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What links here
Clicking on 'what links here' gives a large number of sites which should probably now point to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. I'd love to change them all but don't really have the experience MikesPlant 13:26, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

98 moston lane east new moston manchester m40 selling bent cigs and whiskey Rickyricky75 (talk) 10:22, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Waterguard officers
As a retired Customs Waterguard Officer I take exception to the claim that Waterguard Officers did not have the right to enter premises or to arrest offenders. [John G. Avery] 20 July 2006

 * That was added by - perhaps you might like to speak ask him on his talk page? I am afraid that I don't know one way or the other (although it always seemed a bit odd that there would be two classes of Customs officer, one with powers of entry and one without).  -- ALoan (Talk) 10:11, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Well it's a bit like the difference between commissioned and non-comissioned officers of the Royal Navy. In fact, technically, waterguard are not officers of her Majesty's customs, although they never liked that fact to be known.  Any law enforcement officer needs a Search warrant to enter premises, but if it's inconvenient to get one, they often rely on intimidation to obtain permission from the occupant.  Of course, they can always make a citizen's arrest. Johndarrington 13:00, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

The gentleman above was of course talking from a position of not too much knowledge and clearly had an axe to grind with Customs (as was) re his comment on the use of intimidation to get permission. At the time he wrote, the Waterguard had not existed for many years despite his use of the present tense. Without getting to much into the technicalities if they were not officers of HMCE (as was) then what were they? In terms of his comment that any LE officer needs a warrant to enter premises that is rather Daily Mail reader type knowledge - HMCE officers in the past could conduct searches the Writ of General Assistance which was standing power of search issued by the monarch (no longer used). More pertinently of course HMCE officers (as was) and police officers could search premises under S.18 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 after making an arrest and that power still remains (despite the moans of the Daily Mail etc I am sure). There are also certain other powers that enable entry and search without warrant. Whilst I don't know for certain I also doubt very much that the only power of arrest that Waterguard officers had was a citizens arrest power - that was certainly of course not correct in terms of HMCE officers in designated roles from 1979. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.98.30.75 (talk) 16:57, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Unarmed, Fleet list
Re unarmed: I've seen a British Customs cutter with a gun on the front (Seeker out of either Portsmouth or Cowes).Lexiconius 05:11, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ditto. I have seen a customs cutter with a gun on the front - and the words "Customs" painted down each side, just to avoid confusion! Also, this site currently lacks (as far as I can see) any sort of fleet list of customs cutters - can anyone help?  Timothy Titus Talk To TT  16:16, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

There is an interesting article about the fleet here (though not a complete list of vessels): http://www.hm-waterguard.org.uk/work_cutters.htm with some sources listed here: http://www.hm-waterguard.org.uk/sources.htm --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 12:45, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

See also HM Customs Cutter Valiant, named a year before the service merged with the Revenue. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 12:57, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Regarding weapons on HMCC Seeker: in absence of obvious reliable sources, make your own judgement of these recent pictures, which seem to differ from this press photo dating from when HM Customs and Excise existed. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:15, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Its not a gun, its a firefighting water cannon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.187.160.71 (talk) 18:10, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Ranks
I have a commendation from a "Collector" to an "Assistant Officer (CP)" dated 1981, yet neither rank is mentioned in this article. Any idea what the (CP) refers to? Boothferry (talk) 00:07, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

The (CP) stands for Coast Preventive. An Assistant Officer who patrolled a part of the coastline looking for unusual or suspicious activity liasing with local coastal communities, yachtsmen and others who knowing the area were able to recognise any activities which were outside the normal for that part of the coast.

Previousl known as CPM (Coast Preventive Men)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.19.111.116 (talk) 20:10, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Rank Badges
Quote: "The pictures [in Wikipedia] are wrong, in my opinion. APO was one, PO two, CPO three. After reorg, Detection senior Officers are two & half and cutter commanders now have three. Nobody here ( Dover ) has ever heard of or seen four."

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The death of the queen
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Talk:I Believe in a Thing Called Love

More Cover
There exists another cover version by a singer/band called "Edson". 81.3.245.80 (talk) 19:05, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

This article is biased!
What's all that about Led Zeppelin being the 70's greatest band? And about The Darkness's album being good? This article is definately biased, and not good enough for Wikipedia. Currently I'm marking this article as unneutral, but I might get to editting it some other time.

Your mother biased!
Yeah! What the title said!

650k sold in us
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Adding the genre "glam metal" to this song
Hi,

just wanting to know if I can add the genre "glam metal" to this song? Explicitly stated as being such at this source: https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/darkness-and-light-ng-ya-116039

Thanks AgentKozak (talk) 18:32, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

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Finlay Currie

William Finlay Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and television. He received great acclaim for his roles as Abel Magwitch in the British film Great Expectations (1946) and as Balthazar in the American film Ben-Hur (1959).

In his career spanning 70 years, Currie appeared in seven films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, of which Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and Ben-Hur (1959) were winners.

Career
Currie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He attended George Watson's College and worked as organist and choir director. In 1898 he got his first job in Benjamin Fuller's theatre group, and appeared with them for almost 10 years.

After emigrating to the United States in the late 1890s, Currie and his wife, Maude Courtney, did a song-and-dance act on the stage. He made his first film, The Old Man, in 1931. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing Second World War film Undercover (1943). His most famous film role was the convict, Abel Magwitch, in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946). He also earned praise for his portrayal of Queen Victoria's highland attendant John Brown in The Mudlark (1950).

In the following years he appeared in Hollywood film epics, including such roles as Saint Peter in Quo Vadis (1951), as Balthazar, one of the Three Magi, in the multi-Oscar-winning Ben-Hur (1959); the Pope in Francis of Assisi (1961); and an aged, wise senator in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). He appeared in People Will Talk with Cary Grant; and portrayed Robert Taylor's embittered father, Sir Cedric, in MGM's Technicolor version of Ivanhoe (1952). But Ivanhoe also gave Currie one of his most delightful roles, highlighting his comic capabilities, as well as a willingness to still do some action scenes, even in his 70s.

Television roles included Sir Gideon Murray in Alexander Reid's The Lass wi' the Muckle Mou, broadcast by the BBC on 6 October 1953. In 1962, he starred in an episode of NBC's The DuPont Show of the Week, The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon, an adaptation of A.J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way.

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in February 1963, when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre in London.

In 1966, Currie played Mr. Lundie, the minister, in the television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon. His last performance was for the television series The Saint which starred Roger Moore. Currie played a dying mafioso boss in the two-part episode "Vendetta for the Saint", which was shown posthumously in 1969.

Late in life, he became a much respected antiques dealer, specialising in coins and precious metals. He was also a longtime collector of the works of Robert Burns.

Personal life and death
Currie was married to American actress Maude Courtney. They had two children, George and Marion.

Currie died on 9 May 1968 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire at age 90. His ashes were scattered in Breakspear Crematorium, Ruislip, Middlesex.

Complete filmography

 * The Old Man (1931) as Rennett
 * The Frightened Lady (1932) as Brooks
 * Rome Express (1932) as Sam (publicist)
 * The Good Companions (1933) as Monte Mortimer
 * Excess Baggage (1933) as Inspector Toucan
 * It's a Boy (1933) (uncredited)
 * Princess Charming (1934) as Baron Seegman
 * Orders Is Orders (1934) as Dave
 * Little Friend (1934) as Grove
 * Gay Love (1934) as Highams
 * My Old Dutch (1934) as Mo
 * Mr. Cinders (1934) as Henry Kemp
 * The Big Splash (1935) as Hartley Bassett
 * In Town Tonight (1935) as The Manager
 * Heat Wave (1935) as Captain (uncredited)
 * The Improper Duchess (1936) as Milton Lee
 * The Gay Adventure (1936) as Porter
 * Wanted! (1937) as Uncle Mart
 * Glamorous Night (1937) as Angus MacIntosh
 * Catch as Catch Can (1937) as Al Parsons
 * The Edge of the World (1937) as James Gray
 * Command Performance (1937) as Al, Arthur's Manager
 * Paradise for Two (1937) as Creditor (uncredited)
 * The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938) as Rubin
 * Follow Your Star (1938) as Maxie
 * Around the Town (1938) as Sam Wyngold
 * The Royal Family of Broadway (1939, TV movie) as Oscar Wolfe
 * Leviathan (1939, TV movie)
 * Sun Up (1939, TV movie) as Pap Todd
 * The Great Adventure (1939 TV Movie) as Texel
 * One Night, One Day... (1939, TV Movie) as James
 * Crook's Tour (1941) as Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
 * 49th Parallel (1941) as The Factor
 * The Day Will Dawn (1942) as Capt. Alstad
 * Thunder Rock (1942) as Capt. Joshua Stuart
 * The Bells Go Down (1943) as District Officer MacFarlane
 * Warn That Man (1943) as Captain Andrew Fletcher
 * Theatre Royal (1943) as Clement J. Earle
 * Undercover (1943) as Father (uncredited)
 * They Met in the Dark (1943) as Merchant Captain
 * The Shipbuilders (1943) as McWain
 * Don Chicago (1945) as Bugs Mulligan
 * I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) as Ruairidh Mhór
 * The Trojan Brothers (1946) as W. H. Maxwell
 * School for Secrets (1946) as Sir Duncan Wills
 * In the Zone (1946, TV Movie) as Scotty
 * Spring Song (1946) as Cobb
 * Great Expectations (1946) as Magwitch
 * Musical Chairs (1947, TV Movie) as Samuel Plagett
 * Woman to Woman as Theatre Manager
 * You Can't Take It with You (1947, TV Movie) as Martin Vanderhof
 * The Brothers (1947) as Hector Macrae
 * The Great Adventure (1947, TV Movie) as Texel
 * So Evil My Love (1948) as Dr Krylie
 * My Brother Jonathan (1948) as Dr Hammond
 * Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948) as Sir Joshua Varley
 * Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) as Alastair MacBain
 * Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) as the Marquis of Tullibardine
 * The History of Mr. Polly (1949) as Uncle Jim
 * Edward, My Son (1949) as Sir Lawrence Smythe (uncredited)
 * Whisky Galore! (1949) as Narrator (uncredited)
 * Treasure Island (1950) as Captain Billy Bones
 * Trio (1950) as Mr McLeod (in segment Sanatorium)
 * My Daughter Joy (1950) as Sir Thomas McTavish
 * The Black Rose (1950) as Alfgar
 * The Mudlark (1950) as John Brown
 * People Will Talk (1951) as Shunderson
 * Quo Vadis (1951) as Saint Peter
 * Walk East on Beacon (1952) as Professor Albert Kafer
 * Kangaroo (1952) as Michael McGuire
 * Ivanhoe (1952) as Cedric
 * Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) as Colonel Randolph
 * Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953) as MacDougal
 * The Broken Jug (1953, TV Movie) as Inspector Walter
 * The Lass Wi' the Muckle Mou (1953, TV Movie) as Sir Gideon Murray
 * Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953) as Hamish MacPherson
 * The End of the Road (1954) as Old "Mick-Mack"
 * Beau Brummell (1954) as McIver, Brummel's Publisher (uncredited)
 * Third Party Risk (1954) as Mr. Darius
 * Captain Lightfoot (1955) as Callahan
 * Make Me an Offer (1955) as Abe Sparta
 * Thunder Rock (1955, TV Movie) as Capt. Joshua Stuart
 * Footsteps in the Fog (1955) as Inspector Peters
 * King's Rhapsody (1955) as King Paul
 * Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as Andrew Stuart, Reform Club member
 * Zarak (1957) as the Mullah
 * Seven Waves Away (1957) as Mr Wheaton
 * The Little Hut (1957) as the Reverend Bertram Brittingham-Bell
 * Saint Joan (1957) as Archbishop of Rheims
 * Campbell's Kingdom (1957) as Old Man
 * Dangerous Exile (1957) as Mr. Patient
 * The Naked Earth (1958) as Father Verity
 * Tempest (1958) as Count Grinov
 * 6.5 Special (1958) as Himself
 * Corridors of Blood (1958) as Supt Matheson
 * Solomon and Sheba (1959) as King David
 * Ben-Hur (1959) as Balthasar / Narrator
 * Hand in Hand (1960) as Mr Pritchard
 * Kidnapped (1960) as Cluny MacPherson
 * The Angel Wore Red (1960) as Bishop
 * The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) as Capt. Sellers
 * Clue of the Silver Key (1961) as Harvey Lane
 * Edgar Wallace Mysteries – "Clue of the Silver Key" (1961; US TV: The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre) as Harvey Lane
 * Five Golden Hours (1961) as Father Superior
 * Francis of Assisi (1961) as the Pope
 * Joseph and His Brethren (1961) as Jacob
 * Go to Blazes (1962) as the Judge
 * The Inspector (1962) as De Kool
 * The Amorous Prawn (1962) as Lochaye
 * Cleopatra (1963) as Titus (uncredited)
 * Murder at the Gallop (1963) as Old Enderby
 * The Cracksman (1963) as Feathers
 * Billy Liar (1963) as Duxbury
 * West 11 (1963) as Mister Cash
 * The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964) as Grandpa Stirling
 * The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as Senator
 * Who Was Maddox? (1964) as Alec Campbell
 * The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965) as Emcee
 * Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) as Dollmaker
 * Brigadoon (1966, TV Movie) as Mr Lundie
 * Alice in Wonderland (1966, TV Movie) as Dodo
 * Vendetta for the Saint (1969) as Don Pasquale

Partial television credits

 * The Lass wi' the Muckle Mou (1953) as Sir Gideon Murray
 * Danger Man – Episodes: "The Gallows Tree" (1961) as Jock "That's Two of Us Sorry" (1965) as Jock (NOTE: apparently both times he appeared in that series, his character was named "Jock"!
 * Dixon of Dock Green Episode "A Home of One's Own" (1962) as Mr Caldicott
 * Alice in Wonderland (1966) as the Dodo
 * Gideon's Way Episode "The Thin Red Line" (1966) as the General
 * The Prisoner – Episode "The Chimes of Big Ben" (1967) as General
 * The Saint – Episode "Vendetta for the Saint" (1968) as Don Pasquale (final television appearance)

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Shiksha (NGO)

Shiksha is an NGO devoted to improving the standards of education in New Delhi, India, and its neighbouring regions. Shiksha's founder and patron is the retired Indian Chief of Army Staff, General O.P. Malhotra.

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Talk:Legend (Robin of Sherwood soundtrack)

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" In 1985 Clannad became the first Irish band to win a BAFTA award for best Original Television Music"

It's unclear whether they were the first Irish band to win a BAFTA, or whether previous Irish BAFTA award-winners simply hadn't won "best Original Television Music". Anyone know which?

It would probably be a good idea to move this page to Legend (sountrack), or Legend (Clannad), or even Legend (Robin of Sherwood Soundtrack) in case people come here looking for references to Ridley Scott's Legend!Lee M 03:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Quite right, I've moved it to "Legend (Robin of Sherwood soundtrack)" -- Mecandes 11:34, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

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Merger proposal
Feel free to comment at Talk:Legend (disambiguation).--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:42, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

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National Trades Union Congress

The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), also known as the Singapore National Trades Union Congress (SNTUC) internationally, is the sole national trade union centre in Singapore. NTUC is at the heart of the labour movement of Singapore, comprising 59 affiliated trade unions, 5 affiliated trade associations, 6 social enterprises, 6 related organisations and other enterprise partners. It helms May Day celebrations and organises an annual rally in support of workers' solidarity and commitment to tripartite partnership. The NTUC has had a symbiotic relationship with the People's Action Party since its inception in 1961.

History
The NTUC was established in 1961 when the Singapore Trades Union Congress (STUC), which had backed the People's Action Party in its successful drive for self-government, split into the pro-PAP NTUC and the leftist Singapore Association of Trade Unions (SATU). The SATU collapsed in 1963, following the government's detention of its leaders during Operation Coldstore and its subsequent official deregistration on 13 November 1963, leaving the NTUC as the sole trade union centre. Currently, over 98% of union members are in unions affiliated with the NTUC.

After the PAP's decisive electoral victory in 1968, the government passed the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act of 1968, which severely limited workers rights to engage in either direct collective bargaining with employers, industrial action or strike action. From 1969, the NTUC adopted, in its own words, "a cooperative, rather than a confrontational policy towards employers".

Relations between the PAP and NTUC are very close, and have often resulted in members holding office in both organisations at the same time. The NTUC's late founder, Devan Nair, was a PAP stalwart and later served as President of Singapore. Ong Teng Cheong, the first elected President of Singapore, served as the secretary-general of NTUC, and the country's deputy prime minister, concurrently until his presidential election. Lim Boon Heng and Lim Swee Say, the previous secretaries-general, also became cabinet ministers. As of 4 May 2015, Chan Chun Sing took over as Secretary-General from Lim Swee Say, who left the NTUC to become Minister for Manpower. As of 22 May 2018, Ng Chee Meng took over as Secretary-General from Chan Chun Sing, who left NTUC to become Minister of Trade and Industry.

The NTUC reached its target of 1 million members in 2021.

NTUC President
Prior to NTUC's formation in 1961, Mahmud Awang, President of the Singapore Trades Union Congress (SATU) disbanded SATU to form NTUC, helming it as the caretaker president, before Ho See Beng became NTUC's first president.

NTUC Affiliated Unions and Associations
58 Trade Unions and 3 Trade Associations are affiliated to the National Trades Union Congress. The affiliated unions can be broadly categorised under Industrial Sector, Service Sector, Public Sector Unions and Omnibus Unions.

Industrial Sector Unions

 * 1) Advanced Manufacturing Employees' Union (AMEU)
 * 2) Building Construction And Timber Industries Employees' Union (BATU)
 * 3) Chemical Industries Employees' Union (CIEU)
 * 4) ExxonMobil Singapore Employees Union (EMSEU)
 * 5) Keppel Employees Union (KEU)
 * 6) Keppel FELS Employees' Union (KFEU)
 * 7) NatSteel Employees' Union (NEU)
 * 8) Supply Chain Employees' Union (SCEU)
 * 9) Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Employees' Union (SMEEU)
 * 10) Singapore Refining Company Employees' Union (SRCEU)
 * 11) Singapore Shell Employees' Union (SSEU-Shell)
 * 12) United Workers of Electronics & Electrical Industries (UWEEI)
 * 13) United Workers of Petroleum Industry (UWPI)

Service Sector Unions

 * 1) Air Transport Executive Staff Union (AESU)
 * 2) Attractions, Resorts & Entertainment Union (AREU)
 * 3) Banking and Financial Services Union (BFSU)
 * 4) Creative Media and Publishing Union (CMPU)
 * 5) DBS Staff Union (DBSSU)
 * 6) DNATA Singapore Staff Union (DSSU)
 * 7) Education Services Union (ESU)
 * 8) Food Drinks and Allied Workers Union (FDAWU)
 * 9) Healthcare Services Employees' Union (HSEU)
 * 10) National Transport Workers' Union (NTWU)
 * 11) Port Officers' Union (POU)
 * 12) Reuters Local Employees' Union, Singapore (RLEU)
 * 13) Singapore Airport Terminal Services Workers' Union (SATSWU)
 * 14) Singapore Bank Employees' Union (SBEU)
 * 15) SIA Engineering Company Engineers and Executives Union (SEEU)
 * 16) Singapore Airlines Staff Union (SIASU)
 * 17) Singapore Insurance Employees' Union (SIEU)
 * 18) Singapore Maritime Officers' Union (SMOU)
 * 19) Singapore Organisation of Seamen (SOS)
 * 20) Singapore Port Workers Union (SPWU)
 * 21) ST Engineering Staff Union (STESU)
 * 22) Scoot Staff Union (STSU)
 * 23) Singapore Union of Broadcasting Employees (SUBE)
 * 24) Staff Union of NTUC-ARU (SUN)
 * 25) Times Publishing Group Employees' Union (TPGEU)
 * 26) Union of Power and Gas Employees (UPAGE)
 * 27) Union of Security Employees (USE)
 * 28) Union of Tripartite Alliance (UTAL)
 * 29) Union of Telecoms Employees of Singapore (UTES)

Public Sector Unions

 * 1) Amalgamated Union of Public Employees (AUPE)
 * 2) Amalgamated Union of Statutory Board Employees (AUSBE)
 * 3) Enterprise Singapore Staff Union (ESSU)
 * 4) Housing and Development Board Staff Union (HDBSU)
 * 5) Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore Staff Union (IRASSU)
 * 6) Ngee Ann Polytechnic Academic Staff Union (NPASU)
 * 7) Public Utilities Board Employees' Union (PUBEU)
 * 8) Singapore Chinese Teachers' Union (SCTU)
 * 9) Singapore Interpreters' and Translators' Union (SITU)
 * 10) Singapore Malay Teachers' Union (SMTU)
 * 11) Singapore Tamil Teachers' Union (STTU)
 * 12) Singapore Teachers' Union (STU)
 * 13) Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority Workers' Union (SURAWU)
 * 14) Union of ITE Training Staff (UITS)

Omnibus Unions

 * 1) Singapore Industrial & Services Employees' Union (SISEU)
 * 2) The Singapore Manual & Mercantile Workers' Union (SMMWU)

Associations

 * 1) National Taxi Association (NTA)
 * 2) National Delivery Champions Association (NDCA)
 * 3) National Private Hire Vehicles Association (NPHVA)
 * 4) National Instructors and Coaches Association (NICA)
 * 5) Singapore FinTech Association (SFA)
 * 6) Tech Talent Assembly (TTAB)
 * 7) Visual, Audio, Creative Content Professional Association (VICPA)

NTUC Social Enterprises
NTUC Enterprise is the holding entity and single largest shareholder of the NTUC social enterprises.

The list of social enterprises includes:
 * FairPrice Group
 * NTUC FairPrice
 * Kopitiam (company)
 * NTUC Foodfare
 * NTUC Link
 * NTUC First Campus
 * NTUC Health
 * NTUC LearningHub
 * NTUC Club
 * Income Insurance
 * Tangram Asia Capital

Related Organizations
The list of related organizations includes:
 * Singapore Labour Foundation (SLF)
 * Ong Teng Cheong Labour Leadership Institute (OTCi)
 * Employment & Employability Institute (e2i)
 * Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE)
 * Centre for Domestic Employees (CDE)
 * Migrant Workers' Centre (MWC)

title: National Trades Union Congress


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Christian Democratic Party (El Salvador)

The Christian Democratic Party (Partido Demócrata Cristiano, abbreviated PDC) is a Salvadoran political party. From 2011 to 2012, the party was renamed to Party of Hope (Partido de la Esperanza, abbreviated PES) before reverting to the Christian Democratic Party. The PDC has been led by Reinaldo Carballo since 2023.

The PDC was founded in November 1960 in opposition of the Salvadoran military government, but in 1961, some members of the PDC left the party to form the National Conciliation Party (PCN) which would become the military's ruling party. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the PDC participated in various presidential and legislative elections which were marked by electoral fraud in the PCN's favor. In January 1980, following a coup d'état the year prior which overthrew the PCN's government, the PDC became involved in the ruling Revolutionary Government Junta. In December 1980, José Napoleón Duarte, a founding member of the PDC and former 1972 presidential candidate, was appointed as the president of the JRG. After leaving office in 1982, Duarte was elected president in 1984. The PDC failed to win the presidency in the succeeding 1989 presidential election, and as of 2024, Duarte remains the only president of El Salvador to have been a member of the PDC while in office.

Christian democracy has been the PDC's principle ideology since its establishment, but before and during the Salvadoran Civil War, the Salvadoran political right alleged that the party had communist sympathies. The party has been placed on the center to center-left of the political spectrum. The party's primary color is green and its logo is an ichthys.

Military dictatorship
On 26 October 1960, the Armed Forces of El Salvador overthrew President Lieutenant Colonel José María Lemus and established the Junta of Government. The junta initiated reforms to allow opposition political parties to form, and as such, the Christian Democratic Party was formed on 25 November 1960 by middle and upper-class activists. The Junta of Government was overthrown on 25 January 1961 by the Civic-Military Directory. Although the directory affirmed its anti-communist position, it promised to hold elections.

The PDC held its first convention in May 1961, where it elected José Napoleón Duarte as its first leader. Duarte promoted reform and opposed working with the military government. Prior to Duarte's election, the Civic-Military Directory had approached the party to join the government in an effort to bring the directory political legitimacy, and some members showed interest in joining the government. After Duarte's election, the PDC members who wished the join the government left the party and formed the National Conciliation Party (PCN). The PCN succeeded the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification (PRUD) Salvadoran military's ruling party. In the 1961 legislative election, as the party of the military, the PCN won all 54 seats in the Legislative Assembly while the PDC was left outside of the legislature.

A new constitution was ratified in 1962, and it allowed for "contesting political parties" to exist. During the 1962 presidential election, the PCN ran unopposed and Lieutenant Colonel Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo was elected as president of El Salvador. During the 1960s, the PDC established the Christian Federation of Salvadoran Peasants (FCCS). Many members of the FCCS would later go on to become members of the Farabundo Martí Popular Liberation Forces (FLP) during the 1970s. During the 1964 legislative election, the PDC won 14 of the legislature's 52 seats and 37 of the country's 262 municipalities. That same election, Duarte was elected as mayor of San Salvador, the country's capital city. Duarte won re-election during the 1966 election, while the PDC itself won 15 seats in the legislature.

The PDC nominated Abraham Rodríguez Portillo as its presidential candidate during the 1967 presidential election. Rodríguez Portillo opposed the PCN's Colonel Fidel Sánchez Hernández, who won the election with percent 54.37 of the vote. In the 1968 election, Duarte again won re-election and the PDC won 19 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The PDC supported the Salvadoran government during the 1969 Football War against Honduras. During the 1970 legislative election, the PDC lost three seats in the Legislative Assembly and lost 70 municipalities. The PDC, along with other opposition parties alleged that the PCN committed fraud.

In the 1972 election, the PDC joined the National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) and the Nationalist Democratic Union (UDN) to oppose the PCN in the 1972 presidential election. The three parties formed the National Opposing Union (UNO) and selected the PDC's Duarte as its presidential candidate and the MNR's Guillermo Ungo as its vice presidential candidate; the PCN presented Colonel Arturo Armando Molina as its presidential candidate. Prior to the election, the PDC's leaders accused the government of using the National Guard to harass, kidnap, and assault party activists. Additionally, the Central Electoral Council (CEC) canceled the campaigns of the PDC's legislative candidates in the departments of La Unión, San Miguel, San Salvador, San Vicente, Sonsonate, Usulután. On 20 February 1972, UNO claimed that Duarte had won the election with 327,000 votes to Molina's 318,000 votes; however, the government ordered a recount, in which the government determined that Molina had won by 10,000 votes. As a result, the Legislative Assembly voted to determine the election's winner, and as the legislature was controlled by the PCN, Molina was declared the winner. Duarte and Ungo appealed the election result to the CEC, but the appeal was denied. On 25 March 1972, some military officers led by Colonel Benjamín Mejía attempted a coup d'état against the PCN government with the intention of installing Duarte as president. Although the coup leaders captured the Presidential Palace and Sánchez Hernández, the coup eventually failed.

Following the failed coup, Duarte sought refuge in the Venezuelan embassy in San Salvador, but he was captured, beaten, and interrogated by the Salvadoran government. He was then deported to Guatemala where he then moved to exile in Venezuela. He returned to El Salvador to campaign for UNO ahead of the 1974 legislative election, however, UNO lost the election as a result of widespread fraud. UNO, including the PDC, boycotted the 1976 legislative election. For the 1977 presidential election, UNO did not select Duarte to be its presidential candidate as it believed the political situation was "too volatile", and instead, it selected retired Colonel Ernesto Claramount to be its candidate. As a result of widespread fraud, the PCN's candidate, General Carlos Humberto Romero, won the presidency. Claramount led a protest, consisting of thousands of people at the Liberty Plaza in San Salvador, against the election results, but government forces attacked the crowd, killing around 50 people. Claramount responded to the event by stating "This is not the end. It is only the beginning". Like in 1976, UNO and the PDC boycotted the 1978 legislative election.

Salvadoran Civil War
On 15 October 1979, some military officers overthrew Romero and the PCN government, establishing the Revolutionary Government Junta (JRG) consisting of both military officers and civilians. In January 1980, two members of the PDC, Héctor Dada Hirezi and José Antonio Morales Ehrlich, became members of the JRG. The military supported the involvement of the PDC in government as the military believed that the PDC would be able to assure government stability, bring political legitimacy to the JRG, and convince the United States to continue sending El Salvador military aid. On 3 March 1980, Dada Hirezi resigned from the JRG after Mario Zamora, the attorney general and a member of the PDC, was assassinated by members of a far-right death squad; Dada Hirezi was replaced by Duarte. Prior to his assassination on 24 March 1980 by a far-right death squad, Óscar Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador, called for the PDC to withdraw its involvement from the JRG due to the government's attacks against Salvadorans and clergy of the Catholic Church. On 13 December 1980, Duarte became the president of the JRG. In January 1981, during a rebel offensive of the Salvadoran Civil War, the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) stated that it would assassinate Duarte.

In the 1982 legislative election, the PDC emerged as the largest party, winning 24 of the legislature's 60 seats, but it was excluded from the ruling government coalition led by the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), a far-right political party founded by Major Roberto D'Aubuisson (who was also elected as the president of the Legislative Assembly). D'Aubuisson was considered to be the most likely candidate to be elected by the Legislative Assembly to serve as president of El Salvador, but due to lobbying from the American and Salvadoran High Commands against D'Aubuisson due to his connection to far-right death squads, the Legislative Assembly ultimately voted to elect Álvaro Magaña of Democratic Action as the country's president. Magaña appointed ARENA, PDC, and PCN members to his cabinet. Between 1979 and early-1984, a total of 37 PDC mayors and other party members were assassinated by both far-right and far-left groups, although, Duarte himself claimed that "several hundred" had been assassinated.

During the 1984 presidential election, the PDC nominated Duarte as its presidential candidate. Including Duarte, eight candidates contested the election. In the first round on 25 March 1984, Duarte won 43.41 percent of the vote, the most of any candidate but not enough to negate a second round. In the second round, Duarte faced D'Aubuisson, as he came in second place with 29.77 percent of the vote. On 6 May 1984, Duarte won 53.59 percent of the vote, defeating D'Aubuisson by over 100,000 votes, and was elected president. Hugo Barrera, D'Aubuisson's running mate, stated that ARENA would not accept the results, claiming that the election "did not have any credibility" ("no tienen ninguna credibilidad"), that the results were a "farse" ("farsa"), and alleged that the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had rigged the election. Reportedly, the CIA covertly sent US$ million to support Duarte's campaign.

During Duarte's presidency, the Salvadoran government sought to negotiate a peace treaty with the FMLN to end the civil war. Negotiations were held in La Palma in October 1984, Ayagualo in November 1984, and San Salvador in October 1987. The government also met with the FMLN in Mexico City in August 1986, Panama City in January 1987, and Guatemala City and Caracas in October 1987. Despite the attempted peace negotiations, all of Duarte's government's efforts failed, and the civil war would not end until the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords in January 1992.

In the 1985 legislative election, the PDC won 33 of the Legislative Assembly's 60 seats, an outright majority. Additionally, the PDC won over 200 of the country's 262 municipalities. The PCN supported the PDC's legislative majority. By 1988, the PDC was one of El Salvador's three largest political parties, along with ARENA and the PCN. Although the PDC was at the peak of its power during the 1980s, Duarte's failure to bring an end to the civil war and PDC corruption scandals hurt the party's overall popularity. According to an opinion poll conducted by the Central American University in 1987, only 6 percent of voters identified with the PDC.

The PDC lost its legislative majority during the 1988 legislative election; the party won 23 seats, a loss of 10, and it also lost over 200 municipalities. Meanwhile, ARENA won 30 seats, exactly half of the seats in the legislature. ARENA initially protested the results of the election, arguing that it had actually won 31 seats. Regardless, the PCN opted to support ARENA's government, leaving the PDC in the opposition. Additionally, the Supreme Court of Justice eventually awarded the seat contested by ARENA to ARENA, reducing the PDC's seat count to 22. Some observers reported that, from 1984 to 1988, D'Aubuisson had been planning to stage a right-wing coup d'état against Duarte and the PDC, but that those plans were abandoned after ARENA's victory in the 1988 legislative election.

Ahead of the 1989 presidential election, the party was divided as to whether to nominate Fidel Chávez Mena, Magaña's minister of foreign affairs, or Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, a longtime party member, as its presidential candidate. Duarte attempted to mediate and suggested to run Rodríguez Portillo as a compromise candidate, but his proposal was rejected by the party. The PDC ultimately selected Chávez Mena as its presidential candidate, while Rey Prendes split from the party to form the Authentic Democratic Christian Movement; both candidates lost in the first round to Alfredo Cristiani, ARENA's candidate, who won 53.82 percent of the vote. Voters preferred ARENA's proposal to use military action to end the civil war over the PDC's by-then failed peace negotiations.

Post-civil war politics
From the 1994 general election, the FMLN, which had since become a political party, surpassed the PDC to become the primary opposition political party to ARENA.

The PDC often sided with ARENA and supported their effort to ratify the Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement and pass a law supposedly aimed at fighting terrorism.

The party struggled to pick a presidential candidate for 2009. The vice presidential candidate lived in the United States and has campaigned promising to give Salvadorans abroad the opportunity to vote in future presidential elections.

While the party was technically to be disbanded after the 2004 election, in which its candidate did not gather the necessary 3% of the vote, it was allowed to hold on to its registration by decree; this decree was declared unconstitutional on 30 April 2011, and the party was thus disbanded.

The PDC was effectively replaced by the Party of Hope, which was registered with the National Electoral Tribunal in October 2011. In September 2012 the Party of Hope asked for its name to be changed back to Christian Democratic Party, which was allowed by the Electoral Tribunal.

On 26 July 2018, the 2019 presidential election, the PDC joined the Alliance for a New Country (consisting of ARENA, the PCN, the PDC, and Salvadoran Democracy) to present a joint presidential and vice presidential candidacy. The alliance's presidential candidate was Carlos Calleja, a businessman from ARENA, and its vice presidential candidate was Carmen Aída Lazo, an economist from the PCN. On 3 February 2019, the alliance came in second place with 31.72 percent of the vote, however, Nayib Bukele of the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA) won an outright majority and was elected president, negating the need for a second round. Bukele was the first presidential candidate since Duarte to not be a member of ARENA or the FMLN.

In the 2021 legislative election, the PDC lost 2 seats in the Legislative Assembly, 4 municipalities, and its only seat in PARLACEN. Meanwhile, Nuevas Ideas, the political party established by Bukele in 2018, won a supermajority in the Legislative Assembly, half of the country's municipalities, and most of El Salvador's seats to PARLACEN. When the 13th session of the Legislative Assembly began on 1 May 2021, the PDC's sole member of the Legislative Assembly, Reinaldo Carballo, joined Nuevas Ideas' supermajority government. That same day, Carballo voted with Nuevas Ideas, the PCN, and GANA to elect Ernesto Castro as the president of the Legislative Assembly, remove five members of the Supreme Court of Justice's Constitutional Chamber, and remove Attorney General Raúl Melara.

Ahead of the 2024 general election, Carballo, who had become the party's leader, announced that the PDC would not select a presidential candidate. The party held its primary elections in July 2023, during which Carballo announced that the PDC would support Bukele's re-election campaign and reaffirmed that the party would not select a presidential candidate.

Ideology
When the PDC was first established in 1960, its founders wanted to promise political stability and economic growth, but they believed that both the political right and left would threaten the party's ability to do so; the right opposed reform while the left sought to abandon capitalism in favor of communism. As such, the party's founders believed that presenting the party as centrist would gain it popular support and influence within the government. Since its establishment, the PDC's principle ideology has been Christian democracy, and the founders viewed Christian democratic movements in Chile and Venezuela as role models. In 1984, the CIA considered the PDC to be a centrist political party.

In October 1984, the United States embassy in San Salvador remarked that Duarte and the PDC "[symbolize] change in El Salvador towards liberal democracy, as conceived in the United States and Western Europe, more clearly" than anyone else and any other political party in El Salvador. The U.S. embassy also described the PDC as "slightly socialistic". Richard A. Haggerty, an editor for the Library of Congress, described the PDC as a "moderate" political party and as being "more liberal" than other Christian democratic parties in Latin America and Western Europe. He placed it on the center-left of the political spectrum. Retired U.S. Army Colonel Brian J. Bosch described the early-civil war PDC as "nonradical" and "mildly left-of-center".

During the 1960s and 1970s, the party used words such as "revolution" and "revolutionary" to describe its policies. These terms reminded the Salvadoran political right of Fidel Castro, and as such, the right viewed the PDC as "dangerously left-wing". During the civil war, ARENA alleged that the PDC had communist sympathies. D'Aubuisson himself pejoratively referred to the PDC as the "Watermelon Party", as the party's official color was green and they alleged that Duarte's support of left-wing groups during the 1970s implied continued communist ideologies ("green [...] outside, but red inside"). In turn, the PDC pejoratively referred to ARENA as the "Nazi-Fascist Party".

Party structure
The Christian Democratic Party is led by a secretary-general, and as of, the party's sole member of the Legislative Assembly, Carballo, serves as the party's secretary general. The PDC also has a deputy secretary-general, a national syndicate, and an eight-member political commission.

The PDC's headquarters is located at Alameda Juan Pablo II and Once Avenue Norte Bis Número 507 in San Salvador, the country's capital city.


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Christian Force

Christian Force (Fuerza Cristiana) is a political party in El Salvador. It first contested national elections in 2003, when it received 1.1% of the vote, but failed to win a seat.

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National Action Party (El Salvador)

The National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional) is a political party in El Salvador. It first contested national elections in 1956. However, Roberto Edmundo Cannessa, its candidate in the presidential election was disqualified, whilst in the legislative elections it failed to win a seat, despite being the only party to run against the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification. It did not contest the 1958 elections, but returned in 1960, again failing to win a seat against the PRUN. It also failed to win a seat in the Constitutional Assembly elections in 1961.

The party did not contest another election until 2000, when it won two seats in the legislative elections that year. However, it lost them both in the 2003 elections.

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Vitis aestivalis

Vitis aestivalis, the summer grape, or pigeon grape is a species of grape native to eastern North America from southern Ontario east to Maine, west to Oklahoma, and south to Florida and Texas. It is a vigorous vine, growing to 10 m or more high in trees. The leaves are 7–20 cm long, suborbicular, and usually a little broader than long; they are variable in shape, from unlobed to deeply three- or five-lobed, green above, and densely hairy below. The flowers are produced at every 3rd node in a dense panicle 5–15 cm long. The fruit is a small grape 5–14 mm diameter, dark purple or black in colour. It is the official state grape of Missouri. Summer grape prefers a drier upland habitat.

The four varieties are:
 * V. a. var. aestivalis
 * V. a. var. bicolor Deam (syn. var. argentifolia Fernald; Silverleaf Grape), formerly called Vitis bicolor, but now considered a northern variation of Vitis aestivalis, native range is in the Northeastern United States and parts of Southern Ontario
 * V. a. var. lincecumii (Buckley) Munson
 * V. a. var. bourquiniana L.H. Bailey, native to the south, sometimes called Vitis bourquiniana, has tomentose undersides to the leaves

Cultivation and uses
Several cultivars have been selected, including 'Norton', a cultivar with a substantial V. aestivalis background, is believed to be the oldest American grape cultivar in commercial production.

Inter specific-hybrids made with the species V. aestivalis, such as Norton, have shown several useful traits for commercial wine production when compared with other North American native grape varieties. These traits include: lower acidity, neutral, "vinifera-like" flavour profile, good tannin structure, and excellent disease resistance.

Unlike most other species in genus Vitis, V. aestivalis does not propagate well through dormant cuttings. This has been a limiting factor for its use in commercial viticulture despite the species's promising oenological characteristics. Propagation of V. aestivalis specimens must typically be made through layering or through green cuttings. The species typically does not tolerate highly calcareous soils.

It has been claimed that a variety of V. aestivalis was cultivated by the Cherokees and used in some of their sacred rituals.

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Talk:Misopogon

My deletion of what was here before
The previous edit was a wholesale lifting (68K) of the complete text of the work itself, in the 1913 Loeb edition translation. While it is public domain, this isn't the place for texts; consider adding it to Wikitexts. Bill 12:00, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

My insertion of the link to a website containing the work
I did lift the work as it is public domain, I investigated the source website and they only require that the source be mentioned, but to save any argument I have now just inserted a link to the website with the source of the text. [[User:James Hernon] 15:59 17 August 2005. Having the link to the source text should be acceptable. jhernon@btinternet.com

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Ike Hildebrand

Isaac Bruce Hildebrand (May 27, 1927 – August 27, 2006) was a Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he played 41 games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks during the 1953–54 and 1954–55 seasons. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1944 to 1960, was spent in various minor leagues.

Career
In 1985, he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame for the sport of lacrosse. He was inducted into Canada's Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1972 and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1985 as well as Sports Halls of Fame in Peterborough (1978), Belleville (1989) and Oshawa (1993).

Ike excelled at both of Canada's national sports, lacrosse and hockey. He played lacrosse with the New Westminster Salmonbellies senior team and at age 17 won the MVP award in the Mann Cup Canadian championship. In a lacrosse career that spanned 17 years (1943–1960) he was honored 13 times as an all-star. After a junior ice hockey career with the Oshawa Generals, he spent 10 years playing professional hockey with minor league teams in the Pacific Coast Hockey League, the United States Hockey League, the Quebec Senior Hockey League and the American Hockey League.

Hildebrand also played 41 games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers, and the Chicago Black Hawks from 1953 to 1954. He was playing coach with the Belleville McFarlands and scored the winning goal when they won the 1959 World Championship for Canada.

After his playing days, Hildebrand turned to coaching with the London Nationals, Orillia Terriers and two years with the Oshawa Generals.

He died in St. Albert, Alberta in 2006.

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Ebro (disambiguation)

Ebro is a river in Spain.

Ebro may also refer to:

 * Ebro, Florida, United States, a town
 * Ebro, Minnesota, United States, an unincorporated community
 * Ebro trucks, a Spanish truck brand
 * Ebro Foods, a Spanish food processing company
 * Ebro Darden, a disc jockey on New York's WQHT (Hot 97) radio station
 * CD Ebro, a Spanish football club in Zaragoza
 * RMS Ebro, a 1914 ocean liner
 * Ebro Treaty, 226 BC, defining a boundary between Carthage and Rome

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WoW July 4th Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise Event

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The result of the debate was Joyous  (talk) 01:57, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

WoW July 4th Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise Event
Non-notable internet forum 'event' Jasoncart 12:01, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Complete non-event. KeithD 12:07, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Some kids got together for 3 hours to spam a couple forums. — Asbestos | Talk  12:27, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. --Blu Aardvark | (talk) 12:29, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Least notable article EVAH. --Calton | Talk 13:55, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NN --Joelito 14:56, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete forumcruft. Friday 17:04, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Mac.Robertson Girls' High School

Name
Why is it Mac.Robertson? Is too hard to search it should be MacRobertson. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Celendin (talk • contribs) 12:04, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I do agree actually... remember to sign your comments though. You can use the move page function --coblin 13:11, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Added redirects to this page at MacRoberston Girls' High School, MacRob and Mac.Rob. Harro5 07:01, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * Is the dot in the official title? Can't say I'm a studentLeon... 11:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was a former student, the 'dot' is in the official title. It is there because of Sir MacPherson Robertson - then abbreviated to Mac.Robertson. Souse 23:46, April 25, 2006 (AEST)
 * The official name of the school also includes the 'The', making it "The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School", is it possible to change the name of this page to suit? Vickiez (talk) 21:10, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Girls equivalent
What does the following mean?:
 * "Mac.Robertson Girls' High School is second to Melbourne High School, therefore it may sometimes be called the girls equivalent."
 * Why is it "second"? Why "may [it] sometimes" be called the girls' equivalent? It IS the girls' equivalent!

Any thoughts? Rocket Surgeon 13:32, April 13, 2006 (AEST)

Male Teachers?
Is it true that there are no male teacher? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.107.167.100 (talk • contribs) 07:36, 8 August 2007
 * That's ridiculous. There are a fair few. ---Jade. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.190.144.241 (talk) 10:16, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
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"VCE Highest Median Study Scores Year" table.
The 2009 record is incorrect as MHS placed second and Mount Scopus first. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.32.133.28 (talk) 15:19, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Exchanges
I've removed the exchanges section as although it was readd with sources Exchanges happen with nearly every school in the world so it doesn't really need to be included (unless the school is actually notable for this and has indepth coverage of this then it shouldn't be included), Thanks, – Davey 2010 Talk 23:14, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

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Talk:Microwave auditory effect

Semi-protected edit request on 20 November 2020
PLEASE CHANGE Electronic warfare SECTION FROM "an MAE system they called MEDUSA" TO a Military Aerospace Electronics system they called MEDUSA THANK YOU 49.197.59.191 (talk) 09:46, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Is it not referring to the subject of this article, "Microwave auditory effect"? The acronym should be expanded in any case, as it would be clearer. – Thjarkur (talk) 10:39, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Nope. The source says it's microwave auditory effect. I also don't see any mention of it being deployed from the sky. ◢  Ganbaruby!   (Say hi!) 16:23, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Recent report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
A recent edit to the article mentioned the report by the NASEM, citing the NYTimes, which took the report pretty seriously. Another editor reverted their addition, suggesting that the report was too low-key to be taken as seriously as the Times took it. I disagree with this assessment, not having read the report, only the Times article, which states:

"Though couched in careful, scientific language, the new report reveals strong evidence that the incidents were the result of a malicious attack. It attributes the illnesses to “directed” and “pulsed” — rather than “continuous” — energy, implying that the victims’ exposure was targeted and not the result of more common sources of microwave energy, such as, for example, a cellphone."

It also said the committee found the immediate symptoms that patients reported — including strange sensations of pain, pressure and sound that often appeared to emanate from a particular direction, or occurred in a specific spot in a room — were more consistent with a directed “attack” of radiofrequency energy."

Is the Times not considered a WP:RS on the subject of the report? I would like to reinstate User:Steve hoge's edit, linked above. What think ye?--Quisqualis (talk) 02:27, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The report hasn't been released yet, see WP:TOOSOON -Roxy the inedible dog . wooF 18:49, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * It is also worth pointing out that even the NYT reporters say that the report cannot rule out other causes. To me, that intimates that the interpretation the NYT puts on the report may not be the wikipedia interpretation, and we should not be writing based on the NYT as yet. -Roxy the inedible dog . wooF 19:24, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The NYTimes attributed the facts of the article as "according to a copy of the report obtained by The New York Times." At the time I searched the NASEM site for the report and couldn't find it, and inferred that it might not ever be publicly available, and that the Times article could be the best we'd get. However, in fact it was WP:TOOSOON: the report HAS now been released at https://www.nap.edu/read/25889/chapter/1 so the reference to the NYTimes article may be completely superfluous and this entry might better point directly to the NASEM report. Steve hoge (talk) 23:52, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I have just downloaded the article as well. Agree sourcing to the report will be ideal.--Quisqualis (talk) 02:10, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

It is a matter of balance to edit the Summary part of the RF status here.

Summary: The committee finds that many of the acute, sudden-onset, early phase signs, symptoms and observations reported by DOS employees are consistent with RF effects. In addition, many of the chronic, nonspecific symptoms are also consistent with known RF effects, such as dizziness, headache, fatigue, nausea, anxiety, cognitive deficits, and memory loss. It is not necessary for RF energy sources to produce gross structural damage to cause symptoms. Rather, as with the Frey effect or potential thermoelastic pressure waves, RF sources may trigger symptoms by transiently inducing alterations in brain functioning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.87.232.193 (talk) 20:25, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2021
How is auditory effect defined in EU legislative? • 1998 ICNIRP guidelines, page 14: "People with normal hearing can perceive pulse-modulated fields with frequencies between about 200 MHz and 6.5 GHz. The auditory sensation has been variously described as a buzzing, clicking, or popping sound, depending on the modulation characteristics of the field." https://www.icnirp.org/cms/upload/publications/ICNIRPemfgdl.pdf • Non-binding guide to good practice for implementing Directive 2013/35/EU, page 87: "The first indication of exposure to high frequency fields may be the sensation of warmth. However, this may not always be the case and feeling warm is not a reliable warning signal. It is also possible to 'hear' pulsed fields between 300kHz to 6Ghz, so clicking, buzzing or hissing noises may be heard by exposed workers." http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=14741&langId=en&usg=AOvVaw2pm_f1PoHltXjnkj3uqgc3 Petenka (talk) 20:58, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
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Electronic warfare section, Kenneth Foster quotes
I'm taking issue with this quote from Kenneth Foster, as it does not accurately reflect the power levels needed: "Experts, such as Kenneth Foster, a University of Pennsylvania bioengineering professor who published research on the microwave auditory effect in 1974, have discounted the effectiveness of the proposed device. Foster said that because of human biophysics, the device 'would kill you well before you were bothered by the noise'. According to former professor at the University of Washington Bill Guy, 'There’s a misunderstanding by the public and even some scientists about this auditory effect,' and 'there couldn’t possibly be a hazard from the sound, because the heat would get you first'." These figures are from James Lin's recently released "Auditory Effects of Microwave Radiation": "The auditory effect RF energy thresholds were observed at 16 +/- 4 millijoules per pulse. The auditory threshold of RF pulse widths greater than 200 microseconds occurred at an average peak power level as low as 20W for surface coils." 16 millijoules per pulse, even with longer pulse bursts, does not make the RF/microwave source into some kind of heat ray. These pulses are high peak power, but the pulse lengths are so short that there's low average power. For someone with published research on the subject, Kenneth Foster does not seem to know that the RF energy threshold above would not cause a perceptible dielectric heating sensation. Also consider the following quote from Don Justesen's "Behavioral and psychological effects of microwave radiation": "the radiofrequency hearing effect depends on an energy dose three orders of magnitude below the threshold of detectable warming" References:

RrabEkim (talk) 06:47, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

 * I see Foster's opinions in the cited IEEE article are specifically discussing audio/heating effects of an MAE system called MEDUSA, and they are properly attributed to him rather than stated in WP's voice. Finding generalized sources in order to refute someone's attributed opinion would be WP:OR. You'd need a source specifically discussing the MEDUSA system that contradicts or offers an opinion differing from Foster. - LuckyLouie (talk) 14:02, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

 * I suppose what I'm suggesting is that Foster should not be quoted at all. Proper attribution really has nothing to do with the fact that his quotes are stating things that don't align with the established thresholds, and are misleading. The same generalized energy density thresholds apply to the MEDUSA system, just like they apply to any system based on the microwave auditory effect. Unless Foster is saying they specifically designed the MEDUSA to also cause intentional heating, somewhat like the Active Denial System? When what Foster is saying about the heating effect from the microwave auditory effect is not accurate at all, he should not be used as a primary source for that section of the article. RrabEkim (talk) 19:44, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

 * I reread the source . There are apparently 3 experts quoted, Foster, Bill Guy, and James Lin. Maybe you should correspond with IEEE to discuss your problems with their article. - LuckyLouie (talk) 20:10, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 December 2021
I read this information about microwave hearing written by "like an echo in the forest" and it is not written from a neutral point of view in my opinion. Sincerely wtkqb Wtkqb (talk) 17:18, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Publish Wtkqb (talk) 17:19, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
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Voice to skull technology is a very real thing
Lol

Yet it's mentioned as some crazy conspiracy theory

I can show you the patent as it sits in the patent database. Not on some conspiracy website, the Google patent database 75.138.186.215 (talk) 05:39, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
 * True, but it’s not following you around beaming thoughts into your head because you’re so special and important that the government will spend billions of dollars to make you sound crazy. - LuckyLouie (talk) 12:31, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The existence of a patent isn't proof of working technology. Or that the person filing the patent is necessarily sane, and not abusing the patent process for the purposes of satire.  AndyTheGrump (talk) 12:46, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
 * V2K is/was an experimental transducer system for military pilot comms that literally has to be mounted in the helmet within millimeters of the skull to have any efficiency. The conspiracy theory is (a) that it can somehow work at miles-long distances, and (b) that governments are using it to victimize ordinary people. And BTW, I noticed [this] exists. - LuckyLouie (talk) 13:26, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
 * This isn't true of the microwave audio effect, why would it be true of v2k? It works really well on the high-end at WiFi router frequencies, I know how far my router reaches, and my router is way less powerful at -30dBm to -60dBm, and anything below 2.4 would just travel further 2601:18C:4200:3E0:84B0:2196:6BB2:8AA7 (talk) 04:21, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
 * They literally had people understanding words from the microwave auditory effect in the early 1970s. That said, the only sources I trust are academic papers on the Microwave Auditory Effect, and there are plenty 2601:18C:4200:3E0:84B0:2196:6BB2:8AA7 (talk) 04:19, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

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The United States Air Force has a patent on Microwave Auditory Effect or Radio Frequency Hearing Effect number 6470214. 2607:FB91:8CAB:4CBF:84F7:9399:1DB8:66EE (talk) 01:47, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
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The United States Air Force had a patent on Microwave Auditory Effect or Radio Frequency Hearing Effect from 1996 to 2016 number 6470214 named "Method and device for implementing the radio frequency hearing effect". 2607:FB91:8CAB:4CBF:84F7:9399:1DB8:66EE (talk) 01:55, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
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The United States Air Force had a patent on Microwave Auditory Effect or Radio Frequency Hearing Effect number 6470214 named "Method and device for implementing the radio frequency hearing effect" from 1996 to 2016.

It states:

"Abstract

A modulation process with a fully suppressed carrier and input preprocessor filtering to produce an encoded output; for amplitude modulation (AM) and audio speech preprocessor filtering, intelligible subjective sound is produced when the encoded signal is demodulated using the RF Hearing Effect. Suitable forms of carrier suppressed modulation include single sideband (SSB) and carrier suppressed amplitude modulation (CSAM), with both sidebands present.

What is claimed is:

1. A method of encoding an input audio signal a(t) to produce a double sideband output signal having a ωc carrier frequency, which when transmitted to the head of a receiving subject, will by the radio frequency hearing effect induce a thermal-acoustic signal in the bone/tissue material of the head that replicates the input audio signal and is conducted by the bone/tissue structure of the head to the inner ear where it is demodulated by the normal processes of the cochlea and converted to nerve signals which are sent to the brain, thereby enabling intelligible speech to be perceived by the brain as any other nerve signal from the cochlea, the method comprising:

applying an input audio signal a(t) to an audio pre-distortion filter with an As(f) filter function to produce a first output signal a(t)As(f);

adding a very low frequency bias A to the first output signal to produce a second output signal a(t)As(f)+A;

applying the second output signal to a square root processor to produce a third output signal (a(t)As(f)+A)½;

applying the third output signal to a balanced modulator to produce a double sideband output signal (a(t)As(f)+A)½ sin(ωct), where ωc is the carrier frequency; and

transmitting the double sideband output signal to the head of the receiving subject.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the As(f) filter function step further comprises the step of de-emphasizing the high frequency content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the further step of suppressing one of the sidebands of the double sideband output signal is done resulting in a single sideband modulation transmission."

Inventors: James P. O'Loughlin, Diana L. Loree

Current Assignee: United States Air Force

Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6470214B1/en 72.31.62.58 (talk) 18:32, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

 * A patent filing doesn't confirm the technology is practical, theoretically sound, or even exists. To include this patent in the article (which I think is what you're asking for) we'd need some indication it is notable, e.g. WP:RS WP:SECONDARY sources that discuss it. - LuckyLouie (talk) 20:37, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * The United States Air Force patent 6470214 is very highly notable because it is mentioned by singer/songwriter Jewel in a tweet & discussed in vivid depth & detail by History Channel's television series That's Impossible episode Mind Control.
 * US patent 6470214 was mentioned by singer/songwriter Jewel in tweet on 11 August 2009: "Wow-gr8 show 'Thats Impossible' on history channel-Patent 6470214- held by navy- mind control tool-wild- Spooky-Tivo this show 4 sure"
 * History Channel's television series That's Impossible episode Mind Control mentions United States Air Force patent 6470214.
 * Transcript of show:
 * Narrator Jonathan Frakes:
 * "According to this article in the Washington Post magazine, in 1994, the Air Force Research Laboratory carried out experiments where scientists used technology to transmit phrases into the heads of human subjects. How? By burying subliminal messages in microwaves and beaming them into a person’s head. It seems like a weapon torn from the pages of a comic book. The air force denies it’s working on one, but patent number 6470214, issued on October 22, 2002, says otherwise. The patent title, “Method and Device for Implementing the Radio Frequency Hearing Effect.” Patent holder, the U.S. Air Force.
 * Documents surrounding the development of this secret weapon are classified. But what is known is that microwaves carry energy. When a microwave pulse is absorbed by our body, this energy is converted to heat, causing the tissue to expand slightly, and then contract when it cools. If the microwave were aimed at our head, this expansion and contraction would be heard as a clicking sound that could be encoded into words.
 * Nick Pope:
 * With that sort of technology, you could give someone an instruction, or you could perhaps make them think they were going mad. And it quite clearly talks about the military applications of this technology.
 * Frakes:
 * Is patent number 6470214 a top secret mind control weapon? According to this passage in the patent documents, this device can beam energy waves that can be, quote, “converted to nerve signals which are sent to the brain, thereby enabling intelligible speech to be perceived by the brain.” The result? The person hears voices that aren’t there, much like the voices reportedly heard by targeted individuals. If this mind control weapon exists, could this technology be deployed on a mass scale? There’s speculation that the government already has."
 * Sources:
 * Transcript:
 * http://mindjustice.org/impossible.htm
 * Internet Movie Database:
 * https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1488987/
 * That's Impossible television series:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_Impossible
 * https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462795/
 * Jonathan Frakes:
 * Twitter @jonathansfrakes
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Frakes
 * Nick Pope:
 * Twitter @nickpopemod
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Pope_(journalist)
 * http://nickpope.net/
 * Singer/songwriter Jewel:
 * Twitter: @jeweljk
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_(singer)
 * https://jeweljk.com/ 2607:FB91:8C27:4F8A:55D4:7308:3985:8266 (talk) 00:27, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes please add above to your article on "Microwave Auditory Effect" thankyou 2607:FB91:8C27:4F8A:55D4:7308:3985:8266 (talk) 05:01, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes please add above to your article on "Microwave Auditory Effect" thankyou. 2607:FB91:8C27:4F8A:55D4:7308:3985:8266 (talk) 05:04, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Actualcpscm (talk) 08:54, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Please add to your article as well anywhere as you feel appropriate: It is addition not edit:
 * Dr Barrie Trower, an Ex-MI5 (British Military Intelligence, section 5) Microwave Scientist/Whistleblower has stated on video titled "Bigger Than Snowden. Neuro Weapons. Directed Energy Weapons. Mind control. Targeted Individuals." on human rights organization Task Force EU Coalition's website https://cyber-torture.com :
 * "If you're targeting demonstrators, you make them suicidally depressed, they don't care about demonstrating anymore because they are too upset. With one pulse frequency you can just make people so suicidal they can't be bothered to act like a demonstator anymore, all they want to do is sleep or lay in bed all day."
 * "We are in a new cold war, and this is why countries are developing this, I mean really developing this, and this is why all of the microwave transmitters are going up everywhere because somebody if they wanted to could use them for other effects. The system is up and running."
 * "I mean voices are the easiest ones because all you have to do is stimulate the cochlea with a set resonance frequency, its very easy, voices are very easy, and it isn't people imagining voices, they physically hear them. You can physically make people hear voices, certain voices, and it can be any conversation, and it can be anybody you want to hear, it can be a soft angelic voice, it can be a god, it could be something that scares you like a devil, it could be anything."
 * "If you want to cause a specific psychiatric illness, you would have an infrared device that followed the person and you would link it to a pencil thin microwave source so the microwave beam would always target a specific gland or a specific part of the brain or an eye or a heart. So you would have them being targeted."
 * "If they want to experiment on you by the thousands they will and you can be driven to insanity and death and you just become a tick in a box without any so much as a feeling, and this is what they do, and this is why they are above the law. One of the experiments was to take an ordinary sane person, cause insanity, and have a psychiatrist who was unknown to everybody diagnose schizophrenia or paranoia or a psychiatric illness, that was a successful outcome, and the person would spend the rest of their life in an asylum in misery but to the government scientists that was a success."
 * https://www.facebook.com/BarrieTrower 2607:FB91:8C27:4F8A:55D4:7308:3985:8266 (talk) 13:23, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

There is no need to paste a wall of text onto the Talk page, links suffice. Facebook posts, Tweets by Jewell, History Channel TV entertainment, and mindjustice.org are NOT what Wikipedia considers reliable sources. - LuckyLouie (talk) 21:05, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

 * Submission for addition in your article "Microwave Auditory Effect" along with notable secondary discussion of VOICE TO SKULL WEAPON ENTRY IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY WEBSITE.
 * Federation of American Scientists webpage:
 * "Source: http://call.army.mil/products/thesaur_e/00016275.htm
 * Prev Term: voice templates
 * Next Term: Voivodina
 * voice to skull devices
 * Definition/Scope:
 * Nonlethal weapon which includes (1) a neuro-electromagnetic device which uses microwave transmission of sound into the skull of persons or animals by way of pulse-modulated microwave radiation; and (2) a silent sound device which can transmit sound into the skull of person or animals. NOTE: The sound modulation may be voice or audio subliminal messages. One application of V2K is use as an electronic scarecrow to frighten birds in the vicinity of airports.
 * Acronym:
 * V2K
 * Broader Terms:
 * nonlethal weapons
 * Send your comments to: CALL Thesaurus
 * Last reviewed: 25 Mar 04"
 * Source:
 * https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/dod/vts.html
 * Wired article discussing the United States Army's Voice to Skull webpage:
 * "Army Yanks 'Voice-To-Skull Devices' Site
 * The Army's very strange webpage on "Voice-to-Skull" weapons has been removed. It was strange it was there, and it's even stranger it's gone. If you Google it, you'll see the entry for "Voice-to-Skull device," but, if you click on the website, the link is dead.
 * The entry, still available on the Federation of American Scientists' website reads:
 * Nonlethal weapon which includes (1) a neuro-electromagnetic device which uses microwave transmission of sound into the skull of persons or animals by way of pulse-modulated microwave radiation; and (2) a silent sound device which can transmit sound into the skull of person or animals. NOTE: The sound modulation may be voice or audio subliminal messages. One application of V2K is use as an electronic scarecrow to frighten birds in the vicinity of airports.
 * The U.K.-based group Christians Against Mental Slavery first noted the change (they also have a permanent screenshot of the page). A representative of the group tells me they contacted the Webmaster, who would only tell them the entry was "permanently removed." "
 * Source:
 * https://www.wired.com/2008/05/army-removes-pa/ 2607:FB91:8C27:4F8A:55D4:7308:3985:8266 (talk) 01:18, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Not done: A very short Wired article from 2008 about a government web page that has been removed? The author fails to give any context here or make any conclusion, except that "it's strange". If you are requesting this be added as a bit of trivia, it's clearly WP:INDISCRIMINATE. If you are requesting this be added because you feel it indicates some type of government mind control conspiracy, it's clearly WP:FRINGE and subject to WP:EXTRAORDINARY. Also, bear in mind Wikipedia article text must avoid WP:COPYVIO, so we cannot just paste text of a magazine into an encyclopedia article. (Also, please, stop pasting walls of text here on the Talk page. If you have links that you wish considered as part of a request you may post them, but there is no need to paste text from a link) - LuckyLouie (talk) 14:00, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 August 2023
One of the protestors in the image is holding a sign mentioning Havana Syndrome and the text below the image says it's from 2009, however, according to the Wikipedia page on Havana Syndrome, the incidents only goes as far back as 2016 meaning the image could not have been from 2009. So remove the date or replace it with the correct one, or explain if I'm wrong. FriedFrenchGuy (talk) 17:55, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

 * You seem to be correct. The upload page on Commons gives the 2009 date too. Very odd. And I don't think it is really appropriate to use a photo with identifiable individuals anyway, given that we state that they are promoting conspiracy theories associated with mental illness. I've removed the photo entirely for now. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:21, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Chevrolet

"Bowtie"
When did this 'term' describing the Chevrolet logo come into existence?

I'm not a 'car' person and the first time I heard the logo called a "bowtie" I thought it was one of the stupidest and dumbest things I'd ever heard. (Why? Because it does not look anything like a bowtie to me.  A "true" bowtie is THINNER in the middle than at the ends.  Why do you think the emoji version of a bowtie is done as either > -< ?)

I don't think that "bowtie" had been used as an (or even in) advertising 'thing' until the 1990s {a friend, whose father worked at a Chevrolet dealership from the late 1960s through the 1970s, thinks he heard or saw the term in the 1970s; and, he, a car person, agrees with me about "bowtie" term} - - - but I could be wrong (about the 1990s date).

But given that the term is being used, I think some sort of history or background about how it came to be should be included in the entry/article.

Or am I being too nitpicky? 2600:8800:786:A300:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 20:25, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

 * If Chevorlet used the term "bowtie", then it is official. If it was used since the late 20th century, well, it is a colliqual name that SHOULD be included. The Corvette ZR1 (talk) 12:40, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * It’s pretty common in car culture to call it a bow tie
 * like for its entire existence 2600:100A:B128:F2EC:753B:4289:12B3:AFE4 (talk) 23:36, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

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"Bowtie" Logo
It puzzled me why nobody had come to any real conclusion as to where the Chevrolet Bowtie Logo started. Several years ago I stumbled upon entries in a Freemason lodge in New York [1], in which William C. Durant was apparently a member, then it hit me as to the design of the Chevy Logo. Nowadays I believe "those in the know" have come to the same realization that the Logo is in fact the famous 33. it is two letter "T's" rotated in opposite directions (Thirty-Three - TT) and butt against one another. the modern version is even more pronounced than the original...I will continue my research as to when and where he first became a Freemason (if possible).

Source- [1] Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of New York..., Volume 123 of 1904. (William C. Durant - postmaster) § Nevadarhodes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nevadarhodes (talk • contribs) 05:47, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 October 2020
Chevrolet bowtie logo:

A) The text states that Louis Chevrolet was born to French parents. This is incorrect. Both of his parents were Swiss, although from a French-speaking part of Switzerland. Chevrolet's family tree is documented for several generations back at this Website: https://gw.geneanet.org/1290?lang=en&iz=2&p=louis+joseph&n=chevrolet --> Suggestion: either change "French" to "Swiss", or simply state "Another explanation attributes the cross shape of the logo to the flag of Switzerland, Louis Chevrolet's home country."

B) The second explanation (Swiss cross) contradicts the title "Chevrolet bowtie logo", since it interprets the logo not as a bowtie, but as a cross. In order to accommodate both explanations, I suggest to change the title from "Chevrolet bowtie logo" to "Chevrolet logo". This is sufficiently clear. 84.52.195.61 (talk) 16:39, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 14 October 2020
In the Marketing / Chevrolet bowtie logo section, please change "Sport Wallpaper" back to just "wallpaper" in the third sentence.

It used to be just "wallpaper" here ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chevrolet&oldid=587356664 ), and was changed to the "Sport Wallpaper" wording by a spammer here ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chevrolet&oldid=588113854 ). Later, the spam link was removed, but the wording change was not reverted.

I am not associated with Chevrolet, General Motors, or any related business.

Thanks! 73.3.58.200 (talk) 03:49, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Nice catch. That stayed far too long. Thanks, Altamel (talk) 05:28, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 November 2020
Adhani F. (talk) 20:53, 20 November 2020 (UTC) Toyota replaced by Dodge as Toyota is a foreigner brand and Dodge is an American car Brand
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Illustrations
Article could easily be vastly improved by adding multiple photos from long Chevrolet history. – Sca (talk) 13:21, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2022
Hello, I noticed some lines in this page where the name "Chevy" is used incorrectly. It should be the correct "Chevrolet" name for encyclopediac purposes. Here are some examples:

1) Actual design work for the first Chevy Chevrolet, the costly Series C Classic Six, was drawn up by Etienne Planche, following instructions from Louis

2) In 1957 Chevy Chevrolet introduced its first fuel injected engine,

3) In 1999, Opel was rebranded to Chevrolet as a coincidence of Chevy's Chevrolet's entry to Indonesia

4) Major teams include Team Penske, KV Racing, Chip Ganassi Racing and CFH Racing who all use Chevy Chevrolet engines

5) Mexico also has some cars of its own, such as the Chevy Chevrolet C2, which is a reworked older-generation Corsa B

My request: Use proper, correct "Chevrolet" name for encyclopedia articles, except in cases where it is referring to the name itself (for example "Chevrolet, colloquially known as 'Chevy'"). 24.177.246.177 (talk) 22:58, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. Chevy is used many times in the article.  Get consensus on the change first.  RudolfRed (talk) 01:17, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 31 October 2022
Please on motorsports section add that Chevrolet won the 40th NASCAR Manufacturers' championship. Thanks. 37.6.2.237 (talk) 23:52, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. – dudhhr talk contribs (he/they) 19:48, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Steering rack
cherve rolled 6g1xk53a31l725629 105.245.99.90 (talk) 11:07, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Missing parts?
Isn't it missing parts of the beginning of the history of Chevrolet? such as it was first created in Canada by the Swiss guy, which were basically rebranded French cars Esteban Outeiral Dias (talk) 12:44, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

 * > He was the foreman of Raoul Perpère, founder of the Perpère-Darracq cars which later became Talbot. Raoul Perpère decided to finance and install Louis Chevrolet in Canada in order to produce and distribute Perpère-Darracq cars on the American continent.  Decision was made to call this production "Chevrolet" thereafter.  The other founder, William C. Durant, had founded General Motors a few years earlier and purchased Raoul Perpère’s stake. Esteban Outeiral Dias (talk) 12:46, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

2015 Equinox
Been talking to Chevrolet factory for past 6 days and was told multiple times that after 10 years of owning a new Chevy that they are not responsible for parts being discontinued making vehicle un-driveable. Asked the lady I was talking to that more or less that if you buy a new Chevy, you have 10 years to drive it before it is useless and should sell it before then. Been a Chevy buyer since 1985 and still have my 85 Silverado but now Chevy will only guarantee their vehicles for 10 years because they have no guarantee that they won't discontinue a $50.00 part (25952924) making the vehicle useless. I thought I would never say that I am switching all my companies and my personal vehicles to Ford, which I hate, but have no choice. Everyone I know is getting this message that after 5 days of trying to get an answer from Chevy to fix my wifes 2015 Equinox that I was told that there is nothing Chevy can do for me and that the heater in the car is unfixable and wothless since we live in Alaska. I have recorded every conversation I have had with Chevy so if anyone wants two hear hours of conversations please contact me at 907-351-8238 and I will send them to you. And my dumb ass just bought my mom a 2024 Equiniox from Lithia South here in Anchorage Alaska and paid $33,545.00 cash for it since my dad just passed away and she needed a new vehicle. i should of bought her a Ford or Dodge which I hate both brands but should last longer than 10 years. At least my 1985 Chevy Silverado still is in mint condition and can still get parts for it. 66.223.208.115 (talk) 18:01, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

 * buy Ford 66.223.208.115 (talk) 18:01, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * This has nothing to do with this article. Have you tried posting it on a Chevrolet blog? I seriously doubt you can find a right answer here, pal. Fma12 (talk) 18:43, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

New logo
GM changed the Chevrolet logo in late 2023, coming back to a monochrome version (as it was explained on GM Authority site). The previous version remains on the brand's websites of South America (except Brazil), Europe, and Asia.

For the reasons explained above, I suggest to replace the current logo on the infobox with the new version (already uploaded to commons), which is nowadays in use on Chevrolet website and its social media. The old logo won't be removed but added to a section (named "logo evolution/history" similar to the existing one at Ford Motor Company article. Fma12 (talk) 21:05, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

title: Talk:Chevrolet