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Add a wiki
This page documents the process for adding a new wiki. This includes new languages on sister projects, and wikis for committees, chapters etc.
The following steps need to be completed before the wiki database may be created.
- Create a Phabricator task for the wiki creation (if one doesn't exist already).
- It should be tagged with
#Wiki-Setup (Create)
- It should be tagged with
- Create (if not already) a sub-task "Prepare and check storage layer for <new wiki>".
- It should be tagged with
- It should be tagged with
- Notify the Operations list. In particular, it needs to be made clear whether the wiki should be public, or private. If public, ops will arrange for the wiki to be replicated to Cloud Services. If private, ops will need to add the wiki to
. - IMPORTANT: If the wiki is a regular public wiki to appear on Cloud Services - you can continue. If the wiki is private and should not be replicated to Cloud Services DO NOT CONTINUE UNTIL YOU HAVE THE OK FROM OPS/DBAs to check no private data is leaked. There are mechanisms in place to prevent that by default, but those should be manually checked.
First of all, ensure the relevant domain names exist for the new wiki. Make the following changes in a commit for the operations/dns.git repo and submit to Gerrit for review.
- If it is a language project, ensure the language code is present in /templates/helpers/langlist.tmpl. This is shared between all sister projects. If another sister project has the same language already, then this has probably been done already.
- If it is a subdomain of ".wikimedia.org" domain (chapter wiki or special wiki)
- Add it to
. - Make sure to also add a mobile entry.
- Add it to
- Merge the change in Gerrit and run
. - Query the DNS servers to make sure it has been correctly deployed. See DNS#HOWTO for details.
- For new languages, there is also a need to regenerate zones. Run on ns0, ns1 and ns2:
authdns-gen-zones -f /srv/authdns/git/templates /etc/gdnsd/zones && gdnsdctl reload-zones
Apache configuration
Apache configuration is located in the operations/puppet.git repo.
- Common configuration:
- For a new language project, this step is usually not needed as shared configuration already covers it.
- For a new chapter wiki, add it to
- After the change is merged in Gerrit, deploy the configuration change and (if needed) gracefully restart app servers. See Application servers/Runbook#Deploying config for details.
- If there are additional domains that should point to the same wiki, add it to
Language configuration
Check the following for every wiki, even if another wiki in this language already exists:
- Make sure that the wiki's content language code appears in the language-data repository (file data/langdb.yaml; if you're adding it, make sure to follow the instructions in README).
- Make sure that the wiki's content language code is fully configured to be supported by core MediaWiki. The code must appear in the following files:
- includes/languages/data/Names.php (precisely this code, and not a variant)
- The file
must exist (replace Abc with the language code).
- If the language is written from right to left, make sure it is configured as such in the following files:
- In the core MediaWiki repository, the file languages/messages/MessagesAbc.php must explicitly say
$rtl = true;
near the top. - In the MobileFrontend extension repository: src/mobile.languages.structured/rtlLanguages.js
- In the Android app repository: app/src/main/java/org/wikipedia/util/L10nUtil.java (the RTL_LANGS list)
- In the iOS app repository: Wikipedia/Code/MWLanguageInfo.m (the rtlLanguages list)
- In the core MediaWiki repository, the file languages/messages/MessagesAbc.php must explicitly say
- Check whether the language code appears in any extra configuration for Wikibase and Wikidata. If it appears in any of the following files, it should be removed (verify with Wikidata developers):
- In the Wikibase repository: lib/includes/WikibaseContentLanguages.php
- In the WikibaseLexeme repository:
- WikibaseLexeme.mediawiki-services.php
- If the key
exists in i18n/en.json and i18n/qqq.json, remove it from these two files.
- In the Wikimedia's mediawiki-config repository: the
variable in wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php
- Check that usernames in the writing system of this language are possible and aren't filtered out. If they are blocked, add support for this writing system to AntiSpoof. Example patch.
Determine if this is a new language project (like Spanish Wikibooks) or a chapter wiki (like Wikimedia Denmark), or something else (special wiki or private wiki).
For a new language project, make sure the language has been approved by the Language committee at Requests for new languages on Meta-Wiki. Usually, the Phabricator task will contain a link to the approval page. For all other wikis, go directly to #Install.
IMPORTANT: For Private Wikis
- Private wiki databases must not be replicated to the Cloud Services DB MySQL instances!
- Before creating a database for a private wiki, make sure to add the db name to the puppet global array
. - Deploy this config change with puppet and manually restart the
MySQL instance (Sanitarium) on the server that will house this wiki's db (most likelys5
). - If you need help with this, please ask a member of the DBAs for help. This is very important.
- Before creating a database for a private wiki, make sure to add the db name to the puppet global array
- If you enable local upload for a private wiki, you must get the SRE team to check the permissions on the swift containers for your new wiki (you risk the contents being world-readable otherwise) - refer them to Swift/How To#Checking / Fixing container ACLs for private wikis for details. If you have disabled local upload (i.e.
Local file uploads: disabled
), then this isn't necessary, as no swift containers should exist.
MediaWiki configuration
Gather all relevant information about the new project. Each wiki has different requirements (project name, namespaces, extensions to be enabled etc).
Make the following changes on your own checkout of operations/mediawiki-config.git and submit to Gerrit for review:
- For a new language project, add the language code (ISO 639 code: usually provided in the task) to langlist. This will be used at Special:SiteMatrix and for interwiki linking etc.
- Create the YAML definition of the wiki in
, including making it inherit from relevant settings profiles, as follows:
Wiki grouping | Group options | Purpose |
all.dblist | The primary listing of what wikis exist, used as the basis of all tools. |
DB cluster
s1.dblist s2.dblist s3.dblist s4.dblist s5.dblist s6.dblist s7.dblist s8.dblist s11.dblist |
Database lists of wikis in each MySQL database cluster. In most cases, wikis should just be added to s5
Wiki size
small.dblist medium.dblist large.dblist |
Database lists of wikis arranged into their relevant size. |
Wiki family
wikimedia.dblist wikibooks.dblist wikinews.dblist wikipedia.dblist wikiquote.dblist wikisource.dblist wikiversity.dblist wikivoyage.dblist wiktionary.dblist special.dblist |
Sister project, Wikimania, chapter, or special.
NOTE: Some wikis maybe in special and one other list. |
Closed | closed.dblist | Any closed (no write access, full read access) wikis |
Deleted | deleted.dblist | Wiki databases which MediaWiki is no longer configured to access |
Wiki privacy | fishbowl.dblist | All fishbowl (restricted write access, full read access) wikis |
private.dblist | All private (read and write restricted) wikis | |
Extension configurations | flaggedrevs.dblist | All wikis running the FlaggedRevs extension |
securepollglobal.dblist | $wgSecurePollCreateWikiGroups wikis: Board Election wikis | |
visualeditor-nondefault.dblist | All wikis where VisualEditor is not enabled by default | |
commonsuploads.dblist | All wikis which should have local uploading soft-disabled. Uploads go to Commons instead. | |
Wikidata-related wiki groups | wikidata.dblist | All wikis running the Wikidata repo |
wikidataclient.dblist | All wikis running the Wikidata client (most new language-project wikis should start off like this) |
- Once your YAML file is created, add a dummy entry to
mapping the database name to a version string, then runcomposer test
which will update the automatic "dblist" files and spot any issues. Alternatively, you can runcomposer buildDBLists
which only builds the dblists. - If the new wiki is created at a different shard than s3 (which is likely, as new wikis are created at s5 as of August 2020), you need to add the wiki to
. Check with DBAs if you're unsure how to properly edit the file, this is very important. - Update the configuration files (located in
). Some may have sufficient defaults but the following are often wiki-specific in InitialiseSettings.php:- $wgServer, $wgCanonicalServer - For language projects, the defaults work fine.
- $wgLogos (see below), $wgSitename, $wgExtraNamespaces, $wgLocaltimezone.
.- Ensure $wgCategoryCollation is set to the appropiate sorting for this wiki's language. If you are not sure, ask on the task.
- If an extension needs to be enabled, this is usually done by setting a wmg-variable to true in InitialiseSettings along with custom configuration there. Some extensions' configuration are located in a dedicated files in the
directory. - SUL wikis on wikimedia.org or another non-standard domain name must be added to $wgLocalVirtualHosts. This is necessary to make cross-wiki HTTP requests work (used by ie. cross-wiki notifications).
- If you added a new language code to the langlist (see above), you probably need to add it to the InterwikiSortingOrder.php file too
- For "*wikimedia" suffix databases, add the subdomain to the list in MWMultiVersion::setSiteInfoForWiki
- Adjust the entry in
to the current production version. See Deployments (one week) and Deployment Train.
Projects, in particular Wikipedias, usually have a localized logo.
Check the following:
- The project has a full localized logo in Commons (image + wordmark). For Wikipedia, the filename is usually File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-LANGUAGE.svg, for example File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-fr.svg for French. If there is no localized logo, ask the project's editor to provide the localized text and get the logo created and uploaded to Commons.
- The project has versions of the logo in all the necessary sizes and resolutions uploaded. If not, create, upload, and configure them according to the instructions at Wikimedia site requests#Change the logo of a Wikimedia wiki.
- The project has a localized wordmark without the image. This is shown at the bottom of the mobile site and in some other places. This is not necessary if the name of the project is completely identical to the default English name, but necessary if it's not identical. For Wikipedia, the filename is usually File:Wikipedia-wordmark-LANGUAGE.svg, for example File:Wikipedia-wordmark-fr.svg for French.
Database creation
Once the above is reviewed, merged and pull down on the deployment host also pull it down on mwmaint1002 (scap pull), but do not yet deploy to main app servers until after the database is created.
Now it's time to actually create the database using the addWiki script. This also performs other tasks, such as notifying the "newprojects" mailing list.
The installation script must be run from mwmaint1002 (not the deployment host). If the wiki is going to be a Wikidata client, make sure it's present in the wikidataclient.dblist
file and that the new version of that file has been pulled down on mwmaint1002 **before** running the installation script, or things will break.
The dummy wiki (noted as muswiki
in the code) is shard-dependant. Wikis at s5
should be created using muswiki
, while wikis at s3
were created via aawiki
. Wiktionaries needs to be created via mhwiktionary
(s5) and aawiktionary
The syntax is as follows:
mwscript extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/addWiki.php --wiki=muswiki <languagecode> <projectname> <databasename> <domain>
- For a new Wikipedia - for example Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia:
mwscript extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/addWiki.php --wiki=muswiki lfn wikipedia lfnwiki lfn.wikipedia.org
- For another new language projects - for example a Spanish Wikinews:
mwscript extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/addWiki.php --wiki=muswiki es wikinews eswikinews es.wikinews.org
- For a new chapters wikis - for example a Finnish chapter wiki:
mwscript extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/addWiki.php --wiki=muswiki fi wikimedia fiwikimedia fi.wikimedia.org
- For non-standard special wikis (such as committees, or unique projects like meta or commons) - for example strategy.wikimedia.org:
mwscript extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/addWiki.php --wiki=muswiki en wikimedia strategywiki strategy.wikimedia.org
- Merge the config change in Gerrit, and pull it onto the deployment host.
- Verify that the *.dblist files now contain the new wiki.
- Pull the whole on mwdebug1002 and mwmaint1002 through
scap pull
- Run the addWiki maintenance script, as described above (important to do before any sync of dblists or wikiversions, as some components like login use that)
- Run
scap sync-world
- Unless it's a language project, add the project to the meta:Interwiki map.
- Regenerate the interwiki cache and deploy it. (For all new wikis, not just new language projects.)
scap update-interwiki-cache
(and then follow the instructions)- Edit meta:Interwiki map/updated and update when the last update was.
RESTBase is a service providing a RESTful API for the projects' wikis. This service is in a process of deprecation, below is an outline for the current process.
Before proceeding with these steps please reach out to the #platform-engineering team directly.
To enable it to serve the new wiki as well, create a task tagged with #platform_engineering
, then create a patch for mediawiki/services/restbase/deploy
adding its domain to the appropriate section in RESTBase's configuration, and link that patch with the phab task.
After the patch is merged, a restart of the RB service across the cluster is required, which can be done by ops or restbase-admins/restbase-roots.
Parsoid is now integrated with core, and should pick up the wiki automatically.
For project families in which the ContentTranslation is installed (as of 2018—only Wikipedia projects): Add the language code to the ContentTranslation registry - mediawiki/services/cxserver
repository, file config/languages.yaml
(included by config.dev.yaml and config.prod.yaml).
Once merged to master, ping the ContentTranslation developers to deploy the change. That requires to sync repositories, ie to update mediawiki/services/cxserver/deploy to match mediawiki/services/cxserver. See: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/303763/ for an example commit.
Search indices need to be initialized for new wikis starting with 1.36.0-wmf.10. For a typical wiki creation only the following command is necessary. See Search#Adding new wikis for more information.
$ mwscript extensions/CirrusSearch/maintenance/UpdateSearchIndexConfig.php --wiki=$wiki --cluster=all
Necessary changes are made automatically by the addWiki.php script. For a private wiki with local upload enabled, you must get SRE to review the permissions on the swift containers, however (refer them to Swift/How To#Checking / Fixing container ACLs for private wikis).
Cloud Services
Before maintain views: DBAs' work
First, the DBAs need to run this on both sanitariums (eqiad
and codfw
) and all cloud replicas of that section (clouddb10xm
root@db1154:~# redact_sanitarium.sh -d gpewiki -S /run/mysqld/mysqld.s5.sock | mysql -S /run/mysqld/mysqld.s5.sock gpewiki
root@db1154:~# check_private_data.py -S /run/mysqld/mysqld.s5.sock | mysql -S /run/mysqld/mysqld.s5.sock
And then run check_private_data.py -S /run/mysqld/mysqld.s5.sock
to make sure there is no private data. Also wait for some edits to be done in the wiki and run it again to make sure triggers work fine.
Once that's done, create the ${wiki}_p
database and granted access to labsdbuser
in the cloud replicas (otherwise a bug in MariaDB will cause the scripts to fail). This what DBAs need to do on each cloud replicas (not sanitariums):
$ sudo -i mysql --skip-ssl
mysql:root@localhost [(none)]> create database ckbwiktionary_p;
mysql:root@localhost [(none)]> GRANT SELECT, SHOW VIEW ON `ckbwiktionary_p`.* TO 'labsdbuser';
Maintain views
When the task is ready for WMCS, run the cookbook sre.wikireplicas.add-wiki
on the any of the cluster management hosts (cumin1002.eqiad.wmnet, cumin2002.codfw.wmnet
The following example is for smnwiki and it's task. Replace those values with the wiki database name you are adding and the correct task ID:
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/secure-cookbook sre.wikireplicas.add-wiki --task-id T264900 smnwiki
START - Cookbook sre.wikireplicas.add-wiki
Generating views...
Adding DNS
Finalizing meta_p
Added views for new wiki: smnwiki T264900
END (PASS) - Cookbook sre.wikireplicas.add-wiki (exit_code=0)
If you are adding more than one wiki that day or several tickets have been opened to add wikis, you may find that the DNS step creates all of them at once. After that has been done, it doesn't need to be done again. You can save yourself lots of time by using the --skip-dns
option on the command line so it doesn't sit there scanning for new wikis.
If in doubt you can always use the --dry-run option on the secure-cookbook command so that you just see what it would do. For example:
$ sudo secure-cookbook --dry-run sre.wikireplicas.add-wiki --task-id T260551 thankyouwiki
DRY-RUN: Executing cookbook sre.wikireplicas.add-wiki with args: ['--task-id', 'T260551', 'thankyouwiki']
DRY-RUN: START - Cookbook sre.wikireplicas.add-wiki
DRY-RUN: Generating views...
DRY-RUN: Executing commands ['/usr/local/sbin/maintain-replica-indexes --database thankyouwiki', '/usr/local/sbin/maintain-views --databases thankyouwiki'] on 4 hosts: labsdb[1009-1012].eqiad.wmnet
DRY-RUN: Adding DNS
DRY-RUN: Executing commands ['source /root/novaenv.sh; wmcs-wikireplica-dns --aliases'] on 1 hosts: cloudcontrol1003.wikimedia.org
DRY-RUN: Finalizing meta_p
DRY-RUN: Executing commands ['/usr/local/sbin/maintain-meta_p --databases thankyouwiki'] on 4 hosts: labsdb[1009-1012].eqiad.wmnet
DRY-RUN: Added views for new wiki: thankyouwiki T260551
DRY-RUN: END (PASS) - Cookbook sre.wikireplicas.add-wiki (exit_code=0)
Manual method in case Maintain views fail
Once it is replicating to the labsdb* servers (e.g. labsdb1009, labsdb1010, labsdb1011 and labsdb1012) and the new clouddb1* servers (clouddb10[13-20]), run the following 2 commands on each replica server:
localhost:~$ ssh labsdb10xx.eqiad.wmnet
labsdb10xx:~$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/maintain-replica-indexes --database $wiki --debug
labsdb10xx:~$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/maintain-views --databases $wiki --debug
Note the section for use with the wikireplica dns next
labsdb10xx:~$ grep $wiki /usr/local/lib/mediawiki-config/dblists/s*.dblist* | grep -o '\w[0-9]'
:# Should return a shared, like s3, s5, etc
From a cloud control host, add the wikidb alias in the Wiki Replicas service name:
localhost:~$ ssh cloudcontrol1003.wikimedia.org
cloudcontrol1003:~$ sudo -i
cloudcontrol1003:~$ source novaenv.sh
cloudcontrol1003:~$ /usr/local/sbin/wmcs-wikireplica-dns --aliases --shard <sN>
:# Use the shard arg only if you know the shard (which you can get on a replica server as noted above)
:# If the shard is s3 or a full rebuild is done it will take quite a while to run
Insert a new row in meta_p.wiki
for the new wiki by running the following on each of the replica servers that host the s7 instance.
localhost:~$ ssh labsdb10xx.eqiad.wmnet
labsdb10xx:~$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/maintain-meta_p --database $wiki
Finish up for either method
Before resolving the ticket, log into a Toolforge bastion as yourself and run:
localhost:~$ ssh login.toolforge.org
tools-sgebastion-07:~$ sql $wiki
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 470351380
Server version: 10.1.43-MariaDB MariaDB Server
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [$wiki_p]> select * from page limit 2;
If you get an error from the select * from page limit 2;
statement, you may have missed a step or need to do some troubleshooting. You should just get a couple records.
Translatable project name
Add a message with the wiki name to extensions/WikimediaMessages/i18n/wikimediaprojectnames/en.json
and qqq.json
. The message keys should include the wiki database name (WIKI_DBNAME
below) and official "human readable" name (WIKI_NAME
below) as follows:
Key | Message |
For example, "project-localized-name-enwiki": "English Wikipedia",
Key | Message |
For example, "project-localized-name-enwiki": "{{ProjectNameDocumentation|url=https://en.wikipedia.org|name=English Wikipedia|language=en}}",
Cross-wiki (a.k.a. interwiki) search result title
If this is a new language Wikipedia, add a message with the wiki name to extensions/WikimediaMessages/i18n/wikimediainterwikisearchresults/en.json
and qqq.json
in the list of search-interwiki-results messages.
Wikipedia mobile apps
If you are creating a new Wikipedia, add an entry for the new language.
For the Android app, you must run the following two scripts, which will update the list of languages known to the app (including the corresponding language codes, autonyms, English names, etc.):
$ cd scripts $ ./generate_wiki_languages.py $ ./make-templates.py
This should update several .java
and .xml
files that you may then submit in a pull-request to our repository.
(TODO: Is there anything to do for the iOS app?)
General announcement in Tech/News
Add an entry to m:Tech/News so that people know the new wiki exists, and can adjust their tools/bots/etc. as appropriate.
Only needed if the new wiki is supposed to be a Wikidata client.
In order to be able to link the new wiki from Wikidata, and to allow interwiki links from Wikidata to the new wiki, run extensions/Wikibase/lib/maintenance/populateSitesTable.php --force-protocol https
on at least all Wikidata clients (including wikidatawiki itself and testwikidata).
foreachwikiindblist wikidataclient extensions/Wikibase/lib/maintenance/populateSitesTable.php --force-protocol https
That script is known to be troublesome, you might want to ask Marius (hoo) or Amir Sarabadani (Amir1) run it for you or just create a ticket (that may be done anytime after the wiki was created).
Beware: The script sometimes fails with a duplicate key conflict. In that case, go to the wiki's master database and empty the sites
and site_identifiers
tables, then run the script again. It's probably also wise to backup these tables from Wikidata and at least one Wikipedia before running the script across the whole fleet. Breaking the sites
, site_identifiers
tables will break page rendering of many wikis!
Data Engineering
Most wikis are added to the Pageviews definition, which means that the log events are extracted from the Webrequest stream and saved as distinct datasets.
Exceptions to this include:
- private wikis
- Wikimania conference wikis
- Other special cases such as usability,outreach,login,vote,strategy etc.
If you are unsure about whether or not the wiki should be included,check with the Data Engineering team.
In order to add the new wiki to the pageview definition, submit a change proposal to the analytics/refinery repository, adding the wiki to static_data/pageview/allowlist/allowlist.tsv
If there's something to import (as is often the case in new language projects), someone will do so. Their process is described at Incubator:Importing from Incubator (logged at Incubator:Site creation log).
Clean up interwiki links
After any import Incubator is completed, Inform the community and make a Phabricator task for removing old interwiki links and migrating them to Wikidata (For example T134991 for edits such as d:Special:Diff/336584053 and jam:Special:Diff/12330). You can do it by yourself using interwikidata.py in pywikibot.
python3 pwb.py scripts/interwikidata.py -lang:LANGCODE -clean -start:! -always
Tell wikistats Cloud VPS project to add the wiki
If the wiki is a public wiki, create a Phabricator task (subtask of the main task to create the wiki) with the tag "VPS-project-wikistats" and just ask for the wiki to be added. (What needs to be done can be seen f.e. in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140970#2531977)
Tell Pywikibot project to add the wiki
Create a Phabricator task (subtask of the main task to create the wiki) with the tag "pywikibot" and just ask for the wiki to be added.
Mobile apps
Wikipedia has mobile apps for Android and iOS. A Wikipedia in a new language must work in the app after the import from the Incubator is complete. Report a bug under the apps tags in Phabricator if any of the following doesn't work:
- You are supposed see the language in the user preferences.
- Android: Settings -> Wikipedia language.
- iOS: Settings -> My languages
- You see the language in the interlanguage links list. Find an article that exists in the new Wikipedia and in English. Go to the English Wikipedia, tap the 文Α icon at the bottom and find the article in the list. In particular:
- The article name must appear.
- The language name (autonym) must appear.
- The item must be findable using the language name in English and the autonym. (If you don't know how to type the autonym, try pasting the autonym or ask somebody who writes in that Wikipedia.)
- Tapping the item must show the article.
Add the new site to the wikimedia/portals repository:
- If the language is right-to-left and the site is a Wikipedia, make sure it appears in src/wikipedia.org/rtl-languages.json.
- Check that the language name is written in translatewiki and exported to the appropriate json file under l10n/.
After creating the wiki and deploying the portal changes, test that the language name appears correctly in the wikipedia.org portal.
Tell Kiwix to add support for the new wiki. Kiwix is an external project, but it works quite closely with Wikimedia to provide regularly-update offline versions as ZIM files. To ask the adding of a wiki, file an issue on the https://github.com/openzim/zim-requests GitHub repository. Boilerplate for Wikipedia:
Website URL: https://CODE.wikipedia.org License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 Desired ZIM Icon –png (URL or attach one): https://drive.farm.openzim.org/wikipedia_all/favicon-48x48.png Language (ISO 639-3): kcg Is this a MediaWiki?: yes
- Make sure to correct the language code in the URL.
- For non-Wikipedia projects, make sure that you use the correct URL.
- If it's the first wiki in the language, make sure to mention the three-letter language code, the English name of the language and the autonym, so that Kiwix developers can add the language to their database.
- If the default license ever changes from CC-BY-SA 3.0 to CC-BY-SA 4.0 (or something else), write it there, and update the documentation here.


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Brett Slatkin - a software engineer on Google's App Engine team - demonstrated the protocol this week at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York. It aims to turn RSS and Atom into real-time content delivery mechanisms - and maybe even revamp Google search.
In a traditional RSS or Atom implementation, there's a publisher, and there's a subscriber. The subscriber polls the publisher for updates, and if publishers has an update, it pushes it down the pipe. As Slatkin explains, this can be costly for organizations posting content. It results in heavy traffic from subscribers polling for content, and there's unnecessary bandwidth eaten up with each push. Entire feeds are sent to subscribers, not just the changed.
And since the subscriber has the responsibility of requesting new content, RSS feeds aren't updated in real-time. New content is only available once it's been requested. Say, for instance, a site has an RSS feed embedded on the homepage. New posts to that feed won't instantly appear on the site where the feed is embedded.
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A publisher signs up with a hub provider, and the feed sent to subscribers includes a declaration that points the user to the hub address, telling them the hub is a trusted entity. At that point, the subscriber has the option to subscribe with the hub for real-time delivery.
Whenever the publisher adds new content to the feed, the feed is sent to the hub. The hub, in turn, looks for differences in the feed, removes the content that the subscriber has already received, and multicasts a partial feed that includes just the new content to subscribers.
Because this is designed to work with RSS and Atom, publishers don't have to implement new solutions. They can continue to use their existing feeds for instant syndication.
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The Challenge of a 20th Century Saint, Maria Skobtsova
by Jim Forest
Mother Maria Skobtsova -- now recognized as Saint Maria of Paris -- died in a German concentration camp on the 30th of March 1945. Although perishing in a gas chamber, Mother Maria did not perish in the Church's memory. Those who had known her would again and again draw attention to the ideas, insights and activities of the heroic nun who had spent so many years of her life assisting people in desperate need. Soon after the war ended, essays and books about her began appearing in French, Russian and English. A Russian film, "Mother Maria," was made in 1982. Her canonization was celebrated in May 2004 at the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Paris. Among those present at the event was Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, archbishop of Paris and Jewish by birth, who subsequently placed St. Maria on the calendar of the Catholic Church in France. One wonders if there are any other saints of post-Schism Christianity who are on both the Catholic and Orthodox calendars?
We have no time today for a detailed account of her life. I will only point out that she was born in Riga in 1891 and grew up on a family estate along the Black Sea. Her father's death when she was fourteen was a devastating event that for a time led her to atheism, but gradually she found her way back to the Orthodox faith. As a young woman, she was the first female student at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. In the same period she witnessed the Bolshevik coup and the civil war that followed. Like so many Russians, she fled for her life, finally reaching Paris, where she was among those who devoted themselves to serving fellow refugees, many of whom were now living in a state of destitution even worse than her own. At that time, she worked with the Student Christian Movement.
The tragic death in 1926 of one her daughters, Anastasia, precipitated a decision that brought her to a still deeper level of self-giving love. In 1932, following the collapse of her marriage, her bishop, Metropolitan Evlogy, encouraged her to become a nun, but a nun with an exceptional vocation. Metropolitan Evlogy blessed her to develop a new type of monasticism -- a "monasticism in the world" -- that centered on diaconal service within the city rather than on quiet withdrawal in a rural context.
In a time of massive social disruption, Mother Maria declared, it was better to offer a monastic witness which opens its gates to desperate people and in so doing to participate in Christ's self-abasement. "Everyone is always faced … with the necessity of choosing between the comfort and warmth of an earthly home, well protected from winds and storms, and the limitless expanse of eternity, which contains only one sure and certain item … the Cross."
It was clear to her that it was not only Russia which was being torn to shreds. "There are times," she wrote, "when all that has been said cannot be made obvious and clear since the atmosphere around us is a pagan one and we are tempted by its idolatrous charms. But our times are firmly in tune with Christianity in that suffering is part of their nature. They demolish and destroy in our hearts all that is stable, mature, hallowed by the ages and treasured by us. They help us genuinely and utterly to accept the vows of poverty, to seek no rule, but rather anarchy, the anarchic life of Fools for Christ's sake, seeking no monastic enclosure, but the complete absence of even the subtlest barrier which might separate the heart from the world and its wounds."
She saw that there were two ways to live. The first was on dry land, a legitimate and respectable place to be, where one could measure, weigh and plan ahead. The second was to walk on the waters where "it becomes impossible to measure or plan ahead. The one thing necessary is to believe all the time. If you doubt for an instant, you begin to sink."
The water she decided to walk upon was a vocation of hospitality. With financial support from Metropolitan Evlogy, in December 1932 she signed a lease for her first house of hospitality, a place of welcome and assistance to people in desperate need, mainly young Russian women. The first night she slept on the floor beneath the icon of the Protection of the Mother of God. A small community of co-workers began to form. To make room for others, Mother Maria gave up her own room and instead slept on an iron bedstead in the basement by the boiler. A room upstairs became a chapel.
The first house having become too small, in 1934 the community relocated to a three-storey house at 77 rue de Lourmel in an area of Paris where many impoverished Russian refugees had settled. Now, instead of 25 people, the community could feed a hundred. Stables in back became a small church.
The vocation of hospitality is much more than the provision of food, clothing and a place to sleep. In its depths, it is a contemplative vocation. It is the constant search for the face of Christ in the stranger. "If someone turns with his spiritual world toward the spiritual world of another person," she reflected, "he encounters an awesome and inspiring mystery …. He comes into contact with the true image of God in man, with the very icon of God incarnate in the world, with a reflection of the mystery of God's incarnation and divine manhood. And he needs to accept this awesome revelation of God unconditionally, to venerate the image of God in his brother. Only when he senses, perceives and understands it will yet another mystery be revealed to him — one that will demand his most dedicated efforts…. He will perceive that the divine image is veiled, distorted and disfigured by the power of evil…. And he will want to engage in battle with the devil for the sake of the divine image."
By 1937, there were several dozen women guests at 77 rue de Lourmel. Up to 120 dinners were served each day. Other buildings were rented, one for families in need, another for single men. A rural property became a sanatorium.
From a financial point of view, it was a very insecure life, but somehow the work survived and grew. Mother Maria would sometimes recall the Russian story of the ruble that could never be spent. Each time it was used, the change given back proved to equal a ruble. It was exactly this way with love, she said: No matter how much love you give, you never have less. In fact you discover you have more — one ruble becomes two, two becomes ten.
Mother Maria's day typically began with a journey to Les Halles to beg food or buy cheaply whatever was not donated. The cigarette-smoking beggar nun became well known among the stalls. She would later return with a sack of bones, fish and overripe fruit and vegetables.
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh provides an impression of what Mother Maria was like in those days: "She was a very unusual nun in her behavior and her manners. I was simply staggered when I saw her for the first time. I was walking along the Boulevard Montparnasse. In front of a café, there was a table, on the table was a glass of beer, and behind the glass was sitting a Russian nun in full monastic robes. I looked at her and decided that I would never go near that woman. I was young then and held extreme views."
Mother Maria felt sustained by the opening verses of the Sermon on the Mount: "Not only do we know the Beatitudes, but at this hour, this very minute, surrounded though we are by a dismal and despairing world, we already savor the blessedness they promise."
Life in community was not easy. Conflicting views about the relative importance of liturgical life were at times a source of tension. Mother Maria was the one most often absent from services or the one who would withdraw early, or arrive late, because of the pressing needs of hospitality. "Piety, piety," she wrote in her journal, "but where is the love that moves mountains?"
Mother Maria saw blessings where others only saw disaster. "In the past religious freedom was trampled down by forces external to Christianity," she wrote. "In Russia we can say that any regime whatsoever will build concentration camps as its response to religious freedom." She considered exile in the west a heaven-sent opportunity to renew the Church in ways that would have met repression within her mother country.
For her, exile was an opportunity "to liberate the real and authentic" from layers of decoration and dust in which Christ had become hidden. It was similar to the opportunity given to the first Christians. "We must not allow Christ," she said, "to be overshadowed by any regulations, any customs, any traditions, any aesthetic considerations, or even any piety."
Russians have not been last among those enamored with theories, but for Mother Maria, all theories had to take second place. "We have not gathered together for the theoretical study of social problems in the spirit of Orthodoxy," she wrote, "[but] to link our social thought as closely as possible with life and work. More precisely, we proceed from our work and seek the fullest possible theological interpretation of it."
While many valued what she and her co-workers were doing, there were others who were scandalized with the shabby nun who was so uncompromising in her hospitality that she might leave a church service to answer the door bell. "For many in church circles we are too far to the left," she noted, "while for the left we are too church-minded."
In October 1939, Metropolitan Evlogy send a priest to rue de Lourmel: Father Dimitri Klépinin, then 35 years old. A man of few words and great modesty, Fr. Dimitri proved to be a real partner for Mother Maria.
The last phase of Mother Maria's life was a series of responses to World War II and Germany's occupation of France.
Her basic choice was the decision to stay. It would have been possible for her to leave Paris when the Germans were advancing, or even to leave the country to go to America, but she would not budge. "If the Germans take Paris, I shall stay here with my old women. Where else could I send them?"
She had no illusions about Nazism. It represented a "new paganism" bringing in its wake disasters, upheavals, persecutions and wars. It was evil unveiled, the "contaminator of all springs and wells." The so-called "master race" was "led by a madman who needs a straightjacket and should be placed in a cork-lined room so that his bestial wailing will not disturb the world at large."
Paris fell on the 14th of June. With defeat came greater poverty and hunger for many people. Local authorities in Paris declared the house at rue de Lourmel an official food distribution point.
Paris was now a prison. "There is the dry clatter of iron, steel and brass," wrote Mother Maria. "Order is all." Russian refugees were among the high-priority targets of the occupiers. In June 1941, a thousand were arrested, including several close friends of Mother Maria and Fr. Dimitri. An aid project for prisoners and their dependents was soon launched by Mother Maria.
Early in 1942, with Jewish registration underway, Jews began to knock on the door at rue de Lourmel asking Fr. Dimitri if he would issue baptismal certificates to them. The answer was always yes. The names of those "baptized" were also duly recorded in his parish register in case there was any cross-checking by the police or Gestapo, as indeed did happen. Fr. Dimitri was convinced that in such a situation Christ would do the same.
In March 1942, the order came from Berlin that a yellow star must be worn by Jews in all the occupied countries. The order came into force in France in June. There were, of course, Christians who said that the law being imposed had nothing to do with Christians and that therefore this was not a Christian problem. "There is not only a Jewish question, but a Christian question," Mother Maria replied. "Don't you realize that the battle is being waged against Christianity? If we were true Christians we would all wear the star. The age of confessors has arrived."
In July, Jews were forbidden access to nearly all public places. Shopping by Jews was restricted to an hour per day. A week later, there was a mass arrest of Jews — 12,884, of whom 6,900 (two-thirds of them children) were brought to a sports stadium just a kilometer from rue de Lourmel. Held there for five days, the captives in the stadium received water only from a single hydrant. From there the captives were to be sent to Auschwitz.
Mother Maria had often thought her monastic robe a God-send in aiding her work. Now it opened the way for her to enter the stadium. Here she worked for three days trying to comfort the children and their parents, distributing what food she could bring in, even managing to rescue a number of children by enlisting the aid of garbage collectors and smuggling them out in trash bins.
The house at rue de Lourmel was bursting with people, many of them Jews. "It is amazing," Mother Maria remarked, "that the Germans haven't pounced on us yet." In the same period, she said if anyone came looking for Jews, she would show them an icon of the Mother of God.
Fr. Dimitri, Mother Maria and their co-workers set up routes of escape to the unoccupied south. It was complex and dangerous work. Forged documents had to be obtained. An escaped Russian prisoner of war was also among those assisted, working for a time in the Lourmel kitchen. In turn, a local resistance group helped secure provisions for those Mother Maria's community was struggling to feed.
In February 1943 Mother Maria, her son Yuri, Fr. Dimitri and their collaborator Ilya Fondaminsky were arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the camp at Compiegne.
In December, Yuri and Fr. Dimitri were deported to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany and from there to Dora, 40 kilometers away. On the 6th of February, Yuri was "dispatched for treatment" — a euphemism for being sentenced to death. Four days later Fr. Dimitri, lying on a dirt floor, died of pneumonia. His final action was to make the sign of the Cross. His body was disposed of in the Buchenwald crematorium.
Mother Maria was sent to Ravensbrück in Germany, where she endured for two years, an achievement in part explained by her long experience of ascetic life. "She was never downcast, never," a fellow prisoner recalled. "She never complained…. She was on good terms with everyone. Anyone in the block, no matter who it was, knew her on equal terms. She was the kind of person who made no distinction between people [whether they] held extremely progressive political views [or had] religious beliefs radically different than her own. She allowed nothing of secondary importance to impede her contact with people."
By March 1945, Mother Maria's condition was critical. She had to lie down between roll calls and hardly spoke. Her face, a fellow prisoner Jacqueline Pery recalled, "revealed intense inner suffering. Already it bore the marks of death. Nevertheless Mother Maria made no complaint. She kept her eyes closed and seemed to be in a state of continual prayer. This was, I think, her Garden of Gethsemani."
She died on Holy Saturday. The shellfire of the approaching Red Army could be heard in the distance. We are not certain of the details of her last day. According to one account, she was simply among the many selected for death that day. According to another, she took the place of another prisoner, a Jew. Jacqueline Pery wrote afterward: "It is very possible that [Mother Maria] took the place of a frantic companion. It would have been entirely in keeping with her generous life. In any case she offered herself consciously to the holocaust … thus assisting each one of us to accept the Cross…. She radiated the peace of God and communicated it to us."
We now know Mother Maria as St. Maria of Paris. Her commemoration occurs on July 20.
Every saint poses a challenge, but Mother Maria is perhaps among the most challenging saints. Her life is a passionate objection to any form of Christianity that seeks Christ chiefly inside church buildings. Still more profoundly, she challenges each of us to a life of a deeper, more radical hospitality, a hospitality that includes not only those who share our faith and language but those whom we regard as "the other," people in whom we resist recognizing the face of Christ.
Mother Maria was certain that there was no other path to heaven than participating in God's mercy. "The way to God lies through love of people. At the Last Judgment I shall not be asked whether I was successful in my ascetic exercises, nor how many bows and prostrations I made. Instead I shall be asked, Did I feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and the prisoners. That is all I shall be asked. About every poor, hungry and imprisoned person the Savior says 'I': 'I was hungry and thirsty, I was sick and in prison.' To think that he puts an equal sign between himself and anyone in need.... I always knew it, but now it has somehow penetrated to my sinews. It fills me with awe."
We can sum up Mother Maria's credo in just a few words: "Each person is the very icon of God incarnate in the world."
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A more detailed account of the life of St. Maria of Pais is posted at:
A collection of links about her, and those who worked with her, is in this section of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship web site:
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Jim Forest is international secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship . He is also the author of numerous books, including "Silent as a Stone: Mother Maria of Paris and the Trash Can Rescue," and wrote the introduction to "Mother Maria Skobtsova: Essential Writings" (Orbis Books, 2003).
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Cajeta: A Mexican sweet treat
I looked out the window today and saw that it was raining—a good sign as grey skies, umbrellas and brightly-colored slickers mean one thing: it's March. It's not my favorite month—the weather is erratic, leaning mainly towards wet. But it does mean spring is almost here, and the warmer, longer days make me feel as if I've awoken from a deep sleep.
The one and only time I've been to Mexico was in the spring, and so my first-hand impressions of that country are based around what was in season—namely strawberries. We couldn't drive a mile without seeing a roadside stand selling overflowing baskets of the fresh berries nestled under large signs boasting, "Fresas frescas." I was too scared to eat the strawberries not knowing if they'd been washed in contaminated water or not—but as we were in the state of Guanajuato, each stand also had fresh jars of cajeta—which is the specialty of that state.
You could say that cajeta (pronounced kah-Heh-tah) is Mexican Spanish for what other Latin American countries call dulce de leche. The word means "little box," which is what the confection was stored in back in the 1500s. I've heard that cajeta is vulgar slang in some other Latin American countries, which is perhaps why it's known as dulce de leche elsewhere. But beyond the names, there is another difference between the two.
What sets cajeta apart from its caramelized milk-and-sugar brethren is that it's usually made from goat's milk instead of from cow's milk. I tend to find dulce de leche a bit cloying, but the goat's milk used to make cajeta adds a certain tang that mitigates the sweetness. And while goat's milk can be strong in flavor, its presence in cajeta isn't prevailing but instead offers an occasional high note, like the ring of a triangle in a symphony of flutes and strings.
It's not difficult to find dulce de leche in New York, but cajeta is a different matter. And while I have seen one commercial brand at a Mexican bodega, its ingredients weren't exactly pure. I know people that make an easy dulce de leche by boiling a can of sweetened condensed milk, but I've never seen a can of sweetened condensed goat's milk. Have you? This meant if I wanted proper cajeta, I'd have to make it from scratch.
The most difficult thing about making cajeta is that you must stand and stir the pot for about an hour and a half, though this tedium can be minimized by having a good book on hand. Comfortable shoes or a stool to sit on aren't bad ideas, either. But for this penance you are rewarded with a thick, luscious treat that bears no resemblance to its previous self. And it's so addictive you'll be hard pressed to do anything but just eat it straight out of the pot with a spoon, though it's good on ice cream, in crepes and tortillas or on apple slices as well.
I've been hoping to take another trip to Mexico this spring, but I don't know if I'll have the time. But even if I don't make it there, a spoonful of creamy cajeta will be almost as sweet.
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- Stir together the milk and sugar in a large pot (make sure the liquid only goes half-way up the sides as it's going to get frothy at one point and you don't want it boiling over) and add the cinnamon and vanilla (if using a bean, split it lengthwise, scrape the seeds into the liquid and add the pod as well). Bring to a boil on medium heat while constantly stirring. This will take about 15 minutes.
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- Please ensure you've updated iTunes to the latest version (iTunes 10.5.3).
Step 1: Download the CLI tool from this link and save the zip file on the c: drive or whichever is your root drive.
Step 2: Double click the CLI zip file and extract the contents of the zip file.
Step 3: Connect your iPhone 4S to the computer.
Step 4: Now go to the command prompt on your Windows computer with administrator privileges.
Step 5: Use the cd command to navigate to the cinject_0.4.3 folder where the required files are extracted.
Step 6: You need to execute the following command from the command prompt:
cinject.exe -i payloads/jailbreak.mobileconfig
Step 7: You should now see a window prompting you to Install Profile on your iPhone. Tap on Install, then on the Install Now button, followed by Next (don't need to enter any password) and the Done button.
Step 8: You need to execute the following commands from the command prompt:
cinject.exe -j payloads
Step 9: After the above command is successfully executed and you get the command prompt, execute this command:
cinject.exe -w
If this is successful, you should get the command prompt. If you don't get the command prompt don't worry, wait for the scrolling log to stop.
Step 10: Then launch the Settings app.
Step 11: Then tap on General, followed by Network and then tap on VPN.
Step 12: You will get a VPN error (ignore it) and then in less than a minute, your iPhone 4S will reboot and at the same time you will notice errors in the command prompt, which is expected. After your iPhone 4S has rebooted, you should be able to find the Cydia icon on your iPhone 4S' home screen.
After the jailbreaking process is complete, do not forget to checkout our article on tips to keep your iPhone secure.
If you're new to the jailbreaking world and wondering what to do after jailbreaking your iPhone, checkout our jailbreak apps category page to find out the apps you can install on your iPhone using the Cydia app. Please note that some of the jailbreak apps and tweaks are still not compatible with iOS 5/iOS 5.0.1 so please be cautious while installing them.
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text: I got an e-mail from the Gap today. It said "Introducing the Shoreline Slub." Like most others who received this e-mail, I was confused and had no idea what a "Shoreline Slub" could possibly be. I thought maybe it could be this: Or this: Or even this: This is Francesco Schettino, that horrible ship captain who crashed the cruise ship he was in charge of, causing thirty-two deaths, and then abandoned ship. Sounds like a shoreline slub to me! But then I scrolled down and saw that a "Shoreline Slub" is actually this: Turns out it's a freakin' t-shirt! Who knew? Maybe soon Gap will come out with something called the "Fall Day Fatty," (relaxed fit light weight sweater) or the "Crack Whore Skinnies" (very slim, ripped pants). And yes, I will sue if these styles show up in stores next year so don't even think about it Gap! Hahahaha!


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Twelve ways to heal an aching back
If you were to make a list of the reasons for an aching back, it would be long! From sitting at a computer in an awkward position, to driving in stressful traffic and not being able to get out and stretch, to sitting in one position at a class or lecture, to overwork, to under-exercising and subsequent weak abdominal muscles, to problems during birth, to giving birth, to spinal abnormalities, to traumatic injuries, the list goes on.
My back started hurting when I was in my mid 20s due mostly to strenuous modern dance, and then from over-doing it giving deep tissue massage therapy. So I am an expert at making my back get better. Here are a few tips:
1. Lie down with your knees bent and rest calves on an exercise ball.
2. Lie down with a tennis ball on each side of your spine, starting at your sacrum and gradually working up the spine to the edge of your shoulders.
3. Lie on a medium size ball in between your shoulder blades to stretch your upper back.
4. Lie on your back with your knees curled into your chest and roll around
5. Lie on a large exercise ball, draped back over it, keeping your balance
6. Curl up in child's pose and have some press along your spine.
7. Strenghten your abs
8. Strengthen your back (Dog pose is good for this, as are many other yoga poses)
9. Go for a walk to see if you can help the tight areas release
10. Relax in a jacuzzi (unless you shouldn't for health reasons) and let the jet stream massage your tight muscles.
11. Get a massage from a skilled and experienced bodyworker and encourage your insurance company to cover massage so you can go back on a regular schedule.
12. If you still are in pain after several massages, look into chiropractic (I like the activator technique because it is gentle) and then acupuncture.
Most of us have the resources to heal ourselves.


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Cycling Ulsan
Spring has sprung, the grass is ris, I wonder where my bike is.
Ulsan has been putting a lot of work into the recreational trail system in the last year, and I feel alone out there. We've got something like 75 km of paved cycling trails in the city. Combine this with multi-use trails, the park network and the Namgu lit hiking trails and you will find that there is a seemingly endless network of places to get out and ride. There are a few hard core riders in the city, and a few soft core, but we are horribly out numbered by all the Koreans out there. Going out for a weekend ride, it'd be great to see another foreign face on the trails.
Luckily, somebody has gone to the bother of figuring out this network for you. Ulsan Online (and I mean Marty and Me) have suffered through numberable lovely afternoons of cycling to put this all down for you in a handy HTML and printable format. Check out our Recreational Map and take a look at all the great places that you are missing.
I know, you are thinking 'if I go to the Grand Park or the Stadium, it'll be really crowded and ultimately my day will suck'. Well, I'll give you a few tips. Ulsan Grand Park is not the place to go on the weekend, but weekday mornings and afternoons it is remarkably empty. Stay away after dinner as it fills with ajummas… Well, I think they are ajummas, it's hard to tell with all the masks and visors! Munsu stadium is quiet most times, though it'll be busy if there are any events. Dongcheon Stadium gets pretty busy on weekends, and stay off the riverside after 7 pm, or at least get a perm and wear matching LaFuma hiking gear.
I'd also like to take this moment to plug one of our sponsors. If you are looking for a bike, the ONLY place to head to get two wheels without an engine is OMK bikes in Taewhadong. The owner (Jeongyoon) is a great guy who speaks very good English and will sort you out with something in your price range. They have second hand bikes, as well as the types of rides that even the Frenchest engineers would have to check with their wives before buying. They also organize weekly rides for those interested in making friends and getting off their asses. The only problem is that the boys at OMK don't believe in Saturday night. Their rides start at 8 am SUNDAY morning, or so I keep being told. I personally haven't managed one yet.


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New Orleans and Redfish
It was great to see the sights and sounds of New Orleans. I wish I had more time to explore the city and the rich culture but it was great to have a cup of Joe and a beignet at world famous Café Du Monde and observe the colorful scenery of Bourbon street. We found a few redfish, ate a few spicy crawdads, saw some gators and even tossed out a hand-line. All in all it was a pretty amazing trip and I look forward to returning one day.
For more on the trip and to book your trip be sure to check out the Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures trip report on the blog and the link to the complete stock image archives.
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CLEVELAND — The FBI has issued a warning about scam calls. It is warning not to fall victim to scams demanding money. It comes as there has been a surge in these types of calls.
"We've just seen a rash of them here in our area. In the last couple of weeks, said Special Agent Vicki Anderson, Cleveland FBI.
Scammers are calling, emailing, even faxing. According to Anderson, residents have been bilked out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and the scams are wide-ranging.
"I can't say one specific scam because they are all over the place but we've seen a lot of them lately," Anderson said.
One elderly woman wire transferred $130,000 over three months in a lottery scam. The woman was promised a prize of $2.5 million, according to the FBI.
A physician received a call saying the Department of Justice was suspending his medical license because numerous prescriptions were discovered in his name on them as the prescribing physician. The physician was sent faxes with the Department of Justice logos entitled, "Federal Bond and Protocol Agreement" and that his bank accounts were comprised by drug traffickers. The doctor agreed to the demands and paid about $188,000 to the scammers, according to the FBI.
Both of those examples are scams.
The types of fraud are wide-ranging. Social Security Administration, legal scams, lottery scams, scammers pretending to be from the IRS, DEA, and the FBI.
"The common denominator is these people are really quick and they want you to send money immediately. The government doesn't do this. The FBI isn't going to call you and tell you, you owe money. The social security administration is not going to call you and threaten to arrest you and you have to pay a fine," Anderson said.
According to the FBI, individuals receiving these types of solicitations demanding money should discuss it with a trusted family member or friend, look the agency up online, obtain an actual phone number for the agency, call the agency and report the call, email, or pop up received. Report any suspicious solicitations online at www. ic3.gov.
This article was written by Tracy Carloss for WEWS.


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When planning for maximum energy efficiency in your home, windows need the most critical evaluation. Many manufactures are touting energy efficient glass, but it's what they aren't talking about that is just as crucial for keeping those dollars from flying out the window! Both wood and vinyl window frames get high marks for providing a way for warm air to travel to cold air. That is a bad thing when you're trying to keep your heating and cooling bills to a minimum.
According to the Efficient Windows Collaborative three energy performance characteristics of windows are used to portray how energy is transferred and are the basis for how energy performance is quantified: Insulating Value, Heat Gain from Solar Radiation, and Infiltration.
1. Insulating Value, or the "U-Factor", is how well the window glass keeps the warm air (either inside or out) from traveling to the cold air it will continually seek.
2. Heat Gain from Solar Radiation or Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC) is simply how much heat is transferred through the glass when the sun shines in.
3. And lastly, Infiltration is about how much air can pass through your window assembly.
To find the most efficient as well as cost effective windows for our Haven™ homes, we went to the experts at NVision Glass for help. They introduced us to the Anderson Series 100 window. There are three aspects of this window that won us over.
a. It is made from the vinyl and wood waste products of other Anderson windows
b. The Series 100 window is the only window we could find that is built with a honeycomb frame adding strength and durability as well as much more Insulating Value in the frame than other windows.
c. The cost. A great window that offers more for less. That's sustainable!
For all the exciting details regarding Anderson Series 100 performance, click here.
Watch the video to hear NVision owner, Josh Munns, explain what he likes about Envirohaven™ and what you will like about NVision Glass.
We look forward to hearing what your experiences have been with energy efficient windows have been. Please share this post with other sustainability minded folks you know.


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Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
September 10th saw the launch in Dublin of a new history of the Offical IRA and the Workers Party called 'The Lost Revolution' by Brian Hanley and Scott Miller. Over 250 people including many ex and current members of the Workers Party as well as members of just about every other left and republican group crammed into the hall for the launch. This is an audio recording of the introduction to the book given by Diarmaid Ferriter followed by each of the authors speaking about the book.
Lost Revolution - History of the Workers Party - launch in Dublin by Andrew Flood on Mixcloud
The notes below are a brief summary of some of the areas talked about by the speakers.
*Diarmaid Ferriter, Chair of Modern History UCD
Terrific atmosphere in here, a testament to the commitment people have had to change Ireland.
*We are living in difficult times.
The authors have managed to untangle the web of the Official IRA and Workers Party from late 60's on
*10 years after the border campaign Mick Ryan after a national tour of the IRA said 'there is no movement', Cathal Goulding replied "there is a fucking movement", the authors suggest these sort of frank exchanges were needed to rejuvenate movement.
*The book transmits the sense of being part of a worldwide movement in 1968, on the verge of profound change.
*Book is a reminder of the lost opportunities of those years. A tremendous sadness in the book about the violence and feuds of 1970's.
*It covers the debate about waging a 'clean war', was this ever a possibility or was it just an excuse.
*The Aldershot bombing and 'mistakes'.
*The drowning out of the intellectual debates in the sound of gunfire.
*Much of what was said then now sounds absurd
the Provisional v Official feud of October 75 that left 11 dead and over 50 injured.
*Seamus Costello and the EU referendum.
*The emergence of SFWP after 1977 and the influence on the unions.
*The continuing activities of 'Group B'.
* Eoghan Harris and 'attempts to change the script'.
*The 1989 election and the 'breadth of fresh air'.
*Being on the verge of a new left alliance.
*The continuance of 'special activities'.
*Journalists doing their job.
*An attention to detail that never becomes overbearing.
Brian Hanley, author
It was humbling to be welcomed into the homes of people we had never met before who were willing to share documents and memories. I hope we have done justice to their story. There is a tendency to sneer at the Irish left as headbangers - I hope no one comes away from our book thinking these people were mad
Scott Miller, author
Thanked particular people in the audience whose lives are tied into the republican movement
Lost Revolution was written as a narrative, not a critique
Sean Garland lives under fear of extradition to USA on very dubious charges, he wants to live out his old age in peace in his own land.
The audio was first published to indymedia.ie and can be downloaded from http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/sep2009/lostrevolut...9.mp3


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Motorcycle Insurance
If you are familiar with the basics of automobile insurance, then you may already know more than you think about motorcycle insurance. If you ride a motorcycle on public roadways, you'll need the same basics as your automobile insurance: liability, collision, comprehensive, and uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage.
Motorcycles can be riskier than other vehicles. As a result, the cost of motorcycle insurance varies widely, so it pays to shop around. If you are concerned about high cost, you may want to consider some of the factors that affect motorcycle insurance premiums and take advantage of as many reductions as possible. For example, some companies offer discounts if you complete a motorcycle safety course, and for using additional safety and anti-theft equipment. Carrying all your other insurance policies with a single company can also lower the price. Your annual mileage, the bike's make, model, age, horsepower, and where it is stored can all affect the amount of your premium. As always, maintaining a clean driving record can keep your premiums down.
If you live in an area where winter shortens the riding season, some polices will take that into account and cut or eliminate premiums for the winter months.
To lower the price even further, consider eliminating comprehensive and collision insurance on motorcycles that are older and not financed. Consider higher deductibles, too.
If you like the freedom and lifestyle motorcycle riding offers, don't forget that the peace of mind that comes with insurance can add enjoyment to the time you spend in the saddle.
The information in this newsletter is not intended as tax, legal, investment, or retirement advice or recommendations, and it may not be relied on for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. You are encouraged to seek guidance from an independent tax or legal professional. The content is derived from sources believed to be accurate. Neither the information presented nor any opinion expressed constitutes a solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security. This material was written and prepared by Broadridge Advisor Solutions. © 2020 Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions, Inc.


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Hallowell, Maine February 24, 2013 – Blue Marble Geographics (www.bluemarblegeo.com) will be exhibiting at the upcoming Esri Federal User Conference in Washington D.C.. Blue Marble will showcase Global Mapper and its newly enhanced LiDAR features including a significant improvement in the ability to load and classify massive amounts of LiDAR point cloud data, jumping from supporting files that contain tens of millions of points to those that contain hundreds of millions of points.
Global Mapper 14.1 provides a dramatic increase in LiDAR processing and display speed, which is beneficial for previewing data before creating a gridded surface or terrain model. Version 14.1 includes several options for filtering data during import and rendering point clouds to reflect return type or intensity. Improved metadata access provides a detailed statistical breakdown of the point cloud and customizable point size improves on-screen display. Global Mapper Package (.GMP) files are now able to store LiDAR point clouds in a special compressed format, much smaller than uncompressed LAS data and on par with the best compression formats available today. This promotes efficiency in LiDAR data archiving and sharing between other Global Mapper software users.
The Esri FED UC is the perfect venue to showcase Global Mapper, remarks Danielle Caron, Blue Marble Federal Account Manager. The latest enhancements that have been introduced into Global Mapper v14.1 significantly enhance loading speed, and the processing and exporting of massive LiDAR point clouds. Global Mapper is also a key tool for federal government users as it was developed to the USGS specifications and is widely used by DOI, DOD and many branches of the federal government.
Version 14.1 also introduces a host of new functionality to the digitizer tool including a new option to create a coverage area (concave hull) for loaded or selected point features, a tool for creating a line skeleton from area features, and many additional enhancements and improvements. A new water level analysis function for better flood plain modeling and a tool for creating Voronoi/Thiessen polygons for the spatial analysis of loaded point features may also be found in this release. Global Mapper 14.1 includes support for many new file formats such as GeoMedia MDB, DWG 2013, MapBox, MBTiles, and RMaps SQlite files for use on Android mobile devices. There is also a new OTF reader available for an additional license.
About Blue Marble Geographics: Blue Marble Geographics of Hallowell, ME is a leading developer and provider of software products and services for highly accurate geospatial data conversion solutions. Blue Marble is known for their coordinate conversion and file format expertise and is the developer of The Geographic Calculator, GeoCalc SDK, Global Mapper and Global Mapper SDK. The company has been writing GIS software tools and solutions for over twenty years and currently serves hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.
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Call them buttonhole books, the ones you urge passionately on friends, colleagues and passersby. All readers have them -- and so do writers. This week, All Things Considered is talking with authors about their favorite buttonhole books. And the series continues all summer long on NPR.org.
I have a friend who defines puberty as the period between the moment you figure out just what it is you want and the moment when your body, your parents, or the law will actually permit you to do it. How were we to fill up all that time until we got there? My friend turned to David Bowie and the Clash; I read fantasy novels.
Most fantasy books for young adults are shabby, formulaic affairs, but that didn't matter. Reaching that last page and swimming back up into reality, where the light was too bright but the colors somehow not bright enough, was a heady, frankly erotic feeling. If I'd smoked when I was 12, I'd have lit a cigarette.
I rarely read that way anymore, just as my friend rarely reaches seismic ecstasy with just some earphones and the first Pretenders album. But every now and then, I crave a hit of that adolescent intensity. When I do, I go to Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials. It doesn't matter that I didn't read these books until I was out of college. They suck me under and spit me out, feeling as drained and fulfilled as a hormone-crazed bookworm half my age.
Pullman has created a baffling, sometimes frightening world of warrior polar bears and cowboys in dirigibles, creatures with elephant trunks and wheels for feet. But his greatest invention is the daemon. In His Dark Materials, daemons are essentially your soul embodied, an animal familiar that everyone possesses and cannot live without. Women have male daemons, men have female ones; they are your friends, your protectors, your co-conspirators -- truly, your soulmates. In childhood, the daemon changes forms easily; moth to cat to lizard, whatever serves the mischief of the moment. It's not so different than growing your hair long and joining a rock band at fifteen; Lyra, the young protagonist of His Dark Materials, stretches her wings and sharpens her claws alongside her daemon, Pan, in order to start figuring out who she is. Gradually, though, the daemon susses out what his true form is going to be, once his human reaches adulthood. Lyra meets a sailor who took up his vocation, despite a tendency toward seasickness, because his daemon took the form of a dolphin. The man must follow where his soul leads, even if he takes not quite the joy he once did in her spinning leaps through the water into the light.
This is why His Dark Materials is magic. What pulls me in and leaves me gasping is not the fantasy, but the reality -- of the dizzying submersions of adolescence, and the heartbreak of setting them aside. Let my friend have his punk rock odes to rebellion; Pullman's daemons are what remind me what I was like, when everything in the world was still waiting to be done.
NPR's Ellen Silva produced and edited this story.
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Santa Rosa, CA 95404
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The Sonoma County Transportation Authority (SCTA) was created in 1990 and is governed by a twelve-member Board of Directors representing each of the nine cities – Cloverdale, Cotati, Healdsburg, Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Sonoma and Windsor – and the Sonoma County board of Supervisors. The SCTA acts as the countywide planning and fund programming agency for transportation and performs a variety of important functions related to advocacy, project management, planning, finance, grant administration and research.
The Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority (RCPA) coordinates community-wide climate solutions for a better future. The RCPA was formed in 2009 through locally sponsored State legislation to coordinate countywide climate protection efforts among Sonoma County's nine cities and multiple county agencies. The RCPA has four main areas of focus: efficient buildings, clean energy, alternative transportation and conservation/ adaptation. The RCPA is focused on securing grant funding for GHG reducing programs and projects as well as leading countywide climate planning efforts. In addition, data collection, public information and education are significant elements of the climate protection effort.
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Wearable technology will be characterized by the diversity of products, but only the product categories with a clear use-case and therefore target audience will succeed, according to ABI Research. Wearable device sales volumes in 2014 are expected to come from healthcare and sports and activity trackers. While the commercial launch of several smart glass products, including Google Glass, will continue to drive interest in the wearable space, it is not expected to be a significant commercial success in 2014.
"The next 12 months will be a critical period for the acceptance and adoption of wearable devices," said Joshua Flood, senior analyst. "Healthcare and sports and activity trackers are rapidly becoming mass-market products. On the flip side, wearable devices like smart watches need to overcome some critical obstacles. Aesthetic design, more compelling use cases, battery life and lower price points are the main inhibitors. How vendors approach these challenges and their respective solutions will affect the wearable market far in the future."
Chipset vendors are reportedly beginning to pave the way with interesting wearable reference designs that will allow non-technology OEMs and brands to quickly jump upon the wearable device bandwagon and bring diverse, innovative, unique, and stylish solutions.
While smart glasses could be the starting point moving away from today's touchscreen smartphones to eyewear devices using a voice interface, pricing, battery life, and style will all play crucial roles for market traction. Due to these limitations, the enterprise sector will reportedly be the early target for smart glasses before they are ready for mass-market adoption. ABI Research expects more than two million smart glasses will be shipped in 2014 and the category is forecast to grow rapidly from 2015 onwards. Mobile enabling technologies like augmented reality will play a vital part in enhancing smart glass capabilities.
For more information, visit www.abiresearch.com.


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The US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Nuclear Energy has concluded the first-ever US Africa Nuclear Energy Summit (USANES) in Accra, Ghana. The summit was organised in partnership with Ghana's Ministry of Energy and the Nuclear Power Institute of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission. DOE said it "provided a platform for crucial dialogues and international cooperation on nuclear energy" where "participants from across the continent discussed the future of nuclear power and laid a foundation for sustainable nuclear energy growth in the region".
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I have tried to make my Kinect work but I think it's a bit beyond me at the moment. I am looking forward to some tutorials.
When you do get around to making them I hope you spend some time on the general setup. I can get the camera. sensor, and sound to work bust I can't seem to get control of the motor. Also, it crashes MovieSandbox whenever I use it and once broke the app to the point I had to delete and make fresh copy.
I don't think it's a problem with MovieSandbox because other demo apps and homebrew Kinect tests also crash.