccessful run for political office and a term of service as first chairman of Utah's Liquor Control Commission from 1935 to 1937. Brown was called as president of the Salt Lake Granite Stake.

Brown served as president of the British Mission from 1937 to 1940 and from 1944 to 1946. It was the first of many full-time church positions that brought him admiration and influence. As LDS Servicemen's Coordinator from 1941 to 1945, Brown traveled extensively in North America and western Europe as de facto chief chaplain for the thousands of Latter-day Saints in American, British, and Commonwealth uniforms; anecdotes born of that experience punctuated his sermons and writings thereafter.

Brown worked as a professor of religion at BYU from 1946 to 1950 and also served as the school's co-ordinator of veterans affairs. He then worked as a senior employee with an Alberta oil prospecting firm from 1949 to 1953. Of his time in Alberta, he later wrote:

"In October 1953, I was up in the Canadian Rockies, supervising the drilling of an oil well. Although my family were in good health and good spirits and I was making good money, I was deeply depressed and worried. Early one morning I went up into the mountains and talked with the Lord in prayer. I told Him that although it looked like I was going to become wealthy as a result of my oil ventures, if in His wisdom it would not be good for me or my family I hoped He would put an end to it."

That prayer preceded his call as an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1953. Brown remained in that full-time ecclesiastical position for five years until his call as a church apostle.

Brown was ordained an apostle and became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on April 10, 1958, replacing Adam S. Bennion, who had died the previous February. He was called to the First Presidency as a third counselor to church president David O. McKay on June 22, 1961. He was called as Second Counselor in the First Presidency on October 12, 1961, upon the death of First Counselor J. Reuben Clark. He was later called as First Counselor in 1963 to replace Henry D. Moyle, who had died.

As an apostle and a member of the First Presidency, Brown favored rescinding the LDS Church's restriction on people of black African descent holding the priesthood. He expected that change to take place in 1969, but the move was reportedly blocked by apostle Harold B. Lee. The change ultimately occurred in 1978, three years after Brown's death.

After McKay died on January 18, 1970, Brown was not retained as a counselor in the First Presidency by the new church president, Joseph Fielding Smith. Only once before in the 20th century had a new president of the church not called a surviving member of the previous First Presidency as a counselor (Rudger Clawson). Brown returned as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, where he remained until his death.

Death
Brown died in Salt Lake City and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery. After Brown's death, David B. Haight was called to fill the vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve.

Family
Among Hugh B. Brown and Zina Card Brown's children was Hugh Card Brown. This son was killed while serving in the military during World War II. Their daughter Zola was Rulon Jeffs' first wife; after he wanted to start practicing plural marriage, Zola divorced him.

Quotations

 * "A sense of relationship and copartnership with God involves the concept of universal brotherhood and that will help to develop intelligent tolerance, open-mindedness, and good-natured optimism. Life is really a battle between fear and faith, pessimism and optimism. Fear and pessimism paralyze men with skepticism and futility. One must have a sense of humor to be an optimist in times like these. And you young women will need a sense of humor if you marry these young men and try to live with them. Golden Kimball once said in a conference, 'The Lord Himself must like a joke or he wouldn't have made some of you people.' But your good humor must be real, not simulated. Let your smiles come from the heart and they will become contagious. You may see men on the street any day whose laugh is only a frozen grin with nothing in it but teeth. Men without humor tend to forget their source, lose sight of their goal, and with no lubrication in their mental crankshafts, they must drop out of the race. Lincoln said, 'Good humor is the oxygen of the soul.' And someone paraphrased, 'The surly bird catches the germ.'"
 * "We are grateful in the Church and in this great university that the freedom, dignity and integrity of the individual is basic in Church doctrine as well as in democracy. Here we are free to think and express our opinions. Fear will not stifle thought, as is the case in some areas which have not yet emerged from the Dark Ages. God himself refuses to trammel man's free agency even though its exercise sometimes teaches painful lessons. Both creative science and revealed religion find their fullest and truest expression in the climate of freedom. "I hope that you will develop the questing spirit. Be unafraid of new ideas for they are the stepping stones of progress. You will of course respect the opinions of others but be unafraid to dissent—if you are informed. "Now I have mentioned freedom to express your thoughts, but I caution you that your thoughts and expressions must meet competition in the market place of thought, and in that competition truth will emerge triumphant. Only error needs to fear freedom of expression. Seek truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues; courage, zest, and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, 'From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth—O God of truth deliver us'."

Published works
Brown was the author of at least six books, and two compilations were published of his writings.

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Tim Bogert

John Voorhis "Tim" Bogert III (August 27, 1944 – January 13, 2021) was an American musician. As a bass guitarist and vocalist he was best known for his powerful vocal ability and his fast runs, fluid agility and ground-breaking sound on his Fender Precision Bass. He was one of the pioneers of using distortion with his bass to help it cut through the mix with the low-powered amps of his time which also imparted a very sharp-edged sound to it. He was a frequent collaborator with drummer Carmine Appice; the duo performed in such bands as Vanilla Fudge, Cactus and the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice.

Early life
He graduated in 1963 from Ridgefield Memorial High School in his hometown of Ridgefield, New Jersey.

Career
Vanilla Fudge was formed by Tim Bogert along with Mark Stein, Vince Martell, and Carmine Appice. They recorded five albums during the years 1967–69, before disbanding in 1970. The band has reunited in various configurations over the years.

In 1970, Bogert formed the hard rock band Cactus with drummer Carmine Appice, guitarist Jim McCarty and lead vocalist Rusty Day. He then played with guitarist Jeff Beck, after the second Jeff Beck Group had disbanded in 1972 and eventually became a member of the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice, late in 1972. As a member of the post-second Jeff Beck Group, also known as Jeff Beck Group, he toured Europe, Japan and the U.S. from January 1972 until January 1974. In late 1975, he played bass guitar on Bo Diddley's The 20th Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll all-star album.

Bogert then joined up with Bobby and the Midnites, a musical side project assembled by guitarist and vocalist Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead. Despite touring with the group, Bogert left before their eponymous album was released and was replaced by Alphonso Johnson. He then joined UK group Boxer and played on their final album "Absolutely" in 1977 – he had co-writing credits on three tracks on this album. The album and subsequent tour met with an indifferent response and the band had folded by 1978. During 1981 Bogert toured with guitarist Rick Derringer and released an album Progressions. He recorded his second album Master's Brew in 1983 and recorded Mystery with Vanilla Fudge in 1984. In 1981 Bogert became a faculty member at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood. In 1993 he worked with Japanese guitarist Pata, recording the latter's self-titled album.

In early 1999, The Hollywood Rock Walk of Fame recognised Tim Bogert's contribution to rock history. That year, he teamed up with Appice and Char to tour Japan in a unit called CB&A, with a live album released the following year. Later in 1999 Bogert worked with Triality, and Shelter Me. In 2000 Bogert and Carmine Appice formed the power trio DBA with Rick Derringer and toured with Vanilla Fudge.

During 2009, Bogert joined blues rock trio Blues Mobile Band and recorded "Blues Without Borders" (2009) in Los Angeles.

In 2010, Bogert, with Mike Onesko on guitar and vocals and Emery Ceo on drums (both from the Blindside Blues Band) recorded Big Electric Cream Jam, a 10-track live tribute to Cream Live at The Beachland Ballroom Euclid Ohio.

Tim Bogert was also a part of the then Los Angeles–based The McGrath Project, featuring Gary McGrath (Grammy Award–winning producer) Chet McCracken (Doobie Brothers and America) Dean Minnerly (Three Dog Night and Aretha Franklin touring member) and Ann-Marita. They did three records, self-titled, “Love is a Four-Letter Word” and “Phoenix” released under 4818 Records.

In early 2014, Bogert joined hard rock band Hollywood Monsters, where he played on the album Big Trouble (on three tracks) which was released in 2014 on Mausoleum Records. The album features Steph Honde on vocals and guitars, Vinny Appice (Carmine's brother) on drums, Don Airey on keyboards (on one track) and Paul Di'Anno on lead vocals on the bonus track.

Personal life and Death
In 2010, Bogert "reluctantly" retired from touring due to a motorcycle accident. He died on January 13, 2021, from cancer. He is survived by his wife, Veda Vaughn Bogert, and his son John Voorhis Bogert IV.

Studio albums
Live albums

 * Tokyo Nights (2014)

Singles

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Talk:Push poll

1995 Quebec referendum
Could you construe the question asked to Quebecers in their sovereignty referendum of 1995 as a push poll? --  Denelson83  05:35, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

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O Barqueiro

O Barqueiro (also Port of El Barquero) is a parish and a port belonging to the city council of Mañón in Ferrolterra in North-western Spain in the province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia.

Industry

 * Important fishing Port.

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Category:American tennis players

This category lists tennis players with Wikipedia articles who have notably represented the United States. Note that articles are sub-categorized by whether a player has done so in male or female competition, and also by particular notable competitions.

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Vince Martell

Vince Martell (born Vincent James Martellucci, November 11, 1945) is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Vanilla Fudge. Martell was born in the Bronx to parents who played the guitar and encouraged him to play as well. While in his teens, Martell joined the Navy, where he discovered his skills as a guitarist.

Career
In 1963, Martell moved with his family to Florida and soon joined a band called Ricky T & The Satans Three that played in Miami blues clubs and shrimp bars in Key West. In 1966, he formed the band The Pigeons with organist Mark Stein, bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Joe Brennan. After Brennan was replaced by Carmine Appice and a record deal forced the band to change its name, the band became Vanilla Fudge.

After the breakup of Vanilla Fudge in 1970, Martell continued to perform until Vanilla Fudge reunited for another album in 1984 called Mystery. In 2000, he released his first solo CD, Endless High, followed in 2001 by a self-titled CD, Vince Martell. In 2002, he recorded a third solo CD as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix, whom Martell had befriended when Vanilla Fudge and Hendrix toured together.

In 2005, Vanilla Fudge reformed with all the original members including Martell, Mark Stein, Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice, for a tour with The Doors and Steppenwolf. In July 2006, Vanilla Fudge recorded a tribute to Led Zeppelin, Out Through the in Door. As of 2023, Martell continues to tour with Vanilla Fudge, and his own band, the Vince Martell Band with Peg Pearl (keyboards/vocals), Pete Bremy (Bass/vocals), Russ T. Blades (drums) and TigerBill Meligari (drums).

Vince along with fellow original members Bogert, Stein and Appice opened for Deep Purple (at the band's request) on August 7, 2007 at Radio City Music Hall, continuing to tour in this lineup in early 2008.

Vince and Mark Stein appeared on The "My Music" series on PBS in March/April 2008. They are seen performing "You Keep Me Hangin' On" with backing musicians from Mark Stein's solo band. Vince and Mark Stein soon thereafter began performing around the country together as "Vanilla Fudge's Mark Stein and Vince Martell" with a new rhythm section featuring JimmyJack Tamburo from Mark Stein's band on drums, and Pete Bremy from Vince's band on bass. This lineup toured throughout the summer of 2009.

In April 2008 Vince Martell signed with Collectables Records as a solo artist. His Endless High album, which originally appeared in 2000 was re-released on Spectra Records.

Discography

 * 1967: Vanilla Fudge
 * 1968: The Beat Goes On
 * 1968: Renaissance
 * 1969: Near the Beginning
 * 1970: Rock & Roll
 * 1984: Mystery
 * 2000: Endless High
 * 2000: Vanilla Fudge – The Return / Then And Now
 * 2001: Vince Martell: Lead Guitarist of Vanilla Fudge
 * 2002: Pyschedlic Cymbals
 * 2005: Vanilla Fudge – Out Through The In Door
 * 2009: Vince Martell – Comin' to Get Ya

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