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User talk:Vytis1

Thanks for your contributions here at Wikipedia. Punkmorten 22:07, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Šilutė district municipality
Ne visai suprantu tavo pataisyma. Ar Vainuto gyv skaicius buvo neteisingai nurodytas? Ar kas nutiko? Bet siaip labai smagu cia dar viena lietuvi matyt :) Renata3 11:35, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

2005 World's Strongest Man contest
Just posting this here in case you don't see my reply elsewhere. I think we should discuss this on the discussion page for the World's Strongest Man contest, so other people can join in if necessary. This discussion also has implications for your new Savickas entry. Dsreyn 15:21, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Dapkūnaitė spelling
with all respect to the Lithuanian language, the spelling you offer of Dapkūnaitė is not an English one. I suggest it is changed to the original. regards 193.201.41.38 11:31, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

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Sveikas! Malonu matyti, kad rupiniesi sporto puslapiais. As tave vel patrugdyti norejau: cia sugalvojom keliese ikurti Baltic States notice board ir pagalvojau, kad tau butu idomu. Sita "lenta" dabar yra vystymosi stadijose tai tavo nuomone ir pasiulymai yra labai laukiami. Prasau dalyvauti ir kreiptis jei tik kokios pagalbos reikes. Renata 04:34, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Reform
Wikipedia began as an open effort to create an encyclopedia of the people, by the people, for the people. Sadly, its bureaucracy has put an end to those goals. To this end, we must promote a peaceful revolution to reform it. We must eliminate the undue influence of certain people and remake Wikipedia as a people's encyclopedia. We, the reformers, are led by TJWhite who endured only briefly before suffering an indefinite block. Visit his user page to see our ideology, roughly outlined. I for one do not condone his call to vandalism. Instead, by using the power of the people, we can reform wikipedia. Join us to recreate an encyclopedia where all are equal; an encyclopedia that does not strive to become Brittannica, but rather seeks to be a one of kind encyclopedia for all of the people of the world. Please pass this message in some form to as many people as you can. Secondly, petition for the unblock of TJWhite, the one who began our glorious movement. Finally, link to his page from your user page and express your sentiments for reform on your page. Thank You, fellow wikipedians. LaRevolution 15:44, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

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It seems like the logo tag, source information and a fair use rational on the image description page would be the most useful thing you could do here. Regards, Dethomas 23:47, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

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Welcome back...
...to en wiki! I know it's going to sound weird, but I really missed your name poping up on my watchlist... ;) You are doing a fantastic job! Renata 04:34, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

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Take a look, you might find this WP:LITH usefull.--Lokyz 20:40, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

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ProSpace

ProSpace is a nonprofit citizens space advocacy group.

Annually, these members speak to the congressional leaders in an attempt to open space for the average citizen. One such initiative is expanding the use of prize competitions that would spur space innovations and the creation of a National Space Prize Board (NSPB).

ProSpace helped push the passage of space-related legislative initiatives, among those includes the Commercial Space Act of 1998, space solar power programs, and technology development for the reusable launch system.

Every year in March many of the group's members travel to Washington, D.C. for an event called "March Storm."

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nanomanager

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The result of the debate was Delete. --Doc (?) 08:36, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Nanomanager
dicdef,neologism,OR, take your pick Trovatore 22:21, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete --Trovatore 22:09, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per reasons above. if for whatever reason this is kept, it badly needs a rewrite, its almost an NPOV violation in the definition of a work that shouldn't really be slanted... --CastAStone 00:28, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: since commonly used terms progress directly from manager to micromanager, the next evolution of the pointy-haired boss would logically be the picomanager . — Lomn | Talk / RfC 13:23, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

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Schindler House

The Schindler House, also known as the Schindler Chace House or Kings Road House, is a house in West Hollywood, California, designed by architect Rudolph M. Schindler. The house serves as headquarters to the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, which operate and program three Schindler sites, and is owned and conserved by the Friends of Schindler House.

The Schindler House was a departure from existing residential architecture because of what it did not have; there is no conventional living room, dining room or bedrooms in the house. The residence was meant to be a cooperative live/work space for two young families. The concrete walls and sliding canvas panels made novel use of industrial materials, while the open floor plan integrated the external environment into the residence, setting a precedent for California architecture in particular.

Inspiration
Schindler and his wife Pauline vacationed in Yosemite in October 1921. Inspired by the trip, Schindler returned to create a design for multiple families to share a modern living area, much like Curry Village, Yosemite National Park.

Architecture
The Schindler House is laid out as two interlinking L-shaped apartments (referred to as the Schindler and Chace apartments) using the basic design of the camp site that he had seen a year before. Each apartment was designed for a separate family, consisting of 2 studios, connected by a utility room. The utility room was meant to serve the functions of a kitchen, laundry, sewing room, and storage. The four studios were originally designated for the four members of the household (Rudolph & Pauline Schindler and Clyde & Marian Chace). The house also has a guest studio with its own kitchen and bathroom. The house, at just under 3500 sqft, sits on a 20000 sqft lot.

Instead of bedrooms, there are two rooftop sleeping baskets. The baskets were redwood four post canopies with beams at mitered corners, protected from the rain by canvas sides.

Construction
When Schindler first submitted plans to the local planning authorities, they were denied, citing this radical, at the time, new method of construction. After many trips to the local planning office and extensive talks to convince them of its merit, the Building department granted him a temporary permit, meaning that they reserved the right to halt construction at any stage.

The house is built on a flat concrete slab, which is both the foundation and the final floor. The walls are concrete tilt up slabs, poured into forms on top of the foundation. The tilt up slabs are separated by 3 in, filled with concrete, clear glass or frosted glass. The tilt up panels act as the hard sheltering wall at the back of the house, and a softer permeable screen at the front. Schindler had long been fascinated by the construction method of tilt up concrete slabs, having done extensive research on them in his early days working for Ottenheimer, Stern, and Reichert. He was now intent on using this method for the new home he was designing, along with his friend Clyde Chace, an engineer and contractor who had worked closely with Irving J. Gill who pioneered tilt-up architecture in Southern California.

With Schindler as architect and Chace as builder to save costs, construction began in November 1921. Construction was complete by June 1922, with a total cost of $12,550. The landscaping, furniture and sleeping baskets remained to be completed. The Chaces and Schindlers shared the house from the summer of 1922 until July 1924 when the Chaces moved to Florida.

History
Schindler's friend, partner and rival, Richard Neutra along with his wife Dione and son Frank lived in the Chace apartment from March 1925 until the summer of 1930.

Pauline Gibling Schindler left the house and her husband in August 1927 while Rudolph remained at the house until his death in 1953. The Chace apartment had a variety of famous and creative people live in it, including; art dealer & collector Galka Scheyer, dancer John Bovingdon, novelist Theodore Dreiser, photographer Edward Weston and composer John Cage. Pauline Schindler returned to live in the Chace Studios part of the house, separate from her former husband, in the late 1930s and stayed until her death in May 1977.

Friends of the Schindler House (1977-present)
Pauline Schindler died in May 1977, leaving the house in the Schindler family until the Friends of the Schindler House (FoSH), an organization created by architects and historians passionate about the house and its legacy as well as members of the Schindler family, purchased the property in June 1980 from the California State Office of Historic Preservation with the aid of a $160,000 state grant.

FoSH owns and is responsible for the house, which was in a very challenging state when it was received. The first phase of restoration to the house was completed in the mid-1980s. By this time, the West Hollywood neighborhood had been rezoned to allow four-story apartment buildings. Gregory Ain (who greatly admired Schindler), advocated that the property should be sold and the house rebuilt in the desert, because its context had changed so profoundly. As with all complex renovations, debates as to which era to return the house to have been part of the restoration and preservation process.

In 2022, on the hundredth anniversary of the Schindler House, FoSH launched a campaign to stabilize and preserve the house. Events during the year include special events, a film screening, and a series of online discussions of the impact of the house on architectural modernism.

MAK Center for Art and Architecture (1994-present)
On August 10, 1994, the Friends of the Schindler House signed an agreement with the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna to create the nonprofit MAK Center for Art and Architecture. The MAK Center for Art and Architecture's mission is to serve as a contemporary, experimental, multi-disciplinary center for art and architecture and is headquartered in three architectural landmarks by the Austrian-American architect Rudolph M. Schindler. The center operates a residency program and exhibition space at the Mackey Apartments (R.M. Schindler, 1939) and runs more intimate programming at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House (R.M. Schindler, 1936) in Los Angeles.

The FoSH and MAK Center agreement allow Pauline Schindler's FoSH to retain full ownership of the property, with MAK Center serving as the public-facing institution that operates the house for public visits, tours, exhibitions, programs, and events. A $250,000 grant from MAK was used to restore the house as a study center for experimental architecture, and the museum also provide significant operating costs to FoSH. In 2022, the Museum der angewandte Kunst and the MAK Center contributed $150,000 in support of the FoSH's centennial campaign to restore the Schindler House.

Schindler House Centennial Celebration (2022)
In 2022, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, the public institution which operates the Schindler House, presented Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making, a series of programs and exhibitions to mark the building's hundredth anniversary.

Recognition
Schindler's radical concept for a cooperative life/work space with its raw concrete walls and sliding canvas panels were an innovative use of industrial materials and its open floor plan thoroughly integrated the house with the surrounding gardens. "The Pit (Breitenbrunn am Neusiedlersee, Austria)", Peter Noever's land art project at the beginning of the Eurasian Steppe, situated at the interface between two world cultures, at a geopolitical intersection in the east of Austria, bares the "Concrete Fragment - Rudolph M. Schindler". A 1:1 cast of the tilt-up slabs in concrete, made on the occasion of the exhibitions at the MAK. It is at the same time a landmark to Schindler's architectural conception, where one can clearly witness the spirit, scale and material, 9.860 km away from the Kings Road House and only 39 km from Schindler's birthplace.

In recent years, the Schindler House has had to contend with the rising density of the surrounding neighborhood. The surrounding neighborhood is currently dominated by 4-story condominium and apartment buildings designed by Lorcan O'Herlihy, vastly different from the original expansive lots for single family residences. The condominium was built despite efforts by numerous notable architects who were invited by Peter Noever on behalf of the MAK Center in 2003 to submit alternative proposals for the site. Selected by a jury that included Frank Gehry, Chris Burden, Michael Asher and Richard Koshalek, all of the resulting proposals—including the three winning designs, by Odile Decq, Eric Owen Moss and Carl Pruscha—were organized into an exhibition, "A Tribute to Preserving Schindler's Paradise," at the house. Other competition entrants included Coop Himmelb(l)au, Lebbeus Woods, Dominique Perrault, Zaha Hadid, and Peter Eisenman. All submitted projects are documented in the publication "ARCHITECTURAL RESISTANCE."

The Schindler House was included in a list of all-time top 10 houses in Los Angeles in a Los Angeles Times survey of experts in December 2008.

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Suspicious Activity?

Suspicious Activity? is the fourth studio album by the American jazz band The Bad Plus. The band had previously garnered attention for covering well-known rock songs in an "acoustic power trio" style, but Suspicious Activity? includes only one cover version: the theme to the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. Instead, the album focuses on the band's original music, including the track "O.G. (Original Gentleman)," which is a tribute to the legendary jazz drummer Elvin Jones.

This would be The Bad Plus' final album for Columbia Records, as the band and the label parted ways in 2006.

Outtakes
Several cover versions from the Suspicious Activity? recording sessions are available on iTunes and other major online services, including Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song," Queen's "We Are the Champions," and Björk's "Human Behaviour."

Extended copy protection
In November 2005, it was revealed that Sony was distributing albums with Extended Copy Protection, a controversial feature that automatically installed rootkit software on any Microsoft Windows machine upon insertion of the disc. In addition to preventing the CDs contents from being copied, it was also revealed that the software reported the users' listening habits back to Sony and also exposed the computer to malicious attacks that exploited insecure features of the rootkit software. Though Sony refused to release a list of the affected CDs, the Electronic Frontier Foundation identified Suspicious Activity? as one of the discs with the invasive software.

Reception
Brent Burton of JazzTimes stated, "...much of the solid new album is about modern-day contrast. King and bassist Reid Anderson were obviously raised on rock and hip-hop (what 30-something musician wasn’t?) and they show it off with the muscular thwap and throb of their accompaniment... Perhaps Iverson and Co. need not have slaughtered a sacred cow to remind us that it’s 2005, not 1955. But, hey, would they be where they are today if they never tried?" Brian P. Lonergan of All About Jazz wrote, "The trio's third major-label album, Suspicious Activity?, will do little to quell the arguments the previous two have fueled in the jazz community. And though the approach here is not a radical departure from that on These Are the Vistas or Give, the music does advance the trio's adventurous conceptions of form and rhythmic variation." John L. Walters of The Guardian gave the album a negative review, commenting, "So why is listening to their new album such a trial? Maybe they have no taste."

Personnel

 * Ethan Iverson – piano
 * Reid Anderson – bass
 * David King – drums
 * Tchad Blake – producer

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User:Kierant

You can use this link to leave me a message.

Introduction
Hello. This page contains decreasing amounts of information over time, as I consider myself, as a Wikipedian, rather less important than my edits. But I get curious about other editors, so it'd be hypocritical to say nothing at all.

Recommendations
Here are a few bits of suggested reading for everybody working on any collaborative online project, but especially this one...
 * Why Wikipedia must lose its anti-éliteism (by one of its founders)

 * How we very often misinterpret the tone of what we read (from Wired )

 * Challenge how you know that which you think you know.

Shortcuts

 * Search English Wikipedia using Google
 * Upload own work to Wikimedia commons
 * Those handy templates...

And finally
Just to further explain my use of this box up there in the babel list. If creating a British topic, I use British English; I respect U.S. topics by using U.S. English there (and indeed Canadian topics by using Canadian English; hence my avoiding the term "American English"...). This is in-keeping with current guidelines, presuming they've not been messed around with again recently. Although I disagree strongly with recommendations that the choice should be predicated on the initial editor; it should be dictated by the locale of the topic. I will be very grateful to other editors who also respect the guidelines, employ common sense, and refrain from "fixing" the variant of English without valid reason.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Bhantoa

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The result was   Delete. Mhiji 22:59, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

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NN/Vanity ≈ jossi fresco ≈ 22:10, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Sivan

Could someone please provide a pronunciation? Thanks. 192.5.27.135 22:11, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

don't you think it would be proper to include the fact that theres a popular name in israel,sivan?

Shouldnt the months start with Nisan rather than Tishrei?

Which events belong on the list - and which don't
There is a to-the-point discussion here (Cheshvan talkpage). Please take a look before adding items. You are most welcome to contribute. Thank you, Arminden (talk) 12:52, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

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Singles Collection, Volume 2

Singles Collection Volume 2 is a b-side and rarities compilation album released by Boston punk rock band Dropkick Murphys, on March 8, 2005. The album, which peaked at No. 26 and spent three weeks on the chart, contains songs released on singles, compilations and splits. Among the songs, two are alternate versions of songs previously released on Dropkick Murphys albums, five songs were written by the band (one of which was co-written with The Business) and the rest were covers. The artists covered range from mainstream rock bands such as AC/DC and Creedence Clearwater Revival to influential punk bands such as Sham 69 and Cock Sparrer.

"We Got the Power", a song about the 1919 Boston Police Strike also appeared on Fat Wreck Chords's 2004 compilation album Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2.

Track listing

 * 1) "21 Guitar Salute" (Andre Schlesinger) – 2:40
 * 2) "Fortunate Son" (John Fogerty) – 2:38
 * 3) "On the Attack" (Dropkick Murphys) – 1:26
 * 4) "You're a Rebel" (Iron Cross) – 2:42
 * 5) "Watch Your Back" (Mick Beaufoy, Steve Bruce, Steve Burgess, Colin McFaull) – 1:54
 * 6) "Vengeance" (Shane MacGowan, K Bradley) – 2:38
 * 7) "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" (Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Bon Scott) – 4:43
 * 8) "Warlords" (The F.U.'s) – 2:23
 * 9) "Alcohol" (Chris Doherty, Chuck Stilphen) – 1:54
 * 10) "Pipebomb on Lansdowne (Dance Remix)" (Dropkick Murphys) – 2:00
 * 11) "Nobody’s Hero" (Stiff Little Fingers, Gordon Ogilvie) – 3:42
 * 12) "Mob Mentality" (Dropkick Murphys, The Business) – 2:18
 * 13) "Informer" (The Business) – 1:56
 * 14) "The Nutrocker (Instrumental) (Nutty)" (Kim Fowley) – 1:17
 * 15) "Rock 'n' Roll" (Phil Campbell, Würzel, Lemmy, Phil Taylor) – 3:27
 * 16) "Hey Little Rich Boy" (Sham 69) – 1:29
 * 17) "Never Again" (Angelic Upstarts) – 2:52
 * 18) "Halloween" (Glenn Danzig) – 1:34
 * 19) "Soundtrack to a Killing Spree" (Dropkick Murphys) – 1:36
 * 20) "Wild Rover" (Traditional, Dropkick Murphys) – 3:24
 * 21) "Working" (Mick Beaufoy, Steve Bruce, Steve Burgess, Colin McFaull) – 2:38
 * 22) "Victory" (Michael J. Shea) – 1:43
 * 23) "We Got the Power" (Dropkick Murphys) – 2:46

Personnel

 * Al Barr – vocals
 * Rick Barton – guitar
 * James Lynch – guitar, vocals
 * Marc Orrell – guitar, vocals
 * Ken Casey – bass
 * Matt Kelly – drums
 * Joe Delaney – bagpipes on "21 Guitar Salute" and "Mob Mentality"
 * Lars Frederiksen - guest vocals on "Vengeance"
 * Dicky Barrett - guest vocals on "Rock 'n' Roll"
 * Shane Macgowan - guest vocals on "The Wild Rover"

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Rindge Dam

Rindge Dam is a 100 ft dam on Malibu Creek in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California. Located in Malibu Creek State Park, it sits just northeast of Malibu Canyon Road, and is partially visible from the turnouts south of the tunnel. The dam, a major obstacle to river wildlife, is due to be removed with demolition work beginning in 2025 and finishing in 2035.

History
The dam was built by hired workers of May Knight Rindge, who owned the Malibu Ranch, the former Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit, at that time. The frame of the dam was constructed using rails from the Hueneme, Malibu and Port Los Angeles Railway, which was a 15-mile railroad that May Rindge built through the Malibu Ranch. The dual walls of the dam were built into an already-existing rock monolith in the center of Malibu Creek; the only place they meet is at the top. The main concrete arch of the Rindge Dam was completed in 1924. The spillway of the dam was finished in 1926.

The 600 acres behind the dam have been completely filled with sediment since circa 1950, which creates a waterfall from Malibu Creek. The dam became incorporated into Malibu Creek State Park in 1976.

Proposed removal
Fish advocates have called for the dam's removal because it is blocking Steelhead trout from accessing the upper reaches of the Malibu Creek watershed. Others have campaigned in vain for the designation of the Rindge Dam as a California Historical Landmark. The Rindge Dam is property of the California Department of Parks and Recreation and the structure has been in disrepair for decades. The dam was declared off-limits to the public in 2014.

The US House of Representatives authorized a dam removal study in 1992. The US Army Corps of Engineers released a draft in January 2017, entitled the "Malibu Creek Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study". Estimates for the cost of demolition have been as high as $80 million.

On March 9, 2018, the California Coastal Commission endorsed a plan to remove Rindge Dam. The Plan, developed by the Army Corps of Engineers, proposes removing the dam arch and spillway, along with 780000 cuyd of sediment impounded behind the dam. Approximately 278000 cuyd of clean sandy sediments would be removed by truck to Ventura Harbor, tested for pollution, and then deposited by barge in shallow ocean waters near the mouth of Malibu Creek, east of Malibu Pier. The sediment will be placed to avoid damage to nearshore kelp beds, and to allow the sand to eventually move shoreward and downshore to replenish nearby beaches. The remaining sediment would be deposited in the Calabasas Landfill. The project would also modify or remove barriers, mostly culverts under roads, that block fish migration on the Cold Creek and Las Virgenes Creek tributaries of Malibu Creek upstream from the dam. The project would start in 2025, and take eight years to complete.

Risks associated with the dam removal project include risk of slope instability where the dam and sediments are removed, and an increased risk of flooding downstream from the dam. Downstream neighbors and the City of Malibu have expressed concern about these risks.

In 2019 California Trout listed Rindge Dam as one of its top five priorities for dam removal, along with Scott Dam on the Eel River in Potter Valley, Matilija Dam near Ojai, four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, and Searsville Dam above Stanford University. The 1947 Matilija Dam, in the Los Padres National Forest north of Ojai also blocks steelhead trout spawning grounds and is planned for removal. Designed for water storage and flood control on Matilija Creek, it no longer performs either since it has silted up.

In April 2023, California State Parks announced that the removal of the dam would go ahead, with design plans, engineering, and permitting complete to 90% by 2026.

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Bjørn Johansen (footballer)

Bjørn "Bummen" Johansen (born 7 September 1969) is a former Norwegian footballer, who played as a midfielder for Tromsø IL for most of his career. He is currently a manager.

Club career
Johansen got his debut in 1987, and played for Tromsø until 1992. He moved to Viking in 1993, and stayed there for two seasons. In 1995, Johansen was back at Tromsø, and stayed with the club until 1999, and won the Norwegian Cup with Tromsø in 1996.

Johansen played for the Swedish team Helsingborgs IF between 2000 and 2001, and played for the club in the Champions League, before he again returned to Tromsø, when the club played in the First Division in 2002. and helped the club return to the Norwegian Premier League.

Johansen played for Tromsø between 1989 and 2005, with the exception of his 4 seasons and with his 326 league-games for Tromsø he is the player with the most matches for the club. Johansen also participated in four of Tromsø campaigns in European Cups.

International career
Johansen played international matches for various Norwegian youth international teams, and played for the under-20 team in the 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship. Johansen played 15 matches for Norway U21, but he was never capped for the senior team.

Coaching career
On 19 November 2010, the Third Division side Finnsnes announced that they had hired as head coach from the 2011-season onwards. The club won promotion to the Second Division in Johansen's first season as head coach.

Johansen was the manager of Fredrikstad FK and secured promotion to the 2021 1. divisjon. He was sacked during the 2022 season. He was hired by the Football Association of Norway as head coach of the Norway U16 national team.

Personal life
Johansen got his nickname Bummen by his brother when he was a child.

After Johansen's retirement in 2005, he has worked as a sports commentator for the Norwegian TV 2.

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Ethan Nadelmann

Ethan A. Nadelmann (born March 13, 1957) is the founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs. He is a supporter of the legalization of marijuana in America.

Early life
Nadelmann was born in New York City and raised in Westchester, New York in a Jewish family; his father, Ludwig Nadelmann, was a rabbi and a "leading figure in the Jewish Reconstructionist movement." He earned B.A., J.D., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University and a M.Sc in international relations from the London School of Economics. Nadelmann began to see the flaws in American drug policy as a college student. His academic interests initially focused on Middle East politics before he devoted himself to the issue of drug policy and the internationalization of crime law enforcement. In 1984-85, while pursuing his Ph.D., Nadelmann "got a security clearance and worked as a consultant to the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs," then called the Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. Nadelmann's dissertation, based in part on "hundreds of DEA and foreign drug-enforcement officials" in 19 countries, was subsequently published as "Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement." Reviewing the book in Foreign Affairs, David C. Hendrickson called it a "pioneering and prodigiously researched work." Hendrickson commented on how Nadelmann didn't criticize drug policies in the book, writing, "The work contains little in the way of normative judgments or policy prescriptions. Given Nadelmann's known objections to the war on drugs, this gives the book an odd character, quite as if the Rev. Pat Robertson were to attempt a detached scientific analysis of the production values in Last Tango in Paris." Nadelmann then began to focus on the "harms created by drug prohibition" as he taught politics and public affairs at Princeton University from 1987 to 1994.

Career
While he was at Princeton, Nadelmann lectured and wrote extensively on drug policy, starting with a piece in Foreign Policy in April 1988 called "U. S. Drug Policy: A Bad Export." In the article, Nadelmann argued that U.S. drug policy strained relationships with Latin American countries, and Nadelmann "analyzed legalization as an alternative." The article brought Nadelmann media attention alongside Kurt Schmoke, a Baltimore Mayor who advocated for drug decriminalization. Nadelmann appeared on TV shows including Nightline, where he and Schmoke debated Charles Rangel on drugs, and Larry King Live. Nadelmann then "authored similar articles Science, The Public Interest, and New Republic," which were often quoted in op-ed articles about drug policy. Nadelmann's scholarly work provided the intellectual foundation for the legalization effort, and it was responsible for the cross-pollination of varying views on legalization, from libertarian arguments to ones concerning the fiscal burden of the War on Drugs.

Nadelmann formed the Princeton Working Group on the Future of Drug Use and Alternatives to Drug Prohibition. The group included eighteen scholars including Lester Grinspoon, Andrew Weil, and Alexander T. Shulgin. Martin Torgoff wrote in Can't Find my Way Home that "for a brief time, the Princeton Group was the most dynamic de facto drug-reform think tank in the United States."

After Barack Obama won the presidential election, Matt Elrod, the director of the drug policy reform group DrugSense, filed an internet petition for Ethan Nadelmann as the new Drug Czar. Although any hopes in getting Nadelmann appointed were downplayed, "this petition will at least encourage President-elect Obama to think twice about his choice of drug czar." Drug Policy Alliance never lobbied for Nadelmann, but once media reports alleged that James Ramstad (R-MN) would be appointed to the post, the organization urged people to oppose the appointment due to his opposition to medical marijuana and needle exchange among other things. Seattle's police chief Gil Kerlikowske became the next head of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).

On September 28, 2012, Nadelmann spoke at the Human Rights Foundation's San Francisco Freedom Forum. He discussed the United States' incarceration rates, which are at 743 people per 100,000 inhabitants, and how America's drug policies are affecting that number.

Drug Policy Alliance
Nadelmann founded the Lindesmith Center in 1994, a drug policy institute created with the support of George Soros. In Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, Michael T. Kaufman wrote of Nadelmann and Soros's relationship, which formed after Soros read Nadelmann's Spring 1988 piece in Foreign Policy, "U.S. Drug Policy: A Bad Export" as Soros had also published the piece "After Black Monday" in the same issue:"'Soros was so impressed with the drug policy piece that he contacted its author, Ethan Nadelmann. By 1993, with Soros's financial backing, Nadelmann established the Lindesmith Center, a policy institute named after Alfred E. Lindesmith, a sociologist who in the 1930s and 1940s had opposed harsh policies of drug prohibition in favor of medical treatment of addicts. Nadelmann, both brash and persuasive, identified the center's mission as seeking 'harm reduction', which he defined as 'an alternative approach to drug policy and treatment that focuses on minimizing the adverse effects of both drug use and drug prohibition.'"Six years later the Center merged with the Drug Policy Foundation and the two became the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy group for drug policies "grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights." As the executive director, Nadelmann takes a public health - rather than a criminal justice - approach to the War on Drugs, advocating for the application of harm reduction principles. He has been criticized for his libertarian position on drugs. Nadelmann stepped down as executive director in 2017.

Ballot Initiatives
Starting with Proposition 215 in California in 1996, Nadelmann raised the funds and oversaw the campaigns to legalize medical marijuana and lessen penalties for non-violent drug possession charges (e.g. Proposition 200 in Arizona in 1996) throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The three major funders were Peter Lewis, Soros, and John Sperling—the Washington Post calling them "a trio of enormously wealthy businessmen who are united behind one idea: that the war on drugs is a failure." In A New Leaf, Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidan wrote, "[Nadelmann's] skills as a closer complemented his ability to connect very different and very influential individuals who cared about drug policy."

UNGASS 1998
In 1998, the United Nations General Assembly held a special session on combatting drug use. The Lindesmith Center, led by Nadelmann, published a two-page public letter to Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan "asserting that the global war on drugs is causing more harm than drug abuse itself." The letter urged Annan "to initiate a truly open and honest dialogue regarding the future of global drug control policies—one in which fear, prejudice and punitive prohibitions yield to common sense, science, public health and human rights." The letter was signed by "hundreds of prominent people around the world" according to the New York Times, including Soros, Javier Perez de Cuellar, George P. Shultz, Oscar Arias, Walter Cronkite, Alan Cranston, Claiborne Pell, and Helen Suzman. Barry McCaffrey, the Clinton Administration 's director of national drug policy, criticized the letter, saying it represented a 1950's perception of drug policy. He later referenced "a carefully camouflaged, exorbitantly funded, well-heeled elitist group whose ultimate goal is to legalize drug use in the United States," likely referring to the efforts of Nadelmann and Soros.

Influence on Public Figures
Nadelmann influenced public figures to rethink their views on drug policy. The New York Times cited "former Secretary of State George P. Shultz; the economist Milton Friedman, who has received the Nobel Prize; William F. Buckley, the conservative columnist, and Mayor Kurt Schmoke of Baltimore" as public figures that are making the argument for drug decriminalization or legalization and added, "Legalization has been promoted most vigorously by Ethan A. Nadelmann, who teaches at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and who has been credited by public figures with opening their minds to the idea. In a 1989 speech to a group of alumni of the Stanford Business School, Shultz "recommended that the Stanford alumni study" Nadelmann's 1989 Science article, "Drug Prohibition in the United States: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives," calling it "bold" and "informative". As more and more prominent figures voiced support for drug legalization starting in the late 1980s, Nadelmann became "the de facto spokesman for advocates of legalization."

Psychoactive--Podcast on Drugs Issues
In 2021, Nadelmann launched Psychoactive, a podcast on drug policy, drug use, and drugs research.

United States
Nadelmann has been a strong advocate of less restrictive cannabis laws in the United States including legalizing the use of cannabis for medical purposes, regulating recreational usage, and imposing civil rather than criminal penalties for those who are caught using or possessing small amounts of cannabis. In 2013, Nadelmann joined Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group; George Papandreou, former prime minister of Greece; David Marlon, Las Vegas-based addiction recovery advocate, to discuss the War on Drugs within the U.S. borders, and cannabis' involvement in policy, incarceration, and addiction prevention.

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Luther (play)

Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne depicting the life of Martin Luther, one of the foremost instigators of the Protestant Reformation. Albert Finney created the role of Luther, which he performed with the English Stage Company at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, the Holland Festival, the Royal Court Theatre, London, the Phoenix Theatre, London, and the St. James Theatre, New York.

The original West End run at the Phoenix ended in March 1962, after 239 performances there, when Finney had to leave the cast to fulfill a contractual obligation with a film company.

Luther won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1964.

Original London cast
The English Stage Company cast for the production at the Royal Court was:
 * Knight – Julian Glover
 * Prior – James Cairncross
 * Martin – Albert Finney
 * Hans – Bill Owen
 * Lucas – Peter Duguid
 * Weinand – Dan Meaden
 * Tetzel – Peter Bull
 * Staupitz – George Devine
 * Cajetan – John Moffatt
 * Miltitz – Robert Robinson
 * Leo – Charles Kay
 * Eck – James Cairncross
 * Katherine – Meryl Gourley

The BBC adapted the play for television in 1965 as a Play of the Month.

The play was made into a film in 1973, directed by Guy Green, starring Stacy Keach as Martin, with Judi Dench as Luther's wife Katherine, Hugh Griffith as Tetzel, Alan Badel as Cajetan and Maurice Denham as Staupitz.

A 2001 revival at the National Theatre, London, directed by Peter Gill, featured Rufus Sewell in the title role, with Richard Griffiths as Tetzel, Malcolm Sinclair as Cajetan and Timothy West as Staupitz.

Synopsis
Luther is accepted into St. Augustine's Monastery in Erfurt. His father, Hans, expresses scepticism and scorn for excessive religion. Luther displays anguished guilt at what he believes to be his own imperfections and sins. Luther is preparing to conduct his first Mass as a priest. Another monk, Brother Weinand, tries to persuade him not to exaggerate his own wickedness, and gently dismisses Luther's anxiety as "a few imaginary sins". Luther, is tormented mentally by guilt and physically by constipation. In the refectory of the monastery after the celebration of Mass, Luther's father is a guest. He has most reluctantly accepted his son's monastic vocation but has nevertheless made a generous donation to the monastery's funds. He drinks too much at luncheon and his comments make clear his disappointment that his intellectually brilliant son has confined himself to a religious order. Johann Tetzel, described by Osborne as "an ecclesiastical huckster", addresses a crowd of local people, persuading them to part with their money in exchange for papal indulgences (originally a remission of penance in exchange for a pious donation, but by 1517 represented by such as Tetzel as complete absolution for all sins). The Vicar General of the Augustinian Order, Johann von Staupitz, has sent for Luther. Staupitz respects and admires the young monk, and has much sympathy for Luther's scorn of relics and outrage at indulgences. He counsels Luther to be moderate in his public criticisms. Luther preaches a sermon scorning scholarly sophistication and insisting that faith alone is the key to salvation. He then nails to the church door his 95 theses against indulgences, issued as a challenge to Tetzel or anyone else to engage him in theological debate. Cardinal Cajetan, the Papal Legate to Germany, has sent for Luther. The latter's views are by now seen by the Church as verging on heresy, and Cajetan tries, in vain, to persuade Luther to retract. Cajetan warns that Luther's views, if pursued, will cause the break-up of Christendom. Pope Leo X dictates a decree ordaining that unless Luther recants his views, he will be a heretic and will be excommunicated. Luther has by now broken completely from the Roman Catholic Church. He preaches a sermon denouncing the Pope. He burns the papal decree of excommunication and prays for God's support. Luther engages in theological debate with Johann von Eck, who represents orthodoxy against Luther's revolutionary preachings. Luther demands that his opponents should refute his arguments by showing that the Bible contradicts them. He rejects the authority of the Pope and of church councils. A knight, who has until this point merely announced to the audience the time and place of each scene, now has a long speech commenting on the civil disorder that has erupted in the wake of Luther's religious revolution. He engages Luther in conversation, and it emerges that Luther is hostile to the peasant uprising. The knight is deeply disillusioned. Luther prepares to marry an ex-nun. Luther and his wife are living in the former monastery. Staupitz, now an old man, visits them, and looks round the building nostalgically. Luther expresses regret at turning Staupitz's world upside down. He is stung when he believes Staupitz disapproves of his siding with the princes against the peasants during the uprisings. Staupitz counsels moderation, as he had done in 1517. He leaves, and Luther muses aloud while cradling his baby son in his arms.
 * Act 1
 * Scene 1 – The Convent of the Augustinian Order of Eremites at Erfurt, 1505
 * Scene 2 – The same. A year later
 * Scene 3 – Two hours later
 * Act 2
 * Scene 1 – The Market Place, Jüterbog. 1517
 * Scene 2 – The Eremite Cloister, Wittenberg. 1517
 * Scene 3 – The steps of the Castle Church, Wittenberg. Eve of All Saints. 1517
 * Scene 4 – The Fugger Palace, Augsburg. October 1518
 * Scene 5 – A hunting lodge, Magliana, Italy. 1519
 * Scene 6 – The Elster Gate, Wittenberg. 1520
 * Act 3
 * Scene 1 – The Diet of Worms. 1521
 * Scene 2 – Wittenberg. 1525
 * Scene 3 – The Eremite Cloister, Wittenberg. 1530.

Critical reception
The Times thought the play only a partial success, giving a vivid portrait of Luther the man but not illuminating "the inner compulsions or the external events that turned him into a historical personage." The paper also criticised the proportions of the play: "Time spent on the makings of the monk is rather badly needed when the chronicle comes to the momentous events of his life." The Guardian's critic, W J Weatherby, objected to the play's harping on Luther's constipation at the expense of his spiritual battles: "We get precious little hint of Luther's real struggle".

Kenneth Tynan in The Observer pointed out, in Osborne's defence, that Luther's obsession with his bowels was not the invention of the playwright, but was documented in Erik H Erikson's psychiatric study, Young Man Luther. Of the play as a whole, Tynan wrote: "'We are left with a powerful impression of a man who invented the idea of the individual conscience, responsible to no earthly authority, and was racked by his own invention. … The language is urgent and sinewy, packed with images that derive from bone, blood and marrow; the prose, especially in Luther's sermons, throbs with a rhetorical zeal not often heard in English historical drama since the seventeenth century, mingling gutter candour with cadences that might have come from the pulpit oratory of Donne." Tynan also noted that reviewing the Paris production, L'Express had lamented Osborne's failure to rival "the dialectic vigour of Sartre, or the poetic vigour of Eliot", a judgment that Tynan considered missed "the quick, stark, lively, lyrical, button-holing virtuosity of Mr. Osborne's language."

Writing of the New York production Howard Taubman said in the New York Times that the play had "size and distinction". The New York Herald Tribune described the play as "an anguished, vigorous and stammering study … not a masterpiece, not even fully coherent, it is an exploration and it wants looking at and thinking about." The New York Daily News called it "a work of power and integrity".

Susan Sontag in the Partisan Review called it "unremittingly vulgar and slapdash in its ideas and its writing" and "phony to the core." She conceded Tony Richardson's "staging, excellent lighting, and bare effective sets" were as "handsome as a picture-book," but argued that this alone, along with the "gimmick of Luther's constipation," drew audiences. "Not one of a hundred of the people who attend this play could possibly have the slightest interest in Luther and his real problems" save for "a quick educational TV-type briefing on A Great Moment in Western History: the Reformation." She contrasted it unfavorably with the films The Flowers of St. Francis and Diary of a Country Priest, describing them as "genuine and psychologically sophisticated."

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Talk:Multiverse (Moorcock)

The multiverse was not a term coined by Moorcock and is used in other contexts, as such it should remain a seperate entity.

 * Whoever created the article was trying to distinguish "The Multiverse" of Moorcock from the generic concept "Multiverse" which has an article. I say keep and expand because there's enough in Moorcock's article already. There's plenty could go in this article. Maestlin 22:01, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Probably it should be moved to "Multiverse (Moorcock)" or similar. Any thoughts? Anyone out there? Maestlin 22:01, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * There's already a page for "Multiverse" (as opposed to "The_Multiverse") and it lists some other fictional multiverses, so I'm strongly in favor of changing the name of "The_Multiverse" to "Multiverse (Michael Moorcock)" and adding a two-way link between it and "Multiverse." VentrueCapital

 * Small addition here. The Multiverse also appears in the TV series Charlie Jade (one mention in the final episode). I don't really care what happens to the article, but this should perhaps weigh into the decission process. TheDJ (talk • contribs • WikiProject Television) 04:27, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I took the liberty of moving "The Multiverse" to "Multiverse (Moorcock)". SpectrumDT 16:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

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