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Today, I met someone really cool and their departing words were, for some odd reason, "We should totally be friends, I mean unless you're schizophrenic or something, haha!" I have schizophrenia. FML
by Anonymous / 10/30/2012 at 7:42pm / United States (Ohio) / Health
Today, I sampled some of the food my fiancée's mom is making for our wedding. Everything tasted terrible, and I almost vomited. Turns out she never actually went to culinary school as she claimed, but had just watched Julie and Julia. It's too late to book another caterer for the wedding. FML
by WeddingWoes / 11/03/2012 at 3:42pm / United States (Missouri) / Health
Today, I broke up with my girlfriend, saying I had a lot on my plate. She responded by throwing an empty plate at my windshield. FML
by Anonymous / 10/29/2012 at 1:46am / United States / Love
Today, at work I was trying to be nice and give a customer a discount because she was having trouble finding money to pay for her food. Everybody behind her then demanded a discount as well. FML
by cassiebee / 11/04/2012 at 9:16am / United States (Utah) / Work
Today, after a year of living with my boyfriend at our new place, he told me that he wants to sell our house and live in a trailer, so he can be closer to his mom. FML
by Anonimo / 11/08/2012 at 4:22pm / Italy (Sardegna) / Miscellaneous
Today, my girlfriend decided to invite her best friend over for a threesome. This would've been the best day ever, had I not been at work while it was taking place. FML
by sadness1992 / 11/06/2012 at 1:07pm / United States (California) / Intimacy
Today, I looked up the side effects of the antidepressants I've recently started taking. Inability to orgasm is one of them. I can either not be depressed, or I can have an orgasm. FML
by HappinessOrOrgasms / 11/05/2012 at 2:25pm / United States (Arizona) / Intimacy
Today, I was at a barbeque with my family, my boyfriend, and some mutual acquaintances. Someone jokingly called my boyfriend a pussy, to which he loudly replied, "I guess I am what I eat!" My mother was sitting across from us. FML
by Anonymous / 10/31/2012 at 4:24pm / United States (Texas) / Miscellaneous
Today, my crazy bitch of a boss fired me for inappropriate conduct. Apparently my "fake Nazi accent" is "offensive to our Jewish coworkers." I'm German. I have no way to change the way I speak, or to pay this month's bills. FML
by Screwed / 11/08/2012 at 11:02pm / United States (Maryland) / Work
Today, my newly ex-fiancé, the father of my 5-year-old child, moved out of state with no warning. I just spent my last $500 paying off his car, and the rent is due tomorrow. FML
by lilithfaye / 11/02/2012 at 12:35pm / United States / Love
Today, I texted my boyfriend saying that I couldn't wait for him to get home and see my costume, and that I had dressed up as a naked lady. He texted back asking if I could dress up as someone who was making dinner instead. FML
by okay._. / 11/01/2012 at 3:54am / United States (California) / Intimacy
Today, my boyfriend of two years proposed to me. It would have been great if he weren't drunk with a naked girl next to him. FML
by bigbum / 11/04/2012 at 4:50am / Australia (Victoria) / Love
Today, I was woken up by my husband attempting to breastfeed off my lactating nipples. FML
by Indianagirl94 / 10/29/2012 at 6:22pm / United States / Love


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DJ Gallo's NFL Hangover, Week 3
Week 3 was a good, but not great Sunday of NFL action. You have to wonder if many people cared more about the second episode of "Boardwalk Empire" or the season debuts of "Dexter" and "Eastbound & Down" than any football that was on.
So let's try to please everyone by looking at some of this season's football teams as weekly TV shows. Because that's pretty much what they are anyway.
Kansas City Chiefs (3-0) -- The success of this show has caught many by surprise. But you get the sense that the writers and actors didn't expect it to last this long and that soon it will get absurd and unwatchable as they struggle to come up with new ideas. In fact, isn't this a Chiefs cheerleader outfit?
New York Jets (2-1) -- One of the most heavily promoted shows of the new season got off to a rough start. But things now seem to be moving in the right direction even as the storylines -- like sexual harassment allegations and DUI -- seem a bit too explosive, unrelenting and dramatic to be realistic. It just goes to show that you can't go wrong casting John Goodman in the lead role.
Pittsburgh Steelers (3-0) -- Many thought this show's best days were behind it, but it's not one of the most successful and longest-running franchises for nothing. Its tried-and-true formula works year after year. And the ratings are only expected to go up in the coming weeks with the scheduled return of one of TV's most divisive characters.
Carolina Panthers (0-3) -- A cast shake-up that moved the young, brash Jimmy Clausen into the lead role made very little improvement. This is why you don't rest your hopes on an actor who languished for three years at The CW of college football.
San Diego Chargers (1-2) -- This franchise has so much potential year after year, yet it always disappoints. The show simply isn't tough or gritty enough for the genre and it's time they can director M. Norv Shyamalan.
Cleveland Browns (0-3) -- I'm not sure how this public access show ever got on the air. It was probably just an error in the control room. Hopefully we won't have to see it again.
Minnesota Vikings (1-2) -- It's hard to watch a once-great actor struggle to make it through an episode without embarrassing himself. If the Vikings want an elderly character who can still get it done, they should consider replacing Brett Favre with Betty White. It's the only show she's not on anyway.
Philadelphia Eagles (2-1) -- After dabbling in crime dramas, Michael Vick has returned to the character that made him a star and is drawing in a new generation of fans. Still, even as the show gains momentum, you worry director Andy Reid will blow the finale again like he did in Super Bowl XXXIX, which famously inspired the final episode of "The Sopranos."
Dallas Cowboys (1-2) -- It has its moments, but like many star-studded shows, it seems to rely on those stars to bring in viewers and never bothers to develop a good plot with any substance. Wade Phillips seems miscast as head coach.
New England Patriots (2-1) -- It's not the critically acclaimed success it once was, but this show still brings in viewers. Consider: while "Glee" is touting a guest appearance by past-her-prime Britney Spears, the Patriots have pop sensation Justin Bieber as a full-time cast member.
This Week's Horrible Fantasy Team That Crushed Your Fantasy Team
Charlie Batch, QB, Steelers -- 12-for-17, 186 yards, 3 TD, 2 INT, 26 rushing yards
Peyton Hillis, RB, Browns -- 180 total yards, TD
BenJarvus Green-Ellis, RB, Patriots -- 16 carries, 98 yards, TD
Roy Williams, WR, Cowboys -- 5 catches, 117 yards, 2 TD
Brandon Lloyd, WR, 49ers -- 6 catches, 169 yards, TD
Tony Moeaki, TE, Chiefs -- 4 catches, 44 yards, TD
Stat of the Week
3 and 75 -- Teams that start the season 0-3 historically make the playoffs only 3 percent of the time, while teams that open 3-0 make the playoffs 75 percent of the time. And while I haven't yet confirmed this next stat with the stat people, I'm pretty sure it's accurate: Teams that start 3-0 in the AFC West or NFC West have clinched the division at that point 99.3 percent of the time. Congratulations Chiefs!
Quote of the Week
"It's good!"
-- New Orleans Saints public address announcer Jerry Romig on Garrett Hartley's overtime field goal attempt.
But it was not good. In fact, it was very bad. With reports now that the Saints will audition new kickers in hopes of replacing Hartley, he should probably take Romig's future pronouncements with a grain of salt.
"Garrett! Great news! You still have a job!"
"Do I really? Take a look again."
"No! You do not!"
Photos of the Week
• "You keep it. It might be the last one you ever throw."
• "Great. Now I have to hear Mercury Morris gloat about us losing."
• "Give us an N! Give us an A! Give us a P! Let's go NAP!"
• "What the- ? I have forehead flab? OK, it's officially time for a diet."
• "I don't know what they taught you with your fancy Ivy League degree, but here in Real America we don't like throwing it to the wrong team."
• "Oh, crap. I completely forgot that I'm supposed to be a defensive genius."
• "This is the last time I'm asking you: GIVE ME YOUR HELMET! I get in trouble when I throw mine!"
• "Oh, umm ... I don't know about this. This is like the haunted house I wet my pants in when I was in 11th grade."
• "Wait. Where's Kerry Collins right now? Still on the bench? Cool."
• "I can't believe I haven't gotten one compliment about my cool shades. I guess everyone's just jealous."
• "I like the old stadium better because it didn't have so many mean scoreboards."
• "Time to get some franchise savior up in this piece!"
• "Hey, pretty lady. Once you go Ravens quarterback, you never go ... well, that's probably not true. Umm ... want to get some pizza?"
• "Ouch. I think I sprained my cheese-dipping wrist."
• "You can have this touchdown ball, kid. I might get another one sometime."
• "Accckkk. Why ... am ... I ... choking? It's not ... even ... December."
• "Hey, what are you doing? Did you not see the UCLA game?"
• "People said that playing for the Rams would be like hell, but I thought they were joking."
• "Now I just feel like we look stupid."
• "Nice win. But I have a Heisman. God bless."
• "Yes. This week they added affection to my emotional software."
• "Do you get it? We can explain it if need be."
• "Just catch the middle ball, okay?"
• "So how would you punch him? Like this with a right cross?"
• "Oh, crap. I forgot to look where the uprights are."
DJ Gallo is the founder of SportsPickle.com. His first book, "The View from the Upper Deck," is available from only the finest bargain book retailers. His next book project will be released soon. You can follow him on Twitter at @DJGalloESPN.

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Last week, we wrote about one of the newest additions to our flock: The Bobble. Now you can see it live & direct, in all it's glory!
Gail gives us a run through on it's function and does a taste test between regular tap water, Brita-filtered water and Bobble-filtered water.


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A Big Birthday Finds the Chinese Prospering
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: September 24, 1999
BEIJING— In 1949 Yang Yuena was an illiterate 17-year-old peasant, living in a straw hut and farming for an absentee landlord, when the Red Army entered her rural hometown. This month, dressed in fashionable silks, she feted a U.C.L.A.-bound grandson in the family's second home, a lavish apartment in Beijing with a television that takes up an entire wall and a bar stocked with wine and cognac.
For her the twists and turns of a half-century of Communist rule add up to a raging success: a rich businessman for a son-in-law, exotic teas and plump shrimp at lunch, two family members accepted into the Communist Party. But for other families, like the Lings of Shanghai, the equation is far more complicated.
Ling Qiang, 87, is a former low-level functionary in pre-Communist China. He uses the Queen's English as he describes his family's persecution under Mao, pointing to two discolored patches in the walls of his yellowed one-room apartment, smashed in the 1960's by marauding Red Guards in search of Western books or bourgeois valuables.
Those ugly memories have faded with a bit of prosperity and the more relaxed political atmosphere of recent years. And his grandson, 27, a fledgling engineer who shares his room, gives little thought to that turbulent past, spending his spare time on the Internet, trading stocks or E-mailing his sister in Chicago.
The stories of these two families are the story of the revolutionary experiment that Mao initiated 50 years ago on Oct. 1, an experiment that in some way upended and uprooted virtually every family in China, leaving millions dead or broken, but ultimately easing the survivors into the relative prosperity of today.
Some families have had more material success than others, but all have passed the same landmarks: the revolutionary hopes and ideals of the early 1950's, the brutality of Mao's political campaigns from the late 1950's until his death in 1976, and the diversity and economic opportunity in the last two decades of reform. And each stage has placed its stamp on its generation.
Today, as China prepares to celebrate the anniversary of the People's Republic, most people have a sense of progress and pride, despite an uncertain economy and grumblings about politics.
Still, as the two families illustrate, many have traveled a road of painful and bizarre switchbacks.
The Communist troops came in late 1949 to Yuhuan, a remote coastal village in southern Zhejiang Province, where Yang Yuena's family was surviving, just barely, by a mix of fishing and farming.
The family was too concerned with subsistence either to support or oppose the approaching Communists in their battle against Nationalist troops, Ms. Yang said, though fighting raged for months in nearby fields.
But they were fed up with the corruption of the Nationalist Government, she said, and quickly found reason to embrace the victors in China's civil war. Officially classified by the Communists as ''poor peasants,'' Ms. Yang's family was given land when the new rulers carved up the property of local landlords and rich farmers.
''Of course we were extremely happy -- everyone was happy -- we got land!'' she said. As a bonus, the Communists' policy against arranged marriages meant that she was able to choose a husband -- although it proved hard to find one given her ''bad'' background: an uncle had fled with the defeated Nationalists to Taiwan.
Good will toward the Communist authorities ran deep in Yuhuan, even as they organized farmers into work teams and a few years later fully collectivized farming -- taking back the land previously handed out.
''We all believed in the Communist Party,'' Ms. Yang said. ''The peasants were excited and happy. It was a time of great faith that we were about to enter Communism.''
In the 1950's, in Shanghai, Ling Qiang also found the landscape thoroughly transformed. In this once cosmopolitan city, cafes and dance halls quickly shut. No one dared wear jewelry because it was considered bourgeois -- although gold bullion still functioned as currency underground.
And if Mr. Ling, a former official in the Nationalist Government's salt monopoly, did not share the peasants' sense of giddy anticipation, he did not, he says, feel besieged.
After returning from a brief exile in Hong Kong to rejoin his wife, he used a gold bar to buy rental rights to the one-room apartment that is still his home and began teaching English at a Jesuit school that had been taken over by the party.
Mr. Ling, with his Western-style education and Nationalist connections, was obliged to take part in a weekly political study group to remold his thinking, and was shipped out for a summer of Marxist ''re-education.'' The Communist Youth League rejected his son's application.
''But over all, it was not bad,'' Mr. Ling said. ''I was not a capitalist, so was not so affected.''
After 10 years, he said, he and his wife even began to embrace Communist idealism. When, in 1959, Mao called on youths in Shanghai to move to the countryside to acquaint themselves with peasant life, Mr. Ling enthusiastically encouraged his 18-year-old son to sign up.
But in the late 50's Mao's most sweeping revolutionary campaigns started. They would soon buffet the lives of the emerging second generation.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." — Albert Einstein (discuss)
- 1 Courses with no content
- 2 JavaScript
- 3 Community support/vote to create the "autopatrolled", "patroller" usergroup
- 4 Two new errors on the "Rodger's method" entry
- 5 coursera and courses...
- 6 Academic works translations needed before wikimania
- 7 Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today
- 8 Open call for Project Grants
- 9 IMPORTANT: Admin activity review
- 10 Another source for people-powered research
- 11 Grant submission for OpenCon 2016
- 12 Wikiversity survey
- 13 I want to learn French
- 14 Translate Category: into Bulgarian
- 15 Alternative names for Wikiversity Journal
Courses with no content[edit]
- There are many courses that have no or very little content. Some of these should be completed, deleted, or at least fleshed out. Its just dishonest to show a course that really does not exist. Who else feels this way? Is there any consensus on any action? [User:AgentCachet] (discuss • contribs) 04:02, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
- Yes, I think there is agreement that we have many pages with little or no content, some of which were intended to be courses. All of them should be completed or deleted. You are welcome to complete those that interest you. You can add {{subst:prod}} to propose deletion of any that show little interest by others and little activity. Use Wikiversity:Statistics/2016/05 or View history / Page Views to determine interest, and View history to determine activity. Note that there is already an effort in place to review topics (Wikiversity:Topic Review), categories (Wikiversity:Category Review), and schools (Wikiversity:School Review). Please help wherever you can. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:02, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
- I very strongly disagree with this. Just a basic syllabus/course outline with little to no actual content can still be extremely useful to both educators and students. Removing incomplete courses will do more harm than good to Wikiversity. I should also add that inactivity should never be a factor, since volunteers will come and go, and courses can always be finished in the indefinite future, whereas a deletion will only ensure that the course will never be completed. Another factor to consider is that having incomplete courses actually encourages more volunteers to contribute to Wikiversity since there is a clear need for contributions. Nicole Sharp (discuss • contribs) 18:53, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
grading system[edit]
- I think what might be helpful would be a Wikibooks-style grading system for courses, so that users can easily find courses by their level of completion. The lowest tier for a course would be same as the start of any college course, i.e. just a syllabus/outline. A simple outline can then be expanded section by section, until the sections/lessons become large enough to be their own courses, and then the course becomes a department, and so on. Nicole Sharp (discuss • contribs) 19:31, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
- See Category:Completed resources. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 19:33, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
- Just FYI but several of us use what we call dynamic courses or course structure. In short, it means the course is completed as found and is expanding as well as more resource material is added. Principles of radiation astronomy is a completed course but is not in the Category:Completed resources, for example. It is a complete semester style course for advanced undergraduates or graduate students, but undergoes changes with semesters. This fall has several lectures and laboratories replaced by newer ones. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 23:59, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- Please point to what needs to be updated and the code you have on another project that is already working. That will be an easier approach here. Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 00:34, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Community support/vote to create the "autopatrolled", "patroller" usergroup[edit]
While we certainly need some policies to go along with this, creating a new usergroup for what we've been calling "probationary custodians" would really be a good idea. The usergroup should be defined as having exactly the same permissions as custodians, but allowing for local removal. Let's get it done. This usergroup could be assigned by current "full" custodians, and taken away by current "full" custodians. In other words: a custodian who has been approved by the community can give and take away access to the "buttons" that we use to solve problems on the wiki:
"Group rights for autopatrolled"
"Group rights for patroller"
User rights. 22.214.171.124 (discuss) 03:16, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- See Wikiversity:Curators. Autopatrolled isn't included, but so far there hasn't been anyone willing to patrol. Also note that probationary custodianship is no longer an option. Per WMF Legal, users may not have Undelete rights unless approved by the community. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 03:34, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Dave Braunscheig: autopatrolled, patrolled user group rights not yets on user rights not created. 220.127.116.11 (discuss) 06:34, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- Not created. 220.127.116.11 (discuss) 11:33, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Dave Braunscheig: autopatrolled, patrolled user group rights not yets on user rights not created. 22.214.171.124 (discuss) 06:34, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Two new errors on the "Rodger's method" entry[edit]
I have just noticed two errors that were not previously present. Both begin with "Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.")"
To my knowledge, no changes were made to the text, and I need some help to figure out what is causing these errors and how to fix them. Thanks.
HamiltonRoberts (discuss • contribs) 20:23, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- On the More menu at the top of the page, there is an option to Purge. This forces the server to reprocess page rendering. That seems to resolve the issue. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 20:58, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you Dave for your very quick and helpful response. I certainly wasn't expecting such an easy way to remove those two error messages! HamiltonRoberts (discuss • contribs) 02:04, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
coursera and courses...[edit]
I came to know the coursera is removing their online courses. I read it here. It'd be cool to have those courses running here on wikiversity. I am not a computer geek or somthing like that. Just that, if it's possible, then it'd be great if some people could work on this. Also, it'd be lot cooler if wikiversity could work more on moocs. I don't know but I had heard moocs are also released on creative commons license. Just saying that adding other courses from other places'd make wikiversity great.
Thanks, if you read it. Cheers from Nepal. :) :) --Learnerktm (discuss • contribs) 14:01, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting us know. Some MOOCs are licensed through Creative Commons, but they have to be found somewhere other than Coursera. Their site has an explicit copyright with all rights reserved. One of the Coursera courses I took is available elsewhere through a CC-BY-SA license, and I'm currently using that one to develop Python Programming. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 14:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Academic works translations needed before wikimania[edit]
I've finished a French academic work named Ethical drift with in Wikimedia movement and I will finish soon a other one named For a better economic justice with in the Wikimedia movement. I would like to translate this two works in English before Wikimania for sharing the contain with the whole community and maybe inspire discussion during the week. I didn't have time and competence to do it my self before Wikimania. Is that in this forum any person who can help me, starting translation or pointing a place where I can found this kind of help ? Thanks in advance Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact (French native speaker) 15:21, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
- Google Translate does a surprisingly good job with both articles. Go with that and you probably don't need any additional assistance. Just read it through and make sure it still says what you intend. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 18:14, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Lionel Scheepmans: En Meta, avec Metawikie'ns francos: Category:Translators_fra-eng. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:03, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks,Dave Braunschweig and Justin I gone check this. Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact (French native speaker) 20:06, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
- Ok, never mine. I've found a trick system to present my works in english thanks to google : For a Fair Economy in the Wikimedia movement and Ethical Drifts in the Wikimedia movement. A nice day for every one. Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact (French native speaker) 21:16, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks,Dave Braunschweig and Justin I gone check this. Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact (French native speaker) 20:06, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Lionel Scheepmans: En Meta, avec Metawikie'ns francos: Category:Translators_fra-eng. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:03, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today[edit]
Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in the documentation.
From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. However, using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages
The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the project talk page. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on this phabricator ticket. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team:--Runab WMF (discuss • contribs) 07:43, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
- Beta features Although it's nice to get new features and good that users have more options for display and such, it's not really that important when this project has the least interwiki options of any WMF project... —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 13:52, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
- What interwiki options are there that we could have and do not have? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 00:34, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
Open call for Project Grants[edit]
Greetings! The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from July 1st to August 2nd to fund new tools, research, offline outreach (including editathon series, workshops, etc), online organizing (including contests), and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds, Project Grants can support you and your team's project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
- Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab
- Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session
- Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants or Project and Event Grants
Also accepting candidates to join the Project Grants Committee through July 15.
With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 15:21, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
IMPORTANT: Admin activity review[edit]
Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):
- Countrymike (administrator)
These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.
However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rschen7754 02:10, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
- Does the community have any interest in creating a local policy? If we were to change it, I personally would advocate for a policy requiring some type of actual administrative activity on an annual basis. From Wikiversity:Staff, that would mean that User:Countrymike, User:Darklama, User:Geoff Plourde, User:HappyCamper, User:Juandev, User:MichaelBillington, User:SB Johnny, User:Thenub314, and User:WiseWoman would need to participate administratively somehow to maintain their role. Please note that I am not trying to remove rights from anyone. Quite the contrary, I'd like to have users with administrative rights participate more often in support of that effort. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 03:14, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
- There are at least two problems with custodians not using their rights. First, Wikiversity:Support staff is somewhat misleading, in that users looking for support are given the impression that we have 19 people available to help them, when realistically there are only five or so who are regularly active, and even fewer who actually use their rights on a regular basis. Second is the workload left to those who are active. Please participate! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:50, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
- To complement the aforementioned analysis of the disadvantages of custodians not losing rights, we need to consider the consequences of doing the opposite. How long would it take for a custodian to regain their rights if the sole reason for losing them is inactivity. Perhaps we maintain a list of such people so that these rights could be restored in a day or two?--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 16:12, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
- Rights can be restored as quickly as a bureaucrat responds. We currently have one semi-active bureaucrat. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 18:56, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
- Then to answer your question, I see no reason to have a different local policy.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 03:10, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
- And does the restoration follow the policies? Could it be restored even 6 months after?--Juandev (discuss • contribs) 15:16, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what meta's restore policy is, but it would seem to me that a request to restore rights to resume custodian activities could be approved without additional discussion, unless the bureaucrat had concerns and wanted community approval first. Time since active wouldn't matter. The desire to be active again would be more important from my perspective. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 17:44, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
- Rights can be restored as quickly as a bureaucrat responds. We currently have one semi-active bureaucrat. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 18:56, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
Another source for people-powered research[edit]
See here This platform provides opportunities for individuals to engage in first-hand research and it has an overlapping mission with Wikiversity. Maybe we can collaborate? Co-host material? Does anyone have thoughts? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:38, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
- I have looked at the site and worked through one of their Mars exercises. It was fun and informative. At the least I could add urls to the site for others to enjoy. I'm not sure if they have direct computer access that allows dynamic calculations or not. If so they may be interested in hosting programming courses that so far we would need to go to the tool labs to try. I haven't made any direct contact with anyone there as yet. Perhaps you'd like to give it a shot? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 23:06, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
Grant submission for OpenCon 2016[edit]
Here is a links to the grant page. All the best Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact (French native speaker) 11:21, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Wikiversity survey[edit]
Hello Everybody, I'm a French student and I'm currently writing a dissertation about Wikiversity's interface design and community. I need Wikiversity editors' input to complete a short 19-question survey in English. All in all it will benefit the WV community and help promote it. I 'd like to thank you for your help, (link below to access survey) https://www.sondageonline.fr/s/questionnaire-wikiversite
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- I have taken the survey. My apologies if I have done something wrong in the survey. Thanks! ---Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 22:06, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
I want to learn French[edit]
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- Welcome! See Portal:French and DuoLingo. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 22:23, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
Translate Category: into Bulgarian[edit]
Hi :-). I'm new here, but not quite new to Wikipedia. Still I could not find where to translate Category: to Категория: so that the Bulgarian language editors can use their own language for categories. Same goes for Template: to Шаблон:. The question was first raised on my talk page on my homewiki by User:Luchibsl1, who thought that an experienced Wikipedian would know :). --Лорд Бъмбъри (discuss • contribs) 19:23, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
- You might try asking this at Wikidata. Wikidata has taken responsibility for language translation. They may be able to tell you how that applies to categories. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 20:31, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Alternative names for Wikiversity Journal[edit]
Hi everyone,
Wikiversity Journal of Medicine may change its name in a not too far future. I'd appreciate further ideas and comments on possible names for the project: Wikiversity Journal/Future as separate Wikimedia project.
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Waterolours, waterolour pancil, CANSON Montval 300gsm paper. A5 size.
Waterolours, waterolour pancil, CANSON Montval 300gsm paper. A5 size.
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Grand Strand-Voted Top 10 Beaches in the World - 2011!
Welcome to the home page for Raspberry Kiss & Raspberry Bliss Beach Houses
Located 8 miles South of Downtown Myrtle Beach in the lovely Garden City/Murrells Inlet area. Situated less than 75 steps (200 feet) from the beautiful, wide sandy beaches of Garden City Beach, Raspberry Kiss & Bliss are waiting to provide you with a memorable vacation experience. These 5 bedroom, 5 1/2 bath units are not like your average beach homes. Both have been professionally decorated to provide you with an upscale, luxury resort experience. With fully equipped kitchens, complete with Stainless Steel appliances and black granite countertops, triple crown moldings, beautifully appointed living and dining areas as well as deluxe bedroom furniture with superior, comfortable mattresses, Kiss & Bliss offers you the best in luxury as well as quality. (Don't forget the private pools) Let Raspberry Kiss and Raspberry Bliss, along with the Myrtle Beach/Garden City area, become your favorite vacation destination. Are you looking for the perfect destination wedding location or hosting a family reunion? Book both sides to have 10 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms to accommodate a total of 28 guests!! Kiss and Bliss are just waiting to be a part of your family memories. Come and experience the beach at its best. Book Raspberry Kiss and Raspberry Bliss for your vacation and let the memories begin.
Also visit us at www.kathrynsconfections.com for all your artisnal chocolate truffles and other confections!
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A special place to relax.
COMMENTS from 2010 Summer Renters: "Raspberry Kiss"
"This was probably the most enjoyable vacation my family has ever had anywhere. Your home is lovely and the location is great. Thank You"
"Lovely time in your wonderful home"
"Your home is beautiful and comfortable. We had a wonderful vacation, perfect weather! This was our first beach vacation in 6 years. We couldn't have asked for a
place to spend it."
"This is by far the most beautiful home in all of Myrtle Beach. Thank you fro taking the time to make this lovely house into a home. We can't wait to come back and enjoy this serene place once again."
"I would like to Thank You for opening your lovely home for vacation rental. My family had a wonderful vacation. We enjoyed the closeness and convenience of the beach. We also enjoyed eating family meals together and cooking together in your well equipped kitchen. Thank You again. We hoped to enjoy our 2011 vacation at the Raspberry Kiss."
Dates still available end of August!!
E-MAIL YOUR REQUEST TO email@example.com
COMMENTS from 2015 Summer Renters: "Raspberry Kiss & Bliss"
April 2015 - "Raspberry Kiss was amazing! "
Just got home from an amazing weekend in Garden City. My group of girlfriends and I were extremely impressed with Raspberry Kiss! The home was beautiful and had fantastic amenities. We are already talking about planning our next trip. I highly recommend this home for your next vacation!!!
COMMENTS from 2014 Summer Renters: "Raspberry Kiss & Bliss"
Raspberry Bliss is the Best - 5 Stars
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Myrtle Beach and our stay at Rasberry Bliss. Being a block from the beach and having our family stay and/or visit was exceptional. Everything from scheduling the stay, communications with the owners, to check, and check out went smoothLyle. Thank you for an incredible stay. We will certainly stay there again whe we come back. Stayed: November 2014
A TRUE HOME AWAY FROM HOME! - 5 Stars
My family an I rented both Raspberry Kiss and Bliss for the weekend and it was truly another wonderful experience. The groundsman is always accessible, the homes are very clean and the decor is beautiful. These homes are really close to the beach but yet away from all the noise and traffic. The main thing I love about renting this property is that the actual owners are caring, always accessible and really knows how to show southern hospitality. I look forward to this being our regular vacation rental whenever we are in the Myrtle Beach area. Thanks again for yet another wonderful experience and the use of your home. I look forward to doing this again next year.
Stayed: October 2014
JUST AS ADVERTISED - 5 Stars
Enjoyed every minute at Raspberry Kiss. The house was just like the pictures and descriptions listed. We had 9 people and everyone had plenty of room and all enjoyed their stay greatly. Close enough to the beach to walk, which everyone did, but the pool added just the right touch for us to relax and cool off without the sand. The Conch Cafe on the beach is a great place to eat. Good food, good service, great atmosphere. Close to Murrells Inlet, which is a must see destination. Plenty of restaurants and the Marsh Walk on the inlet is fantastic. This was, by far, the best place we've stayed. Five bedrooms, five & 1/2 baths. You can't go wrong with the KISS. Highly recommended by all. GOING BACK. Thanks Mark and Kathryn. You have a beautiful place,clean and well maintained. We'll be telling all our friends about the Raspberry house.
Stayed: August 2014
Great house! - 5 Stars
What a great house! Even better than pictures! So clean and well maintained! Location was great , close to beach and easy access. Loved having our own pool, so nice hanging out after coming back from beach. Our first experience with VRBO and it couldn't have been better. Would definitely stay again! Stayed: August 2014
Loved Raspberry Kiss!
We just returned from our week long vacation in this condo. It was just perfect for our 2 families. The condo is spacious and immaculate. Everything we needed in the kitchen to cook with was provided! Kathryn, the owner, is fantastic to work with and called us when we arrived to see if we needed anything. A bottle of wine and gift card to Krispy Kreme welcomed us. The condo is less than 100 steps from the beach which is perfect. Beach chairs are provided in the outdoor closet and we left a few rafts in there we didn't need to bring back. The private pool was perfect for us and we had 3 rafts in it. If we go back to Garden City we would definitely rent this beautiful condo again! Stayed: August 2014
Awesome Beach House~~!!!
This is a beautiful beach house that is mere steps from the beach. The layout was perfect for us and everything was clean and as described. The heated pool was great for my little granddaughter. The owners were very nice and a pleasure to rent from. We will be returning to stay in this lovely home again. Stayed: June 2014
Best vacation home stay by far! First class and five stars!
Finding a property that meets the needs of my extended family for a week long vacation is a challenge. I fully went into this thinking it wouldn't be perfect, but that it would work (I have some picky/needy family members). Low and behold, each of them said, "this place is perfect for us", one by one, throughout our stay. We will most definitely be back! Except, next time, we will rent out both sides of the complex and bring more family with us! Very pleased with the layout and spaciousness of the home. With 4 families and lots of little ones, everyone had their own space and no one felt cramped. At first glance, I thought the pool was going to be too small- it looked bigger in the photos. But after using it for the week, it was honestly just perfect for us! After walking the neighborhood in the mornings, we realized this pool was actually on the larger size compared to most and also offered more privacy than others did. Dimensions are clearly listed on website, so not misled in any way... just wasn't what I envisioned. I couldn't believe how close the beach was- especially with lugging kids and stuff back and forth. We also liked that this home had a storage closet of beach chairs and beach toys to use and also store our stuff without taking them in and out of the house. Two of us that stayed in the home are real estate professionals with 25+ combined years of experience in rental property management. So we were so appreciative and impressed that the owner of the property contacted us shortly after check-in to ensure everything was as expected. We also received a visit from the caretaker that afternoon who introduced himself, so that we'd have a face with a name if we needed to reach him for any reason. Talk about first class! Lastly, I'd like to mention a few other amenities close by that we enjoyed. There is an excellent restaurant for lunch oceanfront called Conch Cafe. It's an easy walk north of the property- ate there twice and LOVED it! We used Woody's Beach Rentals to rent a golf cart and had a wonderful experience. We enjoyed taking the golf cart to Krispy Creme with the kids- it's only .8 miles away! There is also a small pizza joint, that you have to walk past to get to the beach that several of my family members enjoyed a few times. Needless to say, everything was right at our fingertips.
Mary Sue B. said...Jun 26, 2014
It's a Wonderful Day at the Beach!
(5 Stars)
Our family totally enjoyed our stay at Raspberry Kiss! We had 3 couples and 2 singles and we all felt like we had our own space. The place is beautiful and very clean. We loved how we were greeted with a bottle of local wine and a gift card for donuts!!! Also it was so nice to have the landlord check on us AND the owner, Kathryn to personally call us to make sure we were satisfied! It was a great vacation!
Lana S. said...Jun 17, 2014
(5 Stars)
Best yet!
Our family has vacationed somewhere on the Grand Strand almost every summer for the past 50 years, and agreed this was the best fit yet! This condo was very clean, well-equipped, and close to the beach. We rented both sides, and there was plenty of room for all 20 of us. It was a wonderful week, and we hope to return.
Rosemarie G. said...Jun 4, 2014
(5 Stars)
Heavenly Bliss
Loved everything about the house and location. The layout of house, with the private pool was a nice break from the beach. The grill, games along with the beach chairs and toys was an added perk to our stay. The beach is just steps away with friendly hospitality everywhere we went.
Debbie B. N. said...Jan 3, 2014
(5 Stars)
Luxurious and Comfortable Beach Home
My husband and I and 3 other couples enjoyed this beautiful home for a pre New Year's celebration. The home is very spacious and is decorated beautifully. Each bedroom has a separate bath which allows for ultimate privacy. The living area and kitchen and dining room are so inviting and definitely accommodated our 4 couples. Everyone in our group decided we want to make this a New Year's tradition to spend it in the comforts of Raspberry Bliss.
COMMENTS from 2013 Summer Renters: "Raspberry Kiss & Bliss"
Valecia C. said...Oct 8, 2013
(5 Stars)
My family and I stayed in Raspberry Kiss and it was beyond what we could have imagined! The house is so beautifully decorated and warm with all the essentials of home. Home was very clean and housekeeping and the grounds men are on POINT. With less than a 3 minute walk to the beach I would highly recommend this vacation spot to anyone. We will definitely be going back very soon.
Betty O. said...Jul 15, 2013
(5 Stars)
We rented this for my family and I to stay for my wedding. It is such a beautiful and well kept property. Every room with a bathroom makes it perfect for multiple families. It was beautifully decorated and very clean. Great location! We had a wonderful time and the owner was great. She called when we arrived to make sure everything was acceptable. It was a great experience and we will certainly be back to celebrate our anniversary in the future!
Kimberly S. said...Jun 5, 2013
(5 Stars)
Great Vacation
What a lovely home. It is nicely decorated, great mattresses, bathrooms and balconies in every room and was very clean. We had a two and four year old and found the pool to be perfect for their age. Easy beach access.
COMMENTS from 2012 Summer Renters: "Raspberry Kiss & Bliss"
Patrick D. said...
Excellent Vacation
Loved loved Raspberry Kiss, Great house, awesome layout with open floor plan on the main floor and enough room on the second floor that my screaming kids didn't wake up the whole house. Super close to the beach. 3 minute walk. Nice pool. Great kitchen. overall loved it!
We have just returned from a wonderful week at Raspberry Kiss in Garden City, SC. The property was all that was advertised... easy walk to the beach, nice pool for relaxing, and great accomodations. We really liked that each bedroom had their own private bath. We had 5 adults and 5 kids but there was plenty of room for everyone. Kitchen and appliances were up to date, televisions all around, witha clean and well maintained home. The beach was at the end of the street and it is a quiet neighborhood too. We found the owners to be very responsive in the process and helpful in making it a great week. We are hoping to return next year and I would recommend this to my friends and family.
Fran Coursey said...
Great house, great location!
I would highly recommend this house. Raspberry Bliss was beautiful; clean and very comfortable! It fit 13 of us very comfortably. The owners made the rental process very easy. The location of this house was perfect. It was great to have a pool at the house with the the beach just steps away. We were able to spend time at the ocean all day and when the kids got tired of it the rest of the day was by the pool. Shopping dining and activities were very close to the house. We had a great time! We would definitely come back here!
Jason & Jen M.said...
We loved this house! Plenty of room for everyone!!
Plenty of room for everyone. Loved the five bedrooms and each with its own bathroom. Kitchen was great. All the balconies were so nice. Such a quick and easy walk to the beach for the kids. And the pool was perfect to play in as a family – morning, noon and night. We would love to come back: Thank you!
Catherine and Dan A.said...
Roomy, beautiful home with great pool!!!
We loved your beautiful home and had a wonderful, relaxing vacation! The pool was perfect for the kids - big and small – to cool off in after a day at the beach, and the house was perfectly roomy for everyone to fit and cozy enough for late night games. Thank you!
Peter K.said...
Wonderfully relaxing week...PRICELESS!
We had a wonderfully relaxing week! House was great. Afternoon dip in shaded pool delightful, and the Fourth [of July] fireworks from the decks without waiting in traffic or big crowds, PRICELESS!
Debra Kubat said...
Wonderful and Relaxing Stay; just what we expected
onderful time at the rental. It was beautiful inside and was just as it was described. The private pool was perfect for our family. The beach was really close and convenient. We were able to walk to a few places and the other great stuff was only a quick car ride away. There was shopping close by so we were able to grocery shop for the week and not eat out. It was great for each bedroom to have a private bathroom and gave our additional guest privacy. We will be staying again next year and would recommend it to our friends! Thank you!
Many more....
2011 Comments
My family and I had a wonderful time in this beautiful rental property. The accommodations were absolutely wonderful. I would highly recommend this home to anyone interested in beach rentals. The furnishings, decorations and fully-stocked kitchen and utility room made this property far superior to most. The location is perfectly situated between the fine restaurants at Murrells Inlet and the activities at Myrtle Beach. Doris P.
This home was stocked better than any we had ever stayed in. It had everything. Pool is small if "everyone" is in it at once, but that never happened with us, so it was adequate. A bit further south than we are used to staying, but since we were off season, traffic was NOT an issue.... Great time for all!
It looked exactly like it did on the internet and worked out very well. The property is very nice and decorated beautifully and has plenty of room for everyone...
The location to the beach and retail stores is very convenient. The private pool and multiple balconies afforded several recreational actives (reading, swimming) for
the entire family.
Raspberry Kiss is a fantastic property that is so close to the beach it made for a great week. ...
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Daily News, Wahpeton, N.D.: It was a long and bitterly cold winter. That comes as no shock to North Dakota and Minnesota residents. It has also been a long and difficult spring with extended cold and day after day of rain.
One of the unfortunate side effects of the winter's weather has been the smaller goose population at our own Chahinkapa Zoo. For the many faithful visitors who flock to the park each day to feed the baby waterfowl, one variety has been noticeably absent and leaves people to question, "Where are the baby geese?"
Chahinkapa Zoo Director Kathy Diekman said the late spring, after such a severe winter, caused many of the breeding pairs of geese to not even nest.
The bird babies are such popular attractants to the park. The baby ducks have been hatched for weeks and continue to grow and develop, but there is something so stately about the mother and father Canada goose working together and keeping a watchful eye on their brood. No one approaches their babies without receiving a warning hiss directed at them as the mother and father quickly stave off any unwanted attention.
Canada geese seem to have adapted well to human visitors. Unless people wander too close, they just ignore us.
They are dead in Youngstown, OH.
Killed because they trusted humans to do them no harm.
Them and their little babies herded to their suffocation while the babies followed their parents to the death.


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Soviet ingenuity at its finest!
Please enjoy the following inglorious parade of folly and nincompoopery
We wrote the Navy: 'We think it is inadvisable to land the airplane.' They came back with one paragraph that said 'We agree.'" The 10 worst US aircraft. [more inside]
Secret Soviet Space Ships
Today marks 25 years since Buran, the enigmatic Soviet Space Shuttle clone, made her single unpiloted 2-orbit flight before an inglorious retirement like her known siblings.
belters expanse trajectory: working up the Epstein Drive
How NASA brought the monstrous F-1 "moon rocket" engine back to life - "The story of young engineers who resurrected an engine nearly twice their age." [more inside]
How Many Bars do you Get Up There?
Surrey Satellite Technology's STRaND 1 demonstrates a new generation of satellites built around smartphones. Tossed into orbit on an Indian PSLV, the toaster-sized microsatellite is based on an Android-powered Nexus One that will control the satellite, run apps, take snapshots, and phone home. While the U.K. leads the smartphone space race, NASA is testing its own PhoneSat series of nanosatellite prototypes. The University of Surrey explains how it works in this video.
Ad Astra Incrementis
Carl Sagan wrote, "We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars." But how will humans or our machine representatives fly to the stars? [more inside]
Fight and Flight. And Cars, too.
AIRBOYD.tv has three Youtube channels: The eponymous AIRBOYD features 2000+ videos for "aviation and aerospace enthusiasts. Then there's the Nuclear Vault: Vintage Military, War and News Videos, with 1200+ full-length documentaries, news reels and other assorted footage, including 200 episodes of "The Big Picture (Army Signal Corps)" and a variety of Atomic and Nuclear energy films. Last but not least is US Auto Industry, an archive of over 450 vintage automobile films, including commercials from Buick, Pontiac, Chevy and Ford. [more inside]
So how much does an F-35 actually cost?
Fresh on the heels of Lockheed Martin's delivery of the first production F-35 to the USAF, you might be wondering how much it actually costs. It depends on who you ask. Blackfive takes a crack at it, prompting a rather snippy response from Bill Sweetman over at Ares. Throw in additional commentary and a rebuttal, and head down the rabbit hole into the wonderful world of defense acquisition.
I Can Has Gravity?
Weightless Cats and other fun experiments. An excerpt from from coverage of research at the Aerospace Medical Division Hq 657Oth Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories including scenes of F-104 seat ejection; drop tests from C-130 and ejection from F-106; effects of weightlessness on cats and pigeons in a C-131; test subjects in water tank, on centrifuge, in heat chamber and on complex coordinator. Also, scenes of vertical deceleration tower, incline impact test facility, vertical accelerator, equilibrium chair and vibration platform. More videos can be found at Airboyd.tv: Accident Animations, Aviation Films, Military Flight Training Films, and Space Shuttle Vidoes.
Bits of aviation goodness
Point Niner - "Satisfying an unnatural infatuation with airplanes and rockets." A regularly updated blog with nice bits of aviation goodness.
Longer, Farther, Faster
The highest recorded skydive was performed in 1960 by Joe Kittinger from 102,800 feet. That record may not stand any longer. After twenty years of planning and attempts, almost twenty million dollars, and a two hour ascent on May 26th, Michel Fournier, wearing only space suit and parachute, will step out of the gondola of a 650 foot helium balloon at 130,000 feet.... The Great Leap. [more inside]
Unique aircraft testing videos.
Son of Concorde
The end of Concorde was one of the few times in modern history that technology has been forced to regress. But it won't take long to fix.
The world's largest passenger plane. The new Airbus "superjumbo" has a 262-foot wingspan, a tail as tall as a seven-story building and it cost $13 billion to develop. In a three-class cabin layout, the A380 will carry 555 passengers -- 33% more than the plane it is designed to displace, Boeing's veteran 747, Sir Norman Foster's favorite piece of modern architecture. The A380 has 49% more floor space. How the plane's extra space is used will be left up to airlines. Low-cost carriers could operate the A380 with a single economy-class configuration accommodating as many as 800 passengers. Virgin company chief Richard Branson said his airline, which has ordered six A380s, will offer private double beds for first-class passengers and casinos. Airbus trailed Boeing Co. until 2003, when it delivered more planes than its U.S. rival for the first time -- a feat it matched last year. Boeing will unveil next year the much smaller, new 7E7 -- with 200 to 250 seats.
The MIT microturbine rotor has to turn two million rpm--more than 20,000 revolutions per second.
The MIT microturbine rotor has to turn two million rpm--more than 20,000 revolutions per second. Here's some current efforts. Micro Electric Machines (MEMS)pdf, the future of Aerospace Power Projection? Further interesting reading. pdf A couple of articles are a year-year and a half old, but still current in the analysis of "tiny technology". I find the concept of dime-size turbines to be fantastic!
One small st.... yeah yeah
Move over X-Prize - in order to win the next big space prize($50 million) one will have to build a spacecraft capable of taking a crew of no fewer than five people to an altitude of 400 kilometers and complete two orbits of the Earth at that altitude. Then they have to repeat that accomplishment within 60 days.
Badgers in (aero)Space!
An airplane hall of fame. Talk about rekindling childhood passions. I got a real kick out of reading this.
What is Dick Rutan up to now?
What is Dick Rutan up to now? The reigning master of innovation in aerospace is up to something, as shown in the linked photo. But what is it? Rutan is also helping to bring us rocket powered airplanes and, of course, flew Voyager around the world not so long ago.
From the secret world of the "black budget"
From the secret world of the "black budget" comes the story of a man who wants to know the truth about the army's research into anti-gravity technology and zero-point energy ("There's enough energy in your coffee cup to evaporate the world's oceans many times over." ). Is he a lunatic? A "Ufologist"? Nope, he's an award-winning defense and aerospace reporter for Jane's Defence Weekly, the highly respected magazine on international military and policy issues. In fact, he says, the loonies may be right! He thinks there probably are saucerlike flying objects, but they're not alien, they're made in the USA (who got the technology from the Nazi's - who else?). He even goes so far as to suggest that the CIA has a program to discredit people who see UFO's. I like my stories rich, and this one is very rich. (via Atlantic Unbound)
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Sanatorium Polonia
|Coordinates: 50°26′N 16°14′E / 50.433°N 16.233°ECoordinates: 50°26′N 16°14′E / 50.433°N 16.233°E
|Lower Silesian
|Kudowa-Zdrój (urban gmina)
|• Total
|33.90 km2 (13.09 sq mi)
|Highest elevation
|420 m (1,380 ft)
|Lowest elevation
|370 m (1,210 ft)
|Population (2006)
|• Total
|• Density
|300/km2 (780/sq mi)
Kudowa-Zdrój [kuˈdɔva ˈzdrui̯] (German: Bad Kudowa, Czech: Chudoba) is a town located below Stołowe Mountains in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, which is the southwest part of Poland, about 400 m (1,312 ft) above sea level. It has a population of about 10,000. It is located right at the Polish-Czech border, just across from the Czech town of Náchod, and some 40 km (25 mi) west of Kłodzko.
Kudowa-Zdrój is a historic spa town where heart and circulatory system diseases were cured. In the downtown area, there is a park, styled on 17th century revival, with exotic plants and a mineral water pump room. Due to its location, the town is a used as a place for tourism, walking, biking, and as the departure point for trips. Among the notable locations of the region are The Chapel of Skulls, The Moving Nativity Scene in Czermna, The Basilica in Wambierzyce, The Bear Cave in Kletno, and the heritage park in Pstrążna as well the natural surroundings of the nearby Table Mountains. It is situated 3 km (2 mi) from the center of the town to the Czech border and about 140 km (87 mi) to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
Kudowa-Zdrój is one of the oldest spa resorts in Poland and Europe.[1] It is first mentioned in a document by Henry the Older, son of the Hussite Czech king George of Podebrady.[1] The original name of the village was Lipolitov but in the mid-16th century it was changed to Chudoba, later on Kudoba (Cudoba in the 19th century), Bad Kudowa and into Kudowa-Zdrój in 1945.[1]
The oldest part of Kudowa is Czermna, dating back to the 16th century. The first record of a mineral waters in the area comes from 1580 from the chronicles of Louis of Náchod, under the name Cermenske Lazne. In 1625 (or, as some sources say, as early as 1621), G. Aelurius, a Protestant Lutheran monk, wrote in his work "Glaciografia" about the great taste of the mineral waters from Kudowa.[1]
In 1847, Kudowa was visited by 300 patients. In 1850, A. Duflos made a chemical analysis of the local waters and claimed they have healing traits. Local doctor J. Jacob helped to establish the notion that Kudowa is a spa that helps heart related diseases, which had a significant impact on the number of people visiting the town. In 1900, the number of people who visited was 4,150.[1] Thanks to development of business organizations, a railway line to Glatz and a local power plant the spa grew, and 8,000 visitors attended its facilities in 1906.[1] In 1891, German-American editor Hermann Raster visited Kudowa-Zdrój to help his failing health. He died there in July of that same year.[2] In 1920, the Gebrüder Martin und Paul Polka O.H.G. company bought the largest spa resort of the town. Famous visitors include Helmut von Moltke with his family, and Winston Churchill.[1] Also, from 1911 to 1931, Raphael Friedeberg worked as a physician in the Spa.[3]
Kudowa was part of Bohemia until 1742 when, together with the rest of the county of Glatz, it passed to Prussia. From 1818 until 1945, it was known as Bad Kudowa, and was part of the Prussian province of Lower Silesia. After 1945, most German inhabitants were forcibly expelled and replaced by Polish settlers. After becoming part of Poland it received municipal rights for the first time in its history.[1] As the area was a part of the Czech Corner of Kłodzko Land, a population of ethnic Czechs lived in Kudowa-Zdrój (then Bad Kudowa) before 1945. Small groups of Germans and Czechs continued to live in Kudowa until 1960. A German-speaking school was used from 1951-1960, and a Czech-speaking school was used from 1947-1955 by these small groups.
(with German names)
- Brzozowie (Brzesowie, 1924–45: Birkhagen)
- Bukowina Kłodzka (Bukowine, 1937–45: Tannhübel)
- Czermna (Tscherbeney, 1937–45: Grenzeck)
- Jakubowice (Jakobowitz, 1937–45: Wachtgrund)
- Pstrążna (Straußeney, 1937–45: Straußdörfel)
- Słone (Schlaney, 1937–45: Schnellau)
- Zakrze (Sackisch)
International relations[edit]
Twin towns — Sister cities[edit]
Kudowa-Zdrój is twinned with:
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Jewish Community in Kudowa-Zdrój on Virtual Shtetl
- Kudowa-Zdrój on Map
- Kudowa-Zdrój – photo gallery
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It was all in the earnings report. Just look at the old lows - they were set when prospects were better for sLW than now. So it was simple reasoning that new lows would set in before next earnings release...
But what surprised me as well as you (most probably) is how quickly things fell apart and that was caused by the sudden (attack) and severe drops in Spot Silver. In fact the whole collapse in the metals industry shocked me.
How long this can persist or how deep it can go is beyond me yet the Fundamentals almost guarantee that gold and silver should trade higher. Can't wait to get back in but not sure when and at what price.
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The success of Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge's first duo album, Full Moon, which topped the country charts, went gold, and won a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for the track "From the Bottle to the Bottom," whetted appetites for its follow-up, Breakaway. But just as Kristofferson's solo album Spooky Lady's Sideshow, released earlier in 1974, had been a commercial disappointment following the popularity of its predecessor, Jesus Was a Capricorn, so Breakaway failed to match the impression Full Moon had made. That may have been in part because @Monument Records, which released the album (Full Moon had been on Coolidge's label, @AM), was treating Kristofferson as an established artist who didn't need a lot of promotion, and in part because Breakaway was the seventh new Kristofferson album released within four-and-a-half years, too much product for the market to absorb. In any case, the album was a worthy successor to Full Moon. The KristoffersonCoolidge albums were very different from each artist's solo albums, though somewhat closer to Coolidge's because they consisted largely of cover songs and the keys were set to her voice, with Kristofferson singing at the upper edge of his narrow range. This forced him to work harder and sing more, which made him a better vocalist than he usually was on his own albums. He tended to take brief vacations from songwriting for their sessions of love songs, but this album was sparked by two of his old songs, neither of which he had previously recorded, though they had been hits for others. "I'd Rather Be Sorry" was a country hit for Ray Price in 1971 and "I've Got to Have You" for Sammi Smith in 1972. (There is also an effective version of the latter on Carly Simon's second album, 1971's Anticipation.) The husband-and-wife team handled these songs well, making you wish they would tackle an entire album of Kristofferson love songs. But the tracks that garnered the most attention were their revival of the old Clyde McPhatter hit "Lover Please" (written by Kristofferson sideman Billy Swan), which reached the easy listening charts as a single and won the duo a second Grammy, and their version of Larry Gatlin's "Rain," a country and easy listening chart entry. Those semi-hits were enough to get the album into the country top five and the Top 100 of the pop charts, but like Kristofferson's solo recording career, his teaming with his wife had passed its commercial peak. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
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My husband and I are SO excited and tried for a year to get pregnant. I never told my mom we were trying because she has a funny way of complaining about everything and making everything about her. A week ago (after I already knew I was pregnant) she went off on a 20 minute rant about how she's so glad we aren't having kids right now because she doesn't have the money to be the grandma she should be and kids just mess everything up anyway and we have better things to do....then she paused and said, "you aren't pregnant are you?" I lied and said, "nope!" probably should have just told her then but we're waiting til after the first ultrasound....anyway, I'm her oldest and this will be her first and I'd like her to be excited but after I told her I wasn't pregnant her response was, "Good, well, I mean if you did get pregnant we would deal with it. Stuff happens and you move on." So I'm not thinking she's going to be crying with joy over this baby even though my husband and I could not be more excited!
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We have either had the start of a significant pull back over the last week, or we have had the complete near tern pull back already. I tend to think it is the former. Goldman Sachs' Chief Forecaster, David Kostin, just revised his three month target on the S&P500 to 1275 (1250 for year end). Plus there has been a plethora of bad economic news. Spanish and Italian 10 year bond yields have been steadily rising of late. Greece is said to be in a depression. Many are starting to question Spain, just as they previously questioned Greece. Spain has unemployment officially in the 23% range, but unofficially it is said to be much higher. The official statistics apparently don't count the large number of aliens in Spain who are suffering from much higher unemployment. Just today Spain reported that its February Industrial Production fell by 5.1% year over year. The situation all sounds extremely ominous to me, especially considering Spain's huge real estate loan default potential. This is without even mentioning the rest of Europe. I worry about the negative global economic situation and the negative effects it may have on the U.S. markets. I also worry that the bulls in the U.S. will somehow manage to ignore all of the negative signs. I feel to trade or invest effectively I should be ready for either scenario, although I am encouraged in my downside bias by the MarketWatch article this morning entitled, "The Bundesbank will stamp out this rally."
Interestingly almost all energy prices have fallen dramatically (natural gas, solar, and coal), except oil, which has remained stubbornly high at least partially due to the Iran nuclear situation. Oil has fallen in the last week to near a support level at $100/barrel. It can now bounce, or it can fall to one of its lower support levels at $95, $90, $80, or even $75. $90 is looking like a likely near term target. This is assuming there is no geopolitical blow up with Iran (or something comparable). Not many people, including me, have the nerve to short oil directly with the Iran issues in the forefront. However, I have come up with a scheme for shorting oil stocks as a vehicle for shorting oil. In each case I have identified at least one other reason for each stock to perform poorly. Each stock might well move down without oil moving down at all. The two stocks I am looking at are World Fuel Services Corp. (INT) and Murphy Oil Corp. (MUR). For each stock I have a specific second or even a third reason that the stock price should fall (beyond a retreat in oil).
World Fuel Services Corp. engages in marketing, selling, and distributing aviation, marine, and land fuel products and related services worldwide. If INT is basically servicing different types of service stations worldwide, it should experience significant margin pressure as those servicers in turn experience pricing pressures in a slowing world economic environment. In tough economic times, people will conserve on fuel. They will want to pay less for it. They will travel less. This should translate into lower revenues and earnings for INT in the coming quarters. INT trades at a reasonable PE of 15.43. It has an almost negligible dividend of 0.40%. Analysts earnings estimates for next quarter have been lowered in the last three months. Further quarters results could follow. Helping this thought along is the analysts' rating downgrades of the stock over the last three months. The ratings have gone from 3 strong buys and two buys three months ago to 1 strong buy, 2 buys, and 2 holds currently. This is a very bad trend. I tend to think it partially validates my thesis that INT's margins will be squeezed in future quarters. The two year chart below lends some technical direction to the trade.
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The stock is currently at $41.82 (the close on Tuesday April 10, 2012). The stock price has already passed through its 50-day SMA on its way down. The 50-day SMA has already begun to turn down toward its 200-day SMA. If a market/oil sell off continues, the 50-day SMA should soon push through its 200-day SMA on its way down. This is a technical sell signal. This should bring support levels at $32 to $33 into play. A conservative investor might want to resist pulling the trigger on this trade until the 50-day SMA is more definitely set up to cross the 200-day SMA heading lower. The fundamental problems on INT may take time to make themselves clearly seen, but the fundamental theory of the trade seems solid.
Murphy Oil Corp. engages in the exploration and production of oil and gas properties worldwide. In addition it owns and operates 1,128 retail gasoline stations in 23 states in the U.S. Its Chairman recently died, and it has yet to replace him. This uncertainty in leadership will help the stock to fall. The U.S. economy is expected to slow as the impact of the deepening EU recession is more significantly felt in the U.S. This should put pressure on gas station margins as people conserve gas (drive less), and insist more fervently on lower prices. On top of this MUR produces natural gas in the U.S. This production will suffer from the strongly down trending U.S. natural gas prices (currently at $2.04/mmBTU). At year end 2011 MUR had production of 195mmcfpd and 13,300 bopd in North America. It has dramatic expansion plans for its Eagle Ford and Montney developments in both oil and natural gas. It has plans for roughly 1Tcf recovery from its Tupper development in British Columbia.
In MUR the cash flow and the CAPEX are matched up very closely. If there is a significant hit to the cash flow, that might well translate into delayed development due to inadequate CAPEX to fund it. This might hurt the stock as much as the below estimate EPS and revenue results. In my quick perusal, I could find no mention of hedges for the North American natural gas. If this is in fact the case, the falling natural gas prices may have significant effects on MUR's bottom line. Readers might want to try themselves to determine the MUR natural gas hedge situation, but it seems unlikely to me at this time that MUR is close to fully hedged in North American natural gas (if at all). The low and falling natural gas prices should help to make MUR a good oil stock to short. Further MUR has generally been an under performing oil stock for the last five years. That reputation alone should help a short trade in MUR. The two year chart of MUR provides some technical direction for the trade.
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The price of MUR has already plunged sharply through its 200-day SMA (a sel signal). The 50-day SMA appears to be heading down toward the 200-day SMA. On the basis of the price plunge alone, one would say MUR is in a strong downtrend. This is a good set up for a short. The only bad thing is that we have missed a good part of the move in this case. Due to the strength of the move down, MUR seems likely to reach its $42-$43 support level or its $40 support level. There is also support near $50, which should not be completely ignored. The downtrend also pertains to analysts ratings over the last three months, which have moved significantly downward during that time. MUR only has a hold rating currently. It has missed EPS estimated in two of the last four quarters. Its sales revenue forecasts for both FY2012 and FY2013 indicate a small contraction in revenues. With the added problem of natural gas prices in North America, this should put more pressure on earnings than the company is currently acknowledging. I don't believe the likely service station margin deterioration is factored in either. If oil prices fall dramatically, MUR may fall below any of the above cited support points.
Please do further investigation on these ideas you before you actually short either stock. If you happen to own either of them, I would be inclined to sell the stock at least for the near term. If you love either, you can likely buy it back later more cheaply.
Good Luck Trading.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, but may initiate a short position in MUR, INT over the next 72 hours.


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