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User talk:TerryH
Talk to me! Am I right? Wrong? Any suggestions? --TerryH 18:24, 5 March 2007 (EST)
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The door is always open. Please place questions, suggestions, complaints, et cetera, here.--TerryHTalk 13:50, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
- I think you're right and glad you ain't left. --Ed Poor 15:56, 18 April 2007 (EDT)
Instead of typing out <nowiki>{{Essay}}</nowiki>, you can instead type {{tl|Essay}}. This is less effort and produces a similar result, except that it includes a link to the template: {{Essay}}.
Philip J. Rayment 23:18, 18 April 2007 (EDT)
I may be wrong about this, and this may be encyclopedia policy, but I noticed you banned User:220.127.116.11 for an infinite period of time. It seems somewhat illogical to ban an IP address infinitely, because somebody else may end up with that IP and be unable to create an account.--Tmcfulton 20:37, 13 November 2007 (EST)
- That's not how IP addresses work. A little probabilistic math ought to convince anyone that the hazard you describe is a virtual non-issue.--TerryHTalk 20:46, 13 November 2007 (EST)
- You're correct, I guess. I was thinking of the way they do it on Wikipedia, but I guess Conservapedia isn't popular enough for this to be an issue.--Tmcfulton 20:50, 13 November 2007 (EST)
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The phony soldier himself. All we need is a pic. Karajou 06:04, 25 December 2007 (EST)
Capitalism essentially becomes the practice of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. I do not see why the failure of one or two states that pretended to be communist so they could garner the support of the masses makes capitalism any less abhorrent. And Terry, spouting the occasional occasional fragment of fortune-cookie wisdom does not improve your argument, nor does it compensate for the unequivocally unamicable tone of your response. I mean no offense, I simply didn't expect to be greeted with such open hostility in response to what was intended as a partially fatuous comment. --AngryCommunist 23:03, 4 January 2008 (EST)
- You are too late. My opinion of Communism is obviously widely shared. And if it is "unamicable" to say that Communism is bad, then you will see in me the least amicable person you are likely ever to meet on the Internet. Let that suffice.--TerryHTalk 07:27, 5 January 2008 (EST)
Examples of Bias in Wikipedia
I know I'm new here and I haven't made many edits, but could you please give me an explanation for reverting my edit to Examples of Bias in Wikipedia? I didn't delete that example just because I felt like it. One of the sources in the Wikipedia article really does mention something about extrapolation, making our allegation false. I'm not trying to censor anything, I just don't want this site filled with the same kind of lies and inaccuracies that pervade Wikipedia. Best, Gillespie 22:36, 9 January 2008 (EST)
- Explain what? Do you deny it?
- Do you deny that Wikipedia is six times more liberal than is the American public?
- In fact, Jimbo Wales is proud of that statistic. Proud! He seems to think that we "Yanks" are too busy playing cowboys and Indians to be truly enlightened.
- If you are prepared to show that that entry is in error--show me. Do it on the Talk page of the article in question, so that everybody who takes as active an interest as I do, will see it as well.--TerryHTalk 23:29, 9 January 2008 (EST)
You objected to speculation, I removed it. Now you are censoring my opinion in violation of the Conservapedia Commandments. MatthewHopkins 11:35, 2 February 2008 (EST)
Hey Terry - I hate to have to ask - but I saw that your online and you had just done a template a bit ago, so I assume you're good with templates. Would you mind helping me out on Template:USState? I can't get it to work properly - I think the problem is {{!-}}. Thanks--IDuan 16:38, 9 February 2008 (EST)
Oh hey - I figured it out! It was just a weird thing with the spacing - I'll fix it now--IDuan 16:49, 9 February 2008 (EST)
- Well now the only problem is that there's a ton of spaces under "capital" if the parameters aren't filled in - but hopefully I can figure out how to fix this - thanks for your help--IDuan 16:52, 9 February 2008 (EST)
Is there something wrong with CreationWiki right now? That seems to happen a lot; it's been going on for several weeks in a row now. I try to access the site and it always tells me "Internet Explorer Cannot display the webpage". I figured you'd know something since you're an admin, please help me out here ScorpionVote for Pedro 09:52, 14 February 2008 (EST)
- Thanks! I was getting kind of worried there. I Pray it's up again soon. ScorpionVote for Pedro 21:18, 14 February 2008 (EST)
- I'm hearing a lot of crap about the God of the OT being infanticidal. How should I respond? ScorpionVote for Pedro 10:00, 16 February 2008 (EST)
- Yeah, they're talking about God's directives for the Israelites' enemies. "Why would God command them to kill the babies too?" (God tells them to kill the men, women and children and animals) ScorpionVote for Pedro 10:12, 16 February 2008 (EST)
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Terry, it's a lot quicker to go look at my contributions, hit the "rollback" button, then hit "back" on your browser and go up the list. By the way, ask Andy if he got my email yet! --HelpfultipsforTerryH 12:00, 15 February 2008 (EST)
Those last two ethereal apparitions of vandals were not me, but I totally endorse what they did. Seems as though I have some admirers!
In regards to the second vandal's tips, it's sound advice. I'd feel sorry for you (that's a lie - maybe a small bit of pity, of definitely not sorry) if one of those WillyOnWheels vandals from last year showed up when you were the only sysop on patrol. Advice is advice, take it from where you can. But, in your defense, it is hard to teach an
old dog dinosaur new tricks.
Also, consider archiving those two pages.
You should be looking forward to the next RDubya project - It's an article which systematically compares Conservapedia to your very own definition of extremism! I can't wait for it to be the shining gem of the internet.
By the way, please tell Andy to check his email - I have an important message waiting for him.
Please feel free to email me, the link on my deleted userpage should still be active.
Regards, -Hojimachong


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The affirmation by Pope Francis that there is a gay lobby in the Vatican, should not be reduced to an extemporaneous quip, but evaluated and weighed in all of its tragic consequences. There are truly some saintly people in the Curia, but there is also a current of corruption. There is talk of a gay lobby , and it is true, it exists. We have to see what we can do about it.The Holy Father pronounced these words during a private audience with the leaders of the Confederation of Latin American Religious (CLAR) which took place in Rome on the 6th of June 2013. It was a private meeting, and the interlocutor was an authoritative body, which [afterwards] drew up a written report of the Pontiffs conversation. This text was not destined for publication, but it is authentic, demonstrated by the fact that it went all round the world without any refutation from the Holy See.The Pope did not refer to the Church in general, but to the Vatican, which is graver, because this is where he lives, surrounded by his closest collaborators. And it is exactly inside the Leonine City he affirms that a lobby exists, that is, a powerful and organized group, able to do all that a lobby normally does: exercise, in a licit or illicit manner, heavy pressure by directing some decisions in their own favour. The interests of a gay lobby would be, in this case, that of promoting men who share the practice or ideology of homosexuality inside the Vatican institutions, and of avoiding the condemnation of this vice as it is [condemned] by the public conscience of the Church.Ernesto Galli della Loggia, in an article published in the Corriere della Sera of the 23rd of June, wrote I ask myself what would have happened if this expression 'gay lobby' had been adopted by Pope Ratzinger instead of Pope Francis, or more modestly, by a representative of the most acclaimed male chauvinism such as Silvio Berlusconi ( ). You do not need much to imagine [the reactions]: accusations from all parts about language blatantly homophobic, heated protests about the denigrating and persecutory intentions implied in such an expression, complaints from all the homosexual associations, ( ) and so forth. As in fact happened punctually in the past every time someone used similar words, and this someone for whatever reason was hated by that political part which identifies itself (no ifs and buts about it) with the cause of homosexual civil rights. But this time the expression 'gay lobby' was used by a person like Pope Francis, who has earned the universal reputation of being 'simple and good', to strike a group of powerful prelates, who have earned let us be clear, for reasons more than justly deserved the same universal reputation as the 'baddies'. I add simplifying quite brutally: because this time the words in question were intended to strike at a part that is generally considered corrupt and reactionary by definition, (in the first place, from the homosexual movement itself and its exponents). And thus [the term] 'gay lobby' can be used.It could also be asked why the same mass-media which speaks of moral complicity when a bishop intervenes in a very weak way towards a pedophile priest (see example : Francesco Merlo, That Slap to Cardinal OBrien, in La Repubblica, 17th May 2013) [but] they are ready to attack him with homophobe, if he should intervene in a firm manner with a homosexual priest. Why is pedophilia a crime and homosexuality a right? The answer is simple. For the pseudo-relativist culture, that which renders pedophilia a crime is not its moral disorder, but the fact that the acts against nature are done harming minors. The reference is not to the moral law, but to the unlimited self-determination of the individual.Pedophilia violates the rights of minors, while homosexuality affirms those of adults. Pedophile priests and homosexual priests in reality, appear to form the same lobby that is why they drink from the same libertarian, pansexual ideology, which has also penetrated inside the Church over the last fifty years.The homo-heresy, namely, the theology of homosexuality, denounced by Father Dario Oko (With the Pope against Homoheresy), goes hand in hand with the theology of married priests. In both cases the enemy is the ecclesiastic celibate, a moral pillar which the Church has held on to since Her origins. Anyway, if the Pope expressed himself in these terms, he did so for obvious reasons. Some, such as the vaticanist Ignazio Ingrao, sustain that an entire chapter dedicated to the gay network is present in the relatio reported by the three cardinals charged by Benedict XVI to investigate the Curia: Julian Herranz, Salvatore De Giorgi and Jozef Tomko (Panorama, 24th June 2013). There are those who hypothesize that it was exactly the discovery of the presence of this network that would have pushed the abdication of Pope Benedict, by then intent in renouncing the Papacy. (Il Fatto 11th June 2013). There are also those who think that the words of the Pope would not be extraneous to the news that reached him about the events of Almo Collegio Capranica, denounced on the site Corrispondenza Romana in the article The Drama of Sodomy in the diocese of Rome which was promptly obscured by the Roman Tribunal. Behind that law-suit was the Rector of the Almo Collegio.During the news on La7 on the 25th June (http://tg.la7.it/cronaca/video-i722957) we learned of an inquiry in course by the Roman Magistrates concerning a head-spinning ring of sexual encounters hosted by religious with minors. The denunciation which triggered off the investigation would contain around twenty names, among which is a papal master of ceremonies, a secretary to the Cardinal Vicar, four parish priests in charge of as many parishes to the north and west of Rome and other personalities of a high ecclesiastical level.
The behavior of certain ecclesiastical authorities confronted with scandals of this sort is astounding. When they learn of the existence of an immoral situation in a parish, in a college, in a seminary, they do not proceed to verify the truth, remove the guilty party and eliminate the filth, but manifest annoyance, if not reprobation towards those that have denounced the evil, and, in the best of cases, they limit themselves by taking into consideration that which may interest civil justice, for fear of being involved in judicial matters. They are silent about that which has purely a moral and canonical significance. The slogan could be zero tolerance for the pedophiles, maximum tolerance for homosexuals. The latter continue unperturbedly to occupy their places as parish priests, bishops, rectors of Colleges, forming that homo-mafia which Pope Francis defines as the gay lobby.The Popes affirmation goes beyond the grave denunciation of the filth in the Church made by Cardinal Ratzinger on Good Friday 2005, on the eve of his election to the Papacy. Also in that case the future Benedict XVI was certainly referring to the moral plague which, under the form of pedophilia, ephebophilia or more simply homosexuality was spreading throughout the Church. But the significance of Francis declaration is wider and reaches the one of Paul VI who in his homily of 29th June 1972, stated that from some crack, the smoke of Satan had entered the Temple of God. What is happening is exactly the consequence of that smoke of Satan which today is covering and suffocating the Church. Will Pope Francis intervene? This is the heartfelt plea of all those who are praying and battling for an authentic doctrinal and moral reform of the Mystical Body of Christ.
[Roberto de Mattei, Corrispondenza Romana, June 27, 2013; translation and source: Contributor Francesca Romana.]


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City, Parkview close to financial agreement for SR 205 project
By the next Columbia City Common Council meeting, the city should have an agreement ready with Parkview Health System Inc. for its share of the costs for the upcoming state Route 205 construction project.
Columbia City Mayor Jim Fleck said Friday at the board of works meeting that a proposed agreement is in place with Parkview for the contribution to the city for the local match of the project.
"Upon acceptance of that agreement, we will receive a check," Fleck said.
Negotiations were in the works for several months as the city and Parkview worked on who will cover what portion of the local match for the roughly $4 million project.
The city received a $2.9 million grant from the Indiana Department of Transportation and a grant from Group III for $330,000 to help with the project.
Those funds can be used for construction, some utilities and construction inspection, and are in the form of grants for which the city must match 20 percent of each grant.
A $500,000 earmark from Congress for the project has no local match required.
Included in the budget for the project is a preliminary engineering contract for $451,855, right-of-way acquisition costs of $75,000, estimated construction costs of $2.85 million and estimated construction inspection costs of about $315,000.
INDOT will fund 80 percent of the construction, construction inspection and reimbursable utility relocation costs, and will reimburse half of the local match to be used as credit toward engineering and right-of-way costs.
Just less than 20 percent of the project will be covered by local funds from the city and Parkview.
Parkview's contribution to the city will be up to half of the roughly $700,000 needed in local funds.
The city is still waiting for approval of the environmental impact study for the project, which was submitted several months ago to the state level.
Construction for the project cannot begin until INDOT reviews and approves the study.
The project will involve lowering the hill on state Route 205 near the entrance to Peabody Public Library, adding lanes between U.S. 30 and the bridge with Blue River, and aligning the entrance to Morsches Park with Towerview Drive.
A public hearing for the project is scheduled for January 2011 and the project is not scheduled to go to bid until spring of 2012.


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Soybean producers in Alabama who tried an Early Soybean Production System (ESPS) this past year generally enjoyed better-than-average yields, thanks in large part to ideal weather conditions, says Dennis Delaney, Auburn University Extension agronomist.
The majority of the ESPS soybeans are being grown in north Alabama's Tennessee Valley, says Delaney, although they're also being grown in other parts of the state, including south Alabama's Wiregrass Region.
"The early system has become a viable option for some of our growers, especially now that we have improved varieties. Before, we were trying to grow varieties developed for Tennessee and Kentucky, but these new varieties work well for those of us in the lower Southeast," he says.
Many growers who planted soybeans in the early system this past year saw yields of 50 to 60 bushels per acre, says Delaney, while some of the later-planted soybeans averaged in the 25- to 30-bushel-per-acre range.
Alabama producers using the ESPS usually plant during April and early May, he says. Delaney cautions growers using the early system that timely harvesting is essential for a successful crop, and that ESPS soybeans are susceptible to pod shattering and to disease. "Growers need to harvest these soybeans quicker, when the pods are ready in August and September. They should stop harvesting corn or whatever else they're doing at the time and get these beans out of the field," he says.
It's also important, he adds, to use a fungicide on the seed and to use a desiccant for removing leaves and for controlling late weed flushes. "Sometimes, we get rainfall in August and September that causes weeds to come up through the plant canopy," explains Delaney.
If this past year was any indication, the earlier planted soybeans could be less susceptible to Asian Soybean Rust, he says, since these beans were approaching maturity when rust was first detected in the state.
He estimates that 40 to 50 percent of the soybeans planted in Alabama this past year were of the Group IV variety, while in previous years early planted soybeans made up only about 10 percent of the state's total acreage.
Delaney says he expects a slight increase in Alabama's soybean acreage this year, as some growers move away from corn due to increased nitrogen prices. In 2005, Alabama growers harvested 145,000 acres of soybeans with a 33-bushel-per-acre average yield.
Researchers in Georgia also are looking at ESPS soybeans, planting a Group IV variety between April 20 and May 31. The system, according to Extension specialists, is still fairly uncommon in Georgia.
The ESPS system appears to have the most merit for productive soils in the Middle/Upper Coastal Plain and the Limestone Valley regions of Georgia, according to the 2006 University of Georgia Soybean Production Guide.
The critical moisture period for ESPS is July and early August, states the guide. Therefore, the ESPS system can be used to escape September/October drought and/or to further spread drought risks when grown in addition to regular soybean varieties.
The performance of ESPS varieties can be improved by planting in close-row widths (7 to 30 inches) and at high seeding rates (10 to 20 percent above normal). ESPS varieties will mature by mid-September, and harvest must be made by 10 to 14 days after maturity to avoid shatter and seed quality problems.
ESPS varieties, say Georgia specialists, are ideal for soybean trap crops. They are, however, for the most part, susceptible to root-knot nematodes. Therefore, they should be planted only on select soils. ESPS varieties have high yield potential but have slightly higher production risks than regular varieties, according to the guide.
The three major risks which must be managed when growing ESPS soybeans include:
Early maturing varieties attract stink bugs during early pod-fill (July). Therefore, stink bug scouting and control measures are essential.
ESPS seed quality declines rapidly in the field after maturity. Harvest within two weeks of maturity to prevent possible severe seed quality problems.
Maturity of ESPS soybeans can coincide with late August and early September rains and hurricanes, such as those encountered in 2004. Thus, a large portion of a grower's soybean crop should not be planted in this manner. It is always best to spread risks over planting dates and maturity classes.
University of Georgia Extension specialists say the performance of an ESPS crop has everything to do with weather, and conditions in 2006 were ideal for such a crop, with ample rainfall through early August followed by four to six weeks of dry weather.
While this weather pattern was great for ESPS soybeans, it also was the primary reason statewide yields fell to 26 bushels per acre, they say. This particular weather pattern creates a worst-case scenario for later maturity groups.
Planting an early maturity group in the spring may help to prevent a late-season fungicide treatment for Asian Soybean Rust. However, the Georgia specialists recommend that this type of production system be irrigated.
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One person injured in Winston-Salem House Fire
One person injured in Winston-Salem House Fire
One person was injured in a house fire that started around 4:30 Friday morning.
The house is near the intersection of Glenn Avenue and 30th Street in Winston-Salem.
Battalion Chief Harry Brown says he saw smoke and flames coming from the front door, a front window and a side door when he arrived on scene.
The two people living there were already outside when firefighters arrived. One of them was taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
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TAMPA — Hillsborough County has paid millions of dollars to house homeless people, including veterans, the mentally ill and families with small children, in filthy, crime-ridden slums across the city, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.
For years, the poor have lined up at the county's door for help, and county caseworkers have responded by sending them to hazardous and neglected places. There, they were forced to breathe moldy air, step over unmopped puddles of human waste or sleep on mattresses infested with bedbugs.
At one home — a converted 1920s orphanage on Tampa's N Florida Avenue — county officials arranged for children to stay alongside sex offenders, pill addicts and tenants so disturbed they defecated on the floor.
In another, residents lived among roaches that swarmed in every room, skittering across bathroom soap dishes and crawling over toothbrushes.
These conditions have been chronicled for years in government records, which include complaints from appalled tenants and advocates. But instead of demanding repairs or permanently halting payments to negligent landlords, county officials have continued steering public money to owners of barely habitable homes, the Times review found.
During the past five years, Hillsborough County's Homeless Recovery program has paid for space in more than 600 buildings clustered in Central Tampa and along blighted stretches of the city's north side.
To learn what life was like inside these places, the Times identified the 20 landlords who got the most government money and closely examined their properties. Reporters visited each building, interviewed residents and reviewed hundreds of pages of police reports, code enforcement documents and other public records. Among the findings:
• Police or sheriff's deputies have visited the rentals more than 5,500 times since 2009 — the equivalent of once every eight hours, every day, for roughly five years straight.
• They heard reports of more than 300 assaults and 150 thefts and dealt with more than 160 people in the midst of mental breakdowns. They chronicled 22 suicide attempts and eight deaths.
• At least five government agencies recorded serious problems at several homes over the years. But with no prescribed standards, the county continued subsidizing ramshackle rental units across Tampa. Even the most basic safety concerns — including shoddy electrical wiring and failing smoke detectors — have continued with no repercussions for the landlords responsible.
• A quarter of the $4.3 million the county spent in the past five years has gone to landlords whose buildings are hotbeds of crime and drug use, or whose properties repeatedly failed basic health and safety inspections.
A half-dozen landlords contacted by the Times said a certain amount of crime and messiness is inevitable when working with the homeless, who often suffer from addiction or mental health problems.
"I believe that we're doing good work for the community. I really do," said John Watson, owner of the Good Samaritan Inn, formerly a popular destination for Homeless Recovery clients. "We're always trying to improve things here and make them better."
As part of a county program founded in 1989, officials have paid private landlords hundreds of thousands of dollars a year while taking virtually no steps to ensure the rooms provided were safe.
That the county was paying for dangerous housing first came to light last month, when the Times reported that William "Hoe" Brown, the politically connected former chairman of the Tampa Port Authority, had collected more than $600,000 to house the poor in squalid complexes, including an illegal, makeshift trailer park behind his Tampa office.
In response, county leaders fired Sam Walthour, the program's top administrator and last week recommended shutting down Homeless Recovery and outsourcing its programs to local nonprofits.
The county also ordered an in-house audit of the program and sent code enforcement officers to inspect hundreds of buildings that house the homeless on the taxpayer dime.
As of mid October, they had visited 85 properties and encountered many of the same problems uncovered by the Times. One in three of the homes initially failed to meet basic health and safety requirements, officials reported.
County leaders declined to comment for this story, but County Administrator Mike Merrill sent a memo to commissioners Friday ahead of its publication. In it, he noted his staff is "making great headway" to address problems but cautioned they won't be fixed overnight.
"It is important to know that our constituents have the facts surrounding past mismanagement" of the Homeless Recovery program, he wrote. "However, it is equally important that constituents have confidence that current management is taking swift corrective action."
Bedbugs and sex offenders
County officials over the years have paid for hundreds of needy men and women to live in a sprawling, 68-bedroom boarding home on N Florida Avenue.
Private rooms at the place, the Good Samaritan Inn, go for as little as $400 a month. People willing to bunk down with other tenants pay $11 a night.
It's one of the most affordable places to stay in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods that surround downtown Tampa.
During the past five years, the county — which paid $360 per month for a single person and up to $610 for families of six or more — has sent the property's owner $350,000 to house the homeless there and on four other properties, records show.
Built as an orphanage in 1922, Good Samaritan is one of the few places in the city that accepts all comers, including homeless families with small children.
It's also a magnet for crime calls and a perennial target of health and safety inspectors, who have flagged hazards since the 1980s.
Records show that assaults, fights and violent outbursts from tenants occur there about once every eight days.
The floors are coated in grime, the walls dirty and scuffed, the bathrooms sometimes smeared with excrement.
But the problems haven't stopped Hillsborough County caseworkers from steering people there.
It's where they sent Edward Mullen, 44, last fall when his job as an electrician fell through, and he suddenly had nowhere to sleep with his wife and three small children. "It was the most disgusting, deplorable environment you could imagine," Mullen said, recalling the syringes he saw on the bathroom floor.
It was where they sent Tim Little, 43, who lost his job just as his girlfriend's medical bills were piling up in July. An ex-Marine, Little said he was afraid to sleep there. "I'm a grown man, and I was nervous," he said.
And it was where they sent Julie Clark, 52, an out-of-work gas station cook who moved her family to Tampa to be closer to her parents.
Beginning in December 2011, Clark and her then-13-year-old son, Jacob, spent seven months at the rooming house in a state of mounting unease. One night a few weeks into their stay, Clark said, she watched bedbugs stream in under the door and burrow into their mattresses. She and her son wore long sleeves at night, stuffed newspaper under the door and splashed their beds with poison, but nothing worked. "Jacob and I were eaten alive," Clark said.
More frightening than the bugs, though, were Clark's new neighbors.
One day, as she walked the hallways of the 20,000-square-foot compound, Clark passed a sign staff had taped to a tenant's door.
"We have taken away Miss T's knives," it began, according to Clark.
"But stay away from her. Don't talk to her. Don't knock on her door."
Clark said another resident would urinate in the hallways, and urine would pool on the floor and flow under the doors into people's rooms. On Easter Sunday in 2012, the woman defecated on the ground during a meal served by a local church, Clark said.
Clark began refusing to let her son leave the room alone.
On weekends and when he wasn't in school, they spent long days at the library. Anything to get away, Clark said.
Then she overheard another resident talking about rapists and child molesters. A security guard confirmed that they lived there. He told her she had the right idea in keeping Jacob close.
Records show city police made 14 visits to check on sex offenders who listed Good Samaritan as their home address during the time Clark stayed there with her son.
Clark said nobody with the county had warned her.
Not all former residents had bad things to say about the home.
Sidney Gardner, 59, stayed there for two months in 2011. "There wasn't a complaint I had that wasn't resolved," said Gardner, who regularly returns to the rooming house to lead a Bible study. "There's an adage I once read that said, 'I knew a man who complained he had no shoes until he met a man who didn't have any feet.' Where else are (the homeless) going to go?"
The owner of the Good Samaritan, Watson, bought the property in 1985 and has worked with the county to house the poor there ever since.
A real estate investor and entrepreneur who once owned a chain of waterbed stores, Watson said he runs the home as a spiritual ministry for the poor.
"If I were in this strictly for the money, I would have sold it," Watson said, noting that he has been operating at a loss for the past few years.
In an interview with the Times, he attributed problems at the home to tight margins and to the nature of taking in the homeless.
"We tend to take people that nobody else would take," Watson said.
He acknowledged an ongoing problem with bedbugs and said he spends at least $500 a month on insecticide treatments.
He also acknowledged that sex offenders have lived at the home, but said the Good Samaritan has a policy forbidding pedophiles. If he finds out that a tenant has been convicted of molesting a child, he kicks them out, he said.
Asked about the sign seen on Miss T's door, Watson laughed. "That was a joke," he said.
"She still lives here, but she's harmless," he continued. "She's never stabbed anyone. She's just threatened."
Watson pointed out that some of his tenants have lived at the Good Samaritan for 10 years or longer. One has been there since the '80s, he said.
"If this is such a horrible place," he said, "why do I have so many people who want to live here?"
Other places, other problems
Many of the same problems at Good Samaritan have plagued other rentals paid for by the county, according to the Times' review of the 20 top-paid landlords.
Police have visited each of a dozen of their buildings 100 times or more since 2009, records show.
Code enforcement officers flagged a third of the properties at least once in the past five years for unhealthy conditions, including outbreaks of mold and infestations of bedbugs, cockroaches or rats.
Eight of the buildings were found to be dangerously crowded, to have leaky ceilings or crumbling walls, faulty wiring or malfunctioning plumbing.
At FSJ Rooming House on N Nebraska Avenue, where the owners have collected $10,000 a month from the county over the past five years, tenants have sold drugs and beaten one another with bricks and heavy plastic lawn chairs.
At Hoe Brown's converted motel on N Florida Avenue, an elderly resident died and lay decomposing for two weeks. He was noticed missing only because his rent check was late.
Noraima Torres said mold spores hung so heavy in the air at 13711 Inoma St., a few miles north of Brown's property, that it sickened her and her teenage son, who has asthma. It prompted trips to the emergency room, she said. "I had to move because we were constantly sick," she said. "I am still sick to this day due to that apartment."
A combination of factors has kept county clients living in bad conditions year after year.
The money paid by Homeless Recovery has lagged far behind subsidized housing rates set by the federal government. In 2013, the United States paid $582 in subsidies for an efficiency apartment in Hillsborough County, compared with $360 paid by the county to house a single person.
What's more, rent checks from the county often have arrived late, landlords and advocates said.
At the same time, Homeless Recovery didn't have the money to inspect every property it rented, and county leaders say the program's managers never asked for a funding increase.
And the government agencies that documented problems in the homes, including Tampa police, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and city code enforcement, didn't regularly share information with Homeless Recovery workers.
Ignoring warnings
From the start, the county's Homeless Recovery program had no policies requiring homes to meet standards.
As a result, the county never made a practice of reviewing police reports or health and safety records before cutting checks.
The county's handling of the Good Samaritan illustrates the hands-off approach it took.
City of Tampa code enforcement officers have been called to the rooming house 13 times in the past five years. They recorded complaints of leaky ceilings, mold, feral cats, roaches and, within the past two years, bedbugs and biting flies.
But the county had no arrangement to review results of inspections done by city code enforcers.
Meanwhile, Good Samaritan's landlord, Watson, wasn't paying his property taxes — something an employee of another arm of county government pointed out to Homeless Recovery in July. Still, the county kept renting from the home until last month, when it ordered caseworkers to move any clients they had housed there.
Payments continued even in the face of urgent complaints from advocates and tenants.
Michael Doyle was volunteering for the local St. Vincent de Paul Society in July 2012 when he first voiced concerns about Good Samaritan.
He told officials he had watched as parents screamed or wept because they couldn't bear to keep their children there — but had no place else to go. He described the bedbugs and scenes of families going to sleep with insecticide dripping down the walls.
He said he even met with county officials, including Ven Thomas, the director of the county's Family and Aging Services department, in July 2012. Nothing ever came of it, he said.
This summer, a representative of the Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County sent a note to Jim Silverwood, who then was head of the Homeless Recovery program. It noted concerns about the rooming house.
"I realize that Good Samaritan Inn is not the greatest place in the world but they do house an awful lot of individuals that otherwise would be homeless," Silverwood replied in a July 17 email to a manager at the coalition. He added that if coalition officials had concerns, they should inform the city of Tampa, where the rooming house is located.
Silverwood, who resigned in September, declined to comment.
Even concerns voiced by the tenants that the county was supposed to be helping went unaddressed.
Clark, who stayed at the Good Samaritan with her son last year, said she complained to the county. So did Edward Mullen and his wife, Helena, after their children — ages 6, 4 and 3 — woke up at the boarding home covered in angry red bedbug bites.
Nothing ever came of their complaints, they said.
"One night is too long to be in a place like that," Helena Mullen said. "That should not be an option for a family. There's no way the county should be putting people there.
"They should burn the Samaritan down," she added. "You've got nothing but bad in there."
Times researcher John Martin contributed to this report. Michael LaForgia can be reached at (727) 892-2944 or [email protected] Will Hobson can be reached at (813) 226-3400 or [email protected]


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Game: Teeworlds
Probably worst/weakest in this genre, poor vs other titles - maybe graphics is the greatest weapon in gaming. This is the case.
OpenLieroX having more fun, OpenClonk having more play points: in contrast, teeworlds own best reputation and fame, increidle.
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I won't rate it for it costing $30 to play, I would put that amount of money in donation purpose, to some creaters in Spring community or to Scribus/Inkscape community.
Too bad! It was a nice project!! :(
Thanks again, added it.
Sadly, but developer decided to stop Ardentryst's development and started the new game which is called "Ardentryst: Crystal of Balance". This is developed with C#+XNA and will be Xbox only :(
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It is soulride. Thatcher Ulrich originally release virtual Jaypeak for Linux (and others) as an ad for Jaypeak. There is also Breckenridge & Stratton I believe. It was going to be advertising for the resorts and for a special snowboard video game controller that slingshot made. Somewhere along the way Thatcher worked with LGP to release the full Soulride for Linux.
The source code is also available under GPL. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/soulride/) I know there was a patch to enable acceleration so you could go back up hills and another that disabled crashing. I was always bummed about how interest never picked up for the game. It was hard to control, but I liked it. And with source code, it could have been augmented.
Also, Thatcher was really nice when I was trying to get the data files for the windows version of Breckenridge & Stratton to work with the Linux version of Jaypeak. I was hoping the Linux release would have been more successful for him.
Game: ZEQ2 Lite
by gameroot i mean your assets(models, maps, scripts, textures, shaders etc.) dir, these files are included in the latest stable build:
svn co -r 1526 http://zeq2.com/SVN/Build/ zeq2lite
You said that you want a amd64 build, but there is none, so you have to build one from source:
svn co -r 1526 http://zeq2.com/SVN/Source/ zeq2litesource
after an successful build copy the new amd64 binary and its libraries to your previously downloaded stable build
Brilliant game, this game is fantastic. A great mix and nice use of Pygame.
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Game: ZEQ2 Lite
I am not understanding something here.
If you built the game in the folder zeq2litesource, how comes you gameroot is zeq/zeq2lite?
Actually, I think I am getting confused on what you mean by GAMEROOT at this point...


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Using Excel as Twitter client with OAuth
Update May 22nd, 2015: We have done some more work on the exceltweets website, which takes the hassle out of setting up your own Excel oauth implementation. When you register your account, you can download various sample Excel sheets. None of the extensive oauth requirements are required, but you can still create your own implementations. All VBA code is visible and can be customized to your requirements.
Update July 22, 2012: We have created a Twitter account and associated website to make your Excel experience a lot easier. If you understand VBA but do not want to go through all the oauth hassle, this may be for you.
Many users of twitter have found out that Excel is an excellent client for Twitter, and I am sure that through this post on Chandoo.org, a lot of curious people opened their VBA editor, tried it, and subsequently posted their first automated tweet. For me this was just the beginning, and after studying the Twitter API documentation, I wrote functions for just about all API methods. Using Excel proved to be great for all kinds of tasks, like scheduling tweets, sending tweets for different accounts from one dashboard, archiving tweets, mentions and direct messages, and many more bigger or little tasks.
The reason that it was so simple to use Excel was because of the use of basic authorization where with just a username and password it was possible to "talk" to the Twitter API. Unfortunately Twitter has switched off Basic Auth since the beginning of September, and many Excels sheets that required authenticated requests, will no longer function. Since transitioning from Basic Auth to OAuth looks complicated, many users of Excel sheets may have given up, and accept that their work is now lost. I also started and stopped looking at the documentation a couple of times, until I finally decided it just had to be possible to make it work. And indeed after a couple of days of hard work (and plenty of frustration) I was able to transition to OAuth. This means that I can take all my Excel sheets and just change the VBA code where the API requests are made, leaving everything else intact.
I will explain here how I did it, so hopefully other Excel users can take advantage of my efforts. I will use a straight forward example, and if you have some understanding of VBA, you should be able to follow the process and later take the code and optimize it for your own needs. In the example I will build an Excel sheet that allows me to send a tweet, going through the process step by step. You can see all the VBA code I used in the Excel sheet which you can download for your own programming pleasure.....
Step 1: Register an application with Twitter
There is no way around this. In order to use OAuth you need application codes and user codes. By registering an application with Twitter you will obtain a consumer key and a consumer secret. For your Twitter account you will get an access token and an access token secret. You will need these four codes before you can continue.
Step 2: Get all required data
For our example the following information is required:
API method = POST
API resource = http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses.update.xml
edit: You should now use http://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses.update.json
Oauth consumer key = your_consumer_key
Oauth consumer secret = your_consumer_secret
Oauth signature method = HMAC-SHA1
Oauth version = 1.0 edit: now use 1.1
Oauth token = your_token
Oauth token secret = your_token_secret
The API method and resource relate to what you want to do, which in this case is to send a tweet. The signature method and version are given as per the current requirements.
Step 3: Get a nonce (number used once) and a timestamp
You can calculate this yourself by writing a couple of simple functions. The timestamp simply calculates the number of seconds passed since the unix epoch which seems to be January 1, 1970. For the nonce I observed in the Twitter examples that it is 41 characters long and only uses letters and numbers. I just created a string which holds all possible and legal characters. Then I randomly picked a character 41 times from this string and put them all together in an output string which becomes the nonce. Twitter seems happy with that solution. A shorter nonce will probably also be ok, as long as it is unique.
Step 4: Calculate the base string
This is where thing started to get ugly, because it is so easy to do it wrong, and it is not so easy at first to figure out what went wrong. The base string is used to calculate a signature which Twitter requires as part of the API request. If you follow the instructions from Twitter exactly, you should get the correct signature. Important is to keep in mind that there are three parts connected with an ampersand (&), where the second and third parts need to be url encoded. While I was testing my output, I found a very useful tool on http://quonos.nl/oauthTester/ to check the base string.
Step 5: Calculate composite signing key
In this case, where you want to send a status you need to create a string, where your oauth_consumer_secret and oauth_token_secret are combined through an ampersand (&). No url encoding is required here.
Step 6: calculate oauth_signature
After mastering the base string, this was the next part which proved to be tricky. First I needed to understand (a little) what a HMAC-SHA1 signature is and than figure out a way to calculate it. Luckily I found all I needed on http://www.cryptosys.net/, which has a library that you can include as a VBA module. Make sure you do the installation, because there is a DLL file required, and please also check the license document.
edit: I understand some of you may have been able to create a solution without the need for this external library. If you wish to share this, that would be wonderful.
When I calculated the signature, it did not match the required signature. The issue was that the obtained signature needed to be converted to bytes first, than base64 encoded and subsequently url encoded. I already had the code for the url encoding but did not have a function to perform the other two tasks. I wrote a simple function to convert the output string to bytes, and also found the correct answer for the base64 encoding. When all this finally worked, I had my moment of joy when the signature was exactly identical to the one calculated in the example in the twitter documentation.
Step 7: calculate authorization header
Creating the authorization header is quite similar to creating the base string. No url encoding is done here, and besides reading the Twitter documentation, I also carefully read Appendix A.5. from the Oauth Core 1.0 document.
Step 8: Send the API request
Finally everything has to be brought together in an API request, which look very similar to the one you probably used before, when basic auth was still working. In my Excel sheet it looks like this:
Set xml = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
xml.Open cApi_method, cApi_resource & "?status=" & cStatus, False
xml.setRequestHeader "Authorization", cHeader
tResult = xml.responsetext
Debug.Print tResult
Set xml = Nothing
And that's all there is to it!
Please note that I my goal was to get to my required end result, which was to send a tweet. I have not attempted to create the most efficient and robust code and process to get there. I am convinced that there are far more talented programmers out there, who will be able to take this code and improve it. Please go ahead and share this with the rest of us.....
You can download the Excel sheet I created here.
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Fell at the first hurdle. When registering my spreadsheet with Twitter, I am given Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, but no oauth_token or oauth_token_secret. Where do I go for these?ReplyDelete
On the setting page for your application, don't you see a tab on the right which says "My Access Token"? That is where is see the token en secret for my twitter usernameReplyDelete
Ahhh, I registered using the main site instead of dev.twitter.com. Thx.ReplyDelete
I keep getting "Error code=53: Basic authentication is not supported" even though I'm supplying the four key/secret params in the spreadsheet. Any thoughts?ReplyDelete
I'm getting same and BlueKarooReplyDelete
Basic authentication is not supported
Got it to work!! Thanks so much. I had to change the timestamp to use GMT. I added 6/24 to Now function since I'm in NY and GMT is 6 hours ahead.ReplyDelete
I got around the Basic Authentication is not supported by pressing cancel when prompted for user id and passwordReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2010 at 3:44 PM
I'm no VBA person and getting a "Compile error: Can't find project or library" drive me nuts...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2011 at 8:11 PM
Did you download the cryptosys library?ReplyDelete
Alec Berg>ReplyDelete
I cannot around the "Basic Authentication is not supported" by pressing cancel when prompted for user id and password.
I met error message below
"Invalid authorization header"
you can get another Oauth access realization in excelReplyDelete
and, you can download SHA-1 Library,in Hyperlink Below
contains GCryptInstaller.MSI's USAGE
but I cannot twit by my Excel ㅠㅠ
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I'm looking for something like this for my company
May you contact me? carolouribe at hotmail dot com.
- AnonymousMay 8, 2011 at 2:37 AM
"End of the Night" is a simple romantic Twitter client, based on Microsoft Excel, by Shiodoki. (@shiodoki on Twitter)ReplyDelete
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I can't seem to find out how that works. I'm happy you shared this step-by-step procedure. It helps in a lot of ways.ReplyDelete
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Thanks for this blog, but more particularly to the comment dated January 18, 2011 10:28 AM.ReplyDelete
Your code in
http://the-workflow.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/the-workflow/client/Client.xls was a great help for me in writing an Excel VBA client for Gmail (scope https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom).
The GCrypt library was also very useful, without the 30 day trial restriction of the Cryptosys library referenced in this blog.
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2012 at 4:44 PM
Hi Adrianus,ReplyDelete
first of all, let me thankyou for this great contribution,
I have downloaded you excel example, and also the CryptoSys library, and instaled in my computer. I'm using MS visual basic 6.2 and Excel 2007.
The problem is that I still receive the "Compile error: Can't find project or library" message, and I have no idea of what can happend..
If it can help, in VB "References" sub menu, under "Tools", "idCryptoSys.dll" thosen't appears..
Any sugestion? Thanks in advance!!!
I am getting the same error: " Can't find project or library", and i am using Excel 2007. Any suggestions will be of great help.ReplyDelete
Is anybody got through from this post to tweet from Excel!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 10:43 PM
I can't get this to work. I keep getting the 'Could not authenticate with Oauth' error. I think it's the signature but I'm not sure.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Fantastic work, I have to say. I can get your Excel sheet to run fine. I'm trying to port this to MS Access at the moment, and I'm almost there. I get an OAuth failure, but I need to go through a few things regarding how the key is generated. I've had to substitute a function or two and make some declarations. I'm almost there!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2012 at 12:12 PM
Ok - I now have it working from Access VBA. Thanks a million!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2012 at 2:06 AM
Great! what are the steps necessary and where is the sample?? :)Delete
- AnonymousOctober 2, 2012 at 8:07 PM
Can you give a sample of your MS Access aplicatition?Delete
Could be useful if you share, i'm trying to make it work for Dropbox API. Any suggestions?Delete
Who has a sample of this?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 14, 2013 at 6:57 PM
Any help on an "Invalid Unicode value in one or more parameters" error from your example?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2013 at 5:08 PM
Всё работает, спасибо. :))
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For anyone finding this article now, there are *several* problems with attempting to emulate its approach. The most significant are:ReplyDelete
1) The base 64 encoding described... doesn't appear to have registered that function.
2) Twitter has deprecated the 1.0 REST API, and now relies on 1.1.
3) The timestamp must be encoded to UTC (as an earlier post indicates. If you're on local, add a UTC Offset times 3600 and add that to the timestamp.
4) *Most damning*, XML is no longer supported by Twitter. Only json is.
Thanks for an informative post, but you really should come back, edit it and mention that this system is so deprecated it is unusable as a programming example. Would have saved me many hours.
- AnonymousFebruary 13, 2014 at 8:23 AM
API resource = http://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses.update.jsonReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 2, 2015 at 5:10 AM
Does this still work? or anyone has the updated VBA code for this?ReplyDelete
The idea of using Excel with Twitter is neat, but why would you want to? There are a zillion prepacked clients out there, just use one of them.ReplyDelete


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The West Brunswick High School Theater Department will perform "A Holiday Tribute to The Nightmare Before Christmas" at 7 p.m. Dec. 11 and 12 at West Brunswick Theatre.
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Also, I'm interested in how you do your rewards system. Thanks!
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