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Cricket's perennial bridesmaids kept alive their hopes of ending an eight year wait to land one of cricket's domestic trophies with a scrambled victory over Gloucestershire at Bristol.
Somerset, who lifted the Twenty 20 trophy in 2005, have not only lost their last five one-day finals, but have finished as runners up in two of the last three County Championship seasons.
Still, despite their woeful form in four-day cricket this season, which has left them in a three-way fight with Surrey and Derbyshire to avoid the indignity of relegation, they booked a YB40 semi-final trip to Trent Bridge on the back of a 12-run victory over their neighbours.
It was seldom straightforward and at times, tinged with controversy as Gloucestershire's Michael Klinger left the field shaking his head vigorously after being given out caught by Piyush Chawla at backward square.
The Australian stood his ground at first, convinced that Chawla had taken the ball on the half volley. Much to his annoyance, he was given out after a lengthy discussion between umpires Jeff Evans and Tim Robinson.
With respect to Gloucestershire, they might not have been in the contest by the time Klinger and Hamish Marshall took to the crease after tea.
Somerset, batting first on a wicket that was flat and free of demons, appeared hell bent on not only losing as many match balls as possible in the building works at the Ashley Down Road End of the ground, but establishing new 40-over records.
Captain Marcus Trescothick and Craig Kieswetter batted with ease and no little skill to pass 100 inside 13 overs.
Kieswetter, whose audacious front foot swipe over extra cover was arguably the shot of the season, was in imperious form on his way to 42 from just 38 balls.
He lost partner Trescothick at 105-1 when the skipper holed out to Alex Gidman off Craig Miles and saw Nick Compton disappear off the very next ball.
Twenty one runs later, the England one-day specialist became David Payne's first victim and thereafter, Somerset relied on a subdued unbeaten 68 from Jos Buttler and 34 from James Hildreth.
A total that should have topped 300 at least, settled at 258-9, leaving Gloucestershire with a target that on recent form, was well within reach.
Klinger and Marshall put on 63 for the first wicket off a ball short of 10 overs with Klinger and Chris Dent adding 29 for the second wicket before Klinger's departure.
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Turkish companies from Sabiha Gokcen International Airport to Alarko Holding AS (ALARK) are poised to issue a record amount of international bonds next year after costs dropped and the country earned an investment-grade rating.
Non-financial companies sold $3.1 billion of debt on overseas and local markets in 2012, more than 10 times the $270 million in 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Of the total bond sales, $1.2 billion were conducted by two Turkish non-financial companies in international markets. The average dollar-bond yield dropped to 3.6 percent last week from almost twice that in January, bringing it 100 basis points below the emerging-market average, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) indexes that include yields on bank bonds.
Foreign issuance by Turkish companies will grow further in 2013 as demand remains robust amid speculation the country may win a second upgrade to investment-grade status, said Derin Altan, a debt finance director at Unlu & Co., an Istanbul-based investment bank. Beermaker Anadolu Efes Biracilik & Malt Sanayii AS sold Turkey's first non-junk corporate bonds in October, before Fitch Ratings increased the sovereign's rating one level to BBB- on Nov. 5, citing an easing in economic risk and lower government borrowing.
"More Turkish companies are expected to sell Eurobonds with the anticipation of a second rating upgrade in the first half," Altan said in an interview on Dec. 27. "About $2 billion to $3 billion of non-bank Turkish Eurobond sales are possible in 2013."
Airport Bonds
Moody's Investors Service rates Turkey's foreign debt one level below investment grade at Ba1, while Standard and Poor's puts it two steps below at BB.
Sabiha Gokcen International Airport in Istanbul won regulatory approval last month to sell as much as 500 million euros ($664 million) of bonds, according to a statement on the Capital Markets Board's website. The company is owned by GMR Infrastructure Ltd. (GMRI), Limak Holding AS and Malaysia Airports Holding Bhd. (MAHB)
Alarko Holding, an Istanbul-based company with interests in construction and energy, will be among those looking to sell debt next year, according to Chief Executive Officer Ayhan Yavrucu.
"Rates have fallen so much, many corporates in Turkey will be considering bond sales as a faster and increasingly cheaper alternative of finding finance," Yavrucu said in an interview in Istanbul Dec. 19. "We should be considering too."
Tupras Debt
Efes raised $500 million of the total $1.2 billion in dollar bonds sold by Turkish companies this year. The same month, oil refiner Tupras Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri AS (TUPRS) borrowed $700 million in a debut offering of bonds due in May 2018.
The premium investors demand to hold Turkey's dollar debt over U.S. Treasuries has fallen by 205 basis points, or 2.05 percentage points, this year to 182, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s EMBI Global Index. Turkey's premium is 89 basis points below the average for emerging markets.
Five-year credit-default swaps on Turkey were unchanged at 127. That compares with 131 for Russia, 83 for Poland and 144 for South Africa. The contracts pay the buyer face value in exchange for the underlying securities or cash if a borrower fails to adhere to its debt agreements.
Declining Yields
Yields on benchmark two-year lira bonds have dropped 486 basis points this year to 6.15 percent at 10:09 a.m. in Istanbul today, the best performance among 20 major emerging markets, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The lira was little changed at 1.7877 per dollar, leaving this year's gain at 5.8 percent.
Turkey's susceptibility to risk is high due to the size of the country's external imbalances, and geo-political tensions remain a concern, "as they could increase international investors' risk aversion and make it more difficult to finance the current-account deficit," Moody's said Nov. 20 in an annual credit report.
"A material deterioration in the government's public- finance metrics would also result in downward movement in the outlook or, in extremis, in the rating itself," it said.
Turkey's $11.2 billion sale of state assets this month, including operational rights for toll roads, bridges, electricity grids and a power plant, will also need financing partly through bonds, according to Altan at Unlu & Co.
Asset Sale
A group comprising Koc Holding AS (KCHOL), Turkey's biggest group of companies, Istanbul-based private equity firm Gozde Girisim Sermayesi Yatirim Ortakligi AS (GOZDE) and Malaysia's UEM Group Bhd bid $5.7 billion for the rights to operate bridges and roadways in an auction in Ankara Dec. 17.
Celikler Taahhut Insaat & Sanayi AS, an Ankara-based builder and miner, bid $2.25 billion to buy the 600 megawatt Seyitomer power plant and operate the coal mine that feeds it on Dec. 28.
Turkey also sold power grids in Istanbul and Izmir for $3.2 billion. The deals may let the nation meet state-asset sale goals for the first time in four years in 2013, further narrowing the budget gap, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said in an interview with CNBC-e television on Dec. 20. Altan estimates the road development may require about $1 billion in financing through bond markets.
"We would expect primary issuance to continue with the corporates in 2013, taking full advantage of pricing for an investment-grade bond," London-based UBS AG analysts Kathleen Middlemiss and Tatiana Boroditskaya wrote in an e-mailed research note Dec. 12.
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Herman Cain: The Man from PizzaNews at Home
Alexander Heffner, a freelance journalist, has written for the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and Newsday.
Former vice president and presidential candidate Henry Wallace mastered Midwestern agriculture and seed genetics for growing food. Ike and his brothers manned a creamery in Kansas. President Richard Nixon labored in his dad's orange grove and then at his gas station where they sold groceries. And let's not forget the peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter, who made a career on the plantation.
But not until this election cycle has either major party boasted a candidate with three decades in the food industry: that's Republican Herman Cain, the unlikely presidential hopeful from Atlanta who has surprised the GOP political establishment with decent poll numbers. A bona fide foodie (at least in corporate terms), Cain was most recently CEO of Godfather's Pizza.
But Cain was not born to be a food magnate—he became one. Cain admitted in a recent interview that, in his first food industry job as an analyst at Coca-Cola, "I was attracted to Cola because I wanted to make an entry into the business sector. In all honesty, I wasn't drawn to Coke because it was food or beverage sector but because it has a great reputation."
Similarly, when he transitioned to Pillsbury because of "a very attractive offer," it was essentially a career-motivated move. But because the sector stuck with Cain, he stuck with it. "The food industry grew on me, and I think it did ultimately because I love food."
As a vice president at Pillsbury, Cain was charged with overseeing a multimillion-dollar project to build a new world headquarters for the company in the Twin Cities. He also managed acquisition of a new computer system.
Jeff Campbell, former CEO of Burger King during Cain's tenure there and now a professor at San Diego State University in the School of Hospitality and Tourism, said he was impressed with Cain's leadership acumen. "It's less the food calling than the mainstream experience in the economy that makes him an impressive candidate," Campbell said.
"When I went to Godfather's," Cain said, "the company was trying to produce four different crust types, rather than focusing on the original. I got rid of the alternative crusts—that decision helped save Godfather's and forced us to pride ourselves on core product."
Cain is widely credited with that pivotal decision and ultimately saving the pizza chain from collapse. As for his own pizza habits, Cain's favorite dish remains the Godfather's combo with extra cheese, sausage, ham, onions and peppers, with an icy Coke.
As president of the National Restaurant Association, he said he found "diversity similar to what you might find in Congress." Cain added that his past experiences dealing with a diverse constituency would be an asset in the White House.
He said he believes his experiences in the food industry would enable him to "get things done on the basis of strength of ideas—to perform and to persuade as president." At the NRA, he instituted and expedited the Serve Safe program, which became an industry standard for food safety.
Joe Fassler, a former fellow NRA board member who hired Herman to run the organization, said he's an "analytical, common-sense, solution-minded kind of guy. One of the important initiatives he brought to us was food safety. Herman was in front of regulations and took care of these issues."
When asked about First Lady Michelle Obama's healthy food initiatives, he said, "I think that it's a noble mission."
"It's important to her, and the fact that she is making people aware of obesity is good. I have a problem with it when it goes beyond awareness," like bans on food products.
He said that "government shouldn't be in the business to forcing people to do things" and instead it "should be educating, informing and inspiring."
However, noting that the American food safety system is "the best," Cain says he's "not down on all regulation"—just ones that don't work and waste money. The menu-labeling binge, for instance, he finds "excessive."
Food safety, for Cain, takes precedence to anti-obesity efforts. To improve the inspection process, Cain said he would solicit the recommendations of existing inspectors. "They are closest to the problem," he says.
He added that the USDA should also implement policies that stem from the needs and observations from those on the ground.
As for food at home, Cain said he's "an amateur cook who likes to showcase ribs for the family." "I've always enjoyed dabbling in the kitchen. I do awesome smoked ribs and New York strip steak."
But Cain says his wife, Gloria, has inspired him most in the kitchen. He said she has always prepared delicious balanced meals—meat, vegetable and starch—including dishes like rump roast, rotisserie chicken and honey-baked ham with various veggies. Desserts are peach cobbler and sweet potato pie. He said the dinner occasion has always been about "fellowship for the entire family."
During the campaign, Cain says he's eaten a lot of chicken Caesar salads that are "light on the go." But, to date, the trail highlight for him is a BBQ spot that has become "my favorite in the nation." Hickory Park of Ames Iowa, he exclaims, is "a national BBQ goldmine."
"I've done BBQ in Kansas City, Tennessee and, of course, Atlanta, Hickory Park is the best. They have a smoked sausage that is outstanding. My favorite sides are BBQ-flavored beans and kernel corn."
Sara Readle, the floor manager of Hickory who describes herself as "an ardent Republican," said the eatery's signature dishes are their baby loin back ribs and their "sassy southern," a take on a Sloppy Joe, simmered pork, turkey, and beef.
"I can't tell you the recipe of our sauce, but it's sweeter than anything you've ever tasted." Readle said she is pleased to hear Mr. Cain enjoys his pit stops there.
In his native Georgia, Cain said Paschal Brothers is his local culinary landmark. With three locations in Atlanta, the restaurant is home to "everybody's favorite southern fried chicken and collard greens," said president Curtis Paschal.
"Anyone in the black community, if they want to be on the inside of things, is going to find themselves becoming familiar with the patrons of Paschal's."
"I've seen Herman here frequently," added Paschal.
For now, Cain says his campaign is "doing fantastic" and exceeding expectations "from crawl to run."
He wrapped up an almost hour-long interview when his wife of 43 years called him in for supper. "Got to go…we're having ribs, kernel corn, corn bread and mashed potatoes!"
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The event, entitled "Nationalism in Music: National Dances from Chopin to Prokofiev," will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Benton Hall Room 303. It is free and open to the public.
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We have tracked the key short interest changes as of April 15 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU), SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ: SNDK), Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM), ARM Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ARMH), Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM), Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRVL), Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA), Texas Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: TXN) and Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT). We also chose to look at how the Market Vectors Semiconductor ETF (NYSEMKT: SMH) has held up.
Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) short interest fell 1.4% to 235.47 million shares. About 4.8% of Intel's float is now short.
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Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) short interest rose by 25.9% to 18.95 million shares, which is about 1.6% of the company's float.
The Market Vectors Semiconductor ETF (NYSEMKT: SMH) showed a rise of 6.9% in short interest to 9.71 million shares.
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You will be across from one of the best ski resorts in Southern CA. All will be able to walk to: ski, golf, zoo, hiking and biking trails. The Chalet is at 7400 ft. being cool in the summer and accumulating an abundance of snow in the winter.
The views are spectacular all year round. You can actually sit in front of the fireplace and watch the skiers and snowboarders come down the slopes. The hot tub is available for your pleasure. Note: there is a cancellations fee equal to a one nights stay for all cancellations. No refunds without 30 day notice unless another guest is found.
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Rich Pariseau purchased this condo in 1975
In the best part of Big Bear with great view and walking to many activities. Can't get any better.
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The brochures don't do justice to the beauty that surrounds these vacation rentals. Our cabin slept our family of six comfortably. We found it was fairly priced, and as parents traveling with children we much appreciated the cleanliness, the home-away-from-home ambience of the chalet, and the accommodating , hospitable owner. We couldn't have found a better location. We all walked across the street to Bear Mountain for family skiing; our children enjoyed a walk to the zoo and a short distance hike through the forest before enjoying the cabin's fireplace as dad barbecued dinner. We will enthusiastically recommend Bear View Chalets to our friends. This summer we're looking forward to our family's outing to the golf course across the street and exploring the many trails through the forest on our mountain bikes. At night my husband and I will romantically enjoy star gazing into the dark clear sky, way high above the majestic pine trees, inside the outside "hot-tub."
Extremely unimpressed. Very old and dated everything. Pictures in add did not necessarily match the decor. No wifi (as stated in listing) and when contacted owner, he stated I was "lucky to have heat and electricity in Big Bear." That seems to perfectly describe the place. If your needs are close proximity to slopes with heat and electricity, then this is your place. Spa was filthy and washer and dryer required quarters which was not in listing. One of the beds smelled heavily of cigarette smoke (prob not owners fault, but need to change mattress). Whole place is up for sale so my guess is that owner is doing just bare minimum to upkeep place. For the price of nightly rent plus multitude of fees, better and cheaper to stay in a B&B since this place cost us approx. twice the listed rate in total per night.
Rented the property for a weekend. Saturday the entire day the heater was not working and there was no hot water. When on the return trip I tried reaching out to the landlord he told me that I should have called him the day of the incident so he could fix it. When you only take vacations a few times a year you don't want on your vacation having a plumber fixing things while you are trying to relax. No remorse, no gratitude and no sense of transparency in terms of the landlord's attitude towards his clients. He was only nice when he was waiting for the reservation to take place. After that all bets are off.
Everything is so old and outdated. Couches look like they are 40 years old. When you are being charged top dollar you expect top dollar service. Guy told us to bring our own soap, toilet paper and plastic garbage bags. I mean ARE YOU SERIOUS? I have stayed all over the world and almost in every state from 5 star hotels to motel 6's. THIS PLACE WAS THE WORST EXPERIENCE I have ever had. Wouldn't send my enemy to this establishment.
I spent my 30th Birthday here with a few friends for the weekend and it couldn't have been more perfect. Since only 2 of us were skiing, the location really made it easy for everyone keep in touch throughout the day. We were able to wake up, catch and early chair and ski for about an hour, then walk back to the condo for breakfast with the rest of the group. When we left to head back to the mountain, they went into town to get lunch and supplies for that night. Once the mountain closed, we all met at the base bar for a couple of celebratory drinks. This wouldn't have been possible if we weren't so close.
The condo was the perfect size and the fireplace kept the place warm at night. The hot tub has a great view and was great after a full day on the mountain. I would recommend to anyone who wants to get away with a small group.
Great location for this property...Literally right next to the slopes. Other than the location though, the units (we stayed in A), leave much to be desired. We didn't really mind though because we knew we were paying for the ability to virtually ski-in/ski-out.
Upon arrival we had serious issues with the front door. It took quite a while to jimmy the lock open, and for the rest of the stay we had a lot of issues locking our door when we left. I called the property manager, and he came at 8am the day of check out to take care of it! Check out was not until 11, so our last morning packing up was spent with someone drilling and hammering in the living room.
Dishes in the cupboards were not exactly clean.
Rich, the property manager, is a very nice guy but seems somewhat disorganized. I must have gotten four or five phone calls from him in the weeks prior to our arrival where he had confused us with someone else; telling me that payment had not been received (when it had), that we had not checked in yet (the night prior to our reservation), etc. Lets just say it caused a little panic as to whether this unit had been triple booked or not! In fact, just yesterday I received an email from Rich that was clearly meant for someone else.
Overall a great stay BECAUSE of the location! This is not the place for you if you are looking for amazing amenities and luxury.
We came up when a heat wave hit down the hill. It was nice and cool up here. We had a great time. We walked to the zoo, passing the ski lifts and the golf course one the way. All in about 600 yards. We went to the lake, out to eat and Lake Arrowhead the third day. The condo was very accommodating. Full kitchen, two bedrooms, cable tv, dvd. perfect. Highly recommended for your get away.
Walk to golf, ski, zoo, mountain biking and hiking trails, hot tub. You will not drive to Bear Mountain Ski Resort. You will walk. You most likely will come back for lunch and head back to the slopes for more. Just far away with double glass windows you will sleep well, as they often make snow at night and always groom the slopes.
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NO! YOU KILLED OFF TAMARA! I wasn't expecting that at all... I suppose it was a good twist in the mix of things. Nobody really expected that to happen I guess. Another thing I didn't expect was for Peter to find Vladimir so quickly, nor did I expect him to join the fight in this chapter.
| TheDarkerSide123 chapter 4 . 3/13/2013
You did a pretty good job with this chapter once again. I have to say that I like Tamara. She is a pretty interesting character to throw in the story.
| TheDarkerSide123 chapter 3 . 3/12/2013
Poor Jane. She loves Peter but he doesn't love her back. At least, not in the same way. It's sad. I hope she gets some sort of happy ending to.
| TheDarkerSide123 chapter 2 . 3/11/2013
I'm interested to see what role Jane will really play in this story, since Peter's so determined to find Tanya. I hope that she isn't just completely abandoned, though I don't think that will happen.
| TheDarkerSide123 chapter 1 . 3/10/2013
There is not a doubt in my mind that I will love this story. Just this first chapter is amazing! Honestly I do like romance stories even though I'm a guy... I really don't see anything wrong with that. Anyways, you are great at describing details! I wouldn't be surprised if you got this published.
| THEBEASTLYNERD chapter 17 . 11/8/2012
I wished I had this kind of luck with the ladies
| Miko56 chapter 17 . 8/18/2012
well will they get to go in America with a couple of Russian headhunters for Peter to booth?
| THEBEASTLYNERD chapter 11 . 7/23/2012
great job
| Miko56 chapter 10 . 7/20/2012
if I could request, I will even though I have no right because I'm just a reader, can you put another action like Peter going to the Pacific or Peter going back to America as a changed man?
| Miko56 chapter 9 . 7/16/2012
So Peter received the Red Star for service and he get to become a Russian citizen in the end
I want to see his American side! Pronto!
Just joking!
Please update soon!
| Miko56 chapter 8 . 7/7/2012
Nice update here
by the way I don't know who will be Peter's love interest and it's one of the things that I love in this story!
The twists and turns!
| Miko56 chapter 6 . 6/22/2012
Pls! continue!
| Miko56 chapter 1 . 6/22/2012
I love the story!
Good work in making this historical fic!
I love the way how Peter's love would last even in the besieged Stalingrad!
Natasha and Petya are a good couple!
| Elizabeth Cooper chapter 5 . 6/9/2012
For once, I am having trouble thinking of a critism for this chapter. I suppose the only thing that I can think of is this: how could you kill Tamara! I was just beggining to like her. You did warn me, though. And it was a brilliant death scene.
I really like your idea of having a letters between Tanya and Peter in the chapter, but maybe two is a bit much. I would have just put one at the beginning of the chapter. On the other hand, with all the action of this chapter, the letters are a way to take the reader out of the story for a calming moment. I look forward to reading the next chapter. (By the way, if you're getting sick of getting reviews from the same person again and again, I can always private message you with my critism.)
| Elizabeth Cooper chapter 4 . 6/7/2012
Sorry I haven't given a review for a while; I'm busy uploading my own story and have been having trouble with my account on fiction press. Anyway, I mostly liked your chapter. The history is, like I said, great, and I liked how you aided some Russian into the mix (at least it seemed like Russian, but as I don't speak Russian, I can't say for sure).
Tamara reminds me a lot of Jane. That is my main critism of this chapter. Your characters seem to all blend together for me, I don't know quite why. My other critism is that you haven't seemed to explain why Peter is willing to go to hell and back-almost literally speaking-to find Tanya. It's touching, but I don't see much of a motive for him to go this far. Worrying about her a little, maybe, but not going all the way to Russia to find her after knowing her for such a short time. Tamara is, however, an interesting character, and I look forward to learning more about her. I look forward to reading your next chapter and hope you update soon.


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I am no expert on this at all, but I felt like writing briefly about how I try to keep my data relatively safe.
There's almost no such thing as a perfect backup strategy, but everyone should have one.
And each backup strategy should have three components:
- Live data (this is the data where it lives when you work with it)
- Offsite replica (this is a copy of the live data that is stored somewhere physically removed from the live data; in Japan, that means far enough away not to be destroyed in the same earthquake as the live data and offline replica)
- Offline replica (this is a copy of the live data that is stored on a device that is only activated when data is being copied; this copy protects against something like a virus or other forms of data corruption.
Here is my solution.
All my data is copied incrementally, once a month, to an external 2TB hard disk, that I then unplug from the system. This is my offline backup.
Documents: Live data is automatically synchronized via Jungledisk software to an encrypted location on a Rackspace server in the U.S. The same program also creates a local copy on each of my three main computers. Documents that require a high availability (instant replication across all PCs, like my password file) are synchronized using a free dropbox.com account.
Photos: The live data lives on a 2.5" encrypted USB HDD, which I can bring with me if I'm on the road. I synchronize that data manually (using Beyond Compare) to my Nexenta server. Nexenta is a variant of Open Solaris that is focused on being a NAS (Network Attached Storage) server. Like Open Solaris, it uses the zfs filesystem (yes, I know that's like saying "the HIV virus") which, to put it simply, handles large amounts of data very well. At the moment, I also synchronize these files manually to the Rackspace server as my offsite.
However, with 150GB of photos and around 50GB of video, the Rackspace charges ($0.15 USD/GB/Month) are starting to get high. So I've decided to move my photos to datastorageunit in order to save money. I currently am using 160GB of data on Rackspace, which is costing me about $24 USD a month ($288 USD) per year. On the other hand, datastorageunit costs $150 USD per year ($12.50 per month) for 300 GB, which means that I can add video backups to that as well.
The advantages of Rackspace (via Jungledisk) are that it is easy to use and sync, and it is encrypted, both in transmission, and on the server. Which is why I am leaving ~25GB of my live documents there.
Datastorageunit's philosophy is more homebrew in that the user can (must) decide how to connect and transfer files. This means that while transmission is encrypted, the remote filesystem is not. However, there are options available to the user to encrypt that data, though I've decided not to in order to keep transfer times lower and avoid a massive headache. When it comes down to it, though, my photos do not need encryption.
I will probably never move my main documents folder there, because I need the multiple-machine synchronization features that JungleDisk offers me. It's really nice turning on my laptop and having it automatically download all the recent changes to my files.
Once the data has been transferred over, I need to figure out how to automate my rsync job so the data gets mirrored to datastorageunit every night to preserve changes I've made throughout the day.
A quick Google search reveals that this may not be as straightforward as I originally thought…


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There is a race of Martains that are reptilian and therefore their gender is not determined genetically but rather by the environment in wich the young are incubated. The current prevailing opinon is that mail offspring are unfortunate accidents with little value to society (and perhaps the fault of a bad mother). This book is a biography of the three revolutionaries (a doctor, a psychologist, and a politician) who wrote the first well lade out argument for the value of males. How I Met Your Mother
edited 19th Feb '13 3:54:28 PM by HistoryMaker
52 ArsThaumaturgis19th Feb 2013 06:12:51 PM , Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
A piece of flash-fiction detailing the protagonist's meeting the unnamed addressee's mother on the dueling field, and praising said parent's honour and skill with a blade. Cave Story
53 MajorTom19th Feb 2013 08:24:56 PM , Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Eye'm the cutest!
"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."
Johnson's Helfire sauce : the embodiment of the scarlet devil. Are you man enough? One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
edited 19th Feb '13 9:16:10 PM by HistoryMaker
55 fillerdude20th Feb 2013 02:36:48 AM , Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
Fred is in charge of tearing down an old factory. He tells Frank about how his grandfather called the place a "cuckoo's nest", and that it supposedly hid some very dark secrets. Rumors that his grandpa didn't believe until he saw a ghost, one that flew over the cuckoo's nest. System Shock
56 tsstevens20th Feb 2013 05:44:59 AM from Internet, Tasmania , Relationship Status: She's holding a very large knife
The game? Too easy. I would use the title for a serious, probably dramatized story of high level politics, something in the stock exchange when they crashed or a political scandal. And Justice For All.
Official Australian XBOX magazine. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, 6/10. WWE 2K16, 7/10
57 Psyga31520th Feb 2013 05:52:54 AM from Dungeons & Dragons No Sekai , Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
The Fallen Fanboy
A live-action adaptation of the final case in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All. Pearl Harbor
edited 20th Feb '13 5:53:15 AM by Psyga315
Anytime you think Ash has a clear chance of winning, just remember that the writers caused his water type to be defeated by a Blast Burn.
58 fillerdude20th Feb 2013 06:05:52 AM , Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
The goings on in a certain barber shop by the dock. For No Reason at All in C
The story of how a huge prison riot (originating in cell block C) got started because of a tiny misunderstanding. The Biggest Loser
edited 20th Feb '13 7:43:24 AM by HistoryMaker
60 fillerdude21st Feb 2013 04:00:39 AM , Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
A children's story about a bullied elephant. Girls Like Robots
61 MaplePlatoon21st Feb 2013 02:32:44 PM from Middle of Nowhere,Canada , Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Really needed to change my avatar
One day, a magician created a wish-grating statue. He put in "Girls like robots" in hopes that he could get a hot wife, but the machine read that as "Girls' Like Robots". He threw away the creation because of this error, but it was then found by a man who wanted to know how to get the woman he loves to notice him. Of course, when you wish to a statue that you were the type of man who easily gets girls who was "told" that girls' like robots, you would probably find yourself made out of metal and wiring. Hilarity Ensues. Twinkle the Dream Being
Totally not planning to buy Ark Encounter.
62 Alma21st Feb 2013 04:32:10 PM from Coruscant , Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
The Harbinger of Strange
A horror story about a Freddy Krueger-like monster that inhabits the dreams of sleeping children, feeding off of a kind of magical energy exuded by those asleep while masquerading as a friendly, cuddly creature called Twinkle. Twinkle gets greedy, however, and causes a rash of child deaths in small-town America. The only one who can stop him is a psychic with the ability to enter a person's dreams... Who also happens to be a convicted pedophile. Knights of the Old Republic
You need an adult.
63 ArsThaumaturgis21st Feb 2013 04:51:22 PM , Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
An Arthurian tale featuring an order of knights dedicated to the ideals of the Roman Republic, by then long-gone but not forgotten. Faced with a Britain that, unified under Arthur, leaves no space in which they might establish a New Republic, they cross the channel and embark upon a decades-long quest through France, seeking a place for their dream. Eventually all of the knights have either died or abandoned the quest. One last, however — by then old and grey — both survives and holds to the quest. At last he finds himself travelling through a trackless forest. He comes upon a pair of saplings that have grown up crossing each other, creating a crude, pointed archway. Through this arboreal gap the light seems brighter; riding through in curiosity, he meets a beautiful lady who he had not seen before crossing. She hails him and asks his quest; he answers, and she smiles. She tells him that her country recently lost its leader, and that its people were desirous of change; that it was ripe for the establishment of a republic. For a moment hope flares in the old knight's breast, until the memory of his age crushes out the flame. He tells the woman that his frailty leaves him in no position to found a government, that he had held to the quest more out of a moral refusal to relinquish what he held to be right and true than out of hope of success. But the lady laughs, and with a gesture bids him look into a nearby still pool. He obeys, and to his startlement see reflected a man in his prime, just as the knight had been in his day. He turns to the lady, and she simply smiles and offers to him her hand. He takes it, and, leaving behind his horse, goes with her into her country and a New Republic built on the memory and hope of the Old. Gawain and the Green Knight
64 porschelemans22nd Feb 2013 01:48:59 PM from A Giant Hamster Ball , Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Avatar Sakaki Ignore cat
Gawain and his girlfriend, Anne set out on a long mission to meet the legendary hero, The Green Knight. Along the way they meet treacherous Bankers, corrupt police officers, and oblivious politicians in a long and heart warming journey across the plains of Eastern Europe. When they finally meet The Green Knight, they are disappointed to find that he has been dead for 436 years, and they are consequentially arrested for attempted grave robbery. OK Computer
I'm so sorry that my avatar doesn't appear fully in the shot, but the cat was threatening the photographer.
65 Alma22nd Feb 2013 03:47:46 PM from Coruscant , Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
The Harbinger of Strange
A Twenty Minutes into the Future social parable in which a lonely man, long on smarts but short on social graces, programs a digital wife for himself. Unfortunately, his digital wife is a little TOO lifelike, nagging her husband endlessly, denigrating him for his poor personal grooming and getting jealous when he spends time with his other gadgets. His attempts to erase his wife repeatedly fail, and she only comes back nastier than ever—and cranky about him trying to erase her, to boot. Eventually, resigned to his fate, all our henpecked hero is capable of saying is, "OK, computer." The Brain from Planet Arous
edited 22nd Feb '13 3:48:40 PM by Alma
You need an adult.
Aron different. He is a genius 10-year-old boy who's family doesn't understand him because he doesn't think the way other people do. Eventually he decides that he must be an alien. Perhaps some kind of cuckoo that was left by his parents to be raised by humans, maybe as some kind of experiment, or maybe all of his species' children are raised by other species. His parents indulges fantasy because they simply don't know what to do with the boy. House Hunters International
edited 23rd Feb '13 9:07:24 PM by HistoryMaker
67 fillerdude23rd Feb 2013 10:53:25 PM , Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
Mr. and Mrs. Spangler have but one goal in life: to buy the perfect house for their coming child. That's when Mrs. Spangler happens upon a peculiar website, one which promises them exactly that... through any means necessary. Gosick
68 porschelemans24th Feb 2013 09:12:32 AM from A Giant Hamster Ball , Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Avatar Sakaki Ignore cat
Bob Gosick was a perfectly normal attorney from Chicago, until one day his life was turned upside down when he was kidnapped my communazi terrorist paedophile drug dealing gangsta rapper Elvis Presley impersonators and forced to dance in a Mongolian strip club every night until someone pays a $20,000,000 bounty. Can his sister, Alice Gosick, use her Action Girl Super Power's to rescue her brother from this torture, without having to pay up? Exit Planet Dust
edited 24th Feb '13 9:13:19 AM by porschelemans
I'm so sorry that my avatar doesn't appear fully in the shot, but the cat was threatening the photographer.
Is about a project to make people immortal through Brain Uploading thereby defying "from dust you are, and to dust you shall return" . Unfortunately playing God has unforeseen consequences . Brother Bear
edited 24th Feb '13 1:38:17 PM by HistoryMaker
70 ArsThaumaturgis24th Feb 2013 04:48:32 PM , Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
An Urban Fantasy story revolving around a close-knit support group of therianthropes, centring on "Brother Bear" (who is, naturally, a werebear); the story is a philosophical musing on the travails that such entities might have in modern society. Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
71 fillerdude24th Feb 2013 06:24:29 PM , Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
A goldfish's quest for vengeance against the kid who flushed him down the drain. Symmetric In Design
72 Gaon24th Feb 2013 07:02:47 PM from Grim Up North , Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
(sorry wrong thread). A game designer man named Sym has a perfect clone who is a game designer with his exact skills. But who is the real Sym? Who is the better designer? War Horse.
edited 24th Feb '13 7:04:58 PM by Gaon
73 StillbirthMachine24th Feb 2013 10:59:36 PM from The Womb ov Impurities
Heresiarch Command
An aging, paunch-bellied, greying group of Southern USA burn outs, ex heroin addicts, and recently released felons start a no frills down to the dirt, ugly sounding sludge metal band and tumble and fumble through a changing musical landscape, the ghosts of crimes past, and coming to terms with how far they've fallen and how much they might rise. Children of Aggression
edited 24th Feb '13 11:01:54 PM by StillbirthMachine
Only Death Is Real
74 doorhandle25th Feb 2013 12:19:46 AM from Space Australia!
This pseudomythological generational epic is about the history, deeds, and failures of the many offsrping of Agression,god of rage, spanning an entire millenia. Through the fire and flames.
75 StillbirthMachine25th Feb 2013 01:22:21 AM from The Womb ov Impurities
Heresiarch Command
The first hand account of a foreign reporter caught in a proxy war between native non-formal military factions while a sinister shadowy military organization runs seemingly random acts of sudden and unstoppable violence. The Garden of the Centipede
Only Death Is Real


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By George P. Mitchell and Mark D. Zoback
Natural gas is a wondrous fuel. It emits less carbon dioxide, less mercury, less nitrogen oxide, less sulfur oxide than any other hydrocarbon energy source. Natural gas is the perfect bridge fuel on the way to a less carbon-dependent economy. There is no question that accidents have occurred and mistakes have been made during the rush to develop this vast new resource, but this remarkable resource can be developed by industry following region-specific best practices and regulators carefully monitoring industry activities.
Far below the city of Fort Worth is a geological formation of sedimentary rocks that was shaped 354 to 323 million years ago – give or take an eon.
Take a much smaller jump back in time, to the 1970s, when an independent Texas company, Mitchell Energy & Development Corp., drilled into this ancient formation without much success. Company rigs had pulled up some curious rock samples of organic-rich shales (sedimentary rocks with large amounts of clay) indicating that natural gas in abundance, millions of years old, was trapped in these sediments. But because of the extremely low permeability of the shales, even the best engineers and geologists in the industry had no way to produce it in commercial quantities.
Innovation loves a challenge, however. After seven long years of effort, the Mitchell company devised a method that combined horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing of the shale formation, that released the gas in commercial quantities. It was a stunning victory not just for Mitchell, but for the nation's small, independent energy companies, achieved with an approach mostly ignored or abandoned by the international oil and gas giants.
In the petroleum industry, hydraulic fracturing goes back at least to the 1940s, but the adaptation of fracturing in horizontal wells was critical to the success of Mitchell Energy & Development Corp.'s efforts. If you drill a vertical well through a relatively impermeable rock formation, even if you hydraulically fracture the rock to increase its permeability, the pay-zone is still limited to the formation thickness. If you drill horizontally through the gas-bearing formation, as the dogged Mitchell company engineers were finally able to do, and create multiple hydraulic fractures along its length, you dramatically increase the producing zone of the well.
Revolution unleashed
Rather than keeping this breakthrough a secret, the company quickly allowed the broad publication of its methods, and one of the most profound revolutions in the international energy industry was unleashed. At this point, we are only beginning to realize and appreciate its profound implications.
We now believe that the Barnett Shale, which underlies not only Fort Worth but also 17 counties and 5,000 square miles of Texas, may have one of the largest producible reserves of any onshore natural gas field in the United States. The key word, of course, is producible, and it was the technology using hydraulic fracturing in horizontal wells that made the difference.
As a result of this phenomenal breakthrough, other organic-rich shales in the United States were suddenly productive. The methods first perfected near Fort Worth quickly succeeded in the Haynesville and Fayetteville shales that stretch underneath Louisiana, East Texas and Arkansas. Next came the Marcellus Shale, a vast rock formation extending beneath the southern tier and Finger Lakes region of New York, northern and western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, most of West Virginia and extreme western Virginia.
So why has it been so difficult to celebrate the recent discovery of unexpected and immense recoverable natural gas reservoirs in our country?
As the horizontal hunt for shale gas has spread, so has concern over its environmental impact. At the request of President Barack Obama, a high-level U.S. Department of Energy subcommittee was convened to explore those issues.
The group's tough report left no doubt that shale gas resources were of enormous importance to the United States. This carefully composed panel of top academics, industry experts and investigators concluded that this resource could be developed in an environmentally responsible manner. That said, the subcommittee made 20 carefully considered recommendations toward improving industry practice and government regulations to accommodate this new technology.
Wells and waste water
The DOE subcommittee was candid about the need to immediately strengthen state regulatory practices governing well construction, waste control and disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing and the composition of the water that flows back from the well after hydraulic fracturing. The panel determined that there is no question that accidents have occurred and mistakes have been made during the rush to develop this vast new resource. However, they can be addressed by operators following industry best practices and with regulators carefully monitoring industry activities.
The committee pointed out that in nearly all of the areas where shale gas is being exploited in the United States, the actual shale formations are separated from aquifers by thousands of feet of nearly impermeable rock. In such cases it is virtually impossible for hydraulic fracturing to affect water supplies.
The problems associated with contamination of water supplies in areas where shale gas development is under way are mostly traceable to the improper casing or cementing of production wells. In some instances, these appear to be old and abandoned wells that contaminated subsurface aquifers before gas development activities. Similarly, poorly constructed or badly maintained wastewater containment areas can breach whether or not they are associated with hydraulic-fracturing processes.
Some gas-bearing formations, such as those common with coal-bed methane development, are found closer to the surface. In such a case, aquifers can be easily endangered and extra care must be taken to avoid problems.
A newer and more sensational controversy has risen over the past couple of years regarding the role of hydraulic fracturing in triggering local earthquakes, such as those experienced in Texas in 2009, Arkansas in 2011 and Ohio in the past month. Similar investigations of quakes in Oklahoma are underway. At issue, however, isn't the removal of shale gas, but the improper disposal of wastewater produced by the deep-shale drilling. Disposal wells should be sited so as to avoid injection into active faults, injection rates should be limited so as to avoid causing substantial increases in pore pressure at depth, and seismic monitoring networks should be installed so that if small earthquakes begin to occur, injection rates can be decreased or stopped altogether to prevent larger earthquakes from occurring.
Sustainable practices
The chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing represent less than 1 percent of what is mostly water and sand. While virtually none of the chemicals added, familiar to most homeowners, are considered particularly toxic, all responsible producers should be willing to fully disclose to regulators and to the public the exact chemical composition of hydraulic fracturing fluids being pushed down any well, the precise composition of what comes back up, and the nature of its disposal. To aid in this process, the DOE subcommittee recommended the creation of public databases on water quality in and around shale gas drilling sites, as well as data on water quality before the drilling commences.
Best practices and regulations are already in place for drilling, whether wells or oil or natural gas recovery, and for the safe disposal of wastes. It is critically important for these best practices and regulations to reflect local geologic and hydrologic conditions. It is also important to recognize that establishing best practices in any industry is never a static process. As time moves on, responsible energy companies learn more, continuously improve procedures, and incorporate feedback from the communities and environments most affected by each company's progress. The DOE committee recommended that it is equally important that there be a continuous improvement of best practices for minimizing impacts on the environment, communities and ecosystems. As our nation develops this great and unexpected resource, all stakeholders – gas producing companies, service companies and suppliers, affected communities, public interest advocates, and regulators – must be sought out and integrated for our country to fully realize this promise, a process the DOE committee referred to as organizing for best practice. The new abundance of natural gas will strengthen our nation's energy independence only if its production is sustainable, completely transparent, and fiercely sensitive to nearby publics, ecosystems, habitats and protected resources.
Global impact
Only now have we become totally aware of what the liberation of gas from shale rock portends for our own country. This technology will be equally transformative far beyond our borders.
Last month, China Petrochemical Corp., that nation's second largest crude oil producer, and Total SA, Europe's third-largest oil company, invested $7 billion in U.S. and Canadian shale rock formations. Why would China, with 50 percent more technically recoverable shale gas than the United States, invest in North America? They have come here to learn the craft, and that is a good thing.
Countries like Poland and Ukraine in Europe and China and India in Asia are too dangerously dependent on foreign sources of energy to sustain their growth. Bluntly put, proof that they may now have abundant supplies of clean energy below their own homelands and within their own borders lowers the tripwires of future conflicts and war. We all gain from that.
But as these resources are developed worldwide, America assumes an additional burden. Practices in so many industries that have become global are often first tested and perfected here in North America. Let's make sure the United States develops this resource in a responsible manner. Our citizens deserve it and it is an opportunity for world leadership that can bring prosperity and stability to billions abroad for decades to come.
Mitchell, a petroleum engineer and geologist, is the founder of Mitchell Energy & Development Corp., which pioneered the use of hydraulic fracturing of rock for the horizontal drilling of natural gas. He is also the developer of The Woodlands, one of the first master-planned new towns in the United States, and sponsor of the International George and Cynthia Mitchell Prize, dedicated to sustainable development. Zoback, a geophysicist, is the Benjamin M. Page Professor of Earth Sciences at Stanford University. He is the author/co-author of more than 300 technical research papers and a textbook titled "Reservoir Geomechanics." He served on both the Department of Energy committee investigating shale gas development and environmental protection and the National Academy of Engineering committee investigating the Deepwater Horizon accident. The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas presented The Shale Gas Miracle: A Tribute to George P. Mitchell, during the opening session of its annual conference in Houston. Zoback was among the featured speakers in the tribute to Mitchell.


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Jets prospect Adam Lowry named WHL Player of the Yearby Staff Writer / Winnipeg Jets
The Winnipeg Jets are proud to announce that forward Adam Lowry was named WHL Player of the Year for the 2012-13 season. Lowry was drafted by the Winnipeg Jets in the third round, 67th overall, in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft,
Lowry, 20, played in 72 games with the Swift Current Broncos of the WHL this season. In that time, the Calgary, AB. native led his team with 88 points, 45 goals and 43 assists. His 88 points was 12th on the WHL scoring leaderboard and he held the league record for regular season point scoring streak at eight games (13G, 5A). He played in five playoff games with the Broncos for a team-leading five points (3G, 2A) and four penalty minutes before the team was eliminated by the Calgary Hitmen in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Quarter-Finals. Lowry has played in 235 career WHL games over four seasons with Swift Current for 204 career points (90G, 114A) and 333 career penalty minutes.
He also played in nine games with the St. John's IceCaps of the American Hockey League this season collecting one assist and signed a contract with the Jets on April 16, 2013.
Adam Lowry
Left Wing
Born Mar 29 1993 -- Calgary, ALTA
Height 6.05 -- Weight 201 -- Shoots L
Selected by Winnipeg Jets round 3 #67 overall 2011 NHL Entry Draft


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Season Records
Dallas Stars 21-16-1
Nashville Predators 21-14-4
With captain Shea Weber back at practice, how much longer will Ryan Ellis be up in Nashville?
The Nashville Predators put their three-game winning streak on the line Thursday night when they host the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena.
On New Year's Day, the Predators beat the Calgary Flames 5-3 on the strength of a Sergei Kostitsyn hat trick, the first of his NHL career. Nashville's two previous wins before the Calgary game were both 2-1 shootout victories against Minnesota and St. Louis.
Last time the Predators and Stars met was on December 23rd when Dallas doubled Nashville 6-3. The Predators lost Captain Shea Weber late in the game when Nashville's defenseman took a hit to the head from Stars defenseman Mark Fistric.
On Tuesday, Weber returned to practice with the team but there is still no timetable for his return to the game.
Wednesday night another story unfolded from the NHL website about Fistric. During the first period between Dallas and the Detroit Red Wings, linesman Steve Miller hit his head when he accidentally collided with Fistric. Miller left the ice with concussion-like symptoms and did not return.
The Red Wings won the game 5-4. Dallas is now 5-5-0 in its last 10 games. Nashville is 7-3-0. Only three points separate the two clubs.
Jordie Benn, the brother of 22-year old Stars forward Jamie Benn, made his NHL debut for Dallas on Wednesday night after being recalled from the AHL. The 24-year old had an assist in his first game. However, the Dallas News is reporting that Stephane Robidas skated Wednesday and may be set to return to the Stars lineup on Thursday against Nashville, likely pushing the older Benn brother to the sidelines. Robidas has been out of the lineup since just before Christmas with a bone bruise on his foot.
Sheldon Souray also remains out of the Stars lineup with a sprained ankle. This season in 34 games, Souray has 4 goals and 12 assists for 16 points.
Pekka Rinne has struggled against the Stars, posting a 3-3-0 record with a 2.84 goals against average and just a .891 save percentage. Dallas goaltender Kari Lehtonen has fared better against the Predators with a 4-2 record and a 1.98 goals against average with a .932 save percentage.
Nashville will be looking for its 7th consecutive sellout, which would be a franchise record. If the Bridgestone Arena sells out, it will be the 9th sellout in 11 games, and 12th of the campaign in 20 home games this season.
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Lost Games Wiki:Warning Policy
Warning templates are used to keep track of a user's disciplinary history as well as provide justification for blocks/bans. Warning templates may only be issued by or to registered users.
Once a warning has been issued, it cannot be removed without going through an appeal. Removing a warning template without going through an appeal is grounds for another warning. Users can archive talkpages that have warnings as long as the warnings are not removed from the archive page or are otherwise tampered with.
The following templates are considered warning templates:
In this page, the above templates are collectively referred to as "warnings" for simplicity. Capitalized "Warning" refers to the specific {{Warning}} template, and all other specific templates are capitalized as well.
If you feel like another user has violated a rule, the course of action taken depends on whether you are dealing with a registered user or someone editing anonymously from an IP address (also referred to as an "anon").
Registered users
With registered users, contemplate whether they really deserve the warning. Since warnings are serious accusations, use them responsibly. Abuse of warning privileges is grounds for a warning of your own, or even a block. Follow these steps:
- Identify the problem. If the problem is something that can be resolved through discussion (such as edit conflicts), try contacting the user.
- Determine the right template for the situation, based on the nature and severity of the offense. A list of offenses and what templates should be used can be found below, but here are the general rules of thumb:
- If it's the user's first time creating that particular problem, give them the default template. In general, minor issues get Reminders, while problematic behavior gets Warnings, and serious offenses get Last Warnings or even instant bans. See below for details and a list of what specific offenses get which template.
- If you give someone a Last Warning, contact an admin to that they can keep an eye on the user and block them if they continue to break the rules.
- If you see someone doing something that deserves an instant ban, alert an admin immediately.
- If the user has already received the default template, give them a warning from the next level. If they have received both the default and the next tier up, give them the tier above that. I.e. if they already have a Reminder template, give them a Warning template, and if they persist with their action, give them a Last Warning.
- If the user has not caused that particular problem before, but has accumulated numerous warnings for various other offenses, they can be issued a higher-level warning for this latest offense. I.e. if they have numerous Reminders, rather than give them another Reminder, give them a Warning, even if it was a minor offense - it becomes the straw that broke the camel's back.
- If you go to warn someone and find they have already been given a Last Warning for any issue, contact an admin, as that user most likely needs to be blocked for their latest misdemeanor.
- If it's the user's first time creating that particular problem, give them the default template. In general, minor issues get Reminders, while problematic behavior gets Warnings, and serious offenses get Last Warnings or even instant bans. See below for details and a list of what specific offenses get which template.
- Place the template on the user's talk page and include the specific offense in the template. If necessary, accompany the template with a paragraph detailing exactly what the users was doing wrong and maybe even how they can avoid the problem in the future. It is extremely important that you make it clear what the warning was for.
Alternatively, you may contact a Sysop and ask them to deal with the problem.
Anonymous users
Anonymous users (also referred to as anons), follow a different warning procedure. If an IP is seen committing a level one offense, instead of issuing progressive warning templates, they should receive an informal reminder on their talk page explaining what policies/guidelines they are infringing. If their behavior continues, alert an admin so they may be blocked for a short period of time (usually two weeks or so). If an IP address is seen vandalizing (like blanking pages or adding profanity to articles), rather than issuing a warning template, please alert an admin so they can be blocked (never indefinitely; a few months at the most).
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Here are some common reasons for warnings on the Lost Games Wiki. Offenses are organized by four levels and are given a fitting warning template for the initial offense. Reasons other than the ones listed below may be used depending on the situation. As explained in the Procedure, each time the offense is repeated, the severity of the warning issued is increased to the next level.
An asterisk (*) marks offenses that can only be issued by administrators.
Level one offenses
Level one offenses are low level offenses and are given through the {{Reminder}} template. Infractions that deserve a Reminder template include:
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- Uploading unnecessary files, including duplicate images
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- Editing userpage too much in a short period of time
- Having a large ratio of userspace contributions compared to mainspace contributions
- Creating user subpages that are not for constructive purposes
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Level two offenses are mid level offenses and are given through the {{Warning}} template. Infractions that deserve a Warning template include:
- Making major changes without approval
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- Removing/altering other users' content (e.g. comments)
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- Participating in an edit war
- Antagonizing or otherwise engaging vandals in conversation (i.e. writing witty or emotional remarks in edit summaries, in logs, or directly on talk pages)
- Abusing warning privileges* (handing out undeserved warnings or joke warnings, including tampering with warning templates for informal usage)
- Removing a warning without an appeal
- Editing an archive without good reason
- Acting rude towards other users on a regular basis
- Failure to follow most policies
Level three offenses
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- Minor vandalism (like capitalizing all words, removing information for no reason, adding comments to an article, etc.)
- Impersonating another user
- Falsely claiming to be an admin
- Creating sockpuppets*
- Undermining admin authority*
- Flaming, spamming on user talk pages, and making disruptive comments towards other users
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- Major vandalism (like blanking pages, uploading inappropriate images, unprovoked flaming, etc.)
- Possessing an inappropriate username
- Creating sockpuppets during a temporary block (will extend the block the first time and become an infinite ban the second time)
- Creating an account for advertising purposes
- Creating an account just to make inflammatory comments
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If you see a user committing a level three or level four offense, notify an administrator immediately. Depending on the severity of the offense, repeated offenses may be escalated more than one level.
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by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (selected by Frank Cumbers)
Jesus was meek, and lowly in heart
Look at the portrait of Stephen and you will see this text [Matthew 5:5] illustrated. Look at it in the case of Paul, that mighty man of God. Consider what he suffered at the hands of these different churches and at the hands of his own countrymen and various other people. As you read his letters you will see this quality of meekness coming out, and especially as he writes to the members of the church at Corinth who had been saying such unkind and disparaging things about him. It is again a wonderful example of meekness. But of course we must come to the supreme example, and stand and look at our Lord Himself. 'Come unto me', He said, 'all ye that labour ... and I will give you rest... I am meek and lowly in heart.' You see it in the whole of His life. You see it in His reaction to other people, you see it especially in the way He suffered persecution and scorn, sarcasm and derision. Rightly was it said of Him, 'A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench'. His attitude towards His enemies, but perhaps still more His utter submission to His Father, show His meekness. He said, 'The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself, and 'the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works'. Look at Him in the Garden of Gethsemane. Look at the portrait of Him which we find in Philippians 2 where Paul tells us that He did not regard His equality with God as a prerogative at which to clutch or something to hold on to at all costs. No, He decided to five as a Man, and He did. He humbled Himself, became as a servant and even went to the death on the cross. That is meekness; that is lowliness; that is true humility; that is the quality which He himself is teaching at this point.
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, i, pp. 66–7
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The first day at a new school is always tough, especially when that school is thousands of miles away from home.
Author Brooke Hauser will conclude UW-Whitewater's fall 2012 Contemporary Issues Lecture Series Monday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. in the Young Auditorium with "The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens."
"This novel is a modern-day story of immigration and looks at how students assimilate into culture," said Susan Johnson, chair of the Political Science Department. "As we're all children of immigrants, each and every one of us can connect to this story."
Hauser has written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Miami Herald, among other publications. "The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens" is her first book. Recently, People magazine selected "The New Kids" as one of its "Great Reads," and Parade magazine chose it as a "Parade Pick."
In 2005, Hauser's interest in profiling characters not usually featured in the mainstream media led her to the city section of The New York Times. Since then, she has tried to dig deep and tread lightly in many different worlds, from New York's juvenile justice system to Harlem's spirited Baptist community.
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The Shackshattered our limited perceptions about God. Evewill destroy harmful misconceptions about ourselves. When a shipping container washes ashore on an island between our world and the next, John the Collector finds a young woman inside-broken, frozen, and barely alive. With the aid of Healers and Scholars, John oversees her recovery and soon discovers her genetic code connects her to every known human race. She is a girl of prophecy and no one can guess what her survival will mean. No one but Eve, Mother of the Living, who calls her "daughter," and invites her to witness the truth about her story-indeed, the truth about us all. Eve is a bold, unprecedented exploration of the Creation narrative, true to the original texts and centuries of scholarship-yet with breathtaking discoveries that challenge traditional misconceptions about who we are and how we're made. Eveopens a refreshing conversation about the equality of men and women within the context of our beginnings, helping us see each other as our Creator does-complete, unique, and not constrained to cultural rules or limitations.
Thoroughly researched and exquisitely written,Eveis a masterpiece that will inspire readers for generations to come.
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