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Dr. Susan A. Cole, president of Montclair State University, was honored as 'Educator of the Year" by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey at the 25th annual Thomas Alva Edison Patent Awards Dinner at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City in November.
Dr. Cole received the Educator of the Year" award for her outstanding achievement in furthering the advancement of research and development through education. The Research and Development Council recognized the growth in students, facilities, faculty and programs that has occurred at Montclair State under Dr. Cole's leadership, and also noted the University's plans to open the Bristol-Myers Squibb Center for Science Teaching and Learning.
In accepting the award, Dr. Cole noted to the assembled scientists and representatives from business "that we are celebrating the creation and uses of knowledge in a state that has not adequately accepted responsibility for the higher education of its people."
"If I deserve any credit in this at all, it is only that I saw with clarity both the need and the potential." Dr. Cole said she accepted the award, not for herself, but for Montclair State's 16,000 students, ambitious and talented, highly diverse and determined young men and women -- half of them the first in their families to attend college -- students who are ready to work hard, to pull themselves up into a life of accomplishment and contribution to society."
Robert Schaffhauser, chairman of the Research and Development Council, wrote that "by accepting this prestigious Council award, you join an elite group of other outstanding educators whose tireless commitment to higher education continues to help shape the future of the state and nation."
Dr. Cole assumed office as the eighth president of Montclair State in September, 1998. The Brooklyn native is the first woman to head the University, which is the second largest university in New Jersey, with close to 16,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Dr. Cole served as President of Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis/ St. Paul, Minnesota from 1993 to 1998 and as Vice President for University Administration and Personnel at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey from 1980 to 1991. She also served as Associate University Dean for Academic Affairs at Antioch University and Visiting Senior Fellow in Academic Administration at the City University of New York.
Dr. Cole currently serves on The Property Tax Convention Task Force, on the boards of the Liberty Science Center, Mountainside Hospital, the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, and The Public Policy Center of New Jersey, and has served as co-chair of Governor DiFrancesco's World Class Economy Task Force, as a member of Governor Whitman's trade missions to South America and Asia, on Gov. McGreevey's Education Cabinet and as co-chair of his higher education transition team. She was chair of the board of The St. Paul Riverfront Corporation and has served on a number of other boards, including The Saint Paul Foundation, Twin Cities Public Television, Western Bank, and the Science Museum of Minnesota. Dr. Cole earned three degrees in English and American literature: a bachelor of arts degree from Barnard College, Columbia University and both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Brandeis University.
Also honored at the Awards dinner was Ralph Izzo, president and COO of PSE&G, who received the Science & Technology Medal for his extraordinary management in bringing innovation to the marketplace, and New Jersey Congressman Rush Holt, who received the Chairman's Award" for his work in uniting industry, academia and the state in the pursuit of creating a research-based environment in New Jersey for the twenty-first century.
The Thomas Alva Edison Patent Awards were presented for the most important scientific breakthroughs and product innovations originating in New Jersey. This year's winners are Celgene Corporation (Warren), Engelhard Corporation (Iselin), ExxonMobil Research & Engineering (Annandale), International Specialty Products (Wayne), Merck & Co., Inc. (Rahway), Princeton University (Princeton), Rutgers University (New Brunswick), Sabinsa Corporation (Piscataway), Schering Plough Research Institute (Kenilworth) and Wyeth (Princeton).
The Research and Development Council is a non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating an environment that supports the advancement of research and development.


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Froxlor is system administration software based on the system control panel SysCP. It focuses on simplicity and usability, and enables an Internet service provider to give customers a Web-based application to administrate their email addresses, subdomains, databases, etc.
|Server Server Administration Panel
|Operating Systems
|English German Spanish
Release Notes: Auto-completion is now prevented in the new customer dialog. The Temp folder is now deleted. The check box now remembers if the domain is a wildcard. The catch-all check box while creating e-mail address is now working. webftp.php file upload was fixed. A PHP-FPM tmpdir permission bug was resolved. A "--force" option was added to prevent empty MySQL backups. The filesystem quota is now used to enforce disk space limits for customers.
Release Notes: This release removes an error when there is a white space in the field "registration date". It fixes German translations, too many Web server reloads, and character errors in the Italian language file. It allows the domain to use SSL without SSL redirect, allows continuing of uploads in ProFTPd by setting a conf value in proftpd.conf, and allows active FTP uploads in backup. It adds customer gender.
Release Notes: exim4 now issues a permanent error when encountering non-existent users. Files containing ".php" anywhere in the filename are no longer executed as PHP. A better error message is provided for hostnames as domains. The "Resend password" lng variable was fixed. A "Warning: Division by zero" error in the usage report was fixed. A "SysLinks" typo in apacheconfig was removed. Domain with TLDs of more than 6 characters are now allowed. FreeBSD nginx htpasswd generation was added. A backup function was added for Admin and Customer. An Admin Traffic summary was added. Form usability was improved.
Release Notes: This release fixed sorting of customers, a reliance on being installed in docroot/froxlor, undefined variables, an error message that was displayed instead of success after a password change, an install script error, incorrect paths in domains with URLs, bugs in perl-suexec - mod, a doubl eslash in redirects, and a bug in the ticket archive. Redirect codes are now supported using mod_rewrite. Empty fields in IPs and ports are filled. The package recommendations for Exim4 as MTA were adjusted. A TLS entry was added for Postfix. Form values are now remembered after an error. Check box support was added to the form field generator.
Release Notes: Due to the implementation of the new design and the theme switcher, some bugs and errors occurred. This release is a recommend update, since version 0.9.18 may lead to some problems.
A Fluent OpenStack client API for Java.
A TWiki appliance that is easy to use and lightweight.

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|Reviews for Froggie
| Quitisential Bee chapter 1 . 2/10/2006
there ain't no justice...
| Livi Z chapter 1 . 2/10/2005
Hahaha. Aww, poor frog. I felt his happiness, his sorrow, his paaiinn!
Nice little poem. '
PS. I read your intire Bio. I survived! '
| Chauden Nemodi chapter 1 . 4/6/2004
OMG i love froggies!
Ferrets more now!
ferrets rock
yes sirree that they do.
i g2g now
cool beans!
| Lori Brennan chapter 1 . 12/19/2003
You know it's sad but true. Nature has it's way with you!
| flowerthief chapter 1 . 11/25/2003
| Lellida chapter 1 . 11/16/2003
gulp.. up.. hey! they don't rhyme. Sh, I won't tell either. Very cute, almost like a long limerick
| KatyGirl1219 chapter 1 . 11/2/2003
OMG this is excellent! ::claps ands and does happy dance:: It's so cute and sweet! I love it! .
Please, please, please keep writing!
And thank you muchly for my reviews!
| Cyanotok chapter 1 . 8/8/2003
Funny, I'll give it that, and cute. BUT, if you could edit it so that it had a steady rythem to go along with the theme of the frog, THAT would push your piece over the edge and make it badass. Just a suggestion.
| ShadowGal chapter 1 . 7/14/2003
:snickers: How cute! But... poor li'l stupid froggy...
| Starlight Rain chapter 1 . 5/25/2003
*shrill squeal* Such a cute little poem! It makes me want to bounce about! Tra la!
~~Starlight Rain
| Guest chapter 1 . 12/15/2002
Aaah, I loved it! The ending was great! (poor froggie, tho)
| Ritina chapter 1 . 11/26/2002
Sounds like Fogger!
| Kyle Gon Jinn chapter 1 . 9/16/2001
Big: Froggie? ...I must save Froggie!
Quiet you. Nice fic Cass. I like the twist at the end. ;o)
| Tweek chapter 1 . 6/23/2001
That was fun, except for the poor little frog or course :-)


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Re: Cemetery Lookup please
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Cemetery Lookup please
Karen Look 10/20/05
I found Ernest F. Smith in the Enid cemetery died April 15, 1968 but I can not find an obit, but will keep looking.Their is an Ethel Smith that died in Ardmore, OK in December of 1976.Do you think it could be her?I did find an obit for Melvin Bonnett and a census record as you will see below:
Oklahoma census 1930, Garfield county, Noble township, ED 49-3A.
Eldon H. Bonnett, head of household, white, male, age 35, born in Kansas.Both his parents were born in Missouri.He is a farmer and rents his home.He first married at the age of 23.
Hazel Bonnett, wife, white, female, age 33, born in Oklahoma.Her parents were both born in Illinois.She first married at the age of 21.
Melvin Bonnett, son, white, male, age 10, born in Oklahoma.
Stanley Bonnett, son, white, male, age 9 or 7 ?, bor in OK.
Norma Lee Bonnett, daughter, white, female, age 3 years and 9 months, born in Oklahoma.
"Melvin W. Bonnett
Mr. Melvin Werth Bonnett, 84, died at 8:15 A.M. on Tuesday at his residence following a lengthy illness.
Memorial services will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Friday in the Disciples Christian Church with Dr. Sharon Watkins officiating.Military rites will be conducted by the James H. Teel American Legion Post #105 of Bartlesville.Cremation arrangements were under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home.
Memorial has been established and those who wish to make a contribution in memory of Mr. Bonnett may do so to:Jane Phillips Hospital, 219 N. Virginia Avenue, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74003 or Disciples Christian Church Memorial Fund, 5800 Douglas Lane, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74006.
Mr. Bonnett was born October 7, 1919 at Hunter, Oklahoma to Eldon Henry and Hazel (Benson) Bonnett.He was raised and received his education at Hunter, Oklahoma graduating high school there in 1934.He also graduated Enid Business College at Enid, Oklahoma.Mr. Bonnett was married to Lucretia Moore on April 15, 1939 at Pond Creek, Oklahoma.They made their home in Bartlesville in 1941.Mr. Bonnett entered the U.S. Army on July 21, 1944 and was honorably discharged on January 17, 1946.He was a charter member of the Disciples Christian Church, a member of the James H. Teel American Legion Post #105 and Senior Master Bridge Player.He was a retiree of Phillips Petroleum Company with forty-one years of service.
Survivors include two sons,Melvin W. Bonnett Jr. and his wife, Eunice;andJames P. Bonnett,all of Bartlesville.One daughter,Patricia Cooksey and her husband John of Houston, Texas;three grandchildren,Jennifer Warman,Jeff Cooksey and his wife Jennifer of Houston, Texas,Joey Bonnett of Bartlesville;four great-grandchildred, including twins Matthew and Ashley Warman of Houston, Texas andJacob and Paige Cooksey also of Houston, Texas.Mr. Bonnett was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Lucretia Bonnett and a brother Stanley Bonnett."
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I've tried to keep the upper part of my screen open...
Do comment and I'll try to answer as best as I can, and if people have good ideas, do share
and I'm not allowed to link links yet :S
I've tried to keep the upper part of my screen open...
Do comment and I'll try to answer as best as I can, and if people have good ideas, do share
and I'm not allowed to link links yet :S
My raidng UI i love it on my warlock and also use anonther varient of it for my DK tank
Signature made by Shyama
WARLOCKS WILL RULE THE WORLD!!(of Azeroth)
In combat: http://i.imgur.com/RXneo.jpg
Out of combat: http://i.imgur.com/jbVdQ.jpg
Action bars and unit frames hide when I'm not in combat, have full mana/health and I am not targeting anyone.
Last edited by 6kle; 2012-06-14 at 09:31 AM.
i just got ELVUI and had a lil potch, eres how my ui looks atm, probly move the odd thing ere n there a lil, gotta add the rest of my keybinds n shit too, get a bit more order ;p.. quite liking this elvui tho.
Left Power Aura is a Meta Countdown, Right is a Shadow Bite Countdown. I have a Felstorm one as well but I took the SS a tad too late
He slipped out of his royal garments, left eternity to enter time, divinity to wrap himself in humanity.
The sea of glass, for the ocean of separation. He left peace, and for the first time felt pain.
Because the very hands that held the stars were now sentenced to wear my scars.
ive scaled it all down now ill pop another creenie on later
That was mine during the last time I seriously raided. After I plan to start doing that again on the MOP release, I want to improve it as far as possible and would appreciate ideas.
I want to cut off any unnecessary hardware usage, so skada and the scrolling combat text have to go, if there are any good alternatives to suf/prat/elkanos/forte (including multi target dot tracker and cooldown timer), please inform me. Also, does anyone know if actually power auras or weakauras is better relating to hardware usage?
Here it is in action:
Signature made by Shyama
WARLOCKS WILL RULE THE WORLD!!(of Azeroth)
Here is mine:
I've had variations of this UI for a looong time now. Was thinking of making some adjustments soonish. Not sure exactly what yet though. Suggestions are welcome!
Here´s mine
@ Coachbob: Looks like you're using Elvui, in which case, you can have MSBT use the elvui font, to make it somewhat clearer.. I'm a bit font police and dislike having too many different fonts on a UI.
Likewise, i'd change the shadowing on the unit frames, and move trade chat to a different tab of the left panel, hide the right panel, then embed your damage meter, so that it sits where your trade shows now.
Edit to show who the hell i'm replying too....
Almostly finished on reworking mine:
The visible Buttons on the right will go as soon as i can get hold of a Logitech G600. Don't know what else I could do/add to further improve it to my kind of playstile.
Addonlist: Bartender 4, DBM, Elk Buff Bars, Forte, Grid, Grid Mana Bars, Grid Status Raid Debuff, Grid Status Raid Icons, kg Panels, Minimap Button Frame, Move Anything, Omen, Prat 3, Quartz, Shadowed Unit Frames, simple Minimap, Tell Me When, Tidy Plates, Tidy Plates Threat Plates, Weak Auras
/edit: The exclamation marks track my procs and stuff, the focus and focus-target frames fit between the player frame and the 4 buttons bar on the right.
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So i cannot post the exact UI that I used.
What i can say is that all my triggers were made with powerauras and somewhere in the last 8-ish pages i think i posted a rudimentary version of the auras (i do note there were some tiny mistakes in it, i think in the decimation one but you would have to try it out for yourself)
anyways before i quited i revamped my UI and changed the looks of the triggers, altough i still used the same triggers for the same function. i got the idea from cyner (he used it for dot timers, anyways Thank You Cyner!!!) since i really love clean UI's
this was it: (I still used the tri-symbol for my decimation charges but it's not active on this SS)
I found the post: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...1#post15341561 Now keep in mind there were a few little errors i found out afterwards, but it should point itself out once you started using it. (could be u have to disable/enable one of 'm) if you have any problems. feel free to PM. i'll try to answer.
Last edited by Elysia; 2012-09-21 at 11:14 PM.
This is just very roughly designed for now as im upgrading to a 27 inch screen from a 19 inch in the next 2-3 days, but you get the general idea.
Out of Combat
In Group Setup
By 'Resource bar' i mean embers / runes / holy power, this is my default UI for all of my toons so i just disable that bar if it is not required.
Currently i am not playing my warlock and am waiting for mists of pandaria, that is why my resource bar is empty as i have not searched out a 'soul shard' addon.
Last edited by AjayxD; 2012-08-04 at 10:53 AM.
That bar along the bottom with my spells, the original idea for that was to make anything without a CD not appear on that and put it on an invisible bar somewhere so ye i totally agree with you on the info filtering : )
What do you think of the UI itself


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Not as funny as original
Director: Abhishek Sharma
Cast: Ali Zafar, Pradhuman Singh, Piyush Mishra, Sikander
Rating: 2.5/5
When Abhishek Sharma was given the 'Baawra ho gaya hai ke' award for his film The Shaukeens at the Golden Kela Awards 2015, he looked introspective despite a laughing exterior. In his acceptance speech, he promised to make 'meaningful' films without getting into the rat race for stars. So has he made a better film this time around, with the sequel of his hilarious 2010 fare Tere Bin Laden?
The answer is somewhere in the middle. Tere Bin Laden – Dead or Alive is way better than The Shaukeens, but doesn't match the wit of the original.
The film is very self indulgent. Everybody gets their share of screen time. From newspaper clippings featuring the producers Shetty sisters to a film director called Sharma, a lot of throwback props are used. Sometimes they work, but mostly they don't.
Manish Paul plays filmmaker Sharma in Tere Bin Laden 2
The tentative storyline goes like this: A film called Tere Bin Laden has been a blockbuster, but its lead Ali Zafar has grabbed most of the credit leaving its director Sharma (Manish Sharma) in the same lurch he was before the film. Sharma can't take things lying down, so he decides to shoot another film with Paddi Singh (Pradhuman Singh), the guy who plays Osama in Tere Bin Laden. But, the politics in the West has changed by now and the real Osama has been shot dead. And, now everybody is after the Osama look-alike. Sounds interesting? You don't want the original film again, right? Or, maybe I am wrong.


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|Re: [dash-dev] What happened to testing?
I don't think it was me but might have been. There's one called "test" though? Maybe I renamed or moved it. It was a while ago that I set them up though. Alex Sent from my iPhone 4 On 13 May 2011, at 14:07, Aaron Digulla <digulla@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > The M2 repo "testing" is gone. Who did it and why? > > Regards, > > -- > Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark > "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. > Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." > http://www.pdark.de/ http://blog.pdark.de/ > _______________________________________________ > dash-dev mailing list > dash-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dash-dev


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Welcome to Hyperion Records, an independent British classical label devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twenty-first.
Hyperion offers both CDs, and downloads in a number of formats. The site is also available in several languages.
Please use the dropdown buttons to set your preferred options, or use the checkbox to accept the defaults.
The formidable violists of Phantasm turn their attention to the six-part consorts of John Jenkins in a recording originally issued in 2006 on the Avie label.
What were these pleasures? Nothing less than a fanatic devotion to the equality of parts, the idea of a community of convivial spirits, among whom no one asserts control or is placed at a disadvantage. In such an ideal world, each player takes a viol from a chest of six, tunes his instrument with care, executes his part in time, counts his rests unerringly and passes a long winter's evening stimulated and refreshed. Given the clever way in which the six parts exchange themes and roles, one can almost imagine Jenkins standing beside the consort, winking approval when a tricky passage falls into place and offering sympathy to those who fall into traps laid to snare the unvigilant into a mistaken entrance. There isn't a dull moment: the wide-ranging treble parts constantly vie for ascendancy, the fervent tenors compete in companionable rivalry and even the usually lethargic basses engage in surprisingly athletic jumps and lithe leaps.
To borrow a parlance from later chamber music, there is no 'viola' part in Jenkins's consorts, no seat for an aristocratic gentleman whose talents lay rather in riding or hunting and who fiddles inconsequentially while pretending to make an honourable contribution. In Jenkins's six-part music, you had better not pick up the viol if you can't hold your own, for your fellow consorters will quickly lose their patience—and their temper. Maddeningly, some writers insist on calling this 'music for amateurs', which, given the difficulty in coordinating six wildly interwoven lines, seems rather a bitter pill to swallow for hard-working 'professionals'. Or are 'amateurs' in this case merely 'lovers' of complex polyphony?
Some people also ask—is this players' or listeners' music?—but the misplaced anxiety of the question pales before the sonorous beauty of Jenkins's inventive gifts. Despite an addiction to the densest counterpoint, Jenkins achieves a remarkable clarity of expression, not just in the articulation of individual 'points' or thematic subjects, but also in the sly peregrination of his roving harmonies. He loves to pay brief visits to lesser known harmonic regions, sampling their local specialities, before gracefully moving the assembled company on to a new venue. Fantasy 5 (track 12), a work of exceptional contrasts, begins with a lengthy reflection on Dowland's Lachrimae Verae (1599), after which one visits a country dancer practising dotted high jinks, hears the opening of a stately almain, enters a room crammed with tick-tocking clocks, and is finally treated to a 'grave and harmonious' close which passes through the keys of A, E, B, G and F before cadencing in D. This is music which delights in Wanderlust.
If Jenkins is too attached to a limited set of canzona-like openings and ecclesiastical closes, this points to a quasi-'symphonic' conception underlying his six-part project, in which central ideas are continually recast. Even the elevated In nomines with their venerable cantus firmus in long notes resemble related fantasies. Perhaps we are meant to confuse one genre for the other, at least at the beginning of the piece. (Compare In nomine 1 with Fantasy 11, tracks 2 and 7, and In nomine 2 with Fantasy 10, tracks 10 and 13.)
It is true that Jenkins lacks the extroverted brilliance of William Lawes (1602–1645) and shuns Lawesian bad behaviour. Yet he is attracted to enough exuberant madness to unleash his forces in several riots of frenetic activity, as in the two zany trios found in the middle of Fantasy 6 (track 15). Like Lawes, Jenkins also enjoys subverting balanced phrases, which is why his unpredictable sequences are so exciting. The periodicity of dance music—the repetitive strains which prompt dancers to convey something beyond the music—is anathema to his fantasies. Even his two pavans care little for the rounded numbers of bars preferred for dancing: instead, players are invited to quit their seats so as to take up change-ringing (as in the Bell Pavan, track 14) or sing soulful plaints (as in the Pavan in F, track 4).
We don't know when Jenkins first heard the consorts of Lawes, but there are moments when the older man seems to quote approvingly from his brash, younger contemporary, only to soften his more outrageous gestures, subordinating them to Jenkins's own more harmonious nature. So, in the third strain of Pavan in F, for example, one hears Lawes' falling dissonant sighs, a passage which collapses into the sweetest swoon found in the entire collection (track 4). On the other hand, it's equally plausible that Lawes based his boyish recklessness on a flattering imitation of the liveliest moments found in the elder composer. Given our current state of knowledge, it's difficult to know which narrative to prefer. Perhaps there is truth in both of them.
Debates about style and chronology only go so far, however, and one can lose sight of what was achieved so magnificently by the great consort composers, each of whom evokes an intimate realm of feeling not really touched by other genres of music, art or literature. With Jenkins, one treasures in particular the muscularity of his themes in minor and their knock-about treatment (Fantasies 1 and 9 and both In nomines, tracks 1, 2, 9 and 10), his evocation of lone voices in the wilderness (Fantasy 3, track 8), as well as the elegiac depths plumbed by the most simple exercise of restraint (Fantasy 11, track 7). If you think this is all a latter-day panegyric, just listen to a contemporary admirer of Jenkins, Thomas Mace (1612–1706), who reflected in the 1670s on what the 'grave music' of viol fantasies and pavans meant to those who played them. They were, he writes in Musick's Monument:
(as it were) so many Pathettical Stories, Rhetorical, and Sublime Discourses; Subtil, and Accute Argumentations; So Suitable, and Agreeing to the Inward, Secret, and Intellectual Faculties of the Soul and Mind; that to set Them forth according to their True Praise, there are no Words Sufficient in Language; yet what I can best speak of Them, shall be only to say, That They have been to my self, (and many others) as Divine Raptures, Powerfully Captivating all our unruly Faculties, and Affections, (for the Time) and disposing us to Solidity, Gravity, and a Good Temper, making us capable of Heavenly, and Divine Influences.
'Divine raptures', 'Pathettical Stories' and 'Sublime Discourses'—fanciful descriptions, to be sure, but true to an experience of music which, for all its complexity, calms unruly thoughts and promotes a generosity of spirit. For the most powerful chamber music, no matter what its cultural provenance, satisfies precisely because of its freedom from the constraints of literary narratives and visual representations. No surprise, then, that language is too poor to praise Jenkins sufficiently, but with a pair of open ears, one can still have him penetrate the innermost spaces of the psyche, 'making us capable of Heavenly, and Divine Influences'.
Laurence Dreyfus © 2016


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Help: since - I don't know when - I have tree totally unknown images at the end of almost every post.
I did not notice because they don't appear as long as I am logged in...
The images are linked to a totally unknown page (http://poppressed.com...)
Makes me VERY nervous !
Who can help??
The blog I need help with is filmsoundhamburg.wordpress.com.


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Have Tax Questions? Ask a Tax Expert for Answers ASAP
Hello, I am Keith, one of the experts on Just Answer, and pleased to be able to help you with your question. By the way, I have a Thai wife.
Firstly, when you left the UK for the Kingdom, did you send a Form P85 to HMRC? If you did not you should do so immediately. Fortunately there is no time limit as to its submission, it is available on the net and can be filed on line. On receipt HMRC will classify you as non resident for the next financial year and furthermore split the leaving year into two parts, one resident and the other non resident. You will find dealing with that Department much easier if you complete this form. Once you are classified as non resident you can spend up to 91 days in the UK in any one tax year without breaching your non resident status.
Unfortunately, it is normal for pensions to be taxed in the country of origin and individuals have to rely on Double Taxation Treaties to avoid being taxed twice. As I understand it Thailand only taxes ex pats on moneys earned or brought into Thailand and it does have a Taxation Treaty with the UK. The treatment of your draw downs, which since recently you would have been taxed at 55% due to your age (you can only draw down over 55 without massive tax penalties now) would appear to be correct. 25% of your pension pot is tax free, the balance being taxed at your marginal rate. This may have pushed you into the top tax bracket at 45%. Also if your taxable income exceeds 100K you loose your personal allowance at the rate of one pound for every two quid over.
However, there is normally no tax rate of 50%, so there appears to be something wrong there, the additional rate being set at 45%. You can find the current rates of tax here:
You should take up with your tax office the apparent discrepancies and seek a refund.
I do hope that I have shown you a way forward in this matter and shed some light on your situation.


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Grants talk:IdeaLab
- 1 IdeaLab (re)Launch
- 2 Date format
- 3 Busy wikimedian, watchlist user
- 4 Question about sharing a grant proposal
- 5 Does endorsing mean paying for?
- 6 Template confusing
- 7 Ideas vs. grant requests
- 8 Is there a template for ideas that are now happening
- 9 False starts?
- 10 The first time I liked the central notice banner
- 11 Question
- 12 Campaign reiteration
- 13 Rapid Grant request eliminates the "Join" button?
- 14 Add Opposition to the main page
- 15 Real people
- 16 Last updated
- 17 Stem the flood of low/no quality proposals(?)
- 18 Promotion and proxying
- 19 Page
- 20 Meet whom?
- 21 In vain
- 22 French translation of Grants:IdeaLab
- 23 Variable geo messaging
- 25 About a grant - Providing a Computer to School
- 26 New pages created to main namespace
IdeaLab (re)Launch[edit]
Congratulations on the (re)Launch! The new design is fascinating, and I love the icons. Thanks for everyone who worked on this. --Haithams (talk) 19:47, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Date format[edit]
Could we use ISO 8601 (i. e. "YYYY-MM-DD") for dates, please? "11/12/13" makes my brain stumble :-). --Tim Landscheidt (talk) 20:41, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
- Agree the current format is too US-centric and that case makes my brain stumble too :) ISO 8601 feels a bit too far on the robotic end of the spectrum though. What if we used DD Month YYYY instead, as signatures do? (no idea how easy this is to implement, but I think it might be more familiar to the widest set of people if it wasn't too much trouble). Siko (WMF) (talk) 18:57, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
- Paging Jonathan Morgan! heather walls (talk) 21:21, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
- Yeah, please :) M/D/Y is only used by silly people ;-) Steven Zhang (talk) 13:42, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
- Paging Jonathan Morgan! heather walls (talk) 21:21, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
Eu quero fazer criação de uma página e esta sendo dificil alguém pode ensinar-me????? porfavor Kialunda Domingos (talk) 13:15, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
Busy wikimedian, watchlist user[edit]
As a busy and active Wikimedian, I rely on my watchlist and pings to keep me informed, and sometimes I see things of interest in RecentChanges. I am finding that the construct of Grants:IdeaLab doesn't suit itself to easily watching developments here by that methodology, instead it requires visiting and eyeballing (a physical interactivity requirement). Is there a means that what is happening here could have "push" rather than just a "pull" type interaction. If this is not possible by watchlists, or an evident newsletter, could there be a means where users could transclude components for their user pages to track the happenings. If these things do exist, then they are not evident, and should be highlighted, maybe in a section for how the busy Wikimedian follows Grants. I know that this is somewhat selfish of me, however, if you can do that, it then waves at me, and can entice me in. Of course, my being opinionated, may lead to regrets. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:03, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
- Hi billinghurst. Thanks for the feedback. Push notifications definitely aren't off the table for future IdeaLab development. We want to make it easier for more people to participate in the IdeaLab. What kinds of events are you currently missing out on, that you would like to be notified about? Also: could you say more about how the design of the IdeaLab doesn't facilitate watching pages? I want to make sure I understand where we're falling short. Cheers, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
- I'd go along with this. I too am very watchlist-driven. It's part of a broader problem with watchlists, which are fine to track changes once an article exist, but don't help you knowing about the creation of a new article within a particular category (or using a particular template). Maybe there is something I can watch to find out, but I don't know about it. Kerry Raymond (talk) 00:06, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
- @Kerry Raymond:, I'm totally happy to brainstorm options, but I'm still not sure I understand billinghurst's original point. I maintain the IdeaLab by monitoring my watchlist, and by using Special:RecentChagesLinked feeds. For example, here's a related changes feed for edits to IdeaLab ideas that I check regularly. When new ideas are created (added to that category), they show up in that feed; same with idea talk pages. So, what about the IdeaLab makes it hard to monitor? (BTW this is not just idle questioning: it's possible we may sometime have resources to make useful technological improvements to the IdeaLab, and I want to be ready with a list of priorities if/when that happens!). Cheers, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 17:24, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
- I am not sure I can speak for User:billinghurst. But to me, it sounds like the big difference is that you know how to do it and I don't (and I don't think I am the least technologically literate person on Wikipedia). I don't see new articles being created on my watchlist unless I have watched an existing redlink (which presupposes I know what the article will be called). I don't know how to configure my watchlist to contain RecentChanges in the way you describe (does not appear in Preferences?). But that's a general comment. Speaking specifically about IdeaLab, I am not sure I would want to receive notification of every single little edit on IdeaLab via my watchlist (I'd be unable to keep up with checking through the volume of notifications each day I suspect). I'd probably prefer to just have an idealab email list where announcements of new ideas were posted and then I could watch just those I found interesting. That's how I became aware of some of the ideas as the proposer sent an email to either the gendergap mailing list or the research mailing list announcing their idea. Kerry Raymond (talk) 21:34, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
- having to physically visit each specific feed page doesn't work for the casual observer. The current design of the page defeats the traditional watchlist system of New edit ... Visit. Your design only captures those truly active in the space. Disappointing. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:42, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
- I am not sure I can speak for User:billinghurst. But to me, it sounds like the big difference is that you know how to do it and I don't (and I don't think I am the least technologically literate person on Wikipedia). I don't see new articles being created on my watchlist unless I have watched an existing redlink (which presupposes I know what the article will be called). I don't know how to configure my watchlist to contain RecentChanges in the way you describe (does not appear in Preferences?). But that's a general comment. Speaking specifically about IdeaLab, I am not sure I would want to receive notification of every single little edit on IdeaLab via my watchlist (I'd be unable to keep up with checking through the volume of notifications each day I suspect). I'd probably prefer to just have an idealab email list where announcements of new ideas were posted and then I could watch just those I found interesting. That's how I became aware of some of the ideas as the proposer sent an email to either the gendergap mailing list or the research mailing list announcing their idea. Kerry Raymond (talk) 21:34, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
- @Kerry Raymond:, I'm totally happy to brainstorm options, but I'm still not sure I understand billinghurst's original point. I maintain the IdeaLab by monitoring my watchlist, and by using Special:RecentChagesLinked feeds. For example, here's a related changes feed for edits to IdeaLab ideas that I check regularly. When new ideas are created (added to that category), they show up in that feed; same with idea talk pages. So, what about the IdeaLab makes it hard to monitor? (BTW this is not just idle questioning: it's possible we may sometime have resources to make useful technological improvements to the IdeaLab, and I want to be ready with a list of priorities if/when that happens!). Cheers, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 17:24, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Kerry Raymond I didn't know how Special:RecentChangesLinked worked until relatively recently either. The amount of 'hidden' functionality in our software kind of amazes me sometimes. Your suggestion (and billinghurst's) for push/email notifications, either to a mailing list or individually, is a great one. @Billinghurst: I'm sorry, I still don't understand your point completely. It sounds like you're saying that the IdeaLab is harder to watch than other portals/pages on wiki, and I don't see why that should be the case. Specifically the sentence "The current design of the page defeats the traditional watchlist system of New edit ... Visit." confuses me. Cheers, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 16:37, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
- @Jmorgan (WMF): just if you watchlist the obverse of this page it never physically changes as it inhales templates. So all the activity occurs on subpages, so Watchlist is ineffective. Compared with something like RFC where new subpages are manually added so trigger the watchlist. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:35, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
- Ah, now I understand. Thanks for clarifying. I'll note the feedback for future development plans. Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 15:52, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
Question about sharing a grant proposal[edit]
I'm almost finished writing a grant application for a position as Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO, is IdeaLab the place I can share a proposal for wider community input when it's formatted to the PEG grant format already? I would very much like input from Wikiprojects and also chapters in terms of the content of the project and being able to register interest in participation.
Mrjohncummings (talk) 18:21, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- @Mrjohncummings: Since it's already formatted as a PEG, I would suggest submitting the request there. If you'd like to get community input before review, set the status to "DRAFT" in the infobox. Once you're ready for review, set the status to "OPEN". Hope that helps, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 18:34, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- @Jmorgan (WMF):, many thanks, I will do that :) --Mrjohncummings (talk) 18:59, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- For reference the application is here Grants:PEG/MrjohnCummings/UNESCO_Wikimedian_in_Residence Mrjohncummings (talk) 23:19, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Does endorsing mean paying for?[edit]
I just endorsed an Idea. Does that mean I have to fund it if it gets passed? I sure hope not. --Mr. Guye (talk) 00:17, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
- No Mr. Guye, of course not :) This isn't Kickstarter. WMF grants will provide all the funding. You just get to give advice and enthusiasm. Cheers, Ocaasi (talk) 00:23, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Template confusing[edit]
@Jmorgan (WMF) and Siko (WMF):, The edit intro to making and making an IEG says "Step 1. Update your infobox Change the infobox template at the top of the edit window {{IdeaLab/Idea/Infobox}} to the IEG infobox: {{IEG/Proposals/Infobox}}". However Inspire Grant ideas seem to not have {{IdeaLab/Idea/Infobox}}, but {{Probox}}, which seems to be a Lua-based template that is quite similar. However it does not seem to support the paramter "status=". So what is the actual final template you'd like on a proposal? {{IEG/Proposals/Infobox}}, or {{Probox}} or other? Maximilianklein (talk) 12:22, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
- Hey Maximilianklein We want to use the Probox template. Thanks for the heads-up--I'll update the editintro and make sure that Probox supports status= consistently. Cheers, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 18:45, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
Ideas vs. grant requests[edit]
Someone linked an idea and from looking at the description I couldn't tell that it had been formally submitted as grant request. I only understood it was when I saw the rejection message on the talk page. I think the infobox and categories should be more explicit; I'm also not sure whether it's good to have grant requests for IEG scattered across multiple base pages based on their history (some are under Grants:IEG, some under Grants:IdeaLab, some who knows where). --Nemo 07:06, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- I think they are only under Grants:IdeaLab and Grants:IEG (right?), but I agree that the contents of the Idealab are overdue for consolidation and clarification. Mjohnson (WMF) and AWang (WMF) have been moving the recently awarded Inspire grant pages to the IEG and PEG portals, respectively. But now is a good time to do some basic cleanup around the IdeaLab, make sure everything's categorized correctly, and move things that need moving. I'll follow up with the program officers later this week. Thanks for the nudge, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 18:13, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- Hello, I also would like guidance on the future of IdeaLab. I like using IdeaLab as a space for proposing ideas which could use collaborators but for which grant funding will not be requested. It is troublesome for people to support ideas which are labeled as "grants" because people are more likely to collaborate when money is not involved.
- I would like for IdeaLab and Grants:Learning patterns to move out of the grants space and into any other space, maybe a new "Ideas" space or maybe just "Meta:" space.
- The grants space is not even listed at Help:Namespace. Is Grants: the only meta namespace which is not listed? Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:39, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Bluerasberry, glad you like using IdeaLab for ideas that don't need funding - that was always my hope! Agree that the Grants namespace can be confusing to some. We've looked into this a few times in the past, but getting a new namespace isn't all that easy and would introduce some complications into the backend systems (bot code, etc) that make IdeaLab go. We can keep looking into options, but until there is stronger justification to make this move happen relative to the effort it will require, I don't see it taking priority. Also, the Grants namespace has friendly space expectations now but it is unclear to me whether the meta community would support those extending to other namespaces...and we can't run an IdeaLab w/o a friendly space. Not sure about why the Grants namespace isn't listed or what else might be unlisted as well though, that seems like something that should just be fixed? Cheers, Siko (WMF) (talk) 16:23, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
- Siko (WMF) I commented at Grants_talk:Friendly_space_expectations#Strange_theory_about_where_this_applies - I would be keen on applying uniform civility expectations everywhere. I am sorry about what happened with Inspire but if you are suggesting that in the grants namespace there is selective policing against broader meta policy then something seems odd about that. I would like for meta to remain a community space in general. There are many options for keeping peace and engaging the community.
- Instead of making a new namespace I would like to see the grants namespace renamed to "ideas". Most of the grants namespace is occupied by content unrelated to grants, so already there is a problem because super-users know to use it in ways unrelated to grants but casual users can only see it as the place to post "grants".
- You set the priorities and you know the backend. Good luck - it must be difficult. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:46, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Bluerasberry, glad you like using IdeaLab for ideas that don't need funding - that was always my hope! Agree that the Grants namespace can be confusing to some. We've looked into this a few times in the past, but getting a new namespace isn't all that easy and would introduce some complications into the backend systems (bot code, etc) that make IdeaLab go. We can keep looking into options, but until there is stronger justification to make this move happen relative to the effort it will require, I don't see it taking priority. Also, the Grants namespace has friendly space expectations now but it is unclear to me whether the meta community would support those extending to other namespaces...and we can't run an IdeaLab w/o a friendly space. Not sure about why the Grants namespace isn't listed or what else might be unlisted as well though, that seems like something that should just be fixed? Cheers, Siko (WMF) (talk) 16:23, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Is there a template for ideas that are now happening[edit]
Is there a nice looking template or something that can be added to the top of the page to show that the idea has now been turned into a real thing?
Mrjohncummings (talk) 15:36, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- Not currently. But you could do something like...
Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 20:32, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks Jmorgan (WMF), it would be really nice to have a good looking template or maybe just something in the infobox, it would also help with metrics to be easily able to look how many pages in the Ideaslab have come to fruition. Mrjohncummings (talk) 07:30, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
- Love this idea, John. We'll be doing another upgrade sprint on the IdeaLab at some point and will keep this suggestion in mind! @I JethroBT (WMF): let's add this to the wishlist. Siko (WMF) (talk) 16:27, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks Jmorgan (WMF), it would be really nice to have a good looking template or maybe just something in the infobox, it would also help with metrics to be easily able to look how many pages in the Ideaslab have come to fruition. Mrjohncummings (talk) 07:30, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
False starts?[edit]
I have a grant proposal where I've budgeted in some co-funding, and we may have time to start early on the project. Would it be considered bad form to start some of the work ahead of time? --Unhammer (talk) 17:20, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, Unhammer - it isn't bad form to start early, but we can't guarantee funding at this point. So I suppose the main risk is you'd get started with the partial funding you already have, and if the IEG committee doesn't end up recommending your proposal for funding, you may not be able to complete the task if it relies on WMF funding as well. As long as you're aware of that risk, I don't see a blocker to doing some early work with support from another funder though. Hope that makes sense! Copying @Mjohnson (WMF): to track this going forward. Siko (WMF) (talk) 16:35, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
During my recent visit to plwiki I got the IdeaLab banner about the article curation. Maybe because it wasn't visually different from the typical message boxes, maybe because the text was in italics, maybe because it was left-aligned - I have actually read it and it was the first Central Notice banner that didn't annoy me. Congratulations, good job! « Saper // talk » 19:50, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks Saper! I did my best to try to keep things simple with the language and the choice of image representing the campaign; I'll keep in mind your point about left-alignment as well. I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 22:30, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
how a global community could be established to promote common sense? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Manzoor khan 1 (talk) 10:06, 3 June 2016
I would like to persue FootNort49 (talk) 05:40, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
I would like to persue a number of grant applications relating to rectifying injustices and thereby exposing them. I envisage public support and contributions to the causes. Since I have started this however I have had had continuous interference on the net. I have spent years collecting information. Currently I am not receiving emails. This has been happening since the start of this. Justice Equality and Democracy are my agenda. I would appreciate some help urgently. Although I have a perfect score on my psych assessment about 4 years ago there have been efforts to discredit me. As I have a Diploma in Psychology and other noteable but unaccredited qualifications attesting to my intelligence which is 168 Weschler scale (post stroke).
have friends that are qualified in MH who will supply character references for me.
I am currently working with a Samsung Galaxy S3 solely and this along with the interference I seem to be having is extremely problematic. Time is of the essense for me as an election looms. I will need considerable assistance to achieve the outcome that I have been working toward. My apologies if this reply is not what you were looking for but I started on the question section of this and it disappeared. There is also an unavoidable grammar area in here also. I am an urgent case writer for Amnesty International so I am aware of the necessity for articulate writing skills in issues such as this.I FootNort49 (talk) 06:11, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
Campaign reiteration[edit]
I was surprised to hear that we're having yet another brainstorming session aka "inspire campaign" to collect funding ideas, mostly because I thought the first round was still ongoing as I had not heard anything about its results. I now took the time to review the projects, which I understand were put under the undescriptive name of Category:IdeaLab/Ideas/Proposal/Selected, and I conclude there are 3 kinds of funded requests:
- the proposer vanished,
- meetups/courses/editathons of various kinds (single or in smalls series), usually with a little editing attached,
- bigger content-related work.
Most of the projects fall under (2), for which there is no need to brainstorm as they are quite standard; you could just circulate a reinforced call for funding requests for small events. As for (3), only the most classic project (funded academic research) seems to have significant results. Nemo 14:39, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Could someone please look into this tech/usability concern? - Thekohser (talk) 14:53, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- Would it be better if I rolled-back to the "Idea" stage, and wait to go for Rapid Grant only until after the project team is assembled? - Thekohser (talk) 15:32, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Thekohser: Thanks for pointing this out-- didn't realize these buttons were missing when preparing those proboxes on the side for Rapid Grants, but I've gone ahead and added them back in. I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 18:00, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, Jethro. So, do you think I should un-roll back to the Rapid Grant phase of the page? - Thekohser (talk) 20:05, 3 June 2016 (UTC) Edit: Never mind, I just re-entered the Rapid Grant form content. I also found another glitch, a minor one that I reported to you on your Talk page. - Thekohser (talk) 20:15, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Add Opposition to the main page[edit]
As of now, it appears that at least on some grants opposition or concern is moved to the Talk page. This creates a totally imbalanced main article. For example consider the Real Names proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Real_Names. Reading just the main page will give you the impression that this idea is ready to go: it has collected some volunteers, some endorsements, great! If instead you look at its Talk page you will find the Opposition section, which has even more people than the Endorsement section voicing very strong opposition to the entire grant. Now, I get that discussion about the merits of a proposal, how to refine it, et cetera should be held on the Discussion page, but it would be much more fair and balanced to have the oppositions, which are the exact opposite of endorsements, on the main page. This would also prevent naive users from signing up as volunteers without considering the arguments against the proposed idea. --Doveofsymplegades (talk) 07:29, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- For what it's worth, my IdeaLab proposal is proudly displaying an Oppose section on the main page of the proposal, because it is an excellent way to see the exclusionary and frightened reactions of Wikimedians who would rather not "waste" $40 per person to build knowledge of an area previously undiscovered. - Thekohser (talk) 15:57, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- The problem is that there's no policy on this as of now. Some Opposition sections are pushed into Discussion, some aren't. To prevent edit wards between the camps, we need a judgment on this from whoever is running the IdeaLab. --Doveofsymplegades (talk) 18:49, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- I agree a idealab page policy/guideline regarding this kind of issue is needed to avoid problems or bias on controversial ideas that may have opposition or concern --WiZaRd SaiLoR (talk) 06:43, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
- I think the point of this sort of campaign is to pursue a bandwagon effect where some ideas will get enough traction to be able to burn some grant money. --Nemo 09:19, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
Pinging User:I JethroBT (WMF): I think this needs to be discussed and resolved for the sake of clarity. What's your take on this? --Doveofsymplegades (talk) 10:10, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
- See Meta:Requests_for_help_from_a_sysop_or_bureaucrat#IdeaLab_and_staff_conduct for a centralized discussion. I'll be following up there later today. I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 18:50, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
- It was moved to Grants_talk:IdeaLab/Inspire/Meta#IdeaLab_and_staff_conduct The Quixotic Potato (talk) 15:02, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Real people[edit]
You lost my edit where is it? Please find it. In brief. Please check my edit of Prague Spring and let me know if you believe that my addition is relevant, interesting and amusing.
I firmly believe that ALL contributors should be real people and should have to prove themselves to be so to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia should be held accountable not only for the fair application of its Terms and Conditions but also to the laws that apply in the jurisdictions in which it operates (e.g. Slovak Constitution, European Convention on Human Rights).
All contributors that are not from REAL people and are clearly operatives of Governments or their Intelligence Agencies should be treated as hostile and their contributions and actions should be monitored closely.
If I am talking to Mojo Hand, please note that I have not made any edits to Prague Spring since our last exchange. I currently do not have any intention of making further changes to the article on Prague Spring.
My name is Stephen Fraser-Ward. I am a U.K. citizen and a permanent resident of the Slovak Republic.
Thank you for your kind attention. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stephen Fraser-Ward. (talk) 16:13, 8 June 2016
- I belive you are Wrong, please read the Wikimedia fundation Terms of use [1]. also as you mention wikipedia, you should read that acording to wikipedia
"Jurisdiction and legality of content.
Publication of information found in Wikipedia may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. The Wikipedia database is stored on servers in the United States of America, and is maintained in reference to the protections afforded under local and federal law. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. Wikipedia does not encourage the violation of any laws, and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce or republish the information contained herein."
- Also i see there is already a page on idealab that is related to one of the issues you mention, you can find it at Grants:IdeaLab/Real_Names
- I hope that this info helps --WiZaRd SaiLoR (talk) 06:35, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
Last updated[edit]
Just curious. The main page prominently features 2 sections that show up with "Last updated: 1 March 2015" and "3 March 2015." The markup is a jumble of templates that I can't navigate at the moment so I don't know what is being pulled. I am wondering why have this "last updated" section at all? Just to show it has been dead and inactive for over an year? This doesn't seem like something one should call attention to. Perhaps the staff can overhaul or update the main page? if not, at least remove the mention of when the page was last updated. Theo10011 (talk) 20:31, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
- Should be all set; the page just needed to be marked for translation to allow it to update. I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 21:21, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
Stem the flood of low/no quality proposals(?)[edit]
I've noticed that the number of very low quality proposals is substantial and seems to be on the increase. These proposals can be subdivided into:
- those that consist of just a few sentences about some general idea, if even that
- those that provide a rough description of some concept, but do not have any information on how this concept is going to be used
- those that are entirely off-topic, i.e. have nothing to do with harassment
- a combination of the above
Here the proposals that I would consider to be of (very) low quality from yesterday and today (based on "Last updated" date):
|Just a few lines, foreign language, seems to be nonsense or off-topic
|Literally only has a title
|Off-topic nonsense
|Just a few lines, foreign language
|Incoherent nonsense, just a title
|Very vague, just a few lines
|Idem, also off-topic
|Off-topic, just a few lines
I think it would be desirable to increase the signal to noise ratio some way. This would cut down on the number of proposals as well as needless discussions that are due to proposals being insufficiently fleshed out. In my opinion, the best way to do this is simply to inform the proposer somehow that he is expected to how given his proposal some proper thought, that it contains has concrete, actionable steps to implementing it, etc. We could also decide that we're okay with this amount of noise. Best regards, Doveofsymplegades (talk) 10:10, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
Promotion and proxying[edit]
I'm currently blocked from the English Wikipedia. I know of a lot of good ways my coworkers could publicize our idea, things that I don't think have occurred to them. Am I allowed to tell them or would that be interpreted as block evasion or proxying? I am not topic-banned from any of the places I have in mind. ...our idea is actually for a noticeboard/help desk where editors could ask questions of this kind. Darkfrog24 (talk) 19:19, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
Sory who can help me to criet one page on Wikipedia proget? Kialunda Domingos (talk) 13:16, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- Here is the fastest way:
- Go to the Wikipedia project that you want (Spanish Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Wiktonary, etc.)
- Type the title of the thing you want to create into the search bar.
- You should see a page saying "That doesn't currently exist; would you like to create it?" with either the title or the word "create" in red. (Example, when I try to create an ecyclopedia article called "Kialunda" on the English Wikipedia, I see this: [2])
- Click on red title or "create."
- This may take you to another page. On the English Wikipedia, it gives me the option of "Start the Kialunda article," which would let me add raw code, or "Use the Article Wizard," which would be more like filling in a form.
- If you are making a new encyclopedia article, remember that it must be properly sourced and formatted, or other editors may delete it. Remember that not all Wikiprojects have the same rules. For practice, click on Your Sandbox, click where it says "edit this page" and mess around until you feel you have something presentable. Darkfrog24 (talk) 16:33, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
Meet whom?[edit]
I don't know how the "Meet me in the lab!" feature is selected, but I note that it is currently showing an entry dated March 2015 relating to Grants:IdeaLab/Fhocutt (WMF), whom I believe to have left the WMF some months ago [3]. Rogol Domedonfors (talk) 20:12, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
- Fixed. I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 02:13, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
- I don't think so. It is still showing me the same entry. Rogol Domedonfors (talk) 19:41, 19 August 2016 (UTC) But it has changed now. Thanks. Rogol Domedonfors (talk) 21:19, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
In vain[edit]
The side bar "recent activity" at Grants:IdeaLab/Ideas#idealab-new currently has a listing Rogol Domedonfors asked for participants to join this idea: A place to work together Last activity: 14 August 2016. This is not correct. My only involvement with this idea was to comment on its talk page. Why is this request being attributed to me in this way? Rogol Domedonfors (talk) 09:35, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
- Rogol Domedonfors I'm not sure. The activity feed runs off when particular categories are added to a page. In this case, the relevant category is Category:IdeaLab/Ideas/Participants. Sometimes the cat_add_date field in the database is updated when a page is touched (not just when it's edited). But that alone wouldn't explain this error. Probably has something to do with some decision/mistake I made years ago. More to the point, the GrantsBot code is old and I don't have much time to maintain anymore. However, I JethroBT (WMF) will likely begin maintaining it actively in the Fall. Pinging him so he can note the error. Cheers, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 17:38, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you for that. Would somebody please either fix the code or stop the bot from attributing things to me that I have not said? Rogol Domedonfors (talk) 19:33, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
French translation of Grants:IdeaLab[edit]
Hello, i'm trying to translate IdeaLab in french but my modifications doesn't appears. I've already translated a few messages which still appears without any translation text. I hope i haven't done anything wrong. If someone can help or guide for this translation, it will be great because the french interface for IdeaLab does not seem to work properly. Thanks. Youni Verciti (talk) 16:17, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
Variable geo messaging[edit]
I'm one of the regulars at the London meetup. We have a large group of regular and semiregular attendees, we also get the occasional newish editor needing a bit of help. We currently promote the event through watchlist notices, but people don't get a watchlist notice until they have been editing long enough to discover their watchlist. Also our watchlist notice has to be worded to attract regulars as well as newbies. I would like to experiment with a geotargeted ad that would be shown to logged in editors with 10-100 edits in the London area. Something like "Any questions about editing Wikipedia? London Wikipedians have a Wiki surgery on October the 9th." WereSpielChequers (talk) 16:19, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
Who would be the best person on your team to offer consideration? COACH ZARLINO (talk) 11:25, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
About a grant - Providing a Computer to School[edit]
Sir, Iam an active Wikipedian. Mostly I edit Wikipedia in English and Telugu. My mother is a teacher in Govt school, near Eluru, India. Students in the school have potential to create atleast 10-20 articles per month. But they are lack of Computer and Internet connection. Iam sure that I can educate them editing and creating articles in Wikipedia. But will Wikimedia grant money for purchasing computer for them? Can someome please help me with this question asap.—IM3847 (talk) 14:10, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
New pages created to main namespace[edit]
Who's responsible of this project? Anyway, someone should check why some pages were created to the main namespace, not to Grant namespace, see log. Stryn (talk) 11:00, 5 February 2018 (UTC)


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Written by: Michael Den Boer on July 20th, 2008
Theatrical Release Date:Turkey, 1973
Alternate Title: Turkish Batman
Approximate running time: 62 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Full Frame
Language: Turkish
Director: Savas Esici
Writer: Savas Esici
Cinematograper: Suat Kapki
Cast: Levent Çakir, Emel Özden, Altan Günbay, Funda Ege, Nalan Cöl, Ceyhan Cem, Renan Fosforoglu, Nurettin Kaygisiz, Yilmaz Kurt, Hüseyin Sayar, Mehmet Ugur
Since 1939 Batman there have been many cinematic interpolations of the character starting with a movie serial simple titled "Batman" and it was followed six years later with a second serial titled "Batman & Robin". In 1966 Batman would be adapted for Television a series that would last three seasons and a movie before the cape crusader would once again put up his cape. It would be over twenty years before the character would be resurrected for four movies Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997). After four films that cape crusader once again put on ice. In recent years new life has been breathed into the Batman character with two new films Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008). Besides these Hollywood based adaptions of Batman there have been a handful of unsanctioned versions of the Batman character to emerge around like Bathman dal pianeta Eros (Italy), Alyas Batman en Robin (Philippines) and the most notorious of all the Turkish Batman film titled Yarasa Adam Bedmen.
Yarasa Adam Bedmen is a bizarre concoction which pits Batman and his sidekick Robin against a Blofield like villain who could fit in perfectly in a James Bond film. Batman is not all business he finds time to woo the ladies and when things get to R Rated he even sends Robin out of the room. Someone wants to silence all the beautiful women in town so they send their henchmen to track them done and kill these lovely ladies before they can speak. Luckily Batman is nearby as he foils the henchmen's attempts to kill his chance as getting tail. In a race against time Batman must find out who is behind this diabolical scheme before all they kill off all of his potential hookups.
Writing a synopsis for a plot that is as wacky and confusing as Yarasa Adam Bedmen is not an easy task. The bad guys never have a chance in this film since Batman and the boy wonder Robin are skilled martial art like fighters with fine tuned acrobatic leaping skills. Even though the plot is all over the place one need not know exactly what is going on to enough the insanity that ensues. One of the coolest tricks of Batman & Robin is that they can be dressed in their normal clothes and when they get out of a car they are in costume.
Unlike all the Hollywood version of Batman this version doesn't try to hide his identity as he freely reveals who is under the mask many times. This Batman is not family friendly as he sleeps with many women. Also most of the female cast members appear to be allergic to clothing which comes off without hesitation once Batman arrives. The films soundtrack is a melting plot of music cues from some very famous films like Henry Mancini's "Charade", an instrumental version of the Rock N Roll song "Whole Lotta Love" and several music cues from various scores that John Barry composed for the James Bond films series.
Ultimately Yarasa Adam Bedmen is classic example of Turkish cinema melting pot style of filmmaking.


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Directed by: Katushiro Otomo
Animation, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
124 Minutes
I re-watched this after two years, and I was blown away again. The Blu-ray update looked even better, and the audio was simply brilliant! On a visual level Akira will have your eyes wide open; on a story level it will shatter your mind. The high-speed chases, explosions and characters all make Akira the quintessential Anime classic, showing cyberpunk as the sub-genre it is. Akira proves just what can be done with animation, treating it not as a genre; but a whole different level of film.
This is based on the manga of the same name that ran from 1982 to 1990 by Katushiro Otomo: also the director of this film. What we can see from this is how the medium of both film and animation are used to take storytelling to a different level both visually and orally. Akira is one of the most influential anime films of all time. Critics cite it as an influence on films like The Matrix (1999), and the recent film Chronicle (2012) has been called "The American Akira". I had not thought of it before, but that makes sense- a troubled teenager who gains superpower. Josh Trank, the director of Chronicle told to an interviewer that the film was "a big influence" on the film.
It also has a role in the history of the Sci-Fi Genre, and when we look at it now you can see how works all influence each other. The future-set city in Akira is reminiscent of Blade Runner (1982), which was influenced by Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927). Akira shows its influences for sure, but it definitely generates a new universe of its own.
|Neo-Tokyo in Akira in comparison with Metropolis below.
|The City in Metropolis (1927)
The plot and location are brilliant, and the highest respects go to Otomo for creating such a universe. Neo-Tokyo is a world of violence, drug use and shows itself as an anti-Government, anti-war and anti-violence story looking at a dystopian post-apocalyptic future. It is interesting to note that we are approaching 2019: I would love to see this film get a cinema release for that date.
One of the best things about Akira is its flat-out pace, capturing your attention for every second. At times we get moments of surrealism in the dream sequences, and then we have the extremely well-animated action sequences such as the open motorcycle scenes. It has all the kinetic energy of a live-action action movie, but so much more.
In terms of Sci-Fi/Fantasy this is one of the best films ever made. Extending beyond the city, the story is also looking at a friendship; between Tetsuo and Kaneda. Through some flashbacks we learn more about their relationship, and we learn Tetsuo has had trouble fitting in in the past, having previously been bullied. That is why when he gets the power, we can see what drives him to using it with such force. "From now on, I'll be in charge of the heroics" he says to Kaneda. He feels he has been bossed around all his life, and now it is his turn to take some control. Many people can relate to that concept that is similar to wimp-turned-super. While we don't want to cause major destruction to cities and buildings, there are times when we feel those who try to bully or dominate us, should just get a real kick in the ass.
However, the most fascinating thing in the film is the titular character, and the three Espers. We learn about who this Akira is as the story unfolds, and it has made me very interested in reading the manga. The powers they hold are almost overwhelming, which seems to fit the theme of Anti-War and the dangers of uncontrolled power.
The manga had 6 volumes (with over 2000 pages), and the plot sometimes feels like there is a lot being left out, making this film very enigmatic. It is a perplexing story, and there is so much going on. I look forward to checking out the mango sometime. Overall, Akira after a second viewing sits proudly amongst my favourite films, and is truly a landmark in Japanese animation. The last 20 minutes are unforgettable and completely wild; watching Akira is a gaudy experience visually and aurally.


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October 2, 2008
Australia Clears Bid By BHP for Rio
A proposed $114 billion hostile takeover bid by the BHP Billiton mining company of Rio Tinto was cleared by the Australian competition regulator Wednesday, moving BHP a step closer to clinching a deal first announced almost a year ago.
The decision by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission led to a jump of 12 percent by shares in Rio Tinto, another Australian company, as investors gained confidence that a deal would eventually go ahead."For BHP, it's one small step forward, rather than one step backward," said Peter Chilton, an analyst with Constellation Capital Management.
The two groups combined would be worth $220 billion, or nearly as much as Microsoft, and would dominate a mining industry that has spawned several mergers over the past year, including Rio's $38 billion takeover of Alcan and the merger of the Australian mining companies Oxiana and Zinifex to form Oz Minerals.
The crucial hurdle for the takeover, which would be the world's second-largest behind the Vodafone takeover of Mannesman in 2000, is approval from the European Commission.
The commission, the executive arm of the European Union, has signaled that it is worried about the impact of surging commodity prices on manufacturers and consumers. Analysts said it would be risky to assume that it would now clear the deal.
"The EC will be focusing on very different issues and I'm sure European steel makers will be lobbying very strongly against the proposed merger," said Rob Craigie, an analyst with the brokerage FW Holst. "The situation in Europe is very different from Australia and they have totally different customers and supply base."
On Monday, the European Commission set a Jan. 15 deadline for its in-depth review of the BHP bid.
BHP shares rose 5.7 percent to close at 32.75 Australian dollars, or $26.20, while Rio closed up 12.4 percent at 95 dollars, narrowing the discount in Rio's share price to the value of BHP's offer to 14 percent from 19 percent.
The Australian watchdog's main concern had been about the impact of merging the world's No.2 and No.3 iron ore producers, but it said it had been persuaded that the combined group would not corner the market.
"While significant concerns were raised by interested parties in Australia and overseas," the commission's chairman, Graeme Samuel, said in a statement, "the ACCC found that the proposed acquisition would not be likely to substantially lessen competition in any relevant market."
The commission recognized the role steel makers were playing in encouraging new producers, like Fortescue Metals Group and Midwest Corp., which was recently taken over by the Chinese state-owned trading firm Sinosteel.
Samuel said that ACCC had shared information with the European Commission, but made it clear that his commission's ruling looked specifically at the impact of the deal on Australians, especially the smaller steel makers OneSteel and BlueScope Steel.
OneSteel has its own iron ore supply, while BlueScope recently signed a long-term supply deal with BHP, so their situation is different from those of European and Asian steel makers.
BHP welcomed the ACCC's approval, while Rio Tinto stressed that other regulators have yet to rule.
"It's still too early to know what the ultimate outcome will be of the regulatory process, and Rio Tinto continues to provide factual information in response to requests from regulators," a Rio spokeswoman, Amanda Buckley, said.
"Our objection to the BHP offer is that it significantly undervalues the company, and nothing has occurred that changes that," she said.
Originally published by Reuters.
(c) 2008 International Herald Tribune. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.


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Casino slot machine money or sail & sign
Can anyone tell me if you use money in the casinos, or the sail and sign card?
You use money in the casino. You buy tokens for the slots- you can charge the tokens against your sign and sail card.
You can get casino credits put on your sail and sign card, but they charge a 3% service fee.... so I'd use cash to buy tokens.
I just returned from the Liberty and the best way is to start your play by using cash in the machine. If you have a hit or you have credits on the counter, you can insert your sail and sign card into a slot on the upper portion of the machine and then after you creat a password you can upload your credits from the machine to your card, then go to the cashiers window and cash out the card, or insert card into another machine and download the credits to play that machine. I like uploading the credits onto the card. That way you don't have to worry about having an empty hopper and having to wait for it to be filled. I had a couple of bad days and then 2 good days at the end of the cruise.
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"Why don't you go as a clown?" she asked. "I could get a good clown outfit together. You know, with a red nose?"
I reminded her I'd been a clown the year before.
"I thought you were a cowboy," she said.
"That was the year before last!" I yelled. "In first grade!"
Aunt Nell was sitting at the kitchen table reading the newspaper. "You know," she said without looking up, "they repealed that law."
"What law?" I asked.
"The one against wearing the same costume more than once."
There was never such a law I told her.
"Sure there was. But the people who went out dressed like office workers petitioned to have it changed so they could keep going out as office workers." She smiled. "Well, I've got my costume."
My mother gave a little laugh.
Aunt Nell was an office worker. I didn't know exactly how she did that except that she knew how to type. She was my mother's youngest sister. When my father went off to beat the Nazis, Aunt Nell moved in with us to help my mother cope with the housework and me. My mother took my father's job at my grandpa's wholesale candy store. I liked having Aunt Nell around because she said funny things. I didn't always understand the jokes, but my mother laughed. She didn't do that a lot since my father went away.
This time though I was a little annoyed when my mother smiled at what Aunt Nell said about office workers wearing costumes. I didn't want my mother to forget how she'd let me down. I decided to stomp off to my room.
As I left the kitchen, Aunt Nell called, "If we got some grapes, you could go as a winemaker."
All the kids in the neighborhood went out Halloweening. We didn't call it "Trick or Treating" because we never tricked anyone. We just got dressed up and then walked around collecting goodies.
It was one of the best times for my grandpa's candy business. Leading up to Halloween, we sold boxes and boxes of candy to stores around town. Then parents bought the candy, and we kids got it when we went around Halloweening. Since my mother's job was to get all the candy orders together and then deliver them to stores, she was really busy. That's probably why she forgot to bring me boxes.
I'd had this wonderful idea which my mother spoiled. Before we went out Halloweening, all the kids met at our school for a costume show. Kids got prizes for costumes! Some girl always won for the prettiest costume; some bigkid would win for most patriotic. I'd set my sights on the prize for most original – a super box of 64 crayons.
I knew that Halloween sales would produce plenty of large, empty cardboard boxes at our store. I asked my mother to bring some boxes home. She forgot.
At the costume shows before, I'd seen cowboys, dancers, soldiers, ghosts, clowns, sailors, football players, and more animals than you'd see in a zoo. The same year I went as a cowboy, a different cowboy won for most original – I think because he carried a lasso. I knew for a sure win I'd have to have a costume that was really different. I decided to go as a cannon.
"A cannon?" my mother said. "Did you say cannon?"
Aunt Nell said, "He thought he'd give it a shot."
"No, really," I explained. "I'll take boxes and build the base. Then I put this big piece of pipe I found on top for the gun barrel. Another small box can be the place where you put the shells in."
"Certainly high caliber thinking," Aunt Nell said.
My mother asked, "How will you keep the pipe on the box? Glue won't work."
I had it all figured out. We had tape in one of the kitchen drawers and under the sink was half a can of black paint. Once my cannon dried, I'd get inside and have the most original costume they ever saw at that school.
I could hear them now. "Who's the cannon?" and "How original!"
But then my mother forgot to bring the boxes home and my idea was all over. Even if she brought them home the next day – Halloween – there wouldn't be time for the paint to dry. I told my mother that I wouldn't be going out Halloweening this year because I didn't have a costume.
In school the next day, everybody was talking about the costume show. I didn't have much to say. When I got home, I went straight to my room and listened to the radio. I wouldn't go to the costume show or out Halloweening later. That would show my mother. After a while Aunt Nell came in carrying a piece of plaid cloth.
"Put this on," she said.
For about an hour, Aunt Nell and my mother worked on the costume. Aunt Nell found some red hair she called a fall that wasn't exactly a wig but that worked like one when it was pinned to a hat. They even painted my face so that I couldn't even recognize myself.
At the costume show, teachers and kids looked at me funny. At first they thought I was a stranger who didn't have a costume, and then they'd realize I was me and I did. Then they'd laugh. I even won a prize – a Hershey Bar. Some kids said it was for the prettiest costume, but it was actually for Best Costume Using Only Things Found at Home. That meant nothing on it was bought new.
I got the usual amount of treats when we all went out Halloweening after the show. Some people just thought I was some kid's sister without a costume. The next day, only Mickey said anything about me "being" a girl, but he changed his mind when I hit him in the arm.
I guess my mother's old dress turned out to be an okay costume. Aunt Nell said I made a "real cute girl," but she was just being funny. I still think a cannon would have been better.


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After yesterday's addition of Kings of Leon as a headliner, the Isle of Wight Festival has named another big act to the 2011 lineup...Pulp.
Pulp will play the main stage on Saturday June 11th. The band announced last week that it would be reforming to play shows in 2011, and now we can add the Isle of Wight festival to that list.
"Pulp have decided to get together and play some concerts next summer. The shows will involve all the original members of the band (Nick Banks, Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior & Mark Webber) and they will be playing songs from all periods of their career."
The festival is set to happen on the weekend of June 10 - 12, on the Isle of Wight in the U.K. It will be the tenth anniversary of the festival. Tickets will go on sale on Friday, Nov 19.
Starting in the late 60's as a british catalyst to the new music scene, the Isle of Wight Festival quickly grew in 1969 when they landed Bob Dylan as a headliner. Big names like Joe Cocker, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix followed. By 1970, the festival brought in over half a million people and was widely regarded as the British Woodstock.
Check out the Spacelab Festival Guide for more information on the Isle of Wight Festival 2011, as well as video coverage from many festivals.
Tags: Isle of Wight, Festival


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Greens: a Savor the South cookbook (Savor the South Cookbooks) by Thomas Head
English | Mar. 7, 2016 | ISBN: 1469626683 | 128 Pages | AZW3/MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 1.37 MB
Greens–collard, turnip, mustard, and more–are a defining staple of southern meals tradition. Seemingly all the time part of the southern plate, these cruciferous greens have been essential within the nourishing of generations of southerners.
Head supplies a captivating culinary and pure historical past of greens within the South, in addition to an summary of the various styles of edible greens which are widespread within the area. Together with sensible details about cultivation, choice, and preparation, Head additionally exhibits how greens are embraced around the globe for his or her style and healthfulness. The fifty-three recipes run from basic southern "potlikker" types to new southern and international favorites. From Primary Southern Greens to Turnip Inexperienced Tarts to Greens Punjabi-Type, cooks will discover loads of inspiration to go inexperienced.


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Movement is a very good thing in this economy for job seekers so when editorial director, Keith Pollock jumped ship from elle.com to join Du Jour, he not only left. He brought some folks from his masthead along with him!
That said, according to WWD, the site will have a few vacancies to fill. Amina Akhtar will replace Pollock as executive editor at elle.com. Akhtar was previously fashion editor at Fashionetc.com.


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Industry Minister Tony Clement said Thursday he will review the Nortel-Avaya deal.
The insolvent Canadian telecom company announced last week it would sell its enterprise division to the U.S. telecom company Avaya for $900 million US.
The review will determine whether the transaction meets Ottawa's net-benefit-to-Canada test under the Investment Canada Act. The unit makes telecom equipment used by companies, governments and other big customers.
Despite calling Nortel a "thorny issue," Clement promised the review would be fair and follow standard procedures for proposed foreign investment.
"My officials are already hard at work at amassing the information on the proposed deal, and we will commence a dialogue with that company to understand what their intentions are," he said.
Vague on speed of review
Clement was vague about how fast the review would proceed but said he recognized Avaya will be eager to know whether the investment meets the government's approval or what changes would be required to push the deal through.
"We are understanding of market forces but at the same time we have to do our due diligence," he said.
Earlier this week, Nortel announced plans to auction off its Carrier Networks business, its last major unit. On July 25, Nortel sold its wireless business to Sweden's LM Ericsson for $1.13 billion US.


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Sticky fingers
Published 8:00 pm, Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Not Robert and Johnnie Smith.
For the Smiths, July 4 is one of the busiest work days of the year. You see, they own JB's Slo-Smoked Bar-BQ, just over the Brewster line on Route 6.
"A lot of people want to serve barbecue on July 4, because it's an all-American food," Smith says. "But nobody has time to put in the hours it takes to make it."
He's talking about five to 12 hours. It takes that long to make authentic, fall-off-the-bone- finger-licking-good barbecued fare such as ribs, pulled pork or chopped barbecue. And beef brisket, the cut of meat that intimidates even the best of cooks, takes 16 hours or longer.
Smith handles meats with tender-loving care, cooking them oh-so-slowly on a rotisserie in a gas-fired oven at only 225 degrees. The oven has a space in back for wood that also burns slowly so its smoke can waft over the meat and flavor it.
"I try to use wood that has some sweetness to it, such as cherry, or apple wood," Smith says, speaking by telephone from his restaurant. "I also use mesquite, hickory, walnut." He rubs the meat with his own special rub and later sauces it with his homemade sauce, both of which he hopes to market someday.
And all this takes time. So that's why the Smiths are working July 4.
"A few years ago, when we first opened JB's," Smith says, "we at first thought of closing for the day like a lot of restaurants do. Then we said, let's put up a sign and tell customers they can call orders in ahead of time and pick up barbecue on the 4th."
Ninety people called them for barbecue.
"It was a lot of work, but it was a great day," Smith recalls. He's expecting a similar amount of orders for this July 4.
By now, most of their customers know the Smiths are operating from a new location. Previously on Lake Avenue Extension in Danbury, they now run JB's from 3867 Danbury Road, in a small shopping center on Route 6, just about 2 miles west of Trader Joe's on Mill Plain Road. They opened the Route 6 business November 28.
"Our lease was up in Danbury, so we closed for a while until we could find a new home for our business," Smith says.
He cooks barbecue in an immaculate kitchen that can be seen from the dining area of JB's. A good portion of the family's business is take-out, but if you prefer to eat in, there are tables for about 20 people.
The Smiths first launched the Danbury JB's in April 2003.
"And we were amazed at how it took off," Smith says.
A former chef for the Marriott hotel chain in Danbury, Smith says he appreciates all that he learned while working under executive chefs in Marriott's kitchen, but, when he makes barbecue, he uses old family recipes, handed down verbally by his grandfather, Jessie Lee Vines, who died when Smith was 22.
"He used to say, 'When you first put the meat in the oven, let it stay for 35 minutes before you put any rub on it. That way, the pores open up then it absorbs the flavors of the rub better.' That's the kind of secrets he would pass on."
Smith, a soft-spoken man with a refined manner, was raised by his grandparents in Danbury. Each summer the family spent summers in a family home in North Carolina, just outside Greenville.
"My grandfather made barbecue almost every day "" not just for holidays and special occasions. So, I watched him and learned. Cooking up barbecue is second nature to me."
His biggest selling item for July 4, or at any time, is pulled pork.
"That's made from pork shoulder and has to cook at least 10 hours," he says. "We use white vinegar in the sauce, so it's a little more tart than ribs."
This July 4 the Smiths will be offering side dishes such as coleslaw, made from Johnnie Smith's recipe, baked beans, corn bread and hush puppies, and desserts such as banana pudding.
"My wife makes most of the side dishes," he says.
Smith and his wife, Johnnie McGee Smith, graduated from Danbury High School, where they were sweethearts. The couple lives in Danbury and has three grown children. Their son, Johnell, 19, is a student at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, and a daughter, Este, 20, is pursuing a modeling career in Manhattan. Their oldest daughter, Melanie, 26, helps run JB's.
"She'll say, 'We've got to work on the macaroni and cheese,'" Robert Smith says of his daughter. "She likes it to be creamy. Some people don't like it that way. So we'll talk about it and make adjustments." Melanie oversees the restaurant during the day and also preps foods for her father.
Robert Smith studied food-service in high school, joined the Army National Guard, cooked for his military unit and nine months later, began working for Marriott. After 10 years with the hotel chain, he took a job at Kimberly Clark in New Milford as warehouse manager/system operator, where he remained for 17 years, until he reopened JB's.
"I decided JB's deserves my full time," he says.
The business is named for his wife's first name and his nickname, "Bobby." Johnnie Smith, who works as a warden's assistant in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, joins her husband in the restaurant four nights a week.
"We used to have huge picnics and feed everybody barbecue," Johnnie Smith says. "Our friends loved it and encouraged us to open a restaurant."
John Lewis, retired IBM employee who lives in Patterson, N.Y., drives to Brewster to have Smith's barbecue.
"I've traveled all over this country," says Lewis, who now has a consulting business, Specialty Foods International. "I've had barbecue in Memphis, and in Texas, where they're famous for it. Those places have nothing on JB's. Plus the Smith's prices are fantastic and they're really nice people. "
The Smiths also offer catering services. In September, they'll cater a dinner for members of Danbury's fire and police departments. The event is sponsored by Friends of Local Heroes.
Keith Gailliard, a retired New York City police officer who lives in Danbury and is helping to organize the event, says, "We do this in appreciation for what the police and fire departments do for our city. We've been doing it every year since 9-11.
The firefighters and police officers get to choose the caterer, Gailliard says. "They always choose JBs. They love the barbecue." The dinner will be served in the New Street Firehouse in Danbury on Sept. 28.
For this July 4, Smith will be cooking pulled pork, barbecued ribs, chopped barbecue, barbecued chicken and beef brisket. "We'll serve any dish we offer in the restaurant," he says.
They'll be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for pick-ups of food." Then he, Johnny and Melanie will head home to spend the rest of the holiday with their family.
And their menu will include barbecue, of course.
Note: To order JB's foods, call the restaurant at (845) 278-3600 or Robert Smith's cell phone at (203) 240-5684. The restaurant is open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday from 11:30 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 8 p.m. It's closed Monday.
JB's Banana Pudding
3-4 golden yellow bananas 8-ounce package instant vanilla pudding mix 2 cups milk 1/2 box Keebler's vanilla wafers 8-ounce container Kool Whip/Whipped Cream 1. Prepare pudding according to box directions and pour into a large bowl. 2. Once pudding begins to set, add the CoolWhip/Whipped Cream, stirring until the combination is thoroughly mixed. 3. Coat bottom of a 9-inch square pan with a thin layer of pudding. 4. Place wafers on top of pudding with bottoms facing upward. 5. Place a layer of sliced bananas atop the wafers. Repeat until desired layering is complete. 6. Cover the top layer with remaining pudding. 7. Place a few wafers in a plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin to make crumbs. Sprinkle crumbs over pudding. 8. Cool in refrigerator at least an hour. Slice and serve. Makes 6 to 8 servings. JB's Barbecue Sauce From the Cupboard
1 cup ketchup
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup vinegar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon mustard
1 tablespoon honey (optional)
Pinch black pepper
1. Mix all ingredients together and store in a glass jar.
2. Makes 2-1/2 cups sauce or enough for four servings of barbecued meat.


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LAS VEGAS - Notes from final, round 3 qualifying in Pro Modified at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, Sixth annual ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time/top speed this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed, and position in order prior to run:
Left Lane: Kirk Kuhns Runs 6.389/229.27, Now #15; Best prior run: 7.710/124.95, Was #18
Kuhns was quick enough to get into the show, and he bumped Knowles
Left Lane: Jay Payne Runs 6.135/221.60, Now #3; Best prior run: 7.213/194.91, Was #18
Right Lane: Dan Rowe Runs 6.583/225.60, Now #18; Best prior run: 10.432/81.42, Was #19
Payne with a great looking pass to get into the top half of the show. Jay Payne's incremental times: 60ft-1.017 sec., 330ft-2.676, 660ft-4.008/185.26mph, 1,000ft-5.153 Rowe with a lot of tire shake and attempts to drive through it.
Left Lane: Mike Knowles Runs 6.745/215.41, Now #19; Best prior run: 6.713/214.86, Was #19
Right Lane: Rick Stivers Runs 6.550/226.16, Now #14; Best prior run: 6.381/227.88, Was #14
Left Lane: Thomas Patterson Runs 6.100/233.03, Now #3; Best prior run: 6.420/219.44, Was #17
Right Lane: Harold Laird Runs 6.313/225.63, Now #13; Best prior run: 6.373/207.43, Was #13
Patterson with a great pass to get in the show and bump out Kuhns. Laird with his best pass,
Left Lane: Chip King Runs 6.348/223.58, Now #15; Best prior run: 6.383/219.79, Was #16
Right Lane: Scott Ray Runs 6.298/226.85, Now #12; Best prior run: 6.367/223.06, Was #14
King just gets into the show. Ray moves up the ladder a couple spots.
Left Lane: Steve Engel Runs 6.261/230.57, Now #10; Best prior run: 6.299/209.52, Was #13
Right Lane: John Scialpi Runs 6.270/225.48, Now #11; Best prior run: 6.287/218.09, Was #11
Left Lane: Mike Bell Runs 6.196/229.20, Now #8; Best prior run: 6.283/213.10, Was #12
Bell with a nice pass to move into the top half of the show. Mike Bell's incremental times: 60ft-1.022 sec., 330ft-2.699, 660ft-4.052/182.35mph, 1,000ft-5.215
Left Lane: Zach Barklage Runs 6.190/229.16, Now #8; Best prior run: 6.220/228.46, Was #9
Right Lane: Joey Martin Runs 6.120/233.60, Now #4; Best prior run: 6.175/232.35, Was #7
Martin with a real nice pass to move to the number four spot. Barklage with a little wiggle but still improves into the top half of the show.
Left Lane: Shelly Payne Runs 6.143/232.47, Now #7; Best prior run: 6.169/232.23, Was #7
Right Lane: Cody Barklage Runs 6.137/232.63, Now #6; Best prior run: 6.167/232.71, Was #6
This was good looking drag race with both moving into the top half of the show. Shelly Payne's incremental times: 60ft-1.039 sec., 330ft-2.700, 660ft-4.032/185.74mph, 1,000ft-5.176
Cody Barklage's incremental times: 60ft-1.025 sec., 330ft-2.687, 660ft-4.022/184.75mph, 1,000ft-5.169
Left Lane: Troy Critchley Runs 6.102/237.42, Now #2; Best prior run: 6.091/236.22, Was #2
Right Lane: Joshua Hernandez Runs 6.124/236.38, Now #1; Best prior run: 6.084/236.01, Was #1
Another good looking drag race. Critchley with the second quickest pass of the session. Hernandez will stay on the pole.