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More information or photos would be great, if anyone has them. Uriah923 19:15, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

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It looks like Chad Lovell made corrections to the biography, which is greatly appreciated. I integrated the info into the article. Chad, if you drop by again, perhaps you could offer some photos? Feel free to email me if you have questions about uploading them. Uriah923 14:19, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I cleaned up the opening paragraph a little bit, when I have time I will add some earlier history. Also, I could never stand for the "Metal" (as well as the far worst "grunge" label) We were influenced by the post punk bands from the early 80s (Bauhaus, Killing Joke, etc.) as well as some of the earlier industrial bands (Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Ministry).

Then there is all our personal taste thrown in the mix, Chad was the metal guy but he brought in more of technical musicianship than metal junk. I was more influenced by what ever was going on at the time, though I always prefered harder edged stuff. In the end we were moving towards a old British Glam thing (Bowie, T-Rex, Small Faces).

I would like to thank whoever listed us initially, I will try and find some copywrite free photos to add.

Thanks Paul Semrad

other items
Should there be a mention of the band's frustration with the time taken to release Telepathic Last Words? I heard an earlier version of the album and one of the songs featured (not exactly buried in the mix) a member arguing with someone.

That would be producer John Fryer making fun of drummer Chad Lovell

Then there's also the track "Running Man" on Initiation, which can only be accessed by making an exact audio copy of the CD or by rewinding before the first track - this is supposedly the first time the technique was used to hide a track on an album. There was some controversy later when someone else did this and claimed they originated the technique. Andrewhime 08:02, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

How can we get the Greg Prato music guide link off. it is so inaccurate. paul

other singles
I have promo singles for "White Vision Blowout" and I think "Hiss" off the 2nd album. They're radio promos, so not extra tracks. Is this worth including? Andrewhime (talk) 22:17, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

disambiguation page?
"Course of Empire" is a series of paintings by important American artist Thomas Cole. I came here looking for more information on that and find of all things, a band! Oh wikipedia... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.76.75.203 (talk) 23:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC).

The band was named after the paintings, try searching "THE Course of Empire" next time.

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George Miles (organist)

George Theophilus Miles FRCO (23 February 1913 – 26 March 1988) was an English organist and organ teacher based in Birmingham.

Education
He was educated at King's School, Canterbury and the Royal College of Music from 1931 to 1935, where he studied with George Thalben-Ball.

He studied with Karl Straube at the Kirchenmusikalisches Institut in Leipzig. He applied to study with Straube for his main study, Organ; but also composition under the Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk David and piano under Prof Robert Teichmueller, who was a pupil of Reinecke and taught Karg-Elert and others. Miles signed up on 28 September 1935. He remained in Germany for a few years, as he is documented living in Mittelweg, Hamburg a year or so later and did some translating work in an advisory capacity for C.F.Peters.

Career
From the 1930s, through recitals and in particular broadcasts, he was virtually alone in representing the continental style of organ playing in Britain, especially in Bach.

He was consulted by Ralph Downes on the design of the new organ for the Royal Festival Hall.

Soon after World War II he became established as a devoted and respected teacher through his hundreds of pupils from Birmingham University and the Birmingham School of Music.

He was organist at St. Peter's Church, Harborne from 1946 to 1988.

Personal life
He was born on 23 February 1913 to Canon Joseph Henry Miles (1856 - 1935) (Curate of Castlerea 1882 - 1883, Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 1883 - 1896, Rector of Pangbourne 1896 - 1913, Curate of West Teignmouth 1918 - 1919, Benenden 1919-1922, Chaplain of Faversham Almshouses 1922 - 1930) and Helen J Kolb in Pangbourne, Berkshire. His half brother Harry Godfrey Massy-Miles died in the First World War.

He married Margarete Böhm. They had one son, George Christopher Miles (1942 – 1994).

He died in Birmingham on 26 March 1988.

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Where are these used and this information about the emperor cited? RJFJR 19:17, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

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Centaur Publications

Centaur Publications (also known as Centaur Comics) was one of the earliest American comic book publishers. During their short existence, they created several colorful characters, including Bill Everett's Amazing-Man.

Comics Magazine Company
Centaur developed primarily from the Comics Magazine Company, Inc. In 1936, comic-book entrepreneur Everett M. "Busy" Arnold gave financial or other unspecified help to that New York City-based firm, founded by John Mahon and Bill Cook, former employees of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's National Allied Publications (the primary forerunner of DC Comics). The duo published the premiere issue of The Comics Magazine (May 1936), using inventory content from National Allied's submissions. (One collector/historian suggests this was in lieu of pay. )

Among the Comics Magazine Company's original features was Dr. Mystic the Occult Detective (not to be confused with Mr. Mystic of newspapers' "The Spirit Section"). This two-page feature was by future Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and was part of their Doctor Occult continuity, with the name changed for trademark consideration. This was the beginning of a serial that introduced the villain Koth, and the Seven, that continued into DC's More Fun Comics #14–17 (issues also designated as vol. 2 #2–5).

The company's flagship title, the eponymous Comics Magazine, premiered with a May 1936 cover date. That comic-book series featured the first masked hero in American comics, writer-artist George Brenner's the Clock, in the November 1936 issue.

Ultem Publications
Another entrepreneur, Harry "A" Chesler, published Star Comics and Star Ranger through his own Chesler Publications, each with first issues cover-dated February 1937. These titles were soon bought out by I. W. Ullman and Frank Z. Temerson's Ultem Publications. In September 1937, Ultem acquired the Comics Magazine Company's titles, retaining Chesler as the packager for both his own previous titles and the two that were continued from the Comics Magazine Co. Financial difficulties forced Ultem to sell some of its properties, including the Clock, to "Busy" Arnold's Quality Comics.

Centaur Comics
By January 1938, Ultem was bought out by Joe Hardie, Fred Gardner, and Raymond Kelly's Centaur Publications, Inc., which had been publishing pulp magazines since at least 1933. Hardie, Gardner, and Kelly used this base to create Centaur Comics, which began publishing in March 1938. They also drew on the back inventory of stories to fill out the early issues of their new titles with reprints. Centaur Publications, Inc. ceased production at the end of 1940, but continued to produce comics under the name Comic Corporation of America.

Centaur ceased publication four years later, primarily due to poor distribution, but in that period had created several colorful characters, including Bill Everett's Amazing Man. Everett would later go on to comics fame by introducing Namor the Submariner to Timely (later Atlas Comics, then Marvel Comics). Everett's first nationally published comic work was the cover of Amazing Mystery Funnies No. 1 (1938).

Revival
In 1992, Malibu Comics revived several Centaur heroes—which by that time had lapsed into public domain—as the superhero team The Protectors. Malibu selected R. A. Jones to revamp and write the series Included were Airman, Amazing Man, the Arrow, the Clock (as a retired mystery man, then the President of the United States, Brian O'Brien), the Fantom of the Fair, also known as Fantoman (renamed by Malibu as Gravestone), the Ferret, Man of War, the Masked Marvel (renamed Night Mask), Mighty Man, Prince Zardi the Eternal Man, and the Shark (renamed Thresher), as well as completely original characters, such as Arc and Aura. Several of these characters had short-lived titles of their own. AC Comics reprinted a number of stories featuring Centaur characters in their anthologies.

R. A. Jones was approached by a small book publisher, Westerntainment, to do a prose novel about the Centaur characters with the idea that the story take place in their original time period. By December 2014, his novel The Steel Ring was available. A second book, Twilight War, was green-lit by that time. Those Centaur heroes in Ring were Amazing Man, the Clock, Ferret, Iron Skull, Man of War plus others. In October 2016, Twilight War was available. Centaur characters add for the second novel included Airman, the Arrow, Eternal Man and Phantom Princess. Each novel would take place in a different year of World War II. So at the time of the second novel's release, Jones had planned to do a total of seven books in the series for each year of the war.

Characters

 * Airman
 * Amazing Man
 * The Arrow
 * Black Panther
 * Blue Fire
 * Blue Lady
 * The Buzzard
 * Chuck Hardy
 * The Conqueror (enemy of Dean Denton)
 * The Clock (at the Comics Magazine Co., character sold to Quality Comics but reprints of CMC stories appeared at Centaur)
 * Dan Hastings
 * Dash Dartwell
 * Dean Denton
 * Diana Deane
 * Dirk the demon
 * Dr. Darkness
 * Dr. Hypno
 * Dr. Mystic
 * Dr. Synthe
 * The Electric Ray
 * The Eye
 * Ermine
 * Eternal man
 * Fantom of the Fair/Fantoman
 * The Ferret
 * The Fire Man
 * Iron Skull
 * King of Darkness
 * Liberty Guards
 * Mad Ming
 * Magician from Mars
 * Man O'War
 * Marksman
 * The Masked Marvel
 * Meteor Martin
 * Mighty-Man
 * Minimidget
 * Miraco the Great
 * Nightshade
 * The Rainbow
 * The Sentinel
 * The Shark
 * Scarlet Ace
 * Skyrocket Steele
 * Solarman
 * Speed Centaur
 * Super-Ann (Two characters of the same name)
 * TNT Todd
 * Vapo-man
 * The Voice
 * The Witch ( Migthy man villain)

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Tom Adams (actor)

Anthony Frederick Charles "Tom" Adams (9 March 1938 – 11 December 2014) was an English actor with roles in adventure, horror and mystery films, and several TV shows. He was well known for his appearance in The Great Escape (1963) and as Daniel Fogarty in several series of The Onedin Line.

Early life
Adams was born in Poplar, London and his father was a commercial chauffeur. After school he did national service in the British Army, then joined the Unity Theatre, London. He adopted the stage name of Tom Adams and taught English and drama at the Cardinal Griffin secondary modern school, Poplar, in the 1960s between acting jobs with repertory companies.

Career
He appeared in television series such as The Avengers, Maigret and Ghost Squad as well as films from 1961 and made his West End debut, supporting Anton Walbrook and Peter Sallis, in Masterpiece at the Royalty in 1961. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962 as one of an infusion of new actors into Michael Elliott’s production of As You Like It at the Aldwych Theatre. His first big screen break was a role as Nimmo in The Great Escape (1963), in which the salary from the film allowed him to buy his first car.

He starred as the lead of a film series featuring a low budget imitation James Bond named Charles Vine in three films beginning with Licensed to Kill (aka The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World, 1965) and the sequels Where the Bullets Fly (1966) and Somebody's Stolen Our Russian Spy (aka "O.K. Yevtushenko" 1967) that was shot in Spain. He was the second male lead in the 1966 Disney film The Fighting Prince of Donegal after he replaced Mark Eden who broke his ankle during the film's shooting and menaced Raquel Welch in Fathom.

Adams' television credits include Emergency Ward 10 where he played Dr Guy Marshall from 1964 to 1967 and later the similar Dr Guy Wallman in General Hospital between 1975 and 1978; starred as Major Sullivan in the BBC counter-espionage drama Spy Trap from 1973 to 1975, The Onedin Line as Daniel Fogarty (1977–79); Doctor Who as Vorshak in Warriors of the Deep (1984); and Emmerdale Farm (1987) as Malcolm Bates. He took the lead in The Enigma Files in 1980.

During the late 1970s, he appeared in TV commercials for Dixons, and for many years in the 1980s and 1990s he was the face of the furniture store chain DFS/Northern Upholstery. In 2011, he was seen in a series of commercials advertising the Aero Biscuit, and he later appeared in an ad for Stannah Stairlifts and Hyundai. He was noted as a voice-over artist, and became the continuity announcer for UK television channel, E4.

A keen golfer, he authored a 1996 book of short stories Shakespeare Was a Golfer: A Collection of Golfing Shorts.

Death
Adams died on 11 December 2014 at the age of 76 at Wexham Park Hospital in Berkshire, of cancer.

TV and filmography

 * A Chance of Thunder (1961, TV series) .... Evans
 * The Avengers (1961–1969, TV Series) .... PC Butterworth / Rayner / Grenville
 * A Pair of Briefs (1962) .... Wheelchair attendant (uncredited)
 * Play It Cool (1962) .... Reporter #2 (uncredited)
 * A Prize of Arms (1962) .... Corporal Glenn
 * The Great Escape (1963) .... Dai Nimmo, "Diversions"
 * This Is My Street (1964) .... Paul
 * Emergency Ward 10 (1964, TV Series) .... Mr. Guy Marshall
 * The Peaches (1964, British short subject) .... The Boy
 * Z-Cars (1965, TV Series) .... Steve
 * R3 (1965,TV Series) .... John Rawlins
 * Licensed to Kill (1965) .... Charles Vine
 * The Spies (1966, TV Series) .... Stefan
 * Where the Bullets Fly (1966) .... Charles Vine
 * The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966) .... Henry O'Neill
 * Fathom (1967) .... Mike
 * Subterfuge (1968) .... Peter Langley
 * O.K. Yevtushenko (1968) .... Charles Vine
 * Journey to Midnight (1968) .... Jerry Crown (segment "The Indian Spirit Guide")
 * Strange Report (1969, TV Series) .... Clinton
 * UFO (1970, Episode: "The Psychobombs") .... Captain Lauritzen
 * The House That Dripped Blood (1970) .... Richard / Dominic (segment 1 "Method for Murder")
 * Von Richthofen and Brown aka The Red Baron (1971) .... Owen
 * The Persuaders!, ('The Time and the Place', episode) (1971, TV Series) .... Piers Emerson
 * The Fast Kill (1972) .... Max Stein
 * The Daredevil Men (1972, British short subject) .... Unidentified leading man
 * Dixon of Dock Green (1972–1976, TV Series) .... Charlie Mann / Johnny Orwell / Jack Montelbetti
 * Madigan (1972–1973, TV Series) .... Detective Jaqueta
 * Spy Trap (1973) .... Major Sullivan
 * General Hospital (1975–1978, TV Series) .... Dr. Guy Wallman
 * The Onedin Line (1977–1979, TV Series) .... Daniel Fogarty
 * The Enigma Files (1980, TV Series) .... Det Chief Insp Nick Lewis
 * Doctor Who (1984, TV Series) .... Commander Vorshak
 * Remington Steele (1984, TV Series) .... Richard Moreland
 * Strike It Rich! (1986–1987, TV Series) .... Ken Stevenson
 * Pyrates (1991) .... Calico Jack (uncredited)
 * Focus North (1999, TV Series) .... Tom Whitelamb
 * Day of the Sirens (2002) .... Chat Show Host (final film role)

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Gustave Lanson

Gustave Lanson (5 August 1857 – 15 December 1934) was a French historian and literary critic. He taught at the Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. A dominant figure in French literary criticism, he influenced several generations of writers and critics through his teachings, which were anti-systematic and promoted a scrupulous and erudite approach to texts via extensive firsthand research, inventorying, and in-depth historical investigation.

Biography
Lanson was a major figure in the reformation of the French university system at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as a dominant force in French literary criticism until well after his death. He is known primarily for his writings on literary history, particularly his attempts to fuse the studies of literature and of culture; in the former area he expanded upon, and in part questioned, the idea of "race, milieu, and moment" as described by Hippolyte Taine. He also contributed a great deal to the study of pedagogy, arguing for the pedagogical importance of the explication de texte, the French predecessor of close reading. Among his shorter works is a still-authoritative 1892 life of the French poet Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux in the series Les Grands Ecrivains Francais.

Lanson proposed the idea of "literary sociology," a complex formulation of the relationship between social influences on an author, readers' expectations, and the text. For Lanson a text was neither a mere product of collective social forces nor an autonomous work by an autonomous genius, but something in between. The text was a composite work on which society exerted powerful and unseen forces but that could still escape those forces in order to present something outside of them: perhaps a hope or fantasy of something better. The composite nature of Lanson's model allowed him to imagine a text with multiple intended audiences: the immediate readership of the society that produced it, and another, ideal one that could be partially conditioned by the text itself.

In 1911 Lanson was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York City. During this period he travelled extensively in the United States, visiting a number of college campuses, and later wrote about his experiences. Lanson was struck by the importance of religion on American campuses, though he also commented that the unity inspired by shared religion was fading in favor of shared interest in collegiate sports, particularly American football.

In 1919, he became director of the École Normale Supérieure; for years he was the target of Jean-Paul Sartre satirical attacks, and got particularly upset with a 1927 antimilitarist satirical cartoon published by Sartre and Georges Canguilhem in the University revue. In the same year he was finally led to resign after a media prank by Sartre and his comrades. In 1927 Lanson's working library of approximately 11,000 volumes was sold to Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina for a sum of 125,000 francs.

Lanson's reputation, particularly in the United States, steadily declined in the years after his death, reaching its nadir in the late 1950s and 1960s. In the era of the New Criticism, with its interest in the exploration of metaphor and image and the distancing of a text from the circumstances that created it, Lanson was seen as a pedant obsessed with historical and biological trivia and a rigid and unliterary philology. In recent years, however, with critics exploring possible commonalities between formal and historical methods and with more intense and less teleological studies of the history of criticism, interest in Lanson has grown.

Works

 * Le Théâtre Classique au Temps d’Alexandre Hardy (1891).
 * Bossuet (1891).
 * Boileau (1892).
 * Histoire de la Littérature Française (with Paul Tuffrau, 1894).
 * Hommes et Livres: Études Morales et Littéraires (1896).
 * Corneille (1898).
 * Études Pratiques de Composition Française (1898).
 * Les Grands Maîtres et les Grands Courants de la Littérature Française Moderne (1900).
 * Choix de Lettres du XVIIe Siècle (1901).
 * L'Université et la Société Moderne (1902).
 * Les Origines du Drame Contemporain. Nivelle de La Chaussée et la Comédie Larmoyante (1903).
 * L’Art de la Prose (1909).
 * Choix de Lettres du XVIIIe Siècle (1909).
 * Extraits des Philosophes du XVIIIe Siècle (1909).
 * Manuel Bibliographique de la Littérature Française Moderne, 1500–1900 (1909–1912).
 * Trois Mois d'Enseignement aux États-Unis (1912).
 * Conseils sur l’Art d’Écrire (1913).
 * Anthologie des Poètes Nouveaux (1913).
 * Esquisse d’une Histoire de la Tragédie Française (1920).
 * Manuel Illustré d'Histoire de la Littérature Française (2 vol., 1923).
 * Voltaire: Lettres Philosophiques (2 vol., 1924).
 * Méthodes de l’Histoire Littéraire (1925).
 * Les Essais de Montaigne. Étude et Analyse (1929).
 * Le Marquis de Vauvenargues (1930).
 * Les Essais de Montaigne: Étude et Analyse (1930).
 * Voltaire: Extraits (1930).
 * Montesquieu (1932).
 * Lettres Choisies des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles (1932).

Translated into English
 * Problems of National Education (1900).
 * "The New Poetry in France," The International Quarterly, Vol. 4 (1901).
 * "Historic Method of Jules Michelet," The International Quarterly, Vol. 11 (1905).
 * "France of Today," The North American Review, Vol. 195 (1912).
 * "Address before the American Academy and Institute," The Art World, Vol. 1, No. 5 (1917).
 * "The Modern Subjects in Secondary Education." In: French Educational Ideals of Today (1919).
 * "Molière and Farce," The Tulane Drama Review, Vol. 8, No. 2 (1963).
 * Moliere: A Collection of Critical Essays (ed. Jacques Guicharnaud, 1964).
 * Voltaire (1966).
 * "Literary History and Sociology," PMLA, Vol. 110, No. 2 (1995).

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The result of the debate was MERGE to Dune (novel). -Splash talk 22:49, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Kanly
Admitted dicdef of the term only used in Frank Herbert's Dune. 202.156.6.54 19:19, 30 September 2005 (UTC) Hi I'm the user that added the description of Kanly. I would just like to ask what additional information would be required from myself to prevent this from being deleted? and what time limit I have to make additions before deletion. Also the member/user who posted above me raised a copyright issue, I would just like to point out that the source I used is the same that has been used for the Dune Terminology page here on wikipedia which is also copied word for word from the Dune novel. Here is the link to the page I am reffering to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_terminology User:Garry_Johnston (talk)
 * The current substub is not worth much, but there could be room for an article about this in Wikipedia. It is a somewhat important concept in Dune. Thue | talk 20:23, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Dune (novel), in which the word is used. Doctor Whom 21:09, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * merge to Dune (novel) as per above. Roodog2k (talk) 21:36, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge info into Dune (novel) as above, but only after rewrite. i belive the current text is an exact quote from the appendix of the novel, and as such would be a copyvio if it wern't so short that it is arguably fair use. Still, an exact quote should be indicated as such, and an article that is nothing but a singel quote and a source is undesireable -- indeed it might be subject to speedy delete uder WP:CSD A3. DES (talk) 21:54, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
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The result of the debate was delete. Jitse Niesen (talk) 21:27, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Www.seatmaestro.com
non-notable and very much advertising Alhutch 19:19, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
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Korff Ice Rise

Korff Ice Rise is an ice rise, 80 nmi long and 20 nmi wide, lying 50 nmi east-northeast of Skytrain Ice Rise in the southwestern part of the Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica. It was discovered by the US–IGY Ellsworth Traverse Party, 1957–58, and named by the party for Professor Serge A. Korff, vice chairman of the cosmic ray technical panel, U.S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year, 1957–59. Radar surveying in 2013-2015 by a team from the British Antarctic Survey found the ice to be up to around 600 m thick and found evidence that the Raymond Effect was operating beneath the ice divide.

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Stade de Reims

Stade de Reims is a French professional football club based in Reims. The club was formed in 1910 and plays in Ligue 1, the top level of Football in France. Reims plays home matches at the Stade Auguste Delaune and are currently without a manager after the departure of Will Still.

Reims is one of the most successful clubs in French football history having won six Ligue 1 titles, two Coupe de France trophies, and five Trophée des champions titles. The club has also performed well on European level having finished as runners-up in the 1956 and 1959 editions of the European Cup, and winning the Latin Cup and Coppa delle Alpi in 1953 and 1977, respectively. However, since the 1980s, Reims have struggled to get back to their zenith. The club hovered between Ligue 2 and the Championnat National for over thirty years after their relegation from the top flight in 1979. In 2012, they were promoted back to Ligue 1, were relegated again in 2016, but returned two years later.

Reims is viewed as a legendary club within French football circles, not only due to its domestic and European accolades, but its contribution towards the France national team through the 1940s and 1950s. They were largely responsible for the first Golden Generation of French football with Reims players Roger Marche, Raymond Kopa, Just Fontaine, Jean Vincent, Robert Jonquet, Armand Penverne, Dominique Colonna, and Roger Piantoni in the team that reached the semi-finals at the 1958 FIFA World Cup (third place).

History
Stade de Reims was founded in 1910 under the name Société Sportive du Parc Pommery under the guidance of Marquis Melchior de Polignac, a Frenchman who later went on to serve on the International Olympic Committee. The club adopted its current name on 18 June 1931.

Despite the country adopting professional football in 1932, Reims remained an amateur club until 1935 after the club won the Championnat de France amateur under the leadership of Scotsman Billy Aitken. The club reached Division 1 for the first time in the 1945–46 season, the first championship following the conclusion of World War II. During the same year, the club promoted defender Robert Jonquet to the senior team and signed Roger Marche from Olympique de Charleville. Together, the two went on to become, arguably, the club's most famous players in its history.

Reims won its first Division 1 championship in 1949. Led by a talented backline of Marche, Jonquet, and Armand Penverne, as well as midfielders Albert Batteux and Michel Leblond, and an underrated striker trio of Pierre Flamion, Pierre Sinibaldi, and Pierre Bini, Reims won the league by a single point over Lille. The following season, the club won the Coupe de France defeating Racing Paris 2–1 in the final.

After the season, manager Henri Roessler departed the club and longtime player Batteux took the reins. The team's subsequent rise in the sport led to the signings of Raymond Kopa and Raoul Giraudo. In 1953, Reims won its second league title winning the league by four points. That same year, the club won the Latin Cup becoming the first French football club to attain the honour. The victory was cited as a coup for France after the country finished three straight years as runners-up in the competition. After the 1954 season, Marche left to play for the Racing team in Paris. In 1955, Reims won its third title in six seasons. The championship led to the club's qualification for the newly created European Cup.

In the inaugural edition of the European Cup, Reims reached the final where the team was defeated 4–3 by Spanish club Real Madrid. Reims controlled the match from the outset scoring two goals in the first ten minutes. However, two first half goals by Alfredo Di Stéfano and Héctor Rial for Madrid cancelled out Reims' early attacks. In the second half, Reims took the lead through Michel Hidalgo, but within minutes, the match was levelled courtesy of a goal from Marquitos. Real's winner in the 79th minute ended Reims' hopes of winning the first edition of the European Cup. In the following season, Reims lost prominent midfielder Kopa to Madrid, but still were able to recruit French internationals Just Fontaine, Jean Vincent, Roger Piantoni, and Dominique Colonna to the team. After early struggles, the additions paid off with the club winning its third title of the decade in the 1957–58 season. The team also won the Coupe de France after beating Nîmes Olympique 3–1 in the final, thus achieving the double.

In the 1958–59 edition of the European Cup, Reims returned to the final to face, for the second time, Real Madrid. Aside from Kopa switching sides and the arrival of Fontaine, Colonna, Piantoni, and Vincent to Reims, the line-ups were nearly identical to the previous meeting. However, an undeterred Madrid, who had already won the competition three times, cruised through to a victory with a convincing 2–0 win. After the season, Penverne departed the club. The team was, however, boosted by the return of Kopa who, subsequently led the team to its fifth league title in 11 seasons in 1960.

Following the season, Jonquet retired from international football and left Reims for Strasbourg. He was followed by Giraudo and Leblond. The departures failed to hinder Reims' performances domestically as the team won the league in 1962. The championship capped an amazing career for Just Fontaine, who, subsequently, retired from football. In the ensuing season, which was longtime manager Albert Batteux's last, Reims finished runner-up to AS Monaco in the league and, the following season, shocked many by finishing 17th, which resulted in the club falling to the second division. The relegation led to the departures or retirements of many of the players who were a part of Reims' dynastic run in the 1950s; all except for Kopa who remained with Reims until 1967.

Reims returned to top-flight for the 1966–67 season after two seasons in the second division. However, the stint proved short with Reims finishing 19th. In 1970, the club returned to top-flight and remained in the league for nearly a decade. Reims' best performance in the league during its nine-year stint was finishing 5th in the 1975–76 season. Reims were relegated in 1979 and didn't return to the first division of French football for 33 years. In the ensuing season in Division 2, Reims was limited financially and was forced to field a much younger team during the campaign.

Despite the return of former popular player Carlos Bianchi as manager during the mid-1980s, the club failed to return to Division 1. Reims did surprise many by reaching the semi-finals of the Coupe de France in back-to-back seasons in 1987 and 1988. As the years wore on, the club's financial situation began to take a turn for the worse and, in 1991, Reims was administratively relegated to Division 3 after its failure to find a buyer to help alleviate the club's debt, which had exceeded over ₣50 million. In October 1991, the club underwent liquidation and changed its name to Stade de Reims Champagne FC. The club spent the 1991–92 season in Division 3 and were, surprisingly, declared ineligible to compete in the league ahead of its final league match in May 1992 after a judicial liquidation resulted in the stoppage of the club's activities. In the ensuing months, all aspects of the club (its records, trophies, etc.) were auctioned off. (Upon the club's re-introduction in 1992, a new French law restricting alcohol advertising banned their old logo, which included a bottle of wine on top of a football; the club had no formal logo until 1999, when the old club name was restored.)

Reims was reborn in July 1992 under the name Stade de Reims Champagne. The club began play in the Division d'Honneur and spent two seasons in the league before earning promotion to the Championnat National. Reims spent the final years of the century playing in National and the Championnat de France amateur. In November 1996, most of the club's items that were sold in the 1992 auction were re-acquired under the assistance of the Alain Afflelou retail chain. In July 1999, the club changed its name back to Stade de Reims and, after three years, were rewarded with professional status after earning promotion back to Ligue 2.

The club's return to Ligue 2 in 2002 was brief. Reims finished bottom of the league. In the next season playing in National, Reims won the league returning to Ligue 2. The club spent the next five seasons playing in the second division failing to finish in the top half of the table in every campaign. In the 2008–09 season, Reims were relegated from Ligue 2 and, like its previous relegation, responded by returning to the league after one season in National after finishing 2nd. Reims finished Ligue 2 as 10th in 2010–11 season. In the 2011–12 season, Reims finally finished the league as runner-up and returned to Ligue 1 after 33 years.

On 14 May 2016, Reims were relegated to Ligue 2 after a four year stay in the top flight. On 16 August 2016, Real Madrid played a friendly against Reims to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1956 European Cup final which both teams were involved in. Real Madrid won 5–3. On 21 April 2018, Reims were promoted back to Ligue 1 after a two year absence finishing first and claiming the Ligue 2 title.

In the 2018–19 season, Reims finished in 8th place, defeating champions Paris Saint-Germain 3–1 in the final game of the year. In the 2019–20 season, Reims were ranked in the 6th place, to qualify to the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League, and to play their first match in European competitions since 13 March 1963 against Feyenoord, which ended 1–1 in the 1962–63 European Cup. In the 2020–21 Ligue 1 season, Reims finished 14th on the table.

Notable players
Below are the notable former players who have represented Stade de Reims in league and international competition since the club's foundation in 1910. To appear in the section below, a player must have played in at least 100 official matches for the club.

 * Algeria
 * 1) Aissa Mandi
 * France
 * 1) 🇫🇷 Albert Batteux
 * 2) 🇫🇷 Armand Penverne
 * 3) 🇫🇷 Bruno Rodzik
 * 4) 🇫🇷 Cédric Fauré
 * 5) 🇫🇷 Dominique Colonna
 * 6) 🇫🇷 Jacques Favre
 * 7) 🇫🇷 Jean Templin
 * 8) 🇫🇷 Jean Vincent
 * 9) 🇫🇷 Just Fontaine
 * 10) 🇫🇷 Léon Glovacki
 * 11) 🇫🇷 Lucien Muller
 * 12) 🇫🇷 Marcel Aubour
 * 13) 🇫🇷 Michel Leblond
 * 14) 🇫🇷 Pierre Flamion
 * 15) 🇫🇷 Pierre Sinibaldi
 * 16) 🇫🇷 Raoul Giraudo
 * 17) 🇫🇷 Raymond Kopa
 * 18) 🇫🇷 René Bliard
 * 19) 🇫🇷 René-Jean Jacquet
 * 20) 🇫🇷 Robert Jonquet
 * 21) 🇫🇷 Robert Siatka
 * 22) 🇫🇷 Roger Marche
 * 23) 🇫🇷 Roger Piantoni
 * 24) 🇫🇷 Simon Zimny

Club officials

 * Management
 * President: Jean-Pierre Caillot
 * Association President: Didier Perrin

 * Coaching
 * Manager: Vacant
 * Assistant manager: Ruben Martinez

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Night Stalker (TV series)

Night Stalker is a television series that ran for six weeks in 2005 on ABC in the United States. The series starred Stuart Townsend as Carl Kolchak, an investigative reporter whose wife was murdered. Kolchak spends his time investigating other strange murders, believing they are linked in some way to his wife's murder. He is helped along the way by a fellow crime reporter Perri Reed (Gabrielle Union), photographer Jain McManus (Eric Jungmann) and editor Anthony Vincenzo (Cotter Smith).

Night Stalker was a remake of the 1974 series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. ABC owned the rights to the original television movies, but not the Universal television series, and was limited to using only characters that had appeared in those movies.

Main

 * Carl Kolchak (Stuart Townsend): The believer. Reporter for the L.A. Beacon newspaper; continuously searches for his wife's murderer and supernatural happenings in Los Angeles.
 * Perri Reed (Gabrielle Union): The skeptic. Head crime reporter for the L.A. Beacon, but she trails after Kolchak like a rookie. She helps Kolchak investigate his cases of the paranormal, although she looks for a normal explanation of the cases.
 * Jain McManus (Eric Jungmann): Kolchak's open-minded friend. He is a photographer for the L.A. Beacon.
 * Anthony Vincenzo (Cotter Smith): Editor of the L.A. Beacon. A friend of Kolchak's who hired him as a favor after they worked together in Las Vegas.

Recurring

 * Agent Bernie Fain (John Pyper-Ferguson): Kolchak's former friend in Las Vegas but now a nemesis, an FBI agent who believed Kolchak murdered his wife and made up a bizarre story to cover up his involvement. The character is loosely reworked from Agent Bernie Jenks, Kolchak's Vegas contact in the original Night Stalker TV movie.
 * "Edhead" (Loreni Delgado): Technology specialist for the L.A. Beacon. Friend of Jain's.
 * Alex Nyby (Eugene Byrd): Coroner's assistant at the Los Angeles Morgue. A contact of Kolchak's who drools over Perri.

Guest

 * Damon Caylor (Tony Curran): A disfigured, blind Charles Manson-esque cult leader who uses supernatural powers to force the people who convicted him to kill their families.

Cancellation
On November 13, 2005, Frank Spotnitz announced on his blog that Night Stalker had been canceled. ABC announced the official cancellation of the series that following Monday. Night Stalker was canceled after six episodes. All ten episodes were aired on the Sci Fi Channel in the summer of 2006.

Broadcast and release
Its first episode was broadcast on Thursday, September 29, at 9 p.m. against CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS, The Apprentice on NBC and the 2005 MLB playoffs on Fox.

The last episode to be broadcast was the first of a multi-part episode, so viewers never saw the end of the sixth story. However, some time after the cancellation, the seventh episode appeared on Apple's iTunes Music Store for download. On February 7, 2006, the final three episodes were released on iTunes.

The Sci-Fi Channel, which frequently shows canceled network genre shows, showed all ten filmed episodes during summer 2006, starting on July 28, 2006. The ratings were poor on Sci-Fi Channel as well. In 2007, the show continued in rotation on the network's weekday series marathons.

Night Stalker has been re-run on the Chiller channel, beginning on November 3, 2007. In the UK the series aired in December 2007 and January 2008 on Bravo.

In Australia, the Seven Network free-to-air station and Prime in regional areas screened the series between early June and September 2007.

DVD release
Night Stalker: The Complete Series was released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment on May 30, 2006.

The set includes all ten episodes; commentary on the episodes "Pilot" and "The Source, Part Two"; deleted scenes; a featurette entitled "A Conversation with Frank Spotnitz"; and unproduced scripts in the DVD-ROM format.

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Hughes XH-17

The Hughes XH-17 "Flying Crane" was the first helicopter project for the helicopter division of Hughes Aircraft Company. The XH-17, which had a two-bladed main rotor system with a diameter of 134 feet (41 m), still holds the world record for flying with the largest rotor system. It was capable of flying at a gross weight of more than 50000 lb, but proved too inefficient and cumbersome to be mass-produced beyond the prototype unit.

Design and development
The XH-17 was a heavy-lift rotorcraft that was designed to lift loads in excess of 15 metric tons. To speed construction, parts of the XH-17 were scavenged from other aircraft. The front wheels came from a North American B-25 Mitchell and the rear wheels from a Douglas C-54 Skymaster. The fuel tank was a bomb bay-mounted unit from a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The cockpit was from a Waco CG-15 military glider and the tail rotor from a Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw was used for yaw control.

In the late 1940s, Hughes developed an interest in helicopters. In August 1947, helicopter manufacturer Kellett sold his design for the giant XH-17 Sky Crane to Hughes, who commissioned the development of the XH-17 Flying Crane research vehicle. In 1948, the XH-17 began to take shape. The giant helicopter was tested in Culver City, California over a three-year period beginning in 1952. The XH-17 flew in 1953 at a gross weight in excess of 50000 lb. It still holds the record for flying with the world's largest rotor system. Only one unit was built, since the aircraft was too cumbersome and inefficient to warrant further development.

The propulsion system was unusual. Two General Electric J35 turbojet engines were used, sending bleed air up through the rotor hub. The blades were hollow, and the hot compressed air traveled through the blades to tip jets where fuel was injected. In flight, the main rotor spun at a sedate 88 revolutions per minute, less than half the speed of typical helicopter rotors. Since the rotor was driven at the tips rather than the hub, little torque compensation was required, mostly due to friction in the main rotor bearing. Thus, the XH-17 had a very small tail rotor compared to its main rotor. This drive system was inefficient, limiting the test aircraft to a range of only 40 mi.

The XH-28 was a derivative, with a maximum weight of 104000 lb. Though a wooden mockup of the design was made, the program was canceled and none were built.

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Seán Brady

Seán Brady or similar names may refer to:
 * Seán Brady (bishop) (born 1939), Irish cardinal and former archbishop of Armagh
 * Sean Brady (fighter) (born 1992), American mixed martial artist
 * Seán Brady (Teachta Dála) (1890–1969), Fianna Fáil politician, member of Dáil Éireann
 * Seán Brady (senator) (1890–1969), Fianna Fáil politician, member of Seanad Éireann
 * Shaun Brady (active 2003–2008), British trade union leader, ASLEF general secretary
 * Shawn Brady, fictional character on the America soap opera Days of Our Lives
 * Seán Ó Brádaigh (born 1937), Irish republican activist

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Mohammed A. Salameh

Mohammed A. Salameh (محمد سلامة) (born September 1, 1967 in the West Bank) is a Palestinian convicted terrorist and perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He is currently serving a prison sentence as an inmate at FCI Terre Haute in Terre Haute, Indiana for taking part in the attack on New York.

Early life
Salameh was born in the West Bank, which him and his family soon fled in 1967 when the Six-Day War occurred.

Illegal immigrant
He entered the United States on a six-month tourist visa in 1988 but then overstayed. He was still in the country illegally in 1993 during the World Trade Center bombing. He applied for an immigration amnesty under a 1986 law that set up the Special Agricultural Worker program despite never having been eligible. However, he was still guaranteed work authorization until the Immigration and Naturalization Service could rule on his applications. It took the INS nearly five years to determine he was ineligible for any of the programs for which he had applied. Even then, he was not deported.

Role in World Trade Center bombing
Salameh's 1978 Chevy Nova was used to ferry the nitric acid and urea used to construct the bomb used in the past 1993 bombing.

Despite failing his driving test four times, Salameh had been the driver for the group. On January 24, 1993, he jumped a curb and tore the undercarriage from his car, injuring himself and Ramzi Yousef. He was checked out of Rahway Hospital the following day and went to the garage to clean his car while Yousef remained in the hospital for four more days.

With his Nova in for repairs, Salameh got Nidal Ayyad to use his corporate account with Allied Signal to rent him a new car. However, he got in a car accident again on February 16 and collided with a car.

Arrest and sentencing
On March 4, 1993, the FBI arrested Salameh. He had just collected $400 after reporting his rental van had been stolen and speaking with an undercover FBI agent posing as a Ryder "loss prevention analyst". Earlier, the FBI had traced the Ford Econoline van that had been used in the World Trade Center bombing by its vehicle identification number.

In 1994, Salameh was sentenced to 240 years in prison. In 1999, his sentence was reduced to 116 years and 11 months. In 2021, one of his convictions was overturned, cutting his sentence by another 30 years. He is assigned BOP number 34338-054. Salameh was initially sent to ADX Florence, where he was repeatedly force-fed after hunger strikes. He was later transferred to USP Big Sandy, then FCI Terre Haute. Salameh is scheduled for release on May 23, 2067.

Possible link to assassination of Kahane
An article in the Jerusalem Post quoted from the mid-August 2010 issue of Playboy that El Sayyid Nosair, who had been acquitted of the murder of Meir Kahane, later still claimed that he had two partners with him:

"He (Mr. Nosair) added that on the night he shot Kahane dead, he was accompanied by two co-conspirators to the Marriot Hotel in Manhattan where Kahane was speaking – one of whom was also carrying a gun.

The men, Bilal al-Kaisi of Jordan and Mohammed Salameh, a Palestinian illegal alien later involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, have never been charged for their part in the slaying.""

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Psychoticism

Psychoticism is one of the three traits used by the psychologist Hans Eysenck in his P–E–N model (psychoticism, extraversion and neuroticism) model of personality.

Nature
Psychoticism is conceptually similar to the constraint factor in Tellegen's three-factor model of personality. Psychoticism may be divided into narrower traits such as impulsivity and sensation-seeking. These may in turn be further subdivided into even more specific traits. For example, impulsivity may be divided into narrow impulsivity (unthinking responsivity), risk taking, non-planning, and liveliness. Sensation seeking has also been analysed into a number of separate facets.

Eysenck argued that there might be a correlation between psychoticism and creativity.

Critics
Critics of the trait have suggested that the trait is too heterogeneous to be taken as a single trait. Costa and McCrae believe that agreeableness and conscientiousness (both of which represent low levels of psychoticism) need to be distinguished in personality models. It has also been suggested that "psychoticism" may be a misnomer and that "psychopathy" or "Impulsive Unsocialized Sensation Seeking" would be better labels.

Biological bases
Psychoticism is believed to be associated with levels of dopamine. Other biological correlates of psychoticism include low conditionability and low levels of monoamine oxidase; beta-hydroxylase, cortisol, norepinephrine in cerebrospinal fluid also appear relevant to psychoticism level.

Eysenck's theoretical basis for the model was the theory of Einheitspsychosen (unitary psychosis) of the nineteenth-century German psychiatrist Heinrich Neumann.

More information

 * Eysenck, H.J. & Eysenck, S.B.G. (1976). Psychoticism as a Dimension of Personality. London: Hodder and Stoughton

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Saltash Community School

Saltash Community School is a mixed 11 to 18 academy school established in its present form in 1965, in Saltash, Cornwall, England. The school was previously maintained by the Cornwall Education Authority before 1 April 2011, when the school became an academy. In 2013 it formed Saltash Multi Academy Regional Trust (SMART), together with Landulph Primary School. The school is situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and it occupies a 13 acre site overlooking Plymouth Sound and the Tamar and Lynher rivers.

Controversy
In 2019 an Ofsted report highlighted issues with leaders of the school. In addition to teachers failing to successfully assess pupils leading to slow progress. In November 2018 video footage appeared on social media which showed a schoolboy being assaulted by fellow Saltash students. The assault took place during non-school hours and at a park not connected with the school.

Multi Academy Trust
The school is currently part of Saltash Multi Academy Regional Trust, shortened to SMART, along with Landulph Primary School. In 2016, SMART indicated that it is currently in the process of adding more schools to the academy trust and plans to become the South East Cornwall Multi Academy Trust whilst retaining the SMART acronym. The plans currently name Dobwalls Primary School, Trewidland Primary School, Bodmin College, Looe Community Academy and Liskeard School and Community College.

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Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is a nonprofit corporation created by the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 to oversee the audits of US-listed public companies. The PCAOB also oversees the audits of broker-dealers, including compliance reports filed pursuant to federal securities laws, to promote investor protection. All PCAOB rules and standards must be approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Purpose
In creating the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act required that auditors of U.S. public companies be subject to external and independent oversight for the first time in history. Previously, the profession was self-regulated. Congress vested the PCAOB with expanded oversight authority over the audits of brokers and dealers registered with the SEC in 2010 through the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

The PCAOB has four primary functions in overseeing these auditors: registration, inspection, standard-setting and enforcement.

Registered accounting firms that issue audit reports for more than 100 issuers (primarily public companies) are required to be inspected annually. This is usually around 10 firms. Registered firms that issue audit reports for 100 or fewer issuers are generally inspected at least once every three years. Many of these firms are international non-U.S. firms. In addition, the PCAOB annually inspects at least 5 percent of all registered firms that play a substantial role in the audit of an issuer but that do not issue audit reports for issuers themselves. In 2011, the board adopted an interim inspection program for the audits of broker-dealers, while the board considers the scope and other elements of a permanent inspection program.

In 2017, auditors began filing information on the names of engagement partners and other audit firms that participate in the audits of U.S. public companies. The PCAOB created a searchable database called AuditorSearch for investors and others to know more about who is leading and participating in audits through these filings, adding more specific data points to the mix of information that can be used when evaluating audit quality.

The PCAOB also adopted a new standard in 2017 to enhance the usefulness of the standard auditor's report by providing additional and important information to investors, such as the critical audit matters (CAMs) that auditors communicate to the audit committees of the public companies they are auditing. These are matters that are related to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements, and involved especially challenging, subjective, or complex auditor judgment. The CAMs requirement goes into effect in 2019 and 2020. Beginning in 2017, the updated auditor's report also includes the tenure of the auditor with that company.

Organizational overview
The PCAOB has five board members, including a chairman, each of whom is appointed by the SEC, after consultation with the chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury. Two board members, and only two members, must be Certified Public Accountants. If the PCAOB chairman is one of them, he or she may not have been a practicing CPA for at least five years prior to being appointed to the board. Each member serves full-time, for staggered five-year terms. The board's budget, approved by the SEC each year, is funded by fees paid by the companies and broker-dealers who rely on the audit firms overseen by the board. The organization has a staff of about 800 and offices in 11 states in addition to its headquarters in Washington.

The PCAOB's current chair is Erica Y. Williams, who was sworn in on January 10, 2022, by the SEC. From 2017 to 2021, the chairman was William D. Duhnke III, a former staff director and general counsel to three Senate committees. From 2011 to 2017, James R. Doty served as chairman, a former SEC general counsel and a former partner at the law firm of Baker Botts LLP. He was preceded by Mark W. Olson, a former member of the Federal Reserve board of governors. The first chairman in place at the PCAOB was former president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, William Joseph McDonough. The SEC first appointed William H. Webster to the position, a prominent lawyer and former director of both the FBI and CIA. He resigned after several weeks and prior to the board's first official meeting (as explained below).

Powers
Under Section 101 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the PCAOB has the power to:
 * register public accounting firms that prepare audit reports for issuers and broker-dealers;
 * set auditing, quality control, ethics, independence and other standards relating to the preparation of audit reports of issuers;
 * conduct inspections of PCAOB-registered public accounting firms;
 * conduct investigations and disciplinary proceedings, and impose sanctions, against registered public accounting firms and associated persons of such firms (including fines of up to $100,000 against individual auditors, and $2 million against audit firms);
 * perform such other duties or functions as the board determines are necessary or appropriate to promote high professional standards among, and improve the quality of audit services offered by, registered public accounting firms and their employees;
 * sue and be sued, complain and defend, in its corporate name and through its own counsel, with the approval of the SEC, in any Federal, State or other court;
 * conduct its operations, maintain offices, and exercise all of its rights and powers in any part of the United States, without regard to any qualification, licensing or other provision of state or [municipal] law;
 * hire staff, accountants, attorneys and other agents as may be necessary or appropriate to the PCAOB's mission (with salaries set at a level comparable to private-sector self-regulatory, accounting, technical, supervisory, or other staff or management positions, as set out by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to attract the highly skilled and experienced professionals needed to oversee global accounting firms);
 * allocate, assess, and collect accounting support fees that fund the board; and
 * enter into contracts, execute instruments, incur liabilities, and do any and all other acts and things necessary, appropriate, or incidental to the conduct of its operations and the exercise of its powers under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Auditors of public companies are prohibited by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to provide non-audit services, such as consulting, to their audit clients. Congress made certain exceptions for tax services, which are therefore overseen by the PCAOB. This prohibition was made as a result of allegations, in cases such as Enron and WorldCom, that auditors' independence from their clients' managers had been compromised because of the large fees that audit firms were earning from these ancillary services.

In addition, as part of the PCAOB's investigative powers, the board may require that audit firms, or any person associated with an audit firm, provide testimony or documents in its (or his or her) possession. If the firm or person refuses to provide this testimony or these documents, the PCAOB may suspend or bar that person or entity from the public audit industry. The PCAOB may also seek the SEC's assistance in issuing subpoenas for testimony or documents from individuals or entities not registered with the PCAOB.

The board's Office of the Chief Auditor advises the board on the establishment of auditing and related professional practice standards.

Government oversight
Each of these powers is subject to approval and oversight by the SEC. Individuals and audit firms subject to PCAOB oversight may appeal PCAOB decisions (including any disciplinary actions) to the SEC and the SEC has the power to modify or overturn PCAOB rules.

Inspection reports
The PCAOB periodically issues Inspection Reports of registered public accounting firms. While a large part of these reports is made public (called "Part I"), portions of the inspection reports that deal with criticisms of, or potential defects in, the audit firm's quality control systems are not made public if the firm addresses those matters to the board's satisfaction within 12 months after the report date. Those portions are made public (called "Part II"), however, if (1) the board determines that a firm's efforts to address the criticisms or potential defects were not satisfactory, or (2) the firm makes no submission evidencing any such efforts.

History
The PCAOB was created in response to an ever increasing number of accounting "restatements" (corrections of past financial statements) by public companies during the 1990s, and a series of high-profile accounting scandals and record-setting bankruptcies by large public companies, notably those in 2002 involving WorldCom and Enron, and the audit firm for both companies, Arthur Andersen. Prior to the creation of the PCAOB, the audit profession was self-regulated through its trade group, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The AICPA's Public Oversight Board was formally dissolved on March 31, 2002, though its members had resigned en masse in January 2002 to protest then-SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt's proposal for a new private auditor oversight body to regulate the profession (a proposal which would evolve into the PCAOB).

Appointment of Chairman Webster
The SEC named William H. Webster, to be the first PCAOB Chairman. He was a prominent lawyer and former director of both the FBI and CIA. This appointment was controversial, however, for while Webster was widely recognized for his integrity and intellect, two of the SEC's five Commissioners believed that SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt had not properly vetted the candidates or consulted with them on the appointment (and had previously agreed with them to appoint TIAA-CREF Chairman John Biggs as PCAOB Chairman). In one of the most contentious SEC public hearings, these two Commissioners (Harvey Goldschmid and Roel Campos) publicly criticized the process of the appointment (though not Webster himself). Webster nonetheless was approved by the SEC by a 3–2 vote to become the PCAOB's first Chairman.

Just a few weeks after Webster was appointed to the PCAOB, however, another controversy erupted when newspapers reported that Webster had served on the board audit committee of U.S. Technologies, a high-technology company being investigated for accounting irregularities. Pitt, whose tenure as SEC Chair had already proven controversial, found himself in an untenable position. One of the claims made by Goldschmid during the rancorous October SEC hearing was that the candidates put forward by Pitt had not been properly vetted. Goldschmid's criticisms seemed prescient, and this, combined with other pressures, led Pitt to announce his resignation from the SEC on election day (November 4, 2002). Webster himself announced his resignation from the PCAOB a week later -– less than three weeks after the PCAOB was set up.

Constitutional challenge
In February 2006, the Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP (a small Nevada-based accounting firm) filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the PCAOB. According to the lawsuit, the provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act establishing the PCAOB violated the "Appointments Clause" of the U.S. Constitution, since PCAOB Board members should be viewed as "officers of the United States" because of the public purposes PCAOB serves, and, as such, must either be appointed by the president of the United States, with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate, or by the "head" of a "department", whereas PCAOB's board is appointed by the SEC, rather than by the Chairman of the SEC. The lawsuit also challenged the PCAOB as violating the Constitution's separation of powers clause, since the organization has quasi-executive, -legislative and -judicial functions.

On August 22, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the PCAOB as constitutional. The Court found that Board members are inferior officers not required to be appointed by the President, and that the President retains sufficient control of the board via the SEC that the board does not violate the separation of powers clause.

The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari on May 18, 2009, to consider three questions:

 * Whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 violates the Constitution's separation of powers by vesting members of the [PCAOB] with far-reaching executive power while completely stripping the President of all authority to appoint or remove those members or otherwise supervise or control their exercise of that power, or whether, as the court of appeals held, the Act is constitutional because Congress can restrict the President's removal authority in any way it "deems best for the public interest."
 * Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, under the Appointments Clause, PCAOB members are "inferior officers" directed and supervised by the [SEC], where the SEC lacks any authority to supervise those members personally, to remove the members for any policy-related reason or to influence the members' key investigative functions, merely because the SEC may review some of the members' work product.
 * If PCAOB members are inferior officers, whether the Act's provision for their appointment by the SEC violates the Appointments Clause either because the SEC is not a "Department" or because the five commissioners, acting collectively, are not the "Head" of the SEC.

Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board was argued on Dec. 7, 2009. In addition to the PCAOB, the United States (represented by Solicitor General Elena Kagan) also appeared as a respondent in the case and argued separately, defending the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Thirteen amici, ranging from libertarian think-tanks like the Cato Institute to managers of state public-employee pension funds, filed briefs in the case.

On June 28, 2010, in a five-justice majority opinion written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, the Supreme Court found the appointment provisions of the Act to be constitutional, but struck down the for-cause removal provision. The Court did not accept petitioners' argument that the constitutional infirmity made all of the board's prior activity unconstitutional; rather, it simply severed the for-cause removal clause from the rest of Sarbanes-Oxley, leaving the board itself intact.


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jewish??

why not? What's your problem? --House1630 (talk) 14:40, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Same question again also from my part: Why "ethnicity: jewish"? What information does this contribute? Why is "ethnicity" mentioned here whereas this seems not usual in other Wikipedia articles about living persons (as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair )? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.164.235.31 (talk) 15:57, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

molba
dragi gospodine  fridman pisem vam iz srbije,iz grada senta. procitala sam u novinama o vasem krstarenju tarom. mozda ce neko ovo smatrati drskoscu a ja,zena sa dvoje dece i u bezizlaznoj materijalnoj situaciji sansom za prezivljavanje. imam 39 god, naruseno zdravlje ,dvoje dobre dece supruga, nepokretnu svekrvu i dve kuce. i tu pocinje problem. do prosle godine mi smo bili jedna prosecna i srecna porodica. onda je moja svekrva dobila infarkt,za ciju operaciju nismo imali para a mesec dana nakon toga i izliv krvi na mozak,koji je neizleciv sto zbog srca sto zbog godina starosti. njena penzija nam od onda odlazi na lekove i pelene,posto joj je cela leva stana nepokretna. od nasih plata ne mozemo da placamo reziju za obe kuce a njenu kucu ne mozemo da prodamo jer lezi na velikom prostoru ( ima veliku bastu) a to ocigledno nikom ne treba. razmisljali smo da prodamo nasu a da se uselimo u njenu medjutim za adaptaciju nam treba mnogo para koje mi naravno nemamo. 500-1000 evra bi nas izvuklo iz krize. medjutim ja sam procitala da imate lanac maloprodajnih objekata pa mi je palo na pamet da otvorite jedan i u nasoj drzavi. kuca mog supruga sa dvorisnim prostorom je pogodna i za robnu kucu a i na dobroj lokaciji se nalazi.

ako smatrate da je ova ponuda drska ja vam se unapred izvinjavam.

u meni ovo pismo ,makar verovatno nista od svega toga nece biti i verovatno ovo vec spada u mastarenje, budi tracak nade za bolje sutra

puno pozdrava

“Children: Divorced (2 children)”
I am concerned that the article is confusing parenthood with matrimony. It may be offensive to certain people, especially childfree individuals who choose to marry as well as to parents who don't believe in the institution of marriage. I suggest that we modify the infobox so as to separate the two different concepts. 213.109.230.96 (talk) 23:08, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Friedman or Fridman?
While the name in the article is said to be Fridman, most of the time it uses Friedman. Is it Fridman or Friedman? ► robomod 08:54, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

The Russian name Фридман doesn't have an "e" after the "i", so the transliteration is Fridman. Nakonana (talk) 21:08, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Not just a former Foreign Minister
From the article: "On May 14th Carl Bildt, former Swedish Foreign Minister, was appointed..."

Well, yeah, he's also a former Swedish Prime Minister. Doesn't that trump the Foreign Minister post for notability?

So, my suggestion: "On May 14th Carl Bildt, former Swedish Prime Minister, was appointed..." Or possibly, for completeness: "On May 14th Carl Bildt, former Swedish Prime Minister and later Foreign Minister, was appointed..." But the latter is rather clumsy. --CRConrad (talk) 06:54, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Historical error
"His grandmother served as a business mentor, his family having owned a kitchenware shop in Lviv, prior to the 1917 revolution."

The above line refers to his family operating a business prior to 1917, and strongly implies that it ended due to the events of the 1917 revolution(s). This particular city changed hands during WW1, between the Russians, Germans, and Austrian-Hungarians a number of times, and at the end of the war it was actually part of a newly proclaimed Ukrainian Republic, which was subsequently taken by Poland. It didn't fall to the Soviets until the 1939 invasion of Poland.

So this statement about the revolution is quite curious.--203.206.164.182 (talk) 02:45, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

UPE
This article was written entirely by who was an undisclosed paid editor. As such, until the content has been checked as being verifiable and available sources have been reviewed to see whether anything has been "missed" from the article, the UPE should remain in place. SmartSE (talk) 12:32, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

 * Hi, I've been researching and Wikipedia-editing in the "Trump-Russia" field for some time now, and after making various additions/corrections to the Alfa-Bank article, I added the Fridman/Aven/Khan lawsuit about about the leaked Trump dossier to this article in May 2017: . Since this article was therefore on my watchlist and radar, I noticed when User:NightShadow23 questioned the nationality claims about Fridman in this article in late December: . I found substantiation for two of the three nationality claims: ; but since it was clear that the citations in this article were a mess:, I've been carefully going over every single one of them since then, fact-checking, correcting, copyediting, and removing fluff. I'll let you know when I finish and we can reassess. GreyGoose (talk) 13:53, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

 * Hello again, SmartSE. I've completed a fairly exhaustive checking, overhauling, and updating of the article. Here is a summary of what I did:
 * Checked every single fact and every single citation.
 * Corrected any misinformation.
 * Added any significant omissions.
 * Removed any puffery or trivia.
 * Saved additional links I found while researching to fix all of those problems, and checked them for pertinent info to add.
 * Checked numerous news articles I have been collecting for over a year relating to the subjects of Trump-Russia, Russian oligarchs, and Alfa Bank.
 * Did a Google search 2016 to present in order to update the article.
 * Added the major events, activities, and controversies that were repeatedly mentioned in the hundreds of articles I skimmed, that were not already in the article.
 * I feel confident that the article is now reliable, accurate, and thorough. I believe the template can be removed. GreyGoose (talk) 08:07, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

 * SmartSE: What is the protocol for possible removal of such a template? Should there be a group discussion? GreyGoose (talk) 15:34, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

 * Sorry about not responding to your previous ping. As you might have noticed I had another look at it but then got distracted. Thanks for all the work you've done one it, but I think it still shows the signs of being written for pay. E.g. Mikhail_Fridman - none of the sources show that these are important events in his life/career. A lot of the "Honors and awards" is also poorly sourced. Do you see what I mean? SmartSE (talk) 23:05, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

 * Now that you mention it, I see what you mean. Maybe the "Writing and public speaking" should be deleted outright, since it is something that a lot of prominent businessmen do. As for the "Honors and awards", perhaps that could or should be trimmed, or the specific ones from globally notable publications or institutions could be moved to the career section and each one placed in the corresponding chronological placement. GreyGoose (talk) 04:08, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

 * I have now removed four of the honors/awards -- the ones that were either non-notable or lacked bullet-proof citing. I don't know what to do about the "Writing and public speaking" section; you may want to delete it outright, or if you want me to delete it let me know. As far as the rest of the article, there's some chit-chatty stuff about his grandmother in the "Early years ... Alfa" section that can probably go, and the section on North Sea oil is longwinded -- stuff like the nice things people said in his defense can probably go. Beyond that, removing other things would be a judgment call that I do not feel qualified to make. (I'll give you a ping so you see this note: SmartSE.) GreyGoose (talk) 07:14, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

 * Update to SmartSE (and anybody else): In addition to removing the trivial and poorly sourced awards, I decided to be bold and delete the grandmother stuff, the excess bloat in the North Sea Oil section, the high-school awards with no independent sourcing, an insignificant planned deal that fell through, and the entire "Writing and public speaking" section (I moved the only noteworthy item to the Career section instead). I think the article now bears another assessment. GreyGoose (talk) 06:07, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. That looks great. I'll remove the template. SmartSE (talk) 10:07, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Tone/message control? London arrest & naming; kleptocracy cell; claims of anti-Semitism
Users wjemather and Peter Gulutzan seem to be bent on keeping intro of the article 99% positive even if the article as a whole is ~50% about the subject being connected to crime of some sort.

The current argument runs that Politico, a trusted source, references TASS, a sometimes-trusted (and not deprecated) source; ignoring that Yahoo! News, a trusted source, does not reference TASS; and both name Fridman as the one arrested in London.

When reverting my edit wjemather also conveniently removes reference to kleptocracy and to the fact that Fridman's claims of anti-Semitic Soviet university admission policy are just that - claims.

Odd, no? Elmenhorster (talk) 17:35, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I just went back several days and examined the history of this dispute and found some unfortunate edit warring by all parties. The original objection was justified, but when Yahoo! News and Politico were added to the refs, the objections lost their legitimacy, so the content should remain. We are not supposed to second guess what RS say. If Yahoo! News and Politico have synthesized Fridman's identity as the same as the person arrested, then that's on them and our only duty is to document that they have said that Fridman was arrested and why he was arrested. We are not authorized to question their decision in the absence of convincing counter arguments from other RS. Questions about the appropriate final wording can certainly be entertained, but outright deletion of the topic is really wrong. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 18:04, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Criticism re: reverting duly taken; unfortunately it's the quickest way when on the move, but will be more mindful of this going forward. Elmenhorster (talk) 18:08, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The problem is, (as explained below) the content being added went way beyond what was in the sources (also note: the first source is New Voice of Ukraine, not Yahoo News; and Politico cited an unreliable source for the information). The burden remained on those seeking to add content to ensure it complied with policy and that was not happening here; continued removal was absolutely justified by policy. Anyway, I have now fixed the content to avoid further disruption. wjematherplease leave a message... 12:36, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Pinging User:Wjemather, User:Peter Gulutzan, User:Codyave, and Elmenhorster so we don't see more edit warring. The current content is properly sourced and justifies short mention in the lead. This is a significant development in his long history of unpunished.... (See the previous section in the article.) We do not write hagiographies or engage in whitewashing here. As I wrote above, the original deletion was justified, but more sourcing has undermined any excuses for deletion. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 18:14, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

 * Elmenhorster's accusations with respect to me are false. I never said anything about Politico, the edit summary of my only edit was "Undid revision 1126845950 by Elmenhorster (talk) It seems to me that the editor you reverted (Wjemather) was objecting about poor sourcing for a criminal accusation, which is a BLP concern, so WP:BLPUNDEL applies." (Elmenhorster re-inserted anyway.) Valjean's accusation that all parties have been edit warring is also false. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 18:58, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * My accusation seems to have been valid: Politico reference was already there, and Yahoo! News reference was added by someone else before I added Politico. So your support for Wjemather's reverts (and your own revert) were incorrect as per Valjean's argument as to why.
 * That said, I hope I did not come across as accusatory. What I saw was 2 editors reverting in contravention of Wikipedia's policy. That's all. Wikipedia tells us to assume good faith, and I generally do. Elmenhorster (talk) 19:05, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Your accusation was not "valid" with respect to me, and even if it had been it would belong on a different forum such as WP:ANI. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 19:23, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The content being repeatedly added still does not accurately reflect what has actually been reported in reliable sources. BLP policy puts the burden on those adding content, not those removing it. Anyway, the content is still bad (contrary to policy) and needs fixing (or removing). The lead is especially problematic, stating in WP voice "He was arrested...". Even the section, which states "Fridman was reportedly detained and arrested..." is not as accurate as it should be. The identification of the person detained/arrested has (as far as I can tell) not been officially released or otherwise made public. Cited sources attribute identification to "according to two sources of NV" (original New Voice of Ukraine article republished by Yahoo) and TASS. Finally, casting aspersions is totally unacceptable. wjematherplease leave a message... 19:27, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * You seem to be decrying your inability to edit the article in a way that would sufficiently reconcile your preferred subset of Wikipedia's rules (BLP) and the less abstract, more concrete subset of Wikipedia's rules about which sources are good (and how good), and the fact that, to quote Valjean, "we are not supposed to second guess what RS say".
 * Being vigilant in the context of this article being originally written in its entirety by a paid editor (Earflaps) is more than warranted. Whether you interpret two thrifty words ("Odd, no?") as casting aspersions or not is a matter of interpretation. I think you're being too generous. Elmenhorster (talk) 22:08, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * No, I'm simply trying to assist you in understanding policy. To repeat, it is not acceptable to reinsert problematic material in a BLP – the burden is not on those removing it to fix it; the burden is on the one wishing to add the content to ensure it meets policy. Anyhow, I have fixed it now. Please read the policies and try to understand the problem so you do not repeat it in future. wjematherplease leave a message... 12:26, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Why did you remove Yahoo! News, the least questionable of the references? Elmenhorster (talk) 16:25, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * You do understand that Yahoo! News was simply republishing, without any addition or comment, the original New Voice of Ukraine article that I replaced it with? Or did you not actually read the source(s)? wjematherplease leave a message... 16:38, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Let me get this straight...You replaced a trusted source with a source that is not even listed? Elmenhorster (talk) 21:54, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, so you don't understand. There has been no change in the source. Please read WP:RSP with respect to syndicated content. wjematherplease leave a message... 22:38, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Elmenhorster, what do you mean by "listed"? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 23:36, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * New Voice of Ukraine is not on Wikipedia's list of reliable sources. I understand that list can never be complete, but for me Yahoo! News (RS) running an article is a stamp of reliability (YN do not put their byline on anything like PR Newswire). There is value in that byline. I fear choosing a relatively unknown Ukrainian source among alternatives may lead to his arrest being removed altogether a few edits down the line due to (yet again) the source being unreliable, and the editors would be justified. We should preserve RSs in articles whenever we can. Elmenhorster (talk) 23:47, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Where is that list? (I have my own list here.) If you're referring to WP:RSP, that's just a list of sources that someone has complained about, forcing the community to place a sort of classification on them. Sources not on that page have never seriously been questioned. One can always start a thread at WP:RSN to get a ruling on some source. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 00:03, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm sure Elmenhorster means Reliable sources/Perennial sources. Of course, there is no single glossary of every single accepted reliable source and Elmenhorster is acting in bad faith by insisting exclusion from the RSP list inherently means unreliability. However, I would caution not to use New Voice of Ukraine without in-text attribution as their reporting does not appear to have much English MSM acknowledgement. ~ Pbritti (talk) 00:08, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I am not insisting, in fact I'm not saying that at all. I am saying that other editors (in the context pf paid editing of this article in the past) may have a convincing excuse of removing the arrest fact altogether a few edits down the line.
 * (If only Pbritti slowed down his vendetta - engagement on the Reuss article has led them to follow me around other articles I've edited and purposefully misinterpreting my intentions.) Elmenhorster (talk) 00:18, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * To return to the point above; RSP reflects community consensus on sources that have been repeatedly (and often) brought up at the Reliable Sources noticeboard in order to avoid needless repetition of discussions. The consensus at RSP on YN is that "syndicated content (such as the NV article here) should be evaluated as you would evaluate the original source". That is to say that republishing by YN has no effect on the reliability of the original source; i.e. if NV is unreliable, any of their articles republished by YN remain unreliable. Ultimately, the legitimacy of the unnamed sources of NV remains questionable. Also, you must stop attacking other editors. wjematherplease leave a message... 12:40, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, Elmenhorster should stop making personal attacks. They are currently blocked so they can't answer right now. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 16:02, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

REBOOT
Swiss NZZ Mediengruppe claims that a photo of house from the NCA raid resembles Fridman's house which would support that it's him. However, NZZ also states that the Alfa Bank denies Fridman's involvement.

Link: https://www.nzz.ch/international/michail-fridman-londoner-polizei-verhaftet-ungenannten-millionaer-ld.1715403

The relevant sections are the 3 paragraphs following the header "Alfa-Bank dementiert". Google Translate does a good job translating the sections into English, if someone wants to check/add the information. Nakonana (talk) 21:58, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Nakonana. I have made this as a new section. Please change its heading so it briefly describes your purpose or point here. I'm not sure about it. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 22:36, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

 * I meant it as an addition to the discussion whether it in fact was (or wasn't) Fridman who got arrested in London, because people were debating whether the section about the arrest should stay on the page or be removed since no reliable sources have identified the arrestee as Fridman and thus linking the arrest to him would be speculative. The linked news paper claims to have compared photos of the arrestee's house and Fridman's house and it appears to be the same house. But Alfa Bank denies that it was Fridman who got arrested, according to NZZ.

 * The information from NZZ is not too different from the other sources, so it might be not relevant to be added. I just wanted to add more support to leaving the "arrest in London" section on page.

 * (Sorry the mobile version of the talk page is rather restrictive and I can't edit the heading.) Nakonana (talk) 15:04, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

title: Talk:Mikhail Fridman


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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Www.seatmaestro.com

I actually think it is valuable information for frequent flyers

maybe, but it's written like an advertisement. does this really belong in an encyclopedia?--Alhutch 19:36, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

by the way, if you think it should stay, then you should vote "keep" on the deletion vote page.--Alhutch 19:37, 30 September 2005 (UTC)


text: Category:Transport in Anguilla

title: Category:Transport in Anguilla


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Belorusskaya (Koltsevaya line)

Belorusskaya (Белору́сская) is a station on the Moscow Metro's Koltsevaya line. It is named after the nearby Belorussky Rail Terminal. It opened in 1952, serving briefly as the terminus of the line before the circle was completed in 1954. Designed by Ivan Taranov, Z. Abramova, A. Markova, and Ya. Tatarzhinskaya, the station has low, white marble pylons, an elaborately patterned plaster ceiling, light fixtures supported by ornate scroll-shaped brackets, and a variety of decorations based on Belarusian themes.

Overhead, twelve octagonal mosaics by G. Opryshko, S. Volkov, and I. Morozov depict Belarusian daily life, and underfoot the platform is intricately tiled to resemble a Belarusian quilt. A sculptural group by sculptor Matvey Manizer called "Soviet Belorussia" used to stand at the end of the platform before it was removed in 1998 to make room for a second entrance. Another sculptural group, "Belarusian Partisans," by S.M. Orlov, S. M. Rabinovich, and I. A. Slonim, is located in the passage between this station and Belorusskaya–Radialnaya.

The station's original vestibule is located at the southwest corner of Belorusskaya Square. A newer entrance opens onto Butirsky Val Street.

In 2002, a bomb exploded under one of Belorusskaya's marble benches, injuring seven people.

Transfers
From this station passengers can transfer to Belorusskaya on the Zamoskvoretskaya line, whose metro entrance in closest to Aeroexpress, direct train to Sheremetevo Airport.

title: Belorusskaya (Koltsevaya line)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gort Na Coiribe

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was MERGE to National University of Ireland, Galway. Obviously not deleting, but all but two editors would not have the content stay in this article. -Splash talk 22:47, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Gort Na Coiribe
Student accommodation with no special notability. The partying may well be true but is unverifiable. Dl yo ns 493  Ta lk   19:26, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * September 30th was an exceptionally busy AfD day. So this debate among several got almost no attention. Relisting in hope of some tender, loving debate this time around. -Splash talk 00:00, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Merge and redirect to National University of Ireland, Galway Justin Bacon 00:24, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No claim to notability.  --A D Monroe III 01:32, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN --Rogerd 01:59, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to National University of Ireland, Galway Brisvegas 04:19, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect notable fact about the school. --best, kevin · · · Kzollman | Talk · · · 04:54, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * keep and expand. Gort Na Coiribe is more than a student village. --Irishpunktom\talk 14:19, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * keep It's notorius amongts Students past & present (~15,000) --[User:Barker84|Barker84]]\talk 17:29, 18 October 2005

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Rhymer

Rhymer may refer to:

 * Rhymer (actor), an actor in a seasonal folk play
 * Rhymer (poet), a bad poet
 * Rhymer (rapper), South Korean rapper and founder of Brand New Music
 * Thomas the Rhymer, 13th century Scottish laird and reputed prophet

People with the surname

 * Don Rhymer (1961–2012), American screenwriter
 * Greg Rhymer (born 1972)
 * Kitwana Rhymer (born 1978)
 * Paul Rhymer (1905–1964), American radio writer

title: Rhymer


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Talk:USS Nautilus (SS-168)

Kuma
Please verify. Indeed, there exists Kuma Island, but Gilbert Islands, mentioned in the immediate context of "Kuma" in this article, lists Kuria. mikka (t) 19:26, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Cruisers?
I really doubt any cruisers were dropping DCs. They were DDs. I believe it was Yahagi & her resemblance to Akikaze that led to the freq confusion early in the war; many sub war patrols mis-ID DDs as cruisers.

On another point, can somebody confirm the cruisers maneurvering to avoid were Mogami & Mikuma? Memory sez so, but... If you can, add it to the Mogami page? Thanks! Trekphiler 07:26, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Cruisers in Kurita's CruDiv 7 maneuvering to avoid were Kumano, Suzuya, Mikuma and Mogami. Mikuma collided with Mogami according Parshall & Tully's "Shattered Sword" (p.344-347) 69.22.240.126 14:12, 1 July 2007 (UTC) bmusler@earthlink.net

Plagairism?
Maybe I misunderstood something. I wasn't aware lifting directly & exactly from DAFS was OK, yet that's exactly what the article is doing. I pulled this from the DAFS site:
 * "At 0755, 4 June, while approaching the northern boundary of her patrol area near Midway, she sighted masts on the horizon. Japanese planes sighted the submarine at the same time and began strafing. After diving to 100 feet, she continued observation. At 0800, a formation of four enemy ships was sighted: 1 battleship and 3 cruisers. Within minutes the submarine was again sighted from the air and bombs began to fall. Two of the cruisers attempted to close for a kill and nine depth charges were dropped at a distance of about 1000 yards."

And this from the article:
 * "At 07:55, 4 June, while approaching the northern boundary of her patrol area near Midway Island, she sighted masts on the horizon. Japanese planes sighted the submarine at the same time and began strafing. After diving to 100 feet (30 m), she continued observation. At 08:00, a formation of four enemy ships was sighted: one battleship and three cruisers. Within minutes the submarine was again sighted from the air and bombs began to fall. Two of the cruisers attempted to close for a kill and nine depth charges were dropped at a distance of about 1000 yards."

Hmmm... I think Leno calls this "Eerie Similarity". I'd call it plagairism. Trekphiler 07:56, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The proper term is "public domain". See DANFS as well as the reference note at the bottom of the article. Lifting directly and exactly from DANFS is okay. Why wouldn't it be? The source is properly referenced and the source is in the public domain. This one could probably use a bit of NPOV (the term "enemy" is obviously biased), but otherwise is okay. Jinian 11:26, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The term is plagairism. You're claimin another writer's work as your own. Don't tell me "public domain" makes that okay. Or do you mean to suggest I can copy works of Dickens & pass them off as my own? Trekphiler 15:44, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Nobody is claiming this work as their own. The DANFS notice gives full credit. Jinian 20:07, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Tricky.Legaly you would not have to give credit. You would not be able to claim them as your own as far as copyright is concernded but I'm not sure what the legal status of A Tale of Two Cities by trekphiler would be. However I feel the statement "This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships" clears up any issues. If not all our EB 1911 articles are in trouble.Geni 15:51, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Trekphiler, your accusation is absurd. Who exactly is the "you" in "You're claimin [sic] another writer's work as your own"? ➥the Epopt 16:37, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Absurd? Tell it to your lawyer. You pass off somebody else's work as yours, it's plagairism. Don't tell me "fair use" applies when it's a verbatim lift. You suppose the Napster guys thought they were OK when they didn't actually copy any songs?  Trekphiler 16:37, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * No one is claiming fair use. We're claiming that works of the United States Federal Government are in the public domain. No copyright exists. The notice clearly states that the text is from the DANFS. It's not plagiarism because no one is claiming it as anything but what it is. But, of course, you know all of this. Jinian 17:41, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Trekphiler, I am the one who copied the material from DANFS. If you have a problem with this article, you have it with me.  Please, please, please feel free to take action, legal or otherwise, against me.
 * Oh, and to make your case as strong as possible, I hereby admit and boast that I copied DANFS as the bases for nearly every American submarine article on Wikipedia, and many of the skimmers, too. ➥the Epopt 19:05, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm pleased to know this site is populated by unethical scumbags. "Fair use" or lack of copywright doesn't justify or excuse plagairism. If you think it does, I suggest you examine how you'd like having credit for your work claimed by somebody else. I guess "ethics" isn't in your lexicon. I'm ashamed I contributed money to a site that tolerates this. Trekphiler 20:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

(BTW, if you're plagairising, you've made Wikipedia off limits to serious research. No writer will risk using plagairised material. I guess you don't care about that, either.)

Department of corrections
I rewrote this
 * "one battleship and three cruisers. Within minutes"

to this
 * "cruisers(more probably a cruiser and three destroyers, misidentified as they often were early in the war). Within "

And this:
 * "had disappeared. At 12:53,"

to this:
 * "had disappeared. (Unknown to Brockman at the time, the destroyer counterattacking him, in her rush to rejoin, was tracked by

Enterprise's VB-6, led by Wade McClusky, back to the Japanese task force.) At 12:53," and added:
 * "Evans F. Carlson (the Marine Raiders, or "Carlson's Raiders")"

I'd also mention Adamson, Hans Christian's Guerrilla Submarines, if I could recall the co-auther & publisher. Non-plagariser 20:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

According to Walter Lord in “Lonely Vigil,” the Nautilus did not take the 14 Catholic nuns, other adults, and children to Brisbane. The Nautilus transferred the passengers to a surface ship and resumed its patrol. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hkiernan (talk • contribs) 00:05, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Commander USS Nautilus during Midway
Here the USS Nautilus' commander is listed as Anderson. In a recent book on Midway, "Shattered Sword" by Parshall and Tully the commmanding officer is stated to be Lieutenant Commander William Brockman. 69.22.240.126 12:31, 1 July 2007 (UTC)Brandon Musler (bmusler@earthlink.net)

I have at least three sources that list William H. Brockman, Jr. as the commander of the Nautilus during the Battle of Midway:

- United States Submarine Operations in World War II, by Theodore Roscoe; Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1949.

- Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan, by Clay Blair, Jr.; J.B. Lippincott Co., New York, NY, 1975.

- History of United State Naval Operations in World War II: Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions May 1942--August 1942, by Samuel Eliot Morison; reprint by Castle Books, Edison, NJ, 2001 (original copyright 1949).

I went ahead and made the edits. JM8Austin 03:08, 18 July 2007

No. of Torpedo tubes
The article and serveral other sources I found say 6 torpedo tubes, however the Naval Historical Center says 10 torpedo tubes. Anyone knows which number is correct? One source speaks of 4 "topside" torpedo tubes. What does this mean? --JogyB (talk) 20:45, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, it was built with six - four forward and two aft. During the 1942 modernisation (just before Midway), four torpedo tubes were installed in the superstructure just below the main deck. In this photo, you can see one of the forward deck tubes below the forward gun; the aft ones were installed in the aft gun deck. I don't think they saw much use, however. During Midway, one of the depth-charge attacks started a hot run in one of the topside tubes and demonstrated how useless they really were. --Fireflyer87 (talk) 00:24, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Torpedo miscount
These don't add up:

"Sighting on Kirishima, she fired two bow tubes; one misfired, one missed."

"Nautilus launched four torpedoes at the carrier from less than 3,000 yards"

"Nautilus resumed her patrol, having expended five torpedoes and survived 42 depth charges"

Two plus four would be six, not five. The only source I have in front of me is Morison, and he says Nautilus only fired one torpedo at Kirishima, from 4500 yards, and it missed. But he also says Nautilus fired three torpedos from 2700 yards at the carrier, which he identifies as Soryu, and all three hit. Kendall-K1 (talk) 20:44, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

hospital ship-war crime? maybe not?
From the U.S. gov't military history page on this vessel:

"... While en route on 6 March, Nautilus came upon another enemy convoy at 22°19'N, 143°54'E, and subsequently engaged them. She struck the transport (ex-hospital ship) America Maru between her after stack and after mast, as well as at her stern. Nautilus then dove as a depth charge attack began and shortly thereafter continued on her course. When struck by Nautilus, America Maru had been en route to repatriate 551 civilian evacuees from Saipan, primarily consisting of women and children. Only 43 of the 642 on board were rescued."

At the time, was she still painted with hospital ship colours? HammerFilmFan (talk) 17:04, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes - since being 'conscripted' by the Imperial Japanese Navy as a troop transport in '43, she should have been repainted per international law - but was not. As tragic as her sinking was, she had clearly been identified as an active war vessel and no longer a hospital ship by Allied intelligence. As such, the article is correct. The situation is comparable to the sinking of the Lusitania (see Wiki article).50.111.51.247 (talk) 14:01, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

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