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Paul Erdman

Paul Emil Erdman was a Canadian-born American economist and banker who became known for writing novels based on monetary trends and international finance.

Early life
Erdman was born in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, on 19 May 1932 to an American Lutheran minister and his wife. He graduated from Concordia Seminary in 1954 receiving a bachelor of divinity degree, and from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He was an assistant editor of the editorial page at the Washington Post and worked in a brokerage house in Washington. He received his PhD in economics, European history and theology from the University of Basel in Switzerland in 1958. In 1958 he worked as a financial analyst for the European Coal and Steel Community. Between 1959 and 1961, he worked as an economist at the SRI International in Menlo Park, California.

Banking career
"'the Swiss, who tried to block publication of his 1959 doctoral thesis at the University of Basel because it uncovered part of the story of Swiss banks and their Nazi clients.'"

Charles E. Salik hired Erdman to help his tax-protected, Bermuda-based Electronics International Capital (EIC). Salik and Richard Silberman were ousted from EIC by Jerome Kohlberg. Salik then launched Salik Bank, a Swiss bank, and hired Erdman as president, in 1965. In 1969, First Interstate Bancorp bought a majority stake and renamed it the United California Bank in Basel. The bank collapsed after taking large losses speculating in the cocoa market. Erdman and other board members were accused of fraud and mismanagement. Erdman spent 10 months in solitary confinement without being charged before being released on a $133,000 bail bond in 1971. Erdman skipped out on the bail and flew to England, later returning to the United States. Several officers of the bank were convicted and served prison terms. Erdman was convicted and given a sentence of nine years in absentia.

Writing career
During his time in prison, Erdman occupied his time by writing, on an Olivetti typewriter, fiction, because he lacked research resources, including the first 60 pages of his novel, The Billion Dollar Sure Thing. It received a 1974 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel and was published in the UK as The Billion Dollar Killing. His second novel, The Silver Bears (1974) was turned into a 1978 movie of nearly the same name, starring Michael Caine. His best-selling novels are credited with the invention of the "financial thriller" genre. Additionally, the information in The Swiss Account is credited with providing a basis for helping track down the assets of Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Erdman became a founding financial columnist for MarketWatch and regularly wrote financial columns.

Erdman also wrote The New York Times book reviews.

Erdman also wrote newspaper articles on professional football.

He was a leading expert in the international economics field and published non-fictional works, such as Tug of War, which set out his views on exchange rates and the international financial system.

Personal life
Erdman was married to Helly Boeglin and they had two daughters. After the collapse of the Swiss bank, they moved to England and later Northern California. Erdman died from cancer at his ranch in Healdsburg, California on April 23, 2007.

Selected fictional works

 * The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (1973)
 * The Silver Bears (1974)
 * The Crash Of '79 (1976)
 * The Last Days Of America (1981)
 * The Panic Of '89 (1986)
 * The Palace (1987)
 * What's Next? (1988)
 * The Swiss Account (1992)
 * Zero Coupon (1993)
 * The Set-up (1997)
 * The Great Game (2007)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Swann

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. — Xezbeth 12:16, May 1, 2005 (UTC)

Michael Swann
Not notable. Article is perhaps even vanity. I can't find anything about him. Posted by Casito

I'd vote for it to stay, perhaps without the quotes though, that seems like a bit of preaching on the part of the poster. Posted by User:dandyfop
 * He has become quite well known as part of an emergent sub-culture. Certainly the magazine for which he writes exists, and they mention him on their site. He was on the radio last week being interviewed about TV turn off week. He's been on quite a lot of radio recently, in fact and I've read some of his more serious political stuff in a number of magazine.
 * Actually according to the page history, comment posted by 82.35.77.15

 * Delete, notability not established, possible vanity. Megan1967 05:14, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No third party sources, thus seems not notable and vanity. Zzyzx11 | Talk 05:18, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Some of the article is absurd, but Googling on "Michael Molyneux Swann" reveals that he does exist and does write for The Chap Magazine. FreplySpang (talk) 05:21, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, notability not established. Radiant_* 07:39, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Existence is not the same thing as notability.  RickK 19:54, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Overlong, often not encyclopedic in style, contains unverifiable claims. Anything that would be kept would require citations. Average Earthman 22:30, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity/promo. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:05, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not a... um... oh forget it, vote as above. Master Thief Garrett 21:50, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.

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Healing (Todd Rundgren album)

Healing is Todd Rundgren's ninth studio album, released in 1981. The album's themes are spirituality and the human condition, something Rundgren had touched on many times in earlier works but never with the consistency exhibited here as every track explores a different aspect. The back cover image of the album (artwork by Prairie Prince) shows the caduceus and a Qabalistic Tree of Life each overlaid by a treble clef (Which is reversed for the Tree of Life), reflecting Rundgren's linking of his spirituality and music.

The original vinyl release includes a bonus 7" 33rpm single featuring the tracks "Time Heals" and "Tiny Demons" which are unlisted on the album sleeve but are included at the end of the later CD release as tracks 10 and 11. "Tiny Demons" was used in the Miami Vice season 1 episode "Little Prince" during a scene with a strung out heroin user.

"Time Heals" and "Compassion" were both released as singles and a promotional video was made for the former, which was the eighth music video to air on MTV during its launch on August 1, 1981.

Live performance
In September 2010, Rundgren performed his Todd and Healing albums live for the first time in Akron, Ohio, followed by concerts in Muskegon MI, Indianapolis IN, St. Louis MO, Glenside PA, and Morristown NJ. Whereas the original Healing album had been entirely performed by Rundgren in the studio, the live performances featured the same band as for the Todd shows: Jesse Gress, Greg Hawkes, Prairie Prince, Bobby Strickland, and Kasim Sulton. Led by choirmaster Dirk Hillyer, local choirs from near each venue joined the band during parts of the Healing set. Large LED display and lasers were on display throughout the shows with Rundgren and the band dressed in extravagant costumes. The shows have been released on DVD.

Track listing

 * Side one
 * 1) "Healer" - 3:40
 * 2) "Pulse" - 3:07
 * 3) "Flesh" - 3:58
 * 4) "Golden Goose" - 3:16
 * 5) "Compassion" - 4:43
 * 6) "Shine" - 8:12

 * Side two
 * 1) "Healing, Part I" - 7:28
 * 2) "Healing, Part II" - 7:52
 * 3) "Healing, Part III" - 4:40

 * Bonus 7-inch 33rpm Single
 * 1) "Time Heals" - 3:33
 * 2) "Tiny Demons" - 3:08

In some releases of the LP, "Time Heals" and "Tiny Demons" have been added to the end of the second side.

Personnel

 * Todd Rundgren - all vocals and instruments, producer, engineer
 * Technical
 * Bean - additional engineering
 * Prairie Prince - artwork

Charts
Album

Single

Formats

 * Vinyl LP
 * Cassette
 * 8 Track Tape
 * Compact Disc

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Talk:Fifteen (band)

Untitled
Fifteen also has a "messageboard" that has become popular throughout the years. The Web address of the Fifteen messageboard is http://www.skatedork.org/fifteen/messageboard.

Removing POV
Okay, terrific.

Removing the line "Fifteen is arguably viewed as the leader in the political-punk music scene". Absurd and weasel-y. -24.128.49.39 00:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

"Vandalism"
I wrote the majority of this page because the original entry was just a cut-and-pasted paragraph from another website. I noticed that there was some editing which was reverted as being vandalism, and it looks like it actually came from Jeff Ott himself. What he wrote probably should have been addressed on the talk page, but I wanted to respond here in case it still concerned him, as he has a right to contest anything inaccurate being written about him.

1) Describing Fifteen as an "American" band is a Wikipedia convention and only serves to describe the geographic place of origin of the band. It isn't meant to suggest that the band is politically aligned with the US government or even acknowledges its validity, which I assume is the issue with calling the band "American".

2) The word "career" isn't being used to suggest that playing music is supporting you financially. As the article states, it doesn't and that has been the main impediment to the band's existence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.230.158.123 (talk) 01:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Jeff also seems to have disputed a claim that Fifteen was dissolved initially due to his belief that being in a touring, electric punk rock band was inconsistent with his expressed environmentalism. There is quite a bit he has written and spoken, particularly on the "Allegra" album which suggests that this was the case, whatever his view of the situation may be now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.200.210.198 (talk) 02:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Improvements
In light of contested validity of both the Jeff Ott and Fifteen articles, I put a little work into them. Both could still use some clean up. Ways that editors can help: Help do these things and this articles will be more than just stub or start-class. Morganfitzp (talk) 21:22, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
 * More biographical info on Ott and band members, supported by good sources (books, liner notes, online or print interviews, with links)
 * Better discographical information, also supported by good referential sources
 * Check for grammar, punctuation, and redundant information, often the result of contributions from multiple editors
 * Photos that are not copywritten and therefore free to be included on Wikipedia

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User:Mfv2

Michael is a contributor to Wikipedia.

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Talk:2005/Archive 1

I don't know the format for current years very well -- are the recent changes here made by an anonymous user correct? They look wrong to me. Jwrosenzweig 00:54, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * This still looks wrong to me. Anyone know for sure though? Jwrosenzweig 19:07, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'm not an editor, just an occasional visitor, but the new page format with the gray boxes is hideous. The old form was much easier to read and just generally looked nicer.

Navbox template
I've tentatively added a navbox template to replace the rather unattractive navigational elements at the top of the page. Dicussion at WikiProject Years. -- Seth Ilys 23:51, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

Please cite Dubious Distinctions
International year of Microcredit? Year of Physics? Initially, I thought these sounded made up. If you add year themes like this, please cite them with a link or they will be deleted. At least tell us who has made this designation. Google gave me this: on microcredit. UN designation makes more sense than, say, Clusterworld's year of the dual core CPU. MPS 16:53, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

What about the 400th Aniversary of the Gunpowder Plot?
In the list of events I'm suprised that the 400th aniversary of the Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot seems to have been overlooked.

Conventionaly the discovery of the Gunpowder plot is deemed to have taken place on: 5th November- 1605

The 400th aniversay of the discovery of the plot will of course NOT be lost on the inhabitants of a certain English town.

Yes, but this English town is not relevant to the world, most likely. --YixilTesiphon

Eh-- just in case you don't get it, he means London, and Guy Fawkes. It is an incredibly well known piece of history an deserves a mention.

 * Is the 400th anniversary notable (has there been notable celebration, etc) or is this just 400 years after something notable? --SPUI (talk) 15:29, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Question
So, movies belong in "2005 in Film," but there are a bunch of films listed? So only the important ones get listed here? -LtNOWIS

Oil Stuff
That mention of oil in the U.S.-- is it appropriate? D. G. 23:38, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No. I will delete it after writing this; there is no evidence that usch an event will take place in 2005. --YixilTesiphon

I agree with the Peak Oil/Thanksgiving prediction (see history) being deleted:

''November 24 - Peak Oil. Geologists predict the global peak in oil production to occur on Thanksgiving Day.''

However, I think my contribution (the one that the above comments refer to) (see history) was legitimate (Unknown Dates section):

Oil exploration in the United States of America will cease due to the amount of energy recovered per unit of energy expended in oil exploration falling to one unit .

I gave a source, and this is significant. Even more significant, from that same source (which mentions several other people), is the prediction that global oil production will peak in 2005. Brianjd 08:14, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)

Except for this one site, I've never heard that this will take place in 2005, much less as silly a date as a specific day. Do we really need to have a "contested neutrality" thing here? YixilTesiphon 04:26, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Intro links
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2005&diff=9023030&oldid=9009352

"That link formulation is confusing."

The links common year starting on Saturday and calendar both point to articles of the same name. Surely it's not that confusing, and this is more informative. Brianjd 09:58, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)

 * The problem, both with this attempt and the one that used to be on the 2004 page (“the link is to a full calendar”), is that the linked phrase common year starting on Saturday was followed by text telling readers to follow the link to a calendar, and then calendar was linked as well. Which link was being referenced, then?  One would suppose that the first link was a definition of common year starting on Saturday, and the second link was to an actual calendar of 2005, when it was actually the opposite.  It was well-intentioned, but quite confusing, even if you think not.  Do we need to define the word ‘calendar’ here?— Ford 12:58, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)

"Fascinating" information on roman numerals
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2005&diff=9026718&oldid=9023746

"That was fascinating."

I think that not only was it fascinating, it was also appropriate. Brianjd 10:02, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)

 * Number-game trivia? That belongs on a person’s home page, not an encyclopedia article.  On New Year’s 2002, a friend said, “Enjoy this year.  It will be the last palindromic you will get to experience.”  That was also true.  And I see, to my great amusement, that someone has posted such trivia on 2002 and 1991.  Had we better post a notice on 2112, so that future readers have something to look forward to?  I am going to remove those palindromic notes also.  After all of the time we spend arguing about which events are important, surely this doesn’t come anywhere close.— Ford 12:58, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)

Keep the months separate!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2005&action=history

What's with the arbitary grouping of months? Brianjd 10:23, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)

2005 in Switzerland
Huh? Brianjd 10:24, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)

Do these really belong here?
Why is Ash Wednesday listed? It happens every year. There's some sort of precedent for when it will fall (my religious teachings are failing me in my old age). So why is it listed if there's nothing significant about this specific year's celebration?

Movie releases: Why list them when they haven't happened yet? Especially when they could be pushed back or, although rare, moved up.

Dismas

 * Ash Wednesday is listed as a scheduled event. There is of course nothing special about that particular day. Hovever, it is useful to keep it, and other similar festivals/routine events (eg the Superbowl) for now, as they give readers an idea of how the year is going to map out, and key dates for changable events/holidays. When the day comes, it can be removed (unless it is a particularly notable Ash Wednesday) Astrotrain 17:22, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)

 * For me Ash Wednesday is a religious day. So do not make sense put it on the calendar. Fupis 0:29, Jan 6, 2005 UTC

 * SuperBowl, World Series are US-centric sport events. Despite the name world series concern only for US. RedSox won? UAU! Very Good! But, what is RedSox? SuperBowl is in the same way. I am from Brazil and for me this kind of sport event do not matters. Or do you want to know when the brazilian Football League starts? I dont think so... Fupis 0:29, Jan 6, 2005 UTC

 * My opinion: generally, if it's on another "2004 in " list then it doesn't belong here. So films and sporting events: nope.  Religious holidays aren't necessary. 1) Ash wednesday is christian-centric and 2) if we put all religious holidays on here then we just added a lot.  So dump them as well. Chinese new year: not necessary either as we don't mark other new years. Cburnett 00:15, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I removed March 7: St. Eubulus Day. According to, March 7 is indeed the memorial day of St. Eubulus, just like March 17 is the better known St. Patrick's Day. But in fact every day of the year has one or more patron saints, and I don't think we want to list all of them. Aleph4 12:10, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Iraq

 * Given the violent year in Iraq during 2004, and the likely continuation in 2004, what Iraqi acts of violence are appropiate for this page? It may be inpractical to list all bombings, deaths etc as they could overwhelm the page??? Astrotrain 17:22, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * You could make a separate page for "2005 in terrorism". --YixilTesiphon 04:25, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * It's obviously impractical to list all violence, but major acts (such as the assassination of the governor of Baghdad) should be included. 2004 saw plenty of violence and that page isn't overwhelmed with it. If anything it's a bit light on info. As for putting it on a '2005 in terrorism', that would be definitionally incorrect as many of the attacks are on military targets which, by definition, is not terrorism. Psychobabble 23:08, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * True. "2005 in Conflict Zones"? --YixilTesiphon 04:09, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Nth-anniversary listings
I removed two listings for upcoming Nth-anniversaries in the "Expected" section (one for the 60th anniv. of Auschwitz's liberation, one for the 1st anniv. of the Opportunity rover's landing). As far as I'm concerned, these are just clutter unless the anniversary itself is significant ("the Nth anniversary of the start of X, surpassing Y") or unless something significant happens at an observance of the anniversary ("at a gathering to mark the Nth anniversary of X, Y happened"). Of course, the two items I removed are still in the history, and can be restored if necessary; I just wanted to discuss this before too much time went by. - jredmond 19:56, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Several of us stated on 2004 that all anniversaries should be dropped, unless of your second kind. The example that I used there was the massive protest in Hong Kong on the anniversary of the Tian An Men massacres, which was an important political event in itself, as a direct challenge to Bei Jing.  Routine observances are not significant.  D-Day was historic; the moment when D-Day was exactly sixty years in the past was not even remotely historic.  The examples I can think of for your first kind do not happen by yearly increments.  John Paul II and John Howard will move up in the ranks of longevity in their offices after a precise number of days, not years; and nothing short of number one is worth noting anyway.  (When George Bush finishes his second term in January of 2009, with how many persons will he be tied for second place?) — Ford 20:29, 2005 Jan 14 (UTC)

 * I thought I had seen a discussion about this someplace else - just couldn't remember where. Thanks! - jredmond 20:38, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Listings
It would be helpfulif users did not list obscure sporting events and every bit of bad weather we get! These are not notable enough to be included in this article. The same for deaths, chess players and sisters of dead Presidents are not notable. Please look at 2004 page for an idea of notability. Astrotrain 21:34, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * And I would say that your idea of notability is very arbitrary, the snow storm that talk off put down 38 inches in the Boston area, the most since 1978, I would say that’s a noteworthy event, I see the sports events as being no less important then the FA cup or premier league info on here, as well as political events, and who is to say whose death is import or not. --Boothy443 21:58, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * The FA or premier league would also not go on this page (but could go on the 2005 in sport or 2005 in the United Kingdom page. There already is an abudance of weather entires in Janaury, all by the same user who seems to edit weather, geographic based articles. If the system is important, yes it should be included. As for deaths, the year page should list all notable (by that very famous people, leaders, heads of state etc), others can go in the Deaths in 2005 section. Astrotrain 22:08, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Well then "be bold" and move them to the appropate catagories, rather then just deleting them off. --Boothy443 22:10, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * actually i agree with Astrotrain in some of his removals. This page is fairly new as 2005 has just started and the contents that existed here before much of 2004 took place.  In general, a format was established for 2004, which arguably is the best pages for each individual years.
 * Obviously 2004 is a model of excellence. It has the same troubles as this. --YixilTesiphon 01:04, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Many people who has some sort of achievement die every day, there is simply not enough room or justification to list them here, nor is it practical in listing them here. However that late night talk show host deservers a spot here.
 * For storms and bad weather, as long as it doesn't have the effects of those tornadoes that hit florida last year and caused billions of dollars in damages, I do not believe it is noteworthy.
 * They were hurricanes. --YixilTesiphon 01:04, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * and who cares if Donald trump gets married 100 times? he may get the credit for marrying the most, but that is a laughable entry for an encyclopedia. This is not your journal entry or some records to keep the "interesting" things.
 * For Superbowl... -__- this page is not the place to list your day-to-day hobbies or pasttimes. Only if something important or significant deserves an entry here.
 * OK, but European sporting events deserve no more mention than American ones.
 * as for the expected events, we should keep whatever is there and only remove it when their time comes and proves to be insignificant.  LG-犬夜叉 22:18, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

Table format
I notice that a user has recently changed the layout of the page to a table format. I am not convinced that this has improved the page, and the format has not been extended to any other pages. Does anyone think it should be kept, or reverted? Astrotrain 15:11, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * REVERT, REVERT!!!! It's HIDEOUSLY ugly. ARGH! Get it away!!!

 * ah... yes, I'm in favour of retaining the existing style for year pages.

 * zoney ♣ talk 15:23, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * In the spirit of whoever changed to a tabular format, I've unilaterally switched back to the bullet format (in case of doubt, this isn't a revert but an edit of the most recent tabular-format page). I took the liberty to tidy up a few items, fix a few links, and make the formatting consistent at the same time. FWIW there probably is some scope for a nicer layout, but that wasn't it... -- Avaragado 21:13, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Bulleted list is probably the second worse way to present tabular data next to no formatting at all. I strive for readability over aesthetics and a bulleted list is far from an optimal readability solution. I've used this table format all over and have received no input as to what a better solution is. I'll cry "REVERT, REVERT!!!! It's HIDEOUSLY ugly. ARGH! Get it away!!!" to a bulleted list of tabular data as the article stands, except it's not the aesthetics I'm complaining about.

By all means, pose a better format. And Avaragado, it was not a unilateral switch to tables if you include the dozens upon dozens of other tables I've created with zero feedback. Cburnett 21:22, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Followup comment: wikipedia contains a lot of tabular data but no good/consistent way to present it. Most notably: filmographies like Kathy Bates.  The readability compared to a table is absolutely horrible.  So, by all means tell me a better way to present tabular data.  I'm dying to hear it.
 * Also, Astrotrain has it wrong. There are many pages with a similar table.  For example, 2004 in film and 2005 in film.  Even on Talk:2004 in film I have it stated that I desire feedback.  3 weeks later, I have none. Cburnett 21:47, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I initally liked the table format, but I think it is not suitable for a page which is constantly being edited, as not all Wikipedians know how to format tables. I think list is easier to format. Astrotrain 21:40, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * That's not the argument here. It's aesthetics not maintainability.  Try again? :) Cburnett 21:47, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Re "unilateral": from my perspective, it was a sudden, major formatting change that introduced an inconsistency with the other year pages. In situations like this it is a good idea to at least warn in advance; for such a major change it would be better to present your proposed design, and ask for feedback, before implementing it.

 * I think your design has a number of problems, including maintainability and usability as well as overall aesthetics. Good design balances all factors rather than emphasising one at the expense of the others. -- Avaragado 23:05, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * WP:BB :) Cburnett 23:13, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes - BDBR :-) -- Avaragado 23:22, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

So, no one else to comment? Can I get rid of the lists? Cburnett 08:10, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I will take any change by you of this sort as volunteering to go through each and every year and change it as well, and as volunteering to maintain every such page also, when editors bungle the markup, which they will inevitably do. But then, if you had started by volunteering to undertake such an enormous task, I’d have replied that it was very nice, but not very credible, of you to do so.  This will be a huge change and beyond any one editor, I think.— Ford 12:39, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)

 * First, I get your point. That being said, I find it rather laughable that I am the only one who could convert and/or maintain such a basic table structure.  Your point is on par with saying "you agree to edit an article on wikipedia, therefore I will take said edit as you volunteering to fix every article and maintain the whole wikipedia.  Do you get my point?

 * Obviously, in creating the table and having previously converted it I have some level of volunteerment to edit and maintain the pages. However, just like with any other edit, I don't sign anything in blood.  Neither do you, so why do you essentially expect it for this? Cburnett 04:27, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

First, consistency is important. It is not the most important thing, but if one year should be formatted with a table, they all should, and changing them all is a major undertaking. Second, I have listened to your discussion so far and am concerned that you seem to have taken a lack of further objections as a withdrawal of previous objections, and I cannot see how you can reasonably do that. You have addressed some of the concerns of some of the objectors, but hardly all of all. Third, you have argued that this is about aesthetics, not maintenance, and many here simply disagree with your premise. Just because there are others who can maintain a table does not mean that most can, or that a table is not a huge entry barrier to new editors. Your table looks better, but it is much harder to edit and maintain, and will require, for consistency, the reformatting of all years on the encyclopedia. Not every editor who maintains the year pages maintains this year. You may well run into resistance on other pages. What then? You are making a minor (and debatable) aesthetic improvement at great cost. I do not think that aesthetic improvement is worth it. And in practice, I think you are committing all of us to something more difficult, rather than just yourself. Most edits are unique to a particular article. In those cases where an edit has a logical extension to many other articles, it is usually shot down. I know this from personal experience. Given a chance, though, I really would change every affected article by myself with a few of my proposed changes; but in doing so, I would not be requiring further work from anyone else. — Ford 14:20, 2005 Feb 8 (UTC)

 * Readability is more important than consistency and that's what I'm doing this for.
 * I consider a lack of further discussion as a removal of objections or lack of desire to continue the discussion.
 * I have never argued it's about aesthetics. Apparently you haven't been paying close enough attention.  The objections to my table have been aesthetics.  I do it in the name of readability.  Perhaps you completely overlooked the "HIDEOUSLY ugly" objection?
 * You'll have to excuse me for saying this, but your arguments don't make sense. You're objecting to these changes because it imposes on the community instead of just me.  Wikipedia is not an individual project.  All changes concern the community, yet you single this change out like it's an exception when it's not.  That said, I have never stated I will leave it for others to do but I also said I wouldn't spend my life doing it.  Or am I the only one not getting paid?

 * While I'm at it, do you have any justification for blatantly accusing me of starting something and not finishing? Considering my # of edits outnumber yours 9 to 1 (or maybe 10 to 1) I think your accusation is rather baseless.  I never said nor demanded anyone finish my work, so please stop dancing around like I am.

 * What distresses me most is that time is wasted on discussion tangential to the point at hand. Instead of discussion on the format--how to improve it, what's a better solution, etc.--you desire to engage in discussion in the ancillary: consistency, your belief that I'm objecting about aesthetics, how it will get done, who will do it, etc.  Cburnett 20:38, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I did not accuse you of starting something and not finishing. I accused you, if you must use the word, of starting a project that is really beyond any one person who isn’t getting paid, as you correctly note is true of all of us. But perhaps, when I have amassed an edit history as extensive as yours, I will think nothing of the prospect of reformatting a few thousand pages.

Are you really not arguing aesthetics? First, readability may be a functional concern, but it is a functionality of appearance. Second, Astrotrain argued for more consideration of maintenance issues, and you dismissively said “That's not the argument here. It's aesthetics not maintainability. Try again?”, as if you are setting the criteria by which the proposal is to be judged. So perhaps I misunderstood that exchange between you and Astrotrain, but the import seems unmistakable to me. As for consistency and logistics, it is again not yours to determine what criteria the rest of us are to weigh. I have conceded that I think your table looks, or if you prefer reads, better. But I think consistency, logistics, and maintenance are all valid concerns. You think they are “ancillary”.

You think I do not make sense, and that is fine (though unwarranted) for you to believe. But since I saw myself as offering reasoned objections rather than personal accusations, I fail to see the significance of your far-greater number of edits, unless that makes your argument more valid, and mine less.

Finally, and this is my most important point, you are absolutely, fundamentally wrong to assume that because others in a discussion do not continually restate their positions it means that you have persuaded them. To the contrary: if they offer no further response, you should assume that their positions have not changed. I was just pointing out what I thought you were doing. Turns out I was right. I was not going to jump into the argument until that point. However little sense I make, I seldom make that mistake.— Ford 05:58, 2005 Feb 9 (UTC)

 * Scratch the reply I had typed up. I'm tired of arguing and debating with you about what this debate should be.  The objections to my original table were entirely about aesthetics--plain and simple.  My goal is to make the data more readable.  The data is tabular and the only solution HTML provides for tabular data is tables.  A simple list of tabular data has a highly erratic border between data, which reduces readability.  There's no aesthetics involved in this.  None.  I'm here to find a solution that we can agree to to make it readable.  I don't give a hoot what that solution specifically ends up being or how it's done: so long as it's readable.  I'm sick and tired of arguing with you essentially over what we should be debating/discussing.  As far as I'm concerned, you've done nothing to further this cause but only stood in the way.  Prior to my original tables through now there's been little accomplished.  Instead of finding a solution, we're reduced to arguing about the proper path to find a solution (who will do it, when will it get done, why in the world should you expect the community to do anything so you must commit to do it yourself, etc.).  You'll have to please excuse my harsh tone and sour attitude now, but I'm getting to the point of saying #@&$*( it and moving on.

 * I have changed tabular data to "ugly" grey-boxes of data on more articles than I can count. None have been reverted except this page, which has reduced to an argument of ancillary topics when specifically focused on agreeing to a new format.  The problem of maintainability and such are a *GLOBAL* problem.  It is not just a problem of converting these pages to a table.  So I don't know what fire is driving you to stick that argument in my face and make me answer for it.  I would much rather find a solution and change it.  I'm an engineer: I solve problems.  I'm not a very good manager as I don't like to sit around and argue what you desire to argue.  So what do we do now?  Do we continue the debate on whether or not I'm really arguing aesthetics or why maintainability is not a 2005 article problem or that we shouldn't use tables to keep (what I believe to be) the minority of non-table-aware editors from participating on the page or what?  I *WANT* to find a solution.  I *DO NOT* want to type paragraph after paragraph after paragraph of replies such as this one.  Nothing would please me more than to delete this little debate with you and get back to what format we can agree to. Cburnett 07:14, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I am sorry this debate has become so personal. I will take my share of the responsibility for that. But you are, once again, arguing from a different premise. You want to find a solution. Others do not believe there to be a problem to solve. The lists work fine. They are readable enough. Your proposed “solution” is, in the opinion of several others, worse than the status quo, all things considered. But you seem unwilling to let us consider all things. You want to frame the debate around one issue, and you do not want to talk about anything else. But you cannot have it both ways. If you just want to be an “engineer”, fly in, solve a problem, and fly out, then you will have to wait until one of the “managers” tells you what the problem is. If, on the other hand, you want to help decide that there is a problem, then you will have to join the other “managers” in a discussion of all the issues that determine whether there is a problem, and if so, what it is.— Ford 12:32, 2005 Feb 9 (UTC)

New format
Any objections to this format? Only difference is the removal of the header row and border=0:

May
It addresses my readability concerns and leaves little to call ugly. Cburnett 22:59, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * My feedback:
 * Prototype with a hard example, not an easy one. The sections that caused most problems in your original design were the ones that covered multiple months (March/April), had awkward date ranges (February 26-March 5), covered an entire month (the first event in January), occurred at an unknown date within a known month (August, October), and had multiple events per day (numerous). You've only covered one of those cases in this prototype.
 * I recommend using terminal punctuation to avoid inconsistencies where some bullets include multiple sentences.
 * What is your design for the "unknown dates" section? For the "deaths" section?
 * The left two columns should be top-aligned for readability when the right column straddles multiple lines. Sadly this means more table markup.
 * -- Avaragado 23:18, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Response: Cburnett 00:08, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Break each month into it's own heading or bold them (as I show below)
 * For month-long events my solution isn't very different from status quo
 * For known spans then use 3 letter abbreviation
 * Liberal use of &nbsp; because the pipe-method of declaring tables does not support the "nowrap" table attributes; if wiki changes then &nbsp; can be exchanged for a "nowrap"
 * I don't get what you mean
 * Unknown dates can stay a bulleted list: there's nothing to tabulate, it's one column of data
 * Added table formatting; I think rendered readability more important than coding readability (but I can still read the code well enough to edit it)

 * I don't get what you mean: Some of the examples you're using have terminal punctuation (a final full stop/period) in the right column, some don't. For consistency reasons it's usually better to include terminal punctuation, especially when you've got full sentences, as here. The exception is the Deaths section, which is better without terminal punctuation (pardon the pun). -- Avaragado 09:08, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I think it's hideous, but beyond that, I certainly have no experience editing tables, and I imagine most of my fellow nooBs don't either; so in the interest of egalitarianism, let's get rid of them. --YixilTesiphon 04:14, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I guess if I'm surrounded by people that care about aesthetics over readability, then so be it. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it: a bulleted list is the second worst answer for tabular data.  It wouldn't be nearly as bad if the events lined up (the purpose of me adding tables) but you cannot do that with lists. Cburnett 05:03, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I find it less readable as well. Thanks for moving my reply, by the way. --YixilTesiphon 00:52, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

New Format #2
Using feedback from Avaragado.

August-December
August:

September:

October:

November:

Deaths #1
January:

Deaths #2
January:

Feedback to the proposed formats
Avaragado's feedback:
 * Add terminal punctuation everywhere except Deaths (see above).
 * Deaths #2 is better, but lose the enforced line breaks and use caps in the right column (eg First not first).
 * I'd drop the multiple-month sections: keep it simple, lay out August-December as with February etc.
 * I like the design overall; however, I think the markup's likely to cause grief for many editors. I'm tempted to say that a simple template could simplify the markup, but it would probably kill performance. What do other people think?
 * -- Avaragado 09:18, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Cburnett's Response: Cburnett 01:11, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Gotcha, but that's not really a part of my design. That said, I think they should be phrases instead of sentences as it promotes brevity
 * The one forced line break was because it was smashing it all and names were split. Again, wiki doesn't recognize "nowrap" cell attribute.
 * Sure, whatever. :)
 * Ultimately I'm not sure how much of a concern this is. I don't know how many editors don't know tables.  However, I would suspect those that don't know & understand tables could copy from another row.  Worse comes to worse then someone can, uh, "clean up" or the person adds it to the talk page or just doesn't post it.  I guess this ultimately rears itself to the question: do we need to serve the lowest common denominator of editors?

LG-犬夜叉's response:
 * I just have to say that the boxes that appeared a few weeks ago is a definite NO. It does not enchance the readability at all and it only makes the page look more cluttered.
 * As for the new formats, i think "New Format #2" looks good. It is quite consistent with the format of 2004 and also it removed the redundant month in "feburary 1", "feburary 2"...etc.  The sub-header is sufficient.  This format also creates more spacing between entries, easier to read than the current editions of the 2004 page.
 * however i do have one suggestion and that is when multiple events take place on the same day, don't create separate entries, use the bullet format like that of the 2004 page.
 * if we were to go with one of these two formats, i vote for number 2. LG-犬夜叉 01:52, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks LG for your comments. Please see 2005/test for a full article in the new format.  Please note the difference between Jan 3 and Jan 9. The 3rd is with separate entries regardless and the 9th has multiple-event dates in a bulleted list. The latter clearly shows they happened on the same date and I find the readability of both to be the same.  I don't mind either way. Cburnett 07:52, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I prefer the current format; tabbed tables, though initially promising, really don't add aesthetics or readability. DDerby 19:24, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Full article in new format
See 2005/test. It's the 2005 article entirely in the new format (with Death #2). Perhaps a whole page in format separate from discussion will make things easier. Cburnett 07:48, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Regarding The List of Deaths
This year features a long list of deaths much greater in length than previous years' lists. In order to save space, I am deleting several less notable deaths and only leaving those relevant to society and/or history.

Failure to record the Cardiff Tsunami relief concert
Would anyone think it would be good to actually note down about the relief concert in Cardiff earlier this year? People did work hard for that, and simply cared that much that they raised a good load of money. It was the biggest since 1985 anyway.

Draig goch20 22:31, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Deaflympics
After adding the "deaflympics" to the 2005 page, I was edited claiming "there were a lot of disputes about listing the main Olympics on the year page, let alone the Deafolympics (sic). 2005 in sports is more appropriate.". Why is it sill ok to list the anoucement date for the 2012 olympics, then?? Has anyone got any comments?? Rarosalion 02:30, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Moaning
How do all these baseball players end up in the deaths section? If I try to add a footballer, it's gets removed for not being of historical significance, even if they did something historically significant in the game. Every other year has just about everyone in the deaths section. --Ben davison 11:49, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Launch of Cardigan Bay
Was the launch of the RFA Cardigan Bay on April 9 worth recording? I included it, but Psychobabble thinks it is not sufficiently important. Nobody has disputed that the ship itself is encyclopedic. The launch of a ship for one of the world's largest navies does not happen every day, or even every month. Is e.g. a new album from Bruce Springsteen all that important? PatGallacher 12:46, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)
 * I would say the ship is not a significant addition to the Royal Navy to be included on the main 2005 page. It is a mere transport ship, not even an aircraft carrier. It didn't make any news impact in the UK even. Astrotrain 15:16, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * We simply can't include everything which is worth creating an encyclopedia page for. As for ships, military ships & subs get launched fairly regularly (take a look at china's MASSIVE expansion of their navy in the past few years) and aren't particularly noteworty events. Think, will anyone care about this in 1, 2, 5 years time? As for the Springsteen album thing, if it ends up as an actual entry (ie not just a "future" then it'll be deleted. We gotta keep trivia out of the list or it will get too clogged up. Psychobabble 01:33, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Number of Entries
I think the number of entries on this page is far too large. 2002 is, I think, a good example of what we should aim for. That entire year is about the size of the first four months of this year. It's much more readable and mostly includes only genuinely important events. This page should be a short, readable, succint summary of what went on this year. To this end I propose deleting the following entries but I thought I'd consult first: January
 * The Freedom of Information Act 2000 comes into force in the United Kingdom.
 * Turkey introduces a new currency, the New Turkish Lira, valued at 1,000,000 times the old lira.
 * In Germany, stage IV of the Hartz concept brings together unemployment benefits and social security benefits, despite protests.
 * A major storm system sweeps across the United States, and winter weather such as snow, ice storms and avalanches kill at least 16.
 * Mars Exploration Rover-A Spirit marks its first year roaming Mars Gusev crater.
 * The United States Navy submarine USS San Francisco runs aground near Guam, killing one sailor and injuring several others.
 * Photos of Prince Harry dressed as a Nazi at a fancy dress party cause worldwide condemnation.
 * Speed limits in the Republic of Ireland switch from mph to km/h. All speed limit signs are replaced, as well as old road signs with non-metric distances (from before the 1970s).
 * The Procter & Gamble Co. acquires Gillette Co. in a deal valued at $57 billion US, creating the world's largest consumer-products company.
 * A train crash near Bologna, Italy kills 18 people.

February
 * the Palestinian authorities and the Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon agree to a truce at talks in Egypt. (they're always doing that)
 * Fire devastates the Windsor Building, a 32 story office block, in Madrid.
 * Airlines in Europe will have to pay heavy compensation to passengers for flight delays and cancellations under a European regulation coming into force from this date.
 * 2005 Quebec student strike begun.
 * The galaxy VIRGOHI21, which is made up of mostly dark matter within the Virgo cluster, have been discovered by radio telescopes, shedding new light on the theory of how the universe is held together by the gravitational pull of these dark matters and dark energy. Things like this happen all the time. It would be worth one of the small news entries at the start of New Scientist, not much more

March
 * Paul Schäfer, leader of Colonia Dignidad, is captured in Argentina after an eight-year disappearance. Two days later, he would be deported to Chile. Maybe I am just ignorant, but I don't see the lasting importance of this
 * Central African Republic to have its first elections since 1999. What does this mean? Have the elections actually happened or was it just announced? If the latter then I say delete
 * Suspects Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri in the bombing of the Air India Flight 182 in 1985 are found to be not guilty on all accounts.
 * Japan's Expo 2005 beginning east of Nagoya.
 * MG Rover, the UK's sole remaining volume producer goes into receivership after a planned alliance with Chinese manufacturer, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation collapses.

I'm not alleging that this page has any particular bias, though it might, I simply think it's too big and un-readable. If you object to any of these removals please be specific and detail your objection. (btw, speaking of too big, should some of this talk page be archived?) Psychobabble 01:56, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Agree with most except: Astrotrain 14:42, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * MG Rover- important event for a major car producer
 * Air India trial- major legal event for a significant terrorist attack
 * Fire in Windsor building- sig event for a major world city
 * Prince Harry- caused sig. contraversey
 * Italian train crash- sig event in a major European country

 * I'd keep the Central African Republic elections too, provided we can substantiate it and get some after-the-fact, um, facts on it. - jredmond 15:05, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ok I'm deleting. I disagree with some of Astrotrain's objections, but I'll respect them. There's a page on the african elections so i'll just make that entry more inteligible. Psychobabble

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Carthay, Los Angeles

Carthay is a half-square-mile neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. It contains Carthay Circle, Carthay Square and South Carthay. There are three Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zones in Carthay.

Geography
The neighborhood of Carthay comprises Carthay Circle, Carthay Square and South Carthay.

As delineated by the Los Angeles Times Mapping Project, Carthay is bounded on the north by Wilshire Boulevard, on the east by Fairfax Avenue, on the south by Pico Boulevard, on the west by La Cienega Boulevard and on the northwest by Schumacher and Tower Drives.

It is flanked by Beverly–Fairfax to the north, Mid-Wilshire to the east, Mid-City to the south, and Pico–Robertson to the west, and Beverly Hills to the northwest.

Population
The 2000 U.S. census counted 4,866 residents in the half-square-mile neighborhood—amounting to 9,642 people per square mile, about an average population density for the city and the county. In 2008 the city estimated that the population had increased to 5,120. The median age for residents was 37, older than the city's average.

Carthay was said to be "highly diverse" when compared to the city at large. The ethnic breakdown in 2000 was: 57.8% non-Hispanic white; 15.9% Latino; 12.8% Black; 8.5% Asian; 5.1% of other races. Mexico (26.4%) and Korea (8.2%) were the most common places of birth for the 25.1% of the residents who were born abroad, a figure that was considered low for the city as a whole.

The median household income in 2008 dollars was $71,398, considered to be a high figure in Los Angeles. The percentage of households earning $125,000 or more was high, compared to the county at large. The average household size of 2.1 people was low for Los Angeles. Renters occupied 64.7% of the housing units, and home- or apartment owners the rest.

In 2000, there were 168 military veterans, 4.1% of the population, considered a low rate for the county overall, but the percentage of veterans who served during World War II or the Korean War was among the county's highest.

Carthay residents aged 25 and older holding a four-year degree amounted to 53.2% of the population in 2000, a high rate for both the city and the county.

Historic Preservation Overlay Zones
Carthay contains three Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zones. They are the Carthay Circle HPOZ, South Carthay HPOZ, and the Carthay Square HPOZ.

Education

There is one school within Carthay's boundaries—Carthay Center Elementary, a K–6 school at 6351 West Olympic Boulevard. Starting in Fall 2014, Carthay Center Elementary became Carthay School of Environmental Studies Magnet, a residential full-school magnet. Spaces are reserved for students in the traditional attendance boundaries, but the school is also open to magnet school applicants from throughout LAUSD. The Environmental Studies program will be building on programs such as the celebrated Garden Science program at the school.

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Bruce Timm

Bruce Walter Timm (born February 5, 1961) is an American artist, animator, writer, producer, and director. He is best known for contributing to building the modern DC Comics animated franchise, most notably as the head producer behind Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995), Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000), The New Batman Adventures (1997–1999), Batman Beyond (1999–2001), Justice League (2001–2004), and Justice League Unlimited (2004–2006).

He also co-created Freakazoid! (1995–1997) alongside Paul Dini and developed Green Lantern: The Animated Series (2012–2013). Following the conclusion of the DCAU, Timm went on to produce several DC animated films under the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line, such as Wonder Woman (2009), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010), Justice League Doom (2012), Superman vs The Elite (2012), The Dark Knight Returns (2013) and Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015).

Outside of animation, Timm has also drawn and written several comic books. Timm and Dini collaborated on The Batman Adventures: Mad Love, which won the Eisner Award for Best Single Story in 1994, which told the origin story of Harley Quinn.

Early life
Bruce Timm was born on February 5, 1961, in Oklahoma, the third of four brothers. His father was an engineer and his mother worked for the phone company. Timm's family first moved to Ohio when Timm was two years old, and then to California when Timm was five or six.

Timm began drawing from a young age and developed a serious interest in comics around age 12 or 13. His first exposure to superhero media was the 1960s Batman television series. Timm went to college for only one year before dropping out due to bad grades. After dropping out, he began working full-time at Kmart until he saw a Filmation ad inviting new artists to take a layout test. Timm applied in mid-1980, but wasn't offered the job and went back to working for Kmart. The next year, Filmation began hiring again. Timm passed the layout test on his second try and from that point on began working in animation.

1985–1989
Timm's early career in animation started at Filmation, working on the layout of Blackstar, Flash Gordon, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, its spin-off She-Ra: Princess of Power, and The Lone Ranger. He also did background work on G.I. Joe. He also worked for numerous other employers, including Ralph Bakshi and Don Bluth Productions, and attempted to find work at Marvel Comics and DC Comics, but was unsuccessful. During an animators strike in 1982, Timm found himself out of work and went back to Kmart for about half a year, before being hired by Don Bluth to help work on The Secret of NIMH. In 1987, he was hired by John Kricfalusi to do layouts for Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which Timm called "artistically and creatively the most fulfilling job that I'd had in the animation business". He worked at DIC Entertainment on The Real Ghostbusters for one season in 1988, then joined Warner Bros. in 1989. At Warner, Timm worked on Tiny Toon Adventures.

1992–2006
Timm was one of the creators and producers of the animated series based on various DC Comics superheroes, known as the DC Animated Universe. The DCAU has also named the "Timmverse" or "Diniverse", after both him and Paul Dini, a writer and producer. Along with his Tiny Toons partner Eric Radomski, Timm co-created and produced the Emmy Award-winning Batman: The Animated Series, which premiered on September 5, 1992, through which he and Dini co-created the character of Harley Quinn, and went on to co-create and produce Superman: The Animated Series (premiered in September 1996), The New Batman Adventures (premiered in September 1997), and Batman Beyond (premiered in January 1999), through which he and Dini co-created Terry McGinnis, the teenage Batman of the future, and his supporting cast. He also served as producer on the feature-length Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) before taking the helm as creator and producer of the animated version of Justice League, which debuted in November 2001; the series continued in the form of Justice League Unlimited in July 2004. Timm was also the producer and creator of Green Lantern: The Animated Series (premiered in November 2011). Along with Dini he created the animated series Freakazoid! (premiered in September 1995).

Timm created virtually all the original character designs for Batman: The Animated Series himself, with the exceptions of Mr. Freeze and the Riddler, who were designed by Mike Mignola, and the characters Man-Bat and the Mad Hatter, who were designed by Kevin Nowlan. He shared character designer duties on Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League with James Tucker.

2008–present
The 2008 project Batman: Gotham Knight is a departure from the "Timmverse" style, with Timm in a producer role collaborating with Japanese animators on a direct-to-DVD anthology that takes place between the live-action Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008) films.

In 2013, following the release of The Dark Knight Returns animated feature, Timm stepped down as DC animation supervising producer; James Tucker was named as his replacement. Timm still works at Warner Brothers, and executive produced the DC Universe Original Animated Movies Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015) and Batman: The Killing Joke (2016), and series Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles (2015). He was a writer and executive producer for Batman and Harley Quinn (2017).

Timm worked with Man of Steel director Zack Snyder in creating a 75th anniversary short of Superman in 2013. In 2014, he released Batman: Strange Days, an animated short celebrating the 75th anniversary of Batman and an homage to one of Hugo Strange's first appearances in the comic books.

During DC FanDome 2021, Timm was announced to be executive producing a new Batman animated series titled Batman: Caped Crusader alongside J. J. Abrams and Matt Reeves. Comparing the new series to Batman: The Animated Series, Timm stated, "There were certain limitations on what we could do in terms of adult content; in terms of violence and adult themes. My idea is basically to say, 'OK, it's 1990 again, I get to do what I want to do this time, and I got JJ and Matt backing me up.'"

Acting
Timm has played several characters in the animated series he has been involved in. His cameos include the 1992 episode of Batman: The Animated Series, "Beware the Gray Ghost", playing the toy shop owner, as himself in the 1997 episode of The New Batman Adventures, "Holiday Knights", and as the leader of the Jokerz gang in Batman Beyond, which he joked he did under duress and was "Emmy Award-winning material". He subsequently appeared in an animated form in the 2009 episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, "Legends of the Dark Mite", in a comic book convention parody scene, in which he wore Joker's costume, alongside Paul Dini in Harley Quinn's costume. He played a guard in the 2000 direct-to-video animated film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.

Timm made a cameo appearance in the 2009 film Green Lantern: First Flight as Bug Boy. He played The Riddler in the 2010 film Batman: Under the Red Hood and appeared as Galius Zed in the 2011 film Green Lantern: Emerald Knights.

Comics
Outside of his work in animation, Timm's first ambition was to become a comic-book artist and has thus produced several one-shots and miniseries, mostly for DC Comics. His earliest comic book work was drawing He-Man and other Masters of the Universe mini-comics that would be packaged with Mattel toys in the 1980s.

In 1994, Timm and writer Paul Dini won both the Eisner Award for Best Single Story and the Harvey Award for Best Single Issue or Story for Batman Adventures: Mad Love. Timm won the same Eisner prize the next year as well, for Batman Adventures Holiday Special, (a one-shot with several Christmas-themed stories) with Dini, Ronnie del Carmen, and others. Later, Timm was involved with Batman Adventures and has also worked on Avengers and Vampirella.

In 2000, he did the art for an issue of DC's Vertigo imprint horror title, Flinch.

Timm co-created Harley Quinn (with Dini), working from Dini's original design. Harley's popularity on television led to her inclusion in the mainstream DC Universe. In 2004, Timm and Dini (assisted by Shane Glines as inker) released a three-issue Harley and Ivy miniseries, which was in the works for years.

Timm also drew the 1999 Avengers 1½ special for Marvel Comics, written by Roger Stern. In 2005, he contributed artwork for two comics. One was a short story in Conan #18, titled "Conan's Favorite Joke". The other was a Black Canary short story in Birds of Prey #86. Timm provided the art work for a short two-page Harley Quinn origin story for Dini's Countdown in 2008.

Timm was featured in "Conan Gets Animated", a skit in the December 9, 2010, episode of the TBS late night talk show Conan, in which host Conan O'Brien enlisted his help in designing a new superhero, based on O'Brien's specifications. The superhero, who was designed to resemble O'Brien, included a typically muscular superhero body and costume with chest insignia, as well as idiosyncrasies such as an oven mitt, a jai alai glove, golf shoes, sock garters, and fishnet stockings. One month later, O'Brien aired a clip on his show in which the character, named "The Flaming C", appears in Young Justice.

In 2013, Timm provided the cover artwork for Adventures of Superman #4.

Art books
In 2012, Timm released a book of erotic art, "Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm," showcasing more than 300 pencil, line, and full color erotic drawings of women. In 2020, he released another book of erotic art, "The Big Tease: A Naughty and Nice Collection," showcasing more than 208 pencil, line, and full color erotic drawings of women.

Drawing style and influences
Timm's minimalist, аngular style is heavily based in his love of 1950s- and 1960s-era comics and Art Deco architecture style. He is also self-taught, having never received any formal art schooling. Timm lists his artistic influences as Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Jim Steranko, John Buscema, Wally Wood, Frank Frazetta, Dan DeCarlo, and Alex Toth.

Personal life
Timm is married to his wife, Marta. They have one daughter.

Accolades

 * Eisner and Harvey Award in 1994 for The Batman Adventures: Mad Love; an Eisner for Batman Adventures Holiday Special in 1995.
 * Winsor McCay Award in 2009.
 * Inkpot Award in 2013.

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City of Angels (musical)

City of Angels is a satirical musical comedy with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and a book by Larry Gelbart. The show takes a critical look at Hollywood through the eyes of Stine, a successful writer who is adapting his latest novel into a film. The musical explores two parallel storylines: one following Stine's struggles to adapt his novel, and the other taking place within the world of the film he's creating. The musical also serves an ode to the classic film noir genre of the 1940s.

Productions
City of Angels premiered on Broadway at the Virginia Theatre on December 11, 1989 and closed on January 19, 1992 after 879 performances and 24 previews. It was directed by Michael Blakemore with sets designed by Robin Wagner, costumes by Florence Klotz and lighting by Paul Gallo.
 * Broadway

While the show continued on Broadway, the Los Angeles company opened in June 1991 at the Shubert Theater in Century City, with Stephen Bogardus as Stine, Lauren Mitchell as the villainess, with Randy Graff (Friday Oolie) and James Naughton (Stone) reprising their original roles. Jeff McCarthy replaced Naughton and Catherine Cox replaced Graff in the Costa Mesa production. This production, along with the Los Angeles cast, played at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, California from October 1991 through November 10, 1991.
 * US Tour

The production was revamped and embarked on a national tour, with Barry Williams in the role of Stone. Jordan Leeds was chosen from the tour's ensemble to play Stine, and Betsy Joslyn played the two secretaries. The tour played venues including the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in Tampa, Florida (February 1992); the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. (June 1992); the Ordway in Saint Paul, Minnesota (August 1992); the Crouse-Hinds Concert Theatre in Syracuse, New York (November 1992); and the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (November 1992).

The musical opened in the West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre in March 1993. Blakemore again directed, with Roger Allam as Stone, Martin Smith as Stine, and Henry Goodman as Buddy Fidler. The Los Angeles Times reported "...it was announced that the production here of 'City of Angels'....was closing prematurely after four months, despite excellent notices." Frank Rich reported that "the West End production of the Broadway hit 'City of Angels' would close after only a four-month run. 'City of Angels' received rave reviews, and its box-office collapse was blamed on the gravity of the recession and the declining sophistication of West End audiences."
 * West End

The production was nominated for five 1994 Laurence Olivier Awards: Best Director of a Musical; Best Actor in a Musical (Roger Allam); Best Actress in a Musical (Haydn Gwynne); Best Supporting Performance in a Musical (Henry Goodman); and The American Express Award for Best New Musical, winning for Best New Musical.

The first West End revival was staged at the Donmar Warehouse, opening officially on December 16, 2014 and running till February 2015. Directed by the Donmar Warehouse's artistic director Josie Rourke, the cast included Hadley Fraser as Stine, Tam Mutu as Stone, Rosalie Craig as Gabbi/Bobbi, Katherine Kelly as Alura/Carla and Samantha Barks as Mallory/Avril. This production was nominated for five 2015 Olivier Awards: Magic Radio Best Musical Revival (Winner); White Light Award for Best Lighting Design (Winner); Best Director; Best Costume Design; and XL Video Award for Best Set Design.

The theatre company ''Reprise! Broadway's Best'' production ran in January–February 2006 at Freud Playhouse, UCLA, Los Angeles. The cast featured Burke Moses as Stone, Vicki Lewis as Oolie, Tami Tappan Damiano as Gabby, and Stephen Bogardus as Stine.
 * Other productions

The work was presented by Life Like Company at the Arts Centre Melbourne from November 5, 2015 to November 8, 2015, directed by Martin Croft and starring Kane Alexander as Stone, Anton Berezin as Stine, Amanda Harrison as Donna/Oolie and Chelsea Plumley as Gabby/Bobbi.

Porchlight Music Theatre presented City of Angels as a part of "Porchlight Revisits" in Chicago, Illinois in March 2015. It was directed by Christopher Pazdernik with musical direction by Aaron Benham.

Plot
The setting is Hollywood, California in the late 1940s, with two stories occurring simultaneously: a Hollywood comedy and a detective drama. The real-life scenes feature full-color sets and costumes, while the movie scenes are in black-and-white. With the exception of the actors playing Stine and Stone, most of the cast doubles as characters in the "real" world and their fictional counterparts.

Act I
Stone, a tough Los Angeles private eye, lies on a hospital gurney with a bullet in his shoulder and a lot on his mind. He flashes back to a week earlier, when his loyal Girl Friday secretary, Oolie, ushered in a rich, beautiful woman named Alaura. Alaura claims she wants Stone to find her missing stepdaughter, Mallory Kingsley, a beautiful "bad" girl. Against his better judgment, he takes the case.

A man at a typewriter appears onstage, and Stone and Alaura suddenly back up, "rewind", and play the scene with a few changes. The man at the typewriter is Stine, author of the popular detective novel City of Angels, which he is adapting into a screenplay at the behest of Hollywood producer-director Buddy Fidler. His wife Gabby has misgivings and wishes that he would stick to novels, but for now, Stine is enjoying the ride.

We begin to see the interplay between "reality" and fiction as Gabby (in the real world) and Oolie (in the story-within-the-story) lament how their men won't listen to them ("What You Don't Know About Women").

Stone, alone in his dreary bungalow, is listening to the radio: Jimmy Powers and the Angel City 4 are singing "You Gotta Look Out For Yourself". Two thugs break down his door, beat him up, and knock him out. Cut to Buddy Fidler reading this scene in the screenplay: we see that his secretary, Donna, is the model for Oolie, and that Buddy can't help meddling with everything ("The Buddy System").

Stone is rudely awakened by Lieutenant Munoz, who was Stone's partner on the force but now bears him a major grudge. Once, Stone loved a low-rent lounge singer named Bobbi, whom Stine based on Gabby ("With Every Breath I Take"). But Bobbi wanted stardom more than marriage, and when Stone caught her with a Hollywood producer (based on Buddy), tempers flared, a gun went off, and the producer was killed. Munoz has never forgiven Stone for "getting away with murder."

Stone, angry after the beating, confronts Alaura at her mansion and meets several more unsavory characters, including her lustful stepson, her polio-stricken elderly husband, and his quack doctor. Greed and malice hover like smog, but Alaura's charms and bankroll keep Stone on the case ("The Tennis Song"). He fruitlessly pursues the missing Mallory in a scene that recalls a film montage ("Ev'rybody's Gotta Be Somewhere"), only to find her waiting naked in his bed ("Lost And Found"). Stone somehow manages to resist temptation—which is more than can be said for his creator. After Gabby returns to New York, Stine takes comfort in Donna's bed.

A photographer breaks into Stone's bungalow and snaps a picture of him with Mallory. She runs off with his gun, which is subsequently used to murder the quack doctor. Stone is framed for the killing; Munoz gleefully arrests him ("All You Have To Do Is Wait").

Stine is having a lousy time of it, too. Buddy is butchering his script, his conscience is nagging him about his infidelity, and Stone, his own creation, is disgusted with him. The curtain falls with each of them arguing, to a swinging big-band accompaniment ("You're Nothing Without Me").

Act II
In a recording studio, Jimmy Powers and the Angel City 4 are singing "Stay With Me", which then becomes a record playing in a bedroom that looks like Alaura's, but actually belongs to Carla Haywood, Buddy's wife, who will play Alaura in the movie.

Stone languishes in jail, attended only by Oolie, who like her alter ego, Donna, is feeling used by men ("You Can Always Count On Me"). Stone is mysteriously bailed out, but the two hoods catch up with him and nearly blow him up before he neatly turns the tables.

Stine has troubles of his own. Lonely at a Hollywood party of Buddy's sycophants, including a Hollywood composer ("Alaura's Theme"), Stine phones home only to find that Gabby has discovered that he cheated on her. He flies to New York with an elaborately prepared excuse, but she's not buying it ("It Needs Work").

Stone, fighting to clear his name, is led to a brothel ("LA Blues") where he is stunned to find Bobbi. We learn it was she who shot the producer; Stone has been covering for her all this time. Together, they face the wreckage of their love ("With Every Breath I Take").

In Hollywood, Stine is approached by a young starlet, Avril, who will be playing Mallory. She begs him to reconsider killing off Mallory near the end. He says he'll think about it.

Oolie, meanwhile, has discovered that Alaura is a fortune hunter who has already murdered one rich husband and is planning to do away with this one, once she had eliminated his son, daughter, and doctor. She tried to get her stepson, Peter, to kill the doctor and Mallory, but he couldn't bring himself to kill. Stone confronts her at the mansion; they grapple for her gun; shots ring out. Alaura falls dead, Stone is gravely wounded, and we're back where we started.

But where does that leave Stine? Gabby has rejected him and his lover, Donna, has been rewriting his script. Stine faces the collapse of his real and fictive worlds, and as his emotions take over, his wit turns bitter ("Funny"). When Stine arrives on the movie set to find that Buddy's name appears above his on the screenplay, and that the shallow crooner Jimmy Powers will play Stone, Stine boils over. With the "real" Stone, his conscience, finally leading him to make the right choice, he rages at Buddy, gets himself fired, and is about to get beat up by two security guards when Stone somehow appears at Stine's typewriter and writes him the fighting skills of a superhero, then tacks on a "Hollywood ending" in which Gabby returns, forgiving all. Together they celebrate ("I'm Nothing Without You") as the curtain falls.

Musical numbers

 * Act I
 * Prologue: Theme from City of Angels
 * "Double Talk" – Stone and Alaura Kingsley
 * "Double Talk" – Buddy Fidler and Stine
 * "What You Don't Know About Women" – Gabby and Oolie
 * "Ya Gotta Look Out for Yourself" – Jimmy Powers and Angel City 4
 * "The Buddy System" – Buddy Fidler
 * "With Every Breath I Take" – Bobbi
 * "The Tennis Song" – Stone and Alaura Kingsley
 * "Ev'rybody's Gotta Be Somewhere" – Stone and Angel City 4
 * "Lost and Found" – Mallory Kingsley
 * "All Ya Have to Do is Wait" – Munoz, Yamato, Mahoney and Officer Pasco
 * "You're Nothing Without Me" – Stine and Stone

 * Act II
 * "Stay with Me" – Jimmy Powers and Angel City 4
 * "You Can Always Count On Me" – Oolie
 * "You Can Always Count On Me" – Donna
 * "Double Talk" – Buddy Fidler and Party Guests
 * "Stay with Me" (Reprise) – Jimmy Powers and Angel City 4
 * "It Needs Work" – Gabby
 * "With Every Breath I Take" – Stone and Bobbi
 * "Funny" – Stine
 * "I'm Nothing Without You" – Stone, Stine and Gabby
 * Epilogue: Theme from City of Angels
 * Double Talk Walk (Curtain Call)

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Broadway cast and characters
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Hollywood cast

 * Stine - The author of the novel City of Angels, which he is adapting into a film.
 * Gabby - Stine's wife (The actress playing Gabby also plays Bobbi.)
 * Donna - Buddy's secretary (The actress playing Oolie also plays Donna.)
 * Carla Haywood - Buddy's wife, who will be playing Alaura in the film. She is having an affair with Jimmy Powers. (The actress playing Carla also plays Alaura.)
 * Avril - A young Hollywood starlet who will be playing Mallory in the film. She is having an affair with Buddy. (The actress playing Avril also plays Mallory.)
 * Buddy - The film producer. He is changing the integrity of the novel. He is married to Carla and having an affair with Avril. (The actor playing Buddy also plays Irwin.)
 * Pancho Vargas - The actor playing Munoz in the film.
 * Gerald Pierce - The actor playing Peter Kingsley in the film.
 * Werner Kriegler - The actor playing Luther Kingsley in the film.
 * Jimmy Powers - A popular singer, who appears in both the Hollywood scenes and in the fictional movie scenes. In the real world, Powers is having an affair with Carla.
 * The Angel City 4 - Jimmy Powers' back-up singers, a close-harmony quartet who serve as a Greek chorus in the film world.
 * Two Studio Guards, played by the same actors who play Sonny and Big Six

Movie cast

 * Stone - A former police cop turned private eye detective, the hero of Stine's novel. The classic hard-boiled detective, who is hired to find Mallory Kingsley. Tough, wisecracking and quick-witted. He is irresistible to women, but only has room in his heart for the woman he has lost.
 * Alaura Kingsley - A femme fatale trophy wife. She comes to Stone to have him find her missing step-daughter, but, it turns out that this is all a plot for Alaura to kill her step-children to take her soon-to-be late husband's money. She and Stone have a brief affair. She is shot and killed in a struggle with Stone. (The actress playing Alaura also plays Carla.)
 * Bobbi - Stone's former girlfriend, A nightclub singer based directly on Stine's wife Gabby. (The actress playing Gabby also plays Bobbi.)
 * Oolie - Stone's loyal Girl Friday. Unrequitedly in love with Stone, she goes to great lengths to protect and aid him. (The actress playing Oolie also plays Donna.)
 * Mallory Kingsley - Alaura's beautiful, seductive step-daughter, whom Stone is hired to find. (The actress playing Mallory also plays Avril.)
 * Detective Munoz - Stone's former partner, now a bitter rival. He believes that Stone repeatedly antagonizes him. His hatred of Stone has a racial element that Buddy Fiddler demands be deleted from the screenplay. (The actor playing Munoz also plays Pancho.)
 * Irwin S. Irving - A Hollywood mogul Stone catches in bed with Bobbi. Inspired by Buddy. (The actor playing Irwin also plays Buddy.)
 * Dr. Mandrill - A quack doctor hired by Alaura to care for Luther. He is later killed, seemingly by Peter, but really by Alaura.
 * Luther Kingsley - Alaura's husband, Mallory and Peter's father. He is suffering from polio and encased in an iron lung. He dotes on Mallory.
 * Peter Kingsley - Luther's son and Mallory's brother. He and Alaura concoct a scheme to kill Dr Mandrill, Luther, and Mallory to take all of the inheritance. He, however, cannot bring himself to kill, turning on Alaura.
 * Jimmy Powers - A popular singer, who appears in both the Hollywood scenes and in the fictional movie scenes. In the real world, Powers is having an affair with Carla.
 * The Angel City 4 - Jimmy Powers' back-up singers, a close-harmony quartet who serve as a Greek chorus in the film world.

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Recordings
There are recordings of the original Broadway cast on Sony (ASIN: B00000272K), released on February 9, 1990, and the London original cast on RCA (ASIN: B000003FN9), released October 12, 1993.

Critical response
Frank Rich wrote in his review in The New York Times: "...how long has it been since a musical was brought to a halt by riotous jokes?...This is an evening in which even a throwaway wisecrack spreads laughter like wildfire through the house, until finally the roars from the balcony merge with those from the orchestra and the pandemonium takes on a life of its own.... There is no end to the cleverness with which the creators of City of Angels carry out their stunt of double vision, starting with a twin cast list (a Hollywood Cast and a Movie Cast) in the Playbill....Mr. Coleman's score - a delirious celebration of jazz and pop styles sumptuously orchestrated by Billy Byers..."

An article about Frank Rich in the Deseret News noted: "But a rave from Rich can translate quickly into box office dollars. 'City of Angels,' a new musical without big stars, was taking in about $18,000 a day in advance ticket sales before it opened, according to general manager Ralph Roseman. The day after it opened to mixed reviews - but lavish praise from Rich - the box office take was $324,700."

Of the 2014 production at the Donmar, Matt Trueman from Variety wrote: "Gelbart makes his point early and his ciphers can't sustain a second act that gets itself tangled. Small matter, given the style on show. Practically every other line cracks a laugh, and Coleman's authentic jazz score is rich and infectious, combining variety with real integrity. Robert Jones's crisp greyscale design, artfully lit by Howard Harrison, and Duncan Mclean's colorful projections match them for class."

Film adaptation
In June 2009, a film adaptation of City of Angels was announced with Barry Levinson as director.

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Elections BC

Elections BC (formally the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of British Columbia) is a non-partisan office of the British Columbia legislature responsible for conducting provincial and local elections, by-elections, petitions, referendums, plebiscites in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its federal equivalent is Elections Canada.

Responsibilities
Elections BC is a non-partisan office of the British Columbia Legislature responsible for conducting provincial and local elections, by-elections, petitions, referendums, plebiscites in British Columbia. Elections BC compiles and maintains a list of eligible voters as well as sets and adjusts the boundaries of electoral districts.

Elections BC is also responsible for regulating campaign financing and advertising and the registration of political parties. To retain their official status, political parties must file annual financial reports with Elections BC. Registration entitles parties to have their name on the ballot where they run candidates, issue tax receipts and spend on election campaigns. , 22 political parties are registered in British Columbia.

In advance of elections, a district electoral officer (DEO) and a deputy district electoral officer (DDEO) represent Elections BC in each electoral district and establish a temporary office to conduct the election, often shortly before the writ of election is dropped by the government.

Elections BC is subject to the following legislation: Election Act (1996), Financial Disclosure Act (1996), Local Government Act (1996), the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act (2014)., and the Recall and Initiative Act (1996).

Scheduled election dates
British Columbia was the first province to legislate fixed dates for elections. The next provincial election was set for October 16, 2021. On September 21, 2020, John Horgan called a snap election for October 24, 2020.

Referendums
In 2015, Elections BC spent $5,372,380 to administer the 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite, a cost of about $3.44 per voter. A total of 1,572,861 voting packages were issued and 798,262 (51 per cent) returned to Elections BC. About 62 per cent of Metro Vancouver voters rejected a proposal for a half-per-cent sales tax increase to fund a 10-year, $7.5-billion upgrade to transportation by TransLink. About 290,000 voted yes, while 467,000 voted no. About 38,393 ballot packages received by deadline were rejected because they did not meet the requirements of the plebiscite.

Candidacy fees and requirements
A candidate is required under the Election Act to gather the signatures of 75 valid voters in their electoral district. A nomination deposit of $250 per candidate is required. Candidates who receive 15 per cent of the total vote receive a full refund. All others forfeit the deposit.

Chief electoral officers
Chief electoral officers forfeit their right to vote in elections they oversee. They may not be a member of a political party or contribute to candidate campaigns.

The position of chief electoral officer was created in 1947. Prior to that time, the responsibility for overseeing elections had been assigned to the registrar of the Supreme Court from 1871 to 1899, then to the deputy provincial secretary from 1899 to 1940. In 1940, the position of registrar general of voters was created to take over some of the deputy provincial secretary's duties. In 1950, the chief electoral officer was also appointed registrar general of voters. The positions were subsequently held jointly until the position of registrar general of voters was abolished in 1995. In 1995, the chief electoral officer became an independent officer of the Legislature.

Election expenses
Note: Enumeration or voter registration expenses were included in total election expenses up to the 2001 election. As of 2005, Elections BC excluded enumeration expenses from its calculation of total election expenses.

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Westmont High School (California)

Westmont High School is located in Campbell, California, United States and is part of the Campbell Union High School District. First opened in the fall of 1964, Westmont drew students initially from both Blackford and Campbell High Schools. The school retains many academic achievements including the 1996 California Distinguished School and 1997 National Blue Ribbon School.

The school is also home to the Campbell FFA Future Farmers of America

The school sits at the Northwest corner of the 1839 Alta California land grant, Rancho Rinconada de Los Gatos. San Tomas Aquino Creek wraps around the northern edge of the school and formed the land grant's boundary.

Alumni
Notable alumni of Westmont High School include:
 * Steve Cisowski, Class of 1981, National Football League player for the Dallas Cowboys
 * Brett Dalton, Class of 2001, actor known for his role in ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Andy Dinh, Class of 2010 (dropped out), professional gamer known as Reginald
 * Martin Ferrero, Class of 1966, actor known for his roles in Jurassic Park and on Miami Vice
 * Lars Frederiksen, Class of 1989, guitarist/vocalist for the punk bands Rancid and Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
 * Dan Gladden, Class of 1974, Major League Baseball player and baseball radio commentator
 * Eric Victorino, Class of 1996, musician and poet who was the lead singer for Strata and The Limousines

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The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect

The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect is Todd Rundgren's tenth studio album, released in December 1982. The album is a return to the pop sound for which Rundgren is generally most lauded by critics. Considering it a contractual obligation, he spent little time working on Tortured Artist (hence the title). However, the album was generally well-received, and Rundgren scored a hit with the novelty song "Bang the Drum All Day".

The album was also his last official release on Bearsville Records.

Argentinian Artist Charly Garcia made a version in spanish of the song "Influenza"

Track listing
All songs by Todd Rundgren; except when noted.

 * Side one
 * 1) "Hideaway" – 4:58
 * 2) "Influenza" – 4:29
 * 3) "Don't Hurt Yourself" – 3:41
 * 4) "There Goes Your Baybay" – 3:53

 * Side two
 * 1) "Tin Soldier" (Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott) – 3:10
 * 2) "Emperor of the Highway" – 1:39
 * 3) "Bang the Drum All Day" – 3:32
 * 4) "Drive" – 5:26
 * 5) "Chant" – 4:20

Personnel

 * Todd Rundgren - all vocals and instruments, art direction, engineer, producer
 * Technical
 * Bean - additional engineering

Charts
Album

Single

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Wikipedia talk:Category classification templates

Should be a feature of the software
I'm not saying this is a bad idea, but I think implementing more than a few of these without software support is likely not to be a good idea. Categorization is NOT static, and these categorization links are meant to expose the current category hierarachy meaning they need to be changed if anything above them changes. Like a "come from" statement in a programming language, this results in one change ("above" in the hierarchy) requiring other non-local, unobvious changes in other places. This also means changes at higher levels of the hierarchy might end up affecting lots and lots of lower level categories. Another potential problem (not sure if this would be a real problem) is the number of "paths" to category:fundamental a given category might be able to follow. If each category is parented in exactly two categories, as we go up N levels we expand according to 2**N, but we end up at a single root so clearly the 2**N explosion breaks down at some point (I'm sure some geneticist knows the number of paths to a single root, seems like it should be 2**(N/2 + 1) or something). In any event - nice idea, but crappy to hard code. -- Rick Block 04:34, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Unstable categorization is a problem for Classification. Because of this, I have recently only been using templates to classify.  If the categorization scheme changes, (especially for the foo categories), it will probably be easy to modify the templates to change an entire set of subcategories. -- Samuel Wantman 22:36, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia user classification
WP:CBTF is a table that will attempt to classify Wikipedians by place, interest, and the Wikipedia content they work on. -- CQ 19:15, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Sub-Categories
I have had difficulty is finding people classified in sub-categories and sub-sub-categories when I have been browsing wikipedia. Could it be possible to write some code, so that the sub-category lists appear in the category lists as this would be very helpful. Either that or a way of classifying people in sub-categories and categories together. e.g. [Category:Chemist [Subcategory:British Chemist] [Subcategory:Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry]]. This would make be a great help when browsing to find particular facts. - Curious Gregor - Synthesis for all 15:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)


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User talk:Meeve

Justin Gatlin
Hey there! Looks like in our eagerness to stomp on the vandal, we stomped on each other's toes. Sorry about that ;) -- Ch'marr 20:11, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

hey there
Hi there, just to let, you know, I also belive in the FSM, however on the FSM talk page, they do not belive our religion is real perhaps, we can help each other, convinve, it otherwise or perhaps help spread FSMism, fell free to talk to me on my discussion page --Codemartin 19:41, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Meeve user page
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I just wanted to let you know that I moved your question from Template talk:Chembox IUPACName where few people are likely to see it and put it at Wikipedia talk:Chemical infobox and replied there. -- Ed (Edgar181) 15:56, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

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Boutique law firm

A boutique law firm is a law firm specializing in a niche area of law practice. While a general practice law firm includes a variety of unrelated practice areas within a single firm, a boutique firm specializes in one or a select few practice areas. There may be some confusion as legal publications may refer to any small- or mid-sized firm as a boutique, though generally firms with fewer than 100 attorneys would count. Boutique should apply to those firms that focus on particular areas, regardless of size, though they are typically smaller, with exception to a few firms such as Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner or Fish & Richardson with over 400 attorneys.

United States
In the 1980s, American mid-size law firms began losing ground due to consolidation in the legal market. They have been the primary means by which larger law firms from regional centers expanded in key new markets such as New York City. For example, Atlanta-based Alston & Bird acquired 50-lawyer German-focused corporate boutique Walter, Conston, Alexander & Green, P.C. in 2001. The same year, Boston-based legacy firm Bingham Dana & Gould (now known as Bingham McCutchen) merged with boutique litigation shop Richards & O'Neill and Dallas-based Jenkens & Gilchrist absorbed Parker Chapin Flattau & Klimpl. In 2007, Texas firm Vinson & Elkins acquired Cronin & Vris, a small bankruptcy boutique.

The pendulum began to swing back away from consolidation toward the formation of smaller boutique firms with the downturn of the economy in late 2008 and early 2009 as recession-proof niche practices began to separate themselves from the struggling behemoths. For example, Washington, D.C.–based Hausfeld LLP spun out of Cohen Milstein and Birmingham, Alabama–based Frohsin & Barger, LLC spun out of the southern regional firm Baker Donelson. Both Hausfeld and Frohsin & Barger have been cited as examples by The National Law Journal as "somewhat recession-proof" boutiques. Other boutiques, such as Waesche, Sheinbaum & O'Regan, have dissolved.

Boutique law firms have maintained their competitive edge in a number of fields. Firms like Seattle-based Harris & Moure remain a competitive force in the international law practice. The complexities of intellectual property, especially patent law, have made IP boutiques still competitive, including Fish & Richardson, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, Oblon, Spivak, Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, and Wood, Herron & Evans, although New York City IP boutiques Pennie & Edmonds largely joined Jones Day, Fish & Neave merged with Boston-based Ropes & Gray, and a number of Morgan & Finnegan lawyers joined Texas-based Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell. Additionally, Alexandria-based IP boutique Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis merged with Pittsburgh-based Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney in 2005, Cushman, Darby & Cushman was absorbed by national firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (then Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro), Houston-based Arnold, White & Durkee merged with Howrey (then Howrey & Simon), Los Angeles–based Lyon & Lyon dissolved in 2002, and Silicon Valley boutique Skjerven Morrill & MacPherson LLP dissolved in 2003.

Litigation and corporate boutique law firms based in Europe include Oppenhoff & Partner.

Intellectual property

 * Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner (Washington, D.C.)
 * Fish & Richardson (Boston)
 * Oblon (Alexandria, Virginia)

Labor and employment

 * Jackson Lewis (White Plains, New York)
 * Littler Mendelson (San Francisco)
 * Seyfarth Shaw (Chicago)

Litigation

 * Boies, Schiller & Flexner (New York City)
 * Irell & Manella (Los Angeles)
 * Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman (New York City)
 * Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (Los Angeles)
 * Williams & Connolly (Washington, D.C.)

Technology and venture capital

 * Cooley LLP (Palo Alto)
 * Fenwick & West (Mountain View)
 * Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (Palo Alto)
 * Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian (Redwood City)
 * Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt (New York City)

title: Boutique law firm