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I can see a real advantage for Cisco's Videoscape in healthcare facilities, like doctor's offices, if the doctor is allowed to determine what content is played, and possibly develop his own content. I have a looping video that plays in my lobby, but the ability to add or update the content that plays on the screen would be valuable to patients as well as visitors. Anxious to learn more about this technology for my office. Thank you!

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The Fappening: iCloud users, beware!
- 05 September, 2014 05:44
The event dubbed by the internet as "the Fappening" is the largest celebrity nude photo leak in history. Although information is still emerging as to how, why and who is at fault, don't blame Apple for this latest security disaster. Celebrity nudes are not new; I am sure that everyone remembers the controversy surrounding Paris Hilton -- and Pamela Anderson before her. What makes this different is how these photos were taken. The celebrities involved were quick to respond to the news in a variety of intriguing ways, including the following tweet from Mary E. Winstead:
"To those of you looking at photos I took with my husband years ago in the privacy of our home, hope you feel great about yourselves."@M_E_Winstead
My personal favorite response to this ordeal came from Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, star of Big Bang Theory," who posted the following response from her Instagram account:
This response is my favorite because it doesn't shy away from the release, but rather hits it head on, blurring a photo that could have easily been part of the breach.
The implications of this data breach are far-reaching, and not just for celebrities. Mobile users store so much of their personal data online, and that's part of the problem. "Cloud" is a name created by marketing teams in order to rebrand "outsourcing." In reality, you are relinquishing your data to a location over which you have little control.
This data leak is not Apple's fault, however. Its systems were not compromised; rather, the users' passwords were cracked. Although celebrities didn't draw a line between the real criminal -- the hacker -- and Apple's iCloud service in this leak, the best step we can all take to prevent future occurrences is simply to create better passwords.
Kirsten Dunst was blunt in her tweet: Thank you iCloud (@kirstendunst)
The FBI is right in investigating this crime; it crosses state lines and, I would assume, international borders. Someone broke into a secured area, so the hacker believed to be behind this is no different than a bank robber or home burglar. Apple is also investigating the breach. "We take user privacy very seriously and are actively investigating this report," the company said in a statement. Apple also seems to be cooperating with the FBI.
The celebrities affected do not see any humor in the breach. Bloomberg quotes a spokesman for actress Jennifer Lawrence saying, "The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos."
What to do?
Make stronger passwords. For anyone who relies on "1234" or "password," this is the time to change it; these simple passwords are just not enough and are laughable in 2014. Stay away from your name or birthday, or those of loved ones. If you don't know how strong your password is you can always try this online password tool.
During the time I've spent dealing with people on tech-related issues, I've often come across the grave mistake of having an Excel spreadsheet entitled "Passwords" saved on a user's desktop, containing all of their log-in information to every online account. You can have the strongest password in the world, but if you have it saved on your desktop, you're setting yourself up for failure.
Want to do more? Disable your iCloud stream on your iPhone or iPad. Although this service is secure, it relies on the strength of your password. So if you have something you don't want people to see, as did the more than 100 celebrities affected by this breach, it's a good idea to disable your iCloud Stream, or any other picture syncing service to the Cloud that you've set up.
To turn off the Apple service on your iDevice, follow these steps: In Settings, tap on iCloud, then tap Photos, and switch everything off. Photos taken on the device will no longer be uploaded to iCloud.
If you decide to disable cloud synchronization, just make sure you have everything backed up locally on your computer.
Who's really to blame?
Well, the short answer is that it wasn't Apple's. The hacker thought to be behind the attack is known as OriginalGuy, and he has confessed to being responsible for the leak. This person is now on the run from the FBI, who I assume are on the chase already. But the problem here is cloud services. They are not safe enough, contrary to what marketing departments would have you believe. (Remember the cloud breaches in June affecting Google Drive and Dropbox?)
I sympathize with the celebrities. Of course, there are people who will say that they deserve it for taking nude photos, or simply for being in the public eye. But I would ask these people to imagine how they would feel if it were their daughter, mother, wife, sister, or even themselves. Because this happened to a lot of high-profile people at once, the breach received a lot of attention.
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Anthony leads Richmond to upset of No. 13 UMass
RICHMOND, Va. — Kendall Anthony hit his first two shots and thought he might be in for something special. He was right.
The 5-foot-8 guard hit his first four 3-point attempts, scored 21 points and picked up the slack when scoring leader Cedrick Lindsay was in foul trouble for Richmond, leading the Spiders to a 58-55 victory against No. 13 Massachusetts on Wednesday night.
"When I hit my first two shots, I got a lot of confidence," Anthony said after bettering his previous season-high of 19 points. "My confidence went up. I was feeling it a lot, I was in a rhythm and I was able to knock them down."
Anthony finished 8 of 14 from the field, and 4 for 6 from long range, and Lindsay made his mark when the Spiders needed it most, scoring six straight points midway through the second half and three critical free throws in the final 27 seconds.
Richmond (13-6, 3-1 Atlantic 10) won its third straight in league play, and ended UMass' six-game winning streak.
"My teammates did a great job of holding it down when I was on the bench," Lindsay said. The Spiders won their fifth game in the last six tries against ranked teams at home, and beat their highest ranked foe since No. 6 Georgia Tech in 1986.
Lindsay finished with 11 points, eight below his average, and Anthony's total was eight above his norm.
"When he's making those shots, they're really, really tough to beat," UMass coach Derek Kellogg said.
Especially when the Minutemen's star, Chaz Williams, isn't making his shots. The 5-9 Williams, who arrived averaging 16.3 points, had seven assists, but made only 2 of 11 shots and scored just eight points. He also had a shot blocked in the closing minutes by Alonzo Nelson-Adoda, and then missed a long 3-pointer in the closing seconds that would have tied it.
"I just thought it was good," Williams said of the shot. "I didn't make a 3 all game, but I was real confident in that one."
Anthony's last 3-pointer came with 3:45 to go, after the Minutemen had closed to within 52-48.
Sampson Carter had 15 points to lead UMass (16-2, 3-1). He made a 3-pointer with 2:26 to play, and when Cady Lalanne followed a Richmond miss with a dunk, the Minutemen were within 55-53 with 38.3 seconds to play.
But Lindsay made one of two free throws with 26.7 seconds to go, and after Williams had his driving layup attempt blocked by Nelson-Adoda, Trey Davis scored for the Minutemen with 11.3 seconds to play, making it a one-point game.
Richmond's Trey Davis then hit Lindsay with a long inbounds pass over Williams, who fouled him, sending Lindsay toppling over the advertising barrier under the basket. Lindsay then made both free throws, creating the final score.
Massachusetts had its winning streak end, but once again made it interesting.
Of its six previous victories in a row, four had come by five points or less, three after late rallies.
"I thought all day it was going to be a game that came down to the last two or three possessions," Kellogg said. ""I was just hoping that we could keep making the plays that we've been making. We just didn't do that tonight."
Richmond led 14-13 when two free throws by Derrick Williams sparked a 12-4 run for the Spiders. Lindsay followed with his only field goal of the half, and after Trey Davis and Williams scored for the Minutemen, Anthony scored eight straight on a three-point play, and jumper and a 3-pointer.


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Articles tagged "stand-up comedian"
Friday Reads: Father's Day
Father's Day is coming up this weekend! Here are two books for the dads (and dudes) in your life:
YOUR DAD STOLE MY RAKE: And Other Family Dilemmas by Tom Papa
It's hard being a person, especially in a family, and no one knows that better than stand-up comedian, family man, and A Prairie Home Companion head writer and performer, Tom Papa. "Lauded by fellow comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan, Papa will send readers into peals of laughter…. At times poignant, always tickling the funny bone, Papa's first book will brighten the most challenging days of toddler and teenagerhood." — Library Journal, starred review
Going to ALA Annual next week? Tom Papa will be there at the "The Laugh's On Us!"
In the Hot Seat: Matt Goldman on GONE TO DUST
Today we turn the spotlight on Matt Goldman, whose debut novel, GONE TO DUST, features an unusual crime—a murdered woman is found covered in dust from hundreds of vacuum cleaner bags, rendering DNA evidence useless.
Library Journal's Books for Dudes column called it, "hard-boiled awesomeness" and Booklist said, "Offer this one to aficionados of chilly Scandinavian noir and the new generation of Philip Marlowe fans."
Macmillan Library: Hi Matt, and thanks for joining us for a Q&A on the blog today! Before we talk about your debut mystery, GONE TO DUST, let's start with your credentials. You began your career as a stand-up comedian and are now a playwright and Emmy Award-winning television writer for Seinfeld, Ellen, and other shows. You must do so much writing for your day job, why write a novel?
Matt Goldman: I love writing and I'm a first-degree introvert. So much of television writing is done in a roomful of writers. Not the actual script writing (usually), but conceiving characters and stories. Much of the rewriting is also done in a group. Especially in comedy. TV writing and writers have taught me so much about character, story, pace, dialogue, and series construction, I wouldn't trade a minute of it. But for my personality, it's exhausting trying to track all those words in the air. I love the process of book writing—I find it energizing. And it's a chance to write my voice without concern for other writers, actors, studios, and networks.
ML: Was it harder or easier for you to write GONE TO DUST vs writing for TV? What are some of the major differences?
MG: Some of the differences I explained above. I guess I don't look at it as hard vs. easy. They have their tradeoffs by that measurement. It's a more whole and rewarding experience for me to write books. I'm a serial daydreamer. That serves me better as a novelist than it does in a room where I'm supposed to be paying attention.
ML: Did you have specific inspirations as you wrote GONE TO DUST? It's lighthearted, but has a very noir feel.
MG: I started reading the mystery/crime genre relatively recently. When I read Raymond Chandler, I saw how my voice could work in telling those kinds of stories. Chandler's voice and style are different from mine, and his skill far outweighs mine, but he did inspire me to sit down and give it a shot. readmoreremove


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New templates
Just a heads-up, if you're OK with them [1] [2] , please close the report :-) -- Karol 07:42, 14 December 2011 (EST)
- If we start applying them consistently in all the tables, probably adding a proper rule in Help:Style, then I'm ok with them, since coloring cells in tables is not very straightforward even with wiki syntax.
- Note their Chinese counterparts have been created too: Template:是 and Template:否. Since those templates' code is very flexible, I suggest replacing them with only 2 templates, Template:Y and Template:N, which would produce "Yes" and "No" by default, but whose first optional argument would allow them to display any other string, including translations, without the need to have localized versions of each template.
- Going even a bit further, since some tables use additional colors, we may base the templates' names on their color instead of their meaning, so that we would have Template:G, Template:R, Template:Y, Template:B, and if necessary also Template:P and Template:O (purple and orange, just to complete the secondary colors). These templates should require the first argument, but I think they would be easy to use anyway, for sure much easier than the current | style="color:...." | blabla.
- Waiting for opinions. -- Kynikos 09:19, 15 December 2011 (EST)
- This template group would also give us an excuse to delete The Status Table Series and related templates, since they have a too narrow field of application and practically just create nested tables in the end, thus giving almost no real advantage. -- Kynikos 13:13, 24 December 2011 (EST)
- I support this idea. Similar to the Template:Box COLOUR templates, a series of table cell coloured templates would ensure consistency across articles. -- pointone 16:46, 19 January 2012 (EST)
- So good :) However I don't consider this an urgent task, I'm linking this discussion from a new entry among my numerous template ideas in my todo list. Of course if you or someone else want to implement it, just go for it. Just reminding that the implementation should be accompanied by some related style rules.
- Also note that among my template-related ideas there's one about the Box COLOR series that seems to go in the opposite direction than the cell color templates, but I think that the colors for the Note, Warning and Tip templates should be reserved for them, and not be usable in other ways.
- -- Kynikos 06:47, 20 January 2012 (EST)
- I support this idea. Similar to the Template:Box COLOUR templates, a series of table cell coloured templates would ensure consistency across articles. -- pointone 16:46, 19 January 2012 (EST)
System recovery category
This edit adds some information to a category page, and it definitely doesn't belong there. I'm not sure what to do about it though. thestinger 17:06, 6 January 2012 (EST)
- I decided to move the information to General Troubleshooting but it needs some work. thestinger 17:11, 6 January 2012 (EST)
- Not a bad idea moving it there indeed. What about merging General Troubleshooting and Step By Step Debugging Guide now? And leave the merged article in Category:System administration only? -- Kynikos 07:29, 7 January 2012 (EST)
- I'm not sure if we should merge them. I think adding a merge tag to the articles (we should really have the "merge to" and "merge from" templates like Wikipedia) and getting some more input would be the way to go. thestinger 13:08, 8 January 2012 (EST)
- Ok, we can wait for more opinions :) Also this very report can be enough at the moment. I'm adding the Merge to/from idea to my todo list among the many others, of course if you want to implement it just go for it. -- Kynikos 09:02, 9 January 2012 (EST)
- I vote for merging both into a Troubleshooting or Debugging article. -- pointone 09:55, 4 April 2012 (EDT)
- My preferences: General Troubleshooting > Troubleshooting > Debugging > Step By Step Debugging Guide.
- (BTW, for casual readers, the merge to/from idea was discarded in another discussion).
- -- Kynikos 08:30, 5 April 2012 (EDT)
- Related forum thread. -- Kynikos 11:59, 7 April 2012 (EDT)
- I vote for merging both into a Troubleshooting or Debugging article. -- pointone 09:55, 4 April 2012 (EDT)
- Ok, we can wait for more opinions :) Also this very report can be enough at the moment. I'm adding the Merge to/from idea to my todo list among the many others, of course if you want to implement it just go for it. -- Kynikos 09:02, 9 January 2012 (EST)
- I'm not sure if we should merge them. I think adding a merge tag to the articles (we should really have the "merge to" and "merge from" templates like Wikipedia) and getting some more input would be the way to go. thestinger 13:08, 8 January 2012 (EST)
- Not a bad idea moving it there indeed. What about merging General Troubleshooting and Step By Step Debugging Guide now? And leave the merged article in Category:System administration only? -- Kynikos 07:29, 7 January 2012 (EST)
Java SE 6
A new page was created with instructions on Java 6, but it could be a lot simpler due to the existence of jre6AUR and jre6-compatAUR (is jre7-compatAUR needed too?). thestinger 00:43, 11 April 2012 (EDT)
- The author should probably be contacted, it's his first contribution, maybe he's just inexperienced? Alternatively he may have indeed some reasons not to use the AUR packages?
- In any case he edited also Java, so if we delete/modify the page we should take those modifications into account.
- -- Kynikos 08:06, 11 April 2012 (EDT)
Jumbo frames' "Real World Examples" section
Jumbo_Frames#Real_World_Examples <-- This section doesn't seem fitting on our wiki. This section just seems to be an advertisement for jumbo frames, and I think it should be removed. And I should also note that the methodology is a bit unreliable, in my opinion. To truly test just the difference that jumbo frames makes, one should make a RAM disk so hard disk performance is completely removed from the equation. And if we really want to sell people on switching to jumbo frames, I would rather we simply provide a one-liner plus a link to a technical white paper, IEEE conference paper, etc. Does anyone else agree? -- Jstjohn (talk) 21:59, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
- Well, I don't know if we can really consider that section as an advertisement, however it's true that benchmarking sections are not really Arch-specific, and would probably better fit a blog or some other kind of website, which could be linked from the article. A similar article is SSD Benchmarking, for example.
- On the other hand it looks like an original work and I would hesitate a bit before simply deleting it, maybe moving the "Using Jumbo Frames on Arch Linux" section more to the top could be a start. User:Graysky seems to have added that section in 2009, he may be interested in discussing also about the reliability of the methodology, but I would do that in Talk:Jumbo Frames (possibly adding e.g. Template:Accuracy to the article), since this talk page is more used for discussing recent changes reports :)
- -- Kynikos (talk) 15:26, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
- Another alternative would be moving it to a sub-page, and having a link to it somewhere in the article. thestinger (talk) 15:14, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
I just found this discussion. I do not feel that the examples I posted represent an advertisement in any way. They do represent a concrete example of leveraging the topic of the page on which they are written. They are a bit dated however. I agree with the RAM disk suggestion. If I get dome time over the weekend, I might update on more modern hardware under more controlled conditions.
Graysky (talk) 01:39, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Minimum supported kernel version
I've decided to report this edit here without adding a simple quick report first because I think this is quite urgent: what's the minimum kernel version we're supporting in the wiki? While it's true that linux is now at 3.4.3, linux-lts is for example still at 3.0.35, so I think in these cases we should use flexible wordings and examples so as to cover all the supported possibilities.
What do you think? -- Kynikos (talk) 10:58, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
- sorry, I didn't really think about LTS, so I agree that this edit can be undone (edit: also this doesn't really match with the rest of section which still talks about loading this module manually. Not sure what I was thinking there ;) ). On this particular page, the note I added earlier should do it for now, although a more flexible wording might indeed be better. 65kid (talk) 13:14, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
- Um, I've tried to improve the situation a little bit, however my intention was also to discuss in general if we should define a minimum supported kernel version for wiki articles (this discussion should probably be moved to Help talk:Style now). I think that linux-lts's version could be a good reference point, do we have other opinions? -- Kynikos (talk) 10:24, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
borderline spam/promotion
TuxLyn (contribs) has been adding links to a site they host. It appears that they have written the content though, so it's strange that they aren't contributing here but are instead linking to short snippets on their site.
However, it did seem like it was in good faith until I found a link to http://wiki.gotux.net/tutorials/software/aria2c on Aria2#Additional_Resources. The link resolves to a page with an advertisement ("Featured VPN Company"), so this really seems like a grab for page views.
Just something to keep an eye out for from now on. I've noticed similar stuff in the past too.
thestinger (talk) 05:19, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
- We seem to have no problem with directing people to e.g. Allan's blog but I didn't know about the aria2c link. -- Karol (talk) 06:52, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
- @karol: I don't think thestinger is criticising the fact that this user is linking to his wiki instead of posting the snippets directly here; I wouldn't mind either, provided the linked content is pertinent, useful and original (or at most modified respecting the original licence). Instead, I think he's using this fact to support the theory that TuxLyn is trying to attract users to his profit-making website (because of the ad), and IMVHO he may even be right, although I'm not accusing anybody of anything here, he may just be doing that to cover the expenses for the domain and the web space, which could even be considered legitimate.
- Maybe we should elaborate some policy for links to web pages with advertisements, although I don't think it would be easy, since we link to various websites that display ads (of any kind) besides wiki.gotux.net (distrowatch.com just to mention one, but more could be found with e.g. a search like this), and I don't know if we can just do without them (and how practical it would be to get rid of all the existing links and check that no more are added).
- -- Kynikos (talk) 14:46, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
- Linking to content published by individuals is fine, but it should add value to the articles. For example it wouldn't make sense to have a long tutorial on TCP/IP here when there are so many good resources to link to. However, most of the articles on the gotux wiki are just alternate versions of the content here, and they're out-of-reach when it comes to anyone else fixing inaccuracies and improving them.
- I do think this is a good faith attempt to improve documentation, but since 95% of their edits made here have been to add links to a certain site, it seems like a way to "protect" content from collaborative editing, while still reaching the ArchWiki audience.
- -- thestinger (talk) 06:55, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
- Since I don't think we'll be able to write general rules to define the usefulness of a linked page and the nature of ads it can/cannot display, we have to decide case by case. On the basis of your arguments, would you vote for the removal of all the links to wiki.gotux.net, only the aria2 one or none?
- In my view, <<"protect[ing]" content from collaborative editing, while still reaching the ArchWiki audience>>, even if proved/provable, can be a legitimate behaviour, if done in a non-spamming way as he seems to be doing and provided the linked website doesn't have a commercial purpose. Does wiki.gotux.net have a commercial purpose? In http://wiki.gotux.net/about he says no, and actually I don't think he's displaying more ads than many other websites/blogs around, so for the moment I'd leave the link(s) there.
- If we want to keep the situation under control for a while, here is also a quick link to all the links to *.gotux.net: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=*.gotux.net
- Another doubt I have, anyway, is whether he's allowed to display Arch's logo in http://wiki.gotux.net/tutorials/archlinux considering http://wiki.gotux.net/copyright and DeveloperWiki:TrademarkPolicy.
- -- Kynikos (talk) 14:38, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hehehehe, I wanted to post the same things: the links to *.gotux.net and the trademark issue. Good to see I was for once going the right way ;P
- Wrt the trademark issue, I'm afraid I don't understand neither GoTux' nor Arch Linux' policy so I can't say yay or nay. I want to ask for a general clarification on the trademark issue (and f.e. what http://www.archarm.org/ is), but I will open a separate report for that or ask on the ML or at firstname.lastname@example.com. -- Karol (talk) 15:19, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
- I think the question is not "Whether he make money by adding link?". The more precise question should be
- "Whether the information the site provide is valuable to ArchWiki ?" or
- Is the link worth reading by reader of the Arch Wiki page?
- If the answer is yes, I do no care how much money he get by providing valuable information to Arch users.
- But sadly, I quickly went through most of the pages on the site. None of them meet the question above. I found even such instructions which are greatly discouraged or even forbiden. So the gotux links should be removed to protect our users from wrong information. -- Fengchao (talk) 02:37, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
- I think the question is not "Whether he make money by adding link?". The more precise question should be
- Well, honestly if those links were removed I don't think I'd miss them, however we all use different criteria for judging the value of a linked page, mine are probably just slightly more permissive than yours :)
- I was also being carried away by my idea that if we link to a profit-making website, we are actually advertising it for free, but I recognise this is an exaggerated view of the situation, and more rationally I could even agree with you when you say that if somebody manages to make money by providing some kind of useful information, we shouldn't care too much.
- About the fontconfig-infinality page, it's not linked from any of our articles, so this poses a further question: if a website contains a page with incompatible (in general) information, should we remove any reference to that website? Again, I wouldn't be so strict, but it's still only my opinion. Not mentioning the fact that I don't think using pacman -U for installing downloaded precompiled packages can be considered a "discouraged" or "forbidden" action, if that's what you were referring to (even though those particular packages are just the precompiled versions of 3 PKGBUILDs in the AUR).
- -- Kynikos (talk) 15:02, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- I agree with most of your point. To keep focus of this discussion, check the link case by case:
- Remove http://wiki.gotux.net/tutorials/software/aria2c on Aria2#Additional_Resources. The page do not contain more information than our page.
- Remove both http://wiki.gotux.net/archlinux and "Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff" in Getting Involved#Community projects. When I first read the page long time ago, I wonder why the link is here. For Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff, if he is a TU then link in TU page is enough. The do not fit into "Community projects".
- Please add any other links that should be removed. -- Fengchao (talk) 01:56, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- Well, I don't support neither of the deletions:
- The page does contain an aria2.conf example while our article does not, in fact the http://rapidshare.com/files/12345678/aria2.example.rar link is broken.
- Getting Involved#Community projects starts with "Arch's community maintains many projects. Feel free to include yours!", so if we remove those links we have to replace that statement with a definition of a pertinent link; I think Arch's community is also you, me, Xyne, TuxLyn and many other people using and contributing to Arch, so I think those links do suit the "Community projects" section.
- Since I recognise I could be in the minority here, I'll start some polls, otherwise this discussion will last forever :)
- -- Kynikos (talk) 16:37, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- Well, I did not means they do not contribute. I just do not think the wiki is "a Project". I check xyne's site again and find the projects page. The link in Getting Involved#Community projects is update to the project page. So it can stay there.
- The problem of http://wiki.gotux.net is: Most of the information is duplication of Arch Wiki page, with just a little small improvement there. Currently, there is discussion in , thestinger and me are try to convince him to contribute to Arch Wiki instead of maintain a seperate wiki site. We can wait for some time for the result. -- Fengchao (talk) 02:46, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- Also TuxLyn's link in Getting Involved should be updated, but I'm not doing it because I guess you two are waiting for TuxLyn himself to fix it, right? Let's see what happens then ;) -- Kynikos (talk) 13:05, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- Well, I don't support neither of the deletions:
- I agree with most of your point. To keep focus of this discussion, check the link case by case:
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No -- ~~~~. Post comments to the discussion above (not required for voting), add more polls on this topic if you like.
Remove the aria2 link?
No -- Kynikos (talk) 16:37, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Reformating section links to hide the anchor symbol
According to Help:Editing#Links_to_sections_of_a_document, we shouldn't do that, but Pierre did. Or is the guideline referring only to linking to a section within the same page? -- Karol (talk) 10:23, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
- I think there's no benefit in keeping the # symbol in cross-page links, so I've modified the recommendation: [3]; this implies [4].
- Is everybody ok with this change?
- -- Kynikos (talk) 15:15, 11 October 2012 (UTC)


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China watched this month as the nation's first lunar rover rolled across the moon's surface.
It was a moment of national pride when images of the six-wheel rover, dubbed Jade Rabbit, were transmitted live back to Earth, showing the red and gold Chinese flag on the moon for the first time.
"Now as Jade Rabbit has made its touchdown on the moon surface," the state-run Xinhua news agency said, "the whole world again marvels at China's remarkable space capabilities."
The lunar triumph offered many Americans their first glimpse at an unfolding new space race involving countries with emerging economies. Space exploration, once the exclusive domain of the world's superpowers, is now being undertaken by dozens of nations aiming to show the world their technological prowess.
Although these countries are still decades behind the United States in space technology, their push into the cosmos comes at a time when NASA has been wrestling with budgetary restraints and struggling to achieve new milestones in space flight.
It prompted Buzz Aldrin, the former astronaut now from Los Angeles and the second man to walk on the moon, to say in an interview that U.S. government officials lack leadership in space exploration.
"They are ignoring the achievements of what we risked our lives for," he said. NASA's funding "is totally inadequate for an endeavor that brings so much inspiration to the American people and educating the next generation."
The U.S. must stay at the forefront of space exploration by helping all countries, including China, advance their programs, he said. An existing law prohibits NASA from working with China, but Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.), the fiercest opponent of international cooperation with the country, announced his retirement this month.
"A number of nations have evolved their capabilities to put humans into space and beyond Earth," Aldrin said. "We should help contribute to their exploration."
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In a study published this year, the Congressional Budget Office proposed cutting human spaceflight altogether. According to estimates, the move would save NASA $73 billion from 2015 to 2023.
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But that plan has failed to gain widespread support, reflecting serious concerns about billions of federal dollars needed to accomplish such a feat and the lack of detail about the most difficult aspects of the mission. The total cost of the program and which asteroid NASA would visit remain unknown.
In a statement, NASA said it welcomes "all countries' peaceful exploration of space, and looks forward to China's public release of the scientific results from the Chang'e 3 mission to the moon."
Gregory Kulacki, a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists who is based in Beijing, said the country is following an agenda that was laid out in the mid-1980s after the chaos of the Cultural Revolution subsided.
"They have very clear goals and a very clear agenda," he said. "The Chinese aren't racing anyone toward achieving those goals. Rather, they would like to be recognized for their contributions to space exploration."
In 2003, China became the third country to send a human into space. The country has already launched 10 astronauts — or "taikonauts" — into outer space and has a test lab in orbit. It hopes to open its own space station in 2020 — the same year that the International Space Station is scheduled to shut down and de-orbit.
The Chinese government is building a 3,000-acre space center on Hainan Island in the South China Sea that will be capable of handling a new, more-powerful line of rockets. When the facility is finished, it will be the country's fourth launch facility.
On Saturday, China became only the third nation to "soft land" on the lunar surface. The other two? The U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Frank Slazer of the Aerospace Industries Assn. trade group, said he expects that many of the exciting things in U.S. spaceflight will be done by private "new" space companies such as Hawthorne rocket maker Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, and British billionaire Richard Branson's space tourism venture Virgin Galactic.
The government has done a good job of helping these firms along but needs to spend more in order to further push technological boundaries and inspire a generation of youth to pursue careers in science and technology, Slazer said.
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Warren County Citizens for Good Jobs and community leaders turned over more than 3,300 signatures to the Warren County Auditor to get a referendum on the ballot for May 7.
The group told KCCI's Cynthia Fodor that they're proud of the effort to get several thousand signatures on the streets, in stores and in homes -- a significant accomplishment in a county of 50,000 people.
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Here's something cool. We were flipping through ESPN 25: 25 Mind-Bending, Eye-Popping, Culture Morphing Years of Highlights, a 2004 book published by Disney. Tucked away inside Chapter 5? A taxonomy of ESPN highlights—what author Charles Hirschberg refers to as the "seminal 17."
The list was created in the early '90s by former ESPN highlights coordinator Dan Steir (he recently left Bristol to take a fancy job with NBC Sports). Steir's list was a manual of sorts for ESPN employees, created right around the time that SportsCenter was re-inventing the sports highlight. As late as 2004, this list was still popping up in ESPN training seminars. An ESPN spokesman says the list isn't handed out anymore, but as you'll see it's such a part of the show's DNA now that a formalized taxonomy is no longer necessary. "A good 90 percent of highlights on ESPN fall into one of these categories," Hirschberg wrote in '04.
Here are the 17 types of highlights as defined by ESPN:
1. The "Who Won?" Highlight
A straight-up chronological walk through a game.
2. The Epic Highlight
The highlight begins near the climax of the game. And just as you're about to get to the juicy stuff, the big play, the highlight pauses to tease out some backstory.
3. The "Hail, Conquering Hero!" Highlight
Focuses on one star and stays with his performance.
4. The Blowout Highlight
Obvious enough, but with a special emphasis on making the winner's accomplishments seem amazing and the loser's futility seem so much worse.
5. The "Just Put a Gun to His Head and Put Him Out of His Misery" Highlight
Did someone choke really bad? Did John Starks just go 2-for-18 in Game 7 of the NBA Finals? This highlight is dedicated to that guy.
6. The "Put a Gun to ALL of Their Heads and Put Them ALL Out of Their Misery Highlight"
Same as above, but pluralized.
7. The Defense Wins Highlight
You get the idea.
8. The Offense Rules Highlight
Same as above.
9. The Clash of the Titans Highlight
Highlight with an almost exclusive emphasis on the two big stars. Manning vs. Brady, LeBron vs. Kobe, etc.
10. The Turning Point Highlight
11. The Single Series Highlight
Did one drive or one inning change the whole game? Then that's the highlight.
12. The Blue Collar Highlight
Did someone make an incredible block? Was there a great relay throw to the cutoff man? This highlight package is dedicated to the little things.
13. The Cutaway Highlight
This has long been ESPN's trademark highlight. If the game is godawful, you focus on something else: fans, fighting mascots, whatever.
14. The "Do You See a Trend Here?" Highlight
This is every-curveball-induced-a-grounder-to-the-left-side sort of stuff.
15. The Game Plan Highlight
Was there a strategy going in that totally worked or backfired? Analysis strictly on that.
16. The Controversy Highlight
A highlight package that centers around the one play in question.
17. The History Highlight
Reserved for records or milestones. Break out the archival footage, with the new stuff mixed in.


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Last year's Woman Architect of the Year Alison Brooks talks about what it meant to win the award
It has been quite a year for Alison Brooks, founder of Alison Brooks Architects (ABA), who won last year's AJ Woman Architect of the Year award, followed by a place on the six-strong RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist for her 84-unit housing development, Newhall Be.
'Peer review is the toughest test for any architect,' says Brooks on receiving the honour at the awards luncheon at the Langham Hotel. 'It was wonderful to see and hear that level of support.'
Brooks says she believes the AJ Women in Architecture awards encourage younger women to make their mark and have a voice. 'I can feel a major shift taking place and the AJ's campaign is definitely part of that,' she says.
The upshot of the publicity surrounding both prizes is that ABA is 'flooded with work', according to Brooks, whose practice doubled in size last year.
While it is undoubtedly gratifying to be recognised for one's work among peers, Brooks, who won the Stirling Prize in 2008 for her work on another high-density housing project, Accordia in Cambridge, wishes good design were celebrated more widely. 'I feel strongly that most buildings are in the public realm and affect the public realm and this should be talked about more,' she says, adding that, even when a major new housing development is reported in the national press, it is rare that the architect gets a mention.
Media focus on big buildings fails to paint a true picture of the profession
Brooks, who also champions the AJ's More Homes Better Homes campaign, adds that media focus on big buildings with sound-bite names fails to paint a true picture of the profession. 'The perception is that we work mainly for wealthy clients on private projects,' she says.
That said, her own firm has firmly established its reputation as an architect of high-quality homes and is currently working on a raft of new housing schemes, including ongoing work with Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands to transform South Kilburn from an isolated estate into a desirable residential area; a 600-unit scheme in Barnet's Dollis Valley, now in its second phase; and phase 3 of Crest Nicholson's ambitious 2,000-unit scheme at Bath Riverside. Following a competition win and planning approval, ABA is also building a third quadrangle at Exeter College for Oxford University and there's more housing in the pipeline in Cambridge, a 130-unit scheme in Newmarket Road.
So ABA is buzzing, but Brooks insists any future growth at the practice will be carefully controlled. 'We're not interested in expanding to 50 people for the sake of it or taking on every project that comes. It's more about winning work on bigger projects of the same quality and consideration as some of the smaller projects we have worked on in the past,' she says.
Competitions and small projects allow you to create a portfolio demonstrating ambition and skill
For women starting out in practice now, Brooks advocates entering competitions as a way of honing their skills. She says: 'If you can combine competitions with those small residential projects that keep you alive, you will be able to create a portfolio that demonstrates ambition, skill and understanding.'
She also recommends that emerging architects work as part of a collaborative team, hooking up with bigger practices to expand their portfolios.
It was such collaboration that led to the 2008 Stirling Prize for Accordia - on which she worked with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Maccreanor Lavington.
'Collaborative working is a serious conduit for a growing practice,' says Brooks. 'It allows you to establish good relationships, get your work out there and become visible in the architectural process.'
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Imagine a surgeon operating on you without X-rays, MRIs or data, while operating room staff ignored directions and did their own thing.
That's similar to how your taxes and goals are managed in Beaufort County. A small autocratic elite operates with their own agendas, acting as if they are unanswerable to anyone. Their methods and results would not be tolerated in a real business. While claiming transparency, they work to undermine it.
This can only happen if you let it. We are rapidly approaching a tipping point where this could be changed.
County Council incumbents from Districts 2, 6 and 11 will have to run for reelection in 2014. They are vulnerable due to their track records. Some reform steps lose by only a few votes. Even a few new people could shift the balance of power.
If you live in these districts, please consider running for office:
• District 2 (Beaufort, Lady's Island, Dataw Island, Fripp Island areas)
• District 6 (Sun City, Berkeley Hall, Eagle's Pointe, Oldfield areas)
• District 11 (Southern half of Hilton Head Island from Port Royal Plantation to Sea Pines)
Registration for new candidates will be open March 16-30.
Well-managed, open government needs your help. Please contact me for information. Help is available.
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As an entertainment reporter, Nancy O'Dell has traveled all over the globe covering more than her fair share of breaking news and Hollywood's hottest stories. And now the mom is ready to share her love of journalism with her new interactive storybook app called Little Ashby: Star Reporter.
Centered around a cute cub reporter Ashby (named after O'Dell's daughter) and her FUNtastic crew, each story follows the group of friends as they discover some of the greatest wonders of the world.
For example, Ashby's first assignment sends her and the gang to see Santa (and his elf publicist!) in search of what the holiday spirit is really about.
"Kids will learn where Alaska is, where the North Pole is, why it is dark there in the winter, what the Northern Lights are and so much more," O'Dell tells PEOPLE.
Each story also tries to teach compassion and good values to its e-readers. "In the story there is a Narwhal who tries to see Santa's premiere. He tells Ashby he can't see Santa because people are blocking him and snickering at him because of the way he looks," O'Dell says.
"Narwhal winds up saving the premiere and Santa delivers the message of how we are supposed to be kind and nice to everyone all year long."
While developing the app, O'Dell's daughter Ashby tested everything out and even made her own suggestions. "She was my reviewer basically! I ran everything by her … she had some great points!" says the proud mama. "I had her listen to various voices the characters would become and let her choose which ones she thought were the most fun."
The 5-year-old also suggested that they include real videos of animals that live in the Arctic for a more authentic feel.
Added bonus: A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Muscular Dystrophy Association in honor of their Goodwill Ambassador Bryson Foster, who voices Ashby's cameraman, Arty.
— Anya Leon


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Agnieszka Radwanska reaches Wimbledon final
WIMBLEDON, England – Steady backhands and forehands were all it took for Agnieszka Radwanska to reach her first Wimbledon final.
The third-seeded Pole won five straight games to take the first set, and held on after taking an early lead in the second to beat Angelique Kerber 6-3, 6-4 Thursday in the Wimbledon semifinals.
"This is a dream from when I was kid," the 23-year-old Radwanska said. "I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody's dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam."
Radwanska will face either four-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams or second-seeded Victoria Azarenka in Saturday's final. They were playing the second semifinal on Centre Court.
In the men's semifinals, defending champion Novak Djokovic will face six-time winner Roger Federer on Friday, while Andy Murray will take on Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Radwanska is the first Polish woman to reach a major final since 1939, when Jadwiga Jedrzejowska lost in the French Championships.
Playing on Centre Court, both Radwanska and Kerber started well but soon started to show their nerves.
Each held at love in their opening service games, but Kerber broke for a 2-1 lead when Radwanska's backhand drop shot went wide.
It was one of only six unforced errors for Radwanska.
"We both were a bit nervous in the beginning," Radwanska said. "Of course this is the semifinals, so you really want to try your best, but sometimes too much, and your hands a little bit shaking.
"After a couple of games, I just relaxed a little bit. I was really focusing on every point."
Following that stumble, Radwanska's consistency came through. She held to 3-2 and then won the next four games to take the set.
In the second set, Radwanska converted her third of three break points in the match to take a 3-2 lead and held the rest of the way.
Kerber finished with 26 winners, six more than Radwanska, but had 14 unforced errors.


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When the movie was advertised as the first movie where an actor essayed 10 roles, I wondered - no I hoped that - this gimmick wasn't the movie's only selling point. Why would one mention it so much? Ajith in Citizen did that mistake. An actor playing 10 roles is not why I would go and watch any movie. That's a bad reason to go watch a movie. The story that necessitates the 10 roles and one that binds those characters together in a single cogent screenplay would make the movie worth watching. Thats what I was expecting out of Dasavatharam. The connection, the essence that makes it all look sensible. MMKR was a movie magic because everything, the roles, the dialog and the story flow just made sense. In Dasavatharam nothing makes sense. When the movie started with "first time in the world where an actor is playing 10 roles" - I was taken aback at the cheap gimmick. Who in the world cares? Whats that claim going to fetch? The story does not require that there be 10 characters. Most of them cannot effectively influence the path of the vial. So - their infuence is contrived. In fact most of characters are plain idiotic. Bush does not influence it and Ranagaraja Nambi does not influence anything. I was predicting that Bush would influence the vial by not informing Indian Govt in advance about the impending Tsunami. Because in that context the tsunami was more beneficial than destructive. But the movie was so vague in this aspect that I lost interest.
Humor is probably the biggest casualty in this movie. the dialogs were boring, stupid and my god were they unfunny. Kamal haasan has given 'asattu' jokes new meaning. There were a few good to lame jokes that Balaram Naidu (spanned the spectrum from "Rao'oda Rao" - to - "speak 5 languages in telegu") cracked for the front benchers but pretty much every single dialog was a mess. If this is the best humor that Kamal Haasan can come up with then he should let Crazy Mohan or someone do the dialogs. There is no need to talk about the songs. They were all bad. Every single one of them. Himesh Reshamaiyya or whoever it is could have farted and that would have been better music. Because multiple Kamal Haasans fight each other, CGI is important. And since most of the movie is filled with such stunt sequences one would hope they better be good. They are not. There are strange close-ups, jarring slow-motions, and odd fast-forwards that look weird. The continuity is completely gone. And it is impossible to achieve some sort of acceptable continuity or fluency in the stunts given the constraints Kamal has set for himself. The least he could have done is try and lift a Perumal Kovil Utsavar and test if it can be lifted so lightly and thrown around like a barbie doll. With Kamal Haasan flying around and jumping buildings and cars like the way Rajinikanth used to do in the 80s - means that the stunt department gets zero marks. The Tsunami scene is over hyped. It looks ordinary. So lets not get into that. Among actors - Asin is plain irritating. I am pretty sure most of the viewers would have been happy if the Asin character had been shot dead midway.
The story is rather simple. I don't suppose anyone can spoil it. A biological weapon is on the loose and the scientist who invented it tries to protect it from being used by a terrorist organization. Christian Fletcher, an ex-CIA agent who represents the terrorist organization is the best of the 10 roles. While his accent is stylish and impeccable, he looks funny. I mean the make-up. Its pretty bad. But in this movie you have to take what you get. The problem with Kamal Haasan playing white male characters like Bush and this ex-CIA guy is that they don't look like real people. Remember the movie 'Mask'. In the last scene the villain puts on the Mask and takes a grotesque form. Kamal Haasan has a similar unshapely (and oddly large) face while essaying both these roles. Most times when Fletcher fell down or got beaten up, I wondered if the make-up would come off. Krishnaveni Patti and Balaram Naidu get joint second place. The Japanese guy was superfluous. The Dalit guy is ornamental. That Kalif Ullah character, especially his slow voice, was plain irritating apart from being unneccessary (he does not influence the path of the vial). Since I travelled the Chidamabaram -> Madras route extensively last summer, the route that the characters take was jarring. After a point I couldn't relate whether Avtar's sing's concert (the hospital etc) was in Pondi or Madras. The movie was in too much of a hurry to make it clear. If that is the case then it shouldn't have taken a partial dig at details. Kamal Haasan continues to get tangled in the language boundaries. He did a similar mistake in Hey Ram. He has Japanese girl , Kalif Ulla (who is not a native speaker), and even Bush speaking Thamizh. This actually reduces the movie into a mockery. The caste-based caricatures and the stereotypes that he makes is actually very immature. Several times I thought "che nee ivalavudhaana".
Screenplay is the third leg that breaks. The screenplay just wanders and drags for most part. The first Rangaraja Nambi part was a separate episode in the screenplay. Not exceptionally well connected to the main story in my opinion. After that disconnected bit, the story attempts to flow in a single thread the way MMKR flowed and the way Mumbai Express tried to flow. The problem is that the Nambi episode is very serious and high adrenalin stuff. That sets the tone of the movie. Balaram Naidu and a huge part of the movie is in a comical tone. The inconsistent tone is confusing for the viewer. Kamal Haasan tries to connect them using chaos theory. MMKR did that better. This movie has its moments, but there were quite a few 10 minute segments that just dragged. Dragged on and on and on. It was bloody boring. After a point one began to wonder what the hell was going one. There were so many scenes that were just unnecessarily there. And they had horrible dialogs. He could have edited out 1 hour from this movie and still made it look as good. In summary, Kamal Haasan fell for his own hype. His giant ego blinded him and probably made him believe that the 10-role novelty and his immature arguments about god and science would carry the movie. He ends the movie showing-off the hard work he put into this movie with a self-praise song. That won't help either. If you are throwing out nonsense, your name better be Rajinikanth. Otherwise it won't work. If he spoken to Rajinikanth and asked him what went wrong with Baba, Rajini would have told him that a movie would crack open and fail the moment you start pushing your personal agenda, belief and arguments. They start intruding into every aspect of the movie. Dasavatharam fails because Kamal Haasan bit more than anyone could ever chew. It is an egomaniac's fart. Don't go anywhere near it. It stinks.


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Well friends, no the kitchen is not yet done, but I'm hell bent on doing something with this here blog to resuscitate it before it is pronounced DOA.
Enter 30 days of creativity (or if you will #30daysofcreativity). Since I'm not about to lug my d700 with me everywhere I go, and since I haven't yet been able to get my hands on a Fuji X100 I've become quite accustomed to shooting every day images with my iPhone 4. Is it the best camera in the world? No, but it's convenient and ALWAYS at my side. And is taking pictures every day really "creative?" Again, no because I almost do everyday anyway. To amp up the challenge to myself I've decided to stick strictly to pictures looking downward. This is actually one of my favorite ways of composing, and I'd like to think doing one (or 10) shots a day of looking down will help me fine tune this process, and have fun in the meantime. I doubt I'll get around to posting a picture on the blog daily (though apparently, I CAN blog from my phone) but it's worth a shot!


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The new translation of the Roman Missal provides an opportunity for parishes and communities across England and Wales to deepen their understanding of the Mass. For Catholics the Mass is at the heart of our faith and the words we use and how we celebrate express and shape what we believe.
The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments have informed Bishops' Conferences that from henceforward St Joseph is to be inserte...Read more
The Bishops' Conference has decided that from Pentecost Sunday, 8 June 2014 only settings of the Ordinary of the Mass using the new translation are permitted...Read more
Here you will find some useful printable Order of Mass leaflets for the New Translation of the Roman Missal. Read more