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Controversial message board postings
Shouldn't some variation of this bit from Ashlee Simpson -- preferably condensed -- be included under "Promotion and Marketing" section?:

Ashlee Simpson's marketing campaign has been accused of astroturfing on various websites. A post on Metafilter claims that the marketing company posted under the user name "mandyc19" with the text I just read about Ashlee in us weekly. Those guys at the football game were total jerks. She said she wishes the critics will pick on someone else and i  agree. Do you think MTV is gonna play the boo on her show? It's on after Newlyweds again right? I hope they let her tell her side! Mandy This exact text was posted on over three hundred different music-related forums.

No. The only article for which that would be an appropriately detailed level of content would be a subarticle on publicity and promotion, but that failed VfD. There's no way a few message board posts deserve inclusion when people have been deleting information about the vastly more notable NYT and Village Voice critical appraisals. Everyking 11:49, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Yes. This is another important scandal in a career that has been defined primarily in terms of public scandals. 68.118.61.219 13:04, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay, I had to laugh at Everyking talking about "an appropriately detailed level of content." And "few" = "over three hundred"?

 * So, short form:

 * "In February 2004, a post on Metafilter claimed that a PR firm working for Ashlee Simpson was astroturfing, citing a identical pro-Ashlee message under the user name "mandyc19" that was posted on over three hundred different music-related forums ."

 * Thoughts?

 * By the way, Google counts 6,360 hits for "mandyc19". I skimmed through them, and couldn't find a single one that wasn't either that exact text quoted above or something commenting on it. I even found a reference on G4TechTV's "Screen Savers" program.  --Calton 13:08, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * It's still far less notable than all that stuff that was removed before. Let's talk about restoring that, and then we can consider adding this. Everyking 13:11, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * The removed stuff was already considered, which is why it's gone. This is a separate issue, and you don't get to set the conditions of the debate. Anyone else have an opinion? I am loathe to practice Everyking's act-unilaterally-unless-someone-stops-me method. --Calton 02:41, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I couldn't really care either way, but if we're going to place this somewhere, it might make more sense on Ashlee Simpson instead. Johnleemk | Talk 06:50, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * True, the product that "mandyc19" was pushing was Ashlee Simpson in general, not the album specifically. And it already is mentioned in the Ashlee Simpson article.

 * On the other hand, this article does have "Promotion and Marketing" section, which, since this is a PR gimmick we're talking about, arguably fits there, too. On the other other hand, it occurs to me that my phrasing above doesn't really relate it to PR/marketing. So, does

 * "Ashlee Simpson's promoters have also been accused of using the promotional technique known as astroturfing; that is, trying to engineer the impression of spontaneous fan reactions. In February 2004, a post on Metafilter cited identical pro-Ashlee messages (under the user name "mandyc19") posted on over three hundred different music-related forums ."

 * Fits? Gives coverage to a new controversy in a way that balances the relentlessly upbeat tone of the existing section. --Calton 01:05, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * As you point out, this really has nothing to do with the album. It has something to do with Internet discussion regarding Ashlee, and by extension it has something to do with Ashlee, and with the Orange Bowl incident. It would take a big leap to justify including a mention of that here. Everyking 01:13, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * No, I pointed out that IT HAS TO DO WITH MARKETING. As in MARKETING AND PROMOTION. Which is the title of a section IN THIS ARTICLE. The link is arguably peripheral but real, so stop your self-serving twisting of my words. The problem with trying to be fair with you is that you seem perfectly unwilling to return the favor. It's also astonishing how every sub-trivial detail about your idol is important information -- unless it's negative. Now, does someone possessing some shred of perspective and/or objectivity want to put forth an opinion? --Calton 01:44, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * The posting only mentions Ashlee and her show, so it should only be mentioned in those articles, unless you've got some evidence of astroturfing for the album. --Carnildo 05:07, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Ditto Carnildo. Calton's proposal still does not show how it has anything to do with the album. Johnleemk | Talk 08:58, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Actually it mentions her butchering of the song she sang at the Orange Bowl, too, but I take your point. Okay, I'm not entirely convinced, but consensus says "no", so it's toast. Does this go into the Ashlee Simpson Show article, then? --Calton 07:55, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Seems fine to me at Ashlee Simpson. Johnleemk | Talk 09:38, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Archiving?
Say, I'm getting the message,

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Archive time? --Calton 13:08, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I just move a bunch to Talk:Autobiography (album)/Archive6. --Calton 02:52, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Data inclusion
Continuing where Everyking and I left off, I would only support the reinclusion of the charting data in full iff if a substantial portion of it was used in the article and not just haphazardly thrown in. For example, "Although Autobiography fell off the top 10 in week X, a month later it rebounded to Nth in the charts." And that has to be done with a substantial portion of the data; if you're going to extrapolate the album's popularity from the charting statistics as a whole, that can be done much more easily by giving its peak position, how long it stayed there, and the full length of the album's chart run. The inclusion of the data has to be justified. Otherwise it would be like throwing in a picture without a caption. Johnleemk | Talk 06:58, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * My opinion is that peak chart positions are just about worth including. Any description of chart movements over time is complete overkill, and tells us almost nothing about the album.  It's likely to be of interest only to hardcore fans.  I also don't think the graph should be there.  It's simply not interesting to the vast majority of readers to know the week by week chart movements of an album.  No other albums, even acknowledged hugely influential classics, have this information (as far as I can tell). Worldtraveller 19:04, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If you insist, we can keep going through the same routine forever. Personally, I'd rather compromise. Everyking 22:35, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'd go for having the week by week table because it's more comprehensive than just a table having the peak values. CHALK

The sales figures are screwed up. The album went triple platinum (3 million copies) by Sept 2004, but only 2.5 million by the end of the year??? Smackfu

 * Yeah, it's right. I don't know the specifics of why the numbers are like that, but I've heard it's a distinction between units sold and units shipped. Everyking 05:26, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Removal of reviews
I've trimmed the "reviews" paragraph down to the four reviews I think contribute the most to the article. Are any of the ones I removed are more significant than the ones I left? --Carnildo 06:32, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * The Village Voice and the New York Times are both more notable than All Music Guide, I would think. And RS was being mentioned twice - those should probably be consolidated. IGN isn't that notable, however, and can probably go, as can AMG if we're really trimming. That said, I didn't think the merged long paragraph was bad - I agree four paragraphs of reviews were kinda crazy, but I could deal with one long. Snowspinner 13:44, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Scratchpad
A scratchpad version of the article now exists at Autobiography (Ashlee Simpson album)/Temp. Radical editing is encouraged so that we can reach effective compromises there without futile revert wars here; hopefully this will be useful in addressing previous FAC objections. Everyking 07:03, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'm tired of not being able to make changes to this article. Everything I do is either deleted or minimized, and I have no means to pressure anybody into editing collaboratively because I can't revert. Others can and do revert me, but I can't do the same, so effectively I have no influence over the article's content even though I wrote nearly all of it. It's really kind of disgusting. If one side can't revert, neither should the other—the fact that the ruling applies to me alone effectively made it arbitration over content. Therefore I ask those who are still reverting, and Carnildo in particular, to pledge not to revert anymore and opt for discussion instead. Everyking 09:14, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, no-one else is subject to an arbitration ruling here. I don't see why anyone should voluntarily subject themselves to the same restrictions placed on you because of your behaviour with these articles. Worldtraveller 22:03, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I had an idea based on something I saw in another article: what if I created a subarticle, List of Ashlee Simpson television appearances (or something like that), and just made it a straight, simple, unwikified list of her television appearances? I think this strikes a healthy balance between providing the reader with information and at the same time steering clear of unnecessary trivia. Everyking 16:34, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't think that's such a great idea because it sounds so specific, but that's just me. Are there any other celebrities with a simiar list of television appearances? If so, could you provide links to them for reference? Thanks. --Deathphoenix 17:37, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Has she really made enough notable television appearances to justify a full article on them? If not, then the only reason I won't list such an article on VfD is if someone else beats me to it. --Carnildo 20:12, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, by my definition all her TV appearances are notable, since they are seen by so many people. Everyking 21:47, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * As I've mentioned before, I've appeared on TV several times, been seen by millions of people. Lots of people watch TV - that doesn't make TV appearances inherently notable.  Worldtraveller 22:03, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes it does, if the appearances have any kind of significance. Where's your article? Everyking 22:18, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This scratchpad shouldn't be in the article namespace, it should probably have gone in Talk:Autobiography (Ashlee Simpson album)/Temp. However, it's been sitting there for a month now without any edits at all being done, perhaps it should just be deleted instead. Is anyone still planning to do anything with it? Bryan 07:41, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, you can move it if you want. Everyking 07:57, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * If nothing's going to be done with it it should probably just be deleted, though (I take it it's just a copy of a particular version of the main article with no new material in it as yet). Are there any plans for actually using it for anything? Bryan 08:37, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * The plan was to use it to work out our editing disputes there instead on the article itself. Unfortunately someone has decided to seek arbitration against me instead. Nevertheless, I hope the scratchpad comes in handy eventually. Everyking 08:40, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay, I moved it. Bryan 17:20, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The currently commented out credits for Harder Everyday (which I tentatively added before, but wasn't 100% sure of) are correct. Go ahead and make it display in the text. Everyking 23:22, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Chart
Currently we have this chart in the article. It goes up to 30 weeks, which I think is a nice cut-off point. The problem with it, though, is that while it gives a good general impression of rising and falling trends, it's very difficult to read it for the specific numbers. Previously, we had a table in the article which gave the specific numbers, and I'd like to restore it. (Conceivably we could have that and the chart? Might be overkill) I'll note that in the months that have passed since the debate over this other comprehensive album articles have begun adopting tables like the one we used to have here. To me, this helps set a precedent that should make deciding this issue easier. Everyking 08:49, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

speculation removed
and may have caused "La La", promotion for which began in the U.S. in November 2004, to have fared more poorly on the charts than it otherwise would have

in reference to the orange bowl/snl incidents..... Ryan Norton T 05:48, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I added that recently in an attempt to satisfy people seeking more negativity in the article. Oh well, doesn't bother me to see it go. Everyking 05:50, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

heh heh :). Well, the problem is that it wasn't sourced... if we could source it that would be awesome, because it makes that sentence read better too Ryan Norton T 07:04, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

What's left, source etc.

 * 1) "Better Off", described by People magazine... - only positive reviews quoted.
 * People magazine links points to ashleemedianet to a picture of ashlee simpson... I searched the few pages that were there but couldn't find the specific review page. Also scoured google for it, no go. The specific issue is mentioned in your userfied issue, EK.... perhaps we can requote this a bit for NPOV, or should we look for a seperate source?

 * 1) the most rapidly added song on radio - what does this mean?
 * This is a dead la times link... can we verify that it says this a quote something directly?

If you could help on the these that would be great, as I got the rest already.... Ryan Norton T 07:58, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

I'll be damned, that People link doesn't work anymore...well, don't worry, it's got to be in there somewhere, I'll find it. Everyking 08:35, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I found it . I think she may alter the links when she adds new pictures, changing the order around, which seems like an insane method of organization, but if so that would mean this link would be frequently changing. So perhaps we should just cite it like a print review and not give a link. I don't know. Everyking 08:39, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

 * And the LA Times link has the same problem too? Well, I'll hunt it down. Everyking 08:41, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Here. Thanks for pointing those out. Hopefully they won't change again. Everyking 08:45, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh, and by rapidly added they mean picked up spins most frequently, increased airplay. Everyking 08:48, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Wow, that's great! And yeah I changed the template to note the date of the people magazine issue, and noted the full title of the LA Times article (no date). I tracked down the link for the geffen AOL press release too. Thanks! Looks like we can finish this up now :) Ryan Norton T 09:11, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

A possible error?
In the U.S., Autobiography was 2004's biggest debut by a female artist - is this true? I read somewhere that Norah Jones' Feels Like Home sold over one million copies in its first week of U.S. release. Extraordinary Machine 21:24, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * But that was Norah's second album. Everyking 21:50, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry. I thought the "debut" part was referring to the album's debut on the charts. I've clarified the sentence a little. Extraordinary Machine 22:13, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Unheard-of sales
The article says:

"Geffen President Jordan Schur said of Ashlee's success: 'It's unheard of in this business—even for a superstar—to sell this number of records,'"

This needs to be deleted or commented upon, because it makes Simpson's management out to look like either morons or blatant liars. There have been at least 157 albums selling more than 8 million copies in the U.S. Has Jordan Schur really never heard of any of those? Tomasboij 17:46, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Rip off of German Band's Song?
Her song "Autobiography" sounds like a song by a german band called Juli - Es_ist_Juli - The song is called Tränenschwer. The song was written by Kara DioGuardi and sold to both partys. See Here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.54.202.102 (talk) 17:45, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

GA Sweeps
This article has been reviewed as part of WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. I would have liked to see critical reception in its own section though, rather than wrapped up in "Background" under "Production". Also, there's a "citation needed" tag in the "Singles, publicity, and controversy" section, and a few paragraphs of unsourced material towards the end there. This is the natural accretion of cruft that will always occur in articles like this; it seems legitimate enough, but some sourcing and maybe a restructuring would be good. Lampman (talk) 03:58, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

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All I Can Be
After altering the spelling of his last name to Raye, he was signed to a record deal with Epic Records in 1990. His debut single, "All I Can Be (Is a Sweet Memory)", entered the charts in 1991, reaching a peak of No. 29 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Raye's first album, also titled All I Can Be, was released soon afterward.

The follow-up single, a ballad co-written by Skip Ewing and titled "Love, Me," reached number 1 on the country music charts in early 1992, holding the peak position for three weeks. All I Can Be was then certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album's final single was "Every Second," which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard.

In This Life and Extremes
Raye's second album, titled In This Life, was released in 1992. The album's title track, which served as its lead-off single, spent two weeks at number 1 and crossed over to the Adult Contemporary charts with a peak of number 21. In late 1992, Raye made an appearance on the Carl Weathers television drama series "Street Justice", where he gave a live performance of "In This Life". The second-season episode, entitled "Country Justice", was directed by David Winning. The album produced three additional Top Ten country hits in "I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good)", "Somebody Else's Moon", and "That Was a River", in addition to achieving his second platinum certification.

Extremes, Raye's third album, was released in 1993. It was his first to be produced by Paul Worley and Ed Seay, the latter of whom would serve as Raye's co-producer until 2000. The lead single, "That's My Story", was co-written by Lee Roy Parnell, who recorded for Arista Nashville at the time. Following it was "Little Rock", a song about a recovering alcoholic. The song's accompanying music video also promoted Al-Anon, an international support group for friends and family of alcoholics. Also released from the album were the Top 10 hits "Man of My Word", "My Kind of Girl", and "If I Were You". "My Kind of Girl" became Raye's third number 1 hit, while the other two singles reached Top 10 as well.

Also in 1993, he was nominated by the Academy of Country Music for Top New Male Vocalist, along with Billy Ray Cyrus and Tracy Lawrence, but lost to Tracy.

I Think About You and The Best of Collin Raye: Direct Hits
I Think About You was the title of Raye's fourth album. Released in 1995, it produced six singles overall and became Raye's fourth consecutive platinum-certified album. Of the singles, the first three all reached Top 5: "One Boy, One Girl", "Not That Different", and the title track, whose music video won a Video of the Year award from the Academy of Country Music. While "Not That Different" was climbing the charts, the album track "What If Jesus Comes Back Like That" received unsolicited airplay which brought it as high as number 57. After "I Think About You", "Love Remains" peaked at number 12, followed by an official release of "What If Jesus Comes Back Like That" which achieved a peak of number 21. The album's sixth and final single was "On the Verge", at number 2.

In 1996, Raye also released a Christmas album titled Christmas: The Gift. He also appeared on Stars and Stripes Vol. 1, a Beach Boys album featuring lead vocals by country musicians. A year later, his first Greatest Hits package was issued; titled The Best of Collin Raye: Direct Hits, it comprised several of his hit singles from the past five years, as well as four new songs, of which three released as singles. "What the Heart Wants" and "Little Red Rodeo" both reached Top Five on the country music charts, while "The Gift", a collaboration with Jim Brickman and Susan Ashton, was a top 5 hit on the Adult Contemporary charts. The album also included a cover of Journey's "Open Arms", with Raye's version reaching a peak of number 70 from unsolicited airplay. Direct Hits received a gold certification from the RIAA for selling 500,000 copies in the United States.

The Walls Came Down
The Walls Came Down was the title of Raye's fifth studio album. Released in 1998, it produced his fourth and final Billboard number 1 single in "I Can Still Feel You". "Someone You Used to Know" and the Radney Foster-penned "Anyone Else" were both Top Five hits as well. "Start Over Georgia", the fourth single (co-written by Raye's brother), peaked at No. 39. Also included on The Walls Came Down was a ballad entitled "The Eleventh Commandment", in which Raye addressed the issue of child abuse. Although not released as a single, "The Eleventh Commandment" was made into a music video, which featured a number for a child abuse hotline at the end. The same year, he appeared on compilation CD Tribute To Tradition (released on Columbia label) with cover versions of "Cold Cold Heart" (country classic recorded by Hank Williams in 1957) and "Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me)" (a major hit for Waylon Jennings in 1973, written by Billy Joe Shaver). Raye duets with Joe Diffie on the latter song. In late 1999, Raye sang backing vocals on Phil Vassar's debut single "Carlene".

2000–2005
Raye released two albums in 2000: Counting Sheep, an album consisting of lullabies for his children, and Tracks. The first single release from Tracks, "Couldn't Last a Moment", was a top 5 hit on the country charts. "Tired of Loving This Way", which followed, was a duet with singer and actress Bobbie Eakes. Although it was Raye's first single to miss the Top 40 entirely, it provided Eakes with her only appearance on the country music charts. "She's All That" and "You Still Take Me There" were also released, but they failed to make top 40 as well.

Can't Back Down, Raye's last album for Epic, was released in 2001. Neither of the album's two singles entered Top 40 on the country music charts. Because of a conflict with his label, Raye asked out of his contract that year. Although he did not have a record label at the time, he entered the Adult Contemporary charts for the third time in 2003, as a duet partner on Jim Brickman's single "Peace (Where the Heart Is)". Raye released a live album, Live at Billy Bob's Texas, in 2004, and a promotional single titled "World History 101" in 2005.

2005–present
In 2005, Raye signed to the independent Aspirion label, releasing his Twenty Years and Change album. Two singles were released from the album, although neither single charted. The same year, Raye appeared in television commercials for Fruit of the Loom underwear, in which he sang the jingle "You Can't Over-Love Your Underwear". Another studio album, Fearless, was released in 2006 on Country Roads Records, although it did not produce any singles.

In 2007, a CD/DVD combination titled The Power in You was released, followed by an EP titled Selected Hits. The latter includes "That's My Story", "Little Rock", "I Think About You", and "Love, Me", as well as two new tracks: "A Soldier's Prayer" and "Quitters", the latter of which was co-written by Canadian country singer George Canyon. Both of the new tracks were released as singles in 2007, and the former peaked at No. 59 on Hot Country Songs.

Raye's next album, Never Going Back, was released on April 28, 2009, on the Saguaro Road label. Its first single is "Mid-Life Chrysler". It also includes the track "She's With Me," which is a tribute to Raye's granddaughter, Haley, who died from a severe but undiagnosed brain disorder.

Raye released his autobiography A Voice Undefeated in 2014.

Musical stylings
Raye is known primarily for his country pop ballads, such as "Love, Me" (a popular choice at funerals) and "In This Life" (one of the most popular wedding songs of the 1990s).

Raye is also known for dealing with social issues in his material. "Little Rock", for example, tells of a recovering alcoholic; its music video included the number for Al-Anon, as a means of public service announcement. "What If Jesus Comes Back Like That", from his I Think About You album, is a power ballad that poses questions about the return of Jesus Christ in the modern world. In "The Eleventh Commandment", a track from The Walls Came Down, Raye addresses child abuse, suggesting "honor thy children" as an eleventh commandment to accompany the Ten Commandments. In the song's music video, a telephone number for the child abuse hotline ChildHelp USA was included.

Religious conversion
Raye was raised as a Southern Baptist but became a Catholic when he was 23 years old. On February 17, 2016, Raye performed at the "Two Nations, One Faith" celebration at Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas, prior to the stadium's simulcast of the Mass celebrated by Pope Francis just across the Mexican border in Ciudad Juarez.

Personal life
Raye married a woman named Connie in 1980; they later got divorced. They have a daughter, Brittany (born February 10, 1983), and a son, Jacob (born March 31, 1985). Raye lives in Nashville with his daughter and granddaughter.

Social activism
In 2011, Raye became the national spokesperson for the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network.

Discography

 * All I Can Be (1991)
 * In This Life (1992)
 * Extremes (1994)
 * I Think About You (1995)
 * Christmas: The Gift (1996)
 * The Walls Came Down (1998)
 * Tracks (2000)
 * Can't Back Down (2001)
 * Twenty Years and Change (2005)
 * Fearless (2006)
 * Never Going Back (2009)
 * His Love Remains (2011)
 * Still on the Line...The Songs of Glen Campbell (2013)
 * Everlasting (2014)
 * Scars (2020)

Billboard number-one hits

 * "Love, Me" (3 weeks, 1992)
 * "In This Life" (2 weeks, 1992)
 * "My Kind of Girl" (1 week, 1995)
 * "I Can Still Feel You" (2 weeks, 1998)

Academy of Country Music Awards

 * rowspan=2| 1993
 * Collin Raye
 * Top New Male Vocalist
 * Nominated
 * "Love, Me"
 * Single Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * 1996
 * "Not That Different"
 * rowspan=2| Video of the Year
 * Nominated
 * rowspan=2| 1997
 * "I Think About You"
 * Won
 * rowspan=4| Collin Raye
 * rowspan=4| Top Male Vocalist of the Year
 * Nominated
 * 1998
 * Nominated
 * 1999
 * Nominated
 * 2000
 * Nominated
 * }
 * Nominated
 * 1999
 * Nominated
 * 2000
 * Nominated
 * }
 * Nominated
 * }

Country Music Association Awards

 * 1992
 * "Love, Me"
 * Single of the Year
 * Nominated
 * 1996
 * rowspan=3| Collin Raye
 * rowspan=3| Male Vocalist of the Year
 * Nominated
 * 1997
 * Nominated
 * 1998
 * Nominated
 * }
 * 1998
 * Nominated
 * }
 * }

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Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore

Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (21 March 1679 – 16 April 1715) was an English peer and politician. He was the second son of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637–1715) by Jane Lowe, and became his father's heir upon the death of his elder brother Cecil in 1681. The 3rd Lord Baltimore was a devout Roman Catholic, and had lost his title to the Province of Maryland shortly after the events of the Glorious Revolution in 1688, when the Protestant monarchs William III and Mary II acceded to the British throne. Benedict Calvert made strenuous attempts to have his family's title to Maryland restored by renouncing Roman Catholicism and joining the Church of England.

In February 1715 Benedict became the 4th Baron Baltimore upon the death of his father, and he immediately petitioned King George I for the restoration of Maryland to his control. However, before the King could rule on the petition, Baltimore died aged 36, outliving his father by just two months. Shortly afterwards the King restored the title to Maryland to Calvert's young son Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore.

Early life and exile
Benedict Calvert served as Governor of Maryland on behalf of his father from 1684 to 1688. Since he was just 5 years old at the time, this appointment was a purely honorary one, with the real work of governorship being carried out by his deputy, Henry Darnall.

Like his father, Benedict's Catholicism caused him political difficulties. While still a boy he served as a cavalry officer in the regiment of James Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury; Salisbury was appointed a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Catholic King James II in 1688 and he duly converted to Roman Catholicism and served the king as Colonel of a regiment of horse.

Unfortunately, Salisbury's timing could not have been worse. The King was soon overthrown by the Glorious Revolution of October to December 1688, and both Salisbury and Calvert were outlawed by the new Protestant regime.

Worse was to come. The events following the Glorious Revolution also cost the Roman Catholic Calverts their rule in Maryland, which in 1688 became a Royal Colony, following a Puritan revolt known as the Protestant Revolution.

Benedict Calvert's name was entered at Gray's Inn in 1690, but again his religion proved an impediment to his career. and he went into exile in St Germain, France, where he remained for 10 years.

Return to England
In 1698 Calvert was able to secure a license to return to England, and on 2 January 1699 he married the twenty-year-old Lady Charlotte Lee, daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield and Lady Charlotte FitzRoy. Charlotte Fitzroy was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles II.

The couple had seven children, all of whom were raised in the Catholic faith, but the union was not a happy one, and the couple separated in 1705. In 1711 Calvert petitioned for a divorce from his wife on the grounds of her "open adultery", but the petition was unsuccessful and the divorce was not granted.

Religion and the Restoration of Maryland to Calvert control
Benedict Calvert correctly calculated that the chief impediment to the restoration of his family's title to Maryland was the question of religion. Towards the end of 1713 he began to make overtures to Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, informing Oxford of his: "inclinations...to embrace the Protestant religion, which I have become hitherto deterred from by the apprehensions that my father would withdraw my sustinance."

Accordingly, he converted to Anglicanism in 1713, gambling that this move would win back his family's lost fortune in the New World. Such a drastic move came at a cost, however. Benedict's devoutly Catholic father Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, furious at his son's apostasy, withdrew his son's annual allowance of £450 and ended his support for his grandchildren's education and maintenance. Fortunately Benedict was able to persuade the Crown to grant him an allowance of £300 a year, and Queen Anne even acceded to his nomination of John Hart as governor of the province, on condition that Hart would share with Calvert £500 per annum out of his profits from the office.

For Calvert, the political benefits associated with his new religion came quickly. He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Harwich from 1714 to 1715, though he was not listed in any division lists, and was not an active member.

On 1 August 1714 Queen Anne died, leaving the Calverts with a new king and a new court to persuade of the merits of their family's claim to Maryland.

Petition to George I
On 2 February 1715 Calvert reaffirmed his devotion to the Anglican faith and proclaimed his loyalty to the new Protestant king George I. Two weeks later the old Lord Baltimore died, aged 78, and Benedict succeeded him to become the 4th Baron Baltimore, immediately petitioning King George I for the restoration of Maryland to his control. However, before the King could rule on the petition, Baltimore himself died, outliving his father by just two months. Shortly afterwards, on 15 May 1715, the King restored the title to Maryland to Benedict's son, the fifteen-year-old 5th Baron Baltimore.

Family
Calvert married on 2 January 1699 Lady Charlotte Lee, daughter of the Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, and his wife, Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, an illegitimate daughter of Charles II of England by Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland. He and his wife had seven children, including:
 * Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, 18th Proprietor Governor of Maryland (29 September 1699 – 24 April 1751), married on 20 July 1730 Mary Janssen (died Chaillot, Paris, 25 March 1770), daughter of Sir Theodore Janssen, 1st Baronet, and wife Williamza or Williamsa Henley.
 * Edward Henry Calvert (Epsom, 31 August 1701 - Annapolis, Calvert House, 1730), held office of Commissary General and President of the Council of Maryland. Married in 1726 Margaret Lee (born 1705), but had no children.
 * Benedict Leonard Calvert (1700–1732), Governor of the Maryland colony from 1727 through 1731, appointed by his brother, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore. His health was poor and he died of tuberculosis on 1 June 1732 on his passage home to England.
 * Cecil Calvert (6 November 1702 - 1765)
 * Charlotte Calvert (born 6 November 1702, died December 1744), married Thomas Brerewood, by whom she had a son, Francis Brerewood. (Her father-in-law Thomas Brerewood owned My Lady's Manor, in Maryland.)
 * Jane Calvert (Epsom, 19 July 1703 - July 1778), married 4 May 1720 John Hyde (1695–1746), with whom she had many children.
 * Barbara Calvert (1704–1704)
 * Anne Calvert

Their descendants included the children of Robert E. Lee through Benedict Swingate Calvert, an illegitimate son of the 5th Baron Calvert. Benedict's daughter, Eleanor married John Parke Custis, a stepson of George Washington. Swingate's mother may have been Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham, an illegitimate daughter of George I of Great Britain, by his mistress, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal.

Legacy
Benedict Calvert had arranged for his son Charles to be raised a Protestant, and in 1721 the young Charles came of age and assumed control of the colony of Maryland, which remained under the control of the Calvert family until 1776. However, Charles Calvert, like his father, had to embrace the Anglican faith to retain authority over his family's province. The Calvert family's dream of a haven in the Americas for Roman Catholics was at an end, and it took an American Revolution and the overthrow of the Calvert proprietary government to restore religious tolerance to Maryland.

Benedict's portrait, along with those of the other Barons Baltimore, still hangs today in the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, the city that bears his family name.

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Fenzhongsi

Fenzhongsi is located in Fengtai District, Beijing. It is the starting point of the Jingjintang Expressway to Langfang, Tianjin and Binhai New Area. The area has been served by Fenzhongsi station of the Beijing Subway since the end of 2012. Fenzhongsi lies on the southeastern segment of the 3rd Ring Road.

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Faint Object Spectrograph

The Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) was a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was replaced by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph in 1997, and is now on display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

FOS facts

 * Instrument type: 	                                        Spectrograph
 * Wavelength range: 	                                               115 to 850 nm

A technical description of the construction and operation of the FOS can be found in NASA technical report CP-2244. The instrument used two digicon detectors, 'blue' and 'red', and had a spectral resolution of about 1300 over the 115 nm to 850 nm range. It had a number of apertures of varying size, but the aberration of the HST mirror meant that, until COSTAR was installed, the smallest apertures suffered very serious loss of light; even the largest 4.3-arcsecond aperture collected only 70% of the light from a point source.

The digicons suffered from inadequate magnetic shielding, which meant that a static image was smeared over several pixels; the red digicon suffered most from this. Also, either the blue detector or one of the mirrors in the system was contaminated in such a way as to remove sensitivity below 150 nm; this was a serious problem since it makes the Lyman-alpha line at 121.6 nm inaccessible.

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Talk:Ecco the Dolphin (video game)

John C. Lilly
This is something I found out that I thought I'd share, since ECCO had been my favorite game since my childhood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C_Lilly

John C Lilly was a scientist who did a lot of research with drugs and dolphins. In someone these experiments, he would take Ketamine and attempt to communicate with the dolphins, which, he insisted he could. He also spoke about contact with a cosmic organization called "ECCO" which stands for "Earth Communication Control Office". You can read any of his works to find out more about that, but he basically stated that there was a cosmic organization of overseers facilitating human evolution.

I notice a lot of interesting parallels between these two subjects that no one else seems to bring up.

"Lilly's work with dolphins may have inspired the Ecco the Dolphin games for the Sega MegaDrive/Genesis. Lilly coined the acronym Earth Co-incidence Control Office (ECCO), which refers to his belief that non-physical entities arrange for the occurrence of meaningful co-oincidences (synchronicities) in order to co-ordinate the physical and spiritual development of individuals on planet Earth."

The Vortex seem to parallel Solid State Intelligence.

 * The connection between Ecco the dolphin and John C. Lilly is tenous at best.
 * The Vortex aliens are clearly inspired by the movie Alien / H.R. Giger. Quote Annunziata: "I always loved time travel and Aliens, especially evil, hungry ones are convenient bad guys."
 * It's tempting to think there's a link between Ecco and E.C.C.O., but it's just a coincidence (hehe). The origin of Ecco's name is well documented in the book "Playing at the Next Level: A History of American Sega Games" by Ken Horowitz, and on Annunziata's twitter feed. When asked directly about it, Annunziata confirmed that Ecco isn't named after E.C.C.O.
 * In all known interviews, Annunziata never once cites Lilly's work as an inspiration, whereas "Sounding" by Searls is brought up all the time. The only direct reference I know of is his tweet "Obscure Ecco Trivia #16: No, I never took LSD, but did read a lot from John Lilly." - That doesn't deny the game took inspiration from it, but it also doesn't confirm it.
 * A recent Making of Ecco the Dolphin video, which doesn't mention John C. Lilly at all, was retweeted by Annunziata with the comment "Ok, this is easily the best and most accurate Ecco biopic ever! And, the film makers never accuse me of taking hallucinogens, for which I am grateful."
 * Finally, let's not forget that the game was co-designed by Novotrade's László Szenttornyai. There's no indication whatsoever that he was familiar with Lilly's work.
 * Fimio (talk) 15:53, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

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Matthew Fox (priest)

Timothy James "Matthew " Fox (born December 21, 1940 ) is an American priest and theologian. Formerly a member of the Dominican Order within the Catholic Church, he became a member of the Episcopal Church following his expulsion from the order in 1993.

Fox has written 35 books that have been translated into 68 languages and have sold millions of copies and by the mid-1990s had attracted a "huge and diverse following".

Dominican friar
Timothy James Fox was born in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1960, when he entered the Catholic Dominican Order (the Order of Preachers), he was given the religious name "Matthew". He received masters degrees in both philosophy and theology from the Aquinas Institute of Philosophy and Theology and later earned a Doctorate of Spiritual Theology, summa cum laude, from the Institut Catholique de Paris, studying with Marie-Dominique Chenu who named the Creation Spirituality tradition for him. It was Thomas Merton, the Catholic monk, who steered Fox to study at the Institut Catholique de Paris. After receiving his doctorate, Fox began teaching at a series of Catholic universities, including Loyola University in Chicago and Barat College of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest, Illinois.

In 1976, Fox moved to Chicago's Mundelein College (now part of Loyola University) to start the Institute of Culture and Creation Spirituality (ICCS), a master's program in Creation Spirituality with a unique pedagogy that integrated both left and right brain centers and would eventually lead to conflict with Church authorities. His holistic pedagogy included among its faculty Jungian psychologist John Giannini, physicist/cosmologist Brian Swimme, feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether, along with many artists teaching "art as meditation." In 1983, Fox moved ICCS to Oakland, California, and began teaching at Holy Names University, where he was a professor for 12 years.

In 1984 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — the future Pope Benedict XVI, then head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith — asked the Dominican Order to investigate Fox's writings. When three Dominican theologians examined his works and did not find his books heretical, Ratzinger ordered a second review, which was never undertaken.

Due to his questioning of the doctrine of original sin, in 1988 Ratzinger forbade Fox from teaching or lecturing for a year. Fox wrote a "Pastoral Letter to Cardinal Ratzinger and the Whole Church," calling the Catholic Church a dysfunctional family. After a year "sabbatical," Fox resumed writing, teaching, and lecturing. In 1991 his Dominican superior ordered Fox to leave the ICCS in California and return to Chicago or face dismissal. Fox refused.

On March 31, 1991, Fox made an extended appearance on the British television discussion program After Dark, alongside Piltdown man debunker Teddy Hall; secular humanist activist Barbara Smoker; theologian N. T. Wright; playwright Hyam Maccoby (who theorized that Jesus was an apocalyptic Jew and Messianic claimant); author Ian Wilson (known chiefly for speculative writing on the Shroud of Turin); and others. In 1993, Fox's conflicts with Catholic authorities climaxed with his expulsion from the Dominican Order for "disobedience", effectively ending his professional relationship with the church and his teaching at its universities.

Among the issues Ratzinger objected to were his feminist theology; calling God "Mother"; preferring the concept of Original Blessing over Original Sin; not condemning homosexual behavior; and teaching the four paths of creation spirituality – the Via Positiva, Via Negativa, Via Creativa, and Via Transformativa — instead of the church's classical three paths of purgation, illumination and union.

Writing in The New York Times, Molly O'Neill says that the Vatican was presented with a request on the part of the Dominicans that the theologian be dismissed. According to John L. Allen, Jr., it was largely in reaction to the unconventional programming at ICCS, with a faculty that included a masseuse, a Zen Buddhist, a yoga teacher, and Starhawk, a feminist Wiccan.

Episcopal priest
After his expulsion, Fox met young Anglican activists in England who were using "raves" as a way to bring life back to their liturgy and to attract young people to church worship. He was inspired to begin holding his own series of "Techno Cosmic Masses" in Oakland and other U.S. cities, events designed to connect people to a more ecstatic and visceral celebration and relationship with ritual and the building of community.

Fox was received into the Episcopal Church (Anglican Communion) as a priest in 1994 by Bishop William Swing of the Episcopal Diocese of California.

In 1996, Fox founded the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, an outgrowth of his institutes at Mundelein and Holy Names. The university offered similar master's degree programs in creation spirituality and related studies. It was initially accredited through an affiliation with New College of California, before shifting in 1999 to affiliate with the Naropa Institute of Boulder, Colorado, creating and running Naropa's master's degree program. The university also added a separate doctorate of ministry degree, with a curriculum based on his 1993 book The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time, which talked about a "priesthood of all workers".

Fox led the University of Creation Spirituality for nine years, then was succeeded as president by James Garrison in 2005. The institution was subsequently renamed Wisdom University.

Since leaving the university, Fox has continued to lecture, write and publish books. In 2005, he founded an educational organization geared to reach out to inner-city youth called Youth and Elder Learning Laboratory for Ancestral Wisdom Education (YELLAWE). The YELLAWE program is based on a holistic approach to education and creativity derived from Fox’s master’s level programs. It also includes physical training in bodily meditation practices such as tai chi. YELLAWE has operated in inner-city school systems in Oakland and Chicago.

Fox's proponents hold that his teachings are more gender-neutral, ecology sensitive, and accepting of non-traditional sexuality, than church orthodoxy.

Creation Spirituality
While some academic theologians refer to Fox as the next Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, others call him a populizer, not an intellectual. Robert Brow characterizes the teachings as "esoteric excursions into ethics, theology, and mysticism".

Basic tenets
Fox's conception of Creation Spirituality draws on both a close reading of biblical sources and early medieval mystics within Christian traditions as well as today's science. It seeks common ground with numerous faiths from around the world, in an approach Fox called "deep ecumenism" for its connections across many spiritual practices. This was described most particularly in his book One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths.

Creation Spirituality considers itself a “green” theology, emphasizing a holy relationship between humanity and nature. Accordingly, the sacredness of nature is considered a sacrament, and creation is considered an expression of God and the “Cosmic Christ". This approach was endorsed by eco-theologian Thomas Berry among others. Fox's book The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance delves more into these issues.

Fox also laid out other tenets of Creation Spirituality in some of his other books, particularly Original Blessing, A Spirituality Named Compassion, and Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the People of the Earth.

Fox’s 1996 autobiography, Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest, describes his life as a Dominican priest and his struggle with the Vatican as he wrote about his experiences and understanding of early Christianity. This book was updated and published by North Atlantic Books in 2016.

Fox also has authored or edited nearly 35 other books, largely on various spiritual teachings, teachers, and mystics (listed below). He was the first to translate Meister Eckhart into English from the critical German editions along with a commentary on his work and helped to launch the Hildegard of Bingen revival. His book on the mysticism of Thomas Aquinas translates many of his works that have never before been translated into English, German or French.

Fox's theological positions have been categorized as a type of monism, specifically panentheism. Some have claimed this approach is integral to Fox's creation spirituality.

Fox's theology has received plaudits from noted spiritual figures including Dom Bede Griffiths, OSB, who said: "“(Matthew Fox’s) creation spirituality is the spirituality of the future and his Theology of the Cosmic Christ is the theology of the future." About the 25th-anniversary edition of Original Blessing, John B. Cobb, professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, wrote: "Fox's accomplishment in Original Blessing was more than to recover a form of spirituality that had been obscured and to show its profound relevance and importance for our time. He used spirituality as an avenue into the depths of Christian faith and theology in general...Gradually the book is assuming the status of a classic.  In due course, it will take its place in the history of spirituality and indeed in the history of theology."

Techno Cosmic Mass
Fox's "Techno Cosmic Mass" (more recently called "Cosmic Mass") is an attempt to combine the religious ritual of the Eucharist with dance and multimedia material, deejays, video jockeys, and rap music. They evoke and connect spiritual rituals and the ecstatic energy of techno and rave parties. They developed from a group called the Nine O'Clock Service in Sheffield, England, in the late 1980s and early 1990s and were brought to the United States and further developed by Fox. Over 100 Cosmic Masses have been celebrated in North America and numerous persons have studied how to present them.

95 theses
In 2005, while preparing for a presentation in Germany and following the election of Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI, Fox created 95 theses that he then translated into German. On the weekend of Pentecost, arrangements were made for him to nail these to the door of the Wittenberg church where Martin Luther nailed the original 95 Theses in the 16th century, an act often associated with the Protestant Reformation.

The action fueled the creation of a lively blog involving tens of thousands of Germans. In his theses, Fox called for a new reformation in Western Christianity. In his supporting book, A New Reformation, Fox argued that two Christianities already exist and it is time for a new reformation to acknowledge that fact and move the Western spiritual tradition into new directions.

Books

 * Religion USA: Religion and Culture by way of TIME Magazine (1971), Listening Press,
 * On Becoming a Musical, Mystical Bear: Spirituality American Style (1972), Harper & Row, ISBN 0-06-062912-6, (1976) Paulist Press, paperback: ISBN 0-8091-1913-7 Republished as Prayer: A Radical Response to Life (2001), Tarcher/Putnam, ISBN 1-58542-098-0
 * Western Spirituality: Historical Roots, Ecumenical Routes (1979) Fides/Claretian ISBN 978-0-8190-0635-6
 * A Spirituality Named Compassion and the Healing of the Global Village, Humpty Dumpty and Us (1979), Winston Press, ISBN 0-03-051566-1, (1990) Harper San Francisco, paperback: ISBN 0-06-254871-9, (1999) Inner Traditions: ISBN 0-89281-802-6
 * Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to the New Sensual Prophetic Spirituality (1980), Bear & Company, ISBN 0-939680-00-9
 * Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart's Creation Spirituality, in New Translation (1980), Doubleday ISBN 0-385-17034-3 (translated from German, with commentary) (1980) Image, paperback, ISBN 978-0-385-17034-5; republished as Passion for Creation: The Earth-honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart (2000), Inner Traditions, ISBN 0-89281-801-8
 * Western Spirituality: Historical Roots, Ecumenical Routes (1981), Bear & Company, ISBN 0-939680-01-7
 * Manifesto for a Global Civilization (with Brian Swimme), 1982, Bear & Company, ISBN 978-0-939680-05-4
 * Meditations with Meister Eckhart (1983), Bear & Company, ISBN 0-939680-04-1
 * Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality (1983), Bear & Company revised ed. 1996, ISBN 1-879181-27-4, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions, (2000) Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, ISBN 1-58542-067-0
 * Illuminations on Hildegard of Bingen Text by Hildegard of Bingen/Commentary by Matthew Fox; (1985) Bear & Co. paperback ISBN 978-0-939680-21-4, Republished (2002) Bear & Company. paperback ISBN 978-1-879181-97-7
 * Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works: With Letters and Songs (1987), Bear & Company, ISBN 0-939680-35-1
 * The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (1988) Harper San Francisco, ISBN 0-06-062915-0 (1988) HarperOne, paperback, ISBN 978-0-06-062915-1
 * Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth (1991), Harper San Francisco, ISBN 0-06-062917-7
 * Creation Spirituality and the Dreamtime, with Catherine Hammond, eds. (1991) Morehouse Publishing Co., ISBN 978-0-85574-364-2
 * Sheer Joy: Conversations With Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (1992), Harper San Francisco, ISBN 0-06-062914-2 (2003) Tarcher/Putnam paperback: ISBN 1-58542-234-7, foreword: Rupert Sheldrake, afterword: Bede Griffiths, translation: Richard Tres
 * The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time, (1993) Harpercollins (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-06-062918-2 (1995) Harper One (paperback) ISBN 0-06-063062-0
 * The Sacred Universe with Rupert Sheldrake, (1993) Sounds True (audiocassette) ISBN 978-1-56455-227-3
 * Wrestling With the Prophets: Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (1995), Harper San Francisco, ISBN 0-06-062919-3, (2003) Tarcher, paperback: ISBN 1-58542-235-5
 * Passion for Creation: The Earth-honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart, (1995), Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-48047-5
 * Vision: The Life and Music of Hildegard von Bingen with Hildegard of Bingen, Barbara Newman, Jane Bobko (1995) Studio ISBN 978-0-670-86405-8
 * In the Beginning There Was Joy: A Celebration of Creation for Children of All Ages (1995) Crossroad Publishing Company ISBN 978-0-8245-1505-8, (1995) Godsfield Press Ltd. (paperback) ISBN 978-1-899434-65-7
 * The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet (1996), coauthor Rupert Sheldrake, Harper San Francisco, ISBN 0-06-062864-2, Revised edition 2014, Monkfish Publishing Company, ISBN 9781939681287
 * Natural Grace: Dialogues on Creation, Darkness, and the Soul in Spirituality and Science, with coauthor Rupert Sheldrake, (1996), Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-48356-2,	(1997) Image paperback: ISBN 0-385-48359-7
 * Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest (1996), HarperOne ISBN 978-0-06-062865-9, (1997) Harper San Francisco, paperback: ISBN 0-06-062965-7, (Fox autobiography), updated edition 2015, North Atlantic Books, ISBN 978-1-58394-935-1
 * A Spirituality Named Compassion (1999) Inner Traditions ISBN 978-0-89281-802-0
 * One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths (2000), Jeremy P. Tarcher, ISBN 1-58542-047-6, (2000)
 * Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Lessons for Transforming Evil in Soul and Society, (2000) Doubleday, hardcover, ISBN 978-0-609-60087-0, (2000) Three Rivers Press, paperback, ISBN 978-0-609-80580-0, Revised edition 2016, North Atlantic Books, ISBN 9781623170189
 * Prayer: A Radical Response to Life 2001 Tarcher ISBN 978-1-58542-098-8
 * Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet (2002), Jeremy P. Tarcher, (hardcover) ISBN 1-58542-178-2, Tarcher (2004)
 * Wrestling With the Prophets: Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life 2003 Tarcher ISBN 1-58542-235-5
 * One River, Many Wells (2004) Tarcher, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-58542-047-6, 	(2004) Tarcher, paperback, ISBN 978-1-58542-326-2
 * Sheer Joy (2003) Tarcher ISBN 1-58542-234-7
 * A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity (2006), Inner Traditions, hardcover, ISBN 1-59477-123-5 (Fox's "95 Theses"), (2006)
 * The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human (2006) CopperHouse paperback/CD/DVD edition ISBN 978-1-896836-84-3
 * The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine (2008) New World Library, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-57731-607-7, (2009) New World Library
 * The Pope's War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved (2011), Sterling Ethos, ISBN 978-1-4549-0001-6
 * Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations (2011), New World Library, ISBN 978-1-57731-952-8
 * Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint For Our Times (2012), Namaste Publishing, ISBN 978-1-897238-73-8
 * Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision For a New Generation (2013), coauthor Adam Bucko, North Atlantic Books, ISBN 978-1-58394-685-5
 * Letters to Pope Francis (2013), Level Five Media, LLC, ISBN 1490372970
 * Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior For Our Times (2014), New World Library, ISBN 978-1-60868-265-2
 * Stations of the Cosmic Christ (2016), Tayen Lane Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9970196-6-7
 * A Way To God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey (2016), New World Library, ISBN 978-1-60868-420-5
 * The Order of the Sacred Earth (2017), with Skylar Wilson and Jen Listug, Monkfish Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-939681-86-7
 * Julian of Norwich: Wisdom in a Time of Pandemic--And Beyond (2020), iUniverse, ISBN 978-1-6632-0868-2(sc) ISBN 978-1-6632-0869-9(e)

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John Rackham

John Rackham may refer to:

 * Calico Jack (1682–1720), English pirate captain John Rackham operating in the Caribbean
 * John T. Phillifent (1916–1976), British science fiction writer, used pseudonym John Rackham

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Talk:Syndication

This should not be a disambiguation page; it's not like the links all deal with essentially different meanings of the word "syndication". Instead, this page should talk about those aspects of syndication that are common to all forms. I will try to write something in this fashion, based on the existing articles, later today, but I may not have time; if you're reading this message on a date after the one stamped in my signature, then I probably won't get to this myself. (Sorry!) -- Toby Bartels 19:21, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

OK, I've done this, but the article isn't very good. There wasn't much on the individual pages about syndication in general (which explains how it got split up), but at least there's a place to put such material. If nothing else, we should have information on the historical spread of syndication to new media and comparisons of syndication practices between various media -- but somebody else will have to write that, since I don't know it. -- Toby Bartels 21:02, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Wikilinks to Redirects
Print Syndication redirects back here.

 * Not anymore, now it points to Print syndication. --Dual Freq 12:22, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Radio syndication redirects here, probably not necessary to wikilink it until it is a real article. Otherwise it could result in someone disambiguating an article to a redirect that points back to the original disambig page. That would be a big waste of time. --Dual Freq 12:22, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

I've removed the radio link again, I'm not sure I understand the point of wikilinking to a redirect page that points back to the same page. Better off waiting until it is an independent page. This can cause people to disambiguate pages to the redirect page, just making a mess for someone else to fix later. --Dual Freq 01:21, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Radio Syndication is now a section of Broadcast syndication, so I made it link there... Dj stone 03:31, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Syndication
Is it an important internal link, here ? . --PLA y Grande Covián (talk) 15:43, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
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Klein–Nishina formula

In particle physics, the Klein–Nishina formula gives the differential cross section (i.e. the "likelihood" and angular distribution) of photons scattered from a single free electron, calculated in the lowest order of quantum electrodynamics. It was first derived in 1928 by Oskar Klein and Yoshio Nishina, constituting one of the first successful applications of the Dirac equation. The formula describes both the Thomson scattering of low energy photons (e.g. visible light) and the Compton scattering of high energy photons (e.g. x-rays and gamma-rays), showing that the total cross section and expected deflection angle decrease with increasing photon energy.

Formula
For an incident unpolarized photon of energy $$E_\gamma$$, the differential cross section is:

 * $$ \frac{d\sigma}{d\Omega} = \frac{1}{2} r_e^2 \left(\frac{\lambda}{\lambda'}\right)^{2} \left[\frac{\lambda}{\lambda'} + \frac{\lambda'}{\lambda} - \sin^2(\theta)\right] $$

where

 * $$r_e$$ is the classical electron radius (~2.82 fm, $$r_e^2$$ is about 7.94 × 10−30 m2 or 79.4 mb)
 * $$\lambda/\lambda'$$ is the ratio of the wavelengths of the incident and scattered photons
 * $$\theta$$ is the scattering angle (0 for an undeflected photon).

The angular dependent photon wavelength (or energy, or frequency) ratio is

\frac{\lambda}{\lambda'} = \frac{E_{\gamma'}}{E_\gamma} = \frac{\omega'}{\omega} = \frac{1}{1 + \epsilon(1-\cos\theta)} $$

as required by the conservation of relativistic energy and momentum (see Compton scattering). The dimensionless quantity $$\epsilon = E_\gamma/m_e c^2$$ expresses the energy of the incident photon in terms of the electron rest energy (~511 keV), and may also be expressed as $$ \epsilon = \lambda_c/\lambda $$, where $$\lambda_c = h/m_e c$$ is the Compton wavelength of the electron (~2.42 pm). Notice that the scatter ratio $$ \lambda'/\lambda $$ increases monotonically with the deflection angle, from $$ 1 $$ (forward scattering, no energy transfer) to $$ 1+2\epsilon $$ (180 degree backscatter, maximum energy transfer).

In some cases it is convenient to express the classical electron radius in terms of the Compton wavelength: $$r_e=\alpha \bar\lambda_c = \alpha \lambda_c/2\pi$$, where $$\alpha$$ is the fine structure constant (~1/137) and $$\bar\lambda_c=\hbar/m_e c$$ is the reduced Compton wavelength of the electron (~0.386 pm), so that the constant in the cross section may be given as:

\frac{1}{2}r_e^2 = \frac{1}{2}\alpha^2\bar\lambda_c^2 = \frac{\alpha^2\lambda_c^2}{8\pi^2} = \frac{\alpha^2\hbar^2}{2m_e^2c^2} $$

Polarized photons
If the incoming photon is polarized, the scattered photon is no longer isotropic with respect to the azimuthal angle. For a linearly polarized photon scattered with a free electron at rest, the differential cross section is instead given by:
 * $$ \frac{d\sigma}{d\Omega} = \frac{1}{2} r_e^2 \left(\frac{\lambda}{\lambda'}\right)^{2} \left[\frac{\lambda}{\lambda'} + \frac{\lambda'}{\lambda} - 2 \sin^2(\theta) \cos^2 (\phi)\right] $$

where $$\phi$$ is the azimuthal scattering angle. Note that the unpolarized differential cross section can be obtained by averaging over $$\cos^2 (\phi)$$.

Low energy
For low energy photons the wavelength shift becomes negligible ($$\lambda/\lambda'\approx 1$$) and the Klein–Nishina formula reduces to the classical Thomson expression:
 * $$ \frac{d\sigma}{d\Omega} \approx \frac{1}{2} r_e^2 \left(1 + \cos^2(\theta)\right) \qquad (\epsilon \ll 1) $$

which is symmetrical in the scattering angle, i.e. the photon is just as likely to scatter backwards as forwards. With increasing energy this symmetry is broken and the photon becomes more likely to scatter in the forward direction.

High energy
For high energy photons it is useful to distinguish between small and large angle scattering. For large angles, where $$\epsilon(1-\cos\theta) \gg 1$$, the scatter ratio $$\lambda'/\lambda$$ is large and
 * $$ \frac{d\sigma}{d\Omega} \approx \frac{1}{2} r_e^2 \frac{\lambda}{\lambda'} \approx \frac{1}{2} r_e^2 \frac{1}{1+\epsilon(1-\cos\theta)} \qquad (\epsilon \gg 1, \theta \gg \epsilon^{-1/2}) $$

showing that the (large angle) differential cross section is inversely proportional to the photon energy.

The differential cross section has a constant peak in the forward direction:
 * $$ \left(\frac{d\sigma}{d\Omega}\right)_{\theta=0} = r_e^2 $$

independent of $$\epsilon$$. From the large angle analysis it follows that this peak can only extend to about $$\theta_c \approx \epsilon^{-1/2}$$. The forward peak is thus confined to a small solid angle of approximately $$\pi\theta_c^2$$, and we may conclude that the total small angle cross section decreases with $$\epsilon^{-1}$$.

Total cross section
The differential cross section may be integrated to find the total cross section:

 * $$\sigma = 2 \pi r_e^2 \Biggl[ \frac{1 + \epsilon}{\epsilon^3} \Biggl( \frac{2\epsilon (1 + \epsilon)}{1 + 2\epsilon} - \ln{(1 + 2\epsilon)} \Biggr) + \frac{\ln{(1 + 2\epsilon)}}{2\epsilon} - \frac{1 + 3\epsilon}{(1 +2\epsilon)^2} \Biggr]$$

In the low-energy limit there is no energy dependence, and we recover the Thomson cross section (~66.5 fm2):
 * $$ \sigma \approx \frac{8}{3} \pi r_e^2 \qquad (E_\gamma \ll m_e c^2) $$

History
The Klein–Nishina formula was derived in 1928 by Oskar Klein and Yoshio Nishina, and was one of the first results obtained from the study of quantum electrodynamics. Consideration of relativistic and quantum mechanical effects allowed development of an accurate equation for the scattering of radiation from a target electron. Before this derivation, the electron cross section had been classically derived by the British physicist and discoverer of the electron, J.J. Thomson. However, scattering experiments showed significant deviations from the results predicted by the Thomson cross section. Further scattering experiments agreed perfectly with the predictions of the Klein–Nishina formula.

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Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph

The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS or HRS) was an ultraviolet spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope during its original construction, and it was launched into space as part of that space telescope aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990 (STS-31). The instrument is named after 20th century rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard.

One of the results was the discovery of tenuous atmosphere for Jupiter's moon Europa in 1995. The gas was determined to be mostly of molecular oxygen (O2). The surface pressure of Europa's atmosphere is 0.1 μPa, or 10−12 times that of the Earth.

An example GHRS use was to observe the local interstellar medium in the direction towards Capella.

The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph was removed from the Hubble Space Telescope during the February, 1997, Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-82 (also called SM-2 for Servicing Mission 2). It, and the Faint Object Spectrograph, were replaced by two new instruments installed during the mission, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph.

Instrument details

 * Instrument type: Ultraviolet spectrograph
 * Wavelength range: 1150 to 3200 Å (105 to 320 nm)
 * Resolving power
 * Low - 2,000
 * Medium - 25,000
 * High - 80,000

A technical description of the construction and operation of the GHRS can be found in the GHRS instrument handbook.

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Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/August 13, 2004

I would like to suggest the Olympic Games as they start today.
 * Regretfully, I'm going to have to reject this request. The featured article is not supposed to be timely - that's what 'In the News' is for. →Raul654 19:17, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)


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Madian, Beijing

Madian ( "Caravansary" or "Horse Pasture" ) is a community in Haidian District, northern Beijing. It is adjacent to the intersection of the 3rd Ring Road and the Badaling Expressway, at the Haidian District-Xicheng District border. Two separate street administrative offices serve portions of Madian.

A complex overpass links the northern segment of the 3rd Ring Road with an express route coming from Deshengmen on the 2nd Ring Road through to the Badaling Expressway. Madian historically had a Hui population, and the 3000 sqm Madian Mosque is located in the community.

Madian Bridge has been expanded twice to create two direct links to the expressway. A few years ago, the route to Deshengmen was expanded and is now a city express route.

History
Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and C. Cindy Fan, authors of "Growth and Decline of Muslim Hui Enclaves in Beijing," wrote that Madian historically was in a "relatively peripheral part of the city" and in particular "peripheral to the core areas of the city". During the Yuan dynasty Madian was within the Beijing city wall. After the wall was rebuilt during the Ming dynasty, Madian was outside of the city wall.

Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and Cindy Fan stated that according to historical records the first Hui arrived in Madian during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty. Turmoil in northwestern China during the Qing dynasty caused many Hui to move eastward. A population of Hui, mostly horse and sheep traders, settled in Madian due to its access to horse and sheep trading routes. Therefore, a large trading market in horses and sheep was established there. Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and Cindy Fan argued that the name Madian may have originated from the horse trading that occurred there and argued that this "may also be related to" the prevalence of the Ma family name in Madian. Kangxi built the Madian Mosque in 1662. Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and Cindy Fan had interviewed an administrator of the mosque, who stated that the mosque "probably" opened due to a pre-existing Hui population.

Around the 1930s, traders of pigs and pork detoured around Madian because it was homogeneously Muslim. The head of a resident committee interviewed by Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and Cindy Fan in August 2000 stated that Madian was over 90% Muslim in the 1950s. In the late 1950s, the community received an influx of people displaced by the construction of the Great Hall of the People.

In the initial years after the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 new housing developments appeared in Madian. Due to its location accessible to other areas, Madian was selected as a place for the development of new housing. Apartments were built in the place of the slaughterhouse and sheep market after those facilities were demolished. Han people moved into the apartments, causing the percentage of Hui people to decrease. Weiping Wu and Piper Gaubatz, authors of The Chinese City, wrote that the result was that "lost much of its Muslim character". The resident head stated that in the 1980s fewer than 30% of the people in Madian were Muslim. In 1996 Dru C. Gladney, author of Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic, wrote that "recent studies indicate that the [Hui] community continues to maintain a strong solidarity."

In the decades before 2002 the expansion of highways and roads further changed the character of Madian. Many Hui left Madian when the Dechang Road was constructed in the 1980s. This road later became a part of the Badaling Expressway. In the 1990s developers started renovation projects in Madian because of its location along the 3rd Ring Road. In 1993 the renovation of the Yulanyuan had been completed. The central buildings are three story residential buildings that do not reflect the Islamic culture. Prior to the renovation the area had been named Nancun or Southern Village (C: 南村, P: Náncūn). More Hui left the neighborhood during the construction of the 3rd Ring Road in the 1990s. After the renovation of Yulanyuan, 40% of the original residents returned. In other parts of Madian, the rates of return from former residents were lower. Ultimately most of the displaced Hui Madian residents settled in more inexpensive areas further from the Beijing city core, in the northern and northwestern parts of Beijing.

Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and Cindy Fan stated that post-renovation Madian was "relatively expensive". In 2000, many former residents of Madian would have been unable to move back there or have been required to buy a smaller living area if they wanted to move back as the purchase price of a new apartment was above 10,000 yuan per square meter. The resident head stated that in 2000 Madian was about 25% Muslim. In 2002 Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and Cindy Fan stated that "Madian has lost much of its character as a Hui enclave in terms of both residential and economic functions." The three authors added that Gladney's conclusions about the solidarity of the community were "quickly outdated."

As of 2002 the development plans state that a multifunctional building named "CityChamp Palace" would be the centerpiece of Madian.

Demographics
In 1982 there were 2,266 Han individuals in 660 households, 922 Hui individuals in 282 households, and 65 Manchu individuals in 30 households. The district was 28.6% Hui. 7.8% of the Han individuals have intermarried with Hui or Manchu, 11.2% of the Hui individuals have intermarried with Han or Manchu, and 80% of the Manchu individuals have intermarried with Han or Hui.

Government and infrastructure
In 2002 Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and Cindy Fan argued that the fact that Madian is divided between two administrative offices instead of being under one has "undermined" the Hui community and therefore, unlike the Niujie area in Xicheng District, the city government was less willing to preserve the Hui community in Madian due to developmental pressures.

Economy
As of 2002 the community had several Hui groceries, three or four beef and mutton shops, and eight small Hui restaurants. Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and Cindy Fan wrote that it is "likely" that "most of these businesses will disappear" as the renovation project of Madian continues its course. In addition, in an interview in August 2000 the head of a Madian resident committee stated that even though going to Niujie from Madian meant a lengthy commute, many Madian Hui preferred to travel there to purchase beef and mutton. The three authors wrote that the decline of the Hui population in Madian furthers the decline of the Hui economy there, and vice versa in a repeating process.

Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and Cindy Fan wrote that "Historically, the Hui people in Madian were highly concentrated in businesses linked to the sheep market and were less proficient in other economic activities." During the reign of the Daoguang Emperor, the district sold a total of 130,000 head of animals in one year. The central street of Madian had 13 animal shops with a combined annual sale of 30,000 head of animals. Up until the 1950s a slaughterhouse in Madian was the primary source of mutton and beef of the Hui population of Beijing. The introduction of locomotives damaged the economy of Madian, since it caused the end of the caravan trade. During the late Republican period a heavy taxation was imposed, further damaging the economy. As a result, the Madian economy diversified. By the 1930s annual sales of sheep within Madian were between 30,000 and 50,000. The sheep market was demolished in the early part of the People's Republic, prior to the Chinese economic reform. As the Hui population declined, the Hui business activity declined.

Education
The Beijing Haidian National Primary School (S: 北京市海淀区民族小学, P: Běijīng Shì Hǎidiànqū Mínzú Xiǎoxué, "Beijing Haidian Ethnic Group/Nations Primary School") serves ethnic minorities in the Madian area. It was previously named Madian Primary School (S: 马甸小学, P: Mǎdiàn Xiǎoxué).

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Lisa Brown (actress)

Lisa Brown (August 2, 1954 – November 24, 2021) was an American actress. She was best known for two high-profile roles in daytime television, Nola Reardon on Guiding Light and Iva Snyder on As the World Turns.

Early years
Brown was born on August 2, 1954, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Career
Brown's first notable role was on Guiding Light, where she played the role of Nola Reardon Chamberlain from 1980 to 1985 and again from 1995 to 1998 (with an appearance in the show's final weeks in 2009). She and actor Michael Tylo, who played Quint, were a popular pairing on the show.

Brown also created another notable soap role in the form of Iva Snyder on As the World Turns, playing her from November 6, 1985, to 1994 and with several guest appearances from 1998 to 2003.

Both roles were created by writer Douglas Marland, and Brown was in some ways a "muse" for Marland's writing.

After her acting roles on both shows concluded, she was an acting coach for Guiding Light and One Life to Live.

Brown appeared in the lead role of Broadway version of 42nd Street in the early 80s, while simultaneously playing her Guiding Light role. Other daytime work includes a short stint as a corrupt FBI agent on Loving in 1995.

Personal life
Brown was married to Tom Nielsen, an actor who played one of Brown's love interests, Floyd Parker, on Guiding Light, from 1979 to 1985. They had two children together, Victoria and James "Buddy" Anthony Nielsen, who as a child played her infant son on Guiding Light and is now the lead singer of Senses Fail. Brown helped produce and direct several of their videos.

In 1997, she married Brian Neary.

Brown lived the remainder of her life in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Brown died on November 24, 2021, at the age of 67. In a post on his Instagram shortly after her death, Buddy Nielsen indicated that she had a "quick battle with cancer."

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Dawangqiao

Dawangqiao, or Dawang Bridge, is the starting point of the Jingtong Expressway, an express route linking central Beijing to Tongzhou District approximately 15 kilometres to the east.

Dawangqiao is halfway between Dabeiyao/Guomao on the eastern 3rd Ring Road and Sihui Bridge on the eastern 4th Ring Road, close to the new Beijing central business district.

The area is served by Dawanglu Station, on Line 1 of the Beijing Subway system.

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Forgotten One

Forgotten One may refer to:

 * Forgotten One (comics), a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe
 * The Forgotten One, a sub-boss in the video game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
 * The Forgotten One (film), a 1989 film

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