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Talk:Prometheus Society

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Not sure if the Mandarinate is really a "High IQ Society", weren't they (effectively) the ruling class in Imperial China? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.8.143.116 (talk) 23:22, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

How the hell do you recruit people with a one in 30,000 standard? You'd need to test hundreds on thousands of people to get 100 members... Seems bogus.

 * Presumably they don't go round testing people themselves, they just require evidence of certain scores in certain standard tests that people are likely to have taken before. — Trilobite (Talk) 00:14, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Generally speaking, one has a certain confidence of one's intelligence before testing into an organization like this. So, while I can't say what their acceptance rate is, it's definitely better than "general population."  I do not know what tests the organization accepts (if any) but it is known that the test must be supervised according to their standards, and not all high IQ societies accept "standardized" IQ tests.  Surely one of their two members can come update this?  ;)  Rainman420 04:35, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

That the above commentators don't know what tests the society accepts shows that they haven't even visited the website, which suggests either a certain superficial approach or a prior agenda.

Mensa US has 50,000 members, give or take, although more than 6,000,000 US citizens would qualify, so there will always be a discrepancy between membership and selectivity. For people searching for high-level peers in raw intelligence, the Internet has provided a quick and easy means for finding relevant potential peer groups; the idea that 30,000 people need to be tested to yield, low-and-behold, one member, is a bit naive: people who are in the ballpark are far more likely to give it a shot, not everyone in the electronic world. M. Stewart

Delete threat
There is an anti-Hi-IQ/Gifted Jihad in process at the moment. Already the Mega Society has been deleted and Ronald K. Hoeflin and The Ultranet are up for deletion. Who will be next? Marilyn vos Savant, Mensa? Don't take this lying down: the Mega Society deletion has been appealed, please go here and support its reinstatement with an overturn vote.

Possible articles under threat are:

Marilyn vos Savant, International High IQ Society, Mensa International, Intertel, Colloquy, CIVIQ Society, International Society for Philosophical Enquiry, Triple Nine Society, Prometheus Society, HELLIQ Society, The Ultranet, OLYMPIQ Society, Giga Society

--Michael C. Price talk 00:13, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

As you may have heard the Mega Society article was deleted awhile ago, at the end of an acrimonious AfD/DRV process. There is a wide divergence between deletion policy (as defined by various policy guideline documents) and deletion practice, as implemented by admins (who claim to be following the "spirit" of the law). Consequently there are lessons to be learnt from the experience, which will not be obvious from reading the guidelines. Here are some tips for future conduct:

 * Single purpose users are frowned upon and were a frequent bone of contention during the AfD and DRV processes. So I urge you all to "establish" yourself as Wikipedians: create, edit and even ... delete articles!  There are plenty of articles that need attention.
 * It is a very good idea to put something on your user page, (it doesn't matter what) to avoid showing up as redlinked users -- being redlinked will count against you in any debate.
 * When voting, include brief reasons which are grounded in policy (votes not backed by reasoning may be discounted; too much reasoning will be ignored).

Given the bias against soliciting (see judgement) I may not be able to contact you again, so I suggest you put the Mega Society in your watchlists. The closing admin's comments on the Mega Society:

 * Within the argumentation of the debate, the most significant point raised by those who supported the article was that a new draft was available. The article is not protected, so this may be posted at any time and (assuming it is not substantially similiar to the older version) it will be judged anew on its merits.  This is good news for you.

 * The bad news for you is that it is well-established practice within Wikipedia to ignore completely floods of newer, obviously "single-issue POV", contributors at all our deletion fora. I'm among the most "process-wonkish" of Wikipedians, believe me, and even process-wonks accept that these sorts of voters are completely discountable.  Wikipedia is not a pure democracy; though consensus matters, the opinion of newcomers unfamiliar with policy is given very little weight.  Your vote, that of Tim Shell, and that wjhonson were not discounted.  The others supporting your view were.  I promise you that it is almost always true that, within Wikipedia, any argument supported by a flood of new users will lose, no matter how many of the new users make their voices known.  In the digital age, where sockpuppeting and meatpuppeting are as easy as posting to any message board, this is as it should be for the sake of encyclopedic integrity.  It is a firm practice within Wikipedia, and it is what every policy and guideline mean to imply, however vaguely they may be worded. (I do agree that our policies, written by laypeople mostly, could do with a once-over from an attorney such as myself; however, most laypeople hate lawyers, so efforts to tighten wording are typically met with dissent.)

 * If your supporters were more familiar with Wikipedia, they would realize that, invariably, the most effective way to establish an article after it has been deleted in a close AfD is to rewrite it: make it " faster, better, stronger." This is, in fact, what you claim to have done with your draft. Good show.  Best wishes, Xoloz 16:22, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

So the outcome was not entirely negative, although I was disappointed by the admin's rather cavalier approach evidenced by the response to my enquiry:

 * .... why did you discount the votes of, say, User:GregorB or User:Canon? They are not new users, nor did I solicit them.  I presume by Tim Shell you mean Tim Smith? ...... --Michael C. Price talk 16:49, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

to which I received this rather off-hand reply:

 * User:GregorB offered a very brief comment not supported by policy. User:Canon did take the time to offer analysis at DRV, but he had been among the first voters at the AfD to offer a mere "Keep" without explanation; therefore, I assumed he had been solicited by someone. Best wishes, Xoloz 15:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

which didn't fill me with confidence about Wiki-"due process".

Anyway, my grumpiness aside, the Mega Society article, is presently under userfied open-development at User:MichaelCPrice/mega, and will reappear at some point, when (hopefully) some of the ill-feeling evidenced during the debate has cooled. I am very heartened by the article's continued development, and by the development of associated articles. Thanks for everyone's help!

--Michael C. Price talk 14:38, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup
Good start, thank you. -- Avi 16:52, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia can be hostile
The society's above that have lost their page are noted by the change in color from blue to red. These are legitimate entries but have not stood the test of the wikipedia meritocracy. It seems these communities have left wikipedia and the skills they possess. It is time to return some nurture to this discussion page. Last post was 26 July 2006 over 15 months ago. Interesting subjects with good links can be developed for the widest readership. RoddyYoung 23:31, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Commentary
These "high IQ" societies are noted by me (OR) to mostly be badly written and content-free. Just saying. Now shut yourselves up, you people who make tests for each other. What has any of you ever contributed to society or science besides your mental masturbation? Huw Powell (talk) 05:07, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

 * Are you aware that your chat qualifies as dribbling nonsense and can be removed from this talk page because it isn't written with the intent to improve article quality? Just saying. And you're certainly no authority on the subject... —αrgumziωϝ 05:40, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Wow. You impress me with your understanding of the topic. Huw Powell (talk) 05:51, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Cute. A smarmy attempt at sarcasm, hm? Your fits and spasms do well for idle amusement but not much else. You should be happy I didn't proceed to remove your "commentary" on the spot, but you see, I didn't do that because I don't want to tuck away this display of yours from eyes which would hardly go through the trouble of looking for it anyway. Cheers.—αrgumziωϝ 06:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Well said, Argumzio. With all his soapboxing and incivility, Huw Powell's failed attempt to wax poetic as he pours scorn upon our intelligent neighbours reveals more about himself than it does about the topic at hand. So I ask, what is Huw Powell trying to say?  Uncensored Kiwi  Kiss 10:29, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * As I said, they tend to be poorly written and lack useful content. The topic in general - "high IQ societies" - tends toward what I said.  People who congratulate themselves on their ability to pass tests that they create for themselves, and little else. Huw Powell (talk) 01:05, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Intelligence Citations Bibliography for Articles Related to IQ Testing
You may find it helpful while reading or editing articles to look at a bibliography of Intelligence Citations, posted for the use of all Wikipedians who have occasion to edit articles on human intelligence and related issues. I happen to have circulating access to a huge academic research library at a university with an active research program in these issues (and to another library that is one of the ten largest public library systems in the United States) and have been researching these issues since 1989. You are welcome to use these citations for your own research. You can help other Wikipedians by suggesting new sources through comments on that page. It will be extremely helpful for articles on human intelligence to edit them according to the Wikipedia standards for reliable sources for medicine-related articles, as it is important to get these issues as well verified as possible. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 17:10, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

What are the current sources here?
Just how many reliable sources are available to cite about this organization? (I don't mean links to the society website, nor do I mean general books about topics related to the organization, but independent sources about the society itself). See Wikipedia guidelines on notability of organizations and the  Wikipedia FAQ on organizations for what the concern is here. Is there really sufficient sourcing here for a stand-alone Wikipedia article on Prometheus Society? -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 20:39, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I put footnotes 13 through 15 in to show notability. These are instances of Prometheus being used in passing by popular authors to symbolize high intelligence. The authors tacitly assume their readers know of Prometheus, the same way someone might use "Rolls-Royce" in passing to indicate a high-quality car. Promking (talk) 23:01, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
 * That's really stretching the concept of RS a bit further than it can go. Huw Powell (talk) 06:50, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

 * Thanks for both comments. I'm still mulling over what I see cited in the article and how that relates to relevant Wikipedia policies. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 18:41, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I think I've put eight reliable sources in the footnotes, the same number as the article about Mensa, and my guess is that no one is questioning Mensa's notability.Promking (talk) 02:27, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I just removed the last three, I don't think they really meet WP:RS - especially the website that was down within hours of your adding it. Huw Powell (talk) 02:54, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * An article from Esquire magazine, an article from Wall Street Journal, a book published by a mid-size but established publisher -- how can they NOT meet WP:RS? I put the dead link because other links to the article are pay-per-view.Promking (talk) 15:14, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * In relation to this article, do those sources include "significant" (Wikipedia policy language) discussion of Prometheus Society, or are they references in passing? -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 15:35, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that any big national magazine or newspaper has its own standards of notability which can make what appears to be a passing reference significant. Let's say the New York Times has an article about how to find orchids which can be grown in the continental U.S., and in that article it says, "There are many societies devoted to orchid species that can be grown in non-tropical climates, including the Cymbidium Society of America." This usually means that to the best of the reporter's knowledge, the Cymbidium Society of America is a fairly well-established group that is known to orchid people. The reporter would get in trouble if he listed a fly-by-night society that no orchid fancier had ever heard of.Promking (talk) 16:16, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

 * I don't suppose anyone questions Mensa's notability. It may be that both articles have sourcing problems (many Wikipedia articles do), but I am asking about this article here. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 02:45, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Typo in quotation?
Hello, I'm new here, so I hope I'm posting this correctly. While reading this article, I noticed the Mike Sager quote at the end of the "Membership" section appears to have a typo in the sentence that begins thusly: "More exclusive that Mensa — which accepts..."

I imagine the word "that" should be replaced with "than", but I wasn't certain if the source material bore the error, as well. Dr. Nemesis (talk) 01:57, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Confusing reference - MM?
Under "Beyond the 98th percentile", it states:
 * Starting in the early 1960s, when the now-defunct MM was started, there were attempts to form societies accepting people at a level approaching this.

What is "the now-defunct MM"? MM isn't linked to anything, nor can I see a reference to it previous to it being abbreviated in this paragraph. Any ideas? Kailey elise (talk) 17:05, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Probably something like "Mensa squared" : 2% of 2% 212.198.141.88 (talk) 06:48, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Proportion of women in that society ?
It would be interesting to know :-) 212.198.141.88 (talk) 06:48, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Women don't care about childish things such as "High IQ" societies. 1croonjosie (talk) 12:07, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

What is validation for membership criteria?
I see the link in the article text discussing membership criteria for the society has gone dead. For an encyclopedic, neutral point of view treatment of the society and its activities, it would be good to find some current, reliable sources on the notion of four-sigma selection by IQ and whether or not there is a reliable procedure for that. The best sources on that issue suggest that such a level of selection by IQ is dubious. What sources are available on validation of the Prometheus Society selection procedures? -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 14:39, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

What is the justification for keeping this page up but not other societies?
An article was made for the Epimetheus society, which was founded by the the founder of Prometheus, and got deleted for not being "notable." As an extension of this deletion, it was removed from the list on the high-Iq societies page, and the blurb on the IQ page that mentioned some societies, effectively relegating its wiki-presence to the pages for the tests that can be used for admittance, though that may change soon as well. What makes one high-Iq society more notable than another? One would think that the expulsed founder's new society would be notable if by no other means than through its connection to this one, and yet? Gone. Why the bias against fledgling or smaller societies? If Wikipedia is to climb in reputability there has got to be more consistent administration and more inclusive article standards. Should we not strive to cover "everything you want to know and more?" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nodnarbivel (talk • contribs) 09:45, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

 * Where are the independently verifiable, reliable sources on the topic? By Wikipedia's own rules, which you are encouraged to look up, Wikipedia content is to be verifiable. See the Wikipedia guideline on notability of organizations for more details. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 12:36, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

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User talk:Moink/Mediation

Hi Moink -- I really like this page. In part, because it so clearly lays out expectations and what you need (very important) and I also like it because it's somewhat different from the way that I've conducted a couple of successful mediations so far. (See Mediation Proposal for 2002 Gujarat violence and Mediation Proposal between GrazingshipIV and Kingturtle for examples.)

I'm thinking that it would be great if we could "chat" after you've done a couple, and see if it males sense for as many mediators as possible to have a page like this to help users choose a mediator who fits their needs/style/preference. Let me know what you think when you get a chance.

Thanks, BCorr | Брайен 01:06, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Caboolture railway station

Caboolture railway station is located on the North Coast line in Queensland, Australia. It serves the urban centre of Caboolture in the City of Moreton Bay.

History
Caboolture station opened in June 1889 as part of the extension of the North Coast Line from Petrie, which opened in March 1888. As part of the electrification of the line from Petrie, the existing station building was replaced and a new island platform built. The new station opened on 16 November 1985, while the electrification opened on 28 June 1986.

The Kilcoy line branched off to the north-west. It opened in December 1909, closing in September 1996. An old turntable is located on the eastern side. Extensive stabling sidings exist around the station

Services
Caboolture is the terminating point for all stops Citytrain network services to Brisbane, many continuing to Ipswich, Rosewood and Springfield Central.

Caboolture is also served by Citytrain services to Nambour and Gympie North that only call at limited stops south of Caboolture. To relieve congestion on the single track North Coast line north of Beerburrum, the rail service is supplemented by a bus service operated by Kangaroo Bus Lines on weekdays between to Nambour as route 649.

Caboolture is also served by long-distance Traveltrain services; the Spirit of Queensland, Spirit of the Outback and the Bundaberg and Rockhamption Tilt Trains.

Bus routes by stop
The following bus routes services Caboolture railway station:

Transport links
Caboolture Bus Lines operate nine routes to and from Caboolture station:
 * 640: to Woorim/Bribie Island via Bribie Island Park & Ride
 * 643: to Bribie Island Park & Ride via Sandstone Point
 * 651: to Morayfield station & Caboolture West
 * 652: to Beachmere
 * 653: to Morayfield station via Bellmere
 * 654: to Morayfield station via Bellmere
 * 655: to Caboolture Hospital
 * 657: to Caboolture North
 * 9999: to Toorbul and Donnybrook (Thursday only)

Kangaroo Bus Lines operate two routes to and from Caboolture station: Christensen Bus & Coach operate two routes to and from Caboolture station:
 * 649: to Nambour station
 * 660: to Redcliffe
 * 895: to Woodford (school days only)

 * 896: to Kilcoy via Woodford

Coast & Country operate a service to the Queensland University of Technology and TAFE campuses during school terms.

Purser's Coaches operate a service from Caboolture station to Murgon on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Kinetic operate a Sunshine Coast University service during school terms.

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Betty Driver

Elizabeth Mary Driver, (20 May 1920 – 15 October 2011) was a British actress and singer, best known for her role as Betty Williams in the long-running ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, a role she played for 42 years from 1969 to 2011, appearing in 2732 episodes. She had previously appeared as Mrs Edgley in Coronation Street spin-off Pardon the Expression (1965–1966) opposite Arthur Lowe. In her early career she was a singer, appearing in musical films such as Boots! Boots! (1934), opposite George Formby, and in Penny Paradise (1938), directed by Carol Reed. She was made an MBE in the 2000 New Year Honours.

Early life
Betty Driver was born in 1920 at the Prebend Nursing Home, Leicester, the elder of two daughters of Frederick and Nellie Driver. She weighed 5.5 kg (12 lb). Her father had fought in the trenches during the First World War and later became a policeman. However, Driver described her mother as "the driving force" in her life. She commented: "the only way I can explain her behaviour is that she wanted to live out her ambitions through me."

The family moved to West Didsbury, Manchester, in 1922, where they lived in a semi-detached house with other police families as neighbours. Driver went to school at Wilbraham Road, and was later joined there by her younger sister Freda, who shared a class with a young Patricia Manfield, later known as Pat Phoenix, the actress who went on to play the role of Elsie Tanner in Coronation Street, alongside Driver.

Driver described her parents as absent of affection, stating that they never celebrated birthdays and rarely gave her toys and gifts. Though she maintained her father never beat them, their mother "more often lashed out". Driver's mother had never wanted children, and developed an interest in her daughter only when she discovered she had a talent for singing. When she was aged seven, the Drivers went to see a production called the Quaintesques, a group of men dressed as women, when the star, Billy Manders, asked the audience to join in with a chorus. Driver's singing stood out so much that Manders asked her to come forward and sing with him. From then on, Driver's mother began taking her to talent contests in Manchester, and she won them all. She commented, "I imitated hits by Gracie Fields such as 'Sing As We Go', and 'The Biggest Aspidistra in the World', corny little numbers that I detested but mother adored ... I think she was a frustrated performer herself and she was determined that my sister Freda and I were going to fulfil all her dreams."

Career
At the age of eight, Driver began performing professionally, forced by her mother to appear with Terence Byron Repertory Theatre Company. She was singing for the BBC by the age of 10, and began touring across the UK in her first revue at the age of 12. While performing in London at the age of 14, Driver was spotted by the agent Bert Aza, who was in partnership with his brother Archie Pitt, Gracie Fields' husband. Despite her young age, he booked her for the lead in a revival of Mr Tower of London (alongside comedian Norman Evans) which ran for about two years. The same show had brought Gracie Fields to prominence 19 years earlier. She was also approached by George Formby after he and his wife Beryl Formby saw her perform in Manchester. The Formbys wanted Driver to appear in their new film Boots! Boots! (1934); however, according to Driver, Beryl Formby saw her rehearsing and decided that she did not want to be outperformed by Driver, and sent her away. The producers felt so bad about the way Driver had been treated that they refused to take her name off the film credits, even though it was long thought she did not appear in the theatrical release. It is now known that she did perform in the film, and her scene was included in the original release. In 1938, an edited version of the film was released which did not include her scene. A restored version of the film (including Driver's scene) has been released on DVD, which finally confirms her involvement in the film.

At 16, she was in a West End show called Home and Beauty. Film director Basil Dean, after seeing her in Jimmy Hunter's Brighton Follies, cast her in the film Penny Paradise (1938), filmed at ATP studios in Ealing. After a few months of variety and radio work, she returned to the studio to make her second film, Let's Be Famous. They had just completed the film when the Second World War was announced and the studios were closed. Nineteen at the time, Driver resumed touring the country in variety shows. It was at this time that her act and image altered. Against her mother's wishes, Driver and her sister modernised her performance and Driver became a ballad singer. Shortly after, during a six-month run in a revue called Twice in a Blue Moon, Driver and her sister parted company with their mother following a cardiac asthma attack which restricted her mobility.

Driver continued in variety, opening in the Coventry Hippodrome and sharing the bill with the Andrews family - father Ted, mother Barbara and Julie. She made regular trips to Bristol to sing on a radio show called Ack Ack Beer Beer and made her final film in 1941, Facing the Music.

In the 1940s, she became a singer with British dance bands. During the Second World War, Driver travelled with ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association), entertaining the troops. She also appeared for seven years on the radio show Henry Hall's Guest Night and on her own show, A Date with Betty, which was broadcast live from the People's Palace in London's East End on 14 July 1949. The show's format was based around Driver singing, doing sketches and introducing guests. All her words were scripted by Bob Monkhouse, then barely out of his teens. She recorded many popular tunes in the 1940s and became an established singer during this time. Aged 14, she made her first record "Jubilee Baby", had another major success with "The Sailor with the Navy Blue Eyes", and made several more hit records.

Driver travelled to Australia, where she performed her own show, and her career also took her to Cyprus, Malta and the Middle East. On her return to England she appeared in the Ealing Comedies, on stage in The Lovebirds, Pillar to Post and What A Racket, and on television with James Bolam in Love on the Dole.

In 1964, she auditioned for the role of Hilda Ogden in the television series Coronation Street (the role went instead to Jean Alexander, for the casting directors wanted an actress of slighter build). Driver was cast later, alongside Arthur Lowe, in the series Pardon the Expression, a spin-off of Coronation Street. She described Lowe as "such a difficult man to work with"; after a much-publicised injury (she damaged her back after the script called for her to throw Lowe), she retired and began running a pub, the Cock Hotel in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, with her sister Freda.

In 1969, she was persuaded to come out of retirement to play police officer's wife Betty Turpin in Coronation Street, a role she would play for over 40 years. She was the longest-serving barmaid in the history of the Rover's Return, and Betty's Hot Pot (served at lunchtime in the Rovers) is an iconic dish, which has also been offered as a ready meal in UK supermarkets.

She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1976, when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.

In 1994, she was the subject of BBC Radio 2's The Betty Driver Story. It was researched and scripted by Stephen Bourne who interviewed Betty and her sister Freda for the programme. Other interviewees included William Roache and Julie Goodyear. It was presented by Cilla Black.

Driver wrote a memoir on her years in radio and television, titled Betty, which was published in 2000. In an interview on the Parkinson show on 11 November 2006, Sir Ian McKellen revealed that Driver still drove herself into work at 7:30 each morning, despite her age. She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2000 New Year Honours.

In August 2008, it was announced that Driver was one of several Coronation Street stars who faced large salary cuts. She was reportedly admitted to hospital with a chest infection in April 2010. In May 2010, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Soap Awards. There were also rumours that she was to retire; however, these were confirmed as false. Driver vowed in September 2010 never to retire, stating that: "If I retire, I'll be dead in six months with boredom" and stated she still "loved" being part of Coronation Street.

On 23 January 2011, she was the castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

Personal life
Driver said she fell in love several times in her teenage years, but each relationship was ruined by her mother, who wanted to keep her daughter single so as not to lose her free "meal ticket". All the earnings Driver made before she turned 21 and was in charge of her own finances were squandered by her parents.

Driver stated that she was bitter about the path chosen for herself and her sister: "I never wanted to be in the theatre and we really resented missing out on our childhood. Birthdays and Christmases were ignored and we never saw a pay-cheque. My pushy mother stuck to us like a wart and we were rarely out of her sight." Her mother died of lung cancer in 1956 after a long illness.

In December 1952, at Burnt Oak Registry Office in London, she married South African singer Wally Petersen, something Driver claimed she did out of "defiance" of her domineering mother, who she has said "always felt Wally was only interested in my bank account". Petersen had appeared as part of a double-act on The Betty Driver Show in 1949, where they met and fell in love. Driver reluctantly agreed to marry him. She commented, "Before the wedding, he had started to change the way I looked and sang. Up to this point, I'd always worn glamorous gowns. Wally said that look was too dated. He wanted me in short knee-length wide skirts, which I loathed. I went along with it because I loved him. Wally said my act was corny and old-fashioned. I became very cowed and did as he said, as I had with Mother. We toured with this new look and singing style, but audiences were lukewarm".

Driver became pregnant with Petersen's child, but suffered a miscarriage. Doctors then discovered she had fibroids in her womb and insisted on a hysterectomy. The couple considered adoption, but were turned down. They lived in Finchley, Middlesex, where Vera Lynn was a neighbour and acquaintance of Driver's. The couple later moved to St Albans in Hertfordshire.

Lew Levisohn, the husband of Driver's good friend Winifred Atwell, once told Driver that he had punched Petersen after discovering an affair Petersen was having. Driver responded by saying "Good". Driver and her husband moved to South Africa, but she returned a few months later, penniless, ending the marriage after seven years because of her husband's various infidelities. She was in such a bad financial state that her sister had to send her money to allow her to return home to the United Kingdom.

Although the couple separated after six years, in October 1959, they were legally married until 1970. On 11 March 1970, Driver was awarded a decree nisi in an undefeated suit at Salford Divorce Court. She alleged desertion against her husband, and he was ordered by the judge to pay the costs of the suit.

Following the breakup of her marriage, Driver lived with and cared for her sister Freda until Freda's death in December 2008. The sisters lived in Mellor, Cheshire, before moving to Hale Barns in Greater Manchester. They latterly lived in nearby Bowdon.

Betty was godmother to James Roache, the youngest son of William Roache, who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street. Roache's son James had a role as Ken's long-lost grandson, James Cunningham.

Despite Driver's character being well known for her Lancashire hotpot, Driver was a vegetarian who seldom cooked, claiming she "couldn't cook a hotpot to save [her] life".

Death
Driver died on 15 October 2011, aged 91, after over a month in hospital.

Filmography

 * Boots! Boots! (1934)
 * Penny Paradise (1938)
 * Let's Be Famous (1939)
 * Facing the Music (1941)
 * Rooftop Rendezvous (1949–1950)
 * The Betty Driver Show (6 episodes, 1952)
 * Television Christmas Party (1952)
 * Pardon the Expression (31 episodes, 1965–66)
 * Love on the Dole (1967)
 * Coronation Street (1969–2011) – Betty Williams (2,732 episodes)

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Job Training Partnership Act of 1982

The Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 (JTPA,, , et seq.) was a United States federal law passed October 13, 1982, by Congress with regulations promulgated by the United States Department of Labor during the Ronald Reagan administration. The law was the successor to the previous federal job training legislation, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). It was repealed by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 during the administration of President Bill Clinton.

Purpose
The law was enacted to establish federal assistance programs to prepare youth and unskilled adults for entry into the labor force and to provide job training to economically disadvantaged and other individuals facing serious barriers to employment.

In order to carry out its purpose, the law authorized appropriations for fiscal year 1983 and for each succeeding fiscal year to carry out adult and youth programs, federally administered programs, summer youth employment and training programs, and employment and training assistance for dislocated workers.

Provisions
The purpose of this act is delineated into four main programs requiring federal funding.

Adult and youth programs

 * Provides for an education for employment program to maintain networks of learning centers offering individualized instruction in convenient locations and preparing students to meet State and local general education diploma and basic education competency requirements.
 * Provides for a pre-employment skills training program for youth aged 14 through 21, with priority given to those who do not meet established academic achievement levels and who plan to enter the full-time labor market upon leaving school.
 * Provides for an entry employment experience program for youth who meet certain requirements.
 * Provides for a school-to-work transition assistance program for high school seniors with an economic disadvantage and dropouts.

Federally administered programs
The law provides for seven types of federally administered programs.

Employment and training programs for Native Americans and migrant and seasonal farmworkers

 * Set forth provisions for Native American employment and training programs.
 * Directs the Secretary to take appropriate action to establish administrative procedures and machinery (including personnel having particular competence in this field) for the selection, administration, monitoring, and evaluation of Native American employment and training programs, and of migrant and seasonal employment and training programs, under this Act.
 * Set forth provisions for migrant and seasonal farmworker employment and training programs. Requires that the public agencies and private nonprofit organizations carrying out program services have a previously demonstrated capability to administer effectively a diversified employability development program for migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
 * Directs the Secretary to consult with appropriate State and local officials in administering national farmworker programs.

Job Corps

 * Maintains a Job Corps for economically disadvantaged youth to operate exclusively as a distinct national program.
 * Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to individuals and organizations for the cost of candidate recruitment, screening and selection.
 * Authorizes the Secretary to arrange for advanced career training programs for selected Corps members for a period of up to one additional year of Corps participation. Permits such programs to be provided by postsecondary institutions or by businesses and labor unions.
 * Authorizes the Secretary to provide Corps enrollees with allowances and support.
 * Directs the Secretary to disseminate information from Job Corps program experience which may help related programs.
 * Authorizes the Secretary to arrange with the Secretary of Defense for pilot projects at Job Corps centers to prepare youth to qualify for military service.
 * Authorizes the Secretary to undertake pilot projects using community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness for Job Corps center operation.
 * Authorizes the Secretary to accept charitable donations on behalf of the Job Corps.

Veterans' employment programs

 * Directs the Secretary to conduct programs to meet the employment and training needs of service-connected disabled veterans, Vietnam-era veterans, and veterans recently separated from military service.

National activities

 * Requires that specified funds be used to provide services authorized under all titles of this Act for employment and training programs that are most appropriately administered from the national level.
 * Directs the Secretary to establish a comprehensive program of employment and training research and a program of experimental, developmental, and demonstration projects.
 * Authorizes the Secretary to fund pilot projects to help eliminate artificial and other employment barriers faced by persons requiring special assistance.
 * Directs the Secretary, in consultation with appropriate officials, to provide personnel training and appropriate technical assistance (including technical assistance to training programs for housing for migrant and seasonal farmworkers) for programs under this Act.

Labor market information

 * Directs the Secretary to set aside, from sums available to the Department of Labor for any fiscal year (including sums available for this title), amounts necessary to maintain a comprehensive labor market information system on a national, regional, State, local or other appropriate basis. Requires such information to be made publicly available in a timely fashion.
 * Directs the Secretary to develop and maintain for the Nation, State, and local areas, current employment data by occupation and industry, based on the occupational employment statistics program, including selected sample surveys, and projections by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of employment and openings by occupation.
 * Directs the Secretary to maintain descriptions of job duties, training, and education requirements, working conditions, and characteristics of occupations.
 * Authorizes the Secretary to develop: (1) data for an annual statistical measure of labor market related economic hardship; and (2) household budget data. Directs the ::*Secretary to publish, at least annually, a report relating labor force status to earnings and income.
 * Directs the Secretary to develop and maintain: (1) statistical data relating to permanent lay-offs and plant closings; and (2) publish a report based on such data as soon as practicable after the end of each calendar year
 * Authorizes the Secretary to establish and carry out a nationwide computerized job bank and matching program, including the development of an occupational information file.

National Commission for Employment Policy

 * Directs the Secretary to reserve $2,000,000 of the appropriations for this title for each fiscal year to fund the National Commission for Employment Policy. Establishes the Commission and sets forth provisions for its membership, reducing the number of members to 15 and providing for their appointment by the President. Requires that: (1) one of the members be a representative of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education; and (2) the membership be generally representative of significant segments of the labor force, including women and minority groups. Raises to five the number of additional professional personnel that the Chairman of the Commission may appoint without regard to specified civil service provisions.

Training to fulfill affirmative action obligations

 * Permits contractors to establish or participate in training programs for eligible individuals which are designed to assist such contractors in meeting specified affirmative action obligations. Sets forth requirements for such training programs. Directs the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to promulgate regulations for affirmative action compliance review of such training programs. Permits such contractors to maintain an abbreviated written affirmative action program. Provides that successful performance or operation of such a training program shall create a presumption that a good faith effort to meet affirmative action obligations has been made.

Summer youth employment and training programs

 * Allocates appropriations to specified territories and to the states for summer youth programs.
 * Permits funds available under this title to be used for employment or job training activities designed for employment or employment preparation and placement and supportive services for program participation and employment retention.
 * Requires that programs under this title be conducted during the summer months. we
 * Makes economically disadvantaged persons under the age of 22 eligible for such programs, but permits economically disadvantaged individuals aged 14 or 15 to be eligible, if appropriate and set forth in the job training plan.

Employment and training assistance for dislocated workers

 * Authorizes the Secretary to reserve up to 25 percent of the appropriations for this title for use by states which apply for assistance to provide training, retraining, job search assistance, placement, relocation assistance, and other aid (including specified authorized activities) to individuals who are affected by mass layoffs, natural disasters, federal government actions (such as relocation of Federal facilities or reside in areas of high unemployment or designated enterprise zones).
 * Authorizes States to establish procedures to identify substantial groups of eligible individuals who: (1) have been terminated or laid-off or have received notice of termination or layoff, are eligible for or have exhausted entitlement to unemployment compensation, and are unlikely to return to their previous industry or occupation; (2) have been terminated, or have received termination notice, due to permanent closure of a plant or facility; or (3) are long-term unemployed and have limited opportunities for employment or reemployment in the same or similar occupation in their area of residence (including older individuals with substantial barriers to employment by reason of age).
 * Requires full consultation with a labor organization before the establishment any assistance program funded under this title which will provide services to a substantial number of members of such labor organization.
 * Requires States to submit to the Secretary a plan for use of assistance under this title, including provisions for coordination of programs, low-income weatherization and other energy conservation programs, and social services.

Analysis and criticisms of JTPA
The stated goal of the JTPA is to target an economically disadvantaged population for job training assistance. The funding allocation for the JTPA is determined using a formula that is outlined in Title II. One-third of the funding is allotted based on the relative number of unemployed individuals living in areas of substantial unemployment, one-third is based on the relative excess number of the unemployed, and one-third is based on the relative number of economically disadvantaged individuals. A final stipulation of JTPA is that no state is allowed to receive below a minimum of one quarter of one percent of the total allotment. The money is further divided within the state based on the same criteria. (8) Inconsistencies are likely due to political variables that influenced the formula at the time these policies were developed. These variables include the legislative power of a state's own representatives, a state's ability to influence voters of legislators in other states and executive branch interests. The results of the study conducted by Svorny clearly demonstrate the importance of a state's political power in influencing the votes of representatives (8).

Research has shown that there is an inconsistency between the number of economically disadvantaged in the United States and the number of individuals who actually receive resources and that the number varies across the United States. Concerns were initially raised in 1985, which caused the United States Department of Labor to commission a research study in July 1985 to explore the problems with the current formula. The study further showed that the main issues existed with regards to distributional equity, funding stability, data quality and formula simplicity. When investigating the distribution of funding, researchers found that certain regions, such as the upper Midwest, were over funded while other regions, such as the South, were underfunded (7).

Studies have tried to estimate the impact of the JTPA over the years. The National JPTA study was designed to measure the impact of incremental services provided by the JTPA over time. The study commissioned by the National Department of Labor investigated 21,000 people within 16 centers around the country in 1986. This research found modest positive impacts on adult men as well as adult women, but did cite inconsistencies with regards to out-of-school youths. Welfare mothers appeared to receive the largest impact as a result of the program. In addition, JTPA increased the proportion of dropouts who eventually received a high school credential but only a fraction of the target group members were high school dropouts (1). The National JTPA Study has been criticized for its research design and techniques, however. The biggest issue is that the process through which the sites were selected was not a random one. The sites do resemble the national system in some ways, such as labor market conditions and JTPA project performance. In addition, the samples of individuals in the study were similar regarding age, work experience and ethnicity to those served nationally by the JTPA. The main flaw in the research is that there is no large, central city and that sites serving small numbers of people were not included; the sites which were included did not provide as much on-the-job training than most of the national sites (4).

One criticism of the JTPA is summarized in a 1991 meeting of the Employment and Housing Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations focused on race and sex discrimination. Congressman Lantos cited evidence of differential patterns of service and job placement by race. The 1988 Chicago Urban League report stated that African Americans were shown to consistently receive lower job placements and wages. In addition, as stated in the 1991 Employment and Housing Subcommittee meeting, a 1988 Women's Action Alliance report states that the JTPA is ineffective with regards to moving women out of poverty and that occupational segregation is prevalent as evidenced by the fact that the majority of women received jobs in clerical and sales and service rather than other areas (6).

Further criticisms of the JTPA stem from the argument that individuals can take advantage of the system due to the way that it is set up. Cragg claims that measures in the Job Training Partnership Act lead to problems of "moral hazard" which stem from the use of performance incentives in government programs. The Job Training Partnership Act offers a "pay-for-performance system" that focuses on a participant's earnings and a reduction on welfare dependency. Cragg claims that participants may enroll who are capable of high post-training earnings without any actual training. Therefore, some participants are reaping the benefits of the incentives program without an actual need for the government resources (3).

In 1993, the Labor Department released a study that showed that in a study of low-income male out-of-school youth, males in the JTPA program actually had 10 percent lower earnings than males from a similar demographic who never participated in the program. Prior to the study's release, the Labor Department's inspector general stated that young trainees were twice as likely to rely on food stamps after JTPA involvement due to the fact that the training showed the individuals how to apply for food stamps (2).

Repeal
This act was repealed by title I, Sec. 199(b)(2) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. Some of the provisions were adjusted for the new act and some were dropped.

See a list of United States federal legislation, 1901-2001, for a chronological list of passed legislation from 1901-2001.

title: Job Training Partnership Act of 1982


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Yamanobe, Yamagata

Yamanobe (山辺町) is a town located in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 14,174 in 4839 households, and a population density of 230 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 61.36 km2.

Geography
Yamanobe is located in the southeast end of the Yamagata Basin in central Yamagata Prefecture, surrounded by mountains. Mount Shirataka is partially within the borders of the town.

Neighboring municipalities

 * Yamagata Prefecture
 * Yamagata
 * Ōe
 * Asahi
 * Nakayama
 * Shirataka
 * Nan'yō

Climate
Yamanobe has a Humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. Precipitation is significant throughout the year, but is heaviest from August to October. The average annual temperature in Yamanobe is 10.1 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1546 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 23.9 °C, and lowest in January, at around -2.6 °C.

Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Yamanobe peaked around the year 2000 and has declined since.

History
The area of present-day Yamanobe was part of ancient Dewa Province. After the start of the Meiji period, the area became part of Higashimurayama District, Yamagata Prefecture. The village of Yamanobe was established on April 1, 1889 with the creation of the modern municipalities system. It was elevated to town status in 1896.

Economy
The economy of Yamanobe is based on agriculture.

Education
Yamanobe has three public elementary schools and two public middle schools operated by the town government, and one public high school operated by the Yamagata Prefectural Board of Education.

Railway
East Japan Railway Company - Aterazawa Line
 * Uzen-Yamabe

Highway

 * [[Image:JP Expressway E13.svg|24px|link=|alt=E13]] Tōhoku Chūō Expressway: Yamagata Chūō interchange

Local attractions

 * Site of Yamanobe Castle

Noted People from Yamanobe

 * Mineichirō Adachi, diplomat, legal scholar

title: Yamanobe, Yamagata


text:
Japan Highway Public Corporation

Japan Highway Public Corporation (日本道路公団), or JH, was a public company established after World War II to construct and manage highway networks in Japan, founded in 1956.

On October 1, 2005, JH was divided into three private enterprises, East Nippon Expressway Company Limited (NEXCO East), Central Nippon Expressway Company Limited (NEXCO Central), and West Nippon Expressway Company Limited (NEXCO West).

title: Japan Highway Public Corporation


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Nakayama, Yamagata

Nakayama (中山町) is a town located in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 11,153 in 3701 households, and a population density of 360 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 31.23 km².

Geography
Nakayama is located in the western end of the Yamagata Basin in central Yamagata Prefecture, surrounded by mountains. The Mogami River flows through the town.

Neighboring municipalities

 * Yamagata Prefecture
 * Yamagata
 * Tendō
 * Ōe
 * Yamanobe
 * Sagae

Climate
Nakayama has a Humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. Precipitation is significant throughout the year, but is heaviest from August to October. The average annual temperature in Nakayama is 11.7 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1398 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.6 °C, and lowest in January, at around -1.1 °C.

Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Nakayama has remained relatively steady over the past 50 years.

History
The area of present-day Nakayama was part of ancient Dewa Province. After the start of the Meiji period, the area became part of Higashimurayama District, Yamagata Prefecture. The town of Nakayama was established on October 1, 1954, by the merger of the town of Nagasaki with the village of Mogami.

Economy
The economy of Nakayama is based on agriculture.

Education
Nakayama has two public elementary schools and one public middle school operated by the town government. The town does not have a high school.

Railway
East Japan Railway Company - Aterazawa Line
 * Uzen-Kanezawa - Uzen-Nagasaki

Highway

 * [[Image:JP Expressway E48.svg|24px|link=|alt=E48]] Yamagata Expressway

title: Nakayama, Yamagata


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Wendy Beckett

Wendy Mary Beckett (25 February 1930 – 26 December 2018), better known as Sister Wendy, was a British religious sister and art historian who became known internationally during the 1990s when she presented a series of BBC television documentaries on the history of art. Her programmes, such as Sister Wendy's Odyssey and Sister Wendy's Grand Tour, often drew a 25 percent share of the British viewing audience. In 1997 she made her debut on US public television, with The New York Times describing her as "a sometime hermit who is fast on her way to becoming the most unlikely and famous art critic in the history of television."

Early life
Beckett was born in Johannesburg in the Union of South Africa, but was later raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, where her father was studying medicine. In 1946, she entered the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, a Roman Catholic congregation of religious sisters dedicated to education. She was sent to England where she completed her novitiate and then studied at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she was awarded a congratulatory first class honours degree in English Literature. J. R. R. Tolkien was president of her final examinations board and asked her to stay on at the university, an invitation which she declined. From childhood Beckett suffered from a weak heart and later had to give up teaching, after having epileptic seizures brought on by stress.

Outside her academic work, she lived in a convent which maintained the strict code of silence typical in convents prior to the changes following the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). After attending the Notre Dame College of Education in Liverpool and earning a teaching diploma in 1954, she returned to South Africa to teach at Notre Dame Convent, a school for girls in Constantia, Cape Town, where she taught English and Latin. Later she moved to Johannesburg where she was appointed the superior of the local convent, while she also lectured at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Return to England
In 1970, health problems forced Beckett to abandon teaching and to return to England. She obtained papal permission to leave her congregation and to become a consecrated virgin and hermit. She began living in a caravan on the grounds of a Carmelite monastery at Quidenham, Norfolk, and her caravan was later replaced by a mobile home. Besides having received the Carmelite prioress and a nun who brought her provisions, she dedicated her life to solitude and prayer, but allotted two hours of work per day to earn her living.

Interest in art
Beckett spent many years translating Medieval Latin scripts before deciding, in 1980, to pursue art. Her first book, Contemporary Women Artists, was published in 1988.  Sister Wendy Contemplates Saint Paul in Art was published in 2008 to celebrate the Year of Saint Paul. In May 2009, Encounters with God: In Quest of the Ancient Icons of Mary was published, which follows Beckett's pilgrimage to see the earliest icons of Mary which had survived the Byzantine Iconoclasm. Beckett continued writing about her interest in icons in the second volume of her Sister Wendy Contemplates series, published in July 2011. This book, entitled The Iconic Jesus, takes the reader through scenes from the New Testament, accompanied by Beckett's reflections. Her next book, published in 2011, The Christ Journey, consists of her commentaries on the artwork of Greg Tricker.

Beckett required medical treatment as an outpatient at a local hospital. The television chef Delia Smith, a Roman Catholic convert, volunteered to drive her there each week. Smith also drove her around the country to meet the artists when Beckett was writing her book about contemporary women artists. Through this the two became good friends.

Having overheard her commentary while attending an art exhibit, a film crew asked to videotape her. This brought her to the attention of a BBC producer and led, in 1992, to the debut Sister Wendy's Odyssey.

Beckett was often effusively verbal in her descriptions of the human body in paintings, both male and female. In view of her religious state, this came as a surprise to some viewers. She insisted, however, on describing the depiction of the human anatomy in art when it was called for, stating that "God did not make a mistake when He created the human body, so I am not making a mistake by describing it." "None of the Sisters has ever raised an eyebrow at anything I've said or written because they're not cramped by this false idea that sexuality is something wrong ... God looked at His creation and thought it was good, thought it was beautiful, we're made in the image of God, and there's nothing amiss in any part of the human body."

Television and media work
Beckett narrated the following documentaries: In 2006 she narrated an audio commentary for tourists to the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican:
 * Sister Wendy's Odyssey (1992)
 * Sister Wendy's Grand Tour (1994)
 * Sister Wendy's Pains of Glass (1995)
 * Sister Wendy's Story of Painting (1996)
 * Saints with Sister Wendy (1997)
 * Sister Wendy's American Collection (2001)
 * Sister Wendy at the Norton Simon Museum (2002)
 * Sister Wendy's Sistine Chapel Artineraries Tour (2006)

Additionally, she features in the following:
 * Sister Wendy in Conversation with Bill Moyers (1997)
 * Three appearances on Charlie Rose (3 October 1997; 18 November 1997; 19 September 2000) are available on DVD.
 * The Art of Dying (2009) (Dan Cruickshank interviews Sister Wendy on the helpfulness of art in the face of death)
 * Churches: How to Read Them (2010) (Richard Taylor and Sister Wendy discuss the intense medieval devotion to the Virgin Mary and its effect on Reformation)
 * Treasures of Heaven (2011) (Andrew Graham-Dixon talks to Sister Wendy about relics and reliquaries)
 * Sister Wendy and the Art of the Gospel (25 December 2012)

As a television presenter, she is known for having had a rhotacism, a speech impediment which affected her pronunciation of Rs.

Other media
A musical, Postcards from God: The Sister Wendy Musical, written by Marcus Reeves and Beccy Smith was performed at the Jermyn Street Theatre in the West End in 2007 and Hackney Empire Studio Theatre in 2008.

In December 2012 Sister Wendy was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Her favourite choice was "Serenade" (D 957 No. 4) by Franz Schubert, her chosen book was "an enormous book of logical puzzles", and her luxury item was a "refrigerated tabernacle".

In 1993, Sister Wendy recorded an abridged audio version of Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. This recording, from the translation by M. L. Del Mastro and adapted for Sister Wendy by Donna K. Triggs, was finally released as a CD in 2021, entitled Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich read by Sister Wendy Beckett.

Death
Beckett died on 26 December 2018 at the Carmelite Monastery in Quidenham, Norfolk. She was 88.

Publications

 * Dearest Sister Wendy ... A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship (2022)
 * The Christ Journey – the art of Greg Tricker (2011)
 * Sister Wendy Contemplates the Iconic Jesus (2011)
 * Encounters With God: In Quest of Ancient Icons of Mary (2009)
 * Sister Wendy Contemplates Saint Paul in Art (2008)
 * Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermons for Advent And the Christmas Season, with John Leinenweber (Editor), Irene Edmonds (Translator), Wendy Mary Beckett (Translator), Conrad Greenia (Translator) (2008)
 * Sister Wendy on Prayer (2007)
 * Sister Wendy's Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Faith (2007)
 * Speaking to the Heart: 100 Favourite Poems (2006)
 * Sky-blue Is the Sapphire' Crimson the Rose: Stillpoint of Desire in John of Forde by John, abbot of Forde, translated by Wendy Beckett (2006)
 * Joy Lasts: On the Spiritual in Art (2006)
 * Sister Wendy's Impressionist Masterpieces (2001)
 * Sister Wendy's American Masterpieces (2001)
 * Sister Wendy's American Collection (2000)
 * In the Midst of Chaos, Peace (with Mary J. Dorcy and Dan Paulos) (2000)
 * Sister Wendy's Book of Muses (with Justin Pumfrey) (2000)
 * Sister Wendy's 1,000 Masterpieces (with Patricia Wright) (1999)
 * My Favourite Things: 75 Works of Art from Around the World (1999)
 * Sister Wendy's Nativity (1998)
 * Inner Life: A Fellow Traveler's Guide to Prayer (by David Torkington; foreword by Sister Wendy) (1998)
 * Sister Wendy's Odyssey: A Journey of Artistic Discovery (1998)
 * Sister Wendy's Book of Meditations (1998)
 * Sister Wendy's Book of Saints (1998)
 * The Mystery of Love: Saints in Art Through the Ages (1998)
 * Sister Wendy's Story of Christmas: Adventures in Art (1997)
 * Sister Wendy in Conversation with Bill Moyers: The Complete Conversation (edited by Karen Johnson) (1997)
 * The Wisdom of the Apostles (compiled by Philip Law; introduction by Sister Wendy) (1997)
 * The Duke and the Peasant: Life in the Middle Ages (with Jean De Berry) (1997)
 * Max Beckmann and the Self (1997)
 * Sister Wendy's Grand Tour: Discovering Europe's Great Art (1996)
 * Pains of Glass: The Story of the Passion from King's College Chapel, Cambridge (with George Pattison) (1996)
 * Sister Wendy's Meditations: Meditations on Joy (1995)
 * Sister Wendy's Meditations: Meditations on Love (1995)
 * Sister Wendy's Meditations: Meditations on Peace (1995)
 * Sister Wendy's Meditations: Meditations on Silence (1995)
 * A Child's Book of Prayer in Art (1995)
 * The Story of Painting (1994)
 * The Gaze of Love: Meditations on Art and Spiritual Transformation (1994)
 * The Mystical Now: Art and the Sacred (1993)
 * Contemporary Women Artists (1988)

title: Wendy Beckett