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Heartmind
This is quite a distinct variation of the earlier article, which however was based solely within the context of the Lam Rim tradition.

I wanted to comment on the suggestion that this article be merged with the one entitled 'Heartmind' - I have been a student of Tibetan Buddhism for about 17 years, and have never heard of Bodhichitta being translated as 'heartmind'. I don't consider it to be a good translation - it simply does not seem to mean anything. What would it mean to have a 'heart mind'? A far better translation is 'mind of enlightment' - because (in particular) the Sanskrit word 'bodhichitta' is a conjunction of the words 'bodhi' (meaning enlightement) and chitta (meaning mind). Much of what is in that 'heart mind' article also appears dubious. My feeling is that the article 'heart mind' should simply be deleted. Personally, I don't feel that the term 'heart mind' should even be mentioned as a translation of bodhichitta - I simply don't believe it is correct. --Darkstar9999 16:11, 5 May 2007 (UTC)darkstar9999

I've been looking at the History of this page, and found that prior to the changes made on 4 May 07, this article was actually quite reasonable. On that date, accurate information was deleted and quite a bit of amateurish, misleading rubbish added. I would like to revert it to how it was before those changes - but unfortunately I'm relatively new to Wikipedia and not sure (yet) of how one goes about that. --Darkstar9999 16:40, 5 May 2007 (UTC)darkstar9999

Hi, everyone. I wanted to note that the term "Hinayana" is quite loaded and controversial; there are no groups who self-identify with the term Hinayana, and it is considered by many Buddhist groups to be derogatory. Since this article is about a point of Mahayana and Vajrayana teaching and practice, it seems unnecessary to go into points of difference with other schools. It's quite simple to rephrase "Bodhicitta is what distinguishes Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna (or tantric) Buddhism from the Hinayāna schools." as "...Buddhism from other Buddhist schools." You can refer to the Hinayana article for more info on the debate, but it is considered respectful, and really more accurate, to refer to non-Mahayana, non-Vajrayana schools/sects of Buddhism by what they call themselves, not by what the Mahayana Buddhists call them. 71.192.43.152 (talk) 03:17, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I not only agree with the above comment, but in my more recent edits hope I have made it clear that it is only certain teachings and methods relating to the development of bodhicitta that are unique to particular schools, whereas bodhicitta itself, being closely related to buddha-nature, is not only independent of school but is part of being human. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.229.11.118 (talk) 06:09, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

As far as I know, the first historical arising of Bodhicitta is supposed to have been in the Hell realm, where the Buddha and another sufferer were pulling a cart that was too heavy even for both of them and they were being whipped by devils. Suddenly the Buddha has a thought: why should both of us suffer like this? Let them just whip me and let at least this other person be spared. I very much doubt if 'Enlightenment' was foremost in the Buddha's mind at the time, or if at the time he even had any idea what it was. The idea that Bodhicitta is exclusively concerned with wishing that others become 'enlightened' would seem to be at odds with most of what I have read on the subject by e.g. the Dalai Lama and most other contemporary Buddhist teachers. The author of the last edits may hold that view, but I certainly don't see how the notion can be universally accepted as part of the definition. If this notion is to stay in at all it should, in my opinion, be in the main body of the article and be much better sourced. 63.229.11.118 (talk) 16:31, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Also, I don't see how a non-physical being such as 'Maitreya' can be quoted as a source in a supposedly-objective encyclopedia. For instance, in an article on Christianity, it would be OK to say 'the following statement is attributed to the historical Jesus Christ in the Gospel of John...' but not 'God said...' or 'the Holy Spirit commanded...' which would imply a belief system not necesarily shared by the reader of the article. 63.229.11.118 (talk) 17:54, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

The concept of bodhicitta (along with the other skillfull means) as one part of the two-fold path to enlightenment ( 1-wisdom and 2-skillful means, or 1-understanding of emptiness and 2-uncontrived bodhicitta ) has its fullest expression in the literature of the Mahayana. Though it is mentioned in earlier Indian Buddhist texts in Pali, it is the Sanskrit literature of the Mahayana which brought it into its fullest development. Among Mayahana schools, the "definition" of bodhicitta as a general concept is usually cited as the one given in the Ornament of Clear Realizations, one of the five texts dictated by Maitreya to Asanga (do a Wiki search on 'Tibetan Buddhist Canon' for the rest). This text is generally acknowledged by Buddhists as a dissertation by Maitreya -- he is cited as the author (even in translations sold by Amazon, for instance). This text by Maitreya is studied (meaning memorized) in all four major divisions of Tibetan Monasteries and cited by monks frequently in debate. If asked this question in debate "What is the definition of bodhicitta?" a monk would no doubt quote Maitreya and respond "It is the wish to gain full enlightenment to be of benefit to all sentient beings." That would be the beginning.

Is that the end of the meaning of bodhicitta? Of course not. There are different types and connotations of the word, and those belong in a lengthy description of the topic, which we should certainly have here if we want. But the uninitiated reader, perhaps a non-Buddhist, who is looking up this term for the first time and has no clue what it means should first be given the most common definition of the term as a starting point, and then be presented with a more thorough treatment of the subject. This is my opinion, but I'm open to suggestions because I am no expert on encyclopedia design. Far from it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.130.7.130 (talk) 20:06, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't see your post above with regard to using "enlightenment" in the definition of bodhicitta. The definition as put forth in the Sanskrit texts by Maitreya needs to have all of the parts: (1) the desire to gain (2) full enlightenment (Buddhahood) (3) for onesself (4) in order to benefit all other sentient beings. If one of these parts is left out, it is incomplete. We unenlightened sentient beings see the severe suffering of other sentient beings migrating in the six realms of samsara and are aroused by our compassion to help them. We may even take the bodhisattva vows to help all sentient beings' sufferings. But then we are struck with a reality attack and realize that we can't even help OURSELVES with our sufferings, our afflictive emotions like anger, and jealousy, and so forth. How could we possibly help all other sentient beings?

The answer is that we need nothing less than the capabilities of a Buddha. Buddhas do nothing but help other beings and they have special attributes that enable them to help other beings perfectly like clairvoyance to read their minds and their needs, the ability to emanate many Nirmanakaya and Sambhogakaya emanations of themselves into different world systems to teach other humans and bodhisattvas in pure lands, and so forth. We realize that the only way we can truly help all sentient beings is to become fully enlightened -- to become Buddhas ourselves. We want not just to attain nirvana (aka moksha, or liberation) which is freedom from our OWN emotional and cognitive afflictions, but we want to go beyond that and attain full enlightenment, endowed with all of the capabilities of a Buddha to help other sentient beings. And this wish -- to attain enlightenment for onesself specifically for the purpose of helping all suffering sentient beings in all world systems -- is bodhicitta. We develop it in a contrived way at first, and through meditation strive to have genuine, uncontrived bodhicitta. The moment we have that uncontrived bodhicitta in our mindstreams, we become bodhisattvas and begin the first level (bhumi) of the bodhisattva path. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.130.7.130 (talk) 23:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

absolute and relative (bodhicitta)
Quote: "Basically there are two levels of bodhicitta. They are the absolute bodhicitta and the relative bodhicitta. The relative bodhicitta is the wish or vow that all mother sentient beings attain Buddhahood. After making the vow or aspiration, one should engage in the actual activity of bodhicitta to actualize the vow or aspiration. Merely by making the vow is not enough."
 * Drikung Kagyu Ngöndro Teaching By Lama Sonam Jorphel Rinpoche

As far as relative bodhicitta is concerned: how does this quotation go together with the text on the mainpage?

 * Austerlitz -- 88.75.92.10 (talk) 05:55, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

well done
This is a rather excellent article. It's not only mostly scripturally accurate, but captures much of the experiential reality of this process. It seems some of the authors must be actual practitioners. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zenji (talk • contribs) 00:36, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. Well done! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.9.244.188 (talk) 13:16, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Bodhicitta - luminous mind
In Pali Canon and its commentaries there is no mention about bodhicitta. Luminous mind is the mind of the 4th jhana. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.249.15.132 (talk) 19:10, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

The term isn't used: the concepts that go to make up the Mahayana concept of Bodhicitta crop up a lot in the Pali canon. The article explains this correctly. I agree that the 'luminous mind' concept is not the only Pali term that overlaps bodhicitta. If you want to edit the article to that effect, go ahead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.126.71.18 (talk) 01:01, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

reaching enlightenment to benefit or benefiting to reach enlightenment
A Khenpo, who teaches at the Kagyu College in India, when asked, told me that bodhicitta means both compassion, or the wish to bring people out of suffering, and loving-kindness, or the wish to bring others to a state of happiness. Essentially, bodhicitta is a wish to bring all sentient beings to Enlightenment.

This page inaccurately states that bodhicitta is the wish to bring oneself to Enlightenment in order to then benefit all sentient beings. I believe that in the Theravada tradition this is the ideal, but it is the case in the Indo-Tibetan tradition that the ideal of the bodhisattva is to bring ALL sentient beings to enlightenment. There have been many bodhisattvas who have vowed to stay in Samsara until ALL beings are brought to enlightenment, for instance His Holiness The Dalai Lama.

I think that this page should be corrected to reflect the Tibetan ideal of staying in samsara in order to continue to benefit all sentient beings, and to withhold oneself from entering enlightenment. makeswell (talk) 18:31, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

I agree, that would be better and more in accordance with at least my understanding. Don't have time to do it though (sourcing it would take a while) ChengduTeacher (talk) 14:13, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

lots wrong here.
The entire luminous mind section appears to be based on one text which is hardly an RS. I pulled it altogether. My understanding of Bodhicitta is at complete variance with this. I agree with the authors makeswell and ChengduTeacher here. (20040302 (talk) 15:13, 6 November 2013 (UTC))

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Melissa Reeves (née Brennan; born March 14, 1967) is an American actress, best known for playing Jennifer Horton on the NBC series Days of Our Lives (1985–1995, 2000–2006, 2010–2022).

Personal life
Reeves was born in Eatontown, New Jersey. Since March 1990, she has been married to soap opera actor and country music singer Scott Reeves. They have 2 children: Emily Taylor Reeves (born June 23, 1992) and Lawrence "Larry" David Reeves (born August 4, 1997).

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Among Reeves' early film roles was the thriller Summer Camp Nightmare (1987). Her first television role was as Jade Perkins on Santa Barbara from 1984 to 1985. She originated the role of the adult Jennifer Horton (later Jennifer Deveraux) on Days of Our Lives in 1985 (prior to which the character had been a child played by a young actress), and remained in the role until 1995. Reeves abruptly left Days during the show's thirtieth anniversary season, and Corday Productions and Sony TV Entertainment sued her for breach of contract. The matter was settled out of court with Reeves paying an unspecified sum, which Days Executive Producer Ken Corday donated to pediatric AIDS research. The role of Jennifer had quickly been recast with actress Stephanie Cameron, who remained on the show until 1998.

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Talk:Zero-point-energy

An article on this topic already exists: Zero-point energy - it is properly punctuated (your second dash is unnecessary). Your article should be incorporated into that article, and this page turned into a redirect.

However, the two articles are sufficiently different that it will take some knowledge and effort to combine them propertly. Can you do that? - DavidWBrooks 23:53, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

 * I've moved the content, as suggested, with a merge tag.
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Anacostia

Anacostia is a historic neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. Its downtown is located at the intersection of Marion Barry Avenue (formerly Good Hope Road) and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. It is located east of the Anacostia River, after which the neighborhood is named.

Bounded by the Southeast Freeway to the north and northwest, the Suitland Parkway to the south and southwest as well as Fort Stanton and Ricketts Park to the east, Anacostia includes all of the Anacostia Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Often the name "Anacostia" is used to refer to the entire portion of the city that is southeast of the Anacostia River. The Anacostia Business Improvement District is responsible for the development of the area.

History
The name "Anacostia" comes from the anglicized name of a Nacochtank settlement along the Anacostia River. Archaeological evidence indicates that American Indians settled in the Washington, D.C., area at least 4,000 years ago, close to the Anacostia River. Native inhabitants within the present-day District of Columbia included the Nacotchtank, at Anacostia, who were affiliated with the Conoy.

Captain John Smith explored the area in 1608, traveling up the "Eastern Branch"—later the Anacostia River—mistaking it for the main body of the Potomac River, and met Anacostans. Before the arrival of whites, the Nacostine villages in this area were a lively center of trade visited by Native Americans such as the Iroquois of New York. Even after the founding of Maryland, Leonard Calvert, in a letter to a merchant in London, described "Anacostan" as one of the three best places in the colony for trading with natives.

Around the year 1668, native peoples previously living south of Anacostia were forced northward by war. Anacostine Island, which first appeared on a 1670 map drawn by Augustine Herman, was settled by the Anacostans around this time. The core of what is now the Anacostia historic district was incorporated in 1854 as Uniontown and was one of the early suburbs in the District of Columbia. It was designed to be affordable for Washington's working class, many of whom were employed across the river at the Navy Yard; its (then) location outside of and isolated from the city made its real estate inexpensive. The initial subdivision of 1854 carried restrictive covenants prohibiting the sale, rental or lease of property to anyone of African or Irish descent. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, often called "the sage of Anacostia", bought Cedar Hill, the estate belonging to the developer of Uniontown, in 1877 and lived there until he died in 1895. The home is still maintained as the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Anacostia.

During the Civil War, Anacostia was protected by a series of forts upon the hills southwest of the city. Following the conclusion of the war, the forts were dismantled and the land returned to its original owners.

Anacostia, always part of the District of Columbia, became a part of the city of Washington when the city and District became coterminous in 1878. On January 27, 1886, the House of Representatives Committee on the District of Columbia voted in favor of renaming Uniontown to Anacostia. After the bill passed the House of Representatives, the Senate also voted in favor of the name change. The name change became effective on April 22, 1886. At the time, property deeds restricted land ownership to people who were white, and therefore Anacostia had only white residents.

The opening of the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge in 1890 began to link Anacostia to the rest of the District of Columbia.

Great Depression
In 1932, during the Great Depression, unemployed World War I veterans from all across the country marched on Washington to demand immediate payment of a bonus promised to them. The event became known as the Bonus Army Conflict. Most of the Bonus Army camped on Anacostia Flats, a swampy, muddy area along the Anacostia River later reclaimed as Anacostia Park/Fairlawn Park. Fearing civil unrest, the President ordered the military to disperse the campers from Washington. The Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur dispersed them, but exceeded the orders of President Herbert Hoover by crossing the bridge to Anacostia and torching the veteran's encampment. MacArthur believed that the Bonus Army was composed of and led by Communists. George Patton and Dwight Eisenhower served under MacArthur during these events.

Post-war years
Anacostia's population remained predominantly European-American up until the late 1950s and early 1960s, with whites comprising 87% of the population. During the 1960s, the Anacostia Freeway (I-295) was constructed. The highway imposed a barrier between the Anacostia neighborhood and the Anacostia River waterfront. Numerous public housing apartment complexes were built in the neighborhood. With the flight of much of the middle class out of the neighborhood during the late 1950s and 1960s with the opportunity to move to newer housing in postwar suburbs, Anacostia's demographics changed dramatically as the neighborhood became predominantly African American. Interactions between the area's white and black residents were often contentious, as was the case in the 1949 Anacostia riot at a desegregated public pool.

Shopping, dining, and entertainment facilities throughout greater Anacostia are limited, as development slowed with a decrease in income in the area. Residents often must travel to either the suburbs or downtown Washington for these services. Anacostia, however, does have a year-round ice skating rink at Fort Dupont Park; the city police boys' club; and a tennis and learning center, combining sports with academic tutoring in Congress Heights.

St. Elizabeth's Hospital, D.C. Village and the Blue Plains sewage treatment plant were long-established Anacostia developments noted in a late-1990s report. The report also cited attention to the area at that time from Hillary Clinton and Newt Gingrich.

In 2005, Building Bridges Across the River opened the 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m2) Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC) which is home to eleven nonprofit organizations, all of which share the goal of helping children and adults reach their full potential. Free summer evening jazz concerts are also given weekly in Fort Dupont Park. The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Parade is a notable annual event along the Avenue bearing Dr. King's name. Starting in 2006 the annual parade date was changed from January to April. (Also see the separate article on Congress Heights). In January 2007 a new large supermarket opened to serve the neighborhood.

Geography
Anacostia downtown is located at the intersection of Marion Barry Avenue (formerly Good Hope Road) and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. It is the most famous neighborhood in the Southeast quadrant of Washington, located east of the Anacostia River, after which the neighborhood is named.

Demographics
As of the 2010 Census, Anacostia's population is 92% African-American, 5% Non-Hispanic White, and 3% other.

Landmarks
The Anacostia Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, and it retains much of its mid-to-late 19th-century low-scale, working-class character, as is evident in its architecture.

In 1957, an Anacostia landmark, the "world's largest chair", was installed at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and V Street SE. The chair was installed by the Curtis Brothers Furniture Company and built by Bassett Furniture. In the summer of 2005, the "Big Chair" was removed for repairs, then returned in April 2006.

Industry
Notable facilities in the area include Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling (formerly Bolling Air Force Base and Naval Support Facility Anacostia).

Tourism
Founded in 2000, the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative is revitalizing a 45 acre piece of the Anacostia River waterfront to promote the community. Plans include numerous parks restored of their natural wetlands and forests, canoe tie-ups, a playground, a four-acre 9/11 memorial grove, and an environmental education center. The center provides visitors with education about the history and use of the Anacostia River through a 9000 sqft, two-story complex topped by a green roof/nursery center with classrooms, labs, and a multipurpose area beneath. Studios Architecture was chosen to be the architect of the project, while the administrating agency will be the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation.

Hospitals

 * St. Elizabeths Hospital (more than 100 years old)
 * United Medical Center (formally Greater Southeast Community Hospital)

Education
District of Columbia Public Schools operates public schools. Anacostia High School serves Anacostia. Ballou High School is in southern Anacostia. The area has a number of middle and elementary schools, and is also the location of Thurgood Marshall Academy.

Culture

 * The Anacostia Museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, was established in 1967 by S. Dillon Ripley, then-Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
 * The Anacostia Arts Center and Honfleur Gallery, located near the corner of Martin Luther Jr. King Ave and Good Hope Road is a gallery showcasing nationally known works alongside that of local artists. It hosts a bi-monthly poetry series called Intersections, sponsored by the American Poetry Museum.
 * District of Columbia Public Library operates the Anacostia Neighborhood Library.
 * Cedar Hill, the home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, known as the "Lion of Anacostia", sits atop a hill overlooking the Anacostia neighborhood on W Street SE.
 * The Anacostia Playhouse brings in many different events to their blackbox theater which includes productions by Theater Alliance located at 2020 Shannon Place SE.

Cultural reference
In the 2007 film inspired by the life of Ralph Waldo 'Petey' Greene (played by Don Cheadle), Greene's straightlaced counterpart Dewey Hughes played by Chiwetel Ejiofor surprises all with his skill at '9 ball' pool. "Grew up in the Anacostia projects ... [and] made [my] way through school hustling", he explains about himself after their game in Talk to Me. The film is set in the late 1960s.

Transportation
The neighborhood, served by the Anacostia Metro station, is a 10-minute ride on Washington Metro's Green Line from downtown Washington; other Metro stations on the Green and Orange lines serve other parts of Greater Anacostia.

I-295 runs through the neighborhood; it connects to DC 295 further north, and these two routes make up the entire routing of the Anacostia Freeway.

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Just Shoot Me!

Just Shoot Me! is an American sitcom television series that originally aired on NBC from March 4, 1997, to November 26, 2003, with a total of 145 half-hour episodes spanning seven seasons, including 3 episodes aired on syndication. The show, created by Steven Levitan, one of the show's executive producers, is set in the office of a fictional fashion magazine called Blush, comparable to the real-life magazine Vogue. The show's story revolves around several staff members at the magazine, including Jack Gallo, the owner and publisher; his daughter Maya, a writer for the magazine; secretary Finch; former model and now-fashion correspondent Nina; and photographer Elliot.

Series history
Early on, the series was a very competitive hit, consistently winning its time slot. The first season of six episodes was all aired by NBC in a single month in March 1997. It was renewed for a 13-episode second season and fitted at 9:30 p.m. after Frasier, and then was moved in the spring to Thursdays between Friends and Seinfeld. After just two of these airings, the order was bumped up to a full season. When Seinfeld ended in 1998, Just Shoot Me! was one of the contenders to take the coveted 9:00 p.m. Thursday slot. Frasier instead won the slot, and Just Shoot Me! was instead given Frasier's 9:00 p.m. Tuesday slot.

Just Shoot Me! was never given a definitive time slot during its series run. The show ended up being moved around on the NBC schedule. It still retained good ratings, though; in its fourth season, it was the top-rated show for NBC Tuesday nights and had an average rating/share of 6.1/16 in the 18–49 demographic.

Cast

 * Laura San Giacomo – Maya Gallo
 * David Spade – Dennis Finch
 * Wendie Malick – Nina Van Horn
 * George Segal – Jack Gallo
 * Enrico Colantoni – Elliot DiMauro
 * Chris Hogan – Wally Dick (1997)
 * Rena Sofer – Vicki Costa (2002–2003)
 * Brian Posehn – Kevin Liotta

Maya Gallo
The character of Maya Gallo is portrayed by Laura San Giacomo. In the pilot, Maya is largely characterised as a hot-tempered, sassy journalist who takes on a job at the fictional glamour fashion magazine Blush, owned by her father Jack Gallo, after she was fired for tampering with an anchorwoman's teleprompter and making her cry on the air. She is shown to have headstrong smarts despite her naïveté about life. Though she is seen as attractive and uses this if a situation calls for it, Maya frowns upon men looking at women solely as objects of sexual desire, and in keeping with her feminist views, instead encourages people to admire women for their intelligence or other attributes. However, this view puts her at odds with most of the magazine's staff, thus providing much of the comedic conflict of the series.

She is commonly mistaken for being Puerto Rican. Her birthday is January 1, but her father Jack is unable to remember it.

Maya is often seen dating other characters on the show. She and Elliot are shown as a couple for quite some time, and they are briefly engaged. However, Elliot's fear of commitment causes him to instantly have a panic attack moments after he proposes to her. Among her other dates were Michael Tenzer (David Rasche), Chris (Dean Cain), Ray Liotta, and another man named Chris (Joe Rogan). Although she is involved in several relationships, she is never depicted getting legally married in the series. She is also very skilled at pitching; when she pitches a baseball to Dennis Finch, he thinks his hand is broken. However, if Maya starts pitching, she can't stop.

Jack Gallo
The character of Jack Gallo, portrayed by George Segal, is the owner and publisher of Blush. During his daughter Maya's childhood, Jack was an absent workaholic. The relationship between the two of them develops throughout the series, reaching its pinnacle when he hands the magazine over to Maya in the series finale after retiring. When extolling the virtues of an assistant to Maya, he notes that an assistant (in his case, Finch) can even become one's "best friend," although the sentiment was slightly dulled by his use of the pronoun "it" to refer to the hypothetical assistant (and therefore to Finch).

Jack is four times divorced, although he was married to Maya's high school classmate Allie for the first half of the series. They have a daughter (Maya's half-sister) named Hannah who was born in the first episode, "Back Issues." Jack showers Hannah with affection, prompting Maya's jealousy. This resentment disappears when Jack explains that he does not want to repeat with Hannah the mistakes he made with Maya. Jack has a running contest with Donald Trump as to who is, among other topics, the smartest, the richest, and the best gift giver.

In The Book of "Jack," Finch refers to Jack as 'Jackson Gilbert Gallo'; however, in "La Cage" Nina refers to Jack as 'Jackson H. Gallo'.

Nina Van Horn
The character of Nina Van Horn (born Claire Noodleman in Colby, Kansas in 1953), portrayed by Wendie Malick, is the fashion editor at Blush. As a teenager, she had a daughter (Cloe) whom she gave up for adoption. When reuniting with her and finding out Cloe has a teenage daughter (Tess) she is initially shocked, but later proudly accepts that she is a grandmother. She was a cover girl and movie star in the 1970s and 1980s. She found that when she retired, people forgot her as quickly as they knew her. In a special Biography program about her, Pat Sajak says that no one can guess her name, and the contestants are sent home. Her partying once caused her to die in 1986 (to which she responded, "it was only for 12 minutes, I'm obviously fine!"). At one point, she mentions that she slept with Mick Jagger, broke up music bands such as The Eagles and The Jackson 5, and toured with Iggy Pop.

Nina is considered an alcoholic partially due to her casual nips of alcohol during the day at work. Due to her former status as a supermodel, she has been plagued by an obsession to party all night long and return to work the following morning with a hangover. She is also, if no longer an addict, extremely experienced in recreational pharmacy with a wide knowledge of (and access to) uppers, downers, mood regulators, and hallucinogenic compounds (she can identify not only that a Chinese sweet "Lemon Wacky Hello" is a hallucinogen, but also its chemical make up, by taste alone). She is understood to be promiscuous and possibly bisexual.

Nina is obsessed with her age and looks. In one episode, she mentioned that she had the telephone number of a plastic surgeon on speed dial, and when her age is nearly revealed over the P.A., she runs into Jack's office to destroy the P.A. so nobody will know her age. Throughout the run of the show, she was vaguely in her late forties to early fifties, once blurting out that life's no fun at fifty (Ep. "Sid and Nina").

In most seasons, Nina often talks about her friend Binny. She is never seen but is heard about all the time. This usually leads to groans by other members of Blush who have to listen. In the episode "The Mask," Finch and Elliot try to prove Binny isn't real, only to find out she is real at the end. In the episode "Bye Bye Binny," we hear that Binny dies and Nina must face the fact that she lost her only friend. Binny appears as a ghost to Nina in "Strange Bedfellows," but her face is almost never shown. The exception is a black-and-white clip, when her face was partially bandaged after a facelift.

Elliot DiMauro
The character of Elliot DiMauro, portrayed by Enrico Colantoni, is the lead photographer for Blush who often dates the models. Elliot's backstory was that he was "discovered" by Jack while selling his photography on the street. He also dated Maya for a period of time. In one episode, he mentions that he is not allowed to vote in an election, when he spills that he was once arrested and spent time in jail. In season four, it is revealed that he had planned to propose to a former girlfriend but as he was buying flowers, he was subsequently the victim of a hit-and-run; the driver turned out to be Nina. Though Elliot is angry at Nina for ruining his relationship, upon meeting his ex later, Elliot discovers that his ex-girlfriend had three husbands who died in accidents involving boats. Elliot has a brother (in the episode "Slow Donnie") named Donnie (played by David Cross).

Dennis Finch
The character of Dennis Quimby Finch, the executive assistant to Jack often referred to as simply "Finch", was portrayed by David Spade. Born in Albany, New York (of Norwegian ancestry), Dennis attended Hudson River Junior College where he joined the cheerleading team. Dennis' father and brother are both firemen and they have suspected that Dennis may have been gay due to his effeminacy.

In general, Finch has been described as "a self-centered horny pig who'd stop at nothing to get laid." He is discovered to be well endowed but does not realize this until Jack and Elliot bring it to his attention; they react with disgust when Finch says he always believed he was merely "a little above average" as he'd only seen other naked men in porn movies. Surreptitiously, Dennis writes articles for the "Dear Miss Pretty" advice column. Dennis used to compete in figure skating, as revealed in the season 3 episode, 'Softball'. Dennis also likes to collect action figures and ceramic kittens. He lives in an apartment, number 803, in New York City (Manhattan), which was formerly Maya's apartment before she moved in with Elliot.

He is also known to have a fear of owls from his mother's side. He works as the executive assistant of Blush owner Jack Gallo, toward whom he has a slavish devotion (he once claimed he expected to be buried with Jack) and with whom he has a virtually telepathic rapport, enabling him to foresee Gallo's every need and provide answers to even his vaguest questions (e.g. "What's that song that I like?"). He also has a seemingly mystical ability to tell when something sexual is happening or even being mentioned; for example, he was able to figure out that Maya and Elliot were in a relationship simply by mentally comparing Elliot's bite mark on an apple he was eating with a hickey on Maya's neck, as well as seemingly appearing to cross a massive distance across countries to appear in a room just as Maya was propositioned by a photographer. In season 4, he marries a supermodel, Adrienne (Rebecca Romijn), although she asks for a divorce in the same season.

Highly intelligent, as a child he was able to hack into a German bank and steal $18,000 worth of Deutsche Mark as disclosed in season 3; he also reveals in the season 2 episode "Jack's Old Partner" that he is so adept at twisting tax laws to favor him that the previous year, the IRS paid him $20,000 not to grow corn. In Season 6, episodes 2 and 3, it is discovered that his entire personality is stolen from a girl he saw at college on his first day at the freshmen mixer, Betsy Frayne (Amy Sedaris). This is revealed when she ends up working as a security guard for Blush.

Kevin Liotta
The character of Kevin Liotta, portrayed by Brian Posehn on a recurring basis, was the mail guy at Blush and in the show's sixth season is discovered to be a cousin of film actor Ray Liotta. He is known for having an obsessive crush on Nina Van Horn, which often disturbed her. However, in one episode he develops a brief crush on Maya, about which she becomes disturbed after initially thinking when he was still interested in Nina that she should give him a chance. He is also found to be a very good operatic singer, which Jack discovers.

Vicki Costa
The character of Vicki Costa, portrayed by Rena Sofer, was hired by Jack and worked at Blush for part of the seventh and final season. Throughout her time on the show, she served as a creative consultant. She is not afraid to be honest with her coworkers and has proven to be tough when necessary. However, she was written out of the series midway through the last season with the character opting to resign from Blush.

Wally Dick
Wally, portrayed by Chris Hogan, is Maya's roommate in season 1.

Writing staff

 * Chris Aable
 * Steven Levitan
 * Marsh McCall
 * Stephen Engel
 * Andy Gordon & Eileen Conn
 * Pam Brady
 * Tom Martin
 * Brian Reich
 * Sivert Glarum & Michael Jamin
 * Jack Burditt
 * Don Woodard & Tom Maxwell
 * Moses Port & David Guarascio
 * Susan Dickes
 * Tom Saunders & Kell Cahoon
 * Jeff Lowell
 * Bill Steinkellner

International
Just Shoot Me! has aired in Australia on Network Ten (1998–2004), on the Nine Network (2008–2009) and GO! (a sub-channel of Nine) (2009–2011), on 7mate (2014) and 7flix (2016–present), and on pay-TV channel TV1.

In Serbia, the show initially aired on RTV Pink. Beginning in April 2011, reruns have been aired on B92.

In South Africa, the show initially aired on SABC3, free-to-air channel e.tv and rerun on satellite provider Sony Channel

Home media
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released the first three seasons of Just Shoot Me! on DVD in Region 1. Season 3 was released on February 24, 2009.

On August 27, 2013, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to various television series from the Sony Pictures library including Just Shoot Me!. They subsequently re-released the first two seasons on DVD on January 21, 2014.

On May 5, 2017, it was announced that Shout! Factory had acquired the rights to the series from the Sony Pictures library and released Just Shoot Me! – The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 on September 5, 2017.

Streaming
In 2020, the entire show became available to stream on Hulu.

Cultural impact
In March 2020, the cast reunited for a sketch on the late-night comedy program Lights Out with David Spade, which concerned a fictional reboot of the show. That June, the cast also reunited for a virtual reunion on Hulu's YouTube page. The season 3 episode "Slow Donnie," guest starring David Cross, has been cited as an all-time great episode of a sitcom.

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Zacarias, São Paulo

Zacarias is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 2,752 (2020 est.) in an area of 319 km².

Media
In telecommunications, the city was served by Telecomunicações de São Paulo. In July 1998, this company was acquired by Telefónica, which adopted the Vivo brand in 2012.

The company is currently an operator of cell phones, fixed lines, internet (fiber optics/4G) and television (satellite and cable).

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Talk:Adams Morgan/Archive 1

Kalorama Triangle
Adams Morgan ought not be defined to include Kalorama Triangle 208.59.174.212 (talk) 19:35, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Reed-Cooke is not an actual neighborhood in any sense of the word other then the desire of some residents to create it, it has no historical basis and should not be treated as factually existing. Lanier Heights is the former name of the Adams Morgan neighborhood prior to the new name. Neighborhood association districts show Mount Pleasant beginning at Calvert Street, it is the Northern bounds of Adams-Morgan. Lets keep to actual neighborhoods that are listed in real estate sections and ANC districting and not just keep adding any whimsical made up name a few disgruntled residents may want to call their block.Miglewis (talk) 18:16, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Not sure why Kalorama Heights was removed from the former neighborhoods as the Kalorama Estate House now would be within Adams Morgan as it sat in what is now Kalorama Park, I'd say it is certainly deserves mention along with the other three neighborhoods.Miglewis (talk) 18:54, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Crime
"The presence of so many inebriated, relatively affluent white youths so near low-income neighborhoods has resulted in regular incidents of violent crime." - I'm not sure I understand that sentence. I have been mugged, and several white affluent friends of mine have been mugged in Adams Morgan while fully sober. That neighborhood has a serious crime problem and the author of this sentence purports to blame that problem on a demographic which, the author admits, is typically victimized by the crime! The author implicitly suggests that crime in Adams Morgan would be alleviated if white affluent youths and their heightened tendency to be the target of crime were kept out of the neighborhood. Ridiculous.

Why oh why is it called Adams Morgan?! Your public beseeches you for an answer! :) jengod 00:00, May 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * it's in the second paragraph of the article Awiseman 14:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Photos
Fuck, I like the second photo better with Madam's Organ merely for its aesthetics, and the fact that Madam's (and it's mural) is a notable place in the neighborhood. Tryst is also notable as a favorite coffeehouse, as voted in the washingtonpost's best bets. A picture of these businesses isn't going to do anything more to generate business for them; Madam's already has lines way out the door on weekends. So, if we can only have one "streetscene" photo (because two are "superfluous"), please let's make it the second one. But, I don't see why we can't have two photos. One photo can't capture everything. For now, they are both streetscenes, but I would be pleased if others would provide more, different photos (such as Adams Morgan Day, a residential street, another mural, etc.). -Aude ( talk | contribs ) 14:02, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It would be better to have a pic of the Madam's Organ mural. But you're right about those being notable businesses in the neighborhood, and I also don't see why we can't have two photos.  I personally only visited Madam's Organ once during the three years I lived in DC, but it's the one place on that strip that everyone is aware of.  Postdlf 14:09, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Next time I'm in Adams Morgan, I'll try and get photos of the Madam and other murals, as well as residential scenes. Though, I'm not sure when I'll be over there, as I'd like to keep building up commons:Category:Neighborhoods_of_Washington%2C_D.C..  I think it's important to represent more of Washington than the mall and monuments, and there are many other neighborhoods that have no photos yet. -Aude ( talk | contribs ) 02:13, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Ugh. The Madam's Organ mural is grotesque -- a plug-ugly woman with humongous boobs -- and amateurishly done.  There are far better examples of neighborhood art:  the Latino mural on Columbia Road past the Safeway (on the other side of the street) is a great one, and very well executed.  The MO mural is a very blatant advertisement of little artistic merit.  Even the Cafe Lautrec painting on the facade of the restaurant is preferable to the MO thing.  It's an eyesore.  I'd strenuously oppose its reintroduction to the article.  Adams Morgan can, and should be, better represented.  deeceevoice (talk) 22:29, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Adams Morgan name
I removed the Post article from 1997 that says Adams Morgan used to be called Lanier Heights. Technically Lanier Heights is only the area south of Harvard St, W of Columbia Rd and N of Adams Mill Rd. Here's the article:   --Awiseman 20:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

 * How you reworded it sounds good. -Aude ( talk | contribs ) 22:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Nightlife
The role of Adams Morgan in DC nightlife probably deserves expansion. --SparqMan 14:55, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

2x. I agree. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.204.10.97 (talk) 04:33, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Rebirth of Morgan
The Morgan (the previously defunct all-black Thomas P Morgan School) is now returning to Adams, in the form of the Old Morgan School Place, a previously unnamed road mysteriously listed by Google Maps as Parsimony Ln. Here's the article:  --Rmeskill 14:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Hispanic Community
Who considers Adams Morgan to be the current center of Washington DC Hispanic community? The most prominent Hispanic neighborhoods are Langley Park, Wheaton, and Seven Corners. Inside the District, Columbia Heights has the largest percentage of Hispanics and even Mount Pleasant has higher numbers so while Adams Morgan holds an important historical value as a neighborhood, it is no longer the center of the DC Hispanic neighborhood. Miglewis (talk) 20:06, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Business District
18th Street is the visible commercial district with its many bars and eateries but it is Columbia Rd that serves as the primary commercial strip of the neighborhood with groceries, pharmacy, banking, and other retail. 18th Street is only the primary commercial strip for those visiting the neighborhood. If you are going to speak of a commercial strip then you must use both, one being primarily for those from outside the neighborhood (18th) and one for local residents (Columbia).Miglewis (talk) 20:12, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Running gag

Books?
I've noticed that several books have running gags, but when I looked on the running gag list, there were absolutely no books mentioned whatsoever. Shouldn't there be at least a mention of one book with a running gag? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunstar54321 (talk • contribs) 23:05, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

User
Why does this page link to a User page in "List of running gags"?? isnt that against the Wikipedia guidelines?--Coin945 (talk) 05:41, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Technically yes. But it's all in good faith. Basically, 2 or 3 editors decided that there shouldn't be a single example on this page, and i'm pretty sure a list of running gags wikipedia page would get deleted, i set up a subpage to host the running gags, so people could see examples of running gags without having to search through the article history. - -The Spooky One (talk to me) 06:44, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed, Moving them to Talk:Running gag/Running gags. - -' The Spook (TALK) (Share the Love with Barnstars) 00:54, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the fix, LukeTheSpook. Television examples are now available. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:00, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Origin of the term
When did the term "Running Gag" appeared? One of the origin of the name I have heard is that it come from the "Benny Hill Show" where the usual running gag was precisely people chasing Benny, running everywhere. Therefore creating the expression "Running Gag". Can anyone back that up, or is that just an Urban Legend? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.246.228.79 (talk) 16:23, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

So, anyone has info about that?--81.247.70.25 (talk) 10:55, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Seinfeld
Are all of these really running gags? For Pinky and the Brain to try and take over the world every night is the premise of their show, not really a joke. "Are you thinking" is definitely a running gag. I would argue that the constant presence of Superman in Seinfeld isn't much of a joke, either. Ventura 17:26, 2004 Jul 21 (UTC)

 * Well, I waited a while, but I removed the Seinfeld line.  The inclusion of Superman memorabilia is hard to spot, even for dedicated fans of Seinfeld.  I realize there's a heavily Superman-inspired episode, but that doesn't seem like enough to be a running gag to me.  Ventura 18:25, 2004 Nov 19 (UTC)

Section Headers
Does anyone have better suggestions for the section headers? The list was getting very long and very difficult to read, so I thought breaking it up would help. The television list is still a bit long, so maybe we'll split it into live action vs. animation?

-- Ventura 18:25, 2004 Nov 19 (UTC)

Comics
I don't know if this counts as a running gag, but the old Moomin comics by Tove and Lars Jansson always started with a picture of a Moomintroll's behind. The next panels explained why the Moomintroll was crouching down in whatever situation he was in.

Another running gag is Smithers or Mr. Lodge kicking Archie out of the home in the Archie Comics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bellag19 (talk • contribs) 01:41, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Webtoons?
I added some running gags from animated web series, but created a new section for them because there wasn't one that would apply to them. Could we have a broader section, perhaps Animation?

Examples
This article is almost useless without a good list of examples. It is really a pity that these lists are deleted again and again. -- 85.181.9.209 (talk) 22:12, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Suggestion
I note that there are some tags saying that this article should be expanded, and is in need of help from an "expert on the subject". I agree that it is a poor article: however, the "list of running gags" is not present for some very good reasons (primarily the fact that you can not possibly have a "list of" something without a clear definition for criteria for items to be included in the list).

Therefore, as it stands this article is little more than a dictionary definition. I find it hard to see how it could be expanded to a proper encyclopædia article. So my suggestion is: transwiki it to Wiktionary, and delete the article. Can I have opinions please? (And no - this is not an invitation to re-open the debate on whether a "list of running gags" should be present. There has already been a consensus reached here, and no new arguments have been put forth otherwise.) EuroSong talk 15:48, 1 February 2010 (UTC) —°″←·±§ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.19.114.58 (talk) 14:07, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Example of Examples
is one of the better articles on the net, but every one of the better articles includes SOME examples. I believe as long as they are woven into the text with some elaboration as to how they illustrate particular aspects rather than dumped into an infinite list, it should be fine. There are a lot of useful lists on WP, and I don't have an objection to such lists as long as they are useful and verifiable. Redhanker (talk) 18:46, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It seems to me that one or two examples, not a list of many examples, would be a good idea. Perhaps this could be done with links to particular comedians whose biographies have an example or two. --DThomsen8 (talk) 12:05, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that there should be several examples, as there are several running gags that have achieved notability in their own right. The first one that comes to my mind is "What's up, Doc?" by Bugs Bunny; I'm sure that there are others from Seinfeld, The Simpsons and other well-known TV shows.   Pur ple  back pack 89    04:12, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * No - for the reasons already discussed in the archive. Firstly - any examples will invite well-intentioned but misguided contributions from other editors who want to add examples of their own favourite running gags. And so the problem begins again. Secondly, although this is the English Wikipedia - that just means that it's an English-language version of a worldwide encyclopædia. But to add our favourite examples would naturally show cultural bias towards the Western world. The running gag of Bart Simpson writing different things on the blackboard in the introduction to the Simpsons might be well-known to a significant proportion of British and American TV audiences, true - but is it similarly recognised in, for example, Brazil (to pick a country at random)? In many other countries all over the world they have their own favourite examples of running gags in popular culture. So there is no reason why we should simply pick out some well-known ones from UK/USA culture over and above those from other countries. Again - this is simply the English-language version of an international encyclopædia - not a culturally biased encyclopædia which only focuses on a Western viewpoint. EuroSong talk 09:05, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Maintenance Tags
Those improvement tags seem somewhat out of date. Most articles could do with attention from an expert, so it's hard to argue with Expert-subject, but I don't think it's needed here any longer; the article seems coherent. I don't think that there's any problem with the context either. Anybody else have any ideas? pablo 10:45, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree. That tag is just plain ridiculous here.  What sort of experts are looking over articles like this anyway?  And if none of them felt like commenting by now, they aren't likely to.  There are experts for science articles, history, and things like that.  No college degrees in gag-ology exist to my knowledge.   D r e a m Focus  21:07, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Woman being tied to railroad tracks
I wrote this on the Snidely Whiplash talk page and will cite here below: Running gag is defined as "a literary device that takes the form of an amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling". Even this features the same photo scene as this article. Only it is completely false. As it is, the aticle contributes to the misconceptions that being tied to the railways is a common plot device in silent films. However, outside of the very film that the article mention, there are very, very few appearances of people being tied to railroad tracks and, even in those films that feature those scenes, the victim is usually a man, not a "damsell in distress".

More info: Even some films described as having the trope, such as a lost film "The Single Track (1921)" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012695/ ) are highly dubious, as the synopsis doesn't mention anything: https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald13exhi_0/page/n391 To conclude, I propose changing the article to make note that the running gag was not common in silent films. StjepanHR (talk) 14:22, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
 * http://moviessilently.com/2013/07/05/questions-from-the-google-who-was-the-silent-era-villain-who-tied-women-to-train-tracks/ - this artcle even makes a note that a similar device (leading man "was nearly sliced in half in a sawmill before being rescued by leading lady Viola Dana") was considered to be old-fashioned when appearing in a 1916 film
 * https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rethinking-the-origins-of-the-damsel-on-the-railroad-tracks - there is a great citation in this article: “This is like taking the Saturday Night Fever spoof scene from Madagascar and using it to ‘prove’ that disco was the number-one music of the 2000s”

 * That's not a running gag, since it is by no means limited to a single work, but is found throughout many different works that have no connection with each other. It's more of a narrative stereotype. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 10:29, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

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Berkeley, Ontario

Berkeley is a community on Ontario Highway 10 in the township of Chatsworth, Grey County, Ontario, Canada.

The Berkeley Post Office was opened in 1853. There were three churches in Berkeley: a Presbyterian church, an Anglican church and a United Church. Only the United Church is still standing, although closed at present due to high maintenance expenses.

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Groundskeeper Willie

 Willie Sean Moran MacDougal, better known as Groundskeeper Willie, is a recurring character on The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. He is the head groundskeeper and Janitor at Springfield Elementary School. Willie is almost feral in nature and is immensely proud of his Scottish origin. He is easily identifiable by his red hair and beard, as well as his aggressive temperament and thick, stereotypical Scottish accent.

Role in The Simpsons
Willie is the groundskeeper and janitor at Springfield Elementary School and lives in a shack on the school premises. He is a Scotsman with an aggressive temper. Willie is an uncouth and unpleasant character, though essentially harmless. His personality is depicted as being incompetent, drunken, slow-witted, and quick to anger for little or no reason. Willie has shown antipathy to both his employer, Principal Skinner, and Bart Simpson, who frequently plays practical jokes on him. In the alternate continuity of "Treehouse of Horror VI", his spirit plots revenge on the students of Springfield Elementary after getting burned to death by their parents' actions.

Due to the deliberately inaccurate continuity of the series, he has claimed to be from various parts of Scotland during the series, most recently Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands in the 2012 episode 'The Daughter Also Rises'. This settled the previous continuity problem in which Willie had been stated to be a supporter of Aberdeen F.C, and to have lived in Glasgow. In early episodes, Willie's father was said to be dead. However, his parents were later introduced in "Monty Can't Buy Me Love", and lived near Loch Ness; which is near Inverness. In "The Girl Who Slept Too Little", it is revealed that he has a cousin, "Grave Digger Billy". In Dark Knight Court he describes himself as a "Scottish Old Believer Presbyterian" who "hates Easter" as some conservative Presbyterians reject Easter as a man-made feast on the basis of the regulative principle of worship.

Willie plays a supporting role in most of his episodes, but he was a main character in the episode "My Fair Laddy", where Lisa Simpson introduced him to high culture as a science project.

In a running gag in each of the three segments of the episode "Treehouse of Horror V", Willie tries to help the main protagonists, but is struck in the back with an axe by a different character each time, a reference to Dick Halloran's death in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, of which the first segment, "The Shinning", is a direct parody.

Willie has a troubled and distant relationship with his parents. In the episode "My Fair Laddy", Willie recalls his birth and how his abusive father told him he would never amount to anything in life and would be lucky if he grew up to be "garbage".

On two occasions, Willie frames Bart for pulling pranks that Bart would normally pull. In "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star", he unleashes a giant pie of rats on the Springfield Elementary medieval festival to get revenge for being cast as the village idiot and his cruel treatment. Skinner is quick to blame Bart and expels him. Willie is never shown being found out as the culprit, but it can be assumed that he is eventually found out after Bart is enrolled in Catholic school and earns his way back into Springfield Elementary. In "Dark Knight Court", Willie causes hundreds of eggs to be splattered at the Springfield Easter celebration out of inbred hatred for the holiday. Bart is put on trial for the incident, only to be acquitted when Willie is caught and turned in by Lisa and Mr. Burns (as Fruit Batman).

Character
Groundskeeper Willie's first appearance was in the season two episode "Principal Charming", first broadcast on February 14, 1991. Originally, the character was written as simply being an angry janitor; his Scottish accent was added during a recording session. Dan Castellaneta, who voices several other characters including Homer Simpson, was assigned to do the voice. Castellaneta did not know what voice to use and Sam Simon, who was directing at the time, told Castellaneta to use an accent. He first tried a Spaniard's voice, which Simon felt was too clichéd. He then tried a "big dumb Swede", which was also rejected. For his third attempt, he used the voice of an angry Scotsman, which was considered to be more appropriate and was used in the episode. Originally thought by the directors to be a one-off appearance, Willie has since become a recurring character. Matt Groening later revealed that the character was based partially on Angus Crock, a kilt-wearing chef from the sketch comedy show Second City Television, who was portrayed by Dave Thomas and Jimmy Finlayson, the moustachioed Scottish actor who appeared in 33 Laurel and Hardy films.

A recurring joke, which was first shown in "Radio Bart", is that Groundskeeper Willie appears to have an average build with a beer belly, but upon removing his shirt he is incredibly muscular. One of Groundskeeper Willie's trademarks is a gruffly-spoken insulting retort, which take the writers a long time to come up with, although they do not consider them that funny.

Cultural impact
Groundskeeper Willie's description of the French as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" from the episode 'Round Springfield" has become widely used, particularly in the run-up to the war in Iraq. The newspaper New York Post used the phrase "Surrender Monkeys" as the headline for its December 7, 2006 front page, referring to the Iraq Study Group and its recommendation that U.S. soldiers be withdrawn from Iraq by early-2008. The line was "most likely" written by Ken Keeler. The phrase "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys" has also been used by Jeremy Clarkson and Anthony Bourdain.

In 2009, Willie was added to the "Famous Glaswegians" webpage of Glasgow City Council, based on his line in "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious". A spokesman for Aberdeen F.C. disputed Glasgow's claim to the character, citing the episodes 'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" and "The Dad Who Knew Too Little". In Season 23 Episode 13 "The Daughter Also Rises", first aired in 2012, it was finally stated that Groundskeeper Willie is from Kirkwall in Orkney, therefore ending this dispute.

In September 2014, Groundskeeper Willie featured in an official video in which he endorsed a vote for Scottish independence in an upcoming Scottish referendum, and put himself forward to lead a potentially independent Scotland while standing in front of the St. Andrew's Cross with a tattoo on his chest that read: 'Aye or Die!'. Following the result of the referendum where the Scottish electorate voted to remain as part of the UK, the producers released an image of Willie now standing in front of a Union Jack flag, looking depressed with his "Aye or Die!" tattoo replaced with a picture of the Queen and empty bottles of whisky with a newspaper featuring Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who was widely credited with giving the "No" campaign a last-minute boost.

Reception
In 2006, Groundskeeper Willie was named the fourth-best peripheral character in the history of the show by IGN, who said "high-points for the character were being trained to be civilized, wrestling a wolf that was let loose in the school and becoming a substitute for the French language teacher – 'Bon jourrr! You cheese-eating surrender monkeys!'" IGN also named "My Fair Laddy", the only episode which centres around Willie, the best episode of the seventeenth season. Jim Slotek of Sun Media called Willie the ninth-best Simpsons supporting character, and also made a Top Ten quotes list, which included Willie's quote "Och, back to the loch wi' ye, Nessie", from "Selma's Choice". The Times reported in late-2005 that "he is the most instantly recognisable Scot in the world: better known than Billy Connolly or Ewan McGregor, even Sean Connery." The same article quotes Simpsons creator Matt Groening as saying "We wanted to create a school janitor that was filled with rage, sort of our tribute to angry janitors all over the world".

Merchandising
Three Groundskeeper Willie action figures were created by Playmates Toys for the World of Springfield series: Willie depicted in his usual appearance, released in 2001 in wave 4; "Ripped Willie", released in 2002 as part of wave 8; and "Kilted Willie", released in 2003 in wave 14.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Culture Politic

This page is an archive of the discussion surrounding the proposed deletion of the page entitled The Culture Politic.

This page is kept as an historic record.

The result of the debate was to move the article to the author's (Fredamoon) user page.

Vanity page. Belongs on user page. jengod 00:05, May 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * Vanity is right. Delete and revert to user page. - Lucky 6.9 01:14, 15 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Agree with above. Burgundavia 03:50, May 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * Quite the vanity. Move to use page. -- Cyrius|&#9998 05:11, May 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * From Deletion log archive/May 2004 (1):
 * 05:57, May 17, 2004 Jengod deleted "The Culture Politic" (Vanity page. )
 * --Zigger 21:39, 2004 May 19 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue or the deletion should be placed on other relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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Deltaform Mountain

Deltaform Mountain is one of the mountains in the Valley of the Ten Peaks, located on the Continental Divide on the border of British Columbia and Alberta, and also on the border between Banff and Kootenay National Parks in Canada. The mountain was originally named Saknowa by Samuel Allen but Walter Wilcox named it to its official title in 1897 as it resembles the Greek letter delta.

Deltaform was first climbed in 1903 by August Eggers and Herschel Clifford Parker who were guided by Christian and Hans Kaufmann.

Climbing routes
The two main climbing routes are:
 * North-West Ridge (Normal Route) II 5.5
 * North Face, The Supercouloir IV 5.8

Geology
Deltaform Mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.

Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Deltaform is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Temperatures can drop below −20 C with wind chill factors below −30 C.

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Hi, I reverted your odd deletions of useful links in the templates of South Holland. Why are you doing that?--Patrick 00:26, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)

I thought i want to clean it up a little, that template was a mess. Sorry if you didn't like it --- Winehouse47 09:27, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Deltaform Mountain

Alberta-only map is inappropriate
See Talk:Trapper Peak (Canada).Skookum1 (talk) 17:28, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

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Michael Nader

Michael Nader (February 19, 1945 – August 23, 2021) was an American actor, known for his roles as Dex Dexter on the ABC primetime soap opera Dynasty from 1983 to 1989, and Dimitri Marick on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children from 1991 to 2001, and in 2013. He also starred as Kevin Thompson on the soap opera As the World Turns from 1975 to 1978.

Early life
Nader was born on February 19, 1945, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was of German, Yugoslavian, and Lebanese descent. Nader was a nephew of actor George Nader. His parents split a few months after his birth. At the age of six, he was hit by a drunk driver, which left him with a visible facial scar. Nader accompanied his mother, Minette, when she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an entertainment career.

At 16, Nader was one of three young surfers featured in a September 1961 Life photo with George Jones spread accompanying the article "The Mad, Happy Surfers: A Way of Life on the Wavetops". He graduated from Palisades Charter High School in 1963.

Career
Nader began his acting career in 1963 with small roles in several of American International Pictures Beach Party films, then billed as "Mike Nader". He later appeared in the recurring role of Siddo in the 1965–66 TV series Gidget, and had a small role in the 1968 film Blue. Nader's first soap opera role was playing Kevin Thompson on As the World Turns from 1975 to 1978. In 1983, he appeared in the NBC prime time soap opera Bare Essence as Alexi Theopolis.

Nader won the role of Farnsworth "Dex" Dexter, the eventual third husband of Alexis Colby (Joan Collins), on the prime time soap opera Dynasty in 1983. He remained on the series until its cancellation in 1989.

Nader appeared as Nazi officer Burchhardt in the 1988 television film The Great Escape II: The Untold Story. The same year, he co-starred as Nick Scalfone in the TV movie Lady Mobster. In 1990, he appeared as Enzio Bonnatti in the miniseries Lucky Chances.

Nader returned to soap operas in 1991, portraying Dimitri Marick, the husband of Erica Kane (Nader's Lady Mobster costar Susan Lucci), on the daytime drama All My Children. He played the role from 1991 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2001. Nader returned for All My Children online revival in 2013.

Nader also appeared in episodes of other television series, including The Flash (1991), Law And Order: SVU (2002), and Cold Case (2009).

Marriages and family
Nader dated actress Ellen Barber for ten years, with the relationship ending around the same time as his role on As the World Turns. Nader married Robin Weiss in June 1984, and a month later they had a daughter. He was married to Jodi Lister at the time of his death, with the couple having been together for 18 years.

Drug addiction and legal issues
In 1984, Nader admitted to previously having drug and drinking problems, which prompted him to become sober in 1980. He was charged with drunk driving in 1997, and in 2001 was arrested for attempting to sell cocaine to an undercover police officer. Nader was let go from his role on All My Children soon after, with a statement from ABC that if he resolved his issues they would rehire him. They never did, and Nader sued the network, alleging that they never intended to bring him back to the show at all.

Death
Nader died on August 23, 2021, at the age of 76 at his home, ten days after being diagnosed with an untreatable form of cancer.

Nader had long been rumored to have been HIV positive. Speculation about his health first abounded in 2001 following his arrest and subsequent firing from All My Children. Nader vehemently denied having HIV. However, following his death, his daughter Lindsay revealed in an Instagram post that her father had, in fact, lived with HIV for several decades; he had contracted the virus before she was born, and was one of the longest known survivors.

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Emma Samms

Emma Elizabeth Wylie Samuelson MBE known professionally as Emma Samms, (born 28 August 1960) is an English actress and TV host, known for her role as Holly Sutton on the American daytime soap opera General Hospital and as the second actress to play Fallon Carrington Colby on the prime time soap opera Dynasty. She also portrayed the recurring role of Amanda Vardalis on the British soap opera Doctors.

Early life
Samms was raised in the Jewish religion.

Career
Samms first played Holly Sutton Scorpio on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital from 1982 to 1985. With Samms choosing to leave the series amicably to go to ABC's Dynasty, her character Holly seemingly perished in a plane crash. On 10 April 1985 Samms appeared in the fifth-season episode "Kidnapped" as Fallon Carrington Colby, a role originated by Pamela Sue Martin in 1981. The character was immediately transplanted into the new Dynasty spin-off The Colbys for two seasons (1985–1987). After the spinoff was cancelled, Samms and the character of Fallon returned to Dynasty in the 23 September 1987 eighth-season premiere "The Siege - Part 1". Samms remained with Dynasty for two seasons until its last episode on 11 May 1989. She later returned for the 1991 miniseries Dynasty: The Reunion.

After the show's run, Samms appeared in several film and television roles. In 1989, Samms made a guest appearance on the sitcom My Two Dads playing Marcy Bradford, the deceased mother of Nicole Bradford (Staci Keanan) and the woman whom the two fathers (Paul Reiser; Greg Evigan) fought over.

"Fan favorite" Samms had been so popular at General Hospital that Holly was brought back from the dead in January 1992 after a seven-year absence. She stayed in the role until 1993, during this time also playing Holly's lookalike half-sister Paloma Perez, a heroic revolutionary.

In 1995, Samms appeared as the villainous Grayson Louder in the prime time soap opera Models Inc., a spin-off of Melrose Place, both produced by former Dynasty producer Aaron Spelling. She also appeared in the TV movie Treacherous Beauties.

Samms appeared in four episodes of the BBC series Holby City in 2003 and had a recurring run on the BBC daytime series Doctors as Amanda Vardalis in 2005. She made a seven-episode return to General Hospital as Holly in February 2006. After serving as a presenter (alongside General Hospital co-star Tristan Rogers) for the Daytime Emmy Awards on 28 April 2006, she reappeared on General Hospital for a three-week run starting 1 May 2006, and then again on 30 June 2006. She subsequently stepped into the BBC Children in Need reality series Celebrity Scissorhands as a hairdresser from 3–17 November 2006. On 20 September 2007 Samms guested on the long-running ITV series The Bill as drug addict Ella Winstanley.

In August 2009, Samms performed at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in Shall We Dance, a dance revue of musicals by Richard Rodgers, choreographed by Adam Cooper who stars, alongside his wife Sarah Wildor.

In June 2014 Samms was announced as a contestant in BBC gymnastics show Tumble. She was the second celebrity to be eliminated.

In 2018, Samms performed alongside 26 other celebrities on a new Christmas song, called "Rock With Rudolph", which was written and produced by Grahame and Jack Corbyn. The song was released digitally through independent record label Saga Entertainment, on 30 November 2018 in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital under the artist name The Celebs. The music video debuted exclusively with The Sun on 29 November 2018 and had its first TV showing on Good Morning Britain on 30 November 2018. The song peaked at number two on the iTunes pop chart. Later in 2018, Samms reprised her role as Amanda Vardalis on Doctors.

Samms continues to make appearances on General Hospital. She returned in May 2009, March 2012, August 2013, July 2015, and September 2020.

On 22 August 2022, it was announced that Emma Samms would be returning to General Hospital, reprising the role of Holly Sutton, which she has been playing since 1982. Her episodes were scheduled to start airing in October 2022. According to Deadline, "She’s now set to return to the ABC sudser in October. Fans last saw Holly on September 18, 2020; though presumed dead, Holly was found alive and locked in a cell in Monte Carlo." “I can’t believe that it’s been 40 years since I first appeared on General Hospital and that, once again, I get to play the wonderful character of Holly Sutton,” Samms told Deadline. “No one is more interested in what’s happened to her since we saw her two years ago, being held captive by a mysterious villain, than me!”

Personal life
Samms twice declined offers to appear in Playboy, once during her run on General Hospital and the second during Dynasty. Instead, she appeared on the cover of the February 1988 issue of Inside Sports in a bikini, as well as additional swimsuit shots inside the magazine.

In 1983, Samms and her cousin, film producer Peter Samuelson, co-founded the Starlight Children's Foundation, an organization that helps seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear and isolation through entertainment, education and family activities. The organization was their response to losing Samms's brother and Samuelson's cousin, Jamie, who died at age nine from aplastic anemia.

In 1984 Samms and Tristan Rogers went public with their romance, but the relationship ended around the time she left General Hospital the next year. Engaged to Marvin Hamlisch in the early 1980s, Samms has been married four times: to Bansi Nagji (1991–92), and to Tim Dillon (1994–95). She married John Holloway (1996-2003), and the couple had two children. In 2021, Samms married journalist and TV presenter Simon McCoy.

Samms was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to seriously and terminally ill children.

In April 2018, Samms said that she had been dealing with Bell's palsy, an illness that causes temporary facial paralysis. A month later, she sent an update on Twitter, writing "paralysis on my face is 90% better".

She tested positive for COVID-19 during the global pandemic in March 2020 and has developed long-term complications from her initial infection.

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Talk:Sweet Polly Oliver

Untitled
This song is an old english tune - it has no copyrights attached to it!

 * Is it? Can you provide a source showing how old it is? Is there anything exceptional about the song which makes an encyclopaedia article for it desirable, because Wikipedia is not a lyrics repository. -- Jim Regan 00:16, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Benjamin Britten set it to music. And a composer's musical works may be given their own articles on WP. CRCulver 22:21, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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Linda Evans

Linda Evans (born Linda Evenstad; November 18, 1942) is an American actress known primarily for her roles on television. In the 1960s she played Audra Barkley, the daughter of Victoria Barkley (played by Barbara Stanwyck) in the Western television series The Big Valley (1965–1969). She is best known for portraying Krystle Carrington in the 1980s ABC primetime soap opera Dynasty, a role she played from 1981 to 1989.

Early life
Evans, the second of three daughters, was born Linda Evenstad in Hartford, Connecticut, on November 18, 1942, to Arlene (née Dart) and Alba Evenstad, both of whom were professional dancers. "Evenstad" was the name of the small farm in Nes, Hedmark, in Norway from where her paternal great-grandmother emigrated to the United States in 1884 with her young son (Evans' grandfather) and a few relatives. She has two sisters: Carol Davidson and Kathy Evenstad. When Evans was six months old, the family moved from Hartford to North Hollywood. She attended Hollywood High School, where she was a sorority sister of future actress Carole Wells. Her introduction to drama came through classes that she took "as a form of therapy, to cure her of her shyness." When she started her professional career, she changed her last name to "Evans".

Career
Evans' first guest-starring role was on a 1960 episode of Bachelor Father. The series starred John Forsythe, with whom she would costar 20 years later on Dynasty. After several guest roles in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet between 1960 and 1962, and guest appearances on television series such as The Lieutenant and Wagon Train, Evans gained her first regular role in 1965 in The Big Valley. Playing Audra Barkley, daughter of Victoria Barkley (played by Barbara Stanwyck), Evans was credited in the series until it ended in 1969, though she was only a semiregular cast member during the last two seasons.

On December 31, 1967, John Derek recruited his future wife to operate one of his cameras after he had been commissioned by daredevil Evel Knievel to film his motorcycle jump of the fountains at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Evans photographed Knievel's devastating crash after the jump failed.

Throughout the 1970s, Evans continued to appear on television largely in guest roles. She appeared in a slew of detective shows such as The Rockford Files with James Garner, Mannix, Harry O with David Janssen, Banacek with George Peppard, McCloud with Dennis Weaver, and McMillan & Wife with Rock Hudson. In 1977, she starred with James Franciscus and Ralph Bellamy in the espionage drama series Hunter, though the show lasted for only 13 episodes.

In films, Evans co-starred with Lee Marvin and Robert Shaw in a 1979 thriller, Avalanche Express, and in 1980, she co-starred in one of Steve McQueen's final films, the Western Tom Horn.

Evans was next cast as Krystle Carrington in Aaron Spelling's opulent new primetime soap opera, Dynasty, which premiered in January 1981. Intended as ABC's answer to the hit CBS series Dallas, Dynasty featured Evans as the former secretary and new wife of millionaire oil tycoon Blake Carrington, portrayed by her former costar John Forsythe. Although initially sluggish in the ratings, audience figures improved after the show was revamped and British actress Joan Collins was brought in to play opposite Evans and Forsythe as Blake's scheming ex-wife, Alexis Carrington. By the 1984–85 season, Dynasty was the number one show on American television, outranking Dallas.

Evans won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama Series for her Dynasty role in 1981, and was subsequently nominated every year from 1982 to 1985. She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1983. Evans won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program in 1982, and for Favorite Female TV Performer in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1986. She won a Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 1984 and 1985.

Evans was hired as a spokesperson for the beverage Crystal Light due to her character's name.

Evans left Dynasty in 1989, four months before the series came to an end, after only appearing in six episodes of the 22-episode ninth and final season. After leaving Dynasty, Evans semiretired from acting and made only occasional television appearances. Instead, she devoted her time to fitness issues and set up a small chain of fitness centers. In the 1990s, Evans hosted infomercials for Rejuvenique, a mask for toning facial muscles. She had previously written the Linda Evans Beauty and Exercise book in 1983. She also kept in touch with Forsythe, until he died on April 1, 2010, and she was devastated by his death. Evans first met Forsythe as an unfamiliar actress aged 18, for her first speaking part: Her agent "signed me up for Bachelor Father and John Forsythe gave me my first speaking part."

In 1991, Evans returned to the role of Krystle Carrington for the television miniseries Dynasty: The Reunion. Following this, she appeared in three made-for-TV movies in the 1990s, but then retired from screen acting altogether in 1997.

In 2005, actress Melora Hardin portrayed Evans in Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, a fictionalized television movie based on the creation and behind-the-scenes production of Dynasty.

In 2006, Evans reunited with her Dynasty castmates for the nonfiction reunion special Dynasty: Catfights and Caviar. She then starred in the stage play Legends opposite her former Dynasty rival Collins. In 2009, Evans appeared in and won the British TV program Hell's Kitchen, working under Michelin-starred chef Marco Pierre White.

In 2021 Evans returned to acting, taking a small role in the critically acclaimed movie Swan Song.

Evans has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Personal life
In her late teens, Evans was engaged to Patrick Curtis, who later became a press agent and married Raquel Welch. Subsequently, Evans has been married and divorced twice. Her first marriage was to actor, photographer, and film director John Derek. They started dating in 1965, married in 1968, and separated on Christmas Day 1973, when Derek disclosed his affair with 17-year old Mary Cathleen Collins (30 years his junior), who become known as Bo Derek after they married. Evans' second marriage was to Stan Herman, a property executive, from 1975 to 1979. She then lived with restaurant owner George Santo Pietro, from 1980 to 1984. Evans also dated The Big Valley castmate Lee Majors for a brief period following her second divorce, as well as businessmen Richard Cohen (an ex-husband of Tina Sinatra) and Dennis Stein (a former fiancé of Elizabeth Taylor) during the mid-1980s. In 1989, Evans began a relationship with new-age musician Yanni, which lasted until 1998.

Her best friends are her ex-stepdaughter, television writer Sean Catherine Derek, and Bunky Young, Evans' former assistant and friend of over 40 years, who died in 2021. She is also close with John Derek's second wife, actress Ursula Andress, a sometime houseguest at her home in Beverly Hills.

After being diagnosed with idiopathic edema, Evans began investigating alternative healing, delving into Eastern philosophy and naturopathy. In 1985, she became involved with controversial metaphysical teacher J. Z. Knight and her Ramtha's School of Enlightenment and eventually moved to Rainier, Washington to be closer to Knight and her school. Evans resides on a 70 acre estate that she shares with her sister, nephew and ex-stepdaughter.

Evans appeared in Playboy magazine at the behest of her then-husband John Derek in 1971. As she gained tremendous fame on Dynasty, the photos were published a second time in 1982.

Evans was arrested in May 2014 for driving under the influence of a prescription drug.

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MediaWiki talk:Delete

needs to be protected its a vandalism target and why the heck would anyone need to edit it?--Ryan B. 00:13, 15 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Replied at MediaWiki talk:Stub. Angela. 03:26, May 15, 2004 (UTC)

April Fool gag
Not an amazingly funny joke, especially when Wikipedia's international audience is considered. There's plenty of people living in areas where being "nuke"d ain't such a funny concept. --Dweller (talk) 14:21, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Wu

Disambiguation page
True or false: These articles about different things named "Wu" can be put on separate pages and this page can be put into a dis-ambiguation page. 66.32.132.150 00:14, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

More Uses Of "Wu"
Please add also a link to information about the "Wu" typing method, used for writing Traditional Chinese. Since "Wu_method" is already taken, I suggest "Wu_method(typing)" or similar. 87.186.89.38 (talk) 00:00, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

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