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Pat Phoenix

Patricia Phoenix (born Patricia Frederica Manfield; 26 November 1923 – 17 September 1986) was an English actress who became one of the first sex symbols of British television through her role as Elsie Tanner, an original cast member of Coronation Street, a role which she portrayed from its first episode in 1960 until she quit the role in 1984.

Early life
Phoenix was born at St Mary's Hospital in Fallowfield, Lancashire, to Annie (née Noonan), originally of County Galway, Ireland, and Thomas "Tom" Manfield. Phoenix also claimed that she had been born in Galway, although she later stated that she was merely agreeing with something her elderly mother had already told the press.

When Phoenix was eight years old, her father was involved in a car accident; in court, it was revealed that his marriage was bigamous as he had never divorced his first wife, who was living some miles away and who he had been paying maintenance to for many years. She later described this period in her life as a "nightmare", saying that "I lost my safe, secure, normal world". Her mother later married Richard Pilkington.

Phoenix attended Fallowfield Central School. As a child, she nursed early theatrical ambitions, appearing regularly on the radio in Children's Hour at the age of 11, after having submitted a monologue. After leaving school, she worked as a filing clerk for the electricity charging department of Manchester Corporation, performing in amateur dramatics in her spare time. She joined the Arts Theatre in Manchester and other Northern repertory companies.

Career
Phoenix's big break came in 1948, when she played Sandy Powell's wife in the Mancunian Film Studios film Cup-tie Honeymoon, followed by a summer season in Blackpool with Thora Hird in the show Happy Days. Exposure led to more serious work with Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. She also worked as a writer for ventriloquist Terry Hall and comedian Harry Worth. Some undistinguished film work followed in Blood of the Vampire (1958) and Jack the Ripper (1959) and in 1960, she returned to Manchester with her ambition all but spent.

Phoenix's fortunes improved when she was given her best known role as Elsie Tanner, the devil-may-care divorcée who lived at No. 11 in Coronation Street. By this time, she had changed her name from Pilkington to Phoenix, after the mythological bird that rose from the ashes. She featured in the programme from 1960 to 1973 and again from 1976 to 1984. Her character became known for her fiery red hair and was described by Prime Minister James Callaghan as "the sexiest thing on television". During her periods of absence from the series, she failed in her attempts to find suitable alternative roles. She left the series for the final time in January 1984, having filmed her last scenes during November 1983, her 60th birthday. In the story, her character moved to Portugal to meet up with an old flame until 2004 when the character died in a car crash (off screen).

Phoenix's profile gained her a part in the British film The L-Shaped Room (1962) in which she played a prostitute and which also featured her future husband Anthony Booth in a small role. She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1972 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews on the set of Coronation Street.. After her final departure from Coronation Street, she appeared in a one-act television play, Hidden Talents, in 1986. At this time, she was suffering from advanced lung cancer; in the play, she played a woman dying of cancer. That same year, she also starred in short-lived sitcom Constant Hot Water, playing a Bridlington landlady. In 1985, she was interviewed for a magazine by long-time fan, the singer Morrissey, who also featured her on the cover of one of the Smiths' singles, "Shakespeare's Sister".

Personal life
Phoenix's love life was often fodder for tabloid stories. Her first marriage was to actor Peter Marsh, whom she married in Bradford Cathedral in 1953; the couple divorced in 1961. On 23 December 1972, she married her Coronation Street co-star Alan Browning. The marriage lasted just under seven years, as Browning had alcohol-related problems and died from liver failure in September 1979. She later married actor Anthony Booth, the father-in-law of future Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Phoenix wrote two volumes of autobiography; All My Burning Bridges (1974) and Love, Curiosity, Freckles and Doubt (1983). She was a practising Catholic and a lifelong supporter of the Labour Party, campaigning for Tony Blair at the 1983 general election for him to be elected as the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield where he was returned. Phoenix also campaigned with Booth for former Minister for Technology Tony Benn at the 1984 Chesterfield by-election, which Benn won. She owned the Navigation Inn, a pub in Buxworth, Derbyshire.

Illness and death
In March 1986, Phoenix, who smoked 60 cigarettes a day, was diagnosed with lung cancer after collapsing at home. She continued to work following her diagnosis, hiding her illness from most people, including her lover Tony Booth. In the summer of 1986, her condition deteriorated, forcing her to undergo more extensive treatment and confirming mild speculation in the press that she had health problems. It later leaked that she had just weeks to live and had been given the last rites.

Phoenix married Booth in the Alexandra Hospital (Cheadle), on 9 September 1986, attracting much media attention. Eight days later, she died in her sleep, aged 62. At her request, her funeral service at the Holy Name Church in Manchester featured a large brass band; according to Coronation Street histories written by show historian Daran Little, she wanted the event that marked her death to be as lively as her life. Booth's daughter Cherie was amongst the mourners, alongside her husband, Tony Blair.

Legacy
Since her death, Phoenix has been portrayed by Kym Marsh, Denise Black, Debbie Rush, Sue Johnston, Lynda Rooke and Jodie Prenger (who have all also appeared in Coronation Street as, respectively, Michelle Connor, Denise Osborne, Anna Windass, Gloria Price, Laura Collins/Lucy Woodrow and Glenda Shuttleworth) and Jessie Wallace in various dramas depicting her life, both on stage and television.

As part of the Coronation Street 40th anniversary celebrations in 2000, blue plaques were unveiled outside the Granada Studios, the location for most of her work on Coronation Street, to four of the soap opera's stars, including Phoenix. The other plaques commemorated the lives of Doris Speed, Bryan Mosley and Violet Carson.

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John A. Lejeune

John Archer Lejeune (January 10, 1867 – November 20, 1942) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general and the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Lejeune served for nearly 40 years in the military, and commanded the U.S. Army's 2nd Division during World War I. After his retirement from the Marine Corps he became superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute.

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina was named in his honor during World War II.

Biography
Lejeune was born on January 10, 1867, at the Old Hickory Plantation near Lacour, Louisiana, in Pointe Coupee Parish. He was the son of Confederate army captain Ovide Lejeune (1820–1889) He attended the preparatory program at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from September 1881 to April 1884, leaving to prepare for the entrance exam for the United States Naval Academy. He secured an appointment as a midshipman at the Academy, from which he graduated in 1888, ranking second academically in his class of thirty-two midshipmen. At the completion of a two-year cruise as a midshipman, he was appointed to Naval Engineering, but was desperate to join the Marine Corps. Exhausting all conventional channels, he contacted his senator and eventually the Secretary of the Navy arranged his appointment to the Marine Corps. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps on July 25, 1890. His immediate family was very involved with the Marine Corps, particularly during World War II. His daughter, Eugenia Lejeune, and his grandson, James Blair Glennon Jr., served with the Corps during the war and after. His granddaughter, Jeanne Glennon Hull, served in the Navy's WAVES and was married to Lt. Col. William Frederick Harris in 1946.

1890s
After receiving his Marine Corps commission, Lejeune was assigned to Marine Barracks, New York, on March 31, 1890, for Marine Corps "indoctrination and instruction". Afterwards, he reported for duty to the Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Virginia, on November 3, 1890. While in Norfolk, he met Ellie Harrison Murdaugh; they were engaged just before he began his first tour of sea duty. From October 1, 1891, to July 28, 1893, Lejeune served on board USS Bennington (PG-4) and was promoted to first lieutenant on February 26, 1892. On August 28, 1893, he was assigned to the Norfolk Marine Barracks, where he served until July 31, 1897. While stationed in Norfolk this second time, he married Murdaugh on October 23, 1895.

On August 2, 1897, Lejeune assumed command of the Marine Guard of the USS Cincinnati (C-7), where he served throughout the Spanish–American War. On the morning of August 9, 1898, he commanded the approximately 30-man landing party at Cape San Juan, Puerto Rico that covered the withdrawal of 35 U.S. Navy bluejackets from USS Amphitrite (BM-2) and 60 civilian refugees from the town of Fajardo that had been quartered at the Cape San Juan Light that the sailors had defended against a force of approximately 200 Spanish Army troops and civil guard the previous night during the Battle of Fajardo. He was reassigned from Cincinnati on February 17, 1899, and on February 18, 1899, joined the USS Massachusetts (BB-2) to command the Marine Guard on board. He was promoted to captain on March 3, 1899, and left his position on the Massachusetts on May 10, 1900.

1900–1916
From July 3, 1900, to November 12, 1900, Captain Lejeune was assigned to recruiting duty at Boston, Massachusetts. On November 22, 1900, he reported at the Marine Barracks, Pensacola, Florida, to command a Marine detachment there. From January 12 to January 21, 1903, Captain Lejeune was on duty at the Norfolk Barracks, he was en route to duty at New York City on January 26, 1903. He was promoted to major on March 3, 1903, and was on duty assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D.C., from May 15, 1903, to August 8, 1903.

On August 8, 1903, Major Lejeune was assigned to USS Panther (AD-6) to command the Marine Battalion on board that vessel, joining the ships company August 16, 1903. On October 23, 1903, the battalion, with Lejeune in command, was transferred to USS Dixie (1893). From December 16 to December 21, 1904, Major Lejeune was on shore duty on the Isthmus of Panama in command of this battalion, leaving there on the latter date on board USS Yankee (1892).

From January 27, 1905, to May 20, 1906, Lejeune served at the Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. He then returned to Panama in command of a battalion of Marines from May 29 to July 6, 1906, the battalion being transported both ways on board USS Columbia (C-12), returning to Washington Marine Barracks. On March 29, 1907, Major Lejeune was detached from command of the Washington Barracks and ordered to the Philippines. His family—his wife and three daughters—accompanied him on this overseas duty.

Arriving in the Philippines on May 2, 1907, Lejeune assumed command of the Marine Barracks and Naval Prison, Navy Yard, Cavite, on May 6, 1907. He assumed command of the First Brigade of Marines on June 15, 1908, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 13, 1909. He was detached on June 8, 1909, and ordered to return to the United States. He then attended the U.S. Army War College, graduating in 1910.

Lieutenant Colonel Lejeune embarked on board USS Ohio (BB-12) on May 26, 1912, with the Second Regiment, First Provisional Brigade Marines, for Cuba. He disembarked at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on June 8, 1912, and was in command of the District of Santiago from June 9 to July 14, 1912. On July 15, 1912, Lejeune embarked on board USS Prairie (1890) and sailed for Colón, Panama. July 18–29, 1912, was spent at Camp Elliott, Panama.

The Marine Corps Association was founded on April 25, 1911, at Guantanamo Bay by the officers of the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, under command of Colonel Littleton W. T. Waller. Although the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade disbanded shortly after, the MCA remained active. Two years later, again at Guantanamo Bay, officers of the 2d Provisional Marine Brigade, commanded by Colonel Lincoln Karmany, formally organized the Marine Corps Association. Colonel Karmany appointed then-Lt. Colonel John A. Lejeune as its first head of the executive board. After returning to the United States, Lejeune was again called upon for expeditionary duty. He sailed from Philadelphia, February 20, 1913, as second in command of the First Regiment, Second Provisional Brigade Marines, and disembarked February 27, 1913, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Then-Lt. Colonel Lejeune became the first head of the Marine Corps Association with the goal of professional advancement among Marines. He returned to Philadelphia on board USS Prairie on May 2, 1913.

On November 27, 1913, Lejeune sailed from New York with the 2nd Advanced Base Regiment, his ultimate destination Veracruz, Mexico, but returned to the United States to receive his promotion to colonel on February 25, 1914.

Col. Lejeune participated in the Tampico Affair. Colonel Lejeune and his unit eventually landed in Mexico on April 22, 1914, and participated in the United States occupation of Veracruz. He returned home in December 1914, this time to report to Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington, D.C., to become the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps to Major General George Barnett, Commandant of the Marine Corps. He was promoted to brigadier general on August 29, 1916.

World War I
With the American entry into World War I in April 1917, Lejeune assumed command of the newly constructed Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia; however, his overseas service was inevitable, and in June 1918, he arrived at Brest, France. He was promoted to major general on July 1, 1918.

Upon reporting to General John J. Pershing, Commander-in-chief (CinC) of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front, he was assigned to succeed Brigadier General Charles R. Boardman in command of the 164th Infantry Brigade of the 32nd Division but later assumed command of the 4th Marine Brigade, part of the 2nd Division, immediately following the attack of the division in the Battle of Soissons. Of note, Earl Hancock Ellis was then serving as the brigade's adjutant. On July 28, 1918, Major General Lejeune assumed command of the 2nd Division after its former commander, Major General James Harbord, had been reassigned to command the AEF's Services of Supply. He was the second Marine officer to hold an Army divisional command, Brigadier General Charles A. Doyen having previously commanded the division for two weeks. Lejeune commanded the 2nd Division during the victorious action at the battle of St. Mihiel in September. The operation was a success, and Lejeune sent an order of congratulations to the men of his command:

"I desire to express to the officers and men my profound appreciation of their brilliant and successful attack in the recent engagement. Our Division maintained the prestige and honor of our country proudly and swept the enemy from the field."

Lejeune emphasized tightly coordinated action that emphasized extensive rehearsal and disciplined artillery gunnery. This discipline enabled infantry elements to follow closely behind barrages that would otherwise be far too risky. This "leaning on the artillery" meant that the enemy faced direct assault while still reverting from the shock of a bombardment.

Lejeune stated his philosophy as "The key to combat effectiveness is unity – an esprit that characterizes itself in complete, irrevocable, mutual trust. Now my infantry trusts my artillery and engineers, and my artillery and engineers know this so they will go through hell itself before they let down the infantry. My infantry believe that with such support they are invincible-and they are." Marshal Pétain praised Lejeune as "a military genius who could and did do what the other commander said couldn't be done."

During the war, he was recognized by the French government as a strategist and leader, as evidenced by the Legion of Honor, and the Croix de guerre bestowed upon him by France. The C-in-C of the AEF, General Pershing, awarded Lejeune the U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal. The citation for his Army DSM reads:

"The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Major General John Archer Lejeune, United States Marine Corps, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World War I. Major General Lejeune commanded the Second Division in the successful operations of Thiaucourt, Masif Blanc Mont, St. Mihiel, and on the west bank of the Meuse. In the Argonne-Meuse offensive his division was directed with such sound military judgment and ability that it broke and held, by the vigor and rapidity of execution of its attack, enemy lines which had hitherto been considered impregnable."

The U.S. Navy's Distinguished Service Medal was conferred upon him when he returned to the United States following the occupation of Germany. The medal's citation states the following:

"The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Distinguished Service Medal to Major General John Archer Lejeune, United States Marine Corps, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services. Major General Lejeune commanded the Second Division in the successful operations of Thiaucourt, Masif Blanc Mont, St. Mihiel, and on the west bank of the Meuse. In the Argonne-Meuse offensive his division was directed with such sound military judgment and ability that it broke and held, by the vigor and rapidity of execution of its attack, enemy lines which had hitherto been considered impregnable."

Lejeune remained in command of the 2nd Division until August 1919, when the division was demobilized 9 months after the end of the war, including leading it in the march into Germany following the Armistice with Germany in November 1918.

In October 1919, he again was appointed commanding general, Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia.

Commandant of the Marine Corps
Lejeune was appointed as major general and Commandant of the Marine Corps on July 1, 1920. Subsequent to that time, he left his headquarters at Washington several times for tours of inspection in Haiti, Santo Domingo, Cuba, Puerto Rico, to the West Coast and elsewhere. During his service as Major General Commandant, Lejeune presided over what is known as the first enlightenment of the Marine Corps. Lejeune directed intelligence gathering operations in the Pacific in the early 1920s, and drove changes in the organization, training, education, and equipping of Marines, thus transforming them from 19th century colonial naval infantry into a combined arms amphibious force needed to prevail in World War II. Upon the expiration of his second term as commandant, Lejeune indicated his desire not to retire from the Marine Corps, but was relieved as commandant in March 1929.

United States Marine Corps League founder
The Marine Corps League is the only Congressionally chartered United States Marine Corps-related veterans organization in the United States. Its Congressional Charter was approved by the 75th U.S. Congress and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 4, 1937. The organization credits its founding – in 1923 – to legendary Marine Corps Commandant John A. Lejeune. General Lejeune was also charter member, in 1926, of American Legion Junius F. Lynch Post 35, in Norfolk, VA.

Freemasonry
Lejeune was raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason in a Lodge in Coblenz, Germany.

Retirement, VMI, and death
On November 10, 1929, Lejeune retired from the Marine Corps after thirty-nine years of service in order to accept the position of superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Virginia. Lejeune served as the institute's 5th superintendent for eight years until October 1937, when he retired for the second and final time.

In 1930 Lejeune was elected as an honorary member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati.

In September 1939, when Hitler's legions invaded Poland, he wrote to Thomas Holcomb, then the current commandant of the Marine Corps, and volunteered to serve once more given his alarm over the crisis in Europe. The offer was gently declined given his age.

In February 1942, the U.S. Congress enacted legislation permitting several officers who had displayed heroism in World War I to be promoted on the retired list, and Lejeune and John Twiggs Myers were advanced to lieutenant general.

Lejeune died on November 20, 1942, in the Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, and was interred in the Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.

Marine Corps Birthday message
In the Marine Corps' annual celebration of the establishment of the Marine Corps on November 10, 1775, at Tun Tavern, the following message from Lejeune is read:

MARINE CORPS ORDERS

No. 47 (Series 1921)

HEADQUARTERS U.S. MARINE CORPS

Washington, November 1, 1921

759. The following will be read to the command on the 10th of November, 1921, and hereafter on the 10th of November of every year. Should the order not be received by the 10th of November, 1921, it will be read upon receipt.

 * 1) On November 10, 1775, a Corps of Marines was created by a resolution of Continental Congress. Since that date many thousand men have borne the name "Marine". In memory of them it is fitting that we who are Marines should commemorate the birthday of our corps by calling to mind the glories of its long and illustrious history.
 * 2) The record of our corps is one which will bear comparison with that of the most famous military organizations in the world's history. During 90 of the 146 years of its existence the Marine Corps has been in action against the Nation's foes. From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.
 * 3) In every battle and skirmish since the birth of our corps, Marines have acquitted themselves with the greatest distinction, winning new honors on each occasion until the term "Marine" has come to signify all that is highest in military efficiency and soldierly virtue.
 * 4) This high name of distinction and soldierly repute we who are Marines today have received from those who preceded us in the corps. With it we have also received from them the eternal spirit which has animated our corps from generation to generation and has been the distinguishing mark of the Marines in every age. So long as that spirit continues to flourish Marines will be found equal to every emergency in the future as they have been in the past, and the men of our Nation will regard us as worthy successors to the long line of illustrious men who have served as "Soldiers of the Sea" since the founding of the Corps.

JOHN A. LEJEUNE,

Major General Commandant

75705—21

Military awards
Lejeune's military decorations and awards include:

U.S. Postal service honor
On November 10, 2005, the United States Postal Service issued the Distinguished Marines stamps in which Lejeune was honored.

Statues and memorials
On November 10, 2000, a life-sized bronze statue of Lejeune was unveiled on the grounds of the Pointe Coupee Parish Courthouse in New Roads, Louisiana. Patrick F. Taylor, chairman and CEO of Taylor Energy Company, along with the retired Marine Corps Major General Ronald G. Richard (former commanding general of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune) were in attendance. Taylor, who financed the Lejeune statue project, joined the Marine Corps Officer Training program as a student at Louisiana State University, but a heart problem kept him from receiving his commission. Taylor commissioned sculptor Patrick Dane Miller to fashion it to be historically accurate.

Statues of Lejeune also stand outside the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia, in the center of the traffic circle aboard MCB Camp Lejeune NC, outside of Lejeune Hall at the United States Naval Academy, outside of Lejeune Hall on MCB Quantico, Virginia, and the Louisiana War Memorial in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana next to the destroyer USS Kidd (DD-661).

Namesakes
Lejeune, legendary among Marines and often referred to as "the greatest of all Leathernecks", served with the Marine Corps for over 40 years. In his honor, the following bear his name:
 * Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
 * USS Lejeune (AP-74), Navy transport ship
 * Lejeune Hall, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
 * Lejeune Hall, Quantico, Virginia
 * Lejeune Hall, Louisiana State University
 * Lejeune Hall, United States Naval Academy
 * Lejeune Hall, Virginia Military Institute
 * Lejeune High School, Jacksonville, North Carolina
 * John A. Lejeune Lodge No. 350 Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, Quantico, Virginia

Fictional character Jonathan "John" Archer(Star Trek: Enterprise; played by actor Scott Bakula) *most likely* is the namesake of Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune.

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Stonyhurst update
Many thanks for note - got a few more things to add, and a bit more re-working. Hope that's cool. Just added a photo too - what do you think? Also I have a new image for the front of Stonyhurst - would you like me to add and replace the other one? I am a youngster, OS 91 - 98, but studied Stonyhurst history whilst there, and since. Thanks for your note. Well done on starting the page! Matt - London 09:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Absolutely! Facts are from my own research - part of my PHD. Thanks for offer to edit photo. Matt - London 11:38, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Brideshead Revisited is being repeated in my adopted land of Australia on ABC2 and Stonyhurst was mentioned. I have only recently come across the comedy of Chris Morris and find it hilarious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.74.134.113 (talk) 10:09, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Breastfeeding
Thanks for your comment on Talk:Breastfeeding - I've added about the let-down reflex now and hope that the article is pretty much done now. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated, but thanks again for reminding me about this important one. violet/riga (t) 22:44, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Arso Jovanovic
OK, it would be great if you could fix this text. About English reference.. hmm, you could try to find something via Google. I tried, and didn't find a lot of info. When I translated the article, I had no particluar knowledge about Jovanovic, but recently I've read one book that speaks a lot about him, so I think that I could check your changes. Just tell me when you finish with the article. -- Obradović Goran ( t al k  17:12, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

 * In the first paragraph I saw one correction that may be problematic. Fight for National Liberation (WWII in Yugoslavia). is changed into Fight for National Liberation in Yugoslavia during WWII. I'm not sure, it might be OK this way as well. I'll explain how I inderstand these terms, so you could decide. I think that Fight for National Liberation (Narodnooslobodilacka borba) is somewhat of a synonym for WWII in Yugoslavia. Similar as Russians call WWII in USSR the Great Patriotic War. That is why I have put it in parenthesis. -- Obradović Goran ( t al k  17:27, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the kind words :). I agree it will need some further cleanup by someone fluent in English.  The trick is to find someone who is at once both fluent in English *and* knowledgeable about the subject matter, which unfortunately I am not ;) - good luck! Longshot14 16:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Recusant families
I am the one who put the names of the recusant families down. Did you appreciate my having remembered your line?? Thanks for adding (which ones did you add??)

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Thanks for the note. I didn't actually write that section, though as the last one to touch it I should have corrected that glaring misspelling. Ugh.

If you want to take a look at again, go ahead: I've recast the sentences a bit, and while I have every confidence in my spelling I'm not so certain about my typing. --Calton | Talk 01:51, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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Morris Iannucci comedy and Jesuit Schooling
I went to a Jesuit School Xavier College in Melbourne Australia. I saw "Coffee and Cigarettes" where Steve Coogan was in a scene with Alfred Molina (whom I knew) which made me wonder who Steve Coogan was. It then led me to the humour of Chris Morris and later Armando Iannucci.

Xavier has produced Santo Cilauro as well as Tom Gleisner who were both at school with me at the same time but unnoticed until years later I saw their names in a school play whilst looking through the 1978 yearbook. Marg Downey also a prominent comedian was in the play as well.

Strangely enough, Patrick Marber was at Rokeby a junior school in Kingston-upon-Thames I attended before we migrated to Australia yet I don't think he had started before I left.

I certainly felt that the Jesuits allowed us to question everything but there is a certain menacing quality to Morris that belonged to the in crowd at our school. I wonder whether he was the bully or the bullied, more of an emotional than physical thing between the boys at our school. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.74.149.124 (talk) 18:43, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:Phleg

Hi Phleg, and welcome to Wikipedia.

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I understand you meant well, but "All Rites Reversed" is in fact correct - it's a Discordian term indicating lack of copyright. I've amended the Talk:Discordianism page to provide more guidance. --DenisMoskowitz 17:55, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)

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Amport House

Amport House is a country house near the village of Amport, Andover, Hampshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

The house was built in 1857 by John Paulet, 14th Marquess of Winchester. After being requisitioned during the Second World War, the house had various military uses and was the home of the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre until March 2020, when it was sold by the Ministry of Defence.

History
The current house was built in 1857 in an Elizabethan style near the village of Amport by John Paulet, 14th Marquess of Winchester, replacing two earlier houses which had stood on the site. It has a gatehouse and a pleached avenue of lime trees, now believed to be the longest such avenue in the United Kingdom.

The last of the Paulet family to reside at Amport was Henry Paulet, 16th Marquess of Winchester. Facing high levels of taxation at the end of the First World War, he sold the estate in lots between November 1918 and July 1919. Not long afterwards, the house and grounds were bought by Colonel Sofer Whitburn DSO, who in 1923 engaged Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll to redesign the gardens.

At the start of the Second World War, the house was requisitioned to be used as the headquarters of Royal Air Force Maintenance Command; as well as ceding them use of the house, Sofer Whitburn is reported to have donated his entire wine cellar to the Officers' Mess as a patriotic gesture. In 1943, with the RAF still in possession, he sold the house; in 1957, the RAF itself bought the property. Later that year, the Royal Air Force Chaplains' School moved from Dowdeswell Court in Dowdeswell to Amport House. The School included a Royal Navy chaplain staff member, and in 1996, with the closure of the depot of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department at Bagshot Park, it became the tri-service Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre.

In 1984, Amport House became a Grade II listed building.

In September 2016, the Ministry of Defence announced that Amport House would be put up for sale as part of a programme of defence estate rationalisation. A Better Defence Estate, published in November 2016, indicated that the Armed Forces Chaplaincy would close by 2020, which it subsequently did, to be relocated to Shrivenham, near Swindon. The licence for the publication of banns of marriage and the solemnisation of such marriages which had been granted to the chapel in January 2000 in accordance with the Marriage Act 1949 was cancelled in July 2020.

A converted stable block at the house was for some years the home of the Royal Army Chaplains' Museum, which also moved to Shrivenham.

In 2021, plans were announced to convert Amport House into an hotel.

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George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall

George Augustus Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall KP, PC (Ire) (14 August 1769 – 5 October 1844), styled Viscount Chichester until 1791 and Earl of Belfast from 1791 to 1799, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and politician.

Biography
He was born into an Ulster aristocratic family at St James's, Westminster, and served for less than a year as a representative in the Irish House of Commons for Carrickfergus before succeeding his father as second Marquess of Donegall in 1799 and the proprietor of Belfast..

Lord Donegall was admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1803 and later served as Lord Lieutenant of County Donegal from 1831 until his death. He was also made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1821 on the occasion of King George IV's visit to Ireland

In Belfast, those who had engaged in the reform and patriotic politics of the 1790s remained critical of Donegall's role as the town's pocket borough master. As they had been in the Dublin parliament, in the new United Kingdom parliament, Belfast's two MPs were his exclusive nominees. Yet veterans of both reform and rebellion found in Donegall a patron's for their civic initiatives. In 1810, Donegall leased the land, and laid the foundation stone, for William Drennan's progressively conceived Belfast Academical Institution. In 1808, he had headed the list of subscribers for the Belfast Harp Society, dedicated to "preserving the national music and national instrument of Ireland" and to promoting interest the country's language, history and antiquities.

In 1809, he leased land on the east side of Donegall Street for building the town's second Roman Catholic Church, St Patricks.

A lifelong gambler, Lord Donegall married the daughter of Edward May, a moneylender and owner of a gambling house. This may have been an agreement to resolve some debts. In 1818 it came to light that Anna May was illegitimate and had been underage when she married. The result of a 1753 law meant that the marriage was invalid which would have disinherited the children from the titles. Proceedings were put in place to resolve the situation but it was the changing of the marriage act in 1822 which allowed the eldest son to retain his place in the inheritance.

Lord Donegall died heavily in debt in 1844 at his home at Ormeau, County Down (which formed the basis of Ormeau Park), and was buried in St Nicholas's Church, Carrickfergus.


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Delete: This page contains no information, other than the students in question enjoy a drink Giano 16:51, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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 * Delete. Joke by one of them I guess. I also wonder about Clark hall pub although it's by a different contributor. Andrewa 20:21, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * send back to Queen's student ghetto, then delete.--Ianb 23:56, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: I am glad to see that they're staying busy after Freddy Mercury's death and that they're well respected. (Joke, non-notable.) Geogre 00:17, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete group vanity. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:15, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. When Jimbo Wales et al. created this system, their vision was that every human being could have, at their fingertips, free and permanent access to a compendium of all human knowledge.  I don't think that articles like this were what they had in mind.  --Ardonik 04:33, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC)


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Telematics

Telematics is an interdisciplinary field encompassing telecommunications, vehicular technologies (road transport, road safety, etc.), electrical engineering (sensors, instrumentation, wireless communications, etc.), and computer science (multimedia, Internet, etc.). Telematics can involve any of the following:
 * The technology of sending, receiving, and storing information using telecommunication devices to control remote objects
 * The integrated use of telecommunications and informatics for application in vehicles and to control vehicles on the move
 * Global navigation satellite system technology integrated with computers and mobile communications technology in automotive navigation systems
 * (Most narrowly) The use of such systems within road vehicles (also called vehicle telematics)

History
Telematics is a translation of the French word télématique, which was first coined by Simon Nora and Alain Minc in a 1978 report to the French government on the computerization of society. It referred to the transfer of information over telecommunications and was a portmanteau blending the French words télécommunications ("telecommunications") and informatique ("computing science"). The original broad meaning of telematics continues to be used in academic fields, but in commerce it now generally means vehicle telematics.

Vehicle telematics
Telematics can be described as thus:
 * 1) The convergence of telecommunications and information processing, the term later evolved to refer to automation in automobiles, such as the invention of the emergency warning system for vehicles. GPS navigation, integrated hands-free cell phones, wireless safety communications, and automatic driving assistance systems all are covered under the telematics umbrella.
 * 2) The science of telecommunications and informatics applied in wireless technologies and computational systems. 802.11p, the IEEE standard in the 802.11 family and also referred to as Wireless Access for the Vehicular Environment (WAVE), is the primary standard that addresses and enhances Intelligent Transport System.

Vehicle telematics can help improve the efficiency of an organization.

Vehicle tracking
Vehicle tracking is monitoring the location, movements, status, and behavior of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles. This is achieved through a combination of a GPS (GNSS) receiver and an electronic device (usually comprising a GSM GPRS modem or SMS sender) installed in each vehicle, communicating with the user (dispatching, emergency, or co-ordinating unit) and PC-based or web-based software. The data is turned into information by management reporting tools in conjunction with a visual display on computerized mapping software. Vehicle tracking systems may also use odometry or dead reckoning as an alternative or complementary means of navigation.

GPS tracking is usually accurate to around 10–20 meters, but the European Space Agency has developed the EGNOS technology to provide accuracy to 1.5 meters.

Trailer tracking
Trailer tracking refers to the tracking of movements and position of an articulated vehicle's trailer unit through the use of a location unit fitted to the trailer and a method of returning the position data via mobile communication network, IOT (Internet of things), or geostationary satellite communications for use through either PC- or web-based software.

Cold-store freight trailers that deliver fresh or frozen foods are increasingly incorporating telematics to gather time-series data on the temperature inside the cargo container, both to trigger alarms and record an audit trail for business purposes. An increasingly sophisticated array of sensors, many incorporating RFID technology, is being used to ensure the cold chain.

Container tracking
Freight containers can be tracked by GPS using a similar approach to that used for trailer tracking (i.e. a battery-powered GPS device communicating its position via mobile phone or satellite communications). Benefits of this approach include increased security and the possibility to reschedule the container transport movements based on accurate information about its location. According to Berg Insight, the installed base of tracking units in the intermodal shipping container segment reached 190,000 at the end of 2013. Growing at a compound annual growth rate of 38.2 percent, the installed base reached 960,000 units at the end of 2018.

Fleet management
Fleet management is the management of a company's fleet and includes the management of ships and/or motor vehicles such as cars, vans, and trucks. Fleet (vehicle) management can include a range of functions, such as vehicle financing, vehicle maintenance, vehicle telematics (tracking and diagnostics), driver management, fuel management, health and safety management, and dynamic vehicle scheduling. Fleet management is a function which allows companies that rely on transport in their business to remove or minimize the risks associated with vehicle investment, improving efficiency and productivity while reducing overall transport costs and ensuring compliance with government legislation and Duty of Care obligations. These functions can either be dealt with by an in-house fleet management department or an outsourced fleet management provider.

Telematics standards
The Association of Equipment Management Professionals (AEMP) developed the industry's first telematics standard. In 2008, AEMP brought together the major construction equipment manufacturers and telematics providers in the heavy equipment industry to discuss the development of the industry's first telematics standard. Following agreement from Caterpillar, Volvo CE, Komatsu, and John Deere Construction & Forestry to support such a standard, the AEMP formed a standards development subcommittee chaired by Pat Crail CEM to develop the standard. This committee consisted of developers provided by the Caterpillar/Trimble joint venture known as Virtual Site Solutions, Volvo CE, and John Deere. This group worked from February 2009 through September 2010 to develop the industry's first standard for the delivery of telematics data. The result, the AEMP Telematics Data Standard V1.1, was released in 2010 and officially went live on October 1, 2010. As of November 1, 2010, Caterpillar, Volvo CE, John Deere Construction & Forestry, OEM Data Delivery, and Navman Wireless are able to support customers with delivery of basic telematics data in a standard xml format. Komatsu, Topcon, and others are finishing beta testing and have indicated their ability to support customers in the near future.

The AEMP's telematics data standard was developed to allow end users to integrate key telematics data (operating hours, location, fuel consumed, and odometer reading where applicable) into their existing fleet management reporting systems. As such, the standard was primarily intended to facilitate importation of these data elements into enterprise software systems such as those used by many medium-to-large construction contractors. Prior to the standard, end users had few options for integrating this data into their reporting systems in a mixed-fleet environment consisting of multiple brands of machines and a mix of telematics-equipped machines and legacy machines (those without telematics devices where operating data is still reported manually via pen and paper). One option available to machine owners was to visit multiple websites to manually retrieve data from each manufacturer's telematics interface and then manually enter it into their fleet management program's database. This option was cumbersome and labor-intensive.

A second option was for the end user to develop an API (Application Programming Interface), or program, to integrate the data from each telematics provider into their database. This option was quite costly as each telematics provider had different procedures for accessing and retrieving the data and the data format varied from provider to provider. This option automated the process, but because each provider required a unique, custom API to retrieve and parse the data, it was an expensive option. In addition, another API had to be developed any time another brand of machine or telematics device was added to the fleet.

A third option for mixed-fleet integration was to replace the various factory-installed telematics devices with devices from a third party telematics provider. Although this solved the problem of having multiple data providers requiring unique integration methods, this was by far the most expensive option. In addition to the expense, many third-party devices available for construction equipment are unable to access data directly from the machine's electronic control modules (ECMs), or computers, and are more limited than the device installed by the OEM (Cat, Volvo, Deere, Komatsu, etc.) in the data they are able to provide. In some cases, these devices are limited to location and engine runtime, although they are increasingly able to accommodate a number of add-on sensors to provide additional data.

The AEMP Telematics Data Standard provides a fourth option. By concentrating on the key data elements that drive the majority of fleet management reports (hours, miles, location, fuel consumption), making those data elements available in a standardized xml format, and standardizing the means by which the document is retrieved, the standard enables the end user to use one API to retrieve data from any participating telematics provider (as opposed to the unique API for each provider that was required previously), greatly reducing integration development costs.

The current draft version of the AEMP Telematics Data Standard is now called the AEM/AEMP Draft Telematics API Standard, which expands the original standard Version 1.2 to include 19 data fields (with fault code capability). This new draft standard is a collaborative effort of AEMP and the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), working on behalf of their members and the industry. This Draft API replaces the current version 1.2 and does not currently cover some types of equipment, e.g., agriculture equipment, cranes, mobile elevating work platforms, air compressors, and other niche products.

In addition to the new data fields, the AEM/AEMP Draft Telematics API Standard changes how data is accessed in an effort to make it easier to consume and integrate with other systems and processes. It includes standardized communication protocols for the ability to transfer telematics information in mixed-equipment fleets to end user business enterprise systems, enabling the end user to employ their own business software to collect and then analyze asset data from mixed-equipment fleets without the need to work across multiple telematics provider applications.

To achieve a globally recognized standard for conformity worldwide, the AEM/AEMP Draft Telematics API Standard will be submitted for acceptance by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Final language is dependent upon completion of the ISO acceptance process.

Satellite navigation
Satellite navigation in the context of vehicle telematics is the technology of using a GPS and electronic mapping tool to enable a driver to locate a position, plan a route, and navigate a journey.

Mobile data
Mobile data is the use of wireless data communications using radio waves to send and receive real-time computer data to, from, and between devices used by field-based personnel. These devices can be fitted solely for use while in the vehicle (Fixed Data Terminal) or for use in and out of the vehicle (Mobile Data Terminal). See mobile Internet.

The common methods for mobile data communication for telematics were based on private vendors' RF communication infrastructure. During the early 2000s, manufacturers of mobile data terminals/AVL devices moved to try cellular data communication to offer cheaper ways to transmit telematics information and wider range based on cellular provider coverage. Since then, as a result of cellular providers offering low GPRS (2.5G) and later UMTS (3G) rates, mobile data is almost totally offered to telematics customers via cellular communication.

Wireless vehicle safety communications
Wireless vehicle safety communications telematics aid in car safety and road safety. It is an electronic subsystem in a vehicle used for exchanging safety information about road hazards and the locations and speeds of vehicles over short-range radio links. This may involve temporary ad hoc wireless local area networks.

Wireless units are often installed in vehicles and fixed locations, such as near traffic signals and emergency call boxes along the road. Sensors in vehicles and at fixed locations, as well as in possible connections to wider networks, provide information displayed to drivers. The range of the radio links can be extended by forwarding messages along multi-hop paths. Even without fixed units, information about fixed hazards can be maintained by moving vehicles by passing it backwards. It also seems possible for traffic lights, which one can expect to become smarter, to use this information to reduce the chance of collisions.

In the future, it may connect directly to the adaptive cruise control or other vehicle control aids. Cars and trucks with the wireless system connected to their brakes may move in convoys to save fuel and space on the roads. When a column member slows down, those behind it will automatically slow also. Certain scenarios may required less engineering effort, such as when a radio beacon is connected to a brake light.

In fall 2008, network ideas were tested in Europe, where radio frequency bandwidth had been allocated. The 30 MHz allocated is at 5.9 GHz, and unallocated bandwidth at 5.4 GHz may also be used. The standard is IEEE 802.11p, a low-latency form of the Wi-Fi local area network standard. Similar efforts are underway in Japan and the USA.

Emergency warning system for vehicles
Telematics technologies are self-orientating open network architecture structures of variable programmable intelligent beacons developed for application in the development of intelligent vehicles with the intent to accord (blend or mesh) warning information with surrounding vehicles in the vicinity of travel, intra-vehicle, and infrastructure. Emergency warning systems for vehicle telematics are developed particularly for international harmonization and standardization of vehicle-to-vehicle, infrastructure-to-vehicle, and vehicle-to-infrastructure real-time Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) systems.

Telematics most commonly relate to computerized systems that update information at the same rate they receive data, enabling them to direct or control a process such as an instantaneous autonomous warning notification in a remote machine or group of machines. In the use of telematics relating to intelligent vehicle technologies, instantaneous direction travel cognizance of a vehicle may be transmitted in real-time to surrounding vehicles traveling in the local area of vehicles equipped (with EWSV) to receive said warning signals of danger.

Intelligent vehicle technologies
Telematics comprise electronic, electromechanical, and electromagnetic devices—usually silicon micro-machined components operating in conjunction with computer-controlled devices and radio transceivers to provide precision repeatability functions (such as in robotics artificial intelligence systems) emergency warning validation performance reconstruction.

Intelligent vehicle technologies commonly apply to car safety systems and self-contained autonomous electromechanical sensors generating warnings that can be transmitted within a specified targeted area of interest, i.e. within 100 meters of the emergency warning system for the vehicle's transceiver. In ground applications, intelligent vehicle technologies are utilized for safety and commercial communications between vehicles or between a vehicle and a sensor along the road.

On November 3, 2009, the most advanced Intelligent Vehicle concept car was demonstrated in New York City when a 2010 Toyota Prius became the first LTE connected car. The demonstration was provided by the NG Connect project, a collaboration of automotive telematic technologies designed to exploit in-car 4G wireless network connectivity.

Carsharing
Telematics technology has enabled the emergence of carsharing services such as Local Motion, Uber, Lyft, Car2Go, Zipcar worldwide, or City Car Club in the UK. Telematics-enabled computers allow organizers to track members' usage and bill them on a pay-as-you-drive basis. Some systems show users where to find an idle vehicle. Car Clubs such as Australia's Charter Drive use telematics to monitor and report on vehicle use within predefined geofence areas to demonstrate the reach of their transit media car club fleet.

Auto insurance/Usage-based insurance (UBI)
The general idea of telematics auto insurance is that a driver's behavior is monitored directly while the person drives and this information is transmitted to an insurance company. The insurance company then assesses the risk of that driver having an accident and charges insurance premiums accordingly. A driver who drives less responsibly will be charged a higher premium than a driver who drives smoothly and with less calculated risk of claim propensity. Other benefits can be delivered to end users with Telematics2.0-based telematics as customer engagement can be enhanced with direct customer interaction.

Telematics auto insurance was independently invented and patented by a major U.S. auto insurance company, Progressive Auto Insurance, and a Spanish independent inventor, Salvador Minguijon Perez (European Patent EP0700009B1). The Perez patents cover monitoring the car's engine control computer to determine distance driven, speed, time of day, braking force, etc. Progressive is currently developing the Perez technology in the U.S. and European auto insurer Norwich Union is developing the Progressive technology for Europe. Both patents have since been overturned in courts due to prior work in the commercial insurance sectors.

Trials conducted by Norwich Union in 2005 found that young drivers (18- to 23-year-olds) signing up for telematics auto insurance have had a 20% lower accident rate than average.

In 2007, theoretical economic research on the social welfare effects of Progressive's telematics technology business process patents questioned whether the business process patents are pareto efficient for society. Preliminary results suggested that it was not, but more work is needed. In April 2014, Progressive patents were overturned by the U.S. legal system on the grounds of "lack of originality."

The smartphone as the in-vehicle device for insurance telematics has been discussed in great detail and the instruments are available for the design of smartphone-driven insurance telematics.

Engineering Degree programs

 * Federico Santa María Technical University (UTFSM) in Chile has a Telematics Engineering program which is a six-year full-time program of study (12 academic semesters). The final degree in Telematics Engineering has the title of Ingeniería Civil Telemática (with the suffix of Civil).
 * Pontifical Catholic University Mother and Teacher (PUCMM) in the Dominican Republic has a Telematics Engineering program which is a four-year full-time program of study (12 academic four-month periods). The final degree in Telematics Engineering has the title of Ingeniería Telemática.

University Bachelor programs

 * Harokopio University of Athens has a four-year full-time program of study. The department goal is the development and advancement of computer science, primarily in the field of network information systems and relative e-services. For this purpose, attention is focused in the fields of telematics (teleinformatics) which are relative to network and internet technologies, e-business, e-government, e-health, advanced transport telematics, etc.
 * TH Wildau in Wildau, Germany has provided a three-year full-time telematics Bachelor study program since 1999.
 * TU Graz in Graz, Austria offers a three-year Bachelor in telematics (now called "Information and Computer Engineering").
 * Singapore Institute of Technology offers a three-year Bachelor in Telematics.
 * National Open and Distance Learning University of Mexico* (UNADM) offers a four-year degree in Telematics delivered online.

University Masters programs
Several universities provide two-year Telematics Master of Science programs:
 * Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
 * University of Twente (UT), The Netherlands
 * University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M), Spain
 * Harokopio University Athens
 * TH Wildau in Wildau, Germany
 * TU Graz in Graz, Austria (now called "Information and Computer Engineering")

European Automotive Digital Innovation Studio (EADIS)
In 2007, a project entitled the European Automotive Digital Innovation Studio (EADIS) was awarded 400,000 Euros from the European commission under its Leonardo da Vinci program. EADIS used a virtual work environment called the Digital Innovation Studio to train and develop professional designers in the automotive industry in the impact and application of vehicle telematics so they could integrate new technologies into future products within the automotive industry. Funding ended in 2013.

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Shadwell (disambiguation)

Shadwell is an area of London, England.

Shadwell may also refer to:

 * Shadwell (name), including a list of people with the name
 * Shadwell railway station, a station on the London Overground
 * Shadwell DLR station, a station on the Docklands Light Railway
 * Shadwell, Gloucestershire, a hamlet of Uley, England
 * Shadwell, Norfolk, a location in England
 * Shadwell, Leeds, a village in north east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
 * Shadwell, Virginia, a plantation in Virginia, USA
 * USS Shadwell (LSD-15), United States Ship

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The Crystal World

The Crystal World is a science fiction novel by English author J. G. Ballard, published in 1966. The novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into the jungle to a secluded leprosy treatment facility. While trying to make it to his destination, his chaotic path leads him to try to come to terms with an apocalyptic phenomenon in the jungle that crystallises everything it touches.

Ballard previously used the theme of apocalyptic crystallisation in the 1964 short story "The Illuminated Man" (included in The Terminal Beach), which is also set in the same locations.

Plot summary

The protagonist is Edward Sanders, an English medical doctor, who arrives at the river port of Port Matarre, in Cameroon. From here he tries to reach a leprosy treatment facility where his friends, Max and Suzanne Clair, live. Soon, however, he starts to recognize that a mysterious phenomenon is crystallizing the jungle along with its living creatures. The same phenomenon is reported to be present in the Florida everglades and in the Pripyat Marshes (Soviet Union) as well. Scientific explanations of the phenomenon are provided within the book: however, Ballard offers mostly an interior and psychological perspective about it, directly through Sanders' experiences. Several facts, furthermore, remain unexplained: for example, the ability of jewels to liquefy the crystals. The crystals also have the property to keep objects and beings in a suspended state of existence. Many passages deal with this characteristic, pointing out its capability to stop time and life.

In his route towards the deep of the forest, Sanders gets involved in a personal feud between Ventress, a Belgian architect, and Thorensen, the director of a diamond mine. In one of the most striking episodes of the novel, Sanders discovers the reason of the deadly rivalry to be Ventress' former wife, Serena, who is terminally ill with tuberculosis. After a final confrontation, Thorensen decides to remain in his house within the jungle, in spite of the encroaching crystallization process. Two of the other characters met by Sanders in his voyage spontaneously make the same decision: Balthus, an apostate priest, and Suzanne. The latter, nearly gone mad and sporting the first symptoms of leprosy, is portrayed towards the end of the novel as the leader of a band of lepers who set for the interior of the crystallizing forest, clearly to never come back.

After having barely escaped from the now quickly spreading crystallization, Sanders reaches Port Matarre. Here, however, he makes the same decision as Balthus and Suzanne. In the final pages, Sanders goes back to the river to face the same fate as Suzanne.

Reception
Richard A. Lupoff described The Crystal World as the best of Ballard's "catastrophe novels," saying it was "Idiosyncratic but highly effective [and] a very important science fiction book."

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VTS

VTS can refer to:

 * Vanishing testes syndrome, another name for anorchia
 * Vanishing twin syndrome, a complication of multiple pregnancy
 * Vehicle Telematics System, remote control, monitoring, and navigation of road vehicles
 * Vehicle tracking system, equipment and programs for monitoring road vehicle locations
 * Vessel traffic service, maritime traffic control system for a port or harbor
 * Vertical Tabulation Set, character code 0x8A in the C0 and C1 control codes
 * Virginia Theological Seminary, an Episcopal seminary in Alexandria, Virginia
 * Video Title Set, a directory element on a DVD-Video disk
 * Virtual Tape Server, an IBM Virtual tape library system
 * VTS, an ICAO airline code for Everts Air

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RAF Bampton Castle

Royal Air Force Bampton Castle or RAF Bampton Castle is a former non-flying Royal Air Force station near Bampton Castle, Oxfordshire, England.

The base was established by the Royal Corps of Signals in 1939 and handed over to the RAF in 1969. It was the home of No. 2 and No. 81 Signal Units, which dealt with high frequency radio communications. Day-to-day operations were overseen (parented in RAF speak) by RAF Brize Norton due to the larger base's proximity to Bampton Castle and that Brize was the home of No. 38 Group Tactical Communications Wing RAF (and successors until 2006).

The station closed progressively between 2003 and 2006 when the RAF's high frequency communications system was replaced by the Defence High Frequency Communications Service. Approximately seventy-two masts were removed in December 2003 and the final two removed in 2015. The site is now in use as a business centre.

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Xbox Development Kit

The Xbox Development Kit (XDK) is a software development kit created by Microsoft used to write software for the 2001 Xbox gaming system. The XDK includes libraries, a compiler, and various tools used to create software for the Xbox. The XDK has the option to integrate itself into Microsoft Visual Studio 2002 or 2003. This is needed if one wants to develop applications or games for the Xbox. The XDK also includes a tool to record in-game footage, which has been widely used to create high-quality screenshots and trailers.

Purpose
The XDK allows software creators to create, run and distribute applications on the Xbox platform. Xbox 360 XDKs were based on all three generations of the Xbox 360 Design ("Phat", "Slim" and "E"). XNA Kits (Were used at some expos and given to game studios), Stress Kits (Used to test the power of the Xbox 360 and various conditions such as undervolting and overvolting and issued to Microsoft developers only), and Demo kits (Used to demo games). Some, but not all, XDKs include a sidecar which was used to emulate the DVD drive and act as a hard drive and on older XDKs with older recoveries, used for PIX Debugging. Bundled with XDKs is the Xbox 360 SDK used to connect to the console, enable memory editing, file management, and integrate to Visual Studio 2010 for Xbox 360 game development.

Xbox development environment
The Xbox BIOS is based on the NT 5.0 kernel, but does not have all of the resources or capabilities of the Windows 2000 operating system, (for example: neither DirectShow, registry, or DLL are natively supported on the Xbox). Because of the constraints on the hardware and environment of the Xbox, all software development for the Xbox (and all video game consoles systems in general) are focused on reserving the limited resources that exist, the main limitation of which is the amount of available RAM.

Xbox embedded operating system

 * The Xbox does not have an operating system per se, instead it only has a simple BIOS.
 * Everything else must go into the main executable and its (XDK and own-made) libraries.
 * Only a single process (executable program) can run at a time on the Xbox.
 * Xbox hard drive file system (FATX) has many limitations, among them a maximum file name length of 42 characters.
 * The Xbox has four non-standard USB ports but the Xbox SDK does not contain a full USB stack, thus to add support for USB hardware devices, the developer would have to code the entire USB stack from scratch.

XDK and Xbox specific software limitations
This is a list of XDK, Xbox hardware, and Xbox operating system specific limitations.

 * UDF (Universal Disk Format) file system limitation: The Xbox only supports UDF version 1.02 (designed for DVD-Video), which has a maximum file size of 1 GB (Gigabyte) (a DVD in a newer UDF version with a video that is larger than 1GB will not play), with the same applying to UDF/ISO hybrid formats (a.k.a. UDF Bridge format). A workaround is to burn discs in the ISO 9660 format. The ISO 9660 format has a 2 GB maximum file size, which cannot be bypassed.
 * The Xbox hard disk is formatted in FATX (File Allocation Table for Xbox) which has a 4 GB (4096 Megabyte) maximum file size, and only supports file/folder names up to 42 characters, a maximum of 255 character full path, and a maximum number of 4096 files/folders in a single folder, plus in the root of each partition, the maximum number of files/folders is 256. FATX also does not support all standard ASCII characters in file/folder names (for example < > = ? : ; " * +, / \|¤ &).
 * The USB flash drive reader/writer class used by the Xbox operating system has a few limitations as well. It is limited to USB flash drives and hard disks compatible with USB Mass Storage Device Class following the USB 1.1 standard, with a maximum size of 4 GB. It can read and write to FATX formatted flash drives, but can only read FAT12, FAT16 (including VFAT), and FAT32. NTFS formatted drives are not supported yet.
 * With its 733 MHz Intel Pentium III-like CPU and 64 MB shared memory, the Xbox has neither a fast enough CPU nor sufficient RAM to play HDTV videos encoded in native 720p/1080i resolution. However, the Xbox can upscale all standard definition movies and output them at 720p or 1080i.

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User talk:Orthogonal/archive 27 Nov 2003 - 31 May 2004

Slope edit
Sorry, I thought I had already replied to your message. Your edit on slope was indeed accurate, and I can see that clarification being very useful to people who are not from a mathematical/scientific background. I have also made th word "delta" into a link. Good edit, thankee muchly. Boffy b 20:36, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Note to self
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=85391&cid=7442422

This looks like it may be where the slash trolls mod each other up.

Thank you
Thank for your help with my query at the Village Pump in regards to declaring my interests.

iHoshie 11:40, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Several days ago you joined the discussion of whether Brunswick or Braunschweig should be the home of the article on the German city. After a brief discussion, the question was moved from the Votes for deletion page to Talk:Brunswick. Quite a bit of fact-finding has occurred since then, but the decision appears to have reached an impasse. Could I ask you to take a few minutes to review the facts presented on Talk:Brunswick and share your current thoughts? Thanks. Rossami 22:31, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Easter Bradford's fine whines
[Posted by anonymous coward at top of page, contrary to my request]

RE:Easter Bradford

Hi. I *AM* Easter Bradford. I was recently pointed here by a friend. This is a buch of crap, really, and since "Orthogonal" has been the most vocal "anti-Easter-Bradford" person I figure this is the best place to post.

Despite your insistance that I was attempting to promote myself, I simply copied my own industry biography and pasted it here for an entry. Farbeit for me to decide, but I figured I had contributed enough to the world to be entered.

As far as I am concerned, I would prefer that the entirety of entires about me including talk pages simply be removed. I will be taking that action shortly. Obviously I am "famous" enough to have people gossiping, and I'm afraid I cannot allow any part of my reputation to be sullied because there is a message board (of any nature) being used to discuss me in untruth.

...Easter Bradford...

good work on VfD: Finlay McWalter, Fuzheado
[title by Finlay McWalter orthogonal 01:50, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)]

Hey, good work on fixing that shitstorm on VfD. That's the kind of stuff that makes be turn off and play video games. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:38, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks "O", I got your message and readded that entry. Fuzheado 23:54, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks guys! orthogonal 01:50, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Apology from Dandrake
Dear Ortho: ACKKK! Some kinda malignant freaking edit-conflict there. Muchos apologies. I don't know what happened, except that there was some kinda visible glitch in the update process, and I'm sort of tempted to blame the recent cache problems that have the primary symptom of always requiring me (and some others) to do a control-reload in order to see one's new changes (and some other cases of invisible changes that I can't categorize precisely). Whatever the cause, I'll do even more control-reloads now. And double-check diffs after anything that looks peculiar. Dandrake 01:36, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

It's "orthogonal", not "Ortho", please. Hey, things happen, it was pretty clear once I started looking that it was an accident. When a Wiki page gets long -- as VfD often does -- some browsers can't accommodate the full length as editable text. I'm using Firefox, and having no problems. As it's available for many OSes, you might want to consider giving it a try if you're not using it already, to see if it eliminates any problems for you. orthogonal 01:50, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

VfD
Hi orthogonal. I never meant to upset you and I apologise if you have felt put out by this. I think we may have had conflicting goals on VfD last night.

I'm well aware you were working on VfD then but I spent an hour and a half trying to reduce the page size so having such a long notice went completely against my aims to reduce a 114kb page to a 40kb one. I'm sorry if you felt it was more important fot the notice to stay than I did, but the chances are those people affected would not have seen the notice anyway before someone removed it completely. There were enough arguments over whether or not we should have the VfD boilerplate notice on VfD, so something as large as your message would have been removed very quickly. Perhaps you should have contacted the people concerned rather than having a notice on an already too large page.

Your notice was there for the entire hour you closed VfD, so it's unfair to say I removed it after 15 minutes. It didn't seem a relevant thing to have it there after you had finished working on it. I trusted that you had completed sorting out the edit conflicts, and didn't see any advantage to telling everyone this. If anyone's comments had gone astray, they would have gone to the talk page anyway, and seen your message there. Also, once I had finished reducing the page size, it would be quite unlikely anyone would have been able to check for anything missing anyway, so leaving the notice there after two-thirds of the page had been removed seemed largely of no use.

I'm not trying to discount your work here. Sorting out that mess was a great thing to do. The point is that I trusted you had done that well, so there was no need to worry about telling people.

I realize I could have edited the pointer to the talk page better now, but at the time I had been awake for 20 hours and it wasn't really the most important thing on my mind. Sorry.

Thanks for all the work you put in to solving the edit conflict.

Angela. 06:52, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

 * I realize I could have edited the pointer to the talk page better now, but at the time I had been awake for 20 hours and it wasn't really the most important thing on my mind. Sorry. [emphasis orthogonal's]

 * Angela, it's just a matter of showing others the respect you'd hope they'd accord you.

 * There's a certain type of passive-aggressive person who basically says, "I work so hard for that I can't bother to slow down to be polite and consider others' feelings. What I'm doing is too important to be impeded by mere politeness."

 * Also, once I had finished reducing the page size, it would be quite unlikely anyone would have been able to check for anything missing anyway, so leaving the notice there after two-thirds of the page had been removed seemed largely of no use. [emphasis orthogonal's]

 * And that just says "What I (Angela) was doing was more important that what you were doing anyway, so stuff it, orthogonal, Wikipedia's my turf."

 * And indeed, with that attitude, I'm not surprised that people are more than willing to leave Wikipedia to you. orthogonal 00:40, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * You are completely misinterpreting what I have said. I'm not saying what I did was more important - I'm saying that once half the page had gone, it would be practically impossible for anyone to check whether the edit conflict had affected them anyway. This doesn't mean you shouldn't have sorted it out, it means that once you had, people have to trust that you did it right as it isn't possible for them to check it. I fail to see how moving your comment is being impolite. I thought your complaint was that people might not notice it, not that it was offensive for it to be removed. I do not appreciate your personal attacks on me. Angela. 12:26, Feb 18, 2004 (UTC)

top-posting
Hi orthogonal!

Your user page suggests that you might be interested in the topic of top-posting. I recently tried to brush up the article a little, but I'm not sure about my neutrality on this subject. I'd much appreciate your feedback, in case you're interested. Thanks. --Nikai 16:59, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Done, unfortunately with a lot of unsubstantiated opinion which I hope will be provide a base for a more rigorous treatment. And I hate those salmon and yellow backgrounds, so I changed one to grey. orthogonal 23:53, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks! --Nikai 06:58, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

orthogonal, trying to reach you
orthogonal, I'd like you to consider contributing to my blog A9watch.blogspot.com. Please write me, a9watch@aecnews.com.

R./

Sorry, I didn't see the "You have new messages" messages. Thanks you for your offeer, I'll take a look at your blog. orthogonal 06:42, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Leipzig battle
The map was fixed :)

At any rate, I found a whole repository of pictures here: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Spezial:Whatlinkshere&target=Meyers_Konversationslexikon

WhisperToMe 05:34, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

your image
I'm guessing from the image of the new skin you've posted that you don't have the font Verdana installed. That's just a guess; if I'm right, you can override the font choice or install Verdana. If I'm wrong maybe someone will have a better guess. :) - Nunh-huh 09:07, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

No, that's the thing, I do have it installed. And just to be certain, I've just tested that by making Verdana my defualt serif font in Firefox. The new look still looks bad. orthogonal 09:25, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Oh dear god. Part of the problem seems to be that I prefer a "descresed text size" for Wikipedia; otherwise Wikipedia's font size in teh new version is much larger tnan other web pages. But at the smaller size, the new look doesn't work well, and textarea vboxes (for editting) suck.orthogonal

I'm in OK shape (I only had to increase the text size to make it readable) but soon I hope there will a gallery of what people have done with thier style sheets and how to do it yourself.... -- Nunh-huh 09:44, 31 May 2004 (UTC)


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Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array

The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) is a neutrino telescope located beneath the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. In 2005, after nine years of operation, AMANDA officially became part of its successor project, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

AMANDA consists of optical modules, each containing one photomultiplier tube, sunk in Antarctic ice cap at a depth of about 1500 to 1900 metres. In its latest development stage, known as AMANDA-II, AMANDA is made up of an array of 677 optical modules mounted on 19 separate strings that are spread out in a rough circle with a diameter of 200 metres. Each string has several dozen modules, and was put in place by "drilling" a hole in the ice using a hot-water hose, sinking the cable with attached optical modules in, and then letting the ice freeze around it.

AMANDA detects very high energy neutrinos (50+ GeV) which pass through the Earth from the northern hemisphere and then react just as they are leaving upwards through the Antarctic ice. The neutrino interacts with nuclei of oxygen or hydrogen atoms contained in the surrounding water ice through the weak nuclear force, producing a muon and a hadronic shower. The optical modules detect the Cherenkov radiation from these latter particles, and by analysis of the timing of photon hits can approximately determine the direction of the original neutrino with a spatial resolution of approximately 2 degrees.

AMANDA's goal was an attempt at neutrino astronomy, identifying and characterizing extra-solar sources of neutrinos. Compared to underground detectors like Super-Kamiokande in Japan, AMANDA was capable of looking at higher energy neutrinos because it is not limited in volume to a manmade tank; however, it had much less accuracy because of the less controlled conditions and wider spacing of photomultipliers. Super-Kamiokande can look at much greater detail at neutrinos from the Sun and those generated in the Earth's atmosphere; however, at higher energies, the spectrum should include neutrinos dominated by those from sources outside the solar system. Such a new view into the cosmos could give important clues in the search for dark matter and other astrophysical phenomena.

After two years of integrated operation as part of IceCube, the AMANDA counting house (in the Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory) was decommissioned in July and August 2009.