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Update: I count 7 to delete, 1 anonymous to keep, and 1 to keep conditional on rewriting; articles not rewritten since vfd listing. I've deleted these three articles. Wile E. Heresiarch 02:39, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

.ac, .ad, .ae (and who knows how many more this person is planning on creating)

Are we going to have an article on every country's domain server with no more information than this? RickK 03:11, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Tough call. List of Internet TLDs and Top-level domain seem more than capable of covering this. The whole can of worms was opened about a month ago when all the codes on List of Internet TLDs were made into links. Some of them have interesting articles (e.g. .gb), but most are red-links, and most are unlikely to have anything useful written about them. I'd have to say delete these three, to be recreated if and only if something can be written which adds value. --Stormie 03:31, May 18, 2004 (UTC)
 * KEEP
 * There are links to that TLD's, thats why they are there!!!
 * This is official information from IANA it is allowed to be copied.
 * Includes contact information if you want to do whois or register a domain.
 * List of Internet TLDs - links but no content!!!
 * --82.80.10.110 03:55, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I put the links there, though in my edit summary I questioned whether it was a good idea. If it's going to encourage people like you to create pointless articles, then the non-working links ought to be removed. --Zundark 19:28, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I've removed the excess links now. --Zundark 20:11, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

 * I think they could be improved. See .uk for example. If they are turned into proper articles as opposed to source text dumps, they should be kept but they are not encyclopedic in their current format. Angela. 04:05, May 18, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. The information is just copied from the IANA website. It will not be properly maintained here. (This is not to say that we can't have decent articles on these TLDs, only that mere plagiarism of rapidly outdated IANA pages does not constitute a decent article.) --Zundark 19:28, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Agreed. No one is going to come here looking for stuff like this.  IMO, it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia, paper or otherwise.  Delete all. - Lucky 6.9 22:18, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete everything without a properly written article behind it. JFW | T@lk  23:16, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with Angela. Fredrik 00:50, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: source dump. Wile E. Heresiarch 04:29, 20 May 2004 (UTC)


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Are we going to have an article on every country's domain server with no more information than this? RickK 03:11, 18 May 2004 (UTC)


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Asterix and the Great Divide

Asterix and the Great Divide (Le Grand Fossé, "The Great Ditch") is the twenty-fifth volume of the Asterix comic book series. First published in French in 1980, it was translated into English in 1981. It is the first Asterix adventure to be written by illustrator Albert Uderzo, following the death of Asterix co-creator and writer René Goscinny in 1977.

Plot summary
A village in Gaul is politically and physically divided by a deep ditch because of a leadership dispute between rival chiefs Cleverdix and Majestix. Efforts to overcome their differences, first through dialogue and then through battle, only widen the rift. Majestix's fishy advisor Codfix, suggests intervention by the local Roman garrison will enable Majestix to become the sole chief, in return for which, Codfix wants to marry his daughter, Melodrama. Majestix agrees to the plan, unaware that Codfix intends to overthrow him.

Melodrama reveals the plan to her lover, Histrionix, who is Cleverdix's son. He is sent to the village of Vitalstatistix, who assigns Asterix and Obelix, accompanied by Getafix, to prevent Roman intervention.

Codfix promises the local Roman centurion he can take Cleverdix's followers as slaves for the legionaries, but Majestix refuses to allow his opponents to be enslaved. Enraged, the centurion imprisons Majestix and his followers. Asterix, Obelix and Getafix infiltrate the Romans' camp with the intention of releasing the prisoners. At the camp entrance, Getafix inadvertently leaves behind a flask of elixir, which restores a subject to full health while erasing his memory of the injury necessitating it. Codfix secretly observes a demonstration of the elixir and then takes the flask.

Inside the camp, Getafix makes his usual magic potion in the guise of soup. When the suspicious centurion orders them to test it for poison, they give it to the prisoners, enabling them to defeat the Romans. Back at the village, Getafix makes more potion, and places it at a house spanning the ditch, with Asterix on watch. Codfix uses Getafix's elixir to cure the Romans and exploits their amnesia to claim the Gauls attacked the Romans unprovoked. That night, he returns to his village and seizes the potion, which (after having drunk it himself) he conveys to the Romans.

At the next day's battle, the mixture of the two potions causes the Romans to inflate like balloons and then shrink to minuscule size. Terrified by this transformation, they promise to leave the local Gauls in peace. Meanwhile, Codfix has kidnapped Melodrama for a ransom of 100 pounds of gold. Histrionix goes after him, accompanied by Asterix and Obelix.

Codfix, escaping via river with Melodrama, is captured by the series' recurrent pirates and offers them a share of the ransom. They are then attacked by the Gauls. Having consumed some magic potion, Histrionix duels Codfix, rendering the Pirates' ship once again a sunken wreck. Histrionix takes the upper hand and strikes Codfix for a literal mile into the Roman camp. At the village, the chieftains agree to a single combat fight but it eventually ends in a draw, whereupon Asterix, as referee, declares Histrionix chief instead. The villagers then divert the nearby river, filling the ditch, while Codfix is shown as the Romans' sole drudge. Histrionix and Melodrama are married, and Asterix, Obelix and Getafix return home.

Commentary

 * Uderzo intended the Great Divide as a metaphor and condemnation of the Berlin Wall, which once separated Socialist East Berlin from Democratic West Berlin.  The wall was torn down nine years after this album was published.
 * An audiobook of Asterix and the Great Divide adapted by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge and narrated by Willie Rushton was released on Hodder and Stoughton's Hodder Children's Audio in 1987.
 * This was the first volume of the series that was designed and written by Albert Uderzo alone, after the death of his long-time collaborator René Goscinny, and published by his own company, "Editions Albert René".
 * In the English translation, Getafix laments - "Change and decay in all around I see" is taken from Henry Francis Lyte's hymn, Abide with Me.

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Peter Butterworth

Peter William Shorrocks Butterworth (4 February 1915 – 17 January 1979) was a British actor and comedian best known for his appearances in the Carry On film series. He was also a regular on children's television and radio. Butterworth was married to actress and impressionist Janet Brown.

Early life
Butterworth was born on 4 February 1915, in Bramhall, Cheshire.

War service
Butterworth served as a lieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. On 21 June 1940 while serving with 826 Naval Air Squadron, Butterworth was shot down during an attack against a German-occupied seaplane air base on Texel in the Netherlands. Two Fairey Albacores were brought down by Messerschmitt Bf 109s over the Wadden Sea. Four were killed; Butterworth and his air gunner became POWs.

Butterworth was sent to Stalag Luft III near Sagan in Poland. It was there he met Talbot Rothwell, who later went on to write many of the Carry On films in which Butterworth was to star. Having never performed in public before his imprisonment, Butterworth formed a duo with Rothwell and sang in the camp shows. They delivered a song which Rothwell called "The Letter Edged In Black". The performance was followed by some comic repartee which, according to Butterworth's account, provoked enough boos and hisses to have the desired effect of drowning out the sounds of an escape tunnel being dug by other prisoners' escape party. After the war, Butterworth kept a photo of the concert party line-up, something which offered inspiration to him when starting a career in acting.

Butterworth was one of the vaulters covering for the escapers during the escape portrayed by the book and film The Wooden Horse. Butterworth later auditioned for the film in 1949 but "didn't look convincingly heroic or athletic enough" according to the makers of the film. Within the same camp as Butterworth and Rothwell were the future actors Rupert Davies and John Casson, the son of Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike. All five remained very close friends after the war ended and they all appeared on This Is Your Life when Butterworth was a subject of the programme in 1975.

Following the release of various archived documents from Germany in February 2024, the BBC News website reported a fuller picture of Butterworth's wartime escapades having interviewed his son, Tyler, for the article.

Acting career
Butterworth came to notice after appearing in pantomime around the UK. His first film appearance was in the Val Guest film William Comes to Town (1948). Guest and Butterworth became close friends and the two worked on a further seven films together during their careers. His first major success was on television in the Terry-Thomas sketch show How Do You View? in which he played the chauffeur "Lockitt": his wife, Janet Brown, was also a cast member. Butterworth also presented successful programmes aimed at children in the 1950s including Whirligig and Butterworth Time.

He continued to take minor parts in films and went on to appear alongside actors including Sean Connery, David Niven and Douglas Fairbanks Jr during his career. Around the time his work in the Carry On films began, he guest appeared in two First Doctor Doctor Who stories, starring William Hartnell, in 1965/66, (The Time Meddler and The Daleks' Master Plan), playing The Monk.

He starred in the children's TV show Saturday Special (with the puppet Porterhouse the Parrot), broadcast on Saturdays at 5:00 pm, alternating with Whirligig.

Carry On
Butterworth's association with the Carry On films began mid-way through the series with Carry On Cowboy (1965), playing the part of "Doc". He was put in touch with the creator of the series, Peter Rogers, by his friend Talbot Rothwell, the writer of Carry On Cowboy and who had written the previous four films. Out of the actors who were considered to be the Carry On team, he was the sixth most prolific performer in the series, making sixteen film appearances, two Christmas specials, the television series in 1975 and the west end theatre productions which also toured the country, alongside Sid James, Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Connor.

His Carry On appearances portrayed his characters as typically quiet and subtly eccentric. He was often cast as a stooge for another character. Thus, in Carry On Screaming! he played Detective Constable Slobotham, the assistant for Detective Sergeant Bung (Harry H. Corbett); while in Don't Lose Your Head he played Citizen Bidet, the assistant to Citizen Camembert (Kenneth Williams). In Carry On Camping he played Joshua Fiddler, the laid-back and eccentric camp site manager, who persuades Sid James's character to part with most of his money when booking into the camp site. Such was his loyalty to Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas that Butterworth agreed to play three small roles in Carry On Again Doctor, Carry On Loving and Carry On Henry. He was unable to take larger parts due to other work and stage commitments, but these minor roles were specially written into the films for him.

Butterworth returned to playing more substantial parts within the Carry On films with Carry On Abroad (1972), in which he played 'Pepe' the manager of an unfinished hotel with his nagging wife (Hattie Jacques). Butterworth remained with the series until the final film in the main series, Carry On Emmannuelle (1978).

Later career
Having appeared in many of Val Guest's films during the beginning of his career, he also made three appearances in the films of Richard Lester. He appeared in Lester's film version of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). A decade later, he appeared consecutively in The Ritz and Robin and Marian (both 1976) alongside Sean Connery, Richard Harris and Audrey Hepburn. He had an uncredited cameo part in the film version of the musical Oliver! (1968) as a shopkeeper in court, and made a special appearance in an episode of Catweazle ("The Demi Devil" [1970]) and the Dad's Army episode "The Face on the Poster" (1975).

In 1975 he was the subject of an episode of This Is Your Life whereby Eamonn Andrews surprised him while he was shopping in Selfridges, London. Friends who took part in the show included Terry Scott, Talbot Rothwell, Jimmy Jewel, John Casson and Rupert Davies. Butterworth's wife and their two children, Tyler and Emma were also at the recording. When the Carry on films finished in 1978, Butterworth began to concentrate on straight roles, taking a small part in the feature film The First Great Train Robbery with Sean Connery, and the Alan Bennett play "Afternoon Off" (both 1979). These two productions were shown posthumously.

Personal life
Butterworth was introduced to actress and impressionist Janet Brown by Rothwell and the two married in 1946 at St Mary's, Bryanston Square, Marylebone. Brown later became known for her television impersonations of Margaret Thatcher during the 1970s and 1980s. They had two children: Their son, Tyler Butterworth, also became an actor and is married to the actress Janet Dibley. Their daughter, Emma, was born in 1962. She died in 1996 aged 34.

Death
In 1979, whilst The First Great Train Robbery was on general release, Butterworth was starring as Widow Twankey in the pantomime Aladdin at the Coventry Theatre. When the show had finished, he went back to his hotel following the evening's performance. His failure to return for the following day's matinee show caused alarm, and he was found dead in his room from a heart attack.

Butterworth was buried in Danehill Cemetery, in East Sussex. Following his death, the producer of the Carry On films, Peter Rogers, said that Butterworth was "a thoroughly nice bloke and a dear friend".

Filmography

 * William Comes to Town (1948) – Postman
 * Murder at the Windmill a.k.a. Mystery at the Burlesque (1949) – Police Constable
 * Miss Pilgrim's Progress (1949) – Jonathan
 * The Adventures of Jane (1949) – Drunken Man
 * The Body Said No! (1950) – Driver
 * Night and the City (1950) – Thug (uncredited)
 * Double Confession (1950) – Joe (uncredited)
 * Paul Temple's Triumph (1950) – Telephone Engineer (uncredited)
 * Mister Drake's Duck (1951) – Higgins
 * Circle of Danger (1951) – Ernie (The Diver) (uncredited)
 * Appointment with Venus (1951) – 1st Naval Rating
 * The Case of the Missing Scene (1951) – George
 * Island Rescue (1951) – 1st Naval Rating
 * Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure (1951) – Steve
 * Saturday Island a.k.a Island of Desire (1952) – Wounded Marine
 * Penny Princess (1952) – Julien / Postman / Farmer
 * Will Any Gentleman...? (1953) – Stage Manager
 * Colonel March Investigates (1953) – Bank clerk (uncredited)
 * Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1953) – Liftman
 * Watch Out (1953, short) – Dickie Duffle
 * A Good Pull-up (1953, short) – Dickie Duffle
 * The Gay Dog (1954) – Another Betting Man
 * Fun at St. Fanny's (1956) – The Potter
 * Blow Your Own Trumpet (1958) – Mr. Bob Duff
 * Tom Thumb (1958) – Kapellmeister
 * The Spider's Web (1960) – Inspector Lord
 * Escort for Hire (1960) – Inspector Bruce
 * Murder, She Said (1961) – Ticket Collector
 * Fate Takes a Hand (1961) – Ronnie
 * The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) – 2nd Sub-Editor (uncredited)
 * She'll Have to Go, a.k.a. Maid for Murder (1962) – Doctor
 * Kill or Cure (1962) – Green Glades Barman
 * Live Now, Pay Later (1962) – Fred
 * The Prince and the Pauper (1962) – Will
 * The Rescue Squad (1963) – Mr. Maggs
 * The Switch (1963) – Fashion Photographer (uncredited)
 * The Odd Man, "Prince on a White Horse" (1963) – Victor West
 * Doctor in Distress (1963) – Ambulance Driver
 * The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, "Never Mention Murder" (1964) – Porter
 * A Home of Your Own (1965) – The Carpenter
 * The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) – Grunt
 * Carry On Cowboy (1965) – Doc
 * Carry On Screaming! (1966) – Detective Constable Slobotham
 * A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) – Roman Sentry #2
 * Don't Lose Your Head (1966) – Citizen Bidet
 * Ouch! (short, 1967) – Jonah Whale
 * Carry On Follow That Camel (1967) – Simpson
 * Carry On Doctor (1967) – Mr. Smith
 * Danny the Dragon (1967) – Farmer
 * Prudence and the Pill (1968) – Chemist
 * Carry On Up the Khyber (1968) – Brother Belcher
 * Carry On Camping (1969) – Josh Fiddler
 * Carry On Again Doctor (1969) – Shuffling Patient
 * Carry On Loving (1970) – Sinister Client (uncredited)
 * Carry On Henry (1971) – Charles, Earl of Bristol (uncredited)
 * The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971) – Guest Appearance (segment "Sloth")
 * A Class by Himself (1972) – Clutton
 * Bless This House (1972) – Trevor Lewis
 * Carry On Abroad (1972) – Pepe
 * Not Now Darling (1973) – Painter (uncredited)
 * Carry On Girls (1973) – Admiral
 * Carry On Dick (1974) – Tom
 * Carry On Behind (1975) – Henry Barnes
 * Robin and Marian (1976) – Surgeon
 * The Ritz (1976) – Patron In Chaps
 * Carry On England (1976) – Major Carstairs
 * What's Up Nurse! (1978) – Police Sergeant
 * Carry On Emmannuelle (1978) – Richmond
 * The First Great Train Robbery, a.k.a. The Great Train Robbery (1979) – Putnam

Television roles

 * By Candlelight (1949) (BBC TV) – Linder
 * How Do You View? (1950–1951) (BBC TV) – various sketch roles
 * BBC Sunday Night Theatre, "The Happy Sunday Afternoon" – Danny Broadhurst
 * Saturday Special (1951–1953), 31 episodes – Mr Chadwicke-Bugle
 * Whirlygig (1951) (BBC TV), Episode #1.18 – Police Sergeant
 * The Passing Show (1951) (BBC TV), "1940–1946: Only Yesterday" – Pub strategist
 * Aladdin (1951) (BBC TV) – Widow Twankey
 * Trial Gallop (1952) (BBC TV)
 * Friends and Neighbours (1954) (BBC TV), 6 episodes – George Bird
 * Theatre Royal, "The Stocking" (1955) (ATV) – Sam Adams
 * Those Kids (1956) (ATV), 16 episodes – My Oddy
 * ITV Play of the Week, "I Killed the Count" (1956) – Chief Detective Inspector Davidson
 * Armchair Theatre, "The Common Man" (1956) – Albert Price
 * Armchair Theatre, "Start from Scratch" (1957) – Henry Cantrell
 * Armchair Theatre, "Off the Deep End" (1957) – Fred Dewsnap
 * Any Old Iron? (1957) (BBC TV) – Old Sam
 * The Anne Shelton Show (1959) (ATV)
 * No Hiding Place, "Everybody Loves Jerry" (1959) (ITV) – Wellman
 * Inside Story, "A Present for Penny" (1960) (TV series) – Ernest Day
 * Meet the Champ (1960) (BBC TV), 6 episodes – Sammy, trainer
 * The Cheaters (1961–1962) (ABC) – "The Legacy" (1961): Tim; "Time to Kill" (1962): Anderson
 * Armchair Theatre, "His Polyvinyl Girl" (1961) – Albert Potter
 * Alfred Marks Time (1961) (ITV)
 * ITV Television Playhouse, "Mr. Cole and the Middle Kingdom" (1961) – Mr. Cole
 * Armchair Theatre, "The Fishing Match" (1962) – Boney
 * Bulldog Breed, "The New Garage" and "The New Digs" (1962 (Granada TV) – Henry Broadbent
 * Dixon of Dock Green, "Dead Jammy" (1962) – Jammy Tate
 * The Danny Thomas Show, "A Hunting We Will Go" (1962) (CBS) – Publican (uncredited)
 * The Magical World of Disney (1962–1963), 5 episodes – Will the Knifegrinder / Zigon
 * ITV Play of the Week, "The Kidnapping of Mary Smith" (1963) – Mr. MacDiarmid
 * ITV Play of the Week, "Cunningham 5101" (1963) – Mr. Kitchener
 * BBC Sunday-Night Play, "The Holly Road Rig" (1963) – Mr. Meedle
 * Emergency Ward 10 (1964), five episodes – Herbert Evans
 * Festival, "Police" (1964) – Sergeant
 * The Roy Castle Show (1964) (BBC TV)
 * Drama 61-67, "Drama '64: A Menace to Decent People" (1964) (ATV) – Jenkins
 * Armchair Mystery Theatre, "The Blackmailing of Mr S" (1964) (ABC) – Vicary
 * Love Story, "The Apprentices" (1964) (ATV) – Mr. Davies
 * Just Jimmy, "Chips with Nothing" (1964)
 * Danger Man a.k.a. Secret Agent, "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" (1965) (ITC) – 'Umbrella'
 * ITV Play of the Week, "We Thought You'd Like to Be Caesar" (1965) – Ernest Rogers
 * Public Eye, "A Harsh World for Zealots" (1965) – Arthur Gates
 * Six of the Best, "Porterhouse: Private Eye" (1965) (ATV) – Edwin Porterhouse
 * Doctor Who (1965–1966) (BBC TV) – "Checkmate", "A Battle of Wits", "The Meddling Monk", "The Watcher (1965): Monk; "Escape Switch", "Golden Death", "Volcano" (1966): The Meddling Monk
 * Hugh and I, "It Never Rains" (1966) (BBC TV)
 * The Frankie Howerd Show (1966) (BBC TV)
 * The Informer, "Keep off the Grass" (1967) – Manny Hirschorn
 * Danny the Dragon(1967) (CFF) – Farmer
 * Scott on..., 21 episodes (1968–1972) (BBC TV)
 * The Sooty Show (1968–1974) (BBC/ITV), four episodes
 * Inside George Webley, "Get Well Soon" (1968) – Dr. Horniman
 * The Wednesday Play, "The Fabulous Frump" (1969) (BBC TV) – Albert Gill
 * Wink to Me Only, "The Lost Chord" (1969) (BBC TV) – Piano tuner
 * Nearest and Dearest, "Now Is the Hour" (1969) (ITV) – Lord Mayor
 * Carry on Christmas (1969) (ITV) – Dracula / Street Beggar / Convent Girl
 * Catweazle, eleven episodes (1970–1971) – Groome / Colonel Upshaw
 * Ours Is a Nice House, "Judge for Yourself" (1970) (ITV) – Honest Harry
 * Kindly Leave the Kerb, six episodes (1971) (LWT) – Ernest Tanner
 * A Class by Himself, six episodes (1972) (ITV) – Clutton
 * Carry On Christmas: Carry On Stuffing (1972) (ITV) – 1st Singing Caveman / Guest / 2nd Dart player
 * Odd Man Out (1977) – Wilf
 * Dad's Army, "The Face on the Poster" (1975) (BBC TV) – Mr. Bugden
 * Carry On Laughing, nine episodes (1975) (ITV)
 * A Bunch of Fives, "A Cry for Help" (1977) (ATV) – Albert Harris
 * Odd Man Out, seven episodes, (1977) (ITV) – Wilf
 * The Dancing Princesses (1978) (ATV) – The Chamberlain
 * Afternoon Off  (1979) (ITV) – Mr Bywaters

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Statewide government trunked radio systems in Australia

The Government Radio Network (GRN) is a network of various systems in place across Australia that enable statewide trunked radio communication. The network operates through inter-linked sites for government and public services such as police, ambulance, fire, or roads authorities which require such a system to function properly. The main aim of the GRN is to consolidate all resources into one network, ensuring greater coverage and reliability than if each department had its own independent communication system. The existence of the GRN also reduces the amount of government money and resources needed to maintain communication between units of emergency and public service branches. Last, it allows effective intercommunication among these services in times of national or state emergency for coordination of wide-scale actions.

Australian Capital Territory Radio Network (TRN)
The Australian Capital Territory Radio Network (commonly referred to as the TRN) is a trunked radio system operating in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The network was introduced in 2004, and provides 100% coverage of the ACT. The network is used by ACT Emergency Services Agencies (ESA) and other ACT Government agencies including ACTION buses, TAMS (Territory and Municipal Services), ACT Health and Roads ACT.

The network is part of the NSW GRN, and is controlled and maintained as part of that network. It is managed separately by the ACT Government.

Overview
The New South Wales Public Safety Network (previously referred to as the New South Wales Government Radio Network or NSW GRN) is a trunked radio system operating in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1993, the network was the first government trunked radio network in Australia and is one of the largest in the world. The NSW GRN covers more than 80% of New South Wales and approximately 96% of the urban population. The network is owned by the NSW Government through the NSW Telco Authority and the network's operations are managed under contract.

Network Users
The network is used by all NSW and ACT emergency services in varying capacities, along with other agencies, departments, services, and non-government organisations, including:

 * Fire & Rescue New South Wales
 * New South Wales Ambulance
 * NSW Rural Fire Service
 * VRA Rescue NSW
 * New South Wales State Emergency Service
 * New South Wales Police Force
 * ACT Emergency Services
 * Department of Attorney General and Justice
 * RailCorp
 * Roads & Maritime Services (formally Roads & Traffic Authority and NSW Maritime)
 * Sydney Ferries
 * Department of Corrective Services
 * NSW Department of Juvenile Justice
 * NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service
 * Ausgrid
 * Endeavour Energy
 * Hunter Water Corporation
 * Sydney Water
 * WaterNSW
 * Property NSW
 * Sydney Ports Corporation
 * Central Tablelands County Councils
 * Sutherland Shire Council
 * Child Flight
 * Australian Broadcasting Corporation
 * Chevra Hatzolah (Jewish Community sponsored and staffed medical response)

The network is also used by other government departments and discrete law enforcement agencies.

Network Information
The network is a digital 9600 bps Project 25 (commonly referred to as P25 or APCO-25) Phase 2 trunked radio system operating in the UHF band between 403 MHz and 430 MHz in 12.5 kHz steps. End user equipment is supplied mostly by Motorola, and consists primarily of Motorola APX series mobiles and portables two-way radios (although Benelec, Tait Communications and Simoco radios are also authorised for use). Encryption is supported and used by some agencies on the network.

Northern Territory Emergency Services Trunk Network (NTESTN)
The Northern Territory Emergency Services Trunk Network is a trunked radio system operating in the Northern Territory, Australia. The network is a digital Project 25 Phase 1 trunked radio system operating in the lower UHF band.

Overview
The Queensland Government Wireless Network (referred to as the GWN) is a trunked radio system operating in the state of Queensland, Australia. The network was built and is currently managed by Telstra under contract. The network commenced operation in 2014, and was operational for the 2014 G20 summit in Brisbane. Following that event, the network was re-purposed and is now the main communications network for emergency services in South East Queensland.

Network Users
The network provides secure radio communications for Queensland's public safety agencies. These users include:

 * Queensland Ambulance Service
 * Queensland Fire and Emergency Services
 * Queensland Police Service
 * Queensland State Emergency Service

Network Information
The network is a digital Project 25 (known as P25 or APCO-25) Phase 2 trunked radio system operating in the UHF band. End user equipment is supplied by Motorola. Encryption is used by all network users.

Overview
The SA Government Radio Network (referred to as the SAGRN) is a trunked radio system operating in the state of South Australia, Australia

The SAGRN is one of the largest and most comprehensive public safety networks in the world, covering over 265,000 square kilometres and providing coverage to more than 99.5% of South Australia’s population including 20km offshore coverage along the State's coast.

The SAGRN includes a statewide Paging network that is used for the dispatch of Ambulance, MFS, CFS and SES resources. The Paging network is integrated with the Computer Aided Dispatch system used at the Triple Zero Emergency Operations Centres.

Telstra originally constructed the SAGRN in the early 2000's, the network replaced 28 separate systems. Telstra supported the network until 2010.

In 2010, Motorola entered into a contract with the South Australian Government to support the SAGRN.

In 2015, Motorola entered into contracts to upgrade the SAGRN and operate it.

Network Users
The SAGRN is used by over 25 government and non-government agencies including

 * SA Ambulance Service
 * South Australia Police
 * South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
 * South Australian Country Fire Service
 * South Australian State Emergency Service
 * SA Water
 * SA Power Networks
 * Adelaide Metro
 * Department for Correctional Services
 * Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
 * St John Ambulance Australia
 * Surf Life Saving Australia

The network is also used by other government departments and law enforcement agencies.

Network Information
The SAGRN Voice Network is a digital Project 25 (known as P25 or APCO-25) Phase 1 trunked radio system operating in the Harmonised Government Spectrum in the UHF band.

The SAGRN Voice network is built on Motorola Astro-25 network equipment.

P25 Voice terminal equipment is supplied via a panel of suppliers of compatible P25 radios.

Tasmanian Government Radio Network (TasGRN)
The Tasmanian Government Radio Network (TasGRN) is a project to establish a single digital communications network for a number of Tasmanian government organisations.

Metropolitan Mobile Radio (MMR)
The Metropolitan Mobile Radio (MMR) service is a Project 25 (APCO-25) Phase 1 radio voice communications system. It provides communications over the Greater Metropolitan area supporting Victoria Police, Ambulance Victoria and the Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board.

The current users are limited to Emergency Services which are:
 * Victoria Police (encrypted)
 * Ambulance Victoria (encrypted as of July 2019)
 * Fire Rescue Victoria
 * Victoria State Emergency Service

All digital scanning receivers are able to decode the unencrypted conventional P25 channels. End user equipment is supplied by Motorola, primarily XTS5000 portables and XTL5000 mobiles.

Regional Mobile Radio (RMR)
The Regional Mobile Radio (RMR) network is a digital VHF P25 (Phase I & II) trunking network managed by Telstra Corporation. The RMR was initially designed as the Regional Radio Dispatch Service (RRDS) Project for the Country Fire Authority (CFA).

Towards the end of June 2013 the first two trunking sites were switched on for the RMR with all CFA bridges transitioned by August 2014 to the RMR that will become the primary communications system for contacting fire dispatchers used by the CFA. Augmenting its older Analogue VHF Network the RMR network is being used for incident dispatching and emergency communications with statewide fire dispatchers with the older analogue VHF network being slowly decommissioned or repurposed and analogue simplex radio communications being used for local and fire ground radio communications.

In 2016, it was announced that regional Victoria Police would transition to the network with encryption. The transition was successfully completed to encrypted communications on the morning of 20 November 2018. The Victoria State Emergency Services, Life Saving Victoria and Corrections Victoria will also transition.

The current users of the network are:
 * Victoria Police (Encrypted)
 * Country Fire Authority
 * Victoria State Emergency Service
 * Life Saving Victoria
 * Corrections Victoria

The current end user equipment used by the CFA is supplied by Tait Communications and consists of custom CFA branded TM9100s and TP9100s.

The current end user equipment used by the State Emergency Service is supplied by Motorola Solutions and Telstra and consists of Motorola APX 7500 VHF/UHF Mobile and Motorola APX 6000XE Portable radios.

The current end user equipment used by Rural Police is supplied by Motorola Solutions and Telstra and consists of Motorola APX 8500 Mobile and APX 8000H Portable radios.

Victorian StateNet Mobile Radio Network (SMR)
The Victorian StateNet Mobile Radio network is a MPT1327 trunked radio system owned by the Victorian Government Department of Treasury and Finance and managed by Telstra Corporation.

It consists of 101 base sites which are strategically positioned to provide 96% coverage of the state to its users. PSTN interconnect features are available, with calls possible from radio to mobile telephones & landlines and vice versa.

Frequency allocation for this network start at 163.0625 MHz to 165.6875Mhz (channel spacing of 12.5 kHz).

There are many government and commercial users of this network, some of which include: The network was recently upgraded by Tait Communications to give users access to a web-portal based reports system called Telstra Hosted Online Reporting (THOR). This feature allows users to track their individual network usage in greater detail.
 * Telstra
 * Yarra Valley Water
 * City West Water
 * AusNet Services
 * V/Line
 * Sheriff's Office
 * FFMV (Forest Fire Management Victoria), comprising Department of Environment and Primary Industries, and Parks Victoria
 * VicRoads
 * Numerous Taxi Companies
 * State Emergency Service (Migrated to RMR)
 * Country Fire Authority (Migrated to RMR)
 * State Aircraft Unit

While a small number of users employ analog frequency inversion voice scrambling, the vast majority of voice traffic on the network is clear.

There are no commercially available scanning receivers able to directly track MPT1327 networks, following voice conversations is possible using freely available decoding software such as Trunkview and a compatible scanner.

Most of the current end user equipment is supplied by Motorola and consists primarily of MCS2000s, MTS2000s, MCX760s and PTX760s.

Western Australia Police Radio Network
The Western Australia Police Radio Network is an encrypted Project 25 (APCO-25) Phase 1 digital trunked radio system operating in Western Australia. The network commenced operation in 2011, and currently provides coverage to 20,000 square kilometres around Perth, and 25,000 square kilometres around regional areas, equating to 95% of the WA population. The network is used by WA Police and the Department of Justice.

In December 2020, the state government announced plans for a new emergency services radio network.


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User:John K/Holy Roman Empire

Free Cities

 * 1) Regensburg
 * 2) Nuremberg
 * 3) Rothenburg
 * 4) Windsheim
 * 5) Schweinfurt
 * 6) Weissenburg-im-Nordgau
 * 7) Cologne
 * 8) Aachen
 * 9) Dortmund
 * 10) Lübeck
 * 11) Goslar
 * 12) Mühlhausen
 * 13) Hamburg
 * 14) Bremen
 * 15) Nordhausen
 * 16) Worms
 * 17) Speyer
 * 18) Frankfurt am Main
 * 19) Friedberg
 * 20) Wetzlar
 * 21) Augsburg
 * 22) Ulm
 * 23) Esslingen
 * 24) Reutlingen
 * 25) Nördlingen
 * 26) Schwäbisch Hall
 * 27) Ueberlingen
 * 28) Rottweil
 * 29) Heilbronn
 * 30) Schwäbisch Gmund
 * 31) Memmingen
 * 32) Lindau
 * 33) Dinkelsbuhl
 * 34) Biberach
 * 35) Ravensburg
 * 36) Kempten
 * 37) Kaufgbeuern
 * 38) Weil
 * 39) Wangen
 * 40) Isny
 * 41) Leutkirchen
 * 42) Wimpfen
 * 43) Giengen
 * 44) Pfullendorf
 * 45) Buchhorn
 * 46) Aalen
 * 47) Bopfingen
 * 48) Buchau
 * 49) Offenburg
 * 50) Gengenbach
 * 51) Zell

Ecclesiastical States

 * 1) Archbishopric of Mainz
 * 2) Archbishopric of Cologne
 * 3) Archbishopric of Trier
 * 4) Archbishopric of Salzburg
 * 5) Archbishopric of Besançon
 * 6) Teutonic Order
 * 7) Order of St John
 * 8) Bishopric of Bamberg
 * 9) Bishopric of Würzburg
 * 10) Bishopric of Worms
 * 11) Bishopric of Eichstädt
 * 12) Bishopric of Speyer
 * 13) Bishopric of Strassburg
 * 14) Bishopric of Constance
 * 15) Bishopric of Augsburg
 * 16) Bishopric of Hildesheim
 * 17) Bishopric of Paderborn
 * 18) Bishopric of Freising
 * 19) Bishopric of Regensburg
 * 20) Bishopric of Passau
 * 21) Bishopric of Trent
 * 22) Bishopric of Brixen
 * 23) Bishopric of Basel
 * 24) Bishopric of Münster
 * 25) Bishopric of Osnabrück
 * 26) Bishopric of Liège
 * 27) Bishopric of Lübeck
 * 28) Bishopric of Chur
 * 29) Bishopric of Fulda
 * 30) not worrying about abbeys, etc. yet.

Lands of the Bohemian Crown

 * 1) Bohemia
 * 2) Moravia
 * 3) Silesia

Austrian Habsburg Territories

 * 1) Bohemia
 * 2) Moravia
 * 3) Austrian Silesia
 * 4) Austria
 * 5) Tyrol
 * 6) Styria
 * 7) Carinthia
 * 8) Carniola
 * 9) Brabant
 * 10) Mechlin
 * 11) Hainaut
 * 12) Flanders
 * 13) Luxembourg
 * 14) Namur
 * 15) Limburg
 * 16) Tournai
 * 17) Breisgau
 * 18) other Swabian territories in the Vorlände (to be specified later)

Prussian Territories

 * 1) Margravate of Brandenburg
 * 2) Duchy of Magdeburg
 * 3) Duchy of Cleves
 * 4) County of Marck
 * 5) Principality of Halberstadt
 * 6) Duchy of Further Pomerania
 * 7) Principality of Minden
 * 8) Duchy of Silesia
 * 9) Principality of Kammin
 * 10) Principality of East Frisia

Bavarian Territories

 * 1) Duchy of Upper Bavaria
 * 2) Duchy of Lower Bavaria
 * 3) Upper Palatinate
 * 4) Lower Palatinate
 * 5) County Palatine of Neuburg
 * 6) County Palatine of Sulzbach
 * 7) County Palatine of Simmern
 * 8) County Palatine of Kaiserslautern
 * 9) County Palatine of Veldenz
 * 10) Duchy of Jülich
 * 11) Duchy of Berg

no more for now

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Doctor

Doctor or The Doctor may refer to:

Personal titles

 * Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree
 * A medical practitioner, including:
 * Audiologist
 * Dentist
 * Optometrist
 * Physician
 * Surgeon
 * Veterinary physician
 * Other roles
 * Doctor of the Church, a title given to those with great contribution to Christian theology or doctrine
 * Doctor of Sacred Theology (Courtesy church title)
 * Doctor of Ministry
 * Doctor of Divinity (Courtesy church title)
 * Doctor of Nursing Practice
 * Doctor of Pharmacy
 * Doctor of Philosophy

People

 * The Doctor (nickname), people with nickname or stage name of "Doctor" or "The Doctor"
 * Doctor Willard Bliss (1825–1889), American physician
 * Doctor Greenwood (1860–1951), English footballer
 * Sean Doctor (born 1966), American football player
 * List of physicians

Characters

 * Doctor, a character in the 1998 American comedy movie My Giant
 * Doctor (Black Cat), a character in the Manga series Black Cat
 * Doctor (Hellsing), a character in the Manga series Hellsing
 * The Doctor, a character in the video game Cave Story
 * The Doctor (Doctor Who), the main character of the BBC series Doctor Who
 * The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager)
 * Doctor Scalpel or "The Doctor", a character in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
 * The Doctor or Cobra Commander, a character from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
 * The Doctor, an antagonist in Little Nightmares II
 * List of fictional doctors

Films

 * Doctor (film series), a popular British hospital comedy films of the 1950s–1960s
 * Doctor (1963 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film by M. S. Mani
 * Doctor (2013 film), a South Korean film
 * Doctor (2021 film), an Indian Tamil-language film by Nelson Dillipkumar
 * Doctor (2023 film), a Russian film
 * The Doctor (1991 film), an American drama film
 * The Doctor (2013 film), a TV film

Groups

 * Doctor (band), founded by Daniel Greaves

Albums

 * The Doctor (Beenie Man album)
 * The Doctor (Cheap Trick album)
 * The Doctor (Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre album)
 * Doctor (soundtrack), a 2021 soundtrack album to the Tamil-language film Doctor

Songs

 * "The Doctor" (Mary Wells song), 1968
 * "The Doctor" (The Doobie Brothers song), 1989
 * "Doctor", a 2008 song by Cute Is What We Aim For
 * "Doctor" (Loïc Nottet song), a 2017 song by Loïc Nottet
 * "Doctor (Work It Out)", a song by Pharrell Williams featuring Miley Cyrus, 2024
 * "Doctor", a 2018 song by Chanmina
 * "Doctor! Doctor!", a 1984 song by the Thompson Twins

Series

 * The Doctor (1952 TV series), an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1952 to 1953
 * The Doctors (1963 TV series), an American soap opera that aired on NBC from 1963 to 1982
 * The Doctors (1969 TV series), a British medical drama that aired on BBC from 1969 to 1971
 * Doctors (2000 TV series), a British soap opera that began airing on BBC One in 2000
 * The Doctors (2016 TV series), a South Korean drama
 * The Doctors (talk show) (2008–2022), an American talk show featuring medical advice

Episodes

 * "The Doctor", Alcoa Premiere season 1, episode 16 (1962)
 * "The Doctor", Bill the Minder episode 7 (1986)
 * "The Doctor", Bluey season 1, episode 18 (2018)
 * "The Doctor", Broken Arrow season 1, episode 19 (1957)
 * "The Doctor", InSecurity season 1, episode 1 (2011)
 * "The Doctor", Lawman season 4, episode 34 (1962)
 * "The Doctor", Motive for Murder episode 4 (1957)
 * "The Doctor", Once Upon a Time season 2, episode 5 (2012)
 * "The Doctor", Ready Eddie Go! episode 19 (2023)
 * "The Doctor", Spyforce episode 22 (1972)
 * "The Doctor", The Adventures of Robin Hood season 3, episode 28 (1958)
 * "The Doctor", The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp season 6, episode 2 (1960)
 * "The Doctor", The Secret World of Alex Mack season 4, episode 11 (1997)

Literature

 * The Doctor: A Study from Life, an 1899 novel by Henry de Vere Stacpoole
 * The Doctor: A Tale of the Rockies, a 1906 novel by Ralph Connor
 * The Doctor, a 1936 novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart
 * The Doctors, a 1970 novel based on the NBC TV series by Michael Avallone
 * Doctors (novel), a 1988 novel by Erich Segal
 * James Miranda Barry, a 1999 novel by Patricia Duncker, published in the United States as The Doctor
 * The Doctor, a 2001 novel by Laura Spinney

Other arts, entertainment, and media

 * The Doctor (painting), a 1891 painting by Luke Fildes
 * The Doctor (play), a 2019 play by Robert Icke
 * "The Doctor", the third installment of the animated short series DumbLand (2002)

Other uses

 * Doctor (cocktail), a family of mixed alcoholic drinks
 * DOCTOR, a script for Joe Weizenbaum's program ELIZA, simulating a Rogerian psychotherapist
 * Fremantle Doctor or the Doctor, a Western Australian afternoon sea breeze
 * Doctores metro station, in Mexico City, Mexico

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Von Neumann conjecture

In mathematics, the von Neumann conjecture stated that a group G is non-amenable if and only if G contains a subgroup that is a free group on two generators. The conjecture was disproved in 1980.

In 1929, during his work on the Banach–Tarski paradox, John von Neumann defined the concept of amenable groups and showed that no amenable group contains a free subgroup of rank 2. The suggestion that the converse might hold, that is, that every non-amenable group contains a free subgroup on two generators, was made by a number of different authors in the 1950s and 1960s. Although von Neumann's name is popularly attached to the conjecture, its first written appearance seems to be due to Mahlon Marsh Day in 1957.

The Tits alternative is a fundamental theorem which, in particular, establishes the conjecture within the class of linear groups.

The historically first potential counterexample is Thompson group F. While its amenability is a wide-open problem, the general conjecture was shown to be false in 1980 by Alexander Ol'shanskii; he demonstrated that Tarski monster groups, constructed by him, which are easily seen not to have free subgroups of rank 2, are not amenable. Two years later, Sergei Adian showed that certain Burnside groups are also counterexamples. None of these counterexamples are finitely presented, and for some years it was considered possible that the conjecture held for finitely presented groups. However, in 2003, Alexander Ol'shanskii and Mark Sapir exhibited a collection of finitely presented groups which do not satisfy the conjecture.

In 2013, Nicolas Monod found an easy counterexample to the conjecture. Given by piecewise projective homeomorphisms of the line, the group is remarkably simple to understand. Even though it is not amenable, it shares many known properties of amenable groups in a straightforward way. In 2013, Yash Lodha and Justin Tatch Moore isolated a finitely presented non-amenable subgroup of Monod's group. This provides the first torsion-free finitely presented counterexample, and admits a presentation with 3 generators and 9 relations. Lodha later showed that this group satisfies the property $F_{\infty}$, which is a stronger finiteness property.

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The Big Arvo

The Big Arvo, originally titled The Big Breakfast, was an Australian television program that was broadcast on the Seven Network from 1999 until 2005. It began in a morning time slot under the name of The Big Breakfast, before moving to the afternoon to make way for AMV: All Music Video and Sunrise. The program was presented by four hosts, who hosted the show in a large model bus. The program included segments such as "cool job" and "dare" to amuse younger viewers and to teach viewers who had outgrown Play School. It appeared in K-Zone magazine to celebrate 500 episodes.

Hosts

 * Notes

 * There is a 7-month gap between Curtis Fernandez being replaced by Luke Jacobz as The Big Breakfast went off air during this time before being resurrected as The Big Arvo
 * There is a 5-month gap between Anna Choy being replaced by James Tobin as The Big Arvo was off air during this time, replaced by Girl TV
 * James Tobin was credited as "Jesse Tobin" for all episodes
 * Ben and Jenny were the only two hosts to remain with the show for its entire run

Cartoons
Here is a list of cartoons that were shown as part of The Big Breakfast:

 * Mummies Alive!
 * Pancho and Rancho
 * Johnny Bravo
 * Tom and Jerry
 * The Flintstones
 * Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
 * Sonic Underground
 * ReBoot
 * Ed, Edd n Eddy
 * The Bots Master
 * Dexter's Laboratory
 * The Legend of Prince Valiant
 * Life with Louie
 * The Powerpuff Girls
 * I am Weasel
 * Gargoyles
 * Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles
 * Sailor Moon (original DIC Dub)
 * Cow and Chicken
 * The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
 * The Mask
 * The Jetsons
 * Basket Fever
 * All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series
 * Star Trek: The Animated Series
 * Richie Rich
 * The Pirates of Dark Water
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * Beast Wars: Transformers
 * BattleTech: The Animated Series

Live-action
The Big Breakfast has also aired a few live action programmes:
 * S Club 7 in Miami

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Natural proof

In computational complexity theory, a natural proof is a certain kind of proof establishing that one complexity class differs from another one. While these proofs are in some sense "natural", it can be shown (assuming a widely believed conjecture on the existence of pseudorandom functions) that no such proof can possibly be used to solve the P vs. NP problem.

Overview
The notion of natural proofs was introduced by Alexander Razborov and Steven Rudich in their article "Natural Proofs", first presented in 1994, and later published in 1997, for which they received the 2007 Gödel Prize.

Specifically, natural proofs prove lower bounds on the circuit complexity of boolean functions. A natural proof shows, either directly or indirectly, that a boolean function has a certain natural combinatorial property. Under the assumption that pseudorandom functions exist with "exponential hardness" as specified in their main theorem, Razborov and Rudich show that these proofs cannot separate certain complexity classes. Notably, assuming pseudorandom functions exist, these proofs cannot separate the complexity classes P and NP.

For example, their article states:
 * [...] consider a commonly envisioned proof strategy for proving P ≠ NP:
 * Formulate some mathematical notion of "discrepancy" or "scatter" or "variation" of the values of a Boolean function, or of an associated polytope or other structure. [...]
 * Show by an inductive argument that polynomial-sized circuits can only compute functions of "low" discrepancy. [...]
 * Then show that SAT, or some other function in NP, has "high" discrepancy.
 * Our main theorem in Section 4 gives evidence that ''no proof strategy along these lines can ever succeed.

A property of boolean functions is defined to be natural if it contains a property meeting the constructivity and largeness conditions defined by Razborov and Rudich. Roughly speaking, the constructivity condition requires that a property be decidable in (quasi-)polynomial time when the 2n-sized truth table of an n-input boolean function is given as input, asymptotically as n increases. This is the same as time singly exponential in n. Properties that are easy to understand are likely to satisfy this condition. The largeness condition requires that the property hold for a sufficiently large fraction of the set of all boolean functions.

A property is useful against a complexity class C if every sequence of boolean functions having the property infinitely often defines a language outside of C. A natural proof is a proof that establishes that a certain language lies outside of C and refers to a natural property that is useful against C.

Razborov and Rudich give a number of examples of lower-bound proofs against classes C smaller than P/poly that can be "naturalized", i.e. converted into natural proofs. An important example treats proofs that the parity problem is not in the class AC0. They give strong evidence that the techniques used in these proofs cannot be extended to show stronger lower bounds. In particular, AC0-natural proofs cannot be useful against AC0 [m ].

Razborov and Rudich also reproduce Avi Wigderson's unconditional proof that natural proofs cannot prove exponential lower bounds for the discrete logarithm problem.

There is strong current belief that the mechanism of this paper actually blocks lower-bound proofs against the complexity class TC0 of constant-depth, polynomial-sized threshold circuits, which is believed but not proven smaller than P/poly. This belief is because, under widely believed conjectures regarding the hardness of factoring in certain elliptic curve groups, there exist exponentially hard pseudorandom functions computable in TC0. However, some researchers believe that the Razborov-Rudich limitations are actually good guidance for what a "super-natural" lower-bound proof might involve, such as properties hard or complete for exponential space.

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VRA Rescue NSW

VRA Rescue NSW (VRA) is an Australian volunteer organisation that provides rescue services to the communities across New South Wales. The first rescue squads formed the Volunteer Rescue Association with the assistance of the New South Wales Police Force. The service is now called VRA Rescue NSW. Groups with common charters can become an affiliate of the Association.

In times of need, whether it be in the emergency or recovery phase, VRA can bring affiliated squads together to provide assistance to other services or to assist one of its own affiliates.

The first VRA specialist squad, Bushwalkers Search and Rescue (today known as NSW SES Bush Search and Rescue) was formed in 1936. The first VRA General Land Rescue Squad was formed in 1950 to assist police with recovery of persons from the Murrumbidgee River, to provide flood rescue, evacuations and ferrying of food and medicines between isolated communities around Wagga Wagga in southern NSW. Soon after the Wagga Wagga Rescue Squad became involved in general land rescue. In 1960 the Bourke Rescue Squad was formed, followed in 1962 by the Dubbo Rescue Squad. In 1969, at the suggestion of the state police commissioner several volunteer rescue squads (Albury, Dubbo, Narrandera and Wagga Wagga) met and formed the Volunteer Rescue Association. VRA Rescue Squads (such as The Mudgee Rescue Squad in January 1975) continued to be established where a need existed and the Police, Ambulance, Fire Brigade and local community supported the establishment of a volunteer rescue squad.

Today, VRA Rescue NSW provides a training structure with competency-based learning under its own registered training organisation, and with policies and procedures affiliated rescue squads provide a comprehensive rescue service to the community. The registered training organisation was formerly VRA Training Pty Ltd. Now RFS Training. VRA Rescue NSW provides a command structure when rescue squads come together, during major incidents, with standardisation of equipment. The squads all come together as a cohesive team.

Regional squads can be either land or marine based. Land-based squads can be involved with motor vehicle accident rescue, vertical rescue, river rescue and dive rescue. Marine-based squads can be involved with coastal emergencies on the north and south coast. In addition, there are specialist squads with particular skills who do not operate in any particular region. Examples of these include squads with bushwalking, cave rescue, radio (communications), Australian Civil Air Patrol (aircraft), and dog expertise.

The current commissioner of VRA Rescue NSW is Brenton Charlton.

Major incidents attended
VRA Rescue NSW is involved on a day-to-day basis in general rescue operations. Primarily, road accident rescue, land and maritime search and rescue operations. VRA Rescue has responded to the following major incidents:

 * 1974 Cyclone Tracy - Darwin (Rescue - 124 personnel and equipment available within 6 hours - not responded) [[Image:ANSW Rescue and VRA Rescue demonstration1.jpg|thumb|VRA rescue demonstration]]
 * 1977 Granville rail disaster (Rescue - two rescue squads responded)
 * 1989 Newcastle earthquake [Newcastle Workers Club collapse] (Rescue - Two rescue squads responded immediately and subsequently 100 operators and support personnel to sustain 24-hour operations)
 * 1990 Nyngan flood (Assisted police with evacuations)
 * 1994 bush fire emergency (Assist police and ambulance with evacuations, provide communications support and provide welfare support to firefighters - 315 personnel)
 * 1997 Thredbo landslide
 * 1999 Sydney hailstorm (Assistance to the State Emergency Service)

Volunteering
As with many volunteer organisations, an increasing number of VRA squads face difficulties recruiting sufficient personnel in order to respond effectively to incidents. This has led to a gradual decline in the number of accredited squads from 47 in 2007 down to 32 by 2013. With responsibility moving to other organisations such as Fire and Rescue NSW and the State Emergency Service. VRA has received government funding for new vehicles, equipment and training, $18.8 million over four years.

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A History of Britain (book)

A History of Britain is a three volume work written by Simon Schama to accompany a series of documentaries he presented for the BBC.

The volumes are:
 * A History of Britain I: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC–AD 1603 (BBC, 2000, ISBN 0-563-48714-3)
 * A History of Britain II: The British Wars 1603–1776 (BBC, 2001, ISBN 0-563-48718-6)
 * A History of Britain III: The Fate of Empire 1776–2000 (BBC, 2002, ISBN 0-563-48719-4)

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VRA

VRA may refer to:

Government

 * Voting Rights Act of 1965, a piece of federal legislation in the United States
 * Video Recordings Act 1984, a piece of United Kingdom legislation
 * Volta River Authority, the government agency in the Republic of Ghana responsible for the generation and supply of electricity
 * Voluntary restraint agreement, an agreement to limit exports

Organizations

 * Visual Resources Association, a library association for image media professionals
 * Volunteer Railroaders Association, a New Jersey-based non-profit group of volunteers
 * Volunteer Rescue Association, in NSW, Australia

Other uses

 * VRA, IATA airport code for Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport, Varadero, Cuba
 * Vrå, Hjørring, Denmark
 * VRA Amsterdam, a Dutch cricket club based in Amstelveen
 * VRA Cricket Ground, a cricket ground in Amstelveen, used by the Dutch national side

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Foundry model

The foundry model is a microelectronics engineering and manufacturing business model consisting of a semiconductor fabrication plant, or foundry, and an integrated circuit design operation, each belonging to separate companies or subsidiaries.

Integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) design and manufacture integrated circuits. Many companies, known as fabless semiconductor companies, only design devices; merchant or pure play foundries only manufacture devices for other companies, without designing them. Examples of IDMs are Intel, Samsung, and Texas Instruments, examples of pure play foundries are GlobalFoundries, TSMC, and UMC, and examples of fabless companies are AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm.

Integrated circuit production facilities are expensive to build and maintain. Unless they can be kept at nearly full use, they will become a drain on the finances of the company that owns them. The foundry model uses two methods to avoid these costs: fabless companies avoid costs by not owning such facilities. Merchant foundries, on the other hand, find work from the worldwide pool of fabless companies, through careful scheduling, pricing, and contracting, keep their plants in full use.

History
Companies that both designed and produced the devices were originally responsible for manufacturing microelectronic devices. These manufacturers were involved in both the research and development of manufacturing processes and the research and development of microcircuit design.

The first pure play semiconductor company is the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, a spin-off of the government Industrial Technology Research Institute, which split its design and fabrication divisions in 1987, a model advocated for by Carver Mead in the U.S., but deemed too costly to pursue. The separation of design and fabrication became known as the foundry model, with fabless manufacturing outsourcing to semiconductor foundries.

Fabless semiconductor companies do not have any semiconductor fabrication capability; and contract production with a merchant foundry manufacturer. The fabless company concentrates on the research and development of an IC-product; the foundry concentrates on manufacturing and testing the physical product. If the foundry does not have any semiconductor design capability, it is a pure-play semiconductor foundry.

An absolute separation into fabless and foundry companies is not necessary. Some companies continue to exist that perform both operations and benefit from the close coupling of their skills. Some companies manufacture some of their own designs and contract out to have others manufactured or designed, in cases where they see value or seek special skills. The foundry model is a business vision that seeks to optimize productivity.

MOSIS
The very first merchant foundries were part of the MOSIS service. The MOSIS service gave limited production access to designers with limited means, such as students, university researchers, and engineers at small startups. The designer submitted designs, and these submissions were manufactured with the commercial company's extra capacity. Manufacturers could insert some wafers for a MOSIS design into a collection of their own wafers when a processing step was compatible with both operations. The commercial company (serving as foundry) was already running the process, so they were effectively being paid by MOSIS for something they were already doing. A factory with excess capacity during slow periods could also run MOSIS designs to avoid having expensive capital equipment stand idle.

Under-use of an expensive manufacturing plant could lead to the financial ruin of the owner, so selling surplus wafer capacity was a way to maximize the fab's use. Hence, economic factors created a climate where fab operators wanted to sell surplus wafer-manufacturing capacity and designers wanted to purchase manufacturing capacity rather than try to build it.

Although MOSIS opened the doors to some fabless customers, earning additional revenue for the foundry and providing inexpensive service to the customer, running a business around MOSIS production was difficult. The merchant foundries sold wafer capacity on a surplus basis, as a secondary business activity. Services to the customers were secondary to the commercial business, with little guarantee of support. The choice of merchant dictated the design, development flow, and available techniques to the fabless customer. Merchant foundries might require proprietary and non-portable preparation steps. Foundries concerned with protecting what they considered trade secrets of their methodologies might only be willing to release data to designers after an onerous nondisclosure procedure.

Dedicated foundry
In 1987, the world's first dedicated merchant foundry opened its doors: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The distinction of 'dedicated' is in reference to the typical merchant foundry of the era, whose primary business activity was building and selling of its own IC-products. The dedicated foundry offers several key advantages to its customers: first, it does not sell finished IC-products into the supply channel; thus a dedicated foundry will never compete directly with its fabless customers (obviating a common concern of fabless companies). Second, the dedicated foundry can scale production capacity to a customer's needs, offering low-quantity shuttle services in addition to full-scale production lines. Finally, the dedicated foundry offers a "COT-flow" (customer owned tooling) based on industry-standard EDA systems, whereas many IDM merchants required its customers to use proprietary (non-portable) development tools. The COT advantage gave the customer complete control over the design process, from concept to final design.

Foundry sales leaders by year

 * Pure-play semiconductor foundry is a company that does not offer a significant amount of IC products of its own design, but instead operates semiconductor fabrication plants focused on producing ICs for other companies.
 * Integrated device manufacturer (IDM) semiconductor foundry is where companies such as Texas Instruments, IBM, and Samsung join in to provide foundry services as long as there is no conflict of interest between relevant parties.

2009–2007
As of 2009, the top 17 semiconductor foundries were:

(1) Now acquired by GlobalFoundries

2008–2006
As of 2008, the top 18 pure-play semiconductor foundries were:

(1) Merged with CR Logic in 2008, reclassified as an IDM foundry

2007–2005
As of 2007, the top 14 semiconductor foundries include:

For ranking in worldwide:

2004
As of 2004, the top 10 pure-play semiconductor foundries were:

Financial and IP issues
Like all industries, the semiconductor industry faces upcoming challenges and obstacles.

The cost to stay on the leading edge has steadily increased with each generation of chips. The financial strain is being felt by both large merchant foundries and their fabless customers. The cost of a new foundry exceeds $1 billion. These costs must be passed on to customers. Many merchant foundries have entered into joint ventures with their competitors in an effort to split research and design expenditures and fab-maintenance expenses.

Chip design companies sometimes avoid other companies' patents simply by purchasing the products from a licensed foundry with broad cross-license agreements with the patent owner.

Stolen design data is also a concern; data is rarely directly copied, because blatant copies are easily identified by distinctive features in the chip, placed there either for this purpose or as a byproduct of the design process. However, the data including any procedure, process system, method of operation or concept may be sold to a competitor, who may save months or years of tedious reverse engineering.

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John O'Byrne

John O'Byrne (24 April 1884 – 14 January 1954) was an Irish judge and barrister who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1940 to 1954, a Judge of the High Court from 1926 to 1940 and Attorney General of Ireland from 1924 to 1926.

Early life
He was born on 24 April 1884, the fourth son of Patrick O'Byrne and Mary O'Byrne (née Tallon), of Seskin, County Wicklow. He was educated at the Patrician Monastery, Tullow, County Carlow, and studied Moral and Mental Science at the Royal University, where he graduated in 1907 in First Place with First Class Honours. He was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1908.

He joined the Irish Land Commission, where he acquired an intimate knowledge of the system of real property and land tenure in Ireland. Subsequently, he studied at King's Inns, Dublin, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1911, where he practised mainly in real property.

He stood as a pro-Treaty Sinn Féin candidate at the 1922 general election for the Wexford constituency but was not elected. In 1922, he was appointed by the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State to the Irish Free State Constitution Commission to draft the Constitution of the Irish Free State, commonly known as the Irish Free State Constitution Commission. It prepared a draft Constitution. He was thus one of the constitutional architects of the Irish Free State.

In 1923, he was appointed to the Judiciary Commission by the Government of the Irish Free State, on a reference from the Government to establish a new system for the administration of justice in accordance with the Constitution of the Irish Free State. The Judiciary Commission was chaired by the last Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (who had also been the last Lord Chancellor of Ireland). It drafted legislation for a new system of courts, including a High Court and a Supreme Court, and provided for the abolition of the Irish Court of Appeal.

He was appointed King's Counsel in 1924, becoming the last member of counsel in the Irish Free State to be appointed, thereafter counsel were appointed as Senior Counsel. He was also a delegate of the Irish Free State to the League of Nations in the same year.

Legal career
On 7 June 1924, he was appointed the second Attorney-General of the Irish Free State when Hugh Kennedy was appointed Chief Justice of Ireland.

Judicial career
On 9 January 1926, he was appointed a High Court judge, upon which he served until he was elevated to the bench of the Supreme Court of Ireland in 1940. He was also Chairman of the Irish Legal Terms Advisory Committee from 14 May 1948 to 13 May 1953.

Reputation on the bench
Another High Court judge, Kenneth Deale writing extrajudicially in "Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt?", a collection of essays on celebrated Irish murder trials, offers some interesting insights into O'Byrne's strengths and weaknesses as a judge. Deale praises him as a sound and experienced lawyer, conscientious, principled and level-headed. However, he believed that O'Byrne had one serious flaw- he was excessively strong-minded and having made up his mind was most reluctant to change it. This in Deale's view was a serious fault in a judge especially in criminal trials, where Deale found it hard to believe that a jury would not be greatly influenced by the summing up of so formidable and strong-minded a judge. In particular, Deale strongly criticised his conduct of the trial of Thomas Kelly, tried in 1936 for the murder of Patrick Henry. In Deale's view, O'Byrne's summing-up was designed to convince the jury that the accused was guilty (Kelly, after an unprecedented three trials, was found guilty, but the Government, which seems to have had some doubts about his guilt, reprieved him from the death penalty).

Personal life
He married Margaret (Marjorie) McGuire in 1924; and they had five children. They lived at Stonehurst, Killiney, County Dublin. He died in office on 14 January 1954. His widow brought a celebrated test case arguing that judges could not be required to pay income tax as this breached the Constitutional guarantee that their incomes can not be reduced. The Supreme Court decided by a 3–2 majority that notwithstanding the guarantee, judges are liable to pay income tax.

One of his sons was Paddy O'Byrne who became one of the best known radio presenters in South Africa.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Forsyth

This page is an archive of the discussion surrounding the proposed deletion of the page entitled James Forsyth.

This page is kept as an historic record.

The result of the debate was to delete the article.

 * James Forsyth. Non verifiable, non notable, possible vanity entry. Angela. 03:40, May 18, 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: it is verifiable (follow the external links on Ruzwana Bashir), and perhaps marginally notable, if the election made a major newspaper. Everyking 06:11, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: nonnotable, twentysomething vanity. Associated with Ruzwana Bashir, a slightly notable person, but if he brushed with fame, it didn't stick. Wile E. Heresiarch 15:32, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Oxford Union is famous, former presidents include William Gladstone (PM of the UK) and Benazir Bhutto (former PM of Pakistan). The election was controversial. But... I feel that only the winner of the election is sufficiently notable for inclusion. If Mr Forsyth does get his name in the media as the main subject of an article, rather than mentioned in passing, at some point in the future then we can recreate. And he is a tool Average Earthman 16:22, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Same reasons as above. Timrollpickering 09:46, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

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Mailand

Mailand may refer to:

 * Mailand, a hamlet on Unst, one of the Shetland Islands
 * Mailand Upper Secondary School, a school in Lørenskog, Norway
 * the German name for Milan, Italy
 * Ingeborg Suhr Mailand (1871–1969), Danish educator

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MOSIS

MOSIS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service) is multi-project wafer service that provides metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) chip design tools and related services that enable universities, government agencies, research institutes and businesses to prototype chips efficiently and cost-effectively.

Operated by the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI), MOSIS combines customers' orders onto shared multi-project wafers that speed production and reduce costs compared with underutilized single-project wafers. Customers are able to debug and adjust designs, or to commission small-volume runs, without making major production investments. Fabrication costs are also shared by combining multiple designs from a single customer onto one "mask set," or wafer template. According to MOSIS, the service has delivered more than 60,000 integrated circuit designs.

Funded by DARPA, MOSIS was created in 1981 by ISI's Danny Cohen, an Internet pioneer who also developed Voice over Internet Protocol and Video over Internet Protocol. It was based on the revolutionary VLSI design methodology of Carver Mead and Lynn Conway, who pioneered and/or popularized the use of technology-independent design rules and modular cell-based, hierarchical system design, testing this new approach to rapid prototyping and short-run fabrication at Xerox PARC. One of the first e-commerce providers, MOSIS also launched the "fabless foundry" industry, in which vendors outsource chip fabrication rather than manufacturing them in-house. Thousands of students also have learned chip design in MOSIS-associate programs.

Many early MOSIS users were students trying IC layout techniques from the seminal book Introduction to VLSI Design (ISBN 0-201-04358-0) published in 1980 by Caltech professor Carver Mead and MIT professor Lynn Conway. Some early reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processors such as MIPS (1984) and SPARC (1987) were run through MOSIS during their early design and testing phases.

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Helge Boes

Helge Phillipp Boes (June 20, 1970 – February 5, 2003) was a German American intelligence officer who served in the Central Intelligence Agency early in the Global War on Terrorism.

Early life and education
On Jun 20, 1970, Helge Boes was born in Hamburg, West Germany to American Roderich Boes and German Monika Boes. The family moved to West Berlin when he was two, and life in the walled city surrounded by Communist East Germany allowed him "to see up close the damaging effects of a closed society,” his older brother Henrik told Reuters in 2003. Boes attended John F. Kennedy School, a German-American elementary and high school where he excelled in soccer, graduating in 1989.

In 1989, Boes moved to Kennesaw, Georgia and enrolled at Georgia State University. He graduated summa cum laude in 1992. He then entered Harvard Law School, graduating cum laude in 1997 alongside his future wife, Cindy E. Tidler. The two married in 1999.

Legal career
Following graduation from law school, Boes joined the white shoe law firm Latham & Watkins, where he worked as a staff attorney until, 2001, when he decided to give up the legal profession to join the CIA.

CIA career
Joining the Central Intelligence Agency as a member of the Directorate of Operations Clandestine Service Trainee Class, Boes immediately excelled in training. According to his biography on the CIA's website, "he was a standout among the trainees of our Clandestine Service", adding "one of Helge’s ops instructors called him "a case officer’s case officer." DO officers know how high a compliment that is."

Following training, Boes was assigned to the Counterterrorist Center (CTC), and in Spring 2002 made himself one of the earliest volunteers for assignment to Afghanistan. After a successful first tour in the nascent war, Boes returned to headquarters for a few months, but by early 2003 he volunteered for a second assignment to Afghanistan.

Death in Afghanistan
On February 5, 2003, 32-year-old Boes was killed in eastern Afghanistan during a live-fire training exercise when a grenade detonated prematurely, killing him and wounding two others. He was the second CIA officer to die as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, the first being paramilitary officer Mike Spann on November 25, 2001. Boes death in the line of duty, the 80th since the inception of the agency - was announced to the CIA headquarters workforce on February 7th - at which time CIA Director George Tenet posthumously awarded Boes the Exceptional Service Medallion. "For the life Helge led," said Tenet, "one of courage and sacrifice, one of service without public reward—he has earned the gratitude of every American family."

Legacy
Boes was survived by his wife, Cindy Tidler, his parents, Roderich and Monika Boes of Germany, and his brother Henrik of Colorado. He was given a Catholic funeral at Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church in Sterling, Virginia, with CIA Director Tenet giving a eulogy. His remains were subsequently interred at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C.. On his grave is the German inscription: "Was du sein willst. sei est ganz.", which translates as "Whatever you want to be, be it completely."

According to Reuters, Helge and fellow Harvard Law class of 1997 member Michael E. Weston were best friends during and after law school, and both found private legal practice unfulfilling. They also loved the same woman, their Harvard Law classmate Cindy Tidler. Tidler and Boes married in 1999. Six years after Boes death in 2003, she married Weston. He was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan five months later while working for the DEA, the War in Afghanistan ultimately widowing her twice.

The Washington Premier League, the United States Adult Soccer Association affiliate serving the Washington DC metropolitan area with which Helga used to play goalkeeper, has hosted the Helga Boes Cup as the championship match for the Premier Division annually since 2012.

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Talk:Young Talent Time

POV
Dunks, I agree "hysteria" was a hopelessly POV term, but the fact is that that aspect of the show is one of it's most-remembered features. It's not something that would be done now, and the massive increase in concern about paedophilia that occurred through the 1980's is the reason. And people did wonder (wrongly) about Young: see. This stuff should be mentioned on the Wikipedia, and placed in context as the unfounded rumours that they were. --Robert Merkel 03:45, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

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Robert - I really appreciate yr feedback, but must vehemently disagree with your position.

I really cannot accept that these suggestions of Johnny being a paedophile are "the best rememembered aspect of the show". I think it's viciously scurrilous, incredibly derogatory and I think it denigrates everything Johnny achieved with and for those kids to suggest that these filthy rumours are what people most often associate with YTT.

"People" didn't "wonder" - they merely repeat vicious rumours and tasteless jokes, based on malicious stories concocted by the tabloid press. No different from a Lindy Chamberlain joke or a 9-11 joke. I seriously doubt that the authors of that Wikipedia article would repeat 9-11 jokes in that context, do you?

I also TOTALLY disagree about the perceptions of Johnny's interaction with the kids. Yes, it was a different time, but I think it's a VERY long bow to draw to suggest that interactions between adult males and child performers doesn't happen on TV now simply because of the "hysteria" about paedophilia and the assumption that it will automatically be interpreted as an improper relationship.

Concern about paedophilia is genuine, it's based on real and extremely horrible facts. Sure, it can (a la the infamous Mr Bubbles case) be used wrongly to persecute innocent people -- but of course that was hardly the first time Australian police have "fitted up" a suspect.

But there has never been any serious suggestion that Johnny ever acted improperly with any of the children, or that anything whatsoever relating to his attitude, manner or behaviour towards the Team was anything other than totally appropriate and professional.

The assertion that "people" (which people, exactly?) *might* fantasise about there being 'weird' overtones to YTT is not appropriate nor is it either factually or logically supportable.

I have to submit that this kind of comment merely perpetrates the "vicious rumours" (cf my Milesago article) that Johnny has had to battle against for years. Repeating these rumours in the context of this article merely serves to continue the *baseless* denigration of Johnny's character that has gone on for years -- and as I mentioned previously, I also have concerns that it might well be defamatory.

Face it -- those kids were supervised at all times, they had tutors and chaperones, their parents were always around -- and as one of Johnny friends noted in the "Australian Story" special -- don't you think, in the kind of world we live in today, that if there had been ANY impropriety whatsover it would have come out and been splashed all over the media and dragged through the courts years ago?

I have to reiterate that I believe this kind of imputation has no place either in this article or anywhere else. Whether or not any individual might perceive Johnny's interaction with the children as being in any way suspect is a matter of pure speculation and as such lies entirely outside the scope of both Wikipedia in general and this article in particular.

To illustrate: I think there's a world of difference between this instance and something like the allegations of corruption concerning former NSW Premier Robert Askin. Those allegations have been made repeatedly, in public, on the record, by reputable public figures and they have has been openly discussed in print, in Parliament, in royal commissions. I believe it is widely accepted that Askin was corrupt and that there is substantial evidence to support this assertion -- even though it also has to be admitted that there is and will probably never be any definitive proof (apart from his wife's multi-million-dollar estate, of course).

Repeating scurrilous rumours in the context of a factual article is just not appropriate in my view. I think it's also important to think about the people involved. It's easy to make glib statements about someone you don't know. I don't know Johnny personally, but I know people who know him and I can tell you that this kind of rumour-mongering is incredibly painful and distressing for him.

I'm sorry if I seem over-anxious about this, but it's something I feel very strongly about. It adds nothing factual to the article and only serves to perpetuate a false, ugly rumour that should have been quashed years ago.

Dunks 11:02, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your response.
 * Having been born in 1976 and having lived through the massive change in awareness and sensitivity towards child sexual abuse through that period and into the 1990's, I still maintain that in today's context there is no way a TV network would permit an adult male to do the "All My Lovin" show-closer with a bunch of kids as Young did, because of the overtones it would have. For that matter, I believe that male primary school teachers are a lot more circumspect about their physical contact with students than when I left it.  However, as you have correctly pointed out, that's really an potentially illustrative example for an argumentative essay on social mores, not an article on YTT.
 * By the way, while YTT was pretty cruddy television in retrospect, I happen to think that "The Real Thing" is probably the best Australian pop recording of the 1960's (at least of the ones I've heard), and it's a real shame it never achieved worldwide distribution. --136.186.1.116 05:50, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

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Robert - have to agree that The Real Thing is a major classic. Actually, you'd have to hope it's the best -- it was reputed to have been the most expensive single ever recorded in Australia up to that time; the recording and mixing reportedly ended up costing over $10,000 -- which would equate to roughly $100k today! Pretty steep for one track -- that's Fleetwood Mac territory! Singles usually only cost a few hundred to record at that time, albums a few thousand at most.

Dunks 07:00, 19 May 2004

Can someone check this?
Can someone check the ages of the cast in this article. If Aydan was 12 during his AGT 2013 performance, he obviously can't be 13 when the Young Talent Time aired. We either need to confirm their ages at the time of broadcasting, or leave them out altogether. - 87.211.75.45 (talk) 17:26, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

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