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Bertis Downs IV

Bertis Edwin Downs IV (born July 13, 1956) is an American entertainment lawyer. He provides legal counsel (particularly for initial contracts) for the rock band R.E.M., later also assuming management duties after the departure of original manager Jefferson Holt. He is usually credited simply as the band's "Advisor".

Early life
Downs was born in Montgomery, West Virginia, a short distance from Smithers, West Virginia, where his father, Bertis Edwin Downs, III, was a Presbyterian minister. His mother, Ann Elizabeth (Bryan) Downs, was also an active member of the Presbyterian Church and travelled with her husband and their sons to Taiwan as part of the Church's evangelical mission in Taipei. Bertis Downs III died in a commercial plane crash on June 20, 1964.

Ann Downs moved her three sons Bertis IV, William, and Bryan to Richmond, Virginia, then back to Taiwan, before finally settling in Clarkston, Georgia in order to be closer to the boys' grandparents in western Virginia and eastern Mississippi.

Downs graduated from Dekalb County's Shamrock High School in 1974 and chose to attend his father's alma mater Davidson College in North Carolina. There he became interested in music through his DJ shifts at WDAV-FM and his work with the college union's concert committee. He also became interested in a career in law through working in a minimum-security prison in rural North Carolina and a summer internship working to establish a recreation program for inmates in Atlanta's Fulton County Jail. Downs graduated cum laude from Davidson College in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history.

Downs attended the University of Georgia School of Law with the intent of a career as a public interest attorney due to his interests in civil rights and legal aid work. Due to hiring freezes in the field after his graduation in 1981, Downs instead took a job teaching Legal Research and Writing at the law school. It is during this time as a teacher that Downs became active in the Athens music scene, leading to his eventual involvement with R.E.M.

In 1983, Downs left Athens to clerk for Senior Judge Wilson Cowan of the newly formed Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. While in D.C. he met his future wife Katherine at a Love Tractor show at the 9:30 Club.

Career with R.E.M.
In 1978, John Huie, a representative for the booking company R.E.M.'s drummer Bill Berry worked for at the time, suggested Berry look up Downs, whom he knew from Davidson College and was then in law school at the University of Georgia. Berry and Downs also served together on the University Union Concert Committee that arranged for visiting musicians to perform on campus.

Downs attended an R.E.M. show at the 11.11 Koffee Club in Athens, Georgia on April 19, 1980. By that time, Downs had also come to know Peter Buck from Wuxtry Records, a downtown Athens shop where he would buy Neil Young records. Recalling events nineteen years later on VH1's Behind the Music, Downs said, "I thought they were great". He and the band immediately forged a friendship. "They started asking me questions about copyright issues, trademark issues, the first time they had a recording agreement they needed me to have a look at", Downs said. "They knew that I was just out of law school and was just getting started as a lawyer, and I certainly didn't claim any particular expertise. I learned by the seat of my pants. I worked with them as a volunteer, just helping out, and gradually over the next couple of years it became more like a real job, and, all these years later, that's kind of still what it is."

Downs primarily remained working in Athens during the early years of the band, teaching at the law school and managing the ins and outs of “moving a small city around,” but began traveling with the group more often during the 1995 “Monster” tour. After Jefferson Holt's departure in 1996, Downs took over as the band's manager. “I'm the guy who helps them run the business,” said Downs. “They are the board of directors. I am the CEO.”

Downs continued in his advisor role for R.E.M. even after the members parted ways in 2011, describing the experience as “orchestrating the afterlife” of the band. In an interview with the Athens, GA alternative magazine Flagpole in 2014, Downs described his current workload as such: “The volume isn't as much. We're not making records anymore. We're not going on tour anymore. There are still some side things going on…We're still busy, but not with the same intensity.”

Education and academic career
Downs graduated cum laude from Davidson College in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. In 1981, he graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law. He was a law clerk for Senior Judge Wilson Cowen of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He was an adjunct professor in the UGA law school teaching entertainment law and music law.

Personal life
Downs still lives in Athens with his wife Katherine. They have two children. Downs enjoys spending time reading, walking, and all things basketball. He is a staunch supporter of public education. He created the Bertis E. Downs III and Eugene M. Downs, Sr. Education Abroad Fund at Davidson College to encourage students to travel widely while studying abroad.

Downs is active in many civic and political organizations and has served on the boards of People for the American Way, Network for Public Education, The National Education Association Foundation, Historic Athens, and the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.

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Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz

Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz, 23 May 1606 in Madrid — 7 or 8 September 1682 in Vigevano) was a Spanish Catholic scholastic philosopher, ecclesiastic, mathematician, polyglot, and writer. He is believed to be a great-grandson of Jan Popel y Lobkowicz.

Life
Juan Caramuel was born in Madrid on 23 May 1606, the son of Count Lorenzo Caramuel and Caterina Frissea von Lobkowitz, a descendant of a Czech noble family. He was instructed in oriental languages by Archbishop Juan de Esron (Ezron). By the age of 17, he was studying at the University of Alcalá de Henares, where he took his degree in the humanities and philosophy. His theological teachers at the University of Alcalá included the Dominicans John of St. Thomas (João Poinsot, 1589–1644) and Francisco de Araujo (1580–1664) as well as the Cistercian Pedro de Lorca (1521–1621).

He was a precocious child, early delving into serious problems in mathematics and even publishing astronomical tables at the age of ten, Camuelis primus calamus (Madrid 1617). He studied Chinese. He was received into the Cistercian Order at the monastery of La Espina, in the diocese of Palencia in 1625, and after ordination entered upon a varied and brilliant career. He served in the monastery of Montederramo (diocese of Orense), then Santa María del Destierro (Salamanca), where he completed his studies. He probably attended the last classes of Agustín Antolínez (1554–1626), in that time the major theologian of the Augustinian Order in Salamanca. He then taught in houses in Alcalá, Palazuelos, and Salamanca. He then travelled to Portugal for the sake of studying oriental languages, and from there he moved to the Low Countries (the Spanish Netherlands), where he resided from 1635 to 1644.

His sermons attracted the favorable attention of the Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Low Countries, while he was attached to the monastery of Dunes in Flanders. He assisted Don Ferdinand in the defense of the city of Louvain from the attacks of the French and the Dutch, as engineer and chief of works, for which Don Ferdinand appointed him court preacher. Through Don Ferdinand, Caramuel became friends with Marie de' Medici, the exiled former queen-mother of France (1630–1642), who lived in Bruxelles, though she visited her daughter, the queen of England, for a period of three years. Through Marie's influence, Caramuel was appointed Vicar General of the Carthusians in England, Ireland, and Scotland; and named Abbot of Melrose.

In 1638 he defended his academic theses with great success, and was granted the degree of Doctor of Theology by the University of Leuven on 2 September 1638. Having learned more of the doctrines of Cornelius Jansen, who had died earlier in that year, Caramuel embarked on a preaching crusade through Belgium and Germany, especially Mainz. An inscription in the cathedral of Vigevano claims he brought some 30,000 persons back to practicing Roman Catholicism.

Caramuel's patron, the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand, died on 9 November 1641. When he was obliged to leave the Electorate of the Palatinate, Philip IV of Spain made him his envoy to the court of Emperor Ferdinand III whose court was residing in Prague at the time. He was in turn Abbot of Melrose (Scotland), Abbot-Superior of the Benedictines of Vienna, Abbot of the Benedictine Emmaus Monastery in Prague (1647), and Grand-Vicar to the Archbishop of Prague, Ernst Augustus z Harrach (1623–1667).

In 1648, when the Swedes attacked Prague, Caramuel armed and led a military division of ecclesiastics who helped defend the city. His bravery on this occasion merited for him a collar of gold from the emperor. "Being active in the political struggles of his time and carrying out the project of re-Catholicisation perhaps too vigorously," according to Petr Dvořák, "he made himself many enemies even within the Catholic camp." He soon left Central Europe for Italy.

In 1656 Caramuel visited Rome for the first time, where Pope Alexander VII named him Consultor of the Holy Office (Inquisition) and Consultor of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. Pope Alexander knew Caramuel well, since he had been papal legate in Cologne from 1639 to 1651. Soon after, on 9 July 1657, he was named Bishop of Campagna e Satrianum (1657–1673), a small and poor diocese in the Kingdom of Naples.

On 25 July 1673, Caramuel was appointed to the diocese of Vigevano near Milan (1673–1682), which he held until his death on 8 September 1682.

Caramuel was in active correspondence with famous scholars: the philosophers René Descartes and Pierre Gassendi; the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher; the Czech Capuchin friar and astronomer Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita, the Bohemian doctor Jan Marek Marci, Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), who was a great admirer of his work; the Belgian astronomer Godefroy Wendelin, the theologians Franciscus Bonae Spei and Antonino Diana, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Johannes Hevelius, Valerianus Magnus, Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, and many others.

He knew 24 languages.

Works

His books are even more numerous than his awards and varied achievements. According to Jean-Noël Paquot, he published no fewer than 262 works on grammar, poetry, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, architecture, physics, politics, canon law, logic, metaphysics, theology, and asceticism.

Caramuel distanced himself from all established philosophical schools of the Baroque era (he often praised Thomas Aquinas but explicitly denied being a Thomist). Although educated in the Thomist tradition, he firmly believed in the humanist ideal of nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri (‘not to swear slavishly by the words of any master’). He refused to be enrolled in a specific school of thought and felt free to choose among all the authorities that would best suit his project of constructing a renovated Christian philosophy. He refers this attitude back to Augustine's teaching: ‘Augustine was no tyrant, since he was the Divine Master’, writes, and reminds that Augustine did not wish to be followed blindly. Augustine gave himself the example of a continuous change and progress of opinion in his numerous Retractationes (cf. Aug.'s reconsideration in persev. 21.55).

Caramuel loved to defend novel theories, and in Theologia moralis ad prima atque clarissima principia reducta (Leuven, 1643) tried to solve theological problems by mathematical rules. He was a leading exponent of probabilism and his permissive moral opinions were criticized in Pascal's Provincial Letters and gained for him from Alphonsus Liguori the title of "Prince of the Laxists". Contemporary theologian Julia A. Fleming argues with this assessment.

His mathematical work centred on combinatorics and he was one of the early writers on probability, republishing Huygens's work on dice with helpful explanations. Caramuel's Mathesis biceps presents some original contributions to the field of mathematics: he proposed a new method of approximation for trisecting an angle and proposed a form of logarithm that prefigure cologarithms, although he was not understood by his contemporaries. Caramuel was also the first mathematician who made a reasoned study on non-decimal counts, thus making a significant contribution to the development of the binary numeral system.

The bishop was also responsible for the design of the façade of the Vigevano Cathedral, an eclectic design showing some virtuosity in its geometrical relationship to the square.

Printed works

 * Philippus Prudens, Antwerp, 1639.
 * Respuesta al Manifiesto del Reyno de Portugal, Antwerp, 1641.
 * Rationalis et realis philosophia, Leuven, 1642.
 * Theologia moralis fundamentalis, praeterintentionalis, decalogica, sacramentalis, canonica, regularis, civilis, militaris, Frankfurt, 1652–1653.
 * Theologia rationalis, Frankfurt, 1654–1655.
 * Theologia moralis fundamentalis, editio secunda, Rome, 1656.
 * Primus calamus ob oculos ponens metametricam, quae variis currentium, recurrentium, adscendentium, descendentium, nec-non circumvolantium versuum ductibus, aut aeri incisos, aut buxo insculptos, aut plumbo infusos, multiformes labyrinthos exponat, Rome, 1663.
 * Arquitectura civil recta y oblicua..., Vigevano, C. Corrado, 1678[-1679].
 * Leptotatos, latine subtilissimus, Vigevano 1681 (in Latin). (Spanish translation: Leptotatos [Neuva lengua sutilisima] Metalogica, Pamplona: Eunsa, 2008
 * Arquitectura civil recta y oblicua..., Vigevano, C. Corrado, 1678[-1679].
 * Leptotatos, latine subtilissimus, Vigevano 1681 (in Latin). (Spanish translation: Leptotatos [Neuva lengua sutilisima] Metalogica, Pamplona: Eunsa, 2008
 * Leptotatos, latine subtilissimus, Vigevano 1681 (in Latin). (Spanish translation: Leptotatos [Neuva lengua sutilisima] Metalogica, Pamplona: Eunsa, 2008

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Donlavey Racing

Donlavey Racing was a stock car racing team that competed from 1950 until 2004 in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. It was owned by Junie Donlavey and ran a total of 863 races in NASCAR. Donlavey Racing used a number of makes and numbers, but for years was best known for the No. 90 Ford. Though the team only had one points win (1981 Mason-Dixon 500 with Jody Ridley) and two pole positions in its long history, three of Donlavey's drivers won Rookie of the Year honors (Bill Dennis in 1970, Ridley in 1980, Ken Schrader in 1985) and a number of former and future NASCAR race winners drove for the team. Sixty-seven different drivers ran at least one race for Donlavey.

1950s–1960s
Donlavey made his debut as an owner in 1950 at Martinsville Speedway, where Runt Harris drove Donlavey's Oldsmobile to a nineteenth-place finish after suffering mechanical failures. Donlavey's next race as an owner came in 1952 Southern 500, fielding the No. 53 Hudson Hornet for Joe Weatherly. He started 38th and finished 16th. He did not field a car again until 1957, when Emanuel Zervakis drove Donlavey's No. 90 Ford at Raleigh Speedway, finishing 24th. Zervakis ran two more races for Donlavey that year, at Langhorne Speedway and Martinsville, finishing 26th and 22nd respectively. Harris ran another race for Donlavey as well, finishing 39th at the Southern 500. Zervakis returned to run Donlavey's Chevys the next season, but did not finish a race all season. Donlavey only ran one race in 1959, at the Capital City 200. Harris had a fifth-place finish in that race.

Harris ran three more races for Donlavey the following season, but struggled with mechanical problems, and could only manage a best finish of 30th. Speedy Thompson took over for three races, his best finish being a 12th at the Dixie 300. Tiny Lund drove for Donlavey at the Atlanta 500, but finished 36th after suffering engine failure early in the race. Johnny Roberts drove one race for Donlavey in 1961, finishing 21st at Richmond after suffering a blown head gasket.

Donlavey did not field a car until 1965, when Sonny Hutchins took over the ride. Making ten starts, he had a fifth-place run at Moyock, and a tenth at Martinsville. After going 1966 without a top-ten, Hutchins came back in 1967, and had two top ten finishes. He finished 34th in points. He made four starts in 1968, but they all ended in DNFs. He made eight starts in 1969, and had two second-place finishes, at Dover and Richmond, respectively.

1970s
Hutchins returned in 1970, and had a fifth-place at Richmond, but was soon removed from the ride. LeeRoy Yarbrough drove for Donlavey in one race at Trenton Speedway, but his engine expired several laps into the race. Bill Dennis finished the year with Donlavey. Dennis would run with Donlavey in his first full season the next year. He had ten top-tens, one pole position, and finished eighteenth in points. Dennis started 1972, with a fifth at Richmond, but resigned after that race. Max Berrier, Butch Hartman, Bobby Isaac, David Pearson, Johnny Rutherford and Fred Lorenzen were among those who shared the ride for the rest of the year. Donlavey also fielded a second car for the first time in his career, when he fielded the No. 98 at Martinsville for Isaac, who finished 35th as a teammate to Jimmy Hensley, and again two races later at the National 500 for Richard D. Brown, who finished 41st.

In 1973, Donlavey secured his first full-time sponsor, signing Truxmore Industries. Dick Brooks began the year with Donlavey, and ran part of his season with him. Other drivers included Harry Gant, Charlie Glotzbach, Ray Hendrick, and a one-off with Yvon Duhamel. He also fielded the 98 for Brooks and Richie Panch. Then next season, Dennis returned for three races, before being replaced by multiple drivers. Glotzbach ran eleven races with him, the most by any driver that year. In 1975, Donlavey decided to run full-time, and hired Brooks as driver. Brooks ran 25 races, had six top-fives and finished 10th in points. Donlavey also fielded a second car, the No. 93, for Kenny Brightbill, Dick May, Earl Ross, and Jody Ridley.

In 1976, Brooks had eighteen top-ten finishes and finished tenth in points again. The No. 93 ran in two races for Buck Baker and Gene Felton, with Donlavey also fielding the No. 99 for Dick Trickle at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The team also entered their No. 90 Ford Torino at the 1976 24 Hours of Le Mans for drivers Dick Brooks, Dick Hutcherson, and French driver Marcel Mignot, but DNF'd with transmission failure after 11 hours.

The next season, Brooks finished sixth in points, with Donlavey fielding the No. 93 for Belgian racer Christine Beckers. She finished 37th. Brooks began 1978 by finishing fifth in two out of the first three races of the season, but despite an eighth-place points finish, Brooks departed the team.

1980s
In 1979, Donlavey signed Ricky Rudd to drive the No. 90. Competing in 28 races, Rudd had 17 top-ten finishes and finished 9th in points. Donlavey also fielded the No. 77 Sunny King Mercury for Jody Ridley, who had two top-tens in three races. After Rudd left at the end of the season, Ridley signed to drive the 90 for the full season. He had eighteen top-ten finishes, finished seventh in points, and was named Rookie of the Year. The next season, he finished fifth in points and won the Mason-Dixon 500, the only points win Donlavey would have during his career. After losing the Truxmore sponsorship, J. D. Stacy sponsored the car in 1982, but after he failed to post a top-five, Ridley left the team. Brooks returned to the team, where he posted two top-fives and finished 14th in points with sponsorship from Chameleon Sunglasses. After just one top-five in 1984, Brooks departed the team for the final time.

The next season, Donlavey signed rookie driver Ken Schrader to pilot the No. 90, with new sponsorship from Ultra Seal. Schrader had three top-tens and finished sixteenth in points. In 1986, Red Baron Frozen Pizza, signed as primary sponsor, and in 1987, Schrader won one of two qualifying races for the Daytona 500, as well as picking up a pole at Darlington Raceway, finishing tenth in championship points. At the end of the season, Schrader left, and was replaced by Benny Parsons with Bull's Eye Barbecue Sauce. Running what turned out to be his last season, Parsons competed in 27 starts and grabbed an eighth-place finish at Phoenix International Raceway. He was replaced for one race at North Wilkesboro by Jimmy Means, who finished 24th. After the season, Bull's Eye left the team, and Donlavey signed rookie Chad Little to his ride. However, Little struggled and was released after the Coca-Cola 600. Donlavey cut back to part-time schedule for the rest of the season, with Stan Barrett and Lennie Pond running selected races for him.

1990s
In 1990, Donlavey signed True Cure as sponsor, and at the advice of Schrader, signed Ernie Irvan as driver. Unfortunately, True Cure did not meet their financial expectations, and Donlavey cancelled the contract. Despite the financial setback, Donlavey fielded a second car, the No. 91, at the GM Goodwrench 500 for J. T. Hayes as a teammate to Irvan. After three races, Donlavey granted permission for Irvan to seek other opportunities, and Irvan signed with Morgan-McClure Motorsports. Buddy Baker and Charlie Glotzbach ran nine races between the two of them for the rest of the season. The next season, Donlavey signed Robby Gordon for the first two races of the season. He finished 18th and 26th, respectively. At the Motorcraft Quality Parts 500, Donlavey fielded a car for Wally Dallenbach Jr., who would run eleven races for him that season.

Dorsey Schroeder started off 1992 driving for Donlavey, before Glotzbach took over for two races. Other drivers who raced for Donlavey that year were Glotzbach, Kerry Teague, Pancho Carter, Todd Bodine in a Donlavey Ford renumbered #34 in partnership with Diet Pepsi and Cicci-Welliver Racing for Bodine's first Cup start at Watkins Glen, Bobby Hillin Jr., and Hut Stricklin. Hillin returned to run the full season for Donlavey the next year, with sponsorship from Heilig-Meyers. Hillin posted a best finish was eleventh and he finished twenty-seventh in points. Hillin ran just three races in 1994, before he was replaced by Mike Wallace. Wallace made 22 starts and had a fifth-place finish at the season-ending Hooters 500. He returned in 1995 but dropped to 34th in points.

After making ten starts in 1996, Wallace was released in favor of Dick Trickle, whose best finish that season was a thirteenth at Michigan. Trickle signed the next season. He posted two top-fives and finished 31st in points. He improved to 29th in points in 1998, but he, along with Heling-Meyers and crew chief Tommy Baldwin Jr., left the team at the end of the year. During the season, Donlavey missed attending his first race in years, when he had to undergo heart surgery.

Final years
After the loss of personnel in 1998, Donlavey announced that for 1999, he would field the No. 90 Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce Ford Taurus driven by rookie Mike Harmon. During the lead-up to the Daytona 500, rumors began spreading that Big Daddy's was not paying its sponsorship checks. Originally, those rumors were denied by Donlavey, but questions continued to swirl when the team practiced for the 500 without Big Daddy's sponsor decals on the car. Eventually, it was revealed that Big Daddy had not been paying its checks on time. Before long, tensions became so high that Harmon was fired from the ride before the race and replaced by Wallace. The team ran the 500 with sponsorship from Accu-turn and Kodiak (a one-race deal after Kodiak's regular team missed the race). The Big Daddy's contract was cancelled, and Morgan Shepherd took over the next week at Rockingham, and Stanton Barrett at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Those two drivers, along with Hut Stricklin and Ed Berrier, shared the driving duties of the 90 for the rest of the year.

In 2000, Berrier signed to drive the 90 with sponsorship from Hills Brothers Coffee, competing for Rookie of the Year honors. Berrier struggled during the course of the season, DNQ-ing nine times, before he was released. Brian Simo took over at Watkins Glen, before Stricklin took over the rest of the year. He signed to drive the 90 full-time in 2001, and had a sixth-place run at Michigan, but the team continued to struggle. At the EA Sports 500, Donlavey fielded the No. 91 for Rick Mast, who had lost his ride when Eel River Racing folded. Mast failed to qualify, however.

Near the end of the season Sara Lee, Hills Brothers' parent company, asked Donlavey to move his team from Richmond to North Carolina. When Donlavey refused, Sara Lee immediately pulled the Hills Brothers sponsorship from the No. 90 and signed an agreement with Bill Davis Racing to sponsor the team's new No. 23 car with Stricklin as the driver. Donlavey placed Mast in the No. 90 permanently and ran it for the remainder of the year without any sponsor decals on it.

In the offseason Donlavey acquired sponsorship from the C.F. Sauer Company, whose Duke's Mayonnaise brand had been carried on the former Eel River Racing car Mast had driven. Mast had a best finish of 24th at Darlington when he began feeling anemic. He took several races off, and was replaced by Hermie Sadler and Gary Bradberry. Mast was eventually diagnosed as having suffered carbon monoxide poisoning and was forced to leave racing altogether, and once he did C.F. Sauer pulled its sponsorship from the No. 90. Donlavey then cut back his racing schedule, and planned to retire, but came back to field the Lucas Oil Ford for Lance Hooper at Bristol, as well as a car for team manager Jason Hedlesky at Lowe's. Hooper finished 31st and Hedlesky started 41st and finished 43rd. In 2003, Kirk Shelmerdine drove Donlavey's car at the Daytona 500, but missed the field. Hedlesky drove the car at the Winston Open, but Donlavey did not field an entry for the rest of the season. Donlavey hoped to revive his team in 2004 by announcing Kevin Ray would drive a limited schedule that season with sponsorship from Boudreaux's Butt Paste. Unfortunately, the deal ended up running only one ARCA race at Pocono. Late in the year A. J. Henriksen, began running races for Donlavey, but did not make a race. Donlavey did not field a car in 2005, but continued to stay involved in NASCAR. During a gathering at Richmond in September 2006, Donlavey stated that he still had several cars in his race shop, but was in the process of selling them and had no plans to return to racing. Donlavey would pass away in 2014.

Driver history
Notable drivers (Sprint Cup race winners, Rookies of the Year, & renowned drivers from other championships such as IndyCars or sports cars) are highlighted in bold.
 * 🇺🇸 Runt Harris (1950, 1957, 1959–1960)
 * 🇺🇸 Joe Weatherly (1952)
 * 🇺🇸 Emanuel Zervakis (1957–1958)
 * 🇺🇸 Speedy Thompson (1960)
 * 🇺🇸 Tiny Lund (1960)
 * 🇺🇸 Johnny Roberts (1961)
 * 🇺🇸 Sonny Hutchins (1965–1970)
 * 🇺🇸 LeeRoy Yarbrough (1970, 1972)
 * 🇺🇸 Bill Dennis (1970–1973, 1975)
 * 🇬🇧 Jackie Oliver (1972)
 * 🇺🇸 Jimmy Hensley (1972–1974)
 * 🇺🇸 Dick Brooks (1972, 1975, 1977–1978, 1983–1984)
 * 🇺🇸 Fred Lorenzen (1972)
 * 🇺🇸 Ramo Stott (1972–1973)
 * 🇺🇸 Bobby Isaac (1972, 1974)
 * 🇺🇸 Max Berrier (1972)
 * 🇺🇸 Richard D. Brown (1972)
 * 🇺🇸 Butch Hartman (1972)
 * 🇺🇸 Ron Hutcherson (1972)
 * 🇺🇸 Johnny Rutherford (1972)
 * 🇺🇸 Ray Hendrick (1973)
 * 🇨🇦 Yvon Duhamel (1973)
 * 🇺🇸 Richie Panch (1973–1974)
 * 🇺🇸 Eddie Pettyjohn (1973–1974)
 * 🇺🇸 Jody Ridley (1973–1975, 1979–1982)
 * 🇺🇸 Bud Moore (1973)
 * 🇺🇸 Harry Gant (1973)
 * 🇺🇸 Charlie Glotzbach (1973–1974, 1990, 1992)
 * 🇺🇸 Paul Radford (1974)
 * 🇺🇸 George Follmer (1974)
 * 🇺🇸 Kenny Brightbill (1975)
 * 🇨🇦 Earl Ross (1975)
 * 🇺🇸 Dick May (1975)
 * 🇺🇸 Buck Baker (1976)
 * 🇺🇸 Gene Felton (1976)
 * 🇧🇪 Christine Beckers (1977)
 * 🇺🇸 Ricky Rudd (1979)
 * 🇺🇸 Ken Schrader (1985–1987)
 * 🇺🇸 Benny Parsons (1988)
 * 🇺🇸 Jimmy Means (1988)
 * 🇺🇸 Chad Little (1989)
 * 🇺🇸 Stan Barrett (1989)
 * 🇺🇸 Lennie Pond (1989)
 * 🇺🇸 Ernie Irvan (1990)
 * 🇺🇸 J. T. Hayes (1990)
 * 🇺🇸 Buddy Baker (1990)
 * 🇺🇸 Robby Gordon (1991)
 * 🇺🇸 Wally Dallenbach Jr. (1991)
 * 🇺🇸 Dorsey Schroeder (1992, 1997)
 * 🇺🇸 Kerry Teague (1992)
 * 🇺🇸 Hut Stricklin (1992, 1999–2001)
 * 🇺🇸 Pancho Carter (1992)
 * 🇺🇸 Todd Bodine (1992 - Watkins Glen - Car number changed to #34, Car Owner listed as Cicci-Welliver but was actually Junie's car, Team and operated by Junie, revealed by Bodine in 2022 via The Scene Vault Podcast)
 * 🇺🇸 Bobby Hillin Jr. (1992–1994)
 * 🇺🇸 Mike Wallace (1994–1996, 1999)
 * 🇺🇸 Dick Trickle (1996–1998)
 * 🇺🇸 Morgan Shepherd (1999)
 * 🇺🇸 Stanton Barrett (1999)
 * 🇺🇸 Ed Berrier (1999–2000)
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Simo (2000–2001; road courses only)
 * 🇺🇸 Rick Mast (2001–2002)
 * 🇺🇸 Hermie Sadler (2002)
 * 🇺🇸 Gary Bradberry (2002)
 * 🇺🇸 Lance Hooper (2002)
 * 🇺🇸 Jason Hedlesky (2002)

NASCAR
(key) ( Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. )

Car No. 90 results

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Paternò

Paternò (Patennò) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania, in the Italian region of Sicily. With a population (2016) of 48,009, it is the third municipality of the province after Catania and Acireale.

Geography
Paternò borders with the municipalities of Belpasso, Biancavilla, Catenanuova (EN), Centuripe (EN), Ragalna, Ramacca and Santa Maria di Licodia. Its only hamlet (frazione) is the village of Sferro. Within Paterno there is a geologic feature named 'Salinelle', a place where small mud volcanoes emerge from cracks in the ground. This area in which the Salinelle surfaces includes an archeological site currently uncovering evidence of Roman baths previously built on and thought to have used the Salinelle mud.

History
The site of Paternò was settled before 3500 BC. Its inhabitants were probably the Sicani, although it was located in mainly Sicel territory. The modern name derives form the Greek Paeter Aitnaion, meaning the "Fortress of the Etnaeans".

Ancient historians refer to two contiguous or nearby cities of Sican origin: Hybla Gereatis and Inessa (later renamed Aetna). Most modern scholars regard the place called Castro as the site of Aetna, about 4 km northeast from Paternò, on a hill projecting from the foot of the mountain.

It was a centre of medium importance in the Greek and Roman eras.

Hybla and Inessa fell into Greek hands around 460 BC, when they were besieged by the Syracusans led by the tyrant Hieron I and the two centres were thus Hellenised. They were also involved in the wars between the Syracusans and the Athenians and devastated by the latter, and later again by the former in 403 BC when Dionysius I of Syracuse came to power; in 396 BC he sent mercenaries to Aetna from Campania who carried out numerous massacres of the population for favouring the Athenians in 415 BC. Aetna and Hybla together with the other cities of eastern Sicily were liberated in 339 BC by the Corinthians led by general Timoleon.

The Greek "Silver of Paternò" treasure was found in 1909 and sold, but the majority is now in the Altesmuseum in Berlin.

In 264 BC, the First Punic War broke out between the Carthaginians and the Romans and Aetna and Hybla sided with the former, but after their defeat the two villages fell inexorably under Roman domination. The Romans led by the consul Manius Otacilius Crassus entered Aetna around 243 BC and conquered 67 other Sicilian cities.

Sicily became a Roman province and suffered Roman tyranny and exploitation with the enslavement of its inhabitants. In 136 BC this led to the revolt led by Eunus and Cleone of Cilicia in the First Servile War. During this battle, Aetna served as a place of refuge for many rebels, but together with Hybla, it suffered the greatest damage at the end of the Second Servile War as agricultural and pastoral lands were damaged. The situation worsened further when Gaius Verres, praetor in Sicily in 73 BC, ordered extortion, robbery and violence of all kinds on the two towns, forcing them to deliver of 300 000 bushels of wheat and the payment of 50 000 sesterces.

Aetna and Hybla were included in the cities of civitates decumanae, liable to pay Rome the decuma tax of one tenth, and not enjoying the rights of other cities as they had been conquered after offering resistance.

The longest aqueduct in Roman Sicily at 24 km length passed through the territory close to the city on its route to Catania.

It was largely depopulated in the three centuries before 1000 AD; during the subsequent Arab domination of Sicily, it was known as Batarnù. After the Norman conquest in the 1040s, they built the castle and founded the current city; it was renamed Paternionis and began a period of flourishing. It was here that King Frederick III of Sicily created the Camera Reginale ("Queen's Chamber") as a wedding gift for his wife Eleanor of Anjou, and this was inherited by the subsequent Queens of Sicily. This period of splendour for Paternò lasted until the 15th century, when it became a fief and in consequence slowly lost importance.

Historically, the area around Paternò was plagued by malaria, caused by the marshlands of the Plain of Catania. This has since long been remedied, and the urban development of the town enjoyed a large acceleration in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Paternò Treasure
The treasure was found by chance by a peasant woman in 1909 near the Norman fortress and consisted of 13 or more exquisite pieces. The silverware was sold for little money to two dealers from Catania, who divided it so that most ended up in Naples and was bought by the Parisian merchants Cesare and Ercole Canessa. They had the silverware restored by Alfred André, and in 1911 in Paris they sold seven pieces to Robert Zahn, curator of the antiquarium of the Royal Museums of Berlin. In 1913 and 1914, the remaining six pieces came into the possession of the Antiquarium as a donation from the wealthy Berlin family Von Siemens who had bought them from Zahn himself. Zahn gave an date between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC and attributed the silver to a Taranto goldsmith stylistically. Between 1912 and 1915, Paolo Orsi (who did not fully understand the historico-archaeological importance of hill of Paternò) announced that, in addition to the silverware treasure, two coin treasures were found on the same hill: the first, partly lost, from the 5th century BC, the second of the Roman-Republican age.

Recently the shell-shaped pyx equipped with hinge and ring and decorated on the outside with an octopus has been attributed rather to Alexandrian-inspired artists of the 3rd century BC.

Six of the vessels have inscriptions naming three or four different owners suggesting that the vessels came from Taranto but were acquired in Sicily during the 3rd century BC. The last owner may have been a Roman landlord who feared the ravages of Verres and might have hidden away his silver before 70 BC.

Transportation
Paternò is served by three state roads leading to Catania, Randazzo and Troina areas.

The train station was originally used mostly for food transportation, and is now out of service. The main passenger station is part of the narrow-gauge Ferrovia Circumetnea. The latter also provides a regular bus service to destination on the Catania-Adrano line.

Main sights

 * Norman Castle, built in 1072 by order of Roger I of Sicily
 * Santa Maria dell'Alto, Mother Church (Chiesa Madre) of the town, built in 1342 and largely modified in the early 18th century. It is connected by a scenic staircase to the Porta del Borgo.
 * San Francesco alla Collina (1346), with a church in Gothic style and remains of Baroque decorations
 * Rococo church of Cristo al Monte
 * Santa Caterina d'Alessandria
 * Santa Maria della Valle di Iosaphat, commissioned in 1072 by Adelaide del Vasto, with a Gothic portal
 * Associazione Culturale Paternesi.com, a cultural association born in November 2002, from an idea of Giorgio Ciancitto, to take care of the city of Paternò around the world
 * Sanctuary of the Madonna Santissima della Consolazione
 * The Paternò Salinelle site

Twin towns — sister cities
Paternò is twinned with:
 * 🇺🇸 Santa Barbara, US, since 1978
 * 🇮🇹 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, since 1981
 * 🇩🇪 Menden, Germany, since 1987

People

 * Ciccio Busacca (1925–1989), Italian story-singer
 * Angelo Lo Jacono (1838–1898), Italian writer and journalist
 * Giovan Battista Nicolosi, D.D. (1610–1670), Italian priest and geographer
 * Luca Parmitano (born 1976), Italian astronaut

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Paterno or Paterno Valdagri (Lucano: Patièrn) is a town and comune in the province of Potenza (Basilicata, southern Italy).

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Chromium(III) oxide

Chromium(III) oxide (or chromia) is an inorganic compound with the formula. It is one of the principal oxides of chromium and is used as a pigment. In nature, it occurs as the rare mineral eskolaite.

Structure and properties
has the corundum structure, consisting of a hexagonal close packed array of oxide anions with $\overline{3}$ of the octahedral holes occupied by chromium. Similar to corundum, is a hard, brittle material (Mohs hardness 8 to 8.5). It is antiferromagnetic up to 307 K, the Néel temperature. It is not readily attacked by acids.

Occurrence
occurs naturally as the mineral eskolaite, which is found in chromium-rich tremolite skarns, metaquartzites, and chlorite veins. Eskolaite is also a rare component of chondrite meteorites. The mineral is named after Finnish geologist Pentti Eskola.

Production
The Parisians Pannetier and Binet first prepared the transparent hydrated form of in 1838 via a secret process, sold as a pigment. It is derived from the mineral chromite,. The conversion of chromite to chromia proceeds via Sodium dichromate, which is reduced with sulfur at high temperatures:
 * + S  →    +

The oxide is also formed by the decomposition of chromium salts such as chromium nitrate, or by the exothermic decomposition of ammonium dichromate.

 * → +  + 4

The reaction has a low ignition temperature of less than 200 °C and is frequently used in “volcano” demonstrations.

Applications
Because of its considerable stability, chromia is a commonly used pigment. It was originally called viridian. It is used in paints, inks, and glasses. It is the colorant in "chrome green" and "institutional green." Chromium(III) oxide is a precursor to the magnetic pigment chromium dioxide, by the following reaction:
 * + 3  →  5   +

Along with many other oxides, it is used as a compound when polishing (also called stropping) the edges of knives, razors, surfaces of optical devices etc. on a piece of leather, balsa, cloth or other material. It is available in powder or wax form, and in this context it is known as "green compound".

It is used as a component of refractories due to its high melting point.

From 1962, it has been used as an inert marker in livestock intake research. However, its use in animal science research has been diminishing with the increased use of Titanium dioxide due to the latter being consider more food safe, allowing for the public sale of animals used in research trials that use an inert digestion marker.

Reactions
Chromium(III) oxide is amphoteric. Although insoluble in water, it reacts with acid to produce salts of hydrated chromium ions such as. It is also attacked by concentrated alkali to yield salts of.

When heated with finely divided carbon or aluminium, it is reduced to chromium metal:
 * + 2 Al → 2 Cr +

Unlike the classic thermite reaction involving iron oxides, the chromium oxide thermite creates few or no sparks, smoke or sound, but glows brightly. Because of the very high melting point of chromium, chromium thermite casting is impractical.

Heating with chlorine and carbon yields chromium(III) chloride and carbon monoxide:
 * + 3 + 3 C → 2  + 3 CO

Chromates can be formed by the oxidation of chromium(III) oxide and another oxide in a basic environment:
 * 2 + 4 MO + 3  → 4

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Your beratement of my calling you on the carpet would almost be amusing except for the fact that it is over a subject very near and dear to my heart, as a person of mixed blood citizen of both African American and Jewish European heritage, all I can say is..how dare you?! ...I wonder only now after reading your edits far and wide, that you must be either a friend of or a member in good standing with the Ku Klux Klan, and/or a friend or member of the John Birch Society? (Cathytreks 18:38, 24 August 2005 (UTC))

 * This person's hysteria resulted from stalking me to another page to discover I used the term black in a sentence. Never mind that the US census uses the term, the wikipedia does, and that very page did over 20 times, including even the preceding sentence, none of which she corrected, I might add. keith 19:45, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Keithd's edits on looting (diff) show a tendency to make, accept, and/or promote excuses for effective racism. Wikipedia should be a place substantially free of even that taint of racism. Benjamin Gatti 03:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah another one for my collection.
 * I just realized something: why does the pot's presumably being black affect it's ability to discern the blackness or lack thereof of the kettle? This is a racist cliche. keith 09:04, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Page Vandalism on Ann Coulter
In the latest bit of his page vandalism Keithd states, "...cathy quit trying to dominate the article. multiple people have stated preference for version, you have violated the 3RR.."

Well I am truly sorry Keith if you feel that way, but isnt it a matter of what "multiple people" want want on the Wikipedia?, or is it a matter of policy...and what is right?!, ... there are rules that are being ignored and flaunted by you and others, and I can assure you I will at least continue to do everything in my admittedly limited power to overcome such prejudical and inflamatory POV's on the page(s) I may find and always support the NPOV. Shalom! Cathytreks 19:19, 24 August 2005 (UTC))

 * you go girl. keith 01:11, 25 August 2005 (UTC) p.s. rules get flouted. Vocabulary skills get flaunted.

CfD
If you got a minute can you take a look at Categories for deletion/Log/2005 November 7. This is a challenge to the sourcing of Venona project materials & direct related article series. Thank you. nobs 22:27, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Use of the word American
Im sorry it took me this long to answer, but I coulndt spare the time then. LtDoc 18:12, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Reductio ad Hitlerum
If you wish to fight against this phenomenon (as do I), the current dispute around the altruism article would be a good place to start. Regards, Mihnea Tudoreanu 04:42, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I would help where I can but I am fighting this on two fronts already. And now my favorite such agenda pusher has followed me to the conservatism page. keith 09:14, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Non productive techniques
Hi! Welcome to wikipedia. I have noticed that you are using offensive personal language, and non-productive teqniques, such as daily page reversion to put and remove information into wikipeida, on a few articles related to conservatism. May I point you to Five pillars? I think it is important that we all try to understand where the others are coming from, and work in good faith togeather! Thanks,--sansvoix 02:12, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * P.S. You say you are "fighting on two fronts" above.  Fighting has no place on wikipedia (:  We need to work cooperativly on all fronts!!
 * I reserve the right to make such characterizations on my own talk page. keith 02:25, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Looting
Just to let you know - when I found "looting" the image was a line of Africans carrying food in baskets on their head. Since the word has been used (whether subconsciously or not is irrelevant) to perpetuate an unhelpful stereotype, I felt strongly that Wikipedia should not become a tool to advance racist undertones (I had the image removed for copyvio) and included the criticism of the press for apparent racial inconsistency. I feel that you are trying to move the article back towards a cavalier attitude towards racism, and it leaves me concerned. I suggest that racism is no more acceptable simply because it is subconscious or blended with unpersuasive excuses. (for example the Dubai Port deal is easily reducible to racism as the US has played a much larger role in creating and supporting the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden as any Arabic country (we trained the guy for Cris sake - something about fighting the Russians in Afghanistan) Benjamin Gatti 03:51, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I didn't remove your argument, just worded it as an accusation instead of an assumption of guilt in a specific case. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
 * I'm sure the dubai controversy is mainly due to racism or some such prejudice, but for example we shouldn't say unequivocably that any particular politician's reasons are racism. keith 05:50, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: your revert
"rv divulging of top secret information"... and a good thing too! I feel I may have suffered "internal brain damage" reading just the few scraps of information available. I wouldn't wish that on anyone else. ;) --Ashenai 23:50, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Not to mention the danger of external brain damage. keith 00:08, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion
Take a deep breath before calling people obtuse or vandals and do not assume that a content concern is necessarily POV in disguise. You're under the mistaken assumption I don't believe Anti-Americanism exists in the Middle East.

I hope my re-structuring reads decently. Marskell 19:05, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * You are responsible for the antagonism on that page, with no less than six reverts to the claim of sympathy that you freely admit is true, just because of pedantic wording issues. I asked you multiple times to reword it to your satisfaction and tried multiple variants of my own but you repeatedly chose the rude and uncollaborative approach of outright deleting it. btw your current "re-structuring" still manages to neuter the point being made and pulls sources off to make other points instead. Go dig up your own sources. keith 23:47, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I wasn't rude to you. Not once. And note, those weren't straight reverts as I did tweak things where I saw fit. One edit summary: "That taleban protected bin laden is factual and common knowledge." Well, OK, but you didn't mention the Taliban; you used "sympathy and protection" as a blanket statement. My concern over it may have been pedantic but the point holds. Who is supporting and protecting? Governments? No, with a couple of exceptions. Petro-dollar businessmen in the Gulf states? No. Major Muslim organizations? No: ,                   . Rural Pakistanis? Apparently yes.
 * Anyhow, my point above was you should avoid name calling when something gets under your skin like this. Marskell 10:09, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I was referring to the reverts which I considered rude. Especially with no discussion for the first several. keith 11:54, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

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Adele Reinhartz

Adele Reinhartz (born 1953) is a Canadian academic and a specialist in the history and literature of Christianity and Judaism in the Greco-Roman period, the Gospel of John, early Jewish–Christian relations, literary criticism including feminist literary criticism, feminist exegesis, and the impact of the Bible on popular cinema and television.

Education
In 1975 Reinhartz received her Bachelor of Arts degree in religious studies from the University of Toronto, in 1977 her Master of Arts degree, and in 1983 her Doctor of Philosophy degree in religious studies from McMaster University.

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Reinhartz joined the McMaster faculty in 1987. She was dean of graduate studies and research at Wilfrid Laurier University before being appointed associate vice-president, research, at University of Ottawa in 2005.

In 1997–1998 she was the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies president, and in 2005 she was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Reinhartz is the editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature.

Books

 * 1992 The Word in the World: The Cosmological Tale in the Fourth Gospel (ISBN 1-55540-799-4)
 * 1998 Why Ask My Name? Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative (ISBN 0-19-509970-2)
 * 2001 Befriending the Beloved Disciple: A Jewish Reading of the Gospel of John (ISBN 0-8264-1446-X), winner the 2003 F. W. Beare Award for Outstanding Book in Christian Origins, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
 * 2002 Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism: Reading the New Testament After the Holocaust. Editor with Paula Fredriksen. (ISBN 978-0-664-22328-1)
 * 2003 Scripture on the Silver Screen (ISBN 0-664-22359-1), a study of contemporary films that make use of the Bible,
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List of All in the Family episodes

The following is an episode list for the American sitcom television series All in the Family, which originally aired on CBS for nine seasons, from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979, with a total of 205 episodes produced.

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Anatole Dauman

Anatole Dauman (7 February 1925 in Warsaw – 8 April 1998 in Paris) was a French film producer. He produced films by Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Wim Wenders, Nagisa Oshima, Andrei Tarkovsky, Chris Marker, Volker Schlöndorff, Walerian Borowczyk, and Alain Resnais.

He was a principal figure in Argos Films, a company that was a very important vehicle in creating opportunities for the "Left bank" filmmakers to emerge from the overall Nouvelle Vague.

Early life and career
Anatole Dauman was born in Warsaw in 1925 to a Russian Jewish family and later emigrated to France.

In 1951, he formed Argos Films with Philippe Lifchitz. It was a niche production company with the aim of making films on art which were inspired by the work of the Italian documentary filmmaker Luciano Emmer. Dauman produced the first films of Pierre Kast, Jean Aurel and Chris Marker. In 1953, they gained an advance from a distributor that enabled them to produce Alexander Astruc's Crimson Curtain, which received a prime a la qualite. After that they produced Alain Resnais' Night and Fog and two films by Chris Marker, Sunday in Peking and Letter from Siberia.

In 1959, Argos initiated the production of Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour. They also produced Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad. They also produced Chronique d'un été (Chronicle of a Summer) by Jean Rouch and the sociologist Edgar Morin, a documentary which pioneered cinéma vérité. Morin wrote an article describing the film as neither a documentary nor sociology in the January 1960 France-Observateur, he explained that it wasn't intended to describe, rather it is an experience lived by its authors and actors. Dauman went on to produce two films for Jean-Luc Godard - Masculin, féminin (1966) and Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967). Argos also produced two by Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) and Mouchette (1967).

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Please be more careful with tagging articles for deletion. One of your latest targets was a prominent politician and current member of the House of Representatives. Another was a veteran cabinet minister during the 1980s. Another stupid tagging along these lines and I'm going to block you for disruption. Rebecca 06:06, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

 * This is ridiculous. is meant for relatively undisputed deletions of utter crud. You've nominated a host of undisputably nominated people who would most probably survive an AfD vote unanimously. I'm blocking you for 24 hours - continue and you'll be blocked for a week. Rebecca 06:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

 * To my knowledge, the tag itself does not delete the article per se. Those articles read as nothing more than fan pages or "about me" personal articles, therefore I tagged them. I am not deleting or vandalising them, just putting a tag so that they can be improved by other users who watch those pages. Mighty Ozymandias 06:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Many of the articles you tagged were perfectly standard, reasonably-written biographies about indisputably notable people. They included prominent politicians and prominent sportspeople who would without question, most probably unanimously (and quite possibly speedily), survive an AfD vote.

 * There is absolutely no excuse for ing these articles in the circumstances; I had to go through your contributions and revert about 90% of your taggings because they were simply wrong. The cleanup tags are meant to be used only where there are serious problems; in a few cases, you got that right, and I left those tags there, but in all too many, there simply wasn't much wrong with the articles at all.

 * If you're going to articles, please make sure that the deletion is reasonably likely to be undisputed. If you're going to tag articles for cleanup, please make sure that the article actually is in serious need of cleanup.

 * If you're willing to be more careful in future, I'll happily unblock you now and put this aside as a newbie mistake, but please be aware that any more crap of this sort will lead to another, substantially longer block. You created a royal mess that was quite a nuisance to fix up. Rebecca 06:46, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I cant access the wiki from work and I need sleep, so its better that to let the block expire (cant stay awake anymore). I felt I made a good call on my edits, and from your comments it seems you think that I had it in for these people. Nevertheless, lets call it a night.Mighty Ozymandias 07:18, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm not saying that you had it in for these people - I'm saying that your taggings were careless and unjustifable to the point of being disruptive. Feel free to wait out this block, but if you resume the same behaviour upon your return, expect to be blocked for a longer period of time. Rebecca 07:34, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Audio file format

Content confusion
There appears to be some confusion as to the content of this page, the opening sentence (correctly, imo) describes an audio file format as a container format for audio data while most of the article discusses audio formats, i.e. compressed vs uncompressed data which is not necessarily related to the audio file format. Any comments on this? --80.44.213.35 19:46, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Content confusion comment
I agree with the comment about the confusion between file formats and audio encodings. Also, the article implies that Microsoft's WAV format always carries uncompressed PCM audio. In fact it can carry many encoding types. See for instance, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms713497.aspx and http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/NMM/dist-0.9.1/Docs/Doxygen/html/mmreg_8h.html Gobbag 16:57, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

ACT
Gee, the article is "(Redirected from ACT (audio format)) with of course no mention of that format. Jidanni (talk) 22:56, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Value of ON content and quality of reference
The content added from the ON reference remains in this article, but the reference has been removed. This action is disputed and a conversation is ongoing here. Uriah923 06:13, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Linked from Wired.com
Just a note to the editors currently working on this article, it has been mentioned in an article from Wired News. --Andylkl [ talk! 15:19, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

The multiple channel section in misinformative. To my knowledge, multiple channels are still created by two channels. The section suggests a 5.1 system. On the market today there are two ways to get 5.1 audio. DTS and Dolby, only the latter one is talked about.

What does this sentence mean?

 * Despite its name, there are many file formats for storing audio files.

How does its name discourge one from believing that there are multiple means of storage???

Probably because the title of the article is: Audio File Format, which is singular...not Audio File Formats

What about .m4a and .aac?
These two formats should probably be included, yes? Markhurst 21:41, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

 * And OGG? Oddity- 14:02, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

No Speaker needed
I suggest dropping the reference in the intro to the "sampling of the votage corresponding to the speaker membrance position"

Where a speaker membrane is has nothing to do with sampling nor coding. A file never has to even "see" a speker to be created.

The reference just serves to confuse.RSFRASER 18:52, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, what the heck do the samples stand for then? That question is exactly what brought me here, and I cannot find the answer.  Is the instantaneous sound-pressure-level emitted by a sound-reproduction system supposed to be proportional to the value of the sample?  If no, then what?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.199.197.180 (talk) 09:49, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Confusing negative
This article starts with the sentence, "The general approach towards storing digital audio formats is not to sample the audio..." The word "not" in here appears to be an error, but I will let someone more qualified make this decision.

Ed —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.126.24.175 (talk) 05:11, 17 March 2007 (UTC).

 * The "not" was added by an anonymous user, and was incorrect. I have undone that edit.  The Wilschon 00:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

More Formats
Can anybody add some more audio formats like .aa from audible?

FLAC vs PCM (or whatever Red Book audio is called)
I've read somewhere (but now of course, cannot find a solid reference to), that Red Book Audio actually stores two bits on physical media for every bit that is necessary to play. This helps in scrathes on the physical media (and is used to advantage in some DRM schemes). Basically CD players take the average of both of the bit values - or if one is unreadable, they use the other one. With that information you get a bit-stream avaiable to play on a speaker.

Now, I've heard that there's a audio file format (I believe it is FLAC - but I could be wrong), that says: Hey, we're storing shit digitally (and copying it), so we'll never have physical read errors - and storing two bits for every bit that we need to play is a serious waste of space. Let's just strip out half of that file and save one bit for each bit needed to play, and we'll work out other ways to backup our shit. So this file format basically reads like a CD player, averages, and outputs a single bit stream, which cuts the space needed in half, while giving you a true, lossless copy of the digital information on a CD.

But I'm not familiar enough with it, and can't (easily) find any sources to confirm this, and I'm not sure which file format it is.

What is the name of this file format. And for good measure, what's the name of the file format used on physical CDs? Besides Red Book Audio.

~ender 2007-11-30 23:13:PM MST

Conversion
How about some info on converting between formats Hrolls (talk) 11:14, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

which is better
which format of audio file is better?for clear and dynamic sound —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.83.34.104 (talk) 19:25, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

MOD files
Since we talk about MIDI files, couldn't we talk about module files too ?

Spidermario (talk) 11:08, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Article is fundamentally broken
The article attempts to discuss container formats then mixes containers vs codecs, and is wrong on several accounts of both. SchmuckyTheCat (talk)

Some omissions and suggested inclusions
I came to this page hoping for info on the sample rates and bit depths supported by Apple Lossless format; this seems like info that would be relevant for all the formats being discussed here. BTW, I know Apple lossless supports 24-bit but I'm seeing much misinformation elsewhere that it's limited to 16-bit. Haven't found an official Apple spec sheet after a brief effort.

Would a chart of origin/common applications/specs be a good way to organize and meaningfully compare audio formats in this article? Beyond my newbie abilities, FWIW.

Re: the assertion above that DTS and Dolby Digital are the only 5.1 audio formats- here are some other examples, all of which might belong in this article--

DSD- native format of SACD audio, both stereo and surround, it's fundamentally different from PCM formats, using a single-bit super-high sample rate approach. MLP- 'Meridian Lossless Packing', the compressed format used for DVD-audio hi-res stereo and surround, necessary to keep the data rate within DVD medium's capabilities.

Then there are the lossless Blue-Ray DVD audio formats that DTS and Dolby came up with. Some info on their specs and parameters would seem appropriate here, unless DVD-only audio formats are discussed elsewhere, in which case a link to that article belongs here.

Warrenog (talk) 15:32, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

CDA is not an audio file format
CDA is only a "shortcut" to an audio track created by Windows. It doesn't contain any sound, has fixed size, so it cannot be an audio file format! Jancikotuc (talk) 11:02, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

wav free and open?
Is was free AND open file format? Is there any source for that information. I could not find one. --Jakubt (talk) 18:56, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Apple Lossless not in list
Apple Lossless is missing from the lists at the end of the articles. Should Apple Lossless be listed as free and open (like AIFF), open, proprietary? There are no references given to support any of these distinctions and some appear dubious: e.g., although there was an unofficial "MPEG 2.5" that was proprietary, MP3 is an ISO standard and there is nothing proprietary about it. AAC is also an ISO standard and is not proprietary. The wiki article on DCT says it is proprietary but it isn't listed as such. This division into open and proprietary categories is a mess. Ross Fraser (talk) 15:39, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

 * I have WP:BOLDly combined all into one list. I've also added more prominent links to existing and better lists. Given the existence of those, I'm not convince we even need a list here. Feel free to add Apple lossless onto the list though. --Kvng (talk) 13:52, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've alphabetized the resulting list. I think it is still useful to draw a distinction between codecs and file formats so would suggest that the list is still useful.  I've added ALAC.

Ross Fraser (talk) 01:25, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Acoustic waves - Is "Lossless" a misnomer?
I would like a section discussing the fundamental transform from analog to digital, or a link to the article which discusses that best. I will research elsewhere, but the article could use some brief fundamentals and such a link if it exists. The topic is more linkworthy here than in many other articles. Mydogtrouble (talk) 20:43, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

 * There's a link to digital audio in the lead. Another candidate is Sampling (signal processing). -—Kvng 14:09, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Sound Sample Formats are missing
see topic -- Cachsten (talk) 12:43, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

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simple list of the extensions formatted as one per line for misc uses
I believe many who come to this page are looking to compile a list to feed to a program or filter of some sort. The aesthetics of dumping a plain text list into the article would be terrible, but it should be inserted somewhere or somehow since it will be useful to many who visit the page. I've compiled them below, if someone can figure out how to neatly insert it into the article

.3gp .aa .aac .aax .act .aiff .amr .ape .au .awb .dct .dss .dvf .flac .gsm .iklax .ivs .m4a .m4b .m4p .mmf .mp3 .mpc .msv .ogg, .opus .ra, .raw .sln .tta .vox .wav .wma .wv .webm .8svx

(maybe a citation type link where a text popup of the list appears? best i can think of which is why im posting it here so hopefully someone thinks of something better.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.239.79.39 (talk) 08:30, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

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Patuakhali

Patuakhali (পটুয়াখালী Potuakhali) is a town and district headquarter of Patuakhali District located on the southern bank of Laukathi river in the division of Barisal in Bangladesh. It is the administrative headquarter of Patuakhali district and one of the oldest towns and municipalities in the country. Patuakhali municipality was established in 1892. The town covers an area of 27.03 km2 with a population of 65,000, according to the 2011 census.

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There are different opinions about the origin of the name "Patuakhali". The general belief is that the name is derived from Bengali name "Patuar Khal" (Canal of Patua) which flows down the present Patuakhali municipality connecting the Bay of Bengal. It is said that at the beginning of the 17th century the Portuguese pirates used to make regular incursions to this area through this canal. The local people named it "Patuar Khal" which is now called "Patuakhali. Austric origin people are probably the first that settled in this region.

History
Historically, Patuakhali was part of Chandradwip kingdom in the fourteenth century. The present town was then full of jungle and along the river-side a small market used to meet once a week. During British rule in Bengal, the land of Patuakhali town was owned by a landlord family. A civil court with a Judge was set up in 1868 and Patuakhali was established a subdivision of then Barisal District in 1871 by the help of Brajamohan Dutta. On the northern bank of the river, in the village Laukathi, were the tahsil cutcheries of the principal landlords of the subdivision. With the influx of population from the districts of Dhaka, Faridpur and Barisal a good market, a middle English school and a charitable dispensary were gradually established and trading firms opened up business. The high school and the Begum Hospital were probably the most important public institution in the town that time. The high school was established in 1887 and a hostel attached to the school in 1904. The hospital was established in 1872, and was provided with a new building in 1904, the entire cost being borne by the late Nawab Sir Khwaja Ahsanullah Bahadur of Dacca. The hospital is called the Begum Hospital after the Nawab's wife. Rice, firewood, coarse cloth made by the local weavers and hogla mats were the chief items of trade. A hosiery factory was established in 1911–12.

Patuakhali was constituted a municipality on 1 April 1892. The Commissioners were at first nominated, but the elective system was introduced in 1900s. The Local Board was established in 1871. The area within the municipal limits was

Demographics
According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, Patuakhali Paurashava had 13,994 households and a population of 65,000. 11,354 (17.47%) were under 10 years of age. Patuakhali has a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 79.89%, compared to the national average of 59.5%, and a sex ratio of 933 females per 1000 males.

Sports
Cricket and football are the two most popular sports in Patuakhali while local games like Kabaddi, Kho kho, Lathi Khela are also popular. There is a local stadium in the town known as Patuakhali District Stadium. It is used for hosting local sports and national events. Notable players from Patuakhali who have played for the national team include Sohag Gazi.

Education
Patuakhali town is a home to many educational institutions. Patuakhali Government Jubilee High School is the oldest and a renowned school in Bangladesh. It was established in 1876 as Patuakhali Entrance School by the local honorable personalities and officials. In 1884 the then SDO, Mr. Foyz Uddin Hossen allotted a new place and made a one storied brick building with the help of the government and money from the local people. In 1887, the school was moved to new place and renamed as "Patuakhali Jubilee High English School" as a memorandum of the ceremony of Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne. Then again Patuakhali Collectorate School and College was formed with SDO building as the center. There is a science and technology university for higher education in Patukhali 15 km away from the town. There are notable colleges and schools in the town which includes: Patuakhali Medical College, Patuakhali Government College, Patuakhali Government Women's College, Latif Municipal Seminary, Patuakhali Town High School, Patuakhali Government Girls' High School, Sreerampur Secondary School, Wazedabad Mustafavia Fazil Madrasa etc. Besides these, there are two teacher training colleges, a Government Polytechnic institute and a vocational institute in the town. The educational activities are operated under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Barisal.

Transport and communications
The main transport systems used in the town are cycle rickshaws, auto rickshaws, buses, mini-buses, bikes and cars. Patuakhali can be reached by road and waterways. There is a bus station at Choumohoni a few kilometers away from the town and a launch terminal located at the other end which maintains communication with Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. There is no railway in this region.

Notable people

 * AKM Fazlul Haque (surgeon), The Pioneer Colorectal Surgeon in Indo-Bangla Subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan)
 * Comrade Hiralal Dasgupta, Revolutionary, Freedom Fighter and Author
 * Satin Sen (1894–1955), Revolutionary
 * BD Habibullah (1908–1998), Author and speaker
 * Habibur Rahman, former member of parliament of Bangladesh
 * Khan Shaheb Akram (1893–1978), Lawyer, Politician
 * Kazi Aboul Kashem (1906–1984), MP, Lawyer, Politician, Life time President of Patuakhali Bar Association
 * Sohag Gazi, Cricketer of the Bangladesh national cricket team.
 * Shahjahan Mia MP, Member of parliament, Jatiya Sangsad (Patuakhali-1).
 * Kamran Shahid Prince mohabbat, social worker, politician (Patuakhali-3).

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Tim Perkis

Tim Perkis is an experimental musician and writer who works with live electronic and computer sound.

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"Boundary Layer" 2008 The Hub with John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Tim Perkis, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Phil Stone. Tzadik Records (New York). CD.

"Grosse Abfahrt: Luftschiffe zum Kalifornien" 2007 Serge Baghdassarians - electronics; Boris Baltschun - electronics; Chris Brown - piano; Tom Djll - trumpet; Matt Ingalls - clarinet; Tim Perkis - electronics; Gino Robair - electronics; John Shiurba - guitar. Creative Sources (Lisbon, Portugal). CD.

"SUPERMODEL SUPERMODEL" 2006 GAIL BRAND trombone; TIM PERKIS electronics; GINO ROBAIR percussion, faux dax, horns, Styrofoam, ebow snare; JOHN SHIURBA electric guitar; MATTHEW SPERRY double bass and preparations. On EMANEM (UK). CD.

"Thousand Oaks" 2005 Philip Gelb (shakuhachi), Shoko Hikage (koto), Tim Perkis (electronics), Chris Brown (piano). On 482 Music. CD

"Six Fuchs" 2004 Wolfgang Fuchs (reeds), Tom Dill(tpt), Gino Robair(perc), John Shiurba(gtr), Matthew Sperry(bass), and Perkis(electronics). On Rastascan (San Francisco). CD

"Headlands" 2003 extended improvisations with Philip Gelb, shakuhachi; Shoko Hikage, koto; and Chris Brown (electronic music), on 482 Music(Chicago),

"Praeface" 2003 Compilation of artists on Praemedia label, (San Francisco). CD.

"Motive" 2002 Solo. Praemedia (San Francisco). CD.

"Tim Perkis Live on the Artship" 2002 The Artship Recordings are a series of live solo improvisations each by a different artist, and each performed in "The Artship", a decommissioned US Navy troop transport which was docked in Oakland and served as a floating arts center for several years. (3.5-in CD).

"Luminous Axis" 2002 Wadada Leo Smith with John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Ikue Mori, Tim Perkis, Mark Trayle and William Winant. Tzadik (New York). CD.

"Apollo and Marsyas" 2002 An anthology of New Music Concerts at Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from 1980 to 1997, including performances by The Hub and 37 other new music luminaries. Het Apollohuis (Eindhoven, The Netherlands.). CD.

"Fuzzybunny" 2000 Electronic improvisations with Scot Gresham-Lancaster and Chris Brown. Sonore(Bordeaux & Tokyo). CD.

"International Live Electronic Music Incorporated" 2000 Recorded at the Korzo Theater, Den Haag on 9 April 1998. John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Gert-Jan Prins, Luc Houtkamp, Kaffe Matthews and Anne LaBerge. On Xor (Den Haag). CD

"What Would This Record Have Sounded Like of John Cale had had Some Setback and Cinzia La Fauci and Alberto Scotti had Taken His Place?" 2000 Compilation of Iggy Pop covers by various artists including: Perkis, Etoile Filante, Solex, Taniguchi Masaaki, Ectogram, Steven Bryant, Jonathan LaMaster/Roger Miller, Frank Chickens, Crowded Air, Oxbox, Allun, God is my Co-pilot, Dean Roberst, Massey Fergusson Ensemble, The Pornography, Culo Negro and Mutable. A co-production of Snowdonia (Messina, Italy) and Club Lunatica (Tokyo). CD

"Diatoms" 1999 Duo improvisations with Lelio Giannetto, bass. Recorded in Palermo, Sicily 12/5/1998. On Curva Minore(Palermo). CD

"Perkolator" 1999 Pieces all made by mangling live recordings of improv ensemble sessions with Henry Kuntz, Matt Ingalls, Gino Robair, John Shiurba, Ed Hermann, Dave Slusser, and Matthew Sperry. On Limited Sedition (Oakland). CD

"Buddy Systems" 1998 Gino Robair plays selected duos and trios, with John Butcher and Tim Perkis, Otomo Yoshihide, Carl Kihlstedt and Matthew Sperry, Dan Plonsey, LaDonna Smith, Splatter Trio, Oluyemi Thomas, and Myles Boisen on Meniscus(Minneapolis). CD

"Matthew Sperry Trio" 1997 Actually a quartet, that didn't include the late Matthew Sperry! Matt Ingalls, Tim Perkis, Gino Robair, John Shiurba. On Limited Sedition (Oakland). CD

"The Hub: Live in Atlanta" 1997 A live multimedia performance, in an auditorium equipped with Ethernet connections at every seat. Audience members with laptops could connect to a website allowing them to vote to influence the direction of the live performance. Produced at Georgia Tech by PTRL. CD

"Five" 1995 Solo violin improvisations. From Lucky Garage(Berkeley). 7" vinyl, 33rpm.

"Wreckin' Ball" 1994 The Hub's second album. Includes collaborations with Ramon Sender, Alvin Curran and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. Artifact (San Francisco). CD

"Tarzan Speaks" 1991 w/ group Rotodoti: Doug Carroll (cello); Ron Heglin (trombone, voice); Tom Nunn (electroacoustic percussion); Tim Perkis (electronics). Artifact (San Francisco). CD

"Artificial Horizon" 1989 Individual and duo tracks with John Bischoff. Artifact (San Francisco). CD

"The Hub" 1989 JOHN BISCHOFF, TIM PERKIS, CHRIS BROWN, SCOT GRESHAM-LANCASTER, MARK TRAYLE, PHIL STONE. THE HUB is a computer music band whose members are all designers and builders of their own hardware and software instruments. The group electronically coordinates the activity of their individual systems through a central micro-computer, The Hub itself, as well as manually through ears, eyes, and hands. Artifact (San Francisco). CD.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emocracy

 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. - Mailer Diablo 18:00, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Emocracy
Neologism apparently from.
 * Delete Gazpacho 19:36, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete neologism based on, presumably, original research. Can come back if they reform an electoral system somewhere with it. -Splash 00:13, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Said Homer Simpson, lousy emocrats. - choster 22:02, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Karben

David Letterman? Taped in Karben? Now if that's no rumor... can you give me some hints on that? I mean, I am from Karben, and I never heard of Letterman being taped here! --84.178.72.40 19:36, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:TonyTheTerrier

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, please be sure to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date, or three tildes (~~~) for just your name. If you have any questions, you can post to the help desk or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! EdwinHJ | Talk 19:36, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
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Frozen Disney
I removed yor addition to the Trivia section (again). Sorry about this, but we need to keep it from growing too large. There are so many rumors around that all of them cannot be listed. This has been discussed on the "talk" page, too. Furthermore, can you point to a reference on the web about this - just curious about that rumor, which I've never heard before. Thanks! --Janke | Talk 08:11:33, 2005-08-26 (UTC)

Sock puppet
Please edit articles with only one account. If you want to use this one instead of user:Can'tStandYa, that's fine. But if I see you using more than one I'll block them, again. Please re-read sock puppet if you have any questions. -Willmcw 18:24, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Since you are now using user:KnightsOfMalta, I am going to block this account and user:user:Can'tStandYa. -Willmcw 18:29, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Centerfold stars

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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 18:00, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Centerfold stars
As in WP:NOT: Wikipedia is not a propaganda machine: 3. Advertising -- < drini | ∂drini > 19:36, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * CENTREFOLD STARS should be deleted.-Splash 00:13, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 00:15, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as advertising. I suspect that if it was cleaned up, it would be notable enought to have an article.  Vegaswikian 06:40, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as ad. It's too bad the author didn't provide any actual proof of what was said.  If there were links to articles, names of real centerfolds, or any sort-of verifiability; it would be well worth an article, especially if it involved any models who already have accepted articles in wiki.  I won't hold my breath waiting for the proof (I'm sure I'm being naive for thinking there could be a grain of truth). --rob 11:12, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Spam.  I've removed the url. —Cryptic (talk) 14:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:Asch

Howdy
Hi! I saw your additions to the article on Christianity, and I wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia. As you noted in your comments on that page, the Wikipedia is to be written from a secular perspective. As is noted in the offical policy on neutrality, this is a somewhat difficult notion since most people (even conservative Christians like me) don't believe in neutrality any more. Nonetheless, it's what we strive for; we try to leave the most obvious value judgements at the door. It doesn't always work out perfectly, but that's the goal. I've worked with differing viewpoints to achieve what we think is a mostly neutral article on Christian subjects such as total depravity and perseverance of the saints. If that approach doesn't fit you, there are several other Wikis I could recommend that operate from an explicitly Christian viewpoint.

Anyway, I hope you stick around and help the Wikipedia become a better place! If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to drop me a note on my talk page. You can also respond here, and I'll see it. Cheers! --Flex 19:36, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

Are you the founder?
Heya Andy!

How's that wiki of yourn's doing? Pommer —Preceding comment was added at 15:29, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

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