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Duarte Costa

Duarte Costa (born 22 June 1988) is a Portuguese politician and co-chair of the party Volt Portugal, as well as a climate expert. Costa is his party's top candidate for the 2024 European elections.

Career
Duarte Costa was born in Lisbon in 1988 and studied geography at the University of Lisbon from 2006 to 2009. Costa graduated from the University of Sussex with a Master's degree in Climate Change and Policy. Convinced that science should have a stronger influence on political decisions, he joined the party Volt. Costa was the top candidate for the European constituency in the 2022 Portuguese legislative elections. In June 2022, Costa together with Ana Carvalho were elected Co-Chairs of Volt Portugal. In the list election for the 2024 European Parliament election, he was nominated as the top candidate of the list together with Rhia Lopes.

Transport policy
Costa repeatedly spoke out in favour of expanding public transport and sustainable transport infrastructure more quickly in order to support Portugal's climate protection efforts. For example, he advocated limiting fuel rebates to vulnerable groups at the start of the Ukraine war in order to use the funds thus freed up to support the expansion of carbon-neutral mobility systems. Costa wants to significantly expand the rail network and link Portugal more closely with Spain and the rest of Europe with high-speed railway lines. Urban planning should include links with public transport from the outset, and housing construction should be geared towards this, following the example of Vienna.

Climate protection
To be in line with the IPCC report's requirements for climate action, Costa called for more ambitious measures and advocated for the EU to aim for carbon neutrality by 2040 instead of 2050, and to reduce emissions by 80% by 2030 instead of 55% as predicted. Urban planning should also be adapted to changing conditions due to climate change, with increasing heat waves and forest fires, and the energy efficiency of houses should be increased. To this end, more climate-friendly forms of mobility are to be promoted.

Equality and LGBTQ rights
Duarte Costa has repeatedly spoken out against racism, homophobia, misogyny and transphobia and regularly participates in Christopher Street Days.

European policy
By introducing transnational lists in European elections, Costa wants to deepen European democracy and bring citizens closer to the EU.

In order to make the EU more capable of acting, Costa also spoke out in favour of abolishing the right of veto in the European Council and proposes decision-making by qualified majority instead. In the future, the European Union should become a parliamentary democracy with a government elected by the EU Parliament.

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Julian Larcombe Schley

Julian Larcombe Schley (February 23, 1880 – March 29, 1965) was a Chief of Engineers of the U.S. Army, who also served as Governor of the Panama Canal Zone.

Biography
Schley was born in Savannah, Georgia, on February 23, 1880. He attended the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, graduating in 1898. Schley graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in June 1903 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers.

He and classmate Douglas MacArthur had their first service with the 3d Battalion of Engineers in Compton from 1904 to 1905. Schley later served with engineer troops in the United States and Cuba; as an instructor at the Military Academy; as Assistant Engineer, Washington, D.C.; and as New Orleans District Engineer.

During World War I, he commanded the divisional 307th Engineers in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives and was Engineer, 5th Army Corps, during the last two weeks of the latter drive. He received a Distinguished Service Medal for his service during the war.

Schley was Director of Purchase, General Staff, and a member of the War Department Claims Board from 1919 to 1920. Schley later served four-year tours as Galveston District Engineer; Engineer of Maintenance, Panama Canal; and Governor of the Canal Zone. In the latter post, he was also military advisor to the Republic of Panama. Schley was Commandant of the Army Engineer School in 1936 – 1937. In October, 1937, Schley was named as Chief Engineer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He retired on September 30, 1941.

Schley was recalled to active wartime duty in 1943 as Director of Transportation, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. He served until December 31, 1945, before retiring again.

Schley died March 29, 1965, at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., aged 85. He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery four days later.

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Royal Collection Management Committee

The Royal Collection Management Committee has control of the administration of the Royal Collection of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, and is a part of the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household.

Current (July 2005) members are:

 * Sir Hugh Roberts, KCVO FSA (Chairman)
 * Sir Jonathan Marsden, KCVO FSA
 * Hon Lady Roberts, CVO
 * Desmond Shawe-Taylor
 * Mike Stevens, LVO FCA
 * George Ruiz, ACA
 * Ms Frances Dunkels
 * Mrs Nuala McGourty

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Thomas Leslie Outerbridge

Thomas Leslie Outerbridge (died 5 September 1927) was a notable Bermudian, who participated in the American Civil War as a sailor aboard blockade runner ships from Bermuda.

Involvement in the American Civil War
During the War, the Union imposed a blockade on the Confederacy, which was then an important trade partner with European countries, particularly England. Harbours such as Bermuda's St. George harbour and Nassau in the Bahamas became important bases for blockade running missions. Such missions became exceedingly dangerous; blockade runners were paid far greater sums than ordinary sailors. Outerbridge and his brother both took this opportunity.

On one occasion, Outerbridge was serving aboard the steamboat Robert E. Lee. Departing from Wilmington at about 9 p.m. (at high tide, which is when the large ship could get over Wilmington's sandbar), the Robert E. Lee joined a small fleet of blockade runners which was soon attacked by two Man-of-War ships, flanking the fleet on either side. The Man-of-Wars immediately attacked with heavy cannons, destroying a winch and severely wounding a number of foreign sailors. One of them approached the Robert E. Lee close enough for small arms fire, though there were no casualties.

While the captain, Wilkinson, studiously ignored the attack, Outerbridge, the mate and a number of crewmen had gone to the forecastle to watch for other craft. A round shot hit close to Outerbridge, causing him to fall unconscious while the other crewmen fled. The following day, Outerbridge was commended by the ship's officers for his bravery, and the crew picked small bullets from the woodwork.

At the time, the Robert E. Lee was en route to Halifax with a number of Confederate officers on board. The Confederates were bound for England to collect two Man-of-Wars for the Confederate government (the Viper and the Vixen). The British government seized the officers and sent them to Bermuda. The Robert E. Lee also set course for the island.

Not all of Outerbridge's adventures in the Civil War would be as pleasant, as he would be twice captured by the North. On one of these occasions, he was serving on the steamer Sirene. Originally owned by the British government and used as the Dockyard duty boat, the ship was mothballed and sold to Mr. Fininsey, the popular Confederate Consul in Bermuda. Fininsey deployed the Sirene to Wilmington with a crew to bring back another steamship, the Cape of Good Hope, to act as a cotton freighter. At the time, the Cape of Good Hope was a passenger boat between Wilmington and Smithfield, a role that the Sirene would then fulfill. Captain Jeremiah Peniston was selected as the ship's Master, with Outerbridge's brother Eldon Outerbridge as first officer and Outerbridge himself as second officer. A Virginian man by the name of Mr. Tab was the ship's purser.

A week out of Bermuda, the rather slow Sirene reached the American coastline off Bowford, North Carolina. They headed southward towards Cape Fear under sail, hoping that it would deceive the blockade fleet. Only an hour later, the Man-of-War Key Stone State (which was later purchased by a Mr. Webb of New York, renamed the San Francisco and used as a mail ship to Bermuda) intercepted the Sirene and towed it into Bowford, with the crew laughing at the blockade runners' pitiful craft.

The following day, the crew were transferred onto a receiving ship in Bowford's harbour, where they found a welcoming presence in the ship's captain. Having visited Bermuda several times in a whaler, the ship's captain was kind towards his prisoners. However, they spent the next ten days treated like fighting cocks. Four days into this, the Sirene crew witnessed another blockade running steamer, the Pavince, being chased on shore by the Man-of-War. The steamer was fast enough that the crew had the leeway to abandon the ship and row ashore on small craft, but they were immediately captured by Union soldiers. The Pavince was at that time on fire, and exploded. With the crew of the Pavince – also familiar with the Captain from his time in Bermuda – aboard, the blockade runners "had a good time as long as [they] were there".

After the ten days, the blockade runners disembarked into Camp Hamilton, which was under military authority. Treatment was severe. Four days into the stay, the Union wardens sent all imprisoned masons – including the both blockade runner captains and some fifteen thousand Confederate soldiers.

At Point Look Out, the blockade runners were stripped, with their possessions to be returned at the end of their imprisonment. Described conservatively as "a real pest hole", Point Look Out was a mile (1 mi) square, surrounded by 15 ft lumber walls. Around this wall, stationed every 30 ft on a platform 4 ft from the top, Union soldiers kept watch. Many of these were former slaves liberated by the North, who exacted their revenge by shooting Southern soldiers, killing upwards of 15–20 per day.

Prison was difficult for Outerbridge. Like the other prisoners, he had to sleep in the open air, and ate a loaf of bread a day (with a quarter pound [1/4 lb] of fresh beef delivered thrice a week). The wagons that delivered the daily bread "carried out something else". Eldon had kept on him a gold sovereign by hiding it under his tongue. Eldon and Thomas used this money to trade with settlers immediately outside the camp, through a small hole in the wall. Initially, the brothers tried to send letters to Lord Lyon, the British Ambassador to Washington, requesting aid. These letters would never be received, however.

Mr. Tab – the Sirene's Purser – would prove invaluable at this point. With the help of the local Chaplain, he managed to get a letter through, and soon the brothers were free.

Unfortunately, the money and possessions that had been removed from the brothers was nowhere to be found. With a gift enough to get them to New York, the brothers secured a loan from a Mr. Middleton, the Bermuda Agent, to pay for their trip back home (a loan that was promptly repaid). They returned to Bermuda as crewmen aboard the barque Lapflerene, where they were well treated by the captain – William Peniston – and his wife for the eight-day journey.

Upon returning to Bermuda, the crew made for Castle Harbour, proceeding up the old Quarry as close to the Outerbridge's homes at Bailey's Bay as they could get.

Near the close of the war, the Outerbridge brothers entered the employ on one John Tory Bourne. Bourne named them captain (Eldon) and chief officer (Thomas) of the ship Sarah Ann. The ill-fated brig would be blown ashore and wrecked in a hurricane on the main island of St. Thomas

Post-war activities
The American Civil War would not be Outerbridge's only source of adventure. As the master of Mr. Nicholas McCallan's schooner Bravo, Outerbridge travelled to Prince Edward's Island to take on a cargo of Christmas stores (including yellow turnips, Irish potatoes, cabbages and oats), including a deck load of poultry and 8 to 10 horses. The morning that the Bravo was to set sail for Bermuda, however, the crew awoke to find the entire harbour frozen solid. Outerbridge ordered that the horses be taken ashore and be stabled for the winter, and after completing that order, the crew did not return. Alone save for his faithful steward Mr. John Virgin, Outerbridge waited out the winter. When the ice broke, he took the horses back on board, and the two men sailed for St. George. Though the turkeys and geese were rather lean, they would fetch a fair price of half a crown apiece – the usual price for fat birds.

Thomas Outerbridge would also sail the Harvest Queen, the McMillian and the T.H.A. Pitt, as was the long-time Master of Mr. J.S. Darrell's tug Clover. It is believed that the last sailing ship her had charge of was the brigantine Peeress, belonging to one Mr. H.C. Outerbridge. Thomas took the Peeress north for general cargo and a deckload of livestock. On his return, the ship's well-kept glass readings showed an approaching hurricane. Outerbridge went north and then west of Bermuda to avoid the damaging storm. They finally arrived in Hamilton without any damage – attributed to Outerbridge's skill as a mariner.

Personal life
Outerbridge was reputed to be a keen sportsman, riding and attending the horse races at Shelley Bay. Never far from the water, boat racing was his strongest sport. He introduced the dinghy Teal – built by Michael Davis and the winner of three races under Outerbridge's handling.

He would marry Alice Hollis, and have five sons by her. Unfortunately, two of them – Gordon and William – would predecease them. Surviving him were Ernest Seon Outerbridge; Thomas Reginald Outerbridge; and George Harrison Outerbridge.

Death
Outerbridge did not slow down with his years, having been known to continue travelling into St. George's until mere months before his death. He died in the afternoon of Sunday, 5 September 1927, at the house of his son George, in Bailey's Bay.

His funeral at the Holy Trinity Church was described as "very largely attended" – many attending from a distance – with numerous, beautiful floral arrangements. In attendance were his faithful follower John Virgin, his nephews F.C. Outerbridge, Bernard Wilkinson, Wickwire Davis, Stephen Wilkinson, Malcolm Hollis and Sturgis Davis (who acted as the carriers), and was performed by the Rev. Canon Earp, Rector of Hamilton and Smith's, and the Rev. A. T. Tucker, Rector of St. George's.

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Peel River

The Peel River may refer to:

 * Peel River (New South Wales) in Australia
 * Peel River (Canada) in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada

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RFTC (album)

RFTC is an album by American punk rock band Rocket from the Crypt, released in 1998 by Interscope Records. It was the band's second major-label release. A music video was filmed for the single "Break it Up" and the band embarked on tours in support of the album, on which they were joined by Chris Prescott from San Diego bands Tanner and No Knife who performed as touring percussionist and keyboardist.

Although overall reaction to the album was positive and singles "Break it Up" and "Lipstick" received radio airplay, RFTC failed to sell impressive numbers to the degree that Interscope had hoped. The label soon turned their attention to higher-grossing acts, leading the band to end their contract with the label the following year. Disagreements between members concerning the professional direction of the band following their departure from Interscope would lead to drummer Atom leaving the group in early 2000. Though the band would continue to record and perform with a new drummer, they would not be as prolific as in their past.

Recording the album
In the album's liner notes, singer/guitarist John Reis states that the entire recording of RFTC was conducted completely live except for the second vibraslap hit on the first verse of "You Gotta Move." He also states that the band were able to use a number of microwave enhancement techniques to exceed the normal industry recording rate of 20 digi-bits per second on compact discs, achieving a rate of 23 digi-bits per second and resulting in a higher quality recording.

Track listing

 * 1) "Eye on You"
 * 2) "Break it Up"
 * 3) "I Know"
 * 4) "Panic Scam"
 * 5) "Made for You"
 * 6) "Lipstick"
 * 7) "You Gotta Move"
 * 8) "Your Touch"
 * 9) "Let's Get Busy"
 * 10) "Dick on a Dog"
 * 11) "Back in the State"
 * 12) "When in Rome"
 * 13) "Run Kid Run"

Personnel

 * Speedo (John Reis) - guitar, lead vocals
 * ND (Andy Stamets) - guitar, backing vocals
 * Petey X (Pete Reichert) - bass, backing vocals
 * Apollo 9 (Paul O'Beirne) - saxophone, vibraslap, backing vocals
 * JC 2000 (Jason Crane) - trumpet, percussion, organ, backing vocals
 * Atom (Adam Willard) - drums, timbales
 * Jim Dickinson - piano, hammond organ
 * Anton Fig - congas on "You Gotta Move"
 * Derek Sherinan - piano on "You Gotta Move," organ on "Made for You"
 * King Django - trombone on "Back in the State"
 * Holly Golightly - additional vocals on "Eye on You"
 * Mike Gent - additional vocals at the end of "Run Kid Run"

Album information

 * Record label:
 * CD: Interscope Records
 * LP: Sympathy for the Record Industry
 * UK release: Elemental Records
 * Produced, recorded and mixed by Kevin Shirley at Avatar Studios in New York
 * Extra audio enhancement techniques supervised by the staff at Caveman Productions
 * Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York
 * Art direction and illustrations by Rick Froberg
 * Layout and type by Brent Stickels
 * Insert photo by Michael Halsband
 * Booklet photos by Miki Vukovich
 * Photography by Miki Vukovich
 * All songs published by Mr. Buttermaker Painting, BMI

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Pearl Jam's Live at Benaroya Hall

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Desmond Shawe-Taylor

Desmond Philip Shawe-Taylor  (born 30 September 1955) was Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures from 2005 to 2020. He succeeded Christopher Lloyd on Lloyd's retirement.

Early life
Shawe-Taylor is the son of Brian Newton Shawe-Taylor and Jocelyn Cecilia Shawe-Taylor. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, University College, Oxford, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Career
Shawe-Taylor was a lecturer in the History of Art Department of the University of Nottingham from 1979 to 1996, and director of Dulwich Picture Gallery from 1996 to 2005, when he was succeeded by Ian Dejardin. He has published several books: Genial Company: the theme of genius in eighteenth-century British portraiture, 1987; The Georgians: eighteenth-century portraiture and society, 1990; Dramatic Art: theatrical paintings from the Garrick Club, 1997; Rembrandt to Gainsborough: masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1999; Shakespeare in Art, 2003; Bruegel to Rubens: masters of Flemish painting, 2007; and The Conversation Piece: scenes of fashionable life, 2009.

He was made redundant in December 2020, following the news that the Royal Collections Trust "expects to lose £64m in income this year because Buckingham Palace and other sites have been shut to visitors."

Shawe-Taylor was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in 2011 and Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2021 Birthday Honours.

Family
In 1987, Shawe-Taylor married Rosemary North. They have three children: Marianne, Edward and William.

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Talk:Cyclohexanone

Cyclohexanone melting point

 * I'm probably missing something, but according to the Sigma-Aldrich and Acros websites the mp for cyclohexanone is −47°C at 25°C. The value in the infobox was corrected into −16.4°C. What is the corect value? Berserker79 09:23, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Yes, the melting point of cyclohexanone does cause a bit of a problem. The value I quoted is from Weast, R. C. (Ed.) (1972). Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (53rd Edn.). Cleveland:Chemical Rubber Co., which also gives the figure of −45 °C as "of questionable accuracy". The original reference appears to be Timmermans, J.; & Hennault-Roland, M. (1937). "Works fom The International Bureau of Physical-Chemical Standards. VIII. Physical constants of 20 organic compunds". ''J. Chim. Phys. Phys.-Chim. Biol.'' 34:693. The NIOSH guide also gives −49 °F (− 45 °C), while Sigma-Aldrich Co. gives −47 °C. We have had some problems with Aldrich melting points for other compounds (notably the amino acids): to be fair, they never claim to be a data book, they merely supply literature values for the convenience of their customers. Pine, S. H. gives the Rubber Bible value of −16 °C, while the International Chemical Safety Card quotes a value of −32.1 °C. The reference for this last value appears to be Sellers, P.; & Sunner, S. (1962). "Heats of combustion of cyclic ketones and alcohols". ''Acta Chem. Scand.'' 16:46–52. NIST lists a few more values around −30 °C, and one value from White, A. H.; & Bishop, W. S. (1940). "Dielectric evidence of Molecular Rotation in Crystals of Certain Non-aromatic Compounds". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 62:8–16. at −40°C (but nothing lower). By now, I am beginning to wish I had followed the example of Kemp, W., Openshaw, H. T. and Fieser, L. F.; & Fieser, M. , all of whom decline to give a value for the melting point!

In general, when there is a discrepancy between sources for the melting point, I tend to choose the highest value (impurities tend to lower the observed melting point, as does poor technique in making the measurement). A discrepancy of this size can only really be due to supercooling, which would also mean that the higher values represent the "true" melting point. The only option left (short of measuring the value ourselves, which is not allowed under WP:NOR) is to check the original papers or Beilstein (72, 5). The Merck Index reference is 11, 2732.

I hope this goes some way to answering your question! Physchim62 19:33, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the detailed explanation. This definetely helps to answer my question! Sigma-Aldrich and other chemicals resellers websites are a quick source for data, but I'll probably check other sources next time, to verify the information is as much correct as possible. Thank you! Berserker79 12:30, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Don't worry, as a professional chemist the Aldrich catalogue is my single most used source for physical data on compounds (it's free, there's always a copy lying around whichever lab I'm working in). Just remember that any data source may be inaccurate, even though science is knowing the difference between scepticism and paranoia! Physchim62 23:16, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Nylon 66 and Nylon 6,6
I fix the link. So now will correctly go on the page of Nylon and not in the page of the gun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dario1189 (talk • contribs) 10:15, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

According to one of your own cited sources (NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards), cyclohexanone causes "...irritation eyes, skin, mucous membrane; headache; narcosis, coma; dermatitis; in animals: liver, kidney damage." And according to the manufacturer's MSDS, it also causes lung damage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.47.108.209 (talk) 18:17, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Hazard info

 * Not to sound too flip but so does almost every organic compound if you mess with them enough. They also ignite readily, etc. We reached a consensus here not to list routine information that is more authoritatively obtained from the MSDS, the links to which we carefully provide. --Smokefoot (talk) 19:20, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Taste/Smell of Cyclohexanone
Has anyone else searched Sigma Aldrich and the rest of the online literature for the smell and/or taste of cyclohexanone? I can't find any of those sources which agree with the "peardrop sweet" description of its smell. Reference 7, the entry for cyclohexanone in Ullmann's, is cited to support that, but unfortunately is behind a paywall. The non-pay sources generally say cyclohexanone's got a minty and an acetone smell. The perfumers' references also recommend you smell it in 1% or less concentration.

I also notice that there's a kosher version of cyclohexanone offered for sale. Kashrut is generally applied to foods, not scents, so someone's using cyclohexanone as a flavoring agent.

I'll follow this up later, but I thought others here might want to look into the taste/smell of cyclohexanone in other references than Ullmann's. Peardrop sweets are a delight unknown to most of the English speakers in North America, and it's difficult to find any other references which confirm the "peardrop sweet" description of cyclohexanone's odor and taste. loupgarous (talk) 00:24, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * OK I just checked: Ullmann's Encyclopedia doesnt say sweet, but that cyclohexnone's odor is like that of acetone, which is akin to fingernail polish. The pearldrop thing must be vandalism.  --Smokefoot (talk) 00:47, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Vandalism is the most likely explanation. Thanks for the help! loupgarous (talk) 08:08, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

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Vesta Tilley

Matilda Alice Powles, Lady de Frece (13May 1864 – 16September 1952) was an English music hall performer. She adopted the stage name Vesta Tilley and became one of the best-known male impersonators of her era. Her career lasted from 1869 until 1920. Starting in provincial theatres with her father as manager, she performed her first season in London in 1874. She typically performed as a dandy or fop, also playing other roles. She found additional success as a principal boy in pantomime.

By the 1890s, Tilley was England's highest earning woman. She was also a star in the vaudeville circuit in the United States, touring a total of six times. She married Walter de Frece, a theatre impresario who became her new manager and songwriter. At a Royal Command Performance in 1912, she scandalised Queen Mary because she was wearing trousers. During the First World War she was known as "England’s greatest recruiting sergeant" since she sang patriotic songs dressed in khaki fatigues like a soldier and promoted enlistment drives.

Becoming Lady de Frece in 1919, she decided to retire and made a year-long farewell tour from which all profits went to children's hospitals. Her last performance was in 1920 at the Coliseum Theatre, London. She then supported her husband when he became a Member of Parliament and later retired with him to Monte Carlo. She died in 1952 on a visit to London and is buried at Putney Vale Cemetery. Her life story was commemorated in the 1957 film After the Ball.

Early years
Matilda Alice Powles was born at Beaver Row, Worcester on 13May 1864. She was the second child out of a total of thirteen and shared her first name with her mother Matilda Powles (née Broughton). Her father was William Henry Powles, known as Harry Ball. He was a musician and comic who in 1870 became manager and master of ceremonies at the Star Music Hall, Gloucester. In 1872 he moved his family from Worcester to become manager of St George's Hall in Nottingham and to develop and manage seven year old Tilley's life as a performer.

With her father's encouragement, she first appeared on stage at the age of three and, by six, she was appearing to sing songs dressed as a man. Known variously to begin as Tilley Ball or Little Tilley, she embarked on her professional career in 1869 and was to be on the stage until 1920. Her first character of note was "Pocket Sims Reeves", spoofing the act of the then-famous opera singer Sims Reeves by performing his songs such as "The Anchor's Weighed". She would later perform male roles exclusively, saying that "I felt that I could express myself better if I were dressed as a boy."

At the time, British music hall entertainment was increasingly popular and Powles' fame grew as she became older. By 1872, her father had quit his job to manage her career full-time and she was supporting her family. In 1874, she did her first season in London, performing as the Great Little Tilley at three venues every night. Edward Villiers, then manager at the Canterbury Music Hall in Lambeth, was concerned by the gender ambiguity of the performance name and suggested a change. Harry Ball decided upon Vesta Tilley. "Vesta" referred to both the Latin word for virgin and Swan Vesta, a brand of safety matches; "Tilley" was a diminutive of her name Matilda. She was billed as Vesta Tilley for the first time in April 1878, when performing at the Royal Music Hall in Holborn, London.

Stardom
Tilley's success continued into the 1880s and she was able to command ever higher fees for her performances. As a male impersonator, she typically performed as a dandy or a fop, a famous character being "Burlington Bertie" although she also played other roles such as policemen and clergymen.

By the 1890s, she was known as "the London Idol" and adored by her fans. Her father had died in 1888 and two years later she married Walter de Frece, a theatre impresario who owned music halls across Great Britain. Frece became her new manager and also began to write her songs. She toured extensively in Britain and also played the vaudeville circuit in the United States on six separate visits. She had become the highest-earning woman in England. One theatre in the US offered her a salary of $600 per week.

Tilley was known for her painstaking attention to detail in preparing for her roles: she wore her hair tightly plaited and hidden under a wig; she took to wearing men's underwear so her appearance looked believable, since contemporary women's underclothing would have distorted her shape. Her performances were always family-friendly, unlike other acts. She had found her niche, performing as a male impersonator and working-class men adored her mockery of the upper classes. From the 1870s onwards, women also went to music halls and they revelled in Tilley's independence. By 1912, music hall entertainments had become so famous that a Royal Command Performance was organised. Tilley sang a favourite song, "The Piccadilly Johnny with the Little Glass Eye" wearing trousers as part of her act. Queen Mary was scandalised to see a woman's legs and hid her face behind a programme.

Alongside other stars such as Dan Leno and Ada Reeve, Tilley made some of the first sound recordings in England in 1898. She also played the principal boy in a number of pantomimes. At the age of 13, she played Robinson Crusoe at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth. She was best known for her titular role in Dick Whittington, which she played many times. She often performed in male roles in pantomimes such as Beauty and the Beast and Sinbad the Sailor, and occasionally played female parts, such as the Queen of Hearts at the Theatre Royal, Brighton.

Wartime work
By the time the First World War began, Tilley's career was slowing down and the changing situation provided a chance for it to develop further. She and her husband ran military recruitment drives and she sang at charity events. Tilley dressed in khaki fatigues and performed numbers written by her husband such as "Jolly Good Luck to the Girl Who Loves a Soldier", "The Army of Today's All Right", "Six Days' Leave", and "Your King and Country Want You" (also known as "We Don't Want to Lose You but We Think You Ought to Go"). She was nicknamed "England’s greatest recruiting sergeant" since young men were sometimes asked to join the army during her show. Over the course of a week in Hackney, she enlisted so many people they became known as "The Vesta Tilley Platoon".

However, Tilley was also prepared to question the carnage of war. In "I'm Glad I've Got a Bit of a Blighty One", she sang about a soldier who was delighted to have been wounded in battle because it would allow him to go back to England (Blighty).

Retirement
After the war, music halls declined in popularity. Walter de Frece was knighted in the 1919 King's Birthday Honours List for his services to the war effort, with Tilley becoming Lady de Frece. De Frece decided to run for Parliament and Tilley chose to end her stage career. Her farewell tour took a year to complete, between 1919 and 1920. All proceeds were given to a local children's hospital. She made her final appearance at the Coliseum Theatre, London on Saturday 5 June 1920 (at the age of 56). In its review, The Times called it a "wonderful night" and commented that at the end she was "gradually being submerged under the continuous stream of bouquets".

Walter de Frece became a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), first for Ashton-under-Lyne and later for Blackpool. In 1923, Tilley was presented at the royal court as Lady de Frece. Her husband served as an MP until 1931 and then the couple moved to Monte Carlo for their retirement. Her autobiography, Recollections of Vesta Tilley, was published in 1934. After her husband died in 1935, Vesta Tilley continued to live in Monte Carlo.

Tilley died in St James's, London while visiting on 16 September 1952, aged 88. Her body was buried alongside her husband, at Putney Vale Cemetery. Her life story was commemorated in the 1957 film After the Ball.

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Edward Murphy Markham

Edward Markham (July 6, 1877 – September 14, 1950) was a United States Army officer who served in France during World War I and was later Chief of Engineers from 1933 to 1937.

Biography

Born July 6, 1877, in Troy, New York, Edward Markham graduated fifth in the United States Military Academy class of 1899 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers.

Military career
Markham served five years with the 2d Battalion of Engineers, including two years in the Philippines and eight months in Cuba, engaging in military mapping and road and bridge construction. He was Memphis District Engineer (1912–16) and Professor of Practical Military Engineering at the Military Academy. He served in France during World War I as Deputy Director, Division of Light Railways and Roads (1918), and in Germany as Chief Engineer, Third Army (1919). After returning to the United States, he was Detroit District Engineer (1919–25) and Commandant of the Army Engineer School, Fort Humphreys, Virginia. He then served as Great Lakes Division Engineer. After serving as Chief of Engineers, he made a special military survey in the Hawaiian Islands. General Markham retired February 28, 1938.

Later life
Markham was New York Public Works Commissioner in 1938 and President, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, in Chicago from 1938 to 1945. He died at Albany Hospital on September 14, 1950.

Markham's brother, William Cornelius Markham was also an engineer. One of William's grandsons, Jeff Daly became Chief of Design for 30 years for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Christopher Lloyd (art historian)

Christopher Hamilton Lloyd (born 30 June 1945) is a British art historian and was Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures (1988–2005).

Lloyd worked in the Department of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for twenty years. In 1972, he was appointed to a fellowship at Harvard University's Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, in Florence, Italy. During 1980–81, he was a visiting research curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, concentrating on the art of early Italy.

In 1988, Lloyd was appointed Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures for the Royal Collection, one of the largest and most important art collections in the world, held in trust by Queen Elizabeth II as Sovereign for her successors and the United Kingdom. The paintings comprise one of the best known and most significant elements of the Collection. Working to the Director of the Royal Collection, Lloyd had overall curatorial responsibility for some 7,000 oil paintings and 3,000 miniatures. Lloyd retired as Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures in July 2005 and was succeeded by Desmond Shawe-Taylor.

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No One Can Do It Better

No One Can Do It Better is the debut studio album by The D.O.C., released on July 13, 1989, by Ruthless Records and Atlantic Records. It reached no.1 on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for two weeks, while peaking in the Top 20 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA three months after it was released, and Platinum on April 21, 1994. This was the only solo album The D.O.C. was able to record before a car accident resulted in crushing his larynx and permanently changing his voice. In recent years, however, he has been undergoing vocal surgery. He would not release another album until 7 years later, with Helter Skelter (1996), also released by Warner Music Group, but on Giant Records rather than Atlantic. "The Formula" has been seen as the song that invented G-funk.

Album information
Idolizing East Coast acts such as Run-D.M.C. and Public Enemy, The D.O.C. always showed more of a lyrical style, not talking about guns, drugs and violence. The album received a Parental Advisory sticker because of the final track on the album ("The Grand Finalé"). Most of the songs were influenced and sampled from funk artists such as Marvin Gaye, Parliament, and Funkadelic, but one track in particular was influenced by other genres, "Beautiful But Deadly," a rock-hip hop track, influenced by Run-D.M.C. with a heavy guitar riff throughout the song (it borrows from Funkadelic's Cosmic Slop).

All five then-current members of N.W.A contributed to this album. Beats were produced by Dr. Dre, with Eazy-E being the executive producer. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren and Eazy all provide vocals for "The Grand Finalé", while Ren also provides vocals for "Comm. 2". DJ Yella performs on "Comm. Blues," "Comm. 2," and "The Grand Finalé" as a drummer.

No One Can Do It Better also features additional vocals by Krazy Dee (who also co-wrote the N.W.A song "Panic Zone" from N.W.A. and the Posse), J. J. Fad, Yomo & Maulkie and Michel'le, who were all part of Ruthless as well. Andre "L.A. Dre" Bolton and Stan "The Guitar Man" Jones, who play keyboards and guitar on some of the tracks respectively, also worked for the label.

Critical reception
From contemporary reviews, music critic Robert Christgau of The Village Voice said that the first three songs have music that is funky, multi-dimensional, and engaging, but the rest of the album's funk diminishes and leaves listeners having to focus on D.O.C.'s inferior lyrics. Daniel Weizmann of LA Weekly called The D.O.C. a good rapper whose rhymes "spring out like menacing jacks in the box just when you think he's about tread over the same old rap cliches." Weizmann noted that No One Can Do It Better has "bravado and loathing and deep sexual phobias (like almost all other rap records today)" while it still had "grace and elocution and literary richness." Weizmann also praised Dr. Dre, declaring him "a sound-collage artist to a degree no other producer in rap even touches" and that "If the rappers in front of Dre weren't so often obscene, and if the act of sampling and mixing were taken with the slightest bit of seriousness as an art, I'm positive Dre would be considered the Phil Spector of his generation." J.D. Considine wrote in The Baltimore Sun praised the album, stating that "what really gives this album an edge is the fact that he never pulls his punches, infusing each track with an impressive ferocity".

In a retrospective review, AllMusic stated, "It's a shame that the D.O.C. never got the chance for a proper follow-up, but in No One Can Do It Better, he at least has one undeniable masterpiece."

Track listing
Notes
 * The "Real Gone" edition is basically the same master, with the bass amped, and treble lowered. "Comm. Blues" is also edited at the intro ("8 ball piss").

Cut tracks

 * "Bridgette" – cut from the album because of sexual content, released in 1996 as part of the Dr. Dre compilation First Round Knock Out

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Sue Cleaver

Susan Owen ( Cleaver; born 2 September 1963) is an English actress. She is best known for portraying the role of Eileen Grimshaw on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which she has played since 2000.

Early and personal life
Cleaver was born on 2 September 1963 in Watford, Hertfordshire. She is adopted, however later reconnected with her birth mother when she was in her twenties, and discovered her two half-sisters, actresses Emma and Kate Harbour.

Cleaver was married to James Quinn between 1993 and 2003 and they have a son together, Elliot, born in 1998. She later married Brian Owen, lighting technician, after meeting him on the set of Coronation Street.

In March 2010, Cleaver was arrested for drink-driving and as a result was banned from driving for seventeen months and ordered to pay a £1,000 fine.

Career
She studied at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre and her first television appearance was a small part in an episode of A Touch of Frost. She went on to star in the acclaimed drama series Band of Gold before landing a role in the film Girls' Night alongside Julie Walters and Brenda Blethyn.

In 1998, she played Duty Sgt. Standish in the first series of The Cops, and also played Glenda, a woman delivering baked goods in Victoria Wood's BBC comedy series, dinnerladies on a recurring basis between 1999 and 2000. She appeared as PC Sylvia Holland in This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper miniseries in 2000. She also had a small part in the Johnny Depp and Cate Blanchett film The Man Who Cried. It was after filming that role in 2000 that she was cast as Eileen Grimshaw on Coronation Street. Cleaver won praise for her portrayal of Eileen, the mother of a son, Todd, who struggles with his sexuality and announces he is gay.

Cleaver covered for Denise Robertson as the agony aunt on the ITV daytime programme This Morning until Robertson's death in 2016. Cleaver completed three years of training to become a psychotherapist after co-stars told her she was good at listening.

In 2022, Cleaver was a contestant on the twenty-second series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, and came 9th.

In 2023, Cleaver made a guest panel appearance on the ITV show Loose Women.

Charity
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User talk:Oly Majoieka

What do I say?

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

Just reverted vandalism of Jiang_Zemin by this user.--139.80.123.40 04:38, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Oly Majoieka, your vandalism has been reverted on the Hu Jintao and Zhao Ziyang articles as well. Please cease.   —thames 13:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Just reverted vandalism of Zhu_Rongji by this user. Steven 22:03, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Now finding lots more vandalism. Checking all his contributions now.--inks 23:56, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
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User:Oly Majoieka

I am Oly.

I am from Poland.

I live in Warsaw.

I am 9.

I like Wikipedia very much.

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User talk:Dave weimar

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Hi, Dave. I saw your question about creating an article and a user page. "CSD A7" is shorthand that, unfortunately, is not very understandable to new users. What it means: A Wikipedia article about a person needs to demonstrate why that person is "notable." Wikipedia doesn't accept articles about any person who happens to want one; we are not that kind of free web space. An article that doesn't demonstrate notability can be deleted speedily. The rules about doing that are called Criteria for Speedy Deletion - CSD. Rule A7 is the specific one that requires notability.

To create your own user page, which does not require notability, just click here: User:Dave weimar and start editing. Welcome! FreplySpang (talk) 00:38, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
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Profit (TV series)

Profit is an American drama television series that originally aired in 1996 on the Fox Broadcasting Company (Mondays at 9:00 p.m. EST). The series was created (and occasionally directed) by David Greenwalt and John McNamara, and starred Adrian Pasdar as the eponymous lead character Jim Profit. In February 2008 repeat episodes began airing on Chiller (in the USA), and in October 2010 on CBS Action (in Europe).

Considered by many to have been well ahead of its time, the series was a precursor to the trend of "edgy" TV melodramas (featuring dark themes and multidimensional characters) such as The Sopranos, Mad Men, and  Breaking Bad. Controversial themes largely stemming from the lead character's amoral, Richard III-style ways, along with low ratings, made the show uncomfortable and unfamiliar viewing for mainstream U.S. audiences and Fox network affiliates at the time, leading to its cancellation after just four episodes (including the pilot) aired. In 2013 TV Guide ranked the series #4 on its list of 60 shows that were "Canceled Too Soon", calling the series "shockingly memorable".

Summary
Jim Profit is a newly promoted junior-executive at Gracen & Gracen (G&G), a multinational conglomerate that often engages in unethical business practices while actively cultivating a positive public image. G&G's dark side does not bother Profit, who is not above using blackmail, bribery, extortion, or worse to get ahead himself. Jim Profit addresses the audience via voiceover narration, and occasionally even "breaks the fourth wall" by speaking directly to the camera/audience with such quotes as: "The line most people say they won't cross ... it's usually something they've already done when they thought no one was watching." Through frequent inner monologues, Profit shares his motives, plans, and situational observations with the audience. When home alone at night, Profit continues his ‘work’ in his office (hidden behind a false wall of his living room), searching the Internet and hacking G&G's servers for information to be used as research and ammunition for his various schemes. Whenever he eliminates or outmaneuvers a G&G target, that person's avatar is exploded and erased from his computer's virtual-G&G-offices environment. While obviously affluent and living in a well-furnished luxury penthouse, Profit still goes to bed the same way he did as a child: curled up, naked in the corner of a large G&G shipping box like the one he was raised in.

Main

 * Jim Profit (Adrian Pasdar) – born James "Jimmy" Stakowski, he was raised in a cardboard G&G shipping box (with a hole cut out for him to view a constantly-on television) by a neglectful, physically and psychologically abusive father in a rural area near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Profit reinvents himself as an Ivy League-educated, corporate business prodigy after escaping his past by chaining his father to his bed, setting it afire, then fleeing the family ranch as a teenager. His upbringing leaves Profit with a hatred of TV, and idolizing Gracen & Gracen as the ideal family he never had. As a result, Profit's goal as an adult is to rise high enough in G&G to indispensably embed himself into the Gracens’ business and personal lives – by any means necessary. He worked in auditing before ascending to junior vice president of Acquisitions; his stated goal is to become president of Acquisitions. He climbs the corporate ladder by covertly engineering the ruin of those who stand in his way and/or refuse to assist him, while mostly staying behind-the-scenes himself.
 * Joanne Meltzer (Lisa Zane) – Profit's archenemy and G&G's obsessive, crusading West Coast chief of security. She had a short-lived affair with Jack Walters while his wife had temporarily run off with a lover. She remains loyal to and friendly with Jack, admiring his decent and ethical nature – even after he reconciles with his wife (who openly resents her). Jack's spectacular downfall (engineered by Profit) along with parallels in the natures of Profit and her older sister (who raised but also brutally abused her) are key forces driving her to expose and stop Profit. A former police detective and "fanatical in pursuit of a goal", the ever-suspicious Meltzer constantly tries to figure out and foil Profit's plans, but is oftentimes a step behind her nemesis. She admires Jeffrey Sykes for his sterling morals, and perceives him as able to outsmart and defeat Profit.
 * Charles Henry "Chaz" Gracen (Keith Szarabajka) – G&G's no-nonsense, paranoid, violently short-tempered chief executive officer. Although he takes a different mistress each year, making money is his only love. To clients and all outsiders to G&G he convincingly pretends to be soft-spoken, friendly and patient. Though usually agitated and curt, Chaz occasionally displays a dark, passive-aggressive sense of humor, constantly berates his brother, and bitterly chafes at working in the long shadow of his meddling father/boss, G&G's founder and chairman emeritus of the G&G board of directors.
 * Pete Gracen (Jack Gwaltney) – Chaz's younger brother, and the senior vice president of Acquisitions. A longtime alcoholic, Pete secretly wants Chaz's approval – and to be president of Acquisitions, or even CEO – despite being impotent, immature, and apparently incompetent. Drunken stupors, often in public with family, are frequent sources of embarrassment and humiliation for Pete.
 * Nora Gracen (Allison Hossack) – Pete's insecure, emotionally fragile, lonely trophy wife. Trusting and desperate for the love and sense of purpose that her failing husband can no longer provide, she becomes hopelessly obsessed with Profit, after he seduces her but then (intentionally) ends their affair just before physically consummating it. Nora regards Profit as a close friend, confidant, and kindred spirit; Profit strings her along by continuing to build intimacy between them, then restating that he wants to be "just friends" whenever she tries to act on her attraction to him. She harbors unhealed emotional wounds from a childhood tragedy.
 * Gail Koner (Lisa Darr) – Profit's resourceful, morally conflicted secretary (originally Jack Walters' secretary), and primary henchperson. Initially, Profit blackmails Gail into assisting him in his schemes; however, she feels increasingly loyal (and/or obligated) to Profit, as he rewards her service with extravagant favors (e.g., saving her job, hiding her embezzlement, and arranging for vastly upgraded – and fully paid – nursing home care for her seriously ill mother). She may be the only character that Profit has any genuine human connection with. Profit takes pride as he guides Gail in developing her skills in duplicity. Profit seems interested in her mother's well-being, and after Gail is passed over for promotion (yet again), he promises to mold her into "executive material."
 * Bobbi Stakowski (Lisa Blount) – Profit's hedonistic, temperamental step-mother (his father's 2nd wife), and occasional lover (who seduced and molested him during his socially isolated, early adolescence). A shrewd-yet-unpredictable drug abuser, con woman and former prostitute, Bobbi repeatedly tries to blackmail Profit (with threats of exposing evidence of his true background and past crimes – including murder) into financing a luxurious, effort-free lifestyle for her.
 * Jeffrey Sykes (Sherman Augustus) – a litigious corporate law attorney and G&G's newly hired vice president of Business Affairs. A highly driven, P.R.-savvy do-gooder, Sykes takes a more directly antagonistic approach to Profit and is warmly welcomed by Joanne Meltzer as an ally. Sykes is single-mindedly committed to a secret, personal agenda that repeatedly – but sometimes unwittingly – disrupts Profit's schemes.

Recurring and guests

 * Jack Walters (Scott Paulin) – G&G's former President of Acquisitions.
 * Elizabeth Gracen-Walters (Jennifer Hetrick) – Jack's (recovering) alcoholic wife; cousin of "Chaz" and Pete.
 * Constance Gracen (Teryl Rothery) – Chaz's estranged wife.
 * Dr. Jeremy Batewell (John Hawkes) – a former G&G employee who sexually harassed Gail Koner.
 * "Kelly Hunt"/Carol McKenna (Jessica Tuck) – Profit's female equivalent.

Critical reception
The critical response to Profit at the time of its debut was overwhelmingly positive. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 94% based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 9.0/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Unapologetically amoral and headlined by an unnerving Adrian Pasdar, Profit pays off handsomely as outrageous entertainment."

Howard Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times called Profit "... rip-roaring, sinus-clearing, bold and wonderful." Tom Gliatto of People magazine said of Profit: "Refreshingly cruel, Fox's Profit is the most exciting new show I've seen this year." John J. O'Conner from The New York Times called Profit "one of the most intriguing shows to come along since Twin Peaks ..." Joyce Millman of salon.com stated: "Profit gains heft ... from its nervy satiric vision of corporate capitalist culture." Eric Mink from The New York Daily News stated "Jim Profit may well be the most unremittingly evil character ever to serve as the protagonist and principal voice of a network TV series. Next to Profit, Dallas' J.R. Ewing is as menacing as Babe the Pig." Entertainment Weekly included Profit in its "Ten Best TV Shows for 1996" list at position #8.

Controversy and cancellation
Despite numerous positive critical reviews and intense industry buzz, Profit was canceled after only 5 out of the 9 hours produced were actually broadcast by Fox. Low Nielsen ratings were cited as the official cause; Profit ranked 138th of 160 shows for 1996 and suffered from viewer tune-out during the airing of the 2-hour pilot episode. Other factors that may have hastened Profit’s demise include:

 * Viewers reportedly flooded their local Fox network affiliates with phone calls objecting to Jim Profit’s amoral actions, some even referring to him as "Satan in a Suit"; such opinions were most vociferously expressed by viewers in the Bible Belt region of the southern USA. Some Fox network affiliates even threatened to pre-empt Profit in their local markets, replacing it with alternative programming.
 * Members of the business community were outraged that Profit portrayed them so poorly. Shaifali Puri of Fortune said: "Just in case there's anyone left who isn't convinced corporate America is a den of naked ambition and bald turpitude, comes now (the TV show) Profit." It was rumored that even Fox network founder Rupert Murdoch objected to the show's edgy portrayal of corporate America, although Adrian Pasdar was quoted as saying that Profit was Murdoch's favorite TV show.
 * Airings of Profit consistently lost almost all of the lead-in audience from the smash-hit melodrama Melrose Place (the original version) which was scheduled in the timeslot immediately preceding Profit. This reportedly did not sit well with Melrose Place's executive producer Aaron Spelling, especially after Time and Entertainment Weekly published glowing reviews of Profit but scathing reviews of Melrose Place. Coincidentally, Spelling even approached Adrian Pasdar in 1992 to play the role of Jake Hanson on Melrose Place; however Pasdar rejected the role despite Spelling's status as one of the most powerful and influential U.S. television producers of the 1970s-1990s.

Profit co-creator David Greenwalt hypothesized that "What might have turned off viewers to Profit wasn't just that it was so different [from other TV shows of the time] but that it was such an affront to it." The cancellation of Profit was lamented by the organization Viewers for Quality Television; VQT founder Dorothy Swanson stated: "It certainly was not a mainstream show. It wasn't for everyone. There were parts of it I'm sure mainstream viewers found very disturbing and unappealing. But for people who like interesting television, it was very well written. It was spellbinding. You had to know what made this guy (Jim Profit) tick."

Awards

 * Adrian Pasdar was nominated for a 1996 Petcabus Award in the category "Best Actor in a Drama Series" for his role as Jim Profit.
 * Profit was nominated for a 1996 Artios Award in category "Best Casting for TV, Dramatic Pilot".

Home media
Anchor Bay Entertainment released the complete series on DVD in Region 1 on August 9, 2005. The three-disc set contains the two-hour pilot and seven episodes (the final four of which did not air during the original run on Fox). Interviews with Stephen J. Cannell, David Greenwalt, John McNamara, Adrian Pasdar, Lisa Blount, and Lisa Zane are presented in a 67-minute documentary called Greed Kills about the making of Profit. Audio commentary with Adrian Pasdar and series creators David Greenwalt and John McNamara is provided for the 2-hour pilot and the episodes "Healing", "Chinese Box", and "Forgiveness". As of 2010, this DVD release has been discontinued and is out of print.

Free Dolphin Entertainment released the complete series on DVD in Region 2 on October 20, 2005. The three-disc set contains the two-hour pilot and seven episodes, along with the option of French subtitles (with the original English voice audio) or French-dubbed voice audio for all episodes. A 23-minute featurette produced in 1999 by French TV station Jimmy titled "Profit Special" (covering the impact and enormous popularity of Profit in France) was included in this release, along with the Greed Kills featurette from the Region 1 release. Seven minutes of Fox promotional spots for Profit were provided as well, including a unique 30-second trailer showing Jim Profit crushing a spider on a park bench, dismissively calling it an "amateur" (predator).

Ostalgica released the complete series on DVD in Region 2 on April 24, 2012, under the title Jim Profit – Ein Mann geht über Leichen (A Man Walks over Dead Bodies). The three-disc set contains the two-hour pilot and seven episodes, along with the option of the original English or German-dubbed voice audio for all episodes.

The content of the episodes is identical on all releases of the DVD with the exception of the opening voiceover by Jim Profit in the pilot episode:

 * Region 1 Voiceover: Wayne Gresham is dead. A former VP at Gracen and Gracen incorporated, he was overworked, overweight, and well now, just plain "over".  This is Wayne's boss, Jack Walters. He's the president of acquisitions, a smart decent man. As well respected as anyone at G&G.  Gail Koner, Jack's secretary.  Is that grief in her eyes or is she hiding something?  Let's find out.
 * Region 2 Voiceover: Wayne Gresham is dead. He was 47 years old. A junior vice president of acquisitions at Gracen and Gracen incorporated where I happen to work.  This is Wayne's boss, Jack Walters.  He's the president of acquisitions, a smart decent man.  As well respected as anyone at Gracen and Gracen.  Gail Koner, Jack's executive secretary, a loyal employee of 3 years and very devoted to her boss.

Production
Profit was produced by Greenwalt/McNamara Productions and Stephen J. Cannell Productions in association with New World Television, and was the final series to come from Cannell's company (as well as one of the few for which he did not write any scripts).

The exterior shots outside the Gracen & Gracen twin towers were filmed on the plaza in front of the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel in Vancouver. For production, a "Gracen & Gracen Wall Center" placard was positioned over the covered entrance in front of one building and two G&G logo monuments were placed in the front and center of the plaza. Another part of the same hotel complex now includes the well-known One Wall Centre building that had not yet been constructed when Profit was shot in early 1996.

According to the Region 1 DVD liner notes, the interior G&G office shots for the two-hour pilot episode were taken at the real working offices of B.C. Gas and that of a prestigious law firm in downtown Vancouver. Subsequent episodes were shot in studio sets modeled after these offices. The scene outside a hospital with Joanne Meltzer and Profit in the episode "Healing" was shot in front of St. Paul's Hospital located just across Burrard Street from the Sheraton Wall Centre. The exterior of Profit's apartment building featuring columnar bay windows up and down the entire front of the building is a location called Eugenia Place in Vancouver's West End; the structure is notable for the presence of a 35-foot Pin oak tree growing on the building's roof, located approximately 180 feet above street level.

Profit's exploration of Gracen & Gracen's computer network was done through a 3D-image rendering interface, which represents G&G's corporate data as a building with a series of offices. This was implemented using the Virtual Reality Modeling Language which was believed to be the way that future websites would be built in 1996. In the years leading up to the production of Profit numerous films such as The Lawnmower Man, Virtuosity, and especially the corporate thriller Disclosure, featured a virtual reality interface which directly inspired its use in Profit.

Unused story lines
David Greenwalt and John McNamara gave details of plotlines from the never-produced second season in the audio commentaries on the Region 1 DVD.
 * Joanne Meltzer dies early in the first episode of the second season while in Ireland looking into Profit's background. The phone booth from which she is calling Sykes is set to explode. There is a bomb planted there by the Irish Republican Army. It was to be revealed later that this was done at the behest of Profit.
 * Jim has stolen the identity of a "real" Jim Profit. The "real" Jim Profit is in a coma after he was drowned by the protagonist Jim Profit. Later on, the protagonist would return to finish killing his alias.
 * Charles "Chaz" Gracen has a heart attack while running on his treadmill due to a mild poison Profit slips into Chaz's water bottle. Profit eventually convinces Chaz that his father (who is the Chairman of G&G's board of directors) is trying to kill him.
 * Profit engineers the death of Chaz and Pete Gracen's father to help the two brothers reconcile their differences, eliminate a troublemaker on G&G's Board of Directors, and help tighten Profit's control over G&G.
 * Another storyline involved Profit getting a current Senator drunk to the point of blackout, staging a car accident, and convincing the Senator that he had killed someone. These events probably led into a related story line in which Pete Gracen becomes a Senator himself.
 * Pete and Nora Gracen would have divorced.

In 2001 it was reported that co-creator David Greenwalt, who later went on to produce the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off series Angel, once entertained the idea of having Adrian Pasdar reprise his role as Jim Profit on Angel. The main villains in Angel were a law firm called Wolfram & Hart, and Profit would have joined the firm. Conflicting working schedules with Pasdar (then the lead on NBC's Mysterious Ways), and the predictable difficulties in securing the rights to use the Jim Profit character prevented this from happening before Angel's run ended in its fifth and final season in 2004.

Cultural references

 * The feature film Cement directed by Adrian Pasdar featured a scene where the character Fergus watches part of the pilot episode of Profit on a TV. Fergus says "It's 8:00, time for Profit"; 8:00pm was the original time-slot for Profit in the Central/Mountain time zone when it first aired on Fox.  The scene also includes numerous shots of a fish tank similar to the one located in Profit's apartment.
 * The character of Joséphine Karlsson from the French TV series Engrenages (Spiral) was directly inspired by Jim Profit according to series producer Alain Clert.

Possible revival

 * In mid-2018 Adrian Pasdar stated that a reboot of Profit was under development by director/producer Tawnia McKiernan, daughter of Stephen J. Cannell.

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What?
What is tuberculosis of bones? --150.182.176.13 00:36, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * According to Tuberculosis Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (miliary TB), genitourinary system, bones and joints. abakharev 00:39, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Critics support?
Quote: Apollon’s critics claimed that they had found a major new talent in Russian poetry. Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but it seems like "critics" is used incorrectly to mean "supporters" or "readers"? -- Bubbachuck 13:46, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Strictly speaking, a critic is someone who publishes what they think of something (usually literature, plays etc), whether what they think is good or bad. Hence "critical acclaim" - being liked by most of the critics. I took this to mean that "those who worked as critics at the magazine claimed..." but I agree it's not as clear as it could be. PeteVerdon 16:44, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

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Humor
His sense of humor and presence of mind,for which he is remembered in india,and Akbar loved him,is completely not mentioned here,why?please add these,other wise the article will remain stab. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.232.250.189 (talk) 16:08, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Untitled
A couple of points: I have read in George Dunbar's History of India that the correct name is Raja Bir Bal and that his original name was Mahesh Das (as opposed to Birbal and Maheshdas). Any confirmation? DevanJedi 00:36, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Some historians reckon Birbal is a work of fiction. I too have read, esp. in non-English (Gujarati n Marathi) historical lit. that the character is completely made up. I think this should be reflected somewhere in the article.(I dont have any references though). Although, it is general consensus that many of the short stories are just fables. Quork 17:10, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Legacy Section
Someone ought to write on the legacy of this person, regardless of whether he is real or fake. Talk about the stories for children, maybe even the cartoon. I think this article can go a lot further. Why am not writing it? There's got to be someone who knows better than me! Atrivedi (talk) 23:28, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Authenticity under Question
The article has conflicting information on the birth place of the character "Birbal". Picture states " Ghoghara, Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh, India" and the article section of "Early years" specifies it as Narnaul, of Haryana.

Secondly the information floating in this page is completely without references. I hence propose deleting the page as the existence of this page questions the authenticity of Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truehistoryonly (talk • contribs) 14:06, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

 * The solution is not deletion. It is adding references. Removed "Some historians reckon Birbal is a work of fiction. Akbarnama does not mention of Birbal's existence. However few Indian historians do state existence of Mahesh Das as a poor Brahmin to have been born to Gangadas and Anabhadevi in Trivikrampur in 1528." Multiple secondary sources like attest to Birbal. Exactly which noteworthy historians claim Birbal is fiction? -- Redtigerxyz  Talk 17:21, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

kayastha family
Birbal actually belongs to the Kayastha caste.

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I AM GOING TO REVERT or REMOVE FOLLOWING. ALL these edits done by Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan (blocked user, it seems) from single source C.M. NAIM, CM NIM has presented BIASED PRIMARY OPINION and not verifiable-scholary-research-based secondary sources. THIS IS CLEAR VIOLATION OF Neutral_point_of_view, lack of Identifying reliable sources and No original research through Disruptive editing by the Single-purpose account of Prof Dr Takseen Ahmd Khan.

Editor Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan (he seems to have been blocked from wiki, may be he is a serial vandal) has copied large chunks of PRIMARY OPINION written by single source which is written by CM NAIM, further both writer CM NAIM (i read his cited article and it is communally biased and not neutral) and editor Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan (seems to be copying large PRIMARY UNSUPPORTED OPINION chunks from CM Naim to show bias against Birbal due to his non-muslim origin) are muslims, their statements are PRIMARY OPINION with no reliable source, editor Editor Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan even misrepresented some f statements of CM NAIM OUT OF CONTEXT to make Birbal look bad in biased manner, Editor Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan also copied refrences used by CM NAIM in his article and Editor Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan tried to use those references from CM NAIMs work by copying those into the article here as if they are separate soruces and he quoted those in out of the context manner to support his biased statement. Editor even misrepresented works of CM NAIM as work of Minakshi to show as if the writer of biased OPINION is more than one (not ust CM NIAM) and as if wirter of biased DUBVIOUS OPINION is hindu while infact its a muslim (motives of editors are communal and ot driven by the intent of creating NEUTRAL ARTICLE). All this must be deleted, admins please warn Editor Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan (Pls verify if he has indeed bene BLOCKED by wiki because his username appears in RED color so i assume it means he is blocked form wiki or doe sit mean he has no userpage)}

Specific examples below:

C. M. Naim writes that these folk tales should not be viewed as an historical commentary but they contribute to the understanding of political history, "Akbar and Birbal" stories show a bias of a Hindu narrator for a Mughal ruler. Akbar is shown in a slightly negative way and his Hindu courtier, Birbal, always outmatches him. In each case, there is a powerful ruler who had a powerful reign at his time, who is paired with a jester-like minister whose wit is just as sharp with a legendary reputation. These jokes and stories make each powerful ruler including Akbar, because he inspired the people, seem more human-like and flawed for them. Naim further states Birbal was chosen and not the other courtiers because he was a Brahmin fitting the old Indian tradition: a powerful Kshatriya king ruling with an equally powerful Brahmin advisor and in this case, an indication of Hindu subversion over Islam.|reason= Editor Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan (he seems to have been blocked from wiki, may be he is a serial vandal) has copied large chunks of PRIMARY OPINION written by single source which is written by CM NAIM, further both writer CM NAIM (i read his cited article and it is communally biased and not neutral) and editor Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan (seems to be copying large PRIMARY UNSUPPORTED OPINION chunks from CM Naim to show bias against Birbal due to his non-muslim origin) are muslims, their statements are PRIMARY OPINION with no reliable source, editor Editor Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan even misrepresented some f statements of CM NAIM OUT OF CONTEXT to make Birbal look bad in biased manner, Editor Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan also copied refrences used by CM NAIM in his article and Editor Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan tried to use those references from CM NAIMs work by copying those into the article here as if they are separate soruces and he quoted those in out of the context manner to support his biased statement. Editor even misrepresented works of CM NAIM as work of Minakshi to show as if the writer of biased OPINION is more than one (not ust CM NIAM) and as if wirter of biased DUBVIOUS OPINION is hindu while infact its a muslim (motives of editors are communal and ot driven by the intent of creating NEUTRAL ARTICLE). All this must be deleted, admins please warn Editor Prof.Dr. Taskeen Ahmad Khan (Pls verify if he has indeed bene BLOCKED by wiki because his username appears in RED color so i assume it means he is blocked form wiki or doe sit mean he has no userpage)

However, historically he never played such a role.[1][7]Reason=He mentioned two soruces, first sources is misquoted as misnakshi is actaully CM NIAM and second one is copied from the inside of CN Naim's article, and these are PRIMARY OPINON and not secondary works of reputed verifiable accuracy

Badayuni mistrusted him but did mention that he was "having a considerable amount of capacity and genius".[1] The Braj language poet, Rai Hol, praised Akbar and his nine jewels, having a special emphasis on Birbal for his generosity. Abul Fazl respected him by emphasising on his spiritual excellence and position as a confidant of the Emperor rather than on his wit or poetry.[1]

Modern Hindu scholars assert that he made Akbar make bold decisions and the orthodox Muslims in the court despised him, since he made Akbar renounce Islam. But no evidence is present that he influenced Akbar's beliefs.[7] Though sources suggest he influenced Akbar's policies to some extent. It was Akbar's affection for him, his religious tolerance and social liberalism which was the reason for this and Birbal was not the cause. Historically, he was more of a supporter of Akbar's religious policy and his religion, Din-i-Ilahi. Ain-i-Akbari mentions an incident involving prostitutes, where Akbar wanted to punish him, contrary to how he is portrayed as a deeply religious man|reason=it is just PRIMARY OPINION of CM NAIM which editor Dr PRok Takseen has inserted by vandalizing the page allover with communal bias

Can someone please guide me if it is valid to include these above three DISPUTED INLINE templates inside the main article or should they be placed only in the TALK page, sorry my first time to use this stuff, first time to dispute someones's work and it wil be my first time if i revert these vandalised OPINIONS of CM NAIM copied by Prof Dr Takseen Ahmd Khan.

Thanks Being.human (talk) 22:55, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Responded on the user's talk. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 05:40, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

 * pls check my DISPUTED templaytes and discuss specific. Can u help me revert those edits whoever made it, im still not good in hw reverts work, i hv never reverted anyones work so far. pls discuss this topic here for all to see in future, including review boards, and independent parties, not on individual walls (user talkpages). In the name of good faith, can not allow legitimizing biased POV of PRIMARY UNSCHOLARY RESEARCH of CM NAIM from dubious publication even if it is requoted as CIRCULAR-REFERENCED by more dubious sources. NO GAMING and NO GANGING UP please. thanks Being.human (talk)

 * Hi, Ugog Nizdast, I had left msg on your talk page several days ago and i noticed today that you have put it in ignore list. You have not specifically addressed any of my questions to you and my concerns about the article. I am going to remove all the islamised biased POV from this article. I will remove all the content attributed to CM NAIM and or attritubed to referenced mentioned by him (most out of context and distorted and weight of importance does not hold, can not legitimize such low value work by putting on wiki as it is not of encyclopedic standard). Being.human (talk) 11:06, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Removal of communalised poorly soruced POV edits and Gaming of System by one editor using two accounts
For the context, see my previous section titled "CM NAIM". Content attributed specifically to CM NAIM and and Vicki K. Janik edited essay of Karen Treanor is all junk, none of these are peer reviewed journals or respected authors, search on them showed no academic or acceptable quality work, CM NAIm has showed tendency to distort and only karen Treanor shows up as obscure writer of 1 book on short fictional stories. their work is not of standard, not based on research, their reference list is low quality and short, and lacks critical analysis. Editor who edited Birbal article heavily used these two low quality references CM NAIM and Karen trenor to communalize the birbal article with heavily biased POV with islamic slant. I further suspect one of the editor is using two accounts to game the system, he is likely same editor who introduced these unaceptable edits to bribal article. I will remove it by tomorrow, let me know if anyone wish to offer help or suggestions to rewrite or to provide better sources. Being.human (talk)
 * I don't see anything wrong with using CM Naim or his article as a source. I have made some changes to the section. Please have a look. If you still have objections, please list them specifically. I also don't see any mention of a Karen Trenor or Treanor in the article.--Cpt.a.haddock (talk) (please ping when replying) 13:17, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Caste Birbal
Birwal was born in a Sakasaina (Kayastha) family A. Kayastha (talk) 02:46, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

I'm pretty confused by this airtcle
So is birbal according to this airtcle a fictional character or an historical person? Or both? 950CMR (talk) 17:43, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Why it's mentioned jalaun uttarpradesh in early life
Pls mention correct in early life. Born in madhya pradesh sidhi district 116.75.24.183 (talk) 18:40, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

title: Talk:Birbal