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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of shopping malls

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. dbenbenn | talk 20:54, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

List of shopping malls
I believe this to be unencyclopedic, as it doesn't serve any of the purposes of lists. It's unfeasible to make a complete lists of shopping malls anywhere, most shopping malls in general are entirely not notable, and if the list were complete it would serve no purpose. Radiant! 11:29, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC) --Coolcaesar 06:37, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with Radiant.  Not encyclopedic, unmaintainable.  Doomed to be incomplete and inaccurate.  --BM 13:01, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but limit to malls of national or international reputation or of long-term historical importance. --Coolcaesar 13:16, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Seconded. Keep on with restrictions as noted above. With shopping malls going by the wayside in many areas with the coming of the Big Box shopping area format, and retailers like Wal-Mart pulling out of malls all over the place in order to go standalone, there's a gem of an article on shopping malls as a style of commercial area going by the wayside. But to try and list every mall is futile. 23skidoo 14:52, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm impressed that somebody would actually go to the trouble to assemble this list. But something like this could probably be handled using a category, with the list limited to significant malls as per above. Anyway I'll abstain. — RJH 18:03, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Puh-leese! Can we just get rid of this?  How is a global list of shopping malls even remotely encyclopedic?  And how would you control the limitations that are being proposed, anyway?  Next we'll have articles such as List of shopping malls in Needville, Texas and List of pet shops in Johor Baru, Malaysia.   Delete !  HowardB 18:20, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Worthy of a category for the notable ones (of which there already is one) but to list them all is a bit absurd.  Dismas 21:02, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * On the restrictions suggested above, Merge to Shopping mall under a specific heading. IMHO, a list of shopping malls "of national or international reputation" is not worthy of an individual article. vlad_mv 21:39, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * This list as it stands should be deleted. One way I'd suggest to keep it is re-naming the article to something like "notable shopping malls" and stipulate any malls added must have something notable about them, like the world's largest, etc. 67.41.179.191 00:18, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, a never ending unmanageable trivial list. Megan1967 00:34, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. There's no logical reason why shopping malls should be considered "un-encyclopedic". --Centauri 03:38, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is unmaintainable and adds nothing to Wikipedia.  Instead, it creates a near infinite series of redlinks which will inevitably invite new users to create articles about all these non-notable malls which will then have to be deleted (wasting our time and frustrating the users).  Rossami (talk) 05:26, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unencyclopedic.  --Carnildo 06:15, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The purpose of such a list is to include only notable shopping malls, i.e. those which have articles. Bogdan | Talk 17:41, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If that is the purpose, why have a category and this list? Why not just have the category? Dismas 21:33, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur with that, and a category also makes browsing easier. Radiant! 10:05, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The purpose of wikipedia is to be a repository of important human knowledge. People spend inordinate amounts of time and money at shopping malls, and thus they must be important, certainly more important than the vast majority of what is in the 'pedia. If you believe it is unmaintable, don't maintain it, but don't prevent others from trying. Lists are important especially when categories are incomplete, lists can include items which do not yet have articles. dml 23:02, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * No, what you have established here is that an article on shopping mall would be encyclopedic. A list of every individual shopping mall worldwide is not, and should instead be found in your local yellow pages. My local shopping mall is not important to anyone who doesn't live near here, and it has nothing extraordinary to distinguish it from other shopping malls. In other words, while most large groups or sets are notable, in general individual members thereof are not. Radiant! 10:05, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. -- Decumanus 07:17, 2005 Feb 25 (UTC)
 * Keep. It may be uninteresting to people who have no interest in shopping malls, but there are many retail historians out there who do find interest in malls and a comprehensive list would be beneficial to them. Every mall holds some special value to them, whether you care about it or not. A mall usually doesn't get any respect until it's dead and demolished, and speaking of this, I've been noticing lately that the list is starting to be covered with defunct shopping malls and since this part of retail history is significant, it would be a wise idea if there was a category for that alone, and then there could be a little history of that mall, just like on deadmalls.com.
 * Keep on the basis that the malls mentioned have historical value. There are thousands of malls, however only the largest, strangest, and most complex should receive any notability. It's almost like the schools. Also this list wouldn't be quite as unmaintainable as say the List of people from the United States. Which reminds me, maybe there should only be a US list. -- Riffsyphon1024 08:01, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment to Comment. Do you mean only a US list of malls? 205.188.116.67 00:54, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, if any list is going to be made, it should be of US malls only. Even though it sounds US-centric, weren't we the first to build malls? -- Riffsyphon1024 17:41, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Read the shopping mall article, malls have been around longer than the United States. I'm of the general opinion that most malls don't deserve articles, so I vote to Keep the list on the condition that it is a list of notable malls, ie biggest, first mall in a State, etc, deleting most of the red links--nixie 05:00, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * If that's to be the article's purpose, then I have no objection to it sticking around, so long as the name is changed so it doesn't invite people to add any or all malls they live near (which is what all the non-redlinked articles that I checked currently look like). —Korath (Talk) 07:09, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, this is not a small and useless article. I know that there shouldn't be articles like (above mentioned)... List of hot dog vendors in Kalamazoo, but the point of wikipedia is to grow the site. You can feel free, though, to take out the hot dog article. Keep. MrDrew508
 * Keep - Notable enough to keep and probably too large for a category. -CunningLinguist 01:20, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; unmaintanable. At the very least, deredlink. —Korath (Talk) 15:13, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep. Notable. Somebody in the WWW 03:48, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I voted keep above; just to let everyone know, I'm going to prune the page to only stuff with links or famous malls I've heard of (I've been all over the world, so I have a good idea of what's famous and what's not) and keep it for now. Feel free to edit it if you don't like my edits.
 * Okay, I have pruned the page aggressively. Now it is much more readable and limited only to the most famous malls.

--Coolcaesar 07:52, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep, but break it up into subpages sorted by country, as has been done with, for example, universities and radio stations. That way, we keep the complete list (which is encyclopedic), and also make it much more manageable. -- EagleOne

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United States National Arboretum

The United States National Arboretum is an arboretum in northeast Washington, D.C., operated by the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. It was established in 1927 by an act of Congress after a campaign by USDA Chief Botanist Frederick Vernon Coville.

It is 446 acre in size and is located 2.2 mi northeast of the Capitol building, with entrances on New York Avenue, NE and R Street, NE. The campus's gardens, collections, and features are connected by roadways that are 9.5 mi long in total. In addition to the main campus in Washington, D.C., there are research locations at the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland and in McMinville, Tennessee.

The Arboretum functions as a major center of botanical research conducted by the USDA, including applied research on trees, shrubs, turf, and the development of new ornamental plants. In addition to a library and a historical collection (archive), the institution also has an extensive herbarium of over 800,000 specimens documenting wild and cultivated plant diversity.

History
The United States National Arboretum was formally established by an act of Congress on 4 March 1927. The act authorized the creation of the arboretum on what was then called Mount Hamilton, but it did not actually appropriate any funding to make that happen. That particular area was well-suited for the arboretum because it had varied soils and physiography, and no permanent buildings were then present. Ten months later, President Calvin Coolidge signed a law appropriating $300,000 for the National Arboretum. An initial 189 acre were purchased in 1928, with an additional 196 acre being acquired in 1934. Additional land was purchased in 1938, 1948, and 1949 that, along with subsequent minor expansions, contributed to the Arboretum's current footprint of 446 acre.

On April 11, 1973, the U.S. National Arboretum was listed as a Category II Landmark in the National Register of Historic Places for its "importance which contributes significantly to the cultural heritage and visual beauty of the District of Columbia."

The construction of a Chinese garden, the National China Garden has been proposed for the National Arboretum since 2003. A groundbreaking was held in 2016 but the garden was reportedly cancelled due to counter-intelligence concerns regarding the construction of a large pagoda that could be used for collecting signals intelligence.

Major gardens

 * Asian Collections
 * Japanese Woodland, Asian Valley, China Valley, and Korean Hillside
 * Fern Valley Native Plant Collections
 * Woodland, prairie, and Southeastern Coastal Plain
 * Flowering Tree Collection
 * The Friendship Garden and Arbor House
 * Gotelli Dwarf and Slow Growing Conifer Collection
 * Gotelli and Watnong Collections
 * Introduction Garden
 * National Bonsai & Penjing Museum
 * National Grove of State Trees
 * National Herb Garden
 * Historic roses, Knot Garden, and themed gardens
 * Washington Youth Garden

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Single-genus groupings

 * Azalea Collections
 * Glenn Dale Azalea Hillside, Morrison Garden, and Lee Garden
 * Dogwood Collection
 * Holly Collection
 * Magnolia Collection
 * National Maple Collection
 * National Boxwood Collection
 * Perennial Collections

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National Grove of State Trees
The National Grove of State Trees (often just called the Grove) is a display of trees representing the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Fifty-one plots are arrayed over 30 acres (120,000 m2), each plot home to a grouping of a state's official tree species, or in a few cases, another species indigenous to the state but better suited to growing in the local climate.

Bald cypress that might be found in a Louisiana swamp grow just a short walk from pines and birches that grow in New England forests; young redwoods from California grow near cottonwoods that might grow in riverside forests in the otherwise treeless Great Plains States.

Although the mid-Atlantic region has mild weather, which allows the USDA to grow most of the designated species, it cannot successfully grow a few of the state trees such as the cabbage palmetto, which is the state tree of both Florida and South Carolina, or the kukui, which is Hawaii's state tree. Substitutes have been made for these species, so the arboretum could have a tree that is important in each of the states. Planting was undertaken in 1989 with the National Association of State Foresters, the American Forest Foundation, the USDA Forest Service, and the National Arboretum.

The centerpiece of the collection is the portal adjacent to the M Street parking lot. A wooden entrance arbor is dedicated to the memory of Jeanne Yeutter, wife of former Secretary of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter. Her sponsorship of the project helped the concept of a Grove of State Trees to be realized. The inscription on the arbor reads, "In Celebration of Jeanne Yeutter's Love of Trees". The arbor leads to a large plaza with a flagstone star and a wall adorned with pottery tiles designed and fabricated by Liza Bach, a Tennessee crafter. Each tile is individually cast with the name of each state and a raised image of the foliage of the state tree.

National Bonsai and Penjing Museum
The collections of the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum are found throughout the Japanese, Chinese, and North American Pavilions, as well as a conservatory. The Mary E. Mrose Exhibit Gallery features season and rotating displays of bonsai as well as a collection of viewing stones.

Among the many bonsai accessions is a Japanese white pine cultivar, Pinus parviflora 'Miyajima', donated in 1975 by Masaru Yamaki to mark the United States' bicentenary. This tree was formerly in Hiroshima, Japan and survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The tree has been "in training" since 1625.

A Japanese temple bell hangs at the entrance to the Japanese Pavilion. Cast in bronze in 1798, the bell was donated by the National Bell Festival and installed on 1 January 2024. Featuring three panels of classical Japanese inscriptions, the bell stands 27 inches tall and weighs 80 pounds.

Non-garden features

The National Capitol Columns, a set of twenty-two Corinthian columns which were once part of the East Portico of the United States Capitol building from 1828 to 1958, are located on a hilltop in the Ellipse Meadow. The foundation on which the columns sit is constructed from steps originally at the Capitol. The columns were moved from storage to the Arboretum starting in 1988 and dedicated in 1990.

Ruins of the United Brick Corporation Brick Complex sit along the northwestern border of the Arboretum. They can be easily viewed from the New York Avenue parking lot. The kilns and associated structures, which the USDA acquired in 1976, were added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1978. The site is not accessible to the public.

The U.S. National Arboretum is home to a pair of mated bald eagles named Mr. President and The First Lady. The pair began nesting at the Arboretum in 2014; the first eagles to nest there since 1947. An eagle nest cam sponsored by the American Eagle Foundation provides a livestream video feed of the nest during mating season.

A small collection of public artwork, including Split Ritual by American sculptor Beverly Pepper, can be found at the Arboretum. The piece is made of ductile iron and stands at 10 ft H x 44 in W x 100 in D. It consists of four vertical pieces that resemble large tools. They are placed in a circle on top of a flat, doughnut-shaped foundation. The sculpture was dedicated in 1993.

In 2020, the U.S. National Arboretum re-introduced popular koi (fish) to the reflecting pool near the administration building.

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Jon Bosak

Jon Bosak led the creation of the XML specification at the W3C. From 1996–2008, he worked for Sun Microsystems.

XML
Tim Bray, who was one of the editors of the XML specification, has this to say in his note on Bosak in his annotated version of the specification:

""Jon Bosak is the single person without whose efforts XML would most likely have failed to happen. He had come to appreciate the power and flexibility of SGML in his days running Novell's (excellent) on-line documentation repository at http://www.novell.com, and had acquired a conviction that HTML was not a suitable base on which to build the next layer of Web infrastructure. Jon's stewardship of the XML process has been marked by a combination of deft political maneuvering with steadfast insistence on the principle of doing things based on principle, not expediency.""

In a 1999 posting to the xml-dev mailing list, Bray writes:

""It is to Jon Bosak's immense credit that he (like many of us) not only saw the need for simplification but (unlike anyone else) went and hounded the W3C until it became less trouble for them to give him his committee than to keep on saying SGML was irrelevant.""

When he stepped down from the W3C XML Coordination Group in 2000, Jon Bosak was given the unusual recognition of having a formal identifier reserved for him:

 * In appreciation for his vision and leadership and dedication the W3C XML Plenary on this 10th day of February, 2000 reserves for Jon Bosak in perpetuity the XML name "xml:Father".

The Universal Business Language
In 2001, Bosak organized the OASIS Universal Business Language Technical Committee to create standard formats for basic electronic business documents. He led the UBL TC through the completion of UBL 2.1 in November 2013 and continues to serve on the Committee as Secretary. UBL was approved for use in European public sector procurement by decision of the European Commission dated 31 October 2014 and published as an International Standard, ISO/IEC 19845:2015, on 15 December 2015.

Metrological Studies
Bosak is author of the book (ISBN 978-0-615-37626-4, 2010) and the article  (latest version 19 April 2014)

Bob Bosak
Jon Bosak's father, Robert Bosak (1925–1987), began the family's long involvement in the computer industry in 1947 when he went to work on the first computer on the west coast of the US. He joined RAND in 1948 to work on analysis and programming of scientific problems. In 1951, he joined Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, where he organized and directed the Mathematical Analysis Group. For a short time after his divorce in the 1950s, he shared an apartment with Bob Bemer, "the Father of ASCII."

Bob Bosak returned to RAND in 1956 to become head of programming for the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), the automated NORAD system that controlled US air defenses from 1959 to 1983 and strongly influenced the design of modern air traffic control systems. He was one of the designers of JOVIAL and principal author of the seminal paper An Information Algebra.

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Reading railway station

Reading railway station is a major transport hub in Reading, Berkshire, England; it is 36 mi west of London Paddington. It is sited on the northern edge of the town centre, near to the main retail and commercial areas and the River Thames. It is the busiest station in Berkshire, and the third busiest in South East England.

Reading is the eighth busiest railway station in the UK outside of London and the second busiest interchange station outside London.

The station is managed by Network Rail and is served by four train operating companies: Great Western Railway, CrossCountry, South Western Railway and the Elizabeth line.

Original station
The first Reading station was opened on 30 March 1840 as the temporary western terminus of the original line of the Great Western Railway (GWR). The time taken to travel from London to Reading was reduced to one hour and five minutes, less than a quarter of the time taken by the fastest stagecoach. The line was extended to its intended terminus at Bristol in 1841. As built, Reading station was a typical Brunel-designed single-sided intermediate station, with separate up and down platforms situated to the south of the through tracks and arranged so that all up trains calling at Reading had to cross the route of all down through trains.

In 1844, the Great Western Hotel was opened across the Forbury Road for people visiting the town. It is thought to be the oldest surviving railway hotel in the world. New routes soon joined the London to Bristol line, with the line from Reading to Newbury and Hungerford opening in 1847, and the line to Basingstoke in 1848.

Between 1865 and 1867, a station building, built of buff bricks from Coalbrookdale with Bath Stone dressings, and incorporating a tower and clock, was constructed for the Great Western Railway. Sources differ as to whether this was a new building, or remodelling of an earlier Brunel building. In 1898 the single sided station layout was replaced by a conventional design with 'up', 'down' and 'relief' platforms linked by a pedestrian subway.

Access to the station from Broad Street was not direct, until Queen Victoria Street was built in 1903. This provided a route through to Friar Street and Station Road.

The station was originally named Reading and became Reading General on 26 September 1949 to distinguish it from the neighbouring ex-South Eastern Railway station. The "General" suffix was dropped from British Rail timetables in 1973, but some of the station nameboards still stated "Reading General" in 1974. The juxtaposition of the two stations meant that the town's buses showed the destination 'Stations'.

1965 combined station

From 6 September 1965, services from the former Reading Southern station were diverted into a newly constructed terminal platform (4A) in the General station. This was long enough for a single eight coach train, which was later found to be inadequate, and so a second terminal platform (4B) serving the same line was opened in 1975 for the commencement of the service from Reading to Gatwick Airport.

1989 redevelopment
In 1989 a brand new station concourse was opened by InterCity, including a shopping arcade named after Brunel, opened on the western end of the old Reading Southern station site, linked to the platforms of the main station by a new footbridge. At the same time a new multi-level station car park was built on the site of the former goods yard and signal works to the north of the station, and linked to the same footbridge. The station facilities in the 1860s station building were converted into The Three Guineas public house. Elizabeth II reopened the station on 4 April 1989.

2009–2015 redevelopment

By 2007, the station had become an acknowledged bottleneck on the railway network, with passenger trains often needing to wait outside the station for a platform to become available. This was caused by limited number of through-platforms, the flat junctions immediately east and west of the station and the need for north–south trains to reverse direction in the station. The Great Western Main Line at Reading has two pairs of tracks – the Main ('fast') lines on the southern side and the Relief ('slow') lines on the northern side. Trains transferring between the Relief lines and the lines that run through Reading West (to Taunton and to Basingstoke) had to cross the Main lines. Those trains, especially slow-moving freight trains, blocked the paths of express trains.

In July 2007, in its white paper Delivering a Sustainable Railway, the government announced plans to improve traffic flow at Reading, specifically mentioned along with Birmingham New Street station as "key congestion pinch-points" which would share investment worth £600 million. On 10 September 2008 Network Rail unveiled a £400 million regeneration and reconfiguration of the station and surrounding track to reduce delays. The following changes were made: The redevelopment was designed to provide provision for future Crossrail and Heathrow Airtrack services at Reading station.
 * Five new platforms: Four new through platforms on the northern side and an extra bay platform for the Wokingham lines.
 * A new footbridge on the western side of the station, replacing the 1989 footbridge. This also included a new entrance on the southern side, for ticket holders only.
 * A new street-level entrance and ticket office on the northern side of the station.
 * The original subway was converted into a pedestrian underpass between the two sides of the station, with no access to the platforms.
 * Making the Cow Lane bridge under the tracks two-way with a cycle path.
 * A flyover to the west of the station for trains to allow fast trains to cross over the lines to Reading West, replacing the flat junction.
 * A section of track beneath the flyover to provide a connection between Reading West and the relief lines.

The improvements have allowed capacity for at least 4 extra trains in each direction every hour and 6 extra freight trains a day (equivalent to 200 lorries). The local council has also planned developments of the surrounding area in association with the developments at the station.

The cost of the project rose to £897m, but it was completed a year earlier than expected. The rebuilt station was reopened by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 July 2014.

Network Rail took over management of the station from First Great Western in April 2014.

Electrification of the Great Western main line through Reading station was completed in time for electric trains to commence service between Paddington and Didcot Parkway on 2 January 2018.

Motive power depot
The GWR built a small engine shed in the junction of the lines to Didcot and those to Basingstoke in 1841. This was enlarged and rebuilt in 1876 and again in 1930. It was closed by British Railways in 1965 and replaced by a purpose-built Traction Maintenance Depot. This was subsequently relocated by Network Rail, during the redevelopment works in the early 2010s, to the northern side of the tracks to the west of the station.

Accidents and incidents
Extreme weather was the cause of an early casualty in the station's history. On 24 March 1840, whilst the station was nearing completion, 24-year-old Henry West was working on the station roof when a freak wind (described at the time as a tornado) lifted that section of the roof, carrying it and West around 200 ft away; West was killed. On the wall of the main station building there is a brass plaque, commemorating the event.

On 12 September 1855, a light engine was dispatched on the wrong line. It was in a head-in collision with a passenger train. Four people were killed and many were injured.

An accident occurred at Reading on 17 June 1914, and was witnessed by the railway historian O. S. Nock, then a schoolboy. The driver of a train to Ascot moved off even though the signal was at 'danger',  and into the path of an oncoming train bound for London Paddington; the only fatality was the driver of the Paddington train.

T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) lost the 250,000-word first draft of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom at the station when he left his briefcase while changing trains in 1919. Working from memory, as he had destroyed his notes after completion of the first draft, he then completed a 400,000-word second draft in three months.

German aircraft tried to bomb the lines into the station during the beginning of World War II.

On 1 August 1990, Class 119 diesel multiple unit L576 collided with a passenger train comprising 4VEP electric multiple units 3508 & 3504, and 4CIG unit 1304 due to overrunning signals. Forty people were injured.

On 23 October 1993, an IRA bomb exploded at a signal post near the station, some hours after 5 lb (2 kg) of Semtex was found in the toilets of the station. The resulting closure of the railway line and evacuation of the station caused travel chaos for several hours, but no-one was injured.

Location
The station is on the northern side of central Reading, off the Inner Distribution Road. Its postcode is RG1 1LZ. In the chainage notation traditionally used on the railway, its location on the Great Western main line is 35 mi from Paddington.

From 2013
The station has fifteen platforms. The nine through-platforms are numbered 7–15, each split into "a" (eastern end) and "b" (western end) sections. Platforms 7–11 are on the main (fast) lines, whereas 12–15 are on the relief (slow) lines. Relief line platforms 13–15 have access to the underpass for services to London Waterloo and Gatwick Airport.

Between 1975 and 2013
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Between 1975 and 2011, Reading station had four through-platforms and eight terminal platforms.

On 27 December 2011, the new platform 4 was opened, with all higher numbered platforms re-numbered:

 * main line platforms 4 and 5 became 7 and 8
 * relief line platforms 8 and 9 became 9 and 10
 * the north bay became platform 11
 * bay platform 6, which would be removed later in the redevelopment, was renumbered 16

Platform 5 (old 4b) opened on 23 April 2012, with platform 6 (old 4a) following on 12 July. The Easter 2013 blockade resulted in the opening of new platforms 12 to 15 and the closure of the old east bay platform 16. Work then commenced to rebuild platform 11 into a through platform, following which the adjacent platform 10 was rebuilt to match.

In March 2013 the subway reopened as a public right of way from the north to the south of the station, with no platform access. This enabled removal of the old footbridge to commence, starting with the two sections nearest the car park which were lifted out in the first two weeks of that month. On 29 March 2013 the new transfer deck was opened, ready for the opening of the new platforms on 2 April. By 7 April 2013 the old footbridge had been completely removed.

Recycling of infrastructure
During the station's major reconstruction, and the associated moving of locomotive stabling and the servicing depot from south of the Great Western Main Line to its north, a number of major components either became redundant or were no longer needed. Network Rail offered these to museums and the railway preservation movement, for a zero price, but subject to the cost of delivery being recompensed. In April 2011, the pair of 17 m former road bridges to the west of the station were delivered to Loughborough Central on the Great Central Railway for future use on their bridging project. In January 2014 one of the 22500 impgal water tanks was moved to Bishops Lydeard on the West Somerset Railway.

Services
The station plays a key role in serving the Great Western Main Line, the line which runs west from London Paddington station to Reading. To the west of Reading station, the line splits into two branches, allowing it to serve a variety of communities in the West and South West of England and onward into South Wales. The main branch proceeds to Bristol Temple Meads, via Bath Spa, Chippenham and Swindon. The South Wales Main Line diverges from the main branch at Swindon with trains running via Bristol Parkway, Newport, Cardiff Central, Bridgend, Port Talbot Parkway, and Neath to and from Swansea. Some services on the Great Western Main Line terminate at Bristol, while others continue on the Bristol to Exeter line towards the West Country. The other branch to the west of Reading station is the Reading to Taunton line (the "Berks and Hants" line), which serves communities in Berkshire, Wiltshire and Somerset. High speed services on this line do not normally call at all stations along the route (except sometimes Newbury and Hungerford), and some express services from the South West operate non-stop between Paddington and Taunton. The Reading to Taunton branch joins services travelling south from Bristol on the Bristol to Exeter line at Cogload Junction, to the north of Taunton. The line proceeds to serve the stations of Taunton, Exeter St Davids, Plymouth and onward to stations in Cornwall such as Par where the branch to Newquay diverges where some trains terminate whilst most terminate at the terminus of Penzance. Both high-speed intercity services and local services are operated by Great Western Railway. Nearly all services are timetabled to stop at Reading.

Other main lines connect Reading with Birmingham New Street, Birmingham International and northern England, and with Basingstoke, Winchester, Southampton Central and Bournemouth to the south. Through services from north to south on these lines are operated by CrossCountry, and all services stop at Reading, which requires the trains to reverse in the station. The main routes offered by CrossCountry are to Newcastle and Manchester Piccadilly to the north and Southampton Central and Bournemouth in the south.

The Elizabeth line operates a service to Abbey Wood, stopping at most stations to Ealing Broadway. On Sunday mornings and Sunday nights, trains terminate at London Paddington instead.

The secondary North Downs Line connects Reading with Guildford, Reigate, Redhill and Gatwick Airport. Services on this line, together with local stopping services to Basingstoke, Newbury, Bedwyn, Oxford and London Paddington, are also operated by Great Western Railway. An electric suburban line operated by South Western Railway links Reading to Wokingham, Bracknell, Ascot, Staines, Richmond, Clapham Junction and London Waterloo.

Pending the construction of the direct rail route to Heathrow Airport, an express bus service, RailAir, links Reading to London Heathrow Airport, as do suburban services via Hayes & Harlington.

Proposed Heathrow Airport links
Reading station was intended to be the western terminus for the proposed Heathrow Airtrack rail service. This project, promoted by BAA, envisaged the construction of a spur from the Waterloo to Reading Line to Heathrow Airport, creating direct rail links from the airport to Reading, London Waterloo, Woking and Guildford. Airtrack was cancelled by BAA in April 2011 but, in October 2011, Wandsworth Council announced a revised plan called Airtrack-Lite.

More recently, the Government has committed to the construction of a rail route from Heathrow Terminal 5 to the GWR main line between Iver and Langley, with a west-facing junction there, thus providing for a direct route from Heathrow to the West. Great Western Railway will run this route when completed in 2027, connecting up with the Elizabeth Line branch and replacing the Heathrow Express. See Western Rail Link to Heathrow.

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World Service (Delirious? album)

World Service is the fifth studio album by English Christian rock band Delirious?. It was released in 2003. Although it is more of a worship-oriented album as was Glo, Delirious? released two singles to the German market: "Inside Outside" and "Every Little Thing". The former sold over twelve thousand copies, was number one in German radio station SWR3's chart, and spent seven weeks in the German singles charts peaking at number seventy-two. Delirious? also released two free MP3 downloads on mp3.com, both topping the Guitar Rock charts (the first for a full month). The first MP3, "Majesty (Here I Am)", hit number fifteen on the worldwide charts; the second, "Rain Down", reached number twenty-eight. The two together had amassed over 500,000 listens/downloads after fifty days. The band's American single "Rain Down" has become its biggest multi-format hit since "Deeper."

MP3 singles
On 1 October 2003, the band released "Majesty (Here I Am)" as a free download from mp3.com. The song reached the top 15 worldwide and stayed at the top of the Guitar Rock charts for the entire month of October. At the beginning of the following month, on 1 November, Delirious? released "Rain Down." This, too, topped the Guitar Rock charts; however, it only reached No. 28 worldwide. Together, the singles amassed over 500,000 downloads.

Track listing

 * 1) "Grace Like a River" (Stuart Garrard, Martin Smith) – 4:06
 * 2) "Rain Down" (Smith, Garrard) – 4:51
 * 3) "God In Heaven" (Smith, Garrard) – 4:28
 * 4) "Majesty (Here I Am)" (Garrard, Smith) – 5:31
 * 5) "Inside Outside" (Smith, Garrard) – 5:41
 * 6) "Free" (Smith, Garrard, Jonathan Thatcher) – 3:59
 * 7) "Everyone Knows"(Garrard, Smith) – 4:30
 * 8) "With You" (Smith, Garrard) – 4:36
 * 9) "Mountains High"(Smith) – 3:55
 * 10) "I Was Blind" (Smith, Garrard) – 5:52
 * 11) "Feel It Coming On" (Smith, Garrard) – 5:10
 * 12) "Every Little Thing" (Smith, Garrard) – 4:34

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List of Maryland railroads

The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Maryland.

Common freight carriers

 * Canadian Pacific Railway through subsidiary Delaware and Hudson Railway (trackage rights, not used)
 * Canton Railroad (CTN)
 * CSX Transportation (CSXT)
 * Delmarva Central Railroad (DCR)
 * Georges Creek Railway (GCK)
 * Maryland and Delaware Railroad (MDDE)
 * Maryland Midland Railway (MMID)
 * Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
 * Tradepoint Rail (TPR)
 * Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (WE)
 * Winchester and Western Railroad (WW)

Passenger carriers

 * Amtrak (AMTK)
 * Baltimore Streetcar Museum
 * Maryland Transit Administration for its MARC operations, the Baltimore Metro Subway, the Baltimore Light RailLink, and the Purple Line (under construction)
 * National Capital Trolley Museum
 * Western Maryland Scenic Railroad
 * Walkersville Southern Railroad
 * Washington Metro

Electric railways

 * Baltimore and Bel Air Electric Railway
 * Baltimore, Halethorpe and Elkridge Railway
 * Baltimore, Sparrow's Point and Chesapeake Railway
 * Blue Ridge Railway
 * Capital Traction Company
 * City and Suburban Railway
 * Cumberland Electric Railway
 * Cumberland and Westernport Electric Railway
 * Frederick Railroad
 * Frederick and Middletown Railroad
 * Hagerstown Railway
 * Hagerstown and Frederick Railway
 * Kensington Railway
 * Loraine Electric Railway
 * Maryland Electric Railways
 * North Beach Railway
 * Potomac and Severn Electric Railway: 1899–1900, to Washington and Annapolis Electric Railway
 * Towson and Cockeysville Electric Railway; 1912–1924, shuttle between Northern Central's Timonium Station and the Towson Courthouse
 * United Railways and Electric Company
 * Washington and Annapolis Electric Railway: 1900–1902, to Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway
 * Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad (WB&A): 1911–1935, to Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad
 * Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway: 1902–1911, to Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad
 * Washington, Berwyn and Laurel Electric Railway
 * Washington Railway and Electric Company
 * Washington and Glen Echo Railroad
 * Washington and Great Falls Electric Railway
 * Washington Interurban Railway
 * Washington and Maryland Railway
 * Washington and Rockville Railway
 * Washington, Spa Spring and Gretta Railway
 * Washington, Woodside and Forest Glen Railway and Power Company

Private carriers

 * Eckhart Branch Railroad
 * Georges Creek Railroad
 * Green Ridge Railroad
 * Maryland Mining Company
 * Mount Savage Railroad

Passenger carriers

 * Indian Head Central Railway

Ghost railroads

 * Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad

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Touch (Delirious? album)

Touch is an album released by Delirious? in 2002. It is essentially a clone of album Audio Lessonover? released in North America. In fact, only the first song, "Touch", is new. "Love is the Compass" and "Waiting for the Summer" are different versions from the UK release, and four songs present on Audio Lessonover were removed from Touch.

The cover for the album featured a black thermosensitive plate which would reveal a photograph of the band when it became warm (ideally, from the "touch" of a human hand).

Two versions of this album exist, a limited edition two-disc set and an 'international version' only containing disc one.

CD

 * 1) "Touch" (Martin Smith, Stuart Garrard) – 4:58
 * 2) "Love is the Compass" (Smith, Garrard) – 3:29
 * 3) "Fire" (Smith, Garrard) – 3:34
 * 4) "Alien" (Smith, Garrard) – 4:19
 * 5) "Angel in Disguise" (Garrard, Smith) – 4:29
 * 6) "Rollercoaster" (Smith, Garrard) – 3:46
 * 7) "Show Me Heaven" (Smith, Garrard) – 3:24
 * 8) "Take Me Away" (Smith, Garrard) – 3:22
 * 9) "Waiting for the Summer" (Smith, Garrard) – 3:24
 * 10) "Stealing Time" (Smith, Garrard) – 7:52

Bonus Disc (Live)

 * 1) "Deeper"
 * 2) "My Glorious"
 * 3) "Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble"
 * 4) "What a Friend I've Found"
 * 5) "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever"
 * 6) "There Is a Light"

CD-Rom Videos

 * "Take Me Away"
 * "Sanctify (Live @ Wembley)"
 * "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever"

Reception
That Touch is a virtual copy of Audio Lessonover deeply influenced how the album has been perceived.

John DiBiase reviewing for Jesus Freak Hideout stated that "Touch is a good project as a whole", however, he said that he has a "feeling that most of these tracks are already over a year old and were originally created for a previous project." He goes further saying that, even though "Touch is still a pretty solid effort", fans are advised to "seek out a copy of Audio Lessonover."

The Phantom Tollbooth website contains three reviews for this album. They probably express better the kind of ambiguity towards it, going from "consistently good" and "must-have for anyone's collection", to "U2 clone" with "its moments of mimicry" and "not the Delirious? that I fell in love with".

Fan based website Delirious.org.uk review is more positive, saying that even though it misses four songs from Audio Lessonover, it still "remains a strong album with moments of reflection, passion and unquestionable faith."

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Rex Ingram (actor)

 * For the film director, producer, writer and actor, see Rex Ingram (director) (1892–1950).

Rex Ingram (October 20, 1895 – September 19, 1969) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

Early life and career
Ingram was born near Cairo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River; his father was a steamer fireman on the riverboat Robert E. Lee. Ingram graduated from the Northwestern University medical school in 1919 and was the first African-American man to receive a Phi Beta Kappa key from Northwestern University. He went to Hollywood as a young man where he was literally discovered on a street corner by the casting director for Tarzan of the Apes (1918), starring Elmo Lincoln. He made his (uncredited) screen debut in that film and had many other small roles, usually as a generic black native, such as in the Tarzan films.

With the arrival of sound, his presence and powerful voice became an asset and he went on to memorable roles in The Green Pastures (1936), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (the 1939 MGM version, opposite Mickey Rooney), The Thief of Bagdad (1940—perhaps his best-known film appearance—as the genie), The Talk of the Town (1942), and Sahara (1943).

From 1929, he also appeared on stage, making his debut on Broadway. He appeared in more than a dozen Broadway productions, with his final role coming in Kwamina in 1961. He was in the original cast of Haiti (1938), Cabin in the Sky (1940), and St. Louis Woman (1946). He is one of the few actors to have played both God (in The Green Pastures) and the Devil (in Cabin in the Sky). In 1966 he played Tee-Tot in the movie Your Cheatin' Heart.

Ingram was arrested for violating the Mann Act in 1948. Pleading guilty to the charge of transporting a teenage girl to New York for immoral purposes, he was sentenced to eighteen months in jail. He served just ten months of his sentence, but the incident had a serious effect on his career for the next six years. In the interim, he invested in the Club Alabam, a famed nightclub located in the Dunbar Hotel in South Central Los Angeles, with partners Joe Morris and Clarence Moore, reopening it as a jazz club. In 1962, he became the first African-American actor to be hired for a contract role on a soap opera, when he appeared on The Brighter Day. He had other minor work in television in the 1960s, appearing in an episode each of I Spy and The Bill Cosby Show, both of which starred Bill Cosby, who used his influence to land him the roles.

Death
Two weeks after filming a guest spot on The Bill Cosby Show on September 5, 1969, Ingram died of a heart attack at the age of 73.

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Hi Rling, I recently recieved a photographic barnstar, and clicked on the barnstar to see who else had recieved the honor. I came across you and was wondering if you had a photo gallery where I could see some examples of your work. --Fir0002 11:49, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Wikimania competition
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animal underwater photo
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Seniors and myki
Been watching your oversight of the myki page. Good work.

Just wanted to comment on the Seniors myki card issue. What kendo 66 posted is true. Seniors haven't received their promised free cards yet. In my case, that's definitely original research, at a personal level. But it's hard to find an "acceptable" reference. I did find a couple of blog and forum mentions. It's that classic situation of trying to find a reference telling us that something hasn't happened. The media tends not to work that way.

Sometimes Wikipedia's rules can be a bit frustrating.

[I also appreciate that kendo 66 still has a bit to learn about editing here. Might stick something on his talk page.] HiLo48 (talk) 04:15, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

 * I understand what you're saying; but I don't feel there's much I can do about it. I will perhaps be happy to be a little less militant on the issue; if the info resurfaces I will perhaps settle with tagging it with a 'citation needed' and see if anyone can find anything. Jwoodger (talk) 04:49, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Declined CSD-G1 on Template talk:Book rationale
I removed the CSD-G1 on the above page because it just appeared screwed up because someone had vandalized the text. I removed the offending text so that it should now appear like a valid talk page for the template. Thanks--Mike Cline (talk) 14:40, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
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Your warning
Mind your own business. This is not your issue and you have no power over me. If I'm banned I come back again and again under a different IP address so you're wasting your time with your puerile threats. Go buy a pizza and watch a TV program instead. NiceOneCyril (talk) 23:02, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Yawn Jwoodger (talk) 23:03, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Just an FYI...
Per this rollback, you restored an article that had been blanked. I just happen to see it was a newly created article that was blanked by the author. As such, it would have been tagable as db-blanked: "This page may meet Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion as a page where the author of the only substantial content has requested deletion in good faith, either explicitly or by blanking the page. See CSD G7". Not saying you did anything wrong - just something to consider down the road. Thanks for all the positive contributions! Avicenna sis @ 07:25, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I felt that I may have been too hasty with that one as soon as I did it. Cheers for the advice :) Jwoodger (talk) 02:01, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting vandalism on my User page. -- Boing!   said Zebedee  11:50, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

The Last Remnant
It took eight minutes from announcing you would review the GAN to passing the article, which seems odd to me. For a proper review you have to look at/read the sources too, so please do this if you do another review. Thank you. Hekerui (talk) 08:51, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, sorry - that was because I neglected to place 'currently being reviewed' tag on the queue page until after I had gone through it (being my first review). My actual review took just over an hour, but I will remember to do this important part first in the future, cheers Jwoodger (talk) 22:06, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * In that case, apologies, I hope you weren't insulted by my suggestion. Hekerui (talk) 22:20, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * No of course not, just some more stuff for me to learn - cheers :) Jwoodger (talk) 23:32, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

GA Review of Paint Ball
Reviewer —  Nascar 1996  22:04, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

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The article I think is up to GA status, but few sections are not so I passed it. -- Nascar 1996  23:43, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
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Otto Salomon
Hey there. I noticed you made the above into a redirect. I believe that there is enough info/sources out there to make it into its own standalone article (two examples:, and plus all the other refs that can be found of him here: ). The redirect is fair (since it mentiones him in it) but I believe an article in the end would be best. I would do it but I am no expert and would not do as good a job as others. Cheers!Calaka (talk) 14:06, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately I am in the same boat as you in regards to not being an expert. Of course, there is no time limit on anything.  If someone decides to write an article about Salomon, then the page can be changed to be about him rather than just a redirect.  Cheers Jwoodger (talk) 08:46, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Paintball
This is still pending at Good Article Reassessment. The view i have expressed there is, if the existing references could be fixed, it would be a keep. There is still a heap of refs without publisher / website owner / accessdate etc info. I fixed a few. Any chance you could tackle the rest? Cheers. hamiltonstone (talk) 02:25, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Absolutely, no problem - cheers! :) Jwoodger (talk) 02:40, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Old Melbourne Gaol
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 * Well done, interesting article  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  07:09, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Introduction to mathematics of general relativity
Jwoodger, you nominated Introduction to mathematics of general relativity to move to Wikiversity. I have been working on rewriting it to actually be an introduction (rather than the math-pile it was when I started). I looked at Wikiversity's intro page, but I'm not really clear what the difference is. Could you clear up for me what exactly Wikiversity is and why you feel that article qualifies? Please post your response at the article's talk page in the section I created for this topic. (In the future, it's probably a good idea to post at the article's talk page when placing the tag.) Thank you, D O N D E groovily   Talk to me  05:05, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

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DocBook
Hi. I wrote a stub on Norman Walsh. Could you check that the facts are about right, as you seem to know something about DocBook history and related stuff? Specifically, I've seen him referred to as "creator of docbook" sometimes, but wasn't sure how correct that is. Thanks :) --Jonik 13:27, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi Jonik,
 * Thanks for your note. DocBook was actually created by a group of people, and Norm in fact was not one of them. He got involved with DocBook a little later in its history. That said, he has since definitely become the driving force behind it and should get much of the credit for its continued success. I will make some edits to the page to try to clarify his role as best as I can.

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Rex Ingram

Rex Ingram may refer to:

 * Rex Ingram (director) (1892–1950), Irish film director, producer, writer and actor
 * Rex Ingram (actor) (1895–1969), American film and stage actor

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YCC

YCC may refer to:

 * National Young Composers Challenge
 * Volvo YCC, a concept car from Volvo
 * YCbCr a family of colour spaces used in video systems
 * YCC, the IATA code for Cornwall Regional Airport
 * Y Chromosome Consortium, a geneticist team who work to standardize classification for human Y-DNA
 * Y Country Camp, a Jewish summer camp near Montreal
 * Yield curve control, a monetary policy action by a central bank
 * Yorkshire Coast College a further education college located over three sites in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
 * Young Comrades Club, founded 1927, the youth wing of the Communist Party of Australia
 * Young Critics Circle, an award-giving body for cinema in the Philippines
 * Youth Conservation Corps, a youth program of the U.S. National Park Service providing jobs and environmental education

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Linda Chavez

Linda Lou Chavez (born June 17, 1947) is an American author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the board of directors of two Fortune 500 companies: Pilgrim's Pride and ABM Industries. Chavez was the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan's White House, and was the first Latina ever nominated to the United States Cabinet, when President George W. Bush nominated her Secretary of Labor. She withdrew from consideration for the position when the media published allegations that she had employed an illegal immigrant a decade earlier. In 2000, Chavez was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress.

Early life and family
Chavez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the daughter of Velma Lucy (née McKenna) and Rudolfo Enrique Chavez, a tail gunner in World War II who worked as a house painter. She is of Neomexicana descent on her father's side. Her father was descended from immigrants to New Spain from Spain in the 1500s; his family had lived in the New Mexico area for several hundred years, his ancestor Diego de Montoya (born in Texcoco, New Spain, in 1596) was the leader of an encomienda, an enslaved protectorate of Puebloan peoples in Pueblo San Pedro in New Mexico. Another ancestor of Chavez is Mexican politician and general Manuel Armijo who served as governor of the Mexican territory of New Mexico, then as a general of the Mexican Army, surrendering to U.S. forces in the Mexican–American War. Her mother was of English and Irish ancestry. Chavez earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado in 1970. She attended graduate school at UCLA.

She is married to Christopher Gersten, former Bush Administration official, and is the mother of three adult sons, David, Pablo, and Rudy. She is a grandmother of nine and resides with her family in Boulder, Colorado. Chavez was raised Catholic and converted to Judaism on June 9, 1967, when marrying her husband. Chavez said in 1986 that she was never a practicing Jew, and that the conversion papers were signed simply to allow the wedding ceremony to take place. She said she was "an on-again, off-again practicing Catholic." Some of Chavez's distant paternal ancestors had been Conversos (Sephardic Jews who converted to Catholicism, usually under duress ).

Background with labor unions
Starting in 1975, Chavez was employed within the inner circles of the United States second largest teachers' union, the American Federation of Teachers, where she was responsible for editing that organization's publications. She was a confidante of Al Shanker, the AFT's president. While she believed in President Shanker's personal philosophy of trade unionism, she eventually came to feel that many in the organization were intent on moving the union in another direction after Shanker's inevitable departure. She later wrote that the more she learned about the goals of these newer union leaders, the less comfortable she felt in the organization. She left the AFT in 1983.

Career in Republican administrations
Chavez has held a number of appointed positions, among them White House Director of Public Liaison (1985), under President Ronald Reagan; Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1983–1985) appointed by President Reagan; and Chairman of the National Commission on Migrant Education (1988–1992) under President George H. W. Bush. Concurrently with some of these positions she served as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (1984–1986) under President Reagan.

In 1992, Chavez was elected by the United Nations Human Rights Commission to serve a four-year term as U.S. Expert to the U.N. Sub-commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. In August 1993, the sub-commission asked Chavez to study systematic rape, sexual slavery and slavery-like practices during wartime, including internal armed conflict. As Special Rapporteur, Chavez reported regularly for nearly four years to different sub-commission meetings. In May 1997, Chavez asked that the final report be finished and delivered by a colleague, and was granted permission to withdraw from the project. (On June 22, 1998, her successor, Gay McDougall, released the final version of "Contemporary Forms of Slavery".)

Chavez was the head of Governor George W. Bush's task force on immigration when he ran for president in 2000, and she later met with him on a number of occasions while he was president to discuss immigration reform.

Secretary of Labor nomination
In 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Chavez for Secretary of Labor. She was the first Hispanic woman nominated to a United States cabinet position.

However, she withdrew from consideration after it was revealed, through her neighbor Margaret "Peggy" Zwisler, that she had given money to Marta Mercado, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who lived in her home more than a decade earlier. Mercado was given room and board in Chavez's Bethesda home, in addition she was said by columnist Roger Simon to have been given "$100 to $150... every few weeks" for performing household chores for Chavez such as "vacuuming, laundry, cleaning and child care." Chavez withdrew as President Bush's nominee but stated she never felt pressure from Bush's political team to do so. Chavez has always maintained that she knew Mercado was in the United States illegally, stating "I think I always knew."

Run for U.S. Senate
In 1986, Chavez left her post as the highest ranking woman in Ronald Reagan's White House in an attempt to win the Senate seat in Maryland being vacated by retiring three-term liberal Republican Charles Mathias. She ran as a Republican against Democrat Barbara Mikulski. The election was the second time in modern U.S. history that two women faced each other in a statewide general election. The race was covered by national media, with observers noting that Chavez was very unlikely to win.

In the campaign, Chavez attacked Mikulski, a lifelong Baltimore resident, as a "San Francisco-style, George McGovern, liberal Democrat." Chavez was accused of making Mikulski's sexual orientation a central issue of the political campaign. Chavez wrote that the term referred to Jeane Kirkpatrick's 1984 Republican National Convention "Blame America First" speech, in which she coined the phrase "San Francisco Liberal" in reference to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. Using political advertisements and press conferences, Chavez attacked Mikulski's former aide Teresa Brennan as "anti-male" and a "radical feminist", a tactic that Victor Kamber observed to be implying that Brennan and Mikulski were radical lesbians, and that "fascist feminism" was Mikulski's political philosophy. Mikulski did not respond in kind to the barbs. She defeated Chavez with 61% of the vote.

Columnist and commentator
Beginning July 1, 1990, Chavez was paired with Bonnie Erbé in the "Our Turn" op-ed column syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. From opposing ideological viewpoints, the two columnists addressed topics of current interest, questions such as whether the glass ceiling was a myth, whether American women should serve in combat, and whether surrogate motherhood should be banned. In 1991, Erbé, Chavez and the "Our Turn" column were picked up by Creators Syndicate. They continued to field polarizing political questions related to women and gender such as whether men's clubs should continue to be allowed to exclude women.

Chavez published her first book, Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation, in 1991. She wrote that American Hispanics should not have followed the same path as African Americans, seeking compensation for discrimination via affirmative action. She wrote that Hispanics should assimilate themselves and use the English language in mainstream society.

Chavez quit PBS's To the Contrary after a May 12, 2000, incident when the host, Erbé, made the claim on air that, at her age, Chavez was more likely to be hit by lightning than raped. The comment was made during a discussion on gun control and whether it was necessary for Chavez to obtain a gun to defend herself against a potential rape. Chavez and Erbé argued on the opposite sides of the gun ownership issue. After an absence of more than seven years, Chavez returned to the program on January 18, 2008 and is listed as a panelist on its website.

In early January 2001 Chavez stopped writing her column because she was in consideration for the position of Secretary of Labor. After withdrawing under controversy, she resumed her affiliation with the syndicate. Richard Newcombe, president of Creators Syndicate, said that he thought the controversy and exposure would be good for Chavez's writing career.

Chavez is currently a syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate and a Fox News political commentator. She frequently appears on a number of national news programs, including The O'Reilly Factor, the Glenn Beck show, Hannity and Colmes, The Rush Limbaugh Show, Good Morning America, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and Fox and Friends. She has previously been a regularly panelist on The McLaughlin Group, Crossfire, and Eye on Washington. She has guest-hosted several shows, including Hannity and Colmes, sitting in for Sean Hannity, and To the Contrary, sitting in for Erbé.

Political action committees and non-profit foundations
In 1986, Chavez became president of U.S. English, a non-profit dedicated to establishing English as the official language of the United States. She resigned in 1988 following comments by co-founder John Tanton which she regarded as "anti-Hispanic" and "anti-Catholic".

Chavez is the founder and chairwoman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative think tank which focuses on three specific areas: affirmative action, immigration, and bilingual education. In 2007, the Washington Post reported that between 1997 and 2003, her salary from that foundation ranged from $125,000 to $136,000. In 2004, the last year for which records were available to the Post, she was paid $70,000; that year the foundation also paid her son David $83,000. From 1998 to 2001, her husband, Chris Gersten, was paid $64,000 a year from the Institute for Religious Values, another foundation she helped start. By comparison, between 2003 and 2006, the two foundations, plus two others founded by Chavez and her family, raised about $350,000 per year, combined. Chavez said that "I guess you could call it the family business."

The Post also reported that Chavez and her family, through political action committees they had created, including the Republican Issues Committee, the Latino Alliance, Stop Union Political Abuse, and the Pro-Life Campaign Committee had further family income. In 2001, the PACs paid Chavez's husband $77,000, her son Pablo $25,000, and her son David about $10,000. Then, from 2002 through 2006, the PACs paid Chavez and her family $261,000. The PACs raised $24.5 million from January 2003 to December 2006, with a total of $242,000 of that money being given to politicians.

According to campaign finance records, the Pro-Life Campaign Committee was fined $150,000 in May 2006 for failing to file accurate records with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). In 2006, Latino Alliance negotiated a $2,500 settlement with the FEC for filing incomplete records. In 2007, the Republican Issues Committee paid a $110,000 fine for failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions and expenditures.

In January 2008, Chavez and her husband said that they planned to shut down all of their PACs.

Affiliations
Chavez has been a Director of two Fortune 1000 companies, Pilgrim's Pride (to 2008) and ABM Industries. She is President of the Becoming American Institute. Pilgrim's Pride is the largest poultry producer in the United States, and ABM Industries is the 2nd largest property management company in the United States. Chavez is a past board member of Greyhound Lines as well as the Foundation for Teaching Economics.

Chavez sits on the Boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and was named to the advisory board of the Bruin Alumni Association.

Awards and recognitions
In 2000, Chavez was named a Library of Congress Living Legend.

Writings

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Hertfordshire County Council

Hertfordshire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Hertfordshire, in England. The council was created in 1889. It is responsible for a wide range of public services in the county, including social care, transport, education, and the Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. The Conservatives have held a majority of the seats on the council since 1999. The council is based at County Hall in Hertford.

History
Elected county councils were created under the Local Government Act 1888, taking over many administrative functions that had previously been performed by unelected magistrates at the quarter sessions.

The first elections were held in January 1889, and the council formally came into being on 1 April 1889, on which day it held its first meeting at Shire Hall, Hertford, the courthouse (built 1771) which had served as the meeting place of the quarter sessions which preceded the county council. The first chairman of the council was Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper, who was also a Liberal member of the House of Lords.

Local government across England and Wales was reformed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, establishing a system of upper-tier county councils and lower-tier district councils. The 1972 Act classed Hertfordshire as a non-metropolitan county, which determined the division of responsibilities between the county council and the ten district councils which were created in Hertfordshire.

Governance
The council provides county-level services. District-level services are provided by the county's ten district councils. Much of the county is also covered by civil parishes, which form a third tier of local government for their areas.

Political control
The council has been under Conservative majority control since 1999.

Political control of the county council since 1974 has been as follows:

Leadership
The leaders of the council since 1995 have been:

Composition
After the 2021 election and by-elections up to December 2023, the composition of the council was: The independent and Green councillors sit together as a group. The next election is due in 2025.

Premises
The council is based at County Hall on Pegs Lane in Hertford, lying to the south-west of the town centre. The building was completed in 1939; there was no opening ceremony due to the outbreak of the Second World War.

Elections
Elections are held every four years, interspersed by three years of elections to the ten district councils in the county. Since the last boundary changes in 2017, there have been 78 electoral divisions electing one councillor each.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nobski

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Nobski
Sex-related slang. Notable? Radiant! 11:52, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete. utcursch 13:04, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: recreated article Kappa 14:38, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sounds extremely spurious, and I cannot find any reference to the term anywhere else (except a wiki mirror).  HowardB 16:49, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: After quickly scanning the Google hits, the only web sites that even come close are the ones that are accessing Wikipedia's database. Zzyzx11 20:44, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable slang, possible hoax. Megan1967 00:31, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. ComCat 02:50, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Longhair 01:24, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism, possible hoax.   — Gwalla | Talk 01:52, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norli

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Norli
Non-existant animal. Mild BJAODN. Radiant! 11:53, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. utcursch 13:10, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Deleted. Joke, probably a private joke at someone's expense. Entire content Norli is an extremely vicious animal, living in the norwegian rainforests. It has sharp pointed teeth and a sharp tounge. This is partly the reason that its recruited to feminist militant actions. Thus beeing a sworn enemy of most men, idiots and great ones alike. CSD article case #1. Andrewa 18:28, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Ashrekar29091960

hello to all wikipedia fans.

its lovely, this modern day miracle called the internet, and particularly, wikipedia.

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The Discworld Companion

The Discworld Companion is an encyclopaedia of the Discworld fictional universe, created by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs. Four editions have been published, under varying titles.

The Companion contains precise definitions of words, people, places and events that have appeared in at least one Discworld novel, map, diary or non-fiction book, or in one of the three short stories "Troll Bridge", "Theatre of Cruelty", and "The Sea and Little Fishes". Material is often quoted directly from these sources, but, in each successive edition, also includes information that had not yet been worked into the novels. For instance, William de Worde is mentioned in the first edition of the Companion six years before the publication of The Truth, the novel in which he is introduced. At the end of each article is an abbreviation indicating the book(s) in which the word, person, event or place appears, though if there are too many, no abbreviation is used. The book includes an introduction by Stephen Briggs and an interview with Terry Pratchett, both of which have been updated in each edition.

The first edition, published in 1994, contained information from all the novels up to Soul Music as well as the first two short stories. The second edition, published in 1997, added information up to Maskerade. The third edition was published in 2003 under the title The New Discworld Companion. It contains articles based on books up to Night Watch, as well as related books and short stories. The book also contains a ten-page interview with Pratchett under the heading "Discworld Quo Vadis?".

An updated edition of the Companion, published on 18 October 2012, was called Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion ... So Far and included information from all the novels up to and including Snuff.

In March 2021 a new edition, rumoured to be titled "The Absolute Discworld Companion", was listed for pre-order at several book stores; this was later confirmed as The Ultimate Discworld Companion, which is to be published on 11 November 2021 and is updated to include information from all forty-one Discworld novels. On 16 September 2021, Dunmanifestin Ltd announced a deluxe hardcover "Dunmanifestin Edition" to be published on 23 April 2022 which also includes additional information drawn from The Science of Discworld books.

Publication history

 * Hardcover
 * trade paperback
 * Paperback
 * Paperback, US edition
 * Trade paperback, 544 pp.
 * Trade paperback, 280 pp. Omits "Where Am I?"
 * Paperback, 472 pp.
 * Hardcover
 * Hardcover, US edition, 464 pp.
 * Hardcover, UK edition, 448 pp.
 * Trade Paperback, UK edition, 448 pp.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/North Philadelphia Aztecs

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North Philadelphia Aztecs
The North Philadelphia Youth Association has supported this youth football and cheerleading program. That doesn't sound particularly notable, every school has such a program. Radiant! 11:56, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Good for them. Delete Johntex 20:25, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, trivial, promo. Megan1967 22:47, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northstar (demogroup)

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Northstar (demogroup)
While I have actually heard of them, I hold the opinion that demo groups aren't particularly notable. What is the consensus on this? Radiant! 11:58, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * A very valid question: Where do vintage-era demoscene groups fit into our community's notion of "notability"? Does this article offer any potential value to our readers, and does that value outweigh the costs of diskspace and hosting on our servers?  A narrowed down search of "Northstar +Sweden +demo" returns about 1070 google hits, most of which are relevant.    Is google a fair metric when taking into consideration that this group lived and died years before a time when demoscene groups used the internet?  Where does "the bar" lie for these organizations, and do the same rules apply to those who existed during the mid to late 1980s?  No vote. GRider\talk 17:46, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Indeed a valid question. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but a 'demo' as released by a demoscene is basically a piece of vanity - pretty pictures, music and/or special effects combined with a list of names and greetz. Quite frankly making such a demo is easy for any competent programmer, and therefore not notable. I do believe the demoscene originated in the pre-internet days, where they were part of the hacker/warez/courier scene, and served to promote one warez group over another. Several well-known names come to mind from the early PC scene, or MSX or C64 (BH Legend, Razor 1911 and TRSI, to name a few). Also note that these demos were often marvels of graphical efficiency in barely a kilobyte of assembly code. I would like some feedback and discussion on this matter, but I tend towards the opinion that the 'early' demoscene is notable, whereas the 'current' demoscene is not. Radiant! 22:21, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Well then by your own standard Northstar should be kept as they are old skool (1980s).  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 08:07, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Does that mean you concur with my standard? And note that I haven't voted yet. Radiant! 10:05, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * On some level yes, Old skool demo groups (definate keep), New skool demo groups (award winners; those with an established presence; those that have a high google count; those mentioned in a mainstream press form eg. radio, tv, newspaper, magazine, etc...) that covers most of my noteability grounds. I do reserve the right to add to that :P  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 10:18, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, but at least we have established a bit of consensus here, which was the main point of this nomination. Keep. Radiant! 11:03, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non notable. --Woohookitty 19:21, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but with reservations. Article needs cleanup and expansion. Megan1967 00:29, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the myopia shown by the average deletionist tells me i'm in the wrong profession. How much does it take to go thru optometry school? does anyone know? Its a noteworthy group period.  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 08:07, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * An ad hominem doesn't substantiate anything. Radiant! 10:05, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Its not ad hominem, its against a group not an individual for one, and for another i'm not specifically targetting you. I feel alot of the content of VfD falls under the "I've never heard of it so its not noteable" fallacy.  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 10:22, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This oldskool Swedish demogroup is inherently noteworthy and has also cooperated with the legendary likes of Fairlight and The Silents.  The article admittedly does need revision, but such that's what Wikipedia is made for.    —RaD Man (talk) 09:34, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agree with both RaD Man and Alkivar's comments. --Andylkl 11:44, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * "and does that value outweigh the costs of diskspace and hosting on our servers?" - What costs? Keep. Dan100 19:40, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * keep Yuckfoo 04:13, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Votes made without explanation are subject to being discounted or even ignored by the deciding admin. Please explain your vote even if you think it is obvious.  Rossami (talk)

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Castor River (Ontario)

The Castor River is a river in eastern Ontario, in Canada. It flows from Russell, Ontario into the South Nation River near Casselman. It has a number of branches, including the North, Middle, South and East Castor Rivers which join in Embrun. The river was named for the many beaver dams found in its watershed; "castor" means "beaver" in French.

Communities

 * Russell
 * Embrun
 * Forest Park
 * Kenmore

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Proper orthogonal decomposition

The proper orthogonal decomposition is a numerical method that enables a reduction in the complexity of computer intensive simulations such as computational fluid dynamics and structural analysis (like crash simulations). Typically in fluid dynamics and turbulences analysis, it is used to replace the Navier–Stokes equations by simpler models to solve.

It belongs to a class of algorithms called model order reduction (or in short model reduction). What it essentially does is to train a model based on simulation data. To this extent, it can be associated with the field of machine learning.

POD and PCA
The main use of POD is to decompose a physical field (like pressure, temperature in fluid dynamics or stress and deformation in structural analysis), depending on the different variables that influence its physical behaviors. As its name hints, it's operating an Orthogonal Decomposition along with the Principal Components of the field. As such it is assimilated with the principal component analysis from Pearson in the field of statistics, or the singular value decomposition in linear algebra because it refers to eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a physical field. In those domains, it is associated with the research of Karhunen and Loève, and their Karhunen–Loève theorem.

Mathematical expression
The first idea behind the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), as it was originally formulated in the domain of fluid dynamics to analyze turbulences, is to decompose a random vector field u(x, t) into a set of deterministic spatial functions Φk(x) modulated by random time coefficients ak(t) so that:

 * $$u(x,t)=\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_k (t) \phi_k(x)$$

The first step is to sample the vector field over a period of time in what we call snapshots (as display in the image of the POD snapshots). This snapshot method is averaging the samples over the space dimension n, and correlating them with each other along the time samples p:

 * $$U = \begin{pmatrix} u(x_1,t_1) & \cdots & u(x_n,t_1)\\ \vdots &  & \vdots \\ u(x_1,t_p) & \cdots &  u(x_n,t_p) \end{pmatrix}$$ with n spatial elements, and p time samples

The next step is to compute the covariance matrix C

 * $$C = \frac{1}{(p-1)} U^T U$$Mor-diagram.png

We then compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of C and we order them from the largest eigenvalue to the smallest.

We obtain n eigenvalues λ1,...,λn and a set of n eigenvectors arranged as columns in an n × n matrix Φ:

 * $$\phi = \begin{pmatrix} \phi_{1,1} & \cdots & \phi_{1,n} \\ \vdots & & \vdots \\ \phi_{n,1} & \cdots & \phi_{n,n} \end{pmatrix}$$

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nucleus olivaris

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Nucleus olivaris
This is entirely written in medical lingo. Could someone who understands this please explain if this is 1)valid, 2)dicdef, or 3)nonsensical? Radiant! 11:59, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Keep it's real, but somewhat poorly written. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  12:18, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Move to Olivary nucleus for sure, as that is its common name (even in medicine). 23,000 hits on exact phrase "olivary nucleus" versus less than a thousand for "nucleus olivaris." I don't know if the description is valid. The fact that the term is so formal and the article so technical, from an anon who under that IP has no other medical contributions, is very odd. I have to wonder whether this is a copyvio. However, the only exact text match Google finds is from which got it from Wikipedia.
 * Keep, mark as stub, mark for cleanup, move to Olivary nucleus.  Dpbsmith (talk) 14:24, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Olivary nucleus, mark as stub and for cleanup I concur. Zzyzx11 20:46, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Olivary nucleus, cleanup and expand. @ Megan1967 22:55, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Move. The title of the article should be spelled "nucleus olivarius" but the Anglicized name, as other have mentioned as a redirect target, is Olivary nucleus.  That is fine for a redirect, but instead I propose that it redirect to Olivary body which will contain information about its component, the olivary nucleus.  I will begin work on the olivary body article. —Brim 06:15, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Greenlandic

danish
how is the danish language in greenland different from the danish language in denmark?

I don't know and i'd like to find out
 * I guess they're dialects, or broken variants. If it's Danish with a Greenlandic accent, it would likely sound rather peculiar. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 01:38, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

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