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Martin H. Blote papers
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation-General
Speeches, maps, land ownership, Sacramento River, Shasta Reservoir
US Bureau of Reclamation Communications Radio communication materials
Evaporation notebook 1931-195-
Hydroelectric power
Irrigation sprinkler, water requirements, water users
Water requirements discussion, Sacramento, California : April 22, 23, 1948.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1948. 28 p.
Roster of water users.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1959. 104 p.
Estimated costs of water under state plan of immediate initial development for upper San Joaquin Valley,1932.
Water economics costs, subsidies, amortization tables, financing and repayment
Operations Maintenance
Investigation of administration of the Bureau of Reclamation : hearing held before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, October 14, 1949. Washington, D.C.: Ward Paul, official reporters, 1949.
Central Valley Project-General
Operation studies of Shasta Lake and other Central Valley Project power plants
Final report on research regarding the origin of the Bureau's interest in the CVP:memo 1946
Central Valley Project correspondence, memos, etc.
Central Valley : a pictorial review.San Francisco, Calif.: Electrical West, 1944, 7 p.
Central Valley issue.In Reclamation era (Washington, D.C.). Vol. 37:8 (August 1951)
Historical highlights of the Central Valley Project
Operating plan of the Central Valley Project, 1952
Hanson, A.J., and J.J. O'Brien. Integrated operational analysis for Shasta-Folson Reservoirs under present conditions of development for the Central Valley Project, 1952
Central Valley Project operations maintenance costs
Dominy, Floyd E. The Central Valley Project at work,1960
Start-up problems
Irrigation requirement data for Central Valley Project crops
Miscellaneous agriculture
Canals: maps, mileage, safety (drownings), capacity testing
Blote, Martin H. Central Valley Project canal locations.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1958.
Minority report of Central Valley Project power
Streamlined power operations
Power transmission
Dependable capacity
Power control operation
Statement by Floyd E. Dominy
Distribution systems
Water economics costs/rates, cost allocation, miscellaneous (newsclippings)
Reservoir operations
American River - general
Contra Costa Canal - general
Delta Cross Channel
Morrison, A.E. A memorandum report bearing on the capacity and timing of construction of the Delta Cross-Channel.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Central Valley Project, Delta District, 1947. 23 p.
Delta-Mendota Canal - general
Delta-Mendota Canal - water quality
Delta-Mendota Canal - operations maintenance
Delta-Mendota Canal - map - water users
Delta-Mendota Canal - salinity
Delta-Mendota Canal - turnout construction
Delta-Mendota Canal - emergency repair
Boron Delta Pumping Plant
Photographs of the Delta pumping plant, 1951. 6 photographs.
Eastside Division water requirements
Folsom Reservoir Dam costs, general
Folsom Dam dedication, May 5, 1956.7 p.
Recreation map (Folsom Lake)
Lake Natoma
Nimbus Dam
Friant Reservoir water storage/discharge/runoff
Friant Reservoir flow
Friant-Kern Canal
Friant-Kern Canal costs
Sacramento Valley water users
Hansen, A.J. Operational analysis, Sacramento River : Keswick to Verona, California.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1952.
Questions and answers about the proposedTehama-Colusa Canal.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1962. 8 p.
Yolo-Zamora Unit
Sacramento River water use
Corning Canal Pumping Plant
Hill, L.K. Estimated water requirement of lands adjacent to the San Joaquin River from Friant to Gravelly Ford for present and ultimate conditions. Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1952. 22 p.
San Luis Unit - general
Evaporation stations
Description manual for San Luis Pumping/Generating Plant.Sacramento, Calif.: Dept. of Water Resources, 1967.
Operation agreement
Miscellaneous maps drawings
Canal maps
Shasta Reservoir releases
Keswick Dam Powerplant
Keswick Dam - general
Keswick Dam - miscellaneous
Sly Park Unit (American River)
Tracy Pumping Plant
Trinity River Division - general
State acquisition of Cenral Valley Project
Mud Mountain Dam.Seattle: U.S. Army Engineers, Seattle District, 1939. 4 p.
Dams under California state supervision
Sacramento River flood control project
Reber Plan correspondence, reprints, newsclippings, maps, etc.
Reber Plan - hearings by Senators Sheridan Downey Robert S. Kerr, March 1, 1950
Miscellaneous speeches on California water development
Carr, James K. A speech ... before the California Municipal Utilities Association Convention, February 26, 1960.15 p.
Haley, John M. Programs of the Northern Branch, State Department of Water Resources, 1962. 4 p.
Head, Ivan P. Statement ... before the Regional Water Conference, Sacramento Valley Concil, California State Chamber of Commerce, Chico, February 2, 1962. 10 p.
McCullough, Charles A. California water program in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1962. 3 p.
Warne, William E. Cooperation in water development,1962. 13 p.
Werner, Carl A. Measuring flow in the Delta,1962. 13 p.
Stetson, Carl L. Statement on San Joaquin Valley drainage investigations,1962. 9 p.
Delta-Buena Vista operating plan
Department of Water Resources Division of Operations
The north coast role : California's water development.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation?, 1964.
Statewide Water Conference (1964:Eureka, Calif.)
Operations Maintenance manual
Equipment - Maintenance - Mechanical
Beebe, John C. Report on investigations for controlling the flow of mud and debris from the southeast slope of Mt. Shasta.San Francisco, Calif.: U.S. Forest Service, 1933. 25 p.
Blote, Martin H. Report on survey of methods for control of mud flow from Mud Creek in Siskiyou County, California.Sacramento, Calif.: Dept. of Public Works, 1933. 27 p.
Mud Creek
Blote, Martin H. Photographs of Mud Creek Project, Mt. Shasta,193-?. 61 photographs.
Maps, newsclippings
Pipe flow metering
Flow charts
Flow measurements
Radio reporting precipitation gages.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Central Valley Project, 1955.
Radio reporting rain gauge tone pulse coding device, 1949-1959.
Hoisveen, Milo W. Report on preliminary engineering estimate of the Clikapudi Project, Redding, California.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Soil Conservation Service, Water Conservation Utilization, Region 7, 1945. 12 p.
Sacramento River Ship Canal
Sacramento River Ship Canal maps photographs
Blote, Martin H. South San Joaquin Irrigation District return water, segregated to Stanislaus and San Joaquin Rivers,1930. 6 p.
Lake Curry/Curry Dam
Multi-purposes of reservoirs/CVP facilities
Miscellaneous - groundwater
Mosquito control
Wilcox, L. V. Salt-balance conditions of Reclamation District no. 1500 in Sutter Basin for the year ending December 31, 1946.Riverside, Calif.: Rubidoux Laboratory, 1947. 21 p.
Wilcox, L. V. Salt-balance conditions of Reclamation District no. 1500 in Sutter Basin for the year ending December 31, 1947.Riverside, Calif.: Rubidoux Laboratory, 1948. 15 p.
Miscellaneous agricultural costs
Speech notes and information (miscellaneous)
Sonic weed control
On the problems of preparing hydrological forecasts for unexplored rivers, USSR.New York: U.S. Joint Publications Research Services, 1959. 3 p.
A report on USSR electric power developments, 1958-1959.2nd ed. New York: Edison Electric Institute, 1960. 81 p.
Recent electric power developments in the U.S.S.R. : report of the United States delegation tour to Soviet Russia, August 28-September 9, 1962 .. Washington, D.C.: Reprinted by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1962., 63 p.
Lovell, Leonard A. Bratsk Dam and Hydroelectric Project, Siberia, U.S.S.R.In USCOLD newsletter. No. 10 (January 1963)
Bratsk Hydro-electric Station.Moscow: Ministry of Power and Electrification of the USSR, 1966. 23 p.
Caire, Daniel. The Russian railways and the 25,000 V 50 cycle single-phase CC type locomotives ..1957.
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Los Banos
Butte Lodge Outing Club
Blote, Martin H. Southern California Edison Company water management and runoff review,1969.
Water quality - miscellaneous
Water treatment - miscellaneous
California Department of Water Resources
State Water Project (general) - miscellaneous speeches
Golze, Alfred R. The California State Water Project : its plan and present status,1962. 25 p.
Warne, William E. Water quality and the State Water Project,1962. 12 p.
Price, Reginald C. Agricultural water and power in the State Water Project,1963. 8 p.
Golze, Alfred R. Turnouts from the State Water Project,1966. 12 p.
Procedures and criteria relating to turnouts.Sacramento, Calif.: Dept. of Water Resources, Division of Operations, 1964-1967.
Procedures and criteria relating to turnouts: operations maintenance reports
Procedures and criteria relating to turnouts: maps
Procedures and criteria relating to turnouts: water quality
Procedures and criteria relating to turnouts: bridges, dams
California Aqueduct
California Aqueduct location maps, etc.
South Bay Aqueduct
Blote, Martin H. Photographs of the South Bay Aqueduct, California,196-?. 18 photographs.
South San Joaquin Division
Southern District (Tehachapi Mojave Divisions)
North San Joaquin Division
San Joaquin Drain
Tehachapi Crossing/Pumps
Correspondence, reports from Meetings of the Tehachapi Crossing Board
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Correspondence (miscellaneous)
Water quality
Contra Costa County's water requirements : a report to the citizens from the Board of Supervisors.Martinez, Calif.: The Board, 1959. 11 p.
Delta pool
Werner, Carl A. The Delta Branch,1962. 6 p.
Golze, Alfred R. Resume of Delta studies and legislation,1962. 6 p.
Golze, Alfred R. Conclusions, recommendations and resume of current studies,1962. 4 p.
Price, Reginald C. Coordination in Delta studies,1962. 4 p.
Price, Reginald C. Delta water facilities,1962. 3 p.
Owen, Langdon W. Hydrology of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.Sacramento, Calif.: Dept. of Water Resources, 1962
Barriers and drainage
Stamm, Gilbert G. Resolving the unique problems of the Delta,1966. 13 p.
Statement for Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Delta agriculture (miscellaneous)
Waldie, Jerome R. The rape of northern waters,1969. 16 p.
Miscellaneous notes
Levees (newsclippings)
General (DWR News 5/70)
Delta Salinity
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, 1944 : model tests of salinity.Denver, Colo.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1944.
Sacramento River salinity
Delta Cross Channel salinity
San Francisco Bay salinity barrier investigation
San Joaquin River salinity at Antioch
The effect of the Delta salinity problem upon Solano County,1959. 25 p.
Salinity conditions in 1959
Hebert, D.J. Experience in controlling salinity intrusion into a tidal estuary : protecting water quality of Central Valley Project diversions from Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in California, 1960. 30 p.
Salinity repulsion flows of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta : a compilation of the sources of the various salinity outflow requirements historically proposed / compiled by H.E. Wittig. Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1964.
Cox, Gerald C., and Stephen A. Macola. Predicting salinity in an estuary.Dallas, Tex.: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1967 (Conference preprint ; 433). 20 p.
Blote, Martin H. Past and present salinity levels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and possible loss of water rights by adverse use,1969. 37 p.
Delta Hearings
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation exhibits
Dept. of Water Resources exhibits
Dept. of Fish and Game exhibits
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California exhibits
Fibreboard Corporation
US Steel Corporation
Delta Water Agency
Sierra Club
Delta Water Rights Decision 1379 (including newsclippings, etc.)
Miscellaneous U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Projects
Cachuma Project
Klamath Project maps
Orland Project
Santa Monica Project
Solano Project
Ventura River Project
Water Rights
California - general/miscellaneous
Butte Basin, 1920-1965
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation - general/miscellaneous
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Water Rights Program
Program for acquisition preservation of water rights of the United States.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1949.
First supplement to the program for acquisition preservation of water rights of the United States.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1951.
Water rights application status.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1969.
Central Valley Project Act of 1933. Chapter 1042, statutes of 1933 (as amended to January 1, 1940).Sacramento, Calif.: State Print. Off., 1940. 20 p.
Central Valley Project summary statement
Blote, Martin H. Acreage limitations law: reports,1944-1954.
Taylor, Paul S. The excess land law: execution of a public policy.New Haven, Conn.: Yale Law Journal, 1955.
Taylor, Paul S. Excess land law on the Kern?California Law Review, 1958.
Taylor, Paul S. The excess land law: pressure vs. principal.California Law Review, 1959.
Taylor, Paul S. Excess land law: Secretary's decision? : a study in administration of Federal-state relations.Los Angeles, Calif.: UCLA Law Review, 1962. 43 p.
Taylor, Paul S. Excess land law: calculated circumvention.Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California, 1965.
Etcheverry, Bernard A., et al. Appraisal of Miller Lux grass land water rights and damage to Miller Lux riparian rights,1936. 102 p.
Sacramento River
Effect of operation of Central Valley Project on water rights of East Contra Costa Irrigation District.Brentwood, Calif.: The District, 1946. 33 p.
Water rights and use of water, 1914-1947.Brentwood, Calif.: East Contra Costa Irrigation District, 1948. 15 p.
Herminghaus lands
San Joaquin River
Court of Claims
East Side Canal Irrigation Company and Stevinson Water District v. the United States.Washington, D.C.: U.S. GPO, 1948-49. 2 v.
Fish and Wildlife
Tracy fish screen
Effect of pollution on fish
Salmon - American River and San Joaquin River
Warner, George H. The relationship between flow and available salmon spawning gravel on the American River below Nimbus Dam,1953. 5 p.
Pesonen, Everett A. The San Joaquin salmon story: a resume for use in connection with hearings before the State Water Rights Board.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1958. 17 p.
Fish Game - miscellaneous
Pesonen, Everett A. A joint report on water requirements for waterfowl in the San Joaquin grasslands, California.Washington, D.C.: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Reclamation, 1949. 37 p.
Report on grasslands water problems,1951. 24 p.
Waterfowl - miscellaneous
Fisheries - miscellaneous
Gerstung, Eric R. A report to the California State Water Resources Control Board on the fish and wildlife resources of the American River to be affected by the Auburn Dam and reservoir and the Folsom South Canal and measures proposed to maintain these resources. Sacramento, Calif.: California Dept. of Fish and Game, 1971. 54 p.
Contracts, Laws, etc.-Specific
Folsom Lake lease
Nimbus Dam lease
Porterville Irrigation District (P.L. 130)
Millerton Lake lease
Albonico vs. Madera, etc.
Corning Water District
P.L 643 (Central Valley Project)
Banta-Carbona Irrigation District
Feather Water District
San Luis Unit, Central Valley Project (P.L. 86-488)
DiGiorgio's Fruit Corporation
Miscellaneous blank and sample contracts
Operation of Nimbus Fish Hatchery
Collecting and reporting hydrographic data in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, California
Chowchilla Water District
Contra Costa County Water District
Edison Securities Co.
El Dorado Irrigation District
Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District
Sam Hamburg Farms
Isabella Reservoir
Madera Irrigation District
Miller Lux
Orange Cove (city)
Orange Cove Irrigation District
Orestimba Water District
Pacific Gas Electric
Pacific Gas Electric: McCloud-Pit Reservoirs
Ralston Associates
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
San Juan Suburban Water District
San Luis Water District
Saucelito Irrigation District
Southern San Joaquin Municipal Utility District
Stone Corral Irrigation District
Contracts, Laws, etc.-USBR General
General power contract
Comparison of contracts
Sacramento River water diverters
Status of contracts
Loan engineer's report
Brown's Valley Irrigation District (CA)
Cachuma Project (CA)
Fort Shaw Irrigation District (Montana)
Jackson Valley Irrigation District (CA)
Klamath Irrigation District (OR)
Langell Valley Irrigation District (OR)
Solano Project (CA)
Solano Irrigation District (CA)
Tulelake Irrigation District (CA)
Hydrological and meteorological data for flood of February 26 to March 7, 1940 on Sacramento River and tributary flood channels.Sacramento, Calif.: War Dept., U.S. Engineer Office, 1940. 72 p.
Jones, Gerald H. Sacramento River flood control project flood flow and stage relationships : based on analyses of recorded stages and flow measurements obtained during the 9-year period, 1934-1943. Sacramento, Calif.: California Division of Water Resources, 1943.
Report of floods in the Sacramento River District during December 1945
Levee damage, Sacramento River, 1948
Typical conditions of the Sacramento River levees (June 15-16, 1948).19 photographs
Levee damages, 1948-1961
Survey of high flows, Sacramento River - Redding-Anderson area : January-March, 1953.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1960.
Flood operations - Central Valley Project, 1940-1946
Shasta Reservoir, 1945-1946
Shasta Lake flood control criteria.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, 1949. 36 p.
Flood control - general
Floods : operating rules, diagrams, etc. : snow surveys for flood control, 1942-1956.
Flood control regulations, Friant Dam and Reservoir (Millerton Lake), San Joaquin River, 1949
Storm and flood damage, Central Valley Project, December 1955.Sacramento, Calif.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Region 2, Division of Irrigation and Power, 1956.
Central Valley Project flood damage, 1955-1956
Bowlsbey Ranch, Reclamation District 2068, flooding problems, 1962 and other years
Blote, Martin H. Report : bank damage, February 1963, at A. Mucke property, American River,1963. 16 p.
Basic data for 183.1
Frasse, Phil. Photographs for report on bank damage, February 1963 at A. Mucke property, American River,1963. 8 photographs.
Floodplain zoning
Photographs of California floodplains, 195-?, 8 photographs.
May, Roy L. Report to the directors of the Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District of water inflow to Tulare Lake basin in Kings County, California, for 1944-1945 season. Hanford, Calif.: The District, 1945. 22 p.
Hydroelectric Power
Miscellaneous addresses and newsclippings
Geysers Power Plant
Atomic energy - miscellaneous
Keysor, J.W., and M.B. Andrew. Excavation for water conveyance with nuclear explosives,1964. 18 p.
Better coordination and safeguards to avoid blackouts
Federal Power Commission - miscellaneous
Automatic operation of power plants
Interties (Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest)
Blote, Martin H. Study of power output, Narrows Reservoir, Yuba River,1934. 22 p.
Methods used in making power study, 1939
Power study of Iron Canyon development
Pacific Gas Electric - miscellaneous
Dominy, Floyd E. Methods of investigating hydroelectric energy potential on multiple-purpose reclamation projects.Madrid: Conferencia Mundial de la Energia, 1960. 19 p.
Feather River trip, September 7-8, 1961
Testing electrical equipment


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World premiere promises surprises
After more than 30 years, the Sherman Chamber Ensemble is still full of surprises. Next weekend, it will be giving the world premiere of an octet for winds and strings composed by founding member and cellist Eliot Bailen. The official title is still a secret.
SCE Executive Director Mary Rindfleisch said that "in addition to his work as a performer and artistic director, Eliot has a growing reputation as a composer, and his octet will provide the perfect end to the summer season."
A strong believer in the presence of melody and counterpoint, Bailen describes his style of composing as primarily tonal and readily understood. He gained attention with his "Concerto for flute and cello" commissioned by Johns Hopkins University last fall.
In a recent interview, the usually gregarious Bailen was somewhat guarded in providing many details about his new creation, but his wife and SCE co-founder Susan Rotholz said the opening of the piece "sounds like something stolen from Bernstein."
Bailen said "the octet reflects his warm childhood memories in a happy home." He hinted that "a lawn mower has a significant role" in the work. My imagination is already starting to go a little wild.
The new octet is arranged for string quintet, oboe, clarinet and flute and will feature Rotholz on flute along with longtime SCE members Jill Levy playing violin and Sarah Adams on viola. Guest artists include clarinetist Jo-Ann Sternberg, oboist Melanie Feld, violinist Robert Zubrycki, and Peter Weitzner on bass. The program will provide ample opportunities for the eight musicians to combine with Mozart's delightful "Clarinet Concerto" and Prokofiev's "Quintet in G Minor, Op. 39."
Coming to the end of its 31st season, SCE will premiere the octet, Mozart and Prokofiev at St. Andrew's Church on Main Street in Kent on Friday and at Lake Mauweehoo Clubhouse on Aug. 31.
Both concerts are at 8 p.m. Admission is $30 at the door ($25 for students and seniors) and reservations are strongly recommended by calling 860-355-5930.
It's certainly no secret that SCE is capable of wearing many musical hats, with its all-inclusive programs. Over the course of this Labor Day weekend, the group will also be giving some free performances. SCE's annual "Bluegrass and Beyond" is set for Aug. 31 at 2 p.m., at the charming Lake Mauweehoo Clubhouse on Leach Hollow Road in Sherman, and at 1 p.m. on Sept. 1 on the lawn at the Village Barn Shops in downtown Kent.
St. Andrew's Church, Main Street, Kent, Friday, Aug. 30, 8 p.m., $30 at door, $25 for students and seniors, 860 355-5930, www.shermanchamberensemble.org
Lake Mauweehoo Clubhouse, Leach Hollow Road, Sherman, Saturday, Aug. 31, 8 p.m., $30 at door ($25 for students and seniors), 860 355-5930, www.shermanchamberensemble.org
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service wants to read taxpayers their rights.
The agency is publicizing a "Bill of Rights" for taxpayers, including the right to quality service, the right to confidentiality and the right to a fair and just tax system, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen announced Tuesday.
Koskinen acknowledged that none of the 10 rights is new. All are buried somewhere in the thick pages of the federal tax code.
But going forward, the IRS will post the rights at IRS offices, and include an explanation of each one when the agency contacts taxpayers by mail. Koskinen said the list will be included in about 30 million mailings a year.
"We're not creating new rights here," Koskinen said. "We're really trying to compile them in a simple understandable format for taxpayers."
Some rights will be limited by budget constraints and the law.
For example, the right to quality service says, "Taxpayers have the right to receive prompt, courteous, and professional assistance in their dealings with the IRS." However, Koskinen said, budget cuts have diminished the agency's ability to answer questions from taxpayers.
As for the right to a fair and just tax system, Koskinen said: "We do the best we can with the code we have."
Koskinen took over the top IRS job in January, tasked with stabilizing an agency that had spent much of past year under siege. Several top officials, including the acting commissioner, were forced to resign last year after revelations that IRS agents had improperly singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status.
Koskinen said the new initiative is designed to improve taxpayer confidence in the IRS and the law. But, he said, it was not prompted by the ongoing controversy.
"Everything that I'm doing is in a context in which we've obviously had and still have six investigations going on," Koskinen said. But, he added, "This was not something that I thought of in terms of those investigations."
Koskinen said he got the idea from Nina E. Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate Olson has been lobbying for the taxpayer Bill of Rights since 2007. She runs an independent office within the IRS.
"This is a real issue that has real impact on taxpayers," Olson said. "If you don't know what your rights are, you will never avail yourself of those rights."
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Published: Thu, Jun 12, 2014


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Sweco invites 3RW to develop zero-emission neighborhood \ 01.06.2020 Façade cladding on health center in Randaberg is almost completed \ 26.05.2020 3RW designs "prestigious superstop" \ 04.05.2020 3RW might build hotel for salamanders! \ 29.04.2020 Proposal for "urban growth" in Sogn \ 18.04.2020 Topping out at Coastal Museum \ 17.04.2020 3RW and OBAS Vest for Logen Teater detail phase \ 25.03.2020 3RW builds towards "dignity" at Landås \ 18.03.2020 3RW moves into new offices in Nordnes, Bergen \ 18.03.2020 Facade test at Logen Teater \ 28.02.2020 3RW at the Center for Architecture and Planning in Prague \ 25.02.2020 3RW completes public health-related collection of designs for DOGA \ 24.02.2020 We have collaborated with the Norwegian architecture center Design and Architecture Norway (DOGA) on the creation of a booklet of design references that relate to the open notion of civic health. 13 case studies were selected and analysed by 3RW architects, interior architects and urban planners, in order to highlight their desirable features. This document will be shared with different groups of users, designers and politicians; it is conceptualized as a friendly and legible tool that brings public health to the forefront of architecture discussions. Designing high quality physical environment is of great importance in the national health promotion, and our "Arkitektur og folkehelse" collection illustrates this importance in multiple ways. Read the full collection here (Norwegian only). You can take a look at some of the case studies featured by navigating to the project's page. Coastal museum in Øygarden takes form \ 14.02.2020 3RW exhibiting in Moscow \ 31.01.2020 3RW wins Honorary Award at DOGA \ 22.01.2020 3RW nominated for DOGA's Honorary Award \ 16.01.2020 "Nedvekst – revisiting rural development without growth" is up on the 2020 Future Architecture platform \ 07.01.2020 Cecilie Osmundsvaag becomes new managing director \ 05.01.2020 New images of 3RW's design for a nursing home in Olsrød \ 09.12.2019 3RW er Miljøfyrtårn-sertifisert \ 07.12.2019 3RW ser etter flere dyktige medarbeidere \ 21.11.2019 Debatt om hva Bybanestoppet ved Haukeland sykehus bør hete \ 21.11.2019 Last week to visit OAT's 'The Library' and watch 3RW's 'Landscape Healing' film \ 18.11.2019 Screening of 'Landscape Healing' at Bergen Design Festival \ 12.11.2019 Orphanage in Nepal, twenty years and still relevant \ 06.11.2019 Nature restoration for breakfast \ 05.11.2019 All winners of 2ACAA now on ArchDaily \ 01.11.2019 3RW wins big at 2ACAA! \ 21.10.2019 Fransk delegasjon på besøk for å lære av minnestedet "The Clearing" på Utøya \ 21.10.2019 Five nominations for 3RW arkitekter at the 2A Continental Architecture Awards! \ 16.10.2019 3RW at Bergen Design Festival \ 15.10.2019 Landscape Healing in Architects' Journal \ 10.10.2019 3RW's Haakon Rasmussen talks about the Landscape Healing project and film on TV2 Nyhetene \ 30.09.2019 Film premiere of 'Landscape Healing' at OAT \ 18.09.2019 3RW joins the debate on Store Lungegaardsvannet's future as housing area \ 05.09.2019 3RW's Tord Bakke writes about densification in small places \ 29.07.2019 Project update: 3RW and NORD's first runner-up proposal for a school in Fjelltun! \ 03.07.2019 Green roofs are starting to sprout at Skjoldnes \ 06.06.2019 3RW på konferanse om sikrings- og beredskapsarbeid \ 20.05.2019 3RW and NORD prequalified for Sognsveien 80 & 90 competition! \ 15.05.2019 On-Site Progress in Lyngdal, Randaberg and Skjoldnes \ 05.05.2019 Mauranger feasibility study delivered \ 02.05.2019 3RW arkitekter with NORD Architects, Økologi & Bærekraft and ÅF Lighting present study for the 'Green Ring' in Oslo \ 25.03.2019 Prequalified for plan- and design competition in Tønsberg! \ 22.03.2019 3RW with Lusparken are continuing working on a new student center and housing for Sit Ålesund \ 20.03.2019 Contract signed for Furuset Hageby in Oslo! \ 14.03.2019 Progressing towards a new culture quarter in Bergen \ 13.03.2019 The renovation of Landåssvingen closer to realization \ 12.03.2019 3RW Delivers Lillehammer Feasability Study \ 09.03.2019 Feasibility study for Mauranger, Kvinnherad municipality \ 04.03.2019 New 3RW projects on Archello \ 28.02.2019 Randaberg Progress On Site \ 10.02.2019 Stangeland School In Kopervik Starts New Phase \ 01.02.2019 Lyngdal progress on site \ 20.01.2019 BEK Re-Opens! \ 19.01.2019 Skjoldnes from the sky \ 10.01.2019 Kontoret vant ny rammeavtale for strategisk EBA med Forsvarsbygg \ 14.12.2018 3RW arkitekter in collaboration with NORD architects, ÅF Lighting and ecologist Christian E. Mong are shortlisted for "Den grønne ringen, Hovinbyen" study in Oslo area \ 07.11.2018 3RW arkitekter with Lusparken Arkitekter win competition for new Innovation hub, student center and housing in Ålesund campus NTNU \ 01.11.2018 3RW's Sixten Rahlff speaks at Bergen Arkitektforening 110 års jubileumsfeiring \ 26.10.2018 Bergen's city council approves a future culture house on the USF Verftet site \ 25.10.2018 New pictures from onsite projects, BEK -Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts refurbishment has started \ 11.10.2018 We are talking at this year's Security Conference organised by the Ministry of Defense in Oslo \ 10.10.2018 New pictures from onsite projects, Lyngdal is taking shape along the October hillside \ 09.10.2018 New pictures from onsite projects, Skjoldnes buildings 1-5 are now clearly emerging over the Fjord \ 07.10.2018 We are in Lillehammer for a new study to consolidate and develop its city center along the river \ 06.10.2018 New pictures from onsite projects, here is Randaberg shaping up! \ 05.10.2018 Autumnal evening light at the Memorial \ 29.09.2018 First year students from BAS architecture school are back from one month at Solund island \ 25.09.2018 Update from 3RW and NORD's health and assisted-living facilility in Lyngdal \ 29.08.2018 3RW's Tord Bakke writes about social sustainability in planning processes \ 11.08.2018 3RW wins runner-up jury award for «Lysning og Grotta» pavilions \ 07.08.2018 New images from our nearly completed Sabou School! \ 03.08.2018 Midlertidig minnested i regjeringskvartalet etter 22. juli hendelsene avduket \ 24.07.2018 Innspurt for midlertidig minnesmerke \ 02.07.2018 Allmøte om ny skole og introduksjonssenter på Landås \ 13.06.2018 Bergen International Wood Festival 2018 \ 12.06.2018 3RW at the Future Built conference in Oslo \ 07.06.2018 Presentert i dagens Bergens Tidende – vårt forslag til adaptiv gjenbruk av Kjødehallen \ 05.06.2018 Press Release: Cold Hawaii Inland Masterplan \ 05.06.2018 3RW and NORD's Sunnhetsgrenden Vardheim Healthcare Centre in Randaberg building photos \ 04.06.2018 New images released of Skjoldnes residential project \ 01.06.2018 Site in Lyngdal breaks ground! \ 29.05.2018 'Feriekolonien' at USF opens with Nattjazz \ 25.05.2018 Our neighbour's backyard reopens \ 11.05.2018 3RW will debate on the future of Oslo's Government Quarter \ 04.05.2018 The first five buildings of Skjoldnes are taking shape \ 01.05.2018 The School in the village of Sabou in Burkina Faso is taking shape \ 23.04.2018 3RW arkiteker and NORD Architects win New Alzheimer Village in Norway \ 20.04.2018 Our project in Randaberg is going up \ 15.04.2018 Temporary memorial for 22 July in Oslo breaks ground \ 05.04.2018 3RW at the International Workshop at Pompidou Centre in Paris for Cumulus Conference 2018 \ 02.04.2018 3RW arkitekter is hiring! \ 23.02.2018 Study for Frysja neighbourhood in Oslo published \ 21.02.2018 3RW and HLM Arkitekter on the news with Kopervik School \ 15.02.2018 'Landscape Healing: How Norway is re-designing hectares of its nature' article on Medium \ 08.02.2018 Construction under way for 3RW-designed school in Burkina Faso \ 29.01.2018 3RW at "Health: The Design, Planning and Politics of How and Where We Live" Conference in Bristol \ 25.01.2018 3RW arkitekter with HLM Arkitekter wins competition for a new school in Kopervik! \ 22.12.2017 Midlertidig minnested for 22. juli hendelsene i Regjeringskvartalet \ 21.12.2017 3RW arkitekter and NORD Architects prequalified for 'Furuset Hageby' competition \ 27.11.2017 'Team LABLAND' selected to participate in Cold Hawaii competition \ 25.11.2017 3RW at 'Bergen? Kultur og Byutvikling' Conference \ 08.11.2017 3RW arkitekter skal utforme det midlertidige 22. juli-minnestedet i regjeringskvartalet \ 03.11.2017 3RW arkitekter, with Nord architects and Christian Mong, have been selected for public realm project in Frysja, Oslo \ 31.10.2017 USF Cultural Centre on the news \ 25.10.2017 3RW arkitekter at this year's Nordic Architecture Fair \ 11.10.2017 New lights installed in Os town centre \ 06.10.2017 Logen Teater phase 1 opens to public! \ 03.10.2017 3RW arkitekter at Bergen Design Festival \ 30.09.2017 Grønneviksøren featured in World Architecture magazine issue about Norwegian Architecture \ 05.09.2017 Magda Bar opens to public \ 02.09.2017 Sixten Rahlff interview about KODE 1 on Arkitektnytt \ 01.09.2017 The renovation of Logen Theater starts \ 10.08.2017 Road diversions and infrastructural work have started at Skjoldnes to build a 230m-long tunnel cover above the E39 highway that will reconnect both sides of the hill towards the fjord \ 07.08.2017 3RW arkitekter and Open Ends come third in the final phase of the competition to design a new Studio Louvre in Paris \ 03.08.2017 Team DNA proposal for Oslo's New Regjeringskvartalet \ 06.07.2017 3RW arkitekter and COWI win new contract for the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency! \ 01.07.2017 Last night Bergen City Council passed the masterplan for the new light rail extension \ 22.06.2017 Our project in collaboration with Smedsvig Landskapsarkitekter is on the front page of today's BA newspaper \ 16.06.2017 KODE 1 architecture tour with Jerome Picard \ 04.06.2017 KODE 1 Permanenten re-opened to public yesterday \ 24.05.2017 Bergen Light Rail Extension Masterplan submitted for last stage of approval \ 05.05.2017 Milestone passed with Bømoen masterplan \ 03.05.2017 3RW's Jerome Picard will present at Litteraturhuset Bergen today \ 19.04.2017 3RW's Haakon Rasmussen will lead a debate at 'The City Between Freedom and Security' book launch on April 27 \ 05.04.2017 More than half of the 3RW-designed Skjoldnes Apartments have been sold \ 03.04.2017 The refurbishment of KODE 1, Bergen's largest art institution, is starting to take shape \ 20.03.2017 On site in Osøyro where the new canopies of the 3RW-designed updated public square are in place \ 17.03.2017 Our project Jøl Bridge is featured in this year's 'Turistvegarbeidet' – the National Norwegian Tourist Route Magazine \ 10.03.2017 Thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday for the annual 3RW party! \ 16.02.2017 Arrived in the office today: Chinese Landscape Architecture magazine where Utøya Memorial is featured \ 03.02.2017 Site visit to Låndassvingen, where 3RW is designing a new learning and sports facility for the city of Bergen \ 15.12.2016 Site visit to Logen Theatre in preparation for its refurbishment and extension later this year, designed by 3RW and Fortunen Architects \ 03.12.2016 3RW arkitekter søker flere dyktige og engasjerte arkitekter og planleggere til vårt kontor i Bergen \ 31.10.2016 3RW through first round to design new government quarter in Oslo, one of the most extensive construction projects in Norway \ 26.10.2016 3RW wins new high profile project in the Bergen art and theatre scene \ 26.10.2016 Grønneviksøren in Bangkok, Thailand ! \ 01.08.2016 3RW lecture at Osaka Institute of Technology \ 15.07.2016 3RW wins new 17,000m2 international school, kindergarden, sport and culture facility at Lærerhayskolen, together with HLM Arkitektur, Smedsvig Landscape Architects and Multiconsult \ 14.06.2016 The upgrading of Os city centre is underway \ 14.06.2016 Start-up meeting for the development of Haukeland underground station \ 13.06.2016 Our projects along the tourist road exhibited at gallery SpazioFMG in Milan, under the amazing eye of photographer Ken Schluchtmann \ 08.06.2016 Chromatherapeutic contribution at Venice Nordic pavilion -In therapy- that opened today \ 31.05.2016 Housing project in Straume tops up \ 12.05.2016 Work continues on Bybanen BT4 with updated informations available via Bergensprogrammet \ 30.04.2016 Made in Rotterdam for 3RW office trip this year \ 21.04.2016 3RW wins the transformation of KODE 1 Permanenten – West Norway Museum of Decorative Art \ 16.03.2016 Conference within the project Artscape Norway today, National Monument on Vítkov Hill in Prague \ 14.03.2016 3RW is invited to the Venezia biennale for the third time! \ 02.03.2016 The City Between Freedom and Security, publication by BAS, NSM and PST will be presented by Line Myhre Flores with Anders Rubing part of this year Sikkerhetskonferansen in Oslo on March 17th, do not miss out! \ 16.02.2016 3RW crew is ready for the Mos Eisley Cantina party at 3RW \ 10.02.2016 Preview from office building at Laksevaag. Material and construction in prefab wood. \ 10.02.2016 Planning study for regional sport senter at Sletten. Employer: Bergen municipality \ 10.02.2016 Preview of the Stavanger office reconstruction in Stavanger. \ 10.02.2016 Straumehagen housing project is growing day and night. \ 10.02.2016 The Clearing at Utøya is nominated to WAN award 2015 \ 28.01.2016 Bontalabo on the front page! \ 17.01.2016 3RW is developing a northern gateway to Bergen with regional plan for Meland municipality and Knarvik. It brings 3,000 new housing with public and mixed-use program on Flatøy island, connecting the two cities. \ 15.01.2016 The plan for Ullandhaug campus is delivered. Very interesting study and very good feedback! \ 11.01.2016 3RW party invitation is here. Welcome! \ 10.01.2016 3RW arkitekter and landscape firm Smedvigs Landskapsarkitekter AS are among the two teams selected to rethink the university district of Stavanger and Sola. \ 15.09.2015 The local newspaper Avisa Hordaland present status of planning work on Bømoen. \ 15.09.2015 3RW with Arvinius+Orfeus prepare major publication to be released in the fall of 2016 \ 27.08.2015 The Clearing. The story of a butterfly and the creation of a memorial. \ 29.07.2015 Open day at the memorial today \ 08.07.2015 Ongoing environmental investigations at Bømoen. \ 07.07.2015 The memorial at Utøya is near completion \ 05.07.2015 We discuss the future of Norwegian architecture tonight at ROM for Kunst og arkitektur. \ 28.05.2015 Do you want to take part in shaping the future of Bergen? \ 28.05.2015 3RW part of the panel at "Bonansas tegnekonkurranse" for dreamhouse drawing project \ 13.05.2015 The memorial '' Lysningen – The Clearing '' at Utøya is breaking ground. \ 13.05.2015 The transformation of the public square in Osøyro breaks ground. \ 11.05.2015 3RW selected by Bergen Municipality in parallel frame agreement for future development in the city. \ 11.05.2015 Notification of commencement of planning work in Os municipality. \ 10.05.2015 3RW arkitekter, in cooperation with SWECO Norge AS, has won the contract for the extension of Bergen Light Rail (Bybanen). \ 08.05.2015 Grønneviksøren Student Apartments is featured in the April issue of DETAIL. \ 05.05.2015 Depollution strategy at the heart of our Masterplan found surprising and pleasing according to Herøynytt \ 05.05.2015 Sixten Rahlff, Jerome Picard from 3RW, Vivian Garnes from Plottaplan and Christian Mong present the final study for Fosnavåg masterplan \ 05.05.2015 Our playful participation at Snapshot at ROM galeri in Oslo \ 05.05.2015 Our second project in Sotra kystby, a 43 housing building, breaks ground. \ 30.04.2015 Vestlandsnytt announces the final presentation from the three teams at Fosnavåg \ 28.04.2015 Espen Rahlff traces back Grønneviksøren Student Apartments history at BAS tonight \ 16.04.2015 Haakon Rasmussen represents Arkitektbedriftene i Norge for new norwegian standard \ 16.04.2015 Ongoing planning process Bømoen halfway with impact assessments. \ 16.04.2015 3RW to participate to Snapshot the forthcoming exhibition at ROM in Oslo \ 10.04.2015 Bergen new cultural flagship within the cultural quarter. Bergens Tidende is featuring our study for the new Musikkteater \ 07.04.2015 The school in Burkino Faso are in the weld! \ 25.03.2015 New findings for Fosnavåg from 3RW and Plottaplan in public consultation following the presentation \ 24.03.2015 3RW mid-term presentation calls for a 'Time out' on current land fill 'laissez-faire' \ 23.03.2015 Saturday night around 500 people transformed Bryggerhuset 3RW`s party to a happy disco-tale. Thanks!!! \ 07.02.2015 3RW and Plottaplan has been shortlisted for Fosnavåg masterplan \ 07.02.2015 3RW designing elementary School in Burkina Faso \ 07.01.2015 を使用しているが、それのために刻印トレンディrubberrubber「ルイ・ヴィトンは、イタリアwithinside実現を持っている必要があります \ 01.01.2015 3RW wins the competition to design memorial on Utøya. \ 02.12.2014 3RW at Swedish Association of Architects architecture gala! \ 28.11.2014 Article on 3RW's feasibility study in Indre Arna! \ 11.11.2014 3RWs Grønneviksøren has been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015! \ 10.11.2014 3RWs "Viewpoint Askvågen" featured in Ken Schluchtmann's photo book – "Architecture and Landscape in Norway"! \ 13.10.2014 3RW signs new contract with The Norwegian Defence Estates Agency! \ 07.10.2014 3RW in Venice for the Architecture Biennale 2014! \ 25.09.2014 3RW's proposal for memorial on Utøya featured on Nasjonalgalleriet, NRK! \ 22.09.2014 3RW and NORD wins "EU Innobuild" competition on developing care homes in Lyngdal, Norway! \ 10.09.2014 Sixten Rahlff is giving a lecture at the Prague Landscape Festival, September 4th! \ 21.08.2014 Haakon Rasmussen gives a talk at the "Designing out crime" seminar, October 13th! \ 20.08.2014 Espen Rahlff in D2 magazine! \ 18.07.2014 3RW shortlisted to propose feasibility study for Indre Arna! \ 08.07.2014 Haakon Rasmussen gives a talk on Arkitekturdagen in Bergen, September 11th! \ 03.07.2014 Grønneviksøren to the top in photo competition! \ 25.06.2014 3RW wins "Bydraget i Os" – transformation of the public square in Osøyro. \ 20.06.2014 3RW's Askvågen Viewpoint-project exhibited in Landscape Festival Prague 2014! \ 17.06.2014 3RW is one of three architect firms to be assigned a framework agreement for Os municipality! \ 11.06.2014 3RW shortlisted to propose memorial on Utøya. \ 01.06.2014 City, village or cityvillage? How do we create a lively center in Kleppestø, Askøy? \ 25.04.2014 Do we have visions for the center of Bergen? How do we make it attractive and eventful, with good qualities and viable commerce? \ 11.03.2014 Read "Lagunens uutholdelige letthet" by Sixten Rahlff in the new issue of Eiendomsmagasinet. \ 04.03.2014 3RW is invited to the competition about transformation of the puplic square at Osøyro. \ 04.03.2014 3RW lecture at NTNU – Trondheim \ 27.02.2014 Haakon Rasmus Rasmussen held a lecture in the first of a series of courses arranged by the Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM \ 26.02.2014 Grønneviksøren is published in Zeppelin No 121/Feb. 2014. \ 21.02.2014 3RW wins competition to develop 12 000 m2 health care facilities in Randaberg! \ 20.02.2014 Zeppelin Evenings # 51 Bucuresti / Contemporary Norwegian Architecture: Haakon Rasmussen / 3RW \ 18.02.2014 Saturday night 500 people were drinking 3RW Bryggerhuset's excelent home-made beer. What a night!!! \ 17.02.2014 3RW sin tradisjonsrike fest avholdes 15.02.2014!!!! \ 31.01.2014 3RW wins Skjoldnes competition! \ 28.01.2014 3RW in Barcelona for X – mas coctails!!! \ 19.12.2013 3RW at Cornell university – USA. \ 19.12.2013 Ørnesvingen & Askvågen is published in the book: "The Landscape of contemporary infrastructure" \ 18.12.2013 Håkon foreleser for Bergen kommune/byutviklingsakademiet om sikkerhetshensyn i arealplanlegging. \ 18.12.2013 Student housing at Grønneviksøren is nominated for The Bergen municipality architecture award! \ 20.11.2013 Hereiane & studenthouses at Fantoft + Grønneviksøren is present in the new book "Nordic Architects – Ebbs & Flows" \ 18.11.2013 Så er det klart for innflytting på Sartorgaarden! \ 11.11.2013 Sixten Rahlff foreleser på Klubb Klorofyll om "Grønne fremtidsdrømmer for byen" . \ 08.11.2013 Sixten Rahlff foreleser på Manøver om Bergens videre byutvikling – med kulturfeltet som pådriver. \ 31.10.2013 Haakon Rasmussen foreleser om sikkerhet i det offentlige rom. \ 30.10.2013 3RW har fått ny hjemmeside og logo!!! \ 25.10.2013 Tigers topped A throughout the first bet on the programs \ 06.06.2013 Front cover: 3RW's Ørnesvingen – Landscape Architecture "a new point of view" \ 05.04.2013 Front cover : 3RW's Hereiane – Museum of modern art, Louisiana : "New Nordic ; architecture & identity" \ 29.06.2012


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VICTORIA — It was a sombre group of B.C. Liberals filing into the legislature Thursday in the wake of the latest, damaging revelations out of the premier's office.
Taxpayer-funded resources commandeered for political party purposes. Ethnic representatives recruited for public events, only to have their names compiled on lists for Liberal electoral purposes.
Historical wrongs acknowledged for no good reason other than the prospect of a "quick win" with the appropriate community. All of it spelled out in a multicultural strategy document, leaked to the New Democrats.
And at the centre of it all, Premier Christy Clark's deputy chief of staff and longtime aide Kim Haakstad, who in early 2012 distributed the cynical, meticulous, detailed 17-page strategy through her own personal email account to preferred staffers.
With all that hanging over their heads, the Liberals put aside their brassy behaviour for the duration of the afternoon question period. No boasting about the years-from-paying-off liquefied natural gas strategy. No taunts to the New Democrats about "what would you do?" Even the resident insult comic, Kevin Krueger, kept his trap shut.
Two of the more interesting studies were Kevin Falcon and George Abbott, respectively the second- and third-place finishers to Clark in the 2011 party leadership race.
Both, having announced their retirements, are now relegated to the government backbench, where they sit side by side. On Thursday they exchanged a few whispered words here and there as the Opposition paraded the shabby details of the multicultural strategy through question period for a second day.
No comment from either of them on the record. But I figure they are appalled at the amateurish antics of the inner circle surrounding the woman who defeated them for the leadership and who failed to deliver on a promised fresh start for a troubled government.
Another interesting study was Mike de Jong, the fourth-place finisher in that leadership race and now minister of finance.
Would he care to comment on the concern that a document distributed out of the office of the premier had proposed that public resources be diverted to political party purposes? He would. "There is a line and the document in a number of instances crosses that line," de Jong told reporters.
Then there was Rich Coleman, deputy premier. With Clark in Vancouver for a session with the editorial board of this newspaper, it fell to Coleman to deliver the government line in question period.
He started off by reading a statement of regret attributed to the premier. "I want to sincerely apologize to British Columbians. The document did not recognize that there are lines that cannot be crossed in conducting this outreach and it is unacceptable. The language in the draft document and some of the recommendations are absolutely inappropriate."
The statement, hastily crafted to all appearances, was an improvement on what Clark told the paper's editorial board, where she offered no apologies for crossing the line and downplayed the significance of the document.
"None of the money that was talked about in that report was ever spent for the purposes that the people writing the document thought it might be, and ... there was no sharing of resources between government and the party."
Still, just in case she didn't know what she was talking about, she was ordering an investigation "to be absolutely sure of that, because it should never happen." Lead investigator would be John Dyble, the head of the public service and the senior bureaucrat in the premier's office
Back to Coleman. After sticking to the mechanics of Clark's statement throughout question period, he toughened the message in talking to reporters about the likely upshot of the Dyble investigation.
"There will be consequences," said Coleman. "The consequences of bad behaviour can go all the way up to termination." Consequences? The finality of his tone had the echo of that movie title: "There will be blood."
Continuing the take-charge tone, Coleman declared that "I expect answers within the next 24 hours ... somebody should have known better."
He also assured reporters, as he did the legislature, that Dyble will report back in writing and the report will be made public.
Marked contrast there to the investigation that led to the departure of Clark's chief of staff Ken Boessenkool last year, conducted by the head of the public service agency without, we're told, generating a single word of a written record.
But the most telling comment of the day was Coleman's report that all of the Liberals, backbenchers and ministers alike, shared in a sense of dismay over the strategy document distributed by the office of their leader and premier.
"The caucus reacted the same way I did," Coleman confided, "which is that they were not happy with this."
Indeed, given the damaging fallout from this affair, it is no wonder the Liberals were so subdued. Quiet as a grave one might say, as if staring into their own, yawning political future.


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I have a major problem with how computer science is being taught to new engineers. In recent years, it seems that all anyone focuses on anymore is what programming languages that one knows and it seems to be shifting to all OO languages. This is a very wrong and dangerous attitude to take. However, this is not to say that knowing a broad range of technologies is bad – it isn't. It will make you a better engineer. Universities that want to stay competitive in graduating competent computer science majors need to realize this and refocus their curriculum. At the same time, there needs to be a major paradigm shift in the industry away from obsessing over comparing who's repertoire of languages is bigger.
Skills that are being taught are softening. Good old fashioned coding and algorithm design is giving way to using libraries of code that essentially do all the work for the programmer. But wait – isn't code reuse a fundamental of good, quality programming. Yes, it is! However, this should not be the starting point for students to learn. When the libraries are used, the logic behind the code is lost. Good design principles dictate that when using an API, we shouldn't care what's inside the "black box" but rather just accept that if we feed the API good and proper data, it will perform as expected and we'll get values out but students who are learning should care because they aren't just learning to program, they are learning to think. Another example from Java: what is the complexity of .contains()? While this should be obvious to most engineers that it is O(n), universities that teach that it is acceptable to use APIs and libraries all the time are doing a major disservice to their students.
OO languages are becoming the de facto first course. This is a backwards approach because OO allows for advanced design with encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. We have to get back to the basics by learning to code as a function of learning computer science where one can appreciate architecture designs, compilers, memory management, language theory and the relationship between hardware and software. Knowing a procedueral programming language is an absolute necessity and the Linux Kernel, Git and Apache Server are all products of procedural languages. Not bad company at all.
My first programming language that I learned at Purdue was C. This was not the common path for most CS majors – the majority of people started with Java. Learning C first created a foundation that was later built upon by taking the required Java course. As a friend recently put it – it is like learning to drive a car or learning how to engineer a car. Anyone can drive a car and some people love it so much, they become cab drivers. That is why they have "X Technology for Dummies" books. But, if you want to dive into the internals of the car, look at how the engine works for example, you need the solid education of understanding the principles behind the application.
Being a "good developer" does not mean that you are practicing computer science, because in reality, coding is only a small fraction of what computer science is about. Programming languages are simply a means to an end.


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For the past fifty-seven years, the Type Directors Club (TDC) has encouraged the graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual competitions. Typography 32 is the latest Annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in this field from 2010. Selected from more than 1,500 international submissions to TDC57, the 208 winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in contemporary type design. This year's selection encompasses a wide range of categories, including books, magazines, corporate identity, logotypes, stationery, annual reports, video and Web graphics, and posters. Each winning entry is displayed in full color and is accompanied by complete information about the designer, client, typography, and more. This year's volume also features the results of the club's fourteenth annual type design competition, TDC2 2011 and TDC Intro 011, the movie titles competition, and includes a special index listing the principal typefaces used in the winning designs and the names of their designers.
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While Calvinists celebrate the 500th anniversary of John Calvin's birth this year, secularists are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. On this occasion, let's examine Darwin's argument against Christian theism as stated in his autobiography.
Darwin claims that he gradually lost his "orthodox" Christian beliefs during his famous voyage on the Beagle from 1836 to 1839. However, his "Christianity" was only a religion of morality, based on his mother's Unitarianism. Moreover, he disdained the God of the Old Testament as a vengeful and untrustworthy "tyrant."
Four more points were important in Darwin's thinking. First, the more science reveals the "fixed laws of nature, the more incredible do miracles become." Second, the Synoptic Gospels differ on "important details" and thus do not provide the accurate reportings of eyewitnesses. Third, only science can explain the modern world. Finally, Christianity cannot be true because of the "damnable doctrine" of everlasting punishment. Darwin realized that the Bible teaches that reliance on the mediating work of Jesus Christ is necessary for one to be saved. But since that teaching would exclude members of his own family and most of his friends from salvation, Darwin would not even "wish Christianity to be true."
Darwin did not think more about "the existence of a personal God" until the latter part of his life. During that period, he reminisced about his student years, when William Paley's argument for God's existence, based upon the evidence of design in nature, seemed conclusive. But Darwin's defense of natural selection in The Origin of Species (1859) made Paley's argument passé. Darwin had decided that "everything in nature is the result of fixed laws." The laws of nature, apart from God, can explain the "beneficent arrangement of the world." Darwin combined empirical naturalism (natural selection) and his utilitarian worldview (the principle of "happiness") in order to explain the "beneficent arrangement of the world."
Utilitarianism was a prominent feature of nineteenth-century English thought, and Darwin was committed to its core belief, that human activity is right to the degree that it promotes happiness for the greatest number of people. In order to maintain this belief, Darwin had to assume that ethical activity was an essential part of nature. That is, the "law of natural selection" had to explain the "beneficent arrangement of the world." But Darwin faced a problem: how does all the suffering in the world fit into the beneficent arrangement of the world? Darwin admitted that it was difficult to prove on the basis of natural selection that happiness prevails in the end. Nevertheless, Darwin made his case.
Darwin recognized that pleasure and suffering coexist in the world. But he argued that if suffering took hold as a prevailing characteristic of a species, it would cease to procreate and thus die out. In contrast, species that procreate "generally" enjoy "happiness." Moreover, said Darwin, species have an inherent urge to survive, and so will pursue happiness and pleasure. Thus, the "well adapted" creature will guard itself against serious and sudden evil. In the human species, this is most noticeable in its nurturing habits of pleasurable labor, exercising the body and the mind, being a social creature, and engaging in reciprocal relationships with family members. As these habits of pleasure become frequent, an "excess of happiness over misery" becomes the overwhelming theme for "most sentient beings," even though "many occasionally suffer much." Even when much suffering occurs, it "is quite compatible with the belief in Natural Selection, which is not perfect in its action, but tends only to render each species as successful as possible in the battle for life with other species" (p. 90).
For Darwin, therefore, suffering is compatible with the development of "organic beings" through "variation and natural selection," but is not compatible with an "omnipotent and omniscient being" who is supposed to be benevolent. Darwin admitted that this was an old argument, but he found it compelling. He explained:
A being so powerful and so full of knowledge as a God who could create the universe, is to our finite minds omnipotent and omniscient, and it revolts our understanding to suppose that his benevolence is not unbounded, for what advantage can there be in the sufferings of millions of the lower animals throughout almost endless time? (p. 90)
As we respond to Darwin, we should first notice that he cannot satisfactorily explain the origin of suffering and evil. One might think that the law of natural selection is his explanation. But as we work toward the core of his thought, we find a problem. If there is no intelligent Creator, then Darwin's so-called natural law of the survival of the fittest is a product of what Cornelius Van Til calls a "chance-created universe." But Darwin cannot explain how law evolves out of chance, nor how chance gives birth to the inherent tension between suffering/pain and happiness/pleasure within the law of natural selection. In fact, Darwin cannot explain why the human species is conscious of a tension between suffering/pain and happiness/pleasure. Hence, Darwin's mythical naturalism provides no solution with respect to the origin of suffering, pain, and evil.
Meanwhile, Darwin presupposed, without any intelligent foundation, that the utilitarian principle of happiness/pleasure guides the natural order. But does happiness truly survive if all sentient beings die, often with pain? Given this result, it is not clear that the utilitarian principle of happiness/pleasure guides the natural order.
Moreover, Darwin's claim that happiness/pleasure triumphs over suffering/pain is also dubious. It all depends on whose eyes are surveying the global landscape. For example, do you really think that those people who were the recipients of European imperialism and colonialism under the banner of "social Darwinism" in the last quarter of the nineteenth century triumphed in this happiness/pleasure paradigm?
As Darwin rejected Christian theism, he must, as Van Til says, have presupposed the condition of the world as God made it and sustains it. Specifically, as Darwin discarded Christian theism, he must have presupposed the factuality of special and natural revelation in order to suppress the truth in unrighteousness, to exchange the truth for a lie, and to worship the creature instead of the Creator (Rom. 1:18-25). As an idolatrous participant in Satan's lies, Darwin grounded his thought in a rationality that limited reality to what he perceived to be the self-sustaining natural world. Accordingly, he exchanged God's good creation for a world of mythological naturalism. He traded the sovereign Creator for a creation that is conceived by chance. Darwin bartered away man as created in God's image for sentient beings who can evolve into a higher being by the development of "corporeal and mental organs." Moreover, man, who was initially created upright by his Creator, is sold by Darwin into the slavery of naturalism; that is, he binds man to the evolutionary process of the survival of the fittest. In this construct of natural law, the human species evolved onto the scene in which there is constant tension between happiness/pleasure and suffering/pain. Once people see themselves as a product of chance and stuck in pleasure/pain tension, it is no wonder that they turn to skepticism, nihilism, cynicism, and existentialism, and experience psychological neurosis, angst, Sartrean nausea, and the like.
When Darwin claims that suffering and a good God are incompatible, he demonstrates his own blindness to the truth. At the heart of his blindness is his declaration that God's revelatory activity is "foolishness." Ironically, Darwin attacks Christian theism because of the suffering in the world, but God counters by demonstrating that the suffering of Christ on the cross, God's own "foolishness," is wiser and stronger than the wisdom of man, including Darwin (1 Cor. 1:22-25; cf. 2:14).
Darwin, in his blindness, denied Adam's fall from his upright position and his responsibility for ushering in a world of pain and suffering, but God turns the effects of Adam's fall upside down and makes suffering the means of redemption. Indeed, how God confounds the thought of unbelief! God takes what will always be a serious "stumbling block" to unbelieversthe relationship between suffering and a good Godand makes it the cornerstone of the gospel. In light of the Fall, Christ must come into the world, suffer, and rise from the dead in order to remove the curse of the Fall and liberate the world from sin and death (Matt. 16:21). Only in Christ's work is the future reality and inheritance of life in God without suffering and pain (Rev. 21:3-4).
Darwin, like many others, exchanged this liberation and hope for a perpetual existence of anxiety and alienation in the tension of happiness/pleasure and suffering/pain, in which the strong surviveuntil they die. In arrogance and pride, the human species survives by the narcissism of power over other species or within its own species. In contrast, the gospel of our God meets suffering and pain right at its core. Through Christ's suffering, pain, and humiliation on the cross, together with his resurrection, there is true victory over suffering and pain by means of Christ's exaltation. Indeed, God is good!
The author, an OP minister, teaches at Covenant College. Reprinted from New Horizons, July 2009.
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Lewd behavior is no surprise in a culture of unrestraint
US Secret Service and its dirty secrets
By Julio Severo
Colombia, the South American Thailand according to the US media, threw the presidential trip of Barack Obama in a scandal when some his secret agents engaged in prostitution.
The Colombia scandal erupted the morning of April 12, when a fight over payment between a prostitute and a Secret Service officer spilled into the hotel, local police and media.
The secret of the secret agents was exposed for lack of payment to a prostitute!
Several Secret Service officers have been forced out.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano assured skeptical lawmakers that what happened in Colombia was an "isolated" incident.
But an investigation is being made to check whether secret agents hired strippers and prostitutes in advance of President Obama's visit last year to El Salvador.
This week, The Washington Post reported that Secret Service senior managers had tolerated similar behavior during previous official trips. The Post described a visit to Buenos Aires in 2009 by former President Bill Clinton, whose protective detail it said included agents and uniformed officers. During that trip, the Post said, members of the detail went out for a late night of partying at strip clubs.
In Brazil, Mariners serving the US Embassy attacked prostitutes and ran over a young prostitute last year. They were demoted as punishment.
Lewd behavior should be no surprise for a nation where Hollywood, the biggest propaganda machine in the world, reigns supreme in its movies shamelessly promoting prostitution in the name of "free love". Hollywood teaches the world to have a good time with any girl. Any wonder about the "good times" of JFK, or Bill Clinton, or FDR?
Just try to talk about sexual restraint to a JFK or Bill Clinton!
In a recent book, Mimi Alford tells that her virginity was taken when she was a 19-year-old intern in the White House. The seducer was President John F. Kennedy. By some reason, the Secret Service was unable or unwilling to protect the teen intern from a serial adulterer, but successfully kept his lewd behavior a secret. Other lewd behaviors of Kennedy and other US presidents were also protected by the Secret Service. At least one of Kennedy's mistresses, Mary Pinchot Meyer, was allegedly murdered by the CIA.
Mimi Alford was lucky to be left alive.
Having watched and loved Hollywood and known the sexual freedoms of their bosses, why could not Secret Service agents use some of this freedom too?
The Colombian prostitutes were lucky that they did not end as Mary Pinchot Meyer. But there is no doubt that the Secret Service would have had no problem in the South American Thailand if one of its agents had not fought over payment to a prostitute, turning their prostitution into a scandal that exposed a dirty secret.
But why so much fuss? The Secret Service has protected the immoral proclivities of US presidents, even by allegedly killing some of their mistresses, in a culture where Hollywood has imposed its debaucheries internationally as a norm.
Ted Kennedy, a late US senator and brother of JFK, rented an entire brothel for a night during a trip to Chile in 1961. At the time, he had been married to his first wife, Joan, for three years. Had he and his brother some respect for marriage vows or morality?
Why should the Secret Service do differently?
Prostitution and sex without commitment are a blatant legacy of sexual unrestraint.
When a nation and its government advocate for unrestraint, they cannot expect a clean behavior from their representatives.
By rejecting her Christian and moral foundations, America cannot expect from her leaders a sexual restraint she is incapable of defending in her society.
With information from AP, Daily Mail, Rock Center and Estadão.
Portuguese version of this article: Conduta depravada não é surpresa numa cultura de desenfreio moral


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President Obama received a raucous welcome from "The Daily Show" audience upon making his entrance, but the show's host pulled no punches when he challenged the president on the audacity of his record during a half-hour interview Wednesday night.
The biggest laugh of the night came when, in defending his economic policies, Obama echoed President Bush's words in praising outgoing White House National Economic Council Larry Summers for doing a "heck of a job," in preventing the country from sliding into a depression. The phrase was identical to Bush's ill-timed praise of FEMA boss Michael Brown's handling of the Hurricane Katrina fallout.
"You don't want to use that phrase, dude," Stewart said.
U.S. & World
As the crowd roared, Obama said, with a wink, "pun intended."
After presenting Obama with a special coffee cup -"Mug Force One" - Stewart - whose show is being taped in D.C. in advance of his October 30 "Rally to Restore Sanity" - immediately heightened the tension in the otherwise friendly encounter by asking if Obama has fallen short of expectations.
Obama responded that the American people have remained "resilient," despite a wide range of challenges, including a poor economy and a paralyzed political system.
With the midterm elections looming next week and Democrats facing the near certainty of deep losses in the House and possibly the Senate, Stewart questioned Obama's strategy for getting the American people to back his agenda.
"You ran on very high rhetoric, hope and change, and the Democrats this year seem to be running on, 'Please give me one more chance,'" he said, while later stating that Obama's legislative agenda "felt timid at times."
The president pushed back hard against that notion.
"Jon, I love your show," Obama replied, "but this is something where I have a profound disagreement with you. We stabilized the economy...we got nine months of consecutive job growth...we have passed historic health care reform, historic regulatory reform. We have done things that people don't even know about."
Stewart quipped back, "Are you planning a surprise party for us, filled with jobs and health care?"
Still, "The Daily Show" anchor persisted that perhaps Obama's administration had not been as bold as it wanted to be.
"So you wouldn't say you would run next time as a pragmatist? It wouldn't be 'Yes we can, given certain conditions,'" Stewart said.
Obama responded, "No, I think what I would say is yes we can but" - which was met with laughter from the crowd - before finishing with, "but it's not going to happen overnight."
As the interview ended, the president said he wanted to "make a plug" and urged the crowd to get out and vote. Unable to resist one last joke, Stewart said aloud, "I thought you were dropping an album!"
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Before editing, be sure to read the wiki's policies. Please sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes (~~~~) to automatically produce your name and the current date. Be sure to verify your e-mail address in your preferences. Before attempting any major article rewrites please read the layout guide. If you have any questions, check out the policy and help pages (see here for editing help), add a question to the Community portal, view the forum or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!
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Re: Your edits
The information the user, Phoenix Black, edited yesterday concerning the known and possible branded Death Eaters was really useful!!!! I don't know why you considered it "not necessary" and deleted it. You did not had a reason why to do so. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 188.8.131.52 (talk • contribs).
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Hi, Shorty! I see you have in the meantime over 4.000 edits, but only the Order of Merlin third class. So I thought now it is time. Harry granger 08:25, November 8, 2011 (UTC)
Image Uploads
Forgive me, it appears that I have been uploading pictures in the middle of sentences. It's hard for me to get them in the correct space, so I am sorry for any inconvenience I have brought upon the wiki.... AlastorMoody 02:27, November 10, 2011 (UTC)
Actually Frank and Jim (O Children) is mentioned twice in the song. And for a matter of fact, you should take a look at Jayden Matthews's talk page at the bottom, and look at what i've pointed out. --Danniesen 16:21, 11 November, 2011 (Denmark)
Then tell me why we have all those articles of other characters, which all of you have said to be relevant. They are only seen or mentioned once. --Danniesen 12:10, 12 November, 2011 (Denmark)
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shorty he asked me to create his profile Hgsanti 18:41, November 13, 2011 (UTC)Hgsanti
sry shortyHgsanti 18:56, November 13, 2011 (UTC) HGSanti
o sry i didnt knoHgsanti 20:23, November 13, 2011 (UTC) hgsanti
Hi you made a revision on the George Weasley about his hair color, it is ginger and I'm very frustrated because this problem has happened on the House of Anubis wikia and so I would like to know the problem please answer me back.
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Frog choir
Why did you undo my edit on the Hogwarts page about the Frog Choir?
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Re: Hogwarts Castle infobox image
Sorry, I did not realize there was a vote. I just thought the image represented the Hogwarts in Deathly Hallows better.
GeekSpeech 13:42, November 16, 2011 (UTC)
I am so sorry. , I am relatively new to editing wiki pages, and didn't understand that "someone" was physically changing the picture back to the original, I thought it was an error on my part that it kept reverting. I thought I was adding the image to a gallery, not a voting poll. I didn't realize what I had done until I read the owl you sent me. I will be sure to read more carefully in the future. GeekSpeech 13:57, November 16, 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for sending me the message. If i need to get back to you i hope it will be ok. Thanks again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nymphdora (talk • contribs).
Sorry i thought i did sign my name. Nymphdora 00:38, November 24, 2011 (UTC)
Hi Shorty 1982, i see you fixed my infobox, i don't mind in the least, i wouldn't mind giving you my family information to do for me, but that's to rude of me. Thanks for fixing it, ur a star cos i haven't a clue about this things.Bellatrix nee black 00:52, November 29, 2011 (UTC)
Oliver Wood and Katie Bell pages
hey why did you change the oliver wood and katie bell pages?
22.214.171.124 15:30, November 27, 2011 (UTC)
Katie Bell/ Oliver Wood
it's believed that they're married
and i would appreciate it if you stop changing my edits
188.8.131.52 15:33, November 27, 2011 (UTC)
so sorry!!! i'm super new to this and was not aware of the fandom limits, but i completely understand now
and i didn't change a talk entry... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.127.116.11 (talk • contribs).
Hi Shorty 1982, how can i delete the template slytherin individual infobox and start all over, and put a picture on top, plus how do you put the black square's beside the names. Thanks.Bellatrix nee black 20:32, November 28, 2011 (UTC)
RE:Main page
Done -- Seth Cooper owl post! 20:38, November 28, 2011 (UTC)
But why?
It has been exactly one month and, alas, my IP address has changed from 184.108.40.206 to 220.127.116.11, but the question I want to ask now is why do the IP addresses of anon users change? Why? It seems really pointless. 18.104.22.168 21:29, November 29, 2011 (UTC)
Minerva McGonagall
I just realized that Minerva McGonagall's page has been vandalized.Ravenclaw Eagles14!!!!! 23:56, December 3, 2011 (UTC)
No need to capitalise "Muggle" or "Wizarding"...?
Perhaps "Wizarding" was a mistake, even though my copies of the books capitalise it, which makes sense, but Muggle? Are you freaking kidding me...? Go to just about every single page on this wiki, including Muggle, and you will find that it is a proper noun. Please do not tell me that there is no need to capitalise Muggle, because that is like telling me there is no need to capitalise "Harry Potter", both of which are proper nouns. AlastorMoody 00:33, December 4, 2011 (UTC)
Custom Signature
Hi Shorty 1982, i do sign my name with the Bellatrix nee black 00:57, December 4, 2011 (UTC) or signature button but it does not turn out like yours in blue, mine always turns out in black, and nobody can touch my name like i can touch everyone else'sBellatrix nee black 00:57, December 4, 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Shorty 1982, thanks it worked.--((user:Bellatrix nee black)) 03:01, December 4, 2011 (UTC)
You don't understand, when I add a new template, I type in the first few letters of the template, for example, vision. I'd type in "vis" and then "Template: Vision" would appear. I mean, it looks fine on the page, and plus, I just tried doing what you told me, I typed in the name of the template, then pushed insert. And then, I did what I used to do, by typing in the name of the template, and then clicking on what dropped down. They both looked exactly the same, I don't understand. Could you explain the difference? AlastorMoody 00:57, December 4, 2011 (UTC)
Plot to Assassinate Albus Dumbledore
Hi Shorty 1982, if im right in saying at slughorn gives ron weasley the poisoned mead on valentine's night, NOT on his seventeenth birthday~ (plot to assassinate albus dumbledore). Will i live it the way it is or change it, what do you thing? --((Bellatrix nee black)) 03:49, December 5, 2011 (UTC)
Your edits
You shouldn't revert edits that are properly formatting the wiki. The proper edit for the use of "Draco Malfoy's" is Draco Malfoy's, not Draco Malfoy's. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by PrimusGod (talk • contribs).
That's a load of hogwash. That's NOT the acceptable way, even on wikias. It's improper, even. A little extra coding never hurt anyone, either. Unless you're hand-coding every single page, stop carping about it. PrimusGod 23:51, December 5, 2011 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by PrimusGod (talk • contribs).
That's fine (albeit f****** ridiculous), but there should still be only one link to a specific thing, i.e. your revision to the extra Hermione Granger hyperlink. PrimusGod 23:55, December 5, 2011 (UTC)
RE:Unliking a blog post
Thank you. I'm not sure how to, I don't usually edit blog posts myself (if you've liked it via Facebook, have you tried to remove it from your Facebook profile?). We tend to keep blog posts if they offer useful links or responses, ergo, I think I will keep it as a record, given your and 1337star's responses. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 22:54, December 11, 2011 (UTC)
- It does that. :D Again, thank you! -- Seth Cooper owl post! 23:00, December 11, 2011 (UTC)
- Gee, thanks! It means a lot, but I do it entirely for the pleasure of (re)reading, (re)playing and (re)watching Harry Potter over and over again. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 23:29, December 11, 2011 (UTC)
Augusta Longbottom
if you stop to realize, the streets it fit into the clothes presented byNeville's grandmother in the film, which means to be Neville's grandmother going to help her grandson who shortly before had been attacked by Voldemort? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Strady26 (talk • contribs).
My grammar may be bad, because I do not speak English fluentlybecause I am Brazilian and unfortunately have to use a translator,but you want to talk about that hath his perception that the characters the film proves to be poor and worthless as this morethat in the face that this woman is the grandmother of Neville anddiscurçao already got in on the matter and decided that we couldput it as such since the tests tend to be in favor of Neville's grandmother, now you do not know to examine something before you get a board to let the more experienced who know how it works here and not get yourself fumbling just have fun with the material presented . ps: improve their education because I see that she is stillincomplete or disprove the intelligence you are .. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Strady26 (talk • contribs).
you don't have to answer but why all you ddo on this wiki is revert edits? i'm not asking a question i'm just complaining.
Like, looking at your talk page it seems that there's a lot of complaints about you reverting perfectly fine edits.
and you do that to all my edits too. if pages never get edited how will they ever change? and it's like for the not "total vandalism" ones i don't think it's goign to damage the site by adding stuff like "she was never cowardly"
I apologize for my amateur mistake. Prillin101 00:59, December 19, 2011 (UTC)
Your edits
Sorry, for disturbing you again and i know i just said this, but why the *********** all you do is revert edits. 4 of your last 5 edits were reverting stuff. it's not like you're the king of this website and you don't even give a explanaton every time you do it. Whenever you revert it no one every dares do it again since they just think "forget it that guys just gonna firmly revert it again i can't fight him".......... the only edits that you should revert is one's that are either vandalism, poorly written opinions , or stuff that actually break the wiki rules.(like stuff that are out of universe not canonical etc.).
This isn't a question it's just ranting again cause i think you do it a bit too much.......... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 22.214.171.124 (talk • contribs).
Hello Shorty, I seen your talk page and I see that people have been complaining about your edits. Actually, I think you do perfectly good edits, and you might as ignore them because you are a great user to my opinion. Happy editing :) , Speedysnitch Talk contribs 23:51, December 21, 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry --Ginnyharry4ever (talk) 17:28, June 17, 2015 (UTC)