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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Helene Rask

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. - Mailer Diablo 16:57, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Helene Rask
Vanity page of a Norewgian topless model wanting to be a singer. Non-notable.
 * Weak keep. Apparently hasn't hit it big in the US yet, but is pretty notable in Europe from what I can google. RasputinAXP   talk  *  contribs  12:55, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Five front pages in Vi Menn (Reference from Dagbladet, for those who can read Scandinavian, a magazine that sells in the region of 100,000 with 600,000 readers in Norway. Borderline notable, might not even be vanity. Sam Vimes 14:10, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Sam Vimes. Good research. Doesn't read like vanity, either. Meelar (talk) 14:30, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep As Rasputin says. Trollderella 15:34, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep She's just had a big publicity boost; last Wednesday a love-sick police officer was convicted of threatening her with a gun she got the tabloid front pages (with clothes on, that is). For those who read Scandinavian: . Cnyborg 02:27, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I originally suggested the Delete, and I'm sticking with it for several reasons: First of all, Wikipedia is going to list a lot of porn/nude models if we go by the Google count, whether they have an ambition to become "artists" or "actors" or not? Second, the Google count - which is probably high for any nude model - is boosted by her boy friend holding a gun to her head. Still doesn't make her notable. Three, the fact that she has posed for a Norwegian girlie magazine or appears in a Norwegian tabloid hardly makes her noteworthy. What's next? All the Sun's Page 8 girls? Asav
 * Keep as per Sam Vimes, does not appear to be a vanity article. Hall Monitor 21:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

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Japanese School in Seoul

The Japanese School in Seoul (ソウル日本人学校, Souru Nihonjin Gakkō, 서울일본인학교) is a Japanese international school located in the Sangam-dong neighborhood of Mapo District, Seoul, for the children of Japanese citizens residing in South Korea.

The Japanese School in Seoul was established on May 8, 1972, with a total of 33 kindergarten and primary school students. In 2005, it had grown to 403 students at kindergarten, primary and middle school levels. The Japanese School in Seoul is recognized by Japan's Ministry of Education as teaching a curriculum equivalent to schools for the same ages in Japan.

The Japanese School in Seoul moved to its current location in Digital Media City (DMC) in Mapo on September 27, 2010, from its former location in the Gaepo-dong neighborhood of Gangnam District.

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Feel free to add a source for this. Vandalising my user page won't help you, particularly when there are zero Google hits for "Bunselmeyer number" beyond the page you're created. Cheers. Hairhorn (talk) 00:28, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

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2003 American League Division Series

The 2003 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 2003 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, September 30, and ended on Monday, October 6, with the champions of the three AL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:

 * (1) New York Yankees (Eastern Division champion, 101–61) vs. (3) Minnesota Twins (Central Division champion, 90–72): Yankees win series, 3–1.
 * (2) Oakland Athletics (Western Division champion, 96–66) vs. (4) Boston Red Sox (Wild Card, 95–67): Red Sox win series, 3–2.

The Yankees defeated the Red Sox in the AL Championship Series, then lost the 2003 World Series to the National League champion Florida Marlins.

Game 1
Yankee Stadium (I) in Bronx, New York

The Twins struck first in Game 1 when Cristian Guzman and Shannon Stewart hit back-to-back one-out singles in the third off Mike Mussina, then the former scored on Luis Rivas's sacrifice fly. Matt LeCroy singled to lead off the sixth, then scored on a triple by Torii Hunter, who himself scored on Yankees second baseman Alfonso Soriano's error. The Yankees scored a run in the ninth on Soriano's two-out single with runners on second and third off Eddie Guardado, but Nick Johnson then grounded out to end the game as the Twins, despite using five pitchers, took a 1–0 series lead.

Game 2
Yankee Stadium (I) in Bronx, New York

The Yankees loaded the bases with no outs on three singles in the first off Brad Radke, but scored just once on Bernie Williams's sacrifice fly. The Twins tied the game in the fifth on Torii Hunter's leadoff home run off Andy Pettitte. Radke hit Nick Johnson to lead off the seventh. After Juan Rivera's sacrifice bunt, LaTroy Hawkins relieved Radke and allowed an RBI single to Alfonso Soriano. Hawkins's error on Derek Jeter's ground ball put him at second and Soriano at third. Both scored on Jason Giambi's single and Mariano Rivera pitched two perfect innings for the save. The Yankees' 4–1 win tied the series heading to Minnesota.

Game 3
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Yankees struck first in Game 3 on Hideki Matsui's two-run home run in the second off Kyle Lohse. They added another run next inning on Bernie Williams's single that scored Juan Rivera from second. A. J. Pierzynski's leadoff home run in the bottom of the inning off Roger Clemens cut the lead to 3–1, but neither team scored after that with Mariano Rivera again pitching two perfect innings for a save as the Yankees took a 2–1 series lead.

Game 4
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota

In the fourth, Jason Giambi doubled with one out, then scored on Bernie Williams's double. After Jorge Posada singled, Hideki Matsui's ground-rule double scored Williams. Aaron Boone popped out before Juan Rivera was intentionally walked to load the bases. Nick Johnson's double scored two more and knocked Johan Santana out of the game. Juan Rincon in relief allowed a two-run single to Alfonso Soriano, then walked Derek Jeter and Giambi to load the bases again. Eric Milton relieved Rincon and got Williams to ground out to end the inning. The Twins got on the board in the bottom of the inning on three consecutive singles off David Wells, the last of which by Michael Cuddyer scored Torii Hunter, but could not score again off Wells or Gabe White. The Yankees added a run in the eighth off LaTroy Hawkins when Boone hit a lead off single, stole second and scored on Juan Rivera's bunt single that was misplayed by Hawkins. Jeter's home run in the ninth off Eddie Guardado put the Yankees up 8–1 as they secured their place in the American League Championship Series with a blowout win.

Composite box
2003 ALDS (3–1): New York Yankees over Minnesota Twins

Game 1
Network Associates Coliseum in Oakland, California

The Red Sox went up 1–0 in the first on Todd Walker's two-out home run off Tim Hudson, but in the third, Erubiel Durazo drove in two runs with a double off Pedro Martinez before Durazo himself scored on a single from Miguel Tejada, who was tagged out at second to end the inning. The Red Sox cut the Athletics' lead to 3–2 in the fifth on Jason Varitek's home run. In the seventh, Hudson allowed a two-out single to Nomar Garciaparra and was relieved by Ricardo Rincon, who allowed a home run to Walker to put the Red Sox up 4–3. In the ninth, Byung-hyun Kim walked Billy McMillon, then hit Chris Singleton with a pitch. After Mark Ellis struck out for the second out, Alan Embree relieved Kim and allowed a game-tying RBI single to Durazo, sending the game into extra innings. Oakland won it in the 12th when catcher Ramón Hernández laid down a two-out, bases-loaded bunt single off Derek Lowe, scoring Eric Chavez from third base. This was Oakland's ninth consecutive playoff win over Boston in the wake of ALCS sweeps in 1988 and 1990, breaking the record for consecutive playoff wins against one team set by the New York Yankees against the Chicago Cubs with World Series sweeps in 1932 and 1938. Incidentally, the Yankees nearly got a chance to extend that streak the same year.

Game 2
Network Associates Coliseum in Oakland, California

The Athletics won Game 2 with a five-run outburst in the second inning off Tim Wakefield. Jose Guillen walked with one out, moved to second on a passed ball, and scored on Ramón Hernández's single. After Jermaine Dye was hit by a pitch, Eric Byrnes's double scored both runners. After a walk and ground out, Todd Walker's errant throw to first on Eric Chavez's ground ball scored two more runs. The Red Sox scored their only run of the game in the third on back-to-back doubles by Doug Mirabelli and Johnny Damon off Barry Zito. The Athletics were one win away from a trip to the ALCS.

Game 3
Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts

In Game 3, three errors in the second allowed the Red Sox to go up 1–0 on Damian Jackson's fielder's choice. The Athletics had a potential rally stifled by controversial outs. Eric Byrnes was tagged out after failing to touch home plate after a collision with catcher Jason Varitek. Miguel Tejada was similarly retired after being obstructed by Bill Mueller while rounding third base. Obstruction was called by umpire Tim Welke. However time was not called by the umpire and Tejada stopped running thus giving the Red Sox time to tag him. The one run scored in the inning sent the game into extra innings, where Boston won on a two-run walk-off home run by Trot Nixon off Rich Harden. This loss ended Oakland's playoff-record winning streak against the Red Sox at ten games, a record the Red Sox themselves would break in 2008 when they won their 11th consecutive playoff game against the Angels.

Game 4
Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts

After Oakland starter Tim Hudson left with a strained left oblique after only one inning, the A's bullpen held the Sox to only three runs over the next seven innings. The Athletics went up 1–0 in the second on Jermaine Dye's bases loaded RBI single off John Burkett, but Johnny Damon's two-run home run after a walk in the third off Steve Sparks put the Red Sox up 2–1. In the sixth, Burkett allowed a leadoff single to Scott Hatteberg, who scored on Adam Melhuse's triple one out later, then Dye's home run put the Athletics up 4–2. Todd Walker's home run in the bottom of the inning off Ricardo Rincon cut the lead to 4–3. In the eighth, closer Keith Foulke allowed a one-out double to Nomar Garciaparra, then a two-out single to Manny Ramirez before both scored on David Ortiz's double. Scott Williamson earned the win with two shutout innings to close as the Red Sox's 5–4 win forced a Game 5 in Oakland.

Game 5
Network Associates Coliseum in Oakland, California

The Athletics struck first in Game 5 in the fourth off Pedro Martinez when Scott Hatteberg walked with two outs and scored on Jose Guillen's double, but Jason Varitek's lead-off home run in the sixth tied the game off Barry Zito. Following a walk and hit-by-pitch, Manny Ramirez's three-run home run put the Red Sox up 4–1. The Athletics cut it to 4–2 in the bottom of the inning when Erubiel Durazo doubled with one out and scored on Miguel Tejada's double one out later. They cut it to 4–3 when Chris Singleton hit a leadoff double off Martinez and scored on Billy McMillon's single in the eighth. The A's loaded the bases on three walks in the ninth inning, but temporary closer Derek Lowe struck out Terrence Long looking to end the game. The win was marred by a violent collision between outfielder Johnny Damon and second baseman Damian Jackson. Damon was sent to the hospital where he was diagnosed with a concussion. Boston's victory secured their place in the American League Championship Series while Oakland lost the ALDS after being up two games to none for the second time in three years.

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2003 ALDS (3–2): Boston Red Sox over Oakland Athletics

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Petra Schersing

Petra Schersing ( Müller, born 18 October 1965 in Quedlinburg) is a retired East German sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres. She represented sports club SC Chemie Halle and was coached by Harold Werner. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, she won a silver medal in the 400 metres and a bronze medal in the 4×400 metres relay.

Biography
As Petra Muller, she first achieved international recognition, when she became the 1983 European Junior Champion at 400 metres. She also won a gold medal in the 4 × 400 m relay.

In 1986, at the European Indoor Championships, she won a silver medal behind teammate Sabine Busch. Later that year at the European Championships in Stuttgart, she won a bronze medal in the individual 400 metres and a gold medal in the relay, with teammates Kirsten Emmelmann, Sabine Busch and Marita Koch.

At the 1987 World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis, she surprisingly failed to reach the final. At the 1987 World Championships in Rome she won a silver medal in the 400 m behind Olga Bryzgina as well as another relay gold medal alongside Dagmar Neubauer, Emmelmann and Busch.

Muller won her biggest individual title in 1988, when she became the European Indoor Champion in 50.28 secs, which at the time ranked her fourth on the indoor all-time list. At the 1988 Olympics she won the silver medal in the 400 m, between Soviets Olga Bryzgina (gold) and Olga Nazarova (bronze). She also won the bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay, with teammates Neubauer, Emmelmann and Busch.

In 1990, now competing as Petra Schersing, she won a silver medal at the European Championships in Split, finishing behind her teenage teammate Grit Breuer and won a gold medal in the relay, with new teammates Manuela Derr, Annett Hesselbarth and Breuer.

Schersing's personal best time in the 400 metres is 49.30 seconds, achieved in June 1988 in Jena, which at that time placed her tenth on the all-time list. She won the East German National 400 m title three times (1986–1988) and twice won the East German indoor 400 m title (1986, 1988).

As of 2013, Schersing's Outdoor best (49.30) is 21st on the World all-time list and third on the German all-time list, only behind Marita Koch and Sabine Busch., while her indoor best (50.28) is tenth on the World indoor all-time list and second on the German indoor all-time list, behind Sabine Busch.

In October 1988, she married fellow Olympic sprinter Mathias Schersing.

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Musgrave Group

Musgrave Group Ltd. is an Irish food wholesaler, founded in Cork by the Musgrave brothers, Thomas and Stuart in 1876. It is currently Ireland's largest grocery distributor, with operations in Ireland and Spain with estimated annual sales of over €4 billion. The current CEO (as of 2019) is Noel Keeley. Today, the company is still largely-owned by the Musgrave family.

Divisions
The overall business is currently made up of four divisions:

 * Musgrave Group is the controlling company of Musgrave, headquartered at Ballycurreen, County Cork, Ireland.
 * Musgrave Retail Partners Ireland operates, mostly on a symbol group model, the Centra and SuperValu supermarkets in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and the Mace brand in Northern Ireland. This division is headquartered at the Tramore Road in Cork. This is also the site of one of three distribution centres, the others being in Kilcock, County Kildare and one in Belfast to service Northern Ireland. They closed a centre in Galway in 2010.
 * Musgrave Wholesale Partners operates the Musgrave MarketPlace cash and carries, Daybreak convenience shops, Day-Today & XL Stop and Shop (Northern Ireland only) convenience shops and Musgrave Foodservices. This division is headquartered at Ballymun, Dublin. There are Marketplace sites in Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Galway, Ballymun, Dun Laoighaire and Clondalkin in the Republic of Ireland. There are also three Marketplace branches in Northern Ireland in Belfast, Derry and Lurgan.
 * Musgrave Retail Partners España operates from a base in Elche in south-east of Spain, and operates Dialsur, and a Cash & Carry chain.

The small Donnybrook Fair chain of premium supermarkets was bought in 2018 but is not expected to be integrated with the existing brands.

Former divisions

 * Musgrave Operating Partners Ireland operated the Superquinn chain from July 2011 until 13 February 2014, when all stores became SuperValu.
 * Musgrave Retail Partners GB operated the Londis stores and Budgens supermarkets in the United Kingdom until it was sold to Booker Group in 2015.

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Shiraz rug

A Shiraz carpet is a type of Persian rug made in the villages around the city of Shiraz, in the Iranian province of Fars.

Designs tend to come from settled tribal weavers so they mimic Qashqai, Khamseh (Basseri and Khamseh Arabs), Afshar, Abadeh and Luri designs. Since the weavers are using fixed looms the rugs tend to be larger and often coarser than their tribal counterparts. Shiraz rugs are not often very finely knotted, with both Qashqai and Abadeh both having a finer knot. Shiraz utilizes the Persian (asymmetrical) knot. Some pieces feature Cyrus' white horse. The Shiraz carpet is the only rug to depict nightingales, which are shown as angular-shaped birds. These birds are said to symbolise contentment and happiness.

The rugs of the Basseri tribe, one of the Persian tribes of the Fars province, are famous for their colorful designs. Orange is the specific color of Basseri rugs.

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The Purple Prince of Oz

The Purple Prince of Oz (1932) is a children's novel, the 26th book in the Oz series created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the 12th written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill. The novel was followed by Ojo in Oz (1933).

While visiting the neighboring kingdom of Pumperdink (incognito), Prince Randy of Regalia criticizes the king's grapes, claiming they are sour. Randy is sentenced to be "dipped" in a purple well, but Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant, makes him his attendant instead. Later, the royal family of Pumperdink gets enchanted by an evil fairy, and Randy and Kabumpo must escape and save the day, with the help of the Red Jinn. At the same time, Randy must earn his crown as Prince of Regalia, by accomplishing the seven challenging tasks required by the law of Regalia.

This is the first of Thompson's Oz books to carry the entire story (except for a bit at the very end) on characters of her own creation. The unpredictable, hot-tempered Jinnicky the Red Jinn from Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz returns as a much more pleasant companion to Randy, and soon becomes a popular character.

The Silver Princess in Oz is a direct sequel to this book, reuniting readers with Randy, Kabumpo, and Jinnicky.

Reception
The Spokane Chronicle wrote, "The new Oz book is brim full of adventure and fun and about the sort of people one can't forget." The Boston Globe agreed, "There are more odd incidents and characters and animals than you can think of to make the book fascinating." The Nashville Banner said, "The story deals with magic of a highly dangerous quality, which of course makes it all the more exciting."

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García

García or Garcia may refer to:

People

 * García (surname)
 * Kings of Pamplona/Navarre
 * García Íñiguez of Pamplona, king of Pamplona 851/2–882
 * García Sánchez I of Pamplona, king of Pamplona 931–970
 * García Sánchez II of Pamplona, king of Pamplona 994–1004
 * García Sánchez III of Navarre, king of Navarre 1035–1054
 * García Ramírez of Navarre, king of Navarre 1134–1150
 * Kings of León/Galicia
 * García I of León
 * García II of Galicia

Places

 * Garcia, Tarragona, a municipality in Ribera d'Ebre, Spain
 * García, Nuevo León, a municipality in Mexico
 * Garcia, Colorado, an unincorporated town in the United States

Entertainment

 * Los tres García (The Three Garcias), Mexican film from the Golden Age of cinema

Television

 * Los Garcia (The Garcias), Puerto Rican television comedy show the 1970s
 * The Garcias, American television series
 * ¡García!, Spanish television series

Music

 * Garcia (album), an album by Jerry Garcia
 * Garcia (band), a German Eurodance project

Military

 * USS Garcia (FF-1040), U.S. Navy frigate
 * Garcia-class frigate, of the U.S. Navy

Other uses

 * Garcia (plant), a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae
 * Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, a US Supreme Court case

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Category talk:Monoamine reuptake inhibitors

In case you are wondering, this phrase got 150 distinct hits on Google out of 777 hits total, including the United States Army School of Aviation Medicine (PDF), The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, two hits on Pubmed and  and this Pubmed search...you get the idea.Rmky87 03:30, 19 August 2005 (UTC)


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Test theory

In experimental physics, a test theory tells experimenters how to perform particular comparisons between specific theories or classes of theory.

Without a good reference test theory, these experiments can be difficult to construct. Different theories often define relationships and parameters in different, often incompatible, ways. Sometimes, physical theories and models that nominally produce significantly diverging predictions can be found to produce very similar, even identical, predictions, once definitional differences are taken into account.

A good test theory should identify potential sources of definitional bias in the way that experiments are constructed. It should also be able to deal with a wide range of possible objections to experimental tests based upon it. Discovery that a test theory has serious omissions can undermine the validity of experimental work that is designed according to that theory.

Examples
Parameterized post-Newtonian formalism is used to compare theories of gravity.

Test theories of special relativity are useful when designing experiments to look for possible violations of Poincare symmetry.

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Talk:Drunk Kid Catholic

This article was proposed for a move from 3 New Hit Songs From Bright Eyes to 3 New Hit Songs but I moved it to Drunk Kid Catholic (see below). Then I removed the move template. I can't see any discussion at requested moves. RJFJR 21:59, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

According to Amazon.com Drunk Kid Catholic (CD-SINGLE) the title of this album is not "3 new hit songs" but rather "Drunk Kid Catholic" (the same as the first track). Therefore I moved it there, before seeing the discussion here. Also, Amazon.com says it was released in May 2001 not in 200.

The title of this release is "3 New Hit Songs From Bright Eyes". It says this on the front. It says this on the spine. It says this on the actual CD. "Drunk Kid Catholic" is merely the first track. Amazon.com is not a reliable source for information. The actual product itself is. Random Guy 92.22.214.242 (talk) 05:02, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

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Louis Metcalf

Louis Metcalf (February 28, 1905 - October 27, 1981) was an American jazz trumpeter who played for a short time with Duke Ellington.

Early life
Metcalf was born in Webster Groves, Missouri, United States. As a youth he first trained on the drums but switched over to cornet permanently. As a teenager in St. Louis, Missouri he played with Charlie Creath.

Career
Metcalf moved to New York City in 1923 and participated in the fertile jazz scene there, playing with such musicians as Willie "The Lion" Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, Benny Carter and King Oliver. In 1926, Duke Ellington hired Metcalf to play in his seminal orchestra, where his mellow tone contrasted with Bubber Miley's. In the 1930s, Metcalf led his own bands and joined Fletcher Henderson's.

In 1946, Metcalf moved to Montreal, Canada, and formed the International Band, the first to play the nascent bebop style in Canada. Under his leadership the Café Saint-Michel was the hub of the jazz scene in Montreal for a few years, with local musicians such as the young Oscar Peterson and visiting Americans such as Art Pepper, Fats Navarro and Sonny Rollins sitting in with the band.

A drug bust prompted Metcalf to return to New York City in 1951. He released an album entitled I've Got The Peace Brother Blues in 1966, where he demonstrated that his style had indeed evolved since his days with Ellington.

Death
Metcalf was less active after falling ill in 1968 and died in 1981. Metcalf was survived by his wife, Shirley Metcalf, and his children, Louis Metcalf, Charles Metcalf, Jay Metcalf, Patrick Metcalf, and Savannah Metcalf.

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Talk:Nuclear power phase-out/Archive 1

Original article
It is disappointing to see such a politically-biased article as this in an encyclopedia. Simesa 12:04, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

 * The article is indeed biased. -- Ec5618 16:30, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * Then, why don't you make it unbiased? It's a new article after all if you know what it means, smart guys. Ben T/C 04:29, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for correcting my English and for your efforts to discuss the arguments against the phase-out. I didn't think it was extemely biased, it was maybe short in arguments. I think that's ok now and I removed the tag. Ben T/C 05:34, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * I believe Wikiettiqute is that the NPOV sticker should be removed by Ec5618.
 * I find the line "The gradual closing down of nuclear power plants has been bought with concessions in questions of safety" to be highly suspect. I'd want to see a citation of who said that.
 * Simesa 06:20, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

 * So, do you think it's a dubious argument or it is dubious somebody has said it? I think it is maybe a dubious argument, but it is easily understood in context. Maybe you look again. I made it easier. Ben T/C 07:15, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * As for the NPOV tag, it is practice to state reasons for inserting it before putting it. After relevant changes have been made and approved of it can be removed. That's the procedure. Ec5618 just jumped the point where you state the points in question, i.e. without the discussion. So, I found it appropriate after changing the whole article, to remove it - without discussion.
 * Oh, and as for etiquette, keep it in mind and read your first statement again. Maybe you learn something. Ben T/C 07:20, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * The question is WHO said it - Wikipedia doesn't quote anonymous sources. Especially since, by the Director of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety says exactly the opposite.
 * I agree with Ec5618 that the article still isn't NPOV, so I'm changing the article.
 * Simesa 07:53, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

 * If you would have read the section, you might have noticed that the people who criticize the phase-out and the minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety aren't exactly the same people. In fact they are different people (surprise). So it is not accidental that they might have diverging opinions. What is your point, the minister states the opposite, so what, other people can't have other opinions? Help me to figure out what you tried to say. Ben T/C 08:01, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * The point is we have an anonymous accusation which at least one knowledgeable source has said is unfounded. Please provide a cite (in German will do) stating WHO claims safety was compromised - I wasn't able to find one in English.  Simesa 12:20, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Please note that not everybody is a former nuclear engineer like Simesa (Some people are sons of former nuclear engineers, like me). It doesn't make me wonder that nuclear engineers (even if retired or fired) are (unusually) supportive of nuclear energy. Simesa, if you don't agree with an article, please don't just allege original research without having reasons. Please do it only if you can give exact reasons for why you think an article might be considered original research. It might be also useful next time, to point out what exactly you mean when you state an article is "politically-biased." Ben T/C 10:04, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * If the average reader can tell what the editor(s)'s point-of-view was by reading the article, it's probably not NPOV. Articles are not "for opponents" although they may be about "opponents".

 * I'm not sure what original research you're referring to. If you mean the paragraph beginning "Proponents of nuclear power state...", that came from nuclear power, Economy section.

 * I don't think of myself as being unusually supportive in articles, just as accurate while not being unusually critical. Accuracy with balance should be the goal of an encyclopedia.

 * BTW - I am not retired nor was I fired. Simesa 12:20, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I am not referring to original research. I simply repeated what you stated at the beginning of the section with the heading "original article" and continued by "It is disappointing to see such a politically-biased article as this in an encyclopedia." You could read the policy on original research. This here clearly does not fall into that category.
 * It is in the interest of everybody that articles are balanced. That's why many people should work together on an article. But, they should try at least not state an article is disappointing when the article is just a few hours young at that time... Please state, whether you still think the article is biased... in the section I created for this purpose. Ben  T/C 12:34, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry, the term "original article" was not intended to imply "original research". Perhaps I could have said "the initial article".

 * The article as I found it had one unimportant line under Pros for nuclear and in "See also" made it clear that only anti-nuclear opinions were wanted. Simesa 12:59, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

 * You should know about the original research policy as one of the five pillars of wikipedia. If you say an article is original and couple it with your next sentence (alleging POV), then it almost certainly takes the meaning of original research and that's a very serious offense. I accept you apology. Ben T/C 07:55, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

Wording of sentence
In the sentence "It was also decided to annulate the decision from 1997 of the time limit until 2010.", I have no idea what the word "annulate" was intended to mean. Simesa 18:09, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * replaced with revoke. Ben T/C 04:31, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Sentence disputed
However, unlike energy companies, banks have to build up financial reserves to protect them against bankruptcy.
 * Simesa! You marked the following statement as "incorrect" in the text:
 * I would like you to give your reasons for that or I will put it back again. Ben T/C 08:24, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * All companies, banks or not, have to have sufficient financial reserves to avoid bankruptcy. Lupo 08:35, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * That's not correct. Not all companies have to build financial reserves (see limited liability company). Aside from that, banks have to purchase a deposit insurance and they are required to keep a certain proportion of its funds in reserves. I don't know about how this is regulated in the US, but in Germany it is quite a lot of money in the reserves. Ben T/C 09:01, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * BTW, Simesa... Please use as markers next time when you are going to insert personal comments. Ben  T/C 09:46, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * Banks have no tangible assets, and may not even own the buildings they operate in - so in the US at least banks are required to have a certain amount of cash on hand in case of a bank run. (In addition, in the US our FDIC guarantees a certain amount of each bank account, to help prevent runs.) Companies owning nuclear power plants, however, have billions of dollars of physical assets, and can't suffer a run and so need little cash on-hand. They have time to arrange payment for lawsuits. Simesa 12:33, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok. I am not sure about the banking system in the US. There are many differences internationally. In the US, there is, e.g., the distinction of investment houses and the "bank." So, the comparison makes probably not that much sense to Americans. I accept that point, though I still doubt, whether companies could pay for damages in a worst case scenario - as you imply - but be it. Ben T/C 07:40, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

Inappropriate name, or focus
While there has indeed been a phase-out of nuclear power in some European countries, in others use of nuclear power has remained static (such as the US), is actually growing (such as China, India, and Finland), or is planned to grow significantly (South Africa, where the PBMR is under development). Discussing the current state of the nuclear industry, in a global context, under the current article title is therefore rather misleading, implying that a "phase-out" is the inevitable and indeed desirable way for nuclear power to go.

Therefore, I would suggest that the article under this name be restristed to describing those countries, like Germany, which *do* seem to be shutting down their nuclear industries, and the global status of nuclear power described in an article under another title. --Robert Merkel 04:22, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Does it make sense to talk about Australia in this article? Given Australia does not have nuclear power, it would be difficult for it to be phased out.--nixie 06:50, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Indeed. Australia (sensibly, I think) never even "phased-in" nuclear energy and doubtfully ever will. The issue in Australia seems to mostly be about uranium mining and whether we should, as Kevin Foley put it, "dig it up and get it out as quickly as possible" or prohibit its export altogether. The information already here should be kept and moved to a more appropriate article. Alternatively, the article focus and name could change.--Cyberjunkie | Talk 10:00, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I wouldn't say the name of the article suggests necessarily all of the countries are actually phasing out of nuclear energy use. The article represents now a discussion of 	+

+
 * 1) what a phase-out is	+
 * 2) what are the reasons for it and what reasons contradict it (politics, economics)	+
 * 3) where and when it has been started or aborted (why, when)	+
 * 4) and what plans there are in other countries (political discussion, regional energy politics)	+
 * I think this makes certain sense. I mean, look at Australia. Although, there are no nuclear power plants (so no phase-out), there is a lot of uranium and some people, as you say, consider building nuclear power plants. How do people think about those plans and about the dangers of mining? What is the situation there? Then, take Switzerland. There was no phase-out there, but several citizen initiatives and referenda about whether the reactors in Switzerland should be closed down. These countries are all mentioned by organizations that argument in favor or against phase-outs when they want to illustrate their points of why it makes sense to use nuclear power or why not. It is always compared with other countries. It is an international issue. I think phase-out is not a bad name, though I admit I see that misunderstandings are possible. It could be made clearer that not all of the mentioned countries are phasing out nor plan to. This article as I see it is about the development of the use of nuclear power with a special focus on phase-out as it has been discussed in several countries. And that's why we need Switzerland or Australia for that matter. --Ben T/C 10:08, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * What you seem to want is a discussion of international nuclear power policy, the title does not reflect that objective.--nixie 10:13, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

 * That's right... Okay, I think you are all right. Let's change the name, keep most of what the article is, have a small explanation of "phase-out" and a link to here at nuclear power phase-out. What about International nuclear power policy? Other suggestions? --Ben T/C 10:28, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * Seems like a good name to me, you might want to ask User:Fastfission for name suggestions, he seems to have written many of the articles on nuclear weapons and User:SEWilco who seems to have been pretty active in the development of the nuclear power article.--nixie 10:35, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I'll tell them what we are discussing and ask them to look over. --Ben T/C 10:47, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * I had a second thought about the name. First, not power, but energy. Then, there are strong cases for a dropping of "international" and/or "nuclear," i.e. Nuclear energy policy or International energy policy or a merger with Energy policy (what I just found). --Ben T/C 11:37, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * I suggest moving to Nuclear energy policy. Opinions? --Ben T/C 13:19, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * I decided to remove the part about Australia and some other parts. Other parts of it will have to be shortened. I copied great parts of the article to Nuclear energy policy but I am open to renaming it again or merging it with Energy policy it just seemed too big a change at once. I put a cleanup tag on the article there because the focus has to be sharpened. Please help here to improve the focus. --Ben T/C 14:57, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * Australia does have a small nuclear reactor, mainly for research and medical purposes (it doesn't produce a significant amount of power). See OPAL, HIFAR and MOATA for more detail. CA 10:46, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Split

 * I think an article on Nuclear power phase-out is warranted, but IMO if this article is NPOVd, it may offer little comfort to those who are promoting the phase-out. Neither the scope of the movement nor its effects where it has been adopted are quite as rosy a picture as this article currently presents. So we can expect some interesting times with it.

 * I'll try, but duplicating much of the text in a second article at Nuclear energy policy isn't terribly helpful IMO. I don't really want to need to update it in both places, especially as there are many other issues with this article apart from NPOV. We don't normally imbed external links, for example. We cite such sources in an External links section instead. In this and several other ways the style of this article is still more suited to an essay or an original research paper than to an encyclopedia article. There is a lot to do.

 * Some mention of France and the Philippines would not go astray somewhere, the Philippines as the only Asian industrial economy to reject nuclear power to date, France as a major supplier of nuclear electricity to countries that have adopted phase-out locally. The fact that neither of these were mentioned but Australia was (perhaps under the mistaken idea that Australia had renounced nuclear energy, see Australian Wikipedians' notice board) says a lot IMO. But I think we need to fix the focus and style of the articles first.

 * Personally, I'd stubify the current Nuclear energy policy and start the split all over, this time moving text rather than copying it. They are both good topics, but any text that does need to be duplicated (there will be some) we should get into good shape before doing this duplication. Andrewa 18:43, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

There are some problems with this article that's right and that's why we still work on it. I will change the style of citation as you asked. As next, the article doesn't paint a "rosy picture" of the phase-out. I think it is relatively balanced, though the arguments can become more elaborate on both sides. As you see above there are other people that don't quite feel the way you do (and they are rather anti phase-out). If you feel it is too positive, please try to balance it. We will all support you if you improve it. As I recursed on the Australian Wikipedians' notice board you probably had a misunderstanding and I got the impression you didn't read the article carefully enough. Please feel free to add the Philippines and France. Do not stubbify the Nuclear energy policy. It was not just duplicated (again you make the terrible impression of not reading the articles and then coming up with generalizations) but there is information here that is not there and information there that is not here. Please note that I put work in both articles and I will not let you go nullify it. If you can improve the articles, go for it, but don't go arbitrarily removing contents. --Ben T/C 03:31, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, IMO the article still does paint a rosier picture than the facts would indicate. And I'll try to improve it. But I think it's useful to discuss these things. As for adding the Philippines and France, I've made a start at this in another way, see the new stubs at Bataan Nuclear Power Plant and Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Plant.

 * I'm sorry you feel that I didn't read the article carefully enough, but frankly I don't think my comments have been read very carefully either! As to the alleged misunderstanding, can you be specific? I didn't say it was just duplicated. As to what you will and won't allow, the community will decide that, not just you. As to arbitrarily removing contents, AFAIK I never have or do, thank you very much, so I think that's a bit over the top. If I was going to stubify the article without discussion, I would have done so, and you probably would have just reverted it. Much better to discuss it, as we are doing.

 * Frankly, I still think that it would have been less work to abandon your split and start again. That's all I was suggesting, owing to the number of identical edits required to the duplicated text. But, if you and/or others are prepared to do the work required on the two articles, that's fine. Andrewa 04:01, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

 * The misunderstanding was that I noted on the Australian Noticeboard (here) that, searching for material about phase-outs, I stumbled upon Australia several times, characterized by environmental organizations as a anti-nuclear country.

 * I did make one mistake for which I apologise: When you said articles, I thought you meant Wikipedia articles. This is fairly standard shorthand around here, for example the main namespace is often called the article namespace.

 * I didn't say it was my opinion nor did the article ever make any statements that said something like "Australia renounced nuclear power" or "Australia is against nuclear power." That would just have been blatant propaganda. It never said anything like that and still you alleged it would say or I thought so or the article would convey it or whatever.

 * I formed the opinion that you were seeking to justify that view, yes. Why else would you say Australia is noted in many articles as a country which renounced nuclear energy? Even now understanding that by articles you meant external sources? And let me say again, I accept responsibility for that misunderstanding, you used perfectly clear English, which I mistook to be our local jargon.

 * I mean you needed just to look at the article to find out that was just not the case. You probably just misunterpreted my statement and concluded the article would tell what you understood I had said. You combined that with seemingly random and very general attacks on the article here without giving any specifics.

 * I'm afraid I regard that as bordering on a personal attack. I did read the article. But I was specifically commenting on what you said in the talk page, not on what the article said.

 * I still think you misunderstood what I was saying and what the article was saying. If you want to suggest some changes to both article you have to be specific and say what you mean.

 * I've been trying to do that. I'm sorry you haven't found my input constructive so far.

 * If you announce that you want to remove half of the text I have written for both of the articles without even selecting

 * (...which I never did...)

 * (BTW, that is what is called arbitrary ) then of course I understand that as a threat. If I came and said I want to delete one of the articles you have created without even giving reasons I doubt you would rejoice and say "go on, please remove just everything what you don't like."

 * It wouldn't worry me greatly. Wikipedia has very effective software, policies and procedures that protect our work. I'm confident that no admin would delete an article under those conditions, and even if they did it's not hard to recover it.

 * If you think you want to start over from scratch with the nuclear energy policy and that you can do better then please do so at another address like User:Andrewa/Nuclear energy policy and put a link to it on Nuclear energy policy. I think we could all only profit from that. Ben T/C 05:50, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

 * No. That's called a fork, and we don't generally find them helpful. And, as I said before, if you or others want to do the extra work required by your split, that's fine by me. I was just proposing an alternative for discussion. Andrewa 06:52, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I just suggested that instead of deleting what we have at Nuclear energy policy you could do it your way, show it, and we discuss it and (optionally) merge it. Depends on you. BTW, still waiting for the "rosy image" to emerge from your comments. Ben T/C 07:39, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

 * I see on your user talk page a link to WikiLove. OK, maybe I haven't shown a lot of that either. I did not mean to attack you, and I feel you have attacked me and continue to do so.

 * Your suggestion of forking the page is contrary to the policy of not linking from articles to user pages, and I've no interest in doing it anyway. I think there are better ways.

 * I will continue to work towards making this article and others on the subject accurate and NPOV. I'm open about my pro-nuclear POV, and suspect you have one too in the opposite direction. But as you have pointed out, the various POVs can be an advantage. When we achieve consensus, we'll have a very good product. Andrewa 10:04, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I liked a lot what you said about wikilove and joined forces of mixed POVs (I admit I am anti-nuclear) and I would be happy if you stay and bring in your experience and the knowledge that you showed earlier. We had a bad start but that makes it easy to improve ;).
 * As you already pointed out, there is a lot of work needed for both articles. I just tried to clean up most of nuclear energy policy and I removed the cleanup tag and replaced it with "limitedscope" and section cleanups for Australia and the discussion of nuclear energy (because of redundancy with nuclear power phase-out - maybe a merge tag would be better?). Another (new) problem are redundancies and intersections with nuclear power (e.g. Current and planned use). I also found two new very promising links . Please check the article now and tell me what you think. (And let's copy this discussion to Talk:Nuclear energy policy.) Ben T/C 12:05, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

NPOV discussion
If there are people, who find this article is biased, please discuss it here and tell the other people who are working on the article Ben T/C 09:41, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * I felt the article was politically biased when I first saw it. The exact points don't matter any more, and they seem to have been addressed, as far as I can assess. Nevertheless, the article was not NPOV, and should therefor have been labeled as such. Perhaps even by the initial author, to request help and comments. And yes, I should have commented more clearly what I found to be POV. -- Ec5618 13:03, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * As of the latest version, I feel the article is acceptably accurate and NPOV. Simesa 13:05, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I hope, Ec5618, you had more reasons than Simesa for seeing a bias (see above). Next time, you should address the points you feel uncertain about. However, we seem to agree now and that's a good thing. I thank both of you for helping to improve this article. Please stay and help here. Ben T/C 07:43, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

I think the following is POV, misleading, and factually incorrect:
 * Activists refer to many nuclear accidents in the past that have released large amounts of radioactive contamination killing and hurting many people and rendering large amounts of land unusable for the next few centuries, e.g. the zone of alienation.

If you take a look at the Chernobyl accident article, it says this:
 * The Chernobyl accident was a unique event, on a scale by itself. It was the first time in the history of commercial nuclear electricity generation that radiation-related fatalities occurred. (Note: an accident at the Japanese Tokaimura nuclear fuel reprocessing plant on September 30, 1999, resulted in the radiation related death of one worker on December 22 of that same year and another on 27 April 2000.)

The link to the article List of nuclear accidents is misleading and inappropriate, since the out of all the accidents on the list, Chernobyl is the only one that actually fits the description in the text: a power plant releasing "large amounts of radioactive contamination killing and hurting many people and rendering large amounts of land unusable for the next few centuries, e.g. the zone of alienation." I'm going to make appropriate changes to the text.--Bcrowell 03:38, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Male1979 reverted my edit without participating in the discussion here. I've reverted it back to my version.--Bcrowell 03:57, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Male1979 has again reverted my edit, and again without participating in the discussion here. I've reverted again.--Bcrowell 04:07, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I removed and I made other changes. I didn't see your comment here. It seemed you were refering to somebody elses comment without discussing. Sorry for that. I understand your concerns now. I did not just revert your edits. I changed them. What about this:
 * Nuclear accidents in the past have released radioactive contamination, the biggest, the accident at Chernobyl killed and hurt many people and rendered large amounts of land unusable for the next few centuries (the zone of alienation). It is feared such accidents will happen again. It is feared such accidents will happen again.
 * Please let's work on this sentence. --Ben T/C 04:21, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * How about this:
 * In the past, nuclear accidents, including some at civilian power plants, have released radioactive contamination. The biggest, at Chernobyl killed and hurt many people and rendered large amounts of land unusable for the next few centuries.
 * I think the part about "including some at civilian power plants" is necessary, because a lot of List of nuclear accidents is crashes of bombers, or even nuclear tests(!).--Bcrowell 04:30, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I thought it would be good to include the link to zone of alienation but I don't know how exactly. Your paragraph is definitely much better than the one you took out. I also want the "feared"-part. --Ben T/C 05:15, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * I just included your two sentences plus a "feared"-addition. I changed to "Nuclear accidents in the past" because of the next wikilink to "accidents". Please change again it if you have more good ideas.
 * Nuclear accidents in the past, including some at civilian power plants, have released radioactive contamination. The biggest, at Chernobyl killed and hurt many people and rendered large amounts of land unusable for the next few centuries. It is feared more accidents will happen.
 * --Ben T/C 06:27, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * I think this version of the paragraph looks fine. I don't think the link to zone of alienation made sense in the text, and the information in it doesn't support the point being made in the text any more than the Chernobyl link already does.--Bcrowell 15:48, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok. I am happy you approve. And probably the zone of alienation is superfluous. Then we agree on our version. --Ben T/C 15:56, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * It's been a pleasure working with you. It's unfortunate that we got off on the wrong foot due to a misunderstanding :-) --Bcrowell 17:09, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks. That's nice to hear. :) --Ben T/C 01:56, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Additional info
Ben - you have been requesting additional information regarding the Danish "phase out". Denmark never actually had any nuclear plants due to a strong and very vocal anti-nuclear movement in the 70-80s. If you want information about this period place a notice on my talk page and I will translate the relevant information for you. (Celcius 18:23, 17 August 2005 (UTC))
 * Seems this time I fell for one of those lists... Ben T/C 05:38, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

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Rishika in Indo-Aryan languages – and especially within the context of Hindu religious texts – may refer to different things:

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E-Amusement

e-Amusement, stylized as e-amusement, is an online service operated by Konami, used primarily for online functionality on its arcade video games. The system is used primarily to save progress and unlockable content between games, participate in internet high score lists, access other exclusive features depending on the game, and access the Paseli digital currency service.

The system uses online user accounts tied to a contactless smart card system called the "e-Amusement Pass". Users log into an e-Amusement enabled game by holding their pass up to the card reader and using a PIN.

The system is similar to parts of the functionality of the rival Taito NESYS and SEGA ALL.Net systems.

Magnetic cards

Prior to 2006, e-Amusement used magnetic stripe cards called Entry Passes that were sold separately for each game using the platform, either from an arcade desk or through a vending machine. Each card held data for one player, and typically came in 5 designs specific to the game (usually featuring character artwork). "Special" cards were also distributed from time to time, often alongside the console versions of certain games; these cards could sometimes be used to unlock special content in their respective game. These were exclusive to each title and could not be used on other games. For instance, the entry card for "beatmania IIDX 9th Style" could not be used for "pop'n music 9". In addition to this, even for the same title, an entry card for a particular entry in a series could not be used in a new release, and so cards had to be repurchased.

e-Amusement Pass
In 2006, Konami began to phase out the original magnetic card system in favor of the e-Amusement Pass; an IC contactless smartcard that works across all games that were upgraded to use the new system. The new cards also use a 4-digit PIN for security. In the event the pass is lost, its existing data can be transferred over to a new pass through Konami's website.

The pass can also be linked to a mobile phone "Konami NetDX" account, allowing players to access their scores and other data on their mobile phone. On some games, customization of the game can also be done through the NetDX system. However, only smartphones sold in Japan with FeliCa RFID support can use this function.

Starting with the fourth generation of card, the name "e-amusement pass" is written in all lowercase, rather than as "e-AMUSEMENT PASS", which coincided with the same change made on official websites.

Features
The e-Amusement pass mainly functions as a method to allow players to save their progress across game sessions. Several compatible arcade game series incentivize the use of the system by offering a free round to first-time card holders.

Games
Several arcade games that are compatible with e-Amusement are also playable via PC download, most of which have versions denoted as "console" releases rather than "arcade" by the name konasute (コナステ).

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Talk:Linear pulse-code modulation

Merge with Pulse Code Modulation
I don't think the LPCM article should be merged with Pulse Code Modulation. It is a computer media format, like MPEG, not just a data encoding format. Readers need to access it in relation to MPEG, not just in relation to PCM. ___ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.122.114.28 (talk) 03:02, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree -- I'm after a standard, ISO something something -- very much related to computer audio (DLNA specifically) so it's computer-type information that I'm after. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.11.153.86 (talk) 09:16, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I support a merge. I don't see much support for LPCM being a distinct file format. The references cited use the term "linear audio" but not "linear PCM". These are generic audio formats and the individule files already have their own articles, e.g. WAV, AIFF, Au file format -—Kvng 13:47, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

✅ ~KvnG 00:27, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Source of the LPCM stub
The stub for LPCM was taken from an ad for a computer program from the company Cyberlink. This is the website:

http://www.cyberlink.com/english/dv-entertainment/articles/lpcm.jsp

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.87.26.127 (talk) 17:31, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

vs. PCM
I think this article should explain the difference between PCM and LPCM.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Joachim Michaelis (talk • contribs) 08:30, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I tried to make clear the distinction between LPCM as a method of encoding and a file format, and added links to information about particular specifications. The existing article was referring to some particular implementation of LPCM used on DVD players which I was not aware of and don't know much about. But I wasn't really happy just removing this. This explains the bizarre section on standard sampling rates. Alexwright 14:37, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Most DVD players only support 48 kHz/16-bit capability. Only more high-end players have built-in 96 kHz/24-bit capabilities.
"Most DVD players only support 48 kHz/16-bit capability. Only more high-end players have built-in 96 kHz/24-bit capabilities." is not correct. The official allowed formats for the PCM audio tracks on a DVD Video are: * PCM: 48 kHz or 96 kHz sampling rate, 16 bit or 24 bit L-PCM, 2 to 6 channels, up to 6144 kbit/s

This means that there has to be a 24 bit decoder. But probably only with 16 bit accuracy in reallity. (8 bit of noise at the LSB)

But I'm not absolutely sure.

--helohe (talk)  16:19, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Sampling Resolution and Rates
Quote from the article: Standard sampling resolutions and rates

Common sample resolutions for LPCM are 8, 16, 20 or 24 bits per sample.

While two channels (stereo) is the most common format, some can support up to 8 audio channels (7.1 surround).

Common sampling frequencies are 48 kHz as used with DVD format videos, or 44.1 kHz as used in compact discs. Sampling frequencies of 96 kHz or 192 kHz can be used on some newer equipment, with the higher value equating to 6.144 megabits per second per audio channel.

It seems to me that the 6.144 mbps figure is arrived at by multiplying 192 kHz and 32 bits. This gets you 6144000 bits per second. It is not clear that 32 bit samples were used in this calculation, especially since it isn't listed in the list of common sample resolutions.

Furthermore, 6144000 bps is equal to 5.859375 mbps, not 6.144 mbps. It is unfortunate that the example used here is so similar to the max bitrate for PCM tracks on a DVD - 6144 kbps.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.111.117.22 (talk) 16:04, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

6144000 bps = 6.144 Mbps (megabit per second), but 5.859375 Mibps (mebibit per second). This is the usual use of Mbps in computing and engineering in data communications including discussions of audio bitrates (the exception being Microsoft software like Windows Media Player). It appears that 6.144 x 106 bit/s is the maximum total audio data rate in DVD-Video for ALL channels put together, implying that 192 kHz/16-bit stereo is at maximum bitrate for DVD-video (because 6144 kbps = 6.144 Mbps), but more usefully, 8 channels (7.1 surround) of 48 kHz/16-bit audio can be used, which is surely where the bitrate ceiling came from. It's tough to prove that greater bit-depth or sampling frequency could be useful in an 8-channel LPCM audio content delivery system for humans (though it's useful in the recording/mixing/mastering process that precedes it). —Dynamicimanyd (talk) 17:14, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Incorrect Shannon Theory Claim
The article said this: Theoretically, there is no loss or error in conversion and reconstruction, as long as the sampling rate is just over twice the highest desired frequency component of the recorded signal [Claude Shannon; Harry Nyquist]. For example, if you want to record audio at up to 20 kHz, you would need a frequence of sampling (F/s) of a little more than 40 kHz. But this is wrong. The Nyquist Theorem says that the highest frequency of signal that CAN be recorded is 1/2 the sampling rate. It does not say that a sampling rate of R will accurately record a signal of frequency R/2. For example, to accurately record a frequency of, say, 22 kHz with a 44 kHz signal requires that the samples be taken at exactly the maximum of the peak and exactly the minimum of the valleys; if the 22 kHz signal is phase-shifted at all from the period of the sampling, then the 22 kHz will be aliased as a lower-frequency signal by the 44 kHz model. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarkRLindsey (talk • contribs) 01:06, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Zero value in signed code
The article sais If the sample is 16-bit signed, the sample range is from -32768 to 32767, with a centerpoint of 0. If the entire range $$[-2^{N-1}, 2^{N-1}-1]$$ is allowed, then the zero value actually is (assuming the zero value is the average of maximum and minimum)

$$ \frac{-2^{N-1} + 2^{N-1}-1}{2} = 2^N\frac{-2^{-1} + 2^{-1}-2^{-N}}{2}=-2^N 2^{-N}/2=-1/2\neq 0 $$

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.229.142.67 (talk) 14:09, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Strictly speaking, the term "linear quantization" is self-contradictory
This article says that "LPCM is PCM with linear quantization". However, there is no such thing as linear quantization. Quantization is an inherently non-linear process. Linear processes are (ordinarily) invertible. Quantization is not invertible. No quantizer is linear. Some abuse of basic mathematical concepts is necessary to come up with such a term. This strange term "linear quantization" should be removed, or at least explained. The referenced document does not provide a definition of this self-contradictory term. —SudoMonas (talk) 16:51, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

 * Linear here refers to the step size use for encoding. An example on non-linear PCM is something encoded using Mu-law. -—Kvng 13:47, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Contributions needing work
contributed the following to the article. I'm pulling these contributions here for discussion before inclusion.

I'm not aware of 32-bit linear PCM in consumer applications. 32-bit floating point is a thing. Do you have a citation?

As for the second contribution, discussion of subjective sound quality doesn't usually lead anywhere productive. Especially so for uncited discussion. ~KvnG 20:30, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

 * ==Linear 32bit PCM==

There is a L32 bit PCM, and there are many sound cards that support it.

Similar effects of DTS-HD master audio (192kHz DTS)
It is said that there is no difference at all that can be heard from a Linear 32 bit PCM at a 96 kHz sample rate playback sound to a, high quality DTS-HD Master Audio (192 kHz DTS). They both sound the same because, of the extremely high quality sound playback from these two types of codecs. But, in reality the 192 kHz DTS sound file has actually 1.45 times better quality than a sound file of L32 at 96 kHz.

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Ojo in Oz

Ojo in Oz (1933) is the twenty-seventh book in the Oz series created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the thirteenth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill. The novel was followed by Speedy in Oz (1934).

Plot
Ojo (from The Patchwork Girl of Oz) is captured by wanderers who plan to turn him over to a mysterious enemy who has offered to pay a large reward to anyone who captures and delivers Ojo to his stronghold at Moojer Mountain. Ojo befriends the gypsies' captive dancing bear Snufferbux (whose full name is Snuffurious, Buxorious, Blundurious Boroso). The gypsies are in turn captured by Realbad, the leader of a gang of bandits, who carries a secret that is connected to the Munchkin boy and his habitually closemouthed guardian Unc Nunkie. Realbad learns about the reward and resolves to collect it himself by delivering Ojo to Moojer Mountain. Separated from the bandit gang, and hopelessly lost, Ojo and Snufferbux reluctantly agree to travel with Realbad (who is a resourceful survivalist) until they either get to the Emerald City or to Moojer Mountain. While traveling, they face various dangers together and gradually develop a genuine friendship.

Meanwhile, Dorothy, Scraps, and the Cowardly Lion set out to rescue Ojo, but get lost themselves, and visit Dicksey Land and other strange places. Everyone is menaced by a fearsome wizard, and Ojo learns who his parents are.

Reception
The Los Angeles Times said, "What with unicorns and a dancing bear and a frightful gentleman whose face is made up of gearwheels, there are plenty of interesting people in this eventful story." The Minneapolis Star Tribune agreed that the book's adventures "are as fantastic as anything that ever happened in Oz."

In A Brief Guide to Oz, Paul Simpson notes, "Ojo in Oz has attracted some negative attention from recent scholars for the highly stereotypical way in which Thompson describes the Gypsies who feature heavily within the story, and for their eventual fate — others who commit the same crimes are simply transformed into other creatures, but the Gypsies are banished to Southern Europe."

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Mappleton

Mappleton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the North Sea coastline in an area known as Holderness, lying approximately 3 mi south of the seaside resort of Hornsea. The civil parish is formed by the village of Mappleton and the hamlets of Cowden, Great Cowden and Rolston. According to the 2011 UK census, Mappleton parish had a population of 342, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 249.

The parish church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building.

History
In 1823 Mappleton was a civil parish in the Wapentake of Holderness and the Liberty of St Peter's. The ecclesiastical parish and church living was under the patronage of the Archdeacon of the East Riding. A public school was established in 1820 by subscription and run under the ideas of educationalist Andrew Bell. Population at the time was 187, including the hamlet of Rolston (then 'Rowlston'). Occupations included six farmers, a carpenter, a corn miller, and a schoolmaster who was also the parish clerk. Two carriers operated between the village and Hull twice weekly.

In 1991, sea defences were built in order to protect the village and B1242 main road from intense sea erosion that had threatened it - Holderness is the most rapidly eroding coastline in Europe. The cliffs had been eroded at a rate of between 7 and 10 m per year on average. The £2 million project created two large rock groynes to trap materials that are carried in the waves during longshore drift as well as revetments to break the waves. In order to protect the cliffs from undercutting, their gradient was also reduced artificially.

The success of this project has created a larger higher sandy beach for Mappleton, and the erosion has slowed to a point where it is no longer a threat to the settlement. Due to these sea defences, the area directly south of the village now suffers from an even greater rate of erosion.

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Červená Voda (Ústí nad Orlicí District)

Červená Voda (Mährisch Rothwasser) is a municipality and village in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,000 inhabitants.

Administrative parts
The villages of Bílá Voda, Dolní Orlice, Horní Orlice, Mlýnice, Mlýnický Dvůr, Moravský Karlov and Šanov are administrative parts of Červená Voda.

Etymology
The name literally means 'red water'. Its name derives from limonite contained in the local stream basin, which sometimes coloured it to brown or red. According to local legend, it was named after the bloodshed during the Hussite Wars, when the stream was coloured with blood.

Geography
Červená Voda is located about 18 km northwest of Šumperk and 25 km east of Ústí nad Orlicí. The municipality lies on the historic border between Moravia and Bohemia. The villages of Dolní Orlice and Horní Orlice are located in Bohemia, while the rest of the municipal territory lies in Moravia.

Červená Voda is a long village, stretching along the banks of the stream Červenovodský potok, which contributes the Březná River. The village is situated in the Kłodzko Valley between the mountain ranges of the Orlické Mountains and the Hanušovice Highlands, in which the municipal territory also significantly extends. The municipality is located on the European water divide between three seas: the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Black Sea. The Tichá Orlice River originates in Horní Orlice.

History
The first written mention of Červená Voda is from 1481, under its original name Malé Heroltice. The area of today's Červená Voda belonged to estates of Šilperk (later Štíty), Ruda nad Moravou and Králíky. Šanov was first mentioned in 1556. In 1562, Georg Schürer founded here the first glassworks.

As part of the Štíty estate, Červená Voda was owned by Pavel Kathar of Kathar, who sold it to the Odkolek of Újezdec family in 1602. The first written mention of Bílá Voda is from 1596, when it was together with Mlýnice as parts of the Ruda nad Moravou estate acquired by the Zierotin family. During the rule of Zierotins, the estate experienced boom and its price has risen markedly. After the Battle of White Mountain, Ladislav Velen lost all his manors.

Consequently, Karl Eusebius gained power over the Štíty estate in 1624 and united it with the estate of Ruda nad Moravou. The prosperity of estates ended with Thirty Years' War. Červená Voda was damaged and looted several times.

In 1847, the village gained the right to hold markets, but never had the status of a market town.

In implication of the Revolution of 1848 came the fall of the patrimonial regime. The land reform of 1850 made Červená Voda part of the political district of Hohenstadt. Did most of the villagers made a living from agriculture till than, the second part of the 19th century was molded by the commencing industrialization, foremost by textile fabrication in 1850. In 1865 Červená Voda was connected to the state's road network. By 1866 Prussian troops once more passed through the village without causing greater damages.

With the opening of a branch line from Králíky to Štíty, Červená Voda was connected to the railway network in 1899 and concurrently experienced its economical and social heyday. After World War I, Moravia and thus Červená Voda became part of the newly formed First Czechoslovak Republic.

Modern history
After the Munich Agreement in 1938, Červená Voda was occupied by Nazi Germany and administared as part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland. Thus Czechoslovakia had lost all its heavily fortified borderlands, leaving it indefensible. The Czech population left Červená Voda and went inland.

In 1944, Germany opened here a sub-camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. About 650 Jewish women from Hungary, Poland, France and Romania was sent there from Auschwitz concentration camp.

After the war, the German-speaking population was expelled per the Beneš decrees in 1946. The village was partly resettled by Czech people from surrounding villages.

In 1949, Šanov and Červená Voda municipalities were merged. By the administrative reform in 1960, Červená Voda was greatly enlarged by affiliating the surrounding villages. In 1973, Horní Boříkovice separated and joined Králíky.

Transport
The I/11 road from Hradec Králové to Šumperk passes through the municipality. The I/43 road heading to Králíky and the Czech-Polish border separates from it in Červená Voda.

The railway leads across the municipality. There are six stations and stops: Moravský Karlov, Červená Voda, Červená Voda-Pod rozhlednou, Dolní Orlice, Bílá Voda and Mlýnický Dvůr. Two lines are served, from Ústí nad Orlicí to Moravský Karlov and from Dolní Lipka to Moravský Karlov.

Sport
There is a small ski resort in Mlýnický Dvůr part of Červená Voda.

Sights
The most notable building in Červená Voda is the Church of Saint Matthias. It was built in 1686. There is also the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Mlýnický Dvůr from 1575, and the Church of Saint Joseph Calasanz in Moravský Karlov from 1792.

In 2006, an observation tower was inaugurated on Křížová hora Mountain.

Notable people

 * Manfred Buder (1936–2021), German ice hockey player

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David A. Trampier

David A. Trampier (April 22, 1954 – March 24, 2014) was an artist and writer whose artwork for TSR, Inc. illustrated some of the earliest editions of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Many of his illustrations, such as the cover of the original Players Handbook, became iconic. Trampier was also the creator of the Wormy comic strip that ran in Dragon magazine for several years.

At the height of his career in the late 1980s, Trampier suddenly withdrew from the gaming world and became a social recluse. Although the reasons for this break were unclear, a disagreement with TSR is possible; it is clear that later in life, Trampier wanted nothing to do with TSR or its successor, Wizards of the Coast. For many years, Trampier's location was unknown to anyone and rumors circulated that he had died; his brother-in-law Tom Wham denied this, although Wham admitted that even he did not know where Trampier was or what he was doing.

Career
In 1977, TSR, Inc. started to develop a new version of their popular Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D). Unlike TSR's previous rulebooks, which had been low-quality paperback booklets, the rulebooks for AD&D would be high-quality lithographed hard covers featuring full color wrap-around cover art and many interior black & white illustrations. The first book to be published was the Monster Manual in 1977, and Trampier, along with fellow artists David Sutherland and Tom Wham, provided artwork for the manual. Tim Kask, editor of Dragon magazine, stated in a review that the book's profuse illustrations were "outstanding", and that the illustrations "in themselves would warrant the cover price".

It was the next hardcover rulebook, the Player's Handbook, that would secure Trampier his reputation while he was still in his mid-twenties. Trampier's cover depicted a temple dominated by a huge, devilish statue, being looted by a group of adventurers; the back cover included a representation of the book's author, Gary Gygax. The cover image became synonymous with the game until the cover art was replaced with a new illustration in 1982. Trampier also created several pieces of interior art for the Player's Handbook.

He continued to be an important contributor to the TSR brand in the company's early years. Some of his more notable works included:
 * Cover art and some of the interior illustrations for Gamma World role-playing game (1978).
 * Map board for the wargame Divine Right (1979).
 * Cover art for the Dungeon Master's Screen (1979). [Winner of the Gamer's Choice Award for 1979]
 * Cover art for the AD&D adventure The Village of Hommlet (1979)
 * Interior art for the third and fourth hardcover rulebooks, Dungeon Masters Guide (1979) and Deities & Demigods (1980).
 * Interior art for many AD&D adventures.

Wormy
The September 1977 issue of Dragon (Issue #9) featured a new 6-panel comic, Trampier's Wormy. The first frame featured the title character, a cigar-chomping, pool hustling, wargaming dragon, and subsequent issues revealed the cast of trolls and ogres who were his neighbors and friends. The stories were told from the point of view of the antagonists of the Dungeons & Dragons game; the wizards, warriors and other protagonists that players would be expected to portray were inevitably presented as unwelcome intruders. Wormy continued to appear in Dragon for the next 10 years, until Issue #132 (April 1988).

Titan
In 1980, Trampier and Jason McAllister co-designed a "monster slugathon" wargame called Titan, for which Trampier also executed the artwork. The purpose of the game was simply to defeat other players' armies, using the victories to advance in power until there was only one army left. Trampier and McAllister self-published the game through Gorgonstar Company. It was re-published by Avalon Hill in 1982 and gained a measure of popularity. Articles about Titan were featured in several issues of Avalon Hill's General magazine, and it remained in print until Avalon Hill's demise in 1998. In 2008, Valley Games printed a new edition of Titan without Trampier's artwork.

Disappearance
In the late 1980s, David Trampier suddenly disappeared. The last installment of Wormy appeared in the April 1988 issue of Dragon (#132); despite the fact that the comic was in the middle of an unfinished storyline, no further Wormy comics were ever published. In the August 1988 issue of Dragon (issue #136), in response to a reader letter, the Dragon editors wrote, "We regret to announce that 'Wormy' will no longer be appearing in Dragon Magazine. We are looking into the possibility of adding another graphic series in the future."

Kim Mohan, then editor of Dragon, told Phil Foglio that payments for Wormy and other royalty payments sent to Trampier had been returned unopened. Foglio explained that "When an artist's checks are returned uncashed, he is presumed dead."

Reappearance
Trampier was rediscovered by coincidence, working as a taxi driver. In February 2002, Arin Thompson did a night-shift ride along in Carbondale, Illinois with a local Yellow Taxi driver for an article for Southern Illinois University's student newspaper. The taxi driver was David Trampier, who told Thompson he had moved to Carbondale from Chicago about eight months previously. Thompson, who did not know of Trampier's work as an artist, published the story and Trampier's photograph in The Daily Egyptian on February 15, 2002. Word circulated that Trampier was still alive; several companies and individuals contacted him to inquire about commissioning new artwork, republishing old artwork, or appearing at conventions. Trampier rebuffed all attempts to draw him back into the fantasy gaming world and continued to drive his taxi. One of the people who reached out to him was fellow cartoonist Jolly Blackburn, who simply wanted to talk to him about a Wormy compilation that had been done a few years prior. Blackburn reported that "He politely asked me not to call him again and to lose his number. Apparently a lot of people tracked him down through the same article and he was fed up with all the phone calls. Seemed like a nice guy. He just wants nothing to do with the strip or the gaming industry."

In 2003, Wizards of the Coast stated that Trampier was "alive and well" but "not currently working in gaming or comics". In 2004, Trampier's fellow artist and brother-in-law Tom Wham stated that he believed Trampier "still exists somewhere in Illinois".

In 2008, Trampier visited Castle Perilous Games & Books, a game store in Carbondale, to see the new edition of Titan that had been published by Valley Games. That was the only contact he made with the games community until several years later.

Death
In late 2013, several misfortunes struck Trampier. He suffered a mild stroke, he lost his job when the Yellow Taxi Company went out of business, and he discovered that he had cancer. Needing money, Trampier contacted Scott Thorne, the owner of Castle Perilous Games & Books, and offered to sell eight of his original pieces of artwork, including the original cover art for the 1979 Dungeon Master's Screen. Thorne bought the artwork, and tried to convince Trampier to have his Wormy comics republished. Trampier was suspicious of the offer, and wanted to ensure that TSR would not have any part of the publication; he seemed surprised by the news that TSR had been taken over by Wizards of the Coast almost 20 years previously. Thorne suggested that Troll Lord Games might be a good publisher to approach.

Trampier accepted an invitation to display some of his original artwork at Egypt Wars, a local games convention; it would be his first public connection to fantasy gaming since his disappearance 25 years before. Representatives of Troll Lord Games were also scheduled to be at the convention, and Thorne hoped Trampier might talk to them about a publishing deal. However, Trampier suddenly died on March 24, 2014, three weeks before the convention.

Influence
Rich Burlew (creator of The Order of the Stick) has voiced great respect for the place Wormy held as an early D&D comic strip, indicating in an interview that he felt awed at his comic being published on Dragon's back page, where Wormy once ran, adding that he felt he was "not worthy to shine Wormy's feet." In the last issue of Dragon magazine (#359, September 2007), Burlew included in his OOTS comic a number of references to comics that had appeared in the magazine over its long run, including a Wormy-like dragon (complete with hat and cigar) fleeing before Wizards of the Coast turned the dungeon electronic.

In 2014, Scott Taylor of Black Gate, named Dave Trampier as Honorable Mention in a list of The Top 10 RPG Artists of the Past 40 Years, saying "To me, there was no one in the early TSR art department with half the pure talent of Trampier, apologies to Dee, Willingham, Otus, Darlene, and the late Jim Roslof, but Trampier had a depth that none of the others ever managed." When he died in March of that year, Taylor said that "Trampier, for all his mystery, was the bridge, but now he is gone, and a chasm is forever left behind that no one can again traverse in hopes of finding visual adventures beyond our wildest dreams."

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Twin-scaling

Twin-scaling is a method of propagating plant bulbs that have a basal plate, such as:
 * Hippeastrum, Narcissus, Galanthus and other members of the Amaryllidaceae;
 * some members of the lily family Liliaceae;
 * Lachenalia, Veltheimia and other members of the Hyacinthaceae.

Purpose
Twin-scaling is practiced by professional growers and skilled amateurs to increase bulbs that would naturally propagate very slowly, or to speed up the production of desirable cultivars. Using twin-scaling, it is possible to multiply one bulb into 16 to 32 (or more) viable bulbs in a couple of years, whereas natural propagation might only lead to a doubling every two years or so. It is one of a number of propagation techniques (such as "scooping", "scoring" and "chipping") based on the fact that an accidentally damaged bulb will often regenerate by forming small bulblets or bulbils on the damaged surface. Commercial growers have obtained as many as 100 twin-scales from a single bulb.

Method
The dormant bulb which is to be twin-scaled has its surface sterilized by removing its dry tunic and carefully trimming off its roots and any dead tissue, while leaving a layer of sound basal plate intact, then dipping the clean bulb in dilute bleach (or another suitable disinfectant). The bulb is then sliced cleanly from top to bottom several times, creating 8 or 16 segments, depending on the size of the bulb. At this stage, the segments are called "chips" (many growers are content with simply chipping a bulb into 4 or 8 and do not divide the bulb further).

True twin-scaling involves further subdivision of the chips to create pairs of scales, joined by a small part of the basal plate. The twin-scales are then treated with fungicide before being mixed with moist, sterile Vermiculite, sealed in plastic bags and left in a fairly warm, dark location until new bulblets form. Some species may require alternate periods of warm and cool storage to initiate bulblet growth.

The tiny bulbs are planted into pots or trays of compost and allowed to grow on for a year or more, until they are large enough to survive in individual pots or the open ground. They usually take several years to reach flowering size, although some bulblets of Galanthus have been known to flower in their first year.

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Category talk:Representation theory of groups

Currently some articles on representation theory of groups are in this category, which is currently too small to be useful, and some are in the Category:Representation theory. I think either these articles should be moved to the big one, or suitable articles in that should be moved into this one.---CH (talk) 03:04, 19 August 2005 (UTC)


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East Coast Wrestling Association

East Coast Wrestling Association (ECWA) is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded in 1967 by promoter Jim Kettner. It is home to the annual Super 8 Tournament, one of the longest-running independent wrestling tournaments in the country, as well as the annual Super 8 ChickFight Tournament. In 2010, Kettner announced his retirement and turned the promotion over to Mike Tartaglia and Joe Zanolle. Mike Tartaglia officially put the company on hiatus on June 5, 2019. In December 2019, Tartaglia sold the promotion to Zanolle.

ECWA Hall of Fame
Established in 1982, the East Coast Wrestling Association (ECWA) Hall of Fame honors performers and staff members alike for their contributions to the organization. Though there is no physical location for the Hall of Fame, the organization acknowledges all inductees on its website.

 * Inductees

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Stepaside, Dublin

Stepaside is a village in the townland of Kilgobbin.

It's located in south County Dublin, in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. The area is 4 km south of Dundrum.

History
Stepaside developed in the 18th and early 19th centuries when the adjacent medieval settlement of Kilgobbin was bypassed by a new stretch of the Enniskerry Road, built from what is now Lamb's Cross through to Kilternan. Stepaside became a new staging post along this route, while Kilgobbin Road with its coaching inn (now Oldtown House) was no longer used by goods traffic or stagecoaches.

Stepaside is home to Kilgobbin Church, built in the 17th century.

History and development
Previously a separate rural village in the early 21st century, Stepaside has been absorbed by the Dublin conurbation to the north and east, and has seen accompanying residential development and population growth.

In 2007, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council announced plans to build a community park for the Carrickmines, Ballyogan, and Stepaside areas. A large civic centre in the area is named after Samuel Beckett.

Population
As of the 2016 census, the population of the Glencullen electoral area, which includes the villages of Stepaside, Glencullen and Kiltiernan, was 19,773 in total.

Location and access
Stepaside lies on the R117 regional road to the south-east of the city, at the foot of Three Rock Mountain. The area is also just off Junction 14 of the M50 motorway. Neighbouring areas include Sandyford, Kilternan, Ballyogan, Leopardstown, Carrickmines, Belarmine and Glencullen.

Stepaside is served by Dublin Bus routes 44, 47 and 118 and Go-Ahead Ireland 63 and 63a. The Luas Green Line has been extended to Cherrywood and the nearest stops (Glencairn and The Gallops) are approximately 2 km from the centre of Stepaside. Stepaside is located 13.2 kilometres / 8.2 miles from Dublin City (a 33 minute ride on the Luas).

Parks, gardens and hiking
Dublin’s newest public park is in Stepaside – the former estate of Fernhill House, which was opened to the public in 2019. It has heritage buildings, garden areas, parkland and woods, located close to Stepaside village (one entrance is opposite the Belarmine development). Ticknock Forest is also nearby, along with several hiking trails.

Facilities and businesses
Stepaside village has a post office and a Garda station. It also has a number of pubs and restaurants, including a chipper, pub, restaurant and wine bar. Grocery shops include a small supermarket, fishmongers and butchers. There is also a pharmacy, medical practice, some salons and a clothes shop, as well as an estate agents.

Schools
There are several schools in Stepaside including Educate Together primary and secondary schools, and a private secondary school for girls.

Sport
Local soccer (association football) clubs include Stepaside F.C., and Wayside Celtic F.C. at Kilternan. There is also an all-weather pitch at Jamestown in Stepaside. While there are no Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in the area, nearby clubs include Naomh Olaf (Sandyford), Kilmacud Crokes (Stillorgan), and Stars of Erin (Glencullen).

There are a number of golf courses, driving ranges and par 3 golf facilities in the area. These include Stepaside Golf Course, Stepaside Golf Centre, and pitch and putt / par-3 courses at The Burrow and Jamestown.

People
Former or current residents of Stepaside village have included:
 * Alan Byrne, retired soccer player of the 1980s and 1990s
 * Mick Curley, chairman of the National Referees' Association, was stationed in the village in the 1970s as a Garda superintendent
 * Joe Elliott, the Sheffield-born lead singer of Def Leppard, lives in the area
 * Neale Richmond, Fine Gael politician
 * Hal Roach, comedian.

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