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S Shuttle

The S Shuttle is a light rail service on the Muni Metro system in San Francisco, California. The service began in 2001 as the S Castro Shuttle, an effort to reduce crowding at Castro station. It was briefly discontinued in 2007 when the T Third Street line was opened. Service was extended to St. Francis Circle station in 2013, but cut back to West Portal station in 2016. In 2020, it was changed to full-time service as part of a reconfiguration of Muni Metro service.

The designation of S Shuttle is also given to trains at other hours and locations, most commonly to those which run service before and after San Francisco Giants and Golden State Warriors games to provide additional capacity to Oracle Park and Chase Center respectively.

History
After the installation of automatic train control in 1998, the maximum Muni Metro frequency through the Market Street subway doubled from 24 trains per hour to 48. Muni needed to increase capacity to accommodate growing ridership, but the aging Boeing LRV fleet and issues with the new Breda fleet left too few vehicles to run additional service on the branch lines. Instead, Muni introduced the S Castro Shuttle, which could relieve crowding at busy Castro station while using only a small amount of rolling stock. The service began on April 2, 2001, running only at rush hour on weekdays, with headways between 7 and 12 minutes.

A variety of service changes took place with the introduction of full service on the T Third Street line on April 7, 2007. The new line was routed through the subway to Castro station, replacing the S Castro Shuttle; changes were also made to the J Church, N Judah, and several bus lines. (The S Castro Shuttle designation continued to be used for extra service to AT&T Park on San Francisco Giants game days.) The changes were unpopular with the public; the Muni Metro changes caused severe delays in the Market Street subway, and forced many riders to transfer to reach the Caltrain station when they previously did not. On June 30, 2007, Muni reversed several of the changes. The J, N, and S were restored to their previous routes, while the T was interlined with the K Ingleside line. The revived shuttle ran on 10-minute headways using three trains.

On October 4, 2013, Muni began a pilot of S Shuttle service, which included the first three-car train on Muni Metro since the 1990s. The three-car train and a two-car train ran between Embarcadero and St. Francis Circle station with only six morning round trips and one evening round trip; the last morning trips ran through to 23rd Street on their way to the Muni Metro East facility. However, the three-car set proved unreliable, and perennial rolling stock shortages caused the shuttles to be frequently cancelled in favor of branch line service.

On November 7, 2016, Muni changed the service to a pair of single-car trains running between West Portal station and Embarcadero. The revamped service, which was modeled after similar Hillway shuttles on the N Judah line, ran during weekday morning rush hours. Although it nominally switched back at West Portal, service often instead used a more reliable crossover at Taraval and 19th Avenue station. By 2019, the SFMTA described the S Shuttle as an irregular route meant to supplement other Muni services.

On March 30, 2020, Muni Metro service was replaced with buses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rail service returned on August 22, with the routes reconfigured to improve reliability in the subway. S Shuttle service frequency was increased, as three other lines no longer entered the subway; two- and three-car trains operated between West Portal and Embarcadero on 6–9 minute headways. Rail service was re-replaced with buses on August 25 due to issues with malfunctioning overhead wire splices and the need to quarantine control center staff after a COVID-19 case. K/T and N subway service resumed on May 15, 2021, with S Shuttle service operated to supplement.

Since T Third Street service moved to the Central Subway in January 2023, shuttle trains signed "S Chase Center" operate between Chinatown and UCSF/Chase Center for events at Chase Center.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kazam

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Kazam
Proposed for speedy but borderline candidate, I'm bumping it to VfD. I didn't research it and am not voting. -- Curps 01:20, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete. Most recently a young girl from Cornell utilized the word in a correspondence to here colleague in the New York City region, and Kazam!, the term was reborn...  Looks like a joke between friends. – Beginning 02:35, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete neologism, article as it stands is un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 02:41, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * This word fails the Google Groups test. The only hits are foreign words, brand names, or magic words such as alakazam.  It also fails the IMDB test.  The film is, of course, Kazaam.  Kazam is a word that will not leave the English dictionary. But it will leave the English encyclopaedia.  Delete. Uncle G 02:54, 2005 Feb 16 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Sn0wflake 04:09, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Movie was Kazaam anyway.--ZayZayEM 04:41, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Kazam! Delete!. No real information here, newly coined word. jni 07:50, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trilobite (Talk) 14:13, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not a neologism, but not encyclopedic. Wyss 20:25, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Kazaam. After all, "Kazam" can be considered a common misspelling, right? :-). Zzyzx11 00:35, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect. -Sean Curtin 01:23, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Kazaam. Wile E. Heresiarch 07:35, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scapin

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Scapin
Proposed for speedy but not a clear candidate, I'm bumping it to VfD. I didn't research it and am not voting. -- Curps 01:21, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Move to Wiktionary or Delete - If it applies to Wiktionary, then sitck it over there, but it definitely shouldn't be on Wikipedia. -- Cabhan 01:25, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete. Very confusing and doesn't convey any real information. --Sn0wflake 04:10, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trilobite (Talk) 14:14, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Italian genealogy plus foreign dicdef. Wyss 20:23, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Just a dicdef. Zzyzx11 00:38, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Hankinson

Hankinson may refer to:

 * Hankinson (surname)
 * Hankinson, North Dakota, a city in Richland County, North Dakota, United States
 * Hankinson's equation, an equation for predicting the strength of wood
 * Hankinson-Moreau-Covenhoven House, a house located in Freehold, New Jersey, United States
 * Lake Hankinson, a lake within the catchment of the Waiau River, New Zealand

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Integrity (operating system)

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Integrity (operating system)
What links here seems to think this is an article on Green Hills Software's operating system, but this ain't it. What is here is a bad definition of Integrity - and that needs to go. humblefool® 01:23, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete bad diddef or else advertising of some sort of process improvement, I can't tell. Either way, it needs to go. Johntex 02:18, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, rewrite and expand. 1,280,000 hits on Google. Megan1967 02:50, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is most certainly notable. Albeit not being very popular on the mainstream market, Integrity is quite a real OS. I would suggest adding an EXPANSION tag. --Sn0wflake 04:07, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - What's there is so awful it's stunning, but it needs to be rewritten and not destroyed. BenSamples 06:51, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Original content was crap, I have replaced it with a stub that matches the article title. jni 07:45, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Good job there, jni. --Sn0wflake 18:20, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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 * Keep. Well stubbed, jni. Trilobite (Talk) 14:12, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Thank you for stubbing it, Jni. Zzyzx11 00:27, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Hannaford

Hannaford is a rather uncommon surname worldwide, emanating from the small village of Hannaford in Devonshire, whose name may have originated as "Hanna's ford" and spread in the 16th-century to nearby towns such as Kingsbridge and Ashburton. Charles Hannaford and his son Charles Arthur Hannaford were English artists of note. Its occurrence in Australia may derive in part from the naturalist Samuel Hannaford, who contributed to the knowledge of Victorian and Tasmanian wildlife, and was editor of the Launceston Times for several years.

Notable people with this surname include:

People

 * Alf Hannaford (1890–1969), South Australian inventor and industrialist
 * Ann Hannaford Lamar (born 1952), American jurist
 * Charlie Hannaford (footballer) (1896–1970), English footballer
 * Clive Hannaford (1903–1967), Australian politician
 * Ernest Hannaford (1879–1955), Australian politician
 * Esther Hannaford, Australian singer and actor
 * Frederick Hannaford (1830–1898), farmer and politician in South Australia
 * George William Hannaford (1852–1927), South Australian orchardist, pioneer apple exporter
 * Ian Hannaford (1940–2022), Australian rules footballer
 * John Hannaford (Australian politician) (born 1949) Liberal MLC in NSW
 * Jule Murat Hannaford (1850–1934), American railroad businessman
 * Mark W. Hannaford (1925–1985), American politician
 * Peter Hannaford (born 1939), Australian scientist
 * Peter D. Hannaford (1932–2015), American political consultant and author
 * Robert Hannaford (born 1944), Australian artist
 * Ross Hannaford (1950–2016), Australian musician
 * Samuel Hannaford (1835–1911), American architect
 * Susannah Hannaford (1790–1861), early immigrant to South Australia
 * Tsering Hannaford (born 1987), South Australian artist
 * Vin Hannaford (1885–1919), former Australian rules footballer
 * Walter Hannaford (1868–1942), farmer and politician in South Australia

Places

 * Hannaford, North Dakota, a town in North Dakota
 * Hannaford, Queensland, a rural locality in Australia

Other

 * Hannaford, American supermarket chain
 * Samuel Hannaford & Sons, Cincinnati-based architectural firm founded by Samuel Hannaford
 * Hannaford Bee, an aircraft originally named Rose Parakeet

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Bird

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Jeff Bird
Proposed for speedy but not a clear candidate, I'm bumping it to VfD. The twist is, it's a disambig stub, so even if half is vanity the other half might not be. I didn't research it and am not voting. -- Curps 01:23, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete, possible vanity. "Jeff Bird" + "Iron Casting" turns up no relevant hits on Google, so that part of the article is unverifiable. Megan1967 02:40, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trilobite (Talk) 14:13, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, prolly stealth vanity. Wyss 20:27, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Hanover Park

Hanover Park may refer to:

 * Hanover Park, Cape Town in South Africa
 * Hanover Park, Illinois in the United States

Education

 * Hanover Park High School in the Hanover Park Regional High School District, United States
 * Hanover Park Regional High School District in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

Other

 * Hanover Park F.C. a soccer club based in Hanover Park, Cape Town, South Africa.
 * Hanover Park (Metra) a station Hanover Park, Illinois, United States

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Nedbank Golf Challenge

The Nedbank Golf Challenge, previously known as the Million Dollar Challenge, is an annual men's professional golf tournament played at the Gary Player Country Club in Sun City, North West province, South Africa. It was first played in 1981 and takes place towards the end of the year, in November or December.

For many years the tournament was a small-field invitational stroke play event with typically 12 players competing. Since it became a European Tour event in 2013, the field size has increased, to 30 from 2013 to 2015 and to 72 in 2016. Originally it was not an official event for any of the major tours.

From 2010 to 2012, a separate tournament for senior golfers was held concurrently.

History
The first tournament was played from 31 December 1981 to 4 January 1982 with a field of 5: Seve Ballesteros, Johnny Miller, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Lee Trevino. Ballesteros and Miller tied on 277 with Nicklaus a stroke behind after he missed a putt at the final hole. Miller beat Ballesteros at the ninth hole of a sudden-death playoff. The pair played the 16th to 18th holes three times before Ballesteros three-putted. Miller won $500,000 out of total prize money of $1,000,000.

The date was moved to early December 1982 for the second tournament, with 10 players competing. Total prize money remained at $1,000,000 with $300,000 for the winner and $50,000 for the 10th player. There was another playoff, with Raymond Floyd beating Craig Stadler at the fourth extra hole. The format remained unchanged from 1983 to 1986 with the event played in early December each year.

The 1987 event introduced a winner-take-all $1,000,000 first prize, although there were additional prizes for the lowest round each day. The field was reduced to 8 player. Ian Woosnam won by 4 strokes and took the first million dollar prize in golf. The winner-take-all idea was dropped for 1988, although the first prize remained as $1,000,000. The format remained largely unchanged through 1999, with the first prize always $1,000,000, although the field increased from 8 to 10 in 1989 and to 12 from 1993. There were two playoffs during this period. In 1996 Colin Montgomerie beat Ernie Els with a birdie at the third extra hole, while in 1998 Nick Price beat Tiger Woods with a birdie at the fifth extra hole.

In 2006, the tournament carried World Rankings points for the first time since 1999. In 2013 it was expanded to 30 players: the defending tournament champion; the top 10 PGA Tour FedEx Cup players, the top 10 European Tour Race to Dubai players; the Sunshine Tour, Asian Tour, Japan Golf Tour and PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit winners; the Alfred Dunhill Championship winner; and the top 5 South African players in the World Rankings.

From 2000 to 2002 the first prize was increased to US$2 million, but the following year the winner's share of the total prize fund was reduced from more than half to around 30%. The standard winner's share on the PGA Tour is 18% and on the European Tour it is 16.67%. In 2006 the winner received $1.2 million out of a total purse of US$4.385 million, so the prize distribution is now not far from the normal pattern for a professional tournament, once allowance is made for the small size of the field. That US$2 million first prize remained the largest in professional golf, but was matched in 2011 by the Lake Malaren Shanghai Masters.

The 2016 event was part of the European Tour Final Series, replacing the BMW Masters, while in 2017 the event was part of the new Rolex Series. Since 2016, the field of 72 consists of the top 64 available players from the current year Race to Dubai standings, the defending champion, the winner of the Sunshine Tour order of merit from previous year, and tournament invitations.

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Hansonville

Hansonville may refer to:
 * Hansonville, Victoria, Australia
 * Rackerby, California, formerly Hansonville
 * Hansonville Township, Lincoln County, Minnesota
 * Hansonville, Virginia, United States
 * Hansonville, Alberta, Canada

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Template talk:Incomplete list

Updating style for child templates
Hi all - I noticed many sub-types of this template use a more modern style in their displays, including most every template at Category:Hatnote templates for lists. If nobody objects, I'll update this one as well to remove the box and add italics. ɱ (talk) 12:55, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note that the change to this template's formatting is a recent one, it was discussed just a couple of sections back (in ) — you wouldn't be "updating" this template's style but reverting that change, if you were to conform it to the other templates in that category. The discussion on updating the rest of them seems to have stalled, but pinging, , . -- FeRDNYC (talk) 07:44, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
 * User:Ɱ: Hi. This template was updated to use the messagebox style because it is a maintenance template; it should be removed when the list is complete. I plan to submit edit requests for changing other incomplete list templates to this style when I have time. I hope that explanation is sufficient. Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 10:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

(copied post from above, before I noticed this thread existed) I notice that the handful of child templates of this one haven't been correspondingly updated with the ambox style. That reflects the larger problem with having those as separate templates rather than just wrappers of this one. I'm not invested enough to go fix this, but just wanted to post/give you a ping in case it's something you'd like to take on. {{u| Sdkb  }}  talk 21:41, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * User:Sdkb: Sorry that I haven't gotten around to this yet. I'll hopefully be able to do it soon – possibly today. Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 11:45, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

I've completed the required changes to this template in its sandbox; the testcases page has all the possible options. I'm not sure about the categories, though; does the main one need to not be applied to an article with another of the more specific categories applied? Also, I notice that Sdkb nominated Template:inc-alumni for deletion, and that nomination passed. Considering this change, should it not be kept? User:Sdkb, you nominated it as you state that it's often misused. I think that any template which has a proper use is reasonable to have. If people are misusing it, perhaps the documentation should be updated. Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 12:49, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * It only makes sense to have a spinoff template of a broader template if there will be a reasonable number of uses for it; otherwise, it just makes sense to use the broader template. In this case, there were a tiny number of proper uses and a big temptation for improper uses (people don't always read the documentation), thus the TfD. It's in the process of being deleted, but that can take a while since there's a queue. {{u| Sdkb  }}  talk 18:47, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * User:Sdkb: Very well. So do you know if it's correct for both a more specific incomplete list category to be applied to a page and the main one? I think the template changes will be ready to be deployed after I know that, unless I'm missing something. DesertPipeline (talk) 10:47, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I'd assume that yes, the categories would be diffusing like most others, but I'm not a category expert. {{u| Sdkb  }}  talk 13:48, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * User:Sdkb: Currently I think all the categories are separate. Would you suggest I make the "Incomplete [X] lists" categories into subcategories of the "Incomplete lists" category? Also, the current way I have the template set up, there aren't icons for the individual incomplete list types like how the other live templates are right now. Do you think that's a problem? I tried adding the icons to the messagebox previously, directly right of the information icon, but I felt it looked strange. DesertPipeline (talk) 14:01, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
 * On your first question, that would seem reasonable to me, but again I'm not a copyright person. On your second question, I think MOS:ICONDECORATION advises against it. {{u| Sdkb  }}  talk 15:36, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 22 October 2021
Please sync the live template with the code from the sandbox. This will allow the other "incomplete list" templates to be turned into wrappers of this one, ensuring they all have a consistent look. Thanks, DesertPipeline (talk) 22:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ I've changed the #ifeq's to #if's as they were inconsistent. I've also put the back on the sandbox page - there is already a sandbox notice on it. User:GKFXtalk 10:22, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * User:GKFX: Does the namespace thing actually do anything? It was like that (with ifeq) on all the other incomplete list templates. I presume it's supposed to categorise the page only if it's an article. Please could you add that functionality if it doesn't do that currently? Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 13:29, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * @DesertPipeline Yes both of them work correctly and categorize only in article space, I was just letting you know that I had picked one to make the code easier to read. (You can test this at Special:ExpandTemplates which lets you try the same code at different page titles.)
 * So you had two different types of if statements,  and  . Both versions work fine, the first means literally "If the namespace name (first parameter) is non-blank, do nothing (second parameter), otherwise categorize it (third parameter)" and the second means "If the namespace name (first parameter) is equal to the empty string (second parameter) categorize it (third parameter)". User:GKFXtalk 13:37, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * User:GKFX: Thank you for the explanation and for implementing the edit request :) DesertPipeline (talk) 13:42, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I do not understand that. will never be blank. Its a magic word and prints the namespace, e.g.  gives . The if-statement in   will always be true and prints nothing. Christian75 (talk) 07:21, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
 * @Christian75 is blank in the main namespace, so   evaluates to x only in the main namespace. User:GKFXtalk 16:08, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'm just stupid. I should have tried it first - but I was so sure I was right... Christian75 (talk) 16:31, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Mobile version
The changes recently implemented work fine on desktop version of Wikipedia but in the mobile version, the default just rendered as "This list". Can anyone fix that somehow? Lulusword  (talk)  18:57, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
 * User:Lulusword: I just tried viewing an article using the template with the "mobile view" link at the bottom of each Wikipedia page and it displayed properly. I would have thought that I could view the issue that way; I don't see why it would be any different to actually using a mobile computer-phone. Anyway, I would imagine that the cause is using the  parameter to append the "is incomplete" (et cetera) text. Text or other elements within that parameter have  . I'm not sure exactly how this can be fixed. User:GKFX: Sorry to bother you again, but do you have any idea? Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 15:05, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * the template now is displayed properly (in mobile) after User:MSGJ remove the, but I don't know if that will affect anything previously implemented.  Lulusword   (talk)  16:07, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * User:Lulusword: I thought that that would break the template, but I was actually overcomplicating things – the fix parameter wasn't necessary at all to accomplish what I wanted. I'm not sure how I didn't realise that. Thanks, User:MSGJ :) DesertPipeline (talk) 16:10, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

The fix parameter works with the issue parameter. Due to shortage of space, mobile view only displays the issue and not the fix. So we could use This list is incomplete. and You can help by adding missing items. I can't see how to do that without breaking into two sentences however. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:21, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * User:MSGJ: No need to worry about it; I somehow forgot that the  parameter could contain text after the switch statement I added. The use of the   parameter was simply a workaround for a problem I had only imagined :) DesertPipeline (talk) 18:08, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Usage of this template in standalone lists
When the whole page is an incomplete list, where should this template be placed? It doesn't look correct when placed as a top tag because it's always small, and small ambox is expected to be seen under a heading. Maybe it should be changed to only default to small ambox but to allow full size too for top-tagging. I've seen it placed at the bottom of standalone lists (one recently) for this reason, which is obviously wrong and non-helpful. —Alalch E. 22:04, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Am I wrong or wasn’t Germany’s Armed Protection Sqaud/Waffenschutztrupp missing. It was arguably the largest, well equipped para military of the 20th century?
This is in response for an incomplete list of para military groups Youbknowbetter68 (talk) 15:50, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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User:ChrisJMoor

Hello and Welcome to my Userpage
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You can view my edits here if you are interested

Current project (you can help)
I have decided to use temporary personal sandboxes to complete major edits of particular articles. This avoids naffing the actual article page up with mistakes or leaving it in a mess for some time while you do numerous edits. When I'm done with the page after copying its source over the original article, I'll ask someone to delete it and its archives to save a little space. This seems to be a good idea to me. Even better might be to link to it via here and the actual article talk page. I'll do that in a bit.

Who am I
You can see a few of my attributes as infoboxes above. I have been using wikipedia as a source of information since about mid 2004 and continue to do so today. I finally got bold and decided to sign as a member in about late December 2004 and shortly afterwards created my first signed article, David Rovics (although I previously created the article Pop feminism while unsigned).

I hold a BSc degree in genetics from University College London. Around the time I was collecting my degree, the draft of the Human genome project was being cleaned up and was almost in its final state. It was quite a priviledge to be an undergraduate in the subject at the time. Specific interests in the field include Microevolution, selfish DNA, ageing and human disease genetics. For some reason, I havent made many edits on articles on these subjects. Probably because I would make them too technical for encyclopedic status, plus I prefer to make edits on subjects where I am having to learn on-the-fly. Paradoxically, being less clued-up on a subject makes me write a better article!

Other interests include art, fiction, economics, philosophy, politics and Religion (okay, I find almost everything in the whole sphere of human knowledge interesting). More specific interests (current list) include Africa, Japan, independent/foreign films, sustainable development, alternative building techniques and architecture and utopian/dystopian novels and films.

What I do on Wikipedia
I tend to simply edit articles on subjects that interest me as I find them, mainly to improve or expand content, occasionally to improve wording and grammar. I have started several articles, typically after being inspired by something interesting I have seen or read. My first signed article, David Rovics, was created after I saw a live performance by the artist himself at the Strawberry Fair, Cambridge, England. I started the Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction article after reading the book and a Times article on Sue Townsend. Notice a pattern here? I have stated above that I hold a degree in Genetics. However, my edit count in these areas is limited. I think this is because I would tend to make the articles too technical. I generally leave suggestions on talk pages on how to globally improve articles or improve content. Occasionally I chew the article out a bit for POV or other bias. As a commentator on articles, I try to apply nonviolent communication (essentially an umbrella term for almost all wikietiquette policies). On more technical subjects inwhich I am not conversant, I often leave questions. I hope these serve as both a primer for other people to improve article content and added insight for other people like me who are less knowledgeable on the subject. Occasionally, I have left comments that turn into a fully-blown debate that is relevant across the whole Wikipedia. (see Talk: Male Lactation. I occasionally peruse the current list of newly-created articles. On several occasions I have improved stubs left by others or left comments for the starting authors of the articles. My most recent new article work is flooded engine. However, I do not act as a member of the new pages patrol as such. I have on occasion contributed to debates about wikipedia policy. If I can make an effort to become highly conversant in established policy, I might do this on a regular basis in the future.
 * Editing
 * Starting Articles
 * Expert Editing
 * Talk page comments
 * New Page Patrol
 * Wikipedia Policy

A few opinions on wikipedia
Content I regard wikipedia as the future of the paper encyclopedia. Conversely, it does not need to be nearly as brevitised or restricted as an encyclopedia. Some users seem to think that only content that would get into the Encyclopedia Britannica is suitable. Others think that any content is acceptable. I stand somewhere in the middle here (and somewhere towards the the more liberal side of the arguement at that.

My criteria for what is acceptable content is simplistic, perhaps overly-so: 'Make Wikipedia the only source of human knowledge that a person will ever need to become fairly knowledgeable on a subject. If they want to become minor experts, they should consult wikibooks as well. If they want to become experts, go to university or get a job in that field'.

A few specifics on Content

A separate article for a particular episode in a TV series is usually acceptable provided it is reasonably brief. This is especially true to notable or famous episodes If a TV series has a short run (say, six episodes), editors should try to include synopses of each of these on the series' master page. Alternatively, synopses for each season of the series can be used. If is preferable to follow this format if the storyline is serialised across episodes so that an overview of the storyline is visible in one or several articles.
 * Television shows: Specific Episodes

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Intriguing article! Keep up the good work! — mark ✎ 01:28, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The opening quotation
The edits concerning this passage are getting a little silly, so let me lay out the facts behind these five words.

When I wrote the first draft of this piece, I had G.W.B. Huntingford's translation of Periplus of the Erythraean Sea before me (published 1980), wherein he translates the original Greek as "the last mart of Azania". Because "mart" is a distinctly obsolescent word, & Huntingford consistently translates the Greek emporia as "mart", & substituted "emporium" for "mart" (assuming this word was familiar enough to the average reader not to need an explanation) & launched this article on its merry way.

I noticed a few days later that this passage had been amplified not only to state that it was rendered into English thusly in one specific translation, but with a link on the word "emporium", which led to an article that did not explain the word. Okay, since I'm the author of this "translation", I changed the word to "marketplace" (which is less high-fallutin' than "emporium") & removed the misleading information. Now I look once again at the article, & someone has decided to invent her/his own "correct" translation! And so I reverted it.

To the next Wikipedian who feels compelled to augment these five simple words, keep the following in mind: This precise translation never existed before the beginning of this article. The whole point of quoting the Periplus was to show this was as far south as traders of the first two centuries AD had reached; not all of sub-Saharan Africa was unknown to the intellectuals of the Ancient World.

If you really want to add to this article, you can flesh out some of the debate over the location of Rhapta, or create the articles this one points to. Otherwise, this obsession with these five words for this many people is either an expression of the need to be an authority rivalling David Brent's most unrestrained efforts, or pure vandalism. -- llywrch 02:38, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Periplus of the Erythrian Sea

 * I commented there on the sailing directions given in the Periplus to the port of Rhapta in Tanzania. Its likely that by the time of Neco II, 600 BC the Phoenicians were circumnavigating Libya and returning trough the pillars of Hercules as an Atlantean ocean empire larger than Libya and Asia combined because their empire was the waters which surrounded those continents.
 * The trade with "Punt" goes back to "the pre and proto history of the Arabian peninsula" Nayim and others. Juris Zahrin University of Missouri has looked at some of the sites in Yemen and discuses the bab al mandab.

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepi_II_Neferkare Pepi II (2284 BC – after 2247 BC, probably either c. 2216 or c. 2184 BC[2][note 1]) was a pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty in Egypt's Old Kingdom who reigned from c. 2278 BC. He sent out an expedition which brought back a dwarf from Nubia.
 * "The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor" is 12th dynasty record of a voyage to Punt (as far as Yemen).
 * In the 18th Dynasty Hatshepset built a fleet to provide supplies for the mortuary trade at Karnak,
 * Karnak was locate across the Nile the 18th Dynasty capital Thebes.
 * Hatshepset's fleet is reputed to have sailed to Punt, but most of the trade came from White village, Leocos Come.

 * Linen from Byblos, Ben Jamin (juniper berries) and cedar from Mt Hermon Lebanon.
 * Natron and Bitumen from the Dead sea brought down the wadi Araba past Petra where copper ore and other minerals were added.
 * Those cargos were then delivered to Ailia (Phoenician Elat)
 * There it was joined with trade in Gems such as Carnelian from Sri Lanka and Lapis Lazuli from Afghanistan
 * This trade came through Lothal on the Indus to Makkan in Oman there picking up Frankincense and Myhr.

 * The cargo then either went
 * 1. By ship up the Persian Gulf to the Tigris and Mari on Euphrates in Syria to join the northern cargo at Kadash in the mnountains
 * 2. By camel across the empty quarter to the crystal plateau where it added gold.
 * 3. By sea back along the southern coast of arabia in the gulf of Aden or along the northern coast of Somalia.
 * Then the cargo passed up from Yemen through Khamis Mushat in the south joined that from interior Arabia
 * That cargo brought over the mountains through Taif to Abha and joined at Yanbu with that shipped up along the Red Sea through Musa.
 * At White Village the cargo from the north shipped 500 miles back east across the Gulf of Aqaba joined the others
 * It went from there back across the Red Sea to Philidelphia, Biblical Pi Ha Haroth (the mouth of Hathor) modern Quasir (Elim)
 * Elim was Thebes Red Sea Port, the place where the cargo was paid for with Nub (gold) from Nubia coming up from Bernice
 * It then went inland along the wadi Ham ma ma'at to Thebes and Karnak.

 * This trade made Solomon rich and led to Alexander beseiging Tyre to learn the Parthian stations trade route.
 * Alexander followed that plus the Periplus route back down the Arabian gulf with his navy to join up with Chinas silk road.
 * By Roman times (Ptolomy's geography) there was Roman gold spread from Britain to China and as far south as Rhapta.
 * Eventually the Somais cut out the middlemen dealt directly with China and India, Rome and Ptolomaic Egypt.
 * This then all became the Gupta and Persian and then the Ottoman and Hun empires.142.0.102.9 (talk) 06:24, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

@Canterbury Tail should this article not include the recent discoveries near Mafia Island?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3664442/Has-2-000-year-old-lost-city-Rhapta-Ancient-ruins-coast-Tanzania-Roman-market-town.html (It pains me to link the Daily Mail) Alexanderkowal (talk) 20:04, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Not sure why you're pinging me, but I don't know anything on this topic. And anyway Daily Mail is not a reliable source per WP:DAILYMAIL. Canterbury Tail talk 20:40, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Canterbury Tail I pinged you by mistake, sorry, meant to ping Alexanderkowal (talk) 20:52, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

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Intelligent Design (book)

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology is a 1999 book by the mathematician William A. Dembski, in which the author presents an argument in support of the pseudoscience of intelligent design. Dembski defines the term "specified complexity", and argues that instances of it in nature cannot be explained by Darwinian evolution, but instead are consistent with the intelligent design. He also derives an instance of his self-declared law of conservation of information and uses it to argue against Darwinian evolution. The book is a summary treatment of the mathematical theory he presents in The Design Inference (1998), and is intended to be largely understandable by a nontechnical audience. Dembski also provides a Christian theological commentary, and analysis of, what he perceives to be the historical and cultural significance of the ideas.

Overview
Dembski begins by analyzing signs from God in the Bible, and notes that such signs have specificity and complexity, which enables them to be clearly discernible. He considers this to be a general insight regarding recognition of the "Divine Finger", and states, "My aim in this book is to take this premodern logic of signs and make it rigorous."

A review of naturalistic criticisms of miracles, particularly those by Benedict Spinoza and Friedrich Schleiermacher, follows. Dembski critiques the critiques, and derides the methodological naturalism that, he says, is part of their legacy.

He then focuses on the history of natural theology in Britain, recounting the teleological arguments of William Paley and Thomas Reid, and the primary reason for their demise, the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection. Upon introducing it, Dembski immediately criticizes it and commends the critique of Charles Hodge, who he says argued that Darwinism "was trying to subsume intelligent causation under physical causation."

Intelligent design, the central idea of the book, is then introduced. He distinguishes it from theistic evolution and, especially, purely naturalistic evolution. Explaining a motivation for it, he states, "Darwinism is the totalizing claim that [natural selection] accounts for all the diversity and complexity of life. The evidence simply does not support this claim....  [There] is always a temptation in science [to] think that one's theory encompasses a far bigger domain than it actually does." He lists numerous phenomena that he claims have proven to be "utterly intractable" for natural selection, including the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, and the Cambrian explosion.

Then comes the technical theory. He introduces his complexity-specification criterion, which states that in order to infer design, three criteria must be met simultaneously: contingency, complexity, and specification. According to Dembski, the first rules out necessity; the latter two rule out chance. Combined with his universal probability bound of 10−150, he claims that this criterion is completely accurate when applied to actual objects "with known underlying causal story."

Dembski derives what he purports to be an instance of what Peter Medawar (in 1984) identified as the law of conservation of information. However mathematician Jeffrey Shallit has rebutted this claim, stating that "Medawar’s 'law' is not the same as Dembski’s" in that Medawar "makes no mention of probabilities or the name Shannon", and that "Medawar’s law, by the way, can be made rigorous, but in the context of Kolmogorov information, not Shannon information or Dembski’s 'complex specified information'."

Dembski then introduces the term "complex specified information" (CSI), and claims that CSI is indicative of design. He considers whether the only known natural mechanisms of physical law and chance, alone or in combination, can generate such information, and concludes that they cannot. He argues that this is so because laws can only shift around or lose information, but do not produce it, and chance can produce complex unspecified information, or unspecified complex information, but not CSI; he provides a mathematical analysis that he claims demonstrates that law and chance working together cannot generate CSI, either.

Moreover, Dembski claims that CSI is holistic (with the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, and that this decisively eliminates Darwinian evolution as a possible means of its creation. He then enumerates the possible sources of CSI in biological organisms: inheritance, selection, and infusion.  He states that the first two sources are "unable to account for the CSI in biological systems (and specifically for the irreducible complexity of certain biochemical systems...)", and therefore concludes that CSI must come from infusion.  He further argues that biotic infusion cannot ultimately account for CSI, and so abiotic infusion must be the source.

Dembski maintains that by process of elimination, CSI is best explained as being due to intelligence, and is therefore a reliable indicator of design. He implies that his theory can be useful in several fields, including forensic science, intellectual property law, archaeology, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Dembski concludes the book with comments on what he sees as the theological implications of intelligent design. In an appendix, he offers answers to various objections to intelligent design.

Reception
The physicist Victor J. Stenger criticized the book as "stealth creationism," and presenting an "argument from design" that "donned yet another set of clothes." Stenger further noted, "While he insists that this argument does not depend on any specific theological assumptions, his book unabashedly promotes his interpretation that the design inferred is the work of the Christian God."

Some criticisms also focuses on the technical theory presented, namely, specified complexity and Dembski's statements regarding the law of conservation of information. It has been argued that together they constitute nothing more than a re-statement of the second law of thermodynamics, which is known to permit the development of local concentrations of increased order in the universe provided that there is a counterbalancing increase in disorder elsewhere. Regarding physics, "When Dembski says that information cannot be generated naturally, he seems to be voicing yet another muddled version of the common creationist assertion that the second law forbids the generation of order by natural processes. Like his predecessors, he ignores the caveat "closed system" in the formal statement of the second law."

Dembski's reliance on such a controversial and unaccepted model is also not accepted in academia." Critics like Jason Rosenhouse, a mathematics professor, claim Intelligent Design contributes nothing to the discussion of evolution and intelligent design since Dembski's assertions ride on Behe's claim, and that claim is false.

Some criticisms

 * How to Evolve Specified Complexity by Natural Means, Matt Young
 * The Emperor's New Designer Clothes, Victor J. Stenger
 * The Design Detectives, Jason Rosenhouse. Assistant Professor, Mathematics, James Madison University. Analysis of William A. Dembski's Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology, and Phillip Johnson's The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism

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Harbor Hills

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 * Harbor Hills, New York
 * Harbor Hills, Ohio

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Embarcadero station

Embarcadero station is a combined BART and Muni Metro rapid transit subway station in the Market Street subway in downtown San Francisco. Located under Market Street between Drumm Street and Beale Street near The Embarcadero, it serves the Financial District neighborhood and surrounding areas. The three-level station has a large fare mezzanine level, with separate platform levels for Muni Metro and BART below. Embarcadero station opened in May 1976 – almost two years after service began through the Transbay Tube – as an infill station.

Embarcadero and nearby Montgomery Street stations are typically the two busiest in the BART system. The station is served by the BART Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue lines, and the Muni Metro J Church, K Ingleside, L Taraval, M Ocean View, N Judah, and S Shuttle lines. A major Bay Area transit hub, Embarcadero is also served by numerous bus routes of several other agencies which stop above the station and on surrounding streets.

Station layout
Like the three other shared Muni/BART stations in the Market Street subway, Embarcadero has three underground levels. The uppermost level is a fare mezzanine, with one Muni paid area in the middle flanked by two BART paid areas. The second level has a single island platform (of which only the center portion is used) for Muni Metro, and the third level has an island platform for BART. The station is narrower than the other three – 50 feet rather than 60 feet – because of adjacent buildings and the high water table. It has six street entrances along its length. The station contains an unused underground entrance to the 388 Market Street building.

History
The BART Board approved the name "Embarcadero" in December 1965. At that time, it was only planned to be used for Muni Metro. BART service at the station began on May 27, 1976, three years after the other San Francisco stations. As a result of increasing development in the lower Market Street area, the basic structure of the station was added into the construction of the Market Street subway, anticipating a later opening. The later opening resulted in the Embarcadero station having a different design than the other three Market Street stations. The station was designed by chief BART architect Tallie Maule and Hertzka & Knowles & Associates in collaboration with Parsons Brinckerhoff, Tudor Construction, and Bechtel. The station cost $30 million to construct.

Muni Metro service began in February 1980 and Embarcadero was originally intended to be the inbound terminus for all of the Muni Metro lines. In 1998 a new southward extension was opened, extending the N Judah along the Embarcadero to the Caltrain station at 4th and King Streets. On March 4, 2000, F Market & Wharves streetcar service was extended northward to Fisherman's Wharf, with new stops above Embarcadero station at Main Street (inbound) and Drumm Street (outbound). Because the station is adjacent to the Transbay Tube, brake dust and other particles from train operations coat the walls of the station. A sandblasting in 2014 revealed the original white terrazzo platform walls under the dark grime.

Since before 1992, the station was serenaded by Ronald Brewington, known as the "Jazz Man". He would play saxophone for commuters, and entertain them with conversation and charm. He claimed his name was Garrick Sherrod; however, that was an identity he had stolen. The Jazz Man was actually a fugitive from Albuquerque facing capital murder charges stemming from the 1987 death of his wife Diedre. He was arrested at a BART station in 2012, and extradited to New Mexico. In 2013, he pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Following the 2015 addition of a canopy over an escalator at 19th Street Oakland station, which reduced escalator downtime by one-third, BART decided to add canopies to all downtown Oakland and San Francisco entrances. Construction of the Market Street entrances was to begin in 2020, with completion in 2027. The entrances on the southern side of the station were closed from April 13, 2020, to May 15, 2021, due to low ridership during the COVID-19 pandemic. Concourse-level preparation for canopy construction at Embarcadero station began on November 15, 2021. The entrance at Davis Street was closed for canopy construction from June 13, 2022 until October 2023, followed by the Beale Street entrance from September 5, 2023, to March 2024. The Federal Reserve Bank entrance was closed for construction on October 18, 2023; the Pine Street entrance closed on March 14, 2024.

Thirteen BART stations, including Embarcadero, did not originally have faregates for passengers using the elevator. In 2020, BART started a project to add faregates to elevators at these stations. The new faregate on the platform at Embarcadero was installed in December 2021. This allows passengers using the elevator to enter and exit fare control through the faregate, rather than having to use a "difficult and cumbersome" process of tagging in or out at the concourse faregates. Bathrooms at underground BART stations were closed after the September 11 attacks due to security concerns. The bathroom at Embarcadero station reopened on June 30, 2023, after a renovation, with an attendant on duty during all operating hours.

Artwork
Although original plans to include public art at every BART station did not come to fruition, several artworks were included in Embarcadero station. The platform walls and street entrances feature circle-based reliefs by William Mitchell. Wall Canyon, a 37 feet-high colored ceramic relief by Stephen De Staebler, is partially hidden behind a staircase at the southwest end of the station. It was installed on January 1, 1977. A duotone granite portrait of Tallie Maule – the chief architect of the original BART system – is on the mezzanine level.

A 50 feet-tall, 7000 lb rope sculpture called Legs was installed at the northwest end of the station in 1976 or 1978. Created by Barbara Shawcroft, the orange-and-white Nomex sculpture moved with the breeze from passing Muni and BART trains. Legs soon accumulated the same dark grime as the station walls, hiding the original color. BART was required by the artist's contract to clean the sculpture but several attempts were unsuccessful. In 2013, BART included removal of Legs in its 2014 budget, which prompted a debate about whether it should be cleaned regardless of cost (which Shawcroft supported), or removed from the unsuitable environment of the station. The sculpture was removed in June 2014 and returned to Shawcroft – a professor emerita at UC Davis School of Design – who planned to repurpose it into other pieces.

Connections
Embarcadero station is located in the busy Financial District; numerous routes by several transit providers stop at or near the station. Most radial Muni bus routes terminate at several nearby locations:
 * Ferry Plaza:, , , , , ,
 * Transbay Transit Center, with intermediate stops on Market Street near Embarcadero:, , , ,
 * Richmond express terminal at Davis Street and Pine Street:, , , , ,

Other Muni routes that stop or terminate near the station include routes, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and. The California Street line of the San Francisco cable car system terminates adjacent to the Drumm Street station entrance. Muni's F Market and Wharves heritage streetcar line stops on the surface at Market and Main (westbound) and Market and Drumm (eastbound).

A number of Golden Gate Transit bus routes stop near Embarcadero on Fremont Street (2, 4, 38, 44, 54, 56, 58, 72, 72X, 74, 76) and/or Pine Street (2, 4, 8, 18, 24, 24X). Other transit agencies that stop nearby include SamTrans (292, 397, 398, 713, FCX) and PresidiGo (Downtown Shuttle).

Embarcadero station is the nearest Muni Metro and BART station to the Ferry Building, the primary San Francisco terminal for Golden Gate Ferry, San Francisco Bay Ferry and Treasure Island Ferry. The Transbay Transit Center, located about 1/4 mile to the south, is the primary San Francisco terminal for AC Transit transbay routes, WestCAT, Greyhound lines, Amtrak Thruway buses (at 401 Mission), some Golden Gate Transit routes, and Muni route. The second phase of the Transbay Transit Center – the Downtown Rail Extension (now known as The Portal) – will include an 800 foot-long pedestrian tunnel under Beale Street connecting Embarcadero station with the underground rail concourse.

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Waterman Philéas

Waterman Philéas is a series of writing instruments including fountain pens, rollerballs, ballpoints and pencils produced by the Waterman pen company. It is well-known because of its good price-quality ratio and is therefore often recommended for novice fountain pen users and collectors. This series is now discontinued.

The Waterman company named this line of writing instruments after the character Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days by the French novelist Jules Verne. The design reflects an Art Deco look of the 1930s. However, neither the Art Deco movement nor the modern fountain pen existed when Verne penned Eighty Days.

The fountain pens have a wide, two toned gold-plated and steel nib that fans out at the base and tapers to a fine point, decorated with an Art Deco styled engraving. The gold plated pen-clip carries the Waterman hexagon seal and flows from the top of the cap. The ebony black crown contrasts with the gold-plated ring around the barrel which resembles an engraved cigar band. There are three other bands on the barrel and cap as vestiges of traditional fountain pen design, which used these rings to limit cracking.

In addition to the Philéas, Waterman produced the Kultur pen, which is a less expensive version whose fountain pens have plain steel nibs and is minus a weight-adding brass insert common to the Philéas, but otherwise carry the same design as the Philéas. The Kultur is available in a number of transparent demonstrator colors.

The fountain pens are supplied with a convertible system for filling with either bottled ink or an ink cartridge. They are manufactured in several different colors and nib widths.

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Heavy D

Dwight Arrington Myers (May 24, 1967 – November 8, 2011), known professionally as Heavy D, was a Jamaican-born American rapper, record producer, and actor. Myers was the leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a group that included dancers/hype men G-Whiz (Glen Parrish) and "Trouble" T. Roy (Troy Dixon), as well as DJ and producer Eddie F (Edward Ferrell). The group maintained a sizeable audience in the United States through most of the 1990s. The five albums the group released included production mainly by Teddy Riley, Marley Marl, DJ Premier, Myers's cousin Pete Rock, and "in-house" beatmaker Eddie F. Myers also released four solo albums and discovered Soul for Real and Monifah.

Early life
Dwight Arrington Myers was born on May 24, 1967, in Mandeville, Manchester, Jamaica, the son of nurse Eulahlee Lee and machine technician Clifford Vincent Myers. In the early 1970s, his family moved to Mount Vernon, New York, where he was raised. In an interview, his mother stated that he spent most of his childhood hanging out with his brother Floyd and his friend Mo.

Career
Heavy D & the Boyz were the first group signed to Uptown Records, with Heavy D as the frontman and only rapper. Eddie F was his business partner in the group, DJ, and one of the producers. The other two members, T-Roy and G-Wiz were the dancers. Their debut, Living Large, was released in 1987. The album was a commercial success; Big Tyme was a breakthrough that included four hits. "Trouble T. Roy" died at age 22 in a fall on July 15, 1990, in Indianapolis. Dixon's death led to a tribute on the follow-up platinum album, Peaceful Journey. Pete Rock & CL Smooth created a tribute to Trouble T. Roy called "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" which is regarded as a hip hop classic.

In 1989, Heavy D performed a guest rap on Janet Jackson's hit single "Alright", an early example of rap appearances on pop songs. It was also the highest peaking song which he had performed on in the Billboard Hot 100. In 1992 he appeared on Michael Jackson's single "Jam", and also gained a higher profile by singing the theme song for the television program In Living Color and also MADtv. Heavy D then began focusing on his acting, appearing in various television shows before returning to the music charts with Nuttin' But Love. After appearing in the off-Broadway play Riff Raff at Circle Repertory Company, Heavy D returned to recording with the hit Waterbed Hev. In 1997, Heavy D collaborated with B.B. King on his duets album Deuces Wild, rapping in the song "Keep It Coming". Heavy D was referred to in the song "Juicy" by the Notorious B.I.G., and appeared in his music video for "One More Chance".

While still an artist at Uptown Records, Myers was instrumental in convincing Andre Harrell to originally hire Sean "Diddy" Combs for his first music business gig as an intern. He became the president of Uptown Records. During this time, Myers also developed the boy band Soul for Real, and was the executive producer and principal writer of several songs on the group's breakout album, Candy Rain. He later became senior vice president at Universal Music. As an actor, Heavy D is perhaps best known for his role in the 1999 drama film The Cider House Rules, where he plays a migrant worker. He fathered a daughter in 2000 with Antonia Lofaso, an American Celebrity Chef and restauranteur.

Death
Heavy D's final live performance was with Eddie F at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards on October 11, 2011, their first live televised performance together in 15 years. Myers died on November 8, 2011, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 44. He collapsed outside his home in Beverly Hills, California, and was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His death was initially thought to be connected to pneumonia. An autopsy report, released on December 27, 2011, stated that the cause of death was a pulmonary embolism (PE) caused by a blood clot in a leg. He had also suffered from heart disease. Craig Harvey, chief of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner, said that the blood clot that resulted in the PE was "most likely formed during an extended airplane ride". Heavy D had recently returned from a trip to Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, where he performed at a Michael Jackson tribute concert.

Shortly after his death, MC Hammer and others paid tribute to Heavy D on Twitter. Hammer tweeted that, "We had a lot of great times touring together. He had a heart of gold. He was a part of what's good about the world." His funeral was held at Grace Baptist Church in his hometown of Mount Vernon, New York. He was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.

Discography

 * With Heavy D and The Boyz
 * Living Large (1987)
 * Big Tyme (1989)
 * Peaceful Journey (1991)
 * Blue Funk (1993)
 * Nuttin' but Love (1994)

 * Solo albums
 * Waterbed Hev (1997)
 * Heavy (1999)
 * Vibes (2008)
 * Love Opus (2011)

Sampling

 * "We Got Our Own Thang" – James Brown "Funky President", James Brown "My Thang", CJ & Co "We Got Our Own Thing"
 * "You A'int Heard Nuttin' Yet" – James Brown "It's a Man's Man's World", Lyn Collins "Think", Grover Washington, Jr. "Mr. Magic"
 * "More Bounce" – Parliament, "Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (We Want the Funk)", Zapp "More Bounce to the Ounce"
 * "Somebody for Me" – Big Daddy Kane, "Word to the Motherland"
 * "Here We Go Again Y'all" – JB's, "Pass the Peas"
 * "A Better Land" – Main Ingredient, "Everybody Plays the Fool"

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Hardinsburg

Hardinsburg can refer to some places in the United States:

 * Hardinsburg, Indiana, a town in Washington County
 * Hardinsburg, Dearborn County, Indiana, an unincorporated place
 * Hardinsburg, Kentucky, a city

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Jefferson Mays

Lewis Jefferson Mays (born June 8, 1965) is an American actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and three Obie Awards.

Life and career
Mays was raised in Clinton, Connecticut, with his parents, a naval intelligence officer and a children's librarian, and his siblings. Mays graduated from Yale College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the University of California, San Diego, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts from the graduate acting program. He appeared at La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Playwrights Horizons.

Mays appeared on Broadway in I Am My Own Wife, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Doug Wright, from November 2003 (previews) to October 31, 2004. He had appeared in the play Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in May 2003, and at the La Jolla Playhouse in July 2001. Mays won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show, an Obie Award, and a 2004 Theatre World Award for his solo performance. He also won the 2007 Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play for seasons of I Am My Own Wife in Australia in 2006.

Mays starred in two Broadway revivals in 2007. He appeared as Henry Higgins in Pygmalion, in which he won critical praise. The TheaterMania reviewer called him "pitch-perfect", and the production an "excellent revival". He appeared in a revival of Journey's End in February to June 2007, in which he starred as Private Mason. Ben Brantley, in The New York Times, called the production "acutely staged and acted." The TheaterMania reviewer wrote: "Mays is a reliable, obliging Mason."

In August 2009, Mays appeared at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Quartermaine's Terms by Simon Grey.

Mays starred in the 2013 Broadway musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, in which he played nine roles. He performed in the musical from October 2013 (previews) until closing on January 17, 2016. He won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and tied for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical (with Neil Patrick Harris). Mays played Terje Rød-Larsen in the Broadway play Oslo, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. Mays played Mayor George Shinn in the 2022 Broadway revival of The Music Man.

Mays also narrates audiobooks, including The Expanse series and The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk.

Mays has appeared in several television programs as well; he notably appeared in several episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as cross-dressing murderer Carl Rudnick, and as Black Dahlia suspect George Hodel in the Turner Network Television miniseries I Am the Night. His television credits include Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie and The Americans.

Personal life
Mays is married to Australian actress Susan Lyons.

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Genesis Rock

The Genesis Rock (sample 15415) is a sample of Moon rock retrieved by Apollo 15 astronauts James Irwin and David Scott in 1971 during the second lunar EVA, at Spur crater on Earth's Moon. With a mass of c. 270 g, it is currently stored at the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility in Houston, Texas.

Rock
Chemical analysis of the Genesis Rock indicated it is an anorthosite, composed mostly of a type of plagioclase feldspar known as anorthite. The rock was formed in the early stages of the Solar System, at least 4 billion years ago.

It was originally thought they had found a piece of the Moon's primordial crust, but later analysis initially showed that the rock was only 4.1 ± 0.1 billion years old, which is younger than the Moon itself, and was formed after the Moon's crust had already solidified. Research has shown that the Genesis Rock is not the oldest sample recovered from the moon, with sample 14321 (retrieved during the Apollo 14 mission) surpassing it. It is still an extremely old sample, formed during the Pre-Nectarian period of the Moon's history. Dating of pyroxenes from other lunar anorthosite samples gave a samarium–neodymium age of crystallization of 4.46 billion years. Other research methods approximate the age of the rock to be between 4 and 5 billion years old.

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Montgomery Street station

Montgomery Street station (often called Montgomery station) is a combined BART and Muni Metro rapid transit subway station in the Market Street subway in downtown San Francisco. Located under Market Street between Montgomery Street and Sansome Street, it serves the Financial District neighborhood and surrounding areas. The three-level station has a large fare mezzanine level, with separate platform levels for Muni Metro and BART below. Montgomery Street and Embarcadero station to the north are typically the two busiest stations in the BART system.

The station is served by the BART Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue lines, and the Muni Metro J Church, K Ingleside, L Taraval, M Ocean View, N Judah, and S Shuttle lines.

Station layout
Like the three other shared Muni/BART stations in the Market Street subway, Montgomery has three underground levels. The first level is a fare mezzanine, with two Muni paid areas and two BART paid areas. The second level has a single island platform for Muni Metro, and the third level has an island platform for BART. The station has seven street entrances along its length, plus underground entrances to the One Sansome Street and 44 Montgomery buildings. Montgomery and nearby Powell, both designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, have similar designs – including distinctive domed hexagonal "bubble tiles" on the mezzanine level.

History
The BART Board approved the name "Montgomery Street" in December 1965. The under-construction station was featured in the 1971 film The Organization. BART service at the station began on November 5, 1973, followed by Muni Metro service on February 18, 1980.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, some morning rush-hour trains on the Antioch line short turned at Montgomery to provide additional Transbay service. From February 16, 2020, to September 20, 2020, and again from March 22, 2021, to August 1, 2021, Dublin/Pleasanton line trains terminated at Montgomery on some Sundays due to single-tracking in the Market Street Subway.

Following the 2015 addition of a canopy over an escalator at 19th Street Oakland station, which reduced escalator downtime by one-third, BART decided to add canopies to all downtown Oakland and San Francisco entrances. Construction of the Market Street entrances at Montgomery station began in February 2021, with the New Montgomery Street entrance closed on January 3, 2022. The entrance was completed on April 17, 2023, at which time the Montgomery Street/Post Street entrance was closed for construction. The Sutter Street entrance closed on October 18, 2023, after the Post Street entrance was finished. The Sutter Street entrance reopened May 30, 2024; the Sansome Street entrance then closed. The completion of all entrances is expected in 2027.

The entrances on the southern side of the station were closed from April 13, 2020, to May 15, 2021, due to low ridership during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirteen BART stations, including Montgomery, did not originally have faregates for passengers using the elevator. In 2020, BART started a project to add faregates to elevators at these stations. The new faregate on the BART platform at Montgomery was installed in December 2020.

On September 13, 2021, the center portion of the mezzanine level and the southern entrance east of 2nd Street were closed for construction of a BART traction power substation. The entrance and mezzanine passage were expected to reopen in 2023. Bathrooms at underground BART stations were closed after the September 11 attacks in 2001 due to security concerns. The bathroom at Montgomery station reopened on June 28, 2022, after a renovation, with an attendant on duty during all operating hours.

Under the planned Better Market Street project, the inbound F stop would be discontinued to reduce travel times.

Connections
Muni's F Market and Wharves heritage streetcar line stops on the surface at Market and 2nd Street (outbound) and Market and New Montgomery (inbound). The station is also served by a number of Muni bus and trolleybus routes:
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AC Transit serves Montgomery Street station with the 800 All Nighter route during hours that BART is not operating.

Additional Muni, Golden Gate Transit (30, 70, 101, 101X), and SamTrans (292, 397, 398, FCX) bus routes run on Mission Street, one block away. The Transbay Transit Center, located about 1/4 mile to the east, is the primary San Francisco terminal for AC Transit transbay routes, WestCAT, Greyhound lines, Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach buses, some Golden Gate Transit routes, and Muni route.

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Trelew (disambiguation)

Trelew is a city in Chubut Province, Argentina.

Trelew may also refer to:

 * Trelew massacre, a retaliatory Argentine government killing of 16 militants in 1972
 * Trelew, Cornwall, a hamlet in Cornwall, United Kingdom
 * Trelew (band), a band based in Montevideo, Uruguay
 * Omega Tower Trelew
 * Racing de Trelew

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Davenport (sofa)

Davenport was the name of a series of sofas made by the Massachusetts furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company, now defunct. Due to the popularity of the furniture at the time, the name davenport became a genericized trademark in parts of the United States.

Variations
It is used as a synonym for "sofa" or "couch" in some Great Lakes regions of the United States, especially the Upper Midwest and Buffalo, NY–Erie, PA areas. It was used in the Adirondack Region and the Tug Hill Plateau amongst those born there before World War II. The so-called davenports of the northern New York region are often sofa versions of the locally manufactured convertible Adirondack chair.

The word has come to mean a more formal sofa among the younger generations. In the Tug Hill and Adirondack regions in New York, a davenport may refer primarily to a couch which, like a modern futon lounge, converts on pivoting hinges from a sofa to a bed.

In other areas of North America, the word davenport is used for a futon-style sofa with storage under the seat area.

Etymology
A "large upholstered couch," 1897, apparently named for the manufacturer. Earlier (1853), it was "a kind of small ornamental writing table." The proper name is attested from the 12th century, from a place in Cheshire (Old English Devennport).

A similar word, Daveno, also refers to a sofa or couch. The term was more widely used in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.

Most Davenporters call this type of furniture a couch.

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Talk:Charles Momsen

www.momsen.org
Back on 15 Feb 2004, The Epopt said, "The Web site http://www.momsen.org/ is appears to be devoted to Momsen, but uses non-standard HTML extensions that prevent the Mozilla/Netscape family of browsers from navigating it."

 * It seems to work OK for me, running Mozilla 1.7.5 on Mac OS X.II.VIII.  Not that there's all that much there.
 * This web site is dedicated to my grandfather, Charles Bowers Momsen, who left the world a better place when he passed away in 1967.
 * I also dedicate this site to another Momsen, my father, Charles Bowers Momsen, Jr.,  who attended the Naval Academy and graduated in 1942. He received the Elmer Sperry Award from the Department of Transportation of the United States Government for his part in the development of the Alvin submarine.
 * If you have a story to tell about my father or grandfather, please write me at HelenHart@embroideryline.net and I will add it to this sea story - and it will make the telling all the better.
 * Helen Hart Momsen
 * If you have a story to tell about my father or grandfather, please write me at HelenHart@embroideryline.net and I will add it to this sea story - and it will make the telling all the better.
 * Helen Hart Momsen

 * That first sentence had me reflexively looking for the "Edit this page button". :-)
 * —wwoods 01:44, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Firefox still can't handle it — if you view source, you will see abominations such as

       Presumably, there is something of interest at "interest.htm" (and some sort of terribly kewl "glow" effect as you click there) but before I read source to find URIs to type into the address bar, I've got lots of pages on submarine losses to translate from the Russian language. ➥the Epopt 04:58, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:HowCanJeobBeDone

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you were just trying to experiment, then use the sandbox instead. Thank you. --User:Boothy443 | comhrÚ 01:44, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You have a track record as a vandal. Why are you intentionally using the misspelling "jeob" in what you are writing? -- 03:33, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- 03:34, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Sherburn Park

Sherburn Park was a baseball stadium in Winnipeg, Manitoba, located at the corner of Sherburn Street at Portage Avenue, on the very same site as the former Happyland Park. It was the second home of the Winnipeg Maroons of the Northern League. It had a seating capacity of 3,500.

The baseball and lacrosse stadium opened on June 7,1924, with an initial lacrosse match between the Tamanny Tigers and the Fort Rouge Forts. Opening day attendance was 1,000 spectators.

Incidents
On August 27, 1936 during a baseball game between the Maroons and the Superior Blues, a fatal injury occurred when the baseball hit Blues' George Tkach's jaw.

On July 16, 1938 while the Maroons were playing in a double header against the Grand Forks Chiefs, Maroons' shortstop Linus "Skeeter" Ebret was struck at the end of the first inning of the second game that took place during the evening and died soon afterwards.

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Impoundment of appropriated funds

Impoundment is an act by a President of the United States of not spending money that has been appropriated by the U.S. Congress. Thomas Jefferson was the first president to exercise the power of impoundment in 1801. The power was available to all presidents up to and including Richard Nixon, and was regarded as a power inherent to the office, although one with limits. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was passed in response to the abuse of power under President Nixon. The Act removed that power, and Train v. City of New York (whose facts predate the 1974 Act, but which was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court after its passage), closed potential loopholes in the 1974 Act. The president's ability to indefinitely reject congressionally approved spending was thus removed.

The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 provides that the president may propose rescission of specific funds, but that rescission must be approved by both the House of Representatives and Senate within 45 days. In effect, the requirement removed the impoundment power, since Congress is not required to vote on the rescission and, in fact, has ignored the vast majority of presidential requests.

The Mayor of Washington, D.C. also has the impoundment power.

History
Impoundment is, more generally, the act of detaining something such as animals or personal property due to a legal dispute. In roughly this sense, the President detains funds in the treasury rather than spending them as appropriated. The first use of the power by President Thomas Jefferson involved refusal to spend $50,000 ($ in ) in funds appropriated for the acquisition of gunboats for the United States Navy. He said in 1803 that "[t]he sum of fifty thousand dollars appropriated by Congress for providing gun boats remains unexpended. The favorable and peaceable turn of affairs on the Mississippi rendered an immediate execution of that law unnecessary." In keeping with his efforts to reduce the size of the debt, he left the funds for the ships unspent for over a year.

Many other presidents have followed Jefferson's example. From time to time, they refused to spend funds when they felt that Congress had appropriated more funds than was necessary. However, the impoundment power had limits. For example, in 1972, Richard Nixon attempted to impound funds on an environmental project which he opposed. Congress had previously overridden Nixon's veto of the project. The Supreme Court in Train v. City of New York (1975) ruled that the impoundment power cannot be used to frustrate the will of Congress under such circumstances.

The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was passed as Congress felt that President Nixon was abusing his authority to impound the funding of programs he opposed. The Act effectively removed the impoundment power of the president and required him to obtain Congressional approval if he wants to rescind specific government spending. President Nixon signed the Act with little protest because the administration was then embroiled in the Watergate scandal and unwilling to provoke Congress.

However, the procedure set up by the Act was cumbersome. All recent presidents supported the restoration of the impoundment power, including Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Politicians such as John McCain, John Kerry, Al Gore, Pat Buchanan, Jeb Hensarling, Russ Feingold, Joe Lieberman, Judd Gregg and Paul Ryan also supported the restoration of the power.

The Line Item Veto Act of 1996 gave the president the power of line-item veto, which President Bill Clinton applied to the federal budget 82 times before the law was struck down in 1998 by the Supreme Court on the grounds of it being in violation of the Presentment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Strengthening the rescission provision within the 1974 act has also been proposed as a means of curtailing excessive congressional spending.

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Talk:Fatman (Metal Gear)

It's rumored that Fatman wasn't really fat. He merely looked large due to his bomb blast suit. - Shingen

Moved the article from Fatman to Fatman (Metal Gear)
I've moved the article to Fatman (Metal Gear) in case anyone decides to do an article about the actual Fatman bomb that was used during World War II. I personally think real people and objects should take preferance over fictional stuff. Right now, going to Fatman will simply redirect to the Metal Gear character article.

-Last Words- Fatman's last words are, "Oh no (?)...I have nothing to wear for the party." He tends to rant about a party for a while during the fight. -Shadowreaver-

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