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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gorka Morka

Gorka Morka was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. 7 votes to delete, 2 votes to keep. Postdlf 14:24, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Gorka Morka
There is not a single Google reference to "Angelis Prime" which might have anything to do with this article. RickK 05:20, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)

 * You'll get a number of relevant google hits if you just search for "gorka morka", but still...it's a minor boardgame set in the Warhammer 40k universe, and there's dozens of those. Delete -- Ferkelparade π 13:06, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Another Warhammer spin-off. Fiction without context, fantasy presented as reality.  Geogre 14:37, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: fancruft. Wile E. Heresiarch 17:19, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fancruft. --Improv 16:21, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak delete, i see no potential to become encyclopedic right now, although someone could prove me wrong possibly. — siro  χ  o  22:36, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep The name of the game was actually Gorkamorka There are almost 20,000 google hits for it and it was as popular as Necromunda while printed. However i do suggest wikifying, cleaning up and removing the information presented in character to make it clear it is a game --Asmodai 23:52, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep if the article is revised to be a description of the game like the other boardgame/wargame articles, not a (possible copyvio) reprint of the fiction behind it. Inky 01:14, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete unless context and a description of the game itself are added; if they are added, keep. -Sean Curtin 00:29, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

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Deconstruction (Meredith Brooks album)

Deconstruction is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Meredith Brooks. It was released on September 28, 1999, by Capitol Records. Following the album's disappointing commercial reception, Brooks was dropped from the record label.

Recording
Unlike her involvement with Meredith Brooks (1986) and Blurring the Edges (1997), Brooks sought to take more control over the compositions on Deconstruction. With the exception of "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", Brooks wrote or co-wrote and played lead guitar on every song on the album, in addition to co-producing the album with David Darling. Thematically, Brooks claims that the material on Deconstruction was a direct reaction to her experiences with the success of "Bitch". She explained: "The new album is about deconstructing everything, letting people know that I'm not just any one thing."

Release and promotion
Deconstruction was released on September 28, 1999. Prior to the album's release, Brooks released rough mixes of several album tracks on her official website. There are two unreleased songs from these sessions titled Deconstruction and Strangely Erotic. Fans had the opportunity to vote for their favorite songs and discuss the then-upcoming album with Brooks on the site's message board.

In an effort to promote the album, Brooks opened for the Eurythmics on their Peace Tour (1999).

Two singles were released from the album. The first was a cover version of Melanie's Lay Down (Candles In The Rain), which also featured Queen Latifah.

The second single, "Shout," was written by Brooks, and included references to pop culture events at the time, such as the scandal between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, as well as the Y2K scare. It was featured on the February 2000 in-store playlist at Abercrombie & Fitch.

Critical reception
Tom Demalon of AllMusic referred to the album as "another pleasant if somewhat derivative helping of adult rock [from Brooks]." Demalon highlighted "Nobody's Home" and "I Said" as the standout tracks from the album. Beth Johnson of Entertainment Weekly remarked that the album starts off strong with "Shout," before delving into "sound-alikes of Sheryl Crow, late-'90s Madonna, and (oh so annoyingly) Blondie's rap."

Commercial performance
In the United States, Deconstruction was considered a commercial disappointment in comparison to Brooks' previous effort, Blurring the Edges. Deconstruction failed to chart on the Billboard 200 chart and the album only sold approximately 20,000 units over two months after release.

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Deconstruction.

 * Production

 * Meredith Brooks – vocals, writer, producer
 * David Darling – producer, programming
 * Melanie Safka – writer
 * Queen Latifah – vocals, writer
 * Larry Dvoskin – writer
 * Shelly Peiken – writer
 * Rick Nowels – writer
 * Adam Gorgoni – writer
 * Brian Reeves – engineering
 * Scott Humphries – mixing

 * Paul Fox – producer
 * Jeff Tomei – engineering
 * Mark Needham – mixing
 * Tom Weir – engineering
 * John Bogosian – engineering
 * David Bryant – assistant engineer
 * Michael Parnell – assistant engineer
 * Chris Lord-Alge – mixing
 * Matt Silva – mixing assistant
 * Steve Genewick – mixing assistant
 * Doug Sax – mastering

 * Instruments

 * Meredith Brooks – guitars
 * Rob Ladd – drums
 * Paul Bushnell – drums, bass
 * Michael Parnell – keyboards
 * David Darling – percussion, keyboards, bass
 * Paul Trudeau – percussion, keyboards, piano

 * Crenshaw High School Elite Choir – background vocals
 * Mark Meadows – bass
 * Matt Laug – drums
 * David Faragher – bass
 * Arlen Shirebaum – keyboards
 * Denny Fongheiser – drums
 * Rami Jaffe – keyboards

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Paris When It Sizzles

Paris When It Sizzles is a 1964 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Quine from a screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the 1952 French film Holiday for Henrietta by Julien Duvivier and Henri Jeanson. The film stars William Holden and Audrey Hepburn, with Grégoire Aslan, Raymond Bussières, Noël Coward, and Tony Curtis.

The film's title derives from the Cole Porter song "I Love Paris": I love Paris in the springtime I love Paris in the fall I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles

Plot
Alexander Meyerheim hires veteran playboy screenwriter Richard Benson to write a screenplay. Overly immersed in his playboy lifestyle, Benson procrastinates writing the script until two days before the due date. Gabrielle Simpson, a temp secretary Benson hired to type the script, arrives at Richard's hotel room, only to discover that little has been written. Richard tells her that Alexander will be in Paris by Sunday morning, in two days' time, and that they have that long to write a 138-page script.

Richard and Gabrielle then begin to weave a script together, and Richard is awakened and inspired by the beautiful Gabrielle. They imagine various scenarios for his screenplay, The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower, which is based on their unfolding romance as Gabrielle goes back and forth between thinking Richard is a good man and her budding attraction to him, and her hesitancy when considering he described himself as a "liar and a thief" for taking Meyerheim's money and not delivering the script earlier. The screenplay, with small but inspired and comedic roles for Noël Coward, Tony Curtis, and other famous stars of the era, spoofs the movie industry, actors, studio heads, and itself, and is rife with allusions to the earlier film roles of Hepburn and Holden.

After killing off his character tragically at the end of the script, Richard confesses to Gabrielle that he is just an old washed-up alcoholic and does not deserve love or a happy ending. Calling the script they've just finished lousy, he admits that his creative peak is well behind him and he no longer cares about his work. Committed to continue scamming people and galavanting through life, he sends her away for her sake and drunkenly falls asleep.

Eventually, Richard comes to his senses. He seeks out Gabrielle to tell her he loves her and that they have a new script to write. Richard and Gabrielle run off with each other; Richard drops the pages of the old script into some sparking fireworks which are going off for Bastille Day. The two lovers kiss, as the words "kiss" and "fade out" appear on the screen.

Cast
Some members of the cast have roles in The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower, the film-within-the-film.

 * Cast notes:
 * In addition to the uncredited role played by Tony Curtis, first dressed in a red sweater, white pants and riding a Vespa, later in a dark green suit and a light green shirt and tie, the film also features uncredited cameo appearances by Marlene Dietrich as herself, dressed in white, stepping out of a white Bentley, and Mel Ferrer, Hepburn's real-life husband at the time, who plays a party guest dressed as Dr. Jekyll. Frank Sinatra sings a few bars of the opening song, The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower.

Production
The film, whose working title was Together in Paris, is a remake of the 1952 French film Holiday for Henrietta, directed by Julien Duvivier. Paramount exercised an option on their contracts with both Hepburn and Holden, forcing them to make the film together. Holden, having had an affair with Hepburn during the making of Sabrina a decade earlier and been in love with her ever since, attempted without success to rekindle a romance with the now-married actress. Holden's alcoholism was also a constant challenge for Quine, who moved into a rented house next to Holden's during production to keep an eye on him. Holden later commented on both of the problems: I remember the day I arrived at Orly Airport for Paris When It Sizzles. I could hear my footsteps echoing against the walls of the transit corridor, just like a condemned man walking the last mile. I realized that I had to face Audrey and I had to deal with my drinking. And I didn’t think I could handle either situation.

Curtis was brought into the production to film during a week when Holden was undergoing treatment for his alcoholism at the prompting of the director. Noel Coward worked on the film for three days, and a cameo from Marlene Dietrich meant to duplicate the many cameos of Around the World in 80 Days (1956).

The film was shot at the Billancourt Studios and on location around Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean d'Eaubonne. Audrey Hepburn's choice for cinematographer was Franz Planer who had photographed her in several of her films. With Planer being ill, Hepburn agreed to the use of Claude Renoir, however Charles Lang replaced Renoir as the director of photography during production, a change demanded by Hepburn after she saw what she felt were unflattering dailies.

Hepburn shot the film in the summer of 1962, back-to-back with Charade, which she shot that fall. The films shared several locations, most notably a Punch and Judy puppet theatre in the park in front of the Théâtre Marigny.

Though finished shooting in October 1962, a screening at Paramount led the studio to deem the film unreleasable with the exception of the attraction of its two stars.

Reception
Variety called Paris When It Sizzles "marshmallow-weight hokum", and quoted a line from the film as an apt description of the film itself: "contrived, utterly preposterous, and totally unmotivated"; it complimented the two leads, saying Hepburn is a "refreshingly individual creature in an era of the exaggerated curve", and Holden "handles his assignment commendably".

Time magazine said the film was "a multimillion dollar improvisation that does everything but what the title promises" and suggested that "writer George Axelrod (The Seven Year Itch) and director Richard Quine should have taken a hint from Holden's character Richard Benson, who writes his movie, takes a long sober look at what he has wrought, and burns it."

Turner Classic Movies notes that "critics uniformly panned" the film, but said it "has earned a reputation as a guilty pleasure for those who enjoy in-joke movie spoofs and an absurdist storyline played out against the glorious backdrop of the City of Light".

Paperback novelization
In February 1964, Dell Publishing issued a paperback novelization (with a cover price of 40¢) by then-veteran tie-in author Saul Cooper. There may have been some editorial confusion in coordinating the copyediting and design stages of the book's production, however, because the byline on the cover is "Michael Milner" (Cooper's occasional pseudonym), while on the title page, the byline is that of fictional screenwriter "Richard Benson", the story's male lead. The Benson attribution is amusingly fitting, as Cooper's novelistic approach was to narrate the story in the first person, using Benson's voice and perspective. But that's what makes it seem to be a publishing glitch that the cover byline should be yet another pseudonym, rather than a follow-through with the literary conceit.

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Sienna Miller

Sienna Rose Diana Miller (born 28 December 1981 ) is an American-born British    actress. Born in New York City and raised in London, she began her career as a photography model, appearing in the pages of Italian Vogue and for the 2003 Pirelli Calendar. Her acting breakthrough came in the 2004 films Layer Cake and Alfie. She subsequently portrayed socialite Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl (2006) and author Caitlin Macnamara in The Edge of Love (2008), and was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2008. Her role as The Baroness in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) was followed by a brief sabbatical from the screen amid increased tabloid scrutiny.

Miller returned to prominence with her role as actress Tippi Hedren in the 2012 television film The Girl, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She has since starred in several notable films, including Foxcatcher (2014), American Sniper (2014), The Lost City of Z (2016), Live by Night (2016), and American Woman (2018), as well as the miniseries The Loudest Voice (2019) and Anatomy of a Scandal (2022).

Early life
Miller was born in New York City, in The Nutcracker Suite theatre, and moved to London with her family when she was 18 months old. She later boarded at the Heathfield School in Ascot, Berkshire. Her father, Edwin Miller, is an American dealer in Chinese art, previously a banker. Her mother, Josephine, is a British former model who was born in South Africa to British parents and was a personal assistant to David Bowie and onetime manager of the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.

2001–2003: Early acting credits
Miller's screen debut came in the romantic comedy South Kensington (2001), opposite Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson. In 2002, she had supporting roles in High Speed and its follow-up The Ride, and guest-starred in The American Embassy and Bedtime. She had a regular role as the combative yet caring flatmate of an NYPD detective in the television drama series Keen Eddie (2003). It was Miller's first exposure to American audiences. FOX cancelled it after only seven episodes.

2004–2008: Breakthrough and tabloid notoriety
With roles in two commercial films and a higher public profile due to her relationship with actor Jude Law, 2004 was a turning point for Miller's career. The crime thriller Layer Cake, directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Daniel Craig, featured her as the love interest of a London-based cocaine supplier. The New York Times called Miller "a new It Girl who barely registers on-screen despite wearing little more than lacey filaments that make her look like a gift meant to be unwrapped very quickly". In Alfie, the remake of Bill Naughton's 1966 film, she played the girlfriend of a cockney limo driver and sex addict (Jude Law). Of her It Girl status, she said at the time: "I'm not very happy about it, to be honest. It makes me uncomfortable because I don't think it's as a result of having a film come out, [but] being scrutinised because of the relationship I'm in".

Miller portrayed a writer of illegal feminist books and the love interest of Giacomo Casanova (Heath Ledger) in the 2005 period dramedy Casanova. It made $37.6 million, and Entertainment Weekly, in a favorable review, wrote: "Ms. Miller has a modern, smart-girl look about her; her Francesca is neither too tough to melt nor too glittering from the Emma Thompson school of smarties". Also in 2005 she made her West End debut in a revival of As You Like It at the Wyndhams Theatre, receiving lukewarm reviews. Paul Taylor of The Independent wrote: "She approaches an emotion with the finesse of someone beating a carpet" and that she "brings to it all the ripe professional stage experience that can be mustered from appearing in three movies".

Miller took on the role of 1960s socialite and Andy Warhol's muse Edie Sedgwick in the 2006 biographical drama Factory Girl. Johnny Vaughan of Sun Online concluded, "[i]t's Sienna Miller's star that shines brightest in this heartbreaking cautionary tale", but Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus reads: "Despite a dedicated performance by Sienna Miller, Factory Girl delves only superficially into her character, and ultimately fails to tell a coherent story." In 2007, Miller had a role as the love interest of a young man from a fictional British town in Matthew Vaughn's adaptation Stardust, and played a starlet in Steve Buscemi's Interview, a remake of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh's 2003 movie of the same name. Budgeted at $65 million, Stardust grossed $137 million worldwide, while critics felt that Buscemi's and Miller's "captivating performances" in Interview made "a seemingly simple premise gripping and entertaining".

In The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008), a film adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel, Miller played a woman romantically involved with a rebellious bisexual man. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received a limited release. She created a minor stir in Pittsburgh when, in a 2006 interview with Rolling Stone, she called the city "Shitsburgh", saying, "Can you believe this is my life? Will you pity me when you're back in your funky New York apartment and I'm still in Pittsburgh? I need to get more glamorous films and stop with my indie year." Miller was parodied in Pittsburgh media (including one article headlined "Semi-famous actress dumps on the 'Burgh") and criticised for making what was seen as an unnecessarily disparaging remark, given the special treatment the film's cast and crew had received from the visitors' bureau and other city offices. Miller apologised and said her remarks were taken out of context.

In the 2008 British biographical drama The Edge of Love, Miller appeared alongside Keira Knightley as Caitlin Macnamara, the wife of poet Dylan Thomas. Despite a mixed critical reception, The Hollywood Reporter critic Ray Bennett wrote that it was a "wonderfully atmospheric tale of love and war", and that "the film belongs to the women, with Knightley going from strength to strength (and showing she can sing!) and Miller again proving that she has everything it takes to be a major movie star." Miller earned a BIFA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. She also voiced a circus fox in the animated film A Fox's Tale (2008) and played an undead newlywed in the romantic comedy Camille.

2009–2011: Screen hiatus
Miller was cast as The Baroness in the live-action film adaptation of the G.I. Joe franchise G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), her first—and to date, only—mainstream Hollywood blockbuster. She auditioned because it did not involve "having a breakdown or [being] addicted to heroin or dying at the end, something that was just maybe really great fun and that people went to see and actually just had a great time seeing." She sprained her wrist after slipping on a rubber bullet while filming a fight scene with Rachel Nichols. G.I. Joe was not well received by most critics, but made $302.5 million worldwide.

She appeared on the UK motorsport show Top Gear in 2009 on the segment "star in a reasonably priced car" and set a lap time of 1:49.8, having passed her driving test only five days before.

The Irish Independent observed that Miller's professional trajectory had reached "its lowest ebb" with G.I. Joe, an experience that "convinced her she had well and truly lost her way"; in an interview with UK's Esquire magazine, she said that roles dried up because "people don't want to see films with people they don't approve of in them".

She opted to take a hiatus from films for the next two years and work in theater instead. She later said, "I was sick of myself, to be honest, or sick of that perception of me. It all felt so fucking dirt".

In 2009, Miller played the title role in Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie on Broadway. She told The New York Times: "This is what I have always wanted, to be on Broadway. I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point, you have to ignore all the rest". On her performance, The Guardian stated: "Miller masters it intermittently—an accomplishment, however incomplete." She starred as a former starlet caught up in a love-triangle in Trevor Nunn's 2011 production of Flare Path at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket.

2012–2017: Resurgence
After her professional slump, Miller experienced what journalists called a "career revival" She played more complex, dramatic parts in a series of critically acclaimed films. "All the directors speak to each other," she said in an interview. "And once you crack that upper echelon of incredible directors, you've got people rooting for you. People who people listen to. I've never had that before".

In The Girl (2012), an HBO and BBC film, Miller portrayed actress Tippi Hedren, the muse of director Alfred Hitchcock. As part of her research, Miller (who was in the early stages of pregnancy) spoke to Hedren several times during filming, and they became friends. Live birds were used for the recreation of the attic scene in Hitchcock's The Birds. Miller told the Radio Times, "I did go through a bird attack for two hours. It pales in comparison to what [Hedren] was subjected to, but it was pretty horrible. There were men off-camera with boxes of birds, throwing seagulls and pigeons in my face". The film received mixed reviews, but the Daily Mirror's Jane Simon wrote: "[G]liding gracefully through it all (and with an impeccable American accent) Sienna Miller brings untouchable beauty and icy glamour, but also captures the extraordinary resilience Hedren must have had to withstand everything Hitchcock threw at her." Writing for The Telegraph, Clive James said "[a] better choice [to play Hedren] could not have been made than Sienna Miller, who is even lovelier than Hedren was". She garnered nominations for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. In 2012, she also played a socialite in the dramedy Two Jacks, the hysterical sister of an elementary teacher in the drama Yellow, and a housewife who aspires to complete in a belly-dance competition in the made-for-television film Just like a Woman.

In 2014, Miller portrayed Nancy Schultz, the wife of murdered Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler Dave Schultz, in Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, and Taya Renae Kyle, the wife of United States Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper. Both films were highly acclaimed, and American Sniper emerged as the highest-grossing war film of all time. In 2015, she took on the roles of a prostitute in the road drama Mississippi Grind, the former boss of a hard-working small business owner in the comedy Unfinished Business, a single mother in the dystopian film High-Rise, and that of a sous-chef in the drama Burnt, which reunited her with Bradley Cooper. For High-Rise, she received a BIFA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Miller also took the role of Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of Cabaret after Emma Stone's scheduled departure from the production and performed for the last six weeks of the show's engagement, in February and March 2015. The New York Daily News praised her "cocky and steely" performance and wrote that her approach to the role "works well in the Kander and Ebb songs 'Don't Tell Momma' and 'Perfectly Marvelous'." She was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Miller appeared in Paramount Pictures and Plan B Entertainment's adaptation of The Lost City of Z (2016), directed by James Gray, portraying Nina Fawcett, the wife of British geographer Percy Fawcett. The New York Times called her "wonderful" in her role, while Time described her as "luminous and astute". In Ben Affleck's period crime drama Live by Night (2016), Miller played the mistress of a notorious gangster and the love interest of a World War I veteran. In 2017, Miller starred in the drama The Private Life of a Modern Woman, which screened out of competition at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, and in a West End production of the Tennessee Williams classic Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, at the Apollo Theatre.

2018–present
In 2018, Miller appeared in the war film The Catcher Was a Spy as Estella, the girlfriend of Moe Berg, a catcher for the Boston Red Sox who joined the OSS during World War II, as well as the drama American Woman, in which she portrays a single mother faced with raising her grandson after her daughter goes missing under mysterious circumstances. American Woman, which gave Miller some of the best reviews of her career, was her first role as the main character not bolstered by any other actors, and marked the first time she was able to delve into a woman character's life in "nuanced ways". Miller remarked: "These opportunities have been few and far between, and that's intrinsic to being a woman in film. I think it's quite rare; not necessarily specific to me, but at 37 years old, I'm thrilled I've had this opportunity. I've done good supporting work in fantastic films and had to work very hard to show something in smaller moments. I loved being able to have the space and time to really do everything I want to with a character".

Miller starred as a narcotics detective in the 2019 action film 21 Bridges alongside Chadwick Boseman. The Guardian wrote that she was "vocally channelling Edie Falco from The Sopranos", and with a worldwide gross of $50 million, the film was a moderate commercial success. She next took the role of Beth Ailes, the wife of television executive Roger Ailes (played by Russell Crowe), in the miniseries The Loudest Voice (2019), which aired on Showtime. Miller struggled to find material on which to base her performance aside from the script and Gabriel Sherman's book The Loudest Voice in the Room. During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, she said: "There's very little footage of her that I had access to. But there were these two speeches which she gave, which were on YouTube, and another little interview, so I really kind of based my research around that, and relied on the script because there's just not a lot of information on her out there. But the interview and the speeches I found really revealing".

Modelling
Before her professional acting career, Miller worked as a photography model. She signed with Tandy Anderson of Select Model Management London, and modelled for Coca-Cola, Italian Vogue, and posed topless in the 2003 Pirelli Calendar. She went on to appear on the covers of Vogue's American, British, Australian and Portuguese editions, as well as other international fashion magazines such as Nylon, Marie Claire, and Porter Edit.

Miller signed a two-year contract with Madrid-based denim label Pepe Jeans London. The first ad campaign appeared on magazines in March 2006 and was shot by photographer Mikael Jansson and stylist Karl Templer. In February 2009, Hugo Boss Fragrances announced that she would be the new ambassador for their BOSS Orange women's perfume. In March 2016, she announced as the new face of Swedish fashion chain Lindex, starring in the 1970s-inspired Sienna Hearts Lindex spring campaign. Miller appeared as a guest at a Rome retro-styled dinner party in Gucci's Cruise 2020 campaign, which was directed and photographed by American film director Harmony Korine.

Fashion design
In 2007, Miller, along with her sister Savannah, a fashion designer, launched a complete fashion label. Called Twenty8Twelve, it gets its name from Miller's birthdate and is financially backed by Pepe Jeans. The sisters remained at the helm of the label until 2012, when they announced they were stepping down as co-creative directors.

Charity
Miller is the Global Ambassador for the International Medical Corps. She travelled with them to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in April 2009 and blogged about the experience. She also visited Haiti with the group after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Miller also worked alongside Global Cool during their 2007 eco-friendly campaign.

Miller is an ambassador for the UK branch of the Starlight Children's Foundation, which works with seriously ill children and their parents. On 1 July 2007, she appeared as a speaker at the Concert for Diana held at Wembley Stadium, London to celebrate the life of Princess Diana almost 10 years after her death. Proceeds from the concert went to Diana's charities as well as to charities of which her sons Princes William and Harry are patrons.

Public image
Miller's relationship with Jude Law, after they starred together in the 2004 film Alfie, brought both her and her style of dress media headlines in the mid-2000s. In December 2004, Vogue featured Miller on its cover and called her "the girl of the year".

Miller has been closely associated with the style of fashion known as boho chic. She told Vogue she had a laid-back approach to grooming, including cutting her own hair. Miller has adopted other styles of dress and her shorter, bobbed hairstyle—a feature of bohemian fashion in the 1920s—helped define a trend in 2007.

In the late 2000s, Miller was better known for her tabloid persona and fashion sense than her professional work. The Irish Independent wrote in 2015 that "she was one of the most famous young actresses of her generation, but still boasted precious little credibility in the industry". In a 2017 interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, she said: "I definitely feel like I'm in a place now where people are more focused on my career than on my private life and clothes, which is refreshing. There's not the same drama around me that there was".

Miller has appeared in several magazines' lists of the world's most beautiful women. She ranked 48th, 46th, 11th, 27th, and 51st in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, respectively. She ranked 86th and 2nd in Askmen's top 99 "most desirable" women lists of 2005 and 2006. She was also 63rd in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" 2006 supplement.

Relationships
On Christmas Day 2004, Miller became engaged to her Alfie co-star Jude Law. On 18 July 2005, Law issued a public apology to Miller for having an affair with his children's nanny. After attempting to salvage their relationship, Miller and Law separated in November 2006. Later she would reveal the pain and trauma of having an abortion both in documentary and published word, "I would love to not have to tell the fucking world that I had an abortion that I didn't want". In 2008, Miller had a highly publicised affair with married actor Balthazar Getty. She later sued two British tabloids for publishing photos of her and Getty together.

In December 2009, it was reported that Law and Miller had rekindled their relationship after starring in separate shows on Broadway in late 2009. They spent Christmas 2009 in Barbados with three of Law's children. They announced they had split again in February 2011.

From 2011 to 2015, Miller dated and became engaged to actor Tom Sturridge, with whom she has a daughter, who was born on 7 July 2012.

Miller started dating actor Oli Green in late 2021. In August 2023, it was announced that Miller is expecting her second child and her first with Green. Their daughter was born in December 2023.

Phone hacking scandal
Following a High Court hearing in May 2011, Miller was awarded £100,000 in damages from News of the World after the newspaper admitted hacking into her phone. Later, as a core participant, she gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry in November 2011, including the following:

In November 2021, Miller accepted a financial settlement from News Group Newspapers, publishers of The Sun, over an alleged phone hacking claim. Her lawyer David Sherborne told the court the payout is "tantamount" to an admission of illegal activity by The Sun. Outside the High Court on 9 December 2021, Miller said of The Sun newspaper, "They very nearly ruined my life. I have certainly seen how they have ruined the lives of others."

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2004 French Polynesian legislative election

Legislative elections were held in French Polynesia on 23 May 2004 to elect members of the Assembly.

In a surprise result Oscar Temaru's pro-independence progressive coalition formed Government with a one-seat majority in the 57 seat parliament, defeating the conservative party led by Gaston Flosse (see also List of political parties in French Polynesia). On October 8, 2004, the Gaston Flosse led opposition party succeeded in passing a censure motion against the Government. This provoked a political crisis, and controversy about whether the national government of France should use its exceptional power to call for new elections in a local government, in case of a grave political crisis.

Timeline
23 May 2004: Elections for the Assembly of French Polynesia (Assemblée de la Polynésie française), the territorial assembly of French Polynesia, held. A progressive coalition led by pro-independence Oscar Temaru wins 26 (27 respectively) seats and forms a coalition with 3 (2 respectively) autonomist members to form a Government with a majority of one (see also List of political parties in French Polynesia). The conservative party led by Gaston Flosse has 28 seats.

10 June 2004: Former President, Gaston Flosse, and his conservative party, Tahoeraa Huiraatira, stayed away from the presidential (Le président de la Polynésie française) election, thus invalidating it, as a three-fifths quorum was required. He subsequently lost one defector to Oscar Temaru.

14 June 2004: Oscar Temaru elected President (Le président de la Polynésie française) (when a simple majority quorum was required), gaining 30 out of 57 votes.

5 October 2004: Two motions of censure tabled in the Assembly of French Polynesia (Assemblée de la Polynésie française). One from Gaston Flosse's Tahoeraa Huiraatira party, and one from a new group, Te Ara, that includes three former members of Flosse’s party.

9 October 2004: A motion of censure tabled by the conservative Tahoeraa Huiraatira, was adopted by 29 votes out of 57. The motion was proposed by opposition leader Gaston Flosse after Oscar Temaru ordered an audit of the previous government, which was led by Gaston Flosse. A second censure motion was not voted upon.

12 October 2004: Tahoeraa Huiraatira, endorses its President, Gaston Flosse, as its official candidate for the Presidency in the French administered territory of French Polynesia (Le président de la Polynésie française).

The President of the Assembly of French Polynesia (Le président de l'Assemblée de la Polynésie française), Antony Géros, from Oscar Temaru's coalition government, insisted that the parliament should meet on October 25 to elect a new government president (Le président de la Polynésie française). However, this date was against the advice of the French High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia (Le Haut-Commissaire de la République en Polynésie française) Michel Mathieu who stated in written letters that the Assembly of French Polynesia (Assemblée de la Polynésie française) is required to vote on a new government president (Le président de la Polynésie française) within 15 days of the passage of a censure motion. The third Vice president of the Assembly of French Polynesia, Lana Tetuanui from Gaston Flosse’s party, called for the Assembly to sit on October 20, 2004.

15 October 2004: Second request by Oscar Temaru for fresh elections denied by French minister for overseas Territories (la Ministre de l’Outre-mer) Brigitte Girardin.

16 October 2004: More than 20,000 people march through Papeete on Tahiti, the main island of French Polynesia, in support of Oscar Temaru demanding new elections. Demonstrations also occur across French Polynesia.

19 October 2004: French Polynesia’s caretaker government president, Oscar Temaru, has asked the Papeete administrative court (Le Tribunal administratif de la Polynésie française) to suspend, then cancel the October 9 adopted censure motion.

20 October 2004: The Assembly of French Polynesia meets, but is unable to elect a new president (Le président de la Polynésie française) as there is not a required quorum in attendance due to a boycott of members supporting Oscar Temaru.

22 October 2004: The Assembly of French Polynesia meets to elect President (Le président de la Polynésie française). Simple Majority required. Gaston Flosse was re-elected (Le président de la Polynésie française) by a one-vote majority and sworn in immediately during a parliamentary session boycotted by caretaker President Oscar Temaru. The parliament elected Flosse with 29 of 57 votes; the 28 pro-independence members boycotted the vote.

Antony Géros, the president of the Assembly of French Polynesia (Le président de l'Assemblée de la Polynésie française), did not participate in Friday’s session, and also described Flosse’s election Friday as an "election of the president of the Tahoeraa Huiraatira", which is a reference to Flosse’s pro-autonomy and anti-independence party. Geros said that Monday, October 25, is the only legitimate date for the parliament to elect a government president following the censure motion.

23 October 2004: a Council of State (French national supreme administrative court) judge rejected two petitions from Tahiti to suspend the October 9 censure motion that toppled French Polynesia President (Le président de la Polynésie française) Oscar Temaru’s majority coalition government.

26 October 2004: Tensions remain high in French Polynesia as the Leadership remains in doubt. The Legislative Assembly failed to sit on Monday, October 25. Assembly Speaker (Le président de l'Assemblée de la Polynésie française), Antony Géros, failed to turn up and chair the sitting he himself had scheduled. Gaston Flosse, who was elected President (Le président de la Polynésie française) by an assembly sitting on October 22, attempted to enter the Presidential palace on the weekend but was met by closed gates.

15 November 2004: The Council of State, judging on a request from Gaston Flosse, cancels the May elections in the Windward Islands-circonscription (la circonscription des Îles du Vent) for the reason that the neutrality of election officials was not observed in one of the communes, which, given the small difference of vote counts, may have altered the electoral results.

13 February 2005: By-elections for the Assembly of French Polynesia are held in the Windward Islands-circumscription (la circonscription des Îles du Vent) The pro-independence-coalition wins 30 seats: Part of the pro-independence-coalition is the Union for the Democracy (Union pour la Démocratie) with Oscar Temaru's Tavini Huiraatira (People's servant) which wins 27 seats and the Alliance for a New Democracy (Alliance pour une Démocratie Nouvelle) which wins 3 seats. The Conservative coalition (consisting of one party only), the pro-autonomy, anti-independence Tahoera'a Huiraatira (Popular Rally), wins only 27 seats.

3 March 2005: Oscar Temaru elected President of French Polynesia (Le président de la Polynésie française) for the second time.


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BMB

BMB or B.M.B. may mean:
 * Bhartiya Mahila Bank, India's first bank exclusively for women, Headquarters in New Delhi
 * Blind man's buff, a popular children's game
 * Brian Michael Bendis, American comic book writer
 * Boston–Montreal–Boston, BMB is a randonnée bicycle event of approximately 1200 km
 * Beattie McGuinness Bungay, a British advertising agency
 * Bad Movie Beatdown, a web show about bad films
 * Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, a department at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
 * Bear Mountain Bridge, suspension bridge over the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York
 * Bone marrow biopsy
 * Bumba Airport IATA code
 * Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, a 2013 Indian Hindi-language sports biographical film

title: BMB


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Welcome
--Slowking Man 05:31, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)

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Bad Bad One

Bad Bad One is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Meredith Brooks. It was released on May 21, 2002, by Gold Circle Records. Following the commercial disappointment of her previous album, Deconstruction (1999), Brooks was dropped from Capitol Records. Brooks subsequently signed to Gold Circle Records and built a home studio to record and produce the album herself, with additional production from frequent collaborator David Darling. Bad Bad One received little commercial recognition, with Gold Circle Records folding shortly after the album's release. Despite this minimal commercial recognition, the album received praise from music critics. In 2004, the album was reissued under the title Shine by Kissing Booth Records. The reissue had a rearranged track listing and included an additional remix of "Shine," which was featured as the theme song for Dr. Phil from 2004 to 2008.

Recording
Brooks recorded over 50 songs for the album over the course of two years before she finalized a track listing of 12 songs. With Bad Bad One, Brooks sought to take more control over her music, resulting in her building a home studio and learning Pro Tools so that she could freely engineer and produce the entire album herself. Speaking on the freedom that this home studio allowed her, Brooks commented: "Musically, lyrically, vocally, and guitar-wise, I realized that for the first time I could do everything I wanted to do. If I didn't like my vocal, I could just go down at 2 a.m. and redo it. It allowed me to develop more." Brooks described Bad Bad One as a complete fulfillment of her creative vision, claiming that she was not under the usual pressure to be "politically, spiritually or romantically correct."

Release
The release of Bad Bad One was met with several delays. The album had two set release dates—April 23 and then May 5 —before finally being released on May 21, 2002. Gold Circle Records folded almost immediately after the album's release, resulting in it receiving very minimal promotion. In 2004, Dr. Phil selected "Shine" to be the theme song for his eponymous talk show. This renewed interest in the song resulted in a reissue of Bad Bad One on September 21, 2004, by Savoy Records. The reissue was titled Shine and featured a rearranged track listing and an additional remix of "Shine" used during Dr. Phil.

Critical reception
MacKenzie Wilson of AllMusic praised the versatile and carefree nature of the album. She commented: "Meredith Brooks captured the moment and claimed victory on Bad Bad One. She found an inspiration -- it's fiery and passionate while also literate and cathartic -- and ran with it." Michael Paoletta of Billboard referred to the effort as a "welcome return that shows the kids a thing or two." Paoletta highlighted "Shine," "You Don't Know Me," and "Where Lovers Meet" as standouts from the album.

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Bad Bad One.

 * Production
 * Meredith Brooks – writer, producer, engineering, Pro Tools
 * David Darling – writer, producer, engineering, programming
 * Taylor Rhodes – writer
 * Paul Trudeau – writer
 * Dave Berg – writer
 * Paul Goldowitz – writer
 * Shelly Peiken – writer
 * Jeff Peters – engineering
 * Goldo – Pro Tools, additional programming
 * Seth McClain – Pro Tools
 * Michael Parnell – Pro Tools
 * Tom Baker – mastering
 * Robert Zuckerman – photography

 * Instruments
 * Meredith Brooks – electric guitars, acoustic guitars, slide guitars, lead vocals, background vocals
 * David Darling – bass guitar, keyboards, additional background vocals, additional guitars
 * Abe Laboriel Jr. – drums
 * Paul Trudeau – synthesizer, piano, additional background vocals
 * Livingstone Brown – additional background vocals, Moog synthesizer, French horn, additional keyboards
 * Windy Wagner – additional background vocals
 * Jennifer Love Hewitt – additional background vocals
 * Randy Landas – bass guitar
 * DJ Ginzu – turntables

Charts
Singles

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Talk:Vehicle insurance

GAP Insurance
GAP insurance is a very special type of policy and not a synonym for vehicle insurance, as the first paragraph implies — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.153.23.16 (talk) 19:35, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Too Large a Category
I am not sure why so many different types of vehicle insurance were merged into one article, but I object. Collision, comprehensive, and various types of liability are quite distinct and require separate explanations. Additionally, GAP insurance is absolutely a "bird of a different feather". I think it is worthwhile to explain this as a great number of people are required to spend money to obtain this insurance and should know what they are buying.claimman75 (talk) 01:01, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

 * I have removed GAP insurance from the lead, added a paragraph about it to the coverage section and also added a link to its own article in the see also section. --WayfaringWanderer (talk) 00:26, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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Alfie (2004 film)

Alfie is a 2004 romantic comedy-drama film inspired by the 1966 British film of the same name and its 1975 sequel, starring Jude Law as the title character, originally played by Michael Caine in the 1966 film and Alan Price in the 1975 sequel. The film was co-written, directed, and produced by Charles Shyer.

Plot
Alfie Elkins is a Cockney limo driver living in Manhattan. A sex addict, he regularly has one-night stands with numerous women. In addition, he maintains a casual relationship with single mother Julie, his "semi-regular-quasi-sort-of-girlfriend thing", and unhappily married Dorie. Once Dorie wants more than casual sex, he stops calling.

Alfie and his coworker and best friend Marlon want to open a company together, but Marlon needs to get back with his ex, Lonette. When Alfie goes to put in a good word for him, he finds her at her bar. But after getting drunk, they have sex. Alfie meets Marlon the next day, terrified he knows about it, but is relieved when Marlon says he and Lonette got back together and are getting married.

When Alfie goes to Julie's for a booty call, she immediately asks him to leave, confronting him as she had discovered Dorie's underwear in her rubbish bin—he had discarded them after finding them in his pocket. Intending to reconcile with her at her son's birthday, Alfie sees Julie has returned to her estranged husband. He later discovers Lonette is pregnant with his child, and (without telling Marlon) they go to a clinic for an abortion. Soon afterward, Marlon and Lonette unexpectedly move upstate, without saying goodbye.

Following repeated failures to achieve an erection, Alfie sees a doctor, who tells him he is perfectly healthy, and his impotence is due to stress. However, he finds a lump on Alfie's penis. They immediately run a test at the clinic and he spends a few anxious days awaiting the results. On a trip to the hospital, Alfie meets Joe, a widower, in the bathroom. Joe gives life advice to the depressed Alfie: "Find somebody to love, and live every day like it's your last". Soon afterward, Alfie finds out he's cancer-free.

Believing he's been given a second chance, Alfie decides to "aim higher" in his love life. He meets Nikki, a beautiful but unstable woman, and they quickly embark on a passionate, turbulent relationship. Moving in together, Alfie finds it hard to put up with her mood swings, especially after she goes off her medication. Distancing himself, he focuses on an older woman, Liz. A sultry cosmetics mogul, she inspires him to "aim higher". He becomes infatuated, but she wants to keep it strictly sexual. Alfie then ends it with Nikki.

Running into Julie in a coffee shop, Alfie realizes he has feelings for her; however, she's now with someone else. On a trip upstate to visit Marlon and his now-wife, Lonette, she reveals she never had the abortion, and, Marlon knows Alfie is the father, but nonetheless decided to stay. Upon seeing Marlon with hurt in his eyes, Alfie visits Joe, who tells him to get his life together. Alfie turns to Liz for comfort but is crushed that she has an even younger man in her life.

Alfie has a chance meeting with Dorie late one night. As he tries to get back into her life, she wants no part of him. Apologizing for not calling, he admits he has trouble expressing himself, running from relationships when they become too serious. She wishes him luck. The film ends with Alfie talking about genuinely changing his ways.

Cast
A black and white photograph of Michael Caine representing Alfie Elkins Sr. appears during the film's credits.

Production
The film was shot throughout England, mostly locations doubling for New York City, along with on-set shooting in Manhattan.
 * Liverpool, England
 * Manchester, England
 * Port of Tilbury, England (some dock scenes)
 * Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, US
 * Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan, New York City, US

Music
The music score was composed by Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart and John Powell, featuring 13 original songs and a remake of the original 1966 title song. Further songs are by Wyclef Jean and The Isley Brothers.

For the song "Old Habits Die Hard", Jagger and Stewart won the BFCA Award, the Golden Globe, a Sierra Award and the World Soundtrack Award.

Box office
Alfie grossed $13,399,812 in the US and $21,750,734 in other countries for a worldwide total of $35,150,546 on a $60 million budget. The film opened on November 5, 2004 in the United States and grossed $2,206,738 on the first day. That weekend, the film was #5 in the box office with $6,218,335 behind The Incredibles opening weekend, Rays second, The Grudges third, and Saws second. When compared to its $60 million budget, Alfie was a box office bomb.

Critical reception
Alfie received mixed reviews. Based on 155 reviews collected by the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 48% of critics gave Alfie a positive review, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The site's consensus states: "This unnecessary remake wants Alfie to have his cake and eat it, too, but a lack of sexual fizz and a sour performance by Jude Law conspire to deliver audiences a romantic comedy that isn't romantic or funny."

Todd McCarthy from Variety describes the film as  "a breezy, sexy romp with a conscience that reflects in obvious but interesting ways on societal changes over the intervening 38 years."

Roger Ebert enjoyed the film, praising Law's performance and saying that "on its own terms, it's funny at times and finally sad and sweet."

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B−", praising the actresses and Law, but also noting "Jude Law would appear to have all the attributes of a movie star: looks, humor, rogue charm. Yet there's one he could use more of — an anger that might ignite his smooth presence."

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times states:

"Unlike the 1966 British film on which it is based, with its abrasive star-making turn from Michael Caine, the new Alfie doesn't chase social significance - it just wants us to have a good time. The story's observations about male behavior aren't earth shattering...but what gives it its kick is how Alfie takes the film audience into his confidence. In both films, the character talks directly into the camera, a disarming strategy that brings us closer to this serial seducer than we might want. Playing narrator turns Alfie into a tour guide and something of his own defense attorney; it also means he has to enrapture the audience along with his conquests."

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User talk:Jscott

I say go for it. We all have to pump our resumes wherever we can, Jimbo. --Jscott 19:11, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Can you explain what you mean by that? Is there any particular reason why you think it's worthwhile to be snide to me? I have a strong interest in getting history right, and that does not include "pumping my resume" whatever that means. I think my record speaks for itself, there's no need to 'pump' anything. --Jimbo Wales 15:05, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, geez, I didn't even have a chance to spiff up the place before you dropped by!

I doubt I'm saying anything you haven't heard (and dismissed out of hand) before, Jimbo, but you are now eating the same dog food that many, many, many people are having to eat at the hands of your project. The rules that Wikipedia are currently following (which you have broken on notable occasions regarding both your entry and selected others) make it nearly impossible for people to have much control over entries on themselves, and in point of fact, the rules force a conspiracy of rejection of the person contributing things, even indirectly. Obviously, your stature within this community has allowed a lot of stuff to slide that other notables don't get, but your "founder" fight is just going to tarnish you without getting what you want, i.e. Larry Sanger's bullet-riddled body lying in a gutter somewhere.

By the way, I'm giving a small talk about your project at Notacon. (www.notacon.org) Speaking information is here at the bottom. You're more than invited to come; I'll even throw you a few bucks to get you to come by and join the festivities. Don't be shy. --Jscott 16:19, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Notacon
Heya, I'm going to be a speaker at Notacon too, on the subject of cryptography. I've got a fair familiarity with Wikipedia myself -- several dozen articles and a a few thousand edits under my belt -- Can I help out with the Wikipedia session? :) - Elonka 19:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Jason, if you're around, please take a look at Phreaking, and verify the information about you and Lucky225 on the Wawina N2. If you please. :) --Othtim 07:16, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/Elonka
Thank you very much for your support in my RfA. Unfortunately consensus was not reached, and the nomination was not successful. However, I do appreciate your comments, am still in support of the Wikipedia project, and will continue to contribute without interruption. Thanks again! --Elonka 10:59, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I know what you mean
Hi, I've been editing WP for only a month now. I just want you to know that I've read your articles and after some experiences I've had the past week, I now know exactly what you mean. I've been vigorously editing some articles that have been AfD'ed, improving them to the point that even the original nominator changed minds and decided to vote to keep the article. Despite that, the articles were still deleted. I fear that this place just has too many flaws inherent to the system. Wikipedia's AfD system is horribly flawed in that anyone can pass by, vote "delete" and never come back, and their vote will still be considered even if someone spends time and effort fixes the article. Also, the mere fact that a single admin has so much power (deleting articles, blocking users, etc) shows that Wikipedia naively places too much trust in individual people. Yes, while what they do can be contested, it places the work and responsibility on those inconvenienced, rather unfairly. I fear that most of my hard work will be lost in the future to just any bozo who comes along and determines the topic "not notable". Sorry, just wanted to rant to someone who knows how crappy the system is. Shrumster 23:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Sorry if I'm using your talk page to rant about stuff. Just this week, I ran into another one of your criticisms of Wikipedia, namely Anti-Elitism. As an ichthyologist and an editor, I try my best to make some articles better. I recently did this on the Goblin Shark page, and then someone just came along and rearranged the way I had arranged the sections. I tried to tell them my reasoning on the talk page, but they just waved "consensus" in my face, without really addressing my points. All-in-all, waste of my time. I'm better off publishing some real work out there, rather than trying to "make the web not suck", and having my time wasted. I now know what you mean. Shrumster 08:14, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

notacon talk
I liked your Notacon talk, but found the Movable Type comment form on your blog inscrutable so I figured I'd drop my comment here.

"I enjoyed listening to it. I was surprised that it was not "chock full of profanity" which is what the archive.org page says. I edit Wikipedia occasionally and also have a page about me there. Since the new bio rules there is a big warning on my page's talk page [the page about me, not my user page] that warns that I edited MY OWN PAGE and I'm also an editor. OOGA BOOGA I remember the days before the strict BIO rules.

''You say goat-suh? I've always said goat-see.''" Jessamyn (talk) 02:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/Elonka 2
Thank you for your support in my Request for Adminship. Unfortunately the nomination did not succeed, but please rest assured that I am still in full support of the Wikipedia project, and I'll try again in a few months! If you ever have any questions or suggestions for me, please don't hesitate to contact me. Best wishes, --Elonka 05:28, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Dear Bonehead
Your entire contribution history over the past four years amounts to nothing but an amalgam of self-promotional spam, vandalism, trolling, and harassment. Can you think of any reason why we should keep you around here? east. 718 at 10:06, February 24, 2008

 * Yeah, he's a bully. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:600:9201:8030:6C31:BF10:395D:72D4 (talk) 05:02, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Please consider taking the AGF Challenge
I would like to invite you to consider taking part in the AGF Challenge which has been proposed for use in the RfA process by User: Kim Bruning. You can answer in multiple choice format, or using essay answers, or anonymously. You can of course skip any parts of the Challenge you find objectionable or inadvisable.--Filll (talk) 14:16, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

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Shine (Meredith Brooks album)

Shine is a re-issue of the 2002 album Bad Bad One by the singer-songwriter Meredith Brooks, released in 2004. An instrumental version of the title track was the theme song for Dr. Phil from 2004 to 2008. (see 2004 in music).

Personnel

 * Meredith Brooks – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals, background vocals, slide guitar
 * Livingstone Brown – French horn, keyboards, background vocals, Moog synthesizer
 * David Darling – bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, background vocals
 * DJ Ginzu – turntables
 * Jennifer Love Hewitt – background vocals
 * Abe Laboriel Jr. – drums
 * Randy Landas – bass guitar
 * Daniel Shulman – bass guitar
 * Paul Trudeau – synthesizer, piano, background vocals
 * Windy Wagner – background vocals

Production

 * Producers: Meredith Brooks, David Darling
 * Engineers: Meredith Brooks, David Darling, Goldo Programming, Seth McLain, Michael Parnell, Jeff Peters
 * Mixing: Phil Kaffel
 * Mastering: Tom Baker
 * Programming: Meredith Brooks, David Darling, Goldo
 * Pro-tools: Meredith Brooks, Goldo, Seth McLain, Michael Parnell
 * Cover design: Marty Rosamond
 * Photography: Dana Tynan

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Dubious
I have never heard this track being used as the theme to Dr. Phil. --  Denelson83  00:16, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

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User:Poccil/latinsandbox

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Schmitz Park

Schmitz Park, also known as Schmitz Preserve Park, is a 53.1 acre park around 15 blocks east of Alki Point in West Seattle, Washington. It features Schmitz Park Creek and one of the last stands of old-growth forest in the city.

The Lushootseed name for the area that is now the park is, meaning "place of disease."

Ferdinand and Emma Schmitz donated 30 acres of the park to the city in 1908. They wanted their land to be used as a park. (Ferdinand was a German immigrant who moved to Seattle in 1887 and was the city's Parks Commissioner from 1908 to 1914). Additions to the park were purchased in 1909, 1930, 1947, and 1958, making the park grow over 20 more acres (8 ha).

In 1949, a "preservation policy" was applied to Schmitz Park. It stated that only foot trails were allowed and all signs were to be removed from inside the park's borders. This policy still remains today.

In 1953, Schmitz Park Elementary School opened to the public. The school sits adjacent to Schmitz Park.

In January 2018 Seattle City Council Bill No. CB 119169 authorized the purchase of a 5,000-sq. ft. lot at the southeast edge of the park from Bruce Stotler for $225,000, less than half its assessed value.

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Talk:Dazhbog

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Are you sure about the dazh = sun root? In Bulgarian there is not such relation. A better explanation is that dazh is an imperative form of dati (to give). --Nk 08:21, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * You are correct. Dajbog is literally The Giving God, i.e. an illustration of a common practice of calling deity not by the proper name, but rather by the epithet. --Gene s 11:57, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * The etymology of Dazhbog's name is unclear. Noone realy knows what it meant. --Hier0phant 17:08, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Dajbog
Father of the Serbs and son of Svarog. God of the sun, of world of dead. He is reprezented as wolf which limps and with just one eye. its very similar to Odin, the highest god in Nordic mythology. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.26.79.70 (talk) 10:40, 5 November 2004 (UTC)

In Ukraine there's a cheerful saying "Dajbog everything will be fine". Is there any connection with Dajbog? If it's so, it's pretty wild that the saying is around when the religion is barely even a myth.--Grigoryev 03:18, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Dajbog
I am intrigued by this mythology. My family surname in what is now Belarus was Dajbog. And the family were observant Jews. Any thoughts about how they might have chosen that name? Is it at all possible that it was chosen derisively for them because it sounds somewhat like Dybbuk?? [user: Joy] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.155.166.248 (talk) 19:34, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Dajbog
Well, I'm sure it is not so unclear. The name clearly means - the one given by god - or: the one who hands out the gifts of god - for he was the son of the Sun god and he helped the farmers and so on - so he gave them the gifts of life. I know the language... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.0.84.5 (talk) 11:17, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

You should consider that Dazd, or Дажд is the old Slavic word for the rain. Dajbog or Dažbog then would be God of Rain, the one who gives the fertility to the land. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.216.58.82 (talk) 12:22, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Etymology
This section: "The meaning of Dažbog’s name came from the old Slavic Animal Clans, Dažbog originally came from the wolf clan people and was not associated with a man or a god. The wolves taught humans to hunt in groups and those who aligned with right relationship based on the wolf family understood the nature of their own human relationships in a group. Today, werewolf is a mis-understanding of the dark shadow nature of the human predator, and the projection of the black wolf has almost made it extinct from religions abolishment of the old ways. Werewolf has nothing to do with the original shamanic wolf clan medicines." is entirely uncited. Furthermore, it's such obvious unencyclopedic nonsense that I'm removing it outright. -- Kolbasz (talk) 01:06, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: move performed by Nnadigoodluck at 19:52, 7 June 2021 (UTC). DrKay (talk) 20:34, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Dažbog → Dazhbog – WP:COMMONNAME in reliable sources. Also satisfies WP:CRITERIA of recognizability and naturalness in an English-language context, as well as consistency with other article titles romanized from Slavic and Old Slavic names, per WP:CYRL. Book Search results per WP:SET:

—Michael Z. 13:52, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Dazhbog 2,550
 * Dazbog 1,080
 * Dazhboh 283
 * Dajbog 266
 * Dažbog 248
 * Dazboh 24
 * Dažboh 13
 * Another interesting comparison is in Google Books Ngram. —Michael Z. 17:53, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * Support. Rreagan007 (talk) 01:31, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per well-researched nomination. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 18:17, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Support Sławobóg (talk) 14:47, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Dazhbog = Dabog?
Currently, Wikipedia is giving me very mixed signals about whether "Dazhbog" and "Dabog" are to be considered the same or not: This should be clarified in the article itself. If there are differing views about treating them as identical, that could be noted, as could any potential etymological connections/differences. 70.172.194.25 (talk) 23:35, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
 * The article has a hatnote saying "Not to be confused with Dabog."
 * The Dabog link in the hatnote, ironically, redirects to Dazhbog.
 * Dabog is given as an alternative form in the opening sentence, and in the etymology section.
 * Russian, Ukrainian, Bosnian, and Macedonian Wikipedias have separate articles on the two deities: e.g., ru:Дажьбог vs ru:Дабог.
 * ESSJa has: "Определенные ареальные и словообразоват. отличия обнаруживает сербохорв. Dabog, бог земли, — от импер. *da(jъ) и *bogъ." 70.172.194.25 (talk) 23:49, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
 * We still have this 'not to be confused with Dabog' which then just redirects to this page. I've read some Russion mythology but have not come across Dabog. 13:56, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Dazhbog and Zhiva
The article writes that Dazhbog is "considered" to be a consort of goddess Zhiva, but this information is unsourced. If it's true, can someone provide a source for that? From what I know Zhiva is a Polabian goddess who is never mentioned alongside Dazhbog. 46.113.4.12 (talk) 18:16, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doug erwin

Doug erwin was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. 9 votes to delete. Postdlf 14:27, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Doug erwin
Delete possibly the most unremarkable bio-stub ever. Can it be this banal and still be vanity? Apparently so. Postdlf 08:23, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Someone comes along, types there name into Wikipedia, finds no article, so creates it - ignoring the big Do not write articles about yourself statement. Average Earthman 10:45, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Doug, you do have the makings of a novelist: this page, brief as it is, exudes an air of wistfulness and nostalgia. As a 50+year-old, I can tell you there's stuff ahead of you, though. (Delete.) — Bill 12:27, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keeping that page for other people to gain an insight on what a boring life he leads would be more of a punishment for creating it than deleting it ... never-the-less, delete. Shane King 13:19, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: "The exciting world of chartered accountancy awaits you!" This reminds me a lot of that accountant in Monty Python who thinks he wants to be a lion tamer.  Seems like a decent fellow, but he hasn't yet gotten to the level of encyclopedic.  He also apparently has a miniscule for his surname. Geogre 14:40, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep: Notable for being "the most unremarkable bio-stub ever", or just delete it. Wolfman 01:52, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * D Puh-lease ... Chris 03:08, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, clearly, and there's no reason why pages like this should have to stick around for a week or more. -R. fiend 01:55, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. If he wants his own entry, he should set up a user page. Inky 01:35, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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User:Sixpence

So to start..... Hello My name is lyndsay I have one dog and her name is maggie she is the most adorable thing you have ever laid eyes on, I like bikeing, rollerbladeing, tennis, basketball and loads more other things I like but it would take forever to write so I'm going to leave it at that for now. My Soro was my first pet and my battler he's SOOO cute! and Sika is my second pet she is my little angel! and Zevex is my third pet and my little reble! whereas Koryaba is a little angel on the outside but dont get on this little fox's nerves being the little'st I kinda spoil her. I love meeting new people and new friends and I love to chat on the boards you can almost always catch me there. I am in a choir and I love it! its fun and we go places and to top it off, I get to sing! I think I should let you go then I've held you up long anough with my constant blabbering,

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BanYa

BanYa (반야), sometimes spelled BANYA or Banya, was the South Korean arcade game company Andamiro's musical group responsible for creating original songs for Pump It Up. The style of its music varies greatly, from hip hop to electronic, from rock to classical crossovers.

Classical remixes are among BanYa's most popular productions. Several sonatas, symphonies and other pieces feature in different versions. Mixing violins, guitars and heavy beats, these songs draw particular attention from players and passers-by. BanYa also composes original music including trance, techno, hardcore and ambient breaks.

Beginning in Pump It Up NX, former BanYa member Yahpp became a solo artist and in turn his new music became credited to him. Starting in Pump It Up Fiesta, msgoon, another former member, did the same. All other former members, starting on NX, became credited as "BanYa Production". For the consistency of the article, all songs by the original BanYa collective are listed here.

Song catalogue
The group's first two releases under the name of BanYa were Ignition Starts and Hypnosis, although Bee, Solitary and Final Audition had been already recorded by Yahpp as an independent artist. Up to 2004 they released 3 albums, however some nonstop remixes of several BanYa songs have also been made for Pump It Up.

On Pump It Up Exceed 2, Radezky Can Can was moved from the "K-Pop Channel" to the "BanYa Channel", even though it was made by F2 System, who worked with Andamiro to make Pump It Up Extra. Holiday, the other F2 song, has only showed up on Extra, The PREX and The PREX 2.

Additional songs
BanYa also released some songs on promotional CDs, which are not featured so far in any games:
 * "Warm Shadow in a Stranger's Eyes"
 * "Going Home"
 * "Golden Tears"
 * "Let Me Break it Down"

As well as Full versions of the following in-game songs:
 * "Beat of the War 2" (Full version is playable on NX, NX2, NXA and Fiesta)
 * "Canon-D" (its Full version is a secret remix on Exceed 2, but has yet appear on any soundtracks. It also appears in Zero 's Remix Station, in NX/NX2/NXA 's Special Zone, and Fiesta under Full Songs)
 * "Dance With Me"
 * "Emperor"
 * "Final Audition"
 * "Fire" (Full version is playable on NX and NX2)
 * "Get Your Groove On"
 * "Hate"
 * "Love is a Danger Zone 2" (Full version is playable on NX, NX2, NXA and Fiesta)
 * "Maria"
 * "Miss's Story"
 * "Mission Possible"
 * "Mr. Larpus"
 * "My Way"
 * "N"
 * "Oh! Rosa"
 * "Oy Oy Oy"
 * "Point Break"
 * "Pump Jump"
 * "She Likes Pizza"
 * "Solitary"
 * "Winter"

The 1st Step to the BanYa
This album comprised all their songs from Pump It Up: The 1st Dance Floor to The O.B.G: The Season Evolution Dance Floor, excluding Creamy Skinny and Koul, from The 2nd Dance Floor. It also included an electric guitar version of Ignition Starts instead of the original hardcore version, a version of Hate sung by Pp (the same girl who sang Pumping Up) and a completely new song, a ballad entitled "Warm Shadow in a Stranger's Eyes" (rough translation, as it's very hard to translate this title from Korean). All the songs that existed in a version longer than the one appearing in the arcade were included in their original versions, except Final Audition.

 * 1) Nightmare
 * 2) Midnight Blue
 * 3) She Likes Pizza (Pump mix)
 * 4) Close Your Eyes
 * 5) Free Style
 * 6) Turkey March
 * 7) Pumping Up
 * 8) First Love
 * 9) An Interesting View
 * 10) Oh! Rosa (Pump mix)
 * 11) With My Lover
 * 12) Betrayer (Pump mix)
 * 13) Final Audition (Pump mix)
 * 14) Naissance
 * 15) Ignition Starts (guitar version)
 * 16) Final Audition 2
 * 17) Hypnosis
 * 18) Mr Larpus (Pump mix)
 * 19) Extravaganza
 * 20) Solitary (Pump mix)
 * 21) Betrayer (Original version)
 * 22) Hate
 * 23) Hate (Pp version)
 * 24) Oh! Rosa (Original version)
 * 25) She Likes Pizza (Original version)
 * 26) Solitary (Original version)
 * 27) Mr Larpus (Original version)
 * 28) Warm Shadow in a Stranger's Eyes

Interlock

 * 1) Pump Jump
 * 2) Mission Possible
 * 3) My Way
 * 4) The Emperor
 * 5) Golden Tears
 * 6) Get Your Groove On
 * 7) Going Home
 * 8) All I Want for X-Mas
 * 9) Let Me Break It Down
 * 10) Love Is A Danger Zone
 * 11) Street Show Down
 * 12) Will-O'-The-Wisp
 * 13) Beethoven Virus
 * 14) Maria
 * 15) Dr. M
 * 16) Point Break
 * 17) Winter
 * 18) Chicken Wing (Mutation)

Unfinished

 * 1) Final Audition 3 U.F
 * 2) Beat of the War
 * 3) Naissance 2
 * 4) Csikos Post
 * 5) Rolling Christmas
 * 6) Hello
 * 7) D Gang
 * Bee
 * 1) Vook
 * 2) Pump Me Amadeus
 * 3) Get Up!!
 * 4) Blazing
 * 5) Set me Up
 * 6) Come to Me
 * 7) Miss's Story
 * 8) Oy Oy Oy
 * N
 * 1) Till the end of Time
 * 2) Dance With Me
 * 3) Monkey Fingers
 * 4) We Will Meet Again

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Passiflora caerulea

Passiflora caerulea, the blue passionflower, bluecrown passionflower or common passion flower, is a species of flowering plant native to South America. It has been introduced elsewhere. It is a vigorous, deciduous or semi-evergreen tendril vine growing to 10 m or more. Its leaves are palmate, and its fragrant flowers are blue-white with a prominent fringe of coronal filaments in bands of blue, white, yellow, and brown. The ovoid orange fruit, growing to 6 cm, is edible, but is variously described as having a bland, undesirable, or insipid taste. In South America, the plant is known for its medicinal properties, and is used by both the Toba and the Maka peoples.

Etymology
The specific epithet caerulea means "blue" and refers to the blue coronal filaments.

Vegetative characteristics
Passiflora caerulea is a woody vine capable of growing to 25 m high where supporting trees are available. The leaves are alternate, palmately five-lobed (sometimes three, seven, or nine lobes), and are up to 10 cm in length while being linear-oblong shaped. The base of each leaf has a flagellate-twining tendril 5 – long, which twines around supporting vegetation to hold the plant up.

Generative characteristics
The flower is complex, about 10 cm in diameter, with the five sepals and petals similar in appearance, whitish in colour, surmounted by a corona of blue or violet filaments, then five greenish-yellow stamens and three purple stigmas. The fruit is an oval orange-yellow berry, 6 cm long by 4 cm in diameter, containing numerous seeds. It is edible to humans when ripe, but tends to have an undesirable flavour unless allowed to fully ripen in a warm climate and fall naturally from the vine, when it has a mild blackberry flavour, though with a lower sugar content than commonly eaten species.

Cultivation
Passiflora caerulea is widely cultivated as a wall-climber or as groundcover. Though hardy down to -10 C, it requires a sheltered position facing south or west (in the Northern Hemisphere). It can become invasive, the twining shoots constantly appearing unless eradicated. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Cultivars
A number of cultivars have been produced from the species:

 * 'Chinensis' (corona filaments paler blue)
 * 'Constance Elliott' was raised by Kucombe and Prince in Exeter, Great Britain. It has pure white, fragrant flowers; not as free-flowering as many other clones. It has also won the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society.
 * 'Pierre Pomie', a pale pink flower form

Chemical constituents
Compared to Passiflora incarnata, this plant contains higher amounts of the MAO-inhibitor harmine.

Uses
Though the fruit is edible, it is rather insipid when eaten raw. A tea can be made of the flower or leaves; however, tetraphyllin B and epi-tetraphyllin B, cyanogenic glycosides which liberate hydrogen cyanide when activated by enzymes, have been found in the leaves. It is possible to boil away most of the cyanide.

In South America, the plant is known for its medicinal uses. It is used in both herbal tea and dietary supplements, as well as in marmalades, ice creams, syrups and beverages. It is also used by the indigenous Argentinian Toba and Maka people.

Passiflora caerulea is sometimes used as a rootstock, to which is grafted a scion of the edible Passiflora edulis.

The passion flower is the national flower of Paraguay. Its intricate structure has generated Christian symbolism, each part representing a different part of the Passion of Christ. The "Etymology and names" section of Passiflora contains more information about this symbolism.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lucinia

Lucinia was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. 5 votes to delete. Postdlf 14:29, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Lucinia
Either copyvio (though I couldn't locate key phrases online) or someone's fiction. SWAdair | Talk 08:37, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Note that the same author also created Sherashlin Manor and Klysindel Lake, neither of which is known to Google. SWAdair | Talk  08:44, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * The Siflige reference suggests this is a Neverwinter Nights setting of some sort, but unclear if it's standard or part of a mod. Stan 12:05, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete: It's some kind of D&D thing. (Why do the Neverwinter Nights campaigns always have to do with some special item?  Tolkein did the ring, yes, but that was because he was adapting the stuff from Volsungsaga and Gotterdamerung.)   Geogre 14:44, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * The article is fan fiction from the server of Siflige, used to describe the history of the city to newbies.--PiousHeretic 02:40, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I am in concurrence with PiosHeretic. This in no way infringes upon copyrights of any sort, merely a fan-fic for the popular Neverwinter Nights server.--Moonblade 13:54, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete. Indrian 17:19, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Key45 21:13, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Either way, fanfic doesn't need to be here. If it's a major genre-impacting work, I could see an article about it. Inky 01:37, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete this and the two related articles noted above. Does fanfic qualify as "original research"...?  -Sean Curtin 00:31, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
 * Also delete related NWN module-related articles Siflige and Kessor. -Sean Curtin 00:33, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

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Herbert, New Zealand

The small town of Herbert, formerly Otepopo, lies in North Otago, New Zealand, 91 km north of Dunedin and 22 km south-west of Oamaru. It lies on the edge of the Herbert Forest.

Herbert consists of a group of houses and three churches clustered around State Highway 1. A service station is also the postal agency. Two main industries operate in Herbert; an agricultural, industrial and forestry helicopter base and a poultry unit. Surrounding the settlement is rolling and fertile pastureland. The poultry farm, Craigs Poultry, was a finalist for the 2007 Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards. The Main South Line also passes through Herbert, and a station existed here until its closure in 1980; only the crossing loop remains. The short 220-metre Otepopo railway tunnel is also in the vicinity.

On a north-facing site 300 m from the town was the Otepopo School. This was a primary school for children from 5 to about 13 years old. Thereafter, the children went to Oamaru for further education. Otepopo school was closed in September 2010, due to a rapid decline in the school roll. From 22 pupils in 2009, its roll had dropped to 4 before its closure.

The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of the decayed wood" for Ōtepopo.

Some five kilometres south of Herbert is the farming settlement of Waianakarua. The old stone bridge at Waianakarua is the oldest that is still used by the New Zealand State Highway network. This bridge was dismantled stone by stone in 2004, and rebuilt 2 metres wider. In 2005 it was reopened as part of the State Highway network again. Alongside this bridge is an early example of a flourmill (now meals and accommodation – The Mill House]) and 3 km upstream from the bridge is an historical site of another early flourmill, alongside the remains of a dam. Among Waianakarua's more well-known landmarks is "The Big Chicken", a topiary bird standing several metres tall, next to which is a Moeraki boulder "egg".

The son of Burt Munro, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the film "The World's Fastest Indian, resides in Waianakarua and has Burt's (now famous) motorcycle among his possessions.

Pig hunting and sea and river fishing are some of the activities available in the Herbert and Waianakarua district.

Demographics
Herbert is described as a rural settlement by Statistics New Zealand, and covers 1.11 km2. It had an estimated population of as of  with a population density of  people per km2. It is part of the larger Maheno statistical area.

Herbert had a population of 96 at the 2018 New Zealand census, a decrease of 15 people (−13.5%) since the 2013 census, and a decrease of 18 people (−15.8%) since the 2006 census. There were 42 households, comprising 48 males and 48 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.0 males per female. The median age was 51.1 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 12 people (12.5%) aged under 15 years, 9 (9.4%) aged 15 to 29, 54 (56.2%) aged 30 to 64, and 21 (21.9%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 96.9% European/Pākehā, 9.4% Māori, and 3.1% Asian. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 62.5% had no religion, 31.2% were Christian and 3.1% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 12 (14.3%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 24 (28.6%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $22,400, compared with $31,800 nationally. 9 people (10.7%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 33 (39.3%) people were employed full-time, 15 (17.9%) were part-time, and 3 (3.6%) were unemployed.

Notable people

 * Annie Isabella James (1884–1965), Presbyterian medical missionary

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Clarrie Grimmett

Clarence Victor "Clarrie" Grimmett (25 December 1891 – 2 May 1980) was a New Zealand-born Australian cricketer. He was one of the finest spin bowlers of his all time and usually credited as the developer of the flipper.

Early life in New Zealand
Grimmett was born in Caversham, Dunedin, New Zealand, on Christmas Day 1891, leading Bill O'Reilly to say that he "must have been the best Christmas present Australia ever received from that country."

A schoolmaster encouraged him to concentrate on spin bowling rather than fast bowling. He played club cricket in Wellington, and made his first-class debut for Wellington at the age of 17. At that time, New Zealand was not a Test cricketing nation, and in 1914 he moved to neighbouring Australia.

Life in Australia
He played club cricket in Sydney for three years. In his first match in senior cricket, he took 12 wickets for 65 runs. After marrying a Victorian, he moved to Melbourne, where he played first-class cricket for Victoria. He moved to South Australia in 1923, but it is for his performances in Test cricket for the Australian cricket team that he is best remembered.

Grimmett played 37 Tests between 1924 and 1936, taking 216 wickets at an average of just 24.21 runs apiece. He took two five wicket hauls on debut against England in Sydney in 1925. He became the first bowler to reach the milestone of taking 200 Test wickets, and is one of only five Test bowlers that played in their first Test after the age of thirty to take more than 100 wickets, the other four being Dilip Doshi, Saeed Ajmal, Ryan Harris and Mohammed Rafique. He took an average of six wickets per match. Many wickets in the last four years of his Test career were taken bowling in tandem with fellow leg-spinner Bill O'Reilly. Grimmett remains the one of the few bowlers with career figures of over 200 wickets in fewer than 40 Tests. He held the record for the fastest bowler to take 200 wickets in Tests, doing so in his 36th match. The record stood for 82 years, until Yasir Shah of Pakistan broke that mark in December 2018.

He took a five-wicket haul on 21 occasions, seven times finishing with ten wickets or more in a match. His Test career only began when he was aged 33, and ended when he was 44, playing his last Test against South Africa in Durban. Despite taking 44 wickets in the series, and continued success in first-class cricket, he was dropped for the 1936/7 series at home against England, replaced by Frank Ward, and did not join the 1938 tour to England.

His first-class records hold a total of 1,424 wickets in 248 matches between 1911 and 1941, again at a rate close to six wickets per match. This total included 5 wicket bags on over 120 occasions and – in one performance for a touring Australian side against Yorkshire in 1930, he took 10 wickets for 37 runs off 22.3 overs, one of only a very small number of players to have claimed all of the wickets in an innings. He took 513 wickets in his 79 Sheffield Shield matches.

Grimmett was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1931, the same year as Donald Bradman. He died in Kensington Park, Adelaide, in 1980, but was posthumously inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996 as one of the ten inaugural members. On 30 September 2009, Grimmett was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

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Jemput-jemput

Jemput-jemput or cekodok is a traditional fritter popular in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore that is made from wheat flour. It is usually round in shape and tends to vary in size. There are many varieties of this snack, some using banana, anchovies or prawns, onion or maize.

title: Jemput-jemput