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Edwina Booth

Edwina Booth (born Josephine Constance Woodruff; September 13, 1904 – May 18, 1991) was an American actress. She is best known for the 1931 film Trader Horn, during the filming of which she contracted an illness which effectively ended her movie career.

Early life and discovery
She was born in Provo, Utah on September 13, 1904, to James Lloyd Woodruff and Josephine Booth Woodruff. She was the oldest of their five children. Her father was a doctor. She suffered from hypoglycemia, which left her with little energy and kept her from completing any full year of school. Her family moved to Venice, California, in 1921 due to her father contracting influenza. As a young adult, Woodruff watched many movies during her free time.

Her stage name was Edwina Booth: her favorite granduncle was named Edwin and her grandfather's last name was Booth.

Booth was discovered while sunbathing on a California beach by director E. J. Babille. He gave her a business card and she went to the Metropolitan Studio to take her first screen test a few days later. She got her first part in 1926 in a silent film. In 1928, Booth was cast in the Dorothy Arzner-directed Manhattan Cocktail. She was on vacation following a 1927 stage appearance when film director E. Mason Hopper saw her and offered her a part in a Marie Prevost picture. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) was impressed with her, and cast Booth in supporting roles.

Trader Horn incident
Her career — and life — was changed forever when the studio cast her in its new jungle epic Trader Horn opposite Harry Carey. MGM gave the production a fairly large budget, and sent cast and crew on location in East Africa. Until 1929, the only films shot in Africa were travelogues, but MGM was hoping the idea of "location shooting" might increase the film's commercial appeal. The crew was inexperienced and ill-equipped for filming in Africa, a problem exacerbated by MGM's last-minute decision to shoot the film with sound.

When Booth left the United States, she had a fever of 104. En route to Africa, on board the SS Ussukama, director W. S. Van Dyke told her to sunbathe on deck to acclimate herself to the African sun. Instead, it gave her third-degree burns. She fainted that evening during dinner, and was put in the care of Olive Carey, the wife of actor Harry Carey, who had accompanied him to the shoot.

In Africa, she had to cope with the heat and insects. While filming, she suffered a sunstroke and fell out of a tree. The makers of the film believed her role as "The White Goddess" required her to be scantily clad, which caused her to be cut by elephant grass and likely increased her susceptibility to mosquito bites. She also sustained a large number of tick bites.

Booth contracted malaria during shooting. (In an interview with Dick Cavett in 1973, Katharine Hepburn said Booth contracted schistosomiasis, and incorrectly stated that Booth had died.) At night, she suffered from insomnia and blinding headaches.

The production had a local doctor, but the only Western medicine he had access to was baking soda, quinine, and a laxative. The production begged producer Irving Thalberg via cable to send a mobile ambulance unit and special first aid, but he did not. Production went on for several months (much longer than average production time in those days), and the film wasn't released until 1931. Despite many problems with the film's production, Trader Horn was a success, securing an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

Booth fared much worse; it took her six years to fully recover physically. She sued MGM for over a million dollars, explaining she had been provided with inadequate protection and inadequate clothing during the African shoot. She claimed she had been forced to sunbathe nude for extended periods during filming. Olive Carey testified that Thalberg did not provide medical transport or extra care to Booth because he said he was concerned about the film's budget. The case received a lot of attention in the tabloids and was eventually settled out of court. At the time, the terms were not disclosed; however, Brigham Young University archives indicate she settled for $35,000. amounting to at least $600,000 in today's money.

Booth's acting career never recovered. Neither MGM nor the other major studios had any intentions of employing her, which created an opportunity for producer Nat Levine of the low-budget Mascot Pictures. Levine saw a chance to capitalize on the success of Trader Horn by reuniting its stars Harry Carey and Edwina Booth for two adventure serials, The Vanishing Legion and The Last of the Mohicans. The films were successful within their limited market, but failed to propel Booth's movie career forward.

Later years
In 1935, Booth and her father went to Europe to seek medical treatment. When she returned to the United States, she was confined to a dark room. She refused to talk of her time as a movie star later in her life. Booth withdrew completely from the public eye, although she continued to receive fan mail for the rest of her life. She declared that she would be dedicating all of her future leisure and a large proportion of her earnings to the alleviation of human suffering, "My years of illness have not been wasted," she informed the local press. "I have learned to love mankind." She became more active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and worked in the Los Angeles California Temple.

Marriages
Booth was married three times. All the unions were childless. Anthony Shuck, her first husband, had their marriage annulled soon after her return from Africa. She married her second husband, Urial Leo Higham, on November 21, 1951; he died in 1956. Her third husband was Reinold Fehlberg. They were married from 1959 until his death in 1983. There were many false rumors and reports of her demise until her actual death on May 18, 1991.

She died of heart failure in Long Beach, California. and is buried in Santa Monica's Woodlawn Cemetery.

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Hilton Boston Park Plaza

The Hilton Boston Park Plaza is a historic hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, opened on March 10, 1927. It was built by hotelier E.M. Statler as part of his Statler Hotels chain. A prototype of the grand American hotel, it was called a "city within a city" and also contains an adjoining office building. It was the first hotel in the world to offer in-room radio in every room.

History
During the hotel's construction, it was discovered that the Statler's planned 155 foot height exceeded the maximum height of 125 ft allowed by the Massachusetts State Building Code. However the building was granted a special exemption by Mayor James Michael Curley, making it the tallest building in the city for a time, with the exception of the Boston Custom House Tower. The building, filling an entire triangular city block, has two uses. The western half houses the hotel, while the eastern half has, since the building's construction, served as offices. The hotel opened on March 10, 1927, as the Statler Hotel Boston.

The Statler chain was sold to Hilton Hotels in 1954 and the hotel was renamed the Statler Hilton in 1958. In December 1976, Hilton announced plans to close the Statler Hilton Boston, but the closure was avoided when the Irving M. Saunders family purchased the hotel and renamed it The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers. In 1997, the Saunders Hotel Group (Roger Saunders and sons) sold the Boston Park Plaza to Starwood.

In 2011, Starwood sold the hotel for $126 million to a partnership between Highgate Hotels, Rockpoint Group, and the Donald Saunders Family, LLC. Two years later the Highgate/Rockpoint/Saunders partnership sold the hotel for $250 million to the Sunstone Hotel Investors REIT who retained Highgate to manage the hotel, and shortened the hotel's name to simply Boston Park Plaza. In 2016 Sunstone completed a $100 million renovation of the hotel and received a Four Diamond Award from AAA.

In 2023, the hotel was sold to Mexico City-based Parks Hospitality Holdings for $370 million. It was rebranded the Hilton Boston Park Plaza on October 31, 2023, when Hilton Hotels & Resorts assumed management.

From 1994 through 2018, the Boston Park Plaza was a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Other tenants
The Statler Hotel building was also home to the Northern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite from 1927 to 1968, and radio station WEZE's broadcast studio from 1957 to 1977. George Carlin worked briefly as a DJ at WEZE in 1957. TWA and Delta had ticket offices in the building until 1998 and 2000 respectively. In the late 1960s, the University of Massachusetts Boston leased part of the building and converted it into faculty and departmental office space. The building has also served as the venue for Anthro New England, a furry convention held in the Greater Boston area. In 2023 Road Scholar moved its headquarters into the Statler Building.

Park Plaza Castle
The hotel used to operate the Park Plaza Castle, a banquet facility located in the adjacent former Armory of the First Corps of Cadets building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Tim Hughes

Timothy David Llewelyn Hughes (born 23 July 1977) is a British worship leader, singer, songwriter, and Anglican priest. Formerly the director of worship at Holy Trinity Brompton, a large Anglican church in central London, he has since been ordained as a minister in the Church of England and appointed Vicar of St Luke's, Gas Street Birmingham. He leads Worship Central, an international worship training and resource centre. Hughes has written a number of songs that are sung worldwide, including the Dove Award-winning "Here I Am to Worship", "Happy Day", "Beautiful One", "Jesus Saves", "At Your Name", and "The Way".

Personal life
Hughes, the son of an Anglican vicar, grew up in High Wycombe, before moving to Birmingham as a teenager when his father was appointed vicar of St John's Church, Harborne. He studied history at Sheffield University, graduating in 2000.

Hughes is married to Rachel and has four children.

Worship leader
Hughes began his music career in 1997, when he was invited by Mike Pilavachi to lead worship at a Soul Survivor festival. After the departure of Matt Redman from Soul Survivor Watford Church, Hughes succeeded him as Worship Pastor. In 2005, he moved to Holy Trinity Brompton, an Anglican church in central London, as director of worship. In 2015, he and his family moved to Birmingham where they have launched and now head up Gas Street Church.

He is a member of Compassionart, a charity founded by musician Martin Smith, the front man of Delirious?.

Ordained ministry
Hughes trained for ordination at St Mellitus College, a non-residential Anglican theological college in London. On 29 June 2013, he was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon by Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, during a service at St Paul's Cathedral, London. On 22 June 2014, he was ordained as a priest by Paul Williams, Bishop of Kensington, during a service at St Mary Abbots, Kensington.

From 2013 to 2015, Hughes served his curacy at Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) in the Diocese of London. In 2015, he was appointed priest-in-charge of St Luke's, Gas Street, Birmingham in the Diocese of Birmingham. This was a church plant from HTB, and involved the renovation and consecration of a derelict warehouse to use as a church for Hughes and his team. The church officially launched on 5 February 2016.

Worship Central
With Holy Trinity Brompton's associate director of worship, Al Gordon, Hughes established Worship Central, a worship training and resource centre, aiming to have an international impact.

Music recording
Hughes' songs were published in the UK by Survivor Records and distributed globally by EMI CMG, a major music label documented as market share leader from 1998 to 2009. He is currently signed under Integrity Music.

Hughes has recorded and released six albums: Here I Am to Worship in 2001, When Silence Falls in 2004, Holding Nothing Back in 2007, Happy Day in 2009, Love Shine Through in 2011, and Pocketful of Faith in 2015.

Here I am to Worship Hughes' album, Here I Am to Worship was released in 2001. The album introduced the worship songs "Jesus, You Alone" and the Dove Award-winning song "Here I Am to Worship". Both songs have become world-renowned worship anthems.

When Silence Falls Released in 2004, When Silence Falls featured well-known tracks, "Beautiful One", "Consuming Fire", and "Whole World in His Hands". The bonus track on the album, "Saviour" featured the hip hop group 29th Chapter, from west London.

Holding Nothing Back Hughes' third album, Holding Nothing Back, was released on 3 April 2007, and includes songs like "Living for your glory", "The Highest and the Greatest", "God of Justice", "Everything", and "Happy Day". In 2007, prior to the recording of Holding Nothing Back, Christian Today interviewed Hughes, asking him, "Do you think any of the songs have the potential to become worldwide hits like some of your previous singles ("Here I am to Worship" and "Beautiful One")?" Hughes responded that what connected with people was often a surprise and hard to predict.

Happy Day In July 2008, Hughes recorded a live album and DVD, Happy Day, at a Worship Central event held on 16 September 2008 at the Shepherds Bush Empire, London. The recording featured a mix of previously released material and brand new songs, including "Give us your courage". The album was released at the Worship Central Global Day on 14 March 2009, in London's Westminster Central Hall.

Love Shine Through On 11 March 2011, a fourth studio album was released, Love Shine Through. The recording was produced by Martin Smith and featured musicians Marc James, Michael Guy Chislet and members of Northern Irish band, Rend Collective Experiment.

Pocketful of Faith On 17 July 2015 Hughes released his fifth studio album, Pocketful of Faith. The album was produced by Nathan Nockels and includes songwriting collaborations with Martin Smith, Matt Redman, Reuben Morgan, Phil Wickham, Jonas Myrin and Tim's Worship Central teammates Nick Herbert, Luke Hellebronth and Ben Cantelon.

Literary publishing
Hughes published Passion For Your Name in 2003, in which he gives his advice on many issues, including worship leading and songwriting. Hughes has published a book called Holding Nothing Back (the same name as his third album) and was interviewed by Premier.tv's Christian TV On Demand, to promote the book.

Honours
In June 2017, he was awarded the Cranmer Award for Worship by the Archbishop of Canterbury "for his outstanding contribution to contemporary worship music".

Albums

 * Reward with Martyn Layzell (1999, Survivor Records)
 * Here I Am to Worship (2001, Worship Together Records)
 * When Silence Falls (2004, Survivor Records)
 * Holding Nothing Back (2007, Survivor Records)
 * Happy Day (2009, Survivor Records)
 * Love Shine Through (2011, Survivor Records)
 * Pocketful of Faith (2015, Integrity Music)

With Worship Central

 * Lifting High (2009, Survivor Records)
 * Spirit Break Out (September 2011, Kingsway)
 * Let It Be Known (March 2013, Kingsway)
 * Set Apart (October 2014, Kingsway)
 * Mercy Road (May 2017)

Soul Survivor Event albums

 * Your Name's Renown – Soul Survivor Live 2001 (2001)
 * Soul Survivor Live 2002: Glimpses Of Glory (2002)
 * Soul Survivor: Anthem Of The Free (2003)
 * Soul Survivor Live 2004: Living Loud (2004)
 * Soul Survivor: We Must Go (2005)
 * Soul Survivor: Love Came Down (2006)
 * Soul Survivor: Living For Your Glory (2007)
 * Complete – Live Worship From Soul Survivor 2008 (2008)
 * Soul Survivor: Not Ashamed (2009)
 * Soul Survivor: Light the Sky (2010)
 * Soul Survivor: We Are the Free (2011)
 * Soul Survivor: Love Takes Over (2015)

Published works

 * Hughes, Timothy R. Passion for Your Name, Kingsway Publications, 2003. ISBN 978-1-84291-175-4
 * Hughes, Timothy R. Holding Nothing Back, Kingsway Publications, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84291-352-9
 * Hughes, Tim; and Gordon, Al. Worship Central, Alpha International, 2011. ISBN 978-1-905887-26-2

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Talk:Sylvester Stallone

Nighthawks reboot
There's one on the way, apparently. Worth adding to the "works in development" section?

From the Nighthawks page: In July 2019, it was announced that a remake was in development from Balboa Productions. By May 2020, Sylvester Stallone announced that a reboot television series is currently in development. The project will be a joint-venture production between Universal Television and Balboa Productions, and will be released as a Peacock exclusive television series.

"Your Studio and You" part
The current wording is odd and doesn't particularly reflect the content of the short film; "At one point, Stallone starts yelling about how can they use his Balboa character, that he left it in the past" should be something more like ""At one point, Stallone breaks character, insisting the producers make it clear he's acting and doesn't actually speak like Rocky, having left the character in the past" etc etc; also, he says "Fucking cheap studio", as the subtitles make clear also, not "stupid cheap studio".

"Stallone is the only actor in the history of American cinema to have starred in a box-office number-one film across six consecutive decades"
This is not true anymore. Harrison Ford achieved the same feat, so they should both be mentioned. Ford's #1 movies at the box office for each decade include Star Wars (1970s), Indiana Jones movies (1980s), The Fugitive (1990s), the fourth Indiana Jones movie (2000s), Star Wars sequels (2010s), and the last Indiana Jones movie (2020s). Therefore, this should be mentioned or corrected.--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 17:54, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Cherry LaCross I seem to lost you  some how I can not get  back to you Mr Fabulous 131.191.71.149 (talk) 02:07, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Cherry LaCross 131.191.71.149 (talk) 22:58, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:1996 NHL entry draft

Traded picks?
I see them in other draft arcticles, but they're noticably absent in this one. Help? 24.87.56.142 (talk) 23:35, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Jets/Coyotes
Besides the fact all references list the Coyotes draft picks as being drafted under the Coyotes name, the YouTube video titled "Chris Phillips Drafted by the Ottawa Senators June 22, 1996" clearly shows Phoenix 11th on the draft board approximately 2:40 into the video. --Parkfly3 (talk) 06:01, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

The following sentence - "selections of the future Phoenix Coyotes team were made under the Jets' name" - and the listing of Coyotes draft picks under the Jets name is verifiably false. --98.21.60.101 (talk) 04:09, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually it is not at all false. Using a direct quote from the Arizona Coyotes article which states "The Jets moved to Phoenix on July 1, 1996, and were renamed as the Phoenix Coyotes." This event took place nine days before the franchise officially moved. For events of this nature it is common practice to use the franchise location on the actual date of the event, a similar situation occurs with the 1976 draft as two teams relocated after the draft and the players drafted by the teams are listed as picks of the previous franchise.
 * 1976 is not comparable since the future of both teams was up in the air and they had not received league approval to move by the time of the draft (page 228 of the NHL Guide reflects this by showing California and Kansas City as the selecting teams), whereas the Winnipeg-to-Phoenix move was approved by the league in January 1996 and it was known by the 1996 draft they would be called the Phoenix Coyotes. --Parkfly20 (talk) 12:25, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

 * It should also be noted that in all other instances of NHL teams relocating (since the draft was created in 1963) officially occurred before the date of the draft in those affected years (ex. Calgary in 1980, Carolina in 1997 and Winnipeg in 2011). Deadman137 (talk) 19:15, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Correction: Calgary and Carolina's official transfer dates occurred after their respective first drafts took place. Calgary: June 11 (draft), June 24 (td). Carolina: June 21 (draft), June 25 (td). Since that is the actual precedent (the name the team drafts under is most relevant and not the official transfer date that matters) and also conforms to official references I've changed this article back to Phoenix. --Parkfly20 (talk) 12:25, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

 * I should also add that on page 21 of the 2015 NHL Guide and Record book it clearly states that the franchise transfer date from Winnipeg to Phoenix is July 1, 1996. Deadman137 (talk) 20:18, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Page 224 of the 2015 NHL Guide and Record book clearly states Focht and Briere were selected by Phoenix, not Winnipeg. Page 368 clearly states Briere was selected by Phoenix, not Winnipeg. In other words, though the franchise officially transferred on July 1, 1996, selections at the draft were made under the Coyotes name according to every reference that actually pertains to the draft and particularly the YouTube video which clearly shows Phoenix on the draft board. --Parkfly20 (talk) 12:25, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

 * There is finally a published report that confirms an earlier transfer date of the Coyotes franchise and it is found in an Associated Press report on page 9 of this link which is dated December 13, 1995. We now have enough evidence to support Phoenix making the picks at this event and this link will likely get added to the Arizona Coyotes article as well.

 * It should also be noted that in the cases of Calgary and Carolina similar published information to this can already be found in those articles, which allowed for editors to decide to ignore the NHL's own records. The link above provides enough contradictory evidence to make this change for the Coyotes franchise at this time. Deadman137 (talk) 17:55, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

These redlinked draft picks meet WP:NHOCKEY

 * Josh DeWolf - 6
 * Geoff Peters (ice hockey) - 2
 * Terry Friesen - 3
 * Andrei Petrunin - 1
 * Konstantin Kalmikov - 1
 * Dmitri Subbotin (Q1232626) - 1
 * Mikael Simons (Q6176512) - 1
 * Jonas Soling (Q6183216) - 1
 * Andrei Petrakov (Q501669) - 1
 * Johan Forsander (Q1391227) - 1
 * Yevgeni Tsybuk - 1
 * Elias Abrahamsson - 2
 * Michal Podolka (Q93991195) - 1
 * Nikolai Ignatov (ice hockey) - 1
 * Ola Sandberg - 1
 * Daryl Andrews (Q1166980) - 2
 * Timo Vertala (Q5391424) - 1
 * Jeff Scissons - 1
 * Oleg Orekhovsky (Q4336334) - 1
 * Mattia Baldi (Q3299968) - 6
 * Tobias Johansson (ice hockey) - 2
 * Askhat Rakhmatullin - 1
 * Andrei Kozyrev (ice hockey) (Q2846816) - 1
 * Timo Seikkula (Q3529021) - 1

Note: Articles must also meet WP:GNG. --75.88.89.194 (talk) 10:50, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:NHL Entry Draft which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 01:04, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

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Nicholas Whitlam

Nicholas Richard Whitlam (born 6 December 1945) is an Australian businessman and corporate director. He is the son of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Margaret Whitlam.

Career
Whitlam first became publicly prominent in 1981 when he was appointed chief executive of the State Bank of New South Wales. Subsequent roles include Whitlam Turnbull & Co (an investment banking partnership with future Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and former Premier of New South Wales Neville Wran), and the chairmanship of the NRMA Group. Whitlam was the key figure in the 2000 demutualization and listing of NRMA Insurance, the country's largest insurance company, now known as Insurance Australia Group (IAG).

In 2002, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), a corporate regulator, initiated controversial civil proceedings against Whitlam alleging breaches of his NRMA director's duties in relation to his not signing a proxy vote, containing of 3793 votes, directing him to vote against a motion about the remuneration of directors. A single judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ruled that he had breached his duties as a director and banned him from being a director of any company for five years. Whitlam appealed the judgement. Three senior judges, sitting as the New South Wales Court of Appeal, unanimously found that he had not breached his duties as a director, reversed the ruling and exonerated him. ASIC sought but was denied special leave to appeal by the High Court of Australia.

Whitlam is a graduate of Harvard College (AB cum laude, 1967) and the London Business School (MSc, 1969).

He has been Chairman of the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales, and has an honorary doctorate (Hon.DUniv) from that university and from Western Sydney University (Hon.DLitt).

Personal life
Whitlam has been married to Judy (née Frye) since 1973; she was a publicist for Vidal Sassoon and the Savoy Hotel. Believing they were unable to conceive children of their own, they adopted a girl, Alice, from Thailand and a boy, Edward, from Colombia. Then Judy became pregnant, and their son, Peter, was born in 1982; he has severe mental and physical disabilities.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The boardz

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE.  Rob e  rt  17:02, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

The boardz
Non-encyclopaedic; more of a vanity article than anything. Should be deleted. --Qirex 05:52, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete as nom jmd 05:54, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity NN --Rogerd 06:55, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. utcursch | talk 12:03, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Super delete, yet more forumcruft. the wub  "?!"  12:39, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: This page has been erased by an anonymous vandal, 65.144.11.153 and 65.151.123.50 twice now, I suggest that The boardz gets deleted fast.--Qirex 00:00, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Talk:Steven Chu

St. Petersberg Times
I corrected the link for "The St. Petersberg times" to go to "St. Petersberg Times" which redirects to the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the The St. Petersberg Times) because this is where the source cited actually came from. Perhaps the article should be changed to say that the article/source are from the Tampa Bay Times? I'll let a better editor figure that out. Mnuber (talk) 21:40, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Possible GA push
This article is really pretty well referenced. We might be able to make a GA push for it. Though if we do, we might want to wait till after he's actually confirmed as Energy Secretary to submit the GA nomination. Between now and the confirmation, I do think journalists will be digging into his past and who knows if anything controversial might surface. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 21:44, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Anybody else interested in this? Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 14:53, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Is this significant enough to mention?
In the Personal Life section:
 * Chu was the keynote speaker for Boston University's commencement ceremony on May 20, 2007. He is an early signatory to Project Steve, an educational campaign supporting the conventional scientific understanding of evolution.

Does this really deserve mention in the article? He's probably been a speaker in many many engagements, being a Nobel Prize winner. And he's probably a signatory to a lot of things. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 16:28, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Probably not. I moved it to the Honors and awards section before I noticed your message here, but I wouldn't mind if it were deleted. — Sebastian 07:52, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Does anybody have any objection to removal? Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 12:41, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it's probably worth keeping Project Steve somewhere. Voluntarily taking a stand for evolution teaching is relevant to his new career in government. Certainly the science blogosphere went happy-crazy over a Project Steve signatory in the US cabinet.  A Geek Tragedy (talk) 17:56, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Good point. I removed the commencement ceremony, but kept the Project Steve. (I kept it in the Energy and global warming section, not because it has to do with either, but because that section is basically the section for "Other stuff he did that has some bearing to his new career in government".) — Sebastian 19:32, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Senior Picture from the University of Rochester
I have his senior picture from undergrad. Would that be of any use for this page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjeye (talk • contribs) 01:25, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Reducing coverage of institutions already covered in their own articles
I'm cutting down coverage of details of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Energy Biosciences Institute,  the Bio-X program/James H. Clark Center, and the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, because these are not specifically connected with Steven Chu. — Sebastian 04:46, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

I find Sebastian Helm's modifications somewhat disingenuous. While he stated he'd like to keep information related to other institutions on other sites, he reincorporated the incorrect statement regarding who voiced which concerns about the EBI. The truth is that many people - not just faculty - have voiced concerns, and about more than just 'selling out' as SebastianHelm modified the text to read. I am reinstating these.

Furthermore, I do not see the harm in including a few more words here and there. But if we are going to keep as little information as possible about other institutions in this page, then there is still more cutting to be done. 5p0gSp (talk) 05:49, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

You are right that my modifications were not perfect, and I admit that they were indeed motivated by cutting back some of your edits. We have an ethical and legal responsibility to write such articles about living persons with the greatest care and attention to neutrality. While I appreciate the contributions of a knowledgeable editor such as you, your edits unfortunately didn’t meet this requirement. After your recent edits, the article was devoid of any mention of his role in establishing and funding the Kavli Institute, and, at the same time, criticism of another project is overstated and covered in several sentences.

The deletion of the Kavli Institute sentence was hardly justifiable. With your interest in Steven Chu, there’s no reason why you could not simply enter “Steven Chu Kavli Institute” in your search engine and confirm the sentence with reliable sources like this. And with your knowledge of the need to adhere to references, you should be aware that writing “This has drawn controversy with a wide range of people”, does not confirm to our policies when none of your four references actually mentions “a wide range of people”. That said, I agree with you that the wording “some of Berkeley's faculty”, which I reincorporated, was not adequate either. I will edit the article accordingly. You now claim there are “many people”. Could you give a reliable source with an estimate of how many there are?

Because I made mistakes myself in this, and because, above all, we seem to share some core values, such as care for the environment, consumer protection and transparency of public institutions, I will not take the usual path of officially warning you. I prefer to first engage with people in an open, personal dialog. Please respect this as well as our policies, particularly the admonition to write for the enemy. If we can meet at this common ground, then I’m sure we will have a good cooperation ahead. — Sebastian 21:43, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Personal life
I am Steven's second cousin - our grandfathers were brothers. Relationships in Steven Chu's lineage were incorrect. The work cited is in error, it should perhaps have used the word "maternal" rather than "mother's".

This wording was: "His mother's grandfather earned advanced civil engineering degrees at Cornell University and his mother's granduncle studied physics at the Sorbonne before they returned to China."[2]

The correct relationship is: "His mother's father earned advanced civil engineering degrees at Cornell University and his mother's uncle studied physics at the Sorbonne before they returned to China."[2]

His mother's uncle was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Shu-hua —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.111.225 (talk) 17:28, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Pauline —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.111.225 (talk) 17:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

- Hello Pauline!

Thank you for your patience and your explanation! You are absolutely right! I just misread the source. 真不好意思！ What was I thinking when I reverted your first correction?! — Sebastian 04:19, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Two sections combined
I took the liberty of combining the section on his career and the section on his personal life, as they are both not that big. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 15:08, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Publications
Ok, according to his bio at Stanford - - he has been published 195 times. I don't think it is practical to list all of them, and I'm not sure why the ones currently in the article were specifically selected to be included. Any suggestions on how to handle this? Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 14:44, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

So, unless there is objection, I will be removing that section, but I'll also make sure there is an external link to a list of his publications. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 15:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Project Steve
I've deleted the following from the article:

 * He is an early signatory to Project Steve, an educational campaign supporting the conventional scientific understanding of evolution.

It was placed in the section about his views on energy and global warming. If anybody can find a more appropriate place for this (and certainly not the intro!) please feel free to re-insert. But to me that seems like a rather trivial piece of information. His views on evolution has not been brought up as an issue in the news media, as far as I know. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 19:23, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Painting Roofs White
In the introductory paragraph, the article reads, "US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white to increase the average global albedo."

While probably important to put somewhere in the article, does this really need to be stated in the introductory paragraph? Also, the sentence dates itself, and will become wrong next Tuesday. Should it be moved to the Energy and global warming section, or the Energy Secretary section?

Max Baroi 12:59 AM PST, May 28, 2009 —Preceding undated comment added 08:00, 28 May 2009 (UTC).
 * I've taken it out of the intro. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 18:05, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

GA?
Anybody interested in pushing this to GA status? Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 14:29, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Broken Links and Coal
Links 4 and 5 are broken. Given Chu is supporting coal: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D9I4D1G03 his stated stance against fossil fuels seems dubious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.47.71 (talk) 13:16, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The link is broken. A13ean (talk) 01:04, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Quote at the end
Two anonymous editors added in a mention to a statement that Chu made, apparently to the WSJ: "We are taking away a choice that continues to let people waste their own money". This was played up a bit in a few conservative blogs, but it is unclear to me if it merits inclusion in this article. At any rate, its current placement is a bit awkward. A13ean (talk) 01:04, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * In the absence of other input, I will remove the quote. A13ean (talk) 20:10, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Time to add Solyndra Controversy
In the spirit of Wikipedia having tens of thousands of 'controversy' sections in its articles, we need one about Solyndra, since Chu was the man who made the final decision. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.183.191.86 (talk) 18:26, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Information from this article should be included: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/energy-secretary-chu-takes-full-responsibility-solyndra/story?id=14967189#.TsUcIpusf3W — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.231.177.18 (talk) 14:42, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

 * I'm shocked! Shocked to discover that wikipedia does not mention Chu's role in the Solyndra scandal.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.28.8.239 (talk) 02:33, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Scroll lock key
The page was vandalized today with the edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.65.249.4 (talk) 00:01, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

The latest xkcd features a fictional reference to a questionable edit to this article. Please be kind. --Tasty monster (=TS ) 09:03, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for posting this. I was just about to post a warning. This page needs to be monitored for vandalism for the next 24 hours or so. Ekulio (talk) 09:25, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
 * But what if he did invent the Scroll Lock key and now everyone's going to de-credit Steven Chu for his invention on the basis that any reference to it is simply the result of citogenesis? I suppose that's one of the drawbacks of citogenesis: If you mention citogenesis and cite as an example a fact that actually is true, you'll be cited on wikipedia as proof that opposing citations are false or circular. In other words, the effect can work in reverse as well, preventing true facts from being on Wikipedia. And that "citonecrosis" is potentially worse because a factual error based on its absence it's less detectable. Yes. I just tried to coin that term.--Trypsin (talk) 09:35, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

You're smarter than that, Trypsin. The simple solution is to rely only on sources that predate the insertion of the statement in the article -- preferably, sources that predate the article's creation. (And no fussing about 'predation' and 'predator' -- this is obviously "predate" the antonym of "postdate", not the synonym for "prey".) DS (talk) 18:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

 * I just checked wikipedia's scroll lock article. That page is pretty much already a disaster as far as citations go...the first citation is a forum thread. 14.207.221.195 (talk) 10:45, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

 * Permalink to xkcd cartoon in question. FYI. --64.85.214.78 (talk) 11:27, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Hahaha, I actually came here looking for a few vandalism-related laughs or to see if this article was vandalizable. Instead, I got a kick out of this discussion. Thanks! And yes, I'd recommend monitoring this article.

 * Just removed another "humorous" (sic) edit in this vein. Time to semi-protect this for a while?  Oh, Randall, we give you a Hugo nomination, and this is what you give us in return?  ;-)  --JohnPomeranz (talk) 17:55, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Both articles are now semi-protected for two weeks. Any accounts which re-add that information are hereby deemed to be "throwaway" accounts, and will be blocked indefinitely. DS (talk) 18:15, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Might it be worth putting up some sort of msgbox? I picture something along the lines of this:

-- Erik Siers (talk) 01:56, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

A msgbox like that must not be put up unless we have a source establishing that Secretary Chu did not create Scroll Lock key. The Scroll Lock article makes no mention of who created it; we do not yet know whether or not it was Secretary Chu. Dsjoerg (talk) 14:51, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

I removed the scroll lock thing the other day, but someone added it back. Has any new evidence surfaced to suggest that this thing is actually true, rather than still being something that was completely made up for an XKCD comic? My searches only return references to the comic. Has something changed? 134.114.64.250 (talk) 23:32, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
 * No, it's just some idiot who found that strip recently. DS (talk) 20:05, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

View on gas prices
Chu is quite notable for telling the Wall Street Journal, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." (Those levels are currently about $9.54 per gallon.) Four months after he stated that this was his view, President Obama appointed him Secretary of Energy.

But I fear that if I add this to the article, liberal Wikipedia editors will immediately censor it. What to do? 174.24.93.182 (talk) 06:02, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Why show name in Chinese characters and pinyin?
He's American. Shouldn't Chinese spellings be limited to people who are Chinese? The use of the Chinese spelling suggests that he's Chinese, which is misleading. Yes, he's of Chinese ancestry, but does Wikipedia show Chinese spellings for all Chinese-Americans? What's the Wikipedia standard? Omc (talk) 20:14, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The Wikipedia standard is that we mention other names a person may go by. And in this case, as in the case of many Chinese people - Chinese American or otherwise - they have both English and Chinese names. So that's why we also include his Chinese name. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 15:35, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The Chinese name listed doesn't appear in the source that's cited. I vote to remove it unless it can be shown he actually goes by that name. —Designate (talk) 16:01, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
 * A brief search only turns up one hit, which maybe be based on this page. Unless we find some sort of official record of this, it should probably come out.  a13ean (talk) 17:01, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
 * My brief search net me at least five sources. SinoVision, Sina Corp, Xinhua News Agency, Peking University, and National Science Council. I've added them to the article. Cheers. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 16:07, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * But aren't those articles just transliterating his name into Chinese because they are Chinese-language sites? I'm sure you could find a Chinese transliteration for Joe Biden's name, but we wouldn't include it in the first sentence. Similarly I'm sure you could Japanese or Korean sites that have their own transliterations for Chu's name. Unless this was really a name he has personally used throughout his life (e.g., Jackie Chan's Chinese name) we can't just include it purely because of his ethnicity. He doesn't even speak Chinese. Would we include transliterations for a white American of Greek/Hebrew/Russian ancestry if they barely lived outside the US and only spoke English? —Designate (talk) 21:47, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

I remain convinced by these sources. In Chinatown in Washington DC, I learned its possible to transliterate Fuddruckers, but that doesn't tell us anything. a13ean (talk) 00:58, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * No, that is not just a transliteration of his English name. Transliterations of "Steven" are usually "史提芬" or "史蒂芬", which sounds like "si di fan". Like I said, this is another name which Steven Chu has, not a transliteration of his name. That's why it should be included. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 19:28, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * True or not, that's original research unless secondary sources specifically address the fact that Chu has an odd transliteration. But even if the transliteration is unusual, that doesn't mean it belongs here. We would never, ever include a Chinese newspaper's name for a white American who had never lived in China and didn't speak Chinese. There would be no reason to do that. We can't have a double-standard just because of his ethnicity. Whatever reason these newspapers have for using a nonstandard version of his name, it's irrelevant to the English Wikipedia unless secondary sources pick up on it. The lead paragraph is the basic summary of a person's biography; this is mere trivia. —Designate (talk) 22:05, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Once again. That's not a transliteration of his name. It is another name that he has. And the fact that multiple Chinese newspapers use it, instead of a transliteration of his name, is enough to show that it is his Chinese name. There is no double-standard here because most white Americans do not have Chinese names - Chinese newspapers usually just transliterate their names. And since this is another name that he goes by, I disagree that it's mere trivia. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 06:57, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

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Possible biased or disputable assertion?
(This is my first-ever attempt at Wikipedia commenting, so please be kind.)

I thought that Wikipedia entries are supposed to try to be neutral and objective, but I think that one sentence in this article pushes more into opinion: "Demonstrating his naïveté and being out of touch with the working poor and middle class Chu stated in a Wall St Journal interview..."

Without researching the history of this incident further, I'm not really prepared to rewrite the sentence but I think it would at least sound more objective if it said something like "Chu was criticized for being naïve and out of touch [citation] with the working poor and middle class when he stated..." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smithchuck (talk • contribs) 21:45, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

DOE Loan Program and Chu's resignation
"In 2011 after the scope and magnitude of the failure of Chu's Loan Guarantee program began to become publicly known a scathing internal White House memo suggested "...that the president be strongly encouraged to make major leadership changes as soon as possible,..." Chu resigned as energy secretary on April 22, 2013."

The DOE Loan Programs Office was created in 2005 by Congress, predating Chu's tenure by 4 years. A rewrite of the possessive may be appropriate for clarity.

The sentence is structured to suggest a dominant causative relationship between Chu leaving after Obama's first term and the memo on Solyndra's bankruptcy, which is speculative. Would suggest elaborating on criticism of DOE loans and the memo in the section discussing his DOE tenure.

I would also suggest that criticism of the loan program be slightly modified for NPOV. As far as I am aware, the loan program still exists and has had positive return on investments, so "the scope and magnitude of the failure" seems unbalanced. Also, would recommend attributing "scathing" to ABCNews, since they were the ones to describe the memo as such, and none of us have actually seen the memo. — Y phelan (talk) 22:19, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Image from this article to appear as POTD soon
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Professor Steven Chu ForMemRS headshot.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on 2018-09-24. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2018-09-24. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 08:48, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Info Box: Alphabet Soup
Under Dr. Chu's name and above his photograph are the abbreviations of three professional societies Dr. Chu belongs to -- two of which are not of his country, the U.S.A.

This is my fist encounter with such information placed in that spot. I've only seen aristocracy information placed so. I understand that such abbreviations are acceptable for certain professions outside of the US, but this is the first Wikipedia page where I have encountered this information placed in the Info Box.

Before all kinds of professionals start to list their professional associations under their names in the Info Box, what is the Wikipedia guideline/etiquette regarding such information displayed thusly? MissMaryMack14 (talk) 06:12, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:List of companies of the United Arab Emirates

External links and redlinks
This article looks to be a bit of a link magnet - anyone who wants to shove a link to their company website comes here or one of the other List of companies in X country articles. Unless there are any objections - I'm going to clean house and remove all external links. One of the main purposes of a List of article is to provide a central link to wikipedia articles around a particular topic, they can also be used to monitor changes to groups of articles and keep lists of articles to be written - they should not be a collection of weblinks or even a comprehensive list of ALL companies. Just the important (or notable if you prefer) ones. Paxse 16:40, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Done, for now. I'll keep it on my watchlist. Paxse 18:16, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Reformatted list and trimmed - scope - help needed to expand and improve
I have reformatted the list in order to improve it due to this Articles for deletion nomination. In compiling the list, I have firstly used the lists of companies which are listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Market and the Dubai Financial Market, and have also added more well known privately owned companies which aren't listed on either stock exchange (Emirates for example). I have also attempted to add the Arabic names of these companies, however, due to not speaking Arabic, and not being able to read Arabic script, I am unsure whether the Arabic names are correct. Perhaps another editor/s who are fluent in Arabic could check the Arabic name and confirm they are correct and correct where necessary. For those companies listed on the Abu Dhabi market, I have used the official listing of companies from the AUH market, and for those companies listed on the Dubai market, I have used their list. Other companies, I have used the corresponding article on the Arabic WP, or their articles (if they exist).

Additionally, I have narrowed the scope of the list, as it was a spam magnet. As part of narrowing the scope, I have moved the page from List of companies in the United Arab Emirates to it's current location, List of companies of the United Arab Emirates; of the UAE denoting that these are companies which are domiciled in the UAE, meaning that the company is legally an UAE entity. An editor added Halliburton, as they have HQ in the UAE, however, Halliburton is domiciled in the USA, and is therefore not a company of the UAE, but rather of the USA. Additionally, companies listed on the UAE stock exchanges do not automatically gain entry onto this list, as some of these companies are domiciled in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi, Oman, etc. I have also removed TV stations for the time being, as some of these stations were simply TV stations (particularly satellite ones), not companies, but feel free to add the owners of these companies, of course if they are UAE domiciled companies, and they are notable. Which leads to my last point, unless the company is notable, and is likely to obtain an article in the future, don't simply add it, without discussing on the talk page first, this will eliminate the spam links.

And lastly, if anyone has access to the Industry Classification Benchmark, perhaps they could fill in the missing gaps in the tables. --Russavia (talk) 15:06, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

 * If its a spam magnet then fair enough - I would like somewhere to list the companies in the UAE that have an active CSR activity - i might just write up a good overview of UAE CSR and list some of the companies that have an active CSR presence. I think we should consider listing the following companies though which some have been removed - Lime Green Entertainments LLC, Anglo Arabian Group, Dubai World  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dubailime (talk • contribs) 00:13, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

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Edutech wrong link
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Alive and Schticking

"Alive and Schticking" is the season premiere of the American television series Will & Grace's eighth season. It was written by Bill Wrubel and directed by series producer James Burrows. The episode was broadcast live on NBC in the United States on September 29, 2005, and was performed twice by the actors that evening for the East and West coasts. Alec Baldwin guest starred in "Alive and Schticking" and received an Emmy Award nomination for his performance.

In the episode, Grace (Debra Messing) contemplates having an affair with a married man, while Jack (Sean Hayes) begins a new career as the host of his new talk show Jack Talk. Meanwhile, Will (Eric McCormack) tries to hide from Karen (Megan Mullally) the fact that her husband, Stan, is alive and faked his death due to troubles with the mob. Will also tries to stop his former boss, Malcolm (Baldwin), from dating Karen.

Will & Grace creators and executive producers David Kohan and Max Mutchnick were in favor of doing a live episode, and Kevin Reilly, who at the time served as NBC Entertainment President, thought it would be a good way to inaugurate the (at the time) final season of the show. Since airing, "Alive and Schticking" has received mostly positive reviews from television critics, who enjoyed watching the mistakes made by the actors and their attempts to hide their laughter during the live broadcast. The episode acquired a Nielsen rating of 9.81 and garnered the series' highest rating in the 18–49 demographic since February 17, 2005, and biggest overall viewer total since February 24, 2005.

Plot
Will (Eric McCormack) reveals to Grace (Debra Messing) that Karen's (Megan Mullally) husband Stan is still alive. He learned this from his former boss, Malcolm (Alec Baldwin), a secret agent, who told him that Stan is now living under seclusion and faked his death because of troubles with the mob. Will makes Grace promise that she keep this information to herself, but she breaks the promise and tells Jack (Sean Hayes). When Malcolm later visits Will at his apartment and warns him to not to tell people about Stan's predicament, Karen and Rosario (Shelley Morrison) also arrive. At meeting Karen, Malcolm becomes fond of her, as does Karen of him, even asking him out on a date, to which he accepts. Will, however, tells Malcolm that he cannot date Karen because Malcolm is still protecting Stan from the mob.

Meanwhile, Grace and Jack are discussing their own problems. Grace uses Jack's promiscuous history with married men as a legitimate reason to have an affair with a married man, but Jack tells her to forget about it as both of them are the moral role models to their friends. After being honest with her, Jack confesses that the reason he is wearing an eye patch is not because he got glitter in his eye, as he told his friends. When he refused to stop his singing performance during the debut of his new talk show, Jack Talk, even though the entire set had accidentally been set on fire, his eyebrow was burnt off. Later, Will, Grace, and Jack all decide that it would be for the best to let Karen know the truth about Stan. Will breaks the news to her, but Karen believes he is joking. Rosario tells Karen that Stan is not dead, as she has been giving him reports on Karen. At the admission, Karen fires Rosario and leaves Will's apartment with Malcolm, explaining that Stan may be alive, but that he is still dead to her.

Production

"Alive and Schticking" was written by Bill Wrubel and directed by series producer James Burrows. In July 2005, it was announced by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) that Will & Grace ' s season premiere for season eight would be performed live. It was also confirmed that actor Alec Baldwin would appear in the episode. This was Baldwin's third appearance, as he guest starred in two episodes from season seven, playing Will's boss. His initial decision to do the show was to work with Megan Mullally, who plays Karen; "I just love Megan. And so I said, 'Well, if you let me do it with Megan.' And they said 'You got it.' So I went and did that with them for four [episodes]. It was fun. For me now, it's about who I work with."

Will & Grace creators and executive producers David Kohan and Max Mutchnick were in favor of doing a live episode; "We love the idea of a live episode because we get to show the audience of Will & Grace what we've known from day one — we work with the best cast in network television," said Mutchnick. He noted that the live element would allow the writers to make changes in the script right up until the airing of the episode. Kevin Reilly, who at the time served as NBC Entertainment President, said the "challenging live platform launch" for Will & Grace would be a good way for the show to inaugurate its final season. In discussion of the episode, Burrows, the director of all Will & Grace episodes, commented: "This will be like the classic golden era of television that I was weaned on, where the audience sees everything. Directing a live broadcast will be a first for me, and as long as I have been in the business, there are very few firsts."

Upon learning about the live telecast, the cast had mixed emotions. Sean Hayes, who plays Jack, was nervous about the episode and hoped there would be cue cards. Debra Messing (Grace) "gasped loudly" when it was revealed that the technical demands of live television would mean that Burrows would not be directing on the stage floor, but would be up in a booth instead. Messing noted that she had never done live television, but in regards to the live broadcast, said, "It starts out our final season in a real special way." Eric McCormack (Will) was intrigued about the idea and seemed to be ready for whatever happened; "It keeps it interesting for us. It stirs it up. It gives us a new way to do it."

Mullally revealed that the show's writing team was "notorious for tinkering with the script's laugh lines", even during the actual taping of the episodes. She hoped they would resist that urge for the live episode. Messing, however, was sure that the writers would interfere during the broadcasts; "I have a gut feeling that, like, 10 minutes before we go they'll be like, 'Oh, no, no, you know what? Change this line to this. Now we're locked – go.'" Prior to the live episode, the cast had shot the second, third and fourth episodes of the season. Shortly before this episode, Mullally injured her foot and was unable to walk without crutches. The writers therefore had to put Mullally's character, Karen, in a cast and a motorized scooter, ostensibly because the character was recovering from an operation to correct a webbed toe.

"Alive and Schticking" was performed live twice for viewers in the East and West coasts, with different jokes for each broadcast. The first show was broadcast at 8:30 p.m. (ET) for the East (this feed also aired live at 7:30 p.m. in the Central Time Zone) and the second three hours later at 11:30 p.m. ET (8:30pm PT) for the West. During the two performances, Messing and Hayes had "attacks of the giggles". An audience member who was in attendance commented that Messing and Hayes "were so bad at keeping a straight face" during a dress rehearsal that Burrows had to get on the show's PA system to yell at them. After both telecasts were aired, Burrows revealed that McCormack, Messing, Hayes, Mullally, and Baldwin "had a ball, but they also dreaded it."

Reception
In its original American broadcast, "Alive and Schticking" was watched by 9.81 million households, according to Nielsen ratings. The episode received a 4.4 rating/11 share among viewers in the 18–49 demographic. It also scored the series' highest 18–49 rating since February 17, 2005, and biggest overall viewer total since February 24, 2005. "Alive and Schticking" finished 21st in the weekly ratings for the week of September 26–October 2, 2005. In 2006, Baldwin was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series" category for this episode.

"Alive and Schticking" received positive reviews. Fort Worth Star-Telegram contributor Robert Philpot, who gave the episode a B+ rating, thought it was a pleasant surprise and an indication that there "might be some life" left in the show. He added that the episode feels fresher because of the "rapid-fire dialogue, farcical situations and ubiquitous double-entendres. And although this live edition was inarguably a stunt, it did prove that real people — and not mere machines — laugh at the characters and the jokes." Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine also noted that the episode showed that Will & Grace still had a bit of life left. He added that McCormack seemed to flourish under the pressure, and that Hayes and Mullally "were given free rein to flex their Jack and Karen [...]". Dana Stevens of Slate magazine reported that "Alive and Schticking" offered a chance to punch up the show with some "unusually broad sight gags." She wrote that the real reason to watch the episode were the mistakes made by the actors.

Philpot continued that moments like Will and his boss making out recalled the show's "glory days", and Messing's trouble keeping a straight face "brought back fond memories of Tim Conway cracking up Harvey Korman on The Carol Burnett Show." Knoxville News Sentinel ' s writer Terry Morrow also commented that the episode reminded him of The Carol Burnett Show because of its "goofiness and by-the-seat-of-its-pants style." Morrow added that the episode made him laugh more than any other sitcom on network television. Jeffrey Kauffman of DVD Talk praised Baldwin for his performance and commented that "Alive and Schticking" helped "jumpstart the series creatively after a couple of seasons" and "It's fun [...] to see the actors momentarily break character, a la The Carol Burnett Show, where the absurdity of certain situations (usually involving Jack and/or Karen) makes giggling all but impossible." Entertainment Weekly television critic Gary Susman gave "Alive and Schticking" four stars, while Frazier Moore of the Associated Press lauded it as a "fun, and attention-grabbing, note." The Hollywood Reporter ' s Ray Richmond said "In hindsight, this live thing proved a good idea."

"Alive and Schticking" received less positive reviews as well. Gail Pennington of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote that the live episode "proved once and for all that Will & Grace should have been buried before now," and Jeffrey Robinson of DVD Talk pointed out that its underlying storyline "is a little too over-the-top." Jessica Banov of The Fayetteville Observer wrote, "The first live show ... was so-so. The lighting was weird, and I'm not sure what was up with Debra Messing's hair. But it was funny to see Messing and Sean Hayes break from their scripts to giggle." Cinquemani commented that Baldwin's "absurd" role as Malcolm "is proving to be one of Will & Grace ' s most enduring guest stars." David Blum of The New York Sun reported that the producers of Will & Grace wasted Baldwin's "prodigious talents on a supporting role this past season, when it's clear he could effortlessly carry his own network series." Kauffman concluded that Grace's joke about George Bush being brain dead "just falls amazingly flat".

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Lord Sturm
Now that all of my PR flooding is almost gone, I decided to nominate this... I've done some major work, and want to feature it. Any complaints or comments? - A Link to the Past (talk) 05:54, 6 October 2005 (UTC) Okay, this bulleting system isn't working. Let's split these to threads.
 * I know this is bringing up an ongoing dispute (and it's certainly not personal), but I genuinely feel that this isn't a standalone topic, as the character is a cipher that certainly doesn't transcend the source work. This article is largely a plot summary of Advance Wars and Advance Wars 2, with commentary like "His motives for wanting to control Wars World are unknown." Other problems:
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 * The Abilities section seems to suffer the worst from the lack of context found in the Advance Wars and Advance Wars 2 section.
 * The Black Hole Army section seems to be completely unrelated to Sturm. Half of it is about a game he doesn't even appear in.
 * The final sections make factual claims of debatable provenence without sourcing them, like that some people believe he and Von Bolt are the same person, or the ROM hacking bit. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 06:05, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Uh, this isn't the FAC, this is a matter of improving the article. The article is of enough quality to be its own article. Are we to move Goomba to Mario series enemies because he is rarely ever seen outside of games? And even the cartoons and comics apply to that.
 * Lord Sturm started Black Hole, so Black Hole's actions after his death certainly have relevance to him.
 * Context from those articles? Explain.
 * So, what would be adequate for a source? Would the hackers who did this be a good-enough source, or an article relating to the theory? - A Link to the Past (talk) 06:18, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Goomba appears in dozens of games, often outside his original series. Many of the Goombas have personalities. Lord Sturm's actions appear only in two games, will only ever appear in two games, and he is merely a personality-less "true dark leader". There's not much to say about him, and much of this article, even if this stands alone, belongs in other articles.
 * Well, they're currently CSD candidates. I figured it would be courteous to let you know instead of just deleting them.
 * It's fine to lean on other articles, and let, say, Advance Wars: Dual Strike describe the later actions of Black Hole.
 * It's not clear that all COs have these powers, or that his powers are particularly more powerful than the others.
 * Seems like that the former would be fine, although the latter would be ideal assuming it's from somewhere reputable. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 06:25, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe you're taking WP:FICT a bit too far; I have spoken with many people on this, and they all feel that WP:FICT has exceptions (such as quality of the writing, length of the article, content and notability). It could be merged, yes, but there's a decent amount of information regarding him that wouldn't apply to plot summaries of the other games.
 * What are currently CSD candidates?
 * Telling people to go to other articles lowers the content and chances of becoming featured. Goomba talks mostly about their various species' appearances in games.
 * Lord Sturm may appear; bigger twists have happened.
 * I'll be sure to specify. - A Link to the Past (talk) 06:53, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Does it stand alone? - Such information would be what? And how is Sturm notable independent of Advance Wars? - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:06, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * His CO Power, his plots, his appearance. There's already an unspoken consensus to not go indepth on the characters in the main articles. But again, the potential to be an article overrules the fact that they are not notable in other source materials. The plot summaries are from his perspective, and can go indepth on the plotting of Sturm rather than what Andy experiences. Captain Olimar survived a VfD, and he is arguably not notable outside of the source material. - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:14, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * His CO Power is notable? His appearance is notable? He's a cloaked figure in a mask, which isn't exactly an uncommon design, and his CO power is just another CO power, in a series with more than a dozen COs now. Looking at the close comments for Articles for deletion/Captain Olimar: "The result of the debate was no consensus, but a merge may be in order. There is a tie vote between "keep" and "merge and/or redirect". Please settle this question on the article's talk page." I don't think that's a ringing endorsement of this article standing alone. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:21, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * And again, if you AfD'd any FF character article, you would be opposed to the tenth degree. WP:FICT generally doesn't apply to game articles. You're focusing too much on WP:FICT, when there's more people who would oppose deleting game character articles. This is just how people want it to play - What about Lakitu? That's not the most notable thing ever, not even one of the most well-known Mario enemies. To sum it up, if an article can do a split from the main article and do it well, then good for it, and this one succeeded. Now drop the debate on this, because I do not plan to merge this with either parent articles. - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * We're not talking other articles, and I'm not advocating deleting this. I'm advocating that this be merged to the source work, as it is tied inextricably to a single pair of linked source works and has little popularity or presence outside of discourse on those works. (This isn't a notability argument; it's a question on whether it's a discrete topic.) Lakitu and Wario have many different roles in different games, and the Final Fantasy characters have a rabid fanbase and cannot practically be merged into the already overlarge FF articles, but this is not about those articles, but this one.
 * WP:FICT should apply to game articles the same way it applies to any fiction articles, as this article is a prime case of why WP:FICT is the way it is (as this character cannot be discussed except as a small part of a larger whole).
 * I feel that further replies on my part in this line of conversation would no longer be productive, as they would simply be restatements of the above point. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:38, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Images - The portraits of Sturm are CSD candidates, with no info on their copyright status. Adding some basic copyright info would alleviate this. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:06, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I've already applied the fair use tag to two and game-screenshot to one. A link is provided in regard to the Meteor Strike image. - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:14, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks good, given that. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:21, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

The AW:DS plot summary - You're telling people to go to other articles in cases where the information isn't relevant to this subject. Sturm didn't appear in that game, so there's no need to summarize that game's plot. Goomba doesn't summarize Super Mario Bros. 2. As for future games, he's dead, and Wikipedia isn't a crystal ball (and there aren't any games currently announced that he could appear in), so I think it's safe to say he's not gonna appear again any time in the forseeable future. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:06, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, but it is the army he created, and he is mentioned throughout the story. The section is about his army, Black Hole, so logic states that we focus on the actions of Black Hole following his demise. Also, he may not have died. He IS a master of deception, after all. - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:14, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It seems like this is a better start for a Black Hole article than a Sturm one, then. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:21, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I do not think that replacing Sturm with a Blak Hole article would garner a lot of support. I personally plan to make articles based on characters such as Sonja, Andy, Lash, etc. - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Could you please not, until the discussion at Talk:King of All Cosmos is resolved? Right now, there's no clear consensus on appropriateness either way. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:38, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * That would be preferable to you, as all three have far more personality to speak of than Sturm.
 * Also, there have been people that were in agreement on the matter of if WP:FICT should not be without exception. - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:42, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm asking you not to make any more grey-area articles until the King discussion is finished, in the hopes of avoiding a revert war where we're both making claims of the status quo. It's hopeless, and I'm planning to try and expand the discussion elsewhere anyway before this becomes a bunch of little fights over little articles. Ideally, it should be one big fight, so everyone can yell at us both for not going out and getting lives. ;D - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 07:51, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * But life is too cold! My feet have gone numb. ;<
 * Oh, you know what's cool? Nell was in Super Famicom Wars, under her Japanese name, Caroline. So I'm checking if Sturm was in any past games. - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:56, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Rob Church's Review
I'll be placing my review here. Link, if you could cross off my points if/when you address them, that would make it easier for me to spot any consequential issues I want to raise. Rob Church Talk 18:31, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Let's have the Japanese characters for the name, shall we?
 * Minor grammatical correction in the leader, which I'll fix if I get round to it: Needs to be ..though the army he commands, Black Hole, appears..
 * Not sure we need the contraction of Commanding Officer explained in the leader; the Commanding Officer article would explain that itself
 * Link to video games in the leader
 * In the Biography section, we refer to the plot of two games. Could we somehow link to the plot section of the games' articles, or else the articles we have on their plots (if we have them)?
 * Consider floating the second and third images a bit, to make the article more interesting to read; a column of images down the right is monotonous and boring
 * In the Abilities section, the link to meteor is displayed as Meteor - remove the capitalisation
 * Done. Rob Church Talk 19:34, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * While it is discouraged to make too many of the same links, at the bottom of the page, consider linking to the games' articles upon mentioning the games - the article is long enough to justify this
 * This article mentions a lot of important video game concepts; consider wikilinking to appropriate material where possible
 * Bottom section - who is Hawke?

Initial review completed. Rob Church Talk 18:37, 6 October 2005 (UTC)


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Robert Mertens

Robert Friedrich Wilhelm Mertens (1 December 1894 – 23 August 1975) was a German herpetologist. Several taxa of reptiles are named after him. He postulated Mertensian mimicry.

Mertens was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He moved to Germany in 1912, where he earned a doctorate in zoology from the University of Leipzig in 1915. During World War I he served in the German army.

Mertens worked at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt for many years, beginning as an assistant in 1919, and retiring as director emeritus in 1960. He also became a lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1932, and became a Professor there in 1939. Both jobs provided him with ample time for extensive travel and the study of lizards. He collected specimens in 30 countries.

During World War II, he evacuated most of the collections of the Senckenberg Museum to small towns. He also had German soldiers who were fighting overseas collect and ship specimens to him.

He was the author of several books on zoology, including La Vie des Amphibiens et Reptiles (1959). Mertens described at least 64 reptile species, and numerous amphibian species.

Nine species and two subspecies of reptiles have been named after Mertens: Amblyrhynchus cristatus mertensi (San Cristóbal Marine Iguana), Amphisbaena roberti (Robert's worm lizard),  Chalcides mertensi (Algerian three-toed skink), Cryptoblepharus mertensi (Mertens' snake-eyed skink), Erythrolamprus mertensi (Mertens' tropical forest snake), Liolaemus robertmertensi (Robert's tree iguana), Micrurus mertensi (Mertens' coral snake), Phalotris mertensi (Mertens' lizard-eating snake), Phelsuma robertmertensi (Mertens' day gecko), Tropidoclonion lineatum mertensi (Mertens' lined snake), and Varanus mertensi (Mertens' water monitor). Also Vanderhorstia mertensi (Mertens' shrimp goby) has been named after him.

Mertens died after being bitten while feeding his pet savanna twigsnake, Thelotornis capensis. Because no applicable antivenom existed at that time, he suffered for 18 days before dying. He kept a diary of his deteriorating condition, noting that it was the "für einen Herpetologen einzig angemessene Ende" (the only appropriate demise for a herpetologist).

The death of Robert Mertens parallels that of another well known Herpetologist, Karl Patterson Schmidt, almost 20 years earlier. Each was a herpetologist, each was bitten by a venomous colubrid native to Africa, and each documented his symptoms until his death.

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Iconix Entertainment

Iconix Co, Ltd. (㈜아이코닉스) is an entertainment studio based in Seoul, and is a major South Korean entertainment company formed by the merger of Iconix. The company is commonly referred to as simply "Iconix", the same name used in previous incarnations of Iconix.

Iconix also licenses anime for Korean releases and produces animated TV shows; these range from a South Korean dub of Toei Animation's Ojamajo Doremi, and Korean series Michel. Iconix is jointly owned by the animation companies Toei Animation, SK Broadband, Ocon Animation Studio, Roi Visual, and DR Movie.

History
Iconix Entertainment was found in September 25, 2001 by Choi Jong-il.

Properties
Animated titles from Iconix include Pororo the Little Penguin, Tai Chi Chasers, Tayo the Little Bus, Restol, The Special Rescue Squad, Ricky & Ralph, among others. It also handles distribution licensing for the following:

 * Pororo to the Cookie Castle
 * Dinga
 * Chiro and Friends
 * Woobiboy
 * Hello, Woobiboy
 * Bistro Recipe
 * Ojamajo Doremi (dubbed)
 * Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi
 * Ojamajo Doremi Dokkān
 * Tumoya Island
 * Spheres
 * Tayo the Little Bus
 * Titipo Titipo (spinoff)
 * Tai Chi Chasers
 * Nalong, Fly To The Sky
 * Flowering Heart
 * Cedric
 * Wild Instrict
 * Hero & Amy
 * Turtle Hero
 * Tayo's Big Trip
 * Lupo Alberto
 * Bruno Bozzetto's The Spaghetti Family
 * Curucuru and Friends
 * Petit Petit Muse

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User:Sj/klog/Wikimania touches Boston

Today we began answering the question : who would care about a Wikimania in Boston? Boston's was the latest bid to get underway, as it would

The question was posed to a variety of people, by myself and DanKeshet and IvanK. People nearby were asked to show up tomorrow to talk about it. Let's see if anyone comes... drop by Berkman if you're around in the evening, and say hello.

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