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Recent disease edits
Several US articles have recently received very detailed information on diseases - see Special:Contributions/18.104.22.168 for some examples. While this is good info, I'm concerned that it might be too much for an already-lengthy article like the USA article. For example, West Nile virus, Hanta virus, and the plague are of such minimal concern to anyone visiting the US that there are literally hundreds of other more relevant issues to be concerned about. Does anyone have any suggestion for keeping this info, but doing so in a way that doesn't distract from information that is relevant to the majority of US visitors? -- Ryan • (talk) • 02:05, 24 January 2011 (EST)
- They're good-faith edits, but I agree that most are so rare that they don't need mentioned. Lyme disease is probably the most prevalent in the list... Many of them are more specific to certain regions, so perhaps they could just be mentioned in the regional article and left out of this one.
- It was fine before; list some of the most significant hazards -- probably Rabies being the most important -- and leave the details for the region and state articles. LtPowers 18:47, 24 January 2011 (EST)
Disease too PC?
The above discussion made me read over the "Disease" section and I notice it says "the HIV rate — especially among gay men, IV drug users, sex workers, and certain ethnic minority groups", so... I was wondering why exactly we suddenly get vague with "certain ethnic minority groups"? When talking HIV, I don't think most people want to have to guess or infer. It is African-Americans that are being referenced here, correct? Can we just say this? Are there others (it's plural)? ChubbyWimbus 04:07, 24 January 2011 (EST)
- HIV risk has nothing to do with race, but rather with behavior. I think this we are wandering into [obvious] territory if we cap every article with a reminder to use condoms. Sexually transmitted diseases are also addressed under the gay/lesbian section of this article. I may go in and consolidate things a bit...SONORAMA 05:37, 24 January 2011 (EST)
- The condom thing definitely doesn't belong. HIV risks DO heighten depending on who you are having sexual relations with, because we can also say that it is behavior rather than sexuality that creates the risk for any group. That is technically true, but it doesn't change the statistics that the prevalence of HIV is higher in certain groups, making them more risky. If we can pinpoint "gay men" then we should also be able to identify these "ethnic minority groups". It does no good to try and sugar coat it by saying, "especially people with certain sexual preferences, people who use certain drugs/narcotics, people of certain occupations, and certain ethnic minority groups." ChubbyWimbus 16:35, 24 January 2011 (EST)
- This is getting obscure, and most certainly out of my area of expertise, however, prevalence of AIDS within "ethnic minorities", is more likely as a result of socio-economic factors, reflecting the social makeup of the U.S. There is no real link at all to race, the link is to wealth and privilege, which is just reflected in HIV stats the same as it reflected in racial statistics.
- Are we really recommending to a traveller to play a statistical game here? The AIDS risk exists worldwide, and I don't think we need a statistical treatment of it here. --inas 17:26, 24 January 2011 (EST)
- Of course there is no genetic link between HIV and race, but someone felt that it was important to list the groups in which HIV is most prevalent, so if we want this information then I don't like it being vague. There is also no link between HIV and any of these other groups genetically, so there are always social/economic factors. The point of naming WHO the "ethnic minorities" are is not to say "these people are dirty, disgusting, immoral, subhumans". If that were the case, then the entire list is highly offensive and judgmental. It's just not useful to say "certain groups" so let's be fair and name names if we like this information. If we don't, then let's get rid of all of them and leave it at the fact that HIV in America is more common than most other developed nations. Which do we prefer? ChubbyWimbus 18:48, 24 January 2011 (EST)
- I'm certainly in favour of the latter. As I said before, if we really do want visitors to try their luck with stats, income and wealth is a better measure than skin colour or race. Best advice is to check credit history --inas 20:31, 24 January 2011 (EST)
- I say axe the list. Practice safe sex regardless of which stranger in a foreign land you are screwing... --Peter Talk 13:37, 26 January 2011 (EST)
- I think there's consensus then that the list wasn't useful, so it's gone. ChubbyWimbus 16:59, 26 January 2011 (EST)
Phone numbers
Currently the article states: "All of the digits must usually be dialed, even if "XXX" and "YYY" matches your phone's number. (In the smaller cities, XXX need not be dialed for local calls.)"
This is not the norm. By default, area codes are not needed, and cities/metro areas with 10-digit dialing are the exception. That said, since much of the population lives in these metro areas, and many visitors will be in these areas, I can see how it might appear differently.
I'm going to edit this to present it both accurately and helpfully. --BigPeteB 17:24, 28 March 2011 (EDT)
Men shaking hands with women
For whatever it's worth, I'm 46 and grew up in a liberal family in New York, NY and live in Manhattan today, and what I've always been taught is that it's best to wait for a woman to extend her hand before shaking it. I don't always practice that, and it isn't a terrible faux pas for a man to offer his hand first, but sometimes, women react as if that's just an excuse for the man to touch them. So I submit that it's a best practice for the man to do the traditional thing and wait for the woman to extend her hand (or not), and I dissent about reverting that part of my recent edit. Ikan Kekek 20:41, 9 April 2011 (EDT)
- While that may be a social norm in some instances, I'm not sure that it's a common enough thing (or unique enough) to merit inclusion in this article. The "Respect" section of the US article seems to become a dumping ground for etiquette advice, and the level of detail that people add often far exceeds what a traveler would need to know. If left unchecked this section tends to balloon into rambling paragraphs (for example: [1]), which hides the useful info under a mountain of less-important details. -- Ryan • (talk) • 21:25, 9 April 2011 (EDT)
- I definitely get your point. Thanks. Ikan Kekek 21:47, 9 April 2011 (EDT)
- I also think that it's not severe enough to warrant inclusion, because it's not rude or abhorrent for men to shake hands with women and I don't think most women would actually be disgusted by it. If one does happen to leave you hanging though, you do have an open-hand to slap her with. :P ChubbyWimbus 01:22, 10 April 2011 (EDT)
- Definitely not abhorrent or disgusting. :-) Ikan Kekek 01:52, 10 April 2011 (EDT)
- I suppose if a traveler is invited to a society party on the Upper East Side, he might need to know about certain social customs -- but enumerating them all is beyond the scope of this article. The average traveler will do just fine knowing simply that it is customary to shake hands when meeting someone (male or female). 50 years ago, that may not have been the case, but today I think it is. LtPowers 09:35, 10 April 2011 (EDT)
- I'm under 50 years old, grew up on the West Side, and don't travel in the kinds of circles you're talking about, and I disagree somewhat with your opinion, but I do agree now that it's not important to fight about the edit - partly because foreigners will often be given some leeway, anyway. Ikan Kekek 14:04, 10 April 2011 (EDT)
NYC museums
I feel this edit was a bad idea. First and foremost, it means we now have no mention of several of the most important museums in the country. Second of all, the reason I wrote that paragraph (and the D.C. paragraph) is because otherwise, NYC and DC museums would come to dominate the list that appears below them. I could be wrong, but I don't think any of the cities Ryan mentioned in his edit summary come close to NYC's selection when it comes to renown and importance. LtPowers 17:09, 5 May 2011 (EDT)
- My concern was that the paragraph seemed like an invitation to add "my city, too" lists, something we typically try to avoid at the country/region level. DC, as the capital, might warrant special mention, but calling out New York in its own paragraph and including museums like MOMA would seem to invite the addition of the Getty in LA, the Field Museum in Chicago, etc, leading to too much detail for what the section is trying to convey about the US, namely that there are a lot of great museums. -- Ryan • (talk) • 17:19, 5 May 2011 (EDT)
- Those individual museums can be added to the list; the problem is that the Guggenheim, Ellis Island, and the Natural History museum all deserve to be on that list as well (plus at least one of the MMOA, MOMA, and Intrepid). Any other city that had four or five on the list could be broken out as well, but I doubt any other city would qualify. LtPowers 20:22, 5 May 2011 (EDT)
- Even as over-hyped and over-promoted as New York City may be, I do think that it has enough world-famous museums that the paragraph was not inappropriate. If there was something wrong with the wording, that can be worked out, but the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other such museums are actually more well-known to many people abroad (and domestically) than even D.C.'s Smithsonians. I sort of consider Ellis Island to be more of a historical site/landmark than a museum, but that's not so important. I think the list will always potentially attract the "add my city" edits, regardless of whether NYC has its own paragraph or not, but I don't think people will make the argument that New York City does NOT deserve any mention. ChubbyWimbus 02:51, 6 May 2011 (EDT)
- Fair enough - please restore the original paragraph. That said, it might be worth revisiting this section in the future to try to make it less of a list of destinations and more of a general overview of museums in America, with a callout for things like hall of fames, and perhaps pointers to why certain museums are where they are (example: philanthropy from individuals like Carnegie, Guggenheim, Getty, etc). -- Ryan • (talk) • 11:04, 6 May 2011 (EDT)
- Of course I'm open to changes; the text I wrote was just an attempt at a first pass (the entire "See" section was completely empty except for itineraries before I got my hands on it last June). I'd be interested to see an example of what you mean! LtPowers 16:30, 6 May 2011 (EDT)
Respect (again)
Anyone wishing to go through the archived talk pages for this article will find numerous discussions about trimming the "Respect" section to get rid of Obvious information. The most recent revert to this section was done for the same reasons - the "Respect" section of this article tends to attract well-meaning edits that have the effect of diluting useful information. While it may be valuable to point out the sensitivity of Americans to race issues, this section has been used to present advice on not making fun of America, not joking about September 11, not peeing in public, etc. The Obvious guideline was started as a specific response to these sorts of edits, and the most recent revert was done due to its well-meaning but overly general advice. -- Ryan • (talk) • 18:10, 18 May 2011 (EDT)
Removing bloat
In the phrase "… [US] is regarded as the world's wealthiest and most powerful country…" I removed "regarded as", since the statement as edited is true and factual. As a source I site the CIA world fact book. While it is perhaps more polite to be falsely modest, a fact is a fact. —The preceding comment was added by William M Goetsch (talk • contribs)
- Is it the world's wealthiest nation with its billions of dollars in debt? And as far as "most powerful" goes, the nuclear nations all have enough bombs to destroy the planet, so... how much more powerful can any single country get than that? —The preceding comment was added by 22.214.171.124 (talk • contribs)
- Hey, guys, if we're going to quibble over this ridiculously trivial matter, could you at least sign your posts? LtPowers 16:18, 8 June 2011 (EDT)
- Yeah, I sort of thought that the bloat was elsewhere... I would have signed if the stupid Captcha wasnt requiring a sig 220.127.116.11 16:22, 8 June 2011 (EDT)
I agree that it's a trivial matter. But it grates on me because it's so politically correct. And I wonder which country the anonymous editor would nominate as the most wealthy and powerful. None I suppose. Then the best, and most NPOV solution is simply to remove the entire sentence, which doesn't seem to have anything much to say to a traveler anyway. I haven't worked on Wikitravel and this page since 2004, and now I remember why I stopped. Bill 14:56, 9 June 2011 (EDT)
- Try not to let one obstinate IP user get you down; building travel guides by consensus is a long road, to be sure, but it's rewarding. We need your contributions! LtPowers 16:43, 9 June 2011 (EDT)
- Probably calling it the absolute most powerful and wealthiest nation implies that it is the BEST nation, which lends itself to offending non-Americans. It's probably also assumed that an American wrote it to begin with which doesn't help. I guess the article's fine without it, since arguments about power and wealth are mostly political, as you said, rather than travel-related. I'd like to echo LtPowers though that I hope this doesn't make you leave again. I think we've all found ourselves in the midst of such squabbles before... ChubbyWimbus 20:52, 9 June 2011 (EDT)
I don't intend to get too into this, but I think it would be best to get rid of anything other than simple travel advice here (in other words, I'm plugging my previous edit [2]). Few things in American life are more likely to provoke edit warring than opinions of the police. --Peter Talk 12:02, 14 June 2011 (EDT)
- Although the other edit is probably done in good faith, I think I also prefer your shortened version. While American police officers are not perfect, compared to most other countries they are generally quite good, polite and honest. ChubbyWimbus 12:22, 14 June 2011 (EDT)
- Right, so we should say that. The fact that people will edit war over it (and this person's edits were no improvement, frankly, so I don't see why his opinion on that line ought to matter) is no reason not to include useful information. LtPowers 18:46, 14 June 2011 (EDT)
- It seems more a platitude than useful information to me, and an invitation to edit warring from people who have had bad experiences with police. There are parts of the country where "run-ins with the law" are not always such a positive experience for everyone, and on the other hand, plenty of other countries have professional police forces. What would be more useful information to convey is that police, when approached for help, will be helpful—that is a meaningful distinction from police forces in some other countries, which are best avoided even in case of a problem. --Peter Talk 20:18, 14 June 2011 (EDT)
History section
I'm not clear on why certain phrases are so important to include in the History section. This recent edit re-added a few that I'd removed, and I'd like to explain why I removed them in the first place.
One change exchanged "sophisticated cliff-side towns" to "elaborate cliff-side towns". To me, this neuters the notability of the pueblos by merely praising their complexity. To me, it's their sophistication that makes them more remarkable; anyone can be elaborate, after all.
Another change added "imported" to describe how African slaves were used. That seems redundant. They obviously didn't just find African slaves waiting to be exploited here in America; making sure to note that they were imported seems to insult the reader's intelligence.
Another change is to note that the U.S. defeated Germany in World War I. Aside from being a gross simplification (the U.S. hardly did it singlehandedly, nor was Germany our only opponent), it also strikes me as not particularly relevant. The important fact to take from U.S. involvement in WWI is that it marked our emergence as a world superpower, not that we beat up those Germans real good.
The fourth change is new, not one I previously removed, but I find it most puzzling: WWII had been raging in Asia since before WWI?
-- LtPowers 14:10, 4 July 2011 (EDT)
- I changed that because 'sophistocated' is already used just above to describe the Native American societies. It was redundant using the word twice, not to mention sounding preachy, like "We get it, they're NOT savages like the media portrays them!" (it was even more preachy before I deleted a couple other Native American pity sentences) It's not that I don't think they were sophistocated, but ONE of the 'sophistocated' words needed to go to avoid the redundancy, and I just chose that one. I tried to choose a word that conveyed a similar feeling to describe the dwellings but feel free to think of another or change the other 'sophisticated', although I think the other one is better placed.
- With the slave part, "imported" seemed to make sense to me just because slavery was just kind of tossed into this "history" section as something that made Virginia great, which seemed odd to me, so if that's how it's going to be treated in the article, it seemed at least appropriate to connect the dots and ground the section a little. I suppose whoever wrote the original also thought, "It's obvious" like you, but we shouldn't be writing history sections with the assumption that "everybody knows it already". It's not that I don't think people know or can figure it out, it just seemed appropriate to not have strange holes in the article, because to me the section did treat it as though the slaves were just waiting here for the white men to arrive and were forced to work when they were discovered.
- With the Germany remark, we can't say that simply ENTERING the war marked it's emergence as a superpower. There needs to be some sort of action involved to show HOW exactly WWI marked the US as a superpower. Countries like Finland, Belgium, Egypt, etc "entered" the war, but they didn't become world powers. Entering war doesn't make a nation powerful, so there needs to be something else said about what made it such a defining moment for the US. I realize that "defeating Germany" may be oversimplified, but at least saying that they were able to hold their own against one of the world's strongest nations shows that America had power and the success points this out, not "entering the war" which just shows that some guys were sent to Europe.
- Pearl Harbor was only the beginning of Asian involvement for the United States. To say that war began in Asia with Pearl Harbor is rather insulting to the other Asian nations that'd been in conflict with Japan since prior to WWI, because Japan had been actively conquering territory and expanding, as stated, since prior to World War 1 with the Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, Korea, etc. Even WWI itself was just a convenience for Japan to secure German territory in China to continue what it was already doing. WWI is a European historic mark, but for Asia/Japan, what our history books seem to suggest were WWII activities were certainly well underway before WWII but had begun prior to WWI. It seemed the most concise way to say it and it is truthful, so that's why I wrote that. At any rate, since we state that Japan (in Asia) was what got the US involved in the war, we kinda needed mention of how long war had been going on previously in that region. Europe is given 2 years but it's rather choppy to say that after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the US sent its troops off to Europe.
- In general, I find this history section to be rather choppy and less informative than the history sections of other nations. It seems that "being concise" has been mudded with the idea that American history is all very obvious and known by everyone to make a rather shallow, disconnected account of American history. The flow of the "History" section is lacking in my opinion. ChubbyWimbus 16:46, 4 July 2011 (EDT)
This recent edit to the history section added extensive detail on US monetary policy that seems too detailed to me. The edit was well-intentioned, but monetary policy is a subject for its own (Wikipedia) article, and not really helpful in a brief overview within a travel guide. -- Ryan • (talk) • 02:06, 16 July 2011 (EDT)
- Well intentioned I am sure, and certainly well written. But I agree with Ryan that this does not belong in a travel guide. --Burmesedays 02:54, 16 July 2011 (EDT)
- I agree, but I was reluctant to just revert wholesale. I left a message about it on the user's talk page, since he/she is a new user. LtPowers 10:39, 16 July 2011 (EDT)
- I am going to re-add the deleted section for three distinct reasons:
- It is not purely economical, but rather intertwines politics and economics to show how the administrative policies of the USA in the past 40 or so years have left large parts of it in real-life social ruin (in other words, how the treatment of various social classes and economic policies towards those classes have left the country in quite a bit of disarray);
- The discussion here is insufficient to justify a wholesale reverting;
- I am willing to be flexible and change the language to be more accommodating in various ways but I'm not willing to see the entire thing unilaterally erased and nothing similar put in its place. Tell me what to do to make the thing better and I'll make it better, but please don't be so rude as to just erase the whole thing and leave it at that.
- It is not purely economical, but rather intertwines politics and economics to show how the administrative policies of the USA in the past 40 or so years have left large parts of it in real-life social ruin (in other words, how the treatment of various social classes and economic policies towards those classes have left the country in quite a bit of disarray);
- Thanks. Kikodawgzzz 02:29, 10 August 2011 (EDT)
- I am going to re-add the deleted section for three distinct reasons:
- Regarding your second point, per Wikitravel:Consensus, when there is dissent (in this case three editors raising concerns) the article should stay as-is. Regarding your first point, the US article is one of the longest articles on Wikitravel, and it tends to stray from information for travelers into general information about the US, so we are constantly pruning it down to try to keep things relevant to travel. In this particular case, the information you've added seems interesting from a social standpoint, but in my opinion is more suitable for an encyclopedia article than a travel guide. As to a wholesale revert, if you can summarize your point into a sentence or two it might make sense to keep in the article, but the level of detail you've gone into doesn't seem to lend itself well to a short summary. -- Ryan • (talk) • 10:51, 10 August 2011 (EDT)
- Again, please discuss the proposed changes before re-adding. I'm still not understanding why it is important to go into detail on US monetary policy in the 70's for a travel guide to the US. The information may be good, but it's too much detail - PLEASE either summarize it to a few sentences, or else consider contributing the info to an article on Wikipedia. -- Ryan • (talk) • 13:20, 4 September 2011 (EDT)
- As noted several times previously, changes such as this one should be discussed first as there does not seem to be consensus that this article needs extensive discussion of US monetary and economic policy. -- Ryan • (talk) • 14:12, 29 January 2012 (EST)
Round three
These edits are well-intentioned, but I think they add too much detail. We are not an encyclopedia. How much of this is really relevant to travelers? LtPowers 20:21, 22 January 2012 (EST)
- The whole "History" section could use some pruning, and in particular the "government and politics" section seems far too detailed for a travel guide. -- Ryan • (talk) • 20:37, 22 January 2012 (EST)
- I don't mind the extra sentence about slavery, since slavery is a big part of American history and sites with links to slaves, the underground railroad, and African-American history are major tourist draws in many areas. I also like the added mention of the Trail of Tears however, I prefer to simply say they were pushed West and cutting the Oklahoma bit. ChubbyWimbus 04:35, 25 January 2012 (EST)
- I think the history section is pretty good the way it is. The U.S. is a big country, and being an "Understand" section, making it shorter wouldn't really do it justice. The China article is a good example of a history section being overtly long. --Globe-trotter 01:30, 26 January 2012 (EST)
- I think there are two points:
- In cases where detail on a regional-specific issue is getting out of hand that detail should be in the region article. Slavery affected the US, and the Trail of Tears was a major event, but the US article should provide an overview and lead the reader to the history sections of the South (United States of America) or Oklahoma articles for further details.
- In cases where the history section focuses on historical details that may not be particularly relevant to travel (such as politics or the current edit warring over US monetary policies) it seems like a guiding principle should be Wikitravel:The traveler comes first. Local contributors tend to see issues as relevant to a wider audience, but just as an American traveling to Japan probably doesn't care about the detailed policy platforms of the various Japanese political parties or the history of Japanese monetary policy, historical information for a traveler to the US probably doesn't need to cover how the political parties developed or the problems of inflation in the 70s.
- Currently the "History" section and the "Government and politics" sections of this article end up being three pages (single spaced) and 2000 words when pasted into a Word processor - that seems borderline excessive for a sub-section of a single article section ("Understand"), and I think any growth should probably be closely watched to ensure that it is an overview for travelers, rather than a treatise on US history. My two cents. -- Ryan • (talk) • 14:34, 29 January 2012 (EST)
Region discussion - West Virginia and Virginia
While discussing the identity of the Mid-Atlantic, it occurred to me that the common inclusion of West Virginia and Virginia in the popular definition could be useful here on Wikitravel as well. W.Va. has much in common with southwestern Pennsylvania, and northern Virginia is strongly associated with Washington, D.C. There are some drawbacks, though: Virginia was part of the Confederacy, with Richmond its capital, and the southern parts of the state are clearly Southern. But I wouldn't want to move W.Va. without moving Virginia, because of the semantics of the term "Mid-Atlantic" if nothing else.
The main advantage would be balancing out the regions a bit. Mid-Atlantic has only five states, while South (United States of America) has eleven. Seven and nine would be more balanced. It would leave Kentucky as a northern outlier for the South region, but whatcha gonna do?
Thoughts? LtPowers 13:40, 2 November 2011 (EDT)
- I'm ambivalent. Culturally, I think they're closer to Southern (particularly when compared with the very cosmopolitan NYC and DC) than anything else, but then they don't really stack up to the Deep South like GA, AL, and MS, either, especially northern VA.
- I guess it depends on what the "point" of dividing states into regions is? Is it most useful to visitors for us to group things geographically, or culturally, or what?
- (Incidentally, have you seen the Sweet Tea Line? [3] Someone checked all the McDonald's in VA to see if they had sweet tea available, and it draws a pretty clear boundary between northern and southern VA. Perhaps this is why it's so hard to classify.)
- --BigPeteB 14:05, 2 November 2011 (EDT)
- Virginia can't be Mid-Atlantic in my mind. It's definitely part of the South. I think I'd also leave West Virginia where it is. It does look strange to put it in a different region than Virginia and it still seems southern to me. ChubbyWimbus 11:26, 4 November 2011 (EDT)
- It's definitely part of the South, but so is Texas; we have some freedom to move states around for logical reasons. But moreso than that, Virginia is often included in the Mid-Atlantic region, as noted on Talk:Mid-Atlantic. Is there any specific reasoning behind your recommendation, or some way in which my reasoning was flawed? LtPowers 13:02, 4 November 2011 (EDT)
- I'm positive that this issue has come up numerous times, but Talk:United States of America/Archive 2006#West Virginia was the only discussion I found in the talk page archives. My personal opinion is that Virginia belongs in the South - outside of the DC suburbs the state is quintessentially southern, and it makes sense to keep the Confederate states together to avoid some of the cultural battles that have been waged over Wikitravel's regional structure in the past. West Virginia and Kentucky are trickier, but I'm positive that there have been discussions in the past about why they are where they are, and those should be dug up prior to making any change to verify whether the old arguments are still valid or not. -- Ryan • (talk) • 13:48, 5 November 2011 (EDT)
- Having grown up in Kentucky, I definitely consider both KY and WV part of the South. Something about the Appalachian region really just blends everything from north GA all the way through WV together seamlessly. --BigPeteB 09:47, 6 November 2011 (EST)
Nine cities - just some info
discoveramerica.com is being revamped; currently on their splash page, they have links to 12 city-based itineraries: Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Washington, Seattle, Atlanta, San Francisco, Dallas, New York, and New Orleans. Our list of nine cities matches closely, except we have Miami and forgo Philly, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Dallas. I'm not suggesting any change here, just providing some information. LtPowers 16:31, 10 November 2011 (EST)
I think racism and advice for travelers of color is important in this article (as well as all others). Thoughts? —The preceding comment was added by 18.104.22.168 (talk • contribs)
- The vast majority of "travelers of color" will encounter no problems on the vast majority of their itineraries. Race need only be mentioned if it's something the traveler is likely to need to know. LtPowers 23:16, 18 November 2011 (EST)
- Racism and how it might affect travel is something that is very difficult to write about. Travel experiences are by their nature anecdotal, and because of the fear involved with racist incidents (or other crimes targeting outsiders), there will be one tendency to overwrite about the subject. On the other hand, plenty of people simply don't want to deal with this issue and will want to dismiss notions that there is a problem with racism where they live. For these two reasons, this is a troll's topic delight—it's really easy to get people bogged down in arguments over whatever we write about racism.
Look, I don't want to start an edit war, but regarding this re-"correcting" of a sentence... I believe "jealously" is not incorrect in this sentence, and we should stick with the original author's wording. To watch something jealously is to watch it protectively, per wiktionary:jealous. Watching it with zeal is something else entirely. LtPowers 18:39, 20 April 2012 (EDT)
- I dunno, "zeal" makes more sense to me than "jealously". And "zeal" is used in the definition of "jealous" that you linked. In my mind, you have to be jealous of something because you want it for yourself or want to protect it. Wiktionary's usage notes suggests "protective of one's own position or possessions". Saying the police are jealous of DUIs doesn't make sense to me. I think zeal was a better choice. -- BigPeteB 09:43, 23 April 2012 (EDT)
- Yeah, jealousy sounds strange, as if the cops wish that they could be driving under the influence and therefore try to make sure no one else is enjoying what they themselves cannot. I think 'zealously' better captures the fervor (aka: ridiculousness) with which they want to catch people. ChubbyWimbus 11:28, 23 April 2012 (EDT)
- It's not "jealousy" but "jealously", which means "vigilantly" in this context. See definition 3 at m-w.com: "new colonies were jealous of their new independence". They weren't envious; they were protecting their own independence with vigilance, just as the police in the U.S. protect the safety of their jurisdictions. I think you're both getting confused because of the more common meaning of the word "jealous". LtPowers 15:01, 23 April 2012 (EDT)
- While not a native English speaker, I tend to support that "zealously" is a better option in this context. 184.108.40.206 15:12, 23 April 2012 (EDT)
- "Zealously" also implies that it's being done with relish or eagerness, so I don't think that's what was intended. Change the word if you insist, but I am confident that the original author meant "jealously" and not "zealously". LtPowers 18:38, 24 April 2012 (EDT)
- I don't know, coming from a rural town in the US, I took at as a jab at how the cops have to find some way to feel important and basically catching speeders and trying to get people for DUI are viewed as the high points of their lives. ChubbyWimbus 09:16, 26 April 2012 (EDT)
- Which is a horribly unfair and prejudiced view. LtPowers 14:40, 26 April 2012 (EDT)
- I wouldn't say that at all. I know small towns in rural Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia who depend on revenue from speeding tickets. I've actually seen a small county courtroom with ~50 people ticketed for speeding, and the judge threw every single case out, because that way they pay court fees (which go to the county) and not the speeding fine (which would go to the state). Speed traps in small towns are a way of life down here, and I agree that the police look for it "zealously", like a zealot or fanatic, not "jealously" like a jilted lover. -- BigPeteB 09:58, 27 April 2012 (EDT)
- That's not what "jealously" means (in this context). That's been my whole point all along, but I guess I'm just a voice crying in the wilderness. LtPowers 17:21, 27 April 2012 (EDT)
- Yes, you linked to M-W above. But I don't see how the definition you linked can be applied in this situation. Consider, if we rewrite the M-W example to use the adverbial form: "New colonies guarded their new independence jealously." That makes sense because they had independence which they wanted to keep. But to say, "Cops watch for DUIs jealously,"... cops don't have or possess DUIs, so the definition of "vigilant in guarding a possession" doesn't make sense here. If we substitute DUIs with something tangible, like "Cops watch for thieves jealously," then it's like ChubbyWimbus said above, it sounds like the cops are competing with each other to try and catch thieves. The definition of "vigilant guarding" still doesn't apply because the cops don't have the thieves yet... they're trying to catch them. (You could say "Cops watch prisoners jealously" because they have prisoners in jail, but even then I think "vigilantly" would be a better word choice, and in any case that's off topic.) -- BigPeteB 09:34, 30 April 2012 (EDT)


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You explained your self well, I understand. Thinking about going to the Indians home opener tonight against the Yankees. Not for sure yet
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04-08-2013, 12:04 PM #3482It costs less in terms of time and money ... AND you get a better seat ... if you watch it at home in HD!
I am already tired, by the way, of living minimalist. I started storing things in January to be ready for April/May. I don't even want to think about this dragging on for another 6 months. I hope it's near it's end.
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04-08-2013, 12:39 PM #3483Good luck with all of that. I hope it works out well and soon for you.
I know it cost less and stuff. Here is the thing, there is not many things I watch on TV: football, off road stuff, Big bag theory, news, and a couple of shows that the wife wants to spend time with her, while she watches them, . I like to go to baseball games in person. never on TV. I would rather be outside no matter what i am doing. See I should of grown up somewhere and anywhere south(warmer). Not here in the city. The ONLY big city things I like to do is maybe a couple of games a year. Surreal againTim Walters (Curky)
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04-08-2013, 05:12 PM #3484i hear ya on the baseball curky, i cnat wait to get back to minnesota and see a twins game in the new park they built a few years ago.
and surreal, I have a spare bed if you need it.....
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04-08-2013, 11:58 PM #3485Thanks, Sierra! My family will put me up, if needed, but I'm not one for being the 40-something-year-old living in the basement. Besides the parental units and I are all type 'A' personalities with a good bit of OCD. Too much time together will likely result in someone going insane!
I stumbled onto a few options, today, that I'll scope out this coming weekend.
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04-09-2013, 07:12 AM #3486What a day already, lol Look at all the nice friends you have here. Surreal
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04-09-2013, 07:57 AM #3487Looks like Sarge let me down. That's unusual.
Nice? I don't think so. Sierra would make me pay my rent to him in truck modding, I'm sure -- and I already lack enough time for my own! One of the options is on the lake, by the way -- if it's nice I'm going that route. Gosh, money buys so much more in the country compared to the city...
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04-09-2013, 07:58 AM #3488Nope you got me this morning. Imagine that. Surreal?
04-09-2013, 08:04 AM #3489I should have looked at the time before making some lunch. C'mon back, Donyms.
04-09-2013, 08:42 AM #3490Surreal, how much longer on the move? I hope all settles down for you soon. Come on back once more Surreal............
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You know if they just made the class actually be minutely like what the specializations say I'd be ecstatic.
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I've been around since tbc. I've tanked with every class but the warrior is the one that i like and still do. We might have hit a bit of a rough patch but what would i switch to? none of the other classes match the awesomeness that is the protection warrior. So yeah, still here and not planing on going anywhere until i quit this game entirely.
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My very first toon, back in late vanilla, was a warrior. (Back when I had no clue how to play.) I played as a warrior into BC, got to 70 and abandoned that toon in favor of my priest, never looked back.
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While I'm mildly frustrated at the lack of spots for DPS warriors (Melee in general actually) in raids and our rather...uh...sub-par performance this season in PvP there's no way I'm moving away from my main.
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Oddly enough, my War has been my main focus since I started my sub back up a few weeks ago. I've spent more time and gold gearing, gemming, reforging and enchanting him than any of my others. I tried my mage, lock, pally, none of them felt fun anymore. I used to LOVE being an afflic lock, but they've changed the spec so freaking much I feel like I hit like a wet noodle. Ever since Arcane dropped from top dog, I haven't felt the need to play my mage anymore, and I've never really liked my pally. I run random heroics on my priest on occasions though, but my war and my DK get the most play. DK though is mostly used for farming old raids for mounts and stuff. War I actually geared up and run heroics and do stuff with. Really enjoying Fury right now.
i cant get myself to play another class besides warrior (my main since vanilla)
2 back to back xpacs with arms warriors being horrible in pvp was too much for me to take. so for now i quit the game until things start to look better again.
Kinda? I still play 'em from time to time but they feel a bit weaker to me somehow, either that or I've grown less attracted to the class since TBC. Which is entirely possible.
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(CNN) -- Here's a look at the life of Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General.
Personal: Birth date: June 13, 1944
Birth place: Chunchongbuk-do Umsong, Republic of Korea
Birth name: Ban Ki-moon
Parents: Names unknown to Fast Facts researchers.
Marriage: Yoo Soon-taek (1971 - present)
Children: One son and two daughters
Education: Seoul National University, B.A., 1970; Harvard University, M.A., 1985
Other Facts: Name is pronounced Bahn Gi-moon, with the K uttered as a hard "g". As with many East Asian countries, the first name is actually the last name. Therefore he is referred to as Mr. Ban.
As a teen, he won a Red Cross sponsored trip to the U.S. He met President John F. Kennedy, and decided then that he wanted to become a diplomat.
Timeline: 1970 - Passes the South Korean Foreign Service exam.
1972-1974 - Vice-consul, South Korean Consulate General in India
1974-1978 - Second Secretary, South Korean Embassy in India.
1978-1980 - Secretary, South Korean Permanent Observer Mission to the UN.
1987-1990 - Consul General, South Korean Embassy to the US in Washington D.C.
1992-1995 - Minister, South Korean Embassy to the US.
1996 - National Security Adviser to South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
1998-2000 - South Korean Ambassador to Austria.
1999 - Chairman of the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization.
2001-2002 - Chef de Cabinet during the South Korean presidency of the UN General Assembly.
2003 - Foreign Policy Adviser to the South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.
January 2004 - Appointed South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
February 14, 2006 - Officially declares his candidacy for secretary-general.
October 9, 2006 - Formally nominated by the United Nations Security Council to be the next secretary-general, replacing Kofi Annan.
October 13, 2006 - Appointed by the UN General Assembly.
January 1, 2007 - Ban takes office as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations.
March 22, 2007 - Makes an unannounced visit to Baghdad, Iraq to meet with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. During a live news conference with al-Maliki in Baghdad's Green Zone, a rocket hits just outside the room and Ban is visibly startled though unhurt.
January 20, 2009 - Tours the burned out ruins of UN compound in Gaza City which was destroyed by an Israeli bomb.
June 7, 2011 - President Barack Obama endorses Ban's run for re-election as secretary-general.
June 21, 2011 - Ban is appointed to a second term as UN secretary-general, by acclamation.
December 9, 2011 - Ban pays an unannounced visit to Mogadishu, Somalia, the first time a UN chief has visited Somalia in nearly 20 years.
April 30, 2012 - Addresses Myanmar's Parliament, becoming the first foreigner to do so since military rule began in 1962.


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The public remains divided over whether Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence among its believers. Currently, 40% say the Islamic religion is more likely than others to encourage violence while 42% say it is not.
These opinions have changed little in recent years. But in March 2002, just 25% saw Islam as more likely to encourage violence while twice as many (51%) disagreed.
The national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Feb. 22-March 1 among 1,504 adults, finds that most young people reject the idea that Islam is more likely than other religions to promote violence. Nearly six-in-ten (58%) of those younger than 30 say Islam does not encourage violence more than other religions; 31% say it does. By contrast, a plurality of those 50 and older (45%) say Islam is more likely to encourage violence.
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On Sunday, October 20th, WBAB will be taking over the OYSTER FESTIVAL, Long Island's largest outdoor festival, now in its 30th year!
We hope to see your family there for new activities and old favorites!
And of course…the Food Court, where chefs serve dozens of unique oyster, clam and other seafood delicacies along with traditional festival fare.
The Oyster Festival runs from 11am-7pm on Saturday (10/19) and 11am-6pm Sunday (10/20) at the Oyster Bay Waterfront.
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The Oyster Festival benefits the Oyster Bay Rotary Club and twenty other local charities and community organizations.
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I've had the most success with ficus and pothos plants. Pothos, especially, is very forgiving to over-watering and sometimes even neglect. This is a plant that really gives what it gets. Still, if your home lets in very little natural light, pothos plants are capable of growing in the dark. I water my pothos and golden pothos plants two to three times a week.
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this command will add the following two lines into the ~/.bash_aliases:
alias exit='pwd > ~/.lastdir;exit'
[ -n "$(cat .lastdir 2>/dev/null)" ] && cd "$(cat .lastdir)"
or redirect it to the ~/.bashrc if you like
Donno, I find it usefull. You may also define an alias for 'cd ~' like - alias cdh='cd ~'
tar command options:
-z : Uncompress the resulting archive with gzip command.
-x : Extract to disk from the archive.
-v : Produce verbose output i.e. show progress and file names while extracting files.
-f backup.tgz : Read the archive from the specified file called backup.tgz.
-C /tmp/data : Unpack/extract files in /tmp/data instead of the default current directory.
While a dd is running in one terminal, open another and enter the while loop. The sample output will be displayed in the window running the dd and the while loop will exit when the dd is complete. It's possible that a "sudo" will need to be inserted before "pkill", depending on your setup, for example:
while pgrep ^dd; do sudo pkill -INFO dd; sleep 10; done
Pings all the hosts on 192.168.1.0/24 in parallel, so it is very fast. Alive host IP addresses are echoed to stdout as pings are responded to.
This *does not change the video encoding*, so it's fast (almost purely I/O-bound) and results in a file of nearly the same size.
However, OSX (and possibly other programs) will more easily play/seek the file when wrapped as MOV. For example, you can QuickLook the resulting file.
This basically does the same as the commercial ClipWrap program, except using the free program ffmpeg.
Very convenient to for sending data to the clipboard for processing.
However, note that tee will affect the buffering of the output (stdout won't be update very live).
icp and imv, interactive versions of cp and mv, will prompt the user for the new filename. These tools are from rename-utils package.
-t TCP
-u UDP
-n NO DNS resolution or PORT/SERVICE resolution
-l state
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-p PORT show
-o flag (keepalive, off, etc)
With this command, you can check the difference between the volumes mounted and the volume in /etc/fstab.
We will turn off and stop multiple linux services using FOR LOOP.
This command show listening sockets TCP and UDP. Useful for stop unwanted services from linux.
Utilizes shell expansion of {} to give the original filename and a new filename as arguments to `cp`. Can easily be extended to make multiple copies.