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Signage is a mode of communicating a specific message to the viewer more so for promotional reasons. These messages are placed in areas which have maximum viewership such as street junctions or in the interiors or exterior areas of commercial centres or buildings. They can be in the form of billboards, banners, murals and also include smaller forms like street signs, lawn signs etc. In today's age of digitization there is greater tendency to use electronic or digital displays. Signage is to be differentiated from labeling which is being used mainly for the purposes of imparting useful information. Signage is not restricted to mere provision of information it has several other functional roles to play.
Persuading or swaying users towards a particular product or service by extolling the merits of the same or the company manufacturing it is one purpose. Indicating directions to certain facilities, services and functional areas through arrow signs or sign posts is another function. Identification signs, dynamic navigational signs or regulatory signs are some other examples of the purposes served by signage.

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text: At the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) in Salt Lake City, Utah, 13 different administrative law judges (ALJ) conduct Social Security Disability (SSD) hearings and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) hearings. Currently, in Salt Lake City, the average wait time for a SSI or SSD hearing is 16.0 months. The average case processing time in Salt Lake City is 561 days.The Salt Lake City average for winning a SSI or SSD disibility hearing is 43%. Click on the name of one of the ALJs below to see detailed information about their hearing results. This information for the Salt Lake City ODAR office was last updated on 6/11/2019.


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Certification Requirements
PHIS Implementation Letter to Foreign Countries
Below is the text of a letter sent to Foreign Countries from Dr. Ronald K. Jones; the original is available in PDF.
March 20, 2012
To: Foreign Country
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is implementing the import components of the Public Health Information System (PHIS), effective May 29, 2012. The PHIS is a web-based application that will replace the existing Automated Import Information System (AIIS). Many of the changes associated with this new system were outlined during the outreach sessions held in 2011 and are highlighted below.
The competent authority of the foreign inspection service will continue to be responsible for completing the certification of eligible establishments, as outlined in 9 CFR 327.2 and 381.196 (a)(3), as well as the certification of shipments of product to the United States, as outlined in 9 CFR 327.4 (a) and (b), 381.197, and 590.915. In the near future, FSIS will publish proposed revisions to the import regulations in the Federal Register that will include changes to the certification requirements and data required for certifying eligible foreign establishments and inspection certificates accompanying the shipments of product to the United States. One significant change is that the import component of the PHIS will provide for a government-to-government electronic transmission of the certificate data as an alternative to the paper certification, which will continue to be accepted by FSIS. In the first phase of implementation, electronic certification will be limited to two countries, Australia and New Zealand, both of which already have agreements in place for the use to electronic certificates. Other foreign governments interested in pursing electronic certification should contact the FSIS Office of International Affairs (OIA) for further guidance and requirements. Foreign countries exporting to the United States may still use paper inspection certificates.
Regardless of the format of the annual establishment certification, the following data elements will be required: foreign establishment's name and address, control number (e.g. establishment number) assigned by the foreign inspection system, type of operations conducted at the establishment (e.g. slaughter, processing, storage, or export certification), and eligibility status (e.g. new, listed as eligible the previous year, delisted, relisted (if previously delisted). Slaughter and processing establishments must identify the species and types of products produced in the establishment, as well as the process categories for products produced. The process categories include raw nonintact; raw - intact; thermally processed - commercially sterile; not heat treated - shelf stable; heat treated - shelf stable; fully cooked -not shelf stable; heat treated but not fully cooked - not shelf stable; and, products with secondary inhibitors - not shelf stable, and egg products.
Whether a paper or electronic certificate is used, each consignment of meat, poultry or egg products certified for export to the United States must be accompanied with an inspection certificate, prepared in English, and contain the following information:
- Name of country, the date the certificate is issued, and if applicable, the foreign establishment number where the certificate was issued
- Name and foreign establishment number that produced the product
- Species used to produce the product and the source country, establishment number, if the source of the meat, poultry, or egg products originate from a country other than the exporting country
- Name and address of exporter or consignor
- Name and address of importer or consignee
- Number of units
- Net weight for each lot
- Shipping or identification mark on units
- The product's description, including the product's process category, product category, product group (see Attachment 1)
- Production dates, when applicable
- Name (including signature) and title of person authorized to issue inspection certificates for products exported to the United States (paper certificates only).
FSIS no longer prescribes the specific statements that are to appear on the foreign inspection certificates, though the competent authority must certify that any product described on the official certificate was produced in accordance with the regulatory requirements in 9 CFR 327.2 (meat), 9 CFR 381.196 197 (poultry) or 9 CFR 590.910 (egg products). Further, FSIS no longer requires the certificate to be printed in the language of the foreign country of origin, though foreign countries have the option to include this.
FSIS has previously allowed foreign countries to guarantee the replacement of the foreign inspection certificate, which would allow continuation of FSIS reinspection pending the arrival of the certificate within 30 days of the guarantee. FSIS will discontinue this policy when the PHIS is implemented. FSIS will refuse entry to any shipment that has not been properly certified. Replacement certificates will be accepted, either electronically (e.g. scanned copy transmitted by e-mail or replacement through eCertification) or paper, at which time FSIS will continue with the reinspection.
Presentation for import reinspection and sampling at port of entry (POE)
U.S. importers will continue to apply for FSIS import inspection of any meat, poultry or egg products offered for entry into the United States. When implemented in May, the PHIS will interface with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), which is the U.S. commercial trade processing system that automates entry of products into U.S. commerce. The interface between ACE and PHIS will permit the direct electronic transfer of FSIS-specified shipment data when the applicant files entry with the CBP. This electronic transfer will provide FSIS with prior notice of the shipment's arrival into the United States.
When the PHIS import component is implemented, FSIS will be able to monitor the movement of imported product more effectively and efficiently. In the event that the shipment fails to present for FSIS reinspection at an official import inspection establishment, FSIS will consider that shipment as ineligible for entry and a request for redelivery will be initiated through CBP. The importer may be subject to appropriate penalties associated with this enforcement action. If the shipment is returned to the official import inspection establishment, the shipment will be refused entry. If the shipment is delivered to the end user in the U.S., the imported product, or any product produced from the ineligible product may be subject to FSIS recall or destruction.
The Agency's focus will remain on the performance of the foreign inspection system, rather than an individual establishment. FSIS will continue to perform a variety of inspection activities to verify on-going equivalence of the foreign inspection system. Every shipment will receive visual inspection including verification for physical attributes such as transportation damage, and accurate box count, certification, and labeling. Shipments randomly selected by the PHIS for more in-depth reinspection will be subjected to applicable types of physical inspections, such as product examination, checking the condition of the container of thermally processed product, as well as laboratory analyses for food chemistry, pathogens (microbiological testing), and residues. The FSIS import inspector will verify the accuracy of data from the import application filed by the importer with the foreign inspection certificate on every shipment presented for reinspection. When product fails to meet U.S. requirements, the lot(s) will be refused entry.
Designation of Ready-to-Eat (RTE) versus Not Ready-to-Eat Products (NRTE)
The FSIS import inspector will use certain labeling features, such as the product name and the presence of cooking or heating instructions to verify the classification of the process and product categories. As an example, label features on NRTE products would convey that the product needs to be further cooked prior to consumption, e.g., "cook and serve", "uncooked," "cook thoroughly", validated cooking instructions and in some cases safe handling instructions. It is essential that the product is properly categorized, as this impacts whether the shipment is subjected to microbiological testing. Unless defined by a standard of identity at RTE, such as hotdogs, frankfurters, pork with barbecue sauce, etc., FSIS permits meat or poultry products traditionally considered to be fully cooked to be identified as NRTE provided the product is intended to receive a lethality treatment by the consumer. As described above, the product must have proper labeling features and validated cooking instructions to discern that the product must be cooked for safety by the purchaser. If the product has historically been viewed by the consumers as a RTE product, e.g., "heat and eat", it is especially important for the establishment to make the distinction between the RTE product and the NRTE product. In addition, the "cooking instructions" should not be the same "heating" instructions that were previously used on labeling for the RTE products. Cooking instructions should explicitly state the product needs to be cooked for safety, e.g., "for safety cook to.." and would need to include the internal temperature to which the product is expected to reach for the consumer to eat the product safely.
Effective May 29, 2012, the PHIS will be operational in all U.S. import inspection establishments handling shipments from all eligible countries eligible to export meat, poultry, and egg products. FSIS will replace the existing Import Manual of Procedures, which provides guidance to the FSIS inspection personnel, with FSIS Directives. FSIS will provide further guidance and information to both foreign governments as well as industry regarding the PHIS prior to the implementation date. The updates to information related to PHIS will be available on the FSIS Web page, which can be accessed at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/PHIS/.
If you have specific questions about PHIS implementation, please contact FSIS Office of International Affairs (OIA), Import Inspection Division at (202) 720-9904 or by e-mail at email@example.com.
Dr. Ronald K. Jones
Assistant Administrator
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It looks like a scene from the movie Pleasantville dropped in the middle of Ottawa's National Research Council campus.
There are two family homes, complete with lawns and driveways. But no one lives here — these are labs.
Built by Minto almost 14 years ago, the houses are part of a program run by the Canadian Centre for Housing Technology (CCHT), which is jointly operated by the National Research Council (NRC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.
Referred to as the "twin homes," they were built to R-2000 standards in 1998 — smack in the middle of the low-rise, white industrial buildings scattered around the campus. They're set up using a variety of energy scenarios then tested, with the results compared from one house to the other.
To date, researchers have tested 40 different technologies. Their mandate? Accelerate the introduction of new housing technology to the market, like a new solar product now being tested in the information centre building next to the homes. Photovoltaic panels are integrated into the roof to act both as roof tile and energy collector.
"We are evaluating the change from each different technology," says the NRC's Marianne Armstrong. "So, essentially, we run them side-by-side with identical configurations, high-efficiency furnaces ... all the same windows in the houses. And (the test) could be as simple as changing the thermostat (or) something more complicated like installing a new heating system. We are looking at the change that we can make to the house and the impact of that change."
The goal of the ongoing project is to find technology that's affordable, energy efficient and environmentally responsible and often they have students, professors, builders and developers who tour the homes to learn more.
"Our research helps to quantify the real-world savings and the wholehouse impact of different technologies," says Armstrong. "This information is sometimes used by utilities to assist them in developing incentive programs, or by the NRCan Office of Energy Efficiency to decide whether or not to include an energy efficient technology in one of their incentive programs" — think of the ecoEnergy Retrofit Program for example.
"We help manufacturers to bring energy-efficient technologies to market by giving them valuable real-world performance data that can help them identify ways to improve the technology and also potentially give them the unbiased assessment they need to help promote their product."
To simulate the effect of a real Canadian family living inside the homes, light bulbs take the place of humans. And if you were to peek inside, you might think there was a ghost in residence, with lights that switch on and off, a sink that spontaneously fills with water or a dishwasher that runs through its cycle — at exactly the same time in each house.
Appropriately enough, the "families" living there are called the Watts — two adults and two children. The adults are 60-watt bulbs and the children 40-watt. Why light bulbs? Because they give off the same amount of heat as a family would sitting in a room. During the day, the "family" moves from one room to another. At night, they go up to their bedrooms to sleep.
In addition to simulating the heat that's given off by the family, CCHT also simulates all of their actions. This includes running appliances at certain times, as well as water. Then the researchers monitor consumption.
The R-2000 homes are built with a number of south-facing windows to optimize passive solar rays in winter and the homes are airtight with additional ventilation for higher quality air flow. There are no chimneys (having them allows warm air to escape).
Armstrong says the easiest change to make, and one that made the most impact in their studies so far, is installing outdoor window shades in summer.
"We've seen that interior shades combined with high-efficiency windows don't have a very large impact on energy consumption," says Armstrong. "However, when you do shade from the outside with something like awnings or exterior blinds, you can save upwards of 25 per cent in air conditioning (costs) on a sunny day." (Sunny days mean peak demand and higher prices for electricity.)
CCHT also experimented with windows. Armstrong says it's important to be aware there are a gamut of energy-efficient, argon-filled windows with low-E film coating, but they all have different solar gains, letting in a certain amount of sunlight during the winter.
"To take advantage of that in the winter, you want to buy windows that have the ability to let in high amounts of solar-heat gains," says Armstrong.
Homeowners will take a hit on the air-conditioning load with higher solar gains, but that's where the outdoor blinds and awnings come in, says fellow researcher Mike Swinton. "The combination of a high solar-gain window in the winter and awnings in the summer . . . would be a good combination."
Armstrong also recommends homeowners become more familiar with furnaces that have electronically commutated motors, also known as a brushless DC motor. They're programmable and more efficient at low speeds. If you're circulating air continuously in your house, like she says many do, these motors can do it for about one-third of the electrical consumption of regular furnace motors.
Armstrong stresses even changes that are seemingly small can make a big impact, citing the example of turning down the thermostat at night and when no one's home.
"You can save quite a bit of energy."


text: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Report on Cancer Survivors Highlights Role of Physical Activity in Regaining, Improving Health Physical activity and other healthy behaviors can hasten recovery from the immediate side effects of cancer treatment, prevent long-term effects, and may reduce the risk of recurrence and increase survival, says a first-ever report by the American Cancer Society (ACS) that tracks the growing population of cancer survivors in the United States. Developed in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, the report estimates that there are 13.7 million cancer survivors alive in the United States today. The number will grow to almost 18 million by 2022. The 3 most common cancers among male survivors are prostate cancer (43%), colon and rectal cancer (9%), and melanoma skin cancer (7%). The 3 most common cancers among female survivors are breast cancer (41%), uterine cancer (8%), and colon and rectal cancer (8%). Those percentages are expected to stay roughly the same through 2022. The report also finds that 45% of cancer survivors are 70 years old or older, and only 5% are younger than 40. The median age of patients at the time of cancer diagnosis is 66. ACS released the report, Cancer Treatment & Survivorship Facts & Figures, and an accompanying journal article in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians last week. As reported May 2 in News Now, ACS issued its first formal guidelines in April on cancer survivorship. The guidelines stress the importance of physical activity in reducing the chance of recurrence of many cancers and increasing the likelihood of disease-free survival after a diagnosis. Comments As a cancer survivor of stage II C ovarian cancer for 10 years now and a physical therapist, I have been advocating the importance of exercise during and post treatment since my diagnosis. Unfortunately, ovarian cancer organizations are not educating women with this diagnosis on the importance of exercise. Posted by monica kolzet on 6/22/2012 3:33 PM I am a physical therapist too. I am also a cancer survivor of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) of 7 years (56 yo now). I exercised before my diagnosis but have increased my exercise since and my oncologist is amazed at how healthy and how well my ongoing testing is doing. I have also had the opportunity as a PT to interact with clients with CLL or cancer in general. Posted by Randy Nelson on 6/25/2012 10:36 AM


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This weekend LACMA added eight new works to its collection through its annual Collectors Committee events. All week on Unframed our curators will be highlighting the objects just acquired.
The austere geometry of the checkerboard, rendered in a singular, virtuoso weaving technique, indicates that this impressive textile was made to be displayed in a prestigious political or religious context. Textiles, the most important commodity in the ancient Andean world, were an integral part of all tribute, taxation, religion, political ceremony, birth, marriage, and death. The powerful visual impact of this cloth mosaic in its reductive color range is heightened by the metaphorical significance of the brown and white squares—symbolizing the ancient Andean belief in dynamic dualism, reciprocity, and complementarity between cosmic forces and the natural realm.
Woven in a meticulous technique in which neither warps nor wefts extend across the entire cloth, the textile was created with "scaffold" threads (which were later removed) that formed a temporary grid upon which to weave each miniscule square, less than an inch in size, separately. The fabric was assembled by the process of interlocking the warps and wefts of each adjacent square—forming a single cloth from the sum of many parts. In the history of world textiles, the multifaceted technique of discontinuous warp and weft was practiced only in the Andes.
Dynamic dualism, represented in the textile by juxtaposed light and dark squares, was a fundamental principal of ancient Andean thought. In this cosmological principle the universe was organized of contrasting but complementary opposites, and balance was attained by the interchange between the two. Balanced, harmonious existence was achieved through reciprocity, or interdependence of all human activity; in the harsh Andean environment, life was established on reciprocal relationships between family, co-workers, the administration, and the ruler, and on relationships that extended over the disparate geographies from the jungles of eastern Peru, to the Andes, to the dry desert coast. Reciprocity, symbolized by this complex textile, is expressed in the interweaving of more than a thousand fully finished squares—independent, yet interdependent—suggesting unity of the individual and the community.
An aesthetic object that signifies universal order, this textile is based on the same grid matrix woven into Andean textiles over a span of two thousand years. Remarkably, such an extraordinary example of the weaver's art, more than 450 years old, could be mistaken for an artwork produced in the last half of the twentieth century.
For LACMA, with holdings in art from all over the world, this stunning Inka textile is a quintessential example of the aesthetic bond that unites time, space, and cultural diversity. It is tentatively slated to go on view this fall.
Kaye Spilker, Curator, Costume and Textiles


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Tempeh is a mystery food to many people, but not to Arfi who learned the art of tempeh making from her late Indonesian grandmother (so you know you're in good hands with this recipe). Make from fermented soy beans, tempeh is a chewy, nutty soy protein that is a hearty meat alternative for vegetarians. And like most foods, it's even better when fried in batter, so try Arfi's Tempe Goreng Tepung (Fried Tempeh in Batter).
Prawns are sauteed in sizzling sesame oil until crisp then doused with rich soy sauce, sweet honey, and tangy lime. Simple, bold, and chic, that's Michelle's Pan-Fried Soy and Honey Prawns.
Kalyn has a new friend in the kitchen-- tofu. Kalyn's foray into the world of tofu was so successful with her pleasingly spicy, ginger-y Stir-Fried Tofu Recipe with Scallions, Garlic, Ginger, and Soy Sauce, that she already has another block of tofu in the fridge. I have a feeling their friendship will be a lasting one.
Have you heard about the crisis in Iverness, Scotland? There is a shortage of pasta machines there! That's right. How is a blogger to do her job when she can't buy a pasta machine? Well, she has to rely on ingeniousness. And that's just what Wendy did with her rich, satisfying Impromptu Cannelloni.
Are you looking for an easy, crowed-pleasing, one-dish dinner to serves to guests? Then you must try Lisa's rich and creamy Brown Rice and Blue Cheese Gratin with Cauliflower and Broccoli. She has made it several times for guests, and each time, they have asked for seconds, so you know it's a winner.
Think sardines can't look pretty? Think again. Nuria's Marinated Sardines (a.k.a. "poor man's sushi") are fresh, not canned. That means they are remarkably plump and glisten-y, and are exceptionally flavorful when marinated in Nuria's blend of fresh herbs, olive oil, and lemon.
Lysy gets a gold star for creating a healthy, calcium-packed pizza. Yup, that's right, her delightfully named Spelty Shroomy Pizza is good for you. Made from the super grain spelt and topped with calcium rich goat cheese, rocket, and sunflower seeds, this is one pizza that will make both your belly and your bones happy.
If you've ever eaten in an Indian restaurant, then you have most likely tasted Palak Paneer, a popular spinach and cheese dish. According to Ranjeetha, Palak Paneer is a Punjabi dish typcially eaten with Indian flat bread. Fortuatnely for us, Ranjeetha shares her recipe for homemade paneer cubes which will surely taste better than any restaurant's.
Keep your man's belly happy and bones healthy with this calcium-packed Sicilian Sardine and Broccoli Rabe Pasta. Just one can of sardines provides an amazing 20% of your daily calcium needs!
Everyone loves lasagne, right? Layers of fresh pasta, creamy cheeses, and tomato are perfection any way you slice it. Johanna has created her own slice of perfection but with a green twist: her Green Lasagne with Broccoli and Rocket Pesto takes traditional lasagne and makes it even better by adding calcium rich broccoli and rocket.
From the home of the deep-dish pizza comes Stefany's unique Shrimp and Tofu Pizza. Crunchy panko-breaded shrimp top this healthy whole wheat pizza crust that is coasted with a sweet and creamy mango sauce. This pizza is definitely gourmet.
Among super foods salmon reigns supreme. It's packed with Omega-3 fatty acids which do everything from increase your good cholesterol to make you smarter. Really. They're considered "brain food." (If only I knew that before taking my SATs). It's also super high in calcium, which is why Chris shares her recipe for these deliciously flavorful and crispy Salmon Burgers.
In a word association game, it is likely that 9 out of 10 people would associate "oyster" with "aphrodisiac." Ning, however, knows that oysters are also powerhouses of calcium, and when combined with eggs in her Oyster Omelette, present one serious bone-building meal.
Shibani takes great pleasure in cooking healthful dishes for herself and her family. So it's no wonder that she likes to cook with soy, which contains beneficial isoflavones that have been linked to a decreased risk in osteoporosis. You'll experience great pleasure too when you taste Shibani's Soya Kebabs seasoned with garam masala, ginger, and mint.
The beauty of Zita's Prawns with Tomato, Garlic, and Cilantro is that it can be whipped up in minutes for a week-week dinner yet looks and tastes utterly sophisticated.
Even the most tofu-averse person will gladly eat String Beans and Tofu with Thai Peanut Butter Sauce. Firm tofu and crisp string beans are smothered in a rich, creamy coconut milk and peanut butter sauce that is so good, you'll be tempted to eat it by the spoonful.
Marie sounds like she's married to a typical Italian guy. He's not crazy about salmon but would always eat it whenever Marie cooked it. (Always a wise choice, guys). Ever since Marie created her Roasted Garlic Pesto Salmon, however, her husband actually asks her to make it. That's because Marie enhanced her traditional pesto with roasted garlic, creating a richer, smokier, flavor that is just irresistible on salmon.
You just never know what foods will bring two people together. For Jeanne and her hubby, Nick, it was fish. Not just any fish. Kingklip-- a thick, white, flaky fish from South Africa. Jeanne used her kingklip to make Spinach and Feta Fish Fillets for a get-together where she was trying to impress Nick. I think it's safe to say it worked. 10 years later, and they're happily married. So skip the chocolate strawberries next time and go for the big fish if you want to hook a live one!
It's grilling season, and in my book, that's cause for excitement. You're sure to get excited over DJM's Calcium Burger and Grilled Vegetables. Vegetables are transformed when they're grilled--they become caramelized, sweeter, crisper, and slightly smoky. They're the perfect companion for a calcium-rich soy burger smothered in creamy goat's cheese.
What's better than creamy, rich, egg and cheese laden carbonara? Rossella's Carbonara with Asparagus. She fries asparagus with the pancetta until it's crispy, then adds it to the pasta for an added dimension of flavor. This is the ideal spring time carbonara.
Amy's Stir-Fried Tofu and Green Beans with Quinoa is just my kind of dinner-- easy, delicious, and good-for-you. Made with sauteed tofu, green beans, and quinoa, this dish is loaded with bone-building calcium and protein.
Unfortunately, Lynne knows the devastating effects of osteoporosis since her dad who has it recently broke his hip. (We're sending well wishes his way, Lynne.) So it's really important to Lynne to eat calcium and vitamin-D-rich foods like her Salmon Loaf. You'll love this recipe for it's nutritional value, quick preparation, and most especially, creamy, rich bechamel sauce that Lynne drizzles on top.
Priya and her husband have started doing movie night dinner each week. They rent a movie and enjoy it with an easy-to prepare and delicious-to-eat dish like Priya's Crock-pot Enchilada Casserole. Since it's made in a crock-pot, you don't have to worry if you get caught in traffic on the commute home. Your dinner will be awaiting you when you walk through the front door.
One of the best things Elizabeth ever did was subscribe to SAVEUR. After making their recipe for Sole Picatta with Green Beans, she made it again two nights later. (Hey, when it's that good, who could blame her?) Plus, each serving of the dish has an amazing 20% of your daily calcium needs! Be sure to check out Elizabeth's post for much more important information about osteoporosis.
Celia unfortunately knows the crippling effects of severe osteoporosis since several of her relatives suffer from it. Fortunately, she also knows how critical it is for her to take care of herself and eat well. It won't be difficult to do with her savory Family Style Bean Curd made with calcium-rich bean curd, chewy black Chinese mushrooms, and spicy oyster sauce.
We all have people who have touched our lives in meaningful often profound ways. That special person in Susan's life was her voice coach Ruth, who suffered from severe osteoporosis. To Susan, Ruth "was like a treasured piece of delicate, antique porcelain - beautiful and translucent, and so very fragile." And for a beautiful recipe, try Susan's Oysters Rockefeller Gratin.
Next time you feel like having pizza on a weeknight, save yourself the hassle and money of ordering out, and make Meghan's French Bread Pizza instead. It's satisfyingly crunchy and is topped with healthy veggies and lots of bubbly, gooey mozzarella. So long, Papa John.
Part of tofu's beauty is its versatility which Mimi really appreciates. Though she makes it many different ways, you'll really love her Golden Tofu Red Curry made with perfectly crisp, fresh, farmers' market sugar snap peas.
Janet (Food Blogga's mom) has been making Grapenut Pudding for as long as she can remember. The recipe was her mother's (who is currently 99 years old!). Grapenut pudding is pure comfort food--thick, creamy custard is topped with a layer of crunchy Grapenuts cereal. Janet says, "Grapenut pudding was always my Susan's favorite, and I think of her every time I make it." Isn't my mom a sweetheart?
Is there a more comforting dessert than rice pudding? One warm, creamy mouthful magically evokes feelings of nostalgia and warmth. So it's no wonder that Amy loves Rich Risotto Rice Pudding made with vanilla bean, cinnamon, and freshly grated nutmeg.
Move over Chunky Monkey, Pedro Ximinez is in town. Cathy X has made ice cream from the deep, amber colored sherry, Pedro Ximinez. This luxurious ice cream is served alongside her Elegant Pistachio Cream Tart proving that dessert can be both nutritious and regal.
It's so wonderful when desserts like Lori Lynn's creamy, silky Bahn Flan are actually good for you. And make sure you check out her post to see how you can recycle your soda cans while making this!
Other than perhaps ice cream, is there another dessert so universally loved than cheesecake? Dense, creamy Lemon Cheesecake is laced with Nicisme's homemade lemon curd and topped with perfectly plump fresh raspberries. Aaahhhh.
Deeba has made her tropical homemade Mango Ice Cream twice already "to celebrate mango mania in the merry month of May." After one taste of this luscious ice cream studded with rich pistachios, you'll be making it 12 months of the year.
Ayin shares a fantastically simple, fantastically delicious Caramel Pudding--vanilla laced pudding is drowned in caramel so sweet and sticky, you'll swoon. Just don't forget the cherry on top.
Ben and Jerry's better watch out. Cherry Garcia has some serious competition from Elaine's perfectly pink Cherry Ice Cream. You'd better start stocking up on fresh cherries now to freeze for the winter, that way you can enjoy Elaine's ice cream all year round.
Helen promises that her Mini Pana Cotta with Blackberry Coulis is "easy peasy." Since I trust everything Helen says about baking, I think it's safe to take her word for it. Helen infuses her basic creamy panna cotta with vibrant garden fresh mint, then tops it off with a tangy blackerry coulis made from freshly plucked, plump blackberries.
Mary shares her recipe for clafouti-- the classic French custard-like baked dessert. Though clafoutis can be made with just about any fruit, Mary has chosen fresh sweet-tart raspberries for her Raspberry Clafouti. It's elegant enough for a tea party, yet simple enough for a quick week-night dessert. What's not to love about that?
TBC shares an authentic Indian dessert with us--Raspberry Shrikhand. Shrikhand is made by straining yogurt until thick and smooth, then lacing it with sugar, cardamom and saffron. It was so delicious, that TBC is already planning on making it again with ripe, creamy mangos.
Have you ever baked with kiwi fruit? If not, then you should start with Minko's Kiwi Cupcakes with Strawberry and Kiwi Cream Cheese Frosting. Each adorable cupcake is studded with little bits of juicy kiwi and sweet strawberries. And as for the fruity cream cheese frosting-- don't feel guilty for licking the bowl, it's high in calcium.
When I was a little girl, there was nothing better than coming home after school to a bowl of my Mom's Chocolate Pudding with Bananas and Graham Crackers. It was cool, creamy, and satisfying, just what every overworked elementary school kid needs.
While visiting her friend, Marta, Simona spied a little bag of anice stellato (star anise) on her counter top and immediately decided to make Gelato All 'anice Stellato. If you like gelato, then you'll be smitten with Simona's luscious, custard-y gelato, subtly laced with anise and vanilla bean. Make sure you visit Simona's site for great tips on making gelato and to learn to pronounce "gelato" like you're from Italy.
If you've ever eaten in a Middle Eastern restaurant, then you've likely had Knafeh Bil Jibne for dessert. I have, but to be honest, never knew what it was called or how to make it. Thanks to Marianna's beautifully photographed and detailed post, now I do. And so do you! So hop over to Marianna's to discover how to make this crunchy, creamy, golden, cheese pastry that is drizzled with rose water syrup and pistachios.
Jyothsna shares her recipe for Mango Shrikhand which is made by straining yogurt until thick and smooth or by using labneh, a strained yogurt with a cheese-like consistency. Since it's mango season in the UAE, Jyothsna has added cool, creamy mango to her shrikhand and enjoys it for breakfast, dessert, and for an any-time treat.
Annie says her Key Lime Bars "are low fat, but you'd never know it." Just one look at that ultra-creamy bar is proof enough for me. By mixing low-fat cream cheese and fat-free sweetened condensed milk, Annie was able to keep the flavor and lose the fat. And with tangy key lime and toasty coconut, this bar just gets better and better.
You will cry with joy when you taste Brittany's seriously custard-y, rich Roasted Banana Ice Cream. Bananas are macerated in rum, lemon juice, and sugar and roasted to draw out their natural sweetness. Then they're adding to her satisfyingly thick and creamy ice cream. Brittany says this may be her finest ice cream achievement to date. No argument here.
With berry season upon us, it's time to bake some summer-y treats like Cakelaw's Blackberry Almond Yoghurt Cake. This ultra moist cake made from creamy yogurt and nutty almond meal is studded with brilliant purple sweet-tart blackberries. Don't limit it to dessert though; it's great for breakfast or a mid-day treat too.
Can cookies be good for your bones? They can if they're Linda's beautiful Hazelnut Cookies Sandwiched with Dulce de Leche since both hazelnuts and sweetened condensed milk are powerhouses of calcium. So eat 'em up! Your bones (and your belly) will love you for it.
When the weather turns sultry, do like JZ, and make a batch of chilly, homemade Cheesecake Ice Cream. This is one luxurious ice cream--silky, creamy, and tantalizingly sweet. I feel cooler already.
Stef shares her Tres Leches Cupcakes made with not one, not two, but three types of calcium-rich milk. That means they're three times as delicious too. Seriously, we're talking about someone whose blog is called "Cupcake Project." I think we're in good hands with this recipe.
Marta shares her Carrot and Star Anise Pudding, a unique version of a traditional pudding recipe called Bunet. The original is made from chocolate, coffee and amaretti cookies, but Marta's is lighter and healthier with freshly grated carrots and star anise-infused milk.
Like many of us, Medena starts her day with a cup of coffee. Unlike many of us, she makes one glamorous cup a joe. Her Nescafe Late is a wake-you-up-in-a-hurry blend of strong coffee, milk, and whipped topping. The chocolate shavings are "optional." Yeah, optional.
Need a little motivation to get to the gym? How about knowing you'll enjoy this dreamy Creamsicle Smoothie when you're finished? Hey, it works for me.
What do you do with overripe bananas (besides making banana bread)? Nangil Girl makes a deliciously creamy and healthy Mango and Banana Smoothie. Made with both milk and yogurt, this is one powerful bone-building libation.
If you're like BalBanu, then you need your morning cup (or cups) of tea. Her green tea is highly beneficial: it contains antioxidants that may lower your risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease, and it contains flavonoids that may help build bones and make your teeth stronger. So drink up!
What do you do when your wee one isn't feeling well and has trouble eating? You make her a nutritious, delicious, and easy-to-swallow Warm Mango-Raspberry Oatmeal Smoothie. Of course, this smoothie is so good, that you'll keep making it well after your little one has recovered.
I don't know how you spent your Memorial Day Weekend, but mine was pretty boring compared to Christie's. She had a blast drinking Black Cows (root beer floats) at the World's Largest Brat Fest in Madison. ("Brat" is short for bratwurst.) Despite being a chilly 49 degrees that morning, the festival was a sure sign of summer's arrival in Wisconsin. And that's something to drink to.
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User talk:Sapphire/Archive 2006
Hey Sapphire[edit]
I'am a newbie i need to know the Bengels will win right? lol Traveler2006 14:30, 28 March 2006 (EST) not joking anyway want to help clean some work? Traveler2006 14:30, 28 March 2006 (EST)
Ok Sapphire sure i need help on pretty much everything I have done.
Traveler2006 14:43, 28 March 2006 (EST) thanks
Reference material[edit]
I like this one: Wikitravel:Namespace index. -- Ilkirk 22:08, 29 March 2006 (EST)
Milan image[edit]
Re. User_talk:Rmx#Milan image: Honestly, no. In this case I just bumped into the article and noticed an image was missing. I have, however, added images to the Philippines, for instance, reponding to the request for images. Ricardo (Rmx) 07:06, 1 April 2006 (EST)
Thanks for fixing the link to 'what is an article' WindHorse 4 April 06
What is this contraption?
Rail travel[edit]
I suppose they could be separate articles, but I think the information for Canada, the US, and Mexico would fit well into just one. Sadly there just isn't that much to tell (especially Mexico), and there's a fair amount of overlap, so it makes sense to me. For example, I live as close to Ontario as to Illinois, so if I were looking into taking a rail trip, seeing both Canadian and US routes listed in the same place would be helpful. - Todd VerBeek 09:16, 7 April 2006 (EDT)
I can answer your Brabant question: Brabant isn't yet a page. The software can't tell that Brabant is in Belgium, and Belgium in Europe, etc., if there's no page for Brabant in the first place. Maybe you need to add it? You might also want to check Special:Whatlinkshere/Leuven to make sure that you placed that city correctly. --Evan 12:02, 8 April 2006 (EDT)
Another Q for anyone[edit]
I've been trying to notify User:Shalom Alechem that the images he uploads need to be CC-BY-SA, however, my requests for him to ensure he releases the images under the license seems to go unheard. What should we do? I hope we don't delete them, because a lot of them look great, but wouldn't be able to use them, right? Sapphire 12:15, 8 April 2006 (EDT)
Wikitravel:Bug reports[edit]
Hey could you add you link-moving bug to Wikitravel:Bug reports and include what browser/OS you're using? Thanks! Majnoona 15:29, 8 April 2006 (EDT)
external links[edit]
Hi Sapphire!
You are reformatting all the external links!? Is there a policy how they should look like? Can't find it... --Flip666 20:43, 9 April 2006 (EDT)
Tornado map[edit]
I wasn't aware of your comments attached to Image:TornadoAlley.png until now. See Talk:Tornado safety#Tornado Alley map for the discussion that led to me changing the map. - Todd VerBeek 17:18, 13 April 2006 (EDT)
What is a "permanment link?"[edit]
Can anyone tell me what a "permanment link" is? It appears when visiting destination articles in the tool box located directly below the search field. Sapphire 19:10, 13 April 2006 (EDT)
I thought[edit]
You were quitting for the night!
Also, are you having login problems? I don't see you as logged in. --Evan 02:41, 19 April 2006 (EDT)
Hey, your connection to IRC is working. I did see your text, but I didn't get back to the computer until you signed off. :) --Dawnview 16:39, 19 April 2006 (EDT)
Re: Milford[edit]
No, sorry, I went to St. X. I have a common Vietnamese last name. – Minh Nguyễn 03:56, 26 April 2006 (EDT)
Hellowww wir fahrn nach Lodz, Thanks for your welcome at german Wiki Robert Wolfgang Schuster 18 july 2006
Weisst du dass im Jalapão (Tocantins)eine heimliche polnische Kolonie ist, noch aus der komunistischen Zeit. Danke für die Antwort Robert Wolfgang Schuster 19/07/2006
Thanks for your welcome, Andrew. Nice to know humans are watching, too. Bis bald, FrankBusch 00:45, 15 July 2006 (EDT)
Inter Railing[edit]
It depends when i get to Pamplona i would idealy like to get there fore the Bull Run on the 13th, this would then give me time to get to Berlin by the 15th. I have been offered a place to stay in Berlin i think!
Do you know somewhere good in Barcelona or Madrid? Yeah would like to spend some time there, would prefer Madrid.
Thanks for the help JossDude 11:42, 2 June 2006 (EDT)
Rail in Cuba[edit]
You asked about the rail company - it is Ferrocarriles de Cuba.
Did you know that Cuba was one of the first countries in the world to have a railway ? (Before even Spain - of which it was a colony at the time).
Also, the electric Hershey Railway has been described as the last interurban still operating. (Though it now mainly uses railcars imported from Spain).
-- Beardo 19:28, 5 May 2006 (EDT)
Ko Phai[edit]
Hi Andrew You created Ko Phai. Where exactly is this place? Can you add an isIn and a template to it? Thanks. — Ravikiran 07:37, 7 May 2006 (EDT)
Hi Andrew! All the informations in the old districts (e.g. Berlin/Schoneberg aren't in the new districts but the links to the old ones are disabled. So the new districts like Tempelhof-Schöneberg are empty. Could you check if I transfered the content? I was only able to copy and paist the content. Not that we lose that hard worked content if there is any 11:13, 15 May 2006 (EDT)
San Francisco harbor tours[edit]
Looks like on 26 April, you put a vfd marker on San Francisco harbor tours, but never put a note on Wikitravel:Votes_for_deletion. Do you want to go ahead do that? I would, but I imagine since you put the vfd on there, you'd give a better explanation than I can come up with right now, which is "this doesn't need an article." -- Jonboy 15:33, 16 May 2006 (EDT)
your message[edit]
hello there, thank you for your message. I am extremely flattered and surprised that someone would want to use one of my images. If you could kindly send me an email then I can give you more private information, don't really want to post it on a public forum since I like to keep my discretion, I hope you understand.... my email link is functioning, I just checked it myself. with kind regards Gryffindor 22:08, 17 May 2006 (EDT)
Thanks for the help. This is a stubborn one. -- Bill-on-the-Hill 21:25, 23 May 2006 (EDT)
Anywherebuthere's answer[edit]
Brian Hey, i am not out of highschool yet, but when i turn 18 i am going to take a trip with my friends (i am 17 still). I have a shot at Georgetown, but valedictorians get turned down there and i am not one, so it's a crapshoot. I guess most schools like that are. anyways, when i have a bit more time i will update the air courier page, just i am starting exams soon. cheers
Hi Andrew. Thanks for the note re: the location of the latest bored student. For the most part the vandals on this site are harmless, and while they're sometimes annoying it's pretty easy to revert changes and let them get bored. Wikitravel:How to handle unwanted edits has some guidelines, but my personal opinion is that it's best to ignore them or possibly drop them a note if they come up with something particularly clever (Wikitravel:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense is a good collection of the occasional gem). Most of these folks are looking for attention and/or a challenge, so the best way to get them to stop is to make it clear that they really don't bother us in any way. And honestly, having now reverted probably hundreds if not thousands of vandal changes, it really doesn't bother me - if I don't do it, someone else will, and in the end nothing changes for the worse. -- Ryan 00:40, 26 May 2006 (EDT)
On São Paulo pictures[edit]
Will contact them - but the biggest chance is that the pic is actually public domain already, since I doubt they took the pic themselves, thus probably getting it from the municipality. Otherwise, I'll get my lazy ass out there and take the pics myself, since the building is amazingly beautiful :) Cheers! Mattalves 23:57, 26 May 2006 (EDT)
One more thing - what license should I use if the picture is issued by the brazilian goverment, which makes them public domain? Thanks! Mattalves 00:03, 27 May 2006 (EDT)
jelly doughnut & splurge hotels in Berlin[edit]
Hi Andrew! Everything ok without? You can't be serious with that text about JFK and why you deleted half of the splurge hotels in Berlin? The Interconti, Adlon etc are a good adress. Please change it back. Have a good evening, Jan 17:22, 29 May 2006 (EDT)
I hope for some more interesting travelling post death. You're right, although I claim a variant on adulthood meaning "the moment one becomes an adult!" Hypatia 05:36, 1 June 2006 (EDT)
Admin Nomination[edit]
Please see http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Administrator_nominations. I hope you will accept.
Hi Andrew - Just a note regarding your comments on the vfd discussion for Image:Gbrandt.KohPhiPhi.TonSaiBay.Oct2005.jpg:
I agree that not having license info is a problem, but up until recently it wasn't being stressed that all images required an explicit license release, so we have hundreds (possibly thousands) of images without an explicit license statement. My sense of things is that the unwritten rule is that new images should have a license statement, but for old images a lack of license release isn't considered grounds for deletion unless the image is found elsewhere (and thus a likely copyvio). As a result, since there was no consensus to delete this image it looks like it will be kept around for a while longer. -- Ryan 17:35, 1 June 2006 (EDT)
Paris for You[edit]
I had to contact The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau to find out if the guide was still published and if there was a online version. This guide book is published by the official tourism agency is hugely useful and should be added to the Paris article at some point. http://en.parisinfo.com/rub6923.html
Sometimes you have to manually hit the wikitravel cache over the head. Go to the web page in question, and click the "history" tab. Then edit the URL in your browser and replace "history" with "cache" and hit enter to fetch that web page. The cache gets flushed and you get the most up-to-date version. I did that with the forex page, and it's all betah now. -- Colin 03:43, 2 June 2006 (EDT) Noted. Thanks. - Andrew Haggard (Sapphire) 03:47, 2 June 2006 (EDT)
Hi Andrew - I've removed the "For other places with the same name, see Orleans" from Orleans (France) since we normally only link to disambiguation pages in the case of "most famous" destinations, such as Paris (which links to the Paris (disambiguation) page using the {{otheruses}} template). It can probably be assumed that someone visiting the Paris (Texas) article wasn't looking for Paris, France, so pointers to the disambiguation page usually aren't needed. I think this is spelled out in Wikitravel:Article naming conventions, but I haven't had coffee yet and might be way wrong. -- Ryan 11:58, 3 June 2006 (EDT)
You're welcome[edit]
I too need to download IE7 sometime and see what happens... — Ravikiran 15:09, 6 June 2006 (EDT)
Image credit[edit]
This is what you need to type to use the template.
Not terribly user friendly, I'm afraid, so I decided to wait till Evan did some magic with the Inputbox extension before pushing strongly for its use. — Ravikiran 07:49, 9 June 2006 (EDT)
I'm not sure we're really ready to start actively directing brand-new users to upload images to Shared instead of EN. Since we don't have a working mechanism in place yet for deleting files there, and it's not getting monitored very closely yet, we could end up with a lot of files that we have to go back through and purge. Plus there isn't much of a support structure there for clueless newbies. - Todd VerBeek 10:49, 9 June 2006 (EDT)
About Cúcuta[edit]
You posted at Cúcuta Wikitravel "Can anyone translate Spanish into English?".
I just want to know what part of the article can't you understand.
Thanks.. Ricardo Ramírez
FYI, I felt I had to rollback your change of a few minutes ago. We only do one change a day, and I'd just done today's not terribly long ago. Want to take on the "duty" for tomorrow and put the Hanover trivium in then? -- Bill-on-the-Hill 16:15, 11 June 2006 (EDT)
Why is the blocklist empty?
If you do a diff of the latest edit(s) by a user on an article, you should see something like this:
Current revision Sapphire (Talk | contribs | block) [rollback] (→Bit) ...
So just click on "rollback" to revert. Jpatokal 21:50, 15 June 2006 (EDT)
Hi Andrew - I'm sure it was probably just an oversight, but just a gentle reminder to make sure you update any articles that link to a destination after disambiguating. I think I've cleaned up all of the Carmel links. Welcome to the admin club, too - have fun trying to refrain from using all of your new magical powers! -- Ryan 22:29, 15 June 2006 (EDT)
Hello! Welcome to Wikitravel. If you want to specialize your experience you may want to consider editing your preferences. Please take a second to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines, but feel free to plunge forward and edit some pages. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. If you're new to the whole wiki community look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to use the wiki markup. If you need help, check out Wikitravel:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.
Just FYI, I had intentionally bypassed this article's trivium on the Template:Discover box. The problem is that, per our guidelines, articles with trivia getting posted to the box need to be in at least "Usable" shape -- which Husavik is not. Personally, I don't have a big problem with using things ranked "Outline" if they're still fairly complete (the transition between "Outline" and "Usable" is indistinct), but the Phallological Museum is the only content in the whole Husavik article. So that's why I'd been leaving it sit there. I don't see any point in undoing the mention now, but it's something you might want to keep in mind in the future. Either way, thanks for the help -- I was beginning to feel like I was the only person updating that template, and it's nice that someone else shows interest. -- Bill-on-the-Hill 11:53, 24 June 2006 (EDT)
[1]. Heh. -- Colin 21:20, 26 June 2006 (EDT)
Santa Fe (New Mexico)[edit]
Your DotM language for the Main Page is just fine. It captures the nature of the place well and is terser than what's in the introduction to the actual article. It occurs to me that I had forgotten one little trivium when working on that article that may be fun to work into the DotM language; I'll experiment with that, but generally, there's no need for much change. Thanks! -- Bill-on-the-Hill 10:32, 1 July 2006 (EDT)
Great minds...[edit]
Hey, take a look at Wikitravel:Script_nominations#AutotranslateBot, Wikitravel:Script_nominations#W66InterwikiBot, and Wikitravel:Feature_requests#Auto-translation_of_.27seed_content.27. I think we're interested in the same projects! Want to collaborate on these guys? Majnoona 14:29, 1 July 2006 (EDT)
Check out User:Maj/Sandbox for some starts... Majnoona 13:00, 2 July 2006 (EDT)
i just don't understand why u have deleted teh link to the movies in sibria?! u have to know that not all people is cabale of buying things from the nearest video store or even buy books from amazons..not everyone here living in usa or erope..there is people who depend only on the net and nothing else.. if u can get resources from other places then that is good !
Washington, D.C. redirects[edit]
Please do not change Washington, D.C. redirects. You're effectively creating double-redirects. I plan to arrange an all-out assault on D.C. later tonight and I will at that time fix the redirect pages. Thanks. -- Andrew Haggard (Sapphire) 22:37, 9 July 2006 (EDT)
I will take your advice and do that. SpokaneWilly 22:59, 9 July 2006 (EDT)
Images from Wikimedia Commons[edit]
You'd asked me about Image:Torun-Rynek-ratusz-2.jpg. I am author of this photo, I changed licence on Commons, can you tell me how to add licence info on Wikitravel?
By the way, I want all my images from Commons to be available to use also on WikiTravel, but unfortunately I uploaded many of them only under cc-by-sa 2.5 not 1.0. PiotrK 16:06, 10 July 2006 (EDT)
Kentwood is exactly 0 miles from Wyoming, which I think is about 0 km. They're across the street from each other. To be honest, I don't think Kentwood or Wyoming really even warrants its own article. These "suburbs" of Grand Rapids are so close to downtown and so connected with (the rest of) the city that the hotel and restaurant chains identify the franchises in them as "Grand Rapids" locations. The distinction is certainly meaningless to the traveler; the only people who know or care whether something is in the municipality of Kentwood, Wyoming, Grand Rapids, Walker, Grandville, or East Grand Rapids are the people who live there and the respective municipalities' tax collectors. If it were up to me, the contents of the article for Wyoming (Michigan) (and the others) would consist of "#REDIRECT [[Grand Rapids]]". Granted, as a resident of G.R. itself I'm a bit biased, but I think the recent tendency to turn Wikitravel into an atlas listing every possible legal municipality (instead of a travel guide with information about every destination) is misguided. Sorry for venting. To give you the practical geographic data you were looking for: Kentwood is the suburb to the immediate southeast of Grand Rapids; Wyoming is to the southwest, just west of Kentwood. Grandville is a little further southwest, contiguous with Wyoming, but not Grand Rapids itself. Walker is next (west and northwest), GR township (northeast), East GR (to the east), and you're back at Kentwood. - Todd VerBeek 22:38, 11 July 2006 (EDT)
Hi Andrew
I took a bit care of cotw and pcotw as it was it bit orphaned in the last two weeks. I have one problem in the pcotw with the Result section, therefore I was not able to show how many users did changes during the cotw for Budapest and Washington D.C.. Do you know how to make this link? Second: I was a bit surprised that Evan kicked in Odense and Cambridge as CotW in the schedule and not below as anybody else. I would like to bring the line up for the next weeks in a more democratic way, even if Evan had good reasons for it. Bermuda is on top of the list but nobody gave reason or signed it. I will bring it up because it is an interesting destination. Have a nice day, Jan 10:15, 12 July 2006 (EST)
Err, I hate to admit it, but I googled "bars Loveland Ohio" and since there were only three, I went ahead and listed them (since there's not much to be pickey about). Same for hotels. I figure that, when it's a small town with out much selection, a guide is more about 'what's there' than 'what's recommended'... It would be nice to have our 10kth article be as robust as possible... of course it would super-fantastic if you managed to stop by there personally, but that might be asking a lot Majnoona 19:57, 12 July 2006 (EDT)
Actually, I'm back home now and I won't return to school until September. I'd say we should include Symmes Township. Even the areas near Fields-Ertel Rd. are part of the Loveland City School District, and at least two welcome signs now say "Welcome to the Communities of Loveland and Symmes Township", so visitors would be likely to spot the two together.
As for the Loveland Frog, 12 News has mentioned it a couple times, but people here don't ever mention it, since the sightings all happened so long ago. (And what's with that 1998 sighting in the Dominican Republic?) I think a mention about the Valentine's Day program would be more relevant.
– Minh Nguyễn 23:57, 15 July 2006 (EDT)
Hi Andrew, I mean to release those images under any version of the cc-by-sa. Meanwhile probably the image should be renamed. It's really a view from North Avenue. ;) -- Mark 01:03, 18 July 2006 (EDT)
Prague Addresses[edit]
Thanks Andrew! Such a beautiful place, such a messy article :) Thewayoftheduck 10:07, 19 July 2006 (EDT)
I dunno, maybe my eyes are bad. What the heck happened with this page? --Evan 21:54, 25 July 2006 (EDT)
Hi Andrew - regarding the comment you left on User talk:Wrh2#IFD, I posted a query a while back on Wikitravel talk:Images for deletion asking whether that page was being used now or not. If there was a discussion that led to a consensus to hold image deletion discussions on a separate page can you point me to it? I've obviously not been paying close attention, but I'd like to understand the reasons for having two separate pages for dealing with deletions. Thanks! -- Ryan 05:02, 28 July 2006 (EDT)
So, I think we found a place to have the 10K party -- it's a pub about 4 blocks from the Wikimania main area. When will you be getting into Cambridge? We leave tomorrow, but we're doing the "Hacking Days" pre-event. Let us know. --Evan 21:45, 30 July 2006 (EDT)
Dayton and Sidney[edit]
... are the two cities of Ohio I have been in. Would you know which region of Ohio they'd come under? — Ravikiran 03:23, 1 August 2006 (EDT)
Did you intend to revert Jpatokal's revised choice of photo for Budapest on the main page, or were you aiming at the vandalism? Because I prefer the photo of the parliament building; it's easier to "read" at that small size than the landscape. - Todd VerBeek 09:18, 1 August 2006 (EDT)
Yes I do live there. Why do you ask? :) CandleWithHare 13:16, 1 August 2006 (EDT)
Ohio Regions[edit]
Todd gave his blessing to the Ohio cleanup, so if he's OK with a regions-delimited-by-county-border breakdown then I think we're probably OK with the Ohio cleanup. I think the isIn's for Northeast Ohio are OK, so I'll have a go at moving Northwest Ohio and getting those isIn's cleaned up when I get a chance. I assume you'll probably want to start with Southwest Ohio, so that leaves Southeast Ohio for whoever gets to it first. Also, it might be good to add a specific note to Wikitravel:Article naming conventions to emphasize that region names should be common names, and that since no one goes to "Southeast" it's really not a common name. I'll do that now. -- Ryan 19:12, 1 August 2006 (EDT)
Sysop on de[edit]
Hi Sapphire,
I've nominated you on de:Wikitravel:Nominierungen zum Administrator. Would you like to comment there? -- Steffen M. 08:26, 6 August 2006 (EDT)
Keeping an eye[edit]
I have a very simple way of keeping an eye on what 4,500 newspapers say about Wikitravel -- I have it set up as a custom keyword on Google News. You can even set it up to send alerts to you when new articles appear. Jpatokal 11:34, 6 August 2006 (EDT)
Warsaw question as part of CotW edits[edit]
Just doing a bit of CotW work on Warsaw and as your docent I'm wondering if you can help me a bit here- I noticed that there's a large section on the Warsaw#Royal_Walk and was hoping to shift it off to the appropriate district in it's entirety, and then just leave a small description linking to it in the see section. Problem is, which district is it best to put it in?
Also, any chance of slimming down the number of districts here? Or are they all worthy of articles? Tim 08:22, 8 August 2006 (EDT)
There's really no need to create a bunch of useless pages like Cincinnati, OH and then redirect the page to Cincinnati. Most people simply type in "Tampa" and they get the page they want. -- Sapphire 20:34, 9 August 2006 (EDT)
I think there may be miscommunication as regards the "Concierge" proposal. As far as I can see, nobody has risen to the bait when it comes to a literal concierge-like function of an "arranger" of attractions, nor do I think anyone is likely to, for reasons I explained in my original comments on your idea. Rather, the "Concierge" function seems to be that of a general-purpose information getter -- sort of a Wikitravel:Docent without specialization. Do you use Wikipedia? The analogy to the Wikipedia reference desk seems appropriate. -- Bill-on-the-Hill 22:33, 9 August 2006 (EDT)
Do you love skyline chili[edit]
It's a small world. I used to live in Cleveland and visit Cinci quite often. My family is also originally from Poland... and you want to live there. I'm visiting Poznan in Sept. Also, we're both travel lovers. Who knew :-) Thanks for your thoughts about World Wikia Gil.
You're doing it manually? For chrissake, ask Evan to whip up a script or something... but anyway, my images are all GFDL + CC-by-sa-all. Jpatokal 06:33, 12 August 2006 (EDT)
Hi, Andrew. Sorry for the confusion I caused. What I meant here is that some pages that currently exist in English Wikitravel have to be moved entirely to Shared. Among such pages are the liaison reports and tech pages, that should no longer exist as such in English WT. But instead of copying and pasting them to Shared, maybe we could just press the move tab up there and do the job more easily. I'm not sure if this move tab solution is possible and effective, so I'd like to know if you've tried that before and if you think that would work. Thank you, Ricardo (Rmx) 18:59, 14 August 2006 (EDT)
Do you care if I move Ulan-Ude to Ulan Ude? -- Sapphire 23:02, 12 August 2006 (EDT)
You're famous![edit]
Hi just thought I'd let you know that you were in an article in the Guardian yesterday. The links in Wikitravel:15_August_2006 -- Tim 07:17, 15 August 2006 (EDT)
The right place for uploading images[edit]
I know that and I even have an account in shared. The problem is that I can't access it anymore. The password stored in my browser seems to be wrong and the password reminder facility is not working. I have filed a bug report but nobody seemed to be interested and I wanted to u/l this emblem before I forget. CandleWithHare 14:14, 15 August 2006 (EDT)
Thanks for the Welcome[edit]
Thanks Sapphire. I am quite excited writing something related to my passion and my field of expertise if i may say so. I am learning the Wiki templates and tags. I would like you to check up my edits and give any suggestions or fedbacks you think are appropriate. Love & Regards, Yogi - Inasra
Access stats[edit]
You'll have to pester Evan if you want direct hit counts for articles, Webalizer only tracks the top ones and even that it does pretty badly. And as for titles, I'll take "Grand Poobah of the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" instead. Jpatokal 00:27, 16 August 2006 (EDT)
Simultaneous reverts[edit]
Sorry about that. I was trying to revert that garbage too. You beat me to it and it ended up looking like I put it back there on purpose?!?! Weird. Thanks though. Texugo 00:48, 17 August 2006 (EDT)
Review actually looks fine on IE6
Warsaw itineraries[edit]
My idea is that there should be five itineraries for Warsaw. I can not promise I'll finish them but I want to start the work by listing and grouping the sights:
These are the working titles and I still think they could be better, so I did not create any new article but instead used the already-existing Warsaw/Old Town and Warsaw/New Town articles (which I think are redundant and should eventually be set up as redirects to the respective itineraries).
So if you could help me, it'd be great if you could make up a better-sounding names for the articles and then we could create them and move the content from Old Town and New Town there.
CandleWithHare 11:19, 18 August 2006 (EDT)
So, the first itinerary is ready at Walking around the Old Town in Warsaw. How do you like it?
Template creation attempt![edit]
Well, I've bashed out a rough version for the wording of the Template:usablepark - how do you get the border round it, or is that a trick of the wiki software we're using? I tried importing it into my sandbox, but all I get is this -
I know the wording isn't great... What can I say? I'm a scientist! I'm sure someone will fine tune the words... -- Tim 13:19, 18 August 2006 (EDT)
Login problems[edit]
Thanks for the notice; I got the message and was able to clear up the problem. --Evan 09:20, 19 August 2006 (EDT)
I was intending to add the vfd template to the pages that CandleWithHare had added to the vfd page... Guess I must have been doing too much at the same time if I put it in the wrong places! Tim 00:30, 20 August 2006 (EDT)
Answers to your philosophical questions[edit]
I thought I'd take some time out to answer your questions:
The final three were dumb answers, but if you want to chat about the first answer further, I'd be delighted to try and answer your questions. -- Tim 00:31, 20 August 2006 (EDT)
A Shout Out[edit]
Yo, yo, yo. Time for a pat on the back for my Main Man Sapphire. Way to go still bustin' your hump on WikiTravel every day. Even the cheerleaders need to be cheered. OldPine 10:32, 21 August 2006 (EDT)
You dropped me a line suggesting I would be better off uploading my maps to the shared repository. I was under the impression, from reading through the various image policy pages, that the shared repository was mainly for non-language specific files and so anything containing chunks of language-specific text would be better off on the servers for that language version of Wikitravel. It's possible I've read it wrong, and it's equally possible that different rules apply for .png and .svg files, so I'd appreciate your input. --Paul. 14:40, 21 August 2006 (EDT)
IsIn - Portuguese[edit]
You helped me with this before so I thought I'd ask you first. I'm still having weird issues with IsIn sometimes. Two things:
If you don't want to mess with this, I can always post it on the traveler's pub. I just don't think any regular of the Portuguese version site knows anything much about this. Thanks! Texugo 04:58, 22 August 2006 (EDT)
The markup must or should look similar to this or exactly the same. Notice that there are no spaces anywhere seperating the templates and interwiki links, this appears to be somewhat critical in making sure the isin works. Also, notice that the isin is at the top of the template/interwiki list.
== Trabalhe == == Segurança == == Saúde == == Respeite == == Mantenha contato == {{IsIn|África}} [[de:Nigeria]] [[en:Nigeria]] [[es:Nigeria]] [[fr:Nigeria]] [[it:Nigeria]] [[ja:ナイジェリア]] [[sv:Nigeria]] [[WikiPedia:Nigéria]]
-- Andrew Haggard (Sapphire) 05:57, 22 August 2006 (EDT)
Thanks for setting up the {{ficaEm}} template too. That's great! --Ricardo (Rmx) 15:51, 23 August 2006 (EDT)
thanks for the link to the train travel in europe page! TedErnst 19:06, 24 August 2006 (EDT)
Thanks for the comments and advices on the Karimun page! GOHtk
Automagic templates[edit]
I'm afraid I didn't get any new e-mail from you (checked my junk mail and trash can folders now too). Could you please re-send it? I think that page will be a great addition to Portuguese Wikitravel. Thanks! -- Ricardo (Rmx) 21:07, 28 August 2006 (EDT)
You think you could get IsIn working for the Romanian version too? I'll be glad to insert them in a whole hell of a lot of articles, as soon as it works properly. Texugo 02:26, 30 August 2006 (EDT)
Lumnam Jone Photograph[edit]
To reply to your answer, I put photograph detail in the image summary. Please go to the image link.
Wikitravel logo[edit]
Hi, you contributed versions of Image:Compass star emblem coolvetica logo.png. Is this image available in larger or vector format, suitable for print, e.g. PDF, EPS, SVG? What are the rules for its use on posters and brochures? If I need permission, whom or where should I ask? --LA2 04:32, 6 September 2006 (EDT)
Images for hire[edit]
I don't know about Thai law and IANAL, but in most jurisdictions, it will be the business that owns the copyright, because it hired the photographer. — Ravikiran 14:42, 6 September 2006 (EDT)
Kent moved to Kent (England)[edit]
I see you have made this move. I would have thought that Kent in England would qualify as most famous. But if not the move has left a large list of links, breadcrumbs, and user links that now point to the disambiguation page Kent and will need to be fixed. To be honest, I am not sure if it should be most famous or not, but with all the broken links I am inclined to go that way. What are your thoughts? -- Tom Holland (xltel) 21:31, 9 September 2006 (EDT)
Need help[edit]
I can restore your user page if you want. Or you can restore the last version of User:Sapphire and then undo the last revision which made it a redirect. -- Colin 01:33, 11 September 2006 (EDT)
I'll be busy for a bit -- Colin 01:38, 11 September 2006 (EDT)
De-vandalizing the magic dragon[edit]
Thanks, Andrew; that was probably the fastest response to the Willy spammer yet. (I was actually in the middle of an edit when he/she/it struck.) -- Bill-on-the-Hill 18:39, 12 September 2006 (EDT)
There was a brief discussion about using "Small City" vs. "City" on MediaWiki:Newarticletext for new articles (see MediaWiki talk:Newarticletext) - since the "small city" template generally refers to the amount of info present, rather than the actual size of the city, it seemed to make more sense to use language that would encourage most people to choose the small city article template when starting new articles. I realize you were probably just trying to clear the site cache, but figured I'd leave a note here anyhow :) -- Ryan 22:44, 13 September 2006 (EDT)
Revert inquiry[edit]
Hi Sapphire, I added in some links to some of my hotel booking websites and you seem to have followed in my footsteps and deleted them all! What have I done wrong, the websites I added include current Guest Reviews which I thought travellers would find helpfull. Regards [email protected]
Happy Birthday[edit]
Congratulations! It's all down hill from here ;) OldPine 07:28, 16 September 2006 (EDT)
Congratulations! Now you can actually have a beer legally right? — Ravikiran 07:55, 16 September 2006 (EDT)
ditto! Congrats. -- Tom Holland (xltel) 08:02, 16 September 2006 (EDT)
Always remember: "Beer before liquor, never been sicker. Liquor before beer, you're in the clear." Have a good one. -- Ryan 15:17, 16 September 2006 (EDT)
Thai coup[edit]
I'm in Bangkok. State of emergency: no. Martial law: yes. ~ 18.104.22.168 23:54, 19 September 2006 (EDT)
Random quesrion[edit]
Moved from Wikitravel:Travellers' pub Hypatia 09:05, 21 September 2006 (EDT)
Is it physical possible to leave Cincinnati and get to Chicago in 23 minutes?
Depart: Cincinnati, OH (CVG) - Wed, Aug 02 at 7:47am Arrive: Chicago-Ohare, IL (ORD) - Wed, Aug 02 at 8:10am -- Andrew Haggard (Sapphire) 20:27, 26 July 2006 (EDT)
Hello Sapphire,[edit]
Thank you so much for the response and the very useful information. I read over the "Don't tout" page and I apologize if any of my posts were not 100% coinciding with this. I will be much more careful about this in the future.
I'm very happy to hear that you are already checking out TripTie.com. I would love to know what you think and if you think TripTie has value to the traveling community. When TripTie goes live (within the next week) all the trip plans will be available to the public. I was thinking direct links to quality itineraries for a desired location could be very useful for the wikitravel community (obviously without any touting). How would you feel about this?
Thanks again for taking the time to message me, I will be sure to use the "Traveller's pub" area in the future. Quick question about the Traveller's pub, would it be appropriate to post something there informing people about TripTie.com (in a non-toutful way)? Any feedback about TripTie or further advice would be great!
Local spam blacklist[edit]
Just a suggestion - when adding a new URL to the list, might be worth mentioning the URL in the Edit Summary, then others can see at a glance that it's a job that no longer needs doing, without having to delve into the list itself or start reviewing difference between revisions. ~ 184.108.40.206 06:19, 26 September 2006 (EDT)
I posted a proposed schedule on shared:Wikitravel Shared talk:Get-together; let me know what you think. --Evan 12:20, 26 September 2006 (EDT)
moved to here from User talk:22.214.171.124:
I've reverted the addition of the car rental link to the spam blacklist, because it seems to be a legit company and the information, contact info (including the link) can be useful. I haven't reverted your deletion of the link from the main Costa Rica page, because you're right that the information doesn't belong there. However, the info could be useful in San Jose and other Costa Rican destination articles where the company has locations. -- Sapphire 14:44, 29 September 2006 (EDT)
Thanks for the welcome! Frequenttrekker 30 Sep 2006
Ohio sandbox[edit]
You're using the User:Sapphire/Sandbox/Places/Ohio talk page for something else, so I thought I'd comment here. You asked Xltel to proofread, but I thought I'd butt in. Here is what I did [3].
Here are some more comments:
— Ravikiran 15:37, 30 September 2006 (EDT)
Re:Protecting the USA page[edit]
Fine with me. (I wasn't aware that you were on line.) Just follow through. The bickering has gone on long enough; one more round and Boom.
I don't particularly have a dog in this fight. The United States creates highly polarized opinions in people simply because of what it is: an enormously influential country, regardless of whether you endorse its politics. But a time comes when you accept that those opinions are going to be out there, and nobody's mind is going to be changed by "dialogue" (sic) here. We're way past the time when a ceasefire is needed; having fired the warning shot, I don't care whether you do the protect or I do, as long as it does get done if the bickering continues. -- Bill-on-the-Hill 16:16, 1 October 2006 (EDT)
Weird Chinese stuff[edit]
Are you also an admin on Wikitravel Shared, Andrew? I'm not, and that Chinese spammer is now making a mess there, too. -- Bill-on-the-Hill 23:42, 1 October 2006 (EDT)
Thank you, Andrew! :)[edit]
For your anti-vandalism edits on the Romanian WikiTravel... Actually, there were no problems at all, quite on the contrary, it's me who needs to thank you for keeping an eye on it!... I was just a little bit puzzled by such edits out of the blue (I'm not a frequent user of the English WikiTravel so I didn't know you there) and for instance I was curious how did you come up with the spam list? Thanks a lot once again! --Vlad 12:30, 6 October 2006 (EDT)
You're fast![edit]
Man, I've had hu: up for about 10 minutes and you've already done the interwiki link for en:. quick moving! --Evan 13:39, 6 October 2006 (EDT)
Thanks for That - Mapping Project[edit]
Many thanks for your information on the Wikitravel Mapping Project. It looks quite fascinating. I will explore this!
All is good![edit]
Sorry, guess I was overly parinoid. Now I understand the question about the PATRIOT Act... I was refering to the passage of S.3930 on 9/29/06. Which again, may be overly parinoid on my part. But I could see how it might give pause to some visitors to the USA. Again, I really don't see that there is a great need for the warning at this point and it is obvious as you have said that the quest by Dan is a "beef" against the USA. Thank you for your input on the talk page. -- Tom Holland (xltel)
Hi Andrew - I know I've brought it up before, but I'd like to reiterate some concerns about your sandbox pages in the hopes that you might start making more edits to the actual articles. The other night it occurred to me to make an edit to the Cleveland article, but since that's also in your sandbox I had some concerns about getting the two versions out-of-sync and decided to hold off. I know you mean well by creating sandbox pages, but it has the effect of hiding any work you do from others, and making collaboration a bit more difficult. The stated advantage (If a users sees half a guide converted and doesn't know what the hell is going on they're likely not to contribute) refers mostly to listing tags, and I'm not sure that having half-converted tags is actually a bigger negative than having two divergent versions of an article. None of the Wikitravel guides are ever really complete, and it should therefore be fine for you to edit an existing guide in the same manner that you would edit one of your sandbox copies. That approach would give others the benefit of any edits you're making, while you saving you the trouble of having to merge edits from the real articles back into your sandbox. You're of course welcome to do things however you like, but please at least consider the advantages to editing the actual articles and only creating sandbox articles when you want to make an example page for others to discuss, or for testing purposes.
Now back to doing real work - my Wikitravel break for this hour is over :) -- Ryan 19:35, 12 October 2006 (EDT)
Hi there![edit]
Hi Andrew! Sorry, I just found your question about appartments in Lodz now. Probably you are already in Lodz and I hope you do have a place to live! Anyway, I will be back in Lodz on the 23rd (in Stockholm now) and I will be happy to meet and discuss developing pages for Belchatow (never been there...) and other places. Just text me or give me a call: +48 888218575. Best! Piotr
Cheers dude![edit]
Thanks for the welcome man, it's good to be here! Victor Greenstreet 18:09, 13 October 2006 (EDT)
Re: signature training[edit]
you're awesome, I was totally just wondering how to do that and to stubborn to ask. Thanks again for your collaborations! Cacahuate 03:50, 15 October 2006 (EDT)
Re: Welcome Niels[edit]
Hi Sapphire, thanks for the welcome. I have written some parts a year or so ago as annonymous source :) The Weekly Mansion / Beckers and part of the transportation bits in Japan are mine. I am not really interested in the Dutch version, as I would need to write way too much there to make it even remotely interesting.
The Japanese version is a bit out of my interest too, as I would prefer writing for foreighners then writing to and for Japanese :)
If you decide to go to Japan again anytime soon, I can recommend WMT - Otemae in Osaka to stay at. Or hotels from the Toyoko-inn group.
sapphire can you add some data? 188.8.131.52 11:42, 18 October 2006 (EDT)
Listings format[edit]
You can't put spaces around the equal signs in listing tags. --Evan 12:50, 18 October 2006 (EDT)
Technical problem[edit]
Thanks for the quick response. Only about three fourths of the page is showing - the rest are not there. Then the headings such as 'Edit' etc. are not there. -- P.K.Niyogi 09:07, 23 October 2006 (EDT)
Questions from Moon5[edit]
Hi Sapphire,
Thank you for your comments.
Is there any rule according to which we are supposed to order cities (in a country article) alphabetically?
Why have you removed my
 from Warsaw? According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax we can use it, can't we?
Best regards,
Moon5 08:47, 1 November 2006 (EST)
-- Andrew H. (Sapphire) 09:04, 1 November 2006 (EST)
Route 66[edit]
The route from Albuquerque on to points west follows Interstate 40 for a loooong way. I don't know exactly what it does in California. Suggest you just look at the article.
The "alternate" route through New Mexico gets a bit messy. When you're ready to work on that one, let me know and I'll help. -- Bill-on-the-Hill 23:43, 1 November 2006 (EST)
Smoke Free Ohio[edit]
Yes I am an Ohioan, and the ban takes place 30 days from election day, which was Nov. 7. -- Milkman 14:05, 9 November 2006 (EST)
I called the toll free number from smokefreeohio.org and talked to the head of the PR department. Yeah, I saw there was nothing in the ballot about a starting date, so now we both know! -- Milkman 14:08, 9 November 2006 (EST)
Deadwood photo[edit]
It's up at Wikitravel Shared [[4]] - use as you please. I knocked the size down a bit per the server request. (The Wikipedia version was a merciless 623kb). Gorilla Jones 11:22, 10 November 2006 (EST)
Hi Sapphire (Andrew),
Thanks for the advice on requesting interwiki links. I will go to Wikitravel Shared and do so. Have a good one! Kirasw 18:08, 11 November 2006 (EST)
Around/outside town[edit]
Thanks for correcting my English - getting native speakers' advice on such subtleties is a good way to keep learning. -- Ricardo (Rmx) 21:47, 23 December 2006 (EST)
My brother and I have a tradition of never jinxing your team when they do something good, and instead trying for the anti-jinx - if someone runs a kick back for a touchdown, immediately ask where the flag is. If someone catches a touchdown, claim they're out of bounds (even if they're in the middle of the field). I suspect your early victory prediction might have sealed the Bengal's fate today :-P For what it's worth, San Diego did the same thing to the Browns last weekend, although not with quite so large a lead... -- Ryan 20:06, 12 November 2006 (EST)
Hi Andrew! Currently the business keeps me work with high pressure therefore I can't take as much care of the COTW as I want. Hopefully after christmas the market relaxes a bit... The nominees for COTW are rare. Please kick in some cities. When I'm back I take a more to develop that thing a bit. Jc8136 14:39, 14 November 2006 (EST)
Brunei copyvio[edit]
When I find a copyvio, I usually edit it out OR insert a {{copyvio}} because for whatever reason I don't want to pursue it further (in future I'll state this in the edit summary).
In cases where the article/copyvio is very straightforward (for example when someone creates an article using only copyvio content, so there's nothing else there), I usually (always?) edit it out.
In more complex cases (ie going to take more time, research required, etc) I don't edit the copyvio out unless I'm prepared to bookmark the page and then check it periodically in case the copyvio is put back in again, and there's a limit to how many pages I want to do this with.
If it's an article I've no personal interest in that already has lots of history/contributors and substantial content, then I'll insert a {{copyvio}} and move on to something else.
In the case of Brunei, I've never been there, not contributed to the article beyond minor spelling/isIn/extlink edits, and have no idea how much copyvio it contains - I was just browsing recent changes and googled a substantial string of text randomly selected from the middle of a suspect paragraph and was given the URL I put in the {{copyvio}}.
Anyway I've now reverted the suspect contribution [7] and removed the {{copyvio}} and I've checked for other copyvios from the same IP (there was only one other edit logged). I've NOT checked the rest of the article, nor have I bookmarked it. ~ 188.8.131.52 04:11, 21 November 2006 (EST)
Thank you for your suggestions[edit]
I will review in detail the wikitravel style for my contributions. I do not want to be disruptive in any sense. I will follow the guidelines and thank you for your suggestions. Cyber traveler 19:16, 28 November 2006 (EST)
Shopping in Hangzhou[edit]
Sorry if my recently-created article went against the Wikitravel grain. I'll merge the information if that's what's best, but it seems to me that the Hangzhou article would become rather large and and unwieldy if that happened. I can see why overly-precise articles could be a problem, but it also seems to me that one of Wikitravel's strengths ought to be that it doesn't gloss over details the way many other travel guides do. I intend to add a lot of information that I wish I had known before coming to the city, and perhaps other can benefit from it as well.
Agreed, a totally unbiased travel guide is not very handy, but simply copying opinions from other sources is also not a good idea. I would suggest if one takes external information, stick to the facts and make it NPOV, but if one can supply a firsthand opinion, state it like it is. -- Nick 18:11, 1 December 2006 (EST)
PS: Robertson really is a very dull place, I passed thru there last year. An hour or two might be to much to spend there. I'll put the dull back in the article, but leave the reference to lonely planet out. -- Nick 18:13, 1 December 2006 (EST)
User talk:Wwwdaiyang[edit]
Check this out! He's also made another post [8] before that is kinda spammy. Obviously the main page spam isnt allowed, but whats the deal with stuff on your talk page? I've notified him that it doesn't tie in with Wikitravel:Goals_and_non-goals, but is there anything else we should do? I couldn't find anything in the guidelines and policies that says what you can and can't write on your talk page... -- Tim 07:19, 2 December 2006 (EST)
your attempt similar to Paper travel guides?[edit]
Sapphire, do you remember the name of article you created earlier, which is similar to Paper travel guides? Wrh2 mentioned that an article Travel Guides existed before (and there's still Talk:Travel Guides). Was Travel Guides your page? Or we actually have 3 attempts to create a thing like Paper travel guides? --DenisYurkin 15:33, 4 December 2006 (EST)
Why would you think www.visituzbekistan.eu is not official website?
It is owned by Ayrum Internasional you can find this name in www.uzbektourizm.uz it is official goverment ministry which issues licence to operate as a travel tour operator.
Please respond!
Furkat Elmirzaev
Thanks for the warm welcome!Can you help me promote Kannur 's page? Sumalsn 05:10, 9 December 2006 (EST)
The World66 bot has been running in batches and most of the matches have been added. There will, of course, be a lot of manual work too. There's actually a lot of articles that don't match because of different ideas of what's an article (i.e. we have regions they have some attractions with their own articles) and different focuses (they have a lot more Northern European destinations for example).
The transbot ran into some roadblocks with a character encoding issue. I'm still trying to work around them, but I may have to abandon the Perl libraries that I was using and start again using PyBot or another php/mediawiki bot. Thanks again for your excellent template-request suggestion-- I've added the code for that functionality. I'll try and get back on the character issue since you're still interested! I still think there's a lot of good that could come from more inter-translation... Maj 11:02, 9 December 2006 (EST)
I was going to make it into "Gay (Georgia)" then dab Gay. *grin* -- Tom Holland (xltel) 13:58, 11 December 2006 (EST)
Comments about etiquette[edit]
Well sorry if I was not informed about your Wiki edicate. In regards to your comment about "The first being it's very rude to remove someone else's comments and any comments that you may have made and someone has already responded to." That is against Wiki edicate as well as stated here: "Try to keep discussions about a particular article on that article's talk page, too." And I'm breaking edicate by pointing that out. On to matters of edicate and a particular article, Jonboy made an edit to a page that removed a copyrighted paragraph's source. Isn't that against Wiki http://wikitravel.org/en/Copyleft? Obviously a rhetorical question.
Here is my text about Petrovaradon fortress. http://wikitravel.org/en/Petrovaradin_fortress I hope that its ok. If you have any comment or sugestion, please tell me.
--Micowiny 16:33, 17 December 2006 (EST)
Rail travel in Canada[edit]
Thanks for your comments - however I'm concentrating on a precise itinerary, not a travel topic. It will abide by the guidelines for an intinerary and hopefully will not tread on the toes of the existing travel topic by going into detail not suitable for the Rail travel in Canada page. I would ask that the documents remain un-merged until the complete material exists on this page. Regards, and thank you for your concerns and comments. < james > James 14:27, 21 December 2006 (GMT)
Kathgodam image[edit]
Ya, it is licensed i suppose. anyway, i photographed it so i give my personal consent.Upamanyuwikitravel 10:39, 21 December 2006 (EST)
Border towns?[edit]
Hey there! Just a quick question since you're online, I didn't know where else to post this one. Is there a policy that you know of for border towns? The one I'm considering now is Haridaspur / Benapole between India and Bangladesh. Often the border towns are tiny, and often have different names, but could easily be covered by one article (and I'd prefer it all on one page anyway). Have you seen this discussed before? I was starting to think maybe just creating Haridaspur/Benapole, but surely someone would argue against that. Cacahuate 05:30, 23 December 2006 (EST)
I notice that the article for Swansea is no longer listed on Google, whereas last time I checked it was within the top 15 listings for the city. I have tried typing in just the name 'Swansea' and also 'Swansea Wikitravel', but it doesn't come up. Any ideas? Thanks for your help. Frequenttrekker 23:20, 23 December 2006 (EST)
Yo yo yo[edit]
Here's a blinky bakatcha. Goin' OK. Lookin' for my next obsession. OldPine 10:03, 24 December 2006 (EST)
Hi Andrew,
Don't worry about German grammar, even most Germans do not understand it. And it would be a pleasure for me to correct You ;-). Something serious: I think there is a major problem with the de:Wikitravel:Wie_du_eine_Seite_bearbeitest page in the German Wikitravel. Look at de:Wikitravel:Fehlerberichte if You have the time! --Flip666 20:24, 26 December 2006 (EST)
Email Address[edit]
Please write to: , I have troubles with Your email!
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--Flip666 19:14, 27 December 2006 (EST)