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Talk:Great Artesian Basin

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 * Remove strange link to http://www.hawthornfc.com.au/ at the head of the article.
 * Revise the article as the above mentioned strange link may be evidence of some vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.160.133.236 (talk) 16:50, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

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8.7 million cubic metres of water sound way too low Gtoomey 01:21, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Quote: It is the source of most of the water used in these areas. The basin is an important source of water for cattle raising. Whilst unsuitable for irrigation, it is adequate for stock and domestic usage (with treatment) and is thus vital to human activity. To tap it, bores are drilled down to a suitable rock layer, where the pressure of the water forces it up, mostly without pumping. Additionally, water at 98°C (208°F) from the basin is used to power a small 150 kW generator in Birdsville.

In 1983 there were close to 18 000 bores providing 1575 million litres of water. This included just under 2000 freely flowing bores and more than 9000 that required mechanical power to bring water to the surface.

I guess this means that of 11000 bores, 2000 don't use a pump and 9000 do use a pump. But the whole lot is unsourced anyway so who'se counting? 05:39, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I disagree with the assertion that "nothing has been done". More than half the free flowing bores have been capped in recent years, and all should be capped and piped within the next ten years. This has cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Limitations on new drilling have been in place for decades. In general it appears the contributors to this article have no idea about what they are talking about when it comes to the management of the GAB, and also have little idea about the realities of sustainable groundwater management. If this were not the case, it would be reasonable to expect that there would be more than a simple one liner asserting that nothing has been done!

If it takes two million years for groundwater to enter Lake Eyre, please back that up with credible sources showing at least microscale piezometer readings of groundwater flow in that half of the basin. I can't take that measure of time seriously if a couple sentences ago it states "Because the sandstones are permeable, water gradually makes its way through the pores between the sand grains, flowing at a rate of one to five metres per year." Even at the lowest flow of one meter per year, that would require a distance of two thousand kilometers of travel through pores. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.155.222.153 (talk) 05:04, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Exactly correct. if you take a look at a map of the basin you will see that the basin is 1,800km from east to west at its widest point. Added a academic journal reference for the age of the water.--GILDog (talk) 11:40, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 10:16, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Bickles cab
Known within small geographical region and non-notable wrt WP:MUSIC standards. Can only find one 7" release, one self-released CD and one indie-label CD. Eddie.willers 01:21, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Those 3 releases don't meet the recommendations in WP:MUSIC, and they don't appear to be stonkingly notable locally. No allmusic.com presence, either. -Splash 02:31, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Get them to go national and I might reconsider my vote! Please hurry!!! UniReb 11:31, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
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User:Tmedwards

Thomas Michael Edwards (born July 20, 1973 in Zachary, Louisiana US) is a network & computer systems administrator, programmer, and web designer by trade.

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Pristina International Airport

Prishtina International Airport Adem Jashari (Aeroporti Ndërkombëtar i Prishtinës Adem Jashari), also referred to as Pristina International Airport (Aeroporti Ndërkombëtar i Prishtinës, ), is an international airport in Pristina, Kosovo. The airport is located 15 km south-west of the city of Pristina, Kosovo. The airport has flights to numerous European destinations.

The airport is the only port of entry for air travelers to Kosovo. It is named in honor Adem Jashari, the founder of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

History
The airport was originally built as Slatina Air Base, containing the second-largest military underground hangar complex in Yugoslavia.

From 12 to 26 June 1999, there was a brief but tense stand-off between NATO and the Russian Kosovo Force in which Russian troops possessed the airport. A contingent of 200 Russian troops deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, crossed over into Kosovo and captured the airport in Pristina.

The apron and the passenger terminal were renovated and expanded in 2002 and again in 2009. In June 2006, Pristina International Airport was awarded the Best Airport 2006 Award by Airports Council International (ACI). Winning airports were selected for excellence and achievement across a range of disciplines including airport development, operations, facilities, security and safety, and customer service.

On 12 November 2008, Pristina International Airport received for the first time in its history the annual one-millionth passenger (excluding military). A special ceremony was held at the airport where the one-millionth passenger received a free return ticket to a destination of his choice served by the airport.

In late 2010, the airport was renamed from Pristina International Airport to Pristina International Airport Adem Jashari, the founder of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which fought for the secession of Kosovo from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the 1990s.

Due to the ongoing dispute between Serbia and Kosovo, flights to and from Pristina International Airport are impacted by the refusal of ATC in Serbia, namely SMATSA, to allow overflights via Serbian airspace. This ultimately results in flight paths avoiding Serbian territory with flights to Pristina having to enter via Albanian or Macedonian airspace. This dispute can generally add up to 30 minutes to a flight duration and discussions to overcome this dispute have so far failed. Being the only operational airport in the immediate region, any diversions would ultimately have to go to either North Macedonia, Albania, or Bulgaria, given that the Gjakova Airport is still a closed facility.

Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Pristina:

Car
The airport is linked with the M-9 motorway, which connects with the R7 motorway.

Taxi
Taxis from the airport to Pristina are available.

Bus
The airport can be reached from the city center, via the 1A bus route, which departs from the Pristina Bus Station every two hours.

Accidents and incidents

 * On November 12, 1999, Si Fly Flight 3275 crashed while approaching the airport after a flight from Rome International Airport, killing all 24 occupants.
 * On January 19, 2006, a Slovak Air Force, Antonov, An-24 crashed over Hungary after departing from Pristina International Airport. (See, 2006 Slovak Air Force Antonov-24 Crash)

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Talk:Indymedia/Archive 1

1/20/05  Just found this this definition, after another day of working on Indymedia. Indymedia is now over 5 years old. I'm glad there's first hand knowledge present, but you are writing for a "dictionary" audience, not just your friends. Too many trees and not enough forest. What is the significance, impact, or not, on media overall? What effect has Indymedia and open publishing had in relation to open software, the internet in general, in how people consume news, or produce news, leading to blogging, etc., etc. Please take a gigantic step back and add the big picture.

Rabble wrote a pretty good history, but I can't find it.

An Imcista for 4 years -

Whoops! Thanks for the redirect. Now someone (me or other) will have to do a merge.... :( ouch. I hope there's something useful in my "new" version that can be extracted.

 * "In September 2002, a front organisation for the CIA, called the Ford Foundation?, proposed funding for an Indymedia regional meeting. This was refused because many volunteers in Indymedia were uncomfortable with accepting money from the CIA, which has been responsible for carrying out and/or funding many human rights violations? in Latin America during the second half of the 20th century, as well as training islamic fundamentalists? in Pakistan and Afghanistan in terrorist techniques."

Can we have some confirmation of this? Since when was the Ford Foundation a CIA front? Greg Godwin

Since the 1950's.

http://www.rebelion.org/petras/english/ford010102.htm

The Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic collaboration with the Secret Police

 * Lets stick to known facts, it is claimed that the Ford Foundation is a front for the CIA, it is not verified. (I personally believe it, but NPOV must rule for this encyclopedia) - Greg Godwin 15:40 Sep 26, 2002 (UTC)

 * I can't wholly agree... what's a "known fact"? The article above might be enough to make it a "known fact" that the Ford Foundation is a CIA front, depending on who you ask. This debate should be properly addressed on the Ford Foundation page, not here, but if there's no FF reply to the charges above that can be quoted, then I'd have to say it's a "known fact" that the FF is a front group. Graft 15:44 Sep 26, 2002 (UTC)

It could be claimed the article is biased, just because it takes the form of an academic report doesn't mean it is without bias. Lets just be sure to note that the CIA -> Ford Foundation link is a claim - Greg Godwin 15:48 Sep 26, 2002 (UTC)

 * Indeed. Putting the word "documented" in the title doesn't make it so. He quotes "Saunders", but doesn't give a bibliography.  Essays that use one, uncited, source are not worth very much, I'm afraid.  Which isn't to say I don't believe it, but one has to do better than that.  And the FF say: Since its inception it has been an independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, which sounds like a denial to me -- User:GWO

I think we have met in a middle ground... if you look at the FF entry, it says "the stated mission", and "critics claim" is fair enough. As I said, I believe the claim, but it just cant be verified independently. Greg Godwin 15:53 Sep 26, 2002 (UTC)

 * I don't think anything is without bias, try as we might to make it otherwise. I agree we should say this is a claim, but I think we all should be careful about what we are eager to contextualize and what we accept as a matter of course. We all leap out of our skins at suggestions that the FF is a CIA front group, but we'd be much less likely to do so for the equally questionable (but far more acceptable) contention that America fought to overthrow fascism in World War II. Graft

 * I agree Graft, and I'd have a problem with that generalisation too! But we can only deal with article at a time, but i'd happily work on fixing other non-NPOV inconsistencies Greg Godwin

 * Well if that wasn't what they were doing, we Europeans consider it a pretty fortuitous by-product -- User:GWO
 * Well said! Sebastian (another European)

Notes from my edits:

I am aware that Semitic also refers to Arabs, but anti-Semitic means anti-Jew (unless you're being pedantic). Look it up if you don't belive me. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=anti-semitic Indymedia vs Wikipedia is a tangential to the rest of this article. I've deleted the section, but worked non-redundant parts related to indymedia into other sections. I've made some NPOV edits. I've edited some overly vebose passages to use more concise, easily understood terms. I eliminated unnecessary jargon where I noticed it. One of the recent edits was poorly organized, I've tried to correct this by working out-of-place bits into more appropriate sections. Vanu 18:41 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Here's an idea: why not just stick to describing what the IMC is and to describing specific events that are related to it, and cut out all the (IMO, irrelevant) stuff that treats the IMC as an issue rather than an organization. I want to know what the IMC is when looking up an article on it, not whether people like it or not or what their opinions are of it. For those kinds of arguments, how 'bout starting up a new article like objectivity in journalism or the internet as news medium?

Indymedia vs Wikipedia is a tangential to the rest of this article.

I don't see why it's tangential - Indymedia and Wikipedia have a huge amount in common, so IMHO it's important to show how they are similar and how they are different.

Personally, I'd be happy to remove the reputation section - I agree with treating IMC as an organization rather than as an issue. But someone seems to feel that it's necessary to delegitimize IMC, even mentioning an incorrect perception (that IMC's have no editorial policies) without mentioning that the perception is wrong... But I'll leave others to decide on whether or not to remove the reputation bit.

Is Wikipedia about helping people to understand or not? IMHO, it is about helping people to understand, and subtitles help people understand.

I fail to understand why the "indymedia vs wikipedia" title was removed, so i'm reverting. Please let's try to discuss this here on the talk page.

 * We try to avoid this kind of meta-discussion. Please see Avoid self-references for details. If you wish to discuss the differences between Indymedia and Wikipedia, we welcome you to do so, but this should not be done in the article namespace, but in the Wikipedia: namespace -- compare Guide for Everything2 noders and Guide for h2g2 researchers. You might want to create Guide for Indymedia authors. --Eloquence 12:53 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)

OK, in Avoid self-references it's written:

If, however, you read about online communities, the article may well discuss Wikipedia as an example -- in neutral tone, without specifically implying that the article in question is being read on, or part of Wikipedia.

So what I understand is to avoid making links -sqbracket-sqbracket-Wikipedia-sqbracket-sqbracket.

I also agree with the suggestion Guide for Indymedia authors, but I still think it's relevant to mention the similarity within the article. So I'll have another go and let's see if we can consense on this... Please wait a few minutes...

 * The problem is that there is no particular reason to pick Wikipedia as a counter-example, and it cannot be assumed that the reader knows what Wikipedia is. If you want to compare Indymedia to other communities, you should start a section "Indymedia and other communities" and then have "Indymedia vs. Wikipedia" as a subsection of that section, and briefly explain what Wikipedia is in that subsection. It's OK to link to the Wikipedia article, just don't assume that the reader knows what Wikipedia is because he reads this article in Wikipedia, which he may very well not do. --Eloquence 13:39 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)

OK, i did the first draft of Guide for Indymedia authors and i'm starting to understand what is meant by forking. In any case, the changes are fine by me.

IMHO, wikipedia is probably the most similar online community to compare with, in terms of having the goal of information collection/synthesis for ordinary people and in trying to be international and multilingual. But other suggestions are welcome :).

A newbie question about GFDL in relation to Wikipedia: Imagine that someone, X, wants to distribute some section of the Wikipedia in printed form, e.g. all the articles on media and online communities, then is the following a correct interpretation of the GFDL Text of the GNU Free Documentation License:
 * X can only charge for the cost of production + distribution, not for extra profit
 * it's OK to pick out just some small subset of the whole Wikipedia, as a modified version
 * the printed version must include a specific copyright and license notice.
 * If no transparent copy, i.e. machine-readable in a free format, is included with the printed copy, then it's called opaque
 * If the opaque copy is distributed in more than 100 copies, it's sufficient to include a link to a web site such as the wikipedia site which is very likely to remain accessible 12 months in the future. Or are there additional reasonably prudent steps which X needs to take?

I'm not asking for a legal opinion, I'm just thinking aloud... But it seems to me that if a major distribution journal (e.g. a weekly) publishes a wikipedia article, and all it does to ensure redistribution is to publish a link to the wikipedia site of the same language, then it implicitly accepts responsability for maintenance of that wikipedia site for at least 12 months. :))) This might be a way to force funding of local language wikipedia sites from mainstream publications... :)))

Not to rain on your party or anything, but a major weekly would not publish a wikipedia article, given the current attitudes in the traditional publishing world. Any implicit requirement to maintain wikipedia would probably put a significant financial strain on whoever decides to distribute >100 "opaque" copies. Vanu 05:54 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

 * Hi Vanu. I believe that you are mistaken in your summary of the GFDL.  Specifically:

 * There is no restriction on making a profit charging for copies. Where do you get that from?
 * Local publications have no need to fund a wikipedia mirror.
 * The GFDL says that if you distribute more than 100 copies without distributing the electronic source, then you have to take reasonable steps to ensure that the host web site is viable for at least 12 months.
 * We are absolutely *not* looking to "force funding" of anything from downstream content reproducers. We are producing open content so that it may be used, not so that we can trick people into helping us.

If you have more questions/comments, I suggest you take them to Wikipedia talk:Copyrights, where more people will see them. Cool to have you here, and I'm going to check out your guide for indymedia writers (I am one) soon. Peace, DanKeshet 15:36, 30 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I wasn't trying to summarize the GFDL, I was trying to show that, if the person who I responded to was correct, then the outcome he described wouldn't be the result. Since he was incorrect, everything I said was moot. Vanu 06:46, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Here is summary about an Indymedia debate, the present, issues, the future, the 'brand' Indymedia, and more http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2003/09/14038.shtml translated from a Dutch summary which is also linked from there. - NN

Vanu:

I don't understand why you think that the term anybody with internet access is obfuscatory but the term anybody is not obfuscatory.

Maybe misleading is better to describe the use of anybody without a reminder that poorer people in rich countries and most people in poorer countries have very poor internet access. Independently of whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, it's a reasonably NPOV fact, IMHO.

Wikipedia is biased against one sector of the world population. Indymedia tries to be biased in favour (in terms of participation) of the same sector. Both are honest and up-front about this and neither deny it. Denying this complementarity isn't NPOV, IMHO.

I also don't understand why you think the term leftist is non-ambiguous but that terms like overtly biased in favour of human rights, environmental rights is obfuscatory.

Please just look at some local Indymedia sites or at some of the organising documents and you'll see that virtually nobody defines leftism as a requirement for participation. Maybe not everybody would agree with the general categories human rights and environmentalism to describe the biases of Indymedia, but they are at least as clear as leftist.

Leftism is obfuscatory because it's confused with the communist regimes of the USSR and PRC.

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De-spinning the article better describes what I meant to say than "reverting to non-obfuscatory terms". When I was new to wikipedia, I spun a couple of articles in a similar way, and those edits were always reverted, so I do the same now when I see similar behavior.

"Leftist" or "left-wing" are the best terms to describe indymedia and it's biases because: 1) they're compact, 2) they're about as de-spun as you can get, 3) they're readily understood.

I agree that "leftism" is not a requirement for participation, but left-wing or leftist are terms which broadly define the sites. They primarily champion what are generally considered to be left-wing causes, and what little that isn't left-wing appears in comments or the unedited news wires, and is clearly in the minority. Vanu 06:08, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Rather than using complicated words like "de-spun", surely what we want is articles which are clear and have minimum ambiguity.

There is as little point in using the term "leftism" to describe indymedia as it is to describe wikipedia. As i said above: terms like "leftist" are highly ambiguous, and in the ex-communist countries (i live in one), the issues of economics are especially confused with dictatorial politics and submission to a colonial power - which is completely different to indymedia in practice. Anyway, i'll have a look at the history and maybe we'll be able to consense on something... Boud 19:57, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harry Potter trolling

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS, KEEP AND MERGE moink 05:24, 12 September 2005 (UTC) uhm, it's a delete consensus, if i've ever seen one... -- Phroziac (talk) 00:48, September 13, 2005 (UTC)

Harry Potter trolling

 * Delete. C'mon, could one get any less encyclopedic? Plus a lot of this just happens at Wikipedia... it doesn't deserve its own article and I can't picture anyone caring in two months. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 01:27, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete no reason to catalogue all the different possible types of trolling, especially as this is supposed to be an encyclopedia. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 02:11, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete trolls. Especially boring, repetitive ones. -Splash 02:37, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Holy crap that's what happens in Half-Blood Prince? Why did I click that link? Jokes aside, delete. nn Potter/trollcruft. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 02:55, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:RS.— Encephalon |  ζ   07:56:45, 2005-09-02 (UTC)
 * Delete - It might ruin the plot for Harry Potter fans such as in the case of the user A Man In Black ! Ouch! Although, I've never read a Harry Potter book anyhow nor would I find this specific article Wiki-worthy enough anyways. UniReb 11:37, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Uh. I was kidding. I read the book the day after it was released, before the trolls really got going. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 18:55, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * So was I! :-P UniReb 00:22, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Dumbledore says delete from beyond the grave. Proto t c 12:15, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I have a vague, Trelawneyesque vision of a future where we have a page called 'editing Wikipedia articles', and then another one called 'editing the Wikipedia article called 'editing Wikipedia articles' ', and then...anyway what if <spoiler removed>? We'll all look like Muggles. Peeper 13:38, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Peeper, why'd you spoil it for me? ;) Amren (talk)  14:41, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry Amren...obliviate! Peeper 15:31, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Could possibly be merged into a spoiler trolling article? Deliberately posting spoilers is hardly confined to Harry Potter.  Morwen - Talk 14:43, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not encyclopedic. Please be careful when voting – there are people who are interested in HP that haven't read the book yet, and I've removed two spoilers from this discussion already. android  79  16:52, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This article is Harry Potter trolling. 67.101.26.107 17:55, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per RedWolf24, except I can't see anyone caring right now. CDC   (talk)  17:58, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep but perhaps rename to something more descriptive. If this has surfaced in radio media, roadside banners, numerous bulletin boards and blogs, chat rooms, and it appears to be a self-sustaining meme, I think this meets the notability test.  I mean, Wikipedia has articles for 'pwned' and other fad terminology and phenomena.  I do not recall other movie spoiling being so public or aggressive.  I don't know if "trolling" is the right word, though, perhaps a neologism like "spoiler-sporting" would be better. The Hokkaido Crow 19:02, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment. I haven't heard it surfacing in media and it doesn't make sense if it were to, considering they'd have to spoil it, and then bad stuff would happen to that media station. Pwned is not a fad as we still keep saying it. And trolling is definitely the word just as we use trolling for GNAA. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 22:16, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unencyclopedic. --Carnildo 22:35, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as per the discussion on the article's talk page - this VFD AFD was rather unneccessary because there it could've been merged had the person been given a chance to do so, some of the information is verifiable and worthy of mention on the book's page, the bridge incident in particular (BBC) -- Joolz 23:19, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Joolz. -HX 00:28, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, the definition of trolling is encyclopedic, notable examples like the GNAA are borderline, but Harry Potter zealots aren't. What's next, Wiki-cheese trolling? --Tito xd 03:49, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This isn't a true encyclopedia article.  SujinYH 23:35, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge, not worth its own article, but worth mentioning in HBP. (preceding unsigned comment by Bjwebb 07:19, 5 September 2005 (UTC))
 * Merge, it doesn't deserve its own page, but it's a huge fad and should be mentioned somewhere.--Theuniversal 23:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep --Ryan Delaney talk 07:00, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Whatever content is actually important, if any, could be covered in the HBP article. Friday (talk) 16:14, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep --212.149.179.127 08:19, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The trolling universe has no bounds. JFW | T@lk  11:45, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Stupid Article Evanesco! Seriously, this article IS a troll. Give it up. --DocSigma 15:54, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete good riddance to bad rubbish Ashibaka (tock) 15:33, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with article on the book, half blood prince. It is worth a para telling a bit more about the hype surrounding HPB, and probably fits much better there. Sandpiper 23:29, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * one or two of the above suggest this is about wiki reporting wiki, or just general lists of trolling. Maybe the article has been edited already, but I don't see that there. It is another aspect of the biggest selling fiction book in the world, which is quite a noteable achievement.Sandpiper 23:40, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

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Rocori High School

ROCORI High School is a high school that serves three Minnesota towns, whose names form the acronym "ROCORI": Rockville, Cold Spring, and Richmond. The school is located in Cold Spring, Minnesota, United States about twenty miles southwest of St. Cloud. The school received media attention for a shooting in 2003 that left two students dead. It is also noted for having the first winter drumline/indoor percussion ensemble in history.

2003 shooting
A school shooting occurred at Rocori High School on September 24, 2003. The shooting was perpetrated by 15 year-old John Jason McLaughlin who murdered students Seth Bartell and Aaron Rollins.

Basketball
The Spartan boys basketball team has made it to the state tournament 13 times in the school's existence, winning a state championship in 1988, placing second in 1999, and placing third in 1979, 1992 & 2007. Former head coach Bob Brink is the second coach in Minnesota State High School League history to win 900 games in any sport, second only to Bob McDonald of Chisholm. A notable player for the Spartans was Justin Stommes (Eastern Kentucky).

Baseball
The Spartans baseball team has also made the state tournament 9 times, winning state championships in 1992 and 2010, finishing as runner-ups in 1991, 2013 and 2017, and taking the consolation championship in 2007. A notable baseball player, Eric Decker, was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in 2008 and the Minnesota Twins in 2009.

Football
The Spartan football team won their first state championship in 2011, beating Bemidji 17-10 to take Class AAAA. They won their second championship in 2019 beating SMB 22-21 in overtime. Notable football players for the Spartans include NFL players Rick Bell '79 - MN Vikings (St.Johns) and Eric Decker '05 - Denver Broncos, New York Jets, Tennessee Titans, and New England Patriots (MN Gophers)

Dance
The ROCORI dance team has also made it to state in 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 after being created in 2008 with their top performances being fourth place in both High Kick and Jazz in 2017.

Alumni

 * Rick Bell, former Minnesota Vikings running back
 * Eric Decker, former NFL wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans, New England Patriots, New York Jets, and Denver Broncos, former baseball outfielder and football wide receiver for the Minnesota Golden Gophers, and Reality TV star, he had been drafted in the Major League Baseball Draft twice.
 * Justin Stommes, Played professional basketball in Europe for 5 seasons.

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Glendon Swarthout

Glendon Fred Swarthout (April 8, 1918 – September 23, 1992) was an American writer and novelist.

Several of his novels were made into films. Where the Boys Are, and The Shootist, which was John Wayne's last work, are probably the best known.

Early life
Glendon Swarthout was the only child of Fred and Lila (Chubb) Swarthout, a banker and a homemaker. Swarthout is a Dutch name; his mother's maiden name was from Yorkshire. Swarthout generally did well in school, especially in English. He was a Michigan high-school debate champion.

In math, however, he floundered, and only a kindly lady geometry teacher passed him with a D, so he could graduate from Lowell, Michigan High School. He took accordion lessons and occupied his free time with books, for at 6 feet, 99 pounds, he was not good at sports. The summer of his junior year, he got a job playing his instrument in the resort town of Charlevoix, on Lake Michigan, with Jerry Schroeder and his Michigan State College Orchestra, for $10 per week.

Graduating in 1935, he relocated to Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan (UM). He became more seriously involved in music, forming and singing lead for a four-piece band that played for hops and for three consecutive summers at the Pantlind Hotel in Grand Rapids, the largest hotel in Michigan outside of Detroit.

Glendon majored in English at the UM, pledged Chi Phi, and dated Kathryn Vaughn, whom he had met when he was 13 and she 12, at her family's cottage on Duck Lake, outside of Albion, Michigan. They were married on December 28, 1940, after both had graduated from UM and Swarthout was writing advertising copy for Cadillac and Dow Chemical at the MacManus, John and Adams advertising agency in Detroit.

Beginning writer
After a year in the advertising business, Swarthout decided the way to become a writer was to see the world as a journalist. He signed as a stringer for 22 small newspapers and travelled with his bride on a small freighter to South America, sending home a weekly column of their adventures. While in Barbados, they heard Pearl Harbor had been bombed and tried immediately to get to the States, but they needed five roundabout months avoiding German U-boats to cruise the East Coast to Manhattan.

Wartime
Swarthout was ineligible for Officer Candidate School because he was underweight at 117 pounds. The couple both went to work at Willow Run, the new bomber plant outside of Ann Arbor. Working long days as a riveter on B-24s, he wrote his first novel at night in six months. Willow Run, a story about people working in a bomber factory, was published after a rewrite to mediocre reviews. He always saw this book as his training novel. He was fit enough for an infantry company, however, as the war wore on, and he enlisted in the Army and was sent to Naples as a replacement for the 3rd Division. Awaiting the Anzio breakout on the beach in Italy, he was transferred to division headquarters. The 3rd Division moved out of Anzio and captured Rome, and Swarthout later landed in the second wave at St. Tropez and saw his only combat for six days, getting eyewitness statements for a few posthumous Medals of Honor as the unit moved rapidly north into France. When the 3rd Division was about to invade Germany, Swarthout ruptured a disc in his spine while unloading a truck. He was shipped home a sergeant and eventually discharged without surgery. Glendon suffered back pain for the rest of his life and received military disability. He eventually had back surgery in Arizona in his 50s on two imploded spinal discs.

Postwar
Swarthout returned to UM, earned a master's degree, and began teaching college. During that time, his son Miles was born and he won a Hopwood Award for $800 for another novel, promoting him to the University of Maryland for a few years, where he ghost-wrote speeches for Congressmen and wrote more unpublished fiction. That autumn, he began teaching at Michigan State University and during eight years in East Lansing earned his PhD in Victorian literature in 1955, while his wife got her master's degree and a teaching certificate and commenced teaching children in the second grade.

Swarthout also began to sell short stories to national publications such as Cosmopolitan and The Saturday Evening Post. He was paid $2500 in 1955 for one of these stories, "A Horse for Mrs. Custer", which became a Randolph Scott low-budget Western for Columbia Pictures in 1956, under the title 7th Cavalry. The day after he finished his last doctoral examination, he started writing a novel called They Came To Cordura. Its setting was Mexico of 1916 during the Pershing Expedition to capture Pancho Villa, and some of its fictional cavalry troopers had been nominated for Medals of Honor. The book was quickly sold to Random House and then to Columbia Pictures in 1958, becoming one of their major motion pictures starring Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth a year later. This NY Times bestseller and the movie money enabled Swarthout to become a professional writer at last. He was 39 years old.

He completed another novel while teaching Honors English at Michigan State. Where the Boys Are (1960) was set on the Michigan State campus and was the first comic novel about the annual "spring break" invasion of the beaches of southern Florida by America's college students. MGM's quick movie version, Where the Boys Are (1960), became the highest-grossing low-budget movie in the studio's history.

Swarthout went on to write many more novels, some of which were made into movies. He worked on the screenplay of only one, Cordura, at Columbia Pictures in Los Angeles for six months, before moving from Michigan to Arizona, where he continued to teach English at Arizona State University for four years before retiring to write full time. Many of his novels were set in either Michigan or Arizona, and some used his war experiences.

Several other works were sold for films that were never made; these include The Eagle and the Iron Cross (Sam Spiegel, 1968) and The Tin Lizzie Troop (Paul Newman, 1977), as well as a number of movie options, now lapsed, on his many stories. Besides a Hopwood Award and a Theatre Guild Award for his one play, Swarthout was twice nominated by his publishers for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for They Came To Cordura by Random House and Bless The Beasts & Children by Doubleday), he received an O. Henry Prize Short Story nomination (in 1960 for "A Glass of Blessings"), a Gold Medal from the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1972, won Spur Awards for Best Western Novel of the Year from the Western Writers of America for The Shootist (1975) and The Homesman, a Wrangler Award for Best Western Novel of 1988 for The Homesman from the Western Heritage Association, and finally the Western Writers' Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum (previously known as National Cowboy Hall of Fame) in Oklahoma City in June 1991. The Shootist was the basis of John Wayne's final film in 1976 and has since come to be recognized as a classic Western film and one of the Duke's very best. His British publisher (Secker & Warburg) claimed Swarthout had "the widest writing range" of any American novelist. From gunfighting Westerns The Shootist to the first of "the beach pictures," Where the Boys Are, from satires such as The Cadillac Cowboys, to tragedies such as Welcome to Thebes, or his adventure novel about the Pershing Expedition into Mexico, They Came to Cordura, or a mystery/thriller such as Skeletons, even a period romance such as Loveland, or an animal rights/environmental tale such as Bless the Beasts & Children, science fiction was about the only literary genre he did not attempt.

Glendon was inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame at its convention in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2008. The WWA's Hall of Fame is in the library of the famous Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming.

Swarthout, a lifelong smoker, died of emphysema in his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, on September 23, 1992.

Significance
Swarthout, like most of his contemporaries, was affected by the Great Depression and World War II, which in turn influenced his 16 novels, particularly those set in the Midwest. Welcome to Thebes (1962), Loveland (1968), and Pinch Me, I Must Be Dreaming (1994) depict how the problems of adults affect their children, especially youth trying to adapt to an adult world. Although They Came to Cordura (1958) is set in Mexico at the time of the 1916 border dispute with Pancho Villa, its analysis of the nature of courage was influenced by Swarthout's wartime experiences. Teaching freshman honors English classes gave Swarthout insight into the mating rituals of college students on the beaches of Fort Lauderdale during spring break, and his hit Where the Boys Are (1960) definitely presaged the antiwar protests that occurred on American college campuses later in the decade. A Christmas Gift (1977, also known as The Melodeon) is an exception to Glendon's other work in several respects. It suggests a farewell tribute to his Michigan ancestors and his awareness of their tradition of understanding and concern for others.

With the conspicuous exception of A Christmas Gift, all of Swarthout's novels are infused with a sardonic spirit, usually in respect to examples of the cruelty and viciousness of which man is capable. His greatest bestseller, Bless the Beasts and Children, is a good example of this distinguishing literary trait. Another common theme of his writings is his study of courage, the extraordinary heroism of which otherwise common, ordinary men are sometimes capable, given the right circumstances. In setting free a doomed herd of buffalo, the group of mentally disturbed teenagers in Beasts demonstrates valor during harrowing conditions. The style of Swarthout's writing is fundamentally dispassionate, however, and written in a clear, linear, pictorial style, which is why so many of his stories were adapted easily to film. Swarthout was a great admirer of Somerset Maugham (with whom he studied, along with Ernest Hemingway and Joyce Cary as part of his doctoral thesis in literature) and humorist Charles Portis, who influenced his writing.

Kathryn Swarthout
Kathryn (1919-2015), the wife of Glendon and mother of Miles, was a former elementary school teacher for five years at Red Cedar School in East Lansing, Michigan, after earning her master's in education at Michigan State University, and bachelor of arts in English from the University of Michigan.

She co-wrote six young-adult novels with her husband; several of them have been published overseas. Kathryn was a columnist for Woman's Day magazine with her free-form poetry, Lifesavors, which ran in the magazine for over 20 years. Some of these columns were published in a book of the same title by Doubleday in 1982.

In 1962, Glendon and Kathryn established the Swarthout Writing Prizes at Arizona State University, administered by the English Department in Tempe. These six prizes in both poetry and fiction (with a current top prize of $1500 in each category), have grown until they now rank among the five highest awards financially for undergraduate and graduate writing programs given annually at any college or university in America.

Miles Swarthout
Miles (1946-2016) was a screenwriter and author living in Playa Del Rey, California, near the beach and LAX. He received a Writers Guild nomination for Best Adaptation for The Shootist in 1976 (the film starred John Wayne and Lauren Bacall). He had adapted a number of his father's novels into films, among them A Christmas to Remember for CBS in 1978, which starred Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, and Eva Marie Saint. As a journalist, Miles wrote a Hollywood Western film column for the Western Writers of America's bi-monthly magazine, The Roundup. He won a Stirrup Award from that organization for "The Duke's Last Ride, the Making of The Shootist," the best article to appear in that publication in 1994.

Miles Swarthout also wrote several articles for Persimmon Hill, the quarterly magazine of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, among them "The Westerns of Glendon Swarthout" in the special summer issue from 1996, "Hollywood and the West", as well as in the sequel to this best-selling issue for spring 2000, "America's First Cinema Cowboy: William S. Hart".

Miles Swarthout was the plaintiff on an episode of the Judge Judy courtroom television series toward the end of the syndicated show's second season in 1998, whereby he was suing a woman hired as a line producer for a film Swarthout was directing. The woman, Miclaelina Lee, drew from the film's budget to pay for her rent, meals, and to pay various personal bills, and did not prove that Swarthout approved and signed off on those expenditures to Judge Judith Sheindlin's satisfaction. The judgement in the case was in favor of Miles Swarthout in the amount of $1,000.00.

Miles edited the only volume of his late father's 14 short stories, Easterns and Westerns, which included an extensive overview of Glendon's literary career. Michigan State University Press published Easterns and Westerns in hardcover in the summer of 2001. Miles Swarthout also wrote The Sergeant's Lady, based upon one of his late father's old short stories, and this new novel won the Spur Award from the Western Writers as the Best First Western Novel of 2004. The Last Shootist, his sequel to his father's novel, was named 2014's Best Western Novel by the editors of True West magazine.

Novels

 * Willow Run (1943)
 * They Came to Cordura (1958)
 * Where the Boys Are (1960)
 * Welcome to Thebes (1962)
 * The Cadillac Cowboys (1964)
 * The Eagle and the Iron Cross (1966)
 * Loveland (1968)
 * Bless the Beasts and Children (1970)
 * The Tin Lizzie Troop (1972)
 * Luck and Pluck (1973)
 * The Shootist (1975)
 * A Christmas Gift (also known as The Melodeon) (1977)
 * Skeletons (1979)
 * The Old Colts (1985)
 * The Homesman (1988)
 * Pinch Me, I Must Be Dreaming (1994, posthumous)
 * Easterns and Westerns (2001) (short story collection), edited by Miles Hood Swarthout

Film adaptations

 * 7th Cavalry – Columbia Pictures, 1956
 * They Came to Cordura – Columbia Pictures, 1959
 * Where the Boys Are – MGM, 1960
 * Bless the Beasts & Children – Columbia Pictures, 1972
 * The Shootist – Paramount, 1976
 * A Christmas to Remember – CBS, 1978
 * The Homesman, 2014.

Awards

 * O. Henry Prize short story (nomination), 1960
 * National Society of Arts and Letters gold medal, 1972
 * Spur Award, Best Western Novel of 1975, The Shootist, Western Writers of America
 * Spur Award, Best Western Novel of 1988, The Homesman, Western Writers of America
 * Wrangler Award, Best Western Novel of 1988, The Homesman, Western Heritage Association
 * Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement, Western Writers of America, 1991
 * Induction into the Western Writers Hall of Fame in the library of the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, 2008

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/JTV

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS, so keep. -Splash 22:36, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

JTV
Not notable. brenneman (t) (c) 01:28, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I rewrote and wikified this in an attempt to save it. Probably meets local/regional TV station notability criteria (is there a population criteria?). MCB 07:35, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Do we have any precedents regarding local television? - brenneman (t) (c)  00:15, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - TV stations are usually notable! UniReb 11:33, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. An audience of 120,000 is a little on the low side for a television station, but presumably this is because it's just a little cable outfit.  I can't think of a good reason to delete this article; I'd be ignorant about JTV without it, and considering we are trying to build an encyclopedia that would be a bad thing. --Tony Sidaway Talk  06:21, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Discussion on general deletion policy moved to talk page.

 * Delete, not notable. Radiant_ >|< 15:32, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
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Rhys Millen

Rhys Rodney Millen (born 6 September 1972) is a New Zealand-born racing driver.

Nephew of IMSA GTS driver Steve Millen, son of Rodney and older brother of Ryan, is one of the America's top competitors in drifting. Prior to that he was a top rally driver in the US, and became the first works backed driver from a car manufacturer with GM in 2004 after narrowly losing to Ken Nomura in the US D1 Grand Prix exhibition event in. In 2011 Millen raced a 500 bhp AWD Hyundai Veloster in the US Rallycross championship. In the following years he competed in the Global Rallycross series.

Career
Millen became just the second champion in the short history of the United States' top drifting series, Formula D, just a year after his good friend, Samuel Hubinette, became the maiden series champ. Millen has two wins in his Formula D career: the 2004 season finale at the Irwindale Speedway, and the 2005 season opener at the Wall Speedway in Wall Township, New Jersey. He became the highest placed non-Japanese driver in the US round of the D1GP event in 2005, making it to the last 8 after beating Masato Kawabata, only to lose to Yasuyuki Kazama through a "One More Time" rerun. Millen's father, Rod, also competes in drifting on occasion. In fact, Rod made his Formula D debut at the 2005 season finale at Irwindale, the same event where his son was crowned the champion.

Millen has driven a Pontiac GTO drift car for three seasons (Winning in 2004 and 2005, but losing out to Hubinette in 2006) and a Pontiac Solstice for the 2007 D1 Season. For the 2009 season, he will drive a Hyundai Genesis Coupe. Red Bull has been a major sponsor of Rhys' drifting efforts, as well as the paint schemes of many of his cars.

Besides racing, Millen is also a stunt driver for films such as The Dukes of Hazzard, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. He also did the driving for the first Hyundai Genesis Coupe commercial.

On 31 December 2008, he became the first person to back-flip an off-road truck in the air. He landed off-balance, forcing his vehicle to flip on its side a few times after landing, but then walked away unharmed.

In 2009, Hyundai teamed up with Millen to race the Hyundai Genesis Coupe at the Formula Drift Professional Drifting Championship, the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb and select Redline Time Attack Series events in 2009. On July of that year, Millen set a new rear wheel drive record to take Pikes Peak's time attack title.

In 2010, Millen, with navigator Antony Jay Hartley, partnered with Hyundai into the sport of rally.

Supercar
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At last she moves

At last she moves is a recurring phrase in the history of Western Australia, used to acknowledged long-awaited progress after a period of stagnation.

Governor Weld first used the phrase in reference to the colony finally gaining representative government in 1870. When Governor Frederick Broome turned the first sod on the Great Southern Railway at Beverley on 20 October 1886, he again used the phrase, presumably as an allusion to Weld's earlier use. In October 1890, Governor Robinson returned from England with the news that Western Australia had been granted responsible government. On his arrival at Albany on 18 October 1890, he made a speech in which he used the phrase: "now I think we can venture to say, with all sincerity, and in the full conviction that it will be realised, 'At last she moves.'" Three days later, responsible government was proclaimed in Perth, Western Australia. The city had been decorated in anticipation of celebration of the first Proclamation Day, and one of the highlights was a large banner draped across the front of Edward Keane's store, which read "" in all capital letters.

The following poem was published in The West Australian in 1891, referring to Perth Boys School, but possibly alluding to above-mentioned usage.

 * "At Last She Moves."
 * The High School of Perth is now going ahead
 * As the match of last Saturday proves.
 * At last she's been drawn from her oozy mud bed.
 * At last we can say that she moves.
 * For two or three years she has gradually sunk
 * Into lazy and slovenly grooves.
 * But since the new master has come into power
 * We safely can say that she moves.
 * All the idle old ways he firmly puts down
 * And each foolish habit reproves.
 * Till at length it's apparent to all the wide world.
 * That at last the old H.S.P. moves.

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Talk:Zefie

Uh...I have no idea what this is about?

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File:Fiona Apple and Zach Galifianakis in Not About Love music video.jpg

A screenshot of Fiona Apple and Zach Galifianakis in the music video for Apple's single "Not About Love", directed by Michael Blieden, from her album Extraordinary Machine (2005). Image copyright for the video is owned by Epic Records.

Rationale of fair use for Extraordinary Machine
The image Image:Fiona Apple and Zach Galifianakis in Not About Love music video.jpg is being linked here; though the picture is originally copyright, I (Extraordinary Machine 02:29, 4 September 2005 (UTC)) feel it is covered by fair use because:

 * 1) The image is a screenshot from a promotional music video originally created by Epic Records, and intended for wide distribution.
 * 2) The screenshot is of lower resolution and quality than the original video (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
 * 3) No free or public domain images have been located for this album.
 * 4) The screenshot does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the album, single or music video in any way.
 * 5) The screenshot is intended to represent the nature of the album. Its inclusion in the article is important because it illustrates overviews of the album's tracks (including "Not About Love"), most (if not all) of whose lyrics revolve around romantic relationships. It should be noted that the image depicts a woman and man lying in bed beside each other. In other words, this image is the most suitable image to accompany discussions related to the "meaning" of the album and its songs.
 * 6) The screenshot is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the original album, single or music video in any way.

This is fair use in the Not about Love article, but not in Fiona Apple, as there is no discussion of the video from which this is taken in the article. For Zach Galifianakis, it's marginal; that article would be better served with an image of the subject, but I'll leave it there for now.  howch e  ng   {chat} 20:40, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


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Wake Up (Hilary Duff song)

"Wake Up" is a song by American actress and singer Hilary Duff from her first compilation album Most Wanted (2005). Written by Duff and the Dead Executives, a record production team consisting of Jason Epperson, Joel Madden, and Benji Madden, "Wake Up" was crafted with the intention of having a "totally different sound" from Duff's previous material. Although she thought of the work to be a new milestone in her career, she was at the same time nervous about how her fans would react to the material. "Wake Up" was released as the lead single from Most Wanted in the United States on July 12, 2005, by Hollywood Records. It was released also digitally in the United Kingdom on October 24, 2005.

Described by Duff as an '80s-influenced dance-pop song, "Wake Up" is lyrically about going out and having fun. "Wake Up" received mixed reviews from music critics. Some praised it for being "irresistible" and having a fun nature, while others criticized it for its "insipid" lyrics and noted that it sounds like "leftovers" from Duff's previous releases. "Wake Up" achieved commercial success, becoming a top-ten hit in Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It reached the top 40 in several other countries: Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United States. The accompanying music video form "Wake Up" features Duff leaving her house and attending various nightclubs and parties.

Development
On May 20, 2005, MTV News reported that Duff would be releasing a new album in August, comprising previously released tracks and four new recordings. It was also announced that preceding the album's release, Duff would begin a 32-date summer concert tour in support of the album. The following month, in an interview with MTV News, Duff said that she had been working with brothers Joel and Benji Madden of American rock band Good Charlotte and Jason Epperson (together known under the production name the Dead Executives) to write and produce new songs for the compilation. She said that " ... they're three of my favorite songs I've ever done. ... It was really fun being in the studio with them." Described by Duff as the first time when "all the responsibility was on [her]", she went into the recording studio without the guidance of her record label or management.

According to Duff, she did not tell anyone at her record label that she was working with the Dead Executives. Joel, whom Duff had been dating at the time, was aware that she needed new material for a compilation album, and knew that she wanted a "totally different sound". Together, the Dead Executives went into the recording studio and worked on new music for Duff, before bringing her into the studio to collectively work on them. Duff described working with them as pleasant, and the music as a new milestone in her career, stating that working with "people you're close with makes a world of difference when you're recording and being creative." At the same time, Duff was also nervous about how her fans would react to the new music. Duff recorded four tracks for the album, three of which were co-written and produced with the Dead Executives.

Composition
"Wake Up" is a mid-tempo dance-pop song with "a more mature pop-techno sound" than Duff's previous work. She has described the song's genre as "very dancey, kind of pop – not '80s, but kind of with that in it." According to her, the song "makes you want to forget about all the pressure of dealing with your boss, or your teacher, or your mom, or [whoever]," and lyrically discusses "getting out and not forgetting to have some fun." Duff has also said that "it's really a catchy song but it talks about being in all my favorite places in the world, which is Tokyo and Paris and London and New York." The song is written in the key of E major and is set in common time, with a tempo of 118 beats per minute. Its instrumentation comes from a guitar, bass and drums. It features the sequence of E5—E/G#—A(#11) as its chord progression. Duff's vocal range spans exactly one octave, from C♯4–C♯5.

Critical reception
Sal Cinquemani criticized the song's lyrics, calling them "insipid." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic described the song as "a sweet-natured, slightly listless spin on Gwen Stefani's 'Cool,'" and according to him, it "sound[s] a bit like leftovers" from Duff's previous releases.

Chart performance
In the United States, "Wake Up" was released to mainstream top 40 radio on July 12, 2005, Largely because of high digital download sales, the single entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at number twenty-nine in mid-August, the week's highest debut. It spent two weeks in the top forty and six on the Hot 100, and it also reached the top forty on Billboard's Pop 100 chart. In October 2005, the RIAA certified "Wake Up" gold for its download sales. As of July 27, 2014, the song had sold 437,000 digital copies in the United States.

"Wake Up" was more successful outside the U.S. It was released in the UK in late October and debuted at number seven, Duff's highest position on the singles chart there.

Music video
The song's accompanying music video was directed by Marc Webb and was shot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Duff said, "I'm a huge fan of [the bands he's worked with], so I was really excited that he would direct my video." She added:

"The video moves really quickly and has all [these] quick pops. It shows me in Tokyo, London, Paris, New York, and it goes through all these different looks, [one] in each city, and it just shows that no matter where you are, people want [to do] the same things: they dance and they party. [...] The [style] looks kind of grainy and it's a totally different look for me."

It starts with Duff waking up on a couch, then sitting up to begin singing the song. Shortly after, the video cuts to a shot of her singing while sitting on a bench in her bedroom. After listening to music through headphones for a short while, she gets up, applies make-up, and puts on a black wig. She leaves her bedroom and rides around town in a car with several friends. She is then seen at various nightclubs in different cities. For the duration of the video, there are shots of her at different parties and clubs while she sings and clubgoers around her dance.

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Scott Orr

Scott Orr is an American video game designer best known as the lead designer on the first video game console versions of Madden NFL Football. In 2001, Wired magazine named Orr on its list of "gamemaking gods." Orr‘s career in sports games spans over 20 years.

Gamestar
In 1982 Orr founded Gamestar, a game publisher specializing in home computer sports games, where Orr was credited as either a designer or producer for:
 * Starbowl Football (1982)
 * Star League Baseball (1983)
 * On-Court Tennis (1984)
 * Championship Baseball (1986)
 * GFL Championship Football (1985)
 * Star Rank Boxing (1985)
 * Gamestar Basketball Association (GBA) Championship Basketball - Two-on-Two (1986)
 * Star Rank Boxing II (1987)
 * Top Fuel Eliminator (1987)
 * Face Off! (1987)
 * Gamestar Championship Sports Pack (1987)

Orr sold the company to Activision in 1986. He spent the late 1980s working for Activision, and then consulting for various games companies.

Madden NFL Football
In 1990 EA producer Richard Hilleman hired Orr to re-design John Madden Football, then a disappointing Apple II game, for the Sega Genesis. Orr and Hilleman developed the game that became Madden NFL Football. Orr joined EA full-time in 1991 after the success of Madden on the Genesis, and supervised the production of Madden Football for the next ten years. He and his team also created the following EA Sports titles, each of which was updated annually:

 * NHLPA Hockey
 * NCAA Football
 * Andretti Racing
 * NASCAR Racing (later called NASCAR Thunder)
 * Knockout Kings

He continued to work with Hilleman during much of this period, and both were promoted to corporate VP and senior management roles in EA product development.

During this time Orr produced two educational titles for EA Kids:

 * Eagle Eye Mysteries, by Stormfront Studios
 * Eagle Eye Mysteries in London

Mobile games
In 2001, Orr resigned from EA and founded cell phone game design company Sorrent, an abbreviation of Scott Orr Entertainment. In 2004 Orr (and his brother Keith) were ejected from Sorrent by the board, and founded Bigdog Games to develop next-gen console and handheld games. Sorrent's name was changed to Glu Mobile in 2005, and the company went public with an IPO in 2007. In 2006 Bigdog Games expanded its charter into digital publishing and changed its name to D2C Games.

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Talk:A. Baldwin Wood

Katrina
I'm debating the appropriateness of adding mention of Hurricane Katrina here. It seems Wood's draining laid the groundwork for Katrina's dvistation. —BenFrantzDale 01:34, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * A bit of an overstatement, I think. Wood's pumps certainly laid the foundation of the expansion of the city into what had been swampy lowlands, but his system was designed for the New Orleans of his era-- I think part of the problem was that the S&WB stuck too much to Wood's original system adding little more than more pumping capacity as the city expanded far beyond the area the system was designed for, instead of creating similar new systems for the more newly settled area like near the lakefront and in the East. -- Infrogmation

Wood Screw Pump
Unless someone objects, I'm going to merge Wood Screw Pump into this article. They seem to cover substantially the same information. I'd do it right now but don't have the time. If someone else sees this and wants to take a whack at it, feel free. CarbonX (talk) 20:10, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

 * It's much more helpful to have the pump and the person as separate articles. If Wood really didn't do anything else worth describing, I would suggest the merge was done in the other direction: the pump article having a section on its designer. However, since the merge suggestion was made 18 months ago, I think the urgency has passed. I have removed the merge banner from the affected page. -- EdJogg (talk) 23:17, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

title: Talk:A. Baldwin Wood