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Section 133
Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, November 3, 1831. Prefacing this revelation, Joseph Smith's history states, "At this time there were many things which the Elders desired to know relative to preaching the Gospel to the inhabitants of the earth, and concerning the gathering; and in order to walk by the true light, and be instructed from on high, on the 3rd of November, 1831, I inquired of the Lord and received the following important revelation." This section was first added to the book of Doctrine and Covenants as an appendix and was subsequently assigned a section number.
1–6, The Saints are commanded to prepare for the Second Coming; 7–16, All men are commanded to flee from Babylon, come to Zion, and prepare for the great day of the Lord; 17–35, He will stand on Mount Zion, the continents will become one land, and the lost tribes of Israel will return; 36–40, The gospel was restored through Joseph Smith to be preached in all the world; 41–51, The Lord will come down in vengeance upon the wicked; 52–56, It will be the year of His redeemed; 57–74, The gospel is to be sent forth to save the Saints and for the destruction of the wicked.
1 Hearken, O ye people of my church, saith the Lord your God, and hear the word of the Lord concerning you—
2 The Lord who shall suddenly acome to his temple; the Lord who shall come down upon the world with a curse to bjudgment; yea, upon all the nations that cforget God, and upon all the ungodly among you.
3 For he shall make abare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the bsalvation of their God.
4 Wherefore, prepare ye, prepare ye, O my people; sanctify yourselves; gather ye together, O ye people of my church, upon the land of Zion, all you that have not been commanded to atarry.
5 Go ye out from aBabylon. Be ye bclean that bear the vessels of the Lord.
6 Call your asolemn assemblies, and bspeak often one to another. And let every man call upon the name of the Lord.
7 Yea, verily I say unto you again, the time has come when the voice of the Lord is unto you: Go ye out of Babylon; agather ye out from among the nations, from the bfour winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
8 Send forth the elders of my church unto the anations which are afar off; unto the bislands of the sea; send forth unto foreign lands; call upon all nations, first upon the cGentiles, and then upon the Jews.
9 And behold, and lo, this shall be their cry, and the voice of the Lord unto all people: Go ye forth unto the land of Zion, that the borders of my people may be enlarged, and that her astakes may be strengthened, and that bZion may go forth unto the regions round about.
10 Yea, let the cry go forth among all people: Awake and arise and go forth to meet the aBridegroom; behold and lo, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Prepare yourselves for the bgreat day of the Lord.
11 aWatch, therefore, for ye bknow neither the day nor the hour.
12 Let them, therefore, who are aamong the Gentiles flee unto bZion.
13 And let them who be of aJudah flee unto bJerusalem, unto the cmountains of the Lord's dhouse.
14 Go ye aout from among the nations, even from bBabylon, from the midst of cwickedness, which is spiritual Babylon.
15 But verily, thus saith the Lord, let not your flight be in ahaste, but let all things be prepared before you; and he that goeth, let him bnot look back lest sudden destruction shall come upon him.
16 Hearken and hear, O ye inhabitants of the earth. aListen, ye elders of my church together, and hear the voice of the Lord; for he calleth upon all men, and he commandeth all men everywhere to brepent.
17 For behold, the Lord God hath asent forth the angel crying through the midst of heaven, saying: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and make his paths straight, for the hour of his bcoming is nigh—
18 When the aLamb shall stand upon bMount Zion, and with him a chundred and forty-four thousand, having his Father's name written on their foreheads.
19 Wherefore, prepare ye for the acoming of the Bridegroom; go ye, go ye out to meet him.
20 For behold, he shall astand upon the mount of Olivet, and upon the mighty ocean, even the great deep, and upon the islands of the sea, and upon the land of Zion.
21 And he shall autter his voice out of bZion, and he shall speak from Jerusalem, and his cvoice shall be heard among all people;
22 And it shall be a voice as the avoice of many waters, and as the voice of a great bthunder, which shall cbreak down the mountains, and the valleys shall not be found.
23 He shall command the great deep, and it shall be driven back into the north countries, and the aislands shall become one land;
24 And the aland of Jerusalem and the land of bZion shall be turned back into their own place, and the cearth shall be like as it was in the days before it was ddivided.
25 And the Lord, even the Savior, shall astand in the midst of his people, and shall breign over all flesh.
26 And they who are in the anorth countries shall come in remembrance before the Lord; and their prophets shall hear his voice, and shall no longer stay themselves; and they shall bsmite the rocks, and the ice shall flow down at their presence.
27 And an ahighway shall be cast up in the midst of the great deep.
28 Their enemies shall become a prey unto them,
29 And in the abarren deserts there shall come forth pools of bliving water; and the parched ground shall no longer be a thirsty land.
30 And they shall bring forth their rich atreasures unto the children of Ephraim, my servants.
31 And the boundaries of the everlasting ahills shall tremble at their presence.
32 And there shall they fall down and be acrowned with glory, even in Zion, by the hands of the servants of the Lord, even the children of bEphraim.
33 And they shall be filled with asongs of everlasting joy.
34 Behold, this is the ablessing of the beverlasting God upon the ctribes of dIsrael, and the richer blessing upon the head of eEphraim and his fellows.
35 And they also of the tribe of aJudah, after their pain, shall be bsanctified in choliness before the Lord, to dwell in his dpresence day and night, forever and ever.
36 And now, verily saith the Lord, that these things might be known among you, O inhabitants of the earth, I have sent forth mine aangel flying through the midst of heaven, having the everlasting bgospel, who hath appeared unto some and hath committed it unto man, who shall appear unto cmany that dwell on the earth.
37 And this agospel shall be bpreached unto cevery nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.
38 And the aservants of God shall go forth, saying with a loud voice: Fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come;
39 And aworship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the bfountains of waters—
40 Calling upon the name of the Lord day and night, saying: O that thou wouldst arend the heavens, that thou wouldst come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence.
41 And it shall be answered upon their heads; for the presence of the Lord shall be aas the melting fire that burneth, and as the fire which causeth the waters to boil.
42 O Lord, thou shalt come down to make thy name known to thine adversaries, and all nations shall tremble at thy presence—
43 When thou doest aterrible things, things they look not for;
44 Yea, when thou comest down, and the mountains flow down at thy presence, thou shalt ameet him who rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, who remembereth thee in thy ways.
45 For since the beginning of the world have not men heard nor perceived by the ear, neither hath any eye seen, O God, besides thee, how great things thou hast aprepared for him that bwaiteth for thee.
46 And it shall be said: aWho is this that cometh down from God in heaven with dyed bgarments; yea, from the regions which are not known, clothed in his glorious apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength?
47 And he shall say: aI am he who spake in brighteousness, mighty to save.
48 And the Lord shall be ared in his apparel, and his garments like him that treadeth in the wine-vat.
49 And so great shall be the glory of his presence that the asun shall hide his face in shame, and the moon shall withhold its light, and the stars shall be hurled from their places.
50 And his avoice shall be heard: I have btrodden the wine-press alone, and have brought judgment upon all people; and none were with me;
51 And I have atrampled them in my fury, and I did tread upon them in mine anger, and their blood have I bsprinkled upon my garments, and stained all my raiment; for this was the cday of vengeance which was in my heart.
52 And now the year of my aredeemed is come; and they shall mention the loving kindness of their Lord, and all that he has bestowed upon them according to his bgoodness, and according to his loving kindness, forever and ever.
53 In all their aafflictions he was afflicted. And the angel of his presence saved them; and in his blove, and in his pity, he credeemed them, and bore them, and carried them all the days of old;
54 Yea, and aEnoch also, and they who were with him; the prophets who were before him; and bNoah also, and they who were before him; and cMoses also, and they who were before him;
55 And from aMoses to Elijah, and from Elijah to John, who were with Christ in his bresurrection, and the holy apostles, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, shall be in the presence of the Lamb.
56 And the agraves of the bsaints shall be copened; and they shall come forth and stand on the dright hand of the Lamb, when he shall stand upon eMount Zion, and upon the holy city, the New Jerusalem; and they shall fsing the gsong of the hLamb, day and night forever and ever.
57 And for this cause, that men might be made apartakers of the bglories which were to be revealed, the Lord sent forth the fulness of his cgospel, his everlasting covenant, reasoning in plainness and simplicity—
58 To aprepare the bweak for those things which are coming on the earth, and for the Lord's errand in the day when the weak shall cconfound the dwise, and the little one become a estrong fnation, and two shall put their tens of thousands to gflight.
59 And by the weak things of the earth the Lord shall athresh the nations by the power of his Spirit.
60 And for this cause these commandments were given; they were commanded to be kept from the world in the day that they were given, but now are to ago forth unto ball flesh—
61 And this according to the mind and will of the Lord, who ruleth over all flesh.
62 And unto him that repenteth and asanctifieth himself before the Lord shall be given eternal life.
63 And upon them that ahearken not to the voice of the Lord shall be fulfilled that which was written by the prophet Moses, that they should be bcut off from among the people.
64 And also that which was written by the prophet aMalachi: For, behold, the bday cometh that shall cburn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do dwickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
65 Wherefore, this shall be the answer of the Lord unto them:
66 In that day when I came unto mine own, no man among you areceived me, and you were driven out.
67 When I called again there was none of you to answer; yet my aarm was not shortened at all that I could not redeem, neither my bpower to deliver.
68 Behold, at my rebuke I adry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink, and die for thirst.
69 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.
70 And athis shall ye have of my hand—ye shall lie down in sorrow.
71 Behold, and lo, there are none to deliver you; for ye aobeyed not my voice when I called to you out of the heavens; ye bbelieved not my servants, and when they were csent unto you ye received them not.
72 Wherefore, they sealed up the testimony and bound up the law, and ye were delivered over unto adarkness.
73 These shall go away into outer darkness, where there is aweeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
74 Behold the Lord your God hath spoken it. Amen.


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- St. Vincent de Paul;
- the color orange;
- Paris, France; and
- a pelican.
To those who have known me long, this will come as no surprise. I was an odd baby, a quizzical child, a peculiar teenager, and a strange young adult. Now, with dotage fast approaching, I share my apartment with a cigarette-smoking sheep and fifty balls of talking, homosexual sock yarn. Le Tricoteur Bizarre, c'est moi.
I offer the following two Unfinished Objects in support of my diagnosis.
Exhibit A: A Nearly-Finished Baby Surprise Jacket
Once again, I'm knitting for a baby with no baby in sight. Inexplicable. Especially as on the continuum of Inborn Parental Urge I lie somewhere between a bag of Fritos and the witch in Hansel and Gretel.
Exhibit B: A Single Poetry Mitten Cuff
I was so excited that I almost hyperventilated when a nice lady at Knitting Camp turned me onto a Piecework Magazine pattern for mittens with poetry worked into them. Oh yes please, I squealed, and ran right out to Arcadia Knitting and bought this perfectly luscious yarn in three colors, and the proper needles, and then I sat down and knit the first cuff all at once and then I stopped short.
Because the poem in the pattern, while appropriately wintery, is just not me. It doesn't speak to my experience of winter and mittens and snow. I simply can go no further until I've picked out verses that do, and fit them into the chart.
So for four weeks I've been staring at the cuff and rummaging through my library in search of Just the Right Poem.
I've considered the Shakespeare lyric "Blow, blow thou winter wind," but then I've thought it might be too pessimistic and does one really wish to look down at one's mittens and feel depressed?
I thought about Ezra Pound's 'Winter is icummen in" but worried that the repeated "Goddamm" might render the mittens unwearable at, for example, elegant holiday parties and job interviews. And again, there's the pessimism issue.
I tossed around some lovely winter haiku, but then I realized I hate haiku.
I've woken up at 3 a.m. seized with sudden inspiration, and jumped out of bed, and spent an hour paging through a stack of anthologies before realizing the poem I'd been thinking of doesn't actually exist.
And you may threat, cajole, or place a gun to my head, but I cannot continue with these mittens until the matter is settled. At this point, I expect I might finish them by July. Of 2009.
Since You Asked
Marie in Florida wanted to know what's on the little card on my altar. It changes from time to time–I write down lines from sutras, or koans, or what-have-you that seems appropriate for the time. Right now, I've got the Four Bodhisattvic Vows, which we say at the Zen Center after each period of zazen and which I recite every day:
All beings without numberRather a tall order, yes, but you gotta have a dream.
I vow to liberate.
Endless blind passions
I vow to uproot.
Dharma gates beyond measure
I vow to penetrate.
The Great Way of Buddha
I vow to attain.
(I wonder how those would look worked into a pair of mittens?)
*No, I don't anymore, and no, you shouldn't send me one. Thanks.


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Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. The city central business district stands on the original European settlement and is situated inside a bend of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The metropolitan area extends in all directions along the floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range, sprawling across several of Australia's most populous local government areas (LGAs), most centrally the City of Brisbane, which is by far the most populous LGA in the nation. Its positive attitude and creative confidence makes Brisbane a genuine new-world city. Even though the city is rapidly developing and forward-thinking, it maintains a youthful enthusiasm and has what is arguably the most vibrant, laid back and friendliest atmosphere of any east-coast capital city. It is also an energetic river town on the way up, with an edgy arts scene, pumping nightlife, and great coffee and restaurants!
Sydney is the largest and most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. The city is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. It is also the oldest and most cosmopolitan city in Australia with an enviable reputation as one of the world's most beautiful and liveable cities. Brimming with history, nature, culture, art, fashion, cuisine, design, Sydney's set next to miles of ocean coastline and sandy surf beaches. Long-term immigration has led to the cities reputation as one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse cities in Australia and the world. The city is also home to the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, two of the most iconic structures on this planet.
Cairns is a regional city in Far North Queensland, Australia. The city was named after William Wellington Cairns. It was formed to serve miners heading for the Hodgkinson River goldfield, but experienced a decline when an easier route was discovered from Port Douglas. It later developed into a railhead and major port for exporting sugar cane, gold and other metals, minerals and agricultural products from surrounding coastal areas and the Atherton Tableland region. Cairns is a popular travel destination for tourists because of its tropical climate and access to the Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, it is the smallest and most northerly of the Australian capital cities, and acts as the Top End's regional centre. Its popular waterfront area has several beaches and green areas like Bicentennial Park. Originally a pioneer outpost, the city itself is built on a low bluff overlooking the harbour. The Darwin region, like the rest of the Top End, has a tropical climate, with a wet and a dry season. The city is also noted for its consistently warm to hot climate, all throughout the year.
Singapore, an island city-state off southern Malaysia, is a global financial centre with a tropical climate and multicultural population. Founded as a British trading colony in 1819, since independence it has become one of the world's most prosperous countries and boasts the world's busiest port. Combining the skyscrapers and subways of a modern, affluent city with a medley of Chinese, Malay and Indian influences and a tropical climate, with tasty food, good shopping and a vibrant night-life scene, this Garden City makes a great stopover or springboard into the region. Singapore is often referred to as the Lion City, the Garden City and the Red Dot, and is the world's only sovereign island city-state. "Easiest place to do business" (World Bank) for ten consecutive years, most "Technology-ready" nation (EIU), top "International meetings city" (UIA), city with "Best investment potential" (BERI), 2nd-most competitive country (WEF), 3rd-largestforeign exchange centre, 4th-largest financial centre, 3rd-largest oil refining and trading centre and one of the top two busiest container ports since the 1990s.
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Benoa, on the Indonesian island of Bali, is a cruise port located closely to popular places like Nusa Dua, Sanur, Kuta and Denpasar.


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Whatever you already believed about raising the federal minimum wage, you now have more ammo for your argument, thanks to a report released Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office, titled "The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase on Employment and Family Income."
Yes, you're right: Raising the wage in steps to $10.10 an hour by 2016 would push employers to cut jobs — about 500,000 of them, says the CBO, the nonpartisan research arm of Congress.
And yes, you're right: The proposed raise would lift nearly 1 million Americans out of poverty and put billions into the wallets of workers who are eager to spend, the CBO says.
And yes, liberals and conservatives are scrambling to spotlight passages of the report that support their respective political positions.
The White House jumped on the CBO's conclusion that if Congress were to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10, then 16.5 million low-wage workers would get bigger paychecks, which could help stimulate slack consumer demand.
"It raises incomes and reduces poverty," Jason Furman, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, said on a phone call with journalists.
But while Furman was highlighting the positives, Republicans were pointing to the CBO's conclusion that a $10.10 wage would cause business owners to eliminate about 500,000 jobs to save on labor costs.
"With unemployment Americans' top concern, our focus should be creating — not destroying — jobs for those who need them most," Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement.
Democrats are calling a wage hike one of their top priorities. And polls consistently show the great majority of Americans support that position. Already, 21 states and many cities have imposed higher minimum wages — even as Congress holds the federal wage at the level last increased in July 2009.
But Republican members of Congress say a higher minimum wage would hurt small businesses and eliminate jobs for those who need them most, namely the lowest-skilled workers.
Here are some of the pluses and minuses of a wage hike, as the CBO sees it:
Positive Impacts Of A Higher Wage
- 16.5 million people earning less than $10.10 would get a raise. And those already getting $10.10 probably would get raises, too, from a ripple effect.
- After taking into account jobs cut and raises paid out, real income would rise overall by $2 billion.
- The wage boost would allow millions of workers to spend more, boosting demand for goods and services and stimulating growth.
- About 900,000 people would be lifted out of poverty.
Negative Impacts Of A Higher Wage
- Roughly 500,000 people would lose their jobs as employers cut payrolls to cope with higher labor costs.
- The federal budget would feel a pinch as the government raises wages for hourly employees. And the government may have to pay more for goods and services as suppliers charge higher prices to adjust to higher wages.
- Consumers could face rising prices as employers pass along some of their increased labor costs.
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Dear Lifehacker,
I know that the trend lately at Yahoo and now at Best Buy is that workers should stop working from home and come into the office, but I still think I can be productive at home. My coworkers agree with me, and we'd like to convince our boss to let us try it one day a week. How can we talk him into it?
Cubicle Prisoner
Dear Cubicle Prisoner,
If you want to work from home, don't give up hope just because a few companies have been backtracking on their own telecommuting policies. In the case of Yahoo and Best Buy, the decision to end their remote work programs was either for reasons specific to those companies or because both companies in dire straits (eg, they're taking out poor corporate performance on easy targets, or they're trying to make the work environment inhospitable enough that those workers either quit or get laid off, saving the company money.)
Whatever the reasons at Yahoo and Best Buy, don't assume that this is a global trend. More companies than ever before allow their workers to telecommute at least part of the workweek or on occasion when it's necessary (during inclement weather, sickness, or injury for example,) or let them work from their home offices because they want the talent that the whole world offers without forcing them to relocate and possibly losing them to a company that won't. With that in mind, you and your coworkers can put together a compelling case for your boss to let you work from home. Here's how.
Make Sure Your Job Is the Type that Can Be Done Remotely
It sounds like you've already determined that your job is the type that can be done from home, but it's important to make absolutely sure of this first. Ask yourself some of these questions:
Are there special tools only available on your office network or physically present in your office that you need every day?
Do you have the right equipment (eg, a printer, decent cell phone reception or a landline, steady internet access, etc) at home to do your job and a proper workspace in which to do it?
Do you have secure remote access (VPN, remote desktop, etc) to your office network for files, network shares, or other information that's only traditionally available at the office and isn't accessible over the web?
Do you have a computer you can work from at home, like an office-issued laptop or a solid desktop loaded with the OS, tools, and utilities you'll need for your job?
Once you're sure you have a home office and a nice place to get some work done while you're there, you should also make sure that you have the type of work that can be measured by results, not just by how many hours your butt is in a chair, being lorded over by a manager. If your boss or your company measures your performance by the work you do and the time required to do it, not just by how many hours you put into the office, you'll have a better chance at convincing your boss to let you work from home. Photo by C Jill Reed.
Unfortunately, many managers just don't believe they can properly manage or gauge someone's productivity if they can't physically see the person to see what they're doing, so even having a completely connected job and a well put-together home office won't help you there. Similarly, some jobs that require shift work, or need you to be physically present (retail, some customer service jobs, physical labor like warehouse stocking, for example) for some reason, won't be as easy to do from a remote location.
Start with Special Circumstances
Before you ask your boss to approve letting you work from home two days a week or more, be ready to make compromises. You may have to do this on a trial basis to make sure it works out well for you and other people in your department who may want to take advantage of the program. You may also need to lower your expectations and agree to do it only in cases of inclement weather, special projects that require serious focus, or extraordinary circumstances. If that's the case, negotiate, but give it a whirl: being able to work from home when you don't feel like driving in the snow or when you have a ton of reports to crank out and need a little peace and quiet is better than not being able to work from home at all. Photo by Jason Persse.
Over time, as you prove that you can be productive and trusted to do your job without your boss's eyes watching you (this works best if you already have a boss that trusts you) it won't be an issue to make working remotely a more regular affair.
Learn to Be a Master Communicator and Check-In/Follow Up
When I was a manager and was managed in a job where I could work from home part of the time, I had to learn to follow up as regularly as possible. Keeping those lines of communication open is probably the biggest way you'll make sure your working from home experiment will be a success with everyone involved. Here are a few tips:
Ask your boss how you should best communicate with them while you're at home. The answer may vary from person to person, but one thing that many managers fear when their employees start working from home is that they won't be able to communicate with them effectively. Or rather, they already have communication problems and distance makes it more difficult to make sure they're working on the right priorities, making progress, and that they're available to help if their employee runs into any roadblocks. Head all of those concerns off at the pass by asking your boss ahead how to address them, and make resulting fixes part of your telework plan. Photo by Irish Typepad.
Set aside time at the beginning and the end of the day to check in with your boss, if they'd like you to. A quick phone call will suffice just to replace a normal beginning and end of day chat to see what's going on and what you've accomplished that day.
Use video chat and IM to keep lines of communication open while you work. It doesn't take much time to start a Google Hangout, make a Skype call, or even send a quick IM to make sure that you're on top of something or just see how things are going. Again, you should be focused on your work, but video chat is a great way to get a little face time and prove that yes, you're up, at the keys, and not just lounging on the couch with your laptop while you watch TV. IM is a great way to chat quickly without being too distracting.
Being available and regularly in touch will be your strongest tool in making sure that both your boss and everyone else who's stuck at the office while you're home are all happy with the idea of you working from home, even if they're not. Plus, being open to these options helps build the kind of trust that's essential to telecommuting. It's unfortunate that so many offices still lack the kind of basic trust that their employees will do their work even if they're not sitting at their assigned desks, but it really is the biggest obstacle to telework in most companies.
Make Your Time at Home Really Worth Your While
It almost goes without saying, but the best way to convince your company to let you work from home periodically is to really do great work when you have the opportunity to work from home. You don't have to commute, so use your commuting time to clean up your inbox instead of doing it during the day, or get a headstart on your work. You don't have to commute home either, so use that time to follow up with your boss and fill them in on what you accomplished while you were telecommuting. Photo by Logan Ingalls.
Remember, it's not just your productivity that matters when you're in the office. The productivity of your coworkers and the way you all rely on each other as a team can be compromised when people are out and working remotely—it may be more comfortable to be at home, but it can be difficult for others to swing by your desk and ask you a quick question about something you're working on, or get your input on something they need your expertise with. The same applies to your boss. Even the sense of team that your department or coworkers may share will take a hit when you're not around.
Being open and available at home will alleviate a lot of this, so use that to your advantage. I used to have my desk phone routed to my cell so people calling me at work would get me at home, and I would frequently sit on IM and video chat ready for incoming connections in case anyone wanted to chat while I was busy working. At the end of the day though, make sure you take advantage of your situation by doing great work. Then no one can dispute that working from home works for you.
Don't Forget the Small Stuff
There are a few things you won't want to forget when you're working from home that, while not important to convincing your boss to let you do it, are still important to making sure you have a professional appearance and atmosphere in your home office. For example:
Dress like you're working. You don't have to go full business casual (although we've mentioned this before as one way to stay productive while working from home) but a video conference while you're wearing PJs and clearly have bed head isn't going to go over well with everyone who had to make the commute into the office that day. Also, don't' forget to put on pants: I've been on a video conference with someone who wore a nice shirt, but when they had to get up to pick up something they fell, we all saw he was in his boxers. Photo by Brett Selvitelle.
Clean up your home office. Again, it doesn't have to be spotless, but it should look like a place where you get work done, especially if you're going to be on camera. Bookshelves behind you, some knick-knacks, things like that are okay, but if all your coworkers see if a floor littered with children's toys or your bed in the background, they're going to wonder, and appearances are important when you're telecommuting.
Keep out the distractions. Both for yourself and for anyone you may be on a conference call or video chat with. Your pets, kids, and family should understand that when you're working, you're working and you need to be productive, so they should only interrupt you if they have to. Don't get us wrong, a sleeping dog or a purring cat in the office with you can be great, but a dog that insists on playing or a cat that's sleeping on your keyboard is a productivity killer. Know where to draw the line.
Don't forget to take breaks and disconnect when you have to. Working from home is great, but it can be tough on the whole work/life line. Do what you can to keep your boundaries intact, and remember to take breaks—just because you're working from home doesn't mean you should take lunch at your computer or work way way late into evening.
For more suggestions like these, check out our guide to staying motivated while working from home. It covers a lot of the concerns that will likely come up once you get started working remotely, after you've convinced your boss to let you try it.
Make Your Case by Citing All the Possibilities
Once you've been through all of these options and you have a plan with your boss, make sure they're aware of all of the ways working from home periodically will benefit you and your coworkers. Set up a schedule for everyone who's interested so too many people aren't at home on the same day, and rotate. Make sure you have the technologies on hand to facilitate remote work, and if you don't, see if there are free, hands-off options that won't require a ton of support and effort from your company's IT staff (making it easy on them if the tools aren't already in place can make a world of difference.) Finally, commit to following up and checking in as if you were in the office so no one has to wonder how to get a hold of you or what you're working on. Photo by Andrew Bowden.
It helps to already be a rock star at your office and be an indispensable employee—if you are, your boss or company will be more likely to loosen your leash a bit because you have a track record of good performance. If you're not, you might want to work on that before asking for an additional benefit. Even so, it sounds like you have a group of people willing to make this work, so that could be even more helpful. Just remember that telecommuting—especially when new at an office—will likely be treated as a privilege, not a right, so you'll have to work to maintain it. If you need more help convincing your boss, we asked you the same question a few years ago, and the stories there can help you as well. Good luck!


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Talk:Main Page
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Good Ideas
As my knowledge of all things Tolkien is far inferior to that of some things Wiki, I want to suggest some things...
First of all: Page titles such as Barahir grandson of Faramir should be avoided as much as possible. Only when there are more than one Barahirs should this be used. If you have to do this, do it this way: Barahir (grandson of Faramir) so you don't forget whether or not you added that dratted comma...
Further it might be an idea to add a sort of "pub" for this kind of discussions. - Bokkie 18:04, 3 Sep 2005 (EDT)
Great points. Barahir is one of those names that are used quite frequently, i.e. Barahir son of Bregor, Barahir son of Hador, [[Barahir grandson of Faramir]], etc. In the beginning I was debating whether to do the parenthesis or not, but now that you bring it up, it is most likely something that we need to use.
A portal for discussion other than the main page is a good idea too, I'll try and think of a good name for something, although Portal might work, heh.
Thanks for your comments. --Hyarion 16:45, 5 Sep 2005 (EDT)
- A good idea we could do to make sure all of the pages ( well at least most of them ) is we go to random pages and if that page does not have much information on it and you don't know much about what the page is about read about it, and not on other wed sites what J. R. R. Tolkien has to say about them, in his books and letters. Vaire
Hey we coould post the LOTR soundtracks so you can listen or download the soundtracks. —Unsigned comment by Hobbit25 (talk • contribs).
- That would be nice, but illegal.-- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 14:25, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Very intresting wiki site!... Thanx! --18.104.22.168 18:31, 15 October 2005 (EDT)
- Thanks for the compliment :) It's people like you who keep me motivated. --Hyarion 18:45, 15 October 2005 (EDT)
I've got to second this user's enthusiasim. I've recently gone back into the Silmarillion and stumbled upon this wiki. It's amazing. Far better than others I've seen. I especially appreciate the panoply of images. It really gives a kick to a 300 word article on some third string elf who died in the First Age. I also want to compliment you people on the new skin. It's both more stylized and more functional than the previous one. This just keeps getting better and better. Thanks a million. --Kosure 14:25, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Kosure, thanks for your feedback, it is statements like yours which bring a smile to our face and encourage us to improve the wiki even more, as we still have so far to go. We look forward to seeing you around in the future. --Hyarion 16:25, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Is the content here GFDL? Gimli 07:18, 6 March 2006 (EST)
- What do you mean? --Earendilyon 07:36, 6 March 2006 (EST)
- I mean is it available under the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License - can it be copied to other sites under the provisions of that licence? Also if content has been copied from wikipedia, shouldnt it be acknowledged? Gimli 08:30, 6 March 2006 (EST)
- Hello Gimli, yes our content is under the same license, GNU FDL as Wikipedia. Any articles derived from Wikipedia will be rewritten so we have no plans to add an acknowledgement on the articles at this time. Wikicities is free to copy our content but it is disappointing to see so many wikis working against eachother. --Hyarion 10:26, 6 March 2006 (EST)
- Hi Hyarion, I was doing alot of work on the lotr wiki without realising this site existed until a few days ago. now Im not sure what to do since the lotr wikicities community is going fairly well but has nowhere near as many articles as here. not sure if its worth trying to copy or what - perhaps there could be some way we could agree to format/arrange articles differently to justify having 2 tolkien wikis Gimli 19:47, 6 March 2006 (EST)
- Ya I'm not really sure either. There's also The Tolkien Wiki and a couple other wikis out there too. I honestly can't think of any aspects the two wikis would differ on off the top of my head but let me know if you think of anything. I know Robin from the lotr wiki said he was going to concentrate on The Lord of the Rings and since we cover more than just that they didn't want to merge. Competition is always nice but I just don't like watching us waste our time doing the same things. Let me know what I can do. --Hyarion 20:39, 6 March 2006 (EST)
- That sounds alright to me especially since I am not very familiar with The Silmarillion related things - I guess just because of the wikis names wikicities could focus on LOTR and you on JRR Tolkien himself? Gimli 02:53, 9 March 2006 (EST)
- Heh, unfortunately that would leave us with around 100 articles :p. Our goal since we started has been to focus on everything related to J.R.R. Tolkien, including his works, non-canon material, secondary material, collectibles, languages, films, the fans, etc. As we've devoted so much time to this already I think we will be continuing on this path, sorry. --Hyarion 11:36, 9 March 2006 (EST)
Main page redesign
I'm trying to redesign the main page a bit so as to not scare off any visitors. If you have any suggestions just let me know and I'll add them. The introduction text should probably be rewritten, possibly shorter. I also think instead of a featured image and a featured article we could showcase a featured article with an image from that article, and a bit more text directly from the article. --Hyarion 16:12, 23 April 2006 (EDT)
- IMO, the link to Welcome in the opening sentence is unnecessary, as the welcome message is just below it. Coupling the featured picture to the featured article is a sound idea if you'd ask me; gives the page some more coherence *thumbs up*. --Earendilyon 17:04, 23 April 2006 (EDT)
- Hm, good point I can take it off for now, eventually I'd like to remove the welcome statement from the main page and add it to the welcome page, and then also add a Tolkien Gateway page with information about the site if the welcome is not enough (and link to that as well). Then we can focus on news / featured articles / navigation links, hopefully it will be self-explanatory enough that people won't get confused, though I doubt many even read the paragraph. I'll try and get a Featured article page rotation going so people can submit possible featured articles, vote on them, and move them onto the main page a bit faster, as now it's just random. --Hyarion 17:10, 23 April 2006 (EDT)
- Personnally, I've no problem with a randomly chosen featured article. Why complicate things with voting and stuff? It also will point people to lesser know articles. If it's really a daily new featured article, it will liven things up a bit. Why not make it an hourly featured article, will pace the rotations circle a bit up (by a factor of 24, to be precise)! --Earendilyon 17:16, 23 April 2006 (EDT)
- Hehe, hm, definitely a thought. I'll see if I can rig something to do it automatically but we might have to change it manually. What we could do is have Featured article/April 23 2006 and the main page could have [[:Featured article/{{CURRENTDAY}}]]. I think one reason people do vote for Featured articles as it allows competition for users to rewrite and tidy up articles in hopes that their work would be featured on the main page. And if we did this we could also have an Improvement center where we post articles that need to be improved. But combining the two by doing random featured articles would work great too. --Hyarion 17:22, 23 April 2006 (EDT)
Purpose of site?
This is going to come across badly, I'm sure, so I apologize in advance for my skepticism. But, er, what exactly is the purpose of the Tolkien Gateway as opposed to the various other Tolkien wikis online (or, for that matter, Wikipedia itself)? In particular, it looks like a number of the articles here are at least currently based on the corresponding entries from Wikipedia. What was the argument for branching them off to form a separate site rather than simply improving them in place? (Not that I object to the impulse to create one's own site, mind you! But I feel some level of concern about fragmentation of effort.) Steuard --188.8.131.52 12:24, 31 May 2006 (EDT)
Hyarion's response
Adding my own header as it looks like I've gone off and written a novel
Hello Steuard, what an honor to have you here, make yourself at home :) Don't worry, your question doesn't come across badly as why we are here is an important question.
Your first question is why should we be here when there are other Tolkien wikis, good question. We've been around for over 3 years now, well before much of the hype surrounding wikis and when everyone and their grandmother decided to have one. With almost 4,500 articles we are currently the largest and most active Tolkien-related wiki or encyclopedia for that matter. With hundreds of updates a day, we are really growing fast and it becomes much more than one person could do on their own.
There are a couple other wikis that I have knowledge of, The Tolkien Wiki being one. I'm not a fan of that particular engine and unfortunately the activity is minimal but Walter is a great guy. Then there is lotr.wikia.com which started later and though at first they stated they were concentrating on The Lord of the Rings it seems they have since changed and now have MERP related articles, I'm not sure where they are heading to be honest (not to sound rude I hope as I honestly don't). They also have advertisements and are a for-profit company, I don't think the Tolkien Estate will be very pleased. There's also a few non-English Tolkien wikis, Ardapedia and Kontu Wiki, I actually convinced Merri to start the Finnish wiki and he has done a great job with it. We are also considering expanding into other languages as well but we will probably concentrate on English for the next few years before trying to expand.
Wikipedia is a great project but unfortunately they can only concentrate on the major Tolkien-related articles. While we focus on everything, including essays, reviews, music, publications, collectibles, images, etc. Wookieepedia is an example of where we are heading as they have well over 30,000 articles, by far too many for any environment not specializing on the subject.
You will notice that some articles have roots from Wikipedia, yes. When we started out we borrowed some content from them as is allowed with the GNU FDL. However we have greatly improved on those articles and have been rewriting them from the ground up constantly. You will find many of our editors on the site still contribute to the Tolkien articles on Wikipedia and we are by no means trying to mimic what they do.
It seems the above still doesn't create a convincing answer so here are some raw projects that we are working on that we would not be able to accomplish on Wikipedia:
- We are listing all Amon Hen, Mallorn, Beyond Bree, Orcrist, LotR Fan Club, Tolkien Journal, Parma Nole, Lembas Extra, Arda, etc. journals and putting their contents and cover page on their own articles. The article will of course contain links to purchase the back issue as well as the official site of the publication.
- We also received the rights this week to store all of the Fraud of the Rings comics, this is something not even freely available on the official site.
- The Tolkien Google logo petition[former link] is something else Wikipedia would not condone.
- Screenplays for purists and The Hobbit are other projects we currently are working on.
- We also are trying to have an article for every single Tolkien-related game.
- Archiving any and all Tolkien imagery
- Listing any and all Tolkien-inspired music
- Listing all collectibles related to Tolkien and his works
- Listing all books related to the Professor and his works
This being said our main goal is focusing on the legendarium and the Tolkien-inspired items are only a secondary objective.
It is probably better to look at Tolkien Gateway as a community more so than simply a wiki. We also run TolkienNews.net and host sites such the North East Tolkien Society, ShirePost.com, and a few more on the horizon. We also run the Tolkien IRC Network which averages 20-30 users in the main lobby and hosts sites such as minastirith.com, ancanar.com, herenistarion.org, imladris.dk, lotrosource.com, ardapost.com, etc.
Now that just looks like one big advertisement…sorry about that. If you need me to be more specific on something please let me know. We are always very open to new ideas and if you have any suggestions please let us know.
One thing I've been meaning to talk to you about is linking to your FAQ as well as the newsgroups. What we've been doing with Tolkien forums is when there is a specific topic being discussed, such as the whereabouts of the Entwives, we link our article to their thread. I'd like to do this with both the Meta-FAQ and newsgroups so for example on our article on the Shire we could link to your FAQ on whether the Shire was meant to be England, etc.
Thanks for dropping by as it means a lot to us, and keep up the great work on your sites! --Hyarion 14:05, 31 May 2006 (EDT)
- Good answer. :) It does sound like you'll be much freer to add information on "minor" topics here than you would be on a broad site like Wikipedia; I think you've convinced me that it's a good idea. I hope that some level of cross-fertilization goes on between the community here and the community there.
- As for my Meta-FAQ (and related work), you are of course welcome to link to any bits of it that you think would be useful. (That's something else that some folks might have a problem with on Wikipedia, come to think of it.) I've always wished that I had time to track down the best Usenet newsgroup threads to link to for each of my FAQ topics, but real life keeps me too busy these days to consider such a major project. It would have been much easier if, like you, I'd started keeping track of the threads at the same time that I started writing the FAQ! In any case, best wishes with the site, and many thanks for your detailed answer to my question. Steuard --188.8.131.52 16:23, 31 May 2006 (EDT)
- Great answer, Hyarion! I applaud your ringing defense and statement of purpose of this fine Wiki. You really covered a lot of ground here. I joined up a year to make some solid contributions to a developing LOTR wiki, and I have some humble contribs. Hopefully I'll be making more in the future. All power to the Gateway!--Theoden1 15:30, 24 April 2008 (EDT)
Some wikis (namely the Star Wars wiki) use quotes to describe articles. i.e. "A demon of the ancient world. This foe is beyond any of you." -Gandalf would describe the Balrog. Could we start doing this? -Lord Aragorn1414 14:31, 17 July 2006 (EDT)
- Hello Lord Vad...Aragorn, we like to think of Wookieepedia as our sister wiki as we tend to borrow quite a few ideas from them. Quotes at the top of articles to describe the character/place/item/etc are one of these ideas. We haven't fully implemented all the articles but some such as Hobbits or The Silmarillion or Dragons, etc. display this idea. This is something we definitely wish to expand on and if you have any quotes you would like to use feel free to do so. --Hyarion 14:40, 17 July 2006 (EDT)
- Okay then, thank you! You like to play on my name alot don't you? That's okay, though. ;) -Lord Aragorn1414 14:46, 17 July 2006 (EDT)
Canon and other things
First off, I'm wondering what "canon" this encyclopedia will use. As of now, it's inconsistent: for example, there are two Glorfindels, but has Orodreth, not Fingon, as Gil-galad's father.
Secondly, all the non-movie art is very nice, since I don't care much for the Jackson films having, in general, "supremacy" through images (quite irritating in Wikipedia, though the editors have lately arranged adaptation pictures in tables - gives equal treatment to all, not just the Jackson ones). Ideally, all appropriate articles should have artworks before film images.
Finally, could someone make a The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare article, so we can cut it up (i.e. point out some total inventions) for the non-book readers? Info from that book has been inserted in Wikipedia articles; thankfully they were deleted. Rog 22:49, 15 August 2006 (EDT)
- Hello Rog, I've addressed the first issue at Forums:Canon scale so I'll reply to the other two. I'm glad you are a fan of the illustrations, as am I. We try and bring new images to the reader's eyes by putting the illustrations first but I think there are some circumstances where the film images are more accurate and will have to be put first. Accuracy vs. Beauty of the illustration is yet another difficult topic.
- Great idea on the Weapons and Warfare article, I'll try and have one up by tomorrow. --Hyarion 23:15, 15 August 2006 (EDT)
Top Editors
Hyarion, I'd like to suggest that you change the Top Editors list again. Dwarf Lord at least should be added, being the fourth highest, and still picking up speed. --Narfil Palùrfalas 09:01, 19 September 2006 (EDT)
- Thanks Narfil, Main Page has been updated. Maybe I'll work on having the page grab the top 5 dynamically. --Hyarion 11:49, 19 September 2006 (EDT)
A-Z List
I've moved the A-Z list up closer to the top as I have a feeling a lot of people were not noticing it there at the bottom, I'm still not 100% satisfied with its current position but I think it will at least get noticed more. If you guys think otherwise just let me know. --Hyarion 17:41, 27 June 2007 (EDT)
- I think it's fine there. I admit I had hardly noticed it before. At least it's more visible. --Narfil Palùrfalas 17:46, 27 June 2007 (EDT)
Featured Quote on Main Page
Hi, wouldn't it be good, if at least once a month a new quote would appear here? The current one is from the last year, i think. ;-) - —Unsigned comment by Eldarion Telcontar (talk • contribs).
- It definitely is about time we have both a new quote and a new featured article. The lack of new quotes stems from various long-lasting discussions on whether to use a random quote from a pool of Tolkien quotes, or to weekly/monthly/etc vote on a specific quote. We're also working on a website dedicated to quotes which we hoped to grab randomly from there but I'd rather not wait until that project is finished. I think a good time to start a new quote will be once we launch our new skin. --Hyarion 01:35, 17 March 2008 (EDT)
- As we are starting a new featured era, it would be a good idea to change Past Featured Articles to Featured Articles. It's more accurate. --Theoden1 21:03, 12 May 2008 (EDT)
- I agree, the Featured Article Project is coming along nicely, now its time to focus on quotes. What needs to be done exactly? Do we need need more quotes written down, or is there some fancy code that needs to be entered to generate the quotes? As Ive said many times before, not a big tech guy, but I'll be glad to help where I can.--Quidon88 21:05, 28 July 2008 (EDT)
- There is this one Main Page/Quote[former link] page, that has a random quote generator, but unfortunately, all are unlinked. -- Ederchil 23:53, 28 July 2008 (EDT)
- There is a Nominations page for quotes also. Maybe we could nominate them ourselves? The good/relevant/preferred ones? ~~ Þelma 03:05, 29 July 2008 (EDT)
- Shouldn't Past Featured quotes be changed into Featured quotes like it was done with the Featured Articles? The Past Featured Quotes are to find at Featured quotes/History now. -- Eldarion Telcontar 16:40, 13 August 2008 (EDT)
- Thanks, fixed :) --Hyarion 17:28, 13 August 2008 (EDT)
Featured Article on Main Page
I'm just wondering why "Aragorn II" is still "Today's featured article". Maybe i'm mistaken but isn't "Witch-king of Angmar" already sucessfully elected and hasn't "Gandalf" already five "Agree"s? Wouldn't it be about time to change the Featured Article after so many months? -- Eldarion Telcontar 15:12, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Elvish Word of the Day
What do you think? is it feasible? Sage 21:23, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
- I favour just "word of the day"; also give minor languages some screentime. -- Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 21:44, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
- Of course. Can it be done? How? And by whom? Sage 08:27, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
What happened to the news? -- Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 22:17, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
- Hm, news on the Main Page seems to be working for me, is it not showing up over there? --Hyarion 03:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
- For my it doesn't appear to. --Amroth 12:15, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could somebody add .PDF as permitted files. Then I can upload my Tolkien Essays about Gothmog, Blue Wizards and...uhm...The Troops of Gondor.
- As far as I know, you can't upload PDF's. The file upload function of mediawiki was made for image files and movie clips. -- Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 16:06, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
- You can do it, see link:
sorry, forget my sign --Amroth 16:17, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
- Okay, I hope it works --Amroth 15:32, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed that Hyarion has added a new entry to Tolkien Gateway:Updates but that it doesn't appear on the Main Page because the updates are included as plain text there. Could somebody replace the plain text updates on the Main Page with the following line?
{{:Tolkien Gateway:Updates}}
Thus the latest updates from the Updates Page are included automatically and only Tolkien Gateway:Updates has to be updated in order to let the news appear on the Main Page and the Community Page as well.
-- Eldarion Telcontar 10:57, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Header Background
For some reason the background colour for the 'On this day...' header is green, when it should be blue like the 'Featured Quote' header. -- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 18:28, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
The Hobbit
When I was on the new channel the other day they said that Peter Jackson thinks the 2 Hobbit movies are going to so good that he's going to make a 3rd hobbit movie. Vaire 01:51, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
We'll need to do something about the countdown tomorrow.-- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 11:34, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
- You won't get it until tomorrow? I just returned. Awe. Some. --Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 16:26, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
- Good! Yep, it's not released until tomorrow here (I'm going in the afternoon), although the London première is tonight (Mith is going!). Incidentally, I've just realised that the countdown has been counting down to the 13th and not the 14th - oh well!-- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 16:41, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
- Can you change the Main Page please?-- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 12:17, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
My feedback contra the recent redesign of TolkienGateway
I used to advocate TolkienGateway as a shining example of good web-design (alongside English Wikipedia). Clean, simple, concise,, tasteful, artful. No more? Apparently, it has been uglified to the most extreme degree, all for the sake of the phones. Sticky header? Check. Disparate, widely removed column? There. Pop ups instead of neat buttons that are always there? Of course. Feels like a long defeat to fight against this change. It's just really sad that new generations won't see how good it used to look and to read.--Adûnâi (talk) 08:13, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for your feedback Adûnâi! We're glad to hear you loved the previous design. The new skin is just temporary, as we needed to upgrade the backend and the previous custom skin was no longer compatible. It's hard to believe, but the vast majority of our users now access the site from mobile devices, and Google was actually penalizing us for the previous design so we needed to make a change. There are actually multiple layouts to choose from by clicking on your name in the top right, Preferences, and then Appearance. You can also apply any custom CSS you like. :) We have notated your feedback for our new skin, if you or someone you know would like to contribute to the development of it just let me know. Thanks again for your input! --Hyarion (talk) 14:48, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
I don't know where to place this uhh...
Can someone please update Ardapedia's interlanguage link to www.ardapedia.org, and also change it, the Finnish, and the French interlanguage links from http to https? Thanks. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 14:22, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
New Stuff for Main Page
I realized that TG has had the same quote for quite some time, and was wondering when it was going to be changed. I don't have a suggestion for the quote or get involved, but I was thinking the featured article could be The Battle of the Pelennor Fields. Please take this into consideration --MEGRIMLOCK (talk) 16:19, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
- I'll update the MP in June. Tolkien Gateway:Featured articles/Nominations Tolkien Gateway:Featured quotes/Nominations. --LorenzoCB (talk) 20:04, 1 May 2023 (UTC)


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Update at 10 a.m. ET. New Lead Investigator:
A new lead investigator has been appointed in the murder case against South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, The Associated Press reports from Pretoria. That announcement follows the news from earlier Thursday, as we reported below, that the detective who had been in charge of the case faces attempted murder charges of his own stemming from a 2011 shooting incident.
Our original post:
The murder case against South African athlete Oscar Pistorius was "dealt serious blows" on Thursday, as The Guardian puts it, when it was revealed in court that the lead investigator faces attempted murder charges himself. They stem from an unrelated incident in 2011.
Detective Hilton Botha, prosecutors told the court, faces seven charges of attempted murder. He and two other police officers are accused of firing at a "minibus taxi loaded with passengers," the Guardian adds. They were allegedly drunk at the time.
Prosecutors said they had not known until Wednesday about the charges against Botha, reports South Africa's News 24.
As The New York Times writes, "the disclosure seemed to present one more setback for the prosecution's efforts over days of hearings to deny bail for Mr. Pistorius."
The Times adds, though, that "South African news reports said the 2011 shooting happened when the officers were pursuing a man accused of murdering and dismembering a woman before putting the body parts into a drain. ... Mr. Botha was quoted in South African news reports as denying claims that he was drunk during the alleged shooting. He said he and other officers had aimed at the wheels of the minivan without causing injuries."
The 26-year-old Pistorius, known as the "blade runner" because of the carbon-fiber prosthetic legs he uses, is the first double amputee to have participated in a Summer Olympics and is a Paralympics champion. He's accused of premeditated murder in the Feb. 14 shooting death of his girlfriend, 29-year-old Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius says it was a terrible accident — that he thought there was an intruder in his home and that he fired four shots through a closed bathroom door after shouting at the person to leave.
The bail hearing has given the prosecution a chance to introduce evidence, and has given the defense a chance to raise questions about it. In the past two days:
-- The defense has gotten Botha to concede that he's unsure about how far away a witness was from Pistorius's home. That witness, investigators say, heard shouting that lasted for at least an hour before the sound of gunshots.
-- The defense has gotten Botha to concede that he is not certain it's testosterone (as he first testified) that investigators found in Pistorius's home, along with syringes.
-- The defense has gotten Botha to concede that he walked through Pistorius's home after the shooting without putting protective covers over his shoes.
Still, "the prosecution did land some blows on the athlete's character," according to the Guardian: "Botha claimed that Pistorius was involved in another shooting at a restaurant in Johannesburg in January and, aware of the media storm that would ensure, asked the gun owner to 'take the rap' for the incident, which he did."
Meanwhile, Nike has now "suspended its endorsement deal" with Pistorius.
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"You can pick and dissect as much as possible, but at the end of the
day, it's a fight. It's a matter of who wants it more and who is able to
establish their game on the other guy." - Jon Fitch
As a perennial contender in the UFC's welterweight division, Jon Fitch always has plenty of eyes on him. On Saturday night, when he battles Erick Silva in UFC 153 main card action, the two most important ones will belong to the fighter's newest fan, his son Mason, who Fitch and his wife Michelle welcomed into the world in February.
The arrival of the newest Fitch, a life-altering event any way you slice it, was also a rebirth of sorts for the 34-year-old father, who could count the birth of his son as the day when one of the most discouraging 12 month periods of his career ended.
In the year preceding Mason's birth, Fitch had battled to a disappointing draw with BJ Penn at UFC 127, underwent shoulder surgery, then got shockingly knocked out in 12 seconds by Johny Hendricks at UFC 141, a bout he entered with a second degree tear in his MCL.
"I didn't get to wrestle, didn't get to grapple the whole time," said Fitch of the lead-up to the Hendricks fight last December. "I just boxed and did cardio, that was it. I know I should have pulled out and postponed the fight, but even if my leg would have been broken or cut off, I would have walked into the cage that night. I'm strong headed and I still believed I was going to be able to win the fight with one leg.
It's an attitude Fitch was born with, and one honed by years of wrestling in high school and then Purdue University. If you can walk, you can fight. If you can't walk, crawl. Then you can fight.
"As a wrestler, you push through injuries, push through pain, and you forget sometimes what you are capable of because you are being held back by physical limitations," said Fitch, who finally paid the price for his stubbornness against Hendricks. But when you couple the birth of his son with a nice long break to heal up and get back to one hundred percent, Fitch is finally back to feeling like himself again.
"My body's been kind of broken over the last year and a half and this is the first time I've really been healthy in that time. I haven't really felt like this in a long time."
He pauses.
"This is the first time I've been able to kick in over a year."
You can hear it in his voice, that excitement building for what has turned into one of the UFC 153 card's most intriguing matchups. But the time off after the Hendricks fight wasn't all full of rehab and champing at the bit to get back into the Octagon. Remember, the former world title challenger is a dad now. That means no more video games. Well, not as many. But he's cool with that.
"He's like my live-action hero now," Fitch laughs. "I get a hand in helping to create him and build him up and level him up instead of a video game. It just takes a little bit longer.
"It's different, but it's a natural change, because your instincts just take over," he continues. "Your priorities shift and it's not like something that had to be forced. I find myself wanting to play with my son and hang out with my son. It's not like I had to give anything up; I just found something better to do."
Fitch also saw the long-awaited release of the documentary about his challenge for Georges St-Pierre's welterweight title in 2008, "Such Great Heights," a critically acclaimed look inside the fighting life and those surrounding Fitch as the American Kickboxing Academy. And despite it being filmed over four years ago, there's not a dated feel to it.
"It's a really cool thing, and so much has changed since the movie was filmed," he said. "We remodeled the (AKA) gym after that and it looks different than what it was in the movie, and then we moved locations, so the gym that was in the movie doesn't even exist anymore. And to see the team grow and the individual people grow, and to see people's careers go to where they are today, it's pretty cool to see that little time capsule. I'm very lucky that opportunity came along for me and the guys who put that movie together did such an amazing job telling that story."
And unlike some MMA documentaries, Fitch's tale - despite the loss to St-Pierre – isn't a 90 minute downer. It's the story of a bunch of hard-working athletes chasing their dreams. In other words, it's real without being real depressing.
"It's a positive story, it's something upbeat, and it shows you behind the scenes of what MMA is about and what these fighters are about and what they're going through," said Fitch. "Even if you remove me from the movie, it's a really compelling film with the guys who are up and comers and just starting out. It's real interesting stuff."
On Saturday, the story continues. Four years and seven fights after the St-Pierre bout, Fitch will be looking for his first win since 2010 against Brazil's latest phenom in Silva. "Indio" is an explosive athlete who is dangerous everywhere, and if he's for real, it's this fight that will prove it. Fitch knows the kid is good, but he expects that he'll be better on fight night.
"I know what I need to do, and it doesn't matter who's in front of me," he said. "It's about making them come to my world, and not worrying about them. I'll be ready for what he has to bring to the table, but I'm fully confident that me being healthy and being in this mindset, there's nothing that he's going to come in that night with that I won't be able to handle."
Is that the part we sometimes forget, that this is a fist fight, where the one leaving with his hand raised is the one that implements his game plan, and not who adjusts to his opponent's plan?
"It's about enforcing your will on the other guy," said Fitch. "You can pick and dissect as much as possible, but at the end of the day, it's a fight. It's a matter of who wants it more and who is able to establish their game on the other guy."
Fitch wants this one, and he's well aware that there are naysayers out there waiting to bury him while anointing Silva as the next big thing. It's a downside of life in the fight game, as you're in one day and out the next when it comes to public perception. So as a new father, what Fitch say to Mason, knowing the pitfalls of the sport, if his son wanted to follow in dad's footsteps one day?
"I'm gonna prepare him for a life," said Fitch. "I'm a big believer that a parent's true and only responsibility is to prepare your child to survive. Your job is to prepare that child to take care of himself and the sooner the better. So he's gonna be wrestling, he's gonna learn jiu-jitsu, and he's gonna learn fighting, but it's not going to be anything he's forced into. It's kind of the family trade. Regardless of whatever he chooses to do in life, he'll always have that to fall back on. I would like to be able to give him that skill set to be able to go and teach someday, so then I can be confident that he'll always have a job because he'll always this set of skills that people will always want to learn. So if he decides to be a scientist or a race car driver, or whatever, no matter what happens, he'll always have something to fall back on where he can make money and take care of himself."
And what about the downside?
"Even with the downsides of this business, it's still pretty damn fun," he said. "I still think it's a much better life than living inside the box where most people do. Most people live inside this structure where they have to wake up a certain time of day, they have to put in eight hours a day, they have to report to a boss, and do this and this. And I don't like living in that system."
Yeah, not Jon Fitch. He likes to train and he likes to fight. The former is over, the latter is coming up on Saturday. Time for Mason to watch daddy go to work.
UFC 117 Fight Between Anderson Silva And Chael Sonnen…


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The industry earned $37.6 billion from July through September - a 6.6 percent increase from its earnings in same quarter last year.
For the first time since 2009, the stronger earnings were due mainly to higher revenue rather than to less money set aside by the banks to cover losses, data issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. showed Tuesday. And loans to consumers rose nearly 1 percent from the July-September period of 2011.
"We are seeing the classic recovery from a recession," said Bert Ely, a banking industry consultant based in Alexandria, Va. "All of the arrows are pointing in the right direction."
Some of the largest banks are cautioning, though, that their earnings are up mostly because they've sold less-profitable businesses, shed bad loans and trimmed jobs - not because of a more vibrant economy.
Some banks are testing higher fees on consumer loans and services to offset new rules mandated after the crisis that have crimped revenue.
Consumer lending grew in most categories in the third quarter. That shows banks are becoming less cautious, which could help the economy. More lending leads to more consumer spending, which drives roughly 70 percent of economic activity.
The banks' mortgage loans increased 0.8 percent from the previous quarter. Auto loans jumped 2.4 percent.
FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg acknowledged that the increase in consumer lending was "relatively modest."
Ely noted that many businesses and consumers are still reluctant to borrow, and banks are cautious about lending to them. That's creating a slow transition for banks from merely stemming losses to boosting profits, he said.
The biggest banks say that customers have held off on borrowing in part because of slower global growth and worries about the "fiscal cliff." That's the name for automatic tax increases and spending cuts that will kick in next month unless President Barack Obama and congressional lawmakers reach a deal by then to avert them.
Since the Great Recession ended 3½ years ago, the economy has been growing at a subpar annual rate of roughly 2 percent. Most economists say it needs to grow twice as fast to rapidly lower unemployment, now at 7.9 percent.
In an interview with The Associated Press this week, Wells Fargo & Co. CEO John Stumpf said he expects the economy to remain tepid until customers and businesses better understand Washington's plans for tax policy, health care and other issues.
"I don't see the impetus to all of a sudden go from a 2 percent growth to a 5 percent growth," Stumpf said. "We don't have enough growth initiatives in place today to have a more aggressive and sustainable long-term recovery, and there's still too much uncertainty."
The Federal Reserve's policies have helped banks borrow cheaply for the past four years. The Fed has kept short-term interest rates near zero to try to spur the economy. And the Fed's bond purchases have led to lower long-term interest rates, which have helped drive a modest housing recovery and boost mortgage lending.
But banks complain that low interest rates have also reduced the money they can make on loans.
Mortgage lending itself has become a mixed bag for banks. The second-largest U.S. bank, Bank of America Corp., has said the new mortgages it made in the third quarter jumped 18 percent from a year earlier to $21 billion. But its mortgage division still lost money as it worked through problem mortgages issued before the financial crisis.
Mortgages still drive revenue for the banking industry. But banks are still paying a price for the risky mortgage lending of the past decade - in the form of lawsuits, foreclosures and regulatory restrictions.
And banks are struggling to navigate a landscape in which many of their old revenue streams, including certain fees on debit-card transactions or credit cards marketed to college students, have been clipped.
To make up for the loss of revenue in other areas, they have been trying to collect more revenue from fees. Last year, some banks tried to charge customers for using debit cards. That unleashed a backlash among consumers and helped fuel anti-Wall Street protests. The banks ultimately dropped these fees. But others have remained.
At the same time, some in Congress are calling for separating commercial and investment banking, which essentially would spur the dismantling of most of the biggest banks.
Rexrode reported from New York.


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A poetry class at Princeton usually starts with a small group of students sitting around a table, talking about rhythm and images and language.
If the professor is Brenda Shaughnessy, she may offer one of her quirky rules: You may only use the word "soul" in a poem once in your lifetime, and never the word "shards." Susan Wheeler has asked students to write a poem in which they approach their subject from the point of view of an inanimate object. And Paul Muldoon likes to give these instructions at the end of a class: "Don't come back here please without a poem that's going to change my life."
"The professors here have given me a sense of poetry as an enjoyable, playful thing," said Maia ten Brink, a sophomore who has taken three poetry classes at Princeton. "I've learned from them to sidle into it, wander into it, follow a thought, play around -- and look for sources of inspiration where you might not think they would be."
Intimate classes -- enrollment is capped at 10 students -- and a faculty composed of highly regarded poets, two of whom are Pulitzer Prize winners, make Princeton an incomparable place to write poetry, say students.
"I am impressed every semester by the caliber of the students and professors," said Carter Greenbaum, a junior who has studied with four poetry professors, including Shaughnessy, a lecturer in creative writing and author of two poetry collections. "It is really the union of effective professors and challenging and gifted students that makes the poetry workshop effective."
World-renowned professors -- including award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith and James Richardson, who was selected to receive this year's Jackson Poetry Prize -- not only teach small classes, but also are very available outside class, even to beginners. "Seriously famous people are accessible to introductory students," ten Brink said.
This month, Princeton's poetry students -- and members of the community who love poetry -- will be getting inspiration from some of the world's most talented and provocative poets at the Princeton Poetry Festival, to be held at the University April 29-30 (see sidebar).
"What we see ourselves doing is offering a festival for the people of Princeton -- for our students, of course, and for the wider community," said Muldoon, the Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, who won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2003. Muldoon runs the biennial festival, which was held for the first time in 2009. "We're pleased to remind ourselves and others of the centrality of poetry to Princeton."
Festival invites community and high school students
An international roster of poets -- including Paolo Henriques Britto of Brazil, Agi Mishol of Israel and Aleš Šteger of Slovenia -- will appear alongside Americans Anthony Carelli, Mark Doty, Kathleen Graber, Sharon Olds, Carl Philips, Charles Simic and Natasha Trethewey. This year's festival places a particular emphasis on translation -- English versions of poems by Britto and Šteger will be read by their respective U.S. translators, Idra Novey and Brian Henry.
The festival's focus on translation echoes the strength of the creative writing program's instruction in translating literary works, including a course called "Literary Translation," in which students fluent in a language besides English translate works of poetry and fiction from that language into English. This semester students in the class are working on translations from Bulgarian, Chinese, French, Japanese, Romanian and Spanish, including works by Charles Baudelaire, Pablo Neruda and eighth-century Chinese poets.
"What I hope the students learn is an appreciation of the marvels and complexities and splendid ambiguities of language, and of the intricacies and glory of literature, seen from within, as it were," said C.K. Williams, a lecturer with the rank of professor in creative writing and a Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry in 2000, who teaches the course. "There's also a great deal of plain fun in translating, and I hope they get an appreciation of that."
The festival will afford them "a splendid occasion to hear living poets in their originals and in translation," Williams said.
Local high school students also will have the opportunity to benefit from the festival. The University is distributing more than 100 free tickets to the festival to 11 area high schools. Students and teachers from Princeton High School who will be attending "are grateful for the opportunity to hear contemporary poets read their own poetry," said Barbara O'Breza, the K-12 language arts supervisor for the Princeton Regional Schools. "The festival enables us to nurture our students in the poetic tradition, both as poets and readers of poetry, and to help them realize the importance of the poet's voice in society."
For Princeton sophomore Allen Williams, who often performs his poetry at events sponsored by the Black Student Union, the festival is a chance "to hear poets who are publishing nowadays and to be able hopefully to pick their brains. We'll have poets in our backyard to whom I can talk about writing, editing, publishing, their aesthetic of poetry. It's such a good opportunity."
Muldoon tells students, 'Do it now'
Allen Williams, like many other campus poets, often does his writing at the Writers Studio in Blair Tower, a cozy space where writers gather to read literary magazines, exchange ideas and work on their poems. There are drop-in writing workshops, meet-the-author gatherings, and book and poem discussions, all organized by the student staff of the Writers Studio. Students also gather for informal weekly dinners to exchange and critique their poems and stories.
Working on their writing with a group of peers demonstrates the notion that Muldoon and other professors promote with their students: You are writers, and this is the time to write. "You may think," Muldoon tells his students, "this is something you're going to do when you grow up. Incorrect. This is it. Do it now, please. Don't postpone it." For students, it's important "to believe they can do it, and then paradoxically they have to wonder if they can do it, so it's an odd mixture of nerve and nervousness," Muldoon said.
"Just write" is a maxim from her Princeton professors that senior Ting Gou often hears in her head as she's composing her poetry. Gou is a molecular biology major and the editor-in-chief of the Nassau Literary Review.
"Science and poetry are more similar than you might think," Gou said. "Both require a close attention to detail. If I'm fascinated by molecular pathways and metaphors, why not try to explore my surroundings with all of my interests? Doing research in the lab helps me understand the world, and writing poetry in my room -- or in the lab -- helps me understand my place in it."
Wheeler, the director of the Program in Creative Writing and author of five collections of poetry, said Gou exemplifies the interest many Princeton students from across the disciplines have in poetry.
"Some of our strongest students are from the sciences or disciplines that you would think would be far-flung, and they're often superlative students doing this on the side of their primary concentration," Wheeler said.
Gou, who is earning a certificate in creative writing, is composing a collection of poems for her creative thesis while working on a lab thesis in molecular biology. In a recent meeting with her poetry adviser, lecturer in creative writing Michael Dickman, she asked him how he writes his poetry. "He told me that he kept a small notebook in which he jotted down phrases and ideas for poems," Gou said. "He then showed me that notebook, and I realized that, at Princeton, I have the opportunity to ask these poets questions that I would never otherwise have the chance to ask."
Dickman, whose second collection of poetry, "Flies," will be published next month, finds Princeton students "extremely engaged and present and wildly creative," he said. "They do not shy away from the hard work of reading and writing contemporary poetry."
He hesitates to think of himself as "teaching" his students to write poetry: "A poetry workshop with Princeton students is an exciting couple of hours full of reciprocity and surprise," he said. "I try to create a workshop, along with them, of exploring and discovery instead of one of 'corrections' and surgery. The poetry workshop should be thought of as a messy art class, a place to make really big mistakes."
And mistakes, said Muldoon, are essential to creative writing. You need to "try to do things that may fall flat," he said. "You need to be willing to fail. If you don't take those risks, nothing interesting is going to happen."


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Doesn't seem to be anything 'real' available yet so it is hard to make heads or tails of it and weather/how it will fit with linuxMCE.There are API's ready for the USB accessory stuff which is interesting but it appears that the @Home stuff might still be a fair way off.Andrew - I actually looked at it more the other way around, rather than interfacing to @Home devices I thought it would be more interesting coupling the control interfaces to the devices that we already have interfaces for. ie; an @Home plugin for linuxMCE that would allow linuxMCE device discovery and control and tie it to whatever control API's they develop.But until there is more info released everything is speculation.Still, something to watch.regardsDarren
The entire article is fellatious; extremely contradictory on its key points. (Yes, I did just say that the article is giving Google one big blow job.)One example; It starts by saying one company can't dominate the industry, but then immediately plunges into talks of proprietary wireless protocols, and...domination of the entire software stack by a single company.Typical Engadget slop.People fail to realize that the entire domotics field is literally a hard nut to crack, especially when you are trying to provide not only a consistent architecture behind it, but also a fantastic user experience on top of it. Pluto failed on the last part (as technically amazing as it was for when it was designed), and we've been paying for it, ever since. Our biggest challenge has always been, that we do not have the resources to make our own hardware with proprietary wireless protocols, and smart discovery bits. We'd love to, but for now, we have to settle for the shitty hardware that exists.The entire industry is still another 10 years away from truly being started, because nobody wishes to work together.-Thom
The plot thickens http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/other/4217521/Google-s-Android-Home---The-plot-thickens-?Ecosystem=programmable-logic