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John Callahan (cartoonist)

John Michael Callahan (February 5, 1951 – July 24, 2010) was an American cartoonist, artist, and musician.

Accident and career
Callahan became a quadriplegic in an auto accident as a passenger in 1972 at age 21. The accident happened in Callahan's car, which was being driven by a man he did not know too well.

Following this, Callahan became a cartoonist, drawing by clutching a pen between both hands, having regained partial use of his upper body. His visual artistic style was simple and often rough, although still legible.

Callahan's cartoons dealt with subjects often considered taboo, including disabilities and disease. His black humor may be exemplified by the title of his "quasi-memoir", Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up? The subject matter and treatment of his cartoons share something with the work of Charles Addams, Gahan Wilson, and especially Charles Rodrigues, although it is much more aggressive than even the Playboy cartoons by these cartoonists.

From 1983 until his death 27 years later, Callahan's work appeared in the Portland newspaper Willamette Week. The controversial nature of his cartoons occasionally led to boycotts and protests against the paper.

By 1992, however, his cartoons were syndicated in more than 40 newspapers, and two books of his cartoon compilations had been published, Do Not Disturb Any Further and Digesting the Child Within.

Callahan scoffed at the reactions of critics who labeled his work politically incorrect, while delighting in the positive reactions he received from fans with disabilities. "My only compass for whether I've gone too far is the reaction I get from people in wheelchairs, or with hooks for hands," Callahan said. "Like me, they are fed up with people who presume to speak for the disabled. All the pity and the patronizing. That's what is truly detestable."

Two animated cartoon series have been based on Callahan's cartoons, both produced by the Canada-based Nelvana: Pelswick (on CBC Television) and Quads! (on Teletoon).

Friends said Callahan realized that his cartooning was a form of emotional venting, which led him to pursue a master's degree in counseling at Portland State University. However, his deteriorating health prevented him from finishing his first term.

In 2005, Dutch filmmaker Simone de Vries directed a documentary about Callahan titled Raak me waar ik voelen kan (English: Touch Me Where I Can Feel).

Callahan died on July 24, 2010, following surgery for chronic bed sores. His brother stated the causes of his death were complications of quadriplegia and respiratory problems. He was 59 years old.

A biographical film, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot directed by Gus Van Sant, based on Callahan's memoir of the same name, was posthumously released in 2018.

Graphic art
Callahan worked on nudes and a portrait project, which was shown in several galleries throughout its progression.

Songwriting
Callahan was also a songwriter. He released a CD, Purple Winos in the Rain, in 2006. He wrote and composed his own lyrics, and sang and played the harmonica and ukulele. The record was released on BoneClone Records and produced by blues musician Terry Robb, who also plays guitar accompaniment on several tracks, with a special cameo appearance by Tom Waits. Callahan personally illustrated the album cover. Posthumously, in 2018, track 14, "Texas When You Go", a duet recording of Callahan and Robb, was included in the film score for Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot.

The Independent called his songs "beautiful, but dark". He wrote all the music and lyrics himself and was backed up by many notable musicians. A Dutch film crew recorded the studio sessions in which Callahan played a simplified piano version of "Roll Away the Day".

Personal life
John Callahan was adopted as an infant and grew up in The Dalles. His adoptive parents later had five biological children. He attended a Roman Catholic elementary school, St Mary's Academy, and graduated from a public high school. According to his memoir, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, the nun, Sister Joseph of Mary, chose him as her surrogate child and insisted he sit with her at recess and not play with the other children, constantly telling him how special he was. In his book, Callahan said, "I can imagine myself sitting on that bench and thinking Boy, this will be called child molestation twenty years from now." He began drinking at the age of 12. "I used the alcohol to hide the pain of the abuse," Callahan said. After the car accident that caused his spinal cord injury, he went through extensive rehabilitation. At age 27, he gave up drinking alcohol. He made his home in Portland, Oregon.

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User:PeOak

I'm PeOak, a long-time lurker, only now I am starting to take a more active role on the site(or at least hoping to do so). I'm from Brazil and currently more interested in editing pages about Brazilian politics.

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Twyford Wood

Twyford Wood, formerly known as Twyford Forest, is a commercial wood around in Lincolnshire owned by the Forestry Commission, England, an agency of the British Government and managed by its subsidiary, Forest Enterprise (England).

History
A woodland had existed before the Second World War, covering approximately 60 ha. During the war, much of the land beyond this was developed from 1943 onwards as RAF North Witham. This was used operationally by the United States USAAF. At the end of air hostilities in Europe, the USAAF handed the site back to the Royal Air Force, who used the site as a bomb-collection dump, from which ordnance was then dispatched for disposal.

At the end of hostilities of the Second World War, the woodland and RAF site were taken over by the Forestry Commission in 1945. In the 1950s, they redeveloped all of their woodlands holdings in the River Trent valley with Scots and Corsican pine for use by local industry, leaving the original Quercus robur oaks on the original woodland in place.

The name Twyford comes from the former medieval village of that name, south of Colsterworth,  Note: there is a similarly named surviving village at SK728103

Present
Managed commercially today by Forest Enterprise (England), the 195 ha commercial woodland lies one mile to the east of Colsterworth. To the south is Beaumont Wood.

Soil and geology
The soil association is 712g Ragdale. Chalky till; slowly permeable seasonally waterlogged clayey and fine loamy over clayey soil. Boulder clay over upper Lincolnshire limestone.

Nature conservation
The butterfly reserves are managed by the Lincolnshire branch of Butterfly Conservation. It is home to the dingy skipper and the grizzled skipper.

Facilities
There is a small car park, with access from the A151. The wood is used for off-road motor sport.

News items

 * Lincolnshire Police in November 1997

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User talk:Mekong Bluesman

Welcome to the Wikipedia
I noticed you were new, and wanted to share some links I thought useful:

 * Tutorial
 * Help desk
 * Foundation issues
 * Policy Library

For more information click  here . You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~.

Sam Spade 06:54, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sysops: Help!
I'm being blocked. The following reason is given:

"Your user name or IP address has been blocked.

The reason given is this: banned user Amalekite"

I've emailed the blocker but haven't received a reply.

My IP address is 216.239.68.23 and, obviously, I'm not Amalekite.

If by chance any sysop reads this plea, please un-block me.

Mekong Bluesman 06:49, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

 * By chance I came across your user ID in relation to problems with autoblocking and AOL(or other IP Proxy provider). This happens to me regularly.  There has been some discussion of solutions, and your experience and any ideas would be welcome.  Please see my user page -- User:WBardwin/AOL Block Collection -- for a history of my experience and the comments of administrators.  With any luck, the interest of a number of people who are affected by this problem could encourage improvement or correction.  Thank you for any help.  WBardwin 05:33, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Buddhist terms and concepts
Bluesman: The tables are looking good :). At first I wondered why you'd changed CJKV to CKJV... I think I need to clean my glasses. You did a great job of following up when I changed it back to CJKV. I hadn't even noticed the order that had followed.

I'm also wondering whether it wouldn't look better to style the CJKV words like this:

 * 漢字
 * Sz: hanzi
 * Ja: kanji
 * Ko: hanja
 * Vi: chữ nôm

At least it would be consistent. Unfortunately, the formatting commands don't allow bullet lists to start flush left.

Best regards, Jim_Lockhart 12:07, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

"Pham Lai" page???
Hi, I'm the creator of most of the Fan Li page (in English). I don't know too much Vietnamese (tôi đa.ng ho.c), so I was looking for someone who had worked on the Pham Lai page who spoke any other language. Are you sure that "Pham Lai" is Vietnamese for "Fan Li"? (Fan Li was a Chinese businessman from the Spring and Autumn Period. Before going into business, he accompanied Emperor Gou Jian to Wu. As a businessman, he owned a pharmacy selling traditional Chinese medicine.) --Kuaichik 23:17, 7 August 2006 (UTC) (Vijay)

Vietnam WikiProject
I am told you might be interested in a separate WikiProject for Vietnam, like WikiProject Southeast Asia, I have posted the proposal at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Vietnam_WikiProject Chris 04:17, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Rushey Green (ward)

{{Infobox constituency }} Rushey Green is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Lewisham. The ward covers most of central, northern and western Catford. The population of the ward at the 2011 Census was 14,916.
 * name             = Rushey Green
 * constituency_type = electoral ward
 * parl_name        = Lewisham London Borough Council
 * district_label   = Borough
 * district         = Lewisham
 * region           = Greater London
 * region_label     = County
 * towns            =
 * year             = 1965
 * abolished        =
 * members_label    = Councillors
 * members          =
 * previous         =
 * next             =
 * population       = 14,901	(2021){{efn|2021 Census data reported for 2022 ward boundaries}}
 * electorate       = 11,770 (2022)
 * area             = {{convert|2.054|sqkm}}
 * image            = {{maplink|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Rushey Green (ward) 2022}}|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=250|frame-height=245}}
 * caption          = Rushey Green ward boundaries since 2022
 * blank1_name      = GSS code
 * blank1_info      = E05013730 (2022–present}

Lewisham council elections since 2022
There was a revision of ward boundaries in Lewisham in 2022.

2022 election
The election took place on 5 May 2022.

2002–2022 Lewisham council elections
There was a revision in ward boundaries in Lewisham in 2002.

2018 election
The election took place on 3 May 2018.

2014 election
The election took place on 22 May 2014.

2010 election
The election on 6 May 2010 took place on the same day as the United Kingdom general election.

2006 election
The election took place on 4 May 2006.

2002 election
The election took place on 2 May 2002.

1978–2002 Lewisham council elections
There was a revision in ward boundaries in Lewisham in 1978.

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Tremulant

A tremulant (from Latin: tremulus, "trembling"; tremblant, tremolo, temblor ) is a device on a pipe organ which varies the wind supply to the pipes of one or more divisions (or, in some cases, the whole organ). This causes their amplitude and pitch to fluctuate, producing a tremolo and vibrato effect. A large organ may have several tremulants, affecting different ranks (sets) of pipes. Many tremulants are variable, allowing for the speed and depth of tremolo to be controlled by the organist. The tremulant has been a part of organ building for many centuries, dating back to Italian organs of the sixteenth century.

The tremulant should not be confused with the celeste, which consists of two distinct ranks of pipes, one tuned slightly sharp or flat from the other, producing an undulating effect when they are used together.

Construction
The simplest kind of tremulant is a weighted electric motor affixed to the top of the reservoir for the division. When activated, the spinning of the motor causes the reservoir to shake, altering the wind pressure. This type of tremolo appeared first in the twentieth century, when the electric motor became available.

The tremblant fort (French: "strong tremulant") allows an escape route for some of the wind in the wind trunk. The loss of wind creates the tremulant effect.

The tremblant doux (French: "gentle tremulant") was illustrated by Dom Bédos de Celles in his monumental L'art du facteur d'orgues. It consists of a spring-loaded flap that is mounted inside the wind trunk of a division. When the tremulant is engaged, the flap drops into the wind trunk and bounces as the wind passes by it. The spring allows the flap to rebound repeatedly back into the wind supply, which creates the undulation. Both the tremblant fort and the tremblant doux were commonly seen on German organs of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Austin Organs, Inc. builds a proprietary kind of tremulant for its Universal Windchest. The Austin tremulant consists of a large blade that spans the length of the windchest above the pipes. When the tremulant is activated, the blade turns on its longitudinal axis, disturbing the air over the sounding pipes and creating a tremulant effect. It does not affect the air pressure of the pipes. Normal tremulants cause pipes to go out of tune quicker.

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Dulwich Common

Dulwich Common may refer to:

 * A historic flood plain now called West Dulwich
 * Part of the A205 South Circular road in Dulwich and the London Borough of Southwark.

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Extension (Mac OS)

On the classic Mac OS (the original Apple Macintosh operating system), extensions were small pieces of code that extended the system's functionality. They were run initially at start-up time, and operated by a variety of mechanisms, including trap patching and other code modifying techniques. Initially an Apple developer hack, extensions became the standard way to provide a modular operating system. Large amounts of important system services such as the TCP/IP network stacks (MacTCP and Open Transport) and USB and FireWire support were optional components implemented as extensions. The phrase "system extension" later came to encompass faceless background applications as well.

Extensions generally filled the same role as DOS's terminate and stay resident programs, or Unix's daemons, although by patching the underlying OS code, they had the capability to modify existing OS behaviour, the other two did not.

The INIT mechanism
The concept of extensions was not present in the original Macintosh system software, but the system nevertheless had a private patching mechanism that developers soon learned to take advantage of - the INIT loader. This code would search for system resources of type 'INIT', and load and run them at boot time. The code resources had to be stored directly in the Mac System suitcase's resource fork, meaning it was only really available to "power users" who would be comfortable using ResEdit or other resource editor.

Since taking advantage of this mechanism was an unsupported hack, and only 32 INITs could be loaded in this manner, Apple responded by providing a more managed solution. Initially this itself was in the form of an 'INIT' resource with ID 31 placed in the System file that would search for further files of type 'INIT' in the System Folder, and load and run INIT resources inside them. (This is why some veteran Mac programmers still refer to the extensions loading mechanism as the "INIT 31 trick". INITs could now be installed simply by placing a file in the System Folder, well within the abilities of the average user. Starting with System 7, extensions were relocated to the Extensions folder within the System Folder for convenience, and an auto-routing mechanism was implemented so that placing an extension into the System Folder through drag and drop would actually place the file in the appropriate subfolder.

Extensions retained the resource type of 'INIT' throughout their lifetime, and the loader was gradually enhanced to search for these resources in numerous places, including in the resource forks of control panels in a variety of formats and the Chooser.

Extensions
INITs evolved into system extensions, gaining additional ad hoc protocols along the way, such as supplying an icon to be displayed at boot time (the origin of this was 'ShowINIT'). The 'parade of puzzle pieces and icons' across the screen as each extension loaded became familiar to all Mac users. Apple themselves eventually released major (but optional) pieces of the operating system as extensions, such as QuickTime, QuickDraw 3D and many others. A substantial number of services and drivers in Mac OS—both official and third party—were provided as extensions, allowing for the OS to be trimmed down by disabling them.

System extensions were a common source of instability on the Macintosh, as third-party code was of variable quality and would often patch the system in ways that did not always work correctly. Some extensions didn't work properly together, or worked only when loaded in a particular order. In addition, different extensions might try to patch the same part of the system, which could lead to extension conflicts and other instability. Tracking down these sources of trouble was another task most Mac users encountered at some point. Troubleshooting Mac OS extensions could be a time-consuming process of bisecting and trial and error.

The simplest way to clean-boot the operating system was to hold the shift key: loading of extensions would be bypassed. System 7.5 added the Extensions Manager, which allowed the user to quickly enable or disable particular extensions, and also to define sets of them that would work correctly together. Extensions Manager came with two read-only base sets provided: one that contained the subset of extensions needed for basic OS operation, and one that enabled all the official extensions that shipped with the OS but disabled all third-party extensions.

The loading order of extensions was a side-effect of the GetFInfo function that was used by the loader to enumerate the files in the Extension folder. While Apple always have said that the order that results from enumeration of files using this function is undefined, on HFS volumes this function enumerated files in the order stored in the HFS catalog. People figured out that changing the first character in the file name could change the extension loading order, which caused trouble when Mac OS 8.1 moved to HFS+. Apple ended up having to change the loader to sort the filenames returned by this function into a table, and provided an interface to allow software to change the table.

Configuration and control panels
System extensions had no user interface: there was no standard mechanism by which the user could configure the services provided by an extension. Extensions were able to alter the graphical interface (such as adding new menus to the menu bar) and thus accept user configuration, or they could be accompanied by an application to provide the configuration interface.

With System 7, control panels become separate Finder plugins on disc that could be launched by the user. By inserting INIT code into a control panel, it became possible to build extension/control panel hybrids that modified the operating system at boot time and contained their own in-built configuration interface in the same form as any other operating system control panel.

Faceless background applications
MultiFinder and System 7 and later supported faceless background applications similar to UNIX daemons or Windows Services, though using cooperative multitasking. Examples included Time Synchronizer (daylight saving time adjustment and remote time synchronization), Software Update Scheduler, and Folder Actions (folder event handling). Faceless background applications were regular applications with the restriction that they did not show up on the application menu. The only technical differences between a faceless background application and a regular application were that the "Only background" flag was set in the ' ' resource. They were prohibited from opening a normal application-level window: if they did so, the system would freeze.

They were free to open global floating windows, however, since these could neither gain nor lose focus. The Control Strip in Mac OS 8 and 9 was an example of a faceless background application that displayed a global floating window to provide user interaction. The Application Switcher was another. However, the user was not aware at any time that the Control Strip was a running process; it was simply presented as an extra interface feature. The system simply described faceless background applications as "system applications".

Language features in the Open Scripting Architecture (and thus AppleScript) were initially implemented as dynamically loadable plugins known as "scripting additions" or OSAXes. In Mac OS 8 and 9, these were augmented by faceless background applications that were loaded in the background on demand. Just as with regular applications, these applications were accessed using  clauses: the global namespace was not updated as was the case with OSAXes. The operating system did not indicate the launch of such processes nor indicate whether or not they were running.

Other non-INIT extensions
INIT-type extensions were loaded at boot time to update the operating system. Confusingly, various other files could be placed into the Extensions folder as well, many of which were not loaded at boot time. The most notable of these were shared libraries which were commonly put into the Extensions folder for ease of location. Shared libraries were not loaded at boot time.

INIT-type files were not the only type of system extension. Another type was scri, or WorldScript extension. The BootX Linux bootloader was implemented as a scri simply because such files were loaded very early on in the boot process, before all other extensions. BootX could then display a dialog offering to let the user finish booting Mac OS or load Linux instead.

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Talk:Indian-American

maybe the format of the article should be like the chinese american one or the flipino one?

rename title
I propose to move this to Indian American (without the dash). "Indian" should be an adjetive used to describe the particular type of "American." "Indian-American" sounds like a hybrid between an Indian and an American, which is a bad representation.

Hyphen Deletion
I wholeheartedly agree. The Indian is merely a qualifier in this case. Similar to "older American" or "blonde American."

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Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Old Norse, dates and subgroups)

This is a discussion about how to create a naming standard for Old Norse and its subgroups Old West Norse, Old East Norse, Old Gutnish, Old Icelandic, Old Norwegian and Old Swedish.

Which periods of time should be covered by the subgroups?

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 * I think it would be appropriate if we tried discussing this at Talk:Old Norse language before setting up a Naming convention. My guess is that we don't want a naming conventio, because this matter isn't all that simple to generalize, and I'm not sure all scholars are agreeing in what terms to use and how.
 * It's better to check as to what the facts are before actually trying to decide on a naming convention. Peter Isotalo 13:32, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * It is exactly why it may not be evident that we should have some kind of convention IMHO. Moreover, by launching such a discussion we might attract more people. But as you wish.--Wiglaf 13:34, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay, it was a good idea but it seems rather unlikely that we'll attract any discussion here. Do you mind if I remove this from the list of naming conventions under consideration? - Haukur Þorgeirsson 18:41, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Question: Norn (Orkneys), Faeroese? i.e. as sharing space in list with other Old Norse variants above - OK, they're both West Norse, or are they considered modern languages, like Modern Icelandic?


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High Brooms railway station

High Brooms railway station is on the Hastings line in the south of England and serves High Brooms and Southborough in the borough of Tunbridge Wells, Kent. It is 32 mi down the line from London Charing Cross. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern.

History
High Brooms was originally opened in 1893 as Southborough by the South Eastern Railway; it acquired its present name in 1925. It is situated on a five-mile gradient from Tonbridge to the north of the station. The main station buildings are on the northbound platform. There is a closed waiting room on the southbound platform. Access to the southbound platform is via stairs from a side entrance, and access to the northbound platform is at street level. A subway links the two platforms.

Services
All services at High Brooms are operated by Southeastern using, and  EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 2 tph to London Charing Cross
 * 2 tph to Hastings (1 semi-fast, 1 stopping)

Additional services, including trains to and from and London Cannon Street and Ore call at the station in the peak hours.

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Talk:Reggie Miller

Who were they
Reggie Miller, Karl Malone, John Stockton... and two other NBA Greats were named "the crownless kings" on an NBA telecast. These players were leaders in their field (points, assists, etc.) yet failed to win a ring before they retired. Anyone have a better memory than I do (and a link to a more concrete piece evidence of said quote)?Pakopako 15:50, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Personal life
Any resistance to a mention notable events of his personal life? Married to model Marita Stavrou from 1992-2001. His house in Indianapolis burnt in 1997. Miller hosted a local weekly teen-themed TV show in Indianapolis. Group29 (talk) 15:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)"he's so awesome!" (Jim Stephens(whiteland, IN)

Ridiculous use of the SAT prep book
sobriquet = LOL. Whomever wrote that is a tool. Lecollye (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:43, 26 November 2009 (UTC).

agreed - any objections to me changing this to "nickname"? I'm not just saying this because I had to look it up (which I did), but because it doesn't really fit. Surfbruddah (talk) 15:49, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Inaccuracy in article?
Under the NBA Career section, ohh happy days last paragraph states "Over his 18-year NBA career, Miller made over $105,000,000 in salary, playing in 1,389 games for the Pacers, sixth-most in NBA history and second-most for a player who spent his career with only one team."

But then under Achievements, it says: "Miller played more games with the same team than all but two players in NBA history, John Stockton and Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz."

So which is it? Is he second or third? Zeroality (talk) 23:59, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

The first quote is referring to the amount of money he made during his career. The second quote is talking about the number of games played in his career. Xxavyer (talk) 04:20, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coplas a Pancho Graña

 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. CDC  (talk)  22:37, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Coplas a Pancho Graña
Lyrics of a Spanish song. It's a primary source, the subject does not appear no be notable, and it may be a copyvio as well. 07:04, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article as it stands is not encyclopaedic. Megan1967 08:43, 18 Apr 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.


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User talk:Offkilter

removing NPOV from The Chronicles of Narnia
I would like to remove the NPOV tag from the critisism section of The Chronicles of Narnia article. It has been extensively rewritten since you added the tag. But I wanted to hear your thoughts first as you added the tag. I'll watch here and on the talk page of the article for your response. Lsommerer 04:49, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Hentai
An editor is trying to turn the article into a pornfest again. Since you weighed in last time, I thought you might be interested. --日本穣 23:02, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the compliment regarding my arguments on that page. You can see my userboxes on this page. I used subst:userboxname to create that page. You can see a list of most userboxes on this page. --日本穣 18:19, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks like you've got a handle on userboxes now. (^_^) --日本穣 Nihonjoe 09:13, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

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Delta Dawn

"Delta Dawn" is a song written by musician Larry Collins and country songwriter Alex Harvey. The first notable recording of the song was in 1971 by American singer and actress Bette Midler for her debut album "The Divine Miss M". However it is best known as a 1972 top ten country hit for Tanya Tucker and a 1973 US number one hit for Helen Reddy.

Though the song is credited exclusively to Collins and Harvey, the melody of the chorus is virtually identical to the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace."

Content
The title character is a faded former Southern belle from Brownsville, Tennessee, who, at 41, is obsessed to unreason with the long-ago memory of a suitor who jilted her. The lyrics describe how the woman regularly "walks downtown with a suitcase in her hand / looking for a mysterious dark haired man" who she says will be taking her "to his mansion in the sky."

Reddy's recording in particular includes choir-like inspirational overtones.

The song's writing
Alex Harvey said he wrote the song about his mother:

My mother had come from the Mississippi Delta and she always lived her life as if she had a suitcase in her hand but nowhere to put it down.

Ten years before Harvey wrote the song, he was performing on TV and told his mother not to come, lest she get drunk and embarrass him. That night she died in a car crash, and Harvey believed it was suicide caused by his rejection.

For years Harvey suffered from guilt over the incident, until a cathartic incident the night he wrote the song. He was at fellow songwriter Larry Collins' house, who was asleep while Harvey noodled around on his guitar. He believed his mother then came to him in a vision:

I looked up and I felt as if my mother was in the room. I saw her very clearly. She was in a rocking chair and she was laughing...I really believe that my mother didn't come into the room that night to scare me, but to tell me, 'It's okay,' and that she had made her choices in life and it had nothing to do with me. I always felt like that song was a gift to my mother and an apology to her. It was also a way to say 'thank you' to my mother for all she did.

After writing the first few lines of the song, Harvey woke Collins and they finished it together.

Recording history
The first recording of "Delta Dawn" was made by Harvey for his eponymous album released in November 1971. Harvey had performed as the opening act for Helen Reddy at the Troubadour, in January 1972, but at that time Reddy (who also was signed with the Capitol Records label) made no connection with any of Harvey's compositions.

Dianne Davidson sang backup for Harvey's recording. She was the first singer after Harvey to record the song and chart in 1971–1972.

Tracy Nelson also sang backup on Harvey's recording, and performed "Delta Dawn" in her live act.

Bette Midler
After hearing Tracy Nelson sing "Delta Dawn" at the Bottom Line in New York City, Bette Midler added the song to her repertoire.

During the time Tanya Tucker’s and Helen Reddy’s recordings of the song were being produced (see below), Bette Midler recorded "Delta Dawn" for her The Divine Miss M debut album, for which her bluesy version was planned as the lead single. Reddy's single was released June 1973, two days after Midler's. The preemption required a marketing change for Midler, so the original B-side "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was shopped to radio, itself becoming a top ten hit.

The song was also included on Midler's 1977 live album Live at Last (Bette Midler album) which was recorded at the Cleveland Music Hall in Cleveland, Ohio.

Tanya Tucker
Before Bette Midler's recording, Nashville-based producer Billy Sherrill heard her sing "Delta Dawn" on The Tonight Show and wanted to sign Midler to Epic Records and have her record it. Upon finding that Midler already signed with Atlantic Records, Sherrill cut the song with Tanya Tucker, who was newly signed to Epic, and Tucker's version was released in April 1972; it reached number six Country that spring.

While Harvey's original version started with the first verse, Sherrill suggested starting with the chorus instead, done a cappella – a term unknown to 13-year-old Tucker. This distinction became a signature of her version.

Helen Reddy
Record producer Tom Catalano created an instrumental track of "Delta Dawn." Catalano first offered the vocal track to Barbra Streisand, but she refused; after this he gave the vocal to Reddy.

Reddy's version, which added upward modulation to Tucker's cold intro and nonstop vocals throughout, entered the top ten on 18 August 1973, on its way to its lone week at number one on the main Billboard Hot 100 chart, on 15 September 1973. It remained in the top 10 for eight weeks, and was ranked as the No. 14 song for 1973 according to Billboard. "Delta Dawn" was also the first of Reddy's six consecutive — and eight overall — number one hits on the Billboard Easy Listening chart. The song also topped the Cash Box chart on 8 September 1973, remaining at number one for two weeks.

Reddy had reached number two with both "I Don't Know How to Love Him" and I Am Woman in her native Australia; "Delta Dawn" became her first number one hit there, spending five weeks at the top of the Kent Music Report in August and September 1973. "Delta Dawn" also marked Reddy's only chart appearance in South Africa, reaching number 13 in the autumn of 1973.

Sylvie Vartan (in French)
In 1973, the song was adapted into French by Michel Mallory as "Toi le garçon" (meaning "You're the boy") and was recorded by French pop singer Sylvie Vartan and was released as a non-album single in October 1973. Vartan's version peaked at Number 22 on the French Belgian charts on March 9, 1974.

Other recordings

 * Waylon Jennings on his 1972 album Ladies Love Outlaws
 * Loretta Lynn on her 1972 album Here I Am Again
 * Other 1972 covers included those by Kitty Wells, Jody Miller, Bob Luman (Lonely Women Make Good Lovers), and Nat Stuckey.
 * The Statler Brothers on its 1973 Mercury album The Statler Brothers Sing Country Symphonies in E Major
 * Nola Francis released a version of the song in 1973. It peaked at number 98 in Australia.
 * Other 1973 covers included those by Sonny James, Dottie West, Teresa Brewer, and Ray Conniff.
 * Scott Walker in 1974
 * Dash Rip Rock on its 1991 live album Boiled Alive.
 * Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on its album Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah
 * Debbie Rule on her 2015 album Texas Girls
 * Hellbound Glory on its 2017 album Pinball, although the location in the song was changed to the Sacramento River Delta.
 * Home Free and Brooke Eden - 2023

Use in popular media

 * On Friends, Monica Geller sang it at a piano bar where Mike Hannigan worked.
 * Stone Cold Steve Austin gave the first verse his take on an episode of WWE Raw – notable for his failure to hit the high notes.
 * Sonny and Cher performed it on their The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour on CBS.
 * Appeared in the movie Big Fan, starring Patton Oswalt.

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Tunbridge Wells railway station

Tunbridge Wells train station is on the Hastings line in the south of England and serves Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent. It is 34 mi down the line from London Charing Cross. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern.

History
The first station was a temporary terminus opened on 20 September 1845 situated north of Wells Tunnel. This closed when the line was extended to the present station which opened on 25 November 1846. It became a through station in 1851 when the line opened to Robertsbridge and a year later opened through to Hastings. The LBSCR line from Grove Junction to Tunbridge Wells (West) opened in 1867 for goods and 1876 for passenger. Immediately after becoming part of the Southern Railway in 1923 the station was named Tunbridge Wells Central.

Just beyond Grove Tunnel at the south end of the station was Grove Junction, where trains took the single line branch to Tunbridge Wells West. The branch closed on 6 July 1985.

In 1985 preparation for electrification the platforms were rebuilt and the tracks were resignalled. Electric trains started running in 1986. The station again became just Tunbridge Wells.

Since 1974, the up side of the station only has been Grade II listed.

Services
All services at Tunbridge Wells are operated by Southeastern using, and  EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 2 tph to London Charing Cross
 * 2 tph to Hastings (1 semi-fast, 1 stopping)

Additional services, including trains to and from and London Cannon Street and Ore call at the station in the peak hours.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jupiter from Voyager 1.jpg

Atmosphere of Jupiter
Illustrates Jupiter (planet) sublimely. +8 / -3 No clear preference for either version, so I will go with Image:Jupiter from Voyager 1.jpg which is on Commons and appears to be identical to #1 here.
 * Nominate and support —Sandover 07:07, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Jonas Olson 07:34, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose - seems to have been very heavily post-processed to bring out detail for analysis. I'd prefer a more realistic view - Adrian Pingstone 08:13, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - bringing out detail isn't a bad thing; that's how it's done with all the nebula images which are featured. They're actually pretty dull looking without the false colors.  -- brian0918  ™  14:35, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support, but barely. The swirling fluidity is very beautiful and mesmerizing. However, the resolution is low and the banding artefacts of the scanning vidicon tube are distracting. --Deglr6328 01:01, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Bigger resolution=me likey :)--Deglr6328 03:31, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * support Beautiful and certainly add significantly. Circeus 01:59, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Original. I have made a half hearted attempt at removing the banding artefacts of the scanning vidicon tube, but of course that came at the expense of blurring the image slightly. I don't think that they are too bad on the original and only really become visible on the full res photo. --Fir0002 07:51, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Here is the TIFF of the thing . Maybe you can get more sharpness of it --Bricktop 23:51, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support either. lovely. Enochlau 10:56, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support edited image. I remember how this image took my breath away when I first saw it. Denni ☯ 02:23, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Agree with Adrian Pingstone. Janderk 08:01, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. There are multiple views in the article, and this one certainly enriches it.--Eloquence* 05:33, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)


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Cosmeceutical

Cosmeceuticals are cosmetic products with bioactive ingredients purported to have medical benefits. In the US, there are no legal requirements to prove that these products live up to their claims. The name is a portmanteau of "cosmetics" and "pharmaceuticals". Nutricosmetics are related dietary supplement or food or beverage products with additives that are marketed as having medical benefits that affect appearance.

Quasi-drug (labelled 医薬部外品 or 薬用) is a Japanese term that refer to many of the same products with functional claims, albeit regulation is stronger as pre-market approval from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is required.

Criticism
Consumers are willing to pay a premium for skin and hair care products that they perceive as high-performance. The term "cosmeceutical" is often used in cosmetic advertising and may be misleading to the consumer. If the consumer interprets a "cosmeceutical" or "nutricosmetic" to be similar to a pharmaceutical product, he or she may conclude that cosmeceuticals are required to undergo the same testing for efficacy and quality control as required for medication. This may allow the retailer to charge the consumer more for a product which may actually be less effective and/or of poorer quality than perceived.

However, according to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act "does not recognize any such category as "cosmeceuticals". A product can be a drug, a cosmetic, or a combination of both, but the term "cosmeceutical" has no meaning under the law".

Additionally, the FDA states that: "Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act defines drugs as those products that cure, treat, mitigate or prevent disease or that affect the structure or function of the human body. While drugs are subject to an intensive review and approval process by FDA, cosmetics are not approved by FDA prior to sale. If a product has drug properties, it must be approved as a drug."

To avoid inquiry and punitive action by the United States Federal Trade Commission, cosmeceuticals which do not intend to be regulated as drugs by the FDA are carefully labeled to avoid making statements which would indicate that the product has drug properties. Any such claims made regarding the product must be substantiated by scientific evidence as being truthful.

Generally speaking, it is to the financial benefit of the cosmeceutical manufacturer that their products are not regulated by the FDA as drugs, because the FDA review process for drugs can be very costly and may not yield a legally marketable product if the FDA denies approval of the product. However, as mentioned above, the reputation of the product may be falsely enhanced if the consumer incorrectly believes that a "cosmeceutical" is held to the same FDA standards as a drug.

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Invasion of Tibet

Invasion of Tibet may refer to:

 * Bakhtiyar Khilji's Tibet campaign (1206)
 * Mongol invasions of Tibet (13th century)
 * Dzungar invasion of Tibet (1717)
 * Chinese expedition to Tibet (1720)
 * Gurkha invasions of Tibet (1788 and 1791)
 * Sikh invasion of Tibet (1841–1842)
 * British expedition to Tibet (1903–1904)
 * Chinese expedition to Tibet (1910)
 * Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China (1950)
 * Battle of Chamdo (1950)

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Hanger Lane

Hanger Lane is a major road in Ealing, London, England. The majority of the road forms the westernmost part of the A406 North Circular Road, running north from the A4020 Uxbridge Road at Ealing Common to the A40 Western Avenue at the Hanger Lane gyratory. This complex and busy junction incorporates Hanger Lane Underground station on the Central line of the London Underground. North of the gyratory, Hanger Lane continues along the A4005 to Vicar's Bridge and the border with Alperton in the London Borough of Brent.

The road takes its name from Hanger Hill, which is also the name of the surrounding area. The name comes from the Old English word hangra, meaning a wooded slope.

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Talk:GoldenPalace.com

= User 2005 is stalk-reverting this page =

He/she continues to remove my edit regarding GoldenPalace.com purchasing the sculpture of Suri Cruise's "poop"; which is noteworthy and a current event. I don't know why. Maybe he doesn't like Golden Palace. I could give a crap about Golden Palace, I'm just fascinated that a gallery would commission the work, an artist would create it, and then a silly casino website famous for buying crap (HA! CRAP!) would buy it for 10 grand. It's a hell of a lot more interesting than buying a sandwich that looks like Jesus. 2005 claims that there are enough entries about online auctions on the entry, which may or may not be the case (as that is an opinion, not a fact), but oddly I don't see user 2005 editing his/her poker entries for brevity. I think he/she has a grudge against Golden Palace. Maybe he/she lost their rent on the site. Don't know, don't care. It's an interesting entry. He/she should leave it alone. I'll just keep re-re-re-verting it if he/she doesn't find a new hobby. Weirdoactor 03:48, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I explained my reason for removing this bit of juvenile trivia. The fact Golden Palace does these auctions is noted in the article, with the most significant examples. Your obsession with this trivial poop thing has lead to you adding a bunch of irrelevant junk to the article as well as several childish statements. Please begin to edit in good faith. 2005 04:45, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

 * "Please begin to edit in good faith"? Physician, heal thyself. When you disagree with something, you delete it. That's not editing, that's censorship. Get over yourself. It's "wikipedia", not "2005edia". You are not the final arbiter of worthiness. It's a community, innit? Weirdoactor 11:44, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11582825/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Winter_Olympics_Closing_Ceremony#Intruder --204.52.215.71 03:34, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11541373/ (See the picture on the news article)

I will let someone else add this to the article if they like.

"Streaker cuts no ice at bronze medal match Scottish man ejected after dancing on ice sheet; U.S. takes bronze, 8-6"

John Macdougall / AFP - Getty Images A streaker mimics a curler during the Britain vs USA match in the men's curling battle for bronze at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games, in Pinerolo. The U.S. topped Britain, 8-6.

Updated: 10:42 a.m. ET Feb. 24, 2006 PINEROLO, Italy - Britain’s match against the United States for the men’s curling bronze medal was interrupted on Friday when a male streaker ran across the ice.

With poultry for a loin cloth, the man vaulted the barriers and danced up and down the side of the ice sheet for several minutes before being bundled away by bemused rink attendants.

The British team, skipped by David Murdoch, who were lagging the U.S. 6-2 in the sixth end, rested on their brooms, laughing, while the streaker jiggled past.

As armed police ejected the man, naked into the cold mountain air, he was heard to plead in a Scottish accent: “Please will someone bring me my clothes?”

The British team, made up of all Scots, went on to lose the game 8-6.

Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.

The [1] link to cnn doesn't work. demo 07:10, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)

The GoldenPalace.com monkey should be mentioned. demo 07:10, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)
 * It says it right there at the end of the first paragraph. Kingturtle 07:14, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I removed the following because I couldn't verify them:
 * the company paid $10,000 US to another woman for putting the URL www.goldenpalace.com on her forehead. The woman did it to pay tuïtion for her son.

That's probably a duplicate; some versions of the first woman's story also mention the son's tuition.
 * When the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI addressed the crowd in St. Peter's Square on April 19, 2005, a large banner for GoldenPalace.com was unfurled across a portion of the crowd.

Only mentioned on Wikipedia mirrors. AxelBoldt 09:21, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

hhaa..
this casino is hilarious, if I were going to gamble online it would definately be with them... except I suppose I would have some reservations about the fact that they can afford to spend all this money on strange stuff... as for the woman who got her name changed for $15K and the tatoo lady for $10K... the tatoo lady got screwed :-( - Abscissa 03:10, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge to Golden Palace
I agree with the Tag that this page should be merged into the Golden Palce page, as it is fully detailed there already... Triponi 20:45, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

 * What are you talking about? 2005 21:58, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom. HalJor 00:09, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It seems to me like there should be a Golden Palace page, as there is a GoldenPalace.net, also — which appears to be the same company, but not a gambling site. I actually came to this artcile hoping there would be discussion on the distinction. --Jonathan Harford 21:12, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

where|when?
"...in several of his escapades, including his "performances" at the 2003 UEFA Cup..."

Hopiakuta 04:55, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Uwe boll boxing match sponsorship
Golden Palace is now apparently sponsoring the Uwe Boll boxing challenge: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2016976 --Liface 22:46, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

like a free ride when you've already paid
For those of us not in on the joke, what's "ironic" about a a grilled cheese sandwich eating contest? —Tamfang 02:58, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

GoldenPalace.com named monkey goldenpalace.com monkey!
.........yeah im not kidding, aparrently goldenpalace.com won an auction and they named the monkey after themselves.....respectivley —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.53.135.210 (talk) 14:33, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Past tense?
The article's lead refers to goldenpalace.com in the past tense - it "was" an online casino. Isn't it still in business? The Web site appears to be live. If it still exists, then the article should use the present tense; if it doesn't still exist, then the article should include information about when and how it shut down. 130.179.29.61 (talk) 15:30, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

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Rosh Pina (Washington, D.C.)

Rosh Pina (ראש פינה) is a lay-led Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue that meets in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States.

The independent congregation meets for Shabbat morning services twice a month in the National Museum of American Jewish Military History (NMAJMH). It also meets occasionally for Friday night and holiday services, in addition to organizing social and educational events such as shabbatonim and parties to celebrate Hanukkah, Purim and other Jewish holidays.

Overview
Rosh Pina describes it as "a dati community built around a common commitment to halakha, tefillah, and equality. It was founded in 2007 as a partnership minyan in order to provide a religious environment that was more inclusive of women's participation than traditional Orthodox synagogues.

Services and liturgy
The congregation combines a traditional liturgy with certain prayer leadership opportunities for women, including Kabbalat Shabbat on Friday nights, Pesukei DeZimra, removing and replacing the Torah in the Ark, and reading from and being called up to the Torah on Saturday mornings. A mechitza separating men and women runs down the middle of the room. Its practices are similar to those of Shira Hadasha in Jerusalem and Darkhei Noam in New York City.

Halakhic basis
The practices of Rosh Pina and communities like it are based on an opinion by Modern Orthodox Rabbi Mendel Shapiro, who holds B.A. and M.S. degrees from Yeshiva University and a J.D. from Columbia University, received his smikhah (rabbinic ordination) from Yeshiva University, and now practices law in Jerusalem. In his Halakhic analysis, entitled Qeri’at ha-Torah by Women: A Halakhic Analysis he calls upon those times throughout our history when women have received aliyot to (have been called up to) and have read from the Torah in communal services with men and women present, and carefully examines the circumstances in which this took place. His position and conclusions have subsequently been supported and expanded upon by Rabbi Dr Daniel Sperber, Professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in his article entitled Congregational Dignity and Human Dignity: Women and Public Torah Reading. Sperber also delves into specific cases when Jewish law permitted and sometimes even required women to be called to and read from the Torah on Shabbat in services with men present. Like Shapiro, Sperber is not known as a Posek (decider of Jewish law) and this particular position of both of them is a minority view.

Rabbi Gil Student has weighed in against the practice, as have rabbis Aryeh Frimer and Dov Frimer, who wrote that "these practices are a radical break from the ritual of millennia and have not received the approval of any major posek."

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Håkon Grjotgardsson

Håkon Grjotgardsson (Old Norse: Hákon Grjótgarðsson) was the first Earl of Lade and an ally of Harald Fairhair, King of Norway.

Biography
Nicknamed Håkon the Rich (Hákon jarl hinn riki) and Håkon the old (Hákon jarl hinn gamli), he was the son and heir of Grjotgard Herlaugsson Lade. He succeeded his father as ruler of the petty kingdom of Trøndelag. His daughter Åsa, married Harald Fairhair and was the mother of Guttorm Haraldsson and Halfdan Haraldsson. Håkon was also the father of Sigurd Håkonsson, who was the father of Haakon Sigurdsson. Håkon had his residence at Ørlandet at the mouth of the Trondheimsfjord. The exact extent of his control over the area is not confirmed. Håkon sought to extend his kingdom southwards. Harald Fairhair advanced across the mountains of Eastern Norway to subjugate Trøndelag. After some fighting, Håkon and Harald entered a union of joint forces. Håkon was made earl of Sunnfjord and Nordfjord. He took up residence in the area of Lade gaard in Trondheim.

After Harald Fairhair conquered Møre and Fjordane, he assigned the governance of the former to Rognvald Eysteinsson and the latter to Håkon. Atle Mjove continued to govern Sogn. Hákon and Atle Mjove soon came into conflict over Sogn and fought the Battle of Fjaler, in which Hakon was killed. Atle Mjove was severely wounded in the battle and taken to Atløy where he also died.

Primary Source
The primary source of information regarding Håkon Grjotgardsson comes from Harald Haarfagres saga composed by Snorre Sturlasson.

Other sources

 * Forte, Angelo; Oram, Richard; Pedersen, Frederik (2005) Viking Empires (Cambridge University Press) ISBN 0-521-82992-5
 * Stenersen, Øyvind; Libæk, Ivar (2003) The History of Norway (Lysaker: Forlaget Historie og Kultur) ISBN 8280710418
 * Thuesen, Nils Petter (2011) Norges historie (Oslo: Forlaget Historie og Kultur) ISBN 978-8292870518

Related reading

 * Sawyer, Peter, ed., (2001) The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings (Oxford University Press) ISBN 978-0192854346

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Leigh railway station

Leigh railway station is on the Redhill to Tonbridge Line and serves Leigh in Kent, England. It is measured from London Charing Cross  via Redhill. Train services are operated by Southern.

History
The station was opened as "Leigh Halt" in 1911; was renamed "Lyghe Halt" in 1917; "Leigh Halt" again about 1960; and "Leigh" in 1969. (Leigh is pronounced (lie)—identical with the name of Lye railway station in the West Midlands.). The station was destaffed in 1967.

In 1993 the line was electrified and services started to run through to London rather than being an extension of the Reading to Tonbridge North Downs Line service.

In 2007, a PERTIS machine was installed at the street entrance to the Tonbridge-bound platform (since replaced by a modern ticket machine). The station was until December 2008 operated by Southeastern before it transferred to Southern, whose green signage was installed before October 2008.

Facilities
Leigh station is unstaffed and facilities are limited. Tickets can be purchased from the self-service ticket machine at the station and there are passenger help points located on each platforms. There is also a basic shelter located on each platform. The station has step free access available to both platforms.

Services
All services at Leigh are operated by Southern using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction between Redhill and Tonbridge. A small number of additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

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Edmund White

Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics.

White's books include Forgetting Elena (1973), described by Vladimir Nabokov as 'marvelous'; Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978); States of Desire (1980); and his trilogy of semi-autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997). In addition, he has written biographies of the French writers: Genet, Proust and Rimbaud.

Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton University. An annual prize given by Publishing Triangle is the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. France made him Chevalier (and later Officier) de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1993.

Early life and education
Edmund Valentine White mostly grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as a boy. Afterward, he studied Chinese at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1962.

Incestuous feelings colored his early family life. White stated that his mother, for instance, was sexually attracted to him. He, moreover, spoke of his own attraction to his father: "I think with my father he was somebody who every eye in the family was focused on and he was a sort of a tyrant and nice-looking, the source of all power, money, happiness, and he was implacable and difficult. He was always spoken of in sexual terms, in the sense he left our mother for a much younger woman who was very sexy but had nothing else going for her. He was a famous womanizer. And he slept with my sister!" He has also stated: "Writing has always been my recourse when I've tried to make sense of my experience or when it's been very painful. When I was 15 years old, I wrote my first (unpublished) novel about being gay, at a time when there were no other gay novels. So I was really inventing a genre, and it was a way of administering a therapy to myself, I suppose."

White declined admission to Harvard University's Chinese doctoral program in favor of following a lover to New York. There he freelanced for Newsweek and spent seven years working as a staffer at Time-Life Books. After briefly relocating to Rome, San Francisco, and then returning to New York, he was briefly employed as an editor for the Saturday Review when the magazine was based in San Francisco in the early 1970s; after the magazine folded in 1973, White returned to New York to edit Horizon (a quarterly cultural journal) and freelance as a writer and editor for entities such as Time-Life and The New Republic.

Literary career
White wrote books and plays while a youth, including one unpublished novel titled Mrs Morrigan.

White's debut novel, Forgetting Elena (1973), set on an island, can be read as commenting on gay culture in a coded manner. The Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov called it "a marvelous book". Written with his psychotherapist Charles Silverstein, The Joy of Gay Sex (1977) made him known to a wider readership. It is celebrated for its sex-positive tone. His next novel, Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978) was explicitly gay-themed and drew on his own life.

From 1980 to 1981, White was a member of a gay writers' group, The Violet Quill, which met briefly during that period, and included Andrew Holleran and Felice Picano. White's autobiographic works are frank and unapologetic about his promiscuity and his HIV-positive status.

In 1980, White brought out States of Desire, a survey of some aspects of gay life in America. In 1982, he helped found the group Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City. In the same year appeared White's best-known work, A Boy's Own Story — the first volume of an autobiographic-fiction series, continuing with The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997), describing stages in the life of a gay man from boyhood to middle age. Several characters in the latter novel are recognizably based on well-known people from White's New York-centered literary and artistic milieu.

From 1983 to 1990 White lived in France. He moved there initially for one year in 1983 via the Guggenheim Fellowship for writing he had received, but took such a liking to Paris "with its drizzle, as cool, grey and luxurious as chinchilla," (as he described it in his autobiographical novel The Farewell Symphony) that he stayed there for longer. French philosopher Michel Foucault invited him for dinner on several occasions, though he dismissed White's concerns about HIV/AIDS (Foucault would die of the illness shortly afterward). In 1984 in Paris, shortly after discovering he was HIV-positive, White joined the French HIV/AIDS organization, AIDES. During this period, he brought out his novel, Caracole (1985), which centers on heterosexual relationships. But he also maintained an interest in France and French literature, writing biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud. He published Genet: a biography (1993), Our Paris: sketches from memory (1995), Marcel Proust (1998), The Flaneur: a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris (2000) and Rimbaud (2008). He spent seven years writing the biography of Genet.

White came back to the United States in 1997. The Married Man, a novel published in 2000, is gay-themed and draws on White's life. Fanny: A Fiction (2003) is a historical novel about novelist Frances Trollope and social reformer Frances Wright in early 19th-century America. White's 2006 play Terre Haute (produced in New York City in 2009) portrays discussions that take place when a prisoner, based on terrorist bomber Timothy McVeigh, is visited by a writer based on Gore Vidal. (In real life McVeigh and Vidal corresponded but did not meet.)

In 2005 White published his autobiography, My Lives — organized by theme rather than chronology – and in 2009 his memoir of New York life in the 1960s and 1970s, City Boy.

White himself was the subject of a biography by Stephen Barber. His response to the book was that Barber "had a very romantic vision of me. It was very flattering. He painted me as a brooding figure. I see myself as much more self-mocking and satirical. I just skimmed that biography. As Genet put it, I didn't want to end up resembling myself".

From 1999 onwards, White became professor of creative writing in Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts.

Awards and honors
White has received numerous awards and distinctions. Recipient of the inaugural Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 1989, he is also the namesake of the organization's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.

In 2014, Edmund White was presented with the Bonham Centre Award from the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, for his contributions to the advancement and education of issues around sexual identification.
 * 1983: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts
 * 1988: Lambda Literary Award, for The Beautiful Room Is Empty
 * 1989: Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement
 * 1992: Lambda Literary Award nomination, for Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction
 * 1993: David R. Kessler Award in LGBTQ Studies, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
 * 1993: National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, for Genet
 * 1993: Chevalier (and later Officier) de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
 * 1994: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography nomination, for Genet: A Biography
 * 1994: Lambda Literary Award, for Genet: A Biography
 * 1996: Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters
 * 1996: Lambda Literary Award nomination, for Our Paris
 * 1998: Lambda Literary Award nomination, for The Farewell Symphony
 * 2001: Lambda Literary Award nomination, for The Married Man
 * 2002: Stonewall Book Award for Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS

 * 2016–2018: New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit
 * 2018: PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
 * 2019: National Book Foundation, Lifetime Achievement Award

Influences
In his 2005 memoir My Lives, White cites Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and André Gide as influences, writing: "they convinced me that homosexuality was crucial to the development of the modern novel because it led to a resurrection of love, a profound skepticism about the naturalness of gender roles and a revival of the classical tradition of same-sex love that dominated Western poetry and prose until the birth of Christ".

His favorite living writers in the early 1970s were Vladimir Nabokov and Christopher Isherwood.

Fiction

 * Forgetting Elena (1973) ISBN 978-0345358622
 * Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978) ISBN 9780312022631,
 * A Boy's Own Story (1982) ISBN 9781509813865,
 * Caracole (1985) ISBN 9780679764168,
 * The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) ISBN 9780679755401
 * Skinned Alive: Stories (1995) ISBN 9780679754756
 * The Farewell Symphony (1997) ISBN 978-0701136215
 * The Married Man (2000) ISBN 978-0679781448
 * Fanny: A Fiction (2003) ISBN 978-0701169718
 * Chaos: A Novella and Stories (2007) ISBN 9780786720057
 * Hotel de Dream (2007) ISBN 978-0060852252
 * Jack Holmes and His Friend (2012) ISBN 9781608197255,
 * Our Young Man (2016) ISBN 9781408858967,
 * A Saint from Texas (2020) ISBN 9781635572551
 * A Previous Life (2022) ISBN 9781526632241
 * The Humble Lover (2023) ISBN 9781639730889

Plays

 * Terre Haute (2006) ISBN 978-0713687941

Nonfiction

 * The Joy of Gay Sex, with Charles Silverstein (1977) ISBN 9780517531587
 * States of Desire (1980) ISBN 9780525480686
 * The Burning Library: Writings on Art, Politics and Sexuality 1969–1993 (1994) ISBN 9780679434757,
 * The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris (2000) ISBN 978-0747596875
 * Arts and Letters (2004) ISBN 9781573442480,
 * Sacred Monsters (2011) ISBN 9781936833115

Biography

 * Genet: A Biography (1993) ISBN 9780099450078,
 * Marcel Proust (1998) ISBN 9780143114987,
 * Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel (2008) ISBN 9781843549710,

Memoir

 * Our Paris: Sketches from Memory (1995) ISBN 9780060085926
 * My Lives (2005) ISBN 978-0066213972
 * City Boy (2009) ISBN 9781608192342,
 * Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris (2014) ISBN 9781620406335,
 * The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading (2018) ISBN 9781635571172

Anthologies

 * The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis, with Adam Mars-Jones (1988)
 * In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) ISBN 978-0517881569
 * The Art of the Story (2000) ISBN 978-0140296389
 * A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play (2001) ISBN 9781889330518

Articles

 * White, Edmund. "My Women. Learning how to love them", The New Yorker, June 13, 2005. Autobiographical article excerpted from My Lives.

Personal life
White was present at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 when the Stonewall uprising began. He later wrote, "Ours may have been the first funny revolution." "When someone shouted 'Gay is good' in imitation of 'Black is beautiful', we all laughed... Then I caught myself foolishly imagining that gays might someday constitute a community rather than a diagnosis".

White identifies as gay and is also an atheist, though he was reared as a Christian Scientist. He discovered he was HIV-positive in 1985. However, he is a "non-progressor", one of the small percentage of cases that have not led to AIDS. He is in a long-term open relationship with the American writer Michael Carroll, living with him from 1995 onward. They married in November 2013.

In June 2012, Carroll reported that White was making a "remarkable" recovery after suffering two strokes in previous months. He has also had a heart attack.

In the 2023 interview with Colm Tóibín, White stated that he previously dated writer Tony Heilbut.

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Sigurd Haakonsson

Sigurd Håkonsson (died 962) (Old Norse: Sigurðr Hákonarson) was a Norwegian nobleman and Jarl of Lade in Trøndelag. Sigurd Håkonsson Ladejarl was the son of Håkon Grjotgardsson, the first Jarl of Lade (Old Norse Hlaðir). In 900, Håkon came into conflict with Atle Mjove over Sogn and fought a battle at Fjaler (Old Norse: Fjalir), in which Håkon was killed. Upon reaching maturity, Sigurd inherited his father's position. Sigurd Håkonsson was married to Bergljot Toresdatter, daughter of Tore Teiande Ragnvaldsson (Þórir Rǫgnvaldarson) and Ålov Årbot Haraldsdatter. In 892, Tore Ragnvaldsson became Jarl of Møre after the death of his father, Ragnvald Eysteinsson.

During the reign of King Haakon I of Norway, Sigurd had an influential position as the king's friend and adviser. He sought in particular to mediate between the king and the people during the king's attempt to introduce Christianity. After the death of Haakon at the Battle of Fitjar (Slaget ved Fitjar på Stord) in 961, Harald Greycloak, the son of Eirik Bloodaxe and his brothers became kings of Norway.

In autumn 962, Sigurd Håkonsson and his warriors were burnt to death by Harald Greycloak, while staying the night at Aglo, in modern-day Skatval in the municipality of Stjørdal. Sigurd was killed as part of Harald's effort to reunite all of Norway under his rule. In 970, his killing was later avenged by Sigurd's son, Haakon Sigurdsson, who had become an ally of King Harold Bluetooth.

Sigurd had Kormákr Ögmundarson as a court poet. Fragments of Kormákr's lay on Sigurd Håkonsson, Sigurðardrápa, are preserved in Skáldskaparmál and in Heimskringla.

Other sources

 * Hollander, Lee M. (Ed.) (1949) The Sagas of Kormák and The Sworn Brothers (Princeton University Press for the American-Scandinavian Foundation)
 * Hreinsson, Viðar(Ed.) (1997) The Complete Sagas of Icelanders - Volume I (Reykjavík: Leifur Eiríksson Publishing) ISBN 9979-9293-1-6
 * Stenersen, Øyvind; Libæk, Ivar (2003). The History of Norway (. Lysaker: Forlaget Historie og Kultur) ISBN 8280710418
 * Thuesen, Nils Petter (2011). Norges historie ( Oslo: Forlaget Historie og Kultur) ISBN 978-8292870518]

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Area codes 614 and 380

Area codes 614 and 380 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for all or part of four counties in central Ohio, surrounding and including the state capital of Columbus. Area code 614 is one of the original area codes assigned for Ohio in 1947, while area code 380 is an overlay code covering the same territory.

History
The first nationwide telephone numbering plan of 1947 divided telecommunication services in Ohio into four numbering plan areas (NPAs), one for each quadrant of the state. Area code 614 was assigned to the southeastern quadrant, from Columbus to the Ohio River along the West Virginia border, stretching as far north as Steubenville.

Despite central Ohio's growth in the second half of the 20th century, this configuration remained in place for 51 years. In 1998, nearly all of the southern portion of the old 614 territory was split into the new area code 740. Ameritech, at that time the predominant incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC), had proposed a split of 614 which generally would have seen Franklin, Delaware and Marion counties–the inner ring of the Columbus area–retaining 614, with the rest of the Columbus suburbs following the rural portion of the old 614 into the new 740.

A complaint before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) claiming unequal treatment of the suburban counties was brought by Granville attorney J. Drew McFarland, later joined by the Village of Granville, Licking and Fairfield counties and others, wishing for an overlay area code. The PUCO instead reduced the 614 footprint to Columbus itself (which is mostly in Franklin County, with portions spilling into Delaware and Fairfield counties) and Franklin County. A subsequent appeal made slight variations that allowed all of Dublin and Westerville to retain 614 (both cities are mostly in Franklin County, but spill into neighboring counties) and most of Pickerington (which is mostly in Fairfield County with a sliver in Franklin) to remain in 614 as well. The case represented the first time nationally that an ILEC's plan was substantially modified by consumer action. The reconfigured 614 now comprised all of Franklin County and portions of Delaware, Fairfield and Union counties.

With 614 reduced to be all but synonymous with Columbus, it appears on some T-shirt designs that use 614 as an abbreviation or short form to identify the city.

In 2001, it was planned to overlay area code 614 with area code 380, in anticipation of exhaustion. However, the anticipated growth did not materialize and number pooling replaced the proposal. On January 14, 2015 the PUCO instructed the telecommunications industry to finally implement the new area code on February 27, 2016. Ten-digit local dialing has been required since January 30, 2016.

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