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R. Tam Sessions
What are the R. Tam sessions?---Mr. Tachyon
 * Some clips of River being interviewed by a psychologist-type person while at the Academy. Contains at least one movie reference (but not really a spoiler). --Pentasyllabic 05:54, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * More specifically, they are 4 short clips Joss Whedon (who plays the psychologist himself) released on the Web, and which have been re-released in better resolution on the DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray releases of Serenity. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Expansion, spoilers
This article should be expanded now that Serenity is out. --Phoenix Hacker 01:17, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Though there should be a spoiler warning, and spoiler consolidation, rather then give out what river ends up doing part way, and at the end of the movie.--x1987x 03:16, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Spoiler warnings should note what's a spoiler for Firefly, and what's a spoiler for Serenity. Njál 01:48, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * We no longer even have spoiler warnings. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

"I can kill you with my mind"
What about when River tells Jayne that "Also, I can kill you with my mind." I forgot which episode it happens in, but it's the one where Simon confronts Jayne about his betrayal. Doesn't that hint to something that's not mentioned in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lamarcus (talk • contribs) 00:45, 7 January 2006

 * I am quite confident that her comment was said just to put Janye on edge, and was not meant to be taken seriously. --Bacteria 03:05, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I added a reference to the comment, and I'm glad that I'm not the only person to think that it was more an attack on Jayne's fears than a real threat. --Pentasyllabic 03:07, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * This and everything else in the article have been deleted, and the article redirected to a very short summary at List of Firefly characters, mostly because of original research like this. As WP editors, we are not in a position to surmise and make suppositions about whether or not something was serious or what some fictional character's intent may have been. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

River as a pilot
There seems to be a bit of debate about whether or not River is the pilot of Serenity. While, yes, she did appear to be piloting the ship at the end of Serenity, she only got it airborne; Mal continued to be at the helm. I think her Occupation should remain none/Fugitive (until another Firefly movie/TV show/comic shows her definitively as the pilot), especially since her replacing Wash is a bit of a spoiler. EVula 23:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd say pilot in training or trainee pilot. --Joshtek 22:58, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * We don't care what you'd say. This is not your blog. We only care what reliable sources are clearly cited as saying. I don't mean to be harsh, but this article, one of the 5 most important ones for WP:FIREFLY, has been completely deleted because people added runaway speculation and other blatant violations of Wikipedia policies to it again and again. It's going to have to be re-written pretty much from scratch. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Serenity novelisation
The novelisation by Keith R.A. DeCandido seems to imply that River was 14 when she heard about the Academy (page 22). Also, the book seems to call The Academy, the "Alliance Academy". Furthermore, instead of "a coded message" it has her write a series of messages. Is the book considered canoical?--Joshtek 22:58, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

 * No. --Bacteria 00:02, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm fairly certain it isn't canon. EVula 00:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Yeah, I guess so. I just read this interview with Joss Whedon: "I don't have much involvement. I just don't have time. If I started to read them I'd just get frustrated and have to write them myself. This would cause fewer movies and shows. I just whistle and look the other way. Hope ya like 'em!" --Joshtek 00:34, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Depends on who you ask. The novelization was official.  But it conflicts in a few places with other materials, most of it straight from Whedon's head.  The simplest way out of a WP:NOR and WP:NPOV problem here is to just give the facts as they are: The book says this, and whatever else says that.  See Battlestar Wiki - they use this approach, and consider the TV shows, the books and the comics and so on to all be separate if related continuities.  No one seems to have an issue with it.  (Also, in response to specifics raise: If the dates don't agree, go with the date given in the show, since Whedon wrote it, and books are prone to typos. Use a footnote to mention that the book differs; even the TV show indicated more than one message, in the scenes of Simon arguing with his parents about the issue, so there is not conflict on that point; "the Academy" is obviously simply natural shorthand, just like Americans say "Congress" not "the United States Congress" and "the national anthem" not "the American national anthem", so again no conflict). — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Continuity issue with River's rescue from the Academy
River's rescue from The Academy by her brother Simon is described in sixty words in the Firefly episode "Serenity" and several scenes in the movie Serenity. There is considerable debate over whether or not the two presentations represent a breach of continuity.
 * Says who? I.e., cite sources, or don't add it, per WP:V, WP:RS, WP:NPOV, WP:NOR, WP:WEASEL, WP:ATT, WP:SOAPBOX, WP:TRIVIA, etc. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

The two versions
In the episode "Serenity" Simon responds to the question of how he rescued River by saying:

''Money. And, and luck. For two years, I couldn't get near her. Then I was contacted by some men, some underground movement. They-they said that she was in danger, that-that the government was... playing with her brain. If I funded them they could sneak her out in cryo. Get her to Persephone, and from there, I could take her... wherever.''

From this it was assumed that he had no part in the physical rescue and indeed did not meet up with River until she was in a cryo box on Persephone.

However, when the movie came out audiences witnessed Simon breaking River out himself with the help of an unidentified ship. In the movie it is also stated that Simon "spent his entire fortune developing the contacts to infiltrate" The Academy and Simon refers to the others involved in the rescue as, "the people who helped me break River out."

 * Um, no. From that you assumed that he had no part in the physical rescue.  Nothing canonical actually states that. I.e., see the differences between infer and imply. The two versions are not actually mutually exclusive, and can easily be reconciled (I won't bother doing that here, since that would itself be original research and it's just not helpful. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

The three interpretations
There are three different ways that this has been interpreted.

The first interpretation is that the two do not reconcile in any way, thus the series and the movie are in different continuities. This means that the River of the movie was broken out by Simon with the help of others, whereas the River of the series was broken out by "some men."

The second interpretation is that Simon, who at the time had only the vaguest notion of the crews loyalties and personalities, did not want to be honest with the crew of Serenity and therefore told them an altered version of the breakout, minimizing his own role so as to leave the crew ignorant of his actions.

The final interpretation is that both versions are correct; everything Simon told the crew of Serenity was true, but what he implied and what fans assumed (that he had no role in getting her out apart from financial support) was false. In this interpretation the "underground movement" broke River out by using not just Simon's money, but also Simon himself and then, once out of the facility, snuck her, in cryo, off of whatever world she was on, past customs and all other prying eyes, and finally to Persephone where Simon and River first appeared in the series.

Supporters of each interpretation have evidence that they claim backs up their way of looking at it, and thus far none of the interpretations have be universally accepted as correct, further the second and third interpretations are so similar it can be hard to tell them apart. Joss Whedon is reported to have said he supports the idea that Simon was lying, but whether he meant by falsehood (second interpretation alone) or omission (second and third interpretation) is unknown, this statement has not silenced those who claim there is a breach of continuity.

It is possible that this part of River's history will never be agreed upon.

I'm re-adding, because this is a point of contention that needs to be addressed, it's not "unnecessary info" JBK405 01:31, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't make any sense to describe her rescue if there's no agreement on what her rescue actually was, putting in one section describing her rescue as a certain way implies that there's some degree of certainty. JBK405 00:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 * If it is based directly off what is seen in both the series and film, which are considered equally canonical. I'm restoring my edits for this reason. Although there may be a controversy, the series and film say otherwise. The Wookieepedian 00:16, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * And Joss Whedon says otherwise too. He gives his explanation, which we should treat as canon. Speculation and Original Research does not belong in Wikipedia plange 00:29, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * in fact that section being in there, and unsourced, is one of the main reasons I put the unsourced box at the top plange 00:32, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 * An unsourced tag is not a license to include original research or fan speculation that is not likely to have any reliable source. Statements like "fans assumed" and "Joss Whedon is reported to have said" make it clear this material comes from fan discussions. If this issue is discussed in a major publication (say, Entertainment magazine) or in one of the published books about Firefly, it is fair game. Otherwise, it's exactly the kind of fancruft Wikipedia tries hard to weed out. Firefly is one of my favorite TV shows, but this is Wikipedia, not FireflyWiki.org. I've removed everything from that section that isn't directly attributable to what's on the screen. (And I'm still not happy with the way it's presented, as without published statements, it's hard to even call this a possible conflict, especially given the possibility of the "there is no error" interpretation.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:42, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I think we're saying the same thing Jeff, my reply to Wookie was in support of him - Since the speculation was unsourced I put the tag up there, NOT to give it a pass, but to alert a reader that there was POV stuff in the article and giving the writer a chance to source it since I didn't have time to edit it myself. If I had my druthers, I'd take out the controversy altogether, since we don't have a source and it's OR.-plange 05:46, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Utter fancruft - the section should go unless, as is said above we have a RS, source for the "controversy". Sophia  08:22, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Is there a "controversy" every time a character lies in a piece of fiction? Pure speculation, delete it. Barnas 11:09, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yippee, will do! plange 16:57, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 * What Barnas said. And JBK405, your "three interpretations" theory and its rambling, if well-thought-out, details up there is all personal theorizing with no citation to any reliable sources that there even is any actual debate about this (among anyone but encyclopedically-irrelevant fanwankers, like the kid in Galaxy Quest who served as a lampoon of all con-going, obsessive mega-nerds).  I.e., this is just your own homegrown pet theory, which you are rather too enthusiastically pushing.  There is no reason whatsoever to put any of this stuff in the article, and the presence of what-if and in-my-opinion material like it is why this article got blanked and redirected.  Reconciling the two versions of the story is trivial, without having to go into any supposition about Simon lying, or whatever.  Per Ockham's razor, the third of the three interpretations is obviously the correct one (as the other two require all sorts of unsupported hypothesizing and contorted reasoning) and it is so obvious that it need never be commented upon in Wikipedia.  Doing so in this article (should it be restored) is not only begging for trolls and disputes, it does not help the reader, and violates WP policy, as already cited. We are emphatically not in a position to offer any opinion on this.  We should not even mention at all (per WP:UNDUE and several other concerns) this alleged "dispute" unless there is compelling, reliable evidence that the dispute is real and is major.  We simply don't have any proof of that. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Speculation on purpose of River's weaponization
I question the statement that R.T. was created as a weapon against Reavers. While she fights a group of Reavers effectively in the film, it's hard for me to imagine that a single operative, however talented, would be a weapon of choice against a group of 30,000 or so well armed, highly aggressive individuals. This sound more like a job for the military.

R.T.'s talents seem more useful for covert operations involving espionage and assassination - purposes suggested by some of the lines from Book and Zoe in the Firelfy episode "Objects in Space."

Questions for others -

Should this article contain any speculation as to the possible uses that her handlers had for River?

If so, is there support for the current "Reaver" theory, or should a "Covert Ops" theory be substituted?

Tall Willie Brown 00:22, 23 May 2007 (UTC)Tall Willie Brown, 22 May 2007

 * This article cannot contain any speculation at all, per clear WP policies cited many times above, especially WP:Verifiability, WP:No original research and WP:Neutral point of view. Even incautious citing of external sources that offer an opinion about something like this topic can violate one or more of these policies. If it's not clearly stated in the fiction itself, or by an very reliable real-world source (e.g. Joss Whedon interview, director's commentary, etc.), it must not be in an article like this here. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Intelligences
Why does the article make such distinct separations between River's being intellectually and physiologically gifted? That and her inituition are all parts of her extreme intelligence; bodily-kinetic and intrapersonal intelligence and so on.
 * The article cannot make such a distinction, since it's unsourced and simply speculation. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

The Russian command from the film
Can we find a better source for the bit about the translation of the Russian code phrase from the 'Serenity' film? The IMDB in of itself is not considered a valid source for trivia.--MythicFox 11:22, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * No kidding. I'd like a reliable source that it's even Russian.  Didn't sound like it to me.  Then again, half the Chinese in the show has badly mangled pronunciation (I love River's over-done "R" in her psycho-rant outside on Miranda, in a language with no "R". :-)  — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

So in-universe
Someone else tag it 71.183.192.236 (talk) 06:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It's been deleted and redirected, for now, but this is a perfectly legitimate complain that must be resolved by those who would put back a real article here. It does need to exist, as River is arguably the real main character, not Mal, even though he's the crew leader and has more screen time. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:16, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Restoration of mostly cruft
One of the reasons this and the other character pages became redirects is because the content was mostly WP:OR and WP:PLOT. I'm glad to see some details along production and reception. However, the Major Themes and Character Biography sections remain dubious generalizations and inferences -- in fact, it looks like they come straight from the same poor content from a couple of years ago. I invite the restoring editor to working not just toward beefing up the the real-life material (which may now help the subject stand up to GNG scrutiny) but also on paring down the unencyclopedic in-universe material. --EEMIV (talk) 13:25, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

 * The Major Themes section was cited entirely to episodes. This is a perfect example of original research: making interpretive statements about a subject based on the primary source. Interpretation requires citation to third-party commentary, completely bereft from that section. I've axed it. Rather than restoring poor content from years before, interested editors can instead start anew on that material. --EEMIV (talk) 13:29, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll probably see what I can put together. Also, I'm going to replace the image with one of the promotional ones from Fox. ~Cheers, Ten  Ton  Parasol  16:58, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the assistance. I had been attempting to format it as closely as possible to the directions given on the WikiProject Firefly page, but that is a bit excessively in-universe now that I think about it. And yeah, the episode citations were cop-outs. Sorry about that. Update: Did some beefing up on the "Reception" section. Now includes a few more references to articles and novel excerpts mentioning the character. --Rnnlmb (talk) 19:02, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

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Sydney Ferries

Sydney Ferries is the public transport ferry network serving the city of Sydney, New South Wales. Services operate on Sydney Harbour and the connecting Parramatta River. The network is controlled by the New South Wales Government's transport authority, Transport for NSW, and is part of the authority's Opal ticketing system. In 2017–18, 15.3 million passenger journeys were made on the network.

Services are operated under contract by Transdev Sydney Ferries. Sydney Ferries Corporation is the state government agency that owns the ferry fleet.

Early services
Sydney's ferry services can trace their general origins as far back as the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove where in 1789, a small boat provided a link between Sydney Cove and the farming settlement of Parramatta. The first vessel, officially named the Rose Hill Packet (otherwise known as 'The Lump'), was a hoy crafted by convicts and powered by sails and oars. Return trips between Sydney Cove and Parramatta could take a week to complete.

The ex-convict, Billy Blue, thought to be a Jamaican, provided a cross harbour rowboat from Dawes Point to Blues Point. By 1830, he was running what is thought to be Sydney first regular ferry service. The same year, a regular service was set up between Balmoral Beach and Balgowlah that shortened the otherwise long bush journey between Sydney and Manly and Northern Beaches. As time progressed, a series of rowboat ferrymen set up small operations to transport people from either side of Sydney Harbour. However, the first proper, steam-powered ferry services that could operate regardless of wind and tide appeared in the 1830s and 1840s.

Parramatta River services
North Sydney was still not a heavily populated area in the 1830s, however, Parramatta was growing. The first Australian-built steamship, PS Surprise was launched in 1831 and commenced regular, timetabled services to Parramatta on 1 June 1831. The service, however, was not financially successful and the vessel was sold to Hobart in 1832. It was followed by numerous further steam ferries operated by various business partnerships until the Parramatta River Steam Co, was formed in 1865. Due to the considerable costs of building wharfs, boatman would wait for ferries along the river and for a fee would row ferry passengers ashore. One of two punts near the current Gladesville Bridge was for river ferry passengers and was operated by boatmen. The other punt, Bedlam Ferry, carried main road traffic across the river.

Sydney Ferries Limited
Cross-harbour steam ferry services began in 1842 and this business grew to such an extent that a public company was formed, the North Shore Steam Ferry Co. Ltd. in 1878.

In 1900, the North Shore company was reincorporated as Sydney Ferries Limited (SFL), which progressively took over most other harbour ferry services (except notably the Manly service operated by the Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Company), and eventually became the world's largest ferry operator by fleet size and patronage. In addition to the vessels acquired in the takeovers, it procured in its own name over the following years some 30 large passenger and vehicular ferries known as the K-class. After the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened in March 1932, SFL patronage dropped almost overnight, decreasing from 44 to 20 million passengers per year.

Manly services
The first direct link between Sydney and Manly was arranged by Henry Gilbert Smith in 1855 when he chartered a paddle steamer, Huntress, to service the subdivision of his land near The Corso. Further ferries were chartered over following years until, in 1859, the first larger double-ender ferry on the Manly run, Phantom, was put into service by a new business partnership established to operate the ferries. Extra boats, including tugs, were also chartered for use on weekends and holidays due to the popularity of Manly's beaches and coves. A new company, Port Jackson Steamboat Co. Ltd., was formed in 1877. The company was reincorporated in 1881 as Port Jackson Steamship Co. Ltd., and further new vesels were acquired, the largest being the 1883 double-ended paddle steamer, Brighton. At 67 m in length, it was the largest ferry on Sydney Harbour, and with a high level of appointment, it was a passenger favourite.

Manly (II) was designed by renowned naval architect, Walter Reeks and was the first double-ended screw ferry on the Manly run. In 1901, Reeks also designed the Kuring-gai, a steel, double-ended screw steamer that in its appearance, size and capacity, was the first of the familiar Manly ferries of the twentieth century. To meet the expanding demand, the now reincorporated Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company commissioned six similar double-ended screw steamers: Binngarra (1905), Burra Bra (1908), Bellubera (1910),  Balgowlah (1912), Barrenjoey (1913), and Baragoola (1922). In 1928, two new ferries built in Scotland, Curl Curl and Dee Why were commissioned. They were the largest and fastest ferries on the harbour until 1938 when the Company commissioned South Steyne also built in Scotland.

The three Scottish-built steamers and the remainder of the Binngarra type vessels were pulled out of service over the course of the 1960s and 1970s as the Manly service and its vessels declined. The exceptions, Baragoola and Barrenjoey (later renamed North Head), remained in service into the 1980s until the introduction of the Freshwater-class ferries which remain in service. In 1965, a hydrofoil service was introduced roughly halving the travel time of the ferries but with significantly higher fares. The hydrofoils were replaced in 1990 by Jetcats, however, these proved unreliable and expensive and were replaced by the current Manly fast ferry service.

Government takeover
In 1951, the NSW Government intervened in response to the financial difficulties of SFL and agreed to take over its fleet. The assets were taken over by the Sydney Harbour Transport Board with operations and maintenance contracted to the Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Company. In 1967, the first of the new Lady-class ferry were ordered. Brambles Transport Industries took over the Port Jackson & Manly Steam Ship Company. In 1974, the NSW State Government took over the services initially through the auspices of the Public Transport Commission (1974–1980), then the Urban Transit Authority (1980–1989), State Transit Authority (1989–2004) and Sydney Ferries Corporation (2004–2012).

The Walker Report
On 3 April 2007 the New South Wales Government appointed Bret Walker, a Senior Counsel, to undertake a commission of inquiry into Sydney Ferries' operations. Submissions to Walker's inquiry were critical of many aspects of the operation of Sydney Ferries from fare levels and infrequent services to the design of gangways and the choice of potentially unsafe livery colours for some vessels. Walker's report, delivered in November 2007, was highly critical of the Ferries management, industrial relations and government interference. Walker made several major recommendations including the urgent replacement of the entire ageing fleet of vessels and handing day-to-day operations over to a private sector operator whilst the NSW government retained the fleet and other assets, in public ownership.

In 2008, the NSW Government called for private sector bids to provide ferry services under a services contract, however the government later decided to keep Sydney Ferries as a state owned and operated entity. On 1 January 2009, Sydney Ferries ceased to be a state-owned corporation and became a NSW Government agency.

In February 2009, private operator Bass & Flinders Cruises took over the high speed jet cat service to Manly. In April 2010, the NSW Government decided the service contract would remain with the Sydney Ferries Corporation.

Contracting
In 2011, following a change in state government, it was decided to contract out the operation of Sydney Ferries to the private sector, with the government retaining ownership of both the Balmain Maintenance Facility and the ferry fleet, under the agency Sydney Ferries.

On 28 July 2012, Harbour City Ferries, a 50/50 joint venture between Transfield Services (later Broadspectrum) and Veolia Transdev (later Transdev Australasia), began operating the services of Sydney Ferries under a seven-year contract. In December 2016, Transdev Australasia exercised an option to purchase Broadspectrum's share.

In February 2019, Transdev was awarded a new nine-year contract by the Government commencing 28 July 2019. Under the contract, it will lease 10 new ferries (the River-class) to expand Parramatta River services and also some further Emerald class ferries for other services, which had resulted in an additional 280 weekly services. It is also planned to combine the F2 and F6 routes to be operated on a 20-minute frequency, however this change was only implemented during off-peak times. Harbour City Ferries was also rebranded Transdev Sydney Ferries.

Network
Sydney Ferries operates services on ten routes:

 * Manly
 * Taronga Zoo
 * Parramatta River
 * Pyrmont Bay
 * Neutral Bay
 * Mosman Bay
 * Double Bay
 * Cockatoo Island
 * Watsons Bay
 * Blackwattle Bay

Sydney Ferries previously commenced an on-demand service connection to Blackwattle Bay in October 2019 until it was converted to the F10 timetabled service in 2021.

The hub of the network is at Circular Quay.

Fleet
The Sydney Ferries fleet consists of 41 vessels divided into eight classes:

Construction of 7 new vessels has begun with 2 already delivered and in service, These Parramatta River class ferries are to replace the RiverCats class vessels on Parramatta services. These ferries are notably built in Australia unlike the River and Emerald Gen 2 ferries. They feature a similar design to River class but lack the upper level seating on the roof, this is to allow for operation to Parramatta without needing to close the upper seating at Rydalmere Wharf.

Patronage
The following table lists patronage figures for the network during the corresponding financial year. Australia's financial years start on 1 July and end on 30 June. Major events that affected the number of journeys made or how patronage is measured are included as notes.

Fares
Sydney Ferries uses the Opal ticketing system. Opal is also valid on metro, train, bus and light rail services but separate fares apply for these modes. The following table lists Opal fares for reusable smartcards and single trip tickets:

^ = $2.50 for Pensioner/Senior cardholders

Maintenance
Balmain Shipyard in Mort Bay was established about 1890 by Balmain Ferry Company as a depot, ferry wharf and ferry coaling wharf but through amalgamations and government takeovers, has become the present Sydney Ferries' Maintenance Facility and Training base and is leased to Transdev Sydney Ferries.

Incidents
On 12 May 2004, the Louise Sauvage crashed into a wharf at Rose Bay. A small number of minor injuries resulted from the accident, which was blamed on a steering mechanism fault.

In January 2007, one man died after a Sydney RiverCat, Dawn Fraser, collided with a dinghy.

In March 2007, a Sydney Ferries vessel crashed into a whale-watching ship before hitting Pyrmont Bridge in Darling Harbour.

Merinda–Pam Burridge collision
On Wednesday, 28 March 2007, the Sydney Ferries HarbourCat Pam Burridge collided with a private vessel, the Merinda beneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Four people, including a fourteen-year-old girl, were killed in the accident. The Office of Transport Safety Investigations found that the Merinda was not exhibiting the required navigation lights and had not maintained a proper look-out. The summary of the Coroner's Report noted "It was the error made in failing to illuminate the navigation lights [on the private vessel Merinda] that allowed the other causal factors to align to create a cascading causal effect resulting in the collision. Australian skating champion Sean Carlow was among the survivors of the accident. His mother and coach, former Australian Olympic competitor Liz Cain, had a leg amputated. One of the dead was a skating judge who had officiated at the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships the previous week.

Other incidents
On 23 November 2008, at 5:15pm the Lady Northcott ran into the stern of Friendship while the former was berthing behind the latter at Circular Quay. No one was on board the Friendship, and no passengers were injured on the Lady Northcott.

On 6 April 2009 the Lady Northcott crashed into rocks after it overshot Taronga Zoo wharf. No one was injured in the accident, and it was blamed on driver error.

On 11 October 2010 at 8:47am the HarbourCat ferry Anne Sergeant ran into the Kirribilli Jeffrey Street wharf. One passenger was taken to hospital with some other passengers receiving minor injuries.

On 7 November 2010, at approximately 4:30pm, a speedboat crashed into the Fantasea Spirit (owned and operated by Palm Beach Ferries, operating for Sydney Ferries) 100m from Meadowbank wharf on the Parramatta River, injuring six people. The skipper of the speedboat, a 49-year-old Dundas man, was charged with culpably navigating in a dangerous manner causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) and operating a recreational vessel negligently causing death or GBH.

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:45, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Aberdeen Street
A road that has only 2 blocks and made 'international headlines' for a car burning WOW! but Still a non notable road Delete --JAranda | yeah 01:22, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Note the Sneaky use of international headlines: "Canada and New York State" is hardly international, as Toronto, ON/CA and Buffalo, NY/US essentially share a media market (with each recieving the others local TV, Radio and the like). A street mentioned in a local news story that just happens to be near an international border is hardly noteworthy and therefor this should be DeletedCastAStone 01:59, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Except that Kingston isn't part of that market... Bearcat 05:45, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * No, but it does border new york. I should have noted that i was merely giving an example. - CastAStone
 * Keep --[[Image:Ottawa flag.png|20px]] Spinboy 02:23, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Why?  Grue  17:46, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The annual homecoming party that went over the top this year should be mentioned in the entry on Queen's University. There is a section "Traditions". The street itself is unremarkable, so delete it. Pilatus 02:24, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, this article is about an event, not a road. The road is only 2 blocks that goes through a neighbourhood not notable enough to have an article itself. --maclean25 02:36, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep.--Nicodemus75 03:39, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Why?  Grue  17:46, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Maclean25. There are verifiability problems with many of the statements in the article and no sources, another sore point with me. Quale 04:19, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per CastAStone and JAranda. --Kewp (t) 06:49, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect anything salvageable into Queen's University. (If this title isn't a proper one to serve as a redirect, then move it first). - Mgm|(talk) 10:00, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Pilatus. -- Kjkolb 12:06, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no statement indicated the road is genuinely notable. Local news story only - students getting drunk and being stupid isn't truly international news. Average Earthman 12:28, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, a street party/riot involving 'thousands of students' might be notable, but there's no reason to believe this is true. --Last Malthusian 13:36, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete echoing above. Dottore So 21:06, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Information about the event contained in the article belongs elsewhere, probably Queen's University if references can be sourced. The street itself is not encyclopedia-worthy. Mindmatrix 21:08, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn road. Sorry, voted twice - server glitch. Dottore So 22:03, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Burn this like the car. Gamaliel 11:34, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll agree that this article is delete-worthy, but can I maybe flag this instead as merge request into some kind of article on the Kingston Student Ghetto/Queen's Student Ghetto—the concept of undergrads densely living in low-grade rental housing in a halo around a university is a relatively unique Canadian phenomenon (US universities accomodating far more people on campus or having a frat system) and Kingston has the prototypical student ghetto in the country. Interesting topic from an urban planning end of things. -The Tom 03:12, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - An event "on or about" a street doesn't qualify as making the street notable. The story isn't really about the street.  I'm not voting merge, since the info is unsourced.  If it's to be covered elsewhere, entirely new content should be written, citing reliable sources.  --rob 09:30, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete completely non-notable. When we get to the point when we would keep every street in the world that really would mean the end of Wikipedia.  Grue  17:44, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and Redirect to Queen's University as per Mgm - notable info about the university.
 * Delete. I used to live at 10 Aberdeen Street. The street is two blocks long and is not worthy of inclusion despite being party central. Homey 01:05, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
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Servomotor

A servomotor (or servo motor or simply servo) is a rotary or linear actuator that allows for precise control of angular or linear position, velocity, and acceleration in a mechanical system. It constitutes part of a servomechanism, and consists of a suitable motor coupled to a sensor for position feedback and a controller (often a dedicated module designed specifically for servomotors).

Servomotors are not a specific class of motor, although the term servomotor is often used to refer to a motor suitable for use in a closed-loop control system. Servomotors are used in applications such as robotics, CNC machinery, and automated manufacturing.

Mechanism
A servomotor is a closed-loop servomechanism that uses position feedback (either linear or rotational position) to control its motion and final position. The input to its control is a signal (either analog or digital) representing the desired position of the output shaft.

The motor is paired with some type of position encoder to provide position feedback (and potentially also speed feedback in more sophisticated designs). The controller compares the measured position with the desired position to generate an error signal, which when fed back causes the motor to rotate in the direction needed to bring the shaft to the desired position. The error signal reduces to zero as the desired position is approached, stopping the motor.

Simple servomotors use position-only sensing via a potentiometer and bang-bang control of their motor; the motor only rotates at full speed or is stopped. This type of servomotor is not widely used in industrial motion control, but it forms the basis of the simple and cheap servos used for radio-controlled models.

More sophisticated servomotors make use of an absolute encoder (a type of rotary encoder) to calculate the shaft's position and infer the speed of the output shaft. A variable-speed drive is used to control the motor speed. Both of these enhancements, usually in combination with a PID control algorithm, allow the servomotor to be brought to its commanded position more quickly and more precisely, with less overshooting.

Servomotors vs. stepper motors
Servomotors are generally used as a high-performance alternative to the stepper motor. Stepper motors have some inherent ability to control position, as they have built-in output steps. This often allows them to be used as an open-loop position control, without any feedback encoder, as their drive signal specifies the number of steps of movement to rotate, but for this, the controller needs to 'know' the position of the stepper motor on power up. Therefore, on the first power-up, the controller will have to activate the stepper motor and turn it to a known position, e.g. until it activates an end limit switch. This can be observed when switching on an inkjet printer; the controller will move the ink jet carrier to the extreme left and right to establish the end positions. A servomotor can immediately turn to whatever angle the controller instructs it to, regardless of the initial position at power up if an absolute encoder is used.

The lack of feedback of a stepper motor limits its performance, as the stepper motor can only drive a load that is well within its capacity, otherwise missed steps under load may lead to positioning errors and the system may have to be restarted or recalibrated. The encoder and controller of a servomotor are an additional cost, but they optimize the performance of the overall system (for all of speed, power, and accuracy) relative to the capacity of the basic motor. With larger systems, where a powerful motor represents an increasing proportion of the system cost, servomotors have the advantage.

There has been increasing popularity in closed-loop stepper motors in recent years. They act like servomotors but have some differences in their software control to get smooth motion. The main benefit of a closed-loop stepper motor is its relatively low cost. There is also no need to tune the PID controller on a closed loop stepper system.

Encoders
The first servomotors were developed with synchros as their encoders. Much work was done with these systems in the development of radar and anti-aircraft artillery during World War II.

Simple servomotors may use resistive potentiometers as their position encoder. These are only used at the very simplest and cheapest level and are in close competition with stepper motors. They suffer from wear and electrical noise in the potentiometer track. Although it would be possible to electrically differentiate their position signal to obtain a speed signal, PID controllers that can make use of such a speed signal, generally warrant a more precise encoder.

Modern servomotors use rotary encoders, either absolute or incremental. Absolute encoders can determine their position at power-on but are more complicated and expensive. Incremental encoders are simpler, cheaper, and work at faster speeds. Incremental systems, like stepper motors, often combine their inherent ability to measure intervals of rotation with a simple zero-position sensor to set their position at start-up.

Instead of servomotors, sometimes a motor with a separate, external linear encoder is used. These motor + linear encoder systems avoid inaccuracies in the drivetrain between the motor and linear carriage, but their design is made more complicated as they are no longer a pre-packaged factory-made system.

Motors
The type of motor is not critical to a servomotor, and different types may be used. At the simplest, brushed permanent magnet DC motors are used, owing to their simplicity and low cost. Small industrial servomotors are typically electronically commutated brushless motors. For large industrial servomotors, AC induction motors are typically used, often with variable frequency drives to allow control of their speed. For ultimate performance in a compact package, brushless AC motors with permanent magnet fields are used, effectively large versions of Brushless DC electric motors.

Drive modules for servomotors are a standard industrial component. Their design is a branch of power electronics, usually based on a three-phase MOSFET or IGBT H bridge. These standard modules accept a single direction and pulse count (rotation distance) as input. They may also include over-temperature monitoring, over-torque, and stall detection features. As the encoder type, gearhead ratio, and overall system dynamics are application specific, it is more difficult to produce the overall controller as an off-the-shelf module, and so these are often implemented as part of the main controller.

Control
Most modern servomotors are designed and supplied around a dedicated controller module from the same manufacturer. Controllers may also be developed around microcontrollers in order to reduce cost for large-volume applications.

Integrated servomotors
Integrated servomotors are designed to include the motor, driver, encoder, and associated electronics into a single package.

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Vladimir Shamanov

Vladimir Anatolievich Shamanov (Владимир Анатольевич Шаманов, born 15 February 1957) is a retired Colonel General of the Russian Armed Forces who was Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) from May 2009 to October 2016 and a Russian politician. After his retirement in October 2016, Shamanov became head of the State Duma Defense Committee.

Biography
Vladimir Shamanov entered the Tashkent Higher Tank Command School in 1974. He commanded a battalion in the 76th Guards Air Assault Division in 1985–86, attended the Frunze Academy, graduated in 1989, was a deputy airborne regiment commander in Moldova, regimental commander in Azerbaijan, became division chief of staff for 7th Guards Airborne Division in Novorossiysk, fought in the Chechen War, and became there the senior commander for the Ground Forces there in April 1996.

He received the Hero of the Russian Federation decoration for his service in Chechnya, but human-rights groups have criticized him strongly for war crimes committed by Russian Federation troops under his orders during the First Chechen War of 1994–1996 and the Second Chechen War of 1999–2009. Shamanov was removed from duty in January 2000 for "health reasons", and for a period he served as a civilian politician, becoming the elected governor (2001–2004) of the Ulyanovsk Oblast region of the Russian Federation.

As of 2007 Shamanov operated as a counselor to Russia's defense minister, Sergei Ivanov, and as co-chairman of the U.S - Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs (USRJC) which seeks to determine the fates of U.S. personnel who remain unaccounted-for from World War II and from the Cold War Era. In November 2007 Kommersant reported his impending return to the Ministry of Defence.

In August 2008 Shamanov commanded the Russian forces in Abkhazia during the 2008 South Ossetia war against Georgia. On August 12, 2008, he took control over 9,600 Russian servicemen in Abkhazia and led them during the fight with Georgian forces for control over the Upper Kodori Gorge.

On 26 May 2009 Vladimir Shamanov became the new commander of the VDV, replacing Lieutenant-General Valeriy Yevtukhovich after Yevtukhovich reached the age of 55 and was discharged to the reserve. Dmitry Medvedev appointed Shamanov to neutralize discontent over the cuts and reorganisations as a result of the 2008 reform programme. Although Shamanov supported the programme, he cancelled all cuts and changes in the VDV and announced reinforcement for the airborne troops.

On 4 October 2016 Shamanov retired from the Russian Armed Forces and became head of the State Duma Defence Committee.

Sanctions
Sanctioned by the UK government in 2014 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.

Controversies
Shamanov has an image of an "over-the-top" ruthless man among the other Russian military leaders, with certain insurgency-related sources calling him the "Butcher of Chechnya." Already during the First Chechen War, the Chechen Insurgency claimed Shamanov to be the reincarnation of Alexey Yermolov, alluding to the Russian Imperial general of the 19th century Caucasian War, who was famous in his time for his merciless policy towards the local rebel fighters and their supporters among civilians.

As Gennady Troshev, another Russian commander in Chechnya, wrote in his book My War, Shamanov "was too hot-tempered and direct in his relations with the Chechen population" [preferring] "to choose the shortest way to victory (...) [which] resulted in numerous casualties among Russian soldiers."

Aslambek Aslakhanov, a retired MVD general who was Vladimir Putin's advisor on Chechnya, called Shamanov a "butcher" and a "one-man curse on the Chechen people": "Chechens talk about Shamanov like a plague that has descended on their heads, a disease like AIDS. He is drowning in blood. He cynically believes that all Chechens – men and women, even children – are bandits."

The director of the Moscow office of Memorial, the human rights group founded by the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov, said: "His subordinates are definitely guilty of war crimes, and I believe a serious investigation would show Shamanov’s direct guilt in war crimes as well, that he ordered them. He has a serious xenophobic streak. He’s cruel, but it comes from his sense of duty. He’s honest about it, but that doesn’t make it less frightening."

In December 1999 Shamanov was awarded his second Hero of the Russian Federation medal for actions around the village of Alkhan-Yurt earlier that month. However, Human Rights Watch (HRW) have asked the Russian government to open an investigation into his role the incident in Chechnya, which HRW has declared a "massacre." Shamanov was reported as threatening to shoot villagers who pleaded with him to halt the abuses. Later, he dismissed calls for accountability for the abuses, saying that the Russian soldiers were doing "a sacred thing". In a Novaya Gazeta interview published in June 2000, Shamanov eventually admitted there have been numerous cases of looting by the Russian military in Chechnya, but he also said he viewed his image as a "cruel general" as a compliment and that he believed the wives and children of rebel fighters to also be "bandits" who needed to be "destroyed". Nevertheless, he denied the accusations of human rights violations in the foreign media. In the 2004 The Washington Post interview, Shamanov rejected the allegations as "fairy tales" and suggested that human rights groups had planted the bodies in Alkhan-Yurt and "fabricated" a slaughter.

Shamanov's forces are also believed to have looted and pillaged and killed in the other places during the second Chechen campaign, among them at Katyr-Yurt (in 2005 the European Court of Human Rights held Russia responsible for civilian deaths during the indiscriminate bombing of Katyr-Yurt ), Shami-Yurt and Gekhi-Chu.

In March 2000, Shamanov exhibited strong sympathy towards the war crimes suspect Colonel Yuri Budanov. Budanov, Shamanov trumpeted, was one of his "best commanders" and offered this challenge: "Don't put your paws on the image of a Russian soldier and officer." Later, Shamanov came to Rostov-on-the-Don to defend Budanov during trial and expressed his solidarity with him. Ultimately, Budanov was convicted for the March 2000 kidnapping and murder of the young Chechen woman Elza Kungaeva. On September 21, 2004, Shamanov, now the Ulyanovsk regional governor, backed a pardon for Budanov, sparking anger in Chechnya even among the pro-Moscow locals.

In March 2007 Shamanov met in the White House with the U.S. President George W. Bush, which was criticised by human rights groups. "This isn't someone the U.S. president should be meeting with. This is someone the president should be calling for an investigation of," HRW commented. Later, the White House explained that it was not aware of the allegations against the general before their meeting and that it is "unlikely" that Bush would have meet and pose to photo with Shamanov if he had been aware of the allegations.

In September 2010, MOD Serdyukov helped Shamanov out of a scandal when he tried to order a detachment from the VDV's 45th Independent Reconnaissance Regiment to detain an investigator looking into the business of his son-in-law Anatoly "Glyba" Khramushin, a well-known criminal figure. Shamanov had to admit to "inappropriate behaviour" and only got a reprimand for this incident. He could easily have been dismissed.

Car crash
On October 30, 2010, in Tula, general Shamanov's BMW 525 was hit by a MAZ truck. The general's driver was killed on impact, while he and two passengers (Shamanov's assistant Colonel Oleg Chernousand and Colonel Alexey Naumets, the acting commander of the 106th Airborne Division) were seriously injured and hospitalized. Vladimir Shamanov had a brain concussion and had his arm broken. The same evening the general was visited by Vladimir Putin at the Burdenko hospital in Moscow. General Shamanov was discharged from the hospital on 27 December 2010.

Honours and awards

 * Hero of the Russian Federation (Presidential Decree of 4 December 1999) - for the fighting in Dagestan in August - September 1999
 * Order of Saint George, 4th class (No. 006, 2008)
 * Order of Courage
 * Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class
 * Medal "200 Years of the Ministry of Defense"
 * Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" 1st and 2nd class
 * Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy"
 * Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
 * Medals "For Impeccable Service" 3rd and 2nd classes
 * Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

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