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Most Americans support contraception insurance for all
A new survey finds most Americans back a federal mandate that businesses and faith-based non-profits offer employees insurance coverage for contraception, even if it conflicts with their beliefs.
Most Americans support the Obama administration health reform mandate that requires business owners and faith-based non-profits to offer insurance coverage of contraception for employees, even when doing so conflicts with their religious principles, according to a recent survey by LifeWay Research.
Dozens of groups and business owners are fighting the mandate in court, claiming that the Health and Human Services' Affordable Care Act requirement violates constitutional rights to religious freedom and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
But the Lifeway survey of 1,91 adults found:
-- 63% of American adults say businesses should be required to provide their employees with free contraception and birth control, even if it runs counter to the owners' religious principles.
-- 56% say nonprofits, such as schools, health facilities and charities should be required to provide the coverage,
-- 53% say Catholic and other religious schools, hospitals, and charities should be required to
"The religious freedom that the United States pioneered is not a freedom of belief, but a freedom to practice that faith," said Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research. "The American public appears unaware or unconcerned that some religious organizations and family businesses indicate fear of losing the freedom to practice their faith under the new healthcare regulations."
People in the survey may "overlook the fact that more than 90 percent of businesses with employees are family businesses. Recent lawsuits contend that the religious freedoms of these families conflict with healthcare choices desired by individuals," said Stetzer.
So far, rulings are mixed. Last month, a federal court ruled in favor of faith-based Tyndale House Publishers, which sought to halt enforcement of the mandate. But three days later, another court ruled against the evangelical owners of the Hobby Lobby retail store chain, which has a self-funded insurance plan. The company, now facing millions in fines, has appealed.
Hobby Lobby's suit specified an objection to "avortifacient contraception." But there are medical and legal disputes over which contraceptives prevent pregnancy and which abort a pregnancy underway. The LifeWay survey did not get specific about specific forms of contraception.
The survey shows women and young adults are most likely than men to "strongly agree" that all three organizational categories: businesses, nonprofits, and Catholic religious schools, hospitals and charities should provide the coverage.


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To understand this tidbit lesson, please make sure you have read and understood the two lessons on the mechanism for articulation of letters (lessons 14 and 15 from the top of the archive page), located in the tidbit archive section.
other than the three medd letters which have no vowels are produced by
collision (
) of the two components of
the articulating parts Voweled letters on the other hand are produced by
parting of the two components of the articulating parts
Letters of strength (
). The sound does not run at all when these letters are
articulated without a vowel (saakinah), the articulation point is completely
closed when a letter of this group is saakin.
There are eight letters in this group.
They are the letters in the phrase:
or as
stated in the Jazariyyah
, meaning its [letters of] strength are in the phrase .
Letters in Between. (
) These letters are
pronounced with sound running in between the characteristic of imprisonment
in the
and the running of sound in the
The letters of this group are five in number:
3. Letters of softness ( ) These letters have clear and obvious running of the sound when they are articulated without a vowel (saakinah). Examples are in the following three saakin letters that are in the category of : . Each of these three letters in the example should have a running of the sound, longer than saakin letters of the other two groups The letters of this group are all the letters remaining when taking out the letters of and .
The Qalqalah
letters of qalqalah are in the group
, these
letters are all in the
group of letters. If we attempt to
say one of these five qalqalah letters with a sukoon, we would find that the
articulation point closes completely, and that it causes an annoyance in the
articulation mechanism. This is
due to imprisonment of the sound behind the articulation point. When these
same five letters have vowels, we do not find this annoyance because voweled
letters are pronounced parting of the two components of the articulating
comparing the
voweled letters and non-voweled letters
this chart we can see that a qalqalah
letter is similar to a saakin
letter, in that there is no accompanying jaw and mouth movement with it.
On the other hand, it is unlike the saakin letter in that the qalqalah
is articulated by
The definition of qalqalah is as follows:
Its linguistic definition: shaking, disturbance
Its applied definition: Disturbance of the letter when it is in the state of being non-voweled until a strong accent is heard when it is articulated by parting of the two components of the articulating parts, not by collision, without accompanying it any opening of the mouth, or circling of the lips, or lowering of the jaw.
very important note: The qalqalah does not resemble
a fat-h or a dhammah
or a kasrah. It
does not follow the vowel of the preceding letter, nor the following letter.
the qalqalah letters have a shaddah
indicating merging of two of
the same letter (
the first letter of the shaddah (which is saakin) is then articulated by
collision, or
. For example:
If we are stopping on the first word in the previous example, the
of the word
pronounced by collision, or
, and the second
recited with a qalqalah. This
means that the qalqalah
is pronounced with
without any accompanying mouth and jaw movement.
the word
be the same as the
the word
Qalqalah is divided into two classes: The Lesser and Greater Qalqalah
Lesser Qalqalah
: This
occurs when the qalqalah
in is the middle of a word, or at the end of a word, and we are not
stopping on that word. In this case we say the qalqalah, and immediately
proceed to the next letter, or word. i.e.
Greater Qalqalah
: This
happens when the qalqalah is
the last letter of a word, and we are stopping on that word.
For example:
difference between the two divisions is that there is more of a ring to the greater
because we are stopping on it, than there is on the lesser qalqalah.


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by John Goralski
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It was just four years ago that Evan Tuttle struggled through a preseason interview making apologies for his team's lack of swimmers at a preseason practice. He boasted just 20 girls on his varsity roster as he begged and pleaded throughout the school for divers and warm bodies.
That might be biggest reason for Tuttle's wide grin as he welcomed a visitor to a preseason practice. The coach had to yell above the splashing of his team as they battled for elbow room in the pool.
Last year, the Lady Knights raised the bar with 11 girls at the Class LL qualifying meet. They raised eyebrows as two relays and one individual clawed their way into the finals, and they raised expectations for this fall when a junior qualified for the state open with a school record performance at the divisional meet.
It's not surprising that Tuttle threw down the gauntlet to his team in the preseason. Gone is the talk about moral victories. No longer will he consider his team a long-shot against the powerhouse squads on his schedule. Sure, they'll still be an underdog against some of the perennial powers, but Tuttle expects to give them a run for their money.
"I've always said that we will never underestimate an opponent, and I hope that nobody underestimates us," he said. "I think we're going to surprise a few people this year."
With almost 50 girls on his roster, Tuttle finally has the numbers to compete against anybody in a dual meet. He returns a good group of veterans and a strong class of newcomers expected to make an immediate impact in the lineup.
"I was never able to say that we have strength in numbers, but I can comfortably say that now," said Tuttle. "We have almost 20 freshmen and some other newcomers, and I think we can build them into veteran athletes to make those numbers work for us."
At the head of the class are senior co-captains Laurel Dean and Aly Baribault. Last season, Dean advanced into the Class LL finals in two events and set a school record in the 100 breaststroke (1:09.64) as she became the first individual in years to earn a qualifying time for the state open. Baribault set the pace for the 400 relay team as they clawed their way into the Class LL finals, and both anchored multiple events throughout the season as Southington battled to a 6-5-1 record.
"I looked at both of them as freshman, and I knew that they were going to be captains based on the work that they put in and the attitudes that they had. They were made for this position," Tuttle said. "If you ask them to run through a wall, they'll run through a wall. If you ask them to swim the 100 freestyle—which is a sprint—and then get back in the water to run the 500 freestyle, they'll be there. Anchor a relay? They'll be in there. They'll do anything for this team and anything to progress as athletes."
That's going to be the theme of this year's team: What can you do to contribute? There's no shortage of girls in any event, and that means that Southington will finally be able to give the powerhouse teams a tough challenge in every event—even the relays.
"In the past, we've had a really good A-relay, but we've had to come in first to balance off a second or third from a strong opponent," said Tuttle. "I can throw a really good A, B, or C-relay at some teams this year, and that's exciting."
That's a result of having talent in every race. Dean and Baribault will lead a solid core of sprinters. Joy Blanchet was a state-level performer as a junior last season, and freshman sprinter Marisa Matthews has preseason numbers that rival the upperclassmen.
Baribault will team with a pair of state-level swimmers to anchor the distance core. Junior Bailey Potter and sophomore Ally Schroeder have already proven themselves in the long races, and newcomer Kerry Buchanan adds some depth to the group.
"There are a number of other girls that I can work into any event, and that's new," said Tuttle. "We have a very strong upper class just like last year. Many of them are our strongest swimmers from last year, but what really has me excited is that we have a really strong freshman class to complement that strong senior group."
That carries into the odd strokes, too. Dean headlines the group as the program's top performer in the breaststroke, but Baribault and Bethany Greenlaw give Southington a three-headed attack. Potter returns as a top level backstroker, and she'll be pushed by Buchanan right from the start.
The biggest question at the start of the season will be how Southington handles the loss of two powerful contributors in the butterfly, but Schroeder and Baribault are ready to step in while freshmen Sam Sagnalla and Matthews will compete for the top spot.
"We're going to hear a lot of the same names in different events, but that's a testament to how strong these girls are," said Tuttle.
Even at diving, Southington should be able to stay competitive. Tia Jones returns for her third varsity season, and she'll lead a group of newcomers at the away meets.
"We have big expectations for Tia," said Tuttle. "We expect her to get into that state tournament, and we'll see how far she can go."
There will be plenty of chances to see how the Lady Knights measure up because Southington continues to compete in one of the toughest conferences in the state. The girls will open the season against non-conference rivals Plainville, Hartford co-op, and Bristol Eastern before diving into the CCC West schedule against teams like Hall, Conard, and Farmington.
How will they measure up? Tuttle can't wait to find out.
"Our biggest question mark is if we can rise up to our high expectations, but I have no doubt that we will," said the coach. "It's a new culture here in town. A successful season will put at least one relay and a couple of individuals into the state opens. It's our expectation to be there."
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Eleven months after the Little Horsethief Fire burned the back of Snow King, nature is rejuvenating itself.
Twice this summer I've been fortunate to ride with friends the newly improved West Game Creek trail that descends from the top of the mountain.
The first trip, back in early July, revealed a moonscape of burned-out trees and soot on the ground. Thanks to the efforts of the Forest Service and volunteers, the trail was in surprisingly good shape. Lupine and other wildflowers were blooming in places.
I returned last weekend to find fields of fireweed in the burned areas. Beyond the pink blossoms stood perfect stands of high grass. A hum was audible: bumble bees buzzing through the forest.
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ghuth necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 98 design presentati da 24 designer.
Mel's Angels
We are taking over an existing child care center. Yay!
We will be creating a soft, friendly, educational environment. Somewhere a mum can leave her child and know that they will be loved and looked after.
We will have a focus on the natural, organic things of life, not the bright and flashy.
We're Christian, which is something that will be at the core of what we do but which needs only subtle reference (probably to be led by the existence of "Angel" in the business name).
Although it's a business, we want a casual "extended family" appeal. Not too corporate.
Parents (mostly Mums) of children aged 0 to 5, also considering what mums _think_ appeals to kids (I don't think a 3 year old will care what the logo looks like!).
There's a great deal of cultural diversity (Sudanese, Afghani, Asian...) so the design must have broad appeal to mums of all description...
I've got some design skills, but it just takes me to long to get there - I need your expert designs and ideas. So although we still want your talent to shine, we'd rather end up with 50 great options than 10 slick designs that may or may not hit the mark.
|| Use ||
Signage, printed materials, website
|| Elements to work with ||
Wings and Halo (subtle - we're not the baseball team :)
Business name - Mel's Angels
Classic elements (square, circle, triangle)
... etc
|| Colors to work with ||
Preferred: Soft pink and blue (doesn't have to be baby blue&pink... you could warm them up or drop saturation)
Optional: yellow, deep purple. We don't want too many colors though.
Ideally the logo(type) can work on both light or dark backgrounds.
|| Vector, not Raster ||
We'd love a logo element that can stand by itself when required - simple enough to make a stamp or hole punch to mark the childrens artwork with.
Print file format preferred - .ai (CMYK)
Also acceptable - layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
|| Our Identity must be ||
Playful, Friendly, inviting
Professional but not slick, cold or corporate.
Soft and loving.
Clever and subtle, not "in your face".
|| Font ||
Nobody will use comic sans :)
If you do use a font, make sure it's not an expensive commercial one I'll be sued over. Please tell us the font name.
Maggiori informazioni su come funziona un contest di design o sui nostri servizi di design di logo.


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- 1 MythZoneMinder
MythZoneMinder is a plugin to interface to some of the features of ZoneMinder. You can use it to view a status window similar to the console window in ZM. Also there are screens to view live camera shots and replay recorded events. Other features may be added at a later time if there is sufficient interest.
Limitations of the Current Version
- Requires a small change to the ZoneMinder source code for the Live View to work.
- ZoneMinder must be running on the same machine as you are running the frontend.
- The plugin uses OpenGL to render the video frames so you must have a working OpenGL setup.
- The utilities provided by ZM are currently designed to be run by the web server user so in order for the plugin to use them requires configuring sudo to allow the mythtv user to run them as the apache user. More details on how to do that below.
You must already have a working ZoneMinder installation. The plugin has been tested with version 1.22.2 but 1.22.3 may also work but is untested. Currently ZM must be on the same machine that is running the frontend.
The current version of ZM requires a simple one line change to allow the plugin read access to its shared memory. The ZM author is aware of the limitation and future versions of ZM will allow the permissions on its shared memory to be set via a config setting.
All you need to do is change line 243 of zm_monitor.cpp from
shm_id = shmget( (config.shm_key&0xffffff00)|id, shm_size, IPC_CREAT|0700 );
shm_id = shmget( (config.shm_key&0xffffff00)|id, shm_size, IPC_CREAT|0755 );
and recompile and install ZM. If you don't want to do that and would like to test the plugin you could run mythfrontend as root which will allow it to read ZM's shared memory.
Install MythZoneMinder
The plugin doesn't require any additional dependencies to compile. As with all the plugins you should have compiled and installed MythTV before trying to compile it.
PLEASE NOTE: This plugin requires MythTV svn rxxxx or later from trunk and will NOT work with the fixes branch.
The source code is part of the mythplugins repository and all that is needed to install it is to grab the latest mythplugins source from svn trunk and run configure with
added as a parameter when running the configure script Then compile and install the plugins in the normal way.
Setting up sudo
The current version of ZM is setup to only allow the web server user (apache) to run the utilities provided by it. It is possible for other users to run them but they usually fail with permissions problems or return invalid results.
The plugin uses one of these utilities (zmdc.pl) to get the status for the main daemon and the monitors. In order to get this to work properly requires setting up sudo to allow the mythtv user to run zmdc.pl as the apache user.
Use visudo to add this line at the bottom of /etc/sudoers
mythtv aopen = (apache) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/zmdc.pl
where :-
- mythtv - is the user that runs the frontend
- aopen - is the host name of the frontend
- apache - is the user that runs the apache server
- /usr/bin/zmdc.pl - is the full path to the zmdc.pl utility installed by ZM
The ZM author is aware of this and it is hoped that the next version of ZM will allow the user and group that ZM uses to be configurable to allow us to add the mythtv user to the ZM user group.
Running The plugin
The first thing you should do is go to MythZoneMinder's settings page and make sure the settings there are correct for your system. Currently the only setting is to set where ZomeMinder keeps its zm.conf configuration file (usually /etc). All the other settings required are read from this config file.
The various screens are described below
The Console Screen
The console screen shows you if the main ZM daemon is running, the current date/time, what the cpu load is and what percentage of the drive used to store events has been used. Below that is a list of monitors/cameras, their current status and a count of how many events are stored for each monitor.
- UP/DOWN - moves the selected item in the list up down.
- ESCAPE - exit back to the menu.
The Live View Screen
The live screen shows live views from any available monitor. Currently there are views to show 1, 2 or 4 monitors simultaneously. Above each monitor view is the camera name and the current status eg idle, alert or alarm.
- INFO - switches from 1,2 or 4 camera views.
- 1 - cycles though each available monitor to be shown on the first view
- 2,3,4 - ditto for the second, third, and forth views if the current screen layout has one
- ESCAPE - return to the menu.
The Events Screen
The event screen shows a list of all stored events. You can filter the list to show events from just one monitor or all monitors. Events can be played of deleted as required.
- UP/DOWN - Move focus to the next/previous widget. When the camera list has focus they change the selected item in the list.
- LEFT/RIGHT - Move focus to the next/previous widget. When the camera 'selector' widget has focus they change the selected item.
- ESCAPE - return to the menu
The Event Player Screen
The event screen plays recorded events.
- UP/DOWN - Move focus to the next/previous widget.
- LEFT/RIGHT - When paused moves the the previous/next frame in the event.
- PAGEUP/PAGEDOWN - Move to the previous/next event.
- PAUSE - Toggles play pause on/off
- DELETE - Delete the current event and move to the next one in the list
- SWITCHASPECT - toggle full screen mode on/off
- ESCAPE - return to the events list screen.
Allow ZM to be running on a machine other that the frontend machine. This will have to wait for me to eventally get a dedicated BE machine setup in the loft.


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text: On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Jon Forrest wrote: > There are two philosophies on where a compute node's > OS and basic utilities should be located: > 1) On a local harddrive > 2) On a RAM disk > I'd like to start a discussion on the positives > and negatives of each approach. I'll throw out > a few. > > Both approaches require that a compute node "distribution" > be maintained on the frontend machine. In both cases > it's important to remember to make any changes to this > distribution rather than just using "pdsh" or "tentakel" > to dynamically modify a compute node. This is so that the > next time the compute node boots, it gets the uptodate > distribution. Ahhh, your first flawed assumption. You believe that the OS needs to be statically provisioned to the nodes. That is incorrect. A compute node only needs what it will actually be running - a kernel and device drivers that match the hardware - kernel support for non-hardware-specific features (e.g. ext3 FS) - a file system that presents a standard application environment (The configuration files that the libraries depend upon e.g. a few files in /etc/*, a /dev/* that matches the hardware, a few misc. directories) - the application executable and libraries it links against - application-specific file I/O environment (usually /tmp/ and a few data directories) You can detect the first and most of the second category at node boot time. The kernel is loaded into memory and kernel modules are immediately linked in, so there isn't any reason to keep them around as a file system. The third category does need to be a file system, but it's tiny and changes infrequently. It can easily provisioned, or even dynamically created, at node boot. The fourth category is an interesting one. You don't have to statically provision it at boot time, or mount a network file system. When you issue a process to a node, the system that accepts the process can check that it has the needed executable and libraries. Better, it can verify that it has the correct versions. And this is the best time to check, because we can ask the sending machine for a current copy if we don't have the correct version. By having a model for "execution correctness" we simultaneously eliminate one source of version skew and eliminate the need to pre-load executables and libraries that will be unused or updated before use. Plus we automatically have a way to handling newly added applications, libraries and utilities without rebooting compute nodes. > Assuming the actual OS image is the same in both cases, > #2 clearly requires more memory than #1. No, it can require substantially less. It only requires more if you assume the naive approach of building a giant RAMdisk with everything you might need. If you think of an alternative model where you are just caching the elements needed to do a job, the memory usage is less. Think of a compute node as part of a cluster, not a stand-alone machine. The only times that it is asked to do something new (boot, accept a new process) it's communicating with a fully installed, up-to-date master node. It has, at least temporarily, complete access to a reference install. It can take that opportunity to cache or load elements that doesn't have, or has an obsolete version of. There might be some dynamic elements needed later e.g. name service look-ups, but these should be much smaller than the initial provisioning and the correct/consistency model is inherently looser. > Long ago not installing a local harddrive saved a considerable > about of money but this isn't true anymore. Systems that need > to page (or swap) will require a harddrive anyway since paging > over the network isn't fast enough so very few compute nodes > will be running diskless. The hardware cost of a local hard drive wasn't really an issue. It has always been the least expensive I/O bandwidth available. The real cost is installing, updating and backing up the drive. If you design a cluster system that installs on a local disk, it's very difficult to adapt it to diskless blades. If you design a system that is as efficient without disks, it's trivial to optionally mount disks for caching, temporary files or application I/O. > Approach #2 requires much less time when a node is installed, > and a little less time when a node is booted. We've been able to start diskless compute nodes in <BIOS memory count> + <PXE 2 seconds> + 750 milliseconds (!) To be fair, that was on blades without disk controllers, and just Ethernet. Scanning for local disks, especially with a SCSI layer, can take many seconds. Once you detect a disk it takes a bunch of slow seeks to read the partition table and mount a modern file system (not EXT2). So trimming the system initialization time further isn't a priority until after the file system and IB init times are shortened. -- Donald Becker becker at scyld.com Penguin Computing / Scyld Software www.penguincomputing.com www.scyld.com Annapolis MD and San Francisco CA


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Local School Official – Counselors On Dealing With Connecticut School Tragedy [AUDIO]
Missoula School District One is sending out messages to teachers and parents regarding the tragic school shootings in Connecticut.
Regional Director Mark Thane says security at schools in Missoula is of the utmost importance, and that safely and evacuation drills are conducted at the schools on a regular basis. In the past few weeks, officials conducted such a drill at Russell Elementary, when students were taken to Big Sky High School to be picked up by their parents.
Thane advises parents to filter the media their children are exposed to this weekend, so they are spared from the horrific images that might be displayed. That interview with Mark Thane is below..
School District One Regional Director Mark Thane
Missoula County Sheriff's Department Chaplain Chuck Lee says it's important for parents to reassure their children that they are safe and protected. Lee says children's minds process information differently than adults, and care must be taken to protect them from images or conversations that might traumatize them.
Chaplain Chuck Lee
Counselor with the Tamarack Grief and Counseling Center Katherine McCleary-Hungerford says it's also very important to keep younger children from being affected by social media, which can sometimes put out premature or incorrect information, which can lead to fear and confusion in a child's mind. McCleary-Hungerford says to spend lots of time listening to children describe their feeling and fears and reassure them of their safety. She says it is also acceptable to say 'I don't know' , when the answer to a question is unknown. She says the most important thing this weekend is to keep your children close and let them know they are safe.
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Stop Location Design in Public Transportation Networks: Covering and Accessibility Objectives (2006)
In StopLoc we consider the location of new stops along the edges of an existing public transportation network. Examples of StopLoc include the location of bus stops along some given bus routes or of railway stations along the tracks in a railway system. In order to measure the ''convenience'' of the location decision for potential customers in given demand facilities, two objectives are proposed. In the first one, we give an upper bound on reaching a closest station from any of the demand facilities and minimize the number of stations. In the second objective, we fix the number of new stations and minimize the sum of the distances between demand facilities and stations. The resulting two problems CovStopLoc and AccessStopLoc are solved by a reduction to a classical set covering and a restricted location problem, respectively. We implement the general ideas in two different environments - the plane, where demand facilities are represented by coordinates and in networks, where they are nodes of a graph.
Selection of new projects is one of the major decision making activities in any company. Given a set of potential projects to invest, a subset which matches the company's strategy and internal resources best has to be selected. In this paper, we propose a multicriteria model for portfolio selection of projects, where we take into consideration that each of the potential projects has several - usually conflicting - values.
Using covering problems (CoP) combined with binary search is a well-known and successful solution approach for solving continuous center problems. In this paper, we show that this is also true for center hub location problems in networks. We introduce and compare various formulations for hub covering problems (HCoP) and analyse the feasibility polyhedron of the most promising one. Computational results using benchmark instances are presented. These results show that the new solution approach performs better in most examples.
Linear and integer programs are considered whose coefficient matrices can be partitioned into K consecutive ones matrices. Mimicking the special case of K=1 which is well-known to be equivalent to a network flow problem we show that these programs can be transformed to a generalized network flow problem which we call semi-simultaneous (se-sim) network flow problem. Feasibility conditions for se-sim flows are established and methods for finding initial feasible se-sim flows are derived. Optimal se-sim flows are characterized by a generalization of the negative cycle theorem for the minimum cost flow problem. The issue of improving a given flow is addressed both from a theoretical and practical point of view. The paper concludes with a summary and some suggestions for possible future work in this area.
Multileaf Collimators (MLC) consist of (currently 20-100) pairs of movable metal leaves which are used to block radiation in Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). The leaves modulate a uniform source of radiation to achieve given intensity profiles. The modulation process is modeled by the decomposition of a given non-negative integer matrix into a non-negative linear combination of matrices with the (strict) consecutive ones property.


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In the beginning, Kitchi-Manitou, creator of Earth, populated the lands with the Anishinabe. After these original peoples descended into conflict and war, Kitchi-Manitou flooded the lands in retribution. Nanaboozhoo was the sole survivor, along with a handful of animals. One of them was a muskrat. From their log ark, Nanaboozhoo sent the muskrat diving below the floodwaters. It returned with a pawful of earth, and from that the lands were re-created.
— Ojibway legend
I've written natural history columns for The Dispatch for a decade — more than 160 pieces on almost as many subjects — but never about the muskrat. Given its prominence in creation lore, an essay on the "earth diver" is overdue.
Although muskrats resemble beavers, they are only distant relatives of the much larger rodents. The muskrat is related to mice and voles, and is essentially a supersize aquatic vole.
A hefty muskrat might weigh 4 pounds; a big beaver can be 70 pounds. Beavers also have a horizontally flattened tail, while the muskrat's is laterally compressed, as if compacted in a vise.
Because muskrats are largely nocturnal, they aren't often seen. But their lodges are conspicuous. The large domes rise from the water like small islands and are mostly composed of vegetation. Beaver lodges look similar but are typically much larger and built of sticks and other woody material.
Muskrat lodges are well-built and watertight. The underwater entrances allow the animals to slip in and out unseen. Secret passages don't deter minks, and the ferocious weasels sometimes enter the lodge and slay the occupants.
The pelage of a muskrat is soft, sleek and water-repellant. Their furs are coveted by trappers, and current prices have soared to about $14 per pelt. Such prices spur more trapping, but muskrats remain abundant. Females usually have two annual litters averaging six kits each. During one three-month season, 10,191 muskrats were harvested in a 2,800-acre Lake Erie marsh.
Muskrats are an important cog in wetland ecology. They are prolific grazers of aquatic plants and help to keep marshes open and free of choking growth.
Semiopen marshes usually support greater animal diversity, including waterfowl. The lodges literally support ducks and geese, which sometimes nest atop the domes.
The muskrat plays a much larger role in nature than its lowly stature might suggest.
Naturalist Jim McCormac writes a column for The Dispatch on the first and third Sundays of the month. He also writes about nature at www.jimmccormac.blogspot.com.


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And you use it. It's what makes you, you! It's what makes you stand out and steal the room wherever you go.
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Someone bought me a gift account, anonymously, so I've come back around to see if maybe that person resurfaces and to find out why. I'm always drawn in by the mysterious, I suppose.
I came back for the same reason. I came to find that it was merely the website itself trying to draw old members back into paying subscriptions. Sorry to destroy the illusion that we are missed/loved.
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Today's tip is from Chef Pamela Lincoln from the blog Mama Spark's World.
Pam shared her trick for perfectly lining up the points on your half square triangles (HSTs). Her method prevents those "clipped" corners that can so ofter happen with HSTs.
Pam says…."A little bit of time spent pinning helps with not cutting off your points! If you have pressed your seams correctly as indicated in your pattern/recipe the seams should "nest" as shown below."
Line up your pieces and insert your pin…check to make sure that the pin is just at the point on each side of the intersection. Sew right up to the pin and then take it out.


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The Orioles held a photo shoot May 30 for their annual pet calendar to benefit the Baltimore Animal and Rescue Care Shelter. See the Orioles posing with their pets and some from BARCS. The 2014 calendars will go on sale at orioles.com later this season for $15. Last year's calendar proceeds, combined with other efforts supported by the Orioles, helped raise $50,000 for BARCS. (Click here to see last year's Orioles pet calendar photos.)
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Bayer CropScience will stop manufacturing Temik insecticide in 2014, will stop sales in 2016 and farmers must stop using the soil-applied insecticide by 2018, leaving cotton and peanut farmers at a loss on how to manage nematodes and early-season insects.
"This means pressure on scientists to see how to manage better while industry improves seed treatments or comes up with alternatives," says Megha Parajulee, Texas AgriLife entomologist at the Lubbock Research and Extension Center.
Terry wheeler, Texas AgriLife research plant pathologist at the Research and Extension Center says nematode control without Temik will be reduced by half.
"I don't see any new chemistry coming to replace Temik," Wheeler said. "We'll probably lose more products. We will have to learn to do with less control."
Fumigants expensive
She said cotton farmers may use fumigants but expense may be prohibitive. "Fumigation runs about $60 per acre, just for the product," she said. She said fumigants also may be pulled from the market.
"We have no substitute yet," Parajulee says. Seed treatments offer an option but they "don't last as long as Temik, maybe a week less. We get from two to three weeks of protection with seed treatments now; we get three to four weeks with Temik."
He's more concerned about thrips infestations than nematodes. "We expect significant stress for thrips control in cotton."
Temik may not be as widely used for thrips management in other cotton-producing areas, "but it is important in West Texas and we now produce 25 percent of the country's cotton in the High Plains. Loss of Temik will be crucial."
Farmers have used Temik at 3 to 3.5 pounds per acre to control thrips. "They may bump that up to 5 pounds for nematodes."
Nobel Laminack, Bayer CropScience sales representative, says Temik has been a valuable product for High Plains cotton farmers. "Ten years of data show a 100 pound to 110 pound yield increase with Temik," he says.
Options available
Parajulee says farmers have options, just none as effective as Temik. He says crop rotation and tillage management –switching to a reduced tillage system—are possibilities for improved thrips control in cotton.
"Tillage systems can have a significant effect on thrips," he says.
He also says time is on the side of farmers. "We have eight years until farmers can no longer use Temik," he says. "That gives the industry six to seven years to re-adjust, do more research and identify ways to get the same level of management for thrips."
He says Texas AgriLife cotton breeders and other researchers are looking for thrips tolerance, improved varieties and better seed treatments. "All those are possibilities."
In the meantime, he says the system "will have to reset. Our systems change over time."
Peanut effect
The situation may be even more critical in peanuts.
"Without Temik we may be in a world of hurt," said John Damicone, Oklahoma State University Extension plant pathologist, at a recent peanut field day at the Caddo Research Station in Fort Cobb. "We really don't have another nematicide for peanuts."
Damicone said farmers in Caddo County, a major peanut producing county, "rotate well. But they still use Temik on most of the acreage to control Northern Rootknot nematode."
He said Vydate might help but that several other nematicides once available "have been pulled. And now Temik will be gone."
The best option, he said, will be rotation, particularly with cotton."With two years out of peanuts and one in we shouldn't have to treat for nematodes," Damicone said. "Three years out of peanuts would be better but farmers should stay out for two years at a minimum."
Plant resistance likely will improve. Several cotton and two peanut varieties currently have nematode resistance but need tweaking. "The resistant cotton varieties are too loose for West Texas," Wheeler says. "We need research into resistant varieties that are adapted to this area."
COAN and NemaTAM (both Texas A&M peanut varieties) are resistant to some nematodes but not the Northern Rootknot that troubles Oklahoma and some New Mexico growers. "We don't have resistance for those," she said. "But for peanut and javanica nematodes we have pretty good resistance."
Damicone said Oklahoma peanut farmers had "pretty good resistance to the Northern Rootknot nematode at one time. But with variety crosses we lost that resistance. We have potential to breed for nematode resistance. In the meantime, losing Temik will be a problem."
Wheeler says Temik has been a highly effective in-furrow treatment for nematode control because it reduces the first generation of nematodes. "That's the most important generation."
Seed treatments
Seed treatments help but the insecticide applied to the seed doesn't offer the distribution farmers get with Temik applied in the furrow, Wheeler says.
Vydate may offer some in-season nematode control. "We can apply Vydate around pin head square but we don't get that first generation of nematodes," she says.
Wheeler says new chemistry being developed does not have the efficacy farmers will lose with Temik.
"Nematode control will be much harder without Temik."


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Dear teachers,
what does "light-centered" mean?
I found this adjective in the following excerpt:
"Their pattern of yellow-bordered, light-centered black diamonds makes them among the most strikingly adorned of all North American reptiles".
My guess is that it means "with a clear color at the center". Am I correct?
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Todd is director of engineering and telephony for RidgeRun. He can be contacted at [email protected].
Software development for embedded Linux requires cross-development tools, the Linux kernel, device drivers for the embedded device's I/O ports and peripherals, common libraries, and a means to load the software into the embedded device. Luckily, embedded Linux distributions generally include all the tools, kernel, drivers, libraries, and loaders you need for product development to take place.
But once these pieces are in place, the real work begins and you must ask yourself questions such as:
- How can I reduce the RAM and flash memory requirements?
- What tools can I find to help tune the system?
- What savings can I expect when tuning?
With questions such as these in mind, developers at RidgeRun (where I work) have come up with seven techniques to aid in the embedded Linux development process.
You need to decide on the appropriate kernel version before you touch the first line of code. For desktop PCs, picking the most recent release of the kernel is a safe choice. However, embedded devices may not need the latest features and the added bulk they bring. Picking a stable kernel that supports the capabilities critical to the embedded target is an easy way to reduce the memory footprint.
A good approach is to select a kernel distribution specifically tuned for embedded devices and tuned for the processor family you plan to use. For example, Linux distributions based on Clinux (http://www.uClinux.org/) are designed for processors that do not have memory management units (MMUs). In addition, developers have tuned Clinux to reduce the memory footprint. Table 1 shows the output of the size utility for two kernel versions (text, data, and bss are the size utility results). All of the numbers I present here are based on results obtained from an ARM9 cross-development environment.
Table 1 shows both the savings from using an older kernel targeted to the embedded space compared to a more recent one. Although the uninitialized data requirements of Clinux 2.0.38 are larger, it is likely that the Linux 2.4.0 file subsystem will dynamically allocate more memory than Clinux 2.0.38, so the total RAM memory requirements of Clinux 2.0.38 may still be smaller.
Configure Wisely
The Linux kernel is modularized in several different ways. All processor dependencies are isolated so the kernel can be built for use on one of several different processor families. Also, the Linux kernel supports feature inclusion/exclusion based upon selections via a configuration tool such as xconfig.
To configure the kernel, run the configuration tool several times, each time removing a feature. Rebuild the kernel after each run to see the changes in kernel size (again using the size utility). Finally, be sure to do a make clean and made dep between runs. Table 2 presents our results when using this technique. Carefully understanding the operating-system features needed in the embedded device and excluding all other features is the simplest method to reduce the Linux kernel memory footprint.
Shrinking the Target Device Filesystem Image
The phrase "kernel file subsystem" refers to the kernel code implementation that supports the filesystem functionality. On the other hand, the term "target device filesystem image" refers to the filesystem contents built for the target device. In typical configurations, the target device filesystem contains all executables and data except for the boot loader and the kernel itself. The boot loader, kernel, and target device filesystem components are stored in the device's flash memory.
When examining flash footprint reduction, the Linux filesystem plays a unique role that doesn't match historical approaches to embedded-device software. Historically, developers designed embedded-device software to control the device in a specific fixed manner. They statically linked the application software that provided the high-level functionality for the device with the operating-system kernel; ROM (or more recently, Flash) held the resulting single executable. After powering the device, the processor's reset vector pointed to the executable, causing the single executable to run. The software in most existing embedded devices has no concept of separate executables residing in a filesystem.
Embedded devices running Linux can use the notion of a filesystem in a powerful way to reduce the size of the flash footprint and reduce the amount of RAM required during execution. This approach works because Linux uses a demand paging scheme via the processor's memory management unit (MMU). In simplistic terms, demand paging loads only the first page of a program into memory and then transfers control to the program. As the program runs, it makes references outside the page or transfers control to code residing on a different page. In either case, a page fault occurs when the MMU detects that the page containing the requested information is not loaded. The kernel handles the exception by demand loading the appropriate page (and configuring the MMU data structures appropriately). The program can continue running even when the program is not entirely loaded into RAM.
With demand paging, each page that makes up the filesystem can be compressed as the target device filesystem image is created. When a page fault occurs, the demand paging exception handler locates the compressed page in the flash memory, decompresses the page into RAM, and then allows execution to continue as before. Using this approach eliminates the long wait for an entire program to decompress before execution begins and anything stored in the filesystem can be compressed. In Linux, CRAMFS supports this technology.
A master of the target device filesystem image traditionally is made on the development workstation. The mkcramfs tool compresses the master filesystem into a single compressed image on the workstation. The boot loader, compressed kernel, and compressed filesystem image are then transferred into the target device's flash memory. The boot loader starts executing on power-up, decompressing the kernel into RAM. Linux boots up and mounts the compressed filesystem. At each page fault, the appropriate page image is decompressed before being loaded into RAM. The amount of flash memory required is thus reduced.
To shrink the target device filesystem image, create the master version of the target device filesystem image on the development workstation in an fs directory. Use the du utility, as in Example 1(a), to measure the size of the target device filesystem image. Run mkcramfs and check the compressed filesystem image size, as in Example 1(b).
In short, using CRAMFS can provide a significant reduction in the amount of flash required to hold the target device filesystem image. Table 3 shows our savings.
Optimizing Executables
Several compiler optimization options are available. Optimization settings -O1 and -O2 optimize for performance and are used regularly. Less well known is -Os, which tells the compiler to optimize for size. -Os enables all other optimizations that typically do not increase code size. It also performs further optimizations designed to reduce code size.
To optimize executables, rebuild the kernel several times, each time changing the compiler optimization setting (in our experience, the Linux kernel did not build correctly if there was no optimization option). Run a "make clean" between rebuilds to ensure all files recompile using the new optimization setting. Table 4 shows our results.
Since the primary focus for Linux and associated technologies is the desktop and server space, the compiler developers have not put as much effort in compiling for minimum size. In addition, compiler defects tend to appear after activating lesser used features like "compile for minimum size." You need to weigh the tradeoff between the memory savings gained when compiling for minimize size compared to problems that may arise due to using less stable compiler options. Table 4 presents results using ARM9 cross-compilation. Compilers for other processor families may support a more effective "compile for minimum size" option.
Library Squeezing
Because of the nature of shared libraries, the functions in the library are included even when they may not be used by any of the applications. Some embedded devices ship with a fixed set of applications; new applications cannot be added. In these fixed capability devices, unused library functions increase the memory footprint without adding any value. Various library compression tools are available to build libraries containing only the functions and data structures required by the application set.
One such open-source tool is the Library Optimizer (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libraryopt/), which rebuilds shared libraries to contain only the object files needed to provide the functions and data structures required by executables and shared libraries in a given directory tree. It can be used to reduce filesystem image size for embedded systems.
For this example, I optimize a large shared library, libc Version 2.1.3 from the GNU glibc suite of libraries. During development, we use a version of the libc library that contains symbols used for debugging. A smaller version of the libc library can be created using the strip utility, which simply removes sections containing debugging symbol information. The stripped version still contains the full set of functions and data structures. The first two entries in Table 5 show the full libc library with and without symbols.
To determine the maximum libc optimization possible using tools such as Library Optimizer, I optimized the libc library to contain only those functions required to make the simplest.c program in Example 2(a) run.
Example 2(a) appears to be completely empty. However, you can interrogate the compiled version, a.out, to determine the list of unresolved externals; see Example 2(b). Even though simplest.c appears to be empty, the abort() and __libc_start_main() functions are required, as is the __iostdio_used data structure. Using Linux shared libraries requires an ELF shared library program interpreter library. The interpreter, ld-linux.so.2, uses functions in the libc library, so it must be included when optimizing libc.
To squeeze the library, run the Library Optimizer on the libc library on a filesystem that contains the complied version of simplest.c and ld-linux.so.2 to create an optimized libc library. For our results, the optimized library requires 173 separate object files. Generally, each file in the glibc source contains one function. Therefore, to completely resolve all externals required by simplest.c, ld-linux.so.2 and the functions/data structures used in the libc library require around 173 libc functions. These functions include most of the common filesystem functions (open, read, write, and so on), string functions (strcpy, strlen, and the like), and memory copy functions (memcpy, memset, and so on). These functions are required because every program has standard in, standard out, and standard error file handles, plus associated functions called by the related filesystem functions. The size of the minimum libc is also in Table 5.
For a real-world example, we put together an ARM9-based MP3 player and web browser using the Microwindows windowing environment. Library Optimizer was again run on this real-world configuration, with the results in Table 5.
If an embedded device supports software download capabilities, what happens if the shared libraries were optimized by removing functions not used by the base set of applications? There are several possibilities:
- Necessary functions are available. A new application can be run properly if the application limits the use of library functions to the reduced set supported in the optimized libraries. Using this approach requires careful understanding of which functions were discarded, and building and testing the new application in an environment containing libraries with a similar function set. Managing new application development to a nonstandard set of functions requires effort in areas that are not valued by the customer.
- Application builds missing functions into the application. The application can include the missing functions. This statically links the application to the missing functions. If another new application needs one of the missing functions, it will have to also statically link in the function even if another application has the same statically linked function. Flash memory is not utilized optimally when several new applications support the same statically linked functions. However, the inefficiency is typically small if the majority of the embedded devices are not enhanced or upgraded (which is a common scenario). This approach creates difficulties with managing and integrating the missing functions and may have licensing issues as well.
- Replace the functionally reduced C library. A simple approach is to include the full libc library as part of the new application download process. Using this approach appears to negate the advantage in not shipping the full libc library in the first place.
While my focus has been on removing unused libc library functions, this approach may be even more valuable removing functions from more specialized libraries. Any library with available source code can be optimized.
At first it appears that removing unused library functions required for just one application could be accomplished by statically linking the application to the library. Technically this is true. However, the code license, like LGPL, may have different requirements based on static versus dynamic linking.
Analyze Static Buffer and Array Sizes
The data and bss segments in software object files contain information about the statically allocated RAM requirements. The data segment contains the initial value for the variables and the bss segment indicates the size needed for the uninitialized variables. Examining the kernel object file makes it possible for you to identify the largest static allocations.
To analyze static buffer and array sizes, use Example 3 to display the list of data and bss segments with a size greater than or equal to 0x1000 (4096) bytes in the Linux 2.4 kernel. The command arm-linux-nm indicates the use of nm cross-development utility for the ARM processor. If the second column contains a "b" or "B," it is a bss segment. Likewise, if the second column contains a "d" or "D," it is a data segment. A lowercase segment indicator means the segment is local, and uppercase means the segment is global.
From Example 3, the largest statically allocated variables are the block driver, kernel error log buffer, and TTY subsystem. Searching the kernel header files uncovers where large static arrays are allocated. Since embedded device capabilities are typically much more limited than desktops or servers, most of these arrays can be made smaller without impacting operation; see Table 6. You can change the header files in Table 6 to lower the values used for static allocations. Again, rebuild the kernel after each source-code modification to see the changes in kernel size. Table 7 presents our results.
RAM requirements are significantly reduced by lowering the maximum number of peripherals supported. Since embedded devices have a known number of peripherals, setting the associated constants to the matching value reduces the RAM usage, thereby improving system performance and/or cost.
Analyzing Dynamic Memory Use
Linux kernel routines dynamically allocate memory from the page allocator, slab allocator, or the kernel memory allocator. You can reduce dynamic memory use by analyzing which routines call the various allocators and identifying routines consuming large amounts of dynamic memory. The largest kernel allocations are from the slab allocator.
The slab allocator manages pools of memory for specific purposes. When allocated memory is freed, the slab allocator keeps the memory associated with its pool. Only when the underlying page allocator runs low on memory does the slab allocator release free memory from the various pools. The time reduction for reallocating slab-managed memory is much faster than performing all the steps necessary for allocating from general memory. This approach is used because Linux developers noticed that the various subsystems freed memory only to later allocate memory for the same purpose.
To analyze dynamic memory usage, interrogate the current state of the slab allocator via the /proc/slabinfo pseudofile in Example 4 (smaller allocations not listed). Multiplying the cache entries in use (column 2) by the cache size (column 4) produces the memory consumed by the cache. The largest four caches are all associated with the filesystem and block drivers. The four caches are dentry_cache (28928), blkdev_requests (49152), inode_cache (62592), and buffer_head (799104).
The filesystem allocates many buffers to hold copies of the information on (or headed to) the mass storage device. Buffers hold copies of the directory structure (dentry). The internal data structure (inode) keeps track of where on the mass storage device files are stored. Using these buffers reduces the number of times information is read from the mass storage device, thus improving performance. For desktop or server environments, this performance improvement can be substantial.
For many embedded devices, reading and writing files is not done as frequently. Embedded devices typically use flash for mass storage, so reading information is typically faster than with a mechanical disk type storage device. Therefore, reducing buffer cache usage appears to be a simple change to reduce the RAM footprint. For embedded devices that do a minimum of writes to the filesystem, the performance with reduced buffer caches should not be impacted.
To analyze dynamic memory usage and test this theory, measure the various cache sizes as the amount of installed RAM changes. Table 8 summarizes our findings.
The kernel automatically adjusts the buffer sizes based on the installed RAM memory. As an embedded device under development is nearing completion, you can find additional gains by manually tuning the cache sizes.
Linux developers typically target the desktop and server environment. However, because of the modular kernel design, you can remove or trim unneeded features to meet simpler embedded device demands. Cross-development tools make Linux a viable option for many of the microprocessors used in embedded devices. Various utility tools, including the kernel configuration tool and the cross-development tools, support kernel configuration and analysis. The information provided by these tools can guide the developer to areas of greatest memory savings. Once tuned, you get all the advantages of Linux in an embedded device package.
A complete list of references can be found at http://www.ridgerun.com/more/.


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- 1 What's going on with {{Navbox}}?
- 2 Thanks and question
- 3 Change Username
- 4 Skin
- 5 Hello
- 6 Image Problem
- 7 The GTA Place Account
- 8 Cost
- 9 Reply
- 10 Greg
- 11 The Tom
- 12 Hi
- 13 Resignation
- 14 Couple things
- 15 "Mizu101" is an impersonator
- 16 Edit Request
- 17 New Users
- 18 RE: Blocking
- 19 Edit summaries
- 20 Avatar
- 21 McJeff
All templates linked there (like {{Vehicles}}, {{Weapons}}, {{Broker neighborhoods}}) show up with messed up template links (the "v • d • e" links on the upper left corner), yet that template hadn't been changed for months (Did a wiki software change cause this?). This needs to be looked into ASAP. - ZS 04:53, 15 August 2011 (BST)
- Looks better now. Saw the nifty revision UI too. Good work. - ZS 06:02, 15 August 2011 (BST)
- It looks like {{Navbox}} will still show a "Error: No name provided" line if it's displayed together with other navigation boxes though (Infernus#See also). - ZS 06:17, 15 August 2011 (BST)
Thanks and question
Thanks for making me trusted. However, a random notice, the list of trusted users doesn't seem very trustworthy. If I go to http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/Special:ListUsers/trusted , I only get a list of 5 people? I can't help but think there should be more people on that list. Amongst others, all the admins are missing from it. Not a huge thing and maybe it's just me but thought I'd ask you anyway. --Andreaz1 13:04, 17 August 2011 (BST)
Yeah, that explains everything. I had a look in the User Rights Log and couldn't understand why the list was missing people that seemingly should have been on it. Now I understand though, thanks! --Andreaz1 13:26, 17 August 2011 (BST)
Change Username
Hi Gboyers, can you change my username to Samsonius.--Mizu (talk) 00:07, 21 August 2011 (BST)
Hi Gboyers, I was wondering what kind of skin the Grand Theft Wiki has?--Mizu (talk) 00:46, 24 August 2011 (BST)
Earlier tonight, I made the catergory Category:LCPD, but when I added it to articles, only 1 of them showed up. Any way to fix this? Bacon777 11:48, 24 August 2011 (BST)
Image Problem
Hi Gboyers, do you know why the image type bmp. is illegal here?--Mizu (talk) 03:00, 27 August 2011 (BST)
- I've been having problems with my laptop, every images I saved ends up a .BMP, and how do I convert it into PNG/JPG/SVG?--Mizu (talk) 03:02, 29 August 2011 (BST)
The GTA Place Account
Hey GBoyers, My account on The GTA Place is MrLanceVanceDance.Also, feel free to talk to me via my talk page if theyou wish to discuss anything about the forum with me.Thanks.--MrLanceVanceDance 11:54, 27 August 2011 (BST)
Hey Gboyers, this sever you payed for, how much does it cost?--Mizu (talk) 04:38, 30 August 2011 (BST)
- I see, just curious, knowing the money I was trying to create a Wiki just like this one.--Mizu (talk) 04:48, 30 August 2011 (BST)
Those accounts were created in order for me to contact you when I accidently change the skin of the Grand Theft Wiki in my preference.--Mizu (talk) 05:06, 30 August 2011 (BST)
"In my opinion, their rules are rubbish and the staff are pretty awful", how are the rules of the GTA Wiki rubbish, we prefer to have a source for info that were not sure about, that makes sense, and the staff aren't awful at all. If you want a user like Greg then fine but I think you should do a little more research on him and why he was really blocked. The Tom 17:19, 30 August 2011 (BST)
The Tom
What is with him? Sticking his nose where it isn't wanted? I know we probably have a clash of personalities, but I can live with that, he scared someone's gonna bring him to task? Shouldn't be a moderator if that's his attitude, Gboyers thank you for your reply to me also, could you kindly tell The Tom to go and make love to himself and not put his nastiness where it's not wanted, him, Dan the Man 1983 and McJeff, they are like rats, I don't need them looking into me like I'm some sort of Ameba! It's internet bullying! Gregallz5
- Sorry force of habit, been on their site too long, I got it from them, I thought that their website was this one with a different name, didn't know that they copied and pasted it, wow they were intelligent init?! Gregallz
What's their page and what's it all about and what's the beef between this one and the other one? Gregallz5
- Could you kindly please tell The Tom that Maria Hickment and I share a flat with each other and have two lap tops so of course we're gonna have the same IP and not make me sound like someone with an altered ego! Gregallz5 22:46, 1 September 2011 (BST)
Yeah all I said was that I'm a book writer, I ghost wrote the last two Martina Cole books and the Keeping It Real book for Grace Dent's Diary of a Chav series, if it pleases or offends him, he'd just have to either A) get over it or B) not like that. Gregallz5 12:16, 2 September 2011 (BST)
Hey Gboyers. I probably should have introduced myself sooner, for obvious reasons... you probably know who I am, I'm a bureaucrat on the other GTAWikia. Talking to you and trying to come to some sort of understanding is something I've been meaning to do for a while but kept putting off because I know a lot of people here are angry at wikia and have a low opinion of the staff on my "imposter wiki".
First, much more so than when I started on that other wiki as an administrator, I understand and sympathize with your guys take on it. It's just that when your users make vandalism runs over on the other place, like User:Tommy-Vercetti did here it gets you into a fight mentality. I also think it's a little much to call all the staff over on the other place awful. WikisEditor was desysopped for the plagiarism and I've been strictly watching to make sure GTAWikia editors don't copy info from Grand Theft Wiki. as 4 the computance role u dnt have users over here whu writ liek this and get basic facts rong all tha tyme. I mean, I've seen you mention how much you hate that rule regularly, but we don't go around abusing it. In fact we've yet to block anyone for incompetence, it's just a safeguard against truly awful editors. Wikipedia itself sometimes bans editors due to competence, so it's not like it's a rule that we and only we have.
Anyway I came here today because of the way Gregallz5 has been causing trouble over here, thought I'd tell you the full story of what happened with him since he and Tom didn't. On the Gregallz5 account he got two warnings for incivility, then a three day block for calling someone a "stupid prick" in an edit summary. He immediately made a new account, GBTheWriter, and admitted it was him on its user page and "slagged off" the staff who blocked him, which I indefinitely blocked and extended the block on Gregallz5 to 2 weeks for block evasion. He then made a third account, TheRealLondonDeal doing the same thing he did on the second, which caused us to block Gregallz5 indefinitely. He made the Maria account, Tom asked for a checkuser from Wikia's staff and it came back positive, then it was blocked too.
So that's about it. You obviously don't have to agree with my opinions on running a wiki or my decision to edit the Wikia-hosted GTA Wiki, but I would ask you to please get my side on things before just writing me off as "awful". McJeff 21:27, 2 September 2011 (BST)
Hi Gboyers, I just thought I'd let you know that I've resigned as Bureaucrat of the GTA Wiki, I doubt you'll care too much but I thought I'd let you know just in case you needed to contact the GTA Wiki about something in the future. The Tom 23:57, 2 September 2011 (BST)
Couple things
First I made a page on GTA Wikia called GTA Wikia: Community split. I know you guys feel that the Wikia version is illegitimate and even illegal and so it's inadequate, but it's a long shot fairer than pretending nothing happened. I tried to represent your views as fairly and neutrally on that page as I could.
As for MrLanceVanceDance, he did leave two actual links to the Wikia website, on the talk pages of Bunnyjoke and Crescendospectredragon (the two recently desysopped users) apologizing for their alleged mistreatment and asking them to come over here. Bunnyjoke's debatable I suppose, the thought that C-dragon was mistreated is laughable since he never contributed and claimed it was because there was "nothing for him to do". However I disagree that not including a link makes what he did not spam, anyway. McJeff 20:12, 3 September 2011 (BST)
- Left you a response on my talk page since probably multiple people are going to want to participate in that conversation and switching pages to follow a long conversation can get confusing. McJeff 05:07, 4 September 2011 (BST)
"Mizu101" is an impersonator
Hey man I'm sorry to trouble you with more drama but this is kind of important I think.
The user "Mizu101" on this wiki is impersonating a "Mizu101" who is still active on Wikia, and the culprit behind it is a user who's been in a nearly two-years-long ongoing dispute with me (it all started because I blocked him on Bully Wiki after I caught him anonymously vandalizing my userpage there). His primary username on Wikia last time I checked is 4th Hale, he's also The Quiet Man, Seth Tomasino, Old West, Goodfellas90, and probably a few others. I didn't go into further detail here because 4th Hale does this to amuse himself and I try to deny trolls attention, but if you need the details on the situation I can give them to you. I've also already informed the real Mizu101 on Wikia. Jeff (talk this way) / (stalk this way) 05:37, 4 September 2011 (BST)
- I am not impersonating anyone, however since you brought up this trouble, I would like my username to be change.--Mizu (talk) 08:00, 4 September 2011 (BST)
- Hello. I am Mizu101 from Wikia. As in, this one. Jeff contacted me on Wikia about this, as he has said. This 4th Hale (I'd prefer not to call him Mizu101) is a person who previously contacted a Wikia staff member in order to get my account on Wikia. After he was able to do this, he began changing a lot of things. When I contacted the same Wikia staff member, he apologized and said he made a big mistake and he gave me my account back after about 3 days. 4th Hale later admitted via e-mail that he had hacked my account. I later told the sysop at Bully Fanon Wiki about this. 4th Hale was globally blocked from Wikia for approximately a month, then somehow got unblocked (I don't know how).
- Anyway, in our e-mail conversation, he said he really liked the username Mizu101. I just noticed yesterday that he had been using the username here and Wikipedia. I do have a problem with this. I do not care if he uses Mizu101 on other types of websites, but on wiki-based websites (such as this), people assume that a Mizu101 here is the same person as a Mizu101 on Wikia. And I would not like my reputation to be affected by 4th Hale. RealMizu101 14:33, 4 September 2011 (BST)
- Also, based on this, I don't hate Wikia, I am not an Athiest, I am not 16, I don't own a PS3, I don't use Internet Explorer, my favorite game is not Bully (though I do like it), and if he does actually follow the Grand Theft Wiki Rules, he would not have missed number 5 which says "No sock-puppetry or user impersonation". RealMizu101 14:44, 4 September 2011 (BST)
- And there's another person with the same username for goodness sake I am not impersonating anyone. as I said before since someone had just started this trouble and I am willing to have my username change.--Mizu (talk) 15:55, 4 September 2011 (BST)
- You need to learn to read other people's messages before posting your own. I said "I do not care if he uses Mizu101 on other types of websites..." Yeah, there is a Twitter account Mizu101 and a YouTube account Mizu101, neither which are me, but they are not wiki-based websites. RealMizu101 16:11, 4 September 2011 (BST)
- That doesn't make my message irrelevant. RealMizu101 17:27, 4 September 2011 (BST)
- Using Mizu's username may not necessarily be impersonation, but copying his avatar, signature, and even the "senior editor" banner he first posted on Bully Wiki a few years ago [1] is extremely bizarre. Of course, just about everything that 4th Hale has done over the last 2 years has been rather bizarre. Jeff (talk this way) / (stalk this way) 17:45, 4 September 2011 (BST)
- 1. He doesn't own that avatar, anyone can have it.
- 2. My sig is by far more different, in fact a user in Wikia had a similar situtation.
- 3. Yes everything I've done is bizzare.
- 4. I know you don't care on those other Mizu's on twitter and Youtube, however nobody owns a username--Mizu (talk) 18:02, 4 September 2011 (BST)
Okay guys, let's roll it back. The "real" Mizu101 (from Wikia) has never edited on GTW or GTAWiki, either before or after the move/split. This means that no contributions have been wrongly assigned to the "fake" Mizu101, who only registered here in July. Even though the "real" Mizu101 feels that they should be able to use their username on any wiki site, has has shown no intention to edit either GTW/GTAWiki, and as far as I am concerned, there has been no user impersonation.
- For the "fake" Mizu101 (registered on GTW, with various accounts on Wikia), yes I'm happy to change your username here, but I will only do this once. I have already warned you that you are not permitted to use any multiple accounts, so I hope never to see any. Of course any imersonation of other users is very serious, but I see no evidence of it on this site. (What happens on Wikia is nothing to do with us). That said, we do always have the right to remove you if we feel necessary, but I believe we are much fairer than at Wikia (not lenient, but fair). What would you like your account renaming to?
- For the "real" Mizu101 (registered on Wikia, but here is User:RealMizu101), I understand your position, but you've never edited on this wiki or the GTA Wiki, so although you possess the account on Wikia, you have no claim to it or any of the edits made by it here. The "fake" Mizu101 has agreed to change his username, so hopefully there will be no issues of 'impersonation' or 'copying' either. You're welcome to edit here, but I'd prefer it if nobody used the Mizu101 username, to avoid any confusion. I am not prepared to rename your account to Mizu101, as all of the edits made on this site under the Mizu101 name were made by the "fake" Mizu101, not you; and that would just make more confusion.
- Jeff - thanks for the heads-up, but just to point out that this site is not a subsidiary of Wikia, and users on Wikia are not automatically entitled to the same username here. The only exception is where they made edits before the split, which were then imported into GTW under their username, and it's important that those edits as shown as theirs (not an imposters). That does not apply in this situation as Mizu101 never made any edits.
If you have any questions, let me know, but this is NOT the place to discuss the Wikia site, usernames on Wikia, blocks on Wikia or actions by their staff. This is a place to write about GTA games, and anyone who is here solely to disrupt, isn't welcome. gboyers talk 18:20, 4 September 2011 (BST)
- I will not waste any more of your time then. I have no intention of editing here. I don't care if my username is changed, but I would prefer Mizu101 to not be used at all. RealMizu101 19:03, 4 September 2011 (BST)
- Can you merge this account with my other one User:4th hale, knowing you have the rights.--Mizu (talk) 04:10, 5 September 2011 (BST)
Edit Request
Hey Gboyers,I have noticed that some of the pages (like the Move from Wikia page) have errors or need to be updated, but I cannot edit it. I was wondering if you can please give the inspectors the right to edit all pages on this wiki, except for pages limited to managers and/or executive managers only. --MrLanceVanceDance 10:52, 7 September 2011 (BST)
New Users
Hey Gboyers, I have got a suggestion for you regarding the new users of Grand Theft Wiki. Every time a new user account is created, include the box containing the rules of Grand Theft Wiki on the welcome template that you put on every new user's talk page. That way, you can inform them of the rules before they break them. Thoughts?--MrLanceVanceDance 10:59, 7 September 2011 (BST)
RE: Blocking
I think the blocking system is fine the way it is. I asked that question because I didn't want Grand Theft Wiki to be a harsh wiki at blocking, like what Wikia's GTA Wiki has become. My suggestion is that we should use a three-strike policy against spammers and vandals. So that way, the vandals/spammers have a chance to redeem themselves and actually help our cause, rather than go against us. That will then give us a forgiving and accepting reputation. Also, another thing, are the spammers, by any chance, from the same IP adress or are they completely different people?--MrLanceVanceDance 13:47, 14 September 2011 (BST)
No, I think Grand Theft WIki's blocking policy is fine the way it is and I agree with what you have said. However, are the recent spammers, by any chance, from the same IP adress or are they completely different people?--MrLanceVanceDance 06:55, 16 September 2011 (BST)
Edit summaries
Hey, just wondering if you know why the Edit Summaries on the recent changes page has decided to go missing? I've looked through my preferences but I haven't found anything to make them come back. --Andreaz1 16:42, 16 September 2011 (BST)
They re-appeared again yesterday, massive thanks for the help. (Again...) :) I have to say I don't know many people who listen to and are active within their community as much as you are, huge, massive and all other appropriate adjectives praise for that, thanks! --Andreaz1 20:54, 21 September 2011 (BST)
Why I can't upload an avatar? When I try to, I get this error:
Warning: Missing argument 1 for SpecialUploadAvatar::loadRequest(), called in /home/gtw/public_html/includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php on line 177 and defined in /home/gtw/public_html/extensions/SocialProfile/UserProfile/SpecialUploadAvatar.php on line 35
Fatal error: Call to a member function getUpload() on a non-object in /home/gtw/public_html/includes/upload/UploadFromFile.php on line 21
TheReaperHoldsOurHearts 16:02, 17 September 2011 (BST)
Are you sure we can have him here, he basicly cyber bully anyone.--4th hale (talk) 02:53, 21 September 2011 (BST)
- Do keep this is mind that I don't seek out any trouble Gboyers!, since he reported my recent activities, I would like for you to know about his behaviour as so right here, that is all.--4th hale (talk) 19:36, 21 September 2011 (BST)
- At this point I have to suggest that it does not appear to me that 4th hale has any intentions of editing this wiki constructively. Although there are a few minor edits in his early history to article trivia sections, he hasn't done any editing besides user talk pages since the beginning of August. His interactions consisted of celebrating some vandalism that User:Tommy-Vercetti did over on wikia, dealing with the whole Mizu101 situation. And - after having been inactive for two weeks - coming straight out of the blue to try and start more trouble with me. And trying to get Gregallz5 started back up.
- Before you say it, I agree with you that people should be given a chance to start at a new wiki with a blank slate. And you're free to not care about or even not want to hear about his history on Wikia. But "trying to instigate a fight between two users and/or block-shopping on a user whom he has prior disagreement with" both sound like things that are against the rules here. Specifically, on Grand Theft Wiki:Behaviour, where it says that "hatred campaigns" are specifically not tolerated. Jeff (talk this way) / (stalk this way) 15:37, 22 September 2011 (BST)