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Vaporizer (inhalation device)

A vaporizer or vaporiser, colloquially known as a vape, is a device used to vaporize substances for inhalation. Plant substances can be used, commonly cannabis, tobacco, or other herbs or blends of essential oil. However, they are most commonly filled with a combination propylene glycol, glycerin, and drugs such as nicotine (e.g. extract from tobacco) or tetrahydrocannabinol as a liquid solution.

Vaporizers contain various forms of extraction chambers including straight bore, venturi, or sequential venturi, and are made of materials such as metal or glass. The extracted vapor may be collected in an inflatable bag, or inhaled directly through a hose or pipe. When used properly, cooler temperatures due to lack of combustion result in significantly more efficient extraction of the ingredients. Hence, the irritating and harmful effects of smoking are heavily reduced,  as is its secondhand smoke.

Cannabis vaporizers
Cannabis flower is commonly consumed using a dry herb vaporizer. The cannabis may be heated in a chamber via indirect flame exposure or an electrical heating element, allowing users to inhale the resulting vapor. The temperatures reached are cooler than the combustion temperature of cannabis, which is around 230–315 °C (445–600 °F).

Vaporizing is more efficient than smoking, because approximately 30% of THC in cannabis or hashish cigarettes is destroyed by pyrolysis during smoking.

Cannabis is also consumed via the vaporization of cannabis concentrates or oils that have been extracted from the plant, commonly referred to as "dabbing". Users typically employ a torch to heat a small cup shaped quartz or titanium attachment on a bong before dabbing the oil onto the heated surface and inhaling the vapors through the bong. This route of consumption is generally much more potent than smoking or vaporizing marijuana flower due to the increased concentration of cannabinoids. Users typically report that the effects of dabbing are much more intense than regular cannabis, while also being shorter lived.

Cannabis concentrate is also commonly used in e-cigarette style vaporizer pens in the form of liquid containers known as cartridges. A battery connected to the atomizer is used to heat the cannabis oil, creating a vapor that is inhaled by the user. Cartridges typically contain different preparations of cannabis oil mixed with cannabinoids, terpenes, solvents (primarily Propylene glycol and Glycerol) used for thinning, fatty acids, and flavonoids. Natural or artificial terpenes are frequently added by manufacturers to enhance flavor, often using blends that mimic popular cannabis strains or sugary foods such as candy or pastries.

Of the studies that have investigated cannabis vaporization, few have addressed the quality of the vapor extracted and delivered; instead, studies usually focus on the mode of usage of the vaporizers. However, those that have addressed vapor quality have demonstrated promising results. Such studies suggest that the absence of combustion results in an aerosol that contains significantly lower amounts of harmful substances found in smoke, such as tar, carbon monoxide, and carcinogenic compounds known as polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). One study found that cannabis smoke contains 111 compounds (including several carcinogenic PAHs) in addition to the cannabinoids, whereas only 3 additional compounds were identified in cannabis vapor, other than the cannabinoids. This suggests that the vaporization of cannabis may be a safer alternative to combusted cannabis. On the other hand, a study in the UK (where cannabis is illegal) found that some illicitly distributed cannabis vaporizers contained harmful levels of xylazine, an animal sedative which can lead to overdose.

E-cigarette vaporizers

An electronic cigarette is a handheld battery-powered vaporizer that simulates smoking by providing some of the behavioral aspects of smoking, including the hand-to-mouth action of smoking, but without combusting tobacco. Using an e-cigarette is known as "vaping" and the user is referred to as a "vaper." Instead of cigarette smoke, the user inhales an aerosol, commonly called vapor. E-cigarettes typically have a heating element that atomizes a liquid solution called e-liquid. E-cigarettes may be automatically activated by taking a puff; others turn on manually by pressing a button. Some e-cigarettes look like traditional cigarettes, but they come in many variations. Most versions are reusable, though some are disposable. There are first-generation, second-generation, third-generation, and fourth-generation devices. E-liquids usually contain propylene glycol, glycerin, nicotine, flavorings, additives, and differing amounts of contaminants. E-liquids are also sold without propylene glycol, nicotine, or flavors.

The benefits and the health risks of e-cigarettes are uncertain. There is tentative evidence they may help people quit smoking, although they have not been proven to be more effective than smoking cessation medicine. There is concern with the possibility that non-smokers and children may start nicotine use with e-cigarettes at a rate higher than anticipated than if they were never created. Following the possibility of nicotine addiction from e-cigarette use, there is concern children may start smoking cigarettes. Youth who use e-cigarettes are more likely to go on to smoke cigarettes. Their part in tobacco harm reduction is unclear, while another review found they appear to have the potential to lower tobacco-related death and disease. Regulated US Food and Drug Administration nicotine replacement products may be safer than e-cigarettes, but e-cigarettes are generally seen as safer than combusted tobacco products. It is estimated their safety risk to users is similar to that of smokeless tobacco. The long-term effects of e-cigarette use are unknown. The risk from serious adverse events was reported in 2016 to be low. Less serious adverse effects include abdominal pain, headache, blurry vision, throat and mouth irritation, vomiting, nausea, and coughing. Nicotine itself is associated with some health harms. In 2019 and 2020, an outbreak of severe lung illness throughout the US has been linked to the use of contaminated black market THC vape cartridges.

Other drug
Vaporizers can be used to inhale other recreational drugs as well. A wide variety can be consumed this way, either dissolved in e-liquid or vaporized directly. The use of e-cigarettes to inhale the psychedelic drug DMT has been reported.

Medical vaporizers
Studies have shown that vaporizing cannabis exposes the user to lower levels of harmful substances than smoking cannabis. These findings are important for it is estimated that 10–20% of patients with chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and HIV/AIDS have admitted to smoking cannabis for therapeutic purposes. For patients, a study found that smoking cannabis sativa reduced daily pain by 34%, a statistically significant amount.

In a study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology in May 2008, it was stated that vaporizers were a "suitable method for the administration of THC". A 2007 study by the University of California, San Francisco, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Neurology, found that "there was virtually no exposure to harmful combustion products using the vaporizing device". A 2006 study performed by researchers at Leiden University found that vaporizers were "safe and effective cannabinoid delivery system(s)". The study stated that the amount of THC delivered by vaporizers were equivalent to the amount delivered by smoking. Because of those studies and other studies, vaporizers are considered medically sound devices for delivering THC.

Efficiency
The proposed factors affecting output include:
 * Temperature
 * Specimen density
 * Weight, content of water and essential oils
 * Consistency of material in the filling chamber
 * Storage time of the vapor
 * Inhalation method (breathing technique)

Not all those have been scientifically tested. Research using vaporizers found the delivery efficiency highest at around 226 C, falling to about half efficiency at 150 to 180 C depending on material. The purest preparations produced the highest efficiencies, about 56% for pure THC versus 29% for plant material (female flower tops) with 12% THCA content. Besides THC, several other cannabinoids as well as a range of other plant components including terpenoids were detected in the plant material. Using pure THC in the vaporizer, no degradation products (delta-8-THC (D8-THC), cannabinol (CBN), or unknown compounds) were detected by HPLC analysis. The longer vapor is stored, the more THC is lost as it condenses on the surface of the vaporizer or the balloon. This loss may be negligible over a few minutes but may exceed 50% after 90 minutes. The Leiden University study found that as much as 30–40% of inhaled THC was not absorbed by the lungs but simply exhaled. However, they did not find large individual differences in the amounts exhaled.

Culinary application
Vaporizers are sometimes used by chefs as a method of applying controlled heat to herbs and spices to release flavors that are otherwise difficult to titrate or apply, or that might be spoiled by overheating during cooking. Grant Achatz, chef-proprietor of Alinea in Chicago, "uses the aroma-filled bags as place-mats, punctured when plates are placed in front of the customer".

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User talk:ILVI

I removed your link to the Volapük Yahoo group from the article on Johann Martin Schleyer; it was already linked from the main Volapük article, and did not seem relevant in the Schleyer article. --Jim Henry 17:13, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Urquhart
Uh-oh! I've been working on an entry on Thomas Urquhart on and off for the couple weeks. I was just about done and I saw that you just put one up the very same day! The one I've got is a little bit more detailed--would you feel bad if I replaced yours with mine? Also, is there something I should do to avoid this sort of collision in the future? I guess I should have put a note on the talk page saying that I was working on a new entry, but I thought, "What are the odds that somebody else is going to write about Thomas Urquhart in the next few days"? PRiis 22:56, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I went ahead and changed it. Let me know if there's a problem. PRiis 20:19, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Presentation
Hi, I understood you have been inspiring yourself of my presentation for your meeting. If so, I am glad.

I wanted to ask you if you could share your additional information (such as charts, stats, screen shots and so, so that might improve my next personal presentation. Is it possible ? SweetLittleFluffyThing 13:35, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, thanks so much for the source material for presenting to a large group. I have another presentation tomorrow for the Christa McAuliffe Center Conference where I'll be talking about Wikipedia and MediaWiki running on Linspire/Debian Linux. I have some charts that compare WP to Britannica and Grolliers online visits and page hits etc. I'll be glad to put those online also... ilvi 19:48, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

broken link
Saluton ILVI, mi sxangxis la ligon de via pagxo al ia:Imagine:JacintoBowks-1988.jpg. Amike salutas Gangleri | [ Th] | T 22:31, 2004 Nov 16 (UTC)

 * Dankon! ilvi 19:44, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Esperando
I was creating a page on your language Esperando, and I was wondering if I could 'interview' you (via chat or e-mail) in order to fill out the article.

Io esseva creante un pagina re tu lingua Esperando, e me incantarea si io poterea 'interviewar' te (via un chat, o e-mail), pro expander le articulo. Almafeta

Le Imperio Roman
Salve!

Greetings, ILVI. I noticed your message about the Keene wikicity this morning, looked up your "ia:" page, was suitably impressed, and had no further reason to think about you - sorry! - until lunch-time, when one of life's coincidences happened. My workmate lent me a copy of a book of poetry, particularly so that I could reread "Horatius", by Englishman Lord Macaulay (1800-1859). With your apparent dislike of the Imperio roman, and your two native languages not including English, you may not have got as far as even seeing that poem, which is about the defence of Rome against the Etruscans. One name jumped out at me, though maybe it should not have. "Ilva" reminded me of your name, but I see it's not quite the same.

What's the origin of your login name? And could it be related to
 * "... Seius, whose eight hundred slaves
 * "Sicken in Ilva's mines"?

Robin Patterson 06:11, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

wikicities andalus
Hi Ilvi, please have a look at the wikicities project - there are some problems on the website - one edit for usre is some kind of self promotion (latest edit). Btw. we just created the Andalusian portal on WiktionaryZ: http://epov.org/wd-gemet/index.php/Portal:es-and Ciao! --SabineCretella 14:10, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

request
Hello! I`ve got one request for you. I collect words in various languages. Now I`m looking for word "sugar" in other languages, but I can`t find an Andalusian dictionary. I`ve got counterparts of word "sugar" in Japanese, Amharic, Thai, Georgian and Chinese, so can you write me what is "sugar" in Andalusian Spanish language? I`ve got this word in 264 languages and dialects of many regions and countries in the world so it is very important for me! Thank you very much! Szoltys

Trust in Wikipedia
this is Cathy from Hong Kong working on a research about trust on Wikipedia. I wonder if you would kindly contact me at researchingmedia@gmail.com? I'd like to chat with you about Wikipedia of your language. Would you kindly drop me your email or IM (Skype, MSN, AIM or ICQ)? It wouldn't take more than ten minutes, but it would help enormously for us to understand the overall trust-based social landscape of Wikipedia. Thank you!

Proposed Deletions
I have placed a proposed deletion of Barry Stephen Nieuport on the grounds that vanity press authors do not belong in Wikipedia. Avt tor 05:46, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I have also placed a proposed deletion of The Gorrideon on the grounds that vanity press books are not noteworthy according to usual Wikipedia standards. If you object, please add sources to explain the notability of the book, or else it would be necessary to submit a formal Articles for Deletion request. Avt tor 05:52, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up on your proposed deletions. I just got an email from the author who needed this explained. Maybe he can get in touch with you, Avt tor, and discuss... Anyway, you may want to give references for the deletion, like reasons why "vanity press authors" don't belong in Wikipedia, so that he may understand why you suggested the deletion, and he knows that it certainly doesn't come from me. I've no problem with it being there. Sincerely, Jay Bowks User:ILVI ilvi 20:21, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

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Wikipedia n'andalú
Hola, soy Jeneme. Quisiera preguntarte si se puede hacer otra votación sobre la wiki en andaluz y cómo habría que hacerlo. Gracias.

Thanks!
Dear Jay, Thanks for your support! I'm very happy to hear that you find my work for the Vükiped worthwhile. I do, however, agree with the critics who say that quality is more important than quantity, and I would love to see longer and more interesting Vükiped articles about all kinds of topics (especially also about Volapük topics -- history of the language and its authors, etc.). It is my hope, as you also said, that more people will hear about the language because of the large article count and that some will become collaborators who will help improve overall quality... Now, precisely because I'm also interested in Volapük history, I'm curious about the history of this Vükiped. I understand you're probably overwhelmed with your work, but would you perhaps have some time to tell a little bit of the story of how and why you decided to start a Volapük wikipedia? When and why you had the idea, which were the problems (Was it easy or difficult to get the project started? Was there opposition from Wikipedians? Who else participated in the process? Are the discussions archived somewhere where I can read them?), etc.? Also, when, why and how did you become interested in the language? (You were also (one of) the founder(s) of the Volapük yahoo group, weren't you? And you also have an interesting page on artificial languages?) I'd use the information to write an article on the history of the Vükiped, and perhaps also another one about you (if you give me enough biographic details...). Thanks in advance! --Smeira 00:21, 18 setul 2007 (UTC)

Translation from Volapük
I see that you are listed as a Volapük level 2 speaker, so could you translate (and possibly analyse) the following two words: löpikalarevidasekretel and klonalitakipafablüdacifalöpasekretan and post the translation on my talk page.

Thanks a lot! --Vorkalloner 20:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Attempt to close Volapük Wikipedia
Dear Jay,

there seems to be an ongoing discussion on closing the Volapük wikipedia, generated by someone from the German wikipedia who doesn't like interlinks to Volapük (stub)-articles. Maybe you could come there and help fight for keeping it alive? Here is the link: Closure of Volapük Wikipedia. Thanks! Smeira 19:26, 21 september 2007.

 * Dear Jay,
 * Let me again invite you to vote on the proposed closure of vo.wiki (see link in the above message). The number of votes opposing closure is more than twice the number of votes supporting it, but one never knows. After all, Wikipedia is not a democracy. Smeira 23:16, 6 October 2007.

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Translating
Hi ILVI! I see on your user page that you speak e.g. Spanish and Interlingua, both languages which need more translators. I want to invite you to come to Betawiki. If you translate there, your translations can be used on every MediaWiki wiki, including all Wikimedia wikis. On Betawiki, we have special infrastructure which allows easy translating. There is also a special page to translate namespaces etc. I hope I convinced you, if so, follow the instruction on betawiki:Translating:How to start. Thank you very much! SPQRobin (talk) 12:22, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Help
Ola, zoy Chabi, de Andalu. Te kería pedì ayuda'n la Wikipedia'n laíno. Me guhtaría zè ahminihtraò porke toi zolo i no kiero andà molehtándo-te to'r tiempo ke zi borra ehto, ke zi mira l'otro. ¿Me pueh azè tu ahminihtraò? Chabi
 * Por cierto, ya que te pregunto, ¿no serás tú el creador del ekspreso, no? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.54.159.90 (talk) 15:16, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

hi
Hi. I found you in categories of users who can contribute in English and Portuguese. I myself am a native speaker of English, but I'm well on my way to learning Portuguese. Just check out my user page and talk page, and join in any of the discussions. To keep updated, you can even put a watch on my user page, which will automatically watch my talk page. :-) learnportuguese (talk) 19:09, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:MargaretKeane.png
Hi when did you take this pic?Genisock2 (talk) 20:52, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

gl.wikipedia.org
Ola, Ilvi. O 8 de marzo de 2003 fixeches a primeira entrada na Galipedia, gl.wikipedia.org. Coido que é cousa de darte as grazas despois de 5 anos de tirar coa Galipedia cara arriba. Por iso, e coido que en nome de toda a comunidade (aínda que non falei con eles), grazas. user:Agremon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.22.161.126 (talk) 21:49, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Empezamoh un nuebo proyehto --Jeneme (talk) 13:45, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Your site...
Greetings, Mr. Bowks. A few days ago, someone removed all external links in the article Ekspreso. I was terrified to find out that your excellent home page was gone! Is it really gone? Has it moved somewhere? Is it going to return? Aha, and one more question: would Bitruscan be online somewhere? Regards, —IJzeren Jan Uszkiełtu?  20:19, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

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Mount Warning

Mount Warning (Bundjalung: Wollumbin ), a mountain in the Tweed Range in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, was formed from a volcanic plug of the now-gone Tweed Volcano. The mountain is located 14 km west-south-west of Murwillumbah, near the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Lieutenant James Cook saw the mountain from the sea and named it Mount Warning.

Shield volcano
Mount Warning is the central volcanic remnant of an ancient shield volcano, the Tweed Volcano, which would have been about 1900 m above sea level or just under twice the height of the current mountain. This volcano last erupted around 23 million years ago. As the mountain's central vent cooled it shrank, forming a depression at the top that has greatly eroded.

Today the vast areas that were part of the volcano include many mountains and ranges at some distance from Mount Warning, and include the Border Ranges, Tamborine Mountain, the McPherson Range and both the Lamington Plateau and Springbrook Plateaus. The erosion caldera formed since this eruption is easily visible around the summit and forms the rim of the Tweed Valley.

During the last stages of eruption, different and more resistant forms of lava that were cooler than those flows that created the shield volcano remained to form the current peak. The whole central Mount Warning massif was also pushed up by forces that remained active after lava eruptions had stopped.

Ecology
A species of frog, the Mount Wollumbin hip-pocket frog (Assa wollumbin) is endemic to the slopes of the mountain.

Aboriginal significance
Wollumbin is a place of cultural and traditional significance to the Bundjalung people and contains sacred sites, where particular ceremonies and initiation rites are performed. The summit area of the Mountain is a declared Aboriginal Place under the National Parks and Wildlife Act.

While now spelt Wollumbin, the Aboriginal word had numerous alternative spellings which are recorded in the historic record including; Walumban, Walumbin, and Wooloombin, all referring  to the same place. In 1873 reference can be found to the Mountain being referred to by Aboriginal people as "Wollumbin", signifying "big fellow mountain". The Aboriginal significance of the area is contextual and dependant on direction of observance, gender, and status of whoever is telling the story. Several different stories exist about Wollumbin including reference to the Mountain as the Warrior Chief, a special place of significance for brush turkey, and the cloud catcher. Many more stories exist that are not in the public record. The name Wollumbin refers to the whole of the central vent and its surrounding ring dykes.

The Bundjalung people observe cultural and traditional restrictions forbidding the uninitiated from climbing the mountain, and, as such, ask that others also do not attempt to climb the mountain. The government National Parks and Wildlife Service advertise this request and do not encourage climbers to hike the Mt. Warning/Wollumbin Trail up the mountain, but it is not forbidden by park regulations.

Name confusion
In 2005 the name "Mount Wollumbin" was removed from a peak nearby to Mount Warning by the Geographical Names Board. This mountain is also referred to as Mount Ivy and Mount Dum Dum and was believed to be named Mount Wollumbin in error. In 2006 the Geographical Names Board assigned dual naming to Mount Warning, to also be known by its indigenous name of Wollumbin. The name Wollumbin refers the whole of the central vent and its surrounding ring dykes.

Etymology
On 16 May 1770, Captain James Cook was the first European to record seeing "… a remarkable sharp peaked Mountain lying inland…" from a point of land he named Cape Byron. Just five hours later while sailing North, Cook was forced to change course to the East after encountering the dangerous reefs that run 3 miles to the East from Fingal Head, now named Danger Reefs (Inner, South, and Outer reefs).

The next morning, Cook recorded:

"…We now saw the breakers [reefs] again within us which we past at the distance of 1 League [5 km], they lay in the Lat de of 38°..8' [later changed to 28°..8'] & stretch off East two Leagues [10 km] from a point under which is a small Island. There situation may always be found by the peaked mountain before mentioned which bears SWBW from them this and on this account I have named Mount Warning it lies 7 or 8 Leagues [35-40 km] inland in the latitude of  28°..22" S° the land is high and hilly about it but it is conspicuous enough to be distinguished from everything else. The point off which these shoals lay I have named Point Danger to the northward of it the land which is low trends NWBN but we soon found that it did not keep that direction long before it turned again to the northward."

Protected area
The mountain is now protected by the surrounding Wollumbin National Park, and access is regulated by the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service. Mount Warning is part of the United Nations World Heritage-listed Gondwana Rainforests of Australia.

Walking track
Over 60,000 people a year make the 8.8 km, five-hour round-trip trek to the top from.

An ascent of the mountain takes approximately 1½ to 3½ hours (one way) and requires a good level of fitness. There are also viewing platforms at the summit. The total journey is 8.8 km (5.5 mi).

In March 2020 the summit track was closed by National Parks NSW citing safety concerns, to be reviewed in May 2021. However, in February 2021 documents obtained through Freedom Of Information revealed that the track and surrounding area has actually been secretly scheduled to be permanently closed. As of August 2022 park authorities had placed a barrier on the access road several kilometres from the trailhead. This would add a forty minute uphill walk to the ascent for anyone attempting to climb the mountain; and the path on the mountain itself had deteriorated badly in places.

In late October 2022 NSW authorities did go ahead and ban public access to Wollumbin National Park, to be enforced with heavy fines. This was soon followed by a video posting showing a hiker flouting the ban. There has been significant backlash in the community surrounding the closure. Many have argued that the track was closed primarily due to complaints from some in the Aboriginal community, not due to safety concerns and the track was in fact still usable.

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Float right
Why add an unneccessary template when the tables float fine with their own style setting? I can't see why we need to complicate these templates, with more nested templates (an extra load on the server) when they work fine already. ed g2s •  talk  21:03, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think they're working that fine. Many are missing, and virtually all (including the ones that use the   class from Common.css) try to generate the spacing around the float using  , which doesn't have the desired visual effect where borders and backgrounds of other elements are involved, because the float doesn't "push aside" the block boxes it intersects, but only the line boxes inside them (visible for example when the underline below a section heading intersects a float). Padding + white background and white border are the only ways to solve this. The markup/CSS used by Image uses borders. I think the padding approach is preferrable because it makes the whole background of the float opaque, in case the float content doesn't do that already. However, both versions need an additional HTML element to apply the white border or padding on (the content element of the float cannot be used for this, because it often needs to have a visible border inside the padding), so a pure CSS solution isn't possible.

 * Technicalities aside, my main point is that there should be a simple, consistent way to get float boxes, that doesn't require the editor to be a CSS expert. The float-right-* templates do just that. If server load is really that much of an issue, something like  could be used in templates to avoid the nested template calls (incidentally, Template:Infobox VG uses 5 - 10 nested calls already, so I'm not convinced another two would make that much of a difference).

 * There's really too much unnecessary manual CSS styling going on anyway, most of it related to tables and floats. If there were a couple of predefined styles to choose from that were easy to use and produced good looking tables (ok, there is, but I haven't seen it used in any article source I've edited or looked at) and floats, most of that could be avoided. I'd probably have written some CSS for this by now, but all style sheets are protected (admittedly a necessity) and even simple suggestions to fix bugs in the existing styles are being ignored on the talk pages. I think there's lots to be done on the CSS/markup side of Wikipedia, but it doesn't seem that work on these things from non-admins is exactly encouraged. --K. Sperling 11:15, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Your edit of Template:float-right-begin actually breaks it. Forcing an opaque (white) background is intentional. For example, look at Occupied Japan now, the section rule runs through the box. Of course it would be nice if CSS permitted setting the background color to whatever color is defined for the main document, but it doesn't. --K. Sperling 11:37, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Your solution of forcing a white background is unacceptable. Many people use skins which don't have a white background. Besides, infoboxes shouldn't be white anyway (or forced to any colour, as the background colour can change). The TOC and image boxes have a grey background in the monobook skin which pretty much eliminates the problem of section headers going through infoboxes (see Texas). I agree that there is too much manual CSS being used, but this should be solved using classes, not hacks like this.

 * Defining templates to avoid repetitive markup is exactly what templates are for, and hardly a hack. Besides, the infobox itself isn't forced to any color, only the  and , which skins would then have to modify appropriately. Apparently something like that was in monobook/main.css at some point, but it's commented out. The only classes currently available for this that actually work are the ones used for images,   +  . However, using those for non-image floats would be a hack. --K. Sperling 16:30, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

Comparison of operating systems / SecuniBot
I'd like to alter Comparison_of_operating_systems to look something like User:Reisio/Sandbox.

 * Do you approve?
 * Will it present any problems for SecuniBot?
 * Any alterations that would make it easier?

¦ Reisio 21:33, 2005 August 27 (UTC)

New Zealand portal
A photo you contributed to Wikipedia, Image:ArthursPass.jpg, is currently the selected picture on the New Zealand portal. You're welcome to nominate other pictures of New Zealand at Portal_talk:New_Zealand, or to view the archive of selected pictures at the picture archive.-gadfium 05:51, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Auckland Meetup 2 Scheduled - Feb 10 2007
Hi Sperling, long time since you edited here. I hope you've come back to stay.

You are invited to Auckland Meetup 2 on the afternoon of Saturday February 10th 2007 at Galbraith's Ale House in Mt Eden. Please see Meetup/Auckland 2 for details. You can also bookmark Meetup/Auckland to be informed of future NZ meetups. - gadfium 07:47, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Arles

Greek Colony
Theres no mention of Arles being originally a Greek colony? I may do some research and post it here before editing the main page, if there are no objections.

Roman Era
Cheese is foot and foot is cheese

Alignment issues
There are alignment issues with this article - The first table (on the right) is above the text, and this table should be beside the text. --EunuchOmerta 15:39, 17 May 2006 (UTC)EunuchOmerta

Pronunciation
How do you pronounce "Arles"? Is it "AR-ehlls" or "AR-less" or what? AThousandYoung 08:41, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It's "AR-ehll." Gunslinger 04:42, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Arles on the ranking list
Is there a referance to whether or not Arles is the best Commune in France to live in? If not, is it on the top one percent? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.164.222.87 (talk) 21:13, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Ancient History
Several recent edits by anonymous Greek IPs have changed the sense of the History section by removing any references to the Greeks. I've reverted twice and don't want to dragged in to a war. This is not really my subject but I've added a new section for pre-Roman history, and used the word Phoenician rather than Greek. It's very basic. Can anyone more experienced help? There's a good separate article on the history of Arles in the French wiki. Mcewan (talk) 11:22, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Ancient Greek History
I'm not sure why any Greek would not want that information made available? As long as the sources are cited and it's well written go for it. I posted at the top of the page about this very issue before I realised that your contributions had been edited out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.25.109.197 (talk) 12:22, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Big big gap in the history section
We have nothing from the 1st to the 8th century!!!! --Againme (talk) 03:51, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

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Ancient Ligurians this far?
At the beginning of the history section us mentioned that the region of present-day Arles was originally inhabited by Ancient Ligurians, frankly I never heard or read about Ligurians being this far west and since there is no footnote I find the claim even more suspicious. Is there any source that could verify this claim? 95.236.204.138 (talk) 11:27, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Harry Potter chapter titles in other languages (2nd nomination)/2004 archive

This list was listed here before for deletion and the consensus was to keep, but there is a reason for it to be deleted. This list demonstrates a vehicle for unconditional POV hero worship to Harry Potter, and especially for chapter titles, despite the fact that I admire Harry Potter's books and author J.K. Rowling's rise from rags to riches. Wikipedia is not to be a vehicle for Harry Potter fans. Marcus2 15:32, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * As you say, this has already been debated and decided: you tried once only a month ago and failed. If you don't like reading about Harry Potter, don't click on the links. Are you going to condemn the huge number of articles about other fictional characters and concepts? That's the slippery slope down which certain people want to send Wikipedia: who should decide whether a subject is "worthy of inclusion"? If you cannot bring anything new to the discussion, there's no discussion to be had. --Phil | Talk 16:51, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)

 * You're wrong about one thing. I do like reading Harry Potter. And I doubt you even read all of what I have stressed above. I shall repeat, "This list was listed here before for deletion and the consensus was to keep, but there is a reason for it to be deleted. This list demonstrates a vehicle for unconditional POV hero worship to Harry Potter, and especially for chapter titles, despite the fact that I admire Harry Potter's books and author J.K. Rowling's rise from rags to riches. Wikipedia is not to be a vehicle for Harry Potter fans." Votes? Marcus2 17:20, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I seem to recall having voted to keep this. It's a strange entry to be sure, but benign.  Frankly, I thought it interesting to learn how some of the names Rowling had to make up were translated into other languages. - Lucky 6.9 17:28, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Very good point. Maybe this is worth it after all. Keep, I guess. Marcus2 17:31, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I'd say delete, compressing all of the translated word trivia into one article. A whole series on HP translations is probably not necessary.  User:Rich Farmbrough voted to keep last time, saying "1. Dividing things vertically (in this case into languages) is not 100% clean. 2. There will always be different ways of slicing information in a static encyclopedia."  For those two reasons I would say to delete, because this division of information is particularly arbitrary, and a primary goal of Wikipedia should be to promote the most useful divisions of information.  -- WOT 17:45, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. If the article isn't kept, at least the information should be (maybe those voting for deletion would be happy with some sort of re-formatting?) Salasks 19:39, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete. I like Harry Potter as well, but this is just too much. Elf-friend 19:46, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * You can't just relist things on VfD every month because you don't like them. You failed (not through lack of effort!) to convince people to delete this last time, why not just leave it be? Keep.   —Kate | Talk 20:02, 2004 Aug 2 (UTC)
 * To be honest with you, you are so blind. You ought to know by now that it's NOT because I don't like the article or Harry Potter in general. If I've just made a personal attack, let me know. Marcus2 21:32, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Why, then? It was on VfD, it survived, what's to be gained by relisting it this soon?   —Kate | Talk 21:34, 2004 Aug 2 (UTC)
 * Keep, Kate has an excellent point. How many times do you have to get denied for your VFD to understand people like the article? --TIB 23:03, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * is there some rule on the minimum length of time between VfDs? Keep, on general principles. --Ianb 20:18, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm not aware of any fixed waiting time between vfds, but six months sounds fair to me. No vote. Wile E. Heresiarch 21:19, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I think I voted delete last time. I expect the outcome to be the same.  Perhaps a rule against short term relisting should be added. -  Tεx  τ  urε  21:26, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Anything that assists in expunging the curse that is Harry Potterism from the face of the earth has my support!--Gene_poole 23:10, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I dunno whether it should be kept or not. Obviously a tremendous amount of work has gone in to it, and the article itself seems innocuous enough, at least to someone like me who is both totally uninterested in HP in all his manifestations and disinterested as well.  Although, frankly, I can't see why anyone in the world would want to have this info at his disposal -- it seems totally useless to me.  Perhaps it should be moved to some other HP location.  One thing that I don't understand, however, is why, if there are several hundred chapters listed, the blinkin' names of the books aren't shown in translation?  Surely this would be a more useful project than chapter names.  And if the book titles in translation exist in another article, then that is the place that this article should be. In which case I would strongly urge a Move. Hayford Peirce 00:07, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * NOTE: There's a whole Harry Potter in translation series including no less than 6 articles. Salasks 17:58, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Weak keep, but keep. Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, or the Whale is often thought to begin with the line "Call me Ishmael," but in fact it begins with the etymology of the word "whale," followed by "KETOS, Greek. CETUS, Latin.  WHOEL, Anglo-Saxon.  HVALT, Danish.  WAL, Dutch.  HWAL, Swedish.  WHALE, Icelandic.  WHALE, English.  BALEINE, French.  BALLENA, Spanish.  PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, Fegee.  PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, Erromangoan." If this sort of thing is good enough for Melville, it should be good enough for us. Yes, the page is a little eccentric, but not enough to warrant deletion. It's intriguing to see how the invented names get translated into different languages—rather like seeing foreign translations of Jabberwocky. [[User:dpbsmith|dpbsmith (talk)]] 01:49, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. And any page re-listed on here less than a year after it is kept should be automatically kept.  Re-listing in the hopes that the results will change is a waste of resources.  Jgm 02:15, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep based solely on the fact that this survived VfD in the recent past. I would gladly vote to delete, as I did last time, if this comes back to VfD in about six months.  Until then, Keep on GP.  SWAdair | Talk  07:30, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, on GP. Nominate it in 2005 (I don't think it needs to wait a full year, but I do think six months is appropriate), and I'll probably vote delete. Niteowlneils 17:33, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Compared with some of the stuff on this encyclopedia this is positively scholarly. DJ Clayworth 17:48, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Even though it's basically raw data it is at least categorised, and some effort went into it. Although it is mostly of interest to only Harry Potter fans, deleting it because some people hate HP is worse than creating something because people like HP. Keeping it is harmless. Rico 23:28, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. I disagree about it being for HP fans. I'm not a HP fan yet I'm a major contributor to the HP in translation series. Becuase it in linguistically interesting. The only reason I read the first book was because I was looking for something easy to read in French, a language which I do not otherwise know. The chapter titles alone are great titles of the worldplay which represents major translation challenges. These books are probably the most-translated contemporary fiction readable by such a wide age range. I have learned more about applied literary translation from these articles than from any other source. I can give examples if needed. I admit the formatting and even the division of pages needs quite a bit of improvement. The content, however, is valuable. — Hippietrail 13:16, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)


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Public holidays in the Netherlands

The national holidays in the Netherlands are:

While there are other holidays that are widely celebrated, these are not officially recognised national holidays. They are as follows:

 * While Saint Nicholas's Eve (the eve of Sinterklaas, also called Sinterklaasavond or Pakjesavond) on 5 December is not a national holiday, it is widely celebrated. Saint Nicholas's traditional name day is on 6 December; it is however Saint Nicholas's Eve, the day before, which is the focus of celebrations in the Netherlands.
 * In the south and east of the Netherlands, Carnival is celebrated. It is celebrated on the three days before Ash Wednesday. The earliest possible date is on 1 February, the latest possible date is 9 March. Though not an official holiday, many people, particularly in the south, take the week off to celebrate. Schools in both regions schedule their spring holiday at the same time.
 * There has been some debate over whether the Islamic holiday of Eid ul-Fitr (Suikerfeest in Dutch, lit. 'Sugar festival') should be a national holiday. This was met by opposition from right-wing political parties such as the PVV and SGP. For now, Eid ul-Fitr is not an official national holiday, but it usually justifies a day off for Islamic employees. Those opposed to this proposition say that there are enough national holidays as it is. Schools are still able to give additional days off for this purpose.

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User:Dcrt888

My user page!

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Radiata

Radiata or Radiates is a historical taxonomic rank that was used to classify animals with radially symmetric body plans. The term Radiata is no longer accepted, as it united several different groupings of animals that do not form a monophyletic group under current views of animal phylogeny. The similarities once offered in justification of the taxon, such as radial symmetry, are now taken to be the result of either incorrect evaluations by early researchers or convergent evolution, rather than an indication of a common ancestor. Because of this, the term is used mostly in a historical context.

In the early 19th century, Georges Cuvier united Ctenophora and Cnidaria in the Radiata (Zoophytes). Thomas Cavalier-Smith, in 1983, redefined Radiata as a subkingdom consisting of Myxozoa, Placozoa, Cnidaria and Ctenophora. Lynn Margulis and K. V. Schwartz later redefined Radiata in their Five Kingdom classification, this time including only Cnidaria and Ctenophora. This definition is similar to the historical descriptor Coelenterata, which has also been proposed as a group encompassing Cnidaria and Ctenophora.

Although radial symmetry is usually given as a defining characteristic in animals that have been classified in this group, there are clear exceptions and qualifications. Echinoderms, for example, exhibit unmistakable bilateral symmetry as larvae, and are now in the Bilateria. Ctenophores exhibit biradial or rotational symmetry, defined by tentacular and pharyngeal axes, on which two anal canals are located in two diametrically opposed quadrants. Some species within the cnidarian class Anthozoa are bilaterally symmetric (For example, Nematostella vectensis). It has been suggested that bilateral symmetry may have evolved before the split between Cnidaria and Bilateria, and that the radially symmetrical cnidarians have secondarily evolved radial symmetry, meaning the bilaterality in cnidarian species like N. vectensis has a primary origin.

The differing definitions assigned by zoologists are listed in the table.

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Talk:Russ (Norwegian celebrant)

Intro
Partying to celebrate the end of high school education is not a phenomenon limited to the Scandinavian countries... the intro is perhaps badly phrased. --Shallot 17:29, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Remember that the celebration goes on for weeks, not just a few parties.

Latin
What is 'Examen Depositiones' supposed to mean? Sounds more like a Harry Potter spell than like real Latin. At least it is not correct Latin. Possibly 'examen depositionis'? Could anybody clarify this? --Hartmut Haberland (talk) 06:05, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

About the cleanup tone thingy...
I added this, because some phrases are badly written... I will edit some of this later, but I do not have the time now... First of all; the english is not good enough, and also, many phrases are too POV... Check the article for yourself, and you'll see what I mean :) NuclearFunk

 * I have done substantial type, style and grammar edits and removed the worst POVs. I believe the cleanup tag can be removed. Akita86 (talk) 19:05, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Norwegian and Danish
I propose dividing up this article into the separate Norwegian and Danish phenomena, as almost the only connection seems to be their history (and that's more than a hundred years ago...). Russ (Norwegian) (or just Russ, after all, this is what the article is mainly about now) and Russ (Danish). If no one opposes, I might even get around to doing this one day. Jørgen 19:31, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. It would also allow better division of the russ phenomena in Norway; main entires should be something like uniform (overalls, cars), behaviour (for knot rules, compulsary parties, ceremonies) and paraphenelia (cards, paper). Any better word for the behavioural bit than "behaviour"? King Gard of Gardistan 21:11, 13 May 2005

 * If they are basically similar but with only minor variations in Denmark and Norway, they should stay in the same article. There's no need to go into unnecessary detail of simple student shenanegance.
 * Peter Isotalo 22:43, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Like Jørgen said, they're not similar at all. And I wouldn't reduce Russ to "simple student shenanegance" — it's quite a cultural phenomenon, which I'm sure you'd find out if you ever went to a Norwegian city during "Russ time". :-) I support a split (although it doesn't seem to be happening, and I'm not motivated as of now). – Pladask 20:45, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * I would also agree with Jørgen: the Norwegian Russ-tradition is really a different event than the (original) Danish Rus-tradition. The equivalent in Denmark to the Russ-tradition would be the celebrations similarly following High School graduation, which also involves traditional caps, carriages and weeks of partying (although I believe they are distinctly different in other ways, with the Danish traditions being less formal (?)). 14:52, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Examples
I propose that, with the upcoming Russ in May, anyone out there in Norway should try to capture some pictures of the event. If a list of examples of activites is included, I believe it will add to the depth of this article. Sure, it is a cultural phenomenon, and this is the important part of the article; but much like the April Fool's Day page, I believe we need a list of past "Greats" as it were and the most recent pranks and events held by the Russ.
 * It's not a bad idea, but we will need a list. I say the march on the 17th should be there. When it comes to all thr "parting", not all of it would contribute to make a better article me thinks... NuclearFunk 18:44, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * We need some pictures from a "Russebuss", maybe we can get one from Flickr? My cam`s lost, and I am not sure about copyrights.--Zypres 20:26, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

What does this mean?
--Rus means to put aside one's horns. What does put aside one's horns mean?
 * It's about growing up and becoming mature, almost literally "ceasing to be a beast". Ancient Greek tradition thought that this could be achieved through education, and thus the newly graduated students are said to have "put their horns aside". Hope that makes sense.

Positive results of russ celebration?
http://web3.aftenbladet.no/innenriks/article285047.ece although a news article I think It could be worth mentioning as an "alternating view" or something. Sorry that it is in Norwegian ArneHD 17:47, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Knots
In the article it says that "...there are about 101 different tasks that can be performed to receive knots." This is, due to local variations, an understatement. At my school this year, it is listed 123 knots (http://www.steinkjer-russ.com/2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=20 (Though listed 124 different knots in the newspaper)); ranging from hugging all the teachers you meet during the school-day, to change in the locker-room of the opposite gender or having vorspiel (From German, means pre-party) for at least three hours in a tree.

Just to notify ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.52.241.54 (talk) 17:37, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Major edit, minor changes
I have separated this article on "russ" from the article on "russefeiring" because the word "russ" refers to the participants in the "russefeiring", and not the "russefeiring" (graduation ceremony) itself. This is in keeping with the (much higher quality) norwegian article on the subject. If they should be merged again in the future (e. g. because of the limited quality of this article) they should be merged into the "russefeiring" article and not into this one (as in the Norwegian Wikipedia).

Unless someone beats me to it (probably unlikely, since this page had not been edited for over a year previously) I will attempt to clean up the "russefeiring" article, as it contains numerous errors, poor language, etc.

Also, the swedish "studenten" and danish "rus" traditions, which are related to russefeiring but carry different names and are very different in character, should have their own pages and should not be included in this one. Realnightshadow (talk) 09:51, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

"White russ"
In the article "white" is designated as the colour of "medical and social studies", altough I have never seen this myself. Possibly a tradition started somewhere in the country locally, altough I have not heard of it and would appreciate an external source proving the statement. The common colours as I know them are red, blue, black and green.

Red: Studiespesialiserende = specialising for studies/higher education.

Blue: Economy and management, no longer a seperate line of study at norwegian secondary school. More a personal choice dependent on school and future plans. EG. in Trondheim, graduates at Adolf Øien Secondary School traditionally wear blue.

Black: "The working class". Mechanics, chefs, electricians, hairdressers. Education towards specific professions, where they usually becomes apprentices after having finished school in order to get a "fagbrev".

Green: Education towards becoming farmers/working with animals.

One should demand external sources of some reliability if other colours than these four is to be listed. Finding proof for these four should be rather easy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.112.84.234 (talk) 07:14, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I removed it. Rettetast (talk) 14:29, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
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 * To answer the question that somebody asked probably a while ago, Valorum was killed in a "terrorist explosion". It is highly insinuated in one of the Clone Wars comics that Palpatine was behind it. EVula 21:58, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

What does his name mean? It sounds Latin, and I definitely recognize the two words; unfortunately, not being very fluent, I can't accurately translate it. Does it mean something, or is it just impressive-sounding gibberish? 71.213.115.124 20:19, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Personal history, rise to office, voting record, and subsequent vote of "no confidence".
It serves them right. Who would elect General Zod as Chancellor? I mean, the guy is an escaped felon who was sentenced to life imprisonment. With all their fancy equipment and all those Jedi running around using "the Force", you would think that someone on Coruscant would do a background check on a guy running for public office. In a society that can achieve space travel with near lightspeed capabilites, a simple credit check shouldn't be a problem.

Oh well, you get what you pay for.

Am I right?

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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (released in some international markets as Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies) is a 2004 American buddy stoner comedy film directed by Danny Leiner, written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, and starring John Cho, Kal Penn, and Neil Patrick Harris. The first installment in the Harold & Kumar franchise, the film follows Harold Lee (Cho) and Kumar Patel (Penn) on their adventure to a White Castle restaurant after smoking marijuana.

Hurwitz and Schlossberg developed Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle based on experiences and people from when they attended Randolph High School. The filmmakers received license permission from White Castle in 2002, after consulting with Krispy Kreme; White Castle also contributed to the film's marketing campaign, releasing tie-in products at their restaurants. Cho and Harris (who portrays a fictionalized version of himself) were cast early, whereas Penn attended seven auditions. Principal photography began in 2003, with filming primarily done in Toronto.

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle was theatrically released in the U.S. on July 30, 2004, by New Line Cinema. The film received positive critical reception, with praise for the performances of its leads (particularly Harris) and subversion of racial and comedic stereotypes. The film has gone on to gather a cult following. The sequel, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, was released internationally in April 2008.

Plot
Investment banker Harold Lee is bullied into doing his colleagues' work while they leave for the weekend. Meanwhile, his roommate Kumar Patel attends a medical school interview, where he is highly qualified but intentionally ruins his chance to avoid getting accepted. Harold is smitten with his neighbor, Maria, but is too shy to talk to her. After smoking marijuana and seeing an advertisement for White Castle, the pair decide to go for the hamburgers. After traveling to the nearest White Castle in New Brunswick, they find it replaced by "Burger Shack". The drive-thru employee informs them of another White Castle in Cherry Hill.

Kumar suggests stopping at Princeton University to buy more marijuana. Kumar buys marijuana from one of the students and they are discovered by campus security and forced to escape, ditching their marijuana. They resume their drive, and when Kumar pulls over to urinate, a raccoon gets in the car and bites Harold. Kumar takes Harold to a hospital to check him for rabies; Harold is cleared, but Kumar's father and older brother—who work there as doctors—see them and Kumar's father berates Kumar over his failed medical interview. Kumar fakes an apology and steals ID badges from them to obtain medical marijuana. However, Kumar is then mistaken for his brother by other doctors and is forced to perform emergency surgery on a gunshot victim. To the amazement of Harold and the nurses, Kumar effortlessly saves the patient's life; afterwards, the patient tells them how to reach White Castle.

Kumar spots Maria at a movie theater and decides to get her attention so Harold can talk to her, but Harold panics and crashes the car. They are rescued by Freakshow, a tow-truck driver covered with oozing boils, who takes them to his house to repair their car. Harold and Kumar are propositioned by Freakshow's surprisingly alluring wife, but after Freakshow suggests a foursome, Harold and Kumar leave in horror. Kumar picks up a hitchhiker, Neil Patrick Harris, who is high on ecstasy. Harold and Kumar go into a convenience store to get directions and Harris drives away in their car. The duo are then stopped by an officer for jaywalking. Harold attempts to punch Kumar for arguing with the officer, but inadvertently punches the officer instead, resulting in his arrest.

Kumar makes a 911 call to distract the police and breaks into the station to free Harold. After Harold and Kumar flee, they encounter an escaped cheetah. After smoking marijuana with it, they decide to ride it to White Castle. Harold hits his head on a branch, destroying his laptop containing all the work that he just completed for his co-workers. Harold and a reluctant Kumar decide to not continue on their quest, but after encountering a group of extreme sports punks who have been abusing the pair, the duo change their mind and steal their truck. A state trooper spots the speeding truck and chases them. They are trapped when they reach the edge of a cliff. Spotting the White Castle below, Harold and Kumar use a hang glider from the truck to reach their destination.

The pair place their orders but are shocked to find they have no money. Harris suddenly appears, having craved the food when hearing them talk about it, and pays for their meal as an apology for stealing their car; he also further pays for "repairs". Kumar realizes he wants to be a doctor, but is afraid of conforming to the stereotype of Indians becoming doctors. Harold then notices his co-workers and two women pull up and get angry at them because they said they had to work with clients but were actually out partying. He confronts them and threatens to get them fired if it happens again.

After returning to their apartment they encounter Maria, Harold professes his feelings for her and they kiss. She informs Harold that she is leaving for Amsterdam, but will return in ten days. When Harold tells Kumar that Maria is going to Amsterdam, Kumar suggests they pursue Maria, reminding him that marijuana is legal in the Netherlands.

Production
While living in Los Angeles, screenwriters Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg decided to write a low-budget stoner film and base the main characters on their high school friends from Randolph High School. They based the character of Harold on their real-life friend Harold Lee. Hurwitz got the idea to base the film around White Castle from his own experience craving White Castle burgers when he lived in Pennsylvania for several years. At the time, Pennsylvania did not have any White Castle locations and Hurwitz had to have family members bring him frozen White Castle burgers from New Jersey.

The filmmakers received permission from White Castle in 2002 to use the chain's name in the film. One scene that depicted a White Castle being closed was changed at the request of the company's director of marketing. The film was also supposed to feature a hunt for Krispy Kreme donuts, but the food was changed to hamburgers when Krispy Kreme refused to allow the film to use their name.

Kal Penn revealed that he and his co-star did not get a big paycheck from the movie. They only had a gross salary of $75,000 each for the movie, but there were many deductions. Penn mentioned, "You deduct your taxes, 10% to your agent, 15% your manager, 5% to your lawyer, your publicity fees, and then your rent...And it averages out to probably about five-and-a-half months of living expenses once you've paid everybody and paid your taxes." He said that a working actor is likely to keep "maybe 30% of your paycheck" after paying taxes and a team of representatives, which would mean he would have been left about $22,500 from his earnings.

Casting
Hurwitz and Schlossberg included a role for Neil Patrick Harris as himself in the script without asking him first. Harris liked the script and agreed to appear in the film. Ralph Macchio was the backup choice if Harris declined. They also approached John Cho and Kal Penn to try out the parts who were initially skeptical about the project. During casting, both Penn and actor Sendhil Ramamurthy were being considered for the role of Kumar. After auditioning seven times, Penn eventually won the part. The role of Harold was between either Cho and Bobby Lee, ultimately the part was given to Cho.

Pre-production
The writers, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, said that they were really sick of seeing teen movies that were one-dimensional and had characters who didn't look like any of their friends, who were a fairly diverse group. This prompted them to write a film that was both smart and funny and cast two guys who looked like their best friends. They had been putting Harold and Kumar, who were Asian American, into all of their screenplays as the main characters, but had difficulty pitching to studios. "Our logic at the time was like nobody else is writing a stoner comedy about an [East] Asian dude and an Indian dude going to get White Castle," said Hurwitz, though director Danny Leiner remembered, "Before the casting and trying to get the money before Luke [Ryan, the executive producer] came on, we were going to a couple of the studios and one was like, "Look, we really love this movie. Why don't we do it with a white guy and a black dude?" John Cho mentioned the writers wanted to avoid whitewashing the main leads, so they wrote ethnic-specific scenes in the script. Cho recalled, “It had to be rooted in that as a defense mechanism so that they wouldn’t get turned white." Schlossberg commented, "There had never been an Asian character without an accent except for [Cho] as the MILF guy. A lot of people read the script and just assumed they might be foreign exchange students, so you really had to emphasize that these guys were born in America. It was a totally different world."

Kal Penn stated that the reason the movie was greenlit was because there were two junior execs at New Line Cinema who were given this new project and decided to take a chance on it. Penn explained, "The older people around Hollywood, the older people in town were like, 'We don't know if America is ready for two Asian American men as leads in a comedy.'"

A few days before shooting the movie, Cho knocked on Penn's door and told him, "If we're supposed to be best friends, we'd better start hanging out together." They went to get a beer together and under artificial conditions, began a real friendship.

Filming
Harold & Kumar began filming on May 12, 2003. The film is set in New Jersey, but was mainly filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Scenes set at Princeton University were actually filmed at the University of Toronto's Victoria College and Knox College. The production design team had to build a White Castle franchise especially for the shoot since Canada does not have White Castle restaurants. During filming, Penn ate veggie burgers as he is a vegetarian.

Soundtrack
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: Original Soundtrack was released on July 27, 2004. It contains 16 songs from the film.

 * Track list
 * 1) "Chick Magnet" – MxPx
 * 2) "One Good Spliff" – Ziggy Marley / The Melody Makers
 * 3) "Yeah (Dream of Me)" – All Too Much
 * 4) "Righteous Dub" – Long Beach Dub All Stars
 * 5) "Skunk One" – Kottonmouth Kings
 * 6) "Same Old Song" – Phunk Junkeez
 * 7) "White Castle Blues" – The Smithereens
 * 8) "Crazy On You" – Heart
 * 9) "Cameltoe" – Fannypack
 * 10) "Kinda High, Kinda Drunk" – Coolio
 * 11) "Mary Jane" – Rick James
 * 12) "I Wanna Get Next to You" – Rose Royce
 * 13) "Hold On" – Wilson Phillips
 * 14) "Ridin'" – Classic & 86
 * 15) "Arrival at White Castle" – Heiruspecs
 * 16) "Total Eclipse of the Heart" – Nicki French

Songs that are in the film but do not appear on the soundtrack include:
 * 1) "Also Sprach Zarathustra" – David Kitay, Richard Strauss
 * 2) "Baby Baby" – Amy Grant
 * 3) "Ballin' Boy" – No Good
 * 4) "Click Click Pow" – Lexicon
 * 5) "Warrior Dance" – Zion I feat. Pep Love
 * 6) "Fall In Line" – Phunk Junkeez
 * 7) "Faraway" – Dara Schindler
 * 8) "Gangsta Gangsta" – J. O'Neal / D. Black
 * 9) "Girl From Ypsilanti" – Daniel May
 * 10) "Let's Get Retarded" – Black Eyed Peas
 * 11) "Looney" – Moonshine Bandits
 * 12) "Mariachi Speier" – Eric Speier
 * 13) "On the Ganges" – Matt Hirt
 * 14) "Rock to the Rhythm" – Lexicon
 * 15) "Rock Your Body 2004" – Stagga Lee
 * 16) "Ooh Wee" – Mark Ronson

Marketing
In the 11 days before the film's release, New Line Cinema turned a parking lot on Sunset Strip into a temporary White Castle. The restaurant served 40,000 burgers to patrons, including Quentin Tarantino, Farrah Fawcett and Jay Leno.

White Castle launched several promotions in tandem with the film's release. The restaurant chain featured beverage cups with pictures of Harold and Kumar. They also provided free hamburgers to moviegoers attending the film's premiere. Cho and Penn were inducted into the company's White Castle Cravers Hall of Fame in 2004.

Box office
In its opening weekend, the film grossed $5,480,378 in 2,135 theatres in the United States and Canada. In total, it had a worldwide gross of $23,936,908 on a $9 million budget.

Critical reception
The film was positively received by critics, with a 74% rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 148 reviews; the consensus states, "The likable leads and subversion of racial stereotypes elevate Harold and Kumar above the typical stoner comedy." On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 64 out of 100 based on 29 reviews from critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".

Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film 3 out of 4 stars and wrote "One secret of fiction is the creation of unique characters who are precisely defined. The secret of comedy is the same, with the difference being that the characters must be obsessed with unwholesome but understandable human desires."

Home media
The "Extreme Unrated" edition of the DVD was released on January 4, 2005. It includes special features like a mockumentary, "The Art of the Fart", "The Backseat Interview", an interview with Cho and Penn, and a making-of featurette about the Land of Burgers animated segment. The DVD also features two commentaries: one by writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg and one by actor Dan Bochart in character as Extreme Sports Punk #1. The film was re-released on DVD in 2007 and a remastered edition was released in 2008. The film was released on Blu-ray on November 13, 2012.

As of August 17, 2008, the film had 2,878,770 DVD sales in the United States, grossing $30,609,751.

Sequels
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is the 2008 sequel to White Castle. The movie revolves around Harold and Kumar trying to get to Amsterdam to find Maria, but when the two are mistaken for terrorists on the plane, they are sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Both Hurwitz and Schlossberg announced plans to write a third Harold and Kumar film, with Greg Shapiro returning as producer, and Kal Penn and John Cho returning in their title roles, while Todd Strauss-Schulson directed the film. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas was released on November 4, 2011, in 2D and 3D.

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Herman Kristoffersen

Herman Kristoffersen (born 24 August 1947) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He is known as a former mayor of Tromsø.

Kristoffersen was elected mayor in 1999, and again in 2003. In 2003 however, he had to form a coalition with the Socialist Left Party in order to take office. Kristoffersen did not stand for re-election in 2007. He was succeeded by Arild Hausberg of the same party.

Kristoffersen is popularly known as Red Herman reflecting his former involvement in the Workers' Communist Party and the Red Electoral Alliance.

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Neo-Victorian

Neo-Victorianism is an aesthetic movement that features an overt nostalgia for the Victorian period.

In arts and crafts
Examples of crafts made in this style would include push-button cordless telephones made to look like antique wall-mounted phones, CD players resembling old time radios, Victorianesque furniture, and Victorian era-style clothing.

In neo-romantic and fantasy art, one can often see the elements of Victorian aesthetic values. There is also a strongly emerging genre of steampunk art. McDermott & McGough are a couple of contemporary artists whose work is all about a recreation of life in the nineteenth century: they only use the ultimate technology available, and since they are supposed to live anachronistically, this means the use of earlier photographic processes, and maintaining the illusion of a life stuck in the ways of a forgotten era.

Works of fiction
Neo-Victorian works of fiction are creative narrative works set in the Victorian period, but written, interpreted or reproduced by more contemporary artists.

Many neo-Victorian novels have reinterpreted, reproduced and rewritten Victorian culture. Significant texts include The French Lieutenant’s Woman (John Fowles, 1969), Possession (A. S. Byatt, 1990), Arthur and George (Julian Barnes, 2005), Dorian, An Imitation (Will Self, 2002) Jack Maggs (Peter Carey, 1997), Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys, 1966). Recent neo-Victorian novels have often been adapted to the screen, from The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Karel Reisz, 1981) to the television adaptations of Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet, BBC2, 2002, Fingersmith, BBC1, 2005, Affinity  ITV, 2008) and Michel Faber (The Crimson Petal and the White, BBC 1, 2011). These narratives may indicate a 'sexsation' of neo-Victorianism, and have been called "in-yer-face" neo-Victorianism (Voigts-Virchow).

Recent productions of neo-Victorianism on screen include Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes films and TV series such as Sherlock, Ripper Street, Whitechapel, Murdoch Mysteries and Penny Dreadful. The neo-Victorian formula can be expanded to include Edwardian consumer culture (Downton Abbey, The Paradise and Mr Selfridge).

In dress and behaviour
Many who have adopted Neo-Victorian style have also adopted Victorian behavioural affectations, seeking to imitate standards of Victorian conduct, pronunciation, interpersonal interaction. Some even go so far as to embrace certain Victorian habits such as shaving with straight razors, riding penny farthings, exchanging calling cards, and using fountain pens to write letters in florid prose sealed by wax. Gothic fashion sometimes incorporates Neo-Victorian style.

Neo-Victorianism is embraced in, but also quite distinguished from, the Lolita, Aristocrat and Madam fashions popular in Japan, and which are becoming more noticeable in Europe.

Social conservatives
Neo-Victorian aesthetics are also popular in the United States and United Kingdom among cultural conservatives and social conservatives. Books such as The Benevolence of Manners: Recapturing the Lost Art of Gracious Victorian Living call for a return to Victorian morality. The term Neo-Victorian is also commonly used in a derogatory way towards social conservatives.

Many of the things that seem commonplace in modern life began in the Victorian era, such as sponsorship, sensational journalism and popular merchandise.

Research
In September 2007, The University of Exeter explored the phenomenon in a major international conference titled Neo-Victorianism: The Politics and Aesthetics of Appropriation. Academic studies include Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999–2009.

Other foundational texts of neo-Victorian criticism are Kucich and Sadoff (2000), Kaplan (2007), Kohlke (2008-), Munford and Young (2009), Mitchell (2010), Davies (2012), Whelehan (2012), Kleinecke-Bates (2014), Böhm-Schnitker and Gruss (2014), Tomaiuolo (2018), and others.

In popular culture and literature
Neo-Victorianism can also be seen in the growing steampunk genre of speculative fiction and in music performers such as Emilie Autumn. Neo-Victorianism is also popular with, and in many ways prefigured by, those who are interested in Victoriana and historical reenactment.

Neo-Victorian details appear in The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, in which Neo-Victorians are one of the main groups of protagonists.

Carnival Diablo is a Neo-Victorian circus sideshow that has been touring North America for 20 years.

Unhallowed Metropolis is a roleplaying game based in a Neo-Victorian setting.

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Nude (VAST album)

Nude is the third studio album by the band VAST, released on Carson Daly's independent label 456 Entertainment. It was released on February 24, 2004. The album is made up of remastered and remixed demos from the online Turquoise & Crimson releases.

A European version of the album was also released, which includes two bonus tracks and a sixteen-page booklet housed in a cardboard slipcase. The bonus tracks included are Falling from the Sky (as track 13) and I Woke Up L.A. (as track 14).

With the release of Turquoise & Crimson (Retail Version), the album was made obsolete, because the double album featured all of the songs on Nude, remastered from their unfinished versions released online, and mixed with many new songs. Crosby marketed the album through his own independent label after his unhappiness with 456 Entertainment. He later claimed that releasing Nude on 456 Entertainment was a "disaster, and not a very good idea".

During the promotional phase of the album's release, the band played on Last Call with Carson Daly and performed their single "Thrown Away".

Track listing
All songs written by Jon Crosby.
 * 1) "Turquoise" – 3:20
 * 2) "Thrown Away" – 4:01
 * 3) "Don't Take Your Love Away" – 4:57
 * 4) "Be With Me" – 3:54
 * 5) "Lost" – 4:01
 * 6) "Winter in My Heart" – 3:36
 * 7) "I Need to Say Goodbye" – 3:22
 * 8) "Japanese Fantasy" – 3:01
 * 9) "Ecstacy" – 3:34
 * 10) "Candle" – 3:28
 * 11) "I Can't Say No (To You)" – 4:19
 * 12) "Desert Garden" – 3:43

EU Version Track listing

 * 1) "Turquoise" – 3:20
 * 2) "Thrown Away" – 4:01
 * 3) "Don't Take Your Love Away" – 4:57
 * 4) "Be With Me" – 3:54
 * 5) "Lost" – 4:01
 * 6) "Winter in My Heart" – 3:36
 * 7) "I Need to Say Goodbye" – 3:22
 * 8) "Japanese Fantasy" – 3:01
 * 9) "Ecstacy" – 3:34
 * 10) "Candle" – 3:28
 * 11) "I Can't Say No (To You)" – 4:19
 * 12) "Desert Garden" – 3:43
 * 13) "Falling from the Sky" – 3:27
 * 14) "I Woke Up L.A." – 3:39

Reception
Critical reception was mostly mixed, Allmusic noted that "his faraway vocal choirs and manipulated sound effects have the ability to evoke the unsettled tension that once tinged Lacuna Coil's dark electronic experiments...unfortunately these atmospheres deflate in the face of guitar-heavy modern rock appliques," and giving the album a 2.5 out of 5. The album has recently become a fan favorite and rarity after it was dropped out of print in recent years.

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Gráinne Ní Mháille aka Grace O Malley
''Historically there is no "right name". I think the English speaking audience is most familar with her as "Grace O'Malley" so, for clairity, I would suggest this is the appropriate nominative to use for this article.--jaymin 20:45, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)''

Aye, but all those people were English! And if you look at what they've written, its the phonetic reproduction of Grainne, not Grace. Which she does - above - herself too! "Historically there is no "right name"." I must beg to differ! She was Gráinne ní Owen Dubhdara O Mháille. Grace O Malley is the English version of her proper name! In your introduction you introduce her as "Grace O' Malley (Irish Gráinne Ní Mháille, also known as Granuaile or Gráinne Mhaol)" when it should be the other way around. (i.e., "Gráinne Ní Mháille, also known as Granuaile or Gráinne Mhaol (English: Grace O Malley)."

In all honesty, I accecpt your nameing the article by her English name, but don't you think there is a case for changeing the first few sentences the way I outlined? Saying stuff like ''Historically there is no "right name" is something I would have expected from a 19th centuary English person; it sounds very ignoble in this day and age. Fergananim P.S: Happy birthday!

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