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Dirty Diana

"Dirty Diana" is a song by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson. It is the ninth track on Jackson's seventh studio album, Bad (1987). The song was released by Epic Records on April 18, 1988, as the fifth single from the album. It presents a harder rock sound similar to "Beat It" from Thriller (1982) and a guitar solo played by Steve Stevens. "Dirty Diana" was written and co-produced by Jackson, and produced by Quincy Jones. The song's lyrics pertain to groupies. "Dirty Diana" has a moderate tempo and is played in the key of G minor.

"Dirty Diana" received mixed reviews from contemporary music critics, but was a commercial success worldwide in 1988, charting at No. 1 on the United States Billboard Hot 100. The song also charted within the top ten in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and New Zealand. In 2009, after Jackson's death in June, the song re-entered charts, mainly due to digital download sales. A music video for "Dirty Diana" was filmed in front of a live audience and released in 1988.

Background
"Dirty Diana" was written by Michael Jackson. It was produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. It appeared on Jackson's seventh studio album, Bad. The song was released by Epic Records on April 18, 1988, as the fifth single from Bad. After "Beat It", "Dirty Diana" was the second hard rock song of his solo career with lyrics about a persistent groupie. Jackson hired Billy Idol's guitarist Steve Stevens to back him on the track.

Initial reports at the time suggested the song was a poke at his close friend Diana Ross. However, it was later denied. In fact, Ross started using the song as an overture at her concerts shortly before appearing on stage. In an interview from the special edition of Bad, Jones later confirmed that the song's lyrics were about groupies. Jackson also confirmed the same during an interview with Barbara Walters, adding that it was not about Diana, Princess of Wales, though he was told personally by the Princess that it was her favorite among his songs.

Composition
Musically, "Dirty Diana" is a pop rock and hard rock song similar to "Beat It", with elements of heavy metal. TriniTrent of The Lava Lizard, when talking about Michael and Janet Jackson's "Scream", mentions "Dirty Diana" along with Jackson's "pop/rock musical direction" he has previously experimented with. John Tatlock of The Quietus regards the song as an attempt to recreate "the pop-rock alchemy of 'Beat It'." In his Bad review, Los Angeles Times' Richard Cromelin describes "Dirty Diana" as a hard rock song, writing, "'Dirty Diana' is trying to be this year's 'Beat It' — a hard-rock song about a tenacious groupie that's sent into orbit by a Steve Stevens guitar solo."

Jon Pareles, a writer for The New York Times, viewed "Dirty Diana" as a song about a "groupie who latches onto the narrator, mixes the sexual fears of 'Billie Jean' with the hard-rock lead guitar of 'Beat It'." In his Bad review, Thom Duffy, music critic for the Orlando Sentinel, wrote that "Dirty Diana, a tale of a maliciously seductive fan, finds Jackson doing credible heavy-metal rock wailing," which, the critic said, was "accompanied by a solo from Steve Stevens, the guitarist from Billy Idol's band." Jonathan Takiff of The Philadelphia Inquirer also noted elements of heavy metal in "Dirty Diana", writing, "Plus, to tap the rock crowd (in the style of the 'Thriller' crossover smash 'Beat It' with Eddie Van Halen), Michael cut a heavy metal-tinged 'Dirty Diana' featuring Billy Idol's guitar sizzler Stevie Stevens." "Dirty Diana" is written in common time and moves at a moderate tempo of 131 beats per minute. Jackson's vocals are sung on a range of B♭3 to G5. The instrumentation consists of guitar and piano and is played in the key of G minor.

Critical response
"Dirty Diana" received mixed reviews from contemporary music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine felt that "Dirty Diana" and "Man in the Mirror" were "showcasing Jackson at his worst" on Bad. Music critic Robert Christgau viewed "Dirty Diana" as "misogynistic as any piece of metal suck-my-cock." Jon Pareles described "Dirty Diana" as 'reducing' Jackson to a "terrified whimper," while John Tatlock considered "Dirty Diana" as a "confused lumbering slog of a song," thinking that "Jackson was never convincing in this kind of role, a boy-child trying to write a song about the kind of woman he never meets in the kind of places he's certainly never been to." Davitt Sigerson of Rolling Stone gave the song a more positive review; though calling it a "filler," she still commented that the song, along with "Speed Demon," is what makes Bad "richer, sexier, better than Thriller's forgettables." Sigerson noted that "Dirty Diana" was a "substantial recording" because of its "insubstantial melody." Jennifer Clay of Yahoo! Music commented that while Jackson's edgier image was a "little hard to swallow," the image, musically, worked on the songs "Bad", "Man in the Mirror", and "Dirty Diana", but was not "to the degree of Thriller."

Chart performance
"Dirty Diana", similar to Bad's previous singles, charted within the top 20 and top 10 worldwide. It peaked at No. 1 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 on July 2, 1988, after nine weeks on the chart, and exited the chart after its 14th week. The song reached the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 2, 1988. The song became Jackson's tenth number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and his fifth consecutive number-one single. Jackson became the first male and artist in history of Billboard to take five singles from the same album to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, the record tied by Katy Perry in August 2011. Internationally, "Dirty Diana" charted within the top 30 positions on several music charts. It charted within the top five in the Netherlands, West Germany, and New Zealand, peaking at Nos. 2, 3 and 5, respectively. It entered the United Kingdom charts on July 16, 1988, at No. 14 and the following week went to No. 4, where it stayed for two weeks.

"Dirty Diana" peaked at No. 3 in Ireland, No. 7 in Austria and No. 9 in France. It peaked at No. 30 in Australia. Following Jackson's death in June 2009, his music experienced a surge in popularity. In July 2009, "Dirty Diana" saw a strong chart surge, mainly due to digital download sales. The song charted at No. 18 on the French Digital Singles Chart on July 4, 2009. On July 12, the song peaked at No. 13 on the Swiss Singles Chart. "Dirty Diana" re-entered the United Kingdom charts on July 4, 2009, at No. 50 and the following week peaked at No. 26.

Music video
The five-minute music video for the song was directed by Joe Pytka and produced by Angela Jones. The music video was filmed in March 1988 in Long Beach, California. It won the "Number-One Video in the World" at the first World Music Awards held on April 14, 1989. It is featured on the DVD albums Number Ones, Michael Jackson's Vision, and the Target version DVD of Bad 25.

The woman who appears in the video is model Lisa Dean, chosen over hundreds of girls who auditioned for the role.

Live performance video
A second seven-minute long accompanying video of a live performance (which should not be confused with the actual music video) was filmed in early 1988 in front of a live audience during Jackson's show in Madison Square Garden (Steve Stevens playing guitar). The video starts with the screen saying "Pepsi Presents Michael Jackson Tour 1988" in front of a white background for forty seconds. After showing a black screen, Jackson can be seen from a distance performing in front of an audience with the only source of light being blue lights. During Jackson's performance he is dressed in a white button down shirt, black pants and has metal and leather belts on his pants while singing and dancing. In between Jackson's performance from a distance, there are clips of him performing up-close while singing into a microphone, as well as clips of his guitarist Jennifer Batten performing behind him. Jackson then begins dancing and singing to the woman before walking down a cat-walk and dancing near guitarist Steve Stevens. Jackson's performance is then shown from a distance again and the video ends with Jackson finishing his performance and the lights turning blue.

Live performances
"Dirty Diana" was performed during Jackson's Bad World Tour concert series from 1987 to 1989, but only in the second leg, as the 10th song in the setlist. According to Jackson in an interview with Barbara Walters, "Dirty Diana" was scheduled for a live 1988 performance at Wembley Stadium during the Bad World Tour; however, Jackson felt the song would be an insult to Diana, Princess of Wales, who was in attendance, so he had it removed. After Diana informed him the song was actually one of her personal favorites, Jackson re-added the song to the set list. This performance can be seen on the DVD Michael Jackson: Live at Wembley July 16, 1988. This Is It concert series choreographer, Kenny Ortega, stated in an interview that "Dirty Diana" was going to be performed by Jackson for the concerts from 2009 to 2010. Ortega said that Jackson had planned to rehearse the song before he died. The set up for the song would include an expert pole dancer who would lure Jackson onto a giant steel bed on which she performed acrobatic feats.

Track listing

 * 7-inch single, 12-inch maxi
 * 1) "Dirty Diana" – 4:42
 * 2) "Dirty Diana" (instrumental) – 4:42

 * 3-inch CD single
 * 1) "Dirty Diana" (single edit) – 4:42
 * 2) "Dirty Diana" (instrumental) – 4:42
 * 3) "Dirty Diana" (album version) – 4:52

 * CD-maxi single
 * 1) "Dirty Diana" – 4:42
 * 2) "Dirty Diana" (instrumental) – 4:42
 * 3) "Bad" (dance extended mix includes false fade) – 8:24

 * CD side
 * 1) "Dirty Diana" – 4:40
 * 2) "Dirty Diana" (instrumental) – 4:40

 * DVD side
 * 1) "Dirty Diana" (music video) – 5:08

Credits and personnel

 * Written and composed by Michael Jackson
 * Produced by Quincy Jones
 * Co-produced by Michael Jackson
 * Rhythm arrangement by Michael Jackson, John Barnes and Jerry Hey
 * Synthesizer arrangements by Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones and John Barnes
 * String arrangement by John Barnes
 * Vocal arrangement by Michael Jackson
 * Michael Jackson – solo and background vocals, Clave' clapstick
 * Steve Stevens – guitar solo
 * Paul Jackson, Jr. - lead guitar
 * David Williams – rhythm guitar
 * Christopher Currell – Synclavier
 * Denny Jaeger – Synclavier synthesis
 * John Barnes, Michael Boddicker and Randy Waldman – synthesizers
 * John Robinson – drums
 * Douglas Getschal – drum programming

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STARadio is a radio broadcast company that owns several radio stations throughout the United States in the cities of Quincy and Kankakee, IL as well as stations in Great Falls, Montana.

Radio stations

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The Chronic Argonauts

"The Chronic Argonauts" is an 1888 short story by the British science-fiction writer H. G. Wells. It features an inventor who builds a time machine and travels in time using it, and it pre-dates Wells's best-selling 1895 time travel novel The Time Machine by seven years.

Writing and publication
"The Chronic Argonauts" was written in serial parts while Wells was ill and staying with friends in Stoke-on-Trent, from early April to early July 1888. Wells later recalled that: "at Etruria my real writing began. ... Moreover I began ... the original draft of what later became The Time Machine...".

It was published in the April, May, and June 1888 issues of the Royal College of Science student magazine The Science Schools Journal. Two digital versions of the text, available online April 2020, both show four subheadings:
 * Being the Account of Dr. Nebogipfel's Sojourn in Llyddwdd
 * How an Esoteric Story Became Possible
 * The Esoteric Story Based on the Clergyman's Depositions: The Anachronic Man
 * The Chronic Argo

"The Chronic Argonauts" was the second story to use an inventor-built machine to travel in time, a year after the publication of Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau's El anacronópete. Despite extensive biographical work on Wells over more than a century, there is no evidence to suggest that Wells saw or was influenced by the 1881 New York newspaper story "The Clock that Went Backward", in which an antique clock served as a time-travel device.

"The Chronic Argonauts" later developed into the famous final version of The Time Machine (1895), with the bulk of the re-writing and new writing being done in 1894. The finished novel has a number of points of similarity with the first short-story version of 1888.

Plot summary
A third-person narrator describes the arrival of a mysterious inventor in the inward-looking Welsh town of Llyddwdd. Dr. Moses Nebogipfel takes up residence in a house neglected after the deaths of its former inhabitants. The simple rural folk become apprehensive about Nebogipfel's activities in the house and suspect him of witchcraft. Ultimately they storm the inventor's "devilish" workshop. Nebogipfel escapes with the sympathetic Reverend Elijah Ulysses Cook, in what is later revealed to be a time machine. The unnamed narrator later discovers the dazed Reverend Cook, who has been missing for three weeks. Cook then becomes a second narrator, relating in flashback the night of his disappearance, and a series of subsequent adventures in time with Nebogipfel. He reveals that Nebogipfel understands himself to be an "Anachronic Man", a man whose genius drives him to seek out a time more suited to his abilities. A 'time loop' is implied, in which Nebogipfel went back to the past and killed the previous owners of the house, thus causing it to fall into ruin and enabling him to occupy it for his present-day experiments.

Inspiration for Nebogipfel
Since the 1970s there has been some discussion among scholars about a possible source of inspiration for Nebogipfel, since he is the root of the stock character of the time-travelling scientist. These suggestions were summarised by Martin T. Willis, who stated that the scholars had "reached no conclusions about the character of, or inspiration for, the Time Traveler", and added his own suggestion of the American inventor Thomas Edison.

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Polycrase

Polycrase or polycrase-(Y) is a black or brown metallic complex uranium yttrium oxide mineral with the chemical formula (Y,Ca,Ce,U,Th)(Ti,Nb,Ta)2O6. It is amorphous. It has a Mohs hardness of 5 to 6 and a specific gravity of 5. It is radioactive due to its uranium content (around 6%). It occurs in granitic pegmatites.

Polycrase forms a continuous series with the niobium rich rare earth oxide euxenite.

It was first described in 1870 at Rasvag, Hidra (Hittero) Island, near Flekkefjord, Norway. It is found in Sweden, Norway, and the United States.

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Cruel Story of Youth

Cruel Story of Youth (青春残酷物語) is a 1960 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima, starring Yusuke Kawazu and Miyuki Kuwano as teenage delinquents and lovers. It is Ōshima's second feature film and is known for its elements of Japanese nuberu bagu. The film won the 1960 Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Newcomer for Ōshima.

Plot
After Makoto Shinjo hitchhikes a ride, the driver tries to molest her, but is stopped by Kiyoshi Fuji. He takes her on a date, first to watch the Anpo Protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty, and then later to ride a motorboat on a river, where he rapes her. One day, after trying to wait for him at a bar he frequents, she is targeted by gangsters who prostitute women, but Kiyoshi fights them and they leave them alone in exchange for a payment. The two fall in love and Makoto spends more time with him, causing her to be rebuked by her older sister Yuki, resulting in her deciding to live with him. To make money, the two reconstruct how they met, with Makoto seducing a driver and, when he comes on to her, Kiyoshi extorting him. In one case, a middle-aged, wealthy business-owner named Horio picks her up, but makes her feel happy so she doesn't do it.

When Makoto finds out that she is pregnant, Kiyoshi tells her to get an abortion, but when he tries to get her to exploit a driver again, she refuses. Horio picks her up, and when she calls Kiyoshi to ask whether she can stay the night, the line is busy. Kiyoshi asks an older lover he is seeing for a loan and when he gives the money to Makoto, she tells him she slept with Horio. In response he finds Horio and takes money from him, telling him that he was just another target of Makoto's. After the abortion, performed illegally at the clinic of Yuki's former lover Akimoto, the couple is arrested for extortion. After they confess, and with the help of Kiyoshi's older lover, the two are released and Akimoto is arrested.

Kiyoshi breaks up with Makoto so they won't hurt each other anymore. The gangsters find Kiyoshi because the motorbike he borrowed from them for the extortions was stolen, resulting in two of them being arrested. They ask him to give them Makoto, but Kiyoshi refuses and is killed. At the same time Makoto is given a ride by a passerby, and when he refuses to let her out, she jumps out of the car to her death.

Cast

 * Yūsuke Kawazu as Kiyoshi Fujii
 * Miyuki Kuwano as Makoto Shinjo
 * Yoshiko Kuga as Makoto's elder sister Yuki
 * Fumio Watanabe as Akimoto
 * Shinji Tanaka as Yoshimi Ito, student
 * Shinjiro Matsuzaki as Terada
 * Toshiko Kobayashi as Teruko Shimonishi

Production
Ōshima, who was only 28 at the time, made extensive use of hand-held cameras and location shooting, and the results drew comparisons to the French nouvelle vague filmmakers emerging at around the same time; the film became one of the primary films in the Nūberu bāgu.

The use of adolescent criminals as protagonists generated controversy at the time, though the film was also a commercial success, which helped to pave the way for the emergence of a young and adventurous generation of new Japanese filmmakers: in short order, Shohei Imamura, Masahiro Shinoda, Yasuzo Masumura, Susumu Hani, Hiroshi Teshigahara and others began to attract international attention. In this film, Ōshima was already beginning to explore the themes he would soon become celebrated for: a focus on youth and on 'outsiders', and critical deconstructions of more stereotypical imagery in Japanese cinema.

Reception
Vincent Canby of The New York Times complimented the colors and cinematography of the film, but was confused by its unexplained political and social references and felt the story was told too distantly, making it dim. Mary Evans of The Japan Times compared the film to a sociological study which, while mostly succeeding, failed when it moralized. She also found faults in the originality of the story, the violence of the ending, and the portrayal of the gangsters and Makoto, but called the film strong and praised Ōshima's "great feeling for his medium." James Hoberman of The Village Voice described the film as a "candy-colored extravaganza [that] is directed with considerable brio and filled with bold metaphors", but felt that certain aspects were dated such as "powerless men preying upon even weaker women" and its "absence of cynicism and even careerism."

The film won the 1960 Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Newcomer for Ōshima.

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User:Joellevand

joellevand is the online username of writer M. Elizabeth Coy, and is taken from the name of a character in the David Foster Wallace book The Infinite Jest.

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Airborne (1993 film)

Airborne is a 1993 American comedy-drama film about inline skating directed by Rob Bowman in his feature film directorial debut, and starring Shane McDermott, Seth Green, Brittney Powell, Chris Conrad, Jacob Vargas and Jack Black.

Plot
Mitchell Goosen is a teenager from California who loves to surf and rollerblade. His zoologist parents are given the opportunity for grant work in Australia for six months. Eager to accompany his parents to the surf-friendly shores of the South Pacific, he is dismayed to find out that he will not be joining them and instead will be living with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio, to finish the remainder of his high school semester. He arrives in the midst of a winter storm quickly coming to the realization that this is far from the free-spirited beach atmosphere that he has been accustomed to. To add to his disillusion, he meets his cousin Wiley, who at first glance is an awkward teenager and whose parents' lifestyle and demeanor, though warm and hospitable, is a bit old-fashioned.

Mitchell is met on his first day at school with obstacles. He is antagonized by the gritty hockey players who chastise Mitchell for his easygoing "Maharishi" philosophy and "California" appearance. The hockey players include Jack, Augie, Snake, Rosenblat, and the Banduccis. With an upcoming game against the rival "preps", Wiley and subsequently Mitchell are asked to fill-in for two students undergoing punishment for misbehavior. Mitchell inadvertently scores a goal for the preps, cementing the disdain of the hockey players, and in particular Jack, who tackles Mitchell while still on the ice, concussing him and leaving him unconscious for what appears to be hours. Over the course of the next few weeks, Mitchell and Wiley are harassed relentlessly, culminating with Mitchell having a dream which convinces him to peacefully confront the situation.

During the interim, Mitchell falls in love with Nikki. During a double date with his cousin and Nikki's friend Gloria, the leader of the preps, Blane, physically confronts Mitchell, who is only saved when Jack arrives to stand up for Nikki who, as it turns out, is also Jack's sister. Mitchell's dream comes to fruition when he decides to proactively join Jack and his ice hockey brethren for a street hockey game against the preps. Mitchell embarrasses Blane, causing a change of heart from his teammates. Later, Snake, Augie, and the Banduccis solicit Mitchell's help and rollerblading expertise in a race down a harrowing street route termed Devil's Backbone against the preps. It is agreed upon that the first team with three members crossing the finish line will be deemed the winner. An aggressive and athletic Snake reaches the finish first for Mitchell's team, but two preps swiftly follow suit. Needing only one more person to win and with Blane in sight of the end, he decides to barrel into Mitchell but poorly times his attack and instead lands in the waters below. This leaves Jack and Mitchell in clear sight of the finish line, as they approach in tandem victory to the cheers of their awaiting schoolmates, and kisses of respective love interests. Mitchell has finally earned the respect of Jack and his friends, and he is lifted on the shoulders of a cheering crowd.

Cast

 * Shane McDermott as Mitchell Goosen
 * Seth Green as Wiley Metzner
 * Brittney Powell as Nikki
 * Chris Conrad as Jack
 * Edie McClurg as Irene Metzner
 * Patrick O'Brien as Louie Metzner
 * Jack Black as Jose Augusto Rafael "Augie" de la Parra
 * Alanna Ubach as Gloria
 * Jacob Vargas as "Snake"
 * Owen Stadele as Blane
 * Jessica Boevers as Alexis
 * Chris Edwards as Walt
 * Daniel Betances as Tony Banducci
 * David Betances as Mark Banducci
 * Jason Matthew Smith as Rosenblat
 * Travis Hafer as Ice Skating / Roller Hockey Extra
 * Mike Colvin as Hot High School Boy Hockey Crowd Extra
 * Christian McVeigh as "Supermac"

Production
Producer Stephen McEveety collaborated on the story with his former schoolmate, speech teacher and children's book writer Bill Apablasa, who also wrote the screenplay. McEveety later brought the project to Icon Productions president Bruce Davey when he joined the company in 1992. During production, filmmakers consulted with professional in-line skaters from Team Rollerblade, who spent twelve days choreographing the skating sequences, performing onscreen stunts, and training the actors in the sport. Principal photography took place during winter 1992 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Although filmmakers later intended to move to snowier landscapes in Minnesota, a recent blizzard in Ohio enabled them to complete all exterior filming within the state. Shooting in the classrooms of Western Hills High School took place on weekends and included numerous students as background actors.

Critical
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 31% approval rating, based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 3.5/10. The website's consensus reads, "Airborne skates downhill with a threadbare story, flat characters, and wince-inducing dialogue."

In a review for the Los Angeles Times, Chris Willman commended the production team for their efforts, praising cinematographer Okada for giving the film "a surprising natural light look" and composer Copeland for providing "a well above average rock score", and giving huge credit to second unit director Steve Boyum, stunt coordinator Pat Parnell and the skaters for making the skating scenes and finale "inherently cinematic".

Willman added that, "Off the skates, it's at best mediocre Nickelodeon fare", writing that "[A]s the first major filmic celebration of in line skating and holy Rollerbladers, Airborne (citywide) is hell on wheels and itchy limbo off. The occasional action scenes are as appropriately tortuous as the tired teen out of water plot is torturous. This is a kid flick that's speed skating on one leg."

The New York Times's Stephen Holden called it "a modest attempt to take a familiar genre, the surf movie, and spin it into a new subgenre, the Rollerblades film."

Box office
The film was released in 982 theaters. It made $2,850,263 domestically, and $1,262,239 in its opening weekend.

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Another Part of Me

"Another Part of Me" is a song by American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson. Produced by Quincy Jones (and co-produced by Jackson), it was released as the sixth single on July 11, 1988, for the singer's seventh studio album, Bad (1987). The song was originally featured in Jackson's 1986 3D film Captain EO. It is the sixth song on the album. As with earlier songs in his career such as "Can You Feel It" and "We Are the World", the lyrics emphasize global unity, love and outreach.

The song was featured in the trailer for Jackson's 1988 film Moonwalker, and was featured as a dance attack and level song for the later revisions of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker video game (originally the first revision used excerpts of Thriller). The song was also featured in the 1998 movie Rush Hour during a score with Chris Tucker dancing.

In July 2009, a short part of the song was used by singer Madonna as a tribute during the second leg of her Sticky & Sweet Tour. A Jackson impersonator performed his signature moves, while dancing to a medley of Jackson's songs.

Background
According to Quincy Jones in an interview that was featured in the 2001 special edition of Bad, Jackson wanted to include "Streetwalker" on the album instead of "Another Part of Me". However, as Jones said, "Michael liked 'Streetwalker', and I wanted to do 'Another Part of Me'...he wrote both of them, so it didn't make any difference to him...we were going to listen to them, the three of us, objectively and decide which one was gonna get picked. And so [manager Frank] DiLeo was sitting down when 'Streetwalker' was on, and when 'Another Part of Me' came on, he got up with his fat ass, you know, and started [dancing]. I said, 'You're not helping Michael at all!' It was so funny—Michael had a funny name for him, like, 'Rubber...what are you doin' man, you just blew my whole case here!' So DiLeo helped me get 'Another Part' cause he started shaking his butt on it." "Streetwalker" was later released on the 2001 special edition and the second disc of 25th anniversary re-issue.

Music video
An official video was released in 1988, directed by Patrick Kelly, featuring Jackson performing the song live during his Bad World Tour. The film footage was taken on July 14 and 22 at Wembley Stadium and at Rotterdam on June 7 with soundtrack mixed from live multitrack recording taken on July 15 (while the drum multitrack is from July 16), with additional footage from June 27 and 28 shows at Parc des Princes in Paris as well as some footage from Volksparkstadion in Hamburg on July 1 and in Cork on July 30. It is featured on the DVD Michael Jackson's Vision and the Target version DVD of Bad 25.

Track listing

 * 7" single
 * 1) "Another Part of Me" (single mix) – 3:46
 * 2) "Another Part of Me" (instrumental) – 3:46

 * 12" single / picture disc – CD maxi
 * 1) "Another Part of Me" (extended dance mix) – 6:18
 * 2) "Another Part of Me" (radio edit) – 4:24
 * 3) "Another Part of Me" (dub mix) – 3:51
 * 4) "Another Part of Me" (a cappella) – 4:01

 * Promo CD single (United States)
 * 1) "Another Part of Me" (single mix)
 * 2) "Another Part of Me" (extended dance mix)
 * 3) "Another Part of Me" (radio edit)
 * 4) "Another Part of Me" (dub mix)
 * 5) "Another Part of Me" (a cappella)

Personnel

 * Written and composed by Michael Jackson
 * Produced by Quincy Jones
 * Co-produced by Michael Jackson
 * Michael Jackson: solo and background vocals
 * Paul Jackson, Jr., David Williams: guitars
 * Kim Hutchcroft, Larry Williams: saxophones
 * Gary Grant, Jerry Hey: trumpets
 * Christopher Currell: Synclavier
 * John Barnes, Rhett Lawrence: synthesizers
 * Rhythm and vocal arrangements by Michael Jackson and John Barnes
 * Horn arrangement by Jerry Hey

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Soundtracker

Soundtracker may refer to:
 * Ultimate Soundtracker: a music tracker program for the Commodore Amiga
 * SoundTracker (Unix): a music tracker program for Unix-like operating systems
 * Soundtracker (ZX Spectrum): a music tracker program for the ZX Spectrum
 * Soundtracker (music streaming): a music streaming platform for mobile devices

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Chiquitita

"Chiquitita" ("little girl" in Spanish) is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released in January 1979 as the first single from Voulez-Vous (1979), the group's sixth album. Agnetha Fältskog performs the lead vocals. Originally, the track "If It Wasn't for the Nights" was going to be the album's lead single, but after "Chiquitita" was completed these plans were abandoned, and it remained an album track.

Background and release
Many preliminary versions of "Chiquitita" exist. It had working titles of "Kålsupare", "3 Wise Guys", "Chiquitita Angelina" and "In the Arms of Rosalita". A revised version, which had a sound that was influenced by the Peruvian song "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" performed by Simon and Garfunkel, was recorded in December 1978 and released as a single in January 1979.

With the success of the English version, ABBA recorded "Chiquitita" in Spanish, and it was one of the featured tracks on the Spanish-language release Gracias Por La Música.

During production of the Thank You for the Music box set in 1994, an early version of "Chiquitita" titled "In the Arms of Rosalita" was proposed for inclusion on the set, but was rejected by the songwriters. An 8-minute "Chiquitita story" medley combining the song with various early demos (including the "Rosalita" version) was scrapped by mid-1994.

Reception
"Chiquitita" proved to be one of ABBA's bigger hits. It was featured in the Music for UNICEF Concert, broadcast worldwide from the United Nations General Assembly in 1979. As a direct result of this event, ABBA donated 50% of all royalties from the song to UNICEF. "Chiquitita" was a no. 1 hit in Belgium, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, South Africa and Rhodesia. It was a top 5 hit in ABBA's native Sweden, the United Kingdom (peaking at no. 2 in both countries where Blondie's "Heart of Glass" was occupying the top spot), Australia, West Germany and Norway. These sales makes it the most successful single from the album Voulez-Vous in terms of global charts and one of the more famous charity songs ever. To this day, 50% of the proceeds from the song go to UNICEF in recognition of the "International Year of the Child" in 1979. In 2014, all ABBA members agreed on increasing their donation to 100% of all royalties from the song to UNICEF. As of 2021, the song's royalties have raised $4.8 million for the charity.

In the United Kingdom, "Chiquitita" debuted at no. 8 in the singles chart, making it the highest place début for any ABBA single release.

In Argentina, sales figures up to the end of July 1979 on the single show 500,000 in the Spanish edition and 25,000 in the original English language format.

Cash Box wrote that it has "a bouncy tune" with "soaring harmonies."

As of September 2021, it is ABBA's ninth-biggest song in the UK, including both pure sales and digital streams.

Music video
"Chiquitita" was one of the few singles ABBA released without a custom-made video. Since then, on compilations of the group's videos, a contemporary TV performance of the song has been used, recorded in mid-February 1979, a month after the single's release. This clip was taped by the BBC during recording of the show ABBA in Switzerland, broadcast across Europe at Easter 1979, but this clip did not feature in the broadcast, being intended for a Christmas programme.

ABBA are seen performing the song on a mountainside, with a snowman in the background. Throughout the clip, the bad weather and bad light caused problems during filming, which affected Anni-Frid Lyngstad; her hair constantly flew in her face, and she was forced to keep moving it out of her eyes, so it was not used. During the location shoot in Leysin, the BBC recorded two other versions of the group lip-synching to the song. The group performed the song inside the BBC Big Top used to host ABBA in Switzerland, which was included in the final broadcast, and a second video was shot of the group sitting around a table in a cafe, for the show Christmas Snowtime Special shown on BBC1 on 23 December 1979, hosted by Dame Edna Everage. The clip of the group filmed outside with the snowman was intended for this Christmas show, but producer/director Michael Hurll recorded the second clip because he was not happy with the first. In March 2022, a new lyric video was released featuring the mountainside footage.

Cher version
On May 8, 2020, American singer-actress Cher announced she had re-recorded Chiquitita in Spanish with all proceeds going to UNICEF, similar to how ABBA had done in 1979 with the release of the same song.

Cher's Spanish version of "Chiquitita" became her first song to chart on a U.S. Latin chart. It charted at No. 6 on the US Latin Digital Song Sales (Billboard).

Music video
An accompanying music video for "Chiquitita" premiered on UNICEF's website on 9 May 2020 and uploaded to Cher's official YouTube channel shortly afterward. Cher shot her part at home, with the final cut of the video featuring children from around the world.

Track listings and formats

 * Digital download
 * "Chiquitita (Spanish Version)" – 4:49
 * "Chiquitita" – 5:14

Credits and personnel
Credits for Dancing Queen adapted from AllMusic.

 * Management
 * Published by Universal Songs of PolyGramInt., Inc. (ASCAP) and EMI Grove Park Music Inc. (BMI)
 * Recorded by Mark Taylor and Paul Meehan at Metrophonic Studios, London
 * Mixed at by Matt Furmidge and Mark Taylor at Metrophonic Studios, London
 * Mastered by Sthephen Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA

 * Personnel
 * Cher – primary vocals
 * Ash Soan – drums
 * Adam Phillips – guitars
 * Hayley Sanderson – backing vocals
 * Andy Caine – backing vocals

Other covers

 * A Spanish various version of "Chiquitita" were recorded by Puerto Rican boy band Menudo. One version featured singer Ednita Nazario.
 * A Spanglish version of "Chiquitita" was recorded by Spanish singer Charo for her 1981 studio album Bailando con Charo.
 * A Spanish version of "Chiquitita" released as a single by Amaia Montero in 2010 became a number one in the Spanish charts.
 * A Euro-Reggae version was included on the ABBA cover album Thank You for the Music by Eurodance act E-Rotic in 1997.
 * The song was covered in Spanish by Mexican 1980s pop girls group Pandora.
 * A French version of the song was released by Nana Mouskouri in 1984.
 * Sinéad O'Connor recorded a version released in 1999 on the album Across the Bridge of Hope, a compilation created and recorded in support of victims of the Omagh bombing, by Tim Hegarty and Ross Graham. O'Connor included the version on her 2003 album She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty.
 * In 1979, a Bachata cover was recorded by Dominican singer Leonardo Paniagua. It was a huge success in Dominican Republic and it is considered one of the most memorable songs in the bachata genre. Paniagua has recorded a few versions of this cover, including a remix with American bachata group Aventura.

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Lally Katz

Constance Lalage "Lally" Katz (born 1979 (age 32)) is an American and Australian dramatist writing for theater, film, and television. She now resides in Los Angeles.

Early life
Katz was born in New Jersey, United States. She was named after her aunt, Connie. When she was three, she moved with her family to Miami, and then to Canberra when she was eight and three-quarters. She moved to Melbourne when she was eighteen to attend university and pursue a career as a playwright. She graduated from the University of Melbourne’s School of Studies in Creative Arts. She trained with the Australian Theatre for Young People in 2000. She studied playwriting at London’s Royal Court Theatre.

Career
Katz began her career self-producing her own plays in Melbourne, Australia when she was eighteen. From there she began to get commissions to write for Youth Theatre Companies such as St Martins Youth Theatre and PACT Youth Theatre. When she was 23, she joined Stuck Pigs Squealing Theatre Company.

Stuck Pigs Squealing Theatre produced a series of Katz's early plays: The Black Swan of Trespass which played at Malthouse, Belvoir, and the New York International Fringe Festival where it won the Producer’s Choice Award after winning several Green Room Awards in Melbourne; Eisteddfod premiered in Melbourne at the Storeroom Theatre and transferred to Malthouse Theatre, Belvoir and PS 122 and Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theatre in New York City, this production won the 2004 Best Independent Production Green Room Award.

After several successful shows with Stuck Pigs Squealing, Katz began to receive commissions from Australia's main-stage theatre companies.

In 2007 Katz co-wrote Criminology with Austrlian playwright Tom Wright, which was produced by Malthouse Theatre and Arena Theatre, and two short plays Waikiki Palace and Hip Hip Hooray formed a double bill premiering at Sydney Theatre Company that same year.

Katz’s adaptation of Frankenstein was directed by Ralph Myers at Sydney Theatre Company in 2008 and nominated for a Queensland Premier’s Award for Best Drama Script.

Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart opened in New York in late 2010. The Apocalypse Bear Trilogy played at the Melbourne Theatre Company as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2009. Katz adapted stories from the bible for The Mysteries: Genesis at Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. When the Hunter Returns was commissioned and produced by The Gaiety School of Acting in Ireland and had a return season at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Her play Goodbye Vaudeville Charle Mudd premiered at Malthouse Theatre (co-produced by Arena Theatre) and won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for drama in 2009.

In 2011 she had three premieres on the main stages of Australia: A Golem Story at Malthouse Theatre, Neighbourhood Watch at Belvoir, and Return to Earth at Melbourne Theatre Company. Neighbourhood Watch was nominated for four Sydney Theatre Awards, including Best New Australian Work, Best Mainstage Production, Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Mainstage Production (Robyn Nevin), and Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Mainstage Production (Kris McQuade). The play was also nominated for an AWGIE, a Helpmann Award, and a NSW Premier’s Literary Award. A Golem Story won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and Return to Earth was nominated for a NSW Premier’s Award. Neighbourhood Watch remains on the high school reading syllabus.

Starchaser, a play for children, was produced by Arena Theatre in 2012 and performed at the Arts Centre Melbourne. It went on to win the Australian Writer's Guild Award for Best New Work for Young People.

In 2013 Katz’s one-woman show, Stories I Want to Tell You in Person, played to packed audiences at Belvoir and Malthouse Theatre. It later toured to Joe's Pub in New York, Mexico City and other cities in Australia before being adapted into a two-part television series for the ABC starring Katz and Robyn Nevin.

In 2014 Katz adapted Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House for La Boite Theatre Company and Brisbane Festival, directed by Steven Mitchell Wright to critical acclaim sweeping that year's Matilda Awards.

In 2015 Katz's play The Cat was part of a sold-out double bill with Brendan Cowell's "The Dog" at Belvoir in Sydney. She also wrote the libretto for The Rabbits, composed by Kate Miller Heidke, which premiered at Perth Festival and then had sold out season in Melbourne and Sydney festivals, going on to win several Helpmann Awards, including the award for Best New Australian Work. It also won the Australian Writer's Guild Award for best libretto.

In 2017 The Cat/The Dog was remounted for another sold-out season at Belvoir. That year Katz had a premiere of her play Minnie & Liraz at Melbourne Theatre Company" and Atlantis at Belvoir in Sydney was a critical hit.

Katz participated in the attachment programme at the Studio at the National Theatre in London in 2009 and won a British Council Realise Your Dreams grant for 2010. She was a Churchill Fellow in 2010 and was appointed a Writer In Residence at Melbourne University in 2011. In 2012 Katz won InStyle Magazine's Women Of Style Award in the arts category and in 2013 she was the inaugural recipient of an Australian Writers’ Foundation Playwriting Grant.

Katz’s work for television includes adult one-hour dramas Wonderland, Wentworth, and Spirited and children’s series The Elephant Princess. Stories I Want to Tell You in Person was adapted as a two-part television series by the ABC in 2017, starring Katz and Robyn Nevin. She has also written for Squinters seasons one and two and for Hit The Road starring Jason Alexander.

Awards
The Eisteddfod won the Excellence in Direction and Producer's Choice awards at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival.

The Black Swan of Trespass won awards for Excellence in Writing and Best Theatre Production from the Melbourne Fringe Festival, plus the Producer’s Choice Award from the New York International Fringe Festival.

Her 2009 play, Goodbye Vaudeville, Charlie Mudd, was performed in the Beckett Theatre at the Malthouse and received the State Library of Victoria's Louis Esson Prize for Drama.

Personal life
Katz dated John Safran. In February 2017, Katz married Christian Nardi in Las Vegas, U.S.

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

The result of the debate was speedy delete. Page has been protected from recreation. Dunc|☺ 17:59, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

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This page has been deleted several times and has reappeared again, it's pretty obvious it should be deleted Corey.spring 01:34, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete --Revolución (talk) 02:01, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep this page it is part of something important that the X-Box community is working on.

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 * Delete take it to the sandbox if you want to work on it. Hamster Sandwich 02:04, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete. Unexplained, nonsense.  -maclean25 02:43, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vague (indeed, nonsensical) statements written backwards do not an encyclopedia article make. Fipe 04:40, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete as per maclean25. --Apyule 05:19, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete. Dottore So 06:01, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy, K1Bond007 06:03, August 21, 2005
 * DONT DELETE, if you don't like it, stay off it. This is needed. stay out of things you don't understand.

I have protected the page, because a large number of anons and new users have repeatedly vandalized the page, including repeatedly removing the VfD header. Zoe 07:35, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * Speedy Delete as recreation of deleted material. --TheMidnighters 09:54, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete, as per TheMidnighters' suggestion. --Agamemnon2 10:38, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Don't Delete, this is an interesting site, and that's an interesting puzzle, sry I don't know howto comment so I'm editing this page --RoCKy
 * Speedy Delete as per TheMidnighters' suggestion. --Lomedae 12:30, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete The talk page says it's part of a marketing campaign, so not only is it rubbish and not encyclopaedic, it's an ad. Cursive 14:09, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

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Extreme Justice

Extreme Justice is a monthly Justice League spin-off title in the DC Comics universe. It replaced the cancelled Justice League International (formerly Justice League Europe) and ran for nineteen issues from 1994 to 1996.

Overview
Several heroes split from the main Justice League over dissatisfaction with the League's association with the United Nations. These characters form their own Justice League, based in Mount Thunder, Colorado. The team is led by Captain Atom and consists of Maxima, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), Booster Gold, and Amazing-Man (Will Everett III). They are later joined by Firestorm (Ronald Raymond), Plastique, and the Wonder Twins (Zan and Jayna). Carol Ferris becomes the administrator of their Mount Thunder facility. The characters never refer to the team as "Extreme Justice" in the series; they are called that in an issue of Justice League America.

Although at one point there are three Justice League groups in action (Extreme Justice itself plus Justice League America and Justice League Task Force), there is very little unity between the teams and a strong sense of rivalry among the respective leaders, Captain Atom, Wonder Woman, and the Martian Manhunter.

Notably, Captain Atom leads the team in an invasion of Bialya yet again. This is when the current ruler, Queen Beatriz, is rebuilding the Extremists. Most of Extreme Justice, having lost friends to the group before, do not want to tolerate the existence of these entities. They invade the country and destroy what they think are robots, but are in fact cyborgs made out of the Queen's own subjects. They allegedly volunteered, a whole army's worth, but Captain Atom destroys all the facilities and threatens worse if Beatriz continues. This particular incident is the last straw and all versions of the Justice League are disbanded.

In the summer of 1996, all three Justice League series were cancelled and soon replaced by an ongoing monthly titled JLA.

Team name
In Extreme Justice #0, Blue Beetle refers to them specifically as just the Justice League.

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Profile picture
The Jim Lee picture is better. --DrBat 01:29, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Purely your opinion. And in a dispute of this nature, the prior version should be kept per WP:MoS unless there is a consensus in favour of change or the extant version is a copyvio (which the CXM image isn't). - SoM 17:08, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Alpha Status still unknown
The status of the members of Alpha Flight is still unknown. Although in Avengers #20, the man who was the Collective confirms that he "killed people." He may only have killed some members of Alpha Flight, not all. It is still unknown which people he killed. So, Guardian's status is still unknown at this time. Bhissong 21:40, 8 July 2006 (UTC)bhissong

Or he killed people in North Pole, The Shield Agents in the Helicopter etc.

Far North
Somebody forgot to mention Vindicator🇨🇦's "the ultimate product of Canadian🇨🇦 technology" (which I always thought was the curved hockey stick🇨🇦). (Nice try, Chris). Trekphiler 🇨🇦 15:49, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

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Origin of Vindicator/Guardian/Weapon Alpha
Concept and creation

Guardian was a fan character, created by John Byrne years before he did any professional work in comics.[3]

Source: Nickerson, Al (August 2008). "Claremont and Byrne: The Team that Made the X-Men Uncanny". Back Issue!. Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing (29): 5.

i read the article many times. I cannot find any reference to above mentioned citation.

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Remember the Time

"Remember the Time" is a song by American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson. It was released by Epic Records on January 14, 1992, as the second single from Jackson's eighth studio album, Dangerous (1991). The song was written and composed by Teddy Riley, Jackson and Bernard Belle, and produced by Riley and Jackson. The song's lyrics are written about remembering having fallen in love with someone.

"Remember the Time" was generally well received by contemporary critics. The song was commercially successful, peaking at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart as well as the Mainstream Top 40 chart. It is certified 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Internationally, the song was a Top 10 hit in nine countries, peaking at number 1 in New Zealand, number 2 in Spain and number 3 in the United Kingdom.

A nine-minute music video directed by John Singleton, was released for the song. The video is set in Ancient Egypt and features appearances of Jackson, Eddie Murphy, Iman, Tommy "Tiny" Lister and Magic Johnson. It has appeared on the video albums: Dangerous: The Short Films, Video Greatest Hits – HIStory and Michael Jackson's Vision. The music video, along with other videos from Dangerous, was frequently shown on MTV.

Background
"Remember the Time" was written by Teddy Riley, Michael Jackson and Bernard Belle, and was produced by Riley and Jackson. It was recorded at Record One studios. It was released as the second single from Michael Jackson's eighth studio album, Dangerous, on January 14, 1992. "Remember the Time" is three minutes fifty nine seconds long. The song's music was compared to Jackson's 1979 single, "Rock with You" from his Off the Wall album.

Co-writer Teddy Riley supposedly stated in a 1996 Los Angeles Times interview that he was inspired to write the song after hearing Jackson describe "falling in love with the woman he just married". The article assumes he is referring to Debbie Rowe but Riley himself makes no mention of her. In a 2011 reply to a fan on Twitter, Riley denied that the song was about Rowe. Others have noted that when the single was originally released in 1992, Jackson dedicated the song to Diana Ross.

Composition
"Remember the Time" is a R&B song fused with new jack swing. The lyrics recall a youthful love affair: "Do you remember when we fell in love/We were young and innocent then". The song is set in the key of F minor with Jackson's voice range from E♭3 to B♭5. The song's tempo is moderate at 108 beats per minute.

Live performances
"Remember the Time" was rehearsed for the Dangerous World Tour but was ultimately cut due to wardrobe malfunctions. At the 1993 Soul Train Music Awards, the song won the award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Male. Jackson appeared with an injured foot and on crutches, but was able to perform the song seated on the throne, surrounded by dancers.

Critical reception
"Remember the Time" was generally well received by contemporary music critics. Chris Lacy from Albumism noted that "the warmth and nostalgia" of the song "harkens back to Jackson's Motown roots". Stephen Thomas Erlewine, a writer for AllMusic, commented that Dangerous had "plenty" of "professional craftsmanship at its peak" because of "such fine singles" like "In the Closet" and "Remember the Time". Erlewine also listed it as being a highlight from the album. Larry Flick from Billboard said the song "shows the King of Pop downplaying his signature whoops and shrieks in favor a decidedly soulful and affecting vocal performance. Insinuating new-jack grooves work well, encasing an immediately memorable hook." A reviewer from Cashbox named it Pick of the Week, noting, "This smooth dance ballad sounds like it could have come from the Off the Wall album and has more of the mouth noise, whoops and hollers that we guess will take Mr. Jackson several more albums to out-grow."

Pan-European magazine Music & Media wrote that it is a "danceable multi-format smash, dedicated to his mentor Diana Ross." Jon Pareles of The New York Times commented that "titles like 'Remember the Time', 'She Drives Me Wild' and 'Give In to Me'" tell the lyrics' "whole story—though they don't suggest the wretched tone he has when he sings them." A writer from People Magazine said that "the strength of this record stems from bouncy, up-tempo pop" like "Remember the Time". Alan Light, a writer for Rolling Stone, stated that he felt it was the "most lighthearted musical track on the album" and described the song's lyrics as telling of a "blissful romance only to ask, 'So why did it end?'" Richard Harrington, a writer for The Washington Post, described "Remember the Time" as being "wistful", commenting that he felt that the song featured Jackson's "least affected vocal performance" but that it "builds an engaging, radio-friendly momentum".

Chart performance
"Remember the Time" peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 on March 7, 1992, seven weeks after the single release. The song saw similar success on other Billboard charts; topping the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs on March 7, and peaking at number two in Dance/Club Play Songs on April 4, 1992, and number 15 in Adult Contemporary on March 21 in the same year. The song peaked at number two on Billboards Hot Dance Music/Maxi Singles Sales. It was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for the shipment of over 500,000 units in the United States in March 1992, and later Triple Platinum in 2022. The song saw similar commercial success internationally, charting in the top 20 in all major territories at the time of its release. In the United Kingdom, "Remember the Time" first entered the chart on February 15, 1992, placing at number six. The following week, on February 22, the song charted at number three, where it peaked; the song remained on the charts for a total of eight weeks.

"Remember the Time" topped the New Zealand charts for two consecutive weeks, having first entered the chart at number three on February 23. It peaked at number four in the Netherlands and Switzerland. The song also charted within the top ten on the French, Australian, Swedish, Italian, and Norwegian charts; peaking at number five, six, eight and ten. It charted in the top 20, peaking at number 16, in Austria. Having been re-issued for Jackson's Visionary campaign in 2006, "Remember the Time" peaked at number two in Spain on the charts issue date on May 14, 2006. After Jackson's death in June 2009, his music saw a surge in popularity. In the United Kingdom, on the chart of July 11, the song re-entered at number 81.

Music video
The accompanying music video for "Remember the Time" was filmed in January 1992 at the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot. Prior to the release of the video, Jackson's record label promoted it by releasing clips, as well as releasing behind the scenes clips of making the video. The nine-minute video was promoted as a "short film". It premiered on ABC, NBC, Fox, BET, and MTV on February 2, 1992. After the video premiered on MTV, the channel aired a "rockumentary" called "More Dangerous Than Ever" which included glimpses of the making of the video. Jackson's record label would not release the video's budget figures. Directed by John Singleton and choreographed by Fatima Robinson, the video was an elaborate production and became one of Jackson's longest videos at over nine minutes. It was set in ancient Egypt and featured groundbreaking visual effects and appearances by Eddie Murphy, Iman, The Pharcyde, Magic Johnson, Tom "Tiny" Lister Jr. and Wylie Draper, who portrayed Jackson as an older teenager and a young adult in the made-for-TV movie The Jacksons: An American Dream.

Jackson appears in the video as a hooded wizard who enters an Egyptian palace and attempts to entertain the Pharaoh, Ramses the Great's bored wife, Nefertari (Iman). Two other entertainers had previously failed, and she has sent them to be executed. The Queen sees that this wizard is different—instead of juggling or eating fire, he walks up the steps to her throne and sings to her, asking her if she "remembers the time" they were together. The Pharaoh (Murphy) hardly appreciates this move and summons his guards. The wizard hides from the searching guards, secretly meets the Nefertari and they kiss passionately. Then Jackson begins an elaborate, Egyptian-style choreography with the Pharaoh's servants. When the guards find him, Jackson turns into golden sand. In the video, Jackson was dressed in a costume made of gold satin. He wore golden chain mail, a white skirt with a phallic dangling sash, black pants and black boots. This video features a physically complicated dance routine that became the centerpiece of other videos from the Dangerous album.

The music video was generally well received by music critics. Ira Robbins of Entertainment Weekly described the "Remember the Time" video as being a "gorgeous ancient Egyptian extravaganza". The music video appeared on the video albums: Dangerous: The Short Films, Video Greatest Hits – HIStory and Michael Jackson's Vision. The music video, along with other videos from Dangerous, was frequently shown on MTV.

Track listing

 * US CD maxi single
 * 1) "Remember the Time" (Silky Soul 7" Mix) – 4:21
 * 2) "Remember the Time" (New Jack Radio Mix) – 4:00
 * 3) "Remember the Time" (12" Main Mix) – 4:47
 * 4) "Remember the Time" (E-Smoove's Late Nite Mix) – 7:20
 * 5) "Remember the Time" (Maurice's Underground Mix) – 7:29
 * 6) "Black or White" (Clivillés & Cole Radio Mix) – 3:33
 * 7) "Black or White" (House With Guitar Radio Mix) – 3:53
 * 8) "Black or White" (Clivillés & Cole House/Club Mix) – 7:33
 * 9) "Black or White" (The Underground Club Mix) – 7:30

Personnel

 * Written and composed by Teddy Riley, Michael Jackson and Bernard Belle
 * Produced by Teddy Riley and Michael Jackson
 * Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley and Dave Way
 * Solo and background vocals, vocal arrangement by Michael Jackson
 * Keyboards, synthesizers, drum programming and synthesizer arrangements by Teddy Riley
 * Sequencing and programming by Wayne Cobham

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Alano Español

The Alano Español or Spanish Bulldog is a Spanish breed of medium to large sized dog of alaunt-bulldog type. It has at various times been used as a war dog, for bullfighting, for the management of cattle, for hunting and as a guard dog.

In the later twentieth century it became an endangered breed; a recovery project was launched, and numbers have since recovered. It was officially recognised under national law in 2004.

History
The origins of the Alano Español are unknown. One hypothesis is that it derives from dogs brought to Spain in the Migration Period in the fifth century by the Alani, a nomadic pastoralist people from Central Europe.

The first written reference to the breed in Spain is in a chapter of the fourteenth-century Libro de la Montería de Alfonso XI ("Book of the Hunt of Alfonso XI"), in which hunting dogs called Alani are described as having beautiful colours. Dogs of this type travelled with Spanish explorers and were used as war dogs in the subjugation of Native American peoples, as well as in the re-capture of slaves. Becerrillo, a ferocious war-dog owned by Juan Ponce de León, may have been of this type.

Dogs of this type are shown in the bullfighting ring in an etching by Francisco de Goya in his series La Tauromaquia of 1816.

From the late nineteenth century the Alano began to decline, for a variety of reasons: in 1880, the use of dogs in the bull-ring was prohibited, and the new practice of bullfighting on foot became more widespread; the manner of hunting changed, and more use was made of imported hunting dogs of foreign breeds; extensive management of livestock became less common in parts of the country; and the handling of livestock in slaughterhouses was modernised and no longer made use of dogs. The Alano was no longer needed for its traditional tasks, and numbers fell rapidly, almost to the point of the disappearance or extinction of the breed.

A surviving breeding population was identified in the mountains of Enkarterri/Las Encartaciones in the Basque Country in the 1980s. A breed standard was drawn up and a stud-book was started. In collaboration with the Real Sociedad Canina de España and municipal administrations including those of Alanís de la Sierra, Archidona, Cazalla and El Ronquillo, a recovery project was launched. There are two breed societies, the Asociación Nacional de Criadores de Alano Español (formed in 1995), and the Sociedad Española de Fomento y Cría del Alano Español.

The Alano Español was officially recognised by the Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, the Spanish ministry of agriculture, in 2004; together with the Pastor Garafiano, the Ratonero Valenciano, the Ratonero Mallorquín and the Ca Mè Mallorquí, it was added to the list of indigenous Spanish breeds. It is not recognised by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale.

It has been suggested that the Cimarrón Uruguayo of Uruguay derives principally from the Alano Español.

Characteristics
The Alano Español is a large dog of alaunt or bulldog type. Bitches stand some at the withers, and weigh about ; dogs are on average about 3 cm taller and 5 kg heavier.

The coat is short and thick but never velvety, and is most often a brindle; this may be of any colour, including grey or blue, with or without black. Other colours are fawn in any shade from sand-coloured to red, with or without black; and black-and-brindle – a black-and-tan in which the tan areas are brindled. The face may or may not have a black mask; the nose is pigmented black. White markings to the neck, chest or paws are acceptable, but excessive white is discouraged.

The head is large, strong, squarish and brachycephalic. The muzzle is short, ideally approximately 37% of the length of the head, with the lower jaw slightly concave; mild prognathism is tolerated. The ears are set high and are pendent if not cropped. The skin is very thick, with neck folds and some wrinkles on the face.

Since the breed was used for hunting in packs, it is sociable with other dogs.

Use
The Alano was used from Mediaeval times as a war dog. It has since been used for hunting of boar and deer, as a guard dog, and in the management of cattle, both at pasture and at slaughterhouses. Until about the end of the nineteenth century it was used in the bull-ring; this use declined with the development of bullfighting on foot.

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User:JohnDBuell/Complete H2G2 Cast Lists

Table One

 * Covering Radio/TV Episodes 1-6, and their equivalents.
 * See also Table Two, Table Three

Table Two

 * Covering the BBC Radio 4 Secondary Phase (1978 & 1980).

Table Three

 * Covering the BBC Radio 4 radio series 3-5 (2004-2005) and the Bavarian Radio/Southwest radio adaptations in 1990-1991.


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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/B855 road

Roads are the new schools. --Tony Sidaway Talk 01:33, 21 August 2005 (UTC)


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Elisa Donovan

Lisa Adaline Donovan (born February 3, 1971), known professionally as Elisa Donovan, is an American actress. She played the role of Amber Mariens in the 1995 teen comedy film Clueless, and reprised her role in the TV series of the same name (1996-1999). Donovan went on to play the role of Morgan Cavanaugh in the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch (2000–2003).

Her book, Wake Me When You Leave, was released in June 2021.

Early life
Elisa was born Lisa Adaline Donovan in Poughkeepsie, New York, the daughter of Charlotte and Jack Donovan, who was a business executive.

Career
Donovan's breakthrough role was in the 1995 film Clueless as Amber, Cher's nemesis. Donovan also reprised her role in the television series of the same name. Other notable roles included the film A Night at the Roxbury, Beverly Hills, 90210 as Ginger LaMonica and playing Morgan Cavanaugh on the television sitcom Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. She also played Sharona on Disney Channel's Sonny with a Chance, and has appeared in the films Complacent, The Dog Who Saved Christmas, and its sequel The Dog Who Saved the Holidays. Donovan starred in the web series, The Lake on TheWB.com. She also played Gayle in the web series In Gayle We Trust on NBC.com. Donovan had a role in the film A Golden Christmas, where she played Anna. In 2006, she played a guest role in the NCIS episode "Dead and Unburied". She was featured in 'N Sync's 1999 music video for "Thinking of You (I Drive Myself Crazy)" as the love interest for Joey Fatone. She competed on the twenty-fourth season of Worst Cooks in America, the show's seventh celebrity edition titled That's So '90s, which aired in April/May 2022.

Personal life
Donovan has been married to her husband Charlie Bigelow since October 13, 2012. They have a daughter, Scarlett Avery Bigelow.

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In the Closet

"In the Closet" is a song by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson, released on April 9, 1992, as the third single from his eighth album, Dangerous (1991). The song was intended as a duet between Jackson and Madonna, and features female vocals by "Mystery Girl", who was later revealed to be Princess Stéphanie of Monaco. Written and produced by Jackson and Teddy Riley, it became the album's third consecutive top ten pop single, reaching number six on the US Billboard Hot 100. It also became its second number one R&B single. In Europe, the song peaked at number eight on the UK Singles Chart, while reaching number one in Greece and number two in both Italy and Spain. In 2006, the song re-entered the UK chart, peaking at number 20. Its accompanying music video was directed by Herb Ritts and features supermodel Naomi Campbell.

Background
The song, written and composed by Michael Jackson and Teddy Riley, is about keeping a relationship secret between lovers. "In the closet" is an English idiom used when one is not open about an aspect of one's life, particularly in regard to sexual orientation. Despite the song's suggestive name, its lyrics do not allude to hidden sexual orientation but rather a concealed relationship; "Don't hide our love / Woman to man." The New York Times stated, "Only Jackson would use that title for a heterosexual love song..." The song's female vocal was credited to "Mystery Girl" who was later revealed to be Princess Stéphanie of Monaco.

Collaboration with Madonna
"In the Closet" was conceived as a duet between Jackson and Madonna. According to a 1992 interview with British journalist Jonathan Ross, Madonna said she worked on some lyrical ideas for the song but when she presented them to Jackson, he decided they were too provocative and they decided not to continue with the project.

Critical reception
In an retrospective review, Chris Lacy from Albumism described "In the Closet" as a "hormone-soaked dance track". AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that this song is fine and there's a lot to be said for professional craftsmanship at its peak and he highlighted it. Upon the release, Larry Flick from Billboard felt that the third single from Dangerous "proves to be his strongest single to date." He added, "Jackson's signature whoops and whispers are put at home within an intense and unusual jack-swing/funk arrangement. The track is brightened by an immediately memorable, sing-along chorus. Of course, much speculation surrounds the identity of the "mystery girl" who chats and groans in the background. Any ideas?" Clark and DeVaney from Cash Box commented, "Okay, we heard this song when the album first came out, except it only was the one mix, this CD-single contains seven mixes of various lengths totaling almost 45 minutes of the same whispering, whining, heavy breathing and mouth noises that seem to make perfect sense when considering it's Michael Jackson doing a song called 'In the Closet'. To find out what the hell it's all about, we'll have to watch the video premiere on Fox after The Simpsons."

American essayist and music journalist Robert Christgau observed of the parent album, "he's hawking the most credible sex-and-romance of his career. 'In the Closet' implores his mystery woman to keep their—get this—'lust' behind closed doors. Soon he's going wild, or fabricating desperate nostalgia for their used-to-be." The Daily Vault's Michael R. Smith called it a "tongue-firmly-in-cheek hit". Pan-European magazine Music & Media stated that the song "is aimed at fast footwork reminiscent of his sister Janet's style." A reviewer from People Magazine complimented the "catchy chorus" as an "appealing element". Alan Light of Rolling Stone said "we get repressed lust in the titillatingly titled (and determinedly heterosexual)" song. He added that it has a "snaky, unexpected bridge."

Music video
The accompanying sepia colored music video for "In the Closet" was directed by Herb Ritts and features Jackson performing sensual dance routines with supermodel Naomi Campbell. The spoken vocals by Princess Stéphanie of Monaco were re-recorded by Campbell for the video. The short film was shot in late March 1992 in Salton Sea, California, and premiered on April 23, 1992. The video was later published by Vevo on YouTube in 2010, and had generated more than 85 million views as of May 2024.

Formats and track listings

 * In the Closet (UK single)
 * 1) "In the Closet" (7" Edit) – 4:49
 * 2) "In the Closet" (Club Mix) – 8:00
 * 3) "In the Closet" (The Underground Mix) – 5:32
 * 4) "In the Closet" (Touch Me Dub) – 7:53
 * 5) "In the Closet" (KI's 12") – 6:55
 * 6) "In the Closet" (The Promise) – 7:18

 * In the Closet (US CD single 49K74267)
 * 1) "In the Closet" (Club Edit) – 4:07
 * 2) "In the Closet" (The Underground Mix) – 5:34
 * 3) "In the Closet" (The Promise) – 7:20
 * 4) "In the Closet" (The Vow) – 4:49
 * 5) "Remember The Time" (New Jack Jazz Mix) – 5:06

 * In the Closet (US promo CD single ESK4537)
 * 1) "In the Closet" (Radio Edit) – 4:37 (trayliner lists a time of 4:16)
 * 2) "In the Closet" (7" Edit) – 4:49
 * 3) "In the Closet" (The Mission Radio Edit) – 4:28
 * 4) "In the Closet" (KI's 12") – 7:17 (trayliner lists a time of 6:57)
 * 5) "In the Closet" (The Newark Mix) – 7:08 (trayliner lists a time of 6:51)
 * 6) "In the Closet" (Freestyle Mix) – 6:34 (trayliner lists a time of 6:26)
 * 7) "In the Closet" (The Mission) – 9:26

 * In the Closet: Mixes Behind Door #1 (Japanese CD single ESCA5610)
 * 1) "In the Closet" (Club Mix) – 8:03
 * 2) "In the Closet" (The Underground Mix) – 5:40
 * 3) "In the Closet" (Touch Me Dub) – 6:42
 * 4) "In the Closet" (KI's 12") – 7:17

 * In the Closet: Mixes Behind Door #2 (Japanese CD single ESCA5611)
 * 1) "In the Closet" (The Mission) – 9:27
 * 2) "In the Closet" (Freestyle Mix) – 6:35
 * 3) "In the Closet" (The Mix of Life) – 7:41
 * 4) "In the Closet" (The Underground Dub) – 6:27

 * In the Closet: Mixes Behind Door #3 (Japanese CD single ESCA5622)
 * 1) "In the Closet" (Club Edit) – 4:11
 * 2) "In the Closet" (The Newark Mix) – 7:09
 * 3) "In the Closet" (The Promise) – 7:26
 * 4) "In the Closet" (The Vow) – 4:53
 * 5) "Remember The Time" (New Jack Jazz 21) – 5:06

 * In the Closet (UK PAL Visionary DualDisc single 82876773342 5)
 * CD side
 * 1) "In the Closet" (7" Edit) – 4:47
 * 2) "In the Closet" (Club Mix) – 8:02
 * DVD side
 * 1) "In the Closet" (Music video) – 6:02

 * In the Closet (US NTSC Visionary DualDisc single 82876773352 4)

 * CD side
 * 1) "In the Closet" (7" Edit) – 4:47
 * 2) "In the Closet" (Club Mix) – 8:02

(Note: In the US Visionary was only sold as the complete boxset. Individual DualDiscs were not able to be purchased)
 * DVD side
 * 1) "In the Closet" (Music video) – 6:02

Personnel
Credits adapted from the album Dangerous.
 * Produced by Teddy Riley and Michael Jackson
 * Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien and Teddy Riley
 * Lead and background vocals, and vocal arrangement by Michael Jackson
 * Duet vocals by Mystery Girl (Princess Stéphanie of Monaco)
 * Rhythm arrangement, synthesizer arrangement, keyboards, and synthesizers by Teddy Riley

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Talk:Shenendehowa High School

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So yeah if anybody actually ever looks at this, you've probably noticed that I just did a fairly large edit here... Some of the information that was here was moved over to my nice shiny new article on The district, some of it stayed, and some of it just seemed irrelevant or unimportant and thus was completely ditched. But yeah if anybody feels like expanding this article that would be excellent. In the article on the district I put in links for new articles on high school east and high school west, but thinking about it some more it should probably only link to subsections of this article on the east and west buildings... So yeah I guess those two sections along with a brief introduction and probably at least a little bit about the history of the school and maybe a list of past principals would be a great place to start for this article...  I just need to have some more time to get around to working on it so I can get some of this stuff done. I doubt anybody else is actually reading this so I guess it will just be me talking to myself. Woohoo!

Toodles! DoC352 (talk) 04:50, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Meaning of Shenendehowa
Shenendehowa is a great name. Including its meaning in the article would be a great way to make it more interesting. LizardWizard 01:37, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * If you ever read this again, I would suggest that you find a way to put it into the article on Shenendehowa Central School District. It means Great Plains, and I might get around to putting it in at some point, I just really don't think it belongs in this article, as it is the district's name, not just the name of the high school. DoC352 (talk) 04:50, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Before you say Shenendehowa means Great Plain perhaps you should educate yourself first because even though you try topresent yourself as an expert you do not have a clue. There is NO definitive evidence that proves Shenendehowa means Great Plain and if you have some lets see it before you makes claims. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.248.65.237 (talk) 06:12, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Title
This article talks too much about the district as a whole and not enough about the high school in particular. Thus I would reccomend merging this article with the article on Shenendehowa Central School District and either redirecting this page there, or writing a new article about the high school. DoC352 (talk) 23:43, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Little Update: I've started working on a more comprehensive article that uses some of the information from this one, and I'll probably end up putting that up under Shenendehowa Central School District and then I'll try to make a better article for this page that is specifically about the high school, and then I might work on articles for the other schools in the district as well... DoC352 (talk) 02:23, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Ummm
There was a amazing food fight the last day of school this year at the West building, so I don't know why that was taken out. And don't tell me it's not important enough to be on the page, because that was epic.
 * Wikipedia is a encyclopedia, a food fight is not a criminal offence, it is of no public concern, it did not even make the local news.Tjb891 18:44, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

PUT THE FOOD FIGHT IN BEFORE I GET CHUCK NORRIS ON YO ASS...!

Pool
I added the bit about the pool to the page even though it is being built on the middle school because I found those articles to be missing. Citation is from the Board of Educations minutes near the beginning of the linked page.

GUNS
Does everyone forget that in 1999 a gun was brough to HS West? It was caught before it could be used as a "scare tactic"

 * source it and it can be addedTjb891 18:45, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I also remember this being on the news when I lived in upstate NY. It was a huge deal when it happened — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmele310 (talk • contribs) 04:10, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Here is part of an article from the Times Union archives, link is:

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=list&p_topdoc=11

"TEEN ALLEGEDLY TAKES GUN TO SCHOOL

Date: October 6, 1999 Publication: Times Union, The (Albany, NY) Page: B5

CLIFTON PARK -- A student in the Shenendehowa School District was arrested around 7:45 a.m. Tuesday after he allegedly brought an unloaded handgun into High School West, which he attends.

High School Principal Robert Melia, in a letter sent home with all students Tuesday, said the administration was alerted to the student's alleged action by a parent and intercepted him shortly after he got off a school bus on campus.

District Superintendent Robert McClure and State...

Click to purchase article, 186 words,  ($2.95). " — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmele310 (talk • contribs) 04:38, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Bias? Accurate information?
I live in a city nearby Shenendehowa, and I have never heard of pipe bombs exploding in the school. This may be true, but the sources are not specific. Also, the article seems biased against the school. I don't know enough about the school to correct it, but there seem to be problems with the article. Wolps 20:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, I have never heard of pipe bombs either, wouldn't that be on the news like colombine. The article is inherently biased and is not NPOV. The shotgun inccident is credible involving a mentally unstable youth who recently was released from the court mandated mental hospital, he was tackled by a state policeman Steven A. Nutting and a male administrator with his loaded gun in the cafeteria.was decorated.Tjb891 21:39, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I am removing west building, the building is irrelevant in this case because it is probable the transmission of syphilis did not happen in the school building.Tjb891 22:52, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Well teens do have syphilis, you can't be denial about it. If it was your kid, i'm sorry but thats not right and aparently something is wrong. No matter what school, the child is in Shen District and others have the right to know about it. (UTC)

Editing is being done from this School

 * Many edits and vandalisms have come from IP 163.153.122.102 (

This is registered to Shenendehowa's ISP. I suggest we block this adress from this page so studnets who are fooling around in the computer lab when they are supposed to be working to vandalise the page for fun. I believe that most would't have the motivation to vandalise it for fun from home. OrgName:   Albany Schoharie Schenectady BOCES OrgID:     ASSB Address:   1031 Watervliet Shaker Road City:      Albany StateProv: NY PostalCode: 12205-2106 Country:   US Tjb891 21:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

 * okay look i am a student in shen and most of it is true the food fight the knife adn the boy climbing the tree and wouldnt come down that was sooo funny but shen isnt all THAT good i mean they didnt put the fight between two girls and that was a huge thing! i even got front row seats omg i cant WAIT for next year its gunna be great lol but i do know that the whole dease thing didnt happen in the building BUT the students that had go TO that building everyday and theres ways u can get an std. my point is u need to get some students points of veiw that actually go to shen and the montors could care less honestly some of the montors are more like friends than an authority i mean come one they hang out with students during lunch because they become friends and thats good but still some montors could care less. i kno for a fact that a food fight was suppose to happen 7th period but some ppl chickened out so there wasnt one thats why the boy climbed the tree but shen ppls will be shen pplz and u can't change it so u have to deal wit the fact of how ppl act and get over it i mean i did so why can't u ppl?

the girl above me needs to shut up,shes a freshmen who knows nothing about the east building. she doesnt know what shes talking about. the food fight was planned for 6th period."i know;)" i dont really care about the std's that was just some man whore that passed it around.and the knife thing was just a kid who forgot it was in his pocket and since the kid had such a bad record there was no simpathy.pipe bombs are before my time so no comment on those. the insult at the monitors, i dont know what school this chick goes to but shen monitors are on our ass every second of the day. "but shen isnt all THAT good i mean they didnt put the fight between two girls and that was a huge thing! i even got front row seats omg i cant WAIT for next year its gunna be great lol"I dont understand why this girl blames shen for not having a fight in the article, if she had any commen sense she would realize this site isnt run by shen.so dont listen to Ms. imature-bitchAlot up there, she has no clue what she's talking about...

there were several bomb threats in the middle schools and some knifes were brought in but none were used. There were also swatitzkas writtem on bathroom walls.

Shen is a very large school district with over 700 students per class. With all those students is a very safe place even before all the cameras and the locked doors and buzzers. It's more like a prison now, thanks to all the other stupid kids with parents that have no clue how to parent. You want your kids to be safe be a parent know what your kid is doing. Shen use to be like a mini collage it prepared kids for the real world. Gave them freedom of choice. Respect Day was one of my favorite days. It brought the whole HS together for a day with Art, Musice, Poetry, and other student talents. As far as Hall monitors go if you didn't lie or try to pull on over on them they were pretty good about giving you a warning. Food fights I've only witnessed one but then they put in the first camera in the Caf. Yes we have fights I'm sure if kids could fight more with out harsh punishments they wouldnt bring guns/knive/other to school. The food there I hear isn't the best. They use to order out pizza $1.50 per slice a bit pricey for dominos but it was worth it as a student. Oh and the Otis Spunkmyer cookies hot and gooy were to die for. There breakfast selection good with cinnamon buns shenwiches( egg sandwich with your choice of Ham Bacon or Sausage). Also kids who have trouble keeping up with class can easily make arrangements with teachers durning free periods or after school to get their grades up, but it's totally up to the student like I said it holds students accountable like a collage. Go Plainsman!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1017:B005:89A4:2110:4F0A:8E6F:43D8 (talk) 10:27, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Okay...
I think this is totally neutral. I actually go to Shen and so far, everything I've read is true. It's not even like they're saying "OMGZ SHEN IS SUCH A DUMP IT SHOULD BE TORN DOWN." Honestly, I think it's pretty neutral. Just because it's not exactly cheery topics doesn't mean it's negative against the school! That's like not allowing an entry on Germany because there's a mention of Hitler.

 * I think that maybe the fact that so many of the allegations are unrefereced is what made me concerned about the POV status of the article. As well as being true, thhe information needs to be Verifiable. So I think that references for things like:
 * numerous sexual encounters and pregnancies were reported to have occurred
 * the sale and abuse of illegal drugs (such as marijuana and LSD) ran rampant throughout the junior and senior high schools.
 * Administration and faculty were criticized when they responded to the sale of illegal drugs by increasing and tightening hallway monitoring
 * In 1989, an emotionally troubled student brandished a shotgun in the halls and cafeteria of the school.
 * In 1990, two students were arrested after they severely beat and hospitalized a varsity athlete.
 * In 1991, principal Ed Curran was arrested in Clifton Park for driving while intoxicated and his wife was cited for assaulting an officer.
 * In 1992, pipe bombs were set off in several second floor hallway lockers.
 * In 1993, a pornographic film was displayed on the cafeteria television displays.
 * In 1994, a former student burglarized the school at night, stealing electronic equipment and musical instruments.
 * In 2005, a knife was brought to school by a student, but not used.

 * need to be urgently addressed. Otherwise unverified claims may need to be removed. If this stuff is all true (and notable), then some references should be easy to come by (like the one already included about the bomb threats).

 * To make the article more consistent with other school articles I'm going to include a basic infobox. If you're at the school then maybe you could help fill in some of the infomation? Inner Earth 11:12, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

But it IS verifiable! I go there! I've seen this stuff happen! Just because it's not written down anywhere that the public can acess, doesn't mean it's not true!

 * I'm not saying it's not true (I have no idea whether it is or not), but wikipedia needs information to be verifiable - the 'policy in a nutshell' states:
 * Information on Wikipedia must be reliable. Facts, viewpoints, theories, and arguments may only be included in articles if they have already been published by reliable and reputable sources. Articles should cite these sources whenever possible. Any unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
 * I understand that this might be fustrating for you, but we have work by these guidelines to make sure everything in the encyclopedia is true. Inner Earth 17:32, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I've taken out the material that remains unverified. For it to be re-included, it needs be verified by citations from reliable and reputable sources. This means that witnessing any of the events in question is insufficient evidence. If you need any help with the citations themselve, please just ask me. Inner Earth 16:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * So you removed cited content because the Albany Times Union, the largest newspaper in the region, isn't a reliable and reputable source? Cool!  --69.143.57.75 03:45, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
 * newspaper are pretty bad at keeping old record usually but the shotgun thing is true, I have no idea about the rest of the stuffTjb891 18:49, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

The Shotgun in 1989 was absolutely real. The student was subdued by police in the court yard outside the cafeteria. The students brother had died of a skiing accident a few years earlier. 98.169.246.124 (talk) 03:36, 9 December 2008 (UTC) W1ldrover

Just wondering, someone (inner earth) above stated "To make the article more consistent with other school articles I'm going to include a basic infobox", where is this infobox as of today (9/20/2009)? 24.105.163.18 (talk)

Smaller Learning Communities
If someone has removed this section from the main page, PLEASE add it back on! Steinize that! 20:03, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Anyone repeatedly adding this section back will be blocked from editing, since the aforementioned section is in violation of numerous Wikipedia policies, including but not limited to: WP:V, WP:NOR, and WP:NPOV. Leuko 21:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Leuko since this is a well written piece and not vandalism could you please specify which sections you specifically object to so some of the information can be added.Tjb891 03:33, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Obviously we aren't reading the same section. What I was reading was one guy's personal opinion and POV pushing on how he disliked SLC's.  The information can be added if attributed to reliable sources, and are cited. Leuko 07:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

This isn't terribly important, but
I noticed that it said the TVs weren't used on 9/11, and they definitley were. I don't know about the high schools because I didn't go there at the time, but they were used and had news on all day in the middle schools. I was in the HS when that happen and yup they showed it. They even showed the news about Columbine. After they turned Koda into HS West they never turned the TVs on anymore. Not sure now I graduated in 2001 Amy 99xx 14:08, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I graduated in 1986. Great school. The unanswered question is: Why plainsmen? There are no plains in upstate NY. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.244.99.5 (talk) 16:13, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Keeping Neutral
Please keep in mind when editing Wikipedia, that you must remain neutral, that your information must be cited, and that your information must be encyclopedic. Discussing "top schools" or "common schools" as well as such subjective word like "highly qualified" would counter the spirit of Wikipedia. If there is information that makes SHS notable, please add it, but do so in a neutral manner. See WP:NPOV.

Question about neutral: is the "such schools" neutral?

AP class grade
In shenet grapevine, it states that collegeboard AP scores are not considered when teachers give students grades in school transcripts. How can that be a policy? We need consider collegeboard AP scores because it decides how much students learned in the AP classes. If not considered in giving grades, at least should be in the weight that calculates the students rank.Turbulence1996 (talk) 18:55, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Colleges attended
Shen high school has 700 to 800 students graduating each year and many assume it a decent school. Suprisingly, for several years there were nobody attending schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, mit. Are the students stupid here? Maybe not. This high school had decent number of National Merit Scholars. The high school ranking of graduates is to blame for this result. Last year, first-ranked graduate attended a state university only. In more than half schools in this country, there are no ranking among graduates. In this way, more super-smart students with high IQ can be qualified for schools like Harvard/Yale. In shenendehowa high, it is only top 1% ranked graduates are qualifed for harvard, but they all get not so great SAT. If no ranking in graduates, 10-20% graduates can compete for ivy league. The current ranking is also very subjective: 0.02/100 seperates many students. This is bad for creative students: Harvard will not accept a student with SAT 2400 but ranked 31th from this school (there are 30 students better in the school?). The result: first-ranked students in Shen always attend state universities. FYI, More than 55% public high schools do not rank their graduates: Just see collegeboard data or college admission office data to find this fact. BTW, Guilderland high, a smaller high school (about 400 graduates) nearby, has 2 or more graduates to Harvad and Yale. As a result, Guilderland realty booms. Local schools such as Shaker, Bethlehem also do not rank students. And Shaker has students attending harvard last year. If students were ranked (like shen) in shaker... 72.231.184.199 (talk)

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Coordinates are way off
An anonymous IP added them four and a half years ago; since then no one has bothered to check them. I have to go to a meeting here next Monday, so I figured I'd use the good ol' trusty online encyclopedia I edit to find out how to get there.

The coordinates didn't look right; everything in the Albany area is north of the 42nd parallel. And indeed I find the coordinates lead to somewhere in Dutchess County. It looks like someone got confused adding them.

Does anyone have the real ones? It's probably too late to find out how this happened now. I suppose if no one has done this by Monday, I'll put the right ones in. Daniel Case (talk) 05:51, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

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