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User talk:Alistair1978

Thanks for your comments on Talk:BS 1363 - please feel free to amend or re-write the article. Secretlondon 15:21, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Gratuitous editing contrary to common usage
I have spent time and trouble compiling the section on Delta Sigma analog to digital converters and my use of the V symbol without a preceding space has very common usage. See, for instance, Maxim data sheets. My expected audience is engineers, budding or otherwise and I do not expect them to have trouble understanding the item because the space is missing before the V symbol. I have 40 years experience as a chartered engineer and do not welcome lessons in presentation from someone who obviously has more time than sense. Kindly limit your interventions to places where it improves communication.Puffingbilly

Image:UKDistributionBoard.JPG
how come you have not put any copyright tags or source information on this image?
 * done!--Ali@gwc.org.uk 20:30, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

theres another one at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Fuses.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subscriber_line_access_multiplexer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subscriber_line_access_multiplexer The stuff below in the Dslam section is nonsense and needs to be either deleted or edited. The CENTRAL OFFICE itself isn't a DSLAM, the article confuses this.

The aggregate signal then loads onto backbone switching equipment, traveling through an access network (AN) - also known as a Network Service Provider (NSP) - at speeds of up to 1 GBPS and emerging at a destination Central Office (CO). + 	The aggregate signal then loads onto backbone switching equipment, traveling through an access network (AN) - also known as a Network Service Provider (NSP) - at speeds of up to 1 Gbps and emerging at a destination Central Office (CO). At this point, the signal is then fragmented into its component parts and transmitted via telco modems to its final residential / commercial receivers. The device that performs these functions of signal combination and fragmentation is called the Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer, or DSLAM.
 * The Central Office (CO) must now collect all the different digital signals from its modems and combine them into a single signal, via multiplexing. 	  	The Central Office (CO) must now collect all the different digital signals from its modems and combine them into a single signal, via multiplexing.

196.11.245.34 22:41, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

CC-BY-NC
i notice that you have tagged images you placed on Fuse (electrical) and Industrial & multiphase power plugs & sockets as CC-BY-ND. Wikipedia considers this a non-free license and it is said on Image_copyright_tags that they will eventually be deleted.

they are nice images and it would be a shame to lose them Plugwash 18:13, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * to be honest I'm not too bothered what licence I use for these, obviously I can't imagine making money out of selling these pics! But I'm a little concerned about the commercial sites which rip off the entire wikipedia content wholesale with little or no credit to wikipedia. As I say I'm not that bothered about and if it was a case of free licence only or they would have to be removed then I would be fine with applying a free licence. I'm open to suggestions! --Ali@gwc.org.uk 12:10, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

There are moves afoot to remove non free images (see Possibly unfree images). Sites that use wikipedia content with no credit to wikipedia are definately violating the gfdl anyway. Most mirrors of wikipedia content do attribute it to wikipedia though i agree they try and make it as non-obvious as they think they can get away with. On the other hand once a user notices the link to the real thing i don't think they are very likely to go back. It is strongly reccomended (due to possible license compatibility issues depending on exactly how the licesnse is interpreted) to put images you create yourself for wikipedia under the gfdl.

As well as the fact that wikipedia is supposed to be free (as in the FSFs twisted definition of free) and noncommercial use licenses go against this they also create issues for any future dvd-rom or print editions of wikipedia. Plugwash 12:29, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I agree the commercialised mirror sites are a pain but putting images under a nondcommercial license doesn't really help with them (its pretty common to just link the images direct from wikipedia in which case they haven't copied them anyway). Plugwash 12:29, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

As of May 19, 2005, Wikipedia does not permit the upload of content under Creative Commons Non-Commercial licenses. Many of the images that you uploaded under this license have not been changed. Please change the licenses of these useful images to a CC-BY-SA(-2.0) or GFDL. Unfortunately, if you do not so, these images will be deleted, per Wikipedia policies, so that (for example) DVD and print Wikipedias can be made. Using the GFDL or Creative Commons Attribution licenses would still require users to credit your work. Andrew pmk 01:08, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I think I've done them all now, let me know if I've missed any.--Ali@gwc.org.uk 20:57, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting my hasty English on Air Transat Flight 236.129.177.61.124 10:58, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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iMac
Thanks for the save on the iMac release date. Gosh. How embarassing! --Steven Fisher 00:46, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary at Cicero
In your edit summary at Cicero you wrote "rv vandalism". Vandalism is a very harsh word, Jpbrenna's edit was not vandalism. Please be more careful in using that word in the future, as it can lead to needless conflict. Thanks. -JCarriker 09:49, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
 * oops sorry about that, I was reverting a bunch of vandalism by an anonymous user and must have not been paying proper attention to what I was doing. I certainly don't class Jpbrenna's edit as vandalism. --Ali@gwc.org.uk 12:22, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Edit of Greek Dark Ages
I notice in combination with the above plaint, that you are mislabeling contributions as rv vandalism that aren't anything of the sort. Please be careful. In this case I found, the change of BC to BCE for the article's dates was reverted back and labeled vandalism when in fact, it is more appropriate, particularly in a global and not-necessarily-christian context, to use BCE (Before our Common Era) rather than a religious-specific abbreviation like BC (Before Christ) in academic circles. The poor chap was doing you a favour! I'm changing it back, so please don't get angry with me. Thanks. --Glengordon01 13:06, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, nevermind. Now I see the problem. Ugh. The wikipedia itself needs to be revised. How awful. I'm forced into a pre-Industrial Before-Christ dating scheme. How drab. Hehe. Sigh. I guess I can't change a thing. --Glengordon01 13:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I suggest you look up DB-15 on the web
Because that's clearly what it is. There is no such thing as DA-15. Look in any Beige G3 manual... look anywhere on the web... JUST GOOGLE IT. For christ's sake, do an IMAGE search on Google for DA-15, then for DB-15. Tell me what you find. -Angelic Wraith-

Manual of Style
Thanks for being understanding, at least. It's just that it feels you invade every page I've been working on with this reformatting >_< I appreciate your grammatical and (usually) your rephrasing efforts, but I just don't see why it matters what the MoS is. I mean, realistically. What's the point of changing them anyway? And.. I don't really know how to take it up with the MoS board. Dan 01:37, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh right.. and why do you feel the need to do this to pages you don't even contribute to, which have been like this for years? ...And how are you finding all of them :P
 * reply at User talk:Angelic Wraith--Ali@gwc.org.uk 21:49, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'm much relieved that you aren't stalking me :) lol

Ali, PLEASE leave the Apple Macintosh page alone. OK? Just don't fuck with this one. This is the one page that I can't stand being messed with. Please just go away. Following the rules for their own sake doesn't necessarily make sense if they're nonsensical.

Revision using popups?
Hi, saw that you reverted a spammer's edits using what you called "Reversion to revision 36641720 using popups". Is this an easier way to revert? If so, how did you do it? I followed the popups link but didn't quite get the gist of it. Trixter 21:19, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

User page deleted
I deleted your user page since it wasn't edited by you. Of course you can go create it and make it the way you want it. Hope you didn't mind me doing so. -- Thorpe | talk  19:38, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Signing talk pages
Please sign your talk page posts with ~. Mike (T C) 18:34, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Overlinking
Please keep in mind that to wikilink years and days all over an article is meaningless. Example: "his orders are dated June 22". What is so special about a date of the order of his draft?

Just like we don't link the words ruler, army, man, southwest, etc., in each and every article, there is no sense to link 1943 or January 10 everywhere. A rule of thumb: would you like to see the corresponding entry in the "1943" or "January 10" article?

Please take a look into the "Overlinking" article. mikka (t) 04:02, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Agree with you regarding years when they are on their own, but see and Ali@gwc.org.uk 04:12, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Yet another date links proposal
You may wish to see the proposal at: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29. Thanks. bobblewik 09:49, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Dates
So you're saying if the year 2002 appears 232 (or even 2002 times in one article, each and every instance of 2002 should be linked? What could the possible reasoning be behind that be? Dan 05:55, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * No, years (and months) on their own should not be overlinked. But dates should be, to allow the date format preferencing mechanism to work. e.g. October 5 2005 looks weird and confusing to me and most non-americans, but written as October 5 2005 this will be formatted according to each user's preferences, 5 October 2005 in my case. As an another common example, if someone writes e.g. 9/11/2001 then many people will wonder what happened on the 9th of November. IMO it's a misfeature of the wiki software that the same wiki code is used for linking and indicating dates for preference-based formatting but that's the way it is at the moment. --Ali@gwc.org.uk 15:03, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

BC to BCE
Hey Dude, screw you. I don't need you to tell me whether or not my assertions are correct.

Thank you for your DYK help
Thank you for your help in the Single-grain experiment article. It earned a DYK on October 12. I greatly appreciated it. Chris 00:54, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Doing something about the ridiculous date autoformatting/linking mess
Dear Ali—you may be interested in putting your name to, or at least commenting on this new push to get the developers to create a parallel syntax that separates autoformatting and linking functions. IMV, it would go a long way towards fixing the untidy blueing of trivial chronological items, and would probably calm the nastiness between the anti- and pro-linking factions in the project. The proposal is to retain the existing function, to reduce the risk of objection from pro-linkers. Tony 15:06, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

My concern about your username
Hello, Ali@gwc.org.uk, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:
 * If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
 * If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as asking for a "third opinion", or requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
 * You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

Let me reassure you that my writing here means I don't think your username is grossly, blatantly, or obviously inappropriate; such names get reported straight to Usernames for administrator attention or blocked on sight. This is more a case where opinions might differ, and it would be good to reach some consensus — either here or at Requests for comment/User names. So I look forward to a friendly discussion, and to enjoying your continued participation on Wikipedia. Thank you. Deskana (talk) 11:37, 16 July 2007 (UTC) --Deskana (talk) 11:37, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I personally don't think your username does any harm to Wikipedia. The main thing you should worry about by posting your e-mail everywhere is getting spammed. Programs called harvesters search for e-mail addresses like yours that are accessable on the internet. A spammer could also browse your contributions and tailor their mailings to your interests. Pretty valuable stuff. Be careful.--Gnfgb2 20:17, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Binary Prefix Image Deletion
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I am requesting a rename on Commons. My current Commons name is ali@gwc.org.uk. Alistair1978 (talk) 00:35, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Maag
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WP style for units
I happened to see your copy-edit of a range of lengths. As per MOS:NBSP and MOS:NDASH, the usual way to format a range with a unit is like this: 3–4 cm. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:39, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

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so now race-baiting has reached food additive discussions. Isn’t this beyond ridiculous? I’m uber-sensitive to MSG and am stunned to think anyone would perceive my condition as racist. Seriously!! Dianne93101 (talk) 00:36, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Typos
Hello. Re the englandfootballonline refs that you're changing to remove apostrophes from the title parameter, as here. That apostrophe is correctly copied from the page cited: it isn't a typo. If you want to remove them, and have a good reason for doing so, please carry on, but please state that reason in your edit summary: it isn't a good idea to say you're fixing typos when you're not. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 15:41, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your msg... Please see Manual_of_Style among others. It's a typo in the original, which should be corrected here. Alistair1978 (talk) 15:46, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Difference of terminology, perhaps. I wouldn't call it a typo in the original, rather a difference between that website's house style and ours. Silently changing to our house style is encouraged, as the MoS makes clear. But if it were me, being pedantic, I'd cite MOS:CONFORM rather than "typo" in my edit summary. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 17:07, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, me again. You might want to slow down a bit, and make sure you're not removing correctly used possessive apostrophes like this one before you save your edit. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 06:43, 13 July 2018 (UTC) --UTRSBot (talk) 07:09, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

V DC vs VDC
I can't find the manual of style or NIST SI definition that defines a format for how to express AC vs DC for voltages. Can you point me to the relevant sections? Railfan23 (talk) 04:33, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
 * you're right, it should probably properly be "xxx V DC". My edit was more about the space between the digits and the unit symbol. Alistair1978 (talk) 04:36, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
 * That seems reasonable. Railfan23 (talk) 04:39, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

 * If you're changing 650V to 650 V, shouldn't this be ? Andy Dingley (talk) 22:13, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ah yes, though I prefer to use the non-breaking space character rather than the html entity since it's so damn ugly! Alistair1978 (talk) 00:59, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

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Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Famous Studios, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. FilmandTVFan28 (talk) 01:28, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Oops, seems to have been due to a glitch in my internet connection... thanks for fixing that.Alistair1978 (talk) 01:34, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Havana, Plan Piloto, and the 14th C.
"16th century since Havana wasn't founded until then..." ...don't you know all architects have Dyslexia...Thank you!!!! ovA_165443 (talk) 01:40, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

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 * also Obergs Locomotive book, it's not good to be wiki correct when it's right on the book cover Dave Rave (talk) 01:55, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

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welsh moves
Some really strange moves to the article titles with an apostrophe before the FC. Never seen that before. Where did you get that? -Koppapa (talk) 20:03, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Standard correct English usage... One says XYZ Men's F.C.; XYZ Women's F.C.... XYZ Ladies' F.C. is no different... beyond me why it seems to be such a common mistake; I guess people get confused by the apostrophe being at the end of the word and just decide to leave it out!Alistair1978 (talk) 20:15, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * But Ladies is part of the club name here, isn't it? I have not seen any source using the club name in the way you moved them now. -Koppapa (talk) 04:35, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Notts County Ladies
Did not have an apostrophe in their name. Could you please move the page back? I note from the above comment that you have done this in other places as well. Could you please check in future rather than arbitrarily moving pages to accord with what you think is correct English? Chris (talk) 07:33, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
 * You're still doing it. Please stop. As pointed out above, "Ladies" is part of the name, it doesn't mean that ladies possess the club. Chris (talk) 12:02, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Alistair I agree that these moves are incorrect. Whether we look at WP:OFFICIALNAMES or WP:COMMONNAME there is unequivocally no apostrophe in the name of any of these "Ladies" football clubs. See for example:, , . As it's now at ANI it might be better if you self revert the ones you've done so far and then try to make your case for consensus at WP:WOSO or some other relevant central location. Bring back Daz Sampson (talk) 19:03, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

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Mass edit reversion
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Please note that although grammatical English may appear to call for them, there were, in fact, no apostrophes in the name "International Ladies Garment Workers Union", and your adding them is incorrect. Please stop doing so. I will be reverting and rolling back your edits. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:35, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
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Lepiota

Lepiota is a genus of gilled mushrooms in the family Agaricaceae. All Lepiota species are ground-dwelling saprotrophs with a preference for rich, calcareous soils. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are agaricoid with whitish spores, typically with scaly caps and a ring on the stipe. Around 400 species of Lepiota are currently recognized worldwide. Many species are poisonous, some lethally so.

History
Agaricus section Lepiota was originally published in 1797 by South African-born mycologist Christian Hendrik Persoon. It was subsequently raised to the rank of genus by Samuel Frederick Gray. As originally conceived, the genus was a mix of agarics with rings on their stems, including species now placed in Armillaria, Cortinarius, and Pholiota. In 1822, however, the influential Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries restricted Lepiota to white-spored, ringed agarics.

Based on macro- and micromorphology, later authors gradually refined the generic concept of Lepiota. Some unrelated genera, such as Cystoderma (Fayod 1889) and Limacella (Earle 1909), were removed from the genus whilst several related genera, including Leucocoprinus (Patouillard 1888), Macrolepiota and Leucoagaricus (Singer 1948), Cystolepiota (Singer 1952), and Echinoderma (Bon 1991) were separated off. These segregated genera, together with Lepiota itself, are still often grouped together as Lepiota s.l. (sensu lato = "in the wide sense") or as the "lepiotoid" fungi.

The secotioid species Amogaster viridiglebus, described in 1996 and initially placed in the order Boletales, was later determined to be a member of Lepiota, and officially transferred to the genus in 2013.

Current status
Following some discussion over the type species, Lepiota has now been conserved under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, typified by Agaricus colubrinus Pers. (= Lepiota clypeolaria). Recent molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, suggests that the morphological concept of Lepiota s.s. (sensu stricto = in the strict or narrow sense) is soundly based.

The name "Lepiota" is derived from the Greek λεπις (= "scale") + οὖς (= "ear").

Description
Fruit bodies of Lepiota species are almost all agaricoid (Lepiota viridigleba is the sole sequestrate species in the genus ), most (but not all) having comparatively small caps (less than 10 cm in diameter) and slender stems. The cap cuticle (surface skin) typically splits as the cap expands, breaking up into concentric rings of scales towards the margin. The gills beneath the cap are white to cream (rarely yellow) and are free (not joined to the stem). The gills are covered by a partial veil when young, which typically ruptures to leave a cuff-like ring (sometimes ephemeral) often with additional scaly remains on the stem. Several species have a distinct, often rubbery, smell. The spore print is white to cream. The spores are usually (but not always) dextrinoid (turning red-brown in an iodine-based reagent).

Habitat and distribution
Most if not all Lepiota species are nitrophilic, with a preference for calcareous soils. They typically occur in rich humus in broadleaf or conifer woodland, in northern Europe often among nettles (Urtica dioica) or dog's mercury (Mercurialis perennis). A few species are more frequently found in calcareous grassland or in dunes. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, but with a preference for warm areas, meaning there are fewer species in colder climates. Around 400 species are currently recognized worldwide.

Toxicity
Several species contain amatoxins and are lethally poisonous, if consumed. Those known to have caused fatalities include Lepiota brunneoincarnata, L. brunneolilacea, L. castanea, L. helveola,  and L. subincarnata (synonym L. josserandii). No Lepiota species is recommended as edible.

Literature
No comprehensive monograph of the genus has yet been published. In Europe, however, species of Lepiota were illustrated and described in a regional guide by Candusso & Lanzoni (1990) and more briefly in descriptive keys by Bon (1993). Dutch species were illustrated and described by Vellinga (2001). No equivalent modern guides have been published for North America, but Vellinga (2008) has published an online bibliography of the relevant literature. In Australia, a guide to the Lepiota species of south-eastern Queensland was published by Aberdeen (1992). In Asia, a study of Lepiota diversity in northern Thailand revealed 73 species.

List of species
The following species have individual entries:
 * Lepiota ananya
 * Lepiota anupama
 * Lepiota babruka
 * Lepiota babruzalka
 * Lepiota bengalensis
 * Lepiota brunneoincarnata
 * Lepiota castanea
 * Lepiota clypeolaria
 * Lepiota harithaka
 * Lepiota helveola
 * Lepiota ignivolvata
 * Lepiota nirupama
 * Lepiota shveta
 * Lepiota spheniscispora
 * Lepiota subincarnata (synonym L. josserandii)
 * Lepiota zalkavritha
 * Lepiota locanianisis † (extinct)

The following species have individual entries, but are now placed in different genera:

 * Lepiota aspera = Echinoderma asperum
 * Lepiota lutea = Leucocoprinus birnbaumii
 * Lepiota molybdites = Chlorophyllum molybdites
 * Lepiota naucina = Leucoagaricus leucothites
 * Lepiota procera = Macrolepiota procera
 * Lepiota rhacodes = Chlorophyllum rhacodes

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Englisch bitte. Secretlondon 15:23, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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Peter Evrard

Peter Evrard (born 19 October 1974) is the winner of the first season of Idool 2003, the Belgian version of Pop Idol.

Evrard defied the traditional rules of the Idols series by singing rock music instead of the expected pop. Regardless, he managed to win the series, and in 2003 he placed third overall in the World Idol contest. Evrard lives and works in Beerse, Belgium. He is married and has 2 sons and a daughter.

In 2005, Peter began recording music again with his band Toner on the CD Radio Honolulu. The song "Let Me Take You Through the Night" was used for the soundtrack of Flikken, a popular Belgian television series.

In 2007, he recorded, together with Sofie Van Moll, the new theme for the Belgian soap opera Thuis.

In 2014, he joined the band 10Rogue, and their first single Know Better was released in September 2015.

In January 2016 they released their second single Dark Angel Princess.

Discography

 * 2003: Idool 2003: Greatest Moments
 * 2003: Rhubarb
 * "For You"
 * "Loserman"
 * "Making It Beautiful"
 * 2005: Radio Honolulu
 * "Let Me Take You Through The Night"
 * "Deaf Dumb Blind"
 * 2006: Eurosong '06
 * "Coward"
 * 2015: 10Rogue
 * "Know Better"
 * 2016: 10Rogue
 * "Dark Angel Princess"

Idol 2003 performances

 * Antwerp Auditions: "My Own Ground"
 * Theatre Round Day One: "I'm Thinking About Your Soul"
 * Theatre Round Day Two: "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel
 * Theatre Round Day Three: "Faith" by George Michael
 * Top 50: "How You Remind Me" by Nickelback
 * Top 10: Lithium by Nirvana
 * Top 9: "If You Don't Know Me By Now" by Simply Red
 * Top 8: "Van God Los" by Monza
 * Top 7: "Hero" by Chad Kroeger & Josey Scott
 * Top 6: "Don't Walk Away"
 * Top 5: "Almost Like Being in Love" by Nat King Cole
 * Top 4: "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin
 * Top 4: "Se Bastasse Una Canzone" by Eros Ramazzotti
 * Top 3: "Rockin' In The Free World" by Neil Young
 * Top 3: "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS
 * Grand Final: "Lithium" by Nirvana
 * Grand Final: "Have A Little Faith in Me" by John Hiatt
 * Grand Final: "For You"

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For an April 2005 deletion debate over this page see Votes for deletion/Aggregate pattern

The book "Domain-Driven Design" defines Aggregate entirely differently. Perhaps there should be a disambiguation page?

The book software architecture design patterns in java by Partha Kuchana defines an aggregate enforcer pattern. it is convincing that it is a pattern in his definition. Rezaghp (talk) 08:53, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Language
The language, use of passive voice, NPOV, and structure of this article could be improved. Will try to have a look when I get home from work.

horrible programming "example"
seems to be 3 different things - no explanation why, no description of what the things are for non-Pythong programmers — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.183.23.147 (talk) 00:08, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Inconsistent definition
When looking for the Aggregate software design pattern, this is the article that comes up. However, there is not one bit in the current article concerning the design pattern as defined in other places I've looked for it. This article needs to be seriously updated, or a separate article needs to be made for the software design pattern to properly express its use. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.92.34.112 (talk) 20:11, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

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Christian Graf von Haugwitz

Christian August Heinrich Kurt Graf von Haugwitz (11 June 1752 – 1832) was a German statesman, best known for serving as Foreign Minister of Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars.

Life
Haugwitz was born at Peucke near Oels, a member of the Silesian (Protestant) branch of the ancient family of Haugwitz, of which the Catholic branch was established in Moravia. He studied law, spent some time in Italy, returned to settle on his estates in Silesia, and in 1791 was elected general director of the province by the Silesian estates. Upon the request of King Frederick William II of Prussia he entered the Prussian civil service and became ambassador at Vienna in 1792. At the end of the same year he became a member of the cabinet at Berlin.

Policy before the rise of Napoleon
Haugwitz, who had attended the young Emperor Francis II at his coronation and been present at the conferences held at Mainz to consider the attitude of the German powers towards the French Revolution, was opposed to the attitude of the French émigrés and to any interference in the internal affairs of France. After the War of the First Coalition broke out, however, the policy of the Committee of Public Safety made peace impossible, while the strained relations between Austria and Prussia on the question of territorial compensations crippled the power of the Allies to carry the war to a successful conclusion.

It was in these circumstances that Haugwitz entered on the negotiations that resulted in the subsidy treaty between Great Britain and Prussia, and Great Britain and the Netherlands, signed at the Hague on 19 April 1794. Haugwitz, however, was not the man to direct a strong and aggressive policy; the failure of Prussia to make any effective use of the money supplied broke the patience of Pitt, and in October the denunciation by Great Britain of the Hague treaty broke the last tie that bound Prussia to the Coalition. The Peace of Basel on 5 April 1795, was mainly due to the influence of Haugwitz.

During the Napoleonic Period
His object was now to save the provinces on the left bank of the Rhine from being lost to the Empire. No guarantee of their maintenance had been inserted in the Basel treaty; but Haugwitz and the king hoped to preserve them by establishing the armed neutrality of northern Germany and securing its recognition by the French Republic. This policy was rendered futile by the victories of Napoleon Bonaparte and the conquest of southern Germany by the French. Haugwitz, who had continued to enjoy the confidence of the new king, Frederick William III, recognized this fact, and urged his master to join the new Second Coalition in 1798. However, the king clung to the illusion of neutrality, and Haugwitz allowed himself to be made the instrument of a policy of which he increasingly disapproved. It was not till 1803, when the king refused his urgent advice to demand the evacuation of Hanover by the French, that he tendered his resignation. In August 1804 he was replaced by Hardenberg, and retired to his estates.

Retirement and Foreign Minister again
In his retirement Haugwitz was still consulted, and he used all his influence against Hardenberg's policy of a rapprochement with France. His representations had little weight, however, until Napoleon's violation Prussian territory by marching troops through the Principality of Ansbach roused the anger of the king. Haugwitz was now once more appointed foreign minister, as Hardenberg's colleague, and it was he who was charged to carry to Napoleon the Prussian ultimatum which was the outcome of the visit of the Tsar Alexander I to Berlin in November. But in this crisis his courage failed him; his nature was one that ever let "I dare not" wait upon "I will"; he delayed his journey pending some turn in events and to give time for the mobilization of the Duke of Brunswick's army; he was frightened by reports of separate negotiations between Austria and Napoleon, not realizing that a bold declaration by Prussia would nip them in the bud. Napoleon, when at last they met, read him like a book and humoured his diplomatic weakness until the whole issue was decided at Austerlitz. On 15 December 1805 instead of delivering an ultimatum, Haugwitz signed a treaty of alliance at Schönbrunn which gave Hanover to Prussia in return for Ansbach, Cleves and Neuenburg.

The humiliation of Prussia and her minister was, however, not yet complete. In February 1806 Haugwitz went to Paris to ratify the Treaty of Schönbrunn and to attempt to secure some modifications in favour of Prussia. He was received with a storm of abuse by Napoleon, who insisted on tearing up the treaty and drawing up a fresh one, which doubled the amount of territory to be ceded by Prussia and forced her to a breach with Great Britain by binding her to close the Hanoverian ports to British commerce. The treaty, signed on 15 February, left Prussia wholly isolated in Europe.

New retirement and death
Haugwitz remained head of the Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but the course of Prussian policy was beyond his power to control. The Prussian ultimatum to Napoleon was forced upon him by overwhelming circumstances, and with the Battle of Jena, on 14 October, his political career came to an end. He accompanied the flight of the king into East Prussia, but thereafter took leave of him and retired to his Silesian estates. In 1821 he was appointed Curator of the University of Breslau; in 1820, owing to failing health, he went to live in Italy, where he remained till his death at Venice in 1832. His grave is in Este in the garden of the Villa Contarini (Este) in the Veneto.

Terminology note

 * Regarding personal names, Graf is a German title, translated as Count, not a first or middle name. The feminine form is Gräfin.

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Bank of America Plaza (Los Angeles)

Bank of America Plaza, formerly Security Pacific Plaza, is a 55-story, 224.03 m class-A office skyscraper on Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California. It was completed in 1974 with the headquarters of Security Pacific National Bank, Capital Group Companies and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as its main tenants. The tower is the fifth tallest building in Los Angeles, and the 92nd-tallest building in the United States. In 2009 it had the highest assessed value of any office building in Los Angeles County. When it was constructed, Security Pacific Plaza was unique for Downtown Los Angeles, in that its four sides each faced true north, south, east and west. It has a total of 64 floors, 55 above ground and 9 basements, served by 30 elevators.

From when it opened in 1974 until 1992, it bore the Security Pacific Bank logo. This logo was removed when Bank of America acquired Security Pacific Bank. Featured in several motion pictures, such as being used as the fictional headquarters for Mattel in the film Barbie. Its plaza area was also filmed as that of the adjacent "Peerless Building" to the Glass Tower in The Towering Inferno (which was set in San Francisco), as well as the lawyer's office in the film Pretty Woman, and as Tex Richman's office headquarters in The Muppets. The tower was also used in establishing shots as the headquarters for the fictional company Denver-Carrington in the 1991 prime time soap opera Dynasty. The epilogue of Night of the Comet was filmed in the plaza, the tower having been prominently in the background of numerous scenes earlier in the film.

The building site is situated on 4.21 acre that features a formal garden with over 200 trees and three 24 ft waterfalls. In front of the main entrance is the 42 ft "Four Arches" sculpture by Alexander Calder.

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Pera

Pera may refer to:

Places

 * Pera (Beyoğlu), a district in Istanbul formerly called Pera, now called Beyoğlu
 * Galata, a neighbourhood of Beyoğlu, often referred to as Pera in the past
 * Pêra (Caparica), a Portuguese locality in the district of Setúbal
 * Pera (San Giovanni di Fassa), an Italian hamlet in the municipality of San Giovanni di Fassa, in Trentino
 * Pêra (Silves), a Portuguese parish in the district of Faro in the Algarve
 * Pera Orinis, a village in Cyprus

Other uses

 * Pera (surname)
 * The Pera, a ship of the Dutch East India Company
 * Peda or Pera, a dessert of the Indian subcontinent
 * Pera (plant), a plant genus in the family Peraceae
 * Public Employees Retirement Association, the name of several public employee pension plans in the United States
 * Peripheral ERA, a baseball statistic
 * Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture
 * perA, a mycotoxin biosynthesis gene

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Ballykeeran

Ballykeeran, is a small village in County Westmeath, Ireland, near Glassan. It is located on the N55 road in the townland of Annagh overlooking Lough Ree.

Features
There are tourist accommodations, a caravan park, and a local pub. Moreover, the Breensford River, which flows through the settlement, is home to a historic mill. At one stage in history this was used as an RIC Barracks.

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Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, titled Castlevania in PAL regions, is a 2001 action role-playing game created by Konami for the Game Boy Advance. Published as a launch title in 2001, Circle of the Moon is part of Konami's Castlevania video game series, the premise of which centers on the eternal conflict between the vampire hunters of the Belmont clan and the vampire Dracula. The game sold one million copies worldwide and was acclaimed by critics. The events of its plot were retconned by former Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi, a move which was met with some criticism.

The game was re-released as part of the Castlevania Advance Collection on September 23, 2021, for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. It was bundled alongside Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, and Castlevania: Dracula X.

Gameplay
Circle of the Moon makes use of a 2D side-scrolling style of gameplay, similar to many of the previous Castlevania video games. The objective of Circle of the Moon is to lead player character Nathan Graves through a monster-filled castle as he searches for his kidnapped mentor. Like many of the previous Castlevania protagonists, Nathan uses a whip to attack and defeat enemies, alongside secondary weapons—an axe, cross, holy water, dagger and stopwatch—only one of which may be carried at any time by the player. Hearts, typically found within candles, are used as ammunition for subweapons, with some using more than others. Circle of the Moon follows a nonlinear style of gameplay: at the beginning of the game, Nathan can only traverse certain areas of the castle; by obtaining various abilities, such as becoming able to run, double jump, and wall kick, he gradually explores the castle. He can encounter rooms with the ability to teleport him across portions of the castle and rooms which will restore his health and allow the player to save their progress in the game. The game automatically updates the castle map to reflect Nathan's progress through it.

Circle of the Moon incorporates role-playing elements. Nathan possesses various statistics: hit points, the amount of damage he can withstand before dying; magic points, how often he can cast a magical attack; strength, the power of his physical attack; defense, his resilience to damage inflicted by the monsters; intelligence, the recovery speed of magic points; and luck, the frequency with which items are dropped by enemies. Defeated enemies drop various items and equipment, and provide experience points; after reaching a predetermined number of experience points, Nathan will level up, and his statistics will improve. The defeat of boss enemies allows the player to acquire new abilities to progress further in the game.

Unique to Circle of the Moon is the Dual Set-up System (DSS), based on magic cards found throughout the game that belong to one of two categories: Action and Attribute. Each of the ten Action card takes its name from one of the gods and goddesses from Roman mythology, and determines the type of magic being performed, while the ten Attribute cards take their names from creatures primarily drawn from Greek and Roman mythology, and add an effect to the magic. To produce a magical effect, the player combines one card from each of the two categories, for a total of one hundred different combinations. In "The Battle Arena"—an optional area of the castle which consists of seventeen rooms filled with stronger versions of monsters found elsewhere in the castle—Nathan's supply of mind points is drained, causing the DSS cards to become temporarily unusable.

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon has four alternative modes of gameplay, which must be completed in order as completion of one mode unlocks the code for the next. Once the player has finished Circle of the Moon for the first time, they receive a code that can be entered as their name when starting a new game; this code will start the game in Magician Mode, in which Nathan has decreased strength and defense, but increased intelligence and begins with all twenty DSS cards. Fighter Mode does not permit the use of DSS cards, but increases his strength and endurance. Shooter Mode allows a higher maximum of hearts he can carry, but gives a penalty to strength, defense, and hit points. Nathan can throw homing daggers if he collects two daggers in a row in this mode. Thief Mode reduces Nathan's strength and defense, but increases his luck greatly.

Plot
Taking place in 1830, Circle of the Moon is set in the fictional universe of the Castlevania series. The premise of the original series is the eternal conflict between the vampire hunters of the Belmont clan and the immortal vampire Dracula. Circle of the Moon's protagonist, however, is Nathan Graves, whose parents died a decade ago to banish Dracula. Morris Baldwin, who helped in Dracula's banishment, trained him to defeat Dracula and the monsters; Morris ultimately chose him as his successor and gave him the "Hunter Whip", to the displeasure of Hugh, Morris' son who trained alongside him.

At an old castle, Camilla, a minion of Dracula, revives him, only to be interrupted by the arrival of Morris, Nathan, and Hugh. Before they are able to banish him again, Dracula destroys the floor under Nathan and Hugh, causing them to plummet down a long tunnel. Surviving the fall and wishing to find his father, Hugh leaves Nathan behind. Nathan proceeds to search the castle for his mentor. Along the way, he learns that at the next full moon, Morris' soul will be used to return Dracula to full power. He also periodically encounters Hugh, who becomes more hostile as the game progresses. Eventually, Nathan encounters Camilla, who hints that she and Dracula are responsible for the changes in his personality. Nathan vanquishes Camilla in her true form and meets up with Hugh once more. Upon seeing him, Hugh immediately attacks him with the goal of proving himself to his father through Nathan's defeat; Nathan, however, realizes that Dracula is controlling Hugh. Nathan defeats him, and Dracula's control over Hugh breaks. Confessing that he doubted his self-worth when Nathan was chosen as successor, Hugh tasks him with Morris' rescue.

Arriving at the ceremonial room, Nathan confronts Dracula, who confirms that he had tampered with Hugh's soul to cause the changes in his personality. They begin to fight and halfway through, Dracula teleports away to gain his full power. Hugh then frees his father and tasks Nathan with Dracula's banishment. Nathan continues the battle and defeats Dracula; escaping the collapsing castle, he reunites with Morris and Hugh. Nathan is declared a master vampire hunter by Morris. Hugh vows to retrain under Morris due to his failure.

Development
Developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Kobe, Circle of the Moon was designed as a launch title for the Game Boy Advance. At the 2000 Tokyo Game Show, a playable demo of it debuted, which featured two selectable player characters: Hugh and Nathan. The option to play as Hugh did not appear in the final version of the game. Circle of the Moon was published by Konami in Japan on March 21, 2001, in North America on June 11, 2001, and as Castlevania in the PAL region on June 22, 2001; it also saw a Japanese-only re-release under the "Konami the Best" label on November 3, 2005. It was published on the Wii U Virtual Console on October 9, 2014, in North America.

Reviews
Circle of the Moon received critical acclaim. On the review aggregate site Metacritic, it is the twelfth-highest rated Game Boy Advance title.

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu gave the game a 27 out of 40 score. Craig Harris of IGN called Circle of the Moon "one of the best playing Castlevania games released", calling the gameplay "very long and extremely challenging without being frustrating or a chore to zip through". However, they noted that due to the dark graphics, the game was "difficult" to see, and that the character animations looked as though "they've been ripped out of a GBC development". Michael "Major Mike" Weigand of GamePro said that the game closely mirrored the most highly acclaimed Castlevania game, Symphony of the Night with its rich graphics and branching story. RPGamer also praised the new system, calling it a "breath of fresh air" when combined with the existing ideas from previous entries in the series, though in contrast felt the game had significant replay value due to its various additional modes and the strengths/weaknesses related to each that required new strategies. Despite their criticism of the plot and recycled elements, they summarized the title as "Konami's Second Symphony". GameSpy stated that while the graphics were a problem, they more readily attributed the issue to the Game Boy Advance itself than the game, adding "it's a horror game about Dracula, don't you want ample light around you anyway?" They also praised the game's music and sound effects as appropriate for the title, though they criticized the lack of decent artificial intelligence on the part of the enemies. NextGen called it "one of the best 2D action-adventure games ever made – for any platform." However, Edge gave the Japanese import seven out of ten, saying, "There is little of note that can be considered new, and yet the balance of play is as strong as ever – Konami's original formula shines through, a mix of quality platforming, fine graphics and undeniable branding. Age has not withered the mix at all." Game Informers Tim Turi felt in the game's retrospective that it was the first game to imitate Symphony of the Nights style but criticized the dark visuals.

Sales
IGN reported on July 23, 2001, that Circle of the Moon sold over 500,000 units, with over 300,000 sold in North America and about 200,000 sold in Europe.

Awards
The game was nominated for "Best Action-Adventure Game" and "Best Game Boy Advance Game" at GameSpot's Best and Worst of 2001 Awards, both of which went to Grand Theft Auto III and Advance Wars, respectively. It was also a nominee for "Console Role-Playing Game of the Year" at the AIAS' 5th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, which was ultimately awarded to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. The game was also nominated at The Electric Playground's 2001 Blister Awards for "Portable Game of the Year", but lost to Advance Wars.

Legacy
Despite the game's success, series producer Koji Igarashi, who had not been involved in its production, was critical of the game. When developing follow-up title Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, he cited in an interview several flaws he felt should have been rectified in Circle of the Moon's design, primarily its control scheme and the dark appearance of the graphics on the Game Boy Advance. He additionally criticized the DSS card system, stating that it "did not match with the world Castlevania had established over a long period of time", though admitted he felt it was a good system. In 2002, Circle of the Moon was removed from the series' timeline, a move met with some resistance from fans. Igarashi noted the reason for the removal was not due to his non-involvement with the game, but instead the intention of the game's development team for Circle of the Moon to be a stand-alone title.

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Talk:Electrical socket

"110 volts peak-to-peak" - surely this should be 110 volts R.M.S.... --Ali@gwc.org.uk 15:33, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * What does that mean?   — Chameleon My page/My talk 16:24, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Ali: Wondered about this as well. But maybe it's the case indeed.

 * Chameleon: See alternating current for an explanation of what Ali means. Simon A. 12:13, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * see Root_mean_square, basicallly RMS is the average voltage and is the value used when calculating power. It is almost always the value used when quoting AC voltages. --Ali@gwc.org.uk 20:24, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

"European 2 prong common household socket (220 volts)" looking at mains power plug you can see there is no such thing as a common european socket! 81.187.43.179 03:05, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I think this just needs renaming as something like North American electrical sockets (providing that Canada and Mexico use the same standards). 81.187.43.179 03:10, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * No, it shouldn't be renamed. Non-American content should be added.  The trouble is that it is difficult to do so without duplicating the content in my Mains power plug article.  Feel free to be bold and do it yourself...  I am also tempted to zap this article and make it redirect to the other.    — Chameleon Main/Talk/Images 07:08, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Lane Davies

Lane Davies (born July 31, 1951) is an American actor.

Personal life
Davies was born in Dalton, Georgia, the son of Emily and Bill Davies. He has three brothers—Bruce, George, and Whit. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with cum laude honors for his degree in speech and theater. Currently, he resides in Georgia with his family. He has two sons, Nathan Hamilton and Thatcher Lee.

Stage roles
On stage, Davies has worked with such companies as the Trinity Square Repertory Company of Providence, Rhode Island; Atlanta's Alliance Theater; Houston's Alley Theatre; The Old Globe Theater in San Diego; the Georgia Shakespeare Festival; and the Globe Playhouse in Los Angeles, as well as with the two companies he founded and co-founded. His classical credits include Henry V, Mark Antony, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Orlando, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Richard III, as well as the direction of several productions.

Some of his more contemporary work includes: John Barrymore in "I Hate Hamlet", Sweeney Todd, Henry Higgins, Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy, David Crockett in the highly acclaimed Crockett By Himself, Slim in Of Mice and Men and William Desmond Taylor in a revival of Mack and Mabel, and 6 productions of "Man of La Mancha" as Cervantes/Quixote.

Davies also played the lead in such plays as Hamlet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew and Cyrano de Bergerac at Thad Taylor's Globe Playhouse. He co-starred with Matthew Faison in a revival of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, playing Rosencrantz. He has directed multiple productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Davies co-founded the Santa Susana Repertory Company in Thousand Oaks, California as well as the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company in cooperation with California Lutheran University. Kingsmen Shakespeare Company was listed, in 2004, as a Major Festival in the book Shakespeare Festivals Around the World by Marcus D. Gregio (Editor). In 2007–2008, Davies founded the Tennessee Shakespeare Festival in Bell Buckle, TN, as a professional summer company. Its first production was Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (one of Davies' favorites) set in Athens, GA, instead of Athens, Greece. Lane is now involved in many productions in Middle Tennessee, including multiple performances with the Tennessee Repertory Theater in Nashville.

Television roles
Davies has appeared in lead or supporting roles in four short-lived comedies: Good & Evil, Woops!, The Crew, and The Mommies. He had appeared as a feature actor on a number of shows, including Married... with Children, Major Dad, Scrubs, Seinfeld, Just Shoot Me!, and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, where he played a time-travelling sociopath named Tempus. He also had recurring roles on 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Practice, Coach, Complete Savages, The Nanny, Dallas (“The Ewing Blues” as Craig Gurney), The Golden Girls, Empty Nest and Ellen.

Davies also played a role in the first Russian-American television crime drama, Russians in the City of Angels, also known as A Force of One, a new 12-part series that aired in Russia. Besides Lane, other American actors featured on the show included Eric Roberts, Gary Busey, and Sean Young as well as Russian stars such as acclaimed Russian filmmaker and actor Rodion Nahapetov, and Ekaterina Rednikova.

Davies guest-starred in a 2011 episode of Good Luck Charlie, season 2, episode 5, "Duncans vs. Duncans", as Mr. Krump. He was seen most recently on "Supernatural" as Jack the Ripper.

Soap opera roles
Davies also has had a prolific body of work in daytime soap operas.

 * His first role was as Evan Whyland on Days of Our Lives, which he played from 1981 to 1982.
 * Davies' trademark dry, quick wit was part of what was perhaps his best known role, that of Mason Capwell on the now-defunct soap opera Santa Barbara. He played the role from the show's debut in July 1984 until July 1989. Davies was challenged by a complicated working relationship with co-star Nancy Lee Grahn. Constant conflict over the direction of their characters led to his departure in 1989. When he first left the show, he was quoted as saying, "It's not that I'm looking for another kind of challenge as far as acting is concerned. I'm just ready for a rest more than a challenge. I've kind of challenged myself into an early grave." He took a six-month around-the-world tour and returned to the United States in February 1990. Davies never returned to the role of Mason Capwell.
 * In 1992, he filled in for Ronn Moss as Ridge Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful as a temporary replacement while Moss was on leave.
 * Davies was cast as Dr. Cameron Lewis on General Hospital from 2002 to 2004. He again appeared opposite Grahn; the two resolved their problems and were friends, and she had joined General Hospital as lawyer Alexis Davis in 1996. However, Davies was never prominently featured during his time on the show, and his character was written out just a little over a year after he joined the show.
 * Davies played the role of MacKenzie Johnson on the web series The Bay from 2010 to 2012. He replaced fellow soap actor John Callahan.
 * In 2024, Davies re-joined the cast of General Hospital in the role of Fergus Byrne.

Film roles
His film roles include The Magic of Lassie with James Stewart, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Mickey Rooney; Body Double with Melanie Griffith; Impure Thoughts with Brad Dourif; and Funland with David L. Lander, and William Windom.

Other achievements
Davies has served as a member, roaming ambassador, and a Vice President of the International Federation of Festival Organizations (FIDOF), which promotes peace and friendship through music and art.

He is also actively involved in mentoring actors and teaching acting classes at various levels, including grade schools, high schools, colleges, and universities.

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 * Template:Greek myth (Pan) - for matters rustic and ithyphallic
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 * Template:Greek myth (Apollo) - Apolline stuff here
 * Template:Greek myth (Dionysus) - Dionysiac here
 * Template:Greek myth (sea) - everything aquatic
 * Template:Greek myth (earth) - everything chthonic
 * Template:Greek myth (abstract) - personified abstractions
 * Template:Greek myth (Hades) - underworld and occupants

Planned: I dunno about Heracles and Perseus. Maybe. Bacchiad 15:40, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Template:Greek myth (Troy) - war etc.
 * Template:Greek myth (Oedipus) - incest and war
 * Template:Greek myth (Minotaur) - Theseus, Minos, etc.
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Are these necessary considering how we have categories now? They seem like unnecessary clutter. Postdlf 23:10, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I think you're mostly right. It was practicable and (I think) helpful with Roman myth. It's clearly breaking down with Greek myth, where things are much more open-ended and complex. Where something like nymphs or the figures associated with a god are loosely defined and wide-ranging and potentially hierarchical, categories are much better.

So I'm mostly dissatisfied with the experiment. I decided not to press forward any more when I got to heroes and it became clear that even a Theseus/Minotaur box would be impossible to do well, let alone Trojan War.

The ones that I think might be worth keeping, in stripped-down form, are Template:Greek myth (Titan) and Template:Greek myth (Olympian) - maybe or maybe not (sea) and (Hades). The first two sets, at least, are small, heterogeneous and closely-interrelated enough where it could still work.

I'll continue to tinker. One way or another, the clutter will be alleviated. Bacchiad 00:10, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME ) is the maintenance arm of the British Army that maintains the equipment that the Army uses. The corps is described as the "British Army's professional engineers".

History
Prior to REME's formation, maintenance was the responsibility of several different corps:
 * Royal Army Ordnance Corps—weapons and armoured vehicles
 * Royal Engineers—engineering plant and machinery, and RE motor transport
 * Royal Corps of Signals—communications equipment
 * Royal Army Service Corps—other motor transport
 * Royal Artillery—heavy weapons artificers

During World War II, the increase in quantity and complexity of equipment exposed the flaws in this system. Pursuant to the recommendation of a Committee on Skilled Men in the Services chaired by William Beveridge, the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers was formed on 1 October 1942.

Phase I
Such a major re-organisation was too complex to be carried out quickly and completely in the middle of a world war. Therefore, the changeover was undertaken in two phases. In Phase I, which was implemented immediately, REME was formed on the existing framework of the RAOC Engineering Branch, strengthened by the transfer of certain technical units and tradesmen from the RE and RASC.

At the same time, a number of individual tradesmen were transferred into REME from other corps. The new corps was made responsible for repairing the technical equipment of all arms with certain major exceptions.

REME did not yet undertake:

 * Those repairs that were carried out by unit tradesmen who were driver/mechanics or fitters in regiments and belonged to the unit rather than being attached to it.
 * Repairs of RASC-operated vehicles, which remained the responsibility of the RASC; each RASC Transport Company had its own workshop.
 * Repairs of RE specialist equipment, which remained the responsibility of the RE.

Phase II
In 1949, it was decided that "REME Phase II" should be implemented. This decision was published in Army Council Instruction 110 of 1949, and the necessary reorganisation was carried out in the various arms and services in three stages between July 1951 and January 1952. The main changes were: This organisation was also responsible for arranging and overseeing ship refits.
 * The transfer to REME of most of the unit repair responsibilities of other arms (Infantry, Royal Artillery, Royal Armoured Corps etc.).
 * The provision of Light Aid Detachments for certain units that had not possessed them under the old organisation.
 * The provision of new REME workshops to carry out field repairs in RASC transport companies. Maintenance of vessels of the RASC fleet whilst in port was given to the fleet repair branch, a civilian organisation which came under the REME umbrella.

Cap badges
After some interim designs, the badge of the Corps was formalised in June 1943 for use as the cap-badge, collar-badge, and on the buttons. It consisted of an oval Royally Crowned laurel wreath; on the wreath were four small shields at the compass points, each shield bearing one of the letters of "REME". Within the wreath was a pair of calipers. Examples of these early badges can be found at the REME Museum. In 1947, the Horse and Lightning was adopted as the cap badge, designed by Stephen Gooden.

Major Ivan Hirst REME and Volkswagen
At the end of the war, the Allies occupied the major German industrial centres to decide their fate. The Volkswagen factory at Wolfsburg became part of the British Zone in June 1945 and No. 30 Workshop Control Unit, REME, assumed control in July. They operated under the overall direction of Colonel Michael McEvoy at Rhine Army Headquarters, Bad Oeynhausen. Uniquely, he had experience of the KdF Wagen in his pre-war career as a motor racing engineer; whilst attending the Berlin Motor Show in 1939, he was able to test drive one.

After visiting the Volkswagen factory, McEvoy had the idea of trying to get Volkswagen back into production to provide light transport for the occupying forces. The British Army, Red Cross and essential German services were chronically short of light vehicles. If the factory could provide them, there would be no cost to the British taxpayer and the factory could be saved. To do this, a good manager with technical experience would be needed. Maj. Ivan Hirst was told simply to "take charge of" the Volkswagen plant before arriving in August 1945. He had drains fixed and bomb craters filled in; land in front of the factory was given over to food production.

At first, the wartime Kubelwagen was viewed as a suitable vehicle. Once it became clear it could not be put back into production, the Volkswagen saloon or Kaefer (Beetle) was suggested. Hirst had an example delivered to Rhine Army headquarters, where it was demonstrated by Colonel McEvoy. The positive reaction led to the Military Government placing an order for 20,000 Volkswagens in September 1945.

Museum
The REME Museum is based at MoD Lyneham in Wiltshire.

Training
The Defence School of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering at MoD Lyneham meets most of the training needs of the corps.

Units
With minor exceptions, the Corps is responsible for the examination, modification, repair and recovery of all mechanical, electronic, electrical and optical equipment of the Army beyond the capacity of unit non-technical personnel. REME has its Regimental Headquarters co-located with 8 Training Battalion REME based in MoD Lyneham, Wiltshire. All trade training and Artificer training of electro/mechanical trades of REME and various related training to other units within the British Army, Navy and Air Force is conducted by 8 Training Battalion REME. In line with Army 2020 Refine, there are seven regular, one training and three Army Reserve battalions within REME. Alongside these major units, all battalion sized units within the army have a workshop integrated, made up of REME soldiers, called a Light Aid Detachment (LAD).

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 * 1 Close Support Battalion REME
 * 2 Close Support Battalion REME
 * 3 Armoured Close Support Battalion REME
 * 4 Armoured Close Support Battalion REME
 * 5 Force Support Battalion REME
 * 6 Armoured Close Support Battalion REME
 * 7 Aviation Support Battalion REME
 * 8 Training Battalion REME

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 * Army Reserve Battalions
 * 101 Battalion REME
 * 102 Battalion REME
 * 103 Battalion REME

Separate Units

 * Regimental Headquarters, at Prince Philip Barracks, MoD Lyneham
 * Falkland Islands Motor Transport Workshop
 * BATUS Workshop
 * BATUK Workshop, HQ in Nanyuki (small rear workshop in Nairobi)
 * Brunei Garrison Workshop
 * Cyprus Force Workshop Company, HQ at RAF Akrotiri (part of the Cyprus Service Support Unit)
 * Land Warfare Centre battlegroup light aid detachment, at Harman Lines, Warminster Garrison
 * Lightning Bolts Army Parachute Display Team, the parachute display team of REME, one of the four official Army parachute display teams.

List of Directors of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering / Master General REME
The head of REME was officially known as Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (Army) or DEME(A).
 * Major-General Eric Rowcroft (1942 to 1946)
 * Major-General Wilfred (Bill) S Tope (1947 to 1949)
 * Major-General Stanley William Joslin (1950 to 1953)
 * Major-General Wilfred Austin Lord (1954 to 1957)
 * Major-General Sir Leslie Norman Tyler (1957 to 1960)
 * Major General Denis Redman (1960 to 1963)
 * Major General Sir Leonard Henry Atkinson (1963 to 1966)
 * Major-General A McGill (1966 to 1968)
 * Major-General Peter Howard Girling (1969 to 1972)
 * Major-General A M McKay (1972 to 1975)
 * Major-General Hugh Macdonald-Smith (1975 to 1978)
 * Major-General J V Homan (1978 to 1979)
 * Major-General Pat Lee (1979 to 1981)
 * Major-General T B Palmer (1983 to 1985)
 * Major-General J Boyne (1985 to 1988)
 * Major-General D Shaw (1988 to 1991)
 * Major-General M S Heath (1991 to 1993)
 * Major-General P J G Corp (1993 to 1997)
 * Major-General Peter V R Besgrove (1997 to 1999)
 * Brigadier Roderick J Croucher (1999 to 2002)
 * Brigadier Stephen Tetlow (2002 to 2005)
 * Brigadier N T S Williams (2005 to 2007)
 * Brigadier B W McCall (2007 to 2010)
 * Brigadier M J Boswell (2010 to 2012)

In 2012, a new post of Master General REME was created with Lieutenant General Andrew Figgures as the first incumbent.
 * Lieutenant General Andrew Figgures (2012 to 2017)
 * Lieutenant General Paul Jaques (2017 to 2023)
 * Major-General David James Eastman (2023 to present)

List of Colonel Commandants

 * Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick Sanders (until 1 November 2018)
 * Major-General G. I. Mitchell, CB (until 2023)
 * Major-General David James Eastman (until 2023)
 * Lieutenant-General Dame Sharon Nesmith, 1 November 2018–1 November 2023
 * Major-General William O'Leary (until 1 June 2024)
 * Major-General Darren Howard Crook, 31 March 2023–present
 * Major-General Anna-Lee Reilly, 1 April 2023–present
 * Major-General Neil B. Thorpe, 1 April 2023–present
 * Major-General Paul Raymond Griffiths, 1 November 2023–present
 * Brigadier Ingrid Anne Rolland, 1 June 2024–present


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Guyed mast

A guyed mast is a tall thin vertical structure that depends on guy lines (diagonal tensioned cables attached to the ground or a base) for stability. The mast itself has the compressive strength to support its own weight, but does not have the shear strength to stand unsupported or bear loads. It requires guy lines to stay upright and to resist lateral (shear) forces such as wind loads. Examples include masts on sailing vessels, towers for telecommunications, meteorology, and masts on cranes, power shovels, draglines, and derricks, starting with the simple gin pole.

Applications
The principle applications of guyed masts are the masts of sailing vessels, guyed towers, and as the main tower of heavy equipment such as cranes, power shovels, draglines, and derricks, the simplest of which is the gin pole.

Guyed masts are frequently used for radio masts and towers. The mast can either support radio antennas (for VHF, UHF and other microwave bands) mounted at its top, or the entire structure itself can function as a mast radiator antenna (for VLF, LF, MF). In the latter case, the mast needs to be insulated from the ground. Guyed radio masts are typically tall enough that they require several sets of guy lines, 2 to 4, attached at different heights on the mast, to prevent them from buckling. An exception to multiple guys was the Blaw-Knox tower, widely used during the 1930s, whose distinctive wide diamond (rhomboidal) shape gave it the shear strength that it only required one set of guys.

Guyed masts are sometimes also used for measurement towers, to collect meteorological measurements at certain heights above ground level. Sometimes they are used as pylons (transmission towers), although their usage in agricultural areas is problematic because anchor foundations handicap ploughing. The tallest guyed tower is currently the 2063 ft KVLY-TV mast near Blanchard, North Dakota, USA.

The mast on heavy equipment such as a crane is its main supporting tower, typically of trussed steel construction. Wire rope guys typically led back to the crane's base stabilize it and support its ability to bear significant shear loads while lifting.

Partially guyed tower

A partially guyed tower is a tower structure which consists of a free-standing base, in most cases of concrete or of lattice steel, with a guyed mast on the top. The anchor base of the guyed mast can be on the top of the tower or on the ground.

Use
Partially guyed towers are typically used when a very high tower for FM and TV transmission is required, while also carrying antennas for directional radio services at a much lower height. In such cases the antennas for directional radio services are mounted on the top of the free-standing part of the tower, while the guyed mast on its top carry the FM and TV antennas. They can be also used in order to upgrade small stable towers (like watertowers) with a long antenna mast for FM and TV broadcasting. However their use is rare, and they exist chiefly in certain European countries.

Note that mast radiators which stand atop an antenna tuning hut (a.k.a. helix building) are not considered partially guyed towers, because the hut is much smaller than the mast radiator. Such constructions include the Mühlacker radio transmitter and the Ismaning radio transmitter.

Anchor placements
Partially guyed towers can be divided into two types, depending on the placement of the guy anchors.

Atop the free-standing tower
Guyed masts on skyscrapers or wider towers are often guyed on the roof of the free-standing basement structure. In such cases, there is no major constructive difference of the guyed mast to a guyed mast on plain ground, and the construction of the free-standing basement tower does not differ much from a tower of the same height without a mast. The guyed mast of such constructions is usually of lesser height than basement tower.

On the ground
Partially guyed towers in which at least one basement of the guy anchors is on the ground are more rare. The placement of guy basements across a broader geometric base allows for a mast much taller than the free-standing basement tower, and the integration of tower and mast should be considered in all facets of construction and maintenance.

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Margaret Cole

Dame Margaret Isabel Cole ( Postgate; 6 May 1893 – 7 May 1980) was an English socialist politician, writer and poet. She wrote several detective stories jointly with her husband, G. D. H. Cole. She went on to hold important posts in London government after the Second World War.

Life
A daughter of John Percival Postgate and Edith (née Allen) Postgate, Margaret was educated at Roedean School and Girton College, Cambridge. While reading H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and others at Girton, she came to question the Anglicanism of her upbringing and to embrace socialism after reading notable books on the subject.

Having completed her course (Cambridge did not allow women to graduate formally until 1947), Margaret became a classics teacher at St Paul's Girls' School. Her poem The Falling Leaves, a response to the First World War, and currently on the OCR English Literature syllabus at GCSE, shows the influence of Latin poetry in its use of long and short syllables to create mimetic effects.

Pacifist period
During World War I, her brother Raymond Postgate sought exemption from military service as a socialist conscientious objector, but was denied recognition and jailed for refusing military orders. Her support for her brother led her to a belief in pacifism. During her subsequent campaign against conscription, she met G. D. H. Cole, whom she married in a registry office in August 1918. The couple worked together for the Fabian Society before moving to Oxford in 1924, where they both taught and wrote.

In the early 1930s, Margaret abandoned her pacifism in reaction to the suppression of socialist movements by governments in Germany and Austria and to events in the Spanish Civil War.

Education work
In 1941, Margaret Cole was co-opted onto the Education Committee of the London County Council, nominated by Herbert Morrison, and became a champion of comprehensive education. She was an alderman on London County Council from 1952 until the council's abolition in 1965. She was a member of the Inner London Education Authority from its creation in 1965 until her retirement from public life in 1967.

In the 1965 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for political and public services". In the 1970 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) "for services to local government and education" and thereby granted the title dame.

Brian Harrison recorded an oral history interview with Cole, in July 1975, as part of the Suffrage Interviews project, titled Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews.  Cole talks about her family and upbringing, her involvement in the Labour Party, and of her dislike for Christabel Pankhurst's extreme suffragism.

Dame Margaret Cole died on 7 May 1980, the day after her 87th birthday. Her estate was valued at £137,957.

Writings
Cole wrote several books, including a biography of her husband. Her brother Raymond was a labour historian, journalist and novelist. She and her husband jointly authored many mystery novels.

Margaret and her husband created a partnership, but not a full marriage: her husband took little interest in sex and regarded women as a distraction from men. Nevertheless, they had a son and two daughters. Margaret Cole comprehensively documented their life together in a biography she wrote of her husband after his death.

Novels and Short Story Collections
G. D. H. Cole The Brooklyn Murders (1923). Margaret Cole did not contribute to this novel, which is noted here solely to pre-empt confusion.

G. D. H. and M. Cole
 * The Death of a Millionaire (1925)
 * The Blatchington Tangle (1926). Serialised, The Daily Herald (1926)
 * The Murder at Crome House (1927)
 * The Man from the River (1928)
 * Superintendent Wilson's Holiday (1928)
 * Poison in the Garden Suburb (1929); serialised, The Daily Herald (1929). Also known as Poison in a Garden Suburb
 * Burglars in Bucks (1930) aka The Berkshire Mystery
 * Corpse in Canonicals (1930) aka The Corpse in the Constable's Garden
 * The Great Southern Mystery (1931) aka The Walking Corpse
 * ''Dead Man's Watch (1931)
 * Death of a Star (1932)
 * A Lesson in Crime (1933)
 * A Lesson in Crime; A Question of Coincidence; Mr. Steven's Insurance Policy; Blackmail in the Village; The Cliff Path Ghost; Sixteen Years Run; Wilson Calling (Wilson); The Brentwardine Mystery; The Mother of the Detective; A Dose of Cyanide; Superintendent Wakley's Mistake.
 * The Affair at Aliquid (1933)
 * End of an Ancient Mariner (1933)
 * Death in the Quarry (1934)
 * Big Business Murder (1935)
 * Dr Tancred Begins (1935)
 * Scandal at School (1935) aka The Sleeping Death
 * Last Will and Testament (1936)
 * The Brothers Sackville (1936)
 * Disgrace to the College (1937)
 * The Missing Aunt (1937)
 * Mrs Warrender's Profession (1938)
 * Off with her Head! (1938)
 * Double Blackmail (1939)
 * Greek Tragedy (1939)
 * Wilson and Some Others (1940)
 * Death in a Tankard (Wilson); Murder in Church (Wilson); The Bone of the Dinosaur (Wilson); A Tale of Two Suitcases (Wilson); The Motive (Wilson); Glass (Wilson); Murder in Broad Daylight (Wilson); Ye Olde Englysshe Christmasse or Detection in the Eighteenth Century; The Letters; The Partner; A Present from the Empire; The Strange Adventures of a Chocolate Box; Strychnine Tonic.
 * Murder at the Munition Works (1940)
 * Counterpoint Murder (1940)
 * Knife in the Dark (1941)
 * Toper's End (1942)
 * Death of a Bride (1945)
 * Birthday Gifts (1946)
 * The Toys of Death (1948)

Radio plays
G. D. H. and M. Cole
 * Murder in Broad Daylight. BBC Home Service, 1 June 1934
 * The Bone of the Dinosaur. (Detection Club: Series 1, Episode 6). BBC Home Service, 23 and 27 November 1940

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KFVS TV Mast

KFVS TV Mast (also Raycom America Tower Cape Girardeau) is a guyed mast that is 1677 feet (511.1 m) tall, used for transmitting television signals. It was built during 1960 and is located in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA at 37°25′46″N, 89°30′14″W. At the time of its construction it was the world's tallest structure, being exceeded during 1962 by another transmission tower. Broadcasting from the antenna atop the tower, KFVS-TV's signal reaches customers in portions of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas.

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