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SlimVirgin edit
SlimVirgin made a massive edit here.

SlimVirgin began editing at 15:11, inserted the "in use" tag at 16:42, removed the tag about 2 hours later, and then did her last edit at 18:38. Each individual diff is given here:

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16:42 "in use" tag

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18:13 "in use" tag removed

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Duckecho and I both protest this massive edit on the talk page.

in this one diff, SlimVirgin simultaneously says There has been no massive edit while chastizing me you just reverted a couple of hours of copy editing.

I revert her edits.

After SlimVirgin's edit was reverted, SlimVirgin posted this ''If you feel I've introduced errors, please list them on talk, and I will go through them with you. But do list them. Don't make unsubstantiated claims.''

The entire conversation on the Talk page is contained in this diff, starting from SlimVirgin's first post to my last post. Duckecho and myself both posted many, many problems we had with SlimVirgin's edit. She did not conceed on a single point.

The list of issues with SlimVirgin's edits include the following:

- regarding this diff: The embedded note that USED to be there said:

''<-- This paragraph is a direct quote from Dr. Bernat's testimony before the U.S. Senate in April 2005. Dr. Bernat's testimony was approved by the AAN Executive Committee. The two links provided document the testimony and the AAN approval.--> ''

SlimVirgin deleted this embedded note, and then inserts into the same paragraph, an embedded note questioning the accuracy of the quote.

''<--Is this true? I seem to recall a case in England where a man woke up after a long time in PVS.--><--What levels of "prognostic certainty"?: ''

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"During this time, the Schindlers allegedly encouraged Mr. Schiavo to get on with his life, and he introduced them to women he was dating."

inserting the word "allegedly" might be technically not untrue, it casts a whole lot of doubt without any context. This statement about dating was reported by a guardian ad litem to the court. It is the guy's job to get the facts right, not present one pov. I can't recall, but I'm prety sure the guardian ad litem did not use the word "allegedly" in his report. and as far as I know, the Schindlers never challenged that statement at the time, either. Though I believe they may have challenged it much (years?) later, when they were willing to challenge anything possible. There's a URL right by that line with an embedded note saying <-- quoting from page 11 of 38 of Wolfson report -->, in case anyone was wondering where the "alleged" statement came from.

- ''The noise awoke Michael Schiavo, and he called 911 emergency services. <--I'm deleting "immediately" wherever I find it, because it's journalese and usually unverifiable, not because I think it wasn't immediate.-->"''

Govorner Bush launched an investigation specifically into whether or not Michael called 911 "immediately" or whether there was foul play on his part. The DA recently dropped the investigation saying Michael's story was consistent and that the cause of Terri's collapse was probably cardiac arrest.

- "(PVS), according to seven neurologists who examined her, or a minimally conscious state (MCS), according to one other."

The dissenting neurologist suggested "therapies" that the court dismissed as quackery. If this neurologist is included in the intro, then his diasnosis as MCS needs to include the fact that his therapies are questionable. -

Before: ''In March 1994, guardian ad litem John H. Pecarek was appointed by the court to determine if there had been any abuse by Michael Schiavo. Pecarek's report found no evidence for any inappropriate actions, and indicated that Michael had been very attentive to his wife. <--Do not remove Pecarek's statement. It is quoted in several court orders and GAL reports, however Pecarek's report is unavailable on the internet. -->''

SlimVirgin's Edit: ''In March 1994, guardian ad litem John H. Pecarek was appointed by the court to determine whether there had been any abuse by Mr. Schiavo. Pecarek's report found no evidence of any inappropriate acts, and indicated that Mr. Schiavo had been attentive to his wife. <--attentive? did he actually use this word?-->Mr. Schiavo remained his wife's guardian.<--Might it be worth explaining the sense in which he remained her guardian when there were court-appointed guardians?-->''

an informative embedded note is deleted (the one saying the statement from Pecarek is QUOTED in several court orders but NOT available directly on the internet). And it is replaced by a question of accuracy "Did he really use that word?"

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Before: ''Other neurologists — Drs. Jeffery M. Karp, James H. Barnhill, and Thomas H. Harrison — also examined Mrs. Schiavo over the years and made the same diagnosis; they also shared a very poor opinion about her chances for recovery.''

SlimVirgin Version: Other neurologists — Dr. Jeffery M. Karp, Dr. James H. Barnhill, and Dr. Thomas H. Harrison — also examined Schiavo over the years and made the same diagnosis, which entailed a poor prognosis.

changed the emphasis on the second half of the sentence from "all shared the opinion of poor chance for recovery" to "Terri's chances for recovery were poor", but it's no longer clear that this is something that all the doctor's believed.

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Neuroscientist posted a good, detailed response to some problems he had with SlimVirgin's edit here.

- Despite this laundry list of problems, SlimVirgin has NOT ONCE conceeded that there is ANY PROBLEM with ANY PART of SlimVirgin's ENTIRE EDIT.

SlimVirgin accusations
SlimVirgin made a number of unsourced accusations on the talk page against me

- SlimVirgin wrote "But I feel that FuelWagon and Duckecho are POV pushing too by insisting, for example, that no dissenting voice be heard in the intro."

Although I told SlimVirgin I never said any such nonsense, SlimVirgin has to date not apologized for such a gross distortion of facts. FuelWagon 21:19, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

- SlimVirgin wrote ''It appears that a small group of editors, currently consisting of User:FuelWagon and User:Duckecho have taken ownership of this page and won't allow others to edit without their consent. This isn't allowed.''

This was in response to SlimVirgin's massive edit, discussed above with all its problems. I reverted SlimVirgin's edit because of all the problems listed above. And rather than admit it's a bad edit, SlimVirgin accuses me of "taking ownership" of the article. Fixing a bad edit === ownership???? FuelWagon 21:54, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

No acknowledgement of this accusation being false, misplaced, or otherwise misdirected has been forthcoming. FuelWagon 21:54, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

- Here, SlimVirgin accuses me of violating NPOV and "No Original Research".

Neither one of which were something I violated. I haven't acted neutral towards SlimVirgin, but I am not neutral towards any edit that makes the article worse. I have been completely NPOV towards the article. And I have no clue where the "No Original Research" violation came from. SlimVirgin seemed to be throwing hand grenades at this point.

No apology from SlimVirgin has been forthcoming. FuelWagon 22:00, 12 July 2005 (UTC) - another unsourced accusation from SlimVirgin is here: ''Thank you Fuelwagon, I know what PVS is. The prognosis is always poor, but at the beginning it's more hopeful than after months and years. You're arguing now for the sake of it.''

However, the article contains a quote from the American Neurological Association which describes PVS: ''The prognosis for recovery of awareness in PVS has been quantified, and, in general, the prognosis depends on the cause and duration of PVS. It is worse after cardiac arrest and after a long duration of PVS. Patients remaining in PVS for greater than three months after cardiac arrest have only a slight chance of recovery of awareness. Recovery of awareness is unprecedented after two years. With head injury causing PVS, the times necessary to show these levels of prognostic certainty are one year and five years, respectively.''

Therefore, depending on the patients condition, the chance of recovery could be slight or unprecedented, which means SlimVirgin's assertion that "the prognosis is always poor" is outright wrong.

I wasn't arguing for the sake of arguing, the edit made by SlimVirgin was wrong. The argument made by SlimVirgin to defend SlimVirgin's edit was a gross oversimplification.

No correction from SlimVirgin has been forthcoming.

- After Neuroscientist posted his list of issues with SlimVirgin's edit, SlimVirgin replied to Neuroscientist with this.

SlimVirgin mentions that prior to coming to the article, SlimVirgin got the impression of bullying or system-gaming on Duckecho's part. So SlimVirgin came to the article with prejudice.

SlimVirgin accused Duckecho and myself of being "two editors taking control of edits".

SlimVirgin defended her edits explaining "I decided to try to improve the page, at least by getting the sources sorted out," however, she never explains why she deleted the embedded notes with source information, rather than rolling them into the article.

SlimVirgin once again accused that "FuelWagon and Duckecho began blind reverting". Apparently, the laundry list of problems listed above constitutes "blindness" on my part.

SlimVirgin then accuses Neuroscientist: "I don't appreciate the personal comments you've lobbed at me." No such comments were made by Neuroscientist.

I'm starting to get the distinct impression that we're dealing with a persecution complex. SlimVirgin accuses everyone of launching personal attacks against SlimVirgin if the editor does not wholeheartedly agree with SlimVirgin's edits.

Administrator tag team
20:18, 20 June 2005 :: Ed Poor announces on talk page that mediation page for Terri Schiavo article has been set up.

19:08, 11 July 2005 :: FuelWagon performs first revert of SlimVirgin's edit here.

Approximately 20 posts are made to Terri Schiavo talk page by SlimVirgin and FuelWagon here, culminating in Ed Poor making his first appearance on talk page since almost a month.

20:58, 11 July 2005 :: A stern warning from Uncle Ed'' here.

 * ''May I suggest that parties to the mediation avoid making any "reversions"? Moreover, an Edit Summary like "revert to last version by Stanselmdoc" doesn't really sum anything up.
 * Our mediation seems to have stalled. Your choices at this point are (1) fire me, or (2) return to the Mediation. I've never failed yet, but if you feel I have failed you, say so. Don't just sneak away.

 * A month of silence from Ed Poor, and 20 posts after SlimVirgin gets her edit reverted, Ed Poor shows up with a "stern warning" defending SlimVirgin.

18:06, 12 July 2005 :: SlimVirgin declares I'm therefore withdrawing from editing this article, I hope only temporarily, until I decide whether it's appropriate to approach this as an admin, or whether to pursue dispute resolution as an editor.

21:02 :: Ed Poor blocks me three hours after SlimVirgin withdraws, after Ed Poor himself had made only one appearance on teh talk page in a month.

21:29, 12 July 2005 :: FuelWagon makes an edit to talk page here (half an hour after being blocked)

21:41, 12 July 2005 :: SlimVirgin: ''Ed, regarding your block at 21:12 of, he's continuing to edit with the same user account despite the block. See his contribs and particularly his comment here. '' posted on Ed Poor's talk page

 * So, not only is SlimVirgin AWARE that I have been blocked less than half an hour after it occurred, but SlimVirgin is monitoring my edits after the block and mistakes my post to my own talk page as a problem with the block, and then reports the "problem" to Ed Poor.

05:59, 13 July 2005 :: Neuroscientist posts a rather long, detailed list of problems with SlimVirgin's edit here. It is over 5,000 words long and goes into a lot of the neurological-related issues surrounding the Terri Schiavo case.

15:46, July 13, 2005 : Ed Poor responds to Neuroscientist here:

 * There is a fine line between making personal remarks, and criticizing someone's contributions to Wikipedia. I hope you will read Avoid personal remarks. Please be careful not to hurt other editors' feelings with comments like:
 * *this User demonstrated very, very, very poor judgment by doing what she did.
 * *the 12,000-edit administrator who doesn’t seem to have learned ... do not be reckless.

 * out of 5,000 words of technical problems with SlimVirgin's edits regarding neurologically-related stuff, Ed comments on 28 words. No mention is made of any of the factual errors listed by SlimVirgin. Oh, the "dont be reckless" is an admonishing from wikipedia itself. I'm trying to figure out when you can say "don't be reckless" about an edit and when it becomes a violation of "no personal attacks".

17:05, 13 July 2005 :: SlimVirgin just posted this in response to a new feature which allows blocked editors to edit their talk page. (cough).

 * I'm not keen on this feature, though I appreciate Ed had the right idea in asking for it, because it helps people to communicate and it keeps it off the mailing list. The downside is that we now have talk pages turning into obsessive diatribes against the blocking admin, or against the editors involved in the dispute that led to the block, not a good thing to be on the receiving end of.

Ed Poor posts this reply on SlimVirgin's talk page.

 * You made a very good point, Slim:
 * obsessive diatribes against the blocking admin, or against the editors involved in the dispute that led to the block, not a good thing to be on the receiving end of
 * Can we deal with this by then (1) giving them a clear No personal attacks block and then (2) protecting their talk page? (If we had to continue talking about the block - everyone but them of course - we could do it on an unprotected subpage.)

I am currently blocked
SlimVirgin made a massively bad edit and a number of false accusations against me.

I swore at SlimVirgin on the talk page, mostly when SlimVirgin accused me of something I didn't do, or put words in my mouth that I never said. Oh, or when SlimVirgin deleted informative embedded notes and replaced them with embedded questions that would have been answere by the original embedded note. Yeah, I swore on the talk page, but I never accuse someone of something they didn't do without apologizing. Pick your poison.

Viriditas asked me to tone it down, so I went through and removed any cuss words. Viriditas then asked me to take out EVERYTHING that wasn't directly related to an edit on the main article. I was about to do that when I discovered I had been blocked from wikipedia for 'unrepentent personal attacks' by Uncle Ed. Uncle Ed has no email, so there is no way for me to contact him.

For SlimVirgin's efforts at bad editing and false accusations, SlimVirgin is currently active.

SlimVirgin also happens to be an administrator, which, apparently has its perks, not the least of which is never having to say your sorry for unrepentant bad edits or unrepentant false accusations.

I'll let everyone know when I'm back online.

The current blocked list is here.

FuelWagon 22:07, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

interesting edit
SlimVirgin at 18:06, 12 July 2005 declares I'm therefore withdrawing from editing this article, I hope only temporarily, until I decide whether it's appropriate to approach this as an admin, or whether to pursue dispute resolution as an editor. here

from Blocked List, Ed blocked me on 21:02, 12 July 2005

I make an edit to my talk page Revision as of 21:29, 12 July 2005 here

Revision as of 21:41, 12 July 2005 by SlimVirgin: ''Ed, regarding your block at 21:12 of, he's continuing to edit with the same user account despite the block. See his contribs and particularly his comment here. '' posted on Ed Poor's talk page

in short:

18:06 :: SlimVirgin declares "I'm withdrawing as an editor to decide if I want to approach this as an admin".

21:02 :: Ed Poor blocks me.

21:29 :: I post to my talk page

21:41 :: SlimVirgin is not only aware that I had been blocked a mere half hour prior, but has been tracking my contribs and sees me posting on my own talk page and complains to Ed Poor.

And I just gotta wonder how much back-channel communication goes on between admins. Hey, SlimVirgin, did you know I got blocked because you were the one who requested it? Hey, Ed, did my attempts to tone down my posts by taking out the swear words really qualify as "unrepentant"?

The official policy on Wikipedia says: users should not block those with whom they are currently engaged in conflict.

Ed Poor
Your user name or IP address has been blocked by Ed Poor.

You can email Ed Poor or one of the other administrators to discuss the block.

ok, click on email Ed Poor

This user has not specified a valid e-mail address, or has chosen not to receive e-mail from other users.

(swell)

administrators info
Administrator abuse

Administrators can be removed if they abuse their powers. Presently, administrators may be removed either at the decree of Jimbo Wales or by a ruling of the Arbitration Committee. At their discretion, lesser penalties may also be assessed against problematic administrators, including the restriction of their use of certain powers. The technical ability to remove administrator status rests with the stewards.

Dealing with grievances

If you think an administrator has acted improperly against you or another editor, you should express your concerns directly to the administrator responsible. Try and come to a resolution in an orderly and civil manner. However, if the matter is not resolved between the two parties, you can take further action according to Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. There have been a number of alternative procedures suggested for the removal of sysop status but none of them have achieved consensus.

 * OKEY DOKEY. Let's see how that goes. I just sent the following email to SlimVirgin: FYI: I've been blocked by Uncle Ed. The list of problems in your edit and the list of false accusations you made against me on the Terri Schiavo talk page are listed on my personal talk page. FuelWagon 03:26, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Hm, so far, not so good. I sent the email on 3:26, and this shows that SlimVirgin has made 11 different edits over the last couple hours since I sent the email, none of which have anything to do with the email. Although, it is possible that her email is separate from wikipedia, and she checks it rarely. Will check again tomorrow. FuelWagon 06:56, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * As of 07:04, SlimVirgin is online and has posted to Terri Schiavo/Talk here, denying any wrong doing at all, and accusing Neuroscientist of making personal attacks for disagreeing with her edit. I have received no email response from SlimVirgin, and SlimVirgin has posted no reply on my talk page.

 * This just in, an email received from SlimVirgin. In reply to my email above, SlimVirgin replies, in entirety:
 * Did you have a question or a particular issue you want to raise?
 * A non-answer. It forwards nothing, acknowledges nothing, admits nothing, and conveniently ignores every single problem listed above. FuelWagon 18:57, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Administrator Perks
I'm starting to get the distinct impression that one major perk of being an administrator is never having to admit you're wrong, never having to admit you made a bad edit, and NEVER having to apologize for your behaviour.

 * Please list admin errors, bad edits, and misbehavior here. I will look into it for you. (By the way, I make errors every day, including bad edits, and have had to apologize quite frequently.) Uncle Ed 10:55, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, then here's one for you Ed. Viriditas asked me to tone it down, so I went through and removed any cuss words   . Viriditas then asked me to take out EVERYTHING that wasn't directly related to an edit on the main article. I was about to do that when I discovered you had blocked me from wikipedia for 'unrepentent personal attacks'. If I'm in the process of cleaning up my posts, how exactly does that qualify as "unrepentant"? My intention was to whittle my stuff on the talk page to only issues directly related to problems with SlimVirgin's edits. Since I was blocked before I could do that, I have posted that list of problems here on my talk page. There are no personal attacks in the above text, just the specific factual problems with SlimVirgin's edit. Unless "this is what's wrong with SlimVirgin's edit" qualifies as a violation of "No Personal Attacks", then this page should qualify as "attack free". FuelWagon 13:58, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

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Tissues and Issues

Tissues and Issues is the fifth studio album by the Welsh singer Charlotte Church released by Sony BMG UK in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2005 and by Daylight Records and Epic Records in the United States on 12 July 2005. The album debuted on the UK Albums Chart at number five and was accredited platinum by BPI for sales over 300,000. The album yielded Church four successful top twenty singles; "Crazy Chick", "Call My Name", "Even God" and "Moodswings (To Come at Me like That)".

The album represents a whole new direction for the singer. Her previous album, Prelude, a 'best of' album, had ended her classical career; Tissues and Issues is her first ever pop album.

The first single to be taken from the album, "Crazy Chick", released shortly before the album itself, reached number two on the UK Singles Chart. "Call My Name", the second single, reached number ten in October 2005. "Even God", the third single, debuted in the Top 20 in early December 2005. The fourth single, "Moodswings (To Come at Me like That)", was released on 27 February 2006, and peaked at number fourteen on the UK charts.

Tissues and Issues is Charlotte Church's second and final album with Sony Music UK.

Track listing
Notes
 * 1) When "Even God" was released as a single on 12 December 2005, the name was changed to "Even God Can't Change the Past".

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Byron Allen

Byron Allen (born Byron Allen Folks on April 22, 1961) is an American businessman, film and television producer, and comedian. He is the founder of the U.S. media company Entertainment Studios, which has interests in television production, broadcasting, film production, and digital media.

Born in Detroit and later moving to Los Angeles, he initially pursued a career in stand-up comedy. After an appearance on The Tonight Show, Allen began to expand into television work, including becoming a host for NBC's Real People. In 1993, Allen established what would later become known as Entertainment Studios.

Early life and education
Allen was born in Detroit, growing up there until 1968 when he moved with his mother after her divorce to Los Angeles. His interest in show business began during his childhood when he accompanied his mother, Carolyn Folks, to NBC Studios in Burbank (where she worked as a publicist).

At age 14, Allen put together his first stand-up routine and began appearing on amateur night at comedy clubs throughout the Los Angeles area. Allen attended high school at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles and college at the University of Southern California.

Professional career
Comedian Jimmie Walker saw Allen's stand-up act and invited the 14-year-old comedian to join his comedy writing team alongside promising young comedians Jay Leno and David Letterman. In 1979 at the age of 18, Allen made his television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, becoming the youngest comedian to ever perform on the show; he used the appearance to learn more about the television industry.

Following his appearance on The Tonight Show, NBC cast Allen as a reporter for its series Real People—his first role on a network prime time program. Allen co-wrote and co-starred in the 1988 CBS television film Case Closed, hosted the syndicated late-night talk show The Byron Allen Show from 1989 to 1992, and toured as an opening act for musicians such as Dolly Parton, Gladys Knight, Lionel Richie, and The Pointer Sisters.

In 1993, Allen established a production company known as CF Entertainment, which would be devoted to producing low-cost non-fiction television programming; its first program would be the syndicated talk show Entertainers with Byron Allen, which featured interviews between Allen and celebrities. The interviews were filmed at hotel press junkets for upcoming films, allowing him to produce the show at a relatively low cost by leveraging equipment set up by the studio for use by the media. Allen distributed the program under a bartered model, in which it would be offered to stations at no cost, with revenue sharing on advertising sales. The business model was not initially successful, resulting in Allen's home facing multiple foreclosures, and at one point losing telephone service—requiring him to conduct business via a payphone.

The company was renamed Entertainment Studios in 2003. In 2012, Allen began forays into scripted programming with the sitcoms The First Family and Mr. Box Office. Later in the decade, Entertainment Studios began to pursue various acquisitions, including film distributor Freestyle Releasing, TheGrio, The Weather Channel, an equity stake in Sinclair Broadcast Group's acquisition of the Fox Sports Networks, and broadcast television stations. By October 2022, the company was valued at over $4.5 billion.

In February 2022, Allen made a bid to buy the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. Allen was ultimately outbid by a group led by S. Robson Walton.

In January 2024, Allen made a $14.3 billion bid for Paramount Global. In April 2023 he had unsuccessfully bid about $18.5 billion for the company per an unnamed source familiar with the situation. Also in 2023, Allen had made an unsuccessful bid of about $3 billion for Paramount’s BET Media Group.

Awards
In 2018, Allen was selected for the Bloomberg 50 as one of "the people in business, entertainment, finance, politics, technology and science whose 2018 accomplishments were particularly noteworthy".

He was also selected for the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs at the Goldman Sachs Builders & Innovators Summit 2018, and he was honored by The Salvation Army and the Los Angeles Metropolitan advisory board at the Salvation Army's 11th annual Christmas Kettle luncheon.

In January 2019, Allen was a recipient of National Association of Television Program Executives's 16th Annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards, presented during the annual NATPE Miami Marketplace & Conference. Allen received the 2019 Whitney Young Award at the 46th annual Los Angeles Urban League Awards dinner.

In February 2023, the African American Student Union of the Harvard Business School presented Allen with its inaugural "Legendary Honor".

Personal life
Allen married TV producer Jennifer Lucas in 2007. The couple have three children. Allen is on the Motion Picture & Television Fund Board of Governors.

Allen has residences in Aspen, Maui, Los Angeles, and New York City. In 2022, he bought a two-home compound in Beverly Hills, California from Jeffrey Skoll for $22 million, and a mansion in Malibu, California, previously owned by Tamara Gustavson for $100 million.

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Rocha (surname)

Rocha is a Portuguese language surname. It literally means “rock” or “boulder” in Portuguese; for instance, “rochas sedimentares, metamórficas e magmáticas” means “sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks”. It is also a topographic surname that is found in Portugal as “da Rocha” or simply Rocha, literally, "one who is from/of the rock". It could also be a Jewish-Portuguese Sephardic surname.

People with the surname

 * Alicia de Larrocha, pianist
 * Alvany Rocha, mathematician
 * Antônio Cavilhas Rocha, Brazilian chess master
 * Carlos Eduardo Rocha, mixed martial artist
 * Chuck Rocha, US political strategist
 * Coco Rocha (born 1988), Canadian supermodel
 * Dardo Rocha, an Argentine 19th-century politician
 * Diogo Rocha (tennis), Portuguese tennis player
 * Elian Rocha (born 2000), Brazilian curler
 * Evaristo Rocha, President of Nicaragua in 1839
 * Geraldo Rocha Pereira, Brazilian footballer
 * Glauber Rocha, Brazilian filmmaker
 * John Rocha, Hong Kong born fashion designer
 * Juan Ramon Rocha, Argentine footballer-manager and former Panathinaikos FC player
 * Kali Rocha, American actress
 * Luis M. Rocha, Portuguese-American scientist
 * Manuel Rocha, Colombian-American diplomat and Cuban agent
 * Martha Rocha (1932–2020), Brazilian model
 * Red Rocha (1923–2010), American basketball player and coach
 * Ricardo Rocha (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Paulo Rocha (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Roberto Carlos da Silva Rocha (born 1973), a Brazilian footballer more commonly known as Roberto Carlos
 * Simone Rocha, an Irish fashion designer
 * Vagner Rocha, mixed martial artist
 * Zack de la Rocha, lead singer of the band Rage Against the Machine

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The Hits/The B-Sides

The Hits/The B-Sides is a box set by American recording artist Prince. It was released on September 10, 1993, by Paisley Park Records and Warner Bros. Records. The album is a comprehensive three-disc set consisting of many of his hit singles and fan favorites.

Album information
Discs one and two were released separately, under the titles The Hits 1 and The Hits 2 respectively, but The B-Sides disc could only be obtained by purchasing the full set. The separate Hits discs and the full set were all released on the same day. Most of the songs (A-side and B-sides) on The Hits/The B-Sides are represented in their edited single form. Exceptions to this were "Alphabet St.", "7", "Little Red Corvette", "Sexy MF", "Let's Go Crazy", and "Purple Rain". This compilation marks the first time the single version of "Kiss" was made available on CD. The third disc of B-sides also featured the 7-inch edits, with the exceptions of "200 Balloons", "17 Days", "Gotta Stop (Messin' About)", "Horny Toad", "Irresistible Bitch", "I Love U in Me", "God", and "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" which were all original full-length recordings from the original singles.

Among the previously unreleased material was the rare live version of "4 the Tears in Your Eyes", only previously released in a 1985 TV broadcast for the Live Aid concerts. Also included was a live version of "Nothing Compares 2 U", recorded live January 27, 1992, at Paisley Park with the New Power Generation. The other four new tracks were outtakes. The oldest track was "Power Fantastic", a moody ballad once considered for the Dream Factory project of 1986. Another ballad, "Pink Cashmere", was broadcast before some of the Lovesexy World Tour shows, dating it back to 1988 originally for his abandoned Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic project. "Peach" was regularly played on the Act I Tour (1993) and "Pope" was played live during some 1993 after shows. "Pope" was actually in the short-lived musical ballet Glam Slam Ulysses, which also spawned several songs later released on Come, The Gold Experience and Crystal Ball. Live jams of "Peach" often extended into the title track of Chaos and Disorder.

Commercial performance
In the United States the album debuted at number 19 on the Billboard 200 the week of October 2, 1993, with more than 87,000 copies sold combining the two abbreviated versions, Hits 1 and Hits 2; the last two debuted at numbers 46 and 55, respectively, the same week. The next week, the album dropped to number 32 on the chart. It was present on the chart for 18 weeks.

The week following Prince's death, the album sold 40,000 equivalent copies (24,000 in pure album sales) thus allowing the album to re-enter the Billboard 200 at number 6. The next week it sold 106,000 units and hit a new peak of number four on the chart. The album was certified platinum by the RIAA on September 14, 1993, for shipments of one million.

As of April 2016 Hits 1 has sold 1,451,000 copies and Hits 2 sold 1,738,000 units according to Nielsen SoundScan, combined, they sold over 3,189,000 copies in the United States.

In the United Kingdom the album debuted and peaked at number four the week of September 25, 1993, the next week it fell off to number 12 and remained on the chart for 18 weeks. Hits 1 debuted and peaked at number five on September 25, 1993, while Hits 2 opened at number six the same weeks and two weeks later it reached and peaked at number five. The Hits/The B Sides was certified gold by the BPI on July 22, 2013, denoting shipments of 100,000 units.

Track listing
All songs performed by Prince, except where noted.

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Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek (born April 10, 1942) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.

Biography
Dybek, a second-generation Polish American, was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and early 1960s. He graduated from St. Rita of Cascia High School in 1959 and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has an MA in literature from Loyola University Chicago.

Often compared to Saul Bellow and Theodore Dreiser for his unique portrayal of setting and landscapes, Dybek is "among the first writers of Polish descent (who write about the ethnic self) to receive national recognition."

After teaching for more than 30 years at Western Michigan University, where he remains an Adjunct Professor of English and a member of the permanent faculty of the Prague Summer Program, Dybek became the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Northwestern University where he teaches at the School of Professional Studies.

Work
Dybek's two collections of poems are Brass Knuckles (1979) and Streets in Their Own Ink (2004). His fiction includes Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, I Sailed With Magellan, a novel-in-stories, Paper Lantern: Love Stories, and Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories. His work has been anthologized and has appeared in magazines such as Harper's, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Triquarterly.

His collection, The Coast of Chicago, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and cited as an American Library Association Notable Book of 2005. A story from I Sailed With Magellan, titled "Breasts," appears in the 2004 Best American Short Stories.

Dybek was a participant in the Michigan Writers Series at Michigan State University, where he read from his work.

Awards
Dybek's awards include a Lannan Prize, a PEN/Malamud Award (1995), a Whiting Award (1985), a Guggenheim fellowship, and an O. Henry Award. Dybek was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship on September 25, 2007.

Poetry collections
Pelligro

Short stories and essays

 * "Prayer" | X-1 Experimental Fiction Project | The Smith: 1976 | 49-52

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Album cover to the 1978 KISS/Ace Frehley album, Ace Frehley. Obtained from amazon.com.

Fair use rationale Ace Frehley (album)
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: --cholmes75 (chit chat) 19:58, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) It is a low resolution copy of a CD album cover.
 * 2) The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
 * 3) The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original CD album.
 * 4) It illustrates educational articles about the album from which the cover illustration was taken.
 * 5) The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of topics in the article
 * 6) It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

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Scientific classification (disambiguation)

Scientific classification is a practice and science of categorization.

Scientific classification may also refer to:
 * Chemical classification
 * Mathematical classification, construction of subsets into a set
 * Statistical classification, the mathematical problem of assigning a label to an object based on a set of its attributes or features

Biology

 * Taxonomy (biology)
 * Alpha taxonomy, the science of finding, describing and naming organisms
 * Cladistics, a newer way of classifying organisms, based solely on phylogeny
 * Linnaean taxonomy, the classic scientific classification system
 * Virus classification, naming and sorting viruses

Astronomy

 * Galaxy morphological classification
 * Stellar classification


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/How to make a smoking pipe from an apple

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 11:40, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

How to make a smoking pipe from an apple
A how-to, and not an extraordinarily useful one--I'm not sure wikibooks would want this. Delete. Meelar (talk) 20:33, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Not nonsense, but certainly useless, and far from encyclopedic. --Blu Aardvark | (talk) 20:44, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - I believe this is a rough attempt to recreate content done away with at Votes for deletion/Apple bong. -- BD2412 talk 23:32, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per BD2412--nixie 04:29, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not encyclopedic. JamesBurns 08:55, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete – Kpalion (talk) 12:15, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Ceci n'est pas un delete. Radiant_ >|< 12:20, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not a how-to guide, even for useful techniques which I've utilized when resources were scarce. Barno 14:43, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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User talk:Allynnc

Welcome to Wikipedia. I appreciate your interest in the automobile articles, and look forward to your future contributions. I edited your Datsun Sports content, however, as it was a bit too enthusiastic - see NPOV for more. Also, note that Sports Car International Top Sports Cars is a list of cars compiled by a magazine, not our own personal opinions on the topic. Please drop by WikiProject Automobiles and join our effort! --SFoskett 20:33, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Why I reverted your changes to ARPANET and History of the Internet
While I use Wikipedia as an easy reference, I recognize that most of it was written or edited by youngsters that were not there. I am already on social security plus other retirements so I guess I do not insist on accuracy on the history of the ARPANET. Professors and others that depend on their "inventions" and "written word" freely publish from their protected ivory towers and modify history to suit themselves. The youngsters that were not there then read this one sided documentation and believe they are verifying facts when they are simply adding credibility to the ivory tower viewpoints. To heck with fact. Do I really care? Not really. But, in fact I did write a requirement in 1968 for computers to talk to each other as if they were one big computer. In fact, at least part of the ARPANET effort and some of the funding were to support my requirement. PC's growth from computer nerds to office tools came from my requirements in 1979. IBM PCs became the computer of choice simply because I did not have to justify sole source. That led to millions of PCs linked with email, shared databases etc. across the government and government related industry. Yes, the Commodore and Mac were better computers with much more existing software with almost nothing written for IBM, but I would have had to justify one over the other so I picked IBM compatible because IBM had given up the PC chase and released their specs so anyone could manufacture them, negating my need to justify a brand. Another reason for picking IBM compatibles was so we could have multiple manufacturers building parts and completed computers. In my opinion Commodore and Apple could not have manufactured them fast enough. Except for justifying a brand I would have picked Commodore because at that time it was better than the Mac. However, that is all old history. If you were to check the government DESKTOP 2,3,4 requests for proposal, I had to approve them before they went out for bid because Desktop One did not meet my specific specifications that they be IBM compatible. Destop One was the Zenith 100 aka Heathkit but assembled and delivered to the government. Over 1 million IBM PCs purchased to my specifications drove IBM compatibles to the top of the heap where they have stayed. Much of the early PC software was written to my specs also. Actually, the government created a lot of the early software in house and freely distributed it to industry. ORACLE was written for the CIA but the user interface was largely written for me originally on the VAX then a reduced PC version. See ORACLE history, 1981 (called RDMS by some). In 1985, we had ORACLE working with a VAX acting as server, but the users operating on the IBM compatible PCs (see Oracle history 1985) We paid only $15.000 per year for several years to pay for software development, the entire ORACLE software package, their travel to visit with me, and all the mailing of beta versions every 2-3 weeks. Not to take anything away from ORACLE. They were the only company that had a reasonable product that they could modify to work the way I wanted a database to work. My dream was to have a monster database across all the government computers where someone (authorized) could pull up any government data. In theory I could build a report to pull data from all government branches and industry for use in planning. I could prevent duplication of effort by being able to see all DOD R&D programs, etc. That fell apart when I left the field in 1989. The DOD, FBI, State, etc are still operating independently. Too many people want to keep their domain private to make themselves more important. They don't want to share their data.

Do I care that Wikipedia is wrong? Not really. But knowing that some information is misguided makes everything questionable. I am fully retired now, so I'm just having fun. However, I am a little concerned that software and hardware progress has slowed tremendously since I got out of the office arena in 1989. I was still in electronic research and development until August 2007, but the office computer industry has nearly stalled. Too bad.

--allynnc (talk) 17:39, 24 July 2008 (UTC)Al Clark, Lieutenant Colonel and civil servant, retired,

Hello:

Sorry I had to revert your additions to this pages, but I am quite familiar with all the major published sources on the history of the Internet (Hafner, Abbate, etc.), as well as most of the online ones, and I have never heard of the bizarre theory you articulated. And yes, I am aware that the Air Force Office of Scientific Research has published a lot of declassified reports about ARPANET research, and I have read quite a number of them.

I ran a few Google searches and no historians have posted any indication that Air Force general Albert Clark had anything to do with Internet development. If his role was so important, it is quite likely by now that someone would have posted at least one reference to offline proof of his involvement. After all, it has become routine for teenagers and college undergraduates to do reports on the history of the Internet for their history classes.

If you know of a particular declassified report or memorandum that explicitly mentions Albert Clark and substantiates his involvement, please post a full citation, and then feel free to reinsert your assertions. Otherwise, if you have no proof, or the only proof you know of is still classified, I'm afraid your theories will have to stay off Wikipedia because of the No original research policy. --Coolcaesar 01:53, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

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How about the paperwork presenting government cash awards annually for office automation from 1980-1989? It might be possible to dredge up some from the 1960's

The government does not usually publish in magazines nor can a government employee copyright an idea or software developed as part of the job. Some of the proof would be in cash awards given to Albert Clark over the years that specifically mention the initiatives. He was not a "General", but a high level working stiff that created the ideas and presented his cases to generals and worked through the bureaucracy of getting permissions, money, assembling systems analyists and contract programmers to execute those ideas. You would be naive to think a general would specifically do anything other than support or reject an idea. Generals don't do, they decide what or not. In return he was given a few hundred dollars per year extra for annual awards. Came in the top 4 for a national government-industry award once, but the judges did not believe computers would ever be used by non-computer professionals. Not much fanfare, no real credit, but does that make it false.

How about a user guide written by him in the 1979 timeframe? Most people were using key punch cards and batch reports when his team was producing interactive software being used and shared nationwide by non-computer professionals.

As an example of the academicians' history, take NCSA Mosaic (TM), copyright 1993. Whoops, I regularly carried a copy with me in the late 1980's in case a government computer did not have it installed. Mosaic is listed as the base software under Netscape and MS Internet Explorer under "Help" and "About...". You won't find that on the official pages about Mosaic.

 * Huh? Mosaic (web browser) clearly mentions both uSoft and Netscape, and Abbate's book mentions the Netscape connection too.

-Going the wrong way. Mosaic pre-dated Netscape by a long way. Just go to Netscape or MSIE, click on help, chick on about, and there is the tribute to Mosaic. Plus, I was there. If you look at the webpages on Mosaic they claim invention long after I was a user and freely distributing copies.

 * Anyway, getting back to Albert Clark, I'm afraid anything as late as 1979 was in no way notable; use of interactive systems was quite wide-spread by then (although not ubiquitous).

-I'm am well aware of interactive systems being in use. The difference is adding thousands of ordinary government employees to a formal interactive system for the conduct of day to day non-computer related business. Prior to that time, at least in the government, computers were key punch cards fed in by computer professions who printed out batch reports.

Any material dating to the 1960's would be of considerably more interest, though. Not that it will necessarily produce any great change in the histories; I don't think his work was significant to the ARPANet people, who were going along the path laid out quite a few years earlier by J. C. R. Licklider, and, AFAIK, knew nothing of Clark's work.

- I don't know as AFAIK existed in the 60's. Certainly no one working there now. My documentation shows that Clark did not go through formal computer request processes. He defined a need through the management side who took action to build a system that became the ARPANET.

- As far as Licklider, I read some of his stuff around 1960-1966, not sure when. I read of lot of other science fiction so I know the idea was mainstream future. Might seem increadible to someone younger, but in 1960 they were predicting computer controlled automobiles that would follow wired highways by 1984...didn't happen...still waiting. People were playing chess against computers in the 1950's. His funding priorities really helped though. It was R&D money looking for a home. The money was close to being taken away by Congress when the requirement for computers to share data came to DARPA. Army computer talking to Air Force computer, perfect. (Army is the main driver of DARPA and involving AF made it a joint service project). Use the money to pay for University study and software programming, perfect. Quick response to immediate problem, perfect. Who gets the credit? The person with no idea but influence to get money or the guy with the idea to apply the money.

I encourage you to obtain a read a copy of Lick's excellent biography (The Dream Machine, Mitchell Waldrop) which covers the early period (from the later 50's onward) in great detail. Noel (talk) 22:47, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

- I just love how people come along long after the fact and try to document things that happened before they were born. The Dream Machine copyright is 2001. History should be written by people that were there that have nothing to gain financially.

Just a note
Articles have to consist of more than an external link--see Stubs for more info on writing good, but short, articles, even if you don't know much about the topic. Best wishes, Meelar (talk) 18:29, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

 * I've been looking through your contributions, and many of your articles are unformatted and hard to understand. Why not look at some featured articles to see how the articles should be formatted and written? Best wishes, Meelar (talk) 18:36, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

Well, there are a number of reasons. First of all, there's the problem of link rot. Secondly, texts on other sites probably aren't under a free licence like the GFDL. Thirdly, it's much more useful for WP readers to have an article on this site. Fourthly, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia--it should have articles on these, and having a red link at least alerts other editors that something needs to go there. In general, the article namespace is for articles only. Best wishes, Meelar (talk) 19:37, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thank you for that. You might also want to include a few wikilinks at the beginning of your articles, and remember to start them with a sentence like "Foo is a bar from Barsville", or something of that sort--people should immediately grasp what the article is about. Best, Meelar (talk) 19:57, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for created Findlater Castle, the article I requested at Template:Opentask. And welcome to Wikipedia! Warmest regards --Neutralitytalk 21:58, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

GM Minivans
Hi, I was wondering if you would support me in the discussion to keep the GM minivans separate, rather than merge them with the Chevrolet Lumina APV and Chevrolet Venture articles. I'd really appreciate your help ans support. -Bavaria 17:36, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Important WikiProject Automobiles Discussion
Hello! As a WikiProject Automobiles member, I just thought you might want to input your opinions on an important discussion we're currently having about whether articles regarding similar vehicles should be merged into one or split by brand. If you would like to comment or read further, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Automobiles. Thank you in advance for your thoughts and feedback. Airline 23:16, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Automobiles Notification
Hi Allynnc, you were on the list of members at WikiProject Automobiles and we are introducing a new way of listing members, as the old list was becoming too long. Our new method involves having all of our members in a category.

To add yourself to the category just add the userbox to your user page by putting   where you want the userbox. Alternatively if you don't like the userbox you can add   to your userpage.

If you no longer wish to be a member of the project, simply don't add the userbox or category, there's no pressure. Thanks for your time, James086Talk 04:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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Humanist Party (Chile)

The Humanist Party (Partido Humanista) is a universal humanist, progressive, and left-wing political party in Chile, founded in 1984. The party is a member of the Humanist International.

In December 1990, Laura Rodríguez became the first elected representative of any Humanist Party in the world after winning a seat as part of the Concertación coalition, after Augusto Pinochet handed over power.

At the 2001 legislative elections, the party won 1.1% of the vote but no seats.

For the 2005 presidential elections, the Humanist Party was a member of the coalition Juntos Podemos Más (Together We Can Do/Achieve More). Their presidential candidate Tomás Hirsch won 5.4% of the vote in a 4-way race between Michelle Bachelet, Sebastián Piñera, and Joaquín Lavín in the 2005 elections. He polled 4th place and therefore did not make the runoff.

On 12 March 2013 they selected economist and university professor Marcel Claude as their candidate for the 2013 presidential election.

Since 2017, the Humanist Party was part of the Broad Front, a new political coalition. Their presidential candidate was Beatriz Sánchez who won 20.3% of the votes, finishing in 3rd place; additionally, three deputies from the party were elected: Tomás Hirsch, Pamela Jiles and Florcita Alarcón.

The party was dissolved in February 2022 because it did not receive at least 5% of the votes in the 2021 parliamentary elections to maintain its legality. Its members in the Chamber of Deputies thereafter sat as independents. In October 2022, the party was able to re-register in the Chilean electoral service.

Presidential candidates
The following is a list of the presidential candidates and referendum options supported by the Humanist Party:
 * 1988 plebiscite: "No" (win)
 * 1989: Patricio Aylwin (win)
 * 1993: Cristián Reitze (lost; 5th place)
 * 1999: Tomás Hirsch (lost; 4th place)
 * 2005: Tomás Hirsch (lost; 4th place)
 * 2009: Marco Enríquez-Ominami (lost; 3rd place)
 * 2013: Marcel Claude (lost; 5th place)
 * 2017: Beatriz Sánchez (lost; 3rd place)
 * 2020 plebiscite: "Approve" (win)
 * 2021: none
 * 2022 plebiscite: "Approve" (lost)

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Southwaite Services

Southwaite services is a motorway service station, between junctions 41 and 42 of the M6 motorway near Southwaite, Cumbria, England. It is about 7 mi south of Carlisle, within the civil parish of Hesket

It is operated by Moto (it was owned and operated by Esso when the northbound base opened in 1972). A southbound base was added in 1977. Esso later sold the services to Granada. For a time in the 1990s the service area was briefly renamed Carlisle.

Southwaite has entrances from both the northbound and southbound carriageways of the motorway, and there are facilities built on both sides. A pedestrian footbridge connects the two sections of the service area. Both sides have a Burger King restaurant, WHSmith, M&S Simply Food and a Costa Coffee. The south side also has a Travelodge.

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Tacuarembó Department

Tacuarembó is the largest department of Uruguay and it is part of its northern region. Its capital is Tacuarembó. It borders Rivera Department to its north and east, the departments of Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro to its west and has the river Río Negro flowing along its south border, separating it from the departments of Durazno and Cerro Largo.

History
The first division of the Republic in six departments happened in 1816. Two more departments were formed later in that year. At that time, Paysandú Department included all the territory north of the Río Negro, which included the current departments of Artigas, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro. On 17 June 1837 a new division of Uruguay was made and this territory was divided in three parts. In the new division, the Tacuarembó Department included also the actual department of Rivera, until it was split from it in 1884.

Geography
The south borders of the department are delimited by Río Negro, which, as a result of the dam near Paso de los Toros along its course, forms the Rincón del Bonete Reservoir, also called the Gabriel Terra Reservoir. With a surface area of about 4000 sqmi, it is the largest reservoir in South America. Tributary streams and rivers to the Río Negro, from east to west are: Río Tacuarembó with its many tributaries, Arroyo de Clara with its tributary Arroyo del Sarandí, Arroyo Malo with its tributaries Arroyo Rolón and Arroyo Guaviyú. Into the Rincón del Bonete Reservoir discharge the streams Arroyo Carpintería, Arroyo Laureles, Arroyo Achar, Arroyo del Tigre Chico and Arroyo Cardoso.

Part of the western border of the department with if formed by Arroyo Salsipuedes Grande, which discharges further downstream the Río Negro, into the Rincón de Baygorria Reservoir. A tributary of this stream is Arroyo Salsipuedes Chico.

Tributaries of Río Tacuarembó flowing through most of the north of the department, from east to west, are: Arroyo Caraguatá with its tributaries Arroyo Coronilla, Bañado de los Cinco Sauces and Bañado del Turupí, Arroyo Yaguarí with its tributaries Arroyo Carpintería and Arroyo Cuaró, Arroyo Zapucay, Arroyo Cuñapirú, Arroyo Laureles which also forms part of the northern border of the department, Arroyo de las Cañas, Arroyo Tacuarembó Chico with its tributaries Arroyo Tres Cruces, Arroyo Tranqueras and Arroyo Batoví, and Arroyo Veras. A small lake named Laguna Paolino forms on the west side of Arroyo Yaguarí near Ansina.

Along the west border of the department runs the hill range Cuchilla de Haedo, forming the hills Cerro de las Minas, Cerros de Batoví, Cerro Charrúa and Cerro Lambaré. Further to the west is also the hill Cerro del Ñandubal.

Demographics
As of the census of 2011, Tacuarembó Department had a population of 90,053 (male and female) and 37,647 households.

Demographic data for Tacuarembó Department in 2010: 2010 Data Source:
 * Population growth rate: 0.786%
 * Birth Rate: 16.69 births/1,000 people
 * Death Rate: 8.21 deaths/1,000 people
 * Average age: 31.1 (29.7 male, 32.4 female)
 * Life Expectancy at Birth:
 * Total population: 76.17
 * Male: 71.70
 * Female: 81.32
 * Average per household income: 21,854 pesos/month
 * Urban per capita income: 8,844 pesos/month

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Treinta y Tres Department

Treinta y Tres is a department of Uruguay. Its capital is Treinta y Tres. It is located in the east of the country, bordering the departments of Cerro Largo to the north, Durazno and Florida to the west, Lavalleja and Rocha to the south, while to its east is the lake Laguna Merín separating it from the southernmost end of Brazil. With a total population of 50,504, it is the second-least populated department in Uruguay (ahead of Flores) and the third-least densely populated, behind Durazno and Flores.

History
The area now known as the Treinta y Tres Department has been long populated by Indigenous peoples as evidenced by Cerritos de Indios.

When the First Constitution of Uruguay was signed in 1830, the territory of this department was mostly part of Cerro Largo, one of the nine original departments of the Republic. In 1853 the pueblo (village) of Treinta y Tres was created in its south. It was named after the thirty three honoured patriots who fought for and secured the Independence of the old Provincia Oriental, which became Uruguay. A permanent service of transport by horse-drawn carts between this pueblo and Montevideo was first established in 1866.

On 18 September 1884 and by the Act of Ley No 1.754, the department of Treinta y Tres was created out of parts of the departments of Cerro Largo and Minas (the actual Lavalleja Department).

Geography
The terain of Treinta y Tres is practically flat, with the west having the highest attitude and the east being flat. Cuchillas (blades) are small undulating hills that dominate the western portion of the department.

Treinta y Tres is home to the first national protected area in Uruguay, the Quebrada de los Cuervos.

Treinta y Tres does contain a large number of rivers, streams, and lagoons. The most prominent river is the Cebollatí River, which has the Olimar River as a tributary. The importance of these rivers in both agricultural use as well as drinking water gives rise to the name of the inhabitants of the department, "Olimareños". Other important rivers the Tacuarí River.

Demographics
As of the census of 2011, Treinta y Tres department had a population of 48,134 (23,416 male and 24,718 female) and 21,462 households

Demographic data for Treinta y Tres Department in 2010: 2010 Data Source:
 * Population growth rate: -0.158%
 * Birth Rate: 13.80 births/1,000 people
 * Death Rate: 9.15 deaths/1,000 people
 * Average age: 33.7 (32.7 male, 34.6 female)
 * Life Expectancy at Birth:
 * Total population: 75.97 years
 * Male: 72.16 years
 * Female: 79.90 years
 * Average per household income: 23,122 pesos/month
 * Urban per capita income: 8,994 pesos/month

Tourism
A notable natural landmark is the Quebrada de los Cuervos, 44 km east of the capital city.

Notable people

 * Luis Antonio Hierro López - former Vice President of Uruguay
 * Luis Hierro Gambardella - former Minister, Senator and Deputy
 * Luis Hierro - former Deputy
 * Wilson Elso Goñi, former politician
 * Eustaquio Sosa - poet and musician
 * Pedro Leandro Ipuche - writer
 * José Sasía - footballer
 * Darío Silva - footballer

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Larry Ewing

Larry Ewing is an American computer programmer who is known as the creator of the Linux mascot, Tux. The artwork was created in 1996,  while Ewing was a student at Texas A&M University, originally as a submission for a contest to create the Linux logo. Though Ewing's submission didn't win, his artwork was adopted as the Linux "brand character". Ewing also created the Ximian and Mono monkey logos and is involved in:

 * F-Spot: a project aiming to "manage all your digital photography needs."
 * GtkHTML: a fast and dirty HTML renderer and editor used in several free software projects.
 * Novell Evolution: a mailer, a calendar and a contact manager, all in one.
 * GIMP: an image manipulation program.
 * Moonlight: an open source implementation of Silverlight for Unix systems.
 * Mimekit: A C# MIME creation and parser library with support for S/MIME, PGP, TNEF and Unix mbox spools.
 * .NET Foundation: an independent organization, incorporated to improve open-source software development and collaboration around the .NET Framework.

He lives in Austin with his wife Kristy and his daughters Eva and Hazel.

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Steve Almond

Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966) is an American short-story writer, essayist and author of ten books, three of which are self-published.

Life
Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California, graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School and received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. He spent seven years as a newspaper reporter, mostly in El Paso and at the Miami New Times.

Almond lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with his wife and three children.

Literary work
Almond's 2014 book Against Football, which documents his growing disillusionment with American football, derived from two pieces written for The New York Times. Almond's second book, Candyfreak (2005) was a New York Times Best Seller and won the American Library Association Alex Award and was named the Booksense Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year.

Almond's books have been published in half a dozen foreign countries and translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, and Croatian. He has published more than 150 stories in magazines such as Tin House, Playboy, Zoetrope, and Ploughshares. His story "Donkey Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched" was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2010 and has been optioned for film by Spilt Milk Entertainment.

Two of his stories were published in The Pushcart Prize. His essays and journalism have appeared in venues such as The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Poets & Writers, and Real Simple. His stories and essays have appeared in dozens of anthologies. Almond also reviews books for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times. He regularly teaches at GrubStreet in Boston, at the Sanibel Writer's Conference, and the Tin House Writer's Conference.

Teaching
Almond teaches non-fiction to fellows in the Nieman Fellowship program, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Political activities
Almond served as adjunct professor in creative writing at Boston College for five years until publishing an open letter of resignation in The Boston Globe on May 12, 2006, in which he explained that his resignation was intended to protest the selection of Condoleezza Rice as the college's 2006 commencement guest speaker. He later appeared on the Hannity & Colmes show on Fox News to discuss his decision. Almond is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine's Riff section, and to the literary website The Rumpus, where he writes frequently about the intersection of morality and politics titled "The Week in Greed." Almond's January 2023 interview with Laura Ingraham in support of Against Football abruptly ended after he made an unwelcome comparison between the economic pressure on Fox that forced Ingraham to apologize for a tasteless tweet to the economic pressure needed on owners to make professional football safer for players.

Self-publishing
After a decade of working with traditional publishers, Almond has self-published three books in recent years and become an outspoken advocate of self-publishing, which he has written about extensively in the Los Angeles Times, Poets & Writers, and The Rumpus.

Almond was a contributing writer to Alarm Clock Theatre Company's Elliot Norton Award-winning play PS Page Me Later based on selections from Found Magazine.

Radio and podcast
Almond is a regular correspondent on NPR's Here & Now and on WGBH, both based in Boston. On October 27, 2011, Almond appeared as a guest on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron. Almond also hosted a live interview podcast series with Hallelujah the Hills band leader Ryan Walsh entitled "This Has Been A Disaster – Thanks For Having Us." Almond co-hosted the Dear Sugars podcast for four years with Cheryl Strayed.

Short stories

 * My Life in Heavy Metal, Atlantic/Grove; Random House UK; Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch Germany, Fokus Komunikacije Croatia, 2002
 * The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories, Algonquin Books, 2005
 * God Bless America: Stories, Lookout Books, 2011
 * Writs of Passion, DIY or Die Press, 2013.

Nonfiction

 * Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America, Algonquin Books, 2004.
 * (Not That You Asked) Rants, Exploits and Obsessions, Random House, September 11, 2007.
 * Letters from People Who Hate Me, DIY or Die Press, self-published with Espresso Book Machine, 2010.
 * Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, Random House, 2010.
 * This Won't Take But a Minute, Honey, self-published.
 * Bad Poetry, DIY or Die Press.
 * Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto, Melville House Publishing, 2014.
 * Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country, Red Hen Press, 2018.
 * William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life: Bookmarked, Ig Publishing, 2019.

Fiction

 * All the Secrets of the World, (Zando, 2022)

Coauthor

 * Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions (with Julianna Baggott), Algonquin Books, 2006

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Gunnar Stålsett

Gunnar Johan Stålsett (born 10 February 1935, in Nordkapp) is a Norwegian theologian and politician. He was leader of the Centre Party 1977–1979, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation 1985–1993 and bishop of Oslo, in the Church of Norway 1998–2005.

Early life
Gunnar Stålsett was born in Repvåg in Nordkapp Municipality to principal Johan Emil Stålsett and Alma Elisabeth Joki. He was one of eight children. When he was seven the family moved to Gildeskål Municipality. His parents were inspired by the Laestadian movement in Finnmark. After having completed school in Leknes he went to high school in Nordfjordeid where he graduated in 1953.

Theological career
Stålsett is a graduate from MF Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo, and was awarded the qualification cand.theol. in 1961. He has worked as a minister and taught at the University of Oslo. He has also been a General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation and a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee until he was appointed to bishop in 1998. He stepped down from office on 28 February 2005. His predecessor was Andreas Aarflot, and he was succeeded in Office by Ole Christian Kvarme.

Stålsett has also had a political career. From 1972 to 1973, during the cabinet Korvald, he was appointed state secretary in the Ministry of Church Affairs and Education. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo in during the term 1977–1981, and chaired the Centre Party from 1977 to 1979.

Awards

 * 2013: Niwano Peace Prize
 * 2021: Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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Space Shuttle Main Propulsion Test Article

The Main Propulsion Test Article (MPTA-098) was built by Rockwell International as a testbed for the definitive propulsion and fuel delivery systems for the U.S. Space Shuttle Program.

Description
Never intended for actual spaceflight, the MPTA consisted of the internal structure of a Space Shuttle orbiter aft-fuselage, a truss structure that simulated the basic structure and shape of an orbiter mid-fuselage and a complete Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) assembly, including all main propulsion system plumbing and the associated electrical systems. Later, the very different STA (Structural Test Article) was converted into a flightworthy orbiter, re-designated OV-099, and christened Challenger. Rockwell and NASA thus retroactively re-designated the MPTA as MPTA-098, though it was never christened with a name. A Space Shuttle External Tank, commonly referred to as MPTA-ET, was built to be used in conjunction with MPTA-098 for structural tests of the Space Shuttle Main Engines prior to construction of flyable craft. It rolled off the assembly line on September 9, 1977 at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was then transported to the National Space Technology Laboratories in southern Mississippi (now known as Stennis Space Center) where it was used in the static test firing of the Shuttle's cluster of three main engines.

History
On June 24, 1977, MPTA-098 was delivered by Rockwell International to the National Space Technology Laboratory (NSTL), in Hancock County, Mississippi, where it was mated with MPTA-ET, mounted in a launch orientation and used for static engine tests. On July 2, 1979, MPTA-098 suffered major structural damage due to a fractured fuel valve on Space Shuttle Main Engine number 2002. The fracture allowed hydrogen to leak into the enclosed aft compartment, raising the pressure to beyond the structural capability of the heat shield supports, severely damaging the structure. After extensive repairs were completed, testing resumed in September, but on November 4, a high-pressure oxidizer turbopump failed 9.7 seconds into a scheduled 510-second test. Finally, on December 17, 1979, a complete static firing was accomplished that included all three Space Shuttle Main Engines running at up to 100 percent of rated thrust for 554 seconds, exceeding the predicted maximum time that the SSMEs would burn during an operational shuttle launch.

The preliminary flight certification (PFC) program, which would clear the way for the SSMEs to be flown aboard manned vehicles, began in early 1980. A number of setbacks, including an overheating high-pressure turbopump that shut down an engine 4.6 seconds into a 544-second test on April 16, 1980, in July, the burn-through of a hydrogen preburner cancelled a 581-second test after 105 seconds and the structural failure of a flight-rated nozzle shut down a November 1980 test after 20 seconds, slowed progress dramatically. These failures led to a number of critical changes to the SSMEs and their associated systems. In June 1980, due to the number of changes in the SSME design since the SSME installation on Columbia, the three flight-rated SSMEs (numbers 2005, 2006 and 2007) which had performed successful individual 520-second mission demonstration test firings on the NSTL SSME test stand in early 1979, were removed from OV-102, shipped to NSTL, and successfully recertified. The engines were then shipped back to Kennedy Space Center and reinstalled on Columbia. On January 17, 1981, with less than three months remaining before the scheduled STS-1 launch date, MPTA-098 successfully demonstrated a 625-second firing that included simulated abort profiles, completing the final PFC test and allowing the SSME design to be fully certified for flight, clearing the way for the launch of STS-1 on April 12, 1981.

From 1981 until 1988, the MPTA-098 and MPTA-ET remained in-situ on the NSTL test stand, unused. In late 1988, the Essex Corporation used the thrust structure of the MPTA as the basis for an engineering development model for the proposed Shuttle-C launch vehicle. The model was used by NASA and Boeing at Kennedy Space Center and the Marshall Space Flight Center to conduct fit-checks and manufacturing engineering studies. The Shuttle-C program was cancelled by the United States Congress in 1990 and the model was disassembled. Today, the Main Propulsion Test Article, without truss work, is on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Visitor Information Center for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, alongside the External Tank, which is mounted under the refurbished Pathfinder orbiter simulator and has two Advanced Solid Rocket Booster casings to produce a complete Space Shuttle stack.

Construction

 * 07/26/72 Contract award
 * 07/17/74 Start of long-lead fabrication
 * 06/24/75 Start structural assembly of aft-fuselage
 * 01/23/76 Truss on dock at Rockwell Downey
 * 03/17/76 Complete premate at Downey and delivered to Palmdale
 * 05/03/76 Complete proof load test setup at Palmdale
 * 06/29/76 Move truss assembly from Palmdale Building 294 to 295
 * 07/08/76 MPTA-098 on dock at Downey
 * 07/12/76 Start of Final Assembly
 * 07/24/76 Complete MPTA-098 proof load test
 * 05/27/77 Completed Final Assembly, Transport to Seal Beach
 * 06/03/77 Transport from Seal Beach to NSTL
 * 06/24/77 Arrival at NSTL for static firing
 * 09/10/77 Arrival of MPTA-ET at NSTL

Test firings

 * 04/21/78 1st static firing (2.5 sec)
 * 05/19/78 2nd static firing (15 sec)
 * 06/15/78 3rd static firing (50 sec)
 * 07/07/78 4th static firing (100 sec)
 * 05/04/79 5th static firing flight nozzles (1.5 sec)
 * 06/12/79 5th static firing flight nozzles (54 sec)
 * 10/24/79 6th static firing flight nozzles (scrubbed)
 * 11/04/79 6th static firing flight nozzles (10 sec cutoff)
 * 12/17/79 6th static firing non-flight (554 sec)
 * 02/28/80 7th static firing non-flight (555 sec)
 * 03/28/80 8th static firing non-flight (539 sec)
 * 04/16/80 9th static firing non-flight (4.6 sec cutoff)
 * 05/30/80 9th static firing non-flight (565 sec cutoff)
 * 07/12/80 10th static firing flight nozzles (105 sec shutdown)
 * 11/03/80 11th static firing flight nozzles (20 sec shutdown)
 * 12/04/80 11th static firing non-flight (591 sec)
 * 01/17/81 12th static firing flight nozzles (625 sec)


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I just deleted the german version of this article, as we are sure that this is a fake. Here is the link to the discussion,. Sincerely yours, -- DaTroll 20:35, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:LeoDV/Assas

You wrote in the page about Assas:

"Assas likes to think of itself as France's Harvard: it is the country's premier law and business university"

IMHO the French counterpart of Ivy League universities (for law and business) is rather Sciences Po, ENA or "Parisian" business schools.

"they both administer the University Library of the Pantheon"

Do you mean Cujas or Sainte-Geneviève ? AFAIK both are managed by Paris I. Apokrif 18:42, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I said that Assas likes to think of itself as Harvard, not that it is. Sciences Po also think of themselves as Harvard. While the grandes écoles certainly represent the same kind of elite as the Ivy League schools do, none of them are law schools. Paris II is France's premier law university. As I said in the article, Assas is apart from the other French universities because it's so selective and geared toward an elite education like a grande école.

And I mean the huge university library Place du Panthéon, the one with the block-long line in front of it at all times.

LeoDV 19:48, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

So you meant Sainte-Geneviève Apokrif 09:17, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Guess so.

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Starting to edit some pages around July 2005.

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School of Music, Theatre, and Dance

The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance is the undergraduate and graduate school for the performing arts of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

The school was founded in 1880 as the Ann Arbor School of Music. It was originally independent from the university until 1929.

The School is located on the University of Michigan's North Campus, which is also home to the College of Engineering, the Stamps School of Art and Design, and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

History
The school was founded in 1880 after Henry Simmons Frieze, founder and president of the Choral Union and the University Musical Society, urged leaders to include music among the school's offerings. Administrators and Deans include Charles Sink, Earl V. Moore, James B. Wallace, Allen Britton, Paul Boylan, Karen Wolff (2000–05), Christopher Kendall (2005–15), Aaron Dworkin (2015-18), and David Gier (2018–present). Known then as the Ann Arbor School of Music, the school was originally independent from the university. It was later formally incorporated into the University of Michigan in 1929, with Earl V. Moore as its director.

Notable alumni
Well known alumni include playwright Arthur Miller, actors James Earl Jones, Gavin Creel, Joe Serafini, Darren Criss, Jo Ellen Pellman, David Alan Grier and Lucy Liu, musicians Jessye Norman, Yakov Kreizberg, Ashley Putnam, William Albright, George Crumb, Alexander Frey, Normand Lockwood, Cynthia Phelps, Colin Stetson, David Daniels, Chip Davis, and Michael Fabiano, as well as the pop star Madonna.

See also the list of University of Michigan arts alumni.

Performance training areas
The university puts on more than a dozen main stage productions and concerts every year. Besides its main stage productions, the school also offers performance opportunities through studio productions and student-run groups.

Main stage and studio productions
Main stage and studio productions staged by the university every year include:
 * Three main stage musicals and a musical theatre studio show (often a play)
 * Two main stage operas as well as opera scenes, and two studio productions
 * Four or five main stage plays
 * Multiple dance productions

Ensembles
Musicians have the opportunity to perform in many ensembles in connection with the university. These include choral ensembles, orchestras, wind bands, historical music ensembles, jazz ensembles, electronic and new music ensembles, chamber music groups, and world music ensembles.

Gamelans
The school is home to one of the longest-established Javanese gamelan ensembles in the United States. This group of instruments, known formally as Kyai Telaga Madu (Venerable Lake of Honey), has been at the university since 1966, when its purchase was negotiated and organized by Bill Malm. From 1968 until 2002, the ensemble was under the direction of faculty ethnomusicologist Judith Becker. The ensemble is currently directed by Gavin Ryan.

Bands
Wind ensembles, under the University Bands, provide a central performance and training opportunity for students at the school. The wind ensembles provide a primary training opportunity for most instrumentalists at the school, who may audition to perform in one of the two top ensembles, the Symphony Band and Concert Band. The Michigan Marching Band is also a component of the University Bands and provides music and entertainment at university athletic events. Students attending all U-M campuses (Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint), with any major, are welcome to audition for any of the Athletic Bands.

Orchestras
Students also receive training in large orchestral ensembles. Ensemble opportunities for students include the University Symphony Orchestra, the University Philharmonia Orchestra, the Contemporary Directions Ensemble, and pit orchestra for opera productions. In addition, two Campus Orchestras are composed of non-music major students, faculty members, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan.

Student organizations
Student organizations through the university include:
 * Arts Enterprise which invites students to create projects and make connections to the local, national, and international cultural spheres.
 * Basement Arts which allows students the opportunity to direct, produce and star in studio productions. This student group is well known for performing student written works such as A Very Potter Musical.
 * MUSKET, founded in 1908, puts on two large scale productions of musicals every year run entirely by students. Recent Productions have included: Rent, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Into the Woods.
 * The University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society, which produces main stage productions of operettas every year. Most of these are works by Gilbert and Sullivan, however they have also ventured into other works.

Facilities
The school's facilities are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. On the University of Michigan north campus, these include the Earl V. Moore Building, the Stearns Building, the Walgreen Drama Center, the Dance Building and the Lurie Carillon. Specific north campus facilities include studios in the James and Anne Duderstadt Center, as well as the Arthur Miller Theater and the Stamps Auditorium (both in the Walgreen Drama Center). The Miller Theater is the only theater given permission by the estate of Arthur Miller to bear the playwright's name. On central campus, the school's facilities include Hill Auditorium, the Power Center and Burton Memorial Tower, which houses the Charles Baird Carillon. The university's south campus is home to William D. Revelli Hall, which houses offices and rehearsal space for the University of Michigan Marching Band.

History of the Moore Building
The majority of the school's teaching spaces, faculty offices, and music library, are located in the Earl V. Moore Building. This building is named after a previous dean of the school, and was designed in a mid-century modern style by architect Eero Saarinen. Saarinen was commissioned to design the master plan for the University of Michigan's North Campus, he requested to design the music school building (now the Earl V. Moore Building).

The original scheme called for an L-shaped building and a circular concert hall. Completed in 1964, the result was a five-level pavilion with flanking wings. Saarinen envisioned a building in harmony with nature, and so designed the building to be built into a hill overlooking a pond. The brick-clad concrete structure has narrow vertical windows that contrast with the horizontal brick patterns, thought to represent the alternating colors of piano keys. The brick color is known as "Cranbrook Buff" for its reference to the color of the buildings on the campus of the Cranbrook Education Community. The style of this building has influenced almost all of the later construction on North Campus.

The original building contained 2 rehearsal/concert halls, 45 performance teaching studios, 18 classrooms, 40 offices, a large library, 120 practice rooms, including 12 organ practice rooms, and other special facilities for piano, harp, harpsichord and percussion practice. The construction of this building allowed for the first increase in enrollment since 1946.

During construction of the building, Saarinen was diagnosed with a brain tumor, but he was able to watch the progress of the building from his room at University Hospital.

According to the financial report submitted by President Harlan Hatcher to the Board of Regents in 1966, the University of Michigan had the second academic music school in the United States, after the University of Indiana School of Music. The Ann Arbor campus and the University Division of the National Music Camp at Interlochen enrolled the largest summer music session in the U.S.

Renovation
On October 30, 2012, University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman announced an $8-million gift from William K. Brehm and Delores S. Brehm, a major contribution toward the cost of renovating and expanding the Moore Building. Of the total cost, another $14 million is allocated from the university, with the remaining balance to come from additional fundraising, including a gift from Glenn E. Watkins, emeritus professor of musicology. Construction for the project commenced in early 2014 and was finished in the fall of 2015. The renovation, which cost $29.5 million and added 34,000 square feet, includes a rehearsal with the footprint of Hill Auditorium, revamping of the McIntosh Theater, a lecture hall, an entrance and lobby, and new practice and teaching rooms.

Departments and degree programs
The School of Music, Theatre & Dance offers degrees from the bachelors to the doctoral level. Seventeen academic departments make up the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, each offering several degree programs. They include:

 * Department of Chamber Music—MM and Specialist in chamber music.
 * Department of Composition—BM, MM, MA, PhD and DMA in composition.
 * Department of Conducting—MM and DMA in Conducting (Band/Wind Ensemble, Orchestral and Choral programs).
 * Department of Dance—BFA and MFA in Dance. Minor in Dance.
 * Department of Entrepreneurship & Leadership—Certificate in Arts Entrepreneurship & Leadership; Minor in Performing Arts Management & Entrepreneurship.
 * Department of Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation—BFA in Jazz & Contemplative Studies; BM and DMA in Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation; MM in Improvisation
 * Department of Music Education—BM in Choral or Instrumental Music Education, MM (regular term or summer options) and PhD in Music Education.
 * Department of Music Theory—BM and PhD in Music Theory. PhD in Composition & Music Theory. Certificate in Music Theory Pedagogy. Minor in Music, Minor in Popular Music Studies.
 * Department of Musical Theatre—BFA in Musical Theatre. Minor in Musical Theatre Composition.
 * Department of Musicology—BM and Certificate programs in Musicology; PhD in Historical Musicology; PhD in Ethnomusicology.
 * Department of Organ—BM in Organ Performance & Sacred Music; BMA in Organ Performance; BMA in Multidisciplinary Studies (Organ); MM in Sacred Music, MM Carillon Performance, MM in Early Keyboard Instruments, MM Harpsichord Performance, MM Organ Performance, DMA Organ Performance, and DMA in Sacred Music.
 * Department of Performing Arts Technology—BM in Music and Technology; BFA in Performing Arts Technology; BS in Sound Engineering; MA in Media Arts; and PhD in Performing Arts Technology.
 * Department of Piano—BM in Piano Performance; BMA in Piano Performance; BMA in Multidisciplinary Studies (Piano); MM in Chamber Music (Piano); MM in Collaborative Piano; MM in Early Keyboard Instruments; MM in Fortepiano Performance; MM in Piano Performance; MM in Piano Pedagogy & Performance; Specialist in Collaborative Piano; Specialist in Piano Performance; DMA in Piano Performance; DMA in Collaborative Piano; and DMA in Piano Pedagogy & Performance.
 * Department of Strings—Harp, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass: BM or BMA in Performance; BMA in Multidisciplinary Studies (Strings); MM in Performance; MM in Chamber Music; Specialist in Performance; DMA in Performance.
 * Department of Theatre & Drama—BFA in Theatre Performance (Acting, Directing); BFA in Theatre Design and Production; BFA in Interarts Performance; BTA in Theatre. Minor in Playwriting. Minor in Theatre Design & Production.
 * Department of Voice & Opera—BM, BMA, MM, Specialist and DMA in Performance. BMA in Multidisciplinary Studies (Voice).
 * Department of Winds & Percussion—BM in Performance (Multiple Wind Instruments or Winds & Percussion); BMA in Winds & Percussion; BMA in Multidisciplinary Studies (Winds & Percussion); MM in Performance; MM in Chamber Music; MM in Wind Instruments; Specialist in Performance; and DMA in Performance.

Notable projects
Michigan Performance Outreach Workshop
 * In 2011, musical theatre students Ashley Park and Laura Reed founded the Michigan Performance Outreach Workshop, or MPOW. The group coordinates a one-day event every semester which brings in 5th grade students from Southeast Michigan for a day of arts performances and lessons. All of the activities and performances are given and led by U of M students from a variety of disciplines, including singers, dancers, musicians and actors. The event is provided free of charge and includes lunch for students, and is dedicated to providing youth who have limited creative outlets with exposure to as many aspects of the performing arts as possible. The group also performs in other community service settings such as at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in 2023.

The Gershwin Initiative
 * In 2013, the School entered into a partnership with the Gershwin family to undertake a two-part initiative that will bring the music of George and Ira Gershwin to students, scholars, performers and audiences across campus and worldwide through new critical editions of all the Gershwin brothers' works. In 2013, it was announced that An American in Paris (edited by Mark Clague) and Rhapsody in Blue (jazz band version) were planned to be the first editions published. As of 2023, the initiative's website lists ten planned series.

University of Michigan Javanese Gamelan EXCEL Program Center for World Performance Studies
 * Since the 1960s, the school has been home to one of the longest-established Javanese gamelan ensembles in the United States. This group of instruments, known formally as Kyai Telaga Madu (Venerable Lake of Honey), has been at the university since 1966, when its purchase was negotiated and organized by Bill Malm. From 1968 until 2002, the ensemble was under the direction of faculty ethnomusicologist Judith Becker. The ensemble has actively given performances in Ann Arbor since 1967, and has benefitted from many guest artist instructors from Java who have been in residence at the university to teach Indonesian performance styles such as wayang. The gamelan is housed in a special room built at the school with support from a bequest from Rosannah Steinhoff, who with her husband Bill, was a loyal member of the gamelan in the 1980s, and it is supported with a special endowment fund at the university. The gamelan instruments are part of the Stearns Collection of Music Instruments.
 * Founded in 2015, the career program at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, EXCEL (Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Career Empowerment, and Leadership), provides individual career coaching, workshops, and more than $100,000 in annual funding for student projects, including new venture incubation (the EXCELerator) and an annual $10,000 EXCELprize.

 * Established in 2000, the Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) originated in the University of Michigan International Institute before shifting to the College of Literature, Science & the Arts in 2015 as part of the U-M Residential College, and in 2024 became a part of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Research

 * American Music Institute
 * U-M Amerigrove Project
 * Gershwin Initiative
 * EXCEL
 * MPOW
 * Center for World Performance Studies

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