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Citation Needed For Crime Alleged To Have Occurred
Please someone provide some evidence (newspaper article, etc.) of the serious and horriffic crimes alleged to have occurred in this obviously desperate neighborhood.

 * There is no evidence. Those crimes didn't occur there.  The user who added that paragraph, User:24.94.232.164, also put the exact same paragraph (with street names changed) in the article about Milwaukee, Wisconsin. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Milwaukee%2C_Wisconsin&diff=prev&oldid=17835338
 * Moncrief July 4, 2005 18:02 (UTC)

Dramatic Turnaround?
Please clarify:

 * What you mean by "dramatic turnaround." The description of the neighborhood as given is still very bleak; is it somehow better than it used to be?  Worse?  How?  It's not explained.

 * What does "prior to 15 years ago" mean? Do you mean "in the last 15 years"?  "Prior to" means "before."  If the turnaround occurred more than 15 years ago, just say when it occurred. Moncrief 00:22, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

 * I also don't understand "dramatic turnaround", seems like a misnomer to me. I was born there and my parents moved us out in 1964.

The decline in crime-while perceptible-is not as dramatic as some people would like to portray.

 * The neighborhood is still home to the most crime-ridden, deadliest police precinct in the city, and several weeks after the New York Times' Metro section ran a flattering portrait about the neighborhood-portraying it as the next Park Slope, Williamsburg, Red Hook, etc., in other words, a hub for potential gentrification-nearly a dozen people were murdered over the course of one weekend. Ruthfulbarbarity 01:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

East New York did make a major turn around, this article had to reflect the actions during the 1970"s and the early 1980"s .If you check the crime stats at the 75th prescient, you will see the crime rate has changed substantially. I purchased my home at 389k and the present homes located on Loring Avenue behind the Hip center sold at 759K. Cobble Hill Condo's are going up on Linden Blvd. I see a different light on this neighborhood, a big difference from what the article reflects .If anyone is going to type any information concerning Demographics at least do your homework and stay current with facts. I must clarify what I mean by a major (turnaround) is referring to the late 60's, 70’s and early 80's as compared to the present, just in case I was a little vague. For the family that moved from East New York in the 60's ,they could not be in touch with the present picture because no one would purchase a home in a crime ridden neighborhood for 759k as mentioned earlier.

 * Although crime in the neighborhood has has gone down it is still very high. Most of the housing in the neighborhood does not cost 759k either. That newer market rate housing is bought as an investment by investors and rented out to the community. Most of the newer townhouses built over the years are subsidized and much of the housing is only for the low income demographic. Most of the people rent in this community and cannot afford high prices. People who can afford those prices are not willing to live in East NY. Crime and other social issues are still big problems in East NY. The majority of people living in the community are struggling economically. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiwiki718 (talk • contribs) 07:08, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Import Export
When and how were the new unfair import-export rates imposed? Did they have a role in the decline of manufacturing? It needs a specific link for the specific law or time, rather than a generic one for international trade. Jim.henderson 21:34, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Southeast Brooklyn? East New York is located in East Brooklyn
Flatbush Avenue goes to southeastern Brooklyn. Gerritson Beach and maybe even Canarsie are in southeastern Brooklyn. But East New York and City Line are in eastern Brooklyn not southeastern. Jim.henderson 04:58, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Gardeners Association
I didn't put in the now deleted plug, and agree that it didn't belong as being too much an advertisement. I do think there ought to a link to an advertising site for the association, and have inserted one, hoping someone else can replace it with a better one. Jim.henderson 21:34, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Neutrality and Clarity?
As far as I can tell, the article seems to take an informative and unbiased path at first, but then basically says African Americans and Puerto Ricans vastly increased the crime rate in the 50s and 60s. In the end, this is all to be made somewhat better by the fact the rents have increased and major retailers have shown up in the neighborhood.

Exacerbating this is the fact that the major sections of the article are called simply "Ghetto" and "Rebirth". I see one argument by one city planner, a rebuttal according to NYPD crime reports that I'm sure could be interpreted differently, and an abrupt closer about how though the quality of life has improved, crime is still high.

I feel this could certainly use a rewrite that incorporates the initial "Early History" paragraph, makes a mention of its problems with crime but doesn't intend to connect it to a racial element, and sticks to simple facts about the geography and current makeup of the neighborhood. Bridgetown 23:03, 5 May 2007 (UTC)Bridgetown

 * Yes, it is something of a doom and gloom piece, and maybe my recent elimination of the unnecessary master header exacerbated the starkness of the remaining section headers. Hey, if you think it's dark now, you should look back to last year when the Thibalt doctrine of powerful men and ethnic change wrecking a viable neighborhood was practically the whole article.  I added the more dispassionate 18th and 19th century material which I came across while looking for slightly related railroad matters.  Notice there is practically nothing about the early 20th century; I wish someone would find such material.

 * More important, the "rebirth" section is thin. One could try digging up some sunshine and marmalade material, but perhaps a simple, dispassionate but integrated description of modern life would work better.  For example, shopping, restaurants, entertainment, fire department, schools other than the endangered HS, hospitals, parks, banking, political representatives, etc.  Like, there are a few sentences about the "Gateway" suburban style shopping mall on the Bay with chain stores, but are there any central shopping streets inland?  Any factories still operating?  Understand, I don't know anyone who lives in ENY; I just bicycle through there sometimes with my eyes open on my way to or from Jamaica or Grand Army Plaza or Bushwick or Ozone Park, or read about the neighborhood and once or twice shopped at the mall.  Jim.henderson 06:21, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Well East New York is a poor neighborhood. Not much has changed. Yes subsidized townhouses have been built on vacant lots and more poor people have moved into rehabilitated residential structures. Yes low income commercial establishments have come into the area reflecting the need due to population density. Some industry in recent years. That's about it though. All other social problems are still there. Crime went down, but it's still high. Everything else has not changed much at all, somethings have gotten worse like poverty. Living cost are higher then they have ever been primarily due to housing expenses. Incarceration, education, teen pregnancy, drug addiction, language isolated families, poverty, crime, overcrowding, homelessness, hunger, all still big problems. Wikiwiki718 (talk) 03:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

As of February 10, 2008
From a NY Times Article, 1 year ago

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/nyregion/05frisk.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1.

In the 75th Precinct, in the East New York section of Brooklyn, which has the city’s highest violent crime rate and some of its poorest neighborhoods, the police stopped, questioned or frisked someone last year, on average, about once every 24 minutes. Article also states, Last year the department began a concerted push, which included adding officers, to try to reduce crime in the 75th Precinct, which had 28 murders in 2006. In the First Precinct, there was one murder. Here are the crime statistics from one week ago.

Analysis

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs075pct.pdf.

There were 33 murders, 42 rapes, 834 robberies, 675 felony assaults in the 75th's area of responsibility in 2007 (3,250 crimes combined). In 2008 (From 1/1 - 2/10), there has been 1 murder, 8 rapes, 75 robberies, 65 felony assaults, 49 burglaries, 89 Grand Larcenies, and 35 G.L.A (Grand Larceny Attempts?).

Reasonable Conclusion

Some of these numbers are down, while others are up. Overall the numbers are down historically. Looking at the figures and my personal knowledge, I wouldn't classify East New York as a safe neighborhood. I think it would be more accurate to say it is much safer than it has been in the past. It still logs 3 times more crime than Canarsie for instance.'''

'''Stats for all the NYC precincts

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/crime_prevention/crime_statistics.shtml. Angrymansr (talk) 13:53, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

 * I think what people fail to realize is those numbers will fluctuate up and down. Overall murders have been on the up tick in northeast Brooklyn, especially East NY and Brownsville, over the past few years. The problem is East NY contains a very significant pocket of poverty the crime is just an end product. In the end though, that is a hell of a lot of violent crime in such a small area. As for the comparison to 1990 on the compstat site, it's out of date. Why not compare versus the last 3 years? There is a reason the NYPD specifically uses those dates which are the worst on record. First of all most of those early 90's murders were drug related directly correlating to the crack epidemic. Secondly more people live from their wounds today. So yes crime is down in the area versus the peak but still VERY significant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiwiki718 (talk • contribs) 04:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It is a lot of crime. There's no other way to spin it. It is a bit odd how the chart shows no consistency to the years it lists. 1990(start), 1995 (5 years later), 1998(3 years later), 2001(3 years later), 2007(6 years later). All those years show a decrease from the period prior. I guess that could be interpreted as selective statistics to show crime coming down. I am curious as to what happened in 2002-2006. Angrymansr (talk) 14:08, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Homicides in northeastern Brooklyn and the Bronx have been on the rise overall over the past few years. It is also common knowledge in these areas that many other felony crimes on the compstat site are reclassified or downgraded. I personally believe this crime increase is due to slow displacement of low income renters to these boroughs from Manhattan. An overwhelming percentage of affordable housing (low income) is being built in these two boroughs. In Manhattan there is a severe affordable housing shortage which is not being addressed. In Brooklyn this housing is more specifically being built in Brownsville and East NY. Areas like East NY and Brownsville were once full of vacant residential structures. Most have been rehabilitated and now house low income renters. Many lots have been built up with subsidized townhouses and apartment buildings. Market rate townhouses are bought and then rented out. So you have new lower income people moving into these areas, creating overpopulation. It causes tension among the locals, remember these are primarily low income high poverty neighborhoods. A simple way to put it is, some kid from West Harlem moves to East NY after his building is condemned after a suspicious fire. He moves to East NY and becomes a new face. Gets into a dispute with a local and eventually gets killed as events escalate.

 * Also to add on to the level of violent crime in East NY, some of East NY is manufacturing districts where little if anything happens. Usually just theft, mostly from warehouses and vehicles. Also there are some "quieter" blocks which do get effected by the areas overall crime (mostly robberies, thefts, G.L.A.'s) but are not known for extreme street level violence (constant shootings, constant robberies, ect). At the same time you have extremely crime prone areas usually certain intersections, housing developments, certain blocks. So the level of crime geographically is among the very worst in the nation overall, rate wise certain sections have higher then others. The Pink Houses for example with 4,000 people had something like 5 murders in 2005. So overall while crime is a very serious problem across the entire neighborhood some areas are dealing with extreme levels of violence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiwiki718 (talk • contribs) 21:09, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Main and Subsections
This entry repeats one of the most basic, but common and oft retold, errors about the community which it purports to describe.

The area historically has been the Town of New Lots (the residents separating themselves from those who lived in the "old lots" of Flatbush). The social center of the community was along New Lots Road (later widened to New Lots Avenue), where the Dutch Reform Church long has been located. Farms extended north and south of New Lots Road. The Jamaica Plank (Toll) Road at the north end of the town was a major east-west thoroughfare for the transporation of goods from Long Island to downtown Brooklyn. Liberty Avenue was another less extensive local east-west thoroughfare for which no toll was imposed.

The term "East New York" came into being when a real estate speculator envisioned a residential development which would rival New York (City). He bought farm land in New Lots, Bushwick, and Brownsville for the purposes of this speculative venture centered at what is now the Broadway Junction. For marketing purposes, he self-named the proposed development "East New York" to entice those who lived in New York (Manhattan) to move eastward. Given financial conditions at the time, his venture failed and he sold most of the land he purchased back to the farmers. He later developed Woodhaven, Queens which had the necessary existing industry to support his proposed housing.

The Town of New Lots later was designated the 26th Ward and subsequently Brooklyn Community District #5.

Different sections of the Town of New Lots subsequently were known by subcommunity names. When residential development did eventually come to New Lots, the northwest corner was referred to by some as "East New York". The northeast corner was referred to by some as "Cypress Hills". The area adjoining Queens county was referred to by some as "City Line". The southeast corner was referred to by some eponymously as "The Old Mill". There were no definite boundaries for these names within New Lots. For much of the early part of the last century, the southern part of New Lots was sparsely developed, consisting of the marshy areas adjoining Jamaica Bay.

The term "East New York" became more codified by the United States Postal Service. New Lots was divided into two postal zones. The western zone was designated 11207 and the Post Office named "East New York". The eastern zone was designated 11208 and the Post Office named "New Lots". The dividing line of the postal zones is Ashford Street.

As the entry notes, New Lots underwent a seismic population shift with those with any historical recollection of, and connection to, the historical community relocating elsewhere and being replaced with those without any institutional memory (this phenomenon has been documented in an article about the same phenomenon in sections of the Bronx). Since the northwestern portion of New Lots was the most built up and thus the area in which most of the urban decay took place, media accounts of the events identified the area as "East New York". New residents assumed that this sectional name which they read in the media was the name of the entire area into which they had moved and began erroneously referring to the entire area in which they lived generally as "East New York".

When Starrett City was proposed, it was marketed as "Brooklyn, the way it used to be" (before urban decay). It was believed that for the project to be successful it needed to be marketed as completely separate from the name "East New York" which was synonymous with urban decay. The new residents began to refer to their section of New Lots as Starrett City.

Towards the end of the twentieth century, in return for developmental rights in Manhattan, a builder was required to construct low income housing. The location of the project was designated to be in the southwestern part of New Lots. Again, to separate the new development from the perjorative name "East New York", it was named "Spring Creek" - from the name of the body of water that once existed nearby. For a time, it became fashionable for some to identify the area south of Linden Boulevard as "Spring Creek", even those areas which had no physical relationship to Spring Creek - which was an offshoot to the larger body of water, viz., the Old Mill Creek.

However, the "Spring Creek" housing development over time began to experience the same social issues that long had been associated with "East New York". As new development was proposed south of Linden Boulevard, it was felt necessary by some that a new marketing name needed to be created which had none of the negative connotations of either "East New York" or "Spring Creek". The name chosen was "Gateway". The name is based on the location of the Gateway National Recreation Area, parkland in the southern portion of New Lots along Jamaica Bay, (the parkland is separated from New Lots proper by the Belt (Shore) (POW) Parkway).

Despite the names given to the various sub-communities of New Lots they remain just that, sub-communities. Historically the name of the entire area is and always has been New Lots.

Wikiprjd (talk) 17:48, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

 * To me, this history of the Township looks like an excellent addition to the New Lots, Brooklyn article. Only a little belongs in the ENY article, which should stick mainly to the areas called ENY from the Pitkin era through the 20th century.  And hey, I don't see that we have even a small biography of Pitkin despite the important avenue and other namesakes.  Jim.henderson (talk) 16:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

EAST NEW YORK HAS 173.000 INHABITANTS ( CENSUS 2000 ) AND NOT 90.000. TO CORRECT THIS WRONGED NUMBER, THANK YOU !!!!! 151.75.45.10 (talk) 18:51, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Black and Puerto Rican Discrepancy?
African American and Puerto Rican is a better term. Black and Puerto Rican is confusing, since most Puerto Ricans share similiar African ancestry with African Americans. The difference is culture and nationality usually, not race. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.178.123.215 (talk) 02:46, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

You are misinformed my friend. Puerto Ricans do not all share ancestry from Africa. The island has a collection of different people from different parts of the world, it is very diverse like Brazil. Most people are primarily of European ancestry. The culture is very outside influenced; primarily Spanish but some African, some Indigenous and very Americanized. There are many different races in Puerto Rico, most have strong White genetics even if mixed. In the end Puerto Rico is not even a country but a territory of the USA, once part of greater Spain. You cannot say Puerto Ricans and African Americans are one in the same, that would be incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.204.1.37 (talk) 10:39, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

EAST NEW YORK HAS 173.000 INHABITANTS ( CENSUS 2000 ) AND NOT 90.000. TO CORRECT THIS WRONGED NUMBER, THANK YOU !!!!! 151.75.38.215 (talk) 00:18, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

POV in the Ghetto photo caption
The photo shows boarded up homes. The caption read "many abandoned homes." This is POV. I wondered when the photo was taken, for today, properties often change hands and undergo improvement, albeit with some decline since 2008. The Neimiah picture is more representative of how the neighborhood looks today.Dogru144 (talk) 17:22, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Removal of links to Nehemiah Corporation
There are plenty of programs nation-wide that have "Nehemiah" in their names, but not all of them are associated with the Sacramento-based Nehemiah Corporation of America. Because the statement in the text (about Bloomberg's 2006 announcement) was unsourced, it was not possible to verify whether the Sacramento-based corporation was involved here. I removed the links, but otherwise kept the text unchanged. NewYorkActuary (talk) 21:46, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * This Nehemiah seems to be related to "Spring Creek Nehemiah" rather than Nehemiah Corp. epicgenius (talk) 02:41, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Its the company run by East Brooklyn Congregations. Tdorante10 (talk) 02:45, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

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Reference to Jamaica Pass
The reference to Jamaica Pass links to the article "Jamaica Pass" ... which has been redirected to here. This circular link should be broken, no? And was there not enough information about Jamaica Pass to merit its own article? I came here from a "Jamaica Pass" link, seeking to learn its nature and exact location. Eplater (talk) 22:18, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

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Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, was a Scottish shipbuilding company in the Govan area on the Clyde in Glasgow. Fairfields, as it is often known, was a major warship builder, turning out many vessels for the Royal Navy and other navies through the First World War and the Second World War. It also built many transatlantic liners, including record-breaking ships for the Cunard Line and Canadian Pacific, such as the Blue Riband-winning sisters RMS Campania and RMS Lucania. At the other end of the scale, Fairfields built fast cross-channel mail steamers and ferries for locations around the world. These included ships for the Bosporus crossing in Istanbul and some of the early ships used by Thomas Cook for developing tourism on the River Nile.

Millwright Randolph & Elliott
Charles Randolph founded the company as Randolph & Co. He had been an apprentice at the Clyde shipyard of Robert Napier, and at William Fairbairn & Sons in Manchester. With the knowledge that he acquired, he started as a millwright in partnership with his cousin Richard S. Cunliff, who managed the commercial side. By 1834 it built engines and machinery in the Tradeston district of Glasgow. It was the first serious local manufacturer of cog and other large wheels for driving machinery, and soon became famous for accuracy.

In 1839 Mr Elliott joined the firm and it became known as Randolph, Elliott & Co. Elliott died shortly after becoming a partner.

Randolph, Elder and Co starts to build ship engines
In 1852 the company became Randolph, Elder and Company when John Elder (1824–1869) joined the business. Elder had a natural talent for engineering and had also worked at the Napier shipyard. It enabled the company to start diversifying into marine engineering. In this field, the company would acquire world fame. Its skills in this field also enabled it to become one of the biggest shipbuilders in the world. The story is closely connected to the application of the compound steam engine for marine use, in which the firm played a crucial role. With regard to the compound engine two specific phases can be discerned: 'low' pressure compound engines and 'high' pressure compound engines.

The compound engine with low (as it would later be called) pressure would give Randolph, Elder and Co its first renown for economic compound engines. The company's attempts centred on trying to prevent energy loss due to friction and premature condensation of steam. In July 1854 the screw steamer Brandon was fit with engines by Randolph, Elder & Co. It had a vertical geared compound engine with a patented (January 1853) arrangement of the cylinders. The crankshaft was turned by two opposite cranks (arms). One was driven by the high-pressure cylinder, the other by the low-pressure cylinder, with the pistons always moving in opposite directions. Brandon, a vessel of about 800 tons and 800 ihp made her trials in July 1854. She had a coal consumption of about 3.25 lbs per ihp per hour. At the time the lowest rate of consumption in other steamers was about 4-4.5 lbs per ihp per hour. The merits of the engine of Brandon were not enough to persuade others, and from 1854 till about 1866 Randolph, Elder and Co were the only engineers who made compound engines under their various patents.

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company did become an enthusiastic customer. In 1855-1856 it operated on the west coast of South America. In that area, fuel was imported from Britain and therefore more costly. When the Crimean War broke out, freight tariffs increased to the point that the price of coal almost doubled there. The directors then conferred with the company, resulting in the 'double-cylinder engine'. Inca and Valparaiso were paddle-steamers which got this engine, that got patented in March 1856. Construction of that for Inca was started in May 1856. It had two pairs of cylinders, lying so their piston rods were at a 60-90 degree angle. Each pair consisted of a high- and low-pressure cylinder lying next to each other, so they could easily exchange steam. Their pistons moved in opposite directions and drove one crank, which was attached to the crankshaft opposite the crank of the other pair. This gave the optimal balance of driving forces that could be attained for this number of cylinders. Furthermore, the cylinders were 'jacketed' at the top and bottom. The jacket heated the cylinder from the outside to prevent condensation in the cylinder. It had been invented by James Watt, but the company was the first to re-apply it, probably because it first understood its purpose. The company then supplied more double-cylinder engines, but with the cylinders completely jacketed. Admiral by Robert Napier, made her trial in June 1858. Another ship with the same engine was Callao built by John Reid in 1858. On trials fuel consumption for these ships was: Inca 2.5 lbs/ihp/h, Callao 2.7 lbs/ihp/h, Valparaiso and Admiral 3 lbs/ihp/h. It amounted to a saving of 30-40 per cent, and this was maintained later on. It made it possible to continue steam navigation on the Pacific Ocean with profit. In fact, in 1858 the Pacific Steam Navigation Company had 7–8 years old traditional machinery removed from three of her large steamers, and replaced by compound engines. It saved 40% in fuel and 30 feet of space amidships because less space was needed for coal.

From 1854 till about 1866 Randolph, Elder & Co. constructed 18 sets of paddle engines and 30 sets of screw engines, all compound. A highlight was the conversion of the frigate HMS Constance to steam propulsion in 1863, and her race against two frigates with engines by John Penn and Sons and Maudslay, Sons and Field. In 1860 the company started to use surface condensation instead of the jet condenser. In 1862 it increased steam pressure to 40 lbs per square inch.

Starts to build ships
In 1858 the company acquired the Govan Old Shipyard, and diversified into shipbuilding. The first ship was built in 1861 as No 14. Macgregor Laird was built for the African Steamship Company. Other ships soon followed, and the business moved to a new yard at the former Fairfield Farm at the Govan riverside in 1864. From 1861 to 1866 59 ships were built.

The general breakthrough of the compound engine was not affected by Randolph, Elder & Co., but by Alfred Holt. Holt succeeded in getting the Board of Trade to lift the ban on boilers with a pressure higher than 25 lbs per square inch (psi). The use of high-pressure steam made the compound engine far more effective, and Randolph, Elder & Co. quickly adjusted. It allowed the construction of a far simpler two-cylinder compound engine that was even more effective than the low-pressure compound steam engine. In 1868 Charles Randolph retired from the firm, and John Elder became sole partner.

Vast expansion as John Elder & Co
The company became known as John Elder & Co in 1869. When John Elder died in September 1869 his wife ran the business for a while and renamed it in his honour. In 1869 she sold the company to a new partnership consisting of her brother John Francis Ure (1820–1883), J.L.K. Jamieson (1826–1883) and Sir William Pearce. It kept the name John Elder & Co. William Pearce became sole partner in 1878.

The new owners continued the expansion of the shipyard in 1870 and onwards. Important customers in the 1861-1875 time slot were: the Pacific Steam Navigation Company for 40 vessels at 2,500,000 GBP, the African Mail Company and British and African Steam Navigation Company for 16 vessels at 500,000 GBP and Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland for 8 vessels at 600,000 GBP. Some qualitative notes further explain the leading position of the company at the time. In 1870 it launched Italy, a vessel of 400 feet, 4,200 tons gross measurement and 600 nominal hp. The largest vessel then afloat except for Great Eastern. In 1870-1871 it built two steamers for the London to Aberdeen line: City of London and Ban Righ were about 20% faster than their predecessors, while their fuel consumption was less than half of theirs. In 1871 Tagus and Moselle were launched for the Royal Mail Company's West India and Brazil trade. Both big steamers almost reached 15 knots on their trials. In 1873 it launched Iberia of 4,820 tons and 650 hp, the second largest merchant steamer then afloat. In 1871 HMS Hydra was launched with engines by John Elder.

Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and successors
In 1886 William Pearce converted the firm to a limited company, the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. This also entailed a simultaneous name change to Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, after the old farm. The area of the farm itself was purchased by Isabella Elder in 1885 and donated to the people of Govan as Elder Park, dedicated to her late husband.

The shipyard's imposing red sandstone Drawing Offices were designed by John Keppie of Honeyman and Keppie, with help from a young Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and built 1889–91. The sculpted figures (The Engineer and the shipwright) flanking the entrance are by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray.

John Carmichael was manager of the Fairfield yard in 1894. He had been born in Govan in 1858 and had entered Fairfield as an apprentice in 1873. When his apprenticeship was completed seven years later, Sir William Pearce made him head draughtsman, and later he was promoted to assistant manager.

In February 1897 a major fire broke out in the yard. The fire spread rapidly and within ten minutes the vast majority of the buildings, covering several acres, were ablaze with the joiner's, pattern, and fitting shops totally destroyed. Various ships under construction were threatened, amongst which were HMS Argonaut (1898) and RMS Empress Queen. The vessels were however separated from the buildings and no significant damage was sustained. The cost of the damage was estimated at £40,000 and caused 4,000 workmen to be thrown idle.

Alexander Cleghorn FRSE became the Fairfield manager in 1909. The company also established the Coventry Ordnance Works joint venture with Yarrow Shipbuilders and others in 1905. Sir Alexander Gracie, who was born in Dunvegan, worked at various other Clydeside shipbuilders before he started at Fairfield in 1896, where amongst other things he worked with Jack Fisher to develop the Invincible class for the Royal Navy, including the Indomitable, which was built at Fairfield. In 1909 Sir Alexander became chairman and managing director of the company, posts he held for a decade. Fisher described him as Britain's greatest naval architect. He died in 1933. Dorothy Rowntree, the first woman in UK to qualify in naval architecture and to graduate in engineering from the University of Glasgow worked for the company between 1926 and 1928.

The Fairfield Titan was built for the yard in 1911 by Sir William Arrol & Co., with a maximum lift capacity of 200 tons. It was acknowledged for many years as the largest crane in the world. It was employed in lifting the engines and boilers aboard ships in the fitting-out basin. The crane was a Category B listed building but was demolished in 2007 in yard modernisation works.

Subsidiary of Northumberland Shipbuilding Company
In 1919 the company became part of the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, with Alexander Kennedy installed as managing director. In 1921 Alexander Kennedy was knighted. Sir Alexander became Fairfield chairman in 1930 and remained so until 1937.

The Fairfield West Yard had been added at the outbreak of the First World War for submarine construction, but closed after ten years due to severe recession and was demolished by National Shipbuilders Securities in 1934. The Fairfield West yard site was later used by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1944 to build four landing craft.

In 1924, the company bought a shipyard at Chepstow on the River Wye in South Wales, previously developed as National Shipyard No.1 in the First World War and then taken over by the Monmouthshire Shipbuilding Company. The works later specialised in assembling bridges and other major structures.

Subsidiary of Lithgows
In 1935 Fairfield was taken over by Lithgows of Port Glasgow after it had become entangled with the insolvency of the Anchor Line.

In the 1950s the yard underwent a major £4million modernisation programme which was implemented slowly over a period of ten years to minimise disruption to the yard. In 1963, the Fairfield engine building division merged with another Lithgow subsidiary, David Rowan & Company, to form Fairfield Rowan Ltd. Soon after the decade-long shipyard modernisation works were completed, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd and Fairfield Rowan Ltd were placed into receivership and was subsequently sold by Lithgow's in 1965. Fairfield's Chepstow works was sold to the Mabey Group in 1966. The marine engine-building subsidiary Fairfield Rowan was closed in 1966.

Fairfield (Glasgow) Ltd
The recently modernised shipbuilding operation was reconstituted as Fairfield (Glasgow) Ltd in 1966, under its founding chairman and industrialist Sir Iain Maxwell Stewart who was also chairman of Thermotank Ltd. It became known as the famous Fairfield Experiment, into new ways of improving productivity through new reforms to industrial relations and the application of scientific management methods to improve productivity. The era of the Fairfield experiment was captured by Sean Connery in his documentary The Bowler and the Bunnet.

Further decline and nationalization
In 1968 the company was made part of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, which collapsed in 1971 when a strike and work-in received national press attention. As part of the recovery deal, Fairfields was formed into Govan Shipbuilders in 1972, which was itself later nationalised and subsumed into British Shipbuilders in 1977.

The shipyard as part of BAE
On the break-up of British Shipbuilders under denationalisation in 1988, the former Fairfield yard was sold to the Norwegian Kværner group and renamed Kvaerner Govan. The yard passed to BAE Systems Marine in 1999 and is now part of BAE Systems Surface Ships.

Ships built
Some of the better-known ships built by Fairfield's include:

Two of three ships that were lost in the action of 22 September 1914 were built at Fairfield's. These ships alongside HMS Hogue were the first vessels ever to be sunk by a German U-boat (SM U-9).

HMS Cressy

HMS Aboukir

 * Battlecruisers:
 * HMS Indomitable (1907)
 * HMS New Zealand (1911)
 * HMS Renown (1916)
 * Battleships:
 * HMS Commonwealth (1903)
 * HMS Valiant (1914)
 * HMS Howe (32)
 * Cruisers:
 * HMS Liverpool (C11)
 * HMS Norfolk (78)
 * Destroyers:
 * HMS Cameleon (1910)
 * HMS Comet (1910)
 * HMS Goldfinch (1910)
 * HMS Maori
 * Torpedo boat destroyers:
 * HMAS Parramatta (D55)
 * Submarines
 * HMS K13
 * HMS K14
 * HMS L15
 * HMS L16
 * HMS L55
 * HMS L56
 * Aircraft carriers:
 * HMS Implacable (R86)
 * HMS Theseus (R64)
 * Passenger ships:
 * SS Assiniboia
 * SS Arizona (John Elder & Co.)
 * SS Athenia (1922)
 * RMS Caledonia (1948)
 * SS Campania
 * PS Cardiff Queen
 * Cheshire
 * RMS Cilicia
 * RMS Circassia
 * RMS Empress of Britain (1905)
 * RMS Empress of Ireland
 * RMS Empress Queen
 * SS Keewatin
 * SS Koning der Nederlanden (John Elder & Co.)
 * SS Leicestershire
 * RMS Lucania
 * SS Montrose
 * RMS Orontes
 * SS Prins Hendrik (1871) I (John Elder & Co.)
 * SS Prins Hendrik (1874) II (John Elder & Co.)
 * SS Prins van Oranje II (John Elder & Co.)
 * SS Stirling Castle (John Elder & Co.)
 * SS Volturno (1906)
 * TEV Wahine
 * SS Willem III (John Elder & Co.)
 * Worcestershire
 * Passenger steam ships for Şehir Hatları (Turkish Maritime Lines):
 * S/S Tarzi Nevin (Bosphorus No.47)
 * S/S Dilnisin (Bosphorus No.48)
 * P/S Hale (Bosphorus No.49)
 * P/S Seyyale (Bosphorus No.50)
 * S/S Sureyya (Bosphorus No.51)
 * S/S Sihap (Bosphorus No.52)
 * S/S Tarabya (Bosphorus No.57)
 * S/S Nimet (Bosphorus No.58)
 * S/S Sarayburnu (Bosphorus No.65)
 * S/S Bogazici (Bosphorus No.66)
 * S/S Halas (Bosphorus No.71)
 * S/S Altinkum (Bosphorus No.74)
 * S/S Kuzguncuk (Yard No:802)
 * S/S Kanlıca (Yard No:803)
 * S/S Pendik (Yard No:804)
 * S/S Anadolu Kavağı (Yard No:805)
 * S/S Ataköy (Yard No:806)
 * S/S İnkılap (Yard No:807)
 * S/S Harbiye (Yard No:808)
 * S/S Teğmen Ali İhsan Kalmaz (Yard No:809)
 * S/S Turan Emeksiz (Yard No:810)
 * Clyde paddle steamers:
 * PS Jeanie Deans
 * PS Jupiter
 * PS Juno
 * PS Marchioness of Lorne
 * Union Castle Line – RMS Gloucester Castle launched 13 May 1911 requisitioned as HMHS Gloucester Castle 31 March 1917
 * Tankers
 * ARA Santa Cruz
 * Icebreaker
 * CGS Stanley


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Chain Reaction (1996 film)

Chain Reaction is a 1996 American science fiction action thriller film directed by Andrew Davis and starring Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, Kevin Dunn and Brian Cox. The plot centers on the invention of a new non-contaminating power source based on hydrogen and the attempts by the United States Government to prevent the spreading of this technology to other countries. The film was released in the United States on August 2, 1996.

Plot
While working with a team from the University of Chicago on a project to convert hydrogen from water into clean energy, student machinist Eddie Kasalivich inadvertently discovers a sound frequency in his home laboratory that perfectly stabilizes their process the next day. As the team celebrates with a party at the project laboratory, Dr. Paul Shannon, the leader of the project, and Dr. Alistair Barkley, the project manager, debate over whether or not to share the scientific discovery. Later that night, project physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair finds her car unable to start, so Eddie gets her home by bus. Back in the laboratory, Alistair and assistant Dr. Lu Chen are preparing to upload their discovery to the Internet to share the breakthrough with the world, while a van approaches the premises. Chen hears a noise and goes outside to investigate, but is kidnapped by unknown assailants as Alistair is also attacked.

Once he has dropped Lily off at Alistair's house, where she lives on the third floor, Eddie returns to the laboratory to retrieve his motorcycle, but notices a suspicious van departing. Hearing alarms, he runs inside to find Alistair dead with a plastic bag over his head and Chen missing. As the hydrogen reactor has become dangerously unstable, Eddie, unable to deactivate it, speeds away as a concealed detonator triggers a massive hydrogen explosion that destroys the laboratory and eight blocks' worth of surrounding streets.

Upon returning from questioning by the FBI, Eddie and Lily realize that they are being framed after encountering planted evidence in both of their houses. The two flee to an observatory in Wisconsin belonging to Maggie McDermott, an old friend of Eddie's. After resting up, they contact Paul, but are almost caught and narrowly escape. As the pair are evading more police, Paul meets with Lyman Earl Collier at C-Systems Research complex, where it is revealed that C-Systems orchestrated the plot to destroy the laboratory and frame the pair for it, with Lyman ordering the attack. Despite some disagreement, Paul and Lyman decide to continue hunting for the pair, a task facilitated when Eddie covertly arranges a meeting with Paul. At their rendezvous, Paul reveals his involvement in framing Eddie, but the meeting ends in an ambush in which Lyman’s thugs Yusef Reed and Clancy Butler, who murdered Alistair, capture Lily while Eddie barely escapes.

After tracing the license plate on the thugs' van, Eddie tracks them to the secret C-Systems Research facility where Paul and Lyman are forcing Lily and Chen to replicate the project. When C-Systems' test reactor malfunctions, Paul, the scientists and the prisoners all depart, allowing Eddie to furtively "fix" the system that night. The next morning, one of the other scientists discovers the working reactor and everyone celebrates. A suspicious Paul immediately obtains a download of the fusion data, and secretly gives it to his assistant, Anita, for safekeeping. He then encounters Eddie at a computer in the company boardroom, who demands his release for making the reactor work. Paul agrees but Lyman refuses, so Eddie sets the reactor to explode while sending proof of his innocence to the FBI and blueprints of the reactor to "hopefully a couple thousand" international scientists. Lyman responds by shooting Chen dead, then locking in Eddie and Lily to die in the explosion as he, Paul, and their staff flee the site.

Lyman is given a falsified copy of the fusion data before Paul kills him for overstepping the bounds of the program, leaving his body in an elevator. During his own escape, he deactivates the containment system, allowing Eddie and Lily to escape. They are attacked by Reed and Butler over an ascending construction lift, but escape by climbing aboard it moments before a blast wave sweeps through the complex, incinerating the corpses of Reed, Butler, and Lyman. Having survived the shockwave, Eddie and Lily are met by FBI agents Ford and Doyle, now convinced of their innocence, who take them to safety. Paul is shown dictating a memo to Anita in a chauffeured limo, informing the Director of the CIA that "...C-System [is] no longer a viable entity."

In a post-credits scene, the C-Systems facility is seen imploding into the landscape.

Cast

 * Keanu Reeves as Eddie Kasalivich, a machinist working on a team from the University of Chicago; he is forced to go on the run with Dr. Lily Sinclair when someone frames him for the murder of his boss, Dr. Alistair Barkley, and the destruction of his laboratory, and both must work to clear their names before they are captured or killed
 * Morgan Freeman as Paul Shannon, the enigmatic leader of the project at the University of Chicago; his motives are unclear throughout the movie, but he advises Eddie to turn himself in to the authorities. It is later disclosed that he is the head of the entire program that includes Lyman, who tries to have the research team killed. A scene with Agents Ford and Doyle and the ending suggests Shannon is with the CIA.
 * Rachel Weisz as Lily Sinclair, a physicist working with Dr. Alistair Barkley who goes on the run with Eddie when they are framed for Alistair's murder and the destruction of his laboratory
 * Fred Ward as FBI Agent Leon Ford, who leads the investigation to discover the cause of the destruction of the laboratory; initially focusing on Eddie and Lily, he soon suspects the involvement of government organizations
 * Kevin Dunn as FBI Agent Doyle, Ford's assistant in the investigation who helps Ford track down Eddie, Lily, and later, C-Systems
 * Brian Cox as Lyman Earl Collier, Chairman of C-Systems Research who is behind the conspiracy to keep the hydrogen power plant a secret
 * Joanna Cassidy as Maggie McDermott, an old friend of Eddie's who lives in an observatory in Wisconsin, where Eddie and Lily escape to after a warrant is issued for their arrest
 * Chelcie Ross as FBI Agent Ed Rafferty
 * Nicholas Rudall as Dr. Alistair Barkley, head of the project to develop energy from water who is later suffocated
 * Tzi Ma as Lu Chen, Project Manager on the Hydrogen Project and Dr. Barkley's right-hand man; when Barkley is killed, Dr. Chen is kidnapped and forced to work at C-Systems
 * Krzysztof Pieczyński as Lucasz Screbneski, scientist on the original project who is secretly working for C-Systems
 * Eddie Bo Smith Jr. and Danny Goldring as Yusef Reed and Clancy Butler, Collier's right hand men for C-Systems

In addition, Michael Shannon and Neil Flynn make appearances as a van driver and a Wisconsin State Police Trooper, respectively.

Production
Large portions of the film were shot on location in and around Chicago, Illinois, including the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Field Museum of Natural History, Michigan Avenue, and the James R. Thompson Center (Atrium Mall). Additional scenes were shot at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, on Geneva Lake in southern Wisconsin, interiors of the U.S. Capitol were shot at the Wisconsin State Capitol, in Madison, Wisconsin, at Inland Steel Company (now known as Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.) in East Chicago, Indiana, and at a private residence in Barrington Hills, Illinois. Because of the cold Great Lakes winter and filming taking place during record breaking winter weather, unique challenges were present for the cast and crew. Morgan Freeman noted that "It was difficult for everyone, particularly for me because I'm tropical," he said. "I don't do cold weather. This is Chicago...in the winter. I was ill and in bed four days at a crack. It was really rough."

Reception
Chain Reaction received negative reviews. The film holds an 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 33 reviews, with the site's critical consensus stating, "Ironic given the scientific breakthrough at the story's core, Chain Reaction is a man-on-the-run thriller that mostly sticks to generic formula." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars out of four, writing: "By movie's end, I'd seen some swell photography and witnessed some thrilling chase scenes, but when it came to understanding the movie, I didn't have a clue." Jeff Millar of the Houston Chronicle wrote: "The narrative is very complex, but what's on the screen is little more than generic, non-narrative-specific, guy-being-chased stuff". Conversely, Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle felt the film was one of the summer's best movies, writing: "[Chain Reaction] has better acting, better writing, more spectacular chase sequences and more genuine drama than all of this summer's blockbusters."

Chain Reaction and its cast were nominated for one award, with Keanu Reeves being nominated for the Razzie for Worst Actor, which was won by both Tom Arnold and Pauly Shore.

Chain Reaction debuted in fourth place at the box office behind A Time to Kill, Independence Day and Matilda, collecting a total of $7.5 million during its opening weekend. The film grossed just over USD$60.2 million worldwide.

Reeves has since expressed regret about Chain Reaction, blaming script changes. Of his character, he said: "Originally, I was married. I had this kid and I did this research and I didn't know that what I was researching had this effect. And someone got killed and I had these regrets and I'm trying to stop what I'm doing, but they can't let me so they're chasing me. And then all of a sudden I turn into this 24-year-old machinist and I turned to (director) Andrew Davis and I said, 'What happened to the movie I said yes to? What happened to that script? Where did that go?' And he said, 'No, I got something better,' and so I just had to go with it."

Scientific accuracy
In one interpretation of the film's plot, a scientific process supposedly extracts hydrogen from water, then burns the hydrogen to generate power, and leaves only water as a residue, essentially a chemical perpetual motion. The movie never clarifies how the hydrogen is extracted from the water, nor how water is still left over. The character Dr. Shannon makes contradictory statements in the combination of ideas mashed together: one time he says this is accomplished with a laser with millions of degrees, another time he says frequencies of sound and sonoluminescence. In one scene, the movie shows a bubbling container reminiscent of cold fusion electrolytic cells and another references sustained fusion. A character in the film claims that a glass of water could power Chicago for weeks, but no clear explanation is ever given as to whether this is by simply burning hydrogen released by highly efficient means or through nuclear processes. The film's title is also misleading, since "chain reaction" is related to nuclear fission, not fusion.

The film is based around the premise that free energy suppression is real. The main character is told that his discovery is too disruptive: energy would suddenly be cheap, oil would no longer be necessary, oil companies would go bankrupt, and such sudden economic changes would throw society into chaos.

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Tokyo University of the Arts

Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学) or Tokyogeidai (東京芸大) is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained renowned artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter-media, sound, music composition, traditional instruments, art curation and global arts.

History
Under the establishment of the National School Establishment Law, the university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo Fine Arts School (東京美術学校) and the Tokyo Music School (東京音楽学校), both founded in 1887. The former Tokyo Fine Arts School was then restructured as the Faculty of Fine Arts under the university.

Originally male-only, the school began to admit women in 1946. The graduate school opened in 1963, and began offering doctoral degrees in 1977. The doctoral degree in fine art practice initiated in the 1980s was one of the earliest programs to do so globally. After the abolition of the National School Establishment Law and the formation of the National University Corporations on April 1, 2004, the school became known as the Kokuritsu Daigaku Hōjin Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku (国立大学法人東京藝術大学). On April 1, 2008, the university changed its English name from "Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music" to "Tokyo University of the Arts".

The school has had student exchanges with a number of other art and music institutions such as the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of applied Arts, Vienna (Austria), the École des Beaux-Arts (France), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), the Royal Academy of Music (UK), the University of Sydney and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Australia), the Korea National University of Arts, and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Department of Fine Arts
(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)
 * Japanese Painting
 * Oil Painting
 * Sculpture
 * Craft
 * Design
 * Architecture and Planning
 * Aesthetics and Art History
 * Inter-media Arts
 * Conservation

Department of Music

(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)
 * Composition
 * Conducting
 * Vocal Music
 * Piano
 * Organ
 * String instruments
 * Wind and Percussion Instruments
 * Early Music
 * Musicology
 * Traditional Japanese Music
 * Musical Creativity and the Environment

Graduate School of Film and New Media
(Only for graduate students)
 * Film production
 * New media
 * Animation

Graduate School of Global Arts

 * Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices

Organization

 * University Art Museum
 * University Library
 * University Orchestra
 * University Opera
 * Administration Office
 * Art Media Center
 * Center for Music Research
 * Geidai Art Plaza
 * Health Care Service Center
 * Institute of Ancient Art Research
 * Oversea Student Center
 * Photography Center
 * Performing Arts Center
 * Senior High School of Music
 * Sogakudo Concert Hall
 * Training Center for Foreign Language and Diction

Artists

 * Erina Matsui (painter)
 * Aiko Miyanaga (sculptor)
 * Firoz Mahmud (Bangladeshi contemporary Artist / painter)
 * Eric Van Hove (Belgian artist)
 * Takashi Murakami (artist)
 * Yoshitoshi Abe (cartoonist / illustrator)
 * Cóilín Ó Dubhghaill (metalworker and irogane researcher)
 * Shin Egashira (Architect/ Sculptor)
 * Tsuguharu Foujita (oil painter / sculptor)
 * Shigeo Fukuda (graphic designer)
 * Jin Goto (artist / painter - Nihonga painting)
 * Fuyuko Matsui (painter)
 * Kaii Higashiyama (painter)
 * Ikuo Hirayama (painter)
 * Shunsō Hishida (painter)
 * Eiko Ishioka (designer)
 * Mari Katayama (textile artist and photographer)
 * Tōichi Katō (painter)
 * Gyokudo Kawai (painter)
 * Kim Su-keun (architect)
 * Kim Yong-jun (art critic)
 * Ryōhei Koiso (oil painter)
 * Yōichi Kotabe (animator)
 * Seiji Kurata (photographer)
 * Tetsuya Noda (artist)
 * Kakuzō Okakura (essayist)
 * Tarō Okamoto (artist)
 * Carl Randall (painter)
 * Lee Shih-chiao (painter)
 * Kanzan Shimomura (painter)
 * Yasushi Sugiyama (painter)
 * Shinzaburo Takeda (printmaker / painter)
 * Masao Tamiya (graphic artist)
 * Tadao Tominari (photographer)
 * Kōtarō Takamura (sculptor / poet)
 * Hiroshi Teshigahara (film director)
 * Eisaku Wada (painter / faculty)
 * Yoshihiko Wada (oil painter)
 * Tsubasa Yamaguchi (manga artist)
 * Iwao Yamawaki (photographer / architect)
 * Ryumon Yasuda (painter / sculptor)
 * Taikan Yokoyama (painter)
 * Yassan (GPS drawing)
 * Yukihiko Yasuda (painter)
 * Yorozu Tetsugoro (painter)

Musicians

 * Yasushi Akutagawa (composer)
 * Ikuma Dan (composer)
 * Ichiro Fujiyama (singer / composer)
 * Akiko Futaba (singer)
 * Mihoko Fujimura (operatic mezzo-soprano))
 * Kunihiko Hashimoto (composer)
 * Shiro Hamaguchi (composer / arranger)
 * Masashi Hamauzu (composer)
 * Hikaru Hayashi (composer)
 * Ryohei Hirose (composer)
 * Shin-ichiro Ikebe (composer)
 * Hiroyuki Iwaki (conductor)
 * Taku Iwasaki (composer)
 * Hiroshi Kajiwara (pianist)
 * Kaoru Kakudo (violinist)
 * Ken'ichiro Kobayashi (conductor)
 * Jo Kondo (composer)
 * Hayato Matsuo (composer)
 * Toshiro Mayuzumi (composer)
 * Minoru Miki (composer)
 * Hajime Mizoguchi (composer)
 * Makoto Moroi (composer)
 * Kōtarō Nakagawa (composer / arranger)
 * Akira Nishimura (composer)
 * Shigeaki Saegusa (composer)
 * Toshihiko Sahashi (composer)
 * Ryuichi Sakamoto (composer)
 * Kazue Sawai (koto player)
 * Tadao Sawai (koto player and composer)
 * Tatsuo Sasaki (Timpani/marimba player)
 * Makoto Shinohara (composer)
 * Masaaki Suzuki (organist / harpsichordist / conductor)
 * Motoaki Takenouchi (composer)
 * Yuzo Toyama (composer / conductor)
 * Rentarō Taki (composer)
 * Chiyuki Urano (baritone)
 * Kosaku Yamada (composer / conductor)
 * Kazuo Yamada (conductor)
 * Akio Yashiro (composer)
 * Akeo Watanabe (conductor)
 * Diramore (composer / music director)

Others

 * Kenji Ekuan (industrial designer)
 * Eiji Aonuma (video game designer)
 * Li Zuixiong (conservation scientist)
 * Norio Ohga (former president of Sony / singer / conductor)
 * Rin' (pop group)

Faculty members

 * Masaki Fujihata (new media)
 * Kazue Kobata (inter-media arts)
 * Osamu Kido (sculpture)
 * Atsushi Kitagawara (architecture)
 * Takeshi Kitano (film)
 * Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi (conducting)
 * Kiyoshi Kurosawa (film)
 * Toyomichi Kurita (film)
 * Joun Ōshima (sculpture), noted Japanese sculptor in the Meiji/Taisho/Showa periods
 * Meio Saitō (oil painting)
 * Tokihiro Satō (inter-media arts)
 * Michael W. Schneider (printmaking)
 * Takashi Shimizu (violin)
 * Kanzan Shimomura
 * Masaaki Suzuki (early music)
 * Ritsuko Taho (inter-media arts)
 * Toru Takahashi (education)
 * Kōun Takamura
 * Kenji Watanabe (piano)
 * Yoshiaki Watanabe (inter-media arts)
 * Koji Yamamoto (industrial arts)

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PBS Distribution

PBS Distribution (PBSd), formerly known as PBS Ventures, PBS Home Video, and Public Media Distribution, is the home distribution unit of American television network PBS. The company manages streaming channels, video on demand releases, and sells home videos of PBS series and movies and PBS Kids series in various formats, as well as programming from other public television distributors such as American Public Television and the National Educational Telecommunications Association.

It is jointly owned by the Public Broadcasting Service and the WGBH Educational Foundation. PBSd manages the PBS Masterpiece channel on Amazon's Prime Video Channels.

It is currently distributing PBS programs and movies on DVD and Blu-ray (through its distribution partnership with Studio Distribution Services), digital downloads, and streaming media and PBS Kids programs on DVD and digital downloads. In 2017 independent films produced by PBSd were added for theatrical distribution and home video releases.

History
Established on September 7, 1977, the PBS Home Video, Inc. company originally distributed and sold VHS and Betamax tapes simply on their own.

Starting in 1989, PBS secured a deal with Pacific Arts to distribute PBS Home Video's products. In 1994, PBS moved to distribution through Turner Home Entertainment. In 1996, when Turner Home Entertainment's parent company merged with Time Warner, distribution was through Warner Home Video until 2004, when distribution moved to Paramount Home Entertainment.

PBS Home Video was renamed PBS Distribution—PBSd in 2009, and became independent again in 2011. PBSd is jointly owned by PBS and the WGBH Educational Foundation. It is currently distributing PBS programs and movies on DVD, Blu-ray, digital downloads, and video on demand and PBS Kids programs on DVD and digital downloads. In 2017 independent films produced by PBSd were added for cinema and home video releases. PBS International offers factual content for broadcast, cable, and satellite services internationally.

On November 1, 2011, PBS UK was launched on BSkyB. Canadian-born entrepreneur David Lyons and PBS Distribution formed a joint venture to run the channel.

Independent films
After a backlash from filmmakers over WNET's attempts to move independent documentary series to its secondary station, PBS took feedback from the documentary community and developed an indie film strategy.

Through Independent Lens, PBS acquired Stanley Nelson's documentary film The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. The history of The Black Panthers was especially timely due to the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement's growth. The film was first released in theaters in late 2015, then had a special nationwide public television premiere in late 2016.

PBSd expanded its operation to included theatrical distribution of documentary films by hiring Erin Owens as PBS Distribution's Head of Theatrical Distribution; and Emily Rothschild as Director of Theatrical Acquisitions and Marketing. Owens and Rothschild had just worked with PBS on Stanley Nelson's The Black Panthers distribution.

The operations expansion of PBSd was announced at the Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2017. The company plans to get theatrical and non-theatrical rights for up to six feature-length documentaries to release per year.

PBSd put British show, Jamestown as a streaming first run on PBS Passport and PBS Masterpiece as of March 23, 2018.

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Eulogy (film)

Eulogy is a 2004 comedy-drama film written and directed by Michael Clancy. An international co-production between companies from Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the film follows a dysfunctional family as secrets come to light at the funeral of the family's patriarch. The film was given a limited theatrical release and grossed just under $90,000 against a $10 million budget.

Plot
Kate Collins walks up to a house. She knocks and a woman answers the door. Kate explains that although she doesn't know her she has a long story to explain.

The story begins with the death of Kate's grandfather, Edmund. The movie then goes on to show how all the family members found out about the death, and how they came together for the funeral. As the Collins family joins their widowed mother/grandmother, Charlotte, the family's dysfunctions and idiosyncrasies come to light. Kate's father, Daniel Collins, is an "obscure foreign film" actor whose career peaked at age 8 when he appeared in a peanut butter commercial. Kate's uncle, Skip, is an overly hormonal father of overly hormonal twins Fred and Ted. Kate's aunt, Lucy, and her girlfriend Judy Arnolds, are criticized by the family because of their relationship. Most of this criticism comes from Kate's other aunt, Alice. The bossy, intimidating Alice has managed to both raise her three children and drive her husband into submissive silence, because of her persistent talking and badgering. Once they all arrive for the funeral, Kate is told by Charlotte that Edmund wished for her to give his eulogy.

After a family dinner that goes south when Lucy and Judy announce that they are getting married, Charlotte tries to commit suicide by overdosing on a medication. While the family sits in the waiting room they run into Samantha, a nurse at the hospital who is also an old friend of Alice's. After having her stomach pumped, Charlotte tries again by jumping out of a moving van on a bridge and although she does not die, she is seriously injured and is confined to a wheelchair.

Kate continually tries to come up with a eulogy while dealing with a previous romance with Ryan, from whom she ran away after being caught by Ryan's mother while they were having sex. Kate gets reacquainted with Ryan and their relationship reignites. Alice and Samantha have sex in Samantha's car, with the whole family watching in awe, before Ryan falls from Kate's treehouse while the two were spending time together. The next day, Alice's husband and her children are planning to leave, with the former finally saying something by answering Kate's question about their departure. Kate had also decided to distance herself from Ryan once again.

At Edmund's will reading, it is revealed that Edmund has three families that don't know about each other. This explains Edmund's inability to keep names and number of children straight over the years before also dropping the bomb that he was up to his "prostate in debt". Kate is tasked with finding and telling the other two families of Edmund's demise.

Per Edmund's will, he is placed in a casket and floated out on a local lake in a boat. Ted and Fred, having previously filled the casket with gasoline, start shooting fiery arrows at the casket. During this time Kate finally gives her eulogy and also reads a piece of paper Ryan gave her and delivers a heartwarming speech written by him. One of the arrows eventually hits the casket and a moment later the casket, explodes in a fiery explosion and completely demolishes the boat, body, and casket in a splintery mess.

Returning to Kate talking to the woman, the woman explains she is not actually the person she was looking for but rather her neighbor. Kate is shown to have reconciled with Ryan and as the two drive away, Kate puts in a letter and tape into the mailbox next door.

In an after-credits scene, the correct lady reads the letter and watches the tape, only it turns out that Kate gave her her mother's sex tape "Vag In Gina Town".

Box office
The film was released in 22 theaters on October 15, 2004, and earned $41,788 in its first weekend, ranking #51 in the North American box office and seventh among the week's new releases. At the end of its run, two weeks later on October 28, the film grossed $75,076 domestically and $14,705 overseas for a worldwide total of $89,781.

Critical response
Eulogy received generally negative reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 32% rating, based on 34 reviews, with an average of 4.6/10. Metacritic reports a 34 out of 100 rating, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

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Baruun-Urt
Had its two weeks on Pages needing translation into English, no one's done anything with it. Topic is OK for an article (it's a place in Mongolia), but if there is anything useful here it needs to be translated. I think it's in Russian, despite the following anonymous remark on this and the (now copyvio'd) Erdenebulgan, Arhangay: Anyway, feel free to salvage but delete if left in present form. Oh, and the difference between instead of and  is that the former is for things that are "mostly translated" and not candidates for deletion on that basis, but need further work. This should have been tagged. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:34, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Both by the same unregistered IP. One has a link to a Mongolian website, so that may be the language. I flagged one with the new instead of the notenglish one. (I'm not sure what the difference is supposed to be.) 68.81.231.127 06:54, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * This is the article that triggered the discussion leading to the current use of the template. I did change it to the notenglish template after that was resolved, so it has been flagged correctly for the requisite two weeks. 68.81.231.127 07:56, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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 * Delete, two weeks are two weeks. Wyss 02:13, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is not Russian or any Slavic language. It's probably Mongolian, which is also written in the Cyrillic alphabet. Time's up, chances of translation are low. -- Curps 02:48, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article as it stands is un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 06:26, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Carrp | Talk 04:05, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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Chester Ronning

Chester Alvin Ronning (December 13, 1894 – December 31, 1984) was a Canadian educator, politician, and diplomat.

Ronning was born in Fancheng, China, now in Xiangyang, Hubei province, the son of Norwegian American Lutheran missionaries, and graduated from the University of Alberta in 1916 with a B.Sc.. Ronning's family moved from China to the Peace River country of Alberta. Halvor Ronning, Chester's father was instrumental in establishing a Norwegian settlement north-west of Grande Prairie called Valhalla Centre. When Chester Ronning started his studies at the University of Alberta, he travelled by horse from Valhalla Centre to Edmonton along the Edson Trail. This was the only "road" connecting the Peace country to the provincial capital. In later years the Northern Alberta Railway (now part of Canadian National Railway) was constructed.

He returned to China to serve as a missionary from 1922 to 1927 and then returned to Alberta where he took up a position as Principal of the Camrose Lutheran College, a position he held for 15 years. In 1942 he submitted a master's thesis to the University of Alberta's College of Education entitled "A study of an Alberta Protestant private school: the Camrose Lutheran College, a residential high school."

He was a member of the United Farmers of Alberta and on October 25, 1932, he was elected in a by-election for Camrose. From his entry into the legislature, he was an outspoken adherent of the newly formed Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party. He was defeated in the 1935 provincial election that wiped out the UFA government. He was leader of the Alberta CCF from 1940 to 1942. The 1940 Alberta election saw no CCFers elected despite winning 11 per cent of the vote. Ronning stepped aside as leader in favour of Elmer Roper, who won a 1942 by-election to become Alberta's first elected CCF MLA. Ronning ran unsuccessfully for the CCF in the 1945 federal election in the riding of Camrose, losing to the Social Credit candidate, James Alexander Marshall.

Ronning served in diplomatic posts in China (1945–1951), Norway (1954–1957), India (1957–1964) and the United Nations. He also participated in the international commissions on Korea (1954) and Laos (1961–62) and undertook special missions to Hanoi (1965–66) in attempts to mediate the Vietnam War. In 1967 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1972. He was inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence in 1983.

The legacy of Ronning continues with the Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life at the University of Alberta Augustana Campus in Camrose, Alberta. The Centre exists to facilitate interdisciplinary research, critical teaching, ethical reflection, and public programming on a range of issues in which religious communities, practices and ideas are directly implicated, or on which thoughtful religious perspectives might be brought to bear. Chester Ronning School in Camrose, Alberta is also named after him.

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Talk:Leading-edge slot

VFD Result
The result of the VFD can be found here: Votes for deletion/Slot -- AllyUnion (talk) 00:35, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Looks like a keeper
This is now much more than a simple definition. A bit more than a stub. --Colputt 01:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

"slats" being considered retractable by definition
I corrected this earlier, but it seems to have been reverted. A slat is not necessarily retractable, although it often is. The definitive difference between a slot and a slat is that a slot is a notch cut out of an existing airfoil, while a slat is formed by an add-on structure outside the defined airfoil. I need to hunt down some support for this, but I recall this being the definition used in all of my aerospace engineering textbooks.

To be clear:

Slat http://www.zenithair.com/stolch701/pic06/slat.jpg Slat http://www.b737.org.uk/le_slat.jpg Slat http://www.stolspeed.com/uploads/images/Slats.jpg Slot http://www.tetonaviation.com/HU-16A_files/slot.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.84.19.219 (talk) 18:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

 * This is an interesting issue, one that we have been around before in this article. The main problem is that there are lots of expert textbooks on this subject and they all disagree. The one I cited, From the Ground Up is considered "the" definitive textbook used in Canada and it says if they move they are slats and if they don't move then they are slots, but there are other sources that say that slats can be fixed and slots can move. There is no agreement, so I have picked the clearest definition and cited that. I think if we are going to go the route that slats can be fixed and slots can move, then the whole article should be merged into the slats article, although this was proposed before and did not pass. 00:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahunt (talk • contribs)

 * Just a comment several years on, the slat vs slot semantic disparity remains in the literature. I agree with the position advanced in the article and above, and the differentiator should be whether the device is movable or attached to an existing wing (slat) or conceived by the designer as integral to the wing (slot.) Whether it is a separate physical structure is immaterial. The Zenith designs for instance locate the aircraft datum at the leading edge of the device, which would indicate that he considers it integral to the wing. Altaphon (talk) 04:30, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

What purpose do they serve?
I read this article trying to find out what slots are, but the article doesn't actually say what they are for, what is their purpose? Comrinec (talk) 19:19, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

 * You are quite right - an obvious deficiency! I have amended the opening para to be more clear - diff - how is that? Ahunt (talk) 20:22, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

 * plane does not stall on low speed (delays stall) when slots are extended during take off and during landing, especially when airport is located much higher than sea level where the air is very thin.(Avraam Antoniades Panayia Cyprus) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.7.224.149 (talk • contribs) 19:06, 31 January 2014

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Talk:Merf

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It scares me by just a little bit that an actual Wikipedia (EDIT: mod administrator, wow,) could be so blatantly anti-furry/discriminatory against furries/stupid, whatever you want to say...and it scares me a bit more that almost everyone agreed with his vote to completely delete any reference to the furry term at all. What the hell. Kamunt 07:33, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Xenu's Link Sleuth

XenuGraph
I notice that the link to XenuGraph (from Kevin Niehage) is still there as external link, but the mention was deleted in the main article. Anyway, the current version of Xenu integrated the export to GraphViz by using the source code made by Kevin Niehage as inspiration (He is credited).

Another interesting export since version 1.3 is to Google Sitemaps. --Tilman (talk) 16:15, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Report
Source discusses the article subject and devotes multiple pages to it. Cirt (talk) 00:23, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * This isn't your bachelor report, is it? I really don't see how it's notable or worth including here.  No, the report doesn't devote multiple pages to the discussion or review of this particular link checker tool.  I'm not trying to claim that this tool isn't notable, I'm just saying that this particular bachelor report (and the Grand Valley State University one with practically all the archived links broken) don't support the article at all.  This link checker just happened to be the tool that was used in the report, but it's only mentioned in passing.  The entire quote is this: "Link checking was performed with the freeware link testing software, Xenu’s Link Sleuth."  So what?  If I write a web page and mention that I've used "Xenu's Link Sleuth" to check my website, does that mean I get to add a link to my website from wikipedia too?  It just smells like a vanity link when it doesn't add any value to the page.  Book reviews, yes.  Magazine reviews, yes.  They discuss the tool and its merits.  But student reports that barely mention the tool in passing?  And reports from 2003 with broken links?  No, they don't belong in this page, in my opinion. Thrapper (talk) 12:50, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * If you actually check the source, you will see several pages are devoted to it. Cirt (talk) 12:52, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I have "actually" checked the source, and the entire quote is above. I assume you're referring to two appendices which give the output of the link checker for the project.  That isn't "devoted" to the tool, it's "devoted" to the checking of the links.  I don't expect the wiki page for the word processing tool he used to link to this report either, because several pages of that report aren't "devoted" to the tool, despite being output by it.
 * So is it your bachelor report? And if any person's homepage includes the output from Xenu's Link Sleuth in an appendix, does it also get a link here?  Thrapper (talk) 16:36, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * All that is said in this article is that a BSc honors study used the report. That is factually accurate and confirmed by the source, and relevant. Cirt (talk) 21:54, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree, it is factually accurate, and yes the source confirms that it is true. However it doesn't matter to this article whether that person used this program or not.  It is not relevant to wikipedia whether one guy wrote a report at school once and mentioned this program in passing.  You did read the entire quote above, didn't you?  13 words long?  That doesn't justify a link from this wikipedia page to his report.  Reviews belong here, or quotes of usage by notable sources, but not that report.  You didn't respond to either of my questions above though....? Thrapper (talk) 13:24, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Third opinion

 * I checked the BSc thesis that is in question, and its use of Xenu's Link Checker seems to be minor and unremarkable. Like Thrapper, all I could find in the main text of the thesis about this tool is the following: "Link checking was performed with the freeware link testing software, Xenu’s Link Sleuth. The initial report generated for the visitor pages found only one missing link to a filler GIF that had been incorrectly referenced (see APPENDIX G)." Then further on, in Appendix G, we see a report showing the six broken links. This usage of Xenu's Link Checker can hardly be seen as a review or a commentary on the tool itself. I am puzzled that Cirt found multiple pages in the thesis devoted to this tool, since this is all I came up with by doing a 'Find' on Xenu. EdJohnston (talk) 17:40, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Update: Removed, per . Cheers, Cirt (talk) 17:42, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks both. Sorry if my tone became argumentative :) Thrapper (talk) 22:17, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated, thanks. Cirt (talk) 22:19, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Reducing the usefulness of this article
Speaking as someone who uses Xenu I can`t agree with the recent deletion of some of the external links. The definitely reduce the usefulness of the article. I think we`re forgetting why we`re here. It`s not to conform to a set of esoteric Wikipedia rules. it`s to provide information and interest. I can`t be bothered to revert the deletions, I just don`t agree with it. Get your priorities right !--JustinSmith (talk) 13:31, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Funday PawPet Show

Since I'm so pathetic...
How should I help improve this article, in particular? are there any pieces of information that I can help find or something? Suzumebachisecret (talk) 22:00, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Welllll, the references don't look too bad. But you see all those little tags? Those signal the absence of a needed citation. You might as well look through to find refs where there's a, which appears as  while you're in edit mode. To make ref'fing easier, go to "my preferences" (upper right corner), go to Tools, and enable "RefTools" under gadgets or something :) I c  eUnshattered  [ t ] 22:19, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Laundry list cleanup
The list of characters is rather lengthy. Perhaps it should be truncated to incldue only the core characters, shortening the list to 10 or less. The entries on the resulting list should be wikilinked to their respective WikiFur page.

Furthermore, the retired and irregular character lists should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.168.242.19 (talk • contribs)

Wow
This is really badly sourced, and that makes me sad. Imma gonna try to do somethin' about that- K @  ng  i  e meep! 05:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out the unsourced stuff, that gives us a good to-do list to work with. I'm afraid that some of this stuff will have be sourced by referring to specific episode numbers, which will be a pain to do. The recurring show activities can be found in nearly every episode, including the current one. (With the exception of the match game, which doesn't happen very often nowadays.) More information might be found in blackfoot's timelines or on usenet.

Googling hasn't turned up a source for "the 'Net's first and only regularly scheduled four hour puppet show". This phrase seems to be a relic from the very first version of this article. I myself can't think of an earlier example of an internet puppet show, but just the same, Wikipedia frowns on statements that can't be backed up. JohnWallaby 17:35, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I think that quote is quite a good one, but it lacks a source :(. I'd encourage numerous sources to be found, as writing an article that is derived from one source is generally frowned upon. But the recurring themes and activities etc. could very well be sourced from one source (even a primary source would be cool). I'm hoping to get some time off from IRL, which I'll spend finding some third party sources for this article- K @  ng  i  e meep! 11:08, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Memorable Shows
Hmm, this is a problem section. Is it possible to get a description of these shows from, say, the show's website? Some of these are really unencyclopedic, with lines like "you either love it or hate it" sneaking into a number of the show descriptions. Sounds a little too ORy to me. Any thoughts?- K @  ng  i  e meep! 06:38, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Weak sources?
We don't really have many sources here that are cast-iron third-party verifiable. The Orlando Sentinel one is fine, though it would be even better if it weren't on the PawPet website. And the ones that refer to specific parts of the show that can be easily verified (eg the Art Jam requests) are okay too. But the rest still seems to be teetering on the edge of blog/fansite material. Yes, as mentioned above, self-published material is okay, but I don't think it looks good — especially from the point of view of assessing notability — when the sources are overwhelmingly self-published material. Oh, and this quote — "the 'Net's first and only regularly scheduled four hour puppet show" — really cannot stay indefinitely, even tagged as needing citation, if no source can be found for it. It's remained there a while now, probably too long. Loganberry (Talk) 01:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I have had to move this article down to the new class C, as this issue has not been addressed. GreenReaper (talk) 01:27, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Orlando Sentinel added a archive search tool, with which I found the original Pawpet article in question. 74.237.22.84 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 03:54, 6 January 2009 (UTC).

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Planning to update this page (and related ones) - looking for editors to partner with
Hello folks,

As written on the Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Business page, I noticed the Boston Consulting Group entry is rated as C-Class on the project's quality scale.

I would like to invest some time over the next few days to improve that entry, and the Bruce_Henderson and Growth-share_matrix which go with it naturally.

I'd appreciate the partnership of any willing editor to ensure that any updates conform to Wikipedia's high standards!

Filippo Scognamiglio (talk) 15:18, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

First major update
Completed a first major overhaul. Restructured stub completely into a full article. Added a long list of verifiable sources.

Some questions:
 * Do corporate "offices" use the general office holder infobox? (I've used it here, but I haven't seen it in general for executives)
 * Does this structure work for a biography of an executive/entrepreneur, or is there a better one? (if so, which?)

Welcoming any further input and discussion on this page!

UPCOMING TO-DO:
 * Expand section "Founding and leadership of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)"
 * Expand section "Personality and style"
 * Add further content to the various ideas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Filippo Scognamiglio (talk • contribs) 07:16, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Expand section on early life and education (if I can dig up a few reliable sources)
 * Cascade changes/edits and update other relevant pages, maybe create a few pages for other major ideas?

Filippo Scognamiglio (talk) 06:55, 4 February 2013 (UTC

Question on date of "Origin of Strategy"
It appears that Henderson wrote a version of the "Original of Strategy" 8 years earlier than is listed in the article: https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/Classics/strategy_concept_of_strategy/. The highlighted quote about competition beginning when life began is verbatim in this 1981 piece of his. Thought it was worth pointing out.

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Pokemon Aqua
This seems to be a random Pokémon hack, possibly several, none of them all that notable. Here's a Google search for "Pokémon Aqua". Most of the references seem to be to the Pokémon card game, so I did a Google search for "Pokémon Aqua" game. Here's a couple bits of evidence I found for Aqua being a hack-

Thread about Aqua as a hack.

Mention of Aqua as a Blue hack. It's near the bottom of the page, in the comment from Donut.

So, in other words... delete this. --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 00:42, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete as cruft. Wyss 02:15, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, fancruft. --Idont Havaname 04:22, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, pokemon fancruft. Megan1967 06:25, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Don't they have their own websites to fill with every last bit of tedious minutae on their favourite game? Average Earthman 10:41, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not the Encyclopedia of Pokemon.  Some of this stuff would be too crufty even for an Encyclopedia of Pokemon.   --BM 02:38, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Gotta delete 'em all. (Just kiddin, inclusionists) Carrp | Talk 04:04, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Serves no useful purpose, even as a Pokemon article. -- Cabhan 05:09, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)