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User talk:Stormbay

help triage some feedback
Hey guys.

I appreciate this isn't quite what you signed up for, but I figured as people who are already pretty good at evaluating whether material is useful or not useful through Special:NewPages, you might be interested :). Over the last few months we've been developing the new Article Feedback Tool, which features a free text box. it is imperative that we work out in advance what proportion of feedback is useful or not so we can adjust the design accordingly and not overwhelm you with nonsense.

This is being done through the Feedback Evaluation System (FES), a tool that lets editors run through a stream of comments, selecting their value and viability, so we know what type of design should be promoted or avoided. We're about to start a new round of evaluations, beginning with an office hours session tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to help preemptively kill poor feedback, come along to #wikimedia-office and we'll show you how to use the tool. If you can't make it, send me an email at or drop a note on my talkpage, and I'm happy to give you a quick walkthrough in a one-on-one session :).

All the best, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:31, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

A big NPT update
Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:

coding
 * Fixes for the "moved pages do not show up in Special:NewPages" and "pages created from redirects do not show up in Special:NewPages" bugs have been completed and signed off on. Unfortunately we won't be able to integrate them into the existing version, but they will be worked into the Page Triage interface.
 * Coding has been completed on three elements; the API for displaying metadata about the article in the "list view", the ability to keep the "patrol" button visible if you edit an article before patrolling it, and the automatic removal of deleted pages from the queue. All three are awaiting testing but otherwise complete.

All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.

Stuff to look at

We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; this is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and this is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the NPT talkpage :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available here.

I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.

I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it! Further questions or issues to the usual address. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 17:04, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Category:Saskatchewan, Manitoba
Hi Stormbay, I have to tell you regarding of the empty category called Category:Saskatchewan, Manitoba. The category is already empty and you put the speedy deletion. And User:Jc37 already remove the "speedy deletion" template that is already been empty. Could you talk to User:Jc37 by not to remove the speedy deletion template, It looks like you have some unfinished business with you and Jc37 on the only empty Manitoba category. And maybe go to March 23, 2012 CFD nomination page and maybe remove Category:Saskatchewan, Manitoba on the list and the rest will keep. This is for you to resolve with you, User:Jc37 and the only empty category Category:Saskatchewan, Manitoba to be speedy deleted. Let me know if this is resolved. Thanks. Steam5 (talk) 06:16, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The CFD has been closed as "No Consensus" by Jc37 and should not be modified. It is not important to me. In my mind, they should all be deleted but I will move on to something else. (I am always surprised at the amount of effort expended by some Wikipedians to enforce silly rules.) Cheers! Stormbay (talk) 18:09, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * There wasn't much of a discussion (hence the "no consensus" result).
 * It looks to me that while the categories were being boldly emptied and tagged as C1, they also got nommed at CfD. (miscommunication?)
 * Anyway, at this point, I'll just let the WP:BOLD action stand, though G4 won't apply in this case. - jc37 02:03, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I emptied a number of the categories...didn't see it as WP:BOLD but that's fine. There appears to be little or no activity from editors doing Manitoba stuff. I'm an ex-patriot and have been all over the province. There is no use of names like Saskatchewan, Manitoba to identify a Rural Municipality. I'll move on to something more exciting. Stormbay (talk) 02:52, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
Peridon (talk) 16:16, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

New Pages update
Hey :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:23, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released
Hey Stormbay! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:31, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Shane Keating
Just for the record, Calgary is one of the few Canadian cities large and internationally prominent enough that its city councillors do potentially qualify as notable under WP:POLITICIAN (the others would be Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal), so the nn tag isn't the correct one to use on Shane Keating. It is still distinctly proddable for having no real sources, so I'm not disputing that, and neither am I disputing the primarysources tag — but strictly speaking, the nn tag is incorrect as "city councillor in Calgary" would be a perfectly legitimate claim of notability if proper sourcing were present, and the tag doesn't really need to be there in addition to all of the others anyway, since it serves little purpose besides repeating issues that the other tags are already covering. Bearcat (talk) 05:21, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

 * Your point about notability is noted. Your supplementary comments on the prod outline it well. Thanks! Stormbay (talk) 22:12, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage/New Pages Feed
Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:14, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Pine Island Fort
Citation restored. Since it is also under Donald McKay I assumed you put it there to be sure I would check it. Thank you. 22:24, 2 June 2012 (UTC) Benjamin Trovato

 * Thanks! Keep up the good work on the forts, etc. Stormbay (talk) 22:40, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Merlo (company)
I'm rather bemused by your edit summary here. Are you suggesting that the Irish Independent is a trade mag? Phil Bridger (talk) 22:04, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Did you see the question mark? Do you follow me around to insult my editing? The tag was valid; the rest I included to "bemuse" you and other editors. Stormbay (talk) 22:11, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you incapable of giving a civil answer to a civil question? How am I following you when I edited the article before you did? And the citation that I added had a link to the Independent's article, so I don't understand how anyone could think it was a trade mag, question-marked or not, unless they were basing their editing on guesswork rather than evidence. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:30, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I have had a good deal of your incivility over the years. Your "civil question" was phrased in your usual style. By its nature it is not civil. I recognize civil when I read it. Enough said! Stormbay (talk) 22:36, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Manitoba
(and thus all of its subcategories, including ) is already a subcategory of, so hamlets and villages and rural municipalities and the like should not be added directly to in addition to their appropriate settlement-type category. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 14:42, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * No more Category:Geography of Manitoba cats unless no such cat exists...I will probably remember. :-)  Stormbay (talk) 18:41, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Category emptying
Please do not tag empty categories for C1 after emptying them. The criterion itself excludes categories that are emptied out of process, which is what you have been doing — if you wish to have an already-populated category deleted, you must take it through discussion. Nyttend (talk) 01:11, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

 * I have to agree. There does not seem to be any reason for your removal of these categories other than a desire to delete them. You appear to be trying to do an end run around the proper procedures for doing so. Why you would do such a thing is not important, what is important is that you stop doing it and instead use CFD for categories you believe should not exist. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:09, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

 * The removal of the categories was the end product of a large clean-up of rural municipalities in Manitoba to make all the naming of them consistent...some of the Categories were simply wrong and it seemed sensible to remove them all and then someone could create a properly named category for each of the R.M.'s if someone felt it was necessary. Take a look at my editing record over the last seven years and you will notice that I don't (knowingly) request deletions without some reason. Your point on procedure is noted. I'll leave the rest alone. Replace anything that offends the criterion that applies. I find that most often less than nothing is accomplished at sites such as discussion. I will carry on with other editing that is much more interesting than trying to clean-up a rather useless (my opinion) set of categories. I hope you both will agree, after checking me out further, that I was probably well intentioned but woefully lacking in respect for/knowledge of the continually evolving proliferation of rules. Be bold is one that I do follow. (The other involves trying to use a civil tone with everyone. I hope I was successful in this instance. I tried, anyway). Happy editing! Stormbay (talk) 23:01, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Page Triage newsletter
Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).

The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.

I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:54, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

New Pages newsletter
Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.

On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:01, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation update
Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome.

Page Curation newsletter
Hey. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.

Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:56, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation newsletter - closing up!
Hey all :).

We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.

However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.

Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:01, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

This is not a newsletter
This is just a tribute.

Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.

In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:22, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Talk:Peter O'Reilly (civil servant)/Comments
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Delete/Upmerge
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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User talk:Jchuby

You should make you page here, not as a vanity article that you started here: Joshua Michael Chubak

CobaltBlueTony 20:01, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

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Cabin John Parkway

The Cabin John Parkway is an controlled-access parkway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The parkway runs 1.50 mi from the Clara Barton Parkway in Cabin John north to Interstate 495 (I-495) in Bethesda in southwestern Montgomery County. Cabin John Parkway is a four-lane freeway that serves as a connector between the Clara Barton Parkway in the direction of Washington, D.C. and I-495 in the direction of Rockville and Silver Spring. The parkway was constructed in the mid-1960s and passes under the historic Union Arch Bridge, the longest masonry arch span in America.

Route description
The Cabin John Parkway begins at a partial interchange with the Clara Barton Parkway in the unincorporated area of Cabin John. The interchange allows access from the Cabin John Parkway to the Clara Barton Parkway eastbound and from the Clara Barton Parkway westbound to the Cabin John Parkway. Each direction of the parkway crosses Cabin John Creek before the roadways come together to pass under the Union Arch Bridge, which carries the Washington Aqueduct and MacArthur Boulevard. The Cabin John Parkway crosses Cabin John Creek again before continuing north as a four-lane freeway with a speed limit of 55 mph through a forested corridor paralleling the creek. After crossing Booze Creek, the two directions of the parkway divide toward their terminuses at I-495 (Capital Beltway) in Bethesda. The northbound direction of the Cabin John Parkway splits into single-lane ramps for northbound I-495 and I-495's interchange with Maryland Route 190 (MD 190; River Road). The southbound parkway is formed by ramps from southbound I-495 and MD 190.

The Cabin John Parkway is maintained by the Maryland State Highway Administration and has an internal designation of Interstate 495X (I-495X). Trucks are prohibited on the parkway. The Cabin John Parkway is a part of the National Highway System as a principal arterial for its entire length.

History
Construction on Cabin John Parkway began in 1962 when I-495's bridge across Cabin John Creek and the southbound ramp to the parkway was built. Work on the remainder of the parkway was underway by 1963. Cabin John Parkway opened in 1965 when the Clara Barton Parkway (then known as the Maryland portion of the George Washington Parkway) from the Cabin John interchange east to the MacArthur Boulevard interchange opened.

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Talk:List of Japanese television dramas

Votes for deletion
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Talk:Virtual device

Votes for deletion
This page was recently nominated for deletion, and the consensus decision was to keep it, merge it with another article, and/or redirect it to another article. The deletion debate is archived here. – ugen64 20:02, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Not specifically "unix-related"
This article topic is not specifically unix-related as claimed in the stub status note.

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Tom Robinson Band

Tom Robinson Band (TRB) are a British rock band, established in 1976 by singer, songwriter and bassist Tom Robinson. The band's debut single "2-4-6-8 Motorway" was a top five hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1977, and their third single, "Up Against the Wall", is seen by some as a classic punk rock single; while their debut album, Power in the Darkness (1978), is regarded as a definitive late-1970s punk album. Their song "Glad to Be Gay" is considered a British national gay anthem.

History
Tom Robinson began gigging in London in 1976. By the end of the year, he had decided to put together a permanent band. Robinson's old friend, guitarist Danny Kustow, was the first in the permanent lineup. They ran small ads in the music papers looking for a bass player and drummer. Robinson found drummer Brian "Dolphin" Taylor. The search for a bass player continued, until Mark Ambler auditioned. Some days later, Ambler mentioned he also played keyboards; he had spent many years studying piano with veteran jazz musician Stan Tracey. After listening to Ambler playing his Hammond organ Robinson realised he would have to be the bass player himself.

The band hit the club scene right in the middle of London's punk explosion. Their live shows got favourable reviews, and soon A&R men were attending many of their gigs.

EMI Records signed the Tom Robinson Band (TRB). Robinson later described this period, saying "Within nine months we'd made the transition from signing on at Medina Road dole office to Top of the Pops, Radio One, EMI Records and the giddy heights of the front cover of the New Musical Express".

TRB made leaflets and fliers about their political views and sent them to everyone who attended their gigs. They gave away badges and made up T-shirts emblazoned with the band's logo and they appeared regularly at Rock Against Racism concerts. They were joined at these gigs by the likes of The Clash, Steel Pulse and X-Ray Spex.

"2-4-6-8 Motorway" was their first single, released in late 1977, which got into the top five of the UK Singles Charts and stayed there for over a month. It was followed almost immediately by their next record, a four-song EP called Rising Free, which was recorded live at London's Lyceum Theatre in November 1977. It contained the songs "Don't Take No for an Answer", "Martin", "(Sing if You're) Glad to Be Gay" and "Right on Sister". The EP reached No. 18 in the UK Singles Charts.

In early 1978, TRB recorded their debut album, Power in the Darkness. The UK version of the LP contained all new songs, but in the US (on the Harvest label), the "2-4-6-8 Motorway" single and Rising Free record were combined for a six-track bonus EP that made the album almost a double.

Change in lineup
Power in the Darkness reached number 4 in the UK Albums Chart and won the band a gold record, and TRB were voted "Best New Band" and "Best London Band" for the year 1977 by listeners at the Capital Radio Music Awards. Keyboardist Mark Ambler left the band after recording the first album. Session pianist Nick Plytas was drafted in as a temporary replacement, and played with TRB at a major Anti-Nazi League rally in London's Victoria Park early that year.

Keyboardist Ian Parker joined as a permanent replacement for Ambler. TRB then went to Rockfield Studios in Wales to record their next album, TRB Two. When they started recording, Chris Thomas, who had produced their first album, was at the control deck. Drummer Dolphin Taylor suggested Todd Rundgren to replace Thomas. After not being able to decide which tracks should appear on the LP, the band eventually agreed to let Rundgren choose. However, when Rundgren picked two of the songs Taylor particularly disliked, Taylor decided that he would rather leave rather than play on the tracks. A day later Taylor had calmed down and offered to return, but Robinson refused, and Preston Heyman was recruited as an emergency stand-in. Heyman's picture was included on the album cover, but there was never any intention for him to join the band permanently. Taylor's eventual replacement was Charlie Morgan who had played for Kate Bush, and went on to drum for Elton John for a further fifteen years.

To support the album's release, the band went on tour, but by this point the TRB's infighting had taken its toll. When guitarist Kustow decided to quit in 1979 that was the end of TRB. Their last two gigs were in Torhout and Werchter, Belgium in 1979.

In 1989, Robinson, Kustow and Ambler put together a reunion tour with Steve Creese on drums. They played sold-out shows at the Marquee Club in London and went on for the best part of a year before splitting again.

Singles and EPs
Notes: 1 Includes post-TRB material. 2 Released as "Tom Robinson & the Voice Squad".

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Alexander Salkind

Alexander Salkind (2 June 1921 – 8 March 1997) was a French film producer, the second of three generations of successful international producers.

Life and career
Salkind was born in the Free City of Danzig to Russian-born Jewish parents, Maria and Mikhail Salkind (later Miguel Salkind). His family moved to France, where his father worked as a film producer. Following in his father's footsteps, he produced French films and others in Europe and Hollywood: Austerlitz (1960) directed by Abel Gance, Kafka's The Trial (1962) directed by Orson Welles, and 1978's Superman starring Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. Salkind's double production, The Three Musketeers (1973), closely followed by The Four Musketeers (1974), led the Screen Actors Guild to issue what became known as the "Salkind Clause", which is intended to guarantee that an acting contract for one film cannot be extended into two films without the consent of the actor. In 1985, DC Comics named Salkind as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great for his work on the Superman film franchise.

Alexander Salkind died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1997 and was buried in the Cimetière de Bagneux in the Parisian suburb of Montrouge.

Salkind's son, Ilya Salkind (b. 1947), is also a film producer.

Filmography

 * Marina (1945 – producer)
 * Soltera y con Gemelos (1945 – producer)
 * Sinfonia de una vida (1946 – producer; also known as The Symphony of Life)
 * Il moderno Barba Azul (A Modern Bluebeard) (1946 – producer; released in the U.S. as Boom to the Moon)
 * Black Jack (1950 – co-producer; also known as Captain Black Jack)
 * The Daughter of the Regiment (1953 – producer; released in Italy as La figlia del Reggimento, and in the U.S. as The Daughter of the Regiment)
 *  (1958 – producer; released in Italy as A Parigi in vacanza, and worldwide as My Darned Father)
 * Austerlitz (1960 – producer; released in the U.S. as The Battle of Austerlitz, and in Italy as Napoleone ad Austerlitz or La Battaglia di Austerlitz)
 * Romulus and the Sabines (1961 – producer; released in France as L'Enlevement des Sabines, and in Latin America as El Rapto de las Sabinas)
 * The Trial (Le Procès) (1962 – producer, uncredited; released in West Germany as Der Prozess, and in Italy as Il Processo)
 * Ballad in Blue (1965 – producer; also known as Blues for Lovers)
 * Cervantes (1967 – producer; released in the U.S. as The Life of Cervantes or Young Rebel, in France as Les Aventures Extraordinaires de Cervantes, and in Italy as Le Avventure e Gli Amori di Cervantes)
 * Hot Line (1967 – producer; released in France as Le Rouble à deux faces)
 * The Light at the Edge of the World (1971 – presenter, executive producer)
 * Kill! (1971 – producer/presenter; released in the U.S. as Kill, Kill, Kill!, in Spain as Kill: Matar, and in France as Police Magnum)
 * Bluebeard (1972 – producer/presenter; released in Italy as Barbablu, in West Germany as Blaubart, and in France as Barbe-bleue)
 * The Three Musketeers (1973 – producer/presenter; also known as The Queen's Diamonds)
 * The Four Musketeers (1974 – producer/presenter; also known as Milady's Revenge or The Revenge of Milady)
 * Folies bourgeoises (1976 – producer/presenter; released in the U.S. as The Twist, in West Germany as Die Verruckten Reichen, and in Italy as Pazzi Borghesi)
 * Crossed Swords (1978 – presenter; also known as The Prince and the Pauper)
 * Superman: The Movie (1978 – presenter)
 * Superman II (1980 – presenter; released in the U.S. in 1981)
 * Superman III (1983 – presenter)
 * Where Is Parsifal? (1983 – presenter, uncredited)
 * Supergirl (1984 – presenter)
 * Santa Claus: The Movie (1985 – presenter)
 * The Rainbow Thief (1990 – executive producer, uncredited)
 * Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992 – presenter)
 * Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006 – presenter)

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Edited Rev. Sprague

I edited the following passage:

"The pastor at church that everyone hates because he never helps with any of the problems. And he has a wife so he does not follow the law of a priest."

I did so for two reasons - I do not recall any implication in the books that Reverend Sprague was hated. The second sentence is irrelevant because all indications from the book are that the reverend is protestant.

Bonbga (talk) 20:41, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Minor Edit

I changed Huck's age from "14 years old" to "12 or 13 years old". In the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", which is set the summer AFTER the events of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Huckleberry is described as being "about 13 or 14 years old", which would imply he was one year younger at the time of the events in "Adventures of Tom Sawyer".

Source: see the chapter of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" titled "The Grangerford's Take Me in", Chapter 17. Huckleberry describes the Grangerford's son Buck as:

"Buck looked about as old as me -- thirteen or four- teen or along there, though he was a little bigger than me. He hadn't on anything but a shirt, and he was very frowzy-headed. He came in gaping and digging one fist into his eyes, and he was dragging a gun along with the other one. "

Bonbga (talk) 20:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC) ________________________ ok this is wierd

isn't huck's best friend Tom Sawyer?205.250.51.238 01:36, 25 May 2006 (UTC) Well, not in "Tom Sawyer." In "Huck Finn," perhaps. ___
 * In "Huck Finn" Huck's best friend is Tom. FerralMoonrender (MyTalk • MyContribs • EmailMe) 01:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I want to make it clear why I've changed the character's name in this page from "Nigger Jim" to "Jim." It's nothing to do with the ongoing controversy over whether the N-word is OK or not OK. It's because Mark Twain's published writings nowhere call the character "Nigger Jim". In MT's books he is called "Jim." The phrase "Nigger Jim" is a moniker bestowed by later readers and writers. It's not without historical importance but it distorts the texts to use it in listing the characters' names. -- I didn't change the Russell Baker quote because these are his own words. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.228.221.61 (talk) Wasn't Sidney Tom's cousin, not his brother? Aunt Polly's son? Grr, haven't got my copy on me to check. And wasn't there a girl as well? Sally, maybe? Miss w 04:13, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * If I remember correctly, his name was Nigger Jim, and the book was widely censored to make it just "Jim". I won't revert it until I have a straight answer, but if that's the case, then Nigger Jim it will remain.
 * In Huck Finn he is only ever called "Jim" By the way, please sign your comments.  Thanks. FerralMoonrender (MyTalk • MyContribs • EmailMe) 01:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Here is a link to the text of the book in the Gutenberg Project. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Search it and you will see that he is referred to as "Jim" throughout.  The N-word is used sometimes as an adjective, but not as part of his name like "Injun Joe".
 * It was MARY 74.237.29.31 01:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Sidney was his brother; Sally was his other aunt, who he and Huck stay with at the end of "Huck Finn" FerralMoonrender (MyTalk • MyContribs • EmailMe) 01:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Character Order
These charaters seem a, uh.. bit out of order to me; is there a reason why? FerralMoonrender (MyTalk • MyContribs • EmailMe) 04:41, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Since nobody replied, I've reordered he characters by what made sense to me. If anyone disagrees, feel free to revert/reorder them again. (Please give an explanation.) FerralMoonrender (MyTalk • MyContribs • EmailMe) 01:15, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Merge
The result was merge into List of characters in the Tom Sawyer series. -- Wassupwestcoast 13:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Propose to merge contents of Tom Sawyer into the sub-heading of Thomas Sawyer of this article. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 00:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * No comments in 7 days. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 13:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Annoying
What's really annoying is that Wikipedia has an article on Meatwad, but not Tom Sawyer, who is probably one of the most famous fictional characters in any medium. But, hey what do I know? I'm just a nameless string of numbers and dots.

64.163.222.115 05:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Actually, Meatwad doesn't get his own article. If you look, it redirects you to the "Characters" section of the ATHF article. Tom Sawyer gets a whole seperate article just for the characters in the book, ATHF doesn't have enough characters or is important enough to seperate the characters into their own article.24.254.163.150 (talk) 12:40, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Request for comment on articles for individual television episodes and characters
A request for comments has been started that could affect the inclusion or exclusion of episode and character, as well as other fiction articles. Please visit the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(fiction). Ikip (talk) 11:21, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Reference to articles on individual characters
This page should have "see main article" at the beginning of paragraphs on characters with their own page ie Jim (Huckleberry Finn) and Tom Sawyer; particularly with the latter not to be merged into this page (?) Hugo999 (talk) 11:06, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

I added the links. Bookmaven3003 (talk) 04:30, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Russell Baker's commentary on Jim
The current article on the character Jim is totally inadequate. He is one of the central characters of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but the discussion about his is limited to an out-of-context quote from a critic named Russell Baker.

What Baker said has been altered by one of the re-edits of this article. In the quote, Baker actually used the "N" word to describe Jim. Currently, the quote uses the phrase "Slave Jim" which is not an accurate quote.

However, it should also be pointed out that the phrase "N ___ Jim" never occurs in Huckleberry Finn, contrary to Baker's statement. Bonbga (talk) 21:56, 19 August 2009 (UTC) I added a parenthetical note mainly as it appears in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn article. Bookmaven3003 (talk) 03:49, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism
I have reverted a lot of unnoticed vandalism here, but I don't know for sure if I got it all. Could somebody please check? :) Thanks. Tiagoroth (talk) 05:12, 12 December 2011 (UTC)Tiagoroth

Weird bugged link
The link from the page "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer_Abroad" redirects to the vandalised version of this article, containing the notion of Mr Walters eating pupils' genitals etc. I don't why and how to repair it. Can anyone do something about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.65.62.235 (talk) 01:59, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Tom's best friend
Right now, this article 'sez', "Huck is Tom's best friend.", but then also "Joseph 'Joe' Harper is Tom's best friend.". Which one is, really? Acwilson9 (talk) 21:47, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I fixed this myself, by changing both occurences to "one of Tom's best friends". Acwilson9 (talk) 04:38, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Hbv 105.154.215.159 (talk) 14:30, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Article Title
Why is the article titled "List of Tom Sawyer characters" when is includes characters from both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn? I find the inclusion of Jim, Pap Finn, the King, and the Duke kind of confusing, since they aren't Tom Sawyer characters at all. Carlo (talk) 21:14, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

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Francis Howell North High School

Francis Howell North High School (FHN) is a secondary school located in St. Peters, Missouri, with a St. Charles postal address. The mascot of the school is Norm the Knight.

History
After Francis Howell High School alone could no longer support the burgeoning population of its part of St. Charles County in 1983, Henderson Junior High School was built on Hackmann Road on the border of the cities of St. Charles and St. Peters. Henderson was eventually expanded and the name was changed to Francis Howell North High School and began taking high school students in 1986. A third high school (Francis Howell Central) was built in 1997.

The school is named after the early settler and militia leader Col. Francis Howell, who moved to St. Charles in 1797. His brother, Lewis Howell, was an advocate for education in the area.

Athletics and activities
The Francis Howell North Knights are home to a few official athletic team State Championships, including: the 1991 wrestling team, 1995 Varsity girls soccer team, and 3 State titles in hockey. The high school's newspaper, The North Star, has earned multiple national awards. The Knightpride Marching Band, Concert Band, and Jazz Band have also competed on a national level, as has the Francis Howell North Speech/Debate team.

Notable alumni

 * Brandon Bollig – professional ice hockey player for the San Jose Sharks, Calgary Flames and the Chicago Blackhawks
 * Mark Buehrle – professional baseball player for the Chicago White Sox, Miami Marlins, and the Toronto Blue Jays
 * Hali Long – soccer player for the Philippines women's national football team

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J. B. Morton

John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton, better known by his preferred abbreviation J. B. Morton (7 June 1893 – 10 May 1979), was an English humorous writer noted for authoring a column called "By the Way" under the pen name 'Beachcomber' in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975.

G. K. Chesterton described Morton as "a huge thunderous wind of elemental and essential laughter"; according to Evelyn Waugh, he had "the greatest comic fertility of any Englishman".

Childhood
Morton was born at Park Lodge, Mitcham Road, Tooting, south London. He was an only child, and his father, Edward Morton, was a serious journalist and drama critic. He introduced Morton junior to (watered-down) wine before he went to school, and to the sons of his friend Leslie Stuart. His mother, Rosamond Bingham, died when he was 12.

From the age of eight Morton attended Park House prep school in Southborough, London. In 1907 he moved on to Harrow School and hated it. Harrow later provided the inspiration for the fictional Narkover, a school full of theft, gambling, drinking and corruption. Morton was admitted to Worcester College, Oxford but failed to win a scholarship, and had to leave after a year to support his father after a stroke.

Morton did not have an outstanding academic career, and left Oxford wanting to be a poet. His talent as a poet proved to be limited.

Early career
Quickly realising that he could not make a living from poetry, Morton found a job writing for a musical revue, until he was interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914. He enlisted as a private in the Royal Fusiliers and was sent to the trenches the following year. The battalion was disbanded in 1916 and Morton was commissioned in the Suffolk Regiment. After fighting in the Somme he was sent home with shell shock and spent the rest of the war in the intelligence service.

After the war, Morton wrote a novel, The Barber of Putney, based on his experience of life in the trenches. It was published in 1919, and the same year, he started writing for the Sunday Express newspaper. He had a weekly column which he filled with random jokes and poems, and wrote occasional essays on cross-country walking—his favourite hobby. In 1922, he was moved over to the Daily Express as a reporter, but did not enjoy straight reporting. Morton later recalled, "I remember being asked to interview the mother of a boy who'd killed someone. As I went along in the cab, I thought: 'D'you realise what you're doing?' Then I decided I couldn't go on."

Beachcomber
On 7 July 1917, the "By the Way" column first appeared on the leader page of the Express. Nothing shocking at first, it was 900 words of gossip and topical comment previously appearing under the header "Gossip of the Day". Major John Bernard Arbuthnot MVO started the new column and the 'Beachcomber' pseudonym that appeared a week later. In 1919, he was promoted to assistant editor, and D. B. Wyndham Lewis (the literary editor) took the column over. Like Morton, Wyndham Lewis had also served in the ranks in the War, and the two shared a bizarre sense of humour, as well as being fellow Francophiles. Wyndham Lewis set the surreal, comic style that was to become the column's identifying feature, and published the first collection of Beachcomber material in 1922, entitled A London Farrago.

With so much in common, when Morton moved into his cubicle they quickly became friends, and their continual banter could be heard across the top floor of the building. Thus, when Wyndham Lewis moved to the Daily Mail in April 1924, Morton was the obvious person to continue the column. He gradually lightened the tone of the humour, and introduced a range of recurring characters. Morton published his first Beachcomber collection, Mr Thake, in 1929, and 17 more collections followed over the next 30 years.

Early on, Morton wrote his column in the offices of the Express, and was known for laughing out loud and dancing after finishing each paragraph. As a day's column never took more than a few hours, and he always wrote a week in advance, his afternoons were always free for socialising. In later years, he despatched the (hand-written) column by post from wherever he happened to be at the time.

Morton viewed the Beachcomber sobriquet as a protective blanket of anonymity, and continued to enjoy this until his identity was revealed in the thirties. Drawings in the column depicted Beachcomber as a young woman, and the column was widely believed to be composed of many people's contributions. Behind this cover, Morton often indulged himself in opinionated rants about new inventions, motorists, Socialists, pretentious art, public schools, and whatever else aroused his wrath.

Under Morton's pen, By the Way continued for many years, surviving the Second World War paper shortages and consequent shrinkage of the Express to four pages. His mockery of both Nazi propaganda and British red tape was recognised as a huge contribution to morale, and Morton became a CBE in 1952. In 1965, the column was enlarged and made weekly.

The final column appeared on 29 November 1975 containing the headline "Lawnmower Used on Vet's Whiskers".

Nineteen episodes of a television adaptation of the columns, The World of Beachcomber, were produced by and shown on BBC2 in 1968 - 69. The format reflected the column in being a series of unrelated sketches with (largely) scripted inks provided by Spike Milligan. The actors included Sir Michael Redgrave and leading comedians of the time and scripts were by leading comedy writers including Barry Took.

A BBC radio programme Beachcomber by the Way, based on the column, was broadcast for 18 episodes from 1989 to 1994, with Richard Ingrams playing the voice of Beachcomber. John Wells, John Sessions and Patricia Routledge played supporting parts, in particular Wells as the impertinent questioner Prodnose forever asking Beachcomber what he meant by what he said.

Other work
Morton also wrote a few pieces on French history, in the style of his good friend Hilaire Belloc, but these were not widely read and are now forgotten. After his retirement, he started work on an autobiography, but said it would be a "boring" read and tore up his notes. Another work is SPRINGTIME: Tales of the Café Rieu, describing life on the Parisian Left Bank.

Friends and adventures
Morton fell in with J. C. Squire's circle of acquaintances. Squire was the editor of the London Mercury, and his reputation for helping young writers had caused him to accrue a posse of writers and poets, which Morton was happy to join on excursions to pubs in the area of Fleet Street. Squire's amateur cricket team is described in England, Their England by A. G. Macdonell; the exuberant character Tommy Huggins is based on Morton.

This also introduced him to Hilaire Belloc, whose second son, Peter, became a close friend until his death in 1941. Belloc was 52 when Morton met him, and looked older. Both Belloc senior and Morton enjoyed cross-country walking, and improvising songs as they walked; the three of them sailed Belloc's cutter, the Nona. Like Belloc, Morton was a Roman Catholic, and shared many of the attitudes of the Chesterton–Belloc circle.

Morton applied his love of the surreal not just to his writing but to everyday life. Walking through Guildford one day with Gerald Barry, Morton stopped at a pillar box. He talked into its opening: "Are you alright, my little man? Don't worry, we'll soon get you out." Soon, a concerned crowd gathered to see who was trapped inside. Somebody summoned the fire brigade to help, while Morton and Barry made a discreet exit. Events like this were quite frequent: on another occasion he littered Virginia Woolf's front doorstep with dozens of empty, quart-sized brown ale bottles.

Wyndham-Lewis recalls that on their first meeting, the door 'burst open' and 'a thick-set, bucolic figure, all over straw and clay, strode in and banged passionately on the floor with a thick gnarled stick uttering a roar soon known and feared in every pub on Fleet Street: "Flaming eggs! will no one rid me of this stinking town?"'.

Married life and old age
In 1927 Morton married Mary O'Leary, an Irish doctor. This put an end to his spending time with his drinking friends, and to life in London. To escape the Labour government of the late forties, the couple moved to Dublin for two years, and then to Ferring in Worthing. This moving around didn't interfere with the column, which Morton hand-wrote (never having learned to type) on sheets of blue Basildon Bond and posted to the Express. His new lifestyle did, though: Morton's writing became increasingly cynical, and he became "a gloomy little man," in the words of his illustrator Nicolas Bentley. Richard Ingrams, who edited some Beachcomber collections, and appeared as Beachcomber on BBC Radio 4, described him as "heavy-going and uncommunicative" in his later years.

The couple were happy together until Mary's death in 1974; Morton lost his job the year after. His enforced retirement was not happy, and he lived alone, eating mostly bread and jam (Morton couldn't even boil an egg). He became quite confused and spent time looking for his wife, whom he believed to be still alive. Morton eventually settled in a nursing home, but insisted on addressing all the ladies there as Mary. After his death in 1979, aged 85, his house was demolished and all his papers destroyed.

Works

 * The Barber of Putney (1919)
 * Gorgeous poetry, 1911–1920 (1920)
 * Penny royal (1921)
 * Enchanter's Nightshade (1921)
 * Old Man's Beard (1923)
 * The Cow Jumped Over the Moon: A Story (1923)
 * Hark Backward: A Sporting Novel (1929)
 * Sobieski, king of Poland (1932)
 * Maladetta (1932)
 * 1933 and still going wrong (1932)
 * Who's who in the zoo (1933)
 * Hag's Harvest (1933)
 * Tally-ho! and other hunting noises (1934)
 * Vagabond (1934)
 * The death of the dragon: new fairy tales (1934)
 * Skylighters (1934)
 * The Barber of Putney (1934, revision of 1919 novel)
 * The Bastille falls, and other studies of the French revolution (1936)
 * Gallimaufry (1936)
 * The Dauphin (1937)
 * Pyrenean; being the adventures of Miles Walker on his journey from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic (1938)
 * The New Ireland (1938)
 * Saint-Just (1939)
 * St. Martin of Tours (193?)
 * Bridge over the rainbow: a survey of humorous sketches (1940)
 * The Gascon, a story of the French Revolution (1946)
 * Brumaire, the rise of Bonaparte; a study of French history from the death of Robespierre to the establishment of the Consulate (1948)
 * Camille Desmoulins, and other studies of the French Revolution (1950)
 * St. Therese of Lisieux, the making of a saint (1954)
 * Hilaire Belloc: A Memoir (1955)
 * Springtime : tales of the Café Rieu (1956)
 * Marshal Ney (1958)

See also under Beachcomber (pen name)

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5th Dáil

The 5th Dáil was elected at the June 1927 general election on 9 June 1927 and met on 23 June 1927. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature) of the Irish Free State, are known as TDs. It was one of two houses of the Oireachtas, sitting with the First Seanad constituted as the 1925 Seanad. The 5th Dáil was dissolved on 25 August 1927 by Governor-General Tim Healy, at the advice of the President of the Executive Council W. T. Cosgrave. The 5th Dáil is the shortest Dáil in the history of the state, lasting only days.

Composition of the 5th Dáil
Cumann na nGaedheal, denoted with bullet, formed the 3rd executive council of the Irish Free State.

Graphical representation
This is a graphical comparison of party strengths in the 5th Dáil from June 1927. This was not the official seating plan.

Ceann Comhairle
On 23 June 1927, Michael Hayes (CnaG), who had been Ceann Comhairle since 1922, was proposed by W. T. Cosgrave and seconded by Thomas Johnson for the position, and was approved without a vote. On 1 July 1927, James Dolan (CnaG) was proposed by Eamonn Duggan as Leas-Cheann Comhairle. He was approved by a vote of 54 to 20.

TDs by constituency
The list of the 153 TDs elected, is given in alphabetical order by Dáil constituency.

Changes
After the dissolution of the Dáil, Independent TDs Bryan Cooper (Dublin County), John Daly (Cork East), Myles Keogh (Dublin South) and Vincent Rice (Dublin City South) joined Cumann na nGaedheal, standing for the party in the September general election.

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Gianni Rodari

Giovanni Francesco "Gianni" Rodari (23 October 1920 – 14 April 1980) was an Italian writer and journalist, most famous for his works of children's literature, notably Il romanzo di Cipollino. For his lasting contribution as a children's author, he received the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1970. He is considered as Italy's most important 20th-century children's author and his books have been translated into many languages, though few have been published in English.

Biography
Rodari was born in Omegna, a small town on Lake Orta in the province of Verbania-Cusio-Ossola in northern Italy. His father, a baker, died when Rodari was only eight. Rodari and his two brothers, Cesare and Mario (who were younger than him), were raised by his mother in her native village, in the province of Varese. After three years at the seminary in Seveso, Rodari received his teacher's diploma at the age of seventeen and began to teach elementary classes in rural schools of the Varese district. He had an interest in music (three years of violin lessons) and literature (discovered the works of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Lenin and Trotsky which sharpened his critical sense). In 1939, for a short time, Rodari attended the Catholic University of Milan.

During World War II, Rodari had a deferment from the army due to his ill health. Due to his precarious financial situation, he applied for work at the Casa del Fascio and was forced to join the National Fascist Party. Traumatized by the loss of his two best friends and his favourite brother Cesare's incarceration in a German concentration camp, Rodari joined the Italian Communist Party in 1944 and participated in the Italian resistance movement.

In 1948, as a journalist for the Communist periodical L'Unità, he began writing books for children. In 1950, the Party installed him as editor of the new weekly children's magazine Il Pioniere in Rome. In 1951, Rodari published his first books, Il Libro delle Filastrocche and Il Romanzo di Cipollino.

In 1952, he travelled for the first time to the Soviet Union, which he frequented thereafter. In 1953, he married Maria Teresa Feretti, who four years later gave birth to their daughter, Paola. In 1957, Rodari passed the exam to become a professional journalist.

Rodari spent the years 1966–1969 working intensively on collaborative projects with children. In 1970 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for children's literature, which gained him a wide international reputation as the best modern children's writer in Italian. The biennial award by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. His works have been translated into numerous languages.

In 1979, after another trip to the Soviet Union, his health, never very robust, declined and his productivity diminished. He died in Rome, following a surgical operation, in April 1980.

Works
He is perhaps best known for developing the story of Cipollino. The story of Cipollino was popular enough to have a ballet staged in the Soviet Union in 1973, composed by Karen Khachaturian and choreographed by Henrich Mayorov. Cipollino, or Little Onion, fights the unjust treatment of his fellow vegetable townfolk by the fruit royalty (Prince Lemon and the overly proud Tomato) in the garden kingdom. The main theme is the "struggle of the underclass and the powerful, good versus evil" and the importance of friendship in the face of difficulties. Rodari's works have continued to be published and re-illustrated by other authors after his death, including Nicoletta Costa.

 * Il libro delle filastrocche (“The Book of Children's Poems”, 1950)
 * Il romanzo di Cipollino (“The Adventures of Cipollino, the Little Onion”, 1951)
 * La Freccia Azzurra (“The Blue Arrow”, 1954)
 * Gelsomino nel paese dei bugiardi (“Gelsomino in the Country of Liars”, 1958)
 * Filastrocche in cielo e in terra (“Nursery Rhymes in the Sky and on Earth”, 1960)
 * Favole al telefono (“Telephone Tales”, 1962)
 * Gip nel televisore (“Gip in the Television”, 1962)
 * La freccia azzurra (“The Blue Arrow”, 1964)
 * La torta in cielo (“The Cake in the Sky”, 1966)
 * La grammatica della fantasia (“The Grammar of Fantasy”, 1974)
 * C'era due volte il barone Lamberto ovvero I misteri dell'isola di San Giulio (Twice Upon a Time there was a Baron called Lamberto or The Mysteries of the Isle of San Giulio, 1978, ISBN 88-06-01578-8)
 * Novelle fatte a macchina (“Stories written on a typewriter”)
 * Atalanta
 * Piccoli Vagabondi

Tribute
On 23 October 2020 Google celebrated his 100th birthday with a Google Doodle.

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Tommaso Ceva

Tommaso Ceva (December 20, 1648 – February 3, 1737) was an Italian Jesuit mathematician from Milan. He was the brother of Giovanni Ceva. His work aided in spreading a knowledge of Newton's discovery of the law of gravitation.

Biography
Tommaso Ceva was born into a wealthy Milanese family in 1648. After studying at the Collegio di Brera, a Jesuit college in Milan, on 24 March 1663 he entered the Society of Jesus. He taught mathematics and rhetoric at the Jesuit College of Brera in Milan for thirty-eight years. His most famous student was Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri. Under the tutelage of Ceva, Saccheri wrote his first work, titled Quaesita geometrica (Geometric Investigations, 1693). Ceva was one the main representatives of Celia Grillo Borromeo's Academia Vigilantium. Joseph I named him Caesarian Theologian early in the 18th century.

His first scientific work, De natura gravium (The Nature of Gravity, 1699), dealt with physical subjects - such as gravity and free fall - in a philosophical way. His only mathematical work, published in 1699 was the Opuscula Mathematica (Mathematical Essays), which dealt with geometry, gravity and arithmetic. Ceva designed an instrument to divide a right angle into a specified number of equal parts. His device, described in the Acta Eruditorum in 1695, won him the attention of Leibniz. This same instrument was described in 1704 by the French mathematician Guillaume de l'Hôpital.

In his Philosophia novo-antiqua (New-Ancient Philosophy, 1704) Ceva defended scholasticism against the systems Descartes and Gassendi and tried to reconcile the best of ancient and modern natural philosophy. The work comprises six dissertations, dealing with topics ranging from mathematics to cosmology and mechanics, and engages with live issues for the science of the time (Copernican theory; Descartes's physics and denial of animal souls; Gassendi's atomism). Ceva accepted Galileo's theory of motion but not his cosmology. As far as Cartesian physics is concerned, he especially criticized the identification of the essence of matter with extension. Ceva's Philosophia novo-antiqua was reissued in Wien in 1719, in Florence in 1723 and in Venice in 1732.

Ceva was also a noted poet and dedicated a significant amount of his time to this task. In the literary field Ceva shared the Arcadian reaction against marinism, and summed it up in his oft-quoted definition of poetry as ‘un sogno che si fa in presenza della ragione’ (“a dream made in the presence of reason”). His Latin poem Jesus Puer, dedicated to the Holy Roman emperor Joseph I, was translated into many languages including German and Italian. Two other collections of Latin verses, Sylvae (1699; “Woods”) and Carmina (1704; “Poems”), range over philosophic, scientific, religious, and literary subjects. Ceva was made a fellow of the Arcadia in 1718 and was in correspondence with Vincenzo Viviani and Luigi Guido Grandi. He was a close friend of the mathematician Pietro Paolo Caravaggio and his son Pietro Paolo Caravaggio junior.

His Opuscula mathematica brought him international fame and his Carmina were favourably reviewed in Acta Eruditorum. His work was highly praised by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart.

In his latter years Ceva suffered from paralysis. He died in Milan on 3 February 1737.

The Cycloid of Ceva
Prompted by the familiar "insertion" method of Archimedes, Ceva devised in 1699 a curve for trisection which was called the "Cycloidum anomalarum". The principle involved is that of doubling angles. The cycloid of Ceva has the polar equation

 * $$r=1+2\cos(2\theta)$$.

In Cartesian coordinates the equation of this curve is
 * $$(x^2+y^2)^3=(3x^2-y^2)^2$$.

To trisect the angle $$\angle ABC $$, construct a line parallel to the polar axis (the positive $$x$$ axis). Let $$D$$ be the point of intersection of the cycloid and the line. Then the angle $$\angle ABD $$ is one-third of the angle $$\angle ABC $$.

Proof: let angle $$\angle ABD $$ be $$ \theta$$ and let the point $$F$$ on the $$x$$ axis be such that $$|BE| = |EF| = 1$$. Let $$G$$ be the orthogonal projection of $$F$$ on the line $$BD$$. The angle $$\angle DEF = 2\theta$$, so $$|BG| = 1 +\cos(2\theta)$$. Since $$|BD| = 1 + 2\cos(2\theta)$$, $$|EG| = |GD|$$, $$|DF| = |EF| = 1$$. So angle $$\angle DFH $$ equals $$4\theta-\angle EFA=3\theta$$, but $$\angle DFH=\angle CBA $$.

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Richard M. Ivey

Richard Macaulay Ivey, (October 26, 1925 – December 28, 2019) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman and philanthropist.

Life and career
Ivey was born in London, Ontario, and he attended Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario. He then earned an Honours Business Administration (HBA) degree from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in 1947.

While attending UWO, Ivey was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and graduated in the same class as his successor as Chancellor, David B. Weldon. Ivey served as Chancellor of UWO from 1980 to 1984, while his father (Richard G. Ivey) had served as Chancellor from 1955 to 1961.

In 1947, Ivey and his father established the Richard Ivey Foundation, a private charitable foundation located in Toronto. It had assets of over CAD $62 million in 2002 and has given away over CAD $56 million.

In 1988, Ivey was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He was subsequently promoted twice – to Officer in 1994 and Companion in 2000.

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The Detroit Partnership

The Detroit Partnership (DP), known as The Detroit Project until 2008, is a student-run organization at the University of Michigan with the mission of connecting the Ann Arbor and Detroit communities through active service-learning. Each year, the group holds weekly programs with over 200 students volunteering as tutors and mentors in schools, churches, and non-profits in the Brightmoor, East Side, and Southwest neighborhoods of Detroit. In addition to weekly service-learning programs, the organization also holds two large events. In the fall, The Detroit Partnership partners with community members to bring a large food and clothing drive titled One-Stop Shop to the citizens of Brightmoor and surrounding areas. Also, every March or April, the group routinely brings approximately 1300 student volunteers from the University of Michigan to sites in and around the city of Detroit for a one-day service-learning event known as DP Day.

Founding
The Detroit Partnership, known as The Detroit Project until February 2008, began in 1999 as an annual community service event. The day of service was named Detroit Project Day and took place on April 8, 2000. Since then, the group has grown significantly and has successfully transformed from a single annual community service event into one of the largest organizations at the University of Michigan with nearly 1,500 total volunteers participating each year in various service projects with Detroit community organizations.

The initial idea for The Detroit Project is credited to Katie Foley, who was at the time a junior at the University of Michigan and the President of Circle K, an organization on campus dedicated to service, friendship and leadership. From her experiences in Circle K, Katie saw a lack of opportunity for UM students to participate in community service projects with the nearby Detroit community, and, along with fellow UM student Sara Rowe, met with numerous Detroit community organizations to develop projects and events that would be most beneficial to both the Detroit community and UM students.

The organization began its work in the Brightmoor neighborhood of northwest Detroit, an area known both for its strong community network and largely impoverished conditions. Thus, the first DP Day, held on April 8, 2000, saw over 400 UM volunteers work at 32 different sites in Brightmoor planting trees and grass seed, cleaning parks, and demolishing abandoned homes, among other projects. In time for the 2000-2001 academic year, The then-Detroit Project retained Katie Foley as a returning Senior, and recruited a leadership team capable of growing the organization.

Expansion and Renaissance
The DP, as it became known in Ann Arbor, steadily grew in its second year. Several smaller 'one-time events', similar to DP Day in many ways, were carried out throughout the year. Still, however, the focus remained on the large service day. The second DP Day, in March 2001, had over 1400 students register and is still considered the largest ever.

By 2004, The Detroit Project had grown to include weekly volunteering efforts involving over 20 programs and 100-150 volunteers - metrics the organization has maintained through 2010. In Brightmoor, DP programs expanded into more organizations and made several lasting and special relationships. This led to The DP's inclusion into an enduring neighborhood coalition called the Brightmoor Alliance.

One such important relationship was with Pastor Albert Rush at the West Outer Drive United Methodist Church (WODUMC). In 2005, Pastor Rush partnered with The DP for the first time to hold the 1st Annual One-Stop Shop at his Church. This, The DP's second large-scale event, entails the collection of food and clothing in both Ann Arbor and Detroit, extensive effort at organization and sorting of the donated goods, and, finally, the set-up of a department store "atmosphere" in the basement of WODUMC. On the day of the event, interested community members are offered a personal shopper as an aide navigating the aisles.

Having establishing a strong model for service-learning partnerships in Brightmoor, The Detroit Partnership expanded its efforts into Southwest Detroit in 2004. The DP has built strong partnerships with a number of community organizations and schools in this united and culturally vibrant neighborhood. Current service projects specific to the area include adult education, ESL, and work on immigration issues. In 2006, DP Day included sites in this neighborhood for the first time.

After years of success The DP had evolved as an organization, and many of its student leaders felt unfulfilled with the specific nature of much of the organization's original language and vision (first in 2006, earlier by various individuals). Thus, on February 20, 2008, The Detroit Project officially changed its name to The Detroit Partnership to better reflect the organization's movement from an organization concentrated on one-sided service events (such as DP Day, where volunteers went en masse to work on projects to which they have never returned) to the development of programs and service learning through more intimate, and longer-lasting community partnerships (i.e. weekly programs). This shift did not mean an abandonment of large-scale service projects or DP Day, however, it did encourage a new frame and focus on most of the group's events. Ultimately, from the perspective of a student volunteer, this focus encouraged education and self-reflection throughout continual commitment (see Service Learning Ideology below).

By 2013, the Detroit Partnership consistently provides over 30 weekly service-learning programs with approximately 230 weekly volunteers.

Recent

The Detroit Partnership's 10th annual DP Day took place on March 28, 2009. Over 1000 volunteers from three Universities (University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Wayne State University), over 30 community organizations, and the surrounding neighborhoods joined together to participate in service-learning projects. The keynote speaker at the DP Day 2009 rally was Detroit Mayor Kenneth Cockrel, Jr.

On April 3, 2010, the second-largest DP Day (per registered volunteers) to date occurred. 1248 individuals volunteered for the event, including individuals representing Wayne State University and several Ann Arbor High Schools. The keynote speaker for the DP Day 2010 rally was to be John Conyers Jr., the longtime representative of Michigan's 14th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Unfortunately, due to dangerous weather conditions, DP Day 2010's outdoor rally was cancelled and Congressman Conyers was not able to speak.

Weekly Programs have continued in full force with roughly 150 to 200 volunteers making it to Detroit each week. A related initiative, a DP-wide Education Team, was fully functioning by 2007. This section of the organization (see others under organization), champions Education efforts on the University's campus. Activities facilitated by the Ed Team often include seminar speakers, discussion chats, and food expos to name a few.

The Detroit Partnership is currently approved for government-recognized, non-profit, 501(c)3 status.

DP Day 2013 took place on March 23, 2013; DP Day 2014 took place on March 29, 2014. The speakers at the latter year's rally included Lloyd Carr.

In May 2013, the organization added an Eastside team to its weekly programs. Its first programs will run in the Fall 2013 term.

DP Day 2015 took place on March 28.

Mission statement
On February 24, 2010, The Detroit Partnership's official mission statement was amended to include the ideals of multiculturalism and social justice. This represented an additional shift in the organization's philosophy and kept in line with The DP's recent renaissance attitude, especially with the official adoption of a social justice theme. Changes were made to the mission statement again in 2015. The current mission statement reads as follows:

"We, The Detroit Partnership, seek to unite the University of Michigan and Detroit by working alongside community partners in the city. As a student-run, registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, we strive to raise awareness, challenge stereotypes, and promote social justice through our service-learning programs and educational events."

Service learning ideology
As stated in the mission statement, The Detroit Partnership believes strongly in the virtues of service learning. There is no one definition to service learning, however, it is best described as service work combined with an intentional education component.

The Detroit Partnership's focus entails:
 * Establishing and maintaining partnerships with organizations in Detroit, in order to develop structured opportunities for DP members to serve in a variety of capacities.
 * Reciprocal and meaningful relationships with organizations and individuals in Detroit.
 * An opportunity at educational and personal growth by giving DP members' proper context for their service. Our education includes various subjects including Detroit history, sociological concepts, current events, urban issues, and effective methods of change.
 * Providing an environment that encourages members to reflect on their service in order to further assess their experience. Reflection facilitates self-discovery, encourages thoughtful questions, and challenges patterns of thinking and stereotypes.

According to The Detroit Partnership's interpretation of these ideologies, the combination of the above goals will result in effective service learning that best serves their partner organizations and university members alike. From a volunteer participant's perspective, the organization maintains that the growth and benefit of DP members should ideally be a byproduct of their service - not the motivation behind their efforts - in order to truly achieve the benefits of service learning.

Organization
The Detroit Partnership currently comprises eight teams. Each team has a director in charge of that area's organization and duties. The DP as a whole is led by an executive director who is charged with being the face of the organization both on campus and in the community.

Teams are normally composed of between 6-8 members in addition to their director. Collectively, the seven teams create the larger Planning Team of around 50 members. The Planning Team meets once-a-week and works towards the large-scale goals of the organization. All individuals that give their time in The DP programs at some point throughout the year are considered volunteers.

List of Executive Directors

 * 1999–2001: Katie Foley
 * 2001–2002: Sandeep Jani
 * 2002–2003: Catie Baetens
 * 2003–2004: Jonathan Gleicher
 * 2004–2005: Evan Major
 * 2005–2006: Jignesha Patel
 * 2006–2007: Cristina Johnson
 * 2007–2008: Tom Szczesny
 * 2008–2009: Ashley Fotieo
 * 2009–2010: Neil Thanedar
 * 2010–2011: Andrew Bahena
 * 2011–2012: Cassie Basler
 * 2012–2013: Kristin Beharry
 * 2013–2014: Samantha Edwards
 * 2014–2015: Talia Gerstle
 * 2015–2016: Alyssa Setting
 * 2016–2017: Jamie Bahoura
 * 2017–2018: Amol Carvalho
 * 2018–2019: Kevin Sweitzer
 * 2019–2020: Lynn Chen

Community partners
Currently, the DP partners with the following schools and organizations:

 * The Brightmoor Alliance
 * West Outer Drive United Methodist Church
 * Cesar Chavez Middle School
 * Gompers Elementary School
 * Burt Elementary School
 * Webster Elementary School
 * Neinas Elementary School
 * Murphy Middle School
 * Vetal Elementary School
 * Harding Elementary School
 * Brightmoor Community Center
 * Grandmont/Rosedale Development Corporation
 * Greening of Detroit
 * Michigan Urban Farming Initiative
 * Motor City Blight Busters
 * Northwest Detroit Neighborhood Development, Inc.
 * Trinity Development Center
 * Wellspring Center
 * Latin American for Social and Economic Development (LA SED)
 * Alternatives for Girls
 * Shurly Family Learning Center
 * St. Christine Christian Services
 * St. Vincent Sarah Fisher Center
 * Village of Shiny Stars
 * Public Art Workz
 * All Saints Neighborhood Center
 * Woodbridge Community Center
 * Resource Community Development Corporation

Notable DP Day speakers

 * Kwame Kilpatrick, then mayor of Detroit
 * Kenneth Cockrel, Jr., then mayor of Detroit
 * Lloyd Carr, former Michigan football coach
 * Mark Schlissel, president of the University of Michigan

Awards and honors (2000–10)
Community Service Award - Center for Campus Involvement
 * Awarded in 2014

Ally Award - Center for Campus Involvement"
 * Awarded in 2013

Ginsberg Center (at The University of Michigan) Outstanding Community Impact Award
 * Awarded in 2010

University of Michigan Outstanding Student Organization Award
 * Awarded in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009

University of Michigan Program of the Year: Detroit Project Day
 * Awarded in 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011

Michigan State Legislature - Special Tribute
 * Awarded to the Detroit Project on April 25, 2007 by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and State Representative Gabe Leland

LeaderShape Palmer Award and Scholarship, 2000
 * Awarded to Katie Foley for founding DP

Circle K International First Place Single Service Award
 * Awarded to Detroit Project Day

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This page was recently nominated for deletion, and the consensus decision was to keep it, merge it with another article, and/or redirect it to another article. The deletion debate is archived here. – ugen64 20:07, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Per the somewhat inconclusive discussion on VfD, I have redirected this article to Quark. That article already has more information, and under the Standard Model just about anything we have to say about quarks is true of antiquarks (albeit sometimes with opposite sign.) --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 23:22, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

For the purposes of clarity this page should be restored because the Quark page does not give a simple explanation of the differences between quarks and antiquarks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.4.195.149 (talk) 07:05, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I agree, it should be restored. Got myself here for the fact, there is no explanation of difference between quark and anti-quark.--84.242.71.76 (talk) 15:19, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

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UWF Heavyweight Championship

The UWF Heavyweight Championship was the premier title in the Universal Wrestling Federation owned by Bill Watts. When Mid-South Wrestling Association changed its name to the UWF, the Mid-South North American Championship was retired and a tournament was held to crown a new UWF Heavyweight Champion. When Jim Crockett Promotions purchased the UWF, the title was defended in Crockett for a while and was then retired.

It should not be confused with the UWF Heavyweight Championship that was defended in the Universal Wrestling Federation promotion owned by Herb Abrams. That title and promotion began several years after Watts' promotion was sold.

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Digitaria

Digitaria is a genus of plants in the grass family native to tropical and warm temperate regions but can occur in tropical, subtropical, and cooler temperate regions as well. Common names include crabgrass, finger-grass, and fonio. They are slender monocotyledonous annual and perennial lawn, pasture, and forage plants; some are often considered lawn pests. Digitus is the Latin word for "finger", and they are distinguished by the long, finger-like inflorescences they produce.

Uses
The seeds are edible, most notably those of fonio (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua), Digitaria sanguinalis, as well as Digitaria compacta. They can be toasted, ground into a flour, made into porridge or fermented to make beer. Fonio has been widely used as a staple crop in parts of Africa. It also has decent nutrient qualities as a forage for cattle.

Lawns
The prevalent species of Digitaria in North America are large crabgrass (D. sanguinalis), sometimes known as hairy crabgrass; and smooth crabgrass (D. ischaemum). These species often become problem weeds in lawns and gardens, growing especially well in thin lawns that are watered lightly, under-fertilized, and poorly drained. They are annual plants, and one plant is capable of producing 150,000 seeds per season. The seeds germinate in the late spring and early summer and outcompete the domesticated lawn grasses, expanding outward in a circle up to 30 cm in diameter. In the autumn when the plants die, they leave large voids in the lawn. The voids then become prime areas for the crabgrass seeds to germinate the following season.

Biological control is preferable over herbicide use on lawns, as crabgrass emergence is not the cause of poor lawn health but a symptom, and it will return annually if the lawn is not restored with fertilization and proper watering. Crabgrass is quickly outcompeted by healthy lawn grass because, as an annual plant, crabgrass dies off in autumn and needs open conditions for its germination the following spring.

Selected species

 * Digitaria ammophila (Benth.) Hughes – silky umbrella grass
 * Digitaria bicornis (Lam.) Roemer & J.A.Schultes ex Loud. – Asian crabgrass
 * Digitaria brownii (Roem. & Schult.) Hughes – cotton panic grass
 * Digitaria californica (Benth.) Henrard – Arizona cottontop
 * Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler – summer grass, southern crabgrass
 * Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg. – fall witchgrass, Carolina crabgrass, mountain hairgrass
 * Digitaria compacta (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) Veldkamp
 * Digitaria cruciata (Nees) A. Camus
 * Digitaria ctenantha (F.Muell.) Hughes – comb finger grass
 * Digitaria didactyla Willd. – Queensland blue couch
 * Digitaria divaricatissima var. macractinia (Benth.) Heather L.Stewart & N.G.Walsh
 * Digitaria eriantha Steud. – pangolagrass, Smuts finger grass, woolly finger grass
 * Digitaria exilis (Kippist) Stapf – white fonio
 * Digitaria filiformis (L.) Koeler – slender crabgrass
 * Digitaria gracillima (Scribn.) Fernald – longleaf crabgrass
 * Digitaria horizontalis Willd. – Jamaican crabgrass
 * Digitaria iburua Stapf – Black fonio
 * Digitaria insularis (L.) Fedde – sourgrass
 * Digitaria ischaemum (Schreb.) Schreb. ex Muhl. – smooth crabgrass, small crabgrass, smooth finger grass
 * Digitaria longiflora (Retz.) Pers. – Indian crabgrass
 * Digitaria milanjiana (Rendle) Stapf – Madagascar crabgrass
 * Digitaria nuda Schumacher – naked crabgrass
 * Digitaria pauciflora Hitchc. – twospike crabgrass
 * Digitaria platycarpha (Trin.) Stapf
 * Digitaria petelotii Henrard
 * Digitaria radicosa (C.Presl) Miq. – trailing crabgrass
 * Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop. – hairy crabgrass, large crabgrass
 * Digitaria seriata Stapf – Sandveld fingergrass
 * Digitaria setigera Roth ex Roemer & J.A.Schultes – East Indian crabgrass
 * Digitaria serotina (Walt.) Michx. – dwarf crabgrass
 * Digitaria stenotaphrodes (Nees ex Steud.) Stapf
 * Digitaria texana A.S.Hitchc. – Texas crabgrass
 * Digitaria velutina (Forssk.) P.Beauv – velvet crabgrass
 * Digitaria villosa (Walt.) Pers. – shaggy crabgrass
 * Digitaria violascens Link – violet crabgrass

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Lecher

Lecher may refer to:

People

 * Dr. Berek Lajcher (also spelled Lecher, 1893–1943), Jewish physician and Holocaust resistance leader
 * Ernst Lecher (1856–1926), Austrian physicist
 * Ernst Bacon (Ernst Lecher Bacon, 1898–1990), American composer
 * Otto Lecher (1861–1939), Austrian politician

Other uses

 * Lecher, a person with a very strong, perhaps excessive, sexual desire, called lechery
 * Lecher line, a device for measuring radio wavelengths

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