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When Michael Schwendiman of Marion hit a deer with his 1990 Buick several days ago, he was not alone in his frustration at the accident.
"I've had at least two or more deer accident reports to look at each morning when I come to work for the past few weeks," said Marion County Sheriff Rob Craft. "This time of year the deer are moving because of rut and they just are not looking out for cars."
Deer breeding season, known as rut, peaks in mid to late November. Lloyd Fox, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism biologist said this is also a time when deer are moving to new locations as crops are harvested and leaves fall from trees and shrubs.
"Not only are deer more active during the fall, but the shorter days mean dusk and dawn — when deer are more likely to be on the move — occur when commuter traffic is highest," Fox said.
Even those who warn others to be on the lookout for deer cannot seem to avoid them. A state trooper collided with a deer near Atchison on Friday, resulting in significant damage to his vehicle, according to KDWPT.
Damage to Schwendiman's car was significant as well.
"It messed up the hood and they replaced it with the wrong color," Tillie Schwendiman said on Monday. "It will never be the same. It makes me so mad."
Craft said the only way to avoid deer collisions was to not drive, but since that is not a feasible solution, he suggested motorists be extra vigilant for the rest of November.
"You just have to be very observant, especially when traveling along roads that have wooded areas nearby, or low-lying brushy areas," he said. "The time of day really doesn't seem to matter anymore. They are moving at all times. We have reports of deer being hit at 2 a.m., 10 a.m., 5 p.m., and 5 a.m. No time is safe."
Craft said most of the damage caused in deer-vehicle collisions was actually the result of drastic maneuvers by the driver.
"If you see a deer, try to avoid making any drastic direction changes," he said. "People lose control when they try to avoid a collision. They just need to slow down and drive on through."
Other tips Craft offered for drivers on the roads during deer rut include:
- Watch for more than one deer. They seldom travel alone, so if one deer crosses the road, others may follow.
- Use bright lights and slow down whenever the reflective eyes of deer are spotted.
- Always wear a seatbelt and do not swerve to avoid hitting a deer.
Craft advised motorists who do hit a deer to call 911 and report the accident if the damage could amount to more than $1,000.
"If there are no injuries to the occupants of the vehicle, or no property damage, and if the vehicle damage looks less than $1,000, you are not required to report the accident," Craft said. "For insurance purposes, it might be a good idea to call it in though. And, of course, if there are injuries and major damage, call in."


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Traditional Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar & Ukulele
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Traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar & ukulele concert featuring songs & stories telling its history.
#1 BEST LIVE SHOW – 2018 Hawaii Magazine Reader's Choice. Traditional slack key music embraces you with Aloha creating an oasis of peace and deep relaxation… Perfect for your Kauai experience.
2018 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence.
Family Friendly Tickets $25 ($20 Ages 13-19 & 50+; $10 Ages 6-12). Gift Drawing.
Audience rating 20+ yrs is 99.3% "Excellent, Highlight of our trip!".
This concert will 'Tune your world to Aloha'! Award winning concert artists Doug & Sandy McMaster have 11 CDs to perpetuate the knowledge and experience of the endangered artform of traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele. Guided by the kupuna (elders), they have dedicated their lives to continuing the family tradition of slack key music.
Proceeds support the Princeville at Hanalei Community Association and this program.
Audience Comments:
"Awesome music & talent!" – Kathy
"Soothing to the soul and spirit." – David & Dianne
"To really feel Hawaii, you must hear slack key. It embodies Aloha!" – Bill
"Great intimate setting… like being in the artists living room with friends." – Sally
"Touched my heart and filled me with Aloha." – John
To help perpetuate and preserve the family music tradition of Hawaiian slack key, visit the 501c3 nonprofit, Slack Key Music Center. Know a budding slack key musician of any age? Visit www.SlackKeyMusicCenter.org to learn about the Student Artist Development program.
The Princeville community center is easy to find at 4334 Emmalani Drive in Princeville, Kauai. Turning into Princeville community, take the roundabout around and turn right on Emmalani Drive. The center is the first on your right and is located right next to Prince Albert Park. The concert is held in the Aloha Room.
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or call (808) 826-1469.
Accessible and Family Friendly: This facility is family friendly with nice grassy area, playground, and park for parents to take restless children during the concert and intermission. Birds in the trees around the center contribute to sweet slack key serenade and tradewinds flow through the windows and doors around the center.

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The Lord has admonished priesthood holders, "Be ye clean" (D&C 38:42). In this section you will deepen your understanding of the relationship between personal worthiness and priesthood power (see D&C 121:34–46). You will also make plans to strengthen your habit of regular prayer and scripture study, which includes studying the words of the living prophets.
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It's coming. Apple has sent out the invites for its Sept. 9 event, and yours truly was invited!
The subject line reads "Please join Apple on September 9 for a special event." And inside, the company says, "Wish we could say more." Could this be Apple unveiling details about its iPhone 6, rumored to have a larger screen size?
Not everyone got invited to the press event. Some took to Twitter to point that out.
Looking for my invite to the Apple Event on the 9th….checks email.. ..checks email again ..again…. again… …AGAIN… …still checking ……………
— iJustine (@ijustine) August 28, 2014
Stay calm, Apple's apparently holding a glitzy "iPhone" media event on September 9. Can only assume our invite was lost in the post.
— The Register (@TheRegister) August 5, 2014
Meanwhile, other journalists started looking at the invite for clues.
Interesting. If you look at the Apple invite upside down, the 9s become 6s. PROOF that the iPhone 6 is coming out. pic.twitter.com/Ez2l5r6dPz
— Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) August 28, 2014
Maybe the hint in the Apple invite is that voice technology will play a bigger role than we might have thought. $AAPL
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The Penguins boast a team loaded with talent from top to bottom as they prepare for the Eastern Conference finals series agains the Bruins.
Tanner Glass started every game for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the regular season, his grit providing the fourth line with a rugged presence to take some of the heat off superstars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin.
Playing time has proven more difficult in the postseason. Glass has watched six of Pittsburgh's last seven games from the press box. It's an ego-testing vantage point for a player who helped the Vancouver Canucks to the Stanley Cup Final two years ago.
Glass is healthy. He's just not a part of coach Dan Bylsma's plan at the moment.
Such is both the blessing and the curse of playing for the league's most talent-laden roster.
"You look at the lineup, you can't say, 'I should be in ahead of this guy or that guy,'" Glass said. "On this team, we've got such a deep team and such a great group of players, you've just got to stay ready."
Hardly an issue these days for the Penguins, who have roared into the Eastern Conference finals against Boston on the strength of their stars and a supporting cast that is showing Pittsburgh is hardly just "The Crosby Show."
The Penguins currently have eight players in the top 20 in postseason scoring through the first two rounds. Sure, Malkin and Crosby are doing their thing – combining for 31 points through 11 games – but Pittsburgh is also receiving instant offense from the plug-and-play guys toward the bottom of the depth chart.
Forwards Tyler Kennedy, Joe Vitale, Beau Bennett, Jussi Jokinen and Brenden Morrow have joined Glass as healthy scratches. All five have found ways to respond when they see their number written on the dry erase board following a game-day skate.
Kennedy came off the bench to spark a win in Game 5 of the first-round series with the New York Islanders and hasn't missed a game since. Vitale missed the first four games of the New York series but produced an assist for his first NHL playoff point in Game 5. Morrow didn't dress for a playoff game for the first time in his 13-year career in Game 4 against Ottawa, then responded with the opening goal in the series clincher two nights later.
Bylsma downplays the suggestion that he has a sixth sense for when a role player is "due." Whenever he shakes things up, it's more based on scouting and matchups than gut instinct. Of course, there's also the simple luxury of having guys battling for time on the fourth line who would be top-six forwards elsewhere.
"We have good players that are not in the lineup," Bylsma said. "When we inserted (Vitale) into the first-round series, his skill set ... his speed was something we thought we needed, and he made an immediate impact when he came into that series."
Still, it did little to ensure more playing time for Vitale. He sat out the final three games of the Ottawa series while Bylsma went with the likes of Jokinen, a better two-way player and an experienced faceoff man.
Vitale didn't let the benching bother him. Maybe because it didn't feel like a benching. He understands Bylsma's job is to win the Stanley Cup, not to make Vitale feel better. Some games, that means Vitale will be in the lineup. Others, it means he'll wear a nice suit and watch from the top of the arena.
"It's just a different atmosphere," Vitale said. "You're just pulling for the guy next to you. If Jussi goes in for me, I'm sitting up above and I really want him to be at the very best he can be. When you win and you're in the locker room and you're not sweating, you're just as happy as the guys who are. That's just the kind of environment it is right now."
Jokinen and Morrow both came over in trade deadline deals meant to bolster the Penguins for a Cup run. Jokinen recorded 11 points in 10 games while filling in on the top line for Crosby at the end of the regular season as Crosby recovered from a broken jaw.
Even that didn't stop Jokinen from sitting out five playoff games. While he may have been slowed by an injury, he also lost out to a hot hand in Vitale. When Vitale went cold, Jokinen found himself right back on the ice without so much as a word from Bylsma.
"If you want to win Cups, that's how it has to be," Jokinen said. "We have 16 forwards and nine really good NHL defensemen on this team. Not everybody can play every night."
The ones that do, however, have fueled a team that is 8-3 in the postseason while averaging 4.27 goals per game, a full goal ahead of everybody else. Sure, a potent power play helps. So does having Olympic gold medalists (Morrow), 30-goal scorers (Jokinen) and Cup winners (Kennedy) fighting for playing time.
Don't expect Bylsma to change his methods anytime soon. While Kennedy and Morrow will likely be fixtures against the Bruins, the same can't be said for Jokinen, Vitale or Bennett. Bylsma will pick and choose as he goes along, trying to decipher what his team needs in a given moment.
His touch has been golden so far. And the players say they can deal with the uncertainty if it leads to a championship.
"We've got a great group of extras who have gone in and out," Vitale said. "They've made plays when they're in, and they've kept guys up when they're out. ... We've really just removed all selfishness. This isn't an individual thing. This is a group thing."


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|2009-11-19, 10:52
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Does DEEN fix their animation goofs when they hit DVD or not? I know that Sunrise does, but I'm not sure about DEEN.
BTW, Awesome ep. I wish that a higher quality studio had done this series (and Higurashi) but at least DEEN is willing to do them at all.
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Man, I don't know what to think of Rosa anymore. I understand that it's hard to be a single mother and that she's looking for some companionship, but she should have made better arrangements involving Maria, plus she's obviously embarrassed about her lies and affairs.
|2009-11-19, 11:34
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|2009-11-19, 11:38
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It also seems that Maria says that Ange has some kind of anti magic toxin. This probably is the thing that would beat Beatrice.
|2009-11-19, 11:51
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Warwick, RI
Age: 36
As she said at the end of the episode, magic is real for those who believe in it. It is subjective.
I think the distinction lies in what Ange means by "magic". It's very different from what Beatrice means by "magic".
|2009-11-19, 11:52
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
To be precise, that's not the Ange of 1986, it's the Ange of 1985 or before. That scene happened during a family meeting, and Ange (as it was stated in the first episode of the fourth arc) can't possibly join the one of 1986.
|2009-11-19, 12:50
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Guess DEEN concluded most of 1988 Ange 's scenes this episode. They are really rushing through all the scenes ><
As pointed out before, it was more unbelievable and shocking when Ange managed to summon all the seven sisters and Sakutarou on the boat. Kind of lack the dramatic emotion i felt during the game.
|2009-11-19, 16:12
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User of the "Fast Draw"
Well that's one crazy old lady. Some reason with guys packing guns heading to the island think Ange's bodyguard is going to have a tough day.
Well the Stake's getting taken out certainly lost the surprise factor since it was mentioned almost every page from those worried it was going to be taken out. Still a pretty dramatic moment with Ange just losing it. No surprise considering the hell that school was. Forget asking the stakes I would have been tempted to just grab a desk and start swinging. At any rate stakes are a pretty likable group when they aren't on a killing spree . If they weren't being used as weapons they wouldn't be bad to be around.
Wow Rosa the wonder parent . Definitely in a tough spot with the single parent and taking that into account. But she couldn't afford to have someone watch over Maria? Leave the kid alone with only stuffed animals for comfort and get surprised that she talks to them? Plus way to go in terms of traumatizing your own child by ripping in half the only friend she has in the world....Personally surprised the lady didn't go calling the police or something. Rosa was going over the edge there.
Anyways I don't think Ange will have a great problem with her stance. The point here is to prove that magic wasn't responsible for the deaths on the island. Magic existing doesn't mean that humans weren't responsible for what happened. Besides Ange is just there to support Battler while he throws everything he can at Beatrice and try to win.
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|2009-11-19, 16:33
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That the lady does nothing suggests to me that the scene is fake. Maria's overreacting memory perhaps.
It's that Ange's other aunt...her mother's sister, rather than Eva (her father's sister).
|2009-11-19, 16:37
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Ange's stance is to prove magic didn't have anything to do with the crimes: it's not about denying magic, just about denying it's involvement with the murders. She does believe in magic herself though, although what exactly is 'magic' makes you wonder a little.
|2009-11-19, 17:21
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Dude, Eva is dead. She died shortly after Ange first met Bernkastel. Ange mentions the funeral during her conversation with Okanogi. The silver haired woman chasing Ange in 1998 is Sumadora Kasumi, Kyrie's little sister.
Of coarse you could have been speculating that Eva's shambling corpse is manipulating Kasumi from the shadows and plotting to take over the world or something, in which case I stand corrected. (Actually, that would make for a pretty weird plot twist now that I think about it, as that would mean you could explain all the murders with "zombie attack" and be done with it.)
Moving on, Ithekro makes a good point. All of the Maria/Rosa flashbacks have been thrice filtered and can hardly be called "unbiased". Memories are not always the most accurate and Maria may not have been entirely honest in her depiction of events (Ange suspected that Maria may have been selective in what she chose to remember in an earlier scene). It would be best to assume, at least for now, that there are parts of the picture that Maria didn't get to see and give Rosa the benefit of the doubt. Not too much doubt mind you, that bitch already deserves to have her parenting license revoked for the things we can confirm. But still, got to keep things in perspective.
|2009-11-19, 17:24
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: middle of nowhere, Virginia
Age: 32
Why so sinister? ¯\(º_o)/¯ Don't do drugs, Takano, it's not healthy.
Scream louder, you creepy kid.
Needs more Battler. Always needs more Battler. Maria and Ange playing with their useless magical friends is boring.
|2009-11-19, 17:36
|Link #60
Senior Member
That woman there was from the service of child protection, so the police officer went quite far to tell the truth. Rosa could have been placed with charges of neglecting her child, but we can see that that lady is seriously running low on options to charge Rosa on anything.
Maria is neither in a bad physical state nor is she visibly hurt as it seems, Rosa is providing her with a home, food and a good education...back then as far as I'm informed that was what parenting was about, child protection was still a growing (but relatively small) field.
There are theories around even today, if that woman would have taken Maria away without any hesitation it could have broken Maria even more, because she clearly loves her MOTHER Rosa...and as long as the child is not asking to be taken away herself, there's not much to do.
And of course Japan is still very heavily influenced by respect in front of home privacy. Rosa forced her out, so in the end she had to get out...I think that lady already pushed to the limits by not going directly when Rosa asked.
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The Execute DTS 2000 Package task runs packages that were developed by using the SQL Server 2000 tools. By using this task, you can include SQL Server 2000 DTS packages in SQL Server data transformation solutions. A package can include both Execute Package tasks and Execute DTS 2000 Package tasks, because each type of task uses a different version of the run-time engine.
The Execute DTS 2000 Package task is provided only for purposes of backward compatibility with the deprecated component, Data Transformation Services (DTS). For more information, see Data Transformation Services (DTS).
SQL Server 2008 does not install run-time support for DTS packages. You have to install this run-time support before you can run DTS packages. For information about how to install support for DTS, see How to: Install Support for Data Transformation Services Packages.
You cannot use the Execute DTS 2000 Package task in a package that is running in 64-bit mode on a 64-bit computer. There is no 64-bit design-time or run-time support for Data Transformation Services (DTS) packages that were created in earlier versions of SQL Server. For more information, see Support for SQL Server 2000 DTS in SQL Server 2008 R2.
The Execute DTS 2000 Package task runs SQL Server 2000 packages, but otherwise its features are similar to those of the Execute Package task. You can use the Execute DTS 2000 Package task for the following purposes:
Breaking down complex package workflow. This task lets you break down workflow into multiple packages, which are easier to read and maintain. For example, if you are loading data into a star schema, you can build a separate package to populate each dimension and the fact table.
Reusing parts of packages. Other packages can reuse parts of a package workflow. For example, you can build a data extraction module that can be called from different packages. Each package that calls the extraction module can perform different data scrubbing, filtering, or aggregation operations.
Grouping work units. Units of work can be encapsulated into separate packages and joined as transactional components to the workflow of a parent package. For example, the parent package runs the accessory packages, and based on the success or failure of the accessory packages, the parent package either commits or rolls back the transaction.
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DTS packages cannot be opened or modified directly in Business Intelligence Development Studio. In addition, neither SQL Server 2008, nor SQL Server 2005, installs the DTS package designer that is required to modify DTS packages. However, you can download and install the DTS package designer, and use it to modify DTS packages. For information about how to install design-time support for DTS packages, see How to: Install Support for Data Transformation Services Packages. After installing this download, you can view and modify DTS packages from Management Studio, or from the Execute DTS 2000 Package Task Editor in Business Intelligence Development Studio.
The DTS package designer works with the SQL Server 2008 tools, but the designer's features have not been updated for SQL Server 2008.
The Execute DTS 2000 Package task can use inner and outer variables. Inner variables are variables in the child package; outer variables are variables in the parent package. Using inner variables, the Execute DTS 2000 Packages task can pass updated values to the global variables in the SQL Server 2000 DTS package. Using outer variables, the calling package can pass the values of variables to the child package. For example, you can use the values of outer variables in child package scripts. For more information, see Integration Services Variables and Using Variables in Packages.
Integration Services does not support Meta Data Services and an Integration Services package cannot run SQL Server 2000 DTS packages that are saved to Meta Data Services by using the Execute DTS 2000 Package task. The package must use the SQL Server 2000 DTS runtime to run packages in Meta Data Services. To run these packages, you create an SQL Server 2000 parent package that runs the package in Meta Data Services, and save the parent package to SQL Server or a structured storage file. The Execute DTS 2000 package can then run the parent package, which in turn can run the package in Meta Data Services.
Many DTS 2000 packages can be migrated to SQL Server. For more information, see Migrating Data Transformation Services Packages.
Other Related Tasks
Integration Services includes tasks that perform workflow operations such as running SQL Server packages, executables, and batch files.
For more information about these tasks, click one of the following topics:
Custom Log Entries Available on the Execute DTS 2000 Task
The following table lists the custom log entries for the Execute DTS 2000 task. For more information, see Implementing Logging in Packages and Custom Messages for Logging.
Log entry
Indicates that the task began to run a DTS 2000 package.
Indicates that the task finished.
The DTS 2000 package may continue to run after the task ends.
Provides descriptive information about the task.
Reports the execution result of the DTS 2000 package that the task ran.
Configuring the Execute DTS 2000 Package Task
You can set properties through SSIS Designer or programmatically.
For more information about the properties that you can set in SSIS Designer, click one of the following topics:
For more information about how to set these properties in SSIS Designer, click the following topic:
Configuring the Execute DTS 2000 Package Task Programmatically
For more information about programmatically setting these properties, click the following topic:


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Help:User Help
From BluWiki
If you cannot find your question in the help area, please feel free to ask help questions here. They will be answered and archived frequently.
Please make a new section for the current month (see here for how) and post under it. It's easier to keep track of questions and when they were posted. If you remove any questions, please leave a comment with a link to where they were moved to.
October 2008
Can bluwiki be used for hosting entirely commercial and public wikis? Yes! You can host any wiki you like, within the boundaries of common sense. There is another wiki site available at MyWikiBiz, where they can help you with advertising and promotion. That's not really what we're equipped to do.
Can I use my own domain name, say www.XYZ.com, so the users won't see bluwiki.com in the URL of any of the pages on my wiki? Yes, you can use a domain name as a redirect but it will still redirect to a *.bluwiki.com URL. Sorry, we aren't equipped to change that yet.
Can I insert advertisments from my google adsense account? Unfortunately no (and this goes for any website not just AdSense) and that feature is not likely to be added. Put simply, this would require installing a MediaWiki plugin to turn the HTML of the ads into a MediaWiki tag. Although these plugins do exist, we do not plan on using them because that is not part of what we do. If you absolutely need to do this, MyWikiBiz does allow AdSense ads. BluWiki may have ads of its own (from Adsense), this helps us pay our bills.
Can I have customisable forms which user will be able to fill in when editing or creating standard pages. For example I could have a form for a biography page. Anytime someone adds a new person's biography to my wiki, they will just fill in a form. You can make a template, which can include some sort of "barebones" page the user can fill out and expand if needed. Other than that, that's the only way I know of.
Suppose a user sets up an account on my bluwiki hosted wiki, will I be able to take that user account away with me, if some day in the future I choose to host my wiki somewhere else? No, all accounts on BluWiki share the same database.
can I set a template to automatically include itself when editing a new page on My personal wiki? Yes. Wikipedia's help page on templates is here. It works the same way here as there.
December 2008
Can, and if so, how can I delete my account (as a user)? You cannot. It would be very time-intensive to delete all of a person's contributions. Just stop using your account or change the password to something you won't remember again.
Some of my links to subpages at http://ausfehlernlernen.bluwiki.com/go/Ausfehlernlernen do not seem to work anymore. "Beispiel: Müll" does not work, "Beispiel: Schmierpapier" works. Maybe because of the German "ü"? What do you think? BluWiki's support of Unicode is not complete. Try to use normal English letters, no accents. It will be fixed sometime in future.
January 2009
Can I set up a Wiki that can only be accessed by a certain community of users? For example, would it be possible to restrict access to a certain range of IPs, or give access only to invited users? My group wants to create a wiki, but doesn't want it available to our competitors at the moment. No, we don't have any form of access control at present. This is one of the projects that Sam wants completed that he needs help with. (Can you help?)
1)please tell me the easy process to use my own domain .It's better if you give the numeric IP adress .I will edit my settings to my domain by using Zoneedit.com .
2)Can i add Adbrite,pagads and other affliate adcodes in html pages .
3)Can i use telugu an indian language.
1) I recommend EveryDNS. All you should need to do is add a CNAME entry for bluwiki.com.
2) I've already answered this in October, please check the answer there.
3) I really don't know. Try it.
Is it OK that people are setting up their own independent wikis on the domain that I created? Should I just ignore them? Hrairoo 03:42, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- You aren't understanding the nature of subdomains here. It isn't a subdomain (or domain) reserved just for you and you alone, complete with your own user database, your own access controls, admin access to delete/protect any page you like, etc etc. Because everything on the wiki relies on one database (not one for each user), this means anyone can make pages. ie, I can go and make a page yoursubdomain.bluwiki.com/go/thisismypage, which is exactly the same as bluwiki.com/go/thisismypage. That is how the wiki works. The subdomain (or domain) only acts like a shortcut to the real page, which is located at http://bluwiki.com/go/yourpagegoeshere
- Gotcha. So I'm thinking that probably these people are not actually posting to "my" subdomain--they only appear to me to be in the same subdomain, because it's actually all one domain?
- Correct.
- Gotcha. So I'm thinking that probably these people are not actually posting to "my" subdomain--they only appear to me to be in the same subdomain, because it's actually all one domain?
- Do you run into a lot of problems with people trying to pick names for pages that are already taken by another wiki? Hrairoo 04:28, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- Not really, no. We don't have a log with those sorts of errors. The end user gets the error and has to choose again.
I am trying to verify my email address, and I get the error "Could not send confirmation mail. Check address for invalid characters." I don't have any characters in my email address. Can you help me with this?--Krauschristopher1 15:13, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
- I'll get it looked at.
April 2009
Where do I report bugs? It seems that the heuristic for colouring external links is a bit odd, some valid URLs like http://www.gnu.org are drawn in orange while others like http://www.gnu.org/foo are drawn in blue. I haven't figured out the system yet, but it seems that an URL needs to have a sufficient number of path components (for some hard-to-understand definition of path component) in order to be drawn in blue. --Erik Sandberg 07:57, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
- It depends on your browser, not some complicated made-up formula. Your browser's settings may override the MediaWiki settings. Links that don't exist are red, otherwise they are blue, otherwise visited links are violet. It's that simple. If you have further concerns, please speak with Sam Odio.
There seems to be a bit of a problem with the Spam filter. When I use the word amb-ient (as one word) it is detected as spam...Is there any way to prevent this from happening? --roelvandoorn 08:58, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
- The string "ambien" is spamfiltered. It will be removed from the filter sometime today.
- Thanks Nathan for bringing this to my attention. I've removed ambien from the spam filter. You can now type ambient without problems. --Sam Odio 19:12, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
June 2009
Is there any way to format galleries in a more detailed way? At the moment galleries I add always show up in rows of 4, but there seems to be room for bigger rows. I could not find any additional formatting help regarding galleries, but maybe I overlooked it. --roelvandoorn 14:49, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
- This is from another site and should answer your question.
Sorry, I'm not good at wiki formatting, but I'll try to phrase my question in a way that it can be understood. A while ago, I set up this page: Thecpedia and subsequent pages. I used Template:Clickpic to get the pictures to link to another internal page rather than their image page. I come back today, and the images aren't showing up, as you can see. As far as I can see, the images are still uploaded, and clicking on their name still directs me to the correct page, but the pictures just aren't showing up. Is there a way to fix this? Is it on my end? Sorry if the question seems ambiguous. -- TrueFr33Will 29 June 2009
- No, the question makes sense. Every template from Wikipedia is not going to work here, that's just the way it is. I'll see what I can do to fix the template but don't expect miracles. Sorry, not a whole lot I can do here, templates should come with a disclaimer "use at your own risk". If Template:Click doesn't work for you, I don't know what to suggest. Nathan (talk) 21:57, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- Ah. I see. I was just confused because it seemed to work and then not. ;D The template you directed me to works great, though. Thanks so much!
August 2009
Could you please remove the captcha for logged in users? Thanks! -- logixoul.bluwiki.org, 12:30, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
- No, and I'll tell you why. Sometimes spammers will try creating an account, then spamming pages. We don't want to take chances. It's a minor inconvenience but you can manage. Nathan (talk) 19:00, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
I've just start a subdomain about chess, in Spanish (so, it's named "Ajedrez"). The templates are in English and my question is ¿is it right if I made new templates translated? (By example, the one about incomplete pages, etc). Thanks. Hardland 04:21, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
- You can name them anything you want but you can't use accents. Hope this helps. Nathan 21:32, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
December 2009
How can I protect my wiki with a password? - Thanks for your answer.
- I don't know why you want to "protect" your wiki... but wikis work best un protected!. I can see no reason to "protect" -and then make a wiki not as good as it would be. Hardland 14:06, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
- I want, that only my group can look in that wiki, because you should´n look in that wiki. Sorry for my bad English.
- (Don't worry, I'm no native english speaking). Then... I think you don't really need a wiki "on internet", but a wiki "in a intranet". Anyway, wikis work better while open, so It may be you need something different. 188.8.131.52 12:02, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
August 2010
The server was down on Monday 8/2, but since the server came back yesterday it seems I can't edit my wiki page without logging in. Am I missing something and this is how it's supposed to be, or is this a bug? Worse, assuming that you do in fact now need to login to edit, I can't even see how someone creates a new account if they don't already have one; there is no option anywhere to do so. What is going on? Somebody help?! The martial arts class I'm in uses this to regularly determine attendance for our class, so having this not work is a big problem. Thanks in advance. Jodirren 00:51, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
- Ditto; both anon accounts and new user creation seems to be impossible. Perhaps there's been a recent spam flood... PLUS, every edit now requires a captcha be solved. (Plus, captcha is weird; the 'words in the captcha aren't even words any more. My current captcha is "rentie used" except 'rentie' isn't a word, and the word 'used' is upside down!) Damn spammers! --Elvey 21:14, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
- Uh-oh. It's worse than that. I think an Admin account has been hacked. Talk:Guestbook was just edited by an IP, yet I can't edit it while logged in, and it's 100% spam. I'm calling Odioworks. --Elvey 21:27, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
- Well, we're calling it quits and are pulling our site and taking it to another wiki. This is way too long of a disruption to make it useful for us .... Jodirren 19:38, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
- Would you like to work for us? We don't have people on the site 24/7 nor do we have many people willing to work on the code (perhaps one), nor do we have the money to pay them. We're not Wikipedia. We don't have an army of developers at our disposal. We have one. You have to understand that BluWiki is strictly non-profit. We make no money whatsoever (well, the money we make goes back into our hosting so we're lucky if we break even). Nathan 18:04, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
So can someone responsible, please tell us what is going on as my wiki has effectively been read-only and I will be forced to relocate it if edit is not restored soon. Samlor Tue Aug 10 11:22:15 2010 (UTC+10:00)
- Whoops; I didn't call Odioworks 'till just now. Left a message. (It's the weekend.) (http://brrd.bluwiki.com/go/Special:EmailUser/Sam_Odio has no email address.) I also sent email to Charlie, and Nathan. --Elvey 15:55, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
- Elvey: Why did you call OdioWorks? OdioWorks no longer owns BluWiki. Samlor: Yes, I'm responsible but not for the glitches. The wiki is buggy & glitchy and pretty much all the admins know it. We're trying to do what we can. This isn't the first report of bugs (or people not able to edit their pages) nor will it be the last. We're working on it & that's the best answer I can give you. When we have more news, we'll post it here. Thanks for your understanding. Nathan 18:04, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
Site Problems
Could you guys please list all of the problems you're having with BluWiki? I'll take a look at them. <Cmelbye (talkcontribs) .</small> Actually, it looks like the new owners revoked my access to the server. Sorry. --Cmelbye 18:40, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
- Done. From what I can remember, anyway. Nathan 18:09, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
Glad you guys are 'on it.It was primarily the Guestbook issue, plus Jodirren's long-unanswered questions/problem reports, both above, that made me jump into action because it seemed likely no one was minding the place. If you can address these issues, great. Knowing that you're aware of 'em is valuable. I wouldn't have reached out in several ways if I didn't think an Admin account had been hacked, rendering the alert system untrustworthy. Consider this my response to your emails as well. --Elvey 18:57, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
- Well, with C's access revoked, hopefully someone is on it. I would offer more help, but am overloaded 'till mid-next month. --Elvey 19:06, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
I guess you guys have given up on deleting spam from the wiki; I see a ton added today. Do you want some pointers to more advanced spam prevention and clean-up tools? Without advanced tools it would be impractical, and pointless 'till after you find a way to slow it down to a manageable amount. Clearly captcha isn't working. Can I suggest places to start? --Elvey 19:06, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
- Someone still has to have access to server to implement anything, that's just the way it works. If Chuck doesn't, I don't know about the new owner..and there's only so long I can ignore these problems myself before I start shaking trees to see what falls out. Hopefully a very loud "HEY! We're going to lose users!" will get someone's attention. Nathan 13:45, 21 August 2010 (UTC)


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Actor Stephen Baldwin has had his share of money woes, and one website is looking to help him out, Bible-style.
The Restoration of Stephen Baldwin seeks support and monetary donations for the born-again Christian actor. According to the website, the movement was inspired by the Biblical story of Job, a man of great wealth who went through a rough period after he stood up for his faith, only to have his wealth eventually restored through token donations.
Baldwin was not involved in the making of the site, but his spiritual adviser Daniel Southern gave permission. It was built by the same company, SPX Studios, that made Baldwin's official site as well as his Breakthrough Ministry page.
Because the inspiration for the movement comes from the Bible verse Job 42:10-11, the donation page automatically populates a gift of $4.21, though they will accept any amount. The site says that donations go directly into a private bank account that Southern set up for Baldwin.
The website cites fall-out over Baldwin's religion for his financial troubles, saying that his income went down 70% because he stopped accepting roles with too much sex and violence after becoming a born-again Christian. The site also alleges that his family, which includes Emmy-winner and "30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin, refuses to help because they don't "perceive Stephen's predicament as a matter of spiritual warfare" and because they see his evangelism as a series of bad choices.
Baldwin declared bankruptcy in New York last summer, claiming he and his wife owe more than $2.3 million on his property, which is valued at $1.1 million. He owes over $1 million in taxes and $1.2 million in mortgages, plus credit card debt.
The movement has already inspired at least one parody, Restore Someone Else, which promises to donate any of its restoration profits to various churches and charities.


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The Baltimore Police Department said it will not release policies and procedures related to training exercises, even after being told by a federal judge last week that its policies are not protected from public disclosure.
In response to a request from The Baltimore Sun, the department agreed that its standard operating procedures were public information. But its chief legal counsel concluded that they would not release the policies because of an internal investigation into whether any were violated during this week's shooting of a trainee at a state facility in Owings Mills.
Police say investigations give them broad discretion to limit disclosure of information.
Debbie Jeon, the legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, called the Police Department's claim "ludicrous."
"Police concede, as they must, that these rules are public records," Jeon, who was not involved in The Sun's request, said in an email, "and it is ridiculous to claim enforcement of the rules somehow makes them confidential."
The Sun requested the procedures to get a better idea of what guidelines, if any, training instructors are given regarding their conduct at training, particularly when it takes place outside of the agency's academy.
Before this week, the Police Department had refused for years to release its general orders to The Sun. A recent court opinion in U.S. District Court says the general orders are not protected documents.
In the case of a former officer suing for employment discrimination, the agency said that general orders regarding light duty, suspensions, secondary employment and overtime were "potentially protected from public disclosure." The department said it would "normally resist disclosing documents governing its internal procedures" outside of litigation, according to court filings.
But on Feb. 7, U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander rejected that idea. She said state law "protects documents that are drafted by or on behalf of an agency in the process of formulating policy. It does not protect documents that constitute the official statement of the policy after it has been promulgated."
The request that a general order be sealed was "plainly unwarranted," Hollander found, noting that the very same order had been submitted as an exhibit in an earlier case and remains accessible to the public in the file.


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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
Prof. Dr. Hamid Sarbazi-Azad
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iranüber das Thema:
An Efficient Scheme for Prolonging the Lifetime of Phase-Change MemoriesZeit: Wed 26.9.2018, 10:15, 60 Minuten
Ort: JKU, Computer Science Building (Science Park 3), room S3 048
ZusammenfassungIn this talk, I will first bold the urgent need of new architectures for big data processing. The main tracks taken in my research lab (HPCAN) to store and process large amounts of data are then discussed. I will then focus on the storage architectures and talk about alternative non-volatile memory technologies and present one of our recent works on prolonging the lifetime of Phasechange main memories. One of the main drawbacks with PCMs is their short write endurance. In this talk, I will introduce a simple shift-based technique to exploit multiple bit storage capability of PCMs to improve the lifetime of the whole memory.
VortragenderProf. Hamid Sarbazi-azad received his BSc in electrical and computer engineering his MSc in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He did his PhD in computing science at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, in 2002. Currently, he is a Professor of computer engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and the head of the School of Computer Science, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. His research interests include high-performance computer architectures, supercomputing architectures (he built the first Iranian TFLOPS supercomputer in 2007), and memory/storage systems. He received the Khwarizmi International Award in 2006, a TWAS Young Scientist Award in engineering sciences in 2007, and Sharif University Distinguished Researcher awards in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2013. Prof. Sarbaziazad has served as Associate editor for ACM Computing Surveys (2015-now), Associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers (2012-2016), and Editorial board member for Elsevier´s Computers & Electrical Engineering journal (2012-now).
Einladender: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Wille
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No. 109-7
Date: October 28, 2005
House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees' Action on Budget Reconciliation Proposals
This week, both the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees marked-up proposals to be included in budget reconciliation bills.
On October 26, 2005, the House Ways and Means Committee approved the Entitlement Reconciliation Recommendations for Fiscal Year 2006, by a vote of 22-17. The recommendations will now be sent to the House Budget Committee, where a comprehensive House budget reconciliation package will be compiled.
The recommendations include the following two Supplemental Security Income (SSI) provisions.
Review of State Agency Blindness and Disability Determinations
Would require the Commissioner of Social Security to conduct reviews of a specific percentage of SSI initial disability and blindness cases of individuals aged 18 and older that were allowed by State disability determination service agencies (DDS). The provision would be phased in as follows--for fiscal year 2006, the Commissioner would be required to review 20 percent of DDS allowances; in fiscal year 2007, the requirement would be 40 percent; and for fiscal years 2008 and thereafter, 50 percent of all DDS allowances would be reviewed.
Would be effective upon enactment.
Payment of Certain Lump Sum Benefits in Installments under the Supplemental Security Income Program
Would require that past-due monthly SSI benefits that exceed three times the maximum monthly benefit (Federal benefit rate plus State supplementary payment amount, if any) payable to the individual be paid in up to three installment payments, 6 months apart. Also, limits the amount of the first two installment payments to three times the maximum monthly benefit except in cases in which the individual has outstanding debt relating to food, clothing, shelter, or necessary medical needs. (Except for changing "12 months" to "3 months," the current law installment payment provision would remain unchanged.)
Would be effective 3 months after the date of enactment.
On October 25, 2005, the Senate Finance Committee approved recommendations by a vote of 11-9, and sent them to the Senate Budget Committee for inclusion in a broad reconciliation package. The recommendations did not include any SSI proposals, but did include the following Medicaid-related provision of interest.
Restoration of Medicaid Eligibility for Certain SSI Beneficiaries
- Would begin Medicaid coverage for children who are eligible for SSI effective the month the SSI application is filed or the first month of SSI eligibility, whichever is later. (Under current law, Medicaid eligibility for such children begins the month following the month of the SSI application or first eligibility.)
- Would be effective 1 year after the date of enactment.
Preserving And Improving Access To Health Care Provisions in the Family Opportunity Act
Would allow parents to work and earn above-poverty wages while maintaining health care for their disabled children by providing:
- Medicaid "buy-in" for disabled children whose family income or resources are at or below 300 percent of the poverty level ($58,050.00 for a family of four in 2005);
- Funds for demonstration projects in 10 states to provide services to Medicaid enrolled children with psychiatric disabilities at home, instead of in an institution; and,
- Funds for information and outreach centers to serve families with disabled children.
Would be effective January 1, 2008.
Reform of Medicaid Asset Transfer Rules and Loopholes
Would strengthen current Medicaid law concerning transfer of assets to limit the circumstances under which persons may intentionally shelter assets in order to qualify for Medicaid by:
- Requiring States to apply partial month penalties;
- Requiring States to accumulate transfers in computing the period of ineligibility;
- Requiring that annuities are treated the same as trusts under current law;
- Requiring that certain notes and loans are considered countable;
- Requiring private annuities be based on actuarial life expectancy; and,
- Limiting transfers to purchase life estates.
Would require States to provide a notice of the undue hardship waiver process to any individual applying for Medicaid who would be subject to a penalty period so they may request a waiver of the penalty period. Also requires States to provide for a timely process for determining whether an undue hardship exists.
Would be effective the calendar quarter that begins after the date of enactment.


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|Statement by Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the UN Ambassador Liu Zhenmin at 2nd Committee of the 61st UNGA Session on Item 55(a): Globalization and interdependance, (c): Culture and development and (d): Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of assets of illicit origin and retuning such assets, in particular to the countries of origin, consistant with the United Nations Convention against Corruption
Mme. Chairperson,
Item 55 covers a wide spectrum of elements, and the Chinese delegation would like to focus on (a), (c) and (d).
At present, economic globalization is becoming increasingly extensive characterized by more open market, deeper international division of labor, and faster financial, technical and personnel flow. State-to-state political and economic links are closer with interwoven national interests, producing impacts and constraints on each other and offering new opportunities for national economic development and international cooperation.
At the same time, the gap between the North and the South continues to widen with increased adjustments among interests and conflicts of different parties. Problems of one region often spread to other regions. Such global issues as increasing terrorism and infectious diseases, and deteriorating environment have become more prominent. The developing countries, as the weakest link in the process of economic globalization, are faced with special risks and difficulties.
How to seize the opportunities brought about by economic globalization, how to appropriately respond to the challenges, and how to steer economic globalization to healthy development and enable all countries to enjoy the benefits have become major and urgent issues that require in-depth thinking of the international community. The Chinese delegation wishes to share with you the following views:
1. Globalization should be based on universal participation. Globalization has brought with both more opportunities and more risks and entailed profound adjustments. How to steer the process of globalization bears on stability and development of the world and is closely linked with the interests of all countries. Whether it is rule formulation, risk prevention or conflict solution, it is essential to have the participation of all parties. The international multilateral mechanism with the United Nations at its core is the best place to allow all countries to participate in world affairs on an equal footing. Countries should make joint efforts so that the UN can play a leading role in international development cooperation, promote coherence among different international agencies, formulate rules and resolve differences and conflicts through multilateral dialogue and consultation, and conduct international and regional cooperation, so as to bring benefits of globalization to people of all countries.
2. Globalization should aim at common development. Economic globalization is based on market; it widens the gap while encouraging the competition. In the world today when countries are increasingly interdependent, all-round and balanced development is in the interests of all sides. The international community should promote a fairer and more democratic world financial, monetary and trade system. We should resume as early as possible the Doha round of talks with development as its theme, and oppose trade protectionism. We should focus on poverty eradication, financing for development and capacity building, and enhance the realization of the MDGs at the global level, thus achieving in its true sense a win-win situation of sharing and common prosperity.
3. Globalization should maintain diversity of the world. Globalization has spread some concepts around the world, but it is impossible for the world to become monolithic. In the world today, it is difference that leads to complementarity, and it is diversity that creates vitality. We should therefore respect the diversity, respect the development road chosen by countries independently, enhance exchange among different cultures and civilizations, and make common progress.
4. Globalization should be based on innovation of science and technology. The report of the Secretary-General has emphasized the important role of innovation of science and technology in promoting development. China is in total agreement with this view. To apply the advanced science and technology is essential for faster speed and higher quality of development. It will enable the less developed countries to achieve leapfrog development. Disseminating and sharing advanced knowledge of science and technology and building innovation-driven society should become an important part of globalization process. The system of intellectual property rights should be the tool of promoting technical innovation and dissemination of advanced knowledge of science and technology, and not the shackle of impeding the sharing of such knowledge.
Mme, Chairperson,
Since the reform and opening up, China has obtained sustained and rapid growth. One of the reasons is that China has found a development road which links closely China's own development with the globalization process. This is a road that integrates domestic development with opening up. It is a road based on reform and innovation, international cooperation, mutual benefit and benefit sharing. Facts have proved that by actively participating in the process of economic globalization, China has not only speeded up its own economic development and improved the life of 1.3 billion Chinese people, but also enhanced the economic growth of the Asia-Pacific region and the world as a whole. We are willing to make joint efforts with others, promote economic globalization based on win-win and common prosperity, and bring benefits to the entire mankind.
Mme. Chairperson,
Culture is the soul of a country and its people. It can offer powerful spiritual support to comprehensive and coordinated economic and social development. Culture also forms an important part of economic and social development. Cultural, economic and political sectors are closely interwoven. Culture is also increasingly linked with science and technology. Its status and role are more essential in international competition and cooperation, forming an organic part of the entire development strategy.
The rapid progress of economic globalization and science and technology, especially the internet technology, has led to more frequent dialogue and exchange among different cultures and created a new platform where world cultures can merge and culture and development can promote each other. But at the same time, we believe that due to historical and realistic reasons, many splendid cultures are yet to attract full attention and their potentials are yet to be fully tapped. Especially the rich cultural heritage of many developing countries is still waiting to be shown to the world. Another issue that requires our attention is that the cultural product trade is yet to become a two-way interaction. Under such circumstances, it is of great relevance for the United Nations to discuss the issue of culture and development. We hope that through dialogue, we will be able to find new ways of mutual promotion between culture and development, create an enabling environment for cultural exchange among countries, and establish a world of diversified culture, open exchange, and harmonious co-existence.
Mme. Chairperson,
Corruption has become a common enemy of mankind. It directly harms national economic development and social stability, challenges social justice, and damages social morale. The birth of the UN Convention Against Corruption has greatly bolstered the efforts to combat corruption. China ratified the convention on October 27, 2005 and became a signatory state. In recent years, guided by the principle of combining punitive and preventive measures and focusing on prevention, China has made major efforts to build anti-corruption structure and issued the Implementation Program on Establishing Comprehensive System for Punishing and Preventing Corruption with Equal Emphasis on Education, Institution and Supervision. This has served as a comprehensive, systematic and scientific action plan against corruption. We have also established domestic coordinating mechanism for international anti-corruption cooperation. We have made earnest efforts in China's legal areas related to the UN Convention Against Corruption.
The Chinese government attaches great importance to international anti-corruption cooperation. We hold that the signatories should act on the basis of mutual respect for sovereignty, equality and mutual benefit, carry out effective international cooperation in legal assistance, extradition, tracking and returning the assets of illicit origin, and exchange information on preventing and tracking corruption crimes and transferring assets. At the same time, the international community should give priority to helping developing countries in anti-corruption capacity building and technical support.
Over the years, corruption crimes have become increasingly organized, diversified and transnational. In order to avoid legal punishment, it has become a common practice for corrupted people to flee to foreign countries and transfer their illicit assets abroad. This has posed a major obstacle for the efforts to punish corruption and track the illicit assets. In this regard, the developing countries are the biggest victims. The UN Convention Against Corruption has offered legal basis for signatories to track assets of illicit origin. However, this cannot be achieved by one country single-handedly. China believes that relevant signatories should reinforce anti-corruption cooperation, jointly explore and establish effective international coordination mechanism, and offer legal assistance to each other and cooperate in the field of law enforcement, so as to bring corrupted people to justice and return the transferred illicit assets to the countries of origin at an early date. We also hope that the international community will further improve the relevant legal system.
Thank you, Mme. Chairperson.


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Escherichia coli cells use long, thin structures called flagella to propel themselves. Source: NSF.gov.
Scientists, ever since the time of Aristotle, have been classifying creatures and looking at the relatedness among biological species or their "phylogeny". Life on earth can be classified into three major types or domains:
- Bacteria
- Archaea
- Eukaryota
Bacteria (like E. coli) and Archaea are microscopic creatures with their DNA open to the rest of their cell. Eukaryotes, on the other hand, are organisms with their DNA enclosed in a separate membrane within the cell. This includes us, the trees in our back yards, the mushrooms on our pizzas, and most of the living world that we see with our naked eyes.
Figuring out the relationships among eukaryotes can have very practical applications. For example, the discovery that the Microsporidia, once thought to represent an ancient lineage, are actually closely related to fungi,12,14 opened up unforeseen potential avenues of fighting this important agricultural and economic pest. Eukaryotic phylogeny may also yield answers to a number of questions about how:
- some eukaryotes acquired the ability to survive just by being out in the sun (photosynthesis)
- the energy-producing machinery in our cells (mitochondria) came to be there
- and, ultimately, how we got to be the way we are
History of eukaryotic phylogeny
Morphology-based phylogeny For a long time phylogeny was based only on morphology: the study of structural characters such as shape, size, or features that an organism might possess. This was how the visible biological world was initially tackled and, with the advent of the microscope, how much of the microbiological world was studied as well. This type of work has been and continues to be immensely important and is still how many organisms are classified.
Molecular phylogeny
The breakthrough of DNA sequencing technology gave rise to a new field of evolutionary studies: molecular phylogenetics. The idea underlying this field is that, in general, the more closely related two organisms, the more similar their gene sequences will be. This is because they wouldn't have had time to accumulate many independent changes in their gene sequences. By statistically comparing the similarities and differences in the DNA sequence between the same gene from various organisms, we can deduce the pattern of how those organisms are related. This pattern is normally drawn out in a tree diagram much like a family tree. The closer two lineages are on a tree, the closer their evolutionary relationship. A standard convention is that the deeper the split in the tree, the longer ago that evolutionary split (or "speciation") took place.
Computer analysis of the first gene extensively used to study molecular phylogeny — the so called ssu rDNA gene — gave us a seemingly definitive picture (see Figure 1) of the eukaryotic landscape.22 A number of lineages emerged sequentially from the base of the tree, apparently corresponding to lineages that evolved away from the rest of eukaryotes early in our history. These were followed by an unresolved or "crown radiation" of groups that included animals, plants, fungi and a number of unicelled eukaryotic lineages, collectively referred to as "protists."
Figure 1.
Our understanding of eukaryotic relationships circa 1991. This is the ssu rDNA tree redrawn from Sogin 1991 [22] and modified from a figure in Dacks and Doolittle 2001 [5].
Unfortunately, as more data was accumulated and better methods of analysis were developed, the strength of this structure began to erode. The phylogeny derived from protein genes didn't seem to agree with this picture8, and even more importantly a special type of pervasive problem called Long Branch Attraction was discovered to be in play in the computer analyses.10,18 The problem in these analyses is that genes that had evolved very quickly were incorrectly concluded to be related.
In the case of eukaryotic phylogeny, this
- hid some true relationships
- made others look real when they weren't
- led us to the questionable conclusion that particular organisms were very ancient species
- AND, when compensated for, many of the clear answers in our initial picture of eukaryotic relationships disappeared
It must be pointed out, however, that not all ssu rDNA studies are subject to Long Branch Attraction. The sequence for the ssu rDNA gene is still the best place to start studying a new organism, and is very useful for figuring out specific relationships, as will be discussed later. However, it doesn't look like THE answer to figuring out the overall relationship among eukaryotes.
In addition to the ssu rDNA gene, scientists have tried using a number of other single genes to reconstruct the eukaryotic tree. Each attempt has been met with similar problems of Long Branch Attraction and uncertainty.7,11,13,21 Long Branch Attraction is not a phenomenon restricted to ssu rDNA but will affect any set of molecular data where the different sequences have evolved at very different rates.
In the face of the uncertainty surrounding eukaryotic relationships it has even been proposed that this task might, for real biological reasons, be impossible.18,19 A theory called "the eukaryotic big bang" suggested that the reason researchers couldn't find clear relationships between the major groups was that those groups had evolved from one another very rapidly. This separation of the groups into species had happened so quickly that there hadn't been time to accumulate enough changes in genes that we study for scientists to be able to figure out the pattern of relatedness.
Recent advances
However, in the year 2000 and early 2001, a number of recent advances have emphasized that specific large-scale relationships are, in fact, discernible. Building comprehensive structure in the eukaryotic tree in a piece-by-piece fashion may be the right way to approach the study of eukaryotic phylogeny.
1. Are red and green algae related: who caught the first chloroplast?
In the 1970s a shocking discovery was made that several integral pieces of our cellular machinery, such as the energy producing mitochondrion and the light harvesting chloroplast, were actually captured and permanently resident bacteria. This idea, actually proposed as early as 190516 was summarized and updated in the "serial endosymbiotic theory."15 Although wildly controversial at the time, the molecular phylogeny of mitochondrial and chloroplast genes strongly backed this theory and it has now been widely accepted. However, a number of major questions still remain.
Perhaps the biggest question is how many times did ancient eukaryotes capture bacteria and turn them into chloroplasts. This isn't a small question but involves the relationships of three major groups of eukaryotes:
- the red algae (the outside wrappings of sushi rolls)
- the land plants /green algae (trees, grasses and green slime on fish tanks)
- a group of protists called the glaucocystophytes
All three groups look like they have captured bacteria and turned them into chloroplasts. If the groups are related then the capture was probably done once, by their common ancestor. If they aren't related, however, they may each have independently captured their own chloroplasts. Analysis of chloroplast genes suggest that the three groups are closely related but nuclear genes have, so far, been inconclusive or moderately supportive of the groups being unrelated.
Early in 2000 however, a joint publication from French and Spanish groups weighed in heavily on one side.17 Using both single gene and a combined gene analysis, these teams showed that red and green algae are closely related. The glaucocystophytes were only weakly grouped with red and green algae in this analysis but other evidence points strongly to glaucocystophytes being related to red algae.23 Together this suggests that the three groups are indeed descended from a common ancestor (Note: for a dissenting opinion see [23]). The uniting of these algal groups (see Figure 2) is a major step forward in resolving the eukaryotic tree and points quite strongly towards a single original capturing of the bacterium that would eventually become the chloroplast.
Figure 2.
Some suggested relationships among eukaryotes circa 2001. This image was modified from a figure in Dacks and Doolittle 2001 [5].
2. Algae and beyond: when does the captor become the captured?
Aquatic photosynthetic creatures are common and numerous.
- Many are classified in a large group called the stramenopiles, also called the heterokonts or chromists.4 These include the giant kelp, tiny diatoms and the golden algae in our lakes and oceans.
- Another common sea creature, the dinoflagellate causes Red Tide. These are related, in a group of protists called the alveolates, to things as diverse as the high school biology stand-by Paramecium (ciliates) and the parasite that causes malaria (Plasmodium, an apicomplexan).
Unfortunately it has never been clear where either of these consortiums fit in the larger scheme of relationships among eukaryotes.
In a blockbuster of a paper9 in 2001, a Canadian group from the University of British Columbia showed that the heterokonts and alveolates are evolutionarily linked (see Figure 2). This team discovered that these groups share a particular gene replacement in their photosynthetic apparatus. Not only does the computer analysis of this gene unite the groups, but also the fact that they all share this extremely rare feature makes it very likely that they share a recent common ancestor. This discovery not only unites a major percentage of known eukaryotic diversity but also answers some fundamental questions about the evolution of photosynthesis. The chloroplast is such a useful machine that the organisms that captured them the first time have themselves been captured and co-opted, creating in essence a cell within a cell within a cell. Uniting the alveolates and the stramenopiles into a group now called the Chromalveolates4, suggests that their common ancestor was a eukaryote that captured a red alga and made it act as a chloroplast.
3. From lakebeds to termite guts: lessons on losing mitochondria?
Sometimes organisms are discovered that have no apparent relationship to the rest of eukaryotic life. Trimastix, which lives in the sediments of lakes and oceans, is a good example. This organism, first described in 1886, but was practically forgotten and not studied until the late 1990s. It has no mitochondria but it has been suggested that it possesses a vestigial one. Trimastix shares a number of characteristics with a loose assemblage of parasites and marine organisms called the excavates. Some of the excavates also have no mitochondria, while others have mitochondria that most closely resemble what we think the original mitochondrion looked like. At one time it was thought that those excavates without mitochondria might even be ancient lineages that evolved before the ancestor of the rest of eukaryotes captured the original mitochondria.3 However, scientists now believe most of those excavates have probably had mitochondria at one time and then lost them.20
Long-forgotten organisms like Trimastix are exciting. Just as interesting, however, are organisms whose phylogenetic relationship is still a mystery after 100 years of study. Such was the case with the oxymonads (see Figure 3), a group of protists that live as symbionts in the guts of termites and allow termites to digest wood.2
Figure 3.
Drawing of Oxymonas, an oxymonad protist. This image was modified from Brugerolle and Konig 1997 [2].
This year however, in a collaboration between myself and a number of international colleagues, the answer seems to have been found.6 We obtained the first ssu rDNA gene sequences from Trimastix and oxymonads and, after checking for possible Long Branch Attraction effects, showed by computer analysis of these genes that oxymonads and Trimastix are closely and specifically related.
This means:
- Since oxymonads have no mitochondria but are related to Trimastix (which probably have modified mitochondria), the oxymonads likely also had mitochondria at one time and then lost them.
- The oxymonads and Trimastix together may be a good model for examining the process of losing mitochondria.
- Two major groups of organisms (see Figure 2), whose phylogenetic relationships were previously open questions, are now anchored down.
4. Concatenated datasets: phylogenetic voices above the noise
Despite the seeming lack of resolution in the overall structure of the eukaryotic tree when only one type of evidence is used, a new approach may be able to break through this problem. While one gene might not have enough differences to solve the relationships among the major eukaryotic groups, using the accumulated differences from a number of genes may be able to give us answers. This approach was taken by researchers at Dalhousie University who, late in 2000, strung together the four most commonly used protein markers into a single combined (or concatenated) dataset with striking results.1
Their concatenated dataset analysis provides strong evidence for a number of previously weakly supported or unseen relationships.
- A large grouping of amoebae was demonstrated
- The amoebae were linked to a cluster of groups which includes animals and fungi
- The euglenozoa (including the causative agent for African sleeping sickness) and the heterolobosea (agent causing amoebic meningoencephalitis) were convincingly united
- Some of the relationships above were also supported, including the red plus green algae and the chromalveolates
The real breakthrough was not any single relationship recovered, but the fact that they were all demonstrated in the same analysis and that they were so consistent with the single pieces of convincing data above.
Where to next?
For a while it looked as if figuring out the relationships among the major eukaryotic groups was hopeless. Eukaryotes probably did evolve rapidly into the major groups. However, in the last year and a bit, we have seen that piecing together the eukaryotic tree should be possible (see Figure 2). We have to abandon our hopes for a quick fix. It's unlikely that a single gene is going to give us all the answers but, by using various approaches, determining the relationships among eukaryotes should be possible. This will be a difficult task but what else would we expect from a challenge as daunting as reconstructing events billions of years old and navigating the web of life that we see all around us?
Editor's note: Some of the topics in this article, as well as the reconstruction of the ancestral eukaryotic cell and the application of genomics to such questions is covered slightly more in depth in [5]. Acknowledgements: The author would like to thank W. Ford Doolittle for supervision. He also thanks W. Ford Doolittle, Gurston Dacks, Patrick Keeling, Barbara Dacks, Karen Slevinsky, Maureen O' Malley, David Dacks and an anonymous reviewer for critical comments on this manuscript. Financial support has been provided by the Walter C. Sumner Foundation and a Canadian Institute for Health Research (C.I.H.R.) doctoral research award, as well as C.I.H.R. grant MT4467 to W. Ford Doolittle.
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