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Did u do this ?
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Seriously ??

Libyan 13:06, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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Deletion of Libyan Arabic language boxes
I've restored them. Please see my response on my talk page. Thanks for bringing that to my attention! JesseW, the juggling janitor 06:19, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

animated wikipedia project
Hey, I guess i could join that project. I don't edit wikipedia as much as I used to though. What do I need to do? Fresheneesz 07:05, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Med. Union
Hi, thanks for yoru contribution to Mediterranean Union, but we are unable to find a citation for the fact that Lybia was "outraged" at the proposal. Where did that come from, can you help us on that please? Thanks. -  J Logan t/c: 11:16, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much! -  J Logan t/c: 18:57, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Famous acacia
Thanks for that piece of information - I had heard of the tree before but knew nothing specific about it! Ephebi 21:49, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

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Slavery by country
Hi. I see your rationale for keeping the page and it certainly looks as though it might be useful (though your definition of "slavery" will have to be well-sourced), however Wikipedia can't have effectively empty pages hanging about for indeterminate times while they're under development. Rather than deleting the page I've moved it to your user space here. You can edit it it there, taking as much time as you like to add content. When the content looks substantial enough for a mainspace article, you can move it back yourself (use the "move" tab at the top) or ask me, or any other editor, to do it for you. Cheers, Tonywalton Talk 11:55, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Libyan Arabic
Could you please write a stub about Kurów in Libyan Arabic here – just a few sentences based on http://kurow-wiki.openhosting.pl/wiki/ar:%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81 ? Only 5-10 sentences enough. Please.

PS. Article about Kurów is already in 276 languages and dialects. If your village/town/city isn't yet on PL wiki, I can do article about it. (I'm first author of requests and this article have the biggest number of interwikis) Pietras1988 TALK 12:14, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

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Barnstar
Oh thank you very much, shukran, shukran, I love editing Wikipedia articles on Libya and making them as neutral as possible. I always consider myself a very neutral person and thats why I started editing them in the first place. Once I find more time, my next goal are the cities. Only Tripoli and Benghazi have good articles at present.

Anyway thanks a lot for the barnstar, I really appreciate it! Jaw101ie (talk) 21:07, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Hala hala
Thanx for the welcome. I'm actually loving this. There's a lot of mess out there in the Syria categories. Time consuming though.

Yazan.

Hewar
Thanx a lot for the edits, they most definitely make more sense. Salamat. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zozo2kx (talk • contribs) 05:27, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Arab Summits
Marhaba Hakeem, I've created this template listing all Arab Summits. Would be nice if you can help just to write a bit about each one of them. If you have any sources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:ArabSummits —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zozo2kx (talk • contribs) 06:31, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Libya map
Please see commons:Commons:Graphic Lab School/Images to improve for a coloured version. /Lokal_Profil 12:25, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Map of Kanem
Hello ! I am sorry for the late response. You asked on what source this map is based. It is a bit inacurate, because it does not represent the raw territory of the Kanem Empire, but mostly the cultural influence of the state. Also, it does include the Bornu kingdom, which explains the weird marking west of lake Chad. I hope it does not represent a problem. By the way I didn't knew about the existence of a territory map of Kanem in Commons, thank you. :)

- Tourbillon A ? 18:47, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

dromadaires
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dromedary&diff=189283153&oldid=189223568

I think that should answer your question. I already fixed back the caption :-) Anthere (talk)

流暢
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Copts in Libya
Thanks for adding info about Copts in Libya. The lines you added say that the Coptic community in Libya is composed almost exclusively of foreigners. Are you sure that almost exclusively is the right choice of words here as I am not aware that there are non-Muslim Libyan nationals, which would mislead the reader to thinking that there is indeed a small (very small) indigenous minority of Libyan Copts - which is not the case. P.S. Consider adding the info to Christianity in Libya article as well. cheers. ;) --  hɑkeem  ¡ʇ u ɐ ɹ  ɯǝǝʞɐɥ  06:20, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

 * You mean I wrote that specifically in the article "Religion in Libya"? If so, than I only added to what had already been written.

 * This is the original sentence (as I remember it):

 * "The Anglican bishop of Libya has his seat in Cairo, as most Christians in Libya come from Egypt"

 * This is half-true, as Copts, who slightly outnumber the other denominations, are originally from Egypt — in fact, they are probably the closest to being pure descendants of the ancient Egyptians. However, you do have a point as to how this implies that the, quote, majority of Christians are almost exclusively foreigners.

 * I only added:

 * "The Anglican bishop of Libya has his seat in Cairo, as most Christians in Libya come from Egypt... including the Copts"

 * Either way, both are inaccurate, as it should probably only say that most Christians, the Coptic Orthodox, as well a few other denominations, have historical roots in Egypt.

 * I can tell you one thing for sure, though, I don't even remember writing the exact words: "the Coptic community in Libya is composed almost exclusively of foreigners". I know for a fact that this is not logical, as it is not feasible in most circumstances to have the majority being immigrants for centuries! The Italians have a history as well, as Libya was once a colony, so the same goes for all of the other Christians who have at least a notable prescence (ie: Catholics, Anglicans, Greeks, Russians).

 * Also, it was contradictary when it said that the Catholics have the largest minority, and then said the same for the Copts. According to the source I added, along with the Catholic source, the Copts should have about 10,000-20,000 more than the Catholics, so as this difference is not noticable, I see why the articles said what they used to.

 * Would you mind telling me where you think it needs help? Until then, I will try to add more information to the articles - may be it should clear up this mess with all this articles (the text is almost "exclusively" copy-and-pasted XD)Thanks a bunch. :)

 * ~ Troy (talk) 23:53, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

 * No problem. I agree entirely about what you say about Looklex Encyclopedia. The only problem is, it's probably the only source that I can find for the Copts in Libya — notice that I only used the 1% figure as an approxamite estimate. However, if I do find a better source (AKA, any other source at all XD ), then I'll replace Looklex with that other source. In any case, I would like to thank-you for helping me out and I look forward to working with you. Later,

 * ~ Troy (talk) 22:32, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Also, I should notify you that whoever wrote "exclusively" to begin with didn't have any of the right sources. Thus, I have changed "exclusively" —> "largely" — not the best word, but I think that you'll find that it's far more suitable ;). Cheers, ~ Troy (talk) 22:48, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Alright, then. Considering that you know more about Libya than I do, I'm not going to touch that sentence. Of course, if either one of us finds a reliable source which is contrary to any of our edits, then it should logically override our perspectives. Until then, I think that this is agreeable. Thanks for co-operating, ~ Troy (talk) 23:26, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Col. Kadaffi's Amazon Guard
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Hello
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Maltese
Sliem. I noticed the edit you made to the Maltese language history section (Jiġi żmien li fil-Wardija [l-Għolja Sciberras] kull xiber raba’ jiswa uqija); while your translation was indeed literal, it missed the metaphorical context completely. Maybe the literal translation could be followed by the metaphor meaning (one that is still used in Malta today). Thanks! the roof of this court is too high to be yours (talk) 21:32, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

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Il-Malti
You seem to be enjoying yourself on the Maltese article: great! A new pair of hands and smattering of gray matter are always welcome. However, please use the talk page regularly, as the Maltese language article is a hotbed of controversy.. strange, for such an innocuous little language hardly anybody speaks or understands, eh? But there it is. Rather than make bizarre changes (pushing a Maghreb connection) to Maltese (which has been isolated from its ancestor, Siculo-Arabic, for over 1,000 years) it may benefit the article if you found more interesting things to do. Enjoy your wiki experience. the roof of this court is too high to be yours (talk) 13:46, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Japanese
Can you really speak Japanese? MashAllah, I was very impressed. I was always wondering how many Libyans in the world have been to Japan, lived in Japan or can speak Japanese. You're my first. Anyway, thank you for the barnstar that you gave me ages ago; that's what got me wondering about your Japanese. Genki Deska and suburashi! Jaw101ie (talk) 11:28, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Ibn Sirin
While we certainly appreciate the eagle eye, it appears that the website we "copied" the content from actually uses Wikipedia content. I've watched Earth develop over time, and yet http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Earth shares its content.

Thus, I've reverted your blanking. Kylu (talk) 02:09, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Translation request
Hi. Sorry to bother you, but I've come here because you're listed as someone who can translate Arabic, and we need someone who knows the language. Basically, we've got this article listed at WP:PNT, Hosseinfsf, and we don't know what it means. I've run it through a couple of machine translators but it just gives meaningless words, and I don't know ifs accurate or a bad translation. If you have a free minute could you please take a look and give us the gist of it. Thank you-- Jac 16888 Talk 18:50, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * was Persian not arabic, never mind. Thanks anyway-- Jac 16888 Talk 22:43, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Waynak?
Hakeem Pasha, shu akhbarak? How was your presentation? Yazan (talk) 06:55, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

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rub
Hi Hakeem,

Could you explain the pronunciation of rub (syrup)? Is /rub/ supposed to be English, or Arabic? If English, which /u/ is it, the vowel of foot, or of food? If Arabic, does it have an English pronunciation?

Thanks, kwami (talk) 08:03, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Arabic needs you!
Salam, Aid Mubarak. I am a Wiki Arabic contributor. We have some problems in organizing Arabic dialects in the template and in the article. I saw you edits in wiki English about this subject. Can you help us in Wiki Arabic ? We hope to see you more often in Wiki Arabic, it s really funny there! y the way, the article Arabic Language in Arabic is now a selected article, we really appreciate your comments or review. And don t forget to ask any thing here. Salam --Helmoony (talk) 14:24, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

arabic and japanese translation from English wiki,
Salami Hakeem, I found you on the translation section, it would be good to see English language articles in other languages, people like me who provide short articles and material for multi language projects will not have to use translators for words. A few suggestions for Arabic and Japaneese proactive and Super Skin Lightener I need these two for a project and I have more suggestions for future.

Eid Mobarak :) --Mabrooka2Hola (talk) 19:21, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

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Research survey invitation
Greetings Hakeem.gadi-

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I am writing this request because you are listed at Translators available. The text that I'm requesting a translation for is the following: The background for this request can be read here. I am preparing for a future discussion about this information at at WP:RSN, and from past experience with foreign-language sources I know that a qualified translation, not merely a machine Google translation, will be requested by the regular reviewers at that noticeboard.

Do note also that I have made this request with four other Arabic-to-English translators besides yourself as past experience is that most will not respond to this request, at least not in a timely fashion. Therefore, should you wish to offer yourself to this task, you should inform the other four so that they will know to disregard the request on their talk pages. You could also simply inform me that you will do the job and I can do the notifying. In any case, here are links to the four other requests: __meco (talk) 06:45, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
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 * Dear Hakeem, I have finished the translation.
 * -- Haytham Abulela  07:54, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

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I'm currently writing a short thesis on Tawfiq al-Hakim with a specialized focus on Fate of a Cockroach: Four Plays of Freedom. I am finding it rather difficult to find good sources in english and suspect that there is much more information on Tawfiq in arabic. Do you know of any good arabic websites where I might find good information on him. If you had some free time I would appreciate pointing me in the right direction as the information I have found so far seems to be lacking in many respects. Is this a possiblity?

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Request for translation: List of sources for an article
Dear Hakeem,

On the Reference desk someone recommended using the list of translators in response to a request. Are you willing to translate portions of or all of the list of references on this page? es:Wikipedia discusión:Consultas de borrado/Liceo Mexicano Japonés? It is for an AFD on the Spanish Wikipedia. This is so Spanish-speaking editors can understand what Japanese references exist about the subject. You are welcome to translate the references into English.

Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 16:34, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

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English-Japanese Translation Assistance
Greetings Hakeem.gadi! It seems you have a rather coveted skill set with your translation abilities. Kudos! Would you have the time or the interest to collaborate on the AIG business page? The Japanese version looks like it could use some help on content and formatting. Best Regards! MsGingerHoneycutt (talk) 16:09, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Language-population update project
Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the sigfig template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.

The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.

Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!

— kwami (talk) 02:41, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Tunisian Arabic
Dear User,

As you are one of the contributors to Tunisian Arabic. You are kindly asked to review the part about Domains of Use and adjust it directly or through comments in the talk page of Tunisian Arabic.

Yours Sincerely,

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Translation requests
Hi! Do you do translation requests? WhisperToMe (talk) 11:24, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Request for Help, please
Greetings Mr Hakeem.gadi,

Nice to meet you. Could you kindly help me translate this article into the wonderful Libyan Arabic language? Please.

Content  كنيسة يسوع الحقيقي أو كنيسة يسوع المسيح الرب الحقيقي هي كنيسة مستقلة غير تابعة لأي من الطوائف المسيحية الأخرى أنشأت في بكين في الصين في عام 1917 م. ينتمي حوالي 1.5 مليون شخص في ست قارات لهذه الفئة. وتعتبر هذه الكنيسة فرع للحركة الخمسينية ضمن المذهب البروتستانتي كانت انطلاقتها في أوائل القرن العشرين. تتمسك هذه الكنيسة بوحدانيه اللاهوت الخمسيني - عقيدة اسم يسوع. المباديء العشرة الأساسية:
 * 1) الروح القدس
 * 2) التعميد
 * 3) غسيل الأقدام
 * 4) العشاء الرباني
 * 5) يوم الراحةَ
 * 6) السيد المسيح
 * 7) الإنجيل
 * 8) الخلاص
 * 9) الكنيسة
 * 10) يوم القيامة

 Your help would be very Gratefully Appreciated, Thankyou very much. --Philip J (talk) 02:31, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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Ali Al-Biski
Hi Hakeem,

I hope you're well,

I was looking at Arabic-English translators and saw your name on the list and, fortuitously, saw that you are also Libyan therefore wanted to reach out and ask whether you'd ever heard of Ali Al-Biski and to see whether the sources that I have used in this article would count as verifiable or (ideally) if you could point me in the direction of a better source so that I can flesh out his page? I've been using some Google translate mostly therefore I'm not even sure if I've spelt his name/nickname right!

No worries if you don't have the time, I just thought there wouldn't be any harm in asking.

Many thanks for your help,

Felixsv7 (talk) 14:38, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

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Newport, Jersey City

Newport is a 600 acre master-planned, mixed-use community in Downtown Jersey City, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, consisting of retail, residential, office, and entertainment facilities. The neighborhood is situated on the Hudson Waterfront. Prior to development, the area was home to the Erie Railroad's Pavonia Terminal. The area is located opposite Lower Manhattan and the Tribeca neighborhood in New York City. Redevelopment of Newport began in 1986 as a $10 billion project led by real-estate tycoon Samuel J. LeFrak and his firm The LeFrak Organization.

History
Newport's name was changed from "Newport City" to just "Newport" in 1988.

Transportation
New Jersey Transit's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail's Newport station and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ("PATH") Newport station are located in Newport. The area is also served by several New Jersey Transit bus lines, as well as other private bus lines. Interstate 78 is nearby and connects to the Holland Tunnel, which provides vehicle access to lower Manhattan, as well as to the New Jersey Turnpike.

Retail shopping and dining
Part of the Newport community is the Newport Centre Mall, a large traditional indoor shopping complex anchored by Macy's, JCPenney, Kohl's, H&M, Dick's Sporting Goods, and ZARA. Outside the mall and around the Newport area are a variety of primarily neighborhood oriented restaurants (known collectively as "The Restaurants at Newport") and retail stores (known collectively as "The Newport River Market"). This includes a number of notables such as a Target store which opened in 2004, Staples and Best Buy.

Housing
As of 2014, the population of Newport is 15,000. Newport's approved master Redevelopment Plan contains an 'as-of-right' entitlement to build 9,000 units of residential housing. Newport currently includes 10 high-rise rental apartment buildings comprising approximately 4,000 households. Construction of these buildings began in 1985. Newport's 10th rental apartment building, "The Aquablu," was completed and occupied in 2009. Newport also includes 3 high-rise condominium apartment buildings comprising approximately 900 additional households. Construction of these condominium buildings began in 1987. The most recent condominium building, known as "The Shore Condominiums at Newport, North Tower" was completed in 2008. Several adjacent residential buildings just south of Thomas Gangemi Drive along the 10th Street embankment are outside of the Newport Redevelopment Zone, but because they are developed by the LeFrak organization, are often advertised by real estate professionals as being in Newport.

The residential buildings within Newport are:

 * John Adams
 * George Washington
 * James Madison
 * Thomas Jefferson
 * James Monroe (condo)
 * Riverside
 * Atlantic
 * East Hampton

 * South Hampton
 * Pacific
 * Parkside East
 * Parkside West
 * Shore Condominiums, North and South Towers
 * Aquablu
 * Laguna
 * Ellipse
 * The Beach
 * Bisby at Newport

Many buildings offer views of the Hudson River and the New York City skyline. A portion of the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway runs through Newport.

Hotels
Newport's approved master Redevelopment Plan contains an 'as-of-right' entitlement to build 1,200 hotel rooms. A 187-room hotel known as the Courtyard by Marriott Jersey City-Newport opened south of Newport in 2000. A 429-room full-service hotel known as the Westin Newport, Jersey City opened in 2009.

Office buildings
The "Newport Office Center" consists of 8 buildings which in total amount to over 5000000 sqft of Class A commercial office space. The first of these buildings, 111 Town Square Place, was built from the remnants of an abandoned warehouse in 1989. It contains both office and data centers. The most recent building, 100 Town Square Place was completed in 2003. Hundreds of different companies have headquarters or back-offices at Newport. These range from transportation companies such as EVA Air to major financial institutions. The neighborhood’s office towers provide more than six million square feet of office space to major employers including JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Fidelity Investments, L’Oreal, Forbes, and Tory Burch. Furthermore, it houses more than 25,000 employees. In March 2019, the LeFrak Organization sold the 350,000 square foot office tower, 570 Washington Boulevard, for $170 million.

Newport 10,000
The Newport 10,000, more popularly known as the Newport 10k, is a 10 kilometer road race (running) in the vicinity of the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway. Typically held the second weekend in May, the race tends to attract a strong regional and international field of elite runners. The course is USATF certified and consists of flat local roads.

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Clint Eastwood
I'm curious about Eastwood's connection with Sacramento. What is it? Squib 18:50, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Brown County State Park

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Talk:List of Indiana state parks

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I made this map for use with Infobox protected area or Geobox Protected Area in Indiana state parks and other protected areas. See of the List of Pennsylvania state parks articles if you want examples of its use. Hope this helps, Ruhrfisch 03:48, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Muscatatuck County Park
Should I put Muscatatuck County Park on the list, and simply mark it as no longer a state park?-- Bedford Pray  21:21, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

White River State Park
The article is wrong. There are 24 Indiana State Parks managed by the DNR. White River is not a DNR property but an alternate name for the collection of zoos, museums housed in downtown Indy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.115.43.93 (talk) 23:03, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree. I see no evidence of a White River State Park managed by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.  I am commenting it out of this list. TwoScars (talk) 16:57, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Commented out of list. If someone has some official evidence to put it back in (uncomment it)—do so.  The count in the intro has also been changed to 24.  Someone should fix the map. TwoScars (talk) 17:06, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I commented out White River on the map - thanks Ruhrfisch ><> ° ° 17:43, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * White River is indeed an Indiana state park, but it is run by a separate agency, not the DNR, due to its unique nature. I've added it back to the article with appropriate wording. I also re-enabled it on the location map.

Location of Lincoln State Park
The dot location of Lincoln State Park is off by a number of counties. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.60.172.121 (talk) 16:36, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

 * The longitude should be 87 degrees west, not 86. I fixed it in the map (Template:State parks of Indiana map) and in the article. Indyguy (talk) 17:37, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

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Lee Clegg

Sergeant Lee Clegg (born c. 1969) is a British Army soldier who was convicted of murder for his involvement in the shooting dead of one teenage joyrider in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. His conviction was later overturned.

Shooting
The shooting took place in West Belfast on 30 September 1990. Clegg, then a private originally from Bradford, England, and his fellow soldiers manning the checkpoint on the Upper Glen Road, fired nineteen bullets into a stolen Vauxhall Astra that passed through their checkpoint travelling at high speed. Clegg fired four of the bullets, the last of which killed 18-year-old passenger Karen Reilly. The driver, 17-year-old Martin Peake, also died at the scene, and the third passenger, Markiewicz Gorman, escaped with minor injuries.

Sentencing
Clegg was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in 1993, the court having decided that lethal force had been used without a lawful purpose. The fourth bullet was said to have been fired through the back of the car as it was leaving the checkpoint and was therefore no longer a threat to the soldiers. The murder conviction was condemned by unionists and some newspapers, including the Daily Mail, which began a campaign for Clegg's release on the grounds that he was just doing his job in difficult circumstances.

Release and aftermath
Clegg was released under licence by then Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew in 1995, which in turn led to rioting in Irish nationalist areas of Belfast. Sinn Féin repeatedly called the decision a "threat to the peace process". The release followed after a test shooting on another Astra conducted by pathologist Iain West and forensic expert Graham Renshaw on 4 June 1995.

Appeals
A set of appeals to the Court of Appeal and House of Lords led to the quashing of the murder conviction in 1998 and a re-trial in March 1999, on the grounds that new evidence suggested that the fourth bullet entered the side of the car. At the retrial Clegg was cleared of murder, but a conviction for "attempting to wound" the driver of the car, Martin Peake, who also died in the incident, was upheld. The junior lawyer on the case was Keir Starmer.

Another appeal, this time at the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal, led to that lesser conviction also being overturned on 31 January 2000 owing to uncertainty over the accuracy of evidence that initially suggested Clegg's final bullet was fired after the vehicle had passed.

Clegg continued to serve as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade. In September 2007 the Daily Mail reported that Clegg would be serving in Afghanistan in 2008 as combat medic with the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment.

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No mention of Wolf Cave! TheRammer 19:22, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

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Hagimus

Hagimus (rendered also as Khadzhimus) is a village in Căușeni District, Moldova.

Site : https://web.archive.org/web/20100817023352/http://hagimus.ru/

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Talk:Pokagon State Park

Indiana State Park top template is poor quality and unneeded
User:Bedford, your recent Indiana State Park template is not needed. There's really not one piece of data within that template that is of much use to anyone accessing the article. It's in Indiana? It's a State Park? It's silly to take up prime real estate regurgitating information contained in the article title. It's governed by the DNR? Of course.

And it displaces a very nice representative photo. Moreover, you thoughtlessly <--my apologies-->created a block of white space placing the template into the article.

There's no rule in Wikipedia that says that a template trumps all other content. So, I am asking that you remove it. MrHarman 01:58, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I think you are the one being thoughtless. Look at how ridiculously big in K those pics are. Some people still have dial-up. Shrink those things. The pics are OK, but none will demand to be the first one seen, except maybe the inn one. Get over yourself.--Bedford 02:10, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I am not the author of the lead picture, the one that the poorly designed infobox displaced, but I am one of those folks who is using dial-up. However, the issue I raise has nothing to do with photo size so it's rather poor of you to attempt to deflect the criticism by discussing the photos and me.  MrHarman 02:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * The infobox is functional. Could it be improved?  Of course.  But so can your attitude.  I'm looking at ways to make it better.  Which is more than you seem capable of doing.--Bedford 02:34, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I would again ask that you keep the discussion focused on the infobox and not make personal attacks against me. How is the infobox functional?  It contains no information not already contained elsewhere on the first page.  It adds nothing and takes away from a pleasing, eye-catching format with a clean image very representative of Pokagon Park.  MrHarman 02:42, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I am trying to make the state parks consistant with each other. That's why they all have the same infoboxes.  The infoboxes will be improved anyways.  These are the starters.  I plan to make some kind of map to go along with them, as well as other refinements.  And you are the one making the attacks, especially since you went strsight to my talk page instead of leaving it on the Pokagon page, which is what this is all about, anyhow.--Bedford 02:52, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I have moved this discussion over here to Pokagon State Park. Now, since this infobox is a work in progress, how about if we wait until it's finished??  MrHarman 04:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * At the bottom of the WikiProject Protected Areas/Infobox are a couple of infoboxes that are used for state parks. Just copy and paste one of the two from this page into the article. If there is no state map, replace that parameter with nothing or a suitable image.--MONGO 10:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and added the newer infobox. The coordinates are correct according to the Topozone map--MONGO 10:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Thank you, MONGO. That looks much better and includes a photo.  About 12 miles west of Pokagon, there is a little hamlet called Mongo.  Coincidence??  I doubt it!  In any case, good work, MrHarman 01:38, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

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Herman B. Duryea

Herman Barkulo Duryea (1862–1916) was an American Thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.

Herman Duryea built an estate in Old Westbury on Long Island, New York known as "Knole". Completed in 1903, it was designed by Carrere and Hastings. In 1910 he sold the property to Henry Phipps who bought it as a wedding gift for his daughter Helen's marriage to Bradley Martin.

Haras du Gazon
Herman Duryea also owned a large estate in Tennessee where he bred dogs and gamecocks. In 1902 he began breeding race horses and soon became one of the leading Thoroughbred racing owners in the United States. However, when many states began passing anti-betting legislation that ended most racing, Duryea moved his breeding and racing operations to Haras du Gazon in Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne, Normandy, France acquired from Maurice Ephrussi.

Among Duryea's horses were Sweeper II who won the English 2,000 Guineas in 1912 and Durbar who won the 1914 Epsom Derby. He also owned the American-born mare, Frizette (1905-1929) purchased from friend James R. Keene and Payne Whitney. Frizette, a granddaughter of Hindoo, was one of the most important foundation matrons of the twentieth century whose offspring includes Seattle Slew and Mr. Prospector. The annual Frizette Stakes at Belmont Park is named in her honor.

One of the other very important fillies to race under Duryea's colors was the champion, Tanya. Foaled in 1902 by William Collins Whitney, she was leased along with several other horses to race for Duryea in 1904 as a 2-year-old and won the Hopeful Stakes, the National Stallion Stakes, and the Spinaway Stakes. Unfortunately for Herman Duryea, she was purchased that fall by Whitney's son, Harry Payne Whitney, for she is best known for her win the following spring in the Belmont Stakes.

After Herman Duryea died in 1916 his widow maintained some of the French breeding farm's stallions but much of the operation would eventually be sold to Marcel Boussac.

Mr. Duryea was the benefactor of the Navesink Public Library and Monmouth Players community theater, both located in Navesink, New Jersey.

Funeral Train for Pet Dog
"THE only case we know of in which a special train was hired for a dog's funeral; occurred on Saturday, October 24th, 1914, less than three months after the World War began. The dog was Betty 2nd, a Pomeranian belonging to Herman B.Duryea. millionaire manufacturer. Betty died on the Duryea estate at Westbury, Long Island N. Y., at the age of about two and a half years. She was valued at $5,000. The grief-stricken Mr. Duryea chartered a special train from the Long Island Railroad, had his own luxurious private car attached to it, and in this car he placed the deceased canine her long silken hair washed and combed and brushed with the utmost care, the body being enclosed in a satin-lined coffin, hermetically sealed. Then, as the engine bell: tolled a requiem for the departed Pomeranian, the funeral cortege got slowly under way, and soon thereafter was speeding westward toward New York City, through New York City, and on down southward to Hickory Valley, Tenn., on the Illinois Central tracks.. Arriving at Hickory Valley, where Mr. Duryea had an estate near the Shiloh National Military Park, the casket was solemnly interred in a grave adjoining that of another dog which had died some time before."

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C. FitzSimons Allison

Christopher FitzSimons Allison (born March 5, 1927) is a retired American Anglican bishop and an author. He is known for his role in the Anglican realignment, which led to his participation in the controversial consecration in 2000 of two bishops opposed to the blessing of same-sex unions by the Episcopal Church, that took place in Singapore. He resides in Georgetown, South Carolina, where he serves as a retired bishop of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina in the Anglican Church in North America since 2022.

Education and career
Allison was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina. He attended the University of the South and, after having his studies briefly interrupted by service in the United States Army during World War II after which he was discharged with the rank of Master Sergeant, he received a bachelor of arts degree in 1949. He then studied at Virginia Theological Seminary, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1952. He was ordained deacon in June 1952 and priest in May 1953 by Bishop John J. Gravatt. Allison later studied at Oxford University and received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1956. He then taught church history at the School of Theology at the University of the South and at Virginia Theological Seminary.

He served as rector of Grace Episcopal Church in New York City before being elected as a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina. He was consecrated a bishop on 25 September 1980 by Bishop John Allin and was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina in 1980, becoming the twelfth diocesan bishop on January 2, 1982. He retired in 1990 but has continued preaching, speaking, and writing.

Anglican realignment
Starting from the 1980s, Bishop Allison grew increasingly critical of the liberal tendencies inside the Episcopal Church. In 1990, during a meeting of the House of Bishops at the Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville, he openly attacked liberals in the Church, accusing them of apostasy. After the clash, a Holy Eucharist was celebrated, during which Allison refused to share the consecrated bread and wine with the rest of the House of Bishops, in a sign of broken communion.

Controversial consecrations
In 2000, Allison participated in the consecrations of Charles Murphy and John Rodgers, who were both priests in the Episcopal Church, as missionary bishops to the United States from the Anglican Church of Rwanda and the Church of the Province of South East Asia. Bishops Murphy and Rogers provided leadership to the conservative Anglican Mission in America, in which Allison, although remaining a member of the Episcopal Church, has also been active.

These consecrations, which occurred in Singapore, were controversial in the Episcopal Church as they were an act of protest against the church's blessing of same-sex unions but were also considered to be a breach of church unity. Other consecrators were Emmanuel Kolini, Archbishop of the Province of Rwanda, Moses Tay, Archbishop of the Province of South East Asia, John Rucyahana, Bishop of Shyira (Rwanda), Alex D. Dickson, retired Bishop of West Tennessee, and David Pytches, former Bishop of Chile, Bolivia and Peru and now a vicar in England.

Joining the ACNA
In 2022, Allison notified Presiding Episcopal Bishop Michael Curry that he had been received into the Anglican Church in North America, thus formally leaving the Episcopal Church after 69 years of ordained ministry. He resides in Georgetown, South Carolina, where he serves as a retired bishop of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina.

Writings

 * The Rise of Moralism: The Proclamation of the Gospel from Hooker to Baxter, New York, The Seabury Press, 1966;
 * Guilt, Anger, and God: The Patterns of Our Discontents, New York, The Seabury Press, 1972;
 * The Cruelty of Heresy: An Affirmation of Christian Orthodoxy, Harrisburg, Morehouse, 1994;
 * Fear, Love, and Worship, Regent College Publishing, 2003;
 * Trust in an Age of Arrogance, The Lutterworth Press, 2009.

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Park geology
Park geology needs to be proofread.50.103.226.135 (talk) 21:09, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Copyedited, but it still needs citations. Rosalina523 (talk) 17:59, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

IUCN Category
Shouldn't the IUCN Category be listed in the Indiana State Park template?ZFT (talk) 00:24, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

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Festivals this fall
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User:Dryholla

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 * Sports particularly the New York Giants and New York Knicks

Articles I have Contributed to

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Back scattering alignment

The Back Scattering Alignment (BSA) is a coordinate system used in coherent electromagnetic scattering. The coordinate system is defined from the viewpoint of the wave source, before and after scattering. The BSA is most commonly used in radar, specifically when working with a Sinclair Matrix because the monostatic radar detector and source are physically coaligned. BSA gives rise to conjugate eigenvalue equations. The alternative coordinate system in electromagnetic scattering is the Forward Scattering Alignment (FSA) which is primarily used in optics. Both coordinate systems contain essentially the same information and meaning, and thus a scattering matrix can be transformed from one to the other by use of the matrix,

$$ S_{FSA} = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & -1 \end{bmatrix} S_{BSA}$$

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Saint Reparata

Reparata (Santa Reparata, Sainte Réparate) was, according to a later tradition, a third-century virgin, who was martyred for her Christian faith in her hometown of Caesarea, Roman Province of Palestine, and later canonised by the Catholic Church.

Initial legend and evolution
Sources record her age as being between 11 and 20 years old, with Sainte-Réparate Cathedrale in Nice placing it as 15. She was arrested for her faith and tortured during the persecution of Roman emperor Decius (r. 249–251).

Her persecutors tried to burn her alive, but she was saved by a shower of rain. She was then compelled to drink boiling pitch. When she again refused to apostatize, she was decapitated. Her legend states that immediately upon dying a dove appeared to symbolize the departure of her spirit therefrom to Heaven.

Later elaborations of her legend state that her body was laid in a boat and blown by the breath of angels to the bay presently denominated the "Baie des Anges" in Nice. A similar tale is associated with the legends of Restituta; Devota, patroness of Monaco and Corsica; and Torpes of Pisa.

Historicity
Evidence of her cult does not exist before the ninth century, when her name appeared in the martyrology of Bede. Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260/265–339), who recorded the martyrdoms that occurred in the Holy Land during the third century, did not reference her.

Spread, depiction, and local significance
Her cult became widespread in Europe during the Middle Ages, as evidenced by the multiple Passiones in various parts of the continent, especially in Italy, where her cult was especially popular, specifically in Florence, Atri, Naples, and Chieti. Numerous painters depicted her, including Fra Bartolomeo, Arnolfo di Cambio, Andrea Pisano, Domenico Passignano, and Bernardo Daddi.

She remained primary patroness of Florence until the High Middle Ages; Anna Jameson writes that circa "1298 she appears to have been deposed from her dignity as sole patroness; the city was placed under the immediate tutelage of the Virgin and St. John the Baptist."

She is the patroness of Nice and a co-patroness of Florence (with Zenobius of Florence). The former Cathedral of Santa Reparata in Florence was dedicated in honor of her.

Florence celebrates her feast annually on 8 October, in commemoration of its deliverance from the Ostrogoths led by Radagaisus in AD 406, which it attributes to her intercession.

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Meldrum's acid

Meldrum's acid or 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxane-4,6-dione is an organic compound with formula C6H8O4. Its molecule has a heterocyclic core with four carbon and two oxygen atoms; the formula can also be written as [\sO\s(C(CH3)2)\sO\s(C\dO)\s(CH2)\s(C\dO)\s].

It is a crystalline colorless solid, sparingly soluble in water. It decomposes on heating with release of carbon dioxide and acetone.

Acidity
The compound can easily lose a hydrogen ion from the methylene (CH2) in the ring (carbon 5); which creates a double bond between it and one of the adjacent carbons (number 4 or 6), and a negative charge in the corresponding oxygen. The resulting anion [C6H7O4](-) is stabilized by resonance between the two alternatives, so that the double bond is delocalized and each oxygen in the carbonyls has a formal charge of −1/2.

The ionization constant pKa is 4.97; which makes it behave as a monobasic acid even though it contains no carboxylic acid groups. In this and other properties, the compound resembles dimedone and barbituric acid. However, while dimedone exists in solution predominantly as the mono-enol tautomer, Meldrum's acid is almost entirely as the diketone form.

The unusually high acidity of this compound was long considered anomalous—it is 8 orders of magnitude more acidic than the closely related compound dimethyl malonate. In 2004, Ohwada and coworkers determined that the energy-minimizing conformation structure of the compound places the alpha proton's σ*CH orbital in the proper geometry to align with the π*CO, so that the ground state poses unusually strong destabilization of the C-H bond.

Original synthesis
The compound was first made by Meldrum by a condensation reaction of acetone with malonic acid in acetic anhydride and sulfuric acid.

Alternative syntheses
As an alternative to its original preparation, Meldrum's acid can be synthesized from malonic acid, isopropenyl acetate (an enol derivative of acetone), and catalytic sulfuric acid.

A third route is the reaction of carbon suboxide C3O2 with acetone in the presence of oxalic acid.

Uses
Like malonic acid and its ester derivatives, and other 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds, Meldrum's acid can and serve as a reactant for a variety of nucleophilic reactions.

Alkylation and acylation
The acidity of carbon 5 (between the two carbonyl groups) allows simple derivatization of Meldrum's acid at this position, through reactions such as alkylation and acylation. For example, deprotonation and reaction with a simple alkyl halide (R\sCl) attaches the alkyl group (R\s) at that position:

The analogous reaction with an acyl chloride (R\s(C\dO)\sCl) attaches the acyl (R\s(C\dO)\s) instead:

These two reactions allow Meldrum's acid to serve as a starting scaffold for the synthesis of many different structures with various functional groups. The alkylated products can be further manipulated to produce various amide and ester compounds. Heating the acyl product in the presence of an alcohol leads to ester exchange and decarboxylation in a process similar to the malonic ester synthesis. The reactive nature of the cyclic-diester allows good reactivity even for alcohols as hindered as t-butanol, and this reactivity of Meldrum's acid and it's derivatives has been used to develop a range of reactions. Ketoesters formed from the reaction of alcohols with Meldrum's acid derivatives are useful in the Knorr pyrrole synthesis.

Synthesis of ketenes
At temperatures greater than 200 °C Meldrum's acid undergoes a pericyclic reaction that releases acetone and carbon dioxide and produces a highly reactive ketene compound:

These ketenes can be isolated using flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP). Ketenes are highly electrophilic and can undergo addition reaction with a range of other chemicals, particularly ketene cycloadditions, or dimerisation to diketene. With this approach it is possible to form new C–C bonds, rings, amides, esters, and acids:

Alternately, the pyrolysis can be performed in solution, to obtain the same results without isolating the ketene, in a one-pot reaction. The ability to form such diverse products makes Meldrum's acid a very useful reagent for synthetic chemists.

History
The compound is named after Andrew Norman Meldrum who reported its synthesis in 1908. He misidentified its structure as a β-lactone of β-hydroxyisopropylmalonic acid; the correct structure, the bislactone of 1,3-dioxane was reported in 1948.

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Reprivatization

Reprivatization refers to the process of restoring properties seized or otherwise nationalized from privately held owners by a government to privately held status. This may include returning seized property or compensating uncompensated former owners, or reprivatizing state held enterprises to new owners, especially banks, which were privately founded but came under state control due to economic crisis or other factors. The latter scenario is sometimes referred to as privatization, though scholars have specifically referred to the sale of nationalized Mexican and Korean banks to private shareholders as reprivatization. The terms reprivatization and privatization are sometimes used to describe similar processes. The term privatization is more often used to describe the transfer of property under long-term government control to private owners, while reprivatization implies the property being returned to privately held status came under government control on a circumstantial basis. Both terms have been used in connection with larger privatization schemes in the former Soviet Bloc, particularly the process of assigning new property rights.

Reprivatization to private owners has been sought by any number of parties whose property has been nationalized, including the traditional nobility in certain areas of Europe, Holocaust survivors, their descendants, and other survivors of persons who died in Nazi death camps and whose property was confiscated by the Nazis or by later Communist states and disposed of in various ways; and by corporations.

A significant barrier to reprivatization is created by larger political questions, which vary by country. In Eastern Europe, there is frequently a desire to avoid the inflammation of ethnic tensions and the ostensible reversal of Potsdam conference policies; see Federation of Expellees.

Outstanding reprivatization issues can sometimes be a barrier to foreign investment, as investors are wary of investing in a property to which the title is disputed or faulty.

Reasons for reprivatization
Reprivatization can be initiated due to a desire:
 * to reduce the number of state property
 * to increase the size of the private sector in the country's economy
 * to strengthen competition in various industries
 * to increase the efficiency of the use of property as a source of improving the well-being of individuals and as a consequence of the country as a whole
 * to eliminate the state monopoly in certain areas

Forms and types of reprivatization
There are two main forms of reprivatization: In their pure form, both these forms are rare. Most often they are used at the same time, compensating for part of the costs in the form of reimbursement of funds, the rest is provided in kind. In addition, reprivatization can also be accompanied by compensation for material damage (lost profits, downtime). Requirements for reimbursement can be put forward both by the former owner and by the state itself:
 * Restitution. In this case, the property is returned to the former private owner.
 * Compensation. The value of the property is reimbursed through the provision of government securities or cash.
 * The owner can claim compensation for the amount of income that he could receive if his property was not nationalized.
 * The state can claim for reimbursement of expenses incurred, as a rule, it may be expenses for modernization, maintenance of the relevant condition,

Great Britain
Most often, when discussing reprivatization, it turns to the example of Margaret Thatcher. After becoming prime minister in 1979, she decided to handle the economic difficulties faced by the United Kingdom at the time by engaging in a campaign against the trade unions and changing the role of the state in the British economy. One of the ways to implement the plan was to choose reprivatization.

Large-scale reprivatization touched the oil, gas, electronic, aerospace and some other industries. Many enterprises that were in a difficult economic situation (including British Airways, British Petroleum), legally transferred to state ownership and received considerable financial support from it. And all this is only to be transferred to private hands through privatization ten years later.

Germany
The revival of entrepreneurship in the first period after World War II went on in the eastern lands in several forms. These were the creation of new firms, reprivatization, the organization of joint ventures with the participation of Western capital and former national enterprises. A kind of transitional measure is the decentralization of management within the former combines, as a result of which the former state enterprises begin to act as free producers in the market environment. Immediately after the unification of Germany, about 6,000 applications for the redemption of enterprises by their former owners were filed. With full redemption of the household enterprises had the opportunity to obtain a loan from the German Credit Bank under the collateral value of the land plot.

Spain
The history of privatization and nationalization in Spain is the story of the "nationalization of losses and the privatization of profits." In a crisis, the government bought up or otherwise nationalized loss-making enterprises, actually saving them from bankruptcy. Later, when for some reason they became profitable and successful companies, the government again sold them to private hands. At the same time, traditionally unprofitable industries, such as, for example, the coal industry, radio and television, railway and shipbuilding companies, remain in the hands of the state. Analysts state that the goals of privatization - to increase budget revenues as much as possible and to increase competition in different markets - are in general contradictory to each other, so it was possible to achieve either one or the other, but not both.

France
In France, as in many other European countries, a vast public sector of the economy was formed after World War II. However, subsequently, the country's leadership did not adhere to a unified policy regarding the management of state property and its fate as a whole. Here, in comparison with other developed countries, the most pronounced were the so-called waves of property transformation. The processes of nationalization and privatization consistently succeeded each other, depending on who was in power. The last large-scale nationalization took place in the early 80's. Large commercial banks and many industrial enterprises were nationalized. However, during the reign of President François Mitterrand, the French economy was already experiencing difficulties due to high state participation and a large number of state companies. In connection with this, in the presidency of Jacques Chirac in the late 1990s. processes of privatization of the state enterprises have begun.

Poland
Unlike the industrial sector, Poland's agricultural sector remained largely in private hands during the decades of communist rule. Most of the former state farms are now leased to farmer tenants. Lack of credit is hampering efforts to sell former state farmland. Currently, Poland's 2 million private farms occupy 90% of all farmland and account for roughly the same percentage of total agricultural production. These farms are small—8 hectares (20 acres) on average—and often fragmented. Farms with an area exceeding 15 hectares (37 acres) accounted for only 9% of the total number of farms but cover 45% of the total agricultural area. Over half of all farming households in Poland produce only for their own needs with little, if any, commercial sales.

Ukraine
Reforms in the more politically sensitive areas of structural reform and land privatisation are still lagging. The parliament has approved a foreign investment law allowing Westerners to purchase businesses and property, to repatriate revenue and profits, and to receive compensation in the event that property is nationalized by a future government. Outside institutions—particularly the IMF—have encouraged Ukraine to quicken the pace and scope of reforms and have threatened to withdraw financial support.

Reprivatization in both political and economic terms is noted by the authors of the monograph "Privatization and Reprivatization in Ukraine after the Orange Revolution" - proved to be an ineffective way of reviewing the results of privatization in Ukraine. Reprivatization, which was carried out through the courts, proved to be a long and exhausting process. "The process of reprivatization as a way to review the results of privatization was formed under the influence of the general revolutionary moods of the population and the character of the first government team led by Yulia Tymoshenko, accustomed to an irreconcilable opposition struggle".

Kryvorizhstal is Ukraine's largest integrated steel company. In 2004, the enterprise became an open joint-stock company "Kryvorozhskiy Mining and Metallurgical Combine". In the same year, the government of Ukraine allowed a consortium created by the structures of politicians and businessmen Rinat Akhmetov and Victor Pinchuk (son-in-law of President Leonid Kuchma) to privatize the largest steel plant for $803 million.

After the Tymoshenko government came to power in February 2005, the procedure of judicial return of the plant to state property was launched. On April 22, 2005, the Kiev Economic Court declared illegal the sale of a 93.02% stake in Kryvorizhstal and decided to return them to the state.

On October 24, 2005, Kryvorizhstal was reprivatized. The world's largest metallurgical company Mittal Steel won the contest. It laid out a 93.02% stake in Kryvorozhstal OJSC 24.2 billion UAH ($4.8 billion).

Hungary
During the period immediately following the decline of communism in Eastern Europe, including Hungary, previously state-owned enterprises began the process of reprivatization of sectors that were nationalized during the communist era. The changes in ownership and property rights during this era have been referred to both as privatization and reprivatization, though in the Hungarian context former pre-communist property owners were given capital vouchers of little actual value as compensation. This meant that property may have been considered “reprivatized,” though the former owners incurred little actual benefit. The new democratic government set a public spending goal of 30% of GDP, and began to encourage the development of a domestic capital market to stimulate this change.

Early on, the government focused on the reprivatization of the food industry, which was an early success in the new government's effort. Foreign investors were encouraged to participate in creating new ownership for these firms. By 1993, 47% of Hungarian private-sector earnings were in the food industry. Certain sectors of the food industry, such as those which previously produced mainly for export to other former Soviet satellites, including the meat and dairy industries, had less liquidity and were slower to privatize. The impacts on Hungarians were mixed, with many Hungarians who worked for unprofitable state-owned enterprises becoming unemployed as a result of new private management. However, sectors that were able to successfully convert to profitable private enterprises saw more limited losses.

South Korea
After the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the recently elected South Korean opposition government of President Kim Dae-jung nationalized many financially defunct banks. While the previous government was entrenched in the chaebol patronage system between the state and large corporations, the new government owed its election to political and civil society organizations. This fact meant that decision making for the recently nationalized banks would be driven more by political concerns rather than purely economic factors.

The reprivatization of banks in South Korea has proceeded slowly, and as of 2010 the state had still not relinquished all of its shareholdings. In the South Korean context, literature has specifically referred to the privatization of circumstantially nationalized banks as reprivatization, though the previous chaebol owners were in fact prohibited from having the bulk of their ownership returned. The Korean Banking Act prevented chaebol-affiliated corporations outside of the finance sector from owning more than 4% of voting shares in commercial banks. However, this reform slowed reprivatization as there were no domestic Korean buyers outside of the chaebol that could afford to purchase shares in the banks.

Mexico
Beginning in 1983, the Mexican state began a process of reprivatizing previously state-held companies, with the largest target being state-held banks, which were nationalized the previous year in response to an extremely high default debt faced by the state. In the 1990s President Carlos Salinas began to accelerate this process as part of a larger privatization campaign to fund social programs. Both the privatization of state owned enterprises and the reprivatization of recently privatized banks were extremely lucrative to the state, though the latter carried political and economic consequences. In the case of Mexico, banks were reprivatized to the same wealthy banking class, and though there was no formal compensation of the previous owners, the new owners were largely the same members of the financial elite. The lack of banking regulations imposed during the reprivitization campaign in order to secure Salinas’ support among the banking elite eventually lead to the collapse of the State Bank Saving Protection Fund (Foboproa) later on in the decade.

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More Craig Stevens's
According to IMDb, there are eight people called Craig Stevens. Yet only one of them seems to be known about here. The only Craig Stevens I'm familiar with is the one who used to present BrainTeaser. -- Smjg 18:58, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

The word "propaganda" seems a bit strong. These were patriotic pro-American films and, after all, America was on the side of freedom in WW II. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.49.22.149 (talk) 02:16, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Similar To Cary Grant
Craig Stevens' acting style and voice is an exact copy of Cary Grant's. Was this deliberate or did they have the same acting teachers or what? Anybody know? 63.192.100.101 (talk) 04:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Cary, Craig, and Gig Young had the same barber, Vincent Zarano, of Glendale, CA.98.110.35.110 (talk) 03:12, 15 May 2013 (UTC)Armand Baciagallupo

Removed uncited information
"Craig Stevens had a small role in the movie "Since You Went Away" playing a merchant marine soldier who is receiving therapy at the hospital where Jane (Jennifer Jones) volunteers to get over the fear of water because he was injured during battle on a ship. " That is what I removed. V. Joe (talk) 21:08, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Did he really get a bachelor's degree in 1936?
If he was born in 1918, wouldn't be incredible if he got a bachelor's degree in 1936? 2600:1700:2890:7540:FD50:43BB:367C:9A02 (talk) 07:18, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

 * Thanks for raising that question!
 * After I read your post I checked the cited newspaper article. It did not mention his college degree, so I removed that part of the article. The source also gave a different university from the one that this article had, so I changed that, too.
 * I also added a "citation needed" template for the date of birth. Unfortunately (like many biographies of actors and actresses on Wikipedia) this date of birth is unsourced, so we can only wonder whether it is correct. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:43, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

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