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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Corposcindosis

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Dmcdevit·t 05:43, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Corposcindosis

 * Delete I would like to suggest that the entry for "corposcindosis" is deleted from the Wikipedia encyclopedia. It is a made-up term, and an apparent self-indulgence on the part of the author. -BF (Nom by User:69.203.193.133, and this was his 7th edit).
 * Fixed up the nom process. No vote. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 03:09, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as neologism (article states the word was coined in 2005) and probable hoax (no non-Wikipedia Google hits). --Angr/undefined 06:06, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - This is a new term referring to a new disease caused by a new surgery, ETS. Non-Wikipedia references to "CS" abound on websites and discussion forums about hyperhisrosis and ETS surgery. Though in some cases the abbreviation "CS" may refer to the euphemism "compensatory sweating", it is clear that many references are made to the entire syndrome caused by damage to the upper thoracic nerve chain, the split-body syndrome now known as corposcindosis. 71.129.158.210 Songboy1234 05:02, 17 July 2005 (UTC)04:45, 17 July 2005 (UTC) unsigned comment by 71.129.158.210. Xoloz 15:13, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nonsense, hoax Xoloz 15:11, 16 July 2005 (UTC) New grounds: unverifiable, original research, neologism. Xoloz 07:56, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Xoloz, you offer no reasoning or evidence to support your position. I would invite others to peruse Xoloz' personal WIki page and make a judgement as to neutrality and/or seriousness. More to the point, please visit http://p069.ezboard.com/betsandreversals http://www.noetsuk.com/ http://home.swipnet.se/sympatiska/index3.htm http://www.terra.es/personal8/hiperhidrosis/ http://www.esfbchannel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Post-ETS http://www.ets-sideeffects.netfirms.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathectomy http://www.truthaboutets.com
 * Delete neologism. I'll mention, also, that patients don't name syndromes or diseases, doctors do. If this isn't a hoax, and if it's new, osme doctor is already naming the syndrome. Ken 02:38, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

CS is not nonsense. Severing any nerve will cause the organ, gland or muscle controlled via that nerve to malfunction. This is no different for the autonomic nervous system. A surgical sympathectomy can and does cause the sympathetic nervous system to be divided into 2 distinct regions, one dead and the other hyperactive. This makes perfect sense to anyone knowledgeable about human physiology.71.129.158.210 04:45, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

CS is no hoax, though the thousands of sufferers certainly wish that it was.
 * Friend, ETS seems to be real, but these sites do not appear to mention "Corposcindosis" at all. Now, I have cerebral palsy myself (which is very real), but if someone invented a symptom of that disorder called "Corposcindosis", it wouldn't merit an article.  Understand, if this is real, no Google hits is a valid reason for thinking it isn't -- nothing personal. Please sign your contributions with four tildes if you wish to be taken more seriously.  Again, nothing personal, but anonymous users here are legion, and their claims are suspect.  Xoloz 22:54, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Note also that the article's claim that "Corposcindosis" was coigned in 2005 is prima facie evidence that an article under that name doesn't belong here. ETS very well might. Xoloz 23:32, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Did not mean to be anonymous. I'm songboy1234. Xoloz, with due respect, your analogy to cerebral palsy is not apt. No one has "invented" a symptom. The symptoms are real, predicted by physiology, and well documented in the published medical literature, (not to mention by thousands of oral histories on many forums). The charges of "hoax" and "nonsense" are utterly without foundation.

The charge of "neologism" does have merit. I coined the term. However, you must understand the situation to understand why the doctors will never name this disease. The doctors are CAUSING this disease. A much better analogy would be to lobotomy. A particular mental/emotional syndrome was caused by pre-frontal lobotomy, yet to my knowledge it was never named, a linguistic injustice if ever there was one. Instead, doctors busied themselves publishing "studies" which "proved" that lobotomy is safe and effective. Corposcindosis is a specific example of autonomic neuropathy, but it requires its own name. It is definable, diagnosable, measurable, it is specific, it is real, and thousands are suffering.

I submit that waiting for doctors to name this disease constitutes a profound irresponsibility to the language. 71.129.158.210 04:45, 17 July 2005 (UTC)Songboy1234 05:01, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * An encyclopedia is a place of secondary sources -- no name establishes itself first in an encyclopedia. Once the community affected largely acknowledges the name, and it has been around for a few years, then it will be eligible for inclusion.  As for my suggestion that this was nonsense or a hoax, I do apologize; please understand that many people submit hoaxes to Wikipedia, and the lack of search results convinced me that this was likely the case.  I don't know enough to say what this disease is, or whether you have it, but it is clear that you sincerely believe you do. Xoloz 07:56, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Article author admits its a neologism. Original research, no references, not verifiable. Quale 07:21, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Interesting article. -- Crevaner 23:51, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism/contents unverifiable. Dcarrano 23:58, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

 * This term is completely bogus. Some unhappy ETS patients have an axe to grind about the side-effects of their surgery, so they are appropriating Wikipedia in order to advance their cause, both in this and in the ETS entry. The results of ETS are not clearly known, making it a controversial procedure, and it should be stated as such. But ETS side-effects are only "now known as corposcindosis" by the author of this entry and possibly some of his fellow conspirators. "CS" is in fact a common abbreviation of compensatory sweating, and this is a term widely accepted by the both the medical and lay community. "Corposcindosis" is a neologism created with the sole purpose of underhandedly denouncing ETS. It is a biased and deceptive term that is in no way encyclopedic.  The side-effects are real; the term is not.  (No vote.  I nominated the deletion.) -BF (Note: I tried to delete this comment but I guess we're not allowed to do that.  I don't mean to downplay the sufferings of these people or to hinder their cause.  It's the method that I disagree with, and I think this is an inappropriate entry for Wikipedia.)

 * Delete on condition that sources are not identified, and accuracy disputes are not clarified. In other words, if the article is cleaned up, identifies sources, and accuracy disputes are corrected, keep, otherwise, delete. --Blu Aardvark | (talk) 14:36, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

I must admit that I was not aware of the "neologism" rule as I authored the article. I think this is clear, as I innocently took credit for having coined the term in the article itself. Based on that criticism, I now agree the article should be deleted until such time as the term (or a different one of the same meaning) comes into wider use.

However, I feel compelled to straighten out BF on a few matters. Yes, the term "compensatory sweating" was coined by surgeons and is widely used, often interchangeably with the more correct terms, "compensatory hyperhidrosis" and "reflex hyperhidrosis", which are also used by surgeons. All current terms referring to this side effect are speculative, because no one knows what causes it. An accurate term would be "surgically induced hyperhidrosis". But we know for certain that the term "compensatory sweating" is a euphemism, and is medically incorrect, because the sweating referred to is excessive. Wide use does not necessarily mean accuracy. Truth is ultimately what we're after.

The syndrome caused by ETS surgery, which I have named Corposcindosis, is a manifestation of the PRIMARY effects of the surgery, in addition to the SIDE effects, an important distinction.

Referring to me as a "conspirator" is a disgusting libel. What purpose is attempted by it one can only guess. In one breath, BF rants " 'Corposcindosis' is a neologism created with the sole purpose of underhandedly denouncing ETS" but in the next breath admits "The side-effects are real". The purpose of the article was to document a syndrome which no one (not even BF) denies exists, not to "denounce" anything. If factual information reflects badly on a medical procedure, so be it.

Now, BF - please, in great detail, would you please elucidate any factual errors on the Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy page, or the soon-to-be-deleted Corposcindosis page? Edit them in, or make me aware and I will do so. But otherwise, will you please retract your false statements alleging "appropriating Wikipedia in order to advance their cause". That statement is beyond the pale.

My only "error" was coining a new term, one which badly needs to be coined. The scientific evidence supporting the thesis is beyond question. Songboy1234 05:53, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not going to give you great detail because I don't want a point-by-point argument with you. My dispute with the ETS article is not so much the facts, although I think the negatives are over-represented, but the loaded language.  What I meant by deception is that it isn't neutral.  And I do apologize for using the word "conspirators," a loaded word if there ever was one, as well as for the entire comment, which as I stated before I tried to delete, but someone undeleted it.  It was written with emotion rather than objectivity, as I believe the two entries were.  I just find that a prospective ETS patient is always stuck with finding a middle ground between biased (although technically "true") statements by surgeons and biased (although technically "true") statements by angry patients.  They both err by omission.  The objective, neutral "truth" about ETS needs to be out there, but the current Wikipedia entry isn't it.  I suppose I could try to edit the page, but I don't want an editing war.  I wish you good health, and I'm sorry that my comments came off so personally, but that's my last word on this.  -Bruce

And there you have it for all to see. Bruce, BF, comes on, nominates the page for deletion, makes horrific personal accusations, states that another page is biased, and that it is being appropriated for some "cause", says there is "loaded language", that it "isn't neutral" and yet. . . offers not ONE WORD supporting his assertions. What loaded language? He doesn't say. Biased how? He doesn't say. Negatives are "overrepresented". What does that mean? If you have a situation where factually there are more "negatives" than "positives" then negatives SHOULD be overrepresented.
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Evelyn Preer

Evelyn Preer (née Jarvis; July 26, 1896 – November 17, 1932), was an African American pioneering screen and stage actress, and jazz and blues singer in Hollywood during the late-1910s through the early 1930s. Preer was known within the Black community as "The First Lady of the Screen."

She was the first Black actress to earn celebrity and popularity. She appeared in ground-breaking films and stage productions, such as the first play by a black playwright to be produced on Broadway, and the first New York–style production with a black cast in California in 1928, in a revival of a play adapted from Somerset Maugham's Rain.

Early life
Evelyn Jarvis was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 26, 1896. After her father, Frank, died prematurely, she moved with her mother, Blanche, and her three other siblings to Chicago, Illinois. She completed grammar school and high school in Chicago. Her early experiences in vaudeville and "street preaching" with her mother are what jump-started her acting career.

Career in cinema
At the age of 23, Preer's first film role was in Oscar Micheaux's 1919 debut film The Homesteader, in which she played Orlean. Preer was promoted by Micheaux as his leading actress with a steady tour of personal appearances and a publicity campaign, she was one of the first African American women to become a star to the black community. She also acted in Micheaux's Within Our Gates (1920), in which she plays Sylvia Landry, a teacher who needs to raise money to save her school.

She continued her career by starring in 19 films. Micheaux developed many of his subsequent films to showcase Preer's versatility. These included The Brute (1920), The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921), Deceit (1923), Birthright (1924), The Devil’s Disciple (1926), The Conjure Woman (1926) and The Spider's Web (1926). Preer had her talkie debut in the race musical Georgia Rose (1930). In 1931, she performed with Sylvia Sidney in the film Ladies of the Big House. Her final film performance was as Lola, a prostitute, in Josef von Sternberg's 1932 film Blonde Venus, with Cary Grant and Marlene Dietrich. Preer was lauded by both the black and white press for her ability to continually succeed in ever more challenging roles, "...her roles ran the gamut from villain to heroine an attribute that many black actresses who worked in Hollywood cinema history did not have the privilege or luxury to enjoy." Only her film by Micheaux and three shorts survive. She was known for refusing to play roles that she believed demeaned African Americans.

Career in theatre
In 1920, Preer joined The Lafayette Players a theatrical stock company in Chicago that was founded in 1915 by Anita Bush, a pioneering stage and film actress known as “The Little Mother of Black Drama". Bush and her troupe toured the US to bring legitimate theatre to black audiences at a time when theatres were racially segregated by law in the South, and often by custom in the North and the interest of vaudeville was fading. The Lafayette Players brought drama to black audiences, which caused it to flourish until its end during the Great Depression.

By the mid-1920s, Preer began garnering attention from the white press, and she began to appear in crossover films and stage parts. In 1923, she acted in the Ethiopian Art Theatre's production of The Chip Woman's Fortune by Willis Richardson. This was the first dramatic play by an African-American playwright to be produced on Broadway, and it lasted two weeks. In 1926, Preer appeared on Broadway in David Belasco’s production of Lulu Belle. Preer supported and understudied Lenore Ulric in the leading role of Edward Sheldon's drama of a Harlem prostitute. She garnered acclaim in Sadie Thompson in a West Coast revival of Somerset Maugham’s play about a fallen woman.

She rejoined the Lafayette Players for that production in their first show in Los Angeles at the Lincoln Center. Under the leadership of Robert Levy, Preer and her colleagues performed in the first New York–style play featuring black players to be produced in California. That year, she also appeared in Rain, a play adapted from Maugham's short story by the same name.

Preer also sang in cabaret and musical theater where she was occasionally backed by such diverse musicians as Duke Ellington and Red Nichols early in their careers. Preer was regarded by many as the greatest actress of her time.

Marriage and family
Preer married Frank Preer on January 16, 1915, in Chicago. She met her second husband, Edward Thompson, when they were both acting with the Lafayette Players in Chicago. They married February 4, 1924, in Williamson County, Tennessee. Some sources indicate Preer was married to Lawrence Chenault.

In April 1932, Preer gave birth to her only child, daughter Edeve Thompson.

Death
Developing post-childbirth complications, Preer died of pneumonia on November 17, 1932, in Los Angeles at the age of 36. Her husband continued as a popular leading man and "heavy" in numerous race films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and died in 1960.

Their daughter Edeve Thompson converted to Catholicism as a teenager. She later entered the Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenburg, Indiana, where she became known as Sister Francesca Thompson, O.S.F., and became an academic, teaching at both Marian University in Indiana and Fordham University in New York City.

Filmography

 * The Homesteader (1919)
 * Within Our Gates (1920)
 * The Brute (1920)
 * The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921)
 * Deceit (1923)
 * Birthright (1924)
 * The Devil's Disciple (1926)
 * The Conjure Woman (1926)
 * The Spider's Web (1926)
 * The Framing of the Shrew (1928)
 * Melancholy Dame (1928)
 * Oft in the Silly Night (1928)
 * The Lady Fare (1929)
 * Brown Gravy (1929)
 * The Widow's Bite (1929)
 * Georgia Rose (1930)
 * The Good Sport (1931) uncredited
 * Ladies of the Big House (1931)
 * Blonde Venus (1932)

Theater

 * Rang Tang (1927), Royale Theatre, New York City
 * The Noose (1928), Lincoln Theater, Los Angeles, California

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Astra 2D

Astra 2D was one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES and located at 28.2° East in the geostationary orbit until June 2015. It was a Hughes Space and Communications HS-376HP satellite bus and was launched from the Centre Spatial Guyanais in December 2000 to join Astra 2A and Astra 2B at 28.2° East, where it remained for its active life.

In service
While active, most of Astra 2D's transponders were used to provide television channels available on the Sky Digital satellite service to both Ireland and the United Kingdom, as well as the non-subscription service, freesat. Provision of rights-sensitive broadcasts free-to-air was made possible by the satellite's beam that was tightly focused on Ireland and the United Kingdom. However, surrounding countries had the ability to pick up the signal (dependent on suitably sized satellite dishes) and so could still access Freesat from outside the United Kingdom. Some channels on Astra 2D were encrypted with VideoGuard (a proprietary encryption method by the NDS Group) and only Sky Digiboxes with valid cards, or standard hardware with non-approved (with respect to the Sky/NDS end-user contract) "Dragon", or "T-Rex" conditional-access module can decode these channels.

The BBC broadcast all of its domestic television channels (including BBC HD and the regional variations) from the Astra 2D satellite, except the BBC News Channel and BBC Parliament which broadcast from Astra 2A. All domestic BBC channels have been free-to-air since 29 July 2003.

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Channel 4 broadcast most of its channels free-to-air from this satellite, including Channel 4, Channel 4+1, E4, More4 and Film4 along with their timeshift variants. All were unencrypted apart from the feeds of Channel 4, Channel 4+1, E4 and E4+1 intended for viewers in Ireland, which remain encrypted. From November 2008, Five began to transmit free-to-air for the first time on Astra 2D, using borrowed space on a BBC transponder, allowing the channel to join freesat.

End of service
With a projected lifetime of 12 years, Astra 2D was expected to leave regular operational service towards the end of 2012 or the beginning of 2013 and so the Astra 1N satellite, designed for operation at Astra 19.2°E and launched in August 2011, was initially positioned at 28.2° East to temporarily replace Astra 2D until the start of service of its long-term replacement, Astra 2F, which was launched in September 2012.

Astra 1N started commercial service at 28.2° East in October 2011 with transponder testing in August and September 2011. Channels on Astra 2D started to transfer to Astra 1N in December 2011 with Channel 5 (plus 5* and 5USA), the Channel 4 family and ITV channels all moving to the new satellite over the next two months. On 24 February 2012, the last remaining channels on Astra 2D (the BBC channels) switched off and started transmission from Astra 1N.

Until June 2015, Astra 2D remained in position at 28.2° East, with no transponder activity. It was then moved and positioned at Astra 5°E in July 2015. In October 2015, Astra 2D was moved to 57° East alongside NSS-12. In December 2017, it was moved to 60° East. From May 2018 to July 2018, Astra 2D was moved west at 0.65°/day to Astra 5°E. From January 2020 to March 2020, Astra 2D was moved east at 0.9°/day back to 57.2° East, alongside NSS-12. In November 2021, Astra 2D was repositioned at 23.5°E.

Decommissioning
Astra 2D was decommissioned on 27 January 2023, after operating for 22 years 1 month and 7 days, and moved to a graveyard orbit. Astra 2D was the last commercial spin stabilised spacecraft built by Boeing and the only one still operating at the time of its retirement.

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Rayford Logan

Rayford Whittingham Logan (January 7, 1897 – November 4, 1982) was an African-American historian and Pan-African activist. He was best known for his study of post-Reconstruction America, a period he termed "the nadir of American race relations". In the late 1940s he was the chief advisor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on international affairs. He was professor emeritus of history at Howard University.

Life
Rayford Logan was born and raised in Washington, DC. He won a scholarship to Williams College, graduating in 1917. During the First World War he joined the U.S. Army, and served as a first lieutenant in the all-black 93rd infantry Division, which undertook operations with French troops. Once the war ended, Logan remained in France, absorbing both the culture and the language. He helped to co-ordinate the 2nd Pan-African Congress in Paris in 1921. He returned to the US in the early 1920s and began teaching at Virginia Union University, a historically black college in Richmond.

During the United States occupation of Haiti, Logan made a fact-finding mission to Haiti to investigate educational efforts and published his findings in The Journal of Negro History in October 1930. The main findings indicated there was little improvement in education due to the choice of Southern white Marines as country administrators – men who had been raised with Jim Crow laws in the American South and had brought their prejudice with them to their new assignment in Haiti, a majority-black republic. The main improvement effort resulted in establishing agricultural schools, which were highly expensive and staffed by non-French speakers, so classes had to be translated. The funding provided to these schools dwarfed the amount given to the majority of academic schools.

In 1930 Logan started graduate studies at Harvard University, earning an MA in 1932 and a Ph.D. in 1936. Logan became a professor at Howard University, where he practiced as a historian from 1938 to 1965.

In 1932, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Logan to his Black Cabinet. Logan drafted Roosevelt's executive order prohibiting the exclusion of blacks from the military in World War II.

In 1950–51, Logan became Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).

Logan was the 15th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.

Logan died of a heart ailment at Howard University Hospital, aged 85.

Legacy and honors

 * In 1980, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP.
 * His longtime residence in the Brookland section of Washington, DC, is a designated site of the city's African-American Heritage Trail.

Selected bibliography

 * The Betrayal of the Negro (1954/ Collier Books reprint 1965) online
 * Dictionary of American Negro Biography (updated edition, W. W. Norton, 1982; ISBN 978-0393015133) online
 * The Negro in the United States (Van Nostrand Co, 1970) online
 * The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877–1901 (Dial Press, 1954)
 * The African Mandates in World Politics (Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1948)
 * The Senate and the Versailles Mandate System (The Minorities Publishers, 1945; 1975)
 * The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti, 1776–1891 (1941; 1969, ISBN 978-0527580001)
 * Haiti and the Dominican Republic (1968; Oxford University Press) online

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Laura Fermi

Laura Capon Fermi (Rome, 16 June 1907 – Chicago, 26 December 1977) was an Italian and naturalized-American writer and political activist. She was the wife of Nobel Prize physicist Enrico Fermi.

Biography
Lalla "Laura" Capon was born in Rome in 1907 as the second child of Admiral Augusto Capon (Venice, 3 November 1872 – Auschwitz, 23 October 1943) and Costanza Romanelli (1880 – before 1943). She had an elder and a younger sister and a younger brother. Capon met Enrico Fermi while she was a student in general science at the University of Rome. She married Fermi in 1928.

They had two children: a daughter, Nella (1931–1995), and a son, Giulio (1936–1997), named after Enrico's older brother, who had died in 1915. When their daughter Nella began to move around on her own, Laura Fermi thought that her housekeeper's assistance was more than enough, and that her days were a little empty. Since her husband got tired of looking for translations for her at publishing houses, he asked her why she didn't start writing a real book. Taking advantage of the physics knowledge of her friend Ginestra Amaldi, they decided to write a book which was published by a publishing house in Milan, relating alchemy and the nuclear transmutation.

In 1938, the Fermis emigrated to the United States to escape the anti-Jewish laws of the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini; Laura was Jewish. They traveled to Stockholm to receive Fermi's Nobel prize, and left from Stockholm for the United States, where Fermi had accepted a position at Columbia University. They were naturalized as Americans in 1944.

In 1954 Laura resumed writing. Her book Atoms in the Family, about her life with Enrico, appeared shortly before he died of stomach cancer.

In August 1955 Laura traveled to Geneva for the International Conference for the Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy which led to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Laura Fermi was the Official Historian of the Conference and published Atoms for the World, reporting on its proceedings.

Her book Illustrious Immigrants was about "Many of Europe's most intelligent and best-trained men and women, who immediately became visible to middle class America as neighbors, teachers and colleagues" in the years 1930 to 1941. They were, "men and women who came to America fully made, so to speak, with their PhD's and diplomas from art academies or music conservatories in their pockets, and who continued to engage in intellectual pursuits in this country. Their numbers and the high stature of many of them make them a unique phenomenon." She noted, "Life was initially hard for many physicians, but it was the lawyers whose training proved least exportable and who most frequently had to find a new means of livelihood." Considering the extent of the influence of the immigrants, an evaluation of the impact of the migration is restricted to two fields: psychoanalysis and nuclear science.

Laura Fermi died of cardiac arrest in 1977.

Published works

 * 1936: (with Ginestra Amaldi) Alchimia del Tempo Nostro (Italian)
 * 1954: Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi, University of Chicago Press ISBN 0-88318-524-5
 * 1957: Atoms for the World: United States participation in the Conference on the Peaceful uses of Atomic Energy, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-88318-524-5
 * 1961: Mussolini, University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226243753
 * 1961: The Story of Atomic Energy, Random House
 * 1961: (with Gilberto Bernardini) Galileo and the Scientific Revolution, Basic Books ISBN 0-486-43226-2
 * 1968: Illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migration from Europe 1930–41, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-24378-8 via Internet Archive

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Chogokin

Chogokin (超合金) is a fictitious material which first appeared in Go Nagai's Mazinger Z manga and anime and is later adopted by Popy in 1972 as the name of a new line of die-cast metal robot and character toys sold in Japan. The first of these is "GA-01" Mazinger Z, which, in spite of questionable engineering that led Popy to offer a free replacement campaign, ignited a craze that changed the face of the Japanese toy industry in the 1970s. Bandai, the parent of Popy, continues the Chogokin line to this day, branded under their own name.

Vintage Chogokin
Chogokin toys were generally produced in ST (short for "standard" and usually in the range of 5" in height) or DX ("deluxe" and usually much larger; additionally this class of Chogokin product usually came with more features such as separating parts and more complex weaponry, usually with launching projectiles (which are usually fists as a tribute to Mazinger Z as the first Chogokin) as weapons) sizes.

Many of these toys were re-released in the United States. Mattel sold a selection of Chogokin toys under the name Shogun Warriors in the late-1970s. Bandai America sold other Chogokin toys under the Godaikin line in the early-1980s. In the wake of a 1979 rumor of a boy choking to death on a missile fired from a Battlestar Galactica toy manufactured by Mattel, many of the later Shogun Warriors toys were modified to launch "child-safe" projectiles that would not injure children. The Godaikin releases were targeted at an older audience and, as such, were largely identical to the original Japanese releases but at the cost of affordability for the average consumer leading to the downfall of the toyline.

Modern Chogokin
The use of die-cast metal in mass-market robot toys declined greatly after the 1980s, with PVC and ABS plastic becoming the only materials used in most cases. Chogokin toys produced today are usually fairly expensive, high-quality items aimed at collectors.

Bandai's Soul of Chogokin (SOC) line is probably the most famous example of this trend, featuring updated versions of many toys first made by Popy in the 70s and 80s. The first SOC release was an updated Mazinger Z, and many other classic designs followed. The line is still going and has been recently expanded to include more modern robots, some of which did not have a pre-existing Chogokin toy. It is also a way to create new, more easily available mecha toys for older shows such as Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God and Leopardon from Spider-Man.

Debuting in 2000, the Souchaku Henshin series (also known as Armor Trans) is another contemporary Bandai line under the Chogokin banner. These action figures are made to a 5-inch scale, and feature tokusatsu characters from Kamen Rider, Metal Heroes, and GARO. Souchaku Henshin figures feature multiple points of articulation, removable armor, and contain die-cast parts. Much like Soul of Chogokin, Souchaku Henshin features both recent characters as well as updates to classics.

In 2010, Bandai introduced Super Robot Chogokin (SRC), which was an affordable alternative to Soul of Chogokin. The figures measure at approximately 140mm (14 cm) in height and have less die-cast parts, but boast more articulation and have a wider range of accessory options. The toy line not only featured traditional robots such as Mazinger Z and Brave Reideen, but also robots from The King of Braves GaoGaiGar, Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation and the Super Sentai franchise. As of 2016 the line has been retired.

Pseudo-gokins
Due to success and notoriety in the toy collecting hobby, the term "chogokin" has become somewhat of a representative format for Japanese die cast robot toys. However, as ”超合金”(Chogokin) is a registered trademark of Bandai, other companies have used the "-gokin" suffix, such as Takatoku Toys' Z-Gokin or Max Factory's Max Gokin line.

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Argentine Notice Board
You are kindly invited to join the Argentine Notice Board. Mxcatania 18:16, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Field hockey
I've reverted a POV edit at the above article. Please do not add your point of view. If this is widely-accepted, then sources should be provided. Thanks, Ian Cairns 01:25, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I'v provided the link for the information but you have deleted it again. Please put it back, here it is:

Every matchs has one referee. It can be either male or female. Currently, the best female referee in the world is an argentine woman called Soledad Iparraguirre.

Thanks and sorry for the missunderstood.

 * Hello Noah
 * Thanks for your comment. In English, a Field hockey referee is called an Umpire - as you can read from the article. As far as I can tell from your Spanish-language blog article, your source seems to be about 3 years old and came from a South American website, which may have been biased. Do you have a current FIH or similar world-class source that gives a statement (preferably in English, but a foreign language source with a suitable warning would be acceptable) that this lady is currently the best field hockey umpire in the world? This would probably be undisputed. Until then it would be best to leave your comment out of the article. Thanks, Ian Cairns 01:44, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

 * PS- It's two umpires according to the article.

 * PPS - I've checked and there is no reference to Soledad. So, she is not a very experienced international ladies umpire. Ian Cairns 01:49, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

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Please dont put nonsense on your websites...
We Argentines live in Latin America,but we are not Latinos ok! We connect ourselves much more with Europeans. Thanks (71.232.231.174 13:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC))

Nicole Kidman
Not sure what this edit to the article was meant to be? I reverted it. --Steve 03:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I updated the wrong section, and I din't know how to revert it, I'm really sorry. thanks for changing my mess.
 * No problems. To revert, all you have to do is edit a previous version in the 'history' before you made the change. It will warn you that you are editing an 'old' version.  Then just save, with an edit summary to say you are reverting your own change. --Steve 01:01, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

thanks! ^^

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User talk:Lipoff

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User talk:TheDeadlyShoe

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It's you!
Hi, TDS! — ceejayoz talk  01:31, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Ceejay. :) TheDeadlyShoe 01:38, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Thought I'd save space and just post under this fellow's header... heya Shoe! I keep on getting onto obscure webboards and discovering that I missed you and Mehrunes by five minutes! So, in an attempt to kick fate in the neck, hello! It's Spatch... from DS... Kalthuras 08:15, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Darkspace may not be up for much longer, according to the rumors : /. Faustus made a public statement of sorts, saying that if the subscriptions don't pick up soon, DS will no longer be self-sustaining... I don't really play anymore, but losing the lobby and the few people still in it is going to like having your sitcom apartment burned down. On a lighter note, I'm fairly certain that Mehrunes will be all over the Supreme Commander modder boards sooner or later... Kalthuras 22:47, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Its had about the same sub numbers for quite a while now, but yes, Faust did say it was nearing break-even. I'm thinking this next patch (Two Weeks) is pretty much going to be a make-or-break patch, since if it sucks, then DS will drop below break-even, whereas a success might keep it afloat another year or two until it can actually be good. Whether it can actually go anywhere is another question; I don't think it'll ever improve much. But I'm old, and cynical.

Anyway, hi there. I miss your random name changes.... though I don't actually hang out in DS much anymore, as my computer is dead. Good times. Yeah, I got nothin. See ya around. Shigernafy 03:37, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

So, if you still check this, they've finally released Darkspace version 1.500 (So many things were changed that 1.484 wasn't really appropriate). It's not perfect, but it is very, very good, so far. Bombing is harder than it was in 1.480- as opposed to the easy prestige it was in 481-483, and dreadnaughts are ships to be feared. Check it out! Kalthuras (talk) 07:41, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Kali
Any chance you could post some links to where CCP said planetary flight wasnt going to be in Kali? Ta P.S., Are you the same TDS that played neveron? ceejayoz's nick also sounds familiar ;)

--Bastion 15:07, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks, the only info I could find was from Fanfest 2004. --Bastion 16:09, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Phoebe Zeitgeist
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Mohammad Taha (Hamas)

Mohammad Taha (محمد طه; 1937 – November 2014) was a Palestinian militant who was a co-founding member of the military group Hamas, who was arrested by the IDF in 2003. On May 5, 2004, after being held 14 months without trial, Taha was released back to Gaza. His son, Ayman Taha, was a spokesman and former fighter for Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Taha died in November 2014, after being hospitalised with a heart complaint.

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User talk:Hashimashadoo

You built a computer yourself? You must be a genious! ‡  Jarlaxle   21:19, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Invitation to the Forgotten Realms project
Hi,

We are working on a Forgotten Realms Project to map Toril (mostly Faerûn, at the present). Since you contributed quite a lot on a Forgotten Realms-specific entry, I'd like to invite you to join the project, so we could improve the “Mapping the Realms” project.

The goal is to create a sort of World Factbook for the Realms. This means:
 * A consistent content
 * Use of templates
 * Entries should be limited to “sovereign places”: states and free cities, as well a moderately-inhabited place such as the Western Highlands.

On top of this, we also plan to cover Lost Empires, such as Pelvuria or Imaskar and, of course, Netheril

 * The project is located here
 * The Geographical index of Toril is a good start to get a visual of had been done, as well as the Halruaa entry.

Main contributors are presently
 * David Latapie
 * Poulsen

If you know some other person who would be interested, feel free to forward the invitation!

Feel free to take a look. We hope to see you soon mapping the Realms with us! Reply to David Latapie 12:55, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

An offer of sorts
Hi,

They had been two answers to your offer. Read on… Reply to David Latapie 09:56, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Regarding you request for help: you should better post this request on Forgotten Realms WikiProject's talk pageReply to David Latapie 18:38, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Bart Simpson's Guide to Life

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Standard ArbCom discretionary sanctions notice
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Wikipedia's approach to sourcing
Hi, I'm moving this discussion here to avoid derailing Talk:LGB_Alliance any further. I would like to strongly encourage you to read WP:OR and in particular WP:PRIMARY. I'm sorry to be blunt but your statements about sourcing are almost the exact opposite of the actual policies, you need to understand in particular that we "Do not analyze, evaluate, interpret, or synthesize material found in a primary source yourself; instead, refer to reliable secondary sources that do so."

I understand from your statement "primary sources trump secondary ones - as is the case in all historical research" that you may be used to a different sourcing approach in another context but that isn't what we follow here, this is an encyclopedia, not an historical research project. JaggedHamster (talk) 20:02, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

"Mirabar" listed at Redirects for discussion
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User talk:Cyberboz

Welcome!
Hello, Cyberboz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions; I hope you like it here and decide to stay. We're glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Images
Just to let you know, images can have multiple versions. For example, you could have uploaded Image:Soul Calibur III - Logo.jpg over the old one instead of just removing it from the page. I went ahead and listed the other one at Images and media for deletion. Thunderbrand 04:41, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

See Here
Hey, I was just writing to you to ask for your professional opinion on the newest message I've added to Talk:List of Soul Calibur characters. I realize you haven't been on much lately, but I didn't think it too futile to ask in the meantime, just in case. Personally, I believe List of Soul Calibur characters should be converted into a proper list per List of Mortal Kombat characters, albeit slightly more descriptive. Then we can make a second page for miscellaneous Soul Calibur characters, although I don't know what the proper title for that would be. The entries included would of course be the eleven not receiving individualized pages. Tell me what you think. I'm going to ask a couple of other users as well. So if you could get that answer to me as soon as possible, that'd be great. --Shackleton 06:44, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Images
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TV credit to add
I am unable to edit, but for anyone who might have that ability, Rachel (along with her sister) was in S5E3 of the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? Might be something for TV credits. 104.153.231.177 (talk) 03:26, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

 * I know it's been a few years since you mentioned this, but I have now added this to her TV credits after confirming she did appear.
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Oitylo

Oitylo (Οίτυλο, pronounced Ítilo), known as "Βίτσουλο", pronounced Vitsoulo, in the native Maniot dialect, is a village and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality East Mani, of which it is a municipal unit.

Oitylo is one of the oldest towns in the Mani Peninsula. It was mentioned in the Iliad by Homer as Oetylus (Οίτυλος), as part of Menelaus' kingdom. In the Middle Ages, it grew to become the most important town in Messenian Mani. The only town in Mani that rivaled Oitylos in numbers of pirates was Skoutari.

Now Areopoli has taken Oitylo's place as the most important town in Laconian Mani. Areopoli was also the seat of the municipality of Oitylo, which is located on the western half of the Mani Peninsula in the extreme southwestern part of Laconia. It has a land area of 218.582 km2. There are 91 villages in the municipality. The largest of these are Areópoli, Pyrgos Dirou and Oítylo.

Subdivisions
The municipal unit Oitylo is subdivided into the following communities:
 * Alika
 * Ano Boularioi
 * Areopoli
 * Dryalos
 * Germa
 * Gerolimenas
 * Kareas
 * Kelefa
 * Koita
 * Kounos
 * Kryoneri
 * Mina
 * Neo Oitylo
 * Oitylo
 * Pyrgos Dirou
 * Tsikkalia
 * Vachos
 * Vatheia

Province
The province of Oitylo (Επαρχία Οιτύλου) was one of the provinces of the Laconia Prefecture. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipal unit Oitylo. It was abolished in 2006.

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Mousa Abu Marzook

Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook (موسى محمد أبو مرزوق; born 9 January 1951) is a Palestinian senior member of Hamas.

Early life and education
Marzook's parents were from Yibna, Mandatory Palestine (now Yavne, Israel). They became refugees after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and were forced to move to the Rafah Camp in the Gaza Strip. Marzook was born there on 9 January 1951. He completed high school in Gaza, studied engineering in Cairo until 1976, and then looked for work in the Persian Gulf. He continued his studies in the U.S. obtaining a master's degree in construction management from Colorado State University. He also earned a Doctorate degree in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana Tech University located in Ruston, La.

Marzook lived in the U.S. for at least 14 years and earned a Green Card in 1990. He is married with six children.

Hamas involvement
Marzook has been active in the Islamic political work since 1968, playing a significant role in reorganizing Hamas after the mass arrest of its members in 1989. Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar credits Abu Marzook's fundraising prowess, and his connections to donors in Europe and the US with saving the organization and developing its infrastructure in Gaza, including social service programs. Israel claims that some funds were used for attacks against Israel, a charge that Abu Marzouk denies. Abu Marzook was elected as the first Hamas political bureau chief in 1992, and since 1997 has been deputy chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau. Marzook founded the Islamic Association of Palestine. According to U.S. officials, Marzook traveld to Tehran in October 1992 in his role as Hamas's de facto foreign minister.

Exile
Marzook lived in Jordan from 1998 to 2001. He then moved to Damascus, Syria in 2001. In 2012, Marzook was living in New Cairo, Egypt. At the outbreak of the 2023 Israel-Hamas war, Marzook was residing in Doha, Qatar.

Arrest
U.S. immigration officials arrested Marzook after he arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City on 27 July 1995 due to his presence on a terrorist watch list. At the time, American and Israeli authorities claimed that Marzook was the head of Hamas's political committee and set the group's political and strategic policy, including the use of attacks. Marzook was held at the Manhattan Correctional Center. Marzook's attorney Stanley L. Cohen acknowledged that Marzook supported Hamas, but denied he was a leader in the group. In a statement, a Hamas official virtually acknowledged he was a Hamas leader. Despite this, no formal charges were placed against him. Two months after his detainment, Israel filed a request for the United States to extradite him. Marzouk fought the case for the next 2 years, but courts ruled in favor of his extradition. With no formal charges against him, the United States released him; but not wanting him to remain, the United States contacted numerous Arab countries to allow Marzook residency. All refused, except Jordan, which reportedly agreed under U.S. pressure. Cohen continues to legally represent Marzook.

Criminal charges in the US
Marzook was listed as a Specially Designated Terrorist by the U.S. Treasury Department in 1995, and is currently on the renamed Treasury department Specially Designated National list under such alternative spellings of his name as Dr. Musa Abu-Marzuq, Sa'id Abu-Marzuq, Mousa Mohamed Abou Marzook, Musa Abu Marzouk, and Musa Abu Marzuk, and under the alias "Abu-'Umar."

In 2002, a federal grand jury in Dallas returned an indictment against Marzook for conspiring to violate U.S. laws that prohibit dealings in terrorist funds. The indictment alleged that Marzook had conspired with the Richardson, Texas-based InfoCom Corporation and five of its employees to hide his financial transactions with the computer company. He allegedly invested $250,000 in InfoCom, with Infocom to make payments to Marzook based on the company's net profits or losses.

In 2004 Ismail Elbarasse was detained by police in Maryland west of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge after Baltimore County police officers said they saw a woman (his wife) in the vehicle videotaping the Bridge, including footage of the cables and upper supports of the main span. Elbarasse was an assistant to Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, and was named an unindicted co-conspirator by a grand jury in Chicago after authorities searched the home and vehicle of Elbarasse and found bank records belonging to Marzook, deputy chief of Hamas's political wing. A federal indictment charged Marzook in an alleged conspiracy that authorities said raised millions of dollars for Hamas.

In 2004, a U.S. court indicted him in absentia for coordinating and financing Hamas activities.

Interview with The Forward
In April 2012, Marzook gave what was billed as his "first-ever interview with a Jewish publication", The Forward. Marzook said that an agreement between Israel and the P.A. would have to be ratified by a referendum of all Palestinians, including those in Gaza. He would regard it as a hudna, or cease-fire, rather than as a peace treaty. If Hamas gained power, they would feel free to change provisions of the agreement. "We will not recognize Israel as a state", he said. "It will be like the relationship between Lebanon and Israel or Syria and Israel", that is, an armistice.

The Forward requested the interview, which took place over two days at Marzook's home in New Cairo, Egypt. The Forward published responses to the interview from eight "prominent observers of the Middle East peace process", Laura Kam of The Israel Project, Israeli security analyst Yossi Alpher, Lara Friedman of Americans for Peace Now, Princeton University Professor Daoud Kuttab, Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, Arab-American activist Hussein Ibish, David Keyes of Advancing Human Rights and political scientist Nathan Brown.

Operation Pillar of Defense
Following the eight-day cross-border battle between Israel and Hamas in November 2012, Moussa Abu Marzouk said that Hamas would not stop making weapons in Gaza or smuggling them to the territory. According to the Associated Press, Moussa Abu Marzouk is the No 2 leader in Hamas.

2023 Israel-Hamas war
When asked about the Re'im music festival massacre, Marzouk replied that it was a "coincidence", and that the attackers may have thought these were soldiers "resting".

When asked why Hamas built 500 km of tunnels but not shelters for civilians in Gaza, Abu Marzuk said that the tunnels are built to protect Hamas fighters, while it is the responsibility of UN to protect the civilians.

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Basidiospore

A basidiospore is a reproductive spore produced by basidiomycete fungi, a grouping that includes mushrooms, shelf fungi, rusts, and smuts. Basidiospores typically each contain one haploid nucleus that is the product of meiosis, and they are produced by specialized fungal cells called basidia. Typically, four basidiospores develop on appendages from each basidium, of which two are of one strain and the other two of its opposite strain. In gills under a cap of one common species, there exist millions of basidia. Some gilled mushrooms in the order Agaricales have the ability to release billions of spores. The puffball fungus Calvatia gigantea has been calculated to produce about five trillion basidiospores. Most basidiospores are forcibly discharged, and are thus considered ballistospores. These spores serve as the main air dispersal units for the fungi. The spores are released during periods of high humidity and generally have a night-time or pre-dawn peak concentration in the atmosphere.

When basidiospores encounter a favorable substrate, they may germinate, typically by forming hyphae. These hyphae grow outward from the original spore, forming an expanding circle of mycelium. The circular shape of a fungal colony explains the formation of fairy rings, and also the circular lesions of skin-infecting fungi that cause ringworm. Some basidiospores germinate repetitively by forming small spores instead of hyphae.

General structure and shape
Basidiospores are generally characterized by an attachment peg (called a hilar appendage) on its surface. This is where the spore was attached to the basidium. The hilar appendage is quite prominent in some basidiospores, but less evident in others. An apical germ pore may also be present. Many basidiospores have an asymmetric shape due to their development on the basidium. Basidiospores are typically single-celled (without septa), and typically range from spherical to oval to oblong, to ellipsoid or cylindrical. The surface of the spore can be fairly smooth, or it can be ornamented. The color of the spore print is usually found in the spore wall, although in rare instances – like the yellow spores of Clavaria helicoides – the cytoplasm is responsible for the spore color.

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Savanna Samson

Savanna Samson (born October 14, 1967) is the stage name of Natalie Oliveros, an American former pornographic actress. The winner of several AVN Awards, she has spent most of her career as a contract performer with major producer Vivid Entertainment, and is known for her roles in acclaimed adult films such as The New Devil in Miss Jones. In addition to performing, she has her own adult film studio, Savanna Samson Productions. A native of upstate New York, she entered the adult film industry in 2000, after working as a dancer at the Manhattan strip club, Scores.

Samson has gained mainstream recognition with appearances on television shows such as Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show and 30 Rock. Her wide range of activities outside pornography include working as a sex-advice columnist, a radio presenter and a political correspondent. She also produces her own line of wines, has a recording contract with E1 Music and is a trained ballerina.

Early life
Born Natalie Skeldon, one of five daughters, she grew up in a Roman Catholic family in Watertown, New York. She began dancing at a young age. At 17, she moved to New York City to pursue a career in ballet. However, she eventually gave this up, admitting she "wasn't good enough". She took a job dancing at the Manhattan strip club Scores, on the recommendation of her sister who worked there. When starting at the club, she chose the stage name Savanna in homage to a character in the novel and film, The Prince of Tides (1986/1991).

In 2000, she left that work as a dancer intending to become a porn film star. She choose the name Savanna Samson. The surname Samson, taken from the biblical figure, was added later in her career to distinguish her from porn actress Savannah. While at Scores, she met her future husband, wine merchant Daniel Oliveros. They have a son together.

Adult film career
Samson's move into the adult film business began in 2000, after she wrote a letter to Italian porn actor and director Rocco Siffredi, asking to work with him. She initially wanted to make a movie in order to fulfill a fantasy, after her husband had given her the idea, and hoped to keep it a secret. But her first movie, Rocco Meats An American Angel In Paris, was nominated for "Best Foreign Release" at the AVN Awards. Afterward, she got what she described as "porn fever" and worked to make further movies. Her family soon discovered her film career when she appeared on The Howard Stern Show and Entertainment Tonight. Samson stated in 2006: "My parents are devastated by my career choices".

In April 2002, she signed an exclusive contract with Vivid Entertainment. She continued to live in New York, and commuted to California to shoot films for the company. Samson was among three Vivid Girls to be profiled in an early-2003 issue of Vanity Fair, as part of an annual roundup of the entertainment industry. The Girls were featured alongside mainstream actors, such as Daniel Day-Lewis and Julianne Moore, in a double-page photograph taken at Elton John's home on the French Riviera.

Samson was also one of several Vivid Girls who wrote material for the book How to Have a XXX Sex Life: The Ultimate Vivid Guide, published by ReganBooks on July 20, 2004. Samson helped promote the book with appearances on The O'Reilly Factor and The Howard Stern Show. In May 2004, she joined several other porn actresses and began to write as a columnist for AVNInsider.com. At the 2004 AVN Awards, Samson won "Best Actress – Film" and "Best Group Sex Scene – Film" for her role in Looking In, a 2003 film about four suburban couples who have a view into each other's houses.

Along with comedian Thea Vidale, Samson hosted the 2005 AVN Awards. She also won awards that year for "Best All-Girl Sex Scene – Film" and "Best Group Sex Scene – Film".

In February 2005, Samson began co-hosting a daily music-and-talk radio show on the Internet station Electric Eye Radio. Later in the year, she was featured alongside Jenna Jameson in Vivid's high-budget remake of the classic adult film The Devil in Miss Jones. Samson's role as Miss Jones earned her the 2006 AVN Awards for "Best Actress – Film" and "Best All-Girl Sex Scene – Film". During her acceptance speech, she expressed gratitude for this support from her peers and said "most of my family is pretty ashamed of what I do".

Samson announced in early 2006 that she had started her own production company, Savanna Samson Productions, which would release one film a year, to be distributed exclusively by Vivid. During 2006, Samson appeared on The Tyra Banks Show, The Dr. Keith Ablow Show, Secret Lives of Women, and for the second time, Saturday Night Live. Michael Lucas' 2006 gay-porn remake of La Dolce Vita featured a cameo appearance by Samson, which in 2007 won her the GayVN Award for "Best Non-Sexual Performance".

Early in 2007, Samson signed a record contract with Koch Records, now known as E1 Music, who had approached her after hearing her sing during a radio tour. On May 3, 2007, she appeared as a guest on the WNYC public radio series, The Tristan Mysteries, to discuss Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde. A long-time Wagner fan, Samson said, "I think I'm in a unique position to discuss the sensual aspects of the 'Tristan and Isolde' characters and of opera in general".

In June 2007, Savanna Samson Productions released its first title, Any Way You Want Me, an interactive movie directed by and starring Samson. She also appeared in the 2007 film Debbie Does Dallas ... Again, a sequel to the 1978 classic Debbie Does Dallas, as well as its "making of" series that was broadcast weekly on Showtime. The film gained her a 2008 AVN Award for "Best Group Sex Scene – Film".

In April 2008, Samson became a political correspondent on Fox News's late-night talk show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. She had made several previous appearances on the show, and in 2007 had endorsed New York Republican mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential candidacy.

In September 2008 her debut album, Possession, was released, and her first single, a title track co-written by Samson during the breakup of her marriage. Commenting on the theme of the song, she said, "People see me nude and having sex and think they know me and that I'm available, but I'm no more available than Angelina Jolie". Later in the month, she had a cameo role on The Daily Show, in which she portrayed CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric in a commercial for a fictional action-adventure show. In the appearance, Samson asks Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones, "Hey, Jones, you really think you've got the balls for that story?" She began writing a sex-advice column for the adult entertainment site XCritic.com in June 2009, having previously written such columns for Men’s Fitness magazine and AdultFriendFinder.com.

Samson made her mainstream acting debut in the 30 Rock episode, "Into the Crevasse", which first aired on October 22, 2009. In the episode, she plays a porn version of Tina Fey's character, Liz Lemon. In 2011, Samson was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.

According to the Internet Adult Film Database, as of May 2010 Samson had appeared in 90 adult movies, including compilations containing recycled scenes. A 2006 article in The New York Times reported that she earns from $20,000 to over $100,000 per film, depending on sales, with each one taking from three days to two weeks to make. An Adult Video News article written in February 2006 stated that Samson had five years left on her contract with Vivid.

Winemaking

Despite enjoying her career in the adult film industry, Samson had other ambitions. In 2005, while on vacation in Tuscany, Italy, she decided she could "leave a mark on this world" by making wine. Then married to a wine merchant, she had frequently traveled to Italy and France, and often fantasized about owning her own vineyard. When she was a child, she had helped her family make wine in the basement of their house in Watertown, New York.

She formed the company, Savanna Samson Wines, and asked Italian winemaker and consultant Roberto Cipresso to help find a blend of grapes local to Tuscany that would produce her ideal flavor. They eventually chose a mixture of 70 percent Cesanese, 20 percent Sangiovese and 10 percent Montepulciano, which produced a red wine that she named Sogno Uno, meaning 'Dream One.' Its label played on Samson's notoriety as a porn star, featuring a side view of her wearing only a see-through gown and high heels. Wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. gave Sogno Uno a rating of 90 to 91 out of 100, and described it as "awfully good". A gala launch was held for the wine at a Manhattan restaurant on February 27, 2006. By June 2007, her company had produced two more wines.

Awards

 * 2004 AVN Award - Best Actress, Film (Looking In)
 * 2004 AVN Award - Best Group Sex Scene, Film (Looking In)
 * 2005 AVN Award - Best All-Girl Sex Scene, Film (The Masseuse) with Jenna Jameson
 * 2005 AVN Award - Best Group Sex Scene, Film (Dual Identity)
 * 2005 Eroticline Award - Best Erotic Actress in the World
 * 2005 NightMoves Award - Best Actress/Female Performer (Editor's Choice)
 * 2006 XRCO Award - Best Single Performance, Actress (The New Devil in Miss Jones)
 * 2006 AVN Award - Best Actress, Film (The New Devil in Miss Jones)
 * 2006 AVN Award - Best All-Girl Sex Scene, Film (The New Devil in Miss Jones)
 * 2007 GayVN Award - Best Non-Sexual Performance (Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita)
 * 2008 AVN Award - Best Group Sex Scene, Film (Debbie Does Dallas ... Again)
 * 2011 AVN Hall of Fame inductee

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