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Oswald Lee Harvey?
Am I the only one who notices that sounds suspiciously like Lee Harvey Oswald?--KnowledgeBringsFear (talk) 00:29, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * No. The name choice was obviously a joke. The show was, after all, a comedy. Captain Quirk (talk) 02:09, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

DVD Releases
I attended a taping of The Price is Right on July 8th, 2009, and was able to ask drew about the dvd's. According to him it may be quite a while until it is released on DVD because of syndication issues with time warner and abc. Since I have no source for this beyond first hand experience I'm adding it here rather than the article page. --WCarter (talk) 19:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Jumping The Shark
Would adding this article to a category called "Historical Shark Jumps" be POV, or would it be indeed encyclopedic to the purpose of providing exemplary cases of television shows jumping the shark to someone researching such a thing?

"Jumping the shark" is very POV and very subjective. Just let the numbers and facts tell the story. Azn Clayjar 15:18, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Azn is correct, but boy, did this show jump the shark! Big time. The extent to which it jumped is jaw-dropping. I liked this offbeat show during its first several years, but then it became the Corey Haim of shark jumping.  16:52, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Trivial Pursuit
Wikipedia's bias against Trivia sections is a big load. If the section was renamed "Cultural References," then it becomes perfectly acceptable according to Wikipedia rules. How can the administrators justify that? --M.Neko (talk) 07:59, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

 * In my opinion, there are many such inconsistencies in WP because the policies are not meant to be rigid and specific, but guidelines produced by consensus of the community of editors. You (and anyone) are free to propose new policies (I an an ordinary editor who actually made such a proposal, which was considered and eventually rejected by other editors after much deliberation). As for the editing policies of WP, they are determined mostly by editors, not by administrators. David Spector (talk) 23:26, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Cleavland Rocks?
Thier seems to be no mention of the "Cleavland Rocks" theame ssing in this article. It should probobly be mentioned.

I added references to Cleveland Rocks. -- Broken Arms Gordon 17:26, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Did you mention that they made a GREAT video for this hard rock anthem? 2600:8800:218F:2D00:AD2A:C141:B030:E47D (talk) 06:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

NPOV?
It seems to me that this article is written in a loving way, and not the proper NPOV way. An example is the phrase "He was a welcome addition to the cast." I'm not sure an encyclopedia should be deciding whom is a "welcome addition" to anything. Adding the NPOV boilderplate.

Wanda Sykes
I recall Wanda Sykes as a cast memeber on the show for a brief period, but I honestly had stopped watching at that point. She needs to be included as well, if she was a major cast member if only for a season. -- Broken Arms Gordon 17:28, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * According to the Internet Movie Database, she was only on for three episodes. --Metropolitan90 07:56, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Also Jenica Bergere, who played sharon is not mentioned in this article. If i had sources i would use it. Nonsane (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:03, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes I think the Sharon character deserves to be mentioned. She was on the show for 12 episodes according to imdb. Also the character of Chuck the security guard should also be mentioned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.166.235.166 (talk) 23:23, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Fix or vandalism?
This edit changed "Louder" to "Lauder". I known nothing of the topic. Normally, I'd presume something like this was a correction, but the person who did it appears to be a serial vandal. Will someone who knows the topic please have a look? - Jmabel | Talk 14:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I fixed the problem, the correct name of the department store is Winfred-Louder. This is according to the official site of the show. --Nehrams2020 23:57, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

South Park Republican?
When was it revealed on the show that Kate was a "South Park Republican"?

Wording?
". This series was not the same like many other highly-rated, long-running sitcoms that in order to avoid cancellation, beginning in 2001, ABC quickly signed contracts in order to keep the show fresh, but the show went beyond repair and the network wouldn't allow the show to be released from their contracts."

What does this even mean? The grammar is so bad it's all but unintelligible.

I think it's saying the show wasn't like other shows the shows contracts got signed early meaning they didn't need to worry about cancellation? Just my theory Joker007mo (talk) 02:43, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Show background
Is there really a need to include references to other TV shows in this section? Surely "However, the show further sank in ratings the following season, unlike many other live sitcoms. Even its series finale's ratings were lower than otherwise would have been expected." would suffice?

The latest edit, ie "However, the show further sank in ratings the following season, unlike many live sitcoms whose series finales were behind, M*A*S*H, Cheers, Married... with Children, Mad About You, Home Improvement, Sex and the City, Frasier, and Friends, whose ratings have dominated. Its series finale had low ratings unlike the many sitcoms that had high ratings before, Everybody Loves Raymond, Will & Grace and The King of Queens, which garnered higher ratings" seems disjointed, doesn't make sense and the references to other programs don't really add anything to the article.--AussieLegend 09:55, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

 * The babble you speak of is the work of User:Italianlover07, who does that sort of rot all the time and insists on putting it back after you delete it. I have strong suspicions that he's a sockpuppet of another user, but I don't have the patience to go through the 15-step process to report him since it won't do a bit of good anyway. Lambertman 12:35, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Gus' naming contest
How about mentioning that Gus was named during a viewer contest?

Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series
I am writing an article about all of the series which are in the same shared reality as this one through spin-offs and crossovers. I could use a little help expanding the article since it is currently extremely dense and a bit jumbled with some sentence structures being extremely repetitive. I would like to be able to put this article into article space soon. Any and all help in writing the article would be appreciated, even a comment or two on the talk page would help. Please give it a read through, also please do not comment here since I do not have all of the series on my watch list. - LA @ 16:36, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Drew's band?
Why is there no mention of Drew's bar band in the article? Kouban (talk) 14:50, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Unsourced material
The following is unsourced information:
 * In Carey's bestselling book, Dirty Jokes and Beer, he revealed a list of subject matter that the censors objected to, such as mild language, sexual innuendo, and one episode that made light of a character's mental instability. Carey also mentions that in one second-season episode, he was forced to wear puffy pants because when he sits with tight pants, ABC thought he had an erection, a situation later parodied on the show.
 * What page?
 * The season 5 episode "Drew Goes to the Browns Game", which coincided with the team returning to the NFL that season, showed the team playing the Minnesota Vikings in their "first game back" when Drew ran onto the field. In reality, the team played their archrivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers, in their first game back, losing 43-0. Carey had been one of the most vocal Browns fans when the original team moved to Baltimore during the show's first season. Carey even did the coin toss for the game, which was nationally televised on ABC's sister network ESPN.

 * In one episode with sci-fi props there is a model of a spacecraft from the miniseries V can be seen on a kitchen table.

 * Mr. Wick was named by head writer Clay Graham after an old girlfriend who had dumped him in order to "immortalize her treachery."

 * Marion Ross made occasional guest appearances as Drew's mother. Her Happy Days co-star Tom Bosley and Tammy Faye Bakker appeared in one episode as Mimi's parents, and she herself was called "Mrs. Cunningham" in an April Fools episode as an intentional goof, referring to Ross' role on Happy Days. 70's sexpot Adrienne Barbeau appeared a few times as Oswald's mother. Lost in Space star, June Lockhart appeared twice as Lewis' mother. Christa Miller's real life aunt Susan Saint James once appeared as Kate's mother. Shirley Jones of The Partridge Family played a senior citizen whom Drew dated for 3 episodes.

 * The character of Maggie Wick, Nigel Wick's mother, was originally written for Australian comic actor Dame Edna. When he was unable at the last moment to appear, actor Richard Chamberlain was approached, and he agreed to play the part in drag.  One year later, Chamberlain officially "came out" as gay in his autobiography, "Shattered Love."

 * In one episode, the guys try to help raise money to help replace Mrs. Louder`s prize showdog, Lucky, whom they accidentally had neutered at a vet`s office. They decide to do an all-male striptease dressed as package-delivery men at the Warsaw to the tune of You Ain`t Seen Nothin` Yet by Bachman-Turner Overdrive.  As the guys do their routine on the bartop, the camera shows the patrons, and in the audience are several cast members from the very popular British movie at the time, The Full Monty.  The guys are arrested for public nudity and at their trial, the same The Full Monty cast members are seen seated in the audience.

 * The producers experimented with different filming techniques the last season. For a few episodes, instead of using the traditional four camera format in front of a live audience, a single camera technique using a "fourth wall" was employed. The experiment was short-lived after the cast, crew, and producers felt the energy was better in front of the large studio audience.

 * When "Weird Al" Yankovic appeared on the show, he had recently undergone Lasik surgery and had shaved, so he no longer had his trademark glasses and mustache. The producers felt that the audience would not recognize him and get the "You didn't say you played the accordion..." joke, so they outfitted him with fake glasses and mustache.

 * The episode, "My Best Friend's Wedding" had an opening scene that combined live-action with animation where Daffy Duck asks Drew for a job at Winfred-Lauder. Gerry Cohen directed the live-action portion of that sequence and Jeff Siergey directed the animation.

 * The bar that Drew and his friends would always go to in the show was called "The Warsaw Tavern." The inspiration for "The Warsaw Tavern" is called "Murphy's Law" and is located on Memphis Ave. in the Old Brooklyn part of Cleveland, Ohio.  This was one of Drew's favorite bars he would frequent in real life.  The actual exterior structure of Murphy's Law is used on the TV show, although the interior is entirely different.  Murphy's Law has autographed pictures of most of the cast members on the walls.

While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) talk 11:15, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * John Carroll Lynch, who plays Drew's older brother, Steve, is actually five years younger than Drew Carey. The character of Kellie, who went to high school with Carey, was played by Cynthia Watros, who is ten years younger than he.

Blonde
"Lewis Kiniski (Ryan Stiles) - Forms a double-act with Oswald. Lewis, who is tall, lanky, and blonde" -Men are blond, women are blonde...in English as well as French. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.75.46.72 (talk) 21:49, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh BS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.31.106.36 (talk) 15:16, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Coma
What about the incredibly long, special effects-filled sequence where Drew goes into a coma? When was that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.184.121.36 (talk) 15:54, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Ed
there was a guy with long blond hair, sunglasses, and played guitar named ed who was a recurring character. whys there no mention of him? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.203.189.232 (talk) 04:36, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Mr. Wick
Craig Ferguson was definitely away filming a movie at the time of NeverEnding Store. You can tell because on a few episodes where he is the janitor at NeverEnding Store, his hair is long like it is in I'll Be There, which he was filming at the time. 76.1.48.210 (talk) 02:06, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Request for semiprotection
I'm requesting a semiprotect on this article due to persistent recurring vandalism to Mr. Wick's part of the Characters section. Seriously, I don't get why people keep doing this, but every time I come back to the page, what do I see? Vandalism. And it's only targeted at Mr. Wick. I don't know for sure, but because it's only targeting him and because of the content (saying Mr. Wick is "bisexual" and "has a cock second in length only to Drew Pickles") I think it looks like Barney Bunch-type vandalism. There have also been racist edits made that replaced his profile with ebonics ( here is where it's worst). Today I come on here and minutes before, someone has replaced his biography with Fall Out Boy lyrics. Seriously? MotherFerginPrincess (talk) 15:02, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Buzz Beer No Longer Fictional
I recently noticed Buzz Beer popping up at the LCBO, and was interested to see that there exists a beer made from Hemp! So I went to good ol' Wikipedia to read more, and was diappointed to see that Buzz Beer is a redirect to The Drew Carey Show. Despite the fact that (the real) Buzz Beer is not actually a caffeinated beer as it is in The Drew Carey Show, it is no longer a fictional brand name. I'd recommend creating a stub for the real Buzz Beer with a bit of its history, if anyone has the know-how to do so. Thanks. 99.236.125.43 (talk) 06:13, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

That is correct. The beer has been around for close to a decade (could be more, could be less). I just bought a 2-4 of it. Here's the info straight from the horse's mouth: http://www.coolbeer.com/beers.html BUZZ BEER Millennium Buzz Beer is a hemp-based red lager made with the finest B.C. hemp, dark roasted Alberta malt and choice German hops. It’s cold-filtered with no preservatives or additives. This healthy mix of pure, wholesome ingredients – plus the natural goodness of hemp – accounts for its singularly clean, smooth refreshing taste. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.134.114 (talk) 21:53, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

I created a separate page.. I'll see if I can whip up an image as well (I have a setup for photographing small objects for sale on an auction site), but somebody might wish to include a link to this article in case people were researching the fictional beer from the show. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FiReSTaRT (talk • contribs) 14:47, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * As far as I am aware, The Buzz Beer that is available in Ontario, Canada was not related to this show in any way. I would be interested to know what air date was the first mention of it on the show though, just to know which came first, the chicken or the egg Exit2DOS • Ctrl • Alt • Del 07:45, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Blonde lady in a fat suit?
Drew was dating the really hot blonde woman for a while. For some reason writers decided to change the storyline and had the character become really fat (via a fat suit). As Drew and her are about to make a sex tape, she suddenly becomes very self-concious about her weight, freaks out, and breaks up with Drew. Piss poorly-written episode/storyline, but you already knew that. She returns a season or two later, magically thin again. None of this isn't mentioned in the article, though. --98.232.188.173 (talk) 04:59, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Competed with Monday Night Football (MNF)?
This show aired on ABC for its entire run, correct? If so, it could not have competed again MNF, as MNF aired on ABC as well (until 2005). But I am not sure if it did air on ABC for its entire run (though I've seen no indication it aired elsewhere), so I didn't want to go ahead and edit it myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.235.44.68 (talk) 18:05, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The Drew Carey Show did have its entire run on ABC. However, when it aired on Monday night before Monday Night Football, it did in effect clash with football, because (a) on the West Coast, Carey was moved so that MNF could air live and Carey would air after the game, and (b) in the home cities of the teams playing in that night's game, Carey might be pre-empted so the local ABC station could air a pregame show. (I know that the Pittsburgh station did this once, although I can't find other information about that.) --Metropolitan90 (talk) 21:44, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Errors
This page contains numerous errors (however small they may be). I am currently part way through Season 9, and once i have finished it i will be checking through the whole article for incorrect information. Until then, i will attempt to correct mistakes in describing the earlier seasons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheMovieManiac (talk • contribs) 14:59, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * I hope you completed this project. Thanks! David Spector (talk) 23:06, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

The Amazing Ballet sequence
The article describes the themes of many shows, but fails to describe one of the most amazing sequences in television history, the amazing ballet consisting of first one character walking through the workplace set in a strange way, then again over and over, each time with one additional character added to the "ballet". The sequence is done using a special effect in which each time through, each character's unique weird walk interleaves with all of the other characters' previous weird walks to make a very complex completed ballet by the last walkthrough.

The result is strange, intriguing, and very entertaining at the same time, and I believe is quite unique in all of television. This sequence easily deserves to be described in the article. David Spector (talk) 23:05, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

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Annar Follesø

Annar Follesø (born December 29, 1972) is a Norwegian violinist.

Follesø studied with Soon-Mi Chung and Stephan Barratt-Due at the Barratt Due Music Institute, and with Mauricio Fuks at Indiana University.

In 1998 he won the violin prize at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg for his interpretation of Bartók's solo sonata, and his Bartók interpretations have won him wide recognition. He has since performed in the United States, Russia, China, Italy, France, Austria and South Korea. Notable performances include the premiere of Ole Bull’s La verbena de San Juan at the Bergen International Festival in 2007, and the 2013 premiere of the reconstructed work Mountains of Norway with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra at the same event. In 2014, Follesø performed with Wolfgang Plagge at the Festival Internacional Cervantino and in 2015 returned to the Bergen International Festival. Together with composer and pianist Plagge, Annar Follesø is artistic director of the Sunnmøre Chamber Music Festival, which began in 2010.

His first album was a collection of works by Bartok performed with Plagge, released in 2003. In 2010, he released a recording of Ole Bull's Violin Concertos in collaboration with the Grieg Society of Great Britain. Both records are on the 2L label.

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T. Nagar

Thyagaraya Nagar, commonly known as T. Nagar, and historically known as East Mambalam, is a very affluent commercial and residential neighbourhood in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is surrounded by Nungambakkam in the North, Teynampet in the East, Nandanam in the South-East, C.I.T. Nagar (a part of Greater Nandanam region) in the South and West Mambalam and Kodambakkam in the West. The stretch between Duraiswamy Road and T. Nagar Bus Stand has some of the costliest real estates in Chennai. It was constructed between 1923 and 1925 by the Madras Presidency government of the Raja of Panagal as a part of town planning activities initiated according to the Madras Town Planning Act of 1920. The town was named after P. Thyagaraya Chetty. The streets, parks and localities in the new neighbourhood were named after important officials in the provincial government.

T. Nagar is believed to be the first planned urban neighborhood in Chennai created in 1920, conceived in a European style, with the Panagal Park resembling the Arc De Triomphe and the Pondy Bazaar resembling the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Initially built as a residential neighbourhood, it is now considered the largest shopping district in India by revenue. It is known for its plethora of saree and jewellery retailers, including Pothys, Nalli Silks and Saravana Stores. The neighbourhood is served by Mambalam railway station of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. T. Nagar is considered one of the city's major central business districts, the other being Parry's Corner, the centre of the city. Pondy Bazaar serves as a satellite commercial hub for T. Nagar, located around the Thyagaraya Road.

Location and geography
T. Nagar is located about 10 km from Chennai Airport and about 8 km from Chennai Central railway station. It lies to the west of the arterial Anna Salai (Mount Road) and is loosely bordered by Saidapet to the south and southwest, West Mambalam to the west, Kodambakkam to the northwest, Nandanam to the south, Nungambakkam to the north, and Teynampet to the east. T. Nagar is usually associated with Mambalam, a common name for the entire area of Thyagaraya Nagar, West Mambalam, C.I.T. Nagar and Pondy Bazaar. Panagal Park is located at the centre of the neighbourhood connecting five vein-roads of the neighbourhood: North Usman Road, South Usman Road, G.N. Chetty Road, Thyagaraya Road and Venkatanarayana Road.

History
Until the turn of the 19th century, the villages to the west of Mount Road formed a part of Chingleput District. The Long Tank, which formed the western frontier of the city, was drained out in 1923. That very same year, the administration of the Mambalam zamindari, situated to the west of the Long Tank, was relinquished by its hereditary chief. The region had several paddy fields. During 1923–25, the township of "Thiyagaraya Nagar" named after Sir P.T. Thyagaraya Chetty was carved out of the southern part of the erstwhile Mambalam zamindari. A park was developed at the centre of this new locality and was named in honour of the then Chief Minister, as Panagal Park. Soon afterwards, Pondy Bazaar began to make its appearance. According to historian S. Muthiah, it was initially known as 'Soundarapandia Bazaar' after Justice Party politician W. P. A. Soundarapandian Nadar. A well-planned residential area was created. Most of the streets in the new locality were named after provincial cabinet ministers, Justice Party bosses or officials in the administration.

The laying of suburban railway line from Egmore to Kancheepuram in 1911 resulted in a station at Mambalam. The first bank of the locality was opened in 1935, followed by a second one, the Indian Bank, in 1937. Retail industry started proliferating in the region with the establishment of Nalli Chinnasami Chetty's textile showroom in 1928, which was upgraded as the first Kancheepuram silk sari shop of the area in 1935. During the Second World War, the city was evacuated due to the fear of Japanese bombing. All the shops were closed and the economic activity was halted for a few days that followed.

The reason behind the naming of Pondy Bazaar still remains controversial. According to one version, Devaraj Mudaliar of Pondicherry opened 10 shops on Sir Thyagaraya Road and started calling it Pondy Bazaar. Madras historian S. Muthiah, in his book Madras Rediscovered, claims that the area was originally known as Soundarapandia Bazaar, which the government retained without change. Save for two of the streets, which were named after two workmen, Nagamani and Govindan, who died while digging trenches for the new drainage system in the locality, all the tree-lined streets were named after the stalwarts of the then ruling Justice Party.

Star-rated hotels started appearing in the locality with the opening of a three-star hotel named Residency in 1991. As of 2006, there were seven hotels with over 80 per cent occupancy rates. With the increase in retail activities in the neighbourhood, several famous theatres such as Sun, Nagesh, and Rajakumari have given way to commercial complexes.

From its early days, Thiyagaraya Nagar remained one of the most preferred residential localities in the city. The population grew exponentially during the 1930s. In its early days, film artists such as M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, T. R. Rajakumari, N. S. Krishnan, Vyjayanthimala, N. T. Rama Rao, Thangavelu, Manorama, Savitri, Sivaji Ganesan and T. S. Balaiah set up their residences here.

Demographics
T.Nagar's bazaars are frequented by a number of shoppers. On a typical weekend, the number of people who move about on Pondy Bazaar, the locality's principal commercial area, might soar up to 500,000. During festival season, because of the discounts and reductions offered by dealers of silk sarees and jewellers, this number might reach 2 million. Even on a lean day, about 200,000 pedestrians traverse the roads around Panagal Park, the central part of the neighbourhood.

Economy
Thyagaraya Nagar is one of the busiest shopping districts of Chennai. The neighbourhood is considered to be the biggest shopping district in India by revenue. There are a number of apparel, jewellery and utensil stores based in Thiyagaraya Nagar. By some estimates, the shops in the neighbourhood together accounts for revenues of nearly ₹ 20,000 crores annually. However, official estimates put it much lower at over ₹ 10,000 crores, which is still double that of New Delhi's Connaught Place and Mumbai's Linking Road which account for about ₹ 4,000 to 6,000 crores annually. The neighbourhood accounts for about 70 to 80% of the gold sold in Chennai, the most important gold market in South India. Usman Road is the costliest commercial stretch in Chennai. The area around Panagal Park is known for its high-end textile shops, chiefly dealing with silk sarees, and jewellery stores. As of 2006, the real estate prices were ₹ 11,500 per sq.ft. Wardrobes stores Nalli Chinnasamy Chetti, Naidu Hall and Instore are based in Theagarya Nagar. Other important wardrobe stores such as Pothys, The Chennai Silks, RmKV Silks and Kumaran Silks and also have their showrooms in Theagarya Nagar. Retail giant Saravana Stores has a wardrobe showroom and an utensils showroom in Thiyagaraya Nagar. Ranganathan Street is one of the most crowded roads for pedestrian traffic during day time. The road is full of big name establishments side-by-side smaller and petty shops that sell all sorts of household goods and garments.

It also houses one of the biggest private lending libraries in the city, 'Raviraj Lending Library' on Usman Road.

Culture
T.Nagar offers a variety of entertainment options. It has grown to become a major hub for the Carnatic music festival-season, with a number of sabhas (such as Krishna Gana Sabha, Vani Mahal and Bharath Kalachar) hosting famous performers.

It also has a number of parks, cricket grounds, and other recreational facilities. The RKM Cricket Ground adjoining GN Chetty Road hosts division IV and V city-league games.

Society
T. Nagar residents are an unusual mix of the traditional and the modern and this is reflected in the way the neighbourhood has been growing. Several new eateries have come up while at the same time, traditional restaurants are also packed. With the city extending its bed-time more every year, the locality has acquired a reputation of always being in the fast lane. The grand textile showrooms close very late at night, and their hoarding boards constantly illuminate the roads.

Early in the morning, joggers and walkers take full advantage of the empty roads, with the fresh air that's so hard to come by in this area at all other times of the day. Panagal Park, Natesan Park and Jeeva Park all have their regular crowd and their walkers' associations are extremely active. T. Nagar is also a place of musical intellects. A lot of sabhas are very active during the month of December.

Hinduism
Below is a list of some of the well-known Hindu temples located in T. Nagar:

 * Sri Balaji Temple: This temple, located at Venkatanarayana Road, is run by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam. It has a replica of Lord Venkateswara of Tirupati. Devotees planning to visit Tirupati may avail the services of the temple office to make arrangements/booking for darshan and arjita sevas (special worship rituals) at Tirumala
 * T. Nagar Sringeri Saradha Peetam Temple: This temple, located at Venkatanarayana Road, is managed by the Sringeri Sharada Peetham Mutt. The temple has a large prayer and meditation hall
 * Krishnan Koil (meaning "Krishna temple" in Tamil): A temple dedicated to Lord Krishna, located at South West Boag Road
 * Sri Sakthi Vinayagar Temple, located at South Dhandapani Street
 * Agastiyar temple, located at Raja Street
 * Shiva-Vishnu temple, located near T. Nagar bus depot
 * Krishna Raghavendra Mutt: Run by Udipi Pejawar Mutt, and located at Raghaviah Road
 * Muppathamman temple: An Amman temple located at Maharajapuram Santhanam Salai

Jainism
Shantinath Jain temple on G. N. Chetty Road is one of the most important Swetambar Jain temples in Chennai.

Christianity
In the Roman Catholic Church, T. Nagar constitutes a parish, headed by the Holy Cross Church located in South Boag Road (now, Chevalier Shivaji Ganesan Road) under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore. There is a Missionaries of Charity convent named Shishu Bhavan situated opposite to the church. The convent was inaugurated by Mother Teresa herself. Located on Thyagaraya Road in Pondy Bazaar, is the FMM Convent of the Holy Angels. This convent houses Our Lady's Nursery and Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School. T. Nagar also has Protestant churches like CSI Kingdom of God's church, Canaan Evangelical Church et.c

Islam
Some of the notable mosques include the Anjuman Mosque.

Parks
Being one of the centrally located neighbourhoods with both residential and commercial activities, T. Nagar has several parks and greeneries, many of which are maintained by the Corporation of Chennai. The 8-acre Panagal Park is the most prominent park in the locality with all the six arterial streets of the neighbourhood, namely, North Usman Road, South Usman Road, G. N. Chetty Road, Sir Thyagaraya Road (Pondy Bazaar), Venkatanarayana Road, and Doraiswamy Road, converging into it. The 4-acre Dr. Natesan Park, opened in 1950, is another well-known park located on Venkatanarayana Road. It is the only corporation-maintained park that has a separate tennis court for coaching children. Jeeva Park is another well-maintained park in the neighbourhood. These parks are popular spots for morning walks for the local residents.

Neighbourhood newspapers

 * T.Nagar Times – Covers local news from T. Nagar and surrounding localities, and is circulated free of cost every Sunday

Bus
T. Nagar is easily accessible from most parts of the city by bus. The T. Nagar bus terminus off Usman Road is a hub for services operating via the commercial district, including routes to Thiruverkadu, Mylapore, Kodambakkam, Avadi, Nungambakkam, Parry's Corner, Ennore, Manali, Tambaram, Poonamallee, Thiruvanmiyur, Ambattur, Pattabiram, Annanagar and Tiruvallur. There are also routes to various places in neighbouring Kanchipuram and Thiruvallur districts.

The T. Nagar bus terminus is spread around 1.95 acres and is located on South Usman road. On a daily basis 58 buses are operated from the terminus, besides 238 buses from other areas that pass through the terminus every day. The average frequency of buses at the terminus is 7 buses per minute.

Other important bus stops in T.Nagar are Panagal Park, Pondy Bazaar, Power House, and Vani Mahal.

Education
T. Nagar is home to
 * CDN Thyagaraya Nagar Higher Secondary School (founded 1933)
 * Ramakrishna Mission
 * Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao School
 * Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary school (T.P.Road Branch – From Pre-KG to 8th grade)
 * Holy Angels higher secondary school for girls
 * Sri Sankara Bala Vidyalaya Hr. Sec. School
 * T.Nagar High School
 * Shrine Vailankanni Sr. Sec. School
 * Vidyodaya Schools
 * Karnataka Sangha school
 * MCN School

There are a number of private libraries with vast collections of books.

Personalities associated with localities in T. Nagar
Most of the streets, landmarks and bazaars in T. Nagar have been named after administrators and politicians of the Justice Party.

 * Thyagaraya Nagar, Sir Thyagaraya Road – named after Theagaraya Chetty
 * Dr. Nair Road – named after Dr. T. M. Nair
 * Panagal Park – named after the Raja of Panagal
 * Natesan Park – named after C. Natesa Mudaliar
 * Arcot Street – named after Twin brothers of Arcot – Arcot Ramaswamy Mudaliar & Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar.
 * Thanikachalam Road – named after O. Thanikachalam Chetti
 * Sivagnanam Road – named after T. N. Sivagnanam Pillai
 * North and South Usman Road – named after Sir Mohammad Usman
 * North and South Boag Road – named after G. T. Boag.
 * Habibullah Road – named after Sir Muhammad Habibullah.
 * G. N. Chetty Road – named after Gopathi Narayanaswami Chetty.
 * Pondy Bazaar – Named after W. P. A. Soundarapandian Nadar.
 * Burkit Road – Named after H. H. Burkitt.
 * Raghavaiah Road – named after T. Raghavaiah.
 * Bazullah Road – named after Muhammad Bazullah
 * Mellony Road (originally Molony Road) – named after J. C. Molony
 * Venkatanarayana Road – named after J. Venkatanarayana Naidu
 * Basudev Road – named after C. Basudev
 * Vijayaraghava Road – named after T. Vijayaraghavacharya

State assembly politics
T. Nagar is known for voting against the trend, voting against the winning party, on 5 separate occasions, since 1962 assembly elections. It has also become a critical swing constituency since it has become increasingly closer in recent years. It is worth noting that in the 2006 election, AIADMK was able to significantly increase their vote share, winning with a margin of 10.8%. This is mostly due to the high satisfaction of the J.Jayalalithaa government from 2001 to 2006, due to significant development that took place in that time period in the T. Nagar area.
 * Note: In 1989, AIADMK was split between Janaki faction and Jayalalithaa faction, and only the Jayalalithaa faction is reported in the AIADMK column since they were the highest vote-gainers from the divided faction. The Janaki faction got 8,268, which is about 7.2% of the voters.

Lok Sabha politics
T. Nagar assembly constituency is part of Chennai South (Lok Sabha constituency).

Pedestrian plaza
A ₹ 338-million pedestrian plaza was planned in 2013 by the city corporation. It involves provision of a pedestrian-friendly footpath on the 1.45 kilometre-long stretch of the Theyagaraya Road between Panagal Park and Anna Salai. It will cover 1,450 metres of Thyagaraya Road from Bashyam Road near Panagal Park to Anna Salai. The plaza will be divided into three stretches with different identities. A 12-metre wide pedestrian space will be developed in the 730-metre stretch from Panagal Park to the Thanikachalam Road junction.

Upon completion, only city buses and motorcycles will be permitted in this area in a 7-metre carriageway. All types of vehicles will be allowed on the 370-m stretch from Thanikachalam Road to the Boag Road junction, where the pedestrian plaza will be only 3.5 metres wide and carriageway will be comparatively wider measuring 15  metres. All vehicles will be permitted on the 350-metre stretch between the Boag Road junction to the Anna Salai junction.

The proposal for a cycle track has been replaced with a plan to introduce battery-operated cars. A multi-level car parking lot has also been planned. Other facilities in the plaza include seating, public toilet and a children's play area.

Future
In 2013, to address the traffic concerns of the neighbourhood, Chennai Corporation tied up with real estate advisory firm Jones Lang LaSalle to exercise a proposal to redevelop the area, especially the shopping centres. T. Nagar will also be the site for the Smart City Mission in Chennai as per the Government data.

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Nylon (magazine)

Nylon is an American multimedia brand, publishing company, and lifestyle magazine that focuses on pop culture and fashion. Its coverage includes art, beauty, music, design, celebrities, technology and travel. Originally a print publication, it switched to an all digital format in 2017. Its name references New York and London, and it is currently owned by Bustle Digital Group. The magazine will return to print in 2024.

History
Nylon was co-founded in 1999 by editorial director Mark Blackwell, art director Madonna Badger, creative director Helena Christensen, development director Michael "Mic" Neumann, and the husband and wife publishing team of Marvin and Jaclynn Jarrett, with an initial investment from businessperson Sam Waksal. Four of the founders had previously worked together in their same roles at Ray Gun Magazine: Editor-in-chief Marvin Jarrett, Publisher Jaclynn his wife, Editorial Director Mark Blackwell and Development Director Mic Neumann; the Jarretts had recently sold their interest in Ray Gun Publishing. According to Publisher Jaclynn Jarrett, the magazine's name was chosen because her husband Marvin just liked the sound of Nylon. After picking it, they realized the New York/London tie-in, which was congruous to Nylon's editorial focus on these two cities. The first two letters are the initials for New York and the last three letters are the first three letters of London ( N ew Y ork Lon don). The design of the magazine was intended to be "hyper-legible", in answer to criticism of Ray-Guns "chaotic" layouts. The first issue was published on April 6, 1999.

In 2003, Nylon launched its website nylonmag.com (now nylon.com), under the leadership of Ronen Shapiro later that year the digital readership surpassed the print edition and became the center of Nylon's business. In 2005, Nylon was bought by Pennsylvania businessman Don Hellinger. The following spring, Nylon and MySpace collaborated on their first International Music issue, making it freely available online for a time. Nylon TV was launched in 2006 with the creation of its own YouTube channel, and by 2014 gained 62 thousand subscribers and 62 million cumulative views. Nylon partnered with MySpace in 2006 for its annual June/July music issue. Nine months later the magazine became generally available online in digital form in March 2007. Nylon released their June/July International Music and MySpace issue online for free viewing. Marvin Scott Jarrett's Editor's Letter described it as a collaboration with MySpace, focusing on eight "music and style mecca" cities around the world, featuring the White Stripes on the cover, as selected by Nylon's MySpace fans.

Nylon teamed up with Live Nation Entertainment in 2008 to produce its first Nylon Music Tour, headlined by electro rockers She Wants Revenge. On their 10-year anniversary in 2009, Nylon made the April 1999 inaugural issue freely available online, including all articles, in scanned form. Later that year, Nylon partnered with iTunes for its annual music issue, which included a free summer playlist download of 22 tracks.

Nylon came together with YouTube in 2010 for its Young Hollywood issue, allowing readers to watch the entire issue on YouTube. The partnership extended for the 2011 Young Hollywood issue as well. 2010 also brought the launch of Nylon Dailies, emails written by local writers every day in ten key American cities.

In 2011, then-President Don Hellinger and then-CFO Jami Pearlman were charged with operating an illegal money transmission business (for an online casino), unrelated to Nylon. They subsequently pleaded guilty to a reduced charge.

Nylon joined with Facebook in 2012 for its June/July music issue. 2012 also brought a Summer Music Tour, featuring Neon Trees, and sponsored by Starbucks. America's Next Top Model announced that Nylon would be its media partner for the show's 19th cycle.

In May 2014, Nylon was acquired by a new ownership group, including an affiliate of LA-based investor Marc Luzzatto through Diversis Capital, LLC. The new venture also acquired FashionIndie, with FashionIndie's founders, Beca Alexander and Daniel Saynt, maintaining their titles of editor-in-chief and creative director, respectively. Publisher Marvin Jarrett was blindsided, and he was not retained by the new owners. The staff learned of the takeover via the press.

In September 2017, announced that it was transitioning to an all-digital platform. The print edition of Nylon was discontinued between October 2017 until 2019. The print staff was laid off. Upon the departure of the core print team, only two original staff members, of the 60-odd employees from before the sale in 2014, remained. One of those original staff members included digital team Senior Editor, Gabrielle Korn, who was then promoted to Editor-in-Chief.

In June 2019, Nylon was acquired by the Bustle Digital Group, founded by Bryan Goldberg. Its current editor-in-chief is Lauren McCarthy.

Asia

 * Nylon Japan, which first hit Tokyo newsstands in 2004, is now run by editor-in-chief Takashi Togawa.
 * Nylon Korea premiered in August 2008, and in April 2014, K-pop girl band Girl's Generation (also known as SNSD), were featured in Nylon international editions. In March 2018, the publisher of Nylon Korea was acquired by Krispy Studio, a subsidiary of kakao M (formerly LOEN Entertainment), from.
 * Nylon Indonesia began publishing in 2011. It ceased publication in 2017.
 * Nylon Singapore, launched in 2012 and went fully digital in 2017.
 * Nylon Thailand
 * Nylon China
 * Nylon Manila, launched in November 2020 by One Mega Group as a digital magazine.

Europe

 * Nylon Germany
 * Nylon Spain
 * Nylon France (published as Nylon FR), launched in March 2021 as a digital magazine. The French edition is also edited on printed every two months with a limited drop in selected stores and on the magazine's e-shop.

Latin America

 * Nylon Mexico

Former editors-in-chief

 * Marvin Scott Jarrett was the original editor-in-chief from the time of the magazine's creation to his departure in 2014.
 * Michelle Lee was named editor-in-chief 2014, then named Editor in Chief of Allure magazine in 2015.
 * Melissa Giannini was named editor-in-chief in 2015.
 * Gabrielle Korn was named editor-in-chief in 2018.
 * Alyssa Vingan was named editor-in-chief in 2019.
 * Lauren McCarthy was named editor-in-chief in 2023 and is the current EIC.

Cover models
The first Nylon cover model for the debut issue was actress Liv Tyler in April 1999. She was both photographed and interviewed by Nylon magazine's co-founder, creative director, and supermodel Helena Christensen.

Cover models have included: Demi Lovato, Christina Aguilera, The Horrors, Avril Lavigne, Selena Gomez, Lily Allen, Paris Hilton, The Kills, Camilla Belle, Karen O, Evan Rachel Wood, Mary-Kate Olsen, Lea Michele, Lil' Kim, Zooey Deschanel, Kristen Stewart, Rachel Bilson, Scarlett Johansson, Cory Kennedy, Mischa Barton, Christina Ricci, Leighton Meester, Blake Lively, Taylor Momsen, The White Stripes, Sienna Miller, Nicole Richie, Megan Fox, Hilary Duff, Emma Stone, Lindsay Lohan, MIA, Zoe Saldana, Drew Barrymore, Jessica Szohr, Mila Kunis, Emily Browning, Katy Perry, Jena Malone, Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Selena Gomez, Emma Roberts, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lily Collins, Hayley Williams, Marina, and Lana Del Rey.

Reception
Medialife Magazine's Jennifer Cox wrote in 2001 that Nylon was "a little uppity, and it's not hard to understand why", describing it as "bold, idiosyncratic, challenging, absolutely of-the-moment," but unnoticed by "the mainstream" until March 2001, when Nylon was nominated for the ASME National Magazine award. She described the April issue as "groundbreaking" (for a fashion magazine) to feature an overweight woman in a history of women's weight, noted that the magazine's models "are more often interesting looking than beautiful per se." She found its photo spreads "bold with their use of white space and innovative photography" and noted Nylon's distinctive "heavy emphasis on music coverage."

Recognition
The American Society of Magazine Editors noted the magazine three times: Nylon was nominated for "National Magazine Award for General Excellence (100,000–400,000 circulation)" in 2001, was a finalist for "General Excellence (100,000 to 250,000 circulation)" in 2003,  and was a finalist for the 2006 ASME "Design" award.

In 2006, Nylon was a Nominee at the 10th Annual Webby Awards, in the Fashion category, and an Official Honoree at the 12th Annual Webby Awards in the Magazine category in 2008.

In 2008 industry monitor Media Industry News Online editors selected Nylon.com as the penultimate of their "Top 5 Women's Fashion Mag Website Picks", judging on "visual appeal, functionality and usefulness of information". They found it to be the "destination of choice for alternative, fashion minds everywhere", and "...Nylon's entertainment radar is still alive and well.  Its funky illustrations and graphics give Nylon a hip, unique look that is truly hard to come by in the category.  Nxtbook provides slick, downloadable digital magazine issues".

Brand extensions
The magazine had Radar, Fashion, and Style pages. There was also a Nylon Guys magazine, first announced in 2003 and published independently in 2004, which has featured Joseph Gordon-Levitt from 500 Days of Summer.

Nylon partnered with Rizzoli Publishing to publish three books: Street, on global street fashion; Pretty, on beauty; and Play, on music. Pretty: The Nylon Book of Beauty was listed in the New York Public Library's best Books for the Teen Age 2008. In 2009 Jarrett founded Nylon Records and signed French female pop group Plastiscines as its first act, after seeing them on the cover of French fashion and style magazine Citizen K. Also in 2009, Nylon introduced its iPhone app; MinOnline listed it (among "Top 5 iPhone Mags You May Have Missed") as "a pleasant surprise. This fashion and culture mag has one of the more attractive magazine-like designs among print brands on mobile."

The September 2010 issue of the magazine was released on the iPad, including video, music and some exclusive content. The iPad edition is in the Apple iTunes newsstand.

Nylon's writers cover various fashion cultures, including changes to fashion brands, fashion icons, and cover models. It recently covered an article on Ralph Lauren entering into a contract with Fortnite and changing its brand logo for the new fashion releases while co-hosting a game tournament. Nylon informs readers of updates on different fashion brands and covers models' lives that otherwise would not be known to the media.

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Talk:Movie star

Marilyn Monroe???
I think this could use some updating - there is some good material from the heyday of the star system, but the chronology is confusing - between Mary Pickford and Marilyn Monroe some stuff happened, and between Marilyn Monroe and now, a lot more happened to the "movie star." Me not an expert, though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Garylhewitt (talk • contribs) 3:32, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

This is somewhat POV
''Some of the downsides to being a movie star include self-centeredness and arrogance. Oftentimes, some stars are very bossy and vain.''

While I think this is quite true, I also think, by article-writing standards, it's also somewhat non-neutral and POV. Any suggestions to improve this section? --I am not good at running 23:16, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Singing in the Rain
I remember the scene in Singing in the Rain where Lina quotes the article, saying that she is "A glimmering star in the cinema firmament." Is this concept (obviously around decades before Singing) to be related to the origin of the term? I'd like to see a citation on that Nyttend 19:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Shoddy Referencing
There are references to sources in the text -- such as "Madow" -- without full publication details in a Reference List, proper use of Harvard Style would correct this problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gcoultersmith (talk • contribs) 10:37, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Global perspective
There are several instances in this article which could be more globally written, most significantly during the section describing India and China which is written as through the article is from a western perspective.Lord Cornwallis (talk) 00:01, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Eras
This article makes it appear that there are no longer any movie stars in existence, speaking of them all dying off. There are movie stars in the modern era also. I may add some later. Cls14 (talk) 12:38, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

The "Last of the greats" section
What's the purpose of it? It just namedrops different classic stars that have either died in the past 14 years or those who are still alive. How is it even relevant to the article in question? To say that classical stars were the "last greats" of cinema seems to me like a subjective point of view. Comments? OscarLake (talk) 23:51, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Unless there's a source backing that list, it seems like a bit of arbitrary POV, though there are a lot of medias which use concepts like "the last Hollywood greats". For example, when Jennifer Jones or Mickey Rooney died, I'm pretty sure I read stuff like "one of the last great Golden Age stars has passed away...". However, although the "Golden Age" of Hollywood (or Classical Hollywood cinema, if you like) is a widely used concept, it's a bit surprising to read that kind of list, which seems to imply that contemporary stars like Brad Pitt, or even post-Golden Age ones like Robert Redford, are not movie stars. So I agree, the "namedropping" aspect is rather useless. Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 09:50, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Images
This article needs to be developed, but I thought that, even in its current state, it could use a few images. So I added a Mary Pickford poster - in order to have a historical example, using one of the very first "movie stars" - and a recent picture which has the advantage of depicting two contemporary movie stars, one from Europe and one from Asia. Not necessarily because they are the biggest stars ever, but because they are 1) from two different continents 2) not from the United States 3) quite big in their respective countries (Sophie Marceau is also reportedly big in China, but that's another matter). I thought it was useful to remind that "movie stardom" is a global concept. It might help develop the "worldwide view of the subject" demanded by the current template. Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 09:50, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Where does the expression 'star' actually come from? What is its historic origin?
I was intrigued by the usage of the word 'star' in connection with the lead roles — historically, where does the name come from? Why did people come up with the word 'star' to describe them?

The Internet is full of interesting answers on this. None seem to quote reliable sources:

When they act, they brighten up a scene. — https://www.quora.com/Why-are-famous-actors-called-stars

The chemicals used to expose light on film include silver nitrate. Silver nitrate was also once called lunar caustic (Moon -> stars?) — http://www.lbc.co.uk/why-are-film-stars-called-stars-of-the-silver-screen-40937

The surface of the projection screen used to be covered with a silvery substance to enhance reflectivity — the expression silver screen is still in common usage, even though projection screens are (rarely) silvery these days. http://www.lbc.co.uk/why-are-film-stars-called-stars-of-the-silver-screen-40937

The reason movie stars are called stars is because even after they die they can still be seen — https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/3uydpo/the_reason_movie_stars_are_called_stars_is/

So where does the expression actually come from?

Gwyneth Llewelyn (talk) 11:03, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

 * The earliest appearance of "movie star" in print is dated 1919, according to the OED; but the use of the word to allude to major actors in the theater goes back to the 18th century, and to signify a soul gone to heaven (with the greater souls having brighter stars), in Shakespeare and Chaucer. There's also the use of the asterisk in print to signify people and places of importance. Dhtwiki (talk) 19:44, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

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Talk:Russian Cosmism

Not sure the move from Russian cosmism to Cosmism (Russian) was correct. Paranoid 12:10, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The article doesn't actually say what Cosmism is. Sure, it's a philosophy that inspired another philosophy, but what did they believe in Cosmism?--Mihoshi 19:11, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed. This is a confusing article, and it should be deleted unless someone can find anything worthwhile to add.

 * Disagree. if you follow the links, it is clear that it is a real subject. It needs to be expanded. I agree that it should be located at Russian cosmism. — goethean ॐ 18:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

 * What is cosmism? The article says mentions the people involved with it, but stops short of actually describing it.

 * It appears to be a school of russian literature. — goethean ॐ 17:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

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Perkin reaction

The Perkin reaction is an organic reaction developed by English chemist William Henry Perkin that is used to make cinnamic acids. It gives an α,β-unsaturated aromatic acid or α-substituted β-aryl acrylic acid by the aldol condensation of an aromatic aldehyde and an acid anhydride, in the presence of an alkali salt of the acid. The alkali salt acts as a base catalyst, and other bases can be used instead.

Several reviews have been written.

Reaction mechanism

Clear from the reaction mechanism, the anhydride of aliphatic acid must contain at least 2 α-H for the reaction to occur. The above mechanism is not universally accepted, as several other versions exist, including decarboxylation without acetic group transfer.

Applications

 * Salicylaldehyde converted to coumarin using acetic anhydride with acetate as base.
 * cinnamic acid is prepared from benzaldehyde, again using acetic anhydride in the presence of sodium or potassium acetate.
 * resveratrol (c.f. fo-ti), a phytoestrogenic stilbene is yet another product of this methodology.

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Cloud Atlas (novel)

Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. The book combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawai'i in a distant post-apocalyptic future. Its title references a piece of music by Toshi Ichiyanagi.

It received awards from both the general literary community and the speculative fiction community, including the British Book Awards Literary Fiction award and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year award, it was also short-listed for the Booker Prize, Nebula Award for Best Novel, and Arthur C. Clarke Award. A film adaptation directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, and featuring an ensemble cast, was released in 2012.

Plot summary
The book consists of six nested stories; each is read or observed by the protagonist of the next, progressing in time through the central sixth story. The first five stories are each interrupted at a pivotal moment. After the sixth story, the others are resolved in reverse chronological order.

The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing (Part 1)
The first story begins in the Chatham Islands near New Zealand in the mid-nineteenth century, where Adam Ewing, a guileless American lawyer from San Francisco during the California Gold Rush, awaits repairs to his ship. He witnesses a Moriori slave being flogged by a Maori overseer. During the punishment, the victim, Autua, sees pity in Ewing's eyes and smiles. As the ship gets underway, Dr. Henry Goose, Ewing's only friend aboard the ship, examines Ewing’s chronic ailment. The doctor diagnoses Ewing with fatal parasite infection and recommends a course of treatment. Meanwhile, Autua has stowed away in Ewing's cabin. When Ewing discloses this to the Captain, Autua proves himself a first-class seaman, and the Captain puts Autua to work for his passage to Hawaii.

Letters from Zedelghem (Part 1)
The next story is set in Zedelghem, near Bruges, Belgium, in 1931. It is told in the form of letters from Robert Frobisher, a recently disowned and penniless young English musician, to his lover Rufus Sixsmith. Frobisher journeys to Zedelghem to become an amanuensis to the reclusive once-great composer Vyvyan Ayrs, who is dying of syphilis and nearly blind. Soon, Frobisher produces Der Todtenvogel ("The Death Bird") from a basic melody that Ayrs gives him. It is performed nightly in Kraków, and Ayrs is much praised. Frobisher takes pride in this and begins composing his own music again. Frobisher and Ayrs' wife Jocasta become lovers, but her daughter Eva remains suspicious of him. Frobisher sells rare books from Ayrs' collection to a fence, but is intrigued by reading the first half of The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing, and asks Sixsmith if he can obtain the second half so Frobisher can learn how the story ends. Ayrs asks Frobisher to write a song inspired by a dream of a "nightmarish cafe", deep underground, wherein "the waitresses all had the same face" and ate soap. As the summer comes to an end, Jocasta thanks Frobisher for "giving Vyvyan his music back", and Frobisher agrees to stay until the next summer.

Half-Lives : The First Luisa Rey Mystery (Part 1)
The third story is written in the style of a mystery/thriller novel, set in the fictional city of Buenas Yerbas, California, in 1975, with protagonist Luisa Rey, a young journalist. She meets the elderly Rufus Sixsmith in a stalled elevator, and she tells him about her late father, one of the few incorruptible policemen in the city, who became a famous war correspondent. Later, after Sixsmith tells Luisa his concern that the Seaboard HYDRA nuclear power plant is not safe, he is found dead of apparent suicide. Luisa believes the businessmen in charge of the plant are assassinating potential whistleblowers. From Sixsmith's hotel room, Luisa acquires some of Frobisher's letters. Another plant employee, Isaac Sachs, gives her a copy of Sixsmith's report. Before Luisa can report her findings on the nuclear power plant, a Seaboard-hired assassin who has been following her forces her car—along with Sixsmith's incriminating report—off a bridge.

The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish (Part 1)
The fourth story, comic in tone, is set in Britain in the early twenty-first century; Timothy Cavendish, a 65-year-old vanity press publisher, flees the brothers of his gangster client, whose book is experiencing high sales after the murder of a book critic. They threaten Cavendish with violence if their monetary demands are not met. Cavendish's wealthy brother, exasperated by Cavendish's frequent previous pleas for financial aid, books him into a menacing nursing home. Timothy signs custody papers, thinking that he is registering at a hotel where he can stay until his personal and financial problems can be solved. When he realizes he will be held there indefinitely, subject to the staff's complete control, he tries to flee but is stopped by a security guard and confined. He briefly mentions reading a manuscript titled Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery, but is not initially impressed by the prospective author's manuscript and only comes to appreciate it later. He settles into his new surroundings while still trying to plot a way out. One day, he has a stroke, and the chapter ends.

An Orison of Sonmi-451 (Part 1)
The fifth story is set in Nea So Copros, a dystopian state in twenty-second century Korea, derived from corporate culture. It is told in the form of an interview of Sonmi-451, after her arrest and trial, by an "archivist" who records Sonmi-451's story into an 'orison', a silver egg-shaped device for recording and holographic videoconferencing. Sonmi-451 is a fabricant waitress at a fast-food restaurant called Papa Song's. Clones grown in vats are revealed to be the predominant source of cheap labor. The "pureblood" (natural-born) society hinders the fabricants' consciousness by chemical manipulation using a food Sonmi refers to as "Soap". After twelve years as slaves, fabricants are promised retirement to a fabricant community in Honolulu. In her own narration, Sonmi encounters members of a university faculty and students, who take her from the restaurant for study and assist her to become self-aware, or "ascended". She describes watching The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish as a pre-Skirmishes film (wherein the "Skirmishes" are a major global disaster or war that destroyed most of the world except Nea So Copros). During the scene in which Cavendish suffers his stroke, a student interrupts to tell Sonmi and her rescuer Hae-Joo Im that Professor Mephi, Hae-Joo's professor, has been arrested, and that policy enforcers have orders to interrogate Hae-Joo and kill Sonmi on sight.

Sloosha's Crossin' an' Evrythin' After
The sixth story occupies the central position in the novel and is the only one not interrupted. On the Big Island of Hawaii after a great societal collapse, the Valley Folk are peaceful farmers who worship a goddess called Sonmi. Zachry Bailey is plagued by moral doubts stemming from blaming himself for his father's death and the kidnapping of his brother years prior. Big Island is occasionally visited and studied by a technologically sophisticated people known as the Prescients, one of whom, Meronym, visits Zachry’s village to his suspicion. When Meronym later requests a guide to the top of Mauna Kea volcano, Zachry reluctantly agrees, citing his debt to her for saving his sister Catkin from poisoning. They climb to the ruins of the Mauna Kea Observatories, where Meronym explains the orison Zachry found in her room and reveals Sonmi's history (as introduced in the prior chapter). Upon their return, they go with most of the Valley Folk to trade at Honokaa, but Zachry's people are attacked and imprisoned by the cannibalistic Kona tribe, who often raid the Valley Folk and are conquering the territory. Zachry and Meronym eventually escape, and she takes him to a safer island. The story ends with Zachry's child recalling that his father told many unbelievable tales, but that this one may be true because he has inherited Zachry's copy of Sonmi's orison.

An Orison of Sonmi-451 (Part 2)
Hae-Joo Im reveals that he and Mephi are members of an anti-government rebel movement called Union. Hae-Joo then guides Sonmi in disguise to a ship, where Sonmi witnesses retired fabricants butchered and recycled into Soap, the fabricant food source. Any leftover "reclaimed proteins" from the butchered fabricants are used to produce food that purebloods unknowingly consume at fast-food type restaurants. The rebels plan to raise all fabricants to self-awareness and thus disrupt the workforce that keeps the corporate government in power. They want Sonmi to write a series of abolitionist Declarations calling for rebellion. She does, echoing the themes of greed and oppression first brought up in the diary of Adam Ewing.

Sonmi is then arrested in an elaborately filmed government raid and finds herself telling her tale to the archivist. Sonmi believes that everything that happened to her was instigated by the government to encourage the fear and hatred of fabricants by purebloods. Sonmi's last wish is to finish watching Cavendish's story.

The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish (Part 2)
Having mostly recovered from his mild stroke, Cavendish meets a small group of residents also anxious to escape the nursing home: Ernie, Veronica, and the extremely senile Mr. Meeks. Cavendish assists the other residents' conspiracy to trick a fellow patient's grown son, Johns Hotchkiss, into leaving Hotchkiss' car vulnerable to theft. The residents seize the car and escape, stopping at a pub to celebrate their freedom. They are nearly recaptured by Hotchkiss and the staff, but are rescued when Mr. Meeks, in an unprecedented moment of lucidity, exhorts the local drinkers to come to their aid.

It is thereafter revealed that Cavendish's secretary Mrs. Latham blackmailed the gangsters with a video record of their attack upon Cavendish's office; this allows Cavendish to return to his former life in safety. Subsequently, Cavendish obtains the second half of Luisa Rey's story intending to publish it, and he considers having his own recent adventures turned into a film script.

Half-Lives : The First Luisa Rey Mystery (Part 2)
Rey escapes from her sinking car but loses the report, while a plane carrying Isaac is blown up. When her newspaper is bought by a subsidiary of Seaboard, she is fired, and Luisa believes that they no longer see her as a threat. She orders a copy of Robert Frobisher's obscure Cloud Atlas Sextet, which she has read about in his letters to Rufus Sixsmith, and is astonished to find that she recognizes it, even though it is a rarely published piece. However, Bill Smoke the assassin still pursues Luisa and booby-traps a copy of Rufus Sixsmith's report about the power plant. Joe Napier, a security man who knew Luisa's father, and whom Luisa initially believed to be her attempted assassin, comes to her rescue, and Smoke and Napier kill each other in a gun fight. Later, Rey exposes the corrupt corporate leaders to the public. At the end of the story, she receives a package from Sixsmith's niece, which contains the remaining eight letters from Robert Frobisher to Rufus Sixsmith.

Letters from Zedelghem (Part 2)
Frobisher continues to pursue his work with Ayrs while developing his Cloud Atlas Sextet. He finds himself falling in love with Eva, after she confesses a crush on him, though he is still having an affair with her mother. Jocasta suspects this and threatens to destroy his life if he so much as looks at her daughter. Ayrs also becomes bolder with his plagiarism of Frobisher, now demanding he compose full passages, which Ayrs intends to take credit for. Ayrs threatens to blacklist him by claiming he raped Jocasta if he refuses. In despair, Frobisher leaves anyway, but finds a hotel nearby working to finish his Sextet and hoping to be reunited with Eva. He convinces himself that they are being kept apart by her parents, but when he finally manages to talk to her he realizes that the man she was talking about being in love with was her Swiss fiancé. Mentally and physically ill Frobisher ultimately decides, with his magnum opus finished and his life now empty of meaning, to kill himself. Before committing suicide in a bathtub, he writes one last letter to Sixsmith and includes his Sextet and The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing.

The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing (Part 2)
Ewing visits the island of Raiatea, where he observes missionaries oppressing the indigenous peoples. On the ship, he falls further ill and realizes at the last minute that Dr. Goose is poisoning him to steal his possessions. He is rescued by Autua and resolves to join the abolitionist movement. In conclusion of his own journal and of the book, Ewing writes that history is governed by the results of vicious and virtuous acts precipitated by belief: wherefore "a purely predatory world shall consume itself" and "The devil take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost", and imagines his father-in-law's response to his becoming an abolitionist as a warning that Adam's life would amount to one drop in a limitless ocean. Ewing's proposed reply is: "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"

Background and writing
In an interview with The Paris Review, Mitchell said that the book's title was inspired by the music of the same name by Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi: "I bought the CD just because of that track's beautiful title." Mitchell's previous novel, number9dream, was inspired by music by John Lennon. Both Ichiyanagi and Lennon were husbands of Yoko Ono, and Mitchell has said this fact "pleases me ... though I couldn't duplicate the pattern indefinitely." He has stated that the title and the book address reincarnation and the universality of human nature, with the title referring to both changing elements (a "cloud") and constants (the "atlas").

Mitchell said that Vyvyan Ayrs and Robert Frobisher were inspired by English composer Frederick Delius and his amanuensis Eric Fenby. He has also noted the influence of Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker on the Sloosha's Crossin' story.

Reception
Cloud Atlas received positive reviews from most critics, who felt that it managed to successfully interweave its six stories. Upon release, Cloud Atlas was generally well-received among the British press. The book was also generally well-received amongst American press. According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on 11 critic reviews with 6 being "rave" and 1 being "positive" and 4 being "mixed". On Metacritic, the book received a 82 out of 100 based on 24 critic reviews. The BookScore gave it a aggregated critic score of 9.0 based on an accumulation of British and American press reviews. Globally, the work was received generally well with Complete Review saying on the consensus "Not quite a consensus, but most very impressed".

The BBC's Keily Oakes said that although the book's structure could be challenging, "David Mitchell has taken six wildly different stories ... and melded them into one fantastic and complex work." Kirkus Reviews called it "sheer storytelling brilliance." Laura Miller of The New York Times compared it to the "perfect crossword puzzle," in that it was challenging to read but still fun. The Observer's Hephzibah Anderson called it "exhilarating" and commented positively on the links between the stories. In a review for The Guardian, Booker Prize winner A. S. Byatt wrote that it gave "a complete narrative pleasure that is rare." The Washington Post's Jeff Turrentine called it "a highly satisfying, and unusually thoughtful, addition to the expanding 'puzzle book' genre." In its "Books Briefly Noted" section, The New Yorker called it "virtuosic." Marxist literary critic Fredric Jameson found its new, science fiction-inflected variation on the historical novel now "defined by its relation to future fully as much as to past." Richard Murphy said in the Review of Contemporary Fiction that Mitchell had taken core values from his previous novels and built upon them.

Criticism focused on the book's failure to meet its lofty goals. F&SF reviewer Robert K. J. Killheffer praised Mitchell's "talent and inventiveness and willingness to adopt any mode or voice that furthers his ends," but noted that "for all its pleasures, Cloud Atlas falls short of revolutionary." Theo Tait of The Daily Telegraph gave the novel a mixed review, focusing on its clashing themes, saying "it spends half its time wanting to be The Simpsons and the other half the Bible."

In 2019, Cloud Atlas was ranked 9th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century.

In 2020, Bill Gates recommended it as part of his Summer Reading List.

Awards and nominations
The book won the Literary Fiction Award at the 2005 British Book Awards and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2004, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2005.

Structure and style
The book has been described as incorporating elements of metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction into its narrative. The book's style was inspired by Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler, which contains several incomplete, interrupted narratives. Mitchell's innovation was to add a 'mirror' in the centre of his book so that each story could be brought to a conclusion.

Mitchell has said of the book:

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Textual variations
Academic Martin Paul Eve noticed significant differences in the American and British editions of the book while writing a paper on the book. He noted "an astonishing degree" of variance and that "one of the chapters was almost entirely rewritten". According to Mitchell, who authorized both editions, the differences emerged because the editor assigned to the book at its US publisher left their job, leaving the US version un-edited for a considerable period. Meanwhile, Mitchell and his editor and copy editor in the UK continued to make changes to the manuscript. However, those changes were not passed on to the US publisher, and similarly, when a new editor was assigned to the book at the US publisher and made his own changes, Mitchell did not ask for those to be applied to the British edition, which was very close to being sent to press. Mitchell said: "Due to my inexperience at that stage in my three-book 'career', it hadn't occurred to me that having two versions of the same novel appearing on either side of the Atlantic raises thorny questions over which is definitive, so I didn't go to the trouble of making sure that the American changes were applied to the British version (which was entering production by that point probably) and vice versa."

Film adaptation
The novel was adapted to film by directors Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis. With an ensemble cast to cover the multiple storylines, production began in September 2011 at Studio Babelsberg in Germany. The film was released in North America on 26 October 2012. In October 2012, Mitchell wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal called "Translating 'Cloud Atlas' Into the Language of Film" in which he compared the adapters' work to translating a work into another language.

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Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation

Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) is a governmental agency in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is responsible for the development of industries in the state and often partners with companies in the Indian government's Small Industries Development Corporation program.as TANSIDCO. The managing director is Sandeep Nanduri. It is also responsible for the formation of TPIPL, TICEL & TIDEL parks in partnership with ELCOT & SIPCOT.