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User talk:PhilipO

Leaving Me Messages
If you leave me a message, I will reply here also, so please watch this page.

Who keeps editing the external links page????????
Who keeps editing the external links page???????? And why do you do it? And if you have the "authority" to do so [moderator], then what are your criteria for not removing links????

Mobile phone and Ring tone
What gives I came across this site thinking this was really something great but if you got assholes like you taking out usefull links then what is the point of having one place where anyone can find good information. I demand that you be more reasonable or I will make several websites and post in every forum that I come across to not use Wikipedia becouse it is not really a site for the people but a site for Philip.

 * Wikipedia is not a link farm. I suggest you read this and this and get back to me. --PhilipO 22:24, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree maybe Wikepedia really isnt all that.

Links to www.oldapps.com

 * Hey PhilipO, this site is not a spam http://www.oldapps.com you may visit it by your self and check it out. I just wanted to help the users. It has all the original version of popular software. you may contact us at oldapps (at) oldapps (dot) com

 * Hello. Thanks for your message - I understand your wish to have your site added to these pages, but they are not sufficiently relevant. Wikipedia is not a link farm and the consensus (which I agree with) is that these links do not belong here. Thanks --PhilipO 06:37, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Deletions
The deletion of Vodafone entries you have made is quite irritating. I see your reasoning from the point of view of someone who has not seen the articles/reports in question, but there is a lot of talk on the web at the moment about the integrity of this company and they must be delighted that you are standing up for them.

 * Standing up for them? That's a funny thing to say ;-) Talk on the web is next to meaningless as a source. --PhilipO 20:59, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Why don't you at least consider restoring the October 2005 Which magazine article - which caused a great stir - as valid information/news? You can't link to Which? unless you subscribe.

Wikipedia is one of the few media where the immoral behaviour of large companies can be made public.

In conventional media their critics can be silenced by the promise of enhanced advertising revenue. Wiki does not rely on Vodafone's advertising for income - and yet it is serving the company well with such an obsequeious  entry, supported by you.

Why?

 * Unfortunately, Wikipedia is not a soap box. It is an experiment to create an encyclopedia and not to expose the questionable behaviour of companies. The article is not obsequeious - it is factual. Seems like you have a serious problem with them. Well then, don't use their cell phone service. It's a free market. Cheers --PhilipO 20:59, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

It's only a free market if people have access to the information they need to make their economic choices. I would say here information has been suppressed - but as you say, you are a deletionist.

You have misspelt 'obsequious'.

Thanks for your reply.

 * Wow, you really have it in for Vodafone, don't you? ;-) Cheers. --PhilipO 14:14, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

I have recently added a number of links to coinop.org to game pages. PhilipO has taken it upon himself to delete these, for the "commercial" aspect and similarity to other sites.

You have kept links to MobyGames. MobyGames has ads to amazon, etc. How is this any different than my 1 ad for game sticks?

Also, we have SLEWS of repair and technical information on each game for collectors, something that the KLOV isn't consistent on (and is impossible to search this information) and MobyGames doesn't have either.

Can you please explain the rationale behind keeping links to Mobygames and not to coinop.org. Thanks.

 * Hello - thanks for your message. The MobyGames link has been there before I began editing these pages - it seems the community is happy with that link - there is even a template for it. Your message implies that you are associated with coinop.org - Wikipedia strongly frowns apon people adding links to their own sites - it is against policy. Furthermore, you have added links from multiple articles to your site - this can be construed as linkspamming, which again is against policy - see Baby Pac-Man,  Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Man for example. If you do have specialized knowledge about arcade games why not contribute directly to the articles themselves and instead of simply adding external links? That would be a great way to expand Wikipedia. Other editors will also revert additions like your previous edits. Cheers --PhilipO 20:28, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

No Intelligent Design Petition taken down on the Intelligent design page
Hi,

I had posted what I thought was a relavent news topic about a petition I recently hosted but you indicated you had taken it down becuase "Page isn't the place for online petitions". Your comment is here:

My four day petition is here (I figure you are swamped and can't easily recall what it was you were even looking at):

So if this page about Intelligent Design is not the place for announcing these results, where would your recommend?

Thanks.

 * Hello - thanks for your message. In my opinion, a link to your online petition doesn't belong on the page. Wikipedia has a policy regarding link addition. While it is an admirable goal, I don't see how an online petition adds informational value to the article about this topic. Links should be reserved for relevant sites that contain relevant information about the topic being discussed - otherwise articles risk being swamped in links. Cheers --PhilipO 15:47, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks Phillip. The reason I was thinking this was relevant was because it is not the ongoing petition that is the "content" but significance of what that petition represented to the scientific community.  What that petition did was tap into a well spring of the scientific community that was previously untapped.  My response rate was 1,200% higher and 640,000% faster than the Discovery Institutes (which is the top link).  The page(s) with my statement about the petition and what it means in relation to ID along with the 12,000 signatories represents a very unique piece of information that I expect other will want to know about who are involved with this discussion.  What I think I will do is a sentence to the paragraph about the Discovery Institute and their petition (which is one of their most frequent cited documents).  I'll see if that fits into the content better than just a "link" (which I agree with you would just overwhelm the wiki). - R. Joe

bomberonline link on the snowboarding page.
Hello, Philip - I'm not the one repeatedly adding the bomberonline link, but I am a snowboard carver, and I have to say bomberonline really is the de facto base of alpine snowboarding in the US (online or offline). The size of the sport is so small that pretty much the only way to get equipment or information is online, and almost every carver is on the bomber site. Is there no way to include the link? Normally I'd be against the link myself (you may notice I've deleted some bogus external links from that page as well), but as far as I can tell, there is no other place that I know about to get information about the sport (e.g. unless you are at one of a few resorts in the country or on a racing team, you cannot get professional instruction. There are only a handful of stores in the country - I know of 1 in Colorado, 1 in Vermont, and 0 in our home state of California - which sell alpine/carving equipment.  No snowboard magazines review equipment). Also, the bomberonline site has a large number of actual non-commercial, informative articles (see: or ), as well as a highly active message board with snowboard carvers that actually get together once a year in Colorado for a week to ride. Also, while it is a commercial site, they also take their role as the heart of the sport seriously, and, despite the apparent conflict of interest, even host (favorable) reviews of direct competitors ( - (Catek is their primary competitor)). Anyways, just wanted to get your thoughts on this. Yes, it's commercial - but there is no other better source of information on carving/alpine snowboarding available. Thanks! Kjl 02:50, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello - thanks for the message. Well, you seem to know more about snowboarding than me judging from your contributions - I've been up in the Sierras a bit, but that's it. I was reverting the links 'cos they did seem commercial, but I will defer to your judgement in this topic! I did look at the site at your request, and while they are selling stuff in reasonably low key way, there is plenty of in-depth, useful info there too. Go ahead and add the link back - I won't revert, and let's ensure no bad-faith commercial links get added in the future. Cheers. --PhilipO 03:01, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks. Yeah, I have not yet made that many edits to that many pages yet, so I often keep an eye out on the ones I have, like the snowboarding page :)  That page in particular gets a lot of badly written, bogus information.  I wonder if it's because the snowboarding demographic is so young...  Kjl 03:15, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

TOEFL
Hi Philip,

The TOEFL page is very outdated. I added some new information but you deleted it as spam because it had an outbound link. I added the information again, without the link, but you deleted it again for the same reason.

Can you tell me how I can update the page, without my changes being deleted?

Thanks,

Ken

 * Hello - thanks for the message. Firstly, you are right. I did revert the second time without checking that the link was in the second edit. My bad. I started reverting because this page is prone to spam and your first edit was very similar to this one which was also reverted previously and came from the same IP address. By all means update the page if you have new info - just be sure to make sure it doesn't look commercial, or someone else might go and do the same thing as I did! While you're here, why not create an account? Perhaps you have specialized knowledge about this stuff to share? Doing it with an account is much more fun. ;-) Cheers. --PhilipO 03:03, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Google Talk
Philip, there are many links to sites like www.gtalkprofile.com on the "Google Talk" page. GTalk Profile is not a commercial in that it has no advertising and does not charge for its services. I don't understand why these other sites are listed but GTalk Profile cannot be listed? You can contact me at (deleted) if you have any questions or I will look here.

 * Hello - thanks for your message. Actually you are right, so I pared down the links altogether. Wikipedia has a policy of not being a link farm. However, if the community reaches a consensus that these links should be retained, that's fine with me. I would suggest you open up a topic on adding your link to the page. What do you think? Cheers --PhilipO 23:30, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

OK, that's cool. The only reason we added the link was because of the others that were listed there.

Hi Philip. I added a title to your VfD submission on Sam Liberatore, and added it to the main VfD page. Joyous (talk) 03:24, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Welcome
Since nobody did it properly, that I can see:

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Asuka sakamaki
Hello!

I have just accidentally removed a VfD tag you have put on this article. sorry. I have included the tag again, but, with some google search, it seems like this is a genuine article, even if quite incomplete and not properly formatted. I have noted that you did not set up an article entry in the VfD Log, as required by the VfD procedure, either. You can complete the VfD procedure as described in WP:VFD or give the article another chance and remove the VfD tag. I would suggest the article to be moved to Asuka Sakamaki, and I would also like to remind you that poorly formatted articles can always be improved and don't need to be deleted. -Poli (talk • contribs) 06:16, 2005 July 19 (UTC)

VfD
Is there a reason you've put VfD tags on certain articles (Circular redundancy for example) instead of listing them for speedy deletion? -- Essjay ·  Talk 23:04, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, you can use speedy tags; it puts the article in a category that we admins can check and then delete the articles. If you list them at VfD then (I, at least) won't speedy them. Admins don't generally use the tags unless they are unsure if the page should be deleted under the CSD criteria and want another admin to look at it; if we're sure something is a speedy, we just delete it. -- Essjay ·  Talk 23:09, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

GunZ
Thanks for your intervention in keeping this article healthy. :) --nothingxs 06:49, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I'm removing people's degrees listed after their names, since this information is usually redundant with the article's content, and while titles like "Sir" and "CM" are appropriate, university degrees are a bit much. -- 02:49, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Washington's religious beliefs
Thanks for your help & support, Philip--JimWae 06:35, 2005 August 22 (UTC)

Hardy Boys
Fvw - you might like to take a look at the discussion on this issue at Vandalism in Progress - if you aren't away of it already. All Hardy Boys articles are affected. --PhilipO 20:55, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's what brought it to my attention. Your best bet is probably to put up a request for page protection, I'd protect it myself but stupidly got involved with the edit war instead and I'd rather avoid the grey areas of conflict of interest. --fvw *  20:57, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Nancy Drew external link issue
No problem, just like to keep things in discussion order :)

 * You understand what I am implying, right? Flonga appears to be a sockpuppet for FWDixon -- PhilipO 02:04, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * I am not sure what the proper Wikiquette is and will be doing some reading of policy and guideline pages. Thanks! -- Sitearm | Talk 02:10, 2005 August 24 (UTC)

 * Ok, I've read some more. I notice you've suggested centralizing the discussion on the FWdixon talk page. However, I just checked and part of my note there was deleted without comment. So maybe a different page needs to be started to consolidate the issues and a workable community response. I am not volunteering to start the page but I will post to it. Thanks! -- Sitearm | Talk 05:23, 2005 August 25 (UTC)

Reverting of edits by User:Liontamer
I noticed you reverted all of Liontamer's recent edits to many video game articles, including but not limited to the addition of links to relevant OCR pages. The edits seem to be valid (not linkspam), or at least some are... Why did you revert them all? Rmrfstar 04:00, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The mass adding of links to any website is strongly discouraged. In this case, I would consider it external link spamming. Perhaps some of the edits have good intentions and perhaps some are relevant to some articles, however, for the ones I witnessed, they were not. I'll attempt to keep an eye on this in the future. K1Bond007 04:35, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * It seems to me however, that the links inserted into the articles were almost always relavent, usually a link to a remix of the game music. The links were to a page on OverClocked Remix which had to do with that specific game, the equivalent of adding an appropriate IMDB link on every movie article. Maybe we should think about reverting the reverting on an individual article basis. -- Rmrfstar 11:57, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I disagree. There is a big difference between The Internet Movie Database - one of the oldest and best known film-related sites on the web - and OverClocked Remix. IMDB includes general info about the movies, and is worthy of inclusion. Each arcade game has its equivalent - the link to the Killer List of Video Games. I don't have any issue with those links. I would have an issue with someone coming along and adding a link to hundreds of film sites pointing to a site dealing with film music (or remixes of them thereof) specifically. I already spoke with Liontamer about adding it to video game music, which I think is a good place to for a link. I believe we need more consensus on this issue before reverting other links.--PhilipO 15:51, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

The Whole...
Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew/3RR/Linkspam/Sockpuppet/Meatpuppet/Wikistalking mess thingy.

Are you keeping a close watch on it, or just passing through?

If you're seeing it through to a conclusion, I'd appreciate it if you would let me know when a consensus gets reached. The discussion is spread across at least five different locations. It's too much of a pain to follow it all, so I'm just avoiding them on RC patrol. --GraemeL (talk) 23:24, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the reply. I'll check FWDixon in the morning UK time. Hope you get a solution by then.

 * I noticed you're also embroiled in Votes_for_deletion/Larry_H._Parker. Does the phrase glutton for punishment mean nothing to you? ;-)
 * --GraemeL (talk) 23:37, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the heads up, and for your dedication to seeing it to a conclusion. Keep up the good work!  :)  --Alan Au 18:03, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, and I'd be happy to lend a hand with cleaning things up. --Alan Au 18:05, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Adding my thanks for consolidating the discussion. I was losing track of what was being discussed on which page.  I agree that FWDixon's talk page is the best place to talk, since the issue spans so many different articles.  Joyous  (talk) 19:32, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Links from Individual Hardy Boys Articles
I posted another comment on this subject that may be of interest to you. Thanks for taking care of this. If there is anything I can do to help you, do let me know. Rl 17:39, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Got your note and posted input here. Thanks! -- Sitearm | Talk 19:03, 2005 August 25 (UTC)

Good job!
For your tireless efforts to get the Hardy Boys link spamming problem resolved, I award you this barnstar. Good job! maltmomma 00:19, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Barnstar_of_Reversion2.png|The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar]]

Rat's poo! maltmomma is too fast: I was about to do this. Joyous (talk) 00:42, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/Little Astrology prince
Thanks for the vote, but please notice a vote without rationale may be discounted, or carries less weight than those with rationale. I will be displeased if your vote is wasted, so could you add your reasoning to your vote at Votes for deletion/Little Astrology prince ? Thank you. - BorgQueen 12:10, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Gary Cziko
Good and fair of you to leave notes re user Gary. I do think a user page should only be used by the user--if I want to sign up and leave my page blank for two years, good for me. However, you were quite polite and attentive when it was pointed out.

In general I think the "second welcome" is often more important the first; often people start stuff and the first thing they see is VfD plus a brusque message from an otherwise worthwhile admin saying "don't do x, y and z cause the rules say so" which seems to be the situation here. Cziko started a list that the rules say he shouldn't have, but English on the Internet is absolutely a logical article, so nice thinking on his part. You haven't actually voted (not that I'm vote-peddling!) but you could at []. I'm doing the changes tomorrow--I really think a Keep if changed is appropriate and it will be changed. Marskell 22:31, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

AudioBooks
Hm, this business of communicating by leaving notes on user pages is a bit strange. You answer comments on your own User page, but that is not what I am doing here.

It makes sense to me that if there is an article on AudioBooks it should have links to cites that have AudioBooks. The article is a stub and needs work, but I don't see how removing potential useful information about where to find audiobooks makes the article any better.

I've left comments for Marksell on his page about English on the Internet and also Portuguese on the Internet. I was actually intending for both to be primarily a collection of resources and I understand that that is not what the Wikipedia is supposed to be. I don't have time now to make them into real articles, so it's fine with me if they are deleted. I have copied them to my on Wiki where I can continue to work on them.

--Gary

 * Sorry to meddle, allow me to say a few things: PhilipO may have made a simple mistake when he left that message on Gary's user page; it should have been placed on his talk page. I'm sure this wasn't intended to come across in a strange way. Gary, the links to resources you posted are potentially useful – if you don't have time to work on the articles now, you could post some of them on the articles' talk pages as potential sources that other editors can use for expanding the articles. --MarkSweep 04:27, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I re-worked the article today if anybody's curious: English on the Internet. Sort of generic but decent and could improve. Take care --Marskell 16:57, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Hardy Boys Page Protections
I have unprotected some of the pages. I need to leave for a few hours, but I will unprotect more later. Any other administrators reading this are welcome to help. Academic Challenger 23:33, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi!
Hi! I saw that you've reverted at one point the Jodie Foster article. Unfortunately it was all in vain. You are not the only one who's done it. There is a very persistent anonymous person who is inserting many personal views (mainly negative ones) in the article, especially some regarding Foster's commercials in Japan. Because of this situation, on the talk page of Jodie Foster's article there is a Final vote about including/not including the advertising info. If you have the time, please state your opinion there. Best regards! Tavilis 18:54, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Hardy Boys unprotection
I'll be glad to. Getting started now. Joyous (talk) 01:16, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. I didn't unprotect the main Hardy Boys article; was that part of the list?  Joyous  (talk) 01:45, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * No - while the anonymous vandal has agreed to respect the decision re that page and Nancy Drew, maybe we need some time to monitor his behaviour? --PhilipO 02:02, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok. If you need more admin help, feel free to let me know.  I want to say again how impressed I am at how you've coordinated this effort to reach a consensus among warring editors.  We need more of that here; I hope you stick around and get administratified yourself.  Joyous  (talk) 02:05, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

PhilipO: There are still two links to the Bob Finnan web site on Hardy Boys instead of the one agreed. They are: I'd recommend deleting the first per the agreement to have only one Bob Finnan link. Since you've recommended that page stay protected would you ask an admin to make the change? Thanks! -- Sitearm | Talk 02:54, 2005 August 30 (UTC)
 * The Bayport Times - The Hardy Boys Webzine resolves to
 * The Hardy Boys Unofficial Home Page resolves to

Philip, I'm reluctant to edit the protected Hardy Boys page to remove the 2nd link, because I've been involved in the discussions about the whole link business, and it might appear to be a conflict of interest. I would be happy to unprotect it and remove the link, but if you want to keep it protected for a bit, you should probably check with a different admin. Joyous (talk) 02:33, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, it can always be protected again and Sitearm is correct in pointing out that we did agree to reduce the article to one link. If there is trouble with it, it can always be protected again. If you remove the protection, I (or sitearm, *or* the vandal) will remove the second link. Thanks. --PhilipO 04:17, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok, I've unlocked Hardy Boys, and removed the webzine link. Joyous  (talk) 10:56, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks! -- Sitearm | Talk 14:35, 2005 August 31 (UTC)

No more changes will be made by me without concensus. Apologies to all. 69.205.9.31 19:40, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

CSD
"Non-encyclopedic" isn't a criterion for speedy deletion I'm afraid, the only ones that count are those listed on WP:CSD. --fvw *  14:03, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

I just wanted to comment that pages not in english aren't supposed to be tagged, they should be tagged  and added to the list of WP:PNT. In particular Rent a car perhaps is better turned into a redirect than speedying delete. -- (☺drini♫|☎) 19:35, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

 * OK - thanks for the note. I will certainly follow that process in the future. Cheers. --PhilipO 19:37, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

Audio books
PhilipO: If Audible's and AudioVille's website can be put on the Audio books article, why not the ones I added, too. Is it that there should not be too many external links so the first ones to be added or OK but additional ones not?

--Gary Cziko

 * Gary - Wikipedia has a policy of not simply being a collection of links. There have been issues before with users (particularly anonymous users) adding links to their audio book sites - from this one and individual book articles. This comes across as link spamming. You obviously have an account, so IMHO you're acting in good faith. Audio books has been a target before, that is why I watch this article and have been reverting additions. I assume you don't have any connection with the sites?

 * Ask yourself do the links add anything more to the site? Is it anything that a user would not find on Google? I will add that the reason I don't remove the links to Audible's and AudioVille is that they were there before I started editing Wikipedia and I am relunctant to change stuff that was on the pages already. Also, I was under the impression that these sites were the biggest names in the business, and perhaps had a reason to be there as a reference. I will admit that I didn't look into this in too much detail. What do you think?

 * However, this is simply my view, and if a decision is reached by the community that some or all of these links should be added - and perhaps others removed, that's fine with me. A good place to start is to add your links to the Talk:Audio_book page and start a discussion about the link suitability. That way individual editors can weigh in. Cheers --PhilipO 16:28, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

IOUs
I notice you've reverted the currency meaning of IOUs a few times as vandalism. This is a legitimate definition, if you read the entry on Danny Wallace you'll see a link to the same Citizens Required site that the definitons contained. If you feel the definition shouldn't be there for other reasons, say so. Calling it vandalism isn't accurate and it seems the people trying to add it are new users, who possibly need a little guidance.

See people discussing adding it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/dannywallace/F2307884?thread=931662. As you are unlikely to have an account at a given random forum, if it's OK, I'll post your response in that thread when you make it?

 * Hello - thanks for your message. Firstly, since you were acting in good faith, it is obviously not vandalism. That was just my initial reaction. From the text of the addition it was probably a reasonable response, but fair enough, it isn't vandalism. As for its inclusion on the article, I am still not convinced it deserves it. Wikipedia has policies regarding notability, and there is a level that something must reach before it can be included. Otherwise the website risks drowning in questionable information. There are only 2 references to this phrase on the entire searchable internet (see ). Including some text about this definition on Danny Wallace's page would be the correct place for this information. If there was an standalone article about this topic, it would certainly have been deleted on these grounds.

 * However, this is just my opinion. The decision should be reached by consensus. If the community thinks it should be included, that's fine with me. I suggest you open up a discussion about it on the article's talk page. Feel free to share my thoughts with others. Cheers --PhilipO 00:15, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

 * Actually, it wasn't my edits, I just came across a thread where somebody was complaining about being reverted. I'd agree with you that at this stage, it doesn't merit inclusion. I was trying to defuse what looked like an edit war between a new and over-eager user and and yourself. As it turns out, the person in question has admitted on the forum they have a past history of edit wars, and vandalism as revenge when they don't go his way. I'll still paste your thoughts, for the benefit of more sensible readers who may drop into the thread.

For the record, that wasn't vandalism
You recently did a revert on the Stephen King page, calling it questionable vandalism. For the record, I believe that was the actual line that King said in that episode. At least, the "opened the gates of hell" is defintely right; I don't know about the torturing animals part, though. Hbdragon88 22:11, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello - thanks for your message. Fair enough. Without a reference and the excessive number of exclamations marks, it smacked of vandalism (hence my use of the word "questionable"). Cheers. --PhilipO 02:11, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Micralyne/Temp speedy delete tag
Greetings,

You've placed a speedy delete tag on this article. Yet, the user is attempting to follow the instructions as laid out on the copyvio notice on the main page. I think the speedy delete tag is too hasty and inappropriate. Allow time for this article to develop; it's just a temp page, and the copyvio notice will not have action taken on it for days yet.

All the best, --Durin 18:28, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Cool - thanks for the note. Will let it develop so! Cheers. --PhilipO 18:30, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

www.philowiki.com
Nice job on the www.philowiki.com link spam. - Tεx  τ  urε  22:19, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Cheers - when I see the same link from multiple pages, it always sets off alarm bells. --PhilipO 22:23, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

vfd on Sam Sloan?
How is it that Sam Sloan already deserves another vfd? The page just went through a vfd last month. 69.181.82.221 00:11, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello - thanks for your message. I have no idea why it is going through another vfd. If it did, and the vote was to keep, then it shouldn't - you should definitely note this on the vote page. However, once the vfd notice goes, Wikipedia policy states that it should not be removed, except by an administrator. I will also add a note to the vote page to this effect. By the way, you continue to add to the article and improve it - just don't remove the note. Cheers.

--PhilipO 00:19, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Question on VFD
I came across an article that I don't think is noteworthy. I googled him, and came up with nothing. I don't know how to go about a VFD on this. Can you help me? It regards Jonathan Christian Nesvadba. Thanks. maltmomma 05:28, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Hello - the directions are here. Follow these instructions and let me know if it works for you (or not). This procedure was renamed recently from 'Votes for Deletion" to "Articles for Deletion". Article certainly seems like it should be deleted. Cheers. --PhilipO 05:36, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, you made it much easier. I was going around in circles. maltmomma 13:24, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

Linkspam
Thanks! I'm looking forward to clarifying my definition further and publicizing the project. So many articles are just riddled with self-promoting links. Jdavidb 16:29, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Thank you further for linking to my page. :) Jdavidb 16:44, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

BTW, the homeschooling/beauty pageant guy has shown up before, on a different IP address. And I'm sure he'll show up again. It's been awhile since the last strike, though, I think. Jdavidb 16:56, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Forward Versatile Disc
PhilipO, according to Copyright problems, when you find a new article which is a copyright violation, you should replace the article with the notice, instead of adding it. You've done a good job on catching this one, though! Owen× ☎  17:44, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * OK - thanks for pointer. Cheers. --PhilipO 17:56, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Kirk article changes
Hi. I don't disagree with your recent changes to the James Kirk article -- it focused a bit too much on fanon information which goes against the guidelines set out by the Star Trek WikiProject. I do disagree with the rationale that the information be cut because it's citing a book for which there is no article. There is no rule saying a source has to have an article, and a redlink serves as a signal for someone to write an article. I've noticed that a few articles where folks have removed wikilinks for names, topics, etc. because they're redlinks. IMO I don't mind seeing a sea of redlinks because that's a challenge to me and others to make the articles happen. Cheers! 23skidoo 12:45, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the note. The main reason I reverted the edits *was* because it did focus too much on fanon - one of the reasons why there was so many red links IMHO. I will definitely rephrase similar edits summaries differently in the future. Thanks. --PhilipO 14:58, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Seduction article changes
Please stop deleting entire paragraphs. If you find a particular reference or link commerical, remove that. Thanks.

 * Thanks for your note. These additions are blatantly commercial. They would need serious rephrasing to be acceptable IMHO. --PhilipO 03:20, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Seduction
Hello Fvw - I see you too have been reverting the addition to this article. User:70.225.174.15 left me an anonymous note telling me to stop. I didn't and justified my reasoning on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look. Cheers. --PhilipO 03:19, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's how I found out about it, I had your talk page on my watch list. I quite agree with all that, let me know if you need any help should he keep pushing the paragraph though. --fvw *  03:17, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * PS: If you're going to complain of others writing anonymous notes you might sign your own :-P

--fvw *  03:17, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Touche! I wish there was some way the system would sign automatically on hitting Save Page. --PhilipO 03:19, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

the anon
Check his edit history - he vandalised Evolution a year ago too - almost certainly the same guy. Guettarda 18:51, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Whatever you say, dude
Referring to the melodrama statement...I am pretty pissed off at this person. Sorry if that may offend you. Molotov (talk)  04:35, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not offended at all. It's just that we're experimenting here with writing an encyclopedia - nothing more. We're not fighting a war. But hey, the Talk pages are all about letting off steam, right? Cheers, --PhilipO 04:43, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * All I know is...if someone pisses me off they need to know it. I am not going to kiss their butt Molotov  (talk) [[Image:Flag of California.png|25px]] 04:51, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

The thing that just wouldn't die
The Seduction community people are back, at WP:VFU this time. You might want to voice an opinion. --fvw *  18:28, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

WP:CP
Hi, you've reported copyright infringements to WP:CP in the last week, a new measure was recently passed to allow the speedy deltion of new pages that are cut and paste copyvios. Please follow these instructions if you come across this type of copyvio. Thanks. --nixie 00:14, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Apollo etc.
Philip, I understand your frustration. My initial hope with the page protection is that it would afford everyone a cooling off period, where you might make some progress on the talk page. But beyond that, it allows me a bright-line "reset" where, once the page is unprotected (and it will be, probably soon), there is a "starting line" so to speak from which I can better watch for 3RR instead of having to comb through back edits. Don't get discouraged. · Katefan0(scribble) 19:55, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the message - you're right about the cooling off period. I am sure it will soon be pretty clear from the talk page that a consensus has been reached, and further changes on the contention issue will warrant reversion. Cheers. --PhilipO 20:14, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I thought maybe some hoax-accuser would revert my stealthy addition to that claim that the 2001 show swayed 20% of the audience, but your approach works just as well. The previous alleged poll of 6% is scary enough. As not-quite-stated in the text, if you phrase the question the right way, you can get 6% of the people to agree to anything you posit. And if 20% had doubts after that 2001 show, then I weep for this nation. I watched the same show, and within 5 minutes I could tell their "case" against NASA was fraudulent. So it's maybe best to just rub out that stupid claim of 20%, as you did. :) Wahkeenah 18:25, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed - the 20% claim should have been removed the moment it was added since it was unsourced. I could not find any reference to it with a Google search, though I did find plenty of references to the 6% statistic and the Gallop poll, so am happy to leave it remain in the article. Cheers --PhilipO 18:34, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Magic Page
Philip, Please stop deleting my link to magician's vocab. It's not a commercial link. The other links on that page are commercial if you care to read them properly. Eg "Magic Words", he is trying to sell his book. It's slow Java, long winded and no relevence to be honest, mostly blank pages but you never deleted it. And most of the others have commercial connotations too. So how can you say my link is commercial any more than anyone elses. Have you actually read it???? It's a work in progress and it already contains 100's of definitions useful for magicians. And it's going to contain loads more too. Thanks for your cooperation. MagicValentina(scribble)

 * Hello - thanks for your message. If you actually look at the history of this page you will see I did exactly what you asked before you wrote your message! You are right - the page you are adding isn't commerical and the one I did remove is. However, Wikipedia does have a policy  against people adding links to websites they are themselves are creating or working on. If you are the working on this page, it may be removed by other editors. Links should really be added by people who no vested interest in generating traffic to it.

 * Also, the page you are linking to is bound to have its address changed in the near future - that is the way that the notice board you are using operates. Therefore the link will probably become "dead" in the future. Why not start a new page in Wikipedia called List of conjuring terms or something similar? You seem to have a lot of knowledge to share and that would be the best (and cool) way to do it - you can then link to the new Wikipedia page from Magic. Let me know if you have any questions. --PhilipO 21:19, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Hiya Well OK I edited your new page you made List of conjuring terms cos you said it was cool but really Phillip, I don't know if it is a good idea to have this list on Wikipedia (rather than on another server) because it has a lot of very valuable information in it and magicians who want to be restrictive and don't like sharing anything (a lot of them are like that) will come along and delete it. And then nobody will be able to use it. Also there are magicians on big magic sites in the secret sections saying that Wiki is evil exposure and it should be about what, not how, and some of them may attack the project magic pages. So I thought I'd give you the heads up on that if you are a mod or something. Anywayz, I did the List of conjuring terms like you said but this Wiki stuff is doing my head in a bit cos I'm used to HTML and it's all a bit weird so you can probably tell me if I made a mess of it or linked it in wrong or something. Thanks for your help :)-xxxx  --MagicValentina 00:14, 14 October 2005 (UTC)--

 * It is very difficult for anyone to delete stuff from pages - or even vandalize them - without someone noticing. Look how quickly I saw the link addition to Magic and checked it. You should add List of conjuring terms to your watchlist - that way you will notice any changes and can revert them if necessary. Cheers. --PhilipO 00:39, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * OK I think I am getting the hang of this now. But we still have to watch the pages don't we? I thought the software might put it back if someone blanked them. I've done some work on the timeline of magic too. And the new page magically appeared in the magic box which was great but then this guy Krash says the list of conjuring terms is fancruft and it's an ignoranti elonchi, so I guess we can't please everyone huh? That's the trouble with this Wiki thing; you try to do something useful and then someone else doesn't like it.MagicValentina(talk) --MagicValentina 15:40, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Manchester bombing
From Consensus: "consensus can only work among reasonable editors who are making a good faith effort to work together to accurately and appropriately describe the different views on the subject..."

I'd rather you addressed the concerns I raised on Talk: 1996 Manchester City Centre bombing before reverting my edits. If you look at the edit history, you will see that I have no problem with the bombing being called terrorism, so long as the description is attributed.

Lapsed Pacifist 00:40, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I believe the talk page speaks for itself. Perhaps you should have discussed your latest reversion on the talk page? --PhilipO 22:13, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't think anyone has gone into more detail than myself. The talk page speaks for us all, but I believe other users are breaching NPOV. Feel free to add your thoughts.

Lapsed Pacifist 12:10, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Too many links
PhillipO, I was not aware of the link policy.

 * Please read this and get back to me. Linking from numerous - and you are linking from many, many pages - to the one address (http://lawyerintl.com/) is simply against policy . It clutters pages and adds questionable value to Wikipedia. If you do believe the site is worthwhile, you could add a single link to a single suitable law page. The editors there (along with you) can discuss its addition. The current additions will be reverted by me and other editors I'm afraid. Cheers. --PhilipO 02:55, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

I am going to keep one link on that I do think is quite relevant and informative to the Wikipedia community. Please check out this link and you will see that is relevant and useful. That is the link in the Black's Law Dictionary page. If you agree please leave it.

 * OK - I will leave that link alone. You seem to be acting in good faith and it seems like a worthwhile page. As Wikipedia becomes more popular, it is constant target for people embedding links to the articles for advertisement purposes. Their behaviour (on the surface) is very similar to yours and that is why editors were reverting your additions. Any questions, let me know - cheers --PhilipO 03:05, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

How to archive a talk page
Hi PhilipO! Got your note. I used the information at How to archive a talk page

You can customize it a bit to look the way you like. -- Sitearm | Talk 09:27, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Résumé
Hi PhilipO, what's the real reason for removing the link to ego4u.com? According to there is no problem adding relevant links without editing the article. -- Netspy 12:02, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Hello - thanks for your message. You are correct - there is nothing wrong with adding relevant links to an article. However, Wikipedia is not link farm either. Do you believe that another link to resume writing sites belongs on this page? You seem to spend alot of time simply adding external links to articles on Wikipedia - which is against the spirit of the site. Why not contribute directly to the articles instead? Just my thoughts - however, if you feel this is really a worthy link that adds more than the links that are there already I won't revert it. Cheers --PhilipO 19:42, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Editor Links
Hi Phillip, could you post some links to new editor guidelines and tips as discussed via email this week please? Thanks in advance. --Weeboab
 * I added some links to your talk page. Cheers --PhilipO 16:38, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Good work
Glad to find you reverting many linkspams by 70.231.146.237, I was getting tired ;o) I've tidied up many of his earlier ones. Regards, --bodnotbod 16:29, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

SlashGISRS.org and ARSIST links are not spam
Hi PhillipO. I'm a long term user and enthuiast of wikipedia, it's great people like you are removing the spam on wikipedia. However, I strongly disagree with all the reverting you done on my submittals. Let me explain myself and give examples. First, I added a link to slashgisrs.org on GIS. SlashGISRS.org is a popular non-commercial ad-free site for GIS and remote sensing, and you know what, on the wikipedia GIS article, there's commercial links, like Directions Mag, but you removed slashgisrs? I can't understand. There's also a completely useless link to conotea.org on the GIS page that should be removed. Second, you removed the links to ARSIST, a list of earth observation satellites. ARSIST is a very useful GNU Free Documentation list of satellites used by at least hundreds of people in geospatial technologies. This is not a link spam. And finally, you removed the link on slashcode page to slashcode websites (not refering to any other website but slashcode's one). I see this as useful, not useless or spam. What do you think? I am not a spammer. In fact, I give voluntarly about 20-30 hours weekly to the geospatial community, I won't lie to you, it's frustrating to be considered a link-spammer...  Thank you for your comprehension and your time helping the community :-) lordsatri

 * Hello - thanks for your message. I took a look at your contributions and while it is good to contribute to the pages on Wikipedia, simply adding links to pages is not a very constructive way to enhance the site. Adding a link to the same page from multiple pages on Wikipedia can be legitmately construted as linkspam    - other editors may have reverted your additions too. I stronly believe you should add the link from one page on Wikipedia and leave it at that. Otherwise editors might think you are trying to generate traffic to the site. If you do have valuable knowledge about this topic why not add directly to the pages? That would be a great way to improve the articles. As for the other links, I don't tend to remove links that were there already because I don't know their history (unless they are blantanly spam). Cheers --PhilipO 22:20, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
 * You said "simply adding links to pages is not a very constructive way to enhance the site": you're absolutely right. You see, right now, I spend so much time on other geospatial-community-related projects (all open and non-commercial of course), I don't plan to really contribute to wikipedia yet. But my team of volunteers is looking to build a geospatial wiki. We are only at the start of the project and our technology choice is not yet determined. We might go with tikiwiki since it has a map module, and this kind of feature is important to the GIS and RS communities :-) Anyway, thanks for your reply. I'll put slashgisrs's link to GIS and RS only. And put back ARSIST's links link too. Regards. lordsatri

Oh well done
I've been long annoyed by the ludicrous list of links on Backgammon but have never had the patience to sort out the good from the bad or the worthwhile from the unnecessary. Good stuff. Palmiro | Talk 01:17, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Cheers! --PhilipO 02:31, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Neo-prohibitionism
Hmm, are you withdrawing the Afd, then? Should it be closed out or deleted or something? I like the article but I'll admit I'm slightly ambivalent about it being an article at all. Friday (talk) 03:40, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Hello, thanks for your message. I thought all I had to do was remove the afd header from the article - what else to I have to do? I was going to put it up because the creator was adding (seemingly) vanity wikilinks to it in 1990s and 2000s, and it seems like his only source for the artcile is himself (judging by his username). These searches seemed to indicate that it should be deleted, but this one  convinced me otherwise. Cheers --PhilipO 03:57, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I was a bit confused by your edit summary. The afd page itself still exists, but that probably doesn't matter since it isn't linked to from anywhere now.   I closed the Afd due to being withdrawn, I hope this was what you wanted.  You can view it at Articles for deletion/Neo-prohibitionism.  If you (or anyone else) wanted to nominate it again, you could do so.  Friday (talk) 04:27, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

AudioBooks external links
PhillipO, what criteria are you using to remove external links in the Audio Book article? Is any site that can make $$ not allowed as an external link on Wikipedia? Thanks, RickyWiki

 * Hello, thanks for your message. Yeah, Wikipedia has a policy against commercial links and I didn't see why it should be there. It didn't seem to add anything to the article and the article has been a linkspam target before. I realise that there are two other commercial links there but they were present before I first started editing Wikipedia so I am reluctant to remove them. Cheers --PhilipO 03:36, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay, that sounds good to me! I'm the one who added Audiobooksforfree.com because they do offer all their content free at very low, but "bearable" (their words) quality.  They are also a paysite, but I figured their free content would be worthy of an external link. RickyWiki

Image Tagging Image:CroppedGNGIcepalacePhilipO.PNG
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GNG
A classic game must be rerefenced as somethign. I know it is, you just need to cite someplace saying it. BUt classic in itself is not a computer and video game genre, its an adjective describing its legacy. Gng games are hybrid platfrom and run and guns; its gameplay is cahractersitic with run and gun games, allthough its more of a spin off of platform games. --larsinio ( poke )( prod )

Ghosts 'n Goblins screenshots
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cablecard photo
Wasn't clear to me what your objection to the other photo was, but this new one is fine. Perhaps you could move it over to Commons though- using the same classification as that of the old photo. -Mak 17:32, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of "List of Hardy Boys Original Titles"
Hi PhilipO,

A user has proposed deletion of the article List of Hardy Boys Original Titles. I'm notifying you, as the originator of the article, as a courtesy.

Best regards,

Fg2 10:48, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

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Ghosts 'n Goblins info
Hi PhilipO, I was wondering if you have read this. I noticed that you had re-inserted deleted weapon and level information from the Ghosts 'n Goblins article. That link might explain why it was removed. Cheers, Fusion  Mix  17:31, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

AiG Change reply
I actually didn't add that statement in the first place. It was added by We66er, if I recall correctly (apologies to that user if I recall incorrectly). My immediate reaction was to remove it as that is obviously not how pseudoscience is defined. I then realised that the statement is true. Creation Science is considered pseudoscience, but not for reasons of its methods, and not for arriving at conclusions that are unsupported by its methods. It is labelled so because of it's conclusions. That is why I have defended that statement against removal. I do think it is simplistic, but it is accurate. The only criticism of creation science methodology that I have come across is that it includes explicitly stated presuppositions. That is a false criticism as suppositions are an integral and necessary part of the scientific method, and explicitly stating them has the virtue of acknowledging them. The "pseudoscience" label seems to be a convenient way to dismiss creation science without addressing it (i.e. rebuttal without refutation). I think it a simplification because it hides the re-definition of science that presupposes the falsity of creationis presuppositions. I have seen active, researching, publishing, leading-their-field scientists explicitly called non-scientists because they happen to be creationists. I have read statements that there are NO creationist scientists because their creationism makes them pseudoscientists - without regard to how they arrived at creationism. I have seen IDers who have arrived at ID via their scientific research labelled as pseudo-scientists simply because they now subscribe to ID, which is considered pseudoscience - again without regard to how they got there. Science used to go wherever the evidence led, but apparently now if it does not start with an implicit ruling out of certain conclusions it is quite ironically labelled pseudoscience. I have gone long, for which I apologise, but this dismissal and avoidance is something I find extremely frustrating.LowKey (talk) 02:32, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Methinks you doth protest too much. PhilipO (talk) 15:43, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Like I said, high frustration level.LowKey (talk) 00:39, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Ack! You didn't make the sentence clearer; you completely changed it! It now opens with a POV assertion (which is a mis-statement in any case). It still needs more work.LowKey (talk) 00:39, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

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Is Riak TS an Open Source product?
Hi. I agree that the Basho page doesn't let me download Riak TS today. But they do say (http://basho.com/products) that "Open source versions of Riak KV, Riak TS and Riak S2 are available under the Apache 2 license for use by the large and growing community of engineers, architects, academics and enthusiasts who are committed to solving the complex problems of distributed systems." Maybe their download page is old, or maybe TS is no longer open source. John Y (talk) 05:04, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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The Way the Crow Flies

The Way the Crow Flies is the second novel by the Canadian writer and author Ann-Marie MacDonald. It was first published by Knopf Canada in 2003. The story revolves around a fictionalized version of the death of Lynne Harper, and the subsequent murder trial of Steven Truscott. The novel is set in the early 1960s predominantly at the Royal Canadian Air Force Station Centralia located in a small town near London, Ontario. In the story, the character Ricky Froelich, a Métis foster child, is the fictionalized version of Steven Truscott.

Reception
The Way the Crow Flies was nominated for the 2003 Scotiabank Giller Prize and for the 2004 Lambda Literary Awards. The Book of the Month club selected it for distribution.

Overall, the book received mostly positive reviews. In The Guardian, Aida Edemariam wrote that "the novel is a thriller, too, as tightly wrought and formal as a Hitchcock storyboard, all the way to the sudden vertiginous surprise at the end". However, Edemariam stated, "MacDonald can be heavy-handed with the historical context, especially in the clunky first chapter". Edemariam concluded that "The Way the Crow Flies is, in the end, moving and compulsively readable". Writing for the Canadian magazine Quill & Quire, Bronwyn Drainie stated that "for the most part, this is an engrossing and ingeniously plotted portrait of a 'perfect' 1960s Canadian family coming to terms with all its imperfections". Drainie wrote that, while "the first three-quarters of The Way the Crow Flies are solid and captivating, the final quarter [is] a somewhat disappointing and navel-gazing denouement".

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

title: The Way the Crow Flies


text:
Marcus Banks

Arthur Lemarcus "Marcus" Banks III (born November 19, 1981) is an American former professional basketball player.

Banks is 6ft 2in tall and 205 lb. He played college basketball at the UNLV with the Runnin' Rebels, where he was Co-Defensive Player of the Year as a senior. He was selected with the thirteenth pick in the first round of the 2003 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies, then traded to the Boston Celtics, along with Kendrick Perkins.

College career
After playing two years at Dixie College, a junior college in St. George, Utah, Banks transferred to UNLV. He played for the UNLV Runnin' Rebels, where he was Co-Defensive Player of the Year of the Mountain West Conference as a senior.

NBA
Banks was selected as the thirteenth pick in the first round of the 2003 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies; however, he was then traded to the Boston Celtics along with Kendrick Perkins for Troy Bell and Dahntay Jones. The Celtics agreed to trade him to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2004 for Gary Payton, but returned to Boston after the trade was amended following Payton's refusal to take a physical. Payton would later be acquired by the Celtics in a trade involving different players.

In Boston, Banks was known for his good defense and ball handling; Allen Iverson, a division-rival point guard, named Banks as the toughest defender he faced in his career. However, coach Doc Rivers had high hopes for young guard Delonte West, and Banks' minutes were reduced. On January 26, 2006, it was announced that Banks, Mark Blount, Ricky Davis and Justin Reed were traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Wally Szczerbiak, Michael Olowokandi and Dwayne Jones.

Banks signed as a free agent with the Phoenix Suns on July 19, 2006.

In 2007, the Suns spent training camp working Banks into a shooting-guard role when they were not seeking a trade, a tough proposition with Banks in the second year of a five-year, $21.3 million contract.

On February 6, 2008, Banks, along with All-Star forward Shawn Marion, was traded to the Miami Heat for Shaquille O'Neal. On February 13, 2009, Banks and Marion were traded to the Toronto Raptors for Jermaine O'Neal and Jamario Moon. Banks' final game in the NBA was during his time with the Raptors on November 16, 2010, in a 94–109 loss to the Washington Wizards. In his final game, Banks recorded 2 points and 2 assists.

On November 20, 2010, Banks was traded to the New Orleans Hornets with Jarrett Jack and David Andersen for Peja Stojaković and Jerryd Bayless. In his $5 1/2$-month tenure with the Hornets, Banks never played a game for the team, effectively ending his NBA career.

Overseas
On November 12, 2012, Banks was acquired by the Greek League club Panathinaikos Athens. He was released in May 2013.

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CD1

CD1 (cluster of differentiation 1) is a family of glycoproteins expressed on the surface of various human antigen-presenting cells. CD1 glycoproteins are structurally related to the class I MHC molecules, however, in contrast to MHC class 1 proteins, they present lipids, glycolipids and small molecules antigens, from both endogenous and pathogenic proteins, to T cells and activate an immune response. Both αβ and γδ T cells recognise CD1 molecules.

The human CD1 gene cluster is located on chromosome 1. Genes of the CD1 family were first cloned in 1986, by Franco Calabi and C. Milstein, whereas the first known lipid antigen for CD1 was discovered in 1994, during studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The first antigen that was discovered to be able to bind CD1 and then be recognised by TCR is C80 mycolic acid. Even though their precise function is unknown, The CD1 system of lipid antigen recognition by TCR offers the prospect of discovering new approaches to therapy and developing immunomodulatory agents.

Types
CD1 glycoproteins can be classified primarily into two groups of CD1 isoforms which differ in their lipid anchoring, as well as their expression patterns of the CD1 genes (CD1d is constitutively expressed, whereas the group 1 CD1 genes are inducible and coordinately regulated by myeloid cells).

 * CD1a, CD1b and CD1c (group 1 CD1 molecules) are expressed on cells specialized for antigen presentation.
 * CD1e is also considered a group 1 CD1 molecule, even though it does not function in antigen presentation, contrasting the other isoforms.
 * CD1d (group 2 CD1) is expressed in a wider variety of cells.

CD1e is an intermediate form, a soluble lipid transfer protein that is expressed intracellularly. It does not present lipid antigens to T cells, rather plays a role in the processing of lipid antigens and loading them onto other CD1 molecules.

Group 1
Group 1 CD1 molecules have been shown to present foreign lipid antigens, and specifically a number of mycobacterial cell wall components, to CD1-specific T cells.

Group 2
The natural antigens of group 2 CD1 are not well characterized, but a synthetic glycolipid, alpha-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer), originally isolated from a compound found in a marine sponge, has strong biologic activity.

Group 2 CD1 molecules activate a group of T cells, known as Natural killer T cells because of their expression of NK surface markers such as CD161. Natural Killer T (NKT) cells are activated by CD1d-presented antigens, and rapidly produce Th1 and Th2 cytokines, typically represented by interferon-gamma and IL-4 production.

The group 2 (CD1d) ligand α-GalCer is currently in phase I clinical trials for the treatment of advanced non-hematologic cancers.

Structure
CD1 proteins consist of a heavy chain with α1, α2, and α3 domains and a transmembrane domain which anchors it to the cell membrane. Much like the MHC molecules, the CD1 heavy chain associates with β2-microglobulin and its binding groove consists of two antiparallel α-helices, placed atop a β-sheet platform. The antigen-binding cleft architecture of CD1 proteins consists of A’, C’, F’ and T’ binding pockets and C’ and D’/E’ accessory portals, which act to accommodate the aliphatic hydrocarbon chains present in lipid, glycolipid, phospholipid, or lipopeptide antigens. CD1 antigen binding clefts are defined by locations of named portals where antigens protrude.

The main difference in structure between MHC and CD1 proteins is that in MHC proteins, the contact region for TCR show lateral symmetry, whereas human CD1 proteins show left-right asymmetry. Another difference between MHC and CD1 proteins is that the antigen display platform of CD1 molecules is smaller than the antigen display groove of MHC molecules.

CD1-lipid TCR interactions
Human CD1 cells can recognise and bind a large number of lipids, from monoacylated lipids or lipopeptides to tetra-acylated lipids. However, not all of the lipid ligands can be considered antigens for T-cells. Free fatty acids sphingolipids, phospholipids, sulfolipids, lysophospholipids, amphipathic small molecules and some oils function as natural antigens for T cells.

10% of all αβ T lymphocytes in human peripheral blood are CD1-restricted T cells, out of which, the most abundant are the T cells specific for CD1c. Three models of CD1 recognition by TCR have been described: “head group recognition” model, “absence of interference” model and “altered CD1” model. The “head group recognition” model is considered to be a classical mode of CD1-antigen recognition, whereas the other two are only “emerging” CD1-antigen recognition models which predict that TCR contacts CD1 and not lipid.

 * The “Head group recognition” model, also called “headgroup discrimination” model, is attributed to CD1b and CD1d, and it refers to the fact that TCR do not only react to peptidic antigens, but can also recognise and bind to the structure of carbohydrate and other non-peptidic head groups of antigens that are carried by CD1.
 * The “absence of interference” model emerged as a result of the identification of tissue-derived CD1a-presented autoantigens and the first CD1a-lipid-TCR structure, between an autoreactive TCR which bound the CD1a without contacting the lipid that CD1a was carrying. In accordance to the left-right asymmetry of CD1, the small hydrophobic lipid ligand emerges from the F’ binding pocket (the right side of the CD1 binding cleft) and TCR binds to the A’ binding pocket (the left side of CD1a). Sulfatide and sphingomyelin can be considered antagonists for CD1 autoreactive cells, as they have a large polar head group and can block the CD1a A’ binding pocket.
 * The “altered CD1” model is attributed to CD1c. CD1c has A’ pole, F’ roof and G’ portal, which serve as points of access to the binding cleft. When it is loaded with fatty acids and lipids, CD1c alters its 3D surface in order to act as a TCR recognition surface.

Diagnostic relevance
CD1 antigens are expressed on cortical thymocytes, but not on mature T cells. This often remains true in neoplastic cells from these populations, so that the presence of CD1 antigens can be used in diagnostic immunohistochemistry to identify some thymomas and malignancies arising from T cell precursors. CD1a, in particular, is a specific marker for Langerhans cells, and can therefore also be used in the diagnosis of Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Other conditions that may show CD1 positivity include myeloid leukaemia and some B cell lymphomas.

In cows and mice
Mice lack the group 1 CD1 molecules, and instead have 2 copies of CD1d. Thus, mice have been used extensively to characterize the role of CD1d and CD1d-dependent NKT cells in a variety of disease models.

It has recently been shown that cows lack the group 2 CD1 molecules, and have an expanded set of group 1 CD1 molecules. Because of this and the fact that cows are a natural host of Mycobacterium bovis, a pathogen in humans as well, it is hoped that studying cows will yield insights into the group 1 CD1 antigen-presenting system.

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Carcinoid

A carcinoid (also carcinoid tumor) is a slow-growing type of neuroendocrine tumor originating in the cells of the neuroendocrine system. In some cases, metastasis may occur. Carcinoid tumors of the midgut (jejunum, ileum, appendix, and cecum) are associated with carcinoid syndrome.

Sometimes, carcinoids cause paraneoplastic syndromes, which involve discharge of serotonin and other vasoactive substances from well-differentiated carcinoids. A neuroendocrine paraneoplastic syndrome involves neoplastic secretion of functional peptides, hormones, cytokines, growth factors, and/or immune cross-reactivity between tumor tissues and normal host tissues, resulting in a syndrome of clinical signs and symptoms.

Carcinoid tumors are the most common malignant tumor of the appendix, but they are most commonly associated with the small intestine, and they can also be found in the rectum and stomach. They are known to grow in the liver, but this finding is usually a manifestation of metastatic disease from a primary carcinoid occurring elsewhere in the body. They have a very slow growth rate compared to most malignant tumors. The median age at diagnosis for all patients with neuroendocrine tumors is 63 years.

Signs and symptoms
While most carcinoids are asymptomatic through the natural life and are discovered only upon surgery for unrelated reasons (so-called coincidental carcinoids), all carcinoids are considered to have malignant potential.

About 10% of carcinoids secrete excessive levels of a range of hormones, most notably serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine), causing:
 * Flushing (serotonin itself does not cause flushing). Potential causes of flushing in carcinoid syndrome include bradykinins, prostaglandins, tachykinins, substance P, and/or histamine, diarrhea, and heart problems. Because of serotonin's growth-promoting effect on cardiac myocytes, a serotonin-secreting carcinoid tumour may cause a tricuspid valve disease syndrome, due to the proliferation of myocytes onto the valve.
 * Diarrhea
 * Wheezing
 * Abdominal cramping
 * Peripheral edema

The outflow of serotonin can cause a depletion of tryptophan leading to niacin deficiency. Niacin deficiency, also known as pellagra, is associated with dermatitis, dementia, and diarrhea.

This constellation of symptoms is called carcinoid syndrome or (if acute) carcinoid crisis. Occasionally, haemorrhage or the effects of tumor bulk are the presenting symptoms. The most common originating site of carcinoid is the small bowel, particularly the ileum; carcinoid tumors are the most common malignancy of the appendix. Carcinoid tumors may rarely arise from the ovary or thymus.

They are most commonly found in the midgut at the level of the ileum or in the appendix. The next most commonly affected area is the respiratory tract, with 28% of all cases—per PAN-SEER data (1973–1999). The rectum is also a common site.

Gastrointestinal
Carcinoid tumors are apudomas that arise from the enterochromaffin cells throughout the gut. Over two-thirds of carcinoid tumors are found in the gastrointestinal tract.

Lung

Carcinoid tumors are also found in the lungs.

Other sites and metastases
Metastasis of carcinoid can lead to carcinoid syndrome. This is due to the over-production of many substances, including serotonin, which are released into the systemic circulation, and which can lead to symptoms of cutaneous flushing, diarrhea, bronchoconstriction, and right-sided cardiac valve disease. It is estimated that less than 6% of carcinoid patients will develop carcinoid syndrome, and of these, 50% will have cardiac involvement.

Goblet cell carcinoid
This is considered to be a hybrid between an exocrine and endocrine tumor derived from crypt cells of the appendix. Histologically, it forms clusters of goblet cells containing mucin with a minor admixture of Paneth cells and endocrine cells. The growth pattern is distinctive: typically producing a concentric band of tumor nests interspersed among the muscle and stroma of the appendiceal wall extending up the shaft of the appendix. This makes the lesion difficult to suspect grossly and difficult to measure. Small tumor nests may be camouflaged amongst the muscle or in periappendiceal fat; cytokeratin preparations best demonstrate the tumor cells; mucin stains are also helpful in identifying them. They behave in a more aggressive manner than do classical appendiceal carcinoids. Spread is usually to regional lymph nodes, peritoneum, and particularly the ovary. They do not produce sufficient hormonal substances to cause carcinoid or other endocrine syndromes. In fact, they more closely resemble exocrine than endocrine tumors. The term 'crypt cell carcinoma' has been used for them, and though perhaps more accurate than considering them carcinoids, has not been a successful competitor.

Cause
Carcinoid syndrome involves multiple tumors in one out of five males. The incidence of gastric carcinoids is increased in achlorhydria, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and pernicious anemia.

Treatment
Surgery, if feasible, is the only curative therapy. If the tumor has metastasized (most commonly, to the liver) and is considered incurable, there are some promising treatment modalities, such as the radiopharmaceuticals Lutetium (177Lu) DOTA-octreotate) and 131I-mIBG (meta iodo benzyl guanidine ) for arresting the growth of the tumors and prolonging survival in patients with liver metastases, though these are currently experimental.

Chemotherapy is of little benefit and is generally not indicated. Octreotide or lanreotide (somatostatin analogues) may decrease the secretory activity of the carcinoid, and may also have an anti-proliferative effect. Interferon treatment is also effective, and usually combined with somatostatin analogues.

As the metastatic potential of a coincidental carcinoid is probably low, the current recommendation is for follow up in 3 months with CT or MRI, labs for tumor markers such as serotonin, and a history and physical, with annual physicals thereafter.

History
They were first characterized in 1907 by Siegfried Oberndorfer, a German pathologist at the University of Munich, who coined the term karzinoide, or "carcinoma-like", to describe the unique feature of behaving like a benign tumor despite having a malignant appearance microscopically. The recognition of their endocrine-related properties was later described by Gosset and Masson in 1914, and these tumors are now known to arise from the enterochromaffin (EC) and enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells of the gut. Some sources credit Otto Lubarsch with the discovery.

In 2000, the World Health Organization redefined "carcinoid", but this new definition has not been accepted by all practitioners. This has led to some complexity in distinguishing between carcinoid and other neuroendocrine tumors in the literature. According to the American Cancer Society, the 2000 WHO definition states: "The WHO now divides these growths into neuroendocrine tumors and neuroendocrine cancers. Neuroendocrine tumors are growths that look benign but that might possibly be able to spread to other parts of the body. Neuroendocrine cancers are abnormal growths of neuroendocrine cells which can spread to other parts of the body."

Other organisms
Specific to rodents, chronically reduced gastric acid secretion encourages carcinoid development.

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Run Hit Wonder

Run Hit Wonder was a 5K and 10K run series sponsored by Nike. It started in 2003 and was held in 2004 and 2005 before being renamed "Run Hit Remix" in 2006. Events were held in several cities around the United States, each with popular one-hit-wonder bands playing along the course and at a post-race concert.

In 2004, the bands included: A Flock of Seagulls, Devo, General Public, Tone Loc, Tommy Tutone, and The Run Hit Wonders (a 1980s cover band created by Nike for the event).

In 2005, the event was held in New York (July 20), Portland (July 24), Chicago (13 September) and Los Angeles (September 24), and includes: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, The Aquabats, Chingy, The Donnas, Fountains of Wayne, Nina Sky, and DJ Z-Trip.

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Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes

Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes is a series of historical novels by American writer William T. Vollmann about the conflicts between the natives of North America and settlers, governments, and others. Each volume focuses on a different episode in North American history, with most also including digressions and chronological departures. The narrator is credited throughout as William the Blind. The series will comprise seven novels; five books have been published as of 2022.

Volumes

 * Volume 1: The Ice-Shirt (1990) is about the arrival of the Norsemen in North America (9th–10th centuries).
 * Volume 2: Fathers and Crows (1992) is about the efforts of Jesuit missionaries in Canada (16th–18th centuries).
 * Volume 3: Argall (2001), written in a 17th-century prose style, is about the settlement of Jamestown (17th century).
 * Volume 4: The Poison Shirt (unpublished), either "concerning the Puritans vs. King Philip of Rhode Island," (17th century) or Captain James Cook's voyage to Hawaii (18th century).
 * Volume 5: The Dying Grass (2015) is about the Nez Perce War of 1877.
 * Volume 6: The Rifles (1994) is about Sir John Franklin's attempt in 1845 to find the Northwest Passage to the Pacific, and also discusses Vollmann's experiences among the Inuit in the 1990s (19th–20th century).
 * Volume 7: The Cloud-Shirt (unpublished), "Navajo vs. Hopi (or possibly Navajo vs. oil company) in Arizona" (20th century).


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Kitezh

Kitezh (Ки́теж) is a legendary and mythical city beneath the waters of Lake Svetloyar in the Voskresensky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in central Russia. Reference to Kitezh appears for the first time in Kitezh Chronicle, an anonymous book from the late 18th century, believed to have originated among the Old Believers.

The legend

Legend has it that Georgy II, Grand Prince of Vladimir ((r. 1212 – 1238)), first built the town of Maly Kitezh (Little Kitezh - today's Krasny Kholm) on the Volga River. It is sometimes erroneously identified with Gorodets, which was actually founded in 1152, more than 30 years before Georgy's birth in 1189. Later on, the prince crossed the rivers of Uzola, Sanda, and  Kerzhenets, and found a beautiful spot on the shores of Lake Svetloyar, where he decided to build the town of Bolshoy Kitezh (Great Kitezh). According to folk etymology, the name of the town came from the royal residence of Kideksha (near Suzdal), ransacked by the Mongols in 1237; Max Vasmer labels the place-name as "obscure".

After having conquered some of the Russian lands in the late 1230s, the Mongol ruler Batu Khan ((r. 1227 – 1255)) heard of Kitezh and ordered his army to advance towards it. The Mongols soon captured Maly Kitezh, forcing Georgy to retreat into the woods towards Bolshoy Kitezh. One of the prisoners told the Mongols about some secret paths to Lake Svetloyar. The army of the Golden Horde followed Georgy and soon reached the walls of the town. To the surprise of the Mongols, the town had no fortifications whatsoever. Its citizens didn't even intend to defend themselves and were engaged in fervent praying, asking God for their salvation. On seeing this, the Mongols rushed to the attack, but then stopped. Suddenly, they saw countless fountains of water bursting from under the ground all around them. The attackers fell back and watched the town submerge into the lake. The last thing they saw was a glaring dome of a cathedral with a cross on top of it. Soon only waves remained.

This legend gave birth to numerous incredible claims about the lost city. It is said that only those who are pure in their heart and soul will find their way to Kitezh (the road to the lake is still called "Батыева тропа", or the Path of Batu). Allegedly, one can sometimes hear the sound of chiming bells and people singing from under the waters of Lake Svetloyar when the weather is calm. Some stories claim that the most pious individuals may actually see the lights of religious processions (called "крестный ход") and even buildings on the bottom of the lake. For this reason, Lake Svetloyar is sometimes called the "Russian Atlantis".

In literature and the arts

 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (1907) is based on the legend of Kitezh.
 * A theme in Anna Akhmatova's poem "The Way of All the Earth" or "Woman of Kitezh" (Kitezhanka or Китежанка).
 * The town is also mentioned, among many other references to Russian folklore, in Monday Begins on Saturday, a 1965 novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky and Charodey film and film script.
 * The acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog went in search of Kitezh in his short documentary Bells from the Deep (1993).
 * Kitezh is mentioned in the 2010 novel Kraken by China Miéville. "Marge read of their utopias, sunk not in ruination but reward: Kitezh, Atlantis, Tyno Helig."
 * Kitezh is the childhood nickname of Tilda Swinton's character Emma Recchi in the film I Am Love (2009, Luca Guadagnino).
 * Tunturia's album Invisible City (2012) is an instrumental concept album that follows six stages of the rise and fall of Kitezh.
 * A fictionalized version of Kitezh is rediscovered by the protagonist Lara Croft in the 2015 video game Rise of the Tomb Raider developed by Crystal Dynamics.
 * Kitezh is used as the name of one of the planets in the video game Signalis.

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Theo Adam

Theo Adam (1 August 1926 – 10 January 2019) was a German operatic bass-baritone and bass singer who had an international career in opera, concert and recital from 1949. He was a member of the Staatsoper Dresden for his entire career, and sang at the Bayreuth Festival from 1952 to 1980. He particularly excelled in portraying roles by Richard Wagner, especially Wotan in Der Ring des Nibelungen, which he also performed at the Metropolitan Opera, among others. In concert, he was a much admired Bach singer and also drew acclaim for his interpretation of the title character of Mendelssohn's Elijah. He was a voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Dresden.

Career
Born in Dresden, Adam sang with the Dresdner Kreuzchor as a boy from 1936 to 1942. He served in the German Army in World War II. He studied singing privately with Rudolf Dietrich between 1946 and 1949. He made his professional debut at the Staatsoper Dresden as Czernikowski in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov in 1949, followed by the Hermit in Weber's Der Freischütz. In 1952, he joined the roster of singers at the Berlin State Opera. He remained a member of the house throughout his career.

He appeared at the Bayreuth Festival first in 1952, as Ortel in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He returned annually to Bayreuth for many years, taking on the role of Heinrich der Vogler in Lohengrin in 1954, Titurel (and one of the Gralsritter) in Parsifal the same year, Fasolt in Das Rheingold in 1958, and Wotan in Der Ring des Nibelungen in 1963. He eventually added Amfortas in Parsifal, Hans Sachs and Veit Pogner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and the title role in Der fliegende Holländer to his Bayreuth performance credits.

Adam made his début at the Royal Opera House in London as Wotan in 1967. He made his first appearance at the Salzburg Festival as Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss in 1969, returning there three years later in the title role of Alban Berg's Wozzeck. At the Theater an der Wien, he appeared as Pizarro in Beethoven's Fidelio in a 1970 production celebrating the composer's bicentenary of birth. He appeared as Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera in a new 1972 production.

At the Metropolitan Opera, he appeared first as Sachs in Die Meistersinger on 7 February 1969, alongside Pilar Lorengar as Eva, John Alexander as Stolzing, conducted by Joseph Rosenstock. That same year he was Wotan in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, alongside Birgit Nilsson, Régine Crespin, Lili Chookasian, and Jon Vickers, conducted and directed by Herbert von Karajan. He returned to the Metropolitan Opera in 1972 for Sachs and Wotan with a similar cast that now also included Gwyneth Jones. After a sixteen-year absence, Adam returned for the last time in March 1988 as Wotan in Die Walküre with Peter Hofmann as Siegmund, Sabine Hass as Sieglinde, conducted by James Levine.

Adam appeared in a number of world premieres, especially three operas written for him: the title roles in Paul Dessau's Einstein (Dessau) (1974, Berlin) and Friedrich Cerha's Baal, an adaption of Bertolt Brecht's play Baal, (1981, Salzburg), and the role of Prospero in Berio's Un re in ascolto (1984, Salzburg). A reviewer wrote about Baal: "Adam had to reinvent himself. He usually looks noble in whatever part he sings, perhaps appearing so naturally, whereas here he had to act the dissolute anarchist." In 1979, Adam was named a Kammersänger of the Vienna State Opera.

Adam recorded several complete operas, including Mozart's Così fan tutte (1969), Fidelio (1969 and 1979), Der fliegende Holländer (with Anja Silja, conducted by Otto Klemperer, 1968), Der Freischütz (1973 and 1985), Hänsel und Gretel (1970), Beethoven's Leonore (with Edda Moser and Richard Cassilly, 1976), Die Meistersinger (conducted by Karajan 1970), Parsifal (as Amfortas, with René Kollo in the title role, 1975), Der Ring des Nibelungen (conducted by Karl Böhm, 1966–67; and by Marek Janowski, 1980–1983), Tannhäuser (1968–69), Wozzeck (1970 and 1973), and Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (as Sarastro, 1968; elsewhere as the Sprecher). He participated in the first recording of the Berio's Un re in ascolto (with Karan Armstrong, conducted by Lorin Maazel, 1984). His non-operatic recordings include the Raphael in Haydn's Die Schöpfung, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and the Mozart Requiem. He was a regular soloist with the Münchener Bach-Chor conducted by Karl Richter, performing and recording Bach's cantatas and Passions.

Adam was praised for his robust voice, intelligent interpretation and stage presence, and sometimes criticized for abrasive tone quality, unsteadiness, and wobble.

Adam taught voice as honorary professor at the Musikhochschule Dresden from 1979.

Adam died on 10 January 2019 in Dresden.

Publications
Adam wrote books about his life, career, and perspective on opera:
 * Seht, hier ist Tinte, Feder, Papier. Aus der Werkstatt eines Sängers. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1980.
 * Die hundertste Rolle oder: Ich mache einen neuen Adam. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-362-00009-6.
 * Ein Sängerleben in Begegnungen und Verwandlungen. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-250-0.
 * "Sprüche in der Oper". Erlebt und gesammelt während 50 Sängerjahren in aller Welt. Parthas Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-932529-66-9.
 * Vom Sachs zum Ochs. Meine Festspieljahre. Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-932529-34-0.

Literature

 * Hamilton, David. (1987). The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Opera. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo: Simon and Schuster. p. 12. ISBN 0-671-61732-X.
 * Rosenthal, Harold and John Warrack. (1979, 2nd ed.). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera. London, New York and Melbourne: Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-19-311318-X.
 * Sadie, Stanley and Christina Bashford. (1992). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Vol. 1, p. 16. ISBN 0-935859-92-6.
 * Sadie, Stanley and John Tyrrell. (2001). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Vol. 1, p. 134. ISBN 0-333-60800-3.
 * Warrack, John and Ewan West. (1996 3rd ed.). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-19-280028-0.

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Jamul

Jamul may refer to the following places:

 * Jamul, California, U.S.
 * Jamul, Durg, Chhattisgarh, India
 * Jamul Mountains, in San Diego County, California, U.S.
 * Rancho Jamul, Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California, U.S.

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User:Davy Blue

Just an ordinary guy with diverse interests living in Washington, DC. I welcome all comments and criticisms of the edits I make. I sometimes express my ideas in strong terms, but I don't know everything and don't claim to either, so don't be shy about correcting me. I do nonetheless prefer to avoid mudslinging.

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Leopard Blow

"Leopard Blow," "leopard punch," and "leopard fist" are common terms for a specific type of striking blow, associated primarily with the Leopard Kung Fu substyle of the Five Animals in Chinese martial arts, though it is also used in styles such as Krav Maga, Choy Li Fut and Karate (in which case, it is known as "Hiraken Tsuki" or "Ryotoken Tsuki"). The maneuver involves folding the first two joints of the fingers inward and striking with the fore-knuckles. It is used most often to strike at soft, vulnerable targets, such as the ribs, throat, inner arms and temples.

Forming the fist
The fist is formed by folding the first two joints of the fingers. There are two variations of the maneuver; the first involves folding only the first four fingers of the hand. The second involves compressing the fist further by folding in the thumb as well to the side of the hand. The advantage of using the first is that it has a slightly longer reach and can be formed faster. The second variation's advantage is that it is more firm, reducing the risk of injury to a user's hand.

Usage
The nature of this strike allows for greater penetration against weak spots on an opponent's body, but presents a very real risk of self-injury should a user be careless while using it. The strike is, therefore, best used at close range, where it is easier to reach soft targets and where there doesn't need to be too much force behind the blow to deal significant damage. It is also recommended that users strike from angles when attacking with this fist, as this decreases the impact to one's hand whilst still maintaining the impact delivered to an opponent.

This strike is also a useful tool in self-defense where long fingernails may impede other strikes. With the leopard fist, fingernails do not usually get in the way when forming the fist. It also amplifies the damage done to an opponent by focusing the force of a punch over a much smaller surface area. Aside from striking with the metacarpals, the palm heel and the side of the hand may also be used against an opponent.

The strike is most prominently used in Leopard Kung Fu, but can also be found in certain styles of Karate, such as Kyokushin, Shotokan and Uechi-ryū (though they are rarely used), Kempo and in rare cases, Wing Chun. It is also sometimes used as the primary weapon of Choy Li Fut practitioners.

Possible uses
This form of strike can be used against any target, but is most commonly demonstrated as a strike to the throat, ribs, solar plexus, side of the stomach, kidneys, groin, bladder, back muscles, inner arms, jugular vein, side of the face, eyes, cheekbones, bridge of the nose, upper lip, jaw and temples.

In the media
The Leopard Blow is also the name of a special Dim Mak maneuver used by Lady Shiva, a comic book supervillain published by DC Comics.

In Detective Comics #443 published by DC Comics, a villain called the Enforcer uses "an off-beat variation on the Leopard's Paw knuckle strike" against Batman. Later, his "overuse [of] that knuckle strike variation" allows Batman to guess the Enforcer's true identity.

The Marvel Comics superhero known as Iron Fist uses this punch in the Netflix TV series of the same name.

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ExamDiff Pro

ExamDiff Pro is a commercial software utility for visual file and directory comparison, for Microsoft Windows.

ExamDiff Pro has a double-pane view that allows side-by-side comparisons, with color-coded line numbers indicating whether each line is added, deleted, or changed. ExamDiff Pro can compare text and binary files, and directories.

Features

 * Comparison of text files, binary files, and directories
 * Three- and two-way diff and merge
 * Table comparison
 * File list comparison
 * Difference highlighting to the level of lines, words or characters.
 * Syntax highlighting
 * Fuzzy line matching
 * Ability to recognize moved text blocks
 * Manual synchronization
 * Shell integration in 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
 * File editing within file comparison panes
 * Support for copying, renaming, and deleting files or directories
 * Unix, HTML, and printed diff reports
 * Simple and regular expression search
 * Extensive command line interface
 * Ability to ignore capitalization, white space, and comments
 * Word wrapping
 * Plug-in support
 * Drag and drop support
 * Creation of directory snapshots for later comparison
 * Unicode support
 * XML support

ExamDiff
ExamDiff, from the same company, is a freeware program that compares text files.

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