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Talk:The Bonfire of the Vanities

Not just Wall Street
Removed the part abaout 'vanitites of Wall Street' and replaced it with New York. McCoy the Wall Street-er is surely the protagonist but the novel touched upon multiple personalities within the greater New York area and gives equal coverage to all. I do not think it is appropriate to label this as just a Wall-Street story.

Disambiguation
As I have just mentionned at Talk:Bonfire of the Vanities, the current distinction between these two articles (the "The") seems a bit random and arbitrary. Perhaps a better kind of disambiguation is needed. - IMSoP 11:25, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Accuracy
The plot description on this page is wholly incorrect. Fallow does not provide the tape to McCoy, and his opinion of McCoy doesn't change significantly throughout the book. It's so inaccurate that I don't even know how to repair it without deleting the entire thing -- and I really don't have the time to write a replacement. 18.214.1.86 18:50, 19 November 2005 (UTC) MR

Its easy, I'll just delete the offending sentence. MasonicLamb 23:38, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Kramer?
How is it possible to have an article about this book and not mention one of the lead characters, assistant DA Larry Kramer, once? He was at least as important to the plot as Fallow was.

Spoilers...
You guys need to rethink the placement of spoiler tags in this article. The entire article is a spoiler? You hit a spoiler warning even before the Introduction! --Gwern (contribs) 23:22, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Addition to Trivia Section
How about adding some information on The New York City Light...? It seems to me to be a fictional newspaper as i cant find a record of it anywhere...
 * It is simply one of many usages of a roman a clef throughout the book, in this regard dealing with the often salacious headlines of the New York City tabloid, the New York Post.Dough007 (talk) 03:58, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Lead characters
I don't think you can say there were four principle characters (McCoy, Bacon, Kramer and Fallow). Others (Weiss, Killian, Kovitsky, Ruskin etc) were just as important in different times. If we had to say there was a lead character, it was McCoy only. Kransky 12:03, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

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"would-be muggers"
This issue has already been resolved, so the following paragraph can be ignored. Mesopelagicity (talk) 17:36, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

I read this book about ten years ago, so my memory might be wrong; but as I remember it, the two black men were not necessarily "would-be muggers" as described in the plot summary. The Master of The Universe and his mistress stop because there is a tire blocking the road. The two men (really a man and a boy, a high school student) happen to be walking by. The older one says, "Yo! Need some help?" Whether it's a threat or an offer of help is a matter of interpretation. The millionaire and his mistress panic and flee, hitting and possibly killing the teenager with their car. I don't have the book anymore; would someone who has it please check, and if appropriate, re-write the sentence about "would-be muggers"? Mesopelagicity (talk) 23:05, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Uncertainty

 * Although it's been decades since I read the book, I'm pretty sure the reader is never told whether the two blacks who approach McCoy on the on-ramp "happen to be walking by." That's a question McCoy wrestles with — during and after the encounter.  Wolfe, I think, never answers it.

 * The following passage is from the encounter, which is in the book's fourth chapter ("King of the Jungle"). Ruskin's shout has just alerted McCoy to the approach of the two blacks:

 * "Yo!" said the big one. "Need some help?"
 * Sherman stood there, holding the tire and staring.
 * "What happen, man? Need some help?"
 * It was a neighborly voice. Setting me up!  One hand inside his jacket pocket!  But he sounds sincere.  It’s a setup, you idiot!  But suppose he merely wants to help?  What are they doing on this ramp!  Haven’t done anything — haven’t threatened.  But they will!  Just be nice.  Are you insane?  Do something !  Act!

 * Later (same chapter), when McCoy and Ruskin are in their Manhattan love nest, Sherman is suggesting they go to the police and tell "what happened." Ruskin demurs:
 * "Sherman, I’m gonna tell you what happened. I’m from South Carolina, and I’m gonna tell you in plain English.  Two niggers tried to kill us, and we got away.  Two niggers tried to kill us in the jungle, and we got outta the jungle, and we’re still breathing, and that’s that."

 * Once again, McCoy wrestles with this, mentally:
 * But if [Maria and he] — if Maria had hit the boy, then it was better to grit his teeth and just tell what happened. Which was what?  Well … two boys had tried to rob them.  They blocked the roadway.  They approached him.  They said ... A little shock went through his solar plexus.  Yo!  You need some help?  That was all the big one had said.  He hadn’t produced a weapon.  Neither of them had made a threatening gesture until after he [McCoy] had thrown the tire.  Could it be – now, wait a minute.  That’s crazy.  What else were they doing out on a ramp to an expressway beside a blockade, in the dark — except to — Maria would back up his interpretation — interpretation! — a frisky wild animal — all of a sudden he realized that he barely knew her.

 * I'm pretty sure, too, that the reader is never actually told — even indirectly — that the hospitalized Henry Lamb is the boy from McCoy and Ruskin's on-ramp experience. (When I say "even indirectly," I mean I don't recall a scene in which, say, McCoy sees a newspaper photo of Lamb and thinks, "That's the boy who was on the ramp.")  I'm also pretty sure we're never told what was reported to police about the circumstances of the accident in which Lamb was purportedly injured.71.242.138.95 (talk) 22:47, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

McCoy name reference
Would it be desirable to have it pointed out that the name of the main character, McCoy, is likely a reference to the Hatfield-McCoy feud? A McCoy, being someone that always desires more and more and needs to prove himself to others (like when he'd rahter take the limo than to be seen walking a few blocks), defining himself no by what he is, but by what he has.

This interpretation I have taken from Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, who understand the term "Hatfield and McCoy" in their song "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" as being "like the Hatfields and McCoys", worrying about money and material belongings more than about the really important things in life. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.75.4.155 (talk) 06:44, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Ambiguity
I have undone another editor's revision of 01:59, 3 May 2009. The editor had changed the plot summary's statement that Maria Ruskin, at the wheel of Sherman McCoy's car, "apparently" strikes one of the two blacks who approach Sherman on the highway ramp in the Bronx. The editor's summary of his/her revision was this:

 * no ambiguity here, book says "The car end fishtailed . . . thok! . . . The skinny boy was no longer standing . . ."

As is seen, that edit summary defeats itself. The quoted passage is ambiguous. Ambiguity is at the heart of the book. The book contains, as I recall, no statement that:

 * 1) Henry Lamb was struck by a car
 * 2) Henry Lamb was one of the two blacks who came onto the ramp when Sherman and Maria were there
 * 3) Sherman's car, as driven by Maria, struck the skinny boy

Yes — the reader of the book is given to think each one of those three things likely — even very likely; but again, not one of them, as I recall, is stated. The ambiguity is literary, subtle.

I say "As I recall" only because I no longer have the book, which, as I also recall, vaguely, I gave to someone on the understanding that it needn't be returned. (Loved the book; hate owning books.) If I am incorrect, and any one of the above statements appears in the book, an editor will kindly provide the quote, here, and adjust the article accordingly.71.242.128.3 (talk) 06:25, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

 * I am the reverted editor. You'll note that my first edit yesterday was to correct the book's ISBN.  Since like you I no longer have the book at hand, before I made my other changes to the article I used the corrected ISBN and Amazon's "Look inside" feature to refresh my memory by reading some excerpts; this avoids the need for the phrase "as I recall".  If you do the same, search for 'thok', 'wrist' and 'concussion' for starters.  I don't think a close reading will find support for your negation of points 1, 2, or 3 above. I won't revert your 'allegedly/apparently' changes again, or copyedit for readability; perhaps someone else will ring in.

 * Having said all that, it seems that the entire "Plot summary" section is a collection of well-meaning original research and opinion that many contributors have built up by applying their own direct reading of the book. I have tagged the section as "Original research.  It should be dumped and rebuilt using actual citations to published sources.  --CliffC (talk) 16:35, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Geography of the misadventure
The fateful encounter at the heart of the novel seems to take place on a Sheridan Expressway on-ramp — though I, a non-New-Yorker, find it hard to tell whether the fictional geography comports strictly with actual geography.

McCoy and Ruskin accidentally enter the Bronx after they go onto the Triborough Bridge from Queens. While they are northward-bound on Ward’s Island and Randall’s Island, they miss the exit for the bridge’s span that goes westward, into Manhattan. As things are told in the book, the sign of the toll plaza that is then before them is this:

 * BRONX UPSTATE N.Y. NEW ENGLAND

They are now heading toward unknown territory. McCoy, who is driving, proceeds through the toll plaza and on across the bridge into the Bronx:

 * At the end of the bridge the expressway split into a Y. MAJOR DEEGAN GEO. WASHINGTON BRIDGE ... BRUCKNER NEW ENGLAND ....

He takes the latter — Bruckner — but immediately comes to another Y:

 * EAST BRONX NEW ENGLAND ... EAST 138TH BRUCKNER BOULEVARD

Again, he takes the latter — and comes abruptly down a ramp to ground level — to what I take to be Bruckner Boulevard:

 * He seemed to be underneath the expressway.

The expressway he's under would seem, geographically, to be the Bruckner Expressway, beneath which, according to Wikipedia, Bruckner Boulevard runs.

 * They were traveling north underneath the expressway. But what expressway?  Two lanes, both heading north ... To the left a retaining wall and cyclone fencing and concrete columns supporting the expressway....

McCoy hopes to turn left — westward — to find an avenue that will take him south again, into Manhattan, but he finds it impossible to turn left at 138th Street:

 * A big opening in the wall ... 138th Street ... But he can’t turn left! To his left are four or five lanes of traffic, down here underneath the expressway, two going north, two going south, and another one beyond them, cars and trucks barreling in both directions — there’s no way he can cut across that traffic ... So he keeps going ... into the Bronx.

After passing another opening where, again, he can’t turn left, he plans, at the next opening — the third — to make a right turn and then make a U-turn, so he’ll be able to pass westward, beneath the expressway. When the third opening comes, he’s not yet over in the right lane, whose traffic prevents him from executing his plan. Advancing to the fourth opening, he does, indeed, turn right — onto a "wide street."

Wolfe does not give this "wide street" a name, and it's hard to tell just how far north McCoy and Ruskin have driven at this point. As I've indicated, they seem to have reached the fourth "opening" in the retaining wall alongside which they'd been driving.

On this wide street are many persons, who "look Latin." There is a "long low building with scalloped dormer windows ... like something from a storybook Swiss chalet...."

After advancing through an intersection with a traffic light, McCoy makes his planned U-turn and heads back toward the expressway:

 * But when they crossed the big thoroughfare under the expressway, they found themselves in a chaotic intersection. Streets converged from odd angles.  People were crossing the street in every direction... Dark faces ... Over this way a subway entrance... Over there low buildings, shops... Great Taste Chinese Takeout... He couldn’t tell which street went due west....

I don’t know whether that intersection corresponds to any actual intersection. Wolfe now just about quits indicating direction, as he communicates mostly that McCoy and Ruskin are lost. When McCoy takes another "wide street," the one that seems to him likeliest to go due west, he finds it more or less blocked by double-and-triple-parked cars, plus people. After another turn or two, he ends up on a street that "quickly merge[s] with a narrow side street and [runs] between some low buildings."

After making turns that take them along deserted streets with fenced-and-razor-wired low buildings, seven- or eight-story unlighted apartment buildings, entirely-razed blocks, and a "long slope" to a lone-surviving three-or-four story building whose ground floor houses a bar or some such place where music is playing (apparently via illicitly-tapped electricity), McCoy yet again turns, soon "[coming] upon a little park with an iron railing around it":

 * You had to turn either left or right. The streets went off at odd angles. ... It no longer looked like New York.  It looked like some small decaying New England city.  He turned left."

Before long, McCoy and Ruskin are back near the subway stop and the Chinese Takeout: McCoy has gone in a circle. He decides to turn right — apparently southward, in other words — to drive once again along what I have taken to be Bruckner Boulevard. What I have taken to be the Bruckner Expressway is "right up above":

 * "I’m gonna take a right. I’m gonna head back down under the expressway."

Ruskin, who doesn’t want him to do that, sees a sign:

 * "Sherman! Look over there!  It says George Washington Bridge!"

 * [H]e saw it. It was on the far side, beneath the expressway, in the decrepit gray gloaming, a sign on a concrete support ... 95.  895 EAST.  GEO. WASH. BRIDGE ... Must be a ramp...

 * He drove across the five lanes toward the little sign. He was back under the expressway.

 * The ramp looked like a black chute stuck up between the concrete supports.

 * The headlights shot across the concrete columns in a delirium. ... He turned left around an abutment and gunned it up the ramp.

In real life, 895 — which seems to be the road whose on-ramp McCoy has entered — is the Sheridan Expressway. It runs north-south, not east-west; and, indeed, a photo at Wikipedia’s article about it seems to confirm that its lanes are labeled north and south, not east and west.

After McCoy and Ruskin have their encounter with the two strangers on the partially-obstructed on-ramp, they (McCoy and Ruskin) go up onto the highway — again: apparently 895 — and drive — northward, apparently — toward the Cross Bronx Expressway:

 * Then [McCoy] stared at a sign over the highway up ahead: CROSS BRONX GEO. WASH. BRIDGE.

They take the Cross Bronx — westward, it would seem — and reach the interchange that connects it with what in real life would be the Major Deegan Expressway:

 * Then, overhead: MAJOR DEEGAN TRIBORO BRIDGE.

They take that — southward (and then eastward), in real life. After passing the exit for Willis Avenue, they come to the exit they want:

 * Over the highway a big sign: TRIBORO.

They take this exit and are now "on the long incline that led to the bridge and to Manhattan." After they go across the bridge and into Manhattan, they go down the "FDR Drive, along the East River." They get off at Seventy-first Street and go to their love nest.

In a sense, of course, the book takes place in a fictional locale — not really New York City at all; but still, I thought it might be interesting to post these details here, in case anyone who is familiar with the lower part of the Bronx can shed any light on what Wolfe describes.

To recap: McCoy and Ruskin seem first to drop down into the Bronx on Bruckner Boulevard, a little below 138th Street, in what would be, in real life, the borough’s Port Morris section. After wandering around, they seem to leave the Bronx via an on-ramp to what would be the northbound Sheridan Expressway.

Wolfe’s description of the on-ramp is so intriguing that I have to wonder whether someone who is familiar with that highway’s ramps would, in reading the description, be put in mind of a particular ramp.

Incidentally, in leaving Kennedy Airport, McCoy and Ruskin take the Van Wyck Expressway north to the Grand Central Parkway, which they then take all the way to the Triborough Bridge. As I look at a map, I’m inclined to think I would exit from the Grand Central Parkway at the Long Island Expressway, which would take me west into Manhattan at midtown. Why drive all the way up to the Triborough Bridge and then back down to the East Seventies through Harlem? Maybe somebody familiar with the driving in the New York area can answer this.

Anyway — some short version of this information might be an interesting addition to the Wikipedia articles on, say, Port Morris and the Sheridan Expressway — as well as to this article, about the novel.71.242.138.95 (talk) 06:36, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Gore Vidal insult?
I've read that the character Nunnally Voyd was so named as a mark of disrespect to Gore Vidal, but I can find no confirmation on that. Was this the case? --  Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  06:04, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I've read Bonfire of the Vanities, and several essays and articles by Vidal over the years. I think the identification of Gore Vidal with "Nunnally Voyd" is a stretch.  Other writers in the New York social scene fit the implied charge of vacuity in the name "Voyd" (a homophone of "void"). Vidal, like his work or not, wasn't vacuous.
 * I actually thought "Lord Buffing" was a closer fit to Vidal, macabre rendition of Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" at a dinner party and all... but there's no evidence that Vidal suffered AIDS as that character did. Vidal died of pneumonia, but his other known concomitant illnesses could have accounted for that.  loupgarous (talk) 23:31, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Amazon adaptation
The reference to an Amazon miniseries does not seem to have any news updates since October 2016. 30 months This may not even occur, so at some point may have to be edited out. 2600:8807:4800:2130:285C:92EC:2A34:6C37 (talk) 19:24, 18 April 2019 (UTC) (dfoofnik not logged in)

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Her name is actually Anne Hardy, not Haddy.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.65.93.46 (talk • contribs) 12:26, 11 April 2005

No it wasn't —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hedpeguyuk (talk • contribs) 16:52, 28 June 2006

'In Character'
Can anyone explain what it means within the article "...many of them 'in character'..." when former cast members of Neighbours attended her funeral? Also there's no references or citations so I'll place one of those things at the top of the page...when I can find it. Yeah, totally exposing myself as a newbie ;) Actually I'll let someone else do it if there's a concensus (sp?) wiki code is not my thing Londonsista (talk) 00:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Year of birth
So, was she born in 1927 or 1930? (I only ask because different obits cite different years.) Quis separabit?  16:06, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Artist
Does anyone know whether she was an artist in real life - as on Neighbours she is often seen painting, drawing (etc). Were all of these staged, or did she also have a natural talent for art? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.53.192 (talk) 09:48, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

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Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

The Association of Anaesthetists, in full the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), is a professional association for anaesthetists in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

It was founded by Dr Henry Featherstone in 1932, when GPs gave most anaesthetics in the UK and Ireland as a sideline. Anaesthetists were not respected by other specialists and were poorly paid. Surgeons provided referrals and collected and paid their fees. The AAGBI's negotiations before the NHS was established in 1948 ensured anaesthetists received consultant status. It instigated the founding of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (now the Royal College of Anaesthetists) in 1947 and supported the foundation of the equivalent Faculty of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (now the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland in 1959.

The AAGBI adopted the motto "in somno securitas" (safe in sleep) when it was granted the right to bear arms by King George VI in 1945. The AAGBI office is located in the centre of London.

Past presidents

 * 1932-35 - Henry W Featherstone OBE MD LLDHon FFARCS
 * 1935-38 - Joseph Blomfield OBE MD FRCS FFARCS
 * 1938-41 - Zebulon Mennell FFARCS
 * 1941-44 - Ashley Daly FRCS FFARCS
 * 1944-47 - Archibald D Marston CBE MD FRCS FFARCS
 * 1947-50 - John Gillies CVO MC FRCSEd FFARCS
 * 1950-53 - W Alexander Low MC FFARCS
 * 1953-56 - Sir Geoffrey Organe MD FRCS FFARCS FFARACSHon FFARCSIHon
 * 1956-59 - T Cecil Gray CBE KCSG OStJ MD FRCP FRCS FFARCSHon
 * 1959-62 - Ronald Jarman DSC FRCS FFARCS
 * 1962-65 - Vernon F Hall CVO FRCA FFARCSHon
 * 1965-67 - Herbert H Pinkerton FRCP (Glasg) FFARCS
 * 1967-69 - R Patrick W Shackleton CBE DM FFARCS
 * 1969-71 - A John W Beard MD FRCA
 * 1971-73 - J Alfred Lee FFARCS FFARCSIHon MMSA
 * 1973-76 - Philip J Helliwell FRCA
 * 1976-78 - Cyril F Scurr CBE LVO FRCS FRCA FFARCSIHon
 * 1978-80 - Stanley A Mason FRCA AKC
 * 1980-82 - W Derek Wylie FRCP FRCS FRCA FANZCAHon
 * 1982-84 - Michael D Vickers FRCA FANZCAHon
 * 1984-86 - Thomas B. Boulton OBE TD FRCA FDSRCS
 * 1986-88 - Michael Rosen CBE FRCS FRCOG FRCA FFARCSIHon
 * 1988-90 - Maurice M Burrows FRCA
 * 1990-92 - Peter J F Baskett FRCA MRCP
 * 1992-94 - William R MacRae FRCSEd, FRCA, FFARCSI
 * 1994-96 - S Morrell Lyons OBE MD FRCA FFARCSI
 * 1996-98 - W Leslie M Baird FRCA FRCP (Glasg)
 * 1998-00 - Maldwyn Morgan MB BS DA FRCA
 * 2000-02 - Professor Leo Strunin FRCA FRCPC
 * 2002-04 - Dr Peter G M Wallace FRCA FRCP (Glasg)
 * 2004-06 - Professor Mike Harmer MD FRCA FCARCSI (Hon)
 * 2006-08 - Dr David K Whitaker FRCA FFPMRCA FFICM Hon FCARCSI
 * 2008-10 - Dr Richard J S Birks MB CHB FRCA Hon FCARCSI
 * 2010-12 - Dr Iain H Wilson MB CHB FFARCS
 * 2012-14 - Dr William Harrop-Griffiths MA MB BS FRCA
 * 2014-16 - Dr Andrew Hartle MB ChB FRCA FFICM
 * 2016-18 - Dr Paul Clyburn MB MRCP FRCA
 * 2018-20 - Dr Kathleen Ferguson MB ChB DA FRCA
 * 2020-22 - Dr Mike Nathanson MBBS MRCP FRCA
 * 2022-present - Dr Matthew Davies BSc MBChB MRCGP

Events
The society holds two main annual meetings. Winter Scientific Meeting (WSM) is the Association's largest annual event. Held in London each year, WSM is the leading anaesthetic meeting in the UK with an attendance of around 800 national and international delegates. The scientific programme focuses on current issues in anaesthesia. There is a trade exhibition with around 40 companies in anaesthetics attending. WSM is aimed at all levels of anaesthetists from trainees to consultants and is a European CPD accredited meeting.

The Annual Congress is the flagship event of the Association and is held in various locations around the UK and Ireland. Annual Congress is one of the leading anaesthetic meetings in the UK with an attendance of around 800-1000 national and international delegates. There is a trade exhibition with over 40 anaesthetics companies attending. Annual Congress is aimed all levels of anaesthetists from trainees to consultants and is a European CPD accredited meeting.

The society also hosts smaller events. These include the annual Trainee Conference, the leading trainee scientific meeting in the UK, aimed at all levels of trainee anaesthetists from CT1 to ST7. It has an attendance of around 400 delegates each year. The society also holds educational seminars designed to update on new developments in a specific field of interest within anaesthesia, critical care and pain medicine.

Heritage Centre
The Anaesthesia Heritage Centre contains the Association's archives, the Anaesthesia Museum and a rare book collection and is open to everyone.

The centre consists of a museum with a collection of over 4,500 objects dating back to 1774, the Association's own archives, which date back to 1932, and a reference library. The museum is a member of The London Museums of Health & Medicine.

Undergraduate Award
The Wylie Medal is awarded to the most meritorious essay on the topic related to anaesthesia, the topic for the essay question changes year on year. The award is open to undergraduate medical student at a university in Great Britain or Ireland. Prizes of £500, £250 and £150 are awarded to the best three submissions. The overall winners are given the Wylie Medal in memory of Dr W Derek Wylie, President of the Association 1980–82.

SAS Award
The Association invites applications for the SAS Audit Prize and the SAS Research Prize. These are exclusively for SAS doctors to encourage them to undertake audit and research. Entries will be judged by the Research & Grants Committee of the Association. All SAS doctors who are members of the Association are eligible to apply for the prize.

Innovation
The main aims of the Association's Innovation project are to promote innovation in anaesthesia and intensive care, to help individuals in their 'journey' from the concept to the finished product, to facilitate introduction to the medical equipment manufacturers or relevant organisation, to facilitate testing of new equipment or idea and to facilitate marketing of a new product or an idea. It involves holding workshops/clinics and seminars on the subject, having regular features in Anaesthesia News and the best innovations featured in Anaesthesia and having plenary or satellite sessions during Annual Congress and WSM London.

Trainees
The Association of Anaesthetists Trainee Committee (formerly known as GAT - Group of Anaesthetists in Training), is a section of the association which represents the interests of trainee anaesthetists across the UK and Ireland. Trainee members account for around one third of the total membership of the association. The Trainee Committee members are elected and has members sitting on the Board of Directors of the Association and representation on many other committees including the Intensive Care Society Trainee Committee and the British Medical Association Junior Doctors Committee.

SAS
Specialists, Associate Specialists and Specialty (SAS) doctors are important members of any department, especially in Anaesthesia, and make an enormous contribution to the specialty. Doctors enter the SAS grade for many different reasons. Some enter from different training systems as the SAS route provides a means for secure employment and an alternative pathway for a medical career. The Association has grants and prizes designed especially for SAS doctors such as the SAS Audit, Research Prize and the SAS travel grant.

Consultants
The Association has around 10,000 members, the majority of whom are consultants.

Publications
Anaesthesia is the society's official journal, with an international scope. It publishes original, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of general and regional anaesthesia, intensive care and pain therapy, including research on equipment.

Anaesthesia Reports is another official journal, also with an international scope. It publishes original, peer-reviewed case reports, media content, and associated papers on all aspects of anaesthesia, peri-operative medicine, intensive care and pain therapy.

The association also publishes the newsletter Anaesthesia News. Regular features include reports from the officers and president, items specific to trainees, a history page, a specialist society page, letters to the editor and an editorial.

The association publishes guidelines on many topics relating to anaesthesia. Titles include: Best Practice in the Management of Epidural Analgesia in the Hospital Setting, Organising a Year Abroad, Good Anaesthetist - Standards of Practice for Career Grade Anaesthetists.

Awards
Honorary Membership was instituted in 1932 at the time that the Association was founded. The society also awards the following:
 * John Snow Silver Medal (instituted in 1946), in honour of John Snow
 * The Pask Certificate of Honour (1977) after the Moorgate Underground disaster

 * Sir Ivan Magill Gold Medal (1988) to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the pioneer anaesthetist Ivan Magill

 * The Evelyn Baker medal (1998) for outstanding clinical competence

 * The Featherstone Certificate (2001), in memory of the founder, Dr Henry Featherstone

 * The Anniversary Medal (2007), for the 75th anniversary.


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True Light Girls' College

True Light Girls' College (TLGC, ) is a Christian girls' secondary school in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1973, to commemorate the centenary of the first True Light Middle School, which was founded in 1872 in Canton by the American missionary, Harriet Newell Noyes. It is run by the Kowloon True Light Middle School Management Board with the assistance of the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China. The school is an aided EMI secondary school.

Facilities
Since it was built according to the standards of 30 years ago, much effort has been made to improve the basic facilities of the school premises to meet the needs of the a changing society. A new annex was completed in Autumn 2005, providing four more classrooms and some special rooms in addition to the 20 classroom in the main building. There are a total of 24 classrooms, 16 special rooms, a hall, a covered playground, a canteen, a library, a student activity room, a gymnastics room, a badminton court and two basketball courts. Student TV and a School History Gallery were established in 2013 to celebrate the school's 40th Anniversary. Later on, an E-learning Centre was built in 2014 to facilitate students' learning with the convenient use of gadgets and easy access to the Wi-Fi network.

School Motto
Thou art the light of the world (Matthew 5:14)

Teaching Staff
There are in total 48 teaching staff in approved establishment with 6 staff who are not included in approved establishment. 100% teaching staffs have Teacher Certificate / Diploma in Education. 48% teaching staffs have Bachelor Degree while 50% have Master / Doctorate Degree or above. 33% teaching staffs have Special Education Training.

School uniform
The school uses a cheongsam as the student uniform, and was the first Hong Kong secondary school to adopt the garment as such.

Class structure
There are 24 classes under the New Senior Secondary (NSS) curriculum: 4 classes at each level from S1 to S6.

Notable alumnae

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Fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of position

In physics, the fourth, fifth and sixth derivatives of position are defined as derivatives of the position vector with respect to time – with the first, second, and third derivatives being velocity, acceleration, and jerk, respectively. The higher-order derivatives are less common than the first three; thus their names are not as standardized, though the concept of a minimum snap trajectory has been used in robotics and is implemented in MATLAB.

The fourth derivative is referred to as snap, leading the fifth and sixth derivatives to be "sometimes somewhat facetiously" called crackle and pop, inspired by the Rice Krispies mascots Snap, Crackle, and Pop. The fourth derivative is also called jounce.

Fourth derivative (snap/jounce)
Snap, or jounce, is the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time, or the rate of change of the jerk with respect to time. Equivalently, it is the second derivative of acceleration or the third derivative of velocity, and is defined by any of the following equivalent expressions: $$\vec s = \frac{d \,\vec \jmath}{dt} = \frac{d^2 \vec a}{dt^2} = \frac{d^3 \vec v}{dt^3} = \frac{d^4 \vec r}{dt^4}.$$In civil engineering, the design of railway tracks and roads involves the minimization of snap, particularly around bends with different radii of curvature. When snap is constant, the jerk changes linearly, allowing for a smooth increase in radial acceleration, and when, as is preferred, the snap is zero, the change in radial acceleration is linear. The minimization or elimination of snap is commonly done using a mathematical clothoid function. Minimizing snap improves the performance of machine tools and roller coasters.

The following equations are used for constant snap: $$\begin{align} \vec \jmath &= \vec \jmath_0 + \vec s t, \\ \vec a &= \vec a_0 + \vec \jmath_0 t + \tfrac{1}{2} \vec s t^2, \\ \vec v &= \vec v_0 + \vec a_0 t + \tfrac{1}{2} \vec \jmath_0 t^2 + \tfrac{1}{6} \vec s t^3, \\ \vec r &= \vec r_0 + \vec v_0 t + \tfrac{1}{2} \vec a_0 t^2 + \tfrac{1}{6} \vec \jmath_0 t^3 + \tfrac{1}{24} \vec s t^4, \end{align}$$

where

 * $$\vec s$$ is constant snap,
 * $$\vec \jmath_0$$ is initial jerk,
 * $$\vec \jmath$$ is final jerk,
 * $$\vec a_0$$ is initial acceleration,
 * $$\vec a$$ is final acceleration,
 * $$\vec v_0$$ is initial velocity,
 * $$\vec v$$ is final velocity,
 * $$\vec r_0$$ is initial position,
 * $$\vec r$$ is final position,
 * $$t$$ is time between initial and final states.

The notation $$\vec s$$ (used by Visser ) is not to be confused with the displacement vector commonly denoted similarly.

The dimensions of snap are distance per fourth power of time (LT−4). The corresponding SI unit is metre per second to the fourth power, m/s4, m⋅s−4.

Fifth derivative
The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time is sometimes referred to as crackle. It is the rate of change of snap with respect to time. Crackle is defined by any of the following equivalent expressions: $$\vec c =\frac {d \vec s} {dt} = \frac {d^2 \vec \jmath} {dt^2} = \frac {d^3 \vec a} {dt^3} = \frac {d^4 \vec v} {dt^4}= \frac {d^5 \vec r} {dt^5}$$

The following equations are used for constant crackle: $$\begin{align} \vec s &= \vec s_0 + \vec c \,t \\[1ex] \vec \jmath &= \vec \jmath_0 + \vec s_0 \,t + \tfrac{1}{2} \vec c \,t^2 \\[1ex] \vec a &= \vec a_0 + \vec \jmath_0 \,t + \tfrac{1}{2} \vec s_0 \,t^2 + \tfrac{1}{6} \vec c \,t^3 \\[1ex] \vec v &= \vec v_0 + \vec a_0 \,t + \tfrac{1}{2} \vec \jmath_0 \,t^2 + \tfrac{1}{6} \vec s_0 \,t^3 + \tfrac{1}{24} \vec c \,t^4 \\[1ex] \vec r &= \vec r_0 + \vec v_0 \,t + \tfrac{1}{2} \vec a_0 \,t^2 + \tfrac{1}{6} \vec \jmath_0 \,t^3 + \tfrac{1}{24} \vec s_0 \,t^4 + \tfrac{1}{120} \vec c \,t^5 \end{align}$$

where

 * $$\vec c$$ : constant crackle,
 * $$\vec s_0$$ : initial snap,
 * $$\vec s$$ : final snap,
 * $$\vec \jmath_0$$ : initial jerk,
 * $$\vec \jmath$$ : final jerk,
 * $$\vec a_0$$ : initial acceleration,
 * $$\vec a$$ : final acceleration,
 * $$\vec v_0$$ : initial velocity,
 * $$\vec v$$ : final velocity,
 * $$\vec r_0$$ : initial position,
 * $$\vec r$$ : final position,
 * $$t$$ : time between initial and final states.

The dimensions of crackle are LT−5. The corresponding SI unit is m/s5.

Sixth derivative
The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time is sometimes referred to as pop. It is the rate of change of crackle with respect to time. Pop is defined by any of the following equivalent expressions:

$$\vec p =\frac {d \vec c} {dt} = \frac {d^2 \vec s} {dt^2} = \frac {d^3 \vec \jmath} {dt^3} = \frac {d^4 \vec a} {dt^4} = \frac {d^5 \vec v} {dt^5} = \frac {d^6 \vec r} {dt^6}$$

The following equations are used for constant pop: $$\begin{align} \vec c &= \vec c_0 + \vec p \,t \\ \vec s &= \vec s_0 + \vec c_0 \,t + \tfrac{1}{2} \vec p \,t^2 \\ \vec \jmath &= \vec \jmath_0 + \vec s_0 \,t + \tfrac{1}{2} \vec c_0 \,t^2 + \tfrac{1}{6} \vec p \,t^3 \\ \vec a &= \vec a_0 + \vec \jmath_0 \,t + \tfrac{1}{2} \vec s_0 \,t^2 + \tfrac{1}{6} \vec c_0 \,t^3 + \tfrac{1}{24} \vec p \,t^4 \\ \vec v &= \vec v_0 + \vec a_0 \,t + \tfrac{1}{2} \vec \jmath_0 \,t^2 + \tfrac{1}{6} \vec s_0 \,t^3 + \tfrac{1}{24} \vec c_0 \,t^4 + \tfrac{1}{120} \vec p \,t^5 \\ \vec r &= \vec r_0 + \vec v_0 \,t + \tfrac{1}{2} \vec a_0 \,t^2 + \tfrac{1}{6} \vec \jmath_0 \,t^3 + \tfrac{1}{24} \vec s_0 \,t^4 + \tfrac{1}{120} \vec c_0 \,t^5 + \tfrac{1}{720} \vec p \,t^6 \end{align}$$

where

 * $$\vec p$$ : constant pop,
 * $$\vec c_0$$ : initial crackle,
 * $$\vec c$$ : final crackle,
 * $$\vec s_0$$ : initial snap,
 * $$\vec s$$ : final snap,
 * $$\vec \jmath_0$$ : initial jerk,
 * $$\vec \jmath$$ : final jerk,
 * $$\vec a_0$$ : initial acceleration,
 * $$\vec a$$ : final acceleration,
 * $$\vec v_0$$ : initial velocity,
 * $$\vec v$$ : final velocity,
 * $$\vec r_0$$ : initial position,
 * $$\vec r$$ : final position,
 * $$t$$ : time between initial and final states.

The dimensions of pop are LT−6. The corresponding SI unit is m/s6.


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Talk:A. S. Byatt

Article 2005
I was most upset to read this shallow and irrelevant entry on A.S.Byatt who is one of the foremost contemporary British authors - and not only in my personal opinion! Out of the ten or more wonderful works of fiction that she has written, only two are mentioned in passing! Out of the nine different prestigious literary prices and awards that she has received only one is mentioned. There is not a word about her masterful quartet of novels (Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, The Babel Tower,The Whistling Woman)about a Yorkshire family. Not one of her excellent short story collections (Matisse Stories, Sugar and Other Stories, Stories of Fire and Ice, etc.) is mentioned by name. Instead most of the article is like taken from a gossip column (why she quarrels with her sister and why she does not like Harry Potter!) and is not worthy of Wikipedia. Miriam miriambe@savion.huji.ac.il

I agree with you entirely, and reworked the article to change its focus to her works. Please feel free to add what you can about these other works as is possible, as I have not read them. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy)  11:46, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I added a list of her works and awards and some paragraphs in the body of the article.Miriam

It seems odd that her comments on Harry Potter are given a section almost longer than the rest of the entire article. If this "controversy" is really so important, perhaps it should be given an article of its own, otherwise it could easily be summarised in a single sentence or two, or deleted entirely. Nbear 05:53, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I think the section about her criticism of the Harry Potter novels is necessary simply because it is biographical in nature. However, I do believe that the line "She was awarded a CBE in 1990, then a DBE in 1999." doesn't belong in the section and as such I've moved it the the section about her life and career. --Pavithran 13:55, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Marriage
AS Byatt was married to Ian Byatt and now has the surname Duffy. Is this because of a second marriage? Millbanks (talk) 09:23, 7 August 2008 (UTC) Yes, it is (although I'm not sure she goes by the name Duffy, or even that she took it up), she was Antonia Drabble originally and is now married to Peter John Duffy in 1969 - see her website biography here: http://www.asbyatt.com/biography.aspx. Perhaps this ought to be mentioned? TrentandtheAcrobats (talk) 22:55, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * She was actually born and married (twice) as Susan Drabble. I don't know where the Antonia came from. Do a search for her birth name here: http://freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Ravenscroft32 (talk) 20:46, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Works/bibliography
Shouldn't this part have links to their actual pages?

I agree, some of them redirect to this page, while others take you to pages about the novel. I will take out these links, and they can be put back when a page is set up. Baldwin Clere (talk) 09:48, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

 * The link to 'Still Life (Byatt Novel)' still redirects to the author's page. If there was a page for this novel which has now been removed, shouldn't the reference just be removed (leaving a red non-link) rather than creating a circular reference, which is very annoying?  I've notices more and more circular refs in WP, so whoever's doing this, please stop! Chrismorey (talk) 08:41, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

weasel words/assertion of acclaim
It seems to me that there are no weasel words in saying that someone has been hailed as one of the living greats (or dead, or was at the time, or is locally acclaimed or controversially claimed, etc etc etc)--it may be false or interpolated for biased purposes in particular cases, but here, I think is is fair to say that she has been acclaimed as great from quarters whose opinion weighs in. Clown in black and yellow 21:23, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Please read the Verifiability policy, as well as the Avoid Weasel Words Avoid Peacock Terms sections on the Manual of Style. If you believe that A S Byatt has been generally hailed, by people considered to have authority on the subject, as one of the great postmodern authors, you should have no trouble in naming two or three specific people who have done so.  When they have been supplied, it can be mentioned who these people are, and exactly what they described Ms Byatt as.  Until then, "has been hailed" is just a claim that adds no information to the article.
 * I'll wait for this debate to play out before removing the term again, but I think it's clear from those policies that the statement isn't appropriate in its current form. TSP 21:38, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

revert of 8/1
If this sarcastically worded addition is passed on fact, it should be sourced. I don't put beggar-sticking past the feisty Byatt, but cite if it did happen. Clown in black and yellow 00:51, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

revert of 8/3
I have added a link to the NY times archive of Byatt's Op-ed about Harry Potter. If I ever find a link to a non-paid cache of this article I will include it here. Yet, in doing this task, I noted that there had been a link to the Salon article supporting Byatt--which short of some kind of very abstruse argument that a few Philosophy majors (or lawyers) might produce, is pretty good prima facia evidence that the whole thing occurred--in any case, was there ever a factual doubt that the thing had happened--or that the depiction of it in the article was inaccurate? Short of a question of whether it all occurred, it seems to me that a request for a source has more to do with formal rigor, which has its' place--but not as the basis for summary deletion of a large passage of text. Even if there was a question of whether the depiction had been accurate, surely the thing to do is to correct, not to delete (and then add in links to (in this case, additionalItalic text) sources to show that the change is towards the truth). I challenge whether the passage was trivial. Certainly Dame Byatt's fiction has everything to do with why she has either a wikipedia page or an op-ed column--but surely that has not been in dispute--and if Byatt's literary reputation has gotten her a forum to comment in one of the world's most important and widely-read newspapers, on the topic of writing, at least a precis of what she has to say will be relevant here--and especially if it generates attention,and reaction, especially on a subject that has a number of wikipedia pages itself. It certainly says something that Byatt found the subject nontrivial enough to write the column in such vehement terms to begin with.

Balance of "Life and career" section.
In a pitifully short section one of the four sentences is a long quote about her view of Christianity and Quakerism. This is so unbalanced as to be POV. 124.168.72.97 (talk) 07:31, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd say this section needs expanding more than reducing. It is, as you say, pitifully small. Span (talk) 12:27, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

"Appropriation of a family tea-set"
I know nothing about Byatt, and have no agenda. However, I found this phrase confusing, and it definitely needs editing: "the appropriation of a family tea-set in one of the latter's novels." It sounds as if Drabble STOLE a tea set, and it's not clear what relationship the novel has to this event. Was it a real theft, a fictional theft? Having followed the link, I will clarify the text thus: "Byatt has been engaged in a feud with her novelist sister Margaret Drabble, since learning that Drabble wrote about their family's tea set, a tea set which Byatt had intended to write about herself. The two sisters have also disagreed about the appropriate portrayal of their mother. The pair seldom see each other and don't read each other's books."

This summarizes the article, I think it's clearer, and it doesn't embellish. Note that the article does not claim that they have "famously" been engaged in a feud, nor that they have "long" been engaged in a feud. The reference to "decades" seems clearly to indicate that Byatt found out about the tea set passage decades after it was written, but it does not suggest that the feud went on for decades. In fact, the principle source for information about the feud was Drabble's own autobiographical writing, and she herself refers to the incident as "normal sibling rivalry," so this might well be a bit of overblown gossip based on the natural conflict between two people who write about some of the same experiences from their own diverging points of view.
 * I added a bit about Byatt's view on the conflict, which, according to her, has indeed been overblown. UlanEng —Preceding undated comment added 17:26, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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Hugh McHugh Breifne O'Conor

Hugh McHugh Breifne O'Conor (Irish: Aedh mac Aedh Breifneach Ua Conchobair) was king of Connacht, Ireland, in 1342. He was the last of the Clan Murtagh O'Conor to hold this position. He died in 1350, as the O'Connor Breifne (Ó Conchobar Brefnech), some eight years after being expelled. His father, a son of Cathal O'Connor had briefly made a bid for the kingship in 1309-10 from a power-base established in Breifne O'Rourke.

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This account is closed due to admin misconduct and false allegations made against me. CalJW 20:59, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

It seems to me
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WP:BIO (Sportspeople)
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Don't let the door hit you in the ass
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User talk:Cleonis/sandbox/Equivalence Principle

What I think belongs in the article
First: The Principle of Equivalence asserts equivalence between two situations that you would not expect to be equivalent. Those two situations: standing-on-the-surface-of-a-planet and moving-in-gravitationfree-space-being-accelerated should both be mentioned explicitly.

In his article Einstein used the technical term "accelerated frame of reference". First I substitute that with 'a spaceship in gravitation-free space that is being accelerated by a force'. In the next section I substitute Einstein's term with the thinking tools of Gravitation by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler: a latticework of measuring rods and clocks that is either moving inertially, or being accelerated.

I expect the reader of the article on the Principle of Equivalence to be reasonably familiar with special relativity. Principle of Equivalence is general relativity stuff, so special relativity is required prior knowledge.

I go straight for the conjugation with special relativity, since without that conjugation, the Principle of Equivalence is barren and meaningless. --Cleon Teunissen | Talk 11:33, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This does not work
Cleon -

This really does not work. The weak EP is based on the equivalence of being accelerated in both a gravitational field and in an accelerating spaceship. In the latter case, the is no curvature to account for its internal "gravitation".

The WEP is a very simple concept. Please don't mess it up.

I kindly suggest (and I do mean kindly) that you not worry about this page. You are trying and you are learning, but you still have a ways to go before you will really have an understanding of GR.

--EMS 17:10, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The weak EP is based on the equivalence of being accelerated in both a gravitational field and in an accelerating spaceship. In the latter case, the is no curvature to account for its internal "gravitation" --EMS 17:10, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * It is unclear what your objection involving 'its internal "gravitation"' is about.
 * When a space-ship is being accelerated by thrusters, then there is no need for postulating such a thing as 'an internal "gravitation".  When a space-ship is being accelerated then everything happening inside in a different way from how it would happen in free-fall can be accounted for by the fact that the ship and its contents are being accelerated with respect to the local inertial frame.
 * That is, in my judgement, the consistent way to present these matters.

 * I get the impression that you ascribe assumptions to me that in fact I do not make. I get the impression that what I write appears complicated to you because there are presuppositions in your thinking that are not present in mine.

 * If your comment would have identified an inconsistency in what I have written you would have supported your credibility. But as far as I can tell your comment comes from superficial reading.

 * What I have written is self-consistent and consistent with observations. I will rely on my own judgement in these matters. Please confirm whether you've read this reply --Cleon Teunissen | Talk 22:01, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Getting sandbox articles out of the categories
Cleon -

Our sandbox articles have become listed in thier respective categories. I have fixed mine in two ways:

 * 1) Commenting out the categoty:... lines, or
 * 2) Redirecting the page to the active article

Redirecting is done with a single line that reads

 * 1) REDIRECT Equivalence Principle

as the text of this article.

I have taken the liberty of commenting out the category lines. I advise doing the redirect, but that is your perogative IMO.

--EMS 04:13, 3 May 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Hellenes

Inasmuch as "Greeks" is about the modern population, "Hellenes" should link to Names of the Greeks (since we have that article). People will link to "Hellenes" rather than "Greeks" for a reason (either discussing the name itself, or using the term in a wide, historic sense). dab (ᛏ) 17:13, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

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Crathie Kirk

Crathie Kirk is a small Church of Scotland parish church in the Scottish village of Crathie, best known for being the regular place of worship of the British royal family when they are in residence at the nearby Balmoral Castle.

Crathie Kirk is now united with neighbouring Braemar to form a single parish with two places of worship. Eventually this parish will be further enlarged to include Glenmuick (Ballater). The minister (since 2005) is Kenneth Mackenzie. Mackenzie was previously minister of the Church of Scotland congregation in Budapest, Hungary (1999–2005).

History
Crathie has been a place of Christian worship since the 9th century when a church was founded on the banks of the River Dee by Saint Manire (Bishop of Aberdeenshire and Banff and a follower of Saint Columba, the pioneer of Christianity in Scotland). It is traditionally held that Manire baptised Pictish converts in a pool of the Dee east of the modern village of Crathie. A single standing stone at Rinabaich is all that remains of Manire's church (where Manire himself is reputedly buried). Subsequent places of worship were situated further west, near the location of present-day Crathie village. The ruins of a 13th-century church, dedicated to Saint Manire, stand on the riverbank south of the current structure.

A later church was built at the current site in 1805. Queen Victoria worshipped there from 1848, and every British monarch since has worshipped at Crathie Kirk. Victoria laid the foundation stone for a new, much larger, church in 1893. Victoria's decision to worship at Crathie Kirk initially caused a scandal, particularly when it was discovered that she had received communion there. As Supreme Governor of the Anglican Church of England, it was expected that she would worship in the Scottish Episcopal Church, which recognised the authority of the archbishop of Canterbury, although to do so would have been illegal since in her own words "Scotch bishops are mere dissenters".

Anne, Princess Royal, married Timothy Laurence, then a commander in the Royal Navy, at Crathie Kirk, on 12 December 1992. The couple chose to marry in Scotland as the Church of England did not, at the time, permit remarriage after divorce. The Church of Scotland, which does not consider marriage to be a sacrament, has no objection to remarriage after divorce, depending on the circumstances which led to the end of the previous marriage. The British royal family attended the Sunday service here after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on the morning of 31 August 1997.

Architecture
The walls are built of local granite and the roof made of Scots pine. Building materials were donated by the surrounding estates, and £5000 raised from the local population to fund construction. A gift of £2,000 was made by Queen Victoria's daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Louise who raised the money at a Bazaar held in the grounds of Balmoral Castle.

The church, built in the fashionable Gothic revival style by Elgin architect A. Marshall Mackenzie, was completed in 1895. Marshall Mackenzie then went on to build St Ninian's Chapel, Braemar, for Queen Victoria's grandson-in-law, the 1st Duke of Fife. Crathie Kirk's south transept is reserved for royal use. The north transept contains pews belonging to the Farquharson family, Lairds of Invercauld and owners of Braemar Castle and to the Gordon family, Lairds of Abergeldie and owners of nearby Abergeldie Castle.

Royal connections

 * Queen Victoria donated two stained glass windows which commemorate author and social reformer Reverend Norman MacLeod, and endowed the Father Willis organ that stood in the kirk between 1895 and 2003.
 * Victoria's highland servant John Brown is buried in the churchyard.
 * Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, donated four bells which continue to hang in the belltower.
 * Edward VII donated two marble medallions commemorating his brother Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and sister Victoria, Princess Royal and German Empress.
 * Edward's son George V donated a communion table dedicated to the memory of his father. This was made from white marble quarried on the island of Iona, the site of Columba's monastery.
 * Elizabeth II donated a Bible decorated with the royal coat of arms.
 * Following the death of Elizabeth II at Balmoral, the church held a private service for members of the royal family on 10 September 2022.

Ministers

 * 1563 – Sir Laurence Coutts
 * 1567 – Richard Christison
 * 1574 – John Wilson
 * 1576–85 – Archibald Wilson
 * 1590–1608 – David Sanderson
 * 1626–63 – Alexander Ferries (Ferguson) M.A.
 * 1669–99 – William Robertson M.A.
 * 1700–14 – Adam Ferguson M.A.
 * 1715–48 – John McInnes M.A.
 * 1784–88 – James Wilson M.A.
 * 1789–1822 – Charles McHardy M.A.
 * 1822–40 - Alexander McFarlane
 * 1840–63 – Archibald Anderson M.A.
 * 1864–74 – Alexander Minty Beattie M.A.
 * 1867–73 – Malcolm Campbell Taylor M.A.
 * 1874–96 – Archibald Alexander Campbell D.D.
 * 1897–1918 – Samuel James Ramsay Sibbald M.V.O., D.D
 * 1919–41 – John Stirton C.V.O., D.D.
 * 1937–63 – John Lamb C.V.O., D.D.
 * 1964–71 – Ronald Henderson Gunn Budge M.V.O., M.A.
 * 1972–77 – Thomas James Trail Nichol M.V.O., M.B.E., M.C., M.A., D.D.
 * 1979–96 – James Alexander Keith Angus T.D., M.A., L.V.O.
 * 1996–2005 – Robert P. Sloan M.A., B.D.
 * Since 2005 – Kenneth I. Mackenzie B.D., C.P.S.

Burials of note

 * John Brown

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Marshall, Sons & Co.

Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1848. The company was based in the Britannia Iron Works, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Early production was of steam engines and agricultural machinery. Later production included diesel tractors such as the Field Marshall, Track Marshall and former Leyland wheeled tractors.

History
In 1842 William Marshall bought the defunct engineering works of William Garland and Son at Back Street Foundry in Gainsborough. In 1849 he renamed it the Britannia Ironworks and began to produce road steam engines. In 1857 his son James Marshall become a partner and the company name was changed to William Marshall and Son. In 1861 another son, Henry Dickenson Marshall, became a partner. William Marshall died in 1861 and his two sons continued the business. It was incorporated as a limited company in 1862.

Before WW1 the workforce was over 4000, but by the mid 1930s this had fallen to less than 1000, and in October 1935 Thomas W. Ward Ltd purchased the entire assets of Marshall, Sons & Co Ltd. In January 1947 it was reported that Marshall had acquired John Fowler and Company (Leeds) Ltd. which was of similar size and had a highly mechanised foundry at Sprotbrough which was built in 1943 as part of the war effort to make track links for tanks. The two companies merged their activities to some extent and initially products were marketed under the Fowler-Marshall brand, but John Fowler and Co (Leeds) retained its identity and operated as a subsidiary company. By 1970 the two companies had been combined to form Marshall Fowler Limited.

In 1974 the Fowler works in Leeds was closed, and all activity concentrated at Gainsborough, and in 1975 T.W.Ward Ltd sold Marshall to British Leyland, who merged it with their Aveling-Barford products to form Aveling-Marshall, who made tracked crawlers and wheeled loaders. However British Leyland decided to sell off non-core businesses in 1979 and the Marshall part of British Leyland Special Products Division was sold to businessman Charles Nickerson, owner of Marshall, Son & Co. He produced crawlers under the Track Marshall Ltd name, and in 1982 acquired the British Leyland tractor business. He moved tractor assembly from Bathgate, Scotland to Gainsborough where he built tractors under the Marshall name. This deal was conditional on him sourcing engine and other parts from the Bathgate factory for a minimum of 3 years.

In 1986 the Marshall company changed ownership before becoming owned by Bentall Simplex who moved tractor production from Gainsborough to their 25 acre factory at Scunthorpe. Under Bentall Simplex Marshall tractors were increasingly fitted with Perkins engines. By 1989 a wide range of tractors were in production from 22hp to 125hp, plus they had a large spare parts business for the 120,000 Nuffield, Leyland and Marshall tractors around the world. This wide range of tractors largely came about by importing Steyr tractors and marketing them under the Marshall brand. The Track Marshall business was also sold in 1986, to a former sales director, Hubert Flatters. He saved the business but unfortunately died in 1987. The business was sold by his family in 1990 to Tom Walkinshaw's TWR Group, who focussed on the production of the rubber-tracked TM200. Track Marshall production continued until 1998, after which the business was sold to the Sales Director Tony Leighton and thereafter the company focussed on the supply of spare parts.

There is now a shopping centre (Marshall's Yard) standing on part of the former Britannia Iron Works site.

Steam engines
Marshall's produced large numbers of steam traction engines, steam rollers, portable engines and agricultural machinery of all types.

Tractors
In 1900 they started designing internal combustion-engined tractors to be called the Colonials, with a power of 16 to 32 hp (not comparable to modern hp) for the export market to replace steam engines, selling 300+ by 1914. In 1928 they started to develop a tractor similar to the Lanz Bulldog from Germany. They launched the 15/30 (Model E) in 1930, followed by the 12/20 which became the Model M in 1938; this then developed into the Field-Marshall in 1944. Production of the Field Marshall continued until 1957.

A small number of MP4 and MP 6 tractors were produced after the Field Marshall, but tractor production effectively ceased until 1982, when Charles Nickerson bought the production rights to the Leyland tractors range, producing them at Gainsborough (although using engines and parts from Leyland) and selling them under the Marshall name. Initially successful, the venture failed to generate enough capital to fund the successful development of new models and the company began to lose its market share.

Models included the 502, 602, 604, 702, 704, 802, 804 and 904XL, which were a continuation of the corresponding Leyland models. Other new models were in 1985 the 100 (Leyland 6/98 engine) and a single 115 (Turbo 100 version).

Tractor production moved to Scunthorpe under the ownership of Bentall Simplex. The swap to Perkins 4.236 engines from Leyland 4/98 engines resulted in the 752 and 852 (2WD), 754 and 854 (4WD), and 954XL (95hp 4WD), the six-cylindered 100-4 and 125-4 topped the range. Compact tractors in 1987 were the 184 (187hp 4WD) and 264 (26hp 4WD) and in 1989 were added the 224 (4WD 3-cylinder 22hp) and 304 (4WD 4-cylinder 30hp), all of which were made by Ferrari (tractors) of Luzzara. Around 1990 they began importing Steyr tractors from Austria, and selling them as Marshall D642, D644, D742, D744, D842, D844, D944, D110, D135, and D150. This continued until 1992.

Aircraft
In 1917 the company started to build aircraft at a new works built for the purpose on Lea Road in Gainsborough. The works became known as the Carr House works and the company built 150 Bristol F2B two-seat biplane fighters. When the aircraft were completed they were dismantled and towed to West Common in Lincoln to be flown, although some were flown from Layne's Field in Gainsborough.

Tracked Tractors and Bulldozers
After the merger with Fowler, their experience with tracked agricultural and military vehicles was used to create the Fowler Marshall Diesel Crawler, which was launched in 1948. Fowler continued to develop and market tracked vehicles while Marshall produced the wheeled Field Marshall tractors as well as other vehicles such as diesel road rollers. The tracked vehicles included the Fowler Challenger and from 1955 the Track Marshall. The Track Marshall was a product that continued under various ownerships, with production of the final model, the TM200, continuing until 1998.

Diesel Road Rollers
Marshall made diesel road rollers from 1930 until the takeover by British Leyland, latterly under the Road Marshall brand.

Preserved examples
Around 350 of the company’s engines survived into preservation with about 120 of those being traction engines.

Marshall, Sons and Co. built the boiler for the Fairbairn steam crane which stands on the dockside in Bristol. The maker's plate reads "Marshall Sons & Co. Ltd., Engineers, Gainsboro, England, No.92766".

What is thought to be one of the oldest surviving Marshall product, works no. 415, a 2.5nhp portable engine from 1866, may be seen at the Turon Technology Museum (Museum of Power), in New South Wales, Australia. This engine is also the oldest documented portable engine in Australia.

Also in Australia, another Marshall steam engine (No 55721, a 20 hp 2 cylinder model) is still working powering the paddle steamer PS Pevensey on tourist trips along the Murray River in Echuca, Victoria (Australia)

The Pallot Steam, Motor & General Museum at Trinity in Jersey has four Marshall models on display, two roadrollers, one large compound 12 Ton model built in 1922 and a smaller compound 8 Ton built in 1925 are fully restored to working order. The remaining two, a 1916 and a 1928 roadroller are awaiting restoration.

The Weald and Downland Museum in Singleton, West Sussex, England has a Marshall Threshing Drum which dates from 1862.

The oldest existing Marshall Traction Engine supplied to the British Market is number 14242, Victoria Empress of India, built in September 1886 and supplied new to Walter Seward of Petersfield, Hampshire, England.

Marshall engine 46583 stands derelict outside at the Gorreana tea plantation on the island of São Miguel in the Azores. Marshall tea processing machinery - some of it still in use - can be found here and also at the nearby Porto Formoso tea plantation.

In Larnaca, Cyprus one portable engine—stamped 1943—stands in public, in a courtyard off King Paul Square (as of 2013).

At Grand Harbour Marina, Birgu, Valletta, Malta, a preserved agricultural engine by Marshalls of unknown date is on display.

In Guernsey, Channel Islands, there is what is believed to be the last surviving Guernsey steam boiler used for sterilising tomato greenhouses. The steam boiler was recently refurbished and is currently in storage with Guernsey museum.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marius Waland

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD 22:35, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Marius Waland
Apparently vanity, no google hits. andy 11:36, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Vanity, non-notable, no content. --InShaneee 16:20, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity. Zzyzx11 | Talk 22:43, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Paul Silas

Paul Theron Silas (July 12, 1943 – December 10, 2022) was an American professional basketball player and head coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a player, he was a two-time NBA All-Star and earned five selections to the NBA All-Defensive Team, including twice on the first team. He won three NBA championships: two with the Boston Celtics and one with the Seattle SuperSonics. Silas is the leader in most rebounds per game with 12.1 in Suns franchise history.

In high school, Silas was named a second-team Parade All-American and voted California Mr. Basketball. He played college basketball for the Creighton Bluejays, earning second-team All-American honors as a senior in 1964. He was selected in the second round of the 1964 NBA draft, and played 16 seasons in the league. After his playing career, Silas was a head coach for 12 seasons.

Early life
Silas was born on July 12, 1943, in Prescott, Arkansas. His family moved to Oakland, California, when he was eight. Initially, they shared a home in Oakland with his cousins, four of whom became members of the rhythm & blues group The Pointer Sisters.

Silas attended McClymonds High School, where he was named California Mr. Basketball and a second-team Parade All-American as a senior. He was undefeated with the Warriors, who went 68–0 and were the No. 1 team in California from 1958 to 1960. His teammates included future pro basketball players Jim Hadnot and Joe Ellis, football player Wendell Hayes, and baseball player Aaron Pointer, another cousin of Silas.

College career
Silas attended Creighton University, where he set an NCAA record for the most rebounds in a three-year career and was the Division I rebounding leader for the 1962–63 season with 20.6 rebounds per game. He was named a second-team All-American by the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 1964. Silas' career scoring average was over 20 points per game. However, his offense dropped after he suffered a torn tendon in his right leg as a junior, after which, he focused on his inside game. He was voted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.

Professional playing career
Silas was selected by the St. Louis Hawks in the second round of the 1964 NBA draft with the 12th overall pick. After a relatively slow career start, Silas reached double figures in both rebounds and points per game during the 1967–68 season, in which he averaged 11.7 rebounds per game and 13.4 points per game. His rebounding average was third best on the Hawks that season, behind teammates Zelmo Beaty (11.7 rpg) and Bill Bridges (13.4 rpg). After five seasons with the Hawks, Silas was traded to the Phoenix Suns for Gary Gregor, who had been named to the 1969 NBA All-Rookie Team.

During his three seasons with the Suns, Silas averaged a double-double in rebounds and points each season, was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 1971 and 1972, and played in the 1972 NBA All-Star Game. During the 1971–72 season, his third with the Suns, Silas grabbed 955 rebounds in 80 games, and scored what would be a career-high 17.5 points per game. In September 1972, Silas was sent to the Boston Celtics in a deal which allowed the Suns to acquire the rights to Charlie Scott, who had led the American Basketball Association in scoring with 34.6 points per game during its 1971–72 season.

While with the Celtics, Silas was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 1973, the NBA All-Defensive First Team in 1975 and 1976, and played in the 1975 NBA All-Star Game. Silas was a key contributor to the Celtics' NBA championships in 1974 and 1976. His inside play freed up their undersized center, 6 ft Dave Cowens, whose shooting ability from the outside opened up the interior for Silas.

Following their title in 1976, Boston general manager Red Auerbach traded Silas to the Denver Nuggets after a salary dispute. After one season (1976–77) with the Nuggets, Silas was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics. He played an important role with Seattle as an enforcer, and the SuperSonics reached the championship series in both 1978 and 1979 with Silas, winning an NBA title in 1979 in five games in a rematch against the Washington Bullets.

During his NBA career, Silas collected more than 10,000 points and 10,000 rebounds over sixteen seasons, played in two NBA All-Star games, and won three championship rings (two with the Boston Celtics in 1974 and 1976, and one with the Seattle SuperSonics in 1979). He was named to the All-NBA Defensive First Team twice, and to the All-NBA Defensive Second Team three times.

Coaching career
Immediately upon retirement, Silas started his coaching career with the San Diego Clippers from 1980 to 1983, becoming their head coach, compiling a 78–168 record for a team that struggled with injuries to stars, including Bill Walton. After taking time off, Silas was an assistant coach for the New Jersey Nets for one season from 1988 to 1989, and then became an assistant coach with the New York Knicks from 1989 to 1992 as one of the holdovers from the Stu Jackson and John Macleod eras. Silas then went back to work for the Nets as an assistant under Chuck Daly and later Butch Beard from 1992 to 1995, leaving to work with the Suns from 1995 to 1997. At one point, Silas was one of the names considered for the head coaching job of the Boston Celtics in the summer of 1995, before general manager M.L. Carr decided to name himself as coach of the team.

After joining the coaching staff of the Charlotte Hornets in 1997, Silas was finally given another chance as a coach after becoming the interim coach of the Hornets when Dave Cowens was fired after a 4–11 record. Under Silas, the Hornets turned it around and went 22–13 to finish the lockout-shortened season 26–24, missing the playoffs by one game. Silas had the interim tag lifted off of his status and became the full-time head coach of the Hornets from 1999 all the way into their first season where they moved to New Orleans. Coaching the team from 1999 to 2003, Silas had a 208–155 record, taking the team into the playoffs each season he was the head coach after that 1999 season, including two Eastern Conference Semifinals appearances. Silas had a reputation of being a coach who was very honest but fair with his criticism of his players, which they mostly appreciated. Silas was fired as coach on May 4, 2003, in a move that puzzled many Hornets players (including Baron Davis) who enjoyed playing for him.

Silas was head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2003 to 2005. Hired to mentor 18-year-old rookie LeBron James as his first head coach as a professional player, Silas' tenure was rife with controversy as he feuded with veteran point guard Eric Snow. The new owner of the team, Dan Gilbert, fired him in the middle of the season, with the Cavaliers at 34–30 and in fifth place in the Eastern Conference. The Cavs collapsed after Silas' firing, missing the playoffs with a 42–40 record after losing a tiebreaker with the New Jersey Nets.

Silas then worked for ESPN, although in April 2007, he interviewed for the vacant head coaching position with the Charlotte Bobcats (later known as the Charlotte Hornets) which was eventually filled by Sam Vincent. Upon the firing of Vincent in April 2008, he stated that coaching the Bobcats would be a "dream job."

On December 22, 2010, Silas was named interim head coach of the Bobcats, replacing the outgoing coach Larry Brown. On February 16, 2011, the Bobcats removed his interim status. In 2011–12, Charlotte had a league-worst 7–59 record, the worst winning percentage in league history (.106). On April 30, 2012, the Bobcats announced that Silas would not return for the 2012–2013 season.

Personal life
Silas married Carolyn Kemp in 1966. They had two children, Paula and Stephen. Silas had a stepdaughter, Donna, from Carolyn's first marriage. His son, Stephen, was added to his Charlotte coaching staff in 2000.

Silas died of cardiac arrest on December 10, 2022, at home in Denver, North Carolina. He was 79.

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