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¡Vigilance on Encyclopædia WikiPedia.Org! Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 03:22:55 +0000 Â¡Hello!

Â¿How Fare You?

Well my fellow Intactivists:

The circumcisiophiliacs won this round on EncyclopÃ¦dia WikiPedia.Org. The main problem is that they are more commited than we (they make it impossible for us to correct any of their lies and bias on prÃ¦puce and circumcision). Now, they go after our articles (maybe I should not have tried to expose them by writing about Circumfetishism).

Hugh Young wrote complaining about me creating articles about Intactivism and Genital Integrity without consulting anyone. He was right to complain; I did create such articles without consulting. Let me just point out to things though:

1I invited other Intactivists to join me last year to join EncyclopÃ¦dia WikiPedia.Org last year (within a month of that, I gave up on editing PrÃ¦puce and Circumcision because I was so badly outnumbered, that I could not do any good). 2I am the only full-time Intactivist with Michael Glass and Dan Blackham dropping in every now and then.

Now that you are all temporarily here, I ask you to stay. If you would just check on our articles weekly and also prÃ¦puce, circumcision, and articles linking to them, it would truly help much. While you are at it, you can edit and start other articles. Â¡Editing and starting articles is fun! Look at this cool article, which I started about Laurentia.

Â¡E Pluribus Unum!

Â¡Thanks!

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Business continuity planning lifecycle. I made this diagram.

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Achyuta

In Hinduism, Achyuta (अच्युत, ) is an epithet of Vishnu and appears as the 100th and 318th names in the Vishnu Sahasranama. It is also often used in the Bhagavad Gita as a personal name of Krishna. According to Adi Shankara's commentary on the 1000 Names of Vishnu, Achyuta means "one who will never lose his inherent nature and powers". The name also means "immovable", "unchangeable", and as such is used for "the one who is without the six transformations, beginning with birth".

Literature

 * "Arjuna said: O infallible one (Achyuta), please draw up my chariot between the two armies so that I may see those present here desiring to fight, and know with whom I must contend in this great trial of arms." (Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1, verses 21-22)
 * Arjuna speaking: "Thinking of You as my friend, I have rashly addressed You "O Krishna", "O Yadava", "O my friend", not knowing Your glories. Please forgive whatever I may have done in madness or in love. I have dishonoured You many times, jesting as we relaxed, lay on the same bed, or sat or ate together, sometimes alone and sometimes in front of many friends. O infallible one (Acyuta), please excuse me for all those offences." (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, verses 41-42)
 * Arjuna speaking: "Destroyed is my delusion, as I have gained my memory (knowledge) through your grace, O Achyuta. I stand firm with my doubts dispelled. I shall act according to your word." (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, verse 73)

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Shardeloes

Shardeloes is a large 18th-century country house located one mile west of Amersham in Buckinghamshire, England. A previous manor house on the site was demolished and the present building constructed between 1758 and 1766 for William Drake, the Member of Parliament for Amersham. Shardeloes is a Grade I listed building.

Design and construction
The architect and builder was Stiff Leadbetter; designs for interior decorations were provided by Robert Adam from 1761. Built in the Palladian style, of stuccoed brick, the mansion is nine bays long by seven bays deep. It was constructed with the piano nobile on the ground floor and a mezzanine above. The north facade has a large portico of Corinthian columns. The terminating windows of the piano nobile are pedimented and recessed into shallow niches, as are the end bays of the east front. The roof, typically for the palladian style, is hidden by a balustrade. The original plans of the house by Leadbetter show a design closer in appearance to Holkham Hall, with square end towers. Adam cancelled this idea, but embellished the front with the portico.

The interior of the house has fine ornamental plaster work by Joseph Rose. The entrance hall by Adam has fluted Doric pilasters and massive doorcases in the north and south walls. The dining room has stucco panels and an oval panel in the ceiling. The library was designed by James Wyatt in a classical style and has painted panels by Biagio Rebecca. Nikolaus Pevsner describes the staircase as "surprisingly small." Pevsner, for once, rather misses the point: as the house was designed, all rooms of importance, including the bedrooms, were on the principal ground floor; thus, there was no need for a grand staircase, as no grandee would ever need to ascend to the secondary floor above. Blenheim Palace is another house with a small staircase for the same reason.

The house is flanked to the west by a service block and stable yard of the same period as the mansion, complete with clock tower. The stable yard is entered through five archways; the rectangular building has projecting wings and a pitched roof.

Grounds
Humphry Repton was commissioned to lay out the grounds in the classical English landscape fashion, in the lee of the hill upon which the mansion stands. Repton dammed the River Misbourne to form a lake.

Cricket ground
The grounds house a cricket ground, which is the home ground of Amersham Cricket Club, which has played at the ground in two periods from 1856 to 1886 and from 1905 to present. The ground has been used for minor counties matches by Buckinghamshire in both the Minor Counties Championship and the Minor Counties Twenty20. Buckinghamshire also played one List A one-day match when there when they were permitted to play List A cricket, playing against first-class opposition in the form of Glamorgan in the 1972 Gillette Cup. A combined Minor Counties South team also played five List A matches there in the Benson & Hedges Cup between 1973 and 1977.

Recent history
The mansion remained the ancestral home of the Tyrwhitt-Drake family until the Second World War, when the house was requisitioned as a maternity hospital for evacuated pregnant women from London; some three thousand children were born there, including lyricist Sir Tim Rice in 1944. Following the war the house seemed destined to become one of the thousands of country houses being demolished, until a local conservation society, the Amersham Society, assisted by the Council for the Protection of Rural England fought a prolonged battle to save the house: eventually a preservation order was put on the building preventing its demolition. Although inhabited in parts, the building fell into a state of neglect through the 1960s and was eventually purchased in the early 1970s by local property developer Richard Watson. His company, Landstone Limited, completed a comprehensive renovation of the building and converted unused parts into further apartments. Shardeloes today is a complex of private flats; the principal reception rooms are preserved as common rooms for the residents.

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Talk:Branch and bound

Disjoint subregions
Do the subregions created during the branch and bound heuristic have to be mutually disjoint? - Strictly speaking, the sub-regions need not be mutually disjoint. However, intersecting sub-domains will only but introduce additional overhead.

According to the book "The Traveling Salesman Problem - A Computational Study" by David L. Applegate, Robert E. Bixby, Vasek Chvátal, and William J. Cook (Chap 1, pag 41) the branch-and-bound approach has its origin in work on the Traveling Salesman Problem. The concept was introduced in the late 1950s (Bock 1958, Croes, 1958), even though the name branch-and-bound appeared only in a 1963 paper by Little et al. (1963).

F. Bock. An algorithm for solving “traveling-salesman” and related network optimization problems. Research Report, Armour Research Foundation, 1958.

G. A. Croes. A method for solving traveling-salesman problems. Operations Research, 6:791–812, 1958.

J. D. C. Little, K. G. Murty, D. W. Sweeney, and C. Karel. An algorithm for the traveling salesman problem. Operations Research, 11:972–989, 1963.

I think that partitioning a given node is sort of implied, making the resulting regions mutually disjoint by definition. Cyberia 05:10, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Universal Bounding Algorithm
The article says: There is no universal bounding algorithm that works for all problems, and there is little hope that one will ever be found;

It seems to me that, not only has no algorithm ever been found, but moreover that there does not even exist such a "universal" bounding algorithm, even in principle. For example, consider a set where f(x)=0 for all x except one xi chosen at random with f(xi)=1. Without any further information, the only way to be sure and find xi is to check every element, right? Perhaps someone with more knowledge of this field can advise, thanks. 67.9.148.47 (talk) 06:08, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Original reference link
There is a text reference to the original "invetor" but not the exact ref. I think it's this one :

A. H. Land & A. G. Doig: An automatic method of solving discrete programming problems. Econometrica 28(3): 497-520, July 1960

If someone can check and add it at the end of the article, that would be nice.

 * I don't have access to the book, but other sources refer to it, so I guess this is the correct citation. – Adrianwn (talk) 15:38, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The reference was added to the lead section. --Erel Segal (talk) 05:37, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

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British Railways D0226

D0226 and D0227 were two prototype diesel shunting locomotives built in 1956 by English Electric at its Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows to demonstrate its wares to British Railways. They originally carried numbers D226 and D227, their Vulcan Foundry works numbers, but these were amended in August 1959 to avoid clashing with the numbers of new Class 40 locomotives.

They were both of 0-6-0 wheel arrangement and were fitted with English Electric 6RKT engines of 500 hp. They were painted black with an orange stripe along the middle of the bodyside, which turned into a 'V' at the nose end. The major difference between the two locomotives was that D0226 had diesel-electric transmission and D0227 had diesel-hydraulic transmission.

BR tested both locomotives at its Stratford depot in East London. D0226 has been preserved at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, but D0227 was scrapped.

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Sriman

Sriman (श्रीमन्) is an epithet of the Hindu deity Vishnu. It refers to the deity being the possessor of Sri, both referring to his consort Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity, as well as the material and non-material aspects of fortune.

It is more generally used in the form of an honorific, as a prefix for male names.

Literature
Sriman is a name of Vishnu, and appears as the 22nd, 178th, and the 220th names in the Vishnu Sahasranama.

According to Adi Shankara's commentary on the Vishnu Sahasranama, Sriman means "One on whose chest Sri or Lakshmi, mother of the world, always dwells."

Sriman is often used to invoke Vishnu in the mantras of Vedanta Desika.

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Listen with Mother

Listen with Mother was a BBC radio programme for children which ran between 16 January 1950 to 10 September 1982. It was originally produced by Freda Lingstrom although for the majority of its run it was produced by George Dixon, and was presented over the years by Daphne Oxenford, Julia Lang, Eileen Browne, Dorothy Smith and others.

History
It was first broadcast on 16 January 1950 on the BBC Light Programme in a fifteen-minute slot every weekday afternoon at 1.45, just before Woman's Hour. Consisting of stories, songs and nursery rhymes (often sung by Eileen Browne and George Dixon) for "mothers and children at home", at its peak it had an audience of more than a million listeners. Roger Fiske assisted with the music. From 7 September 1964 the programme moved to the BBC Home Service (later BBC Radio 4).

Listen with Mother's final week's programmes (widely reported in the press) featured Wriggly Worm stories, presented by Nerys Hughes and Tony Aitken and directed by David Bell. These stories were broadcast on the Listen with Mother programmes throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.

Listening Corner, which replaced Listen with Mother on 13 September 1982, began with repeats of the Wriggly Worm stories. Collections of Listen with Mother stories have been published by Hutchinsons/Random House. Two collections of Wriggly Worm stories ('Wonderful Wriggly Worm' and 'Wonderful Wriggly Worm Rides Again'), by Eugenie Summerfield, have been published by Book Guild. Listening Corner continued until 24 August 1990, ending three days before the launch of BBC Radio 5, which became the new home of children's radio programmes.

Theme music
At the start of each programme a short introduction on piano was played. The tune went to the rhythm of the words quarter to two, which of course was the time of the broadcast, and many children were helped in learning to tell the time by this ingenious device.

A piece for piano duet, the Berceuse from Gabriel Fauré's Dolly Suite, Op. 56, was played at the conclusion of each broadcast and became synonymous with the programme. It was recorded for the programme by Eileen Browne and Roger Fiske, However Julia Lang, in an Anglia Television interview in the 1990s, said that during her tenure when she finished reading the story she had to get up (noiselessly), rush across to the piano in the studio and play the Berceuse live.

"Are you sitting comfortably?"
Each story on Listen with Mother opened with the phrase "Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin" (sometimes "...Then we'll begin"). The question, originally an ad lib by Julia Lang on 16 January 1950, became so well known that it appears in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations It has been incorporated and sampled by many artists and musicians; for instance,
 * in the episode "The Idiot's Lantern", in the revived series of Doctor Who, it was used by the alien presence known as "The Wire" appearing on a television screen and addressing its first victim, the hapless Mr Magpie.
 * in the episode "School Reunion", in the revived series of Doctor Who, it was used by the Doctor when he addressed a classroom of students for whom he was substitute teacher.
 * in a later episode of Doctor Who, "The Timeless Children", the line was reformulated by The Master as "Are you suffering comfortably? Then I'll begin" on addressing The Doctor in the Matrix.
 * as the opening of the narration by Stanley Unwin of the Small Faces' "Happiness Stan" song cycle on Side 2 of their Ogden's Nut Gone Flake album, rendered in Unwin's characteristic style: "Are you all sitting comftybold two-square on your botty? Then I'll begin."
 * as the opening line in the film The Others.
 * by English actor John Wood in the 1983 film WarGames.
 * in the song "It Doesn't Really Matter" by the Canadian band Platinum Blonde on their 1983 Standing in the Dark album.
 * as the title, and included in the lyrics of, the Moody Blues song "Are You Sitting Comfortably?" from the 1969 album On the Threshold of a Dream.
 * at the beginning of the Slade song "Did Your Mama Ever Tell Ya?", which appeared on the band's 1976 album Nobody's Fools.
 * in the band alt-J's song "Hand-Made", from the 2012 album "An Awesome Wave".
 * in the opening monologue in the episode "The Narrow Escape Problem" of the TV series Fargo.
 * in the soundtrack of PlayStation game Jet Moto 3 at "Shipwreck Cove" arena.
 * in the Monty Python sketch "Children's Stories", from Monty Python's Flying Circus season 1, episode 3: "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away". Performer Eric Idle opens the sketch with the words: "Hello children, hello. Here is this morning's story. Are you ready? Then, we'll begin".
 * in the graphic novel V for Vendetta, at the beginning of V monologue "Good evening, London".

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Robert Lovett

Robert Lovett may refer to:

 * Robert A. Lovett (1895–1986), United States Secretary of Defense
 * Robert Morss Lovett (1870–1956), American educator and writer; acting Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
 * Robert Q. Lovett, film editor
 * Robert S. Lovett (1860–1932), chairman of the Southern Pacific Company Executive Committee 1909–1913.
 * Sir Robert Lovett (17th c.) of Liscombe in Buckinghamshire, England (see Lovett baronets)

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Madhusudana

Madhusudana (मधुसूदन) is an epithet of Vishnu or Krishna and is the 73rd name in the Vishnu Sahasranama.

According to Adi Sankara's commentary on the Vishnu Sahasranama, Madhusudana means the "destroyer of Madhu".

Literature
The death of Madhu and the origin of the epithet is described in the Padma Purana: "Then Madhu, screened with darkness, quickly disappeared. Through his illusion he dropped a hundred mountains on (the body of) Viṣṇu. Then in the battle, getting into the darkness, he cut off the mountains, and angrily cut off his head with his (disc called) Sudarśana. Then gods like Brahmā and Śiva made him known as ‘Madhusūdana’ in the worlds."

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Steve Brookstein

Stephen Desmond Brookstein (born 10 November 1968) is an English singer, who is best known for winning the first series of The X Factor in 2004.

Early and personal life
Brookstein was born in Dulwich, London, England, the son of Malle, a council worker, and Errol Brookstein, a lorry driver. His father is South African and his mother is of Estonian descent. In 1997, seven years before his breakthrough on The X Factor, Brookstein was a finalist on the ITV series The Big Big Talent Show, hosted by Jonathan Ross.

2004–2005: The X Factor and Heart and Soul
In early 2004, Brookstein auditioned for the first series of The X Factor, a talent series aiming to discover new recording artists in the UK. His audition failed to impress two of the judges, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh, who thought he lacked the motivation and confidence to succeed but the third, Simon Cowell, asked Brookstein to return the following day and sing again. At the second audition, Brookstein managed to impress the other judges and was put through to the next stage of the competition. He reached the live shows, where contestants are put to the public vote, as one of three contestants in the Over 25s category mentored by Cowell. He reached the grand final on 11 December 2004 alongside G4 and won, despite him mixing up words and lines in his winner's song and a controversial outburst against him from Osbourne. However, according to Osbourne's subsequent autobiography, he had gained the most votes in every single one of the live shows. For five years, he held the record for the largest number of votes ever received in the final - 6 million, but this is now held by series 6 winner Joe McElderry, who received over 6.1 million votes.

After winning The X Factor, Brookstein was signed to the Sony BMG record label through which he released his first single, a cover of Phil Collins' 1984 power ballad "Against All Odds", on 20 December 2004. The song debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number two and then climbed to number one on 2 January 2005, going one better than Collins' original and staying there for one week. In Ireland, the song peaked at number 11. The music video for the song was a montage of clips from his time on The X Factor, from his initial audition to his final performance after being declared the winner.

Brookstein released his debut album Heart and Soul on 9 May 2005 through Sony BMG. Although Brookstein continued to perform tracks from the album on television shows such as CD:UK, a second single failed to materialise. In August 2005, it was announced that Sony BMG had dropped him from their line-up only eight months after his X Factor victory and despite the success of his debut single and album. Brookstein maintains that the decision to drop him reportedly came after he was offered a second album and to come back on the show, which he declined as it was to be another album of covers and he preferred a mix of old and new. In August 2005, eight months after being dropped from his record label, Brookstein publicly attacked The X Factor, claiming the show was "one big theatre... turning music into the WWE" and that it was "killing music". Brookstein has publicly feuded with Simon Cowell and The X Factor, claiming "there is absolutely no way he would want me within 100 miles of him" and admitting spending years feeling bitter about the way he was treated on the show.

Although Brookstein enjoyed fleeting success with both his debut album and single both reaching number one – "Heart and Soul" and "Against All Odds" respectively – he was dropped by Cowell's management after the latter was accused of refusing Brookstein creative freedom.

2008–2010: Musicals and controversies
In June 2007, Brookstein appeared on the P&O Portsmouth to Bilbao car ferry, alongside The X Factor series 2 alumni Chico Slimani and Journey South. In 2008, he played 'the father' in a touring production of the musical Our House.

In December 2009, when a Facebook campaign was launched to stop The X Factor winner from achieving the coveted Christmas number 1 spot, Brookstein backed the campaign to see Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name" reach the top of the chart, targeting Cowell in an online rant. He further attacked Cowell, claiming the latter "ruined Christmas" and that he was dropped from his record label because he "wouldn't play the game". Brookstein also claimed the show was staged and the winner was fixed, and was subsequently removed from the official The X Factor website following those comments. Despite Brookstein's bitterness towards The X Factor, he signed up to critique the show weekly on London 24 in 2010, where he labelled the judges "ridiculous" and questioned the standards of several of the finalists, including One Direction band member Louis Tomlinson, and the vocal coach.

2011–present: Musical hiatus and Forgotten Man
In 2013, Brookstein announced that his new album would be called Forgotten Man and would be released on 23 March 2014.

Brookstein released a book on 21 November 2014, Getting over the X, that describes his journey from winning The X Factor to having the press and industry turn their backs on him.

Concert tours

 * The X Factor Live Tour (2005)
 * The 40,000 Things Tour (2006)
 * The Great American Soul Book Tour (2007)

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User:Robert the Bruce/Reimer

¡Circumcisiophiliacs attack Daivid Peter Reimer! Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:35:45 +0000

Â¡Hello!

Â¿How Fare You?

The circumcisiosexuals desecrate the article about David Peter Reimer. Some of us share the fate of David Peter Reimer, and the any one of the rest of us could have shared his fate. I do not care what those perverts do among themselves, but I hate the way those pÃ¦dophiles go after children, and I refuse to let them vandalize David Peter Reimer. If it were not for those perverts he and his brother Brian might be alive today and the family Reimer would be much more happy.

If the want total editwar, Â¡we will give then total editwar!

The article is here:

HTTP://WikiPedia.Org/wiki/David_Peter_Reimer

This is its history:

HTTP://WikiPedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=David_Reimer&action=history

This is the page for discussing changes to the article:

HTTP://WikiPedia.Org/wiki/Talk:David_Reimer

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Dehn

Dehn is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:

 * Adolf Dehn (1895–1968), American lithographer
 * Angelina Dehn (born 1995), aka Ängie, Swedish singer
 * Günther Dehn (1882–1970), German theologian
 * Lili Dehn (1888–1963), Russian writer
 * Max Dehn (1878–1952), German-American mathematician
 * Megan Dehn (born 1974), now Megan Anderson, Australian netballer
 * Mura Dehn (1905–1987), American filmmaker
 * Olive Dehn (1914–2007), English children's writer and poet
 * Paul Dehn (1912–1976), British screenwriter
 * Raymond Dehn (born 1957), American politician
 * Siegfried Dehn (1777–1858), German musicologist
 * Virginia Dehn (1922–2005), American painter
 * Werner Dehn (1889–1960), German rower

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Cochin University College of Engineering Kuttanad

Campus at Kuttanad was established in 1999 under the aegis of the University. It is situated in a serene and beautiful 42-acre campus in Pulincunnoo, Kannady, Kuttanad, the rice bowl of Kerala in Alappuzha district. It offers B.Tech programs in Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering and M.C.A. Many of the faculty members have refined and sharpened their knowledge through rigorous research activities and published their findings in various national and international science and technical journals. The University raised the status of college to that of a Research Center in 2017. There are 42 Research Scholars working for their PhD under nine research supervisors in the College. The faculty under which the PhD programs are offered are Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Technology and Faculty of Social Sciences under the Cochin University of Science and Technology.

The college is situated on the outskirts of Pulincunnu Panchayat, near the village of Kannady. The college attracts students from all parts of India, particularly from Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Delhi.

Admission
Admissions are based on an All India Entrance Examination known as Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the University which includes papers for admission to undergraduate courses. The College has got students from all over the country.

Principals

 * Prof. James Kattady (Special Officer) 1999 - 2004
 * Dr. M I Thampan (2004–2007)
 * Dr. Preetha Mathew (2007)
 * Prof. Oommen Samuel (2007–2009)
 * Dr. P A Job (2009)
 * Dr. Joseph Kutty  Jacob (2010-2012)
 * Dr. Mathew Cheriyan (2012–2015)
 * Dr. Sreejith P S (2015–2017)
 * Dr. P A Job (2017)
 * Dr.Sunilkumar N (2017-2020)
 * Dr. Joseph Kutty  Jacob (2020–2024)
 * Dr. Ashalatha (2024 - present)

Courses

 * B.Tech. Civil Engineering: annual intake 45 seats
 * B.Tech. Electrical and Electronics Engineering: annual intake 45 seats
 * B.Tech. Electronics and Communications Engineering: annual intake 45 seats
 * B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering: annual intake 120 seats
 * B.Tech. Information Technology: annual intake 120 seats
 * B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering: annual intake 45 seats (canceled this course in cucek)
 * Master of Computer Applications: annual intake 45 seats


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Operating Thetan

In Scientology, Operating Thetan (OT) is a state of complete spiritual freedom in which one is a "willing and knowing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time". The Church of Scientology offers eight "levels" of OT, each level costing thousands of US dollars. The OT levels are confidential and not revealed to Scientologists until they reach the third Operating Thetan level. In practice, the objective of these levels is to remove "body thetans" which are "confused, disembodied souls from other planets who have attached themselves to us".

Description
The OT levels are the upper part of "The Bridge to Total Freedom", which is the set of levels within Scientology. After having removed one's own "reactive mind" and thus attaining the state of "Clear", Scientologists may then go on to the OT levels. Scientology doctrine defines OT as the "highest state there is". Operating Thetan is represented by a symbol consisting of the letters OT with the T inside the O and each of the points of the T ending at the O's circumference.

An Operating Thetan (OT) is described within Scientology as a state of godliness, and Scientologists are taught they will have godlike control over "matter, energy, space and time" (known in Scientology jargon as MEST). Hubbard claimed that thetans were once tricked into following religions, which prevented them from using their own power to create and destroy universes. The Church claims that an OT is not dependent on the physical universe, and Scientologists who have attained the highest Operating Thetan level claim that they have control over their lives and can "go exterior" from their bodies.

According to religious scholar J. Gordon Melton, "[The OT levels are] basically a variation of the Gnostic myth about souls falling into matter and the encumbrances that come with that. ... In the OT [levels], you're finding out that you're a thetan, that you've come into bodies before. Part of what you're trying to learn is exteriorization — how to get out of your body. You also learn that you carry a lot of encumbrances from past lives."

While there are fifteen OT levels listed on Scientology's Classification, Gradation and Awareness Chart, the Church only offers eight. According to former Scientologist and critic of the Church Mike Rinder, the promise of new levels has been used for decades to motivate church members to donate or repeat courses they have already taken in preparation. Rinder has said he doesn't believe these courses exist.

Confidential materials
Since the 1960s when Hubbard invented the OT levels, they have been considered confidential. Those who read such documents do so in locked rooms, transport them in locked briefcases attached to their wrists, and the documents are securely locked up when not in actual use. Members are forbidden to discuss the OT levels with anyone, may not disclose the contents or procedures, and may not make copies or even notes.

One must be "invited" to do the OT levels. OT preps are preparatory steps to ensure that one is ready for them, and this includes security checks (confessionals) to make certain that the person is not a security risk and will keep the confidentiality of the OT materials.

Scientology has been active in litigating to keep their OT levels secret. In the 1980's Wollersheim case, the OT III materials were entered into evidence by Wollersheim to show how they made him psychotic, eventually getting published in the news when an agency got their hands on a copy from the courthouse. In the 1990s Fishman case, the entire OT levels from I to VIII were presented, eventually leading to others obtaining them and later duplicated on the internet. This led to several raids of homes and offices, and lawsuits against several people who had put copies on the internet. Such acts collectively became known as Scientology versus the Internet.

On March 24, 2008, WikiLeaks published on its website the previously secret training instructions for all eight OT levels. Three days later the law firm of Moxon & Kobrin sent a letter to Wikileaks on behalf of the Church of Scientology demanding to have the documents removed. In response, Wikileaks stated they would not comply and would instead post even more Scientology documents. The Church of Scientology failed to get the documents removed from the website.

Hugh B. Urban explores the purpose of secrecy in the Operating Thetan levels in the Church of Scientology by discussing its related controversy. He claims that secrecy is a motivating tool for Scientologists to desire to climb "The Bridge of Total Freedom," specifically to attain the level of OTVIII.

OT levels
Although The Bridge to Total Freedom lists 15 OT levels above the state of Clear, only seven were released during Hubbard's lifetime, while OT VIII was released to the public in 1988, two years after Hubbard's 1986 death.

Levels OT I through OT V can be delivered only at Church of Scientology Advanced Organizations. OT VI and OT VII can be delivered only at Flag Service Org. OT VIII can be delivered only at Flag Ship Service Org aboard Scientology's ship Freewinds.

OT I
"This Solo-audited level is the first step a Clear takes toward full OT abilities, and that first step is a fresh causative OT viewpoint of the MEST universe and other beings." The cost to move to level OT I was $2,750 as of 2013.

OT II
"By confronting hidden areas of one's existence on the whole track [that is, by confronting past incarnations], vast amounts of energy and attention are released. Those on this Solo-audited level experience a resurgence of self-determinism and native ability. OT II unlocks the aberrative factors on the whole track that have allowed the thetan to lose his innate freedom and ability and one achieves the ability to confront the whole track." The cost to move from OT I to OT II was $5,225 as of 2013.

OT III: Wall of Fire
Media attention has mostly focused on Operating Thetan Level III, which reportedly tells the history of the universe from 75 million years ago. This level is called the "First Wall of Fire" and claims to "reveal the cause of earthly human suffering". It is claimed that even Hubbard himself had difficulty attaining it.

Hubbard announced discovering an important breakthrough within less than a month of founding the Sea Org, the religious order of the church that consists of its most dedicated members. He described it as a "means of erasing those mental factors that stand in the way of peace and toleration of mankind". The new material made up the new Operating Thetan III.

"This Solo-audited level goes through what is called the 'Wall of Fire' that surrounds a previously impenetrable whole track mystery. What prevents a being from being himself? This level answers that question. Once complete, a being is free of the whole track overwhelm that has trapped him. Here he confronts and eradicates the fourth dynamic engram that has plagued this universe for millennia." The cost to move from OT II to OT III was $8,910 as of 2013.

Church dogma regards OT III as a dangerous process which can lead to pneumonia, to lack of sleep or even to death if not run correctly. In Church of Scientology of California v. Kaufman, it was noted that the defendant had been required to sign a waiver to the effect that "the Scientology Organization, its branches and members, and L. Ron Hubbard are not responsible for anything that might happen to my body or mind on OT III".

Within OT III is the secret doctrine of the church. Members must be invited to "do it", and they sign a contract of secrecy.

OT IV: OT Drug Rundown
"This level handles the hidden problems and stops in a being's universe caused by the effects of drugs and poisons on the whole track. This is the final polish that rids one of any last vestige of the effects of drugs on the spirit. Ministered at Advanced Organizations or Flag. Approximately 12½ to 25 hours."

OT V: Audited New Era Dianetics for OTs (NOTs)
"The Second Wall of Fire consists of 26 separate rundowns and has been described as dealing with 'living lightning, the very stuff of life itself.' This level addresses the last aspects of one's case that can prevent him from achieving total freedom on all dynamics. An audited level ministered at Advanced Organizations or Flag. Approximately 50 hours."

OT VI: Solo NOTs Auditing Course
"The training one receives before starting to solo audit on New OT VII is so powerful that it actually constitutes an entire OT level. On Solo NOTs one is dealing with complexities intended to crush one's true power and abilities as a thetan. Solo NOTs auditors acquire a wide range of auditing skills to handle the vast phenomena that can occur on OT VIII. Approximately 3–4 weeks with the new Solo Auditor Course done."

OT VII: Solo NOTs
"On New OT VII one solo audits at home daily. This is a lengthy level, requiring a considerable amount of time to complete. It is the final pre-OT level, and culminates in attainment of the state of CAUSE OVER LIFE."

OT VIII: Truth Revealed
OT VIII is the highest level in Scientology, and is only offered aboard the Freewinds ship. It supposedly reveals "the ultimate secret of Hubbard's teachings".

The original version of OT VIII was released in 1988 and was authored by Hubbard himself, while a second "revised" version was released in 1991 by an unnamed editor. Both versions were released after L. Ron Hubbard's death. The original contains a Doomsday Prophecy that the Galactic Confederacy will return soon and telepathically enslave the universe but Hubbard wrote that he will return after his death and in a Messiah-like role "halt a series of events designed to make happy slaves of us all". Early participants in this version balked at it and the church subsequently revised it into its current form. The church initially stated the original version found in the Fishman Affidavit is a forgery but later admitted it was copyrighted by the church thus establishing authenticity. The revised version they currently use also has an editor's note that states "it is not the original".

The revised version is completely redacted from the original and states "This Solo-audited level addresses the primary cause of amnesia on the whole track and lets one see the truth of his own existence. This is the first actual OT level and brings about a resurgence of power and native abilities for the being himself. This may be done at the Flag Ship Service Organization."

According to interviews performed by Mike Rinder, Scientologists have described OT VIII as "less than overwhelming".

OT IX to OT XV
Since 1986, Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige has dangled the hope of OT IX and X being released in the near future, pending certain conditions, which have shifted over time. It has been widely reported that Hubbard never wrote OT IX and above; therefore, those levels do not exist.

Cleared Theta Clear
Beyond the attainment of the state of Operating Thetan is that of Cleared Theta Clear, which Hubbard describes as such: "A thetan who is completely rehabilitated and can do everything a thetan should do, such as move MEST and control others from a distance, or create his own universe; a person who is able to create his own universe or, living in the MEST universe is able to create illusions perceivable by others at will, to handle MEST universe objects without mechanical means and to have and feel no need of bodies or even the MEST universe to keep himself and his friends interested in existence."

Criticism
A growing number of former Scientologists have made public allegations that the church encourages its members to complete very expensive courses and expect wonderful results; when the improvements fail to happen, further courses are then promoted to facilitate the anticipated changes. Criticism stems from a pattern of cycles wherein members continue to pay increasing amounts for these courses, while some even put their families into debt chasing the elusive life-changing results under the stewardship of the church.

Legal issues and copyright
In March 2008, WikiLeaks leaked the Church of Scientology's Operating Thetan documents. The Church of Scientology portrayed hosting the documentation as a copyright violation implying that the collection is Church doctrine. A court found that it was legal to download, use, read, and practice these teachings outside the Church.

In 1997, Zenon Panoussis, a resident of Sweden, sent copies of NOTs documents to various government authorities, thereby making the documents public according to the Swedish principle of public access to official records. The Church of Scientology responded by ordering members to continuously borrow the available copies in order to prevent non-members from reading them. The Church of Scientology also sued Panoussis for copyright infringement, since he had made the documents available online without authorization.

A similar incident occurred during the 1980s, during the trial of Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology. When the OT III documents had been entered into evidence, 1,500 Scientologists crammed the courthouse in an attempt to block public access to the documents by each requesting to photocopy them, thus overwhelming the clerk's office so no one else could access them.

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Starvation claim
Some people advocate dramatically cutting welfare payments or eliminating them entirely, but this would leave the very poor no protection from starvation and death, therefore it arguably creates a bigger problem than it solves.

It is simply not true that without a government funded welfare system in place, the poor will die of starvation. This completely ignores the thousands of privately financed charity organizations that assist the needy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.14.72.16 (talk • contribs) 11:57, 14 December 2004 (UTC)

 * Since the poor did die of starvation before government-funded welfare was created, it is reasonable to assume that they will do so again if welfare is removed. Private charities have existed for thousands of years, and they've never been able to prevent all the poor from starving to death. Sure, charities make a difference, but it's a small difference. And even if that weren't the case, charities are inherently unreliable, since they depend on people's good will. If, for some reason, there is a decrease in public good will, charities fail. -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 22:12, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * It's definately not neutral POV then. Considering that $241 billion was given to charity in 2003 in the United States, there's absolutely no reason to believe that charity donations will not increase if people were able to keep more of their money. Charity donations also seem to increase over time on a stable basis. It shouldn't be stated as fact that once government funded welfare is cut, people will have absolutely no protection from starvation and death. The statement is seriously loaded and definately not neutral. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.14.71.241 (talk • contribs) 06:48, 9 January 2005 (UTC)

 * Again, I'd like to point out that people did starve before welfare was introduced. For the vast majority of poor people living during the 5000 years before the welfare state was created, charity offered no protection from starvation and death. Is there any proof that the same thing will not happen again if government welfare was cut? I have 5000 years of history to support the fact that people will starve without welfare. What proof do you have to support your belief that they wouldn't?
 * And by the way, $241 billion may sound like a big number, but how much of a difference did it make when compared to welfare? -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 10:33, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I'd also like to point out that people starve now, welfare or no! And it's odd that everyone assumes that the abolition of welfare would mean lower taxes. There's always an agency that needs more money... -- CMoorhouse 9:35, 15 Sep 2005

 * And there's always a government that needs more money —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.16.10.68 (talk) 07:51, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Howdy!
Made some changes to this thing, tried to reorganize and reflect everyone's point of view with sentences like: "some argue that X, others argue that Y." No reason why both points of view can't coexist in an article like this. Also added another example with some simple mathematics to further illustrate the issue and give it individual recognizability. I also codified the different approaches to the problem by the dominant theory in various countries. RiseAbove 07:53, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

I still have no idea where to post this! It's in the wrong place! It's in relation to the beginning of the article.Hello, I'm not sure about this. In England if you are unemployed you can't choose if you want to take a job. You either take it regardless of how much it pays or your benefits stop. Maybe you only mean Americans have the right choose? It's a small nit picking comment but if English people understood the fact that those people can't choose there may be less class discrimination. I don't even know if you think that's relevant either lol! I can't do computers! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.29.19.123 (talk • contribs) 15:27, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

 * If you turn up for an interview unshaven, dirty, pick your nose, etc., you can still deliberately fail to get hired. With workfare schemes there isn't the change in hours occupied by working or complying with unemployment requirements, but there is still a possibility of being worse off in purely monetary terms.150.101.19.117 (talk) 03:27, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Neutrality and verify
The verify tag was added because the article is unsourced. The neutrality tag was added because of sections like this:

''In short, the welfare trap demonstrates the way that social welfare systems can create a perverse incentive. Although such systems are intended to reduce unemployment and poverty, they often create a situation whereby the welfare recipient has an incentive to avoid raising his own productivity because his net income gain after benefits and taxes is not enough to compensate for the effort he must expend at work.''

Surely welfare systems are intended to reduce poverty not unemployment. - FrancisTyers 11:32, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

This article is in pretty bad shape. The text has been lifted directly from an Indian book - "Global Encyclopaedia of Welfare Economics" by B N Mandal. You can see it through Google Books. The entry on "Welfare Trap Theory", despite talking about American and UK theories, is itself unreferenced.

Just googling usage of the term "welfare trap", it seems to be used for ANY situation in which people become dependent on welfare payments for a long period of time. These include situations where people are unable to get off welfare (eg single parents who are simply unable to get above the income threshold to get off welfare due to time limitations and childcare payments) as well as the notion that there is a "perverse incentive" such as Mandal describes. Clearly this article needs a big rewrite. Wikipedia certainly shouldn't be direct quoting without reference. Copyright, people?

Nix6 (talk) 15:26, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Mandal copied Wikipedia, not the other way round: there's quite a few sections of that book that are exact facsimiles of the relevant articles circa 2009. I'm not sure what Wikipedia's policies on CC licence violations by third party print publishers are... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dtellett (talk • contribs) 20:56, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Deleted criticism
I deleted the criticism paragraph at the bottom of the page, because I'm not certain there's a meaningful distinction in this instance between "psychological" and "economic" decisions. That is, economics is, to a large degree (especially where political economy and economic policy are concerned) nothing more than psychology on a mass scale. It is nothing more, that is, than the study of human action and the reasons (psychological and otherwise) for that action. Thus, I think the final paragraph may serve more to confuse readers than clarify a very subtle distinction. Anyway, that's my two cents, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.RiseAbove 08:12, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Unemployed don't have a choice anymore.
I still have no idea where to post this! It's in the wrong place! It's in relation to the beginning of the article.Hello, I'm not sure about this. In England if you are unemployed you can't choose if you want to take a job. You either take it regardless of how much it pays or your benefits stop. Maybe you only mean Americans have the right choose? It's a small nit picking comment but if English people understood the fact that those people can't choose there may be less class discrimination. I don't even know if you think that's relevant either lol! I can't do computers!

Accuracy
A person on disability in the United States currently receives 603 a month from SSI. If they've worked they may also get SSDI. They may also receive Food Stamps, which may add about $90 a month. They may also be able to find subsidized housing. They also usually receive Medicaid, though as well. Hackwrench 08:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

proposed solutions
A while back I was reading about India and Australia proposing/starting new schemes that involved having to work for the government a set number of hours for welfare Eddus 17:20, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Speaking from experience...
...the Welfare Trap DOES exist. I'm living proof of it. I never wanted to be on disability... but rather than pay for my further education and training to be able to drive a car, or learn a trade.... my mother filed me for disability payments, because I AM disabled. However, I quickly found out that she sold my soul to the government so I might have some money to pay bills. I am now 30 years old, IN debt with the cost of living going up through the roof... and I can't even think of GETTING a job, not when I live nowhere near transportation TO a job. Let alone, have the money to pay for things like a car, license, insurance, etc.

I never thought I'd be in this fix. Where I'm struggling to get out of the poorhouse and my PITIFUL $3,500.00 worth of accumulated debts, and into perpetual unending tax debt through the IRS. The ONLY upside to my situation is, my income is non-taxable AND well below the poverty level so I've never dealt with the IRS in my life. But MAN, what a price to pay for that mercy..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.209.20.131 (talk • contribs) 19:28, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Current accuracy
A person on disability in the United States currently receives $623.00 a month from SSI. Which means their annual income is $7,476.00. The federal annual poverty level for a single person family in 2007 is $10,210.00. If you're on SSI, you can earn up to about $700.00 extra a month, before you risk losing or having your benefits reduced. Additionally, the first $70 a month you make, aren't reportable to SSI.

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/07poverty.shtml —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.209.20.131 (talk • contribs) 19:42, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Redirect
I typed "Poverty traps" by accident and it took me to "Welfare trap". Then when I typed "Poverty trap" it took me to "Poverty trap". Why is this? This doesn't make sense.--Burrburr (talk) 23:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * You're right, it makes no sense. I just changed it.Cretog8 (talk) 23:39, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Possible reference
America Now by Marvin Harris mentions this concept among others. --Error (talk) 23:55, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

A few issues

 * 1) In the UK, there is a distinction between two concepts:
 * Why only in the UK? Surely the two concepts can exist anywhere, and other jurisdictions could just as well have either or both of them.
 * 1) Also, he will incur additional ancillary costs such as time and money spent commuting and increased stress.
 * The position of this makes it sound as though travel expenses necessarily come after deduction of tax in the equation. This may or may not be the case.  If the portion of your earnings that is spent on work-related expenses is exempt from tax, then it can sometimes affect the figures quite significantly.  Maybe there's a way that it can be written better....
 * 1) Currently it ignores the fact that unemployment-related benefits may require you to be actively seeking employment.  Moreover, declining an offer of what is deemed a suitable job may also affect your benefits.  As such, in either of the example scenarios the incentive to stay unemployed may not actually be there (at least unless you're cheating the system).
 * 2) We ought to expand the article to cover the country-specific details of the welfare trap.  Both how the benefit systems of various countries lead to the welfare trap, and some examples of how some benefit systems may avoid it and where in the world these are implemented.  Does anybody here have the information to add?
 * 3) Moreover, are there really cases anywhere in the world where somebody would earn more on unemployment-related benefits than in a job, even before deduction of work-related expenses?  Or is it just the way it may sound to some when they first hear of it? -- Smjg (talk) 16:10, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Yes, because you're not considering other sources of aid that comes with welfare. These sources of aid stop if you start a job.
 * I have a friend that has a severe disability and needs to take medicine and get physical therapy for the rest of his life. Neither one of these will be covered if he takes a job. There is no job he can qualify for without desk job education (he has other qualifications that are no longer valid due to his condition), so he can't find a job where he can make ends meet. This is not even considering cost of living. Now if there were some way for him to receive the medical benefits such that the rest of his income was his to pay for the cost of living outside of his medical needs, he would most certainly take a job.
 * Since he is disabled with a condition that is reasonable to not expect him to work, he doesn't ever have to look for a job. However, he has expressed a strong desire to work, even through the pain, especially if he could work a job that allowed him to work from home.
 * So he is the perfect example of an unbeatable welfare trap. There is no reasonable solution for work.
 * Now if he votes according to his beliefs, he has to vote for people that could reduce his benefits. This makes his life even harder as he is now in a voting trap. Welfare trap leads to voting trap.
 * We need a political stance that will find a medium that gives more benefits to people that work, and less to those who can and don't. The plan could grant even more benefits to those that work when they are classified unable to, without stripping them of their medical benefits.
 * However, if they work to a certain point where they don't need benefits, if we take them away, there's incentive for them to fall back to a lower status, creating the trap again.
 * The ultimate solution is to have diminishing returns system that shifts people from government aid to charity aid. --Cflare (talk) 15:56, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

 * You mean things like NHS concessions that apply to people on certain benefits? Maybe these concessions should be made contingent on income rather than on where it comes from.
 * But I agree with this idea of less to those who can and don't, and more to those who can't and do. Generally, we need to replace this system whereby JSA, HB, etc. simply top up whatever you're earning to however much they decide you need to live on. — Smjg (talk) 17:57, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Proposed Edits
I have some ideas which might improve this page, but I'd like to get some feedback first.
 * Right now, the article talks about the US or the UK - should we divide up the page by country and try to get some more examples?
 * Perhaps have a subsection on policies that attempt to eliminate the welfare trap? e.g. means-tested versus universal benefits.
 * Might there be some benefit from merging this with the poverty trap page? That one could also use a cleanup, but I think it could be useful to differentiate between what the poverty trap means in the UK (as shown in this article, which is the terminology used by social policy experts such as Howard Glennerster) versus what it means in developing countries, because as it stands now it's kind of confusing to have two different meanings dependent on context spread over two pages. JuliaK (talk) 17:30, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Graph Image Illustration
Previous versions of the page contained, which was evidently removed (17 November 2022) for lack of proper sourcing. Indeed, the source referenced for the image does not, itself, provide a working source of the actual data used to compose it (it suggests "www.dpw.state.pa.us", but this is currently defunct). (Interestingly, the image currently at the source is not identical, but there is no note of an update to the 2012 post, making it probable the image was recreated by User:Wikideas1 [who lists it as "Own work"] using the data.)

In any case: that image was an excellent illustration of the article: literally showing the "gap". Ideally, a new image could be found/created that is better sourced. However, in the meantime, unless someone is seriously questioning the accuracy of that data, I think it appropriate to seek consensus to restore the image, perhaps with a "citation needed" tag (per Citation_needed: "Is the information probably factual?").

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Hilferding

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

 * Aleksander Hilferding (1831–1872), Russian linguist and folklorist
 * Margarete Hilferding (1871–1942), Austrian psychologist
 * Rudolf Hilferding (1877–1941), Austrian-German economist and politician

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Padmanabha

Padmanabha (पद्मनाभ) is an epithet of the Hindu deity Vishnu. It may refer to:

Places

 * Padmanabhaswamy Temple, in Trivandrum, Kerala, India
 * Padmanabhapuram, a town in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India
 * Anantha Padmanabha Swamy Temple, in Vikarabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
 * Padmanabhanagar, a neighborhood in Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 * Padmanaba Nagar Assembly constituency

Religion

 * One of the Thousand Names of Lord Vishnu in the Sanskrit hymn Vishnu Sahasranama
 * Padmanabha Swamy, the presiding deity at the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
 * Padmanabha, in the Jain tradition, the future reincarnation of Bimbisara, King of Magadha

Other

 * Padmanābha (poet), 15th century Indian poet
 * Padmanabhan, an Indian male given name

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Sandy McCutcheon

Robert Hamish McCutcheon (born 1947), known as Sandy McCutcheon is an Australian author, playwright, actor, journalist and broadcaster.

Biography
McCutcheon was born Brian David Parry in Christchurch, New Zealand, though he did not learn this until 1997, aged 50, when his adoption papers were discovered. When he was nearly three, his parents divorced and he was adopted by another family, who renamed him as Robert, nicknamed Sandy. His adoptive parents denied that he was adopted and told him his early childhood memories were the product of his imagination. As an adult, he spent several years trying to trace his family in Europe, before finding relatives living in New Zealand. During the search he met his 30-year-old daughter Yvonne for the first time, who he had fathered in London when he was 20. He also discovered that his birth mother had been adopted.

He moved to Australia in 1970 and now lives in Fez, Morocco with his wife, photographer Suzanna Clarke. He is involved in the Woodford Folk Festival, the Festival of Sufi Culture (in Fez) and the Festival of World Sacred Music (in Fez). He has had four children from three marriages, as well as Yvonne.

Until late 2006, McCutcheon hosted talkback radio program Australia Talks Back, since renamed Australia Talks, on ABC Radio National. Australia Talks Back was the only continent-wide talkback radio program, as well as gathering listeners from around the world through the internet and Radio Australia shortwave broadcasts. It ran for an hour every weekday and featured discussion of a particular topic every day, reviewing the week's topics on Friday. Since leaving the ABC he has returned to his career as a writer and public speaker.

McCutcheon's earlier work included presenting ABC's Double Jay, later Triple J, now an Australia-wide radio station. Before that he worked at radio stations in Townsville and Hobart.

McCutcheon has produced radio documentaries in Bosnia, China, Finland, Malaysia, Mozambique, Singapore, South Africa, Sudan (North and South) and Yugoslavia.

McCutcheon has won Australian radio awards and been recognised at the New York International Radio Festival.

McCutcheon has been awarded the International Kalevala Medal for services to Finnish culture (for his work on the Kalevala). He has worked in Finland on a scholarship, and in particular, at the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

McCutcheon has written 22 plays for the theatre. He won the Samuel Weisberg Playwriting Award in 1991 for the best Jewish play of the year for Night Train, as he had for a long time believed himself to be Jewish, before finding out the truth about his ancestral past.

McCutcheon founded the Illusion Farm, based in the Tasmania mountains, a Buddhist centre providing care for people in need, free of charge. It has accommodated more than 3,000 people during its operation. The Illusion Circus Theatre Company has also been based on the farm.

Resources and external links

 * Sandy McCutcheon's Moroccan web site
 * Australia Talks Back
 * ABC Radio National Australia Talks Back Presenter -- Sandy McCutcheon
 * Murray Waldren's article about Sandy McCutcheon
 * Lily Bragge, Finding Sandy, The Sunday Age, 17 July 2005.

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Mary Perkins, On Stage

Mary Perkins, On Stage (originally titled simply On Stage) is an American newspaper comic strip by Leonard Starr for the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. It ran from February 10, 1957, to September 9, 1979, with the switch to the longer title in 1961. Some papers carried the strip under the shortened title Mary Perkins.

The strip came to a conclusion when Starr left in 1979 to take over Little Orphan Annie.

Origins
Having previously worked on comic books, Starr decided to try to publish a newspaper comic strip. Starr submitted his concepts to Moe Riley, a vice president at the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Riley chose two of Starr's ideas: one about a missionary who worked in foreign countries and the other about a young woman who comes to New York to become an actress. The syndicate chose the second idea, and Starr was hired to produce On Stage.

Characters and story
Starr's scripts mixed soap opera, adventure and broad humor, while the art was characterized by a studied line and often innovative storytelling. The strip offered a Broadway backstage drama as it followed the career of actress Mary Perkins in New York, Hollywood and on various international film sets and locations. A host of supporting characters joined Mary, including (in early September 1957) her photographer beau, Pete Fletcher. The two married on December 13, 1959.

The first On Stage Sunday strip was launched February 10, 1957. That is generally considered the start date for the strip, but in 1970, comics historian Raymond Miller wrote that internal evidence in the first Sunday page suggested the strip had at least a week's worth of prior daily strips.

Awards
Starr won the National Cartoonists Society Story Comic Strip Award for the series in 1960 and 1963, and its Reuben Award in 1965.

Reception
Discussing On Stage, comics historian Bob Bindig wrote that "the artwork is excellent...Starr likes to draw and it shows in his work. Each panel is a well developed planned illustration." Writer Dennis Wepman stated "On Stage transcended the conventions of the sentimental romance and tearjerker, incorporating elements of high comedy and often gripping adventure and suspense."

Reprints
Classic Comics Press announced in February 2006 that it had an agreement with Tribune Media Services to release chronological collected volumes of On Stage. The first appeared in June 2006, reprinting the strips of February 10, 1957 to January 11, 1958. The second volume was released later in 2006, the third in 2007 and the fourth in 2008. By 2016, the entire run of the strip had been reprinted in fifteen volumes.

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