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Baron Portal of Hungerford

Baron Portal of Hungerford, of Hungerford in the County of Berkshire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1945 for Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Charles Portal upon his retirement as Chief of the Air Staff, with remainder in default of male issue to his daughter and the heirs male of her body. In 1946 Portal was further honoured when he was created Viscount Portal of Hungerford, of Hungerford in the County of Berkshire, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, with normal remainder to the heirs male of his body. The viscountcy became extinct on Lord Portal of Hungerford's death in 1971 as he left no surviving sons, while he was succeeded in the barony according to the special remainder by his daughter Rosemary. She sat as a cross-bencher in the House of Lords. The barony became extinct on her death without issue in 1990.

Baron Portal of Hungerford (1945)

 * Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Baron Portal of Hungerford (created Viscount Portal in 1946)

Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1946)

 * Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893–1971)

Baron Portal of Hungerford (1945; Reverted)

 * Rosemary Portal, 2nd Baroness Portal of Hungerford (1923–1990)

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Command button

"Command button" may refer to:

 * A graphical button that appears in a computer user interface, allowing a user to trigger an event
 * Keyboard buttons (generally)
 * The "command" key on Apple keyboards (a modifier key with a "⌘" symbol printed on it)

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Carbon chauvinism/archive1

Carbon chauvinism
Two things bother me about this article.

One is that the entire contents of the article after the introduction para discuss the opposite of the topic indicated by the title.

Two is that the title seems to be pejorative and therefore NPOV. It also smacks of neologism.

I don't know enough regarding these concerns to feel comfortable putting it up for RFC or VFD.

- Keith D. Tyler  [ flame ]  23:16, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

I think a better title would be Non-carbon based lifeform. User:Ben Standeven 16:05, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes I agree with the above suggestion, with the first paragraph just becoming a section within the full article. (Or else just Non-carbon-based life or Non-carbon-based biology.) — RJH 23:35, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

How about Non-carbon-based biochemistry? --PuzzletChung 09:26, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I appreciate the advice so far. Personally I feel that the suggested names so far are a bit unwieldy. Is there no accepted term in the field? - Keith D. Tyler ¶ [ AMA ] 19:48, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Why not just Carbon-based organism? There's no article for it, and it seems the most neutral defining term for what the article is (not) about. That such a term would exist (and it does exist) implies the question of whether there's any such thing as a non-carbon-based organism. A carbon-based organism is, as far as we know, "all life." That aside, the article should move on to discussing possible non-carbon-based organisms. But there's that problem, above, that the title is not what the article is about. I think we're just gonna be stuck with a sort of long title, but it should be the best possible neutral, descriptive title (and all the other possibilities could redirect there). -- Wapcaplet 20:45, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * "Carbon Chauvinism" appears to be a lead-in to a general discussion on non-carbon based life forms. I know an appropriate title might be a little unwieldly but that should be an issue if you're linked to from other articles (or even get "Featured Article" status).  My vote is for "Non-carbon biology".  -- 17:46, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)


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Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway)

The Minister of Foreign Affairs (Utenriksministeren, Utanriksministeren) is a councilor of state and chief of the Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 16 October 2023, the position has been held by Espen Barth Eide of the Labour Party.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, based at Victoria Terrasse, Oslo, is responsible for Norway's relation with foreign countries, including diplomacy and diplomatic missions, trade, foreign aid and cooperation with international organisations. Except during the four in which a Deputy of the Prime Minister of Norway was appointed, the Minister of Foreign Affairs ranks second in the cabinet after the Prime Minister and is his deputy.

History
The position was created on 7 June 1905, the day Norway declared independence from Sweden, with the Liberal Party's Jørgen Løvland as the inaugural. Forty people from five parties have held the position, all men excepting the current officeholder. From 1983 to 2013 the Minister of International Development, which was responsible for issues related to foreign aid, was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Notable officeholders
Halvard Lange (Labour) is the longest-serving, having held the position for more than eighteen years in four cabinets. The shortest-serving is the fellow party member, Edvard Bull, Sr., who held the position for the sixteen days that Hornsrud's Cabinet lasted. Johan Ludwig Mowinckel (Liberal) was appointed four times as minister. Three people have sat concurrently as Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs: Løvland, Mowinckel and Ivar Lykke (Conservative). Three officeholders would later become Prime Minister: Løvland, Mowinckel and Kjell Magne Bondevik (Christian Democratic). Two former Prime Ministers have held the office: John Lyng (Conservative) and Thorbjørn Jagland (Labour). Trygve Lie (Labour) resigned from the office to become the inaugural Secretary-General of the United Nations. Two people have died while in office: Knut Frydenlund and Johan Jørgen Holst (both Labour).

List of ministers
The following lists the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, their party, date of assuming and leaving office, their tenure in years and days, and the cabinet they served in.

 * Key

Minister of European Affairs
The Minister of European Affairs was responsible for cases related to the EEA and Norway's relation with the EU. The post was established on 16 October 2013 by the Solberg Cabinet, which at the time consisted of the Conservatives and the Progress Party. It was abolished on 17 January 2018 when the Liberals joined the Cabinet.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monroe Mafia

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Monroe_Mafia
pointless little high school clique that existed several years ago in one tiny high school out in the arse end of nowhere. Sorry, I'm grumpy 'cause I haven't had supper. But still. DS 23:18, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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 * Delete. Ellsworth 23:23, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not even worth WP:BJAODN, either. r3m0t 23:51, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. In a small town like Monroeville, I cannot see how a group like this can quickly get notable. Zzyzx11 00:00, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Come back when you've shot up your school. -R. fiend 00:19, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, schoolkid vanity. Megan1967 00:29, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Or should I say, "whack it?" - Lucky 6.9 01:10, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. And, for the record, that was absolutely the worst-taste joke I've heard all day.  And it still made me giggle. BenSamples 04:56, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * LOL! Glad to be of help. - Lucky 6.9 23:39, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Rub out'. Facinating but not noteworthy enough. --Theaterfreak64 02:27, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rich and Famous Gallery

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Rich and Famous Gallery
Advertising/subsubstub. Ellsworth 23:19, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) *Delete Brookie 15:35, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete. Looks to me like an ad unless I see some evidence to the contrary. Zzyzx11 23:57, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Naval Air Station Pensacola

Location
Is the 'town of Warrington' a part of Pensacola, or an adjacent entity? The maps aren't clear. If the latter, the description should be changed to "in the town of Warrington, just southwest of Pensacola,..." or something. —wwoods 23:19, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * It's a census-designated place. If you sent mail to "Warrington," you would address it to Pensacola. People either call the area "Warrington" or "West Pensacola," but it is quite clear that the base is NOT in Pensacola proper. I will fix the language. Mike H 21:39, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

 * Naval Air Station Pensacola, "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United States Navy base located in Warrington, Florida, a community southwest of the Pensacola city limits. There is how I've reworded it. Mike H 21:40, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

All Primary Training
The statement "It is best known as the primary training base for all Navy, Marine and Coast Guard aviators" can be misinterpreted. Undergraduate Naval aviation training is broken into four phases, Pre-Indoctrination, Primary, Intermediate, and Advanced. NAS Pensacola is home to all Pre-Indoctrination training. This training does not involve real or simulated flights, but rather coursework (aerodynamics, engines, navigation, etc.), flight physiology, deep water survival training, etc. NAS Pensacola has no Primary flight training at all; this is done in NAS Whiting Field, Florida and NAS Corpus Christi, TX. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.97.185.104 (talk) 20:25, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

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Eclipso

Eclipso is a supervillain in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Bob Haney and Lee Elias, the character would first appear in House of Secrets #61 (August, 1963). The character bears notable similarities to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Eclipso is a powerful magical entity often portrayed as a primordial manifestation of divine wrath, believed to be linked to the wrath of God. Comparable to the Spectre, Eclipso is considered an Angel of Vengeance. Following his removal from his original position, the character is sometimes associated with the Lords of Chaos as their agent. In the New 52 continuity onward, additional information about the character reveals that Eclipso occasionally reincarnates into different lives. One such incarnation is Kaala, also known as the Lord of the House Onyx, hailing from Gemworld. Throughout Eclipso's history, the character is frequently depicted as an adversary of the Justice League, its affiliated teams, and Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld. Notably, Eclipso possesses the ability of possession, marked by distinctive blue facial markings resembling an "eclipse."

Eclipso appeared as the main antagonist of the second season of The CW television show Stargirl, portrayed as an adult by Nick E. Tarabay and Jason Davis and as a young boy by Milo Stein.

Publication history
Eclipso first appeared in House of Secrets #61 (August 1963) and was created by Bob Haney and Lee Elias.

Fictional character biography
Originally, Eclipso was written as a generic villain with average superpowers, who would routinely enact an elaborate plot to fulfill his hedonistic motivations. However, the 1992 Darkness Within miniseries modified the character to be an evil and megalomaniacal entity. Eclipso's character laments the power he once had as a spirit of divine vengeance. Eclipso would frequently seek to possess beings of incredible power like Superman, Lar Gand, and Captain Marvel to achieve his ends.

Bruce Gordon
Eclipso's early comics debut is tied to his first modern host, Bruce Gordon (named after Bruce Wayne and Commissioner Gordon as an inside joke), a scientist specializing in solar energy. While in the jungle to view a solar eclipse, Gordon was attacked by a tribal sorcerer named Mophir. Before plunging to his death off a cliff, Mophir wounded Gordon with a black diamond, causing him to transform into Eclipso whenever an eclipse occurred. A blue-gray or purple circle covered the rightmost two-thirds of his face, resembling a partial eclipse. Gordon experienced many Jekyll-and-Hyde transformations and misadventures in The House of Secrets. During this period, Eclipso was portrayed as a conventional villain, possessing super strength, partial invulnerability, and eye blasts (aided by his black diamond). Eclipso's transformations were later altered so that any type of natural eclipse, lunar or solar, would cause Eclipso and Gordon to split from one another, while an "artificial eclipse"—an object blocking out a light source—would merely transform Gordon to Eclipso. Any bright flash of light would banish Eclipso back into Bruce Gordon's body or reverse the change.

Eclipso: The Darkness Within
In the early 1990s, DC retconned Eclipso in a company-wide crossover built around the miniseries Eclipso: The Darkness Within. Eclipso was revealed not simply to be Bruce Gordon's dark half, but a vengeance demon who had possessed Gordon. Eclipso's soul had originally been bound inside a giant black diamond called the "Heart of Darkness" in Africa. A treasure hunter found it in the late 19th century and brought it to London in 1891, where he had a jeweler cut it into 1,000 shards. This weakened the binding spell, allowing Eclipso to possess anyone who became angry while in contact with one of the shards. He was no longer limited to possessing Gordon during an eclipse, but pretended otherwise so that Gordon would not know the truth about the black diamonds.

Over the next 100 years, the Eclipso entity gathered the diamond shards with the intention of destroying them all, freeing his true power. When Lar Gand discovered Eclipso's palace on the moon and wandered inside, it inspired Eclipso to possess all of Earth's heroes and use them towards his ultimate goal, the conquest of Earth and revenge against God for imprisoning him inside the Heart of Darkness. Eclipso claimed he had spent the last several years "posing as a B-level villain" to remain undetected by Earth's heroes and had limited himself to targeting Gordon for the purpose of quashing Gordon's research into solar science. If Gordon had achieved his goal of making solar energy the planet's primary energy source, any solar-powered device could be used as a weapon against Eclipso.

In the climax of the story, several of Earth's heroes were possessed by Eclipso and transported to the moon during an eclipse. He then absorbed these heroes into his own body, gaining their mass and also their inherent powers. Gordon led a group of heroes armed with solar weapons to the moon in an attempt to defeat Eclipso once and for all. The absorbed heroes were freed in the end, but only after Will Payton destroyed Eclipso's moon base by detonating his own solar-powered body. Eclipso's diamond shards, however, remained on Earth.

Eclipso series
Following the crossover event, Eclipso appeared in a solo series. He conquered the South American country of Parador by possessing one person at a time. The United States sent an investigation team consisting of Cave Carson, Bruce Gordon, and Gordon's fiancé Mona Bennet. Carson's legs were broken and he was left at the border.

Gordon and Bennet were taken on a tour and shown various atrocities, such as piles of children's corpses. They escaped with the assistance of the Creeper and formed a group of heroes dubbed the Shadow Fighters. This group was led by Amanda Waller, formerly of the Suicide Squad. In issue #13 of the series, Eclipso defeated them, killing Wildcat II, the second Doctor Mid-Nite, the Creeper, Commander Steel, the Manhunter IV (a Mark Shaw ringer), and Major Victory. The Creeper has returned to action in his own series.

The Peacemaker was also involved in this action. He died in a helicopter crash while trying to destroy Eclipso's tanks. These tanks were attacking the sole surviving member of the Shadow Fighter attack force, Nemesis.

The other survivors of the Shadow Fighters, those who had not attacked Eclipso directly, regrouped. Eclipso attacked them with a Parador missile, which they evaded using Nightshade's teleportation ability. During the escape, Mona's father was snatched from their vehicle, but he later returned alive. The survivors arrived in the United Nations building, just in time to foil another plot of Eclipso by landing their vehicle on his intended victim.

Bruce Gordon and Mona Bennet led Earth's superheroes in an attack on Parador, in an attempt to destroy Eclipso once and for all. Eclipso revealed that he dares not kill Gordon and Bennet because their unborn child will time travel to the past as an adult and free Eclipso from the diamond.

Eclipso was finally defeated when the Phantom Stranger gathered all 1,000 black diamond shards and fused them into the Heart of Darkness, imprisoning Eclipso again. His physical body, the adult child of Bennet and Gordon, evaporated in front of his parents.

The Spectre (vol. 3)
Later in the 1990s, the series The Spectre (vol. 3) gave key revelations about Eclipso. The Spectre was not the first embodiment of the wrath of God, but was Eclipso's replacement. Series writer John Ostrander chose to portray this as a distinction between the Spectre's pursuit of "vengeance" and Eclipso's pursuit of "revenge". In a Biblical context, Eclipso was responsible for Noah's Flood, while the Spectre was the Angel of Death who slew the first-born Egyptian children.

The Spectre destroys the Heart of Darkness, along with the remains of Eclipso's palace on the moon, burning them to ash with the Holy Power of God and casting the ashes into outer space.

Alex Montez
Eclipso returns after several years' absence in the "Princes of Darkness" storyline in JSA as an ally of the other villains Mordru and Obsidian. Alexander Montez, cousin of Wildcat II, vows revenge on Eclipso for her death. To this end, he gathers the 1,000 black diamonds, liquefies them and injects them into himself; all save one, which he keeps to evoke Eclipso. Exactly how Eclipso's diamonds had returned was unknown. Montez covers his body in tribal tattoos he claims he had learned about on Diablo Island. With these tattoos, Montez can summon all the powers of Eclipso by triggering the diamond with his anger, while remaining in control of himself and keeping Eclipso trapped within. As the new Eclipso, he joins the short-lived team of loose-cannon heroes assembled by Black Adam, which was the subject of the subsequent storyline "Black Reign".

During Adam's reign in Kahndaq, Alex becomes romantically involved with his teammate Soseh Mykros, the female Nemesis. During the battle, one of Alex's binding glyphs (which keeps Eclipso in control) is broken via a shoulder wound. Eclipso soon kills Nemesis. Alex commits suicide to prevent Eclipso from controlling him further. This story was significant as it meant that Eclipso no longer had a limitless number of black diamonds waiting out in the world for him to utilize.

This incarnation of Eclipso was never shown using any power but his eye blasts.

In Countdown to Mystery #4, Alex's body is acquired by Eclipso's followers for an as-yet-unknown magic ritual. In issue #6, all of the black diamond fragments in his body are recombined into their original form.

"Lightning Strikes Twice"
Despite the loss of the other black diamonds, the disembodied Eclipso then tries to possess Superman by antagonizing him through many deaths. He eventually possesses Superman by upsetting him via his possession of Lois Lane. At this point, the wizard Shazam steps in by sending Captain Marvel to fight the possessed Eclipso-Superman. Thanks to Superman's weakness to magic, Captain Marvel is able to do a significant amount of damage to Eclipso. A prominent method of attack he uses is to continuously trigger his transformations in close proximity to Superman, resulting in the lightning striking Eclipso.

Eventually, Shazam himself removes Eclipso from Superman by calling upon the hostless Spectre himself to do it. The Spectre forces Eclipso back into a lone black diamond. The Spectre then warns Shazam that he has made an enemy of Eclipso and that the currently-hostless Spectre will no longer be able to defend him, as he lacks the coherence necessary to effectively recall anything beyond his 'mission'. At the end of this series, the black diamond is seen appearing in Jean Loring's cell in Arkham Asylum.

Jean Loring

In the Day of Vengeance miniseries which tied into the Infinite Crisis event, Jean Loring, ex-wife of the Atom (Ray Palmer) and murderer of Sue Dibny (as seen in the Identity Crisis miniseries), discovers the last black diamond in her prison cell, becomes the new Eclipso, and tricks the Spectre into attacking magic-based heroes as her revenge against Shazam, who was eventually slain while fighting the Spectre. After fending off multiple attacks upon herself, Eclipso-Loring was eventually teleported to a non-decaying orbit around the Sun by Nightshade.

In the pages of Infinite Crisis, Alexander Luthor Jr. sends Superboy-Prime to recover the black diamond and that the Psycho-Pirate delivered it to Loring on Alex's orders and manipulated Eclipso into manipulating the Spectre. This was all done in the interest of breaking down magic into raw magical energy, which Alexander could use for his own ends. The death of Shazam was particularly useful, as his various champions then became a tether of power. All Alex had to do was capture and force one of them to say "Shazam," which would summon the magic lightning bolt to power his machine.

In Week 27 of 52, Ralph Dibny, on a quest to restore his wife Sue to life and guided by the helmet of Doctor Fate, approaches the Spectre and promises to fulfill any bargain that the Spectre demands to restore his wife to life.

The Spectre, desiring revenge on Eclipso for his manipulations of him during Infinite Crisis, but rendered incapable of taking it owing to his present lack of a host, orders Dibny to punish Eclipso in return for his wife's life. Dibny, realizing that this meant punishing Jean Loring, his wife's murderer, and temporarily granted the power of the Spectre, takes Eclipso back to the point at which she (as Jean Loring) murdered his wife and, restoring Jean's sanity, ruthlessly intends to trap her in a permanent time loop and force her to watch herself murder Sue Dibny over and over for all eternity.

Her sanity restored and Eclipso purged out of her, a terrified Loring tearfully begs for forgiveness, screaming that she was crazy when she murdered Sue and that it 'wasn't me!'. Dibny, affected by her pleas, his sense of compassion, and his own feelings on watching his wife's death, finds himself incapable of such ruthlessness and refuses to complete his pact with the Spectre, returning Eclipso to her orbit around the Sun.

Loring later appears in Blue Beetle (vol. 7) #16, searching for a new host. Having come to the conclusion that her hosts' corrupted souls are the cause of her failures, she tries to possess a baby with great magical potential and a pure, uncorrupted soul. She is foiled in this attempt by the Blue Beetle and Traci Thirteen. She even manages to take control of the Blue Beetle and grants him his "supreme desire of power", intending to use the corrupted Beetle to kill the defenders of the baby. To her utter mortification, this means the Beetle's supreme wish, to become a dentist to provide for his family, is fulfilled, and is easily swatted aside.

It was revealed in Countdown to Mystery that all of Eclipso's black diamonds were mined on Apokolips millennia ago and that Eclipso was created by Darkseid.

In "The Seduction of the Innocent" ad campaign for DC's Countdown, Eclipso's arm can be clearly seen with Mary Marvel looking off-page and her face half-shadowed. Indeed, Eclipso is seen in Countdown #38 watching Mary Marvel and plotting to make Mary into her minion. Increasing her anger and suspicions around the other magical beings around her, she manages to warp the sunny and cheery disposition of Mary into sheer anger and distrust and then offers herself as a friend and confidante. After attempting to make her Darkseid's concubine, however, Mary rebels and attempts to kill her.

In Countdown to Mystery, Eclipso corrupts more heroes, first Plastic Man and then sets her sights on the Creeper. Mary discovers Eclipso's manipulation of her, and in Countdown #17, she sacrifices her abilities and attacks Eclipso with all her power, leaving Mary and Jean freefalling into the ocean surrounding Themyscira. Loring is last seen sinking into the ocean with a shark approaching and Eclipso returns to inhabit Bruce Gordon, declaring her lost.

Countdown to Mystery
In the Countdown to Mystery series, Eclipso puts a new plan into motion, corrupting the heroes Plastic Man, the Creeper, and the Dove, and at the same time tasking a group of Magi to recover and recombine the pieces of the Heart of Darkness.

In Countdown to Mystery #3, Crispus Allen, the Spectre's current host, tracks down Bruce Gordon. In issue #4, Eclipso once again takes Gordon as a host. Then, in issue #5, Bruce is shown to have some control over Eclipso's powers but can be overwhelmed by his persona if he uses too much of them at once. In issue #7, Bruce manages to free the heroes from their corruption but is overwhelmed by Eclipso when his ex-wife is threatened. Eclipso then joins with the completed Heart of Darkness, exponentially increasing his powers, and faces off against the Spectre. In issue #8, Bruce, spurred on by Crispus, finally manages to take control of Eclipso, although the two cannot be separated.

Rise of Eclipso
During the Brightest Day event, a mysterious being known as the Entity tells Jade to help her brother, Obsidian "balance the darkness", as he will ultimately save her friends from an unidentified threat. As the Entity says this, a grinning vision of Eclipso appears behind Jade.

Following this, Eclipso reawakens within Bruce, destroying Diablo Island and apparently killing Mona in the process. Eclipso subsequently kidnaps the Shade, Acrata, Nightshade, the Shadow Thief, a French supervillainess named Bette Noir, and a Canadian superhero named Dark Crow, all of whom possess shadow-based abilities. After brainwashing his captives and bringing them under his mental control, Eclipso travels to an extradimensional plane, where he frees a demonic entity known as Sythunu, who agrees to serve Eclipso. With his small team ready, Eclipso travels to the Emerald City that Alan Scott established on the Moon, stating that he now wishes to capture Jade. After taking over Jade, Eclipso defeats and possesses the Justice League's reserve roster (consisting of Cyborg, Doctor Light, the Red Tornado, Animal Man, the Tasmanian Devil, and the Bulleteer), and then badly injures the angel Zauriel. With the Justice League outnumbered, Eclipso then reveals his ultimate goal is to somehow kill God. Eclipso then tortures Zauriel, causing his screams to attract the attention of the new Spectre, Crispus Allen. The Spectre arrives on the Moon, where Eclipso ambushes and kills him, absorbing the Spectre's powers upon his demise. With his newfound abilities, Eclipso reveals that God relies on the collective love of humanity to stay alive, and that by destroying Earth, Eclipso will ultimately kill God once and for all. Just as the members of the JLA prepare to wage a counterattack, Eclipso destroys the Moon, apparently dooming all life on Earth. With the Moon destroyed, Eclipso then seemingly kills Donna Troy, the physically strongest remaining member of the Justice League. Donna's death was later revealed to be an illusion conjured by Saint Walker, who used his blue power ring to temporarily trap Eclipso in a state of euphoria. After the Atom and Starman break Eclipso's link to his brainwashed slaves, the combined heroes attack Eclipso together, defeating him.

The New 52
In 2011, "The New 52" rebooted the DC universe. Eclipso is depicted as the god of vengeance and once again trapped in the Heart of Darkness. A criminal organization working for Kaizen Gamorra tries to steal the item, with Team 7 trying to stop them. During the fight, Slade Wilson is briefly possessed by Eclipso. With the help of Essence, the other heroes manage to trap him again in the black diamond, which is then sent to somewhere safe. Five years later, Catwoman is hired to steal the diamond, now kept in one of A.R.G.U.S.'s secret rooms; she succeeds, although she is affected by the item's magic.

Eclipso is subsequently revealed to be an inhabitant of Gemworld with the powers of House Onyx and House Diamond and was once Kalaa of the planet Gilaa. He was trapped in the diamond by the then-Princess of House Amethyst centuries ago. Now possessing Dr. Alex Montez, he is sent back to Gemworld by John Constantine, where he seizes control of the two Houses to which he is connected. Seeking revenge on House Amethyst, he is defeated by Princess Amaya and again trapped in the diamond.

Later, the black diamond is delivered to scientist Gordon Jacobs, who has fallen from grace. Using Gordon's rage, Eclipso from inside the gem manipulated him into cutting himself with the gem so he can possess him. After taking his body, Eclipso murders Jonah Bennet, Gordon's partner and father of his fiancé, Mona, who has come to visit Gordon, but after that, Gordon realizes that he was out of control and he must destroy the gem. But Eclipso tells him that if he does, he will also kill himself, because they are one and the same now. Eclipso also manipulates and convinces Gordon not to throw away the gem, using Mona as an excuse. Eclipso warns that if the diamond and he are destroyed, the blood bond between them means Gordon will die too. Manipulatively, Eclipso reminds him that with Jonah's death, Gordon must be there to comfort her and soon, Gordon is convinced.

DC Rebirth
In the DC Rebirth event Justice League vs. Suicide Squad, Maxwell Lord uses a team of Lobo, Johnny Sorrow, the Emerald Empress, Rustam, and Doctor Polaris—identified as the original incarnation of the Suicide Squad—to steal the Heart of Darkness from a vault in Amanda Waller's base, allowing him to expand his powers to take control of the Justice League and the people of the world. Using the Heart of Darkness, Maxwell Lord 'succeeds' in bringing 'peace' across America, but it quickly degenerates into mass hysteria as the crystal corrupts those around him. Amanda Waller is able to snap Maxwell Lord back to his senses and he realizes that the Heart of Darkness is manipulating his power to sow rioting and chaos. Before Waller can help Lord remove the Heart of Darkness, it infects Lord and turns him into a host for Eclipso, leaving only Batman and the Suicide Squad to stand against his Justice League in a showdown at the White House (having been transported there by Cyborg via a Boom Tube, Cyborg's mechanical components helping him resist the Heart of Darkness's influence long enough to help Batman and the Squad). Eclipso is able to take over most of the Squad by drawing on their darker desires, but Batman and Lobo are able to hold them off long enough for Killer Frost to use her powers to create a prism, perfectly modulated to reflect Superman's heat vision at a frequency that will drive Eclipso back. With his hold weakened, Eclipso attempts to escape by drawing on Killer Frost's darkest desire, but since all she truly wants deep down is to make a difference, she is able to throw Eclipso off, leaving him trapped in the diamond once again while Lord is imprisoned.

In the crossover event Infinite Frontier, according to Darkseid, to contend for Great Darkness, he will fight with Eclipso, Upside-down Man, Nekron, and Empty Hand.

Powers and abilities
Eclipso is a formidable and powerful spiritual entity, representing the primordial embodiment of God's Wrath. Possessing extraordinary abilities, Eclipso's powers are diverse and impressive. Fueled by rage, the character exhibits attributes such as invulnerability and immortality. Eclipso's vast magical powers enable the performance of godlike feats. These include manipulating the weather and seas, causing natural disasters like floods and thunderstorms. The character can also alter their size, growing to giant proportions, has the ability to emit deadly rays of dark light from his left eye and a powerful burst of paralyzing black light from his right eye by looking through a shard of the Heart of Darkness gem. Furthermore, Eclipso has demonstrated the ability to absorb the powers of the Spectre and project potent energy from their hands, capable of stunning or even killing adversaries. Having once served God, Eclipso possesses the ability to communicate in the angelic language, which encompasses elements of harmony, discordance, vibration, and telepathy. This linguistic skill enhances Eclipso's command over their powers and facilitates communication on a divine level. The character carries with him a seemingly unbreakable mystical sword and is a considerable swordsman.

Originally, Eclipso's abilities in possession were derived from contact with the Heart of Darkness. In later iterations, Eclipso's possession capabilities have become even more potent. After overtaking Maxwell Lord, his ability to possess and corrupt individuals was significantly amplified. Unlike before, Eclipso no longer requires physical contact with the gem to influence others. He can remotely possess multiple hosts, as long as he can first corrupt them. Moreover, his influence tends to amplify the darker tendencies within those under his control. The individuals he possesses undergo a visible transformation, adopting a more monstrous physical appearance.

Heart of Darkness
When manifested into his true form, the character often wears the Heart of Darkness on his chest and channels its power. On its own, Eclipso possesses the ability to overshadow individuals who come into contact with the cursed Heart of Darkness gem. Once overshadowed, Eclipso controls the host's powers, manipulates their behavior, and alters their memories to serve his own purposes. Additionally, he can augment his host's existing abilities or grant them new powers, thereby strengthening them.

Weaknesses
Despite Eclipso's considerable power, he remains bound by the divine laws set by the Presence, and transgressing these bounds can result in severe punishment from the Presence. Additionally, Eclipso has a vulnerability in the form of the Heart of Darkness, which can be used to seal him away. Certain adept practitioners of magic, such as Doctor Fate and Sebastian Faust, have demonstrated the ability to hinder and exorcise Eclipso's possession through the use of specific magical spells and abilities.

Other versions

 * The Bruce Gorden incarnation of Eclipso makes a cameo appearance in JLA: The Nail as a prisoner of Cadmus Labs.
 * An alternate universe incarnation of Eclipso appears in Justice League 3001.

Television

 * Eclipso appears in the Justice League two-part episode "Eclipsed". This version is the collective souls of the Ophidians, an evil race of serpentine humanoids who imprisoned themselves in a black diamond called the Heart of Darkness to eventually destroy humanity. In an attempt to fight the Justice League, Eclipso possesses General McCormick (voiced by Bruce McGill) and dons Eclipso's original costume worn by Bruce Gordon after being inspired by one of McCormick's colleagues. Eclipso tries to permanently darken the sun and possesses all of the League before they are freed by the Flash and defeat him, with McCormick being left with no knowledge of what happened.
 * Mophir also appears in the episode, voiced by Tracey Walter. This version is a member of a tribe that guarded the Heart of Darkness and fought the Ophidians whenever they managed to possess a human host.
 * The Bruce Gordon incarnation of Eclipso appears in Stargirl, voiced by an uncredited voice actor in the first season and portrayed by Jason Davis and Nick E. Tarabay in the second season respectively, with Milo Stein also portraying a young Gordon. This version of Gordon is a former archaeologist who found the Black Diamond on Devil Island and eventually allowed Eclipso to fully control his body. After killing Charles McNider's daughter, Rebecca, Eclipso ran afoul of the original Justice Society of America (JSA) before Starman killed Gordon and imprisoned Eclipso in the Black Diamond, which the heroes contained in their headquarters until the Injustice Society of America (ISA) attacked them and stole it. In the present, Cindy Burman finds the Black Diamond in the Wizard's storage unit and begins working with Eclipso to form their own version of the ISA called Injustice Unlimited. After recruiting Isaac Bowin and Artemis Crock, they battle Stargirl's JSA and Shade until Stargirl accidentally breaks the Black Diamond. Free of his imprisonment, Eclipso betrays Burman, uses a diamond shard to send her to the Shadowlands, consumes Bowin, injures Hourman, and causes Shade and Crock to flee before doing the same. Utilizing Gordon's likeness, Eclipso soon resurfaces to torment the JSA and Stargirl's family via their negative emotions and memories. While Beth Chapel is able to resist, Eclipso sends Stargirl to the Shadowlands. After Shade rescues Stargirl and Burman, the pair join forces with the JSA, Crock, Sportsmaster, Tigress, Starman, Solomon Grundy, Jade, Jakeem Williams, and Thunderbolt to fight Eclipso. While Eclipso kills Grundy and possesses Stargirl, she forces him out with Starman's help before they and their allies further weaken Eclipso until Thunderbolt transforms him into a slice of toast.
 * Alex Montez also appears in Stargirl, portrayed by Jonathan Blanco. Debuting in the episode "Wildcat", he was the only member of Yolanda's Catholic family not to see her as a disgrace after she was publicly humiliated due to a risqué photo she had sent to her boyfriend Henry King Jr. being leaked to her school.

Film

 * Eclipso makes a cameo appearance in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.
 * The Jean Loring incarnation of Eclipso appears in DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year, voiced by Mona Marshall.
 * The Jean Loring incarnation of Eclipso appears in Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain, voiced again by Mona Marshall.

Video games

 * Eclipso appears in Justice League: Chronicles.
 * Eclipso appears in DC Universe Online, voiced by Jason Liebrecht.
 * Eclipso appears as a playable character in DC Unchained.
 * Eclipso appears as a playable character in DC Legends.
 * Eclipso appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.
 * The Bruce Gordon incarnation of Eclipso appears in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced by David Lodge.
 * Eclipso makes a cameo appearance in Peacemaker's ending in Mortal Kombat 1.

Miscellaneous
The Bruce Gordon incarnation of Eclipso appears in Smallville Season 11: Chaos. Amidst an archaeological dig in Africa, Eclipso possesses Gordon, travels to Metropolis, and battles Superman before eventually possessing him and Superboy, leaving Gordon to be taken into custody and the Black Diamond destroyed. S.T.A.R. Labs recover the shards, learning that they are sending signals to each other. Steve Lombard later takes one of the shards, causing him to be possessed by Eclipso until Hank Henshaw and Green Lantern defeat him and take the shards into space.

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The Whole Wide World

The Whole Wide World is a 1996 American independent biographical film produced and directed by Dan Ireland in his directorial debut. It depicts the relationship between pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard (Vincent D'Onofrio) and schoolteacher Novalyne Price Ellis (Renée Zellweger).

The film was adapted by Michael Scott Myers from Ellis's memoir One Who Walked Alone.

Premise
In 1933 Texas school teacher and aspiring writer Novalyne Price is introduced by friends to pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard. A relationship soon develops between the two but, it is doomed by personality conflicts and life events, such as the terminal illness of Howard's mother.

Cast

 * Vincent D'Onofrio as Robert E. 'Bob' Howard
 * Renée Zellweger as Novalyne Price
 * Libby Villari as Etna Reed Price, Novalyne's mother
 * Ann Wedgeworth as Mrs. Howard
 * Harve Presnell as Dr. Howard
 * Benjamin Mouton as Clyde Smith
 * Michael Corbett as Mayor Booth Adams
 * Helen Cates as Enid

 * Cast notes
 * Olivia d'Abo was intended for the role of Novalyne Price but was pregnant when shooting began.

Soundtrack
Original music was provided by Harry Gregson-Williams and his mentor Hans Zimmer. This was their first collaboration as mentor and protégé.

Legacy
When auditioning for the film Jerry Maguire, Zellweger met director Cameron Crowe several times but had trouble convincing him that she could play "a 20-something woman" rather than a girl. This was solved by Zellweger's agent sending Crowe a tape of The Whole Wide World.

Awards and honors

 * Nominated
 * Grand Jury Prize at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival
 * Best Female Lead for Renée Zellweger at the 1997 Independent Spirit Awards
 * Best First Screenplay for Michael Scott Myers at the 1997 Independent Spirit Awards
 * Best Film at the 1996 Verona Love Screens Film Festival

 * Won
 * American Independent Special Jury Prize at the 1996 Seattle International Film Festival
 * Best Actor for Vincent D'Onofrio (Golden Space Needle Award) at the 1996 Seattle International Film Festival
 * Best Actress for Renée Zellweger at the 1996 Mar del Plata Film Festival
 * Best Actor for Vincent D'Onofrio at the 1998 Lone Star Film & Television Awards
 * Best Screenplay for Michael Scott Myers at the 1998 Lone Star Film & Television Awards
 * Best Cinematography for Claudio Rocha at the 1996 Ft Lauderdale International Film Festival

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Carquinez Bridge

The Carquinez Bridge is a pair of parallel bridges spanning the Carquinez Strait at the northeastern end of San Francisco Bay. They form the part of Interstate 80 between Crockett and Vallejo, California, United States.

The name Carquinez Bridge originally referred to a single cantilever bridge built in 1927, which was part of the direct route between San Francisco and Sacramento. A second parallel cantilever bridge was completed in 1958 to deal with the increased traffic.

Later, seismic problems made the 1927 span unsafe in case of an earthquake, and led to the construction, and 2003 opening, of a replacement: a suspension bridge officially named the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge, in memory of iron worker Al Zampa, who played an integral role in the construction of numerous San Francisco Bay Area bridges. The Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge carries southbound traffic from Vallejo to Crockett, and the 1958 cantilever span carries northbound traffic.

History and description
The first regular crossing of the Carquinez Strait began in the mid-1800s as a ferry operated between the cities of Benicia and Martinez, six miles upstream from the bridge site. Auto service started on this route in 1913. A train ferry operated between Benicia and Porta Costa from 1879 until 1930 when a rail bridge opened. Ferry service at the site of the bridge started in 1913 by the Rodeo-Vallejo Ferry Company.

Original span (1927–2007)
The original steel cantilever bridge was designed by Robinson & Steinman and dedicated on May 21, 1927. Prior to this, crossing the Carquinez Strait necessitated the use of ferries. The bridge cost $8 million to build. It was the first major crossing of the San Francisco Bay and a significant technological achievement in its time.

Upon its completion, the span became part of the Lincoln Highway. This historic transcontinental roadway's original alignment, like the Transcontinental Railroad that preceded it nearly sixty years earlier, chose to avoid crossing the Carquinez Strait entirely. The preferred option, given the engineering limitations of the day, was to skirt around the Delta by going south from Sacramento through Stockton, then proceeding west across the San Joaquin River and over the Altamont Pass, and finally reaching Oakland from the south; a route that would later become U.S. Route 50 and ultimately Interstates 5, 205, and 580. This circuitous route, several miles longer, and traversing a rather formidable mountain pass, was preferable to crossing the Carquinez Strait, a deep channel with strong currents and frequent high winds. For decades, building a bridge across the Carquinez Strait was considered prohibitively expensive and technologically risky. Once the bridge was built however, driving from Sacramento to the East Bay became much more direct. The Carquinez Bridge provided a welcome alternative route from the Central Valley to the Bay Area, one that no longer required loading one's vehicle onto and off of a ferry. With the bridge completed, the Lincoln Highway was realigned to cross the Sacramento River, then proceed southwest through Davis and Vallejo, across the Carquinez Bridge, and along the shores of the San Pablo and San Francisco bays to Richmond and Oakland; becoming U.S. Route 40, and ultimately Interstate 80.

After the Loma Prieta earthquake engineers determined that the aging 1927 span was seismically unstable, and that a retrofit was impossible. The decision was made to replace it with a new suspension bridge. The 1927 span was temporarily used to hold eastbound traffic while the 1958 eastbound span underwent a seismic retrofit, deck and superstructure rehabilitation, and painting to extend its serviceable life. The old 1927 cantilever bridge was dismantled three years after the opening of its replacement; with completion on September 4, 2007. A 3,000-pound bronze bell atop one of the bridge piers was removed and placed into storage. The bell will eventually be displayed in a new museum to be built at the Oakland end of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.

Parallel span (1958)
At a cost of $38 million a parallel bridge was built just east of the 1927 bridge. The new bridge carried all traffic for a few months after it opened in November 1958, then after new ramps were built, the three-lane 1927 span, originally two-way, served westbound traffic while the four-lane 1958 span handled eastbound traffic.

Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge (2003 replacement span)
At a cost of $240 million a new suspension bridge was built, to the west of the two earlier bridges, by the joint venture consisting of Flatiron Structures of Longmont, Co., FCI Constructors of Benicia, Ca., and the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company of Darlington, England.

This new bridge was named the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge, after an ironworker who worked on a number of the San Francisco Bay Area bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge, and the original 1927 Carquinez span. The bridge was dedicated on November 8, 2003, and opened for traffic on November 11, 2003. Originally, the plan was to dedicate the bridge on November 15, but complications involving then just-recalled Governor Gray Davis and the transfer of power to Arnold Schwarzenegger resulted in the date being moved. The coins minted to commemorate the event have the original date on them.

The new suspension bridge, consists of the south anchorage, a transition pier, the South and North towers, and the north anchorage. It has spans of 147 m, 728 m, and 181 m. for a total span of 0.66 mi. It features a pedestrian and bicycle path, part of a bike trail which it is hoped will eventually circle the entire Bay Area. The towers are each founded on two footings, which are each supported by six vertical, 3 m steel shells infilled with reinforced concrete, followed by 2.7 m drilled shafts in rock, i.e., cast-in-drilled hole, or CIDH, piles. The total length of the CIDH pile at the South Tower is approximately 89 m, with about 43 m of drilled shaft in rock. The total length of the CIDH pile at the North Tower ranges from 49 to 64 m, with about 16 to 26 m of drilled shaft in rock. The design parameters used for the South Tower piles were later confirmed by a pile load test. Additional field investigations during construction revealed significant variations in rock conditions at the North Tower, resulting in the redesign of the length of the piles. Major construction challenges encountered during construction of the South Tower piles, and the revised construction procedure, i.e., under-reaming, used by the constructor to mitigate caving.

Materials for the New Bridge came from all over the world:

 * Steel Caissons for CIDH: XKT Engineering – Vallejo, California
 * Orthotropic Deck Sections: IHI – Japan
 * Tower and Splay Saddles:
 * Castings: Sheffield Steel – England
 * Finishing and Machining: Kvaerner – England
 * Main Cable Wire: Bridon – England
 * Wire for Cable Wrapping: Canada
 * Cable Bands: France
 * Suspenders (Hardware, Casting, Fabrication): WRCA – St. Joseph, Missouri
 * (3) Maintenance Travelers Under Deck Sections: Jesse Engineering – Tacoma, Washington

Tolls
Tolls are collected only from automotive traffic headed eastbound, towards Vallejo at the toll plaza on the north side of the bridge. Although the 2003 Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge is the newer span, no toll is charged in that direction, continuing the practice of the now-demolished 1927 span. All-electronic tolling has been in effect since 2020, and drivers may either pay using the FasTrak electronic toll collection device, using the license plate tolling program, or via a one time payment online. Effective, the toll rate for passenger cars is $7. During peak traffic hours, carpool vehicles carrying three or more people, clean air vehicles, or motorcycles may pay a discounted toll of $3.50 if they have FasTrak and use the designated carpool lane. Drivers must pay within 48 hours after crossing the bridge or they will be sent a toll violation invoice. No additional fees will be added to the toll violation if it is paid within 21 days.

Historical toll rates
Crossing the original 1927 bridge required a toll, but tolls were removed soon after the state bought the bridge in 1940. Tolls in 1926 were originally set at $0.60 per car plus $0.10 per passenger. This was reduced in 1938 to $0.45 per car plus $0.05 per passenger. After the state took ownership, tolls were immediately reduced to $0.30 per car. In 1942, tolls were further reduced to $0.25 before being removed in 1945. Tolls were reinstated in 1958 with the completion of the parallel span, set again at $0.25. It was increased to $0.35 in 1970, and then $0.40 in 1978.

The basic toll (for automobiles) on the seven state-owned bridges, including the Carquinez Bridge, was raised to $1 by Regional Measure 1, approved by Bay Area voters in 1988. A $1 seismic retrofit surcharge was added in 1998 by the state legislature, originally for eight years, but since then extended to December 2037 (AB1171, October 2001). On March 2, 2004, voters approved Regional Measure 2, raising the toll by another dollar to a total of $3. An additional dollar was added to the toll starting January 1, 2007, to cover cost overruns concerning the replacement of the eastern span.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional transportation agency, in its capacity as the Bay Area Toll Authority, administers RM1 and RM2 funds, a significant portion of which are allocated to public transit capital improvements and operating subsidies in the transportation corridors served by the bridges. Caltrans administers the "second dollar" seismic surcharge, and receives some of the MTC-administered funds to perform other maintenance work on the bridges. The Bay Area Toll Authority is made up of appointed officials put in place by various city and county governments, and is not subject to direct voter oversight.

Due to further funding shortages for seismic retrofit projects, the Bay Area Toll Authority again raised tolls on all seven of the state-owned bridges in July 2010. The toll rate for autos on the Carquinez Bridge was thus increased to $5.

In June 2018, Bay Area voters approved Regional Measure 3 to further raise the tolls on all seven of the state-owned bridges to fund $4.5 billion worth of transportation improvements in the area. Under the passed measure, the toll rate for autos on the Carquinez Bridge will be increased to $6 on January 1, 2019; to $7 on January 1, 2022; and then to $8 on January 1, 2025.

In September 2019, the MTC approved a $4 million plan to eliminate toll takers and convert all seven of the state-owned bridges to all-electronic tolling, citing that 80 percent of drivers are now using Fastrak and the change would improve traffic flow. On March 20, 2020, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, all-electronic tolling was placed in effect for all seven state-owned toll bridges. The MTC then installed new systems at all seven bridges to make them permanently cashless by the start of 2021. In April 2022, the Bay Area Toll Authority announced plans to remove all remaining unused toll booths and create an open-road tolling system which functions at highway speeds.

In popular culture

 * The 1927 span of the Carquinez Bridge is featured on a Season 4 episode of MythBusters in the Miniature Earthquake Machine segment. This experiment, based upon a claim by inventor Nikola Tesla that his mechanical oscillator produced an earthquake in 1898, employed a small tunable reciprocating mass driver to shake the bridge at its resonance frequency. While not structurally significant, the shaking was felt some distance from the driver.
 * An hour-length program, titled Break It Down: "Bridge", documenting the demolition of the 1927 bridge aired on National Geographic Channel, on November 1, 2007
 * On October 5, 2007, a man jumped off the new 156 ft bridge. The Coast Guard, Vallejo Police, and Fire responded to find him on the breakwater. He survived the fall.
 * Four books have been published about, or featuring, the Carquinez Bridges:Spanning the Carquinez Strait: The Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge (2003) by Caltrans, and Spanning the Strait: Building the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge (2004), Al Zampa and the Bay Area Bridges (2005), and, most recently, Carquinez Bridge: 1927-2007 (2017) all by John V. Robinson.

 * The bridge is depicted in the 2017 Netflix TV series 13 Reasons Why.
 * The bridge is depicted in the 2016 Czech computer game American Truck Simulator.

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Talk:Hollywood Hills

Alphabetize
It would be helpful is someone would take the time to alphabetize in a list the celebrities who live there.32.178.50.188 (talk) 04:50, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Washington
I was just about to take this off of my watchlist when I saw that someone had added "Hollywood Hills is similar in name to the affluent suburban community of Hollywood Hill in Woodinville, Washington." Sounds to me like uncited (and uncitable) opinion. I know nothing about Hollywood Hill in Woodinville (and I live only ten miles away). I'm not deleting this, but I would recommend that someone else do so. And, with that, I am removing this from my watchlist. - Jmabel | Talk 04:01, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Tom Leykis is a young star?--76.174.41.9 03:10, 15 July 2007 (UTC) --Yeah I know, just saw that. Surely it was a joke? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.66.42.71 (talk) 03:03, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Paris Hilton is moving to a gated community in Beverly Hills75.31.71.54 06:03, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Bound by
"bound by Crescent Heights Blvd. to the west" — Should that be Laurel Canyon Boulevard?, which goes north from where Crescent Heights Blvd. ends at Sunset Blvd. --83.253.248.109 (talk) 22:38, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The source cited says "Crescent Heights," which we assume to mean Crescent Heights Boulevard. If you have another source, use it, but please, let's not change the asserted facts in this article until we have another good source. Thank you. GeorgeLouis (talk) 15:42, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

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Proposed merge with Laurel Hills, California
Community in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles that does not lend itself to its own article. Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Edits) 01:39, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The article on Laurel Hills has been nominated for deletion. Discussion is here. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 17:42, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * No merger. This is not even a community, so it shouldn't have a listing in

WP. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 17:27, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Scope of article
This article used to reference both the geological area "The Hollywood Hills" and the neighborhood "Hollywood Hills". For some reason, that information was removed from the lead section. If you Google the usage, you can see that it is all over the place, using one term for the other. The LA Times is pretty consistent using "Hollywood Hills" when referring to the neighborhood as an entity.

As it is in this article, "Hollywood Hills" is the name of the neighborhood. It is singular and must be followed by "is". See following sentences in article. You don't say "The Beverly Hills are ..." you say "Beverly Hills is".

You could refer to the general geological area "The Hollywood Hills are composed of granite and sandstone"

Please do not revert to using "are" after the neighborhood. Thank you. • Bobsd • (talk) 16:44, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

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User talk:RoninVII

Hi Ronin VII. The quote you highlight as not cited is from a historical account posted online at: www.ctsfw.edu/events/symposia/papers/sym2002preus.pdf Thanks for noting this. Please feel free to add the external citation (maybe as a footnote linked to the external article?). User:Ropcat 17 Feb 2005 23:23 UTC

Hi Again. Thanks for adding the citation we've been discussing. I changed the format a little bit, just because it seemed to be redundant to say in the article text that it was an LCMS 1973 convention resolution, then to put "LCMS 1973" as a parenthetical reference. I moved the page number into the parenthetical reference and pulled out the organization and year (which are more than obvious from the context). Also, parenthetical references always go outside the quotation marks, not inside (using MLA, APA, or other citation methods). Thanks for your interest in the article! If you don't like my condensed version, I'd be happy to discuss further. User:Ropcat 18 Feb 2005 04:35 UTC

Gah! Thanks for cleaning up my mess. My bad on the MLA format- looks like my high school teachers were deficient. Also, I noticed that the references section was removed from the end. Are those sections not status quo? If not, my bad again, and thanks for your help. --User:RoninVII 16:54, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hey Ronin. Well, the thing is, all the pieces under "Further Reading" are also references for the article. (I didn't do specific page citations for all the facts in the text, since it didn't seem like the format used in wikipedia and print encyclopedias, but those are all sources for the article.) So it seems like it might be best either to change the name of the entire "Further Reading" section to "References" (since they're all references for the article), or to put the Convention Proceedings under "Further Reading." (i.e. the split between the stuff under "References" and "Further Reading" seems artificial). What do you think? I'd really value your opinion on this. (Also, I wonder if we could find the full publication details for the Convention Proceedings, so that people could go find them if they want. Did the version you found have a publisher and publication location listed?) Let me know what you think... and thanks for your help on this! I'm glad others are interested in this article; how did you find it? This seems like the most thorough and accessible account of Seminex on the web, so I'm glad we're getting it punched into shape. User:Ropcat 20:43, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ronin, thanks for your recent comments on my Talk Page. You've got documents from Chicago on Seminex? That's terrific. If there are any details that might be useful, please go ahead and add them. I'm still actively working on this article (addition yesterday about AELC), so anything you can throw into the mix would be great. Since I wasn't born until years after the Seminex controversy, I also think it would be useful to get someone who was there at the time to read the article and check its accuracy. Did you happen to do any interviews for your paper? Thanks again for the help and interest! User:Ropcat 20:41, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Benicia–Martinez Bridge

The Benicia–Martinez Bridge refers to three parallel bridges which cross the Carquinez Strait just west of Suisun Bay in California; the spans link Benicia on the north side with Martinez on the south.

The original 1.2 mi deck truss bridge opened in 1962 to replace the last automotive ferry service in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 1962 bridge has seven 528 ft spans and 138 ft of vertical clearance, now carrying four lanes of southbound traffic, as well as a path for pedestrians and bicyclists. It was named the George Miller Jr., Memorial Bridge in 1975 after California state legislator George Miller Jr. A 1.7 mi bridge was built alongside and opened on August 25, 2007 with five lanes of northbound traffic. In 2007, it was named the Congressman George Miller Benicia–Martinez Bridge after U.S. Congressman George Miller, Miller Jr.'s son. The cost of the 1962 span was US$25 million and US$1.3 billion for the 2007 span. (Adjusted for inflation, equivalent to $ and $ respectively.) The bridge is part of Interstate 680, a major transportation link connecting other heavily traveled freeways.

Between the two vehicle bridges is a Union Pacific Railroad bridge, the first bridge at this location, built between April 1929 and October 1930 by Southern Pacific. It is used by Union Pacific and BNSF (trackage rights) freight trains and 36 scheduled Amtrak passenger trains each weekday. Passenger trains include the long-distance trains California Zephyr and Coast Starlight and commuter-oriented Capitol Corridor services.

Tolling
Tolls are only collected from northbound traffic at the toll plaza on the south side of the bridge. All-electronic tolling has been in effect since 2020, and drivers may either pay using the FasTrak electronic toll collection device, using the license plate tolling program, or via a one time payment online. Effective, the toll rate for passenger cars is $7. During peak traffic hours, carpool vehicles carrying three or more people, clean air vehicles, or motorcycles may pay a discounted toll of $3.50 if they have FasTrak and use the designated carpool lane. Drivers must pay within 48 hours after crossing the bridge or they will be sent a toll violation invoice. No additional fees will be added to the toll violation if it is paid within 21 days.

The toll plaza has nine lanes with toll booths and another nine lanes with open road tolling (ORT) in two zones. One ORT zone has two travel lanes and four shoulder lanes. The other ORT zone has one carpool travel lane with two shoulder lanes. This bridge is the first open road tolling facility in Northern California and the first bridge with open road tolling in California.

Historical toll rates
When the Benicia–Martinez Bridge opened in 1962, tolls were $0.25 per car. It was set to $0.35 in 1970, then increased to $0.40 in 1976.

The basic toll (for automobiles) on the seven state-owned bridges, including the Benicia–Martinez Bridge, was raised to $1 by Regional Measure 1, approved by Bay Area voters in 1988. A $1 seismic retrofit surcharge was added in 1998 by the state legislature, originally for eight years, but since then extended to December 2037 (AB1171, October 2001). On March 2, 2004, voters approved Regional Measure 2, raising the toll by another dollar to a total of $3. An additional dollar was added to the toll starting January 1, 2007, to cover cost overruns concerning the replacement of the eastern span.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional transportation agency, in its capacity as the Bay Area Toll Authority, administers RM1 and RM2 funds, a significant portion of which are allocated to public transit capital improvements and operating subsidies in the transportation corridors served by the bridges. Caltrans administers the "second dollar" seismic surcharge, and receives some of the MTC-administered funds to perform other maintenance work on the bridges. The Bay Area Toll Authority is made up of appointed officials put in place by various city and county governments, and is not subject to direct voter oversight.

Due to further funding shortages for seismic retrofit projects, the Bay Area Toll Authority again raised tolls on all seven of the state-owned bridges in July 2010. The toll rate for autos on the Benicia–Martinez Bridge was thus increased to $5.

In June 2018, Bay Area voters approved Regional Measure 3 to further raise the tolls on all seven of the state-owned bridges to fund $4.5 billion worth of transportation improvements in the area. Under the passed measure, the toll rate for autos on the Benicia–Martinez Bridge will be increased to $6 on January 1, 2019; to $7 on January 1, 2022; and then to $8 on January 1, 2025.

In September 2019, the MTC approved a $4 million plan to eliminate toll takers and convert all seven of the state-owned bridges to all-electronic tolling, citing that 80 percent of drivers are now using Fastrak and the change would improve traffic flow. On March 20, 2020, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, all-electronic tolling was placed in effect for all seven state-owned toll bridges. The MTC then installed new systems at all seven bridges to make them permanently cashless by the start of 2021. In April 2022, the Bay Area Toll Authority announced plans to remove all remaining unused toll booths and create an open-road tolling system which functions at highway speeds.

Railroad bridge
Union Pacific Railroad's Benicia-Martinez drawbridge is between the two vehicle bridges. The railroad bridge was built between 1928 and 1930 for Southern Pacific Railroad to replace its train ferry between Benicia and Port Costa, California. It is the second-longest railway bridge in North America, and the longest railway bridge west of the Mississippi River. Before the bridge was completed, ferries were used to allow the railway to cross Suisun Bay. The original ferry, built at Oakland, California in 1879 and named the Solano, was the world's largest train ferry. In 1914 the larger Contra Costa was built. In 1926 the ferries carried 93,000 passenger cars and 142,000 freight cars across the Strait.

Train ferry service ended with the opening of the railroad bridge on October 15, 1930.

Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway and Amtrak also run here on trackage rights. The drawbridge has the smallest clearances of the three bridges — lift span horizontal clearance is 291 feet and vertical clearances are 70 feet (closed) and 135 feet (open).

Northbound span
In late 2001, construction began on a newer bridge east of and parallel to the railroad bridge. It measures about 1.7 miles (2.7 km). The new bridge carries five lanes of northbound traffic. The older bridge underwent seismic retrofits and was converted from carrying three lanes in each direction to carrying four lanes of southbound traffic and a bicycle/pedestrian lane, part of the San Francisco Bay Trail. The bridge construction included a new toll plaza with nine toll booths, two open road tolling lanes and one carpool lane at the south end of the bridge, although tolls continue to be charged only for northbound traffic. The old toll plaza at the north end of the bridge was removed.

The new toll plaza was retrofitted for open road tolling to encourage FasTrak use. This required the removal of eight toll booths.

The bridge is the largest lightweight concrete segmental bridge in California. The estimated cost was $1.05 billion, the final cost was $1.3 billion. The original estimated cost was around $300 million, it is noted for its large delay in construction and large over cost (over $1 billion). The project's cost overshadowed the replacement of the Cypress Freeway portion of Interstate 880. The new bridge opened at 10:30pm on August 25, 2007.

Vista point
A vista point is located on the north side of the span, providing an excellent view of the 3 parallel bridges passing over the Carquinez Strait with Mount Diablo in the background. It has ample parking, picnic tables and a large compass to provide orientation. This is typically the point where cyclists and pedestrians wishing to cross the bridge park their cars.

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Ottawa French Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Ottawa French Seventh-day Adventist Church is a francophone Seventh-day Adventist church in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located on King Edward Avenue, just north of Rideau Street.

History
The building was originally constructed in 1904 as a synagogue for the Adath Jeshurun congregation. The second synagogue in Ottawa, the building was designed by noted architect John W.H. Watts. In 1957, Adath Jeshurun and the Agudath Achim congregation merged to form the Beth Shalom congregation. The new group moved to a new synagogue at the corner of Rideau and Chapel Street. The synagogue became a memorial chapel and the funerals of many Ottawa notables were held there. In 1999, the building was sold to the Seventh-day Adventist Church.


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Zurab Nadareishvili

Zurab Nadareishvili (ზურაბ ნადარეიშვილი; born 4 January 1957) is a Georgian composer and academic.

Biography
Nadareishvili was born in Poti, Georgia, where  he  went  to  primary  and  music  school. From 1973  to  1978  he  studied  at  the  Georgian  Polytechnic  Institute (power  engineering  faculty); after  that  he  resumed  music  lessons  and  in  1982  entered  Tbilisi  State  Conservatory,  composition  class. During the  studies  at  the  conservatory  he  participated  in  students'  music  festivals  in  Georgia,  as  well  as  other  countries.

In 1987 he graduated from the conservatory (Prof. Kvernadze’s class)  and  continued  post-graduate  study  again  under  his  guidance.

In 1987  his  String  Quartet  was  awarded  a  First  Prize  at the Moscow All-Union Competition. After that it was successfully performed  in  Saint Petersburg, Warsaw, Amsterdam and USA by  the Petersburg  String  Quartet.

From 1987 Zurab Nadareishvili has been a member of the Georgian  Composers’  Union. In 1996 he  became a board member  of  the Georgian  Composers’  Union.

In 1995   he  was  awarded  first  prize  by  the  Georgian  Composers’  Union  for  the   year’s  best  creation (Piano  Trio).

In 1997 his "Variations for piano and orchestra" was awarded a III Prize at the Moscow Prokofiev International Competition.

At present  he  is professor  at  Tbilisi  State  Conservatory  where  he teaches  composition  and  at  the  same  time  he  is a musical editor of  "KVALI"  Film  Studio.

In 1985 he married the physicist Nino Shavdia (born in 1963).They have two children (Nutza, born 1986; Georgi, born 1987).

List of Works

 * Pieces for piano (performed in Tbilisi 1982);

 * Three romances for voice and piano (performed in Tbilisi 1982);

 * Sonata for violin and piano (performed in Tbilisi 1983);

 * Piece for clarinet and piano (performed in Tbilisi 1983);

 * Variations for piano (performed in Tbilisi 1983);

 * Four pieces for string quartet (performed in Tbilisi 1984);

 * Music for 13 strings;

 * Wind quintet (recorded by Georgian Radio 1985);

 * String quartet N 1 (performed in Tbilisi 1987 by Georgian Radio String Quartet in Petersburg 1989, in Amsterdam 1995, in USA 1996, by Petersburg String Quartet);

 * Symphonic poem (performed in Tbilisi 1988, in Gorky (Russia) 1988);

 * Piano quintet N 1 (performed in Tbilisi 1989, in USA 1995/97, in Osaka (Japan) 1999);

 * Piano trio (performed in Tbilisi 1994, in USA 2003);

 * Variations for piano and orchestra (performed in Tbilisi  1998);

 * "Aphaniptera and formicidae" - chamber opera, based on a Georgian folk-tale (recorded by “Kvali” Film Studio, Tbilisi 1996);

 * "Chants" - for nine instruments (recorded by Georgian Radio 1993);

 * "Mon Plaisir" - for six instruments (performed in Tbilisi 2000);

 * "Rhapsody" - for guitar and string quartet (performed in USA 2003);

 * String Quartet No 2 (2002);

 * "Dance" - for flute, clarinet, vibraphone and guitar (performed in Baku 2003);

 * "Litany" (2003) for strings, percussions and tape (performed in Tbilisi 2012);

 * Piano quintet No 2 (2005) (performed in Osaka (Japan) 1999);

 * "Phoenix" – for piano, string quartet and tape (2005);

 * "Pastorale" – for recorder, flute, oboe, soprano saxophone and harpsichord (2005);

 * "Nuages" – for Orchestra(2006). Performed in Tbilisi (2012);

 * "Dialogue-Contrasts" - for flute, string trio, piano and tape (2007). Performed in Tbilisi and in Fribourg by Ensemble "Recherche" (2007);

 * "Rendezvous" – for oboe solo. Performed in Tbilisi (2010);

 * "Cadenza" – for viola solo. Performed in Tbilisi (2010);

 * 2 movements – for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano. Performed in USA (2010);

 * Etude (Tarantella) – for piano. Performed in USA (2010);

 * "Life is a dream" – 2-act Opera on own libretto (2000-20014);

 * "Pot-pourri" – for 3 pianos and 16 hands (2014). Performed in Tbilisi (2014);

 * Incidental music for plays and films.

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Terraform (Shellac album)

Terraform is the second full-length record by American band Shellac, released in 1998.

Artwork
Credited to:
 * Courtesy Estate of Chesley Bonestell
 * Space Art Museum
 * Smithsonian Institution

Personnel

 * Steve Albini – guitar/vocals
 * Robert S. Weston IV – bass/vocals
 * Todd Trainer – drums

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Talk:Hoboken Terminal

Category question
Category:Commuter railroad terminals in New York City? After all, its located in New Jersey. Maybe there could be a category for NYC metro or something. RustyCale 23:26, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * The idea for that category is to include all the commuter terminals that serve people commuting to NYC. In this case, until the Kearny Connection was built, this was the only terminal for the ex-Erie-Lackawanna lines (and still is for some). Other railroads had other terminals; there were at least six in Hudson County at one time. These are no less NYC commuter rail terminals than Flatbush, Jamaica and Long Island City. --SPUI (talk) 03:24, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hudson-Bergen Light Rail inside?
The article says that the HBLR lines "operate from the south end of the terminal concourse." Do they actually enter the building or do passengers have to go outside to board light rail trains? --Jfruh 18:24, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

 * None of the lines, not even the New Jersey Transit trains operate within the terminal building. All of the platforms are located outside for all train service, with the PATH train station accessible underground. The description that the HBLR trains "operate from the south end of the terminal concourse" could be reworded, but is fundamentally accurate, as the concourse is a covered area outside of the terminal building. Alansohn 18:43, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the info ... I guess I was mainly wondering whether there was platform to platform transfer abilities ... a lot of mainline-to-light rail transfers really involve leaving one station and crossing a street or something to enter another (as at 30th St. in Philly). --Jfruh 19:04, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

The side of the complex oposite the LIghtRail & Ferry includes a Food Court/Bar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.198.55.135 (talk) 23:22, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Renovations
Something probably should be written up about the renovations. I'll try to take a picture of the planned reproduction of the clock tower (on some post on Henderson St.) AND the actual terminal building still includes an unfinished HALL so including info on how that will be renovated would be useful.

Merge proposal:Hoboken (PATH station) to Hoboken Terminal
I am suggesting that the Hoboken (PATH station) article be merged into this article, as there is no significant notability of that station from this station, as it is in the general complex. --AEMoreira042281 (talk) 08:18, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Notices were placed on both pages suggesting this move. --AEMoreira042281 (talk) 08:21, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I support the proposal. The article about the station should discuss all the services that operate there, and PATH is simply one of those services. Marc Shepherd (talk) 13:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Another basis for why this SHOULD be the case, is because the articles Walter Rand Transportation Center and AEMoreira042281 (talk) 16:48, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I support the merge. Da bomba3 (talk) 22:25, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * OPPOSE. This Terminal and the PATH terminal are two separate buildings operated by different companies with different historical significance. If we merge these, a valid case could be made to also merge Penn Station with Amtrak or Long Island Rail Road or New York City Subway because the situation is similar, and that would be ridiculous. Truthanado (talk) 04:09, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * A more precisely relevant example would be the 6th Avenue stations of PATH, each of which is part of the general complex of an IND station and thus as deserving of merger as Hoboken. I OPPOSE all such megers, but am open to suggestions as to why all should be merged, or why some should and some shouldn't, neither of which I have seen thus far.  Jim.henderson (talk) 15:57, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Support for two reasons. firstly, because the same argument could be made regarding the HBLR portion of the terminal, which would be even sillier than this.
 * The second is because such a merger has been done before, over at the Newark Penn Station article. While the PATH tracks at Newark are more integral to the overall station than they are in Hoboken, the situation is mostly similar.oknazevad (talk) 13:23, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Hudson Place
Hudson Place is an integral part of the terminal. It is here that the bus terminal, taxi stands, and only vehicular drop-off/pickup point for the enitre complex are located, above the PATH station, which like the bus station and ferry slips are not actually part of the station building or train sheds. Inclusion of this street, which acts as its entrance plaza merits inclusion in the article. Thoughts? And a question: what is the actual name of the building? Was it indeed officially re-named when NJT took over operations? Djflem (talk) 17:39, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I disagree that it's an integral part of the station complex. It's just the road the station sits next to. While surely the fact that the road is adjacent to the station means it matters to people trying to get there, that aspect is covered by the terminal's address being displayed in the station info box.
 * I also disagree with the characterization of the ferry slips as not actually part of the station building. The historic ferry slips, which are currently undergoing rehabilitation for reactivation are fully part of the terminal, and have been since it opened in 1907. The current, temporary ones are attatched to a building that was also built as part of the original terminal, originally used as an immigration and customs house. Both are fully part of the terminal, and have been since it opened.
 * The only parts that are not original are the bus terminal, which replaced the original trolley terminal that dates to the opening, and the HBLR portion, which was built on former freight docks. They were built on existing terminal property.
 * And that pretty much sums up my reasoning. The property line is the fence that separates the road from the bus terminal area. Hudson place is outside and off Hoboken Terminal property, therefore it's legally not part of the terminal, and doesn't belong on this page. (P.S., The PATH station is below the bus terminal, not Hudson Place. One makes a right off of the stairs when coming from the Hudson Place entrances.)
 * To answer your other question, Hoboken Terminal is certainly the official name of the place. I think it dates to the Erie-Lackawanna merger, but it certainly has been in use since at least the Conrail days. oknazevad (talk) 01:53, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I've got to agree with oknazevad regarding the idea of Hudson CR 736 being integrated into the article. If anything it should be intergrated into a new list of Hudson County Roads. I already complained about the merging of county road articles into Hudson-Bergen Light Rail station articles on WP:USROADS over a month ago, and thought it would be a good idea to reformat List of county routes in Hudson County, New Jersey. Recently though, I changed my mind, and thought it would be a better idea to keep the existing list as is and have smaller supplemental lists, such as those in Rockland County, New York and Suffolk County, New York. DanTD (talk) 00:05, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Photos?
Could someone in the area PLEASE add some good interior and exterior photos? The platform covers were novel when built. The clock tower - once present, then gone for decades, now rebuilt - adds an iconic landmark to the NJ side of the river. A night photo of the illuminated LACKAWANNA would be nice... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.102.32 (talk) 02:43, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

DL&W from Hoboken to Chicago?
I feel like should know this already, but one line has me stumped;

Long distance trains to Chicago and Buffalo were permanently discontinued on January 5, 1970.

So, which station(s) in Chicago served DL&W trains from Hoboken? DanTD (talk) 14:35, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The DL&W used the Nickel Plate Road from Buffalo to Chicago, so it used LaSalle Street Station. — G FOLEY   F OUR!  — 15:09, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Until the Erie Lack consolidation, when the combined service went to Dearborn Street Station, which the Erie already used (the combined service used the Erie through Ohio and Indiana). oknazevad (talk) 22:52, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

File:Hoboken Ferry Terminal 2011.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

 * I want to see a replacement for it. DanTD (talk) 12:32, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Hoboken Terminal vs. Grand Central Terminal
Is it just me, or does the elegance of Hoboken Terminal rival that of Grand Central Terminal across the Hudson? -User:DanTD (talk) 17:36, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Two lines jointly operated with Metro-North
An editor reverted a statement that said that there were two Metro North lines from the station. User:Oknazevad changed it to one. In fact there are two joint NJ Transit/Metro-North lines, The Port Jervis Line aka Main Line and the Pascack Valley Line. See for example this notice by the MTA the agency running the Metro North. It demonstrates that this is part of NYS (Metro North) operations as well as NJ Transit. http://new.mta.info/press-release/metro-north/new-pascack-valley-line-schedule-goes-effect-june-20 Dogru144 (talk) 22:35, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Somewhat true. NJT owns the line all the way to the yard in Spring Valley, but the three Rockland County stations it stops at are under Metro-North control and the MTA does help fund it (particularly the expresses that go straight from Secaucus to Pearl River). But I don't know if it needs to be listed twice in the infobox, and if I were to choose only one place, it'd be under NJT as the vast majority of stations are in New Jersey, and counterbalancing the NY expresses some trains short turn at New Bridge Landing, making them New Jersey only. Plus there is the track ownership issue. In contrast to the Port Jervis Line, which is fully leased to Metro-North between Suffern and Port Jervis, setting it off from the NJT-owned trackage it connects to and and giving rise to its separate name, the PVlL is wholly owned by NJT and operates under only one name. Anybody with a third opinion here? User:DanTD, User:Epicgenius, others? oknazevad (talk) 04:03, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * According to the NJT Map, the NJT Pascack Valley Line operates into New York, but there is no need to transfer to Metro-North. The schedules for the Pascack Valley Line on the MTA's website redirect to the NJT website, so my best guess is that the Pascack Valley Line's three stations in New York are NJT-operated under the MNR brand. Epicgenius (talk) 04:16, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * My understanding has always been that the whole Pascack Valley Line is New Jersey Transit, and Metro-North just leases the stations in Rockland County, while the NJT Main Line and Bergen County Line end in Suffern, whereas the Port Jervis Line begins in Suffern, although they use a few NJT stations on the Main Line south of the border. Bottom line; The only Metro-North line at Hoboken is the Port Jervis Line. -User:DanTD (talk) 04:41, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Are NJT platforms accessible?
I understand that the rest of Hoboken is wheelchair accessible, but aren't the NJT platforms low-level, making them incompatible? If that bit is inaccessible, then it should be noted.  Sports guy17  ( T •  C ) 18:11, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 * They have portable lifts to allow wheelchair users to board the trains. It's operated by a station attendant upon request. It's not the fastest method, but it does work, and I believe fulfills the legal requirements for being considered accessible. oknazevad (talk) 20:18, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

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There are several self-published sources here that would need to be replaced, including this and this. Also, the history section is lacking, with almost nothing on the 19th century. You have done good work on the article, but I don't think it is ready to be nominated to be a Good Article. cc: Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 16:41, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

I won't nominate it yet, and I will start working on your suggestions. Jibreel23 (talk) 17:45, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

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Climax!

Climax! (later known as Climax Mystery Theater) is an American television anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color, using the massive TK-40A color cameras pioneered and manufactured by RCA, and used primarily by CBS's rival network, NBC (the broadcasting division of RCA). Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live, but, although the series was transmitted in color, only black-and-white kinescope copies of some episodes survive to the present day. The series finished at #22 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1955–1956 season and #26 for 1956–1957.

Production
In February 1955, Martin Manulis became the producer, replacing Bretaigne Windust. The trade publication Variety reported that the change in producers would be accompanied by a change in format. It said, "The sponsor, Chrysler, has been discontent with the restrictive suspense-horror formula," and that future episodes would be "designed to accent adventure and emotional climaxes rather than stark melodrama".

Notable episodes
In 1954, the Climax! episode "Casino Royale" featured secret agent James Bond in a television adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale. It starred Barry Nelson as American secret agent "Jimmy Bond" and Peter Lorre as the villain Le Chiffre. It was the first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel, made before Eon Productions acquired the Bond film rights. Eon would later obtain the rights to Casino Royale in the late 1990s. This adaptation is available on DVD as a bonus feature on the MGM DVD release of the 1967 film adaptation of the novel.

The only other episode of Climax! available on DVD is Gore Vidal's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, retitled on Climax! as "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde". It stars Michael Rennie, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Lowell Gilmore. It is available in the DVD box set Classic Sci-Fi TV—150 Episodes from Mill Creek Entertainment.

In an earlier episode of Climax!, an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, actor Tristram Coffin, playing a dead body, arose in-shot and walked offstage. The event was widely covered in the media of the day, later becoming an urban legend that was attributed to Peter Lorre and the aforementioned adaptation of Casino Royale.

In addition, a small number of episodes from the series can be found on YouTube.

Guest stars

(In alphabetical order)

 * Julie Adams
 * Anna Maria Alberghetti
 * Eddie Albert
 * Don Ameche
 * Edward Arnold
 * Mary Astor
 * Anne Bancroft
 * Ethel Barrymore
 * Ralph Bellamy
 * Joan Bennett
 * Jack Benny
 * Ward Bond
 * Richard Boone
 * Lloyd Bridges
 * Terry Burnham
 * Raymond Burr
 * Rory Calhoun
 * Art Carney
 * John Carradine
 * Jack Carson
 * John Cassavetes
 * Lon Chaney Jr
 * Linda Christian
 * Steve Cochran
 * Claudette Colbert
 * Wendell Corey
 * Hume Cronyn
 * Mary Costa
 * Linda Darnell
 * Jane Darwell
 * Laraine Day
 * Brandon deWilde
 * Paul Douglas
 * Tom Drake
 * Joanne Dru
 * James Dunn
 * Geraldine Fitzgerald
 * Nina Foch
 * John Forsythe
 * Anne Francis
 * Betty Furness
 * Eva Gabor
 * Zsa Zsa Gabor
 * Farley Granger
 * Bonita Granville
 * Coleen Gray
 * Peter Graves
 * Jean Hagen
 * Sir Cedric Hardwicke
 * Charlton Heston
 * Paul Henreid
 * Celeste Holm
 * Jeffrey Hunter
 * Kim Hunter
 * Tab Hunter
 * Ruth Hussey
 * Vivi Janiss
 * Louis Jourdan
 * Katy Jurado
 * Boris Karloff
 * Phyllis Kirk
 * Jack Klugman
 * Angela Lansbury
 * Peter Lawford
 * Cloris Leachman
 * June Lockhart
 * Marjorie Lord
 * Peter Lorre
 * Barton MacLane
 * Walter Matthau
 * Raymond Massey
 * Lee Marvin
 * Mercedes McCambridge
 * Dorothy McGuire
 * Steve McQueen
 * Patricia Medina
 * Vera Miles
 * Sal Mineo
 * Thomas Mitchell
 * Robert Mitchum
 * Elizabeth Montgomery
 * Agnes Moorehead
 * Rita Moreno
 * Barry Nelson
 * Edmond O'Brien
 * Margaret O'Brien
 * Pat O'Brien
 * Dennis O'Keefe
 * Susan Oliver
 * Maureen O'Sullivan
 * Dick Powell
 * Robert Preston
 * Vincent Price
 * Dale Robertson
 * Edward G. Robinson
 * Cesar Romero
 * Ann Rutherford
 * Sylvia Sidney
 * William Shatner
 * Red Skelton
 * Dean Stockwell
 * Elaine Stritch
 * Yma Sumac
 * Joan Tetzel
 * Franchot Tone
 * Claire Trevor
 * Lana Turner
 * Eli Wallach
 * Ethel Waters
 * John Wayne
 * James Whitmore
 * Shelley Winters
 * Joanne Woodward
 * Teresa Wright

title: Climax!