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On the Buses

On the Buses is a British television sitcom that was broadcast on ITV from 1969 to 1973. It was created by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, who wrote most of the episodes. It spawned three spin-off feature films and a stage version. Despite the writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife with the BBC, the corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to Frank Muir, head of entertainment at London Weekend Television (LWT), who loved the idea; the show was accepted, and despite a poor critical reception became a hit with viewers.

The series is centred on the working-class life of Stan Butler and Jack Harper, who are the crew of the Number 11 bus at the Luxton and District Motor Traction Company. The action mostly takes place at the Butler home and at the bus depot. Network On Air describes the show as having a "bawdy, comic postcard humour and resolutely working-class outlook", and notes the series became "one of the most popular British comedy series of its era, if not all time."

Main characters

 * Reg Varney as Stanley "Stan" Butler – a bus driver who works for the Luxton and District Traction Company along with Jack and Blakey. He lives with his mother Mabel, sister Olive and brother-in-law Arthur. Stan frequently chats up the clippies at the bus depot and his antics often include concocting schemes to bunk off work, gain favour from women or solve predicaments caused by his family. Though he is rarely serious, has a disregard for authority and is rude to women he deems unattractive, Stan is ultimately good-natured at heart and tries to help those he cares for. While he loves his family, he frequently subjects sister Olive and brother-in-law Arthur to jokes at their expense, and is frequently irritated by his mother's traditional morals and rules. Due to his playboy attitude towards women and carefree approach to life, he is oftentimes blind or ignorant of his own issues such as his health, appearance and success. He mostly triumphs over his rival Inspector Blake, but on occasion has fallen foul of the inspector's wrath.
 * Cicely Courtneidge (series 1) and Doris Hare (series 2–7 & films) as Mabel Butler ("Mum"), Stan's mother. She is a maiden in distress when it comes to money. The Butler household is forever losing money and regularly getting the electricity cut off. Mabel is frequently caught up in arguments between Arthur, Olive and Stan but manages to retain a sense of maternal order over them. She is moral, believing in the sanctity of marriage and family, as well as criticising licentious behaviour in women. Despite her strong moral compass however, she sometimes turns a blind eye to Stan's equally sultry ways and near-criminal high jinks at his job.
 * Anna Karen as Olive Rudge, Stan's sister. Olive is always being criticised by her husband Arthur, even though she helps her mum with household jobs and frequently helps Stan with the decorating. Olive has twice been a clippie at the bus depot, both times being unsuccessful. She is always wanting "an early night" with Arthur, much to his displeasure.
 * Michael Robbins as Arthur Rudge, Stan's brother-in-law. Somewhat aloof and stuck-up, he frequently resists Olive's intimate advances. His hospital operation is a frequent source of ridicule from Stan and Jack. Although the nature of the procedure is never disclosed, it is implied to have been a vasectomy or a hernia. Arthur is always tampering with his motorbike, which usually falls apart. Arthur has a mother (played by Gillian Lind) and a younger sister called Linda (played by Helen Fraser) who both appeared in the episode "Boxing Day Social".
 * Bob Grant as Jack Harper, Stan's scheming, workshy conductor and best friend, who also happens to be his next-door neighbour (although throughout the series he regularly attempts to discredit Stan by underhanded means, such as innuendo, accusation or the like, and steals Stan's girlfriends on several occasions). He and Stan are always getting into trouble and getting reprimanded by Inspector Blake. Whether it is tampering with radio controls, putting "diversion" road signs in the wrong places or going on dates with the buxom clippies, they are always getting into scrapes. Jack is also the shop steward of the bus depot, and frequently abuses his position to thwart Blakey's schemes, usually with the catchphrase "As shop steward I am here to tell you.....".
 * Stephen Lewis as Cyril "Blakey" Blake – the inspector at the bus depot. Whenever there is a "brilliant idea" at the bus depot, it is usually Blakey's. These are usually elaborate schemes to temper Stan's and Jack's frequent insubordination, or to entrap them in their misadventures in a bid to get them fired. However, Blakey's schemes typically backfire with hilarious consequences, and land him either in trouble with the general manager or in hospital. On occasion, Blakey sometimes scores a minor victory over Stan and Jack, outsmarting their attempts to deceive or bunk off work, but these are usually short-lived and the pair gain the upper hand in the end.

Recurring characters

 * Michael Sheard as the general manager of the bus depot who is seen frequently throughout the seventh and final series. He often argues with Blakey about something that the latter has done. He was also the judge at the gardening competition in the episode "Gardening Time". Sheard also played the general manager in the Holiday On The Buses film.
 * Madeleine Mills and Sandra Miller as the inspector's niece. She was played twice by Mills and twice by Miller. In her first two appearances, she and Stan are in a relationship; in the second they are engaged, but split up after a tea party at Stan's house. In her third appearance she married Bill, a bus driver at the depot. She also appeared in the episode "The New Nurse".
 * Sandra Bryant as Sandra, a clippie at the bus depot. Her character is seen frequently throughout the seventh and final series. In the first episode of the seventh series, she goes on a date with Stan to the cinema, until Olive comes along too, she also appears in Holiday On The Buses.
 * Terry Duggan and Norman Mitchell as Nobby – one of the bus depot's mechanics. (Duggan also made an appearance as a passenger in some episodes of the TV series, and reprised the role of Nobby in the first On The Buses film). He often assists Stan and Jack in their typical schemes and misadventures. In real-life Duggan was married to Anna Karen (Olive).

Series production
A total of 74 episodes of On the Buses were broadcast over seven series. Three spin-off films were also released.

All episodes and films of On The Buses were set in the fictional town of Luxton.

At the beginning of the seventh series Arthur, who is not seen, has left Olive and they are divorced. Olive again gets a job as a clippie on the buses as they are short of money. Stan takes a job in the north of England in a car factory in the "Goodbye Stan" episode, and the inspector takes Stan's old room as a lodger.

In addition, two five-minute Christmas specials were made by LWT as part of an All Star Comedy Carnival in 1969 and 1972, ITV's answer to the BBC's Christmas Night with the Stars programme. The 1969 edition has been lost, but the 1972 edition – featuring a goose that the cast are chasing for Christmas dinner – exists in the Thames Television archive, which is now owned by FremantleMedia.

Reg Varney undertook a PCV driving test in order to be filmed driving the bus for the exterior scenes.

The earlier series were recorded at London Weekend Television's original studios in Wembley (later Fountain Studios). In late 1972, LWT relocated to new studios on the South Bank of the River Thames; here the outside doors to the main and secondary studios were too small to accommodate the double-decker buses used in the series. Therefore, single decker buses were used and a plywood mock-up of an upper deck was lowered from a lighting rig.

Filmed external shots were part of the series. LWT arranged with the now defunct Eastern National Omnibus Company to use its buses at Wood Green bus garage in North London. They were shown as belonging to Luxton and District. Luxton is supposed to be in Essex, and actual Essex towns including Southend-on-Sea, Basildon, Braintree and Tilbury are all mentioned. One of the bus route termini was "Cemetery Gates", for which LWT used the entrance to Lavender Hill Cemetery. A different Lavender Hill in Battersea also features in the last episode of the last series, featuring the town hall (now the Battersea Arts Centre).

The fourth series was affected by the ITV Colour Strike, with seven of the 13 episodes being made in black and white.

Characters from On The Buses appeared in two other series. A spin-off, Don't Drink the Water (1974–75), ran for 13 episodes, featuring Blake retiring to Spain with his sister Dorothy (Pat Coombs - who also played one of the female bus drivers in the first On The Buses film). Anna Karen reprised her role as Olive in LWT's revival of The Rag Trade, which ran for two series in 1977–78.

Theme music
The theme music for the series, entitled "Happy Harry", was written by Tony Russell.

Featured buses
The red Town & District buses were Bristol KSWs with Eastern Coach Works bodies. These were former Eastern National. Stan's and Jack's "regular" bus appeared to be VNO 857.

The green Luxton & District buses were Bristol Lodekkas with bodywork by Eastern Coach Works of Lowestoft. In reality these were Eastern National buses (in some episodes buses could be seen with Eastern National on the side), although as mentioned earlier, the later interior depot shots were in fact 'dummy' buses. Some 'dummy' buses were real single-deck buses with a wooden frame on top, such as in the Series 3 episode "Radio Control", when the bus has crashed into the bridge. The most commonly used bus in the series was AVW 399F. In later episodes the ENB symbol appears next to Luxton & District.

Stan's usual buses, AVW 399F and AEV 811F, are both still extant; one is in Lille, France, the other in Los Angeles, California.

In the first episode of series 6, former London Transport bus Leyland Titan PD2 RTL1557 (OLD 666) is featured and burnt out.

Broadcast and repeats
The original series was repeated on Granada Plus in 1996 and until the channel closed in 2004, and was later repeated on UK Gold and then from 2004 onward on ITV3, where it was still seen as of November 2023. Fox Classics on the Australian Fox cable network and New Zealand's Jones channel on Sky regularly show the series. As of August 2018, the series is broadcast by Dutch 'oldies' cable channel ONS.

Region 1
Visual Entertainment released On the Buses: The Ultimate Collection, an 11-disc box set featuring the complete series on DVD on 12 September 2006.

Region 2
Network released On the Buses: The Complete Series box set on DVD on 13 November 2006 for the first time, then again on 25 May 2008 in a new repackaged version. It has also released each series individually.

Region 4
Beyond Home Entertainment released the entire series on DVD in seven series sets between 2 July 2007 and 8 April 2009. Between 2008 and 2009 Series 1 to Series 5 were repacked into standard DVD cases as original releases were in gatefold digipaks with a slip box. In 2010 they released The Complete Series 11-DVD box set. In 2010, the individual series were re-released through ITV Studios. Season 1 and Season 2 were released separately (previously released together) on 5 September 2012, and Seasons 4 and Season 5 on 6 February 2013; it is unknown whether remaining seasons will be issued. The complete Series was repackaged and re-released on 7 August 2013. On 21 November 2018, On The Buses: The Complete Collection was reissued and distributed by Shock Entertainment.

Critical reception
Despite the popularity of On the Buses with sections of the public, TV reviewers and historians have generally held the show in lower regard. In its section on situation comedies, The Guinness Book of Classic British TV describes On the Buses as ITV's "longest running and most self-consciously unfunny series". TV reviewer Victor Lewis-Smith later criticised the then head of London Weekend Television, Frank Muir, for green-lighting the programme, which Lewis-Smith called "the wretched On the Buses". The Daily Telegraph journalist Max Davidson, discussing 1970s British comedy, listed On the Buses as one of the "unfunny sitcoms of the time", while The Guardian's David Stubbs referred to On the Buses as "a byword for 70s sitcom mediocrity".

On The Buses is sometimes used as an example of the sort of sexism that was rife in society in the 1960s and 1970s, occurring after the freedoms of sexual liberation, but before the rise of feminism; in particular, the derision towards one of the main female characters (Olive Rudge) for being unattractive, and the fact that younger attractive bus staff would be regularly looking to have sex with the two main middle-aged male characters (Varney and Grant, who by the time of the release of the first film in 1971, were 55 and 39 respectively). Some episodes of the show also featured a black character humorously referred to as Chalky, which would be construed as racist by modern standards.

Films
The three spin-off films were produced by Hammer Film Productions. They are On the Buses (1971), Mutiny on the Buses (1972), and Holiday on the Buses (1973), set in a holiday camp. On the Buses became Britain's top box office film of 1971.

The films were set in a different canon to the series – in the films, Arthur and Olive manage to have a child despite their apparently sexless marriage and Arthur's 'operation' – the exact nature of which was never explicitly revealed. Arthur's operation is mentioned in the first film, but later Olive gives birth to their baby son. The three films follow a loose story arc which shows their son (Little Arthur) growing up. Olive is pregnant with a second child at the end of Mutiny, but no mention of this was made in the third film, Holiday, set mainly in a holiday camp. The bus depot becomes that of The Town & District Bus Company instead of The Luxton & District Traction Company. The buses in the films are mostly red ones, with one green one (not including the Windsor Safari Park tour bus in Mutiny On The Buses).

American adaptation
The format of On the Buses was sold to America, where it was remade by NBC as Lotsa Luck, starring Dom DeLuise as Stanley Belmont with Kathleen Freeman as Iris Belmont, his mum, Wynn Irwin as Arthur Swann, Beverly Sanders as Olive Swann and Jack Knight as Bummy Pfitzer, his best friend. Episodes based on the original On The Buses scripts were adapted by such American writers as Carl Reiner, Bill Persky and Sam Denoff. Inspector Blake did not have a counterpart in the American version; and, in another significant change to the storyline, Stan worked at the lost property office at the bus depot rather than being a driver. After a pilot was made, the sitcom ran for one series of 22 episodes in 1973–74. It was not a success, and has never been screened in Britain.

Planned sequel
In 1990 there were plans to revive the series as Back on the Buses, and the original cast appeared on Wogan to promote the new series. Reg Varney also discussed plans for the pilot episode on This Morning. However, although the pilot script was written, it was not made. The premise was to be that Stan Butler, having run his own business for some years and made some money, was now starting his own bus company in the newly deregulated market, and hiring Jack to work with him. As they attempt to get the company off the ground, they discover a rival company has set up in the town, owned by Blakey. The comedy would have come from the conflict between the two businesses, as Stan and Jack attempt to battle Blakey's bigger and more professional company.

In popular culture
Look-in, a UK children's magazine, serialised On the Buses in comic strips from August 1971 to May 1974. They were drawn by cartoonist Harry North and the TV series' often bawdy humour was diluted for a younger audience. A board game of On the Buses was released by Denys Fisher games in 1973. Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse did several sketches using the characters of On the Buses to lampoon the humour of the show.

Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton created a fake episode for their anthology series "Inside No. 9" that was seemingly based on On the Buses.

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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985 by Pandora Press. It is a coming-of-age story about a lesbian who grows up in an English Pentecostal community. Key themes of the book include transition from youth to adulthood, complex family relationships, same-sex relationships, organised religion and the concept of faith.

It has been included on both GCSE and A-Level reading lists for education in England and Wales, and was adapted by Winterson into a BAFTA-winning 1990 BBC television drama serial of the same name.

Background
The book is semi-autobiographical and is based on Winterson's life growing up in Accrington, Lancashire. "I wrote about some of these things in Oranges, and when it was published, my mother sent me a furious note". A parallel non-fictional account of her life at this time is given in her 2011 memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Although the protagonist of Oranges bears the author's first name, John Mullan has argued that it is neither an autobiography nor a memoir, but a Künstlerroman.

Premise
The main character is a young girl named Jeanette, who is adopted by evangelists from the Elim Pentecostal Church. She believes she is destined to become a missionary. The book depicts religious enthusiasm as an exploration of the power of love. As an adolescent, Jeanette finds herself attracted to another girl, and her mother's group of religious friends subject her and her partner to exorcisms.

Literary allusions in the novel
The novel is divided into eight sections, each of which is named after one of the first eight books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and Ruth.) Each chapter often contains references and allusions to their corresponding book in the Bible.

The novel contains references to numerous literary works, historical figures and aspects of popular culture:
 * Jeanette's mother frequently lauds the good and moral behaviour of the titular character in Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.
 * Jeanette compares her mother to William Blake.
 * Jeanette's great-uncle is described as a stage-actor, who at least once performed as Hamlet to favourable reviews.
 * The owner of the local pest-control shop, Mrs. Arkwright, shares the same name with the similarly miserly owner of the local grocery shop in Open All Hours, a popular BBC sitcom that originally ran from 1976 to 1985.
 * Jeanette's mother is subscribed to the religious magazine The Plain Truth, which was issued monthly by The Worldwide Church of God from 1934 to 1986. In the novel the family receive a weekly subscription.
 * Whilst visiting Jeanette in hospital, Elsie reads "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti, and poems by William Butler Yeats, including 'Lapis Lazuli'.
 * Jeanette and her mother see The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, at the cinema.
 * For her Easter-Egg painting competition entry, Jeanette paints her eggs as characters from Wagner's opera-cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, including the Germanic heroine Brunhilda.
 * She also creates artworks based on the 1942 film Now, Voyager, and the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire.
 * At her local library, Jeanette reads a version of the French fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.
 * Jeannette's mother is shown to be a fan of country and gospel singer Johnny Cash.
 * In her new oversized raincoat Jeannette is reminded of seeing The Man in the Iron Mask - although which film version remains unspecified.
 * Feelings of misery remind Jeanette of the poet John Keats.
 * The short, abstract section entitled 'Deuteronomy' alludes to The Legend of Atlantis, the mythical city of El Dorado, Saint George and the Second World War.
 * Later in the novel, a confused Jeanette dreams of a library where a number of young women are shown to be translating the epic Old-English poem Beowulf.
 * Toward the close of the novel, Jeanette is depicted on a train reading George Eliot's Middlemarch.

The novel is interspersed with short stories that bear many resemblances to (and draw influences from) traditional Biblical stories of the Old Testament, tales of Arthurian Legend (specifically to Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur) and other popular fairy tales.

Reception
The novel won Winterson the Whitbread Award for a First Novel in 1985.

Although it is sometimes referred to as a "lesbian novel", Winterson has objected to this label, arguing, "I've never understood why straight fiction is supposed to be for everyone, but anything with a gay character or that includes gay experience is only for queers".

Adaptations
A television adaptation of the book was made and aired by the BBC in 1990, starring Charlotte Coleman and Geraldine McEwan, which won the Prix Italia in 1991.

The book was released on cassette by BBC Audiobooks in 1990, also read by Coleman.

A two-part dramatisation, adapted by Winterson and starring Lesley Sharp, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2016.

Legacy
The novel has been included on both GCSE and A-Level reading lists for education in England and Wales, including the OCR English Literature A-Level module "Literature Post-1900".

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stevin Hoover

 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. Joyous 19:57, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

Stevin Hoover
Fails to establish notability. Radiant! 11:19, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete or move to Wikifelons! Not notable - just another con'! Brookie 11:54, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, promo. Megan1967 01:02, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, this isn't the 'droid we're looking for, move along, move along. Wyss 02:01, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn. Cleduc 03:28, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Arrow Cross

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The history/background bit is nonsensical and should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.66.169.75 (talk • contribs) 11:20, 13 February 2005

 * Here are some links for information about this common symbol:
 * 1) http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/09/097.html
 * 2) http://hist.academic.claremontmckenna.edu/jpetropoulos/arrow/arrowsymb.html
 * 3) http://www.taivaansusi.net/reich/eurooppa/maatjakansat.html
 * 4) http://www.freewebs.com/wallenberg_fraser/arrowcross.htm
 * 5) http://bankjegy.szabadsagharcos.org/xxcentury/p109.htm
 * 6) http://bankjegy.szabadsagharcos.org/xxcentury/p100.htm
 * 7) http://fmsa.dote.hu/hungary.html
 * 8) http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/062.shtml
 * — ©   Alex756 18:12, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

The use of a similar symbol by the Hungarian fascist Arrow Cross movement (which remains outlawed in Hungary as of 2006) and the American racist movement Crosstar is apparently coincidental (as the American group recognizes) even if there are similarities between the two movements. The American Crosstar group has no connections to Hungary; a merger of the articles is thus unwarranted despite similarities of ideology, particularly racism and antisemitism along with a contempt for democracy. If anything, the American Crosstar has more in common with the Ku Klux Klan than with any European fascism.--66.231.41.57 19:22, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I concur. These two articles should NOT be merged. They have little in common beyond having similar designs.--Thalia42 03:52, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

 * As far as connections between the two symbols, Richard Barrett who runs the Crosstar group claims to have used the Arrowcross during the Vietnam War and says they adopted the symbol directly from the Hungarians because they saw it as an anti-communist symbol. But surely the articles should not be merged, since the Hungarian Arrow Cross is historically important, while Richard Barrett is just some farcical wannabe Führer with a practically non-existent white nationalist group. --67.149.150.252 (talk) 08:37, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

FALSE COLORS

The Hungarian nationalsocialist used only green Arrow-Cross, so they flags followed the Hungarian national colors (red-white-green). Please see it http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hungarista_Mozgalom_jelk%C3%A9pei, and copy here.

SOURCE

The seconds source claims false things. An early portrayal shows king St. László with that arrow cross. Except this, the cited site is likely to be strongly anti-Hungarian (suggesting that Hungarian tribes were only heroes in the eyes of fascists) [This unsigned assertion is not by the author of the next segment.]

What portrayal?

The early portrayal (a manuscript illumination) in the Hungarian wiki, which I've cited below ("history/background bit"), does not show anything like an arrow cross. GeorgeTSLC (talk) 21:53, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

About the proposed merge into arrow cross party

 * Strong Support This article is not about the cross perse but (except for a single line) only about its use by the Arrow Cross party. Arnoutf 16:59, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. This cross has other uses besides that of the Arrow Cross Party. —Psychonaut 23:22, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Please develop these other uses, as it is now without the fascist use, only a one line stub remains Arnoutf 17:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

The "Strong Support" above is no longer true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by GeorgeTSLC (talk • contribs) 21:14, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Clarification?
To what extent is the ban upheld in Germany? For example, the Arrow Cross is a cursor in Windows XP when moving a dialog box after selecting the "move" command from the dropdown from a running task; does that mean that Windows XP is outlawed or at least censored in Germany? --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 10:52, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

 * I would strongly doubt it (though there was a kerfuffle over the Diskeeper software made by a Scientologist-owned company). It's more of a Hungarian concern than a German concern, in any case... AnonMoos (talk) 13:22, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Classification
This article is indeed minor with respect to Christianity, so minor that I'm surprised it's even in the category.

But it is more significant with respect to its historical and heraldic coverage. GeorgeTSLC (talk) 21:48, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

"history/background bit"
I don't know about "nonsensical", but the assertion that the arrow-heads resemble fish hooks is silly. And even fish-spears (which they do look a bit like) are never to my knowledge associated with the fish/icthys symbol.

Anyway, the whole of the first two paragraph is totally unsourced. But it's stood there since the very first version. If nobody can support it before next week, I'm going to come back and delete it, then see what happens.

In particular, the assertion about St. Ladislaus is quite probably false. There is a great dearth of evidence. Image-Googling on "saint ladislaus cross" finds only this article and one 1930s propaganda poster. Image-Googling on "Szent-László kereszt" finds the flags in the Hungarian wiki article about the cross but no other arrow cross whatever.

Moreover, the illumination at http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=F%C3%A1jl:Szent_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_legenda_2.jpg&filetimestamp=20090402150206, illustrating that Hungarian article (http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hungarista_Mozgalom_jelk%C3%A9pei), shows what is clearly NOT an arrow cross on the saint's shield. GeorgeTSLC (talk) 21:46, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

 * The may not look like fish-hooks to you, but "Cross Barby" or "Barbee" is something of a traditional term in English blazoning -- see the text of an 1894 book at http://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/Jpglossc.htm, etc. AnonMoos (talk) 12:27, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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Puka-Puka

Puka-Puka is a small inhabited coral atoll in the north-eastern Tuamotu Archipelago, sometimes included as a member of the Disappointment Islands. This atoll is quite isolated, the nearest land being Fakahina, 182 km to the southwest.

Puka-Puka Atoll has an elliptical shape. Its length is 6 km and its maximum width 3.3 km. Its land area is about 5 km2. The lagoon is filled with silt and has become very small.

The low coral islands are dry and sparsely populated. According to the 2022 census, the total population was 137. The chief town is Te One Mahina, with about 110 inhabitants.

Unlike the rest of the Tuamotus, the language of the islands, Pukapukan, is Marquesic.

History
Puka-Puka was the first of the Tuamotus sighted by the Spanish expedition of Ferdinand Magellan on 21 January 1521, and charted as San Pablo because it was discovered on the day on which Paul of Tarsus is traditionally said to have become a Christian. Together with Flint Island (named Tiburones) they were named Islas Infortunadas (Unfortunate Islands in Spanish).

Dutch explorers Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten arrived at Puka-Puka on April 10, 1616, during their Pacific journey. They called this atoll "Honden Eiland" ("Dog Island").

On 30 July 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and his six-man expedition aboard the raft Kon Tiki made their first sighting of land since departing Callao, Peru when they passed by Puka-Puka.

The islands were devastated by a typhoon in 1996. However, with French assistance, Te One Mahina has been rebuilt.

Puka-Puka Airport was inaugurated in 1979.

Administration
Puka-Puka is the name of the administrative commune in which it lies, of which it is the sole atoll. The seat of the commune is the village Teone-Mahina.

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Portland Winterhawks

The Portland Winterhawks are a junior ice hockey team based in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1950 as the Edmonton Oil Kings, the team relocated to Portland in 1976 and was known as the Winter Hawks until 2009. The team plays in the U.S. Division of the Western Hockey League (WHL), one of three constituent leagues of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). The Winterhawks have made a record thirteen appearances in the WHL championship series—including a record-tying four straight from 2011 to 2014—winning the Ed Chynoweth Cup three times and capturing two Memorial Cup titles. They were the first American-based team to participate in and win either championship. The team plays its home games at Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

History
The franchise was founded in 1950 as the Edmonton Oil Kings. Under Bill Hunter's leadership, the Oil Kings were a founding franchise of the Western Canada Junior Hockey League in 1966. Despite winning two league titles in the early 1970s, the arrival of Hunter's Edmonton Oilers in the World Hockey Association precipitated the relocation of the franchise. In the spring of 1976, it was announced that the franchise, owned by Brian Shaw, would move to Portland, making it the league's first American team and leading the league to simplify its name to the Western Hockey League. The success of the team would lead to the establishment of several more teams in the Northwest United States over the ensuing decades.

In their first season in Portland, the club would lose 7–2 to a travelling Russian club in an exhibition match watched by more than 5,000 fans. Overall, the team carried over its success from its early days in Edmonton—in their first eleven seasons in Portland, the Winterhawks failed to make the playoffs only once, and advanced to the league final five times, winning their first Ed Chynoweth Cup in 1982 and the Memorial Cup in 1983. In 1982, the Winterhawks became the first American team to win the WHL championship and also the first to compete for the Memorial Cup. In 1983, despite losing the WHL championship series, the Winterhawks participated in the Memorial Cup by virtue of hosting the tournament—the first American team to do so. Brian Shaw had advocated for the participation of a fourth team as tournament host, and after the Winterhawks—led by star rookie Cam Neely and goaltender Mike Vernon—won the tournament, the CHL opted to continue with the new format going forward.

The Winterhawks hosted the tournament again in 1986, awarded the tournament when it became clear that the original host of New Westminster would be unable to host due to also hosting the 1986 World Expo. In 1998, the Winterhawks, led by Brenden Morrow and Marián Hossa, earned their way back to the Memorial Cup—hosted by the rival Spokane Chiefs—with an Ed Chynoweth Cup championship; they won their second Memorial Cup title with a 4–3 overtime win in the final over the Guelph Storm.

The Winterhawks advanced to four consecutive WHL championship series from 2011 to 2014, just the second team to do so after the New Westminster Bruins won four consecutive titles from 1975 to 1978. From 2012 to 2014, the Winterhawks met the revived Edmonton Oil Kings in each league final. The Winterhawks won one of the finals, in 2013, to advance to the team's fifth Memorial Cup tournament, where it lost the final to the Halifax Mooseheads.

On November 28, 2012, the WHL announced sanctions against the Winterhawks for a series of player benefits violations over the four previous seasons. As punishment for the violations, WHL Commissioner Ron Robison suspended the team from participation in the first five rounds of the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft, and the team forfeited their first round picks from the 2014 to 2017 drafts and was fined $200,000. The WHL also suspended General Manager and Head Coach Mike Johnston for the remainder of the 2012–13 season, including the 2013 WHL playoffs.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, the franchise filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy. Although the Winterhawks were financially stable, owner Bill Gallacher used the team as security against an unpaid loan; Gallacher ultimately had to sell the franchise in order to repay debts. The WHL Board of Governors approved Winterhawks Sports Group (WSG) as the new owners of the franchise, effective January 1, 2021. Along with the Winterhawks franchise, WSG also acquired the operations of the Winterhawks Skating Center in Beaverton, Oregon, and the Winterhawks Junior Hockey programs. Prior to the start of the 2021–22 WHL season, the team announced that it would be returning to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum full-time after previously dividing games between the Coliseum and the Moda Center since 1995.

The 2023–24 season saw the Winterhawks advance to their first championship final in ten seasons, where they were defeated by the Moose Jaw Warriors in four consecutive games.

Uniforms, logos, and mascot
The team was known as the Winter Hawks until May 2009, when it issued a press release stating that, "the space...has announced its retirement", and that the team was renaming itself the Winterhawks.

Upon moving to Portland in 1976, the Winter Hawks accepted a donation of old jerseys from the National Hockey League's Chicago Black Hawks, and they kept the design for nearly half of a century. Amid pressure for sports teams to abandon Native American caricatures, new ownership opted to rebrand the Winterhawks in 2021. The team unveiled its new look on July 14, 2021, featuring new colors and a new hawk logo.

The Winterhawks' also retired their Tom-A-Hawk bird mascot in 2019.

Championships

 * Memorial Cup (2): 1982–83, 1997–98
 * Ed Chynoweth Cup (3): 1981–82, 1997–98, 2012–13
 * Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy (4): 1979–80, 1997–98, 2012–13, 2019–20
 * Conference Champions (5): 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2023–24
 * Division Playoff Champions (8): 1978–79, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1992–93, 1997–98, 2000–01
 * Regular Season Division Champions (15): 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1988–89, 1992–93, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2019–20, 2023–24

Memorial Cup finals history
The Winterhawks have advanced to three Memorial Cup finals.
 * 1983: Win, 8–3 vs Oshawa Generals
 * 1998: Win, 4–3 (OT) vs Guelph Storm
 * 2013: Loss, 4–6 vs Halifax Mooseheads

WHL Championship history

 * 1978–79: Loss, 2–4 vs Brandon Wheat Kings
 * 1981–82: Win, 4–1 vs Regina Pats
 * 1982-83: Loss, 1–4 vs Lethbridge Broncos
 * 1986-87: Loss, 3–4 vs Medicine Hat Tigers
 * 1988–89: Loss, 0–4 vs Swift Current Broncos
 * 1992–93: Loss, 3–4 vs Swift Current Broncos
 * 1997–98: Win, 4–0 vs Brandon Wheat Kings
 * 2000–01: Loss, 1–4 vs Red Deer Rebels
 * 2010–11: Loss, 1–4 vs Kootenay Ice
 * 2011–12: Loss, 3–4 vs Edmonton Oil Kings
 * 2012–13: Win, 4–2 vs Edmonton Oil Kings
 * 2013–14: Loss, 3–4 vs Edmonton Oil Kings
 * 2023–24: Loss, 0–4 vs Moose Jaw Warriors

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Current roster
Updated June 17, 2024.

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Hall of Famers
Four former Portland Winter Hawks alumni are inductees to the Hockey Hall of Fame: Mark Messier, Cam Neely, Marian Hossa, and Mike Vernon.

This is a list of former players inducted into the Portland Winter Hawks franchise Hall of Fame.

NHL alumni
List of Portland Winterhawks alumni who have graduated to play in the National Hockey League.

 * Jim Agnew
 * Dave Archibald
 * Dave Babych
 * Wayne Babych
 * Sven Baertschi
 * Jozef Balej
 * Jeff Bandura
 * Dave Barr
 * Ryan Bast
 * Kieffer Bellows
 * Brian Benning
 * Jim Benning
 * Oliver Bjorkstrand
 * James Black
 * Joachim Blichfeld
 * Lonny Bohonos
 * Keith Brown
 * Dennis Cholowski
 * Nick Cicek
 * Braydon Coburn
 * Ed Cooper
 * Craig Cunningham
 * Brian Curran
 * Tony Currie
 * Byron Dafoe
 * Matt Davidson
 * Adam Deadmarsh
 * Chase De Leo
 * Jim Dobson
 * Brandon Dubinsky
 * Matt Dumba
 * Brent Fedyk
 * Andrew Ference
 * Ray Ferraro
 * Jeff Finley
 * Colin Forbes
 * Michael Funk
 * Joaquin Gage
 * Paul Gaustad
 * Rob Geale
 * Cody Glass
 * Josh Green
 * Jannik Hansen
 * Randy Heath
 * Adin Hill
 * Joel Hofer
 * Marcel Hossa
 * Marian Hossa
 * Dave Hoyda
 * Cale Hulse
 * Jamie Huscroft
 * Randy Ireland
 * Brad Isbister
 * Seth Jarvis
 * Ryan Johansen
 * Henri Jokiharju
 * Caleb Jones
 * Seth Jones
 * Jakub Klepis
 * Rob Klinkhammer
 * Steve Konowalchuk
 * John Kordic
 * Richard Kromm
 * Jason LaBarbera
 * Scott Langkow
 * James Latos
 * Derek Laxdal
 * Doug Lecuyer
 * Taylor Leier
 * Brendan Leipsic
 * Jamie Linden
 * John Ludvig
 * David Mackey
 * Clint Malarchuk
 * Darrell May
 * Jason McBain
 * Frazer McLaren
 * Cody McLeod
 * Mark Messier
 * Brendan Mikkelson
 * Roy Mitchell
 * Brenden Morrow
 * Joe Morrow
 * Paul Mulvey
 * Brantt Myhres
 * Cam Neely
 * Scott Nichol
 * Nino Niederreiter
 * Gary Nylund
 * Josh Olson
 * Perry Pelensky
 * Nic Petan
 * Brent Peterson
 * Jim Playfair
 * Larry Playfair
 * Andrej Podkonicky
 * Ray Podloski
 * Derrick Pouliot
 * Nolan Pratt
 * Ty Rattie
 * Richie Regehr
 * Florent Robidoux
 * Jeff Rohlicek
 * Grant Sasser
 * Michael Sauer
 * Luca Sbisa
 * Dave Scatchard
 * Colton Sceviour
 * Jeff Sharples
 * Brandon Smith
 * Ryan Stewart
 * Joey Tetarenko
 * Mike Toal
 * Tim Tookey
 * Alfie Turcotte
 * Dominic Turgeon
 * Perry Turnbull
 * Randy Turnbull
 * Nick Vachon
 * Mike Vernon
 * Terry Virtue
 * Mickey Volcan
 * Gord Walker
 * Matt Walker
 * Blake Wesley
 * Glen Wesley
 * Jason Wiemer
 * Dan Woodley
 * Tyler Wotherspoon
 * Gary Yaremchuk
 * Ken Yaremchuk
 * Brad Zavisha
 * Richard Zednik

First round draft picks
Winterhawks players chosen in the first round of the NHL entry draft:

Team records
During the 2012–13 season, Winterhawks captain Troy Rutkowski established the new team record for most regular games played for the Winterhawks. His career total of 351 games surpassed the previous mark of 328 games set by Kevin Haupt in the 1998–99 season.

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Wikipedia talk:Controversial blocks

Where should Controversial blocks be discussed?
I am concerned about the indefinite block of User:Dnagod. Please have a look @ Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents and let me know if that is the right place to discuss it. I left a note @ Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy as well. (Sam Spade | talk | contributions) 11:24, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Bad Apple Admins
This hasn't happened yet that I've seen, but I was wondering what happens when an admin goes bad and blocks someone for improper reasons, i.e. to stop them from editing certain articles or just because they don't like them. Is there a procedure to report "bad apple admins" or to get their admin title removed? -Husnock 20:04, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

 * We have user conduct RFCs for this. Blackcap (talk) (vandalfighters, take a look) 06:03, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

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Scientific Linux

Scientific Linux (SL) is a discontinued Linux distribution produced by Fermilab, CERN, DESY and by ETH Zurich. It is a free and open-source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This product is derived from the free and open-source software made available by Red Hat, but is not produced, maintained or supported by them.

In April 2019, it was announced that feature development for Scientific Linux would be discontinued, but that maintenance will continue to be provided for the 6.x and 7.x releases through the end of their life cycles. Fermilab and CERN will utilize CentOS Stream and AlmaLinux for their deployment of 8.x release instead.

History
Fermilab already had a Linux distribution known as Fermi Linux, a long-term support release based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. CERN was creating their next version of CERN Linux, also based on RHEL. CERN contacted Fermilab about doing a collaborative release. Connie Sieh was the main developer and driver behind the first prototypes and initial release. The first official release of Scientific Linux was version 3.0.1, released on May 10, 2004.

In 2015, CERN began migrating away from Scientific Linux to CentOS.

Scientific Linux is now maintained by a cooperative of science labs and universities. Fermilab is its primary sponsor.

Design philosophy
The primary purpose of Scientific Linux is to produce a common Linux distribution for various labs and universities around the world, thus reducing duplicated effort. The main goals are to have everything compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only minor additions and changes, and to allow easy customization for a site, without disturbing the Linux base. Unlike other distributions such as Poseidon Linux, it does not contain a large collection of scientific software as its name may suggest. However, it provides good compatibility to install such software.

Features
Scientific Linux is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux without protected components such as Red Hat trademarks, thus making it freely available. New releases are typically produced about two months after each Red Hat release. As well as a full distribution equal to two DVDs, Scientific Linux is also available in LiveCD and LiveDVD versions.

Scientific Linux offers wireless and Bluetooth out of the box, and it comes with a comprehensive range of software, such as multimedia codecs, Samba, and Compiz, as well as servers and clients, storage clients, networking, and system administration tools.

It also contains a set of tools for making custom versions, thus allowing institutions and individuals to create their own variant.

Release history
Historical releases of Scientific Linux are the following. Each release is subjected to a period of public testing before it is considered 'released'.

Support
Security updates are provided for as long as Red Hat continues to release updates and patches for their versions.

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Category:Magnet schools

This category is intended for magnet schools.

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Yvonne Arnaud

Germaine Yvonne Arnaud (20 December 1890 – 20 September 1958) was a French-born pianist, singer and actress, who was well known for her career in Britain, as well as her native land. After beginning a career as a concert pianist as a child, Arnaud acted in musical comedies. She switched to non-musical comedy and drama around 1920 and was one of the players in the second of the Aldwych farces, A Cuckoo in the Nest, a hit in 1925. She also had dramatic roles and made films in the 1930s and 1940s, and continued to act into the 1950s. She occasionally performed as a pianist later in her career. The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre was named in her memory in Guildford, Surrey.

Life and career
Arnaud was the daughter of Charles Leon Arnaud and his wife Antoinette (née Montegut). She was brought up in Paris and entered the Paris Conservatoire aged 9, studying piano under Alphonse Duvernoy and other teachers. In 1905, she won the conservatory's Premier Prix for piano. Beginning that year, aged 14, until 1911, she performed with leading orchestras throughout Europe and the US, under conductors such as Édouard Colonne, Arthur Nikisch, Willem Mengelberg, Vasily Safonov, Gustav Mahler and Alexander Siloti.

In 1911 she decided to try the stage instead of the concert hall and obtained an engagement at London's Adelphi Theatre as understudy to Elsie Spain in the role of Princess Mathilde in The Quaker Girl, first going on stage in that role on 7 August 1911. She next played the leading role of Suzanne in the musical The Girl in the Taxi (1912), earning popularity with her vivacity and charming French accent. One reviewer wrote: "Arnaud is as clever as her ways are charming, and her voice is beautiful". This was followed by roles in more musical comedies, farces and operettas, including as Noisette in Mam'selle Tralala in 1914 (revived the following year as Oh! Be Careful), two revivals of "The Girl in the Taxi" (in 1913 and 1915), in Harry Grattan's Odds and Ends (1914), Excuse Me! (1915) and Phrynette in L'Enfant Prodigue, in which she also played the piano. She also had a lead in Kissing Time (1919). After this, an operation damaged her vocal cords, and so she switched from musicals to plays, beginning with the role of Louise Allington in the farce Tons of Money, which ran for nearly two years at the Shaftesbury Theatre from 1922. Her success in this play led to her appearance in the second of the Aldwych farces as Marguerite in A Cuckoo in the Nest, by Ben Travers, which was a hit in 1925. Other comic roles included Mrs. Pepys in J.B. Fagan's And So to Bed (1926) and the title Role in Fagan's The Improper Duchess (1931). In 1927 she travelled to New York where she repeated the Mrs. Pepys on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre.

She also appeared in British films, beginning with the role of Pauline in Desire, in 1920, opposite Dennis Neilson-Terry. In 1929–30, she played the role of Elma Melton in the stage version (both London and New York) and then the film version of Frederick Lonsdale's Canaries Sometimes Sing. She also appeared in some dramatic roles in the 1930s and 1940s, including some Shakespearean roles. Among these were several productions of Love for Love during the Second World War. Arnaud made more films during the 1930s and 1940s, including film versions of some of the successful plays in which she had starred. Arnaud's likeness was drawn in caricature by Alex Gard for Sardi's, the New York City theatre district restaurant. The picture is now part of the collection of the New York Public Library. She continued to act on stage well into the 1950s. In 1958 she appeared in the West End with Jack Hulbert in Ronald Millar's The Big Tickle.

She still occasionally performed as a pianist later in her career, for example, with the Hallé Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli in Manchester in 1948. She was also the soloist at the premiere of Franz Reizenstein's pastiche Concerto Popolare at the 1956 Hoffnung Festival (having been chosen after Eileen Joyce declined).

Personal life
In 1920, Arnaud married the actor Hugh McLellan, son of C. M. S. McLellan. She was a president of the League Against Cruel Sports from 1948 to 1951. She was also godmother to the writer Oriel Malet, and was the subject of Malet's book Marraine: a portrait of my godmother (1961).

For many years she lived in Guildford, Surrey, where she died. Her ashes were scattered in St. Martha's churchyard on St. Martha's Hill just south-east of Guildford, and there is a memorial to her on the church grounds. In 1965 the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre was opened in the town.

Complete filmography

 * Desire (1920)
 * The Temptress (1920)
 * On Approval (1930)
 * Canaries Sometimes Sing (1930)
 * Tons of Money (1930)
 * A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933)
 * Princess Charming (1934)
 * Lady in Danger (1934)
 * Widow's Might (1935)
 * Stormy Weather (1935)
 * The Improper Duchess (1936)
 * The Gay Adventure (1936)
 * Neutral Port (1940)
 * Tomorrow We Live (1943)
 * Woman to Woman (1947)
 * Everyman (1947 TV movie)
 * The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947)
 * Madame Pepita (1952 TV movie)
 * Mon oncle (1958)

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Category talk:Magnet schools

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At first I thought I would call this "U.S. magnet schools", but then noticed that the article for magnet school says it US-specific. --Paraphelion 11:27, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I am finishing what someone started and sorting all the schools into sub-categories by state, while doing this I noticed there is one school (so far) which is in canada. This makes the super-categories here a bit off.  Not sure what the best solution is though.  Not going to touch it for now. Dalf | Talk 10:04, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

High Schools
Not all magnet schools are High schools. Should the high school category be removeed? Or the others added? Or... Vegaswikian 06:18, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * When I created the category, I purposely did not specify high school or middle school - one of the first schools I added, [Charleston County School of the Arts] is not a high school. I figured there would not be enough magnet schools to necessitate a distinction.  I added the related category since I thought it was related - does it imply anything else?  --Paraphelion 17:54, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

 * If that is the only one there, then it leads one to believe that they are all high schools. One option would be to list Elementary and pre high schools.  However since the school article should include a category of the type (like high school) and a magnet school, the high school cat is probably not appropiate here.  I think removing it is the correct action. Vegaswikian 18:29, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * hopefully there will be more in the future... I'm not well versed with categories and what related categories are appropriate.. please change them if you like. Thanks.  --Paraphelion 01:53, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:College of the Canyons

Budget cutbacks
I noticed some of the "new" programs mentioned in the opening section have been canceled due to budgeting cutbacks. For example, COC has taken down their web development major and now only offers a couple of classes for it. Might need some updating all over the page to account for the recent cutbacks.

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Hey Pal, a revert war is going to be the least of your problems if you keep reposting the defamatory comments regarding the college under the controversy section.

No, the college did not participate in "numerous 'enrollment bloating' endeavors in order to procure additional funding from the state." Such an allegation of criminal wrongdoing is LIBEL. You may have your own opinions regarding the issue, but to post them here as FACT, is LIBEL. No, it didn't happen, and I am in a position to know. That, my friend is a very serious allegation, which could lead to legal action against you (since your Ip number is a matter of record) as well as Wikipedia, since it is a republisher. And I'm going to push hard to see that it happends.

You are entitled to your opinions, as full of bullshit as they may be. Van Hook is the highest paid CC president, and she's worth about 3 times what she's getting paid. There was no "outcry" other than a few "activists" who were generally too timid to speak in any forum aside from this one, i.e., hiding behind a computer screen. In fact, the community members who showed up at the board meeting supported Van Hook's raise. She is the individual, more than anyone else, who has taken COC from College of the Crayons to the highly ranked institution it is today. I watch her in action every day. I know what she does. She earns it.

There was no tampering with the part-time union, if you want to call the stooges that run AFT a union. There are no "routine salary raises for friends and comrades" (oh please . . stop with the workers of the world unite bullshit.) These are extremely hard-working individuals who work like dogs and deserve the pay they get.

What I see in your second parargraph is a great deal of whining. Have you ever been in the corporate world? Do you know what hard work in a dog-eat-dog environment is? Not if you've spent your life teaching at the community college level. You have the greatest job in the world. You are as "taken care of" as it gets in a capitalist society, absent being on welfare. It's not even 40 hours a week. My god!!!! Show some balls. Appreciate what you have. Stop throwing rocks and do something contructive. Your'e attacking a fricking institution of higher learning. Get over it and yourself.

 * First off, I'm not even the one who wrote the Controversy section, these discussion-less reverts were occuring long before I hopped into this article, so your accusations about them being "my" "opinions" aren't even grounded in reality. The point you are wholly missing is this: you do not remove entire sections in ANY Wikipedia article without taking it to the article's Talk page first.  Looking at the article's History I see this has gone on since at least March.  Why did you not at least leave mention of your reasons in the Talk page?  Deletions with no explanations whatsoever are wholly inexcusable on Wikipedia.  --I am not good at running 07:12, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I suggest running in this dispute. Also, legal threats against our members is not allowed. --mboverload @  10:23, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm not getting into a revert war here, but...
I'm not going to let User:209.179.168.56 drag me into a revert war, but said person isn't referring to this article's Talk whenever (s)he keeps removing an entire section in this article. What can be done? --I am not good at running 03:24, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

In fact...
It seems this article has a rather long history of various IP addresses removing this section without prior discussion. What can be done? Does anyone even read these Discussion pages for such low-profile articles? --I am not good at running 22:28, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Where is the source for the 'Controversy' section? Please verify that section before you put it back in. I have blocked the IP that posted the legal threat above per WP:NLT, but that doesn't mean unsourced 'controversy' allegations should be posted in Wikipedia articles. --Sam Blanning(talk) 10:26, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Because the person finally cooperated by explaining why (s)he deleted the entire section (since my understanding is that deleting entire sections of an article without giving an explanation is vandalism -- correct me if I'm wrong), I'm not going to revert it anymore. --I am not good at running 21:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * From an outsider, this looks like a local debate, perhaps even some sort of vendetta or someone's favorite piece of investigative reporting. Given the nature of its accusations, it really needs to be fully sourced. I'm also thinking that User:I am not good at running needs to be reminded that edit comments such as "DISCUSS IT IN THE ARTICLE'S FUCKING DISCUSSION IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH A PARTICULAR SECTION" are incivil and likely to lead to unmeasured responses. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 14:24, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Sarvagna

Welcome
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Contribute to Kannada wikipedia
Hi,

Following your contributions on wikipedia, I guessed you're knowledgeable about Kannada language. If you are, please visit Kannada wikipedia and see if you can help us pace up the project even more. If you aren't, please ignore the message. Thank you. --H P Nadig 7 July 2005 12:54 (UTC)

Carnatic Music
Hi Sarvagna,

Please keep an eye on Carnatic music. User:A4ay and User:Ncmvocalist keep making destructive edits to push their POVs, particularly User:Ncmvocalist. Dhanyavada  ॐ Kris (☎ talk | contribs) 07:41, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eduardo V. Manalo

 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 keep. Deathphoenix 03:29, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Eduardo V. Manalo
While it is a lengthy bio, it isn't really notable. He is deputy exec minister of a church, an amateur radio enthousiast, and 'said to be involved' in the founding of a church IT program, and joined in a protest with tens of thousands of others. Vanity? Radiant! 11:30, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Not noteworthy Brookie 11:58, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless someone can elaborate on notablity I sort of agree with Howrad B. But I'm only going to Abstain --ZayZayEM 13:45, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep. I cannot claim to know an awful lot about 'Eddie Boy' and the INC, but even a cursory surf of relevant pages and other Wiki entries around the topic show that a) INC is a major religious and political factor in the Philippines (it is said that in 1998 the sect helped Joseph Estrada take the largest winning margin ever in a presidential contest) and b) Eduardo Manalo is a pretty big cheese within the organisation.  Admittedly the article needs some attention to make it more interesting and informative (need some Philippinos who know the intricacies of the religious-political scene to help out here).  But this is definietly NOT a canidate for deletion. HowardB 15:05, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable - 31 Google hits. For someone who has claimed to have done a lot it's not showing up on Google. Megan1967 01:01, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, self-promotion. Wyss 02:00, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. First let me say that I am not Filipino, and I have no axe to grind for Iglesia ni Cristo or Eduardo V. Manalo.  In fact the religion/cult, call it what you will, is most likely a strongly negative influence in the Philippines and in other parts of the world.  It wouldn't bother me if it disappeared off the face of the map.  But you can't ignore the facts just because you are ignorant of the situation or the country, or don't like what you read.  The fact is that Iglesia ni Cristo is a hugely influential organization (millions of adherents/members around the world, and probably the second biggest group after the Catholic Church in the Philippines).  Politically, it is a king maker, and is credited by the Philippines' media of having been pivotal in getting Joseph Estrada elected as President in 1998, and (switching sides) very influential in getting President Arroyo re-elected last year (Arroyo and her honchos made a courtesy call on Eduardo V. Manalo just before INC awarded her with their support).  Manalo himself clearly has a major influence in the organisation and over its millions of adherents.  His grandfather founded it, his father (aged 80) runs it, and the chair is getting very warm!  And several people here are saying delete this because it is "self-promotion" "not noteworthy" , "vanity", "not notable".   Get real!  HowardB 05:51, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Congratulations! You've just talked yourself into adding that little lot to Iglesia ni Cristo and Eduardo V. Manalo.  ☺  Keep pending expansion by HowardB. Uncle G 14:01, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)
 * Done, I think -- most of it was there -- particularly in the INC article HowardB 15:24, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep based on what HowardB says. / up+land 18:49, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Be careful using the Google test on subjects from non-English-speaking areas.   — Gwalla | Talk 00:29, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Amen. HowardB 09:17, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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 * Keep, definitely looks notable to me. Looks like early contributors may have misinterpreted him as merely a postholder of a single church; in fact he is a major figure in a large sect. TSP 10:53, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm a former member of the INC and Eduardo Manalo exerts greater influence over Philippine elections than Jerry Falwell and Jesse Jackson do in the U.S. Be careful though of blatant POV edits to Iglesia-related pages by fanatic members. --69.231.202.227 01:21, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. From a quick google hunt he seems to be quite an influential character.  -- John Fader 01:28, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Amazing Island

Amazing Island is a 2004 action-adventure game developed by Ancient and Hitmaker and published by Sega for the GameCube.

Gameplay
After customizing a character's gender and name, the player helps the Maboo Tribe of the Amazing Island remove a possessing spirit known as the "Black Evil".

Amazing Island is a minigame collection with an avatar creator. The player chooses either a boy or girl avatar, along with a monster companion. By completing courses, the player gains Vision Orbs, which drives off the Black Evil, restores portions of the Island, and earns them new abilities and items to customize their monster partner. Upon purging the whole Island of Evil, the villagers and the player hold a celebration.

Any time the player visits the Hall of Life, they can customize an existing monster or create a new monster. Creating a new monster costs nothing and will grant the player an additional Chance Star to use during minigames. If players' creature loses all of its Chance Stars, their creature will go back to the start and return players back to the village. To create a new monster, the player is to choose a Frame which acts as a skeleton for various body types, such as a dragon or a giant. Then the player can draw limbs and body parts on their creature, and choose how thick or thin they are to be. New frames are gathered from completed Courses and more advanced drawing tools such as a Stamp or Resize are gained from Vision Orbs.

Monsters can be further customized, once built. Patterns are textures that drawn on the body that can range from materials e.g. Glass, Rock, Lava; skins e.g. Dog, Cow, Parrot; or outfits e.g. Ninja, Santa, Cute Robot. Eyes, voices, and accessories such as clothing or weapons can be added. More component variations and tools can be gained from Vision Orbs. New monster components can be bought from Shops or found in silver chests from Courses and imported from Monster Cards.

Finally the player names their monster and takes their photo, which is a card that links the monster to the human world from Amazing Island. Preset monsters are fully predesigned monsters that can be acquired by finding their monster cards in gold chests. The player cannot modify these monsters at all, but they do not take space on the Nintendo GameCube memory card. The player can also take a five-question personality quiz to have a monster randomly generated.

Every aspect of a monster—frame, accessories, actual drawn body shape and thickness—affects its stats: Speed, Mental, Power, Stamina, Weight, Element, and Class. Various events rely on different stats; for example, races will use Speed while fights rely on Power. Monsters in their element, such as a Fire monster in a Spin (lava) stage, will gain an advantage. The Class stat denotes the overall skill level of the monster.

Multiplayer
Amazing Island offers multiplayer options, where two to four players can compete on the Courses or link up in the Monster Cards minigame.

In the main game, players can complete an entire Course or specific event. They also have the option to use multiple memory cards to import their own monsters and cross-reference high scores between save files. In Monster Cards, up to four Game Boy Advances can link up to battle each other. If arranged close together, all four screens form an entire battle view. The last survivor of a Monster Cards battle will be awarded a chest.

Reception
The game received mostly mixed reviews. IGN gave it a 6.7 "passable" rating.

title: Amazing Island