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Evatt

The surname Evatt is British, with Norman French roots. Modern spelling deviations include Evatte, Evett, Evettes, Evitt, Evitts, Evitte, and Evittes. Early British spellings of this surname did not include the double t, having, instead, a single t, as in Evot and Euote.

According to The Book of English Surnames, all of the above Evatt surname spellings are diminutives of Eve. Contrary to a commonly held belief, Evatt is not a derivative of the surname Evans, as Evan is the Welsh form of John, dating from about 1500 AD, well after the Evatt/Euote surname was already in wide use in England.

The surname Evatt/Euote was first seen in England in the year 1295 AD, and recorded in the Barnwell Church. The record concerned a William Walter Euote.

The known Evatt Family Tree begins with the William Walter Euote referenced above. He was born about 1266 AD near Ruskington in Lincolnshire County, in England.

The Evatt family name can be found in England, the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. More Evatts are found in South Carolina than any other part of the world.

Following World War II, Herbert Vere Evatt (1894-1965), Australian jurist, politician and writer, achieved international fame as the third President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1948-49, where he was instrumental in the drafting of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).

The Evatt family motto, as recorded on the 13th Century Evatt Coat of Arms held by the Evatt family of New Zealand, is "Be Just and Fear Not". An alternate version of the motto, as recorded on the 17th Century Family Crest held by the Evett Family of New Zealand, is "Festina Lente" - "More haste, less speed".

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Russian battleship Gangut (1911)

Gangut (Гангут) was both the lead ship of the Gangut-class battleship dreadnoughts of the Imperial Russian Navy built before World War I and the last of her class to be completed. She was named after the Russian victory over the Swedish Navy in the Battle of Gangut in 1714. She was completed during the winter of 1914–1915, but was not ready for combat until mid-1915. Her role was to defend the mouth of the Gulf of Finland against the Germans, who never tried to enter, so she spent her time training and providing cover for minelaying operations. Her crew joined the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet after the February Revolution and joined the Bolsheviks in 1918. She was laid up in 1918 for lack of manpower and not recommissioned until 1925, by which time she had been renamed Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya (Октябрьская революция: October Revolution).

She was reconstructed between 1931 and 1934 with new boilers, fire-control systems and greatly enlarged superstructures. During the Winter War she bombarded Finnish coastal artillery positions once. Her anti-aircraft armament was greatly reinforced in early 1941, just before Operation Barbarossa. She provided gunfire support against the Germans during the Siege of Leningrad despite being bombed three times and under repair for a year. Retained on active duty after the war she became a training ship in 1954 before being struck off the Navy List in 1956 and slowly scrapped.

Design and description
Gangut was 180 m long at the waterline and 181.2 m long overall. She had a beam of 26.9 m and a draft of 8.99 m, 49 cm more than designed. Her displacement was 24800 t at load, over 1500 t more than her designed displacement of 23288 t.

Gangut's machinery was built by the Franco-Russian Works. Four Parsons-type steam turbines drove the four propellers. The engine rooms were located between turrets three and four in three transverse compartments. The outer compartments each had a high-pressure ahead and reverse turbine for each wing propeller shaft. The central engine room had two each low-pressure ahead and astern turbines as well as two cruising turbines driving the two center shafts. The engines had a total designed output of 42000 shp, but they produced 52000 shp during her sister RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Poltava's full-speed trials on 21 November 1915 and gave a top speed of 24.1 knots. Twenty-five Yarrow boilers provided steam to the engines at a designed working pressure of 17.5 atm. Each boiler was fitted with Thornycroft oil sprayers for mixed oil/coal burning. They were arranged in two groups. The forward group consisted of two boiler rooms in front of the second turret, the foremost of which had three boilers while the second one had six. The rear group was between the second and third turrets and comprised two compartments, each with eight boilers. At full load she carried 1847.5 LT of coal and 700 LT of fuel oil and that provided her a range of 3500 nmi at a speed of 10 kn.

The main armament of the Ganguts consisted of a dozen 52-caliber Obukhovskii 12 in Pattern 1907 guns mounted in four triple turrets distributed the length of the ship. The Russians did not believe that superfiring turrets offered any advantage, discounting the value of axial fire and believing that superfiring turrets could not fire while over the lower turret because of muzzle blast problems. They also believed that distributing the turrets, and their associated magazines, over the length of the ship improved the survivability of the ship. Sixteen 50-caliber 4.7 in Pattern 1905 guns were mounted in casemates as the secondary battery intended to defend the ship against torpedo boats. The ships were completed with only a single 30-caliber 3 in Lender anti-aircraft (AA) gun mounted on the quarterdeck. Other AA guns were probably added during the course of World War I, but details are lacking. Budzbon says that four 75 mm were added to the roofs of the end turrets during the war. Four 17.7 in submerged torpedo tubes were mounted with three torpedoes for each tube.

Service
Gangut was built by the Admiralty Works in Saint Petersburg. Her keel was laid down on 16 June 1909 and she was launched on 22 September 1911. At the end of October 1914, she collided with her sister Poltava which delayed her trials, scheduled for 9 November 1914,  to late December 1914. She entered service on 11 January 1915 when she reached Helsinki and was assigned to the First Battleship Brigade of the Baltic Fleet. Gangut and her sister RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Sevastopol provided distant cover for minelaying operations south of Liepāja on 27 August, the furthest that any Russian dreadnought ventured out of the Gulf of Finland during World War I. She ran aground on 10 September, but suffered only minor damage. A minor mutiny broke out on 1 November when the executive officer refused to feed the crew the traditional meal of meat and macaroni after coaling. The return of the captain and the issue of a dinner of tinned meat restored order on the ship. On 10–11 November and 6 December Gangut and her sister RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Petropavlovsk again provided distant cover for minelaying operations. She saw no action of any kind during 1916. Her crew joined the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet on 16 March 1917, after the idle sailors received word of the February Revolution in Saint Petersburg. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk required the Soviets to evacuate their base at Helsinki in March 1918 or have them interned by newly independent Finland even though the Gulf of Finland was still frozen over. Gangut and her sisters led the first group of ships on 12 March and reached Kronstadt five days later in what became known as the 'Ice Voyage'.

Gangut was laid up on 9 November 1918 for lack of manpower and was renamed Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya on 27 June 1925 while she was being refitted. She was recommissioned on 23 March 1926 and began a partial reconstruction on 12 October 1931, incorporating the lessons from the earlier modernizations of her sisters Marat and Parizhskaya Kommuna. The tubular tower-mast was replaced by a larger and sturdier structure with a KDP-6 fire control director, equipped with two 6 m Zeiss rangefinders positioned on top. The aft superstructure was enlarged and a new structure was built just forward of it, with another KDP-6 director surmounting it, which required the repositioning of the mainmast 9 m forward. This did not leave enough room for a derrick, as was used on Marat, so two large boat cranes were mounted on each side of the mainmast. Her funnel was curved to the rear rather than angled like Marat. Each turret received Italian 8 m rangefinders and their roof armor was increased to 152 mm in thickness. A new forecastle, much like that of Marat, was fitted to improve seakeeping. Six 76.2 mm 34-K anti-aircraft (AA) guns were added, three on the roofs of the fore and aft turrets. All twenty-five of her old boilers were replaced by a dozen oil-fired boilers originally intended for the Borodino-class battlecruiser Izmail. The space saved was used to add another inboard longitudinal watertight bulkhead that greatly improved her underwater protection. Her original Pollen Argo Clock mechanical fire-control computer was upgraded with a copy of a Vickers Ltd fire-control computer, designated AKUR by the Soviets, as well as a copy of a Sperry stable vertical gyroscope. These changes increased her displacement to 26690 t at full load and her overall length to 184.9 m. Her metacentric height decreased to 1.67 m from her designed 1.76 m as a result of her enlarged superstructures.

She finished her reconstruction on 4 August 1934. Her participation in the Winter War was limited to a bombardment of Finnish 10 in coast defense guns on 18 December 1939 at Saarenpää in the Beryozovye Islands before the Gulf of Finland iced over. She failed to inflict any permanent damage before she was driven off by near misses. Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya sailed to Tallinn shortly after the Soviets occupied Estonia, but she was refitted in February–March 1941 in Kronstadt and her anti-aircraft armament was reinforced. Two twin-gun 76.2 mm 81-K mounts were mounted on her quarterdeck. The magazines for these guns were probably situated in the rearmost casemates on each beam, which lost their 120-mm guns and twelve automatic 37 mm 70-K guns were also added, three guns each on the middle turrets and the other six in the fore and aft superstructures. Four twin and four single 12.7 mm DShK machine guns and two AA directors were also fitted. The large cranes were replaced by smaller ones taken from the ex-German heavy cruiser Petropavlovsk to make room for the anti-aircraft guns.

On 22 June 1941 Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya was in Tallinn when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, but she was forced to sail for Kronstadt by the advancing Germans. She opened fire on troop positions of the German 18th Army on 8 September from the channel between Leningrad and Kronstadt, and probably landed four 120 mm guns on the following day for use ashore. She was badly damaged on 21 September by three bomb hits on her bow that knocked out two turrets and she was sent to the Ordzhonikidze Yard on 23 October for repairs. The Soviets took advantage of this time to add four more 37-mm 70-K AA guns and another twin 76.2-mm K-81 gun mount between February and April 1942. She was hit again by one heavy and three medium bombs dropped by Heinkel He 111s of KG 4 during the night of 4–5 April. and again by three bombs on 24 April. Her repairs were completed in November 1942, although a quadruple 37-mm 46-K gun mount was added in September. She supported Soviet forces during the Siege of Leningrad, the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive in January 1944 and the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive in June 1944. She received a Lend-Lease British Type 279 air-warning radar sometime during 1944. On 22 July 1944 she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

She was reclassified as a 'school battleship' on 24 July 1954 and stricken on 17 February 1956. She was slowly scrapped and her hulk still survived in May 1958.

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John Tyrrell (died 1437)

Sir John Tyrrell (c.1382 – 2 April 1437), of Heron in the Essex parish of East Horndon, was an English landowner, lawyer, administrator, and politician who was chosen three times as Speaker of the House of Commons.

Origins
John Tyrrell was the eldest son of Walter Tyrrell of Avon Tyrrell, Hampshire, by his wife Eleanor Flambard (died 29 March 1422), daughter and heiress of Edmund Flambard of Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, by his wife Elizabeth FitzRalph, daughter of Richard FitzRalph. After the death of Walter Tyrrell, Eleanor remarried to Sir Nicholas Haute (1357–c. 1415), MP, of Wadden Hall in Waltham, Kent. John was the grandson and heir of Sir Thomas Tyrrell (died 1382) who was buried at Downham, Essex, in 1382, and was survived by his wife, Alice.

Brothers
Tyrrell had the following four brothers:
 * Edward Tyrrell (died 17 December 1442), Esquire, of Downham, who married Anne Pashley, widow of John Bassingbourne and daughter of Sir Robert Pashley by his wife Philippe Sergeaux (sister-in-law of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford). By his wife Anne, Edward Tyrrell had the following progeny:
 * Edward Tyrrell, who died without issue.
 * Philippe Tyrrell, daughter, who married, before 1446–7, Thomas Cornwallis (died 26 May 1484) of Brome, Suffolk, by whom she had four sons and a daughter.
 * Margaret Tyrrell, who married Robert Mounteney.
 * He also had
 * John Tyrrell, illegitimate son.
 * Richard Tyrrell;
 * Thomas Tyrrell;
 * William Tyrrell, who died before 1442.

Sisters
He probably also had a sister:
 * Elizabeth Tyrrell, who married, as his second wife, Sir William Lisle (died 1442), an illegitimate son of Robert Lisle, 3rd Baron Lisle (died 1399).

Career
John Tyrrell was appointed High Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1413 and again in 1423. He was elected knight of the shire for Essex 12 times between 1411 and 1437 and once for Hertfordshire in 1427. He was elected Speaker of the House of Commons three times, in 1421, 1429 and 1437.

In 1427 he was appointed steward of Clare in Suffolk and Thaxted in Essex, during the minority of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, and chief steward of the Duchy of Lancaster north of Trent. He was a member of King Henry VI's council in France in 1431. He was knighted in 1431 and in May of that year was appointed Treasurer of the Royal Household, a post he held until his death.

First marriage
Tyrrell married firstly, at some time before 1411, Alice Coggeshall (died 1422), daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Coggeshall by his wife Antiocha Hawkwood, daughter and heiress of Sir John Hawkwood, by whom he had five surviving sons and four daughters, including:

 * Sir Thomas Tyrrell (c. 1411 – 28 March 1477) of Heron, eldest son and heir not only to his father but also to his uncle Edward Tyrrell (died 1442). He married Anne Marney, daughter of Sir William Marney (died 21 or 24 August 1414) by his wife Elizabeth Sergeaux, by whom he had four sons and two daughters:
 * Sir William Tyrrell, slain at the Battle of Barnet in 1471, who married firstly Eleanor Darcy, by whom he had a son, Sir Thomas Tyrrell (c. 1453–1512). He married secondly to Eleanor Hungerford;
 * Humphrey Tyrrell (died c. 1507), Esquire, who married firstly Isabel Helion, and secondly Elizabeth Walwin;
 * Sir Robert Tyrrell (died 1508), who married firstly Christian Hartshorn, and secondly to a certain Elizabeth, whose surname is unknown.
 * Thomas Tyrrell (died 26 March 1476), esquire, who married Elizabeth Bruyn (died March 1494), who later remarried to Sir William Brandon (d.1485), by whom she was the mother of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
 * Anne Tyrrell, who married John Darcy
 * Elizabeth Tyrrell (died after 1487), who married firstly Sir Robert Darcy (died 2 November 1469), and secondly, Richard Haute (died 8 April 1487), Esquire.
 * William Tyrrell of Gipping, Suffolk, beheaded on Tower Hill 23 February 1462, who married Margaret Darcy, by whom he was the father of Sir James Tyrrell.
 * William Tyrrell (died c. 1471) of Beeches in Rawreth, Essex, who married firstly Anne Fitz Simon, the daughter of Robert Fitz Simon, and secondly Philippa Thornbury, the daughter of John Thornbury.
 * Alice Tyrrell (died 1460), who married firstly Hamo Strange, secondly William Skrene the younger (died 1431), eldest son of William Skrene, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and thirdly Thomas Pigot, and had a son, John Skrene (died 1452), by her second husband.

Second marriage
He married secondly, at some time before 1427, Katherine Burgate (died after 1436), the widow successively of Robert Stonham (died 1397), of Stonham Aspal, Suffolk, and John Spencer (died 1417), of Banham, Norfolk, and daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Burgate (died 24 July 1409) of Burgate, Suffolk, by his wife Eleanor Visdelou, daughter of Sir Thomas Visdelou, by whom he had a daughter.

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Ishwar Maraj

Ishwar Maraj (born January 26, 1969) is a Canadian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler.

Before his move to Canada he played club cricket in Trinidad and Tobago. He holds the world record for the slowest ever fifty in a World Cup match, in an innings against South Africa, in the 2003 Cricket World Cup, in which he played in all six matches. He last game for Canada was in the 2004 ICC 6 Nations Challenge, although he did play for Canada A against the MCC in 2005. He played for St Lucia in the 2006 Stanford 20/20 tournament.

In February 2020, he was named in the West Indies' squad for the Over-50s Cricket World Cup in South Africa. However, the tournament was cancelled during the third round of matches due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Anthoceros

Anthoceros is a genus of hornworts in the family Anthocerotaceae. It is distributed globally. Species of Anthoceros are characterized by having a small to medium-sized, green thallus that is more or less lobed along the margins.

Etymology
The name Anthoceros means 'flower horn', referring to the characteristic horn-shaped sporophytes that all hornworts produce.

Description
The spores are dark gray, dark brown or black. This distinguishes it from the related genus Phaeoceros, which produces yellow spores. The thallus lacks air chambers and scales, and has no well defined mid rib. It has unicellular smooth rhizoids in the ventral region. It is irregularly lobed, and exhibits rare dichotomous branching. The thallus has little to no tissue differentiation, being composed of thin, compactly arranged uniform parenchymatous cells.

Anthoceros species are host to species of Nostoc, a symbiotic relationship in which Nostoc provides nitrogen to its host through cells known as heterocysts, and which are able to carry out photosynthesis. The Nostoc colonies are present on the lower ventral surface. They often grow in slime pores, mucilaginous groups of decomposed cells within the plant which open outward through a pore guarded by 2 cells. Nostoc colonies are visible as blue-green patches on the plant body.

The plants grow in moist clay soils on hills, in ditches, and in damp hollows among rocks.

Reproduction
Anthoceros species exhibit many forms of asexual reproduction. Besides fragmentation, a nearly ubiquitous form, these hornworts exhibit tubers, persistent apices, and apospory. Tubers and persistent apices can remain dormant and survive harsh conditions to form new thalli. Apospory, a form of apomixis, involves the formation of diploid gametophyte spores directly from the tissue of the plant's sporophyte.

Species
List of species.

 * A. adscendens Lehmann & Lindenberg 1832
 * A. agrestis Paton 1979
 * A. alpinus Stephani 1923
 * A. angustifolius Gottsche, Lindenberg & Nees 1846
 * A. angustus Stephani 1916
 * A. assamicus Kachroo 1954
 * A. bharadwajii Udar & Asthana 1985
 * A. buettneri Stephani 1916
 * A. capricornii Cargill & Scott 1997
 * A. caucasicus Stephani 1923
 * A. cavernosus Stephani 1916 non Nees 1838
 * A. chambensis Kashyap 1917
 * A. chungii Khanna 1938
 * A. crispatus Griffith 1849
 * A. cristatus Stephani 1916
 * A. dimorphus Sim 1926
 * A. dissectus Montagne 1846
 * A. erectus Kashyap 1915 non Stephani 1916
 * A. expansus (Stephani 1916b) Villarreal & Cargill 2015
 * A. ferdinandi-muelleri Stephani 1916
 * A. fragilis Stephani 1916
 * A. fusiformis Austin 1875
 * A. gasongorii Gola 1914
 * A. granulatus Gottsche 1863 non Colenso 1886
 * A. harrisanus (Stephani 1916b) Parihar 1962
 * A. helmsii Stephani 1893
 * A. jamesonii Taylor ex Mitten 1855
 * A. javanicoides Miller 1981
 * A. jungermannioides Schweinitz 1821
 * A. kajumas (Goebel 1928) Proskauer 1951

 * A. khandalensis (Apte & Sane 1942) Proskauer 1951
 * A. koshii Khanna 1936
 * A. lamellatus Stephani 1916
 * A. laminiferus Stephani 1893
 * A. macounii Howe 1898
 * A. macrosporus Stephani 1916
 * A. major Griffith 1849 non Micheli 1729 ex Schmidel 1766 non Smith 1806
 * A. maritimus Stephani 1916b
 * A. megasporus Meijer 1957
 * A. muscoides Colenso 1884
 * A. myriandroecius Stephani 1911
 * A. natalensis Stephani 1913
 * A. neesii Proskauer 1958
 * A. niger Stephani 1916
 * A. orizabensis (Stephani 1916) Hässel 1990
 * A. pandei Udar & Asthana 1985a
 * A. patagonicus Hässel 1990
 * A. peruvianus Stephani 1916
 * A. pinnatus Stephani 1886
 * A. punctatus von Linné 1753
 * A. pusillus Colenso 1886b non Stephani 1916
 * A. rosulans Hasegawa 1986
 * A. sahaydrensis Sane 1942
 * A. sambesianus Stephani 1916
 * A. sampalocensis (Burgeff 1935) Proskauer 1948
 * A. scariosus Austin 1869
 * A. schroederi Stephani 1912
 * A. serratus Stephani 1911b
 * A. simulans Howe 1934
 * A. spongiosus Stephani 1916
 * A. stephanianus (Stephani 1916) Beauverd ex Stephani 1924
 * A. subtilis Stephani 1916
 * A. telaganus Stephani 1916
 * A. tristanianus Villarreal, Engel & Váňa 2013 ''
 * A. tuberculatus Lehmann & Lindenberg 1832
 * A. venosus Lindenberg & Gottsche 1846 non Spruce 1885

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Gillian Weir

Dame Gillian Constance Weir  (born 17 January 1941) is a New Zealand-British organist.

Biography
Weir was born in Martinborough, New Zealand, on 17 January 1941. Her parents were Clarice Mildred Foy ( Bignell) and Cecil Alexander Weir. She received her schooling at Queen's Park School, Wanganui Intermediate, and Wanganui Girls' College. When she was 19, she was a co-winner of the Auckland Star Piano Competition, playing Mozart. A year later she won a scholarship of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in London. There, she studied with the concert pianist Cyril Smith and the renowned organist Ralph Downes, and in her second year (1964) won the prestigious St. Albans International Organ Competition.

Weir made her début at the Royal Albert Hall while still a student, as soloist in the Poulenc Organ Concerto, on the opening night of the 1965 season of the Promenade Concerts, and in the same year at the Royal Festival Hall in recital, then the youngest organist to have performed there publicly. She returned to the Albert Hall to make the first recording on the great organ after the 2004 rebuild.

In 1967, she married Clive Rowland Webster. The marriage was dissolved in 1972. In 1972, she married Lawrence Irving Phelps, an American organ builder.

Messiaen
Her performance in 1964 of a work by Olivier Messiaen occurred at a time when his music was little-known outside France and she became particularly associated with this composer; she has several times performed his complete works in series. Her recording for Collins Classics (new re-release for Priory Records on 2002) was hailed as "one of the major recording triumphs of the century" in In Tune Magazine. Her distinguished position as a Messiaen interpreter has been reinforced by her CD release of his complete organ works to great acclaim as well as by her contribution to Faber's The Messiaen Companion and other publications. At Messiaen's request, she gave the first UK performance in January 1973 of the Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité at the Royal Festival Hall from a facsimile of the composer's manuscript, given to her after he gave the world premiere in Washington D.C.

Her series of six weekly recitals in Westminster Cathedral of Messiaen's organ works in 1998, the 90th anniversary of his birth, brought huge audiences, and for her performances she was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, the first organist to have been so honoured.

Recordings
Weir's artistry was marked in 1999 by the re-issue on CD of her series of Argo recordings, and her nomination by Classic CD magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Players of the Century, and by The Sunday Times as one of the 1000 Music Makers of the Millennium. In December 2000, ITV's South Bank Show chronicled her worldwide activities as performer, teacher and recording artist.

Television
Weir performed in her own six-part television series King of Instruments for the BBC in 1989; it drew large audiences in Great Britain.

Honours and awards

 * 1975: Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, London (Hon. FRCO)
 * 1977: First woman elected to the Council of the Royal College of Organists
 * 1981: International Performer of the Year, elected by the American Guild of Organists, New York City
 * 1981–83: First woman President of the Incorporated Association of Organists
 * 1982: Elected Musician of the Year by the International Music Guide
 * 1982: Elected Honorary Member of the International Music Sorority Sigma Alpha Iota
 * 1983: Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists (Hon FRCCO)
 * 1983: Awarded honorary Doctor of Music from the University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (Hon D.Mus.)
 * 1985: First musician to receive the Turnovsky Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts
 * 1989: Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to music
 * 1989: Elected Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, London (Hon. RAM)
 * 1992–93: President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, England
 * 1993: Trustee of the Eric Thompson Charitable Trust for Organists and Organ Music
 * 1994–96: First woman president of the Royal College of Organists, England
 * 1996: Promoted Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1996 New Year Honours, for services to music
 * 1997–98: Visiting professor of the Royal Academy of Music, London
 * 1997: Awarded honorary doctorate by the University of Huddersfield (Hon D.Litt.)
 * 1998: Awarded Silver Medal by the Albert Schweitzer Association (Sweden)
 * 1998–present: President of the Soloist's Ensemble
 * 1998: Patron of the Oundle International Festival
 * 1999: Appointed the Prince Consort Professor in Organ, Royal College of Music, London
 * 1999: March 1999 – Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Solo Performance in 1998
 * 1999: July 1999 – Awarded honorary doctorate by the University of Hull (Hon D.Mus.)
 * 1999: Patron of Friends of Young Artists' Platform
 * 1999–present: Patron of the Cirencester Early Music Festival
 * 2000: November 2000 – Elected Fellow of the Royal College of Music, London (FRCM)
 * 2000: December 2000 – Subject of television documentary profile by the South Bank Show (ITV)
 * 2001: February 2001 – Awarded honorary doctorate by the University of Exeter (Hon D.Mus.)
 * 2001: Awarded honorary doctorate by Birmingham City University (Hon Doctor of the university)
 * 2003: Awarded honorary doctorate by the University of Leicester (Hon D.Mus.)
 * 2004: Awarded honorary doctorate by the University of Aberdeen (Hon D.Mus.)
 * 2006: Elected Member of the Senior Common Room at the University College and St Chad's College, Durham University
 * 2009: Elected Member of the Senior Common Room at the College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham University
 * 2009: Awarded honorary doctorate by the University of London (Hon D.Mus.)
 * 2011: Awarded Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Award

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Solidarity Park

Solidarity Park is located opposite Parliament House in Perth, Western Australia. In 1997 a "Workers Embassy" was set up on some vacant land opposite the Parliament House during union protests of the Court Governments "third wave" legislation for industrial relations. What began with a caravan and portable barbecue soon transformed into a landscaped shelter with a monument to the trade union workers who have died during their work. Special mention was made to Mark Allen, a young CFMEU organiser who was killed on a building site while attempting to get workers down from an unsafe roof.

The Workers Embassy, in the form of a caravan, was first established on the grounds of Parliament House on 29 April 1997 as part of the campaign against the 'third wave' industrial relations legislation, when an estimated 30,000 people marched through the city to State Parliament. When approached by security, the three unionists who had parked the caravan claimed it to be a first aid post and, to their surprise, were able to leave it in place.

Four union officials were subsequently arrested on the night of the 30 April for remaining on the premises, with the Workers Embassy relocated to a site across the street from Parliament House. On 1 May 1997, Mike Mitchell, an organiser from the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing, and Allied Services Union (CEPU), marked out the 510-square-meter site under the Mining Act using a prospector’s license.

Unions occupied the site 24 hours a day for 6 months. In July 1997, the Workers Embassy was renamed Solidarity Park. Over that July and August, multiple structures were established on the site including the Mark Allen Memorial, which features a triple 8 to symbolise the labour movement's historic struggle for the 8-hour day, The People’s Wall to replace the original sandbag wall around the site, the Fountain for Youth, and the Commemorative Rock. As a result, Solidarity Park is the location of the highest concentration of labour monuments in Western Australia.

The third wave industrial relations legislation was overturned following the election of the Gallop Government in 2001 and Solidarity Park was permanently listed on the State Register of Heritage Places in 2004.

An International Workers Memorial Day event is held at Solidarity Park every year. UnionsWA is currently responsible for the management and maintenance of the site.

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Hiragana and katakana place names

The hiragana cities of Japan are municipalities whose names are written in hiragana rather than kanji as is traditional for Japanese place names. Many hiragana city names have kanji equivalents that are either phonetic manyōgana, or whose kanji are outside of the Joyo kanji. Others, such as Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture, are taken from localities or landmarks whose names continue to be written in kanji. Yet another cause is the merger of multiple cities, one of which had the original kanji — in such cases, the hiragana place name is used to create a new identity for the merged city, distinct from the constituent city with the same kanji name.

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Exetel

Exetel is an Australian ISP which provides ADSL, web hosting, VoIP, and other internet services to customers across Australia. Exetel's headquarters are in offices in Sydney, and its switching centres are distributed in capital city secure data centre facilities around mainland Australia.

Exetel resells products from NBN Co, Telstra, Optus and AAPT. Many of the larger Australian ISPs have chosen to deploy their own infrastructure (including wireless) to provide faster and less expensive services than Telstra offers. Exetel does not deploy its own infrastructure outside of its own switching centres. Instead, it is a wholesale customer of Tier 1 wholesale telco providers who provide IP Transit, Inter-capital Transmission and various Residential and Business Grade Access Network products that Exetel integrate and manage for its customers.

History
Exetel began operating in the early 1990s as a technology consulting company, providing technical and management consulting services until December 2003. At that time the Exetel administration decided to become a service provider of data and telephone communications services.

It began offering ADSL1 services in mid-February 2004, SHDSL corporate services in April 2004 and wireless broadband through Unwired in June 2004. Towards the end of 2004 Exetel added wire line telephony services using the Verizon network and mobile services using the Vodafone network. Exetel activated its own VoIP switches in March 2006 and began offering ADSL2+ services on 20 July 2006.

Exetel has PoPs in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Australian Capital Territory and Auckland.

On 18 November 2007 Exetel was included in the Deloitte's Rising Star listings as one of the fastest growing 50 Australian technology companies with a cumulative growth of 159% in that two-year period.

In June 2021 Superloop acquired Exetel for $110 million in cash and shares.

Services
Exetel offers the following internet related services:

 * NBN using all access technologies except Satellite
 * Mobile voice services
 * Mobile broadband services
 * Home wireless broadband services
 * ADSL/ADSL2+
 * Wireless ethernet
 * Mid-Band ethernet/ethernet over copper
 * Ethernet over fibre
 * Residential and business web hosting
 * VoIP
 * POTS telephony

Bandwidth management
Exetel has over 300 Gbit/s of bandwidth linking its customers to Exetel and over 300 Gbit/s+ of bandwidth linking Exetel to national and international internet networks. Multiple 10 Gbit connections to numerous peering networks are used to ensure maximum content availability and network adjacency. Since it began operating, Exetel has implemented various practices to provide the maximum levels of on-net content to ensure the best possible end-user experience including Google, Akamai and Netflix caches.

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Talk:Piconet

The Adress of the Slave devices is not called a mac, but AMA (Active Member Address). The Number of parked devices is defined by the 8bit PMA (Parked Member Address). I propose to change the article a little bit to include this information.

Suggested Merge
I suggest that this page be merged into either the Bluetooth page or a new Bleutooth networks page with Scatternet as I don't think their is really enough detail to warrent it's own page and its relavnce is limited to Bluetooth. -- Warpedshadow 23:19, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Broken link
I could not access the second external link: "Masters and Slaves: Roles in a Bluetooth Piconet". Is it down or am I doing something wrong? --McArrowni (talk) 02:17, 11 October 2008 (UTC) Actually, both links seem to be broken. --McArrowni (talk) 02:23, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Computer
Can piconet (or, in general, bluetooth) be used to connect a computer (Windows PC) to the Internet, using Smartphone with Internet connection ? (i.e. Nopetro (talk) 13:13, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

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Sielun Veljet

Sielun Veljet was a Finnish rock band of the 1980s. They were formed soon after the disbanding of Hassisen Kone by its former frontman Ismo Alanko. Sielun Veljet never achieved the fame or the record sales figures of Hassisen Kone, but they became famous for their powerful stage presence and aggressive, shamanistic post-punk musical style. Most of the band's recorded material is sung in Finnish, except for their 1989 album Softwood Music Under Slow Pillars. They have also recorded English-language versions of their songs under the moniker L'amourder. In 2011, they released a new song, "Nukkuva hirviö" (Sleeping beast).

Early history
Sielun Veljet was formed shortly after Hassisen Kone, a successful and well-known new wave band, disbanded. Singer-guitarist Alanko and guitarist Jukka Orma wanted to start making a totally different kind of music than what Hassisen Kone had done and what the Finnish public expected of them. The band was complete with bassist Jouko Hohko and drummer Alf Forsman.

The band's live performances were loud, energetic and extremely intensive from the beginning, and people soon stopped expecting another Hassisen Kone. The concerts were sometimes extremely long—one gig in Nivala in the 1980s lasted for four and a half hours and ended only when security personnel forced Alanko off the stage.

The band's self-titled debut album was recorded live in 1983. Shortly thereafter, with the 1983 EP Lapset and the 1984 album Hei soturit, the band started slowly gaining popularity. The two recordings were joined together on later releases.

Breakthrough
L'amourha (1985) became the critical and commercial breakthrough for Sielun Veljet, and remains by far their highest selling album. "Peltirumpu" became the band's first real hit. The album and its follow-up Kuka teki huorin (1986) are considered the most accessible Sielun Veljet recordings, and remain the band's only studio album gold records. The song "On Mulla Unelma" (I have a dream) from L'Amourha album was banned by Finnish national broadcasting company, YLE, after it was performed by the band in the Härmärock television show that was broadcast on independence day. The song's lyrics blaspheme Finnish national symbols.

After Kuka teki huorin, Sielun Veljet started re-recording some of their material in English to find an audience outside Finland. They recorded an EP Ritual (1986) and the album Shit-Hot (1987) using the alias L'amourder. The name is a direct translation of the name of their most successful album – "murha" means "murder" in Finnish. A tour in Europe followed, and the band was even allowed to tour in Soviet Russia, which proved to be a success.

Suomi-Finland (1988), recorded in Finnish, saw Sielun Veljet moving into a more acoustic sound than before. The album's lyrics concentrated on the issues present in late 1980s Finland, such as the growing influence of American culture. It was followed by all-acoustic Softwood Music Under Slow Pillars (1989), written in English but not released outside Finland.

Breakup
After the commercial failure of Softwood Music, the band decided to quit. A greatest hits collection Myytävänä! was released the same year, followed by a three-CD box set Musta laatikko in 1991. Musta laatikko included some rarely heard live and studio material, as well as a full live set under the alias Kullervo Kivi & Gehenna. A documentary film titled Veljet was also released in 1991.

In 2007, Jukka Orma mixed together some Tuomari Nurmio covers the band had recorded in 1990, some of which had been included on Musta laatikko. The album was released as Otteita Tuomari Nurmion laulukirjasta, and it reached No. 1 on the Finnish album charts, highest position ever for Sielun Veljet.

Influence
Sielun Veljet has influenced several Finnish rock and metal bands, such as Maj Karma and Turmion Kätilöt. Turmion Kätilöt have covered the Sielun Veljet song "Volvot ulvoo kuun savuun" on their "Verta ja lihaa" single. A tribute album to them, titled Säkenöivää voimaa – tribuutti Sielun Veljille, was released in 2002 and featured among others Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Maija Vilkkumaa (who has also recorded a cover of "Peltirumpu") and Neljä Ruusua.

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John Latham

John Latham may refer to:

 * John Latham (ornithologist) (1740–1837), British physician, naturalist and author
 * John Latham (1761–1843), English physician, President of the Royal College of Physicians
 * John Latham (1787–1853), his son, English magistrate and poet
 * John Latham (judge) (1877–1964), Australian judge and politician
 * John Cridland Latham (1888–1975), U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
 * John Latham (artist) (1921–2006), conceptual artist born in Zambia
 * John Latham (Whitewater), U.S. bank executive involved in Whitewater controversy, 1990s
 * Jack Latham (1914–1987), U.S. actor
 * John Latham (physicist) (1937–2021), British physicist

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State motorcyclists' rights organizations

State motorcyclists' rights organizations (SMROs) exist in about 32 US states, 25 of which call themselves "ABATE of (state name)," the rest going by various other names. SMROs advocate for a point of view in motorcycling that is, in general, opposed to mandatory helmet laws, required motorcycle safety inspections, mandatory rider training and licensing, and other similar regulation. Instead SMROs favor optional or voluntary motorcycle rider safety education, training, and licensing, and greater public awareness of motorcyclist safety issues. They also favor stronger penalties for car driver infractions such as right of way violations, or when drivers are at fault in accidents that harm motorcycle riders. SMRO activities include lobbying legislatures, letter writing campaigns, and paying for public service announcements and political advertisements. To carry out lobbying at the national level, a coalition of SMRO's created the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) to lobby in Washington DC. The SMROs and MRF are often allied with the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) on legislative issues.

ABATE
ABATE is an acronym which originally stood for "A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments" and alternatively stands for "American Bikers Against Totalitarian Enactments", "A Brotherhood Aimed Towards Education", "American Bikers for Awareness, Training & Education", "American Bikers Aimed Towards Education", "American Bikers Advocating Training & Education" with other combination used.

Concept
The concept of ABATE began with Lou Kimzey, editor of Easyriders magazine in 1972. He and others saw the need for bikers to organize to fight against federal and state restrictions on motorcycling. Some 35 years later, most states have a state motorcyclists' rights organizations (SMRO), either called ABATE or some other name. October 1977 Lou Kimzey and Easyriders were relinquishing the organization to the people attending the meeting in Sacramento.

In 1986, many ABATE organizations met at what became the "Meeting of the Minds" conference. This conference began the process of SMROs working together and eventually led to the founding of the Motorcycle Rider's Foundation (MRF) which is considered a Motorcycle Rights Organization (MRO) based in Washington DC. This group of SMROs acted to eliminate federal helmet law requirements, make sure motorcycles are part of transportation planning and ensure that motorcycles are allowed on all public roads.

MRF is an organization set up in Washington DC to watch over motorcycle legislation and to take action when the federal government has an agenda that would not be motorcycle friendly. SMRO's including ABATE work with the MRF and most have a state officer involved in the MRF. ABATE organization use the MRF to share state information, and get more information on a federal level as well as information from other states. Most SMRO and ABATE groups work with other (MRO) groups besides the MRF, such as the American Motorcyclist Association. Many ABATE organizations have websites, and most often list the other groups they are involved with, work with, from national MRO groups, insurance programs, lawyers, and rider training or safety and education programs.

ABATE was formed in response to keep motorcycle choppers, with extended front ends that were deemed unsafe, on the road ; but now SMROs deal with a large variety of motorcycling related issues. Motorcycle safety training, health insurance issues and road engineering with respect to motorcycles are all areas dealt with by ABATE organizations. Many states' rider training programs are either run by or administered by ABATE organizations. ABATE of Arizona runs a Motorcycle Awareness Program or MAP.

ABATE groups also are involved in charity events like Toy Runs, food drives and first responder/EMT training. But ABATE is still a political organization exerting political clout through the activities of member motorcyclists. ABATE chapters exist in most states. ABATE is not a motorcycle club, nor is it a Harley riders only organization.

Motorcycle Awareness Program
The Motorcycle Awareness Program (MAP), commonly referred to as The MAP Program or Share The Road Program, is an American creation of the combined efforts of various state motorcyclists' rights organizations. This program is geared toward teaching the driving public to maintain a greater awareness of the motorcyclists with whom they share the road. The success of the program has led to similar initiatives throughout the world.

Arizona
ABATE of Arizona's MAP, is coordinated by the State Safety Officer of the organization, and is presented with the help of many members of the MRO's (ABATE and MMA of AZ) and Motorcycle Clubs throughout Arizona.

MAP Certified Instructors guest lecture in driver's education classes throughout the region. The lecture includes information about how to "Share the Road" with motorcycles, vulnerability of motorcyclists, instructional videos and handouts, and an on-site riding demonstration to help visualize information presented.

Funding for the MAP Program is provided by the membership of ABATE of Arizona, through their various fund raising events and membership dues. Additionally, some product and advertising funds are provided by the Motorcycle Safety Fund, made up of one dollar added registration tax on motorcycles within the state, through the Governor's Office of Highway Safety.

Criticism
ABATE chapters have been criticized for the appearance of hypocrisy in their road safety message, in that while their public service advertisements aimed to get drivers to be more aware of motorcycles are helpful, the chapters undermine that message by opposing mandatory helmet laws, and by appearing to encourage alcohol consumption while riding.

The traffic and commuting beat columnist for The Baltimore Sun, Michael Dresser, wrote in July 2007 that, "While ABATE [of Maryland's] message is great, there are some problems with the messenger. [...] ABATE's arguments against helmet laws are largely based on the dubious premise that they violate individual rights or invade privacy. Gimme a break. Maryland has invested billions or dollars to build a public road system. So if the state decides to require users of that network to take steps to avoid spilling the contents of their skulls on public pavement, it is well within its rights." Dresser further criticizes the practice of holding the majority of Maryland ABATE chapter meetings in bars, pointing out his observation that one meeting place is at an open air bar where motorcycle riders can often be seen consuming alcohol before noon. Dresser contrasts this with the Motorcycle Safety Foundation, which has urged riders to not consume even one drink before riding, saying that even a road-legal blood alcohol level of 0.05% increases a rider's risk by 40 times, due to the greater challenge of motorcycle riding compared to driving a car.

In response to a deluge of counter-points and demands for an apology, Dresser ran a second column in which he offered 7 point-by-point rebuttals to the letters from ABATE members. Among the objections were that Dresser was unfairly perpetuating a stereotype of rowdy, irresponsibly-drunk bikers, and that due to this negative stereotype, the ABATE chapter had been turned down by more than 40 taverns before they found one to accept them. Members also said that even though more than 100 years would pass until motorcycles would be invented, the Founding Fathers of the United States also met in taverns to plan the revolution. Dresser was also criticized for emphasizing the helmet law issue, when in fact Maryland ABATE had made increased penalties for right-of-way violators a top legislative priority, and had assisted handicapped people in getting disabled parking permit license plates. In response to readers who emphasized the freedom of choice argument against helmet laws, Dresser replied that, "Freedom is a much-abused word. There are essential freedoms -- free speech, free press, habeas corpus, religion, the ballot, to name a few -- that are worth fighting for. Then there's simply foolish behavior we're used to getting away with."

The following week, Dresser ran a third column in which he quoted letters from motorcyclists who were also uncomfortable with ABATE's anti-helmet law position, and from some ABATE members who agreed that the organization was excessively focused on alcohol consumption at their gatherings. Several other correspondents told anecdotes of helmet laws saving riders' lives, and others noted that the image of motorcyclists was not only harmed by hard-drinking middle-aged cruiser riders, which they saw as the ABATE demographic, but also by packs of young males speeding and doing stunts on sport bikes.


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New Castle Presbytery

The New Castle Presbytery is a presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Its geographic area is the entire state of Delaware and the Maryland Eastern Shore. In 2022, it reported 49 congregations, 108 ministers, and 5,736 members.

The Presbytery was formed in 1717 after the division of the Presbytery of Philadelphia into three presbyteries, which were subordinate to the newly formed Synod of Philadelphia.

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Herrmannstadt

Herrmannstadt is a common misspelling of Hermannstadt that is the German name for the following cities:

 * Sibiu in Transylvania/Sibiu County (Romania).
 * Heřmanovice in Moravia/Okres Bruntál (Czech Republic).

Hermannstadt

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Countess of Chester Hospital

The Countess of Chester Hospital is the main NHS hospital for the English city of Chester and the surrounding area. It currently has 625 beds, general medical departments and a 24-hour accident and emergency unit. It is managed by the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, one of the first Foundation Trusts in the UK, formed in 2004. Cardiac rehabilitation services at the hospital are provided by Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

History
The hospital has its origins in the "Cheshire Lunatic Asylum" which opened on part of the site in 1829. The name of the facility changed to "County Mental Hospital" in 1921, to the "Upton Mental Hospital" on joining the National Health Service in 1948, and then to the "Deva Hospital" in 1950.

By 1948, Chester Royal Infirmary specialized in surgery and out-patients and the City Hospital, Hoole, in chronic illnesses, chest, maternity, paediatric, and general medical cases. Pre-war plans for the expansion of the Infirmary were eventually revived. In 1963 a large out-patient and casualty department was opened at the infirmary; this was accompanied with the completion of the Chester inner ring road in 1967. However, after the creation of the West Cheshire HMC (hospital management committee), a fresh decision was taken to focus all the hospital services for the district at a purpose-built site on Liverpool Road, adjacent to the county mental hospital facilities.

In 1968, the new site was renamed the "West Cheshire Hospital". The maternity unit at the City Hospital was transferred to a new building at the south end of the site in 1971. With the opening of a new general wing and A&E department in 1983, several surgical departments from the Royal Infirmary were relocated to the new buildings. On 30 May 1984, West Cheshire Hospital was officially renamed the Countess of Chester Hospital by Charles and Diana, then the Prince and Princess of Wales and also Earl and Countess of Chester. In 1993, the Royal Infirmary site was closed after its remaining departments were transferred to the Countess. The City Hospital, which had become a 120-bed geriatric unit, was closed in 1994 after its services were taken over by the Countess in 1991.

In January 2006, the CARE building, sometimes known as Outpatients Four, opened and started providing new facilities the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory, Department of Clinical Audiology, Renal & Urology Department and ENT Department.

In 2007, the Countess of Chester became the first hospital in the UK to completely ban smoking for both workers and patients. In April 2014 a new two-storey wing was opened containing a state of the art 21 bed Intensive Care Unit on the first floor, replacing the old HDU and ITU wards. On the ground floor is an expanded endoscopy unit and the bariatric outpatients department.

Lucy Letby case
In August 2023, Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse who had worked at the hospital several years earlier, was found guilty on seven charges of murder and seven charges of attempted murder following a lengthy trial over the collapses and deaths of babies who were being cared for on the hospital’s neonatal ward during 2015 and 2016. The jury concluded that Letby carried out the attacks by injecting babies with air or insulin, overfeeding them and physically assaulting them with medical equipment.

The trust came under scrutiny following Letby's conviction as it was revealed management had protected Letby when consultants at the neonatal unit expressed their suspicions asked them to remove her from frontline duties. She was not removed from frontline duties until the summer of 2016, and remained on clerical duties until her initial arrest in July 2018. Hospital management did not report their suspicions to the police until May 2017, despite claiming that they were already having their suspicions about her conduct some 18 months earlier.

Supporters of Letby’s alleged innocence have also criticised hospital management online for “scapegoating” Letby.

The ward was downgraded following the final suspicious collapses and deaths over the summer of 2016, resulting in the highest dependency babies no longer being treated there.

Services
Part of the old mental health hospital building, now called the 1829 Building, serves as headquarters for West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, and various other NHS support organisations. The Bowmere mental health hospital is on the same site, as is Ancora House, a purpose-built Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services unit.

In April 2019, it announced that it would no longer provide elective treatment for Welsh patients because the Welsh government were not prepared to pay the full costs. The Welsh government have not increased the tariff for NHS procedures in line with NHS England, so the trust is paid about 8% less for patients from Wales. Rising waiting lists mean the trust can increase the work it does for English patients, which is more remunerative.

Performance
Before becoming a foundation trust in 2004, the trust received top 3-star rating in the former national performance charts. In 2016, the CQC rated the hospital as requiring improvement. The Trust lost the contract for sexual health services when Cheshire West and Chester Council awarded it to East Cheshire NHS Trust in December 2014. From 2015 to 2016 the trust cancelled urgent operations 37 times – the highest number of any NHS trust in England.

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Talk:Space Sciences Laboratory

Too generic title
I think the title is too generic. I suspect this was created for the SETI@home page.

--David Woolley 12:39, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree about the title being too generic. Perhaps 'UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory' would be better. This article was originally created from a link on University of California, Berkeley: "Overlooking the main campus on the east side are several research units, most notably the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Space Sciences Laboratory, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and the Lawrence Hall of Science.".

--Wrachelson 07:37, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory Samuel Silver Spaces Sciences Laboratory are often used to describe it. I think either would be appropriate.

69.138.164.152 19:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Link Content Needed
There's a lot more information on the page now, but I think we need to format it and link it to related topics as well as putting reciprocal links in the linked pages.

69.138.164.152 19:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

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Countess of Chester

Countess of Chester, nowadays a secondary style of the princess of Wales derived from the prince of Wales’s secondary title of earl of Chester, may refer to:

 * Countess of Chester Hospital, a hospital in Chester, England
 * Countess of Chester Country Park, a park near the hospital
 * Catherine, Princess of Wales, the present Countess of Chester

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Sleeping Beauty (novel)

Sleeping Beauty is a 1973 novel by Ross Macdonald.

Plot
Private eye Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands - including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of nembutal, a six figure ransom and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach.

Adaptation
KCRW adapted Sleeping Beauty for a radio play in 1996.

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Governor Furnas Arboretum

The Governor Furnas Arboretum is a young arboretum located in Brownville, Nebraska, United States.

The arboretum was planted in 1992–93, and became an affiliate of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum in 1996. It now contains over 100 species, including European beech, sweetgum, blackgum, willow oak, fringe tree, Balkan pine, and Japanese kerria.

The arboretum honors former Governor Robert W. Furnas, a Brownville native who became Nebraska's second governor in 1872. Together with Julius Sterling Morton, he promoted the planting of trees across Nebraska, and in 1874 signed a proclamation declaring the first Arbor Day.

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Template talk:Quebecor

For the 2004 Corporate Revenue data I have taken the figure reported by Yahoo.com Finance, 9115.40 M, and converted it into Canadian dollars using the exchange rate at the time the revenue was reported (~1.19 CDN for each USD, as of December, 2004). I'm making the assumption that Yahoo.com Finance reports their numbers in American dollars. Kurieeto 12:41, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hamburger/archive1

Hamburger
I randomly came across this page and was very impressed. Seems to be well written. In fact the article was even cited by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as a source!  I think that shows how well of an article it was to be cited by the media. OmegaWikipedia 12:42, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. Lacks a References sections to cite the sources used for this article as required by criteria 2 of the featured article criteria. --Allen3 talk 13:03, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Refer to peer review.
 * 1) Size of lead is too large in relation to the article itself.
 * 2) Article contains unneeded fair use images.
 * 3) Wiki Cookbook link is not in the external links section.
 * 4) There's no sources (especially the etymology needs them). They need to be in a seperate references section.
 * 5) Article is missing references to popular culture (for example Supersize Me). Not comprehensive. - Mgm|(talk) 20:58, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. As per previous objectors and because of the over-specifics of the "Serving style"-section. Keeping separate sections on individual countries is not a good idea. You'll just wind up with users adding the serving style of their own country sooner or later. Revamp it into a more generalized section that describes hamburger styles in how they differ from larger cultural areas, not individual nations.
 * And what's with the promotional photos? If there are to be pics of franchise burgers, I want them to be of what the actual burgers look like, shot by Wikipedians, not corporate propaganda centers. Anyone who's ever eaten at a fast food restaurant is very aware of the fact that the photos used to display the merchendise is a shameless destortion of reality. / Peter Isotalo 12:09, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Responses Ahh, the article does have references, but I suppose they arent referenced correctly, and that they could use some more. I dont know if I'll have time to fix up the article before this FAC fails, but thanks for the comments everyone. Don't know if Supersize Me should go in this article, because that applies to all products of McDonalds (not just hamburgers) but I did expand on the cultural references. And I think the professional work better....unless you seriously want me to go and take a picture of a hamburger with my camera. OmegaWikipedia 12:19, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Omega, is snapping one a great nuisance? If it is, I can do it for you.
 * Peter Isotalo 19:29, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh no, its not a problem at all. I was just thinking that the hamburgers should presented the way they are, because even though is it marketing and I agree with you...these are the images most people are used to and I'm wondering how they'd react to not having it. But Carnildo makes a point about the image's fair use, and taking the pictures is not a problem either OmegaWikipedia 19:44, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry for not replying before the FAC was taken off the main page. But, how about using both? I know most people are aware of the discrepencies between hamburger franchise promotional fantasy and reality, but I thought it would be good to actually point this out in an article. Not overly anti-corporate, but still.
 * Peter Isotalo 17:18, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Object for now. A section on references to popular culture is still needed. And I suggest you split the "Serving size" section into a separate article if you ever want this hamburger article to have a decent chance to become an FA. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 14:23, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Object—the prose needs tightening up. Just looking through the lead, I see:
 * two 'alsos' and 'specially' that need to be removed as redundant;
 * a 'generally' that should be 'typically';
 * 'very good', both of which words are weak (try 'suitable');
 * a comma that should be a semicolon, for the sake of the grammar (Plus: the text could do with a few more commas throughout).

Not good enough for a FA. Tony 04:47, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Object. The images Image:Whopper TIME!.jpg and Image:Monsterthickburger.jpg are licensed under a "fair use" license.  Since it's quite possible for a Wikipedian to make a free-license replacement for these images, there's no reason to use them in this article. --Carnildo 07:01, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Object. Clunky prose in many places. Also, I think the history is skewed, giving too much credit to McDonald's and not enough to White Castle, which (if I recall correctly) predates McDonalds and was quite important. If I remember right, fast food hamburgers in the U.S. were first considered somewhat suspect food, appropriate only for single men as it were, and White Castle and McDonalds turned them into acceptable family fare with their focus on cleaniless, etc. The book Fast Food Nation, though very POV, has a lot of the history of this topic. —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 17:12, 18 October 2005 (UTC)


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Welcome!

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Eric James (priest)

Eric Arthur James (14 April 1925 – 1 May 2012) was an Anglican priest, Chaplain Extraordinary to HM the Queen, and for many years a regular participant in the "Thought for the Day" feature of BBC Radio 4's Today programme. He was associated with St Albans Cathedral for some years.

Early life
James was born in Essex. He left Dagenham County High School in Dagenham, Essex, at fourteen, when the Second World War broke out, and worked for seven years at a riverside wharf on the Thames where the Globe Theatre now stands. After the war, he was accepted as a student by King's College London, where he studied theology, gaining Master of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity degrees.

Career
After he was ordained he became Assistant Curate of St Stephen with St John, Westminster, from 1951 to 1955.

He was Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1955 to 1959, and thereby became associated with some of the best known clerics of his generation: Mervyn Stockwood, John Robinson (author of the bestseller Honest to God), Robert Runcie, and Trevor Huddleston. He was Select Preacher from 1959–60 to the University of Cambridge.

From 1959 to 1964 he was Vicar of St George, Camberwell, and Warden of Trinity College Mission. From 1964 to 1969 he was Director of Parish and People. From 1964 to 1972 he was also Proctor in Convocation.

James was made Chaplain to the Queen in 1984 and was Preacher to Gray's Inn from 1978 to 1997, as well as Director of Christian Action from 1979 to 1990 and one of the people who inspired the 1985 Faith in the City report. He was Select Preacher from 1991 to 1992 to the University of Oxford, and was awarded the Lambeth degree of DD in 1993.

He was also the biographer of John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich.

Personal life
He lived in the London Charterhouse. He died on 1 May 2012.

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Graeme Clark (doctor)

Graeme Milbourne Clark (born 16 August 1935) is an  Australian Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne. Worked in ENT surgery, electronics and speech science contributed towards the development of the multiple-channel cochlear implant. His invention was later marketed by Cochlear Limited.

Early life and education
Clark was born in Camden, New South Wales, to parents Colin and Dorothy Clark. He has one younger sister. Clark was educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School, where he was later honoured with the ‘Carey Medal’ in 1997. Clark was educated at The Scots College and studied medicine at Sydney University.

He specialized in ear, nose and throat surgery at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and obtained a fellowship in 1964 from the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Clark returned to Australia where he became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons and in 1969 completed his PhD at the University of Sydney on "Middle Ear & Neural Mechanisms in Hearing and in the Management of Deafness". At the same time, he completed a Master of Surgery thesis on "The Principles of the Structural Support of the Nose and its Application to Nasal and Septal Surgery".

In 1976, he returned to England to study at the University of Keele and learn more about speech science.

Development of multi-channel cochlear implants
Clark hypothesized that hearing, particularly for speech, might be reproduced in people with deafness if the damaged or underdeveloped ear were bypassed, and the auditory nerve electrically stimulated to reproduce the coding of sound. His initial doctoral research at the University of Sydney investigated the effect of the rate of electrical stimulation on single cells and groups of cells in the auditory brain-stem response, the centre where frequency discrimination is first decoded.

Clark's research demonstrated that an electrode bundle with 'graded stiffness' would pass without injury around the tightening spiral of the cochlea to the speech frequency region. Until this time he had difficulty identifying a way to place the electrode bundle in the cochlea without causing any damage. He achieved a breakthrough during a vacation at the beach; he conceptualized using a seashell to replicate the human cochlea, and grass blades (which were flexible at the tip and gradually increasing in stiffness) to represent the electrodes.

Clark showed that the electrode bundle had to be free-fitting, and the wires needed to be terminated with circumferential bands to reduce friction against the outer wall of the cochlea; as to make it easier to pass the required distance. The bands had to be wide enough to minimize the charge density of the electric current for safety, but narrow enough for localized stimulation of the nerve fibres for the place coding of frequency. In order to address issues about the safety of the device, Clark conducted experiments to show that there was minimal risk of meningitis from a middle ear infection if a fibrous tissue sheath grew around the electrode bundle. The sheath was developed from a connective tissue graft from the person's own body that was placed around the electrode bundle where it entered the cochlea.

The first cochlear implant was invented and developed by Dr. William F. House. House's device was a single electrode configuration, compared to the multiple electrode device developed by Clark.

Clark's first multi-channel cochlear implant operation was done at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in 1978 by Clark and Dr. Brian Pyman. The first person to receive the implant was Rod Saunders who had lost his hearing aged 46. Less than one year later, a second patient was implanted. George Watson, an Australian World War II veteran, had lost his hearing after a bomb blast thirteen years earlier. An audiologist working on Clark's team at the time described the team's first two patients as, "guys who'd put up with anything and continue to keep coming in and support the work.".

After successfully completing the surgery in 1978, with his post-doctoral colleague, Yit Chow Tong, Clark discovered how multi-channel electrical stimulation of the brain could reproduce frequency and intensity as pitch and loudness in severely-to-profoundly deaf adults who originally had hearing before going deaf. Electrical stimulation at low rates (50 pulses/sec) was perceived as a pitch of the same frequency, but at rates above 200 pulses/sec, what was heard was poorly discriminated and a much higher pitch. This discovery established that the timing of electrical stimuli was important for low pitch when this had been difficult to determine with sound. But discrimination of pitch up to 4000 Hz is required for speech understanding, so Clark emphasized early in the development of his cochlear implant that "place coding through multi-channel stimulation" would have to be used for the important mid-to-high speech frequencies. Clark and Tong next discovered that place of stimulation was experienced as timbre, but without a strong pitch sensation. The patient could identify separate sensations according to the site of stimulation in the cochlea.

At the end of 1978, Clark and Tong made the discovery that the speech processing strategy coded the second formant as place of stimulation along the cochlear array, the amplitude of the second formant as current level, and the voicing frequency as pulse rate across the formant channels.

in December 1978, Clark arranged that his audiologist present open-set words to his first patient, who was able to identify several correctly.

As a result, Clark went on to operate on a second patient who had been deaf for 17 years. He was able to show that the speech coding strategy was not unique to one person's brain response patterns, and that the memory for speech sounds could persist for many years after the person became deaf.

In 1982 Clark supervised the initial clinical studies mandated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and in 1985, after a world trial, the FDA granted approval for his multi-channel cochlear implant for adults 18 and over who had hearing before going deaf. It thus became the first multi-channel cochlear system to be approved as safe and effective by any health regulatory body for giving speech understanding, both with lip reading and for electrical stimulation alone in people who had hearing before going deaf. After a detailed analysis of results the FDA announced in 1990 that the 22-channel cochlear implant was safe and effective for deaf children from two to 17 years of age in understanding speech both with and without lip-reading.

From 1985 to 1990 Clark and the members of his Cochlear Implant Clinic at the Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, followed by other clinics worldwide, found that the formant extraction speech coding strategies developed by Clark and team resulted in up to 60% of children being able to understand significant numbers of words and sentences with electrical stimulation alone without help from lipreading. With a strategy that also extracted a band of high frequencies there were increased numbers of children with improved speech perception, speech production and language scores.

The Bionic Ear Institute
In 1970 Clark was appointed as the Foundation Professor of Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery) at the University of Melbourne, and then in 2000 he was made one of the first Laureate Professors at the University for his international recognition of scientific achievement. He held this position until he retired in 2004. He led cochlear implant research while Head of the Department of Otolaryngology. His research was funded initially by an appeal through a Telethon, and then a Public Interest Grant from the Australian government. His ongoing research to understand the functioning and improve the cochlear implant was through his grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, the Australian Research Council, The US National Institutes of Health, and The Cooperative Research Center program. In 1983 the Bionic Ear Institute was founded by Clark, as an independent, non-profit, medical research organization. The goal of the Bionic Ear Institute was, "to give deaf children and adults the opportunity to participate as fully as possible in the hearing world and to find new ways to restore brain function". The Bionic Ear Institute renamed itself the Bionics Institute in 2011 due to an expansion of its aims to not just improve the bionic ear, but to develop a bionic eye and devices capable of deep brain stimulation.

Charity foundations
In 2002 The Graeme Clark Cochlear Scholarship Foundation was established in honour of Graeme Clark for his lifelong commitment to finding a solution for people with hearing loss, and his pioneering work in the field of cochlear implant technology. Awarded by Cochlear Limited, scholarships are presented to cochlear implant recipients around the world to help defray the costs of their higher education, consisting of financial assistance towards a college degree at an accredited university for up to four years.

In recognition of Clark's contributions to the welfare of deaf people, The Graeme Clark Charitable Foundation, a charitable foundation has been established to firstly enable individuals with deafness and other sensory disorders develop their potential through appropriate biomedical, technological and educational measures.

Selected honors

 * 2018: Shambaugh Prize (awarded jointly with Ingeborg Hochmair and Claude-Henri Chouard)
 * 2015: Russ Prize
 * 2013: The Lasker-DeBakey award (awarded jointly with Ingeborg Hochmair and Blake Wilson)
 * 2011: Florey Medal
 * 2010: Lister Medal
 * 2010: Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Zaragoza, Spain
 * 2007: Australian Father of the Year award
 * 2005: National Australia Day Council, Australian Achiever's Award
 * 2004: Fellow of the Royal Society
 * 2004: Prime Minister's Prize for Science
 * 2001: Senior Australian of the Year
 * 1999: Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)
 * 1997 Sir William Upjohn Medal from the University of Melbourne
 * 1993: Clunies Ross National Science and Technology Award
 * 1992: James Cook Medal
 * 1983: Officer of the Order of Australia

Academic

 * 2023: Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
 * 2004: Fellow of the Royal Society of London
 * 2003: Honorary Fellow, The Royal Society of Medicine, Nelson Kingy, London
 * 1998: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Personal named distinctions

 * 2008: The Graeme Clark Centre for "Innovation in the Sciences" at The Scots College, (a leading secondary school), Sydney
 * 2008: The Graeme Clark Foundation, (The Graeme Clark Foundation was established to help disadvantaged people with sensory disorders develop their true potential. It also aims to give opportunities to talented scientists to develop their research to restore vital senses).
 * 2008: The Inaugural Graeme Clark Research Outcomes Forum. (the Australian Research Council’s Forum highlights the ways in which quality research can translate into important benefits for the community). The Inaugural Keynote address was given by Graeme Clark.
 * 2008: The Graeme Clark Annual Oration, for Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence for Life Sciences, The Inaugural Oration was given by Graeme Clark
 * 2003-04: The Graeme Clark Cochlear Implant Workshop for Japanese Surgeons organised by the Cooperative Research Centre for Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Innovation
 * 2002	The Graeme Clark Cochlear Scholarship, awarded annually, was established in Australia and the United States to assist people with cochlear implants to undertake tertiary studies.
 * 2002	The Graeme Clark Room, the Ear Foundation, Nottingham, UK

Academic leadership

 * 1984-2005	Founder and Director, The Bionic Ear Institute, East Melbourne, Australia
 * 1970-2004	Foundation Professor of Otolaryngology and Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Melbourne, Australia
 * 1988-1996	Director, The Australian Research Council’s Special Research Center the Human Communication Research Center, East Melbourne, Australia

Portraiture
Clark has been painted by Peter Wegner, three of these works are in the National Portrait Gallery (Australia), as an etching, profile, and portrait.

Books

 * Clark GM. (2003) Cochlear Implants: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer-Verlag, New York. (The first textbook on the cochlear implant, a major 800-page work written solely by Clark)
 * Clark GM. (2000) Sounds from Silence. Allen & Unwin, Sydney. (Clark’s Autobiography)
 * Clark, Graeme M. and Cowan, Robert S.C., International Cochlear Implant Speech and Hearing Symposium : Melbourne 1994 (St Louis, Mo: Annals Publishing Company, 1995), 468 pp.
 * Clark, G. M., in collaboration with Blamey, P. J. [et al.], The University of Melbourne-nucleus multi-electrode cochlear implant (New York: Karger Basel, 1987).
 * Clark GM. (1979) Science and God : Reconciling Science with The Christian Faith. Anzea Books, Sydney. ISBN 0-85892 097 2. ( Much is a vigorous debunk, by CLARK, of Evolution, esp. Chapter.3).

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Numbered Air Force

A Numbered Air Force (NAF) is a type of organization in the United States Air Force that is subordinate to a major command (MAJCOM) and has assigned to it operational units such as wings, squadrons, and groups. A Component Numbered Air Force (C-NAF) has the additional role as an Air Force Component Command exercising command and control over air and space forces supporting a Unified Combatant Command. Unlike MAJCOMs, which have a management role, a NAF is a tactical organization with an operational focus, and does not have the same functional staff as a MAJCOM. Numbered air forces are typically commanded by a major general or a lieutenant general.

Numeric designations for Numbered Air Forces are written in full using ordinal words (e.g., Eighth Air Force), while cardinal numerals are used in abbreviations (e.g., 8 AF). Units directly subordinate to a NAF were traditionally numbered 6XX (where XX is the NAF number). For example, the 609th Air Operations Center is a unit subordinate to the Ninth Air Force. This is no longer completely accurate, due to regular reorganization of Wings and Numbered Air Forces.

History
Numbered air forces began as named organizations in the United States Army Air Corps before World War II. The first four NAFs were established as the Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest Air Districts on 19 October 1940 to provide air defense for the United States. These Air Districts were redesignated as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Air Forces, respectively, on 26 March 1941. Over a year after the establishment of the United States Army Air Forces on 20 June 1941, the Arabic numerals were changed to the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Air Forces on 18 September 1942. Other organizations established during this period and that became Numbered air forces include the Philippine Department Air Force (became Fifth Air Force), the Panama Canal Air Force (became Sixth Air Force), the Hawaiian Air Force (became Seventh Air Force), and the Alaskan Air Force (became Eleventh Air Force). After World War II, the US Air Force continued to use both named and numbered air forces. While named air forces were used in both tactical and support roles, numbered air forces were generally employed only in tactical roles.

As part of a peacetime restructuring in March 1946, the United States Army Air Forces were reorganized into three major operating commands: the Strategic Air Command (SAC), the Tactical Air Command (TAC), and the Air Defense Command (ADC). These commands reflected the basic air combat missions that evolved during the war, and each reported directly to General Carl Spaatz, the Commanding General, Army Air Forces. Numbered air forces served as an intermediate headquarters between these commands and the operational wings and groups. Eleven of the sixteen wartime air forces remained. The Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces were assigned to SAC; the Third, Ninth, and Twelfth Air Forces were assigned to TAC; and the First, Second, Fourth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Air Forces were assigned to ADC. Second Air Force would later be transferred to SAC in 1949. The numbered air forces had both operational and administrative authority, and existed as a command level between major commands and air divisions. Although variations existed, and number air forces were often reassigned, this basic arrangement persisted throughout the Cold War.

The role of numbered air forces changed in the 1990s during the Air Force reorganization initiated by Air Force Chief of Staff General Merrill McPeak. The goal of the reorganization was to "streamline, take layers out, flatten (Air Force) organizational charts, while at the same time clarifying the roles and responsibilities of essential supporting functions." Numbered air forces were reorganized into tactical echelons focused on operations, and their administrative staff functions were eliminated. This reorganization also reduced the number of major commands, and eliminated the air divisions to place numbered air forces directly in command of operational wings.

The role of numbered air forces was again changed in 2006 with the implementation of the Component Air Force (C-NAF) concept. Some numbered air forces have an additional mission as the Air Force Component Command exercising command and control over air and space forces supporting a Unified Combatant Command. C-NAFs have a second designation to identify their role. For example, First Air Force, a numbered air force assigned to Air Combat Command, is designated as Air Force Northern (AFNORTH) in its role as the air component of the United States Northern Command. Most C-NAFs have an Air and Space Operations Center (AOC) to provide command and control of air and space operations for the supported combatant commander.

Numbered
The table below lists current and historical numbered air forces of the US Air Force, their C-NAF designation (if applicable), their current shield and station, and the major command (MAJCOM) to which they are currently assigned. Note that the lineage of some numbered air forces is continued by non-NAF organizations (e.g., the 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force continues the lineage of the Fifteenth Air Force). Boldface indicates a NAF or C-NAF that is currently active.

Named
Named Air Forces operate at the same level as Numbered Air Forces. General Headquarters Air Force, the first named air force of the United States Army's air arm, began operations in 1935. The GHQ Air Force became the Air Force Combat Command in 1941. Several of the numbered air forces began as named air forces.

Since World War II other named air forces have existed in both operational and support commands. Air Forces Iceland, and the Central, Eastern, Japan, and Western Air Defense Forces, have provided air defense capability. The USAF Special Operations Force controlled operational special forces. The Crew, Flying, and Technical Training Air Forces served Air Training Command both in the air and on the ground. Pacific Air Force/FEAF (Rear) controlled both operational and support forces of Far East Air Forces. Air Materiel Force, European Area, and Air Materiel Force, Pacific Area, on the other hand, served primarily as logistics support establishments.

Since 2001 United States Air Forces Central has supervised U.S. Air Force elements engaged in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021); since 2003 for the War in Iraq; and, with a more recent start, air refueling and other support in regard to the Yemeni Civil War.

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Talk:Skunk Anansie

Reformation
Skunk Anansie have reformed (03/03/2009) and have released tickets (Sold out) for their first two gigs at the Water Rats in Kings Cross http://www.skinmusic.net/main.php Someone who knows what they're doing with Wikipedia might want to edit this article to point that out?

Update: Thanks who ever did that. I went to the Thursday gig and they have reformed, sung some new stuff etc. Someone who knows what they're doing may want to edit the article to the present tense e.g. change "Skunk Anansie were a British rock band" etc —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.28.217.152 (talk) 18:31, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Done --Twenty-nine (talk) 17:28, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

They don't start their tour in Leeds as there is a gig scheduled in Vienna on the 17th of November! Candycanesheep (talk) 11:14, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Discography
The linked album pages from the Discography are in need of much work, a lot don't exist. Prior to my update this page also listed Skunk Anansie as only having 3 releases!! There are over 70 (see the Amazon link at External Links)... --Chaosfeary 12:47, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * There are articles on all of their albums; the other releases are singles or EPs. Warofdreams talk 09:26, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi. We don't list every version of every album in band discographies.  We certainly don't list every release of the same album on different media or under different catalogue numbers, nor do we list every appearance by the band on compilation albums.  Please see: Guide to layout and Filmographies and Discographies.  If you have any questions about this, feel free to bring it up at the appropriate Talk pages.  If it is very important to you that Wikipedia readers know that these albums have been released in various formats, you should consider contributing to the album articles.  See WP:ALBUM for details on writing album articles. Jkelly 15:21, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Information for other album pages, or people wanting to make ones for the other albums

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Skunk_Anansie&oldid=29046873 - Nearly complete list of releases on all media
 * http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Dmusic%26field-artist%3DSkunk%20Anansie/ - Complete list of all releases by Skunk Anansie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.194.75.204 (talk • contribs)

 * Hi. Amazon.com, while a very useful link for shopping, certainly returns a great number of albums that Skunk Anansie songs are on.  As a source for band discographies, we tend to use |ANANSIE&uid=MIW030511231124&sql=11:sikbikvhbb89~T2 All Music Guide.  You'll note that AMG lists all three albums that the band produced.  I'd like to encourage you to stop cutting and pasting from Amazon.com, and consider reading some of the guidelines above.  Since it seems very, very important to you to have the Amazon.com information in the article, I am not going to revert it for the time being.  Also, I notice that you listed that Amazon link on the Talk page of each album article.  In the future, keep in mind that there's no need to do that.  Jkelly 16:28, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Should this page have a link to long song titles like this?
Should this page have a link to long song titles like this? ==See also== - Gbeeker 01:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * List of songs with particularly long titles

 * I don't think so. Jkelly 01:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Anansie name origin
Just to say Anansi is an African god, not a West Indian, as reported in the specifical page for that divinity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anansi "Anansi is one of the most important gods of west African lore." --82.185.183.3 07:57, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * My understanding was that the name anansie referred to some stinky skunk or civet type animal in Jamaican slang/patois/argot, I don't have the reference in front of me right now, so I'll just mention it here.9eyedeel (talk) 19:31, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Anti-Christian?
I find the sentence claiming that Skunk Anansie are known for their anti-Christianity messages somewhat confusing. I know their music and do not see their music as anti-christian. The song Selling Jesus is not even anti-christian, just merely attacking one part of christianity, who can be seen to guilt trip you into giving them money. Does anyone have any proof to back the statement in the article up? Gothesque 13:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Apparently not! Matthew 13:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Glastonbury
Is it work mentioning that SA headlined Glastonbury in, I think, 1999? Matthew 13:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Unofficial sites
I included Kelv's Skunk Anansie site in the external links once before as it has been around almost as long as the band and is the only one still going. Is there a good reason it was removed? --Phantomflanflinger 18:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Skunk Anansie inspired Cowboy Bebop?
If you listen to the Skunk Anansie song "Secretly" and then listen to the Cowboy Bebop song No Reply, the two are very similar in their intros. Way too similar. No Reply came out in 2001 in the Cowboy Bebop movie, which would've been in production when Secretly was released in late 1999. --Augur

Song samples
I removed these samples from the article, they were included as a list at the bottom of the article. And that was not really fair use. Nor did it help the article. Noting them here so they can be used in any proper context. -- Pepve (talk) 04:03, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
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Images
I have undone IP edits to this article and Skin (musician) with no edit summary which remove File:Mark Richardson.jpg and File:Skunk Anansie - 02.jpg, replace File:Skunk Anansie.jpg & File:Deborah Anne Dyer aka Skin.jpg in the infoboxes with File:Skunk Anansie in rome by Paride.jpg and replace File:Skin Eska Music Awards.jpg with the copyrighted image Image:FakeChemicalState.jpg.

In the case of the album cover, copyrighted cover art should only be used 'for visual identification only in the context of critical commentary of that item' - there is no critical commentary in the Skin article about this album. For the other images they seem to me to be obviously of better quality.

Could we please discuss this here rather than WP:EDITWARRING. JMiall ₰  10:56, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello, for information i have requested today on commons the deletion of the file File:Skunk Anansie in rome by Paride.jpg because of its poor quality. Olyvar (talk) 19:14, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

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West Channel is a Greek local channel which broadcasts from the city of Kozani for the periphery of Western Macedonia. It was created and launched in April 1991 by the lawyer Vicky Papafilippou and the businessman and benefactor Zissis Dardalis.

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Northfield Park Arboretum

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Remi Broadway

Remi Broadway (born 30 April 1978) is an Australian actor best known as Rupert Pringle from The Wayne Manifesto, and Piffy the bell ringer from The Late Show, which parodied his earlier appearance on the talent show Pot Luck.

Biography
He is the son of former juggler Johnny Broadway and French-born actress and TV presenter Christine Broadway.

He hosted an Australian children's television show, Prime Possum Show on the Prime Television Network. After appearing in about 550 episodes, before leaving in 1996 to pursue a Hollywood career.

He also appeared in the cult movie Rapid Fear along with Peter Kent and Vanja Matula. He produced and directed Choose Your Own Tube, a serial on YouTube featuring Caitlin Hill and his brother Regis Broadway.

In July 2011, Broadway opened Central, a lounge and dining bar in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

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