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I've been an admin on Star Wars Fanon for almost five years now, long before I started working for Wikia. In that time, I've blocked my share of users. It took awhile for me to figure out best practices for this, but now I feel that I know what I should and shouldn't do when it comes to blocking. In this post I am going to share the practices I follow and my advice for blocking on your wiki.
Sometimes the instinct is to come down hard on a user who has broken a rule, but the right thing to do is to find a good balance between helping that user learn how to be better and enforcing policies. There are three stages, in my view, that someone should go through when it comes to blocking. Those stages are: helping, warning, and then blocking the user.
Helping the user
So, you're an admin who's looking around your wiki's Wiki Activity page or Recent Changes, minding your own business, and then bam! You come across a page that hasn't been formatted properly, or has a lot of spelling and grammar errors, or something else that might break a rule on your wiki. Whatever it may be, you obviously need to say something to the user who made the edit you're seeing, but what do you say?
One of the core principles on collaborative projects like wikis is the idea of "assume good faith." This means that, outside of obvious exceptions, that you assume every user is trying to help the wiki and do something good when they edit. There's another assumption that goes along with that: assume innocent ignorance. You don't want to get into the habit of thinking that someone purposely broke a rule or they purposely didn't read a rule. Sometimes, they may just not understand.
Go into any discussion with a user who broke a local policy by assuming they didn't mean to do it, and they just didn't understand something. So start by politely explaining to them what they didn't do correctly, and then offer advice on how to fix that. One thing I like to do on Star Wars Fanon is clean up edits that didn't exactly follow the rules. That way, not only am I just telling someone what needs to be improved, but I can actually link to the edit difference in the history page and show them what changed between their version of the page and mine. Showing instead of telling can work wonders.
Keep in mind that this can take time. Not everyone will learn and understand how to edit on wikis at the same pace, so you want to make sure to avoid arbitrary timelines of when you think someone should have already figured it out. You also don't want to have the mindset of "I figured it out quickly, so you should too." This can lead to blocking people who could become great contributors.
Warning the user
That said, you don't have to give someone leeway forever. You should take a good amount of time to help, but there will come a point where you will want to move past the helping stage and become a bit more formal about how you're dealing with the user. At that point, you move on to the warning stage.
When you warn a user, you want to make sure you get your point across strongly and clearly, but also politely, especially if you've been helping that user. You don't want to freak the person out by suddenly moving from helpful friend to iron-fisted authority figure once you decide to warn them. Here's a good example of a warning you could give to someone:
- Hi, UserName. You've been making a lot of edits here lately, and we're happy about that, but we've also been trying to help you out for awhile. I'm sure you've been working hard to try to improve, but we do have to give you an official warning about what you're doing incorrectly.
You would then provide an explanation about what they haven't been doing correctly. After that, you could say something like:
- Please note that we will continue to help if you ask for our help, but we do need to make sure our wiki's rules are being enforced. Future violations of the rules may result in you being given a temporary block by an administrator. We don't want it to come to that, so please be sure to take some time to read over the rules again and talk to an administrator or any other user about how you can improve. Thanks!
That's a friendly but firm warning about what the user needs to improve on, and hopefully that combined with all of the great help you've given them gets the point across. If there is a specific rule they are violating, I would also recommend linking specifically to it.
Blocking the user
Unfortunately, helping and warning doesn't always get you where you'd prefer to be with that user. Sometimes, you have to block them. It's never fun, no one wants to do it, but it happens.
So what's the best way to go about it? It's always a good idea to start off with a smaller block, because initially you want to hope that the first block is one last way to get your point across and to help the user improve. A short block of 1 to 3 days usually works well for this. If the user comes back and things still aren't working out, it's best to slowly work your way up and hope you don't have to keep going further.
Each time you block a user, you should also be sure to leave an explanation on their talk page or wall letting them know what the block was for, how long the block lasts, and how they can contact you if they want to appeal it. For appealing it, it's best to check the option on the block screen that allows them to post on their own talk page, that way they have some way to contact you if it's appropriate.
Remember to keep these messages polite and respectful as well. Even a banned user should be treated with respect, especially since at times bitter blocked users could become future trolls and vandals. Respect can cut down on that possibility.
Edge cases
In the case of vandals, spammers, and clear trolls, you will need to take a different approach. In those cases, you don't want to engage with those users. Follow the simple method of "revert, block, ignore" when it comes to them. What that means is you revert whatever bad edits they've made, block the vandal/spammer/troll, and then ignore them. Further engagement, such as leaving a message on their talk page, only gives them the attention that they want.
General advice
In closing, the best thing to remember to do is to be helpful, friendly, and polite, even when you're banning someone. Assume that their intent on the wiki is good, and assume that any rule breaking is as a result of good faith ignorance, not malicious intent. If you can follow these tips, you'll find that your experience as an admin in dealing with rule breaking and blocks will be much easier, and you'll very likely get a few great contributors out of it too!
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Virag's memoir paints a bleak portrait of a broken childhood, but her strength shines amid the rubble.
In the early 1940s, Virag and four of her siblings were forced into a big, black car and taken away from their home by the Children's Aid Society. She was never told why; she was 4 years old. Though poverty-stricken, Virag had always felt love from her mother and an older sister, "Muggs," who helped care for the younger children (Virag's mother had 18 children total). Virag's home life was hardly idyllic—her rowdy older brothers gave her canned molasses to quiet her when she cried from hunger—but it was far better than where she ended up. Plunged into foster care, the children were often abused and used for labor. Virag and her twin sister, Betty, performed grueling, dangerous work on a tobacco farm and were locked in an attic at night with no heat other than a stovepipe, which provided minimal warmth and became a comfort of sorts for the girls. Virag's plainspoken style makes for a powerful read. At one point, the children are so hungry they eat sassafras leaves. When the girls slice open their bare toes while hoeing, Virag describes how they "simply rinsed off the blood and went back to hoeing." Readers should prepare to be angered and moved to tears: One of the most heartbreaking scenes involves the rape of Betty when she is 7 years old. But there are better times and even much "whistling in the dark" humor, as the author does a beautiful job of capturing the voices of childhood. The book is a swift, well-written read and not merely an indictment of the foster-care system. There is compassion from some adults, such as a foster-care worker who helped Virag enroll in art classes during her high school years. Amazingly, Virag's voice is not bitter, as she plumbs the depths of despair and rises above what no child should ever have to endure.
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Connecticut-based Cigna Corp. said Tuesday that it has closed on its $3.8 billion acquisition of HealthSpring Inc., a health care company that specializes in the Medicare Advantage market.
HealthSpring bought Baltimore-based Bravo Health last year for $545 million and employs about 700 people in the area. A spokeswoman said she didn't believe there would be significant cuts because Cigna doesn't have a big role in the Medicare Advantage market now.
"We expect the workforce to remain in the market because Cigna has a limited presence in the market, pretty much just in Phoenix," said Graham Harrison, the HealthSpring spokeswoman. "We're excited about the announcement and think it'll bring enhanced value to our stakeholders."
Medicare Advantage offers additional services beyond traditional Medicare through private health care companies and now accounts for about a quarter of the Medicare market. Its growth has made smaller companies that offer the services attractive targets.
Bravo, founded in 1996 as Elder Health, had about 100,000 customers in Maryland, four other states and Washington when it was purchased by HealthSpring, which now offers Medicare Advantage plans in 11 states and Washington in addition to a stand-alone prescription plan.
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Peachtree City is saying goodbye this week to three men with deep ties in the aviation and business community who died in a LaGrange, Ga., plane crash Saturday.
Local homebuilder Mike Rossetti, 60; family physician Dr. Jeffery V. Curtis, 53; and flight instructor Willy Lutz, 69, were killed when their twin-engine Beechcraft Baron crashed at the LaGrange-Callaway Airport.
According to published reports, the plane stalled after trying to avoid another aircraft on the ground that was towing a glider, causing the plane to strike the ground nose-first.
The crash is being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.
The flags at Atlanta Regional Airport, long known as Falcon Field, were flown at half-staff Monday to honor the lives of the three men who perished.
A number of Dr. Curtis' patients had left flowers outside his office overnight in a tribute to his expertise and caring manner cited by many.
Monday afternoon, Bill Flynn, a current member of the Peachtree City Airport Authority, recalled his longtime friends Rossetti and Curtis, who were nearly inseparable.
"They were almost like brothers: if you saw one, you saw the other," Flynn said. "Both were at the top of the game in their fields … and very involved in the community and charities."
Rossetti as CEO of Ravin Homes had taken leadership of the family business from his father Vince, who had established the company here as one of the top homebuilders in Fayette County.
Dr. Curtis founded the successful operation known as The Doctor's Office which was recently purchased by Emory Healthcare as he pursued other business endeavors, many of which were undertaken with Rossetti, Flynn said.
"Both of them had very high integrity," Flynn said. "They always lived by honor, courage and commitment. They always did the right thing. … They always did what they said they were going to do. You could take it to the bank."
The two even owned their aircraft hangar at Falcon Field together, where they all watched the annual Great Georgia Airshow.
More than being well-respected businessmen, Rossetti and Curtis were also strong family men who loved their wives and raised very respectful children, Flynn said.
"The most important thing in their lives were their families," Flynn said. "They both have superstar kids."
In fact, the men have passed their love of aviation down to their sons, who are working toward getting their pilots' licenses, Flynn said.
Dr. Curtis would call his dad every day on his way home from work "to tell him he loved him," Flynn said. Curtis moved his parents down to Georgia to be near him: Directly across the street from his house, Flynn noted.
The pair were also generous in the community and in supporting charity work, Flynn said.
Local real estate developer Scott Bradshaw, who knew Rossetti from his tireless work on the Homebuilders Association of Midwest Georgia, recalled first meeting him about 18 years ago when Bradshaw sought support for the band at McIntosh High School. After spending about an hour with Rossetti on the "cold call" out of the blue, Rossetti provided a generous contribution, Bradshaw said.
"He was dedicated to the community and gave his time and financial resources in support of many worthwhile causes, usually behind the scenes," Bradshaw said.
Rossetti was also influential when the association needed to support or oppose legislation impacting home builders, Bradshaw said.
"Michael Rossetti was a pillar of this community," Bradshaw said. "His contributions will be long remembered and his presence missed. His death leaves a void in the Fayette County community that may never be filled."
Curtis served on a variety of professional medical organizations and also was an adjunct professor in the Kennesaw State University primarily care nurse practitioner program and served as president of the Fayette County Exchange Club.
Rossetti also served on the boards of the YMCA, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and The Bank of Georgia among others.
Local chiropractor Dr. Rod Justice used to ride bicycles with Dr. Curtis and remembered meeting Rossetti for the first time in 1982 after first moving here.
"They were just extraordinary people, they did everything right," Justice said. "… Both of those guys, they were nice and level, good people. Just good people."
Justice extended his sympathies to the mens' families as well.
"They most assuredly were an important part of the lives for a lot of people in this town, and our hearts just go out to their families. … It's just a sad situation. We're going to miss them."
As for himself personally, Flynn will miss spending time with Rossetti and Curtis. They flew together, hunted together, broke bread together and navigated their way through life together.
"They were fun-loving guys, the most fun you could imagine. A great sense of humor, all we ever did is laugh," Flynn recalled. "We just laughed and had a good time, and you can never fill that void. My memories will take care of that. … Just some great times we had together, and they will be deeply missed. I'll never fill that hole in my heart but it was just great really to have the opportunity to spend time with them."
Flynn said the families have appreciated the outpouring of love expressed by the community both in kind remarks and in the volume of food that has been provided in the keeping of a longstanding Southern tradition.
Dr. Curtis' visitation is today (Wednesday) from 4-8 p.m. at Mowell and Sons' Peachtree City location on Robinson Road. His funeral is Thursday at 11 a.m. at Dogwood Church in Tyrone.
Rossetti's visitation is set for Thursday from 4-8 p.m. at Mowell and Sons in Peachtree City. The funeral service will be Friday at 1 p.m. at Peachtree City United Methodist Church. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Michael Rossetti Memorial Fund at the Salvation Army and Southwest Christian Hospice and to the Foundation For Mitochondrial Medicine at mitochondrialdiseases.org.
No information on Mr. Lutz's arrangements was available at press time. He had retired from his flight instructor's position at Delta but remained active in the local aviation community and as a grandfather as well.


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IYA2009 Updates
28 May 2010
South African Astronomical Observatory has been selected as host for the IAU Office for Astronomy Development
The Executive Committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has selected the SAAO, a national facility of the South African National Research Foundation (NRF), to host the IAU Office for Astronomy Development (OAD). The Office is the key component of the decadal global strategy plan, Astronomy for the Developing World, launched at the 2009 IAU General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is aimed at using astronomy to foster education and capacity building throughout the world. Read more here: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iya1003/
New Stellarium Version released
This release brings some exciting new features. Stellarium now ships with plug-ins for predicting the positions of artificial satellites in Earth orbit, improved telescope control features, telescope eyepiece simulation (ocular) and more. Plug-ins can be enabled using the new plug-ins tab in the configuration dialogue.More information: http://www.stellarium.org/
Global Astronomy Month 2010: Inaugurating a New Annual Celebration of the Universe
Global Astronomy Month (GAM), a project of Astronomers Without Borders (AWB), has captured the energy of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) and refocused it as an ongoing annual celebration of the Universe. More information: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/929/
TWAN Newsletter: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/928/
3rd International Symposium for Dark-Sky Parks and 3rd International Dark-Sky Camp. More information: http://www.darkskyparks.org/
Call for Abstracts: JENAM2010 IYA2009 related Special Sessions
New Trends in Global Astronomy Education: http://www.jenam2010.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=77
Education and Outreach after the International Year of Astronomy 2009 in Europe: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/906/
Amateur and professional astronomers in Europe: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/902/
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Shark fishing in the United States occurs in the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico both recreationally and commercially. Commercial shark fishers use methods that allow them to catch large quantities of sharks to be sold at market. Recreational shark fishers mainly catch shark for the thrill of the catch, trophies and/or personal consumption. Since the motivations of the commercial and recreational shark fisher differ so do their methods of fishing and the regulations they have to follow.
There are three main fishing techniques that commercial shark fishers' employ in order to catch sharks, longlining, drift gillnetting and strikenetting. Longlining is most popular along the Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico and consists of a mainline to which the fishermen attach hooks. The mainline is attached to a hydraulic spool and is set out at the stern of the boat. A float is attached at the beginning of the line so that the end of the line can be found later. The longline is anchored to the ocean floor by attaching weights to the line after the first float. This is known as a bottom longline set. Longline sets without anchoring weights are known as surface or float sets since the mainline stays near the top of the water column. This allows the line to stay free floating near the surface, targeting pelagic and surface schooling sharks.
As the mainline goes into the water, baited ganglions are attached. Ganglions consist of a hook, monofiliment line and a clip. Most longline sets are seven to ten miles long and consist of 600 to 800 hooks. Once the appropriate number of ganglions are attached, a weight (if needed) and a float are attached and the mainline is cut free from the hydraulic spool. The line is then allowed to soak for a period of time, usually overnight when sharks are most actively feeding.
After the line has soaked, the mainline is retrieved at one of the floats and reattached to the remaining mainline on the hydraulic spool. The spool is then used to haul back the mainline and the gear attached to it. As the ganglions return to the boat, they are removed from the mainline and stored. When a shark is caught it is usually brought aboard, finned and carcassed for sale. The commercial market for shark is driven by the Asian demand for sharkfin soup. Fishermen can get up to 30 dollars a pound for the fins but only around 30 cents a pound for the meat. Once the entire mainline has been regained, the fishermen will go to another location and set the gear again or head back to the dock (usually depending on the number of sharks caught). Longline shark fishing trips generally last three to six days.
Drift gillnetting creates a wall of netting in the water column to catch fish. These nets generally are 800 to 1000 fathoms in length and are stored aboard the gillnet vessel on a large hydraulic net reel. Nets are set in the evening and sets begin by tossing a radar-reflector buoy, which is attached to the net by several fathoms of rope, overboard at the stern of the boat. The boat is then driven forward slowly, allowing the net to be deployed into the water. How fast the net is set out is controlled by the speed of the boat and hydraulic reel breaking. As the net enters the water, it straightens itself out due to the lead and float lines. The lead line is a weighted line that makes up the bottom edge of the net. The float line is a non-weighted line allowing it to remain higher in the water column than the led line creating the upper edge of the net. Buoy lines are clipped to the float line about every 60 feet. They are attached to floats and allow the net to remain at a certain depth in the water column. These lines range between 18 and 24 feet in length. This allows other vessels to pass over the gillnet without becoming entangled. The hanging line where the mesh of the gillnet is attached is also attached to the float line. The mesh is generally nylon and the stretched size of the openings for shark gillnets range between 13 and 19 inches. The mesh size of the gillnet depends on the type of fish targeted because the net is designed so fish swim into the holes in the net and then become entangled in the gills when trying to back out or escape. Therefore larger mesh size allows larger fish to become entangled while smaller fish are able to swim through the nets. Smaller mesh size captures smaller fish while larger fish are too big to become stuck in the mesh.
The net is allowed to soak until early morning and haulback usually begins between 1 and 3 am depending on the expected catch. This allows enough time for the net to be retrieved near sunrise. Before the haulback begins the net guard is lowered over the stern. This prevents the net from becoming tangled in the propeller while it is being retrieved. Many boats have rollers at the stern, which assist the hydraulic net reel in retrieval and also lessen wear on the nets. The net is brought aboard according to the catch. Small fish can be pulled on board in the net and removed on the deck. When larger fish are caught, the reel is slowed down so that the fish can be tied to the boat with a separate line and then winched aboard. Shark's fins are usually cut off before they are removed from the net. The use of gillnets to actively encircle schools of sharks is known as strikenetting. Usually a smaller strikenet boat (~15ft long) containing the net and powered by an outboard motor is used to quickly encircle schooling sharks.
Spotter planes flying overhead identify shark schools and their positions are relayed to the strikenet boat. Once the strikenet boat knows where the shark school is, the net is set as a half or full circle around the school. Sets begin by deploying a buoy float and releasing the net from the stern of the boat. The net is allowed to soak for about a half an hour and, before it is retrieved the strikenet boat, is often run rapidly inside of the net. This panics the sharks, running them into the net where they become entangled. Since strikenet vessels are usually too small to hold the catch, the net is usually retrieved by a drift gillnet vessel with a power roller system. The net is then hauled back using the hydraulic rollers in the same manner as a drift gillnet. While strikenetters and gillnetters basically use the same gear to catch sharks, their methods differ. Strikenetting is an active method of fishing for sharks since the net is placed around known schools of sharks. This allows for a reduction of bycatch and greater percentages of targeted species caught. Drift gillnetting is a passive fishing method since the net is placed in the water column where the fishermen think sharks will be, allowing a greater chance of non-targeted species to become entangled throughout the soak. Therefore since strikenetting actively encircles schools of sharks and has minimal soak times, bycatch is reduced in comparison to drift gillnetting where soak times are longer and nets are passively fished.
Recreational fishing for sharks has become more and more popular and is prevalent on both coasts of the United States. On the west coast and east coast, north of Cape Hatteras, makos, threshers and blue sharks are mainly sought after while blacktip, bull, blacknose, sandbar, tiger and atlantic sharpnose are caught south of Cape Hatteras and in the Gulf of Mexico. Recreational shark fishers mainly use rod and reel with one baited hook at the end of the line. Popularity of recreational shark fishing in the Atlantic region expanded in the 1970's with both for-hire and private boats targeting large trophy sharks. Over the last 20 years recreational fishers' target has shifted to smaller species of shark. This could be due to a depletion of larger sharks resulting from increased fishing pressure and a change in public attitude towards large sharks from eradication to conservation.
Fishing regulations regarding commercial and recreational shark fisheries differ and both are continuously changing. Commercial fishing regulations are created by the National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) Highly Migratory Species (HMS) division using the most reliable fishery stock assessment data available. HMS sets restrictions regarding what species can be caught, seasonal weight quotas, trip limit weight quotas and seasons for shark fishing. While trips in the commercial fishery are limited by weight quotas recreational fishers in federal waters are limited by numbers of sharks caught. Large coastal sharks are required to be over 4.5ft and only one shark per boat can be taken per day. Small coastal sharks do not have to reach a certain size but are restricted by number (one per person per boat per day). State regulations are similar to federal regulations in the recreational fishery but differ between states. Whether commercial or recreational, federal or state, shark fishing regulations are in constant change according to the most recent fishery data. This way the regulations can be adjusted in order to keep the fishery economically viable and sustainable for both commercial and recreational fishers.
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Forget Thoughts. It's the Gift That Counts
Should you spend more on a gift? Should you be ashamed of regifting? Psychological studies reveal the tricky experience of giving the right holiday gifts. Leslie Yazel discusses on Lunch Break.
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I feel my comments are very warranted as I feel uncomfortable in certain parks by myself. Safety is always my number one concern and not giving a word of advice to an unaware player would be irresponsible. If anybody does not feel the same way is their prerogative just as my fair warning is mine. Jerry you can PM me for more details. Or not. Its his choice!


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Knowledgebase: NE1™ Web Builder > Asset Manager
Asset Manager: General Info
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The asset manager contains all of the graphics, videos, documents, and Flash objects which you have uploaded. It is also where you can upload or delete your graphics, videos, documents or Flash objects and where you can preview them. The Asset Manager separates your files into four groups: graphics, videos, documents, and Flash. You can view each group by clicking the drop-down menu in the top, right corner of the Asset Manager (next to the refresh link) and selecting the type of files you wish to view. The asset manager also shows you how much disk space is being used.The asset manager is accessed by first clicking on a page that is being edited. Then clicking any of the \"Insert\" icons (insert media, insert image, etc.) on the toolbar will bring up a dialog box similar to this:


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A family representative says prominent entertainment lawyer Irwin Russell, whose clients included such industry heavyweights as Michael Eisner, Jim Henson and David Wolper, has died at age 87.
Russell, who died Friday in Los Angeles of leukemia, was a key player in the 1984 takeover and subsequent expansion of The Walt Disney Co.
In a statement, Eisner, former CEO and chairman of Disney, called Russell "a brilliant lawyer, an insightful executive," and praised him for being able to put together a one-page deal — "something unheard of in American business."
Russell assembled deals for such TV mainstays as "Baywatch," ''Candid Camera," ''Hee Haw" and the Muppets. Other clients included Dr. Seuss, Robert Preston, Carol Burnett, and Christina Crawford, whom Russell represented in proceedings against her mother, Joan Crawford.


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Animal shelter prepares for surge in lost dogs
July 5 is a busy day for Washington County Animal Shelter leaders and volunteers.
In addition to working to try and find homes for the animals already in the shelter, volunteers will be working to reunite owners with their lost dogs.
Shelter leaders say every year, the day after July Fourth is a challenge.
"When we do get strays in, we are working diligently to find their owner and get them back to them," said Mike Emery with the Washington County Animal Shelter.
Another challenge at the shelter is capacity.
Workers are trying to make room for more animals with adoption specials and foster care for the pets.
They don't want to put any of the animals down.
There are two adoption events.
All month long: kittens can be adopted free of charge with the donation of a bag of kitten chow.
Active military and veterans can adopt cats or dogs for $10 July 5 and 6.


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Welcome to iOS game development with Google Play games services!
The Play Games SDK provides cross-platform Google Play games services that lets you easily integrate popular gaming features such as achievements, leaderboards, and multiplayer to your tablet and mobile games.
This document describes the basic steps to make an iOS game using the Play Games SDK. Please note that these instructions supersede the Google Sign-In for iOS documentation.
Before you begin
Creating applications using the Google Games SDK requires:
- Xcode version 6.0 or higher
- A mobile device running iOS 7.0 or higher
Step 1: Explore the sample games
If you haven't already done so, you might find it helpful to download and review
the sample games, which demonstrate proper use of all of the Google Play games services
features on iOS. All sample games for iOS can be found on the
samples downloads page page.
Follow the instructions in the
README file within each sample to learn how to
initialize and run them.
Step 2: Create (or open) your Xcode project
Create a new project in Xcode, or open an existing project. Take note of your
Bundle Identifier, since you'll need this value in the next step. This is
usually something like
If you're creating a new project, you are encouraged to select the single-view application option. This takes care of setting up the view controller for your game.
Step 3: Add your game to the Google Play Console
Create an entry for your game in the Google Play Console. This enables Google Play games services for your application, and creates an OAuth 2.0 client ID, if you don't already have one.
- Add an entry for your iOS game by following the steps described in Setting Up Google Play Games Services.
- Take note of your game's OAuth 2.0 client ID; you will need this later.
- (Optional) Add achievements and leaderboards to your game by following the steps described in Configuring Achievements and Leaderboards.
- Add accounts for other members of your team to test your game by following the steps described in Publishing Your Game Changes.
Step 4: Install the SDKs
Before using the Google Play games services APIs, you must install the required libraries using one of these approaches.
Option 1: Using CocoaPods
CocoaPods is a dependency manager for installing Objective-C libraries. If you have CocoaPods installed, you can use it to install the Play Games SDK for iOS by following these steps:
- Create a Podfile and
make sure that it specifies a platform of
ios7.0 or later
Add the
GooglePlayGamespod to your Podfile. A typical podfile might look like this:
platform :ios, '7.0' pod 'GooglePlayGames' // Other pods might go here
pod installfrom the command line.
Open the generated
.xcworkspacefile for your app.
Open your project in XCode, and continue from the Add a sign-in and sign-out button section below.
Option 2: Manual installation
To install the Play Games SDK for iOS manually without using CocoaPods, follow these steps:
- Download and extract the latest Google Sign-In SDK from the Google Sign-In Downloads page.
- Copy the following items from the Google Sign-in SDK into your project:
- Download and extract the latest Google+ iOS SDK from the Google+ Downloads page.
- Copy the following items from the Google+ SDK into your project:
- Download and extract the Play Games SDK for iOS. The latest version is available on the SDKs download page.
- Add the following items to your Xcode project:
- Open your project settings and in the Build Phases tab,
Link Binary With Libraries section, click the + sign and add the following
Add the ObjC linker flag to the app target's build settings. In your target settings, select Build Settings > Linking > Other Linker Flags, then add
-ObjCas a flag.
Other Linker Flags: -ObjC
Step 5: Add a sign-in and sign-out button
In your view controller, add a sign-in button and a sign-out button. Make sure your sign-in button conforms to the Google Sign-in branding guidelines. To reduce your development effort, many of the built-in user-interfaces provided by Google Play games services already include a sign-out option so you don't need to add this manually.
To add the sign-in and sign-out buttons:
Control-drag these two buttons into your view controller
.mfile's private category (the section contained by the
@interface). This creates
IBOutletobjects for these buttons.
@interface ViewController () @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *signInButton; @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *signOutButton; @end
Next, control-drag these two buttons into the
@implementationsection of your view controller's
.mfile. This creates the following methods for handling the player's button presses.
- (IBAction)signInButtonWasPressed:(id)sender { // handle the sign-in button press } - (IBAction)signOutButtonWasPressed:(id)sender { // handle the sign-out button press }
Step 6: Import the Play Games SDK and enable sign-in
Import the
GooglePlayGamesheader file. Tip: The easiest way to do this is to open up your application's
.pchfile and add the following line:
#import <gpg/GooglePlayGames.h>
By putting this import statement in your application's precompiled header file, you don't have to import this header in all your other files.
In your view controller's
.mfile, or in a separate constants file, set your client ID. This is the string you previously recorded in the 'Add your game to the Google Play Console' section.
static NSString * const kClientID = @"123456789012.apps.googleusercontent.com";
Add the following code to the two
buttonWasPressedmethods you previously created in the 'Add a sign-in and sign-out button' section.
- (IBAction)signInButtonWasPressed:(id)sender { [[GPGManager sharedInstance] signInWithClientID:kClientID silently:NO]; } - (IBAction)signOutButtonWasPressed:(id)sender { [[GPGManager sharedInstance] signOut]; }
When a player signs in to Google, the sign-in process takes place in a web view within your game.
In your target settings Info tab, scroll down to the URL Types section, and click the
+icon to add two new URL types. Specify two unique strings in the two new Identifier fields. For the first URL type, specify your client ID in reversed order in the URL Schemas field. For the second URL type, specify your app's bundle identifier in the URL Schemas field. For additional detail on entering this information, see the Google Sign-in quick migration guide.
In your app delegate
.mfile, import the Google Sign-in framework.
#import <GoogleSignIn/GoogleSignIn.h>
Call the
GIDSignInURL handler from your app delegate's URL handler. This method handles the URL that your application receives at the end of the authentication process.
[super application:application openURL:url sourceApplication:sourceApplication annotation:annotation]; - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application openURL:(NSURL *)url sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication annotation:(id)annotation { return [[GIDSignIn sharedInstance] handleURL:url sourceApplication:sourceApplication annotation:annotation]; }
You can now test your application and be able to sign in and out. When testers sign in, they will use a web view within your application to complete the sign-in process.
[GIDSignIn sharedInstance].uiDelegate = self;
Step 7: Add a GPGStatusDelegate
Next, add the code to let your app know that when sign-in process is completed.
In your
viewDidLoadprivate category, declare that your view controller is a
@interface ViewController () <GPGStatusDelegate>
Next, tell the
GPGManagerthat this class will be its status delegate. You can do this in many places throughout your application (such as in your
AppDelegate). The following snippet shows how you can do this from the
viewDidLoadmethod for your initial view controller:
- (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; [GPGManager sharedInstance].statusDelegate = self; }
Implement these
didFinishGamesSignInWithError(to handle completion of player sign-in) and
didFinishGamesSignOutWithError(to handle completion of player sign-out).
- (void)didFinishGamesSignInWithError:(NSError *)error { if (error) { NSLog(@"Received an error while signing in %@", [error localizedDescription]); } else { NSLog(@"Signed in!"); } [self refreshInterfaceBasedOnSignIn]; } - (void)didFinishGamesSignOutWithError:(NSError *)error { if (error) { NSLog(@"Received an error while signing out %@", [error localizedDescription]); } else { NSLog(@"Signed out!"); } [self refreshInterfaceBasedOnSignIn]; }
Create an empty method for the
- (void)refreshInterfaceBasedOnSignIn { // We'll be filling this out shortly. }
Now when testers sign in or out, they should see the appropriate message reported in the console log.
Fill out the implementation for the
refreshInterfaceBasedOnSignInmethod. Use the GPGManager's
isSignedInproperty to determine what button to show.
- (void)refreshInterfaceBasedOnSignIn { BOOL signedInToGameServices = [GPGManager sharedInstance].isSignedIn; self.signInButton.hidden = signedInToGameServices; self.signOutButton.hidden = !signedInToGameServices; }
Now, when testers finish signing in, the sign-in button will be hidden. When they sign out, the sign-out button will be hidden and the sign-in button should re-appear.
Step 8: Automatically sign in returning players
You can also sign players in automatically, to avoid having them sign in every
time they launch your game. The
GPGManager will automatically sign
the player in when you specify
silently:YES in the
signInWithClientID method.
This call succeeds if all the following conditions are met:
- The player has authorized your application in the past;
- The player has not revoked access to your application; and
- The app is not requesting new scopes since the player last signed in.
Using this behavior, you can sign the player in automatically to your game by
adding the
signInWithClientID:silently: call to the end of your
method, with
silently set to
[[GPGManager sharedInstance] signInWithClientID:kClientID silently:YES];
Run your application and notice that, unless you signed out when you last used your application, you are now signed in automatically.
Step 9: Add some interface refinements
When the application starts player sign-in automatically, there is a small delay
between the time sign-in starts and completes. Your game should disable the UI
during this time. To do this, use the fact that the
signInWithClientID:silently method returns
YES if it is attempting to sign
the player in automatically.
First, add an instance variable to your view controller class to keep track of whether or not you are signing the player in silently:
@implementation ViewController { BOOL _silentlySigningIn; }
Next, use that variable to record what gets returned from the
signInWithClientID:silently:method, and then immediately call
- (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; [GPGManager sharedInstance].statusDelegate = self; _silentlySigningIn = [[GPGManager sharedInstance] signInWithClientID:kClientID silently:YES]; [self refreshInterfaceBasedOnSignIn]; }
Add the following lines to your
refreshInterfaceBasedOnSignInmethod to disable the sign-in and sign-out buttons if the player is silently signing in:
self.signInButton.enabled = !_silentlySigningIn; self.signOutButton.enabled = !_silentlySigningIn;
Finally, set
NOright before you call
refreshInterfaceBasedOnSignInin the two
- (void)didFinishGamesSignInWithError:(NSError *)error { // Other code goes here... _silentlySigningIn = NO; [self refreshInterfaceBasedOnSignIn]; } - (void)didFinishGamesSignOutWithError:(NSError *)error { // Other code goes here... _silentlySigningIn = NO; [self refreshInterfaceBasedOnSignIn]; }
Now, when testers start your application, they should see your sign-in button, but it will be hidden during the automatic sign-in. Once initial player sign-in is completed, the sign-in button is hidden and a sign-out button appears.
Congratulations! At this point, you are now ready to start adding achievements, leaderboards, quests, and other Google Play games services features to your game.


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Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion was released on 14th October 2010. It was published by Vintage and is 256 pages long. I was lucky enough to win this in a competition on Twitter.
The only thing R knows about himself is that he is a zombie. He has no memories of anything about his former life, not even his own name. Unlike the other zombies, he is able to dream even if he can't make any sense of them. R knows what he has to eat to survive but that doesn't mean he has to like it or want to do it.
Out on a hunt for food (humans), R manages to meet a girl who he refuses to eat. There is something about her and he just can't bring himself to kill her. He goes against everything he knows, goes against surviving, just to save a girl he knows as Julie. In a world where they should be enemies, R befriends Julie and promises to keep her safe, taking her home with him. As he spends more and more time with her, R's speech develops and he is able to say more and more by the day. He knows there is something different about Julie. She makes him want to dream. She makes him want to be alive. R is changing and he is no longer like the other zombies. Times are hard and everything is against R being able to spend time with the girl who is changing everything he known for a long time.
What I thought
I was so excited when I won this book because I hadn't read anything about zombies and this was one that I was hoping to love. It sounded exactly like the kind of book that I would usually pick myself.
As much as I read books about vampires, werewolves and demons, most of which I love if they are the main characters, I really didn't think that I would ever love a zombie in the same way. So they all have eating or killing people in common but for a zombie, there just isn't anything sexy or hot about it. If anything, I think I loved the main zombie in this book 'R' so much more than any other hero I have read about in a long time. The whole story is told from R's point of view and he had me from the first couple of lines.
"I'm dead but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it. I'm sorry I can't properly introduce myself, but I don't have a name anymore."
R lives (or doesn't live) in a world where zombies/ the infected are taking over and there are very few humans left. He lives in an abandoned airport and sleeps in an aeroplane. Even though he doesn't really have feelings and can only speak the most basic words, he is different from the other zombies because he is more aware of what is going on around him. He wonders about who he was when he was alive and what kind of a life he used to have due to the fact that he gets snippets of the lives of the people's brains that he eats. R doesn't want to be a zombie and from very early on, it seemed that he would have done anything to be alive again.
When Julie enters the scene, R knows that it is wrong to save her, that the others of his kind are hungry and need to feed, but he can't help himself. I instantly liked Julie because she seemed like the kind of girl that you wouldn't want to mess with. She's had a pretty bad time of it since the dead took over and she isn't about to let the zombies take over her as well. Julie tries to see the best about her situation after R kind of kidnaps her. She takes it upon herself to try to talk to him and to find out more about the zombies, even though he has the most basic language skills. At times where R would shrug off an answer, Julie makes him talk to her instead. All of these little things added to R wanting to be alive again, remembering little bits at a time. Julie really brought out the best in R, making him want to be better in order to get what he wanted. There is a lot more going on between Julie and R that has a massive impact on the story but I don't really want to say anything about that because it is too spoilery.
Isaac Marion created a world that I was fully absorbed in. The dead have pretty much taken over everything and there are barely any humans anymore. The humans that have managed to survive are all in hiding, trying to survive and make the best of what they have left. Not only are there zombies but something called The 'Boneys'. As you can imagine from the name, they are skeleton like and are a hell of a lot more scary than the zombies. There was so much going on in this world that it would be hard to not have a million thoughts running through your head as the story goes on. I wanted to know why the dead took over because no one knows this. I wanted to know what was going on in the rest of the world and how the dead had spread. I wanted to know what human kind were doing to survive and if they were planning on just repopulating even though supplies were limited. There were so many questions I would have liked answered but the mystery of the story was one of the things that I really enjoyed. Normally I would class this as a bad thing, not knowing, but I can't fault it this time around because it just added to making this story amazing.
Warm Bodies is far from being all doom and gloom and about the end of the world though. The story is exciting and action packed, moving along at a quick pace. There was always something going on, no matter how small the event, that kept my interest throughout. Warm Bodies is a heart warming love story about wanting to be better for the sake of someone else as well as yourself. Warm Bodies is witty and humourous and it had me laughing even when I didn't think it would be possible. The characters suck you into their world and don't let go until the very end. I can't praise this book enough but I will say that it surpassed my every expectation. Not read about zombies yet? This is the book to start with!


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Sports night at Behind the Scenes at the Atlanta Public Library
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[January 24, 2014]
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Public
Library's popular Behind the Scenes program shifts gears from arts
to sports on Jan. 31 with a visit from Miami Marlins minor leaguer
Ryan Aper and sports writer Dave Kindred, who will interview Aper
about his first-year experiences in the Marlins organization. The
program begins at 6:30 p.m. with free refreshments at the North
Greens Golf Course, followed by the program at 7 p.m.
Ryan Aper graduated from Lincoln High School in 2011
with the single-season hits record and single-season pitching wins
record in the school's history. In 2011-13, he attended Lincoln Land
Community College, where he held the single-season highest batting
average at .462 and was a two-time National Junior College
All-American, Conference Player of the Year (2013), Regional Player
of the Year (2013) and National Junior College Player of the Year
(2013). Ryan was drafted by the Marlins in the sixth round of the
MLB draft in June 2013. He played in Batavia, N.Y., and the Jupiter,
Fla., Gulf Coast League.
Dave Kindred is a Hall of Fame sports columnist who says he
learned everything he needed to know about sports and writing at
Atlanta High School. A member of the Atlanta Class of 1959, he
played baseball and basketball for the celebrated coach Doc Kinsey
and learned to appreciate the English language under the stern gaze
of Clarice Swinford. After graduating from Illinois Wesleyan
University, Kindred worked at The Pantagraph, the Louisville (Ky.)
Courier-Journal, the Washington Post and the Atlanta (Ga.)
Journal-Constitution. Now a senior writer for Golf Digest, he is the
author of nine books, including "Sound and Fury," a dual biography
of Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell.
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Behind the Scenes is sponsored by Atlanta National Bank and
the North Greens Atlanta City Golf Course. The reception is
sponsored by Heartland Seed Productions.
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Or, We have learned something from the history of the past thirty years, haven't we?
Posted by olvlzl
Do you think that your political positions are morally superior to positions you've rejected? Sounds strange when you put it that way, doesn't it. Why would you hold a position you weren't convinced was morally superior? Only two possibilities come to mind, unthinkingly following tradition and practicing self-interest divorced from morals. There are some positions that seem to be adopted by reason alone but since just about everything government does has an effect on the well being of someone, those certainly have a moral dimension, thought about or not.
The first post on my blog claimed our right to believe the moral superiority of our political positions and their firm base in reason. We have to stop cowering in conditional statements and apologetic poses of false modesty. Those are ineffective and weak and are not honest. It's not our personal virtue that is at question, it doesn't all come down to us. It's that our political positions are firmly grounded in the common good, reason over superstition, generosity over greed and facing that large parts of our law favor the wealthy few over the rest with no basis other than that they have the power to bend the law to their liking. If anyone doesn't agree that our positions are superior we should require better arguments than "that's the way it is" and "you're self-righteous" because that's about all there is to most of it.
The fear of asserting the moral superiority of liberalism is that we'll be as obnoxious as William Bennett, that moral exemplar of the right, and the rest of those modern pillars of morality who lecture us continually while enjoying lives so self-indulgent they would make ancient Roman aristocrats blanche. Now that Ann Coulter has joined the ranks of spokesmen of conservative "values" there is no doubt that morality or even sanity are not requirements to join in that number. There are people who like to lord their own superiority over other people but they are mighty few on the left as compared to those on the right. Conservatives certainly haven't suffered any ill effects from their being moral nags.
Of course, if we stand behind our convictions they will accuse us of self-righteousness. They do now even when there is a total absence of any assertion of righteousness on our part. As mentioned, this is in the face of the tidal wave of finger waving everyone but the wealthy gets from the right wing axis of drivel. They'll do it anyway but why should we listen to them? Are you afraid of annoying conservatives? If one of us gets too full of themselves that 's the time to tell the person to cut it out but it's no reason to stop believing in our positions.
Conservatives, as always, make the mistake of thinking that morality is all about them, an adornment of their sacred selves. That's how they see it and they think that's the way everyone does. But that's their problem, not ours.
People on the left have some great examples to follow. There is no doubt that Martin Luther King had a deep knowledge of his moral failings. There isn't a great moral leader who isn't aware of their flaws. And there were people like J. Edgar Hoover to remind him if he ever forgot. But can you doubt that he had absolute faith in the rightness of his beliefs? He put his life, the lives of his family and friends, the bodies and lives of countless people on the line for those beliefs over and over again. And no one knew more about what that really risked than he did. He knew from experience that some day the attacks he and his family had survived would likely end in one that would kill them. He knew what that looked like, he had seen it with his own eyes. Keeping on with that knowledge doesn't come without complete conviction.
If we don't have the courage to believe in the morality of our positions, we won't ever have the courage to change anything.
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PROVO, UTAH – (June 6, 2012) – Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history resource, has announced an exclusive offer for New Yorkers to jump start their family history research. Starting today, a valuable select group of record collections, provided through a partnership with the New York State Archives and Library, are now available free to New York state residents at www.ancestry.com/newyork.
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