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Nash-Healey

The Nash-Healey is a three-seat luxury sports car or grand tourer produced from 1951 to 1954. It was marketed by the Nash-Kelvinator conglomerate in North America as a halo car to promote sales of its Nash Motors division.

The car resulted from a joint venture between Nash-Kelvinator and British automaker, the Donald Healey Motor Company. Nash supplied the drivetrain from their range-topping Ambassador model, and Healey provided the chassis and early bodies. One year after its introduction, the car was restyled by Pininfarina, and the final assembly was transferred to Italy. Some describe the Nash-Healey as the first sports car introduced in the U.S. by a major automaker after the Great Depression.

Various Nash-Healeys, some modified road cars, and some purpose-built racers competed in several endurance racing events, most notably posting a third-place finish at the 1952 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Origin
In December 1949, British engineer, rally driver, and automaker Donald Healey sailed for America aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth ocean liner. He was going for a meeting with General Motors' (GMs) Ed Cole, hoping to secure a supply of Cadillac's new 331 cuin V8 engine. Healey planned to use the engines in his company's Healey Silverstone club racer. Two such Healey/Cadillac hybrids had already been built, one in the US by American sportsman Briggs Cunningham, and one in England by Healey's own Donald Healey Motor Company; the Cadillac-engined X 4 prototype.

While aboard ship, Healey encountered a man using an elaborate stereo camera system that intrigued him. The man was George W. Mason, president of Nash-Kelvinator. The two made an acquaintance based on their shared interest in photography. Hearing Healey's plan and anticipating GM's reply, Mason told Healey to contact him if the negotiations were unsuccessful. When GM turned Healey down due to their defense commitments, Healey contacted Mason, and development of the Nash-Healey started.

As part of the arrangement between the companies, Nash paid off Healey's £50,000 bank debt, which was to be repaid in assembled cars.

A prototype was previewed at the Paris Motor Show in October 1950. The fate of this car is unknown. The Nash-Healey made its official debut in February of the following year at the 1951 Chicago Auto show. The car's full name is the Nash-Healey Series 25.

Some time after its release, the Chrysler Corporation purchased a Nash-Healey from a Detroit dealership, disassembled it, and submitted an analysis of it to the company executives.

The 1951 Nash-Healey is called the first post-war sports car from a major American automaker, as it was released two years before the Chevrolet Corvette. This appellation excludes the limited volume Kurtis-Kraft and Muntz Jet, as well as the diminutive Crosley Hotshot, Super Hotshot, and Super Sport roadsters.

Features
Nash supplied Healey's company with the powertrain components: the Ambassador's inline six-cylinder OHV 234.8 CID engine and three-speed manual transmission with Borg-Warner overdrive. Healey fitted a lighter, higher-compression aluminum cylinder head (in place of the cast-iron stock item) with twin 1.75 in SU carburetors. This increased power from the stock 112 hp version to 125 hp.

The chassis was a widened and reinforced Healey Silverstone box-section ladder-type steel frame. Independent front suspension, also Healey Silverstone, was by coil springs, trailing link, and an anti-roll bar. The rear suspension featured a Nash-supplied torque tube and live axle, replacing the Silverstone's Riley Motor parts. Lateral location of the axle was handled by a Panhard rod.

Healey designed the aluminum body, but it was outsourced. Panelcraft Sheet Metal of Birmingham fabricated the body. It incorporated a Nash grille, bumpers, and other trim. Healey was responsible for the car's final assembly.

The car had drum brakes all around. Wheels were steel, with full-diameter chrome hubcaps and 4-ply 6.40×15-inch whitewall tires. The interior featured luxurious leather upholstery, foam rubber cushions, an adjustable steering wheel, and a cigarette lighter. Completed vehicles were shipped to the United States and marketed through the Nash dealership network.

1951

The 1951 Nash-Healey was the first post-war sports car from a major American automaker, two years ahead of the Chevrolet Corvette. The custom-built Kurtis-Kraft which predated it never reached "production car" status, with 18 units being built.

A prototype was exhibited at the Paris Motor Show in September 1950. The production model debuted at the February 1951 Chicago Auto Show, followed that month by the Miami Auto Show. Also classified as a grand tourer for its luxury appointments and extreme price, the car served its purpose and was campaigned in several racing circuits.

Donald Healey gave the first example to Petula Clark, with the registration number PET 1. The only colors available were "Champagne Ivory" and "Sunset Maroon". The suggested retail price (MSRP) of US$3,767 F.O.B. New York City was considered to be high priced.

1952

For the 1952 model year, Nash commissioned Italian designer Battista Farina and his carrozzeria, Pinin Farina, to revise the original body design. One objective was to make the new sports car resemble the rest of Nash's models more closely. The front received a new grille incorporating inboard headlights. The sides gained distinct fender character lines ending with small tailfins in the rear. A curved windshield replaced the previous two-piece flat windshield. The restyled car appeared at that year's Chicago Auto Show. Reflecting its role as a halo car, the Nash Ambassador and Statesman models adopted a Nash-Healey-inspired grille with inboard headlights for 1955, and advertising featured the new Nash with a Nash-Healey in the background to show the similarity.

Pininfarina in Turin built the steel bodies with the exception of the aluminum hood, trunk lid, and dashboard. The aluminum panels, plus careful engineering, reduced curb weight. The Nash engine was enlarged to 252 CID, producing 140 hp with American-made twin Carter Carburetors.

Shipping costs were considerable and moderated by Kelvinator's trans-Atlantic success in the European marketplace. From Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Nash engines and drivetrains went to England for installation in the Healey-fabricated frames. Healey then sent the rolling chassis to Italy, where Pininfarina's craftsmen fashioned the bodywork and assembled the finished product. They were then exported to the U.S., with the car's complicated logistical process resulting in a $5,908 sticker price in 1953, approaching double the new Chevrolet Corvette's $3,513.

1953

The 1953 model year saw the introduction of a new closed coupe alongside the roadster (now termed a "convertible"). Capitalizing on the 3rd-place finish at Le Mans by a lightweight racing Nash-Healey purpose-built for the race (see below), the new model was called the "Le Mans" coupe. Nash had already named the engine the "Le-Mans Dual Jetfire Ambassador Six" in 1952, in reference to the previous racing exploits of the lightweight competition cars.

Some describe the new design as "magnificent". Some "people didn't take to the inboard headlights". This headlight mounting was described as "Safety-Vu" concentrating illumination, and their low position increased safety under foggy conditions. The 1953 "Le Mans" model was awarded first prize in March of that year in the Italian International Concours d'Elegance held at Stresa, Italy.

Leveraging the popularity of golf to promote their cars, Nash Motors and Nash dealers sponsored what the automaker described as "more than 20 major golf tournaments across the country" in 1953, and golfer Sam Snead was shown with his Nash-Healey roadster on the cover of the June 1953 issue of Nash News.

Product placement was another marketing strategy. A roadster owned by Dick Powell was driven by George Reeves, as Clark Kent, in four TV episodes of the Adventures of Superman. Another roadster appears in the 1954 film Sabrina starring Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, and Audrey Hepburn.

1954
Nash-Kelvinator became reorganized as a division of American Motors Corporation (AMC) that was formed as a result of a merger with Hudson Motor Car Company on 1 May 1954. Nash was faced with limited resources for marketing, promotion, and further development of this niche market car compared to its volume models. By this time AMC knew that a similar luxurious two-seat Ford Thunderbird with V8 power was being planned. In light of the low sales for the preceding years, Nash delayed the introduction of the 1954 models until 3 June and discontinued the convertible, leaving just a slightly reworked "Le Mans" coupe, distinguished by a reverse slanted "C" pillar and a three-piece rear window instead of the previous one-piece glass.

Healey was focusing on its new Austin-Healey 100, "and the Nash-Healey had to be abandoned." Although the international shipping charges were a significant cost factor, Nash cut the POE (port of entry) price by more than $1,200 to $5,128. Production ceased in August. A few leftover 1954s were sold as 1955 models.

Production
All 1951 Nash-Healeys were British-built. Bodies were crafted at Panelcraft Sheet Metal, and final assembly was completed at the Healey factory in Warwick. The 1952 through 1954 models were built in Italy by Pinin Farina.

The Nash-Healey registry has 520 entries, including prototypes and race vehicles.

For contextual comparison, the Nash-Healey is framed in U.S. auto history with the 1953 Kaiser Darrin, 1953 Chevrolet Corvette, and 1955 Ford Thunderbird. The 1954 model year Nash-Healey price to the public was close to $6,000 compared with around $3,500 for a Chevrolet Corvette and $3,000 for a 1955 Ford Thunderbird.

Panamericana pace car
A Nash-Healey served as the course car for the 1951 Carrera Panamericana, described as one of the most dangerous automobile races of any type in the world. Driven by Chuck Stevenson, the Nash-Healey ran ahead of the racers to ensure the way was clear on "the world's greatest road race".

Endurance racing
To create a racing pedigree for the marque, Donald Healey built four lightweight Nash-Healeys for endurance racing Like the road cars, they had Nash Ambassador engines and drivelines. However, fitting higher-compression aluminum cylinder heads, special manifolds, and twin SU carburetors increased their power to 200 hp. The cars had spartan, lightweight aluminum racing bodies. Three open versions were built, and one coupe. These cars competed in four consecutive Le Mans races and one Mille Miglia.

1950 Le Mans
Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton debuted the prototype at Le Mans in 1950. It was the first-ever Le Mans entry to have an overdrive transmission. Not only was the car one of the 29 finishers from the field of 66, but also finished in fourth place. This outstanding achievement sealed Healey's contract with Nash for a limited production run of the road cars. Roger Menadue, head of Healey's experimental department, played a significant role in the success: He filed slots in the backplates of the brakes and extended the adjusting mechanism to a small exterior lever. Thus, in a matter of seconds, he could adjust the brakes during pit stops without jacking the car up—an innovation that saved as much as half an hour at each stop.

1951 Le Mans
In the 1951 Le Mans race, Rolt and Hamilton took fourth in class and sixth overall behind a Jaguar, two Talbot-Lagos and two Aston Martins. They finished immediately ahead of two Ferraris and another Aston Martin.

1952 Le Mans

In the 1952 Le Mans race, when only 17 of the 58 starters finished, the entry driven by Leslie Johnson and motoring journalist Tommy Wisdom took third overall behind two factory-entered Mercedes-Benz 300SLs; also first in class, ahead of Chinetti's Ferrari, and second in the Rudge-Whitworth Cup for the best performance over two consecutive years. In addition, they won the Motor Gold Challenge Cup. The drivers said the car was more nimble through the corners than its more exotic competitors. It delivered 13 mpgus and the engine needed no oil or water during the entire 24 hours. The car had been built from scratch in a fortnight, Menadue and his assistant Jock Reid fabricating the body in less than a week, by eye, without any drawings. Healey said: "That's an ugly bugger, isn't it, Roger?"

1952 Mille Miglia
The same year, Johnson raced the car in the Mille Miglia, the thousand-mile Italian road race that would be banned as too dangerous five years later. Daily Telegraph motoring correspondent Bill McKenzie rode as passenger. They finished a creditable seventh overall to Bracco's winning works team Ferrari, the works Mercedes-Benz 300SLs of Kling and Caracciola, and three works Lancias; they also took fourth in class. The coupe driven by Donald Healey and his son Geoffrey crashed out.

1953 Le Mans
For the 1953 Le Mans race, the factory partnered Johnson with Bert Hadley in one of two cars with redesigned bodies. Johnson started in 27th place. Although he and Hadley advanced steadily up the race order, they were 11th at the finish, 39 laps behind the winning Jaguar, despite an average speed of 92.45 mph—higher than the previous year's run to third place. However, they beat both of Donald Healey's new Austin-Healey 100s. The second Nash-Healey of Veyron and Giraud-Cabantous retired after nine laps.

This concluded the factory's race program with the lightweight competition cars. The 1952 Le Mans/Mille Miglia car passed into private ownership and raced in America.

Wisp
Nash's designer, Ed Anderson, wanted to bring the design for a successor to the Nash-Healey back in-house after Pinin Farina restyled the car for 1952. In 1953, he created the Wisp. Sketches of the car show a low 2-seater with a tapering tail and side coves, foreshadowing the Corvette. Master Modeler Charl Greene created a wooden scale model of the Wisp to show to management, but Nash did not have the resources to fund the development of a new car for a small market. Anderson requested a quote from Pinin Farina to have a single copy built for him, but did not proceed with the project.

Palm Beach
The 1956 Nash Rambler Palm Beach was a design commissioned by Mason as a possible successor to the Nash-Healey. Pinin Farina drew the shape. This 2-seater featured a large circular air intake at the front, reminiscent of Farina's Lancia PF200 of 1953, and prominent tail fins. The car was built on a Nash Rambler chassis and is powered by a Rambler straight-six flathead engine mated to a three-speed manual transmission. The car debuted on Farina's stand at the 1956 Turin Auto Show, after which it was in the personal collection of Roy Chapin Jr., CEO and Chairman of American Motors, until Joe Bortz purchased it. In 2007, the Palm Beach was bought by Jacques Harguindeguy.

Alvis-Healey
In Britain, Healey sold a model with Hodges' original Nash-Healey bodywork as the Healey Sports Convertible. A different piece replaced the Nash grille, the power bulge in the hood was deleted, and other minor features, such as a scuttle vent, fog lamps, and revised wheel covers, were added.

Powering the car was a 3.0 L inline six-cylinder engine from the Alvis TB 21 fed by two SU carburetors. Built on a G-Type chassis; it is commonly called the Alvis-Healey.

The Alvis-Healey also used the clutch and transmission from Alvis, and replaced the Nash-Healey's torque tube rear drive with a rigid Salisbury axle suspended on coil springs and located by trailing links, with the drive reaching the rear axle via an open Hardy-Spicer driveshaft.

Approximately twenty-five examples were built.

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Ibn Al-Thahabi

Abu Mohammed Abdellah Ibn Mohammed Al-Azdi (ابو محمد عبدالله بن محمد الأزدي) (ca. ? - 1033 CE), known also as Ibn Al-Thahabi or Ibn al-Zahabi was an Arab physician, famous for writing the first known alphabetical encyclopedia of medicine.

Biography
He was born in Suhar, Oman. He moved then into Basra, then to Persia where he studied under Al-Biruni and Ibn Sina. Later he migrated to Jerusalem and finally settled in Valencia, in Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain).

Works
He is famous for his book Kitab Al-Ma'a (The Book of Water), a medical encyclopedia that lists the names of diseases, medicines,  physiological processes, and treatments. It is the first known alphabetical classification of medical terms. In this encyclopedia, Ibn Al-Thahabi not only lists the names but adds numerous original ideas about the function of the human organs. The book also contains an array of herbal treatments and a course for the treatment psychological symptoms. The main thesis is that cure must start from controlled food and exercise; if it persists then use specific individual medicines;  if it still persists then use medical compounds; and if the disease continues, surgery is performed.

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User talk:Zomb1ef1sh

Zomb1ef1sh The Funky Monkey Coming from the Same Country My name is [loud noise] and I come from [another loud noise]. I come only to be with all of you in peace. The name "Zomb1ef1sh" comes from the time Finding Nemo was popular. After seeing the movie and hearing non-stop raving of this character, I became sick of it. It wanted Nemo to DIE! Nemo is the "Zomb1ef1sh"

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Gaston Bastiaens

Gaston Bastiaens (born 16 December 1946 in Westerlo, Belgium) is a convicted criminal, Belgian engineer, and businessman. As a vice president of Philips Electronics, he was responsible for the Compact Disc as well as for CD-i, CD-ROM, Philips' contributions to the MPEG standard and the foundations for the DVD.

After graduating with distinction from the KU Leuven (Belgium) in Electrical and Nuclear Engineering, Bastiaens served in the military from 1971 to 1972. In 1972 he joined the Hi-Fi division of Philips Electronics in Leuven, where he served in various management capacities until 1982. During his earlier years there he created a number of new production methods, including for the assembly of loudspeaker systems, manufacturing of tuners and component insertion in printed circuit boards. By introducing new strategies including CAD/CAM, he was later able to reduce the development time of Hi-Fi components from 18 months to nine.

In 1983 Bastiaens was promoted to the Philips headquarters in Eindhoven where he became a general manager and director with worldwide responsibility for the Compact Disc project. Between 1983 and 1986 he oversaw a multi-divisional engineering effort the bring the cost of a compact disc player from 1150 Dutch guilders down to 220. The project was internally called "25–250": By reducing the cost of key components such as the laser module, the drive unit, the decoding circuit, etc. to 25 guilders each, the target was to enable Philips to build the product for 250 guilders. Bastiaens then concentrated on selling OEM licenses for the CD technology as well as maintaining a global market share of 20 percent in Compact Disc mechanisms for Philips. He was also responsible of diversification efforts such as CD-ROM and CD-ROM XA.

From 1988–92 Bastiaens was general manager and director of the Multimedia Division of Philips Consumer Electronics. Jan Timmer, then Philips' head of Consumer Electronics, gave him four months to make or break the Compact Disc Interactive (CD-I) project, a joint effort between Sony and Philips to enhance the CD standard with multi-media technology. This so-called "Green Book" standard had been in development since 1985 but was still in the concept phase when Bastiaens took charge. He started out by changing the project to "full motion video", which would enable a CD-I disc to hold a full-length feature movie but was rather ambitious at the time, as the compression and decoding hard- and software had yet to be developed. The success of the project also hinged on the creation of software and tools to create the content which would be essential in driving the market. Bastiaens moved the project into the MPEG standard, getting Philips more actively involved in that technology. By the time the first CD-I products where launched in 1992, using the MPEG-1 standard for video, development of MPEG-2 technology was well under way for the upcoming DVD technology, which used a red laser for encoding more than eleven times as much information on a disk of the same size as a CD, which used a yellow laser.

In 1992 Bastiaens was approached by Apple CEO John Sculley to move to Apple Computer as a vice president, and the first General Manager of Apple's newly formed Personal Interactive Electronics (PIE) division in the early 1990s. In this role, he oversaw the launch of the Apple Newton.

He was president of Quarterdeck. In 1996, he became president, and CEO of Lernout & Hauspie. In August 2000, he disputed a Wall Street Journal article about Korean sales.

In 2001, he was accused of fraud, and extradited to Belgium. On 21 May 2007, he went to trial in Ghent, Belgium. In 2008, he demanded a full acquittal.

On 20 September 2010 Gaston Bastiaens was sentenced to three years in prison and two years of probation. In December 2010, he appealed the sentence.

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Jordan Creek Town Center

Jordan Creek Town Center is a shopping mall in the city of West Des Moines, Iowa. It is the largest shopping complex in the state of Iowa with a total gross leasable area of 1340000 sqft. It is also the fourth largest shopping complex in the Midwest, and the 24th largest shopping complex in the United States. The center is named after Jordan Creek, a tributary of the Raccoon River that was named after James Cunningham Jordan, the first person to settle in what is now West Des Moines. The mall's anchor stores are Century Theatres, Dillard's, Von Maur, and Scheels All Sports.

Proposal 1995 - 2004
Around 1995, the family of local businessman Art Wittern proposed the "Village at Oakbrook" to the city of West Des Moines on the 200 acre site that the Witterns owned at 74th Street (later renamed Jordan Creek Parkway) and E.P. True Parkway. The village would have contained a mixture of commercial, residential, and office development that was intended to attract upscale retailers similar to those at Country Club Plaza in Kansas City. In 1999, following the success of Coral Ridge Mall in eastern Iowa, General Growth Properties chose the Wittern site for its proposed "town center" concept.

General Growth unveiled plans for Jordan Creek Town Center in May 2000. Two of the Des Moines metropolitan area's existing malls, Merle Hay Mall and Valley West Mall, promptly sued the city of West Des Moines, claiming that it was illegal to use public money from tax increment financing to make improvements around the mall. The Iowa Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit on February 27, 2002, allowing construction of the $200 million complex to begin later that year.

2004–present
Jordan Creek Town Center opened on August 4, 2004, attracting nearly 17 million shoppers in its first year. Jordan Creek led to short-term sales declines at the three existing regional malls in the Des Moines area (Merle Hay, Valley West, and Southridge) while accounting for nearly 37 percent of taxable sales at the four malls during the last three months of 2004. Jordan Creek also affected sales tax revenues in Dallas County, which jumped from $16.7 million in fiscal 2004 to $33.7 million in fiscal 2006. It has also spawned other new commercial developments in West Des Moines such as the West Glen Town Center near Interstate 35 and a new Wells Fargo office complex south of the mall.

In May 2007, Iowa State University economists David Swenson and Liesl Eathington released a study showing that retail sales in the Dallas County portion of West Des Moines had increased by over $310 million, or 503.7 percent, during Jordan Creek's first two years of operation. At the same time, sales in the city of Des Moines decreased by nearly $194 million (5.2 percent) while sales in the Polk County portion of West Des Moines decreased by $22 million (2.4 percent). Smaller Dallas County cities like Adel and Perry also experienced declines in retail sales during this period.

In February 2018, Iowa-based department store Von Maur announced it would construct a new location at the mall, with a planned opening in 2022. In April 2018, the parent company to the mall's Younkers department store announced it would cease operations and close all stores. The Jordan Creek store closed on August 29, 2018.

On June 10, 2021, a 2-story H&M would open right next to the main atrium.

On November 5, 2022, Von Maur opened in the former Younkers location.

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John 20:1

John 20:1 is the first verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. John 20 covers the resurrection of Jesus after his crucifixion. In this verse Mary Magdalene visits Jesus' tomb and finds it opened.

Content
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
 * The first day of the week
 * cometh Mary Magdalene early,
 * when it was yet dark, unto the
 * sepulchre, and seeth the stone
 * taken away from the sepulchre.

The World English Bible translates the passage as:
 * Now on the first day of the week,
 * Mary Magdalene went early,
 * while it was still dark,
 * to the tomb, and saw the
 * stone taken away from the tomb.

For a collection of other versions, see BibleHub John 20:1.

Analysis
The "first day of the week" refers to the first day after the Sabbath, the modern Sunday and the third day after Jesus' crucifixion. However, as Mary went while it was still dark, the word day cannot refer to the Jewish day which begins at sunset. That it is still dark seems to conflict with Mark 16:1 and Luke 24:1, which both mention that it was light. Leonard believes this can be explained by having John describing the time of departure and the other two describing the time of arrival. A more complex solution, but one that can also help explain other inconsistencies in the chapter, is that Mary made two different trips to the tomb one while it was dark and the other at dawn. This can also explain why the other Gospels have Mary in a group of women and John has her alone.

Raymond E. Brown reports that the Codex Sinaiticus does not add the word "Magdalene", describing the woman only as "Mary". In the early church a parallel tradition existed that it was Mary, the mother of Jesus, who is referred to in this passage. Ephrem's On the Diatessaron uses this version of the story. Loisy believes that this was the original version and the Virgin was later replaced by Mary Magdalene to make John match the other three gospels more closely. Brown notes that nowhere else in the Gospel is Jesus' mother referred to simply as Mary, making this theory, for him, less likely.

Unlike the other gospels, John does not mention why Mary comes to the tomb. Mark 16:1 and Luke 24:1 say that the women came to the tomb to continue the burial rituals. Matthew 28:1 mentions that the trip was to look at the tomb. John 19 makes it seem as though the burial preparations were already complete. Brown thus thinks that the Gospel of Peter's story that she came simply to mourn is more likely. The Midrash Rabbah states that Rabbi Bar Kappera was of the opinion that mourning should peak on the third day. Bernard considers the whole trip improbable as it is highly unlikely that a lone woman would go to a place of execution outside the city walls while it was still dark.

The Gospel of John is equally spartan when talking of the tomb. He refers to simply "the stone" assuming the reader knows what stone is being referred to. While the other three gospels mention that the stone had been rolled away, John only states that it was moved.

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Please read my entry in the Copyright problems February 4 --GalaazV 05:10, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

New article on this book
Following the Copyritght violation notice, I have written a new article about Max Heindel's main book in The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception/Temp. I tried to present there a NPOV information and details on this book, which is a worldwide reference book in the Christian mysticism and the Occult literature.

Please be kind to review and accept its description. Thank you --GalaazV 03:15, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

edition
I have noticed a while ago this "temp" page was already closed for editon. I made some editing meanwhile in order to present the article as complete as possible. Thanks --GalaazV 19:44, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Excellent work! I've moved the article out of temp now. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 03:55, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your kind words and for moving the article out of temp.--GalaazV 19:00, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

undid redirection
Deletion was spurious. Article is important to series of articles on the Rosicrucians, fully notable, and the fact that its taught by them is no more relevant than the fact that various encyclicals are only taught by catholics, or that various other occult texts are taught by no one at all. This isn't a metric by which to measure usefulness. Style and content issues may be valid, but outright deletion is foolish. 66.251.25.139 14:01, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Supported and thank you. This attempt of "explaining away" the article, undoubtedly beyond some individuals' comprehension, did not pass unnoticed. I'm adding now an external link to the 1911 edition of the Cosmo digitized by Microsoft (tx!) and available at the Internet Archive on-line library. Cheers! --Tekto9 22:11, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

On the relation to science
The section presented below (constitued by a paragraph and related notes), which was part of this article since 2006 (Portugal IPs) and was recently updated by an anon with Netherlands IP, were promptly removed by editor Dougweller who labeled them as WP:OR, in an unilateral form. It is a fact that this section had been already noticed in the past for causing concern among Wikipedia science editors; (even once an attempt to vanish the current Wikipedia's article about this centennary book was made; see section above). It is also true that a indepth analysis into the historic of actions-editions in the whole range of articles in the scientific scope at Wikipedia will show that through the years there has been an attempt by a group of editors to banish from this free encyclopedia all the data, studies and experiments, produced in real life by men and women of science, that clearly do not support the current mainstream scientific materialist paradigm. Obviously, I am far from being the first one to be aware of their successful attempts. I won't get into detailed analysis since the outcome of this war within Science is something that is already being studied: cf. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions:

According to Kuhn, the scientific paradigms preceding and succeeding a paradigm shift are so different that their theories are incommensurable — the new paradigm cannot be proven or disproven by the rules of the old paradigm, and vice versa. The paradigm shift does not merely involve the revision or transformation of an individual theory, it changes the way terminology is defined, how the scientists in that field view their subject, and, perhaps most significantly, what questions are regarded as valid, and what rules are used to determine the truth of a particular theory. The new theories were not, as the scientists had previously thought, just extensions of old theories, but were instead completely new world views.

From my viewpoint, currently Wikipedia acts as a fortress, and derived promotion, of the current rotten mainstream paradigm in Science, which is still deeply entrenched into society; so, I am only surprised that the removal of the section presented below took so long. However, this section is written in a neutral language (NPOV) as required by Wikipedia's policies, it is related to the contents of the book that this Wikipedia article tries to describe in a very brief manner , it states the current fringe/heretic status whitin current scientific community of the studies and research presented, and it lists the best available sources-articles on this issues (for obvious reasons, above described, the majority of researchers on these fields aren't able to get their papers to be accept into the mainstream "high-standard" journals, as Dr. Pimm Van Lommel from the Netherlands and Dr. Harold Aspden from England were able with their advanced research and incontestable evidences and results: The Lancet and Physics Letters, respectively).

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Relation to science
Many concepts, presented in this work, The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, written in 1909, are in agreement with recent paradigm changes purposed in different areas of science; these paradigms are currently considered 'fringe' and controversial among the mainstream scientific community, although the proponents regard them as protoscience. Perhaps the currently more relevant ones which approach the concepts presented in the Cosmo come from the area of physics (aether science), geology (tectonics theories) and medicine (NDE research field).

Physics: aether science
 * 1)  Aspden, Harold (2003), The Physics of Creation, PhD., Electrical Engineering & Physics - University of Cambridge [1953], UK, (html and pdf available)
 * Chapter 8: Creation: Stars and Planets
 * Appendix IV: Hydrogen as a Star
 * Appendix V: The Angular Momentum of the Solar System
 * Idem (2005), Physics without Einstein - A Centenary Review [first ed. in 1969], (pdf available)
 * Idem (1996), Aether Science Papers, ISBN 0-85056-015-2, (html and pdf available)

Geology: tectonics theories
 * 1)  NCGT Group, Organized Opposition to Plate Tectonics: The New Concepts in Global Tectonics Group, Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 97-104, Spring 2006:
 * Pratt, David (2000), Plate Tectonics: A Paradigm Under Threat
 * Idem (2000), Sunken Continents versus Continental Drift
 * Idem (2001), Problems with Plate Tectonics
 * Idem (2005), Plate Tectonics Subducted

Medicine: NDE research
 * 1)  Lommel, Pim Van, Dr. (2001) Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands, Dutchman, Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology - Hospital Rijnstate, medical journal "The Lancet", UK, in 2001 (358: 2039-45)
 * David Fontana, Prof. (2003), Does Mind Survive Physical Death?, Cardiff University and Liverpool John Moores University, UK, Finland 2003:
 * Neal Grossman, Prof. (2002), Who's Afraid of Life After Death? Why NDE Evidence is Ignored, Ph. D. in The History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University, and associate professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, published at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).

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Let me assure you, that if my domain of the English language was even close to the one I possess with my mothertongue, surely I would take the edition of the removal of this section from the article above, through all the dispute steps that Wikipedia allows and into every discussion and detail which would then arise... Yours, --VanHelm (talk) 14:34, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Thanks for presenting the material above. I'll try to lay out my thoughts on the matter as quickly as I can.
 * First, I absolutely disagree with Kuhn: the new paradigm must be integrable with the old paradigm, otherwise it would go against previous work and observations. For example, relativity is integrable with classical mechanics because at standard observing conditions on Earth, the relativistic terms go to 0. But I think this may be off-topic from your main point.
 * "Many concepts": which concepts in this work, specifically? Until this is here, there is no cited proof that these claims actually exist in the book.
 * Also, these are not newly-proposed paradigms, or at least the geology one isn't a "recent change proposed". It was a early-plate-tectonics proposal that has quite a few issues and has been abandoned since. They are now relegated to publishing in their own journals and in the pseudoscientific Journal of Scientific Exploration.
 * So if any of this is to remain, it must first be established that they are in the book. Then the info about the hypotheses must be correct. Awickert (talk) 18:09, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Modern perspective needs work or deletion
As it stands, this part contains no sources and reeks of opinion. It should be improved or deleted.

"The first edition was printed in 1909 and has changed little since then, Some of the science will seem outmoded. Some of the social commentary (for instance, on matters of race) may seem hopelessly dated, as well. It's still being an interesting book, on the whole."

The works of the Rosicrucians through different time periods and different institutions is a direct result of breaking away from what was presented previously. A form degenerates over time, crystalizes and needs to be reborn. To connect these different manifestations is a mistake, as that was what was to be avoided and the reason for a new dispensation.24.137.147.31 (talk) 03:25, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Dual Bash

I think this page is required here sice this dual bash has become a tradition of the department of Comuter Science and Deptt and are being held since the department came into being, and these will go on in future. So wikipedia is a nice medium to keep a brief of what is happening in all these events for the sake of completion.

Better options for your community
It sounds like you guys have lots of fun and deserve a good place to store comments, files, etc. Let me suggest a few places that will be MORE FUN for you to work with:

http://groups.yahoo.com where you can create member accounts, store files, do polls, create databases.

http://www.blogger.com where you can create a journal with easy editing.

It seems like the kind of content you're working with now will only cause members of the Wikipedia community to object and give you friction and misunderstanding.

But I'm curious about you and your background. There are a lot of articles that need your help and expertise here. Do you have pictures of Kerala or Delhi that might be helpful here? And can you contribute to the articles in your language?

Retrieval of page
Can we at least get the page back? I did not archived the page and had put in a lot of effort to write it in wiki-format.


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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:38, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

AOED
H.O.A.X. Uncle G 03:37, 2005 Feb 11 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable - zero Google hits for "Alliance of Evil Ducks", quack-ery. Megan1967 04:45, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete : a tale to spring on the next set of Survivor contestants. Courtland 03:32, 2005 Feb 12 (UTC)

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Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Berkeley Repertory Theatre is a regional theater company located in Berkeley, California. It runs seven productions each season from its two stages in Downtown Berkeley.

History
The company was founded in 1968, as the East Bay's first resident professional theatre. Michael Leibert was the founding artistic director, who was then succeeded by Sharon Ott in 1984. The company won the Regional Theatre Tony Award in 1997. The theater added the 600-seat proscenium Roda Theatre next door to its existing 400-seat asymmetrical thrust stage in 2001, as well as opening its Berkeley Rep School of Theatre the same year. Its current Artistic Director is Johanna Pfaelzer, who took on the position in September 2019. Susan Medak was the General Manager and a board member and former President of the League of Resident Theatres. Susie was replaced by Tom Parrish in 2022.

Productions are a mix of classic modern plays such as Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and Terrence McNally's Master Class, the latter featuring Rita Moreno as opera diva Maria Callas, and significant recent plays with many West Coast premieres such as Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project and Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul and even world premieres such as Kushner's Hydriotaphia and Charles Mee's Fetes De La Nuit. In the past decade alone, Berkeley Rep has premiered new works by Culture Clash, David Edgar, Francesca Faridany, Leigh Fondakowski, Lillian Groag, Jordan Harrison, Geoff Hoyle, Naomi Iizuka, Charles Mee, and Stew. The Theatre has recently created a string of successes that transferred from Berkeley to Manhattan: Artistic Director Tony Taccone staged Sarah Jones' Tony Award-winning Bridge & Tunnel on Broadway in 2006, and helmed Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak's Brundibar in 2007. That summer, Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice and Stew's Passing Strange both enjoyed extended off-Broadway runs. Passing Strange opened on Broadway in March 2008.

Berkeley Rep bolsters its commitment to new works through The Ground Floor (Berkeley Rep's Center for the Creation and Development of New Work) and year-long Fellowship Program aimed at training the next generation of theatre professionals.

In 2001, the theatre opened Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, which offers training in various theatrical disciplines for all ages and abilities. Located next door to Berkeley Rep's two stages, the School of Theatre also provides a home base for the company's outreach education programs with local teachers and classes. The Berkeley Rep School of Theatre also has a Teen Council made for bay area high school students interested in theatre. The Berkeley Rep Teen Council is most noted for its annual Teen One Acts Festival, completely written, directed, produced, and acted by students.

The theatre opened their 2009–10 season with the original stage production of the Green Day-inspired musical American Idiot, based on the band's concept album of the same name. The hugely popular show was originally scheduled to run from September 4 through October 11, but was extended twice, finally ending on November 15. The show subsequently opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre on April 20, 2010.

The musical Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, a jukebox musical based on the story of the Motown group The Temptations, started performance at Berkeley Rep August 31, 2018. It was originally scheduled to run through October 8, but was later extended through October 22 and again through November 5. The musical was the highest-grossing production in the theatre's history. The show had runs at other regional theaters before transferring to Broadway, opening at the Imperial Theatre on March 21, 2019.

Premieres
1994 1995 1998 2002 2003 2005 2006 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
 * The Woman Warrior
 * Ballad of Yachiyo
 * Hydriotaphia
 * Mennochio
 * Continental Divide
 * Fetes de la Nuit
 * The People's Temple
 * Passing Strange
 * American Idiot
 * In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
 * Girlfriend
 * Lemony Snicket's The Composer is Dead
 * Compulsion (co-production with Public Theatre)
 * How to Write a New Book for the Bible (co-production with Seattle Repertory Theatre)
 * Rita Moreno:Life Without Makeup
 * Ghost Light (co-production with Oregon Shakespeare Festival)
 * Emotional Creature
 * The White Snake (co-production with Oregon Shakespeare Festival)
 * Black n Blue Boys (co-production with Goodman Theatre)
 * Fallaci
 * Troublemaker, or the Freakin Kick A Adventures of Bradley Boatright
 * The House that will not Stand (co-production with Yale Repertory Theatre)
 * An Audience with Meow Meow
 * X's and O's (A Football Love Story)
 * Amélie, A New Musical
 * It Can't Happen Here
 * The Last Tiger in Haiti (co-production with La Jolla Playhouse)
 * Aubergine
 * John Leguizamo: Latin History for Morons

2017

 * Monsoon Wedding
 * Imaginary Comforts, or The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit
 * Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations

2018

 * Fairview (in association with Soho Rep.)
 * Paradise Square: A New Musical

2019

 * Kiss My Aztec!
 * Becky Nurse of Salem

2020

 * Swept Away
 * It Can't Happen Here (Radio Play format)

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Os du Randt

Jacobus Petrus "Os" du Randt (born 8 September 1972) is a former South African rugby union loosehead prop who retired as the most-capped forward in the history of the Springboks (a record since surpassed by John Smit, Victor Matfield and Tendai Mtawarira). For most of his career, he played in the domestic Currie Cup for the Free State Cheetahs, though he spent one season with the Blue Bulls. In Super Rugby, he represented the Free State Cheetahs when South Africa sent its top Currie Cup teams to the competition instead of franchised sides, later represented the Cats franchise (now known as the Lions), spent one season with the Bulls before returning to the Cats, and still later played for the Cheetahs. He ended his career as one of the last remaining international-level players from the amateur era of the sport and the last active member of the 1995 World Cup-winning squad. His final match was the 2007 Rugby World Cup final, which the Springboks won, with Du Randt playing the entire 80 minutes. He is one of 43 players who have won the Rugby World Cup on multiple occasions, only 24 of whom are South Africans.

Os (his Afrikaans nickname, which means Ox and refers to his big, muscular build) was a powerful scrummager and a hard worker around the field. He also had very good ball-handling skills for a prop, and his defence was solid.

Early career
Born 8 September 1972 in Elliot, South Africa, Du Randt made his first appearance for the Springboks in October 1994 against Argentina in a 42–22 victory, and he was a member of the 1995 World Cup squad, playing at loosehead prop in the final against New Zealand when South Africa won 15–12. Du Randt continued to be a key member of the Boks in the following years, and was named by Rugby World magazine as the second-best loosehead of all time in 1999. However, in 2000, at the age of 27, Du Randt suffered injuries that kept him out of rugby for nearly three years.

Comeback
In 2003, Du Randt received a phone call from former Springboks flanker and teammate Rassie Erasmus, who was coaching the Free State Cheetahs provincial team. The invitation did the trick, and Du Randt agreed to give it another shot.

Then in 2004, after an age-defying return to form in domestic play, du Randt was recalled to the Boks by new coach Jake White. He proved to be a key player in the Boks' 2004 revival, which saw them win the Tri Nations and be named as the IRB World Team of the Year.

"When I returned to rugby in 2003, it was to play for Free State and Free State alone," he recalled. "I didn't think I would wear the Springbok shirt again, ever in my life. When Jake White, the national coach, gave me the opportunity to play for my country once more, it felt like the first time all over again. I took some criticism in the media. There was a lot of stuff going around – most of it about me being too old.

In 2004, he received his 50th cap for the Springboks in a 32–16 loss to England at Twickenham. It was however, not to be a day to remember for him as, "du Randt was dismantled in the scrum, lock, stock and barrel, by England's Julian White". Droning chants of "Os...Os" have become commonplace at South African match venues since the big man made his return to Bok rugby.

And despite calls that he was getting too old, White persisted in selecting du Randt for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France.

Later career
Following victories in pool play over England, Manu Samoa, and Tonga and a quarter-final win over Fiji and semi-final victory against Argentina, du Randt and his South African teammates found themselves in a rematch against defending champions England in the final. The favoured Springboks dethroned England 15–6 in a hard-fought final, with Os playing all 80 minutes which included one bullocking run in the first half.

Du Randt was the last active member of the South African 1995 Rugby World Cup-winning squad and retired as South Africa's third most-capped player ever and most-capped forward. He missed the 2003 tournament through injury but his comeback to help lead the Springboks to the 2007 Rugby World Cup is a fairy tale achievement.

When interviewed, du Randt said "I would have to say that I never thought I would bow out in a World Cup final, when I called it a day in 2000. To begin with a world title and to finish with another would be a real accomplishment, a memory that I will cherish for ever. I dedicate this to my best friend, Alex."

When questioned about his teammate, fellow Springbok prop CJ van der Linde said "Os is a legend in South African rugby. Even little children know who he is. His name will be mentioned for many years still," Van der Linde said. "We do not realise what impact he makes. One day, when he is old, we will know what great work he did for South Africa and what a leader he was."

Following the victory in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final, Os announced his international retirement from the Springboks.

Du Randt returned to the sport for the 2009 Currie Cup season as a scrum coach for the Free State Cheetahs. In 2010, he took on the same position with the Springboks.

World Cup matches
Champions Runners-up  Third place  Fourth place

Honors

 * In 2019, World Rugby inducts Du Randt to its Hall of Fame, alongside Richie McCaw, Shiggy Konno, Peter Fatialofa, Graham Henry, and Diego Ormaechea.

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Watching (TV series)

Watching is a British television sitcom, produced by Granada Television for the ITV network and broadcast for seven series and four Christmas specials between 1987 and 1993.

The series was written by Jim Hitchmough and starred Paul Bown and Emma Wray as mismatched couple Malcolm Stoneway and Brenda Wilson.

Plot
Watching was set in Merseyside, with Brenda from Liverpool and Malcolm from Meols on the Wirral, the "posh" part of Merseyside on the other side of the River Mersey. The title refers to Brenda and her sister Pamela's hobby of "people watching", and to Malcolm's hobby of birdwatching, which initially Brenda endures rather than enjoys, but later comes to appreciate. Following the idea, the episode titles are verbs in the ‘-ing’ form.

Quiet biker Malcolm, who lived with his domineering mother (played by Patsy Byrne), was accompanied on his birdwatching trips by loud scouser Brenda, who was forced to ride in the sidecar of his Norton motorbike and had a habit of rubbing his mother up the wrong way. Other key characters in the series were Brenda's sister Pamela (Liza Tarbuck), her boyfriend (later husband) David (John Bowler – Series 2 onwards) and Brenda and Pam's mother Joyce (played by Noreen Kershaw) in the last few series. The series followed Malcolm and Brenda's on/off relationship, during which Malcolm married another woman called Lucinda (played by Elizabeth Morton). However, Brenda and Malcolm finally married each other in the final episode, "Knotting", which was broadcast on 4 April 1993.

The series ran for 54 30-minute episodes over 7 series, plus two 60-minute special extended episodes.

Watching was later repeated on Granada Plus during the early 2000s and on BFBS' Forces TV from March 2022 until the channel ceased broadcasting four months later. It was also broadcast in Australia in the early 90s on the ABC and in New Zealand on TV One.

Cast
Note: "Cedric" and "Mary" are the names given to the characters by Brenda during her people-watching days, Cedric's "real" name is unknown, but in series one episode "Repenting" Brenda reveals that she has talked to her and that "Mary"'s real name is Freda.
 * Emma Wray as Brenda Wilson
 * Paul Bown as Malcolm Stoneway
 * Liza Tarbuck as Pamela Wilson/Lynch
 * Patsy Byrne as Mrs. Marjorie Stoneway
 * Perry Fenwick as Terry Milton (series 1–3, 7)
 * Philip Fox as Sidney Clough (series 1)
 * John Bowler as David Lynch (series 2 onwards)
 * Elizabeth Spriggs as Aunt Peggy (series 2, 4–5)
 * Liz Crowther as Susan Roberts (series 2–3)
 * Ann Rye as Mrs. Riley (series 3–5)
 * Russell Boulter as Chris Cameron (series 4)
 * Ken Jones as Uncle Bernard (series 5)
 * Noreen Kershaw as Joyce Wilson (series 5 onwards)
 * Andrew Hilton as Gerald Wilson (series 5 onwards)
 * Elizabeth Morton as Lucinda Davis/Stoneway (series 5–7)
 * Richard Good as Jonathan MacMillan (series 6)
 * Ally Vuli as Roz (series 7)
 * Jonathan Hackett as Julian (series 7)
 * Al T. Kossy as Harold
 * Dave Dutton as Oswald Parkins (series 1–5)
 * Bill Moores as "Cedric", regular at the Grapes
 * Anita Petrof as "Mary", regular at the Grapes

Production
Watching was originally conceived as a comedy sketch about a shy birdwatcher and a lively girl, written by Hitchmough during a drama workshop at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. He submitted the sketch for the BBC satirical series Not the Nine O'Clock News but it was rejected.

Undeterred by this, Hitchmough developed the sketch into a stage play, adapted into an afternoon play for BBC Radio 4.

Later, Watching won a commission from Granada Television to produce a seven-part series for broadcast on Sunday nights at 10pm, which was a timeslot that was usually reserved for satirical comedy such as Yorkshire Television's The New Statesman and Central's Spitting Image.

After a successful first series and subsequent Christmas special, Watching was recommissioned and moved to an earlier timeslot of 8pm on Friday nights. Up until the end of the final run (broadcast at 7pm on Sunday), the series would have audiences of over 13 million viewers.

Originally, the series was produced by David Liddiment (later to become Director of Programming at ITV) and directed by Les Chatfield, a senior director at Granada. Chatfield directed most of the episodes and took over producing duties from series 3 onwards. Liddiment became the series' executive producer.

Emma Wray sang both the opening and closing versions of the theme song, What Does He See in Me?, which was written by Charles Hart. Incidental music was written and composed by Richie Close.

Books
A novel based on the first series of Watching and written by Jim Hitchmough was published in 1990 by Bantam Books.

Home releases
A video featuring the first two episodes, "Meeting" and "Wrestling", was released by CastleVision in August 1993.

All seven series and four specials have been released on DVD. The complete first series, including the 1987 Christmas special ("Seasoning"), was released on DVD in February 2006; also released was Watching: Series 1 -Selected Episodes, which comprised three first-season episodes: "Meeting", "Outing" and "Hiding". The complete second series was released in March 2008. The complete third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh series including the 1988, 1991 and 1993 Christmas and New Year specials ("Twitching", "Slipping" and "Reverting"), especially a nine-disc set of the complete series, were released in April, May, July, October and November 2009. All releases on DVD by Network.

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Talk:Terraced house

Townhouse and Terraced house
Hi everybody! Townhouse is a duplicate of this article, Terraced house. If you read the two articles, everything stated in Townhouse is also stated here. Wikipedia shouldn't have two articles about the same thing. These articles should be merged somehow. Your thoughts, please: Thank you in advance! Levivich (talk) 02:05, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) Merge Townhouse to Terraced house (I tried to do this boldly but was reverted and told to "expect opposition," so I'm guessing there may not be consensus for this one.)
 * 2) Merge Terraced house to Townhouse – The google results seem to support this (40M for "terraced house" w/ or w/o quotes v. 200M for townhouse)
 * 3) Merge both Terraced house and Townhouse to Single-family attached (as opposed to Single-family detached or Multi-family residential), which is the generic name for the category of building types that is neither a single-family detached nor a multi-family, and includes Terraced houses, Townhouses, Rowhouses, Semi-detached houses, Duplex, Townhomes and probably others.

 * @Levivich I think a merge is good idea. Another article that seems to be aboput the same concept is Tenement. Go ahead and propose a merge, perhaps of terraced house to townhouse? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:42, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick reply I'm not going to propose a merge, though Townhouse and Terraced house are still two of the clearest examples of WP:FORK I've ever seen. The two titles are just engvars, and to make things more complicated, "townhouse" means different things in different parts of the US. (FWIW, I think tenement housing is something different altogether from townhouse/terraced house.) But what these articles lack is good sources. I imagine there must be some architecture textbooks that cover these topics. (I notice we also have shopping center and shopping mall... I wouldn't be surprised if there are a lot of these forks.) Levivich (talk) 06:37, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Where's the terrace?
Quote: "The term terrace was borrowed from garden terraces by British architects of the late Georgian period to describe streets of houses whose uniform fronts and uniform height created an ensemble that was more stylish than a "row"."

Three questions:
 * Where's the terrace?
 * How do uniform fronts and heights create "a stylish ensemble"?
 * How are terraced houses more stylish than row houses, when the two terms are used synonymously earlier in the article?

Thank you, Maikel (talk) 20:11, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

 * These are the exact same questions that arose in my mind, in the same order. Overall, I think this article and its clone at Townhouse are a mess of conflicting definitions and opinions. I'd be ecstatic to see someone who knows the answers to these questions clean these articles up. 80.220.64.145 (talk) 05:19, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

"Byelaws" vs "by-laws"
I'm not sure if this is an issue or not, but I have always seen "by-laws" spelled the way I just spelled it. Is "byelaws" or any derivation of this correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by VN WIKI EDITS (talk • contribs) 21:25, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Spain, Poland and Czechia
There are more and more terraced housing developments in Spain, Czechia and Poland, with the middle class often prefering them to apartments. There are whole new blocks of terraced houses in Algeciras. 78.90.63.158 (talk) 09:22, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:The Tiger

The name of the poem being referred to here by William Blake is not spelled as "The Tiger." The poem being reffered to is properly spelled "The Tyger."
 * True. And the other page is much more polished, and appears to have all the same content.  I am going to make this page a redirect. Armaced 16:17, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Flavia Colgan

Flavia Monteiro Colgan (, born October 18, 1977) is a Brazilian - American Democratic strategist who is an active political contributor on MSNBC and serves as a special correspondent for Extra. She resides in Los Angeles.

Family
The Colemans moved from Philadelphia to Detroit. Later, Coleman would become General Counsel to the United States Army when his law school roommate, Bill Clinton, was elected president. She is the step-niece of both Lovida Coleman Jr., a former Justice Department lawyer and Deputy Independent council who currently serves on the board of RAND, and Hardin Coleman.

Colgan's father taught in the School District of Philadelphia. Every weekend she flew from Detroit to Philadelphia to be with him. At age 11, Colgan's mother moved to the Dominican Republic where they lived in Santo Domingo.

Returning to Detroit when she was 13, she attended four different high schools. She spent her sophomore high school year in Fairfield, Iowa. Colgan returned to school in Michigan for her junior year at The Roeper School and completed high school at The Shipley School, a private school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

Admitted to Harvard, she graduated with honors in 1999, earning a degree in Comparative Religion. She returned to Philadelphia, interning under federal Judge Louis Pollak.

Prior to joining MSNBC and Fox News, Colgan was a Democratic Party fundraiser and political consultant. Later she served as campaign manager for both David Wecht for Pennsylvania's Superior Court, and Catherine Baker Knoll for state treasurer. She was the first ever woman and youngest Chief of Staff to Pennsylvania's Lt. Governor and served on Governor Ed Rendell's Senior Staff.

In 2002, she was named to the PoliticsPA list of "Rising Stars" in Pennsylvania politics.

Writing
Flavia Colgan is an editorial board member and columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, Politics PA and The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Her work has also appeared in In These Times, Common Dreams, and The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Websites
In late March 2006, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Daily News, Colgan launched Citizen Hunter, a website about social, political and community action.

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Henri Navarre

Henri Eugène Navarre (31 July 1898 –26 September 1983) was a French Army general. He fought during World War I, World War II and was the seventh and final commander of French Far East Expeditionary Corps during the First Indochina War. Navarre was in overall command during the French defeat at the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ.

Biography
Navarre entered l'École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1916 and in May 1917 was sent to the front with a cavalry unit, 2e régiment de hussards. By 15 August 1917 he earned command of a platoon. He was given a field promotion to lieutenant 21 April 1918. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre with bronze star for his exemplary service between 28 September 1918 and 4 October 1918. In March 1919, he was transferred to Syria, then in 1922 to Germany with the Occupation Force. In 1927 he was sent to École supérieure de guerre, the War College. He participated in the pacification of the Atlas and southern Morocco from 1930 to 1934. From 1934 to 1936 he was a captain in the 11e régiment de cuirassiers. From 1938 to 1940 he was assigned to the German section of the Intelligence Service of the General Staff. While there, he submitted a proposal code named "Desperado", outlining a plan to assassinate Hitler. The project drew little support from his superior, Colonel Louis Rivet, and was ultimately rejected by Prime Minister Édouard Daladier.

After the Armistice of 22 June 1940, Navarre was appointed head of the intelligence and counter-espionage bureau of General Maxime Weygand in Algiers. When he was recalled in 1942 for his anti-German activities, he went underground, joining the Resistance as head of the ORA. He commanded an armored regiment of the 1st Army in the liberation of France.

He was promoted to brigadier general in 1945 and posted to Germany, where he held various positions including that of commander of 5e division blindée (5th Armored Division) and chief of staff of Marshal Alphonse Juin. He remained in Germany until May 1953, except for a brief assignment as a division commander in Algeria from 1948 to 1949.

Navarre was appointed général de corps d'armée, equivalent of lieutenant general, in 1952.

On 27 May 1953, Navarre replaced Raoul Salan as commander of French forces in Indochina, in the midst of a war with the Viet Minh that was going badly. The French government wanted to stabilize the situation so that they could begin peace negotiations on favorable terms; military victory was no longer an objective.

Navarre's instructions were to insure the safety of the troops under his command. Instead, he undertook Operation Castor on 20 November 1953. Five French battalions parachuted into Điện Biên Phủ in the Mường Thanh Valley, a 20-km-long, 6-km-wide basin surrounded by hills. Navarre hoped to draw the Viet Minh into a pitched battle where he hoped to defeat them.

Authorities in France did not learn of the operation until six hours after it started.

Things went wrong almost immediately. The French position came under heavy, unanticipated artillery fire from the surrounding hills. Troops were unable to execute any missions beyond the valley floor, limiting actions to patrols and local counterattacks. It became increasingly difficult to bring in supplies by air, or to provide air support.

After intelligence reports on 3 December 1953 showed four enemy divisions closing on Điện Biên Phủ, Navarre issued instructions accepting battle and calling for Điện Biên Phủ to be held at all costs. By January 1954 he started exploring plans for withdrawal. He soon realized any breakout attempt would be suicidal. No significant attempt to break out was ever made.

Complicating the situation, Navarre initiated a second offensive operation on 12 December 1953, committing nearly twice as many troops to Operation Atlante in south central Vietnam, over 400 miles from Điện Biên Phủ. Navarre saw Operation Atlante as his main effort; he did not believe that Điện Biên Phủ would be a decisive operation. He even speculated that the loss of Điện Biên Phủ Dien was strategically acceptable.

Navarre failed to consider the devastating effect the loss would have on Army morale, and the resulting loss of political support for the war at home.

By 13 March 1954 the attack on Điện Biên Phủ had begun. The French garrison numbered about 13,000; the Viet Minh massed more than 50,000 men.

After some initial success, Operation Atlante quickly bogged down into a series of Viet Minh ambushes on French convoys. The French eventually terminated Operation Atlante with no tangible gains while Điện Biên Phủ was lost on 7 May 1954, after a siege of 54 days.

Peace talks began in Geneva the next morning. Any negotiating advantage the French government had expected had been lost by Navarre's miscalculations. The First Indochina War was over.

Considered responsible for the loss, Navarre was replaced 3 June 1954 by General Paul Ély. He remained in the Army, retiring in 1956. In the same year he published Agonie de l'Indochine, a work which blamed the Indochina defeat on the nature of the French political system, intellectuals, politicians, journalists, and communists. The book warned of the possible necessity for an army coup to replace the French Fourth Republic. He died in Paris in 1983.

Decorations

 * Commander of the Légion d'honneur
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Lute Olson

Robert Luther "Lute" Olson (September 22, 1934 – August 27, 2020) was an American basketball coach, who was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He was the head coach of the Arizona Wildcats men's team for 25 years. He was also head coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes for nine years and Long Beach State 49ers for one season. Known for player development and great recruiting, many of his former players have gone on to have impressive careers in the NBA. On October 23, 2008, Olson announced his retirement from coaching. Olson died on August 27, 2020, in Tucson, Arizona. He was 85 years old.

Early life
Olson was born on a farm outside Mayville, North Dakota on September 22, 1934, and was of Norwegian-American parentage.

In 1939, Olson's father, Albert died of a stroke at age 47. There are memories of Albert giving his children haircuts that morning before church before collapsing. Lute's mother, Alinda, said Albert was "different" returning from WWI, some believed he may have been exposed to poison gas while working in a military construction battalion.

Just a few months later, Olson's older brother Amos, who had returned from Mayville State College to run the family farm, died in a tractor accident on the farm. This forced Alinda Olson to move away from the farm and into Mayville. There, Olson attended his first three years at Mayville High School, before eventually graduating from Grand Forks Central High School after the family moved again. Olson was coached by Harold Poier at Mayville, where he grew to 6' 3" (1.90 m) as a junior. At Grand Forks, Olson played in his senior year for Coach Fritz Engel in both summer American Legion baseball and basketball, playing football for Coaches Bob Peskey and Louis King.

In 1951, the family had moved to Grand Forks, where Lute's older sister Kathleen had moved to study nursing. It was there, while singing in the church choir, that Lute first met Bobbi Russell. The pair became inseparable. In 1951–52, Olson led Grand Forks Central to the 1952 state basketball championship, playing center. Central beat Williston 43–38 for the title, as Olson scored 16 points. Earlier in the 1952 state tournament, Olson's Central team had defeated Minot St. Leo's, featuring future Louisiana State University coach Dale Brown.

Olson enrolled at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota after completing high school. There, he played football, basketball and one year of baseball. Olson graduated in 1956 with double major in history and physical education and Olson was awarded the "Augsburg Honors Athlete Award," given annually to the top Augsburg male student-athlete. While at Augsburg, he and Bobbi were married on Thanksgiving, 1953. Reminiscing about winters in Minnesota, Olson said "Growing up, it was fine because I didn't know any better," Olson said. "People from North Dakota go south to Minneapolis for the winter."

After graduating from Augsburg, Olson taught and coached high school basketball for 13 years. First in Minnesota at Mahnomen and Two Harbors, Minnesota for five years total. In 1961, Olson and Bobbi moved west, first to Boulder, Colorado, where Olson was a middle school guidance counselor. Then they moved to California where, in 1962–1963, Olson coached the freshman basketball team at Western High School in Anaheim. In 1963 Olson became the varsity coach at Loara High School, also in Anaheim. In 1964 he was hired as varsity head coach at Marina-Huntington Beach High School.

Long Beach City College (1969–1973)
In summer 1969, Olson became head coach at Long Beach City College. Olson took the position after desiring to coach in college and seizing the opportunity when coach Rex Hughes left LBCC for the University of Nebraska. Olson was 35 years old with 5 children when making the career change from high school to college. As a high school teacher, Olson mentioned he had tired of mundane items such as hall monitoring and checking restrooms for smokers. Olson had also been working side jobs working for Wright Driving School and driving a gas truck for Texaco.

Olson later said to the media of his move to LBCC, "I wanted a college job and at 35 I felt I couldn't wait much longer." Olson proved to be an immediate success at the college level, leading his Long Beach City College teams to a 103–22 record over four seasons and capturing the 1971 JC Championship.

Of his tenure at Long Beach City College, Olson said, "I was perfectly content there, and had no plans to go anyplace, I loved it there. Del Walker, a great guy, was the athletic director, and I recall his telling me when he hired me that he wanted me to recruit players strictly from the Long Beach area, which I did."

His success was noticed in Long Beach, leading to an opportunity to enter the NCAA coaching ranks in 1973.

Long Beach State University (1973–1974)
In Olson's one season at Long Beach State, he led the team to an undefeated conference record, a Big West championship and a 24–2 record. The only two losses were two-point losses at Colorado and at #6 Marquette University.

Olson had been content to stay at LBCC, but was pursued by LBSU. "I wasn't that interested because there were rumors that Long Beach was about to go on NCAA probation," Olson said. "I told them I'd need about 10 days to think about it. They told me during that time that Long Beach wasn't going to go on probation. I believed them, but they didn't tell me the truth."

Olson followed Jerry Tarkanian as coach, and Tarkanian had built the program into a national power, before leaving for the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Under Olson, the 49ers were ranked as high as #3 behind Coach John Wooden and player Bill Walton's UCLA squad and eventual NCAA Tournament Champion North Carolina State. However, with a #10 regular season ranking, the team was banned from appearing in the NCAA tournament after being put on a 3-year probation mid-season, due to recruiting violations from the Tarkanian era.

Five 49ers players from that season were drafted into the NBA. Drafted were: Cliff Pondexter (Chicago), his brother Roscoe Pondexter (Boston), All-American Glenn McDonald (1st Round, Boston), Leonard Grey (Seattle) and a year later, Bobby Gross  (Portland). The 24–2 mark still stands as the school's best season winning percentage.

After one season at Long Beach State, Olson accepted the head coaching position at the University of Iowa.

University of Iowa (1974–1983)
Olson left Long Beach for the University of Iowa and later remarked, "People didn't go from Long Beach to Iowa, they went from Iowa to Long Beach," Olson said. "I thought, 'well, I'm just going to break that trend.' I saw an opportunity." "I also liked it at Long Beach State, but I felt I had been lied to and decided to leave even though Iowa wasn't exactly a basketball hotbed," he said.

Olson coached Iowa for nine seasons, from 1974 to 1983, with an overall record of 167–91 (.647), leaving as the schools all-time wins leader.

Olson inherited an Iowa team that had gone 8-16 under Dick Schultz, finishing 10th in the Big Ten and suffered four consecutive losing seasons. Olson turned the Iowa Basketball program around, going 19–10 in just his second season. Iowa then won the Big Ten Conference Title in 1978–79, earning the first of five consecutive NCAA Tournament berths.

In 1979–1980, Olson led the Hawkeyes to a Final Four appearance in the 1980 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. The team made the now 48-team NCAA tournament with an 18–8 record (10-8, 4th in the Big Ten), despite playing a good portion of the season without injured (knee) All-American guard Ronnie Lester. With Lester out, Guard Kenny Arnold had stayed in the line-up and played the entire season with a broken right thumb, leading the team in total points and assists with the injury. Freshman Bobby Hansen played after breaking a bone in his left hand and fellow freshman Mark Gannon was lost for the season with a knee injury. Iowa was also without Assistant Coach Tony McAndrews, who had been in a plane crash mid-season after a recruiting trip. He survived, but was badly injured and did not return to coaching that season.

Lester returned for the end of the regular season and the tournament. In the NCAA, Iowa received a #5 seed in the East Regional. They beat Virginia Commonwealth (86-72), North Carolina State (77-64) and #1 seed Syracuse (88–77). In the East Regional Final, Iowa was down by as many in 14 in the second half, before rallying to defeat Georgetown (81-80) on a last second basket and free-throw by Steve Waite to advance to the Final Four.

In the NCAA Semi-Final, Lester injured his knee early in the game, after scoring 10 of Iowa's first 12 points. He did not return and Iowa fell to eventual NCAA champion Louisville 80–72. When Olson was asked years later about Iowa's chances to win the NCAA Tournament had Lester not been injured, "My feeling was yes, I feel we could have won," Olson said. "That was a fun team to coach." Overall, Iowa was 15–1 with Lester fully in the lineup and 8–9 in his absence.

After leading the Hawkeyes to the Final Four, Olson's Iowa teams made the next three NCAA Tournaments, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen in 1983, his final season at Iowa. Nicknamed "The House That Lute Built", Carver-Hawkeye Arena, a facility Olson had envisioned for the future of the university, opened on January 5, 1983, against Michigan State. Iowa had played in the antiquated Iowa Fieldhouse. After the season, Olson left Iowa for the University of Arizona.

University of Arizona (1983–2007)
Olson surprised many by leaving Iowa for an Arizona program that had just suffered the worst season in school history, having won only four games all season and one game in Pac-10 play. He said he left Iowa because life there had become a "fishbowl" and he needed a change.

Under Olson, Arizona quickly rose to national prominence. In only his second year, the Wildcats notched their first winning season in six years and made the first of what would be 23 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances under his watch. A year later, Arizona won its first Pac-10 title. Two years later, the Wildcats spent much of the season ranked #1 and made their first (and Olson's second) Final Four. Olson's subsequent Arizona teams would be fixtures in the Top 25 for most of the time until the mid-2000s.

Olson was voted Pac-10 Coach of the Year seven times, made 5 Final Four appearances and won the 1997 NCAA championship with Arizona, where his team accomplished the feat of defeating three #1 seeds in the same tournament.

In 2002, Olson was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

He also coached the US national team in the 1986 FIBA World Championship, the last all-collegiate US basketball team to win in international competition. His team defeated the USSR 87–85 in the gold medal game, the first time the US had won the world championship in 32 years.

Players developed at Arizona
Throughout the nineties and 2000s, Arizona under Olson was one of the top producers of NBA talent in terms of number of alumni playing in the league. Many of these players (such as Steve Kerr, Mike Bibby, Jason Terry, and Gilbert Arenas) were not highly regarded on a national level in high school but flourished under Olson's system to eventually become college stars and productive NBA players.

The basketball program at Arizona has been dubbed "Point Guard U" because of the numerous players who have excelled at that position, including Damon Stoudamire, Kerr, Bibby, and Terry. Additionally, point guards Reggie Geary and Matt Othick both played briefly in the NBA and Kenny Lofton went on to become an All-Star center fielder in Major League Baseball. All-American Jason Gardner (graduated in 2003), had been the only starting Arizona point guard to not have played any NBA minutes since before Steve Kerr in 1984, prior to Mustafa Shakur and Chris Rodgers in recent years.

Despite this reputation, Arizona under Olson has also developed many outstanding shooting guards and swingmen: Sean Elliott, Gilbert Arenas, Jud Buechler, Khalid Reeves, Miles Simon, Michael Dickerson, Chris Mills, Richard Jefferson, Luke Walton, Andre Iguodala, Salim Stoudamire, Michael Wright, Ray Owes and Hassan Adams all excelled with the Wildcats, and many went on to stardom in the NBA.

Fewer Arizona big men have made such a big impact in the NBA, but Olson has coached several notables: forward Tom Tolbert and centers Brian Williams (later renamed Bison Dele), Sean Rooks, Loren Woods, and Channing Frye have also made careers in the NBA.

Personal life
Olson married Roberta "Bobbi" Russell in 1953. They were married for 47 years and had five children. Bobbi Olson died on January 1, 2001, of ovarian cancer, aged 65. The basketball court at UA is named the Lute and Bobbi Olson Court in her honor.

In 2003, Olson married Christine Jack Toretti. On December 6, 2007, Olson filed for divorce from her.

Olson married his 3rd wife in April 2010.

On March 15, 2005, Olson's granddaughter, Julie Brase, is a coach in the WNBA.

Olson's grandson Matt Brase was a basketball player at Arizona from 2003 to 2005 and is an assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ers.

Controversies and absences
Olson's behavior became erratic in 2007, beginning with the dismissal of 27-year associate head coach Jim Rosborough in April 2007. It is widely believed that Olson had promised Rosborough the head coach position when Olson retired. Olson replaced Rosborough with former Toronto Raptors head coach Kevin O'Neill.

On November 4, 2007, Olson was absent from the Wildcats' preseason opener. It was announced 10 minutes prior to the game that he would be taking an indefinite leave of absence. At the time, the university said such absence was not health related. O'Neill took over head-coaching duties during the leave of absence.

On December 6, 2007, it was announced that Olson would miss the entire 2007–08 season. The following day, it was announced that Olson had filed for divorce from his wife of four years, Christine. On December 18, Arizona announced that Olson planned to return for the 2008–09 season, and also named O'Neill as Olson's designated successor upon his retirement.

Kevin O'Neill publicly stated that he was still relying on a promise to be Lute Olson's successor, and that he would return to UA to be an assistant for the 2008–09 season. However, during an April 2008 press conference in which he appeared visibly annoyed and defensive with reporters, Olson announced that O'Neill would never coach at the University of Arizona again. This marked the second time in a year that Olson had reneged on a promise to promote an assistant coach, following his dismissal of Jim Rosborough. O'Neill later accepted an assistant coaching position with the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA, and was subsequently the head coach at USC. Arizona athletic director Jim Livengood also said assistant and former Wildcat guard Miles Simon (a key player on Olson's 1997 national championship team) would no longer coach.

Retirement from coaching
Olson met with the Tucson media during Arizona's annual preseason media day on October 21; in contrast to his April appearance, he seemed in relatively upbeat and positive spirits and ready to coach in 2008. However, Olson did not attend the October 22 practice, which was run by associate head coach Mike Dunlap, and missed a Rotary Club function in Tucson which he attended annually for many years (former Wildcat point guard Reggie Geary, by now a member of the coaching staff, attended the event on Olson's behalf). After a day of speculation fueled by initial reports by Dick Vitale of ESPN, Livengood formally announced Olson's retirement the afternoon of October 23. Livengood would not speculate on Olson's permanent replacement; it was widely assumed Dunlap would coach the team on an interim basis. The interim coach was announced by Livengood on October 24 to be Russ Pennell, who joined the Wildcat staff in May 2008.

On October 28, 2008, five days after Olson announced his retirement, Olson's personal physician, Steven D. Knope, held a press conference in Tucson alongside Olson's daughters and grandson, in which he showed signs of emotion at times; Olson himself was not in attendance. Knope, who in March had cleared Olson medically to return to coaching after his leave of absence, announced that the coach had an "initially undiagnosed" stroke earlier in the year (confirmed by an MRI scan taken on October 27) which had caused severe depression and impaired judgment. Olson had also apparently suffered from atrial fibrillation for several years, which could have produced a blood clot resulting in the stroke. Knope became concerned about "changes in (Olson's) behavior and trouble handling his increasing workload" and advised Olson to retire as a result:

 * "I believe some of those personality changes were out of character," Knope said. "I had very little contact with him this summer. I saw his (April 1) press conference and noticed that he was a little out of character...What I'm truly hoping for now is that the team and community rally around this now that they understand...I hope everyone remembers what he's done for the community."

Knope said that Olson was "devastated" upon being informed of the MRI results and remained at home in Tucson; Olson has so far declined to comment publicly on his condition. Knope further clarified his position for the Arizona Daily Star a few days later:

 * "During his initial bout of depression in November 2007, Olson responded appropriately to medications. He had a complete recovery from his depression. He had no unusual behavior at that time and there was no indication for an MRI. The results of an MRI performed at that time would likely have been normal. During Olson's more recent depression, which began approximately six weeks ago, Olson did not respond to therapy. This was a change. The medications were no longer effective. In addition, there were behaviors in recent months which, in retrospect, were uncharacteristic of the man. These were the clues that suggested he may have a rare frontal lobe syndrome, in which behavioral changes, judgmental errors and difficulty with complex tasks became prominent. These symptoms were the red flags that triggered the need for an MRI (which confirmed the stroke)".

Retirement activities
In retirement, Olson has visited the University of Iowa on numerous occasions, calling it "a special place" to him, having been inducted into the Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000. Among his visits: on October 26, 2009, Olson and members of the 1980 Final Four team were honored at Iowa's Kinnick Stadium and had a Final Four Weekend Reunion together with their families. On September 9, 2015, he visited with players and Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery, attending a football game and holding a brief press conference to talk about his memories. On December 8, 2016, Olson attended the Iowa-Iowa State basketball game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, alongside his former Iowa player Ronnie Lester. Olson and Lester spoke with the press before the game and told stories.

Over time, Olson, Lester, Iowa teammates and fans have contributed to help Kenny Arnold, who was the second leading scorer and assist leader for the Hawkeye Final Four squad in 1980. Arnold was first diagnosed with brain cancer in 1985 and his healthcare needs have continued. At one point, Olson arranged for Arnold to be flown to Arizona so he could be examined and treated at the facilities where Olson's wife Bobbi had once undergone cancer treatment. Teammates Ronnie Lester and Mike "Tree" Henry accompanied Arnold. The trip was deemed to be beneficial to Arnold's health.

On April 12, 2018, Olson was honored by the University of Arizona, who erected a statue of him outside the McKale Center on campus. The unveiling was attended my many former Arizona players as well as Olson's family. When the statue was unveiled, Olson remarked, "They got the hair right." Olson spoke and answered questions from fans and media, stating "This means the world to me."

At home in Arizona, Olson recently said he tries to go to all home Arizona basketball games, and travels to road games at California and UCLA. He also attends some NBA games to see his former Arizona players Steve Kerr (Golden State Warriors) and Luke Walton (Sacramento Kings) coach their respective NBA teams.

Olson also played more golf than before, "If I were lucky I might get in 10 rounds of golf a year when I was coaching," he said. "Now I play all the time."

Death
Olson was hospitalized in 2019 after suffering a stroke, and was moved into hospice care in August 2020. On August 27, 2020, Olson died at the age of 85.

Legacy
Lute Olson is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in the history of college basketball. Along with the successful players noted above, Olson has 46 NCAA tournament wins, one behind John Wooden and one ahead of Bob Knight. His Wildcat basketball teams were wildly popular in Tucson, among university students as well as the general public; Olson brought a renewed sense of prestige to both the University of Iowa and University of Arizona at a time when both of their sports programs were mediocre. In November 2007, Olson teamed with publisher Mascot Books to release a children's book featuring the Arizona mascot touring the campus, entitled Hello, Wilbur!.

Upon his retirement, accolades came in from several sources. Robert Shelton, University of Arizona president, said, "Lute Olson transformed the UA and Tucson into premier basketball country...Arizona now stands in the company of great college basketball programs, and we have Lute to thank for that. We will sorely miss his brilliance as our head coach, but we will benefit from the legacy he leaves for decades to come."

Kevin O'Neill, the man originally tapped to replace Olson as Arizona head coach, but who later left the Wildcat program, stated: "I have great respect for Lute Olson. He is one of the greatest college basketball coaches of all time...His legacy will (be) the standard at the University of Arizona for as long as they have basketball. I appreciate every opportunity he gave me."

"He's been involved in the game and been a great ambassador for college basketball for a long time," former University of Florida head basketball coach Billy Donovan said. "There's no question he went through a difficult time and I don't know all that went on. He took over Arizona at rock bottom and built it into an incredible program...For him, maybe dealing with health issues and family issues, for whatever reason, it's not right for him to continue on. And I just hope he's at peace with where he's at in his decision."

Greg Hansen, columnist and longtime Olson critic for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, had this to say: "Until now, Lute Olson has been judged by games won and banners hung, but it is the passage of time that will be his greatest test. Ultimately, it won't matter that he didn't beat Purdue in the last game he ever coached, that his final recruiting class went bust or that he abandoned his school twice at the worst possible time. As the games fade away, the future will paint a flattering portrait of him...Across the last quarter-century, Olson made our city feel good about itself. He made us feel like winners. Who else has done that? He changed the way we looked at ourselves."

In 2000, Olson received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.

On February 11, 2012, Olson was initiated into the Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity by Gamma Delta Chapter at the University of Arizona. He was chosen as a special initiate due to his loyalty to the University of Arizona and his dedication he showed to his players.

Olson is the namesake of The Lute Olson Award. Beginning in 2010, The Lute Olson Award is presented annually to the nation's top Division I player in College Basketball and is selected by a 30-member committee. The recipient is announced annually at the site on NCAA Final Four. Recipients are selected off a preseason watchlist that is narrowed to finalists in March.

Olson would again be re-inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame with the 2019 class.

Coaching highlights

 * Compiled a 180–76 record (.703) coaching high school basketball

At Long Beach City College
 * Three time Metro Conference Coach of the Year (1970, 1971, 1973)
 * Led LBCC to three Metro Conference titles (1970, 1971, 1973)
 * Led LBCC to California JUCO State Championship (1971)

At Long Beach State University
 * PCAA Coach of the Year (1974)
 * Western Region Coach of the Year (1974)
 * Led Long Beach State to Big West Championship (1974)

At the University of Iowa
 * Two time Big Ten Coach of the Year (1979, 1981)
 * Led Iowa to Big Ten Championship (1979)
 * Led Iowa to NCAA Final Four (1980)
 * Led Iowa to 5 consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament to finish his career there, a record at the time
 * Left Iowa as the winningest coach in school history with a 168–90 record (.651)

At the University of Arizona
 * Seven time Pac-10 Coach of the Year (1986, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2003)
 * Led Arizona to 11 Pac-10 championships (1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005)
 * Led Arizona to 20 consecutive 20-win seasons
 * Averaged nearly 25 victories per year in over 20 years at Arizona
 * Owns second best winning percentage (.764) in Pac-10 history (327-101), behind John Wooden (.810)
 * Has more Pac-10 wins (327) than any other coach in history, including John Wooden, who coached before UCLA joined the modern Pac-10
 * Led Arizona to four NCAA Final Four appearances (1988, 1994, 1997, 2001) and one NCAA Championship (1997)
 * Arizona's 1997 team is the only one in NCAA history to beat three No. 1 seeds in the same tournament
 * While at Arizona, one of only five head coaches in NCAA history to record 26 or more 20-win seasons
 * Guided Arizona to 11 NCAA Sweet 16 appearances in 18 years
 * Arizona's 25 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances (23 under Lute Olson) is the second longest streak in NCAA history (behind North Carolina's 27)

NCAA tournament records
 * Third in NCAA tournament games coached with 74
 * Fourth in NCAA tournament wins with 46
 * Compiled a 25–12 (.676) record in his last 35 NCAA Tournament games
 * 28 of his last 29 teams have advanced to the NCAA Tournament (23 straight at Arizona and 5 straight at Iowa)

Career records
 * One of 8 coaches in collegiate history to coach in five or more Final Fours
 * One of 11 coaches who have taken two different teams to the Final Four
 * Averaged nearly 23 victories per year in over 30 years of coaching
 * Achieved 29 winning seasons in over 30 years of coaching
 * In 34 seasons as a Division I head coach, compiled a 781–280 record (.736)

Awards
 * U.S. Coach, R. William Jones Cup Champions (1984)
 * U.S. Coach, World Championship Gold Medal (1986)
 * National Coach of the Year (1988, 1990)
 * CBS-TV Coach of the Year (1989)
 * USBWA District 8 Coach of the Year (1988, 1993)
 * NABC District 15 Coach of the Year (1989, 1993, 1994)
 * Basketball Times West Region Coach of the Year (1998)
 * Naismith National Coach of the Year Finalist (1998)

College
* Vacated 1 NCAA tournament loss

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