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St Malachy's College

St Malachy's College, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is the oldest Catholic diocesan college in Ulster. The college's alumni and students are known as Malachians.

History
The college, founded by Bishop William Crolly, opened on the feast of Saint Malachy, 3 November 1833 four years after a Roman Catholic Relief Act ("Catholic Emancipation") removed the last of Penal Laws that had, until 1782, outlawed Catholic education.

The college, opened under the superintendence of Cornelius Denvir, has been on the same site since 1833 when Bishop Crolly took the lease on an eleven-acre site on the northern fringes of the then small Georgian town – Vicinage House – which today is recalled on the street next to the college, Vicinage Park. Vicinage Farm was owned by Thomas McCabe, a watchmaker by trade, an advocate of Catholic Emancipation and parliamentary reform, and a founder member in 1791 of the Society of United Irishmen.

One of the glories of the college is the chapel, built in the 1882 (at the same time as the distinctive College tower) which was significantly enhanced for the college centenary in 1933 when 32 stained glasses windows from the Harry Clarke studio were commissioned. Installation took place between 1935 and 1937 and today this is one of the finest collections of stained glass in Northern Ireland.

Location and campus
St Malachy's College is located in the Oldpark electoral area of north Belfast, between two main roads (the A6 Antrim Road and the A52 Crumlin Road), close to where they meet at Carlisle Circus.

The grounds of the college are accessed primarily from a tree-lined avenue on the Antrim Road, which leads to the front quadrangle, known as "the quad". The foremost building, which comprises 3 sides of the quadrangle and faces westward, is the oldest part of the college and dates to its earliest days in the 1860s. 'A' and 'B' blocks, housing the History, Classics and Drama departments, as well as administrative offices, the library, and the chapel, take up much of these three sides; the remaining rooms consist of priests' apartments, former dormitories and the Upper Study Hall.

The more modern seminary building (see below) completes the fourth side of the quadrangle. The college canteen and Music block are also accessed through the front quadrangle.

The concreted back quadrangle, bounded by the College Hall (westward), the gymnasium (northward) and the old building (southward and eastward), has in recent years been enhanced by several flower beds. The Mater Infirmorum hospital, and a small shrine to the Virgin Mary, both overlook the back quadrangle. The College Hall is the focal point of dramatic productions within the college, as well as assemblies and examinations. In recent years, the college's music department has eschewed the College Hall for its annual concerts, in favour of the more acoustically advantaged Ulster Hall in Bedford Street.

Behind the College Hall is 'D' block, completed in the 1960s, and the adjoining 'E' block, completed in the 1970s. Both consist largely of standard classrooms, with the exception of Physics laboratories on the top floor of 'D' block and Biology laboratories on the top floor of 'E' block. Since the 1980s, the second floor of 'E' block has also become home to the Computing department. The school's Lecture Theatre is on the ground floor of 'E' block. 'C' block, located to the north of 'E' block, was opened in the 1990s and replaced a row of temporary classrooms from the 1950s. It now houses the Chemistry, Art and Technology departments.

At the rear of the college grounds is the Sports Hall, the centrepiece of which is a basketball court, renovated in recent years with a multi-purpose hardwood floor. A synthetic pitch, laid in 2006, is adjacent to the Sports Hall. For security reasons, the pitch is surrounded by high walls on three sides, separating the college grounds from the former Crumlin Road prison (now a tourist site) and the residential area on the site of the former Girdwood British Army barracks on Cliftonpark Avenue.

The college celebrated its 175th anniversary in April 2008 with a concert at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. It also gathered the students and staff together in the college "Quad" area for a special photo which has not been taken in over 50 years for the college.

St. Joseph's Seminary, the seminary for the Diocese of Down and Connor, was situated on the same campus for over a century. This was officially known as the Diocesan Seminary at St Malachy's, and colloquially as "the wing" due to it being a wing of the college building. The Diocesan Seminary moved to Cliftonville Road during the Christmas holidays of 2012, and took the name St. Malachy's Diocesan Seminary, in recognition of the long-standing connection to the college, until its closure in 2018.

Academic Record
The college has impressive records in both GCSE and A-level examinations, In 2018 it was ranked joint seventh in Northern Ireland for its GCSE performance with 99.4% of its entrants receiving five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C, including the core subjects English and Maths. 82.4% of its students who sat the A-level exams in 2017/18 were awarded three A*-C grades.

The college is also noted for having a strong music department and was designated as one of the first specialist music colleges in Northern Ireland and has built on this designation, developing a strong reputation for the arts and music and, more recently still, film/video production. The college is strong in mathematics and the primary sciences, with numerous alumni working in senior positions in prestigious national and international engineering and technology companies and research institutes.

The college has had many recent sporting successes, especially in athletics and basketball.

Personnel
The current chairman of the board of governors for the college is Sir Gerry Loughran.

 * Principal: Paul McBride, succeeded David Lambon (2011–2014) to become the third principal and non-clerical head of St Malachy's College, all previous heads of the school having held the title president and been ordained Catholic priests.
 * Rector: Fr Michael Spence
 * Rector: Fr Michael Spence

College presidents
Until the formal expansion of the mid-1860s, the superintending priest was known as 'The Dean', and it was only in 1866 that the title of president was formally adopted.

 * 1866-1876: Richard Marner - former parish priest; uncle of Daniel Mageean, Bishop of Down and Connor 1929 – 1962
 * 1876-1895: Henry Henry
 * 1895-1898: Henry Boyle - later PP Bangor and, as Canon Boyle, PP Downpatrick (1916–1933)
 * 1898-1905: Henry Laverty - Louvain-educated classicist
 * 1905-1907: Patrick Boyle - later a canon, PP St. Teresa's Belfast, died 1955 aged 92
 * 1907-1919: PJ O'Neill - died as PP Holy Rosary Ormeau Road 1921, brother of Canon Charles O'Neill who penned the lyrics to the Foggy Dew (Irish ballad).
 * 1919-1924: Canon James Clenaghan
 * 1924-1931: John McCaughan
 * 1931-1939: James Hendley - president during centenary celebrations in 1933 (later vicar general, domestic prelate, dean of the chapter, PP St Pauls)
 * 1940-1950: John McMullan.
 * 1950-1960: Patrick Kerr - previously French and Latin master
 * 1960-1970: Walter Larkin - previously dean of the seminary and mathematics master
 * 1970-1983: Patrick Walsh - previously chaplain to Queen's University, Belfast
 * 1983-1995: Noel Conway - previously head of physics
 * 1995-2001: Donal McKeown - previously dean of the seminary and German teacher

Notable alumni
• Arts and media

• Michael McLaverty (1904–1992), novelist.

• Brian Moore (1921–1999), novelist.

• Proinsias Mac Cana (1928–2004), noted Celtic scholar and President of the Royal Irish Academy.

• Bernard MacLaverty (1942–), writer.

• Kevin Mallon, violinist and conductor.

• Denis Murray (1951–), journalist.

• Ciarán Hinds (1953–), film and stage actor.

• Sean Crummey (1957–2011), playwright, actor, comedian

• Eamonn Holmes (1959–), television presenter/personality

• Bill Neely (1959–), journalist.

• Brendan Foley (1964–), writer film, TV, books, former journalist.

• Tim McGarry (1964–), comedian and member of the Hole in the Wall Gang.

• Henry McDonald (1965–2023), journalist.

• Robert McLiam Wilson (1966–), novelist.

• Law

• The Baron Russell of Killowen (1832–1900), 19th century Lord Chief Justice of England.

• Pat Finucane (1949–1989), solicitor.

• Barra McGrory (1959–), former Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland.

• Ronan Deazley, professor of law, Queen's University Belfast.

• Politics

• Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (1816–1903), Irish nationalist and Australian colonial politician, 8th Premier of Victoria.

• Eoin MacNeill (1867–1945), Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann and Irish Government Minister.

• John MacBride (1868–1916), Easter Rising participant.

• Joseph Connolly (1885–1961), Fianna Fáil senator and minister for Posts & Telegraphs, Lands & Fisheries.

• Seán MacEntee (1889–1984), Fianna Fáil TD and Tánaiste and minister for Finance, Health.

• Sir Oliver Napier (1935–2011), former Alliance Party of Northern Ireland leader.

• Seán Neeson (1946–), former leader of Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.

• Seamus Close (1947–2019), former Alliance politician.

• Alban Maginness (1950–), an SDLP politician, the first nationalist Lord Mayor of Belfast.

• Alex Maskey (1952–), first Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Belfast, Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

• Pat Sheehan (1958–), participant in the 1981 Irish hunger strike.

• Alex Attwood (1959–), Social Democratic and Labour Party politician.

• Mal O'Hara (1979–), leader of Green Party Northern Ireland

• John Finucane (1980–), Lord Mayor of Belfast (2019-20), Sinn Féin politician.

• Religious

• Thomas Grimley (1821–1871), Bishop of Cape Town.

• Patrick MacAlister (1826–1895)

• Henry Henry (1846–1908)

• John Tohill (1855–1914)

• Vincent McNabb (1868–1943), London-based Irish scholar and priest, active in evangelisation and apologetics.

• Daniel Mageean (1882–1962)

• Cahal Cardinal Daly (1917–2009), Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh

• Anthony Farquhar (1940–2023), Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Down and Connor.

• Science, medicine and engineering

• Sir Michael McBride, Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland since September 2006.

• Michael McElroy (scientist) (1939–), director, Harvard University Center for the Environment Harvard University.

• Stephen Myers (1946–), director of accelerators and technology at CERN, then head of CERN Medical Applications.

• Sports

• Mike Bull (1946–), pole vault champion.

• Martin O'Neill (1952–), former Nottingham Forest footballer and Leicester City, Celtic and Aston Villa manager.

• Stephen Morrow (1970–), former Arsenal footballer.

• Michael Ingham (1980–), footballer.

• Kevin Seaward (1983–), Olympian marathon runner as part of the Ireland team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

• Michael McKillop (1990–), Irish middle distance runner and Paralympic gold medallist.

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Radar beacon

Radar beacon (short: racon) is – according to article 1.103 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) – defined as "A transmitter-receiver associated with a fixed navigational mark which, when triggered by a radar, automatically returns a distinctive signal which can appear on the display of the triggering radar, providing range, bearing and identification information." Each station (transmitter-receiver, transceiver or transponder) shall be classified by the service in which it operates permanently or temporarily.

Principle of operation
When a racon receives a radar pulse, it responds with a signal on the same frequency which puts an image on the radar display. This takes the form of a short line of dots and dashes forming a Morse character radiating away from the location of the beacon on the normal plan position indicator radar display. The length of the line usually corresponds to the equivalent of a few nautical miles on the display.

Within the United States, the United States Coast Guard operates about 80 racons, and other organisations also operate them, for example the owners of oil platforms. Their use for purposes other than aids to navigation is prohibited, and they are used to mark:

 * lighthouses and navigation buoys
 * by far the majority are on buoys rather than lighthouses. For example, at Boston Harbor, only the Boston Lighted Whistle Buoy B and the North Channel Entrance Lighted Whistle Buoy NC have racons (showing "B" and "N", respectively)
 * navigable spans under bridges such as
 * Arthur Ravenel Bridge
 * Golden Gate Bridge
 * San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (three racons)
 * to identify centre lines and turning points
 * offshore oil platforms and other structures
 * including approximately 35 in the Gulf of Mexico

In other parts of the world they are also used to indicate:

 * temporary, new and uncharted hazards (with a Morse character "D")
 * as leading line racons

Their characteristics are defined in the ITU-R Recommendation M.824, Technical Parameters of Radar Beacons (RACONS). Racons usually operate on the 9320 MHz to 9500 MHz marine radar band (X-band), and most also operate on the 2920 MHz to 3100 MHz marine radar band (S-band). Modern racons are frequency-agile; they have a wide-band receiver that detects the incoming radar pulse, tunes the transmitter and responds with a 25 microsecond long signal within 700 nanoseconds.

Older racons operate in a slow sweep mode, in which the transponder sweeps across the X-band over 1 or 2 minutes. It only responds if it happens to be tuned to the frequency of an incoming radar signal at the moment it arrives, which in practice means it responds only around 5% of the time.

To avoid the response masking important radar targets behind the beacon, racons only operate for part of the time. In the United Kingdom, a duty cycle of about 30% is used — usually 20 seconds in which the racon will respond to radar signals is followed by 40 seconds when it will not, or sometimes 9 seconds on and 21 seconds off (as in the case of the Sevenstones Lightship). In the United States a longer duty cycle is used, 50% for battery-powered buoys (20 seconds on, 20 seconds off) and 75% for on-shore beacons.

Ramarks are wide-band beacons which transmit continuously on the radar bands without having to be triggered by an incoming radar signal. The transmission forms a line of Morse characters on the display radiating from the centre of the display to its edge. They are not used in the United States.

Enhanced RACON
Enhanced RACON (or e-RACON) is a proposal for introducing unique identification to the radar response of a RACON, enabling enhanced RADAR positioning.

This proposal is currently being brought forward to the maritime industry by the Danish Maritime Safety Administration through IALA. The recommendations and performance requirements for RACON are under consideration for revision, due to issues of limited ability to trigger RACON responses introduced by New Technology (NT) Radar.

An opportunity for practical testing of the concept in 2011 is being considered in the EfficienSea project, partly financed by the Baltic Sea Region Programme and coordinated by the Danish Maritime Safety Administration.

Principle
When a traditional RACON receives a radar pulse, it responds with a signal which on a radar screen takes the form of a short line of dashes and dots forming a Morse character radiating away from the location of the beacon. Typically, the Morse character starts with a dash – a long, continuous signal.

The proposal for Enhanced RACON is to further modulate this first dash, with a small amount of digital information to enable either the unique identification of this particular RACON (for instance 30 bits of data identifying the RACON by a MMSI) or alternatively to identify the position of the RACON.

Introducing a unique identification would enable enhanced RADAR positioning through the ability to correlate the radar response of a RACON with the known position of that RACON. This could either be derived from an associated AIS signal representing the same object with the same identifier, or potentially in the future from information contained in a nautical publication, such as an electronic navigational chart in the emerging S-100 format.

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Dinny McGinley

Denis McGinley (born 27 April 1945) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Minister of State from 2011 to 2014. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal South-West constituency from 1982 to 2016.

Background
McGinley was born and brought up in Gweedore, County Donegal, a Gaeltacht area where he still resides. He was educated at Coláiste Íosagáin, Ballyvourney, County Cork; St Patrick's College, Dublin; and University College Dublin where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. He worked as a teacher and principal at Scoil Chonaill at Bunbeg, Gweedore, before entering into politics.

Political life
McGinley was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the February 1982 general election. During this time he has held a number of Front Bench positions within the party, including Spokesman on Youth Affairs (1987–88), the Gaeltacht (1988–91), the Gaeltacht and Emigrant Welfare (1991–94), Youth Affairs (1994), Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands (2001–02), Defence (2002–04) and Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (2004–07).

McGinley was Chairman of An Comhchoiste don Ghaeilge (Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language) from 1995 to 1997. He is a former member of the Joint Oireachtas Committees on Social Affairs and on Small Business and is a member of the British Irish Parliamentary Body since 1993.

In June 2006, he announced his intention to retire at the 2007 general election; however, he announced in February 2007, that he had changed his mind, and would stand as he stood a better chance of being elected than the selected candidate. He was re-elected at the 2007 general election, and again at the 2011 general election.

On 10 March 2011, he was appointed by the Fine Gael–Labour government as Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht with special responsibility for Gaeltacht Affairs on the nomination of Taoiseach Enda Kenny. He was dropped as a Minister of State in a reshuffle in July 2014. Shortly afterwards, he announced that he would not contest the 2016 general election.

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Lludd Llaw Eraint

Lludd Llaw Ereint, "Lludd of the Silver Hand", son of Beli Mawr, is a legendary hero from Welsh mythology. As Nudd Llaw Ereint (the earlier form of his name, cognate of the Irish Nuada Airgetlám, derived from the pre-Roman Celtic god Nodens) he is the father of Gwyn ap Nudd. He is probably the source of king Lud from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain.

In the Mabinogion tale of Lludd and Llefelys, which influenced Geoffrey of Monmouth's work, he is the ruler of Britain while his brother Llefelys ruled Gaul. Lludd calls on Llefelys to rid Britain of three plagues then afflicting the kingdom. Philological connection suggests that there was once a memorial to Lludd at the site of St Paul's Cathedral, London, near Ludgate, which is named after him.

The plagues of Lludd’s reign

 * The first plague was that of the Coranians a race of dwarfs 'from Asia' who may represent the Romans.
 * The second was that of the white and red dragons. One of the dragons represented the Brythons, while the other represented the Anglo-Saxon invaders of Britain. On the eve of May Day, the two dragons would begin to fight. The White Dragon would strive to overcome the Red Dragon, making the Red cry out a fearful shriek which was heard over every Brythonic hearth. This shriek went through people's hearts, scaring them so much that the men lost their hue and their strength, women lost their children, young men and the maidens lost their senses, and all the animals and trees and the earth and the waters, were left barren. The plague was finally eradicated by catching the dragons and burying both of them in a rock pit at Dinas Emrys in Snowdonia, north Wales, the securest place in Britain at that time. The dragons were caught by digging out a pit under the exact point where the dragons would fall down exhausted after fighting. This place was at Oxford, which Lludd found to be the exact centre of the island when he measured the island of Britain. The pit had a satin covering over it and a cauldron of mead in it at the bottom. First, the dragons fought by the pit in the form of terrific animals. Then they began to fight in the air over the pit in the form of dragons. Then exhausted with the fighting, they fell down on the pit in the form of pigs and sank into the pit drawing the satin covering under them into the cauldron at the bottom of the pit whereupon they drank the mead and fell asleep. The dragons were then wrapped up in the satin covering and placed in the pit to be buried at Dinas Emrys.
 * The third plague was the plunder committed by a giant who wore strong, heavy armour and carried a hamper. His nocturnal entrance was heralded by soporific illusions and musical sounds which lulled the members of Lludd's Court to sleep. Once the court was asleep, he would put all the food and provisions of meat and drink of Lludd's Court into his commodious hamper and take it away with him. This recurring theft constituted the third plague of Lludd's reign. Lludd was only able to stop the recurring theft by confronting the intruder. He was able to avoid falling asleep to the soporific illusions and musical sounds by frequently dipping his head in a vessel of cold water by his side. Upon confronting the magician, a fierce encounter ensued in which glittering fire flew out from their arms until Lludd overcame the magician. Thereupon, Lludd granted him mercy and made him his loyal vassal.

Etymology
The name Nudd, cognate with the Irish Nuada and related to the Romano-British Nodens or Nodons worshiped at Lydney Park in Gloucestershire, probably derives from a Celtic stem *noudont- or *noudent-, which J. R. R. Tolkien suggested was related to a Germanic root meaning "acquire, have the use of", earlier "to catch, entrap (as a hunter)", and together with the "silver hand" epithet detects "an echo of the ancient fame of the magic hand of Nodens the Catcher". Similarly, Julius Pokorny derives the name from a Proto-Indo-European root *neu-d- meaning "acquire, utilise, go fishing".

The name Nudd Llaw Ereint probably assimilated and shifted to Llud Llaw Ereint through alliteration, as suggested by John Rhys and later by Joseph Vendryes.

The byname "Llaw Ereint" or "llawereint" is glossed as "of the Silver Hand" or "Silver-handed". Welsh eraint is listed as meaning "a round body; a ball; a bowl, a cup; a pear", probably related to the adjective erain "abounding with impulse", but ereint has been defined as "silver cup", no doubt owing to Welsh arian "silver".

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Ramark

A ramark, syllabic acronym for radar marker, was a type of radar beacon used to mark maritime navigational hazards. Ramarks are no longer in use.

Ramarks are a non-directional, continuously transmitting radar beacon which indicate the bearing to a navigational hazard when viewed on a radar plan position indicator (PPI) display. Some ramarks transmit a unique set of Morse characters, which are visible on the PPI display as dots and dashes along the bearing of the ramark.

Ramarks are no longer used in the United States. They have been phased out in favor of more advanced racons (radar beacons) which indicate both the location and the bearing of the hazard.

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List of early music ensembles

An early music ensemble is a musical ensemble that specializes in performing early music of the European classical tradition from the Baroque era and earlier – broadly, music produced before about 1750. Most, but not all, of these groups are advocates of historically informed performance, and attempt to re-create the music as it might have sounded at the time it was written, using period instruments and modifying playing techniques according to the most recent scholarly research into music of the time.

Names in parentheses below indicate current directors, unless otherwise indicated.

Australia

 * Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (Paul Dyer): baroque orchestra
 * Canberra Bach Ensemble (Andrew Koll): baroque choir
 * Ensemble Gombert, Melbourne
 * Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (Rachael Beesley and Nicole Van Bruggen)
 * Australian Haydn Ensemble (Skye McIntosh)

Austria

 * Ars Antiqua Austria
 * Cinquecento: vocal ensemble
 * Clemencic Consort (René Clemencic): medieval to baroque
 * Concentus Musicus Wien (Nikolaus Harnoncourt), Vienna: baroque orchestra
 * Ensemble Eduard Melkus (Capella Academica Wien), Vienna: defunct
 * Fiori musicali, Vienna: baroque chamber group
 * Quadriga Consort: emphasis on early British traditional and popular music
 * Quatuor Mosaïques (founded in 1985 by members of Concentus Musicus Wien), Vienna

Belgium

 * Capilla Flamenca (Dirk Snellings): Renaissance choral
 * Les Agrémens
 * Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe): Renaissance and baroque choir
 * Currende (Erik Van Nevel): Renaissance choir
 * Ensemble Clematis, Leonardo García-Alarcón: baroque
 * Huelgas Ensemble (Paul Van Nevel): Renaissance choir
 * Les Muffatti, Brussels: Baroque orchestra
 * La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken): baroque orchestra and chamber ensemble
 * Ricercar Consort: baroque cantatas
 * Vox Luminis: 16th- to 18th-century Italian, German, and English vocal music

Canada

 * Académie Baroque de Montréal (Suzie LeBlanc)
 * Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Montréal:
 * Arion Orchestre Baroque, Montréal:
 * Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal: mostly music of the Renaissance and early baroque
 * Tafelmusik, Toronto: baroque orchestra and chamber choir
 * Theatre of Early Music (Daniel Taylor), Toronto: chamber choir
 * Ensemble Caprice (Matthias Maute), Montréal
 * Nota Bene Players & Singers (Howard Dyck)
 * Opera Atelier, Toronto: baroque opera company
 * Victoria Baroque (Victoria, B.C.)
 * Les Violons du Roy (Jonathan Cohen), Québec City

Colombia

 * Musica Ficta (Carlos Serrano): Latin American baroque

Czech Republic

 * Collegium 1704 (Václav Luks): early music ensemble
 * Collegium 419: early music vocal ensemble
 * Collegium Marianum (Jana Semerádová): early music ensemble
 * Musica Florea (Marek Štryncl): early music ensemble
 * Schola Gregoriana Pragensis: a cappella male choir whose core repertoire is Gregorian chant, Bohemian plainchant, and early polyphony
 * Czech Ensemble Baroque (Roman Válek, Tereza Válková): early music ensemble
 * Ensemble Inegal – Adam Viktora

Denmark

 * Ars Nova Copenhagen (Paul Hillier): Renaissance to contemporary
 * Concerto Copenhagen (Lars Ulrik Mortensen): baroque orchestra
 * Camerata Øresund
 * Musica Ficta (Bo Holten): Renaissance and contemporary choral
 * Ensemble Zimmermann (Lars Colding Wolf): Mixed early music ensemble

Estonia

 * Hortus Musicus (Andres Mustonen): medieval and Renaissance and baroque and contemporary music
 * Rondellus: medieval and Renaissance and contemporary music

Finland

 * Kuninkaantien muusikot – Musicians of the King's Road: baroque orchestra and choir
 * Oliphant: medieval music

France

 * L'Arpeggiata (Christina Pluhar): early baroque
 * Les Arts Florissants (William Christie): baroque orchestra
 * Boulanger Ensemble (Nadia Boulanger): historic revival of Monteverdi
 * Capriccio Stravagante (Skip Sempé): baroque chamber music
 * Les Siècles (François-Xavier Roth): symphony orchestra
 * La Chapelle Rhénane (Benoît Haller): baroque orchestra
 * La Chapelle Royale (Philippe Herreweghe): baroque orchestra
 * Chœur de Chambre Accentus (Laurence Equilbey): Renaissance to contemporary choir
 * Le Concert d'Astrée (Emmanuelle Haïm): baroque orchestra
 * Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet): baroque orchestra
 * Concerto Vocale (René Jacobs): baroque vocal
 * Diabolus in Musica, Paris: medieval choral
 * Ensemble 415 (Chiara Banchini): baroque chamber orchestra
 * Ensemble baroque de Nice (Gilbert Bezzina): baroque opera
 * Ensemble Clément Janequin (Dominique Visse): Renaissance chansons
 * Ensemble Matheus (Jean-Christophe Spinosi): baroque orchestra
 * Ensemble Organum (Marcel Pérès): Gregorian chant
 * La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy (Jean-Claude Malgoire)
 * Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien: baroque orchestra, François Lazarevitch
 * Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Grenoble: baroque orchestra
 * Orchestre Les Passions
 * Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre): Renaissance-baroque chamber group
 * Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset): baroque opera and orchestra

Germany

 * Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin: baroque orchestra
 * Pera Ensemble: baroque orchestra, Alla Turca
 * Cantus Cölln (Konrad Junghänel): Renaissance and baroque vocal
 * La Capella Ducale Musica Fiata (Roland Wilson)
 * Cologne Chamber Orchestra (Helmut Müller-Brühl): baroque orchestra
 * Concerto Köln: baroque orchestra; concert master: Evgeny Sviridov, guest conductors inc. Evelino Pidò, Daniel Harding
 * Ensemble amarcord, Leipzig, vocal ensemble, medieval, Renaissance, contemporary
 * Ensemble Santenay, Trossingen, Germany: Renaissance choral
 * Ensemble Schirokko Hamburg: baroque orchestra
 * Estampie: medieval
 * Freiburger Barockorchester (Gottfried von der Goltz): baroque orchestra
 * G. A. P. Ensemble, instrumental trio
 * Gaechinger Cantorey and Internationale Bachakademie, Stuttgart
 * Hamburger Ratsmusik: baroque chamber orchestra
 * il Gusto Barocco: baroque orchestra
 * Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble (Arno Paduch): Renaissance baroque choir and orchestra
 * Lautten Compagney (Wolfgang Katschner): early music ensemble
 * Münchener Bach-Orchester (founder Karl Richter)
 * Musica Antiqua Köln (formerly Reinhard Goebel): baroque chamber music, now disbanded
 * Musica Fiata (Roland Wilson): baroque wind orchestra
 * Oni Wytars (Marco Ambrosini): medieval music
 * L'Orfeo Barockorchester (Michi Gaigg): baroque orchestra
 * Pantagruel: Renaissance music trio
 * Rheinische Kantorei and the Kleine Konzert (Hermann Max): baroque choir and orchestra
 * Sarband: baroque orchestra
 * Sequentia (Benjamin Bagby): medieval
 * La Stagione (Michael Schneider), Frankfurt: baroque orchestra
 * Studio der frühen Musik (Thomas Binkley d.), Munich: medieval, disbanded
 * Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein (Ludger Rémy): baroque orchestra
 * Weser-Renaissance Bremen (Manfred Cordes): Renaissance and baroque

Greece

 * Ex Silentio: medieval and baroque music

Iceland

 * Voces Thules: Icelandic medieval music

Israel

 * Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra: baroque orchestra (music director: David Shemer)
 * Accademia Daniel: baroque chamber group
 * Ensemble PHOENIX on period instruments: broad ensemble performing from Middle Ages to Early Romantic music on period instruments, working since 1998 (conductor & musical director Myrna Herzog)
 * Profeti della Quinta, Israel/Switzerland: vocal ensemble
 * Barrocade: baroque orchestra (music director: Amit Tiefenbrunn)

Italy

 * Academia Montis Regalis (Alessandro De Marchi): baroque orchestra
 * Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone): baroque orchestra
 * Accordone (Guido Morini): early baroque, often with Marco Beasley
 * Auser Musici: baroque orchestra
 * Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini (Antonio Florio): baroque orchestra
 * Il Complesso Barocco (Alan Curtis): baroque orchestra
 * Concerto Italiano (Rinaldo Alessandrini): madrigals and baroque orchestra
 * Delitiæ Musicæ: Renaissance and baroque vocal music
 * Ensemble Aurora (Enrico Gatti): baroque to classical
 * Ensemble Micrologus: medieval
 * Europa Galante (Fabio Biondi): baroque orchestra
 * I Febiarmonici (Alan Curtis): madrigals
 * Il Giardino Armonico (Giovanni Antonini), Milan: baroque orchestra
 * Modo Antiquo (Bettina Hoffmann and Federico Maria Sardelli): medieval music to baroque orchestra
 * La Reverdie: medieval
 * SimoneSorini Syrenarum (Simone Sorini Cantore al Liuto): from medieval to early baroque
 * I Solisti Veneti (Claudio Scimone): baroque orchestra on modern instruments
 * La Venexiana (Claudio Cavina): madrigals
 * Venice Baroque Orchestra (Andrea Marcon)

Japan

 * Bach Collegium Japan (Masaaki Suzuki), Kobe: Bach

Latvia

 * Canto (Andris Gailis), Riga: Renaissance and baroque vocal and instrumental music
 * Collegium Choro Musici Riga (Māris Kupčs): baroque choir
 * Collegium Musicum Riga (Māris Kupčs): baroque orchestra
 * Lirum, Riga: Renaissance vocal music ensemble
 * Ludus (Māra Birziņa), Riga: late Renaissance to early baroque (chamber music)
 * Schola Cantorum Riga (Guntars Prānis): gregorian and early medieval chants
 * Trakula: medieval and Renaissance vocal and instrumental music

Netherlands

 * Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir (Ton Koopman): baroque orchestra
 * Camerata Trajectina, Utrecht: Renaissance and baroque Dutch music
 * Collegium Musicum Den Haag
 * Egidius Kwartet, Holland: Renaissance vocal music
 * Netherlands Bach Society, Naarden: baroque ensemble
 * New Dutch Academy (Simon Murphy), The Hague, 18th- and early 19th-century symphonic music
 * Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Frans Brüggen): baroque orchestra

Norway

 * Kalenda Maya

Poland

 * Arte dei Suonatori
 * Polish Baroque Orchestra (Krzysztof Czerwinski)

Portugal

 * Concerto Atlântico (Pedro Caldeira Cabral): medieval to baroque
 * Officium Ensemble (Pedro Teixeira): renaissance
 * Il Dolcimelo (Isabel Monteiro): Renaissance
 * Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música (Laurence Cummings): baroque orchestra
 * AVRES SERVA (Nuno Oliveira): early baroque to early classical
 * CONCERTO IBÉRICO ORQUESTRA BARROCA (João Paulo Janeiro): baroque orchestra
 * FLORES DE MVSICA (João Paulo Janeiro): instrumental and vocal ensemble, renaissance to classical

Russia

 * Insula Magica, Novosibirsk
 * The Pocket Symphony (Nazar Kozhukhar), Moscow, St. Petersburg
 * Pro Anima, Leningrad: 1980s, now disbanded
 * La Voce Strumentale (Dmitry Sinkovsky), Moscow: baroque ensemble
 * Pratum Integrum (Pavel Serbin), Moscow: baroque and classical orchestra

Serbia

 * Ensemble Renaissance, Belgrade: medieval and Renaissance
 * Ensemble Musica Antiqua Consort, Belgrade (1977): Medieval and Renaissance, also Baroque (vocal-instrumental ensemble, founder and director: Vera Zlokovich)
 * Ensemble Musica Antiqua Serbiana, Belgrade (1987): Medieval vocal music of the Orthodox spiritual tradition (ensemble founder and director: Vera Zlokovich)
 * New Trinity Baroque (Predrag Gosta), Belgrade

South Korea

 * Musica Glorifica (Jin Kim), Seoul

Spain

 * A5 vocal ensemble: vocal quintet
 * Al Ayre Español (Eduardo López Banzo): baroque orchestra
 * Atrium Musicae de Madrid: dissolved
 * Capella de Ministrers (Carles Magraner): medieval to baroque
 * La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Jordi Savall)
 * L'Apothéose baroque ensemble (18th Century)
 * Capilla Peñaflorida: Renaissance choral
 * Cinco Siglos
 * La Colombina: vocal ensemble
 * Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall): baroque orchestra
 * Hespèrion XX/Hespèrion XXI (Jordi Savall): Renaissance orchestra
 * Música Antigua (Eduardo Paniagua): medieval, cantigas
 * Musica Ficta (Raúl Mallavibarrena): Renaissance choral

Sweden

 * Joculatores Upsalienses

Switzerland

 * Alta Bellezza: early wind ensemble
 * Camerata Bern (Antje Weithaas): chamber orchestra
 * Contre le Temps: women's medieval vocal ensemble
 * Ensemble Elyma (Gabriel Garrido): baroque orchestra
 * Ferrara Ensemble (Crawford Young), Basel: medieval and Renaissance
 * Gli Angeli Genève, Geneva: baroque ensemble
 * La Fiamma: medieval and renaissance ensemble
 * Les Passions de l’Âme – Orchester für Alte Musik Bern (Meret Lüthi): baroque orchestra
 * Students of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Rene Jacobs), based in Basel: medieval to baroque

Taiwan

 * Baroque Camerata
 * Formosan Baroque
 * The Gleam Ensemble

United Kingdom

 * Academy of Ancient Music (Christopher Hogwood founder, currently Laurence Cummings): baroque orchestra
 * Alamire (David Skinner): vocal consort
 * Avison Ensemble: baroque orchestra
 * The Band of Instruments: baroque orchestra, New Chamber Opera
 * Brandenburg Consort (Roy Goodman): baroque orchestra
 * Brecon Baroque (Rachel Podger): baroque orchestra
 * The Brook Street Band, Handel specialists
 * Cancionero, Kent
 * Cantilena (Adrian Shepherd): baroque on modern instruments
 * The Cardinall's Musick (Andrew Carwood): choir
 * City Waites (inc. Lucie Skeaping): medieval to baroque English music and folk
 * Collegium Musicum 90 (Simon Standage), English baroque orchestra
 * The Consort of Musicke (Anthony Rooley): Renaissance vocal, madrigals
 * Deller Consort (founded by Alfred Deller d.): Renaissance and baroque chamber
 * Dufay Collective: William Lyons, artistic director, medieval and renaissance instrumental and vocal
 * Dunedin Consort Director John Butt. Based in Scotland.
 * Early Music Consort of London (David Munrow d.): medieval, defunct
 * Early Opera Company: baroque opera
 * English Baroque Soloists (John Eliot Gardiner): baroque and classical-era music
 * The English Concert (Trevor Pinnock founder, then Andrew Manze, now Harry Bicket)
 * Ex Cathedra (Jeffrey Skidmore): choir and baroque orchestra
 * I Fagiolini: vocal consort, madrigals
 * Florilegium, London: baroque
 * Fretwork: viol consort
 * Gabrieli Consort & Players (Paul McCreesh): baroque choir and orchestra
 * Gothic Voices (Christopher Page): medieval and Renaissance music
 * The Hanover Band: period instrument orchestra
 * The Harp Consort (Andrew Lawrence-King): Renaissance consort
 * The Hilliard Ensemble (formerly directed by Paul Hillier): medieval, Renaissance and contemporary music
 * The King's Consort (Robert King): baroque orchestra; see also Retrospect Ensemble
 * King's Singers: vocal sextet
 * London Baroque (founded in 1978 by Ingrid Seifert and Charles Medlam): baroque chamber orchestra
 * Magpie Lane, Oxfordshire: folk band
 * Musica Reservata (John S. Beckett), London
 * New London Consort (Philip Pickett): medieval to baroque orchestra
 * Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: baroque orchestra
 * Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (John Eliot Gardiner): classical and romantic orchestra
 * Orlando Consort: vocal quartet
 * Oxford Camerata (Jeremy Summerly): Renaissance choral
 * Palladian Ensemble, British instrumental ensemble (co-founded by Rachel Podger)
 * The Parley of Instruments (Roy Goodman): baroque orchestra
 * Phantasm: viol consort
 * Philip Jones Brass Ensemble (Philip Jones): brass quintet
 * Polyphony (Stephen Layton): Renaissance, romantic and contemporary music
 * Pro Cantione Antiqua: Renaissance choral
 * Raglan Baroque Players (Nicholas Kraemer): baroque orchestra
 * Red Priest: baroque orchestra, specializing in Vivaldi
 * Retrospect Ensemble: baroque orchestra
 * Rose Consort of Viols
 * La Serenissima (Adrian Chandler): baroque orchestra, Vivaldi
 * The Sixteen (Harry Christophers): mostly a cappella music of the Renaissance, with baroque orchestra for Handel
 * Solistes de Musique Ancienne: baroque orchestra and choir
 * Sounds Baroque (Julian Perkins): period instrument ensemble
 * Stile Antico: early music vocal ensemble
 * Tallis Scholars (Peter Phillips): a cappella Renaissance music
 * Taverner Consort and Players (Andrew Parrott): Renaissance choir and baroque orchestra
 * Theatre of Voices: vocal consort
 * Tonus Peregrinus (Antony Pitts): Renaissance and contemporary choir
 * Trinity Baroque, Trinity College, Cambridge: vocal ensemble
 * Voces8: vocal ensemble
 * Westminster Abbey Choir (Simon Preston)
 * Westminster Cathedral Choir (David Hill)

United States

 * Alkemie Early Music Ensemble
 * American Bach Soloists
 * Anonymous 4: all-female a cappella ensemble specializing in medieval music
 * Apollo's Fire (Jeannette Sorrell), Cleveland: Renaissance, baroque, early classical orchestra
 * Arcadia Players
 * Asteria Medievale, duo, New York: Renaissance chansons
 * Austin Baroque Orchestra & Chorus: baroque orchestra and choir specializing in Iberian and Latin American early music
 * Bach Ensemble (Joshua Rifkin): baroque soloists and orchestra
 * Bach Sinfonia (Daniel Abraham), Maryland
 * Baltimore Consort
 * Blue Heron, Boston
 * Boston Baroque (Martin Pearlman): baroque orchestra
 * Boston Camerata (Anne Azéma)
 * Boston Early Music Festival: baroque orchestra and opera company
 * Bourbon Baroque (Nicolas Fortin and John Austin Clark): baroque orchestra
 * Camerata Mediterranea (Joel Cohen)
 * Chanticleer: choir
 * Early Music New York, medieval, Renaissance, baroque and classical
 * Ensemble Alcatraz (Shira Kammen): medieval
 * Fanfare Barok, baroque, Washington, D.C.
 * Folger Consort
 * Handel and Haydn Society, Boston: baroque choir and orchestra
 * Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra (Barthold Kuijken)
 * Istanpitta Early Music Ensemble (Albert Cofrin): Medieval
 * Lyra Baroque Orchestra (Jacques Ogg): baroque to early classical orchestra
 * Magnificat Baroque Ensemble
 * Music of the Baroque (Jane Glover), Chicago
 * Musica Angelica (Martin Haselböck), Los Angeles
 * New Trinity Baroque (Predrag Gosta), Atlanta
 * New York Collegium (Andrew Parrott), dissolved
 * New York Polyphony
 * New York Pro Musica Antiqua (Noah Greenberg d. 1966, then John Reeves White to 1974): choir, defunct
 * Newberry Consort, at the Newberry Library: baroque chamber
 * North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, Davidson, NC
 * Opera Lafayette: pre-1800 opera
 * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Nicholas McGegan): baroque orchestra
 * Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, Philadelphia
 * Portland Baroque Orchestra (Julian Perkins)
 * Project Ars Nova (inc. Crawford Young): medieval
 * Renaissance Street Singers, New York City, a cappella Renaissance
 * Rose Ensemble Jordan Sramek, St. Paul
 * Schola Antiqua of Chicago
 * Texas Early Music Project, Austin, Texas
 * Tempesta di Mare: The Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra (Gwyn Roberts)
 * TENET (ensemble), now known as TENET Vocal Artists, New York, NY
 * Three Notch'd Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble, Charlottesville, VA
 * Virginia Tech Early Music Ensemble
 * Voices of Music, San Francisco, California
 * Wyoming Baroque, Sheridan, Wyoming

Unspecified or international

 * Cappella Mediterranea (Leonardo García-Alarcón)
 * Ensemble Syntagma (Alexandre Danilevsky)
 * European Community Baroque Orchestra (Roy Goodman), European Union
 * Tetraktys (Kees Boeke), medieval, early Renaissance

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School nursing

School nursing, a specialized practice of public health nursing, protects and promotes student health, facilitates normal development, and advances academic success. School nurses, grounded in ethical and evidence-based practice, bridge the gap between health care and education, provide care coordination, advocate for quality student-centered care, and collaborate to design systems that allow individuals and communities to develop their full potentials. A school nurse works with school-aged children in the educational setting. Students experiencing illness or injury during the school day often report to the school nurse for assessment. Administering routine medications, caring for a child with a virus, or stabilizing a child until emergency services arrive after a more serious injury may all be a part of the job requirements. School nurses are well positioned to take the lead for the school system in partnering with school physicians, community physicians, and community organizations. They facilitate access to Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program to help families and students enroll in state health insurance programs and may assist in finding a medical home for each student who needs one.

United States
According to the National Association of School Nurses, there are approximately 61,232–73,697 registered nurses (RNs) working in elementary and secondary schools (K-12) in the United States depending on the survey sample (- need these references: HRSA, 2010; ACS, 2013), which represents between 2.1 and 2.8% of registered nurses in the United States. According to the American Federation of Teachers, there are approximately 45,000 school nurses employed in the United States. About 63% of public school districts employ a full-time school nurse, while a further 19% have a part-time nurse and 18% have no nurse. School nurses are often the only health professional serving students in an educational setting. As such they have a great responsibility in promoting important health initiatives in schools across America such as making sure that there are AEDs on school campuses and that staff are taught on how to use them. Sudden cardiac arrest is common amongst school aged children and adolescents resulting in <1 to 10 deaths/100,000 population per year. This is thought to be in part due to the fact that inherited and acquired cardiomyopathies, arrhythmia syndromes, structural congenital heart defects, myocarditis, and coronary abnormalities that may be present in this age group may not be detected during routine sports physicals. "Since strenuous exercise can trigger deadly arrhythmias in these students, the first and potentially last symptom [of undiagnosed cardiac abnormalities] is sudden cardiac arrest".

School nurses must use evidence-based practice, implement prevention programs, and properly manage student medical issues in order to improve student health. For students with acute and chronic health problems, the school nurse will collaborate with the student's physicians and parents to create a health plan that accommodates the student while at school. The school nurse must be competent in management of pediatric health issues such as seizures, asthma, diabetes, and allergies. In addition to nursing skills, the school nurse must possess excellent organizational and communication skills in order to succeed. School nurses play a vital role in the reduction of absenteeism by promoting healthy practices among students and staff.

School nurses have the potential to have a positive effect on their young students. Previous studies have addressed their role as helping families address health needs, decrease the amount of absent days from school, and helping them advance academically (Yoder, 2019). Across the United States, the school nurse's role and workload varies, so that has an effect on whether or they are able to properly address their student's needs (National Association or School Nurses, 2016; Yoder 2019). The presence of a school nurse varies among regions in the United States. According to Willgerodt et al., most schools on the west coast work part-time and have a higher load of students to care for versus some regions that don't have a nurse in the school (2018).

Notable school nurses

 * Annie McKay, first school nurse in Massachusetts, 1905
 * Lina Rogers Struthers, first school nurse in the United States, in New York City, 1902

United Kingdom

In 1892 Amy Hughes was working in Bloomsbury Square as the Superintendent of Queen's Nurses. She was asked to visit a local elementary school to advise about nutrition, and was surprised to find that the students were suffering with minor ailments that were contributing to school days lost to sickness. Hughes eventually arranged for Queen's nurses to visit schools; she is considered to be the first school nurse in the United Kingdom.

The statutory provision of school nursing in all schools in the United Kingdom arose out of the Boer War. A large proportion of army volunteers - between 40% and 60% - had been found to be medically unfit for service, so in 1903, the government set up the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration to study the causes. In 1904 the committee reported back, saying that there was no general health problem, but treatable conditions had been left untreated, meaning that the conditions had worsened to the extent that they became debilitating. The committee recommended that:
 * children have medical inspections in schools
 * free school meals be provided to children from extremely poor families
 * mothers be trained in child upbringing

The government reacted first by passing the 1906 Provision of School Meals Act, which allowed (but did not compel) local authorities to provide school meals, at no cost to the poor, and to raise a tax to pay for this. Then the 1907 Education Act was passed, which established a team of school nurses at every local authority. This was accompanied by the 1907 Medical Inspections Act, which required local authorities to ensure that each child received a total of at least three medical inspections during their time at school. The act established clinics within schools to treat anything discovered, but parents had to pay for treatment; after 1912 the government made small contributions towards the cost.

In modern times, school nurses are comparable to health visitors, but specialise in a school setting, rather than a domestic one. As such they normally take over public health responsibilities for children, from health visitors, once the children are over 5 and start attending school. Like health visitors, they monitor child development, and deliver certain vaccination programmes, as well as instigating the child safeguarding process when they suspect a child is being abused or neglected. Given their physical setting, they are also often called upon to provide first aid, and it is for this that they are most familiar to children.

In the mid to late 20th century, school nurses were often familiar to children as the nit nurse - a specialist nurse who inspects children's head hair for lice, and lice-eggs (colloquially known as nits). In 1947, 8% of school children had lice infections, but the use of nit nurses had managed to reduce that to 3% within a decade. Skin infections of any kind, which were once common, had become a rare phenomena by the end of the century, except those which affect the soles of the feet. Under the Blair ministry, nit nursing came to be seen as not being clinically cost-effective, and nit nursing was gradually withdrawn from schools.

Following the Cameron ministry's reorganisation of the National Health Service, school nurses fall under the general aegis of Public Health England, but are locally commissioned by local authorities, who now hold local responsibility for public health. To become qualified registered school nurses, ordinary nurses undertake additional training as specialist community public health practitioners. They are regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Impact of school nursing on student achievement
Children who have chronic illnesses or live below the poverty line are more likely to end up dropping out of school. Two separate studies performed in 2017 looked at the way asthma medications were being managed in schools and found that nurses who assisted in daily corticosteroid usage resulted in fewer absences by children with asthma. Nurses in schools have the unique ability to create relationships with patients who they get to see frequently. Children spend nearly 40 hours a week in a school setting and need their health needs met just the same as if they are at home. If a child is able to receive their appropriate medications and services at school then they will be less likely to stay home and therefore achieve more academically than if their school lacks nursing services.

The future of school nursing
School nursing in the future is challenged to accept leadership responsibilities in shaping, developing, and implementing policies that affect schools and communities. Becoming part of school boards, public health departments, and community organizations, school nursing can affect change and highlight the impact of social determinants on health because school nursing is where the effects of environments, school funding, and chronic health conditions on the health and education of children can be seen. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (2016), 98% of all school-aged children attend school each day. Therefore, health policies and health systems that affect these children, families, and communities must be changed on the school nursing and community nursing level. School nursing is an area of community health nursing where health initiatives can be implemented and policy change can happen on local, state, and national levels.

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Philip Pickett

Philip Pickett (born 17 November 1950) is an English musician. Pickett was director of early music ensembles including the New London Consort, and taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He played recorders, shawms and similar instruments. In February 2015, Pickett received an 11-year prison sentence for the rape and sexual assault of pupils at the school.

Early life
Born in London but raised in Gloucestershire, he began playing the trumpet while a student at Marling School, Stroud. There he met Antony Baines and David Munrow, who encouraged him to try early woodwind instruments such as the recorder, shawm and rackett. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Pickett was forced to give up the trumpet after being kicked in the mouth while being assaulted on the London Underground at the end of his first year.

Career
Pickett played for the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the English Concert, the English Chamber Orchestra and the London Mozart Players. In 1976 he joined the Albion Band, a folk-rock band led by Ashley Hutchings that included John Sothcott,. They played a mixture of traditional folk music and medieval tunes on a wide range of instruments – curtals, shawms, recorders, crumhorns, bagpipes, rackets, chalumeaux and synthesiser. In 1988 Pickett released his only solo album, called The Alchemist. A collaboration with Richard Thompson and members of Fairport Convention in 1998 resulted in the release of The Bones of All Men, consisting of early music tunes with a modern rock rhythm section and electric guitar.

In 1993 he became artistic director of the Purcell Room Early Music series, and in the same year was appointed director of Early Music at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The Musicians of the Globe ensemble specialised in English music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Pickett simultaneously led the New London Consort, which had a wider repertoire covering English, Spanish, Italian and German medieval and Renaissance music. From 1994 to 1997 he was founder and director of the Aldeburgh Early Music Festival.

Pickett taught freelance, mainly at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, from 1972 to 1997. His time at Guildhall later came under scrutiny after his 2013 arrest.

Sexual abuse conviction
After the revelations in 2012–13 of the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal, a former student was referred by Suffolk Police to the specialist investigation team within the City of London Police. The woman, who was 16 in 1978, later testified that during a lesson Pickett told her to take her top off and lie down in a darkened practice room to "improve her breathing", on later occasions sexually assaulting and raping her. Police arrested Pickett on 4 December 2013, after which further victims came forward. His arrest was not part of the high-profile sex crime investigation Operation Yewtree. It was said at his trial that allegations against Pickett dated back to 1984, when a family complained to the school about him attacking their 17-year-old daughter; they were allegedly told by the school that she should have her lessons elsewhere as no one else had complained. Police discovered evidence within the archives of the school that in 1984 the then principal John Hosier had written to Pickett, asking him to discuss the allegations. Hosier passed police a letter regarding the allegations and his frustrations, but the following year the Guildhall School made Pickett a fellow.

On 10 February 2015 Pickett was found guilty of two rapes and two indecent assaults carried out in soundproof rooms at the Guildhall School between 1979 and 1983. After his conviction, Pickett's defence team tried to delay sentencing to accommodate Pickett's commitment to arrange three music festivals. Judge Charles Wide sentenced Pickett on 20 February 2015 to a total of 11 years, and ordered that two further indictments in relation to allegations by two women dating back to the 1970s lie on file. Pickett was cleared of six further counts of indecent assault.

With the Albion Band

 * Albums
 * Dancing Days Are Here Again (2007, recorded 1976)
 * The Prospect Before Us (1977)
 * Rise up Like The Sun (1978)
 * The BBC Sessions (1998, recorded 1973–1978)
 * Stella Maris (1987)

 * Singles
 * "Hopping Down in Kent"/"Merry Sherwood Rangers" (1976)
 * "The Postman's Knock"/"La Sexte Estampie Real" (1977)
 * "Poor Old Horse"/"Ragged Heroes" (1978)
 * "Pain and Paradise"/"Lay Me Low" (1979)

With the New London Consort

 * Elizabeth and Jacobean Concert
 * Music from the Time of Columbus
 * Ars Subtilior
 * Llibre Vermell
 * Biber and Schmelzer Trumpet Music
 * Biber Requiem
 * O Primavera
 * Trionfi
 * Las Ensaladas
 * Mad Songs
 * The Songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein
 * Telemann Concertos
 * Pilgrimage to Santiago
 * Monteverdi Vespers (1610)
 * L'Orfeo
 * Anonymous, Carmina Burana, Vols. 1–4 (L'Oiseau Lyre, 4 CD, 1994)
 * Sinners and Saints, a compilation of previous recordings
 * Bach: Brandenburg Concerti (complete)
 * The Feast of Fools
 * Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore
 * Vivaldi: Gloria RV 588 and Dixit Dominus RV 595
 * The Sylvan and Oceanic Delights of Posilipo
 * Tielman Susato, Dansereye 1551, Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, 1993
 * John Blow: Venus & Adonis, A Masque for the entertainment of the King

With the Musicians of the Globe

 * Music From Shakespeare's Plays
 * Ben Jonson's 'The Masque Of Oberon'
 * A Shakespeare Ode On The Witches and Fairies
 * Purcell's Shakespeare
 * The Enchanted Island
 * Nutmegs and Ginger
 * Sir Henry Rowley Bishop: Songs for Shakespeare productions at Covent Garden

Solo

 * The Alchemist (1988) (London NL 425 209–2)
 * The Alchemist (1998)

With Richard Thompson

 * Rumor and Sigh (1991)
 * The Bones of All Men (1998)

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Talk:Inman Square

"Inman Square’s first owner was King James II of England, who would bequeath it in a larger parcel to Governor Thomas Dudley in 1635."

That can't be right. James II was two years old in 1635. Everyking 13:52, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Correct, he would be 2. I don't know what to say about most of the history added anonymously to this page.  But it's painfully obvious that it has to be researched and confirmed.  I'll put the verify tag on until this can be resolved.-- sp  00n  17 :talk 16:43, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * I removed the questionable portion. Hopefully, in the future, when people litter the article with otherwise questionable facts, they include some credible reference.  Whilst, most facts that exist on this site, can easily be observed by those of us who live here. -- sp  00n  17 :color="#555577">talk 05:05, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

Unsourced
Someone please cite the info in here. If there's no citation, it must be your original research. If it's your original research, Wikipedia is not the place for it. 18.173.1.42 19:20, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Add Unref tag to article Pnkrockr 16:30, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Official name
It is my understanding that the official name is David I. Calnan Sq. The City re-named the square in honor of this local resident who died in Italy during WWII. There is a Gold Star Mother's plaque at the corner of Cambridge and Springfield St.

173.76.47.165 (talk) 12:27, 3 May 2011 (UTC)awmrhp@yahoo.com173.76.47.165 (talk) 12:27, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

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Philip Jones (musician)

Philip Jones  (12 March 1928 – 17 January 2000) was a British trumpeter and leader of an internationally famous brass chamber music ensemble.

Philip Jones was born in Bath, England. In 1944 he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music. He became principal trumpet for most major London orchestras: The Royal Philharmonic (1956–60), the Philharmonia (1960–64), the Philharmonic (1964–65), the New Philharmonia (1965–67) and the BBC Symphony (1967–71). His playing continues a line of English trumpeters that stretches back to Ernest Hall.

In 1951 he had formed the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, one of the first brass ensembles working regularly as a stable group. They grew from four members to ten and larger for special projects. The most usual formations were the quintet (two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba) and the ten-piece (four trumpeters one sometimes doubling piccolo trumpet and one sometimes doubling flugel horn, horn, four trombones and tuba). The success of these formations owes much to Philip Jones's work.

After 1971 he devoted himself to it full-time and the group commanded long commitment from many fine players including: the trumpeters Elgar Howarth, John Wilbraham, Michael Laird and James Watson; horn players Ifor James and Frank Lloyd; trombonists John Iveson and Raymond Premru; and the renowned tubist John Fletcher. They made 50 recordings and toured over 30 countries finding particular popularity in Japan. Repertoire spanned from transcriptions of early music by the likes of Monteverdi, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Johann Pezel, to new works for the medium commissioned by Jones. These included pieces by Witold Lutosławski, Hans Werner Henze and Einojuhani Rautavaara; altogether they performed 87 world premieres. The ensemble's leader was noted for his meticulous preparations at every concert, lining up the music stands himself, his personal commitment being one of the reasons for the ensemble's success.

In 1986 he accidentally drove his car over his own trumpet case. He took this as the hand of fate and decided to retire from concert performances. He held posts at the Royal Northern College of Music (the institution's first head of brass) and Trinity College of Music, where he was Principal until his retirement in 1994. He was chairman of the Musicians Benevolent Fund in 1995. He was awarded the OBE in 1977 and the CBE in 1986. When not at work he divided his time between Switzerland and London.

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Albert Hill (VC)

Albert Hill VC (24 May 1895 – 17 February 1971) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Early life
Born in Hulme, Manchester, one of ten children, he was a weak and frail child who after his schooling started work in a mill, before becoming an apprentice planker at Wilson Hat Manufacturers, in Wilton Street, Denton (Manchester).

First World War
In August 1914 he joined the 10th Battalion, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, as a private. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at Delville Wood, part of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. His citation read: "For most conspicuous bravery. On 20 July 1916, during the Somme Offensive, when 15280 Private Hill's battalion had been deployed under heavy fire, for an attack on the enemy in Delville Wood, France, the order to charge was given and he dashed forward. He met two of the enemy and bayoneted them both. Later, he was sent by his platoon sergeant, Hugh Green, to contact the enemy, and found himself cut off, being surrounded by over twenty Germans. He threw two hand grenades, killing and wounding about eighteen and scattering the remainder. He then joined a sergeant of his company and helped him to fight the way back to the lines. When he got back, hearing that his Company Officer, Captain Scales, and a scout were lying out wounded, he went out and assisted to bring in the mortally wounded Officer, two other men bringing in the scout. Finally, he himself captured two of the enemy and brought them in as prisoners. His conduct throughout was magnificent."

He was also a holder of the French Croix de Guerre, the Russian Cross of St. George, and three campaign medals.

Later years
In February 1919 he returned to work in Wilson's factory, and married Doris Wilson a year later. They emigrated to the United States in 1923, where he found work as a building labourer, and had three daughters and a son. He attempted to enlist on the outbreak of the Second World War, but was advised to do defence work instead.

He died in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1971 and was buried with full military honours in Highland Memorial Park, Johnston, Rhode Island.

Hill Court in Wrexham is named in his honour.

The Medal
His Victoria Cross has disappeared in time through family hands. It is estimated to be worth £380,000 as of 2017. Albert Hill’s Victoria Cross was donated by the family and proudly is displayed in Carmarthen Castle, Wales

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Barrandov Studios

Barrandov Studios is a set of film studios in Prague, Czechia. It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the largest in Europe.

Several major Hollywood productions have been made here, including Mission Impossible, The Bourne Identity, Casino Royale, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Zookeeper's Wife, Nosferatu, and others.

Founding

Czech film history is closely connected with that of Prague's entrepreneurial Havel family, and especially with the activities of the brothers Miloš Havel (1899–1968) and Václav Maria Havel (1897–1979) (Václav was the father of the Czech President of the same name).

In 1921, Miloš Havel created the A-B Joint Stock Company by merging his own American Film distribution company with the Biografia film distributors. At first, A-B studios were located in the garden of a Vinohrady brewery. However, with the emerging sound film, new modern stages equipped for sound recording had to be built. At the beginning of the 1930s, Miloš's brother Václav planned to build a luxurious residential complex on a hill on what were then the outskirts of Prague. Miloš Havel had suggested that he include a modern film studio in the development. The area was to be called Barrandov after Joachim Barrande, the French geologist who had worked at the fossil-rich site in the 19th century. Still to this day, the Barrandov Rock displays a plaque with Barrande's name.

Construction of the studio, based on designs by Max Urban, began on 28 November 1931 and was completed in 1933. Fourteen months later, Barrandov's first Czech film, Murder on Ostrovni Street, was shot there. The volume of films shot at the studio increased rapidly. Barrandov had three hundred permanent employees, was making up to eighty films a year, and had begun to attract foreign producers. It was the best-equipped studio in Central Europe and in the early years, foreign production companies such as UFA, MGM, and Paramount developed their own distribution systems in Czechoslovakia because of it.

During the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany during World War II (1940–1945), major additions were made to the studio's facilities. Seeking to make Barrandov an equal to the major film studios in Berlin and Munich, the Nazis drew up plans for three large interconnecting stages. Construction work started in 1941 but the final stage was not completed until early 1945. These three huge stages (with more than 37000 sqft of shooting space) still form the main attraction of the studios to filmmakers throughout the world.

Shortly after the war, Barrandov and its smaller sister, Hostivař Studios, were nationalized and remained under state ownership until the beginning of the 1990s. During this time, Barrandov's new film laboratories were constructed, as was a special effects stage with a back projection tunnel and a water tank equipped for underwater shooting.

New wave
In the 1960s, a new wave of Czech films attracted worldwide attention. Czech film directors working at Barrandov at this time included Miloš Forman, Jiří Menzel, Vojtěch Jasný, Pavel Juráček, Věra Chytilová, Jan Němec, Ivan Passer, František Vláčil, Elmar Klos, and Ján Kadár.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Barrandov continued to produce feature films, particularly comedies and fairy tales, turning out an average of seventy pictures a year. In the 1980s, some major American productions were made in the studios, including Barbra Streisand's Yentl and Miloš Forman's Amadeus, winner of several Academy Awards.

Post-revolution

Shortly after the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Barrandov was privatized. The studio almost closed down in 2000. However, the decline in local films was balanced out by an increase in foreign productions, particularly feature films made by US producers. Czech television stations and producers of commercials for television also made extensive use of the facility. Barrandov Studios now provides complete production services for feature film producers and for the increasing volume of local audio-visual productions.

In December 2006, Barrandov Studios opened a massive new soundstage aimed at attracting bigger productions. According to studio representatives, in terms of size, the new facility is now the largest in Europe, at 4,000 square metres.

Barrandov Studios are owned by investment company Moravia Steel.

1930s – 1945

 * Clothes Make the Man (1940, with Heinz Rühmann and Hertha Feiler)
 * Carl Peters (1940/41)
 * Jud Süß (1940)
 * Doctor Crippen (1942)
 * Große Freiheit Nr. 7 (1943, with Hans Albers)
 * Die Fledermaus (1945/46, with Johannes Heesters)
 * Springtime (1945–47, by Grigory Alexandrov)

1960s

 * Lemonade Joe (1964)
 * The Shop on Main Street (1965)
 * Loves of a Blonde (1965)
 * Daisies (1966)
 * Closely Watched Trains (1966)
 * Marketa Lazarová (1967)
 * The Firemen's Ball (1967)
 * The End of Agent W4C (1967)

1970s

 * The Last Act of Martin Weston (1970)
 * Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
 * Witchhammer (1970)
 * Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
 * Dinner for Adele (1977)

1980s

 * Yentl (1983)
 * Amadeus (1984)
 * My Sweet Little Village (1985)
 * Battle of Moscow (1985)
 * Boris Godunov (1986)

1990s

 * Kafka (1991)
 * The Elementary School (1991)
 * The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992)
 * Stalingrad (1993)
 * Immortal Beloved (1994)
 * Underground (1995)
 * Kolya (1996)
 * Mission: Impossible (1996)
 * Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
 * Les Misérables (1998)
 * My Giant (1998)
 * The Barber of Siberia (1998)
 * Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
 * Ravenous (1999)

2000s

 * Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
 * Frank Herbert's Dune (2000)
 * A Knight's Tale (2001)
 * From Hell (2001)
 * The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
 * The Bourne Identity (2002)
 * XXX (2002)
 * Blade II (2002)
 * Bad Company (2002)
 * Hart's War (2002)
 * The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
 * Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
 * Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003)
 * Shanghai Knights (2003)
 * The Mystery of the Third Planet (2003, Czech dubbing production)
 * Chasing Liberty (2004)
 * The Prince and Me (2004)
 * Alien vs. Predator (2004)
 * Hellboy (2004)
 * Van Helsing (2004)
 * Eurotrip (2004)
 * Oliver Twist (2005)
 * The Brothers Grimm (2005)
 * Doom (2005)
 * Alias (season 4) (2005)
 * A Sound of Thunder (2005)
 * Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
 * Hostel (2005)
 * The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
 * Tristan and Isolde (2006)
 * Last Holiday (2006)
 * The Illusionist (2006)
 * The Omen (2006)
 * Casino Royale (2006)
 * Hannibal Rising (2007)
 * Hostel: Part 2 (2007)
 * Babylon A.D. (2007)
 * The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
 * G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
 * The Philanthropist (TV series) (2009)
 * Solomon Kane (2009)

2010s

 * Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010)
 * Faust (2011)
 * Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
 * Borgia (2011)
 * A Royal Affair (2012)
 * The Hypnotist (2012)
 * Snowpiercer (2013)
 * Crossing Lines (2013)
 * Serena (2014)
 * Child 44 (2015)
 * Last Knights (2015)
 * Anthropoid (2016)
 * A United Kingdom (2016)
 * The Zookeeper's Wife (2016)
 * Unlocked (2017)
 * The Aftermath (2019)
 * Jojo Rabbit (2019)

2020s

 * Tribes of Europa (2021)
 * The Wheel of Time (2021)

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Colney Hatch

Colney Hatch is the historical name for a small district within the London Borough of Barnet in London, England. Colney Hatch refers to a loosely defined area centred on the northern end of Colney Hatch Lane (B550), which connects Friern Barnet with Muswell Hill, crossing the North Circular Road. The area is predominantly residential with a mixture of Victorian and Edwardian houses and much more recent development.

Etymology
The name Colney Hatch was originally that of a hamlet in the parish of Friern (once spelt Fryern) Barnet, first recorded in the early 15th century.

The name hatch may derive from hitch-gate, often found on the borders of forests to prevent cattle straying. Colney Hatch at one time marked the southern boundary of the royal hunting ground Enfield Chase.

History
The area became well known from the mid-19th century following the building of Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum (renamed Friern Mental Hospital in 1937), which gained such notoriety that the name Colney Hatch appeared in various terms of abuse associated with the concept of madness.

It forms the meeting point between the London Borough of Barnet and the London Borough of Haringey, and stretches over the border into Colney Hatch Park in the old borough of Southgate. When various places, such as the mental hospital itself, changed their name, the borough of Southgate decided that nothing in the borough should be called Colney Hatch and changed the name of Colney Hatch Park to New Southgate, an area which crosses the boroughs and corresponds approximately to the N11 postcode district. Colney Hatch includes the location of the former Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum on Friern Barnet Road, opened in 1851. The asylum eventually became known as Friern Hospital and was closed down in 1993. The extensive grounds on which Friern Hospital and Halliwick Hospital (its sister institution for day patients) stood have since been redeveloped as two housing estates, Princess Park Manor and Friern Village.

Nearby is New Southgate railway station, originally called Colney Hatch but renamed several times from the mid-19th century onwards, taking its present name on the electrification of the line in 1976.

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Cover of Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights by HIM, from the band's site