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Don Stanhouse

Donald Joseph Stanhouse (born February 12, 1951) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who had an eight-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career (1972–1980) with a brief comeback in 1982. He pitched for the Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles of the American League and the Montreal Expos and Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League.

Stanhouse was traded, along with Pete Mackanin, from the Rangers to the Expos for Willie Davis at the Winter Meetings on December 5, 1974. Shuttled back and forth from the bullpen to the starting rotation with the Rangers and Expos, he was acquired along with Joe Kerrigan and Gary Roenicke by the Orioles from Montreal for Rudy May, Randy Miller and Bryn Smith at the Winter Meetings on December 7, 1977. Stanhouse excelled in 1978 when Manager Earl Weaver employed him as a full-time closer. Because of his Harpo Marx hairstyle and pre-game batting practice antics – where his primal scream would entertain early ballpark arrivals – he was quickly labeled Stan the Man Unusual, a pun on the nickname "Stan the Man" for Hall-of-Famer Stan Musial. Jim Palmer said that in 1978, he was the Orioles' best relief pitcher.

Stanhouse finished third in the American League in both 1978 and 1979 in saves, recording 45 over that span, helping the Orioles capture the American League Championship in 1979. He was selected to the American League All-Star team in 1979.

Although an effective closer, Stanhouse had a reputation of walking batters he was not willing to face. Frequently his tactics would lead to dangerous situations in close games with multiple base-runners, and send the chain-smoking Weaver pacing back and forth in the dugout in agony. This resulted in Weaver nicknaming Stanhouse Fullpack, referring to the number of cigarettes consumed while watching him pitch. Weaver also was quoted in saying Stanhouse was an asshole, who ruined his health.

Stanhouse left the Orioles as a free agent after the Orioles lost the 1979 World Series and signed a large guaranteed contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was ineffective for the Dodgers in 1980, appearing in 21 games and posting an ERA over 5.00. The Dodgers sent Stanhouse home during the season. He did not pitch at all in 1981, after which his contract expired and he was not re-signed by the Dodgers. Stanhouse retired after a brief comeback with the Orioles the following year.

After retirement, Stanhouse became a business consultant for a venture capital firm. Married for 27 years, and a father of three, he lives in Trophy Club, Texas.

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Henry Townsend (missionary)

Henry Townsend (1815–1886) was an Anglican missionary in Nigeria.

Early life
Townsend was born in Exeter on December 1, 1815.

Ordained in England in 1842, Townsend set off for Sierra Leone with Charles Andrew Gollmer and Samuel Ajayi Crowther, landing there that same year; after working there only a few months, he was transferred to the Yoruba mission. He returned to England for a year, then travelled to Abeokuta in Nigeria.

Career
From 1846 to 1867, he based his mission in Abeokuta. Thomas Birch Freeman was actually the first European to enter Abeokuta. He arrived there on 11 December 1843. When he returned to Badagry on 24 December, he met Rev. Henry Townsend and they celebrated Christmas Day together sharing the Gospel in Badagry. According to Ajisafe, he was the first European person to enter Abeokuta, arriving there on 4 January 1843 and was 'given a grand reception' (Ajisafe 1924: 85).

Working with Samuel Crowther, a Yoruba Anglican priest, Townsend wrote several hymns in Yoruba and aided in the compilation of Crowther's Yoruba primer. Townsend was against Crowther, a native Yoruba, becoming a bishop.

Townsend published a Yoruba newspaper called 'Iwe-Irohin' in 1859. This is said to have started off the print media in Nigeria, as the newspaper was the bilingual paper in Nigeria. The paper used 8 years before it demise.

In 1862, he opened an orphanage and several trade schools.

From 1871 to 1872 Rev Henry and Mrs Townsend were co-principals of CMS Female Institution Lagos Nigeria.

Townsend retired in 1876. His journals and letters are held at the University of Birmingham and Oxford University.

Publications
Townsend published several books including two Yoruba school-books and;
 * Hymn Book in Yoruba
 * Primer in Yoruba
 * Book of Common Prayer in Yoruba
 * Peep of Day in Yoruba

Family
Townsend married Sarah Pearse in 1840.

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Hugh Currie

Hugh Roy Currie (October 22, 1925 – November 21, 2017) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played one game in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens during the 1950–51 season, on December 16, 1950, against the New York Rangers. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1944 to 1966, was spent in the minor leagues.

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Talk:Laurie Oakes

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His weight loss
Laurie's been known for decades as a very, very big man, but of recent months he's lost a great deal of weight. He looks pretty healthy, so I presume it's diet/exercise/stomach stapling/whatever and not some horrible disease. Does anyone know his secret? -- JackofOz 15:11, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

No idea yet... I hope he is well though and not suffering from a condition such as cancer... Romen (talk) 13:56, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Someone needs to document his incredbile weight loss tips please —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.159.111.98 (talk) 10:33, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Whatever it was it did not last. By 2012 he had supassed his previous largest size. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.7.194.226 (talk) 02:34, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

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Roy Smalley III

Roy Frederick Smalley III (born October 25, 1952) is an American former professional baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1975 through 1987 for the Texas Rangers (1975–76), Minnesota Twins (1976–82; 1985–87), New York Yankees (1982–84), and Chicago White Sox (1984). Smalley was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. His father, Roy Jr., was also an MLB league shortstop, and his uncle, Gene Mauch, was a long-time MLB manager and infielder.

Amateur career
Drafted out of Westchester High School in Los Angeles in 1970 by the Montreal Expos, Smalley played college baseball for one year at Los Angeles City College, then transferred to the University of Southern California. He was part of the 1972 and 1973 College World Series championship teams under longtime head coach Rod Dedeaux. Smalley was named an All-American and received All-College World Series honors in 1973.

He was drafted four times by major league teams between 1970 and 1973 without signing. Smalley was selected by the Montreal Expos in the 35th round of the June 1970 draft, by the Boston Red Sox in the 4th round of the January 1971 draft, by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2nd round of the June 1971 draft, and again by the Red Sox in the 5th round of the January 1972 draft. Smalley was the number one overall pick in the January 1974 amateur draft by the Rangers. Following his junior year, he stayed out of school in the fall of 1973 to be eligible for the January free agent draft.

Rangers
After signing in January, Smalley had wrist surgery in February, injured while playing semi-pro ball in December. He was sent to the Pittsfield Rangers in the Double-A Eastern League, hitting .251 with 14 home runs and 42 RBI. Following a brief stint with the Triple-A Spokane Indians in the Pacific Coast League, Smalley was promoted to the big leagues for good, seeing time in 78 games for the Rangers in 1975, despite hitting only .228 with 3 home runs. Smalley started the 1976 season back in Texas, but did not improve on his 1975 average. On June 1, his career would take a major turn.

Twins
Under the ownership tenure of Calvin Griffith, the Minnesota Twins made few headlines in the transaction department, but Smalley's arrival and departure from the Twins both involved blockbuster trades. On June 1, 1976, Smalley was traded to the Twins, along with Texas infielder Mike Cubbage, pitchers Jim Gideon and Bill Singer and cash, for Twins' ace Bert Blyleven and shortstop Danny Thompson, who was battling leukemia. Smalley was inserted into the Twins' starting lineup and manned shortstop until 1982. During his first go around with the Twins, Smalley developed into an all-star.

Smalley's best season came in 1979, when he was voted the starting shortstop for the American League in the All-Star game. Smalley had a sensational first half of the season, entering the break with the second-highest batting average in the major leagues (.341). Though he tailed off in the second half, Smalley established career highs in runs, RBIs, and home runs, and was named the shortstop on The Sporting News AL All-Star team. He also led the league in games played, plate appearances, all fielders in assists, and all shortstops in putouts, while hitting .271 and leading the team with 24 home runs and 95 RBI. He did not build on this season with the Twins, as injuries struck, and he played only 133 games in 1980 and 56 in 1981.

Yankees and White Sox
After showing that he'd recovered from his injuries, Smalley was traded in 1982 on April 10 to the Yankees for pitchers Ron Davis and Paul Boris and shortstop Greg Gagne. With the Yankees, Smalley showed a glimpse of the player he had been in 1979, hitting 20 home runs in 1982 and 18 in 1983. He was not as good defensively, however. Yankee pitcher Tommy John thought he was best as a designated hitter. "He had no range at short. No range at all. He was bad news for a pitching staff," opined John, who had benefitted from the fine defense of Bucky Dent for the past several years. John did note that Smalley was a much better hitter than Dent. After a bad start to the 1984 season, in which he hit only .239 with 7 home runs and 26 RBI over the first 67 games of the season, Smalley was traded again, this time to the White Sox for middle reliever Kevin Hickey and future Pittsburgh Pirates Cy Young and 155-game winner Doug Drabek.

Back to the Twins
Smalley was a member of Minnesota's 1987 World Championship team. He hit .275 with 8 home runs and 34 RBI in 110 games in his last major league season.

Career summary
In a 13-season career, Smalley posted a .257 batting average with 163 home runs and 694 RBI in 1653 games played.

Post-playing career
He was inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007. Smalley now works for Bally Sports North as an analyst during Minnesota Twins games. In 2010, Smalley opened a restaurant near Target Field, called Smalley's '87 Club, which closed in February 2012. Smalley serves as the President on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit organization Pitch in for Baseball. He was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013.

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Claude Cyr

Claude Jean Joseph Cyr (March 27, 1939 – June 1, 1971) was a Canadian ice hockey goaltender. He played one game in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens during the 1958–59 season. He replaced Claude Pronovost for one period against the Toronto Maple Leafs on March 19, 1959. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1957 to 1968, was spent in the minor leagues. Internationally Cyr played at the 1961 World Championships with the Canadian national tema.

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Talk:A. S. J. Carnahan

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Is there a reason the anonymous user deleted the information about a building being named in Carnahan's honor at SE Missouri?

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Don Slaught

Donald Martin Slaught (born September 11, 1958), nicknamed "Sluggo", is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1982 through 1997 for the Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, California Angels, Chicago White Sox, and San Diego Padres.

Early life
Slaught was born in Long Beach, California. He attended El Camino College and UCLA and is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. In 1979, Slaught and UCLA pitcher Tim Leary were named to the College Sports Information Directors of America university all-star team. Slaught also was named an Academic All American in 1979. Slaught's 1979 batting average of .428 was a UCLA single-season record that stood until 2001.

He was a 20th-round draft pick of the Milwaukee Brewers in 1979, but elected to stay at UCLA. He was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the seventh round of the next year's draft. He spent about two years in the minor leagues before debuting with the Royals in 1982.

Career
Slaught played with seven major league teams, enjoying some of his best seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Between 1990 and 1992, he platooned at catcher with the left-handed-hitting Mike LaValliere for three division-winning Pirates teams. Slaught hit between .295 and .345 in those three seasons, playing in between 77 and 87 games each season. After Slaught hit .345 in 87 games in 1992, the Pirates released LaValliere in 1993. Slaught saw action in 116 games, the third-busiest season he spent in the major leagues; he hit .300 with 10 home runs and 55 RBI with the increased playing time.

He played with Pittsburgh through 1995, split 1996 between the California Angels and Chicago White Sox, then retired after getting no hits in 20 at bats for the 1997 San Diego Padres.

In 2005, he was named hitting coach of the Detroit Tigers, replacing Kirk Gibson. He resigned as the Tigers hitting coach following the 2006 season and was replaced by Lloyd McClendon.

He resides in Rolling Hills, California, with wife Sandy. They have four children. He founded RightView Pro the first video analysis system for baseball and softball licensed by MLB, MLBPA, and the NPF. He is currently the owner of RVP and a partner in OnBaseU. OnBaseU.com.

Career statistics
In 1327 games over 16 seasons, Slaught posted a .283 batting average (1151-for-4063) with 415 runs, 235 doubles, 28 triples, 77 home runs, 476 RBI, 311 bases on balls, .338 on-base percentage and .412 slugging percentage. He finished his career with a .987 fielding percentage. In 18 postseason playoff games, he hit .255 (13-for-51) with 5 runs, 1 home run, 7 RBI and 9 walks.

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Gräfenberg's ring

Gräfenberg's ring is a flexible ring of silk suture, later versions of which were wrapped in silver wire. It was an early IUD, a birth control device. Gräfenberg's ring was the first IUD used by a significant number of women. The ring was introduced by German gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg in 1929. It ceased to be in wide use circa 1939.

Inserting a foreign device into the uterus causes an inflammatory response, which creates a hostile environment for sperm. The silver wire used to construct later versions of Gräfenberg's ring was contaminated with copper, which increases this spermicidal effect.

In 1934, Japanese physician Tenrei Ota developed a variation of the Gräfenberg ring that contained a supportive structure in the center. The addition of this central disc lowered the IUD's expulsion rate. However, insertion of these devices caused high rates of infection and were condemned by the medical community. Furthermore, their use and development was stifled by World War II politics: contraception was forbidden in both Nazi Germany and Axis-allied Japan. The rest of the Western world did not learn of the work of Gräfenberg and Ota until well after the war ended.

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Hudsonville, Mississippi

Hudsonville, (also known as Scales Station ), is an unincorporated community in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States. It is located in the hill country of north Mississippi.

History
Hudsonville was located along the "Wet Weather Trail", a Chickasaw trail that followed a series of ridges between present-day Pontotoc and Memphis.

The original community of Hudsonville was northwest of the current community and was located along the stage road between Holly Springs and LaGrange, Tennessee. After the construction of the Mississippi Central Railroad, the community moved two miles to the southeast and the original site became known as "Old Hudsonville." In 1900, Hudsonville had a population of 43, a cotton gin, and several stores.

Hudsonville was incorporated on February 16, 1838.

A post office operated under the name Hudsonville from 1836 to 1943.

Notable people

 * Elias Cottrell, 7th Bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and founder of the Mississippi Industrial College in Holly Springs
 * Junior Kimbrough, blues musician
 * Sam Lumpkin, 21st Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi

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Henry Townsend

Henry Townsend may refer to:

 * Henry Townsend (Norwich) (1626–1695), early American colonist born in Norwich, Norfolk, England
 * Henry Townsend (Oyster Bay) (1649–1703), American colonist born in Oyster Bay
 * Henry Townsend (missionary) (1815–1886), Anglican missionary
 * Henry Townsend (musician) (1909–2006), American blues singer, guitarist and pianist

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Ted Sizemore

Ted Crawford Sizemore (born April 15, 1945) is an American former Major League Baseball second baseman. He was named the National League's Rookie of the Year in.

Early life
Sizemore was born in Gadsden, Alabama, but moved to Detroit, at the age of two years. As a catcher for Pershing High School's baseball team, he earned All-city honors three times. He also earned All-city honors playing fullback in football and guard in basketball twice each. He was high school teammates with Basketball Hall of Famer Mel Daniels playing under coach Will Robinson.

College career
At the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, he was a varsity letterman from 1964 to 1966, and received All-Big Ten honors in 1965 and 1966. In 1966, he batted .321 to receive District All-America honors. In 1982, the university created the "Ted Sizemore Award" to honor the school's top defensive player each season.

Baseball career
The Los Angeles Dodgers selected Sizemore in the fifteenth round of the 1966 Major League Baseball draft. He served strictly as a catcher his first professional season, but his bat (.330, 4 home runs and 37 RBIs for the Northwest League's Tri-City Atoms) prompted the Dodgers organization to try him more in the outfield in 1967 and 1968. In need of infielders, the Dodgers had Sizemore play second base in the Winter Instructional League in 1968. Following Zoilo Versalles' departure in the 1968 Major League Baseball expansion draft, manager Walter Alston shifted Sizemore over to shortstop at the beginning of Spring training 1969.

Los Angeles Dodgers I (1969-1970)
Sizemore won the starting shortstop job that spring. Despite a two error performance against the San Francisco Giants, Sizemore proved himself an adequate shortstop. Still, with second baseman Jim Lefebvre not hitting, Sizemore began seeing more time at second by the end of his first month in the majors. With Maury Wills' acquisition on June 11, the move became permanent.

With his bat, Sizemore got off to a hot start in his rookie season, but cooled off in June and July. He picked it up again in the final two months of the season to finish at .271 with four home runs 46 runs batted in and 69 runs scored. He received fourteen of 24 first place votes to be named the National League's Rookie of the Year.

Sizemore got off to a slow start in. He was batting .257 with one home run, twelve RBIs and fourteen runs scored when he ruptured his thigh muscle on June 11 against the St. Louis Cardinals. He returned in late July, and his hitting actually improved. He batted .342 to bring his season average to .306 until a sprained wrist ended his season. That winter, he and minor league catcher Bob Stinson were traded to the Cardinals for slugging first baseman Dick Allen.

St. Louis Cardinals (1971-1975)
He began his tenure with the Cardinals splitting time between shortstop and second base, but as the season wore on, he began taking more and more playing time away from veteran Julián Javier at second. He batted .264 each of his first two seasons in St. Louis. His finest season came in, when he put up career highs in batting (.282), RBIs (54) and runs (69, tying the career high he set his rookie season), while leading the National League in Sacrifice Hits with 25. In, Sizemore usually batted second behind Hall of Famer Lou Brock. Brock set a record with 118 stolen bases that season, and credited Sizemore's patience at the plate batting behind him as a big factor.

Perhaps his most dramatic moment with the Cards came in an extra innings affair with the New York Mets on August 7,. Leading off the bottom of the thirteenth inning, Sizemore hit a walk-off inside-the-park home run off Tug McGraw. The low point of his Cardinals career also came against the Mets. On April 17,, Sizemore tied a record for major league second basemen with three errors in an inning.

Los Angeles Dodgers II (1976)
On March 2,, Sizemore returned to the Dodgers in exchange for outfielder Willie Crawford. He was acquired for his versatility, and in the event that a proposed deal sending shortstop Bill Russell to the Cardinals for outfielder Reggie Smith ever materialized (in which case, second baseman Davey Lopes would move to short, and Sizemore would inherit the second base job).

A deal for Smith would not be worked out until June 15, after the season started, and the Cardinals settled for minor league infielder Fred Tisdale in the package for Smith, instead. However, a pulled rib muscle by Lopes in Spring training had Sizemore opening the season as the Dodgers' starting second baseman regardless.

Catching debut
As the game with the Houston Astros went into its tenth inning on August 2, Alston moved Sizemore from second base to catcher for the first time in his major league career. He handled Elias Sosa for two innings without incident. This was followed by a complete game behind the plate on September 19 against the Atlanta Braves. Aside from a wild pitch in the fourth, he handled Tommy John perfectly, as they held the Braves to one run and six hits. The final out of the game was a pop up by Pat Rockett caught by Sizemore in foul territory.

Philadelphia Phillies (1977-1978)
The National League East champion Philadelphia Phillies were in dire need of a second baseman following All-Star Dave Cash's departure via free agency. At the 1976 Winter meetings, they swung a deal for Sizemore for back-up catcher Johnny Oates.

Batting eighth in the Phillies line-up in, Sizemore was relied upon more for his glove than his bat with his new club. He turned a league leading 104 double plays, while also grounding into a league-leading 25, tying the Phillies single-season record set by Del Ennis in.

He reached the post-season for the first time in his career, as the Phillies duplicated their 101-61 record from the previous season to face Sizemore's former team, the Dodgers, in the 1977 National League Championship Series. With the Phillies leading 5-3 in the ninth inning of game three, Sizemore committed an error on a throw from left fielder Greg Luzinski that opened the door for the Dodgers to score three runs and steal a 6-5 victory. It was Sizemore's second error of the series, won by the Dodgers in four games.

On April 28,, Sizemore broke his hand on a play at second base with the San Diego Padres' Gene Richards. The injury sidelined Sizemore until the end of June, and likely played a part in the career low .219 batting average he put up that year. Regardless, the Phillies repeated as division champions, and Sizemore provided the Phillies with one of the few bright spots in their line-up in the 1978 National League Championship Series. The Dodgers once again defeated the Phillies in four games, however, Sizemore batted .385 with a triple, an RBI and three runs scored.

Chicago Cubs (1979)
Just as pitchers and catchers were reporting to Spring training in, Sizemore went to the Chicago Cubs in a trade. He, Barry Foote, Jerry Martin and minor leaguers Derek Botelho and Henry Mack went to the Cubs for Greg Gross, Dave Rader and Manny Trillo.

Boston Red Sox (1979-1980)
Toward the end of his only season in Chicago, he was dealt to the Boston Red Sox for a player to be named later when Bosox starting second baseman Jerry Remy and his back-up, Jack Brohamer, were both sidelined with injuries. In his first game in the American League, he went three-for-three with a double, two RBIs and a run scored. The Red Sox also used him twice at catcher shortly after his acquisition.

Sizemore won a reserve job with the Sox out of Spring training, but with the emergence of rookie Dave Stapleton at second base, saw very little action. The Red Sox explored the possibility of selling the veteran to another club, but found no takers, and released him on May 30.

Personal
After Sizemore's retirement as a player, he went to work for baseball glove manufacturer Rawlings, as their chief liaison with major league players.

Currently, Sizemore serves as the CEO of the Baseball Assistance Team, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to helping former Major League, Minor League, and Negro league players, as well as scouts, umpires, and office personnel, through financial and medical hardships.

Career stats
Sizemore was part of a core of young Dodgers prospects that became known as "The Mod Squad" after the popular TV series of the same name, and appeared on the cover of the May 19, 1969 edition of Sports Illustrated, along with his fellow Mod Squad members.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Agim Coma

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The result of the debate was delete. – Rich Farmbrough 20:03, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Agim Coma
Non-notable actor. The "article" is just four links to movies on IMDB and amazon.com. IMDB shows only three of these, the other link is to amazon.com. The roles are non-notable (hotel clerk, bailiff, unnamed) as are the movies themselves. IMDB has no bio info for Coma, so there seems little hope of expansion. All of the google hits appear to be unrelated or else wikipedia or IMDB mirrors. The page is linked from List of Albanians, so that entry should probably be removed if this article is deleted. Quale 07:05, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
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Ken Singleton

Kenneth Wayne Singleton (born June 10, 1947) is an American former professional baseball player and television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder and designated hitter from 1970 to 1984, most prominently as a member of the Baltimore Orioles where, he was a three-time All-Star player and was a member of the 1983 World Series winning team. He also played for the New York Mets and the Montreal Expos.

In 1982, Singleton was named the recipient of the prestigious Roberto Clemente Award and in 1986, he was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame. He went on to a long career as a broadcaster, most prominently for the New York Yankees from 1997 to 2021.

Early life
Singleton was born in Manhattan, a borough of New York City, and raised in nearby Mount Vernon. He played baseball in the Bronx Federation League at Macombs Dam Park, across the street from Yankee Stadium.

Singleton graduated from Mount Vernon High School, where he played baseball and basketball. After graduating in 1965, Singleton enrolled at Hofstra University on an athletic scholarship for basketball.

Professional career
The New York Mets chose Singleton in the first round, with the third overall pick, of the January phase of the 1967 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the Mets for a $10,000 signing bonus. Singleton made his major league debut with the Mets on June 24, 1970, at the age of 23.

On April 5, 1972, the Mets traded Singleton to the Montreal Expos with infielders Tim Foli and Mike Jorgensen for Rusty Staub. Singleton's best year of the three in Montreal was 1973, when he led the league in on-base percentage (one of nine top-ten finishes in that category over the course of his career) and collected 23 home runs, 103 runs batted in (RBIs) and a .302 batting average (his first .300 season).

On December 4, 1974, at the Winter Meetings, the Baltimore Orioles acquired Singleton and Mike Torrez from the Expos for Dave McNally, Rich Coggins and minor-league right-handed pitcher Bill Kirkpatrick. During his ten years in Baltimore, Singleton played the best baseball of his career as the Orioles won two pennants, in 1979 and 1983, and won the 1983 World Series. In 1977, he posted a .328 batting average and a .438 on-base percentage, both career highs. He finished second in the American League with a 6.9 Wins Above Replacement (WAR) behind only Rod Carew and, his .945 On-base plus slugging (OPS) was third behind only Carew and Jim Rice.

In 1979 he had one of his best seasons with career-highs of 35 home runs and 111 RBIs and, he finished second to Don Baylor in voting for the American League Most Valuable Player Award. Singleton accumulated 1,455 hits as an Oriole.

He was described by his manager with the Orioles Earl Weaver as "the kind of hitter who can start a rally by getting on base or end one by driving in the winning run." Being a slow runner was the only deficiency he had as a ballplayer. Singleton played in his final major league game on September 25, 1984, at the age of 37. The Orioles elected not to renew the option year on his contract three days later on September 28.

Career statistics
In a 15-year major league career, Singleton played in 2,082 games, accumulating 2,029 hits in 7,189 at bats for a .282 career batting average along with 246 home runs, 1,065 runs batted in and an on-base percentage of .388. He had a career .980 fielding percentage. Singleton ranks among the Orioles all-time leaders in numerous offensive statistics. In his 10 years as an Oriole, he hit .290 or better in 5 of those years. An All-Star in 1977, 1979 and 1981, he won the Roberto Clemente Award in 1982. His highest finish in the Most Valuable Player Award balloting was in 1979, when he finished second to Don Baylor. He was third in 1977, behind Al Cowens and the winner, Rod Carew.

Broadcasting career
After retiring as a baseball player, Singleton began his broadcasting career as a sportscaster for WJZ-TV in Baltimore in the mid-1980s and TSN in Canada, first as a color commentator on telecasts for the Toronto Blue Jays (1985 and 1986) and then as a television color commentator and as a radio play-by-play and color commentator for the Montreal Expos (1987–1996).

From 1997-2021, Singleton was a commentator for the New York Yankees on the YES Network and PIX 11, serving as both a color commentator and play-by-play announcer, along with partner and play-by-play announcer Michael Kay. He also worked as an announcer for Yankee games on the MSG Network, before the inception of YES and joined the Yankees broadcasting team in 1997.

His trademark calls include "This one is gone" for a home run and "Look out!" for a hard hit foul ball into the crowd or dugout, or when a pitch comes close to/hits a batter. He will also occasionally call a pitch a "chuck and duck" for a ball hit right back toward the pitcher. He also calls a pitch down the heart of the plate a "cookie".

On March 12, 2018, Singleton initially announced that he would be retiring from the broadcasting booth after the 2018 season. However, on August 9, 2018, he announced that he had decided to postpone his retirement until after the 2019 season instead. During the Yankees-Rays broadcast on YES on September 25, 2019, Singleton announced he would be returning to the Yankees booth for the 2020 season. According to the New York Post, Singleton announced that he would be retiring after the 2021 season. On October 2, 2021 during the penultimate game of the regular season, he officially announced his retirement on air to take effect the following day.

Personal life
Singleton is a cousin of former NBA player and former Philadelphia 76ers head coach Glenn "Doc" Rivers, and the father of former minor league outfielder Justin Singleton.

Singleton grew up in a house in Mount Vernon, New York, once owned by the family of former Brooklyn Dodger Ralph Branca. According to broadcast references, Singleton still resides in the Baltimore area.

Singleton sits on the Board of Directors for the Cool Kids Campaign, a non-profit organization based in Towson, Maryland. One of Singleton's roles on the Board of Directors is to host the Celebrity Golf Tournament each June.

In the 1986 edition of the Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, James' wife Susan McCarthy picked Ken Singleton as one of the best-looking players in the 1970s. In a subsequent edition, James wrote that, upon reading the entry, Singleton sent her a thank-you card.

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Harbison

Harbison is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Beth Harbison, American author
 * Clarence Ellis Harbison (1885–1960), American animal psychologist
 * E. Harris Harbison (1907–1964), American academic
 * Ed Harbison (born 1941), American politician
 * Frederick H. Harbison (1912–1976), American organizational theorist
 * Joan Harbison (born 1938), British academic
 * John Harbison (born 1938), American composer
 * John Harbison (pathologist) (1935–2020), first State pathologist of Ireland
 * Mercy Harbison (1770–1837), American writer
 * Michael Harbison, Australian politician
 * Thomas Harbison (1864–1930), Irish politician
 * Thomas Grant Harbison (1862–1936), American botanist
 * Tre Harbison (born 1998), American football player

Harbison may also refer to:

 * Harbison cheese by Jasper Hill Farm

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Bill Singer

William Robert Singer (born April 24, 1944) is an American former professional baseball pitcher with a 14-year career from 1964 to 1977. He played primarily for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1964–72) and the California Angels (1973–75), spending his final two seasons with the Texas Rangers (1976), Minnesota Twins (1976), and Toronto Blue Jays (1977). His nicknames included "Sing Sing," "Billy No-No" and "The Singer Throwing Machine."

Los Angeles Dodgers
Singer made his major league debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 24, 1964, allowing one run in 6.1 innings in a start against the Chicago Cubs, as he had a no-decision in a 4-3 loss at Wrigley Field. Singer made one more start in 1964, allowing 4 runs in 7.2 innings in a 4-3 loss to the Cubs at Dodger Stadium.

During the next two seasons, Singer saw very little action with the Dodgers, pitching five innings in five games, as he spent most of his time in the minor leagues.

He had his first full season in Los Angeles in 1967, as Singer had an impressive 12-8 record with a 2.64 ERA in 32 games, 29 of them starts. In 1968, Singer had a very solid ERA of 2.88, however, he had a losing record of 13-17.

During this period, the legendary Dodger announcer, Vin Scully, referred to Singer as "the Singer Throwing Machine."

Singer had a breakout season in 1969, tying with Claude Osteen with a club high 20 wins, as he had a 20-12 record with a club best 2.34 ERA. Singer played in the 1969 Major League Baseball All-Star Game held at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., pitching two scoreless innings in the National League's 9-3 win. That year Singer also became the first pitcher to be officially credited with a save. The statistic was made official in 1969, and Singer recorded his on April 7, when he took over from Don Drysdale and secured a 3-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field.

He ran into injury problems in 1970, making only 16 starts, but had a record of 8-5 with a 3.13 ERA. After contracting hepatitis early in the season, he made a comeback, being named the NL Player of the Month for July as he had a 5-0 record with a 1.84 ERA. On the 20th of that month, he no-hit the Philadelphia Phillies 5-0 at Dodger Stadium. His season ended when he broke a finger.

Singer was the Dodgers opening day starter in 1971, however he struggled throughout the season, with a 10-17 record and a 4.16 ERA. He continued to struggle throughout the 1972 season, going only 6-16 with a 3.67 ERA.

On November 28, 1972, the Dodgers traded Singer, Billy Grabarkewitz, Frank Robinson, Mike Strahler, and Bobby Valentine to the California Angels for Ken McMullen and Andy Messersmith.

California Angels
Singer had a very strong 1973 season with the Angels, tying a career high with 20 wins, as he was 20-14 with a 3.22 ERA in 40 starts. Singer played in the 1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game held at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, where he allowed three runs in two innings as the American League lost 7-1.

Singer's season was shortened by back problems in 1974. He made 14 starts, earning a 7-4 record with a 2.98 ERA. He struggled in the 1975 season, going 7-15 with a 4.98 ERA.

Texas Rangers and Minnesota Twins
Singer was sent from the Angels to the Texas Rangers for Jim Spencer and $100,000 on December 10, 1975. He began the 1976 in Texas, and pitched well with them, going 4-1 with a 3.48 ERA in 10 starts. He was dealt along with Roy Smalley III, Mike Cubbage, Jim Gideon and $250,000 from the Rangers to the Minnesota Twins for Bert Blyleven and Danny Thompson on June 1.

He finished the 1976 season with the Twins, making 26 starts, and finishing with a 9-9 record and a 3.77 ERA in Minnesota.

Toronto Blue Jays
On November 5, 1976, the Toronto Blue Jays drafted Singer in the 1976 MLB Expansion Draft with the 28th overall selection. As a previous 20-game winner, Singer was one of the focal points of the Blue Jays initial marketing campaign. He was nearly traded for Ron Guidry in a transaction approved by the Yankees but vetoed by Blue Jays president Peter Bavasi.

Singer started the Blue Jays' first spring training game on March 11, 1977 at Grant Field in Dunedin, Florida. He surrendered a lead-off homerun to the Mets' Lee Mazzilli before the Blue Jays came back to win 3-1.

Singer was also the opening day starter for the expansion Blue Jays in 1977. He gave up 11 hits and 3 walks in 4.1 innings, and garnered a no-decision in Toronto's 9-5 win over the Chicago White Sox on a snowy afternoon at Exhibition Stadium. Singer struggled with the Blue Jays, and spent six weeks on the disabled list in June and July 1977. Singer was ineffective in his return to the rotation on July 13, 1977 and was moved to the bullpen. On July 16, after a relief appearance, he was shut down for the rest of the season, and never again pitched in the major or minor leagues. He finished the 1977 season 2-8 with a 6.79 ERA.

Singer did not pitch during the 1978 season and was released from the Blue Jays on December 2, 1978. He then retired, finishing his career with a 118-127 record, a 3.39 ERA and 1,515 strikeouts.

Post-playing career
After retirement he held various scouting and consulting positions with Florida Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers, and the New York Mets.

In 2003, Singer was terminated from his position as special assistant to General Manager Jim Duquette of the New York Mets after Singer disparaged the Los Angeles Dodgers' assistant general manager Kim Ng during general manager meetings with nonsensical mock Chinese while asking about her background. Ng was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to American-born parents of Chinese and Thai heritage. The incident was reported by ESPN and the Los Angeles Times. He later apologized, and blamed the Atkins diet and being drunk as the reasons for his remarks.

He was later hired by the Arizona Diamondbacks as a Major League scout in February 2005, with the Diamondbacks GM Joe Garagiola Jr stating, "We satisfied ourselves by talking to him, to other people about him and doing a thorough background check." In 2006, the Washington Nationals hired Singer as a scout and promoted him to director of professional scouting in 2009.

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Talk:Harvard Mark I

Arthur Lemay Harvard Class of 1959
In 1955 I was a student at Harvard and spent many hours in laboratory time programming the Univac I prototype, which was located immediately adjacent to the Harvard Mark I computer, and the later Mark II and other early vacuum tube computers.

The Mark I was enormously large and complex, and, at the time when I first saw it, it was running a code for designing lenses for military equipment. This computational task ran for weeks and weeks, and produced all of its results on a set of 10 Flexowriters (really just computer driven typewriters). The programs were not in memory, they were on giant rolls of thick paper the width of the IBM 80 column card. And, there were reading stations for multiple rolls. After watching it for an instant, anyone could grasp the concept of loops since the controls tranferred from one reading station to the other and the execution could be watched while in process. The programmers often applied paper patches on the paper rolls to fix program errors -- these were real patches, and of course the word "patch" is used to this day for temporary changes to any software.

Originally, the memory was implemented with a set of disks the size of saucers mounted on shafts, each with a cam to engage the disk in one of ten positions. The number of disks seemed enormous to me at the time. There was also a very small vacuum tube memory added much later, but the Mark I was really an electromechanical machine.

My fondest memory of early computing was when, one day, the lens program was done and the Laboratory staff set up a new problem for the Mark I to solve.

I watched as two graduate students entered constants into the memory: One was on a stepladder in front of a huge panel with 10-position butterfly switches. The other student yelled out 4, 6, 7, 2, 1, etc., and the first student on the stepladder set the switches for each digit in each memory constant. This took many hours to accomplish because all the constants needed to checked and verified. Then the paper tape programs were mounted and sequenced to their start positions. The next step was the process of actually transferring the fixed constants to disk-on-shaft memory.

There was a very large lever mounted inside the machine on what looked like a transmission box. The lever was quite long, giving good mechanical leverage, and the lever was up in the disengaged position -- withdrawing the cams and letting the disks spin freely on the shafts. The shafts were put in motion, at first giving a low-pitched mechanical humming sound, quieting down as the bearings came up to operating temperature. Then, the student brought the lever down a short way and we heard the most enormous clatter of the cams engaging the disks. Of course the inertia of accelerating the disks caused a strong backlash on the lever and one man could barely hold it. The lever was brought down further and the clatter got even louder and it seemed like the computer was shaking and the lever oscillated up and down violently. Then, suddenly -- total silence -- and the lever dropped home to the engaged position when all the disks on all the shafts were syncronized to the settings on the butterfly switches.

The dynamic memory was implemented in a large array of relays which actually had a very small capacity. This memory was initialized and the tapes commanded to read and execute the codes contained there. This computer ran the problem for weeks.

But, this was the world's first fully automatic computer, and it ran many problems in its lifetime. It is a pity that it no longer exists, but I saw some parts in Museums in Boston and Sunnyvale, California.

Arthur Lemay Harvard Class of 1959

 * I'm more than tolerably familiar with the machine, and there's something definitely wrong here. There may conceivably have been some lever(s) for disengaging functional units like interpolators for maintenance, or to reduce wear and tear – I don't think so, but it's possible I've missed something – but initiating a computation had no such mechanical step. It was not too long ago that you could actually switch on the drive motor on the half of the machine still resident at Harvard; I did it many times myself for visitors, and it came to life perfectly smoothly, with none of the violence described above. And there was certainly no process of "transferring the fixed constants to disk-on-shaft memory", because that makes no sense. The constants were used as an operand source exactly as the "counters" (adders which doubled as variable storage) were, just they couldn't be changed under program control. I can only imagine that the OP is mixing his memories of the Mark I with those of some other contrivance. EEng 20:42, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Query
Does anyone know what sort of problems the Mark I was created to solve? I heard it was made to calculate ballistic firing tables for artillery during the war, but I'd like to read that from an authoritative source. I've also never seen a ballistic firing table and wonder what they looked like.
 * "The History of Mathematical Tables from Sumer to Spreadsheets", ISBN 0198508417 refers to the Mark I as having cranked out 50 volumes of Bessel function tables among other things...--Billymac00 (talk) 02:58, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Unclear
"The main advantage of the Mark I was that it was fully automatic—it didn't need any human intervention once it started. It was the first fully automatic computer to be completed."

What exactly does this mean? This was Mark I's main advantage compare to what? I also don't see how the ABC, Eniac or Collosus are any "less automatic"?

"the beginning of the era of the modern computer"[2] and "the real dawn of the computer age".[3]

Really? Both of these statements seem odd - this machine is widely regarded as a dead-end, the last of its kind. The debate will rage always, but it moves between the ABC, Collosus and Eniac; the Mark I, and Z-1 for that matter, are always mentioned but generally commented on as not being "real" computers in the modern sense of the word.

Maury Markowitz (talk) 02:07, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Bel Geddes
According to the Norman Bel Geddes article, he was involved in the design of this machine. 2fort5r (talk) 11:53, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

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Who the hell is "Dr Camila Olmedo Mendez Zegarra"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.15.148.130 (talk) 09:09, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Pleas do no put in expletives. That name was part of some vandalism stuck into the article. Dmcq (talk) 21:25, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

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why Howard Aiken named the harvard mark 1 as mark,if he can use the official name Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator?

More in table
The table and "see also" sections are a bit redundant. And The IBM SSEC needs to go in the table. It was odd in using electronics to do the computation, but relays and tapes to store programs. Used BCD I think, and probably was Turing complete in theory? Ah, that is a separate template. Discussion belongs there.

W Nowicki (talk) 19:42, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Name
A bit misleading to say "Harvard" renamed it. Most modern sources now call it the "Harvard Mark I", even IBM uses both names. Also I wonder about the front panel. IBM had a history of doctoring photos to make their marketing look slick (ahead of their time?). But would need a source for this. W Nowicki (talk) 23:28, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Additional Source
http://books.google.com/books?id=PyEDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=popular%20science%201944&pg=PA86#v=onepage&q&f=true

I was browsing through the Wikipedia article for the UNIVAC computer, and noticed that it contained a citation to a 1949 Popular Science article. This article referenced a 1944 Popular Science article, which I've posted the Google Books link above. I don't really have the time to incorporate this additional information into the Harvard Mark I Wikipedia article, but it seems like a fascinating read. For now, I've added the link to the external references section of the article, but if someone could incorporate the new information, that would be great.

Thanks! Jason Smith (talk) 01:13, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

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Clair Lake
Moving to discuss, with Reify-tech, the formatting of Clair Lake's name in the article, having a tension between: I'm not a fan of the redlink, because while it does fix the local problem, it doesn't provide useful information about Clair when redirected from List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees, and would be circular unless the Clair Lake (inventor) redirect was removed. Ultimately, the best solution might be to write a page for Clair, although my argument has been that WP:1E suggests that a separate page isn't warranted; in the interim, perhaps the bold formatting would be less surprising if Frank Hamilton's name was also similar formatted. Thoughts? Klbrain (talk) 16:12, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Bold formatting to accommodate redirect from Clair Lake (inventor) as per WP:R, and
 * 2) Bold formatting is odd; perhaps a WP:REDLINK would be less baffling
 * In accordance with the more-fundamental principle of WP:PLA, most readers would find it very odd that an individual proper name is boldfaced, without any inline textual explanation, footnote, or Wikilink. Readers do not interpret boldfaced terms, lacking an obvious connection to the article title, as a "stub self-link", and are unlikely to be interested in a WikiGnomish technical argument for this formatting distraction that leads nowhere. Additionally boldfacing still more proper names without explanation would just increase confusion and disruption for somebody reading the article for information. I do not know of any examples of articles where this odd formatting actually reader understanding.
 * Even the Wikipedia guideline Help:Self link disparages this unexpected and baffling use of boldfacing, except for two cases that are not applicable here. The valid edge-cases discussed in WP:R are synonyms or near-synonyms, not obscurely-flagged stubs for further information or articles that do not exist yet. It is far less disruptive to the reader to use either a WP:REDLINK, or to just leave the proper name in regular typeface, and let the reader proceed unmolested.
 * I strongly suggest leaving the article status quo ante, and allowing any other interested editors at least a week to discuss their views about this. Reify-tech (talk) 17:04, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Some helpful suggestions there; entirely happy to leave time for discussion. I agree that WikiGnomish argument are subserviant to readability, but argue that bold formatting of key inventors will not be starting to naive editors, who might expect the recognised inventors to be, in some way, emphasised. Klbrain (talk) 17:48, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Show me some good examples of articles where this idiosyncratic bolding of selected words is not distracting to the reader. WP:RF implies that not startling readers (either naive or experienced) should be more important than arcane WikiGnomery in behalf of obscure insider editorial theories.  Reify-tech (talk) 13:54, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * We seem to have a different definition of idiosyncratic. Let's see if there are other opinions. Klbrain (talk) 01:27, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

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Aikinite

Aikinite is a sulfide mineral of lead, copper and bismuth with formula Pb Cu Bi S3. It forms black to grey or reddish brown acicular orthorhombic crystals with a Mohs hardness of 2 to 2.5 and a specific gravity of 6.1 to 6.8. It was originally found in 1843 in the Beryozovskoye deposit, Ural Mountains. It is named after Arthur Aikin (1773–1854), an English geologist.

It has been found in Western Tasmania, in mines located near Dundas, Tasmania

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Bud Stewart

Edward Perry "Bud" Stewart (June 15, 1916 – June 21, 2000) was an American professional baseball player. He had a nine-season (1941–1942; 1948–1954) career in Major League Baseball as an outfielder and pinch hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox. Stewart batted left-handed, threw right-handed, stood 5 ft tall and weighed 160 lb.

Stewart was born in Sacramento, California, and attended UCLA from 1934–1937. In the summer of 1937, he signed with the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League. He was a teammate of Ted Williams on the 1937 Padres, who won the PCL championship. While Williams moved on to a Hall of Fame career in the Majors, Stewart remained with the Padres until October 1, 1940, when he was purchased by the Pirates. He debuted for manager Frankie Frisch's 1941 Pirates on April 19.

A speedy and versatile defensive outfielder, Stewart also led the National League in pinch hits, with ten in 1941. He remained with the Pirates until June 1942, when he enlisted in the United States Army, serving until December 1945. Stewart then spent 1946 with the Hollywood Stars of the PCL until March 1947, when he was traded to the Yankee organization. After spending 1947 with the Kansas City Blues of the American Association, he began the 1948 season with the Yankees as a teammate of Joe DiMaggio. But on May 13, Stewart was traded to the Washington Senators, where he placed second in the American League in triples (13) in 1948. On December 11, 1950, Stewart was traded to the White Sox, and ended his career as a pinch hitter, retiring on June 9, 1954.

In 773 games over nine seasons, Stewart posted a .268 batting average (547 hits in 2041 at-bats) with 288 runs, 32 home runs, 260 RBI and 252 bases on balls. He recorded a .980 fielding percentage playing at all three outfield positions and several games at second and third base.

During and after his playing days, he was a physical education instructor in Hawthorne, California, and appeared as an extra in several Hollywood films. A story, told by Stewart himself, had him facing legendary pitcher Satchel Paige in a 1948 game—and hitting a triple through Paige's legs.

Bud Stewart died in Palo Alto, California, at the age of 84.

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Source
http://www.proyectosalonhogar.com/escritores/MargotArce.htm

Rationale for use:
1. The subject is no longer alive, he died in 1990, therefore the image in question is not replaceable 2. Image is early 1950's used as promotional and appears in multiple sites. 3. Will be used only in subjects Bio.

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Talk:List of Korean ceramic artists and sculptors

I have made this a composite of various potential lists. If some-one thinks that potters, ceramic artists, and sculptors (and??) do not belong on the same page, then make a more approiate listingsystem, but be sure to correctlinksto what-ever ends up. Kdammers 07:10, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Speedy deletion
Speedy deletion can only be done for very specific reasons, listed at WP:CSD. These don't include "unnotable and unneeded". If you think that this should be deleted then you need to follow the procedure at WP:AFD to list it for a deletion discussion. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:18, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Can someone put this up for AFD for me? I haven't before,  Raiku  Lucifer   Samiyaza  19:21, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Read the WPP:CSD. this article does not qualify.Kdammers (talk) 01:28, 15 February 2009 (UTC)


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Michael Berlyn

Michael Berlyn (1949 – March 2023) was an American video game designer and writer. He was best known as an implementer at Infocom, part of the text adventure game design team. He is also known as the designer behind Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (1993) and Bubsy 3D (1996).

Brainwave Creations was a small game programming company started by Michael Berlyn. The company was founded in the mid-1980s, and is probably best known for co-creating Tass Times in Tonetown along with Interplay's Rebecca Heineman.

Berlyn joined Marc Blank in founding the game company Eidetic, which later became Bend Studio. In the midst of working on the company's second game, Syphon Filter, Berlyn left the video game industry. He later explained, "I did not like what the game business had become, the people who were driving it, or the nature of the product. I left before it was done and said, 'Do not put my name on the product.' I walked away from my own company. When you tell me you want to put a monk or a nun in my game and have them standing there holding guns so I can justify having the players shoot them, I think that crosses the boundaries of good taste. It doesn't offend ME, but it's got to be in bad taste, and you have to know that."

In 1998, Berlyn started Cascade Mountain Publishing, whose goals were to publish ebooks and interactive fiction. Cascade Mountain Publishing went out of business in 2000. After this business venture collapsed, Berlyn returned to the video game industry, with a focus on casual games.

Berlyn created a "light-jazz" band called Hot Mustard, made up entirely of his own music and performances.

Berlyn was diagnosed with cancer in September 2014, after which he underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment until at least mid-2015. He died in March 2023, at the age of 73.

Games

 * Oo-Topos, 1981, Sentient Software and Polarware/Penguin Software
 * Cyborg, 1981, Sentient Software
 * Gold Rush, 1982, Sentient Software
 * Congo, 1982, Sentient Software
 * Suspended, 1983, Infocom
 * Infidel, 1983, Infocom
 * Cutthroats, 1984, Infocom
 * Fooblitzky, 1985, co-designer, Infocom
 * Tass Times in Tonetown, 1986, Activision
 * Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I., 1988, First Row Software Publishing
 * Keef the Thief, 1989, Electronic Arts
 * Altered Destiny, 1990, Accolade
 * Les Manley in: Search for the King, 1990, Accolade
 * Snoopy's Game Club, 1992, Accolade (with former Intellivision programmer Gene Smith)
 * Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, 1993, Accolade
 * Bubsy 3D, 1996, Accolade
 * Zork: The Undiscovered Underground, 1997, Activision (with Marc Blank)
 * Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I., 1999, Cascade Mountain Publishing
 * Syphon Filter, 1999, contributor, producer, 989 Studios
 * Zen Ball, Quick Click Software
 * The Art of Murder (with Muffy Berlyn), iOS, Windows, OS X, Flexible Tales
 * Grok the Monkey (aka Carnival of Death) (with Muffy Berlyn), iOS, Windows, Flexible Tales
 * A Taste for Murder (with Muffy Berlyn), iOS, Windows, Flexible Tales
 * Reconstructing Remy (an interactive novel with Muffy Berlyn), iOS, Windows, Flexible Tales
 * Ogg!, iOS, OS X, Flexible Tales

Novels

 * The Integrated Man, Bantam Books, (1980) ISBN 978-0-5531-3999-0
 * Crystal Phoenix, Bantam Books, (1980) ISBN 978-0-5531-3468-1
 * Blight as Mark Sonders, Ace Books, (1981) ISBN 978-0-4410-6709-1
 * Eternal Enemy, Wm. Morrow, (1990) ISBN 978-0-8779-5963-2

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Peter Dickinson (architect)

Peter Allgood Rastall Dickinson (21 October 1925 – 15 October 1961) was a British-Canadian architect. Practising from the late 1940s to the early 1960s and working primarily in Toronto, Dickinson is credited as one of the leaders in developing the Mid-Century Modern style in Canada during the post-World War II period.

Biography
Peter Dickinson was born on 21 October 1925 in Walberswick. His father, Eric, was a partner in the brokerage firm Dickinson and Sidebottom. Peter Dickinson grew up in a home on Grove End Road in St. John's Wood, and attended Westminster School from 1938 to 1941. Having developed a passion for drawing, Dickinson entered the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1942. After two years of school, Dickinson served in the Grenadier Guards beginning in 1944 and was honourably discharged on 26 November 1945. After the War, Dickinson returned to AA, studying with H. T. Cadbury-Brown and graduating in February 1948. Upon graduation, his first job was with architect Wells Coates. During his remaining time in England, Dickinson worked on a variety of small projects. While on a business trip to England, Toronto architect Forsey Page of Page and Steele discovered Dickinson and offered him the position of head designer at the firm.

On 3 March 1950, Dickinson married Vera Klausner. The couple had met at the Esmeralda, a club owned by Vera's sister. The two sisters were Austrian and at the outbreak of the War had been sent to England to go to boarding school. Two months after marrying, the newlyweds sailed to Canada on the RMS Franconia, leaving on 5 May and arriving in Halifax on 13 May. Four days later, Dickinson began work in Toronto. Eight years later on 16 May 1958, Peter Dickinson became a Canadian citizen.

Forsey Page and Harland Steele's firm operated out of offices on 72 St. Clair Avenue West. The firm had existed since 1925 and by the time Dickinson arrived it was designing buildings in the Georgian-modern style. Significant projects in the years before Dickinson arrived included the British American Oil Building (800 Bay Street) and the Park Lane Apartments (110 St. Clair Avenue West), the latter notable as the residence of Glenn Gould. As design chief for Page and Steele, Dickinson's early projects included the Lyndwood School, Canadian Red Cross Society Building, and the Toronto Teachers' College. By the mid-1950s, Peter Dickinson had developed a large body of work including office buildings, schools, and apartments. The Dickinsons themselves lived in one of Peter's buildings, the Benvenuto Apartments on Avenue Road.

By the late 1950s, Dickinson was eager to go out on his own. In January 1958 he left Page and Steele, forming Peter Dickinson Associates. The associates were Colin Vaughan, Dick Williams, Rod Robbie, and Fred Ashworth and the firm operated out of the Canadian Petrofina Building at 1910 Yonge Street. The first project the new firm received was the Seminary for the Jesuit Fathers of Upper Canada, located in North York. Significant projects from the early days of the new firm included the 55 Yonge Street office building, the Continental Can Building, and the 500 Avenue Road apartments. The new firm had also opened offices in Ottawa and Montreal, designing an array of buildings in both of those cities.

On 1 October 1960, one of Dickinson's most significant works, the O'Keefe Centre, opened to the public. The opening night featured the premiere of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot starring Richard Burton and Julie Andrews. The building had been designed while Dickinson was still at Page and Steele, and the lobby featured a mural entitled "The Seven Lively Arts," painted by York Wilson.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Peter Dickinson Associates designed a number of significant projects in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montréal, including the Trans-Canada Pipeline Building, the Elm Ridge Golf and Country Club, and the North Toronto Medical Building. Although not completed until after his death, it was also during this period that he designed the Imperial Bank Building in Montréal for the bank's head, Neil McKinnon. When it opened in 1962, it was the tallest building in the British Commonwealth. In January 1960 the four associates with the firm left. Shortly thereafter Dickinson appointed Peter Webb, Boris Zerafa, Jack Korbee, Peter Tirion, René Menkès, and Rick Housden as his new associates. Following Dickinson's death, members of this group would go on to form WZMH Architects.

In the early 1960s, Dickinson, a long-time chain smoker, began to experience stomach pain. He entered the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto in July 1961 and was diagnosed with stomach cancer. While in the hospital, he was visited by Isadore Sharp. Following the visit, Dickinson produced his last design, the Inn on the Park, which he gave to Sharp several days later. That September Dickinson transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal. On 15 October 1961, he died at his home in Montréal, leaving behind his wife and two sons.

Legacy
Along with Dickinson, architects including John C. Parkin, James Murray, Peter Caspari, and Gordon Adamson added many modernist buildings to Toronto's built landscape over the course of the 1950s.

While many of Dickinson's works still stand, an increasing number have been lost. Most recently, the Regent Park South Towers and the Jesuit Seminary have been demolished. Out of the five houses that Dickinson designed, only one – the Isadore Sharp Residence – remains.

At the urging of Dickinson's widow, John Martins-Manteiga of Dominion Modern wrote the first book solely dedicated to Peter Dickinson's life and work. The book was published in 2010 and was researched primarily using family papers and photographs.

Many of Dickinson's original drawings are held at the Archives of Ontario as part of the "Page and Steele Architects Fonds."

Awards
Peter Dickinson won the Massey Medal for Architecture for:

 * Toronto Teachers' College (1955)
 * Regent Park South Apartments (1958)
 * Trans-Canada Pipeline Building (1961)
 * Four Seasons Motor Hotel (1961)
 * Ontario Hospital Association Building (1961)
 * KLM Dutch Airlines Ticket Office [interior design] (1961)
 * Workmen's Compensation Board Building (1961)

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent 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.

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Not notable and will date DarbyAsh 07:12, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. - DarbyAsh 07:12, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Published author, seems to be a notable public figure. His willingness to date Darby is no reason to delete this article. Pburka 19:55, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Self-published.  I added the information about the book into the article.  I'd like to know if there is any way to get enough verifiable information on him to expand the article further.  Jkelly 22:43, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I suggest that the info in Alkerism should be merged into this article, and Alkerism changed to a redirect. Pburka 01:42, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment There's no reference listed for any of the material at Alkerism. Is any of it verifiable?  Jkelly 02:50, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, chair of the British Deaf Association. Kappa 00:23, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I am Tomato, the writer of the article on 'Alkerism'. I would be happy to see 'Alkerism' and 'Doug Alker' merged, with a link to 'Deaf Culture' - an excellent article.  I am new to wikipedia so forgive me if my articles are not perfect. If you want to contact me, please email me: tomato (circle-a) spc (dot) org.  References are:
 * Guardian newspsper article about him: http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,,816823,00.html
 * RNID comment on his sacking: http://www.rnid.org.uk/forums/generalforum/conflicting_issues/
 * Keep - chair of the British Deaf Association. --Cel e stianpower hablamé 11:43, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Prominent figure in deaf community (BDA & RNID) Mrdini
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James Dale Davidson

James Dale Davidson is an American private investor and investment writer, co-writer of the newsletter Strategic Investment, and co-author with William Rees-Mogg of Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad (1987), The Great Reckoning (1991), and The Sovereign Individual (1997). He wrote The Plague of the Black Debt - How to Survive the Coming Depression in 1993 in which he predicted that as part of a "deep depression...Clinton is going to be a one-term president...I am as sure of this as I am that the sun will rise tomorrow" and that the US national debt would increase by a trillion dollars during Clinton's "one-term" presidency. He further wrote in the book that Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, would lose his job and that Russia will come under the control of a nationalist, militarist regime. He has been credited with predicting the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, though much earlier than it actually occurred.

Davidson was the founder and former head of the National Taxpayers Union. On his website, Davidson claims to be a "famous economist", despite the fact that he has not received any university degree in economics or published in any peer-reviewed journal.

In his books and his monthly newsletter, Strategic Investment, Davidson has promoted conspiracy theories claimed to link the Clinton administration to the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster. Foster's death was deemed a suicide by five official or governmental investigations.

Davidson is an original investor and board member of the conservative news site Newsmax Media. In February 2010, he posted a video on the website AftershockProfits.com claiming that "supposed improvements" in the US economy during the Clinton administration were "faked by the government" and a "hoax."

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Hi, I'm Stefanlinden, also known as Acetamide. My real name is Stefan van der Linden, hence my wikipedia username.

I'm an enthousiastic flightsimmer and paintball2'er.

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There are a lot of un-cited claims in this article. I was able to find sources for a couple of them, but not for all. Changed some of the wording to be more objective, because parts of this read like promotional material. Also, why is "Legal Issues" the very first section? Isn't it far more common to put them in the middle of the article or at the end? Arrowhead1014 (talk) 01:14, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

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