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Bates: Let's Tax Gasoline and Natural Gas in Berkeley (News Analysis)
The city of Berkeley is falling apart. Deferred maintenance on the town's deteriorating infrastructure—streets, public pools, street lighting, parks, recreation facilities and community centers, storm drains, seismic retrofits of city buildings—has led to $523 million worth of identified, unfunded projects. Between March 14-19, likely Berkeley voters were polled over the phone about possible bond measures for the November ballot whose passage would go toward paying for the repairs. On April 3, the council viewed the sobering results : none of the proposed measures came close to the 67% required to pass new property taxes. Grasping for alternative sources of revenue, Mayor Tom Bates proposed that a follow-up poll ask about a "green tax" on petroleum and a "carbon fee" on natural gas in Berkeley.
The city paid Lake Research Partners $24,000 to poll 430 voters in a 17-minute survey. Though a majority of the respondents acknowledged the need for infrastructure improvements, and 68% rated both streets and storm drains as important or extremely important, the highest approval rate was only 59% for a $25 million bond for storm drains and water quality. A parcel tax that would raise $1 million for homeless services received a 58% yes response.
Lake Associates' David Mermin told the council that if tax measures face well-funded opposition, they generally lose. If there's no opposition, "you can lift the yes vote" to the 67% threshold needed for approval. "It's hard to lift," he said, "but it's possible"—if you're starting at 62 or 63%. "That's a lift that can be done." But if you're starting at 56 or 57%, reaching 67% is "pretty tough." He also emphasized that undecided voters "tend to break toward a no vote in a bond election."
Mermin also explained that in the interest of maximum predictability, the sample of likely voters was weighted toward the hills (41%), homeowners (62%) and people who've lived in Berkeley ten years or longer (76%)—percentages that are not representative of the city's entire voting population. In response to a question from Councilmember Wengraf, he said that the hills are defined as Districts 5, 6 and 8.
With one exception, the council appeared to write off new property taxes. "The property tax is poison," said Mayor Bates. "People have had it." The exception was Councilmember Arreguin, who said that when the council had discussed the questions for the survey, he had asked that people be polled about adding 2% tax on the gross receipts of owners of 5 or more residential rental units. He wondered why that question hadn't made it onto the survey and requested that it be included in the follow-up poll planned for May. Councilmember Wengraf asked the city attorney to see if such a levy would count as income tax, which, she said, would be illegal.
Mayor Bates and Councilmember Wozniak had a different idea: assess a "green tax" on gasoline purchased in Berkeley and "a carbon fee" on Berkeleyans' natural gas use. Revenues from the former would go to street repairs, from the latter to "climate action activities," in particular watershed services. When Councilmember Capitelli noted that a sales tax is regressive, the mayor agreed: "It is regressive." He went on to say, however, that rent, food and medicine are not taxed. Bates also said that if 67% of respondents in the follow-up survey were agreeable to the gasoline tax of ¼ cent, he would talk to other cities about imposing the same; otherwise, everyone would leave Berkeley to buy gasoline.
Councilmember Moore headed in another direction. Citing the reduced size of the Berkeley police force and "the need for more police officers," he said he'd "like to see a question on the follow-up poll about money that would go to hire more patrol officers."
City staff and the pollster will return to the council on May 1 with sets of questions to be reviewed for the follow-up survey. Should the council decide to place a bond or tax on the November ballot, it will provide direction on ballot language on June 12, review the final ballot measure language on July 10 and finalize the measures on July 17.
The April 3 discussion could have been billed "Reaping What We've Sowed." For years, the mayor and council have lavishly praised each other and the succession of city managers and budget directors for their collective "prudence" in managing Berkeley finances. After the council has approved each annual budget, Bates, now in the tenth year of his mayoralty, has triumphantly announced that once again, the city has balanced its budget.
But California law requires every city in the state to balance its budget. The question isn't whether you balanced yours, but what you had to do to balance it. At least, that used to be the question. Now, with Vallejo as the national poster child for municipal bankruptcy, with Stockton apparently about to follow suit and with many other cities grappling with multi-million dollar shortfalls, the question may be changing.
The main reason Berkeley isn't in Vallejo's and Stockton's shoes—yet—has been its citizens' habitual willingness to tax themselves. There was a hiccup in November 2004, when Berkeley voters said no to four city tax measures. But that was the exception, as a glance at any property tax statement for a Berkeley parcel purchased after 1978 (the year Prop. 13 passed) will demonstrate.
If the results of the March phone survey indicated that the party is over, Tuesday's discussion suggested that our electeds are not prepared for that eventuality. Mayor Bates opened the meeting by saying, "This is unacceptable." What neither he nor any of his colleagues on the dais also said is that their inordinate generosity to city staff is a major source of Berkeley's fiscal woes.
Before asking likely voters if they're willing to pay higher taxes to fund more Berkeley police officers, the pollsters conducting the follow-up survey in May should inform respondents that in fiscal year 2012, Berkeley police officers' average salary was $125,652; that their benefits (pension, health insurance plus workers comp) averaged 74% of their salary or $92,242; and that their total compensation averaged $217,894 a year.
Indeed, before posing any questions at all about new taxes, the pollsters should tell respondents that last November former city Manager Phil Kamlarz retired with an annual pension of $250,000, joining 74 other city of Berkeley retirees who are getting pensions over $100,000.
Also they should state that according to data obtained by the San Jose Mercury, in 2010 over a quarter of city of Berkeley employees—380 out of 1,529—had a base salary over $100,000; and that when cash payments, including overtime, are added, 30% of city staff landed in the $100 K club—and that's not counting their fringe benefits. Mention, too, that personnel costs account for 77% of city expenses.
Then and only then, ask those voters if they're willing to pay higher city taxes.


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Acclaimed writer and director Scott Cooper has long been drawn to the personal stories of people living on the margins of society. His new film, Out of the Furnace, takes audiences on a tragic yet inspiring journey into the heart of a fading American Dream where fate, family and loyalty drive an ordinary man to take heroic measures to fight for those he loves. Opening in theaters on December 6th, the film was shot entirely on location in and around Braddock, Pennsylvania and features an impressive cast that includes Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard, Willem Dafoe and Forest Whitaker.
At the film's recent press day, Bale, Affleck, Harrelson, Saldana and Cooper revealed what appealed to them about the story and its characters, how shooting on location helped inform their performances, why it's important to be cool and calm when playing an intense character, how trust is essential when a high level of physicality is involved, what Bale and Affleck did to create an authentic chemistry between their characters, what it was like for Cooper to bring the story to life with such a talented group of actors, and why he feels it's important to be true to yourself and to your artistic world view. Hit the jump to read the interview.
Question: What inspired you to pick a location like steel country in Braddock, Pennsylvania at the foot of the Alleghany Mountains right there at the Monongahela for your script and your setting?
SCOTT COOPER: I grew up in a small town in Virginia along the same Appalachian Mountain range, and as the grandson of a coal miner, I have grown up with these people and have spent a lot of time in small town America. While I was touring with my first film, Crazy Heart, I had been reading a great deal about Braddock, Pennsylvania. What the town had undergone over the past five to seven years dealing with economic turmoil and the loss of the steel industry really touched me. It was important to me to really shine a light not only on small town America like that but also what we as Americans have undergone these past five turbulent years. That blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema. It was very prevalent in the 1970s films that have very much influenced this movie and Crazy Heart. I wanted to see that represented on screen again, because I knew these people very well and I knew their mores and their values, and I hoped to think that I knew about their world view, and that it was important to weave all of those themes into a narrative in a very personal way.
For the actors, how did it inform your performances being steeped in that history of our country?
CHRISTIAN BALE: It helps so much being on location, if you understand what I mean. It's like the difference between performing for the rectangle of the camera versus a world being created and then the camera finds things within that. There's a huge difference in that, because what it takes away is performance. You don't feel like performing. You're just kind of doing it. You're existing.
CASEY AFFLECK: I think he summed it up pretty well. Especially in a place like where we were, there's a real story just in the way that it looks to see a place that was once one thing and is now something else. It has a lot of atmosphere. If there's a lighting set-up that takes 20 minutes, you can go into another room and you're not just staring at the back of a bunch of plywood. You're actually in another room in your own house where you're supposed to be, and it helps to ground you and keep you.
WOODY HARRELSON: I'd like to say ditto.
ZOE SALDANA: You walk in with this fear, wanting to see something that you can imagine being so heavy, and what you learn and you take from it is the strength that you're able to absorb from these people. It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American. It's sticking together when it gets really rough. It is a town that has been hit very, very hard to an extent that I've been to places around the world that leave you with a big knot in your stomach and you feel like an elephant has just sat on your chest, and Braddock was definitely one of those cities. But once you sit down with the people, you kind of wish you had an ounce of the strength that they possess every single day by sticking around. That was something that I really was very moved by.
Woody, you were extremely intense, but at the same time you were cool and calm, which is a rare combination. Did that come naturally to you or is that a technique that you've developed over the years?
HARRELSON: I think it's important when you're acting to be as relaxed as possible even if you're doing something intense. You're basically in a state of dynamic relaxation. I think that these other actors might agree with me. I didn't feel there was anything natural about playing Harlan DeGroat. (to Scott Cooper) What was it you told me when we finished?
COOPER: The very last shot of the film was the very first scene that we shot at the drive-in. When we wrapped, Woody walked over to me and he hugged me and he said, "I have never wanted to shed a character so badly in my life." And truly, for me, I wanted Woody's character to represent the very worst of America and Christian's character to represent the very best of America. I wanted that kind of dichotomy and hopefully we succeeded. I just want to quickly say that as someone who's had a very unremarkable career as an actor, if you feel like you have a little bit of talent as an actor, that once you see these four actors, and you see their work, and you see it on the other side of a lens, that you quickly realize there's a difference between being very modestly talented and gifted as they are, and it's a real treat to direct these actors, I have to say.
BALE: But that being said, you need the right environment and he still creates that environment. It doesn't matter.
SALDANA: That's true.
Zoe, your character is torn between these two guys. The scene on the bridge was really amazing. How did you wrap your head around being involved and loving both of these men?
SALDANA: I think Lena has been torn by her life. She's probably had a rough life. I needed to build that for her and to understand that. I had endless conversations with Scott and we came to that conclusion that she hasn't had it easy. I needed to know why she just couldn't stick by the person that she truly loved and she went with somebody that worked in law that symbolically is going to keep her safe. It has to do with her inability to cope with danger and pain. And so, I think that being torn between two men that have been really good to her is small potatoes in comparison to the torture that she has to live with herself knowing that she just has to make decisions that are going to protect her physically.
For Scott, I thought it was interesting how Bale's character, who is going through such dark things, is shown in church seeking help. What motivated you to have the character be that way?
COOPER: Indeed, this is a man who as I was writing this character, I always thought of him as a very good man who is beset on all sides by a relentless fate. It was based on someone in my life who has suffered a great deal of tragedy and pain and loss, and who is one of the most positive people that I know, and is someone who has given me a great source of inspiration. That particular man's faith has carried him through, whether he's asking for absolution or for redemption or whatever it is that he's asking for in those very quiet and personal moments. In these small communities throughout America, and I'm certain around the world, people all pray to different gods and they all look for different things when they go to houses of worship and spirituality. It was important for me to have Russell Baze ask for that type of spirituality and that faith as he's certain that he's doing things that are very morally questionable and things that have happened in his life that through twists of fate and circumstance have put him in the position he's in.
You talked earlier about what appealed to you about telling this story. I wondered if you could elaborate a little bit on what it was like to have the opportunity to bring it to life on the screen with such a talented group of actors?
COOPER: Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are. I don't even consider it work. I honestly and sincerely consider it a privilege to see the type of work and the preparation and the care that these actors put into helping me realize my vision. There was no ego on the set. They were always questioning. They were taking a script that was decently written and elevating it in every way, and making me a better filmmaker, and making me really understand more about who I am as a person. After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations. For someone who grew up with very little money and who had very little money after Crazy Heart, you can get tempted to make movies for the wrong reasons. And when you have two little girls who want you to make that movie, or need you to make that movie, you just can't. You have to be very true to yourself and to your artistic world view. I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. Certainly, I could have taken a much less risky path after the success of my first film, but as one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"
Casey, as the veteran returning home from Iraq, I thought you gave a very raw, real performance particularly in the scene where you're describing all the things that you had seen over there. Was there any special preparation that you did for that role?
AFFLECK: Well, not anything special, but I did some preparation. That preparation starts just with reading the script over and over and trying to absorb it and then talking to Scott a lot about where he's coming from because it's not really a part of the movie. It doesn't delve into his history too much which is good. And then, watching some documentaries and things like that. And then, talking to some veterans and just trying to piece together as much as you can what that experience might be like for somebody and for a lot of these guys. These guys now, in these wars, have done more tours than the average soldier in other wars just because it's not a volunteer army and they're careerists. They spend a lot of time over there with a constant level of anxiety and understanding what those symptoms are when they come back with some post-traumatic stress disorder. There's the depression, the frustration, the alienation and feeling like people don't want to hear what their experiences were and how lonely that could feel. And then, you have to forget about all that stuff and just be in the living room. There you are talking about cleaning the bedpan or something. You just hope that all that stuff imbues whatever moment you're in and not try to bring it to every little scene, because you don't carry around your history in that way. It's just background noise and you hope that whatever research you've done bubbles up to the surface at the right time when you're playing a scene that's an argument about beer and then suddenly you're sharing some experience that you weren't planning on sharing. You've done the work and so you just hope at the right moment it clicks and makes sense.
For Casey and Christian, your scenes are amazing and it genuinely feels like there is a family relationship between you. Did you know each other before this? Did you do anything before the movie started to establish that chemistry?
BALE: Not really. It just happened to me. I didn't even know what had been going on. I'd been saying, "We want Casey for the role." There were a lot of conversations about that, and Scott and I just kept saying it, and eventually we were saying, "We're not doing it without Casey." I didn't actually meet Casey until we were doing that little camera test in Pittsburg just a couple of days before we started. (to Scott) All of the prison stuff was done in two days?
COOPER: The very first two days.
BALE: The very first two days of filming, we did all that prison sequence stuff. We had just gotten thrown into the deep end which was nice. No. That was it. It just happened. Casey's a fucking great actor and he was wonderful to work off of and it just came good.
What about you, Casey?
AFFLECK: (joking) We spent weeks and weeks together. (Laughter)
BALE: I forgot all of that. I was just lying. It blasted off my head. No. I did. Sorry mate, I forgot that.
AFFLECK: No. It was like you said, but I don't know, sometimes it works. It's awkward to say because he's sitting right there, but I think he just makes everyone better around him and is an anchor of reality. If someone's in a scene with you and they're listening to what you say and they're looking at you in that way, then you're having a real conversation and there are real feelings and relationships. The whole thing feels a little bit more real in some way. I would have to attribute whatever apparent chemistry or relationship there is to that. And those first couple day in the prison, those were hard for me. It's always hard to get right into something. I'm usually terrible the first week. On the very first day or two, we were doing those scenes and Christian was very patient. I did and said some things that just immediately made me trust him and then it just went smoothly from there.
COOPER: What you see between these two actors isn't something that you can learn in the Lee Strasbourg Institute or at Stella Adler. That is these two actors doing a great deal of investigative text work before. They won't say that, but they're also as talented as any two actors of my generation, simply put, and that's not the type of thing that you as a director can really manufacture. They really are two actors that are at the very height of their skill level quite frankly.
This is not a movie that has hero punches. Everything is very realistic and therefore a lot scarier. I'm wondering for the actors, is there an added level of trust that has to be there between you so that Woody could be as scary as he needed to be but Casey still felt safe?
HARRELSON: I was worried about him eating my face. (Laughter) We were just talking about that before because I was saying that working with Casey is kind of like working with a wild animal. You really don't know. Is he going to bite you? Do I want to be petted? It was a really great experience. And Christian is one of the greatest actors who ever lived. There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.
Out of the Furnace opens in theaters December 6th.

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After criticizing George W. Bush for pursuing a war on terrorism at the expense of Americans� privacy, President Obama has disappointed civil libertarians by continuing many of his predecessor�s policies. But it was only with the revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that Americans realized how aggressively the government was trawling for information not just about suspected terrorists but also about friendly foreign leaders and U.S. citizens.
When newspapers began publishing Snowden�s revelations, Obama said he welcomed a debate on electronic surveillance and appointed a task force to propose possible changes. On Friday, the president responded to the panel�s recommendations in a speech that went further than many had expected in embracing significant reforms.
Most important, Obama wisely accepted the recommendation that the government no longer collect and store massive amounts of telephone metadata � information about the source, destination and duration of telephone calls that can be �queried� or searched to turn up connections to foreign terrorists. Government possession of such information, the task force warned, �creates potential risks to public trust, personal privacy and civil liberty.� It urged that the data be held instead by phone companies or some third party.
Obama didn�t order an immediate end to the current program. Instead, he announced a two-step transition process. In the first phase, new limits will be placed on how extensively the government can query phone records in its possession, and the decision about whether there is reasonable suspicion justifying a search will be made by a court, not by investigators. In the second phase, administration officials will study ways in which the government might relinquish control of the records, and report back to Obama by March 28.
That�s a good start, but lawmakers should ponder a broader question: whether the metadata program is worth continuing even if the records are privately held. The task force concluded that information obtained from it �was not essential to preventing attacks� and could have been obtained by other means.
Obama also will ask Congress to let independent lawyers appear before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and he promised new limits on the use in criminal cases of information collected �incidentally� from communication between foreigners targeted for surveillance and Americans. Finally, he ordered restrictions on the collection of information about foreigners living abroad, private citizens as well as leaders. These are reforms this page has supported.
Obama praised the NSA�s professionalism and denounced Snowden for revealing secrets �that could impact our operations in ways that we may not fully understand for years to come.� But the overarching theme of the speech was that, with the best of intentions, the government over which Obama presides has gone too far in taking advantage of advanced technology. Now that recognition must be followed by action to restore the proper balance between security and privacy.
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Apple's iPhone has been phenomenally successful, with mobile gaming leading the charge in the sales success of the iTunes App Store and an increasing number of hardcore gamers adopting the iPhone as their mobile format of choice.
This month sees the announcement of Apple's tablet computer, with a launch event planned in San Francisco for 27 January.
Interestingly, Apple is inviting leading videogame journalists in the US, with Kotaku reporting that it has received its invite to the launch.
Major gaming move from Apple
Details, as ever with a new Apple product, are thin on the ground, but the fact that Apple is inviting dedicated gaming media seems to strongly suggest that the Cupertino computing giant is looking to make its next major step into games with the new tablet computer.
"We have been anticipating a major move from Apple in the games market for some time," said CVG editor Tim Ingham.
"This could well be it."
More details, news, comment and analysis on the gaming capabilities of the Apple Tablet on 27 January. By which point we will be able to call it by its proper name and stop referring to it in myriad ways!


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Instagram Acquired by Facebook for $1 Billion
Facebook announces today plans to purchase photo-sharing app Instagram to the tune of $1 billion. Through an official release, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stressed that Instagram would be maintained as a separate app. Users will still be able to post photos to other social networks (Twitter, for example). Photos won't be automatically published to Facebook, and users will still be able to follow and be followed by Instagram-ers outside of their own Facebook friends networks.
Instagram only recently became available to Android users. Previously, the photo sharing-app was available only on the iPhone. Instagram is the highly popular, highly addictive platform for snapping, sharing and "hipster-izing" photos with a variety of retro filters. Some Instagram fans have taken to Twitter to express distrust in Facebook's intentions, concerned that app functions and interface will undergo significant unwanted changes. Gizmodo and Mashable have posted tips for protecting your catalog of Instagram photos if you plan to bail out before Facebook takes control.


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ORLANDO, Fla. – From Monsters to penguins and even Transformers, Orlando's theme park wars are heating up and bringing big dollars to the Central Florida region.
"Competition is healthy, which means more reasons to visit Orlando," says Mark Jaronski of Visit Orlando.
The organization has been tracking the influx in the number of tourist flocking to the region, as the theme parks keep rolling out new expansions and renovations, to bring more people to the parks.
"All that were seeing now, the theme parks deserve credit. They had that vision years ago, knowing people would return despite the economy," said Jaronski. "We're seeing the results now from all of their efforts."
According to Visit Orlando, every year since 2010, Orlando has broken the previous year record for the number of tourists to visit.
2012 brought nearly 57 million people to the region and they expect another one and a half percent increase for 2013, which means a lot of dollars and new jobs.
"One-third of all jobs in Orlando are a result of tourism," said Jaronski. "In fact, $32 billion a year is spent by visitors."


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Dragon Quest V may have been first released in 1992, but even then, through the powers of the Super Famicom and Yuji Hori, it knew that the brother of the future King of England could be a bit of a handful.
And before you go thinking that was just slid in there for the 2009 Western release of the game, the original character's name was ヘンリー, or Henry. The real Harry's full name? Henry Charles Albert David. The fact he is also a smartass at a young age isn't coincidence. It's prophecy, OK?
DQV [Hip/Catchy Title Goes Here, via Tiny Cartridge]


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Jonathan B. Falk
When I was introducing our prospective ministry in Uruguay to your churches during our furlough last year, I often made the statement that, as far as we knew, Margaret and I were the first Presbyterian missionaries to set foot in Uruguay. But after doing some research during our Spanish-language studies in Montevideo, I need to retract that statement.
Dr. José Alberto Piquinela, the former archivist for the Methodist Church of Uruguay, recently published a volume entitled The History of Protestantism in Uruguay from 1808 to 1880. According to Piquinela, a handful of Scottish settlers landed in southern Uruguay in 1849, where they were visited periodically by the pastor of the Presbyterian church in Buenos Aires, Argentina. But of greatest interest is the record left by the Rev. Lachlan M'Neill from 1866 to 1877.
Mr. M'Neill, a Presbyterian minister from Scotland, exercised an itinerant ministry for those eleven years, visiting four preaching stations in towns along the Uruguay River (which forms the western boundary of Uruguay). He was able to conduct monthly worship services in each of the four towns. The attendance at the services averaged between twenty and thirty persons. One of the more interesting points of M'Neill's journal was the celebration of a Scottish Highland wedding in the town of Salto, complete with bagpipes!
According to the sessional records that remain, Lachlan M'Neill carried out a faithful ministry of family visitation to the ranches, or estancias, of the Scottish settlers. It was said of M'Neill that "he lived on a horse." The records also include accounts of crossing flooded streams, breaking bones when falling off his horse, encountering villages in mourning from cholera epidemics, and having to make detours during the civil wars that troubled the early years of Uruguay's history. Dr. Piquinela summarizes his account of Lachlan M'Neill's ministry by observing that he left a colorful and moving record of his adventures in Uruguay. Sadly, these records are all that remained of Presbyterianism in Uruguayuntil about four years ago, when a work began in Rivera, Uruguay.
There is no record of any worship services being conducted at any of the four preaching stations after 1877. The Presbyterians simply vanished. Dr. Piquinela surmises that the Presbyterians may have joined other Protestant churches that still exist in Uruguay. My fear, based on the general decline of the Protestant churches in Uruguay, is that the children of Presbyterians may have been lost to the world.
It has been instructive for me to compare the history of Scottish Presbyterianism in this country with our own church here today, the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Uruguay. Like the Scottish church, we have four regular preaching stationstwo on the Uruguayan side of the border and two in Brazil. On occasion, worship services are conducted in other locations on both sides of the border. And, similar to the first Presbyterians in Uruguay, we average between twenty and forty persons at our worship services.
However, the differences between the two groups of Presbyterians are striking. Unlike the Scottish church, the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Uruguay was established by native Uruguayans, not by immigrants. The instrument used by the Lord to start this church was the growing body of Reformed literature written in, and translated into, Spanish and Portuguese.
At present, Gustavo Mello is the only ordained minister in the Iglesia Presbiteriana Reformada in Rivera. He also works full-time as a policeman in order to support his family, but he plans to retire in a little over two years to carry out his duties as the pastor of the church.
Marcos Lara is a ruling elder and licensed to exhort. Because Marcos is fluent in Portuguese, he spends Tuesdays and Fridays conducting Bible studies in the preaching stations in Brazil. I have the pleasure of working with him on Thursdays in Barrio Mandubí at a Bible study in Spanish. On Saturday evenings, Marcos leads the young people's Bible study, which often reaches an attendance of fifteen or more junior and senior high school students.
Readers of Telenews may remember the prayer request made last summer for elder Henry Vega. Henry suffered what was first suspected to be a cerebral hemorrhage, but later was diagnosed as meningitis. We give thanks to God that he survived the illness, but it left him with some disabilities. In particular, Henry suffered some memory loss. We praise God that we have seen improvement in Henry during the four months we have been in Rivera. He is now able to pray publicly in the worship services, exhort briefly, and occasionally conduct the hymn singing. Henry's wife, Cristina, heads the Sunday school program in Mandubí that ranges in size from fifteen to twenty children.
We are learning that Rivera has its own unique challenges for ministry. It is located on the border with Brazil in a district called La Frontera, or the Frontier. It is not the secular wasteland that one finds in the capital city of Uruguay, Montevideo. The Mormons have erected six large edifices that are, happily, largely empty of worshipers. There are numerous storefront Pentecostal churches, with their own bands of apostles and prophets. A large "health and wealth" cult from Brazil has built an imposing cathedral in order to prey upon the souls and pocketbooks of the local population.
To be sure, there are some historic evangelical denominations represented in Rivera. But most insidious is the growing presence of the Brazilian spiritist cults like Macumba and Candomble. These cults are a syncretistic blend of African animism and Roman Catholicism. According to a veteran Protestant missionary in Rivera, their teaching is beginning to make some inroads into the evangelical churches.
Elder Marcos Lara observes that the evangelical churches in the Frontier rely on revivals to rouse their members and adherents out of periods of backsliding. Temptations of the flesh abound on the Frontier. Alcoholism and drug addiction are serious problems; broken marriages are the norm. Many children are being raised by their grandparents. It is difficult to find believers who are wholeheartedly committed to following Christ and faithfully submitting to the leadership of their church. I suspect that many pastors and sessions in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church would make similar observations about the religious climate of many places in North America!
The evangelistic zeal of the brothers in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Uruguay has been a great encouragement to me, as well as a goad to my own efforts. Pray that we will be able to train the leaders to disciple and to catechize the members of their church in the Word of God and in the sound doctrine of their own secondary standards. Pray that we will be able to guard the flock from the false teachings that abound in Rivera, and to encourage one another to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Pray as well that we will be able to implement the hope of the leaders of our local congregation. Pastor Gustavo and elder Marcos have expressed a desire to plant a Presbyterian church in Montevideo, some three hundred miles to the south. More than 60 percent of the population of the country lives in the greater Montevideo area. Margaret and I spent twelve weeks there, studying Spanish at the Academia Uruguay.
Our instructors were all graduate students at the University of the Republic (Universidad de la República), Uruguay's huge public university, and were typical of the young adults we met in the capital city. They were, in most cases, a generation removed from the Roman Catholic Church, utterly secular in their outlook, and politely incredulous that people like us believed the Bible to be the Word of God. We struggled to find an evangelical church in our neighborhood that preached the gospel of God's grace.
It will be a considerable challenge to establish a Presbyterian church in a secular environment like Montevideo. Pray that God would prod Spanish-speaking pastors and families to leave comfortable ministries in North America to go out as missionaries in order to reach a nation that is largely ignorant of biblical truth. But more urgently, pray that God would raise up evangelists and church planters from within the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Uruguay who have the vision and the gifts to reach this lost generation for Christ.
The author is an OP missionary to Uruguay. Reprinted from New Horizons, May 2009.
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Good Bread: Landbrot
For the last quarter century or so, much of New York City has been a German bread desert. The only way to get a loaf of freshly made bauernbrot was to trek out to Central Queens, where neighborhoods like Ridgewood and Middle Village still cling to vestiges of German ethnic tradition. It wasn't always so. In the late 19th century, Manhattan's booming Little Germany district marched north from the Bowery, bringing with it beer halls, restaurants, and bakeries. From frankfurters to lager beer to ham on rye, German immigrants helped lay the foundation for the way the city eats. But then a couple of world wars and the cults of French and Italian cuisine turned us away from sausages and dense rye breads.
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Luckily, however, tastes change, and that's where David Rothe and Volker Herrmann saw their opportunity. The two young businessmen come from Baden-Wurttemberg, a province in southwest Germany where local bakeries routinely sell 50 different kinds of loaves. On a business trip to New York, they noticed the complete absence of German bread, and that's when their ambitious plan was born. They found spaces in the West Village and the Lower East Side, imported baking equipment from Germany, and hired a Bavarian master baker, Udo Fischer, who has worked all over the world. They installed the ovens, along with Udo and a team of assistants, on the second floor of the West Village space. Last Sunday, they opened Landbrot, their German bakery/café/mini-beer hall, with over two dozen breads on the menu.
Almost all of Landbrot's breads contain rye flour. According to Udo Fischer, the recipe for his Berlin Brot ($12.00 whole) is 1,200 years old. It's a big round miche made from 85% rye flour. The crust is thick yet chewy, with a pleasantly bitter caramel bite enclosing a moist and dense crumb. It has a good rye flavor set off with a sourdough tang and a bit of spice from a light sprinkling of caraway seeds. A whole loaf will feed a party, but you can also buy half and quarter loaves.
Another rye-heavy loaf is Landbrot's table bread ($5.50), a staple of German mealtimes. This is a football-shaped loaf with holes in its crust that looks like it was dug up in some Teutonic village excavation. It doesn't have quite the sour flavor as the Berlin Brot, but the dense rye makes an excellent base for a thick smear of leberwurst or dollop of herring salad.
For lighter fare, you have to try Germany's contribution to New York City street food: pretzels. Landbrot shows you how debased these hot dog cart staples have become in the city. The bakery sells plain (lightly salted), poppy, and sesame pretzels, as well as pretzel rolls. The pretzels have the traditional fat body and skinny arms shape, giving you both puffy and crunchy parts to chew on. Unlike the usual street pretzels, the Landbrot pretzels have a rich buttery flavor because, surprise, they're made with butter in the dough. Eaten with a bit of German mustard and washed down with good German beer, one of these pretzels will transport you back to the 19th century beer halls. All you need is an oom-pah band.
Finally, you should keep an eye on the daily special breads. These range from an excellent onion bread on Mondays to an exotic Khorasan loaf made from kamut flour on Sundays. The Four Seasons bread, the Tuesday specialty, is a flattened round loaf covered and stuffed with pumpkin and sunflower seeds, caraway seeds, cracked wheat kernels, and who knows what else. More than any other baking culture, the Germans know how to use whole grains. It's delicious.
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For those desperate to stare into Pandora's 3D box once more, iconic director James Cameron has offered a word of caution on the Avatar 2 release date.
Although the director is not too worried about the pressure mounting on him to follow up the biggest 3D hit of all time, he is still worrying about getting the script done.
"It's a little daunting because sequels are always tricky," he told Play Goes Strong. "You have to be surprising and stay ahead of audience anticipation. At the same time, you have to massage their feet with things that they know and love about the first film."
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"I've walked that line in the past, so I'm not too worried about it. At the same time, I definitely have to deliver the goods," he added.
"As for a release date that will be determined by when I get the script out. No pressure!"
The original Avatar was seen as the beginning of the 3D era but, despite Cameron championing the technology, it's perhaps not had the impact some might have expected.
That's not to say we're not already chewing the legs of our 3D glasses in anticipation for Avatar's sequels though...
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The US Army and Marines' ongoing effort to get unmanned robot supply helicopters into service continues, with a further $47m contract award announced yesterday.
You can put a flyboy in there if you want one for some reason
The deal, awarded by the Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate, will see defence mammoth Lockheed carry on in partnership with Kaman Aerospace to deliver an unmanned version of Kaman's existing, manned "intermesh" K-MAX craft, which is already in service around the world.
The intermesh design uses two main rotor discs, but unlike other more well-known craft which put the two discs at each end of the fuselage (or in some cases stacked one atop the other) the two discs spin on separate hubs right next to each other with the blades meshing. The use of two contra-rotating discs means no need to waste power on a tail rotor or thruster, and the K-MAX offers good lifting performance.
With the addition of autonomous robotic controls, the idea is to use the unmanned K-MAX for shifting supplies in such theatres as Afghanistan. Road convoys in such areas have to contend with bad or nonexistent highways, frequent sniping and ambushes and endless mines, bombs and boobytraps, meaning that they are in effect as expensive as helicopter delivery.
But manned helicopters, though much less costly in lives and injuries, are extremely expensive in money and hedged about with restrictions. The crew and their weapons, protective armour etc weigh a significant amount (eating into what can be carried and to what altitude) and have sharply, rigidly limited operating hours: then, manned cargo copters must normally be escorted by attack aircraft above Afghanistan, adding to the costs and difficulties.
All this means that autonomous unmanned cargo copters could be useful indeed for embattled US and allied troops, perhaps even more so as there would probably be much less reluctance to send the droid skyhooks in with critical supplies for forward bases which were under heavy fire at the time (on the whole manned copters will only go in under such circumstances to evacuate badly wounded soldiers).
But the robot K-MAX saw off its only serious rival, the unmanned A160T from Boeing, in competitive load-lifting trials over a year ago. The original intention by the US Marines, who kicked off the compo initially without Army involvement, was to have skyhooks in action by the end of 2010.
Now we learn that the robocopter is still in "electromagnetic environmental effects testing" and that a further demonstration "in an operationally realistic environment" must take place before any combat deployment, suggesting that the unmanned K-MAX may not reach Afghanistan this year either. Certainly there isn't much sign of any urgency from the Pentagon, with yesterday's development deal amounting to no more than the purchase price of a single manned helicopter.
The fact is that combat supply is a primary mission for both US Army and Marine aviators, and the wings-on-chest crowd probably aren't very enthusiastic about having this task taken away from them: the more so as it would very likely lead on to robotic casualty evacuation, which would remove one of the main ways for a chopper pilot to win a medal for going in under fire.
As long as pilots run aviation, there probably won't be a massive amount of impetus behind projects like the autonomous skyhook: which is a shame, as they could save a lot of lives and money – and there can't be any real doubt that they could have been in service for years by now if the effort had been made. ®


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The Houston Dynamo Academy, presented by Statoil, will host the U.S. U-17 men's national team in the official soft opening event at BBVA Compass Stadium. The match will take place tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. CT and will be open to Dynamo season ticket holders, sponsors and select guests. Fans will be required to present an e-ticket that can be printed from My Account.
The match will culminate a week's worth of events, leading up to the grand opening of BBVA Compass Stadium on May 12 when the Dynamo host D.C. United, presented by Greenstar Recycling. This will be the second time the Dynamo Academy has played the U.S. U-17 MNT. The two teams played to a scoreless tie on May 22, 2010.
The BBVA Compass Stadium soft opening will be the first opportunity for Dynamo season ticket holders to watch a soccer match from their seats in BBVA Compass Stadium. In addition, the adidas Dynamo Team Store will be open for fans to purchase team apparel, and the stadium concessions stands will be open for food and beverage purchases.
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A traditional picturesque town located high up on the slopes of Mount Parnassos, Arahova has much to offer its visitors. Next to some of the best skiing in Greece, this quaint old town has become a modern ski resort. Also ideal for a cool summer vacation away from the crowds, it is close to beaches of Itea and mountain hiking trails.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The New Mexico State women's basketball team fell 60-37 on Tuesday, Nov. 20, at The Pit in Albuquerque, N.M. The loss brings NM State to 1-2 on the season, heading into the Aggie Hotel Encanto Thanksgiving Classic on Friday.
The Lobos took advantage of the points off turnovers in the win over NM State with 19. The Aggies finished the night with similar numbers to New Mexico, but assistant coach Tamera Inuoe said the team just could not find the basket.
"We were getting the shots we wanted," Inuoe said. "We just need to pass the ball and really work on those shots. Statistically, we were very matched tonight. The missed shots is a trend that carried over from last week."
The first half opened up with the Lobos taking a 4-0 lead, but sophomore Danesia Williamson downed her first two of 10 baskets of the night. With the Aggies keeping with just those for points until near the nine minute mark, freshman Sasha Weber brought the Aggies back in the game and NM State left the hardwood with 27-20 at the half.
NM State earned the first points of the second half, but struggled to find the basket. A pair of good free throws by senior Kelsie Rozendaal early in the period along with a bucket by Elena Holguin helped move the score for NM State. The Aggies collected a few more points with a layup by sophomore Simone Ruedin and a free basket by Williamson in the middle of the period.
Kelsie Rozendaal combined for seven points and six rebounds on the night, but was 2-for-5 on field goals. Williams and Stefanie Gilbreath each had 10 buckets on the night, going 4-for-16 and 4-for-15, respectively.
"We just need to get back in the gym and shoot. It's that simple," Inuoe said of the Aggies heading into the weekend tournament.
The Aggies collected 44 rebounds on the evening with six assists and two blocks. The Lobos were quite similar to NM State with 43 boards, but tallied 16 assists on the evening.
The Aggies are set to host the Aggie Hotel Encanto Thanksgiving Classic in Las Cruces, N.M., on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 23-24. Welcoming George Mason, Drake and UC Irvine, NM State first faces George Mason on Friday afternoon. The winner of the Drake/UCI meeting on Friday will determine who the Aggies play on the final day of the Classic on Saturday evening.


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Alumnae/i, fellows, faculty, students, researchers, University leaders, and friends will gather to celebrate 15 years of the Radcliffe Institute, founded in 1999, and 135 years of Radcliffe, founded as the Harvard Annex in 1879.
We will honor Drew Gilpin Faust with the Radcliffe Medal, which we present annually to an individual who has had a transformative impact on society.
We hope you will be part of Radcliffe Day on May 30, 2014, to reflect on the past, savor the present, and imagine the future.
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From Civil War to Civil Rights: The Unending Battle to Vote
In Celebration of the Work and Life of Drew Gilpin Faust
Locations: Knafel Center and Agassiz Theater
Ever since the ratification of the 15th amendment in 1870, the United States has grappled with the ideal of universal suffrage. Recent obstacles include the Supreme Court decision invalidating key parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, passage of voter-ID laws, and proposals for redistricting. This panel will explore why and how the world's greatest democracy has long struggled over which of its citizens can vote.
Daniel Carpenter RI '08 (moderator), Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and director of the Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University, and director of the social sciences program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Lani Guinier '71, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Darlene Clark Hine RI '04, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and professor of history, Northwestern University
Tony Horwitz RI '06, author of Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (1999) and Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War (2012)
Robert Korstad, Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History, Duke University
(Jacquelyn Dowd Hall RI '04, the Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is no longer able to participate in the panel.)
Annual Lunch
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Location: Knafel Center
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Gish Jen '77, BI '87, RI '02 (moderator), author of World and Town (2011) and Tiger Writing (2013)
Ann Hulbert '77, books and culture editor, the Atlantic
Claire Messud RI '05, author of The Emperor's Children (2007) and The Woman Upstairs (2014)
Elisabeth Schmitz '86, vice president and editorial director, Grove Atlantic
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Eric S. Lander (moderator), president and founding director, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); professor of biology, MIT; and professor of systems biology, Harvard Medical School
I. Glenn Cohen JD '03, RI '13, professor of law and codirector, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, Harvard Law School
Linda Griffith RI '11, professor of biological and mechanical engineering and director, Center for Gynepathology Research, MIT
David Liu '94, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, Harvard University; senior associate member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Pamela Silver RI '12, professor of systems biology, Harvard Medical School; founding core faculty member, Wyss Institute, Harvard University
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Get a room: Bad weather doesn't slow Foxfield revelry
Fake IDs, underage drinking, and public drunkenness– the usual suspects at the Foxfield Races– were undeterred by a cold and rainy Saturday, April 28. Nor were the couple caught having sex behind a bus.
The 61 arrests this year slightly exceeded last year's 55, and most seemed to involve alcohol, except for one pot charge. An indecent exposure arrest turned out to be an incorrectly charged public urination, according to Albemarle police spokesman Darrell Byers. Urinating in public, while still illegal, will keep the offender off the sex offenders registry.
One young man drew police scrutiny from his photographic activity.
"We were called in to look at a situation of a guy talking pictures on his cellphone," says Byers. "I think he was taking pictures of people urinating." No charges there, because photographing acts that occur in a public place is not illegal, explains Byers.
And once on the road, the 37 summons issued were mostly inspection and seatbelt violations, according to a county police release.
Albemarle police teamed up with the Albemarle Sheriff's Office, Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control, and Virginia State Police to keep the Orange section, where UVA students congregate, from getting out of control.
"When you consider there's approximately 10,000 students in the Orange section, that's a small percentage," says Foxfield president Benjamin Dick of this year's arrests.
As for Dick, he's seen worse. "This is the only time I've seen students paying attention to the race," he says, attributing that to the cold and rainy weather that saw temperatures barely getting above 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
"The guys in shorts and shirts getting soaked, the girls in sundresses getting soaked– my biggest concern was hypothermia," he says.
As much as some decry the drunkenness associated with the spring steeplechase event, says Dick, "We're sort of a model now among the 20 races on the steeplechase circuit."
He says that's because of the educational efforts he's put in since the ABC and Mothers Against Drunk Driving launched an offensive to dry out Foxfield about 10 years ago after boozing Wahoo antics reached a tipping point in the community.
"I went to colleges and said, this a horse race, it's not a blow-out party," says Dick.
Foxfield security works with law enforcement to maintain a safe environment, says Dick, and he lays down the law to would-be out-of-control drunks: "We expect you to be civil and compliant with the laws of the state," he declares.
So what about the copulating couple behind a bus? "This is the first I've heard of it," says Dick, who recalls an incident of a pair getting a little too cozy under a blanket near the pond about 20 years ago and drawing the attention of then-Sheriff Terry Hawkins.
"That would be the most salacious thing this year," says Albemarle police's Byers. He reports that the couple was charged– with underage possession of alcohol.Read more on: albemarle policealcohol arrestsfoxfield races
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Holy Moses, just when you thought it could not get any stranger around here, Foxfield comes through with another would you believe?
I've been to many Foxfield events and I have never heard of the kind of things reported in this article. What is it about horses that makes the people who watch them turn into horse's a***s? A few drinks, no problem. Sex in public, big problem. Public urination, big problem. Drunk in public, big problem.
Benjamin Dick deserves credit for his efforts to keep these events safe and sane. And no, I won't believe that all the arrests and bad behavior where from other schools. UVA needs to get a handle on a growing problem. I've been to many events at UVA where no alcohol was served. The events were well received and enjoyable and no one received a DUI on the way home!
The culture needs to change and, by the way, gang, get a room!
It's an extension of the "Woodstock" precedent. Ignore all the rules (morality)for awhile and everyone will make a lot of money.
"Public urination, big problem."
Well, it depends on the definition of "public".
Sounds like a HOT MESS!
No copulating pics? You showed the Occupy lady baring it all!
At least they had a blanket. One time in the Navy........
Fun times had by all. Although I saw a few people (not underage) get arrested essentially for nothing, while others far drunker and rowdier weren't even approached.
Foxfield is a joke.


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===Editorial Voice===
===Editorial Voice===
Revision as of 20:57, 20 September 2012
The username is lcarsos. pronounced el-cars-oh-ess. The only other acceptable capitalizations are LCARSOS or LCARS OS. The second of those is frowned upon because that should be used for any project attempting to create an LCARS operating system, or overlay/window manager. And lastly, never Lcarsos, despicable.
I'm just a big xkcd and Star Trek fan (props if you got the reference).
Here, I'm just working backwards from the beginning to create missing pages, fix existing pages, updating them to the current header, adding categories, fixing double redirects, etc. I also try to find as much work for the admins as possible (just kidding).
Personal Achievements
Some of the things I've managed to do here, I'm very proud of. And by golly, I'm going to display them out in public so everyone else can see how vain I am.
Named Characters
- Ponytail - Brought back the name from a dimly remembered past.
- Danish - stumbled across 377 and suggested it to Blaisepascal to be used as her official name
- Miss Lenhart - doesn't really count, I just created all the pages for her. But I'm very proud that I managed to do it all correctly on my own.
Huge Pages I Made
- 980: Money - not finished but a good start. Please other people work on it.
- 977: Map Projections - Created an explanation of each projection with explanation of each of the things happening in the discussion. Phew!
This is the prfeect post for me to find at this time
Ruby Importer script
Bugs, Questions, Comments, Heaping Adulation, Scathing Remarks
User Talk:Lcarsos#Ruby Importer Please post there.
I'm trying to keep everything organized so nothing gets lost in the shuffle (lost cause, I know, but I can do my small part to battle entropy).
Work on my import-assistant script is progressing. I'm using it to help create pages as I work my way backwards. Currently it is just using information from xkcd's json api and leaving explanation open for you to get.
I'm working on getting the explanation to pull in. But, managing to guess the right url alone was a difficult task, and it still doesn't get it right for some of the more odd ones, but it would be faster to just find the page manually than code for each exception to the rule. I'm going to do a bit more work on that, but I might just give it up and keep manually copying explanations in. Or at least write out a best-guess of what the url should be to get you close, if you aren't walking backward through the blog entries.
I want to be able to pull in the explanation so I can scan through it to get a rough idea of what characters appear to automatically generate Comics featuring ___ categories. But that's a bit of work, including lots of regular expressions (regex!) but it's good practice for basic data mining and pattern recognition.
I've found that already I'm much more productive simply by not having to type in the comic template info. And the page feels much more finished when it has the transcript.
Now, I'm going to give you a link, but I am requiring you to manually go through and look at what it generates and keep yourself engaged. As I explain in the README, there are things the human brain can do innately that computers need lots of work to get the logic hooked up.
You must go through and make links to appropriate wikipedia and external web pages. I can make links to the links that exist in the html, but you have to be a human and realize that if something has a wikipedia page it probably needs to be linked to.
Please tell me on my User Talk: Lcarsos#Ruby Importer page if you are using it, what features you want, and bugs you find.
Change log
- 20120917 - changed transcript parsing to use new indentation style, changing quotes into their pre-html version, as mediawiki correctly escapes them.
- ./importer.rb <number> ...
- ruby importer.rb <number> ... - for those that don't want to make the file executable.
Specific examples:
- ./importer.rb 1000
- ./importer.rb 1000 1001 1002 1003 1004
- ./importer.rb `seq 1 600` Don't actually do that
It accepts any number of comic numbers as arguments (space delimited, duh) and will iterate through all of them and spit out a text file <number>.txt with Unix line-endings (if you open it up on Windows use Notepad++ or some other real text editor).
If I see you using this tool to blindly create pages without going through and cleaning things up I will kill you.
Known Issues
- Active Development Work
- Explanations are not being culled from the blog page.
- Noted As Feature
- Some transcripts come from the json api with extra newlines. Will not be fixed to encourage humans to look everything through. Good for fingerprinting brain-dead copy/paste usage.
It is high time someone created one of these.
Fred shuttlesworth's story was that he was a brave and coauegrs man who even met Dr. M.L.K. Fred shuttles worth's original name was Fred lee robinson. He got the name Fred shuttlesworth when his mother married a man who's last name was shuttlesworth. Rev. Shuttlesworth attended and graduated at selam university and later became a pastor of Bethel Baptist church. He later establish a christian movement for human rights. People hated his attempt in help his race or community so they beat shuttlesworth with chains and whips. They treated him like a slave. They attemped to kill him by putting 16 sticks of dynamite under his window on christmas day, still Rev. Shuttlesworth never gave up or gived in. Every time they put him on his back or on the floor he didn't stay on the ground but instead he kept rising up until he was given the proud title ,by Dr. M.L.K, The most courageous civil rights fighter in the South. Then once again the was a bomb that blew up in his own home an he didn't stay on the ground once again he rose with power. Like I predict he march and went to jail. Later in 2004 he became the president of Southern christian leadership Conferrence. Sadly shuttlesworth died this year 2011 at october 5th. He was known for his patients, determination , and his ability to stand for things that are not right.That is the reason why I think that he is on th list.
Editorial Voice
As you are going through, if you are using Jeff's explanations from the blog, please go through and edit the sentences to not include personal pronouns, e.g., "I". Since anyone can edit (nearly) every article here, there is no 'I'.
Next point, there is no 'we'. If you are referring to anyone who's edited the article, that could be anyone, there's hardly any consensus there. If you are referring to 'We' the editors of ExplainXKCD wiki, again, we don't agree on anything, don't believe it? Read the Community Portal pages.
For the purposes of this wiki, saying 'we' is referring to human beings in general, and it would have to be a very special case to mean any set/group of people smaller than that.
This is based off of the discussion that occurred in explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#Editorial Voice.
Talk Pages
Wikis have a well established tradition for how to use talk pages.
You begin your conversation, and someone else replies to you by commenting under the post and indenting by using the colon (":"). This mimics how threaded conversations work in blog comments.
Talk pages should not be dynamic like article pages are. Old and outdated information should not disappear. People use that as a reference for themselves. If suddenly a link they knew was there yesterday is not there today, it's hard to believe that you might actually be going insane. If information becomes outdated, post a reply saying the information is outdated or strike through it using the <s>tag</s> and it will magically
look like this.
All comments on talk pages should be signed by using ~~~~. It is easy to forget this, but it is equally easy to get into the habit.
There are 2 canonical ways to handle multi-paragraph comments.
- Double returns between paragraphs and signature on its own separate line.
- Single returns between paragraphs and signature on the last line.
This makes it easy to scan through to see who's comments are whom's.
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I think that there should be more lions. Of course, then we need more wildebeests. ~~~~User1 :That is a good idea. :And yes, then we would need more prey. :~~~~User2 ::I'm replying to User2. ::Because he's funny. ::~~~~User3 :I'm replying to User1, saying that we don't need lions. Predators should be kept in cages ~~~~User4 :I'm replying to User1 also, telling him he's a genius. ~~~~User5
I think that there should be more lions.
Of course, then we need more wildebeests.
I think that there should be more lions. Of course, then we need more wildebeests. ~~~~User1 :That is a good idea. :And yes, then we would need more prey. ~~~~User2 ::I'm replying to User2. ::Because he's funny. ~~~~User3 :I'm replying to User1, saying that we don't need lions. Predators should be kept in cages ~~~~User4 :I'm replying to User1 also, telling him he's a genius. ~~~~User5
I think that there should be more lions. Of course, then we need more wildebeests. User1
See how easy this is to read? And now we don't even have to start introducing bullet points into the discussion. Bullet lists can now be used for what they were intended: Making lists, even inside of a single post in a talk page.
But if you meet someone who doesn't know what they are doing everything breaks down quickly.
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I think that there should be more lions. Of course, then we need more wildebeests. ~~~~User1 :That is a good idea. :And yes, then we would need more prey. ~~~~User2 ::I'm replying to User2. ::Because he's funny. ~~~~User3 :I'm replying to User1, saying that we don't need lions. Predators should be kept in cages ~~~~User4 :I'm replying to User1 also, telling him he's a genius. ~~~~User5
I think that there should be more lions. Of course, then we need more wildebeests. User1
For those of you that are now confused, don't worry I had to look back to my perfect example to see where I was coming.
Do you see that User3 has now managed to make the conversation very hard to read? By ending the line with a username it looks like that user posted a reply to themselves, and then by using 2 returns, made it look his own comment was also a reply. In reality these two should be part of the same comment. It can be frustrating to have different standards. But, it is extremely taboo to edit someone else's comment on a talk page. Don't do it. If the standard is single-returns within comments, double-returns between, do that. If the standard is double-returns throughout, do that. Do not go through the entire talk page and edit it to make it conform to your own personal feelings. If you start a talk page, then you may impose your will upon the unfortunate souls after you.
This is the only time in a wiki when paragraphs should not be double returned.


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Fernandez played Peter, aka Love Interest #1 to Amanda Seyfried, in Catherine Hardwicke's "Red Riding Hood" and has wrapped up filming on Brit Marling's eco-terrorist thriller "The East" alongside Ellen Page and Alexander Skarsgard, indie dramas "Deep Powder" opposite Haley Bennett and "Syrup" opposite Amber Heard, as well as the new "Evil Dead" remake opposite Jane Levy.


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Gio again does it all in season debut as Nats top Mets
Like in 2013, lefty goes six strong, hits solo homer in first start of year
NEW YORK -- It's safe to say that left-hander Gio Gonzalez had a good night on the mound and at the plate, as he helped the Nationals defeat the Mets, 5-1, at Citi Field on Wednesday night.
Gonzalez pitched six innings, allowed one run on three hits and struck out six batters, but he got off to a slow start in the bottom first inning.
Juan Lagares led off with a triple and later scored on a sacrifice fly by David Wright to give the Mets a 1-0 lead. It was smooth sailing for Gonzalez after that. He left the game after throwing 91 pitches.
"It's starts with his fastball," Nationals manager Matt Williams said about Gonzalez. "So once he establishes his fastball command, everything else works off that. He did that tonight. He was able to find his command and use his other stuff, too."
In the fourth inning, facing Mets starter Bartolo Colon, Jayson Werth doubled with one out. Adam LaRoche followed and doubled down the left-field line, scoring Werth.
An inning later, the Nationals used the long ball. On the first pitch, Ian Desmond hit his first home run of the season to give Washington a 2-1 lead. Two batters later, Gonzalez hit a long drive to left-center field.
It looked like the ball hit the left-center-field wall, but second-base umpire Todd Tichenor correctly ruled it a home run. In the meantime, Gonzalez had no idea that he had hit a home run. He rounded the bases as if he was going for an inside-the-park homer.
"That was epic," Desmond joked about Gonzalez's effort. "That will be in the memory bank for a long time."
Here's Gonzalez's take on his home run:
"I was trying to get a double out of it. I saw the ball rolling. I saw the left fielder slowing down. I said, 'What is going on here?' And [third-base coach] Bobby [Henley] said, 'Keep going.' It was nice to have the catcher [Travis d'Arnaud] say, 'Hey, hey, slow down.'"
Gonzalez was tuckered out by the time he reached the dugout. As the players were high-fiving him, Gonzalez jokingly said, "I can't breathe, I can't breathe."
"Having some fun with the guys was pretty cool, but I was trying to find the oxygen tank and breathe out there after that," Gonzalez said.
The Mets did not challenge the call and Gonzalez had his third career home run. It was a deja vu, of sorts, as Gonzalez also hit a one-out solo homer to left field in the fifth inning in his 2013 season debut.
Gonzalez is not the only one doing the job for the Nationals. In fact, in the two games against the Mets, Nationals pitchers have 31 strikeouts.
"Certainly we've got to do a better job of putting the ball in play with two strikes. There's no doubt about that," Mets manager Terry Collins said.
The Nationals always stress pitching to contact in order to have lower pitch counts and quick innings. But Williams doesn't mind his pitchers compiling strikeouts.
"They do get a lot of foul balls. They do get a lot of strikeouts, which takes the pitch count up a little bit," Williams said. "But that doesn't mean we don't preach pitching to contact, because we want quick innings for those guys."
It looked like the Mets were going to make it a one-run game in the fifth inning. Ruben Tejada tried to score all the way from first base on a double by Lagares, but left fielder Bryce Harper threw Tejada out at the plate.
"I kept yelling, keep it down, keep it down, in hoping that [the throw] didn't sail and the runner didn't come around," Desmond said. "The things [Harper] can do with that arm is pretty special."
Colon exited the game after six innings, while the Nationals added another run against right-hander Gonzalez Germen in the top of the seventh inning. With runners on second and third with no outs, Germen threw a wild pitch that allowed Denard Span to score.
Span scored his second run in the ninth, on a groundout to short by Anthony Rendon.
Relievers Drew Storen, Tyler Clippard and Craig Stammen followed Gonzalez and blanked the Mets the rest of the way as the Nationals improved to 2-0.
"I like more about the chemistry in the dugout," Desmond said. "It seems a lot of players are focused. I'm more encouraged by what I see in the dugout than what I see on the field. And what is on the field is really good. It's a good sign."