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Is there any relationship between Gemination and Glottal stop? Synchronically, Diachronically, otherwise? I suspect they are somehow connected in at least some languages. — Hippietrail 00:42, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure, but gemination in Japanese is often realized as a glottal stop. That's my very strong impression from hearing it, but someone would need to do some research to see if that's true or not. -Iopq 23:18, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Could someone provide translations for the Finnish examples?
 * Peter Isotalo 13:15, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Consonant length lost in modern Greek
Is consonant length really gone in modern Greek? Topses 22:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, except in Cypriot and perhaps some other dialects. The orthography, however, preserves doubled consonants, e.g. συλλέγω [si'leγo] I collect and they presumably appear somewhere in the derivation: /sin+leγo/ > /silleγo/. --Macrakis 22:29, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

gemination in English
I tried to expand this section and make it more accurate. I was unable to find the symbol for the 'cat' sound though - it would be good if someone could correct that in my transcriptions. Zigzig20s 14:23, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

 * The term "gemination" needs to be formally defined somewhere. 71.101.158.23 13:18, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Agreed. The dictionaries I consulted define "geminate" as a long or double consonant. The usage of "gemination" in the article seems to imply a shortening when the same consonant appears at the end of one word and the beginning of another. Which is correct?--agr 11:55, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Estonian in intro
I am moving this down to an Estonian section -- it's too specific for the intro. --Macrakis 22:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

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Jerry Portnoy

Jerry Portnoy (born November 25, 1943, in Evanston, Illinois, United States) is an American harmonica blues musician, who has toured with Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton.

Biography
Portnoy grew up in Chicago. He first heard the blues played outside his father's carpet store in the Maxwell Street market in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Maxwell Street was a mecca for blues musicians, who would play on the street for tips. Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Johnny "Man" Young, Big Walter Horton and many others all played on Maxwell Street.

Portnoy began to perform professionally in 1970, touring the Midwest with the band of Johnny "Man" Young (guitar/mandolin). Two years later, he left Johnny Young, but continued to perform around the Midwest in the bands of guitarist Johnny Littlejohn and, later, drummer Sam Lay. For a time, he was also a member of the house band at the Checkerboard Lounge. He joined the Muddy Waters Blues Band in May 1974 and appeared on the albums I'm Ready, Muddy 'Mississippi' Waters Live, and King Bee. He remained until June 1980 when he and other members of Waters' band (pianist Pinetop Perkins, drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and bassist Calvin "Fuzz" Jones) formed The Legendary Blues Band, where he remained until 1986.

Life of Ease was released in 1981 and Red Hot and Blue two years later. After a brief hiatus from touring and the music business, he returned to music in 1987 when Ronnie Earl asked him to help start a band which became the Broadcasters. He formed his own band, called the Streamliners, in 1989. They released the CD Poison Kisses in 1991 (later re-issued as Home Run Hitter with three extra tracks). That same year Eric Clapton invited Portnoy to join an all-star blues band for the six blues shows at London's Royal Albert Hall as part of Clapton's 24-night stand. In 1993, he joined Clapton's band and remained with it through 1996. During this time, the band recorded Clapton's blues album From the Cradle.

Portnoy has performed in twenty-eight foreign countries on six continents, including performances at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, the Smithsonian, the Newport Jazz Festival and other major jazz and blues festivals worldwide. He was a Grammy Award nominee in 1996 for his work with the Muddy Waters Tribute Band on their recording You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Dead and Gone, and released an instructional package, Jerry Portnoy's Blues Harmonica Masterclass, in 1997. In 2001, he released his second solo album, Down in the Mood Room.

Known for his dark, amplified tone, he has long been a favorite of both critics and peers. The New York Times (1987) said, "Mr. Portnoy crests like an alto saxophone." Down Beat Magazine (2002) said, "Portnoy has few equals as a harmonica player, blues or otherwise." Rick Estrin, a leading professional player as well, was quoted in Blues Revue (2002) as saying, "He can get so much sound out of that harp — such a beautiful, just enormous, fat, rich tone." In 2004, Portnoy appeared on the album, Me and Mr. Johnson, with Eric Clapton.

He currently has available an online harmonica playing tutorial.

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Vigilance
Well my fellow Intactivists (this will appear on other talk:pages):

The circumcisiophiliacs won this round. The main problem is that they are more commited than we (they make it impossible for us to correct any of their lies and bias on præpuce and circumcision). Now, they go after our articles (maybe I should not have tried to expose them by writing about Circumfetishism).

Hugh Young wrote complaining about me creating articles about Intactivism and Genital Integrity without consulting anyone. He was right to complain; I did create such articles without consulting. Let me just point out to things though:

 * 1) 	I invited other Intactivists to join me last year to join Encyclopædia WikiPedia.Org last year (within a month of that, I gave up on editing Præpuce and Circumcision because I was so badly outnumbered, that I could not do any good).
 * 2) 	I am the only full-time Intactivist with Michael Glass and Dan Blackham dropping in every now and then.

Now that you are all temporarily here, I ask you to stay. If you would just check on our articles weekly and also præpuce, circumcision, and articles linking to them, it would truly help much. While you are at it, you can edit and start other articles. ¡Editing and starting articles is fun! Look at this cool article, which I started about Laurentia.

¡E Pluribus Unum!

¡Thanks!

Ŭalabio 00:51, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC)

Tritone
Hello. I'm writing to ask if the tritone sound sample on tritone is equal tempered, as I presume. Thanks. Hyacinth 06:11, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the responce, I'll go with the assumption that it is equal tempered. Hyacinth 23:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Florida law
Recently you added a reference to a law change in Florida in Genital Integrity. Could you cite a reference as per the verifiability policy of Wikipedia? Michael Glass 23:44, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll try and have one there by the end of the day --Hugh7 00:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Your changes to New Zealand Sign Language
Your edits of NZSL have removed info which seems to me to be particularly relevant to the article. For instance you removed the entire section headed "New Zealand Sign Language in action", and said in the edit summary it was "deleted as per discussion". Where was it discussed? Moriori 22:53, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Tks for your response. Without a section entitled something like "New Zealand Sign Language in action" the article is missing something. It does not answer all of the WWWWWH questions. Moriori 23:47, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

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Flame of Hope

Flame of Hope may refer to:
 * Flame of Hope (Special Olympics), symbol of the Special Olympics
 * Flame of Hope (diabetes), tribute to Dr. Frederick Banting
 * Eternal Flame of Hope, tribute to disabled people on Pecaut Square in Toronto.
 * The Flame of Hope, failed flame, formerly at Centenary Square in Birmingham, England
 * "Flame of Hope", song from the album The Pacific Age by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

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Kinsman

A kinsman is a male relative (see kinship).

The term kinsman (or plural kinsmen) may also refer to:

Places in the United States

 * Kinsman, Illinois
 * Kinsman, Ohio
 * Kinsman Township, Trumbull County, Ohio
 * Kinsman Mountain, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
 * Kinsman Notch, a mountain pass in New Hampshire

People

 * Brent Kinsman (born 1997), American child actor
 * Frederick Joseph Kinsman (1868–1944), American clergyman
 * Gary Kinsman (born 1955), Canadian sociologist
 * Jeremy Kinsman (born 1942), Canadian diplomat
 * Kay Kinsman (1909–1998), Canadian artist and writer
 * Shane Kinsman (born 1997), American child actor
 * Thomas James Kinsman (1945–2017), U.S. Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor
 * Paul Kinsman (1931–2014), Canadian physician and politician

Organizations

 * Kin Canada, a Canadian non-profit service organization also known as Kinsmen and Kinette Clubs
 * Kinsmen Field House, a multi-purpose sport and recreation facility

Vessels

 * USS Colonel Kinsman (1862), a gunboat captured by the Union Army during the American Civil War

Fiction

 * The Kinsman, a 1919 British silent comedy film
 * Chet Kinsman, protagonist in a series of books by Ben Bova, including the novels "Kinsman" and "The Kinsman Saga"

Music

 * Kinsmen (album), a 2008 jazz album with saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Didi

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Mandaic

Mandaic may refer to:

 * Mandaic language
 * Mandaic alphabet
 * Mandaic (Unicode block)

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Donna Barr

Donna Barr (born August 13, 1952) is an American comic book author and cartoonist. She is best known for The Desert Peach and Stinz.

Life and education
Donna Barr was born in Everett, Washington, and is the second child of six. She had earned a bachelor's degree in German from Ohio State University in 1978. Barr had enlisted in the United States Army and served from 1970 to 1973. She was a school trained teletype operator who was an E5, or Sergeant. Because of this position she was not sent into war. Donna Barr had met her husband Dan during her time in the army. She now lives in Clallam Bay, Washington with her husband.

Works
She works in pencil, ink, watercolor, and silkscreen.

She is known for her series Stinz and The Desert Peach. Stinz, originally published in 1986 as a short story in a hand-bound book, tells the story of a society of centaur-like people in a setting reminiscent of pre-industrial Germany. The story was then serialized in the Eclipse Comics series The Dreamery, edited by Lex Nakashima, and was picked up by Albedo creator Steve Gallacci under his Thoughts & Images label, moving on to MU Press and its imprint Aeon Press. It was then self-published under A Fine Line Press.

Her other long-running series, The Desert Peach is about Pfirsich Rommel, the fictional homosexual younger brother of Erwin "The Desert Fox" Rommel. Beginning in 1987, it was set in North Africa during World War 2. The comic has been describes as a fantasy war comic that was set within the German regime. Pfirsch (peach) Rommel is a colonel in the German Afrika Korps in World War II. The rest of this unit of misfits includes a mute radio officer, a shell-shocked mental case with a pet landmine, a French-speaking black Moroccan, an American prisoner of war, and a Cossack mercenary. In this context, a gay colonel engaged to marry a hotshot Luftwaffe ace does not seem out of place. It comes to fruition to long time readers that the story is actually a long running flashback. According to Barr, some of the themes within The Desert Peach are; "Love, Honor, Death and Tea, Surfing, fascism, obnoxious pilots and boyfriends, birth, love, hate, revenge, rape, child-murder, slavery, tribal customs, insanity, drug-use, prejudice, racism, death-camps, warfare, love-at-first-sight, homophobia, bad relationships, feminism, horse-training, camel-theft, fashion, marriage, euthanasia, grandchildren — etc., etc., etc". Donna Barr explains her process of creating The Desert Peach as, "I usually do a rough on scrap paper (junk mail has lots of blank backs!), happily cutting and pasting, then I copy the whole thing (so the back is clear), rearrange the copy backwards on the back of the final paper, slap in some lettering guides, flip it over on a light table, and use it as a rough guide while I ink. No penciling, and no erasing". The first three issues were published by Thoughts & Images. Additional issues were published by Fantagraphics Books, Aeon Press, and then self-published. The entirety of The Desert Peach series can be found on Webtoons. A Desert Peach musical was produced in 1992 and a novel was published in 2005.

Both Stinz and The Desert Peach are now largely serialized online and her novels are self-published. Other works include Hader and the Colonel (1987), The Barr Girls (1990), and Bosom Enemies (1987). Barr has also published a number of novels, including Permanent Party, An Insupportable Light, Ringcat and Bread and Swans. The last two of these feature Stinz and The Desert Peach, respectively. Barr has illustrated several GURPS roleplaying books, including GURPS Ice Age and GURPS Callahan's Crosstime Saloon,. and Traveller role-playing books, including Alien Module 8: Darrians, the MegaTraveller Player's Manual and several issues of both the Journal of the Travellers Aid Society and Challenge magazine. Her latest series, Afterdead, is a crossover of all of her characters. It is said to be politically charged and wild.

Her work has been translated into German, Japanese, Italian, and Croatian. Barr has created a series of handmade ornate, stitchery-covered bound sketchbooks, called the Black Manuscripts.

Awards and accomplishments
Barr and her work have been recognized with numerous awards and honors. These include The Xeric Grant in 2000, The Bruce Brown Foundation Grant in 2004, San Diego Comic Con International's Inkpot Award in 1996, Seattle's Cartoonists Northwest's Toonies in 1998, London Comics Creators Guild's Best Ongoing Humor Series in 1992, and the Washington Press Association's  Communicator of Excellence for Fiction in 1997 and 1998. Barr appeared at the Cartoonists Northwest Association 2016 event and received a Golden Toonie Award.

Involvement
Donna Barr has been involved in the Northwest community as a member of the Graphic Artists Guild, the National Writers Union, UAW/AFL/CIO, and has acted as a consultant for the Media curriculum in the Arts Department at Olympic College in Bremerton, Washington. She lectures on her work at conventions and symposiums all over the United States, Canada, and Europe. She had attended Opttaconn in 2019.

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User talk:Rwinkel

=	Vigilance	=

Well my fellow Intactivists (this will appear on other talk:pages):

The circumcisiophiliacs won this round. The main problem is that they are more commited than we (they make it impossible for us to correct any of their lies and bias on præpuce and circumcision). Now, they go after our articles (maybe I should not have tried to expose them by writing about Circumfetishism).

Hugh Young wrote complaining about me creating articles about Intactivism and Genital Integrity without consulting anyone. He was right to complain; I did create such articles without consulting. Let me just point out to things though:

 * 1) 	I invited other Intactivists to join me last year to join Encyclopædia WikiPedia.Org last year (within a month of that, I gave up on editing Præpuce and Circumcision because I was so badly outnumbered, that I could not do any good).
 * 2) 	I am the only full-time Intactivist with Michael Glass and Dan Blackham dropping in every now and then.

Now that you are all temporarily here, I ask you to stay. If you would just check on our articles weekly and also præpuce, circumcision, and articles linking to them, it would truly help much. While you are at it, you can edit and start other articles. ¡Editing and starting articles is fun! Look at this cool article, which I started about Laurentia.

¡E Pluribus Unum!

¡Thanks!

Ŭalabio 01:03, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC)

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Tokyo Electric Power Company

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated (東京電力ホールディングス株式会社) is a Japanese electric utility holding company servicing Japan's Kantō region, Yamanashi Prefecture, and the eastern portion of Shizuoka Prefecture. This area includes Tokyo. Its headquarters are located in Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and international branch offices exist in Washington, D.C., and London. It is a founding member of strategic consortiums related to energy innovation and research; such as JINED, INCJ and MAI.

In 2007, TEPCO was forced to shut the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant after the Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki earthquake. That year, it posted its first loss in 28 years. Corporate losses continued until the plant reopened in 2009. Following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, one of its power plants was the site of one of the world's most serious ongoing nuclear disasters, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. TEPCO could face ¥ (US$) in special losses in the current business year to March 2012, and the Japanese government plans to put TEPCO under effective state control to guarantee compensation payments to the people affected by the accident. The Fukushima disaster displaced 50,000 households in the evacuation zone because of leaks of radioactive materials into the air, soil and sea.

In July 2012, TEPCO received ¥1 trillion (US$) from the Japanese government in order to prevent collapse of the company to ensure electricity is still being supplied to Tokyo and its surrounding municipalities, and decommission the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. TEPCO's management subsequently made a proposal to its shareholders for the company to be part-nationalized. The Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation later became the majority stockholder to oversee the damages and decommissioning of the power plant. The total cost of the disaster was estimated at $100 billion in May 2012.

History
Japan's electricity sector, nationalized in 1939 in preparation of total war (the Pacific War), were privatized in 1951 on behest of the U.S./Allied occupation forces, creating nine privately owned government-granted monopolies, one in a certain region; this included TEPCO. Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. was established by reorganizing Kanto Haiden and Nippon Shuden, which were established through wartime integration.

In the 1950s, the company's primary goal was to facilitate a rapid recovery from the infrastructure devastation of World War II. After the recovery period, the company had to expand its supply capacity to catch up with the country's rapid economic growth by developing fossil fuel power plants and a more efficient transmission network.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the company faced the challenges of increased environmental pollution and oil shocks. TEPCO began addressing environmental concerns through expansion of its LNG fueled power plant network as well as greater reliance on nuclear power generation. The first nuclear unit at the Fukushima Dai-ichi (Fukushima I) nuclear power plant began operational generation on March 26, 1971.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the widespread use of air-conditioners and IT/OA appliances resulted a gap between day and night electricity demand. In order to reduce surplus generation capacity and increase capacity utilization, TEPCO developed pumped storage hydroelectric power plants and promoted thermal storage units.

Recently, TEPCO is expected to play a key role in achieving Japan's targets for reduced carbon dioxide emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. It also faces difficulties related to the trend towards deregulation in Japan's electric industry as well as low power demand growth. In light of these circumstances, TEPCO launched an extensive sales promotion campaign called 'Switch!', promoting all-electric housing in order to both achieve the more efficient use of its generation capacity as well as erode the market share of gas companies.

Major subsidiaries
As Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. is a holding company, there are several major wholly owned subsidiaries.
 * TEPCO Power Grid – Responsible for managing power grid around Kantō region and transmits and distributes electricity between electricity wholesaler and retailer.
 * TEPCO Energy Partner – Electricity retailer operating under "TEPCO" brand throughout Japan, except Okinawa.
 * TEPCO Fuel & Power – Operates fossil fuel power stations mainly for TEPCO Energy Partner.
 * Tokyo Electric Generation Company – Generates wholesale electricity for electricity market.
 * Tokyo Electric Power Services Co. Ltd (TEPSCO) – Provides consulting services for electric power industry.

Corporate overview

 * Capital stock: ¥676,424,197,050
 * Total outstanding shares: 1,352,876,531
 * Number of shareholders: 821,841
 * Electricity sales (FY 2004): 92,592 million kWh (lighting), 194,148 million kWh (power), 286,741 million kWh (total)
 * Peak demand: 64.3 million kW (July 24, 2001)
 * Number of customers (ending March 31, 2005): 25,120,000 / 83.89 million kW (lighting), 2,630,000 thousand / 39.75 million kWh (power), 27,740,000 / 123.64 million kW (total)
 * Revenue from electricity sales: ¥4,637.2 billion yen (FY 2004)

Community compensation
Tokyo Electric Power could face 2 trillion yen ($23.6 bln) in special losses in the current business year to March 2012 to compensate communities near its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, according to JP Morgan.

Japan plans to put TEPCO under effective state control so it can meet its compensation payments to people affected by radiation from its Fukushima I plant. Tokyo will set aside several trillion yen in public funds that TEPCO can "dip into if it runs short for payouts to people affected".

Salary pay cuts
The company workers agreed to a management proposal to cut their pay as a sense of responsibility for the world's worst nuclear disaster. Annual remuneration for board members would be reduced by 50 percent since April 2011, while payment for managers would be cut by 25 percent and workers by 20 percent both since July 2011 and bonuses since June 2011. The company expects to save about 54 billion yen ($659 million) a year from the pay cuts.

In July 2012 it was announced that annual salaries of managers would be reduced by at least 30%, with workers pay cut remaining at 20%. On average employees pay would be cut by 23.68%. In addition, the portion of the employee health insurance program that the company covers would be reduced from 60% to 50%, the standard in Japan.

Power stations and generation capacity

 * Hydro: 160 / 8,521.0 MW
 * Thermal (oil, coal, LN(P)G, geothermal): 26 / 36,995.0 MW
 * Nuclear: 3 / 17,308.0 MW
 * Wind: 1 / 1.0 MW
 * Total: 190 / 62,825.0 MW

Position in the industry
TEPCO is the largest electric utility in Japan and the 4th largest electric utility in the world after German RWE, French Électricité de France and Germany's E.ON. As TEPCO stands in a leading position in this industry, they have relatively a strong effect for Japanese economics, environment, and energy industry.

Management and finance
For the fiscal years ending in 2011, 2012 the company had a pretax loss, in 2013 the deficit was 377.6 billion yen. In the following year 2014 red figures were expected too.

Generation
The company's power generation consists of two main networks. Fossil fuel power plants around Tokyo Bay are used for peak load supply and nuclear reactors in Fukushima and Niigata Prefecture provide base load supply. Additionally, hydroelectric plants in the mountainous areas outside the Kanto Plain, despite their relatively small capacity compared to fossil fuel and nuclear generation, remain important in providing peak load supply. The company also purchases electricity from other regional or wholesale electric power companies like Tohoku Electric Power, J-POWER, and Japan Atomic Power Company.

Transmission and distribution
The company has built a radiated and circular grid between power plants and urban/industrial demand areas. Each transmission line is designed to transmit electricity at high-voltage (66-500kV) between power plants and substations. Normally transmission lines are strung between towers, but within the Tokyo metropolitan area high-voltage lines are located underground.

From substations, electricity is transmitted via the distribution grid at low-voltage (22-66kV). For high-voltage supply to large buildings and factories, distribution lines are directly connected to customers' electricity systems. In this case, customers must purchase and set up transformers and other equipment to run electric appliances. For low voltage supply to houses and small shops, distribution lines are first connected to the company's transformers (seen on utility poles and utility boxes), converted to 100/200V, and finally connected to end users.

Under normal conditions, TEPCO's transmission and distribution infrastructure is notable as one of the most reliable electricity networks in the world. Blackout frequency and average recovery time compares favorably with other electric companies in Japan as well as within other developed countries. The company instituted its first-ever rolling blackouts following the shutdown of the Fukushima I and II plants which were close to the epicenter of the March 2011 earthquake. For example, on the morning of Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 700,000 households had no power for three hours. The company had to deal with a 10 million kW gap between demand and production on March 14, 2011.

Safety incidents
On August 29, 2002, the government of Japan revealed that TEPCO was guilty of false reporting in routine governmental inspection of its nuclear plants and systematic concealment of plant safety incidents. All seventeen of its boiling-water reactors were shut down for inspection as a result. TEPCO's chairman Hiroshi Araki, President Nobuya Minami, Vice-President Toshiaki Enomoto, as well as the advisers Shō Nasu and Gaishi Hiraiwa stepped-down by September 30, 2002. The utility "eventually admitted to two hundred occasions over more than two decades between 1977 and 2002, involving the submission of false technical data to authorities". Upon taking over leadership responsibilities, TEPCO's new president issued a public commitment that the company would take all the countermeasures necessary to prevent fraud and restore the nation's confidence. By the end of 2005, generation at suspended plants had been restarted, with government approval.

In 2007, however, the company announced to the public that an internal investigation had revealed a large number of unreported incidents. These included an unexpected unit criticality in 1978 and additional systematic false reporting, which had not been uncovered during the 2002 inquiry. Along with scandals at other Japanese electric companies, this failure to ensure corporate compliance resulted in strong public criticism of Japan's electric power industry and the nation's nuclear energy policy. Again, the company made no effort to identify those responsible.

2008 Kashiwazaki-Kariwa shutdown
In 2008, Tokyo Electric was forced to shut down the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant following the 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake. To meet demand, the company purchased electricity from competitors and restarted thermal power plants, resulting in significant additional oil and gas consumption. These activities caused the company to post its first loss in 28 years.

2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster

On 11 March 2011, several nuclear reactors in Japan were badly damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

The Tōkai Nuclear Power Plant lost external electric power, experienced the failure of one of its two cooling pumps, and two of its three emergency power generators. External electric power could only be restored two days after the earthquake.

The Japanese government declared an "atomic power emergency" and evacuated thousands of residents living close to TEPCO's Fukushima I plant. Reactors 4, 5 and 6 had been shut down prior to the earthquake for planned maintenance. The remaining reactors were shut down automatically after the earthquake, but the subsequent tsunami flooded the plant, knocking out emergency generators needed to run pumps which cool and control the reactors. The flooding and earthquake damage prevented assistance being brought from elsewhere. Over the following days there was evidence of partial nuclear meltdowns in reactors 1, 2 and 3; hydrogen explosions destroyed the upper cladding of the building housing reactors 1 and 3; an explosion damaged reactor 2's containment; and severe fires broke out at reactor 4.

The Fukushima nuclear disaster revealed the dangers of building multiple nuclear reactor units close to one another. This proximity triggered the parallel, chain-reaction accidents that led to hydrogen explosions blowing the roofs off reactor buildings and water draining from open-air spent fuel pools—a situation that was potentially more dangerous than the loss of reactor cooling itself. Because of the proximity of the reactors, Plant Director Masao Yoshida "was put in the position of trying to cope simultaneously with core meltdowns at three reactors and exposed fuel pools at three units".

The Japanese authorities rated the events at reactors 1, 2 and 3 as a level 5 (Accident With Wider Consequences) on the International Nuclear Event Scale, while the events at reactor 4 were placed at level 3 (Serious Incident). The situation as a whole was rated as level 7 (Major Accident). On 20 March, Japan's chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano "confirmed for the first time that the nuclear complex — with heavy damage to reactors and buildings and with radioactive contamination throughout — would be closed once the crisis was over." At the same time, questions are being asked, looking back, about whether company management waited too long before pumping seawater into the plant, a measure that would ruin and has now ruined the reactors; and, looking forward, "whether time is working for or against the workers and soldiers struggling to re-establish cooling at the crippled plant." One report noted that defense minister, Toshimi Kitazawa, on 21 March had committed "military firefighters to spray water around the clock on an overheated storage pool at Reactor No. 3." The report concluded with "a senior nuclear executive who insisted on anonymity but has many contacts in Japan sa[ying that] ... caution ... [as] plant operators have been struggling to reduce workers’ risk ... had increased the risk of a serious accident. He suggested that Japan's military assume primary responsibility. 'It's the same trade-off you have to make in war, and that is the sacrifice of a few for the safety of many,' he said. 'But a corporation just cannot do that.'" There has been considerable criticism to the way TEPCO handled the crisis. It was reported that seawater was used only after Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered it following an explosion at one reactor the evening of 12 March, though executives had started considering it that morning. TEPCO didn't begin using seawater at other reactors until 13 March. Referring to that same early decision-making sequence, "Michael Friedlander, a former senior operator at a Pennsylvania power plant with General Electric reactors similar to the troubled ones in Japan, said the crucial question is whether Japanese officials followed G.E.’s emergency operating procedures." Kuni Yogo, a former atomic energy policy planner in Japan's Science and Technology Agency and Akira Omoto, a former TEPCO executive and a member of the Japanese Atomic Energy Commission both questioned TEPCO's management's decisions in the crisis. Kazuma Yokota, a safety inspector with Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, or NISA, was at Fukushima I at the time of the earthquake and tsunami and provided details of the early progression of the crisis.

The Fukushima disaster displaced 50,000 households in the evacuation zone because of radioactivity releases into the air, soil and sea. In 2012, it was reported that 8.5 tonnes of radioactive water had leaked from Fukushima Daiichi No.4.

In June 2012, TEPCO revealed, that in 2006 and 2008 TEPCO-employees made two studies in which the effect of tsunami-waves higher than the "official" expected height of 5.7 meters was studied on the performance of the reactors. This was done after the large Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. The conclusion from the simulation in 2006 was, that a 13.5 meter wave would cause a complete loss of all power and would make it impossible to inject water into reactor No.5. The costs to protect the plant for such an event was estimated to be about 25 million dollars. In 2008, the effect of a 10 meter high tsunami was calculated. TEPCO failed in both cases to take advantage of this knowledge, and nothing was done to prevent such an event to happen, because the study sessions were conducted only as a training for junior employees, and the company did not really expect such large tsunamis.

TEPCO subsequently signed a partnership with French company Areva to treat the contaminated water.

In 2016, three former TEPCO executives, chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and two vice presidents, were indicted for negligence resulting in death and injury. All were acquitted by the Tokyo District Court on September 19, 2019.

Company future
On 30 March 2011, the president of TEPCO, Masataka Shimizu, was hospitalized with symptoms of dizziness and high blood pressure in the wake of an increasingly serious outlook for the Fukushima plant and increasing levels of radiation from the stricken plant, as well as media reports of TEPCO's imminent nationalization or bankruptcy triggered by the situation at the Fukushima plant.

On July 31, 2012, TEPCO was substantially nationalized by receiving a capital injection of 1 trillion yen ($12.5bn) from the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund (currently Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation), a government-backed support body. The Fund holds the majority (50.11%) of voting rights with an option to raise that figure to 88.69% by converting preferred stocks into common stocks. This Japan's biggest utility had received by the end of February 2016 at least 5.7609 trillion yen in state support since the tsunami. The total cost of the disaster was estimated at $100bn in May 2012. In April, all Japanese nuclear reactors were closed.

Nuclear
In March 2008, Tokyo Electric announced that the start of operation of four new nuclear power reactors would be postponed by one year due to the incorporation of new earthquake resistance assessments. Units 7 and 8 of the Fukushima Daiichi plant would now enter commercial operation in October 2014 and October 2015, respectively. However, following the nuclear crisis of 2011, these plans have been cancelled. According to TEPCO's official regulatory paper, starting operation of Higashidori is expressed as 'Not yet determined'.

Hydro
TEPCO has a total of 160 hydroelectric stations with a total capacity of 8,520 MW. The largest pumped-storage plants are:
 * Nagawado Dam (623 MW)
 * Shin-Takasegawa Pumped Storage Station (1,280 MW)
 * Tamahara Pumped Storage Power Station (1,200 MW)
 * Shiobara Pumped Storage Plant (900 MW)
 * Imaichi Pumped Storage Plant (1,050 MW)
 * Kazunogawa Pumped Storage Power Station (800 MW)
 * Kannagawa Hydropower Plant (2,820 MW)

Electric vehicle batteries and recharging
Under the lead of an organization affiliated with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Tokyo Electric Power Company is working out next-gen car battery norms. It has developed a specification for high-voltage DC automotive fast charging using a JARI Level 3 DC connector, and formed the CHΛdeMO (stands for Charge and Move) association with Japanese automakers Mitsubishi, Nissan and Subaru to promote it.

The city of Tokyo: second largest shareholder
On 11 April 2012 TEPCO announced that Tokyo had temporarily become the largest shareholder of the firm with 9.37 percent voting rights, after former largest share holders Dai-ichi Life Nippon Life Insurance Co. and Nippon Life Insurance Co. had sold their 3.42 and 3.29 percent stakes in the company. The two life insurance companies had lost their interest in TEPCO after the shares had lost almost all their value at the stock market. At the next shareholders meeting of TEPCO in June 2012, Tokyo hoped to put a halt to TEPCO's plans raising the price of electricity. This position was changed by later ownership changes.

TEPCO to cancel nuclear promotion abroad
Early June 2012 TEPCO announced that it would cancel all export of nuclear expertise abroad, because it needed to focus on the stabilisation of the damaged reactors in Fukushima. All participation in a program to supply and run two nuclear reactors at a plant in Vietnam would be cancelled. This project undertaken by International Nuclear Energy Development, a public company set up in 2010 by heavy machinery producers and power companies, including TEPCO, aims to promote Japanese nuclear expertise and exports. According to Naomi Hirose, director of TEPCO, "Our atomic power engineers still need to do a lot more to stabilise and decommission the reactors" at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, and: "It is impossible" to abandon the domestic task and promote exports.

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Howard Barker

Howard Barker (born 28 June 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter and writer of radio drama, painter, poet, and essayist, writing predominantly on playwriting and the theatre. The author of an extensive body of dramatic works since the 1970s, he is best known for his plays Scenes from an Execution,  Victory, The Castle, The Possibilities,  The Europeans, Judith and Gertrude – The Cry as well as being a founding member of, primary playwright for and stage designer for British theatre company The Wrestling School.

The Theatre of Catastrophe
Barker has coined the term "Theatre of Catastrophe" to describe his work. His plays often explore violence, sexuality, the desire for power, human motivation and the limits of language.

Rejecting the widespread notion that an audience should share a single response to the events onstage, Barker works to fragment response, forcing each viewer to wrestle with the play alone. "We must overcome the urge to do things in unison", he writes. "To chant together, to hum banal tunes together, is not collectivity." Where other playwrights might clarify a scene, Barker seeks to render it more complex, ambiguous, and unstable.

Only through a tragic renaissance, Barker argues, will beauty and poetry return to the stage. "Tragedy liberates language from banality", he asserts. "It returns poetry to speech."

Themes
Barker frequently turns to historical events for inspiration. His play Scenes from an Execution, for example, centers on the aftermath of the Battle of Lepanto (1571) and a fictional female artist commissioned to create a commemorative painting of the Venetian victory over the Ottoman fleet. Scenes from an Execution, originally written for BBC Radio 3 and starring Glenda Jackson in 1984, was later adapted for the stage. The short play Judith revolves around the Biblical story of Judith, the legendary heroine who decapitated the invading general Holofernes.

In other plays, Barker has fashioned responses to famous literary works. Brutopia is a challenge to Thomas More's Utopia. Minna is a sardonic work inspired by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Enlightenment comedy Minna von Barnhelm. In Uncle Vanya, he poses an alternative vision to Anton Chekhov's drama of the same name. For Barker, Chekhov is a playwright of bad faith, a writer who encourages us to sentimentalize our own weaknesses and glamorize inertia. Beneath Chekhov's celebrated compassion, Barker argues, lies contempt. In his play, Barker has Chekhov walk into Vanya's world and express his disdain for him. "Vanya, I have such a withering knowledge of your soul," says the Russian playwright. "Its pitiful dimensions. It is smaller than an aspirin that fizzles in a glass. . ." However, Chekhov dies, and Vanya finds the resoluteness to stride out of the confines of his creator's world.

Barker's protagonists are conflicted, often perverse, and their motivations appear enigmatic. In A Hard Heart, Riddler, described by the playwright as "A Woman of Originality", is called upon to use her considerable brilliance in fortifications and tactics to save her besieged city. Each choice she makes appears to render the city more vulnerable to attack, but that outcome seems to exhilarate rather than upset her. "My mind was engine-like in its perfection," she exults in the midst of destruction. Barker's heroes are drawn into the heart of the paradoxical, fascinated by contradiction.

The 1995 edition of the encyclopaedic The Cambridge Guide to Theatre describes Barker as a playwright "adept at choosing telling dramatic situations in which many different incidents can take place, but he reverses what might be regarded as the moral expectations [as well as] the expected moral order of capitalist societies. […] Barker deliberately attempts to upset expectations, denying the value of reason, continuity and naturalism, but there is a certain predictability about his wildness. His characters seem to be at emotional extremes, to speak in the same overwrought, rhetorical language."

Productions
Barker has acknowledged he has had greater success as playwright internationally than in his home country of Britain and many of his plays have been translated into other languages. He has noted that his plays have been more successful when performed abroad in America, Australia and Europe, especially mainland Europe where Barker has been celebrated as "one of the major writers of modern European theatre".

In Britain, Barker is "largely unknown" and he has been described as "cut[ting] a Byronic dash in British Theatre – sardonic, detached, the insider's outsider." Barker's work has influenced and inspired a number of notable British playwrights, including Sarah Kane, David Greig, Lucy Kirkwood, and Dennis Kelly. Noted actors Ian McDiarmid and Fiona Shaw have received acclaim for their performances in Barker's plays.

In Britain, Howard Barker formed The Wrestling School Company in 1988 to produce his own work in his native country.

There has been a small flurry of productions of Barker's plays on the London Fringe since 2007, including some non-Wrestling School productions which seem to fare better critically. Notable among these have been Victory and Scenes from An Execution, which received acclaimed productions at the Arcola and the Hackney Empire respectively. In 2012 the National Theatre staged a production of Scenes from an Execution, starring Fiona Shaw and Tim McInnerny.

Stage plays

 * Cheek (1970)
 * No One Was Saved (1970) – Script unpublished
 * Edward – the Final Days (1972) – Script unpublished
 * Alpha Alpha (1972) – Script unpublished
 * Faceache (1972) – Script unpublished
 * Skipper (1973) – Script unpublished
 * My Sister and I (1973) – Script unpublished
 * Rule Britannia (1973) – Script unpublished
 * Bang (1973) – Script unpublished
 * Claw (1975)
 * Stripwell (1975)
 * Wax (1976) – Script unpublished
 * Fair Slaughter (1977)
 * That Good Between Us (1977)
 * Birth on a Hard Shoulder (1977)
 * Downchild (1977)
 * The Hang of the Gaol (1978)
 * The Love of a Good Man (1978)
 * The Loud Boy's Life (1980)
 * Crimes in Hot Countries (1980) (also performed as Twice Dead)
 * No End of Blame (1981)
 * The Poor Man's Friend (1981)
 * The Power of the Dog (1981)
 * Victory (1983)
 * A Passion in Six Days (1983)
 * The Castle (1985)
 * Women Beware Women, adaptation of Thomas Middleton (1986)
 * The Possibilities (1986)
 * The Bite of the Night (1986)
 * The Europeans (1987)
 * The Last Supper (1988)
 * Rome (1989)
 * Seven Lears(1989)
 * Golgo (1989)
 * (Uncle) Vanya, adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (1991)
 * Ten Dilemas in the Life of a God (1992)
 * Judith: A Parting from the Body (1992)
 * Ego in Arcadia (1992)
 * A Hard Heart (1992)
 * Minna, adaptation of Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm (1993)
 * All He Fears, a specialist play for marionettes (1993)
 * The Early Hours of a Reviled Man
 * Stalingrad
 * 12 Encounters with a Prodigy
 * The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo (2001)
 * Found in the Ground
 * The Swing at Night, a specialist play for marionettes (2001)
 * Knowledge and a Girl
 * Hated Nightfall and Wounds to the Face (1995)
 * The Gaoler's Ache for the Nearly Dead (1997)
 * Ursula; Fear of the Estuary (1998)
 * Und (1999)
 * The Ecstatic Bible (2000) Prizewinner Adelaide International Festival co-production Brink Theatre (SA) and Wrestling School
 * He Stumbled (2000)
 * A House of Correction (2001)
 * Gertrude - The Cry (2002)
 * 13 Objects and Summer School (2003)
 * Dead Hands (2004)
 * The Fence in Its Thousandth Year (2005)
 * The Seduction of Almighty God by the Boy Priest Loftus in the Abbey of Calcetto, 1539 (2006)
 * Christ's Dog (2006)
 * The Forty (Few Words) (2006)
 * I Saw Myself (2008)
 * The Dying of Today (2008)
 * A Wounded Knife (2009)

Radio plays

 * One afternoon on the 63rd level of the north face of the pyramid of Cheops the Great (1970) – Script unpublished.
 * Henry V in two parts (1971) – Script unpublished.
 * Herman, with Mille and Mick (1972) – Script unpublished.
 * Scenes from an Execution (1984)
 * The Early Hours of a Reviled Man (1990)
 * A Hard Heart (1992)
 * A House of Correction (1999)
 * Albertina (1999)
 * Knowledge and a Girl (2002)
 * The Moving and the Still (2003) – Broadcast in 2004.
 * The Quick and the Dead, Radio 3 (2004)
 * Two skulls, broadcast on Danish radio (2005)
 * The Road, The House, The Road (2006) broadcast on Radio 4 to commemorate his sixtieth birthday.
 * Let Me (2006) broadcast to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Third Programme (Radio 3)

Television plays and films

 * Cows (1972)
 * Made (1972) feature film based on his play No One Was Saved.
 * Mutinies (1974)
 * The Chauffeur and the Lady (1974)
 * Prowling Offensive (1975) – not transmitted
 * Conrod
 * Aces High (1976) feature film adapted from R.C. Sheriff's play Journey's End.
 * Heroes of Labour (1976) – unproduced
 * All Bleeding (1976) – unproduced
 * Credentials of a Sympathiser (1976)
 * Sympathiser (1977) – unproduced
 * Russia (1977) – unproduced
 * Heaven (1978) – unproduced
 * Pity in History (1984)
 * The Blow, film (1985)
 * Brutopia (1989)
 * Christ's Dog (2011) short film adapted from his play of the same name.
 * In Mid Wickedness (2013) short film in the Georgian language adapted from his play The Forty.
 * Not Him (2014) short film based on Barker's short play of the same name from The Possibilities.
 * Don't Exaggerate (2015) short film adapted from Howard Barker's work of the same name.

Other writings
Barker has also authored several volumes of poetry (Don't Exaggerate, The Breath of the Crowd, Gary the Thief, Lullabies for the Impatient, The Ascent of Monte Grappa, and The Tortman Diaries), an opera (Terrible Mouth with music by Nigel Osborne), the text for Flesh and Blood, a dramatic scene for two singers and orchestra by David Sawer, and three collections of writings on the theatre (Arguments for a Theatre, Death, The One and The Art of Theatre, A Style And Its Origins).

Personal life
Barker divorced in the 1980s and has lived on his own in Brighton since then.

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 * Delete unless verified and expanded into more than a dicdef. SWAdair | Talk  04:27, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. The article and its twin are both jokes, whether the substance exists or not. Andrewa 05:51, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Ah, humor. Dihydro-monoxidase kills tens of thousands of people a year! Geogre 12:40, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * And it's a good mixer. Delete. Fire Star 15:04, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Ah, if life were only this complicated. Unfunny hoax. Delete with vigor. Denni ☯ 22:39, 2004 Aug 8 (UTC)


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 * Using Dogpile's advanced search, I found only one site that contains either of those terms.  Neither term shows up anywhere else on the web.  Possibly legit, but I wouldn't put money on it.  Delete unless both verified and expanded into more than a dicdef.  SWAdair | Talk  04:25, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. The article and its twin are both jokes, whether the substance exists or not. Andrewa 05:48, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. The terms seem to come from [|http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/quiz_germs.shtml] -- very probably not legit (see that word comedy in the URL?)Gregchapman 09:33, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Obviously bogus. Fire Star 03:55, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Unfunny hoax. Delete with vigor. Denni ☯ 22:36, 2004 Aug 8 (UTC)


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At the Earth's Core

At the Earth's Core may refer to:

 * At the Earth's Core (novel) (1914), by Edgar Rice Burroughs
 * At the Earth's Core (film) (1976)

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J. R. Ackerley
I temporarily removed your comment about J. R. Ackerley not writing because he was unable to write, because it needs an explanation of why he was unable to write – did you mean, for example, that he was spending most of his time prowling the Royal Parks in search of Guardsmen?

The rest of your addition really fleshes (no pun intended) out the article well. In particular, your comments about his understanding of his sexuality are very important. Thanks. John FitzGerald 15:36, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Thank you. I think Ackerley's literary output is so small in part because of his constant search for companions, as you say, but also because he simply found himself unable to write despite locking himself away in his room for hours.

 * Got it. I'll put that back in if you haven't already. I also recall him saying that he had to base We Think the World of You on events in his life because he was completely without creativity. John FitzGerald

 * Exactly. Obviously he was exaggerating, but all his works were autobiographical or at least based on his own experiences as with Prisoners of War.x

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Quebec Winter Carnival

The Quebec Winter Carnival (Carnaval de Québec), commonly known in both English and French as Carnaval, is a pre-Lenten festival held in Quebec City. After being held intermittently since 1894, the Carnaval de Québec has been celebrated annually since 1955. That year, Bonhomme Carnaval, the mascot of the festival, made his first appearance. Up to one million people attended the Carnaval de Québec in 2006 making it, at the time, the largest winter festival in the world (since overtaken by the Harbin Festival). It is, however, the largest winter festival in the Western Hemisphere.

Activities and attractions
The most famous attractions of this winter festival are the night-time and daytime parades led by mascot Bonhomme Carnaval. The parades wind through the upper city, decorated for the occasion with lights and ice sculptures.

Numerous public and private parties, shows and balls are held across the city, some of them outside in the bitter cold, testimony to the Québécois' fabled joie de vivre.

Other major events include:
 * A masquerade ball with up to 400 participants at the grand ballroom of the Château Frontenac.
 * The opening and closing ceremonies taking place at the Ice Palace before thousands of participants, Bonhomme and the mayor of Quebec.
 * Outdoor sport events (snowboarding, ice canoe, snowshoes, hockey, dog-sledding, etc., some of them part of World Championship tournaments) inside and outside the city.
 * Free outdoor public banquets (brunch, breakfast, etc.).
 * The Canadian, Québécois, International and Student artist snow sculpture contests on the Plains of Abraham, the main setting of the carnival. The Plains are a public city park and stay open for leisure activities, including snowshoeing and cross-country skiing trails, during carnival time. Part of the Plains around the Citadel is transformed into an outdoor winter amusement park with various family-themed activities, including the display of the three main snow-sculpting contests (Canada's provinces, Quebec's regions, International) and the traditional bikini snow bath event (bain de neige)

Outdoor dance parties are held at the Ice Palaces.

 * Kiosks and other outlets in the city sell the Bonhomme effigy tag that grants admission into most of the events, although some are free outside the main site.
 * Most commercial main streets are decorated and some bars and restaurants set up a winter patio in front of their establishments.
 * Bonhomme – short for bonhomme de neige ("snowman") is the official ambassador of the festivities, the castle lord of the Ice Palace. Bonhomme is described as a seven-foot-tall, four-hundred pound snowman sporting a red cap, black buttons and a ceinture fléchée that gives acknowledgement to French-Canadian and Métis style clothing.
 * It is traditional to drink Caribou, a hot alcoholic beverage, to keep warm.
 * The public auction is a fundraising event in aid of the carnival. This auction features many goods and services donated for silent auction and live auction.

Feasts and restaurants

 * The Business Leaders' Luncheon, organized by the Québec City Chamber of Commerce.
 * The 'Restaurant Partners' Campaign is a 179-day promotion during which Québec City restaurants offer customers a special menu for a fixed price throughout the carnival (including appetizer, soup, or salad, a main course, and a dessert).

Races and tournaments

 * A sleigh race in which drivers and their horses take part in a single- and double-harness race on the Plains of Abraham.
 * An Ice canoe race on the St. Lawrence river.
 * The Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament -- founded in 1960 by Gérard Bolduc, Paul Dumont and others -- was part of the program until 1977.
 * The Snowboard World Cup in Quebec City (not part of the carnival official program).

title: Quebec Winter Carnival