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Sorry should had say protect mich (talk) 04:29, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Firstly, sorry if I post this in te wrong place, I'm still trying to work out how talking on Wikipedia works. Just a quick message about the Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps page. Do you remember the user who kept editing the page with thing such as 'teenage' and adding names such as Hilary Duff and Justin Bieber to the cast list? Well, I've been watching the page for a while now, just checking it every now and then, and about half an hour ago I checked it, and the 'teenager' etc had all been edited back in. I have changed it back, but I don't know how long it will be before they edit it again. Is there a way to further protect the page, as it is getting a little annoying having to removed repeatedly edited back in false information? Thanks, and again apologies if Ive posted this in the wrong place. Nibbles29 (talk) 20:58, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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Talk:Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau

Rochambeau's son
The "reference" section on Rochambeau's son needs to be split into a separate article. The younger Rochambeau was an ipmortant -- many would say, notorious - figure in his own right because of his actions in the Haitian Reovlution. But he is not well known in the USA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Altaar (talk • contribs) 17:33, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Moved the info on the son to Vicomte de Rochambeau. Will add a link on this article. - Tallasse 04:09, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I removed the data (again) about Rochambeau's son. He has his own article at Vicomte de Rochambeau where info about his part in the Haitian Revolution is found. - Tallasse 01:12, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Number of troops
I changed the number of troops under Rochambeau's command back to 6,000. It was changed to 7,000 by 66.73.5.118 without reason or reference. University of Michigan says 6000, as well as PBS Not very authoritative, but it's what I found in a quick Google search. - Tallasse 15:33, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Requested move
Comte de Rochambeau → Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau : Specifies which Comte de Rochambeau is the subject of the article; follows pattern of other articles on French nobility. David Kernow 03:37, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Support as proposer. David Kernow 03:37, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. — Nightst a  llion  (?) Seen this already? 09:45, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

WP:MILHIST Assessment
Overall, a very nice start, but I think the introductory sentence should be more explicit as to his significance. This might be my own ethnocentrism coming through, but I feel like it would represent him appropriately to write "... Rochambeau was a French aristocrat, soldier, and Marshal of France. He was one of the most famous French generals to fight in the American Revolution." or something to that effect. Otherwise, you wouldn't even know he was involved in the Revolution at all without looking down three or four paragraphs. LordAmeth 19:19, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

- I reworded it to the following : "... Rochambeau was a French aristocrat, soldier, and a Marshal of France who participated in the American revolution". Sounds enough for me to show he was an important part of the American Revolution. Feel free to revert it, as being a French can make my sentences NPOV :) CyberBoris 22:02, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

number of troops inconsistent
The number of troops in Rochambeau's army is said to be 6,000 in the french article and 5,000 in this article. if there is a source perhaps one should address this issue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.119.209.97 (talk) 06:04, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Should "comte" have lower or upper-case "c"?
The article title, the bolded part of the first sentence, and other usages throughout the article are not consistent in whether "comte" should have an upper case or lower case "c". I suggest that they should all be consistent, but I don't know personally which is correct. Encyclopedia Britannica (1986 ed, volume 10, and current online edition) shows a lower case "c", ie "Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de" and/or "Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau". Shorter Oxford English Dictionary lists comte in lower case, ie it is not a proper noun. (Admittedly this is not as part of a specific person's title.) The wikipedia article Comte in the third sentence uses upper case C (when not at the beginning of a sentence); similarly for Marquis, Margrave Vicomte - although the same article uses lower case "e" for "earl". Is there some difference in the conventions of English vs French titles? Can someone shed so authoritative light on the matter? Mitch Ames (talk) 02:25, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * A brief survey of this and similar bios at the French WP shows that the normal French usage is to treat titles as common nouns, not as proper nouns, as they are in English. So I'm changing it accordingly. -- Zsero (talk) 02:46, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Modern French usage is indeed to leave noble titles uncapitalised. WP:FRMOS allows either capitalised or uncapitalised titles, asking only for consistency within an article.  (It's basically like the US/UK English rule: stick with whatever form the article is already using, as long as it uses that form consistently.)  My own preference is to keep them uncapitalised, which I think is more informative for the reader (letting them know that that's how French does it), whereas insisting on capitalising the titles feels Anglocentric to me, but here isn't the place for that discussion.  Anyway, since the article's title, text and picture captions all use the small C, I'm going to uncapitalise the C in the lede for consistency.  (The name of the statue in DC has to be left capitalised because that's actually the statue's formal name.)  Binabik80 (talk) 20:19, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

The RoShamBo Game
I've found some internet references to the rock-scissors-paper game that reference this guy. I find it curious the talk sections of two wikipedia pages for Rochambeau and Rock-Scissors-Paper do not reference each other, let alone the Wiki contents themselves. Can we at least to acknowledge some association, if not deny/confirm it? Was the Rock-Scissors-Paper game renamed for Rochambeau?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=roshambo -- Credits Rochambeau

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1936/whats-the-origin-of-rock-paper-scissors --  Disputes source, but acknowledges Rochambeau

http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/23932 -- PhD College Historian says maybe named for Rochambeau

66.193.199.65 (talk) 17:51, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Family motto
Question: I have a hard time believing that Count Rochambeau's family motto is French for "Rock, Paper and Scissors." Assuming that somebody who knows the actual motto would like to edit the page? Pretty amusing, I do have to say.

74.45.33.160 (talk) 22:42, 15 February 2015 (UTC) mountaingirl1961

"Private Shipping"?
In 1780, Rochambeau was appointed commander of land forces as part of the project code-named Expédition Particulière.

"Expédition Particulière" Google translates this to "Private Shipping", and so I wonder if this "code" isn't more contextually obvious than the Article implies. Either way, the english translation should be included as a courtesy to the reader.

2603:8081:3A00:30DF:ACA0:961:675C:DB08 (talk) 20:57, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

 * Expédition and Particulière both have a range of meanings. The most obvious translation of Expédition in this context is "expedition", although it can mean "shipping" or "sending" in the sense of sending a parcel or a letter. Particulière is a bit more tricky, but its senses include "particular", "special", "individual" and "private". The article "Expédition Particulière" glosses the phrase as "special expedition", which seems reasonable to me.
 * I think you're right that the section would benefit from rephrasing and a translation. Perhaps someone more familiar with the topic could take care of it. Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 23:14, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

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Pentelicus

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Talk:M.I.U. Album

Mel,

By inserting that timing style, it's not corresponding with the "record label" line in the info box and it throws it out of whack. Also, every other album has its timings set up that way. I just followed what was there since I didn't actually create these articles. If you feel strongly enough to change all of the articles' timing styles to reflect what you feel is right (there's at least 30), then be my guest. Just please make sure that the "record label" section isn't thrown off. Thanks for helping to improve the article. I appreciate it. PetSounds 17:35, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

 * 1) Every other album doesn't have the timing set up that way; I've seen three different ways, and there are probably more (your way, my way, and the "mm:ss" way.
 * 2) The Manual of style clearly warns against over-Wikilinking; to link "minute" and "second" in every album & single article is surely unnecessary.
 * 3) I've left questions at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) and Template talk:Album infobox; if you want to join the debate, the former is the more important (as it concerns policy).
 * 4) Note in any case that WikiProject Albums isn't policy. --Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 18:27, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

 * At the risk of stoking the flame I offer this opinion. This way of notation xx:yy is, without doubt, so much better than including some abbreviated form of minutes and seconds which I don't much want to understand anyway, particularly not for piping's sake.

 * But. None of the other Beach Boys albums are like that. Where do we stop? Normally my opinion would be "Assume the person looking at this page knows nothing but wishes to know everything." By "nothing", I mean, various different short-hand ways of writing things. I mean everything we can see on that page. Though I've had nothing personally to do with the writing of the article since it was created, and though my personal opinion is that xx:yy is better, I've never seen another case in which it was used. Bobo. 18:42, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

In fact there are countless examples of albums using "mm:ss" (and the Singles template has been changed to reflect the better practice, though the Albums template is lagging behind; that (among other issues) is being discussed now). The main point is that the min/sec style goes against the MoS, both in itself (the abbreviations are non-standard, and the links are unnecessary) and in that it's inconsistent with the style used for track timings. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 09:41, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

This content dispute seems to have been going on for quite some time, perhaps somebody should request comments? It seems that the consensus is that the "mm:ss" format is preferred, but that there should be consistency amongst the Beach Boy album articles. As such, I've changed all the album articles to the "mm:ss" format. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 22:36, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, it's not a content dispute, really. I've edited the style in line with the MoS, and various people have wholesale reverted (including such things as insisting on the genre being Rock, as well as linking pointless things like Fall and names of months).  It's esentially low-level vandalism, as it violates Wikipedia policy. --Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 13:53, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I saw the edits with links to fall and whatnot, as well as the reversions, but none of this is vandalism.    The manual of style, as it admits in its introduction, is a style guide and does not apply in all situations.  Personally, I believe it's correct in this instance, but claiming that people are vandalising the article because they are trying to use a different style is going a bit far.  -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 19:55, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, I said "low-level vandalism". Moreover, while editors don't have to write in accordance with the guide, they are also expected not to revert those who do (and the notice at the top of the manual says clearly: "Wikipedia articles should heed these rules"). --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 21:58, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Violations of the style guide are not vandalism and should not be reverted as vandalism. This means, inter alia, that the use of admin one-click rollback in such cases is inappropriate (and abusive).  Revert if you must, but do not characterize such edits as vandalism.  Kelly Martin 18:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I've replied in full at your Talk page, but I'll just say here that I agree that violations of the style guide don't constitute vandalism; in this case, though, BGC has been reverting corrections to the articles (including corrections of unpiped, incorrect Wikilinks, duplicate linking, hyphens, abbreviations, etc., despite repeated explanations. I argue that this – especially when done repeatedly and across many articles – does constitute low-level vandalism.  Note also that the use of rollback isn't restricted anywhere that I can find (and I've looked hard), and seemed (still seems) to me to be appropriate in this case. --Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:39, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Mel, from looking at the history of the article, it is obvious that you two have disagreed over the style used in the article for quite some time (as is quite obvious from both of your reverts). However, calling this vandalism of any sort (even "low level") is unjustified.  Vandalism is editing which jeapordizes Wikipedia's integrity in some way, which reverting, at least in this circumstance, does not. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 02:13, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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Genre
Can someone justify the album genre as easy-listening? The genre tag cites the Carlin book, which describes us "sounding" like easy-listening, but not actually being easy-listening. Easy-listening music is a subgenre of popular music, much of it instrumental. See; Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Sergio Mendes and Enoch Light productions. The Carpenters have a much lighter pop sound, I would argue closer to easy-listening, but on their wiki entries their genre tag is pop, which is correct in my opinion. It is top 40 pop music, and this record was recorded in the same style for the same goals as other top 40 pop artists. Soft-rock seems a much more appropriate subgenre than easy-listening in regards to this album. Caseyehard (talk) 01:53, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

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Daejeon Metro Line 1

Daejeon Subway Line 1 is a subway line is located in Daejeon, South Korea. After excluding the Seoul metropolitan area, it was the fourth subway line created in South Korea, following Busan, Daegu, and Gwangju. Its line color is ● green. It is 22.6 km long with 22 stations. It is the first of five planned lines for the Daejeon Metro.

The first section was opened on March 16, 2006, and the second subsequently opened on April 17, 2007. The tracks lead from Banseok station in Yuseong-gu to Panam station in Dong-gu. 2029 is the tentative opening date of a 14 km, five-station extension from Banseok to Government Complex Sejong in the neighbouring Sejong City.

Formation
In 1991, the Daejeon Metropolitan City Urban Railway Construction Plan was established. In January 1994, the Subway Planning Unit was established. In February 1996, the basic plan for subway construction, which links the old city center of Daejeon metropolitan city with the new city center, was confirmed. The subway construction headquarters was established in April 1996, and construction of the first line of Daejeon subway line was started in October of the same year.

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deepest lake
wasn´t jökulsárlón measured to be the deepest lake in iceland back in about 2008? if no-one disagrees i´ll come back and change the outdated statement.--Lotsofmagnets (talk) 15:50, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Without any actual knowledge, it would seem that askja is probably deeper, since it is a flooded caldera, and presumably jökulsárlón formed on top of a sand flat following the glacial retreat. Also jökulsárlón is barely above sea level, so if it were significantly deep, its bottom would be well below sea level, which is plausible I guess.. de Bivort 17:51, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Jökulsárlón is the deepest lake in Iceland since 2009 .Reykholt (talk) 16:12, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the update! de Bivort 17:57, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

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Kroll Inc.

Kroll (formerly Duff & Phelps) is a financial and risk advisory firm established in 1932 and based in New York City. In 2018, Kroll was acquired by Duff & Phelps. In 2021, Duff & Phelps decided to rebrand itself as Kroll, a process it completed in 2022.

Duff & Phelps
Duff & Phelps was founded in 1932 by William Duff and George Phelps in Chicago to provide investment research. Since that time, the firm expanded into corporate finance and investment management, as well as credit rating. In 1979, Duff & Phelps expanded into investment management, creating what would become Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. (DPIMC), which was spun off into its own company in 2009 and was no longer part of the main Duff & Phelps firm.

In 1984, the company was nearly acquired by Security Pacific Corp. in a $35 million transaction. However, the deal was called off in early 1985 by Security Pacific Corp. because of restraints put on the deal by the Federal Reserve Board, which would have precluded the company from issuing public credit ratings.

First leveraged buyout and return to public markets
The company was acquired five years later, in 1989, in a $146 million management buyout. The buyout was backed by Freeman, Spogli & Co., a private equity firm that controlled approximately two-thirds of the company, and management and employees owning the remaining third of the company's equity. The transaction was highly leveraged, financed with 79% bank borrowings and 15% coupon high-yield bonds. The company was taken public for the first time in 1992 through an initial public offering of stock on the New York Stock Exchange.

By the mid-1990s, Duff & Phelps, which was operating as a publicly traded company, began to focus on its core investment management, financial advisory and corporate finance operations. As a result, in October 1994, the Duff & Phelps's credit rating business, Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co., was spun off to its shareholders and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2000, Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. was acquired by Fitch Group, which later eliminated the use of the Duff & Phelps name.

Second leveraged buyout and return to public markets
In 2004, Lovell Minnick Partners sponsored a management buyout of the company, the second time the company had undergone a leveraged buyout transaction, acquiring the company from its then owner, Webster Financial Corporation. As part of the transaction, the company was merged with Stone Ridge Partners, a middle-market investment banking firm. In 2005, the company raised equity from Vestar Capital Partners to support the company's acquisition strategy that included the purchase of Standard & Poor's Corporate Value Consulting business as well as Valuemetrics, a financial advisory firm specializing in valuation services founded in 1981. In 2006, it acquired specialty restructuring firm Chanin Capital Partners, LLC.

In 2007, Duff & Phelps completed its second initial public offering raising $133 million and listing the company's shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The IPO provided a partial exit for its two private equity financial sponsors. Also in 2007, the firm formed a strategic alliance with Tokyo-based Shinsei Bank. The firm has continued its acquisition strategy acquiring Dubinsky & Co., a financial consulting company and Kane Reece Associates. In 2010, the firm acquired the consulting business of Dynamic Credit Partners, bringing specialized talent in complex fixed income securities analysis, valuation and litigation support.

Subsequent LBO buyouts and private company history
After less than five years as a public company, Duff & Phelps again agreed to a take-private offer from private equity firms. On December 30, 2012, Duff & Phelps, announced that it had entered into an agreement to be acquired for approximately $665.5 million by a consortium, comprising controlled affiliates of or funds managed by The Carlyle Group, Stone Point Capital LLC, Pictet & Cie and Edmond de Rothschild Group.

In December 2015, Duff & Phelps announced that the University of California’s Office of the Chief Investment Officer would make a significant minority investment in the firm. As part of the transaction, The Carlyle Group and Duff & Phelps’ senior management group increased its investment. Stonepoint Capital LLC, Edmond de Rothschild Group and Pictet Group sold their equity interest in Duff & Phelps.

In November 2017, Permira, a global private equity firm, announced the acquisition of Duff & Phelps from The Carlyle Group, Neuberger Berman, the University of California’s Office of the Chief Investment Officer of the Regents and Pictet & Cie for $1.75 billion. The management team, led by CEO, Noah Gottdiener and President, Jacob Silverman, maintained a significant equity stake in the company and remained in their rolls.

In January 2020, Duff & Phelps announced it had agreed to be acquired by a global investor consortium led by funds managed by Stone Point Capital and Further Global at a valuation of $4.2 billion. Permira as well as the existing management team agreed to maintain a "a meaningful equity stake in the firm."

M&A History
In 2007, Duff & Phelps acquired Rash & Associates, a nationwide provider of property tax management services. In 2009, Duff & Phelps acquired Lumin Expert Group, a financial consulting firm specializing in intellectual property dispute support and expert testimony. In June 2010, Duff & Phelps announced it acquired Cole & Partners, a Toronto-based independent financial advisory practice. The acquisition established a Canadian presence for Duff & Phelps and enhanced the firm’s dispute consulting, valuation and corporate finance advisory services. In July 2011, Duff & Phelps announced it acquired Growth Capital Partners, a Texas-based investment banking firm focused on transactions in the middle market.

In July 2014, Duff & Phelps acquired the Restructuring and Insolvency Division of RSM Farrell Grant Sparks (“RSM FGS”), one of the largest dedicated restructuring and insolvency teams operating in the Republic of Ireland. The acquisition expanded Duff & Phelps’ Global Restructuring Advisory Practice to include more than 200 professionals across Europe, the U.S. and Canada. In 2015, Duff & Phelps made two significant acquisitions. The first was of Kinetic Partners, a UK-based financial regulatory consulting firm with 200 employees. As a result of this acquisition, Duff & Phelps launched its Financial Regulatory and Compliance practice. The second acquisition was of American Appraisal, a Milwaukee-based valuation company with nearly 1,000 employees globally. This acquisition broadened the type of valuation work Duff & Phelps did in the U.S., specifically in fixed asset management and insurance solutions (FAMIS). In addition to the new locations in the U.S., the acquisition established new locations for the firm in Europe and Asia. The American Appraisal acquisition also included the Real Estate Advisory Group (REAG) business.

In May 2016, Duff & Phelps acquired Corporate Finance Ireland (CFI), a leading corporate finance firm in the Republic of Ireland.

On June 4, 2018, Duff & Phelps purchased Kroll Inc. and it purchased Prime Clerk in 2019.

In February 2021, Duff & Phelps announced plans to unify the companies under the Kroll brand, which completed in February 2022.

On March 25, 2021, Kroll announced that it had acquired Redscan, a UK based cyber security company. In March 2022, Kroll acquired Canadian risk intelligence software company Resolver.

Kroll Brand History
Kroll was founded in 1972 by Jules Kroll as a consultancy servicing corporate purchasing departments.

Kroll began its line of work in financial sector investigations in the 1980s when corporations approached Kroll to profile investors, suitors, and takeover targets.

In the 1990s, Kroll expanded into forensic accounting, background screening, drug testing, electronic data recovery, and market intelligence.

In 1997, Kroll merged with vehicle armoring company O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt to form Kroll-O'Gara. The company became public and was listed on the NASDAQ as "KROG". In August 2001, the O’Gara vehicle armoring businesses were sold to Armor Holdings, and the company's name was changed to Kroll Inc. and its ticker symbol to "KROL".

In 2002, Kroll acquired restructuring firm Zolfo Cooper for $153 million. At the time, Zolfo Cooper was working on the Enron case.

In July 2004, Kroll was acquired by professional services firm Marsh & McLennan Companies in a $1.9-billion transaction.

In June 2008, Jules Kroll left Kroll Inc.

In August 2010, Kroll was acquired by Altegrity, Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.13 billion. Altegrity declared bankruptcy in 2015, and Kroll was later bought by Corporate Risk Holdings, LLC.

On October 21, 2016, Carlyle Group-owned KLDiscovery purchased Kroll Ontrack for around $410 million and operated it as a separate company. In 2018, Kroll acquired cybersecurity firm Tiversa.

Controversies
In August 2020, in the Court of Session, the Scottish Lord Advocate accepted that the prosecution of two Duff & Phelps administrators, Paul Clark and David Whitehouse, after the Rangers F.C. administration in 2012 had been "malicious" and without "probable cause". The court ordered the interim payment of £600,000 costs to the administrators. The administrators sought £20.8 million in damages from the Crown Office and Police Scotland.

Services
Kroll provides risk, governance, transaction and valuation advisory.

Background screening
Kroll's background screening division provides screening services for areas such as employment, supplier selection, investment placement and institutional admissions. Kroll's Background Screening division also includes the Kroll Fraud Solutions unit, which specializes in identity theft protection and identity restoration services.

Security consulting
Kroll offers consulting services through Kroll Security Group, its Security Consulting and Security Engineering & Design division.

In 2020, Kroll was hired by the Austin Police Department to evaluate the department's policies and protocols for racism and discrimination. They presented their findings to the Austin city council in March 2021.

Social media
Kroll's business and investigations practice provides background checks on Instagram influencers, using publicly-accessible online information to prevent them being 'cancelled' for problematic or potentially disreputable behaviour (e.g. tweets which includes offensive language or content).

Other work
An agreement between the government of Ghana and Kroll for the firm to retrieve assets and investigate wrongdoings by previous appointments was subject to two lawsuits in 2020, challenging the constitutionality of the agreement. Both lawsuits were dropped in April 2021.

Kroll was hired in 2018 by Michigan State University during the Larry Nassar case to investigate over 170 sexual assault cases at the university.

The Heroin Trail case
In 1987, in the prominent First Amendment case over The Heroin Trail stories in New York Newsday, attorney Floyd Abrams enlisted Kroll's help to find an eyewitness: "But was it conceivable that we could come up with an eyewitness who could be of help? I called Jules Kroll, the CEO of Kroll Associates, the nation's most acclaimed investigative firm, to ask him if he could inquire, through the extensive range of former law enforcement officials employed by him, whether Karaduman was known to be a drug trafficker in Istanbul." Two weeks into the trial Kroll produced Faraculah Arras, who was prepared to testify he was involved in one of Karaduman's drug deals. "I was stunned," recalled Abrams.

Abrams used Kroll again in 1998 to investigate claims by CNN's Newsstand documentary that sarin nerve gas had been used in Vietnam in 1970 as part of Operation Tailwind.

The John Fredriksen oil theft case
Kroll assisted in the trial of Norwegian shipping tycoon John Fredriksen at the end of the 1980s.

Brazilian privatization
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Daniel Dantas, the company in question, André Esteves, Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Dario Messer signed a schedule agreement to privatize Brazilian state-owned enterprises.

WTC and Sears Tower security
Kroll were responsible for revamping security at the World Trade Center after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. They also took on responsibility for security at Chicago's Sears Tower following the September 11, 2001 attacks. Just prior to the September 11 attacks, Kroll Inc., under the guidance of Jerome Hauer, the managing director of their Crisis and Consulting Management Group, hired former FBI special investigator John P. O'Neill, who specialized in the Al-Qaeda network held responsible for the 1993 bombing, to head the security at the WTC complex. O'Neill died in the attacks.

Capital outflows from the Soviet Union and Russia
In March 1992, the Yeltsin government contracted Kroll to track down large sums of money removed from the Soviet Union prior to the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt. On March 15, 1992, following accusations from First Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Timurovich Gaidar of "large-scale privatization by the nomenklatura", the Russian government froze all capital outflows from Russia, and eventually, the assets of the Vnesheconombank.

Despite investigators stating they received very little support from Russian authorities, Kroll determined more than $14 billion (in 1991 real dollars) had been transferred from Switzerland to New York prior to the putsch (mostly in joint-stock companies, such as the Leningrad Association of Joint Ventures), and that another $40 billion plus (in 2014 dollars) had been transferred out of Russia by the Communist Party and other government agencies of the former Soviet Union, through hundreds of illicit transactions. This outflow of capital contributed to severe economic conditions in Russia during Boris Yeltsin’s second term.

2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal
On 28 January 2015, the National Bank of Moldova hired Kroll to present its findings from Project Tenor involving Ilan Shor's Shor Holding and the 2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal which was part of the Russian Laundromat.

Harvey Weinstein
In 2015 Kroll was hired by Harvey Weinstein to wipe evidence of sexual abuse from the electronic devices of Ambra Gutierrez as part of a settlement he reached with her. Weinstein had frequent interactions with Kroll especially when trying to find discrediting information about potential critics and accusers.

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Weatherhead

A weatherhead, also called a weathercap, service head, service entrance cap, or gooseneck (slang) is a weatherproof service drop entry point where overhead power or telephone wires enter a building, or where wires transition between overhead and underground cables. At a building the wires enter a conduit, a protective metal pipe, and the weatherhead is a waterproof cap on the end of the conduit that allows the wires to enter without letting in water. It is shaped like a hood, with the surface where the wires enter facing down at an angle of at least 45°, to shield it from precipitation. A rubberized gasket makes for a tight seal against the wires. Before they enter the weatherhead, a drip loop is left in the overhead wires, which permits rain water that collects on the wires to drip off before reaching the weatherhead.

A weatherhead termination is only used at low voltages (up to 600 volts), since higher distribution voltages require more insulation between conductors and metal enclosures. Higher-voltage connections are made through a pothead.

Weatherheads are required by electrical codes or building codes. They are also used on utility poles where overhead power lines enter a conduit to pass underground.

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John Gabriel (basketball)

John Gabriel is an American basketball executive who serves as the executive advisor for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association. He is known for his time as general manager with the Magic, who reached the NBA Playoffs five times during his tenure.

Philadelphia 76ers
Gabriel started his coaching career with the Philadelphia 76ers working as an assistant coach, the director of video scouting, and the scouting coordinator.

Orlando Magic
Gabriel was hired by the Magic in 1987 as the director of player personnel, director of scouting and assistant coach. Gabriel helped the Magic reach the NBA Playoffs two times as vice president of basketball operations, and as a player personnel coach from 1994–1996. He reached the NBA Finals in 1995, won the Eastern Conference Finals in 1995 and won the Atlantic Division in 1995, 1996 and 1999.

With Darrell Armstrong leading the team, the Magic compiled a 41–41 record but missed the playoffs in the 1999 season. Gabriel hired Doc Rivers as head coach of the Magic at the beginning of that season. Rivers won Coach of the Year honors. In 2000, Gabriel won the NBA and Sport Illustrated Executive of the Year Award. The following season, Gabriel pursued free agents Grant Hill, Tim Duncan and Tracy McGrady. Ultimately, Hill and McGrady came to Orlando, while Duncan decided to stay with the San Antonio Spurs. In addition, Gabriel drafted Mike Miller, who would later become Rookie of the Year.

Gabriel was let go by the Magic in the middle of a franchise record 19-game losing streak during the 2003–04 NBA season.

Elected to the Magic Hall of Fame in 2022.

Portland Trail Blazers
Gabriel returned to basketball in the NBA as an executive and scout first for the Portland Trail Blazers.

New York Knicks
In 2008, he became the director of scouting for the New York Knicks.

Personal life
Gabriel's great grandparent Francesco Gabriele immigrated to the United States from Guardiagrele – Italy in the late 19th century.

Gabriel revealed in 2012 that he had been suffering from Parkinson's disease.

Gabriel is a 1978 graduate of Kutztown State Teachers College (now Kutztown University of Pennsylvania), where he played basketball. He was inducted into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.

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Reunion District, Dallas

The Reunion district of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA) is an area in western downtown anchored by the Hyatt Regency Dallas and Reunion Tower. The name "Reunion" originates from the mid-nineteenth century commune and current ghost town, La Reunion.

The district included Reunion Arena from 1980 to its demolition in 2009. The arena was originally intended to be an economic engine to drive redevelopment of the surrounding district. However, the real estate bust of the 1980s discouraged owner Ray Hunt and his Woodbine Development Corp. from investing beyond the Hyatt and the Tower, and no further building took place. With the Mavericks and Stars having relocated to American Airlines Center, plans indicated that the land would be put to other uses after demolition of the arena in November 2009, but as of mid-2013, no further use for the former arena site has been found..

Attractions

 * Hyatt Regency Dallas
 * Reunion Tower

Highways

 * I-30.svg - Interstate 30
 * I-35E.svg - Interstate 35E

Commuter

 * Union Station
 * Union Station

Light Rail

 * DART: and
 * Union Station

Regional

 * Amtrak
 * Union Station

Education
The district is zoned to schools in the Dallas Independent School District.

Residents of the district are zoned to City Park Elementary School, Billy Earl Dade Middle School, and James Madison High School.

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Guy Domville

Guy Domville is a play by Henry James first staged in London in 1895. The première performance ended with the author being jeered by a section of the audience as he bowed onstage at the end of the play. This failure largely marked the end of James's attempt to conquer the theatre. He returned to his narrative fiction and recorded this memorable pledge in his Notebooks on 23 January 1895: "I take up my own old pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself – today – I need say no more.  Large and full and high the future still opens.  It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life.  And I will."

Plot summary

The play is set in 1780s England. Frank Humber proposes marriage to the widow Mrs. Peverel, whose son is tutored by Guy Domville. The tutor Domville is planning to become a Catholic priest but learns that he is the last of his family. He starts to believe that it is his duty to marry and carry on the family line. When Mrs. Peverel rejects Humber's proposal, Frank suspects she may be in love with Domville.

Guy is later about to wed Mary Brasier, but she really loves Lieutenant George Round. Once he understands the situation, Guy refuses to go through with the marriage and instead helps Mary and George elope. Domville also realizes that Frank Humber and Mrs. Peverel are in love, and commends them to each other. He will enter the priesthood, as he previously planned.

Derivative works
Two recent narratives have treated the failure of Guy Domville: The Master (2004) by Colm Tóibín and Author, Author (2004) by David Lodge. It is also a central incident in the standard biography of James by Leon Edel, especially the fourth volume, The Treacherous Years: 1895–1901.

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Said Seyam

Said Seyam (سعيد صيام; 22 July 1959 – 15 January 2009 ), first name also spelled Saeed and Sayed and last name also spelled  Siam, was the interior minister of the Palestinian government of March 2006. He joined Hamas and became one of its top commanders. During the 2008–2009 Gaza War, Seyam was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Jabalia. Seyam was the most senior Hamas member killed in the war, and the most senior Hamas figure killed by Israel since the death of Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi in April 2004.

Early life and education
Said Seyam was born on 22 July 1959 in the Al-Shati refugee camp near Gaza City. His parents fled there during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War from their village home of al-Jura, near Ashkelon. Following his secondary education in Gaza City, he gained a diploma in sciences and maths, followed by a bachelor's degree in Islamic education from the Al-Quds Open University.

Hamas membership
It is unknown when Seyam joined Hamas, but he was one of the early members. Seyam held a job as a teacher at various United Nations-run schools until 2003. He was arrested four times during the First Intifada from 1987 to 1991. In 1992, he was expelled from the Palestinian territories by Israel to southern Lebanon and upon his return in 1995, Seyam was arrested by the Preventive Security Service (PSS) dominated by Fatah.

Seyam was reported by Hamas as one of the pioneer of mortar and Qassam rocket attacks on Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, which caused them to be virtually besieged from 2001 to their evacuation by Israel in September 2005. According to his fighters, Seyam was injured three times during that period, although the causes of these injuries were not disclosed. Seyam was the second of Hamas' top five officials to be killed during Israel's offensive. He had evaded at least one attempt by the IDF to kill him in late 2004. Seyam became one of the members of the Hamas "collective leadership" in Gaza after the 2004 killings of founders Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi.

Seyam was close to Yassin and Hamas secretary-general Khaled Mashal, that latter whom he accompanied on a diplomatic visit to Moscow, Russia. After the parliamentary elections in 2006, Seyam was appointed Interior Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, forming the Palestinian government of March 2006. It also put him in charge of 13,000 police and security forces. He represented the Gaza electoral district of the Palestinian Legislative Council as a Hamas member after being elected with the most votes for any single candidate. In June 2007, he created the Executive Force, a paramilitary organization to rival Mohammed Dahlan's PSS. It played a key role in the takeover of Gaza and was praised by many Gazans for bringing order to Gaza, but accused of torture by others.

Personal life
He had six children: two boys and four girls.

Death
Said Seyam was killed on 15 January 2009 in an Israeli air raid on his brother's rented home in Jabalia. Also killed in the strike were his son, brother and two other Hamas officials: the interior ministry's security director Saleh Abu Sharkh and the local leader of the Hamas militia, Mahmoud Abu Watfah. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri stated "Some of our leaders will fall, some of our people will fall, but the flag of resistance won't fall" in response to Seyam's death. Hamas members stated on Al-Aqsa TV that Seyam's "blood will be the fuel for the coming victory [against Israel]".

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Talk:Rennie Davis

Rennie Davis was a follower of Prem Rawat, so what?
Rennie Davis was a follower of Prem Rawat, so what? That does not mean that he needs to be added to the category diealing with Prem Rawat (Maharaji). I have added bio material and a quote and I have removed the external link to what is clearly a copyvio page. ≈ jossi ≈ 17:41, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Jossi, thanks for the explanation but I disagree with your deletions. Rennie Davis was a very prominent member, spokesperson, and recruiter for Maharaji and this justifies the category. Andries 17:47, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * this was a small chapter in this person's life, as such it need to be represented in his biographical article. And that is what I have done. Also, I would also say that your assessment about "prominent member, spokesperson, and recruiter", is an exageration. ≈ jossi ≈ 20:25, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * The only two things that are interesting from a historical perspective about Davis and hence encyclopic are his time with the Chigago seven and his time with the DLM. The fact that he is now a private investor is uninteresting for this encyclopedia, unless he becomes very successful or something like that. Andries 21:21, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * And who are you to decide what is encyclopedic or not about a person? Clearly Davis was notable only because is anti-war activism and the fact that he was one of the Chicago seven, not because he was a follower of Maharaji. The fact that he evolved from an anti-war hippie to a venture capitalist is as encyclopedic as it gets.  ≈ jossi ≈ 21:31, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * The DLM is certainly important from a historical perspective. Several articles and books have been written about the DLM, even in Dutch language. Rennie Davis was treated in Stephen A. Kent's book from slogans to mantras about the 1970s. I admit that it is encyclopedic to write that he became a venture capitalist but I see no reason to digress on his non-notable status profession. Andries 21:37, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The fact that he was for a short period of his life, a follower of Maharaji, it is already stated in the article. The Divine Light Mission has its own article, but I do not see anything on Davis that relate to the "organization". All what I read about him is that he was touched by the young Guru Maharaji ji, as many young people of his age were during the 70s. But from there to add Davis to the Category:Maharaji, is a leap that is uncessary in its exageration.≈ jossi ≈ 00:21, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Category and template
Why would the fact that this person was for a very short time of his life the spokesperson for the Divine Light Mission, warrant inclusion in the category Prem Rawat, as well as to feature a nav template related to the subject? ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 23:07, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Because it is notable, it was not a short period of time, and it is noted and backed up in notable secondary sources that satisfy WP:RS/WP:V. Cirt (talk) 23:08, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Not a short period? Really? How long he was a spokesperson? ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 23:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * As already stated in the article, a period of a few years, during which time he was the spokesperson for the Divine Light Mission. Cirt (talk) 23:14, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Nope. He became a follower in 1970, but was spokesperson for a short period of time. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 23:15, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yup, and the official spokesperson for the Divine Light Mission is a key individual in the history of Prem Rawat and his related sub-organizations, and deserves placement in the category and the template is a helpful navigational tool on the subject matter. Cirt (talk) 23:17, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

 * V ad RS have nothing to do with my argument (if the material would bot have been based on a verifiable source, it will not be here, and it is here because it is notable). My argument is different and related to categorization and template use, but I guess we have to agree to disagree. I will ask for a WP:3O. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 23:10, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Third opinion
I see nothing wrong with the category, because the association does exist and it's notable.

However, I would recommend deleting that template. As a new and unfamiliar reader who read the article and then saw that template at the bottom, I couldn't fathom why it was there, especially since Prem Rawat isn't mentioned anywhere in the article. Don't explain it to me; if the relationship isn't clear in the article, a talk page explanation won't fix it. The template makes it look like this article is part of some major Prem Rawat project on Wikipedia, and I don't think that's the case. -Amatulić (talk) 23:46, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅, removed the template, and per the WP:3O offered by, the Category:Prem Rawat can stay.  Cirt (talk) 23:55, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That was quick. Must be the easiest third opinion I've ever given. Some drag out for weeks. -Amatulić (talk) 23:58, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You'r good ... :) ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 23:59, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

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Father's name
Without providing a source, 192.149.67.170 provided the alleged names of Davis' parents. The name "Richard Davis" for the father contradicts our article John C. Davis. The latter, however, verifiably worked in the CEA during the Truman administration. A "Richard H. Davis" is mentioned, but not associated with the Council of Economic Advisors. So something is wrong here. --bender235 (talk) 14:16, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

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Sir Henry Barber, 1st Baronet

Sir William Henry Barber, 1st Baronet (9 November 1860 – 2 July 1927), known as Henry Barber, was a wealthy solicitor and property developer who made his fortune expanding Birmingham's sprawling suburbs, building and renting out 5,000 properties in areas including Sparkbrook, Hay Mills, Acocks Green, Bordesley Green and Aston.

He was born in Handsworth (then in Staffordshire, now Birmingham), the eldest son of a master jeweller, and grew up in the city's Jewellery Quarter before training as a solicitor.

In 1893, he married Martha Constance Hattie Onions, who was an heiress, daughter of Simon Brookes Onions, of the Birmingham family of bellowsmakers, J. C. Onions (later, Alldays and Onions Engineering Company). The couple moved into the eighteenth-century Culham Court on the Thames near Henley in the same year, which they rented.

By his mid-thirties the couple retired but their connections with the city remained strong.

He donated the original marble statue to Queen Victoria in Victoria Square, Birmingham in 1897. Designed by Thomas Brock it was unveiled on 10 January 1901, twelve days before the death of the Queen.

In the 1924 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours, Barber was created a baronet, of Culham Court in the County of Berkshire, for 'Political Services to Birmingham'. On his death, the baronetcy became extinct.

Henry Barber Trust
After his death, Barber's widow founded the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham for the study and encouragement of art and music. Lady Barber's inheritance was also dedicated to the Institute and was used to expand the collection and fund the construction of a new building: the Grade I listed building of art deco architecture was designed by Robert Atkinson and opened in 1939 by Queen Mary.

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Balsam wooly adelgids are small wingless insects that infest and kill firs. They are an invasive species from Europe. Because they are not native, Frasier fir has not evolved any type of defense against this predator. These insects typically lay baout one hundred eggs and have three generations per year. The adelgid attacks the tree by feeding in fissures within the bark of trees larger than abouut four centimeters diameter at breast height. As it feeds, it releases toxins contained within its saliva. These toxins reduce the sapwood conductance, which causes water stress and kills the trees. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Tennessee contains about 75% of all spruce-fir ecosystems. These ecosystems covered vast portions of the Southeast during the last ice-age, when the climate was cool and moist. Since the retreat of the glaciers, this ecosystem has been confined to the higher elevations in the mountains of the southeastern United States. The spruce-fir forest has evolved as an island, away from any other ecosystems of its type. This has presented valuable research and unique habitat. These forests have a very dense canopy and a moist understory. Sine the invasion of the balsam wooly adelgid, discovered in 1957, Fraser fir mortality rates have been 90-99%. Although some areas are being regenerated by young firs, there is much change in understory composition, including invasion by both woody and herbaceous species. Red spruce, the spruce component of the spruce-fir ecosystem, has also been suffering declines. Some researchers attribute these declines to damage from wind, which is usually blocked by the firs. Balsam wooly adelgids have destroyed about 95% of the Fraser firs in the Great Smoky Mountains Nation Park, creating "ghost forests". One concern is that acid rain and ozone, among other pollutants are contributing to a weak immune system for the Fraser firs and making them more susceptible to the balsam wolly adeldigs.

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Ashtabula River

The Ashtabula River is a river located northeast of Cleveland in Ohio. The river flows into Lake Erie at the city of Ashtabula, Ohio. It is 40 mi in length and drains 137 sqmi.

Name
Ashtabula derives from Lenape language ashte-pihële, 'always enough (fish) to go around, to be given away', a contraction from apchi 'always' + tepi 'enough' + hële (verb of motion).

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Ashtabula River has also been known as:
 * Ashtibula River
 * Riviere Auscubalu
 * Riviere Oscubolu

Watershed
On October 30, 2008 the river was designated a State Scenic River by the Director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

Pollution
In 1985 the first two miles of the river was named an "Area of Concern" by the International Joint Commission, primarily because of Fields Brook, a tributary that had received discharges from 19 industries between the 1940s and 1970s. The cleanup was deemed complete in 2014 and the river was delisted in 2021.

Tributaries

 * Fields Brook
 * Strong Brook
 * Hubbard Run
 * Ashtabula Creek
 * West Branch Ashtabula River
 * East Branch Ashtabula River

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Wikipedia talk:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/Early/cleanup/double redirects/20050623-1

I didn't know the Redirect Sensor was an arc welder ;-) --Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 17:43, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I know, who would of figured that welding equipment could easily be modified to perform cleanup projects on Wikipedia. It all started with the 17 kilowatt Stubsensor; it sure takes a lot of energy to detect those stubs. Triddle 00:20, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Would it not be possible for MediaWiki to detect automatically when a redirect was set up pointing to another redirect? Agentsoo 11:18, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Stearin

I think this page needs more work. it sounds un-professional.

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Damizza

Damion Young (born 1974), also known as Damizza, is an American radio executive, record producer, artist and author.

Biography
Young began his career as a studio assistant at the age of 12, where Young went on to popularize numerous artists while working at Santa Barbara’s KHTY station, including Fiona Apple, Garbage and Hootie & the Blowfish, and later served as the head of Los Angeles’ Power 106 and New York’s Hot 97.

Young would later go on to produce Crybaby (Mariah Carey song) featuring Snoop Dogg. Young, has also worked with Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Korn.

Young would later go on to produce for artists Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Lil Wayne and Ludacris, and claims a hand in the reunion of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg and the resulting 2001 (a.k.a. Chronic 2001).

Young was named the 4th most powerful person in hip-hop by The Source magazine 2 years after being named program director Power 106, after he helped Jay-Z find an international audience, helped Janet Jackson rekindle her career, helped Dr. Dre with advice on 'how to break the white kid from Detroit' and introduced the world to Eminem.

He completed working with J. Marshall Craig on a book on his life, Guilty By Association, which is scheduled for release sometime late-2011 after two years of delays over legal issues and made some public appearances at various California universities and colleges discussing the book and his life as a radio prodigy-turned hip-hop producer and performer. When Damizza was asked to give a brief insight to his book he said "A kid from a small town with a dream.. That never took no for an answer, made his dreams come true and did it his way. (With a Lil help from his grannie)".

In 2023 Damion "Damizza" Young was included in Marquis Who's Who.

Awards/chart positions

 * Damizza Presents... Where I Wanna Be: The Compilation no. 28 R&B/Hip-Hop no. 143 Billboard 200

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Agia Paraskevi, Florina

Agia Paraskevi (Αγία Παρασκευή, Bulgarian/Света Петка: Sveta Petka, Sveta Petka) is a village in the Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. The village of Agia Paraskevi is one of several border villages along the frontier of Greece and North Macedonia with a Slavophone population. The village is a flat agricultural village at an elevation of 612 metres. Agia Paraskevi is neighboured by Dragosh (North Macedonia), Ethnikon, Parori, Kato Kleines, Polyplatanos and Niki.

Demographics
Agia Paraskevi had 231 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Agia Paraskevi was populated by Slavophones. The Macedonian language was spoken by people over 60, mainly in private.

Churches
Agia Paraskevi has three churches. The oldest house of worship was the chapel of Agia Paraskevi (Sveta Petka) built in 1570 and was a Holy church of the area. In 1827, it was torched and destroyed by Ottoman Turks. In 1886 a small chapel was built at the site, which was enlarged later by the 25th Army of Epiros. The church of Saint Nikola(s) was built in 1856 and for a short time provided a cemetery, however the cemetery was subject to flooding from melting snow, it was relocated to the church of Saint Dimitrios which was erected in 1859.

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Charles John Andersson

Karl John (Karl Johan) Andersson (4 March 1827 in Norra Råda Värmland, Sweden – 9 July 1867 in Angola) was a Swedish explorer, hunter and trader as well as an amateur naturalist and ornithologist.

He is most famous for the many books he published about his travels, and for being one of the most notable explorers of southern Africa, mostly in present-day Namibia.

Early life
Karl Johan Andersson was born on 4 March 1827 in Värmland in Sweden. He was the illegitimate child of the British bear hunter Llewellyn Lloyd and Lloyd's Swedish servant.

Andersson grew up in Sweden. Early in his life he went on hunting expeditions with his father, experienced Swedish nature and started a collection of biology specimens.

In 1847 he started studies at the University of Lund.

Explorations

In 1849 he departed for London, intending to sell his collection to raise money for travels around the world. In London he met with the explorer Francis Galton, with whom he organised an expedition to Southern Africa. On midsummer day in 1850 they arrived at the Cape of Good Hope and then travelled to Walvis Bay, in modern-day Namibia. They then trekked into the interior, at the time little explored by Europeans. They intended to reach Lake Ngami, but failed on that expedition.

Galton returned home to England, while Andersson stayed in the area and reached Lake Ngami in 1853. In 1855 he returned to London, where he published his book "Lake Ngami", in which he describes his travels. He returned to Africa the same year.

Back in south west Africa, Andersson was hired as manager for mines in what was then called Damaraland and Namaqualand. However, he only held the position for a brief time, and continued his explorations. In 1859 he reached the Okavango River, an expedition that he recorded in his book The Okavango River.

After his return, he travelled to the Cape, where he married. Andersson and his wife settled in Otjimbingwe (in modern central Namibia).

Andersson had repeated financial problems. Even though his main interests were exploration and natural history, he often needed to earn money through trade and hunting. He lacked the money needed to publish his books and Galton declined to lend him any.

Death
In 1867, despite serious illness, Andersson travelled north towards the Portuguese settlements in modern Angola, in order to establish a better trading route to Europe. He was unable to cross the Cunene River, so he had to turn back. His condition had worsened during his journey to the Cunene and, on the return journey, he died on 9 July 1867. He was buried by another Swede, Axel Eriksson.

After his death, Andersson's wife and children continued to live in Africa, in the Cape Colony.

His father published notes from some of his expeditions in the book "Notes of Travel in South-Western Africa".

Published letters and correspondence

 * Andersson, Charles John. (1987) The Matchless Copper Mine in 1857: Correspondence of Manager C. J. Andersson, edited by Brigitte Lau. Windhoek: National Archives, Namibia.
 * Andersson, Charles John. (1989) Trade and Politics in Central Namibia 1860–1864: Diaries and Correspondence. Windhoek: Archives Services Division, Dept. of National Education.

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Walter H. Hunt

Walter H. Hunt (born 1959) is an American science fiction novelist from Massachusetts, United States.

Career
Walter Hunt wrote a number of role-playing game books, including MechWarrior (1986) for FASA.

His writings currently include the Dark Wing series, a military science fiction space opera, as well as numerous role-playing scenarios for various gaming companies. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College and an alumnus of Alpha Rho Upsilon fraternity at Bowdoin.

Hunt's work experience has been as a software engineer and technical writer. He also has a deep interest in history (which he studied at college), in science fiction, which he has been reading since he watched Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon, and in baseball. His most recent book, A Song in Stone, explores the mystery of Rosslyn Chapel and the fall of the Templars.

He has also been a frequent contributor to Eric Flint's 1632-verse, most notably the 2015 novel 1636: The Cardinal Virtues which he co-wrote with Flint.

Hunt is a Freemason. He lives in eastern Massachusetts with his wife and daughter.

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User talk:Dosey

Dear Hinduism Project editors There is a controversy on the Hinduism regarding Raja Yoga. Please read the debate on the Hinduism discussion page. Your comments are requested on the Hinduism discussion page to help resolve the controversy. Thank you. HeBhagawan 14:48, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

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Hey, Dosey!
It seems that you are new here. You are very welcome.

Hinduism was once a Featured Article; alas, it is far from its past glory. It seems that we need a Wikipedian version of Rajaraja Chola to bring it back.

Seriously, any throughout rewrite should be done at a side page, then submitted to approval and contributions by good people. Hinduism has already begun to be cleaned and rewritten at talk:hinduism/temp, to which you are invited to contribute, using the information from the main article, including useful updates. I also suggest the cleaness of the article on Buddhism as what whe should strive for.

Best, Subramanian talk 05:30, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Hello;

it´s difficult to tell just by your comment on my page, but it seemed that you were unhappy with my comment. Dosey, we are on the same side, you see?

I created that introduction on June 29 and left that on Talk:Hinduism/temp as Sundar taught me to do as the correct process for a complete rewrite - and we all agree that a complete rewrite is needed. Your contributions were made on July 18. So, absolutely nothing is wrong with the introduction you wrote, the problem was the previous one which you corrected, without being aware of mine.

As for your introduction, I think it is very nice. I also suggest that some of the information there could be trimmed. Also, I think that going from Introduction to Origins makes anyone who wants to know a little about the Sanatana Dharma uneasy, having to choose between the very superficial information an introduction can give or reading the lengthy article itself. That´s why I assume an Overview section to be useful and needed.

I´d like to hear from you, and Hinduism really needs help. So I hope we, Sundar, Sam Spade and everyone who cares can do a good job. Subramanian talk 01:00, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

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Hello friend; vanakkam. I see that you are intent on helping rebuild Hinduism - welcome aboard, then. I'm by no means any kind of authority here - Raj2004 provides the best content, Sam Spade does the best writing, Dangerous-Boy organizes it all and I, I´m just the middleman.

Here´s what we´re trying to do: It isn´t a problem to have a lot of text, but it becomes a problem when it´s in the wrong article or when the text becomes too truncated with too many information. of Buddhism shows an example of a lot of actually flowing, readable text that is not a problem, as well as a good introduction.

As Hinduism is the richest religion by far in traditions and tolerance, we have to see when we are actually talking about something that belongs in the main article or should be properly summarized there and then expanded in another article. See, there at the right I´ve put good guideline from another religion about topics whe can explain in the main article, using good, exact prose, and then greatly expand the topics in their proper articles, where lengthy quoting and in-depth analyses should take place - the Islam article is a good example. Hinduism has innumerable gods, let alone saints, let alone views, and if we list every path we will have as many views as there are souls on Earth. We could, sure, quote or cite just the most famous ones, but an undisputed leader for some is barely know by others, so whe should keep it to a minimum and make the main article a place of consensus and concordance as Hinduism itself.

We could then work on History of Hinduism, Geography of Hinduism, People of Hinduism, Timeline of Hinduism and so on. What do you think? I also suggest that you are more careful about your writing. You even typo-ed your user page, there´s a "porject" there. :)  Reread your edits carefully, to build up good some phrases.

There has been a conversation going on about stability of good enough versions of articles, which perhaps you should check, and that´s one of the reasons why we are striving for an improvement of Hinduism.

Finally, let me tell you that I will post some of the text above in Talk:Hinduism, just for everyone to see and help, and let me suggest that you sign using ~. It seems that you´ve been writing Dosey which, as you see here: Dosey, links to nowhere.

Aum namah Sivaya. - Shanti, Subramanian talk 20:45, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

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Hi Dosey, I think the changes are most excellent. The removal of the sexist, and somewhat strange, analysis of men and women is much appreciated. And the more general approach seems much more encyclopedic. When I have some time, I'll clean up some typos and grammar. Also, a reference for that section would add alot, when you can do that. Thank you! ॐ Priyanath 23:14, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

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Sayama incident

The Sayama incident (狭山事件) occurred on May 1, 1963, when 16-year-old Yoshie Nakata was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by an unconfirmed individual in Sayama, Saitama, Japan. The incident, in which then-24-year-old Kazuo Ishikawa, a man of disputed guilt in the case, was imprisoned for 31 years, highlighted official discrimination against Japan's burakumin caste. Ishikawa was originally sentenced to death by hanging, but his sentence was commuted after a decade on death row to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole. Ishikawa was paroled in 1994, and has been advocating since then to have his convictions overturned.

Murder
On May 1, 1963, 16-year-old Yoshie Nakata (中田 善枝) went missing on her way home from school. Later that night, a ransom note was delivered to her house. The note demanded that someone bring ¥200,000 (approximately US$556 at the time) to a place close to her house at 12:00 am on May 2. Her sister, who later committed suicide, took fake money to the designated place, with many policemen surrounding the site. Although a man came to her and exchanged words, he became suspicious and escaped into the night before the police could catch him.

On the morning on May 4, the dead body of Nakata was found buried in an alley on a farm. Police determined that she was raped, then murdered. The media criticized the police for failing to catch the possible suspect, the same mistake made during the kidnapping case of Yoshinobu Murakoshi, which had occurred only one month earlier. On May 6, the day before his wedding, a man from the same neighborhood committed suicide. He had the same blood type as the suspect, but he suffered from erectile dysfunction, so the police thought he could not be the rapist.

Arrest and trial
Near Nakata's home was the Ishida Pig Farm (石田養豚場). The owner's family and most of the employees of Ishida Pig Farm were burakumin. These employees were regarded among the buraku as dangerous for their history of theft and violence. The police investigated the Ishida Pig Farm employees and arrested 24-year-old Kazuo Ishikawa (石川 一雄) on an unrelated charge. Although he denied the charge at first, he confessed to the kidnapping and killing on June 20.

Ishikawa and his supporters insisted that the police forced him to make a false confession by isolating and threatening him for almost a month. They also insisted that he could not read or write, but his ex-employer, who was also a burakumin, testified that Ishikawa could read the weekly magazines, newspapers, and books on traffic rules and automotive structures. Ishikawa and his supporters also insisted that he did not have the slightest knowledge of what a lawyer was and that the police exploited that fact. Supporters claimed the police fed Ishikawa false information to make him suspicious of his lawyer. Ishikawa also claimed that the police arranged a plea bargain stating that he would be freed within ten years if he confessed to the murder. In court, the police denied doing that.

Ishikawa was convicted of aggravated murder, rape, and kidnapping, and was sentenced to death. During his appeal, he began to claim his innocence and rejected any criminal liability. His sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. In 1969, the Buraku Liberation League took up his case, but they mostly used the situation to criticize his lawyer, a supporter of the Japanese Communist Party. The Communist Party in turn criticized the Buraku Liberation League. In 1975, Ishikawa's lawyer resigned, citing Ishikawa's anti-Communist sympathies. The battle between the two groups continued into 1976. Ishikawa's brother is the chief of the Sayama, Saitama branch of the Buraku Liberation League.

Ishikawa was paroled and released from prison in 1994. Along with his supporters, he is still seeking a fair retrial and the chance to clear his name. "I want the label of murderer, which is bearing so heavily on me, removed", Ishikawa said in 2002.

Since he was a member of the burakumin, a social minority frequently discriminated against, human rights groups and lawyers claimed that the courts made the assumption that he was guilty.

Grounds of conviction

 * The 土 of 時 in the ransom note was written as a running style of 主 mistakenly. There was the same error in Ishikawa's letter to the police chief.
 * Ishikawa and the author of the ransom note share peculiar ways of writing, like these:
 * 1) Where one should write つ in hiragana, they write ツ in katakana.
 * 2) They mix Chinese numerals and Arabic numerals on the date of letters.
 * 3) They mix わ and は to write は, one of Japanese particles.
 * 4) Where you should write で in hiragana, they write 出 in kanji.
 * Ishikawa said a three-wheeled car had passed him on Kamakura Kaidō, when he was delivering the ransom note to Nakata's house. After his confession, the police found the three-wheeler driver who had passed Kamakura Kaidō around the same time.
 * Ishikawa said he had asked "Where is the house of Mr. Eisaku Nakata?" to a farmer who lived nearby, when he was delivering the ransom note to Nakata's house. Eisaku was the father of Nakata. When the police put Ishikawa in a lineup, the farmer testified that the man who asked the place was "for sure" Ishikawa.
 * Ishikawa said he saw a car parked near Nakata's house, when he was delivering the ransom note to Nakata's house. The police found that a fertilizer merchant had parked a compact van there around the same time.
 * The dead body of Nakata was bound with a towel and a hand towel. The former was privately distributed by Tsukishima Foods Industry Co., Ltd. The latter was distributed by Isoko Beikokuten, a rice store. Ishikawa was one of the few people who could get both of them.
 * During the attempted transfer of the ransom, the older sister of Nakata and the ex-military policeman heard the voice of the kidnapper. Both of them testified that that was Ishikawa's voice.
 * At first, Ishikawa insisted that he was working with his older brother near his home all day long. Later on, the police found that his alibi was a lie.

Evidence in favor of Ishikawa's innocence
Ishikawa's supporters claim that the confession upon which the courts’ decisions are based was coerced.

Ishikawa's supporters claim he could not have written the ransom note that was delivered to Nakata's family. Like other Buraku people of his generation, he came from an impoverished background and, as a result, he was not well educated. At the time of his arrest, he was 24 years old, lacked even an elementary school education, and was illiterate. The ransom note that was delivered to Nakata's house, however, contained many Chinese characters and was written by a person accustomed to writing. The courts maintain that Ishikawa could have copied the Chinese characters out of a magazine, but analysts have testified that the handwriting is clearly that of a different person. There is also no evidence of Ishikawa's fingerprints on the ransom note or on the envelope it was in.

Ishikawa's supporters claim the court has based much of its decision on the fact that Nakata's pen was found at Ishikawa's house. However, this fountain pen was not discovered until the third search of his residence. On May 23, the day Ishikawa was arrested, the police came to his house, woke him up and took him to jail. Twelve detectives conducted a full, two-hour search of the premises. They took several objects from as potential evidence, but did not find Nakata's pen. On June 18, a second search of the premises was conducted. Fourteen detectives participated, specifically looking for Nakata's bag, watch, and pen. They searched the entire premises for over two hours, but found nothing.

Eight days later, following these two extensive searches by a total of 26 trained detectives, the pen was found on the doorframe in Ishikawa's kitchen. Both court decisions, that of the Tokyo High Court and the Supreme Court, state that the first 26 detectives had simply overlooked the doorframe, but their reasons for why this happened differ. The Tokyo High Court said that it was because the location was too obvious, while the Supreme Court maintained that short people would have difficulty seeing the top of the doorframe. The doorframe is approximately 1.83 meters (6 feet) tall; there is a picture of the kitchen taken immediately following the second search that shows a small stepladder in front of the door.

A veteran police detective had testified that it is unthinkable that trained police investigators would have overlooked a bright pink pen on a relatively low doorframe, and even more unthinkable that such a thing could happen twice. The investigators called to search Ishikawa's house were the top professionals from the area. By the time Ishikawa was arrested, the case had already become a scandal, and the police were doing whatever it took to find the culprit. They spared no cost or personnel in conducting as thorough a search as possible. Furthermore, the doorframe is mentioned in all standard police detective textbooks as a routine location to search.

The prosecutor's case rests primarily on the confession extracted from Ishikawa while he was in police custody. However, this confession is filled with statements that violate commonsense and do not match the physical layout and characteristics of the crime scene. These discrepancies, in addition to raising reasonable doubt as to whether Ishikawa actually committed the crime, also raise questions about how confessions are drafted under the Japanese criminal justice system.

There are no witnesses who have testified to seeing Ishikawa and Nakata together. This lack of testimony is odd given that the confession states that Ishikawa and Nakata walked together for several hundred meters in the middle of the day. The path they were supposed to have taken led between two fields, and the day on which this was supposed to have happened also coincided with the town's annual festival, which was being held very close by. Over ten people were working in the fields that day, and the festival drew well over 800 people, some of whom would have walked along this path on their way to the festival. The people working in the fields were questioned, but none of them remember seeing Ishikawa and Nakata together. No one else from the town stepped forward with such testimony either. This is all to say nothing of the implausibility of a 16-year-old high school student following an older man she did not know into a forest in the first place.

The confession states that Ishikawa murdered Nakata because she started to scream. In an attempt to silence her, he choked her, and before he knew it, she was dead. However, at this exact time (slightly after 4pm), a man was working in his field approximately 20 m away from where the murder supposedly happened. He was questioned by the police repeatedly and testified that, while he could faintly hear the sounds of the festival over 500 m away, he heard no screaming while he was working. In one of his last sessions with the police, he stated that he might have heard someone calling sometime before 3:30, but from the direction opposite the forest. This statement was used in the first trial as evidence that someone had heard the murder take place. The full contents of the man's sessions with the police and his exact location during the crime were not released to the defense until 1981, 18 years after Ishikawa was tried.

Ishikawa's confession says that Nakata sustained a deep cut to her head during the struggle. However, analyses of the soil in the area revealed no trace of blood. Ishikawa had also confessed that he killed the student with his right hand, inadvertently crushing her neck in an attempt to keep her from screaming. The coroner's report states that the amount of force required to do this would have left bruises on her neck – no such marks were found. Instead, there were marks from a cloth being wrapped tightly around her neck.

The confession also maintains that Ishikawa carried the 54 kg body from the forest back in the direction of the town and his home, where he tied a rope around her ankles and lowered it headfirst into a hole. The confession explicitly states that Ishikawa carried the body in front of him the entire distance, without slinging it over his shoulder. The defense team has conducted several experiments whereby strong young men try to carry a body weighing 54 kg along the same path. Not one of these men was able to carry this weight for anywhere near the entire distance. A coroner has also testified that if a fresh corpse were lowered into a hole by a rope tied around the ankles, there would be marks left around the ankles. No such marks were found.

There were a number of footprints found at both the supposed murder scene and where the body was found. However, none of these match Ishikawa's.

These discrepancies and inconsistencies have been presented to the Tokyo High Court by the Sayama Legal Defense Team as part of the third appeal for a retrial of the case.

title: Sayama incident