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Femi Falana, senior advocate of Nigeria, says President Muhammadu Buhari should be embarrassed at the manner in which the police treated #OurMumuDonDo protesters.
The #OurMumuDonDo group began protesting on Monday, August 6, calling on the president to resume or resign if he could no longer lead the country.
Officers of the police force disrupted the protest on Tuesday, claiming to have received a hint that it was going to be hijacked by hoodlums.
In a statement issued by the senior lawyer on Sunday, he gave instances where the president led protests as a private citizen without harassment or assault from the police.
"It is pertinent to remind the presidency and the Nigeria Police Force that President Buhari had, in the recent past, taken part in peaceful rallies in Abuja to protest alleged manipulation of election results and perceived injustice in the country," he said.
"It is on record that as he exercised his fundamental rights to freedom of expression and assembly with other Nigerians on such occasions he was never subjected to any form of assault or intimidation by the police."
Falana urged the inspector general of police to apologise Charles Oputa, an entertainer popularly known as Charly Boy, who led the protest.
"By providing 'adequate security' for the pro-Buhari demonstrators while harassing the anti –Buhari protesters the police engaged in the violation section 42 of the constitution which has prohibited discrimination on grounds of political opinion," he said.
"To that extent, the authorities of the Nigeria Police Force should apologise to Mr. Charlie Oputa and other members of the 'our mumu don do'.
"No doubt, the violent disruption of the anti-Buhari rally ought to have embarrassed President Buhari who had advised President Yaradua, in a similar situation, to step aside as he could no longer discharge the duties and functions of his office."
Falana gave the example of a September 2003 protest by the defunct All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) which was disrupted.
"The police authorities justified the disruption by claiming that the organizers of the rally did not obtain a police permit," he said.
"Completely aggrieved by the action of the police, Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders of the ANPP instructed our law firm to sue the inspector general of police to justify the legal validity of asking for police permit before protesting against the government."
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Fall is in full swing and families across the Chippewa Valley are filling their weekends with fall festivals, hay wagon rides, and apple picking. But what do you do once you've checked these attractions off your list? Below are six fall family attractions that you might not have heard of but are loaded with fun. Best of all, they're free!
Parade of Colors Fall Hike on the Ice Age Trail
This is a great opportunity to get outdoors and check out the colors, lakes, and hills of the Chippewa Moraine. The Parade of Colors offers hikes of 2, 4, or 6 miles. Shuttles and refreshments provided.
Saturday, October 1, 9:00 - 11:00am at the Obey Interpretive Center at the Chippewa Moraine Ice Age Unit, near New Auburn. Cost: FREE, donations accepted for trail maintenance.
Observing the Night Sky with Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society
Enjoy the night sky like never before! Here's your chance look through telescopes and see galaxies, nebula, star clusters, colorful double stars, and other wonders of the night sky.
Every clear Saturday until October 29, 9:00 -11:00pm at Hobbs Observatory at Beaver Creek Reserve through the Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society. Cost: FREE, donations accepted.
Jaycette Park
With so many parks around Eau Claire being outfitted with new playground equipment, it's easy for Jaycette Park to go unnoticed. Sandwiched between the State St. hill and the Fire Station on Patton St, Jaycette Park is an old-school park with minimal equipment that forces kids to use their imaginations.
Plus, while you're there you could take a tour of the Fire Station next door! Just make sure you schedule your visit ahead of time.
Strut Your Mutt: Howl-O-Ween
It's not fair for us humans to have all the fun for Halloween...so here's a chance to dress up your pups and participate in an event that will feature costume contests, a pet parade, local vendors, and a walk along the city trails. Prizes will be awarded for best costume, best costume couple (human and dog), and best pet/owner look-alike.
Sunday, October 23, 2:00 - 4:00pm at Hobbs Ice Arena (don't worry - the Packers don't play this Sunday!) Cost: FREE.
LEGO Club
Kids, get ready to use your imagination! You can be a part of a LEGO building club that's going on one Sunday each month through the end of the year. Every Sunday is a different theme, and the LEGOs will be provided by the library.
Sunday, September 25, October 30, November 20, and December 11, 1:30 - 3:00pm at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library. Cost: Free (no registration required).
Fall Foliage Drive or Hike
Admiring the fall colors is a no-brainer, but I want to provide you with some resources to make this your best fall color viewing season ever! The first is the Fall Color Report on Travel Wisconsin's website. This is the most comprehensive and timely report for estimating Wisconsin's peak fall colors. Next, you want to make sure you view these colors from the best possible place. Here are some great spots to check out - Six Places to Admire the Fall Colors of Eau Claire.
Any other events going on in or around Eau Claire this fall that you'd like others to know about? Let us know in the comments section below!


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Thursday, July 1, 2010
my room
It's been one year since I redecorated my room (before/after picture here) and I still love it just as much as I did last July. Ever since I was like six, I've always been changing things around on an annual basis -- moving furniture or repainting the walls or getting new bedding -- but this year I really didn't need to change anything because I love it the way it is. I did add a couch for a few months, but then I realized it was blocking my A/C vent. It's now camping out in the basement until autumn rolls around.
Our new goal is to be out of the house by Christmas, but with the way the housing market looks I have my doubts that we can unload our house by then :-\ Anyway, I have my paint chips saved, because when we do move I'm going to paint it exactly the same colors. We're going to be getting rid of most of our furniture (including my beloved bed) but I'm hoping I can re-create the look accurately if I refer to the million pictures I've been taking :)
ps. expect me to be posting a lot of pictures of my house, and things from when I was little soon. I want to be able to come to this blog after I've moved and look at the rooms I'm sure I'll miss, and the toys from my childhood that we couldn't bring with us...
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"Can you do one more thing for me before you go?" I put down my jacket and went to where my client was standing in a small nook off the main reception area in her office. There was a huge, seriously huge, electric typewriter stationed at a side table. I think it is safe to call any typewriter vintage at this point in time. It was vintage IBM.
"Do you think you can put this ribbon in?" She handed me a box and I look at it and at the ribbon that was installed in the machine. The box seemed about half the size it should be, I thought, but did not want to say anything.
"Oh, this is the corrective ribbon," I said, looking at the manual she had already taken out and had turned to the correct page right there waiting for me on the table. "Not the ink ribbon."
"Oh dear," she said, "they said it was the ribbon. It isn't working and the lady I spoke with on the phone suggested a new ribbon." She didn't realize there were two ribbons.
"Okay," I said, "Let's see." In this case the corrective ribbon was attached to the main ribbon cartridge a lot like a baby in one of those papoose carriers is attached to a mother's chest. I took off the combined cartridge and separated the two. It has been at least twenty years since I've touched on of these machines. To me it appeared that both the ribbon cartridge and the corrective cartridge were full but I put the new one on anyway. I was able to advance both ribbons with the gear on the side of the housing.
I reinstalled it and tried to type. It was faint and growing more faint. Hmmm. "The ink tape isn't advancing as I type," I announced. "I do think there is enough of it, but it is not moving along." I removed it from the typewriter and looked at it. If you have ever looked inside an electric typewriter, there is a system of gears. As you type, gears inside the machine begin to rotate and in turn rotate the ink tape so that each letter gets a fresh spot on the ink tape from the cartridge. "I don't think the gears are turning or catching on this," I mumbled out loud.
There were at least four electrical connections with coated wiring running back and forth right there underneath where the ink cartridge rests. I started to reach inside and then realized it was still turned on. I was very proud of my brain that a voice inside my head said, "hey, let's shut off the power first." I have a history of getting shocked. I shut off the power, poked at the gears I could see and I pushed each tiny electrical plug into its connection to make sure each was tight. I did not know what I was doing. I was just doing what seemed to make sense. At the back of my mind I am thinking she will need to call someone or replace the monster of a machine with something less vintage. I put the ink cartridge back in, closed the top and turned it on.
I typed "how does this look". It was perfect. It worked. The ribbon was moving along with each letter. The type was dark and definite.
"What did you do?" She asked.
"I'm not really sure," I shrugged, "I just made sure all the connections were tight. Maybe the vibrations when it is on loosened them. You are good to go." I wanted to ask what on earth she used it for, but decided I did not want to be late for my next appointment. She was thrilled. It was one less stress for her day. It was as though I'd performed a miracle that saved her time, money and more. I was kind of impressed myself, but I didn't say.
It was great just using a typewriter again.
My mother was a very fast typist. She would work as a temp during those weeks or months when my Dad was laid off or when his union sent the employees out on strike. In a one paycheck home, an interruption such as a strike was a serious hindrance to paying bills and buying groceries. With five small children, Mom used her skills to help out. In addition to temping, she took in typing at home as well to do in the evenings for extra money. She had a Royal Quiet De Luxe manual typewriter.
I suspect it was a prized possession in addition to being a valuable tool. It weighed a ton! It was tricky to wind the ribbon which was a lot like threading a sewing machine since there were no convenient ribbon cartridges then, but it sung as she typed. We were always fascinated by how fast she could type. When she earned enough money she got us a used copy of the Gregg Typing Manual and a small portable manual typewriter. It had a plastic case and was a pretty baby blue color. When she was working in the evening, to keep us out of her hair, we would take turns sitting at the other end of the table learning the Qwerty system from the Manual which was bound uniquely to stand up on its own like an easel next to the typewriter.
It did not take long for my brothers to lose interest and abandon the pretty blue machine. I enjoyed it. It was almost like learning a new language understanding which fingers were responsible for which letters of the alphabet. At some point I got good enough to use Mom's Royal typewriter. It felt so much more impressive. It was heavier, solid. When you reached up and swung the arm back to advance to the next line of type, it felt like you were doing something with great authority. And it also rang and clacked, creating a wonderful rhythm and music.
When I reach the end of a line and had more to include, there was that handy Margin Release key: MAR REL. I quickly learned how to foresee the need to hyphenate or hit that key and add a few more letters. It was about looking ahead, being aware. There was no correction tape in the old manual typewriters. We had white out but it was often dried out and somewhat gummy to use if you put it on too thick. Later we had small pieces of correction tape that seemed to give a cleaner correction. They weren't really lifting off the incorrect letter so much as covering it up in white so that you could type over it and it was not terribly noticeable.
I always wrote my stories in long hand and then would sit at her typewriter to type them out. When you stop to think on a manual typewriter there is silence, complete silence until you begin to type again. Later when using an IBM Selectric for the same purpose, there was a nagging, almost taunting hum if you paused to think. It was waiting. It was waiting. Come on, type something, it seemed to demand. It was not a supportive writing companion like the manual typewriter was, waiting patiently in complete respectful silence. With electricity had come impatience.
I learned the IBM Selectric in high school typing class. We were first taught the Qwerty keyboard which I'd known for a number of years, but the practice was more formal and I was able to pick up a great deal more speed on the electric. On Mom's manual typewriter, each keystroke popped up a single arm with the letter on it and raised the ribbon up for the key to strike against it onto the paper making its mark. If I were typing too fast, several of these arms would get caught up in each other and I would have to stop and pick them apart and restart. I always ended up with little ink letters on my fingers. The new electric had all the letters on a tiny little ball that popped up, spun and danced like R2D2. The new electrics also did not have the arm for the return. It was a simple button, automatic upon arrival at the end of the line.
It was less physical, less emphatic. Still my keys never got stuck together as my fingers sped along adding text to the page. It never slowed me down. There were two font choices then, two balls of type that you could easily swap in and out of the housing. Pica and Elite seemed to be the most popular. Font size was more about the spacing of the letters on the line than the size of type. Later there were many more choices and built-in corrective tape. It was a heavy machine, hard to lift and move, so you didn't. It always had its own stand, usually on wheels so you could move it somewhere convenient to work.
I avoided using a computer for many years having entered college just before they became widespread in use. When I did start, I was ahead of the game, having learned the Qwerty keyboard as a child. The speed potential on the computer was stunning. I loved it. I could type as fast as I could think and the keys never stuck. There was less humming at me during the pauses, but the cursor was always there blinking, waiting, not impatient but a persistent reminder that something comes next. What is that?
I left my client's office feeling quite pleased, not that I had fixed her machine, but that I had gotten to type on it. Even just a few short sentences had reminded me how good that felt. There is a hum and rhythm to the old typing sessions that people do not get to experience on today's computer keyboards. And there was a physicality to writing with a typewriter that I am doubtful can even be described to people who have never experienced a manual or even an older model electric typewriter. I miss that. I might have to go find myself a typewriter.


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The Not the Wikipedia Weekly Skypecasts have been a wonderful way to get to know Wikipedians better. Filll has been one of the regulars on the project and he's an experienced Wikipedian who's been active at Wikipedia's difficult evolution/creation debates.
The site sees consistent problems at areas where real world conflicts migrate onto Wikipedia, and volunteer work in these areas can be a real test of an editor's patience and interpersonal skills. Fill has come through well, but it's something like editing in a different (and much harsher) world from what most Wikipedians experience. So he's created a page called "The AGF Challenge" where he presents real dilemmas and asks other users how they would handle them.
I found this interesting enough to do an interview. First, here's a summary of Filll's Wikipedia experience.
Joined Oct 2006
27,000 edits
Not an administrator
Featured article credits:
Good article credits:
- 03:13, 17 August 2007 Dragons flight (Talk contribs) blocked "Filll (Talk contribs)" (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 24 hours (persistent personal attacks despite warnings)
- 03:39, 17 August 2007 JoshuaZ (Talk contribs) unblocked Filll (Talk contribs) (DF should not make the block and attacks not obviously so bad + insufficient warning)
Durova says: Welcome!
Filll says: Thank you Durova.
Durova says: You've created a page called the AGF Challenge. That's "assume good faith". Could you talk a little more about it?
Filll says: Sure I would be glad to. I am thinking about creating a series of exercises to help people understand more about issues that come up when editing Wikipedia, and decisions that editors have to make. I hope this will also start a dialogue about some of these issues as well.
Durova says: What prompted you to create these exercises?
Filll says: I have noticed that many of the same questions and difficulties arise over and over, in slightly different form. Many people who are unhappy with Wikipedia's approach to a topic they are interested in, are readily able to understand why Wikipedia operates the way it does when they see the same principles applied to some other area. Also, when people are directly involved in a dispute, things sometimes get so heated they are not able to be objective. I thought if I created a set of "typical" difficulties that were not ongoing disputes, people could think about these a little more objectively. Also, many of those inside Wikipedia that complain about Wikipedia have little experience in dealing with contentious topics, so this gives them a chance to ponder these questions in a safe environment and avoid getting their hands dirty in a contentious dispute. Hopefully when these situations are studied in an abstract way, people can learn about why Wikipedia does what it does, and think about better ways to handle these sorts of difficult topics.
Durova says: So you have firsthand experience in contentious topics?
Filll says: Yes I have a little bit of experience in several controversial areas. I first encountered contentious discussions at the "Black people" article. I also have seen a lot of controversy at the articles associated with the creationism and evolution dispute, and with intelligent design. I also have edited some of the alternative medicine articles, which also can be quite contentious.
Durova says: How would you say the editing environment of a contentious article differs from a regular Wikipedia environment?
Filll says: It is much much more stressful, for one thing. It is much more time-consuming. A lot of effort goes into "defending" the articles from vandalism. In some cases, there are efforts to destroy the NPOV flavor of these articles 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even getting these articles to NPOV can be more difficult, if not impossible. There are organized groups of sock puppets and meat puppets and sometimes even paid editors from public relations firms attacking the WP articles. The editors can be targeted off-wiki and threatened and harassed in real life.
Durova says: That's something! Have you seen a lot of those extreme cases?
Filll says: Yes I have seen a lot of these extreme situations myself, or heard about them.
Durova says: But you also edit uncontroversial topics, is that true?
Filll says: Yes I do. For relaxation and fun, I edit a lot of uncontroversial articles. For example, I am working on creating articles for all the towns, villages and hamlets on the Isle of Wight. I am collecting versions of Frere Jacques in as many languages as possible, and other information about Frere Jacques. I am slowly working on improving the articles about the Way of St. James and towns along the route, and the Botafumeiro which is a large censor used in the Santiago de Compostella Cathedral. I am involved in improving the articles associated with Miquelon and St. Pierre, two islands off the east coast of Canada. I have edited some articles about linguistics and history and the history of publishing. I have an article about Bees and toxic chemicals that I hope to expand and improve; it is a GA article now. I have edited several articles about various fruits and vegetables. I have a lot of interests and I use Wikipedia as one way to explore them. I eventually will probably edit more in my main areas of interest, which lie in physics and applied mathematics.
Durova says: So with all of that hassle at the controversial topics, why do you go there?
Filll says: Well that is a good question. Sometimes I stay away from them for a while. I do help my friends who are working on these articles, and I think we make progress. I think we have an impact. Our intelligent design article gets over 70,000 visits a month, and our evolution article gets over 200,000 visits a month. My article on the Botafumeiro gets only about 1000 visits a month, and my article on Bees and toxic chemicals gets only about 1500 visits a month. Some of my more obscure articles get fewer visits per month than that. Our intelligent design articles are a valuable resource for people on all sides of the controversy, and for the legal and journalistic communities. Our evolution article was very highly rated in an outside review. We are providing the best possible information, in the most balanced form, and we are doing it free of charge. More information is better, I think, particularly in areas that are fraught with misinformation and confusion on all sides. It is my way to contribute a tiny bit to clearing up the disinformation and cutting throug the propaganda that both sides throw at each other. Also, many of the best sources of information on these topics are not so easily found. We give the public a way to find the information easily and put it in an organized format and provide some context.
Durova says: Now let me play devil's advocate for a moment: do you suppose the people who disagree with you ideologically think they're at those controversial articles in order to get good information in front of the public?
Filll says: That is not the impression I get from my conversations and interactions with them. For example, in the case of assorted Young Earth Creationists, they believe they know the Truth and that they have to write all articles to correct the mistakes that are in the scientific community, or the textbooks, or the museums. They want all the articles to reflect their personal views, instead of reflecting all the views that exist, which is what NPOV is. The impression I have is that they want to create religious tracts, not an encyclopedia article. The same is true at some alternative medicine articles. The proponents of assorted alternative medicine approaches want to censor any information that is contrary to their particular form of alternative medicine, and all studies that might reflect negatively on it, and only present information that promotes their approach. They do not want to present a balance between the various views, but to filter the articles to only present their personal views.
Durova says: And do you disclose your own views and background? I often find that people who are themselves at an article to push a point of view assume everyone else is there for the same purpose and with the same strategy, just pushing different points of vie.
Filll says: Sometimes I am goaded into it, but usually not. Many assume that I am an atheist, when I am not. Many have called me all kinds of things which I am not. They assume that since I want to present a mix of views, I must be one of their standard ideological opponents.
Durova says: And for the uninitiated, NPOV means "Neutral point of view", one of Wikipedia's core policies.
Filll says: I might even agree with them, but I try to present all views roughly in proportion to their prominence; this is part of NPOV.
Durova says: How would you describe that, as it applies to one of those controversial topics where you participate?
Filll says: Well many people think that Neutral Point Of View means that the article should not contain any negative information in it, or any information critical of a given view. It does not. It means that all views are presented in the same article. However, the dominant mainstream views are typically given more prominence than minor views. For example, in the case of creation science, which purports to be science, fewer than 1% of the scientists in the relevant fields subscribe to creation science views. And so, the articles about creation science on Wikipedia are mainly written from a mainstream science point of view. In another controversial area, if there are two or three views which are competing, and roughly all equally prominent, then the Wikipedia article will include all those, in roughly equal measure. That is what NPOV means.
Durova says: Now to someone who spends more time in church than at scientific conferences, neutrality might seem to balance differently from yours.
Filll says: Yes very true. And so before one starts on editing one of these controversial articles, one has to understand what the relevant community is, and what the views of that community are. So in the case of an article about Christianity, it would be the mainstream theologians and scholars in the area that are the relevant community, not the Buddhist or the Moslem view of Christianity, or the Atheist view of Christianity. In topics which overlap with science and physical reality, it is the mainstream scientific view that is given more weight. In the case of medical topics, it is the mainstream medical views that are more prominent. That is part of the difficulty about educating people about NPOV; we do not do a great job of it always on Wikipedia I am afraid.
Durova says: So the point of your challenge, if I understand, is to give the people who don't dive into these controversies a sample of the actual field conditions you and people like yourself face.
Filll says: Yes that is it exactly. It is a "safe" way to give people a little taste of these controversial editing areas, and the kinds of questions that arise. They do not have to edit these articles themselves, or dig through many kilobytes of talk page discussions to understand what is going on; the core of the difficulty is summarized and presented in the AGF Challenge Exercises. They could be used for training purposes, or to open a dialogue on what Wikipedia should be doing in the case of controversial articles, or to develop a range of "approved" approaches to handle these sorts of problems. When Wikipedia is criticized externally or internally over its handling of assorted situations, they are often extremely highly charged and emotional affairs, and often ongoing. This is a way to see a sanitized collection of problems in abbreviated and sanitized form, where critics inside and outside Wikipedia can offer their advice and suggestions.
Durova says: And what often happens when something comes under scrutiny - either at a noticeboard or at arbitration - is that individuals who have only come to Wikipedia to push a certain ideology will try to portray themselves as reasonable, or at least try to muddy the waters enough that a regular editor who disagrees with them at their particular dispute looks as bad as they do.
Filll says: Yes I agree. I have heard critics of Wikipedia, both internally and externally, make all kinds of similar claims. And they often seem reasonable. So what I wanted to do, with the AGF Challenge, is to present a few of these, boiled down to their bare essence, for everyone to ponder and then give their input on. And particularly when it is not a situation in which a person has a vested interest, sometimes viewing these editing situations from the outside can give one a different impression than when there are a lot of emotions involved, and a lot of hard feelings, and people are trying to smear each other personally.
Durova says: Now I happen to know for a fact that one of these examples is real, because you borrowed example 7 from me. So I'll mention something here that I didn't bring up before. One of the things that finally got that situation under control was an article content request for comments.
Filll says: Yes they are extreme, but they are all based on real situations.
Durova says: (If there are new readers here, that's a type of formal dispute resolution).
Filll says: I had a lot more written.
Durova says: May I give the background and you comment? It leads to a question.
Filll says: go ahead.
Durova says: The fellow would keep coming up with new reasons why his aunt's family tree proved he was descended from Joan of Arc's brother. Late in the game he argued that we had to cite it in the article because it was a primary source.
Filll says: Ah...ok.
Durova says: I opened a request for comment to get opinions on whether a family tree from the 1950s could be a primary source for fifteenth century history. The answer to that question was pretty obvious. We got several answers, all of them agreed with me completely, and he couldn't argue that they were biased.
Filll says: Yes. Well he had a lot invested emotionally in that answer, but others from outside could see it objectively. Which is the whole point of my AGF Challenge Exercises.
Durova says: That was one of the last times he tried to disrupt the article. Right. Do you find that certain types of dispute resolution are more effective than others?
Filll says: I have found the article content RfCs do not work very well.
Durova says: Really?
Filll says: Very few people respond and so it is less helpful.
Durova says: I set a lot of store by them. What's your experience, and what's better?
Filll says: If they were more clearly written and more people came, they would be better I think.
Durova says: That's right.
Filll says: I have not tried mediation yet. I know many people like it, but I have not tried it.
Durova says: The fellow I was disputing with tried to edit war over the wording of the request for comment. I tried mediation once. Had a bad experience with it. The mediator quit and we couldn't get a replacement.
Filll says: RfCs for conduct are pretty time consuming, but effective.
Durova says: You find conduct RfCs effective?
Filll says: Arbcomm is very taxing and should be one of the last options to try, if ever.
Durova says: Totally agreed there. I'm curious about your experience with conduct RfC. How does it help, in your experience?
Filll says: Yes I have found conduct RfCs, when done correctly, can really nip a problem in the bud. And they can bring a lot of outside input. More people show up to conduct RfCs. And as long as one can show that every effort was made and the person still acted in an unreasonable fashion, it can carry a lot of weight.
Durova says: And what's the effective way to do one?
Filll says: I try to build as much evidence as possible, offline and privately. And I provide useful DIFFS. I get advice from experienced people in the area first.
Durova says: And people show up who weren't already in the dispute, to offer impartial feedback?
Filll says: AN/I and other noticeboards can be helpful at times. Yes in the case of conduct RfCs and noticeboards, one gets fresh blood which helps. Another measure which User: Silence taught me is the effective use of the AfD.
Durova says: Would you say that dispute resolution always accomplishes its aim?
Filll says: It can bring a lot more eyes to the article if you are stuck and can help. It is a bit risky of course
Durova says: If you try enough, something will work?
Filll says: Well eventually yes in most cases. But it can be very very trying in the meantime. And you have to be willing to put in a huge amount of effort. I would like to see if there are easier and faster methods that we could develop.
Durova says: I agree, earlier and milder solutions are better - before editors dig trenches and start lobbing shells at each other.
Filll says: That is one of the things I wonder about the proferred solutions of the critics, which is to be more accommodating; sometimes that can make things worse.
Durova says: Another question, have you been harassed yourself?
Filll says: I have not been badly harassed but I have been harassed mildly.
Durova says: Would you feel comfortable describing it, at least in general terms?
Filll says: I have had people try to hack my computer or run phishing attacks against me, to reveal my identity
Durova says: Nod. So I get the impression you created this challenge in part to communicate a slice of the experience to editors who don't wade into the site's editorial swamps.
Filll says: Yes a safe easy sanitized way to expose them a bit to what the difficult topics are about and what that editing experience is. It hopefully will be a way that they can understand the situation a bit more.
Durova says: That even though most of Wikipedia is a pretty easy place to be, and most Wikiipedians are reasonable people, we also get these pockets where it's basically a street brawl. And not everyone there is a thug. Well you live in a rough neighborhood, as do I, in Wikipedian terms. Any final comments?
Filll says: I am glad to have this chance to present this new idea. And I hope people will be interested in taking the AGF Challenge and trying to test their skills on the exercises.
Durova says: Thanks very much for the interview.
Filll says: Thank you.
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She'd dug the den just before the ice broke, it's her first. It'd had been a good year. Plenty of seals. Now she's waiting, half asleep beneath the snow. They should be here any time now, her body's rhythmic signals tells her this. Within the rhythm of her half sleep she wonders what they will be like. She knows they will be two. She's known since she dug the den. Here comes the first. So small! She moves a little to give him room to find her teat. He smells funny. She didn't think he'd smell so…real. Here comes the other. A little girl! She too smells funny. It is done. She has completed the task given to her by her mother and her mother before her. Drifting down into the layers of her inner den, she smiles contentedly.
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In a deeply sympathetic brief essay on Cyril Connolly, Sven Birkerts writes of Connolly's occasional "venomous spray of self-loathing," occasioned by his disappointment in his own literary output when set against the great works that animated his life. Birkerts writes,
His adoration of genius could not but lead him into the most bitter self-reproach: "Why not me?"The piece from which I drew the opening lines of yesterday's post, a review of Samuel Shellabarger's Lord Chesterfield (1935), reveals many of Connolly's virtues as both a prose writer and a sympathetic, attentive critic--in a mere five pages. Connolly, attuned to the "transitional age full of a certain beautiful clumsiness" in which Lord Chesterfield wrote poetry and wonderfully amoral letters to his bastard son, finds Chesterfield sympathetic; Shellabarger, on strictly religious grounds, does not. Connolly rightly points out the essential absurdity of Shellabarger's even troubling to write about this age:
The vigor and precision of the prose, however, were a rebuttal, for they partook, often, of something like genius. It was as if he had to contradict himself into brilliance.
Above all this is no subject for the religious, for it represents the first flowering in English life of the Roman spirit, with its urbanity, good sense, and stoical courage, the first reasonable, measured, intelligent attack which the Augustans launched on the citadel of happiness, after impregnating themselves with the spirit of Horace, the city-bred sophistication of Martial and Juvenal, and the solid qualities of the pagan world rather than the Renaissance's wild adaption of them.It is a truism of biography that the writer inevitably ends up hating his subject, but Shellabarger seems to have begun by hating Chesterfield, and his unrelenting condemnation prevents him from appreciating anything the man accomplished. It's hard to disagree when Connolly, writing about Shellabarger's dismissal of Chesterfield's letters, writes,
A man who could write such a phrase as "Cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity" deserves more than moral condemnation.Yet that fundamental disagreement does not prevent Connolly from giving Shellabarger what credit he deserves. I've drawn on Anthony Powell's paraphrase of this next line before, but it's worth presenting in its full context:
Granted that the author disapproves of Chesterfield, he has written a very interesting book about him, for he is intelligent enough to see that his life represents, as it were, the second line of defense of paganism, just as Rochester's, for instance, is the front line which apologists find almost too hot to hold and which they often have to evacuate.Lord Rochester, presumably, would have scorned our offers of help regardless, preferring to gloriously fail to hold the front line himself.
Even Connolly's final, sharpest barb is leavened with an elegiac note of appreciation:
Those who are going to write about men of the world ought, I think, to like the world, but apart from this there is much that is interesting, understanding, and well-put in this biography, which has, indeed, a certain mournful epigraphic quality, appearing at a time when we seem about to bid a final farewell to the life of reason, and in a year that has witnessed the demolition of Chesterfield House, and the death of the last Earl of Chesterfield. The Cyrenaicism of Rochester killed him in his thirties, the mellow Stoicism of Chesterfield secured him happiness until he was eighty.Three or four perceptive, memorable, even quotable lines in a five-page review, written on deadline--it may not have satisfied Connolly, but I'd sure think it a good day's work.


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Update on March 08, 2013
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Murphy's Law holds true even for digital signage: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. So, it's best to identify potential vulnerabilities at the very start of a digital signage project, and make contingency plans. Service contracts with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a good way to ensure that a signage network will continue run as scheduled.
Because many systems integrators are now offering managed services, we are seeing fewer occurrences of the dreaded blank screen and digital noise or "snow" on display screens in malls and other public spaces. Although power supply and connectivity have typically been causes of downtime, as newer technologies continue to be deployed, failure of a single component or a simple user error may, increasingly, be the source of disruptions.
During the past year, we have seen rollouts of kiosks in large numbers at retail banks and at quick-service restaurants (QSRs). Although there has been euphoria in the AV industry about the expanded use of digital technologies, some customers are not as exuberant. One bank branch manager told me that, although its new ATM system, which includes a signage screen and other technologies, is state of the art, the method for fixing a jammed-up kiosk is antiquated. He said a branch staff member has to complete a form and submit it to the internal department that, in turn, submits it to the service contractor, which then dispatches a field tech to get things rolling again.
At a QSR kiosk in a service station along Route I-95, a printed sign encouraged travelers to "skip the line" by using the kiosk to quickly "order, pay, pickup." But the LCD screen displayed this message: "There is a problem with the printer. Please contact a member of staff." Staff members had no time to address the problem because they were busy filling orders from an ever-growing queue of customers.
Kiosks may present unique issues, especially when proof of completion of a transaction is a paper receipt, not digital. When a problem cannot be fixed remotely, it is necessary to train and empower the staff on duty to solve it quickly. Otherwise, the advanced technology can damage customer relationships instead of boosting the bottom line.
A large number of digital signage projects involve flatpanel LCDs with local or onboard media players. It is becoming easier to install and integrate digital signage components, but it is important to realize that Murphy's Law can prevail at any point during routine operations. For example, on a recent project that features 4K LCD flatpanels, artifacts (random white dots) were noticed on the screens. When 4K HDBaseT cables were installed, the pixel error was eliminated.
"From my vantage point, the most common technical problems arise from network configuration issues such as firmware/software mismatch, version upgrades and simple user errors that create system issues," noted Brannon Bourland, Director of Marketing and Communications for Facility Solutions Group (FSG), who is responsible for the company's 80-screen digital signage network. In addition, Bourland's team provides support for FSG's technology sales team by training customers and troubleshooting the customer's digital signage system along with FSG's technology sales services team.
"When it comes to resolving issues, we start with the network first, making sure the configurations were done properly and that the ports, IP addresses, DNS addresses, etc., are all correct and as the customer requested," Bourland stated. His team then checks to make sure firmware and software versions align and are current as of the date of the completion of the project. "This can be tricky because the technology is always evolving and firmware seems to be updated almost weekly with some manufacturers," he said.
If the issue was generated by a user error, the solution may require clearer, step-by-step instructions for the end user, and even some diplomacy with the customer. Bourland suggests that going back to the contract is a good starting point. "If they paid for training, then we make sure they get the training they need to get what they want out of the system. If they didn't contract for training, we will usually work with them to cover some basics and at least get them started, then evaluate on a case-by-case basis as they encounter issues." Reflecting on troubleshooting jobs, Bourland said, "I've had some clients that I can spend a day with and they are off and running with no more issues, while others call in once or twice a quarter and pay for four to eight hours of over-the-phone or in-person training, because they did something wrong and crashed their digital signage system."
No matter who or what causes a problem with a digital signage system, it should be the goal of the industry professionals involved to make sure the system is up and running again, and does what the client wants it to do. Sometimes that success requires frank discussions from the start, regarding potential problems and maintenance costs. It is important to establish and maintain customer confidence in our evolving AV-IT technologies and our ability to provide systems and solutions that work. After all, to paraphrase the famous blues lyric, "When things go wrong, it hurts us all."


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I just want to give a shout out to some of my favorite people. Trish and Joel Trueblood. They bring food when you need it. They pick up your kids for school when you need it. They pray and believe with you when you need it. They encourage your children to be mighty prayer warriors. They truly embrace community and I love it and I love them and I love them for it:)
Friday, February 23, 2007
Shout Out!
Posted by Francesca at 4:52 PM
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- trish said...
You guys are easy to love! We are always encouraged by the way you love your lives in faith. However, whenever, we want to be there for you. You know they say people that live in community live longer. We are happy to be in community with you!
- February 24, 2007 at 1:06 PM
- MONICA said...
Here! Here! I love the Truebloods too!
- February 24, 2007 at 1:16 PM
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Samsung Group established its first social enterprise in downtown Seoul on Thursday. The enterprise called the ¡°Hope Network¡± will hire about 70 teachers and offer education services to about 1,000 children from underprivileged families, company officials said. It will start with the children registered in 30 different study rooms in the regions of Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. The instructors, who have experience in the sectors of social welfare, consulting and cultural arts, will teach them classes on humanities and offer projects to bring hope and nurture their talents, as well as caring programs. Samsung Group announced last October that it will build seven social enterprises here for a three-year term to support underprivileged families. The country¡¯s top conglomerate plans to establish two more similar social enterprises by next year. (firstname.lastname@example.com)
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There are numerous sites on EBay and Amazon that are selling fake and counterfeit Mije TM – baby head rest products.
Whilst we feel very flattered about people wanting to provide a solution for Plagiocephaly and copying our design, these sites are infringing on our IP and Trademarks and stealing verbatim the text off our website. Put simply, it is called theft.
The purchase of counterfeit products being it a baby head rest, handbag or a watch is never a good idea. We are working closely with the authorities to close these sites down, but as you can imagine with these operators being in China it is most difficult and if you do manage to shut them down, they just open under a different name.
Why not purchase a fake product, they are cheaper. Yes they are cheaper; however the baby head rest is manufactured specifically to cradle the head using specific measurements that have been designed by medical specialists. Counterfeits do not! And can be a RISK to the wellbeing of the baby. The baby head rest uses medical grade memory foam. Counterfeits do not! Counterfeits generally use the cheapest materials available, so you don't really know what is inside them or where they source the materials from.
To protect yourselves from purchasing a fake product, we recommend that you don't purchase products from EBay or Amazon unless the Mije Brand is clearly identified. If you are unsure about the purchase, just give us a call in the office on 1800 119 837 and we can let you know.
How to recognise a fake.
The Mije baby head rest is only available in three colours, Green, Peach and White as are the Baby Head Rest washable covers. Any other colour or combination of colours is a counterfeit or fake.
If the price is low it's a fake, the Recommended Retail Price (RRP) for the Baby Head Rest is AUD $39.95
Only purchase products that have the item code MJ050238G, MJ050238P, MJ050238W above the product barcode. Also make sure that there is a batch number located on the back of the header card. The number starts with BN and has six digits and ends with either G, P or W for Green, Peach or White. If you cannot see any of these, it's a fake.
Remember, you shouldn't place your Baby's health at risk for the sake of saving a few dollars.


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Competition in Health Care Markets
NBER Working Paper No. 17208
This paper reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done in this area over the last 10 years. In addition, there has been increasing development and use of frontier industrial organization methods. We begin by examining research on the determinants of market structure, considering both static and dynamic models. We then model the strategic determination of prices between health insurers and providers where insurers market their products to consumers based, in part, on the quality and breadth of their provider network. We then review the large empirical literature on the strategic determination of hospital prices through the lens of this model. Variation in the quality of health care clearly can have large welfare consequences. We therefore also describe the theoretical and empirical literature on the impact of market structure on quality of health care. The paper then moves on to consider competition in health insurance markets and physician services markets. We conclude by considering vertical restraints and monopsony power.
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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w17208
Published: Gaynor, M and Town, R. (2011) "Provider Competition," in Handbook of Health Economics, Vol 2, Borras, P., McGuire, T. and Pauly, M., eds., Amsterdam: Elsevier.
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JBD manufacture and install Craft Brewery for Daniel Thwaites PLC
The manufacture and installation of a Craft Brewery for the prestigious Brewer Daniel Thwaites was a great way for Johnson Brewing to see out 2011 and welcome 2012. Providing a facility which allows these expert Brewers to innovative and create new brews and provides the flexibility for short runs. The 30bb Craft Brewery is sited alongside the main " Star " Brewery in Blackburn and the installation faced a few challenges however with at one stage an exterior wall being removed to allow installation.
That the investment, planning and effort were worthwhile though can be confirmed by the operation of this First Class new Brewery and the stream of new Beers already flowing from it.