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The Slipper and the Rose

The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella is a 1976 British musical retelling the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. The film was chosen as the Royal Command Performance motion picture selection for 1976.

Directed by Bryan Forbes, the film stars Gemma Craven as the heroine, Richard Chamberlain as the prince, and features a supporting cast led by Michael Hordern, Kenneth More, Edith Evans, and Annette Crosbie. The film's Academy Award-nominated songs were written by the Sherman Brothers – Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman – who also shared scripting duties with Forbes.

Plot
Prince Edward of Euphrania returns home after meeting the princess Selena of Carolsveld, whom his parents have arranged for him to marry. However, Edward did not propose to Selena, and angrily denounces arranged marriages ("Why Can't I Be Two People?"). Edward prefers to marry for love while his parents want a political alliance ("What Has Love Got to Do with Being Married?").

Meanwhile, Cinderella's cruel stepmother has banished her to the cellar, and forces her to work as a servant to her and her two vindictive daughters, Isobella and Palatine. Cinderella finds some comfort in remembering happier times ("Once I Was Loved"). Whilst putting flowers by her parents' grave, she inadvertently stumbles upon the prince, and his friend and bodyguard John, who are visiting the Royal crypt. The Prince sardonically talks about his dead ancestors, with whom he will one day be buried ("What a Comforting Thing to Know").

Back at the castle, the King of Euphrania is advised that a marriage between Edward and a Princess from one of Euphrania's neighboring countries (and thus potential enemies) would help prevent war. A ball is seen as the perfect way to help Edward choose his bride ("Protocolligorically Correct"). The Prince hates the idea, though his cousin Montague is delighted ("Bride-finding Ball"). When news arrives that Carolsveld intends to make war on Euphrania, Edward has no choice but to accept. However, fewer than half the princesses accept the invitation, so the local nobility, including Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters, are invited.

Because of the lack of dresses at the dressmakers, the stepmother and stepsisters demand that Cinderella sew all three of them elegant gowns for the ball from the fabric of their old dresses. Cinderella has no idea what to do. As luck would have it a fairy godmother, who has a talent for sensing the wishes of those who are pure in heart, arrives and creates three beautiful gowns while Cinderella rests. That night, the stepmother and stepsisters depart for the ball leaving Cinderella alone. Cinderella's fairy godmother returns and informs Cinderella that she too can go to the ball. She transforms Cinderella's shabby dress into a lovely gown, arranges her hair in the period fashion, and a coach and horses are magically prepared. Cinderella is sent off to the ball with a warning that the magic can only last until midnight ("Suddenly It Happens"). It is love at first sight when Cinderella and Edward meet at the ball ("Secret Kingdom"). As the clock strikes midnight, Cinderella races away, leaving behind only her glass slipper ("He / She Danced With Me").

Edward sends his servants out far and wide in search of the woman who fits the glass slipper. The searchers return empty-handed. Edward builds a monument for the slipper and hopes that one day his lost love will turn up. John is also suffering as a result of love: he is in love with a noblewoman, but his position forbids them to be together ("Position and Positioning"). Edward knights John, so John can pursue his romance with Lady Caroline. Finally, frustrated by his fruitless search, Edward breaks the monument, tossing the slipper into the woods where Cinderella finds and starts to dance with it, which catches John's attention and he rushes off to inform the Prince.

Cinderella and Edward are reunited and greeted by her stepmother and stepsisters. Edward asks the permission of the stepmother to marry Cinderella and she gives full permission, if only to get Cinderella off her hands. Cinderella tells her stepmother and stepsisters that she forgives them for their abuse. In the throne room, Edward and Cinderella go before the King and Queen. Whilst the King and Queen find Cinderella to be charming, something seems to be troubling the King. He takes the Lord Chamberlain aside and tells him that there is no way his son and Cinderella, a non-royal, can be married. The Lord Chamberlain conveys this to Cinderella, explaining also that a military alliance through marriage must be established with one of the neighboring kingdoms to protect them against war and to secure the safety and future existence of Euphrania. Along with this disheartening news, it is also explained that she will have to be exiled that very night to avoid a war with Carolsveld. Brokenhearted, Cinderella asks the Lord Chamberlain to tell Edward that she never loved him, because she knows that Edward will try to find her because of his love for her ("Tell Him").

After finding out what the King has done to Cinderella from John, an exasperated Edward confronts him for ruining his chances of a love and happy marriage. Realizing the situation at hand and how the King and Queen won't give up their stance on a political marriage, he agrees to marry whomever they choose, but says that his marital duties will go no further than the altar. He lays a curse that their royal house will die with him and throw Euphrania into chaos. The King now feels guilt over exiling Cinderella, but he had no choice due to his own fears of a war with Carolsveld. On the day of his wedding, Edward begs Cinderella to forgive him for marrying Selena, unaware that the fairy godmother heard him. Cinderella living peacefully in exile in another country, still thinks of Edward ("I Can't Forget the Melody"). Her fairy godmother arrives and asks Cinderella why she isn't at the castle as Edward is getting married that day. Cinderella, surprised, asks who Edward is marrying. The fairy godmother doesn't know, as it's most certainly the wrong woman, but plans to set things right—again.

Back at the castle, as the wedding is taking place, everyone is surprised when Cinderella shows up in a wedding gown. The King interrupts the wedding and he and his council meet in private. The fairy godmother joins the discussion and convinces the king to change the law, so that Edward can marry the girl of his choice. In a surprising twist, Edward's cousin and the chosen bride fall in love at first sight, and marry, thus fulfilling the alliance after all. Cinderella and Edward live happily ever after.

Cast

 * Gemma Craven as Cinderella
 * Richard Chamberlain as Prince Edward
 * Margaret Lockwood as the Wicked Stepmother
 * Michael Hordern as the King
 * Lally Bowers as the Queen
 * Edith Evans as the Dowager Queen
 * Annette Crosbie as the Fairy Godmother
 * Kenneth More as the Lord High Chamberlain
 * Christopher Gable as John, the Prince Edward's bodyguard and friend
 * Julian Orchard as the Duke of Montague, cousin to the Prince
 * Rosalind Ayres as Isobella, Cinderella's Stepsister
 * Sherrie Hewson as Palatine, Cinderella's Stepsister
 * Polly Williams as Lady Caroline, lady-in-waiting to the Dowager Queen
 * John Turner as the Major-Domo
 * Keith Skinner as Willoughby, the Major-Domo's assistant
 * Peter Graves as the General
 * Fred as the Dog, the Fairy Godmother's pet

Musical numbers

 * "Why Can't I Be Two People?" – Richard Chamberlain
 * "What Has Love Got to Do with Getting Married?" – Michael Hordern, Lally Bowers, Edith Evans, Julian Orchard
 * "Once I Was Loved" – Gemma Craven
 * "What a Comforting Thing to Know" – Richard Chamberlain, Christopher Gable
 * "Protocoligorically Correct" – Michael Hordern, Chorus
 * "Bride-finding Ball" – Richard Chamberlain, Julian Orchard
 * "Suddenly It Happens" – Annette Crosbie, Gemma Craven
 * "Transformation Ballet" - Dancers
 * "The Slipper and the Rose Waltz Theme" (an instrumental version of "He Danced with Me")
 * "Secret Kingdom" – Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven
 * "He/She Danced with Me" – Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven
 * "Position and Positioning" – Christopher Gable, Chorus
 * "Tell Him Anything (But Not That I Love Him)" – Gemma Craven
 * "I Can't Forget the Melody" – Gemma Craven
 * "Secret Kingdom" (reprise) – Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven

In its initial US release, the songs "What Has Love Got to Do with Being Married" and "I Can't Forget the Melody" were cut. They were also excised from the North American soundtrack LP (MCA 2097). In 2003, conductor John Wilson included some of Morley's incidental music in a compilation album (Dutton Vocalion CDSA 6807) of her vast repertoire of music.

Production
The film was announced in 1975 under the title The Story of Cinderella. Over 800 girls were considered for the part of Cinderella and around 150 were auditioned before Gemma Craven was chosen. Over 300 costumes were made for the film. It was shot between England and Austria, some of the locations include: Salzburg and Anif Palace, Broughton Castle near Banbury in Oxfordshire and Southwark Cathedral in London.

The scene where Cinderella sings "I Can't Forget the Melody", where she sits on a swing, is a reference to The Swing, a painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Every detail of Cinderella's costume and setting are identical to Fragonard's painting, including the colour of her dress and the style of her hat.

Cinderella and the Prince dance the Ländler, a traditional Austrian dance, to their first waltz. (The same dance is also seen in The Sound of Music.)

It was Lockwood's first feature since 1955.

Release
After premiering as Royal Film Performance on March 24, 1976, the film was released in the United Kingdom by Cinema International Corporation on March 25 and in the United States on November 4 by Universal Pictures.

Reception
At the 24 March 1976 Royal Film Performance of The Slipper and the Rose the Queen Mother commented to the songwriters, "The waltz you wrote for the ballroom scene is the most beautiful song I've ever heard."

Writing in The New York Times, critic Vincent Canby said: "Mr. Forbes and Robert Sherman, authors of the screenplay, have stretched the fable without mercy, largely to accommodate a whole bunch of forgettable songs by the Shermans, who did very well by 'Mary Poppins' and 'Tom Sawyer,' but who, when off stride, as here, sound as if they're parodying the worst of the Broadway musical theater of the '50s." Canby added that as the Prince and Cinderella, "Mr. Chamberlain and Miss Craven have impossible roles that are less like characters in a fairy tale than pictures on a jar of peanut butter." Variety called it "an intelligent and happy blend of as pure an entertainment as has been seen here in some considerable time," with "fine performances by a splendid cast of British actors," particularly Michael Hordern, who "steals many a scene as the King, in one of his best performances ever." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 3 stars out of 4 and wrote, "The songs aren't memorable, but the king and fairy godmother are." Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times stated, "The virtues of the movie, not necessarily in this order, are that it is richly produced, pleasantly witty, and graced by some colorful and engaging performances. It should earn some grown-up gratitude because it demonstrates that family fare does not have to be childish ... The defects are not such as to dent seriously the satisfaction of having so stylish and good-hearted a movie around. But it really is a familiar trip, however luxurious the vehicle, and the last 20 minutes or so seem very long and slow indeed." Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film "won't be remembered as one of the great musicals, but it's more diverting than I supposed," further noting that the script "does have agreeable outbursts of silliness and fancy. Michael Hordern as the worried, abstracted king and Annette Crosbie as Cinderella's brisk, humorous fairy godmother are consistently delightful." Brenda Davies of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "The songs are not very memorable but they are enjoyable and appropriate in their context; the choreography too fits neatly into the plot but is not in itself particularly imaginative. But these shortcomings are abundantly outweighed by the wit and zest of both writing and playing."

In popular culture

 * In the 2006 London play, Frost/Nixon, playwright Peter Morgan makes reference to David Frost's involvement as executive producer on The Slipper and the Rose suggesting that Frost is more "entertainer" than serious journalist.

Stage adaptations
The 1984 musical adaptation by Philip Burley, with songs by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, has been mounted often by British community theatre groups, including in 2001 by the Bilston Operatic Company, Wolverhampton, in May 2008 at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, in 2011 at the York Theatre Royal,  and in 2013 by BOST Musicals at the Liverpool Empire Theatre.

It made its North American premiere in 2005 at the Hale Center Theatre in West Valley City, Utah. Other productions were staged in 2008 at the Tacoma Musical Playhouse in Tacoma, Washington, and in 2011 by Productions Coracole at the Beaubois Theatre in Montreal, Quebec.

Home video
MCA Discovision put out the film on Laserdisc in 1978. This release features monaural sound and a 1.33:1 pan and scanned transfer of the shorter US release with the songs "What Has Love Got to Do with Being Married" and "I Can't Forget the Melody" omitted. As it was never put out on VHS by MCA, the MCA Laserdisc was the only US video release of any kind prior to 2000, likely due to Universal's distribution rights lapsing and having reverted to production company Paradine.

In the UK and Australia, where it was more successful, it spanned several VHS releases by the likes of Video Gems and CEL Home Video respectively. These releases feature the full length UK theatrical version, which includes the songs "What Has Love Got to Do with Being Married" and "I Can't Forget the Melody" that were cut from the US release.

In 2000, independent distributor Castle Hill (who had acquired US distribution rights in the mid 1990s) licensed the film to Image Entertainment for a US VHS and DVD release in its full length UK theatrical version. Extras on the DVD version include a video interview with the Sherman Brothers, an audio commentary by director Bryan Forbes, and a promotional featurette. This release is long out of print and was highly sought after prior to 2013.

On 19 November 2013, the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Inception Media Group, under licence from Castle Hill successor Westchester Films. This release utilizes a new 4K restoration of the UK theatrical version performed by Pinewood and a PCM 2.0 mix of the 4-Track Stereo, a 5.1 DTS Master Audio remix, and the isolated score in DTS-MA 5.1. In addition to porting over all the extras and the audio commentary from the Image Entertainment DVD, the only new supplement is the UK theatrical trailer mastered from a 35mm element. The film has also received overseas Blu-Ray releases from Second Sight in the UK and Orustak Pictures in Japan, both utilizing the Pinewood 4K restoration and most extras from the Inception release.

On 5 February 2019, Shout Factory (who had purchased Westchester Films in 2017 and reincorporated their titles under the Shout Factory branding) reissued the film on DVD and Blu-Ray. This reissue is almost identical to the prior Inception Media Group release utilizing the same Pinewood restoration and supplements, only down to video encoding differences and the 2.0 stereo track being DTS Master Audio.

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Mickey Lolich

Michael Stephen Lolich (born September 12, 1940) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher from 1963 until 1979, almost entirely for the Detroit Tigers. A three-time All-Star, Lolich is most notable for his performance in the 1968 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals when he earned three complete-game victories, including a win over Bob Gibson in the climactic Game 7. At the time of his retirement in 1979, Lolich held the Major League Baseball record for career strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher.

Early years
Lolich was born in Portland, Oregon of Croatian descent. He was born right-handed but, began to throw left-handed after a childhood accident. At age two, he rode his tricycle into a parked motorcycle, which fell on him. The accident broke his left collarbone, requiring him to wear a cast for four months. Post-injury efforts to strengthen the left arm helped Lolich develop into throwing left-handed. Known as an eccentric, a sports writer in 1964 wrote of Lolich: "He now eats, writes and bats right-handed, pitches left-handed and thinks sideways."

As a teenager, he excelled playing in American Legion Baseball and in the Babe Ruth League, setting Oregon state records for strikeouts. He attended Lincoln High School in Portland and posted a record of 19 wins against 5 losses for the school team in 1958.

Knoxville and Durham
Lolich was signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent at age 17 on June 30, 1958. He began his professional career playing the 1959, 1960, and 1961 seasons with the Knoxville Smokies of the South Atlantic League and the Durham Bulls of the Carolina League. In his first three seasons, he compiled a 17–29 record in 82 games.

Denver and Portland
Lolich was assigned to the Triple-A Denver Bears at the start of the 1962 season and went 0–4 with a 16.50 ERA in nine games. After the poor start, Detroit ordered him back to Knoxville. Lolich refused to report to Knoxville and was placed under indefinite suspension. He returned home to Oregon and struck out all 12 batters he faced in a four-inning outing in semi-pro ball with the Archer Blower team in Portland. In early June, Lolich was acquired by the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League in a deal with the Tigers. Lolich turned his career around, compiling a 10–9 record and 3.95 ERA with 138 strikeouts in 23 games with the Beavers. The key to Lolich's turnaround was finding control of his pitches. He had developed a reputation as "a flamethrowing wildman" in the minors but developed his control while playing for Portland.

1963–1967
Buoyed by a strong performance with Portland, Lolich was reclaimed by the Tigers in 1963. He irked Detroit's management by reporting late to spring training, saying he had remained in Portland to take an examination to become a mailman during the off-season. He was cut by the Tigers on April 3 and optioned to the Syracuse Chiefs, then recalled to Detroit on May 9 after compiling a 2.45 ERA in 22 innings at Syracuse. He made his major league debut on May 12 and secured his first win on May 28, allowing one run in nine innings against the Los Angeles Angels. He was plagued by lack of run support during his rookie campaign, losing a 2–1 decision on July 29, allowing only one hit through $8 1/3$ innings before giving up a home run in the ninth inning. He finished the 1963 season with a 5–9 record, 3.55 ERA, and 103 strikeouts in $144 1/3$ innings pitched.

Lolich blossomed in 1964 with an 18–9 record and 3.41 ERA in 232 innings pitched. He pitched his first shutout, a three-hitter against the Minnesota Twins, on April 24. On September 9, he pitched his sixth shutout of the season and struck out 12 Yankees. For the season, Lolich ranked fourth in the American League with six shutouts and fifth with 192 strikeouts.

In November 1964, Lolich married Joyce Fleenor, a former airline stewardess from Los Angeles. At spring training in 1965, Lolich told reporter Joe Falls that marriage had a calming influence on him: "She's done so much for me, to settle me down, that I can hardly put it into words. She's made me a very happy guy."

In 1965, he compiled a 15–9 record with a 3.44 ERA. His 226 strikeouts ranked second in the American League behind Sam McDowell. Always known as a weak hitter, Lolich hit .058 and struck out 37 times in 86 at-bats during the 1965 season.

After two strong seasons, Lolich regressed in 1966. His ERA jumped by more than a run to 4.77, and he compiled a 14–14 record in 40 games. After the season, Lolich rejected claims that his weight was the problem. He noted that he weighed 200 pounds when he won 18 games in 1964 and weighed only two pounds more in 1966. Lolich instead opined: "The big problem for me was loss of concentration. I blew a lot of leads this year."

In 1967, the Tigers hired former major league pitcher Johnny Sain as their pitching coach. Sain helped develop Lolich's pitching skills and taught him psychological aspects of pitching. The 1967 season was a memorable one for the tight four-way pennant race among the Tigers, Boston Red Sox, Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox. The Tigers were in contention until the final day of the 1967 season, finishing one game behind the Red Sox. Lolich finished the season with a 14–13 record, but led the league with six shutouts.

In late July 1967, Lolich was called to active duty with the Michigan Air National Guard in response to the ongoing riot. Lolich spent twelve days on active duty and was promoted to Airman First Class. Upon returning to the team, he received death threats, allegedly from the Black Panthers, for his role in quelling the riot. In response, the Federal Bureau of Investigation placed a team of snipers on the roof of Tiger Stadium during his subsequent two starts.

1968 World Series championship
In 1968, the Tigers quickly rose to first place, winning nine straight after losing the season opener to Boston. Lolich was overshadowed by teammate Denny McLain's 31-win season, and was sent to the bullpen in August due to a late-season slump. He made six appearances as a relief pitcher before returning to the starting rotation. He posted a 17–9 record with 197 strikeouts, as the Tigers won the American League pennant by 12 games over the second-place Baltimore Orioles.

After Bob Gibson defeated McLain in Game 1 of the 1968 World Series in St. Louis, Lolich helped Detroit recover by allowing only one run to win Game 2 8–1. He also helped his own cause by hitting the only home run of his 16-year career. But the Tigers lost the next two games at home to fall behind the Cardinals 3–1 and were facing elimination when Lolich returned to pitch in Game 5, just four days after pitching a complete game. Despite an unsettled start, when he surrendered an RBI single to Curt Flood and a two-run home run to Orlando Cepeda in the first inning, Lolich remained calm and proceeded to pitch eight scoreless innings as the Tigers scored two runs in the fourth and took the lead in the seventh on Al Kaline's bases loaded two-run single. They added another run for a 5–3 win, staving off elimination.

Back in St. Louis, the Tigers then won Game 6 by a score of 13–1 behind McLain's solid pitching and a grand slam home run from Jim Northrup in a Series-record-tying ten-run third inning rally to force Game 7. With just two days of rest, and having pitched two complete games in the past week, Lolich faced Gibson in Game 7, both having won their previous two starts. They each pitched six scoreless innings, Lolich picking off Lou Brock and Curt Flood to end a Cardinal threat in the bottom of the sixth, before the Tigers broke through with three runs in the top of the seventh starting with a two-out, two-run triple to deep center by Northrup just over Flood's head for an eventual 4–1 Tigers win and a 4–3 Series triumph.

Detroit became only the third team in World Series history to rally from a 3–1 series deficit to win in seven games. Having completed Game 7, Lolich became the 12th pitcher to win three games in a World Series, and the last with three complete games in a single Series. He was the last pitcher with three victories in the same World Series until Randy Johnson won 3 games in the 2001 World Series. He is the only left-handed pitcher with three complete-game wins in the same World Series in baseball history. No other pitcher has thrown three complete game World Series victories in the same series since. Lolich's performance earned him the World Series Most Valuable Player Award.

1969–1975
In 1969, Lolich won 19 games and earned his first All-Star selection. He struck out 16 batters in a game twice in 1969, his career high. 1971 marked the best season of Lolich's career when, he led the American League in victories (25), games started (45), complete games (29), strikeouts (308) and innings pitched (376), all career-highs. His 308 strikeouts is also a Tigers' team record. He finished second to Vida Blue in the 1971 Cy Young Award voting. Lolich became known for his endurance and his ability to pitch complete games. He reached the 300-innings pitched mark every season between 1971 and 1974.

Lolich won 22 games and posted a career-best 2.50 ERA in 1972 to help the Tigers win the American League Eastern Division championship. He pitched impressively in the 1972 American League Championship Series against the Oakland Athletics, posting a 1.42 ERA in two starts. In Game 1, he pitched 10 innings allowing only 1 run before losing the game in the bottom of the 11th inning on an unearned run. He pitched nine innings in Game 4, again allowing only 1 run, but the win went to reliever John Hiller as the Tigers rallied in the 10th inning. The Tigers eventually lost the series to Oakland in five games. He finished third in the 1972 Cy Young Award voting behind Gaylord Perry and Wilbur Wood.

Lolich won 16 games in 1973 and 1974. However, the Tigers dropped to last place in the American League East. In 1975, Lolich eclipsed Warren Spahn’s Major League Baseball record of 2,583 career strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher. Although Lolich pitched effectively in 1975, the Tigers' poor performance continued as they failed to provide him with much offensive support. He received only 14 runs of support during a 14-game stretch in which his win–loss record was 1–13, even though he managed to post a respectable 3.88 earned run average in that period.

Mets and Padres
Lolich was traded with Billy Baldwin to the New York Mets for Rusty Staub and Bill Laxton on December 12, 1975. As a major leaguer for at least ten years with the last five on the same ballclub, he had initially exercised his right to veto, which he eventually lifted after his attorney and Mets administrators M. Donald Grant, Joe McDonald and Bob Scheffing convinced him that the transaction was financially beneficial and would not negatively affect his family.

Lolich posted an 8–13 record with a respectable 3.22 ERA for the Mets in 1976; however, he had disagreements with the Mets pitching coach as well as the Mets trainer and retired after the season. He opened a doughnut shop in suburban Detroit and sat out the 1977 season. He returned to baseball in 1978, signing with the San Diego Padres as a free agent.

He played mostly as a relief pitcher for the Padres in 1978, going 2–1 with a 1.56 ERA in 20 games. The following season, Lolich added a knuckleball to his pitching. Lolich had an inconsistent season in 1979 and decided to retire. He pitched in his final major league game on September 23, 1979, at the age of 39.

Career statistics
In a 16-year major league career, Lolich played in 586 games, accumulating a 217–191 win–loss record along with a 3.44 earned run average. He struck out 200 or more batters in a season seven times in his career. His 2,832 career strikeouts were the most by a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball history until he was surpassed by Steve Carlton in 1981 and, he held the American League record for strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher until being surpassed by CC Sabathia in 2017. His 2,832 strikeouts ranks 20th all-time and fourth among left-handed pitchers behind Randy Johnson, Carlton and Sabathia. Lolich threw 41 shutouts and 195 complete games during his career, completing nearly 40 percent of his starts. He holds Detroit Tigers team records in single-season strikeouts (308), career strikeouts (2,679), shutouts (39), games started (459) and home runs allowed (329). In 1,017 plate appearances, he had 105 walks and 90 hits. He has the most career plate appearances of anyone with more walks than hits.

Life after baseball
In 1979, Lolich invested in a doughnut shop in Rochester, Michigan, with the understanding that his partner would run the business. Following disagreements, Lolich bought out his partner and began running the business. After losing his lease, he moved the doughnut business to Lake Orion in 1983. In the late 1990s, Lolich sold the doughnut shop and retired. He remained active in charity work and served as a coach at the Detroit Tigers' baseball fantasy camp in Lakeland, Florida. Because of his humble "everyman" qualities, many long-time Tiger fans celebrate him as one of the most popular sports figures in a working man's city. As The Detroit News put it, "He didn't act like a big shot superstar, he was one of us."

Lolich also had a small role in The Incredible Melting Man, a 1977 horror movie released during his first retirement. He plays a security guard who is killed by the Melting Man near the end of the movie.

In 2003, Lolich was one of 26 players chosen for the final ballot by the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Veterans Committee but garnered only 13 votes, far below the 75% required for election. Lolich had previously appeared on the BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot for all 15 years of the allotted time players were eligible to stay on the ballot, topping out at 25.5% of the vote in 1988 before falling off of the ballot in 1999.

In 1982, Lolich was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. In October 2022, he was inaugurated in the Croatian-American Sports Hall of Fame.

Lolich's other records and accomplishments

 * His 2,679 strikeouts is the second-most in AL history by a left-hander.
 * His 2,832 career strikeouts in both leagues ranked in the top 10 in major league history when he retired in 1979.
 * His 1,538 batters faced in 1971 was the most in the majors since George Uhle faced 1,548 in 1923. Only two other pitchers have faced at least 1,500 hitters since 1923, Wilbur Wood with 1,531 in 1973 and Bob Feller with 1,512 in 1946.
 * His 376 innings pitched in 1971 is the second highest in the majors since 1917. Wilbur Wood holds the modern record with $376 2/3$ just a year later, 1972. Only four have pitched 350 or more innings in a season since 1929: Wilbur Wood (1972 and 1973), Lolich (1971), Bob Feller (1946) and Tiger forerunner Dizzy Trout (1944).
 * His 29 complete games in 1971 was the highest in the AL since Bob Feller's 36 in 1946.
 * In the 1965–74 decade, he struck out more (2,245) than any other major league pitcher. Bob Gibson was second with 2,117 during the same period.
 * In the same decade, he was second in major league innings pitched ($2,744 2/3$) to Gaylord Perry's 2,978.
 * In the same decade, he had more wins (172) than any other AL pitcher. Gaylord Perry led the majors with 182.
 * In the same decade, he threw more complete games (155) than any other AL hurler. Gaylord Perry led the majors with 205.
 * He is the only left-hander with three complete World Series games in the same Series.
 * Lolich started 324 games with Bill Freehan playing as catcher, setting a major league record for most starts together as a battery that stood until Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina of the St. Louis Cardinals broke it in 2022.

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List of Quebec media

This is a list of Quebec media.

News services

 * CNW Telbec
 * La Presse Canadienne

Daily

 * 24 Heures (Quebecor)
 * Le Devoir (independent)
 * Le Droit  –  produced in Ottawa, but also distributed in Gatineau and elsewhere in Outaouais
 * La Presse (independent) online-only since 2018
 * Le Soleil (Quebec)
 * La Tribune (Sherbrooke)
 * La Voix de l'Est (Granby)
 * Le Nouvelliste (Trois-Rivières)
 * Le Quotidien (Saguenay)
 * Le Journal de Montréal (Quebecor)
 * Le Journal de Québec (Quebecor)
 * Montreal Gazette (Postmedia) In the English language.
 * Métro (TC Transcontinental)
 * North Shore News In the English language. Ended September 4, 1980.
 * The Record (Sherbrooke) (Alta Newspaper Group)

Weekly

 * Les Affaires (TC Transcontinental)
 * Voir (Communications Voir)
 * Hour Community (defunct 2012)
 * Montreal Mirror (defunct 2012)
 * Westmount Examiner (defunct 2015)
 * West Island Chronicle (defunct 2015)
 * Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph
 * The Suburban

Monthly

 * L'aut'journal (independent)
 * L'Action nationale (independent)
 * Le Québécois (independent)
 * Cult MTL (independent)

University and CEGEP

 * Concordia University
 * The Link
 * The Concordian
 * L'Organe
 * Université du Québec à Montréal
 * Montréal Campus
 * Université de Montréal
 * Quartier Libre
 * Forum
 * Le Polyscope (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
 * L'intérêt (École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal)
 * McGill University
 * TVMcGill
 * McGill Reporter
 * McGill Tribune
 * The McGill Daily
 * Le Délit français
 * Bishop's University
 * The Campus
 * Université de Sherbrooke
 * Le Collectif
 * Université Laval
 * Impact Campus
 * La Marmite sociale
 * Le Fil des évènements
 * Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
 * Le Griffonnier
 * Cégep Régional de Lanaudière à Joliette
 * Le Détour
 * Cégep du Vieux Montréal
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Dobbs County, North Carolina

Dobbs County, North Carolina was a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

History
Dobbs County was formed in 1758 from Johnston County, though the legislative act that created it did not become effective until April 10, 1759. It was named for Arthur Dobbs, colonial governor of North Carolina from 1754 until 1764.

In 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, the western part was designated as Wayne County. The county seat was moved from its original location on Walnut Creek to the town of Kingston, which was renamed Kinston in 1784. Dobbs went unrepresented in the 1788 Hillsboro Convention to vote on the new constitution of the United States. The federalist delegation was elected without opposition. The anti-federalists abstained. Federalists rioted, as they had done in the previous election after predicting Richard Caswell's loss, stealing the ballot box, and assaulting the sheriff. Hertford County also suffered a federalist riot. Because the name Dobbs reminded residents of the rejected colonial past, in 1791 the county was divided by the North Carolina legislature into Glasgow (later renamed Greene County) and Lenoir counties; Dobbs ceased to exist.

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Nenê

Nenê (born Maybyner Rodney Hilário; September 13, 1982) is a Brazilian former professional basketball player. Known previously as Nenê Hilario, he legally changed his name to simply Nenê in 2003.

Early life
Born Maybyner Rodney Hilário in São Carlos, Brazil, he was nicknamed "Nenê" (a variation of Brazilian Portuguese for baby) because he was the youngest in both his family and his group of childhood friends. Like most Brazilian children, he played soccer from an early age; due to his skills, he was invited to train with pro clubs. In the mid-1990s, he started playing basketball at Escola de Basquete Meneghelli in his hometown. He later played professionally for Vasco da Gama from 1999 to 2002. In 2001, he joined the Brazilian national team and participated in the Goodwill Games.

Denver Nuggets (2002–2012)
Nenê's successful three-year stint playing in Brazil earned him an NBA pre-draft camp invitation in Chicago in 2002. He was later selected with the seventh overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft by the New York Knicks, who traded him to the Denver Nuggets. He was the first Brazilian ever to be selected in the first round of the NBA draft.

Nenê began the 2002–03 season as a bench player, but ended it as a starter, averaging 10.5 points, 6.1 rebounds and 1.6 steals. He ranked sixth in the NBA in field goal percentage (.519) and 20th in steals. He subsequently earned NBA All-Rookie first team honors.

In his second season, Nenê played and started in 77 games, averaging 11.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 32.5 minutes per games. He ranked fourth in the NBA in field goal percentage (.530).

In his third season, Nenê missed 27 games – 13 games due to a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee, two games due to a right hip contusion, eight games due to a strained left hamstring, and four games due to an NBA suspension. He consequently played 55 games in 2004–05, averaging 9.6 points and 5.9 rebounds in 23.9 minutes per game.

In 2005–06, Nenê missed 81 games after suffering a torn ACL in his right knee after just three minutes of action against the San Antonio Spurs in the Denver's season opening game on November 1.

After re-signing with the Nuggets to a six-year, $60 million contract on July 20, 2006, Nenê returned to action in 2006–07, averaging 12.2 points and 7.0 rebounds in 64 games (42 starts).

In 2007–08, Nenê played in just 16 games, averaging 5.3 points and 5.4 rebounds in 16.6 minutes per game. He suffered a torn ulner collateral ligament in his left thumb against the Boston Celtics on November 7 and missed the next 22 games.

On January 11, 2008, Nenê released a statement saying that he was taking an indefinite leave of absence from the Denver Nuggets to address a medical issue. Three days later, he had a malignant testicular tumor removed at a Denver hospital. His right testicle was removed as well. He returned to action on March 27, 2008, in the Nuggets' 118–105 home win over the Dallas Mavericks. Nenê entered the game with 1:17 left in the fourth quarter to a standing ovation.

Nenê missed 37 games between January 11 and March 24, 2008, after his bout with testicular cancer. A right groin strain also forced him to miss the final six games of the season.

In response to his poor run of injuries and missed time, Nenê had a career-best year in 2008–09. He appeared in 77 games (76 starts) and averaged career-highs of 14.6 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.31 blocks, in addition to 1.23 steals in 32.6 minutes per game. He subsequently finished fifth in voting for the 2008–09 NBA Most Improved Player award. He also ranked second in the NBA in field goal percentage (.604 – 428-of-709), the best single-season mark in Nuggets' franchise history.

In 2009–10, Nenê played and started all 82 games for the first time in his career and averaged 13.8 points, 7.6 rebounds, a career-high 2.5 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.0 blocks in a career-high 33.6 minutes per game.

In 2010–11, Nenê appeared in 75 games (starting all 75), averaging 14.5 points, 7.6 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 1.12 steals while shooting an NBA-leading .615 from the field in 30.5 minutes per game.

On December 14, 2011, Nenê re-signed with the Nuggets to a five-year, $67 million contract.

Washington Wizards (2012–2016)
On March 15, 2012, Nenê was traded to the Washington Wizards in a three-way trade involving the Nuggets and the Los Angeles Clippers. He averaged 13.7 points and 7.5 rebounds in 39 total games (33 starts) with Washington and Denver during the lockout-shortened 2011–12 season.

In 2012–13, Nenê averaged 12.6 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.9 assists in 27.2 minutes per game in 61 games (49 starts). On January 21, 2013, he scored a season-high 24 points in a 98–95 win over the Portland Trail Blazers.

On November 26, 2013, Nenê scored a career-high 30 points in a 116–111 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Later that season, on February 22, Nenê matched that career-high in a 94–93 win over the New Orleans Pelicans.

In 2014–15, various injuries and ailments limited Nenê's ability to produce at an optimum level, though he appeared in the most games (67) in five years. Towards the end of the season, when Nenê was relegated to more a supporting role to Marcin Gortat, he was a better rebounder and did more of the dirty work required. He averaged 11.0 points and 5.1 rebounds on 51.1% shooting during the season.

Nenê appeared in 12 of team's first 13 games to begin the 2015–16 season, but between November 28 and January 3, he missed 19 straight games with a strained left calf. On March 14, 2016, he scored a season-high 20 points off the bench in a 124–81 win over the Detroit Pistons, Washington's largest victory since the 2002–03 season.

Houston Rockets (2016–2020)
On July 20, 2016, Nenê signed with the Houston Rockets. He made his debut for the Rockets in their season opener on October 26, 2016, scoring seven points off the bench in a 120–114 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. On January 5, 2017, he scored a season-high 18 points for his 12th double-digit game of the season in a 118–116 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. On April 23, 2017, he scored a playoff career-high 28 points on a perfect 12-of-12 shooting from the field to help the Rockets go up 3–1 in the team's first-round playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder. On May 8, 2017, Nenê was ruled out for the remainder of the postseason with a left adductor tear. He suffered the injury the previous day in Game 4 of the Rockets' second-round playoff series against the San Antonio Spurs.

On July 6, 2017, Nenê re-signed with the Rockets. On December 16, 2017, he scored a season-high 16 points in a 115–111 win over the Milwaukee Bucks.

Nenê missed the first 21 games of the 2018–19 season with a strained right calf. Nenê's final NBA game was Game 6 of the 2019 Western Conference Semifinals against the Golden State Warriors on May 10, 2019. In his final game, Nenê recorded 2 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block. He declined his $3.8 million player option, thus making him a free agent.

On September 3, 2019, Nenê re-signed with the Rockets. Most of his 2019-20 salary was non-guaranteed in the form of a likely bonus. The NBA suspected cap circumvention and ruled that Nenê's salary value in a trade would only be the guaranteed $2.6 million and not the full value of $10 million.

Due to a lingering hip injury, Nenê was unable to play in a single game for the Rockets in 2019–20. On February 5, 2020, Nenê was traded to the Atlanta Hawks in a four-team, 12-player trade. The following day, Nenê was waived by the Hawks.

National team career
Nenê has been a member of the senior Brazilian national basketball team. With Brazil, he played at the following major tournaments: the 2001 FIBA AmeriCup, the 2003 FIBA AmeriCup, the 2007 FIBA AmeriCup, the 2012 Summer Olympics, the 2014 FIBA World Cup, and the 2016 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal at the 2001 FIBA AmeriCup.

Personal life
On January 14, 2008, Nenê had a malignant testicular tumor removed. His right testicle was removed as well. In the years after his cancer scare, Nenê, a Christian, said God used cancer to test him and prepare him for helping others. Upon retiring from basketball, Nenê plans to become involved with church activities in Brazil.

Nenê has three sons with ex-wife Lauren Prothe. He is currently married to Briley Sheppard Hilario.

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John Jervis

John Jervis may refer to:

 * John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735–1823), Royal Navy admiral
 * Sir John Jervis (judge) (1802–1856), British politician, Solicitor General, Attorney General and Privy Counsellor
 * John Jervis (MP for Horsham) (1826-?), British MP for Horsham
 * John B. Jervis (1795–1885), American civil engineer

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Talk:Bruces' Philosophers Song

Old talk
I thought is was: 'drink you under the table' It is a drinking song, after all. Bruce would agree with me. – Webhat
 * In The Fairly Incomplete and Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Song Book the lines are "think you under the table" and "Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel". Dunno if that helps. Acanon 01:45, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Amended lyrics. I'm almost certain it's "think you under the table".  Which makes sense as it's mixing thinking into a drinking expression in much the same way as "drink therefore I am" mixes drinking into a thinking expression.  --Plumbago 14:01, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Well it wouldn't be nearly as funny if it didn't say "think" where you'd expect "drink" and vice versa, now would it? J I P  | Talk 18:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Are the lyrics copyright-free?Jorge Stolfi 12:11, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * No of course not. Justinc 12:57, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't see any reason not to have the full lyrics of the song and have therefore reinstated them Arthur Holland
 * Because they are a copyright violation. Justinc 12:57, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

The version of the Bruces' Song on "Monty Python - Live at Drury Lane" uses "Both Schopenhauer and Hegel" as the sixth line. It also gives line 17 as "Hobbes was fond of his Dram". Of course, this was a live performance, so it may be different (like the names of the candidates on the Election Night Special) --Random Kingdom 23:30, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Since when has there been any dispute about whether it was Eric Hoffer or Thomas Hobbes the Pythons were referring to? For a start, the lyrics were published in the Monty Python Papperbok (aka Big Red Book) in the early 70s, where it was Hobbes. I find it highly unlikely that the Pythons would have heard of Hoffer in any case, never mind the fact that he wasn't really a philosopher. Is it only Americans who suffer from this confusion? Lexo 17:46, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

How do I sing the line "John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particulary ill"? The bit up to "free will" goes easily along with the tune, but how does the rest fit in? Could someone show me the proper tone division? It is the only line in the entire song that I can't sing just by reading the text. J I P | Talk 17:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Find a copy of the Monty Python Hollywood Bowl concert and it will become clear to you. You have to run the second half of the sentence together to make it fit. Wahkeenah 17:56, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

@JIP: the downbeats are "half" "shan" "tic" (roughly) and "ill". They say it fast. @Lexo - "Papperbok" and "Big Red Book" are two different books. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.74.57.100 (talk) 20:30, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

So which version is believed to be official?
The article states that

However, the publication of the lyrics with the release of Monty Python Sings suggests that the Hegel version is the official one.

while both versions mention Hegel. Which one is believed to be the official one, Schopenhauer and Hegel or just Hegel? Kotiwalo (talk) 07:36, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Considering the topic, it might've been a joke. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 05:57, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Play on Nietzsche
"Ironically, Nietzsche abstained from alcohol. The double negative 'nothing' and 'couldn't' is a play on this." How is this a play on Nietzsche's abstinence? Assuming you can teach anything you know, the line implies that Nietzsche knew everything about drinking. Calling it a "double negative" makes it seem that the words are canceling each other (like "I don't want nothing" = "I want something"). This is not a double negative in that sense. Now if it was written "There wasn't nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach you..." instead, then I might see the play, but I'm just missing it here. Is there a source for this? 201.82.172.36 (talk) 04:15, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Someone misinterpreting. "There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist..." means he knew everything about it. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:56, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, so that means there is no point in Nietzsche even being in that list. Because the section's intro says "Some of the philosophers are portrayed according to their works.". And last I checked trivia sections were frowned upon, so this theme should be upheld or else it just becomes a trivia section. 201.82.172.36 (talk) 16:00, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Whoever posted that misinterpreted, and taking that part away, we're just left with the ironies, which may or may not be "trivial", but they don't really have anything to do with this philosophy (unless "not drinking" was discussed in his philosophy). ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:16, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

 * There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist... might implied on Nietzsche's compulsive masturbation ("raising of the wrist"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.229.245.41 (talk) 19:35, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Possible precursor
There's an "Astronomers' Drinking Song" written ca. 1800 included in Augustus De Morgan's "Budget of Paradoxes", also included in "The World of Mathematics" by James Newman, vol 4 ISBN 0-486-41152-4. It also mentions Descartes, but insultingly (due to controversies over whether Newton or Descartes invented calculus)... AnonMoos (talk) 07:20, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Gosh, that does sound quite similar. And it was even before BBC Two started! Martinevans123 (talk) 09:18, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

not encyclopedic?
I love this song and whoever put this article together, but I'm afraid that the parenthetical descriptions that follow the names in the list of philosophers aren't very encyclopedic.PurpleChez (talk) 19:21, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

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Limb–girdle muscular dystrophy

Limb–girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) is a genetically heterogeneous group of rare muscular dystrophies that share a set of clinical characteristics. It is characterised by progressive muscle wasting which affects predominantly hip and shoulder muscles. LGMD usually has an autosomal pattern of inheritance. It currently has no known cure or treatment.

LGMD may be triggered or worsened in genetically susceptible individuals by statins, because of their effects on HMG-CoA reductase

Signs and symptoms
By definition, all limb girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD) cause progressive proximal weakness, meaning weakness of the muscles on or close to the torso that worsens over time. Explicitly, LGMD preferentially affects muscles of the hip girdle, thigh, shoulder girdle, and/or upper arm. The muscle weakness is generally symmetric. Usually, the hip girdle is the first area to exhibit weakness, manifesting as difficulty walking, going up and/or down stairs, rising from a chair, bending at the waist, or squatting. Because of these difficulties, falling can occur frequently. Weakness of the shoulder girdle can make lifting objects, or even elevating the arms, difficult or impossible. Rate of progression varies between patients. Eventually, the abilities to run and walk can deteriorate. The disease commonly leads to dependence on a wheelchair within years of symptom onset, although some patients maintain mobility. Eventually the disease can affect other muscles such as the ones located in the face.

By definition, LGMDs primarily affect skeletal muscles, although cardiac muscle can be affected to a lesser degree in select subtypes, which can cause palpitations.

There can be significant variability in disease features and severity between LGMD subtypes, and even within any given LGMD subtype. Additional possible presentations include:

 * Pseudoathletic appearance (muscle hypertrophy and/or pseudohypertrophy )
 * Respiratory muscle problems
 * Low back discomfort
 * Distal muscle problems
 * Secondary muscular mitochondrial impairment

Genetics
LGMD is a genetic and heritable disorder, due to one of many genetic mutations of proteins involved in muscle function. All currently identified LGMDs have an inheritance pattern that is dominant or recessive, although the definition of LGMD allows for diseases with more complicated inheritance patterns to be classified as LGMD. Pathogenic mutations are mostly in coding regions, but non-coding causative variants were also reported.

In Euroasia CAPN3 mutations are the most common cause of LGMD, however in northern Europe mutations in FKRP are also very common. HMG CoA Reductase homozygous mutation leads to a form of LGMD that may respond to treatment with the downstream metabolite mevalonolactone in the cholesterol synthesis pathway.

Diagnosis
The diagnosis of limb–girdle muscular dystrophy can be done via muscle biopsy, which will show the presence of muscular dystrophy, and genetic testing is used to determine which type of muscular dystrophy a patient has. Immunohistochemical dystrophin tests can indicate a decrease in dystrophin detected in sarcoglycanopathies. In terms of sarcoglycan deficiency there can be variance (if α-sarcoglycan and γ-sarcoglycan are not present then there's a mutation in LGMD2D).

The 2014 Evidence-based guideline summary: Diagnosis and treatment of limb–girdle and distal dystrophies indicates that individuals suspected of having the inherited disorder should have genetic testing. Other tests/analysis are:
 * High CK levels(x10-150 times normal)
 * MRI can indicate different types of LGMD.
 * EMG can confirm the myopathic characteristic of the disease.
 * Electrocardiography (cardiac arrhythmias in LGMD1B can occur)

Types
The "LGMD D" family is autosomal dominant, and the "LGMD R" family is autosomal recessive. Limb–girdle muscular dystrophy is explained in terms of gene, locus, OMIM and type as follows:

LGMD criteria
For a disease entity to be classified as an LGMD, the following criteria must be met:
 * genetic, with an identifiable inheritance pattern such as autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, digenic, or polygenic.
 * relatively selective to skeletal muscle
 * predominantly proximal muscle involvement
 * independent walking is achieved at one point in life
 * elevated serum creatine kinase
 * muscle fiber loss
 * dystrophic changes in muscle histology
 * degenerative changes on medical imaging
 * end-stage pathology seen in the most affected muscles
 * described in at least two unrelated families

Differential
Many diseases can manifest similarly to LGMD. Dystrophinopathies, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Becker muscular dystrophy, and manifesting dystrophinopathy in female carriers, can present similarly to LGMD. Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy can appear similarly, especially when it spares the facial muscles. Also in the differential are Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophies, Pompe disease, later-onset congenital myasthenic syndromes, and proximal-predominant hereditary motor neuropathies.

Treatment
There are few studies corroborating the effectiveness of exercise for limb–girdle muscular dystrophy. However studies have shown that exercise can, in fact, damage muscles permanently due to intense muscle contraction. Physical therapy may be required to maintain as much muscle strength and joint flexibility as possible. Calipers may be used to maintain mobility and quality of life. Careful attention to lung and heart health is required, corticosteroids in LGMD 2C-F individuals, shows some improvement. Additionally individuals can follow management that follows:
 * Occupational therapy
 * Respiratory therapy
 * Speech therapy
 * Neutralizing antibody to myostatin should not be pursued

The sarcoglycanopathies could be possibly amenable to gene therapy.

Prognosis
In terms of the prognosis of limb–girdle muscular dystrophy in its mildest form, affected individuals have near-normal muscle strength and function. LGMD isn't typically a fatal disease, though it may eventually weaken the heart and respiratory muscles, leading to illness or death due to secondary disorders.

Epidemiology
The minimum prevalence of limb–girdle muscular dystrophy, as a group, likely ranges from 2.27-10 per 100,000 (1:44,000 to 1:10,000). LGMD is the fourth most common muscular dystrophy, after the dystrophinopathies, myotonic dystrophies, and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. The prevalence of individual LGMDs, as studied in the United States, in descending order, are those due to mutation of 1) calpain, 2) dysferlin, 3) collagen VI, 4) sarcoglycans, 5) anoctamin 5, and 6) fukutin-related protein. In Euroasia CAPN3 mutations are the most common cause of LGMD, however in northern Europe mutations in FKRP are also very common. It is difficult to calculate the worldwide prevalence of even the most common LGMD types, due to the founder effect causing varying prevalence by region. The less common types are very rare, often only described is limited regions of the world.

History
The term 'limb girdle muscular dystrophy' was published in 1954, describing a group of heterogeneous conditions that clinicians noticed to be distinct from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, and myotonic dystrophy. The genetics of LGMDs began to be understood in the late 1900s, which led the European Neuromuscular Centre (ENMC) to establish a consensus on classification of LGMDs in 1995. The classification scheme at that time denoted autosomal dominant LGMDs as 'LGMD1' and autosomal recessive LGMDs as 'LGMD2.' A letter was appended to the names of LGMDs according to the order of discovery of the causal genetic mutation. As LGMD2Z was established, the question arose of what letter to assign the next discovered LGMD2. With this issue, among other motives, the ENMC established a new consensus on the classification and definition of LGMD in 2017. With the new definition, several diseases were removed from the LGMD category:

Research
There is a variety of research under way targeted at various forms of limb–girdle muscular dystrophy. Among the treatments thought to hold promise is gene therapy, which is the delivery of genetic material, often a copy of a healthy gene, into cells.

According to a review by Bengtsson et al. some success with AAV-mediated gene therapies (for different disorders) have increased interest in researchers, with CRISPR/Cas9 and exon-skipping helping these therapeutic goals along. Limb–girdle muscular dystrophies have many different types which are due to different gene mutations. LGMD2D is caused by a mutation in the α-sarcoglycan gene. Future treatment could be had by gene therapy through recombinant adeno-associated vectors.

According to a review by Straub, et al., there are several research issues that need to be addressed: the rareness of the disease, poor understanding of the mechanism of LGMD R, and absence of patient cohorts, all contributing to lack of biomarkers for LGMD. The review goes on to state that animal models for LGMD R have been used to analyze therapeutic medications. Also, although prednisone has been used and has had positive effects on affected LGMD2 individuals, there is still no evidence of its effectiveness in trials that are placebo-controlled.

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Ernie Harwell

William Earnest Harwell (January 25, 1918 – May 4, 2010) was an American sportscaster, known for his long career calling play-by-play of Major League Baseball games. For 55 seasons, 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers, Harwell broadcast the action on radio and/or television. In January 2009, the American Sportscasters Association ranked him 16th on its list of Top 50 Sportscasters of All Time.

Early life and career
Ernie Harwell grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, working in his youth as a paperboy for The Atlanta Georgian; one of his customers was writer Margaret Mitchell. An avid baseball fan from an early age, Harwell became a visiting batboy for the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association at the age of five, and never had to buy a ticket to get into a baseball game again. At sixteen he began working as a regional correspondent for The Sporting News.

Harwell attended Emory University, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and helped edit The Emory Wheel. After graduating, Harwell worked as a copy editor and sportswriter for The Atlanta Constitution. In 1943, he began announcing games for the Crackers on WSB radio, after which he served four years in the United States Marine Corps. Harwell would leave the service in January 1946 as a sergeant. During his enlistment he was stationed in Camp Lejeune as a writer for The Globe, and later in Washington, D.C. as a writer for Leatherneck.

Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, and Baltimore Orioles
The Crackers were a Class AA team, two rungs below the majors. Nonetheless, Harwell had achieved considerable notoriety due to the Crackers airing their games on WSB, a 50,000-watt station that reached much of the eastern half of the United States at night. Brooklyn Dodgers general manager and part-owner Branch Rickey was impressed enough with Harwell that he believed he would be an appropriate substitute for longtime Dodgers announcer Red Barber, who was recuperating from a bleeding ulcer. He traded catcher Cliff Dapper to the Crackers in exchange for breaking Harwell's broadcasting contract, the only known instance in baseball history where a player was traded for a broadcaster.

Harwell broadcast for the Dodgers through 1949, the New York Giants from 1950 to 1953, and the Baltimore Orioles from 1954 to 1959. Harwell was the lead broadcaster on Orioles broadcasts on WCBM-AM and WMAR-TV in 1955, working alongside Chuck Thompson. The next year Thompson moved on to Washington D.C. to broadcast the Senator games until returning to the Orioles in 1962. Early in Harwell's career, he also broadcast The Masters golf tournament, as well as pro and college football.

Detroit Tigers
Harwell joined the Detroit Tigers' broadcast crew in 1960, replacing Van Patrick after the latter was dismissed owing to a sponsorship change. George Kell, who had begun calling Tigers games with Patrick the year before, and had previously played for the Orioles in 1956–57 while Harwell was announcing their games, was instrumental in bringing Harwell to Detroit. "George called and said, 'I recommended you and the Tigers asked me to get in touch with you.'" Harwell said. "I came and that was it."

Harwell shared TV and radio duties with Kell through 1963, then with Bob Scheffing in 1964. He began working radio exclusively in 1965, teaming with Gene Osborn for two seasons and then with Ray Lane from 1967 to 1972. Paul Carey replaced Lane in 1973, joining Harwell to form the Tigers' best-known and longest-lasting radio team, which lasted until the end of the 1991 season. Harwell gained a large following outside of Detroit because the Tigers aired their games on WJR, a 50,000-watt station that reached most of the eastern half of North America at night. On December 19, 1990, the Tigers and WJR announced that the station wanted to go in a "new direction" and that the 1991 season would be Harwell's last, as his contract was "non-renewed". Carey then announced that he had already planned to retire after the 1991 season and that the decision was unrelated to Harwell's contract situation. Fans across Michigan and throughout the baseball world were outraged, but the ballclub and the radio station (who eventually wound up blaming each other for the decision) stood firm: "[Harwell's situation is] not going to change no matter how much clamor is made over it," said team president Bo Schembechler. The situation caused outrage so much that some made threats of violence against Schembechler. Some, such as Mitch Albom, blamed the situation for causing as much negative feeling as it did on WJR executive Jim Long who was the one who pushed the quick, no severance pay removal of Harwell. The movement in favor of keeping Harwell was so strong that even billboards in favor of his remaining were put up. Rick Rizzs was hired away from the Seattle Mariners to replace Harwell in 1992, teaming with Bob Rathbun.

Harwell worked a part-time schedule for the California Angels in 1992. The following year, the Tigers were purchased by Mike Ilitch, who made it one of his priorities to bring Harwell back. In 1993 Harwell teamed with Rizzs and Rathbun on the WJR broadcasts, calling play-by-play of the middle innings in each game. From 1994 to 1998, Harwell called television broadcasts for the Tigers on PASS Sports, WKBD-TV, and later Fox Sports Detroit (now Bally Sports Detroit) for select broadcasts. In 1999, he resumed full-time radio duties with the team, swapping roles with Frank Beckmann (who had replaced Rizzs in the radio booth following the 1994 season), teaming with analyst Jim Price, and continuing in that role even as the team's radio rights changed from WJR to WXYT in 2001. During spring training in 2002, he announced that he would retire at the end of the season; his final broadcast came on September 29, 2002. Dan Dickerson, who had joined Harwell and Price in 2000, took over as the Tigers' lead radio voice the following year.

National broadcast work
Harwell's broadcast for the Giants of the third and final game of the 1951 National League tie-breaker series against the Dodgers, which ended with the pennant-clinching "Shot Heard 'Round the World" home run by the Giants' Bobby Thompson, was carried nationally on NBC television.

Harwell helped broadcast two All-Star Games (1958, 1961) and two World Series (1963, 1968) for NBC Radio, numerous ALCS and ALDS for CBS Radio and ESPN Radio, and the CBS Radio Game of the Week from 1992 to 1997. He also called the 1984 World Series locally for the Tigers and WJR. For CBS TV's coverage of the 1991 World Series, Harwell narrated an opening prologue prior to Game 1 and a closing epilogue (an excerpt from A. Bartlett Giamatti's "The Green Fields of the Mind") after Game 7.

Post-retirement broadcasting works
Following his retirement, Harwell came back briefly in 2003 to call a Wednesday Night Baseball telecast on ESPN, as part of that network's "Living Legends" series of guest announcers. In 2005, Harwell guested for an inning on the Fox network's coverage of the All-Star Game (which was held in Detroit for the first time since 1971), as well as an inning on the ESPN Radio broadcast. For Game 3 of the 2006 American League Division Series between the Tigers and New York Yankees, he provided guest commentary on ESPN's telecast for two innings, called an inning of play-by-play on the Tigers' radio flagship WXYT, and guested for an inning on ESPN Radio. Harwell also called an inning of Game 1 of the 2006 World Series for WXYT.

Harwell served as a guest color commentator for two Tiger games on FSN Detroit on May 24 and 25, 2007. Harwell worked the telecasts (alongside play-by-play man Mario Impemba) as a substitute for regular analyst Rod Allen, who took the games off to attend his son's high school graduation. (Harwell had filled in for Allen once before, on a 2003 telecast.)

He also appeared as a guest on an ESPN Sunday Night Baseball telecast in Detroit on July 1, 2007.

Harwell occasionally did vignettes on the history of baseball for Fox Sports Detroit's magazine program Tigers Weekly.

Broadcasting style
Harwell was known for his low-key delivery, southern accent (Detroit "Ti-guhs"), and conversational style. Some of his trademark phrases were:
 * "That one is long gone!" (His trademark home run call, with an emphasis on "long")
 * "He stood there like the house by the side of the road, and watched it go by." (After a called strikeout)
 * "Called out for excessive window shopping." (Also after a called strikeout)
 * "It's two for the price of one!" (After a double play)
 * "A fan from [insert a city] will be taking that ball home today." (When a fan would catch a foul ball)
 * "The Tigers need instant runs." (When the team was behind in the late innings)

Harwell would also begin the first spring training broadcast of each season with a reading from Song of Solomon 2:11-12 (KJV): "For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land."

Non-broadcast activities
Harwell's 1955 essay "The Game for All America", originally published in The Sporting News and reprinted numerous times, is considered a classic of baseball literature. He also authored several books, including Life After Baseball, Tuned to Baseball, and Breaking 90: Nine Decades Young and Still Loving Baseball. He was an occasional columnist for the Detroit Free Press.

Harwell also wrote popular music. His first recorded song was "Upside Down" on the Something Stupid album by Homer and Jethro in the mid-1960s. In the liner notes of the album, it says: "Detroit Tiger baseball announcer wrote this one, and we think it's a fine observation of the world today, as seen from the press box at Tiger Stadium. We were up there with Ernie one day and from there the world looks upside down. The Mets were on top in the National League." All told, 66 songs written by Ernie Harwell have been recorded by various artists. "Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan." – Ernie Harwell in an article published May 31, 2005, in the Detroit Free Press

Harwell made a cameo appearance in the 1994 film Cobb and in the made-for-television movies Aunt Mary (1979), Tiger Town (1983), and Cooperstown (1993). His voice can be briefly heard in the films Paper Lion (1968) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and in the TV movie The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004). Harwell appeared as an interview subject in the 1998 documentary film The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg and contributed to numerous other baseball-themed documentaries and retrospectives over the years.

The 1997 text-based computer simulation game APBA for Windows: Broadcast Blast features play-by-play commentary by Harwell.

Harwell served as a spokesman for Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Michigan. His contract with the organization, which began in 2003, ran for ten years with an option for another ten. Had Harwell fulfilled the entire contract (by which time he would have been 95 years old), Blue Cross had pledged to extend it for yet another decade. Harwell formerly ran a blog about healthy living and fitness for BCBS. He retired from it on March 5, 2009.

A devout Christian (he was born again at a 1961 Billy Graham crusade), Harwell was long involved with Baseball Chapel, an evangelistic organization for professional ballplayers.

In 2004, the Detroit Public Library dedicated a room to Ernie Harwell and his wife, Lulu, which will house Harwell's collection of baseball memorabilia valued at over two million dollars.

On April 26, 2008, Harwell was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from The University of Michigan at their Spring Commencement ceremony. One week later, on May 3, 2008, he was presented with another Honorary Degree of Laws this time from Wayne State University.

In late 2008, Harwell began to appear in television public service announcements for the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, advising viewers about the Digital television transition in the United States.

Harwell was a member of the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy Board, an organization that attempted to save portions of Tiger Stadium. He offered to donate a large portion of his historic collection of baseball memorabilia, which he had collected over the course of his storied career, if part of Tiger Stadium could have been saved for a museum.

Harwell lived in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and moved to Novi in the late 1990s, where he lived until his death. Up until just before his death, he still exercised regularly, did sit-ups, used a treadmill, and lifted weights.

Awards and honors
The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association named Harwell as Michigan Sportscaster of the Year 19 times, and inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 1989. In 1991, Harwell was inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame. Harwell was also honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981 as the fifth broadcaster to receive its Ford C. Frick Award, and was elected to the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame and the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1998, among many other honors. In 2001, Harwell was the recipient of the prestigious Ty Tyson Award for Excellence in Sports Broadcasting, awarded by the Detroit Sports Media Association (DSMA). In 2009, Harwell was named the first recipient of the DSMA's Ernie Harwell Lifetime Contribution Award (the "Ernie".) The award honor individuals from sports media who have contributed outstanding time and effort to the betterment of sports broadcasting through a lifetime body of work. He was named a Lifetime Member of the Detroit Sports Media Association. Emory University inducted Harwell to its Hall of Fame in 1990. The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame inducted Harwell in 2008. In 2010 Harwell was named as a recipient of the Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Award from Fordham University radio station WFUV. The press box at Detroit's Comerica Park was officially named the "Ernie Harwell Media Center" following his retirement from broadcasting. The Cleveland Indians also named their visiting radio booth at Progressive Field after Harwell. The site of Tiger Stadium at one time had a sign on the fence as "Ernie Harwell Park", but it is not currently or officially a city park.

Harwell Field
On June 6, 2013, the Wayne State University Department of Athletics in conjunction with the Ernie Harwell Estate and the Ernie Harwell Foundation announced the establishment of the Harwell Field Project.

This project is an outreach effort that built a baseball stadium in recognition of Ernie and his wife of 62 years, Lula "Lulu" Harwell. Harwell Field has grandstands, press box, team clubhouse and a foyer to recognize the achievements and contributions of the Harwells.

Illness and death
On September 3, 2009, Harwell announced that he had been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer, and that he, his family and doctors had decided against surgery or other treatment of the condition. On September 16, Harwell gave a farewell address to fans at Comerica Park between innings of a game between the Tigers and the Kansas City Royals.

Harwell sat down for a 60-minute interview on an episode of MLB Network's Studio 42 with Bob Costas, his final television appearance. The episode premiered November 17, 2009. In the interview, Costas correctly foresaw the 2009 World Series would unfortunately be Harwell's last.

Harwell died on May 4, 2010, at his home in Novi, Michigan, surrounded by his wife of 68 years, Lulu, and three of their four children.

He was set to receive the Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports Broadcasting on May 5 in New York City. Harwell considered Scully to be the best broadcaster of all time. However, in accepting the award on Harwell's behalf, Al Kaline noted "We Tiger fans respectfully disagree."

Harwell lay in repose at Comerica Park on May 6. Over 10,000 fans filed past the open casket. May 10 was declared Ernie Harwell Day at Comerica Park. Several players and broadcasters hoisted a flag in center field bearing his initials, similar to the ones that were also sewn onto all Tigers uniforms. Harwell's longtime broadcasting partner Paul Carey threw out the ceremonial first pitch that night.

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WP:RD
We came accross you for the first time there. Fascinating perspective. You're on our watchlist now and we hope to see more of what you see. hydnjo talk 00:38, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I'll never forget my first time in Shinjuku Station (新宿駅; -eki) . Never got lost and never felt uncomfortable. just a little overwhelmed. さようなら, hydnjo talk 00:55, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * And of course 出入. hydnjo talk 01:23, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Ah, Tokyo. My experience with Tokyo ends with Narita Airport, where my plane landed and I then got on the Shinkansen bound for Nagoya. I was originally supposed to get a connecting flight to the then-new Chubu Centrair International Airport, but with going through customs and such, I didn't have the time. Maybe I'll check it out again, though, when I get my yen saved up. Anyway, if you're looking for more experiences from American/Canadian/British/Aussie/etc English teachers in Japan, check out the Let's Japan forums or the Japan forum at Dave's ESL Café. Sometimes the posters can be a bit cynical, though. よろしく！ Garrett Albright 02:00, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Got your message. Will try to do better! NoseNuggets 11:12 PM EDT August 24 2005

Your computer
Glad to see (from WP:RD) that you're using a Mac. Viruses and such can be devastating in a foreign country. ;-) hydnjo talk 20:42, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Ditto with those homework questions
Thanks for adding the little blurb about homework questions to the RD :-) --HappyCamper 18:09, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem. I was getting sick of seeing them, so I decided to be bold. :) Garrett Albright 08:18, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

WP:RD/M Unicode question
I'd think that your reply would make an MSer just a little jealous. Didn't even blink! ;-) hydnjo talk 19:01, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Just spreadin' the word. The grass truly is greener over here on the other side, no? Garrett Albright 05:46, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

 * True. Most folks seem to be in denial even when I sit them in front of my 17" iMac. They slip into OS-X without even realizing how simple it was to do so. Then the excuses start: MS must be better that's why so many people use it ???? Oh well I say to my adult son, at least you're not a crack-head. ;-) hydnjo talk 05:56, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Mac promo
Hey, you forgot to take credit for your shameless Mac promotion at. ;-) --hydnjo talk 17:03, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Gee, was it that obvious that it was me? Garrett Albright 14:33, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, but I peeked to be sure. --hydnjo talk 20:34, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

PDF to image
From your answer to my question on the reference desk, I'm assuming you have a Mac capable of converting my file quick and easily. Would you be willing to help me out? If you do, please email me with the Wikipedia mail function so I can send you the file. If not, please leave me a quick note on my talk page. (A lazy not-logged-in User:MacGyverMagic) :). - 131.211.70.102 12:47, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Nintendo Revolution
You somehow must have accidentally deleted nearly all the text of the article, but I put it back. Just letting you know. Maybe a browser bug of some kind?  Andre  ( talk ) 19:37, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No, human error. I started out only editing that section of of the article, but when I went to post it I got an Edit Conflict error. So I made the change that the other editor had made to my version of the article and went to post it. Alas, it posted that section as the whole article, and by the time I figured that out, you had already fixed it. Garrett Albright 19:51, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Slot-loading iMac; that is correct the iMac never supported 8cm disc, I use work work for a AppleCentre for ywo years. We had customers coming into our service centre with jamed 8cm disc in their slot drive. That will help you to tell the other guy to listen... Andreasu 07:17, 30 September 2005.

Hamburger
Egg on hamburger? Tell me more. --hydnjo talk 02:51, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * What more can I say? It was a hamburger. Bun, onion, lettuce, cheese, ketchup, and, of course, beef patty. With a fried egg on it. And it was pretty good, save for the eggy part. Garrett Albright 14:27, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this one (we usually don't have whole eggs on hand). Too much I say. Egg McMuffins are plenty big enough (no hamburger). Toasted english muffin, ham slice(s), shredded cheese and an egg plopped on top. Don't put it on the muffin 'till the other stuff is cooked (under a lid). Mmmm --hydnjo talk 02:38, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

 * If you have a large griddle you can WOW your kids with this one. Let me know if you need more detail. Mmm .... --hydnjo talk 02:44, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

 * More detail on how to cook a breakfast sandwich? Thanks, but not necessary… I cooked 'em (and other breakfast and lunch edibles) for a year in my first college job. :) Garrett Albright 09:58, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Sour Drink in FLCL
Hey, you completely changed my contribution about the sour drink in the article FLCL. I don't know where you got your information from, but I verified my information from a packet in one of the cases of the DVDs. Maybe you should check your source. If you're absolutely certain that you're right, I'll leave it alone. Please, though, I'm POSITIVE about what I wrote the first time.
 * My source is that I live in Japan and I have a Lemon Squash can sitting on the counter on the other side of the room. Is that adequate? I could take a photo if you'd like. Garrett Albright 19:07, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I can tell you from the information in the pamhlet accompanying the DVD that it IS named KaraC as a pun for both the word "karashi", which means spicy in English, and on Hi-C. Please incorporate this into the article, as I trust you to do this.  Why did you extrapolate that this was intended product placement?  Also, sorry about posting anonymously the first time.  I forgot to log in.--Seth Goldin 00:01, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Pocari Sweat in FLCL
I'm pretty sure that Naota and Ninamori are drinking Pocari Sweat. Again, I must doubt that the drink is "Vitamin In." I would prefer to safely assume that it is Pocari Sweat. Where is your source about the drink being "Vitamin In?"--Seth Goldin 01:00, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I stated why I believe it is "Vitamin In" (and am certain it's not Pocari Sweat) on Talk:FLCL. Garrett Albright 10:49, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Letter to Japanese Mirror Webmaster
Since you live in Japan, could you please see my request at Village pump (assistance)? Thanks. Superm401 | Talk 03:44, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
 * The site you listed in violation seems to be down, so perhaps they are complying now? Anyway, I don't have a printer, so printing out the letter will require a plan, but if they continue to not comply let me know again and I'll see what I can do. Garrett Albright 17:04, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Your reverts to FLCL
Your revert of my changes to the FLCL go against the Wikipedia Style Manual. I don't give one gorram what your philosophy of the Internet is; here on Wikipedia we obey the rules of Wikipedia. The relevant section is:

What should not be linked

 * Plain English words.
 * Years, decades or centuries, unless they will clearly help the reader to understand the topic. (This is in contrast to full dates—see below.)
 * Subsidiary topics that result in redlinks (links that go nowhere), such as the titles of book chapters, the songs on albums and the villages in a municipality, unless you're prepared to promptly turn those links into real ones yourself by writing the articles. It's usually better to resist linking these items until you get around to writing an article on each one.
 * Words that have been linked earlier in the article. This advice follows the standard practice of defining or explaining a term, or spelling out an acronym, on its first occurrence in a text and not subsequently

 * None of those legitimately apply to the FLCL article, dude. And it's not my internet philosophy; it's the internet philosophy. You seem to be new to it. Perhaps some of your unlinkings might be arguably legit, but to not have Japan or metaphor or music linked from there is just inane -- and none of those are "plain English words." I can see that you've been annoying other people with your little "Wiki syndrome" BS, and I'm prepared to go to war with you over this if necessary; I'm convinced I'll have enough people at my back to win. Please sign your further posts. Garrett Albright 06:42, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * This is getting unproductive, let's take this to the FLCL Discussion page and act like rational adults.  I've started a topic on removing (what I think to be) extraneous links.  I also spent about 20 minutes with the regulars in #wikipedia on FreeNode and they went with me step by step to figure out which words in the article should and shouldn't be linked.  --Cyde 16:27, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Apple Computers and History

 * Thanks so much! I appreciate all the help and I am happy to learn so much about Apple's history. I can easily search through and make a top 5 list of Apple's contributions to the industry now. Thank you.-- S c r e w b a ll 2 3 talk 19:39, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * No prob. I love to evangelize every chance I get. :) I added a few more just a moment ago. Garrett Albright 01:48, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

ELC included
Hey, it's been a while. A question at the WP:RD/M today had to do with Japanese apartment rentals and the questioner wanted to know what "ELC included" meant. I'm sure you can help. Regards, hydnjo talk 22:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

User:Sethimothy
Hi. What was this edit all about? --F a ng Aili 說嗎? 16:54, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi. It was about this, but you and your nosy script seem to be ruining our fun. =P Garrett Albright 17:03, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Project Censored Criticism
I gather you were the original author of the Criticism section of the Project Censored article. There has been a call to document the statements more thoroughly, and I have tried to respond, in part. What was the first paragraph has been difficult for me to document as it was written, so I have written a brief new one which I can source. Islandgyrl has put a "Weasel Words" notice on the section, and she has a point. I would like to suggest that you try to source some statements, or agree to the removal of the old first paragraph. Or work with me on additional, sourced comments in a new first paragraph. What do you think? Dwalls 21:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I think that's a perfect example of overuse of [citation needed]. Why would one put [citation needed] next to a statement like "Project Censored has a leftist prospective" and yet not put [citation needed] next to "Grass is green?" [Citation needed] should not be needed next to statements that adults of average intelligence could ascertain for themselves, and I think that any such adult would clue into Project Censored's leftist slant just by reading the table of contents from one of their books. That all being said, I do not have a particular citation about the Project's political slant, just as I do not have a particular citation about the hue and saturation of grass, and don't really care that much about them anymore to get in a wikifight over it now. Garrett Albright 22:05, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Garrett, my point was to not get in a "wikifight" about it, but to approach you in a cooperative vein. I believe you said you were writing from your experience at SSU, and I would not contradict you. However, Wikipedia does have a policy favoring attributing assertions, particularly criticisms, and not relying on personal experience (or "originial research," as it may be called). I acknowledge that common sense supports you, but in controversies Wikipedia asks for citations. And they are available, as I have noted for some specific instances. Do I read you as saying you're ready to take a pass on further effort here, and let us proceed to try and get the "Weasel Words" notice removed without a "Wikifight?" Dwalls 23:18, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, well, maybe I'm not clear on where you're coming from here. You're asking for my sources on my assertions that the Project is leftist? The Project itself is the source! The contents of the books they put out, the speakers they invited to the campus (Palestinian sympathizers and peaceniks and the like), and so on. There's just no doubt about it, so it stuns me to see people trying to say we need a citation for something so obvious. But if they want to do that, then fine; no, I don't want to make the effort right now to try to confront them about it, because I've been in wikifights (I guess the proper terminology is "editing wars") before here on Wikipedia and elsewhere and it's just a lot of wasted time and energy. Maybe if they were trying to outright deny Project Justice's leftist slantings, try to pass them off as mainstream ideology and the voice of the people and some bull, I'd get up in arms, but I just can't get excited about a [citation needed] right now. Does that answer your question? Garrett Albright 04:48, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it does. I'll try to dialog with IslandGyrl to get her "Weasel" tag down. If you're interested in where I'm coming from, you might look closely at the citations I've added in the last para of the Criticism section. Dwalls 23:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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Speedy deletion nomination of Hide and go seek
Hello Garrett Albright,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Hide and go seek for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Hangon_preload&preloadtitle=This+page+should+not+be+speedy+deleted+because...+ contest this deletion], but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

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Kingsif (talk) 23:52, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

 * I'm not clear why you are notifying me of this. I didn't start and, as far as I can recall, never made any significant contribution to that article. At any rate, I'm puzzled as to how such an article could be considered promotional. What would it be promoting? A universally-played, milennia-old children's game? Garrett Albright (talk) 07:27, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

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