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Warwick Business School

Warwick Business School (WBS) is the business school of the University of Warwick and an academic department within the Faculty of Social Sciences. It was established in 1967 as the School of Industrial and Business Studies. The business school offers undergraduate, and postgraduate degree programs, and non-degree executive education for individuals and companies.

WBS's main site is on the University of Warwick campus in Coventry. WBS also has a London site, located in The Shard in Southwark, which concentrates on executive education.

WBS alumni include Linda Jackson, CEO of Peugeot and former CEO of Citroën, and Bernardo Hees, former CEO of Kraft Heinz and of Burger King.

History
Warwick's School of Industrial and Business Studies (SIBS) was founded in 1967, with five academic staff including Hugh Clegg as the first Professor of Industrial Relations, and 24 postgraduate students on three courses. The first master's courses were launched in 1968, and undergraduate courses started in 1969. In 1973, WBS joined the Conference of University Management Schools (now the Chartered Association of Business Schools), which had been established in 1971.

In 1981, the MSc in Management was renamed the MBA. In 1985 WBS launched an evening MBA and this was followed in 1986 by an MBA by distance learning. By 1987, the department had grown to over 100 staff, 815 students and 11 programs. In 1988, SIBS was renamed Warwick Business School. In 1997, the staff tally was over 260, with 3,160 students across 17 programs. In 2007, there were a total of 304 staff and over 7,500 students on 26 courses.

In 2000, WBS became the first UK business school to hold triple accreditation from the Association of MBAs (AMBA; from 1970 according to WBS although, according to AMBA, the accreditation service was not launched until 1983), the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS; from 1999) and from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB; from 2000).

In September 2014, WBS opened a second site on the 17th floor of the Shard in Southwark, London, to teach part-time MSc Finance, MSc Human Resource Management and Executive MBA courses.

Research
In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, Warwick was ranked joint fifth out of 108 institutions on grade point average (GPA) for business and management studies, with a GPA of 3.51. It was ranked fourth for research power and third for market share. It was fifth in terms of full time equivalent staff entered, with 158 research-active academics.

Accreditation
WBS holds triple accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and also holds an Athena SWAN Silver award.

Admission
The school's selection criteria for the full-time MBA encompass candidates' academic achievements, professional experience and test scores, with essay questions being used to assess whether candidates demonstrate critical thinking skills and strategic knowledge. WBS had a median GMAT score of 660 and an average admission rate of 33%. A typical demographic ratio on the distance-learning MBA in 2015 was: 36% British, 14% EU and 50% non-EU.

Partnerships
Warwick Business School is a member of the Partnership in International Management network (PIMS).

Academic staff

 * Steve Alpern: Professor of Operational Research
 * Söhnke M. Bartram: Professor of Finance
 * Graham Loomes: Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science
 * Tobias Preis: Professor of Behavioral Science and Finance
 * Andrew Sentance: Professor of Practice; former Senior Economic Advisor at PwC, former Monetary Policy Committee member of The Bank of England
 * Andrew Sentance: Professor of Practice; former Senior Economic Advisor at PwC, former Monetary Policy Committee member of The Bank of England

Alumni

 * Aung Tun Thet, Myanmar economist and management consultant
 * Bernardo Hees, former CEO of Heinz and of Burger King
 * Linda Jackson, former CEO of Citroën
 * Idris Jala, former Government of Malaysia minister and former CEO of Malaysia Airlines
 * Max McKeown, author, consultant and researcher specializing in innovation strategy, leadership and culture
 * Sean Clarke, former CEO of Asda supermarket
 * Lord Brian Paddick, former Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, and London Mayoral candidate for the Liberal Democrats in 2008 and 2012

Deans
Until 1998, the school was led by a chair elected by the academics. Since then, it has been led by an appointed dean.

 * Brian Houlden (1967–1973)
 * Roger Fawthrop (1973–1976)
 * Derek Waterworth (1976–1978)
 * Robert Dyson (1978–1981)
 * Thom Watson (1981–1983)
 * Sir George Bain (1983–1989)
 * Robin Wensley (1989–1994)
 * Bob Galliers (1994–1998)
 * Robert Dyson (1998–2000)
 * Howard Thomas (2000–2010)
 * Mark P. Taylor (2010–2016)
 * Andy Lockett (2016–present)

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Dalek (Doctor Who episode)

"Dalek" is the sixth episode of the revived first series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 30 April 2005. This episode is the first appearance of the Daleks in the 21st-century revival of Doctor Who; it also marks the first appearance of Bruno Langley as companion Adam Mitchell.

The episode is set in Utah in the year 2012, in the underground bunker owned by Henry van Statten (Corey Johnson), a rich collector of alien artefacts. In the episode, the alien time traveller the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and his travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) encounter the bunker's only living exhibit: a Dalek, which breaks loose and attempts to exterminate everyone in the bunker after repairing itself.

Plot
The Ninth Doctor and Rose are drawn by a distress signal to a massive bunker beneath Utah in 2012, filled with alien artifacts collected by the bunker's owner, Henry Van Statten. Rose is offered a tour of the facility by Adam Mitchell, a man who buys and catalogues artefacts for van Statten. Van Statten takes the Doctor to show him a living alien being that he has in captivity, which the Doctor recognises as a Dalek, a race thought to have been wiped out in the Time War. The Dalek is seriously wounded and weakened, and unable to break its bonds, but when the Doctor attempts to destroy it, van Statten orders his guards to restrain the Doctor and return him to his offices. There, van Statten has the Doctor secured, noting that not only does he collect aliens, but also tortures them to gain information, and proceeds to invasively and violently study the Doctor's body to learn more about his physiology.

Meanwhile, Adam has taken Rose to the Dalek. Rose takes pity on the weakened creature and touches its casing; the Dalek promptly absorbs her DNA extrapolating the biomass of a time traveller, and is able to re-energise itself. It escapes its bonds, kills several guards, repairs its casing, and connects to the Internet where it learns of the fate of the Daleks and realises it is the last surviving member of its race. With no other purpose, it proceeds to target and exterminate all non-Dalek life forms. Van Statten is forced to release the Doctor to help stop the Dalek, but the Dalek refuses to cooperate, and continues killing all those left in the Vault.

The Dalek readies to kill Rose but is unable to, realising in horror that it can now feel fear after absorbing Rose's DNA, and begins to question itself. The Dalek is tempted to kill van Statten out of revenge, but Rose instead convinces it to spare his life. The Dalek tells Rose it wants freedom, and destroys a roof so that it can feel sunlight. The Doctor arrives and prepares to kill the Dalek but Rose stops him, convincing him he is becoming like a Dalek. The Dalek is unable to cope with its new emotions, and asks Rose to order its self-destruction. Rose agrees to end its misery, and the Dalek implodes.

Van Statten's assistant Goddard takes over the bunker, planning to wipe van Statten's memories and fill the bunker with cement. Rose offers Adam the chance to travel with her and the Doctor since he will have no job after this. Adam accepts the offer.

Conception
Rob Shearman, the writer of the episode, had his first encounter with the revived series of Doctor Who in 2003 after he created the Sixth Doctor audio Jubilee. Executive producer Russell T Davies drew heavily on Jubilee to create "Return of the Daleks" for his pitch to the BBC, a story with which Davies hoped to recreate the menace shown by the Daleks in their 1963 debut The Daleks. The adventure changed the setting from the alternate Earth in Jubilee to 2012 Utah, with the lone Dalek featured being held captive by businessman Henry Van Statten, a caricature of Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates.

According to Shearman the script went through 14 revisions. The story itself was initially called "Creature of Lies", and Van Statten was originally called Hiram Duchesne. For a short period of time, Adam was the villain's son, but Shearman decided against it. The most notable change to the script happened when the Nation estate, holders of the rights for the Daleks, blocked the use of the Daleks due to the BBC licensing them out too much. The changed story contained an alien akin to a child who kills for pleasure, which eventually evolved into the Toclafane from "The Sound of Drums" and "Last of the Time Lords". Finally, the BBC was able to secure the rights from the Nation estate, and at the same time gave the episode its final name, "Dalek".

Davies wished for the episode to be emotional rather than "rely on people running down corridors". Shearman expressed a desire "to take all those things people find funny about the Daleks and turn them into something people would find memorable."

Filming
The episode was placed in the third production block, along with "Father's Day" and "The Long Game", the latter taken out due to delays in special effects creation. Filming of the episode began on 25 October 2004 at the National Museum Cardiff, before moving to the Millennium Stadium the following day, where most of the episode was filmed. Most of the filming finished on 3 November 2004, with pick-up shots completed at the show's studio space in Newport throughout the remainder of the month.

Critical reception and awards
Before the broadcast, media watchdog organisation Mediawatch-uk complained about certain elements of the episode, characterising Van Statten's chaining and invasive scan of the Doctor as a "sado-masochistic" torture scene. Mediawatch also objected to Van Statten's invitation to Adam and Rose to "canoodle or spoon, or whatever you British do" as inappropriate sexual language.

When it was released on DVD, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) gave the episode a 12 rating, because of the scenes where the Doctor is seen to torture the Dalek. The BBFC stated, "We are concerned about role models for children using the sort of tactics that Doctor Who used against the Dalek. If that was transferred into the playground it would be something we would want to tackle."

Reception to the episode was positive. The episode's overnight ratings were 7.73 million viewers with 46% of the audience share, later finalised to 8.64 million viewers. The episode received an Audience Appreciation Index score of 84. The Times stated that the episode was an "unqualified triumph". The Guardian commented that "Shearman's script bamboozles expectations", and the episode "should hopefully show 2005's kids what was always so wonderful about the iconic tin-rotters." The London Evening Standard found the lack of surprise (namely, calling the episode "Dalek") the only disappointment, and Daily Mirror simply stated that "for 30 pant-shittingly wonderful minutes, BBC1's new Doctor Who was the best thing on telly. Ever." In 2010 Den of Geek placed the episode as number 2 in their list of the Top 10 Dalek stories.

The episode was nominated for the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form along with other Doctor Who episodes "Father's Day" and "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances". The stories came third, fifth, and first, respectively.

In print
A novelisation of this story written by Robert Shearman was released in paperback and digital formats on 11 March 2021 as part of the Target Collection.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Talk:United States government operations and exercises on September 11, 2001

April 2005
On 27 Mar 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. See Votes for deletion/September 11, 2001 War Games for a record of the discussion. That discussion did raise several arguments in favor of either merging this article with Global Guardian or merely redirecting to it. The decision to merge and redirect or to redirect, however, is not the responsibility of the VfD decision process. It should be discussed and decided here. Rossami (talk) 02:42, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Global Guardian merge proposal
On December 9th, 2006, User:Lovelight suggested that the Global Guardian article be merged into this page. No reason was given. I oppose the merger, as I think this would provide a disproportionate amount of information on this exercise on this page. Crosbiesmith 10:37, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

This article says the 9/11 commission did not investigate the efffect of the exercises but the Global Guardian article says it did. --agr 3 July 2005 03:45 (UTC)

Vigilant Guardian
I have evidence suggesting that Vigilant Guardian was DELIBERATELY mislabeled in the 9/11 Commission's footnotes. It was NOT in fact a drill positing "Russian Bombers" over the arctic, but in fact a drill involving multiple hijacked commercial airlines within the US. Vigilant Guardian was the Command Post portion of the drill, where NORAD would moniter and track the simulated planes. Though this is a declassified exercise (which, like Global Guardian, normally takes place in October, but for some reason was in September) the fact that it would have been mislabeled as targeting the Russians suggests that there is something here this is not supposed to be known. Perhaps it is because of Vigilant Warrior, or perhaps Richard Clarke's book (which was reviewed and censored for months by the White House before it was released to prevent the leaking of classified information--when it doesn't suit the interests of its occupants--) is mistaken, deliberately or unintentially.

9/11 War Games Link Removed from 9/11 Wiki Page
Just an FYI that the link to this article was recently removed from the 9/11 Wikipedia page. The page is currently locked for anonymous editing and I don't yet have an account, but I wanted to bring this to someone's attention. IMHO this article IS relevant to the 9/11 main page and should be included. Perhaps someone here could add it back? 86.49.76.137 15:00, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Moving discussion from the main page
Someone wrote the following notes in the text:

 * ''a National Reconnaissance Office exercise on September 11, in which a small corporate jet would crash into one of the four towers at the agency's headquarters building after experiencing a mechanical failure The NRO, whose name was classified until 1992, is the branch of the Department of Defense in charge of spy satellites.

 * '' Note: This is incorrect. The NRO exercise was an accident drill, not a war game.

 * ''Vigilant Warrior, a NORAD live-fly (confirmed by its second name 'warrior') exercise mentioned in Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies page 4-5 (possibly the same as Vigilant Guardian, or possibly the complementary "offense" or "red team" portion of the drill involving real planes acting as simulated hijacked plane)

 *  Note: Operation Vigilant Warrior was not in effect on 9/11. The story that it was, is based on Richard Clarke's single misstatement in using the word "Warrior." There is no evidence that Norad ran live-fly exercises and/or hijacking exercises on 9/11. http://911myths.com/html/on_the_record___.html

 * '' There were additional factors contributing to the disruption of air defenses on 9/11. As a Director for Operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Fry issued an 'Instruction', CJCSI 3610.01A, which superseded earlier Department of Defence procedures for dealing with hijacked aircraft. The document, dated June 1, 2001, effectively stripped commanders in the field of all authority to act expeditiously, by stipulating approval for any requests involving "potentially lethal support" must be personally authorized by the Secretary of Defense, then as now Donald Rumsfeld. The order further requires the Secretary of Defense to be personally responsible for issuing intercept orders.

 * '' Note: this is incorrect. The actual wording of the relevant part of instruction CJCSI 3610.01A, is this:
 * '' "With the exception of immediate responses as authorized by reference d, the NMCC will forward all requests for such assistance to the Secretary of Defense for approval. Enclosure D provides additional guidance." http://www.dtic.mil/cjcs_directives/cdata/unlimit/3610_01.pdf
 * '' The situation on September 11, 2001 required immediate response. In order to intercept the hijacked aircraft, no permission from Donald Rumsfeld was needed or sought.

--Pokipsy76 10:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

FEMA in NYC on September 10?
I've read in numerous places and seen footage of a FEMA rescue worker saying that they were in NYC on September 10. Can anyone corroborate this? A copy of the footage of the FEMA worker is located here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPRQNCkdJxA

24.18.35.120 23:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Main page appears in V for Vendetta (film)
In the movie V for Vendetta (film), the wikipedia page War games in progress on September 11, 2001 can be seen on screen. DavidFarmbrough 12:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Tripod II
Tripod II is an emergency management exercise, not a war game. It doesn't really belong here. JDoorj a m    Talk 22:42, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

fission
You' boys really sliced this one up, ask one thing, get another, seek further… —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lovelight (talk • contribs) 23:52, 8 December 2006 (UTC).

Significance?
Is there some significance to this? Do people claim there were wargames going on because they knew the attacks were going to happen, or something? It seems like this article is missing something. --AW (talk) 20:48, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The significance is, The terrorists picked a date that just happened to be the day NORAD would be confused and could not scramble the jets needed or had no idea what was going on. a coincidence is a conspiracy to me —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maximus2010 (talk • contribs)

 * That would be one possibility. Sheer coincidence would be another possibility. Knowledge by insiders has been proposed as another explanation. There might actually be some information on these views and speculations in reliable sources. Finding such sources and adding relevant information to the article could improve the text. Cs32en   Talk to me  02:20, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Title
Does anyone else think the title "United States military and Department of Defense ongoing and scheduled operations and exercises for September 11, 2001" is a bit of a doozy?  Spencer T♦C 19:18, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Agree. How about "United States Department of Defense operations and exercises on September 11, 2001"? --agr (talk) 20:09, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

 * This one ok? --Sloane (talk) 22:45, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Scrubbing link to 9/11 alternative theories
Please stop censoring links from this article to 9/11 alternative theories, and vice-versa. The continual removal of all connections between these two articles starts to look like an obsession. The information in this article is among the most prominent and integral foundations of the government-disapproved theories. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.214.10.28 (talk) 22:12, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Calling it 9/11 alternative theories is WP:BIASed; please use 9/11 conspiracy theories if it's appropriate.
 * It isn't appropriate, except in a possible fork, with a title something like "conspiracy theories about United States government operations and exercises on September 11, 2001".
 * — Arthur Rubin (talk) 23:41, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Ha-ha! No, sorry, I won't be using the term "conspiracy theory" and pretending that it's not biased, dismissive, pejorative and offensive. I prefer to save an attack term like that for an argument or a passionate debate, not a collaborative project like WP. There's nothing, however, biased about the word "alternative" or the term "alternative theories." That's about as dry and neutral as it gets.
 * You correctly included the link to 9/11 advance-knowledge debate ... so why continue to prevent the related link to 9/11 alternative theories (or whatever you want to call it)? What makes 9/11 advance-knowledge debate relevant to this article (and vice-versa) is very similar to the relevance of 9/11 alternative theories. This article is probably even more relevant to 9/11 alternative theories, because any actions taken by the government -- like war games, operations and exercises -- by definition transcend "foreknowledge" and cross over into the realm of action. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.169.81.74 (talk) 20:43, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
 * No links to 9/11 alternative theories should be in Wikipedia; the redirect is only there because of a move-war by a now-banned editor. Please see the Arbcom ruling for more details.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 21:03, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Timeline
we need to setup a paragraph labeling out a time line. so the readers can know at what time the "injects" were removed and what time the terrorist attacks were finished

DoE exercise too ?
There was also a DoE exercice overseas on 11/9, called "Jackal Cave". See http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb270/index.htm. Is it relevant to add ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.175.56.189 (talk) 13:42, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Ummm... What the f*&k is wrong with you people?!?
bunch of lunatics running this asylum —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.207.69.2 (talk) 17:01, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Also, the article doesn't even explain its own existence. Why is this even on Wikipedia? (why no article on military exercises on Sept. 3, 2001? or August 7, 1994?  or Feb. 24, 2006 or any other date?)  If you are going to have this article, shouldn't it at least explain that it is related to your crazy alternate-reality 9/11 theory or something??

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This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 02:47, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Miranda ferriss jones

Delete. Not a prominent artist scholar. Google returns no results --DuKot 03:39, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Actually, it's scholar she wants us to know her as, not artist.  But Google don't care either way.  -- Mwanner 02:48, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Draw and quarter. BLANKFAZE | (что??) 03:18, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Amy Van Dyken

Amy Deloris Van Dyken-Rouen (born February 15, 1973) is an American former competitive swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder, and national radio sports talk show co-host. She won six Olympic gold medals in her career, four of which she won at the 1996 Summer Olympics, making her the first American woman to accomplish such a feat and the most successful athlete at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She won gold in the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly, 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and 4×100-meter medley relay.

Van Dyken had severe asthma throughout her childhood and into adulthood. She began swimming on the advice of a doctor as a way to strengthen her lungs to cope with her condition and prevent future asthma attacks.

She was named Swimming World American Swimmer of the Year in 1995 and 1996.

On June 6, 2014, Van Dyken was injured in a serious ATV accident that severed her spinal cord, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down.

Early life
At the 1992 U.S. Olympic Trials, Van Dyken placed 4th in the 50-meter freestyle, just missing the Olympic team. After high school, Van Dyken attended the University of Arizona for two years before transferring to Colorado State University, where she broke her first (of many more to come) United States record with a time of 21.77 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle at the NCAA championships in 1994. She also placed second in the 100-yard butterfly and the 100-yard freestyle to Olympian Jenny Thompson. In 1994 she was named the NCAA Female Swimmer of the Year. After college, she moved to the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to train full-time for the 1996 Olympics.

1996 Summer Olympics
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Van Dyken became the first American female athlete in to win 4 gold medals in a single Olympic games. Her success in swimming won her a wide variety of awards and accolades, including: the ESPN Awards (ESPY) Female Athlete of the Year award; Swimming World magazine's female Swimmer of the Year award; induction into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame; induction into the US Olympic Hall of Fame; named Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year, USOC Sports Woman of the Year, the Women's Sports Foundation Sports Woman of the Year and USA Swimming Swimmer of the Year.

Van Dyken was also featured as one of Glamour magazine's Top 10 Women of the Year, named one of 25 most influential females in sport by Women's Sports and Fitness magazine and received the ARETE Courage in Sports award. She has appeared on the cover of several newspapers and magazines, including USA Today, Newsweek, Time, Swimming World magazine, and Sports Illustrated. She was a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, and the Today Show.

2000 Summer Olympics
Van Dyken continued to compete after the 1996 Olympics, but was plagued by injury, including a shoulder injury which required several operations and which left her unable to train for over a year. She staged a comeback, however, and made the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team in the 50-meter freestyle, the 4×100 medley relay and the 4×100 freestyle relay. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, Van Dyken won two gold medals in these latter two events, and placed 4th in the 50-meter freestyle. This brought her total career Olympic medal count to six gold medals. In addition to her Olympic accomplishments, Van Dyken won several world titles and set numerous American and world records.

Van Dyken has the distinction of being one of the few Olympians whose medals are all gold.

Van Dyken lost public support when she spat in the lane of rival Inge de Bruijn at the 2000 Summer Olympics. After losing to de Bruijn, Van Dyken responded by saying she, too, could have won a gold medal "if I were a man."

Life after swimming
Van Dyken retired from swimming after the 2000 Olympics and married former NFL punter Tom Rouen not long after. They split their time between Colorado and Arizona.

After retiring from swimming, Van Dyken announced that she was going to compete in triathlon. In 2001, Van Dyken finished a one-third-mile swim, 15.2-mile bike ride and 3.1-mile run Sunday in two hours, 10.5 seconds in the Saturn Triathlon in Monument, Colo., to place 28th among 34 women in the 25-to-29 age group. On August 9, 2001, Van Dyken completed the Danskin Women's Triathlon in Denver with a time of 1:38:11, 109 out of 349 in the female 25-29 age group.

In 2003, Van Dyken was called to testify before a grand jury regarding the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) steroid scandal. While Van Dyken was a regular client at BALCO, she has never tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

Since her retirement, Van Dyken has toured on a number of speaking engagements to groups as varied as schools and multi-national corporations, has been a disc jockey on a sports radio show in Arizona, served as the side-line reporter for the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos football teams, and acted in the award-winning stage-play the Vagina Monologues. She is actively involved in a number of charities, including the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and along with husband Rouen runs an annual celebrity fundraiser in Evergreen, Colorado, to raise money for disadvantaged youth. She was the head coach of the varsity swim team at Notre Dame Preparatory High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. On May 12, she was the only American swimmer to be inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Class of 2007. She was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in July 2008.

Van Dyken became the morning co-host at the #1 Ranked Mix 96.9 KMXP-FM in Phoenix, Arizona in July 2008 where she joined host Chris Parker. Eventually she and Parker moved over to rival KPKX-FM where she was morning drive-time host on 98.7 The Peak FM as a part of "Chris and Amy in the Morning" from 2010 to 2011. She resigned from 98.7 The Peak FM on July 12, 2011, to "attend to some family issues that are going to take her back to Denver." She was the co-host of Fox Sports Radio's Fox Sports Tonight with Rob Dibble until December 2013.

ATV accident
On June 6, 2014, Van Dyken was in a serious ATV accident and severed her spinal cord at the T11 vertebra. She was conscious when rescued and airlifted to a hospital where she had emergency surgery to stabilize her spinal cord and vertebral column. The injury to the area came within millimeters of impacting and potentially rupturing her aorta. However, the accident left her paralyzed from the waist down.

After two months of rehabilitation, Van Dyken left Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado, saying, "I'm a better person than before the injury," and with the help of a walker and an apparent bionic device that aids her legs, took her first steps.

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Talk:Tsushima Province

This article was switched
into redirect by a Wikipedian who don't know what province of Japan was, but Tsushima Province is an extinct entity. It should have its own article just like other ancient provinces of Japan. --Nanshu 02:45, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Again, Tsushima Province and Tsushima Island are different entities with different nature. Do not merge them. If the content overlaps, put detailed information at one and a summary at another. --Nanshu 04:00, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Article Shortcomings, Expansion Needed
FrankB says — All due respect, but...
 * This is clear as mud, as written. It fails totally to tell anything but history terms to non-already familiar (with topic) reader; IMHO, needs more 'reader hand holding' — clear introduction and some explaination of individual terms, tho' the detail for those should be left to the individual articles. Much too terse, so reads almost like gibberish; save one knows are technical terms known to some specialist, but this is not a trade journal! I love history with all the passion of a hobbiest, but this gave me almost nothing I could grasp and hold. (IF you want help, yell!)

 * Thus needs much expansion to introduce each term, give sense of history to the unsuspecting reader. (See the history section of Liodong which I expanded last evening for a sketch like I propose. Note how unnecessary detail is left for the articles in Links, but the gist of the history, the high points, is given) Unless of course, you feel 'to hell with the average reader, I'm writing for the acedemic already with knowledge of Comparative Far Eastern History
 * These are the sections that need the most work as of this writing:
 * "Since the establishment of the Ritsuryo system, Tsushima Province has been a strategic area that took a major role in the national defense against possible invasions from the continent and in trade with the Korean Peninsula. After Japan was defeated by the Tang at the Battle of Hakusukinoe in 663, Kaneda Castle was constructed on this island.

 * Tsushima Province had been controlled by the Tsushima-no-kuni-no-miyatsuko clan until the Heian Period. This clan was replaced by the Ahiru clan. The So clan rose into power around the middle 13th century and seized control of the whole island in the late 15th century. During the Edo period, Tsushima Province was dominated by the Tsushima Fuchu domain (Izuhara domain) of the So clan. It was put in charge of diplomacy and monopolized trade with the Joseon Dynasty of Korea.

 * As a result of the abolition of the Han system, the Tsushima Fuchu domain became Izuhara Prefecture in 1871. In the same year, Izuhara Prefecture was merged into Imari Prefecture, which was renamed Saga Prefecture in 1872. Tsushima was transferred to Nagasaki Prefecture in 1872."

Sorry, Nanshu my friend, but that's the way it struck me.
 * [[User:Fabartus|FrankB || TalktoMe]] 15:35, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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World War III (disambiguation)

World War III is a hypothetical successor to World War II (1939–1945).

World War III, World War Three, the Third World War, or the Fourth World War may also refer to:

Literature

 * World War III (Left Behind), a rider in the Left Behind series of novels
 * The Third World War (novel), a 2003 novel by Humphrey Hawksley
 * The Third World War (Hackett novels), 1978 and 1982 novels by General Sir John Hackett
 * "The Fourth World War", a 1999 work by Subcomandante Marcos

Comics

 * World War 3 Illustrated, a political comics anthology founded in 1979
 * Third World War (comics), a political comic strip appearing in Crisis beginning in 1988
 * World War III (DC Comics), the title of two sagas published in superhero comic books by DC Comics beginning in 2000
 * World War III (G.I. Joe), a comic book storyline published by Devil's Due Publishing beginning in 2007

Games

 * World War 3: 1976-1984, a 1975 board wargame that simulates a hypothetical war for world domination
 * The Third World War (video game), for the Sega Mega-CD console
 * World War III: Black Gold, a 2001 Microsoft Windows computer game
 * World War 3 (video game), a 2018 game by The Farm 51

Film and television

 * World War III (1998 film), a 1998 German film by Robert Stone
 * World War III (2022 film), a 2022 Iranian film
 * WW3, a 2001 TV-movie starring Timothy Hutton and Vanessa L. Williams
 * World War III (miniseries), a 1982 American TV miniseries directed by David Greene
 * "World War Three" (Doctor Who), a 2005 episode of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who
 * WCW World War 3, an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event
 * World War 3 (1995)
 * World War 3 (1996)
 * World War 3 (1997)
 * World War 3 (1998)
 * "World War III", a 1985 episode of the TV sitcom Night Court
 * The Fourth World War, a 2003 documentary film

Bands

 * Third World War (band), an English proto-punk band formed in 1970
 * WWIII, a Los Angeles–based band fronted by Mandy Lion

Albums

 * World War III (Mac album), 1999
 * World War III (Madina Lake album), 2011
 * WWIII (album), a 2003 album by KMFDM

Songs

 * "World War III", a song by Anti-Nowhere League from We Are...The League, 1982
 * "World War III", a song by Bad Religion from Bad Religion, 1981
 * "World War III", a 1982 song by Exciter
 * "World War III", a song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, 1984
 * "World War III", a song by the Jonas Brothers from Lines, Vines and Trying Times, 2009
 * "World War III", a 1979 song by The Suburbs
 * "World War Three", a 1979 song by D.O.A.
 * "WW III" (song), a 2000 song by Ruff Ryders
 * "WWIII", a 2020 song by Machine Gun Kelly from Tickets to My Downfall
 * "WW3", a 2017 song by Paloma Faith from The Architect
 * "3rd World War", a 2013 song by Jesse Jagz from the soundtrack of the film Heaven's Hell

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine (born June 18, 1973) is an American music critic and senior editor for the online music database AllMusic. He is the author of multiple artist biographies and record reviews for AllMusic, as well as a freelance writer, occasionally contributing liner notes.

Erlewine was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is a nephew of the former musician and AllMusic founder Michael Erlewine. He studied at the University of Michigan, where he majored in English, and was a music editor (1993–94) and then arts editor (1994–1995) of the school's paper The Michigan Daily, and DJ'd at the campus radio station, WCBN. He has contributed to All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues  and All Music Guide to Hip-Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap & Hip-Hop.

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Dominion Observatory

The Dominion Observatory was an astronomical observatory in Ottawa, Ontario that operated from 1902 to 1970. The Observatory was also an institution within the Canadian Federal Government. The observatory grew out of the Department of the Interior's need for the precise coordinates and timekeeping that at that time could only come from an observatory. For several years they had used a small observatory on the Ottawa River for this purpose. In 1902, it was decided that Canada needed a larger national observatory similar to the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Britain.

Chief Dominion Architect David Ewart designed the Dominion Observatory in 1902.

The new building was then erected near Dow's Lake on the Agriculture Department's Central Experimental Farm land. This Romanesque Revival building was completed in 1905. Its main instrument was a 15-inch refracting telescope, the largest refracting telescope ever installed in Canada, although it was not a particularly large telescope for this period. While the building and institution were primarily dedicated to astronomical timekeeping in support of surveying, a number of other activities took place here. The Dominion Observatory was Canada's leading institution in Geophysics for many decades, which included the operation of Canada's national seismometer network. The facility did important work, but with this bridgehead into the world of astronomy and the growth of the field of astrophysics, Canadian astronomers quickly demanded a facility designed for the new scientific age. In 1917, the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory was opened in Victoria, B.C. and it supplanted the Dominion Observatory as Canada's foremost astronomical observatory. For many years, the Dominion Observatory was best known to Canadians as the source of Canada's official time signal.

The observatory continued in operation until 1970 at which time Canada's science institutions were reorganized. The national time-keeping and astronomical activities were transferred to the National Research Council of Canada, while the geophysics, surveying and mapping were transferred to the Department of Energy Mines and Resources. The Geophysics work was later merged into the Geological Survey of Canada, now part of Natural Resources Canada. Astronomical timekeeping observations at the Dominion Observatory had ceased many years prior to this, when crystal oscillator clocks and, later, atomic clocks were found to be superior to astronomical timekeeping. The building became home to NRCan offices. The telescope had been open for public viewing from 1905 until 1970. In 1974, the telescope was moved from the Dominion Observatory to the Helen Sawyer Hogg Observatory at the Canada Science and Technology Museum where it remained until 2016.

As of 2008, the building is the home to the Office of Energy Efficiency, a part of the Energy Branch, Natural Resources Canada.

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The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys is the fifth studio album by English rock band Traffic, released in 1971. The album was Traffic's most successful in the United States, reaching number 7 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and becoming their only platinum-certified album there, indicating sales in excess of one million. However, it failed to chart in the United Kingdom. The album features the minor hit "Rock & Roll Stew" and the title track, which received heavy FM airplay.

Background
It was Traffic's first studio album to feature percussionist Rebop Kwaku Baah, and the only studio appearance of drummer Jim Gordon and bassist Ric Grech. Grech had previously worked with Traffic singer/multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood in the short-lived supergroup Blind Faith. This is the only Traffic album to feature two lead vocals by Jim Capaldi ("Light Up or Leave Me Alone" and "Rock & Roll Stew"). His only other solo lead vocal on a Traffic studio album was on "Dealer" from Mr. Fantasy (1967).

As with other Traffic albums, The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys featured varied influences, including jazz, folk music and Classical. The name of the album's title track was suggested by the actor Michael J. Pollard.

The LP's front cover is notable for its top right and bottom left corners being clipped, giving the illusion of a three-dimensional cube. This effect would be repeated on their next album, Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory. On original pressings of the UK and some European versions, the title of both the album and song are shown as 'The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys' (with a hyphen) on the record labels.

The title of the album and the eponymous single on it became the source of some controversy in the UK upon initial release. At that time, the phrase "high-heeled boys" was often used by British writers as a slang term referring to organized-crime assassins. When it became clear the song was not inspired by this and was using the term in a non-descriptive sense, the issue faded away.

Reception
Critical retrospectives on the album are generally positive. AllMusic was overwhelmingly approving in its assessment, praising the variety brought by the non-Winwood/Capaldi compositions and the power of the lengthy title track, and claiming the album "marked the commercial and artistic apex of the second coming of Traffic". In addition, Robert Christgau commented on the band's growth from previous efforts, stating that while the group is "devoid of intellectual thrust", they're "onto something", and "when it works, it suggests a nice paradox—relaxed and exciting at the same time." Pop Matters offered yet another viewpoint, calling it "an album that's easy to listen to over and over, but one that seldom shows up on 'best of' lists." It commented that most of the songs are highly underrated and require multiple listens to appreciate. It was voted number 625 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000).

The album was certified gold less than a year after its release in the United States, and eventually certified platinum in 1996. It was remastered and reissued with one bonus track on 19 March 2002.

Track listing
The first six songs as listed here are the track order as originally released on LP in the US and many parts of the world. Both LP and CD pressings exist with “Light Up Or Leave Me Alone” as the fifth track of the album instead of the third. (Awaiting confirmation of when the alternate track order first appeared in these formats.)

''Note: This consists of "Part 1" and "Part 2" from the single, joined into one track. Part 1 is an edit of the album version, with about 45 seconds cut from the instrumental break. Part 2 is an extended jam that begins, with a fade-in, at a point shortly before the end of the album version's fadeout. Thus, in comparison to the album version, this is both an edited and extended version. This is also the version of "Rock & Roll Stew" that appears on the Gold compilation.''

Traffic
with:
 * Steve Winwood – lead vocals (1, 2, 5, 6), backing vocals, acoustic piano, Hammond organ, guitars
 * Chris Wood – saxophones, flute
 * Ric Grech – bass, violin
 * Jim Gordon – drums (1–5)
 * Jim Capaldi – percussion, lead vocals (3, 4), backing vocals (6)
 * Rebop Kwaku Baah – percussion
 * Mike Kellie – drums (6) [uncredited]

Production

 * Steve Winwood – producer
 * Brian Humphries – engineer
 * Tony Wright – cover art
 * Richard Polak – photography

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Tagged as unencyclopedic, it looks like an ad. Zzyzx11 | Talk 02:50, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete: looks like multi-level marketing. Mindmatrix 14:44, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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