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Mr. Driller A Mr. Driller A (ミスタードリラーエース〜ふしぎなパクテリア〜) is a 2002 puzzle video game developed and published in Japan by Namco for the Game Boy Advance. The fourth installment in its Mr. Driller series, players control one of seven characters and must make it to the bottom of the level by destroying colorful formations of blocks. A adds several new mechanics to the gameplay of its predecessors, such as a virtual pet named the "Pacteria" that players can grow and care for. Created by series producer Hideo Yoshizawa and Namco's Contents & Technology Creator Group, A was developed as part of a partnership between Namco and Nintendo where the former would create a GameCube game that made use of the GameCube – Game Boy Advance link cable. The game was in development alongside its GameCube counterpart Mr. Driller Drill Land, allowing A to borrow several of Drill Land's concepts and ideas. Though it was well-received for its gameplay and additions to the Mr. Driller concept, A was a commercial failure and struggled to gain sales. The game has since been re-released for Japanese mobile phones and the Wii U Virtual Console. Gameplay Mr. Driller A is a puzzle game similar to Puyo Puyo (1990) and the classic arcade game Dig Dug (1982). Players choose from one of seven characters to play as: Susumu Hori, the protagonist; Ataru Hori, Susumi's self-contained older brother; Taizo Hori, the protagonist of Dig Dug; Puchi, Susumu's dog; Anna Hottenmeyer, a rival driller from Germany; and Holinger-Z, a drilling robot. In each level, players must make it to the bottom of a well by destroying, or "drilling", colorful formations of blocks. Destroying blocks results in those above it falling and connecting with similarly-colored ones; should four or more matching blocks connect, they will be destroyed, which is useful for creating chain reactions. Blocks will also fall if there is nothing underneath to support them, which can crush players that are underneath them. Players will need to manage their constantly-depleting oxygen, which acts as both a health bar and a timer. Oxygen is replenished by collecting blue air capsules, while oxygen is lost by destroying brown X-marked blocks. If a player is next to a block with an open space above it, they can "jump" up that block. A adds multiple mechanics and concepts to the core gameplay of the series. The main gamemode is "Dori Dorado Ruins", which features Susumu donning a knight's armor and venturing into ancient ruins. In this mode, the player's oxygen meter does not deplete on its own, but instead drains by 1% each time a block is destroyed. Susumu can find houses inhabited by blue creatures named Undergrounders to learn tips and secrets. He can also enter shops to purchase items, such as those that increase his movement speed and a protective shield; these items are purchased with "mileage points", which are earned based on how far the player has gotten in the well. At certain points, Susumu will engage in RPG-esc combat scenarios with Dig Dug enemies Pooka and Fygar. By collecting fruits and vegetables found throughout, the player can feed these to their Pacteria, a gelatinous-like virtual pet that can evolve and grow. The player can transfer their Pacteria pets to the GameCube game Mr. Driller Drill Land for use with certain mechanics and modes in the latter. Development and release Mr. Driller A was created by Mr. Driller series producer Hideo Yoshizawa and Namco's Contents & Technology Creator Group (Project Driller). The project came into fruition when Namco was approached by Nintendo to create a new Mr. Driller game for its newly-unveiled GameCube, specifically one that took advantage of the GameCube – Game Boy Advance link cable peripheral. As A was in development alongside its GameCube counterpart, Mr. Driller Drill Land, it borrows several of Drill Land's concepts and mechanics, as well as those from the PlayStation version of Mr. Driller G. The Dori Dorado Ruins game mode was designed to be a slower-paced experience, as it gave the player time to think and search for necessary items. The development team was inspired by early role-playing games for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Family Computer while designing the presentation, leading to Susumu wielding a sword and the setting taking place within ancient ruins. A took little time to produce as the Game Boy Advance's hardware capabilities were comparable to that of the Super Famicom, which many of the staff members had experience programming for. Namco announced Mr. Driller A in April 2002, the same month it announced Mr. Driller Drill Land. The game was demonstrated Mr. Driller A at the 16th Next Generation World Hobby Fair in July, shown alongside Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament and complimenting Nintendo's booth. Originally scheduled for release on July 12, it was pushed back to August 23 of that year. It was re-released as a budget title under Nintendo's "Value Selection" brand in February 2006. A Japanese mobile phone version was released on March 27, 2008 by Namco Bandai Games, which was accessible through the company's Namco EZ Games storefront for EZweb devices. A was digitally re-released through the Wii U Virtual Console on March 3, 2015. Reception During its first week of release, Mr. Driller A sold 9,189 copies and received the "Gold Hall of Fame" award from Famitsu. By the end of 2002, it sold 14,799 copies and was ranked in Japan's list top 350 best-selling games of the year. The game has since been considered a commercial failure. Reception for A, both at release and retrospectively, have been positive. Famitsu staff focused largely on the Pacteria raising and RPG-esc game mode; one wrote they complimented each other well and added to the game's replay value. Another enjoyed the number of game modes for having their own playstyles and difficulty options. Colin Tabi of Nintendo World Report stated A "carries the torch well for the series", and enjoyed its addictive quality and simplicity. Though he noted the language barrier prevented players from properly using the Pacteria, Tabi felt the game was a worthy purchase nonetheless. In a 2020 retrospective on the series, journalist Jeremy Parish said that A felt like an appropriate "half-step" between Mr. Driller G and Mr. Driller Drill Land. He compared the Pacteria to the Chao Garden in Sega's Sonic Adventure, claiming it was the game's centerpiece and a unique concept for the series.	WIKI
Page:Idalia, by 'Ouida' volume 3.djvu/140 129 quailed beforo. She seemed broken by an unutterable contrition; stricken before him by the conscious guilt of a criminal before her judge; the prayer for pardon, the thirst for his mercy, seemed to be as intense as if the crime against his life had been woven by her brain, and instigated by her will, as though the hand of the Greek, sleeping unconscious in the hollowed cleft of rock below, had been her tool and servant. Yet there was not one pause of doubt, one hesitation of dread, in the answer that came to her with a gentleness, grave and infinitely sad. "Forgive! That is no word between you and me. Yet,—if there be anything of pardon needed from my life to yours in past, or present, or future, I give the pardon now, once and for ever; you cannot stretch it farther than my love will yield it." She heard, and her head sank downward, till her lips touched his hand in the sign of homage and allegiance that she had refused to the claim of monarchs. Her eyes were blind with tears, her heart was filled with a despair bitter as death, with a sweetness sweet as life; he was at once her slave and her ruler, her judge and her saviour. "Ah, Heaven!" she said, in her soul. "How vainly I sought for a great nature amidst those who	WIKI
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Talk:Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock/Archive 5 Can't "wuss out" except on easy mode "After a tier is complete, a new tier is introduced. New in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock are career mode boss battles; at three points during the career mode, the player is required to compete against a boss character: Tom Morello, Slash, and Lou the Devil, in order to progress; however, after three attempts, the player is given the option to skip the battle if they so choose [ citation needed ]" On the ps2 version, I noticed you can't "wuss out" after 3 tries on medium, or maybe I just blocked it from my mind. I also don't think you can wuss out versus Lou (the end boss) on easy mode. Vuelhering (talk) 06:05, 30 December 2007 (UTC) * I know for a fact that I "wussed out" against Slash on Expert on the 360 version, though I think it took more than 3 tries. Oren0 (talk) 19:09, 30 December 2007 (UTC) * I wussed out on him too on expert, but I think you just have to fail without him using any powerups on you, but i dont know. Oh, and I did finally beat him, he's not that hard! frogTape: Covered in flies for your enjoyment (talk) 04:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC) I believe it is possible to give-up on the ps2 version. it may take more then 3 tries if you do well (Not failing until around the end). But it is impossible (on any version) to give-up on Lou. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:19, 31 December 2007 (UTC) * Hey now, this ain't a forum, remember post suggestions to make the article better, remember this is not a forum. N i m i T i z e 05:28, 17 February 2008 (UTC) * Take it easy. The section was started because someone believed that a statement in the article was inaccurate, and we were just trying to determine whether that was true or not. Oren0 (talk) 05:31, 17 February 2008 (UTC) * You can "wuss out" on any mode, but ONLY after failing the boss battle 3 times in a row. I know this as I watched a friend of mine fail to beat Tom Morello on Medium 3 times in a row. He choose to "wuss out" and continued on to play the encore song, Bulls on Parade, with Tom Morello. What I don't know is if there are any reliable and verifiable sources that mention this. Lightsup55 ( T \| C ) 08:11, 17 February 2008 (UTC) Aerosmith Just now, I found out for XBOX 360 that they are offering a free download of Dream On by Aerosmith for Guitar Hero 3 until tomorrow (Monday the 18th). They mentioned something about a Guitar Hero Aerosmith game.... <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:10, 17 February 2008 (UTC) * It is already listed on the List of songs in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock article under Single tracks and has 3 references. If you want to add it to the main article, feel free to do so. Lightsup55 ( T \| C ) 22:13, 17 February 2008 (UTC) Good article nomination Enter your comments here. Gary King (talk) 21:52, 25 February 2008 (UTC) Good article review * 1) Is it reasonably well written? * A. Prose quality: * B. MoS compliance: * 1) Is it factually accurate and verifiable? * A. References to sources: * B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary: * C. No original research: * 1) Is it broad in its coverage? * A. Major aspects: * B. Focused: * 1) Is it neutral? * Fair representation without bias: * 1) Is it stable? * No edit wars, etc: * 1) Does it contain images to illustrate the topic? * A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales: * B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions: * 1) Overall: * Pass or Fail: * 1) Is it stable? * No edit wars, etc: * 1) Does it contain images to illustrate the topic? * A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales: * B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions: * 1) Overall: * Pass or Fail: * B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions: * 1) Overall: * Pass or Fail: * Pass or Fail: This article has got to be the best video game article I have ever seeen. I have never reviewed one for GA before, but I have looked around at articles. I am pleased to say it passes all requirements for Good Article status.Mitch32contribs 22:01, 27 February 2008 (UTC) * Glad to hear that. I hope this makes it to a Featured Article. Lightsup55 ( T \| C ) 00:38, 28 February 2008 (UTC) Problems in the Guitar Center for WII Sometimes when I go into the Guitar Center on Guitar Hero III for WII, and it just starts scrolling like crazy, and the only way to stop it is to take the wii remote out of the guitar. Anyone know of this issue?<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)Ben If when you turn on the controller and the anolog stick is up or down (not sure if its the same with strum bar, it will cause the scroller up and down. also if your wammy bar is down when you turn on the controller or conect the wii mote- it wiill Not work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:35, 8 March 2008 (UTC) * No, the strum bar is not affected by this. frogTape: Covered in flies for your enjoyment (talk) 02:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC) Guitar Controllers There is no mention at all in this article about the guitar controllers. Should there be? —Preceding unsigned comment added by PnJunkie (talk • contribs) 18:25, 13 March 2008 (UTC) * The word "controller" appears 18 times in the article, not including footnotes, and once more in the external links section. The article talks about the wireless controller, the controller being shaped like a Les Paul, compatibility with previous controllers, the removable neck, and so on. Am I misunderstanding your question? Travisl (talk) 18:47, 13 March 2008 (UTC) * Maybe he was talking about an image of the Guitar Hero III guitar controller? Lightsup55 ( T \| C ) 03:07, 14 March 2008 (UTC) Add-on to Wii Exclusive features: The surround sound GH3 Wii disk has the "miss" sounds more like the other system GH3. They are no longer like the ps2 Guitar Hero 2.-- 23:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC) World Records the articles seems to be missing the (guiness) world records, and i think it's notable enough to add... someone please??? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:51, 15 March 2008 (UTC) PC download content? There is no information in the article about download content for the PC - this should definitely be mentioned in the article. When? What? How much? Some guy (talk) 19:09, 17 March 2008 (UTC) verbage I'm concerned about the into section's assertion that guitar hero "simulates" playing guitar by hitting "notes". This is not accurate- a simulation is a realistic representation e.g. flight simulator simulates flying, as it attempts to accurately recreate mechanics of flying an aircraft. Guitar hero does not simulate playing guitar, it is essentially a guitar shaped simon-says game. "Notes" and the wikilink to music notes is also inaccurate. The player doesn't hit notes at all, each button triggers the game to play or not play whatever note happens to be in the song at that moment, the player doesn't control what note it is. - super βεε <font style="background:#000033;color:#ff9966;">cat 00:24, 19 March 2008 (UTC) * It sounds to me that you're taking "simulate" too seriously. It fits. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:09, 19 March 2008 (UTC) * It's an encyclopedia. It's inaccurate. -<font style="background:#000033;color:#33ffcc;"> super <font style="background:#000033;color:#ccff33;">βεε <font style="background:#000033;color:#ff9966;">cat 05:16, 20 March 2008 (UTC) No it's a wikipedia! —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC) * Huh? Sorry, but I don't see what you are trying to say here. Please explain. <b style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; text-transform:lowercase; color:#008000;">Lightsup55</b> ( T \| C ) 18:14, 21 March 2008 (UTC) In-Game Advertising I've seen a few references to movies while playing guitar hero III. For example, i saw the "Golden Compass" logo/movie poster while playing slow ride; i do not, however, remember what venue i was playing on. More recently, i saw the logo/movie poster for "Drillbit Taylor". I think it would be cool if more research was done on the appearances of such advertising, and a section be created in the main wikipedia article. Raithian25 (talk) 17:27, 21 March 2008 (UTC) Wii mono sound issue to be fixed by Activision releasing a remastered game restoring true Dolby prologic sound. The only issue is that customer has to send back their guitar hero and lose the game for some time. Bush league move by Activision. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC) Dont forget Axe, theres one axe guitar and one axe bass in the game —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shotgunmerc (talk • contribs) 12:42, 28 March 2008 (UTC) PS2 Wireless? Shouldent this article mention the official wireless Kramer Striker controller for the PS2 edition? Trophies Will this game eventually have Trophies for the PS3? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:13, 26 July 2008 (UTC) World Record Chike has since retaken his record over Johnson, as can be seen here on the scorehero.com leaderboards on Chike's username "iamchris4life": http://www.scorehero.com/rankings.php?group=4&game=6&diff=4&song=2520&page=1 Considering that others have beaten Johnson (who, if I'm not mistaken, is on the same leaderboards under the name "PhenomMan"), but no one is close to reaching the record that Chike recently re-set (and has a video and about 400 witnesses via ustream.com), should it be written in that he actually does still have the record, only with a higher score then is in Guiness?--Rohrk21 (talk) 00:24, 4 June 2008 (UTC) As I understand it, Johnson still had the official Guiness record (which I believe requires an official witness to verify the score). So ScoreHero wouldn't be the official word on who holds the Guiness world record. However, there was a post today on Kotaku indicating the Chike had an official video of his retaking of the record. Rainault (talk) 20:52, 11 September 2008 (UTC) Master Track? In the opening paragraph it mentions that most songs are "master tracks" but it doesn't explain what a master track is. So....what is it?--KyPaintBawler (talk) 21:43, 11 May 2008 (UTC) * a Master Track is the actual recording of the song, rather than a cover version. Onesecondglance (talk) 13:21, 22 July 2008 (UTC) * You may find the article on Master recording helpful. <b style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; text-transform:lowercase; color:#008000;">Lightsup55</b> ( T \| C ) 13:48, 22 July 2008 (UTC) Pandora Controversy Something should be said about the incalculable number of fans upset by the removal of Pandora from the character line up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:07, 4 April 2008 (UTC) * Please provide a proper reference for this. Gary King (talk) 07:23, 6 April 2008 (UTC) PS2 corrupt saves Here's a reference: http://www.tgpo.org/index.php/2007/10/28/guitar-hero-3-hates-my-memory-card/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 04:33, 5 May 2008 (UTC) * That happened to me once, but I have an 8 MB memory card and in the source, for those of you who didn't read, it only says that 16 MB cards do that, but then I got the Wii version. I just thought my memory card was bad. frogTape (talk) 04:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC) * This happened to me and I use a 8 MB memory card. Meowdon (talk) 05:38, 11 November 2008 (UTC) Reliable sources for references marked as unreliable Could someone please provide reliable sources for references that have been marked as unreliable? Gary <b style="color:#02b;"><i style="font-size:large;">K</i>ing</b> ( talk ) 19:49, 5 May 2008 (UTC) * Maybe someone can remove them, since this article is protected for some reason. Forums, blogs, etc never pass WP:V. If a reliable source hasn't commented on this issue, it doesn't warrant coverage here.--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 00:15, 9 May 2008 (UTC) Wii controller I'm really sorry to come here to ask, although technically I'm just saying that this would be useful information to have on the page, but I really need to know if the Wii version will let you play with the "classic controller" attachment, similarly to how the other console versions allow you to use their normal controllers. * Well, I'm not sure about that, but I know you can't play virtual console games with it. Mario died in about 1 minute.. Anyway, you can use the Wiimote in the guitar to play on VC. That's all I know, but I'll probably get yelled at for not saying this really isn't the place to discus this. Maybe... frogTape (talk) 03:46, 14 June 2008 (UTC) * I do not think the original poster was asking anything about the Wii Virtual Console. I cannot address the original question, specifically, because I do not know whether the Classic Controller will work. However, the Wii Remote can be used without the guitar peripheral to play the game. The button-to-note-color mappings are detailed in the instruction manual. Imolee (talk) 18:29, 9 September 2008 (UTC) Mac OS? Did a game that came out in 2007 really support Mac OS? I think Category:Mac OS games is an error. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:09, 16 July 2008 (UTC) "...all versions of the game would feature wireless controllers as well as online multiplayer and downloadable content." This statement isn't exactly true...the PS2 & Wii console versions have no DLC whatsoever. The PS2 version has no online capability whatsoever, despite there being an ethernet jack in the console. Does anyone know why this is? --2dFx (talk) 01:33, 16 July 2008 (UTC) No idea, but it pisses me off. The wireless add on for the original PS2 cost a fair bit, too much for it to go so neglected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:55, 17 July 2008 (UTC) the PC version also lacks DLC and the online scoreboards don't include PC scores. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:37, 27 August 2008 (UTC) Co-op quickplay vs. Co-op career "Instead, Co-Op mode is only available in "Co-Op Career" Mode, which uses a different setlist from the main career and therefore does not provide Co-Op multiplayer for the entire soundtrack." This is incorrect, as all songs are available in the existing co-op "career" mode. However, you must "beat" co-op career before accessing any of them, and then also "unlock" the extra songs in the single-player portion of your selected difficulty. Beating both single-player and co-op on the same difficulty (not easy) unlocks everything in both modes. "Quickplay" just makes co-op a lot more convenient, as changing difficulties (in a party setting, for instance) is a hassle with the co-op career mode. -Larrik Jaerico <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:29, 21 July 2008 (UTC) You cannot play paint it black in co-op mode, thus, technically not all songs areavailable in co-op —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:47, 3 September 2008 (UTC) Edit from past tense to present tense "The online play feature will extend to the Wii version, as announced by Nintendo at the 2007 E3 conference". This should be changed to "The online play feature extends to the Wii version, as announced by Nintendo at the 2007 E3 conference, or something along those lines, which will make it future tense. This must be changed by an autoconfirmed user or higher, as the page is semi-protected from vandalism. NitrogenTSRH (talk) 16:24, 27 July 2008 (UTC) Battle Mode Error This is just a minor thing, but it says " " in the battle mode setion. Since players can choose different difficulties, shouldn't it say it is a twist on the Face-off mode? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:34, 4 August 2008 (UTC) * Actually, its a combination of both. A twist on the Face-Off mode due to the ability for each player to select their own difficulty setting while also being a twist on the Pro Face-Off mode as both players play the same section of the song at the same time. I'd suggest that the text be re-worded to " " or something of the like. <b style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; text-transform:lowercase; color:#008000;">Lightsup55</b> ( T \| C ) 23:38, 4 August 2008 (UTC) Japanese sales data error "the game has sold 3.037 million units in the United States, 412,000 in the United Kingdom, and 26,000 million in Japan, respectively, for a total of 3.475 million units" (emphasis added) The Japanese figure is off by six orders of magnitude thanks to the inclusion of the word "million." Merely imagining the idea that 26 billion copies were sold in Japan and the resultant 200 copies per resident is pretty amusing, though. Imolee (talk) 18:22, 9 September 2008 (UTC) Guitar Hero 3 rewards Should the rewards you get for beating Guitar Hero 3 be included somewhere? I have only gotten the rewards for beating easy and medium, I would like to know the rewards for beating on hard and expert as well. ~IhateLou 09:02, 22 October 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk)	WIKI
[Scriptable] iOS Wanikani Leeches Widget I actually just went ahead and swapped out the url on my phone and it worked without a hitch. I’ll go ahead and update the script on Github as well. 1 Like I’ve been thinking of maybe just making it an app with an actual widget. That way it can have like a list of leeches in storage for when it can’t connect to the internet and it’ll work offline. …that would require me to have enough free time away from work/family to actually do that though. Would you be comfortable with me using your API in that situation? I’m not sure when or even if I’d actually get around to doing it. Just asking in advance. That would be great! If it overwhelmed things in any way then we can work it out then. Let me know if you do get around to it and I’ll implement some kind of user agent header or something so we can track how many requests are coming from your app. 1 Like Lately I’ve been getting the same error as before that “the data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format.” I haven’t made any changes to the code or my API key, could there be something the matter with the leech API? 1 Like Same here! I hope it will fix on its own like it did for others 1 Like Hey there, just wanted to ping you to ask about your leeches API, is that still an active project? I’m still getting the “the data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format” and the issue seems to be with that API. I’ve not made any changes to the API in months, simply haven’t had the time. Things look okay on the monitoring dashboard. Do you have an example query I can try out here and see what I can find out? 1 Like Are you able to run the Scriptable widget? I’m not quite tech-savvy enough to know which part of it is failing, that would give me “the data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format,” so I can’t think of an example query (sorry!). Edit to add: just wanted to note that my other uses of my WK API keys work just fine, so that’s not the issue. Edit 2: well, let’s try something like getting an example value for json.leeches.length (from the Scriptable script) Oh geez! Sorry! It was totally my fault that this has been broken for so long, there was nothing wrong with the widget at all. I don’t understand why it wasn’t flagged to me automatically, but that’s for me to find out. No worries! Thanks so much, the widget is working great now! Widget users, you’re going to need to make a change to the installed code. The address of the server has changed and should now be https://leeches.rosshendry.com. The old server on Heroku will be going away in the next few days as they’re getting rid of the free tier entirely.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Homebuilder and construction stocks enter bear market Stocks of major home construction companies fell on Wednesday, beleaguered by a slump in U.S. equity trading and a decline in homebuilder sentiment. Declines in Lumber Liquidators and American Woodmark pushed the Home Construction exchange-traded fund (ITB) into bear market territory, down more than 21 percent from its 52-week high notched in January. The moves came just after the National Association of Home Builders said that its monthly index of builder sentiment fell 1 point to 67 in August, the lowest level in 11 months. Anything above 50 is considered positive sentiment, yet there are signs of growing concern among builders. The index hit a recent high of 74 last December. Almost 80 percent (37 of 47) of ITB components were trading in correction level or worse Wednesday afternoon, including all homebuilding companies. Beazer Homes USA, which designs and builds family homes for entry-level, move-up, or retirement-oriented home buyers, fell more than 3 percent Wednesday, adding to a 46-percent drop since its 52-week high. Shares of townhouse and condominium builder Hovnanian Enterprises, meanwhile, lost 1.5 percent Wednesday and remain more than 52 percent below January levels. — CNBC's Diana Olick contributed reporting.	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
Ekrukhe Ekrukhe is a village in Rahata taluka of Ahmednagar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Population As of 2011 census, population of village is 5,311, of which 2,767 are males and 2,544 are females. Road Shirdi - Shani Shingnapur state highway and Rahata - Chitali road passes thorough a village. Rail Chitali railway station is the nearest railway station to the village. Air Shirdi Airport is the nearest airport to village	WIKI
Shawn Langdon Shawn Michael Langdon (born 3 September 1982) is a drag racer. He won the 2013 NHRA Top Fuel championship. He is a native of Mira Loma, California.	WIKI
Air-cooled engine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Air-cooled) Jump to: navigation, search Air-cooled engines rely on the circulation of air directly over hot parts of the engine to cool them. A cylinder from an air-cooled aviation engine, a Continental C85. Notice the rows of fins on both the steel cylinder barrel and the aluminum cylinder head. The fins provide additional surface area for air to pass over the cylinder and absorb heat. Introduction[edit] Most modern internal combustion engines are cooled by a closed circuit carrying liquid coolant through channels in the engine block and cylinder head, where the coolant absorbs heat, to a heat exchanger or radiator where the coolant releases heat into the air. Thus, while they are ultimately cooled by air, because of the liquid-coolant circuit they are known as water-cooled. In contrast, heat generated by an air-cooled engine is released directly into the air. (Direct Cooled Engine) Typically this is facilitated with metal fins covering the outside of the Cylinder Head and cylinders which increase the surface area that air can act on. Air may be force fed with the use of a fan and shroud to achieve efficient cooling with high volumes of air or simply by natural air flow with well designed and angled fins. In all combustion engines, a great percentage of the heat generated (around 44%) escapes through the exhaust, not through either a liquid cooling system nor through the metal fins of an air-cooled engine (12%). About 8% of the heat energy finds its way into the oil, which although primarily meant for lubrication, also plays a role in heat dissipation via a cooler. [1] Applications[edit] Road vehicles[edit] Honda CB1100 Many motorcycles use air cooling for the sake of reducing weight and complexity. Few current production automobiles have air-cooled engines (such as Tatra 815), but historically it was common for many high-volume vehicles. Examples of past air-cooled road vehicles, in roughly chronological order, include: Aviation[edit] Most aviation piston engines are air-cooled, including most of the engines currently (2005) manufactured by Lycoming and Continental and used by major manufacturers of light aircraft Cirrus, Cessna and so on. Notable exceptions have included the Allison V-1710 and Rolls-Royce series of (most well known, the Merlin V-1650) liquid-cooled V12 engines which powered P-51 Mustangs, Avro Lancasters, Hawker Hurricanes and Spitfires. Other engine manufactures using air-cooled engine technology are ULPower and Jabiru, more active in the Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA) and ultralight aircraft market. Rotax uses a combination of air-cooled cylinders and liquid-cooled cylinder heads. Diesel engines[edit] Some small diesel engines, e.g. those made by Deutz AG and Lister Petter are air-cooled. Probably the only big Euro 5 truck air-cooled engine (V8 320 kW power 2100 N·m torque one) is being produced by Tatra. Stationary or portable engines[edit] These were commercially introduced early in the 1900s. The first commercial production was by the New Way Motor Company of Lansing, Michigan, US. The company produced air-cooled engines in single and twin cylinders in both horizontal and vertical cylinder format. Subsequent to their initial production which was exported worldwide, other companies took up the advantages of this cooling method, especially in small portable engines. Applications include mowers, generators, outboard motors, pump sets, saw benches and auxiliary power plants. References[edit] 1. ^ Sloan 1964, pp. 71–94, Chapter 5, "The copper-cooled engine". Bibliography[edit] Cited sources[edit] Further reading[edit] • P V Lamarque, "The design of cooling fins for Motor-Cycle Engines". Report of the Automobile Research Committee, Institution of Automobile Engineers Magazine, March 1943 issue, and also in "The Institution of Automobile Engineers. Proceedings XXXVII, Session 1942-1943, pp 99-134 and 309-312. • Julius Mackerle, "Air-cooled Automotive Engines", Charles Griffin & Company Ltd., London 1972.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Hybrid Drive Systems With all the emphasis today on improved fuel economy, energy conservation, environmental protection and enhanced vehicle functionality, commercial truck and component manufacturers have been busy developing "green" technologies. Increasingly, fleets are adopting hybrid and hybrid electric technology. Vehicle fleet managers understand that delivery and transportation are the lifelines of any business. These managers are under constant pressure to lower operational costs without sacrificing performance and durability. The performance characteristics of hybrid electric vehicles are enticing, and the tough duty cycle of a commercial vehicle is the ideal application to experience the full range of benefits from hybrid electric technology. For example, many commercial vehicles experience frequent idle time, such as school buses or delivery trucks at a drop-off. Hybrid electric offers engine-off at idle which can significantly reduce fuel and emissions, while still having the hybrid system support ancillary vehicle applications like climate control. Depending on the application, hybrid electric truck users can experience an improvement of 30 to 35 percent in fuel economy compared to a traditional diesel-engine powered truck in a variety of operations. In an increasingly "green" world, the hybrid electric also reduces green house emissions by a wide margin. Hybrid electrics provide other benefits. Along with extending engine life, hybrid systems assist in deceleration through regenerative braking, reducing brake wear, resulting in lower maintenance and lifecycle costs. The clean, quiet operation of hybrid electric vehicles are particularly suitable for those applications that require power takeoffs (PTO) to operate tools and equipment, where non-hybrid vehicles would otherwise be idling normally and exposing surrounding areas and vehicle operators to excessive noise and diesel exhaust for extended periods. While hybrid electric technology itself presents a compelling story, there are external factors that are also helping to set the stage for accelerated growth in the commercial sector. Among these are access to government stimulus money, the threat of higher oil prices, greater recognition and appreciation for environmental issues and better understanding of hybrid technology in general. SYSTEMS OVERVIEW Hybrid electric systems combine an engine with a combination electric motor/generator and high-capacity batteries to augment engine torque with electrical motor torque, say officials at Eaton Corporation, a global technology leader in electrical components and systems, including truck and automotive drivetrain and powertrain systems for performance, fuel economy and safety. Advanced powertrain controls monitor driving conditions and automatically select the ideal power mode, smoothly switching among electric only, combined diesel and electric and diesel-only power modes. The hybrid drive system recovers energy normally lost during braking and stores this energy in the hybrid system's batteries, Eaton officials explain. This technology is called regenerative braking. During the next vehicle launch cycle, this electric energy is pulled from the batteries and supplied to the hybrid motor, which converts the electric energy to torque and horsepower, continue the officials. When blended with engine torque, the stored energy is used to improve fuel economy and vehicle performance. The main components of a parallel electric hybrid drive system are the diesel engine; hybrid drive unit (HDU) - electric motor and automated manual transmission; power electronics carrier (PEC), commonly referred to as the battery box; motor inverter controller; hybrid cooling system; DC/DC converter for ePTO (electrical power takeoff) application only; and battery charger. Among the truck manufacturers currently offering a range of hybrid electric drive trucks are Freightliner, International, Kenworth and Peterbilt - all with systems that are supplied by Eaton. PARALLEL DIESEL It bears mentioning that last year, Mack Trucks delivered a diesel-electric hybrid Mack TerraPro Low Entry model refuse truck to the city of New York. It is the first production intent parallel diesel-electric hybrid truck in the U.S. designed specifically for Class 8 heavy duty applications and meeting the U.S. EPA's 2010 diesel emission regulations. The Mack diesel-electric hybrid powertrain features an integrated tarter, alternator and electric motor. The system captures energy from braking in the form of electricity (regenerative braking), stores the electricity in a 600-volt lithium ion battery pack and uses it to power the electric motor, which assists the Mack MP7 diesel engine with propulsion of the truck. The Mack system is what is known as a parallel hybrid because the diesel engine and electric motor can operate either in unison or as separate units. There are three possible modes: pure diesel power, such as at highway speeds; pure electric power, useful for quiet operations in residential neighborhoods; and combined diesel-electric mode, when maximum power is desired, such as accelerating from a stop with a full load. The combined diesel-electric mode improves performance and requires less fuel than diesel-only. When the parallel hybrid vehicle decelerates, electric energy is returned to the battery pack using the same hybrid system. DRIVE TECHNOLOGY Azure Dynamics Corporation is a company that develops electric and hybrid electric drive technology for light to medium duty commercial vehicles. It offers a range of hybrid systems, including its Balance Hybrid Electric drive system on Ford E450 cutaway and strip chassis trucks. This system, which manages the conventional 5.4-liter Triton gasoline engine and 5-speed automatic TorqShift transmission, features electric-launch assist, engine-off at idle and regenerative braking, all of which combine to improve fuel economy and reduce idling for fewer greenhouse gas emissions, explains Bill Nash, Azure Dynamics' product support manager. This hybrid system runs on either the electric motor or the gas engine. Output to the drive wheels is through a common driveshaft. Although the gas engine will start and run at the beginning of a daily work cycle, it will shut off automatically after warm up. The vehicle operates on the electric motor at speeds below about 25 mph with the gas engine starting automatically as needed for high-voltage battery charging or acceleration demands. At highway speeds, the gas engine provides driving power and continues to charge the high-voltage battery pack as needed. Azure Dynamics' CitiBus product is a series hybrid electric system on a Workhorse chassis that comes in a gas or diesel version. In this type of system, the conventional transmission and driveline is replaced with an electric motor to drive the rear wheels. The engine is not coupled directly to the drive wheels and serves only to power a generator to charge the high-voltage battery back which powers the electric motor. On deceleration, the electric drive motor serves as a generator and converts rolling energy into high-voltage battery charging ability. Regenerative energy is stored in the high-voltage battery. This energy is reused by the electric motor while driving the vehicle. When the vehicle comes to a stop, the engine will often shut off, Nash explains. When this happens, the energy stored in the battery pack runs the auxiliary drives, such as the power assist systems (brakes and power steering), electric air conditioning system and the DC/DC converter which charges the 12-volt batteries. This CitiBus also has the capability to start the engine and charge the high-voltage battery using the generator or to start the engine with the 12-volt starter as a back-up. Another product is the Force Drive battery electric drivetrain which will be integrated on the Ford 2010 Transit Connect van - a full electric, plug-in system that is much less complex systems than other hybrid systems, says Nash. According to Ford, the Transit Connect BEV model has a targeted range of 80 miles minimum on a full charge and zero tailpipe emissions. The Low Emission Electric Power (LEEP) from Azure Dynamics are compact hybrid systems that basically run off a vehicle's transmission's power takeoff to generate and capture clean electric power to supply a range of auxiliary systems and export power applications. The system requires little power, about the equivalent of running a cab air conditioner. Kidron's Ultra Temp hybrid refrigeration solution for refrigerated distribution incorporates the LEEP system to deliver efficient power refrigeration while cutting fuel consumption and emissions by 90 percent, says Kidron. The power generated is stored in the refrigeration system. When the vehicle engine is shut down, the stored energy of Ultra Temp maintains the cargo area temperature. Overnight, the Ultra Temp system can be plugged into either single or three-phase power sources, eliminating cost, fuel, noise and emissions from diesel engines and generators. For the most part, hybrid vehicles operate just like any traditional vehicles, say Azure Dynamics and Eaton officials. However, the operator will have to get used to the quieter operation. PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE Eaton suggests service and maintenance professionals should be aware of a few distinct service procedures which, when adhered to, will go a long way to ensuring clean, reliable service. In conjunction with its OEM partners, Eaton outlines five keys to PM success for operations that have hybrid electric trucks. • Check transmission lube - The transmission lube fill and drain plugs are located on the right side of the transmission main case. Eaton recommends checking the lube level at every vehicle PM interval. The lube should be level with the bottom of the fill-plug hole. If it is not level, only approved CD-50 synthetic lubricant should be used to refill. • Grease the clutch release shaft bushing - Also with every PM interval, Eaton advises that a couple of pumps of grease be applied to the zerks of the upper cross shaft bushing. These are located at the bottom of the clutch housing at the inspection cover. Early built units have the zerk fitting on the top of the housing. • Change the PEC air filter - The air filter on the power electronics carrier (battery box) needs to be checked - and changed if needed - a minimum of every four months, says Eaton. The PEC is an air cooler unit that uses an electric fan to pull air through the filter, then over the batteries and electronic components inside the housing. Plugged air filters will reduce hybrid assist and reduce fuel economy. • Check hybrid liquid cooling level - Eaton hybrid electric systems also have a cooling system that is separate from the diesel engine's cooling system. Yet, the coolant type and flush interval should be the same as the diesel engine's system. Eaton advises that service professionals should also visually check the coolant level on a regular basis. The coolant should be between "½" and "¾" on the sight glass of the reservoir. If it is not, approved coolant needs to be added. • Visual inspections - High-voltage wiring and connections also should be visually checked at every PM interval. Eaton says proper training and equipment is needed to repair high-voltage cables showing signs of damage or incorrect routing, and only a certified OEM dealer should be used to make the repairs. SAFETY MEASURES Eaton and Azure Dynamics both say they place a very high priority on making hybrid systems as safe as possible. All of the components were selected and specified to provide safety for not only the driver, but also for any technician who might be working on the vehicle, and even for motorists and others who might be involved in an accident with a hybrid vehicle, Eaton points out. With Eaton hybrid electric systems, all high-voltage components are totally isolated from the vehicle chassis, and high-voltage cables were purposely placed outside of the vehicle's cab and enclosed to safeguard the operator and passengers. High-voltage cables and connectors are bright orange - a color that signals caution to trained technicians, as well as emergency response professionals and others who may respond to an accident. In addition, regenerative braking and anti-lock braking systems (ABS) are linked via the SAE J1939 datalink so that that the hybrid system does not have any negative impact on the vehicle during an ABS event. Both Eaton and Azure Dynamics have extended their hybrid safety initiatives beyond vehicle design and driver training. The companies work closely with OEMs to support all their products. Safety information for vehicle operators is included in vehicle owner's guides, and service manuals provide detailed coverage for service technicians. Training on hybrid systems is also made available to independent maintenance and repair shops. As with any type of automotive systems, technicians need to be properly trained on hybrid vehicles and need to use the proper tools and safety equipment, adds Azure Dynamics' Nash. These include specific diagnostic tools, special high-voltage electrical safety insulating gloves and a minimum 500-volt AC voltmeter. Loading	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Joint Statement by President Joe Biden and Taoiseach Micheál Martin On March 17, President Joe Biden hosted Taoiseach Micheál Martin for a virtual bilateral meeting. The leaders reaffirmed the deep, historic partnership and extraordinary people-to-people ties between the United States and Ireland, and they committed to working together to address areas of shared interest. Combating COVID-19 The top priority of the President and the Taoiseach is ending the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring global health security, and pursuing a sustainable economic recovery in the United States and Ireland. * The President and the Taoiseach agreed to cooperate in global efforts to defeat the pandemic, build resilience, and prevent future outbreaks. * They committed to working with each other, the United Nations, the World Health Organization and COVAX to address the urgent need for delivery of COVID-19 vaccines and to strengthen international institutions responsible for global health. * They committed to working together to reopen our economies and restore global travel safely. * The President and the Taoiseach recognized the need for a sustainable and inclusive economic recovery plan that addresses the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on women and underrepresented and minority groups. Addressing Global Challenges The President and the Taoiseach affirmed their shared commitment to addressing global challenges bilaterally and through multilateral institutions, including the European Union, of which Ireland is a member. * The leaders emphasized their commitment to multilateral institutions, which play a central role in promoting peace, prosperity, and stability. * In the United Nations Security Council, the United States and Ireland will cooperate on shared priorities of peacekeeping, conflict resolution, women’s rights, climate and security, and promoting democratic values, rule of law, and respect for human rights. * The President and the Taoiseach underscored the need to promote our shared democratic values and the international rules-based order. * The two leaders pledged to strengthen efforts to address non-traditional security threats, including violent extremism, natural disasters, food insecurity, and humanitarian access, as well as to cooperate and build capacity in cyber space. * Both leaders regard climate action as a critical issue. They committed to working together to implement strong domestic policies and international action designed to increase climate resilience. They expressed their commitment to strengthening the implementation of the Paris Agreement. They also agreed to work together to ensure environmental protection in the Arctic region. * The President and the Taoiseach agreed on the importance of a strong relationship between the United States and Europe based on a shared history and values, as we work together to support economic recovery and help to build a more peaceful and prosperous world. Increasing Our Shared Prosperity The President and the Taoiseach recognized the importance of a predictable, open, and transparent economic policy framework that encourages two-way foreign investment and promotes fair trade and competition. * Recognized the importance of job creation in both the United States and Ireland, and highlighted the hundreds of thousands of jobs in both countries supported by strong two-way flows of investment. * The President and the Taoiseach agreed to support deepening trade and investment between the European Union and the United States. * The leaders committed to continue developing global cooperation in many areas, including global tax reform; data protection; science, technology, and innovation; and transatlantic trade, including through the work of the OECD. * They emphasized the strategic importance of democracies working together to hold international trading partners accountable to standards of open and free market trade policies. Supporting the Good Friday Agreement The United States and Ireland are unequivocally committed to the Good Friday Agreement (also known as the Belfast Agreement), which has been the bedrock of peace, stability, and prosperity in Northern Ireland. * The President and the Taoiseach underscored the importance of preserving the hard-won gains of the peace process for all the people of Ireland and Northern Ireland. * They agreed on the importance of the democratic institutions established under the Agreement, including the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly, continuing to work on behalf of the people of Northern Ireland and delivering on the commitments of the Good Friday Agreement, and subsequent agreements. * They emphasized the vital role of the British and Irish governments as co-guarantors of the Good Friday Agreement, the contribution of local leaders from across Northern Ireland’s political spectrum, and the important and supportive role of the United States. * They called for the good faith implementation of international agreements designed to address the unique circumstances on the island of Ireland. * The President and the Taoiseach paid tribute to the late John Hume, whose life work was invaluable to the advancement of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Strengthening People-to-People Ties The United States and Ireland are committed to broadening and deepening the breadth of people to people ties between the two nations, including through collaborative research projects, cultural programs, educational exchanges, and tourism. * The President and the Taoiseach agreed to encourage the return and expansion of student exchanges between the United States and Ireland after the pandemic. * The leaders expressed their support for an earned path to citizenship for immigrants in the United States, as proposed in the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021. * The leaders welcomed the renewal of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Departments of Health of Ireland and Northern Ireland and the United States’ National Cancer Institute, which established the Ireland/Northern Ireland/NCI Cancer Consortium in October 1999. This partnership aims, through cross-border and transatlantic collaborations, to enhance cancer research and cancer care for the benefit of patients on the island of Ireland and in the United States. * The leaders also welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Poetry Ireland and the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation. The program, titled “Hope Rhymes” affirms the inspirational power of poetry. It aims to deepen appreciation of each other’s poetic cultures and to facilitate a sharing of experience between poetry teachers and students across the United States and Ireland.	WIKI
Talk:Consequences of the spanish flu I deleted the "Nowadays" section today since is was mainly a duplication of the World Health Organization entry and had possible copyright violations.	WIKI
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Juan Carlos GONZALEZ, a/k/a Carlos Gonzalez, a/k/a J. Garcia, Tomas Morales, a/k/a Tomasito, Israel Garcia, a/k/a Flaco, Raciel Rodriguez, a/k/a Ray Rodriguez, Luis Sanchez, Eliodoro Santos, a/k/a Lolo, Defendants-Appellants. No. 89-5401. United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Sept. 4, 1991. Fred A. Schwartz, Stephen M. Klimacek, Adorno & Zeder, P.A., Rauol G. Cantero, Miami, Fla., for Gonzalez. Manuel Gonzalez, Jr., Miami, Fla., for Morales. Stephen A. LeClair, Entin, Schwartz, Margules & Lazarus, Miami, Fla., for Rodriguez. Harry M. Solomon, P.A., Miami, Fla., for Sanchez. William A. Meadows, Jr., Thomas W. Ri-savy, Miami, Fla., for Santos. James R. Gailey, Federal Public Defender, Miami, Fla., for Garcia. Terry L. Lindsey, Linda Collins Hertz, Lynne W. Lamprecht, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, Fla., for U.S. Before FAY and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge. FAY, Circuit Judge: Defendants-appellants were convicted on numerous counts involving the trafficking in marijuana. On appeal, they raise several claims, the most significant of which are: whether the district court properly denied motions to suppress evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant, whether certain extrinsic act evidence was properly admitted, whether the evidence was sufficient to support their convictions, and whether the jury was properly instructed. For the reasons that follow, we VACATE the convictions of Luis Sanchez on Counts 20-22, we VACATE the convictions of Juan Carlos Gonzalez on Counts 1-3, we VACATE the convictions of Raciel Rodriguez on Counts 17-19, and we VACATE the sentence of Tomas Morales and REMAND for resen-tencing. We reject all other claims by defendants-appellants and AFFIRM their convictions and sentences on all other counts. I. BACKGROUND A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida handed down a twenty-seven count indictment charging Luis Sanchez, Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Eliodoro Santos, Raciel Rodriguez, Israel Garcia, Tomas Morales, and Jorge Hernandez with numerous offenses relating to the trafficking in marijuana. The indictment included charges of conspiracy and continuing criminal enterprise, as well as charges of importation, possession with intent to distribute, and possession with intent to distribute on board a United States vessel in connection with specific marijuana import ventures. The indictment was based on evidence of numerous attempts to import marijuana into the United States, using several different vessels. Each venture involved a different crew, but followed the same general plan. Sanchez, either personally or through one of his agents — Gonzalez, Rodriguez, Hernandez, Morales, Garcia, or Santos — solicited a captain and a crew to import marijuana using a particular boat, usually some type of shrimping or fishing vessel. The crew was paid some money up front, with the remainder promised upon successful completion of the venture. One of the crew worked the ship’s radio, and was given a code with different messages assigned specific numbers. The radio operator was told to communicate every eight hours and to use only the code numbers. Sanchez also detailed the route the vessel was to follow. For each venture, the vessel was to rendezvous with another boat containing the marijuana, generally at either a place called Misteriosa Bank, or at Lighthouse Point, off the coast of Belize. If the rendezvous was successful, the marijuana was transferred to the first vessel for transport back to the United States. At a designated place, the marijuana was then to be transferred to smaller boats which were to bring it ashore. The original vessel was then supposed to be cleaned, and made to look as if it had been out legitimately, for example by putting some shrimp in the hold. For various reasons, only one of the ventures charged in the indictment was successful. After a jury trial, all defendants were convicted of the conspiracy counts as well as of offenses related to at least one importation venture. II. DISCUSSION A. Motion to Suppress On September 23, 1987, federal agents executed a search warrant for the residence of appellant Luis Sanchez. During the search, agents seized three address books and a locked briefcase belonging to appellant Juan Carlos Gonzalez, who is the brother-in-law of Sanchez. The briefcase, which was opened at the scene, contained $50,000 in United States currency, various documents which the government introduced as a marijuana bale list, and Gonzalez’ passport. Both Sanchez and Gonzalez appeal the denial of their motions to suppress evidence seized as a result of the search of Sanchez’ house. 1. Sanchez’ House Luis Sanchez makes a two-pronged attack on the search warrant and its supporting affidavit. First, he argues that the affidavit was likely to mislead the magistrate into believing that there was more evidence of criminal activity on his part than actually existed. The affidavit contained thirty numbered paragraphs, only the last five of which specifically referred to Luis Sanchez. (Rl:132 Exhibit B) Further, paragraphs 21-25 referred to the activities of a Julio Sanchez, who is not related to Luis Sanchez. Appellant Sanchez argues that unless reviewed carefully, the magistrate could unwittingly have assumed that the Sanchez referred to in paragraphs 21-25 and Luis Sanchez were the same person, and that the illegalities discussed in paragraphs 28-25 were attributable to Luis Sanchez. Sanchez further argues that the warrant did not set forth a basis to determine probable cause, so that the good faith exception to the warrant requirement does not apply. See United. States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897, 923, 104 S.Ct. 3405, 3420, 82 L.Ed.2d 677 (1984). We disagree. First, we find it unlikely that the magistrate was confused or misled by the statements regarding the two Sanchezes. The information about Julio Sanchez was relevant to understanding the circumstances detailed in the affidavit and was not intermingled with information about appellant Luis Sanchez. Second, the issuing magistrate clearly had a substantial basis for determining probable cause under the totality of the circumstances of this case. A substantial basis for probable cause exists where the totality of the circumstances set forth in the affidavit provides sufficient information for a magistrate to determine that “there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.” Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 238-39, 103 S.Ct. 2317, 2332-33, 76 L.Ed.2d 527 (1983). Great deference is accorded to the magistrate’s determination of probable cause. Leon, 468 U.S. at 914, 104 S.Ct. at 3416; Gates, 462 U.S. at 236, 103 S.Ct. at 2331. In the instant case, two magistrates — the issuing magistrate and the magistrate who conducted the hearing on Sanchez’ motion to suppress — and one district judge reviewed the warrant affidavit. All three found it provided probable cause to believe that documents and United States currency related to the importation and distribution of controlled substances in violation of the law would be found in the Sanchez residence. We agree with the other judges who have reviewed this affidavit and find it provided a substantial basis for determining probable cause. We therefore find that the district court properly denied the motions to suppress. 2. Gonzalez’ Briefcase Even though we find that the search of the Sanchez house was valid, we consider separately the search of the locked briefcase belonging to Gonzalez that was found in the house. See United States v. Freire, 710 F.2d 1515 (11th Cir.1983) (search of briefcase found in co-defendant’s car considered separately from search of car), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1023, 104 S.Ct. 1277, 79 L.Ed.2d 681 (1984). Gonzalez argues that even if the search of Sanchez’ house was valid pursuant to the search warrant, that warrant could not justify the search of the locked briefcase which the agents knew belonged to Gonzalez. We disagree. The items sought in the search of Sanchez’ house were documents and United States currency related to the illegal importation and distribution of controlled substances. A briefcase could easily contain such items. Assuming without deciding that Gonzalez had a legitimate expectation of privacy in his locked briefcase, we hold that the valid search warrant for Sanchez’ house provided sufficient authorization for the search of the briefcase found in the house. See United States v. Morris, 647 F.2d 568, 572-73 (5th Cir. Unit B 1981) (search of locked jewelry box justified by valid search warrant for premises, though it would be different if “the objects sought in the warrant were of a size that would not fit in the box.”). We therefore affirm the denial of the motions to suppress. B. Extrinsic Evidence During the trial, the government introduced evidence of marijuana smuggling ventures involving two vessels, the “Don Christobal” and the “Sea Viking.” Evidence of these ventures implicated appellant Sanchez, but these ventures were not listed in the indictment. The government also introduced evidence that Sanchez and his wife had submitted several false financial applications. This evidence was introduced as extrinsic act evidence pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b). Appellants Sanchez, Garcia, and Morales challenge the admission of this extrinsic act evidence. In addition, appellants Sanchez, Garcia, Morales, and Rodriguez challenge admission of evidence of the “Sea Viking” venture, claiming it was part of a separate conspiracy and not part of the conspiracies charged in the indictment. The admission of extrinsic act evidence pursuant to Rule 404(b) is reviewed for a clear abuse of discretion. United States v. Hooshmand, 931 F.2d 725, 736 (11th Cir.1991); United States v. Eirin, 778 F.2d 722, 731 (11th Cir.1985). For this evidence to be admissible, the government must “show that (1) the evidence is relevant to an issue other than a defendant’s character and (2) the probative value of the evidence outweighs any prejudicial effect.” Hooshmand, 931 F.2d at 736; United States v. Dothard, 666 F.2d 498, 501 (11th Cir.1982); see also United States v. Beechum, 582 F.2d 898, 911 (5th Cir.1978), cert. denied, 440 U.S. 920, 99 S.Ct. 1244, 59 L.Ed.2d 472 (1979). The latter requirement is essentially that stated in Federal Rule of Evidence 403. Beechum, 582 F.2d at 911. Further, this evidence is admissible “if the jury could reasonably find by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant committed the extrinsic act.” Hooshmand, 931 F.2d at 736 (citing Huddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681, 690, 108 S.Ct. 1496, 1501, 99 L.Ed.2d 771 (1988)). For the reasons that follow, we find the evidence in this case was properly admitted. 1. The “Don Christobal” The “Don Christobal” incident occurred in August of 1985. United States Customs officials boarded the vessel off Marco Island, Florida and found marijuana. There was testimony that the officers compared the individuals on board with photographs on driver’s licenses taken from them, that this information was written down, and that it was later passed on to Deputy Sheriff Tom Storrer. Storrer testified that the information he had received included that Luis Sanchez had been on board the vessel, and that the driver’s license for the man named Luis Sanchez on board the vessel matched that of appellant Sanchez. Appellants argue that this evidence is inadmissible under Rule 404(b) because the evidence is insufficient for the jury to reasonably conclude that Luis Sanchez committed the act and because the act was not sufficiently related to the acts charged in the indictment to have any probative value. We disagree. The testimony regarding the circumstances surrounding the identification of the people on board the vessel and the chain of custody of that information is certainly sufficient to allow the jury to reasonably conclude that appellant Sanchez was on that vessel when it was boarded by customs officials. Moreover, this incident occurred on August 25, 1985, just days before the time of the conspiracies charged in the indictment. This evidence is therefore relevant and admissible to show the “defendant’s ability and experience to execute a fraudulent scheme.” Hooshmand, 931 F.2d at 736; see also United States v. Garcia, 880 F.2d 1277, 1278 (11th Cir.1989). In this context, it is also material to show Sanchez’ intent, knowledge, and common scheme or plan. Further, although this evidence had no probative value as to the other appellants, its admission was neither more nor less prejudicial than the evidence of various other substantive acts in which they were not personally involved that was introduced throughout the joint trial. The jury’s ability to sort out the evidence as to each defendant was amply demonstrated by its acquittal of appellants Garcia and Rodriguez on three of the counts with which they were charged. We find no abuse of discretion by the district court in admitting evidence of the “Don Christobal” incident. 2. The “Sea Viking” The “Sea Viking” venture occurred from October 1987 to January 1988, prior to the end of the conspiracies charged in the indictment. A government witness testified that he was hired by appellant Sanchez to bring marijuana into the United States on board the “Sea Viking.” The witness testified that Sanchez gave him the route to follow (passing by Misteriosa Bank), radio frequencies, and a communications code. This load was intercepted by the Coast Guard at the end of January 1988, and 15,500 pounds of marijuana were seized. The court admitted the “Sea Viking” evidence as part of the conspiracies charged in the indictment, on the basis that none of the co-defendants had affirmatively withdrawn from those conspiracies. Appellants argue that this evidence was improperly admitted under Rule 404(b) because it is only relevant to show appellant Sanchez’ supposed propensity to commit the type of crimes with which he is charged, contrary to United States v. Goodwin, 492 F.2d 1141, 1153 (5th Cir.1974), and its progeny. However, given that this incident took place within the time frame of the conspiracies charged in the indictment, and that the modus operandi of this venture was substantially similar to that of the ventures charged in the indictment, this evidence was clearly relevant to show motive, intent, knowledge, and common scheme or plan. Appellants also argue that because only Sanchez among the defendant’s was implicated in the “Sea Viking” venture, it was a wholly separate incident and not admissible as part of the conspiracies charged in the indictment. Whether the evidence shows one conspiracy or multiple conspiracies is primarily a jury question. See, e.g., United States v. Stitzer, 785 F.2d 1506, 1518 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 823, 107 S.Ct. 93, 93 L.Ed.2d 44 (1986). There is no requirement that every member of the conspiracy participate in every transaction to find a single conspiracy, nor must the evidence show that each conspirator knew the others or the details of each venture making up the conspiracy. Id. A single conspiracy may be found where there is a “key man” who directs the illegal activities, while various combinations of other people exert individual efforts towards the common goal. Id. In this case, the evidence relating to the “Sea Viking” was properly admitted by the district court as an uncharged substantive offense which was proof of the continuing criminal enterprise as well as proof of the underlying conspiracies. See United States v. Alvarez-Moreno, 874 F.2d 1402, 1408 (11th Cir.1989), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 110 S.Ct. 1484, 108 L.Ed.2d 620 (1990). We believe the jury reasonably could find that Sanchez and Gonzalez were “key men,” and that Rodriguez, Morales, Santos, and Garcia were participants in the overall scheme to varying degrees. There is sufficient evidence that each defendant had a general knowledge of the overall goal of the conspiracies, i.e., the importation and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute it. The “Sea Viking” venture was within the time frame of the conspiracies charged in the indictment, and no evidence was presented that any of the appellants withdrew from the conspiracies. We therefore find no abuse of discretion by the district court in admitting this evidence as part of the conspiracies charged in the indictment. 3. Financial Applications of Sanchez and his Wife Appellant Sanchez also challenges two exhibits introduced by the government that show Sanchez and his wife had made false statements regarding the sources of their increased wealth. This evidence included loan applications filed by both, a health insurance form filed by Sanchez’ wife stating that she worked for a company, and that company’s wage reports showing that she did not work for that company during that time. This evidence was introduced for the purpose of proving an increase in wealth during the course of the enterprise, and that Sanchez attempted to conceal the true source of the increased wealth. Sanchez concedes that the government is entitled to introduce evidence of an increase in wealth, but argues that this evidence is only relevant to show bad character contrary to Rule 404(b). We disagree. The possession of large amounts of unexplained cash in connection with evidence of narcotics trafficking on a large scale has long been admissible to show the doing of the act connected with those proceeds. United States v. $364,960.00 in U.S. Currency, 661 F.2d 319, 324 (5th Cir. Unit B 1981). The government was entitled to show that Sanchez had experienced a sudden acquisition of large sums of money from unexplained sources in order to prove that he had received substantial income and resources from the continuing criminal enterprise with which he was charged. United States v. Lattimore, 902 F.2d 902, 903 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 272, 112 L.Ed.2d 228 (1990); United States v. Chagra, 669 F.2d 241, 256 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 846, 103 S.Ct. 102, 74 L.Ed.2d 92 (1982). Although the sudden acquisition of money by a defendant charged with a crime involving pecuniary gain is admissible without tracing the source, Lattimore, 902 F.2d at 903, the probative value of such pecuniary gain increases if the prosecution is able affirmatively to eliminate a defendant’s claim of a legitimate source. Here, evidence of appellant’s apparent attempt to conceal the true source of his sudden wealth by falsely listing a source that appeared to be legitimate is relevant to negate any legitimate source for these funds, and is not unfairly prejudicial. We find no abuse of discretion in admitting this evidence. C. Sufficiency of the Evidence All of the appellants except Gonzalez raise the issue of the sufficiency of the evidence with respect to some or all of the counts for which they were convicted. In evaluating the sufficiency of the evidence, we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the government. United States v. Gutierrez, 931 F.2d 1482, 1488 (11th Cir.1991); United States v. Graziano, 710 F.2d 691, 697 (11th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 466 U.S. 937, 104 S.Ct. 1910, 80 L.Ed.2d 459 (1984). In so doing, we draw all reasonable inferences in favor of the jury’s verdict. Gutierrez, 931 F.2d at 1488; United States v. Thomas, 676 F.2d 531, 535 (11th Cir.1982). In a criminal case, evidence is sufficient to support a conviction “if a reasonable trier of fact could find that the evidence establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.” Graziano, 710 F.2d at 697. 1. Sanchez Luis Sanchez was convicted of all counts charged in the indictment. He claims the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction on Counts 20-22, or on Count 25. Counts 20-22 charged Sanchez with offenses arising out of an incident involving the vessel “Melissa” in October of 1986. The government presented no evidence that Sanchez was involved in the incident, nor was there any physical documentation connecting him to that incident. The government concedes that since no jury instruction was given on vicarious liability in an ongoing conspiracy pursuant to Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640, 66 S.Ct. 1180, 90 L.Ed. 1489 (1946), the evidence was insufficient to show that Sanchez was connected with the “Melissa” incident. Brief of the United States at 56. We therefore VACATE the convictions of Luis Sanchez on Counts 20, 21, and 22. Count 25 charged Sanchez with the offense of continuing criminal enterprise. 21 U.S.C. § 848 defines the offense as follows: (c) ... a person is engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise if— (1) he violates any provision of this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter the punishment for which is a felony, and (2) such violation is a part of a continuing series of violations of this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter— (A) which are undertaken by such person in concert with five or more other persons with respect to whom such person occupies a position of organizer, a supervisory position, or any other position of management, and (B) from which such person obtains substantial income or resources. Sanchez contends that paragraph (2)(B), the substantial income or resources requirement, was not satisfied. We disagree. Sanchez correctly notes that the evidence shows that only one of the marijuana ventures alleged in the indictment was successful. Sanchez then argues that although he may have realized substantial income or resources from that one incident, he did not receive substantial income or resources from a “continuing series of violations.” However, the government need not trace substantial income or resources realized by the defendant during the course of the enterprise to specific violations; it is sufficient if the government shows, by either direct or circumstantial evidence, that the defendant derived substantial income or resources from his operation of the entire enterprise. See United States v. Draine, 811 F.2d 1419, 1421 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 827, 108 S.Ct. 94, 98 L.Ed.2d 55 (1987); Chagra, 669 F.2d at 256. Thus, a defendant’s acquisition of substantial income or resources from a continuing criminal enterprise may be demonstrated either by proof that defendant acquired substantial resources from just one of the enterprise’s operations, see Graziano, 710 F.2d at 697-99 (one successful operation by the enterprise involving 4,800 pounds of marijuana sufficient), or by proof of the sudden acquisition or expenditure of large sums of money, even though the source of these funds is not specifically traced to the illegal acts charged in the indictment. Lattimore, 902 F.2d at 903; Chagra, 669 F.2d at 256. In this case, the government demonstrated that appellant Sanchez received substantial resources from the successful “Ross and Bess” operation, in which approximately 30,000 pounds of marijuana were imported, and as a result of which Sanchez paid crew members and the vessel’s owner over $200,000. The government also demonstrated that Sanchez experienced a substantial unexplained increase in personal wealth of over $300,000 during the course of the enterprise, as evidenced by his bank statements, home improvements, and financial statements. This evidence is clearly sufficient to prove that Sanchez received substantial income and resources as required by 21 U.S.C. § 848. 2. Rodriguez Rodriguez argues that the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions for Counts 16-19. Count 16 involved the unsuccessful venture of the “Ross and Bess” in March 1986. Counts 17-19 deal with importation and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute involving the vessel “Lady L.” The government again concedes that as no Pinkerton instruction was given, there was insufficient evidence to support Rodriguez’ conviction on Counts 17-19. Brief of the United States at 56. We therefore VACATE the conviction of Raciel Rodriguez on Counts 17, 18, and 19. As to Count 16, the record shows that Rodriguez came to Miami with Sanchez to pick up Acosta, a crew member for the “Ross and Bess,” in order to take him to Key West for the unsuccessful March 1986 marijuana run, as they had for a previous “Ross and Bess” venture. Rodriguez and Sanchez also met with Acosta and the other crew members once they had reached Key West prior to their departure. Since Rodriguez was charged with aiding and abetting (18 U.S.C. § 2), the government was only required to prove that he voluntarily associated himself with the venture and sought to make it succeed. United States v. Leavitt, 878 F.2d 1329, 1338 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 110 S.Ct. 415, 107 L.Ed.2d 380 (1989); United States v. Collins, 779 F.2d 1520, 1528 (11th Cir.1986). Given Rodriguez’ proven extensive prior involvement with the enterprise, the jury was entitled to infer that he knew of the March 1986 “Ross and Bess” venture and acted with the intent to make it succeed. See Leavitt, 878 F.2d at 1338. We therefore find the district court properly denied Rodriguez’ motion for acquittal. 3. Santos Appellant Santos argues that there was insufficient evidence to sustain his conviction on Counts 2, 3, 10, 12, and 17 of the indictment. We disagree. Counts 2 and 3 charged Santos with conspiracy to possess marijuana with intent to distribute and conspiracy to possess marijuana with intent to distribute marijuana on board United States vessels, respectively. Santos does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence as to the conspiracy charged in Count 1, conspiracy to import marijuana. Because of the factually overlapping and intertwining nature of these conspiracies, none of the conspiracies could have existed without the others, and none of the people involved in orchestrating the importation conspiracy reasonably could have isolated himself from a conspiracy involving the method of importation— possession of large quantities of marijuana (possession with intent to distribute) and possession of large quantities of marijuana on board a United States vessel (possession with intent to distribute on board a United States vessel). Moreover, the evidence conclusively demonstrates that Santos knew that he was participating in and indeed was an active member of all three conspiracies. He recruited essential crew members for the express purpose of picking up marijuana loads outside of the United States and bringing them here. He offloaded one of these marijuana boats in United States waters, and he distributed some of the proceeds from the sold marijuana. These acts clearly demonstrate Santos’ personal knowledge of all aspects of the conspiracies charged in the indictment. Santos also challenges his convictions for aiding and abetting the possession of marijuana in connection with both the final “Ross and Bess” venture (Counts 10 and 12) and the “Lady L” venture (Count 17). The evidence reflects that Santos participated in the offloading of marijuana from the “Ross and Bess,” and personally distributed proceeds from that successful venture to the “owner” of the boat. Further, he took crew members for the last “Ross and Bess” venture to meet with Sanchez and Rodriguez in Key West before they left for the ill-fated marijuana run. Those same crew members became the crew for the “Lady L” after the “Ross and Bess” sank. Santos also recruited the captain for another vessel, the “Monica,” which acquired one half of the marijuana from the “Lady L” as part of a prearranged plan. Before the “Monica” left port, Santos drove the captain and two of the crew members to Miami to meet with Sanchez in anticipation of the trip. Given Santos’ extensive involvement with the enterprise, the evidence is sufficient for the jury to find Santos voluntarily associated himself with the “Ross and Bess” and “Lady L” ventures and actively sought to make them succeed. See Leavitt, 878 F.2d at 1338. 4. Garcia and Morales All defendants made motions for judgments of acquittal pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29 at the close of the government’s case, which the district court denied. However, as neither Garcia nor Morales renewed their Rule 29 motions after presenting evidence on their behalf, this court will only review their claims for a manifest miscarriage of justice, i.e., to determine if “ ‘the evidence on a key element of the offense is so tenuous that a conviction would be shocking.’ ” United States v. Tapia, 761 F.2d 1488, 1492 (11th Cir.1985) (quoting United States v. Landers, 484 F.2d 93, 94 (5th Cir.1973) (footnote omitted), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 924, 94 S.Ct. 1428, 39 L.Ed.2d 480 (1974)). Garcia argues that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction on Counts 1-3, the conspiracy counts, and 10-12, regarding the second “Ross and Bess” venture. We disagree. Although Garcia cannot be described as a major player in this game, we do not find the evidence relating to these counts so lacking as to create a manifest miscarriage of justice. A defendant may be convicted of a conspiracy even if he played only a minor role in its operation. See, e.g., United States v. Roper, 874 F.2d 782, 787 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 110 S.Ct. 189, 107 L.Ed.2d 144 (1989). In this ease, the record reflects that Garcia spoke to James Wheeler and Mike Rhodes about making a marijuana run, and told them that the people in charge of the load would be coming down from Miami. These people were Sanchez and Rodriguez. There was a meeting between Sanchez, Rodriguez, Wheeler, and Rhodes at Garcia’s trailer the following day where the second “Ross and Bess” marijuana venture was discussed. Further, Wheeler testified that the day before the “Ross and Bess” left port, he met another crew member, Acosta, at Garcia’s trailer. When this evidence is construed most favorably to the government, it shows that Garcia recruited two crew members to make a marijuana run for the organization in connection with the second “Ross and Bess” venture, and arranged a meeting between them and the key organizers, Sanchez and Rodriguez. Moreover, although there is no evidence as to whether Garcia was present at this meeting, he clearly facilitated its occurrence by allowing the principals to use his residence. There is sufficient evidence that Garcia knew of the conspiracies charged in Counts 1, 2, and 3, and that he voluntarily participated in them. Also, he was clearly aware of the second “Ross and Bess” venture, voluntarily associated himself with the venture by recruiting crew members, and acted as a facilitator in order to make the venture succeed. Morales argues that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction on Counts 1-3, the conspiracy charges, or on Counts 4-6, pertaining to the vessel “Bobby.” The evidence shows that Morales recruited Richard Washington to captain the vessel “Aquarius” for the purpose of making a marijuana run, and that Morales handed Washington and his friend $6,000 in front money which Sanchez had agreed to pay them for smuggling the marijuana. The evidence also shows that Morales recruited two crew members for the “Bobby,” Luis Ramirez and Walter Keith, and offered to pay James Prather $50,000 to be the captain. Morales gave Ramirez $300 front money and told him where they would be picking up the marijuana. Before the “Bobby” left port, Morales told Ramirez and Keith that the more marijuana they loaded aboard, the more they would be paid. Further, Morales offered to speak to Sanchez about getting some money for Ramirez after the “Bobby” venture failed. This evidence is clearly sufficient to support Morales’ convictions for conspiracy, as well as for the underlying substantive offenses involving the “Bobby.” D. Jury Instructions Appellants raise several challenges to the district court’s jury instructions. Appellants Sanchez and Morales challenge the district court’s omission of an instruction to the jury defining “attempt.” Appellants Garcia and Morales argue that the district court erred by not instructing the jury on the issue of their withdrawal from the alleged conspiracy. Lastly, appellant Sanchez also claims error in the court’s instruction that none of the attorneys in the case were affiliated with the attorney who represented him during the time frame of the alleged conspiracies. As none of the appellants either submitted proposed instructions or objected to the court’s jury charge, our review is limited to plain error. United States v. Solomon, 856 F.2d 1572, 1575 (11th Cir.1988), cert. denied, 489 U.S. 1070, 109 S.Ct. 1352, 103 L.Ed.2d 820 (1989); United States v. Pepe, 747 F.2d 632, 675 (11th Cir.1984). Jury instructions will only be reversed “for plain error if, viewing the court’s charge as a whole, it was so clearly erroneous as to result in a substantial likelihood of a grave miscarriage of justice,” Pepe, 747 F.2d at 674 n. 78, “or the error ‘seriously affects the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.’ ” Id. at 675 (quoting United States v. Thevis, 665 F.2d 616, 645 (5th Cir. Unit B), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 825, 103 S.Ct. 57, 74 L.Ed.2d 61 (1982)). In our judgment, none of the alleged errors raised by appellants constitutes plain error requiring reversal. First, it is well settled that terms which are within the common understanding of the jury need not be defined in the jury instructions. Id. at 675 n. 78 (and cases cited therein). “Attempt” is not an overly technical or ambiguous term, nor is it beyond the common understanding of the jury. Id. It is unlikely that the court’s failure to define “attempt” confused the jury or resulted in a grave miscarriage of justice. We find no plain error in the court’s failure to define “attempt” in its jury instructions. Second, neither Garcia nor Morales requested an instruction on withdrawal from the conspiracy, and neither presented evidence to support such an instruction. Withdrawal is an affirmative defense. United States v. Finestone, 816 F.2d 583, 589 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 948, 108 S.Ct. 338, 98 L.Ed.2d 365 (1987). Accordingly, the defendant has the substantial burden of proving “that he undertook affirmative steps, inconsistent with the objects of the conspiracy, to disavow or to defeat the conspiratorial objectives, and either communicated those acts in a manner reasonably calculated to reach his co-conspirators or disclosed the illegal scheme to law enforcement authorities.” Id. (emphasis in original). Counsel in this case have merely argued that Garcia and Morales must have withdrawn because they were incarcerated during the latter part of the time frame of the conspiracy. However, neither arrest nor incarceration automatically triggers withdrawal from a conspiracy. See United States v. Rosenthal, 793 F.2d 1214, 1244 (11th Cir.), modified on other grounds, 801 F.2d 378 (1986), cert. denied, 480 U.S. 919, 107 S.Ct. 1377, 94 L.Ed.2d 692 (1987). Under these circumstances, neither Garcia nor Morales was entitled to an instruction on withdrawal. Lastly, the district court’s instruction that none of the trial attorneys were associated with the attorney who was allegedly part of the criminal enterprise was requested by counsel for Garcia and was acquiesced in by counsel for all other defendants, including trial counsel for Sanchez. Nevertheless, Sanchez argues on appeal that the instruction had the effect of telling the jury that it should credit the evidence of the involvement of the attorney, which was damaging to Sanchez, and thereby lessened the burden on the government to prove every element of its case. We disagree. At most, the instruction may have corroborated that an attorney by such a name existed. As it is extremely doubtful that this seriously affected the fairness of these judicial proceedings, we reject appellant’s claim. E. Other Claims Appellant Garcia argues that he was severely prejudiced by being tried with the other defendants because the majority of evidence presented at trial had nothing to do with him. In order to successfully challenge the denial of a motion for severance, the appellant must show that the trial court abused its discretion, Gutierrez, 931 F.2d at 1491, i.e., that “he was unable to receive a fair trial and suffered compelling prejudice.” Leavitt, 878 F.2d at 1340. To show compelling prejudice, the appellant must prove “that the jury could not follow the trial court’s instructions and separate the evidence relevant to each appellant.” Id. Generally, co-conspirators should be tried together; cautionary instructions to the jury to consider the evidence as to each defendant separately are presumed to guard adequately against prejudice. Id. Such cautionary instructions were given in this case. Garcia points to nothing in the record to demonstrate prejudice. Indeed, as both Garcia and Rodriguez were acquitted on three of the counts with which they were charged, the jury in this case was clearly able to separate the evidence with regard to the different defendants. We therefore find no abuse of discretion. Gonzalez argues, and the government concedes, Brief of the United States at 90, that his convictions on Counts 1 through 3 for conspiracy merged with his conviction for continuing criminal enterprise in Count 26. See Rosenthal, 793 F.2d at 1246 (citing United States v. Harrington, 761 F.2d 1482, 1487 (11th Cir.1985)). We therefore VACATE the convictions on Counts 1, 2 and 3 of Juan Carlos Gonzalez. Lastly, the judgment for Tomas Morales signed by the trial court was labelled “Judgment Including Sentence Under the Sentencing Reform Act.” Morales argues, and the government concedes, Brief of the United States at 90, that this was error, given that this is a pre-Sentencing Reform Act case. We therefore VACATE Morales’ sentence and REMAND for resentencing consistent with this opinion. III. CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons, we VACATE the convictions of Luis Sanchez on Counts 20-22 of the indictment, we VACATE the convictions of Juan Carlos Gonzalez on Counts 1-3 of the indictment, we VACATE the convictions of Raciel Rodriguez on Counts 17-19 of the indictment, and we VACATE the sentence of Tomas Morales and REMAND for resentencing in accordance with this opinion. We AFFIRM the district court in all other respects. . Jorge Hernandez pled guilty. . Counts 1, 2, and 3 charged conspiracy to import marijuana (21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 963); conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana (21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846); and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana on board vessels of the United States (21 U.S.C. §§ 955a, 955c). All defendants were convicted of these counts. Counts 4, 5, and 6 charged offenses related to use of the vessel "Bobby” in October 1985: possession with intent to distribute on board a United States vessel (21 U.S.C. § 955a(a) & 18 U.S.C. § 2); attempted importation (21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 963 & 18 U.S.C. § 2); and attempted possession with intent to distribute (21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846 & 18 U.S.C. § 2). Sanchez and Morales were convicted of these counts. Garcia was charged but acquitted on these counts. Counts 7, 8, and 9 charged crimes related to the first, but unsuccessful, use of the vessel “Ross and Bess” in October 1985: attempted possession with intent to distribute on board a United States vessel (21 U.S.C. §§ 955a, 955c & 18 U.S.C. § 2); attempted importation (21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 963 & 18 U.S.C. § 2); and attempted possession with intent to distribute (21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846 & 18 U.S.C. § 2). Sanchez, Rodriguez, Gonzalez, and Santos were convicted of these counts. Counts 10, 11, and 12 charged offenses in connection with a successful marijuana venture with the "Ross and Bess” in November 1985: possession with intent to distribute on board a United States vessel (21 U.S.C. § 955a(a) & 18 U.S.C. § 2); importation of marijuana (21 U.S.C. § 952(a) & 18 U.S.C. § 2); and possession with intent to distribute (21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) & 18 U.S.C. § 2). Sanchez, Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Garcia, and Santos were convicted of these counts. Counts 13, 14, and 15 charged crimes relating to an unsuccessful venture using the "Ross and Bess” in February 1986: attempted possession with intent to distribute on board a United States vessel (21 U.S.C. §§ 955a(a), 955c & 18 U.S.C. § 2); attempted importation (21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 963 & 18 U.S.C. § 2); and attempted possession with intent to distribute (21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846 & 18 U.S.C. § 2). Sanchez, Gonzalez, and Santos were convicted of these counts. Rodriguez was charged but acquitted of these counts. Count 16 charged attempted possession with intent to distribute on board a United States vessel (21 U.S.C. §§ 955a(a), 955c & 18 U.S.C. § 2) relating to an ill-fated venture involving the "Ross and Bess” in March 1986. Sanchez, Rodriguez, Gonzalez, and Santos were convicted of this count. Counts 17, 18, and 19 charged the same appellants as Count 16 with crimes relating to the use of the "Lady L”: possession with intent to distribute on board a United States vessel (21 U.S.C. § 955a(a) & 18 U.S.C. § 2); attempted importation (21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 963 & 18 U.S.C. § 2); and attempted possession with intent to distribute (21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846 & 18 U.S.C. § 2). The “Ross and Bess” sank during the unsuccessful venture in March 1986, and the crew eventually ended up on the “Lady L,” which then took part in another unsuccessful venture. All were convicted of these counts. Counts 20, 21, and 22 charged the same appellants, Sanchez, Rodriguez, Gonzalez, and Santos with crimes in connection with an unsuccessful importation using the vessel "Melissa” in October 1986: possession with intent to distribute on board a United States vessel (21 U.S.C. § 955a(a) & 18 U.S.C. § 2); attempted importation (21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 963 & 18 U.S.C. § 2); and attempted possession with intent to distribute (21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846 & 18 U.S.C. § 2). All were convicted of these counts. Counts 23 and 24 charged only Gonzalez with violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1952 on March 17, 1986 and October 9, 1986, respectively. He was convicted of these counts. Counts 25, 26, and 27 charged Sanchez, Gonzalez, and Hernandez respectively, with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise (21 U.S.C. § 848). Both Sanchez and Gonzalez were convicted of these counts. . Defendants Sanchez, Santos, Morales, and Rodriguez argue that 21 U.S.C. § 955a(a) (possession of marijuana with intent to distribute) and 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) (possession of marijuana with intent to distribute on board a United States vessel) prohibit the same conduct, such that their convictions for both offenses constitutes double jeopardy. This court has already considered and rejected this argument in United States v. Souder, 782 F.2d 1534, 1539 (11th Cir.1986). . The government conceded that Sanchez has the right to challenge the search of his home. Gonzalez also attempted to challenge the search, claiming that he was living in the house because he had separated from his wife a week before the search. The magistrate found that Gonzalez' testimony was not credible, that he failed to demonstrate that he was a resident of the house, and that he therefore could not challenge the search of the house. The district court conducted an independent review, then affirmed the magistrate’s report and recommendation. The district court’s findings of fact and credibility choices on a motion to suppress will only be overturned if clearly erroneous. United States v. Roy, 869 F.2d 1427, 1429 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 110 S.Ct. 72, 107 L.Ed.2d 38 (1989). The only evidence that Gonzalez resided at the house was his own testimony, and the government provided ample evidence tending to discredit Gonzalez’ account. We cannot say that the magistrate’s and district court’s finding was clearly erroneous. . Although Sanchez in his brief refers to "false and reckless statements,” Brief of Sanchez at 48, he has produced no evidence that any of the statements in the affidavit were false in any respect. Indeed, he does not appear to be claiming that any statement in the affidavit was untrue, only that the overall effect could be misleading. Therefore, Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 98 S.Ct. 2674, 57 L.Ed.2d 667 (1978), and United States v. Kirk, 781 F.2d 1498 (11th Cir.1986), cited by Sanchez, which deal with challenges to the veracity of the affidavit, are inapplicable to this case. . The affidavit showed that: (1) a known large-scale drug trafficker, Ugalde, was looking for "something” from appellant Sanchez at a time when he was searching for drugs; (2) in a cryptic conversation about Ugalde getting "something" from Sanchez, Ugalde and Sanchez consciously avoided naming the subject of their conversation, but they clearly understood each other; (3) this conversation indicated Sanchez and Ugalde had had dealings of this type in the past; (4) Sanchez intended to do business with Ugalde at Sanchez’ house; (5) Sanchez had a very large amount of cash in his house in banded stacks in a box; (6) when Ugalde learned of this money, he was not surprised and suggested stealing some of it because it was unlikely to be missed. . Sanchez also asserts standing to challenge the search of the locked briefcase because it was in his home and therefore in his possession. However, Sanchez’ acknowledgement to the district court, through his attorney, that the briefcase did not belong to him removes any legitimate expectation of privacy which might otherwise have been accorded to him. See United States v. McBean, 861 F.2d 1570, 1574 (11th Cir.1988). Moreover, by explicitly stating to the district court that he was not objecting to the introduction of the briefcase, Sanchez waived his right to raise the issue here. United States v. Valdes, 876 F.2d 1554, 1558 n. 10 (11th Cir.1989). . To challenge a search or seizure as violative of the fourth amendment, a criminal defendant must show that he has a legitimate expectation of privacy in the property searched or seized. Rakas v. Illinois, 439 U.S. 128, 143, 99 S.Ct. 421, 430, 58 L.Ed.2d 387 (1978). . Decisions of the former Fifth Circuit, Unit B, are binding precedent in this circuit. Stein v. Reynolds Securities, 667 F.2d 33, 34 (11th Cir.1982). . Fed.R.Evid. 404(b) states: (b) Other crimes, wrongs, or acts. Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident. . Appellant Garcia specifically adopted the argument of Sanchez on this issue. Appellant Morales adopted all favorable points made by other appellants. . Prior to trial the government filed a notice of intent to offer evidence pursuant to Fed.R.Evid. 404(b). Appellants argue for the first time on appeal that this notice was insufficient because it did not state a valid purpose. We decline to address this issue as it was not raised in the district court. United States v. Hosford, 782 F.2d 936, 938 n. 1 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1118, 106 S.Ct. 1977, 90 L.Ed.2d 660 (1986). . The government argues that we should review this evidence under the plain error standard because appellants Sanchez and Garcia did not object at trial to this evidence based on Rule 404(b), but only on hearsay and relevancy grounds. The government also states that the rule regarding objections in this case was that each defendant had to object individually. We believe appellants’ objections and argument on this evidence was sufficiently clear to apprise the district court and opposing counsel that appellants objected on the basis of Rules 403, 404(b), hearsay, and relevancy. We note that part of the test for determining the admissibility of evidence under Rule 404(b) is its relevancy to an issue other than the defendant’s character. Moreover, the record shows that appellants are clearly correct that the rule at trial in this case was that any objection by one defendant was presumed to be joined in by all defendants unless they specifically exempted themselves from that objection. (R8:67; R15:l 101-02). There was no requirement that each defendant make his own objection. . Decisions of the former Fifth Circuit handed down before October 1, 1981 are binding precedent in this circuit. Bonner v. City of Prichard, 661 F.2d 1206, 1209 (11th Cir.1981) (en banc). . Fed.R.Evid. 403 states: Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence. . The indictment charged defendants with violation of three conspiracy statutes. See supra note 2. Each of these statutes addresses a different criminal objective and may be punished separately. See Albernaz v. United States, 450 U.S. 333, 101 S.Ct. 1137, 67 L.Ed.2d 275 (1981). However, as the evidence shows that these violations arose out of only one general conspiratorial agreement, we will treat them as one general conspiracy for the purposes of this analysis. . Appellant Santos further argues that the evidence at trial shows that more conspiracies existed than were charged in the indictment, and that the evidence did not show that Santos participated or was even aware of the separate conspiracies. As appellants neither requested nor received jury instructions on the issue of whether single or multiple conspiracies existed, we will reverse only on a showing of plain error. United States v. Meester, 762 F.2d 867, 880 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 1024, 106 S.Ct. 579, 88 L.Ed.2d 562 (1985). Because we find the jury could reasonably find single conspiracies, with Sanchez and Gonzalez as “key men," we find no variance between the number of conspiracies charged in the indictment and the evidence produced at trial. United States v. Stitzer, 785 F.2d 1506, 1518 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 823, 107 S.Ct. 93, 93 L.Ed.2d 44 (1986). . The government claims that Sanchez did not object at trial to one piece of this evidence, GX 88, and that his objection to the other, GX 90, was based on grounds other than Rule 404(b). Upon review of the record, we conclude that there was a proper objection to GX 88 (R15:1193), and that the objection and argument made by appellant at trial is consistent with his position before this court (R15:l 126-53). . Both Garcia and Morales claim they renewed their motions at the close of all evidence. However, the record shows that only Rodriguez renewed his motion at the close of all evidence. While the record indicates that the procedure for objections at trial was that one defendant’s objection stood for all, see supra note 11, we can find no evidence in the record of an agreement that motions would also be registered jointly. Indeed, in this case, each separate defendant made a motion for judgment of acquittal at the close of the government’s case. . Generally, an appellant may not assert theories on appeal that were not raised at trial or preserved by a timely objection. United States v. Hosford, 782 F.2d 936, 938 n. 1 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1118, 106 S.Ct. 1977, 90 L.Ed.2d 660 (1986). Although in his brief Garcia states that he moved for severance at various times during the course of the trial, he fails to cite to the record in support of this contention and we have been unable to locate any formal motion pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 14 in the record. Counsel did, however, frequently comment during trial that much of the evidence went only to the other defendants and that he felt this prejudiced his client. We therefore choose to address this claim. . The district court has already vacated the conspiracy convictions of Luis Sanchez for this reason. . We reject, however, Gonzalez’ argument that the trial court's denial of his attorney’s motion to withdraw violated Gonzalez’ sixth amendment right to effective assistance of counsel because his attorney had a conflict of interest and because he and his attorney were embroiled in an irreconcilable conflict. We see no abuse of discretion by the trial court in refusing to grant such a motion so close to the time of trial. .Appellant Rodriguez raises three other issues which we reject as meritless: (1) whether the trial court's failure to make a finding with respect to a controverted fact contained in the defendant’s presentence investigation report necessitates a remand for resentenc-ing; (2) whether the trial court’s limitations on and comments during the defendant’s opening statements denied him a fair trial; (3) whether the prosecutor’s statements during closing argument which vouched for the veracity of the government's witnesses, had an unduly prejudicial effect upon the jury and constituted reversible error.	CASELAW
Page:Margaret Sherwood--A Puritan in Bohemia.djvu/28 20 with Howard Stanton's card in her hand. Miserere accompanied her to the reception-room door, then dashed away to play with the other studio cats, Victoria Regina, and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. Anne tore up the card, then wondered helplessly what to do with the pieces. It was strange that Howard should come just now. But then, it was strange that he had not come before. She must be rather formal at first. Memories drifted to her of scenes where she had met him in imagination. In imagination she had been quite self-possessed. Now she was undeniably ill at ease. This was only because of her haunting anxiety lest she had spoiled this man's life. As she entered, the young man rose and held out his hand. He, apparently, was not embarrassed. "I am presuming upon our old acquaintance," he said. "Chance has brought me to the city" "Why, Howard!" gasped Anne. She had not meant to be so formal as that.	WIKI
Backend · Drupal · Drupal 6 & Drupal 7 · Frontend · How To · PHP · Solution to Error Drupal Role Specific Development Feedback On rare occasions you may have to work on a production site and need some development feedback. If you want to control which role sees your output, this snippet can help. With this logic in place, only appropriate roles will see your working on the site. Backend · Drupal · Drupal 6 & Drupal 7 · Frontend · PHP · Solution to Error Drupal Display PHP Errors on One Domain of Multi Site When using a multi-site setup, You may want errors only to appear for one site. In that case, use $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] in an if statement to only display PHP error messages for the domain of your choice: Drupal · Drupal 6 & Drupal 7 · Frontend · How To · Web Design Drupal 7: How To Create a Views View from Within a Module (default view) The whole idea in making a module is to make it, well ‘modular’, right? The person who is going to install the module should not have to create and configure a view. Chances are they would not get it just right anyway (you know, with all the exact settings the module depends upon). This is because the Views UI is so versatile that no two people are likely to set it up the exact same way. In many cases, if a module depends on data from a view, all the Views setting need to be just so in order for the module to work its magic. Although this is very doable, I found it very difficult to locate documentation spelling out just how to do it. I’m not sure if it was not documented in a way that was easy to find or if it was the fact that I had a 3-day headache pounding away. Either way, I did finally come across a few links. techcommons.stanford.edu Drupal API To give myself and others one more place to stumble upon what to do I have documented how to create a Views default view from within a module below. A default Views view is a view that weather enabled or not shows up on the /admin/structure/views page once a module is installed and enabled. For the purpose of these notes we will call our module, ‘mymodule’. Everywhere you see ‘mymodule’ you need to replace with the name of your actual module name. This article assumes that you are familiar with module development basics and that you have already created your basic module files ( mymodule/mymodule.module, mymodule/mymodule.install & mymodule/mymodule.info ). OK, let’s create a default view in a module! Create a new file named mymodule.views_default.inc and save it into a directory named mymodule/includes/. Inside the file you just created, paste the following function… You can now create a View in the Views UI as you normally would. Then export the view. Select the entire export text as presented in the textarea of the export result and past it in place of where you see “PASTE EXPORTED VIEW CODE HERE” inside the function you just made and save the file. OK, next, inside the file your mymodule.module file, paste the following function (remember that everywhere you see ‘mymodule’ you need to replace with the name of your actual module name.). Now you can clear your cache and see the default View you just created in the list of default views at ‘admin/structure/views’ Please feel free to register and comment. Drupal · Drupal 6 & Drupal 7 · Frontend · How To · Web Design Drupal 7: How to Make a Drupal Theme Function in a Module This is intended as a simple reminder for all of those out there who find making a drupal theme a bit confusing at times. There are three main steps that all work together. 1) hook_theme which adds an array of callbacks and their arguments to the theme registry. You need to put this in your sites/all/modules/mymodule/mymodule.module file to rebuild the theme registry before it would be added. 2) The themable function itself which starts with theme_ followed by the function name that was added to the registry with hook_theme 3) Then call the function, which actually calls the function. It is important to remember all three of these or the theme will not work. AJAX · Drupal · Drupal 6 & Drupal 7 · Frontend · How To DRUPAL 7: How to Expose a Field in Views The other day when trying to expose a Filter criteria in a view of the Views module 7.x-3.1, I was frustrated by the fact that it would not function despite my best efforts. After triple checking my set up and reading a lot of documentation, there was no fix. Finally, after digging deep into some threads by a person having the same frustration with Views in Drupal 7 and exposed filters, I found the simple, although illusive, solution. In the VIEWS UI, open the “ADVANCED” section and look under the “OTHER” subsection. Find the item “Use AJAX” and set the value to yes. I know, I know, (pause, make face) – right? Well, the guy on the thread that helped me complained enough about it so I’ll just keep my mouth shut. I hope that if you were having this problem you found my post faster than I found that thread. : ) As, always, feel free to comment and make suggestions. select yes for use ajax Frontend · How To · HTML5 · Usability · User Iterface Design · Web Design HTML5: How to Make a datalist for a Form Field Input Element Isn’t it nice when web developers make it easy for end users to fill out a form? One way to make for a pleasant user experience is to offer suggestions on a form’s input field. HTML5 now has a cool feature that makes this easier for the developers too! The HTML5 datalist element provides an “autocomplete” feature on form elements. With it, you can provide a list of predefined options to the user as they input data. Now, when a user is entering some text into a text field, a list can drop down with pre-filled values for them to choose from. How to Make a datalist for a Form Field Input Element The datalist tag was introduced in HTML 5. Use the ID of the datalist tag to associate it with the appropriate input. For example, if the datalist tag has an id=”myDataList”, then the list attribute of the input element will look like this: list=”myDataList”. You can fill the datalist element by nesting option tags inside the datalist tag. Here is an example of the code for the HTML5 datalist element: OK, so now you know. Go be nice to your users with the HTML5 tag! CSS · Frontend · How To · Web Design CSS3: Drop Shadow on an Image Drop shadows are a nice way to add dimension to a site. Creating them used to be a real task. Combining multiple divs and floats and trickery with CSS that were basically hacks. Not to mention how difficult it was to accomplish creating shadows programmaticlly. Well, making a drop shadow on an image is easy now thanks to CSS3! Enter the box-shadow element! The box-shadow element is supported in IE9+, Firefox 4, Chrome, Opera, and Safari 5.1.1. The syntax of the box-shadow CSS3 element is as follows: box-shadow: h-shadow v-shadow blur spread color inset; The box-shadow element is a comma separated list of properties that effect the position and size and color and even the opacity of the shadow. Note the inset perimeter. That controls wether the shadow is inside of or outside of the object getting the shadow. CSS3 image drop shadwo The first to parameters control the horizontal and vertical position of the shadow. Next is the optional blur distance measure followed by the optional spread (or size) of the shadow. The next paramiter is the color parameter. Here is where you can use the new CSS3 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) element. With the rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) element you can control the opacity as well. Or you could use the color number here if you like without opacity. OK, well, enough talk. Go try it out! AJAX · Backend · Drupal · Drupal 6 & Drupal 7 · Frontend · MAMP · PHP · Web Design · WordPress Get The Calling Function Knowing which PHP function call the code we are working on can give us the clues we need for de-bugging a script. Getting the calling function is easy in PHP, thanks to the debug_backtrace() function. Just put the following code wherever in your script you need to know what function is calling the part you are working on. This will output something like this: The function that just called this code is DrawWidget. Where DrawWidget is the name of the function. I hope this comes in handy for someone. Thanks for visiting! Frontend · How To · javaScript Tips · jQuery · Web Design How to Get All the Selected Values from a Multi-Select with jQuery Need to know how to get all the selected values or text values from a multi select element (drop down)? Its simple with jQuery! Start by declaring an array. One for the values of the multi select element and one for the text values. Well, if you even need the text values from the multi select, that is. Now we can use the ‘ :selected’ jQuery selector. That we get all the items from the select element that the user has selected. We can use the jQuery ‘each()’ function to iterate over the select element and gather the values and texts into the arrays using jQuery’s standard ‘.val()’ and ‘.text()’ functions. Next iterate through the selected items, using the standard val() to return the selected option’s value or text() to grab the actual display text that made up the list item.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
-- Weale Says More BOE Stimulus Would Add to Inflation Pressures Bank of England policy maker Martin Weale said the rate of U.K. inflation remains a concern and more stimulus may add to pressure at a time when consumer-price growth exceeds the central bank’s goal. “I think it is more likely than not that inflation will remain above target for much of the next two years,” Weale said in prepared remarks for a speech to be delivered later today in Manchester, England . “My analysis suggests that additional stimulus would, without any corresponding improvement in productivity, add to inflation.” Weale’s comments contrast with those of his colleague David Miles , who said three days ago that there is more the central bank can do if recessionary conditions persist, and indicate continued divisions among the Monetary Policy Committee on stimulus. The BOE will publish the minutes of its Nov. 7-8 meeting at 9:30 a.m., showing how officials voted when they halted expansion of their bond-purchase program . Separately today, the BOE’s Financial Policy Committee, which is led by Governor Mervyn King , holds its quarterly meeting. After its last meeting in September, the panel maintained its recommendations for banks to raise capital to stave off threats to the financial system. The central bank will publish its next FPC statement, along with the twice-yearly Financial Stability Report, on Nov. 29. Inflation Credibility In his speech , which he will deliver at the Manchester Economics Seminar, Weale said there is a risk to the Bank of England’s credibility as long as inflation remains above the 2 percent goal. Consumer-price growth accelerated to 2.7 percent in October and the central bank raised its near-term inflation forecast earlier this month. “While inflation remains above target, there is an obvious risk that, at some point, people involved in setting of wages and prices will start to think that we do not take the inflation target serious,” he said. “It need not be a sudden change. The risk is all the greater because the change is more likely to be very gradual.” In a Nov. 18 interview on Sky News television, Miles said the U.K. “may need more stimulus” and that it will “depend on how the headwinds holding back growth play out.” Weale said that while there is “an argument for a further stimulus,” there is uncertainty about the reasons for weak productivity and its potential impact on inflation. It’s possible that “a revival of demand would lead to a sharp improvement in productivity growth,” he said. “But, at the moment I do not feel we have a quantitative understanding of the factors contributing to weak productivity clear enough to be confident that productivity would move in line with a sharp increase in demand.” To contact the reporter on this story: Scott Hamilton in London at shamilton8@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Craig Stirling at cstirling1@bloomberg.net	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
Hot answers tagged 36 zsh is for vulcans. ;-) Seriously: bash 4.0 has some features previously only found in zsh, like globbing: % ls /usr/src//Makefile is equivalent to: % find /usr/src -name "Makefile" but obviously more powerful. In my experience bash's programmable completion performs a bit better than zsh's, at least for some cases (completing debian packages ... 18 Two reasons come to mind: First -- it is available practically everywhere. I have several Linux systems (CentOS 4.x in this case) which do not have zsh installed. Similarly I have to touch ancient systems like Solaris 2.6 and up, HP-UX 10 and up, and similarly creaky versions of AIX. Therefore I pretty much have to use bash on these computers, which I do ... 17 For existing users: chsh -s SHELL USER chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash root For future users: Edit "/etc/pw.conf" defaultshell keywords When use adduser(), choose necessary shell 16 After you've used CTRL-U you can use CTRL-Y to paste back what you've erased. It works after erasing a word or a number of words with CTRL-W too. Note this way you don't really need to copy anything to the clipboard or select it with the mouse - CTRL-U actually yanks the line to a separate clipboard, so to speak. 14 Bash generally comes with every system, zsh doesn't. I love zsh, but because of this, I use zsh for interactive use, but Bash for all my scripting. I find this keeps everything simpler, as even when I shopt whatever the bash compatible (setopt SH_WORD_SPLIT ?), I still run into subtle differences. 14 I would like to point out that bash is not installed by default on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or NetBSD, and it is also not installed by default on Solaris 10 (OpenSolaris has it as the default), last time I used an AIX, and or HP-UX servers it was not installed by default either. Also, on OpenSolaris /bin/sh is NOT bash. It is ksh. The biggest issues I have as a ... 11 Although I am a bash user, I find one of zsh's features pretty cool: RPS1. Remember: PS1: the left aligned prompt RPS1: the right aligned prompt Sample: When using something like PS1=’%B(%h) %m%#%b ‘ RPS1=’(%20<…<%~)' You get your prompt on the left and the current directory pushed onto the right. It even disappears when the current line is ... 10 Very close: cp P10802{75..83}.JPG ~/Images 9 Zsh has spelling correction. If you're a letter (or more) off, it will figure out what you meant. It also has more robust tab completion, which I like. Zsh has an interactive config utility to get it set how you like. Some speed tests say zsh is faster, but I haven't noticed any difference. 8 pushd is like cd, but it also pushes your current directory onto a stack. You might be in /some/deep/directory and then need to poke around in /var/www for a while: crb@server /some/deep/directory $ pushd /var/www/ /var/www /some/deep/directory crb@server /var/www $ [do some stuff] crb@server /var/www $ popd /some/deep/directory crb@server /some/deep/... 8 In cases where command -- -file does not work - since not every program uses the same option parsing routines, command ./-file works everywhere. 8 Run which ls to see what exactly is ran why you type ls. ls may be configured as an alias with options not available on your system. 7 It isn't your shell that determines whether output of ls is colorized. You must run ls --color=auto (either as an alias, or explicitly) in order to get colorised ls output. I suspect that your bash configuration included that alisa by default, but zsh doesn't for some reason. Seems odd that Ubuntu would have crippled their zsh installation in such a ... 7 Depending on the OS, ls doesn't always have the functionalities. There are two different versions of ls : One from the BSD world (for example Mac OS X version) : The --color=auto doesn't work, use -G instead. One from the Free Software Foundation (Linux for example) : You can use the --color=auto and the -G option does not list group. By the way, ... 6 I've been using zsh for about 18 years now, and I must say I don't like the accepted solution. Here's why: You need to figure out the source of the problem - determine why 'tda' is being offered as a correction option. What you have done is completely disabled spelling correction globally. This denies you some very nice functionality while trying to get rid ... 6 zsh is not fully bash compatible. There are a variety of differences. Newer zsh is more compatible with bash (=~ supported, exec now has the extra flag options, etc) but full compatibility is not a goal, not even under "emulate". For instance, bash substring is ${foo:offset:len} but in zsh it's $foo[start,end] and that's just one simple example. zsh is a ... 6 As a one-off for the last command: echo !! \| pbcopy will put exactly the last command into the clipboard. 6 To iterate over a range in bash: for x in {0..10}; do echo $x; done Applying the same in your case: for x in {272..283}; do cp P1080$x.JPG ~/Images; done 5 My advice: if you are going for absolute portability, write using Bourne shell rules, don't even bother with Korn shell extensions. As mentioned, that are some older "big boxes" around that don't have GNU shells on them at all. Bash already does "too much". I have a friend at work who prefers zsh, but I don't know what exactly it does. Anyway, either ... 5 I don't know of any bash features that zsh does not support. The design goal of zsh seems to include supporting any features that bash adds. I still use bash instead of zsh. I rarely come across compelling features that zsh supports that bash does not. Occasional problems with zsh over the years, or it not existing on certain sysetms, have made it not worth ... 5 Try: unsetopt EXTENDED_HISTORY The numbers are the number of seconds since the Unix epoch of when the command began and the duration in seconds that the command ran. Edit: I forgot to mention that you should use the fc command to interact with history instead of parsing the history file. There are at least a couple of reasons for this. One is that the ... 5 setopt noautomenu setopt nomenucomplete You need both of them. If you hit tab enough times, you'll get the list of completions but it will never add any characters to what you've typed so far. 5 I'm not sure if you're still tracking this question, but I'd like to help. It's been awhile since I've dove into the guts of zsh's completion system, so this will be a good excuse. For now, we'll use this answer as an ongoing tool for me to provide useful tidbits to help you (and I) troubleshoot the problem. As you can tell, zsh's completion system is very ... 4 Place -- just before file name. In Unix it indicates the end of options for command. To be more concrete, use: vim -- -file. 4 Here's the relevant part from my .zshrc. It hasn't changed since 2002, so I might write it differently today, but it still works to complete host names from ~/.ssh/config and ~/.ssh/known_hosts (if HashKnownHosts is off — it didn't exist in those days). h=() if [[ -r ~/.ssh/config ]]; then h=($h ${${${(@M)${(f)"$(cat ~/.ssh/config)"}:#Host }#Host }:#[?]... 4 By the way, you have been told here many times that bash is found practically everywhere, so use it to write portable scripts, which is false. Nonsense. If you know that every system you care about has BASH then it's a perfectly reasonable statement. BASH has many useful features that can't be reasonably emulated in POSIX sh. Frivolous use of non-POSIX ... 4 You can change the login shell by editing /etc/passwd. Each line is a list of colon-separated values, the last of which is the login shell: user:x:1000:1000:User:/home/user:/usr/bin/zsh If /etc/shells exists, you should add zsh (full path) to it, else some services may not work for your user. Note: I'd suggest against changing the login shell for root (... 3 In addition to the portability reason given above, another one might be that bash is still adding features. For example bash v4.x+ introduced: recursive globbing: rm -f /.log autocd: Type "/tmp" instead of "cd /tmp" 3 bash has many features that used to only be in zsh. You can have 'smart tab completion' with bash aswell now, as any recent ubuntu user has discovered. 3 try % unsetopt correct I have the spelling correction off by default. If it works, add it to your .zshrc file. Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Talk:Order of battle for the Battle of Caldiero (1805) Talk:Caldiero 1805 Order of Battle Hello, great Order Of Battle!!! Deletes some errors of the french Wikipedia version (date: 22.07.10) and matches the report about the battle mentioned in Hertenberger's & Wiltschek's book "Erzherzog Karl: der Sieger von Aspern" (Graz 1983). Do you have any informations regarding the austrian artillery? Most of the guns (must) have been distributed to the different regiments as batallion guns, but the french version of the OoB mentions an austrian artillery reserve of some thirteen batteries. Greetings, Lars Austrian artillery Schneid, which is my main source, gives no data about Austrian artillery. Smith has some so I'll try to include it. Djmaschek (talk) 23:01, 18 December 2010 (UTC)	WIKI
San Francisco Ponders: Could Bike Lanes Cause Pollution? - WSJ SAN FRANCISCO -- New York is wooing cyclists with chartreuse bike lanes. Chicago is spending nearly $1 million for double-decker bicycle parking. San Francisco can't even install new bike racks. Blame Rob Anderson. At a time when most other cities are encouraging biking as green transport, the 65-year-old local gadfly has stymied cycling-support efforts here by arguing that urban bicycle boosting could actually be bad for the environment. That's put the brakes on everything from new bike lanes to bike racks while the city works on an environmental-impact report. Cyclists say the irony is killing them -- literally. At least four bikers have died and hundreds more have been injured in San Francisco since mid-2006, when Mr. Anderson helped convince a judge to halt implementation of a massive pro-bike plan.(It's unclear whether the plan's execution could have prevented the accidents.) In the past year, bike advocates have demonstrated outside City Hall, pushed the city to challenge the plan's freeze in court and proposed putting the whole mess to local voters. Nothing worked. We're the ones keeping emissions from the air! shouted Leah Shahum, executive director of the 10,000-strong San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, at a July 21 protest. WSJ Membership Customer Service Tools & Features Ads More Dow Jones Products	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
Discover our nations leaders Did you know that Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States? Or that he was instrumental in the passing of the Compromise of 1850? Here are five facts about Millard Fillmore that you may not have known! Fillmore was born in a log cabin in New York state. He did not have any formal education beyond elementary school, but he was able to study law and passed the bar exam in 1823. In 1828, Fillmore was elected to the New York State Assembly as a member of the Whig Party. He served three terms before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1832. As president, Fillmore supported the Compromise of 1850 which allowed California to enter the Union as a free state while also enacting a fugitive slave law. This compromise led to a brief truce in the battle over slavery expansion. Fillmore also oversaw the opening of Japan during his presidency and worked to strengthen the U.S. Navy. He signed a bill that authorized the construction of two ships, which were named the USS Millard Fillmore and the USS Buchanan in his honor. Although he was not nominated for a second term, Fillmore's accomplishments as president earned him respect from both parties. After leaving office, he returned to his law practice and also served as chancellor of the University of Buffalo. He died in 1874 at the age of 74.	FINEWEB-EDU
-- China May Become New Zealand's Trade Partner, Prime Minister John Key Says New Zealand said China may become its largest trading partner, overtaking Australia, as it seeks to double trade between the countries to NZ$20 billion ($14 billion) in five years. “In the medium term that’s going to be the case,” New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said in an interview on TVNZ today. Trade between the two countries has surged since the signing of a free trade agreement in 2008, which will gradually eliminate tariffs on 96 percent of New Zealand exports by 2019. Last year, exports to China surged 43 percent, defying the performance with most other trading partners, according to Key. “The tariffs that we pay are reducing every year, so every year we’re becoming more competitive in terms of our goods,” Key said. “And then the Chinese population is getting wealthier.” While Key expects increased Chinese investment in New Zealand, he doesn’t support the sale of the nation’s farms to any foreign buyers. “My general view is, if we sell farms offshore in large numbers, that’s not a good thing for New Zealand, simply because I don’t think it adds a lot of value,” Key said. To contact the reporter on this story: Robert Fenner in Melbourne rfenner@bloomberg.net	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
Dec 15, 2002 Table of Contents Please note: This information was current at the time of publication. But medical information is always changing, and some information given here may be out of date. For regularly updated information on a variety of health topics, please visit familydoctor.org, the AAFP patient education Web site. Information from Your Family Doctor Breast-Conserving Surgery Am Fam Physician. 2002 Dec 15;66(12):2281. What is breast-conserving surgery? Breast-conserving surgery is a treatment for breast cancer. Lumpectomy is considered a breast-conserving surgery because only the lump (the part of the breast that has cancer) and part of the breast tissue around the lump are removed. Another surgery for breast cancer is called mastectomy. Mastectomy removes most, or all, of the breast. Mastectomy is not a breast-conserving surgery. Women who have a lumpectomy usually have radiation treatment, too. The radiation treatment helps kill any cancer cells that have spread from the lump to nearby tissue. The lymph nodes under the arm are usually checked to see if the cancer has spread. This is done during a procedure called sentinel node biopsy. How does my doctor know if my lump is cancer? Your doctor will do a biopsy to see if your lump is cancer. During a biopsy, your doctor removes a tiny bit of tissue from the lump with a needle and looks at it under a microscope. If the lump is small and cannot be felt, your doctor may use a mammogram or ultrasound scan to find the lump and insert the needle. Your doctor will give you medicine to numb your breast so that you cannot feel much pain. Why does my doctor check my lymph nodes? If cancer from the tumor has spread to the lymph nodes, you may be at an increased risk of having cancer in other parts of your body. A small number of lymph nodes are checked for cancer during the sentinel node biopsy. A blue dye, or another material that can be traced over the skin, is put into your lymph nodes. The dye or the material helps identify the nodes that the cancer might have spread to. If these nodes do not have cancer, you will most likely not have to have any more surgery after your lumpectomy. However, if they do have cancer, all of the lymph nodes may be removed. What if I cannot have breast-conserving surgery? Some women cannot have breast-conserving surgery and instead have a mastectomy. After a mastectomy, the breast can be reconstructed. A breast implant can be used, as can a woman's own tissues from other parts of her body. If your breasts cannot be saved during surgery and must be removed, you will need to consider how you will feel about yourself and your body. This will help you decide if you want to have breast reconstructive surgery. If you are married or have a partner, it may be helpful to get his or her opinion, too. Where can I find more information? Your doctor. American Academy of Family Physicians Internet: www.familydoctor.org American Cancer Society Telephone: 1-800-ACS-2345 (227-2345) Internet: www.cancer.org Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Internet: www.komen.org Want to use this article elsewhere? Get Permissions Article Tools Information From Industry Navigate this Article	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Opinion \| Taking On Chicago’s Police Editorial The wrenching shift in the Justice Department’s approach to criminal justice under President Trump is playing out painfully as Chicago tries to rein in a scandalous police culture that tolerated officers routinely abusing and killing residents, particularly African-Americans and Latinos. Two developments last week underlined the need for the firm federal oversight of police misconduct from which Attorney General Jeff Sessions had retreated. In the first, a federal jury handed down a rare criminal conviction of a Chicago policeman. The officer, Marco Proano, was found guilty of using excessive force in violating the civil rights of six black teenagers chased down in a stolen car. He fired 16 shots at them in nine seconds, wounding two as they cowered in the car. A police video was crucial to the conviction, which critics say might have never have happened in city courts, long accused of protecting the police. In the second, the Illinois attorney general, Lisa Madigan, stepped forward and filed an unusual federal lawsuit against Chicago seeking a court-enforced consent decree to reform police training and oversight. The state’s lawsuit would do what the Trump administration had backed away from — court-enforced controls on the police that the Obama administration engineered through consent decrees in troubled communities from Ferguson, Mo., to Cleveland. In the Obama administration’s waning days, the city agreed to seek a court decree with federal officials. But once Mr. Sessions became attorney general, he spoke skeptically of consent decrees and staunchly defended the police. With Mr. Trump in office, Mayor Rahm Emanuel shifted, insisting the city could achieve reform on its own, overseen by a monitor, not a federal judge. In July, Ms. Madigan wisely dismissed as “ludicrous” the idea that any reform would be possible without the muscle of court enforcement. When she announced last week that the state had to act, the mayor was at her side, presumably back on the side of effective reform. Ms. Madigan asserted that she was compelled to act “in the absence of a committed Justice Department.” The goal, she said, is to repair the “broken trust” between the city and black and Hispanic Chicagoans by enforcing “safe and constitutional police practices.” The need for overhauling the Chicago force was documented last January in a scathing report after a yearlong study by Justice investigators that detailed cases of abuse in “a culture in which officers expect to use force and not be questioned about the need for or propriety of that use.” The Justice Department has reacted with simplistic echoes of the Trump campaign theme about “rampant" crime and the need for “proactive policing” in Chicago. Unfortunately, it did not point to the federal government’s obvious responsibility to help the city protect civil rights.	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
Myners Urges Inquiry Into High Frequency Trades, Telegraph Says Paul Myners , a former U.K. Treasury minister, called for an inquiry into high frequency trading because of its role in stock price volatility, the Sunday Telegraph reported, citing comments by Myners. Myners said the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority should examine the influence of high-frequency, or “black box,” techniques, which have played a larger role in recent share price declines among banks than so-called short-selling, according to the Telegraph. He said European banks should disclose more information about levels of sovereign debt they hold, the newspaper reported. To contact the reporter on this story: Grant Smith in London at gsmith52@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Stephen Voss on sev@bloomberg.net	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
Homansbyen Depot Homansbyen Depot (Homansbyen vognhall), officially Kristiania Sporveisanlæg ("Kristiania Tramway Installation") was an Oslo Tramway depot located at Sporveisgata 8 near Bislett in Oslo, Norway. It was constructed for Kristiania Sporveisselskab in 1874 and was the first tramway depot in the country. The facilities were designed by Henrik Thrap-Meyer and featured an administrative office, a horse stable, a forge, a workshop, a weighing shed, and a wagon depot. It had space for 28 horse wagons, 16 sleds, and 116 horses. The administrative office was built in brick and housed apartments, offices, and a laboratory for the veterinarian. The depot was reconstructed several times, and taken out of use in 1966. It was demolished three years later, and replaced with residential apartment blocks. History The tramway operating company Kristiania Sporveisselskab was established on October 2, 1874, and started scheduled horse tram services on October 6, 1875. The network comprised a line from Homansbyen over Stortorvet to Gamlebyen, with a branch line to Oslo West Station. Also in October 1874, Kristiania Sporveisselskap bought 12 km2 of the square Underhaug near Bislett, at the end of the Homansbyen Line, where the depot was built. It was constructed with a building housing the company's administrative office, horse stables, a wagon depot, a forge, and a weighing shed. These installations were designed by the Norwegian architect Henrik Thrap-Meyer. All installations but the head office were addressed to Sporveisgata 8. The head office was addressed to Underhaugsveien. When the Oslo Tramway was electrified in 1899, a large reorganization of Homansbyen Depot took place. The horse stables were rebuilt to serve as tramway depots, requiring more space. The workshop was extended with additional rooms in the surrounding buildings. Plans for building a steam power station at the depot never materialised. Kristiania Sporveisselskab acquired Kristiania Kommunale Sporveie in 1905, and additional extensions of the depot were built. In 1907, the administrative office was completely rebuilt two years later, and an additional 60 m long tramway depot was constructed in Pilestredet. When Oslo Sporveier acquired all the city's private tram companies in 1924, Homansbyen became the head office. Homansbyen also housed the payroll office. During the World War II, on August 29, 1944, two armed men entered the payroll office in Underhaugsveien and stole 120,000 Norwegian krone (NOK), while demanding the local treasurer Knut Holmstøen and his assistant to hold their hands lifted. The two men have not been identified, but they are suspected to have come from Milorg, which had a deficit of money during the war. When the Etterstad Depot became operational in 1966, the Homansbyen Depot was closed and the property sold. The tramway installations were demolished in 1969 and replaced with apartment blocks, local schools, and offices. The only still visible trace of the depot is the street name Sporveisgata ("The Tramway Street"). Facilities The installations of the depot were all built in brick and were rebuilt many times. The head office had two floors. The ground floor featured six rooms, four serving as offices. Stablemen and coaches occupied the other two rooms. The second floor consisted of apartments for the stable keeper and depot inspector and a laboratory for the horse veterinarian. The stable originally had stalls for 116 healthy and 12 ill horses. The stable was insured for 12,000 Norwegian speciedaler, twice the amount for the head office building. The wagon depot had space for 28 trams and 16 sleds. The 16 sleds were purchased between 1875 and 1879, and replaced the horsecars during the winter. The forge had space for two smiths and featured a small room where the horses were shoed. Location The depot was located in Sporveisgata, between Bergsliens gate and the street junction Pilestredet–Sporveisgata. The street Sporveisgata was in the beginning only a branch from Pilestredet, but it became a street in its own right in 1879, after the tramway installations had been constructed. While it was located in a branch to Pilestredet, the depot had Pilestredet 75 as its address. After the branch had its name changed to Sporveisgata, the address was renamed Sporveisgata 8. Initially, the depot was located at the very end of the Homansbyen Line. Consequently, trams traveling to the depot had to run from the terminus Hygiea, via a curve from Josefines gate over Bislett and Pilestredet to Sporveisgata 8. Sporveisgata stretches from Bogstadveien in the south-east to Thereses gate in the north-west. , the nearest tram stops to the depot are Bislett on the Ullevål Hageby Line and Rosenborg on the Briskeby Line.	WIKI
Why Five Below Stock Was Sinking Today What happened Shares of Five Below (NASDAQ: FIVE) were falling today after the discount retailer posted disappointing holiday sales numbers and trimmed its earnings guidance. As a result, the stock was down 13.4% as of 12:43 p.m. EST. So what Five Below, which sells whimsical items like sunglasses, jewelry, toys, and tech accessories for under $5, said that comparable sales declined 2.6% in the November/December period. Management blamed the poor performance on the shorter holiday season as Thanksgiving was six days later this year, and said that comparable sales during the key holiday selling periods were positive. CEO Joel Anderson still acknowledged, "Overall sales did not meet expectations." Total sales in November and December rose 13.4% to $596.6 million due to the company's rapid store expansion. Image source: Five Below. The retailer also expects earnings per share (EPS) to come in at the low end of its previous guidance, as it's now calling for EPS of $1.93 to $1.96 for the fourth quarter and $3.07 to $3.10 for the year, representing a 16% increase from last year. Now what Five Below is also sticking with aggressive expansion plans next year as it plans to add 180 new stores, growing its store base by 20%. The company is now almost halfway to its goal of operating 2,000 stores across the country. Nonetheless, investors should keep their eye on comparable sales growth; continued declines could show that the market is starting to become saturated with the brand, considering it already has close to 1,000 locations. With Five Below shares still trading at a premium, the stock could fall a lot further if comps continue to slide. 10 stocks we like better than Five Below When investing geniuses David and Tom Gardner have a stock tip, it can pay to listen. After all, the newsletter they have run for over a decade, Motley Fool Stock Advisor, has tripled the market.* David and Tom just revealed what they believe are the ten best stocks for investors to buy right now... and Five Below wasn't one of them! That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of December 1, 2019 Jeremy Bowman has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Five Below. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
The Monsoon Bassoon The Monsoon Bassoon were an English independent rock band active between 1995 and 2001, notable for their exceptionally complex and energetic music. During their lifespan, the band won the NME's Single Of The Week award three times (for three consecutive single releases). They were an integral part of the "London math-rock" scene of the late 1990s and had a passionate underground following, particularly inspiring other bands. Sound The Monsoon Bassoon's music (largely created by guitarists Kavus Torabi and Dan Chudley) can be described as psychedelic rock or math rock (the band themselves sometimes used the tongue-in-cheek term "lysergic funk"). Their music drew on a variety of other sources including British and American art rock, heavy metal, folk music, avant-garde music, New York minimalism and progressive rock. Although the results sounded chaotic or confusing to some ears, the music was in fact carefully planned. Bass player Laurie Osbourne has commented "every note was very worked out and there wasn't much repetition." Kavus Torabi asserts "The music was co-written (by me) with Dan Chudley, and although we pretty much knew how we wanted the tunes to go before they were presented to the rest of the group, the songs would always be open to a few arrangement changes when we all worked on them." The band were all highly skilled and disciplined musicians capable of precise and detailed performances, which enabled them to play highly complex material. Regular features of Monsoon Bassoon songs were male and female harmony vocals, swapping of the lead singer role, woodwind parts, polyrhythmic sections, time changes and unusual scales. At times, all of the band might appear to be playing in different timings, before locking into a crescendo. Another feature of the band was the use of stylistic shifts within songs and sudden changes in direction or mood. For example, their third single "The King of Evil" started as a gentle folk song, but ended with all three singers shouting in chorus over a death metal guitar part. The band cited a broad range of influences including Henry Cow, Cardiacs, Shudder To Think, XTC and Steve Reich. However, Osbourne has commented "we loved... all kinds of experimental rock; but we always really wanted to make pop music, experimental pop music." The band's output was notably melodic, and catchy enough for their singles to receive attention and outright praise. Prehistory (1988–1993) Kavus Torabi and Dan Chudley (both guitarists and singers) met in their mutual hometown of Plymouth, Devon, UK and first worked together in 1988 in the psychedelic thrash-metal band Die Laughing, in which the two developed a tightly integrated and interlocking guitar style. After Die Laughing split in 1993, Chudley formed the band Squid Squad in which he played with singing flute player/clarinettist Sarah Measures and drummer Jamie Keddie. Torabi, Chudley, Measures and Keddie (along with bass player Laurie Osbourne) all relocated to Leyton, East London in 1994 and formed The Monsoon Bassoon. Early days, Redoubtable and In Bold Gardens (1994–1997) Early gigs and recordings brought the Monsoon Bassoon to the attention of Organ magazine and Org Records, who issued their first release - (the cassette EP Redoubtable) in 1995. The band briefly went into hiatus later that year following the departure of Jamie Keddie to the eccentric Britpop group Octopus. However, he was persuaded to return in early 1996 and the band began a new lease of life. In 1997, The Monsoon Bassoon began recording material for their debut album, with Tim Smith (Cardiacs) as producer. Several of these tracks were released in early 1998 on a demo cassette called In Bold Gardens which received limited circulation and a handful of reviews. By this time the band were developing a strong reputation on the London underground scene thanks to their powerful live act, now focussed into tighter songs, and had played on concert bills with Nub and Sidi Bou Said. The year of breakthrough singles (1998) Monsoon Bassoon manager John Fowers had now set up Weird Neighbourhood Records in order to issue Monsoon Bassoon recordings. The label's first release was the debut Monsoon Bassoon single, the double A-side Wise Guy/28 Days In Rocket Ship. Much to the band's astonishment, this was awarded Single of the Week in New Musical Express. Laurie Osbourne later recalled "we had a really trendy moment where for some reason the NME started getting into progressive music. There was a writer called Simon Williams who runs Fierce Panda who discovered Coldplay, Super Furry Animals and so on, and he was really into us, so we had a moment of strange trendiness in amidst eight years of terminal untrendiness, you know?" Kavus Torabi remembers that "it really kick-started an interest in the band. I love that it was completely on our own terms, it doesn't sound like anything else. It's such an improbable song, but it couldn't have been any other way. When it really started to come together in rehearsals there was a total feeling of magic between the five members of the band. I think we couldn't believe we had harnessed a song that good. I hope that doesn't sound too arrogant. It was a really potent time. I think it was one of those rare moments I felt truly alive and in the here and now. I still get a funny knot in my stomach when I hear it." The next single, In The Iceman's Back Garden, was another NME Single of the Week and was received with similar enthusiasm in the underground press. Reviewing it, Robots And Electronic Brains described the Monsoon Bassoon as "the kind of band that Organ were calling pronk all those years ago: proggy bombast and stylistic excess welded to punk energy, thrill and speed. No two consecutive bars are the same, the total antithesis of bands like Tortoise or Mogwai, there's loads of fiddly bits, a fidgetful beat, tons of influences and an archly British, eccentric theatrical edge... It's a beauteous noise and an education your ears will thank you for." The third Monsoon Bassoon single, The King Of Evil, was NME Single of the Week once again. Reviewing it, NME's Stevie Chick concluded "Slightly hamstrung by more than a few things, notably the fact that they don't live in Glasgow, they aren't on Digital Hardcore, they look like Club Dog roadies, they are completely and utterly skint and they have the lumpiest band name since Frottage Bunion, the fivesome nevertheless persist in making the most amazing alternative music...the most gorgeous, grotesque, explosive outbursts of noise witnessed since the madder bits of 'Come on Die Young' came round and ruined our woofers. Key words? Psychotic. Lunging. Lithe. Panthers in the back garden. Hair-raising, in every sense of the word." The band rounded off their most successful year to date by supporting their longtime heroes Cardiacs at the Garage, London, on 4 December, followed by a concert with Rothko, Nightnurse and an embryonic Snow Patrol at the Camden Underworld on 15 December and a support slot for The Clint Boon Experience on 17 December at the Bull and Gate, Kentish Town. I Dig Your Voodoo (1999) The Monsoon Bassoon were, by now, at the epicentre of the loosely defined London math-rock scene. Centred around relatively small venues such as the Dublin Castle and Upstairs at the Garage, this featured London-based bands such as Billy Mahonie, Guapo, Rothko, Nub, Delicate AWOL, Geiger Counter (later Foe) and the Shrubbies, plus affiliated acts such as the Oxford-based Nought and developing indie acts such as Seafood. The band's first (and only) album, I Dig Your Voodoo, arrived in 1999. Like the singles, it was released on Weird Neighbourhood Records. It received reviews in the mainstream press in publications as disparate as The Guardian, Heat, and NME. The latter, giving the album eight points out of ten, said "it is with longing arms that we clutch The Monsoon Bassoon close to our heavy bosom. They have come with a malicious intent to bludgeon all musical preconceptions into mush. And they will, ultimately, tug hard on your heartstrings in ways that you won't quite understand. It's all in the delivery. I Dig Your Voodoo... is psychedelic pop that has been hung, drawn and quartered only to be dipped into an acid pickle and served with a liberal helping of punk rock angst... Every spurt of sonic agitation is brimful of intent." Comparing the music to Nomeansno, Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser and Cardiacs, the review concluded that the album was "one fuck-off cosmic rock'n'roll sensation, with scant regard for the songwriting rulebook. Truly, it's a world of unfathomable prog-new-wave wonders. Pop music, then, but not as those in their right mind know it." The band gigged persistently in and around London during this year, playing once again with Snow Patrol in July. Final years (2000 to mid-2001) Despite the positive response to their album, The Monsoon Bassoon did not get signed by any major labels to enable them to make the next step in scaling up their career. Undeterred, they continued to perform live, and to record and release on Weird Neighbourhood. 2000 saw the release of two seven-inch vinyl split singles, intended as the first two parts of an ongoing collaborative series, in which the band would cover/adapt one piece by a chosen collaborator in and in return would have one of their own pieces covered or adapted in a similar way. Wall of Suss 1 saw the band working with Rothko and Wall Of Suss 2 was a collaboration with Max Tundra. In mid-2001, The Monsoon Bassoon provided three tracks for the "Summer 2001" box-set release in Day Release Records’ "Four Seasons Singles Club" series (alongside Defeat The Young and The Naysayer). Robots And Electronic Brains commented "Monsoon Bassoon offer up a blast of their patented blueprint of acid-powered sax abuse and corrugated rock. It's Morphine trying some rather less stuporific narcotics. On "God Bless The Monsoon Bassoon" they reprise the Cardiacs-folk of Sidi Bou Said..." Split (late 2001) Despite an ongoing show of confidence and a loyal fanbase, The Monsoon Bassoon's resources were flagging, and a second departure by Jamie Keddie spelled the end of the band. Laurie Osbourne recalls "we had no money and we didn't get signed — there was this big push to approach a label and get signed and it just didn't happen... After that, (Jamie Keddie) left and after that it was just, well, ‘if one of us leaves...’ We were just such a family unit that we had to split up. We'd been together, and lived together for eight years at that point. He left because he had a kid and a family." In October 2001, via the skippyscage website, Sarah Measures announced that the band had split up. Her statement said: "'The Monsoon Bassoon has always, over its lifetime had the same dynamic five as the lineup. That could never change. We are, to each other, irreplaceable. So, if one of us couldn't continue to be in the band, it really, really wouldn't be the same. All for one and one... etc... With this situation arising, splitting up was the only option. But it's not just about that... we can't stop change (yeah, the wheels of time are turning...folks) and it's exciting for us all to experiment with new idea's, be it individually or together. We are committed friends, redoubtable to the last...so there are and will be plenty of projects...just not under the name of The Monsoon Bassoon. We have made some truly tremendous friends, and had hell of a ride... I'm so glad to have been a part of the greatest psychedelic hard-fuck rocking bastard group of recent times." Many recordings from the band's last years remain unreleased, including a planned EP called My Kill Hand Never Felt So Good and the initial tracks for a second album provisionally entitled I Am The Master And You Are Coming With Me To Hell. Post-split Following the break-up of The Monsoon Bassoon, the various members remained friendly and have worked both separately and together on various projects. Guitarists (and principal composers) Dan Chudley and Kavus Torabi have sporadically worked together on several projects sharing much of the sound and spirit of their previous band. The first of these was Miss Helsinki, a 2003 band with Richard Larcombe (bass, from Stars In Battledress) and with James Keddie drumming when available: the sound of the group was similar to that of The Monsoon Bassoon, but minus the woodwind/reeds and with considerably simpler song structures. Miss Helsinki only ever played one short gig and released only one song ("I Felt Your Arms Around Me", which appeared on the Useless In Bed Volume 1 released by the tiny independent label House of Stairs) as well as having been released on SoundCloud. . In 2005 Chudley, Torabi and Jamie Keddie reunited in a new rock band called Authority, this time with Craig Fortnam (North Sea Radio Orchestra, the Shrubbies, Lake Of Puppies) playing bass. The band played several London concerts over the next two years and recorded several songs (available on their MySpace and SoundCloud pages), but folded amicably in 2007 due to the members’ other commitments. Chudley and Torabi have continued an occasional musical collaboration via the mainly acoustic psychedelic project Hatchjaw and Bassett. Subsequently, Kavus Torabi has the busiest ex-member of The Monsoon Bassoon. His main projects are Knifeworld and heading the small independent label Believers Roast, but he has also played guitar for Cardiacs (whom he joined in 2004 and played with until the start of their ongoing hiatus in 2008). He is a key member of avant-rock group Guapo has played and recorded with Bob Drake, Chrome Hoof, was part of the chorus for North Sea Radio Orchestra, and has played with Mediaeval Baebes and Spider Stacy (The Pogues) and has recently joined legendary psychedelic band Gong. He co-hosts with Steve Davis' The Interesting Alternative Show on the Phoenix FM radio station in Essex. Dan Chudley (now known as Daniel Chudley Le Corre) relocated to His home town, Plymouth with his family. He continues to write and perform music, including original guitar instrumentals, and produces electronic music under the project name of The Don And Only and “ Daniel Chudley - Le Corre. Laurie Osbourne has written, recorded and performed as the dubstep project Appleblim, while Sarah Measures has played woodwind on records by Mothlite. From the mid-2000s (decade) Torabi, Chudley and Sarah Measures have periodically reunited as members of the folk group Admirals Hard. This band is made up of members of the London math rock and alt.folk scenes and mostly play re-workings of sea shanties (although their sense of humour and outside musical interests are evident in their sea-shantified cover of Iron Maiden's Stranger In A Strange Land). The full line-up is Andy Carne (lead vocals), Kavus Torabi (mandolin, guitar and vocals), Dan Chudley (bass and vocals), Sarah Measures (flute and vocals), Stars In Battledress members Richard Larcombe (guitar, harmonium, vocals) and James Larcombe (harmonium, melodeon, hurdy-gurdy, vocals), Paul Westwood (ex-Geiger Counter and Foe, hammered dulcimer, harmonium, vocals) and Becky Jacobs (vocals, also in Tunng). Band members * Kavus Torabi - Guitar, vocals * Daniel Chudley - Le Corre - Guitar, vocals * Sarah Measures - Saxophone, clarinet, flute, vocals * Laurie Osborne - Bass * Jamie Frazer Keddie - Drums Albums * I Dig Your Voodoo CD (1999, Weird Neighbourhood) WNRS4 Singles and EPs * Redoubtable cassette EP (1995, Org Records) ORG007 * "Wise Guy" 7" (1998, Weird Neighbourhood) WNRS1 * "In the Iceman's Back Garden" 7" (1998, Weird Neighbourhood) WNRS2 * "The King of Evil" 7" (1999, Weird Neighbourhood) WNRS3 * "Wall of Suss 1" 7" split single with Rothko (2000, Weird Neighbourhood) WNRS5 * "Wall of Suss 2" 7" split single with Max Tundra (2000, Weird Neighbourhood) WNRS6 * 'My Kill Hand Never Felt So Good' EP (unreleased) Compilations * Summer 2001: 4 Seasons Singles Club 3 x CD (2001, Day Release Records) DRSUM01 (featuring the tracks "The Noosemaker", "God Bless The Monsoon Bassoon" and "Brickfields") * Useless in Bed Volume 1 Compilation CD (2002, House Of Stairs) HOS001CD (featuring "Stag" from the unreleased In Bold Gardens EP) Demo cassettes * In Bold Gardens (1998) Artwork All Monsoon Bassoon single and album artwork was designed by David Barclay, a tattooist in Old Street, London. Related bands * Die Laughing - Plymouth metal band, featuring Kavus and Dan before forming the Monsoon Bassoon * Squid Squad - Plymouth-based band, featuring Dan, Sarah and Jamie before the Monsoon Bassoon * Knifeworld - New band formed by Kavus Torabi, originally a solo project * The Don and Only - An electronic solo project by Dan Chudley * Hatchjaw and Bassett - Dan Chudley and Kavus Torabi's largely experimental recordings * Admirals Hard - Sea shanty band, led by Andy Carne and featuring ex-Monsoon Bassoon members * Max Tundra - Members have acted as backing musicians for this electronic composer, and his song 'Acorns' is a posthumous tribute to the band. * Miss Helsinki - Rock band briefly formed by Kavus, Dan and Jamie c. 2003 * Authority - New band formed by Kavus, Dan and Jamie in 2005 * Cardiacs - leader Tim Smith produced many of The Monsoon Bassoon's recordings, and Kavus Torabi now plays guitar in this seminal underground band. * Guapo - Kavus Torabi also plays guitar in this UK avant-progressive act * Daniel Chudley - Le Corre - Electronic and acoustic recordings - Ambient psychedelic folk instrumentals	WIKI
Ecstasy (philosophy) Ecstasy (from the Ancient Greek ἔκστασις ekstasis, "to be or stand outside oneself, a removal to elsewhere" from ek- "out," and stasis "a stand, or a standoff of forces") is a term used in existential philosophy to mean "outside-itself". One's consciousness, for example, is not self-enclosed, as one can be conscious of an Other person, who falls well outside one's own self. In a sense consciousness is usually, "outside itself," in that its object (what it thinks about, or perceives) is not itself. This is in contrast to the term enstasis which means from "standing-within-oneself" which relates to contemplation from the perspective of a speculator. This understanding of enstasis gives way to the example of the use of the "ecstasy" as that one can be "outside of oneself" with time. In temporalizing, each of the following: the past (the 'having-been'), the future (the 'not-yet') and the present (the 'making-present') are the "outside of itself" of each other. The term ecstasy (Ekstase) has been used in this sense by Martin Heidegger who, in his Being and Time of 1927, argued that our being-in-the-world is usually focused toward some person, task, or the past (see also existence and Dasein). Telling someone to "remain in the present" could then be self-contradictory, if the present only emerged as the "outside itself" of future possibilities (our projection; Entwurf) and past facts (our thrownness; Geworfenheit). Emmanuel Levinas disagreed with Heidegger's position regarding ecstasy and existential temporality from the perspective of the experience of insomnia. Levinas talked of the Other in terms of 'insomnia' and 'wakefulness'. He emphasized the absolute otherness of the Other and established a social relationship between the Other and one's self. Furthermore, he asserted that ecstasy, or exteriority toward the Other, forever remains beyond any attempt at full capture; this otherness is interminable or infinite. This "infiniteness" of the Other would allow Levinas to derive other aspects of philosophy as secondary to this ethic. Levinas writes: "The others that obsess me in the other do not affect me as examples of the same genus united with my neighbor by resemblance or common nature, individuations of the human race, or chips off the old block... The others concern me from the first. Here fraternity precedes the commonness of a genus. My relationship with the Other as neighbor gives meaning to my relations with all the others."	WIKI
Page:A La California.djvu/258 214 Suddenly it commenced again, and seemed louder and clearer than before. I halted again. God have mercy upon me! I exclaimed involuntarily. It was the rumble of the wheels of a coming train, beyond a question. I sprang to the ground and placed my ear to the rail. The train was coming from the west; it must be a "construction train," laden with materials for the road, and possibly with laborers as well. The track occupied the full width of the shed, allowing only for the overhang of the cars. A man might escape by lying down; but a horse was almost sure of death, and if the train struck him, it must go off the track almost inevitably. I was upon old Jerky's back before I was even aware of what I was doing, and started down the grade, to the eastward, as fast as his stiff and clumsy legs, urged by whip and spur, and the attraction of gravitation, could move him. Clearer and clearer came the humming noise; and I heard, at length, a short, sharp whistle, as the rushing train entered a tunnel, turned a sharp curve, or passed out of a tunnel. It could not be more than two miles, or three at most, away. Jerky skated over the ice-patches, and floundered through the small snow-drifts which had filtered in through the crevices in the shed-work, but reckless of danger to limbs alone in presence of the greater danger to myself, and perhaps hundreds of my fellow-men, I whipped and spurred unceasingly, and drove him on at the height of his speed. Nearer and nearer came the train. I could already hear the chough, chough, chough of the locomotive behind me. At last I saw an opening in	WIKI
Ephysteris tenuisaccus Ephysteris tenuisaccus is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Russia (the southern Ural) and on Cyprus. The habitat consists of chalk steppe. The wingspan is 10.5–12.5 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is pure creamish white with the a dark brown pattern. The hindwings are whitish fuscous, the basal area paler. Adults are on wing in June. Etymology The species name is derived from Latin tenuis (meaning thin) and refers to a thin saccus in the male genitalia, one of the characters separating the new species from closely related Ephysteris deserticolella.	WIKI
Texas school district apologizes for slurs during broadcast ARLINGTON, Texas – A Texas school district apologized Friday after a high school football broadcaster repeatedly used a racial slur when referring to African-American players on the opposing team. The Cleburne Independent School District apologized for online audio comments made last week in a matchup between Cleburne High School and Seguin High School in Arlington, according to Leslie Johnston, spokeswoman for the Arlington Independent School District. Seguin is in Arlington, while the other school is in Cleburne, a city just south of Fort Worth. The game was broadcast by an online site that covers Cleburne High School contests but isn&apost affiliated with the school district, school officials said. Cleburne officials told Arlington administrators that the broadcaster will no longer call games, Johnston said. "We support that decision," Johnston said in an email, adding that the schools believe "this is not a time for divisiveness, and we appreciate CISD taking steps to promote unity and good sportsmanship." The broadcaster referred to the Seguin players as the "cougroes," an apparent conflation of the school mascot Cougar and the word "Negro." More than a third of the Seguin student body is African-American, while about 3 percent of students at Cleburne High School are black, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. The same broadcaster also invoked a weight-loss program in joking about a Seguin cheerleader, saying at one point: "Jenny Craig has ... a lot of work to do with her." Johnston said in an earlier statement that, "We do not condone such boorish behavior." A spokeswoman for Cleburne schools, Lisa Magers, said the district began investigating shortly after the game. "Cleburne ISD does not condone unacceptable, unprofessional, unethical comments," she said. Magers noted the site isn&apost affiliated with the school district and said its operators have apologized. Johnston and Magers identified the broadcaster as Mark Banton. He acknowledged to the Star-Telegram that he was one of the broadcasters who covered the football game, but he said he had "nothing to say" about the comments. ___ This story has been corrected to show that the Cleburne school district is in the city of Cleburne, not Arlington.	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
User:19dakota19 Hi I am Dakota I am a sophomore at Rutgers University & I am a political science major with a minor in English. I love to workout and go shopping.	WIKI
Stress Stress and the Organic Health Food Store "A case of nerves" Posted Oct 28, 2018 Ken Silvestri Source: Ken Silvestri “Next time you’re found with your chin on the ground, there’s a lot to be learned, so look around.” ---Frank Sinatra (from the song “High Hopes”) There’s a large health food supermarket in my town determined to make its parking spaces much narrower. I am always amazed when I drive by and see fine-looking organic food seekers giving each other nasty gestures as they struggle to maneuver their cars into spaces. We need not allow stress and negativity to push our nervous system into saving our life 24 hours a day, whether shopping, at home or at work. Stress is like the weather. We know it exists, but we can’t always figure out how to deal with it. Nerves & Fight or Flight As a kid, the homegrown diagnosing I heard if someone was stressed and feeling negative, was it’s due to “a case of nerves.” There is some truth to it being a case of nerves. We have two major parts to our autonomic nervous system. The parasympathetic “calm” part is activated, for example, when you meditate or listen to Baroque music. The problem lies with the other part of our nervous system, the “revved-up” sympathetic part, whose primary process is “fight or flight.” The nervous system also monitors environmental signals through the HPA axis. The Hypothalamus secretes corticotrophin to the pituitary gland, which launches the body’s organs into action. The adrenal glands coordinate the “fight or flight” process. When we’re in this mode, blood disproportionately goes to our arms and legs, so we can run like hell and get out of the way. Simultaneously, blood leaves our brain making us in a sense dumber. The issue here is that the fight or flight reaction emanates from fear and consequently creates negativity. When in this state, we can’t differentiate between the loss of a loved one or not finding a parking space, no matter what our intent may have been. Accentuate the Positive How many times have you heard, when you were being negative, to “accentuate the positive?” Well, there is much to learn from that adage. Research clearly points out that negativity leads to being overly stressed and to bad health. When you’re negative, your nervous system defaults to the revved-up state and your blood not only leaves your brain, but also compromises the areas that require the most nurturing. Here’s an example. The entire lining of your gut needs to be replaced every seventy-two hours. When there’s excessive stress from negativity, your hormones curtail the immune system, further placing you in a more vulnerable state. This will also compromise the multifaceted and probably most important part of your nervous system, the Vagus Nerve. Positive thoughts have been called “a biological mandate for health.1 Stay Mindful We should learn how to be cognizant of our emotions and our stress levels. Stay mindful by being in the present. Understand that you cannot change the past. Use a “wider lens,” by seeing different things simultaneously to maintain perspective. Communicate as if you were participating in a win-win volley; practice Coherent Breathing (six-second inhalations and exhalations to activate the “calm” part of your nervous system, developed by Stephen Elliott); embrace a healthy lifestyle that celebrates possibilities. Save the “fight or flight” for mountain lions while you sing “Oops there goes another rubber tree plant.” References 1. Dashner Keltner, Born to be Good (New York: Norton, 2009): “Positive thoughts are a biological mandate for health.”	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Forum Stats • 3,757,185 Users • 2,251,208 Discussions • 7,869,754 Comments Discussions Confused with using method reference in Comparator.comparing() ABISHEAK S ABISHEAK S Member Posts: 1 Green Ribbon Am a self learning developer, now learning Java. I have learned that to use method reference for a Functional Interface, the signature of the method we referring must match the signature of the abstract method inside that functional interface. But While learning Comparator, found that "Comparator.comparing()" method takes Function interface and returns a Comparator. I know that the abstract method of Function interface must take a argument and return a value. but I can able to pass any method(as method reference) that partially (not fully) matches the signature of Function interface to the comparing() method of Comparator. for example consider the below example. public class Movie { private String title; private int likes; public Movie(String title, int likes) { this.title = title; this.likes = likes; } public String getTitle(){ return title; } public int getLikes() { return likes; } } import java.util.Comparator; import java.util.List; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { var movies=List.of( new Movie("b", 20), new Movie("c", 30), new Movie("a", 10)); var stream=movies.stream(). sorted(Comparator.comparing(Movie::getTitle)); stream.forEach(m->System.out.println(m.getLikes())); } } Here, in the line "sorted(Comparator.comparing(Movie::getTitle))" as you see the getTitle() method takes no argument and returns a String value. But it can be used as method reference for the function interface (which takes a argument and returns a value). Why is it happening ? Please answer anyone to solve my confusion. Tagged: Answers • Carlos Obregón Carlos Obregón Member Posts: 1 Green Ribbon edited Sep 22, 2021 12:00PM This is a great question! The method comparing in its signature says that you need to provide a Function that given a T would return a U type which implements Comparable. Given that what you return is Comparable, the comparing function will call the function twice for the objects being compared and then call the compareTo method of the values returned. Movie::getTitle is a Function that matches that criteria: given a Movie it would extract a String, which implements Comparable, and because of that comparing method can easily use to sort the movies. Since you usually have accessors, e.g. getTitle, they are commonly used for comparing method, although you can use any Function as long as it matches the signature. I hope this makes sense!	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
User:Yeti Hunter/Sandbox 2 Mount Pleasant railway line Early agitations for a railway to connect Eden Valley the Adelaide and the Murray focused on a direct route via Gumeracha, and either the Torrens Gorge or Tea Tree Gully, but surveys indicated the route to be impractical on a broad gauge, and ruinously expensive even on a narrow gauge (construction cost was estimated at £840,000) Originally concieved as the first leg of a railway to access the Murray Flats at Sedan; the railway was to have continued northeast from Mount Pleasant, descending the range via the Sanderston Gully. After initial difficulties, with the train taking anything from 3-5 hours to cover the 49 miles to Adelaide, a convenient service began in 1921?? with a single railmotor providing a convenient double-trip per day to link up with the throguh-train to Adelaide at Balhannah. This was soon changed to a single direct trip to Adelaide, with the railmotor departing later and arriving earlier, thus leaving travellers with little time to conduct any business in the city. The initial service was notoriously inconvenient for passengers. The mixed service departed Adelaide to Mount Pleasant in the morning, returning in the afternoon. It therefore required two nights accommodation for hills residents to transact a single day's business in Adelaide. Proposed closing 1932, as it was not covering expenses. However closure would adversely affect earnings on the mainline, due to the volumes of freight and passengers collected by the branchline. Review by SAR decided against closure, as by the time of the review it was found that the railway was earning a modest operating surplus of £400.	WIKI
A genome-wide association study of testicular germ cell tumor Abstract We conducted a genome-wide association study for testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT), genotyping 307,666 SNPs in 730 cases and 1,435 controls from the UK and replicating associations in a further 571 cases and 1,806 controls. We found strong evidence for susceptibility loci on chromosome 5 (per allele OR = 1.37 (95% CI = 1.19–1.58), P = 3 × 10−13), chromosome 6 (OR = 1.50 (95% CI = 1.28–1.75), P = 10−13) and chromosome 12 (OR = 2.55 (95% CI = 2.05–3.19), P = 10−31). KITLG, encoding the ligand for the receptor tyrosine kinase KIT, which has previously been implicated in the pathogenesis of TGCT and the biology of germ cells, may explain the association on chromosome 12. Publication Nature Genetics 2009; 41:807-810 Related	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Draft:Etere Etere is an Italian international software company headquartered in Singapore. It focuses on creating software solutions for the IT and Broadcast Media sectors. It began in 1987 in Tolentino, Italy, as Societa Italiana Software (SIS) 'SIS' before the company split and renamed itself 'Etere' in 1999. Etere creates software for use in broadcast media and in IT offices mainly comprising of media management, automated workflows, and playout automations. The company was founded in Italy by Fabio Gattari and Fabio Mazzocchetti. In 1999, SIS decided to split in two different companies; Etere and SIS Nord Italia, with Fabio Gattari taking charge of Etere and Fabio Mazzocchetti, SIS Nord Italia. Since then, Etere has established a worldwide customer and distributor base. To better facilitate the global reach of the company, it has moved its headquarters to Singapore in 2012. The word Etere means Luminiferous aether in Italian, the wave-based light that has the unique ability to penetrate empty spaces, an exceptional property of waves. History Societa Italiana Software (SIS)'s first product was the SETA software built in 1992. The traffic and billing system for radio stations was integrated with a digital playout using standard PC and an audio card produced by another Italian company, Audiologic. It was the first in the world to produce a full audio broadcast using standard PC and audio stored in a network file server shared with multiple users using Novell Netware software. The SETA software was a solution that produced traffic, billing and scheduling documents as requested by the law of Italy for broadcasters. In 1989, SIS developed the Etere software for private broadcasting, a year later, SIS launched a software to manage transmission log and this was met with great success. In 1991, SIS worked together with Italian company, Audiologic to introduce a radio automation system based on computers that enabled them to manage a majority of the radio stations in Italy. In 2012, Fabio Gattari helped to open a new entity in Singapore, Singycon Pte. Ltd. was launched as a consultancy for the Asia market. Fabio moved to Singapore while the Italian managers manage Etere SRL. Due to the economic crisis, Etere SRL was forced to close in 2015. Its employees created a new entity, MERP Systems, with the help of the Italian Unions (Confederazione Generale del Lavoro, Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions, Italian Labour Union). Singycon engaged MERP systems as subcontractors to expand the Asia and worldwide business. Singycon registered the Etere name as a trademark, as it was unregistered before. The new company was registered in Singapore as Etere Pte. Ltd. and it launched a new and more efficient software code that was developed from 2012 in Singapore. Etere Pte. Ltd manages all new and existing customers of Etere srl. Around the same time, a few key founders of MERP created a new company, Tecla system to move the businesses from MERP and Etere to them. This was discovered in November 2015 and MERP was forced to close the activity, they experienced legal action and a big loss. By then, half the founders have left MERP systems to join Tecla system. However, Tecla system closed all activities after 4 months of its launch. In 2016, Etere Pte. Ltd. opened a new Italian company, SGY srl in Tolentino Italy to serve as a support centre. Many of MERP former employees moved to SGY srl to manage the new business. SGY srl was developed with a new grant from the Italian government that was set up to help businesses start a new company in the earthquake area of Tolentino. The grant was set up in response to the August 2016 Central Italy earthquake that had damaged 40% of buildings and most of the production activities in Tolentino. Achievements In 2004, The Chamber of Commerce of Macerata in Italy selected Etere as one of five companies in the province who have distinguished themselves in their respective sectors of activity for their excellent and qualified results, including its position as the top fourth company in the world in the field of software for radio and TV. In 2012, Etere MERP was shortlisted for the Digital Studio Awards for Innovation of the Year. In 2016, Etere's contribution to the radio industry was featured in the book "Amo La Radio (I love radio)" written by Andrea Mosca and published by Agora & Co. Products In its early days, Etere focused on radio automation software systems. As the company expanded, it moved its focus to creating software for the television broadcasting sector. Etere products are mainly only software based, with the intention of operating without the need for hardware. Etere developed the Media Enterprise Resource Planning (MERP) framework, now referred to as the Etere Ecosystem, which manages the end-to-end broadcasting workflow with modular software solutions including Media Asset Management, Newsroom, Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM), Automation, Censorship, Airsales and Broadcast Management System (BMS), Ad Insertion, Closed Captions and Subtitle-Insertion and Channel-in-the-Cloud. Etere is used by customers worldwide including RAI Italy, TVRI Indonesia, CNBC Indonesia and TVD Momo. Etere works with a number of partners including Apple, Newtek, Adobe, and Bluefish444.	WIKI
2009 FIU Golden Panthers football team The 2009 FIU Golden Panthers football team represented Florida International University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Mario Cristobal and played their homes games at the on-campus FIU Stadium. The Golden Panthers finished the season 3–9 and 3–5 in the Sun Belt Conference.	WIKI
Neurovirology Neurovirology is an interdisciplinary field which represents a melding of clinical neuroscience, virology, immunology, and molecular biology. The main focus of the field is to study viruses capable of infecting the nervous system. In addition to this, the field studies the use of viruses to trace neuroanatomical pathways, for gene therapy, and to eliminate detrimental populations of neural cells. Overview The field of neurovirology was formed within the past 30 years. It was founded upon the discovery that a large number of viruses are capable of invading and establishing latent infections in nervous tissue. Such viruses have been shown to produce slow, chronic, or progressive nervous system diseases. Neurovirology incorporates the related fields of virology, neuroscience, neurology, immunology, and molecular biology. The main focus of the field is to study the molecular and biological basis of virus induced diseases of the nervous system. In addition to this, the field studies the use of these viruses as tracers of neuroanatomical pathways and as vectors for gene therapy. The field relies upon neuroimaging, isolation of the virus from brain tissue or CSF, serological testing of serum and CSF, and microscopic examination of tissue to diagnose nervous system infections. History Neurovirology only became an official field within the past 30 years. However, the true origin of neurovirology can be accredited to the discovery that some viruses may have an affinity for nervous system tissue. This discovery was made in the late 1880s with research involving rabies. In 1881, while studying rabies, Louis Pasteur demonstrated that the central nervous system played a crucial role in the progression of the disease. Following this discovery, in 1890, Schaffer demonstrated histological evidence that the rabies virus spread via neural networks. In 1929 Heinrich Pette established the first classification criteria for inflammatory diseases of the nervous system. This classification separated the diseases into two groups: gray matter acute and white matter acute inflammatory diseases. Gray matter acute inflammatory diseases were characterized by damage to neurons with myelin remaining intact. White matter acute inflammatory diseases were characterized by destruction of the myelin, with neurons remaining intact. In 1938, Sbin and Olitsky discovered that the distribution of the virus within the body depended on its mechanism of entry. In 1965, ZuRhein and Chou established that destruction of myelin could result from primary virus infection, not only from autoimmune response to the virus. Most of the research of which the field of neurovirology is based upon occurred in the late 1980s and the 1900s. Beginning in 1999 the International Society of Neurovirology has recognized and awarded individuals who have contributed significantly to the field with the Pioneer in NeuroVirology Award. Herpesviruses * Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) * Evidence may support link between virus and Alzheimer's disease, intractable focal epilepsy, and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis * Infection can produce myelitis and encephalitis * Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) * Infection can produce myelitis and encephalitis * Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) * Infection is associated with Guillain–Barré syndrome * Is the most common viral cause of childhood intellectual disability * Is linked to neurological abnormalities, such as: microencephaly, seizures, hypotomia, and sensorineural hearing loss * Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) * Is associated with neurological complications such as: meningoencephalitis, myelitis, cerebellar ataxia, Reye's syndrome, cranial neuropatheis, and postinfectious disseminated encephalomyelitis * Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) * Is associated with Guillain–Barré syndrome, cranial mononeuropathies, focal encephalitis, and myelitis * Is considered the leading viral candidate for causing multiple sclerosis * Human herpesvirus type 6 (HHV-6) and Human herpesvirus type 7 (HHV-7) * Have not been linked to human nervous system disease Polyomaviruses * JC virus (JCV) * Is associated with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and demyelination Rhabdoviruses * Rabies virus * Gives rise to neuronal dysfunction Paramyxoviruses * Measles virus * Is a major cause of neurological deficits * Mumps virus * Is the leading cause of virus induced aseptic meningitis and encephalitis Retroviruses * Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) * Is associated with cognitive dysfunction Viral entry into the nervous system Viruses have evolved mechanisms enabling them to easily infiltrate the nervous system. Two main methods of viral entry have been identified: transneuronal spread and hematogenous spread. Transneuronal spread The mechanism behind transneuronal spread is not entirely known yet, but it involves the virus escaping the immune system by traveling up the axons of the nerves. Hematogenous spread There are two main ways that a virus is thought to enter the brain via hematogenous spread. The first is by infecting an immune cell, which then carries the virus to the nervous tissue. Viral examples of this include the JC virus which infects B cells and HIV which infects CD4 T cells and macrophages to infiltrate the brain. The second is by crossing the blood capillaries as a free virus or in leukocytes. Advantages of infecting the nervous system Neurons lack molecules necessary to present viral peptides on the surface to killer cells, which means they provide a safe house for viruses to replicate. Once viruses get in neurons they can persist for the hosts lifetime and can influence the factors that disturb the function of neurons and the homeostasis of the nervous system, leading to nervous system diseases. Tools used for diagnosing neuroviral infections There are several diagnostic tools which have become invaluable to diagnosing viral infections of the nervous system. In the past, more invasive methods of obtaining samples for diagnosis were needed such as the use of brain biopsy. Now, with the advancement of technology, less invasive means are used more frequently, such as neuroimaging and the analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Neuroimaging CT scans and MRI scans are useful in visualizing inflammation and lesions caused by viral infection of the CNS. MRI is used to visualize deep white matter and temporal lobe lesions, which are not well defined by a CT scan. Lumbar puncture and CSF analysis This method is valuable in diagnosing viral infections of the CNS. CSF analysis typically involves determining the patients total white cell count, glucose level, and protein level in the CSF. Viral infection of the CNS tends to increase the total white cell count, while increasing the level of protein. The levels of glucose tend to be decreased by viral infection, due to an increased glucose consumption. CSF nucleic acid amplification using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) PCR is frequently used to for rapid identification of specific DNA viruses from the CSF, while Reverse transcriptase PCR is commonly used to identify RNA viruses in the CSF. The accuracy of this diagnostic tool is limited by the amount of the virus present in the CSF. Viral replication tends to peak early and then decline to undetectable levels in CNS infection. Within the first 5 days of symptom onset, before the decline of viral replication, PCR assays have a higher incidence of detecting CNS infection. Serology Serology is useful in diagnosing viral infections of the CNS when PCR analysis returns negative results. Brain biopsy In recent years, due to the development of less invasive diagnosis techniques, brain biopsies are no longer frequently used for diagnosing viral infections of the nervous system. However, some viral infections of the CNS cannot be diagnosed without histological and electron microscopic evidence. In these cases, brain biopsies are only performed when the patient has a serious neurological illness and is in need of immediate therapy, an alternative procedure will not lead to a specific diagnosis, and the information gained by the brain biopsy will outweigh the risks. Use of antivirals to treat CNS infection The use of antiviral treatment with both Multiple Sclerosis and AIDS dementia has proven ineffective as a treatment. In patients with Multiple Sclerosis, antiviral treatment of EBV with Acyclovir showed no significant difference from the placebo. In patients with AIDS dementia, despite antiretroviral therapy, CNS function remains diminished. Use of viruses for gene therapy HSV-1 is a promising gene therapy agent, which could be used for gene delivery to neurons. This therapy may be used to treat metabolic brain diseases, neurodegenerative disorders, or to help enhance repair of brain tissue in neurological diseases. Future of field New viruses and viral infections of the nervous system will continue to emerge and the field of neurovirology must constantly expand to meet these growing needs. While the interest in researching viruses that infect the nervous system has increased dramatically over the past 40 years, there are three key components vital for the continued advancement of the field: * 1) Training: New researchers and clinicians need to be trained about the significance of viral infection in the progression of neurological diseases. * 2) Technology: New technology needs to be refined and developed which will aid in the progression of research. * 3) Development of Therapy: Insight gained by research should be applied to the therapy of neurological diseases.	WIKI
Page:Farmer - Slang and its analogues past and present - Volume 3.pdf/365 d. 1680. Butler, Remains (1759), ii., 458. A horse-courser is one that hath read horses, and understands all the virtues and vices of the whole species by being conversant with them, and how to take the best advantage of both. 1742-4. North, Life of the Lord Keeper i., 271. There were horse-copers among them. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Horse-coser, vulgarly and corruptly pronounced horse courser, a dealer in horses. The verb to cose, was used by the Scots, in the sense of bartering or exchanging. 1863. Sporting Life, 29 Apr., p. 4, col. 3. Copers and Chaunters are now in full feather. 1864. London Review, 18 June, p. 643. Amongst the mysteries of horse-flesh is the noble science of coping, and its practitioners the horse-copers. 1874. G. A. Lawrence, Hagarene, ch. ii. He had lived somewhat precariously by his wits; eking out the scanty allowance wrung from his miserly old sire, by betting and horse-coping on a small scale. 1884. Daily News, 23 Aug., p. 4, c. 7. The most accomplished gipsy copers, if they are not belied, are not satisfied with merely doing up an unsound horse and selling him as a sound one, but frequently steal outright the subject of their scientific and often lucrative experiments. 1888. Rolf Boldrewood. Robbery Under Arms, ch. i. Poaching must be something like cattle and horse-duffing. 1889. Answers, 27 July, p. 141, c. 1. Allow me to expose some more tricks of HORSE COPERS. 1893. National Observer, 5 Aug., p. 291, col. 1. A veracious horse-coper is a monster which the world ne'er saw. Horse-collar, subs. (venery).—1. The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable. 2. (tailors').—An extremely long and wide collar. 3. (old).—A halter. To die IN A HORSE'S NIGHTCAP = to be hanged. See Ladder. English Synonyms.—Anodyne necklace; Bridport dagger; choker; hempen cravat; hempen elixir; horse's neckcloth; horse's necklace; neck-squeezer; neckweed; squeezer; St. Andrew's lace; Sir Tristram's knot: tight cravat; Tyburn tiffany; Tyburn tippet; widow. French Synonym.—La cravate de chanvre. 1593. Bacchus' Bountie in Harl. Misc. (ed. Park), ii., 304. Yea, his very head so heavie as if it had beene harnessed in an HORSE-NIGHTCAP. 1608. Penniles Parliament in Harl. Misc. (ed. Park), I., 181. And those that clip that they should not, shall have a horse night-cap for their labour. 1681. Dialogue on Oxford Parliament (Harl. Misc., ii., 125.). He better deserves to go up Holbourn in a wooden chariot, and have a horse night-cap put on at the farther end. 1883. Echo, 25 Jan., p. 2, c. 4. Even an attempt is made to lighten the horror of the climax of a criminal career, by speaking of dying in a horse's night-cap, i.e., a halter. Horse-editor, subs. (American journalists').—A sporting editor. Horse-copy = sporting news. Horseflesh, See Dead Horse and Horse, verb. sense 2. Horse-godmother, subs. (old).—A strapping masculine woman; a virago. Fr., une femme hommasse. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. d. 1819. Wolcot, Wks. In woman angel sweetness let me see No galloping HORSE-GODMOTHER for me. 1838. Selby, Jacques Strop, iii., 1 What a couple of horse-godmothers. 1846-8. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ii., ch. 4. How do, my dear? Come to see the old man, hay? Gad—you've a pretty face, too. You ain't like that old horse-godmother, your mother. Horse-latitudes, subs. (nautical).—A space in the Atlantic, north of the trade-winds, where the winds are baffling.	WIKI
GdT Actions ! Anush Tserunyan: "Backward and forward ergodic theorems along trees" Europe/Paris Description Abstract. In the classical pointwise ergodic theorem for a probability measure preserving (pmp) transformation $T$, one takes averages of a given integrable function over the intervals $\{x, T(x), T^2(x), \cdots, T^n(x)\}$ in the forward orbit of the point $x$. In joint work with Jenna Zomback, we prove a “backward” ergodic theorem for a countable-to-one pmp $T$, where the averages are taken over arbitrary subtrees of the graph of $T$ that are rooted at $x$ and lie behind $x$ (in the direction of $T^{-1}$). Somewhat unexpectedly, this theorem yields (forward) ergodic theorems for group actions, in particular, one for pmp actions of free groups of finite rank where the averages are taken along arbitrary subtrees of the standard Cayley graph rooted at the identity. This strengthens results of Grigorchuk (1987), Nevo (1994), and Bufetov (2000).	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Tennis game pages by user Fungbregas __NOINDEX__ The result of the discussion was: Delete. — xaosflux Talk 14:31, 9 July 2021 (UTC) Tennis game pages by User:Fungbregas Per WP:NOTWEBHOST. These pages are all fictitious tournament results, where User:Fungbregas has inserted a fictional player, Roger Dexter, into the tournaments as part of a personal "tenniselbow" game. Compare User:Fungbregas/pcgame/tenniselbow11cm2/2011 Australian Open – Men's Singles with 2011 Australian Open – Men's Singles to see how the results are completely bogus. I would tag for speedy deletion per U5, but WP:CSD says that it can only be used "where the owner has made few or no edits outside of user pages", which is not true in this case. These pages clog up the "what links here" pages for many players, which is how I found them in the first place. —Somnifuguist (talk) 12:34, 4 July 2021 (UTC) * Delete all - Wikipedia is not a web host for fantasy tennis games. -- Whpq (talk) 02:52, 6 July 2021 (UTC) * Delete as hoaxes/notwebhost. Elli (talk \| contribs) 17:06, 6 July 2021 (UTC)	WIKI
Phillip Terry Phillip Terry (born Frederick Henry Kormann; March 7, 1909 – February 23, 1993) was an American actor. Early years Terry "had elementary education in various schools in the oil country around Texas and Oklahoma." He attended Iona High School in New York and Sacred Heart College in San Francisco. Career After studying at the Royal Academy, he toured British provinces for four years performing in stock theater. He went to Hollywood and took a job with CBS Radio, where he performed in a number of plays on the air, specializing in Shakespearean roles. In 1937, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talent scout heard him in one of these broadcasts and arranged an interview. Terry made a screen test and was awarded a contract with the studio. One of his first film appearances was in a bit part in the movie Mannequin (1937) starring Joan Crawford. Two years later he signed with Paramount, where he starred in The Parson of Panamint, The Monster and the Girl in 1941. He then did supporting roles in Wake Island (1942) and Bataan (1943), the work on the latter occurring when he was on "loan-out" to MGM. During World War II Terry was classified "4F" unfit for military service due to defective vision. When he left Paramount, he signed with RKO and was in Music in Manhattan, George White's Scandals, Pan-Americana, Born to Kill and the lead in Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947). Terry appeared in more than eighty movies over the span of his career. Many of the early roles were small and often uncredited. But in the 1940s, he received bigger and more numerous roles in some quality movies, such as The Lost Weekend (1945) starring Ray Milland, and To Each His Own (1946) starring Olivia de Havilland, who won an Oscar as Best Actress for her performance in the film. Marriages On July 21, 1942, at the Hidden Valley Ranch in Ventura County, California, he married film star Joan Crawford. They were divorced in 1946. Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky, and Sylvia Wallace wrote in their book, The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People:"Despite her status as a single parent, in 1939 she [Crawford] began adoption proceedings for a baby girl, whom she named Joan Crawford, Jr. Months later Joan changed the child's name to Christina...During [her marriage to Phillip Terry] she adopted a second child — a boy — and named him Phillip Terry, Jr. Following her 1946 divorce from Terry, she renamed the boy Christopher Crawford." Later years Terry never completely abandoned acting. During the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, he took on occasional movie roles. Some of his better B movies from this period include The Leech Woman (1960), with Grant Williams, and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966), with Mamie Van Doren. Sometimes he would accept television roles and was in episodes of The Name of the Game and Police Woman. He also made five guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murder victim Robert Doniger in the 1960 episode, "The Case of the Gallant Grafter", and he played Lawrence Kent in the 1961 episode, "The Case of the Resolute Reformer".	WIKI
AOUT Q2 Deep Dive: Tariffs, Retailer Caution, and Product Innovation Set the Tone Recreational products manufacturer American Outdoor Brands (NASDAQ:AOUT) fell short of the market’s revenue expectations in Q2 CY2025, with sales falling 28.7% year on year to $29.7 million. Its non-GAAP loss of $0.26 per share was 4% below analysts’ consensus estimates. Is now the time to buy AOUT? Find out in our full research report (it’s free). Revenue: $29.7 million vs analyst estimates of $35.77 million (28.7% year-on-year decline, 17% miss) Adjusted EPS: -$0.26 vs analyst expectations of -$0.25 (4% miss) Adjusted EBITDA: -$3.12 million vs analyst estimates of -$1.64 million (-10.5% margin, 90.5% miss) Operating Margin: -23%, down from -6.2% in the same quarter last year Market Capitalization: $132.7 million American Outdoor Brands faced a challenging Q2 as revenue and adjusted earnings both fell short of Wall Street expectations, prompting a sharp market reaction. Management attributed the shortfall to shifting retailer order patterns, as partners accelerated purchases into the prior quarter to avoid tariff-related price increases. CEO Brian Daniel Murphy described the environment as one of “evolving tariff impacts, shifting retailer order patterns, and broader macroeconomic uncertainty,” noting that while point-of-sale performance remained strong for key brands, the timing of shipments weighed on reported results. Looking forward, American Outdoor Brands is focused on navigating continued volatility in retailer inventory strategies and evolving tariff policies. Management expects a measured cadence in retailer orders to persist, with CFO H. Andrew Fulmer highlighting that “the outlook for the health of the consumer is an important unknown as we move toward the upcoming holiday season.” The company is prioritizing product innovation, cost controls, and supply chain flexibility while closely monitoring macroeconomic factors that could influence consumer demand and margins. Management cited retailer inventory strategies, tariff shifts, and product innovation as the main influences on Q2 performance and future outlook. Tariff-driven retailer behavior: Retail partners accelerated orders late last quarter to avoid anticipated tariff increases, leading to a drop in Q2 shipments but supporting strong point-of-sale sales for leading brands. E-commerce softness: The e-commerce channel underperformed due to a major online retailer adjusting its purchasing strategy in response to tariffs, resulting in a 35% year-over-year decline for that channel. Supply chain and margin management: The company shifted some production outside of China and secured supplier concessions to offset tariff impacts. Management emphasized ongoing efforts to maintain product quality and margin preservation amid shifting costs. Innovation and new product contributions: New products accounted for nearly 29% of net sales, with recent launches like the Caldwell Claycopter and Bubba SmartFish Scale Lite supporting retail momentum. Management is leveraging innovation to introduce higher-margin offerings and sustain consumer interest. International and segment trends: Sales to Canada and other international markets declined sharply due to trade concerns and broader macro trends, while shooting sports and outdoor lifestyle categories both faced year-over-year declines, reflecting broader industry pressures. Management expects near-term results to be driven by continued retailer caution, evolving tariff impacts, and a disciplined approach to product launches and cost control. Retailer inventory strategies: Management anticipates that retailer partners will continue to order cautiously, balancing inventory, pricing, and evolving consumer demand. This measured approach is expected to persist until there is more clarity on tariffs and macroeconomic conditions. Tariff and sourcing uncertainty: The company is actively diversifying its supply chain and adjusting pricing to mitigate tariff risks. Management highlighted that further shifts in sourcing or tariff rates could affect both costs and margins, with flexibility remaining a key priority. Product innovation pipeline: Continued investment in new product development is expected to drive higher-margin sales and recurring revenue streams, especially through initiatives like the Bubba-Major League Fishing partnership and the integration of hardware/app technology. Management views new launches as critical for offsetting external pressures. In the coming quarters, our analysts will closely monitor (1) the normalization of retailer order patterns as tariff and inventory headwinds subside, (2) the scalability and adoption of new products and digital features like ScoreTracker Live, and (3) the effectiveness of supply chain realignment in preserving margins. Progress in recurring revenue initiatives and international market stabilization will also be key markers. American Outdoor Brands currently trades at $8.48, down from $10.39 just before the earnings. At this price, is it a buy or sell? The answer lies in our full research report (it’s free). 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U.S. Open Draws Crowds to Times Square With Promise of Mega-Selfies Have you ever wondered how it’s possible to command more than a few seconds of someone’s time in the packed madhouse that is Times Square, a.k.a. the “Crossroads of the World” and the unofficial sensory overload capital of America? As it turns out, the answer is easy: Lure the curious with the promise of a mega-selfie. To promote the United States Open, which begins in Flushing, N.Y., on Monday, the United States Tennis Association offered visitors the opportunity to have pictures of themselves posted on six billboards throughout Times Square. For two hours on Thursday, throngs of tourists and even a few locals took it up on the offer, lingering on a spot of concrete near 43rd Street and Broadway and whirling around to take a selfie with their own giant images displayed high above. Very meta. Nicole Kankam, the managing director of marketing for the tennis association, said the digital takeover was an attempt to attract a new type of tennis fan: someone who is younger, who is more digitally savvy and, crucially, who might buy a ticket and help fill the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. (Thanks to renovations, the center will be able to host an additional 100,000 fans by 2018.) “We’ve really got to engage a more socially active, a younger, more diverse demographic” to draw a hipper crowd and sell those tickets, Ms. Kankam said. “Socially engaging fans is a way to do that.” Success would be measured by social media impressions, she said, like tracking use of a special Snapchat geofilter created for the occasion and hashtags like #USOpen. Not surprisingly, along with photos of visitors came a parade of advertisements: A retractable roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium! Serena Williams! Andy Murray! Lobster rolls! Justin Timberlake! Chef Morimoto! A square packed with so many starry-eyed tourists and rowdy Elmos raises a question: Who would actually still be in town in this vacation month to buy tickets? Birgit Caroen, a 24-year-old Belgian tourist passing through New York on her way to Canada, said that she was a tennis fan “10 years ago, when there were a lot of famous Belgian tennis players,” but that she wouldn’t be able to attend. Still, she and her friends lingered for about 15 minutes, watching their photos disappear and recirculate. That’s the kind of exposure, or “buzz,” that Ms. Kankam said the tennis association was looking for. The powerful allure of mega-photos like these comes with complicated back-end mechanics, according to Lara Herzer, a creative director at McGarryBowen who worked with the association and another agency, Horizon Media, to put together the project. Here’s how it worked: A street team of eight people dressed in United States Open gear engaged with visitors and snapped photographs of people on their iPads. Another creative director, sitting in a conference room somewhere, downloaded those photos and sent them to the companies that pushed the displays to billboards for a 10-second Times Square broadcast. Who knew? Also, how much does this cost? Ms. Kankam said that the amount paid by the tennis association, a nonprofit, was “hard to quantify,” but that companies like Citizen, the watchmaker, allowed the U.S.T.A. to take over their digital billboards free. Michael Galkin, a sales, research and marketing manager with the signage company Branded Cities, which leased two of the six billboards to the association, would not comment on the cost of the campaign, but said that talks for a short takeover, or “roadblock,” like this one usually start at about $25,000, beginning with one billboard. The tennis association takeover involved far more billboards, of course, but in the world of Times Square billboard prices, the project was still most likely a bargain. Just down the street, close to where the Naked Cowboy hangs out, one of the most expensive pieces of outdoor advertising space on the market costs $2.5 million for a four-week takeover. In the end, among the people who lingered the longest were two Bronx natives: Evelyn Hernandez and Esther Livé, who had journeyed to Midtown Manhattan for a manicure and a pedicure and spent more than a half-hour in the middle of the action. Ms. Hernandez said she had friends coming into town to watch the Open, and that she would go, too, if she could just find a ticket. slide show	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
Sandboxing Security: A Practical Guide What is Sandboxing Security? Sandboxing security techniques and tools enable you to move suspicious software and files into an isolated environment—a sandbox—where the threat is tested. A sandbox is designed to mimic production environments, but it is deployed safely away from your real assets. A major advantage of sandbox environments is the ability to isolate threats. Once the threat is isolated, you can test and analyze it, usually by “detonating” the suspicious file and causing it to deploy its malicious payload. The information gathered from the analysis can help you protect your systems from similar threats—essentially turning a zero-day threat into a known factor. Prevent any email threat before it reaches your users' inboxes. Find out how in the Advanced Email Security datasheet, here. There is a wide range of sandboxing security solutions. Typically, a solution provides capabilities for analysis, pre-filtering, visualization, emulation, anti-evasion, and threat intelligence. How Does Sandbox Cyber Security Work? Sandbox security testing proactively detects malware by running suspicious code in a safe and isolated environment, and monitoring the behavior and outputs of the code. This is known as “detonation”. The major advantage of sandbox-based security testing is that it can reliably detect unknown threats. Other methods of testing, both traditional signature-based methods, and modern behavioral analysis based on machine learning (known as featureless detection), are limited in their ability to detect unknown threats. These traditional methods are only as good as the threat databases and models that support them. The sandbox technique provides an additional layer of defense, making it possible to test payloads that passed other detection techniques, but may still contain threats. There are three primary ways to implement a sandbox for security testing: • Complete system emulation—the sandbox simulates the host’s physical hardware such as CPU and memory to gain a comprehensive understanding of program behavior and impact. • Operating system emulation—the sandbox emulates the end user’s operating system, but does not accurately simulate system hardware. • Virtualization / containerization—this method uses a virtual machine (VM) or container to run software in an isolated environment. Using Sandboxes to Detonate Malicious Payloads Malware typically distributes payloads (macros, scripts, hyperlinks, files) when copied or downloaded to a device, or when a file is opened. Sandbox systems with detonation features can automatically analyze files and identify suspicious activity. Some popular sandbox solutions do not provide detonation capabilities out of the box—but it is still possible to “play around” with malicious software to investigate its behavior. Other solutions have built-in, automated security testing features. Typical Workflow for Sandboxing Detonation If the malware doesn’t immediately activate its payload, the sandbox system can attempt to trick the malware into deploying, by changing certain virtual machine settings (such as date and time settings), or restarting the VM. Sandbox engines can also simulate different system properties that may trigger malicious behavior. typical workflow for detonation is as follows: 1. The sandboxing system detects content that is suspicious and needs to be tested. 2. Content is moved to the sandbox environment. 3. The end user is may be notified that the content is being tested depending on the application. 4. If the content is safe, the user or application can download.. If not, the content is blocked/quarantined and administrators are notified. SOC team overloaded? Get a free, fully managed, 24x7 Incident Response service, and save up to 75% of your SOC resources. Learn more. Traditional Sandbox Limitations Traditional security sandboxing has many downsides as they are costly and resource-intensive. Additional limitations are listed below. Delayed Execution: A sandbox can take up to 7 to 20 minutes to analyze a file. In some cases, malware can be programmed to execute after time delay or on a specific date. Hiding Malicious Code in Password-protected Attachments: The sandbox cannot open the file unless it knows the password. Data Obfuscation and Encryption: Standard sandboxes do not know how to decipher encrypted traffic. Remotely Called VBA or Javascript: In this case a link in a file leads to the download of malicious code only after the file passes sandbox inspection. Malware Detection of Sandboxes: Hackers can create attacks that know if the file is being checked by a sandbox and if so, will remain inert. How to Choose Sandbox Security Software Here are some of the key capabilities you should look for in a sandbox security solution: • A sandbox should be able to analyze executables, DLLs, PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, Java and Flash programs, and any other artifact that may be used in your environment. • A sandbox should support Windows and MAC environments • A sandbox should not need to use variable durations to detect dormant malware. Long-term analysis has a high resource cost, because it’s best practice to randomize the sandbox’s sleep settings, to increase the chance of capturing malicious activity. This means that not all files are scanned, and when scanned, takes a long time. • A sandbox should have anti-evasion techniques, being able to unpack hidden files and URLs. • Look for sandboxes that are native to the security solution or application you are protecting or have easy to implement API for customized applications • Select sandboxes that do not rely only on threat intelligence and machine learning, but have mechanisms to detect zero-days in a deterministic manner Sandboxing Security with Perception Point Looking for a managed sandbox solution to protect your organization? Perception Point’s SaaS solution is powered by 7 layers of patented detection engines and provides a detection rate of more than 99.95%.Dynamically scanning 100% of content, including embedded files and URLs in just seconds, it eliminates security blind spots for the best protection across email, cloud collaboration apps, web apps and web browsers. The platform recursively unpacks every piece of content and rapidly scans all text, ÿles and URLs with multiple advanced detection engines. The multiple engines leverage state of the art detection algorithms using computer vision, machine learning, and various dynamic and static methods, to intercept every type of threat, from commodity attacks to advanced threats. One of these engines is the HAP – Hardware Assisted Platform which is a next-gen sandbox that dynamically scans content at the CPU/memory level. It detects threats in a deterministic manner, at the exploit level, rather than the application level, finding low-level misusage patterns and anomalies – rather than looking for known behaviors that have been previously categorized as potentially malicious. The HAP outperforms CDRs and traditional sandboxes, with the following: 1. Deterministic verdict – by looking at the CPU-level data, the solution provides a single, clear verdict, without relying on statistical analysis, ensuring better detection and FP rates. 2. Speed – the HAP’s short scanning time ensures minimal to negligible delay time and optimal user experience. 3. File usability – Perception Point doesn’t tamper with the file, maintaining its usability 4. Scale – Perception Point scans 100% of the traffic dynamically leaving no file unscanned and no room for malicious files to penetrate your organization. SOC team overloaded? Get a free, fully managed, 24x7 Incident Response service, and save up to 75% of your SOC resources. Learn more.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tissefant The result was delete. ff m 18:08, 16 October 2008 (UTC) Tissefant * ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log) Unsourced article making dubious claims that a vulgar word in Norwegian "someone has claimed" is a place in Norway. Search finds nothing to confirm exsistance. Probably a hoax. Arsenikk (talk) 13:21, 12 October 2008 (UTC) * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Norway-related deletion discussions. — Arsenikk (talk) 13:27, 12 October 2008 (UTC) * Comment. Among the 84,000 Norwegian place name in GNS, there is no Tissefant. Supposedly this place has a harbour and more than 1,000 inhabitants, so I would have expected it to be included if it were real. – Sadalmelik ☎ 19:47, 12 October 2008 (UTC) * Delete. There's essentially two claims here... I don't know Nerwegian, but some online translators give tisse=pee, so the vulgar usage may well be true, but is deletable per WP:DICDEF. The editor who created this article has no other edits. The claim about the worlds smallest bench was introduced by an IP and originally claimed that the bench is made of spaghetti. The article on no-wiki (no:Sarpsborg) does not mention Tissefant, and google does not find any information about Tissefant+Sarpsborg (though I'm struggling with Norwegian text). Not verifiable. – Sadalmelik ☎ 09:27, 13 October 2008 (UTC) * Delete - probable hoax. AlexTiefling (talk) 16:13, 13 October 2008 (UTC) * Delete Per nom. Mvjs Talking 09:11, 14 October 2008 (UTC) * Delete as unsourced, and a likely hoax. --Lockley (talk) 23:43, 14 October 2008 (UTC)	WIKI
George R. Hill George Richard Hill Jr. (April 10, 1884 – August 13, 1971) was an American educational administrator and was the seventh general superintendent of the Sunday School organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1949 to 1966. Hill was a member of the general superintendency of the LDS Church Sunday School from 1934 to 1966. Biography Hill was born in Ogden, Utah Territory, and was raised on a farm in Springville, Utah. Hill obtained a B.S. degree from Brigham Young University in 1907, a B.S.A. degree from the Utah State Agricultural College in 1908, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1912. After his graduation from Cornell, Hill became the director of the School of Agriculture at Utah State University. From 1926 to 1935, he was a member of the general board of the LDS Church's Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association. He had also become a member of the general board of the Deseret Sunday School Union in 1925. In 1934, he became the second assistant to George D. Pyper, the general superintendent of the Deseret Sunday School Union. In 1943, when Milton Bennion succeeded Pyper, Hill became Bennion's first assistant. In 1949, Hill succeeded Bennion and became the seventh general superintendent of the Deseret Sunday School Union, a position he held until 1966, when he was succeeded by David Lawrence McKay. Hill was married to Elizabeth Odette McKay, the sister of LDS Church president David O. McKay. Hill's oldest son, George R. Hill III, was a general authority of the church between 1987 and 1992. Hill died in Salt Lake City, Utah.	WIKI
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murder of Mary Quigley The result was no consensus. MBisanz talk 04:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC) Murder of Mary Quigley * ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log) I don't think this qualifies for speedy. While a murder is sad, I cant find anything notable or encyclopaedic about this article. Jenuk1985 \| Talk 21:54, 6 March 2009 (UTC) This article just got started and it is not finished yet. Sure the pictures of the crime scene look trite, but we're still trying to get rights to better pictures. Why are the "Murder of Polly Klaas" and others "worthy" and this is not? This case has been ongoing for 30 years, it emphasizes DNA technology, and is currently heating up in the American Media. I see you are in the UK so why are you presuming to judge American news and modern history. This is not a physics article. It is a news and modern events article. Cloudswrest (talk) 22:52, 6 March 2009 (UTC) * Keep I think this article is "notable" according to Wikipedia guidelines. Do a Google search on ( Mary Quigley "Santa Clara" ). The "Santa Clara" is included to weed out the chaff. There are 4000 hits, almost all relevant. Here is a link showing collective newspaper clippings http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockit442/sets/72157602692844833/ . On a related note, unless an article violates more serious guidelines, I think it's in poor taste to put a deletion banner on any article under 30 days old as it is sure to discourage contributers. Cloudswrest (talk) 23:30, 6 March 2009 (UTC) * Keep Needs work, but many news sources and seems notable.7triton7 (talk) 06:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC) * Weak delete. I'm not finding sufficient sources. I don't see the "many news sources" and searching Google news turns up details on two different women by this name. Looking at this, media coverage seems mostly localized. Many instances of the same stories reprinted in different outlets. Not sure if notability is there. Will check back to see if I've missed something and may change my vote. ₳dam Zel 14:27, 9 March 2009 (UTC) * Comment Wikipedia-English services the whole Anglophone world, not just the United States of America. Wikipedia guidelines for notability are defined and universal, therefore the presence or lack there of is recognizable regardless of geographical location of the reader. Generally, the state of development of an article within Wikipedia will not increase notability except if Wikipedia is being used as a publicity platform, which is not the mission of Wikipedia. Poettobe (talk) 09:23, 9 March 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) * Comment Wikipedia has multiple routes for reviewing an article nominated for deletion. The user that nominated this article for deletion recognized this article qualified for more than speedy deletion. Poettobe (talk) 10:06, 9 March 2009 (UTC) * Delete This article is commemorative, not technical. Although tragic, the content indicates personal significance, not universal significance. Poettobe (talk) 10:15, 9 March 2009 (UTC) * Delete - This is a murder case, which was covered in the regional press, like many murders are. Although it is somewhat unusual due to the 31 year gap between the murder and the conviction, I don't think it reaches the level of notability necessary for its own article. –Megaboz (talk) 03:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC)	WIKI
--- 1/draft-ietf-sipping-nat-scenarios-03.txt 2006-03-03 22:12:53.000000000 +0100 +++ 2/draft-ietf-sipping-nat-scenarios-04.txt 2006-03-03 22:12:53.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,21 +1,21 @@ SIPPING Working Group C. Boulton Internet-Draft Ubiquity Software Corporation -Expires: April 27, 2006 J. Rosenberg +Expires: September 3, 2006 J. Rosenberg Cisco Systems G. Camarillo Ericsson - October 24, 2005 + March 2, 2006 Best Current Practices for NAT Traversal for SIP - draft-ietf-sipping-nat-scenarios-03 + draft-ietf-sipping-nat-scenarios-04 Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that @@ -26,25 +26,25 @@ and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. - This Internet-Draft will expire on April 27, 2006. + This Internet-Draft will expire on September 3, 2006. Copyright Notice - Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). + Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). Abstract Traversal of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the sessions it establishes through Network Address Translators (NAT) is a complex problem. Currently there are many deployment scenarios and traversal mechanisms for media traffic. This document aims to provide concrete recommendations and a unified method for NAT traversal as well as documenting corresponding call flows. @@ -1187,35 +1187,35 @@ \|----------------->\| \| \| \| \| \|(10) TURN Allocate\| \| \| \| \|src=1.2.3.4:5608 \| \| \| \| \|----------------------------------->\| \| \| \|(11) TURN Resp \| \| \| \| \|<-----------------------------------\| \| \| \|map=2.3.4.5:5608 \| \| \| \| \|dest=1.2.3.4:5608 \| \| \| \|(12) TURN Resp \| \| \| \| \|<-----------------\| \| \| \| - \|map=1.2.3.4:5608 \| \| \| \| + \|map=2.3.4.5:5608 \| \| \| \| \|dest=10.0.1.1:5302\| \| \| \| \|(13) TURN Allocate\| \| \| \| \|src=10.0.1.1:5312 \| \| \| \| \|----------------->\| \| \| \| \| \|(14) TURN Allocate\| \| \| \| \|src=1.2.3.4:5618 \| \| \| \| \|----------------------------------->\| \| \| \|(15) TURN Resp \| \| \| \| \|<-----------------------------------\| \| \| \|map=2.3.4.5:5618 \| \| \| \| \|dest=1.2.3.4:5618 \| \| \| \|(16) TURN Resp \| \| \| \| \|<-----------------\| \| \| \| - \|map=1.2.3.4:5618 \| \| \| \| + \|map=2.3.4.5:5618 \| \| \| \| \|dest=10.0.1.1:5312\| \| \| \| \|(17)SIP INVITE \| \| \| \| \|----------------->\| \| \| \| \| \|(18)SIP INVITE \| \| \| \| \|------------------------------------------->\| \| \| \|(19)SIP 200 OK \| \| \| \|<-------------------------------------------\| \|(20)SIP 200 OK \| \| \| \| \|<-----------------\| \| \| \| \|(21)STUN Req \| \| \| \| @@ -1376,43 +1376,43 @@ \| \|map=1.2.3.4:5611 \| \| \| \| \|dest=1.2.3.4:5611 \| \| \| \|(10) STUN Resp \| \| \| \| \|<-----------------\| \| \| \| \|map=1.2.3.4:5611 \| \| \| \| \|dest=10.0.1.1:5311\| \| \| \| \|(11) TURN Allocate\| \| \| \| \|src=10.0.1.1:5302 \| \| \| \| \|----------------->\| \| \| \| \| \|(12) TURN Allocate\| \| \| - \| \|src=2.3.4.5:5608 \| \| \| + \| \|src=1.2.3.4:5608 \| \| \| \| \|------------------------------------>\| \| \| \|(13) TURN Resp \| \| \| \| \|<------------------------------------\| \| \| \|map=2.3.4.5:5608 \| \| \| \| \|dest=1.2.3.4:5608 \| \| \| \|(14) TURN Resp \| \| \| \| \|<-----------------\| \| \| \| - \|map=1.2.3.4:5608 \| \| \| \| + \|map=2.3.4.5:5608 \| \| \| \| \|dest=10.0.1.1:5302\| \| \| \| \|(15) TURN Allocate\| \| \| \| \|src=10.0.1.1:5312 \| \| \| \| \|----------------->\| \| \| \| \| \|(16) TURN Allocate\| \| \| \| \|src=1.2.3.4:5618 \| \| \| \| \|------------------------------------>\| \| \| \|(17) TURN Resp \| \| \| \| \|<------------------------------------\| \| - \| \|map=1.2.3.4:5618 \| \| \| + \| \|map=2.3.4.5:5618 \| \| \| \| \|dest=1.2.3.4:5618 \| \| \| \|(18) TURN Resp \| \| \| \| \|<-----------------\| \| \| \| - \|map=1.2.3.4:5618 \| \| \| \| + \|map=2.3.4.5:5618 \| \| \| \| \|dest=10.0.1.1:5312\| \| \| \| \|(19)SIP 200 OK \| \| \| \| \|----------------->\| \| \| \| \| \|(20)SIP 200 OK \| \| \| \| \|------------------------------------------->\| \|(21)STUN Req \| \| \| \| \|----------------->\| \| \| \| \| \|(22) STUN Req \| \| \| \| \|------------------------------------------->\| \| \| \|(23)STUN Resp \| \| @@ -1861,39 +1861,39 @@ [10] Rosenberg, J., Weinberger, J., Huitema, C., and R. Mahy, "STUN - Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Through Network Address Translators (NATs)", RFC 3489, March 2003. [11] Jennings, C. and A. Hawrylyshen, "SIP Conventions for UAs with Outbound Only Connections", draft-jennings-sipping-outbound-01 (work in progress), February 2005. [12] Rosenberg, J., "Obtaining and Using Globally Routable User Agent (UA) URIs (GRUU) in the Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP)", draft-ietf-sip-gruu-03 (work in progress), - February 2005. + (SIP)", draft-ietf-sip-gruu-06 (work in progress), + October 2005. [13] Rosenberg, J., "Traversal Using Relay NAT (TURN)", - draft-rosenberg-midcom-turn-07 (work in progress), - February 2005. + draft-rosenberg-midcom-turn-08 (work in progress), + September 2005. [14] Wing, D., "Symmetric RTP and RTCP Considered Helpful", draft-wing-mmusic-symmetric-rtprtcp-01 (work in progress), October 2004. [15] Rosenberg, J., "Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Methodology for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal for - Multimedia Session Establishment Protocols", - draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-04 (work in progress), February 2005. + Offer/Answer Protocols", draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-06 (work in + progress), October 2005. [16] Rosenberg, J., "Simple Traversal of UDP Through Network Address - Translators (NAT) (STUN)", draft-ietf-behave-rfc3489bis-01 - (work in progress), February 2005. + Translators (NAT) (STUN)", draft-ietf-behave-rfc3489bis-02 + (work in progress), July 2005. [17] Camarillo, G., "The Alternative Network Address Types Semantics (ANAT) for theSession Description Protocol (SDP) Grouping Framework", draft-ietf-mmusic-anat-02 (work in progress), October 2004. 6.2. Informative References [18] Camarillo, G., "IPv6 Transcition in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", draft-camarillo-sipping-v6-transition-00 (work @@ -1953,18 +1953,18 @@ This document and the information contained herein are provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Copyright Statement - Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). This document is subject + Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. 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An algebraic construction of solutions to the mean field equations on hyperelliptic curves and its adiabatic limit Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review Abstract In this paper, we give an algebraic construction of the solution to the following mean field equation $$ \Delta \psi+e^{\psi}=4\pi\sum_{i=1}^{2g+2}\delta_{P_{i}}, $$ on a genus $g\geq 2$ hyperelliptic curve $(X,ds^{2})$ where $ds^{2}$ is a canonical metric on $X$ and $\{P_{1},\cdots,P_{2g+2}\}$ is the set of Weierstrass points on $X.$ Original languageEnglish Pages (from-to)3693 Number of pages3707 JournalProceedings of the American Mathematical Society Volume146 Publication statusPublished - 2018 Jul Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'An algebraic construction of solutions to the mean field equations on hyperelliptic curves and its adiabatic limit'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Cite this	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Page:1889 Territory of Dakota Session Laws.djvu/60 Rh ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. CHAPTER 3. WHEN THEY TAKE EFFECT. AN ACT Entitled an Act to Provide when Laws shall go into Force and Effect. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota: § 1. .] That all laws hereafter enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Dakota unless otherwise expressly provided therein shall be in force and take effect on the first day of July after their passage and approval. § 2. .] АП acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. § 3. .] This act shall be in force and take effect immediately after its passage and approval. Approved, February 28, 1889. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. CHAPTER 4. WITHOUT THE UNITED STATES—BY ҮНӨМ MADE. AN ACT To Amend Section 658 of the Civil Code Relating to Acknowledgment of Instruments. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota: § 1. .] That section 658 of the civil code, be, and the same is hereby amended to read aa follows:	WIKI
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johnny Alcaraz The result was No consensus, default to delete. NW ( Talk ) 08:43, 1 July 2010 (UTC) Johnny Alcaraz * – ( View AfD View log • ) Subject of this WP:BLP requests deletion at 4893520. I am neutral. Stifle (talk) 18:39, 20 May 2010 (UTC) * Keep if the Australian Jets are the highest pro-level in Australia, which my quick research suggests they are (but I am readily open to correction on this) Vartanza (talk) 17:40, 12 June 2010 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 18:08, 24 June 2010 (UTC) * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. * Speedy Keep. Alcaraz has played professionally for Houston Dynamo in Major League Soccer, and as such passes WP:GNG, WP:ATHLETE and WP:FOOTY/N. Should never have been nominated in the first place. --JonBroxton (talk) 18:21, 24 June 2010 (UTC) * Comment: The Jets line was completely unsourced, and given the history of unsourced edits probably completely bogus. I'm not clear on whether being on an MLS team for one year is enough to be notable, especially given the unclear status of the athelete rules and the fact that the MLS really isn't all that prestigous. Interpret this as a keep or delete based on whether being on an MLS team is notable, I guess. Yoshi348 (talk) 18:24, 24 June 2010 (UTC) * Playing for an MLS team makes you notabile. --JonBroxton (talk) 18:27, 24 June 2010 (UTC) * If OTRS constitutes an office action then this should be speedy deleted per speedy deletion criteria G9. Not tagged, I am deferring to somebody else who can set that straight. Cannot access the OTRS link above. -- Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 18:44, 24 June 2010 (UTC) * OTRS tickets are people making requests to the office, not the office nessecarily agreeing to the requests. Yoshi348 (talk) 19:03, 24 June 2010 (UTC) * OK, I'm confused. Who exactly has nominated this for deletion, and why? --JonBroxton (talk) 19:29, 24 June 2010 (UTC) * Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that basically Johnny Alcaraz nominated it. He requested deletion through e-mail, not being fluent in wp policies, and it was forwarded here (probably after a check to make sure the request wasn't completely insane on its face). Doesn't seem like non-admins can see the ticket and therefore the reasons why, but all the unsourced information being added to the article lately is probably the answer. Yoshi348 (talk) 20:17, 24 June 2010 (UTC) * Comment. Apparently, the subject requested that this article be deleted via the OTRS system. Stifle, as an OTRS Volunteer, authenticated that the e-mail was genuine, and filed the AFD on behalf of the subject. Not sure what happened then, but for whatever reason the template was not placed at the article, and this AFD was not listed in the day's log. One comment was added on June 12. Then I noticed it on the list of BLP AFDs (at the imminently helpful User:Jennavecia/AFDBIO) and checked into it. Since it's an OTRS request, I didn't want to dismiss it out of hand, and so relisted it and properly tagged and logged the AFD. It's not an office action per se, but a neutral request forwarded by a volunteer on behalf of the subject. I add that I'm neutral on the deletion question as well, but that we might consider some form of protection if vandalism and unsourced shenanigans are problems on this article. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 20:25, 24 June 2010 (UTC) * How interesting. Well, so long as we can get rid of all the unsourced crap, and keep an eye out for vandalism (which I do anyway), I don't see any problem with keeping it. He passes all the notability requirements for a professional soccer player. His biographical details are correct, as per his USCB and Houston Dynamo bios, and his career stats are correct too. Beyond that, I really can't see anything wrong with the page. --JonBroxton (talk) 21:51, 24 June 2010 (UTC) * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:29, 25 June 2010 (UTC) * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:30, 25 June 2010 (UTC) * Given the BLP concern, and that the subject has only made minimal professional appearances, I think deletion here is probably okay for the time being. No prejudice on recreation should the subject return to professional football. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 09:27, 25 June 2010 (UTC) * Keep but monitor and retain only fully reliable sourced content. Concur with Chris Cunningham (not at work) above and come to similar conclusion. Technically the player passes ATHLETE with some cup appearances for Houston, but given subject request and marginal notability (as in, not the name on everybody's lips) no objection to deletion. Ideal scenario is retain the page with a close watch and rigorous attention to reliable sourcing to eliminate target vandalisms. -- Club Oranje T 10:07, 25 June 2010 (UTC) * Delete One game against the Charleston Battery is the very picture of stretching the notability guidelines- no evidence he actually ever played in an MLS match. The subject's request here is axillary- he doesn't meet WP:ATHLETE- the U.S. Open Cup isn't a fully professional competition. Courcelles (talk) 03:06, 1 July 2010 (UTC)	WIKI
Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Archive 58 Desyssoping mechanisms There's been some talk on this page in the last week or two about the need for a system for removing people from the adminship. Earlier, someone suggested that all adminships have a sunset clause that requires admins to be reconsidered once per year. This was widely opposed as unworkable (given that there are 800+ admins) and undesireable, since it would mean that admins have to think more about politics than policy. I'm sure I'm not the only one, however, who's seen admins who have behaved very badly and who, if the community had known how they were going to act, would never have passed the RfA process. I'm also sure that I'm not the only one who thinks that there should be some mechanism by which the community, whose consensus bestowed sysoppery, might take it away. (There is, to my mind, a strange assymetry to our system in that it is community concensus that creates admins, but only ArbCom that can undo this). What I see as a potential mechanism (which I'd like to hear your thoughts on) would be a two-stage process. First, a petition-like stage which would require that if a certain number of wikipedians-of-good standing (say 25? 50? some proportion of admin's RFA vote? recent admin vote?) sign on as requesting a review, the admin in question would be submitted to a new RfA process (or perhaps a RfA-like process). Perhaps an ArbCom/Jimbo approval to follow? Anyway, tell me what you think. Bucketsofg✐ 13:12, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * It's up to once a week, I see. Kim Bruning 13:34, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * Perhaps we need a page containing links to all the proposal pages and archived talk pages where we've discussed these things. We can use a Wikilink to such a page to respond to these now-weekly proposals. --Deathphoenix ʕ 13:38, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * I agree, Bucketsofg. I suggested this same type of system on the admin accountability proposal page. joturn e r 13:36, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * Oops. Should have known that something similar had been suggested. Given the number who are against having a community-based mechanism in the discussion you link, my guess is that any change is a dead letter. Bucketsofg✐ 13:42, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * Pretty much. If an admin's actions are bad enough to warrant desysopping, take it to the ArbCom. I haven't seen any indication that they're overloaded with desysopping requests—so until there's an indication that they can't handle it, they seem to be the logical route. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:51, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * Ditto. Johnleemk \| Talk 14:24, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * I agree. Also, many of the accusations of rouge admin performance are based on the fact that there is disagreement over some fundamental policies of Wikipedia, and how those policies should be enforced, and how fast such enforcement should be (fast gives the appearance of being recklessly out of process). It is important to have people who understand the finer points of policy and process to make the desysop decisions, to distinguish between real rouge performance and the mere appearance of rogueness, and ArbCom fits the bill nicely. NoSeptember talk 14:38, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * Were any actions taken based on the feedback, Jo ? "Someone should have the authority to temporarily de-admin problematic admins", for instance, was voted 40-18. Tintin (talk) 14:20, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * Jimbo has that authority, as does Danny of the WP:OFFICE. Stewards have the technical ability, though they exercise it rarely and only in clear-cut cases (obviously insane or compromised account). The recent examples I can think of ended up before ArbCom for review anyway. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 14:50, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * ArbCom has that authority as well, and I imagine they could pass an injunction fairly quickly if truly needed. Christopher Parham (talk) 15:01, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * In an emergency, where there is question of an admins actions, the developers will desysop; they will, in some cases, do so more quickly than stewards will. There are plenty of mechanisms to have someone desysopped (including several of us who have home and mobile phone numbers of stewards and developers) if they really need to be; the fact of the matter is, there are very few cases where someone should be desysopped without an arbitration case or direct-intervention from Jimbo. Essjay ( Talk • Connect ) 15:21, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * And this is when we ask how many developers and stewards you have been caught stalking :), seriously though I agree with Essjay that there are plenty of fallbacks in place and adding a new one would cause more problems that it would solve. Pegasus1138 Talk 19:46, 19 May 2006 (UTC) * I'm swear not stalking..."DANNY! MARRY ME! PLEEEEEEEEASE!" <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 00:19, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * "That's hot!" Ok... seriously, is there actually a problem here about not being able to get hold of devs or stewards? + + Lar: t/c 01:48, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * Seems like this emergency desysopping has only been used on Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason before. So there's no big deal if we don't have a formal quick desysopping process. Kimchi.sg 04:58, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * I think Jimbo desysopped several (ungefahr 5?) people recently during the pedophile controversy. So there have been more than just Ævar. -lethe talk [ +] 06:55, 22 May 2006 (UTC) * He did, indeed, in fact, his only actions as a steward have been to desysop people in his capacity as "the safety valve." However, they weren't really security-related desysoppings (Avar's was, irreversible image deletions were taking place, and there was no response to requests to explain), but rather, desysoppings to stop a wheel war from sucking in more people. There wasn't any reason to thing any permanent damage would be done to the project (permanent damage meaning things like permanent loss of images, or irreversible page history merges, or DOS consequences from deleting huge pages, etc.); the real danger was that we could lose valuable contributors due to the heated actions that were being taken. So, "social" security concerns, not "technical" security concerns. <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 00:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC) new angle I agree with all that's been said so far, but I had a different idea: we should have a mechanism to desysop admins that have gone on the record in saying that they are leaving Wikipedia and they do not intend to return. I mean, if the person has decided to kick the bucket once and for all, there seems to be no purpose in keeping the flag for that account, which may also end up compromised sometime in the future. Recently, Carbonite announced that he was leaving, and requested to be desysopped, but Radiant also left and the account still has sysop status. I would think some time would be allowed to pass, so that it can be confirmed that the user wasn't just blowing off steam and had no intention to actually leave the project — say, after a couple of months without editing following the statement that s/he was leaving? Redux 02:00, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * A couple of months is a tad too short. Ta bu shi da yu announced he wanted to leave last year, but came back after 2 months or so. Kimchi.sg 04:53, 20 May 2006 (UTC) Emergency desysopping was used in the case of the Great Pedophile Userbox Wheel War (or GPUWW). Basically, a few of us arbcomers who were around notified Jimbo that an emergency was brewing, and based on the recommendations we gave him, he desysopped them until we could address it in a case. Raul654 05:04, 20 May 2006 (UTC) The original post by Bucketsofg was not about such emergencies but about those are invicil and who if they stood for an RfA now, would be soundly defeated. Tintin (talk) 05:24, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * Normally, a user who makes a personal choice to leave, and actually does leaves, doesn't come back any time soon — leave it to Ta bu shi da yu to subvert that rule ;). If there are more common cases of users who state for the record that they are leaving for good and return after a couple of months or so, then we could wait a longer period, naturally (although it is also possible that the account be desysopped for security reasons and, if the user ever returns, s/he could request to be resysopped upon his or her return). I believe Raul was referring to Carbonite's situation. If I recall correctly, Carbonite declined an offer to be resysopped, saying that he had actually requested to be desysopped already, that he was leaving and had no intention of changing his mind. Carbonite's been inactive since February 11 (or so), but there's no issue there because the account has had the admin flag removed. To return to my other example, Radiant has been inactive since February 7, that is, over three months (closer to four months by now). Since the user left a very clear statement that he was leaving, retaining the admin status for the account seems pointless at best. Any accounts with admin access in a similar situation should be desysopped, but we don't have a system in place to make this happen — and it's not just admins: Optim left Wikipedia in March of 2004 with a clear statement that he was leaving for good. It took us nearly two years to remove his Bureaucrat access, and the account still holds admin access, despite being inactive for 2 years and 2 months (at the time of this post). Redux 05:43, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * Wasn't Zoe gone for a year before returning? <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 06:01, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * I see no need to remove access for any position held by inactive users except those that could be misused covertly or unreversably if they fell in the wrong hands (namely, developers and checkusers). There is no real risk with admins or bureaucrats. Creating a new policy for a non-issue seems unnecessary. NoSeptember talk 13:07, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * But did Zoe go on the record to say something like I'm leaving for good ? Because that's the instance I'm talking about. I don't know: it's been said time and again that, although almost every admin activity can be reverted, misuse of the tools consistently can cause a lot of trouble around. In this case, it would be about a possible compromise in the account that has been abandoned by the [ex?]user. And in any case, it would serve us to keep things in check: an admin is a trusted user who has the tools in order to do maintenance work, even if just occasionaly. A user who has left for good, and left a clear statement to that effect, is not going to be using the tools, and it's not as if desysopping an account is a laborous opperation that requires rebooting the servers. It's particularly simple when it comes to applying objective criteria (user declared that s/he was leaving for good / user did leave — not edited anymore) to someone who's not even interested in the project (let alone Adminship) anymore. Quite simply, it doesn't hurt anyone, it keeps the admin community "up to date" and it may even prevent occasional/eventual problems. Remembering: we could make it so that the [extremely] rare departed users who end up returning can request resysopping of their accounts (subject to some kind of community approval, maybe RfA-like) upon their return. Redux 15:15, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * They can say whatever they want, but unless they specifically request to be desysopped, why should we act as if they had? When was the last time an inactive admin went on a destructive spree? And if it happened, wouldn't we just take care of it promptly like any other problem admin? NoSeptember talk 15:24, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * Actually, I would say that when an Administrator, who is supposed to be a dedicated user, declares of his or her own will, for reasons that are his or her own, the s/he is leaving Wikipedia, and then actually leaves, that would pretty much mean that they forfeit any kind of privilege (not the best word, but it's late where I am...) that they had had bestowed upon them as dedicated users, which they are not anymore, by choice. Redux 01:46, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * Hm...I left for a month at the end of last year...Should I be included in your list of undedicated users? <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 02:14, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * And, what if someone was forced to leave for 6 months because of, say, health problems that they didn't want to share with the whole world? Just let sleeping dogs lie. If they come back, great! If they don't, they aren't hurting anyone. If they come back to hurt someone, they can then be blocked and ArbCommed. -- Mark Neelstin <sup style="color:#3D9140;">(Dark Mark) 02:17, 21 May 2006 (UTC) Guys, again, I'm referring exclusively to users who go on the record saying that they are leaving for good for reasons that are their own (most say they're "outraged" by something, or just that they've "lost interest"). This does not apply to users who take extended wikibreaks or users that vanish misteriously (the latter because we could never be sure of what happened). Redux 02:44, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * Yeah, but often people decide to come back, and then what? Make them go through the RfA process again? Who is is hurting to leave these users be? I just don't see much of a point. -- Mark Neelstin <sup style="color:#3D9140;">(Dark Mark) 02:56, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * Stupid computer... something went awry and submitted the page without my wanting to. My first missed edit summary in like 7 or 8 months! Argh! Harumph! Oh well, the new streak starts now. -- Mark Neelstin <sup style="color:#3D9140;">(Dark Mark) 02:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * I don't know of users who have left on the terms I've just mentioned that decided to come back. And the proposal includes a waiting period designed to make sure that the disgruntled Admin wasn't just blowing off steam in the wake of a very unpleasant episode. Consider this rhetorical question: would you support the RfA of a user who had gone on the record saying that they no longer care for the project (and meant it)? This is why the proposal would apply only to this particular situation. Hey, let's desysop Mark for forgetting the edit summary! ;) Redux 03:08, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * Well, if they really meant it, and they aren't coming back, what is so egregious as to desysop them? If they really meant it, they aren't coming back to cause trouble, so rather than create some new policy or procedure, why not just move them to the "Inactive Administrators" list and forget about them? Why do they need to be desysoped? Is their tool retention injurious to anyone? And I would understand about the missing summary thing :-( Addendum: And for the record, I didn't "forget" it, some combination of keys and clicks caused it to submit before I had finished writing it... I had written "ore", but wanted to write "More" and somehting got messed up. I know it doesn't matter to anyone, but I was so proud, and it was some freak thing (i.e. not "forgetting") -- Mark Neelstin <sup style="color:#3D9140;">(Dark Mark) 03:13, 21 May 2006 (UTC) Well, it's not that it's injurious. It's a point of order. After all, Adminship is not an entitlement, and this should not apply just to users who are not yet admins but want to be. It serves no purpose for the community to have an admin who has said in so many words that s/he doesn't want to be involved with the project anymore. In the odd case that the user should return after a long period (exceeding the waiting period in the proposal), s/he would (should?) have to go through some kind of process to regain admin access (maybe an abbreviated RfA?). It's only fair: if one leaves saying one doesn't cares about the project anymore, then it would be expected that some kind of evidence be provided that the user has gone back on this entirely before Adminship can be restored. Plus, an account with admin access that's been abandoned, left unattended, it's a liability. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But some day.... Redux 03:38, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * "I don't know of users who have left on the terms I've just mentioned that decided to come back." Hello Redux, nice to meet you, my name is Essjay. <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 03:45, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * Did you state for the record (on a wikipedia page — possibly your user page — and not IRC or something) that you were leaving for good and you didn't want to have anything to do with the project anymore? And if you did, you came back a month later, which would be well within the "observation period" before anyone would have suggested that you be desysopped on these terms had this proposal been in effect at the time. That is: nothing would have happened. Redux 03:55, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * Yes, I did. Quite a few people can attest to the fact that I did. I had no intention of returning, and wouldn't have if it hadn't been for about four very close friends I've made here who spent a month having email conversations with me, and my partner, who spent a month trying to convince me that it was worthwhile to do (the same partner who's vote in my RfB was described as "worthless"). * My point in this is to point out what people tend to forget: Be very careful what you say, because you don't know who you're talking about when you make a blanket statement. Your comment about admins who leave being undedicated did include me, because it was a blanket statement directed at everyone who fits the criteria stated (desire to permanently leave, coupled with the corresponding action), and it did hurt me, because I don't think I or a lot of the others who fit in the same group you painted with a single brush deserve to be described as "undedicated." I'm not angry, I'm not going to scream and yell, but I am hurt by it; I don't think that was your intent at all, it was an unfortunate consequence of a very broad blanket statement. * My hope was that you would recognize the hint given, specifically, that you were treading into territory where you were very likly to unknowingly hurt and/or offend a lot of people who do a lot of work to keep this site running. It's fine to put forth a proposal, it's fine to support desysopping people, and it's great that you've put a lot of thought into it and made consideration for special cases. The comments in question left the realm of the proposal, however, to make a blanket claim: Any admin who decides to leave the project, and does so, is not a dedicated user. That covers a lot of people, and it hurts. * Just to clarify: It has nothing to do with whether or not the proposal would have applied in my or anyone else's case; it is about the fact that we were included in the group labeled "undedicated users." <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 04:16, 21 May 2006 (UTC) I'm very sorry if I've hurt anyone's feelings, that was certainly not my intention. I'm always very careful with how a word my remarks, exactly because this method of communication makes misunderstandings very easy to happen. Since I seem to have fallen short this time, I would like to clarify a couple of things: 1) From the very beginning, the idea included a waiting period to make sure that the user would follow through with the decision to leave Wikipedia. Everyone and anyone is entitled to venting steam, obviously, and in the process we can do and/or say things that we wish we hadn't once we cool off, or at least we reconsider what we've said, and it no longer represents our views. It would be preposterous to suggest that someone should be desysopped immediately after posting a note saying that they were leaving, simply because there's no way to make sure that this is a final decision — and obviously, such a decision is not usually made in a completely serene state of mind; most users do it in the aftermath of a very unpleasant situation; 2) Let me clarify something, I did not mean that anyone who has ever left Wikipedia is an "undedicated user". A user who leaves, but decides to return, doesn't become less dedicated because s/he once thought of leaving, or left for a while. It's not like we're getting paid here. And as for the user that left and didn't return, this doesn't cancel the user's past as a valued member of this community. I never saw this proposal as any kind of judgement on the character of anyone who's left. However, and logically, a user who is gone cannot be a dedicated user while s/he is gone — and if they're never returning... Doesn't mean that they weren't, or that they couldn't be again. The comment in question, and all of my comments in this thread, is referring to users who left of their own will and, this is central, stayed gone: taking the already-used example of Optim: he was a great user, and very dedicated; but when I refer to him, I must say that he was a dedicated user, not that he is, since he's gone,and for over two years now. The proposal is to desysop users who are gone and are extremely unlikely to return, but if they happened to return, they would be entitled to seek resysopping of their accounts, naturally. And the idea that they'd need to go through a revalidation process (RfA-like?) is just a suggestion at this point. Maybe no revalidation would be necessary. The user could simply post at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and link to his successful RfA and the user rights log showing his sysopping following it (proof that he was an admin). And again, this would all be in the odd possibility that the user did return — remembering: this is not about a user who said s/he was leaving but didn't, or returned relatively soon after, this would be users who declared they were leaving and didn't return for an impressive amount of time (six months? a year?). Once again, I apologize for any offense or discomfort that any comment of mine might have caused. Sorry, this got a little long :P Redux 06:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * I don't see any real risk of abuse of old admin accounts, and the costs appear to outweight the benefits IMO. A desysoped admin would still have to rerequest the mop (even if only at the 'crats noticeboard), and this can take time. An admin willing to take up the slack immediately should be able to, and there's no real proof that old admin accounts have gone berserk. (Though this will undoubtedly happen eventually, the chances of it are very remote.) Johnleemk \| Talk 08:23, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * Yeah, I don't think this idea of desysopping people who say they they may leave the project will yield any benefits. I am amazed to see how often suggestions involving all kind of rules attempting to fix what ain't broken show up on this page. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 08:33, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * I would suggest leaving aside the "clear statement" that someone is not returning which I find problematic, and bump the whole thing up to year. Simply, if an admin doesn't edit for twelve months, they get desysopped. And not as a punitive thing but rather to reflect that changes in policy need to be absorbed if such a person came back. An admin returning today after twelve months would think AfD is still VfD, not have a clue about WP:PROD, be unaware of changes to CSD criteria (and the debates behind them), and also know nothing about semi-protect. Perfectly reasonable to say "edit for a month or two and then re-apply if you want". Marskell 08:41, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * Those are minor issues which don't merit desysoping. AfD had a name change, but that's as far as the changes went. (I stopped closing VfDs/AfDs for 1.5 years, and when I came back adjusting to the situation was a snap.) PROD is self-explanatory, and an admin who didn't get it would have the good sense not to muck with it. The CSD criteria may be a bit problematic, but most admins would have the good sense to provide a reason for speedying articles to prevent confusion amongst those unaware of the CSDs. (And besides, what harm would an admin unaware of the new CSDs do? At worst, she'd avoid speedying articles we're allowed to.) And semi-protection? The interface is self-explanatory. A returning admin would just go "Cool, new features!" (The interface doesn't call it "semi-protect", btw - it gives a self-explanatory title listing classes of users which will be banned from editing the page.) None of these changes are fundamental enough to make it worth forcing an admin to go through RfA again. If most admins use common sense and act with the encyclopaedia's interests at heart (WP:IAR/WP:SNOW), things will be fine. Johnleemk \| Talk 09:13, 21 May 2006 (UTC) I believe that, with a waiting period anywhere between six months and a year before desysopping a "departed" admin, the cases of returning Admins (desysopped) would be quite rare. I would also say that this proposal has nothing to do with "trying to fix what is not broken". It's not broken, but nor is it perfect. I don't believe anyone here claims that it is. The purpose is to try to improve the system, and we need not wait until it's on the verge of collapse before we make any kind of change in the status quo. I maintain that the only people affected by this would be admins who went on the record saying that they were leaving and did not edit anymore, i.e. they left for good (verified by not editing for an impressive amount of time). I wouldn't support desysopping a user who has just stopped editing without any kind of explanation, because, as others have already brought up, there could be any reason for that (sickness, overwhelming "real life" obligations, etc). It's quite different from a user who leaves with a statement like "yes, I'm leaving for good because I've lost all faith in the project". Once we verify that the user is indeed gone, this becomes an extreme case where maintaining Adminship for the account has no purpose. Desysopping in this situation is not complicated or laborous. The criteria are objective and the procedure, not really complicated. Still, it could be a useful step to leave a warning message in the user's talk page, something like "this account is about to be desysopped due to (...)", so that there would still be one last chance in the unlikely case that the user was considering returning. Again, I'd like to make it clear that the proposal is not to simply desysop inactive users. Only those who left with a declaration that they were indeed leaving for good for whatever reason and, most importantly, stayed gone. Redux 15:45, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * "We need not wait until it's on the verge of collapse before we make any kind of change in the status quo". In short, Wikipedia is in grave motal danger, and only rules, and yet more rules, are the only thing which can save her. :) * I believe it is rules, rather than anything else are the greatest problem, they may simply suffocate this project. You may be right, a time may come when a rogue admin or compromised admin account may inflict irreversible damage to Wikipedia, such as deleting a huge amount of pictures which were not cached by the server. But that's unlikely. I think we are fine the way we are, and attempts at "perfection" usually make things worse, not better. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:49, 22 May 2006 (UTC) * I really don't believe that not treating adminship like an entitlement would be instruction creep — as a further note: our article on instruction creep is at Meta; on Meta, an admin can be desysopped simply for being inactive for a relatively short period of time; The page on Meta administrators also states that sysop-hood is not a lifetime status . By no measure is that regarded as instruction creep (or else there's a grave double standard at work over there, something which I don't believe anyone would claim). It is a question of policy. As I said in a response to Mark earlier, even if nothing bad is about to happen, there's still a question of logic and organization. This proposal seemed — to me, obviously — rather reasonable because it would concern only an extreme case. I still have other great arguments, but since there seems to be no interest in actually implementing the proposal (except for my own :P), I believe this can be dropped. Redux 05:27, 22 May 2006 (UTC) I don't see taking admin accounts away from these inactive users as something to pursue. The only real effect I figure it would have is it might deter them from coming back, and we don't want that. I'm much more interested in the idea of having policy enforcement by the community regarding active admins. Everyking 10:39, 22 May 2006 (UTC) Hmm. I see my name mentioned here. :) Yes, I was gone for more than a year. I took a long break, got a life (so much for that), and poked around again on Wikipedia, noticing that the person who had made life a living hell for me around here was no longer participating as frequently. I felt the time was right to come back. I don't see why somebody who has had the community's support to become an admin loses that support if they take a break for a while. User:Zoe\|(talk) 18:52, 22 May 2006 (UTC) I would agree to de-admin someone after a few months of inactivity. There is a small security risk in having an empty empowered account lying around unmonitored. Once an admin comes back, it gives them a chance to get back into the groove of any new quarks that are going on. That person should have plenty of community support and it shouldn’t be a big deal making the request. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Supercoop (talk • contribs) * No, no. It wasn't meant to desysop people who take a break. Only users who declare that they are leaving for good and do indeed leave — as verified by extended absense, for months, or a year, but the user would have had to have made an inequivocal declaration that s/he was leaving for good, with no intention to return for whatever reason. Breaks and "misterious disappearances" were not covered by this proposal. Just to clarify, since the proposal is not going anywhere anyway. Redux 19:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC) * True - I was trying to address the concerns in the entire thread. An admin that leaves is certainly inviting hackers to brute force that users account. However, I would go further and say that after two months of being inactive, that Admin is removed from the admin list. If that users returns within a year or two then automatically re-admin that person. After a year or two, too many things can change and that would require getting back into the groove and going through a new RfA. (make sure I sign it this time) --Supercoop 20:50, 22 May 2006 (UTC) I know this discussion has wanned, but perhaps there could be some middle ground. What if instead of desysopping anyone, the accounts were just blocked (hear me out) with a note placed on their talk page to the effect of "your dormant admin account may have been a liablility, and was therefore blocked. If you would like to be reinstated place adminunblock (or whatever) on your talk page and it will be dealt with." That way we don't have an admin come back and just start deleting things, etc. The actual process could be changed up a bit, but perhaps the idea is valid. Comments? -- You Know Who <sup style="color:#3D9140;">(Dark Mark) 17:05, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * I'm in favour of not removing sysop rights unless some transgression has occurred. Is there an actual case where this rule would have been useful? Or is this just a rule for the sake of it? Stephen B Streater 17:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * A standard block has no effect on an administrator. The only way to shut off their sysop powers is to remove those powers. Ingoolemo talk 17:39, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * So are there any cases where this would have been used? Stephen B Streater 17:50, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * You mean if there are cases of admins that have been inactive for an impressive amount of time? Several, if not many. But as Ingoolemo said, technically, a standard block is not effective on an administrator. Redux 17:58, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * No - I mean cases where an absent admin has returned to wreak havoc. Stephen B Streater 18:00, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * D'oh. I was confusing what the devs had put in place. Didn't the devs a while back put a feature in so that admins who were blocked couldn't use rollback? Well, I guess I thought that meant they couldn't perform other admin functions as well. But of course. My mistake. -- You Know Who <sup style="color:#3D9140;">(Dark Mark) 19:38, 23 May 2006 (UTC) Ah, ok. I can't remember any instance, but the underlying purpose would be prevention, not punishment. Besides, as I see it, the real danger would be that an account that has been abandoned is an account that could be hacked. That is to say, a different individual behind the wheel. Someone who never earned adminship having instant access to the tools. I mean, if my account was hacked tomorrow, I'd notice immediately, since I log in at least once a day. I would take steps to resolving the situation, but a person who's left completely would not be here to inform us that it is not him or her opperating the account. Once more, I must bring back the notion that the original proposal I presented would affect only accounts whose owners had made an inequivocal declaration that they were leaving with no intention to return, and did indeed leave (impressive absence, i.e. no editing for a long time). I believe it would be reasonable to assume that an account in that situation has been left completely unatended. And, from the logical point of view, there's the lack of purpose in maintaining admin access for an abandoned account. Redux 18:13, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * I have to admit this is convincing. I would like a simple re-admin procedure for former admins to reflect their previous contributions and likely helpful future contributions. Stephen B Streater 18:25, 23 May 2006 (UTC) Administrator Review My apologies if this has been brought up before, or already exists, but what about an administrator review? Within six months, a new admin is brought under review by a pre-selected group of experienced admins/bureaucrats, and they discuss what this user has done since they were sysopped, and whether that user should continue being an admin. They will be reviewed again in six months, and all active admins will be reviewed once a year after that. Emergency reviews can be held as well. I think this would help keep the number of rouge admins to a minimum. Thoughts? --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 12:03, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * This is a solution looking for a problem. Show me evidence that we need to spend our volunteer's time on this proposal. FloNight talk 12:17, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * If you have a look at admin disputes at Rfc and ArbCom, I think you'll see where I'm coming from. Plus there have been concerns over Admin actions in the Userbox debate as well. --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 12:21, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * Sure, and handled by ArbCom for the most part. Also, such a body would have to review >900 admins per year. That's a huge body of work for little gain. I agree; this is a solution looking for a problem. --Durin 12:46, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * How would this review have prevented such disputes? We're letting the wedge cases define how we deal with the vast majority of admins whose actions are uncontroversial. In any case, unofficial reviews of individual actions often go on at AN or ANI; I see no need to bureaucratise this. Johnleemk \| Talk 12:51, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * We didn't elect bureaucrats to be ArbCom members (except those few who we actually did elect to both positions). Keep bureaucrats for the front end job of creating admins, and leave it to ArbCom or Jimbo to uncreate them. NoSeptember talk 13:12, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * Uh...I don't think D-Day suggested 'crats would be in charge of desysoping. Anyway, I'd favour giving them such powers for emergency disputes, but as Essjay and Raul have noted above, it seems it'd be easier to attract Jimbo's, a steward's, or a dev's attention. Johnleemk \| Talk 13:15, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * Yes, the more people who have emergency desysop powers, the more problematic it will be. Even Danny and Jimbo did not perfectly coordinate the Eloquence situation. There is always someone around as it is now. NoSeptember talk 13:44, 20 May 2006 (UTC) What's wrong with ArbCom? Is there something about it that doesn't work and I'm completely missing? As far as I can tell, a system of Admin review already exists - people complain, take it to ArbCom, they review it and act accordingly. If ArbCom is somehow broken, then that's a completely different discussion and should be held over there. --Tango 15:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * I think the complaint is that the arbcom doesn't get a case till long over it's gone over the edge and it takes a blatant act of insanity or massive violation of policies and guidelines before the arbcom or anyone else for that matter acts. Pegasus1138 Talk 15:57, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * If people have a problem with that, why don't they bring cases to ArbCom sooner? Are ArbCom actually refusing to hear the cases, or are they not being told about them? --Tango 16:13, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * I think it's a little of both, for good reasons the arbcom is afraid of accepting cases too early when there are better solutions possible and instead it seems like they're accepting some of them only after the damage has been done. On the other hand people are also reluctant to bring up arbcom cases until all else has failed so the arbcom either doesn't know about it or they more likely know about it due to discussions on AN, AN/I, or any number of another places but can't do anything about it until it's brought up officially as a case. Pegasus1138 Talk 16:34, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * While there's certainly a perception that that is the case, I think reality is very different. Name me one blatant mop abuser who hasn't been hauled in front of the arbcom. Also, the arbcom can (and often does) issue temporary injunctions during the period of the case which prevent further action(s) being taken, so if a case is accepted, the accused admin will typically be placed on admin action parole or something of the sort for the duration of the case. Johnleemk \| Talk 16:27, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * First of all, the prospect of reviewing the nearly 1,000 admins on Wikipedia every 6 months would be a full-time job. Beyond that, is there really a need? Do you feel there are a sizable amount of inept admins that are running around blocking and deleting out of control? Furthermore, this would start to encourage further encourage people to play politics, which there is enough of already. --tomf688 (talk - email) 02:06, 22 May 2006 (UTC) * Essentially, this proposal is to scrap tenure for admins and up- a system which has both considerable benefits and drawbacks (much as in the academic world). I haven't seen a persuasive toting up of the pros and cons in favor of making the switch. --maru (talk) contribs 04:58, 22 May 2006 (UTC) * In the end, this (and most proposeals like it) are probably all created with the same very small set of admin in mind. As much as I call for volountary admin reform, three cases (or five, or pick your own small number) almost certainly isn't enough reason to re-wash every other good, average, or null admin. Working the existing system combined with ArbCom being slightly more willing to slap down is probably all that is required. - <font color="#000000">brenneman {L} 11:34, 22 May 2006 (UTC) But... I LIKE Rouge admins. Kim Bruning 03:27, 23 May 2006 (UTC) Admin roles currently have too much power with few checks and balances. That's why cabals thrive. Admin tenure should be limited to 6 months only. Not more than 2 consecutive tenures should be allowed. Self-nominations are unacceptable. Admins who go on long wikibreaks should be tagged and their privileges reduced. Atleast two nominations must be necessary to enter RfA. Anwar 06:53, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Some users have dynamic IPs which would mean it's all too easy to vote more than once. Thus no anon IPs should be allowed to vote. Admins have checks and balances, that's what arbitration is for. Most do not abuse their power, for example, Gurubrahma, Nichalp and the numerous other Indian admins have not blocked you for your violation of NPA. Self-noms are good because a user can pick the correct time to become an admin, for example, if they are nominated at a time where they don't think they want to become an admin, they can always self-nom at a more appropriate time. Lastly, there is no policy stating that WP:Admins cannot have a life outside Wiki, so if they want to take a break, they should be allowed to, it's not as if they are going to be abusing their powers while on break. Noble eagle <font size="0.5"> (Talk) 06:53, 30 May 2006 (UTC) Demandation You know, I am still waiting for my own Adminship!<br/p> All the sweet and good edits I have been doing!<br/p> I need a adminship, when I have one, I can be get the respect I need! * >x<ino 17:05, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * If you're really serious about that, then simply follow the instructions. Given your past and on-going conflicts with other users, I personally doubt that an attempt would be successful though. -- g026r 17:28, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * Ugh. These 4 lines scream to me "Do not make me an admin, I'm immature." Period. You don't become an admin to "get respect", you have to be respected before you become one. Kimchi.sg 18:12, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * I concur. I feel somewhat the same way, but I don't feel the need for more respect from other users. Whatever they give me (if they do...) is fine with me. Also, "be get the respect" is awful grammar. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 \| T \| C \| @ 04:14, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * Several reasons I would vote no if you were nom'ed: "Demandation" is not a word; this edit violates WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA; and it seems that the only reason you want to be a mod stems from these three edits. Want respect? We'll give it when you earn it. Want adminship? Show us that it's about the encyclopedia, not about you. <tt> Radio Kirk </tt> <tt> talk to me </tt> 18:40, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * Two more reasons why Xino will not be an admin any time soon... <tt> Radio Kirk </tt> <tt> talk to me </tt> 20:54, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * Xino is this some kind of joke? Sonic Hog 22:34, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * I'd like to point out the RfC regarding Xino, which contains a somewhat clearer description of his behaviour than the links already presented. I'm guessing Xino wants to become an admin so he can block and/or ignore other users, and myself. RandyWang (raves/rants) 01:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * Yes, this certainly explains a lot, thank you. On the other hand, this edit provides new insight into User:HappyVR... <tt> Radio Kirk </tt> <tt> talk to me </tt> 01:55, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * Agreed: it certainly does. RandyWang (raves/rants) 02:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC) And what would you all think, feel and say when I am a admin? It will be a L.O.L in your face and asses. And as for you RandyWang, you can suck that RfC in your cheap skinny ass! * >x<ino 08:55, 22 May 2006 (UTC) * Really? What exactly are you planning to do "when I am a admin"? <tt> Radio Kirk </tt> <tt> talk to me </tt> 13:18, 22 May 2006 (UTC) Hmmmm- the way we've been voting on "indecorous language" issues, you might want to rephrase. . . Cheers :) Dlohcierekim 09:00, 22 May 2006 (UTC) * Xino, your case has been submitted for arbitration. Now may not be the most appropriate time to make personal attacks - particularly, it may be a bad idea to suggest that I suck anything, RfC or otherwise. Furthermore, as others have said: if you'd like to become an admin, and believe that you'd be successful, why don't you request adminship for yourself? RandyWang (raves/rants) 09:55, 22 May 2006 (UTC) * Xino was blocked indefinitely after this edit. Conscious 19:49, 22 May 2006 (UTC) Demandation. You know, I like that word. I may have to start using it. "My demandations have not been met, prepare to face my wrath!" User:Zoe\|(talk) 22:09, 22 May 2006 (UTC) * Ut oh. Zoe and a new shiny word. :-) Kim Bruning 03:30, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * All your demandation are belong to us! --Deathphoenix ʕ 13:41, 29 May 2006 (UTC) Templates for Adminiship Are these templates valid? I remember such things being deleted on TfD several times before: * Template:User:Digitalme/Box/User wikipedia/Hope-Administrator2 * Template:User:Digitalme/Box/User wikipedia/Hope-Administrator <IP_ADDRESS> 19:41, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * I don't see why they would be invalid they're perfectly acceptable and are quite informative in knowing who isn't an admin but wants to be one. Pegasus1138 Talk 20:00, 20 May 2006 (UTC) * IMO, if someone needs to advertise their hope to be an admin, they're not ready. Either wait for someone to nominate you, ask someone to nominate you, or nominate yourself. — Ilyan e p (Talk) 01:19, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * By the same token, perhaps User wikipedia/Anti-Administrator would be inappropriate either, considering that no one has to accept nomination, and the RfA doesn't even gets listed unless the potential candidate accepts. In theory, no one needs to post that they "don't want to be an administrator" via a template. Redux 01:38, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * I think people who use the anti-administrator template due it less as an informative action that they don't want to be an admin and more of a sign of protest against adminship and the admin process itself... just from where I've seen that template used. Pegasus1138 Talk 03:48, 21 May 2006 (UTC) I don't think they do any harm, but they don't serve any real purpose. It's basically the same as asking someone to nominate you, which I don't like - you might as well nominate yourself and they can vote support, because it's the same thing. It's just an attempt to manipulate RfA since a lot of people are more critical of self-noms. --Tango 10:29, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * Agreed. I guess maybe some people who would like to be admins but don't feel they are ready would find the templates useful, but that's about it. Johnleemk \| Talk 11:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * They might also be useful for someone who is often confused with an admin, would, as Johleemk says, like to be one someday, but is not for whatever reason, ready or able to stand for RfA. I can imagine that the 30th "You aren't an admin? Would you like to be?" message probably leads one to really appreciate such a template. For the most part, they aren't hurting anyone, they're not being forced on anyone, and nobody is required to look at them (for that matter, if someone really hates it, we can set a div id for it and clear it out via thier CSS). In most cases like this, it's better to just leave it alone, rather than stir people up by telling them what they can and can't have; I don't think any of us can really argue that it's hurting Wikipedia, and certainly not anywhere near as much as a revival/ratcheting up of the user template war would. <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 11:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC) * In that case revise the wording to "No, I am not an administrator yet. Yes, I would like to be one. Stop asking!" :P — Ilyan e p (Talk) 03:28, 23 May 2006 (UTC) Requests for adminship/Jesus on Wheels Can a 'crat please close this? It wasn't on the main RFA page and needless to say the candidate will not pass. <font color="00FF00">D G <font color="00FF00">X 19:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC) * I was BOLD and delisted this as WP:SNOW and probable trolling. But yes, a crat should probably close it, or perhaps just delete it. --Doc ask? 19:32, 22 May 2006 (UTC) Deleted. <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 00:51, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * And probably shouldn't have been. There's no reason to believe this user was trolling. He's not a vandal, and does not fit the profile of WoW. Further, he's been blocked before for his username, and appealed the block and was cleared. He's not the most active contributor in the world, and his attempt at RfA was misguided, but this has never been grounds for deleting an RfA before. If you're going to delete this RfA, then you should also delete Requests for adminship/ShootJar, Requests for adminship/RAbbott, Requests for adminship/Kbandy, and Requests for adminship/Joan53. All of those were RfAs for editors with fewer edits than User:Jesus On Wheels and were posted during this month. There's no more evidence to presume Jesus on Wheels is a troll than those other editors. Failing the presentation of any evidence that he is, in fact, a vandal and/or troll, I will undelete this RfA. --Durin 13:13, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * Agreed. Restore and archive. <tt> Radio Kirk </tt> <tt> talk to me </tt> 13:19, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * Agreed. Undelete it. --Tango 15:55, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * Agreed, I heartily endorse this event or product. While he's been warned about the dangers of having a username like that, he should still be allowed the rights of a normal editor, albeit one who will tend to be watched a little more (like another user who had "WOW" in his name, WOW junkie or something like that). In fact, as of now, he is still indef blocked for his name. Looks like the blocking admin isn't online right now, but I don't know if I want to wheel war over this. I'm going to post on WP:AN about this case. --Deathphoenix ʕ 17:03, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * I've undeleted. I don't know exactly what archiving old RfAs entails, so I've not done that. -lethe talk [ +] 17:01, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * Thanks. I added it to Unsuccessful_adminship_candidacies. --Durin 17:27, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * Fine, duly chastized. Will find something else to do. <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 20:09, 24 May 2006 (UTC) * It's constructive criticism, meant in good faith. Please take it as such. I well recognize that bureaucrats tend to be targets of complaints. The above isn't a complaint per se, but more a request that we handle that situation differently. --Durin 13:02, 25 May 2006 (UTC) * It's the wiki concept working at its best - Essjay boldly deleted it, it turned out concensus disagreed, someone undeleted it and no harm was done. Perfect. The whole point of a wiki is that nobody is perfect, so we work together to achieve something closer to perfection. --Tango 13:13, 25 May 2006 (UTC) * Agreed. --Durin 13:22, 25 May 2006 (UTC) * Absolutely. :) <tt> Radio Kirk </tt> <tt> talk to me </tt> 13:43, 25 May 2006 (UTC) * I'm glad so many agree. I guess I'm off the hook for reversing this bureaucrat action without telling anyone ;-) (yes, this is tongue in cheek) NoSeptember talk 14:00, 25 May 2006 (UTC) * I'm filing an RfAr against you. How dare you do that! :) --Durin 14:29, 25 May 2006 (UTC) * Well, he did confess. Let's just throw some rotten vegetables and eggs while chanting some catchy wiki-song. ;) Redux 17:36, 25 May 2006 (UTC) Snowballing I was just wondering yesterday if any RfA had ever met the 80% OPPOSE mark. Right now there are two that have gone way beyond. One candidate does not respond. The other is RIGHT and refuses to withdraw. Why would the ‘crats not pull such lopsided RfA’s? :) Dlohcierekim 16:06, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * Plenty of RfAs have had more than 80% oppose. Quite a number have had 100% oppose. There's been 60 since June of 2005 that have had 100% oppose. Of those 60, 23 have had 10 or more oppose votes. In general, there are a number of reasons to not withdraw clearly failing RfAs (see User:Durin/Withdraw policy for some). Some bureaucrats choose to withdraw clearly failing RfAs anyways. --Durin 16:17, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * I think this has been discussed earlier but I really feel there should be a basic standard for RFA candidates. Probably like 1000+ edits and atleast a month of Wikipedia activity. Otherwise we have WP:SNOW cases like Requests for adminship/Piemanmoo occuring all the time. Thanks. Srik e it ( talk ¦ ✉ ) 16:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * This has been discussed more times than we can count. The general consensus has not been supportive enough of such ideas to implement them. Also note that WP:SNOW is not policy. --Durin 16:37, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * RE:User:Durin/Withdraw policy That's pretty much what I thought. I just feel sorry for the guy who is so caught up in his own rightness that he won't withdraw. Hopefully, he will listen and use it all constructively. Cheers. :) Dlohcierekim 16:41, 23 May 2006 (UTC) * I generally pull any RfA that has more than 10 votes, and 75% or more oppose. I will, however, leave a nomination for a bit if it hasn't had much time up, as there could be some issue that can be resolved and things will straighten out. I'm the only bureaucrat I've seen lately doing this on a regular basis; I don't know if the others aren't comfortable doing so, or if I just end up getting there first, or if I'm just not seeing them. <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 20:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC) * I'll remove them early, but only if there are enough supporting factors that I can be confident they have no chance of succeeding. I consider most of the points Durin has outlined, and if there is evidence that the user and the community will not benefit from leaving it open, I close early. For example, a nominee with very little experience and recent vandalism, being blocked, or incivility or similar in the Rfa or extreme examples elsewhere. So typically that's going to involve few or no supports from at least somewhat experienced wikipedians and lots of opposes from similar. If those factors aren't too severe, I'll leave it for a while until the lack of a chance for success is clear, but in very obvious vandal nominations, I've closed them pretty quickly. - Taxman Talk 20:22, 24 May 2006 (UTC) * I personally don't agree with the view that leaving them open is more beneficial than closing early, especially if it means losing good contributors, which it often does. RfA is not Requests for Review of my general worth as a contributor and perhaps adminship but I really don't think so but great if it happens. It's for requesting adminship, period, and that's all it should be doing. <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 22:08, 24 May 2006 (UTC) * I've been accumulating evidence on the page I referenced above showing that some users are upset about early removal. I'd like to see similar evidence (Yes, I know it exists) that we're forcing users away by leaving RfAs up, rather than making the presumption that it always happens. Personally, I still do not see the harm in asking the user to please withdraw, rather than slamming the door in their face in non-obvious vandalism cases. --Durin 12:59, 25 May 2006 (UTC) * While it's not a heavily used program at this point, users who are looking for feedback might be directed to Editor review instead of using RFA for that feedback. NoSeptember talk 20:32, 24 May 2006 (UTC) Quick Question Why hasnt a bureaucrat closed Joturner's RFA? Its now twelve hours overtime, and oppose votes are now piling on from all directions. However if discounting the votes that were made after the ending time, he should be promoted, right? (It has been done in the past). <font color="navy" face="Garamond">Oran <font color="green" face="Garamond"> e <font color="blue" face="Garamond">(t) <font color="deepskyblue" face="Garamond">(c) <font color="mediumblue" face="Garamond">(e) 20:43, 24 May 2006 (UTC) * Please see the BCrat's noticeboard for relevent discussion. -- You Know Who <sup style="color:#3D9140;">(Dark Mark) 20:52, 24 May 2006 (UTC) Sockpuppetry at Cool3's RfA Just alerting RfA watchers regarding ongoing sockpuppetry at Cool3's RfA; copying the note I left there below: * This RfA has been voted on by three users with under a dozen edits -- Y-y-yoda (vote), David-wright (vote), Vandal buster 288 (vote) -- one of which has the same userpage styling as Cool3's previous RfA nominator (compare User:ErnestIsTheMan with User:Vandal buster 288). ~ PseudoSudo 00:05, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * Note that we shouldn't jump to conclusions that the nominee is the one with sock puppets; another RfA also had an issue and was confirmed via CheckUser that the candidate had nothing to do with it. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note? ) * For the record, I note that the aforementioned userpage styling is common among new users and retract any connection I may have implied regarding Cool3's involvement in the matter. ~ PseudoSudo 19:36, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * By the way... this is linked to the Exicornt vandal and EddieSegoura, from what I understand of it. See also WP:ANI. NSL E (T+C) at 06:09 UTC (2006-05-26) * In this, Checkuser confirmed sockpuppets. See the report here. --Calton \| Talk 06:38, 26 May 2006 (UTC) Code problems I just noticed a few minuutes ago that all of a sudden, an unknown force (can't find anyone in the history) nowikied the "Discuss Here" edit link so that it wouldn't work. I was wondering if I'm just going crazy or if some new software or something is being implemented. Thanks, Master of Puppets That's hot. 13:03, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * It's working fine now. I'm not aware of any reason that could have caused a temporary problem. Maybe your browser is rebelling against you? ;) Redux 13:18, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * No, because all of them had mysterious s in the edit link. When I edited that out, it went away. Strange. Master of Puppets That's hot. 13:20, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * Indeed. I had thought that whatever it was had gone away on its own. Now, going through the histories, I see you fixed it. Very strange indeed. If it was a transcluded template, I'd say someone had edited it, but that's not the case. It's as if someone had edited each RfA to add the nowiki code, but the history doesn't show it. I'll have to ponder a bit more about this one. But it is odd. Redux 14:39, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * Didn't you know, Wikipedia is haunted. you just had a sighting ;-). NoSeptember talk 14:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * Spooky. <8O Redux 15:32, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * Maybe the code Wikipedia runs on changed or something, and it just did that involuntarily. I'm no programming whiz, but as all of them changed at the same time and there is no history of it, I'm thinking something internal. Notified Rob Church to see what he thinks. Master of Puppets That's hot. 16:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * It's not odd, it just appears that people are forgetting to follow step 2 as per WP:RFA/N. So, it's not that the 's were put in, it's that the nominator forgot to take them out in the first place. (And I don't think you can take them out in the original rfa template, as if you do, the subst's for date/time/and name will be done at that point, which isn't what we want) Regards, MartinRe 16:17, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * I don't believe that that's what happened here, though. If the nominators/candidates had forgotten to adapt the code, the links would have been missing from the start. But they weren't. It was all fine until all the links were disabled at once, it seems. As Master of Puppets said, this was most likely something internal that inserted the code in all the links simultaneously — or it's the ghosts of Wikipedia playing a trick on us shivers ;) Redux 17:07, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * Very curious. I did notice something when I was glancing through the histories, namely that {{fullurl: acts differently in depending on if it's in called in /w or /wiki (e.g. vs {{tl\|Rfa}}, even though they are the same version. I'm guessing from the examples in m:Help:Variable that a {{fullurl: with parameters will adjust the url from /wiki to /w in order to edit, so I don't know what it's supposed to do on a page that's already /w. (it currently breaks the link, which is what was reported here, so I wonder if they are connected. I must keep an eye on the technical list archives, I hate unsolved riddles! :) Regards, MartinRe 00:49, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * It's most likely this. Tito xd {{sup\|(?!? - help us)}} 06:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * Ah, yes. Brion explains it all. Again. Thanks Titoxd, for solving the mistery. Seems Wikipedia is not haunted after all. Or is it?? Redux 23:08, 28 May 2006 (UTC) Duplicate voter reporting bot I've wrapped up my RfA Analysis tool (see the archive) in a bot. Basically, it uses the same functions as the tool to analyze all current RfAs at specific intervals (once every 3 hours or so), and posts the results at User:Tangotango/RfA Analysis/Report, in a similar fashion to User:Dragons flight/RFA summary. It doesn't make any edits elsewhere, and all the nominations are downloaded in a single export operation, so server load shouldn't be too high. I have two uses for the report in mind: transclusion in RFA summary, or watchlisting by users interested in weeding out duplicate votes. I also hope it will be useful for bureaucrats. The bot isn't automatically triggered at the moment - may I have some feedback before embarking on that? Cheers, Tangot a ngo 15:05, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * Depending on your code base, it might make sense to merge our two products and do everything at once? I am presently doing everything in Python. Dragons flight 15:37, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * I had the same thought, but unfortunately I'm using PHP. I'm wondering whether it's possible for my bot to fill in the extra columns (Possible duplicate voters and Details) after your bot's done its work. In any case, the code for my RfA Analysis library (which the toolserver tool and the bot share) is available here. Cheers, Tangot a ngo 16:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * If you don't merge, then run your bots at different times (one at the top of the hour, one at the bottom of the hour, for example) so we can always get up to date info :-). NoSeptember talk 16:53, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * But if you do that, the bot that runs at the bottom of each hour and that at the top of the following hour will be way too close together (except for the top of the very first hour). I don't suppose we need so many updates.. Redux 17:12, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * New RfAs (in their first day of listing) pick up votes very quickly, and one never knows just when one wants to check the current status of RfAs. So why not have frequent updates? It's not a big strain on the servers. NoSeptember talk 17:34, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * Make it live. I like it! --Durin 17:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * I must say you have done a wonderful job creating this tool. There must be a bunch of relieved bureaucrats sitting now that they don't need to go over every RFA with a magnifying glass. Anyway there are still a few places the tools goes haywire, although I don't think there can be much you can do about it. * Here in Zappa.jake's RFA User:TBC's (3rd) oppose vote gets a "Sig not found" as he has written out a list of reasons to oppose. * Here in Compuerjoe's RFA User:Admrboltz's sig (12th Support) just doesn't register. I guess this is because of his sig having some formatting problems. * Here in Bookofjude's RFA User:Mboverload's vote (124th Support) gives the dreaded "Sig not found" as he didn't sign his initial comment but indented another comment & then signed it. * Anyway I hope you don't mind me nitpicking here, but I feel you have made a fine tool here & I really want to help you make it better. The bot is an excellent development. I've already added a link of that to my page. Although does the orignal tool also have a replication lag? Because I wall analysing Axiomm's RFA & as of now (17:47, 26 May 2006 (UTC)) it says that I'm the only neutral voter, whereas actually User:Gurch has also voted neutral. Anyway thanks again. Srik e it ( talk ¦ ✉ ) 17:47, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * So, this has all been a plot to fool us into thinking we don't need bureaucrats anymore. Aha! It won't work, a bot can never take over the job of a bureaucrat. This evil plot will never succeed ;-). NoSeptember talk 18:04, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * Once you get the format perfect and all the bugs out, why not create a historical page of all past RfAs? You can get a list from here, and we can link the page to this and this. NoSeptember talk 18:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * Who do you guys think would win in a fight? Tango's bot or Dragons' bot? I say Superman! Wait... Redux 20:37, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * "Triangle Man, Triangle Man Triangle Man hates Particle Man They have a fight, Triangle wins Triangle man." --Durin 20:41, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * Tango? Rhymes with mango. Sounds yummy. [[Image:Smile.png]] Dragons flight 22:29, 26 May 2006 (UTC) * Thanks for all your comments. Srikeit, thank you for your continued interest in RfA Analysis :) I've fixed Admrboltz's signature handling issue. I'm well aware of the other two errors - they're caused by the user inserting a newline before their signature. I am not sure whether to deal with this as they could easily well be comments by different people - especially in Mboverload's case, the extra indentation appears as if somebody else added the comment in response to the original one. As for someone like TBC who writes a lot on one RfA, it's unlikely that they will accidentally vote again on the same one. (Yes yes, these are poor excuses ;)) An "unsure but possibility of duplicate vote" flag might be in order. * As for the lag Srikeit cites, there is no replication lag with the toolserver tool. (it doesn't use the toolserver database) I'm not sure what caused the issue - if it happens again, please let me know. * NoSeptember: A historical version of all RfAs sounds interesting. But, as you say, I'll need to fix up the signature handling before doing that. P.S. I've moved the source to - live versions of the source will appear there now -- Tangot a ngo 05:19, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * I've just voted in Brendenhull2's RFA. The tool has not yet registered my vote as of now (05:37, 27 May 2006 (UTC)) . Check it out quick you may catch it! ;) Srik e it ( talk ¦ ✉ ) 05:37, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * Source retrieval function changed to use Special:Export. The lag should be fixed. (I hope) — Tangot a ngo 06:04, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * New reports will now use shades of colours to represent the various percentages. A list of colours is available here. - Tangot a ngo 15:38, 27 May 2006 (UTC) Reports are now being updated every 28 minutes past the hour. (Because Dragons flight's summary seems to be updated at 58 past). I'll also be working on some of the remaining kinks with the signature detection. Cheers, Tangot a ngo 15:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC) Voting icons Apparently voting icons are appearing on RfAs (e.g. Image:Symbol support vote.svg). They seem relatively rare right now, but if AfD is any indication, and I'm sure it is, they'll be all over the place in a few days. On AfD they were pretty effectively nipped in the bud as soon as they started becoming omnipresent. I do recall they've been rejected in the past... I think people might want to think twice before jumping on this bandwagon. --W.marsh 16:47, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * Just a reminder for those who weren't here the last time icons were brought up—here's why icons are discouraged at RfA: * They're annoying to editors with slower computers (adding hundreds of graphics to a long page can make page rendering and scrolling take a very long time, or just crash altogether). * They're an unnecessary use of bandwidth. User-side caching tends to limit the impact here, but why use it when we don't have to? * Icons are pointless on this page, since votes are already sorted into support/oppose/neutral sections. * Focusing on the voting aspect of the RfA rather than the discussion is discouraged from a philosophical standpoint. * TenOfAllTrades(talk) 17:09, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * On the plus side they are pleasing to the eye, like oasis among the bare sands of plain text. Grue 17:33, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * Once every vote has them, they will be far from pleasing or an oasis among the sands filled with murky waters of blue, green and red mathematical symbols used to denote one's approval or disapproval of a particular candidate. Johnleemk \| Talk 18:07, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * I hate them. Let's get rid of them, quickly. Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:20, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * I'm new to RFA, but I'm already against them. They bring out some comments more than others (but not in a way which depends on the merit of the comments), and don't work properly on my mobile phone. Stephen B Streater 19:01, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * PS I think the interesting names are OK because they are not aligned on the left hand side a the start of each comment. Stephen B Streater 19:03, 27 May 2006 (UTC) On a related note - why do we say Support when it's already under a support header? "Strong Support" and "Weak Support" might be useful (people disagree), but "Support" adds absolutely nothing... I don't think there's any real way to change it - "old habits die hard"... How did it start, anyway? Just a hang over from pages that don't separate votes? --Tango 23:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * It has always been part of RfA tradition! Maybe if we stop, just writing a reason for support/oppose then the four tildes, it will spread across all users! <b style="color:teal;">Gizza</b><sup style="color:teal;">Chat <b style="color:teal;">©</b> 23:17, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * Don't break tradition! :-) Just keep the bold text and abolish the voting icons. They are really annoying. —M e ts501 talk 23:37, 27 May 2006 (UTC) * Um, who says the "vote" has to be bolded? There's no reason to, in fact, except to encourage the idea that RFA is a straight numbers count. Nobody has to add any sort of formatting to their comment.--Sean Black 01:39, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * I too am opposed to a widespread use (or any use, for that matter, although sparse use is...sufferable) of those icons, but how could we prevent its widespread effectively without entering the much-dreaded helm of instruction creep? Redux 02:38, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * I think the only solution that doesn't involve instruction creep would be to wait and hope they don't become widespread. I don't see any other way to avoid it... F e tofs Hello! 02:53, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * I never bold support or oppose, if I use those words at all. Instead, I leave a brief comment or explain the rationale for my vote. Johnleemk \| Talk 10:09, 28 May 2006 (UTC) Remove every voting icon you see and leave a message on the user's talk page telling them to knock it off. There aren't too many of them doing it yet. -- Cyde↔Weys 02:58, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * I personally don't mind them; as long as everyone is not doing it, its ok. But I agree with Fetofs; we should probably just wait until the trend dies off. Master of Puppets That's hot. 03:01, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * Cyde, Wikipedia is not a dictatorship. Try making requests and you'd get more results. You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Try addressing others in a manner that you yourself would like to be addressed. I don't think anyone likes demands, myself included. — Natha<font color="#336666">n (talk) 21:49, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * I too agree with Fetofs. This discussion itself lets people know that the use of these voting icons is discouraged. The users viewing this, in most probability, will not use them in the future. Rather than getting into a conflict, we can wait for the trend to wear off. It isn't very widespread now anyway. Srik e it ( talk ¦ ✉ ) 03:39, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * You pointed out my ideas better than myself :) F e tofs Hello! 13:15, 28 May 2006 (UTC) Just be careful, when purging, to be nice in the way you do it. Those icons are standard other places, like Commons, and people who are more familiar with RfA there may use them by default, without realizing the vehement opposition of this community. <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 05:20, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * In fact, they seem to be used everywhere except English Wikipedia. Grue 09:22, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * They're not that standard on Commons, AFAIK. Most places where I've come across them, at the most half of all votes have them. Johnleemk \| Talk 10:09, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * I was thinking of Template:Administrators/Requests_and_votes, the Commons equivalent of RfA...I see almost 100% use. <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 10:21, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * Isn't that because Commons is intended to have all sorts of different languages on it? There, a symbol makes sense. Here, we all speak English and know what "support" means, so why add the icon? —BorgHunter (talk) 23:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC) I'd shy away from actually removing them from existing comments. Altering of signed comments really is an extreme step, and I know I don't take it very well. However, a nice clear note on the user's talk page about why it's not-so-good has almost always worked for me. I've had on more than a few occasions people I left such notes with turn around and ask other people not to use voting symbols. No reason to play the hard man and get people's backs up when there's no reason to. - brenneman color="000000" title="Admin actions">{L} 10:31, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * I believe that the icons are being used only sporadically around here as of yet. There's no reason for us to start worrying too much about it now. Unless it becomes a real issue, with a significative number of people using them to post here, we needn't be coming up with orchestrated manners of dissuading those few who do for whatever reason lest it becomes instruction creep. There doesn't appear to be reason for us to go as far as altering other users' comments at this point. Redux 11:57, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * <span style="border:1px solid green; background:lightgreen; color:darkgreen; display:inline; -moz-border-radius:20px; padding:0px 5px 3px 5px;">Support And how about this one? It's pure HTML. I mean, is it a problem with images or with making it pretty at all? Misza 13 T C 12:00, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * Looks nice, but for me this is really a matter less of reading but of writing. I don't want to have to remember any more code than the three apostrophes in order to be able to vote anywhere. Support is just the maximum number of keystrokes I'm willing to invest, and I'd hate to have to remember anything more, be it the name of a template, or the name of an image, or html code, whatever. And I want to see clean text in the edit window too. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:38, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * The idea was never to make icons mandatory for participating in RfA. It was in the sense of whether icons should be banned or tolerated, but the bottom line is that there is no fix format for participating in RfA. The three apostrophes themselves are about tradition, or praxis, but no one has to bold the first word of the entry for it to count. Trying to impose a format for participating would be classic instruction creep. Redux 12:49, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * See my response to Grue above. It looks tacky and gets on your nerves once every vote has it. Johnleemk \| Talk 14:37, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * What is the purpose of images next to the votes anyway? The bolded Support or Oppose should be sufficient. It seems quite contradictory to me to discourage the use of images in signatures partially since they clutter the page, but allow vote images that, well, clutter the page. joturn e r 14:45, 28 May 2006 (UTC) <div style="border:1px solid red; background:lightsalmon; text-align:center; font-size:15pt; width:20px; height:20px; color:darkred; padding-bottom:5px;">- I can't believe, 4 years after the arrival of broadband, Wikipedia is still worried about bandwidth. Nathan is an angel. <div style="border:1px solid green; background:lightgreen; text-align:center; font-size:15pt; width:20px; height:20px; color:darkgreen; padding-bottom:5px;">+ Anwar 15:31, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * I, and presumably you, and many Wikipedia users are fortunate enough to have broadband. Plenty of people don't. There's no reason to make it harder for non-broadband users to participate in RfA. I agree, "support" or "oppose" is more than sufficient. FreplySpang 15:51, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * But its not an image, just harmless DHTML. So bandwidth issues are irrelevant here. Anwar 03:41, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * I was responding to your "4 years after the arrival of broadband" comment. I'll leave it for someone who knows to comment on whether the harmless DHTML is, in fact, harmless. I will say that I prefer that RFA (and other support/oppose type pages) be free of that kind of visual clutter. FreplySpang 06:14, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * I'm anything but. You really should re-evaluate that before certain other people jump on you for making that very comment. — Natha<font color="#336666">n (talk) 21:49, 28 May 2006 (UTC) How about: * 1) (+) Support * 2) (-) Oppose * 3) (=) Neutral -- GeorgeMoney T·C 21:53, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * I think the issue is just as much about the tackiness and annoying factor of such icons as it is about bandwidth factors. Coming up with different DHTML/CSS-based icons isn't going to change much. Johnleemk \| Talk 07:16, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Even as the icons becomes smaller, they still don't add any significant purpose to the RfA. If anything it distracts people. I believe decorations should be left for userpages only. <b style="color:teal;">Gizza</b><sup style="color:teal;">Chat <b style="color:teal;">©</b> 07:36, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * I agree with Johnleemk here. Big icons, whether image-based or HTML/CSS-based, take up too much space and distrupt line heights. If anything, they should be semantically defined, for example like <tt> I support ~ </tt>, or <tt> I support </tt> via a MediaWiki extension, so that users can turn them off or change their appearance as they please. This is in line with the current trend of switching to XHTML and XML. As for bandwidth, I don't think the issue is getting less important; on the contrary, it will be more important than ever as the Internet gets more and more crowded. - Tangot a ngo 07:45, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * That could be done easilly enough with support and oppose templates and custom CSS, I expect. I'm not an expert, though. --Tango 10:52, 29 May 2006 (UTC) The problem with voting icons is that you would be using voting icons on something that is not supposed to be a vote. Kim Bruning 11:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Well put Kim. Besides, we were not discussing let's not use icons because they don't look good, we were discussing let's not use icons because they are not in keeping with RfA . I don't suppose that new shapes and colors will alter that, since the essence remains the same. Redux 14:03, 29 May 2006 (UTC) Agreed. I think they're a bad idea no matter how implemented. Our 'crats are good but there is a subtle subliminal effect at work if some comments are "louder" than others in how they are presented. Speaking of loud, see Requests for adminship/Natalya for an example of these symbols at their (IMHO) most obnoxious, the've been made bigger and throw the lines of text off. + + Lar: t/c 14:36, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Bandwidth is an issue if you sometimes read Wikipedia on a mobile phone, as you have to pay for all data sent. The real issue for me though is that it makes some comments stand out more, to the detriment of others, and independently of the instrinsic value of the aforementioned comment. Stephen B Streater 17:57, 29 May 2006 (UTC) So, I've read the comments either way and, for me, I just plain don't like having icons in the middle of text for no good reason. If RfA's a discussion, then discuss, not decorate, hm? (I know, sounds strange coming from me.) On the other hand, the "support/oppose" boldening is nice because it draws your eye to the beginning of that user's arguments for their position, plus for those users who don't seem to be able to indent, it helps seperate sections. <i style="color:#FF00FF;">~Kylu ( u \| t ) </i> 21:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC) For those who don't want icons For those who don't want icons, support looks like: Support For those who do Put the following code in your monobook.css (doesn't have to be monobook): /* Voting / .votesupport { background-color: BGCOLOR; color: TEXTCOLOR; } .voteoppose { background-color: BGCOLOR; color: TEXTCOLOR; } .voteneutral { background-color: BGCOLOR; color: TEXTCOLOR; } Also, Also, this is not limited to tags. So, you could also use tags. (NOTE: If you use tags for voting, to see the div tags properly you will have to add more parameters to the above code.) Signature Thanks, -- GeorgeMoney T·C 22:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC) I would be against this style sheet tricks. I suggest that, as it used to be until now, a support vote looks like Support or any other way a supporter may feel like voting. If people wanting eye candy can/would like to do any stylesheet/javascript/etc tricks to make any Support string show up as a perty icon for them, nothing can stop them. But introducint a new span class, class=votesupport, is somethign which makes no sense to me. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 22:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Look out!!! It's about to bite your head off! Oh no! It's The Instruction Creeposaurus!!! joturn e r 21:11, 30 May 2006 (UTC) Early Close Guideline Proposal I have drafted a guideline that will help bureaucrats make decisions about when RfA's should be closed early. This is in response to the community becoming divided as to whether bureaucrats should close RfAs early and at what stage they should be closed. The proposal is here. DarthVad e r 22:31, 27 May 2006 (UTC) Proposal for quasi-protection (Apologies, but I feel like because this proposal tangentially deals with RfA, I should bring it up here. Thanks!) Hello, all: I've written up Quasi-protection policy, a proposal similar to semi-protection that would effectively limit sleeper accounts used to vandalize articles linked from the Main Page. I know that I've written a lot, and at first glance, the proposal may seem daunting. However, I truly believe that this would immensely improve Wikipedia and implore you to read it through and offer your thoughts on the talk page. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note? ) 22:50, 27 May 2006 (UTC) Requests for adminship/Zappa.jake (Have made this subsection an indented section of the QPP due to possible application of QPP to cases like this in future...) I've taken the step of semiprotecting this RFA, due to ongoing AOL IP vandalism that continually forges signatures and votes. It's gone on since the start of this RFA. The last time I did this (Quadell's RFB), I was criticised, but here I don't think there's a better way to deal with this vandalism. NSL E (T+C) at 03:49 UTC (2006-05-28) * I don't think the result will be controversial on this RfA either way. Stephen B Streater 08:54, 28 May 2006 (UTC) Closure of RFAs by non-bureaucrats I would like to point out that, although it has become rare, non-bureaucrats are permitted and indeed encouraged to close nominations that clearly lack community support. They are also permitted to close borderline cases after several days have elapsed and no bureaucrat has chosen to promote (though currently this never happens). Bureaucrats are given the exclusive authority to promote successful candidates. While we can and often do remove failing nominations, the community at large still has the right to do this as well. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 11:51, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * While I agree that this should be the case, I strongly remember several rounds of arguments with a substantial number of people vocally declaring that no one but bureaucrats should close noms. For example, Raul654 said: "I am adamantly against non-bureacrats deciding that there was no consensus. That's what the bureacrats were elected specifically to do." Some previous discussions: . This debate included rewriting the RFA guidelines to say that only bureaucrats should close except in cases of vandalism/newbie nonsense. * Well, despite the fact that I respect Raul654 greatly, I must take issue with his assertion that bureaucrats were elected specifically to [determine that there is no consensus] . While that is indeed an important qualification for the job, it is not bureaucrats solely who may make such determinations, and at the time the process was set up in the first place, it was made very clear that the only difference between bureaucrats and others was that bureaucrats are entrusted to promote and accordingly have the technical capacity to do so. Tacit assignment of additional exclusive duties that were previously the purview of the community as a whole is a bad thing. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 23:43, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * Personally, I fully support granting latitude to non-bureaucrats to remove clearly failed noms, but as it stands right now I know that I will get yelled at for doing so, so I have refrained from closing anything for the last nine months or so.Dragons flight 22:29, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * Sniffle. My one little addition to this process was Dragon flight's link above and I think it's worked fairly well. Maybe you think it too didactic, but there has been peace in this little part of the process. And do note it wasn't a re-write out of nowhere--it was a specific response to the discussions cited. Put more simply, to remove it would probably be to invite another weekly "I'm annoyed about this" thread. We have enough of those. Marskell 22:49, 28 May 2006 (UTC) If there's a problem with non-buros closing noms, how about a compromise? Any admin can close a nom that's gone the full time and has less than 65% support. 65% is sufficiently below the lower limit of buro's discretion to take into account any mistakes someone not fully qualified might make and should be lower enough that no buro would decide to let the nom go into extra time, and limiting it to admins should ensure that it's done in good faith. The worst that can happen is someone has to go through RfA a 2nd time before getting promoted. Of course, I'm not sure there is really a problem needing to be fixed here - the buros seem to keep up with the workload pretty well. --Tango 23:32, 28 May 2006 (UTC) This is a solution in search of a problem. What would this solve, and why? If there is some problem with RfAs closing late, and there clearly isn't, then just vet some more candidates for bureaucrat. -Splash talk 00:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Mm, I'm not sure I like the percentage thing. It encourages the idea that it's strictly a numbers game instead of a discussion. If I were up for RfA and there were ten people with Support and one person comments in Oppose: This user was recently found to be vandalizing Wikipedia via sockpuppets, see WP:RFCU. I'd rather hope that the Bureaucrat in question would look at these claims and deny my RfA or wait for more voters to show up and suggest to the first ten that maybe they should re-examine the facts of the case. <i style="color:#FF00FF;">~Kylu ( u \| t ) </i> 21:22, 29 May 2006 (UTC) I do not really agree that the current situation tallys with UC's assessment. That may, perhaps, have once theoretically been the case. But several rounds of discussion, available in the archives have established that there is at best not-wide-enough support for random editors "off the street" to determine the outcome of an RfA. There is not really even sufficient support for non-bureaucrats to "snowball" an RfA. That the only difference in being a crat is having a new button is not at all borne out by the intense, sometimes brutal, scrutiny afforded by an RfB, and the skilled determination of which way the wind blows in a most sensitive process has come to (right, imo) rest with a small group of users who we trust in both judgement and security. Encouraging just anyone to close an RfA (particularly when we are not running behind schedule in the least) seems an odd thing to do; and inventing compromises for a situation that doesn't exist is then unnecessary. -Splash talk 00:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Are we having so many of these pass by that we need to extend this? Am I missing masses of nominations that are staying up the full seven days and then not being closed? I see no problem with non-bureaucrats removing obvious, dramatic failures (4/25/19) early, but why do we need to push it into the territory of "normal" nominations? <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 00:28, 29 May 2006 (UTC) In Jimbo's utopian Wikipedia, adminship may be "no big deal", but here at en.wikipedia.org, it has turned out that adminship is a pretty big deal. Good trusted contributors get turned away all the time because (I theorize) admins abusing their power has made people wary. Similarly, while it may have been the case when the system was set up that Bureaucrats are theoretically no big deal either, and their only difference is the presence of an extra button, in practice here in the real 'pedia, Bureaucrats are entrusted to do a thorny issue that is a big deal. Let's leave it to them. -lethe talk [ +] 00:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC) This has already resulted in this closure of a non-blatantly-clear RfA by a non-crat, on the grounds that things were a few hours late and just-anyone who fancies it can close an RfA. (Numerically, I suppose it was <75% etc etc, but this is easily non-snowballable.) Clearly (to me anyway), this is not right. That particular close has already been reverted and re-closed by a crat. We really can't have non-crats ruling on the very thing (unclear RfAs) that crats are created to deal with. -Splash talk 00:55, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * 69.9% is not close. SushiGeek 02:33, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * And? No one said it was a close vote. What they said is that you're not a crat, and furthermore voted oppose in the RfA. Those are both true, aren't they? -lethe talk [ +] 02:36, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Yes, I must agree with Splash on this one. I believe this started from a smaller context and, pardon the pun, snowballed into something a lot bigger. I mean, there were instances where users who are not Bureaucrats would close RfAs, but those were very specific instances, often when the RfA itself was a hoax or just short of it (e.g., if someone nominated Willy on Wheels for adminship). From there, it turned into a situation where if there is something sufficiently (by what standards?) "wrong" with a RfA, anyone could close it. While this might work sporadically, it will create more problems than it will solve. Recent example: Robchurch protested against the manner in which his RfA was closed because it was closed as unsuccessful by a user who had opposed in the RfA. I suppose it would be best to keep it simple: let the Bureaucrats do their job, that's why they get the big bucks :S Redux 01:58, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * I see no problem with normal users closing really obvious failures, i.e. RfAs with very few votes and/or large opposition. If opposes significantly outnumber supports, there is little scope for failure of judgement. But early closing or closing by someone who voted (either way) should probably be left to bureaucrats. I would suggest to apply common sense and not pile on more explicit rules...--Stephan Schulz 08:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * It's not been suggested that we pile on more rules. The rule has stood for seven months. If it's a choice between explicit and vague, the former is better. "Non bureaucrats are never empowered to decide consensus, except when it's very obvious(?)". Again, all this will create is another useless talk thread every couple of weeks. "No" is much clearer "maybe". Marskell 09:14, 29 May 2006 (UTC) If buros aren't allowed to close RfA's they've voted in (I'm pretty sure that's the case), then non-buros certainly shouldn't be able to. I can't see any reason to even debate that point. --Tango 10:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Bureaucrats can close RfAs they have participated in. It is only on the close RfAs where they should be conscious of the appearance of a conflict of interest and avoid doing so. Likewise, it is fine for non-bureaucrats to close obviously failing nominations, even if they have participated, but it should be "very" obvious, and if it is over 50% I recommend not touching it. NoSeptember talk 11:28, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * The rule is simple: the more contentious the decision, the more senior and experienced the person who makes it should be. I agree with what Lethe said: the RC nomination was potentially close. The bc may have chosen to take account of the merit of the various arguments before closing, rather than just their number. Many RfAs are not remotely close, and people wouldn't care who closed the (though a non-participant is a good start). Stephen B Streater 21:50, 29 May 2006 (UTC) New: when should I start? I have been using wikipedia for months, but registered only yesterday, and have around 60/70 edits only. When I shall be ready to participate in RfA? Please give me an idea. Thanks. --Bootblack 17:32, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * See WP:GRFA and Requests for adminship/Standards. Also, showing a lot of early interest in becoming an admin is a red-flag for many people. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 17:35, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * Well, if you're voting, start at about 125 edits. If you're running, wait until about 2,500 good edits if you're nominating yourself, or until somebody else nominates you. SushiGeek 17:36, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * I mis-communicated. I meant as regards my participation in the voting process. I never thought of standing for the job of an administrator - with 2 days as a registered user and with hardly 100 edits, only a fool shall think of the same. Right now, I want to know about by ability to vote in the RfA. --Bootblack 17:44, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * Please also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Bunchofgrapes&diff=prev&oldid=55598612 Thank you. --Bootblack 17:49, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * Oh, ha! My bad. (We've seen a lot of fools by that definition around here, I'm afraid -- very glad to see you aren't one.) —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 17:51, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * No. I am a real fool to do this [[Image:Tongue.png]] to an administrator: . You shall find me a difficult student to adminisrter. BTW, the day I reach 1,000 edits, I shall vote some one: let me see who shall be the "unlucky" person - I mean the "lucky" one! --Bootblack 17:57, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * You can vote far sooner than 1000 edits. You just need enough so people know you aren't a fake account. --Tango 18:34, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * A note: you shouldn't join the waterfall. Having 50 people before you voting to support a user doesn't mean they are all right (CSCWEM's second nomination comes to mind). You need to read all the comments posted before, examine the user's background, and determine which (if any) of the previous comments fit what you think about the user. It is always better to explain why you are voting. With time you will develop your own "minimun requirements" for new administrators; be sure it is just. In my case, I only vote for administrators I know and can vouch, either positive or negatively, as currently I don't have the time to examine backgrounds. -- ReyBrujo 19:42, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * Oh tosh, how was CSCWEM a bad candidate in his second nom? --Rory096 04:45, 31 May 2006 (UTC) * My point was that the user should not vote for the side that has the majority "just because", as it is possible they are not right, either about the candidate suitability or about the technical aspects of the nomination. In his case, his nomination was 59-0 when he accepted. I am assuming good faith in all possible cases (whether he did not know about his nomination until 10 days later, he had a 10 day wikibreak and found himself nominated when returned, or guessing it was right not to accept the nomination for 10 days). However, someone who does not contribute to RFAs and suddenly finds a 59-0 nomination may consider supporting (or oppossing, had the votation been 0-30) for the sake of joining the majority ("1 vote more or less won't hurt"). It was a technical point, sure, and CSCWEM was (again, AGF) innocent, but (for me) an extremely valid one, pointed by someone who took a second to review the situation and did not just vote for the sake of voting. * Disclaimer: I believe CSCWEM is one of the best Wikipedia contributors, and several times I have pressed the "Save page" button to see he had already done that. It was just a comment to enforce the user to make his own decisions, whether they match the majority or not. -- ReyBrujo 05:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC) Expanding some on Tango's comment, which is quite right: there is no minimal number of edits (editcountitis can be fatal...) for anyone to be able to start participating in the RfA process. What you need is just to establish yourself as a solid contributor, not because we have a rule written somewhere, but because it is all about trust here. We need to know that any given account represents one individual (no sock puppets or meat puppets) and that this person will be participating for legitimate reasons. Don't focus on counting your edits, but rather on doing a good job in the project. The rest should pretty much take care of itself. Redux 20:09, 28 May 2006 (UTC) * A user should dive in and start voting whenever they are ready to. Since one vote won't affect the outcome 95% of the time, it is a good way for us to get to know you. The few times your vote would affect the outcome, it will be discounted if you are truly too new, but within a week of active participation, you won't be truly new anymore, and if your opinions are expressed with thoughtfulness, they will be respected. NoSeptember talk 11:11, 29 May 2006 (UTC) Background colors on closed RfAs Is there an intended meaning to background colors? Consider mine: Requests_for_adminship/Lar... no background color, no box around it. Then consider Joturner's: Requests_for_adminship/Joturner 2 Grey background color, with a box around it... The consider Rob's: Requests_for_adminship/Robchurch 4 Pink background color, with a box around it too. I'm just wondering if there's a convention here (margins, failed vs succeeded? something else??) that I'm not aware of or if this is just an artifact of whoever closed it or ?? PLEASE NOTE: no criticism intended!!! Just asking... + + Lar: t/c 01:17, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * I concluded some time ago that they, and their presence or absence, are secret signals to the Cabal. -Splash talk 01:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * They are all generated by the templates (for a successful nomination) and (for an unsuccessful nomination) . People have recently been altering the background colours in an attempt to make it clearer that voting has closed. As the templates are substituted, the closed nominations bear whichever colour the template was using when the nomination was closed. Warofdreams talk 01:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * rfap's background color has only been changed twice (and never to pink), and rfab's background has never been changed. So, how do you explain the pink? -- GeorgeMoney T·C 02:08, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Color saturation in computer screen settings? I.e., nothing to do with the template itself. It's a possibility. Redux 02:17, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Ok then, instead of pink, I mean #fff5f5. It has never been changed to #fff5f5. -- GeorgeMoney T·C 02:27, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Sorry, that should be, not , for a failed nomination. That's the template with the pink background. Warofdreams talk 02:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC) There are two templates: Template:Rfap for nominations that passed, and Template:Rfaf for nominations that failed. Rfaf has been altered to be pink, rfap to be blue. I set them both to be gray originally, because I didn't think anybody would be bothered by a gray background (the pink, and to a degree, the blue, hurt my eyes, but I'll fix that via CSS on my end). <font color="#7b68ee">Essjay <font color="#7b68ee">( <font color="#7b68ee">Talk • <font color="#7b68ee">Connect ) 02:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC) Colors were there back in 2005 and then they went away, and now they are back. For the record, I am a proud owner of a colorless RfA :-). NoSeptember talk 11:19, 29 May 2006 (UTC) Admin recall has landed See Category:Administrators open to recall. Haukur 11:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * If I were to understand this correctly, we are asking every admin to add themselves to the list on "moral" grounds saying that not adding oneself to the list would qualify them as rogue admin and hence they would be seen as bad-faith admins (implied, and not directly stated). -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 12:57, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * That's exactly how I view the proposal. I refused to be emotionally or morally blackmailed into adding my name to a list like that. I'm quite sure that the creators of the idea will point out that it wasn't meant to put that kind of pressure on admins, but in reality it does and I won't be part of it. A lot more than 6 people made me an admin, and it will take a lot more than that for me to accept de-adminning (other than Jimbo or arbcom of course.)pschemp \| talk 13:09, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * You're right, it WOULD take a lot more than 6 people to deadmin you. The 6 people are more like, at least the way I take it, a signal that there is desire to look into it, not the number needed to deadmin you. Further, since our default here is no consensus == no change, (and again, the way I would do myself) I'd do an RfC and if it wasn't a clear consensus that I'd screwed up, no change. Please don't look at this as blackmail, either, because (again, in my view) that's not what it is intended to be. It's intended to be saying that you consider yourself not above being held accountable. + + Lar: t/c 13:29, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * And those who don't immediately jump to place this cat on their userpages, therefore, do consider themselves above being held accountable. I know that's not what you meant, but that's exactly how it sounds. * I don't object to being held accountable for my actions. I don't even object to losing sysophood — who knows, it might be enough of a kick in the pants to get me back to editing more regularly, which is why we're all here in the first place, right? But I'm not about to put something on my userpage saying I've joined yet another clique, and I'm not about to watch the inevitable insinuations that those who don't are bad Wikipedians. This is an idea that really needed a lot more thought. Thoughts like "I know! How about we scrap this idea?" fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 13:51, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Bingos. This is as bad as putting a userbox on my user page that declares my religion. Instead its, hey, I'm a believer in the Accountable Admin religion, and the insinuation is that because you have not publically declared, that you are not. I do realize that the intent of the creation of the category was not to guilt people into joining, but it already reeks of that, and in practice, that is what will happen. That result can't be escaped because we are human. Its not anyone else's business exactly how I feel accountable to the project, but the unintended consequence of this proposal is that it puts pressure on people to state that. There is no reason to create yet another thing to split and divide wikipedians. pschemp \| talk 17:25, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * I'm a bit curious, why do you feel it is no-one's business how you feel accountable to the project? Haukur 23:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Because I am already accountable to the project in the same way all admins are when given the position for the community. There is no need to go around publicly declaring what already is. pschemp \| talk 18:10, 1 June 2006 (UTC) * Fair enough but it's not a matter of declaring yourself accountable, it's a matter of saying that you're not necessarily going to force people to drag you to ArbComm before you're willing to listen to what they have to say. (in a more formal way than just reading what they say on your talk page...) If it's a fad, if it's a bad idea, no one else will do it and those of us that did will remove ourselves from the category, and that will be that. + + Lar: t/c 23:29, 1 June 2006 (UTC) * I don't think recall itself is a good thing, unless it's tied to abuse of admin powers. It wouldn't be good for it to be a popularity contest—I'm pretty sure I wouldn't survive this, just because I've got a sufficient number of people who don't like me, even though no one accuses me of abusing admin powers. Everyking 13:21, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * I personally would not object to having my name put on that list, but I agree with Ambuj that those who would object may be looked down upon, which doesn't really seem right. --tomf688 (talk - email) 13:38, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * We pay admins to be unpopular. We don't want them to be chucked out just because of that. It's breaking the rules which should lead to re-evaluation - and Arbitration can fix that already. Also, a lot of admins had more than 6 oppose votes when they were elected - before they had a chance to make tough decisions. Stephen B Streater 13:45, 29 May 2006 (UTC) The idea (as far as I'm concerned, anyway) is to have a broad framework for individual admins to customize according to their lights. So if you will stand for confirmation if you get X people who accuse you of abusing admin tools then go ahead and do that. Haukur 14:32, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Huh? Lights? Please clarify.pschemp \| talk 17:25, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Lights==preferences or tastes. Mine are at the top of my user talk page, and I suggest people take a look. If this initiative stratifies things then it's not good I guess. But, Stephen, it will take a lot more than 6 people to actually remove someone in this process if they style after how I styled it. + + Lar: t/c 17:34, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Maybe we should also make a category for those who do not want to add themselves to the recall category, but do not feel comfortable either with the implied against-recall notion when they do not, so that they can make clear they are not a rouge admin either? -- Kim van der Linde at venus 17:45, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Well, Lar, are you going to publish your criteria for "good standing" in advance? I think that if you are happy to "stand trial" for a perceived dereliction of duty, you would also be happy to alter your behaviour once the consensus was established. A new RfA will bring up every skeleton or slightly misjudged decision, and aggrieved parties will all come to vote - it would be a much tougher challenge than the first go. Perhaps a big majority should be required to remove an Admin. But I'm happy that you see yourself as accountable. Stephen B Streater 18:07, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * I don't know. I'm not sure I'd publish them in advance actually, haven't decided, the in advance suggests gaming the system though. 500 edits is bandied about on the talk page. Remember that ArbComm still is a check on this, if an admin were asked to do this after pledging to, the 6 people asking were "reasonable" people, and the admin refused, that would seem to weigh against them in a subsequent arbcomm, wouldn't it... I have to go soon, have a flight to catch, so may not get back to this for a while. But here's the thing.. the process now for censuring admins seems to be very step function... nothing at all, then elephant gun. This is trying to introduce another step. Unlike a straight RfC which we have seen admins ignore, this (maybe because the person said in advance they'd heed it so the community would hold them to it), would carry more weight. If 6 serious people did turn up and say I'd been a total wanker, and here is why, I'd have to take that seriously whether I published criteria in advance for what "serious" meant, or not, and if it were 6 people whose main contributions were carrying out disruptions first suggested on WR and harassing good editors, I'd ignore them, again whether they fit published criteria or not. Maybe it's a bad idea but at least it's being talked about. As for KimvdLinde's suggestion of another category, sure, why not? What would you call it though? It would need a careful name so that it captured the discomfort with this idea without casting aspersions on either this idea or on NOT doing it. Sorry if that was a bit of a ramble, but again, the idea at least at first is to just say, hey, I'm willing to be accountable, I am willing to listen and you don't have to do an ArbComm to get my attention. If it caught on and 90% of all admins did it, that would presumably tell you something about the other 10%... but the something it would tell you is "they don't want to do that" not "they are all bad admins"... because in my view, people who don't want to do it are NOT bad people. They just choose not to do it. Heck, one of my noms speaks out about it above, and, IMHO at least, she's a great admin. + + Lar: t/c 19:05, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * As far as I am concerned, every admin is accountable. Regardless. You get privileges to assist the community, if you turn out not to be worthy of them you should loose them. It is frankly not up to the admins themselves to say whether they are accountable, they just are. Consequently, I think the category is redundant. Just my $0.02 Eurocents. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 23:59, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Yes, exactly, Kim has summarised my feelings exactly. We are already accountable, and there are already mechanisms in place to deal with those who abuse their position. What's the point of adding another? It makes much more sense to make the current process more efficient, rather than add an entirely new one. pschemp \| talk 18:08, 1 June 2006 (UTC) I would oppose this because it seems to be an idea arrived at without community consensus and is plain absurd. Many admins get elected with more than 6 opposers. If everytime they just play the appoint-disappoint game, we would deviate from the reason we exist — To create an encyclopedia. A more saner (though still not acceptable as devoid of community consensus) option would be to start the process when there are 8 opposers, 5 of whom supported the admin concerned in the admin's RfA. This means that only when does a candidate "breaks" the trust of those who already trust him, should such a process be started. If they can't get such 5 people, try Request for Comments/Arbitration. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 17:41, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * A noble idea, accountability is very important, but this just isn't the way to go about it. More community involvement in sanctioning errant admin behaviour is needed. The community approves admin requests after all, so should be able to un-approve, but this is not it (don't ask me what is). And while we're not on the topic of RfA colours, can I change mine to "light cactus", kind of two shades removed from #E4EBE4 :-) -- Cactus.man ✍ 17:49, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * Yes, I agree, more community involvement is required. This is a way, it is thought, to foster that... Suggest changes in it if you like, because straight RfC doesn't seem to work very well... turns into a witchhunt with no real change in the person, because the person is totally on the defensive... it's sprung on them as it were. Heck, I dunno... + + Lar: t/c 19:05, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * I am not sure how much better this idea is than the original one, especially for older admins like myself. I was promoted with less than two dozen votes, and only half of those who supported me are regularly active anymore. Therefore it would be a much bigger deal, at least percentage wise, if five of those were to question my actions than if someone who was promoted with 150 support votes was questioned by five of theirs. Due to the nature of Adminship I still remain unconvinced that ArbCom is not the way to go if someone misbehaves too badly. That being said, I am sure I would resign my position if I got a lot of angry messages on my talk page; I would have thought, however, that it would be the nature of the complaints, rather than the volume, that would convince me to resign or reapply. Rje 18:57, 29 May 2006 (UTC) I haven't been here as long as many of you, but I didn't think this was how we make new proposals. I thought we outlined the idea, discussed it and tried to reach a concensus on it. We don't collect lists of names. I still don't get what's wrong with ArbCom - if they aren't strict enough, then we should have a discussion about that, not try and create yet another idea for removing rogue admins. --Tango 19:50, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * I think perhaps people are somewhat right that there is a little pressure to place yourself in this category, but, looking at it as a binary view, I guess you are either open to being recalled or you aren't. The exact method of being recalled can get discussed, expounded and moved forward however you want, but at the end of the day, you're either openb to being recalled or you're not. I thought about adding myself to this or not over a copuile of days, and then realised that's the nub of the issue; that if the community feel I don't deserve to be an admin anymore, I'm not going to be one. I'm not going to force people to add themselves to this category, but I think people should examine why they don't. To me, not adding myself ultimately meant I was prepared to fight tooth and nail for my admin powers, which I have always argued are no big deal. If they are no big deal, I must be prepared to lose them, and to lose them with grace. If I have become the sort of admin who believes they have a right to be one, then I don't think I'm the sort of admin Wikipedia needs. That was my thinking on the matter, anyway. It's granted by the community, and should remain in the grant of the community. As to questions of how policy is formed, this is certainly one way to create a policy, and if anyone is concerned at the lack of consensus or prior discussion, I suggest they look at Admin accountability poll. Hiding Talk 20:13, 29 May 2006 (UTC) Wow, I didn't really expect this kind of heated response. This wasn't meant to be a huge deal, it's just a little voluntary effort to increase the accountability of participating admins. We're not saying ArbCom isn't doing their job and this category is by no means intended to replace it. But the ArbCom is intended as a last resort - what we're saying is that we'll take complaints seriously before they reach the ArbCom level. Many people have expressed frustration in the past regarding admin accountability (see Admin accountability poll for example) and this is one experiment to move us forward on that issue. I personally think the "admins should be unpopular" idea is a bit mistaken. Admins might be unpopular among trolls and vandals, certainly, but they shouldn't be unpopular among fellow Wikipedians and the great majority aren't. Haukur 23:19, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * For what it's worth, as a non-admin, I really like this idea, and while I don't think any less of people who wouldn't want to sign up to this (for wahtever reason), it does reaffirm my trust in the ones who do. (Full disclosure: I currently know of no admins I'd like to recall). * Here's the truth, as I see it: the statement that "adminship is not a big deal" is currently wishful thinking (at best). Everything I have seen so far points to the fact that many people very much want to become admins, that adminship is, like it or not, an important status symbol. I don't think this is healthy, but it's the way things are right now. * I also suspect that this idea would be much more popular with non-admins in general; we're probably looking at a case of selection bias here, since this discussion page is, I believe, mostly read by admins. --Ashenai 16:19, 30 May 2006 (UTC) Work in progress Oi vey. I must say, I didn't expect objections to be quite this heated, not to be from this quarter. There's no denying that I hoped this would catch on to the degree that some form of it it eventually became policy. Not because of "guilting" or "shaming." My number-one favorite wikipedian has gently declined, and I certainly don't think any less of him. I'd optimistically thought that for the vast majority of administrators would sign on without too much hesitation, and that it would become (in some form) just "what we did." brenneman color="000000" title="Admin actions">{L} 07:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC) * In the current conception, there are three barriers to re-setting the bit: six signatures, the personal choice to re-run, and the re-RfA itself. * Despite what we seem to be saying, that first hurdle is a big one. I ruffle feathers on an almost daily basis: Closing AfDs as other than votes, slashing and burning dubious links, culling fair use images, etc etc. I haven't yet managed to get and keep six people mad at the same time. * Going with the presumption that I'd not back out, I'm confident that I'd get the required numbers at RfA again. Admittedly the big problem I had last time hasn't gotten any better, but I think I've also demonstrated that I can be trusted. * We make policy on the fly all the time. Sometimes it goes nowhere, sometimes it takes awhile to take off, sometimes it kicks us in the pants and makes us say, "Gee, we actually want to do the opposite of that." * If you don't like the category, change it. Add some caveats, make some notes, nominate it on CfD. That's what we do here, we work things out. * Even better, drop by the talk page. Say why you don't like it, and try to have an open mind about what those who do like it have to say. * However appropiate or not anyone may think this implimentation is, surely it can't have escaped notice that the "appointed for life" aspect of adminship is one of the things that is a non-stop topic. I think the word commonly used is "perineum." * Who is it going to be used on, really? I know most (800+) admins will never have to worry as they are niether abusive with the tools nor rude enough to have burning coals of resentment somewhere. * Everyking nod of head in his direction has been mentioned several times as a possible first "victim." To be frank, I just don't think he's got that level of ill-will that he'd even get the six sigs. * Let's not be shy, let's actually say whom we think would get screwed over if this became policy. At least then we'd be talking about something concrete. Silly thing, that's what this recall is. Another fad. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:07, 30 May 2006 (UTC) Griffjam closed early 0/17/0. Closed early with sufficient pileup. Redwolf24 (talk) 22:49, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * And in its place... * User:03Rotpar who didn't have a single edit to his/her name prior to creating his (malformed) RfA has attempted to add his/her own RfA. After multiple editors, including myself, removed his RfA (multiple times, obviously), he posted to my talk page the following: * i know im kinda new hear but i really want to try for admin even if i fail. thanks 03Rotpar 22:51, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * I hope no one will jump on me if I saw that this RfA is bound to fail, but it is. How are we supposed to deal with this. This page is for requesting adminship, not just doing something just because. I don't want to bite this newcomer (or any other), but I think we need to send the message that this is purely for serious requests for adminship; if someone wants some feedback on their editing abilities, they should be directed to Editor review. But I have a feeling that if I (or anyone else) were to continue to remove this RfA, he/she will just repeatedly re-add it. joturn e r 22:57, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * If they really want to add it then what little harm that will come from leaving it there for a while is much better than edit warring over the main page. I would suggest only ever removing any rfa nom once in total, with a polite note to the user as to why it might be a bad idea. If they persist, then it's likely to be quickly snowballed and closed, but that which would give a clearer signal in my view than than if it was removed because it was "bound to fail". It's one thing telling someone they have 0% chance of passing, and another to tell them they're not allowed to run at all. Regards, MartinRe 23:21, 29 May 2006 (UTC) I think 0 edits is slightly different than usual. I'm all in favour of all editors being able to run for adminship, but someone with 0 edits isn't an editor, by definition. Also, if you're going with WP:SNOW, it applies in this case before anyone has voted on it - no-one that should be taken into account will support someone with 0 edits (them voting support is reason enough not to take them into account). --Tango 23:45, 29 May 2006 (UTC) * The problem is where do you draw the line? no edits? 10 edits, 100? We've had some editors with quite low numbers put themselves forward recently, and while they were suggested to withdraw, no one forced them to do so, whereas in this case, 03Rotpar was basically told he'd be blocked if he didn't accept the forced withdrawal, which seems a little on the harsh side to me. Regards, MartinRe 00:00, 30 May 2006 (UTC) * I draw the line at 0 edits. That was the whole point of my comment... --Tango 00:43, 30 May 2006 (UTC) Requests for adminship/03Rotpar, will someone close it down now? <font color="00FF00">D G <font color="00FF00">X 00:02, 30 May 2006 (UTC) * I'll delete it if no one objects, per this edit. Tito xd (?!? - help us) 00:15, 30 May 2006 (UTC) * I also found an old one which noone has noticed; Requests for adminship/04nunhucks. Master of Puppets FREE BIRD! 00:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)	WIKI
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Talk:Sarah-Lee Heinrich Content dispute The main difference between the two versions ( and ) appears to be these: * whether to note that Sarah-Lee Heinrich wrote the tweets as a teenager * whether to quote one of the tweets, in which she called Germany a "disgustingly white majority", or to passively describe the tweets ("which were described as discriminatory and filled with violence were discussed publicly") I will note that as a native English speaker I find the phrasing "which were described as discriminatory and filled with violence were discussed publicly" circuitous to the point of being confusing. Mackensen (talk) 03:47, 12 November 2021 (UTC) * In the German Wikipedia we decided almost unanimous to only passively describe the tweets. It made big headlines in Germany, thanks to tabloid newspapers who tried to scandalize this. My formulation was an attempt to translate what we came up with in German Wikipedia. Here you can find more about this topic: . Maybe one could propose a different formulation. * "disgustingly white majority" is another quote from her teenage years (not a tweet but from a YouTube video), and she clearly doesn't hold this position anymore. If one watches her interviews now it is very clear that this is not a position she holds anymore and she apologized for using the word "disgustingly" multiple times. But still the far-right is creating twitter posts and memes where they try to present this as a recent viewpoint of her. --TheRandomIP (talk) 08:25, 12 November 2021 (UTC) * Following Deutsche Welle, one could describe it as "offensive tweets", maybe better understandable. * After her election, offensive tweets she wrote at the age of 13 and 14 and deleted since then were discussed publicly, after right-wing social media accounts and the tabloid newspaper BILD reported about them initially. Heinrich apologized for those Tweets and called them "wrong and hurtful". After vehement attacks like death and rape threats, she temporarily withdrew from the public for a few days. * --TheRandomIP (talk) 16:21, 12 November 2021 (UTC) Sarah-Lee Heinrich's "disgustingly white majority" was not one of the discussed teenager tweets, but another incident. As the welt.de (major German newspaper) writes: "Die aktuelle Vorsitzende der Grünen Jugend war volljährig, als sie von einer „ekligen weißen Mehrheitsgesellschaft“ sprach." (Translation: "The chairwoman of the Green Youth was an adult, when she talked about a 'disgustingly white majority society'"). --https://www.welt.de/politik/bundestagswahl/plus234372910/Parteinachwuchs-Eklige-weisse-Mehrheitsgesellschaft-Die-Gruene-Jugend-und-ihr-Deutschlandbild.html So if the discussion in the German article talk page was focused on her teenager tweets, not that grossly racist comment, then how is the "let's not mention the Tweets she made as a kid" relevant to the inclusion of the comment that she made as an adult? We would include reported grossly racist comments by other politicians, so why does Sarah-Lee Heinrich get protection? On another note: I'm not sure why TheRandomIP focuses on "we decided almost unanimous to only passively describe the tweets", when the tweets were made as a teenager and the "disgustingly white majority" was made as an adult. TheRandomIP was notified about this distinction in the German article's talk page, but they keep continuing to misunderstand the situation. Also I'm not sure why TheRandomIP tries to dismiss the reporting about it as "tabloid newspaper" (even though I referenced welt.de) and singles out "far-right" criticism. The far-right might have an issue with it, because it's racism against whites, but in addition to that it's still racism, which is opposed by centrist, left-leaning and traditional leftists on principle. Wikipedia is supposed to be neutral, not a ministry of truth that memory holes offenses by racist politicians, if they are a high-ranking member of the correct party. --2A00:6020:B3B0:5300:64B0:DE51:9847:D940 (talk) 06:07, 13 November 2021 (UTC) * But you know that WELT is owned by the same company as the tabloid newspaper BILD and that WELT is nothing more than a "tabloid newspaper for rich kids"? * That said, the WELT is only drawing an incomplete picture of the situation. Sarah-Lee Heinrich already explained what she meant by that, here in the interview, that she used the wrong formulation and that she apologized for the feelings she hurt. And there are a lot of newspapers defending Heinrich, like here , even the political opponents (the conservative FDP) defended her, if you saw Markus Lanz recently. Only the far-right is still pushing this narrative about "racism against white people". No leftist in the right mind, after seeing her interviews, would oppose her. * And so if you find that single quote relevant, you would need to write a lengthy segment about her response and the response by other newspapers. Just for a single quote. But I don't think something like this is useful for the article, this is recentism / newsticker style. So I would say it is not relevant at all to discuss every single quote any politician once said. We should draw a big picture about her position but not mention every single quote. --TheRandomIP (talk) 09:15, 13 November 2021 (UTC) * "every single quote any politician once said" * I find it very relevant. Especially as she is in a position of power and claims to be anti-racist, even though her comments show that she is a very hateful racist. * "WELT is owned by the same company as" * Sounds like you are grasping for straws, just to dismiss and discredit rightful criticism of racist comments. * "Only the far-right is still pushing this narrative about "racism against white people". No leftist in the right mind, after seeing her interviews, would oppose her." * I oppose gross racist remarks, but let me guess this makes me "far-right" in your eyes, because the racist remarks go against white people. As I'm sure you believe yourself to be left, let me remind you that liberal and left means "against racism", not "against racism, except racism against whites". * "And so if you find that single quote relevant, you would need to write a lengthy segment about her response" * We can simply write her racist comment, followed by "she later publicly apologized for that racist statement". * Can you please affirm that you aren't biased/motivated to defend her image (or the image of the Green Party) from rightful criticism? * "We should draw a big picture about her position but not mention every single quote." * I'm fine, if we write that she repeatedly made grossly racist comments against white people and specifically Jews over the years and apologized after it was brought to light. * I'm not fine with simply sweeping it under the rug or even going one step further and pretending as if she was some blameless victim of the "far-right". * Giving the benefit of the doubt to apologies and being forgiving is one thing. Memory-holing facts that damage some politician's reputation is another. The later is highly fascistic. * --2A00:6020:B3B0:5300:CEA:6715:4D7C:6EFC (talk) 11:57, 13 November 2021 (UTC) * (Note: I have now linked to this talk page from WP:NPOVN and WP:BLPN to seek a wider consensus about this topic. A permanent link to the invitation's wording can be found at Special:Diff/1055030578.) ~ ToBeFree (talk) 12:02, 13 November 2021 (UTC) * "against ... Jews". You are sure you have your facts right and you haven't been fooled by fake news? (translated headline: "Jews and Asians are not people": Alleged post by Sarah-Lee Heinrich is a fake!) ? * I'm trying to get a neutral and balanced article about this person, not a one where she is portrayed by her opponents. * It is really unfair to reduce people to single statements. That's not how you get a neutral and balanced viewpoint. Instead, you need to take more sources into account that consider her political positions as a whole and not just look into single statement. And she was not really in a position of power when she said the statement in question. * And I already explained to you that you need to take the context into account when she said that statement. Just taking those three words out of context is not very helpful either, that is close to fake news, too, especially since she didn't mean it that way. As I said you would need a lengthy paragraph to really explain what she meant by that. (e.g. "disgustingly white majority" is ambiguous, do you attach "disgustingly" to "white" or to "majority"? She clearly was criticizing the dynamics of a majority society, as she later explained, she did not call white people disgusting, although this was how her opponents portrayed it) * It is just not helpful for the overall big picture, because you can find better sources to describe her political positions. --TheRandomIP (talk) 12:27, 13 November 2021 (UTC) * "I'm trying to get a neutral and balanced article about this person, not a one where she is portrayed by her opponents." * Same here, except I do not want the article about this person that is written and cleared by somebody who could as well be her fans and/or party members. * The public has a right to know what kind of views the elected politicians hold. * After I've watched that part of the video, that you've linked, I'm not even sure I would write "she apologized for the statement". Instead I would write similar to what she said: "She regrets that she formulated her position in a way, which was reported as offensive" * She still seems to hold the racist believes and simply wishes to not have been called out for them. Did you link to a wrong time perhaps? * --2A00:6020:B3B0:5300:CEA:6715:4D7C:6EFC (talk) 15:10, 13 November 2021 (UTC) * I can't understand how you came to such a conclusion that she holds "racist believes" after watching the scene I linked. I watched it multiple times and didn't find any indication. And I'm saying this as someone who has been critical of anti-white rhetoric as well for example in Robin DiAngelo style of "white guilt" and "diversity trainings". But Sarah-Lee Heinrich is completely different here, for example she says about such concepts "this is an analysis I do not support". Period. To come to such a conclusion like you one must totally dismiss/ignore any racism (against PoC) and then you can call any attempt to fight against racism a "racism against white people". This is the only way one can come to such a conclusion. So I really question what kind of biases you hold; at least it must be very far from political mainstream. * Anyway you need to find credible sources for your allegations; and I am not aware of a single credible source calling Sarah-Lee Heinrich a racist for her recent statements. That is entirely your PoV. --TheRandomIP (talk) 16:54, 13 November 2021 (UTC) * You need a "credible source" to determine whether someone is a racist or not? Would you need that if someone talked about a disgusting black majority? This racism-apologism doesn't make you look enlightened - it makes you look like a racist 2A00:23C4:BA8F:7301:8978:2B0E:FAC0:8326 (talk) 21:32, 20 August 2022 (UTC) Remove external links Please remove the external links to social media per WP:NOSOCIAL. In this case, I am concerned it's used for harassment as well. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 12:53, 12 November 2021 (UTC) * User:Shushugah, I don't understand: NSOCIAL read by itself says "no social media", but we're talking about the "official" links, the one the subject presumably controls, and we typically use them as official links. Drmies (talk) 15:16, 12 November 2021 (UTC) * That's my read as well; they amount to an official site these days. It needs to be read together with WP:ELYES. Mackensen (talk) 15:18, 12 November 2021 (UTC) * I think we should remove one of the links though per WP:ELMINOFFICIAL. I'd suggest we remove the Instagram one since Twitter links to Instagram but not vice versa. Nil Einne (talk) 12:49, 13 November 2021 (UTC) * Declined for now: There appears to be no consensus for the change; please re-request if this changes. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 12:03, 13 November 2021 (UTC)	WIKI
Lucius Aradius Valerius Proculus Lucius Aradius Valerius Proculus signo Populonius ( 333–352) was a senator and a politician of the Roman Empire, twice praefectus urbi of Rome (in 337–338 and in 351–352) and once consul (in 340). Life He was a vir clarissimus, the lowest rank of senator. His offices were: augur, pontifex major, quindecimvir sacris faciundis, pontifex flavialis, praetor tutelaris, legatus pro praetore in Numidia, peraequator census in Gallaecia, praeses of Byzacena, consularis of Europa and Thracia, consularis of Sicily, comes of the second order, comes of the first order, then proconsul of Africa (before 333). Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus wrote an epigram in his honour. A statue was dedicated to Proculus by the merchants of pig meat and the leather makers; the inscription is preserved in the Museo Nazionale Romano of Palazzo Altemps in Rome. He was appointed praefectus urbi of Rome in 337–338, under Emperor Constans. In 340 he was Consul, with Septimius Acindynus as colleague. Eleven years later, in 351, under the usurper Magnentius, he was appointed praefectus urbi of Rome for the second time, and kept this office until the following year, when Magnentius lost control of Italy. In fiction Proculus is the grandfather of Flavia Vindex, the heroine of a novel, Britanniae, by M. O'Sullivan, set in Britain and published in 2011.	WIKI
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Madhyageha Bhatta The result was d elete. - Mailer Diablo 13:07, 29 March 2007 (UTC) Madhyageha Bhatta * – (View AfD) (View log) Someone's father. Doesn't qualify for an article. S facets 11:08, 24 March 2007 (UTC * Delete While I am sure that this gentleman was wholly devout and worthy, there is no indication in the article of encyclopedic notability. Family links do not of themselves satisfy WP:NN.--Anthony.bradbury 11:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC) * Delete - no assertion of notability given, no reason why we should care. Moreschi Request a recording? 12:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC) * Delete No assertion of notability. Emeraude 14:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)	WIKI
Marko Kitonjics Marko Kitonjics - 1 year ago 40 Java Question How many objects will be eligible for garbage collection? So I've recently been to job interview and was asked the following question. (Actually it was just a test writing, so I couldn't ask any questions) At the end of the main method, how many objects will be eligible for garbage collection? public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Object obj; for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { obj = new Object(); } obj = null; } } (A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 5 I know it's 0 because at least one object ( obj ) will be garbage collected, but I also know that obj is not really the object, it's just a reference to it. So my answer was 5. Is that correct? If not, then why? Answer Your answer 5 is correct. Here total 5 number of objects are created through for loop and all of these will be eligible for garbage collection at the end of the method.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Street Music (album) Street Music is the third studio album by American rapper and Likwit Crew member Defari. It was released on August 8, 2006 via ABB Records. Recording sessions took place at Soundproof, Unsung Studios and Likwit Studio in Los Angeles. Production was handled by Evidence, Mike City, DJ Babu, Superstar Quamallah, Alchemist and E-Swift, with Beni B and Defari serving as executive producers. It features guest appearances from Dilated Peoples, J-Ro, Boo Kapone, B-Real, Threat and Tuffy. Personnel * Duane "Defari" Johnson – vocals, executive producer * Vincent "Tuffy" Morgan – vocals (track 2) * J. "Boo Kapone" Johnson – vocals (track 2) * Michael "Evidence" Peretta – vocals (tracks: 5, 12), producer (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 9, 11) , recording (tracks: 1, 3-5, 9, 11-13) , mixing (track 4) * Noelle Scaggs – additional vocals (tracks: 5, 6) * Corey Lloyd Brown – vocals (track 7) * James "J-Ro" Robinson – vocals (tracks: 7, 10) * Louis "B-Real" Freese – vocals (track 10) * Rakaa "Iriscience" Taylor – vocals (track 12) * Chris "DJ Babu" Oroc – scratches (tracks: 11, 12), producer & recording (tracks: 8, 15) * Michael "Mike City" Flowers – producer (tracks: 2, 6, 10, 14) * Alan "The Alchemist" Maman – producer (track 5) * Eric "E-Swift" Brooks – producer & recording (track 7) * John "Superstar Quamallah" Patton Jr. – producer (tracks: 12, 13) * Francis Graham – recording (track: 2, 6, 10, 14) * Richard "Segal" Huredia – mixing (tracks: 1-3, 5-15) * Gene Grimaldi – mastering * Ben "Beni B" Nickleberry Jr. – executive producer * Justin Herman – cover * Barry Underhill – photography * Tyler Shields – photography * Diane M. Payes – marketing, publicity	WIKI
Bentonville, AR, United States Bentonville, AR, United States VT Systems, also known as Vision Technologies Systems, is an integrated engineering group providing solutions and services in the aerospace, electronics, land systems, and marine sectors. It has 6,300 professional and technical employees. VT Systems is the United States corporate entity of ST Engineering, a global defense contractor. Wikipedia. Time filter Source Type Patent Vision Technologies \| Date: 2016-08-17 A parking occupancy detection system includes a camera and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the camera. The one or more processors are collectively configured to receive an image of a parking region from the camera, wherein the parking region comprises a parking spot, extract an image of the parking spot from the image of the parking region, obtain an image descriptor value of the image of the parking spot, input the image descriptor value into a dynamic classification model, and classify the image descriptor value as occupied or unoccupied based on training data, wherein the training data comprises examples of occupied image descriptor values and unoccupied image descriptor values. Patent Vision Technologies \| Date: 2016-08-24 A camera mount for mounting a camera inside a windshield of a vehicle. The camera includes a lens mount and a camera housing. The front tip of the lens mount is constrained to be in close proximity to or constrained to contact the inside of the windshield for different rake angles of the windshield. Patent Vision Technologies \| Date: 2017-03-29 Systems and methods are provided for detecting an object and causing a vehicle to brake based on the detection. In one implementation, an object detecting and braking system for a vehicle includes at least one image capture device configured to acquire a plurality of images of an area including an object in front of the vehicle. The system includes at least one processing device programmed to perform a first image analysis to determine a first estimated time-to-collision of the vehicle with the object, and to perform a second image analysis to determine a second estimated time-to-collision of the vehicle with the object. The processing device is also programmed to calculate a difference between the first estimated time-to-collision and the second estimated time-to-collision, to determine that the difference does not exceed a predetermined threshold, and to cause the vehicle to brake based on the determination that the difference does not exceed the predetermined threshold. Grant Agency: European Commission \| Branch: H2020 \| Program: SGA-RIA \| Phase: FETFLAGSHIP \| Award Amount: 89.00M \| Year: 2016 This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CSA) under the 7th framework program (2013-2016), while this and the following parts are implemented as Core Projects under the Horizon 2020 framework. The mission of the Graphene Flagship is to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionise multiple industries. This will bring a new dimension to future technology a faster, thinner, stronger, flexible, and broadband revolution. Our program will put Europe firmly at the heart of the process, with a manifold return on the EU investment, both in terms of technological innovation and economic growth. To realise this vision, we have brought together a larger European consortium with about 150 partners in 23 countries. The partners represent academia, research institutes and industries, which work closely together in 15 technical work packages and five supporting work packages covering the entire value chain from materials to components and systems. As time progresses, the centre of gravity of the Flagship moves towards applications, which is reflected in the increasing importance of the higher - system - levels of the value chain. In this first core project the main focus is on components and initial system level tasks. The first core project is divided into 4 divisions, which in turn comprise 3 to 5 work packages on related topics. A fifth, external division acts as a link to the parts of the Flagship that are funded by the member states and associated countries, or by other funding sources. This creates a collaborative framework for the entire Flagship. Patent Vision Technologies \| Date: 2016-09-22 Systems and methods may calibrate an indicator of speed of an autonomous vehicle. In one implementation, a system may include at least one processor programmed to: receive from a camera at least a plurality of images representative of an environment of the vehicle; analyze the plurality of images to identify at least two recognized landmarks; determine, based on known locations of the two recognized landmarks, a value indicative of a distance between the at least two recognized landmarks; determine, based on an output of at least one sensor associated with the autonomous vehicle, a measured distance between the at least two landmarks; determine a correction factor for the at least one sensor based on a comparison of the value indicative of the distance between the at least to recognized landmarks and the measured distance between the at least two landmarks. Patent Vision Technologies \| Date: 2016-09-22 A system for autonomously navigating a vehicle along a road segment is disclosed. The system may have at least one processor. The processor may be programmed to receive from an image capture device at least one image representative of an environment of the vehicle. The processor may also be programmed to analyze the at least one image to identify at least one recognized landmark. Further, the processor may be programmed to determine a current location of the vehicle relative to a predetermined road model trajectory associated with the road segment based, at least in part, on a predetermined location of the recognized landmark. In addition, the processor may be programmed to determine an autonomous steering action for the vehicle based on a direction of the predetermined road model trajectory at the determined current location of the vehicle relative to the predetermined road model trajectory. Patent Vision Technologies \| Date: 2016-09-22 Systems and methods are provided for autonomously navigating a vehicle along a road segment. In one implementation, a system includes at least one processor programmed to receive from a camera at least one image representative of an environment of the vehicle. The at least one image may be analyzed to identify at least one recognized landmark based upon one or more landmark group characteristics associated with a group of recognized landmarks. The current location of the vehicle relative to a predetermined road model trajectory associated with the road segment may be determined based, at least in part, on a predetermined location of the recognized landmark. An autonomous steering action for the vehicle may be determined based on a direction of the predetermined road model trajectory at the determined current location of the vehicle relative to the predetermined road model trajectory. Patent Vision Technologies \| Date: 2016-09-22 A system for autonomously navigating a vehicle along a road segment may be based on a predetermined landmark location. The system may include at least one processor programmed to receive from a camera, at least one image representative of an environment of the vehicle, and determine a position of the vehicle along a predetermined road model trajectory associated with the road segment based, at least in part, on information associated with the at least one image. The at least one processor may be further programmed to identify a recognized landmark forward of the vehicle based on the determined position, wherein the recognized landmark is beyond a sight range of the camera, and determine a current distance between the vehicle and the recognized landmark by comparing the determined position of the vehicle with a predetermined position of the recognized landmark. The at least one processor may also be programmed to determine an autonomous navigational response for the vehicle based on the determined current distance. Patent Vision Technologies \| Date: 2016-09-22 A method of processing vehicle navigation information for use in autonomous vehicle navigation is provided. The method includes receiving, by a server, navigation information from a plurality of vehicles. The navigation information from the plurality of vehicles is associated with a common road segment. The method also includes storing, by the server, the navigation information associated with the common road segment. The method also includes generating, by the server, at least a portion of an autonomous vehicle road navigation model for the common road segment based on the navigation information from the plurality of vehicles. The method further includes distributing, by the server, the autonomous vehicle road navigation model to one or more autonomous vehicles for use in autonomously navigating the one or more autonomous vehicles along the common road segment. Patent Vision Technologies \| Date: 2016-09-22 A system for autonomously navigating a vehicle is disclosed. The system may include at least one processor and the at least one processor may be programmed to receive from a rearward facing camera, at least one image representing an area at a rear of the vehicle and analyze the at least one rearward facing image to locate in the image a representation of at least one landmark. The at least one processor may be further programmed to determine at least one indicator of position of the landmark relative to the vehicle and determine a forward trajectory for the vehicle based, at least in part, upon the indicator of position of the landmark relative to the vehicle. Additionally, the at least one processor may be programmed to cause the vehicle to navigate along the determined forward trajectory. Loading Vision Technologies collaborators Loading Vision Technologies collaborators	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Andrew Haddow Andrew Sorbie Haddow (8 April 1903 – 1979) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an inside forward. He earned a total of 15 goals in his 37 appearances throughout his career.	WIKI
Active Directory Error Codes - Documentation topics on: active directory,cms integration with active directory,directory service,. Active Directory Error Codes When authentication fails while using Active Directory with your dotCMS LDAP configuration, Active Directory returns its own error codes to indicate the reason for the failure; you must retrieve and handle or display these errors appropriately. Below are some of the most common errors you may receive, including example error messages and reasons for the error. 525 - user not found Returned when an invalid username is supplied. 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09030B, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 525, v893 HEX: 0x525 - user not found DEC: 1317 - ERROR_NO_SUCH_USER (The specified account does not exist.) 52e - invalid credentials Returned when a valid username is supplied but an invalid password/credential is supplied. If this error is received, it will prevent most other errors from being displayed. 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09030B, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 52e, v893 HEX: 0x52e - invalid credentials DEC: 1326 - ERROR_LOGON_FAILURE (Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.) 530 - not permitted to logon at this time Returned when a valid username and password/credential are supplied during times when login is restricted. 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09030B, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 530, v893 HEX: 0x530 - not permitted to logon at this time DEC: 1328 - ERROR_INVALID_LOGON_HOURS (Logon failure: account logon time restriction violation.) 531 - not permitted to logon from this workstation Returned when a valid username and password/credential are supplied, but the user is restriced from using the workstation where the login was attempted. 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09030B, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 531, v893 HEX: 0x531 - not permitted to logon from this workstation DEC: 1329 - ERROR_INVALID_WORKSTATION (Logon failure: user not allowed to log on to this computer.) LDAP[userWorkstations: <multivalued list of workstation names>] 532 - password expired Returned when a valid username is supplied, and the supplied password is valid but expired. 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09030B, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 532, v893 HEX: 0x532 - password expired DEC: 1330 - ERROR_PASSWORD_EXPIRED (Logon failure: the specified account password has expired.) LDAP[userAccountControl: <bitmask=0x00800000>] - PASSWORDEXPIRED 533 - account disabled Returned when a valid username and password/credential are supplied but the account has been disabled. 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09030B, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 533, v893 HEX: 0x533 - account disabled DEC: 1331 - ERROR_ACCOUNT_DISABLED (Logon failure: account currently disabled.) LDAP[userAccountControl: <bitmask=0x00000002>] - ACCOUNTDISABLE 701 - account expired Returned when a valid username and password/credential are supplied but the account has expired. 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09030B, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 701, v893 HEX: 0x701 - account expired DEC: 1793 - ERROR_ACCOUNT_EXPIRED (The user's account has expired.) LDAP[accountExpires: <value of -1, 0, or extemely large value indicates account will not expire>] - ACCOUNTEXPIRED 773 - user must reset password Returned when a valid username and password/credential are supplied, but the user must change their password immediately (before logging in for the first time, or after the password was reset by an administrator). 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09030B, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 773, v893 HEX: 0x773 - user must reset password DEC: 1907 - ERROR_PASSWORD_MUST_CHANGE (The user's password must be changed before logging on the first time.) LDAP[pwdLastSet: <value of 0 indicates admin-required password change>] - MUST_CHANGE_PASSWD 775 - account locked out Returned when a valid username is supplied, but the account is locked out. Note that this error will be returned regardless of whether or not the password is invalid. 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09030B, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 775, v893 HEX: 0x775 - account locked out DEC: 1909 - ERROR_ACCOUNT_LOCKED_OUT (The referenced account is currently locked out and may not be logged on to.) LDAP[userAccountControl: <bitmask=0x00000010>] - LOCKOUT	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
RubyMine 2018.3 tries to start already running Docker container when running a test, then kills it Answered I have a project with a docker-compose.yml file containing a "web" service. When I attempt to run a test from within RubyMine, I see the following output: Testing started at 09:59 ... /usr/local/bin/docker-compose -f /Users/jy/Development/@Rails/project/docker-compose.yml -f /Users/jy/Library/Caches/RubyMine2018.3/tmp/docker-compose.override.35.yml up --exit-code-from web --abort-on-container-exit web ERROR: 2 matches found based on name: network project_default is ambiguous But the web service is already up and running, as I need to access it from the command line as well. RubyMine is not only causing problems by insisting on starting the service itself, but the "--abort-on-container-exit" is killing an already running container, meaning I can no longer access the dev site in the browser until I manually restart it. RubyMine should really use the logic "if container is not already running, then start the container, else skip to just running the test" here — the only command it needs to run is /usr/local/bin/docker-compose web bundle exec rspec (Note that the page at https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ruby/using-docker-compose-as-a-remote-interpreter.html has sections for "running your application under Docker-Compose" and "debugging your application under Docker-Compose", but not "testing your application under Docker-Compose". If there's any special configuration that needs to be done, it would be useful to mention it in there!) Even when I do manage to get it to actually try running a test using docker-compose, it fails because it can't load teamcity/spec/runner/formatter/teamcity/formatter. This appears to be stored in the RubyMine application, and RubyMine does not appear to make any effort to move it into the Docker service. How do I manually install this? I'm having to go back to running tests from the command line, which is a major pain, especially since the context menu in "Structure" doesn't seem to have way of copying the full name of the test (in the screenshot, I would expect to have "Issues with an Admin-level user when listing issues with no issues shows a message" on my clipboard). Please tell me there's a better way than this… 4 comments Comment actions Permalink I've started to learn how to use Docker, and this has been a bit of a road-block for me. Glad to see that it's being worked on. 1 Comment actions Permalink Hello John, we have a corresponding request for supporting stateful containers, that would help in your case: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RUBY-19849 0 Comment actions Permalink Thanks — is there at least a way for me to remove "--abort-on-container-exit" from the flags that RubyMine passes? 0 Comment actions Permalink Hello John, unfortunately at the moment it's not possible so please add your vote to RUBY-19849. 0 Please sign in to leave a comment.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
User:Eml4500.f08.team.dwyer.jd/HW7 Nov 17 (Meeting 35) Frame Elements * Frame element = truss(bar) element + beam element * A truss has axial deformation * A beam has transverse deformation (bends) Model Frame Problem with 2 Elements: FBD's: * Because the connection between the two elements is rigid, the angle between them will stay constant after deformation. The free body diagrams of each element is shown below: $$ rotational dofs and $$\left.\begin{matrix}f_{3}^{(e)}\\ f_{6}^{(e)} \end{matrix}\right\} $$ bending moments * Where $$\left.\begin{matrix}d_{3}^{(e)}\\ d_{6}^{(e)}\end{matrix}\right\} 2-D Frame Global DOF's: There are now 9 total degrees of freedom, so: * 2 element stiffness matrix: $$\underline{k}_{(6x6)}^{(e)}$$, e=1,2 * Global stiffness matrix: $$\underline{k}_{(9x9)}=A\underline{k}_{(6x6)}^{(e)}$$ The 9x9 global stiffness matrix will now look like this:	WIKI
Trump, Michael Moore in 'not at all presidential' spat Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and filmmaker Michael Moore have gotten into a Twitter spat following the closure of Moore's one-man show on Broadway. It all began when Trump tweeted that Moore's Broadway show was "sloppy." "While not at all presidential I must point out that the Sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close. Sad!" he said. Moore, whose show "The Terms of My Surrender" closed last weekend, fired back with a dozen tweets. "You must have my smash hit of a Broadway show confused with your presidency -- which IS a total bomb and WILL indeed close early. NOT SAD," one tweet read. The show, which had a 12-week limited run, will hit the road next year, Moore says. The run was limited due to commitments to a new movie and an "upcoming prime time TV series," he said on Twitter. However, "The Terms of My Surrender" grossed less than half of its potential on most weeks, according to Playbill.com. Earlier this summer Moore announced he was working on a movie about Trump, titled "Fahrenheit 11/9," a reference to his famous film "Fahrenheit 9/11," about the George W. Bush presidency and the war on terrorism. Moore, who is liberal, has been vocal about his opposition to Trump. He released a pro-Hillary Clinton documentary, "TrumpLand," just prior to the election. "On Broadway, Donald, they call it a 'LIMITED ENGAGEMENT' -- just like we're planning on making your presidency," Moore tweeted near the end of his Twitter response. He capped it off with a photo of himself with Trump son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner and pictures of crowds attending his show.	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
Page:The empire and the century.djvu/75 , seem to be three essentials in any experiment Till the principle has been generally accepted, detailed schemes are simply a waste of time, but it is worth while to get our minds quite clear on the necessary elements of any plan. From the discussions on the subject in recent years three separate proposals have emerged. The first is for the creation of a permanent Imperial Committee, a Committee of the Privy Council, to which the Crown, in the exercise of its prerogative right, could add such new Privy Councillors from the Colonies as it thought fit. This body would be purely advisory, and would at the same time have under it a permanent Bureau of Imperial Intelligence, which could amass and codify the kind of information in which we are all too deficient. The second is for an enlarged Cabinet, a kind of second Cabinet, for Imperial questions. The Crown can summon whom it will to its Cabinet, and in the old days it used its prerogative in the choice of its advisers. The same power could now be put into force, on the advice of Ministers, to enlarge the Cabinet by the addition of colonial statesmen. Such a body would have both advisory and direct executive powers, and would have the merit of possessing an infinite capacity for development should an altered relationship between the Mother Country and the Colonies make it desirable to separate the two Cabinets. But it would have no representative character, and no chance of acquiring one. This defect is remedied in a third scheme, the periodical Conference of Colonial Premiers. Its drawback is found in the fat that it has no permanent organization, no executive powers, and that it is quite unconnected with our constitutional machinery, a sporadic institution whose effectiveness depends mainly upon accident. All three schemes are imperfect, but in combination they seem to supplement each other. The most promising, nucleus is the Conference of Premiers. For this is, in a true sense, 'representative'—it is the Colonies in person, and of their own initiative, coming to our	WIKI
Page:Small Souls (1919).djvu/262 254 that the guests were sometimes entirely unknown to one another: wasn’t it the same at Bertha’s party? Yes, Bertha had given two evening-parties, in order to separate the elements; but hadn’t the family found fault with this? Was there nothing but fault-finding and criticizing in the family; and did none think right what another did? Gerrit and Paul were now sitting beside her; and she heard them talking, condemning, criticizing, ridiculing. “Poor, dear Mother: she’s quite bewildered!” “I say, Paul, are you allowing yourself to be introduced to Dijkerhof’s uncles and aunts?” “I’m not going to be introduced to another soul,” said Paul, wearily blinking his eyes. “I’m here to make studies. The only way to amuse yourself in a Noah’s ark like this party of Adolphine’s is to make studies of the animal side of mankind. Look at Mrs. Bruys eating her cake with an almost animal satisfaction. Look at that uncle of Dijkerhof’s dancing with Van Saetzema’s cousin: it’s almost disgusting.” “Paul,” said Constance, “I’ve known you wittier than you are to-night.” “My dear sister, I feel myself growing dull here. The figures and colours swarm before my eyes so hideously as really to cause me physical pain. My God, the charm of our modern life, the charm at an evening-party of Adolphine’s: where is it, where is it?” “It’s gone, it’s gone!” Gerrit noisily declaimed. “Adolphine’s charm is gone!”	WIKI
/- SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD * * Copyright (c) 2003-2007, Joseph Koshy * Copyright (c) 2007 The FreeBSD Foundation * All rights reserved. * * Portions of this software were developed by A. Joseph Koshy under * sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation and Google, Inc. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. * * $FreeBSD$ / / * PMC interface used by the base kernel. / #ifndef _SYS_PMCKERN_H_ #define _SYS_PMCKERN_H_ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define PMC_FN_PROCESS_EXEC 1 #define PMC_FN_CSW_IN 2 #define PMC_FN_CSW_OUT 3 #define PMC_FN_DO_SAMPLES 4 #define PMC_FN_UNUSED1 5 #define PMC_FN_UNUSED2 6 #define PMC_FN_MMAP 7 #define PMC_FN_MUNMAP 8 #define PMC_FN_USER_CALLCHAIN 9 #define PMC_FN_USER_CALLCHAIN_SOFT 10 #define PMC_FN_SOFT_SAMPLING 11 #define PMC_FN_THR_CREATE 12 #define PMC_FN_THR_EXIT 13 #define PMC_FN_THR_USERRET 14 #define PMC_FN_THR_CREATE_LOG 15 #define PMC_FN_THR_EXIT_LOG 16 #define PMC_FN_PROC_CREATE_LOG 17 typedef enum ring_type { PMC_HR = 0, / Hardware ring buffer / PMC_SR = 1, / Software ring buffer / PMC_UR = 2, / userret ring buffer / PMC_NUM_SR = PMC_UR+1 } ring_type_t; struct pmckern_procexec { int pm_credentialschanged; uintfptr_t pm_entryaddr; }; struct pmckern_map_in { void pm_file; /* filename or vnode pointer / uintfptr_t pm_address; / address object is loaded at / }; struct pmckern_map_out { uintfptr_t pm_address; / start address of region / size_t pm_size; / size of unmapped region / }; struct pmckern_soft { enum pmc_event pm_ev; int pm_cpu; struct trapframe pm_tf; }; /* * Soft PMC. / #define PMC_SOFT_DEFINE_EX(prov, mod, func, name, alloc, release) \ struct pmc_soft pmc_##prov##_##mod##_##func##_##name = \ { 0, alloc, release, { #prov "_" #mod "_" #func "." #name, 0 } }; \ SYSINIT(pmc_##prov##_##mod##_##func##_##name##_init, SI_SUB_KDTRACE, \ SI_ORDER_SECOND + 1, pmc_soft_ev_register, \ &pmc_##prov##_##mod##_##func##_##name ); \ SYSUNINIT(pmc_##prov##_##mod##_##func##_##name##_uninit, \ SI_SUB_KDTRACE, SI_ORDER_SECOND + 1, pmc_soft_ev_deregister, \ &pmc_##prov##_##mod##_##func##_##name ) #define PMC_SOFT_DEFINE(prov, mod, func, name) \ PMC_SOFT_DEFINE_EX(prov, mod, func, name, NULL, NULL) #define PMC_SOFT_DECLARE(prov, mod, func, name) \ extern struct pmc_soft pmc_##prov##_##mod##_##func##_##name / * PMC_SOFT_CALL can be used anywhere in the kernel. * Require md defined PMC_FAKE_TRAPFRAME. / #ifdef PMC_FAKE_TRAPFRAME #define PMC_SOFT_CALL(pr, mo, fu, na) \ do { \ if (__predict_false(pmc_##pr##_##mo##_##fu##_##na.ps_running)) { \ struct pmckern_soft ks; \ register_t intr; \ intr = intr_disable(); \ PMC_FAKE_TRAPFRAME(&pmc_tf[curcpu]); \ ks.pm_ev = pmc_##pr##_##mo##_##fu##_##na.ps_ev.pm_ev_code; \ ks.pm_cpu = PCPU_GET(cpuid); \ ks.pm_tf = &pmc_tf[curcpu]; \ PMC_CALL_HOOK_UNLOCKED(curthread, \ PMC_FN_SOFT_SAMPLING, (void ) &ks); \ intr_restore(intr); \ } \ } while (0) #else #define PMC_SOFT_CALL(pr, mo, fu, na) \ do { \ } while (0) #endif /* * PMC_SOFT_CALL_TF need to be used carefully. * Userland capture will be done during AST processing. / #define PMC_SOFT_CALL_TF(pr, mo, fu, na, tf) \ do { \ if (__predict_false(pmc_##pr##_##mo##_##fu##_##na.ps_running)) { \ struct pmckern_soft ks; \ register_t intr; \ intr = intr_disable(); \ ks.pm_ev = pmc_##pr##_##mo##_##fu##_##na.ps_ev.pm_ev_code; \ ks.pm_cpu = PCPU_GET(cpuid); \ ks.pm_tf = tf; \ PMC_CALL_HOOK_UNLOCKED(curthread, \ PMC_FN_SOFT_SAMPLING, (void ) &ks); \ intr_restore(intr); \ } \ } while (0) struct pmc_soft { int ps_running; void (ps_alloc)(void); void (ps_release)(void); struct pmc_dyn_event_descr ps_ev; }; struct pmclog_buffer; struct pmc_domain_buffer_header { struct mtx pdbh_mtx; TAILQ_HEAD(, pmclog_buffer) pdbh_head; struct pmclog_buffer pdbh_plbs; int pdbh_ncpus; } __aligned(CACHE_LINE_SIZE); / hook / extern int (pmc_hook)(struct thread _td, int _function, void _arg); extern int (pmc_intr)(struct trapframe _frame); /* SX lock protecting the hook / extern struct sx pmc_sx; / Per-cpu flags indicating availability of sampling data / DPCPU_DECLARE(uint8_t, pmc_sampled); / Count of system-wide sampling PMCs in existence / extern volatile int pmc_ss_count; / kernel version number / extern const int pmc_kernel_version; / PMC soft per cpu trapframe / extern struct trapframe pmc_tf[MAXCPU]; / per domain buffer header list / extern struct pmc_domain_buffer_header pmc_dom_hdrs[MAXMEMDOM]; /* Quick check if preparatory work is necessary / #define PMC_HOOK_INSTALLED(cmd) __predict_false(pmc_hook != NULL) / Hook invocation; for use within the kernel / #define PMC_CALL_HOOK(t, cmd, arg) \ do { \ struct epoch_tracker et; \ epoch_enter_preempt(global_epoch_preempt, &et); \ if (pmc_hook != NULL) \ (pmc_hook)((t), (cmd), (arg)); \ epoch_exit_preempt(global_epoch_preempt, &et); \ } while (0) / Hook invocation that needs an exclusive lock / #define PMC_CALL_HOOK_X(t, cmd, arg) \ do { \ sx_xlock(&pmc_sx); \ if (pmc_hook != NULL) \ (pmc_hook)((t), (cmd), (arg)); \ sx_xunlock(&pmc_sx); \ } while (0) / * Some hook invocations (e.g., from context switch and clock handling * code) need to be lock-free. / #define PMC_CALL_HOOK_UNLOCKED(t, cmd, arg) \ do { \ if (pmc_hook != NULL) \ (pmc_hook)((t), (cmd), (arg)); \ } while (0) #define PMC_SWITCH_CONTEXT(t,cmd) PMC_CALL_HOOK_UNLOCKED(t,cmd,NULL) / Check if a process is using HWPMCs./ #define PMC_PROC_IS_USING_PMCS(p) \ (__predict_false(p->p_flag & P_HWPMC)) #define PMC_THREAD_HAS_SAMPLES(td) \ (__predict_false((td)->td_pmcpend)) / Check if a thread have pending user capture. / #define PMC_IS_PENDING_CALLCHAIN(p) \ (__predict_false((p)->td_pflags & TDP_CALLCHAIN)) #define PMC_SYSTEM_SAMPLING_ACTIVE() (pmc_ss_count > 0) / Check if a CPU has recorded samples. / #define PMC_CPU_HAS_SAMPLES(C) (__predict_false(DPCPU_ID_GET((C), pmc_sampled))) / * Helper functions. / int pmc_cpu_is_disabled(int _cpu); / deprecated / int pmc_cpu_is_active(int _cpu); int pmc_cpu_is_present(int _cpu); int pmc_cpu_is_primary(int _cpu); unsigned int pmc_cpu_max(void); #ifdef INVARIANTS int pmc_cpu_max_active(void); #endif / * Soft events functions. / void pmc_soft_ev_register(struct pmc_soft ps); void pmc_soft_ev_deregister(struct pmc_soft ps); struct pmc_soft pmc_soft_ev_acquire(enum pmc_event ev); void pmc_soft_ev_release(struct pmc_soft ps); #endif / _SYS_PMCKERN_H_ */	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
FALSE: DO NOT SHARE Claim: COVID-19 can be treated by reducing blood clots. Answer: Unconfirmed. COVID-19 usually expresses itself as a moderate respiratory illness. FURTHER INFORMATION A YouTube video shows South African doctor Dr Jaco Laubscher, making the case that Covid-19 is a primarily a vascular rather than respiratory illness. Dr Laubscher outlines how coronavirus infection activates a platelet storm in patients’ blood stream in the lungs, triggering a runaway clotting reaction that leads to small blood vessels in the lungs becoming clogged. Dr Laubscher claims that this means that putting patients on ventilators is ineffective and can instead be treated with enzymes to counteract the effects. This is unconfirmed. While there does appear to be some impact on the cardiovascular system and blood clotting in some patients from coronavirus infection, according to the WHO COVID-19 usually expresses itself as a moderate respiratory illness in patients. The use of thrombolysis treatments to reduce blood clots has not been verified in clinical trials. Dr Behnood Bikdeli from Columbia University in New York City has observed that COVID-19 “is like a storm of blood clots” in patients. Dr Lax from Medical University Graz said that while it is “not clear” whether the coronavirus causes blood clots in patients, anticoagulants have been used effectively to treat some COVID-19 patients. Research by the University of Utah has shown that hyperactive platelets may cause heart attacks and strokes in COVID-19 patients. Dr Jaco Laubscher is a cardiology and intensive care specialist from Stellenbosch Mediclinic outside of Cape Town, South Africa. Some of his fellow haematologists from the University of Cape Town in South Africa have cast doubt over Dr Laubscher’s claims, saying that although they agree that COVID-19 appears to have some effect on blood clotting, Dr Laubscher’s treatment with enzymes should be avoided until more is known about COVID-19 and a clinical trial has been conducted. Administering anticoagulants can be dangerous as it can thin the blood and cause bleeding. SOURCES World Health Organization (WHO): Coronavirus, Overview Dr Sigurd Lax in The Scientist, ‘Autopsies Indicate Blood Clots Are Lethal in COVID-19’ by Ashley Yeager Representatives for Haematology at the Universities of Cape Town and Witwatersrand in Retail Brief Africa, ‘Concerns raised about thrombolysis and dual antiplatelet therapy in COVID-19’ Dr Behnood Bikdeli in Nature, ‘Coronavirus blood-clot mystery intensifies’ University of Utah Health in Science News, ‘COVID-19 causes ‘hyperactivity’ in blood-clotting cells’ Origins of Claim FULL TEXT OF CLAIM “This video explains why Covid 19 is a vascular and not a respiratory disease and suggests a treatment protocol that works. In essence Covid 19 effects a vulnerable endothelium which leads to hyper-coagulability and impaired fibrinolysis. Management of the hyper-coagulable state by TEG and PFA is imperative. These are the findings of Stellenbosch based physician Dr Jaco Laubscher and anaesthetist Dr Johan Lourens.” FALSE: DO NOT SHARE	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Date of Award 5-1993 Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Master of Science in Vision Science Committee Chair Dennis L. Smith Abstract The performance and cost effectiveness of two automatic refractors with subjective refinement capability was evaluated. Using a group of 125 patients, the results of the objective autorefraction and its subjective refinement by a technician were compared to the results of a conventional subjective examination. The objective autorefraction spherical equivalent differed from the conventional subjective by 0.50 D or less in 72% of eyes for the Humphrey 570, and 85% of eyes for the Marco 1600. The subjective refinement of the autorefraction resulted in a spherical equivalent difference of 0.50 D or less in 80% of eyes for the Humphrey and 84% of eyes for the Marco. The cylinder power difference was similar for both instruments and was 0.50 D or Jess in 82% of all eyes for objective autorefraction and 89% after subjective refinement. Objective autorefraction axis differences were generally small and were also similar for both instruments. There was no improvement in axis accuracy after subjective refinement. While subjective refinement did improve the accuracy of the autorefractors, the improvements were modest and probably not significant from a clinical standpoint. Even with subjective refinement, the instruments yielded large errors for some eyes. A cost analysis revealed the following: for a military clinic seeing 2000 patients per year, the autorefractors must save the practitioner 5.3 minutes per exam to be cost effective. This dropped to 3.6 minutes for the Marco, and 3.8 minutes for the Humphrey for a clinic seeing 6000 patients per year. If the instrument saves less than 3 minutes of examination time, then the technology is not cost effective regardless of patient volume. Included in Optometry Commons Share COinS	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Malyk Hamilton Malyk Hamilton (born September 2, 1999) is a Canadian professional soccer player who most recently played for North Carolina FC of USL League One. Early career Hamilton began playing soccer in Calgary with Calgary Northern Hills, before moving on to Calgary Deerfoot and then Calgary Southwest United. West Ham United Hamilton joined the West Ham United Academy at the U-12 level and made 25 appearances in the U-18 Premier League. He also made a brief appearance in the Premier League 2. In March 2018, Hamilton left West Ham. Toronto FC II Shortly after leaving West Ham, Hamilton signed with Toronto FC II. On December 20, 2018 Hamilton was released by Toronto FC. Cavalry FC On March 6, 2019 Hamilton signed with his hometown Canadian Premier League club Cavalry FC. Hamilton would not be listed on Cavalry's training camp roster for the 2020 season, ending his time with the club after one season. Atlético Ottawa On March 6, 2020, Hamilton signed with Atlético Ottawa. He made his debut on August 15 against York9. In the shortened 2020 season, he played in every single minute of action for the club. North Carolina FC On February 22, 2021, Hamilton signed with North Carolina FC of USL League One. Upon completion of the 2021 season, North Carolina would announce that Hamilton's option would not be picked up, making him a free agent. International career In October 2016, Hamilton made his debut and scored in a Canada U18 game, led by Rob Gale. Personal life Hamilton was born in Calgary, Alberta. He is a cousin of English professional footballers Marvin Bartley and Mitchell Thomas. Honours Calvary FC * Canadian Premier League Finals * Runners-up: 2019 * Canadian Premier League (Regular season): * Champions: Spring 2019, Fall 2019	WIKI
Adele Island (Western Australia) Adele Island is an island located in the Indian Ocean approximately 104 km North of Ardyaloon off the Kimberley coast in Western Australia. Description The island is fish-hook shaped and has a length of 2.9 km and a width of 1.6 km and a total area of 217 ha. It is low-lying and surrounded by extensive sandbanks lying over a limestone platform forming a large lagoon. History Nicolas Baudin named the island in 1801 as part of his expedition around Australia. The name of the island was first charted on the Freycinet Map of 1811. It was declared a Nature Reserve in 2001 in recognition of its status as a bird breeding sanctuary. Since then the Department of Environment and Conservation has embarked on a campaign to eradicate the island of the Polynesian Rats that are a constant threat to the native seabirds. An acetylene-powered lighthouse was built on the island in 1951 it was later upgraded to solar power in 1985. Birds The island is classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area for its seabirds and waders. As well as breeding cormorants and Australian pelicans, globally important bird species breeding or staging on the island are lesser frigatebird with 2000-5700 breeding pairs, brown booby with 1500-8500 breeding pairs, grey-tailed tattler with up to 5500 individuals, and red-necked stint with up to 4100 individuals. Rolloliths Rollolith is also found in Adele Island. It is the basic name given to benthic creatures. Rolloliths can be made of barnacles (balanuliths); coral (corallith); vermetulid worms (vermetuliths); red crustose coralline green growth (rhodolith); or bryozoans (bryoliths).	WIKI
Instagram to allow users to download their data (Reuters) - Facebook Inc’s Instagram will soon allow its users to download a copy of all the content they have uploaded on the photo-sharing platform, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The disclosure comes amid global concerns about the privacy of users’ information on social media platforms and the amount of user data that companies keep. While Facebook has allowed its users to download their photos, messages, clicked advertisements and a log of all their activity on the social networking platform since at least 2010, Instagram has lacked any such feature. “We are building a new data portability tool,” an Instagram spokesman said via email. The tool will allow users to download data including their photos, videos and messages, he added. If the tool is launched before May 25, it will help Instagram comply with upcoming European privacy laws that require data portability, technology news website TechCrunch, which first reported the news on Wednesday, said. Instagram, which has some 800 million users worldwide, did not say when it expects to launch the tool. Separately on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered questions from U.S. lawmakers about data privacy in the wake of revelations last month that several millions of Facebook users’ personal data was wrongly harvested from the platform by Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy. Reporting by Munsif Vengattil in Bengaluru; Editing by Sai Sachin Ravikumar	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
One of these days Microsoft will release a version of .NET where we don’t have to worry about memory. HA! Who am I kidding!? All you worry about in a .NET application is the memory. Naturally, I personally never want Microsoft to come out with the memory worry free .NET because I’d be out of a job. With SOS for .NET 4.5, there’s not a whole lot different but there are two differences that will be valuable. The first are two new options to the most important SOS command, !dumpheap. One of the big problems in dealing with those minidumps from production systems is trying to figure out which objects are rooted, meaning have references and cannot be garbage collected, and those objects that are ready for garbage collection. That problem is easy to solve with the new –live and –dead options. Get in the habit now of always passing –live when you first do that initial !dumpheap –stat because that’s all you care about! Here’s an example output comparing the differences reported by –stat alone, -live, and –dead. 1. >0:000 !dumpheap stat 2. . . . 3. 000007feefedadd8 21567 2616488 System.Object[] 4. 000007feeff34198 336164 8067936 System.Int32 5. Total 509034 objects 6. 7. >0:000 !dumpheap stat live 8. . . . 9. 000007feefedadd8 135 285048 System.Object[] 10. 000007feeff2d8f0 19703 472872 System.WeakReference 11. Total 22711 objects 12. 13. >0:000 !dumpheap stat dead 14. . . . 15. 000007feefedadd8 21432 2331440 System.Object[] 16. 000007feeff34198 336158 8067792 System.Int32 17. Total 486286 objects What I haven’t been able to figure out is that the total objects between live and dead objects never add up to the total shown when looking at all objects with just the –stat switch. Doing some experimentation the output for –live looks valid so I’m going to trust it for now. I’ll talk to the CLR team and see if this is a bug or there’s a real reason for the discrepancy. It’s not like an object could be alive and dead at the same time… unless it was a ZOMBIE! No matter, the –live switch looks fantastic and will save everyone a huge amount of time. Since everyone is not moving over to .NET 4.5 immediately, I tried like crazy to see if I could get the .NET 4.5 SOS version working with minidumps from .NET 4.0. Nothing I tried and no amount of playing around with .cordll to load the MSCORDACWKS.DLL from .NET 4.0 would work. Do yourself a favor now and make sure you save off SOS.DLL, CLR.DLL, and MSCORDACWKS.DLL from a pure .NET 4.0 installation because .NET 4.5 is on top of .NET 4.0. I’ll keep working on trying more tricks to get !dumpheap –live working with .NET 4.0. The second SOS command to get some development love is !clrstack. There’s a new experimental option –i, which uses the CLR Debugging API’s ICorDebug interface to walk stacks and show variable names very much like the !mk command in SOSEX. It’s very important that to use !clrstack –i you have the _NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable set to include the public Microsoft symbol server. SOS needs access to MSCORDBI.DLL through the symbol server download even though that DLL is in the framework directory along with SOS.DLL. Running !clrstack –a –i will show output like the following snippet. What you can’t see is that the output is that it’s fully DML ready. 1. 00000000002fdca0 000007feefda060f [DEFAULT] [hasThis] Object System.Delegate.DynamicInvokeImpl(SZArray Object) (C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_64\mscorlib\v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\mscorlib.dll) 2. 3. PARAMETERS: 4. + (Error 0x80131304 retrieving parameter 'this') 5. + (Error 0x80131304 retrieving parameter 'args') 6. 7. LOCALS: 8. + (Error 0x80004005 retrieving local variable 'local_0') 9. + (Error 0x80004005 retrieving local variable 'local_1') You are probably wondering where the actual values are. Just like !mk, when it’s JIT optimized code we can’t get the values. That doesn’t make !clrstack –i any less valuable because at least it shows you the types so you can use !dso, or !mdso from SOSEX, to look them up. To turn off the JIT optimizations, you’d have to either run the whole application with the COMPLUS_ZAPDISABLE environment variable or turn it off for an individual assembly with the INI file trick. The new –live and –dead options for !dumpheap and the –i for !clrstack are the most important additions, but there are a few more worth mentioning. The !bpmd command now supports setting breakpoints on a source and line if you have the PDB file for the assembly loaded. If you’re doing heavy interop, the new !dumprcw, which dumps a Runtime Callable Wrapper, and !dumpccw, which dumps a COM Callable Wrapper, look helpful. The new SOS for .NET 4.5 is nice, but wait until you see the new version of SOSEX!	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Tré Cool Tré Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright III on December 9, 1972, in Frankfurt, Germany) is the drummer of Green Day. Quotes * Rock and roll outfits, commence! * Bullet in a Bible (2005) (backstage in England). * I can count to four and repeat. I'm a drummer. * Bullet in a Bible (2005) (on the tour bus). * Roll, roll, roll a joint, twist it at the ends [pause] Light it up and take a puff and pass it to your friends. * Sang to the tune of Row Your Boat Bullet in a Bible (2005) (on the tour bus). * Tré Cool plays the drums in Green Day, and he snorts [he sniffs] donut sprinkles, and [wipes his nose] . . . oh, that's a sweet drain. * Bullet in a Bible (2005) (in an interview). * I get mad when people are against pot. * http://www.hightimes.com/ht/entertainment/content.php?bid=200&aid=24. * No man can eat 50 eggs! * Bullet in a Bible (2005) (backstage in England)(quoting cool hand luke). * I don't want you to get the wrong idea. Not all liberals smoke lettuce! * Bullet in a Bible (2005) (backstage in England). * I can suck my own! * 2007 Fuse TV Special "Green Day 100%". * Condoms are for sailors * 2007 Fuse TV Special "Green Day 100%". * Get it in ya! Chocolate milk, bitch! * Idiot Club video. * You know, I'm just gonna take your microphone, and stick in the microwave, and turn it on.* * Idiot Club video * I'm the finger fucker. * 2009 Studio Brussel interview	WIKI
Is 67 too old to donate a kidney? Kidney transplants performed using organs from live donors over the age of 70 are safe for the donors and lifesaving for the recipients, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. Can a 70 year old person donate a kidney? How Old Is Too Old? At many institutions, donors over the age of 60, 65, or even 70 are considered on a case-by-case basis. Between 1990 and 2010, 219 people over the age of 70 donated kidneys, and researchers say the number of donors in this age group is on the rise. Can you be too old to donate a kidney? You would typically be between the ages of 18 and 60 years, and you must be free of any diseases that could affect the health of the person receiving the kidney. A specialist medical team will test to make sure you are a matching blood and tissue type. A close match is more likely with genetically related donors. What is the oldest you can be for a kidney transplant? Study: Kidneys from donors aged 70 years or older are viable for transplant. What disqualifies a kidney donor? There are some medical conditions that could prevent you from being a living donor . These include having uncontrolled high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, HIV, hepatitis, or acute infections . Having a serious mental health condition that requires treatment may also prevent you from being a donor . Why you should not donate a kidney? Long-Term/Medical Risks Other complications that may occur in the long-term following surgery to donate a kidney include: Developing a disease that could affect the function of the remaining kidney such as: Diabetes. High blood pressure. Who can O positive donate kidney to? Donors with blood type O… can donate to recipients with blood types A, B, AB and O (O is the universal donor: donors with O blood are compatible with any other blood type) Why you should not be an organ donor? During a study by the National Institutes of Health, those opposed to organ donation cited reasons such as mistrust of the system and worrying that their organs would go to someone not deserving of them (e.g., a “bad” person or someone whose poor lifestyle choices caused their illness). What medical conditions prevent you from donating a kidney? As a general rule, you should be 18 years or older . You must also have normal kidney function . There are some medical conditions that could prevent you from being a living donor . These include having uncontrolled high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, HIV, hepatitis, or acute infections . Can a 70 year old donate a kidney? Older adults considering donating a live kidney should keep in mind that the majority of transplant centers don’t currently accept organs from seniors 70 years old or older. If your planning to make a live donation, consider that as you get older it’s more likely the health of your remaining kidney will decline. How old do you have to be to get a kidney transplant? A kidney from a living donor over the age of 70 is likely to last as long as a kidney from a younger deceased donor, Segev says, “and the transplant can occur right away rather than 10 years from now.”. Is there a downside to a kidney from an older donor? Is There a Downside to a Kidney From an Older Donor? The reason most hospitals suggest an age minimum of 18 for kidney donors isn’t because a young kidney is too small. Studies have shown that a kidney from a 6-year-old is all right to transplant into an adult. Who are the best kidney donors for seniors? Marian Eure, RN, is a registered nurse with more than 25 years of experience in adult health care, health promotion, and health education. Scott Sundick, MD, is board-certified in general surgery and vascular surgery.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
1 I have a small problem with a GridView in my web part. I bind a DataTable to the SourceData of my GridView and check if the current user is an administrator. If he is, I will add additional CommandField columns. Here a part of my code: protected void SumbitSearch_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { ... GridViewResult.DataSource = null; GridViewResult.BinData(); ... GridViewResult.DataSource = result; GridViewResult.DataBind(); GridViewResult.HeaderRow.Cells[0].Visible = false; foreach (GridViewRow gvr in GridViewResult.Rows) { gvr.Cells[0].Visible = false; } GridViewResult.HeaderRow.Cells[1].Width = Unit.Pixel(175); GridViewResult.HeaderRow.Cells[2].Width = Unit.Pixel(175); GridViewResult.HeaderRow.Cells[1].Text = "Von: " + languageFrom; GridViewResult.HeaderRow.Cells[2].Text = "Nach: " + languageTo; //if() Check admin //{ CommandField deleteButton = new CommandField(); deleteButton.ShowDeleteButton = true; GridViewResult.Columns.Add(deleteButton); //} ... } If I deploy my web part, and click on my button, nothing happens. If I click a second time, suddenly the Ident column appears. If I click a third time, the delete Button appear. A fourth time a second delete Button appear and so on. I think the problem occur, because the new delete button column will add at the first column in the table. How could I fix this? Btw is it possible to set a css style for the button? If I use deleteButton. ControlStyle.CssClass =""; the css class is valid for the complete table. Last Change: Okay, now I did it witch CreateChildControls(). But it doesn’t work right. The Button will only displayed at the last row of the Table and the event handler would not be fired. My CreateChildControls() looks like: ... protected Button deleteButton; ... if((Page.IsPostBack) && ( // Check if admin == true ) { //Controls.Clear(); deleteButton = new Button(); deleteButton.Text = "Löschen"; deleteButton.Click += new EventHandler(clickd); base.CreateChildControls(); } Later i add a new cell to every row of the gridview: TableCell test = new TableCell(); int i = 0; while (i < GridViewResult.Rows.Count) { deleteButton.ID = "delete_" + GridViewResult.Rows[i].Cells[1].Text; test.Controls.Add(deleteButton); GridViewResult.Rows[i].Cells.Add(test); i++; } I would like to have, a delete button for every row in my table. At the runtime, I dont know how many rows the result have. Is it generally possible to add a control in a function outside of CreateChildControls() if the control is created in the CreateChildControls? What works wrong? Greetz, Taz 3 • Well I'd say the first problem is that you are adding the button in a postback function. Do you have a CreateChildControls function? – Kit Menke Commented Oct 18, 2011 at 15:00 • No i haven't. Do you mean to overwrite the CreateChildControls and add here the controls? – user5167 Commented Oct 18, 2011 at 17:10 • This turned out to be very interesting! I added an example to my answer. Hopefully that helps! – Kit Menke Commented Oct 19, 2011 at 16:52 1 Answer 1 1 The problem is that you are creating the CommandField button in a postback event: SumbitSearch_Click. Take a look at Wictor's wonderful graphic. Instead, you should be overriding the CreateChildControls function and creating most of your controls there. You'll notice, however, that on a postback the CreateChildControls will be called before your SumbitSearch_Click function (which makes sense if you think about it.. the button must exist before the button click event can fire). You could use the Page.IsPostback within CreateChildControls to have some separate logic or use OnPreRender to make the decision since it will run after your events. Here is an example which uses the session as a DataSource. SPGridView with query and delete The code: class SimpleGridView : CompositeControl { private const string SESSION_ID = "SalesData"; private ObjectDataSource _gridDS; private TextBox _txtQuery; private SPGridView _grid; public DataView SelectData(string query) { DataTable dataSource = null; // using session to simulate a "delete", otherwise it would do nothing each time :) if (null == this.Page.Session[SESSION_ID]) { dataSource = new DataTable(); // setup columns dataSource.Columns.Add("ID", Type.GetType("System.Int32")); dataSource.Columns.Add("Name"); dataSource.Columns.Add("Region"); dataSource.Columns.Add("Total Sales", Type.GetType("System.Double")); dataSource.Columns.Add("Created", Type.GetType("System.DateTime")); // add some bogus data dataSource.Rows.Add(1, "J. Smith", "Europe", 10000, new DateTime(2010, 10, 7, 8, 0, 0)); dataSource.Rows.Add(2, "J. Smith", "North America", 15000, new DateTime(2010, 10, 8, 9, 00, 0)); dataSource.Rows.Add(3, "J. Smith", "Asia", 5000, new DateTime(2010, 10, 7, 10, 0, 0)); dataSource.Rows.Add(4, "S. Jones", "Europe", 7000, new DateTime(2010, 10, 9, 11, 0, 0)); dataSource.Rows.Add(5, "S. Jones", "North America", 30000, new DateTime(2010, 10, 7, 9, 00, 0)); dataSource.Rows.Add(6, "S. Jones", "Asia", 8700, new DateTime(2010, 10, 9, 8, 0, 0)); dataSource.Rows.Add(7, "W. Nguyen", "Europe", 3000, new DateTime(2010, 10, 8, 8, 0, 0)); dataSource.Rows.Add(8, "W. Nguyen", "North America", 50000, new DateTime(2010, 10, 7, 12, 30, 0)); dataSource.Rows.Add(9, "W. Nguyen", "Asia", 25000, new DateTime(2010, 10, 7, 8, 0, 0)); dataSource.Rows.Add(10, "C. O'Reilly", "Europe", 200, new DateTime(2008, 1, 16, 15, 0, 0)); dataSource.Rows.Add(11, "C. O'Reilly", "North America", 5000, new DateTime(2009, 11, 1, 16, 0, 0)); dataSource.Rows.Add(12, "C. O'Reilly", "Asia", 8000, new DateTime(2010, 10, 9, 19, 0, 0)); this.Page.Session[SESSION_ID] = dataSource; } else { dataSource = (DataTable)this.Page.Session[SESSION_ID]; } DataView view = new DataView(dataSource); if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(query)) { query = query.Replace("'", "''"); view.RowFilter = string.Format("Name LIKE '%{0}%'", query); } return view; } public void DeleteItem(int row_id) { // do some sort of delete action against our datasource // in this simple case, we're just deleting rows from the session DataTable dataSource = (DataTable)this.Page.Session[SESSION_ID]; DataRow[] rows = dataSource.Select(string.Format("ID = {0}", row_id)); if (null != rows && rows.Length == 1) { rows[0].Delete(); } } private void AddBoundField(string name) { BoundField column = new BoundField(); column.DataField = name; // must match the column name in the datasource column.SortExpression = name; column.HeaderText = name; _grid.Columns.Add(column); } protected override void CreateChildControls() { base.CreateChildControls(); _txtQuery = new TextBox(); _txtQuery.ID = "txtQuery"; this.Controls.Add(_txtQuery); // really all this is good for is causing the page to post back Button btnSubmit = new Button(); btnSubmit.ID = "btnSubmit"; btnSubmit.Text = "Submit"; btnSubmit.Click += new EventHandler(btnSubmit_Click); this.Controls.Add(btnSubmit); if (Page.IsPostBack) { // don't display the grid until they click submit at least once CreateGridView(); } } void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { // clear so that they can query multiple times _gridDS.SelectParameters.Clear(); // they clicked the button so set our query _gridDS.SelectParameters.Add("query", _txtQuery.Text); } private void CreateGridView() { const string GRIDID = "grid"; const string DATASOURCEID = "gridDS"; // initialize the ODS _gridDS = new ObjectDataSource(); _gridDS.ID = DATASOURCEID; // calling our SelectData function in this CompositeControl _gridDS.SelectMethod = "SelectData"; // calls our Delete Item method when they click our CommandField delete button _gridDS.DeleteMethod = "DeleteItem"; // so our grid datasource knows which object to ask for data _gridDS.TypeName = this.GetType().AssemblyQualifiedName; _gridDS.ObjectCreating += new ObjectDataSourceObjectEventHandler(gridDS_ObjectCreating); // we need this event in order to add parameters that will be used for our delete method // otherwise it can't find it _gridDS.Deleting += new ObjectDataSourceMethodEventHandler(_gridDS_Deleting); this.Controls.Add(_gridDS); // Initialize the grid and link it to the ObjectDataSource _grid = new SPGridView(); _grid.ID = GRIDID; _grid.DataSourceID = _gridDS.ID; _grid.AutoGenerateColumns = false; // Paging _grid.AllowPaging = true; _grid.PageSize = 10; // Sorting _grid.AllowSorting = true; this.Controls.Add(_grid); // add our columns to the grid AddBoundField("ID"); AddBoundField("Name"); AddBoundField("Region"); AddBoundField("Total Sales"); AddBoundField("Created"); // our column that shows the delete button a user can click CommandField cfDelete = new CommandField(); cfDelete.ShowDeleteButton = true; cfDelete.ButtonType = ButtonType.Button; cfDelete.DeleteText = "Delete"; _grid.Columns.Add(cfDelete); // needed to allow deleting rows using ID // if you don't have this, nothing is sent to your ObjectDataSource "Deleting" event string[] dataKeyNames = { "ID" }; _grid.DataKeyNames = dataKeyNames; // setting PagerTemplate to null here will display page numbers for paging _grid.PagerTemplate = null; } void _gridDS_Deleting(object sender, ObjectDataSourceMethodEventArgs e) { // This function isn't needed if your ObjectDataSource.DeleteMethod parameters // exactly match the column names in your datasource. I found this confusing // so I do a little conversion // it will be null if the column is not present in the grid's DataKeyNames if (null != e.InputParameters["ID"]) { int id = (int)e.InputParameters["ID"]; // clear the collection of parameters or it will try to find // a delete function that has every single parameter e.InputParameters.Clear(); // notice that this parameter name matches the parameter in our delete method // which was set on the grid's objectdatasource e.InputParameters.Add("row_id", id); } } private void gridDS_ObjectCreating(object sender, ObjectDataSourceEventArgs e) { // our ObjectDataSource uses this CompositeControl to select data e.ObjectInstance = this; } } 2 • @Taz I think you still want to use your CommandField deleteButton. That will add a delete button to each row for you. I think I can create an example for you since I have some code already. – Kit Menke Commented Oct 19, 2011 at 14:51 • That's great! Thank you. 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View : 13 Download: 0 Oligomeric Structures Determine the Biochemical Characteristics of Human Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinases Title Oligomeric Structures Determine the Biochemical Characteristics of Human Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinases Authors Kim S.Y.Song E.J.Chang K.H.Kim E.Chae S.-K.Lee H.Lee K.-J. Ewha Authors 이공주 SCOPUS Author ID 이공주scopus Issue Date 2001 Journal Title Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ISSN 1225-8687JCR Link Citation vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 355 - 364 Indexed SCOPUS WOS scopus Abstract Major human Nucleoside diphosphate kinases (NDPKs) exist as hetero-oligomers, consisting of NDPK-A and NDPK-B, rather than homo-oligomer. To investigate their biological function depending on the oligomeric structure in vivo, we characterized the biochemical properties of cellular NDPK. Cellular NDPKs, which are made up of a unique combination of isoforms, were purified from human erythrocyte and placenta. We found that cellular NDPK and recombinant isoforms NDPKs have their own distinct biochemical properties in autophosphorylation, stability toward heat or urea, and DNA binding. Cellular NDPK was found to have unique characteristics rather than the expected additive properties of recombinant isoforms. The mutations in the dimeric interface of NDPK-B (R34G, N69H or K135L) caused defective DNA binding and simultaneously reduced the enzymatic stability. These results suggest that the oligomeric interaction could play a major role in the stability of catalytic domain and might be related to the regulation of various cellular functions of NDPK. Appears in Collections: 약학대학 > 약학과 > Journal papers Files in This Item: There are no files associated with this item. Export RIS (EndNote) XLS (Excel) XML qrcode Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. BROWSE	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Traveling Vineyard Traveling Vineyard is an American multi-level marketing company based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, that sells wine. The company was founded in 2001, and in 2010 it was purchased by Richard Libby and restructured. It is marketed by means of approximately 5,000 Independent representatives. Traveling Vineyard representatives, called Wine Guides, pay one-time fees, and in return, the company sends them a Success Kit with wine education materials (including notes on individual wine varietals and food pairings), sample accessories, tasting glasses, and ten bottles of wine for the first tastings. Traveling Vineyard also provides website setup and access to training and support. Direct Selling Association Traveling Vineyard is a member of the Direct Selling Association, which holds member companies accountable to ethical standards and policies that protect independent salespeople and consumers. The company is also a member of the Better Business Bureau. Traveling Vineyard uses the party plan method of direct selling. Wine tastings Wine Guides connect with event hosts from their social networks to arrange free, in-home wine tastings. Wine Guides help hosts prepare for the event and then present guests with specific wines they can taste with the opportunity to order. Wine Guides make marketing fees from their sales to customers, not from how many people they recruit to be on their team. Sommology In 2013, Traveling Vineyard launched Sommology. Sommology is a food and wine pairing educational resource. It was created in collaboration with Eddie Osterland, America's first Master Sommelier. Company history Traveling Vineyard was founded in 2001. In April 2010, the company declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In November 2010, Richard Libby and other investors purchased the Traveling Vineyard assets out of bankruptcy and restarted the company. As of May 2017, Traveling Vineyard has over 5,000 independent Wine Guides in 40 states in the United States. Regulatory history In the 2005 ruling Granholm v. Heald, the Supreme Court held that Michigan and New York states violated the Dormant Commerce Clause by permitting in-state wineries to ship directly to consumers but prohibiting out-of-state wineries to ship directly to consumers. Since then, individual states have been opening their shipping and allowing Traveling Vineyard to grow as a winery. The Wine Institute and Free The Grapes have been instrumental in lobbying for the ability for out-of-state wineries to ship wine directly to consumers.	WIKI
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Access checking with mod_lua The access checker phase is a simple phase, whose purpose is to determine whether a client has access to a resource or not. This is not to be confused with the authorization/authentication phase, as this phase happens before those phases kick in. Think of this as an early phase where you can disallow an IP access ot a resource, or specify a specific time table for access. This phase is activated through the LuaHookAccessChecker directive, as such: LuaHookAccessChecker /etc/lua/scripts/access.lua access_checker We can then create a simple access checker in Lua: function access_checker(r) -- First, let's check if the IP is '127.0.0.2', and if so, deny access if r.useragent_ip == '127.0.0.2' then return 403 -- 403 is the 'Forbidden' status code end -- Then, let's check the time of day and only allow people access between -- 7 AM and 7 PM (7 and 19): local now = os.date("*t") if now.hour >= 7 and now.hour < 19 then return apache2.OK else return 403 -- forbidden! end end	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Orthotics Biomechanics & Orthotics Proactive Physio Galway Physio Services \| Orthotics What are orthotics? Orthotics are devices that you put into your shoes or sports footwear. They are used to offload injured or painful areas of your feet or legs by altering how you absorb force from the ground up. Biomechanics and Orthotics Biomechanics looks at the way in which your feet move and the effect that has on the rest of your body when you walk, run, jump, move, play sport etc. Your feet are complex structures that support your entire body weight. Having “abnormal” or non-ideal foot biomechanics can cause a chain reaction in other areas of your body that when combined with high impact activity or prolonged periods of time on your feet can lead to pain and dysfunction. Orthotics aim to offload areas of your body that may be absorbing undue stress and strain and possibly contributing to your pain or injury. How do orthotics work? Injury of a gradual onset of the lower limb can often be attributed to how well your body is absorbing load and forces from the ground through your joints, ligaments, tendons and muscles. If we take for example a road runner with an overuse injury ie. gradual onset shin splints; Three factors could be at play here 1. Their feet aren’t absorbing the force from the ground through their legs as efficiently as they could, which leads to repeated micro trauma of their soft tissues around their shins. 2. They are training for a marathon, which is a large increase in their training volume and doesn’t allow enough time for tissue healing and recovery. 3. Their muscles and soft tissues aren’t very well conditioned ie they aren’t doing enough strength and conditioning of the muscles of their legs to condition them to absorb that increased load. All of this leads to breakdown of soft tissues, ie shin splints. Management of this may involve addressing how their foot could better absorb forces through their injured tissues using orthotics, altered training program that allows for tissue response to load and enough recovery time, strength and conditioning of leg muscles to become more efficient at absorbing load. In summary, orthotics can be very helpful as part of the rehabilitation of overuse injuries of the lower limb. Book aN Orthotics Appointment Book an appointment for Orthotics Consultation / Fitting Meet Our Team clara linnane Chartered Physio Margaret O'Connor Chartered Physio Michelle Biggins Chartered Physio Colin Nash Chartered Physio Orthotics Clinic conveniently located in Oranmore Individualised Exercise Programs Experienced Physios you can Trust Comprehensive Assessment & Diagnosis Book Appointment CLARA LINNANE Margaret O'Connor MICHELLE BIGGINS COLIN NASH Verified By	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Michael Jackson didn't want white actor to portray him (CNN)With controversy raging over Joseph Fiennes' casting as Michael Jackson in a British TV production, a 1993 video has surfaced of the late singer saying he didn't want a white actor to portray him on screen. Joseph Fiennes to play Michael Jackson in British TV show Fiennes is set to play the pop star in the half-hour comedy "Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon," which centers around a fabled road trip in which Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando tried to get home to Los Angeles from New York after the September 11 terrorist attacks. In a 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Jackson rejected the idea of having a white actor portray him on screen. Winfrey had asked him about reports that he wanted Pepsi to cast a white actor to play him as a child in a commercial. "That is so stupid," Jackson said. "That's the most ridiculous, horrifying story I've ever heard. It's crazy." Jackson added, "Why would I want a white child to play me? I'm a black American. I'm proud to be a black American. I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am." Jackson makes the comments at around the 23:59 mark in a video of the interview posted on YouTube. Fiennes told "Entertainment Tonight" that he too was surprised by his casting. "I'm a white, middle-class guy from London," the actor said. "I'm as shocked as you may be."	NEWS-MULTISOURCE
Ryan Smith (writer) Ryan Smith is an American screenwriter and actor. He wrote 19 episodes of television's MADtv in the 2006-2007 season. As an actor, he made guest appearances on the program "Yes, Dear" and in the Mediocre Films shorts "Mating Season" (2005) and "Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show" (2007). In June 2008, Smith appeared in the web series Comedy Gumbo on Crackle.	WIKI
Derbesia Derbesia is a genus of green algae in the family Derbesiaceae. The plant was originally known from different names applied to its larger sporophyte, Derbesia, and its less conspicuous gametophyte, Halicystis. Derbesia was successfully cultured in the laboratories of German phycologist Peter Kornmann to learn that both it and the plant Halicystis were different parts of the life cycle of the same organism. The genus name of Derbesia is in honour of Auguste Alphonse Derbès (1818-1894), French naturalist, zoologist and botanist, Professor of Natural Sciences at the University of Aix-Marseille. List of species * Derbesia attenuata * Derbesia boergesenii * Derbesia corallicola * Derbesia fastigiata * Derbesia furcata * Derbesia hollenbergii * Derbesia indica * Derbesia longifructa * Derbesia marina * Derbesia minima * Derbesia novae-zelandiae * Derbesia osterhoutii * Derbesia pacifica * Derbesia padinae * Derbesia prolifica * Derbesia rhizophora * Derbesia sirenarum * Derbesia tenuissima * Derbesia turbinata * Derbesia vaucheriaeformis	WIKI
Talk:mu dheidhinn gen. NA cànain, nach eil? "fiosrachadh mu dheidhinn an cànain - information about the language" - Shouldn't it be "mu dheidhinn na cànain", as cànain is feminine? Example: Bha e ag iarraidh fiosrachadh mu dheidhinn na cànain. He was seeking information about the language. http://reocities.com/Area51/zone/6338/t_o_w_41.htm Thanakvil (talk) 01:03, 4 April 2014 (UTC)	WIKI
Venous thrombosis is a common disorder with an annual incidence of around 1-2 cases per 1.000 individuals and is the third leading cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in developed countries.1-4 Thrombosis may arise in any section of the venous system, but it typically occurs in the deep veins of the lower extremities. The major concern in these patients is pulmonary embolism, which can be fatal. A more common, but often disabling, complication of deep vein thrombosis and its sequelae is the post-thrombotic syndrome.5 Rarely, thrombosis may involve other venous sites. One of these uncommon manifestations of thrombosis is located in the splanchnic veins, which is accompanied by a considerable morbidity and mortality. , , F.W.G. Leebeek (Frank) , H.L.A. Janssen (Harry) Erasmus University Rotterdam Alexon, Bayer, Celgene, Dutch Heart Foundation, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek van de MPN Stichting, J.E. Jurriaanse Stichting, Novartis, Pfizer, Shire hdl.handle.net/1765/32014 Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam Smalberg, J.H. (2012, January 12). Budd-Chiari Syndrome and Portal Vein Thrombosis: Etiology and Treatment. Erasmus University Rotterdam. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/32014	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
TAO/Handbook/Sponsorship and Fundraising Money Makes The World Go Round Sources of Revenue Every organisation and project needs some revenue sources to implement activities irrespective of whether the activities will be face-to-face or online. From the point of view of a business model revenues result from value propositions successfully communicated and offered to the customers. Other funding options are donations, sponsorship and fundraising. They are particularly adapted to new organisations without a mature business model or for institutions with non-profit character (e.g. Wikipedia). Difference between Donation, Sponsorship and Fundraising A donation is an altruistic gift, either with a general charitable purpose or for the support of a particular project. Sponsorship means supporting events, activities, persons of organizations financially or through the provision of products or services. It is based on reprocity ["On the basis of a written agreement, the public sector receives cash or goods in kind and in exchange the sponsor receives publicity designed to enhance its reputation (e.g. flyers, posters, advertisements,…)." ]. Fundraising means acquiring these contributions. Strategic Planning Successful fundraising implies a strategic plan. Strategic planning and activities of sponsorship are closely related to marketing, press and public relations. It aims at communicating a positive image of one's own institution in order to prepare and acquire fundraising. Steps to develop a concept for fundraising * analyze the specific situation (organisation, market, trends) * define the objectives * identify the target audiences * derive the specific strategy * develop specific measures * implement measures * evaluate and further develop alternative measures Fundraising Below, you will see an overview of different sources of fundraising. Public sources, other funds, donations, a variety of fees and generated funds can be distinguished. Each of these sources need adapted strategies and measures. Public Sources Public funding programmes exist on different levels and address different topics and target groups. Depending on your objectives, it may be expedient to request funds on local, regional, national or European level. For example, if you only have local or regional goals, it doesn't make sense to ask for European funds. Objectives can concern economic, social, research or political issues. Besides these aspects, it is important to know who will get public funds, e.g. small or medium-sized enterprises (SME), non-governmental organisations (NGO), public bodies or individuals. Below you will find some additional information about EU programmes. Other Funds Public trusts and foundations will facilitate only projects which are in line with their own objectives. That's why requests and applications must be well-directed. To get an overview of the different European foundations you can use the members' list of the European Foundation Centre. Gains from the lottery and administrative fines are also distributed for intentions which are charitable and serve the public good. This process is regulated by national and regional public institutions. Donation Donations are given as a gift by physical or legal persons (companies, institutions, etc.). Donations aren't necessarily monetary, but can also come in other forms like services or goods. You can distinguish single donations, donations on a regular basis and legacies. Fees Fees can be charged for full or sponsoring membership. Full membership is often more expensive, but will also give more power and influence. Generated Funds Funds can be self-generated by participation fees, sale of products or sponsoring. Such funds are often generated by events like charity runs oder raffles. EU Programme The European Commission allocates a part of the EU budget to companies and organisations in the form of calls for tenders, grants or funds and other financing programmes. To get an overview of the financial rules and funding opportunities, the "Beginners’ Guide to EU Funding" can be useful. Here's a list of EU grants, funds and programmes, which could be interesting for online communities and other online services : * Business: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) * Culture, education and youth: Audiovisual and media * Culture, education and youth: Education and training * Environment, consumers and health: Health * Citizens' rights: Europe for Citizens Programme * Science and technology: Information Society Lifelong Learning Programme The European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) consists of different funding areas. Adult Education is summarized under the so-called sectoral programme "Grundtvig". Grundtvig supports different target groups: institutions, education staff and learners. There are different measures such as e.g. multilateral projects, in-service trainings, workshops, learning partnerships and others. . Other sectoral programmes within the LLP like "Leonardo da Vinci" may also be considered for some projects. Please always keep in mind the application deadlines for the different measures. For further information about the LLP the National Agency of the own state should be contacted. The LLP lasts until 2013. From 2014 on a new programme is planned: "Erasmus for all". Hints for Fundraising Hints for successful fundraising of non-profit organizations: What's necessary? * a structural, financial, personal base * profile, awareness and image (internal and external) * messages and statements: to capture the very essence of a statement with limited means * definition of attractive offers and prices * good reputation and credibility: transparency of aims/objectives, tasks and finances * recognition culture: thanks and involvement generate repeated donations Checklist for drawing up an application * What is the project title? * Who is responsible for the concept (contact name, address, phone/fax, email)? * Why is the project needed (starting position)? * What are the aims/objectives of the project? What do we want to achieve? * Which target groups are addressed (age, ethnicity, etc.)? * What are the strategies and measures? Which innovative methods and concepts are used? * How will the project be implemented? * Which steps and milestones are planned in which period? * Who is responsible for what (to-do list)? * Which results and long-term effects will the project have? * What are the international impacts of the project? * What is the project's cost structure? * Which costs are planned (e.g. personnel costs, ongoing operating costs, additional costs, if necessary planning costs)? * Which revenues are planned(own funds, grants by donations, sponsorships, grants of public and non-public organizations)? * Which press and public relations are needed (media relations)? * How do we report on the project before, during and after the implementation?	WIKI
Page:Francesca Carrara 2.pdf/129 126 pursuits after knowledge. I found the small legacy of the late Lord Avonleigh amply sufficient for my support; and my mornings in the classes, my nights in solitary studies, passed as the happiest—the only happy part of my existence. "This course of life led to my acquaintance with your grandfather, then among the most celebrated of Padua's learned doctors. I soon found that he was given to abstruser science than he taught in the schools. The belief that there are subtle mysteries in nature as yet unravelled, but accessible to patient hope and toil, suited well with my temper. Hitherto all that I had acquired had been unsatisfactory—the reward was too distant; but Carrara's mystic eloquence brought the result of our midnight vigils visibly before me; and when I left him, it was to dream of the glorious secrets which, once penetrated, would lay all nature open to our eyes, and leave all its ministering spirits bowed to our rule by spell and sign. But these dreams were haunted by a sweeter and a lovelier vision. Carrara had a daughter; and how would my look wander from the scrolls spread out before us to the fair face, half hidden by the long hair that reached the embroidering frame over which she was wont to bend! "Francesca, you are beautiful; but, oh! not	WIKI
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive/2012/Dec Order of magnitude lists I question the necessity, validity, and encyclopedic fitness of the numerous articles listing items within orders of magnitude of measurements, such as 1 E+5 m² or 100 nanometres. To me at least, they seem like syntheses of arbitrary information, and some of the article names (e.g. all the area ones) make no sense as such. Is there a compelling reason to have them as standalone encyclopedia articles? —Frungi (talk) 05:03, 30 November 2012 (UTC) * you might want to take a look at the old deletion discussion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/1_E0_m. --JBL (talk) 05:45, 30 November 2012 (UTC) * Ah, thanks for that. Well, I could definitely see this sort of stuff being in the supplemental section or something of an encyclopedia. So how about renaming those "1 E+# m²" pages, and whatever similarly named groups there might be? —Frungi (talk) 06:02, 30 November 2012 (UTC) * Frungi already knows this, but for others new to the discussion: there was a related RFC here that ended up redirecting 1 E+4 m² to hectare. But that's not as feasible for some of the other articles of this type, because they don't all correspond to names of other units. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:22, 30 November 2012 (UTC) * I didn’t link to that? Wow, sorry. I’d meant to. Thanks. —Frungi (talk) 17:25, 30 November 2012 (UTC) * There are a lot of pairs of articles like Centimetre (article) and 1 centimetre (list). Not only is the naming convention confusing, with no indication that the latter is a list, but none of the lists are very long. Why not merge the lists into the articles? RockMagnetist (talk) 16:32, 30 November 2012 (UTC) * Or what about subpages? E.g., Orders of magnitude (length)/1 centimetre, or Orders of magnitude (volume)/1 E+6 m³. The scientific notation names would make sense in that context, and wouldn’t require explanation in the articles (as I feel they currently do). —Frungi (talk) 17:25, 30 November 2012 (UTC) * Subpages are not allowed in article space. RockMagnetist (talk) 17:28, 30 November 2012 (UTC) * Oh. Well, they definitely need to be renamed (I think so anyway—does anyone think that 1 E+6 m³ is an appropriate article name?), but I’m not sure what naming scheme would be best. “List of items of area 1 E+6 m³”? —Frungi (talk) 17:36, 30 November 2012 (UTC) * That would be an improvement. --JBL (talk) 21:24, 30 November 2012 (UTC) * Since a lot of articles are involved, any name change should probably go through Requested moves and WikiProject Measurement should be notified. RockMagnetist (talk) 21:44, 30 November 2012 (UTC) These articles also have homemade previous/next links that work well in a small article but not in longer ones. They probably break some style rule. Succession boxes would be better. RockMagnetist (talk) 23:28, 30 November 2012 (UTC) * All right, I’ve posted to WikiProject Measurement about this thread, since that seems to be the appropriate place for this discussion. Sorry for my confusion. —Frungi (talk) 07:38, 1 December 2012 (UTC) Lists and outlines Some time last year, there was a substantial debate about the relative merits of "lists" and "outlines"; see, for example, Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics/Archive/2011/Sep. I thought we reached a consensus that various mathematical lists should be kept. I've just reverted edits to List of complex analysis topics and Outline of complex analysis; it might be worth keeping an eye on these and similar pages. Jowa fan (talk) 12:56, 2 December 2012 (UTC) * There is also * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics/Archive_38 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics/Archive_45 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics/Archive_54 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics/Archive_63 * I agree that, unless there is a demonstrable change form the previous consensus, the lists should stay at their present titles. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:14, 2 December 2012 (UTC) Articles for deletion/Gyula J. Obádovics The AfD Articles for deletion/Gyula J. Obádovics about Gyula J. Obádovics could use some input from members of the project. Sławomir Biały (talk) 13:42, 8 December 2012 (UTC) Should solutions to logic puzzles be hidden ? has hidden the Solution sections in the logic puzzle articles four glasses puzzle, bridge and torch problem, wine/water mixing problem and Ages of Three Children puzzle. In an edit summary he says he has done this "to stop any reader from inadvertently looking at the solution". I disagree with hiding article sections like this because I think it impedes the clarity and readability of the article. Do you have an opinion ? I have started a discussion thread at Talk:Four glasses puzzle. Gandalf61 (talk) 08:42, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * This falls under Spoiler. Spoilers are not to be hidden or removed merely because they are spoilers. He should be reverted and told to stop. JRSpriggs (talk) 09:46, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * This does NOT fall under Spoiler which currently states "A spoiler is a piece of information in an article about a narrative work (such as a book, feature film, television show or video game) that reveals plot events or twists, and thus may "spoil" the experience for any reader who learns details of the plot in this way rather than in the work itself." In time this may change, but at the moment it does not hold anything relevant to this discussion. Paul venter (talk) 18:51, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * I think that the same justifications for WP:SPOILER apply here. The purpose of our articles is to give people information, not to make it more difficult to obtain. If someone reads about the Monty Hall problem or a logic puzzle, they should expect to see an answer - that is what the encyclopedia is here for. If they want a list of problems to try to solve, they should get a problem book or a list of previous problems from a contest. In particular, if they read a section with the title "solution", they should expect to see the solution there without having to click to see it. — Carl (CBM · talk) 19:09, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * I agree. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:15, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * As do I. And even if WP:SPOILER doesn't literally cover this, I think the spirit of it should be applied - I don't see a fundamental difference. Dougweller (talk) 19:36, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * I agree. Solutions should not be hidden. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a puzzle book. Sławomir Biały (talk) 19:44, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * In that case get a consensus to change WP:SPOILER to include logic problems and then there will be no confusion - but one still has to wonder why there is a "hide/show" feature on WP if it goes against everything an encyclopaedia stands for..... Paul venter (talk) 07:14, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * Show/hide boxes are good for hiding text that the reader may ignore at a first reading, like brief derivations/proofs etc. There is no point to hiding solutions, it's not about testing the reader. Maschen (talk) 08:12, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * If you read this you'll see that the hide template is used for a lot more than you may think. Is there some source for your opinion on the proper use of the template or did you just invent that? Paul venter (talk) 14:05, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * They're also mostly used in talk space. I've almost never seen them in article space, apart from navboxes. Anyway no, Paul, in addition to the spirit of WP:SPOILER, which applies here, we're not censored. I'll see that WP:SPOILER is explicit on this. -- Cycl o pia talk 08:37, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * I'm not keen on the use of hide anywhere as it assumes one is using Javascript, anyway what's the point of downloading loads of stuff that people don't look at? I sure there must be a better way of dealing with all those hides that people want to stick in navboxes. 10:00, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * ... by Dmcq. * Where on earth does 'censorship' come from? This has nothing to do with morality or ethics, it is simply a way of stopping someone from accidentally seeing the solution - a barrier which is removed by a simple click (clicking is what WP editors and readers do for most of their lives, so that it is not rocket science!) Paul venter (talk) 14:05, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * It's not about censorship, just that there is no reason to hide anything. It doesn't gain anything, the reader will see the solution anyway if they click open. Maschen (talk) 14:14, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * We can discuss the correct alphabet soup six ways to Sunday. For instance, I think the most relevant extant guideline is WP:DISCLAIMER, rather than WP:SPOILER or WP:CENSORED. But I think the bottom line is that having content hidden violates the spirit of these guidelines taken as a whole, and no compelling reason exists for doing such a thing in an encyclopedia. Sławomir Biały (talk) 15:28, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * Talking about the "spirit of these guidelines" implies that you are privy to some insider knowledge not explicitly expressed where ordinary mortals can read them. So for the sake of clarity let's stick to the written word and not conjure up hidden meanings. Paul venter (talk) 18:30, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * I don't feel strongly one way or another about this, but the tendency (of many users) to rely excessively on the invocation of sacred texts when common sense will do is always frustrating. Quite possibly, Wikipedia does not have a guideline that actually addresses the question of whether the solutions to logic puzzles should be hidden. In this case, the right thing to do is not to spend endless posts arguing about precisely which guidelines do or do not apply and how; it's clear from the discussion above that there's a consensus among math editors on this question, and that it's that these solutions should not be hidden. This is true regardless of whether WP:SPOILERS is the "right" guideline or just an analogy. --JBL (talk) 18:40, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * I think the spirit of these guidelines is quite obvious to most ordinary mortals, there’s no hidden meaning. If I may drop in yet another ingredient to the alphabet soup, asking to “stick to the written word” sounds very much like WP:LAWYERING.—Emil J. 18:58, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * Contrary to Paul venter's statement near the beginning of this discussion, WP:SPOILER does mention logic puzzles explicitly: see Other types of spoilers. RockMagnetist (talk) 19:00, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * Well, that section has been added there six hours ago.—Emil J. 19:12, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * So it was. That weakens the argument for sticking to the written word of a policy! RockMagnetist (talk) 19:43, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * I'll add my voice to the consensus here to not hide solutions. Paul August ☎ 20:37, 10 December 2012 (UTC) This could (and looks like it will) prevail on and on forever... The changes have been reverted, and there is an unlimited consensus not to hide the solutions. So I closed the discussion now, else we're all just wasting time... Maschen (talk) 20:47, 10 December 2012 (UTC) List of translations into set theory See a discussion at Talk:Constructible universe. Should we have an article containing a list of formulas in the language of set theory which are equivalent to simple formulas (like "α+β=γ") used throughout mathematics? JRSpriggs (talk) 11:56, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * Has such a list been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources? If so, then we could write an article about it — please cite the sources. Otherwise it would consititute original research. Deltahedron (talk) 16:57, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * I do not understand the point: What is the relation between the question and the link? * About the translation of formulas in some constructive language (I believe that it is such a translation that underlies the question), this is the same thing as coding an algorithm in some programming language (here in a language that is less readable than assembly languages). IMO, the rules for source code in MOS:MATH should apply here: such translations are (or should be) more or less mechanical and do not have any encyclopedic content. D.Lazard (talk) 18:45, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * Regarding the relationship between the link and the question: Alan U. Kennington seemed to want to add to Constructible universe a statement of the formula of set theory which well-orders L. As I thought about how one might try to do that, I realized that one would have include set theoretic definitions of addition of ordinals and other common operations. Then I thought that it would be easier to justify the effort of doing that if it were done as part of a new article containing a list of such expressions. Hence my question. * However, I am not at present aware of any sources which could be used for such a list. So as you say, this would probably be barred as OR. I hope that by asking the question here I may find someone who knows of such a source. JRSpriggs (talk) 04:55, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * I looked at Metamath's list of definitions, mmdefinitions, but that seems to lack adequate explanations for what the defined terms mean. JRSpriggs (talk) 05:32, 10 December 2012 (UTC) Russell's Paradox I don't want to edit the article myself, but is this statement incorrect?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox 'If the librarian doesn't include it in its own listing, it is still a true catalog of those catalogs that do include themselves.' This makes more sense: http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Russell%27s_paradox Now consider two master catalogs to be held at the city's Central Library: * 1) the first lists all catalogs that contain themselves; * 2) the second lists all catalogs that don't contain themselves. Clearly the first catalog can list itself; that's no problem. But should the second catalog not list itself? Either way one answers this question leads to a contradiction: * If the second catalog lists itself, then it clearly doesn't belong in the list of catalogs that don't list themselves. * But if the second catalog doesn't list itself, then it does belong in the list of all catalogs that don't list themselves. preceeding unsigned comment by IP: <IP_ADDRESS>. * What's your point? Isn't that the essence of Russell's paradox? * To break the first statement down (re-wording): * "If the second catalog lists itself, then it doesn't belong in the list of catalogs that don't list themselves." * ="If the second catalog lists itself, then it is not an element of the set of catalogs that don't list themselves." * ="If the second catalog lists itself, then it is an element of the set of catalogs that do list themselves." * ="If the second catalog lists itself, then it does belong in the list of catalogs that do list themselves." * and simultaneously * "But if the second catalog doesn't list itself, then it does belong in the list of all catalogs that don't list themselves." * ="But if the second catalog doesn't list itself, then it doesn't belong in the list of all catalogs that do list themselves." * i.e. the second catalogue does and does not belong the list of catalogs that do list themselves... which is a contradiction. Maschen (talk) 20:25, 10 December 2012 (UTC) Apologies for the time-wasting, and thanks for the breakdown above - I had misread part of the Wikipedia article (I actually thought that there had been a misprint): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox For that reason (having mis-read the Wikipedia article), to my eyes it mis-matched the ironchariots.org explanation (which I thought to be the clearer of the two explanations): http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Russell%27s_paradox — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:44, 10 December 2012 (UTC) &nbsp; and mysterious "latex to html" user I've recently noticed that has been going around and converting latex to html in a lot of math articles, and in most cases also modifying the existing html. I'm sort of neutral to this in general, but the main problem is that the edits seem to convert non-breaking spaces &nbsp; into ordinary spaces. This can cause browsers to insert newlines into the middle of formulas. I was surprised at how many articles this user has done this to over the span of several months, and only just now have I notified him/her. I only now became aware of the problem when I saw that this edit from September broke the formatting in the section Hilbert space#Bounded operators, although it is to be hoped that this degree of breakage is the exception rather than the rule. Anyway, I don't know if it's worth fixing the &nbsp; problem retroactively, as that would likely be very time consuming for all but the most stalwart wikignome, but I thought I should at least notify the project. Sławomir Biały (talk) 00:14, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * In the long run I think the goal should be to make MathJax into the default view for everybody and then convert everything from html to latex again. But the long run is not here yet, sadly. In the short run I think we should use a consistent style within each article, whether it be latex everywhere, html everywhere, or latex for the displayed formulas and html for the inline ones. That means that, once we have a single inline latex formula, as Hilbert space does towards the end of its Definition section, the rest of the article should use latex as well. I do agree that using &nbsp; to prevent bad linebreaks is a necessary part of proper formatting in html formulas, but my guess is that since the anonymous editor seems to be acting in good faith to improve the appearance of these formulas, he or she will take your admonishment seriously. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:13, 10 December 2012 (UTC) * You could also point out that the use of non-breaking spaces is recommended in the Manual of Style (WP:NBSP). RockMagnetist (talk) 20:44, 10 December 2012 (UTC) strings of nbsp's jammed into formulas make things hard to read, at least in my opinion. I prefer ((nowrap begin)) ... ((nowrap end)) where ( and ) should be replaced by { and } -- Virginia-American (talk) 10:40, 14 December 2012 (UTC) * The math code is currently * I presume the "texhtml" and "texhtml-big" classes use, then do we still have to use nbsp? By the way, 165% for bigmath is way too big, 135% would be more appropriate. (Actually, the display style font is supposed to be the same size as for the text style font, except for large operators.) — TentaclesTalk or ✉ mailto:Tentacles 22:25, 18 April 2016 (UTC) Unreferenced (incomplete) statement on Halin graphs? Hello, I was reading Halin graph and I noted that it said: Because every tree contains two leaves that share the same parent, every Halin graph contains a triangle. In particular, it is not possible for a Halin graph to be a triangle-free graph nor a bipartite graph. Is this correct, aren't there many trees with no two leaves sharing the same parent? And don't you need a root in your tree to speak of parents (according to Tree (graph theory) ?). Finally, unlike other claims in that list, this one is unreferenced. I noticed that the Talk page for that article is still empty, and since I am not exactly an expert on this, I decided to bring this up here. Thanks, Evilbu (talk) 08:06, 14 December 2012 (UTC) * The assertion is incorrect for general trees, but correct for the trees that define Halin graphs (no vertex of degree 2). I have corrected the article. D.Lazard (talk) 08:55, 14 December 2012 (UTC) * Thanks for fixing this. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:48, 15 December 2012 (UTC) Consistent upright d's It's deja vu all over again. Somebody has been consistently uprighting all the d's again. Tkuvho (talk) 20:48, 8 December 2012 (UTC) * I made them italic (feel free to complain if I missed a few). Yes - in the past I was one who favoured upright differentials (and still do) causing much irritation, but not anymore (on WP). Maschen (talk) 21:13, 8 December 2012 (UTC) * Update: just warned the new editor. Maschen (talk) 21:20, 8 December 2012 (UTC) The case for all upright "d"s in this context would seem to be that it leaves the italic d available for use as a variable. That has a certain (small?) amount of cogency. It appears that physicists do it that way and mathematicians don't. So the italic version is at least conventional, in something like an article about Lebesgue integration. Michael Hardy (talk) 02:34, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * Actually it also matches upright text for functions like "sin"/"exp" etc, and stands out clearer. Maschen (talk) 11:19, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * I don't see that this makes any sense at all. "sin" and "exp" are functions: you plug in a number and you get out a number. This sin(2.5) and epx(2.5) are actual numbers. But d2.5 is gibberish. Michael Hardy (talk) 06:16, 16 December 2012 (UTC) * One has to interpret the statement a little more broadly for it to make sense. In particular, one needs to include "functional" and "operator" in the word "function" here. As a general rule-of-thumb, the distinction between upright and italic is when the symbol is a name or a placeholder, unless convention creates an exception. Thus, $sin x$, but $f(x)$. Exceptions include d (under discussion here), e (the constant), possibly i (the imaginary unit), c (the speed of light) and a few others. — Quondum 07:12, 16 December 2012 (UTC) * IMO, the main general distinction is between symbols consisting in a single letter, that are in italic (unless exceptions) and symbols consisting in several letters that are upright (for them I do not know any exception). D.Lazard (talk) 13:46, 16 December 2012 (UTC) * Yes conventions and whatever we should use on WP, but "it stands out better" should (hopefully) make sense, which is all I meant. Also for differentials d(2.5) = 0. M&and;Ŝc2ħεИτlk 14:19, 16 December 2012 (UTC) * I thought the upright d had become conventional for differentiable manifolds and the italic one was used in analysis, basically upright for differentials and italic for straightforward calculus. Dmcq (talk) 12:01, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * My impression is that the exterior derivative (which appears to be used for manifolds and formally has a distinct definition) uses the upright version, and I'd suggest we stick to this in WP. I doubt whether a clear line can be drawn between physicists and mathematicians on this. There was an informal scan of books (on one of these discussion pages) that the use of the upright d was definitely in the minority. — Quondum 13:34, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * I am a physicist, so that is probably why I prefer them upright. Sorry that I made a mess, I just tried to make them consistent (my preferred style). Now they are consistently italic, better than inconsistent! Martin Ueding (talk) 14:05, 9 December 2012 (UTC) * I think many of us have been through this learning curve, so you're in good company. Sometimes a particular style seems obviously better, but in the end two points seem to emerge: most people can agree on the merit of consistency, and changing a consistent style within an article is frowned upon. There are however several style-related points that are covered by Wikipedia guidelines. For this case, see WP:MOSMATH. — Quondum 17:48, 9 December 2012 (UTC) Inversive ring geometry Based on half an hour of internet searches, and scrutiny of the main author's writings, I am led to the conclusion that the name and subject matter of inversive ring geometry is probably entirely WP:OR. I could of course be mistaken. In the case that I'm correct, I'm inexperienced with this matter and I would appreciate guidance on how to follow up something like this. Thank you. Rschwieb (talk) 18:18, 14 December 2012 (UTC) * Have you tried asking the editor who wrote the early versions of the article? They are still active on Wikipedia. Deltahedron (talk) 18:32, 14 December 2012 (UTC) * I will, but part of my goal was to get people other than the original author looking at it too. Rschwieb (talk) 21:03, 14 December 2012 (UTC) * I should also rephrase my original post here. My reading is that the title might be WP:OR, and that the contents are a WP:SYNTHESIS of ideas appearing in several disparate sources, most of them primary. I'm still trying to convince myself that there really is such a term, or if it's just an extension of ordinary ideas that someone studied. If it is this latter case, then it is probably not notable enough for its own article. Rschwieb (talk) 03:04, 16 December 2012 (UTC) * I see your point. The phrase "Inversive ring geometry" does not appear in ZMATH and the article does not appear to be about inversive geometry over a ring, or about geometry over an inversive ring (this concept does exist but there is as yet no Wikipedia article on the subject). Is there an independent reliable source that uses this phrase, or alternatively a single source that discusses the topic of this article as a whole under some other name? Deltahedron (talk) 17:23, 16 December 2012 (UTC) * You can take a look at the author's responses on his talkpage which have been a little illuminating. The responses so far seem to indicate he invented the title. I am still asking questions about the notability of the content. I think that two or three of the references are texts (meaning that they are potentially secondary resources), and the rest seem to be century-old primary sources. The Yalgom and Benz references are all either foreign language or translated from foreign language, and I haven't been able to tell if they are truly secondary or not. It kind of sounds like they just chased down extensions of a few well-known ideas. In that case it would make more sense if this content existed as a short section under more notable sections, rather than having a page of its own with an invented title. Rschwieb (talk) 14:25, 17 December 2012 (UTC) * In fact, this seems to be a part of a larger pattern of contributions by User:Rgdboer that happened from 2004-2006. I've found more than a handful of similar articles written during that time. The pattern is that he holds the lion's share of edits in these articles, which often seem to give undue importance to some obscure historical topics. (I am not saying the contents should disappear completely, I just think their location and presentation needs to be reevaluated. For example, do we really need an article on 2_%C3%97_2_real_matrices?) There might be some serious inclusion issues. At worst I would guess some of the contents belong in different articles, and at best I think someone needs to seriously evaluate the references given. I have already removed a few self-citations by the editor, especially because they were just links to biography webpages. Part of the pattern can perhaps be excused as an editor acclimating to the editing process here. Rschwieb (talk) 18:46, 17 December 2012 (UTC) * The author says that the article "blends inversive geometry with ring (mathematics) or ring theory", but that does not seem to be the case. The article begins "Not to be confused with Inversive geometry" and indeed inversive geometry is not based on "the concepts of projective line, homogeneous coordinates, projective transformations, and cross-ratio". The article in question appears to be an extension of projective algebraic geometry to non-commutative rings, and as such might be an elementary form of Noncommutative geometry. However, what is needed is a reliable source that presents this material as a whole, or at least, which states the nature of the subject and its relationship to the other topics already mentioned. We traditionally have a fairly liberal attitude to essays presenting mathematical topics, but they do need to have a sound basis in the literature. Deltahedron (talk) 19:06, 17 December 2012 (UTC) You've definitely captured and/or confirmed my feelings on this matter. After allowing more time for him to respond, I'll ask about a course of action here again. No matter the resolution, the next article that seems to need the same examination is motor variable. I appreciate your attention so far, and hope you can spare a moment to take a look at that one too. Rschwieb (talk) 14:16, 18 December 2012 (UTC) * ... which should be merged into split-complex number; it is simply another (and archaic) name for this, and should not have its own article. — Quondum 14:28, 18 December 2012 (UTC) * I'm not sure where it should go to, actually. So we all get "function of a real (or complex) variable". His original intent seems to have been to make pages for such functions for quaternion and split-quaternion functions, however he arrived at the unfortunate choice of "motor variable" and "quaternion variable". ("Real variable" redirects to "function of a real variable" and "complex variable" redirects to "complex analysis"). Maybe they can be combined into a single article on "functions of hypercomplex variables"?Rschwieb (talk) 21:22, 18 December 2012 (UTC) * Ignoring the naming problem for now, in principle, I think merging into each of the hypercomplex number articles (real number, complex number, split-complex number, quaternion, bicomplex number etc.) is more appropriate than an overlap article such as "functions of hypercomplex variables", which would in any event possibly be WP:SYNTH. Once a section gets too involved, it gets split off as a "subarticle", but should not be started as a stub or start-class article until then. IMO, anyway. — Quondum 06:29, 19 December 2012 (UTC) * Well, as amusing as I find the insinuation I'm committing precisely the same mistake I am trying to clean up, let me give a reason why I recommended that. There appear to be lots of secondary resources for hypercomplex function analysis. Try "hypercomplex variable" and "hypercomplex analysis" in googlebooks. Doing the same in googlescholar also shows fresh research in the past four years with the same keywords. * I have noticed now that "hypercomplex analysis" redirects to "Clifford analysis" which also gets plenty of hits. The problem is that Clifford analysis seems to be an abstruse physics topic rather than an analogue of complex analysis. To parallel the linkage we have now for reals and complexes, wouldn't it make sense to make "hyperbolic analysis" its own page, if the secondary resources bear out the coherence and notability? (With pointers to Clifford analysis, where appropriate.) Rschwieb * As an aside, Rgdboer has told me that "motor variable" was actually the word Clifford used, however I disagree with him on deciding to use that. He recently added that the term is used in the article "for euphony and tradition" which are not very encyclopedic reasons, in this case. It would be better to choose the more recognizable and widespread term, rather than a single (albeit the first) author. Rschwieb (talk) 14:26, 19 December 2012 (UTC) * My theory that "hypercomplex analysis" is the right term will collapse here if it is only ever used for Clifford analysis... I've been browsing the books and it looks a little that way. I hope others reading might have a gauge on it. Rschwieb (talk) 14:33, 19 December 2012 (UTC) * I guess I should withdraw my comment if the notability of general hypercomplex numbers (and in particular related topics e.g. functions over them) are referred to in secondary sources. Perhaps I shoot from the hip a bit too quickly. I do tend to concur that the title "motor variable" could be changed; it is current usage that should determine titles, not historical usage. If the article does not change but is renamed, the title should include the phrase "split-complex". I can't yet comment on "hypercomplex analysis" though. — Quondum 18:47, 19 December 2012 (UTC) Foundations of geometry Foundations of geometry is a new article. It but it has potential IMO. So have fun with it. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:55, 19 December 2012 (UTC) * is a stub; and * lacks references; and * may have other issues; Hawking birthday TFA Is anyone available to review Talk:Stephen Hawking to prepare the article for a possible mainpage appearance on his birthday? Thanks in advance, Sandy Georgia (Talk) 22:54, 19 December 2012 (UTC) Deletion of Determination of the day of the week? See Articles for deletion/Determination of the day of the week. Don't just say Keep or Delete; explain your rationale. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:15, 19 December 2012 (UTC) I'm observing with interest to see whether any of you get around to. Uncle G (talk) 14:33, 20 December 2012 (UTC) Article Count vs total Assessment numbers I was pleased to find that there are more than 2800 articles in the project, which is mentioned here on the project page. I was also pleased to find that there are fewer than 200 articles in need of assessment, which is found here on the project page. However, the total number of articles in the assessment table (~10,500) is much less than the number of articles (>28,000). Clearly there are many articles not in being assessed - some of them are important, and even some good, such as Implicit function theorem. This is a major issue. Does anyone know the reason, or a way that I could help? Thanks, Brent Perreault (talk) 15:06, 20 December 2012 (UTC) * The best way to help is to assess math articles you edit that are not yet assessed. There are three reasons that we do not have assessments on every article on the List of mathematics articles: * The list is intentionally very broad, but talk page tagging should not be quite that broad. Some articles on the list are only tangentially related to mathematics, such as Euro club index. Only a human can decide whether an article is sufficiently in our scope to warrant including it in the table of article statistics. * We would like editors to fill in the assessment information (quality, priority, field) when they add the talk page tag. Since we already have a list of mathematics articles, there's no benefit in having a duplicate of that list; the article tag is just for ratings info. If we added "unassessed" tags to thousands of articles, it would not give us any information that we don't already have. The 200 articles you mentioned require human attention to go back and add ratings information - that can be done in a few sessions of work, but 10,000 articles cannot. * It takes human effort to add the ratings information, and this is a limited resource. * Please do add the rating tag maths rating to any math article that doesn't already have it, along with the assessment information. There are some tools on my user page that can help you list articles by category that do not have math ratings. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:17, 20 December 2012 (UTC) * Is there a collection somewhere (like in Pages needing attention/Mathematics/Lists) of articles that are known to the bots as being mathematics articles but that do not have a maths rating banner? That would give the people who want to add these sort of ratings somewhere to start. It would be easy to set up a bot to add empty banners to them all but I think that's probably a bad idea because of the reasons you list. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:39, 20 December 2012 (UTC) * Since there are thousands of them, I believe that a category-by-category list is more useful, because most editors will be more comfortable in some areas than others. If you use this tool it will let you navigate the category tree and see which articles in each category are not tagged. The list is dynamically generated on the toolserver, so it is automatically updated. — Carl (CBM · talk) 19:43, 20 December 2012 (UTC) Teorema del mono infinito I note that es:teorema de los infinitos monos has been moved to es:teorema del mono infinito, with an edit summary Traducción correcta. I suspect that the person who moved it is being overly literal. In English we don't say theorem of infinitely many monkeys because it's just a bit labored. But my intuition (unreliable, as I don't speak Spanish very well) is that it's hard to avoid reading teorema del mono infinito as being about a single, infinite monkey rather than infinitely many monkeys. (Granted, a single monkey that's infinite in the sense of being infinitely long-lived and willing to type forever gets you the same result, but this is not the usual metaphor.) My Spanish is not good enough to engage the issue on es.wiki, but perhaps someone here who does speak Spanish would be interested in doing so? --Trovatore (talk) 19:33, 20 December 2012 (UTC) html to latex changes I've reverted recent changes to Kruskal–Katona theorem‎ that replaced some (but not all) inline html formulas with latex, but they were restored with a request to quote a specific policy. My recollection is that in the past such changes were discouraged and reverted. Is there a policy or guideline that governs this situation? I was not able to find anything at WP:Math, for example. Arcfrk (talk) 00:04, 21 December 2012 (UTC) * Everyone has their own opinion about which of LaTeX or HTML is better, and Math lists some pros and cons for each. In other contexts such as citations, policy recommends getting consensus before changing a prevailing style, and I think this commonsense principle applies here. It is not mentioned in WP:MATH, but it probably should be. RockMagnetist (talk) 00:55, 21 December 2012 (UTC) * However, MOS:MATH says "Having LaTeX-based formulae in-line which render as PNG under the default user settings, as above, is generally discouraged, for the following reasons." Nevertheless, in this case, the changes have been done for badly formatted html formulas, containing a "-" with a space before if but without one after. Thus I suggest to revert to corrected html formulas. D.Lazard (talk) 02:03, 21 December 2012 (UTC) Fractions Why are fractions hard to most people? — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:18, 21 December 2012 (UTC) * That question is better suited to the Reference desk. RockMagnetist (talk) 19:40, 21 December 2012 (UTC) * Indeed. This page is for discussions of editing and organizing Wikipedia's mathematics articles. Michael Hardy (talk) 04:38, 23 December 2012 (UTC) Article listed for deletion Warning that you'd be coming has been given. You have your choice of logic and philosophy textbooks by professors to cite. Feel free to mention the examples from Aquinas, Aristotle, and Locke if you want to get into the philosophy in addition to the logic. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 01:19, 23 December 2012 (UTC) * Articles for deletion/Gyula J. Obádovics could use additional input. Tkuvho (talk) 09:53, 25 December 2012 (UTC) Missing eponym in Blancmange curve In Blancmange curve, there is a mention of the "Takagi–Landsberg curve" (a generalization that includes the blancmange curve). The same name does appear in a few publications such as this one, but I haven't found out who Landsberg is/was or what connection he/she has with the curve. Any suggestions? —David Eppstein (talk) 02:22, 26 December 2012 (UTC) * Never mind, I found it from a reference in one of Mandelbrot's books. It's Georg Landsberg — new article created. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:44, 26 December 2012 (UTC) Images by User:Aughost Can some other editors look at the contributions of. They recently consist of adding images to articles which have numerous problems; they are usually too large, generally too complex so need overlong captions (which are also unclear), and often only marginally related to the article. Some can be fixed with better sizing, comments and placement but others should be removed. But some of my attempts to remedy this have been undone,, , and as it's across multiple articles I thought It's best discussed somewhere centrally.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 17:53, 28 December 2012 (UTC) * Yes, [this editor's Contribs page] shows evidence of warring on several pages including stellation, Regular polyhedron, Golden ratio and probably more. You have posted on their talk page, I have added my own comment there, so if that doesn't work I guess an Admin will need to get dragged in. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 20:17, 28 December 2012 (UTC) * In connection with this editor (or someone indistinguishable from him) please see also Commons:Commons:Categories for discussion/2012/12/Category:Pythagorean tiling. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:08, 28 December 2012 (UTC) * I had a look at and there are a few which are okay but in general they seem unnecessarily complex and messy. I guess Baelde must be the same as Aughost - don't know why they use two different names. If they are actually warring to shove the images in that's bad and a great pity. I hope there is the possibility for helping the person perhaps make things simpler and try and look at things from other peoples' point of view. Dmcq (talk) 01:33, 29 December 2012 (UTC) Possible useful information This alleges to be novel and useful. If it truly is novel, then Wikipedia is the wrong place for it, as per Original Research; however, I only have a passing familiarity with the subject at hand, and so can't really judge if this is actually novel, or just a restatement of something we already have, or possibly a restatement of something we don't have but should. There's also the question of, if it is novel, is it actually useful? (I frankly doubt it, but as I said, I'm not fit to judge this). Thoughts? DS (talk) 14:39, 31 December 2012 (UTC) * This might be novel as announced but wiki coverage would have to wait until Italia, Peter actually publishes his discoveries in a reliable venue. Unpublished manuscripts cannot be covered in wiki. Tkuvho (talk) 14:46, 31 December 2012 (UTC) * It doesn't seem to be a restatement of some already well-known procedure for numerical integration. Indeed, one would expect it not to be, since this method relies on being able to differentiate the function which is generally much less numerically robust than integration. It's doubtful that one can prove any good error estimates using the proposed method. Sławomir Biały (talk) 15:02, 31 December 2012 (UTC) RfC at WikiProject Numbers There is currently a Request for Comment here, which is discussing how much non-mathematical material belongs in articles about numbers. Please contribute your ideas. -- YPN YPN ✡ 16:32, 31 December 2012 (UTC)	WIKI
@article {Darnell1131, author = {Malin Darnell and Thomas Schreiter and Katrin Zeilinger and Thomas Urbaniak and Therese S{\"o}derdahl and Ingrid Rossberg and Birgitta Dilln{\'e}r and Anna-Lena Berg and J{\"o}rg C. Gerlach and Tommy B. Andersson}, title = {Cytochrome P450-Dependent Metabolism in HepaRG Cells Cultured in a Dynamic Three-Dimensional Bioreactor}, volume = {39}, number = {7}, pages = {1131--1138}, year = {2011}, doi = {10.1124/dmd.110.037721}, publisher = {American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics}, abstract = {Reliable and stable in vitro cellular systems maintaining specific liver functions important for drug metabolism and disposition are urgently needed in preclinical drug discovery and development research. The cell line HepaRG exhibits promising properties such as expression and function of drug-metabolizing enzymes and transporter proteins, which resemble those found in freshly isolated human hepatocytes. In this study, HepaRG cells were cultured up to 68 days in a three-dimensional multicompartment capillary membrane bioreactor, which enables high-density cell culture under dynamic conditions. The activity of drug-metabolizing cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes was investigated by a cocktail of substrates for CYP1A1/2 (phenacetin), CYP2C9 (diclofenac), CYP2B6 (bupropion), and CYP3A4 (midazolam). The model P450 substrates, which were introduced to the bioreactor system mimicking in vivo bolus doses, showed stable metabolism over the entire experimental period of several weeks with the exception of bupropion hydroxylase, which increased over time. Ketoconazole treatment decreased the CYP3A4 activity by 69\%, and rifampicin induced the CYP3A4- and CYP2B6-dependent activity 6-fold, which predicts well the magnitude of changes observed in vivo. Moreover, polarity of transporter expression and formation of tissue-like structures including bile canaliculi were demonstrated by immune histochemistry. The long-lasting bioreactor system using HepaRG cells thus provides a promising and stable liver-like in vitro model for continuous investigations of the hepatic kinetics of drugs and of drug-drug interactions, which well predict the situation in vivo in humans.}, issn = {0090-9556}, URL = {https://dmd.aspetjournals.org/content/39/7/1131}, eprint = {https://dmd.aspetjournals.org/content/39/7/1131.full.pdf}, journal = {Drug Metabolism and Disposition} }	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Cross & Passion College (Ballycastle) Cross & Passion College, Ballycastle is a co-educational secondary school in Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It contains over 750 pupils and over 50 members of staff. It has about 45 classrooms a cafeteria a sports hall a gym and an assembly hall. It also has a handball area, tennis courts, a gravel pitch and a grass pitch. They have a hurling team, camogie team, football team and a netball team''' History The college first opened in 1913 in Market Street, Ballycastle and later moved to the present site on Moyle Road. The school became co-educational in 1963. During the 1970s, it was decided that Cross and Passion Convent Grammar School should merge with Star of the Sea Secondary School, forming one of the first, and currently most successful, all-ability schools in Northern Ireland. Academics The college offers a full range of subjects from 11 to 18 years. Pupils in Years 11 to 14 enjoy the benefits of a very close collaborative arrangement with Ballycastle High School, which enables both schools to offer a greater choice and a broad, balanced curriculum. In 2018, 71.7% of its entrants achieved five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C, including the core subjects English and Maths. Also in 2018, 75.9% of its entrants to the A-level exam achieved A-C grades. in 2019 the school was ranked 9th out of 159 secondary schools in Northern Ireland with 89.1% of its A-level students who sat the exams in 2017–18 being awarded three A-C grades. Developments Following increasing collaboration between the college and Ballycastle High School, there are now plans for a shared campus. Currently, in excess of 300 pupils from both schools share lessons on a weekly basis. The schools share much of the curriculum at Key Stage 4 & 5. Pupils from both schools have a Joint Student Council which meets regularly.	WIKI
Parallel feedback loops control the basal activity of the HOG MAPK signaling cascade Hoda Sharifian, Fabienne Lampert, Klement Stojanovski, Sergi Regot, Stefania Vaga, Raymond Buser, Sung Sik Lee, Heinz Koeppl, Francesc Posas, Serge Pelet, Matthias Peter Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review Abstract Tight regulation of the MAP kinase Hog1 is crucial for survival under changing osmotic conditions. Interestingly, we found that Hog1 phosphorylates multiple upstream components, implying feedback regulation within the signaling cascade. Taking advantage of an unexpected link between glucose availability and Hog1 activity, we used quantitative single cell measurements and computational modeling to unravel feedback regulation operating in addition to the well-known adaptation feedback triggered by glycerol accumulation. Indeed, we found that Hog1 phosphorylates its activating kinase Ssk2 on several sites, and cells expressing a non-phosphorylatable Ssk2 mutant are partially defective for feedback regulation and proper control of basal Hog1 activity. Together, our data suggest that Hog1 activity is controlled by intertwined regulatory mechanisms operating with varying kinetics, which together tune the Hog1 response to balance basal Hog1 activity and its steady-state level after adaptation to high osmolarity. This journal is Original languageEnglish (US) Pages (from-to)412-422 Number of pages11 JournalIntegrative Biology (United Kingdom) Volume7 Issue number4 DOIs StatePublished - Apr 1 2015 Externally publishedYes ASJC Scopus subject areas • Biophysics • Biochemistry Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Parallel feedback loops control the basal activity of the HOG MAPK signaling cascade'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Cite this	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
File system check failed If none of the more specific forums is the right place to ask File system check failed Postby interior.ocean » 2011-02-10 10:57 My system from and after that at startup as it was doing a file system check I got this: Checking file systems ... fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) /dev/sda1: clean, 30/124496 files 34735/248976 blocks /dev/hda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev hda1: Inode 16728084 has illegal block(s). /dev/hda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. fsck died with exit status 4 failed (code4). File system check failed. A log is being saved in var/log/fsck/checkfs if that location is writable. Please repair the file system manually. failed! A maintenance shell will now be started. CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and resume system boot. (warning) Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): I have no idea (once again) what I should do about this. I went on battery power to skip the check so I could come look for a solution, but not sure if that was a wise thing to do. /var/log/fsck/checkfs doesn't tell anything new. interior.ocean Posts: 22 Joined: 2010-12-18 10:40 Re: File system check failed Postby Hallvor » 2011-02-10 11:17 Did you try running fsck manually? Intel Core i5 3320-M CPU @ 2.60 GHz, 6 GB RAM, Intel HD 4000 graphics, 300 GB HDD, Debian Stretch (KDE) User avatar Hallvor Posts: 739 Joined: 2009-04-16 18:35 Location: Norway Re: File system check failed Postby interior.ocean » 2011-02-10 13:02 I have no idea how to do that. Other than fixing the problem, I'd like to know what caused it so I can prevent it from happening again. interior.ocean Posts: 22 Joined: 2010-12-18 10:40 Re: File system check failed Postby Hallvor » 2011-02-10 13:12 The easiest is to run a file system check from a livecd, for instance (as root): Code: Select all umount -a e2fsck -y -f -v /dev/hda1 Intel Core i5 3320-M CPU @ 2.60 GHz, 6 GB RAM, Intel HD 4000 graphics, 300 GB HDD, Debian Stretch (KDE) User avatar Hallvor Posts: 739 Joined: 2009-04-16 18:35 Location: Norway Re: File system check failed Postby michapma » 2011-02-10 14:37 interior.ocean wrote:I have no idea how to do that. C'mon, you can do better than than. If you've no idea, then the best thing to do is inform yourself. By the way, continuing to use the system when a filesystem check is needed is a bad idea, since it could mess up any bogus data structures even worse. Would be best to use a different computer to research the problem. http://linux.about.com/od/lsa_guide/a/gdelsa35t08.htm interior.ocean wrote:Other than fixing the problem, I'd like to know what caused it so I can prevent it from happening again. You probably can't know for sure, but the classic example is due to the filesystem not being shutdown properly, as in power interrupt or a hard reset. http://adminschoice.com/repairing-unix-file-system-fsck User avatar michapma Posts: 516 Joined: 2008-05-04 20:49 Location: to the left of Zurich Re: File system check failed Postby interior.ocean » 2011-02-11 20:34 Hallvor wrote:The easiest is to run a file system check from a livecd, for instance (as root): Code: Select all umount -a e2fsck -y -f -v /dev/hda1 I don't have a cd drive. Can't I do it some other way? Also, I don't have an access to another computer and I need to use computer for school stuff, so can't use this one. My system has frozen lots of times without giving any error messages (sound freezes on a loop and none of the controls work and screen is frozen too), and sometimes there's a kernel failure. I've asked about these problems a few times (not sure if on these forums) and search the internet for a solution but without results as I have no idea what happened and why, and people haven't been able to help either. interior.ocean Posts: 22 Joined: 2010-12-18 10:40 Re: File system check failed Postby michapma » 2011-02-11 22:54 interior.ocean wrote: Hallvor wrote:The easiest is to run a file system check from a livecd, for instance (as root): Code: Select all umount -a e2fsck -y -f -v /dev/hda1 I don't have a cd drive. Can't I do it some other way? Also, I don't have an access to another computer and I need to use computer for school stuff, so can't use this one. My system has frozen lots of times without giving any error messages (sound freezes on a loop and none of the controls work and screen is frozen too), and sometimes there's a kernel failure. I've asked about these problems a few times (not sure if on these forums) and search the internet for a solution but without results as I have no idea what happened and why, and people haven't been able to help either. This implies that you're using the computer with a messed-up filesystem, which as has been pointed out risks further screwing it up. A live CD was suggested because fsck shouldn't be run on a mounted filesystem. But no, you don't need a live CD, you can run fsck manually from the maintenance shell. (Running fsck manually means without the -p or -a options, see the man page.) What happened is that fsck was checking the filesystem of /dev/hda1 when it detected a problem bad enough that it couldn't fix it itself. This is a serious problem and so instead of continuing it showed warning messages and dropped you to a maintenance shell. In maintenance mode, the root filesystem is mounted, but in read-only mode—it's an acceptable exception to not running fsck on a mounted filesystem. Read this. So here's what you can do: 1. Stop using the damaged filesystem! This means don't use it to research a solution on the net. Use a friend's computer, a library computer, or whatever is available. Print out or write down everything you'll need to remember. 2. The problem has probably persisted, the automatic fsck should still fail, and the system should drop into maintenance mode. Enter the root password. 3. If the system has not dropped into maintenance mode, you should run the fsck manually anyway. To do this, boot in single-user mode. There should be an option in the grub menu. (The following assumes grub-pc from squeeze; it's similar in grub-legacy.) If not, you can edit the existing menu entry by pressing "e." Edit the end of the line with "linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-blah root=UUID=[some-number-string]" to have the options ro and single at the end, with no other options. Press ctrl-x to boot when the editing is done. (Your edit will only be used once and will be discarded afterward.) 4. Now you're in a read-only shell with root access. If the filesystem type is ext2 or ext3, you can use the command e2fsck. Check out at least the description of its man page with "man e2fsck". Here's the command Hallvor gave you for reference: Code: Select all e2fsck -y -f -v /dev/hda1 Note you don't need to unmount with umount -a. The -y option means answer yes to all questions automatically; the -f option forces checking even if everything looks clean; -v means verbose, so it will tell you everything that goes on. If you'd like, omit the -y option and answer each question fsck poses. 5. If you're fortunate, fsck will be able to fix the problems and will notify you that all is okay. If that happens, you can exit maintenance or single-user with ctrl-d or by entering "exit", go on your way rejoicing and report your success here for the benefit of our egos and of course future solution-seekers. 6. If fsck is unable to fix problems, it's bad. Carefully note its messages and if possible extract the log files from /var/log/fsck/ and post here accordingly. Here's a reminder from a link previously posted, also available here: If fsck finds unrepairable problems, you need either in-depth knowledge of how filesystems work in general, and the type of the corrupt filesystem in particular, or good backups. If fsck fixes the problems and this is an isolated incidence, don't worry. If you start to see lots of checks going on, it could be a sign that your drive is reaching the end of its useful life. Either way, backup the valuable data from your drive. I use an external USB drive. Resources for you to print for reference: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/fsck.htm http://linux.die.net/man/8/e2fsck is that what you wanted? User avatar michapma Posts: 516 Joined: 2008-05-04 20:49 Location: to the left of Zurich Return to General Questions Who is online Users browsing this forum: RU55EL and 9 guests fashionable	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Lipid rafts are proposed to be ordered domains within the plasma membrane that comprise sphingolipids and sterols. They control numerous cellular processes, such as membrane lipid sorting and signalling pathways. For example, the removal of sphingomyelin or sterol affects endo- or phagocytotic trafficking, which suggests a role for lipid rafts in these processes. By substituting various sterols for cholesterol instead of removing it, Deborah Brown, Erwin London and colleagues (p. 2682) now assess the role of sterols and ordered plasma membrane domains during endocytosis. The authors find that a group of sterols is capable to reversibly inhibit both clathrin-mediated and clathrin-independent endocytosis. Interestingly, sterols need to be able to promote lipid raft formation for endocytosis to occur; however, this is not sufficient, as one sterol lacking the 3β-hydroxyl headgroup supported lipid raft formation, but not endocytosis. The authors further show that the presence of a double-bond in the sterol B-ring or the presence of an aliphatic tail identical to the structure of cholesterol are neither necessary nor sufficient for endocytosis. This study shows that the structure of sterol in the plasma membrane is important for both clathrin-mediated and -independent endocytosis, and that the ability to form ordered membrane domains and the presence of a 3β-OH group are essential for sterols to perform this task.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Elections in Northern Cyprus Elections in Northern Cyprus are organized to elect governments, presidents and representatives of local administrative bodies in Northern Cyprus, known as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Electoral system The presidency, which is served in five-year terms, was instituted with TRNC's first presidential election in 1985 and continued with the elections of 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005,2010 with the next election scheduled for April 2015. The legislature, Cumhuriyet Meclisi (Assembly of the Republic of Northern Cyprus), has 50 members, elected for a five-year term by mitigated proportional representation. The territory has a multi-party system, with two or three strong parties and another party which is also electorally successful. In the presidential election, a candidate must obtain at least 50% of the votes in order to secure a first-ballot victory. Upon failing to do so, the two top candidates compete in a runoff election, with the winner assuming the presidency. The mitigated proportional representation system in use for legislative elections obligates each party to cross the 5% of the total vote election threshold in order to be seated in the 50-member parliament, which is chosen from five districts: Lefkoşa, Gazimağusa, Girne, Güzelyurt and İskele. In the parliamentary elections, voters choose individual candidates with two options in the manner of voting: a party-line vote which, in effect, means a vote for each candidate from that party in that election district or, alternatively, the voter may choose different MP candidates from various parties. In this type of mixed voting, the voter may not choose more than the number of MPs from that district. Residents of Northern Cyprus are eligible to stand for election and vote in the national elections of the Republic of Cyprus, but not able to run for presidency (the Constitution states that a Turkish-Cypriot should be vice-president of the Republic). Turkish Cypriot communal representation in the Republic of Cyprus government de facto ended in 1963. Until 2004, the case of Ibrahim Aziz in the European Court of Human Rights, Turkish Cypriots could not vote in the Republic of Cyprus. Parliamentary elections In 2009 President Mehmet Ali Talat claimed that in 1990 and 1998 Turkish government officials along with other influential powers from Turkey interfered with the Parliamentary Elections.	WIKI
We help IT Professionals succeed at work. IPSEC tunnels of Cisco ISR routers a9562055 a9562055 asked on The link below states the max tunnels each cisco device can establish. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps6537/ps6586/ps6635/ps7180/prod_brochure09186a00801f0a72_ps8768_Products_Brochure.html My questions are, 1. What is the IOS cli command to check how many tunnels are established presently, say on ISR 2800 series? 2. What is the meaning of "Maximum number of IPSec Tunnels" ? Does this mean a . The maximum number of configuration below for example, crypto isakmp key 6 toshin10 address 172.25.21.1 OR b. The maximum number of SAs below for example One ACLs for one SA. Therefore, if we have 6 ACLs, 6 SAs are created. Also, routers at counter part creates 6 SAs. Altogether we have 12 SAs. ip access-list extended IPsec-JA_LIST permit ip 148.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 172.17.100.0 0.0.3.255 permit ip 148.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 172.17.104.0 0.0.3.255 permit ip 148.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 172.17.201.0 0.0.0.255 permit ip 148.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 148.247.0.0 0.0.255.255 permit ip 148.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 186.156.0.0 0.3.255.255 permit ip 148.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 186.160.0.0 0.3.255.255 Regards. Comment Watch Question Commented: You can try Rtr# show crypto ipsec sa Rtr# show crypto isakmp sa Les MooreSr. Systems Engineer Top Expert 2008 Commented: Generally speaking, the total number of IPSEC tunnels is the number of simultaneous established VPN tunnels or active SA's. John MeggersNetwork Architect Commented: Remember the SAs are unidirectional, so you'll see two for each IPSec connection.	ESSENTIALAI-STEM
Friedrich Lennig Johann Friedrich Lennig, also known as Fritz Lennig (3 November 1796, Mainz - 6 April 1838, Mainz) was a German poet, who wrote in the Hessian dialects. Life and work His father was a prosperous merchant. He attended the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium and studied philosophy at the Mainz Seminary. After that, he went to St. Gallen, where he learned the process of making canvases for painting, which was one of his father's principal stocks-in-trade. This proved to be an unsatisfying activity, one for which he was, perhaps, overeducated, so he returned to Mainz in 1818. There, he devoted himself to literary pursuits, which included producing a German translation of the Lay of the Last Minstrel, a long poem by Sir Walter Scott. He initially wrote his poems in Standard German as well as in the Rhenish dialect. In his efforts to reproduce the dialect in detail, he made numerous visits to the rural areas surrounding Mainz, and took meticulous notes when he heard farmers selling their wares at the market near his home. In addition to his poems, he wrote works in the popular "Posse mit Gesang" (Farce with Singing) genre. His works depict ordinary people, held up to a satirical mirror. Most represent a type known as the "Palatinate Farmer". His first published work came in 1824 with Etwas zum Lachen (Something to Laugh About), which was first sold anonymously at a local bookstore in Mainz. Later editions carried his name. In January 1838, he became one of the founders of the Mainzer Carneval-Verein. He died later that year, at the age of forty-one, from typhus. His parents' home, where he was born, is still known as the "Lennighaus". A street has also been named after him. His younger brother, Adam Franz Lennig, was a Catholic theologian and served as a Dean. Selected works * Etwas zum Lachen (Something to Laugh About), illustrated by Edmund Harburger. 11th edition, Kirchheim, 1938. (Online) * Die Weinproben (A Sampling) (1836, Online)	WIKI

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