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User talk:SignpostMarv Martin/Archive 1
I dig your ideas about the wiimote!
This might help out a lot -- and it should work with more than just the wiimote!
GlovePIE Input Emulator The previous unsigned comment was made by Kamilion Schnook
- Thanks :-) Another notable reference for the Wiimote itself is Wii Brew
- SignpostMarv Martin 07:22, 9 January 2007 (PST)
Thanks!/re: redirects
Hi! First let me say "thanks!" for the great work you're doing so far. Re: redirects/deletion policy (on User Talk:Rob Linden), I'm going to have to give a short answer for now. Using redirects is the right way to "delete" an article. I don't have time to get into detailed answers on this right now, but check out the many debates that have happened on Wikipedia on this same subject. I think I can re-engage in this conversation in a couple of weeks if you need further clarification. Thanks, Rob Linden 10:56, 11 January 2007 (PST)
- Thankie, and you're welcome ^_^
- I look forward to discussing it with you :-)
- SignpostMarv Martin 11:18, 11 January 2007 (PST)
New home page deployed
I've deployed your suggested homepage. I'm also going to leave the template blocks unprotected for now, and unprotect the home page..let's see how that works. Please watch these like a hawk, they're some of the biggest vandalism targets. Thanks -- Rob Linden 14:05, 11 January 2007 (PST)
I've created a template at template:simpleslurl. Wondering if we should use it for the basic slurl and move your complete slurl template to Template:fullslurl or something similar? I'm happy with leaving things how they are now as well. -- Baba Yamamoto 18:10, 12 January 2007 (PST)
- I've almost finished fixing Template:SLurl so it'll be an all-purpose template with full support for the options.
- SignpostMarv Martin 18:14, 12 January 2007 (PST)
- Yeah i've seen it :) It's pretty nice. I was trying to avoid having to name variables with mine though. I think you could do it both ways, so that might be the better course. without named variables your template could handle {{{1}}} {{{2}}} {{{3}}} etc..
- --Baba Yamamoto 18:17, 12 January 2007 (PST)
- The problem with not using named variables is that you have to keep to a strict order for variable placement, which is why I made the template use named variables.
- SignpostMarv Martin 18:20, 12 January 2007 (PST)
- Could use both ;).. I leave it up to you. I'm happy with my simpleslurl for quick links.
- --Baba Yamamoto 18:23, 12 January 2007 (PST)
- I'm about to take a lazy option, hope you don't mind :-D
- SignpostMarv Martin 18:36, 12 January 2007 (PST)
You're welcome
Glad to see someone noticed my small contribution. I did seem to make a mistake somewhere though, Linden QA employees is somehow filed under Q. I should have made it titled QA Lindens. MichaelFrancis Linden
- I would suggest changing the sort order to [[Category:Linden QA Team|QA Team, Linden Lab]]
- Also, consider using the new monolithic Linden Lab Employee template, llEmployee.
- SignpostMarv Martin 11:35, 15 January 2007 (PST)
- Done.
- MichaelFrancis Linden
I'll stick it here rather than a talkpage on the subpage as the latter will probably move at some point! Basically, you're heading into a minefield (I know - I entered it myself some years ago for an another organisation!) and not only in placing the country of Ireland as part of the United Kingdom (a big kettle of fish if ever there was) but also with some of the others too. Languages may be commonly used in a country but at the same time be officially banned which can mean that stating they exist can cause problems. I'd also noticed that for the countries you'd used anglicised versions for all but Mexico, which seems unfair on the rest (though I accept that accents and diacritical marks might become an issue) but that most of the languages had been titled in that language even if the link had still been anglicised. In the interests of the global aspirations of LL/SL I'd suggest that a ful localisation is carried out on all the names (and some countries, eg Norway, have two "Nowegian" languages, so something else to be aware of.) --Alison Wheels 04:24, 17 January 2007 (PST)
- Don't worry about doing it on the sub-page, if it relates directly to the draft, please do it there :-)
- I only did the non-Anglicised version for Mexico because I happened to be looking at the wiki page for Mexico at the time. The idea would be to have the native, non-romanized spelling wherever possible.
- Redirect pages will be setup from the Anglicised spellings to the native spellings for ease of use
- full localisation is the idea, yes :-)
- SignpostMarv Martin 06:23, 17 January 2007 (PST)
- P.S. It's not spelled with a z because as far as I am aware, it's only spelt with a z in en-US, and I'm en-GB.
LL:Second Life Terms of Service
Hi...I didn't realize you were going to post LL:Second Life Terms of Service on the wiki. Having two copies of our legal agreements posted on *.secondlife.com websites creates a huge problem for us. If we forget to update the wiki version, someone could claim that they thought these were the official terms. I can ask our legal department, but I'm 99.99% certain he's going to ask me to delete it. Sorry for not paying closer attention to what you were planning. -- Rob Linden 22:44, 17 January 2007 (PST)
- Ah, no prob- didn't think of that :-D
- Same goes for the Community Standards right ?
- Sorry for running with it without checking in first- there is the distinct advantage of being able to track changes in the TOS with the wiki though.
- SignpostMarv Martin 06:20, 18 January 2007 (PST)
- No worries. I understand the desire to track diffs. I don't want to bother Ginsu with it right now, because he's swamped, but after we find an hire a new general counsel, we can revisit. -- Rob Linden 13:55, 18 January 2007 (PST)
- I've added a notice to the top of the LL:Second Life Community Standards article, could you sysop that and add the following to the TOS? :
:''This is a duplicate of the Terms of Service held on the main website and as such, it might not hold the same information as the original. Please refer to https://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php if you need to refer to the Terms of Service document for anything important.

- I would imagine the shiny red letters at the top of the page would be a suitable method for keeping the document on the wiki right ?
- SignpostMarv Martin 14:39, 18 January 2007 (PST)
- P.S.: using the wikified version of the TOS, external sites can link directly to a specific section so peeps don't have to go search through small print.
- I'm interested in understanding how to sync and/or link this better too — I ran into a similar problem when including some policy documents in the Knowledge Base, because linking to them doesn't provide all the keywords in the body text which people end up searching for. And yet, the website-wide secondlife.com search is inadequate for such purposes.
- --Torley Linden 14:30, 30 January 2007 (PST)
- Harry Linden setup a google co-op search which I've been using for Help Request searches (the one I setup is better for offsite resources)- I'm not sure whether LL would be better off using Google Co-op or just buying a Google Appliance box.
- It's on my To-Do list to document the LL policies in the wiki, and to see if it's possible to migrate the knowledge base to the wiki.
- Advantages of documenting/transferring LL Official Policies to the wiki instead of elsewhere:
- Residents can keep track of changes to the TOS easier (It'd be more interesting to start off by putting the first edition in, then each progressive version so the changes could be viewed retrospectively as well). The articles could be sysop blocked to prevent fraudulent changes.
- Residents can ask questions pertaining to each policy on the article's talk page.
- A FAQ could be compiled from these questions periodically, as a means of keeping the talk page from growing too large.
- Creative Commons-style "simplified" versions of the policies could be created based on the legal document and the FAQ (who actually reads through legal documents such as these any more ?)
- SignpostMarv Martin 08:41, 31 January 2007 (PST)
Community Team Wiki'ing
Marv, we've talked before about filling in more Community Team specific and general community-related information. As you know, I mentioned I'd like to devote more of my time contributing to this wiki. What other areas could we help fill in? Can you please identify some more and let me know? I know terms like "CommMonkey" are more under-the-radar than they should be, so with your keen attention to detail, I'd like to help draw awareness and add to the available information.
In short: what are you 'specially curious about that Residents should broadly know?
--Torley Linden 14:35, 30 January 2007 (PST)
- Complete staff and departmental listing.
- Article with hCalendar-encoded listing of Liaison's on-duty times over the current month/ week.- The weekly table would probably be more easily compiled, and could be used as a resource for Residents wishing to privately IM whichever Liaison is on duty, rather than searching the people list for online Lindens.
- Publicise the activities of the Tao of Linden- that is to say, make it easier (blurb+categorisation) to see who is working on Mono, Havok, graphics pipeline, interesting little features etc. Since MediaWiki has syndication feed support (which seems to have gone walkies- has this been disabled in the back end?), "developer diaries" of sorts could be housed on the wiki, rather than on personal Linden blogs or the main LL blog.
- I could probably think of a few more things, but this seems like a good place to start :-P
- SignpostMarv Martin 08:50, 31 January 2007 (PST)
- Thanx Marv, those are great suggestions — I definitely see some opportunities where we could fill in gaps. I think a "complete staff and departmental listing" isn't very likely to be maintained, but what is probable are wiki-active Lindens (like I am becoming...) responsible for including and updating their own listings for the convenience of Residents. I also wish we had an easier way to simply grab info from the About section of our inworld profiles and sync it on here. :)
- Re: Public Liaison calendar — have you asked Char and Mick (Liaison Supervisors) about this?
- Yes, this would connect excellently and go very much hand-in-hand. I'm actually surprised when I hear of applicants missing the Tao of Linden — even tho it's linked to from the Employment page. Core principles like these could be, and should be more visible. I'm also aware that the blog has become very busy and is primarily used for news announcements; we don't have an "Asides" format (as is seen on some blogs), so it'd be nice to house dev context for those who are interested in and have the time to participate. For me personally, I prefer an actual blog publishing platform like WordPress, with WYSIWYG editing — I prefer Windows Live Writer.
- --Torley Linden 10:38, 31 January 2007 (PST)
- OSSL/libSL + wiki template + wiki category = a bot that periodically looks up the listings in a wiki category (which peeps add with the wiki template) that searches for their profile and appends the info. Template:SL-hCard would be a useful for this.
- Email sent
- Configure/use plugin for WordPress to stop posts from specific categories being displayed on the front page or make use of the domain mapping feature, and create a dev blog at dev.blog.secondlife.com (community.blog.secondlife.com, grid.blog.secondlife.com and tao.blog.secondlife.com might be other suitable extra blogs), including them in the main blog & each other via the RSS widget or similar plugin.
- SignpostMarv Martin 11:35, 31 January 2007 (PST)
- Re: #3, right now, we don't have this configurability. We cannot install new plugins ourselves through WordPress VIP. :\ Also, those domain names look no less simpler than, say, blog.secondlife.com/community — which could be done from WordPress itself I think... mod_rewrite?
- --Torley Linden 09:58, 1 February 2007 (PST)
- The issue of using sub-directories for sub-blogs within the WordPress.com VIP Hosting environment is that you'd have to make sure you didn't put up pages with matching URLs.
- From a psychological perspective, if everything is within the same sub-domain, you expect it to have the same design, but if each department has it's own subdomain under blog.secondlife.com, then the dev blog could be cleaner & crisper, the community blog could be more watermelony, the grid blog could be structured like and replace the http://secondlife.com/status/ page (since WordPress can be configured to display only the latest post on the front page), so rather than doing grid-related posts on the main blog, and updating them, you'd have the appearence of there only ever being one post- unless you went into the archives.
- SignpostMarv Martin 10:41, 1 February 2007 (PST)
Summary of response regarding Liaison duty times calendar article
We don't have any current plans to publish anything like that.
Liaisons can be reached via Help Request for now- or for Live Help group/Mentors in either of those group channels.
It's very important right now that emphasis is there instead of being pinged individually. Also during crisis times it especially becomes crucial as dozens of messages come in to HR channel and if dozens come in directly it becomes paralyzing.
- Thanks to Char for providing this! I gotta say, we can't emphasize info like this enough. Good to know.
- --Torley Linden 09:58, 1 February 2007 (PST)
Resident's own pages in Resident's own user-spaces
If an article is a work in progress, or is intended to be solely for displaying your own research (as opposed to being an authoritative article), it would be a good idea to keep the articles within your own user-space- as was done with Gwyn's permission for Gwyn's Beginners Guide To Second Life being moved to User:Gwyneth Llewelyn/Beginners Guide To Second Life.
Anyone who currently has a self-written article should consider moving it to their own user-space, especially if it's a work in progress/sandbox article (you'll notice I have lots of those).
If you're not sure how to move them over, leave a message here and I'll take care of it :-)
SignpostMarv Martin 19:58, 9 February 2007 (PST)
Re: Re: Talk:LSL Function Style
I'm not offended, nor angry at you, you have passion and there is validity in your points. Your comments have brought up issues I had not considered; as a programmer I pride my self on seeing all sides of an issue and it is a good thing when people point out my blind spots. I gather you are not found of the rigidity of the templates but I think it can be made to work. I spent a bit of time thinking about the problems you brought up with internationalization, I was thinking we could write some template-templates; they would change the words in the templates (maybe even the names of the parameters). We both have strong wills and ideas on how things should be. When I was working on the old wiki I came to a few conclusions and across a joke. The joke first, "Documentation is like sex: When it's good, it's great. When it's bad, it's better then nothing". The LSL wiki was rank with bad documentation. Writing good documentation is really difficult, technical writing is a profession after all. One of my conclusions, was that "If I see something that needs to be done, when I come back in a month, it still won't be done. So if it needs to be done, I'll have to do it myself." My work is partially driven by that principal. My goal is to have a skeleton for the content finished as soon as possible. When the skeleton is finished it will be easier to flesh things out. I'm not worried about how things look or where they are so much as getting things usable. Sure I fix bugs as I come across them in the templates but if we decided to rewrite the layout, I'd rework the templates. The templates have the potential to save us huge amounts of work. But now I'm rambling. There is a lot more I would say but for the sake of brevity. I hope you will continue to contribute, you have good ideas and don't let me being stubborn discourage you. Strife Onizuka 16:35, 11 February 2007 (PST)
- I spent a bit of time thinking about the problems you brought up with internationalization, I was thinking we could write some template-templates;
- This isn't really needed. Multi-lingual documentation on how to use a template is better than translated template parameters transcluding the English-language template.
- Writing good documentation is really difficult, technical writing is a profession after all.
- We should be writing user-guides, not documentation. User-friendly that is understandable by everyone, with no cut off point for skill level or language.
- My goal is to have a skeleton for the content finished as soon as possible. When the skeleton is finished it will be easier to flesh things out.
- This is a bad way to go about things. If the structure of an article is under dispute, creating articles based upon the disputed article makes it more time consuming to alter afterwards.
- I'm not worried about how things look or where they are so much as getting things usable.
- Then work on the articles in your user-space, and move them to the proper article space once they're done.
- I've been doing this with several articles, both on the SL Wiki and on the Wikipedia. It helps to avoid confusion with regards to missing content and disputes over design, as once you have finished a single complete article, the article can be put up for discussion, and modifications can be made in the interested parties own user spaces (as Baba and I have done with a few different things).
- I spent a bit of time thinking about the problems you brought up with internationalization, I was thinking we could write some template-templates;
- SignpostMarv Martin 10:47, 12 February 2007 (PST)
- Match the numbers.
- The templates have a few messages built into them. Default messages triggered by different keywords and parameters.
- I'm glad we see eye to eye on this one, we don't want people saying "this article is too technical" or "this article is lacking in technical details"; a cutoff point can go both ways after all. Lets not argue over this any more it makes me weary and I could have spent this time writing articles or clever templates. Let us spend this time making the articles better.
- I didn't think they was a dispute over the style; after all no-one has posted a new proposal or modified the current one on LSL Function Style.
- To put it bluntly, having a proposal in your little fiefdom is all fine, but if you want people to see it and consider it you have to put it out for the public to consider it and let them play with it some. It's how the LSL wiki worked in the past. Some things change slowly.
- It means templates are easily changed. If you change the template you can change the world. If there are flaws in the template but the content is good, the template can be fixed and it will fix every page.
- The first link doesn't work. Well I did put an article up for discussion, didn't get any dissents but got a lot of positive feedback. SL-Forums
- Strife Onizuka 22:15, 13 February 2007 (PST)
- Template:LSL Function has 68 parameters.
- o_O ? Your prior stance indicates you wish to impose a cut-off point for everyone under a certain level of techical ability.
- It's been under dispute since the 28th of January.
- There is nothing encouraging Residents to copy the template code to their own user space to work on it, working on it directly is bad wikiquete.
- Your Template:LSL Function has 68 parameters and has a page weight of 10.5625kb. The phrase "easily changed" doesn't touch Template:LSL Function with a 20 foot barge pole.
- https://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixindex&from=SignpostMarv+Martin%2FSandbox&namespace=2
- SignpostMarv Martin 03:02, 14 February 2007 (PST)
- P.S. WEB-23. You wanted to make a template to switch between "a" and "n". Further indications that you go tend to create unneeded template code.
- SignpostMarv Martin 04:10, 14 February 2007 (PST)
- Match the numbers.
- Are you sure it's only 68? There are a few undocumented ones that are there for compatibility. Anyway half of those go to function parameters; which is reasonable when you consider it (there are a few functions with alot of parameters).
- I am willing to concede the low end for the high end. Having articles in language that anyone can understand and rich in technical content is a victory for everyone.
- The namespace has been under dispute since the 28th. Last time i checked that is a global issue not unique to LSL functions. A page's name has as much to do with content as the cover of a book.
- (assumes you meant discouraging) No one has written the SL wikiquete yet. What is good and bad has yet to be defined. Though I have come to agree with you on this one for a different reason: Modifying the templates in place causes the engine to re-render all the pages that use the template. I try to roll multiple changes into a single update where possible. Still working on the technique though.
- A lot of Template:LSL Function is the documentation. The live code on the template is less then 6KB. With associated templates it comes to around 20KB. I will be simplifying the logic on the templates because last night I learned something interesting about MediaWiki: It executes both sides of an #if but only returns the proper side of the conditional. Quite maddening when using #vardefine. Template:LSL Function is just a front for Template:LSL Generic, which does the actual work. Flow control, events and functions share Template:LSL Generic. Unified style. Course they use the boxes slightly differently.
Better to create small useful templates that can be reused then inlining. How could the template be useful? If you cannot imagine I won't spoil the mystery. Strife Onizuka 08:49, 14 February 2007 (PST)
- Whereas I'm using only one template parameter to declare the parameters for the LSL function.
- The content is technical, the phrase "rich in technical content" is redundant.
- Everyone who would make use of a technical manual for LSL already knows how to use LSL, rendering such a manual pointless.
- Everyone can make sense of a simple guide
- Including people who would make use of a technical guide that don't know LSL
- Any further clarification of content should be done by aggregating feedback (torleyism) via the Wiki talk pages. (as opposed to inline as was done on the LSL Wiki).
- Your methodology has been under dispute since the 29th.
- No, I meant encouraging. "There is nothing encouraging".
- Have you considered that the template source code is just so hideous nobody wants to touch it with a 20 foot barge pole ?
- Have you considered that by using a monolithic template you're making it incredibly difficult for people to contribute to it ?
- Reinforcing the concept that your templates are a bad idea. Too much cruft.
- Which is why the Wiki manual advises {{#vardefine:foo|{{#ifeq:{{{bar}}}|bah|black|sheep|}}}}
- The word "small" and your templates are complete strangers.
- SignpostMarv Martin 09:59, 14 February 2007 (PST)
- And it provides no features.
- You want it with as little technical content as possible, so using the word 'rich' would be valid. 'with' would have been a better word then 'in'.
- Just because you know LSL does not mean you have the syntax & function names memorized. I know I don't.
- Everyone can make sense of a simple guide given enough time yes.
- By having an article arranged into sections it allows for people to find and better understand the information. It is a common practice. It is one of the big features of MediaWiki.
- If you want to dictate rules, write them as rules.
- You want it with as little technical content as possible, so using the word 'rich' would be valid. 'with' would have been a better word then 'in'.
- Truth of the matter I know it's pretty hideous but so is the source for LSL Function Style (not quite as much but close).
- Yep, hence the instructions on LSL Editing Primer; by splitting the templates, it's actually gotten alot easier to work on it.
- Does it get the job done?
- Not true at all, Template:AAn, Template:HoverText, Template:LSLC, Template:!
- All it's meant to do is output an LSL function with the return type and parameters.
- You're being more anal retentive than I am.
- It doesn't need to be.
- Yes, but so does a tank when all you need is a pair of rollerskates.
- You're pretty much the only person using them- they're too complex.
- Most of those templates are completely and utterly useless (referring back to the whole "your templates are overkill" thing).
- Template:AAn is overkill, and won't work in all occasions. I personally use "An HTML document" instead of "a HTML document" because phonetically "HTML" starts with an "A".
- Template:! Why the hell did you make that one ? You're entering 5 characters for one character !? {{!}} returns | !! I mean, come on- seriously, this template is useless.
- Template:LSLC is a fix for something you've been told not to do (prefix everything with LSL
- Template:HoverText only exists because MediaWiki is a pain in the ass with the  element. Can't this be fixed in the back end ?
- SignpostMarv Martin 12:08, 14 February 2007 (PST)
- Don't like monolithic templates? Then give me a break for a while and beat on Rob Linden for creating: Template:LSL_conformance_test and Template:LSL_conformance_script
- I started a poll about the namespace/prefix issue. Figured it would be best to let the community decide after all the wiki is a community resource. I'm sure you will agree that this is the best way to end the debate. Linky
- Template:! is a workaround for embedding tables in template parameters and is in the Media Wiki documentation.
- Template:AAn So you would prefer the procrustean solution? (irony ^_^)
- Strife Onizuka 18:05, 14 February 2007 (PST)
- marked by arbitrary often ruthless disregard of individual differences or special circumstances
- Doesn't that describe your attitude to excluding everyone below a certain technical level, everyone not familiar with MediaWiki syntax, and everyone not familiar with LSL because you feel like it ?
- How on earth is my preference not to use an insufficient template to automate correct grammar procrustean ?
- SignpostMarv Martin 18:48, 14 February 2007 (PST)
- Not using a template for a situation where you would need a template to fix the grammar would be procrustean as it would force one grammar on all situations.
- I think i may have answered your first question eariler. C'est la vie.
- Strife Onizuka 22:13, 14 February 2007 (PST)
- In what circumstances would it be appropriate to use the template over manual editing ?
- SignpostMarv Martin 05:04, 15 February 2007 (PST)
I am sorry for driving you nuts. It wasn't till you posted to the forum that I realized I had caused it. I apologize. Strife Onizuka 09:13, 17 February 2007 (PST)
- np Strife, as demonstrated by the Pro vs Con table, logic smacked me up-side the head :-P
- SignpostMarv Martin 09:27, 17 February 2007 (PST)
- A good table early on would have saved us both a lot of grief. *thinks about this as if it were a problem to be solved* How about in the future we make a table each, side by side, and then try and merge them. Below the table as subsections we can briefly state which ones we feel are important and unimportant, and our reasons; but trying not to respond to the other persons reasons. More as a method of hearing opinions then debate. Strife Onizuka 10:11, 17 February 2007 (PST)
- Since the forums are limited to those with payment info, I'm thinking it's better that polls related to the Wiki be held on the Wiki. If you agree, I'll knock up my ideas in my sandbox later.
- SignpostMarv Martin 04:34, 18 February 2007 (PST)
- If you meant to continue the current debates, I'd like not to for a bit of time. If you meant to write up dispute resolution guidelines and structure, please be my guest. Strife Onizuka 16:52, 18 February 2007 (PST)
- I meant the latter :-)
- It would be a general purpose voting scheme btw.
- SignpostMarv Martin 17:39, 18 February 2007 (PST)
- See User:SignpostMarv Martin/Sandbox/Voting proposal
- SignpostMarv Martin 12:57, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- If you meant to continue the current debates, I'd like not to for a bit of time. If you meant to write up dispute resolution guidelines and structure, please be my guest. Strife Onizuka 16:52, 18 February 2007 (PST)
- A good table early on would have saved us both a lot of grief. *thinks about this as if it were a problem to be solved* How about in the future we make a table each, side by side, and then try and merge them. Below the table as subsections we can briefly state which ones we feel are important and unimportant, and our reasons; but trying not to respond to the other persons reasons. More as a method of hearing opinions then debate. Strife Onizuka 10:11, 17 February 2007 (PST)
What? Why?
Why are you moving articles into subpages? What point does that serve? Categories exist for a reason! Gigs Taggart 11:05, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- See the uncontested suggestion made almost a week ago in Category talk:LSL Library
- This doesn't affect categorisation one bit.
- SignpostMarv Martin 11:10, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- I don't watch every page on the wiki. Just because no one corrected you doesn't mean it's a good idea. You still haven't said why this is a good idea. Gigs Taggart 11:16, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- The suggestion was made in response to a comment you made, and just a little over an hour after you'd made it.
- The concept of categories is being mis-used in Category:LSL Library- the table provides much more useful information than a simple category could.
- Which format gives a better indication of what an article refers to, what language it's written in/for ?
- Chat Logger (GPL), Chat Logger (GPL) (C++) & Chat Logger (GPL) (C#) or LSL Library/Chat Logger (GPL), C++ Library/Chat Logger (GPL) & C# Library/Chat Logger (GPL)
- There's also the matter of User:SignpostMarv_Martin/LSL2/llXorBase64StringsCorrect- my implementation of llXorBase64StringsCorrect, which I shall be moving to PHP Library/llXorBase64StringsCorrect shortly.
- SignpostMarv Martin 11:43, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- At the top of the real llXorBase64StringsCorrect article, just put a simple disambiguation link to llXorBase64StringsCorrect_(LSL_Version). Rob said we should use disambiguation, not fake namespaces. Gigs Taggart 11:58, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- You'll notice I'm using subdirectories, not fake namespaces. You know, like books in a library being under one roof ?
- SignpostMarv Martin 12:03, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- Your subpages are just as bad, if not worse, than fake namespaces. Gigs Taggart 12:04, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- Fake namespaces require string parsing voodoo. subpages can make use of {{SUBPAGENAME}} and {{BASEPAGENAME}} wiki-fu.
- The MediaWiki platform supports and advocates sub pages for closely related articled under a root topic, whereas categories are meant for a slightly more loose relationship between articles
- SignpostMarv Martin 12:09, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- No, it's completely different. An article can belong to multiple categories, but it can only be a subpage of one other page. Your method is inflexible in addition to making the category pages look like shit. Subpages weren't meant to be used this way. Gigs Taggart 12:16, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- So aside from having butt ugly links, the problem is......
- SignpostMarv Martin 12:17, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- The problem is you can't jam everything into just one category, and you constrain people's thinking when you do that. Butt ugly links are a good enough problem to not do this anyway. Gigs Taggart 12:35, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- Neither categories nor butt ugly links apply to the LSL Library.
- SignpostMarv Martin 12:48, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- You claim that your subpage pseudo-namespace doesn't require hacks like {{SUBPAGENAME}}, but you wound up using just that to fix the category collation. Gigs Taggart 18:30, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- No I didn't.
- SignpostMarv Martin 20:14, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- It's not a psuedo-namespace, it's a subdirectory.
- I don't see any mention of not using {{SUBPAGENAME}} with the sub-directories
- I see an explicit statement that sub-directories can use {{SUBPAGENAME}}
- SignpostMarv Martin 21:59, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- The problem is you can't jam everything into just one category, and you constrain people's thinking when you do that. Butt ugly links are a good enough problem to not do this anyway. Gigs Taggart 12:35, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- No, it's completely different. An article can belong to multiple categories, but it can only be a subpage of one other page. Your method is inflexible in addition to making the category pages look like shit. Subpages weren't meant to be used this way. Gigs Taggart 12:16, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- Your subpages are just as bad, if not worse, than fake namespaces. Gigs Taggart 12:04, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- At the top of the real llXorBase64StringsCorrect article, just put a simple disambiguation link to llXorBase64StringsCorrect_(LSL_Version). Rob said we should use disambiguation, not fake namespaces. Gigs Taggart 11:58, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- I don't watch every page on the wiki. Just because no one corrected you doesn't mean it's a good idea. You still haven't said why this is a good idea. Gigs Taggart 11:16, 19 February 2007 (PST)
Feature Requests
While we're at it, I'm glad to see you breaking up the old monolithic feature request page, but why are you moving them into userspaces? The entire point of a wiki is collaboration. These feature requests should be made into their own freestanding pages. Gigs Taggart 11:19, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- Seconded. This is a bad idea. Moving to userspaces encourages people to claim ownership and that's a detrimental concept to a wiki. --Jesse Malthus 11:34, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- Why ?
- There's no disadvantage to creating them in user-spaces (see the Creative Commons licensing scheme and the contribution agreement for concerns of "claiming" a concept), but there are some advantages:
- Residents can make ridiculous feature requests such as Nude Patches, along with all of my silly ideas without "spamming up" the Wiki.
- Residents can expand other's ideas to a ridiculous level, and ask for feedback before (Celestial Effects) these ideas are picked up by the community (User Interface Improvements, Plugin architecture)
- SignpostMarv Martin 11:43, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- It makes the category page unreadable, and it sorts them all under "U". Move them into their own articles. If people want to use their userspace as a sandbox they should, but userspace links should not be in the category. Gigs Taggart 11:57, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- I'll be fixing the U thing shortly.
- I suppose next you'll be wanting to create a bunch of redirect pages for everyone listed in the sub categories of Category:Second Life Volunteers and Category:Linden Lab Employees then ?
- SignpostMarv Martin 11:59, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- What? That pages looks fine to me. I don't see your point. The feature request category page looks like total shit now that you've fucked it up. I'm getting damn sick of this compulsive need to "partition" things that some people seem to have. Gigs Taggart 12:02, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- I said the sub-categories. Category:Second Life Mentor for example.
- Categories don't need to have pretty names, they just need to be sorted correctly- something I didn't have the time to do when I was moving things about.
- SignpostMarv Martin 12:12, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- Also, should I have to create a seperate page for each individual tiny idea I have, or should I maybe save some resources and put them all on a single page. And since they're my ideas, maybe I should put them in my user-space ? Hmmm......
- SignpostMarv Martin 13:24, 19 February 2007 (PST)
- What? That pages looks fine to me. I don't see your point. The feature request category page looks like total shit now that you've fucked it up. I'm getting damn sick of this compulsive need to "partition" things that some people seem to have. Gigs Taggart 12:02, 19 February 2007 (PST)
{{Jira Reporter}}
Hi Marv. I just added the {{Jira Reporter}} tag to your user page. Hope you like it, if not just remove it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Boroondas Gupte (talk • contribs) 22:00, 22 May 2007 (PDT).
Edits feedback
Thanks for the note about editing, I read the useful guidelines. I'd forgotten about the "minor edit" box: good idea --- I'll try to remember to use that. With regards to not making lots of small edits when a large one will suffice, that only works with the benefit of clairvoyance and a 100% perfect brain, neither of which I possess, sorry. ;-) --Morgaine Dinova 09:13, 22 October 2007 (PDT)
Editing other User: pages
We have had this discussion before.
You do not have the right to edit MY User: page. Do not do so. If you wish me to add something to my page you are free to leave a comment on my discussion page. Otherwise, until you grow the word "LINDEN" at the end of your name. Stop mucking with my personal User page. --Thraxis Epsilon 07:40, 9 November 2007 (PST)
GFDL licensed content
Hi Marv, I stumbled into Notable Residents, which is GFDL. Please do not contribute content that you do not have the right to contribute under our contribution agreement. Thanks. -- Rob Linden 14:31, 16 November 2007 (PST)
I don't know, I'm really not a mediawiki guru. Gigs Taggart 17:33, 5 December 2007 (PST)
Office Hours Calendar
Thanks for your note about Talk:Office_Hours#Google_Calendar. I made some comment. --JetZep Zabelin 14:51, 11 December 2007 (PST)
Bulk changes
I notice you do a lot of bulk changes. It makes it harder to follow the RecentChanges log. Would it be possible to flag such edits as a bot so they can be hidden easily. I think it is just "&bot=1" to flag it on the URL. Dzonatas Sol 14:23, 24 December 2007 (PST)
If your making all those changes with just the basic editor and no url helper.... wow -- lotta work! Dzonatas Sol 08:40, 25 December 2007 (PST)
Template: Delete
Heya Marv! While it looks like you're the wiki-editing-guru around here: Is there a template available to mark a page so it becomes added to a list to become deleted? I couldn't find such a template in the list of available templates but maybe I'm just blind. If such a template doesn't exist, could you create one? *Got no clue how that might work*. I ask because a friend accidentally missplaced a page. I moved it and wanted to mark the redirect as obsolete / candidate for deletion. It's this page. Hope you can help me out. TY, --Zai Lynch 04:28, 11 February 2008 (PST)
- ok, THX =) I'll have a look if I'm able to convince him about the helpfulness of such a template. Greetings, --Zai Lynch 09:50, 12 February 2008 (PST)
- Oh, so you were requesting the right to delete articles for regular wiki-users (non-admins) at first? Since I would be afraid of the missuse of such a feature... I would prefer such a mentioned template to request the deletion so the admins can decide if the request is appropriate. The mentioned typo-example is exactly what I had in mind. So would you request it at Robs office hour if I won't be there? Since I'm not sure if I can attend to the one tomorrow while it's Valentines-Day *cough*... oh and btw.: are you experiencing the same issue since Sunday: WEB-495? I guess the folders permissions are set wrong. Greetings, --Zai Lynch 04:45, 13 February 2008 (PST)
- I can get his point up here but for the case that the redirect itself is the problem and should become deleted it's not useful... So HowTo redirects to a users manual for the Prim Finder located at the SLVEC sandbox. No one entering HowTo in the wiki would want to find this site. And it won't help to just kill the redirect and show a blank page instead so it will just confuse the one who was searching for help. --Zai Lynch 09:31, 16 February 2008 (PST)
- Hey Marv! It's me again ^^ I finally figured out how at least an if-then-else type of thing works on a wiki and added the mentioned template as Template:Delete. It registers pages to Category:Suggested For Deletion and adds an infobox. So I wondered where to link that category so it's in the focus of some administrators. (Yeah I read the discussion about deletion but since Rob said it might be useful on the meeting in February, I still got some hope on it.) So I was pondering where to put it. Maybe on the mainpage in the About this wiki box? There are similar categorys linked (Articles with vital information missing...). Or got another idea? Rob remaind silent so far... Greetings, --Zai Lynch 20:27, 4 April 2008 (PDT)
- I can get his point up here but for the case that the redirect itself is the problem and should become deleted it's not useful... So HowTo redirects to a users manual for the Prim Finder located at the SLVEC sandbox. No one entering HowTo in the wiki would want to find this site. And it won't help to just kill the redirect and show a blank page instead so it will just confuse the one who was searching for help. --Zai Lynch 09:31, 16 February 2008 (PST)
- Oh, so you were requesting the right to delete articles for regular wiki-users (non-admins) at first? Since I would be afraid of the missuse of such a feature... I would prefer such a mentioned template to request the deletion so the admins can decide if the request is appropriate. The mentioned typo-example is exactly what I had in mind. So would you request it at Robs office hour if I won't be there? Since I'm not sure if I can attend to the one tomorrow while it's Valentines-Day *cough*... oh and btw.: are you experiencing the same issue since Sunday: WEB-495? I guess the folders permissions are set wrong. Greetings, --Zai Lynch 04:45, 13 February 2008 (PST)
Request for civility and courtesy befitting Mentor status
Hello SignpostMarv, you were sufficiently lacking in respect to come to my own wiki Talk page in order to be rude to me (we never met by the way, and those remarks were the first either of us had ever addressed to one another.) I am not here to be rude in turn to you, but to ask you to please observe the niceties and civilities that make inter-Mentor relationships usually such a pleasure. All you needed to do was (1) think about your words before you chose them and (2) remember the oft-quoted adage that "behind every avatar is a real human being", something you seem to have forgotten in the heat of your moment. And one more thing - as a RL Wikipedia contributor - I understand the wiki conventions. The place for you to leave your original remarks which so offended me, was on the relevant page, i.e. the discussion page of the SL FAQs, not to come heavy-footing into my page leaving comments that had absolutely no relevance to my wiki page and would leave any visitors wondering what on earth was going on. The alternative of course, was to IM me inworld or leave me a notecard, neither of which you did. As far as I am concerned the incident is now closed. Have a nice day.--User:Tid Kidd 12:34, 13 February 2008 (PST)
Acceptable SL wiki content
Hi SignpostMaven, sorry to bother, but I was not sure who to check with on this. Is this acceptable content for the wiki? Cheers! --JetZep Zabelin 18:32, 20 February 2008 (PST)
- Thanks for your response. It looks like a directory of L$ resellers accepted by LL. --JetZep Zabelin 17:00, 21 February 2008 (PST)
Help portal on this wiki?
- --Hi, do you know much about this wiki, I haven't been able to get a response out of anyone who knows anything yet. I think this wiki should have a general Help portal for newbies, veteran users, etc. I started a discussion about this at https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#What_is_this_wiki_for_.3F How do we get such a help portal? I don't want to write a bunch of help content and then have it get removed. I notice in https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Editing_Guidelines that this wiki is only for "the communities represented by the portals on this wiki"...and newbies, and residents seeking general help, aren't one of those communities. I guess I could take any help docs I want to write and put them instead on any other SL-related wiki on the web.
- --Jaszon Maynard 02:00, 26 February 2008 (PST)
- --I got your reply, thanks. Are we allowed to make our own portals? The Editing Guidelines page for this wiki says "New portals may be added at any time, subject to the discretion of Linden Lab". I didn't know if that meant only they make them, or they must approve them first, or what. If I make a new portal, does it automatically appear on the Main Page, or do I have to request someone to edit the Main Page?
- --Jaszon Maynard 10:19, 26 February 2008 (PST)
Thanks for your map!
- --I just had to say something:
- https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Image_talk:Agni.jpg
- --Jaszon Maynard 10:14, 27 February 2008 (PST)
Sorry for the lateness of my reply. I would be fine with re-porting the template. --TxMasterG Ping 14:20, 6 March 2008 (PST)
SL Movie Tips:
Hey there: Thanks a LOT for your tips re watching movies in sl, they work like a treat (wooot!).
I'd actually would call this worthy of an official Linden Blog tip, *if* it wasn't for the matter that there sure would be loads of people "stealing" media streams for their sims at once, theoretically causing loads of grief for the stream owners. Sure, it's possible for them anyways, but as long as you don't point that out to everybody.
thnax! :)--Kruge Kubrick 15:54, 13 March 2008 (PDT)
Linden Office Hours Setup - HELP!
Hey Marv, can you pleaseeee help me in setting up a Linden office hour, I looked for you on Skype but yo were Offline. Grab me next time you're on, and I am! : D
Thanks Meghan Dench
BlipTV & Videoflash
Ellow Marv!
Can you help us out but creating a Jira with your patch?
Greetz, Lynch (talk|contribs) 00:23, 12 August 2008 (PDT)
I just stripped #ifexist off Template:Office Hours/include-by-day for testing purposes. It works without the function (Office_Hours/MG2). How about this simple but spammy idea: Let's create a whole bunch of empty pages. The red links would vanish. The template would work. No extra coding. Just a little spam.
Greetz, Lynch (talk|contribs) 19:43, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- That would suck :-P
- SignpostMarv Martin 22:14, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- It would boost our spamcount and solve the problem (^_^)
- Lynch (talk|contribs) 22:21, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- Added it manually to Office Hours/MG2 and Office Hours/TG2 (I was to lazy to do it for the Office_Hours/Weekday pages). Works now (Office Hours/By Day2).
- Lynch (talk|contribs) 01:47, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey I noticed you put the Help template at the top of Category:LSL, why? The Help Portal header doesn't have a link into the LSL Portal in it's header, so it doesn't work as a child header of help. The LSL Portal as it is is a separate entity from the Help Portal. It just doesn't seem appropriate. -- Strife (talk|contribs) 11:37, 14 April 2009 (UTC)


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Recumbent Duke of Orléans (detail) by Baron Henri de Triqueti (1803-74). 1842. Plaster. The Triqueti room of the Musée Girodet, Montargis, France. Photographs by the author 2009/10 with kind permission of the Musée Girodet.
This is a detail from the full-size maquette of Duke Ferdinand of Orleans, prepared as an effigy for his tomb. Friend and patron of Triqueti, the duke was the eldest son of the Louis-Philippe, King of the French, and his wife Marie-Amélie of Bourbon-Sicily. As such, he was Prince Royal, and his death as a result of a carriage accident, at the age of only 32, was not only a family tragedy but a national event. The king decided to commemorate his son with a splendid memorial chapel — Chapelle Royale Saint-Ferdinand, also known now as the Chapelle Notre Dame de la Compassion, near the Place des Ternes, Paris. Triqueti, to whom the king's son had been both friend and patron, was commissioned for the sculptural decoration of the tomb. This was executed to the design of the artist Ary Scheffer (1795-1858), who was drawing and painting master to the royal children, but with great skill and feeling: The young prince is shown at the very moment of death, his uniform loosened in a hopeless bid to ease his breathing; he seems to have lapsed into sleep, the folds of his robes giving him a relaxed, romantic air (see Galliot-Rateau 16). The low-relief figure of "The Spirit of France Lamenting" on the side of the tomb was entirely of Triqueti's own conception and design. An angel at the duke's head, not part of the maquette in the museum, was sculpted by Princess Marie d'Orléans, the duke's sister. Louis-Philippe and his wife were fated to die in exile at Claremont, Surrey, during the mid-Victorian period.
Left to right: (a) Detail of the duke's hand. (b) The Spirit of France Lamenting, on the side of the tomb. [Click on thumbnails for larger images.]
Other Views
Galliot-Rateau, Véronique. Henry de Triqueti, 1803-1874, Sculpteur: Collection du Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans. Orléans: Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, 2009.
"La Chapelle Saint Ferdinand" (a French site about little-known places of interest in Paris). Viewed 8 May 2010.
Price, Munro. The Perilous Crown: France Between Revolutions, 1814-1848. London: Pan Macmillan, 2008.
Rykner, Didier. "Henry de Triqueti (1803-1874)." This site relates to a major exhibition of Triqueti's work in France, in 2007/8. Viewed 8 May 2010.
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It's a new year! The first page of the calendar is the perfect time to identify the things that are working in your life as well as the things you'd like to do differently.
Although times are hard, communities are more connected than ever before. How we utilize these connections will determine whether 2012 is a year of abundance or scarcity. Here at Shareable we believe that the power to solve both personal and societal problems lies within us, the people. The more we share with each other, the more abundant our individual lives will be.
Participation in the sharing economy doesn't require expensive equipment or a two-year contract, like some of your other resolutions. Sharing is easy. All it takes is a willingness to prioritize access over ownership, and experience over material posessions.
There are lots of signs that 2012 will be a big year for the sharing community, and we don't want you to miss out on all the fun.
That's why we've compiled this handy guide to sharing throughout the seasons. No matter what the occasion, we hope you'll use this list to make it a shareable event!
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Inevitably, the icy cold thaws, and we join nature in shedding our heavy winter coats. Spring is a wonderful time to think about growth and renewal, both inside your home and out.
Spring cleaning means many of us will be sorting through the clothes, toys, books, and other clutter that accumulate in our "dens" over the winter. Instead of tossing those still-functional goods in the trash, think about giving them a second life. You could host a yard sale, or trade them for new-to-you items on an online swap site, like ThredUP, Swap.com, BookMooch, or Goozex.
While it might be too cold to start planting, you can read up on ways to share a vegetable garden, backyard chickens, or even a cow. If you'd love to see others start gardening, creating a seed lending library is an easy way to share the edible love. Even if you're a city dweller, there are ways to join the grow-your-own movement. Think about starting a garden in your kitchen garden or on your apartment balcony, or conserving resources with a waterpod.
Spring is also a good time to reconnect with your community. Think about welcoming the warmer weather by hosting a community swap meet or inviting neighbors over for a potluck meal. If you're new in town, hosting a stranger dinner is the perfect way to make new friends.
And if times have been hard on your community, you might want to explore timebanking or consider organizing a neighborhood work group. You can also help lift spirits and improve your city by creating a bike corridor, helping your neighbors go solar, or making your street carfree.
Farmers' market: Credit – Maxilexi
By the time summer rolls around each year, most of us are itching to get outside. Warm weather makes it much easier to organize community events centered around sharing. Even with the kids out of school and vacations on the horizon, there are ways to utilize the global sharing community to turn the lazy days of summer into unforgettable experiences.
If you're planning to tie the knot this summer, this DIY guide to creating a shareable wedding will help you increase the creativity while decreasing cost. If you want to get out of town but are tired of the same old tourist traps, these travel-sharing websites will expand your idea of what a vacation looks like. And if long-distance travel is out of the question, we've got some creative staycation ideas that will help you re-discover your own region.
And there's no rule that learning has to stop just because the kids are on vacation. Think about joining a skillshare group or Freeskool where members can swap skills, and learn about topics of interest from local experts. You can also use experience-oriented websites to share food, drinks, music, etc., with talented individuals in your community and beyond.
Summer is also the time when you'll start to reap the benefits of your spring gardening efforts. If your town doesn't already have one, you may want to start a farmers' market to generate extra cash with your produce. If you'd rather make the most of your bounty by sharing it with others, organizing a crop mob, a MamaBake food swap, or a baby food swap, will fill bellies and hearts at the same time.
Neighbors collaborate to tackle city issues via opensourceway on Flickr
As Summer winds down, work, school, and other responsibilities begin anew. But this doesn't mean your sharing habits have to end!
Find out how and why you should think about sharing an education as well as school transportation and and even a nanny for the kids that aren't yet of school age. Autumn is also a great time to experiment with car pooling, and explore home improvements that will help you stay warm during Winter without blowing your budget .
By incorporating the principles of sharing into your professional life, it's possible to restore a positive attitude toward your work and introduce others to collaborative consumption. Learn to promote new ideas, design a workspace for sharing, and live your values at work. If you're self-employed, attending a Jelly or joining a coworking space can give you access to a community of like-minded entrepreneurs (and get you out of the coffee shop). Even if you're working the 9-5, we've got tips for convicing your boss to let you cowork. And if you're currently unemployed, we've got advice about finding jobs through social media, sharing your job search, and creating your own green job.
Halloween and Thanksgiving are the major Autumn holidays, and we've got lots of tips for how to celebrate. Check out our guide to having a shareable Halloween and why Thanksgiving, like the commons, is a great U.S. tradition. If you feel somewhat ambivalent toward Thanksgiving, this guide to forging connections might reignite your holiday spirit.
Biking through the snow. (Credit: Sarah Gavor via Flickr)
The coldest months of the year can be an emotional and financial roller coaster. But the holidays are a great time to experiment with sharing techniques that can save you time and money.
Avoid the holiday crowds and high credit card bills by utilizing a donation exchange, or organizing a used toy exchange between family and friends. You can also score great used gifts with clothing and media swaps.
Once the holidays are over, get a head-start on your resolution to drive less with this guide to winter biking, and update your recipe box by inviting your friends to a food swap. January is also a great time to make good on those promises to take better care of yourself. Think about committing to a Dry January, in which you and your friends abstain from alcohol for 30 days. If you can't stick to an excercise regime without a drill sargent, think about forming workout, running, or yoga groups with your friends.
And if you're determined to be your own boss in 2012, this article will teach you how to launch your startup idea on a shoestring budget.
How do you embrace the spirit of sharing throughout the year? Please add your seasonal, shareable suggestions in a comment below!


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Obviously, we as a nation are known for treating our obese citizens with dignity and respect. Oh, wait. Nope. We let them die in a foreign country while they're awaiting life-saving kidney failure surgery because was "physically impossible" to get them on the plain. Alright, now that we've squared away the general attitude that they're non-people, let's move on!
A small study conducted by Penn State College of Medicine printed in Women's Health Issues Journal say that many physicians don't adjust their regular spiel to suit the specific health needs of overweight and obese pregnant women. The standard guidelines are as follows: Normal-weight pregnant women are advised to gain 25 to 35 pounds, overweight women to gain 15 to 25 pounds and obese women to gain less than 20 pounds.
Researchers interviewed 12 overweight and 12 obese women after the birth of their first child and asked them about their doctor's advice on weight gain and physical activity. Of the 24 women, nine of them received no information at all about the weight gain standards—and, of the remainder, only two women were given the appropriate weight bracket. One of the researchers adds in the study: "Some women who received their care at obstetrical group practices and were seen by different providers in the same practice even received conflicting advice." That's reassuring.
Meanwhile, only 10 of the women were advised to exercise during pregnancy, and none of these women were instructed on the type or duration of exercise, although "federal physical activity guidelines recommend 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity exercise in healthy pregnant women, even in previously inactive women."
'Study Questions Advice Given to Obese Pregnant Women' [US News & World Report]
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SA'er "zerothehero" filed a number of reports from the most unique race in all of sailing; the paddling, sailing, portaging, and pushing Watertribe Everglades Challenge. You can see all his reports as well as a pile of other info and video in the thread, and below is a great excerpt. Photo from another SA'er – Tom Ray.
So dinner in the boat was a bad idea for me.
After clearing the last of the mangroves we settled in on port, and after about an hour, Per got to dinner. Earlier, my cafe con leche had spilled in the bilge and I had only gotten a few sips. Oh, well. The dinner had also fallen in the bilge, but I thought I had saved the top one. So after Per ate, I opened my container to find it full of water! One problem with that: Per had been peeing in the bailer which had a crack in it so who knows what was in that water. Not eating that!
Per analyzes the numbers and says that, under current conditions, we will need to head out 25 miles to lay the cape. I answer that there's no way I am sailing 25 miles off shore in a Lightning at night. We analyze the conditions constantly and come up with a theory; the wind will back more and more and we may not have to tack at all. The wind was strong and we were going to weather, making sleep very difficult. We both managed a little, but really not enough. I developed a headache and wasn't feeling great, I was starting to not take care of myself properly and this would become an issue later.
That night I had vivid hallucinations: The stars were traced into made-up constellations. It was very cool but unnerving at the same time. I kept thinking I could see shore even though I knew we were well past where we could see it. There was a phantom palm tree following me just off to port, and we were 11 miles off the Everglades. While sailing along in the dark we suddenly stopped, and a really weird feeling came over me. I clicked on my head lamp and looked at the water, we were in the middle of a huge boil of water upwelling from below. The water was full of sand and grit and had a strange color to it. Spooky. We pulled up the centerboard and rudder and drifted off the boil, finally free of its grip. All-in-all, an unsettling experience in a night of them. Even as far offshore as we were, the water depths are only around 20 feet or so and there are several currents converging out there.
Our theory on the wind played out and we kept getting lifted. A little before dawn, we passed East Cape close enough to hear the birds. As dawn broke, SOS and Poptarp came screaming out of Checkpoint 3 in their tri, Mosquito. They gybed, and passed us to close to leeward. Great looking boat. In our 2 second conversation, we learned they were going outside, the long way around. Not so painful in a boat that can do 20+ knots! We continued tacking up into CP3 and a while later we saw Sambasailor leaving the CP. This put the fire in Per. We analyzed their course and figured they too were going south. Per decides we are going to strike out across the bay, it's our only option if we want to try and beat Sambasailor. We get into the checkpoint, grab some food and caffeine, use the facilities and leave. Total time in CP3, about 20 minutes. Up next, the exciting finish…Read on.


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Twenty-two years ago a team of researchers traveled to some 200 U.S. preschools with a game board and a list. That now seminal study, in which 91 percent of the three- and six-year-olds they tested correctly paired mascot Joe Camel with his matching cigarettes, set off a cascade of antismoking legislation aimed at shielding American youth from aggressive tobacco ads. And in 2003 the World Heath Organization followed suit with an international treaty designed to limit the marketing power of tobacco companies in developing countries.
But new findings suggest that tobacco companies have succeeded in moving their campaign overseas regardless of international recommendations. This year a research team in Brazil, China, Russia, Nigeria, Pakistan and India conducted a very similar version of the original Joe Camel study. Among the 2,400 five- and six-year-olds they interviewed, 68 percent could identify at least one tobacco logo.
Experts say the finding is the latest in a series of recent studies to indicate that the same four tobacco companies that U.S. public health advocates kicked out in the 1990s are still targeting the most vulnerable members of society—namely, children, teens and those trying to quit, with a focus on less affluent nations.
Joaquin Barnoya, research assistant professor of public health at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, says tobacco companies have "learned their lesson from high-income countries" that have restricted their sales by imposing taxes and marketing limitations. Barnoya, who studies tobacco sales and antismoking efforts in Guatemala, says tobacco companies there secure customers by directly violating the law or by finding creative ways around it. For example, although they can't market their products on television or in magazines, tobacco companies use "nontraditional" advertising, such as paying retailers to place their products in the most visible parts of the store (usually either directly behind or in front of the cash register). Companies also use promotional advertising, such as two-for-one product discounts, to hook smokers who may be trying to quit. These strategies send a message to the consumer that smoking is socially acceptable, Barnoya says: "It's like a store placing the candy at the front where you're most likely to see it and buy it."
Children are highly receptive to marketing, says University of Maryland, College Park, public health research professor Dina Borzekowski, who led this year's study of five- and six-year-olds. Borzekowski found that the children in Brazil, China, Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria and India who could best identify tobacco brands did not necessarily live with a smoker, further suggesting that kids are picking up knowledge about cigarettes in public rather than at home. "You would think this would only happen with children who lived with smokers or had a family member who smoked, but it didn't," Borzekowski says.
In 2005 the countries in which Barnoya and Borzekowski conducted their research joined 168 nations in signing onto an international treaty banning aggressive tobacco advertising—the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Despite having agreed to the law in principle, many countries are still failing to execute it. "If you go to these countries, you'll see signs that say 'no smoking,' and right underneath them people are smoking," Borzekowski says.
Hillel Alpert, a researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, says tobacco companies are still targeting youth in the U.S. as well. As recently as 2005 R. J. Reynolds was adding flavors—such as orange-mint, chocolate and vanilla—to its Camel cigarettes to increase their appeal to youth and first-time smokers. But after an outpouring of research linked the candy-flavored products with a rise in youth smoking rates, Reynolds was forced to stop selling them. Even so, Alpert says, U.S. tobacco companies continue to add flavors to small cigars, smokeless and other tobacco products. "The industry has found that marketing an addictive product to youth translates into customers who are addicted for life."
Reynolds spokesperson Richard Smith says the company's marketing strategy is directed at adults. "Nothing we do is targeting youth," he says.
Borzekowski's team is now studying children's awareness and understanding of warning labels on cigarette packages. In some European countries, where governments have paired the labels with graphic images, consumer demand for the products has decreased, especially among young people. But tobacco companies are fighting efforts to use similar visuals internationally. "We've gotten rid of the giant billboards. We've gotten rid of Joe Camel. But we've sill got work to do, in the U.S. and globally," Borzekowski says.
See also:
>>Do Electronic Cigarettes Really Help Smokers Quit?
>>Smoking Is a Drag at the Box Office


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In his column Repertoire Building with Benjamin, the American GM starts an intriguing discussion of isolated queen's pawn positions in different openings.
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The Financial Times is reporting that George Osborne is set to back down over proposals to limit the tax-deductability of charitable donations. The chancellor's planned cap on tax relief limited deductibles to the higher of 25 per cent of annual income or £50,000 per person, but the inclusion of relief given due to charitable donations in that cap sparked condemnation from all three parties and many charities.
As a result, Osborne is considering two new possibilities:
One plan is to have a separate limit on charitable donations of 50 per cent of a person's income, allowing charities to claim tens of millions of pounds more in reliefs than under the current plan. Another is to let donors roll over any unused tax reliefs into future years if they are used for donations.
Treasury officials are locked in talks with representatives from the voluntary sector, and expect to make final decisions on how best to mitigate the effects of the planned cap in a few months. But they estimate raising the ceiling for charitable donations to 50 per cent would cost £40m, taking the overall savings from capping charities tax relief down to just £20m.
It is worth clarifying what the proposed changes are. Most of us are only aware of the most basic level of interaction between the tax system and charitable donations: gift-aid.
If a basic-rate taxpayer makes a donation, then a charity can claim back the tax paid on the money donated, boosting the value of the donation by 25 per cent (if the donor gives 80p, then the charity gets £1, which is the amount the donor had to earn to receive 80p post-tax income). There are no current plans to change that, and it has been an invaluable source of revenue for many charities.
If the donor is a higher- or top-rate taxpayer, however, tax relief kicks in for them as well as the charity. In addition to the 20 per cent gift aid, the donor can claim back the 20 or 30 per cent they paid on top of that, and count it against taxable income at the end of the year. So that 80p donation still earns the charity £1, but when the time comes to fill in their tax return, the donor won't have to pay more than basic rate tax on the money donated – they get 20 or 30p back. For a top rate taxpayer, that means that they are out-of-pocket by 50p, while the charity gets £1.
It is important to note that no-one makes money by donating to charity in this way. If the charity is a real one – and this whole affair was sparked because some people are apparently donating to bogus charities, which really is tax dodging – then the donor will always lose at least 50p in every pound the charity receives. It will indeed reduce the total tax they pay, but that reduction will necessarily be less than the amount they donate.
Despite that, there will be people using donations to avoid tax. It won't be rational, and it won't make them richer, but sometimes dodgers go to ludicrous lengths to not pay tax. Willard Foxton reported people "dodging VAT on cars by having them flown in at more cost than the tax". It is certainly believable that those who think like that would donate £2m to avoid paying £1m in tax; but it isn't going to be many.
Even for those who aren't donating out of blind desire to reduce their tax take, the cap will hit hard. Combined with other tax deductions, charitable donations may be enough to push the total tax-rate of a wealthy individual to less than 25 per cent. That is what is concerning charities. Under the proposed rules, the cost of donations to philanthropists with an already low tax rate will rise by 37.5 per cent. If donors react to that rise by donating less, then charities will be sorely hit.
The core issue at stake is whether or not charitable giving abdicates one's responsibility to pay for the machinery of state. On the one hand is the belief exemplified by Clement Atlee:
If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
On the other hand is the belief that by donating to charity, one has fulfilled their responsibility to pay a "fair share".
In the real world the argument hasn't touched upon this morality much, if at all. Instead, the matter is presented in far starker terms; either a focus on "total tax rate" to the exclusion of the reasons why that rate might be low, or a focus on the total income of charities, to the exclusion of the source of that money.


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SAN FRANCISCO (Rethinking AIDS) Dec. 9, 2008
The international nonprofit scientific organization Rethinking AIDS gave its full support today to 37 senior researchers, medical doctors and legal professionals who are requesting that the medical journal
withdraw four seminal papers on HIV authored by Dr. Robert Gallopapers widely touted as proof that HIV is the "probable cause of AIDS." An online posting of the letter can be found
"With new findings that undermine the scientific integrity and veracity of Gallo's four papers, the entire basis of the theory that HIV causes AIDS may now be questioned," says Rethinking AIDS president David Crowe.
The letter to the journal comes at a time when the microbiology world is abuzz about Gallo's omission from the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of HIV, contrary to an international agreement that the two teams should share credit. French scientists Drs. Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barré-Sinoussi are instead to be given the award, a decision that also implicitly questions the scientific integrity of Gallo's claim of the discovery. Montagnier, however,
admitted on camera
more than a decade ago that his experiments did not purify any virus.
The four papers were originally published on May 4, 1984, a few days after a press conference by Gallo announcing he had discovered the "probable cause of AIDS." Now, a British investigative journalist has shown that Gallo's claim was based on last-minute alterations to documents that make false claims about the results of his lab work and research experiments. The letter to
sent by the 37 experts on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008, includes a copy of Gallos handwritten changes to the article, a letter from an electron microscopy expert indicating that Gallos samples did not contain any virus, and a letter from Gallo to a researcher verifying that HIV could not be purified directly from human materials.
The investigative conclusion prompting the letter to
was made by journalist Janine Roberts, author of Fear of the Invisible, a book that examines the origin of several disease theories. "I was shocked when I read the original draft of the key scientific paper now widely cited as proving HIV causes AIDS," says Roberts. "Gallo's handwritten last-minute changes had reversed what the scientists in his lab had originally concluded. This demonstrates a stunning disregard for the scientific process and a very disturbing breach of public trust."
It is clear that the seminal research published on HIV contained unjustified claims and alterations. In 1993, governmental investigators determined Gallo had so poorly recorded his key and much-cited experiment that it was impossible to repeat and verify it.
In the early 1990s, several highly critical reports on the research underlying Gallo's papers were produced as a result of governmental inquiries working under the supervision of scientists nominated by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services concluded that the lead paper of the four was "fraught with false and erroneous statements" and that the ORI believes that the careless and unacceptable keeping of research records . . . reflects irresponsible laboratory management that has permanently impaired the ability to retrace the important steps taken." Further, a Congressional Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations produced a staff report on the papers, containing scathing criticisms of their integrity.
Rethinking AIDS
an international group of more than 2,600 scientists, doctors, journalists, health advocates and others offers several eminent medical and scientific experts to comment on this and other AIDS issues currently in the news:
Etienne de Harven, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
Saint Cézaire, France
Member and professor in cell biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, 1956-1981. Isolated and obtained the first electron microscopic studies of the murine Friend leukemia virus, and retroviral budding. Frequent critic of the "isolation" of HIV, and past president of Rethinking AIDS. Dr. de Harven can comment on the science of retrovirus isolation.
Janine Roberts
Investigative Reporter
Bristol, U.K.
Author, Fear of the Invisible, a recent book exposing the fraud in the drafting of one of the original 1984
articles by Robert Gallo.
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David Crowe
President, Rethinking AIDS
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Rethinking AIDS: The Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis ("RA" or "the Group") was formed in 1991 to express the concerns of a growing number of renowned scientists and medical doctors about HIV research and the resulting human rights abuses. In 1995, by a letter published in Science, the Group called for a thorough reappraisal of the existing evidence for and against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis and recommended that critical epidemiological studies be undertaken.
Among RA's founders and key members are University of Toronto professor emeritus and former cancer researcher Dr. Etienne de Harven; Harvard microbiologist Dr. Charles Thomas; 1993 Nobel laureate for chemistry Dr. Kary Mullis; Nature/Biotechnology co-founder Dr. Harvey Bialy; University of California at Berkeley molecular biologist Dr. Peter Duesberg and the late Yale mathematician Dr. Serge Lang, both members of the National Academy of Sciences; physicist Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos of the Royal Perth Hospital in Australia; and Glasgow University professor emeritus of public health and World Health Organization consultant Dr. Gordon Stewart.


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Concert for George - 20th Anniversary
On the 29th of November 2002, one year to the day that George Harrison passed away, his closest friends gathered to celebrate his life--in the only way they know how, by playing his music. This historic event was captured on film. The first half provides insight into George's spiritual self, as Anoushka Shankar and a sixteen-piece orchestra of Indian musicians performed a special composition by her father--and George's mentor--Ravi Shankar. The second half gave the audience a rare sighting of members of the Monty Python team performing some of George's favorite skits. This was a tribute to George's well-known sense of humor. The rest moved to on to legendary musicians, Eric Clapton and his friends, giving the performances of their lives--singing George's well-loved songs. The list of musicians includes many with whom George worked with over the years: Joe Brown, Jools Holland, Sam Brown, Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers, Ringo Starr and Billy Preston. As performers, they all gathered for one of the most beloved men of their generation.
Joe Brown, Eric Clapton, Jools Holland and Sam Brown, Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Billy Preston, Ringo Starr
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