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Bootleg play

In American football, a bootleg play is a play in which the quarterback runs with the ball in the direction of either sideline behind the line of scrimmage. This can be accompanied by a play action, or fake hand off of the ball to a running back running the opposite direction.

Overview
The quarterback can be accompanied by an offensive lineman to block for him, or run without a blocker, which is known as a naked bootleg or waggle. More complex versions involve multiple offensive linemen moving with the quarterback to block and multiple false hand offs; one such variation is known as a rollout. After escaping the area behind the offensive line, the quarterback may either throw a pass downfield or run with the ball himself to gain yardage.

A bootleg is called to confuse the defense, by moving the quarterback away from where they expect him to be, directly behind the center. The quarterback's motion may also attract the attention of the defensive backs, allowing one of the receivers to become uncovered. The play is typically used by teams with mobile quarterbacks, such as Steve Young, Randall Cunningham and Russell Wilson.

Additional variations can be combined with bootleg plays. In the West Coast offense variant designed around quarterback Michael Vick, counter techniques combined with play action bootleg plays served to provide several types of simultaneous misdirection which caused defensive players to freeze after often misjudging the intended direction of the play. These techniques, along with Vick's unusual athleticism, slowed down and isolated defenders and provided extra space and time for the quarterback to survey the field and/or run the ball.

The bootleg and its variants have become more common in recent years as the rules have been changed to permit a quarterback to avoid a sack by throwing the ball away once they are outside the "tackle box". Since the quarterback in a bootleg usually sets up to throw well outside the tackles, if he is in danger of taking a sack, he can throw the ball safely out of bounds without risking an intentional grounding penalty.

The name comes from the fact that on a play action the quarterback often hides the ball from the defense by his thigh to make the run look more convincing. This is similar to the way bootleggers would hide whiskey in their trousers during Prohibition.

Pop Warner is given credit for inventing the bootleg play.

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Lolita (1962 film)

Lolita is a 1962 black comedy-psychological drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov.

The black-and-white film follows a middle-aged literature lecturer who writes as "Humbert Humbert" and has hebephilia. He is sexually infatuated with young, adolescent Dolores Haze (whom he calls "Lolita"). It stars James Mason as Humbert, Shelley Winters as Mrs. Haze, Peter Sellers as Quilty, and Sue Lyon (in her film debut) as Dolores "Lolita" Haze.

The novel was considered "unfilmable" when Kubrick acquired the rights around the time of its U.S. publication. Owing to restrictions imposed by the Motion Picture Production Code (1934–68), the film toned down the most provocative aspects, sometimes leaving much to the audience's imagination. Sue Lyon was 14 at the time of filming and played a 14-year-old, whereas the Lolita of Nabokov's novel is just 12 years old when Humbert Humbert first meets her.

Lolita polarized contemporary critics with its theme of child sexual abuse but was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 35th Academy Awards. Years after its release, Kubrick expressed doubt that he would have attempted to make the film had he fully understood how severe the censorship limitations on it would be. Regardless, the film has since received critical acclaim. In the late 1990s, British director Adrian Lyne again adapted the novel to the big screen.

Plot
In a remote mansion, Clare Quilty, drunk and incoherent, plays Frédéric Chopin's Polonaise in A major, Op. 40, No. 1, on the piano before he is shot to death by Humbert "Hum" Humbert, a middle-aged European professor of French literature.

Four years earlier, Humbert arrives in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, intending to spend the summer before his professorship begins at Beardsley College, Ohio. He searches for a room to rent, and Charlotte Haze, a cloying, sexually frustrated widow, invites him to stay at her house. He declines until seeing her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores, affectionately nicknamed "Lolita", with whom he becomes infatuated.

To be close to Lolita, Humbert accepts Charlotte's offer and becomes a lodger in the Haze household. However, Charlotte wants all of Humbert's time for herself and tells him that she will be sending Lolita to an all-girl sleepaway camp for the summer. After the Hazes depart for camp, the maid gives Humbert a letter from Charlotte, confessing her love for him and demanding he vacate at once unless he feels the same way. The letter says that if Humbert is still in the house when she returns, Charlotte will know her love is requited, and he must marry her. Though he roars with laughter while reading the sadly heartfelt yet characteristically overblown letter, Humbert marries Charlotte.

Things turn sour for the couple in the absence of the child: glum Humbert becomes more withdrawn, and Charlotte grows increasingly unfulfilled and upset. Charlotte discovers Humbert's diary entries detailing his passion for Lolita and describing Charlotte as "obnoxious" and "brainless". In an outburst, she runs outside, but is hit by a car and dies.

Humbert arrives to pick up Lolita from camp; she does not yet know her mother is dead. They stay the night in a hotel that is handling an overflow influx of police officers attending a convention. One of the guests, a pushy, abrasive stranger, insinuates himself upon Humbert and keeps steering the conversation to his "beautiful little daughter", who is asleep upstairs. The stranger implies that he too is a policeman and repeats, too often, that he thinks Humbert is "normal". Humbert escapes the man's advances. The next morning, Humbert and Lolita play a "game" she learned at camp, and it is implied that they have a sexual encounter. The next day, Humbert confesses to Lolita that her mother is not sick in a hospital, as he had previously told her, but dead. Grief-stricken, she stays with Humbert. The two commence a trip cross country, traveling from hotel to motel. In public, they act as father and daughter.

In the fall, Humbert reports to his position at Beardsley College, and enrolls Lolita in high school there. Before long, people begin to wonder about the relationship between the father and his over-protected daughter. Humbert worries about her involvement with the school play and with male classmates. One night he returns home to find Dr. Zempf, a pushy, abrasive stranger, sitting in his darkened living room. Zempf, speaking with a thick German accent, claims to be the psychologist from Lolita's school and wants to discuss her knowledge of "the facts of life". He convinces Humbert to allow Lolita to participate in the school play, for which she had been selected to play the leading role.

While attending a performance of the play, Humbert learns that Lolita has been lying about how she was spending her Saturday afternoons when she claimed to be at piano practice. They get into a row and Humbert decides to leave Beardsley College and take Lolita on the road again. Lolita objects at first but suddenly changes her mind and seems very enthusiastic. Once on the road, Humbert realizes they are being followed by a mysterious car that never drops away but never quite catches up. When Lolita becomes sick, he takes her to the hospital. However, when he returns to pick her up, she is gone. The nurse tells him she left with another man who claimed to be her uncle. Humbert is devastated, left without a clue as to her disappearance or whereabouts.

Some years later, Humbert receives a letter from Mrs. Richard T. Schiller, Lolita's married name. She writes that she is now married to a man named Dick and that she is pregnant and in desperate need of money. Humbert travels to their home and demands that she tell him who kidnapped her three years earlier. She tells him it was Clare Quilty, the man who was following them. A famous playwright, he had a fling with her mother in Ramsdale. She states Quilty is also the one who disguised himself as Dr. Zempf, the pushy stranger who kept crossing their path. Lolita admits she was infatuated by Quilty and also carried on an affair with him at Beardsley, then left the hospital with him when he promised her a Hollywood contract. However, he then demanded she join his bohemian lifestyle, including acting in his "art" films, which she refused.

Humbert begs Lolita to leave Schiller and come away with him. She refuses, reminding him that she has a baby due in three months, but apologizes for cheating. Humbert gives Lolita $13,000, explaining it is her money from the sale of her mother's house. He leaves to confront Quilty in his mansion. Intertitles explain that Humbert died of coronary thrombosis awaiting trial for Quilty's murder.

Production
Stanley Kubrick and James Harris acquired the right to Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, a novel considered unfilmable, several years after it was first published in September 1955 in Paris by Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press, which specialized in pornographic literature. Initially considered a "dirty book" in an era when literary censorship meant jail time and fines for publishers, Lolita was not published in the United States until August 1958 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, after it had gradually established its literary reputation.

Nabokov had submitted the novel to Girodias after it was rejected by mainstream publishers. The book received no reviews until Graham Greene ranked it at one of the three best books of 1955 in the London Sunday Times. London Sunday Express editor John Gordon, in response to Greene, called it "the filthiest book I have ever read" and "sheer unrestrained pornography". The book was deemed pornography by the Home Office and British Customs officers were instructed to seize all copies entering the United Kingdom. France banned the novel for two years (1956–58). Lolita was not published in the UK until 1959.

When Marlon Brando fired Kubrick from One-Eyed Jacks project in November 1958, the director issued a press release saying that he was resigning from Brando's picture "with deep regret" so that he could "commence work on Lolita". Kubrick was hired by Kirk Douglas to replace director Anthony Mann on the epic Spartacus; he and Harris didn't put Lolita into production until 1961. Kubrick directed Laurence Olivier and Peter Ustinov in Spartacus, both of whom he considered for roles in his Lolita adaptation. It was filmed, in part, in Great Britain, and in Albany, New York.

Direction
With Nabokov's consent, Kubrick changed the order in which events unfolded by moving what was the novel's ending to the start of the film. Kubrick determined that while this sacrificed a great ending, it helped maintain interest, as he believed that interest in the novel sagged after Humbert “seduced” Lolita halfway through.

The second half contains an odyssey across the United States and though the novel was set in the 1940s, Kubrick gave it a contemporary setting, shooting many of the exterior scenes in England with some back-projected scenery shot in the United States, including upstate eastern New York, along NY 9N in the eastern Adirondacks, and a hilltop view of Albany from Rensselaer, on the east bank of the Hudson.

Some of the minor parts were played by Canadian and American actors, such as Cec Linder, Lois Maxwell, Jerry Stovin and Diana Decker, who were based in England at the time. Kubrick had to film in England, as much of the money to finance the movie was raised there, with the condition that it also be spent there. In addition, Kubrick had been living in England since 1961 and suffered from a deathly fear of flying. Hilfield Castle is featured in the film as Quilty's "Pavor Manor".

Casting
James Mason was the first choice of Kubrick and producer Harris for the role of Humbert Humbert, but he initially declined due to a Broadway engagement while recommending his daughter, Portland, for the role of Lolita. Laurence Olivier, who co-starred in Kubrick's  Spartacus, was offered the part but turned it down, apparently on the advice of his agents who also represented Kubrick.

Kubrick then considered Peter Ustinov, who won an Oscar for Spartacus, but decided against him. Harris suggested David Niven, who accepted the part but withdrew for fear that the sponsors of his TV show, Four Star Playhouse (1952), would object to the subject matter. Noël Coward and Rex Harrison were also considered.

Mason got the part of Humbert Humbert when he withdrew from the play.

The role of Clare Quilty was greatly expanded from that in the novel and Kubrick allowed Sellers to adopt a variety of disguises throughout the film. Early on in the film, Quilty appears as himself: a conceited, avant-garde playwright with a superior manner. Later he is an inquisitive policeman on the porch of the hotel, where Humbert and Lolita are staying. Next he is the intrusive Beardsley High School psychologist, Doctor Zempf. He persuades Humbert to give Lolita more freedom in her after-school activities. He is seen as a photographer backstage at Lolita's play. Later in the film, he is an anonymous phone caller conducting a survey.

Jill Haworth was asked to take the role of Lolita but she was under contract to Otto Preminger and he said "no". Hayley Mills was offered the role but her parents refused permission for her to do it. Joey Heatherton, Sandra Dee, and Tuesday Weld also were potential candidates for the role.

Although Vladimir Nabokov originally thought that Sue Lyon was the right selection to play Lolita, years later, Nabokov said that the ideal Lolita would have been Catherine Demongeot, a young French actress who had played the child Zazie in Louis Malle's Zazie in the Metro (1960). Demongeot was four years younger than Lyon.

Lyon's age
Producer James Harris explained that 14 year-old Sue Lyon, who looked older than her age, was cast because "we knew we must make [Lolita] a sex object [...] where everyone in the audience could understand why everyone would want to jump on her." He also said, in a 2015 Film Comment interview, "We made sure when we cast her that she was a definite sex object, not something that could be interpreted as being perverted."

Harris said that he and Kubrick, through casting, changed Nabokov's book as "we wanted it to come off as a love story and to feel very sympathetic with Humbert."

Censorship
At the time the film was released, the ratings system was not in effect and the Hays Code, dating back to the 1930s, governed movie production. The censorship of the time inhibited Kubrick's direction; Kubrick later commented that, "because of all the pressure over the Production Code and the Catholic Legion of Decency at the time, I believe I didn't sufficiently dramatize the erotic aspect of Humbert's relationship with Lolita. If I could do the film over again, I would have stressed the erotic component of their relationship with the same weight Nabokov did." Kubrick hinted at the nature of their relationship indirectly, through double entendre and visual cues such as Humbert painting Lolita's toes. In a 1972 Newsweek interview (after the ratings system had been introduced in late 1968), Kubrick said that he "probably wouldn't have made the film" had he realized in advance how difficult the censorship problems would be.

The film is deliberately vague over Lolita's age. Kubrick commented, "I think that some people had the mental picture of a nine-year-old, but Lolita was twelve and a half in the book; Sue Lyon was thirteen." Actually, Lyon was 14 by the time filming started and 15 when it finished. Although passed without cuts, Lolita was rated "X" by the British Board of Film Censors when released in 1962, meaning no one under 16 years of age was permitted to watch.

Voice-over narration
Humbert uses the term "nymphet" to describe Lolita, which he explains and uses in the novel; it appears twice in the movie and its meaning is left undefined. In a voice-over on the morning after the Ramsdale High School dance, Humbert confides in his diary, "What drives me insane is the twofold nature of this nymphet, of every nymphet perhaps, this mixture in my Lolita of tender, dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity. I know it is madness to keep this journal, but it gives me a strange thrill to do so. And only a loving wife could decipher my microscopic script."

Screenplay adaptation
The screenplay is credited to Nabokov, although very little of what he provided (later published in a shortened version ) was used in the film itself. Nabokov, following the success of the novel, moved out to Hollywood and penned a script for a film adaptation between March and September 1960. The first draft was extremely long—over 400 pages. As producer Harris remarked, "You couldn't make it. You couldn't lift it". Nabokov remained polite about the film in public but in a 1962 interview before seeing the film, commented that it may turn out to be "the swerves of a scenic drive as perceived by the horizontal passenger of an ambulance".

Music
The music for the film was composed by Nelson Riddle and Bob Harris (the main theme was solely by Bob Harris), and performed by Riddle's orchestra. The recurring dance number first heard on the radio when Humbert meets Lolita in the garden later became a hit single under the name "Lolita Ya Ya" with Sue Lyon credited with the singing on the single version. The flip side was a 60s-style light rock song called "Turn off the Moon" penned by Harris and Al Stillman and also sung by Sue Lyon. "Lolita Ya Ya" was later recorded by other bands; it was also a hit single for The Ventures, reaching 61 on the Billboard Hot 100. A review in Billboard stated, "There've been a number of versions of the title tune from the hit film Lolita but this figures the strongest to date. The usual Ventures guitar sound is neatly augmented with voices."

Reception
Lolita premiered on June 13, 1962, in New York City (the copyright date onscreen is 1961). It performed fairly well with little advertising, relying mostly on word-of-mouth; many critics seemed uninterested or dismissive of the film while others gave it glowing reviews. However, the film was very controversial, due to the hebephilia-related content.

Among the positive reviews, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that the film was "conspicuously different" from the novel and had "some strange confusions of style and mood", but nevertheless had "a rare power, a garbled but often moving push toward an off-beat communication." Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post called it "a peculiarly brilliant film", with a tone "not of hatred, but of mocking true. Director and author have a viewpoint on modern life that is not flattering but it is not despising, either. It is regret for the human comedy." Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times declared that the film "manages to hit peaks of comedy shrilly dissonant but on an adult level, that are rare indeed, and at the same time to underline the tragedy in human communication, human communion, between people who've got their signals hopelessly crossed." The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that the primary themes of the film were "obsession and incongruity", and since Kubrick was "an intellectual director with little feeling for erotic tension ... one is the more readily disposed to accept Kubrick's alternative approach as legitimate." In a generally positive review for The New Yorker, Brendan Gill wrote that "Kubrick is wonderfully self-confident; his camera having conveyed to us within the first five minutes that it can perform any wonders its master may require of it, he proceeds to offer us a succession of scenes broadly sketched and broadly acted for laughs, and laugh we do, no matter how morbid the circumstances." Arlene Croce in Sight & Sound wrote that "Lolita is—in its way—a good film." She found Nabokov's screenplay "a model of adaptation" and the cast "near-perfect", though she described Kubrick's attempts at eroticism as "perfunctory and misguided" and thought his "gift for visual comedy is as faint as his depiction of sensuality."

Variety had a mixed assessment, calling the film "occasionally amusing but shapeless", and likening it to "a bee from which the stinger has been removed. It still buzzes with a sort of promising irreverence, but it lacks the power to shock and eventually makes very little point either as comedy or satire." Harrison's Reports was negative, writing, "You don't have to be an emulating, prissyish uncle from Dubuque to say that the film leaves you with a feeling that is repulsively disgusting in much of its telling," adding that "even if the exhibitor makes a dollar on the booking, he may feel a sense of shame as he plods his weary way down to the bank." Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic called Lolita "tantalizingly unsatisfactory".

The film has been re-appraised by critics over time, and currently has a score of 91% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 44 reviews and with an average rating of 7.9/10. The critical consensus reads: "Kubrick's Lolita adapts its seemingly unadaptable source material with a sly comedic touch and a sterling performance by James Mason that transforms the controversial novel into something refreshingly new without sacrificing its essential edge." Metacritic gives the film a score of 79 out of 100, based on reviews by 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Filmmaker David Lynch has said that Lolita is his favorite Kubrick film. Sofia Coppola has also cited Lolita as one of her favorite films, as has Paul Thomas Anderson.

The film was a commercial success. Produced on a budget of around $2 million, Lolita grossed $9,250,000 domestically. During its initial run, the movie earned an estimated $4.5 million in North American rentals.

Years after the film's release it has been re-released on VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, and Blu-ray.

Controversy
A 2020 article by journalist Sarah Weinman alleges that Harris, the producer of the movie, had sex with Lyon during the shooting of the film when she was 14 years old. Although Lyon had remained silent regarding the rumors for many years, when asked for a statement on the planned remake of the film in 1996, she had stated:

"My destruction as a person dates from that movie. Lolita exposed me to temptations no girl of that age should undergo. I defy any pretty girl who is rocketed to stardom at 14 in a sex nymphet role to stay on a level path thereafter."

Alternate versions

 * The scene where Lolita first "seduces" Humbert as he lies on the cot is approximately 10 seconds longer in the British and Australian cut of the film. In the U.S. edition, the shot fades as she whispers the details of the "game" she played with Charlie at camp. In the UK/Australian print, the shot continues as Humbert mumbles that he is not familiar with the game. She then bends down again to whisper more details. Kubrick then cuts to a closer shot of Lolita's face as she says "Well, alrighty then" and then fades as she begins to descend onto Humbert on the cot. The latter cut of the film was used for the Region 1 DVD release. It is also the version aired on Turner Classic Movies in the U.S.
 * The Criterion LaserDisc release is the only one to use a transfer approved by Stanley Kubrick. This transfer alternates between a 1.33 and a 1.66 aspect ratio (as does the Kubrick-approved Strangelove transfer). All subsequent releases to date have been 1.66 (which means that all the 1.33 shots are slightly matted).

Other film adaptations
Lolita was filmed again in 1997, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jeremy Irons as Humbert, Melanie Griffith as Charlotte and Dominique Swain as Lolita. The film was widely publicized as being more faithful to Nabokov than the Kubrick film. Although many observed this was the case (such as Erica Jong writing in The New York Observer), the film was not as well received as Kubrick's version, and was a major box office bomb, first shown on the Showtime cable network, then released theatrically, grossing only $1 million at the US box office based on a $62 million budget.

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Talk:K. C. Armstrong

VFD Result
The result of the VFD can be found here: Votes for deletion/KC Armstrong -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:07, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad that this article was not deleted. Note that KC is active on the show again, and while he feels more like a whack packer now, his history as a show associate producer and everyday character justify his continued page. I was vaguelysurprised at the tone of people who said things along the line of, he might have needed an article at one time but he no longer rates one. To me this is like saying, "Well, Reagan no longer needs an article, after all, he is no longer president and he is dead, who cares?" Paper encyclopedias have all sorts of biographic articles about long dead and fairly obscure people - and reading them can teach an astute person who was important in the past, and therefore a little about the people of the time. The electrons are recycled. This was not an egoboo article added by KC himself. I hated KC as a character and it still should be here. Simicich 06:26, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

NPOV?
I agree. It does feel biased to make this such a prominent part of his article, considering that NYC was virtually deserted on 9/12/2001. Mister Tog 20:56, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

This feels NPOV; the article reads like an attack on the guy. Citations? And I'd like to tone down the language "embarrassed himself", etc. Janet13 00:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps this could be offset by a section about his positive contributions to the show? I believe he discovered Richard Christy, for example. Gamiar 11:14, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I believe this article feels NPOV as well. I also believe that it needs to conform to a higher standard of quality. Ajwebb 17:21, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm a long time fan of the Howard Stern Show (Wrote the original alt.fan.howard-stern FAQ - and newgrouped that newsgroup way back when -) and a much less active Wikipedia contributor. I had stopped listening 4+ hours per day over the summer. The language of the article, while strong, is also accurate. KC did embarrass himself. Do you have language that clearly expresses the fact that KC embarrassed himself, which is not as strong? (If you don't believe that he did embarrass himself, that is a valid point of view - but I believe that he did, even if he didn't realize it at the time.) I had actually done a search to determine if KC had previously admitted that he was in Rehab, and found the content valuable.

The Howard Stern Show is a reality show. The people who are show regulars, including the people who have titles such as "Producer" or "Writer" are also show characters. As show characters, their personal lives are generally grist for the mill. As an example, it recently became a point of discussion that Scott, the person who is in charge of the wires, gadgets and tape edits (Referred to as Scott the Engineer) had "cheated" on his current wife. Even though his primary responsibility is to keep the microphones and pots working, and to insure that edits are done properly, he is also a show character and was forced to provide a "revelation".

KC was a producer. But he was also a show character - and it is likely that his most important contributions were as a character rather than as a producer. As a character, KC was a Train Wreck - he seemed to be addicted to gambling and, as we have now learned, drinking. He seemed to be learning disabled in some unusual ways. He seemed to have homosexual tendencies, of which he was in denial. Being a train wreck is not a bad thing when you are a Howard Stern character. I agree that there could be a section about his positive contributions - but many of his positive contributions were things like, "KC discussed his gambling addiction. Howard tried to intervene - but KC denied that he had a problem - even though he had lost his tuition and expense money for the upcoming term." This kind of thing reads like an attack on KC - even though it was a positive contribution to the Radio Show by KC. Simicich 18:22, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to take this out of NPOV in a month if I don't see any objections here. Simicich 06:40, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

KC is a personality still intimately linked to the Howard Stern show. Integral to his persona were his fitness and looks. Accordingly, a sourced discussion on the Howard Stern show noting that KC had gained weight and was no longer physically attractive is a valid contribution. This change has now been reverted twice with no discussion by Bill Matthews without any commentary, despite my posting my reasons on both occurrences. Nowhitenoise 19:34, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Something said on the show does not make it true. Please read the statement at the top of this page "This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material of any kind that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.".  If you can site a reliable source then maybe it could stay.  But even still, his weight doesn't seem to be notable for an encyclopedia article. --Bill.matthews 00:48, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * In response to the Bill Matthew rationale for reversion, that "on-show comments are not enought", lets parse the overall entry:

Section entitled "The Howard Stern Show" - every single entry is based on an "on-show comments"

Section entitled "Departure from Howard Stern Show" - every single entry is based on "on-show comments"

Section entitled "Current Life" - every single entry is based on "on-show comments", except for one link to his website

Is this surprising, that sources for on "on-show" radio personality are based on his "on-show" radio appearances and commentary?

Lets be specific on the last since that is the section Bill Matthews keeps deleting:

- First Par - Reference to his website (the only source); commentary on the fact that he accepted pre-orders and has not shipped - all "on-show" references

- Second Par - specifically references "on-show" calls KC has made ("Armstrong called in..,"

- Third Par - again, based on an "on-show" episode ("during a telephone interview on the Stern show")

- Fourth Par - again, based on an "on-show" episode ("During the ensuing phone interview of both by Howard")

- Fifth Par - mine, same context, an "on-show" commentary ("On the April 18, 2007 Howard Stern show, Howard stern and other staff members opined that K.C. was now "overweight" and "no longer good looking")

So what gives, Bill Matthews has no rationale... Nowhitenoise 19:34, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I never deleted your comments, and I did add my own. Please make additional comments here at the bottom of the page, and please sign your posts.  I agree most of the content of this article should be removed as unsourced.  However your comments about his weight are irrelevant, and not notable.  Save it for a fan site or message board. --Bill.matthews 02:33, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

The weight discussion is clearly not libelous nor controversial, so the above reliable sources items are not relevant. Plus, KC Armstrong, as an on air radio personality, further qualifies as a public figure.

Where a public figure is closely aligned with health and looks, the fact that they have gained weight is relevant, and notable. Examples include Anna Nicole and Kirstie Alley and many others. It may not be relevent or notable to you, but that is not the measure, and you should not be imposing your own views of what is frivolous.

In fact, the weight and looks are even more critical for KC, since ALL the other aspects of his life were out of control. He thus served as a walking example that just being good looking doesn't make for a successful life. Many other characters on the Stern show have similar allegorical properties. Thus the fact that he is potentially no longer good looking is very relevant to his public persona.

Nowhitenoise 14:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Point of clarification - I had not previously realized Bill had made comments here, as I am new to Wikipedia commenting. So I would like to withdraw my more argumentative comments above, and the claim that Bill made changes without dialog. I do stand by my changes as being relevant and notable, but I do so in good humor and with full respect for Bill's positions.

Nowhitenoise 18:49, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:BLP
There's a notice on the top of this page about how we have to be cautious about sourcing in an article on a living person like this one. Per that, I have massively cut down the article to a bare-bones stub. What's there should be sourced as soon as possible. The previous state of the article read like an attack on this person, which is NOT acceptable if it doesn't come from source (and in any case, must meet WP:NPOV.) Mango juice talk 18:00, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Gossip Column n ot factual information!
I have never been more disappointed in Wikipedia content. This is not factual and shows tears down a character of someone more than anything else! I will be going live on vide3o about this distasteful gossip column. I have lost respect for the excellent work Wikipedia was known for.

www.shannonknight.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:AE8D:1200:50F8:2086:4FE4:9D51 (talk) 14:03, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joyful Child Foundation

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. —Korath (Talk) 20:46, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

Joyful Child Foundation
Seems like a vanity article. Non-notable organization. My vote is delete. Spinboy 03:07, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Samantha Runnion was just up for deletion a few days ago.  This article was created as a result of a suggestion in that VfD debate.  See Votes for deletion/Samantha Runnion. --Idont Havaname 04:17, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Organization appears to be notable and worthy of inclusion on Wikipedia (IMHO).  —RaD Man (talk) 04:27, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. They were on GMA. - RedWordSmith 04:32, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Samaritan 04:56, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, less than 240 Google hits - sorry just isnt notable enough. Megan1967 06:48, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I wrote this article after Katefan0 and Idont Havaname suggested that we merge the Samantha Runnion article into an article on the Joyful Child Foundation. I created this article as a consequence - I have no connection with it. My personal preference was to keep the article as it was a widely reported case and the trial is still ongoing with the potential for it to be a capital case going on for years. As the Foundation has 50 childwatch programs established in Southern California with plans to do more, I thought it was notable enough for Wikipedia. Capitalistroadster 13:07, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Philip 15:41, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I see no reason to delete a page on a non-profit with a fairly significant outreach and that has links to a crime that had some news coverage. Katefan0 18:32, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and allow for organic growth. GRider\talk 20:10, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable enough for inclusion. Carrp | Talk 04:11, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Khazars in fiction

I am the creator of several of the items on the original list at Khazaria.com, so I am at least partial copyright holder. I have spoken with the owner of that site, Kevin Brook, and he has authorized its use. He will be on here shortly to confirm. --Briangotts 03:08, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I am the webmaster of Khazaria.com. The list of Khazars in fiction is indeed copied from one of my pages, however that page is not copyrighted and is a collaborative effort (for research and promotional purposes) with the words written by myself as well as Eli Eshed, Brian Gottesman, Thomas Harlan, and the publisher of S.J. Revich's book. I give permission to use all that information either as is or (preferably) rewritten. -- Kevin A. Brook (KAB)

Koestler?
Any specific reason, why Arthur Koestler is not listed? His book is clearly a work of fiction, so it should be here. Comments? --Johannes Rohr 20:12, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Arthur Koestler wrote The Thirteenth Tribe as a work of non-fiction. However flawed it is (and those flaws are discussed at (Khazars), it is not clearly a work of fiction; quite the contrary, as Koestler wanted to be taken seriously as a historical researcher. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 20:15, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikify tag
My apologies. On a previous edit I had placed a "context" tag in error. What i had intended to apply was a "wikify" tag. In particular, I am concerned about the opening sentences, as discussed in the Guide to Layout. I'd attend to it myself, but know so little about the subject. Again, apologies.Victoriagirl 17:50, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Why a reverse chronological order?
Is there any special reason for the works to be listed in a reverse chronological order? it seems to me more logical to start with Yehuda Halevi and go on down the generations, giving a coherent picture of the theme's development through the ages until the present, and not regress from the present to the remote past.Adam keller 22:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

That seems logical to me. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 03:49, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Logic error

In computer programming, a logic error is a bug in a program that causes it to operate incorrectly, but not to terminate abnormally (or crash). A logic error produces unintended or undesired output or other behaviour, although it may not immediately be recognized as such.

Logic errors occur in both compiled and interpreted languages. Unlike a program with a syntax error, a program with a logic error is a valid program in the language, though it does not behave as intended. Often the only clue to the existence of logic errors is the production of wrong solutions, though static analysis may sometimes spot them.

Debugging logic errors
One of the ways to find this type of error is to put out the program's variables to a file or on the screen in order to determine the error's location in code. Although this will not work in all cases, for example when calling the wrong subroutine, it is the easiest way to find the problem if the program uses the incorrect results of a bad mathematical calculation.

Examples
This example function in C to calculate the average of two numbers contains a logic error. It is missing parentheses in the calculation, so it compiles and runs but does not give the expected answer due to operator precedence (division is evaluated before addition).

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Smáralind

Smáralind is a shopping mall located in the Capital Region of Iceland. It is one of the biggest shopping malls in Iceland, with over ninety shops, restaurants and services. Designed by BDP and built by ÍSTAK, it was opened on 10 October 2001 at 10:10 GMT. Smáralind competes with other shopping centers of the Capital Region: Kringlan mall and Reykjavík's old city centre.

Shops
The mall's anchor tenants are Hagkaup and H&M (where formerly Debenhams resided). Other major tenants are Zara and SmáraTívolí, a children's entertainment centre. The mall also houses a cinema. There are a number of well-known restaurants and cafés, including Subway, Pizza Hut, Sbarro, O'Learys, and T.G.I. Friday's among others.

Controversy
Immediately after opening its resemblance to a giant phallus when viewed from the air created some notoriety.

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Talk:Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics

Note: Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics and Laff-a-Lympics are not synonymous. This should not be a redirect for Laff-a-Lympics. --b. Touch 03:14, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Lorentz Boost

Please see Naming conventions — article titles should be lower case after the first letter. We already have a Lorentz boost article (currently redirecting to Lorentz transformation). Please merge this material in there if you want to keep it. This page will be made into a redirect. -- Fropuff 03:14, 2005 Feb 10 (UTC)

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Talk:Darwinian Happiness

VFD Result
The result of the VFD can be found here: Votes for deletion/Darwinian Happiness -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:15, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Examples of Darwinian Happiness
I recently read a meta-analysis paper which came to the conclusion that children who attended some child care at an earlier age were better adapted socially as adults rather than worse. I've changed the example to Australian Aboriginals and alcohol, since the evidence is far more clear cut in this case.

Old Wine in New Bottles?
The very idea presented here seems closely linked to earlier such attempts well known in ethics and criticized by some. See Naturalistic fallacy, and Is–ought problem. --Ivbauer (talk) 11:00, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

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Basilikon Doron

The Basilikon Doron is a treatise on government written by King James VI of Scotland (who would later also become James I of England), in 1599.

Background
Basilikon Doron (Βασιλικὸν Δῶρον) means "royal gift" in Ancient Greek and was written in the form of a private letter to James's eldest son, Henry, Duke of Rothesay (1594–1612). After Henry's death, James gave it to his second son, Charles, born 1600, later King Charles I. Seven copies were printed in Edinburgh in 1599, and it was republished in London in 1603, when it sold in the thousands.

Content
This document is separated into three books, serving as general guidelines to follow to be an efficient monarch. The first describes a king's duty towards God as a Christian. The second focuses on the roles and responsibilities in office. The third concerns proper behaviour in daily life.

As the first part is concerned with being a good Christian, James instructed his son to love and respect God as well as to fear Him. Furthermore, it is essential to carefully study the Scripture (the Bible) and especially specific books in both the Old and New Testaments. Lastly, he must pray often and always be thankful for what God has given him.

In the second book, James encouraged his son to be a good king, as opposed to a tyrant, by establishing and executing laws as well as governing with justice and equality, such as by boosting the economy. It is important to invite foreign merchants into the country and to base the currency on gold and silver. Likewise, according to James,
 * A good monarch must be well acquainted with his subjects and so it would be wise to visit each of the kingdoms every three years.
 * During war, he should choose old but good captains to lead an army of young and agile soldiers.
 * In the court and the household, he should carefully select loyal gentlemen and servants to surround him. When the time came to choose a wife, it would be best if she were of the same religion and had a generous estate. However, she must not meddle with governmental politics but perform her domestic duties.
 * As for inheritance, to ensure stability, the kingdom should be left to the eldest son, not divided among all children.
 * Lastly, it is most important to James that his son would know well his own craft, which is to properly govern over his subjects. To do so, he must study the laws of his kingdom and actively participate in the council.
 * Furthermore, he must be acquainted with mathematics for military purposes and world history for foreign policy.

The final portion of the Basilikon Doron focuses on the daily life of a monarch. For instance, James advised his son to eat meat to be strong for traveling, and during wartime.
 * He must also not drink and sleep excessively.
 * Furthermore, his wardrobe should always be clean and proper, and he must never let his hair and nails grow long.
 * In his writing and speech, he should use honest and plain language.

All of these guidelines composed an underlying code of conduct to be followed by all monarchs and heads of state to rule and govern efficiently. James assembled these directions as a result of his own experience and upbringing. He, therefore, offered the Basilikon Doron to his son with the hope of rendering him a capable ruler and perhaps to pass it down to future generations.

Overall, it repeats the argument for the divine right of kings, as set out in The True Law of Free Monarchies, which was also written by James. It warns against "Papists" and derides Puritans, in keeping with his philosophy of following a "middle path", which is also reflected in the preface to the 1611 King James Bible. It also advocates removing the Apocrypha from the Bible.

Publication
The published Basilikon Doron may well have been intended to portray the king in a favourable light. James Sempill assisted James in composing it. Robert Waldegrave, who was bound to secrecy, printed seven copies at the king's behest. Henry Taylor said that he had printed it on Waldegrave's press. Richard Royston and then William Dugard printed further copies.

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Category:Play (activity)

Articles related to play, a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment. Play is commonly associated with children and juvenile-level activities, but play occurs at any life stage, and among other higher-functioning animals as well, most notably mammals and birds.

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Talk:Alejandro Lanusse

VFD Result
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Theory of the second best

In welfare economics, the theory of the second best (also known as the general theory of second best or the second best theorem) concerns the situation when one or more optimality conditions cannot be satisfied. The economists Richard Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster showed in 1956, that if one optimality condition in an economic model cannot be satisfied, it is possible that the next-best solution involves changing other variables away from the values that would otherwise be optimal. Politically, the theory implies that if it is infeasible to remove a particular market distortion, introducing one or more additional market distortions in an interdependent market may partially counteract the first, and lead to a more efficient outcome.

Implications
In an economy with some uncorrectable market failure in one sector, actions to correct market failures in another related sector with the intent of increasing economic efficiency may actually decrease overall economic efficiency. In theory, at least, it may be better to let two market imperfections cancel each other out rather than making an effort to fix either one. Thus, it may be optimal for the government to intervene in a way that is contrary to usual policy. This suggests that economists need to study the details of the situation before jumping to the theory-based conclusion that an improvement in market perfection in one area implies a global improvement in efficiency.

Application
Even though the theory of the second best was developed for the Walrasian general equilibrium system, it also applies to partial equilibrium cases.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Isolecithal

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. (Just kidding. KEEP)  dbenbenn | talk 20:07, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Isolecithal and centrolecithal
Redirect both. A couple of very Wiki-worthy terms which it has apparently never heard of. Could someone please define them but is it in Egg (biology) or Ovum. (I didn't know mammals laid eggs but MSN Encarta mentions mammals as well. VfD is probably not the right place for this but it is a popular place so this request may get noticed.) -- RHaworth 03:18, 2005 Feb 10 (UTC)
 * Comment yes one mammal does produce eggs, the platypus, no vote as yet. Megan1967 06:35, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Echidnas do too. They're both monotremes.  Postdlf 07:03, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect Isolechithal. Looks like a spelling mistake of Isolecithal. Centrolecithal does exist - 13,600 Google hits. It's the food yolk placed at the centre of an ovum. Megan1967 06:58, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * My spelling mistake has now been corrected - thank you. -- RHaworth 08:13, 2005 Feb 10 (UTC)
 * Comment I would be willing to expand both articles by tomorrow night. Just stubs at the moment. Megan1967 09:39, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: If you want to redirect, then just do it. VFD is long enough as it is, please don't fill it up with things that aren't deletions. sjorford// 10:06, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Both articles have potential, keep. Leanne 22:03, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Kishichiro Okura

Baron Kishichiro Okura (大倉 喜七郎) was a Japanese entrepreneur and hotelier.

Biography
Baron Kishichiro Okura was the son of Okura Kihachiro (1837-1928), an entrepreneur who built up the Okura-gumi and founded the giant Okura Zaibatsu (family owned conglomerate) and the Okura Shogyo Gakko, which later became Tokyo Keizai University (Tokyo University of Economics), in 1949.

Okura studied at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1903 to 1906 but did not graduate. He competed in the first ever car race held at Brooklands in Surrey on July 6, 1907, where he came in second. Okura was also one of the pioneers who introduced the motor car to Japan. He was President of the Imperial Hotel and Okura luxury hotel chain that is still important in Japan today.

Okura Kishichiro was a primary patron in the establishment of the Nihon Ki-in or Japanese Go Association in 1924, where he organized and supported professional go players in Japan following the Meiji Restoration and subsequent ceasing of government support for the four go houses.

He also invented the musical instrument the Okraulo, a type of vertical flute.

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Chicago Public Schools

Chicago Public Schools (CPS), officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, in Chicago, Illinois, is the fourth-largest school district in the United States, after New York, Los Angeles, and Miami-Dade County. For the 2020–21 school year, CPS reported overseeing 638 schools, including 476 elementary schools and 162 high schools; of which 513 were district-run, 115 were charter schools, 9 were contract schools and 1 was a SAFE school. The district serves 340,658 students. Chicago Public School students attend a particular school based on their area of residence, except for charter, magnet, and selective enrollment schools.

The school system reported a graduation rate of 82.5% for the 2019–20 school year. Unlike most school systems, CPS calls the position of superintendent the "Chief Executive Officer", but there is no material difference in responsibilities or reporting from what is traditionally considered a superintendent. CPS reported a student–teacher ratio of 15.84 for the 2019–20 school year. For the 2020–21 school year, 46.7% of CPS students were Latino and 35.8% were African-American. 63.8% of the student body came from economically-disadvantaged households, and 18.6% of students were reported as English-language learners. Average salaries for the 2019-20 year were $74,225 for teachers and $114,199 for administrators. For the 2020–21 school year, CPS reported 39,323 staff positions, including 21,974 teachers and 516 principals. In 2021, CPS reported a budget of $6.92 billion with $3.75 billion from local sources, $1.85 billion from the State of Illinois and $1.3 billion from the U.S. Federal Government. Per student spending was reported at $13,694 in 2020.

Chicago Public Schools led the nation in test score improvement, learned at a faster rate compared to 96% of all school districts in the country, and as of 2020, had an all-time high graduation rate. It has faced declining enrollments and school closings. More than 80 percent of CPS students are Hispanic or Black.

History
As Chicago was started as a trading outpost in the 1800s, it took several years for a citywide school system with adequate funding and instructional personnel to emerge. As early as 1848, during the first term of the 12th Mayor of Chicago, James Hutchinson Woodworth, the city's need for a public school system was recognized by the city council. A higher educational standard for the system was stated by the mayor, both to reflect his philosophy as a former teacher, and to add an attribute to Chicago that would continue to attract productive citizens. In 1922, the school board voted unanimously to change policy that allocated library access based on color, "[extending] the same privileges to Race children to enter all the libraries as the white children enjoy", but maintaining segregated schools and specifying that "in each branch library all employees should belong to the race which attended the particular school".

In 1937, the city was hit by a polio outbreak which resulted in the Chicago Board of Health ordering schools to be closed during what was supposed to be the start of the school year. The school closure wound up lasting three weeks. Superintendent William Johnson and assistant superintendent Minnie Fallon managed to provide the instruction to the city's elementary school students by providing at-home distance education through radio broadcasts. This was the first large-scale implementation of radio broadcasting for distance education.

Funding
By the 1960s, schools across Chicago—and most of Illinois—were struggling to support themselves. Illinois school funding, according to scholar Tracy Steffes, was heavily reliant upon “funding by property taxes assessed in and bounded within districts of highly unequal wealth.” Wealthy districts paid less and got better schools, while poor districts got worse schools but paid even more. The problem was compounded by “soft” segregation measures such as redlining and “white flight,” which further delineated Chicago communities upon lines of both wealth and race. The introduction of the Illinois Resource Equalizer Formula in 1973 was intended to address this crisis by restructuring school financing to more evenly distribute property tax money, but many affluent white families protested the use of their taxes to pay for other (predominantly Black) communities’ education, rather than only their own district's schools. The formula was abolished in the late 1980s, and acute funding issues continue both in Chicago and across Illinois.

School closures
From 2001 to 2009, CPS, under Arne Duncan's leadership, closed dozens of elementary and high schools due to classrooms being at low capacity or underperforming. Despite claims that the closures would help underperforming students, University of Chicago researchers found that most of the students who transferred as a result of the closures did not improve their performance. This is what led to the Renaissance 2010 initiative, which focused on closing public schools and opening more charter schools that were focused on one of the government structures: charter, performance, or contract. During this program's time, it has closed over 80 schools and plans to open 100 charter schools. This also include five military schools, three of which have Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs. In response to CPS's announcements in 2013 that it was considering closing nearly 200 schools, many Chicago parents, students, teachers and community activists voiced their opposition through the media and at hearings around the city. In addition, several Illinois lawmakers, including chairman of the Senate education committee William Delgado (D-Chicago), pushed for a moratorium on school closings in CPS, citing "the disproportion[ate] effect on minority communities, the possibility of overcrowding and safety concerns for students who will have to travel further to class." On May 22, 2013, the school board voted to close 50 public schools. However, the majority of the closed schools have been in poor neighborhoods with a black population, such as Bronzeville. These areas are not only sites of demolished public housing, but now to closed-down schools. For every four schools that have been closed, three have been in these neighborhoods. Over 88% of the students affected by these closings have been African American.

Student and teacher protests
In 2013, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago initiated the closing of 54 public schools. Of the 54 public schools to be closed were 53 elementary schools and one high school. Mayor Rahm Emanuel claimed the school closings were a direct result from the nearly $1 billion deficit the city was facing due to under-enrollment at the schools. The schools to be closed were located on Chicago's South and West sides which provided education to mainly African-American Students. The Mayors decision to close the schools was met with rage and feelings of injustice by the communities affected and the Chicago Teachers Union. As a result, the CTU and other education activities responded by protesting.

In May 2013, the Chicago Teachers Union were joined by students and other education activities to march against the closings of 54 public schools that year. The activists planned three days of nonviolent demonstrations across the city of Chicago. The CTU gathered an upwards of 900 protesters to participate in rally's, marches, and sit-ins against Mayor Rahm Emanuel's decision to close the schools. Over 150 protesters participated in a sit-in in the middle of LaSalle Street, blocking traffic, and forcing the response of the Chicago Police Department. Many protesters peacefully left the scene when asked to by the CPD, but many held their ground. Protesters that did not agree to leave the scene were issued tickets. Over 50 people were arrested throughout the entire protests, but no acts of violence were reported.

CPS teacher strikes
The teachers union first strike occurred in May 1969, which lasted two days. The second strike occurred in January 1971, lasting four days from January 12 through January 15. The strike resulted in an 8% teacher's salary increase and a 7% increase for school staff workers. Another strike by the union occurred in January 1973, which lasted twelve days. The union was requesting that their salaries be increased and their class sizes be smaller. On September 3, 1975, The union went on strike for eleven days as a result to restore the loss of teaching and clerical jobs, overcrowding of classrooms.

1980s strikes
In February 1980, the union went on strike again for a total of ten days; asking for paydays worked during financial crisis, changes to school board's spending cuts and job cuts. In 1983, CPS teachers went on a fifteen-day strike from October 3 to October 18 demanding a 10% salary increase. Superintendent Ruth B. Love offered raises between 1.6% and 4.8%, but the teachers' union rejected the proposal. The strike ended with the teachers receiving a 5% raise, 2.5% bonus and a one-year pact. Chicago Public School teachers went on a ten-day strike from November 23 to December 3, 1984, which resulted in a 4.5% raise. In 1985, the teachers had a two-day walkout. CPS teachers went on a nineteen-day strike from September 8, to October 3, 1987.

Recent strikes
In September 2012, CPS teachers went on a nine-day strike, walking off the job for the first time in 25 years. The work stoppage, which began during the second week of the 2012 school year, culminated with a march on City Hall. Striking teachers voiced complaints about pay, teacher evaluations, and benefits, as well as general concerns about the neglect of the city's public school system. Soon after the strike, CEO Jean-Claude Brizard stepped down from his position. On October 17, 2019, The Chicago Teachers Union began another strike that lasted 11 days. The contract negotiated by the CTU and Mayor Lori Lightfoot resulted in the teachers winning smaller class sizes as well as more support staff. Furthermore, the students will have five of the eleven days added to their school year.

Demographics
For the 2018–2019 school year, CPS reports having 361,314 students including 17,668 in preschool, 24,128 in kindergarten, 213,651 in grades 1–8, and 105,867 in grades 9-12. The racial makeup of the student body is 46.7% Hispanics, 36.6% African-Americans, 10.5% White, 4.1% Asian/Pacific Islander, 1.2% Multi-Racial, 0.3% Native American, 0.2% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and 0.3% unknown. Chicago Public Schools were the most racial-ethnically separated among large city school systems, according to research by The New York Times in 2012, as a result of most students' attending schools close to their homes. In the 1970s the Mexican origin student population grew in CPS, although it never exceeded 10% of the total CPS student population. From 1971 to 1977 and then to 1979, the Mexican student population in the Near West Side's CPS district 19 increased from 34% to 43% and then over 47%, respectively. In the 1980s, among the total CPS student population, the numbers of non-Hispanic Whites declined while Hispanics and Latinos, African-Americans, and other minorities increased. In 1982 16.3% of the CPS students were non-Hispanic White, while over 19% were of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and/or Cuban origin; that year the Hispanic and Latino population had overtaken the non-Hispanic White population.

Schools

CPS is a system of primary, secondary, and disability schools confined to Chicago's city limits. This system is the second largest employer in Chicago.

Most schools in the district, whether prekindergarten-8th grade, elementary, middle, or secondary, have attendance boundaries restricting student enrollment to within a given area. A school may elect to enroll students outside its attendance boundaries if there is space or if it has a magnet cluster program. Full magnet schools are open to citywide student enrollment, provided that applicants meet a level of high academic standards. Magnets offer a variety of academic programs with various focuses, such as agriculture, fine arts, international baccalaureate, Montessori, math, literature, Paideia programs, and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). STEM Magnet Academy is the first elementary school in the state of Illinois, and among the first in the nation, to offer a STEM-focused curriculum. The Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) is the system's only audition based performing and visual arts high school. Chicago was the largest city in the country without a public high school for the arts until the establishment of ChiArts in 2009.

Elementary schools
The school system contains two levels of primary school programs which make selective admission only. Regional gifted centers have an area of focus (such as math and science) and require one type of assessment, akin to an IQ test. Classical schools, in contrast to regional gifted centers, take a liberal arts approach focusing on all areas. Classical school applications thus require a different type of assessment.

Secondary schools
At the secondary level, CPS operates ten selective enrollment high schools. These include Walter Payton College Prep, Northside College Prep, William Jones College Prep, Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, and Albert G. Lane Technical College Prep. Selective Enrollment high schools work on a point system out of 900 points:
 * 450 points for the CPS High School Admissions Test (tested in vocabulary, literature, grammar, and math)
 * 450 points for 7th grade grades (A=75, B=50, C=25; D and below=0)

Competition to get into selective enrollment schools is fierce, and many factors decide whether students are admitted or not: Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the point system included three categories, each weighted at 300 points instead of the current 450. Instead of the CPS High School Admissions Test, the district used the Selective Enrollment High School exam, and the third category was based on the students' percentile score on the NWEA MAP test.
 * Ranking: Students are asked to rank their top 5 high schools—the higher a school is on the list, the higher the chance a high school will choose to admit a student
 * Points from the point system mentioned above

Other high school options
In addition to the selective enrollment high schools, a number of other possibilities exist for high school students. These include military academies, career academies, and charter schools. Lincoln Park High School and Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center are neighborhood "magnet" high schools, which also offer various honors programs to students citywide. More specialized options, such as the Chicago High School for the Arts and the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences are also available.

Military academies
In partnership with various Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs, six high schools are operated as public military academies:

 * Air Force Academy High School
 * Carver Military Academy
 * Chicago Military Academy at Bronzeville
 * Marine Leadership Academy at Ames
 * Phoenix Military Academy
 * Rickover Naval Academy (selective enrollment)

Career academies
Some high schools have been designated as "Career Academies." According to CPS, these schools have "intensified resources to prepare students for careers in business/finance, communications, construction, health, hospitality/food service, manufacturing, performing arts, and transportation. Vocational shops, science labs, broadcast journalism labs and media/computer centers help students gain 'hands on' experience."

 * Austin Business and Entrepreneurship Academy
 * Chicago Vocational Career Academy
 * Dunbar Vocational Career Academy
 * Prosser Career Academy
 * Simeon Career Academy

Charter schools
The Chicago district is responsible for 122 charter schools during the 2017–2018 school year. A variety of organizations run these schools. Frazier Preparatory Academy, for example, is sponsored by an independent board of directors and run by education management organization Pansophic Learning.

The Noble Network of Charter Schools runs eighteen high schools. These schools receive the majority of their operating budgets from the same tax sources as CPS. Charters in Chicago receive 10-25% less public funding than traditional schools, although some studies show their student achievement and performance metrics to be the same as traditional CPS results.

However, in October 2014, the University of Minnesota released a study that shows that Chicago charter schools perform worse than traditional schools in producing students that meet or exceed standards in reading and math. The study also showed that charter schools have lower graduation rates and "are much less likely to be racially or ethnically diverse."

In 2015, the Noble Network of Charter Schools was named the best performing large public charter school system in America by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and was awarded $250,000 by the foundation.

Operations
The structure of Chicago Public Schools was redefined after Mayor Richard M. Daley convinced the Illinois General Assembly to place CPS under the mayor's control. Illinois school districts are generally governed by locally elected school boards, where each district board hires a superintendent, who in turn hires administrators such as principals, who then must be approved by the school board. In contrast, CPS is headed by a Chief Executive Officer and school board appointed by the mayor. It is currently the only school district in Illinois where the school board is appointed by a city's mayor. The school board will transition to consist entirely of elected members by 2027.

CPS is headquartered in the 42 West Madison building in the Chicago Loop, formerly headquartered in the 125 South Clark Street building from 1998 until November 2014. The district has offices in Bridgeport, Colman, and Garfield Park. The 20 story building, managed by MB Real Estate, and originally built as the Commercial National Bank, has 570910 sqft of space.

Chief Executive Officer
CPS is headed by a chief executive officer (CEO) appointed by the mayor. The current CEO is Pedro Martinez.

The position of CEO, before it was created in 1995, was preceded by a position of "superintendent". In 1995, the Government of Illinois passed the Chicago School Reform Amendatory Act, which replaced the position of superintendent with that of chief executive Officer.

Chicago Board of Education
The school board, known as the Chicago Board of Education, is currently appointed by the mayor of Chicago. Between 2024 and 2027, the board is slated to transition to consist entirely of elected members.

The board traces its roots back to the Board of School Inspectors, created in 1837, which was renamed Chicago Board of Education in 1857.

The Chicago Board of Education is led by a president. The current president of the Chicago Board of Education is Jianan Shi.

Local school councils
In 1988, the Government of Illinois passed the Chicago School Reform Act, which created Local School Councils.

Performance
The April 21, 2006 issue of the Chicago Tribune revealed a study by the Consortium on Chicago School Research that stated that 6 of every 100 CPS freshmen would earn a bachelor's degree by age 25. 3 in 100 black or Latino men would earn a bachelor's degree by age 25. The study tracked Chicago high school students who graduated in 1998 and 1999. 35% of CPS students who went to college earned their bachelor's degree within six years, below the national average of 64%. Chicago has a history of high dropout rates, with around half of students failing to graduate for the past 30 years. Criticism is directed at the CPS for inflating its performance figures. Through such techniques as counting students who swap schools before dropping out as transfers but not dropouts, it publishes graduation claims as high as 71%. Nonetheless, throughout the 1990s actual rates seem to have improved slightly, as true graduation estimates rose from 48% in 1991 to 54% in 2004.

In 1987, Education Secretary William J. Bennett called the Chicago Public Schools system the worst in the nation. In September 2011, the University of Chicago's Consortium on Chicago School Research published a report on the school system's performance over the course of 30 years of reform. While the report evaluated three decades of reform, it measured the progress of such policies by "analyzing trends in elementary and high school test scores and graduation rates over the past 20 years." The authors of the report highlighted five of their central conclusions: "* "Graduation rates have improved dramatically, and high school test scores have risen; more students are graduating without a decline in average academic performance."
 * "Math scores have improved incrementally in the elementary/middle grades, while elementary/middle grade reading scores remained fairly flat for two decades."
 * "Racial gaps in achievement have steadily increased, with white students making slightly more progress than Latino students, and African American students falling behind all other groups."
 * "Despite progress, the vast majority of CPS students have academic achievement levels that are far below where they need to be to graduate ready for college."
 * "The publicly reported statistics used to hold schools and districts accountable for making academic progress are not accurate measures of progress.""

Pension fund
The Illinois state government required Chicago Public Schools to move money from education to worker pensions. CPS is the only district in the state that the state government has done this to. CPS filed a civil lawsuit to ask the courts to require the state to rewrite its rules on how it funds schools. The lawsuit was filed in Cook County Circuit Court on February 14, 2017, and is CPS v. Governor Bruce Rauner, Illinois State Board of Education and its chairman Rev. James T. Meeks, Comptroller Susan Mendoza, and state school Superintendent Tony Smith.

Crime and corruption
In 2014, the Office of the Inspector General for Chicago Public schools received over 1300 complaints involving accusations of impropriety. Its subsequent 43-page report and audit noted that corruption and theft were still a major problem within CPS, detailing major theft of school funds, kickbacks to CPS employees, falsification of student transfer data, fraudulent selective enrollment applications, and ethics violations. In one particular case involving a half-dozen employees, almost $900,000 was stolen in what Inspector General Nicholas Schuler called a "major purchasing and reimbursement scheme". The schools involved were later identified as Gage Park Academy and Michele Clark Magnet High School. A spokesman for CPS later issued a statement that "Chicago Public Schools is committed to working with the Office of the Inspector General to eliminate corruption, fraud and waste across the district."

In April 2015, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, the CEO of Chicago Public Schools, took a leave of absence during a federal investigation of a no-bid contract to a professional development organization that she had previously worked for as a consultant. She resigned from the position in June 2015. In October a federal grand jury delivered a 23 count indictment against Bennett and alleged co-conspirators. Bennett would go on to plead guilty to a $23 million kickback scheme and was sentenced to 7 and a half years in prison. In March 2016, the Chicago Board of Education filed a $65 million lawsuit against Bennett and her co-conspirators.

In January 2016, the Office of the Inspector General for CPS again received over 1300 fraud complaints and issued another audit for 2015 which continued to highlight issues of corruption and theft. The 2015 audit reported the shakedown of a CPS vendor, a records falsification scheme by a principal, widespread selective enrollment fraud, illegal use of taxpayer-funded resources on political campaigns, theft from taxpayer-funded accounts intended for purchasing student materials, and numerous instances of abusing tax-exempt status to purchase personal items.

The Benito Juarez Community Academy shooting occurred on December 16, 2022, when two students were shot dead by an ex-student with alleged gang ties.

Online reports and studies

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Paolo Vidoz

Paolo Vidoz (born 21 August 1970) is an Italian former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2011 and held the European heavyweight title from 2005 to 2006. As an amateur Vidoz won a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics in the super-heavyweight bracket, as well as a bronze medal at the 1997 and 1999 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2000 European Championships.

Amateur career
He won Olympic Bronze in 2000 at Super Heavyweight after beating Calvin Brock and Samuel Peter but lost to Audley Harrison.

Amateur highlights

 * Italian Superheavyweight Champion 1991, 1993, 1995–1997, 1999
 * 1996 competed at the European Championships in Vejle, Denmrl. Results were:
 * Defeated Vasile Ciocan (Romania) RSC-2
 * Defeated Miroslav Gavenciak (Slovakia) PTS
 * Lost to René Monse (Germany) DSQ-3
 * 1996 competed as a Superheavyweight at the Atlanta Olympics. Results was:
 * Lost to Alexis Rubalcaba (Cuba) RSCH-1
 * 1997 3rd place at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Results were:
 * Defeated Patrick Halberg (Denmark) PTS
 * Defeated Henryk Zatyka (Poland) PTS
 * Defeated Ahmed El Akad (Egypt) PTS
 * Lost to Alexis Rubalcaba (Cuba) PTS
 * 1997 won the Mediterranean Games in Bari, Italy beating Sinan Samil Sam of Turkey in the final.
 * 1998 won the Goodwill Games in New York, USA. Results were:
 * Defeated Keith Govan (USA) PTS (8-1)
 * Defeated Dmitriy Diagilev (Russia) PTS (8-2)
 * Defeated Alexis Rubalcaba (Cuba) PTS (9-3)
 * 1998 competed at the European Championships in Minsk, Belarus. Results were:
 * Defeated Rimantas Priczmantas (Lithuania) PTS
 * Lost to Vladimir Lazebnik (Ukraine) PTS
 * 1999 3rd place at the World Championships in Houston, USA. Results were:
 * Defeated Patrice L'Heureux (Canada) PTS
 * Defeated Alexis Rubalcaba (Cuba) PTS (2-5)
 * Lost to Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov (Kazakhstan) PTS
 * 2000 2nd place at the European Championships in Tampere, Finland. Results were:
 * Defeated Kurban Guenerbakan (Turkey) RSCI-1
 * Defeated Kestutis Bitkevicius (Lithuania) RSC-4
 * Defeated Bagrat Oghanian (Armenia) PTS
 * Lost to Alexei Lezin (Russia) PTS
 * 2000 won Super Heavyweight bronze at the Sydney Olympics. Results were:
 * Defeated Calvin Brock (USA) RSCO-4
 * Defeated Samuel Peter (Nigeria) PTS (14-3)
 * Lost to Audley Harrison (Great Britain) PTS (16-32)

Professional career
His first match was held at Madison Square Garden on 27 January 2001, against Chris Morris. He won the match via knockout at 2 minutes and 22 seconds in the first round.

Vidoz kept up a solid winning streak before encountering Zuri Lawrence, a "journeyman" fighter who, while proficient in his defensive ability, lacks a modicum of talent with regard to hitting his opponents (he has failed to record even a single knockout throughout his 12 years in the ring). Lawrence was able to baffle Vidoz with his slippery movement in the ring and score a unanimous decision after eight rounds.

Vidoz bounced back with his next fight, registering a devastating knockout of Eduardo Sandivares at just under a minute into the fight.

Vidoz dropped out of serious contention with a ninth-round TKO loss to Russian boxer Nicolay Valuev on 9 October 2004 at the Messehalle in Erfurt, Germany.

On 6 June 2005, Vidoz captured vacant European (EBU) heavyweight title and IBF Inter-Continental title with a split decision over Timo Hoffmann. Vidoz followed this up with a victory over British fighter Michael Sprott, but his "Titanium Jaw" was later checked in a fight in July 2006 against Vladimir Virchis, who beat Vidoz by KO in the sixth.

After his loss to Virchis he rebounded with two more wins against Alexei Osokin and Antoine Palatis before losing to Virchis one more time this time by unanimous decision.

He won two more fights against Zoltan Peto and Paul Butlin, winning both of them by knockout.

He faced Sinan Samil Sam for the vacant EBU (European) heavyweight title on 4 July 2008, but lost by majority decision. This fight was particularly strange, with the Manager of Samil screaming and bullying the judges at the end of the fight, to obtain a winning decision over Vidoz. He fought Matt Skelton for the vacant EBU European heavyweight title on 19 December 2008. He lost the fight after refusing to come out for round 10. In his most recent fight he defeated Tomasz Zeprzalka by TKO in the fourth round. On 18 December 2009, he fought Albert Sosnowski for the EBU heavyweight title but lost by unanimous decision after twelve rounds.

After his loss to Sosnowski he would go on to lose his next three fights to Claus Bertino, Alexander Ustinov and Kubrat Pulev. All of those losses came by decision.

He would go on to win his next two fights by decision against Gabor Farkas and Sandor Balogh. His most recent fight was on December 16, 2011, where he lost a decision to undefeated Matteo Modugno and has retired after deciding to hang up the gloves following the loss.

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Talk:Asa Hutchinson

Picture
Unless you like counting pixels, I don't see how the is anywhere better than. Curbon7 (talk) 19:25, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

 * Agree. –– Formal Dude  (talk)  02:05, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Baffled as to why we're still using a garbage image. Nowhere in the archives is there a discussion where this terrible image was a consensus pick. We should be using the best quality image freely available, unless there is a preexisting consensus which overrides that, which there is not. This is the dictionary definition of WP:Status quo stonewalling. Curbon7 (talk) 20:27, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree the replacement is better. TulsaPoliticsFan (talk) 22:35, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Early life
The article doesn't explain what Hutchinson (who loved public service) did about the draft and Vietnam. He would have been in college during the hottest years of the Vietnam War, and it was THE biggest issue of his youth, but the article remains silent on this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.49.27.38 (talk) 14:15, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

 * Reliable sources have likely not yet covered this detail about his life. Curbon7 (talk) 15:56, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Details, pleASE
"he presented the National School Shield plan during a news conference at the National Press Club." What was the essence of the plan? It is neither explained nor linked. 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:E8B4:539A:F2B2:4D82 (talk) 15:42, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose merging Asa Hutchinson 2024 presidential campaign into Asa Hutchinson and leaving behind a redirect. I think that the content in the campaign can easily be explained within the biographical article for the foreseeable future, and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in the candidate’s main article. It is not clear whether the campaign will obtain enough note down the road to warrant its own article, but it is not useful to have a stub article at this moment. I am not opposed to a future spinning-off/re-creation of the campaign article if there later becomes sufficiently more to write about the campaign, but for now I believe the stub-article on the campaign serves no use and there is not enough to expand the article beyond what is now contained in it. I am in the process of making similar requests for some other 2024 campaign articles. SecretName101 (talk) 16:10, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per rationale of SecretName101, with no prejudice against restoring the article should significant coverage of Hutchinson's campaign increase enough to warrant it. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 16:44, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Support, this would follow similar precedents set by Michael Bennet 2020 presidential campaign, John Hickenlooper 2020 presidential campaign, and Tim Ryan 2020 presidential campaign with the option of de-merging the article should it become necessary later down the road. --Woko Sapien (talk) 20:12, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose, the campaign is an independently notable and well-sourced legal entity, and follows the precedents of numerous articles on similarly notable campaigns. BD2412  T 20:48, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose I believe it's too early to consider a merge and it's only fair to consider merging once the primary season starts or when the campaign has been suspended. --2601:249:8E00:420:B93B:A3A7:4E32:53B2 (talk) 14:30, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Why are the only edits for this IP before or since pretty much opposition to all merger proposals to 2024 campaign articles? Not sure if this was single-use IP puppeting or not. SecretName101 (talk) 07:07, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose Wait until the primaries begin or when he drops out. The article looks good enough to merit its own article in the meantime. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 19:50, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Support with the caveat this might be un-merged in the future. The campaign article is almost entirely a laundry-list of political positions that would easily be merged here. Walt Yoder (talk) 00:35, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose per arguments raised above Arkansawyer25KADIMA (talk) 12:16, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose the campaign is notable, there are large numbers of reliable sources that talk about it and his candidacy is routinely included in virtually every poll taken regarding the primary since he announced his candidacy.XavierGreen (talk) 19:03, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Reasons to have content on the campaign. However, not a sufficient reason to justify the need for a separate article in order to cover it. SecretName101 (talk) 03:01, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Don't worry about it. Just embed a few more sly, leftish intimations to the already thick stew of unsavoury bias and it'll be just fine. 2600:1702:6B0:6FF0:14F0:6B1F:DDB2:540 (talk) 04:38, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose - clearly a notable, mainstream presidential campaign. Paul Vaurie (talk) 03:05, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

I have removed the tag, as the proposal has clearly failed at this point. BD2412 T 03:57, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Asa Hutchinson 2024 presidential campaign into Asa Hutchinson
Presidential campaign went nowhere. 191 votes and he's out p  b  p  19:52, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The presidential campaign was clearly an independently notable entity in and of itself, receiving substantial media coverage and extending beyond the subject as a mere candidate. I would further note that since the last proposal to merge this article failed, the length of the article has more than doubled, and the number of sources cited has also nearly doubled. BD2412  T 20:34, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * IDK about the "substantial" part...it's certainly SUBSTANTIALLY less than Trump or Haley or DeSantis or even Vivek. As for "since the last proposal", while the content is longer, he also dropped out.  p  b  p  00:10, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose I would say that it got a sufficient amount of news coverage for it to be notable, and it is certainly big enough to be a separate article. QuicoleJR (talk) 01:39, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Support He didn't have the slightest chance of winning. His campaign didn't seem serious enough. Sakiv (talk) 15:24, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Him being extremely unlikely to win does not mean that his campaign isn't notable. QuicoleJR (talk) 17:39, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

 * Oppose I actually do believe his campaign should be a separate entity because he garnered significant media attention and participated in one debate. Regardless of the vote total, I think a lot of people knew he was running and simply refused to vote for him MoMoChohan (talk) 13:50, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Support The criteria for notability should consider the lasting impact of the campaign. I believe the campaign's influence is primarily tied to Hutchinson's overall political profile rather than standing as a defining, separate entity in political history. The campaign's significance can be adequately covered within his main article.  In response to the comment re: the size of the article, much of the expanded content (particularly regarding Hutchinson's policy positions) can be effectively and appropriately consolidated into the main Asa Hutchinson article. Some of the policy positions listed underscore his political ideology/career as a whole, not just within the context of the 2024 campaign. Svenskbygderna (talk) 00:50, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Unsure/lean Oppose Is there any precedent for how well a candidate has to do to warrant their campaign getting it's own page? His campaign definitely has enough media coverage and poll presence (0% is still a presence) for this page to exist, but seeing how badly he did I have doubts. Scu ba (talk) 16:30, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Support not because he had no chance but because the majority of the article is made of Hutchinson's political positions, which would fit better in his article especially since most sources refer to before his campaign began. The actual "campaign" section feels to small to keep on its own and would fit well into the main article as well. DukeOfDelTaco (talk) 10:56, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * That is not true. While that may be the largest section, the Campaign section is quite large as well. Besides, while the positions would fit into the main article, they are also useful information for the person's campaign. QuicoleJR (talk) 13:35, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Not a word about cannabis
This is the guy who as the 8th Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration spent untold thousands, perhaps millions, going after people in hospice and people with AIDS and cancer and other illnesses who used free cannabis that was supplied by cooperative farms who made no profit. Not a word mentioned in this article, yet I'm reading all about it many different books. This is a complete and total whitewash of his disastrous record as both a public servant and as an American who repeatedly and willfully violated the individual rights of US citizens for no known reason or benefit to the country other than to perpetuate mass suffering and pain. Just a total whitewash ignoring what he's done to the country. Viriditas (talk) 01:48, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Record on drug policy as governor
I just read that when he was governor in 2022, his state was ranked

 * third biggest drug problem in the US
 * second in opioid pain reliever prescriptions per 100 people
 * seventh in drug arrests per capita
 * 10th in share of adults who couldn’t get treatment for illicit drug use in the past year

Why isn’t any of this discussed in this article? For someone who has spent so many years waging war against drugs as his major pet policy, he has almost nothing to show for it. This indicates that his policies either don’t work or actually make the problem worse. Viriditas (talk) 02:34, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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User talk:Cyrius/Quotes

Thanks for having this page. —Ben Brockert (42) UE News  03:25, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

Dude! I laughed, I cried, I shit my pants!!! This is the funniest page I've seen on Wikipedia in a long time. (Either that, or I really need a wiki-vacation.) Best regards, Uncle Ed 00:55, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * A-greed. Good times here on this 'un. Blackcap (talk) (vandalfighters, take a look) 06:58, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

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User:LordBrocktree

LordBrocktree is a user on Wikipedia and www.gamefaqs.com.

Dude is cool huh Gray?

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