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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nathan Cornelius

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Nathan Cornelius
Winning a spelling bee is not enough to merit an encyclopedia article. Vanity. Sarg 18:56, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete drini ☎ 19:01, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: subject was the winner of the 2005 U.S. National Geography Bee and received a $25,000 scholarship. Please be descriptive in your summaries on vfd pages; this description makes it sound like this might be a random vanity page. Meelar (talk) 19:07, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion, I will try to write more info. Sarg 19:11, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete--not notable. My criteria for this sort of thing is "make a living doing it", and he hasn't. Meelar (talk) 19:07, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to National Geographic Bee -- Un focused  20:44, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Merge and redirect to National Geographic Bee --Carnildo 23:29, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It takes up six bytes and is more notable than most of the high school articles here. At least the kid =did= something. Denni ☯ 03:36, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)
 * Comment However, everything in this kid's article is already contained in National Geographic Bee. --Unfocused 19:42, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge Vegaswikian 06:32, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nonnotable vanity.  Grue  09:24, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep better than the articles about countless towns in northern Montana. At least there is significance. Anomynous.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tualatin High School

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Tualatin High School
Wayward added the vfd tag to this article over a month ago, but didn't create the subpage. I am doing so now. --Canderson7 18:56, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

 * No evidence of notability. Therefore, delete. Dunc|☺ 19:00, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete drini ☎ 19:01, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Conditional delete unless more information is added. --Scimitar 19:37, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I added a bit more specific information about this school, which seems to be a high performer.  IB program etc. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 21:57, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into a school district page, per schools. — RJH 20:37, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. How generic can you get? --Carnildo 20:39, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article fails to establish notability. RickK 21:14, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NeoJustin 21:35, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Verifiable and NPOV.  See Schools/Arguments  -- Un  focused  21:40, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for preference, for organic growth, else merge into the newly created school district page, Tigard-Tualatin School District. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 21:49, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Quale 01:06, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Verifiable and NPOV. WP:SCH. Double Blue  (Talk) 01:25, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and let it grow. DS1953 02:14, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Utterly without merit for inclusion. Denni ☯ 03:34, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)
 * Keep seems to have done a lot in a short period of time. Vegaswikian 06:29, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. All schools are verifiable, enduring physical and social institutions that merit inclusion in any encyclopedia aiming to be definitively encyclopedic. --Centauri 06:37, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Neutral point of view with facts that can be established. -- Natalinasmpf 06:46, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Gamaliel 18:54, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is getting annoying. Ketsuban (is 1337) 23:29, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Wake me up when its over.  —RaD Man (talk) 02:37, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Please accept that high school articles are kept and move on to some more worthwhile activity. CalJW 05:14, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Radiant_ >|< 07:23, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Tualatin, Oregon and delete - Skysmith 07:53, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * keep please we dont need to do this all the time Yuckfoo 22:45, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Schools should be kept. -CunningLinguist 16:28, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Board of Economic Warfare

The Office of Administrator of Export Control (also referred to as the Export Control Administration) was established in the United States by Presidential Proclamation 2413, July 2, 1940, to administer export licensing provisions of the act of July 2, 1940 (54 Stat. 714). Brigadier General Russell Lamont Maxwell, United States Army, headed up this military entity. It was abolished by Presidential Executive Order 8900, September 15, 1941, and its functions were transferred to the Economic Defense Board, which had been established by Presidential Executive Order 8839, July 30, 1941, to develop policies and programs to strengthen U.S. international economic relations. The name was changed to Board of Economic Warfare by Presidential Executive Order 8982, December 17, 1941. In turn, it was abolished by Executive Order 9361, July 15, 1943, and the functions were transferred to the newly created Office of Economic Warfare, OEM, which also assumed control of U.S. Commercial Company, Rubber Development Corporation, Petroleum Reserves Corporation, and Export-Import Bank of Washington from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Consolidated into the Foreign Economic Administration, 1943.

Henry A. Wallace
Vice President Henry A. Wallace chaired the Economic Defense Board, the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, and the Board of Economic Warfare as a member of President Roosevelt's secret "war cabinet".

Divided into an Office of Imports, Office of Exports, and Office of War Analysis, the Board of Economic Warfare (BEW) supported the Allied war effort through procurement of strategic resources. As chairman, Wallace freed himself to deal with long-term policy matters by delegating the day-to-day management of the BEW to Milo Perkins, an associate from the Department of Agriculture. Like many special boards created by President Roosevelt, the BEW came in for its share of interdepartmental bickering, rivalries, and conflicts of authority.

When Roosevelt signed an executive order in April 1942 allowing the BEW to negotiate contracts with foreign governments, Secretary of State Cordell Hull saw it as an attempt to create a second State Department. Wallace was convinced that the Latin American rubber supply could be increased if living standards of that region's rubber workers were raised to reduce the incidence of chronic malnutrition and malaria. He attempted to force negotiated contracts to provide for improvements to the Latin American infrastructure, with the United States funding half the cost of these programs. Wallace's acquisition of executive authority had been unpopular with the rank and file in Congress, and most members supported Hull, a former senator, in his attacks on the BEW and its chairman.

The BEW controversy climaxed in February 1943, when Wallace tried to place the purchasing authority of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) under the BEW's jurisdiction. Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones denounced Wallace's action. When Wallace retaliated by accusing Jones of delaying shipments of quinine to Marines dying of malaria, the imbroglio became too hot for Roosevelt to ignore. The embattled vice president wrote to the president, asking for either complete vindication for his actions in the matter or relief of his duties as chairman of the BEW. Roosevelt responded on July 15, 1943, by dissolving the BEW and reconstituting its function under a new Foreign Economic Administration, headed by Leo Crowley, a known supporter of Jones.

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Varignon frame

The Varignon frame, named after Pierre Varignon, is a mechanical device which can be used to determine an optimal location of a warehouse for the destribution of goods to a set of shops. Optimal means that the sum of the weighted distances of the shops to the warehouse should be minimal. The frame consists of a board with n holes corresponding to the n shops at the locations $$\mathbf x_1, ...\mathbf x_n$$, n strings are tied together in a knot at one end, the loose ends are passed, one each, through the holes and are attached to weights below the board (see diagram). If the influence of friction and other odds of the real world are neglected, the knot will take a position of equilibrium $$\mathbf v$$. It can be shown (see below), that point $$\mathbf v$$ is the optimal location which minimizes the weighted sum of distances
 * (1): $$\ D(\mathbf x)=\sum_{i=1}^n m_i\|\mathbf x_i-\mathbf x\|$$.

The optimization problem is called Weber problem.

Mechanical Problem - Optimization Problem
If the holes have locations $$\mathbf x_1, \dots, \mathbf x_n$$ and the masses of the weights are $$m_1,...,m_n$$ then the force acting at the i-th string has the magnitude $$m_i\cdot g$$ ($$g=9.81 \text{m/sec} $$: constant of gravity) and direction $$ \tfrac{\mathbf x_i- \mathbf v}{\|\mathbf x_i-\mathbf v\|}$$ (unitvector). Summing up all forces and cancelling the common term $$g$$ one gets the equation
 * (2):$$\ \mathbf F(\mathbf v)=\sum_{i=1}^n m_i\frac{\mathbf x_i-\mathbf v}{\|\mathbf x_i-\mathbf v\|}=\mathbf 0$$.

(At the point of equilibrium the sum of all forces is zero !)

This is a non-linear system for the coordinates of point $$\mathbf v$$ which can be solved iteratively by the Weiszfeld-algorithm (see below)

The connection between equation (1) and equation (2) is:
 * (3): $$\ \mathbf F(\mathbf x)= \nabla D(\mathbf x) = \begin{bmatrix}

\frac{\partial D}{\partial x} \\ \frac{\partial D}{\partial y} \end{bmatrix}.$$ Hence Function $$D$$ has at point $$\mathbf v$$ a local extremum and the Varignon frame provides the optimal location experimentally.

Example
For the following example the points are
 * $$\mathbf x_1=(0,0),\ \mathbf x_2=(40,0),\ \mathbf x_3=(50,40),$$
 * $$\mathbf x_4=(10,50),\ \mathbf x_5=(-10,30)$$

and the weights
 * $$m_1=10,\; m_2=10,\; m_3=20,\; m_4=10,\; m_5=5$$.

The coordinates of the optimal solution (red) are $$(32.5, 30.1)$$ and the optimal weighted sum of lengths is $$L_\text{op} = 1679$$. The second picture shows level curves which consist of points of equal but not optimal sums. Level curves can be used for assigning areas, where the weighted sums do not exceed a fixed level. Geometrically they are implicit curves with equations
 * $$\; D(\mathbf x)-c=0, \; c>L_\text{op}\;$$ (see equation (1)).

Special cases n=1 und n=2

 * In case of $$n=1$$ one gets $$ \mathbf v = \mathbf x_1$$.
 * In case of $$n=2$$ and $$m_2>m_1$$ one gets $$ \mathbf v = \mathbf x_2$$.
 * In case of $$n=2$$ and $$m_2=m_1$$ point $$ \mathbf v $$ can be any point of the line section $$\overline{X_1X_2}$$ (see diagram). In this case the level curves (points with the same  not-optimal sum) are confocal ellipses  with the points $$\mathbf x_1,\mathbf x_2$$ as common foci.

Weiszfeld-algorithm and a fixpoint problem

Replacing in formula (2) vector $$\mathbf v$$ in the nominator by $$\mathbf v_{k+1}$$ and in the denominator by $$\mathbf v_k$$ and solving the equation for $$\mathbf v_{k+1}$$ one gets:
 * (4):$$\quad \mathbf v_{k+1}=\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{m_i\mathbf x_i}{\|\mathbf x_i-\mathbf v_k\|}\big/ \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{m_i}{\|\mathbf x_i-\mathbf v_k\|}$$

which describes an iteration. A suitable starting point is the center of mass with mass $$m_i$$ in point $$\mathbf x_i$$:
 * $$\mathbf v_0= \frac{\sum_{i=1}^n m_i \mathbf x_i}{\sum_{i=1}^n m_i}$$.

This algorithm is called Weiszfeld-algorithm.

Formula (4) can be seen as the iteration formula for determining the fixed point of function
 * (5)$$\quad \mathbf G(\mathbf x)=\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{m_i\mathbf x_i}{\|\mathbf x_i-\mathbf x\|}\big/ \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{m_i}{\|\mathbf x_i-\mathbf x\|}$$

with fixpoint equation
 * $$\quad \mathbf x= G(\mathbf x)$$

(see fixed point)

Remark on numerical problems: The iteration algorithm described here may have numerical problems if point $$\mathbf v_k$$ is close to one of the points $$\mathbf x_1,...\mathbf x_n$$.

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Rolle Canal

The Rolle Canal (or Torrington Canal) in north Devon, England, extends from its mouth into the River Torridge at Landcross 6 miles southwards to the  industrial mills and corn-mills at Town Mills, Rosemoor, Great Torrington and beyond to Healand Docks and weir on the Torridge, where survive the ruins of Lord Rolle's limekilns, upstream of today's Rosemoor Garden. Town Mills were built by Lord Rolle and were powered by a stream which flowed past his seat of Stevenstone to the east of Great Torrington and also supplied water to the canal. Rosemoor and North and South Healand farms were part of Lord Rolle's Stevenstone estate on the east bank of the Torridge.

Description
The canal comprises a sea lock at Landcross, a 60-foot inclined plane at Weare Giffard and an aqueduct of five arches over the River Torridge at Beam. At the terminus of the canal at the limekilns at Rosemoor a leat supplies the canal to ensure a constant water level, which channels-off water from the River Torridge at Healand (or Darkham) Weir, rebuilt in 1837.

Lime kilns
The canal terminates beyond "Rowes Moor" (modern: Rosemoor) at a group of lime kilns designed by James Green. These consist of five large pots, each one 14 ft in diameter and 20 ft deep, arranged consecutively in a straight line along a wharf. Railway tracks led from the canal up a ramp to the top of the pots where a flat area existed for the storage of lime and fuel (culm/anthracite) pending burning. An office for the site forman was situated at the upper level. These kilns are derelict in 2013.

History
The construction of the canal started in 1823 as a private venture financed largely by John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (died 1842), one of whose principal seats was at Stevenstone, east of Great Torrington. He was the largest landowner in Devon and owned much land around Torrington, including the estate of Beam, where continues to exist a mansion house which had served as a home for junior members of the Rolle family. Other shareholders in the company were William Tardrew of Annery, Monkleigh and Richard Pine-Coffin of Portledge, who owned land on which the northerly section of the canal was constructed between the Rolle estate of Beam and the end of the canal at Landcross.

The canal was built largely without permission, with an act of Parliament, the (5 & 6 Will. 4. c. vii) eventually being granted for this purpose in 1835. The idea for the canal had been proposed originally by Lord Rolle's father Denys Rolle but for various reasons nothing had come of those plans. The function of the canal was to import limestone from Wales to be burnt with coal, also imported, at inland kilns to make lime fertiliser which would greatly increase the fertility, and thus the value, of agricultural land. Marland Clay, mined south of Torrington, was to be exported via the seaport of Bideford, at the estuary of the River Torridge, for the making of bricks.

More generally the canal was to link the industrial mills at Great Torrington, some of which were owned by Lord Rolle, to the seaport of Bideford on the River Torridge. James Green was employed as the lead engineer. Lord Rolle laid the foundation stone of the aqueduct in a ceremony which included the firing of a cannon, which unfortunately exploded, causing injury to a man by the name of John Hopgood, whom Rolle compensated with a year's salary. A stone tablet on the north parapet of the Beam Aqueduct is inscribed: "The first stone of this aqueduct was laid by the Right Honourable John Lord Rolle, Baron Rolle of Stevenstone in the county of Devon, on the 11th day of August 182(1?) in the presence of the mayor, corporation and feoffees of Great Torrington and other persons assembled to witness the commencement of the (word chiselled out) CANAL undertaken at the sole expense of his Lordship. James Green Engineer." The canal was completed in 1827 at a cost of between £40,000 and £45,000. The canal shared many design features with the Bude Canal, unsurprisingly as the Bude Canal had partly inspired the scheme and shared the same lead engineer. Similarities included the use of trains of tub boats and of canal inclined planes rather than locks. The inclined plane was powered by a water wheel. The canal received its water supply from a weir on the River Torridge which also supplied two mills with power.

Leased to George Braginton
In about 1852, some ten years after Lord Rolle's death, the canal was leased to George Braginton (1808–1886), of Moor House, St Giles in the Wood, (the centre of the Rolle's Stevenstone estate) several times Mayor of Great Torrington, described in 1830 as "canal agent to Lord Rolle, and Portuguese vice consul for the Devonshire coast, in the Bristol channel".

George's father was Richard II Braginton (1784–1869), of Great Silver, in the parish of Great Torrington, employed by Lord Rolle since 1814 and described in Lord Rolle's will proved in 1842 as "my steward at Stevenstone" was bequeathed £200, with a further £40 to "William Braginton one of his sons". Richard II thus played the important role of steward of Stevenstone during the time of Mark Rolle's minority from the death of Lord Rolle in 1842 to 1856. Thus it was possibly Richard II who advised the trustees of Mark Rolle to grant the lease to his son. Richard II married Ann Dwerryhouse of Liverpool in 1806.

George's grandfather was Richard I Braginton (1752–1812) who had been quartermaster-serjeant of the South Devon Militia, of which Lord Rolle was colonel. He died at Leicester and had been well regarded by Lord Rolle who erected a gravestone to his memory in St Martin's Church, Leicester, inscribed as follows: "Beneath are deposited the remains of Richard Braginton Quarter Master Serjeant of the South Devon Militia who expir'd suddenly in this Town on his march to Nottingham in the night of 15th of February 1812 after retiring to rest in perfect health AGED 60 YEARS He served 40 in the said Regiment with unabated Zeal, diligence and Loyalty to his King; and firm attachment to his Country; While his private conduct was equally commendable. For Rectitude, Probity and Sobriety He was esteem'd by his Officers and beloved by his fellow Soldiers. To perpetuate the remembrance of his worth, This stone was caus'd to be erected By his Colonel Lord ROLLE. Reader! may this additional Example of the awful uncertainty of Life prove a warning to thee to prepare for a similar fate, by a faithful discharge of the duties of thy station; and by an humble reliance on the merits of thy Redeemer."

George was a merchant and banker, and owned at least one ship, the Margaret, a brigantine of 139 tons built in Bideford in 1835. This was later owned by his younger brother William Dwerryhouse Braginton (died 1888), merchant and substantial shipowner of Northam, near Bideford, who was declared bankrupt in 1879 and died at Bristol in 1888. George had also become bankrupt in 1865 on the failure of his bank, Braginton, Rimington & Co. He then faced several lawsuits for his "rash and hazardous dealings", and moved away to Compton Giffard. In 1874 his bankruptcy was discharged. He died in 1886 and was buried in Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth.

George had six children by his wife Margaret Grace Vicary (died 1868), but his only two sons both died as infants, George Vicary Braginton (1840–1842) and Richard George Braginton (1849–1850). George erected a large chest tomb to his infant sons in St Giles's churchyard, and later next to it he buried his parents Richard II Braginton (died 1869) and Ann Dwerryhouse (died 1866), commemorated by a gravestone.

Exactly when the lease to George Braginton ended is unknown, but certainly no later than 1865. On the termination of the lease, control of the canal passed to Lord Rolle's adoptive heir Mark Rolle (1835–1907), a younger son of Lord Clinton and the nephew of his second wife.

Closure and sale
In 1871 the canal was closed and sold to the London and South Western Railway to form the trackway of the proposed new railway from Bideford to Torrington. At one point the railway company wished to abandon the project but at Mark Rolle's insistence the railway was built. The track followed the canal in several stretches, not sitting within the former canal but on elevated ground beside it. The railway was dismantled during the 20th century and the trackway now forms part of the Tarka Trail cycleway.

Some parts of the canal are still visible today, including the Beam Aqueduct, now a viaduct carrying a new entrance drive to Beam Mansion, now an adventure holiday centre. The sea lock also survives, without its gates, as do parts of the inclined plane. The Annery kiln near Weare Giffard lies close to the old canal, between it and the River Torridge, and is visible from the Tarka Trail. The canal has been designated a Devon County Wildlife Site.

Restoration
The Beam section of the canal is still owned by the heir of Lord Rolle, Lord Clinton and is managed by the family's management company, Clinton Devon Estates, still possibly the largest landowner in Devon.

Parts of the canal have been under restoration since 1988. Clinton Devon Estates plan to restore the Beam estate section of the canal after 2013, and in 2000 completed restoration of the old stone bridge which took the old driveway from Beam Mansion northward over the canal, which passes under through a narrow tunnel. Some work on the sea lock was carried out in 2006 involving re-pointing and rebuilding the eastern wall.

The canal in fiction
The Beam Aqueduct is referred to as the "canal bridge" in Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter.

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White Noise (band)

White Noise are an English experimental electronic music band formed in London in 1968, after American-born David Vorhaus, a classical bass player with a background in physics and electronic engineering, attended a lecture by Delia Derbyshire, a sound scientist at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson, then both former members of electronic music project Unit Delta Plus, joined Vorhaus to form the band.

An Electric Storm
In June 1969 White Noise released the groundbreaking album An Electric Storm on Island Records. The album was created using a variety of tape manipulation techniques, and used the first British synthesizer, the EMS Synthi VCS3. Amongst many oddities, the first track on the album, Love Without Sound, employed sped-up tape edits of Vorhaus playing the double bass to create violin and cello sounds. Although not initially commercially successful for Island, the album is now considered an important and influential album in the development of electronic music, namechecked by contemporary artists like The Orb and Julian Cope, influencing contemporary acts such as Broadcast, Add N to (X), and Secret Chiefs 3. Peter Kember of Spacemen 3 included 'Firebird' on his 2004 curated compilation Spacelines.

White Noise 2-III-IV-V
Following the departure of Derbyshire and Hodgson, to pursue other projects, Vorhaus released a second album, the largely instrumental White Noise 2 - Concerto for Synthesizer on Virgin Records in 1974. It was recorded in his own studio in Camden, North London. The album further utilized the EMS VCS 3, as well as prototype sequencers. A third album, the single track 'space fantasy' White Noise III - Re-Entry was released by Pulse Records in 1980. A further two albums were released, the atmospheric White Noise IV - Inferno (AMP Music) (1990) incorporated the use of samples, and White Noise V  - Sound Mind (AMP Music; 2000), an experiment in what Vorhaus called "dark ambient".

"It means I won't be getting on Top Of The Pops, but I felt the category was broad enough that I could redefine it in ways that I couldn't redefine other genres, such as country and western - much as I'd like to! There's a lot of scope for experimentation and on one track, 'Dark Matter', anything that is recognisable is out - no harmony, no pitch, no rhythm. It's so dark, you can't even see the stars"

Painter Joins (2011 - present)
In 2011, Vorhaus enlisted Mike Painter and toured as White Noise. In a 2015 The Quietus interview, Vorhaus stated his continued interest in experimentation with modern technology, saying there are less limits than there used to be.

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of An Electric Storm, a new album Lighting Strikes Twice was released in 2021. The album featured Vorhaus and Painter, both using MANIAC (Multiphasic ANalog Inter‑Active Cromataphonic, or software simulation of it), Vorhaus on the Kaleidophon (his string instrument invention using ribbon controllers) and Painter using a Virtual Reality Glove.

Side Projects
From 1980's Vorhaus has made electronic library music recordings for KPM Music, De Wolfe Music using Fairlight CMI. Vorhaus has written music for TV and film and his music features on TV commercials and TV themes. His recordings include:

 * Standard Music Library: Electronic Music (Standard Music Library, 1969 with Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson)
 * The Vorhaus Sound Experiments (KPM Music, 1980)
 * Sleight of Mind (KPM Music, 1982)
 * Electro-graphics (Music De Wolfe, 1982 with Dave Bradnum)
 * Sound Conjurer (KPM Music, 1983 with Dave Bradnum)
 * The Quest (Music De Wolfe, 1984 with Dave Bradnum)
 * Out of the Dark (KPM Music, 1985)
 * Real or Unreal (KPM Music, 1989)
 * Atmos 6. Water/New Age (Carlin Production Music, 1991)
 * Virtual World (KPM Music, 1993)
 * Science Fricktion (Music House, 2000)

Members

 * Current
 * David Vorhaus (1968–present)
 * Mike Painter (2011–present)

 * Former
 * Delia Derbyshire (1968–1969)
 * Brian Hodgson (1968–1969)
 * Paul Lytton (1968–1969)
 * John Whitman (1968–1969)
 * Annie Bird (1968–1969)
 * Val Shaw (1968–1969)
 * Mark Jenkins (2005–2011)

Discography

 * Albums
 * An Electric Storm (1969)
 * White Noise 2 - Concerto for Synthesizer (1974)
 * White Noise 3 - Re-Entry (1980)
 * White Noise 4 - Inferno (1990)
 * White Noise 5 - Sound Mind (2000)
 * White Noise 5.5 - White Label (2006)
 * Lightning Strikes Twice (2021)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rice Boy Page

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Rice Boy Page
Somehow related to WJOWSA (Votes for deletion/WJOWSA); Internet forum? Notable? I think not. Dunc|☺ 18:57, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete drini ☎ 19:00, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, since the creators allegedly don't want people to talk about, I think it would be morally indefensible to keep an article on it. Don't you? Delete. --Scimitar 19:39, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep So using that logic you should delete the Free Masons since they have been a secret society. You would also never add Builderburger Society.
 * Also members don't want the members talking about the location, but its existance is not in question.
 * Your logic doesn't follow. You have an article on Area 51 the government has a poorly kept secret base there. They would really rather people not talk about it, and they have purchased land to block public view.  Being the government doesn't want you talking about it, the using your logic the AREA 51 entry should be deleted. User:141.157.157.100 4:26, June 6th, 2005 (EDT)
 * Oh, my apologies if I was unclear. I would advise you to check the wiktionary 'facetious' or 'sarcastic'. A well-known aspect of some vanity creations is how they aren't wellknown because the members keep it a secret.  As for your reasoning, Free Masons don't hide their existence, and Area 51 was built by the govt., which is representative of "the people", therefore it is created by "the people", who never have expressed their wishes that it remain a secret.  If my arguments fail to convince I would vote delete as unverifiable and nonnotable. --Scimitar 21:42, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Not notable. --Tabor 20:40, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn, -- BD2412 talk 21:00, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)
 * Keep
 * By likening the subject to Fight Club the article itself helpfully tells us that the subject is too secret for Wikipedia and that therefore the purported "forum guidelines", estimates of membership, and claims to famous members that comprise the rest of the article, must be pure invention. Delete. Uncle G 00:22, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)
 * Keep Its verfyable and real. Some people need to learn hwo to use things such as google and altavista search.
 * Delete - Not notable. The article is pretty humourous though... --Chill Pill Bill 01:08, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not notable. carmeld1 01:41, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Since they seek anonymity, let us help them. Denni ☯ 03:39, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)
 * Delete. I post on that forum and I don't see the value. AKADriver 21:39, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)
 * KEEP I'm a member of the RBP too. AKADriver you coming up to the next autocross? I will have finished filming Car & Driver TV and will have the car we build for the Super Four Challenge there.--71Demon 02:12, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Kenny Hickey

Kenneth Shaun Hickey (born May 22, 1966) is an American musician. He was the co-founder, guitarist, and backing and occasional co-lead vocalist of the gothic metal band Type O Negative, whom he played for from 1989 until the death of the band's frontman and bassist Peter Steele in 2010. He is currently the lead vocalist and guitarist for Silvertomb and was the co-founder of Seventh Void. All three bands featured fellow Type O Negative member Johnny Kelly on drums. Hickey is also an occasional touring guitarist for Danzig.

Early career
Hickey was born in New York City in 1966 and was raised in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn, New York. As a youngster he listened to his father's records of Johnny Cash and was diverted into rock and roll after Elton John's album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. He was asked to join Type O Negative after former Carnivore guitarist Marc Piovanetti declined. Hickey was a childhood friend of the band, growing up in the same neighborhood as the band members. Hickey graduated from Xaverian High School in 1984. He has been on every Type O Negative release with fellow members Peter Steele and Josh Silver (Johnny Kelly joined in 1994).

Guitars and amplifiers
In the early days of Type O Negative, Hickey could be seen playing a black Gibson Flying V. He played this for the music video of "Christian Woman." He then switched to a black Gibson SG, to which he added green accessories (knobs and pickups and a green painted fretboard), and would continue to follow this trend. Starting in 1996, he used Fernandes Guitars, starting with a Raven Elite Sustainer and Revolver Sustainer with the green additions like his previous SG. He would use this for over half a decade. He would always use the Raven live, but as seen on the music video for "I Don't Wanna Be Me", he could be seen using a Monterey Deluxe (without EMGs) in satin black, with a green fingerboard. In 2007, he began using Schecter guitars, most prominently a green C-1 Baritone. Unlike his previous guitars, this has true green inlays, exposed pickups (A Seymour Duncan SH-4 "JB" bridge, and a Sustainiac neck pickup), and the body, including the headstock, the back of the headstock and the back of the neck is entirely green. All Hickey's guitars have invariably been tuned to B Standard throughout his career.

Hickey's early rig (before World Coming Down) consisted of ADA MP-1 & MP-2 preamps or a Marshall JMP-1 with an Alesis Quadraverb running into Marshall 9005 and/or Mosvalve 500 power amps, which were run into one or more Marshall 4x12s w/ G12-75 speakers. During the recording of World Coming Down, Hickey used a Mesa/Boogie dual rectifier, and still uses it, along with a Mesa Boogie Mark IV, as a backup. His main setup consists of a Mesa Boogie TriAxis preamp and TC Electronics G-Force effects processor being sent to a Mesa Boogie Simul-Class 2: Ninety power amp into one or more Mesa Boogie 4x12 cabinets. In the early days he may have used Dean Markley 10–52 gauged strings for B tuning. Today he uses Ernie Ball Not Even Slinky 12–56.

While performing with Seventh Void, he could be seen using Mesa/Boogie dual rectifiers and Schecter Solo-6 guitars in either a black finish (seen in the music video for "Last Walk In The Light"), or Sunburst (seen in the music video for "Heaven is Gone").

In late 2012, Schecter announced an artist model based on his custom baritone he used near the end of his Type O Negative tenure.

Musical influences
In an interview with Loudwire, Hickey cited the image of Ace Frehley and his signature smoking guitar as one of his motivations to start playing the guitar. He also cited Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, T. Rex, Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath as musical influences.

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PIJ

PIJ may refer to:

 * Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian Islamist organization formed in 1981
 * Palestine–Israel Journal, a non-profit journal based in Jerusalem
 * pij, the ISO 639-3 abbreviation for the Pijao language
 * Proximal interphalangeal joints, one of two sets of joints in the Interphalangeal joints of the hand
 * Public Interest Journalism Foundation, formerly at the Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
 * Public Interest Journalistic Freedom, independent successor organisation to Public Interest Journalism Foundation, based in the UK
 * Public Insight Network, an approach to journalism created by American Public Media, US

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Talk:Tueller Drill

Disagree
I disagree with the 'citation needed' here. The article appeals to common sense in "One would think", "Should be", and "has a dilemma". What sort of citations could cover this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.198.151.119 (talk) 07:49, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

In popular culture: season 5 of "Justified"?
Would it be worth mentioning that season 5 of Justified make several indirect references to this as the "21-foot rule"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.65.211.107 (talk) 03:14, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

A scientific examination of the 21-foot rule
A scientific examination of the 21-foot rule https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15614263.2020.1772785 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:CDA0:1060:398D:8970:4140:43B4 (talk) 12:19, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Mythbuster
Assuming all other things being equal and correct, the Mythbusters reference should either be removed entirely or more pragmatically expanded to include the fact that the drill requires two center-of-mast shots. One shot at absolute point blank range (the attacker being close enough to grab the gun themselves) is a diffrent test, and therefore a diffrent result. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.10.163.44 (talk) 01:43, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

Blah
Topic is very deserving of inclusion, I can say as someone who got shafted by the cops. This article, however, is POV cop trash and in need of a complete rewrite. 76.70.97.144 (talk) 04:00, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pointy Haired Fallacy

 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. — Xezbeth 07:21, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Pointy Haired Fallacy
Interesting idea, perhaps, but seems to combine neologism, original research, and lack of verifiability. --Tabor 19:00, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete if anything, because it being a neologism (WP:WIN) drini ☎ 19:02, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Scimitar 19:41, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I remember that particular Dilbert strip. I liked it a lot. I try to keep it in mind when I am among fellow-engineers who assume that what the people on the business side do is easy. The term "pointy-haired fallacy" might not be a bad name for it, although the PHB in Dilbert espouses so many different fallacies that it is not clear why this particular one deserves the name. (Why, the PHB is practically a fallic symbol). Unfortunately "pointy haired fallacy" is clearly a neologism; the term is not in any real use. Zero Google hits!. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:09, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- reads as original research. --Simon Cursitor 07:01, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jon muscoplat

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Jon muscoplat
Happyfeet10 added the vfd tag to this article a month ago, but didn't create the subpage. I am doing so now. --Canderson7 19:00, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete drini ☎ 19:02, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn content-less. --Etacar11 20:47, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:The Power of Reason

You may or may not know that there has in the past been big controversy surrounding our LaRouche articles. My advice would be that you be careful not to step over any lines in trying to advance your point of view, because we had a pro-LaRouche editor banned once before (I didn't agree with that decision at all, by the way, but that's what happened). Giving a LaRouche article top billing on articles which have nothing to do with LaRouche is the kind of thing that will get on people's nerves. Everyking 19:01, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Not giving LaRouche the billing on articles on which he has a lot to do will get on peoples nerves too, mine especially. The Power of Reason 19:03, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, well I don't have anything else to say, then. I'm not going to fight over this stuff with you. Everyking 19:06, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Please see the ArbCom decision from 2004, which says, "Supporters of Lyndon LaRouche are instructed not to add references to Lyndon directly to articles except where they are highly relevant, and not to engage in activities that might be perceived as "promotion" of Lyndon LaRouche." Thanks, -Willmcw 19:20, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. In that case, I will only add references to LaRouche where they are highly relevant, such as economics and list of economists, since LaRouche was the world's leading economist to forecast the outbreak of every monetary crisis since the abandonment of the Bretton Woods System. His article also belongs in the links in the Schwarzenegger article, since he was a leading force in organizing the youth vote against the recall and the batch of synarchist figures, including the neoconservatives and financial cliques behind him. The Power of Reason 21:29, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The view that LaRouche is, among other things, a "leading force" in any aspect of California politics is the type of POV statement that requires a source. Since you appear to be familiar with Wikipedia, I must ask, if you are familiar with the ArbCom decision that requires user:Herschelkrustofsky to edit only under that username? Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2 - Willmcw 22:17, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * No, I am not familiar with that case and I am not familiar with that individual. And I will need a source saying that LaRouche was not a leading source in the recall. A simple check on google would show you that he was. The Power of Reason 22:20, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration restrictions on LaRouche supporters
Hi POR, restrictions have been imposed by the arbitration committee on editors who insert material favorable to the Lyndon LaRouche movement. I've listed the relevant rulings below. In addition to these rulings, all editors must edit in accordance with our core policies. The two most important of these are No original research (NOR) and Neutral point of view (NPOV).

NOR states that we have to source our edits to reputable or credible publications. This means you can't ask, as you did above, for a source showing that LaRouche is not a leading force in California politics; if you make the edit, you must provide the source. Furthermore, LaRouche publications have been determined not to be reputable or credible — material published by or originating with the LaRouche movement is regarded for Wikipedia's purposes as "original research" — except when being used, in limited circumstances, as primary-source material on the LaRouche organization itself in articles closely related to (that is, about) that organization.

The NPOV policy states that majority and significant-minority views are acceptable in Wikipedia. Views held by only a tiny minority are not acceptable. All or most of LaRouche's theories are regarded as tiny-minority views, including the view that he's an important economist. The insertion of any such claims may be deleted on sight by any editor.

Regarding the arbitration committee's rulings, the most important of these are:

From Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche/Proposed decision, September 2004

 * 1) "Original work which originates from Lyndon LaRouche and his movement may be removed from any Wikipedia article in which it appears other than the article Lyndon LaRouche and other closely related articles."
 * 2) "Supporters of Lyndon LaRouche are instructed not to add references to Lyndon directly to articles except where they are highly relevant, and not to engage in activities that might be perceived as "promotion" of Lyndon LaRouche."
 * 3) "Wikipedia users who engage in re-insertion of original research which originated with Lyndon LaRouche and his movement or engage in edit wars regarding insertion of such material shall be subject to ban upon demonstration to the Arbitration Committee of the offense."

From Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2/Proposed decision, February 2005

 * 1) "The use of sockpuppet accounts, while not generally forbidden, is discouraged. Abuse of sockpuppet accounts, such as using them to evade blocks and bans, make personal attacks or reverts, or vandalize, is strictly forbidden."
 * 2) "For the purpose of dispute resolution when there is uncertainty whether a party is one user with sockpuppets or several users with similar behavior they may be treated as one user with sockpuppets."
 * 3) "User:Herschelkrustofsky is restricted to one account for editing. All other accounts showing the same editing patterns are to be blocked indefinitely. This includes the accounts User:Weed Harper and User:C Colden. Nor is Herschelkrustofsky to edit anonymously."
 * 4) "Wikipedia is not a soapbox or a vehicle for propaganda advocacy or advertising. (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)"
 * 5) "Herschelkrustofsky is banned from editing any article relating to Lyndon LaRouche for up to and including one year. If he edits any LaRouche-related article, he may be blocked for up to one week by any administrator. Administrators may use their discretion in determining what constitutes a LaRouche-related article. The prohibition against inserting La Rouche material into other articles remains in effect."
 * 6) "If Herschelkrustofsky is discovered to have created or edited using any other account, or has edited anonymously, that account shall be blocked indefinitely and Herschelkrustofsky shall be banned for up to one week. The IP should be blocked with due caution as to whether it is a dynamic IP or ISP proxy likely to have many users."
 * "If, in the judgement of any administrator, Herschelkrustofsky or any user who is considered a sockpuppet of Hershelkrustofsky edits any article which relates to Lyndon LaRouche or inserts material which relates to Lyndon LaRouche into any other article he may be banned for up to one week. Any ban shall reset the one-year ban on editing LaRouche related articles and the ban on inserting LaRouche material into unrelated articles. A one-week ban may be imposed for use of a sockpuppet for any purpose; such a ban shall reset both bans." SlimVirgin (talk) 23:09, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

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Willy Taveras

Willy Taveras (born December 25, 1981) is a Dominican former professional baseball center fielder in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played a total of seven seasons for the Houston Astros, Colorado Rockies, Cincinnati Reds, and Washington Nationals.

As a rookie in 2005, Taveras was instrumental in the Astros' first-ever league pennant win and World Series appearances. Behind his hitting, speed, and defense, Taveras won the Players Choice Award for National League (NL) Outstanding Rookie, the Sporting News NL Rookie of the Year, and a selection to the Topps All-Star Rookie Team.

Houston Astros
Taveras made his major league debut as a member of the Houston Astros late in the 2004 season, appearing in 10 games, primarily as a pinch runner.

In 2005, Taveras became the Astros' starting center fielder as a rookie, replacing Carlos Beltrán, who had signed as a free agent with the New York Mets in the prior offseason. Taveras batted .291 while leading the majors in infield hits (71), bunt hits (31), and singles (152), and was tops among rookies in runs (82), hits (172), and stolen bases (34; 6th in the National League, NL).

In Game 4 of the 2005 National League Championship Series (NLCS) against the St. Louis Cardinals, Taveras entered in the seventh inning as a pinch runner and scored the winning run on a short sacrifice fly to center field. In the eighth, Taveras' catch while running up Tal's Hill deep in center field at Minute Maid Park ended the inning and preserved a 2–1 lead.

Following the season, Taveras was named in the Players Choice Awards as the NL Outstanding Rookie. He also won the Sporting News NL Rookie of the Year Award and selection to the Topps All-Star Rookie Team. For the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) awards, Taveras finished second to Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies for the NL Rookie of the Year Award.

In 2006, Taveras' batting average regressed to .278, though he again led the majors in bunt hits (21) and had 33 stolen bases (10th in the NL), but just 30 RBI. Taveras had a 30-game hitting streak that ended August 29, 2006, during a game in which he was hit twice by Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Tomo Ohka. Taveras' streak is a franchise record, breaking the record of 25 previously held by Jeff Kent. The streak made him part of a rare club of less than a hundred to have hit in thirty straight games. Within that streak, Taveras had a streak of singles in 28 consecutive games, tying a National League record set by Willie Davis in 1969. , Taveras and Davis still hold the league record.

Colorado Rockies
On December 12, 2006, Taveras was traded along with Taylor Buchholz and Jason Hirsh by the Astros to the Colorado Rockies for pitchers Jason Jennings and Miguel Asencio.

During the 2007 regular season, Taveras hit .320, including an MLB-leading 27 bunt singles, 2 home runs, 24 RBIs, 33 stolen bases, and caught stealing 9 times. He was part of the World Series roster after making a big play in the NLCS vs the Arizona Diamondbacks. In the World Series, the Rockies were swept by the Boston Red Sox.

In a 22-inning game played at Petco Park between April 17–18, 2008, Taveras established a Rockies' club record with 10 at-bats in the game.

Taveras led MLB with 68 stolen bases during the 2008 season, and led the NL with 24 bunt hits. At the same time, his .296 slugging percentage was the lowest in the majors. Defensively, however, his .976 fielding percentage was the lowest of all qualifying major league center fielders.

On December 12, 2008, the Rockies non-tendered Taveras, making him a free agent.

Cincinnati Reds
On December 27, 2008, Taveras signed a two-year deal worth $6.25 million with the Cincinnati Reds. In his debut with the Reds, he hit a pinch-hit triple in the 8th inning after being down with the flu for over a week.

In 2009, Taveras had the lowest slugging percentage, .285, and the lowest on-base percentage, .275, of all National League players with at least 350 plate appearances. On February 1, 2010, Taveras was traded along with Adam Rosales to the Oakland Athletics for Aaron Miles and a player to be named later. He was later designated for assignment by Oakland. Taveras declined a Triple-A assignment and was granted free agency.

Washington Nationals
On February 15, 2010, Taveras signed a minor league contract with the Washington Nationals with an invite to spring training. He played 27 games, and on May 21, 2010 he was granted his unconditional release.

Philadelphia Phillies
On June 3, 2010, he signed a minor league contract with the Phillies. He was assigned to the Triple-A Lehigh Valley.

On June 29, 2010, he was released after playing 23 games for the IronPigs, batting .208 in 96 AB's, with nine stolen bases.

On August 15, 2010, Taveras signed a minor league deal with the Texas Rangers.

Return to the Rockies
On January 25, 2011, Taveras signed a minor league contract with the Colorado Rockies. He spent the 2011 season with the Rockies Triple-A affiliate Colorado Springs Sky Sox, batting .308 in 97 games with a .336 on-base percentage. Due to problems with the sports agency that formerly represented him Taveras was out of American baseball for the entire 2012 season.

Kansas City Royals
On December 11, 2012, Taveras was signed to a minor league contract by the Kansas City Royals with an invitation to spring training. At the time of the signing Taveras was playing baseball in the Mexican Pacific League with the Yaquis de Obregón.

Sugar Land Skeeters
Taveras signed with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball for the 2015 season. This was Taveras' first year playing in an independent baseball league.

Pericos de Puebla
On April 11, 2016, Taveras signed with the Pericos de Puebla of the Mexican Baseball League.

Acereros de Monclova
On February 21, 2017, Taveras, along with Chad Gaudin, Daric Barton, Nyjer Morgan, Manny Rodriguez, and Rodolfo Amador, were traded to the Acereros de Monclova in exchange for RHP Joaquín Lara. Taveras became a free agent following the 2017 season.

Sugar Land Skeeters (second stint)
On May 13, 2019, after spending all of 2018 out of professional baseball, Taveras re-signed with the Sugar Land Skeeters. He was released on July 22.

Scouting report
Taveras has good skills for slap-hitting; however, he strikes out frequently (103 times in 2005) and rarely walks. His career-high in walks is 36, resulting in a low on-base percentage. In addition, Taveras is an exceptionally poor power hitter, producing the lowest slugging percentage among all regular major league outfielders for both the 2005 and 2006 seasons. He has great speed and has been clocked at 3.57 seconds from home to first as a right-handed hitter. Taveras has also led the league in infield singles, and his BABIP (batting average on balls in play) was .374 in 2007.

Career highlights

 * 2005 Player's Choice Rookie of the Year.
 * 2005 Sporting News Rookie of the Year
 * Named to 2006 Dominican Republic World Baseball Classic team.
 * 30 game hitting streak (Astros franchise record).

Personal life
A cousin of Taveras, Leody, is also an outfielder in Major League Baseball who signed with the Texas Rangers as an international free agent in 2015 and made his MLB debut in 2020.

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PacWest Center

PacWest Center is a 30-story, 127.41 m office skyscraper in Portland, Oregon. It is the fifth-tallest building in Portland, and the fourth largest with 491528 sqft. The building was designed by Hugh Stubbins & Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and completed in 1984.

History
Construction of PacWest Center began in October 1982, and the building was formally dedicated on November 1, 1984. The building's name is derived from former anchor tenant, Pacific Western Bank of Oregon, owned by PacWest Bancorp. However, PacWest's Oregon operations were acquired by KeyCorp in 1986 and became part of KeyBank. Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Estate Co. had been the majority owner in the building since it rose in 1984.

In 1985, the building's design won its architects, Hugh Stubbins & Associates and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the year's top "honor award" from the Portland chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The building's lobby was remodeled in 2002. In December 2007 the building was sold to Ashforth Pacific Inc. for $161.5 million. During a windstorm in December 2014 a piece of sheet metal blew off from the tower and damaged the neighboring Standard Plaza. Ashforth sold the PacWest Center in 2016 for $170 million to LPC Realty Advisors I LP.

Details
PacWest is the fourth largest office building in Portland with 491528 sqft of floorspace. The modern, metallic look of the building comes from the use of aluminum panels imported from Japan. Law firm Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt is one of the largest tenants, occupying the 15th to 19th floors. The firm has been based in the building since 1984.

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IESE Business School

IESE Business School is the graduate business school of the University of Navarra. It was established in Barcelona in 1958 by Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organisation. From 1963, in collaboration with Harvard Business School, it offers a two-year Master of Business Administration degree, an executive MBA, and executive education courses. It has other campuses in Madrid, Munich, New York City and São Paulo.

History
The Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) was created by Opus Dei in 1958. The first name of IESE was Centro de Estudios de la Empresa, then Escuela de Directores del Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) and finally IESE Business School.

Antonio Valero Vicente, commissioned by Jose María Escriva de Balaguer, was its main promoter and first dean. The founder of Opus Dei had listened to businessmen from Madrid, the Basque Country and Catalonia who, led by the Madrid naval engineer Alejandro Crespo Calabria, had expressed their concern and desire for the education and training of business leaders with a Christian vision. Valero visited the École des Administrations des Affaires de Lille, run by an MBA from Harvard Business School (HBS), to get advice on the pedagogical model, the case method.

IESE launched its first training project for entrepreneurs during the 1958-59 academic year. The first program, called Programa de Alta Dirección de Empresas (PADE), was aimed at business leaders with a decade of experience in senior management. The first classes were held at the Hotel del Parque in Sant Andreu de Llavaneres. The following academic programmes were Programa de Dirección de Empresas (PDE) 1959–1960, and Programa de Desarrollo para Alta Dirección de Empresas (PDADE, later known as PDG) in 1961. In 1963, after consulting professors Ralph M. Hower and Steve Fuller, the Harvard-IESE Committee was set up, and IESE launched the Master in Business Administration and Economics (MED) in 1964. It was the first time the term "master's" was used in Europe; it later took on the standardized name of MBA.

After almost two decades of collaboration with Harvard, the bilingual Spanish-English MBA was introduced in 1980, and collaboration was extended to other North American universities such as the University of Michigan Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management (1994). In 2001, the Global Executive MBA was established. At the same time, IESE developed in-company programmes for transnational companies in Spain and leading Spanish companies. In 2007, after expansion and renovation, the new Barcelona campus was inaugurated. In 2009, the Global CEO Program for Latin America was launched in partnership with CEIBS and Wharton.

In the following years, the campuses in New York City (2010), Munich (2015), and São Paulo (in collaboration with ISE Business School), were consolidated and opened. In 2021, the expansion and opening of the new Madrid campus was completed.

Barcelona
IESE's main campus is located in the Pedralbes neighbourhood of Barcelona, at the foot of the Collserola mountain range. The 52,000 m2 campus features more than a dozen buildings. The newest was inaugurated in 2018 and houses the research division and doctoral programmes. The Barcelona campus is home to MBA programs and a wide range of Executive Education programs.

Madrid
Since its founding in 1974, the Madrid campus has focused on Executive Education programmes - PDD, PDG, and PADE. It also offers the Executive MBA and a special programme for public sector managers. In 2019 it introduced the Master in Management (MiM) programme The campus is located in Aravaca, on Cerro del Águila in front of Casa de Campo, a northwestern suburb of the Spanish capital. The Master building was built in 1991 and extended in 2004. A new campus was opened in 2021: to the original 19,000 m2, a further 16,300 m2 with green spaces and an auditorium were added.

New York City
The institution opened a campus at 165 West 57th Street in Manhattan in 2007. Housed in a neo-Renaissance building that was built in 1916, the campus delivers customised programmes for companies and general management programmes for executives.

Munich
The centrally located Munich campus, founded in 2015, has focused on Executive Education programs for companies and professionals working in Germany and Central Europe. It also offers an Executive MBA program and courses included in the MBA and Global Executive MBA programs.

São Paulo
The activities have been held since 2000 at the ISE Business School in the Bela Vista district of São Paulo, home to several educational and financial institutions. In addition to the general management programmes for executives, it offers an Executive MBA.

International alliances and partnerships
Since the late 1950s, the institution has sent faculty members to doctoral programmes in the United States and Europe. It has established long-term academic partnerships with Stanford, MIT and CEIBS.

IESE also contributed to the founding of 15 business schools, mainly in developing countries: IPADE (Mexico, 1967); IAE (Argentina, 1978); PAD (Peru, 1979); AESE (Portugal, 1980); INALDE (Colombia, 1985); IEEM (Uruguay, 1986); LBS (Nigeria, 1991); IDE (Ecuador, 1992); CEIBS (China, 1994); UA&P School of Business Administration (Philippines, 1995); ISE (Brazil, 1996); ESE (Chile, 1999); MDE Business School (Ivory Coast, 2003); and SBS (Kenya, 2005). The partner schools are independent and developed with local faculty and staff.

Organisation
The institution is governed by the Board of Directors and the International Advisory Board. The Board of Directors is responsible for the strategic development, faculty recruitment, programme portfolio and operations of the school. It is chaired by the dean, who in turn reports to the rector of the University of Navarra.

The International Advisory Board (IAB) and the Executive Committee of the IESE Alumni Association provide strategic guidance to the school's management on its initiatives, governance, education programmes, institutional development and corporate sponsorship.

Since 1963, the IESE-Harvard Business School Committee has met annually in the United States or Europe, mainly to advise on the development of international programmes.

The International Advisory Board (IAB) analyses the global socio-economic context from the perspective of business, emerging trends, entrepreneurial and executive education needs and innovation in the field of management and leadership. IAB members are managers and academics from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Appointed by IESE's dean, they meet regularly to assess humanistic and management issues, as well as the emergence of new challenges and opportunities.

Programmes
Across the campuses, the institution offers the following academic programmes: Full-time MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA, Master in Management (MiM), Doctoral Programme and Executive Programmes: Advanced Management Program (AMP), Business Acceleration Program (BAP), Global CEO Program (GCP) (in partnership with Wharton School) and some others.

Research
The research in particular business areas is conducted through chairs with leading companies and foundations: Abertis, Alcatel-Lucent, Banco Sabadell, CaixaBank, Banco Santander, Indra, Nissan, SEAT...

Research is also carried out in different centres, led by professors and with a team of researchers. Companies and specialised organisations collaborate with them: Center for Business in Society, Center for Globalization and Strategy, Center for Innovation Marketing and Strategy (CIMS), Center for International Finance (CIF), Center for Public Leadership and Government, Center for Research in Healthcare Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship Innovation Center, Institute for Media and Entertainment, International Center for Logistics Research, International Center for Work and Family, and Public-Private Sector Research Center.

In 2021, the institution launched the Institute for Sustainability Leadership (ISL) to promote the exchange of knowledge and experience between the academic and business worlds. The ISL, led by Professor Fabrizio Ferraro, is generating knowledge on the monitoring and measurement of green targets, governance systems for sustainable cities and financial instruments for impact investment.

Reputation and rankings
IESE is certified by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), Florida, the Association of MBAs and the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), Brussels.

Alumni
The first alumni chapter was that of Catalonia, created in 1961. Regional groups for Valencia (Levante), Mallorca (Balearic Islands) and Madrid were established soon after, followed by Aragon (1973), Andalucia (1975), and Galicia, La Rioja, Basque Country and Navarre (1986). The Argentine-Uruguayan chapter became the first foreign chapter in 1986; the U.S. alumni chapter was set up in 1987.

In 2021 an alumni meeting was held at the expanded Madrid headquarters and was attended by more than 5000 executives and business people.

Notable Alumni

 * Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou, Legitimist claimant to the throne of France and Navarre and relative of the Spanish royal family
 * Juan Antonio Samaranch, Advanced Management Program AMP - 1962, former President of the International Olympic Committee.
 * Antonio Brufau Niubó, CEO and Chairman of the multinational oil and gas company Repsol.
 * Joan Clos, former mayor of Barcelona.
 * Cristina Garmendia, former Minister of Science and Innovation by the Spanish Government.
 * Francisco García Paramés, former CEO of Bestinver.
 * Manel Guillen, businessman, lawyer and activist investor
 * Marek Kamiński, explorer, author and entrepreneur.
 * Janne Haaland Matláry, Norwegian political scientist, writer, and politician.
 * Ibukun Awosika, Chairman First Bank of Nigeria.
 * Sheila Mwarangu, civil and structural engineer.
 * Vicente Lopez Ibor Mayor, Former Commissioner of the Spanish National Energy Commission.
 * Jorge Moreira da Silva, ex-Minister of Environment, Territorial Planning and Energy in Portugal.
 * Hans van der Noordaa has been Chairman and CEO of the Retail Division, ING Netherlands and ING Group N.V.
 * Miguel Sanz, General Management Program GMP - 1997, Navarre former president of the Government, Spain.
 * Luis Enrique Yarur Rey, president, Banco de Crédito e Inversiones (BCI).
 * Ana Maiques, CEO, Neuroelectrics.
 * Domingo Mirón, president of Accenture in Spain, Portugal and Israel, and Chief Risk Officer.
 * Pablo Tovar, senior management coach, a fellow of Oxford Leadership.
 * Cristina García-Orcoyen Tormo, politician.
 * Camille Villar, politician, Member of the Philippine House of Representatives.
 * Jorge Jraissati, political dissident from Venezuela. Director of Alumni For Liberty.
 * Diana Mondino, Argentinian Foreign Minister in the elected government of Javier Milei.

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African Footballer of the Year

The African Footballer of the Year award, presented to the best African footballer each year, has been conferred by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 1992.

Samuel Eto'o and Yaya Touré have won the award the most times (4 wins each), Two-time winner Didier Drogba is the player with the most runner-up appearances (4), most third place finishes (3), and most times in the top three (9). The France-born Frédéric Kanouté, Riyad Mahrez and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are the only European-born players to win the award (both Kanouté and Aubameyang initially featured for France's U21 squad before going on to represent Mali and Gabon, respectively). The winner of the 2023 edition is Victor Osimhen.

History
An earlier African Footballer of the Year Golden Ball award was given out between 1970 and 1994 by France Football magazine. The changes resulted in parallel Golden Ball awards given out to Abedi Pele and George Weah in 1993 and 1994 by the magazine, although the CAF sponsored awards for those years were won respectively by Rashidi Yekini and Emmanuel Amuneke, as well as two awards given to Abedi Pele in 1992. France Football discontinued the election from 1995 after the European Ballon d'Or – also awarded by the magazine – had been opened to all players in the European leagues. In 1991 the magazine Afrique Football installed an award. It was discontinued in 2003.

In 2023, Algerian footballer Riyad Mahrez was not chosen as a finalist for the award. Mahrez's absence was perceived as a snub by media and the Algerian football community. Algerian manager Abdelhak Benchikha, nominated for Best African Coach, said he would not attend the CAF awards ceremony in solidarity with Mahrez, Algerian club USM Alger, and Algerian footballer Zinedine Belaid. Walid Sadi, the president of the Algerian Football Federation, also said that he would not attend the ceremony as a show of support for Mahrez.

France Football award (1970–1994)

The award by France Football magazine of non-European nationality, the award being given to George Weah that year. It had already been replaced by an official award given out by the Confederation of African Football since 1992.

Multiple winners

 * Players in bold are currently active

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Bert Jones

Bertram Hays Jones (born September 7, 1951) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams. He was named the NFL Most Valuable Player in 1976 with the Colts.

At Ruston High School in Ruston, Louisiana, he was given the nickname "the Ruston Rifle". Jones played college football for the LSU Tigers, earning consensus All-American honors in 1972. He was selected by the Colts in the first round of the 1973 NFL draft with the second overall pick. He is the son of former NFL running back Dub Jones of the Cleveland Browns. In 2016, Jones was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

College
Jones attended Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he played for the Tigers. While at LSU, Jones only started two games prior to the end of his junior year, but he started every game thereafter, leading LSU to a 12–2–1 record.

In 1971, Jones threw for 945 yards with nine touchdowns and four interceptions while splitting time with Paul Lyons. Against the wishes of LSU fans, Jones was forced to share quarterback duties with Lyons because of Jones's bickering with head coach Charlie McClendon over signal calling. Lyons himself threw for over 800 yards and 11 touchdowns that year.

In 1972 after taking over at quarterback, Jones threw for 1,446 yards with 14 touchdowns and seven interceptions on 199 pass attempts. Except for one week, LSU spent the entire season ranked in the AP Top 10. One of Jones's most famous moments came in the 1972 LSU vs. Ole Miss game, when he led LSU to a 17–16 last-second victory by hitting running back Brad Davis in the end zone for a touchdown as time expired. After the season, Jones became the first quarterback in LSU history to be awarded consensus All-America honors. Jones also finished fourth in the vote for the Heisman Trophy and was named the national collegiate Player of the Year by The Sporting News.

During his 17 games at LSU, Jones completed 52.6 percent of his passes for 3,225 yards and 28 touchdowns, which at the time was the most career passing yards and touchdowns of any quarterback in school history.

In 2016, Jones was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Professional career
Jones was projected by NFL scouts to be the first quarterback drafted in 1973. He was chosen second overall by the Baltimore Colts to be the Colts' heir apparent to Johnny Unitas, who was later traded to San Diego. His debut came on September 16, 1973, in a loss to the Cleveland Browns. During his eight-year tenure as the Colts' starting quarterback, Jones and his teammates enjoyed three consecutive AFC East division titles (1975–77). But in each of those years, the Colts lost in the first round of the playoffs. The 1977 playoff game (known as Ghost to the Post) is famous as the fourth longest game in NFL history; the Colts fell to the Oakland Raiders, 37–31. Jones missed most of 1978 and 1979 with a shoulder injury, and the Colts fell to last place in the AFC East those two seasons.

The 1976 regular season was Jones's finest as a professional; he threw for 3,104 yards and a career-high 24 touchdowns, compiling a passer rating of 102.5. He was one of only three quarterbacks to achieve a 100+ passer rating during the entire decade of the 1970s, joining Dallas's Roger Staubach (1971) and Oakland's Ken Stabler (1976). Jones was honored by the Associated Press as 1976's NFL Most Valuable Player and NFL Offensive Player of the Year, selected first-team All-Pro, and named to the Pro Bowl team. He was also selected second-team All-Pro following the 1977 season.

The remainder of Jones's playing career beyond 1977 was curtailed by several injuries, the first of which was a separated shoulder after a hit from Al Baker in a Colts' 13–7 win over the Detroit Lions at the Pontiac Silverdome on August 26, 1978, in the final preseason contest for both teams.

During an October 26, 1980, game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Jones made NFL history when he was sacked a record 12 times. This broke the record at the time held by many quarterbacks, including Jones's then back-up, Greg Landry, who had been sacked 11 times while he was a member of the Detroit Lions in a game against the Dallas Cowboys on October 6, 1975.

In 1982, his final season, Jones played in four games for the Los Angeles Rams before a neck injury forced him to retire.

In 1990, Jones participated in the first NFL Quarterback Challenge. He finished first in the retiree category and third in the regular competition (The regular competition taking the top three finishers from the alumni competition and adding them to the regular field of current quarterbacks). Given his strong performance, Bobby Beathard, then the general manager of the Chargers, wanted Jones to come out of retirement, but Jones was 38 at the time and chose not to try a comeback.

Longtime scout Ernie Accorsi is quoted as saying that if Bert Jones had played under different circumstances, he probably would have been the greatest player ever. John Riggins has been quoted as saying Jones was the toughest competitor he has ever witnessed. On the eve of Super Bowl XLII, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, in discussing his choices for the greatest quarterbacks of all time, described Jones as the best "pure passer" he had ever seen.

In 2022, the Professional Football Researchers Association named Jones to the PFRA Hall of Very Good Class of 2022.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heavy isotopes

 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 - deleted - SimonP 20:07, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Heavy isotopes
Keenan Pepper added the vfd tag to this article about a month ago, but didn't create the subpage. I am doing so now. --Canderson7 19:07, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, article doesn't match the title. Talrias (t | e | c) 19:24, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to James Andrew Harris, since there is no such an article and make it a substub. This one should be deleted afterwards or instantly filled with something relevant --Dungodung 19:27, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, and spare us the trouble of moving to James Andrew Harris and then deleting James Andrew Harris for lack of notability/content. --Scimitar 19:42, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as having too little context, although a redirect to isotope might be useful. Mgm|(talk) 19:59, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * The original author's choice of article title leaves me boggled. This is the two-sentence beginning of a biography of James Andrew Harris, one of the team who identified isotopes of rutherfordium and dubnium.  Whether he meets the WP:BIO criteria is unclear without further research.  The article doesn't help in the slightest, of course. This is definitely the wrong name for the article, though. Uncle G 22:43, 2005 Jun 6 (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 .