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On Wednesday, Internet infrastructure solutions provider Turbolinux released Turbolinux Server (TLS) v6.5.
In an effort to simplify global deployment, the enterprise-level server now supports five languages: English, Japanese, Korean, and traditional and simplified Chinese. Deployment can implemented from any of the five languages using the same CD, thus simplifying worldwide implementation.On Wednesday, Internet infrastructure solutions provider Turbolinux released Turbolinux Server (TLS) v6.5.
"The growth and increased globalization of Linux requires a multilingual software suite. TLS 6.5 is the first Linux server software to incorporate multiple languages on one disk," said Craig Oda, vice president of product management, Turbolinux.
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On Friday 30th September 2016, the AV Awards took place at a glamorous event at London's Grosvenor House Hotel. The awards, which celebrate the best product, projects, and people in the AV industry, was attended by a team from PRG XL Video, led by Executive VP & COO, EMEA, Gary Boyd.
Following the announcement of the shortlist for Production Product of the Year, sponsored by DB Systems, PRG's GroundControl™ Followspot System was announced as the winner in the category which included products from Barco, Elation Professional, Sennheiser, X-Rite Photo and Video, and NewTek Inc.
The revolutionary product is already making waves across the production industry, particularly in the concert touring, theatre and television markets, and the judges commended the way the product is having a huge effect on the way lighting designers and producers design their shows and events.
The GroundControl™ Followspot System consists of a specially customized PRG Bad Boy spotlight which includes an in-built camera, and can be flown from rigging or mounted in locations around a venue which would not normally accomodate a followspot; a truss box which provides the link between the fixture and the controller; and the ground-based controller unit which can be operated from up to 610 metres away from the fixture.
GroundControl™ allows designers huge flexibility in where to locate their followspots and the operators can be safely located on the ground within the venue, without the need to climb rigging. In addition to the safety benefits, the GroundControl™ Followspot System also negates the need to remove seats to create traditional followspot positions – a revenue bonus for venues.
Gary Boyd comments: "I was delighted to accept the award for Production Product of the Year for GroundControl. The product is making huge waves across our industry, and we're very proud to have developed this in-house. Our R&D team in Dallas have done an excellent job in creating a followspot system which is rapidly growing in popularity and demand!"
For a full list of the AV Awards Winners follow this link.

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Yes I know.and the additive in Horten's coffee...ummm was a joke..
There was a rumour at one time that there was an additive in it. The guy I mentioned who loves Tim's can't make it the same way they do, there's just something about how they do it. He's got a tin of it here with him. I still think it's gut rot though. It's never sat well with me for some reason. I also have something against drip filtered coffee, in case you haven't guessed by now.
I didn't drink coffee in Canada and when I went to Australia I started there. When I tried Starbucks for the first time I was disappointed. I tried them several times, in New York, Toronto and Australia. I was disappointed each time, so I've been a little curious as to why people liked them, I guess it must be the fancy coffees you can get.
When it comes to coffee I'm a purist, no flavours and stuff like that, again everyone is entitled to how they want their coffee.
However people wish to view coffee is up to them I myself like a good cup of coffee, what I view as one that is.
There's a saying I got from watching a doco on coffee (yeah I'm obsessed so what?) - Life is too short for a bad cup of coffee. That's pretty much sums up my opinion.


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Christine Sun [the ACLLU lawyer who represents Charlene Nguon, said:] "It's really important, because, while Charlene's parents have been very supportive, coming out is a very serious decision that should not be taken away from anyone, and disclosure can cause a lot of harm to students who live in an unsupportive home."...Schools often tell parents things about their children that are news to the parents but no secret at all at the school. The news that one's child is gay is a unique item of information, however. For a gay person, telling a parent is a special moment in the relation between parent and child. The young person thinks about when to tell the each parent and how to put it. These are decisions that take into account everything that young person knows about the parents attitudes and moods. How it is done has intense short term and deep long term effects on the relationships a person has with each of his or her parents. For a school to preempt that profound interaction and dump the news on a parent to add some extra dimension to a discipline report betrays a contemptible lack of dedication to the interests of students.
Conservatives criticized the judge's reasoning. "This court ruling is so unrealistic that it borders on ridiculous," said Carrie Gordon Earll, a spokeswoman for Focus on the Family, a socially conservative group based in Colorado. "In a disciplinary action by the school, you can't expect them to lie to the parents and not give details of what happened. It seems ironic to raise privacy as an issue in a public display of affection. She'd already outed herself."
Advocates for gay rights, however, welcomed the judge's decision to let the case proceed, but said it was too soon to celebrate.
"I wouldn't yet go out and tell a kid in Iowa to walk down the halls at school holding hands with his boyfriend," said Brian Chase, a lawyer with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. "It isn't fair, but gay kids expressing affection are not treated the way straight kids are."
The lawsuit seeks to clear Ms. Nguon's record and create a districtwide policy and guidelines for the treatment of gay students.
This is not a legal opinion of mine. I don't know the law in this area enough to have a legal opinion. This is an ethical judgment.
IN THE COMMENTS: Several readers talk about their own experiences coming out to their parents. One reader finds the complaint in the lawsuit and discovers a blogging angle:
Paragraph 28: While Charlene was serving her one-week suspension in or about March 2005, Principal Wolf called her and her mother in for a meeting at the school. At the meeting, Principal Wolf threatened to expel Charlene for an offcampus "blog," an online journal entry, wherein Charlene had criticized another student for being materialistic and criticized teachers for favoring that student. He also threatened that he could have Charlene arrested and her computer confiscated for the blog entry, but none of those things happened.And there's a link to another version of the news story, one with better detail, revealing the problem to be not just the disclosure of information to the parents but also the discriminatory application of the school's rule against public displays of affection:
In his 13-page ruling issued Monday, [Judge] Selna wrote that the administrators failed to take "action to stop or remedy the alleged harassment and discrimination" and failed to enact an "adequate formal or informal policy to ensure that Santiago High is providing a learning environment free from discrimination" as required by the California Education Code.
While attorneys for the district argued that Nguon had no right to privacy regarding her sexual orientation because she had been openly demonstrative toward her girlfriend in public on the campus, Selna agreed with Nguon's attorneys that because an event is not wholly private, it does not mean that an individual has no interest in limiting disclosure or dissemination of the information.
"The court finds that (Nguon) has alleged a serious invasion of her privacy interest by Wolf when he disclosed her sexual orientation to her mother," Selna wrote.
"The court finds that plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged disparate treatment of (Nguon) on the basis of her sexual orientation," Selna wrote.
"Plaintiffs have alleged that (Nguon) was disciplined for expressive conduct that is not similarly punished when engaged in by heterosexual students," Selna wrote. "Hence the complaint alleges discriminatory treatment regarding a clearly established constitutional right, and Wolf is not entitled to qualified immunity."


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| User:Cavalier One
Thanks Cav! We're having a great response so far. Christina l 16:18, August 8, 2011 (UTC)
Whenever I edit a character infobox it replaces the character name with {{{Name}}}, which is really annoying. Can you help? 184.108.40.206 11:14, August 9, 2011 (UTC)
Excuse me, why do you keep deleting Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter?
Nonsense Page
Hi Cavalier One,
This user has created a page that is basically an exact copy of Priori Incantatem. He just named the page Another Priori Incantatem. I catagorized it as a canidate for deletion but I figured you would want to take a look. This has been reverted on the main Priori Incantatem page previously so he just made a new page.
Head of Ravenclaw | Send me an Owl! 20:30, August 11, 2011 (UTC)
Locked articles
Part-troll and Burning of the Burrow have been fully-protected since July 13 and May 23, respectively. Do you think that's long enough to remove the protection, or at least bump them down to semi-protected? I ask since you were the one who set the protection in place. - Nick O'Demus 13:20, August 12, 2011 (UTC)
- Point taken on Part-troll. I'll leave it locked for now. - Nick O'Demus 05:29, August 13, 2011 (UTC)
- Might want to check if User:Cascade11 is a sock-puppet of User:Shadytheif20. Their first edit was the day after the block, and their most recent edit was to blank Shadytheif20's userpage. - Nick O'Demus 08:50, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry ... ?
You left me a message on my talk page that has something to do with images and I'm not quite sure what you mean. I'm sure I've only uploaded one or two? Any chance you could be a bit more specific? Thanks, The One You Fear 07:36, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
What the heck?
Hi, I saw you deleted my blog post. What was that for? You know you can write blog posts about anything!!!!!Loonylovegood13 12:53, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
Can I please ask why you removed my 'controversial comment' on the vampire article? It is not fanon and has been put in right place (behind the scenes) on the article, and it must be stated that little is known about vampires. Please explain.
Why did you remove my 'controversial comment' on the vampire article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cascade11 (talk • contribs).
early entry
I was accepted for early entry, but like you am still waiting on the last email to come through to gain access to the site, I will let you know as soon as I do.--BachLynn(Send an Owl!) 17:33, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
Oh was thinking maybe when stuff like this pops up, until it's open to all or an admin can verify, we should maybe stick the fact tag on them?--BachLynn(Send an Owl!) 17:34, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
Heya. So, please forgive the intrusion, but I saw you discussing the problem with verifying new Pottermore canon and I had an idea: how about we make it a policy not to accept new pottermore canon unless someone provides a screenshot of said canon appearing on the site? Would that work, do you think? Green Zubat 17:49, August 15, 2011 (UTC).
- Whenyou say the uploads would "have to be dealt with", how so? Maybe I could help? And I know what you mean about doubting the user, but I was just thinking "better safe than sorry" Green Zubat 18:10, August 15, 2011 (UTC).
Talk page
Hey, Cav. Just a heads up. Despite several requests to stop, Dannisen continues to delete messages from his talk page. Including administritive warnings. Jayden Matthews 18:04, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
Yea maybe that would be a good idea, it would just be useful to have something, to sort of mark them so that when the site does open and things can be better confirmed we know where the information is within articles.--BachLynn(Send an Owl!) 18:30, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
RE:Pottermore information
I am pretty much on the same situation as you: have been accepted, but am still waiting for access (and dying to do it). How about adding a sitewide notice warning that new material from Pottermore should be backed up by appropriate screenshots or else it's going to be reverted? After all, all info in our articles must be verifiable. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 19:24, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
- Bummer. How about creating a "info from Pottermore beta" template (I was thinking of something like {{fact}}, but perhaps linking to a page saying something like "This piece of information comes from the closed beta version of Pottermore. For the time being, it should be taken with a grain of salt", at least until it can be vouched for by some of our board of admins. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 22:27, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
- Agreed. Other thing that I've been thinking is that one only has access to the backstory of their own House. If, say, a user is Sorted into Hufflepuff and learns more about the Fat Friar's backstory I, who, say, got Sorted into Ravenclaw, will never be able to verify if the Hufflepuff backstory is true (and vice versa). Perhaps it would be useful to have a list of Admins who got into Pottermore and a list of their Houses to know who to go to when one needs to verify a specific detail about the Houses backstory. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 22:38, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
Besides, you, Seth and myself are there any other admins we know of that got into pottermore early?--BachLynn(Send an Owl!) 22:45, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
Yea, that was like the only thing anyone talked about on the chat for the rpg wiki I help run (not the Hogwarts one anymore, I left there, and now help run the Camp Half Blood rpg wiki), a bunch of users there also got in early to Pottermore, although I don't know anyone there yet who has gotten onto the site. Once I get in I plan on spending more time here helping sort through the info, lately I've been busy over there, and spending less time here, but with the influx of new info I'll switch priorities for awhile.--BachLynn(Send an Owl!) 22:59, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
I've gotten early access, too, but I've yet to receive my welcome e-mail. Registered on the first day.
So, since there's four admins known to have early access, perhaps we could all attempt to strategically answer the questions on the Sorting Hat quiz so that we end up with one admin in every house? I could try for Slytherin (my self-identified house), Seth could try for Ravenclaw (his self-identified house), etc.
When the site opens to all in October, I'm going to register multiple accounts, so I can experience it from different houses, and thus confirm all the house-exclusive information. However, you were only allowed to register one account for the beta run (I read the ToS), so I guess I'm stuck wherever I get put until October. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 01:41, August 16, 2011 (UTC)
- Do we use the Pottermore template on every article that includes new information from Pottermore, even if its subject is previously known from canon (i.e. Minerva McGonagall), or only for articles on subjects introduced for the first time in Pottermore (Isobel McGonagall, Eglantine Puffett, etc.)?
- Looking at BachLynn's userpage, I see she also identifies as a Gryffindor, so either you or she would have to try for Hufflepuff if we decided to go ahead with my plan. Maybe we could ask around on forums or something for the "right" answers for each house, seeing as how we each get one shot until October. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 08:29, August 16, 2011 (UTC)
- Would you by any chance know where I could find a copy of Ollivander's backstory? I've been looking for it and can't seem to find it anywhere.
I've noticed that quite a bit of the information released on pottermore contradicts things that JKR has stated in previous interviews, such as the birth dates of both McGonagall and Dumbledore. I think we need to find a way to incorporate this into the canon policy. If there are two conflicting bits of information, one would have to take priority over the other.--Matoro183 (Talk) 02:20, August 18, 2011 (UTC)
- The canon policy already covers this: "When J. K. Rowling contradicts herself, the newest source is to be taken as the "most" canon."
- Incidentally, I got my Pottermore welcome e-mail, but I don't have much time today to check it out. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 15:36, August 24, 2011 (UTC)
- Yep, I tried for Slytherin, but I received a bunch of rather abstract questions. The only one out of the whole batch that seemed obvious was (I'm paraphrasing here):
- Would you rather invent a potion that would give you...
- -Power?
- -Love?
- -Glory?
- -Wisdom?
- I dutifully answered "power," and "hexes and jinxes" to the question about what I looked forward to learning most at Hogwarts, but I still ended up in Ravenclaw, probably because I couldn't make heads or tails of a question like "Heads or tails?"
Re:Crests for a change :P
Ah, I see what you mean. I did preview them in the infobox first, and, to be honest while they are quite small compared to the rest of the banner the crests themselves are not that detailed or interesting. With that in mind, a close up of them may not be that desireable. In my opinion, as long as the animal itself is clear they should be okay. That's just my opinion, of course. Jayden Matthews 20:56, August 17, 2011 (UTC)
Stop DELETING My Blogs
DUDE! Stop Deleting my blogs! What makes you think that you can just delete them whenever you want? I put those up there for reason, you know. I would really appreciate it if you'd STOP.
Rachel6598 11:05, August 18, 2011 (UTC)Rachel659811:05, August 18, 2011 (UTC)11:05, August 18, 2011 (UTC)~~
RE: RE: I'm sorry ... ?
I meant, what image?
Robert Hilliard
Hi, I've created the talk page for Hilliard, and we discussed the points for merging it with the prefect in the first film, which you reverted. I was wondering if you could discuss it with us in Talk:Robert Hilliard. Thanks, The Evening Prophet (Owl Post) 17:15, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
You deleted my page!
The page was on Annoying Orange Wiki!
18.104.22.168 20:45, August 19, 2011 (UTC)Adrita
Renaming article of Neville Longbottom
Hi, I saw that this user moved the article of Neville Longbottom to the new name:
MR Neville Longbottom with the justification: (As he is over 17 and male).
I think that isn't a sufficient justification. Besides the students all men are over 17 and male. Should that not be rolled back? Harry granger 15:58, August 20, 2011 (UTC)
Article Harry Potter
Can you have a look on the article: Harry Potter? Some subtitles - from Returning to Hogwarts to Final Duel - are underlined which weren't before. I asked me why? Harry granger 16:09, August 20, 2011 (UTC)
Hcoknhoj hasn't edited for almost six months now. I plan to move him to "inactive" once he actually reaches that point. I was thinking of nominating Rodolphus and Cubs Fan2007 as replacements, since they're both still reasonably active. - Nick O'Demus 06:15, August 22, 2011 (UTC)
Main image common rooms
Hi, Cav! I have a question. You removed the new common room image as main image from Gryffindor Tower. Another user removed the new common room image as main image from Ravenclaw Tower. Both are pictured in the article, but in the articles Hufflepuff Basement and Slytherin Dungeon the new images of the common rooms are used as main image. What is the reason for this difference? Harry granger 18:59, August 22, 2011 (UTC)
Template talk:DYK
Hi, can you have a look on this Template talk? There was the comment of a user deleted from another user.
When I understand you right, you have no problem when the images of new common rooms are used? Harry granger 19:15, August 22, 2011 (UTC)
My Blog
Hi. I was just wondering why you deleted my blog. It was a dedication to my Harry Potter story. When I read the rules it mention Fanfiction in them so I do not see why my dedication was deleted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Muggleborn-Phoenix (talk • contribs).
- According to Special:Log/delete he deleted your blog per HPW:BLOG. Policy 2 on that page says "No fan fiction". I saw your blog before Cavalier One deleted it and it was fan fiction so it was removed. I'm no admin or anything so the preceding is just my take on what happened based on what I saw. Also, please always sign talk page entries using 4 tildes (~). -Shorty1982 00:08, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
- Okay I get that. But it did say before I posted the blog about Fanfictions. So what is that about?Muggleborn-Phoenix 00:19, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
- Did say what? I don't understand what you're saying. -Shorty1982 00:27, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
- Blogs are used by wiki communities for fan fiction or original work, news and announcements, questions or recommendations to the community, or reviews or op-eds. << That is what it says before you post a blog. Fanfiction is a story. So I don't see why my blog was deleted.Muggleborn-Phoenix 00:34, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not sure but that sounds to me to be a default message from the Wikia software that is always said before posting a blog, no matter what wiki it is. The rules of this particular wiki regarding blogs (which may be different from other wikis) explicitly states that fan fiction is not allowed, therefore it was deleted. -Shorty1982 00:49, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
My Page Deletion
Hi, I see you deleted my page, marking it as 'nonsense', when these crests do in fact appear in the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Movie. Why did you delete it, I've seen this clip countless times and know this to be true, as well as knowing that some of the prop shields contained House and Hogwarts crests. Please reply! Also, from what other people say, it seems this is happening alot. Maybe instead of shining your Prefect Badge around like Percy (no offence!) you could stop doing this and allow other people to have a chance. ~Padfoot.
Conjuring / Manipulating Fire Spell
I believe McGonagall conjured the fire from the torches in the Great Hall,to duel Snape.With that she attacked him and when they ended their duel, she moved her wand and the flames returned to the torches.If you look closely the duel scene you will notice that by the time Snape leaves Hogwarts the flames of the torches have deminished. 22.214.171.124 09:33, August 31, 2011 (UTC)
Thank you
Thank you for the kind message. I look forward to helping out this wiki as much as I can. Thanks again and I hope I can be of any assisstance.
The Great Dog Demon 17:32, August 31, 2011 (UTC)The Great Dog Demon
Original Forty page deleted?
What was wrong with the "Original Forty" page I created? No reason given, no suggestions or time for improvement, just cold, hard deletion? Not very fair if you ask me. JamesyWamesy 19:38, September 2, 2011 (UTC)
Harry Potter Film Wizardry
Hello. I have no idea how to upload an image with all the information, but this page needs two pictures - one of the UK cover and one of the USA cover. Could you either upload the photos or help me? Thank you. Sev Lover Forever 02:15, September 3, 2011 (UTC)
Minor edit
Hello Cavalier One, I am Zeist Antilles from es.harrypotter. Could you please add the interwiki [[es:Daphne Greengrass]] to Daphne Greengrass for me? As you know I can not edit it because is protected because the fanon picture. Thank you. --Zeist Antilles flimsiplast 13:18, September 8, 2011 (UTC)
can you please delete my profile i don't need it anymore as this wiki does'nt really need editing .thanks.shurtagal 00:52, September 9, 2011 (UTC)
Can you please make me a AdminTonks Auror 02:05, September 17, 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I'm with the wiki entertainment team and I have been asigned to ad videos to the wiki. The video rules state that videos of scenes or pieces of the movie are to not to be posted- but we have legally licensed videos of just that. Is it ok to post them now that they are legally obtained or should I steer clear?
- I sent this message to another admin but I thought I would try and cover more ground by asking you too. :)
- I just wanted to be sure I wasn't doing anything wrong but I also want to make sure I'm allowed because these videos are great!
Hiya Cavalier One,
I know you're an admin and all but I was wondering why you deleted some of the photos I've put up? well, one but i was just curious. Thanks, (Ron Ron12 09:05, September 26, 2011 (UTC))
Hey someone left a message on my talk about being affiliates, and I've never been asked that before:
Hi I'm Joh i'm webmaster Muggle-V.com Harry Potter fansite of Thailand.
I want to affiliates with HP Wikia.

I show your banner in http://muggle-v.com/link.html
Thx User:ProfBell
--BachLynn(Send an Owl!) 18:23, September 28, 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for deleting my errant photo
I thought it would go to my profile but I will have to reread how to do that
By the way, if you are "early-greying", then you share that with one of my favorite personalities - Steve Martin, a local boy who started about 30 miles from here in SoCal
Hi, I have a question. Perhaps you can help me. Why does this wiki set my changed articles at once on the top of the recent changes? Have I set something in my preferences that says "do that" or what other mistake have I done? I tried to solve it, but I don't know what to do next. I hope you can help. Harry granger 18:41, October 5, 2011 (UTC)
I'd likw to kown if you have the knowledge of what spell the Death Eaters casted to destroy hogwarts shield? Dobby4ever 23:07, October 11, 2011 (UTC)
Hi Cavalier One, I reccomend this page for deletion although I'm not sure how you do it. Could you perhaps delete the page and maybe tell me how you do it so I may do it next time unassisted? Thanks, Padfoot. 06:31, October 12, 2011 (UTC)
Candidate for Deletion
I'm not quite sure how you categorize cantidates for deletion, perhaps one of the Admins could tell me? Nonetheless, I found a replica page that needs deleting as it has no content and I'm not quite sure how to do it. Please get back to me, Padfoot. 06:35, October 12, 2011 (UTC)
You've deleted almost everything i've edited
Can i please ask why you're deleteing almost everything i have posted? The site is to change and make things better, i'm merely adding photos about the section so people can understand it more, why are they being removed?
The above unsigned message was left by Amphareece
Merge request
Could you please have your say on whether or not "Dumbledore's Army coin" and "Enchanted coin" should be merged? 22.214.171.124 19:29, October 22, 2011 (UTC)
Seeing as you're an admin I might as well give you one of these for your wall:) p.s I'm still trying to work out this image thing so please don't judge me lol
Dave Stewart 22:21, October 25, 2011 (UTC)
Unprotect Draco Malfoy's wand page
Hello, it has been two months, and I think that is a substantial cooldown period for the editing war that was going on Draco Malfoy's wand page. Can you please unprotect it from editing? Thank you! Wizard211 02:52, October 27, 2011 (UTC)
2011 Highlights?
Hi Cavalier One -
I'm a member of Wikia's Content Team and I'm working on a project I'd love your help with. This year we're gathering stories and highlights of 2011 from various communities on Wikia. This is something we're going to start doing annually and we're really excited to share it with not only the entire Wikia community but the rest of the world. This will serve as a sort of time capsule that captures the big moments in 2011 as seen through Wikians eyes. As one of our most active and creative communities on Wikia we'd love for the Harry Potter Wiki to submit their 5 biggest moments of the year for possible inclusion in this year end round-up.
What were the highlights that happened on your wiki this year? This can be more specific -- did you take any polls or create any top ten lists that showed collectively what you as a wiki thought? What were the most hotly debated scenes or the most loved performances. Was there a topic that received more attention than any other? Did your community do anything unique that you want the world to know about?
I'm writing to you since you're an admin but if you'd like to open this to the entire community please feel free to post a blog or poll, the more suggestions the better. When you have your top 5 moments or you can post them on my talk page or email them to me here: email@example.com. Thanks so much and let me know if you have any questions at all.
best, Christina 23:45, October 27, 2011 (UTC)
Harry Potter Videos
Hey CavalierOne,
I just wanted to let you know that Wikia has made these movie clips available for download for the Harry Potter Wiki!
Feel free to discuss with the other admins and pick and choose which Harry Potter clips you want. Let me know if you have any questions.
Once you choose them, let me know and I'd be happy to write a blog post and alert the HP community at large via Twitter/FB.
Have fun! :)
(talk) 01:16, November 8, 2011 (UTC)
affiliates question
Hey I got a question emailed to me about becoming affiliates with this wiki, wasn't sure who dealt with that or what to tell the.
I don't know if you're the right person to ask, but I'm from HPSupporters.com, a Harry Potter fan site, and I was hoping we could be added to the affiliates of the Harry Potter Wiki. Our 88x31 button can be found here: http://hpsupporters.com/images/affiliatebutton.jpg and we will link back to the wiki in the sidebar of our site with our other affiliates.
Tom Tjd100 firstname.lastname@example.com via wikia.com BachLynn(Send an Owl!) 13:25, November 8, 2011 (UTC)
Hi Cavalier One im new on Harry Potter wiki and i my username is Bellatrix nee black, but every time i put a picture up on my page it also goes onto a diferent account name (Bellatrix lestrange) i must of made it by accident, could you delete it for me please because i can't, thank you. (Bellatrix lestrange) account. NOT~ Bellatrix nee black, thanks.Bellatrix nee black 01:48, December 1, 2011 (UTC)
User:Harry granger suggested that you would be a good admin to weigh in on the issue at Talk:Automobile, and to move the page to a more appropriate title if need be. -- 1337star (Owl Post) 22:28, December 22, 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I am new to the wiki, but I was wondering, have you ever considered using badges? I have been on some wikis that use them, and they really boost how much people edit. Not that people don't edit here, but most consider it as an acheivement to strive for so they edit more and with higher quality. There is also the fact that some spam to get them, but with 17 admins you should be able to attend to that.
It is just an idea, and I leave it up to you to decide.
Have a great day! Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. 01:38, December 28, 2011 (UTC)
Hello, please block this vandal IP. --Lord of Dark 15:23, January 9, 2012 (UTC)
Hey Cavalier One, I know this is so random and you probably dont give a shit, but, I was hoping you could help me to solve an HP riddle. Please, it would mean lot! Besides, it must be very easy for you :) At least answer me,pleasee
Mariasr 16:48, January 9, 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. Would I be able to adapt some of the policies that you've developed here to write similar policies over at The Hunger Games Wiki? I can give you credit and link back here from any policy that we write using help from yours. Thanks. -TagAlongPam (talk) 17:46, January 9, 2012 (UTC)
- Should I take your silence as a "no"? :P -TagAlongPam (talk) 05:04, January 18, 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks very much. -TagAlongPam (talk) 21:55, January 18, 2012 (UTC)
i want to became a adiam
i want to because i want to block people and comane them so please make me a adiam how do you beco,me a adiam —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Maxroxy (talk • contribs).
i want to became a adiam
hey it is me maxroxy here and i want to become a adiam. so tell me how and i will do it and respond by 6;00 or 7;00 ok bye love maxroxy
2012 Oscars Pool Contest
Greetings! My name is Scott, and I work for Wikia on their Community Development Team. With the 2012 Academy Awards rapidly approaching, we'd like to involve your wiki in our 2012 Oscars Pool contest by temporarily adding the above banner to your main page. We're just looking to give your users a chance to join in on the Oscars excitement and have a chance to win one of the DVD box sets that will be up for grabs. :) Please hit me up on my talk page as soon as you can and let me know if you're willing to join us in this event, so I can (hopefully) add the contest banner and we can get your users informed on how to enter.
- Thank you for your time!
- http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o297/SCOTIMUS76/siggy3.png (profile)•(talk)•(email) 02:06, February 12, 2012 (UTC)
- Also, with the close of the Grammys contest, we'd really like to replace that slider image with one for this new Oscars contest - if it's alright...
- http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o297/SCOTIMUS76/siggy3.png (profile)•(talk)•(email) 03:14, February 13, 2012 (UTC)
- Also, with the close of the Grammys contest, we'd really like to replace that slider image with one for this new Oscars contest - if it's alright...
Hmmm... Yeah, doing a small one as well would be a little bit of an overkill. Let's just replace the slider image or it will start looking spammy on your main page. :) Still waiting to receive the 660x360 version, I'll toss it up as soon as I get it. I'm going to go ahead and take the Grammy one down for now - since the Grammys and the contest are both over, and it's no good having old news up there.
- http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o297/SCOTIMUS76/siggy3.png (profile)•(talk)•(email) 00:43, February 14, 2012 (UTC)
Hey I Just want to apologise for my editing behavoir and for going against your wishes it was wrong for me to do that and i didn't check my message board im so sorry.I was wondering if you could help me learn where to put photos on pages. Anyways sorry Sincerely Alex.
Hi Cavalier, I would like to award the Prefect badge to some users from es.harrypotter and I wonder if may I use the file:Prefect.PNG for the badge award, as I notice it is copyrighted. Thank you in advance. --Zeist Antilles flimsiplast 15:30, March 10, 2012 (UTC)
I dont understand why you deleted the photo I posted of me in Harry potter for which I,m credidted on the IMDB an numerous web sites,if I,m in the photo ,as I am,then surely that is fair usage.Seems you make a lot of people unhappy with your deletion power,who do you think you are,,,the administrator or something,,have a nice day,may you have many more before your inevitable,ultimate deletion,peace love laughter ,Terence McAuley126.96.36.199 15:01, March 18, 2012 (UTC)
Dracorex Hogwartsia
Why was the Dracorex Hogwartsia page deleted? It is not fanon, had the label of being part of the real word, and is unique to the fandom. Sev Lover Forever 21:06, March 23, 2012 (UTC)
Hello Cavalier One !!, I'm Matias gryffindor, an user from Harry Potter Wiki in Spanish, and I'm Administrator in that wiki, I would like to be a Helper in this wiki as I've got a lot of editions in my wiki and I know a lot about Harry Potter. I'm Zeist Antilles's friend, and like he's Helper here, I would like to be one too, I'll wait you message in my talk, regards Matias gryffindor Mensajes 13:46, March 25, 2012 (UTC)
I been wondering if we can add some new looks and things on the wikia. Like has some pages of characters have comments boxs or a link on theirs page to a page. A page where we can ramdomly chat about the characters we like to talk about. But it has to be the character that the link and the comment box belong to. Let me know what you think. Hopemon 19:17, May 3, 2012 (UTC)
Cavalier can you help me Mr.SmartyMax keep changing my edit to tom riddles hair it perfectly states in the picture his head is bald with red veins all over he keeps changing it back to bald i'm puting in correct details and he's changing it
Iheartsevsnape 00:02, June 4, 2012 (UTC)
Thought you ought to know
Voting on the Notability Policy proposal is moving forward. - Nick O'Demus 11:45, June 5, 2012 (UTC)
on a unidentified page it said that a student was i Ravanclaw when really she is in Slytherin if you click on the picture you can tell http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Unidentified_Ravenclaw_girl just wanted to let you know
- He / she is right. I enlarged the image and the crest shows the Slytherin serpent, not the Ravenclaw eagle / raven.
Harry granger Talk contribs 09:09, June 25, 2012 (UTC)
Question about my talk
Is it okay to remove both the messages from my talk page here? Or the most recent one at least? — AnselaJonla (talk) 14:59, July 1, 2012 (UTC)
Greetings! You may already know, but Harry Potter will be involved with Comic-Con this year. Wikia will have a physical presence at the 'Con once again, and we've created this badge:
to remind users of this, and provide them with a link to Comic-Con Wiki. There, we will be updating live for the duration of the event with images, info, and exclusives for those users who are unable to be there in person. Would you be willing to allow this badge on the main page here (hopefully at the top of the right column) until the conclusion of the event? Please hit me up on my TALK PAGE and let me know either way so I can add it, or make a note that you've declined affiliation. You're welcome to add it yourself using the code above, but please drop me a note as well so I can track which wikis are participating. Thank you for your time! :)
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Inquiring about a Nifty feature on your wiki
Hi!, I am an admin on another wiki and I am interested to find out how you got the number of pages from the top to the sidebar...
May I ask how this was done?
Community Manager Tawatson 12:22, July 6, 2012 (UTC)
I wanted to have a change made to Lucius Malfoy's page and saw that it was locked. In the Behind the Scenes section, it talks about the Elder Futhark runes on his Azkaban card. It lists Fehu as being one, when actually the rune is Ansuz.
Alxea (talk) 12:55, July 9, 2012 (UTC)Alxea
Wikia's Fantasy Fellowship
Hey Cavalier One!
Wikia is hosting a "Fantasy Fellowship" to commemorate The Hobbit and Hobbit Day! We were wondering if you were interested in signing Harry Potter Wiki up for the fellowship and potentially see if the community was interested in forming their own "Adventure Dream Team" with Harry Potter characters as part of a fellowship?
The details can be found on this blog and you can sign up for the fellowship here! We're hoping that a lot of wikis participate and come up with their own fellowships to compete against other wiki teams to see who can complete the quest.
Let me know if you (and Harry Potter Wiki) would be interested!
(talk) 17:32, September 14, 2012 (UTC)
Technician Rights Request
Hey this Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd, head design technician and admin on Survivor, Hey Arnold and Merlin Wiki.
To my eyes, I think this wiki could really do with some upgrades to it's design. There is plenty I have to offer and that is why I am requesting a 'technician' status. ~~user:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd~~
Harry Potter was a pure blood only death eaters and voldemort thought that Harry was a Half-Blood. His mother although muggle-born was a witch.18.104.22.168 13:13, April 14, 2013 (UTC)
I'll remember that. :)
NashGWeasley (talk) 14:16, May 29, 2013 (UTC)
Affiliates question
What is the procedure for affiliating a site? Thephfactor (talk) 15:31, August 29, 2013 (UTC)
Edit an edit-mode
hi, I am the admin of the Israeli Harry Potter Wiki, we call it:
now, i've looked in many places but could not find where it explains how to edit the "edit-mode" when you edit a page.
i mean, in this wiki it sugguests you templates like Welcome, infoboxes
in our wiki it doesn't...
so how do i change it?
thanks a lot,
What the..? I put a bunch of pictures of wand movie props up and you removed them all. WHY?
Elder wand lover (talk) 18:49, December 12, 2013 (UTC)
Why do you keep deleating my wand prop pictures?
Elder wand lover (talk) 18:51, December 12, 2013 (UTC)
Undo my edits of page Albus_Dumbledore#1996-1997
Please, I'd like that you undo all my edits of day 26 March 2014 in the page Albus_Dumbledore#1996-1997!!! Thank you and I am so sorry for that! Andre G. Dias (talk) 20:28, March 26, 2014 (UTC)
I hoped it could be resolved through discussion but now that seems not likely. I feel that User:MinorStoop is giving me a hard time about editing without fully explaining what it is that is upsetting him.
Could I have assistance in resolving this matter?
Jdogno7 (talk) 03:38, June 26, 2014 (UTC)
Vandal :User:Harry Potter sucks AB Ng Talk 11:32, July 17, 2014 (UTC)
Why do you keep blocking me off?!Tri-Fighter (talk) 23:48, September 9, 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I'm now working with Diseny and part of Star Wars, so if you block me off you can get sued. Now let me back on!--DSD1-Dwarf Spider Droid (talk) 23:58, October 8, 2014 (UTC)
Offline Database update request
Can you please request a new database dump for this wiki via Special:Statistics page? I want an offline copy, but the last backup is really old.
Thank you —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Elderupdate (talk • contribs).
I'm sorry --Ginnyharry4ever (talk) 17:28, June 17, 2015 (UTC)
I am a member of the Fantastic Beasts and where to find them wiki, do I have permission to tell your users about the wiki? TheJedimuggle-born (talk) 19:54, March 24, 2016 (UTC)TheJedimuggle-born
Just want to reach out from Wikia
Hi Mike! My name is Therese. I work with Lesley in SF and want to introduce myself. I'm going to add a few blog posts over the next few days to get folks excited about the release of Cursed Child. Pottermore sent us some images and an exclusive gifset/video that showcases quotes from all the novels. Was wondering if you wanted to feature the video on the main page? I can show you what it looks like on my sandbox wiki, if that's the case. Let me know!
Thereselovesyou (talk) 17:47, July 28, 2016 (UTC)
Wikia Polls
Hi there! I wanted to let you know that currently the wikia polls aren't working on mobile. We know that voting is a great way to survey the community so we recommend replacing them with another mainpage unit. Pollsnacks is super easy to incorporate and I can change it for you if you like. Sorry for the inconvenience! Let me know if there is anyway I can help you with this transition. Witnessme (talk) 18:43, August 16, 2016 (UTC)
Hi Mike,
My name is Erik Nilsson, an avid HP fan since many years back.
I noticed that there was an old post about becoming an affiliate of the HarryPotterWikia (http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:How_to_sign_up_as_an_affiliate%3F) and would like to ask how I proceed to become one? :) I am more than happy to link to this amazing resource for a link back to my blog.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards
Erik Eriikn (talk) 16:52, February 22, 2018 (UTC)
Duplicate Posters
I believe you have uploaded posters of Fantastic Beasts that i already uploaded yesterday. There are no strings on me (talk) 17:44, September 25, 2018 (UTC)
- I believe you are right. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 18:03, September 25, 2018 (UTC)
- Will you rectify what you uploaded? There are no strings on me (talk) 18:25, September 25, 2018 (UTC)
- Given the amount of duplicate images on this wiki, is it really an issue? - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 18:32, September 25, 2018 (UTC)
- Will you rectify what you uploaded? There are no strings on me (talk) 18:25, September 25, 2018 (UTC)


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It used to be more easy. When I was young, everything was black or white. I won't claim more wisdom now, but at least I have rubbed off some edges, most of them probably for the better.
But my reflexes are more or less the same. I have no love for monopolies – public or private. This means I have never applauded the Nordic way of organising alcohol retail sales in governmental monopoly retail stores, either. But a recent briefing at the headquarters of Swedish Systembolaget made me think things through.
Four of the Nordic countries have these governmental shops, Finland (Alko), Sweden (Systembolaget), Norway (Vinmonopolet) and Iceland (Vínbúðin). Finland and Norway allowed the sales of beer (and alcopops) below 4.75 % ABV in supermarkets, In Sweden and Iceland the limit is lower. This makes a significant difference: In Sweden, the bulk of pale lagers is sold in Systembolaget shops, in Norway, the bulk is sold in supermarkets.
Things are slowly changing. There used to be monopolies of imports, wholesale and distilling, too, but they are history, largely do to European legislation. The retail stores used to be forbidding places with long lines outside the front doors and all bottles being hidden on shelves behind the counter. The strict Lutheran view of this being the devil's dring hung like a dark cloud over the shops. There is one, frozen in time, at Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo if you want to have a look.
The public health concerns are the same as they used to be, but the drinking habits have changed. We drink less hard liquor and more wine, the pale lagers are stagnating while craft beer has an impressive growth.
And the monopolies are adapting. Bright and cheerful stores with the full stock on display. Special release days for rare wine and beer. Apps for your smart phone. And while you won't find any promotional material as such in a Systembolaget shop, the bottles, boxes, cans and wrappings for the six-packs do the job.
In theory, you could argue that the Norwegian threshold of 4.75% means there is a better choice of everyday beers for the consumer. But that is not the case. We have four supermarket groups controlling 98% of the grocery market, and, while there are some shops who are now jumping on the beer bandwagon, the range available is limited to about one hundred beers in the very best shops. Three quarters of these will be pale lagers, for Christmas some of them will have som caramel coloring added.
Sure, there are huge stacks of canned lagers in the Swedish shops, too, but the best of the shops have a large number of fine ales prominently displayed. And if you don't find your favourites in your local shop, you can order them from the web site and have them in a week or so.
Sure, you might argue, but what's the option for those who live out in the sticks and don't have a Systembolaget store in the neighbourhood? Simple, there is a large network of grocery stores who act as agents or ombud and where you can pick up your order. Like the post offices who pop up as shop within a shop nowadays.
One major difference between Norway and Sweden is that the Swedish model is put under strong external pressure. As European Union citizens, the Swedes are free to bring home alcohol bought in other EU countries cor their own consumption. That means cheap booze from Denmark, Germany and Poland. Which means that Systembolaget have been forced to give a better shopping experience, better service – and to keep their prices down. Sur, they cannot underbid the prices of Polish vodka. But they can make sure that you can get a six-pack of lager for an affordable price without getting on a ferry. That means the price level in Sweden is often between thirty and seventy per cent of the prices in Norway for beer and wine. A decent can or bottle of BrewDog beer will typically be ten Norwegian kroner at Systembolaget but close to thirty in a Norwegian supermarket. Going into how we end up with this difference is a blog post of its own.
So. Accessibility and price are two factors which make the Swedes smile all the way to the shop and back. But it's also a matter of quality.
When we visited Systembolaget HQ, we were attending a simulation on how they conduct their product testing.
Their buyers try to follow the trends in the beer world, to stock Swedish beers and imports, to try to have a sensible mix of beer types, price levels etc. The beers that sell well get to keep their place on the shelves, others are replaced. And there is a steady flow of calls for tender, stating the type of beer, possibly area of origin and stating something about the price level, say, 15-20 Swedish kroner for a half liter bottle. Depending on the product, importers and wholesalers then give a quote and send a certain number of samples. The labels will be checked, the price will be considered, and, for a number of beers, they will be tested blind. Our simulation was related to a call for German Kristallweisse, and, as two of the six samples were unfiltered, the test in not flavour alone, several senses come into play.
The tastings take place in laboratory conditions, and the tasting teams spend a lot of time calibrating themselves, trying to avoid personal preferences and arriving at a common standard of quality that is appropriate for the beer in question.
This is serious business. We are talking about the biggest retail chain in the world in this sector, if I'm not completely mistaken. And while there might be various views from the suppliers on how the system might be tweaked to be better and more fair, there does not seem to ba any loud voices asking for major reforms. Sure, there are discussions on how to allow farms to sell their beer and wine, and small-scale brewers might want better access to shops in their area than the present system that guarantees them shelf space in the three shops closest to the brewery.
Is there a conclusion to this?
If you want to give the public good access to a splendid range of quality products at affordable prices, this makes sense. Sure, I love Ølbutikken, Johnny's Off Licence and all the other speciality shops across Europe. But that is for a tiny crowd of aficionados. And a quality system that avoids the worst of the crap makes sense, too.
But I leave this open. I cannot praise a monopoly. But almost….
BTW, the visit to Systembolaget was a part of the annual meeting of the Scandinavian Beer Writers Association. A great bunch.


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Frozen Bubbles
Minus 10 degrees and I want to take photos but I am a little tired of going out every day in the frigid cold so I spy my grandson's bubbles left over from the summer. I go outside and start blowing bubbles and lo and behold some land and hold their shape - voila - something new to photograph!
Blowing in the Wind
These tall grasses along Georgian Bay in Canadia were blowing in the wind and I created more of a movement by shooting them using a technique called cameera blur.
LIghted Stools
These lighted stools caught my eye as I walked past them at Old Orchard Beach.
Mystery Layers
A moment in time. This was just before a huge downpour that had me running for cover but I took my time to set up the shot and squeeze the shutter. I love the depth of this shot and how far you can see into it. Every time I look at this image I see somehting else. The simple beauty is from the monochromatic cobalt blue and the mystery is from the subject. Hard to believe but this is an antique car head light.
Light patterns
An antique car headlight gives me this incredible light and dark pattern.
Abstract in Greys
Movement. All created by a technique when I creat the image by moving the camera to create the blur - a sense of movement an dmotion is then created from a static object. This is a beautiful stone wall at Billings Farm National Park in Woodstock, VT. All the greys, blacks and touches of almost blue grey are melded togehter.
On The Move
Twirling with motion and emotion - moving across the image creating energy - where did it come from? where is it going? Movement within stillness - a moment not to be repeated but to be remembered.
Rusty Glow
This rust almost seemed alive as it meanered along this metal wall. The glow is from the light hitting it just right.
Abstracts and Closeups are so much fun to play with and this is one of my favorites. Hard to believe that this is a kitchen whisk.
Flower Tips
This is a macro of just the tips of flowers, shot in the early morning light.
Summer Flowers
This is a blur - yes, on purpose to give the flowers this effect. I call it camera twirling as I use a zoom lens that I spin while taking the image.
Foliage Reflecition
Kent Pond in Killington, VT on a gorgeous fall day with incredible color and the reflections were mesmerizing. I coulnd't take my eyes of of them.
The Flowers and the Fence
At Musterfield Farm in New Hampshire the flowers grow in abundance along this gorgeous old wood fence. The explosion of color is incredible and when the sun is shining brightly overhead I usually start playing with flower twirlilng to creat some abstract shots.
this is a tulip reflected in a piece of mylar, which is bendy and gives this effect.
Iris Reflections
This was taken indoors on a rainy day. I used bendy mylar reflective material to creative this funky reflection.
Japenese Iris
Reaching 1
This grass was reaching through this fence and trying to see what was on the other side.


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Last week, Andrew was that guy with his girl lunching in KFC, discussing apartments and making plans for the future. Today he's in Moscow, in an undisclosed hotel room, on the run and at risk of assassination.
Last week, a nobody. This week, America's Most Wanted: a man who humiliated his country with one touch of a button.
Mike Bartlett's darkly comic new play explores the unexpected, bewildering, and life-changing consequences of challenging the status quo at a global level. As the State grows more powerful because of technology, and technology grows more powerful because of the State, where do the self-appointed protectors of the rights of the citizen stand? Heroes? Or traitors?
Bartlett returns to Hampstead following his critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Chariots of Fire. His other plays include the Olivier Award-winning King Charles III, An Intervention, Bull and Love, Love, Love.
James Macdonald returns to Hampstead Theatre following The Arrest of Ai Weiwei by Howard Brenton. Wild is his second collaboration with Bartlett following Cock (Royal Court). James's many other theatre credits include The Father (West End) and Caryl Churchill's Escaped Alone (Royal Court).
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Its too early to predict a winner in the 2020 presidential election with much confidence, but a few things have happened recently that provide some reasonable ideas. In early October, the Dems had another debate, and the alleged pundits think that Elizabeth Warren came off the winner, and Biden was in second, but Lizzie has since then come out with her 70 trillion dollar medical insurance plan, and Biden continues to plug along. I get the impression that Sanders is seen as falling, and the munchkins
Today (mon. 10/28/2019) I had a conversation about the 2020 presidential election. Over the weekend, Trump was booed and treated to the chant "Lock him up" at a World Series game. I recalled how I had thought a few years ago that 2020 may look a lot like 1860, when it comes to the presidential election. The person I was talking with agreed. Then we tried to figure out who the four major candidates will be. I don't recall who we determined on, but we didn't have confidence in the choices,
A few hours ago, I had a brilliant thought. I decided that I should investigate it, before I try to capitalize on it. Alas, I learned that others have had very similar ideas, so I cant make all of the money from it. But I realized that there is a good reason that can explain why we havent encountered any intelligent alien life, yet. The reason is: mitochondria, a sort of bacteria that provide energy to the eukaryote cells. Mitochondria are symbiotic cells that have their own DNA. It is thought
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I frequently wonder about those silly Earthlings. Most of them Have serious problems with science, math, mathematics, and logic. How did they manage to develop anything even vaguely like civilization? But I haven't been able to figure out why they have such problems. But I haven't been able to figure out why. Is it herd mentality (which would be an inborn tendency) that makes them believe without question anyone who is said to be an authority, or what, but most humans seem to have a need to agree
I find it annoying to read or hear assertions that human activity is causing climate change especially when the people making the assertions never even heard of the Milkovitch cycles and dont even know what makes some gases "greenhouse gases" while other gases do not create the greenhouse effect. Many articles on the subject give the impression the the author does not understand what he is writing.
One item that is less prevalent now than it was a few years ago is the
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During BlizzCon 2011 this weekend I got to ask Starcraft II senior designer Jonny Ebbert what was in store for the solo player in the upcoming expansions and why Heart of the Swarm's campaign is nine missions shorter that Wings of Liberty's. You whiny bastards.
Not you folks personally — well, not all of you at least. I'm sure folks that enjoyed the lengthy campaign in Wings of Liberty just sat back and enjoyed it, but those that didn't like it complained loud and hard enough to be heard.
"We actually got a lot of complaints that it (Wings of Liberty) was too long," Ebbert said, causing my brow to furrow quizzically. "Like a lot. We looked at the achievement data, and the completion rates just went (here he makes a schwooing noise, indicating a massive drop)."
About that time I got mad at everyone. I can't play StarCraft II online. I've tried and tried but never seem to make any progress. Even when I think victory might be in sight my opponents suddenly morph into supercomputers, rebuilding entire armies from scratch and crashing down upon me like a wave at the last possible moment. I'm like a walking buff for the other team. So I take solace in the single-player campaign, and anyone that threatens to take even a smidgeon of that away from me is going to get cut (in my mind at least).
It wasn't just the players either. "We got a lot of heat internally about it as well. People on other teams were just 'It's too long!'"
Ebbert assures me that while the Heart of the Swarm campaign is shorter, it'll still be just as entertaining. "We're always talking about concentrating the cool, so we decided to compress it from 29 to 20 missions. We've played through it and we've been 'Yeah, this feels pretty nice.'"
And if it doesn't work out, there's always Legacy of the Void, the third installment of StarCraft II. Ebbert says they're going to see how Heart goes, and they'll reassess for Legacy if need be.
"We're totally cognizant of your type of player. We have ideas for the next one that we're hoping will reward your type of player a lot more...people who aren't online hardcore that want something they can sink a lot of time into in a single-player way. That's definitely at the forefront of our minds."
You heard the man, single-player StarCraft II fans; our time will come. Let's just hope the wait isn't too long. I'd hate to have to complain.
You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at email@example.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.


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DOVER — City Councilor Michael Weeden is resting at his home after he was mugged in Boston early Monday morning.
Weeden woke up in Massachusetts General Hospital after losing consciousness following the attack, which occurred about three blocks from South Station.
Weeden and a friend were in Boston after spending Sunday afternoon and evening at the New England Patriots game in Foxboro. There are differing reports as to what happened once they arrived in Boston. According to a police report obtained by Foster's Daily Democrat, Weeden's friend claims Weeden was denied entry into a Boston nightclub because he was too intoxicated. The friend told his mother a bouncer at the nightclub had put Weeden into a cab.
Weeden, who is also a state representative and is seeking re-election to his council seat, claims the story from his friend is not accurate.
"We're both 21 and we'd had a few beers," Weeden acknowledged. But the companions were not driving. They had taken a C&J bus to Boston and had taken a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train to Foxboro.
They took the MBTA back to Boston and had planned on taking the C&J bus back to Dover, Weeden said. He said his friend wanted to go out to a bar. Weeden wanted to head home. Weeden gave his debit card to his friend, who had no money left after the football game. His friend wanted to go to a bar called Whiskey Priest. Weeden told Foster's he was worried about missing the bus, so he left his friend and started walking toward South Station.
It was on that walk that Weeden claims he was assaulted and mugged by three assailants. The next thing he knew, it was Monday morning and he was in the hospital.
A police report gathered from an interview with Weeden's mother differs significantly from what Weeden told Foster's. That story came second-hand from a conversation Weeden's mother had with Weeden's friend's mother. The friend had called his mother while he was at the bar at approximately 1:30 a.m. Monday to tell her that Weeden was denied entry to the bar because he was intoxicated and that the bouncer had put Weeden in a taxi. The friend told his mother he would try to get a hotel room across from the bar. His mother did not know the name of the hotel or the bar and did not know where they were in Boston.
Weeden asserted he was never in a taxi and if he were, he said he never would have gotten mugged.
Unaware of the incident, Foster's Daily Democrat was informed about it Wednesday when Weeden sent a reporter an email to quash rumors there had been police activity at his home in connection with not showing up after the Patriots game. Weeden's email led Foster's Daily Democrat to make a Right-to-Know request for a police report relating to the incident.
Weeden wrote: "My parents called the Dover police to report me missing because I never came home from Boston on Sunday. Walking through Boston to South Station to take the C&J bus back home, I was assaulted and mugged by (3) men. I fought back to get my wallet (which I did) but ended up with facial abrasions and dental fracture which landed me in Massachusetts General Hospital. I was discharged early Monday morning and I will be recovering at home for the upcoming week."
In order to confirm Weeden's story, Foster's called Dover Police. They suggested the newspaper file a Right-to-Know request to receive the full report. According to the report, all police were able to confirm on their end was that Weeden's mother called at 5:42 a.m. Monday to report that he had not come home. After attempts to confirm that Weeden was a patient at Mass General and that he was involved in an incident in Boston early Monday morning failed, Foster's filed a Right-to-Know request with Dover Police. Mass General was unable to deliver patient information over the phone and Boston Police were unable to confirm or search for any non-arrest information without an exact address.
The police statement says Dover Police met with Michael's mother at 5:55 a.m. on Monday. They called Boston Police to confirm that neither Weeden nor his friend had been arrested. Dover Police confirmed neither man had gotten on a C&J bus Sunday night. Weeden's vehicle was still at Dover's C&J early Monday morning. "A Teletype was sent to Boston area police departments for an Attempt to Locate on the two subjects," according to the statement.
The police report states that there was no information to indicate that the situation was suspicious. It says Weeden and his friend's cell phones had died or had been turned off when they were trying to be reached. The statement says Dover Police suggested Weeden's mother call Boston area hospitals in case he was admitted. The statement says Weeden's parents called Mass General to confirm Weeden had been admitted there that morning. The hospital told Weeden's parents he was released around 7 a.m., but because Weeden is an adult, the hospital could not release any additional information. Dover Police closed the case, writing in the report that a voicemail was left with Dover police at approximately 9 a.m. from Weeden's mother confirming he had passed out after being assaulted and woke up in Mass General.
Weeden said he is on pain medication and is resting in his Dover home.
He wrote in an email to Foster's on Wednesday: "This means I will be unable to attend the council meeting this evening. I want to let the citizens of Dover know that I am recovering as quickly as possible to ensure that I can get back to work for the city of Dover."
Dover city councilor recovering after being mugged in Boston
DOVER — City Councilor Michael Weeden is resting at his home after he was mugged in Boston early Monday morning.


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We might be able to close this win out yet with that. Lol
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And their fans.
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"Like a midget at a urinal, I knew I had to be on my toes." - Lt. Frank Drevin
we shouldn't have to worry about denver, bullshit tiebreaker
I can't believe Brady didn't play the last drive for the Pats. The pathetic Texans will be in the playoffs ahead of the Steelers, how sad is that...
I agree...but it was strange (typical BB) how Brady was put in and pulled out of the game a couple of times...anyway the Pats will be out pretty quick without Welker so what goes around comes around
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Greetings all
I have a challenge. My wife and I drive 1200C's, and although she loves her bike, she is still intimidated by the weight and bulk. She is determined to keep riding it, but she now thinks that a sidecar would be the perfect solution.
Unfortunately, I live in Minnesota, far from the sidecar sources I have been able to find, and I would just as soon just hire this project out and have an expert do the work.
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I know this is ridiculous and I believe I did something wrong, because I can't google anything related on internet. But still, I just can't re-use a shared memory arry in ati 5870, while the same program run well on nVidia gpu.
say, I have a kernel look like this: (my code is not as simple as this. but the detail is the same)
__local float tmp1[16];
__local float tmp2[16];
uint localIdX = get_local_id(0);
float a,b;
// I first define tmp1 and use it for a
// then if I re-use tmp1for later calculation, the code result will go wrong on ati 5870, while nvidia's result is good
// but if I use tmp2 instead, then ati is also good.
// example as below
if I use tmp1,
tmp1[localIdX]=1; // the code will go wrong on ati, while nvidia is good
if a new tmp2 is used:
tmp2[localIdX]=2; // then ok for ati too
I make sure there is synchronization before re-use of shared memory. This re-use problem only happen on ati 5870, while nVidia GTX260 is good with re-use of shared memory with the same code…
I think maybe there is problem when I build the program, or something related to my card. but I really have no clue now.
Any thought will be appreciated! Thanks.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The massive search for a former Los Angeles police officer accused of going on a killing spree unnerved tens of thousands of people across Southern California, neighboring states and into Mexico: Within hours, mistaken sightings of the suspect set off a lockdown of a Navy base and led to mistaken shootings by police of innocent people whose vehicles matched a description.
Mexican authorities were ready to shoot to kill if they saw Christopher Dorner cross the border. On the U.S. side, tens of thousands of local, state and federal authorities scrambled following a flood of calls from people believing they had spotted the man, who was fired from the LAPD in 2008 and vowed "warfare to those in LAPD uniform" in a rambling online manifesto.
Authorities believe he shot to death the daughter of a former LAPD captain and her fiance Sunday in an Irvine parking garage, grazed a Los Angeles policeman during a confrontation Thursday morning in Corona and shot two Riverside police officers in an ambush a short time later, killing one.
The Navy shut down its Point Loma base in San Diego after an active-duty service member at about 9:30 a.m. reported seeing someone matching Dorner's description on base. Military officials said Dorner had indeed checked into a hotel on base Tuesday but left the next day.
Navy spokesman Cmdr. Brian Fagan said the 33-year-old former Navy lieutenant left the reserves with an honorable discharge Friday, and likely used his military ID to get on base.
The Navy lifted the lockdown about midday after dozens of police officers swarmed the base and failed to find him.
Signs of his trail sent authorities scrambling throughout the day from state to state and city to city.
In Los Angeles, officers mistakenly wounded two women in suburban Torrance who were in a pickup in the predawn darkness Thursday. One woman was in stable condition with two gunshot wounds and the other was being released after being treated.
Minutes later, Torrance officers responding to a report of gunshots encountered another dark pickup matching the description of Dorner's, said Torrance Sgt. Chris Roosen. A collision occurred and the officers fired on the pickup.
The unidentified driver was not hit and police later realized they had made a mistake, Roosen said.
"We're asking our officers to be extraordinarily cautious just as we're asking the public to be extraordinarily cautious with this guy. He's already demonstrated he has a propensity for shooting innocent people," said Andrew Smith, the LAPD commander.
Dorner is wanted in the killings of Monica Quan, and her fiance, Keith Lawrence. They were found shot in their car at a parking structure at their condominium Sunday night in Irvine, authorities said.
Quan, 28, was an assistant women's basketball coach at Cal State Fullerton. Lawrence, 27, was a public safety officer at the University of Southern California. There was disbelief at three college campuses, Fullerton, USC, and Concordia University, where the two met when they were both students and basketball players.
On Thursday morning, Dorner's wallet and photo ID and a law enforcement badge were found on a street near San Diego International Airport.
Dorner was believed to be heavily armed and wearing military-style fatigues and body armor.
Mexican authorities closely watched San Diego's border with Tijuana and were prepared to shoot him in a confrontation, said Alfredo Arenas, international liaison for the Baja California state police.
The FBI and U.S. marshals provided constant updates.
"We're keeping tabs with them every five minutes to see if he comes to Tijuana," Arenas said. "If push comes to shove, they advised us to shoot to the head."
Arenas said the Mexican navy was also watching out.
Dorner is suspected of tying up an 81-year-old man and trying to steal his boat at the Southwestern Yacht Club in San Diego on Wednesday night. He fled when he couldn't start the engine.
The yacht club is about five miles from where Dorner's wallet was found, San Diego police said.
On Monday morning, authorities found Dorner's police equipment in a dumpster in the San Diego suburb of National City.
Associated Press writers Jeff Wilson and Robert Jablon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Manhunt for ex-police officer sets region on edge
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The massive search for a former Los Angeles police officer accused of going on a killing spree unnerved tens of thousands of people across Southern California, neighboring states and into Mexico: Within hours, mistaken sightings of the suspect set off a lockdown of a Navy base and led to mistaken shootings by police of innocent people whose vehicles matched a description.


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The Local Foods Symposium was an opportunity for local food proponents from Northern and Central California to come together to exchange ideas surrounding the current trends and future challenges involved in creating a sustainable food system. Cooperative Extension specialists, researchers, non-profit personnel, farmers, nutritionists, and community members participated in a two day conference which presented 06-08 SAREP research grants and facilitated roundtable discussions on local foods issues.
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Download the PDF of research projects working to integrate local food into their community food system. Projects are centered in Northern and Central California.
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The posters presented at the Local Food Symposium further illustrated the 06-08 SAREP-funded research, along with some additional examples of ongoing local food projects.
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Gas line projected to generate thousands of in-state jobs
Alaska Gasline Development Corp. CEO Dan Fauske provided figures estimating a major impact to Alaska if the proposed in-state gas pipeline is built.
"It will be the largest project in North America. It will supply 8,000 direct and 15,000 indirect jobs," Fauske said Nov. 9 in a presentation to the Associated General Contractors of Alaska annual conference.
The numbers expand on those in the final environmental impact statement released Oct. 26. The estimated $7.52 billion construction cost will involve moving 10 million cubic yards of soil, assembling 335,000 tons of pipe and 4 million miles of truck travel to transport equipment and supplies, according to ADGC statistics.
As previously reported, the 24-inch diameter pipeline will stretch 737 miles from Prudhoe Bay to an extraction plant on the northern edge of Cook Inlet.
In his presentation, Fauske added that state regulation requires an additional facility to be built at mile 458 of the pipeline. That's where a 12-inch lateral line is planned to supply Fairbanks.
"We must build what's called a straddle plant to pull impurities, or those rich natural gas liquids out and you must ship utility grade gas down the line." Fauske said.
A straddle plant will cost $250 million and be paid in a tariff charged to gas customers in Fairbanks. While some in the city aren't happy with the expenditure, Fauske said the status quo will not hold.
"Fairbanks is in an absolutely chaotic economic situation in terms of energy cost," he said. "You have people paying more for their monthly heating bill in the dead of winter than for their mortgage payment."
AGDC projects the Fairbanks tariff to be $10.45 per million Btu worth of gas. Current tariffs for gas trucked to Fairbanks are in the $23 range, Fauske noted. An Anchorage tariff is expected to be slightly lower simply because of dispersal over a larger population.
"You're going to pay $9.63 (in Anchorage) after you built a $7.5 billion pipeline, put thousands of people to work, and secured energy for the next hundred years and your energy prices are going up less than a buck. That's pretty impressive," Fauske said.
The tariff for gas from Cook Inlet, he said, is in the $8 range right now.
A project timeline provided by ADGC forecasts engineering, financing and permitting to continue for several years. Construction is expected to begin in early 2016, with the first gas reaching Fairbanks in late 2018 and a full flow of 500 million cubic feet of gas per day to Cook Inlet beginning in 2019.
The state of Alaska will be expected to cover the first $400 million in design and permitting costs. Fauske said the costs up front will be recovered through gas taxes and royalty fees.
With gas supplies from Cook Inlet dwindling and shortages expected as soon as 2014, Fauske made his feelings about the importance of the gas line clear.
"I joke in speeches we're going to be in our basements burning our Permanent Fund checks to stay warm," he said. "I don't care what project we do, I just want a project."
He added that the in-state line is not meant to compete against the idea of a much larger commercial export pipeline. It is meant to supply Alaska with its gas needs. If a second gas pipeline is built in the future, Fauske said, it will be done by large oil and gas companies, not by the state. Costs for a 48-inch export line are estimated to be $45 billion to $60 billion.
"If in their work they determine that someday, tomorrow or maybe 50 years from now, it makes sense for them to spend that kind of money to ship gas to either the west coast of the United States or the Far East, they'll do it," he said.
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Schools labor to build pathways to work as youth employment drops
Schools labor to build pathways to work as youth employment drops
It's lunchtime at Encinal High School, and Mary Clarke-Miller is working to keep the noise level in her classroom low enough for her to talk about the high school's newish MAD Academy, a small "school within a school" that offers the 47 youths enrolled in it a more intimate learning experience – along with basic job skills and multimedia training.
By offering her charges hands-on learning along with the security of a small group of teachers and students who are together for much of the day, Clarke-Miller is betting she can improve at-risk and other students' chances of completing high school while offering a clearer path to college and career.
"I did have one student write that recently moved to this country, (who said) the academy gave her a family away from home," said Clarke-Miller, a technology teacher who once served as associate dean for the Art Institute of California in San Francisco. "For other students, it stopped them from giving up completely on school, because they have four teachers looking after them. Every day."
"What we're trying to do is show them that school has a purpose," she added.
Programs like Clarke-Miller's could provide critical pathways to career opportunities for youths who are less and less likely to be gaining those experiences on the job, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Children Now that says the employment rate for America's teens and young adults is at its lowest level since World War II.
Only one-quarter of America's teens were employed in 2011, down from 46 percent in 2000, the report's authors said, and half of youths ages 16-24 had jobs in 2011. Some 6.5 million American youths are neither working nor in school, the report says, with black and Latino youths and those from low-income families the hardest hit. And California has the lowest level of teen employment in the nation, with just 18 percent of Californians ages 16-19 working.
The report blames heightened competition for low-wage jobs that once gave teens the chance to gain early work experience from adults who have more skills, along with increasing educational requirements. And it says a lack of early employment experience could have long-lasting implications for youths, taxpayers and American businesses.
This lack of employment costs taxpayers $1.56 trillion and could have long-term consequences for future workers and the economy, according to the report's authors, who want more funding for programs that boost youths' employability and better alignment of the resources that do exist.
"We're challenging our policymakers to think proactively about how we engage youth while they're still in high school. How do we connect them to careers and pathways that both give them that real-world experience, but also make what's happening in the classroom feel tangible to them?" said Jessica Mindnich, director of research for Children Now, which is based in Oakland.
The economy's prolonged slump pushed higher-skilled adults into low-wage retail and fast-food jobs that had previously offered beginning work opportunities for teens, the report says. And employers have upped the amount of education required even for basic jobs, it says, with more than three-quarters of America's jobs requiring education beyond a high school diploma.
As a result, youths aren't learning basic workplace skills, the report says, which include reporting to work on time and dressing appropriately for a workplace setting.
Youths who miss out on working early in life are more likely to be unemployed later, the report says, and are less likely to climb to where they'd like to be on the career ladder; those who fail to graduate high school will earn $400,000 less than their high school graduate peers.
In addition to costing taxpayers, that lack of education and training is making America less competitive with other countries, the report says: Despite high unemployment, 30 percent of American companies said they had jobs open for six months or more that they couldn't fill, according to a survey cited in the report. In eight years, America's workforce will be short 1.5 million workers with college degrees, the report says, and have a surplus of 6 million people without a high school degree.
The employment numbers come at a time when traditional career technical education and adult schools are on the decline. Here in Alameda, the funding for both programs was slashed when the state cut schools funding and allowed money for those programs to be used by school districts to cover more basic educational expenses.
"When push comes to shove, communities can spend money on what they need and value most. (In) this community, with its extraordinary range of economic and sociocultural diversity – the people who participate the in the decision making don't value job readiness as much as they value college readiness," said Alysse Castro, the district's principal of educational options, a job that includes oversight of Island High School and the Alameda Adult School.
Even if money were available, many of the career-path programs that were once staples for high schools – like auto shop – now require a college degree, Assistant Superintendent Sean McPhetridge said; locally, community colleges are partnering with industry to offer the required training. He said the district is trying to use its limited funds to support programs that match both the interest of students and the needs of the marketplace. Alameda High School, for example, offers students programs in sports medicine, marketing and television media intended to lay a foundation for future schooling and work.
"If we want to prepare kids for family wage jobs, that really entails preparing them with a solid academic education and giving them an awareness of what high-skilled, 21st century work looks like," McPhetridge said.
Castro said efforts to aid students at Island High, Alameda's continuation school, have shifted from an exclusive focus on graduation to providing students basic workplace skills and educating them about training and apprenticeships for living wage jobs.
Exposure to those opportunities is a critical need for youths in low-income families who face barriers to employment their higher-income peers may not. Castro said some of her students have built up large debts seeking training through for-profit institutions when the same training is available for far less at the College of Alameda or other nearby community colleges.
For three years the Alameda Point Collaborative, which houses hundreds of formerly homeless families at Alameda Point, operated a one-acre urban farm that offered the Collaborative's youths hands-on work experience. Now that the grant funding for the program has lapsed, leaders of the Collaborative - which has an array of job training programs for adults - are seeking out other employment opportunities for their youths, who have limited access to transportation and who often shoulder more family responsibilities than the average teen.
"Making that decision and feeling supported by their family to make that decision is a challenge," said the Collaborative's youth services manager, Haneefah Shauibe, who said the youths she works with are capable and motivated to work.
Mindnich said efforts like the Oakland schools' linked learning program have been shown to reduce high school dropout rates and to increase the number of students who have finished the coursework needed to enter the state's colleges and universities. Grant funding allowed the district's high schools to set up academies focused on 27 different career paths, including computer technology, health care, law and green energy.
In addition to traditional book learning and technical education, the academies offer work-based learning and supports, according to a description of the programs on the district's website.
Now in its second year, Encinal High's MAD Academy offers project-based learning in media arts, animation and game design that's connected to more traditional school subjects. In addition to basic workplace skills that include working in groups and meeting deadlines, Clarke-Miller is building mentoring and internship programs in an effort to give students the on-the-job experiences they need along with a real-world sense of how their schooling can lead to bigger and better things.
She is also working on a pilot for a computer science program similar to the MAD Academy that, if successful, could be replicated to offer additional career pathway programs at Alameda's other schools.
"It's project based learning," Clarke-Miller said. "They're not asked to repeat facts in a place of work. They're going to be asked to use their critical thinking skills and reasoning skills to get the job done."


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pine, common name for members of the Pinaceae, a family of resinous woody trees with needlelike, usually evergreen leaves. The Pinaceae reproduce by means of cones (see cone) rather than flowers and many have winged seeds, suitable for wind distribution. They are found chiefly in north temperate regions, where they form vast forests. The family was apparently more abundant in the mid-Cenozoic era, but it has maintained its population better than other gymnosperms because the trees are more adaptable to cold, dry climates; the reduced leaf surface and deep-set stomata minimize loss of water by transpiration. The family is the largest and most important of the conifers, providing naval stores, paper pulp, and more lumber by far than any other family. In some localities almost pure stands occur, permitting economical lumbering of large numbers of a given type of tree. Of the family's nine genera four are widely dispersed throughout North America and the Old World. Members of all nine genera are represented in horticulture as introduced timber trees or ornamentals. The so-called kauri pine, although pinelike in appearance, belongs to another family (see monkey-puzzle tree).
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Detectives are warning riders of the CTA Blue Line downtown about strong-arm robberies in which men take riders' iPhones or iPads.
In both of two recent robberies, the men forced someone to give up an iPhone or iPad as they rode the subway, Central Area detectives said.
In the first attack, a 22-year-old woman had her property stolen on the train near the Washington Street Blue Line station about 6 a.m. on July 16, police said. In the second, two men robbed a 20-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy on a train in the 200 block of North Dearborn Street about 2:20 p.m. on Thursday, near the Clark Street station.
In the second attack, the robbers were described as men between the ages of 19 and 22. One stood about 6 feet tall, weighed about 160 pounds and had curly hair and a medium complexion. The second stood about 5 feet 7 inches and weighed about 160 pounds. Chicago Police Department News Affairs did not have a description of their clothing.
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Safe-haven demand for gold has pushed prices higher on the Comex. Kitco reports December gold traded up $5.10 at $1,731.10 an ounce and spot gold was quoted down $1.40 at $1,731.25.
The increase arrives as Obama plans to deliver a speech on the fiscal cliff later today. David Plouffe, a top Obama adviser, believes Obama's re-election is a mandate to raises taxes on the wealthy, thus ensuring a fight with the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and its leader, Speaker John Boehner, who said on Thursday he is steadfastly opposed to any increase in tax rates.
Dire economic news from the European Union is also driving gold higher. On Friday, the German finance ministry added to projections of a serious economic downturn in Europe by stating that in the months ahead Germany's economy could "noticeably" weaken. On Thursday, the euro fell to a two-month low against the dollar following a move by the European Central Bank to artificially lower interest rates to 0.75 percent.
In the United States, continued support for Federal Reserve monetary policy has also helped move gold prices higher. "With Mr. Obama back, Mr. Bernanke is safe for the moment and we should see continued stimulus. That's supportive for the gold market here," Frank Lesh, futures analyst and broker at FuturePath Trading, told the Wall Street Journal.
Analysts, however, believe $1,800 is a formidable barrier. On Thursday, Credit Suisse said that the political status quo is "broadly positive for the gold price" and declines below $1,600 are not likely.
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