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Honeysuckle Weeks

Honeysuckle Susan Weeks (born 1 August 1979) is a British actress best known for her role as Samantha Stewart (later Wainwright) in the ITV wartime drama series Foyle's War.

Early life
Weeks was born in Cardiff, Wales, to Robin and Susan (née Wade) Weeks, and grew up in Chichester and Petworth, both in West Sussex, England. Her parents named her after the plant honeysuckle, because its flowers were in bloom when she was born. She has a younger sister Perdita and brother Rollo, who have also pursued careers in acting.

Weeks was educated at Great Ballard School, Sussex, Roedean School and Pembroke College, Oxford, where she read English (graduating with upper-second class honours). She also spent time studying art on the John Hall Pre-university Course in Venice, Italy. As a child she was a member of the Chichester Festival Theatre. From the age of nine, Weeks studied at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the weekends.

At age 11, Weeks was flown to the United States and cast in the Walt Disney Pictures feature A Far Off Place being directed by Steven Spielberg. However, when Spielberg dropped out of the project, Weeks' role was re-cast with Reese Witherspoon.

Television
Despite missing out on a film role, Weeks was cast in 1993 as the juvenile lead role of Kitty Killen in the television adaptation of Anne Fine's Goggle-Eyes. Her sister Perdita and brother Rollo also appeared with her in small roles in the third episode of that series. The part gained her considerable attention, and she was interviewed by Alan Titchmarsh on the TV show Pebble Mill about her role in the series. She quickly became a familiar face to viewers, appearing in a number of Ruth Rendell adaptations, such as A Dark-Adapted Eye (1994), and The Ruth Rendell Mysteries episodes The Strawberry Tree (1995) and The Orchid Walls (1998), while she had a notable role in The Bill in 1995, playing a kidnap victim in the feature length episode "Deadline", with David Tennant as her abductor.

In 1997, Honeysuckle and Perdita were both cast in Catherine Cookson's The Rag Nymph, wherein Perdita played the younger version of her sister's character. It was a significant role for Honeysuckle, and she gained further fame when she appeared in the children's TV series The Wild House that year, appearing from 1997 to 1998. She appeared in the raunchy BBC serial Close Relations in 1998 as she sought to move to more adult roles, and continued to receive regular acting work, such as in Midsomer Murders (1999). In 2002, she was cast as Samantha Stewart in the TV series Foyle's War a BAFTA Award–winning detective series set in Hastings during and just after World War II; she starred opposite Michael Kitchen and was featured in every episode of all eight series, which were broadcast between 2002 and 2015.

She continued to find other roles during this period. In 2006 she appeared in the Poirot mystery Cards on the Table, while in 2007, Weeks starred in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Tania Thompson, a character based on the Canadian serial killer Karla Homolka. In 2008, she appeared as Harriet Pringle in the Radio 4 adaptation of Fortunes of War. In 2012, she played a small part as Mrs Beeton in an episode of the BBC educational programme The Charles Dickens Show.

After Foyle's War ended in 2015, she appeared as Mae Harmer in the BBC TV series Death in Paradise (series 4), while in May that year, she portrayed a wartime letter writer at VE Day 70: A Party to Remember in Horse Guards Parade, London that was broadcast live on BBC1. She also appeared in the ITV series Lewis episode "Magnum Opus". The following year she appeared in the TV series The Five as Laura Marshall, before personal events saw her take a break from acting for the next 3 years.

In 2019, Weeks guest starred in an episode of Frankie Drake Mysteries as author Agatha Christie. It was her first appearance back on screen in three years, and she followed it up with an appearance in the Channel 4 series Maxxx in the episode House Party.

Film
Weeks has appeared as Annie Ridd in the TV movie Lorna Doone in 2000, and Sarah in My Brother Tom in 2001. In 2005 she was cast as Clarissa in Red Mercury, but her most daring role was in The Wicker Tree (the "spiritual successor" to The Wicker Man) in 2011, where she had to appear nude in a number of scenes for the first time in her career.

Stage acting
In early 2010, Weeks appeared as "Sarah Prentice" in a production of the Agatha Christie play A Daughter's A Daughter at London's Trafalgar Studios. Later that year, Weeks appeared as Eliza Doolittle in a production of Pygmalion at the Chichester Festival Theatre in West Sussex.

She starred in the UK premiere of Melanie Marnich's play These Shining Lives from 8 May to 9 June 2013.

In 2018, she starred as Mabel Cantwell in Gore Vidal's play The Best Man on the West End.

In 2023, she was a member of the ensemble cast of the touring production of Calendar Girls - The Musical.

Audio drama
In 2016, Weeks had a recurring role as Heleyna in the Big Finish Productions audio play series The War Doctor, based on the TV series Doctor Who.

Personal life
Weeks was engaged to the poet and musician Anno Birkin for a short period before his death, at age 20, in a car crash in Italy in 2001.

While on holiday in the Himalayas in 2005, she married hypnotherapist Lorne Stormonth Darling, of a landed gentry family of Lednathie, Kirriemuir, Scotland, in an impromptu Buddhist wedding ceremony, followed by a London wedding in July 2007. The couple have a son, Wade, born in 2011, and lived in Petworth. The marriage ended in 2019. Lorne Stormonth Darling died 16 November 2023, aged 60.

In August 2015, Weeks was caught speeding on the A3 in south-west London. It later emerged that she was already banned from driving under the totting-up scheme, due to points violations, and in early 2016 was ordered to wear an electronic tag when the court imposed a four-week night time curfew on her. In January 2023, Weeks was again banned from driving, this time following an incident in which she reversed into a parked vehicle whilst more than twice the legal limit for alcohol.

In July 2016, it was reported that Weeks had gone missing, with relatives said to be concerned for her welfare. However, she was later found safe and well and remained with police late that night before returning to West Sussex.

In a 2010 interview for the Sunday Mercury, Weeks said that she was a vegetarian.

Awards and nominations
In 2004, Weeks was nominated in the Most Popular Newcomer category at the National Television Awards.

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Dalkeith Palace

Dalkeith Palace is a country house in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. It was the seat of the Dukes of Buccleuch from 1642 until 1914, and is owned by the Buccleuch Living Heritage Trust. The present palace was built 1701–1711 on the site of the medieval Dalkeith Castle, and was latterly renamed Dalkeith House.

The medieval castle
Dalkeith Castle was located to the north east of Dalkeith and dated from the 12th century when it was in the possession of the Clan Graham, Lords of Dalkeith. With the death of John de Graham in 1341–1342 the castle and the barony of Dalkeith passed to the Clan Douglas via his sister, Marjory, who was married to Sir William Douglas. James Douglas of Dalkeith became the Earl of Morton in the mid 15th century. The castle was strategically located in an easily defensible position above a bend in the River North Esk. Nearer the centre of Dalkeith, James Douglas, 1st Lord Dalkeith, endowed the collegiate church in 1406, where Douglas earls, lords, and knights were buried.

Margaret Tudor, the bride of King James IV, stayed at Dalkeith Castle as the guest of the Earl of Morton before her formal entry to Edinburgh in 1503. In 1543, Cardinal Beaton was imprisoned in Dalkeith Castle. The castle was captured on 3 June 1548 during the war of the Rough Wooing by the English soldiers James Wilford and Thomas Wyndham, with the Spanish captain Pedro de Gamboa. Mary, Queen of Scots, rode from Edinburgh to stay a few days at Dalkeith in October 1565.

From June 1574, Regent Morton, who had been captured at the siege of 1548, extended the castle. Sir John Forster, an English border warden captured at the Raid of the Redeswire, was held in the palace in July 1575. When King James VI reached his majority in October 1579, following celebrations in Edinburgh, Morton entertained the young king at Dalkeith Castle. James VI and Anne of Denmark frequently stayed at the castle. While they were in residence in August 1592, a prisoner John Wemyss of Logie escaped through their bedchamber, helped by the queen's servant, Margaret Vinstarr. In 1598 the royal master of work William Schaw prepared a nursery for the queen at Dalkeith Castle and Princess Margaret was born there on Christmas Eve. In August 1601 the infant Prince Charles was seriously ill while staying at the castle, but recovered.

William, 6th Earl of Morton had the brewhouse, gates, and drawbridge repaired. James VI visited the palace on 11 June 1617. Andrew Simson presented a Latin poem celebrating the palace's grounds and describing the song of the Dalkeith nightingale.

William, 7th Earl of Morton, Treasurer of Scotland, entertained King Charles I during his visit to Scotland in 1633. The king liked the place so much he considered buying the estate and turning it into a deer park. By 1637, Charles had decided to buy the castle and estate from Lord Morton. The castle was re-fortified and strengthened in order to prepare it for the king. Among other alterations, Charles I built an additional drawbridge and extra defences. With the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Charles I found it difficult to complete his purchase of Dalkeith, and the castle was eventually returned to the Earl of Morton.

Dalkeith Palace
In 1642, Dalkeith Castle was sold by the Earl of Morton to Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch. The 2nd Earl of Buccleuch's daughter, Anne, married the James, Duke of Monmouth, eldest illegitimate son of King Charles II in 1663, and they became the Duke and Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch. After the Duke had been executed for treason, his widow asked architect James Smith to use William of Orange's palace of Het Loo in the Netherlands as a model for the new Dalkeith Palace.

Smith and his cousins, Gilbert and James, signed the contract for mason work at Dalkeith Castle in March 1702. Construction of Dalkeith Palace began later that year, Smith deciding to incorporate a portion of the tower house of the old castle into the western side of the new structure. The outline of the old tower walls is still visible in the western facade of the palace today.

In 1704, William Walker and Benjamin Robinson, the chamberlain of the Duchess, went to London with a small party to choose items of furniture for the palace. Construction was proceeding at a steady pace, and the main portion of the palace was roofed by the end of 1705. The London marble-cutter Richard Neale spent sixty-four weeks at the palace with nine assistants between 1709 and 1711, carving the main stairwell and screen of the Great Staircase. Several marble chimney pieces were installed, as well as an intricately carved marble bas-relief of Neptune and Galatea. This internally extensive use of marble was very much the taste of the Duchess. The majority of construction was complete by 1711.

Finishing touches on the palace complex included adding a wrought iron screen with freestone piers (no longer existing) around the forecourt, a great deal of planting, and the laying out of a great avenue through the park. Dalkeith Park itself was a large area of manicured trees and gardens which in later years would include the Montagu Bridge over the North Esk River and the Dalkeith Conservatory and a grassed amphitheatre. When the final calculations were made, it was determined that the construction of Dalkeith Palace had cost the Duchess a total of £stg.17,727.

The plumber John Scott of Edinburgh re-plated the roof in lead in 1743. Some minor additions were carried out in the following years. John Adam resurfaced the building in 1762 and James Playfair inserted a low window into the east facade in 1786.

Overall, the palace is built of sandstone and has the main entrance on the south front, flanked on each side by two Corinthian order pilasters. These are surmounted by a bracketed pediment unusual for its depth. The layout of Dalkeith Palace was unusual for the time in that the state apartment was located on the ground floor, which prevented the Great Dining Room from being placed in its customary position at the start of the state apartment. As such, the Great Dining Room was placed on the first floor, still suitable for important occasions and also serving as an anteroom to another apartment on the first floor.

18th and 19th centuries
The 5th Duke of Buccleuch considered extensive rebuilding in 1831 and William Burn produced unexecuted designs in Jacobean style. More minor alterations were carried out, together with improvements to the surrounding estate including a new house and offices for the Duke's Chamberlain, and the construction, for the 5th Duke, of St Mary's Church as a private chapel by William Burn and David Bryce. The church contains one of only two water-powered organs in Scotland.

Several well-known figures from English and Scottish history have been guests at the palace in the intervening centuries. Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed two nights at Dalkeith in 1745, King George IV slept here during his visit to Edinburgh in 1822, in preference to the Palace of Holyroodhouse which was in a poor state, as did Queen Victoria in 1842. Dalkeith Palace was also visited by Edward VII in 1899 and 1903, and George V in 1907 and 1910. During World War II, Polish troops of the 3rd Flanders Rifle Brigade, part of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, were quartered on the third floor of Dalkeith Palace from 1942 onwards. Graffiti drawn by these troops is still visible on the third floor wallpaper of the palace as of 2008.

Subsequent history
Dalkeith Palace has not been lived in by the Buccleuch family since 1914, and in 1920 the palace gardens and glasshouses were let as market gardens. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Dalkeith Palace was used as a research and development office by the computer firm International Computers Ltd. (ICL), which leased the palace until 1983. From 1985 it was leased to the University of Wisconsin system for a study abroad programme. Approximately 60–80 students a semester lived in the palace, where they also took classes from UK and US faculty members. The University and Buccleuch Living Heritage Trust announced in July 2020 that the lease would end in January 2021.

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Solomon Cutner

Solomon Cutner (9 August 1902 – 2 February 1988) was a British pianist known professionally as Solomon.

Biography
Solomon Cutner was born in the East End of London in 1902, the seventh child of tailors of German-Jewish and Polish-Jewish extraction. He was a child prodigy whose talent was recognized at the age of seven when, having had no formal tuition, he performed his own arrangement of the 1812 Overture on the family piano. He gave his first concerts in 1912 at the age of ten, retired from public performance in his teens and then resumed his career as an adult performer. He began making records in 1929. As a child he was sent to live with his teacher, Mathilde Verne, who had studied with Clara Schumann. He then studied in Paris with Lazare-Lévy.

After establishing a reputation, he toured abroad a good deal, particularly before, during and shortly after World War II, when he gave numerous much-cherished recitals in the United States and Australia. He premiered the Piano Concerto in B-flat by Arthur Bliss at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Renowned especially for his Beethoven, which had an almost legendary status (he broadcast the entire cycle of the 32 piano sonatas for the BBC), he was in the midst of recording the complete cycle of the sonatas for EMI Records when he suffered a devastating stroke in 1956, which paralysed his right arm. He never recorded or performed in public again, but lived on for another 32 years. His recordings of Mozart, Schumann and Brahms are also highly regarded; his Debussy, Bach and Schubert recordings are likewise esteemed.

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1946. He died in London in 1988, aged 85.

A biography, Solo: The Biography of Solomon by Bryan Crimp, was published by APR in 1994, ISBN 978-1-870295-04-8, and reissued in paperback by Travis and Emery in 2008, ISBN 978-1-904331-36-0.

Solomon's first recordings were made in 1929 for the English Columbia label. He later recorded for HMV. Most of his recordings have appeared on compact disc, either directly through EMI/Warner or under license to the Testament label.

Bruce Eder on AllMusic wrote that, before the onset of his stroke in 1956, Solomon recorded a handful of works in stereo, but whether in stereo or mono his recordings are all worth hearing; he said the clarity, tonal beauty and imaginativeness of Solomon's playing overcomes any shortcomings of the recording technique. He added that Solomon's rendition of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is notable for its poetic lyricism and natural, unforced passion.

Recordings

 * Solomon: The First Recordings, 1942–43. Frédéric Chopin, Etude for piano No. 9 in F minor, Op. 10/9, CT. 22, Etude for piano No. 14 in F minor, Op. 25/2, CT. 27, Etude for piano No. 15 in F major, Op. 25/3, CT 28., Nocturne for piano No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27/2, CT. 115, Berceuse for piano in D flat major, Op. 57, CT. 7, Johannes Brahms 	Variations (25) and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, for piano, in B flat major, Op. 24, Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat major ("Archduke"), Op. 97. Signature Series Records CD, 1994.
 * Beethoven: Three Favorite Sonatas – Seraphim Records LP 60286
 * Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major – Angel Records LP 35580
 * Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 90, 101, 106, 109, 110 & 111 – EMI Classics CD, 1993.
 * Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2–5; Piano Sonata No. 14 – EMI Classics CD, 1995.
 * Schumann, Brahms & Liszt. Schumann, Carnaval for piano, Op. 9. Brahms, Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5. Liszt, "La Leggierezza" in F minor (Grandes études de concert No. 2), S. 144/2 (LW A118/2), "Au bord d'une source" (II & III), for piano (Années I/4), S. 160/4 & S. 160/4bis (LW A159/4), Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 in A minor (Rákóczi-Marsch III), S. 244/15 (LW A132/15) – Testament Records, 1996.
 * The Complete Recordings of Chopin: Testament Records CD, 1993.
 * Solomon Plays Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, Variations (25) and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, for piano, in B flat major, Op. 24. Testament Records, 1994.
 * Mozart: Piano concertos No. 23 in A major, KV488 and No. 24 in C minor, KV 491 His Master's Voice ALP 1316

A full discography of Solomon's recordings can be found in the biography by Bryan Crimp: Solo: The Biography of Solomon (Appian Publications & Recordings, Hexham 1994), and also in one of the ARSC's journals – as here. Some further recordings have come to light:
 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
 * Recorded on 18 December 1952 with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Eduard van Beinum
 * Johannes Brahms
 * Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
 * Recorded in 1956 with the RAI Turin Orchestra and Lorin Maazel
 * Arthur Bliss
 * Piano Concerto in B♭
 * World premiere performance recorded in Carnegie Hall, New York, 10 June 1939 with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra and Sir Adrian Boult
 * Robert Schumann
 * Carnaval, Op. 9
 * Recorded in Berlin, RIAS Funkhaus, Studio 7 on 24 February 1956

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re: move to wikisource... I believe the recipes belong in there. Or in wikicook :). The rest of the article should probably stay here. Radiant! 10:56, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

How about renaming this article to Taoist Diet? Would anyone mind? Ajnewbold 15:42, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Whatever anybody does, it can't stay at "Taoist Food" - it needs to go to something like "Taoist food" or "Taoist diet". --VivaEmilyDavies 21:46, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Since there didn't seem to be any opposition, I've renamed this article to Taoist diet (from Taoist Food) and also did a bit of cleanup on the article itself. The three recipes that were included have been moved to the Wikibooks Cookbook (links to them have been left in this article), and some of the main text was reworded to ensure neutrality. --Ajnewbold 05:10, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I've done some more rewording. Taoism is a vast study with many schools that often have disagreed with each other. The article seemed to present a modern, New Age take on diet that didn't necessarily reflect the many different historical Taoist attitudes accurately. Many Taoists were vegetarians, many were (and are) not. Many drank alchohol and tea, many did not. To say that one diet or another is "ideal" is like saying there is an ideal Presbyterian diet and rather misses the point. Fire Star 16:35, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Good point, and nice work. Thanks for making the article better!  Ajnewbold 21:21, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Context?
I find this article strange. What exactly is Taoist diet? Which sources are used to define it? If that's not clear, it's impossible to agree on what food should be in included. Fire Star put some of the complexities well, but until they're cleared up I don't know what this article should be. Greenman 21:03, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

I have added some links to a more detailed Taoist Diet sheet and discussion forum which may be of interest. The original article seems to have been summarized from our website which I don't mind but it would have been nice to have received a mention. www.seahorsearts.co.uk --Chuangzu 09:52, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

--68.113.44.22 12:17, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

No offense to anyone, but this page amounts to New Age garbage
What should a Taoist eat? I can think of one answer supported by Taoist texts -- "You eat what you eat." Taoism's main premise is that we should strive to behave in a manner aligned with the natural flow of the universe, much like water naturally flows downhill and takes the shape of it's vessel. The true Taoist removes all thought from action, and just is. For someone who doesn't study Tao, the answer might take the shape of "you eat what the universe wants you to eat," but the universe, like gravity, doesn't exactly put thought into how it pushes and pulls us. We merely must go with the flow. For this reason you also can't say "you eat what feels right" because the point is to operate on a level free from the ego, and thus thoughts/desires/etc. Thus "you eat what you eat" is probably what's most in the spirit of the teachings. The universe should naturally push you to eat what you're supposed to (like every other behavior), and there's no indication that this would be the same for every person.

The question of "What I should eat" is probably something that everyone should come to on their own after deep meditation. M00

--Just wanted to add that a central tenet of Taoism is Everything in Moderation. I think that as long as you don't overindulge, virtually everything's okay. I, as a Taoist, don't eat much meat because of the treatment of farm animals which, in my opinion, goes against the natural and is unnecessarily painful for the animals. However, this is a personal opinion and if it would make another Taoist uncomfortable, then he or she should not follow me. Also worth noting: I am a philosophical Taoist, not a religious one, so the religious among us may have different diet requirements.

The user above me expresses everything else I was thinking exactly, so I second him or her.

Namaste!

I disagree. No offence meant to anyone but the above comments sound like New Age Gobbledegook. Taoism is more about 'You are what you eat', if it was the Universe constantly governing people's diets why are so many in the Western nations so obese and eating such unnatural foods? No amount of deep meditation is going to help you if you're addicted to Junk foods, you need the advice of someone who knows what they are talking about and let's face it Traditional Chinese Medicine has a history going back thousands of years, something the Western Scientific tradition can only dream about. 'Everything in moderation' is just a vague statement, would you eat Rat Poison in moderation? I doubt it.(THis is abousulty correct, yea "give me a side of rat poison, in moderation of course)

 * Actually I would if it was prescribed by my Western physician. See Warfarin. The human body is remarkably robust but even things like table salt and water (two of our primary constituents) are toxic in large doses. "Everything in moderation" includes moderating acts of stupidity - like eating too much warfarin, table salt, ice cream, nitroglycerin, soy beans or beef tartare(overeating tartarte is almost impossible). JohnJardine 21:23, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Taoism is not about 'do whatever you like', that is a child's interpretation. Taoism is an ancient philosophy with texts going back to the time of the Yellow Emperor and it's based on Nature and Traditional Chinese Medicine, it's nothing whatsoever to do with Yoga or other New Age philosophies. And whoever made that statement about Chi being a 'metaphysical concept' is basically living at the bottom of a well. Taoists don't eat cold foods because this is what is recommended by Chinese Medicine practitioners as cold energy weakens the spleen. --Chuangzu 23:01, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Acually, Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on Daoism more than the other way around. There are innumerable references to meditation in Daoist texts going all the way back to and including the Laozi. And Qi is an important metaphysical concept which in the Laozi filled the cosmological role taken by water in the Taiyi Sheng Shui, from which Laozi derives much of its cosmology and cosmogony.

As an adherent to a particular Taoist sect, I find the above assumptions regarding "New Age Garbage" to be incorrect. My particular sect adheres to a specific diet, though failing to follow the suggested diet is not considered sacrilege (as in Judaism, Hinduism, or Islam). It is merely considered poor judgment and likely harmful to oneself.

 * Western diets resulting in obesity is the result of tampering with nature and lack of moderation. I can see Taoist diets being a good guideline and recommendation to eat healthy, but Taoism in general already gives a good guideline by explaining one should use better judgement and moderation. I would never take any strict diet seriously because the requirement to follow a diet just doesn't make sense. A lot of the information in the article does read like New Age junk, and to imply that following a specific diet is required in religious Taoism makes it look like yet another New Age system. 173.74.245.34 (talk) 16:07, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

COLD DRINKS?
What is meant by cold drinks? What health benefit does room temperature water offer?

Cold foods and drinks weaken the spleen which in Traditonal Chinese Medicine is considered to be the internal organ most closely linked to digestion along with the stomach (Earth element). The body has to heat things to assimilate them so imbibing cold drinks costs energy and is inefficient. Humans have become adapted to cooking now for over ten thousand years unlike the other animals who cannot build fires. Over consumption of cold fluids is likely to produce Yin type illnesses. --Chuangzu 22:53, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Consumption of cold water or food also means that the body has to expend energy to heat it up (to body temperature). Keeping one's energy levels and not wasting energy is also an important concept in Taoist "long life" practises.

-- User:T'ien Ti Tao Ch'uan-shu P'ai 13:25, 20 December 2013. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.22.200.86 (talk)

New Sections
I added a couple of sections with references. I'd like to furhter improve the article with further scholarly references. This might take a while though. Zeus1234 19:15, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Weasel Words
Added weasel words to the Diet section for the overuse of "some critics". Name them! FoiledAgain 04:07, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

This section should probably simply be deleted. If one removes the weasel words then the section makes a factually unsound argument relating to iron, B12, and calcium deficiencies. The human body simply does not requires large quantities of meat and dairy to maintain normal levels of these nutrients, and the Taoist diet as I understand it does not require total abstention from either. As a Taoist who adheres to the diet prescribed by his particular sect of Taoism (no beef, no dog, little red meat of other types, vegetarian fasts every new and full moon, mindful eating otherwise) I find this section to simply make no sense. For the record, at my last physical (less than a week ago), my iron levels were on the high side.

Fixing of Weasel Words
Motion to delete entire "criticisms" section, as they are editorially unnecessary and disrespectful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.239.59.180 (talk) 01:21, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Clean-up
This article doesn't conform to the Wiki format guidelines and could use some cleaning up. I removed some link spam but I would recommend differentiating References from External Links. -- Levine2112 discuss 22:59, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Agreed, I would recommend the entire article for deletion mind you. Shot info 23:07, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

 * It's worth a "shot". Go for it. -- Levine2112 discuss 23:10, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Somebody didn't read the deleted reference
Diet: Survival, Longevity, and Quality of Life. NCAHF recognizes that humans can survive on many different kinds of diets, and individual's diets are rooted more in culture and personal preference than science. Hindus are largely vegetarians. Eskimos and Canada's Inuits subsist exclusively on raw meat. Australian aborigines eat lizards and insects. Coastal Indians eat seafood. Nomads eat grazing animals that move with them in their ceaseless journeys. Many religions have dietary restrictions. Despite such wide variations, they all survive. However, survival does not equate with longevity. Natural selection only requires that people live long enough to propagate and rear their young. Epidemiologists, who must quantify "health" so differing groups can be compared, have determined that the gauge of the health of a society is life expectancy. Life expectancy in primitive settings is only 22-29 years [14]. Non-experts focus too much upon causes of death without realizing that a higher rate of heart disease, cancer, and stroke reflects a population that has lived long enough to develop such diseases. Longevity is a consistent feature of a modern technological society. Besides survival and longevity, public health experts also take into account quality of life. If longevity means just more time spent in boredom, the prospects for an a meaningful life are bleak indeed. Underdeveloped nations are usually deprived of many of the things that make people's lives more enjoyable, including festive foods. The diets of the poor nations are largely vegetarian. As societies become more prosperous, they also eat more meat and animal products.

'''NCAHF wonders if the vegetarian ideologist is merely today's ascetic who revels in self-denial and wars against pleasure. Animal rights devotees reflect the Taoist worldview.''' On April 24, 1996, PETA's Ingrid Newkirk appeared on the television show Day & Date opposing sport fishing. Her arguments began by eliciting sympathy for fish as living creatures who suffocate when taken out of the water. She then said that fish were unhealthful food because they contain mercury and other environmental contaminants. Her ultimate solution was for people to "go vegetarian." Her opponent, a television talk-show hostess pressed her into acknowledging the PETA creed. She recalled an on-air encounter with a PETA representative where a scenario was presented in which her daughter needed a vital organ of a beloved household pet to survive. The ethical question centered around placing a value on the life of a child versus a household pet. The PETA representative held that the child has no more value than the pet, reflecting the Taoist view that all life is equally sacred. An individual is free to choose such a belief if they wish, but should neither force such a value on others by law or by using mind control techniques.

NCAHF supports efforts to prevent cruelty to animals. It deplores the public torture and maiming of animals in cultural rituals such as bull fighting, cock fighting, dog fighting, animal beheading on horseback, and so forth. NCAHF deplores the poaching of endangered species for the purpose of obtaining their body parts for medicinal purposes based upon superstition. NCAHF deplores the plunder of sharks for the purpose of supplying the quack remedy shark cartilage. NCAHF endorses the responsible use of animals in medical research. NCAHF considers vegetarianism, particularly veganism, a hygienic religion that meets deep emotional needs of its followers. Adherents cannot be trusted to be objective, reliable sources of information on anything that bears upon its fundamental paradigm. PCRM pretends to speak for physicians who are functioning as medical experts. In reality, it is speaking for a handful of ideologists who happen to be physicians, but who are functioning as vege-evangelists.

The essence of sound nutrition is in three guiding words; four basic food groups, and the seven Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The three guiding words are: variety, moderation, and balance. Food groups help balance the variety from which diets may be selected. All food is "health food" in moderation; any food is "junk food" in excess -- there are no inherently "good" or "bad" foods, just good and bad total diets. More than anything else in food, it is excessive calories producing too much body fat (rather than dietary fat per se) that is associated with our high frequency of high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Exercise, which also should be done in moderation with variety and balance, is inseparable from diet for good health. NCAHF highly recommends Total Nutrition by Victor Herbert as a comprehensive guide to sound nutrition information (see attached book list).

It often helps to read a previously deleted reference in the context of the article, rather than trying to make a WP:POINT. Shot info 23:11, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I read it thoroughly. And I don't think one or two mentions of the word "Taoist" qualifies this source as a good reference or even an external link for this article. -- Levine2112 discuss 23:13, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

 * It is a reference. It discusses the benefits of vegetarian diet, of which the Taoist Diet is a subset.  You couldn't have read it throughly at all if you cannot see the obvious discussion points and critisms.  However as has been articulated elsewhere, your antipathy to the article's author is well known.  You should probably exclude yourself from these sorts of edits in the future.  It is recommended however, that you look to clean up the overall article, rather than just concentrate on a link that has merit, vertifiable, reliable and does discuss/critique the article.  Shot info 02:26, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree that this reference is out of place. This is not an article about the health benefits of a plant based diet.  The only objective for this article should be to express those concepts within the Taoist world view that contribute to a Taoist's understanding of food.  If you insist on promoting this article to communicate your concern about plant based diets, this is not the place to do it. (CraigWenner 01:32, 13 November 2007 (UTC))

Nonsense Spam
A large portion of this article seems like junk added by one person about a raw food diet that has no place here. Statements such as

"I highly recommend everyone get some greens into heir diet everyday. As for the fruitarian diet, I believe that fruit today has way too much sugar, and we should not eat most fruits. Here at The Hippocrates Health Institute, only a very small percent of the diet consists of fruit. I think it was a viable diet when we began as the human race. Without question, humans definitely ate that way. When the fruit was ripe, it would fall to the ground and you would eat it and spit out the pits. What happened though at least what we know from the writings that are at least five and a half thousand years ago, the fruits were hybridized. They mixed them together. They did this to decrease perish ability. They had to grow them in colder climates and hybridization made them more resistant to the colder weather. Hybridization made the fruits much sweeter and when it first happened that is what the people took into account. From what we know, the average fruit today has thirty times more sugar than the original. These high amounts of sugar no longer make them a truly natural food. We also have to take into consideration that we pick most fruit today when it is not ripe." has no place in Wikipedia. If someone disagrees I think they're going to need a pretty good explanation as to why statements that begin with "I highly recommend" and "I believe" should be in this article. BrainDance (talk) 02:02, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Chang Ming diet
I would like to add some reference to the Chang Ming diet, it is a Taoist diet published in a book published by a reputable publisher and was translated into many languages around the world from 1979 onwards. It is still practised by many people today, read the main page if you're interested Chang Ming. By the way there is also a page called Chinese food therapy.Chuangzu (talk) 13:54, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bishop ring

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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 MERGE. This has been done already. Note that Bishop Ring was not in question here. dbenbenn | talk 00:56, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Bishop ring
Appears to be a bit of fancruft from a sci-fi website/RPG - see. —Stormie 10:56, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

Also Bishop Ring is another article on the same topic, a superior one to be sure, but also imho not encyclopedic. —Stormie 19:13, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

Merge & redirect both to Orion's Arm is perfectly satisfactory for me, also. --Stormie 02:53, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * Merge with Culture Orbital if canon. Delete if not. Uncle G 12:04, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)
 * Bishop Ring gives a clearer context for it - no, it's not Iain M. Banks canon. —Stormie 19:11, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to pope hat and... just kidding. Delete Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 13:09, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * I created a new Bishop Ring article, which may be confused with an old article that was deleted, or with the poorly-written Bishop ring article. The new version is encyclopedic. Hold your fire until you've actually read it, please :). I've been searching for non-OA papers on the subject, as it looks like a term they swiped from elsewhere. --Christopher Thomas 20:11, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Update: They did a good enough write-up that SPIE accepted it for publication (or rather, their paper on suitable light sources to put in the middle of their rings, which was a pretty sneaky way of getting the topic into the conference). I'd say that counts as an adequate paper trail. Abstracts for that particular section: . It's unclear whether this particular journal is peer-reviewed, though this does look like proceedings from a conference held in August 2001.--Christopher Thomas 20:55, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete both for lack of evidence of peer-review, original research, this as a dupe. Wyss 20:50, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If you delete everything that isn't published in a peer-reviewed journal, you'll lose about 98% of Wikipedia. What would you consider suitable research? I'll be happy to find it for you. As for the original poorly-written bishop ring article by another user, I vote that it be redirected to Bishop Ring.--Christopher Thomas 20:57, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Anyway, when it comes to descriptions of physical phenomena, peer reviewed topics are encyclopedic, original research (spot on or cranky) is not. Wyss 22:08, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I am in the process of doing a full literature search for this type of structure. It's definitely been written about; it's finding the references that is time-consuming. So far most references assume a structure with similar properties that's centered on either Earth or the Sun. I'm also kind of curious as to why you're asking for a literature search for a science fiction habitat, especially when Culture Orbital doesn't have one. --Christopher Thomas 23:29, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not asking for a literature search. I've voted to delete the article. Wyss 01:07, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * A literature search that finds appropriate references would render your objections invalid. I'm _still_ wondering why you consider the article unacceptable in the first place, but have no problems with other articles about similar structures with less backing material. Care to give a more detailed answer on this?--Christopher Thomas 03:36, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * There is no evidence this structure exists, the idea for it got started in SciFi fiction (not theoretical physics), the article is misleading, the topic is trivial cruft and it reads like a joke, for starters. Wyss 08:55, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The idea for a rotating ring habitat was proposed by Wernher von Braun in 1952, and revisited in the Stanford torus thought experiment funded by NASA. While the name "Bishop Ring" appears to have been an invention of the Orion's Arm group, calling the Bishop Ring version of the article (as opposed to bishop ring) "trivial cruft" about a "nonexistent" idea is, frankly, incorrect enough to make me wonder if you so much as _skimmed_ literature on space station concepts before deciding this article was a waste of space. I can accept redirection to "Stanford Torus" as an interim measure, though the Torus was proposed as a much smaller structure. I'll create a new article about feasible megastructure-scale ring colonies once I have a few peer-reviewed paper citations to quiet most of the objections voiced here. I agree that "Bishop Ring" probably isn't a good name for the article, but it continues to disturb me that most of the people posting here prefer to delete an article out of hand rather than change it to something they like, or merge the few bits they feel have merit with other more appropriate articles. Deletion is for articles that are completely inappropriate or meritless. Heck, if any of you had proposed blanking the article and making it a redirect to Stanford torus, I probably wouldn't even have blinked. I am always open to constructive suggestions for alteration; however, the only one offered to date was JoaoRicardo's stub tag change. The rest has been nothing but aggressive confrontation (with varying degrees of politeness, which I do recognize and respect).--Christopher Thomas 05:20, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * My wording was only an artifact of the heavily qualified language I use on these VfDs, and was meant to separate the article topic from reality. From an encyclopedic perspective, IMO the topic is trivial cruft. From a SciFi perspective, it might work has a "hard science fiction" plot device. I'm not aware that WP is an "encyclopedia of science fiction". Wyss 13:31, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I question your placement of the dividing line between "science fiction" and "hypothetical engineering project that nobody's built". Why do you not object to space elevator or any of the various space fountain proposals? I can certainly see you objecting to the _term_ "Bishop Ring", but there is ample literature (mostly cited from the pages linked from Stanford torus) about ring-shaped space colonies. Thus, I challenge your assertion that there is nothing of technical merit in the version of Bishop Ring I posted. The distinction between science and science fiction is that science fiction either a) makes propositions that irreconcilably violate known physical laws or b) has no reflection in publications by the scientific community. Neither applies to the article I wrote (though I can, as mentioned earlier, see arguments for folding it into other space habitat articles).--Christopher Thomas 20:58, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If those articles showed up on VfD I might vote to delete them too, but at the moment we're talking about this one. I disagree with your opinion on the difference between science and science fiction, but even that's not related to this VfD. Further, I never said "there is nothing of technical merit" in the article you posted. I said it was fiction, not science. Fancruft can be wonderful, but it's usually not encyclopedic. Wyss 20:45, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If you believe that there _is_ content in my version of the article that _does_ have technical merit, then why didn't you suggest that it be merged with a more suitable parent article, rather than deleting it? Or that any non-redundant fancruft components be merged into the Orion's Arm article? I asked this several paragraphs ago, and still didn't get an answer from you. Surely you agree that if an article _does_ have any salvageable components, they should be salvaged and put somewhere more suitable?--Christopher Thomas 20:58, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Neither did I say I thought it did have technical merit. I said it was fiction. Another problem I have with the article is it doesn't make that clear at all, which will mislead some readers. I also noticed the article's author has muddled the contraction it's with the possessive its :) As for any merge, I don't see much point in that but please keep in mind I don't assert myself as any final authority, only one vote. You could always edit the Orion's Arm article yourself, add what you like, then see if it's accepted. Wyss 21:11, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Forgot to credit Rossami's merge suggestion as constructive as well. Apologies for the omission.--Christopher Thomas 05:35, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Christopher, in deciding where to redirect, I believe it is important to think what someone who typed or followed a link to this article would like to know about. (This is my opinion, not Wikipedia policy.) If the expression "bishop ring" is only found in one specific science fiction work, or in one specific series of works (eg. Asimov's Foundation series, Star Trek series etc.) then it probably should redirect to that work or series, where there should be a discussion of the space habitat as it applies to that work. There we could include a link to other article that discuss the same concept in real life. If however this is used in many works of sci-fi and/or in academic papers as well, than we should redirect to a more "real-life" article, like Stanford torus as you suggested. The current article doesn't establish either position. Could you clarify this for us? JoaoRicardo 05:32, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It's looking like a redirect to Orion's Arm would probably be the most approriate, as they appear to be the only place that actually used the term Bishop Ring to refer to this type of structure. I'm thinking about adding a "types of megastructure featured in this work" section to the OA page. The material about real life limits to Stanford torus-like structures can be shelved until I have refereed literature references for it. I know where to look (late 70s, early 80s, when the structures were in vogue and whisker fibers were fashionable), but don't have them on-hand, so such an article would just be VFDd as either primary source or sci-fi, depending on who's VFDing it. Link to Stanford torus can go into the OA page, as a part of my intended edit.--Christopher Thomas 06:01, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fancruft. JoaoRicardo 03:38, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) Merge and redirect to Orion's Arm after User:Christopher Thomas arguments. JoaoRicardo 08:38, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Give me a coherent explanation of why Ringworld and Culture Orbital aren't "fancruft" before throwing epithets around, please. If you think this should be a sci-fi page, well and good, but "topic change" != "deletion".--Christopher Thomas 03:59, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That wasn't an epithet, it's WP/VfD jargon for trivial, unencyclopedic. Wyss 10:46, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. As appointed by Wyss, that is jargon for something in which only hardcore fans would be interested. The Simpsons is a worthy article, but an article on, for instance, an expression Bart used in episode 34 of the 6th season is fancruft. Only hardocre Simpsons fans would be interested in something so specific. Ringworld is an article on an apparently notable sci-fi novel, and therefore is not restricted to fans. However Culture Orbital does seem to me to be fancruft. It could be merged into The Culture. And i didn't changed the topic of Bishop Ring, I merely replaced the with a  because I think this would be more likely to be expanded by a science fiction enthusiast than by a scientist who doesn't care for science fiction. You can replace it if you want, or you can readd the  and leave both. JoaoRicardo 00:02, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not science, it's fiction. Wyss 01:29, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Since it seems to be discussed (almost?) exclusively in the context of Orion's Arm and since that article is not yet overly large, is there a reason not to merge and redirect both versions? Rossami (talk) 04:21, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Orion's Arm, per Rossami's suggestion. A google query for "Bishop Ring" +orbital returns only 12 unique hits and a few of those don't seem relevant. This should not have its own article. Carrp | Talk 13:43, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Bishop Ring or Orion's Arm --Neigel von Teighen 21:00, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I've finished merging the fictional part of Bishop Ring (which amounts to all of bishop ring) into Orion's Arm. Keep or redirect the Bishop Ring article as you see fit. If Bishop Ring is still around after the VFD for bishop ring, I'll end up redirecting it some time before writing up a citation-rich article on ring habitats. I'm reluctant to modify Bishop Ring while a vote is still in progress.--Christopher Thomas 03:36, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. ComCat 02:04, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Orion's Arm. Megan1967 03:50, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Orion's Arm. JamesBurns 08:53, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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The Walkmen

The Walkmen is an American indie rock band formed in New York City, in 2000. The band consists of Hamilton Leithauser (vocals), Paul Maroon (guitar, keyboards), Walter Martin (bass, organ), Peter Matthew Bauer (organ, bass) and Matt Barrick (drums) - all former members of Jonathan Fire*Eater and the Recoys.

Initially active from 2000 to 2013, they are known as part of the 2000s-era post-punk revival in New York City, particularly for their critically acclaimed single "The Rat". The band released seven studio albums during their initial run: Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone (2002), Bows + Arrows (2004), A Hundred Miles Off (2006), "Pussy Cats" Starring the Walkmen (2006), You & Me (2008), Lisbon (2010) and Heaven (2012).

The band went on hiatus in 2013, with Leithauser, Bauer and Martin all pursuing solo careers, and Barrick joining Fleet Foxes in a session capacity. In 2023, the band reunited for an extensive tour named "The Revenge Tour".

2000–2003: Early years and debut album
Each of the members of the Walkmen grew up in and around the Washington, DC, area, played in many of the same bands from early in their careers, and even attended the same Washington-area high school, St. Albans School; Bauer attended Maret School while the other band members attended St. Albans. The bandmates eventually moved to Harlem.

The band was formed in 2000 following the breakup of two separate bands: Jonathan Fire*Eater, whose members included Martin, Maroon and Barrick, and The Recoys, whose members included Leithauser and Bauer. The three members from Jonathan Fire*Eater, borrowed money from their family and friends to construct a rehearsal space in Harlem. The rehearsal space featured a 24-track recording studio and was dubbed Marcata Studios.

The newly formed band, who wished to distance themselves from the garage rock sounds of previous bands, released a self-titled EP of songs in 2001 on Startime International, a small Brooklyn-based record label. Shortly after the release of the EP, which featured a blend of upright pianos and other vintage instruments, the Walkmen made their official live debut with a performance at Joe's Pub in the East Village.

The 2002 debut album Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone, released by Startime, was well received by critics. The album was noted for its innovative approach to atmosphere and instrumentation, with sparse bass and drums complemented by plinking piano, jangly guitars and Leithauser's unique vocal stylings. Two of the songs on the album, "The Blizzard of '96" and "That's the Punchline", were adaptations of tracks meant for The Recoys' unreleased full-length album.

Critics compared the results of the album to past work by U2 and The Cure as a result of the uniqueness of its sound as compared to other contemporary New York City bands such as The Strokes. One of the album's songs, "We've Been Had", was featured in a commercial for a Saturn Ion automobile.

2004–2005: Bows + Arrows and "The Rat"
The band's follow-up album, Bows + Arrows, was released on the Record Collection label in 2004 and was listed by many critics as one of the year's best albums. The album was recorded in 2003 at Marcata Recording in New York City, Sweet Tea Studios in Oxford, MS, Easley-McCain Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, and The Magic Shop in New York City. The album spawned singles for the songs "The Rat" and "Little House of Savages". Critical success of the album led the band to perform on the popular Fox series The O.C. Bows + Arrows was noted for containing a more immediate and focused sound than its predecessor; both "The Rat" and "Little House of Savages" were seen as stark contrasts to much of the band's past outputs.

2006–2008: A Hundred Miles Off and Pussy Cats
Their next album, A Hundred Miles Off, was released in the U.S. on May 23, 2006. The band premiered most of the new songs on a tour of the Northeast in early 2006. The first single to be released was "Louisiana", which featured an upbeat chorus of horns. Peter Bauer and Walter Martin traded musical instruments on the new album, with Bauer handling the organ duties and Martin playing bass. The album found the band refocusing its sound toward folk sounds, unlike their previous two albums; though the change in direction was lauded by some critics, other reviews were often mixed.

The band was forced to close Marcata Studios that same year after Columbia University purchased the building it resided in. The band released another full-length album, "Pussy Cats" Starring the Walkmen, a track-by-track cover of Harry Nilsson and John Lennon's 1974 album Pussy Cats, as a farewell to their studio's Harlem location.

2009–2011: You & Me and Lisbon
Their next studio album, You & Me, became available on July 29, 2008, as an exclusive charitable pre-release on indie music website Amie Street. The Walkmen made the album available for $5 on Amie Street, with all proceeds donated to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. During its first week of sales, the album charted at No. 29 on Billboard's Top Digital Albums. The album was made available on physical formats on August 19, 2008. The album was recorded at Sweet Tea Studios in Oxford, MS, with John Agnello, and at Gigantic Studios in New York City with Chris Zane. The album artwork featured photographs by Fred J. Maroon, guitarist Paul Maroon's father.

The Walkmen recorded 13 songs for their album Lisbon in five days in August 2009 with John Congleton and Chris Zane. They had been playing several of the songs since the summer of 2009. They recorded "something like 28 songs", but included only 11 on the album. In support of the new album, the Walkmen performed at All Tomorrow Parties in May 2010, Lollapalooza in early August 2010, and the Reading and Leeds Festivals at the end of August 2010. Lisbon was released on September 14, 2010, on the label Fat Possum records. Initial reviews have been favorable, with Pitchfork Media awarding the album 8.6/10, and PopMatters rating it 7/10. The band embarked on a fall tour of North America and Europe to support their new release.

2012–2013: Heaven
In March 2012, Pitchfork announced that Heaven would be out that June. The album was completed in early March, with the band writing on their website: "Hi everyone. Our album is finally done and we're thrilled with it. We can't wait to get it out there." They released the song "Heaven" via Pitchfork on April 16, 2012, sparking the website to give the title "Best New Track" on the same day.

The Walkmen toured in early 2012 for the 10th anniversary of Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone.

Heaven was released on May 29, 2012, to positive reviews. Pitchfork rated it 8.1, and Stereogum called it the second-best album of the year. American Songwriter said that Heaven is "arguably their best, and certainly most accomplished album yet." Still in Rock gave the album a 7.8 rating and made a selection of the best tracks on the album.

The music video for the album's tenth track, "The Love You Love", was shot at the infamous Baleroy Mansion in Philadelphia by the band who was looking for a haunted site. The song "Heaven" was also used as the closing song on the series finale of the hit CBS show How I Met Your Mother.

2014–present: Hiatus and 2023 reunion tour
At the close of the band's tour for Heaven, in December 2013, the band entered an extended hiatus.

In October 2020, Hamilton Leithauser was asked about the possibility of a Walkmen reunion during a Reddit AMA, to which he replied: "No plans right now, but I guess stranger things are happening every fifteen minutes right now... so you never know."

In November 2022 they announced that, after a ten-year hiatus, they would reunite to play several shows in April 2023, in New York City. In April 2023 they played a reunion show on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, followed by a show in Rhode Island and several more in Webster Hall, in New York City. In May 2023, they announced 29 additional shows on their 2023 reunion tour: in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Boston in May; in several European festivals and cities in June and August; and in Nashville, Minneapolis, the U.S. West Coast, Austin, and Toronto in September and October.

EPs

 * The Walkmen (June 26, 2001)
 * Let's Live Together (March 25, 2002)
 * Untitled (Black cover, with eight songs) (April 3, 2002)
 * Untitled (White cover, with eight songs) (April 3, 2002)
 * Split (with Calla) (September 17, 2002)
 * Christmas Party (2004)
 * Daytrotter Session, March 2008 (Leonard Cohen covers)
 * Daytrotter Session, August 2008 (Neil Hagerty covers)
 * Live Session (iTunes Exclusive) (August 12, 2009)

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Talk:Ecgberht, King of Wessex

Semi-protected edit request on 11 April 2017
However, Redburga or Raedburh (788c-839) may have been the wife of king Egbert of Wessex and may have been the sister-in-law of Charlemagne as the sister of his fourth wife, Luitgard; other sources describe her as his sister (although Charlemagne's only sister was named Gisela) or his great-granddaughter (which would be difficult to accomplish in the forty-six years after Charlemagne's birth) or the daughter of his sister-in-law or his niece. Some genealogies identify her as the granddaughter of Pepin the Short and great-granddaughter of Charles Martel; other scholars doubt that she existed at all, other than as a name in a much later manuscript. Her existence might have been forged to link the early Kings of England to the great West Emperor.

She appears in a medieval manuscript from Oxford and is described as "regis Francorum sororia" which translates as "sister to the King of the Franks". More specifically, sororia means "pertaining to someone's sister", hence sister-in-law. Pwhiteco (talk) 12:33, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * You've just had this answered already. Richard75 (talk) 13:26, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Name of article
Academic works are increasingly spelling his name Ecgberht, and I think the time may have come for us to follow suit. Stenton Anglo-Saxon England 1971, Abels, Alfred the Great 1998, and New Cambridge Medieval History II 1995 have Egbert, but Foot, Æthelstan 2011, Charles-Edwards, Wales and the Britons 2013, Blair, The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society 2005, Hart, The Danelaw 1992, Smyth, King Alfred the Great 1995, Pratt, The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great 2007, Handbook of British Chronology 3rd ed 1986, Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia 1999 and 2014 eds, Higham and Ryan, The Anglo-Saxon World, have Ecgberht. I suggest changing to "Ecgberht of Wessex", or better still "Ecgberht, King of Wessex". Dudley Miles (talk) 10:50, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

I'm not opposed, but I'd like to see what happens if we add a few more sources to the list. Sorting the ones you list, and splitting by line so we can sort by date or reliability if we want to, and also so we can see if an individual author has changed practice over time: I'll go through my refs and add some more, probably in a couple of days. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:21, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Egbert
 * The Age of Bede 1965 (1988 revision) (only Egbert of Kent)
 * Stenton Anglo-Saxon England 1971
 * Anglo-Saxon England 5 1976 (uses Egbert for the king of Wessex and Ecgberht for others of that name)
 * Wood In Search of the Dark Ages 1981
 * Campbell The Anglo-Saxons 1982 (1991 edition)
 * Wormald et al ed. Ideal & Reality in Frankish & Anglo-Saxon Society 1983
 * Loyn The Governance of Anglo-Saxon England 1984
 * Yorke, Kings and Kingdoms 1990
 * New Cambridge Medieval History II 1995
 * Williams Wessex in the Early Middle Ages 1995
 * Abels, Alfred the Great 1998
 * Campbell The Anglo-Saxon State 2000
 * Walker Mercia 2000 (uses Egbert for the king of Wessex and Ecgberht for others of that name)
 * Keynes/Lapidge (Asser) Alfred the Great 1983, 2004 printing
 * Ecgberht
 * Handbook of British Chronology 3rd ed 1986
 * Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain 1991
 * Hart, The Danelaw 1992
 * Kirby, Earliest English Kings 1992
 * Smyth, King Alfred the Great 1995
 * John, Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England 1996
 * Wormald The Making of English Law 1999
 * Williams Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England 1999
 * Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia 1999 and 2014 eds,
 * Edwards, Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
 * Blair, The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society 2005
 * Pratt, The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great 2007
 * A Companion to the Early Middle Ages'' 2009
 * Foot, Æthelstan 2011
 * Roach, Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England 2013
 * Charles-Edwards, Wales and the Britons 2013
 * Higham and Ryan The Anglo-Saxon World 2013
 * Molyneux, The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century 2015
 * Ecgbert
 * Yorke, The Conversion of Britain, 2006
 * Woolf From Pictland to Alba 2007
 * Williams used Ecgberht in the Biographical Dictionary 1991, Egbert in Wessex in the Early Middle Ages 1995, and Ecgberht in Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England 1999. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:16, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Added some more above. Zaluckyj Mercia 2001 doesn't mention our guy, but uses both spellings for others of that name; Higham, An English Empire, 1995 uses Egbert but only for others of that name. I don't think these can be counted as evidence in either direction.  Overall it does like the tide is turning.  Is this enough for a move of the title or should we wait a few more years?  We're not an academic publication, and the redirects are there, after all. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 19:05, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
 * As Egbert isn't actually wrong I'd just leave it as it is. Richard75 (talk) 23:08, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I favour a change, but as there is no consensus, I will start a formal reqested move. Dudley Miles (talk) 09:02, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 6 August 2017

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The result of the move request was: Moved to Ecgberht, King of Wessex per nom. No such user (talk) 09:59, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Egbert of Wessex → Ecgberht, King of Wessex – Wikipedia policy is that titles should reflect reliable sources, and the list of works above shows that, apart from one reprint, the spelling 'Egbert' has not been used in academic works since 2000. This is long enough to establish an academic consensus against the spelling, and Ecgberht is now much the most common spelling. This case is similar to the change from Canute to Cnut at. Adding "KIng of Wessex" is more informative than "of Wessex" for readers, as with Stephen, King of England, John, King of England and many others. Dudley Miles (talk) 09:17, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd like to propose a move to Egbert, King of Wessex, as King of Wessex is obviously better, but Egbert isn't the wrong spelling (see discussion in above section). Richard75 (talk) 10:24, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator. For an example of the suggested spelling, see Ecgberht of Kent. Dudley Miles (talk) 16:48, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

 * Weak support for the change to "Ecgberht"; I think it's clearly going that way and is likely to have to move eventually, if not now. For the "King of Wessex" part I'd like to see more evidence -- I think I've seen both. And would it better to make that part of the move a more global change to the whole set of AS kings? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:51, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

 * Pre-Conquest kings are usually shown without their title. Two exceptions are Æthelberht, King of Wessex and Æthelbald, King of Wessex, both changed after moves I proposed, the latter with Mike Christie's support. Post-Conquest monarchs are generally shown without their title if they have a number, such as Elizabeth I of England, but with their title if they are unnumbered, as Anne, Queen of Great Britain. This seems reasonable as the number signals to the reader that the article is about a monarch, but x of y does not, and I would support a global proposal to bring pre-Conquest monarchs' titles in line with post-Conquest ones.

 * The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia and the Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain both have 'Ecgberht, king of Wessex', whereas DNB has 'Ecgberht, king of the West Saxons'. These sources use lower case 'king', but I do not think we should go against the Wikipedia practice of capitalising titles. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:06, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I would support a global proposal to change the pre-Conquest names to include the title. I'm neutral on moving this one; there doesn't seem to be much point unless we do a global proposal.  Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 20:49, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Reversing what I said above, on reflection I doubt whether a global move is practical. There would be too many to change and too many issues with them. I have very little knowledge of the earlier kings, but taking the later ones, there would be many disagreements. There are some with well known names which should not be changed, such as Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, Edward the Martyr and Æthelred the Unready. I would change Edgar the Peaceful to Edgar, King of England, but this might be opposed by other editors. I successfully proposed changing Æthelwulf of Wessex to Æthelwulf. Æthelwulf, King of Wessex would arguably be better, but I would be reluctant to re-open the discussion. I think each case has to be looked at individually. Dudley Miles (talk) 22:18, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

 * Support.--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 00:43, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

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Requested move 4 January 2022

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 16:22, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

– Almost all of the earlier rulers of Wessex are titled as. Putting these articles in that format will help to maintain consistency. Векочел (talk) 07:24, 4 January 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. -- Aervanath (talk) 16:02, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Ecgberht, King of Wessex → Ecgberht of Wessex
 * Æthelwulf, King of Wessex → Æthelwulf of Wessex
 * Æthelbald, King of Wessex → Æthelbald of Wessex
 * Æthelberht, King of Wessex → Æthelberht of Wessex

Oppose. This would reverse a move four years ago and article names should not keep chopping and changing. Having 'King of' is clearer for readers and is consistent with NCNOB where there is no ordinal, for example Stephen, King of England and Anne, Queen of Great Britain. Dudley Miles (talk) 09:45, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
 * But as one user noted on a a recent move request,, because To apply the rules of WP:NCROY to the rulers of Wessex  Векочел (talk) 01:47, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
 * The guidance says "These following conventions apply to European monarchs since the fall of the Western Roman Empire (but not to the Byzantine Emperors), because they share much the same stock of names." The Merovingians are excluded because they "use a completely different namestock". Anglo-Saxon names are part of the common stock. Some like Alfred and Edward are still used, others like Egbert and Ethelbert are still used but retain their Old English spelling for Anglo-Saxon people, some have passed out of common use. The guidance does not exclude specific names which have passed out of general use or are now spelled differently. Dudley Miles (talk) 08:56, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
 * The Merovingian names Chlothar, Clovis and Theudebald are just Lothair, Louis and Theobald. Theuderic never became a common royal name, but it isn't rare in modern forms (Dirk, Dietrich, Derek). I think conventional spelling differences matter here. Srnec (talk) 01:37, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
 * That is to argue that Merovingian names have been wrongly classed as a "completely different namestock", not that Anglo-Saxon are rightly so classified. Dudley Miles (talk) 10:06, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * Oppose. I disagree with the logic of the recent Move Request that WP:NCROY should not apply. Rreagan007 (talk) 23:26, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * A comment on the titles of these four rulers: Most if not all other Anglo-Saxon rulers are titled as instead of . Hence, if we insist on keeping Ecgberht, King of Wessex, then we should standardise it so that an article like Offa of Mercia becomes Offa, King of Mercia. Векочел (talk) 03:29, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Support for consistency. Векочел is correct. These are the only Anglo-Saxon monarchs that use this form of title. Srnec (talk) 03:19, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Broken Link?
Ecgbert's Charters.

http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=find&type=charter&page=&archive=&kingdom=&king=Ecgberht+%28of+Wessex%29&sawyer=&text=&display=JUST_BLURB appears to go to a blank page. Artowalos (talk) 08:55, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

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Comparison of file archivers

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file archivers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. They are neither all-inclusive nor are some entries necessarily up to date. Unless otherwise specified in the footnotes section, comparisons are based on the stable versions—without add-ons, extensions or external programs.

General information
Basic general information about the archivers.

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Operating system support
The operating systems the archivers can run on without emulation or compatibility layer. Ubuntu's own GUI Archive manager, for example, can open and create many archive formats (including Rar archives) even to the extent of splitting into parts and encryption and ability to be read by the native program. This is presumably a "compatibility layer."

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Archiver features
Information about what common archiver features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).

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Reading
Information about what archive formats the archivers can read. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the archiver or extensions that provide such functionality. Note that gzip, bzip2 and xz are compression formats rather than archive formats.

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Writing
Information about what archive formats the archivers can write and create. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the archiver or extensions that provide such functionality. Note that gzip, bzip2 and xz are compression formats rather than archive formats.

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Uncommon archive format support
PeaZip has full support for Brotli, Zstandard, various LPAQ and PAQ formats, QUAD / BALZ / BCM (highly efficient ROLZ based compressors), FreeArc format, and for its native PEA format.

7-Zip includes read support for .msi, cpio and xar, plus Apple's dmg/HFS disk images and the deb/.rpm package distribution formats; beta versions (9.07 onwards) have full support for the LZMA2-compressed .xz format.

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Maligne Lake

Maligne Lake is a lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. The lake is famed for the colour of its azure water, the surrounding peaks, the three glaciers visible from the lake, and Spirit Island, a frequently and very famously photographed islet. The lake is located 44 km south of Jasper town, and is accessible by motor vehicle, including shuttle buses from Jasper. Boat tours run to Spirit Island in the spring to autumn season. The 44 km Skyline Trail, Jasper's most popular, highest and above treeline, multi-day hike, begins at Maligne Lake and finishes near the town of Jasper. Other popular day hikes include the Opal Hills and Bald Hills loops. Winter activities include cross-country skiing and snowboarding.

Maligne Lake is approximately 22.5 km long and is 97 m at its deepest point, in the south end of the lake. It averages 35 m in depth. It sits at approximately 1670 m asl. Easily visible from the Maligne Lake Day Lodge are Leah and Samson Peaks and Mount Paul to the east, and Mounts Charlton, Unwin, Mary Vaux and Llysfran Peak to the south and west. The Charlton-Unwin, Maligne, and Coronet glaciers are visible from the lake, which boasts a self-sustaining population of introduced rainbow trout and brook trout. It is a popular spot for sport fishing, kayaking and canoeing. Parks Canada maintains three camping sites, accessible only by canoe, at Hidden Cove, Fisherman's Bay and Coronet Creek. Maligne Lake is fed and drained by the Maligne River, which enters the lake on its south side, near Mount Unwin and drains the lake to the north. Maligne Lake, as well as Maligne River, Maligne Mountain, and Maligne Pass, takes its name from the French word for malignant or wicked. The name was used by Father Pierre-Jean De Smet (1801–1873) to describe the turbulent river that flows from the lake (in the spring), and soon spread to the lake, canyon, pass, mountain and range. It is also possible that early French traders applied the name to the river for its treacherous confluence with the Athabasca River.

History
The lake was well known to First Nations of the area, including Samson Beaver, who knew it as Chaba Imne ("Beaver Lake"). He drew the first map of the lake and the route to it for Mary Schäffer in 1907. Schäffer was an explorer and artist of the Rocky Mountains area who, being the first non-native to visit Chabna Imne, was accredited with the discovery; which she attached the name Maligne Lake. The first European to actually see the lake was Henry McLeod, scouting routes for the CPR in 1875. When he sighted it, he was high in the mountain range and did not actually go into the lake area or identify the route to the lake. June 8, 1908, with the help of Samson Beaver's map, Schäffer, her travelling companion Mary (Mollie) Adams and the guides Billy Warren and Sid Unwin, set out from Lake Louise to reach the lake. When they arrived at the lake, they explored it with the means of a raft, nicknamed HMS Chaba. At the request of the Canadian government, Schäffer returned in 1911 to survey the lake in more detail. She also named several of the mountains and peaks. Mary Schäffer's books of the area attracted tourists from all over the United States.

Maligne Lake is the location of two Alberta registered historic buildings, the Maligne Lake Chalet and accompanying guest house, washhouse, and cache, all built in 1927 by Colonel Fred Brewster as a part of his "Rocky Mountain Camps". For a time, the Maligne Lake Chalet was the largest, most luxurious accommodation in Jasper National Park. The other historic building is the boathouse, built by Donald "Curly" Phillips in 1928 to accommodate his wilderness guiding and fishing business. In the same year, he finished construction of the first Maligne Lake tour boat, Leah (named for Leah Samson, wife of Samson Beaver). Philips resided in his boathouse until his death in an avalanche (1936, aged 52). The historic buildings are maintained by Maligne Lake Tours, a company that dates back to Brewster's and Philips' early entrepreneurial endeavours.

Curly Philips is credited with stocking Maligne Lake with brook trout, packed overland in barrels. Then in the 1970 Parks Canada decided to introduce rainbow trout to make sport fishing in the lake more difficult. The largest rainbow trout in Alberta was subsequently caught in this lake (20 lb) by the means of sport fishing. The record fish was mounted and is currently owned by Currie's Guiding and Tackle, Jasper. Jasper National Park staff later introduced brook trout. The third largest brook trout in the world was also sport fished from this lake and is owned by David Robson of Hinton, Alberta.

Ecology
Wildlife is surprisingly abundant along this high altitude oligotrophic lake. Grizzly bear, black bear, mule deer, caribou, wolves, moose, and mountain sheep are some of the larger mammals that frequent the lake area during the summer season. Bald eagles, golden eagles and osprey also frequent the area and live off the fish populations.

In popular culture
Maligne Lake is the subject of a major painting by Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris. Harris and fellow Group of Seven painter A. Y. Jackson spent August and early September 1924 sketching in Jasper National Park, camping at the south end of the lake. Harris completed the painting "Maligne Lake, Jasper Park" later that year, a turning point in his career as the first of many paintings inspired by his expeditions to the Rocky Mountains. The painting was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada in 1928, where it is on display as part of the gallery's permanent collection.

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Creed & Company

Creed & Company was a British telecommunications company founded by Frederick George Creed which was an important pioneer in the field of teleprinter machines. It was merged into the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) in 1928.

History
The company was founded by Frederick George Creed and Danish telegraph engineer Harald Bille, and was first incorporated in 1912 as "Creed, Bille & Company Limited". After Bille's death in a railway accident in 1916, his name was dropped from the company's title and it became simply Creed & Company.

The Company spent most of World War I producing high-quality instruments, manufacturing facilities for which were very limited at that time in the UK. Among the items produced were amplifiers, spark-gap transmitters, aircraft compasses, high-voltage generators, bomb release apparatus, and fuses for artillery shells and bombs.

In 1924 Creed entered the teleprinter field with their Model 1P, which was soon superseded by the improved Model 2P. In 1925 Creed acquired the patents for Donald Murray's Murray code, a rationalised Baudot code, and it was used for their new Model 3 Tape Teleprinter of 1927. This machine printed received messages directly onto gummed paper tape at a rate of 65 words per minute and was the first combined start-stop transmitter-receiver teleprinter from Creed to enter mass production.

Some of the key models were:
 * Creed model 6S (punched paper tape reader)
 * Creed model 7 (page printing teleprinter introduced in 1931)
 * Creed model 7B (50 baud page printing teleprinter)
 * Creed model 7E (page printing teleprinter with overlap cam and range finder)
 * Creed model 7/TR (non-printing teleprinter reperforator)
 * Creed model 54 (page printing teleprinter introduced in 1954)
 * Creed model 75 (page printing teleprinter introduced in 1958)
 * Creed model 85 (printing reperforator introduced in 1948)
 * Creed model 86 (printing reperforator using 7/8" wide tape)
 * Creed model 444 (page printing teleprinter introduced in 1966 - GPO type 15)

In July 1928, Creed & Company were merged into ITT.

During World War II Creed Company manufactured some of the British Typex machines, cipher devices similar to the German Enigma machine.

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Blue Danube

Blue Danube may refer to:
 * "The Blue Danube", a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II
 * The Blue Danube (1926 film), a German silent film directed by Frederic Zelnik
 * The Blue Danube (1928 film), an American silent film starring Leatrice Joy
 * The Blue Danube (1932 film), a British film
 * The Blue Danube (1939 film). an American cartoon film by Hugh Harman
 * The Blue Danube (1940 film), an American drama film
 * The Blue Danube (1955 film), an Austrian film
 * Blue Danube (nuclear weapon), the first British operational nuclear weapon
 * Blue Danube (band), an Austrian band who represented their country in the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest
 * Blue Danube Radio, an English-language radio station in Vienna
 * Blue Danube, or Blue Onion, a porcelain pattern
 * Blue Danube (album)

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Lampoldshausen

Lampoldshausen is a small village on the southern edge of the Harthausen Forest near Möckmühl in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Aerospace Village
Within the global Aerospace community Lampoldshausen is known as Aerospace Village by the Institute of space propulsion of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for research and hot firing test of rocket engines, especially for Ariane launchers as well as the Orbital Propulsion Centre of ArianeGroup, the European competence centre for spacecraft propulsion.

The ArianeGroup site is the European competence centre for development and production of satellite and orbital platform propulsion systems. It produces chemical and electrical propulsion systems, high-precision components for satellite and launcher attitude control systems, and the complete UPS (Unified Propulsion System).

Additionally, Lampoldshausen is part of the Community of Ariane Cities (CVA).

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Home Computer Initiative

The Home Computing Initiative (HCI) was a UK Government program which allowed employers to provide personal computers, software and computer peripherals to their employees without the benefit being taxed as a salary. The HCI was introduced in 1999 to improve the IT literacy of the British workforce. It was also aimed at bridging Britain's digital divide - the increasing gap between those who have access to, and the skills to use, information technology, and those who do not. The program gained traction after four years, in 2003 after it was re-branded. The Trade Union Congress and the Department of Trade and Industry also made the initiative more user-friendly by publishing standard guideline that employers could easily adopt.

The HCI program was a lease agreement between the employer and the employee. The agreement usually lasted for three years, costing a maximum of £500 a year. At the end of the lease period, the employee was given the option to purchase the computer at its market value, which was typically £10 at that time.

The HCI scheme was very popular. More than 1250 firms, employing 4.5 million people, had adopted the scheme.

Discontinuation
On 23 March 2006, in his UK Budget, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced the removal of HCI tax exemption for employer-loaned computers. the HCI program was discontinued. The move was made without any consultation with the employers or employees' bodies, a stark contrast to the extensive consultation that preceded its creation.

The Treasury of the United Kingdom made initial claims that the scheme's consumers were being dominated by higher-rate taxpayers. However, research by the HCI Alliance found that 75% of employees who purchased personal computers through the HCI were basic or starting rate taxpayers and 50% were "blue collar" workers. The HCI Alliance, created in 2003, was a group of industry leaders who worked together with the UK Government. Their aim was to increase access to personal computing in the UK.

Another reason for the HCI being cancelled was that computers had become relatively more affordable. Most people in the workplace had access to computers and therefore, the purpose of the scheme had been achieved.

In the days following the budget announcement, a significant lobbying campaign ensued, resulting in the treasury announcing that it would consider alternatives to HCI in its current format rather than disbanding it altogether. This led to the creation of the Educational Technology Allowance.

Educational Technology Allowance
In 2008, the Gordon Brown administration announced the £300 million Educational Technology Allowance incentive. The program granted up to £700 to low-income households with schooling children who had no internet access at home. The policy was aimed towards helping approximately 1.4 million children who did not have access to a broadband connection at home. The program was piloted in two local authority areas in 2010 and was completely rolled out across England in 2011. The funding for the Educational Technology Allowance came from the Children's and Schools budget.

The money could be used by families to pay for computer equipment, technical support and cabling in the street, if necessary. The Educational Technology Allowance was not offered in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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