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Concerning the speculation in the section French Exile
The speculation concerning complicity of the French and British governments in the assassination of Shapour Bakhtiar is contemptible. Anyone who has followed the news surrounding the assassination of Shapour Bakhtiar will remember that the person who was in charge of Bakhtiar's security in France was Shapour Bakhtiar's own son, from Bakhtiar's first marriage to his French wife. This son, a French national, was a high-ranking French police officer at the time and had the full responsibility for his father's security. As I remember, those who assassinated Bakhtiar were not strangers to him, but had cunningly built a close relationship with him over the course of several years (if my memory is not failing, three years), as fellow political activists. In this way they succeeded in by-passing the usual security measures — on that fateful day they had simply been left alone to conduct private discussions with Bakhtiar and thus did what they did. This wild and utterly unfounded speculation, that the French and the British might have been complicit in the assassination of Bakhtiar, is even below contempt and should not have any place in an intelligent discussion, and certainly not in an encyclopaedia. May I therefore request that someone correct the entry by removing the above-mentioned speculation? Such speculation seems to have been thought of by no one less that Dai-joon Napoleon (for those not in the know, please read Iraj Pezeshkzad's novel), or someone who suffers from the same mental ailment as Dai-joon. --BF 18:29, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know about mental ailments, but this article seems to indicate that one British citizen was released and one French national was kidnapped right after the murder of Bakhtiar, but that appears to be it. Since that directly conflicts with what the article says, I'm going to change the article. AyaK 01:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Dear AyaK, thank you for your note. I must apologise for my use of "mental ailment" etc.; as I remember, at the time I was very angry to see such unsubstantiated claim, effectively making Shapour Bakhtiar's son as being complicit in the murder of his father, as part of an encyclopaedia article — such things are usually heard in pubs or during after-dinner chats. As for the news item in the NYT, even that needs proper interpretation; the events mentioned herein might have been just decoys, or they might have been signals for the actions that France would likely take in the wake of Shapour Bakhtiar's assassination. The fact is that no one knows (well, some people must know) what happened precisely; it is therefore fundamentally wrong, it is amoral, to accuse two nations as having been involved in the murder of someone without presenting even a single reference. Kind regards, --BF 07:15, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Agnostic?
As the article doesn't cite its source and nothing about it apears in the rest of the article (or maybe I just didn't look carefully enough or there is in another reference) on that it may or not be true, but until such a source is added it seems like Khomeinist propaganda of the Islamic Republic to make him look more like a corrupt western-inspired infidel. Lususromulus (talk) 10:22, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

POV
This article is heavily biased and lack sources, we should start fixing this article. Its like a pro-Bakhtiar user have written the whole article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MUCHERS22 (talk • contribs) 16:06, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

name the perceived biased passages, suggest changes, otherwise i will remove the pov tag.--Severino (talk) 11:51, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

wrong move
The final climax came on February 11, when Qarabaghi announced that the armed forces would remain strictly 'neutral' in the political struggle between the two rival prime ministers. According to Qarabaghi, the armed forces had lost all semblance of cohesion, with many officers sympathizing with the opposition, disliking hotheads such as Oveissi and even withholding live ammunition from tanks, fearful that they could fall into the wrong hands (source: Qarabaghi, Truth about the Iranian Crisis, 55-6). '''For Qarabaghi, the final straw came when bakhtiyar ordered him to bombard the crowds breaking into the armories. He concluded that Bakhtiyar had lost all touch with reality. With the armed forces out of the scene, Bakhtiyar's fate was sealed. '''

SOURCE: Abrahamian, Ervand. The Crowd in the Iranian Revolution. Issue 105 Fall 2009. Radical History Review. p.29-30 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.80.104.182 (talk) 08:35, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Bakhtiar's Religion
" I'm primarily a Human, then an Iranian, and then a Muslim " Shapour Bakhtiar,1980, Speech in London http://www.radiofarda.com/content/f4_bakhtiar_humanity_iran_muslim_attractions/24287724.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.98.24.135 (talk) 22:56, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Support
The statement that there was only a "very small number of pro-Shah loyalists and a handful of moderate pro-democratic elements" understates the level of support for both the Shah and Bakhtiar. The revolutionary mobs were very active and intimidating, many Iranians did support that Shah, and his governments, but (rightly) feared for their lives.Royalcourtier (talk) 06:33, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

 * While this may be the case, it also is true that there was a lot of support for the revolution too. You sort of need to provide a more objective view in general, on wikipedia. 2A02:8388:1600:C80:C2CB:EF37:AE16:EB13 (talk) 20:02, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Assassination
The article does not mention that much. In particular since there also was a decrypted message, linked in from another wikipedia site, about Crypto AG machines. This should be mentioned, but in general, the article should be extended about the assassination part, perhaps on another article linked in though. 2A02:8388:1600:C80:C2CB:EF37:AE16:EB13 (talk) 20:00, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

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Ma Zhong

Ma Zhong may refer to:

 * Ma Zhong (馬忠), Chinese military officer who captured Guan Yu in an ambush during Lü Meng's invasion of Jing Province
 * Ma Zhong (Shu Han), Chinese general of the Shu Han state in the Three Kingdoms period

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The Late Show (1986 talk show)

The Late Show is an American late-night talk show and the first television program broadcast on the then-new Fox Network. Hosted by comic actress Joan Rivers, it debuted on October 9, 1986, under the title The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. It is also the first late-night show hosted by Arsenio Hall.

Background
The talk show was a direct attempt at competing against NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, where Rivers had been Carson's permanent guest host since 1983. The show was initially broadcast live.

Many in 1986, including top executives at NBC, thought it was possible that Johnny Carson would retire after reaching his 25th anniversary on October 1, 1987, as it was such a logical cut-off point. In spring 1986, a confidential memo between top NBC executives listing about 10 possible successors in the event of Carson's retirement the next year was leaked. Rivers was shocked to see that she was not on the list.

In an article she wrote for People magazine, Rivers said that NBC offered her only a one-year contract in 1985 as permanent guest host while Carson's contract had been renewed for two years, which signaled to her that her future was uncertain as her previous one year contracts had run the same length as Carson's. In addition, Rivers noted numerous snubs from NBC executives over the years, such as not being invited to the annual Carson party until recently, and taking the fall for a controversial joke that management approved during rehearsal. Rivers had received higher-paying offers from other networks in prior years but declined them out of her loyalty to Carson, but in 1986 as NBC was unwilling to give assurances on her future and negotiations were fruitless, this was the impetus for Rivers to seriously consider the Fox offer.

Rivers and Carson
Fox was looking for a host for a late-night talk show for the network's launch in October 1986. Through its purchase of Metromedia, it had been airing The Merv Griffin Show (a syndication stalwart for two decades) but opted to drop that program (leading to its cancellation) to make room for its own show. The new network offered Rivers the job at a salary higher than what NBC was paying. She accepted and Carson was blindsided by the news when he saw the press conference on television. Moments later, when Rivers called him at home, he refused to take the call.

Carson was furious when he found out about Rivers going to Fox. Carson stated that he felt betrayed by Rivers – not because she dared to compete with him, but because she was not honest with him beforehand about her intentions and did not ask him for advice and his blessing. For her part, Rivers was adamant that her problem was with NBC and not with Carson, who was like a father figure to her. She stated that she didn't want to tell Carson before the announcement was made because she was afraid Fox would cancel the deal if word leaked out. She had previously been ordered by Carson's producers and lawyers not to go to him with her problems, as they kept Carson completely insulated since he was a major source of NBC profits; thus Carson had been completely unaware of Rivers' problems with NBC.

When others obtained their own competing shows (such as David Brenner, Alan Thicke, Joey Bishop, and Pat Sajak), Carson always had them on The Tonight Show beforehand to wish them luck – and again after he had forced their show into cancellation by maintaining superior ratings. Rivers did not appear on the Tonight Show again during the remainder of Carson's tenure after 1986 or during that of his successors (in this case, Jay Leno and subsequently, Conan O'Brien) until February 17, 2014, when she appeared in a cameo on Jimmy Fallon's first show, by which point Carson had been dead for nine years.

Rivers spoke highly of Carson the night he died on January 23, 2005, but revealed that he never spoke to her again.

Sagging ratings and carriage refusals
After a moderate start, ratings for the talk show soon sagged. The ratings struggles also made it hard for Fox to attract affiliates for its primetime launch on April 5, 1987. Some prospective affiliates, such as Milwaukee's WCGV-TV, would only sign with the network if they did not have to carry The Late Show. KPTM in Omaha refused outright out of loyalty to Carson, who hailed from Corning, Iowa, east of Omaha and started his career on local radio and television. The network acquiesced to allow some stations out of that obligation so that the network launched in primetime with as many affiliates as possible, at the cost of ratings and access to The Late Show. For instance, at the time the show launched Fox had not closed on its purchase of its Boston station, WXNE-TV (now WFXT). That station's previous owners, the Christian Broadcasting Network, objected to the show's content and refused to clear it. As a result, until Fox took control of the station in January, its audio feed aired on a low-rated AM station.

The behind-the-scenes relations between Rivers and network executives quickly eroded and Rivers was fired in May 1987. For the final show, which aired May 15, 1987, the set was vandalized with toilet paper, slime, and shaving cream. Her guests were Howie Mandel, Pee-Wee Herman, then-fledgling comedian Chris Rock, Wendy O. Williams, and show stage manager Michelle Aller as her alter-ego Mavis Vegas Davis. Soon afterward the program was renamed The Late Show and featured rotating guest hosts including Suzanne Somers, Richard Belzer, and Robert Townsend. After firing prospective guest host Frank Zappa, producer John Scura replaced him with Arsenio Hall, who made his debut as a talk show host. Eventually, Hall was named the permanent replacement host in mid-1987.

The Howard Stern Show
On April 16, 1987, a meeting was held between Howard Stern and management of WNYW, Fox's flagship television station. The network was considering Stern as replacement to The Late Show. Five one-hour pilots titled The Howard Stern Show were recorded at a cost of about $400,000. They featured rock guitarist Leslie West of Mountain fame as band leader and Steve Rossi as announcer and singer. By early June, air dates were yet to be scheduled; the pilots were instead being tested among focus groups in California. With no formal announcement, in July, the network decided not to put the Stern show on the air. Paul Noble, the former executive producer for WNYW, was never told of Fox's decision. "By today's standards, they were absolutely tame." He also said, "They were not the kind of thing that a local New York television station was prepared to get involved with at that time. It was more like off-the-wall radio."

Arsenio Hall
Fox had originally cancelled The Late Show, but executives were stunned by the success of Hall, who was performing well among adults 18–49. In return, Hall was given a 13-week deal to host the show – however, a replacement program entitled The Wilton North Report was already in pre-production and scheduled, which meant that the deal would not be extended beyond that. Further, Hall would not be available in any event, as he was committed to filming the Eddie Murphy feature Coming to America. During the monologue of his final appearance as host, Hall stated that the reason he had agreed to only do 13 weeks was because that was as long as he was able to stay, as he had plans "to do other things."

Clint Holmes continued as announcer while Mark Hudson remained as band leader. However, the band's name changed from "Mark Hudson and the Party Boys featuring the Tramp" – as it had been known during Rivers's tenure, with "the Tramp" referring to baritone sax player Beverly Dahlke-Smith – to simply "Mark Hudson and the Late Show Band".

Guests tended to be third-string actors, with performances by lesser-known bands such as The Williams Brothers (Los Angeles) and The Amazing Pink Things (Seattle). One noteworthy guest during Hall's era was Bob Barker, then in his fifteenth year as host of the long-running game show The Price is Right.

World-famous "Earthquake Astrologer from KROQ and KFOX", Farley Malorrus, appeared as a guest following an accurate earthquake prediction in Los Angeles during October 1987.

When problems developed with Wilton North, Fox attempted to bring back Hall – but it was too late. Wilton North debuted on December 11, 1987, and was a disaster on all fronts. Fox canceled it after only 21 episodes on January 8. It started airing Late Show repeats with both Hall and Rivers on January 11, 1988, and scrambled to revive the talk show.

1988 hosts
The show came back with a new group of unknown guest hosts, including comedians Jeff Joseph and John Mulrooney; Daniel Rosen took over as announcer, while Jack Mack and the Heart Attack became the new house band. Ultimately, none of the tryout hosts would work out, and the network turned to Seattle TV personality Ross Shafer to take over The Late Show.

Ross Shafer
By the time Shafer began hosting, ratings were so low that the show could only attract newsmakers and human interest-style guests; this led to a format change in the summer to focus on tabloid and ripped-from-the-headlines stories.

Fox canceled the show effective October 28, 1988, getting out of late night until 1993, when it launched the ill-fated The Chevy Chase Show.

Notable episodes
Despite the show's low ratings by 1988, Shafer's tenure as host produced six notable episodes. These are especially notable for being the last public appearances of well-known celebrities:
 * The movie Leonard Part 6 won three Golden Raspberry Awards on April 10, 1988, for Worst Actor (Bill Cosby), Worst Picture, and Worst Screenplay (Jonathan Reynolds and Cosby). It was nominated for two more Razzie Awards, for Worst Supporting Actress (Foster) and Worst Director (Weiland). A few weeks after the ceremony, Cosby accepted his three Razzies on The Late Show. He requested that the three Razzies he earned be specifically made out of 24 karat (99.99%) gold and Italian marble.
 * A reunion of the 1960s Batman TV series cast (Adam West, Burt Ward, Frank Gorshin, Julie Newmar, Yvonne Craig, Alan Napier, and Eartha Kitt) aired on April 28. Napier, who had been long-retired at this point and very frail when this special was recorded, died on August 8 after being checked into a hospital two months earlier. Yvonne Craig described the reunion show as overbooked, and when Ross Shafer finally turned his attention to Napier, it was only to ask him a silly question, then cut him off abruptly as he was telling a story, much to Napier's annoyance. Because Cesar Romero had other commitments at the time, he was instead interviewed by Shafer from his home. Also interviewed was Batmobile customizer George Barris.
 * A reunion of the Gilligan's Island cast aired on May 18 with a custom set, audience members and a barbershop quartet singing the theme, cast member trivia, and more. This would be the last appearance of all the regular cast members together, including Tina Louise, who had distanced herself from the rest of the cast since the show ended, and Jim Backus, who was suffering from Parkinson's disease. Backus died in July 1989; Alan Hale, Jr. died in January 1990, Natalie Schafer died in April 1991, Bob Denver died in September 2005, Russell Johnson died in January 2014, and Dawn Wells died in December 2020.
 * A "Game Show Hosts" special featuring Gene Rayburn, Gary Owens, Tom Kennedy, Dennis James, and Jim Lange, plus Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows co-author Fred Wostbrock. Various clips were shown, including rare footage of James' Name That Tune. (Shafer would later succeed Rayburn as host of Match Game.) James died in 1997, while Rayburn died in 1999, Lange died in 2014, Owens died in 2015, Wostbrock died in 2016, and Kennedy died in October 2020.
 * Artist Mark Kostabi's appearance, where he wrapped Shafer in aluminum foil and threw large amounts of cash into the studio audience. Some of this footage resurfaced in the documentary film about Kostabi, Con Artist, directed by Michael Sladek.
 * A reunion of the cast of National Lampoon's Animal House (Tim Matheson, Martha Smith, Stephen Furst, James Daughton, and John Vernon) in honor of its tenth anniversary, which aired on October 6.

Aftermath
Edgar Rosenberg, Rivers's husband and the show's producer during her tenure, committed suicide on August 14, 1987, three months after Rivers and he were fired, and shortly after the couple separated. Rivers made the first of several career comebacks with the debut of The Joan Rivers Show in daytime on September 5, 1989. The show was nominated for numerous Emmy Awards with Rivers winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 1990.

The Arsenio Hall Show launched on January 3, 1989. Hall had sealed a deal with Paramount Television to launch his own show and was able to clear it on many Fox affiliates throughout the country. He essentially reclaimed his old time period, though not in the network.

Ross Shafer went on to host a revival of Match Game for ABC in 1990.

The title of The Late Show was revived by CBS in 1993 for their unrelated late-night talk show franchise The Late Show for David Letterman and since 2015 for Stephen Colbert.

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Lolita (orca)

Lolita, also called Tokitae or Toki for short, (c. 1966 – 18 August 2023), was a captive female orca of the southern resident population captured from the wild in September 1970 and held in captivity and displayed at the Miami Seaquarium in Florida until her death in August 2023. At the time of her death, Lolita was the second-oldest orca in captivity after Corky at SeaWorld San Diego.

In March 2023, the Seaquarium announced that plans were being made for Lolita to be moved to a pen in the Salish Sea for the remainder of her life. However on 18 August 2023, Lolita died from renal failure after exhibiting signs of distress over the prior two days.

Life
Lolita was a member of L Pod of the southern resident orcas. She was a close relative of L25 "Ocean Sun", who is the oldest member of the pod. After Lolita's death, L25 "is the only living whale from the 1960s and 1970s capture era." Lolita was captured when she was an estimated three to six years old, on August 8, 1970, in the Penn Cove capture in Puget Sound, Washington. Lolita was one of seven young orcas sold to oceanariums and marine mammal parks around the world from a capture of over eighty whales conducted by Ted Griffin and Don Goldsberry, partners in an operation known as Namu, Inc.

Miami Seaquarium veterinarian Jesse White purchased Lolita for about $20,000. Upon arrival at the Seaquarium, Lolita joined a male southern resident orca named Hugo, who was also captured from Puget Sound and had lived in the Seaquarium for two years before her arrival.

The young orca was initially called "Tokitae," which in Chinook Jargon means "Bright day, pretty colors". However, given the age difference between the young female and Hugo, she was renamed Lolita after the heroine in Vladimir Nabokov's novel. The Lummi Nation of Washington refers to her as Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut, or, a female orca from an ancestral site in the Penn Cove area of the Salish Sea bioregion. They view her as a member of their "qwe 'lhol mechen," which translates to 'our relative under the water,' according to former tribal chairman Jeremiah "Jay" Julius.

Lolita and Hugo lived together for ten years in the smallest orca tank in North America known as the "Whale Bowl", a tank 80 by by 20 ft deep. The pair mated many times (once to the point of suspending shows) but they never produced any offspring. Hugo appeared to suffer from a form of psychosis endemic in captive whales, and often rammed his head against the tank walls; he died in 1980 at 15 years old of a brain aneurysm. Lolita then shared the tank with a short-beaked common dolphin and a pilot whale during the 1980s and 1990s, and later with a pair of Pacific white-sided dolphins, Li'i and Loke.

In 2017, "the Miami Beach Commission voted unanimously for a symbolic resolution" to return Lolita to the place of her capture. In August 2021, Cancun-based The Dolphin Company bought the Seaquarium. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection report released a month later listed multiple serious problems with the conditions in which Lolita was held. The USDA issued a new license that stipulated that neither Lolita nor her dolphin companion Li'i could be on public display or used for staged exhibition shows. The Dolphin Company announced that they would allow third-party veterinarians to examine Lolita.

Planned return to natal waters
On March 30, 2023, the Miami Seaquarium and its new owner, The Dolphin Company, announced a legally binding agreement with the Friends of Toki (formerly Friends of Lolita) non-profit organization to move her to an ocean sanctuary in the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest, to live out her life in her natal waters. In a joint official statement, the partners in the agreement declared, "Returning Lolita to her home waters does not mean releasing her into the open ocean. She is expected to remain under human care, in a protected habitat, for the rest of her life. Lolita will continue to receive enrichment, high-quality nutrition, medical care and love, all according to the approved plans by federal authorities." After being fed by humans for decades, it was questionable whether she could sustain a wild hunting lifestyle, according to scientific opinion. Lolita's trainers reiterated that she had become "dependent on people." The move to Washington could not have proceeded until permits were granted by several government agencies, including the US Department of Agriculture. Allowing Lolita to leave the protected sanctuary would not have been approved without additional government permits. Jason Colby, historian and author of a book on captured orcas, including Lolita, cautioned against unreasonable expectations for a release back into the wild after decades in captivity. Colby said that having her live out her remaining days in a sea pen in 'home waters' would be successful enough. "I fear that when people see that she's being brought home, people will imagine it's just going to be a sort of Free Willy moment where she swims over and connects with her family. I can't imagine that happening," he said.

Motivated by his daughter, the CEO of The Dolphin Company, Eduardo Albor, said, "More than just moving Lolita to a place where she will be better, she will become a symbol for us and the future generations." The decision was made in cooperation with Miami-Dade County, and Indianapolis Colts owner and philanthropist Jim Irsay. The plan included acclimating and transporting Li'i and Loke, two Pacific white-sided dolphins who are her companions, with Lolita to the Salish Sea. Li'i remained with Lolita during the process, while Loke was instead  transferred with her offspring Elelo to Shedd Aquarium in August 2023.

When Lolita would have been moved, the transportation method would have been similar to the one used to move her to Miami in 1970. She was being trained to swim into a custom–made stretcher that a crane would lift into a container filled with ice water. The container would then have gone onto a plane to Bellingham, Washington, from where it would be loaded onto a barge to transport her over water to a sea pen at a private location for the rest of her life. She would have continued to "receive round-the-clock medical care, security and feedings." Initially, Lolita would be accommodated in an enclosure within the larger whale sanctuary before being allowed to swim in a netted area of about 15 acres (6 hectares). In the Friends of Toki plan, "Trainers and veterinarians would tend and feed Lolita from floating platforms and boats, and a 24-hour security along a wider netted perimeter would keep boats away." Much of the budget for the move would have been for her ongoing care in Washington state, particularly for the orca's huge gourmet appetite. Fresh local salmon, the southern resident orca diet, would have been her preferred food. In 2023, Lolita's daily care at the Miami Seaquarium cost over $200,000 per month, assured by Jim Irsay.

The process of moving all three animals was expected to take between 18 and 24 months and cost an estimated $15–20 million, the majority of which would have been bankrolled by Irsay. Collaborating with The Dolphin Company, the multi-faceted Friends of Toki (formerly Friends of Lolita) organization includes marine mammal scientists Diana Reiss and Roger Payne, Lummi elder Squil-le-he-le (Raynell Morris), Charles Vinick of the Whale Sanctuary Project, and Florida Keys developer and philanthropist Pritam Singh. Albor said, "Regardless of different positions, we can make this extraordinary agreement happen."

Health late in life
As reported by the USDA in 2021, Lolita contracted a significant long-term illness before the Miami Seaquarium came under the management of The Dolphin Company, and she had a lesion on her lung. Lead veterinarian Tom Reidarson said she "nearly died of pneumonia" in October 2022. She received increased veterinary care in 2023.

The monthly veterinary report of July 31, 2023, assessed that the pulmonary lesion was smaller. Bloodwork and chuff (blowhole exhalation samples) were unremarkable, with a very low white blood cell count in Lolita's chuff samples. In summary, the veterinarians were seeing incremental improvements in her health. Nonetheless, she was still fighting the chronic infection in her lung, and continued to receive daily Faropenem and antifungal medications.

In addition to "feeding the highest quality salmon, herring, and capelin available on the market from 2023 catches," Lolita's care team had been introducing a small percentage of squid to her daily diet to benefit her gastrointestinal tract.

Daily activity levels were steady. Trainers had been planning for Lolita's eventual move by shifting her activities away from performing tricks and stunts towards conditioning exercise to raise her fitness level.

Improving water quality had been a focus for immediately improving Lolita's health and welfare. In May 2023, CEO Eduardo Albor said The Dolphin Company had invested more than $500,000 on upgrades to better filter the water and regulate water temperature. These include an ozone generator to replace chlorine. "New chillers can now get the temp down to mimic the waters of the Pacific Northwest, said trainer Michael Partica." With very high temperatures in the Biscayne Bay source water, the two large portable chiller units enabled Lolita's pool temperature "to remain in the upper 50s [around 14°C], despite air and source water temperatures hovering in the upper 90s [around 37°C]. Round-the-clock maintenance of life support and water quality is being well managed by staff," the independent vets reported.

Death
On August 18, 2023, Miami Seaquarium announced on their Facebook and Instagram that Lolita had died, apparently due to renal failure. They indicated that her health had been declining rapidly over the previous two days, and despite veterinarians' best efforts, she died that same afternoon.

Later in the month, the Miami Seaquarium confirmed that, after the necropsy, Lolita's remains would be cremated and returned to her natal area, the Pacific Northwest. On September 23, 2023, Lolita's remains were scattered off the coast of the Lummi Stommish Grounds in a traditional burial ceremony by members of the Lummi nation.

On September 25, 2023, Miami Seaquarium announced that Li’i, the remaining 40-year-old male Pacific white-sided dolphin who was expected to be moved with Lolita, was relocated to SeaWorld San Antonio and reunited with family members and other Pacific white-sided dolphins to avoid remaining in solitary following Lolita's death.

Necropsy
On August 29th, the Miami Seaquarium released a statement regarding the necropsy process, which began with an examination on August 19th. Analyses "could take more than four weeks." The necropsy was done in compliance with USDA and NOAA regulations, a spokesperson for the Seaquarium noted. "More than 15 veterinarians were reportedly assigned to the necropsy." "The August 19th examination took about 10 hours, according to the August 29th release, with samples taken to different labs for independent review." On October 17th, the Miami Seaquarium released a statement that according to the necropsy report the orca's cause of death was due to a "progression of multiple chronic conditions including renal disease and pneumonia,".

Reactions to death
Following her death, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk released a statement, saying "Lolita was denied even a minute of freedom from her grinding 53 years in captivity", urged "families to honor Lolita's memory by never visiting marine parks", and called for more marine parks to release dolphins into sea sanctuaries. Save Lolita, a group that had campaigned for the orca's release, stated that Lolita "will forever remind us of the urgent need to protect our oceans and the magnificent creatures that call them home." World Animal Protection US's executive director Lindsay Oliver released a statement, saying "She deserved the freedom of the open sea, not a life confined to a small tank. It's time for this industry to end, so no more animals have to suffer like this. Swim free, Tokitae."

After Lolita's death, Ted Griffin, the man who captured her from the Puget Sound, said he had "no regrets" about capturing orcas, except those who died from being dropped by slings, overheating during transport, or injured in captivity.

Activism and governmental actions

Animal rights groups and anti-captivity activists asserted that Lolita was being subjected to cruelty. In 2003, she was the subject of the documentary Lolita: Slave to Entertainment, in which many anti-captivity activists, most notably Ric O'Barry (former Flipper dolphin trainer), argued against the conditions of her captivity and expressed a hope that she might be re-introduced to the wild. O'Barry had trained and performed with the orca Hugo at the Miami Seaquarium.

Urged by Orca Network, in 2012, the Washington state government, which was sympathetic to the cause of returning her to her natal waters, named a new Washington state ferry under construction the MV Tokitae after Lolita's earlier name. The name also maintained the Washington tradition of naming ferries with regional tribal words. The vessel runs between Clinton and Mukilteo, north of Seattle, across a passage where Lolita and her community were chased during her capture.

On January 17, 2015, thousands of protesters from all over the world gathered outside the Miami Seaquarium to demand Lolita's release and asked other supporters worldwide to tweet "#FreeLolita" on Twitter.

In 2017, a USDA audit found that Lolita's tank did not meet the legal size requirements per federal law.

In 2018 the Lummi Nation traveled to the Seaquarium with a totem pole carved for Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut (their name for Lolita), sang to her, and prayed that she would be returned to the Salish Sea. According to journalist Lynda Mapes, "The Seaquarium would not allow tribal members any closer than the public sidewalk outside the facility where the whale performs twice a day for food." Seaquarium Curator Emeritus Robert Rose responded to the Lummi's journey, saying that the Lummi Nation "should be ashamed of themselves, they don't care about Lolita, they don't care about her best interests, they don't really care whether she lives or dies. To them, she is nothing more than a vehicle by which they promote their name, their political agenda, to obtain money and to gain media attention. Shame on them." In response, environmental scholars and Julius argued that such statements are representative of a troubling pattern of discounting Native American knowledge and relationships, theft, and possession, which are "part and parcel of the possessive nature of settler colonialism."

On September 24, 2020, the 50th anniversary of Lolita's arrival at the Seaquarium, tribal members of the Lummi Nation, joined by the local Seminole, traveled to Miami again, held a ceremony in support of Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut, and demanded she be released to her native waters. The totem pole journey was ongoing as of 2021.

Some, such as the director of the University of British Columbia's Marine Mammal Research Unit, Andrew Trites, argued that Lolita was too old for life in the wild and that reintroducing her to the ocean after over fifty years in captivity would be "unethical" and a "death sentence". However, other environmental scholars have posited that such arguments are representative of colonial conservation policies, stating that "The whales were killed and captured one at a time by settlers. If they can be killed or captured one at a time, there is no reason why the whales cannot be helped one at a time. Individual whales and pods can be cared for. 'Lolita' can be returned to her home waters."

In March 2023, after the announcement of Lolita's move was decided, animal rights organizations, including PETA, World Animal Protection, and Animal Legal Defense Fund, openly supported the decision.

Legal cases
In November 2011, the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), PETA, and three individuals filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to end the exclusion of Lolita from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of the Pacific Northwest's southern resident orcas. NMFS reviewed ALDF's joint petition and the thousands of comments submitted by the public and found the petition merited. In February 2015, the NOAA announced it would issue a rule to include Lolita under the protection of the Endangered Species Act. Previous to this, although the orca population that she was taken from is listed as endangered, as a captive animal, Lolita was exempted from this classification. This change did not impact her captivity.

On March 18, 2014, a judge dismissed ALDF's case challenging Miami Seaquarium's Animal Welfare Act license to display captive orcas.

In June 2014, ALDF filed a notice of appeal of the District Court decision that found the USDA had not violated the law when it renewed Miami Seaquarium's AWA exhibitor license.

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I found this blanked in Special:Shortpages. It looks like nonsense. Guanaco 23:32, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Speedy delete as nonsense. Anon's sole creation Fornadan (t) 23:44, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete almost patent nonsense and possible vanity. ManoaChild 23:48, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete Patent nonsense
 * Delete per ManoaChild, plus WP:NOT a crystal ball. Tonywalton [[Image:Pentacle_1.svg|15px]] | Talk 00:09, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

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History at The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers
I goofed and my apologies. Rather than creating a new article for The Late Show I should have instead used the Move feature and therefore preserved the History for the original article. Does anyone know how to rectify this? For the record, the original article was posted by User:Firsfron  23skidoo 23:33, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

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Veronica Lario

Veronica Lario (born Miriam Raffaella Bartolini, 19 July 1956) is a former Italian actress and the former wife of ex-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Biography
Born in Bologna, Lario was a stage actress under Enrico Maria Salerno, with whom she had a love affair. She also worked in theatrical plays with well-known actors; Her most famous role is in Tenebrae by horror master Dario Argento. She retired from acting after meeting Silvio Berlusconi.

Married on 15 December 1990, Berlusconi and Lario have three children together: Barbara Berlusconi (1984), Eleonora (1986), and Luigi (1988). In the 1980s, before the birth of their first-born daughter Barbara, Lario terminated an earlier pregnancy with an induced abortion, in order not to give birth to a child affected by significant morbidity.

As the wife of the Italian premier, Veronica Lario chose to maintain a low public profile. She avoided most public events and meetings and she seldom accompanied her husband Silvio Berlusconi at official meetings. On the other hand, she was known to publicly express political opinions contrasting with those of her then-husband (for example, on bioethics or in backing protesters demonstrating against the war in Iraq ).

Lario's husband was never shy about mentioning her on public occasions, and he alluded at least once to a supposed affair between her and philosopher and opposition politician Massimo Cacciari.

On 31 January 2007, Lario said her dignity had been damaged by comments Berlusconi reportedly made during the VIP party after a TV awards ceremony broadcast by one of his channels.

"If I weren't married I would marry you immediately," the 70-year-old media mogul told showgirl and future parliamentarian Mara Carfagna, according to reports widely carried in the Italian press. He reportedly told another, "With you, I'd go anywhere."

Lario's letter appeared in La Repubblica, a nationally prominent newspaper. She declared:

"I see these statements as damaging my dignity. To both my husband and the public man, I therefore demand a public apology, since I haven't received any privately. I have faced the inevitable contrasts and the more painful moments that a long conjugal relation entails with respect and discretion."

"Now I write to state my reaction," added Lario, saying her husband's comments were "unacceptable" and could not be reduced to mere jokes.

But after a few hours, Silvio Berlusconi responded with a public letter to his wife and apologized for what he had said three days earlier.

In April 2009 she once more published an open letter, criticising her husband for consorting with young ladies and defining his chosen candidates for the European Parliament as "shameless rubbish".

On 3 May 2009 it was reported that she was to file for divorce, which under Italian law can only be started after a couple has reached a separation agreement. On 10 May 2010 it was revealed that a separation settlement had been reached, with Berlusconi accepting alimony payments of €3.6 million per year, and allowing her to live in their luxury home near Milan.

In December 2012, a Milan court established that Silvio Berlusconi would be required to pay his ex-wife Veronica Lario €3 million a month (€36 million a year).

In 2015 on 23 June 2015, the Court of Justice of Milan established that Silvio Berlusconi would pay his ex-wife €1.4 million a month.

Finally in 2017, on 16 November, the Court of Appeal of Milan decided that Silvio Berlusconi will not have to pay the €1.4 million per month to his ex-wife, who has been ordered to give back the amounts she received since 2014: approximately €60 million.

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All links at pages that went directly to the disambig page have been fixed.. as in, Kansas or Missouri related Interstate 635 links go to that one, and the Texas ones go to the I-635 Texas page. Woohoo. Drumguy8800 00:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

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It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown

It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown is the 32nd prime-time animated television special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It is a hybrid of animation and live-action footage, and features Spike instead of the core Peanuts characters. A spin-off focused on Spike's unrequited love for a young woman, it was described as being similar to Beauty and the Beast. This Peanuts special was not well-liked by critics.

Plot
Spike waves to a young woman driving an old red Chevrolet pickup truck through the desert of Needles, California every day; it is the highlight of his day. In this combined animated and live-action special, we meet her, aerobics instructor Jenny, who wants to be a big city jazz dancer. She and Spike drive around, looking at the desert scenery and spending some time at a roller rink. However, when Spike is accidentally thrown out of the rink, he runs off, and is pursued by people on a nighttime coyote hunt.

A sub-plot sees Jenny's boyfriend, Jeff, set up an audition for her, which she is angry about because he did it without consulting her.

Production
It is a departure from the usual Peanuts specials. Apart from the animated introduction, the entire show is a mixture of live-action and animation. While most specials include a variety of characters from the comic strip, like Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy, this one is centered on Snoopy's brother, Spike.

It starts with a brief animated introduction with Charlie Brown and Snoopy, introducing the character of Spike to audiences. Schulz apparently was against this scene, feeling that fans would already be familiar with the supporting character.

Production of the film took four years, and cost "millions of dollars". A serious film buff who watched both foreign and art films, Schulz commented, "I wanted this to be my Citizen Kane, but it's not."

Many cast members were from Schulz's friends, family, or neighborhood. His daughter, Jill, was cast in the lead role of Jenny, while his son, Monte, helped write the script. Bit player Molly Brice was discovered by Schulz from a Santa Rosa Little Theatre production of The Oldest Living Graduate.

Director Walter Miller's regular projects include the Academy Awards telecast, and was used to working with name actors. Miller and Schulz had previously worked together, when the director worked on a broadcast of a Peanuts ice show. The movie's music was provided by Paul Rodriguez, who composed for Redwood Empire's ice shows.

As the animation/live-action technique requires, characters were animated later to work with the motions of the live actors. On occasion, Spike would be the only character to appear on screen, meaning only the set would be filmed. Director Miller commented "I never shot so much plain brown dirt in my life."

Fake saguaro cacti were purchased for $1,000 each, as the actual ones in the desert were not placed right for the action. The truck featured cost just $300, "and looks it".

Critical reaction
The special was originally titled The Girl in the Red Truck, and was scheduled to air in March 1988. Numerous production delays caused it to be aired in September 1988, after the release of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. While films throughout the ages have used a mix of animation and live-action (the Alice comedies, Song of the South, Mary Poppins) before, Schulz worried that viewers would assume he copied the new film's technique. Jill Schulz was instructed by her father to clearly emphasize the program's conception date during interviews.

The special was not well-received upon its initial airing and received mixed to negative reviews. The New York Times decided "the similarities between the two [Roger Rabbit and It's the Girl in the Red Truck] are superficial", describing it as "relatively primitive" and "generally clumsy" and stating that the interaction was "not terribly convincing". Of the show's plot, he commented that the "story goes nowhere."

Jill Schulz shouldered much of the blame. John J. O'Connor, critic for The New York Times wrote, "Part of the problem may be that this production is a family project, the sort of thing that gets bogged down in good intentions and parental pride.... Although she is perky and likable, and she does a passable dance routine on roller skates, her performance does little or nothing to enliven the spiritless proceedings."

As of Good Grief being written in 1989, Schulz was still considering further attempts at a "masterpiece". Rheta Grimsley Johnson suggested it might be "a quiet story about cancer", inspired by the special Why, Charlie Brown, Why? which aired in March 1990.

Cast
Snoopy appears but is silent.
 * Jason Riffle as the voice of Charlie Brown
 * Steven Stoliar as French Teacher on Cassette
 * Jill Schulz as Jenny
 * Molly Brice as Molly
 * Greg Deacon as Jeff
 * Bill Melendez as the voice of Spike

Availability
This special has rarely been televised since its original broadcast in 1988. Disney Channel aired it only once on October 1, 1995 as part of the Peanuts’ 45th anniversary marathon. Nickelodeon and ABC did not due to different points withheld the rights to the Peanuts specials.

The special was released on VHS by Paramount Home Media Distribution on January 9, 1996. Warner Bros. Discovery opt not to distribute this special on home media formats of any kind due to the really bad reviews it received.


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I spent a lot of time researching this article and I was wondering how I could improve it further. I'm especially interested as to wether the style is good. --Carabinieri 23:45, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, the political history leaps from '79 to his assassination. Maybe cover what he did to get elected and assassinated? And please check out my Hopkins School article a little further down! No one seems to want to help! Staxringold 03:38, 1 September 2005 (UTC)


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I don't understand how this article has merit nor how it is encyclopedic. It seems to be someone's personal theory. -- Reinyday, 23:34, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. POV essay. ManoaChild 23:40, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: POV and original research. -- Bobdoe (Talk) 23:43, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * And based on Talk:Political_spectrum this article may be a copy-vio too. -- Bobdoe (Talk) 23:48, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete, and see Political compass for a better explanation of this topic. --maclean25 01:00, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as POV and original research. It's not a copyvio, however, as explained on the talk page. KeithD (talk) 07:04, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. POV, original research. -Demogorgon's Soup-taster 08:51, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

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Baker Hotel (Mineral Wells, Texas)

The Baker Hotel is a hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas. The Baker Hotel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Origin
The story of the Baker Hotel began in 1922, when citizens of Mineral Wells, concerned that noncitizens were profiting from the growing fame of the community's mineral water, raised $150,000 in an effort to build a large hotel facility owned by local shareholders. They solicited the services of prominent Texas hotel magnate Theodore Brasher Baker, who gained fame by designing and building such grand hotels as the Baker Hotel in Dallas and the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, and managed the Connor Hotel in Joplin, Missouri.

Architect Wyatt C. Hedrick based the hotel design on the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas, which was known for its water and baths. Construction began on the hotel in 1926, but was stopped after Mr. Baker made a trip to California, where he visited a hotel with a swimming pool, and decided the new Baker Hotel must have one in the front of the hotel. The swimming pool was placed on top of an already-completed basement, which was used as a work area for the hotel and a changing area for guests. An Olympic-sized pool to be filled with the curing mineral waters, it was the first swimming pool built at a hotel in Texas.

Construction began the following year on the grand and opulent structure, which was described by Palo Pinto County historian John Winters as a "Spanish Colonial Revival, Commercial Highrise." It would rise 14 stories over Mineral Wells, and house 450 guest rooms, two ballrooms, an in-house beauty shop, and other novelties such as a bowling alley, a gymnasium, and an outdoor swimming pool. Completed three years later with a cost of $1.2 million, the mammoth building instantly dominated the city skyline.

The 1930s: a top-tier spa destination
The Baker Hotel opened to the public on November 9, 1929, and celebrated with a grand-opening celebration gala two weeks later on November 22. It boasted extravagant creature comforts such as an advanced hydraulic system that circulated ice water to all 450 guest rooms, lighting and fans controlled by the door locks that shut off and on automatically when the guest left or arrived in their rooms, and a valet compartment where guests could deposit soiled laundry that was accessible by hotel staff without them ever even having to enter the guest's room.

The hotel was fully air conditioned by the 1940s, which added to its appeal as a top-notch convention attraction, offering a meeting capacity of 2,500 attendees, a remarkable number considering that Mineral Wells was home to only about 6,000 residents in 1929. Though it opened mere days after the 1929 stock market crash, the Baker enjoyed immense success throughout the 1930s, largely due to Mineral Wells's growing reputation as a top-tier health spa destination.

Several notable celebrities made the Baker a temporary home during their visits to the city's health spas; the star-studded guest list included Glenn Miller, Lawrence Welk, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, future U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, and even The Three Stooges. It is even rumored by local historians that legendary outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow may have spent a night or two at the Baker.

The 1940s: war brings prosperity
T.B. Baker began to suffer financial difficulties in the early 1930s, eventually declaring bankruptcy in 1934. He passed control of the Baker Hotel to his nephew Earl Baker, who had served as the hotel's manager, as well as managing director of Baker's Gunter Hotel in San Antonio. Despite its owner's financial problems, the Baker Hotel continued to thrive throughout the mid-1930s.

As the decade came to a close, however, Mineral Wells's reputation as a health spa was in decline; advances in modern medication and the discovery of antibiotics such as penicillin began to lead local doctors, who had been encouraging patients to partake in the area's therapeutic waters, to invest more confidence in medicine.

Business began to suffer, until a second boom in the Baker's popularity began when Camp Wolters (the future Fort Wolters military base) opened nearby in October 1940. It was home to the largest infantry placement in World War II and the hotel enjoyed its greatest popularity and success as a result; throughout World War II, the transient and permanent population of Mineral Wells hovered near 30,000, a large number of them making their temporary homes in the Baker.

The 1950s–1970s: decline and abandonment
Camp Wolters was shut down in 1946, one year after World War II ended, and nearby business suffered as a result. A smaller renaissance came in 1951 when the camp was reopened as Fort Wolters, a military helicopter training base. The Baker Hotel hosted the Texas Republican Party conventions in 1952 and 1955, and the Texas Democratic Party held their convention at the Baker in 1954.

Aside from these successes, business declined steadily through the 1950s and the proverbial final nail was driven by Earl Baker himself when he announced that he would be closing the hotel after the passing of his 70th birthday in 1963. True to his word, Baker shuttered the building on April 30 of that year, bringing an end to 34 years of service to Mineral Wells and surrounding areas.

The hotel reopened two years later, in 1965, when a group of local investors leased the structure from the Baker family, but the revival was brief and marred by the death of Earl Baker of a heart attack in 1967 after he was found unconscious on the floor of the cavernous Baker Suite.

In 1972, the Baker closed its doors for the last time. Although several groups had made offers to rehabilitate the structure, the building remained abandoned until 2019, when it was announced that the Baker Hotel would finally be renovated and restored.

2019 restoration plans
In 2014, citizens of Mineral Wells approved a measure to allocate a portion of the city's sales tax to the renovation project that will provide up to $4 million for the $65 million project.

On June 20, 2019, the Baker was announced to have been bought by DFW-based investor Laird Fairchild along with other partners, who had secured the last of the funding needed for the restoration.

Plans were announced in August 2019 for the Baker Hotel Development Partners to purchase and reopen the Baker with a proposed renovation budget of $65 million. Plans call to enlarge the current 450 rooms and bring the total number of rooms down to 165. The second floor will still be maintained as a luxury mineral spa.

The $65 million renovation began in late 2019. In May 2021, it was announced that the Baker Hotel was expected to reopen in fall 2024.

However, in October 2022, the reopening was delayed to mid-2025, and in September 2023 it was announced that the reopening would again be delayed to spring 2026.

Popular culture
The Baker Hotel was featured on the July 21, 2010 episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories with a story of actor Eric Balfour’s alleged paranormal experiences at the hotel. It was also featured on the December 7, 2012 episode of Ghost Adventures. The hotel was again featured on the September 10, 2016 episode of The Haunting of... Eric Balfour.

On March 25, 2022, Country Singer William Clark Green released an album "Baker Hotel".

In November 2023, the hotel was featured in a segment of Mysteries of the Abandoned, covering the history of the hotel, the lengthy time period in which it was abandoned, and what it currently looks like as renovations are ongoing.

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ED-209

The Enforcement Droid Series 209, or ED-209 (pronounced Ed Two Oh Nine), is a fictional heavily armed robot that appears in the RoboCop franchise. It serves as a foil for RoboCop, as well as a source of comic relief due to its lack of intelligence and tendency towards clumsy malfunctions.

Appearances
The Enforcement Droid Series 209, or ED-209 (pronounced Ed Two Oh Nine), is a heavily armed robot, sporting twin cannons on its left and right sides, a large, oblong visor much like a cockpit (despite the robot piloting itself) and legs with backwards-facing knees. It serves as a foil for RoboCop, due to its lack of intelligence and tendency towards clumsy malfunctions. For instance, during a boardroom demonstration by Dick Jones of ED-209's "disarm and arrest" procedure with a board executive named Kinney as the test subject, in which Kinney is given a pistol and told to point it at ED-209, ED-209 fails to recognize that Kinney has dropped his weapon and blasts him to death in over-the-top fashion with its automatic cannons. Later, it is shown that ED-209 cannot climb or descend stairs as it tumbles trying to chase RoboCop. The ED-209 is featured in every RoboCop major motion picture, while it is missing from the series' direct-to-video releases, and the television series features an ED with a different model number.

Animated series
ED-260, an upgraded version of the Enforcement Droid Series 209 first appeared the episode "Crime Wave" of the 1988 animated series RoboCop (voiced by Allen Stewart-Coates), serving as a recurring character throughout the series as its creator attempts to sabotage RoboCop.

Video games
The ED-209 is also used as a boss in RoboCop computer and video games, and the video game RoboCop versus The Terminator. In the 2003 RoboCop game for the Xbox, the ED-209 appeared at several points as a boss or boss-like enemy. The game also featured an upgraded design based on the 209, called the ED-1000. ED-209 appears as a traversal emote in Fortnite Battle Royale. In Mortal Kombat 11, ED-209 appears in RoboCop's fatal blow, one of his intros, and his fatality called "Dead or Alive". Additionally, ED-209 appears as both an ally and a boss in the 2023 game RoboCop: Rogue City.

Comic appearances
There were two ED-209s in the comic RoboCop versus The Terminator (though it is mentioned that there are 200 of them deployed), assisting RoboCop in shooting down a trio of Terminators bent on killing Flo. However, their limited intelligence remained a problem. In one instance, when ordered by RoboCop to "scan for cybernetic activity," the ED-209s immediately registered RoboCop as a target and opened fire, hitting each other by accident before apologising to Robocop. They would then help in shooting the Terminators, managing to double team and destroy one of the Terminators.

In Marvel's 1990 RoboCop comic, OCP Vice President Donald Johnson orders the creation of the ED-309.

RoboCop (1987)
Tippett developed preliminary sketches of ED-209 to budget for its development and hired Davies to design the full-scale model and construct it with Paula Lucchesi. Verhoeven wanted ED-209 to look mean and believed Davies' early designs lacked a "killer" aesthetic. Davies was influenced by killer whales and a United States Air Force Corsair Jet. He approached the design with modern American aesthetics and corporate design policy that he believed prioritized looks over functionality, including excessive and impractical components. He did not add eyes because they would make ED-209 more sympathetic.

Davies made an 8 in scale model from which he made a mold that was cut into cross-sections and sketched on graph paper to measure when scaling the design up for the full-size model that was carved in wood. Molds were made from the wood model and mainly constructed from fiberglass and held together by a separate wood frame. The finished model took four months to build at a cost of $25,000, stood 7 ft tall, and weighed 300 to 500 lb. The 100-hour working weeks took their toll, and Davies decided to make ED-209's feet minimal in detail as he did not think they would be shown on camera. The model was fully articulated but its movement was rarely shown on screen. It served as a reference point for actors in scenes. Despite reports, the model was not destroyed during filming and was sent out on promotional tours after.

Davies spent a further four months to build two 12 in miniature replicas that were made as light as possible so that the armature need not be bulky. 55 shots were to be completed in three months, and two models allowed scenes to be shot simultaneously to save time. Tippett led the stop motion animation of ED-209. He conceived its movement as "unanimal"-like as if it was constantly about to fall over before catching itself. Tippett set up and animated one model, and Harry Walton lit and setup the other. Tippett credited Randal M. Dutra with the bulk of the animation in RoboCop using Walton's setups. Live-action background plates were projected on screens behind the models and animated one frame at a time. A blur was added to make the movement appear more natural by gently shaking the model or set as needed. Walton animated ED-209 falling down the stairs on a 4 ft square miniature set. The model was filled with lead and allow to fall as Tippett believed attempting to animate the fall would have looked terrible. A difficult shot was ED-209 stepping over the camera; the off-screen elements of the model were gradually disassembled as it moved forward to fit above the camera. To complete the character, it was given the roar of a black leopard. Davison provided a temporary voiceover for ED-209's speaking voice, which was retained in the film.

RoboCop (2014)
In July 2012, a redesigned ED-209 was revealed in the OmniCorp viral website. The new ED-209 is slimmer in design and more heavily armed than the original version.

Cultural impact

 * In an episode of The Simpsons ("I, D'oh-Bot"), Homer fights an ED-209 built by Professor Frink and his son in a robot-fighting television show called Robot Rumble.

 * ED-209 appears in 3 episodes of South Park. He first appears in "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery", Kenny wears a life-sized ED-209 Halloween costume. "A Ladder to Heaven" featured an ED-209 guarding a house. In "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer", Chef's overly complicated television transforms into a robot resembling ED-209 in aesthetic and function.

 * The computer real-time strategy game StarCraft features a unit (Terran Goliath) similar to the ED-209. When clicked on repeatedly the Golliath will say "Mil Spec E.D. 209 online." Another unit (Protoss Dragoon) when clicked on repeatedly can say the ED-209's quote, "Drop your weapon. You have 15 seconds to comply. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..."

 * ED-209 appears in the final sequences of Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge, before the player escapes from Vohaul's asteroid.

 * A robot strongly resembling ED-209 is shown off by Genie in the film Aladdin and the King of Thieves.

 * Police Drones in Transformers Animated resemble the ED-209, in which coincidentally the show's setting takes place also in a futuristic Detroit, and serve the same purpose, except this time they were in very large numbers and patrol the city, only to fall to the likes of the various characters of the show.

 * American thrash metal band Lich King have a song titled "ED-209" on their third studio album, World Gone Dead.

Merchandise

 * Kenner toys in 1990 featured an ED-209 figure in their RoboCop and the Ultra Police line. It had a rotating waist and articulated legs. The figure was not to scale and did not have any automatic actions or accessories. It was renamed "ED-260" for the line. the back of the "ED-260" can be opened to add roll caps which could be triggered with a small metal lever to simulate gunfire.
 * Mez-Itz RoboCop line contained an SD (Super Deformed) ED-209 figure in its RoboCop figure pack, which also contained RoboCop and Officer Anne Lewis.
 * Kotobukiya toys featured a figure line in Japan based on the RoboCop movies. ED-209 came in a singular pack which had to be assembled. Also, in a two-pack, RoboCop came with the damaged legs of the ED-209 from the first RoboCop film.
 * JAM Japan has produced a 2.36 inch ED-209 figure.
 * Horizon Models produced a vinyl 1/9 scale ED-209 model. Upon going out of business, the molds were bought by an unknown Thai manufacturer and the models were re-released.
 * The same Thai manufacturer has a 1/12 scale ED-209 model as well.
 * Hot Toys produced a 1/6 scale 15-inch ED-209 model as part of their Movie Masterpiece series - the popularity of this model later prompted the release of a battle-damaged version. This model was distributed by Sideshow Toys in America and Europe.

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I removed the following from the article:

 * Metairie was the second largest unincorporated place in the United States in 1980, with a population of 164,160. Today it ranks 5th in the nation, behind Honolulu, Hawaii, Paradise, Nevada, Arlington, Virginia, and Sunrise Manor, Nevada.

Technically, this rank should refer to census-designated places and not unincorporated places, which would mean Honolulu doesn't belong here because it is, in fact, coterminous with Honolulu County. Honolulu proper (the specific "city") is incorporated within Honolulu District VI; it simply isn't its own independent city as most U.S. cities are. If we're going by CDPs, Metairie should be 4th largest in the U.S. Unincorporated place is different; if that were the case here, Arlington wouldn't be on this list (incorporated as a county) but Silver Spring, Maryland would. Comments appreciated so this info can go back in the article. --Pastricide 23:36, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Exactly, Honolulu is not an independent city. The City and County of Honolulu covers the entire island of Oahu (i.e. includes rural areas, mountains, etc.), has a population of around 800,000, and includes an area much larger than I think any Hawaiian refers to as being in "Honolulu". Hawaii has no incorporated municipalities (i.e. subcounty units), thus for its statistical purposes the Census Bureau has defined the "Honolulu CDP", as it does in other such cases such as Metairie. Honolulu CDP is the urban area on the southeast shore of Oahu, is what locals would generally refer to as "Honolulu", and has about half of the population of the entire City and County. Metairie is the 5th largest CDP and the article has been reworded accordingly. Gellersen 00:22, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Correct, but if you look deep into the 1980 census; Metairie was the 2nd largest CDP in the nation after Honolulu with a population of 164,160; due to the fact that Paradise, Nevada only had 84,818 residents; Sunrise Manor, Nevada had only had 44,155 and Arlington, Virginia dropped from 174,284 in 1970 to 152,599 in 1980.--Moreau36 1628, 2 September 2005 (EDT)

 *  NOTE: Census Designated Places are not counted at the county level. They're "equal" counterparts to incorporated cities, towns (in most states), and villages. There no incorporated cities or towns in Arlington County. (Virginia has a law stating that places in heavily dense counties cannot incorporate into cities; see: Independent City.); but due to it's density plus the county's size made it possible for the census to treat the CDP as co-extensive to the county like New Orleans is co-extensive with Orleans Parish or San Francisco, California is to San Francisco County.

Why were references to white flight removed from this page as vandalism? That's definitely part of what lead to the growth of Metairie. Also, why was the reference to David Duke removed? He did represent Metairie in the Lousiana House.

About the schools: Riverdale isn't mentioned anywhere. I know it has some kind of wacky status as far as public schools go, but it still merits an entry.

Riverdale isn't actually in Metairie, it's in a community south of metairie known as Old Jefferson. Metairie's southern border is currently airline highway, but was traditionally the railroad tracks (Illinois Central) several hundred yards south of the highway.Ilikefish0 05:37, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi y'all there's a book that I think should be added to the links: Metairie: A Tongue of Land to Pasture

By Msgr. Henry C. Bezou

Written by a respected historian in the mid-1970's, Metairie: A Tongue of Land to Pasture has recently been re-printed in softbound form. The book is available in local bookstores and is available for viewing at any parish library.

I took this blurb from: http://www.jeffersonhistoricalsociety.com/Publications/otherjeffersonbooks.htm

Lafreniere Park
Being a huge part of Metairie, I felt the beautiful Lafreniere Park needed a small reference on the page. I live nearby and will be out to take high resolution photos (if the weather ever clears up) and use Photoshop to put them into one image to be thumbnailed on the page. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

Megastealer 16:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

This seems like too much attention to give to one park in Metairie.

Elliotte Rusty Harold 21:54, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

After thinking about it for a while, you are right. I should probably list names of parks under recreation, and move the Lafreniere Park topic to its own page. I'll get to it soon.

Megastealer 16:48, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation
Does anyone actually say Metry? I would eliminate that as a pronunciation, since anyone who used to say that is buried in metry cemetery. Mdlawmba (talk) 00:44, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Sports? Why leave out the Saints?
Uh ... who's writing this page? Here's the link to the article that says the Saints are headquartered in Metairie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Saints. Why's this not included in the sports section? Someone from Dallas writing this stuff? Todd pravata (talk) 20:48, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Stuff not actually in Metairie?!
As far as I can tell, NEITHER the NFL New Orleans Saints practice facility nor the AAA Babycakes' home field is in Metairie. Note that the text says that the southern border of Metairie is Airline Hwy. n/k/a Airline Dr.--which I'm pretty sure is correct. Both the Saints and the Babycakes are on the SOUTH side of Airline. Yes, this causes some confusion, even among locals. But NO, just because the U.S. Post Office MAY call it Metairie does not actually make it Metairie any more than that the Post Office calling the area of Jefferson Parish where Ochsner Hospital is located New Orleans makes it New Orleans (Ochsner being just a bit west of the city and parish limits). N'Awlins Contrarian 04:07, 31 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by N'Awlins Contrarian (talk • contribs)

Notable people
Graham Parsons is buried there. More notable than most of the hacks born there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.107.93.186 (talk) 02:23, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

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Fume hood vs. Fume cupboard
Well, here in the States we call 'em "fume hoods", ya see. genevax@yahoo.com

The UK invented them so we can call them what we like. European Standard uses Fume Cupboard. Globally fume cupboard used more.

I don't Think it really matters who invented them or who uses them more...they save lives and isn't that what really matters.....turboefx@yahoo.com

In the UK, "fume cupboard" is definitely more common than "fume hood", is this the case elsewhere.... thinking "redirect" here --PopUpPirate 23:36, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Energy
Anybody have an idea how much power their fume cupboard fan draws? Nfette (talk) 06:38, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Can somebody summarize the main differences between a fume hood and a biosafety cabinet? Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shudongs (talk • contribs) 15:01, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

New Introduction; many further edits needed
I edited the introduction but this article needs a lot of work. In particular, references to codes and standards (ANSI Z9.5 in the US for example).

The whole discussion relative to health and safety is very primitive.

I don't care what we call them, hoods or cupboards, and also I don't think it matters.

There is no one answer for how much power a hood draws. It depends entirely upon the exhaust system design, where you are located (vis heating/cooling the make-up air) and local power costs. We could include some examples however. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonorom (talk • contribs) 19:42, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

"Construction and location" intro
The article currently states "Fume hoods (fume cupboards) are generally available in 5 different widths; 1000 mm, 1200 mm, 1500 mm, 1800 mm and 2000 mm. The depth varies between 700 mm and 900 mm, and the height between 1900 mm and 2400 mm." Firstly, shouldn't it use centimeters, not millimeters? And also, I think this needs a citation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.184.69.120 (talk) 23:01, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Source added; it uses millimetres, now most common in equipment such as this. Have you perhaps looked at a fitted kitchen catalogue recently? --Old Moonraker (talk) 23:38, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Section on saving energy
The section "Behavioral programs to reduce fume hood energy use" has some nice information about saving energy. It has turned into a list of "me too" programs that is excessive. One or two example programs would be all that is needed for the article. Grantmidnight (talk) 15:27, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

(youtube)Fume Hood Safety: DOs and DON'Ts
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Scott Brennan is an Australian actor and comedian. He is best known for his work on the Australian television program skitHOUSE.

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Matt is a 1976 Graduate of Unatego High School. He lived in Unadilla NY — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:B7CC:C800:483C:F207:3C63:8B66 (talk) 02:41, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
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I see you reciently updated DD574, but I think the information you have is stale? I'm preparing to add a more up to date entry, but wanted to touch bases with you first to find out what your information sources are?

The Mexican museum group has been unable to accmplish their goals and are no longer interested. I'm now in contact with an American who has just about finished securing the title to the ship and plans to bring her to San Francisco for renovation.

My personal interest is that my living uncle served on her during WWII. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petwir (talk • contribs) 18:25, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

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