text: A MassiveMultiplayerCrossover subseries of Namco's ''[[VideoGame/TalesSeries Tales of]]'' series. Two of them, actually, under different subtitles.-----!!''Narikiri Dungeon''The first subseries is the ''Narikiri Dungeon'' series, which itself is a {{spinoff}} from a sequel to ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia''. The series' key feature is the ability of the OriginalGeneration main characters to "[[{{Cosplay}} dress up]]" as various character classes (Fighter, Thief, Mage, etc.) and gain new powers depending on which role they are portraying. Their wardrobe includes the outfits of various ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' heroes and villains, and even [[LawyerFriendlyCameo cameos]] from various [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Namco Bandai]] games.''Narikiri Dungeon 2'' (2002) and ''Narikiri Dungeon 3'' (2005), both developed by Alfa System, revolve around a pair of youngsters named Calo Olange and Frio Sven, who must wander the Tales pseudo-timeline and prevent it from being mucked up. ''Narikiri Dungeon 3'' incorporated tactical elements, allowing you to recruit all the ''Tales'' heroes, arrange them into four teams of up to three each, and move them around the map to solve puzzles and administer a collective beatdown to the boss.''Narikiri Dungeon 2'' includes characters from ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Phantasia}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Destiny}}'', and ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Eternia}}''. ''Narikiri Dungeon 3'' includes all those, plus ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Destiny}} 2'' and ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Symphonia}}''.-----'''''Narikiri Dungeon'' provides examples of:'''* BonusDungeon: ''Narikiri Dungeon 3'' has one like ''VideoGame/TheTowerOfDruaga'' but shorter.* ByThePowerOfGreyskull (Parodied when Frio and Calo try to come up with one.)--> '''Frio''': Narikiri Change! Narikiri Illusion! Narikiri Henshin!--> '''Calo''': Narikiri [[Anime/CuteyHoney Cutey Flash! Kawaru wa yo~n]]!* OriginalGeneration* ShoutOut: Lots and lots.* TimeTravel: A surprising amount over all the games.-----!!''Radiant Mythology''[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tales_of_the_world_logo.png]] The second subseries is the ''Radiant Mythology'' series for the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP]]. There are currently three games in the series, all developed by Alfa System, with the roster of available ''Tales'' characters increasing substantially with each new title.The ''Radiant Mythology'' series takes place in a [[TheMultiverse multiverse]] of worlds, each with their own WorldTree. When a World Tree senses a threat to its world, it creates a warrior called a Descender as a defence mechanism. In each game you take the role of a Descender, and you must join up with the rest of the VideoGame/TalesSeries characters to battle whatever is threatening the future of your home world. Joining you is an [[OriginalGeneration original character]] named Kanonno, appearing [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals as a different incarnation]] in each game: [[spoiler:Pasca]] Kanonno in the first (2006), Kanonno Earhart in the second (2009) and Kanonno Grassvalley in the third (2011).Gameplay revolves around accepting quests from Ad Libitum, a HeroesRUs guild run by a multitude of VideoGame/TalesSeries characters. The game uses a ClassAndLevelSystem for your character, along with [[PrestigeClass Elite/Advanced Classes]]. Really though, it's all a RuleOfFun excuse to team up with your favourite characters and watch them interact in skits.-----!!Radiant Mythology provides example of:* AlternateUniverse: The Tales characters in each world are from that world (or a similar parallel world), with alterations in back story to keep their personalities intact while integrating them into the larger scenario. This becomes complicated when they need to justify [[VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny 15-year-old Kyle interacting with his 19-year-old father]], or [[VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia Suzu]] joining the guild alongside her [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia 4000-years-hence ancestor, Sheena]].** However, some of them are more welcome. Fans of Asch and Luke would be more pleased primarily because in this universe, the two are brothers, albeit still very vitriolic. This keeps them both alive, giving both of them a happy ending.* AmnesiacDissonance: In [=RM1=], [[spoiler:Kanonno remembers that she was once on the same team as Widdershin and actually came to Terresia to help him assimilate it into Gilgulim]].* AnAdventurerIsYou: Due to being able to change classes, the Descender can run the gamut from being a SquishyWizard to a MightyGlacier.* ApronMatron: ''[=RM2=]'''s mascot, Paneer.* AssimilationPlot: [[spoiler:Widdershin intends to absorb every single world into Gilgulim, creating an eternal but solitary world.]]* BadassArmy: Ad Libitum seemed like a BadassCrew in the first game, what with the small amount of named characters but they actually have an army behind them. The second and third games border on this, with SIGNIFICANTLY more members being added each game.* BattleButler: ''[=RM3=]'''s mascot, Rocksprings, taught Kanonno to wield a sword. Plenty more where that came from.* BiTheWay: Due to a lack of differentiating dialogue in the first game, [[spoiler: Pasca]] Kanonno can have an implied crush/romance with the male and female Descender. The second and third game altered dialogue, so that the game's Kanonno was implied to have fallen in love with the male Descender, but seeing the female Descender as a CoolBigSis.* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: Supposedly the ultimate fate of every Descender after completing his/her mission is to be re-assimilated into the World Tree... but that doesn't prevent him/her from coming back for a PlayableEpilogue.]]* TheChosenOne: The player steps into the shoes of the "Descender" who was created by the WorldTree to protect the world from whatever threatens it. [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] when other worlds ''also'' have their own Descenders with similar goals who happen to be in opposition to your own.]]* CoolAirship: From the second ''Radiant Mythology'' onwards, [[VideoGame/TalesOfEternia Chat's]] ''Van Eltia'' serves as the Ad Libitum guild's home base. It TookALevelInBadass here, as it now houses amenities for over eighty people and an onboard shop.* CrashIntoHello: This is how the Descender of ''Radiant Mythology 2'' makes his/her first appearance in the game: crashing into the deck of the Van Eltia just mere meters in front of Kanonno and Paneer.* {{Crossover}}* DarkMessiah: Lazaris in [=RM3=] masquerades as the Descender of Luminasia. [[spoiler:She's actually Jildia's equivalent of a Descender]].* {{Deconstruction}}: This is often par for the course for the ''Tales'' series but ''Mythology'' still has a pretty horrible deconstruction of TheChosenOne. Basically, Descenders are created to save their worlds, ''no matter what''. In fact, [[BecauseDestinySaysSo it's implied that they don't have any true "free will" of their own - being eternally bound to their mission to protect their world]]: it's literally all they have. That alone is pretty bad but it gets worse as [[WellIntentionedExtremist some of the Descenders]] [[KnightTemplar get a bit too hardcore]] [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans about saving their worlds]].* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Kanonno]] in [=RM1=], [[spoiler:after her homeworld of Pasca was consumed by war and all her efforts as its Descender failed miserably]].* DiscontinuityNod: Subverted in ''[=RM3=]'', where a puzzle element listing the main-series Tales games in order includes ''[[VideoGame/TalesOfTheTempest Tempest]]'' right behind ''[[VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss Abyss]]''.* EasilyForgiven: In [=RM1=], you learn that [[spoiler:Pasca Kanonno]] worked for the other side and has pretty much committed genocide. On multiple accounts [[spoiler:if you count all the worlds she helped Widdershin feed to Gilgulim]]. But none of that matters apparently because you're friends. [[spoiler:Oh, and don't forget that she tried to destroy the city right before her boss battle with you.]]* EnemyWithout: In [=RM2=], [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia Chloe]], [[VideoGame/TalesOfEternia Farah]], and [[VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss Anise]] ended up spawning Negative version of themselves as a result of their repressed depression being affected by Negative energy. The Descender teams up with either Senel and Kanonno (for Chloe), Reid and Keele (for Farah), or Jade (for Anise) to take care of them.]]* ExpositionFairy: Mormo in the first game, Niata Monad in the second and third. Paneer and Rocksprings, from ''[=RM2=]'' and ''[=RM3=]'' respectively, politely stay the hell out of the players way most of the time.* {{Expy}}: Two notable ones.** Widdershin, the BigBad of the first game, looks a heck of a lot like [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]. Their motives, however, are completely different (Seph wants [[AGodAmI to be a god]] and [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the world]], while Widdershin wants to preserve the worlds [[spoiler:by merging them into one]]). [[FanDumb Certain members]] of the ''VII'' fanbase don't see it that way, though; leading to a ''lot'' of FanWank.** Kanonno looks alot like [[Manga/ShugoChara Amu]], particularly Kanono Earheart - who has gold eyes and [[Creator/KanaeIto the same voice actress]].* FailureHero: Mormo definitely feels this way about himself, as he failed to save his own world from destruction even though he's his world's Descender.* GeniusLoci: The worlds themselves border on this, what with a WorldTree that can actively sense danger and conjure sentient defenses. [[spoiler:Jildia]] in ''[=RM3=]'' plays it more straight, bordering on EldritchLocation.* GoneHorriblyRight: So if a world is on the brink of destruction, its WorldTree creates a Descender whose entire purpose is to save the world no matter what. [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong How could that possibly end badly?]] [[spoiler:Oh hi there, Widdershin, Aurora and Pasca. Lazaris joins too.]]* GratuitousLatin: Possibly spoofed by the Descender's guild's name, "Ad Libitum."* TheHeartless: The second game's primary enemies and boss characters. They're all spawned by Goede, the second game's BigBad. * HeroicMime: The Descender himself/herself. In [=RM1=], Mormo does all the talking. * HeroicRROD: [[spoiler: Kanonno Earhart gradually continues to weaken and fade throughout the game after a certain event that required her to give up loads of her mana. She gets better eventually.]]* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Each entry features its own new Kanonno, not entirely unlike the old Kanonno. This is HandWaved in ''[=RM2=]'' but becomes a plot point in ''[=RM3=]'', where all three appear. Each has a season theme, and even the same [[LimitBreak Mystic Arte]]. They all differ , however, in their focus.** [=RM1=]: [[spoiler:Pasca]] Kanonno (voiced by Haruka Kudo) (Spring Kanonno, [[SquishyWizard focused more on magic]].)** [=RM2=]: [[Creator/KanaeIto Kanonno Earhart]] (Summer Kanonno, [[MightyGlacier focused more on physical attacks]].)** [=RM3=]: [[Creator/AyaHirano Kanonno Grassvalley]] (Autumn Kanonno, JackOfAllStats)** The third game explains this by [[spoiler:introducing the Original Kanonno, whose role is to observe TheMultiverse by manifesting herself into the Kanonnos.]]* IWillWaitForYou: [[spoiler: Kanonno Earhart to the Descender at the end of Radiant Mythology 2. S/he comes back in the game's [[NewGamePlus epilogue]] however, much to Kanonno's and Ad Libitum's joy.]]* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Niata Monad appears for all of two minutes]] in ''[=RM3=]'' [[spoiler:before being sniped from off-screen by Lazaris]].** [[spoiler: He gets better though upon returning to the site where he was shot down, and soon joins Kanonno on the bridge of the Van Eltia.]]* TheHeartless / HumanoidAbomination: Goede, BigBad of [=RM2=], is a personification of the negative emotions of the people of Granide. As is the Negative monsters he spawns.* HeroesRUs: Ad Libitum, a heroic organization. The first game had only nineteen main Tales characters, with the rest of the organization being nameless RedShirts and the occasional DeskJockey, with quests being taken up by groups of four. The later games combine this with elements of organization of heroes, with EVERY member being a bonafide badass, except for the shopkeepers, who decided that [[GenreSavvy supplying weapons and equipment for a large group like that will be a profitable adventure.]]* LegacyOfTheChosen: The Descenders. Radiant Mythology 2 [[UpToEleven extends it]], since the legend in that world talks of one who ended a war and that is how the legend came to be in that world (Granide). This proves that there were others beside our [[PlayerCharacter Player Character]] not just in the second Radiant Mythology but the first and the third.* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: From ''Radiant Mythology 2'' onwards, magic is [[{{Nerf}} nerfed]] significantly... but [[VideoGame/TalesOfInnocence Iria]] is ''still'' quite the powerhouse.* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover* MythologyGag: A puzzle in the Almanac Ruins in ''[=RM3=]'' involves tracing out a word on a series of alphabet panels ([[spoiler:RADIANT]]), in a direct homage to ''[[VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny Destiny 2]]''. The original solution can also be spelled out.* OCStandIn: In Radiant Mythology 2 & 3 a male Descender is set up as this in the opening FMV; they stand in for the game's player characters.* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: The Descender (named [[CanonName Roa Nashion]]) and Kanonno Earhart in the ''Radiant Mythology 2'' manga. In the game, if your Descender is male, Kanonno falls for your main character as the game progresses.]]* OneSteveLimit: Each game has its own version of Kanonno: [[spoiler:Pasca]] Kanonno for [=RM1=], Kanonno Earhart for [=RM2=], and Kanonno Grassvalley for [=RM3=]. In [=RM3=], however, all three of them can be in your party!* OriginalGeneration: A few, most prominent of which are three pink-haired 15-year-old girls sharing the name "Kanonno". There are also the {{Big Bad}}s: Widdershin for [=RM1=], Goede for [=RM2=] and Lazaris for [=RM3=].* ParentalAbandonment: Kanonno Earhart's parents died long before the start of Radiant Mythology 2.* ParentalSubstitute: Paneer for Kanonno Earhart in Radiant Mythology 2 after Kanonno's parents were killed according to her backstory. She's been Kanonno's nanny ever since Kanonno was still an infant.* PrettyInMink: The Radiant Berserker armor has a tiger skin worn as a ShowgirlSkirt.* PurelyAestheticGender: The Descender from the first game. Averted with the Descenders of the 2nd and 3rd ''Radiant Mythology'' games where certain dialogues and relationships are tweaked in favor of the gender of your choosing.* SecondComing: The Descenders in general, but as far as we are aware, the Protagonists of the first, second and third Radiant Mythology. Though in Radiant Mythology 2, it is more specific as in that world (Granide) even though it is considered as a fairy tale, legends have been passed down through history, of the guardian of the world tree, the "Descender" that led a war to an end a long time ago and since then it was handed down as a legend, as warriors who would come in times of need and protect the world. Of course none of our characters nor the Guilds, (except in radiant mythology 1) know you are the prophesied Descender.* SideQuest: Loads of them!* SpinOffspring: As revealed in ''[=RM2=]'', [[spoiler:Granide is the world born at the end of ''[=RM1=]''.]]* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Kanonno Earhart and the (male) Descender in ''RM 2''. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] if you play the playable epilogue.]]* {{Trilogy}}: So far there are only 3 games.* TheTimeTravelersDilemma: [[spoiler:The Pasca Kanonno making an appearance]] in ''[=RM3=]'', [[spoiler: has not yet gone AxeCrazy and killed everyone in Pasca. Ultimately an InvertedTrope, as Niata is a refugee from the world P. Kanonno has yet to destroy and tries very hard not to let in on this.]]* VillainOverride: [[spoiler:[[CuteMonsterGirl Laza]][[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds ris]]]] suffers this fate in [=RM3=] [[spoiler:when the Document of Jildia forcefully takes over her body in a last-ditch effort to stop the heroes. It's almost enough to push her into AlasPoorVillain status, given how hard she tried for the sake of Jildia, only for Jildia to hideously mutate her and strip her will]].* VirtualPaperDoll: Armor is visible when worn.* WellIntentionedExtremist:** Widdershin and [[spoiler:Pasca Kanonno]] in the first game. Aurora is implied to have been one herself, but by the time the game begins she's a full-fledged villain. ** Lazaris in the third game [[spoiler:just wants her world (Jildia) to be born]], even though that involves destroying Luminasia. She even acknowledges that her wish is a selfish one, but justifies it [[spoiler:as Luminasia essentially denied Jildia the opportunity to be born as a world]].* TheWorldTree: It's what ushers the Descender into existence.----


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I had the same frustration, and wrote Pod::WikiDoc [cpan.org] so I could write in a Kwiki-like format and have it converted to Pod. Bullets are like this:
* item 1
* item 2
I wrote up a lightning talk about it: http://dagolden.com/files/pod-wikidoc.pdf [dagolden.com]
Unfortunately, it doesn't do DT/DD style lists yet, but mostly because I haven't gotten around to adding it. A request for it [cpan.org] has been in the RT queue for a while.
If you're interested in patching in support and using WikiDoc instead of rolling your own system around Markdown, please let me know and we can chat by email.
-- dagolden
Looking at the POD of your module, I can see you have the exact same beef with POD as I have.
But, IMHO, there are already just too many similar yet slightly different markup languages out there. I don't feel like learning yet another dialect; I'd just end up getting confused. And they all have their own translators. For example, your Wikidoc format is very much like Markdown, with probably the largest differences between them in the format of the links.
Do you think it would be feasible to unify those transl
I think generalizing the framework -- parsing POD in *.pm for a block of some style and "compiling" it to
There are others thinking about this, too. See, for example, Pod-Weaver [cpan.org]. That's something new from RJBS, but it might prove a better platform for a general tool.
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Padres Designate Poreda For Assignment
San Diego Padres
Poreda gets the axe in order for the Padres to place Bass on the 40-man roster. A giant of a man, at 6-foot-6, Poreda came over in the 2009 Jake Peavy trade, along with Adam Russell, Dexter Carter, and Clayton Richard. As it stands, only Richard and Poreda remain within the organization, as Carter is back in the White Sox system and Russell is cleaning up messes out of the Rays bullpen.
Even so, it is difficult to pan the trade as a poor one on San Diego's part. Peavy, for all his pros, is prone to missing time with various ailments. Sometimes a pitcher can recover and remain an asset, but it's not out of the question for a pitcher to just lose it after an injury—just look at Scott Kazmir. Given the Padres economic situation then (and even now) they could not stand to be responsible for Peavy's increasing salary (more than $15 million a season from here on out), therefore getting rid of the contract was as important as getting quality prospects in return.
If another team does desire Poreda, it will be because of his stuff, size, and strikeout rates. Poreda's value rises if the person viewing his statistics covers the walk column with tape, as his control is well below average. The White Sox promoted Poreda to Triple-A just before trading him, and he has spent most of his time with the Padres Triple-A affiliates (first Portland, now Tucson) since, while managing more than eight strikeouts per nine innings pitched, and yet, somehow he has managed a strikeout-to-walk ratio under 1.
Bass is replacing Poreda on the 40-man roster, but stylistically the pair clash. He features a garden-variety arsenal and relies heavily on his good control, however there are some question marks about his command. With only two Triple-A appearances under Bass' belt, Double-A is the highest rung of the ladder he has spent considerable time at, and he exited the level with 11 starts and a 3.53 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Bass will make his big league debut on Monday night.
R.J. Anderson is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @r_j_anderson
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Bass is the guy who plunked Lawrie two weeks ago, by the way. Nothing nefarious, it just got away.
Jun 13, 2011 15:31 PM
It certainly was amazing that both Poreda and Carter, immediately after being traded from the White Sox organization, saw their walk rates balloon to varying levels of ridiculousness. I guess repeatability of mechanics isn't considered a point of emphasis in the Padres organization.
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When: after every ride. Yes, every ride. Do you take a shower after you get sweaty, wet and muddy? Okay. Take care of your bike and your bike will take care of you.
The following supplies will make cleaning your bike easy, breezy:
- 1 bucket
- 1 garden hose
- Kitchen gloves
- Dish soap, Dr. Bronner's soap
- 1 sponge, non-abrasive scrubby brushes (I've seen people clean dirty cx bikes with toilet bowl brushes, but haven't tried this method), rags, towels
- Bio Clean, Simple Green (or similar biodegradable degreaser product)
- Bike Lust (or some similar product)
- Chain lube
- Rubber boots
- Bike stand
I live in Montana and the outdoor hose spigot gets turned off in early-November to prevent the pipes from freezing. Yes, it gets that cold here. If you don't have access to an outdoor hose, not to worry, grab a bucket, fill it with warm soapy water and clean your bike!
After your ride, clean yourself up, drink your recovery drink and eat a snack. Then put on your rubber boots and go clean your bike.
If you have a bike stand, toss your bike on the stand, remove front & rear wheels. If you don't have a bike stand, lean your bike against a building or against something stable so your bike doesn't fall over or get scratched during the cleaning process.
Put on your kitchen gloves to protect your skin and prevent your hands from freezing.
Clean your bike with warm soapy water. Spray your bike and your bike's drive train with a biodegradable degreaser. Let the degreaser soak in and work its magic. Scrub the grease, grime, dirt, mud, grass, sand, snow and ice off your bike's nooks and crannies with sponge, scrubby brush or whatever you have.
If you are using a hose, crank up the volume to create your own "power washer." If your bike is covered in frozen mud and snow, take your bike to the carwash and hose it off with the power wash soapy sprayer. It works!
After your bike is clean, wipe and dry your bike off with a clean towel. Spray some Bike Lust on your bike (or whatever product you use to make your bike look shiny and new).
Next: clean your bike's chain. Since the chain is likely damp, the dirt and grit launched into your bike's chain should come off pretty easily. Grab a rag and clean your chain. Look at all the grime and grease that just came off your chain. Nasty! Repeat cleaning process. Then apply a thin coating of bike chain lube to your sparkling clean chain. Check shifting. Check brakes. Check cables. Clean wheels, tires, rims. Voila, clean bike.
I'm not a bike mechanic, but I do know that a little bike maintenance goes a long way in helping to keep your bike rolling along. Regular bike maintenance helps me learn more about my bike. If during the cleaning process I discover something isn't working properly, I'll bring my bike to my favorite mechanic for some bike love.
A clean bike is a happy bike (until you launch it into sand, mud, dirt and snow).


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Funny stuff --Savethemooses 15:04, 16 Mar 2005 (EST)
I posted the picture =) --Nytrospawn 15:07, 16 Mar 2005 (EST)
This whole thing is dumb. There's nothing wrong with made-up stuff, so long as it at least serves some purpose (like the list of Detroit attractions that includes "Abandoned building on 8 Mile Road," etc.). The article itself, just like most of the articles here, contains no broader point -- there's no satirical or ironic element to it. It doesn't SAY anything. Without some meaningful backdrop or context, it's just a bunch of gobbledygook that's too boring to read past the first paragraph.
- The whole faux intro
- Detroit
- Whoops! Maybe you were looking for Windsor, Ontario?
- is pretty damned funny.
As a person who has "enjoyed" Detroit and also enjoys a certain degree of brain power, I would rate this article as very funny. --KP CUN 08:43, 13 Aug 2005 (UTC)
Detroit's Giant Tire Dwarfs Paris's Eiffle Tower
edit Businesses in Detroit
Is Northwest Airlines the only powerful business in the Detroit area?
There are lot of unemployed people in Detroit!
- ^ Northwest Airlines is in deep shyte, going down with the Chrysler, GM and Ford. I think that says there is no business in Detroit! lol. 18.104.22.168 23:33, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
edit Ouch...
I had to check this out after Detroit's mention in Kentuckistan Fried Movie. What an awful article. There are redeeming features though such as the attractions list. I might try to pretty it up at some point, I rather like rescuing articles.
--J M Hoffman 09:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
edit Other version
I just rewrote this article, and it got reverted. Honestly, can someone tell me if it's not actually better? Because this artivle pretty much sucks. Frankly, I put a lot of work into writing a quality article, and it was reverted to this piece of garbage. Honestle, I think this article deserves to be completely rewritten, and if anyone agrees, please keep my version. -Blackhawk003
Heh... I read your rewrite -- it sucked even more than what you replaced. Akulkis 09:04, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
edit lulz
As someone who lives in southeastern Michigan, I have to say that you have to laugh at Detroit or else you'll scream. I would take issue with the People's Republic of Ann Arbor and Ypsitucky being 'burbs if only because they're a good forty miles away.
But for the rest of the world, who (unlike us) don't live near Detroit, A^2 and Ypsi are suburbs of Detroit. Jackson and Flint would not be considered suburbs. Akulkis 09:05, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
edit Why the lockdown on editing this article?
Hey, I was born, raised, educated, and continue to live and work in Detroit, and I know the difference between funny and racist. So how come I can't edit this article? Some of it is very funny, some is just racist crap.
This website says it is " the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." I'd like to do some editing. After all, "stupid is not the same as funny," and this article has way too much stupid in it and nowhere near enough funny.
edit Museum of note
Isn't there a Museum of Rusty Engine Blocks Pilfered from Defunct GM Factories somewhere in Detroit? Shouldn't this be mentioned somewhere in this article?
edit Photo of Detroit City Hall
If more than a couple months old should be checked to make sure that it hasn't been gutted by fire.


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The Measure A parcel tax for Pacific Grove is completely unnecessary. The Pacific Grove Unified School District currently has a tax in place, Measure X passed in 2008, with the same objectives as Measure A.
The district claims it needs the new revenues from Measure A because the current tax revenues from Measure X will "soon expire." In fact, Measure X doesn't expire until June 30, 2014. And the loss of those revenues will constitute a minuscule 1.2 percent of the current budget.
If passed, Measure A will nearly double the current tax from $35/parcel/year to $65/parcel/year. But PGUSD has failed to articulate any reasonable rationale for this huge tax increase. In fact, the statements by PGUSD's superintendent show why this tax is unnecessary: "The district's budget is in good shape" and "the district's reserves are healthy, remaining above 15 percent since 2009-10."
PGUSD states that it needs Measure A because it faces "statewide budget cuts." But even if the governor's tax increases are defeated in November, PGUSD would lose only $455 per student, only a 3.35 percent reduction per student. This does not justify a new parcel tax.
But if the voters approve the governor's tax proposal and Measure A passes, PGUSD will have lavished itself with a completely unnecessary windfall at taxpayer expense.
Also, Measure A is misleading. It says it will not allow its revenues to be used for "administrative salaries." But the ballot also states that one of its purposes is to "provide staffing and operations of libraries." Some library staff are administrative employees.
PGUSD is already squeezing too much money from property owners. For example, for two bond measures passed in 2000 and 2005, property owners in the Carmel Unified School District pay only $19.34 for every $100,000 of their property's assessed valuation. In contrast, PGUSD property owners are currently paying PGUSD $84 for every $100,000 of assessed valuation, over 400 percent of what is paid in Carmel's district. On top of that, PGUSD gets an additional $35 per parcel per year!
PGUSD has a history of poor judgment in spending tax dollars. For example, with the money from Measure D, the district spent $6.8 million for a new sports stadium. This exceeded the total estimated costs for the Forest Grove ($1.6 million) and Robert Down ($4.2 million) school modernization projects. And it spent $2.6 million for the high school "sub gym lobby." This exceeds, by $1 million, the estimated costs for the entire Forest Grove modernization project.
Proponents of Measure A assert that it has "strong taxpayer protections" with a "citizen's oversight committee" to "review all expenditures." This committee, however, has no power to stop PGUSD from misspending the funds. The same type of committees existed for the 2003 Measure A and the 2008 Measure X. Yet under their scrutiny, PGUSD used parcel taxes for administrative salaries in direct violation of these tax measures: between 2004 and 2012, PGUSD paid $65,975 for two "elementary library manager positions."
PGUSD does not need Measure A. Vote no.
Carl A. Mounteer, a retired lawyer, and David R. Henderson, an economics professor, are both long-time residents of Pacific Grove.


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Rents for marina berths in Queensland have leapt 8 per cent on average in the last year, but the rising rents are yet to prompt a turnaround in buying activity.
According to the latest Midwood Report's Marina Berth Survey, asking prices for 1450 of Queensland's total 8900 individual berths have fallen by an average of 7 per cent, with asking prices for the remainder unchanged.
Midwood author Bill Morris said the lacklustre buying activity was mainly due to the large amount of berths tied up in mortgagee in possession.
"At the Meridien Marina Mirage limited opportunities remain due to a proposed residential master plan where berths will be stapled to apartments," Mr Morris said.
The 500-berth Horizon Shores Marina, formerly owned by Meridien, is one of several major marinas locked up in mortgagee in possession.
Grant Thornton's Mike McCann is the receiver for the Marina Oceanus at the Gold Coast, now for sale through Colliers International.
Mr McCann agreed that individual sales on berths have slowed because receivers prefer to sell a marina as a whole and reap greater value, but he does not agree that rents are improving for marina berths.
"A lot of the rents are on short-term contracts, not long-term contracts," Mr McCann said.
"We are fortunate to have strong occupancy at the Oceanus, which is also in a very good location but I think beyond the Gold Coast the returns will be a lot more difficult to obtain."
Mr Morris reported that the average yield for a marina berth had increased from 5.3 per cent to 6 per cent over the year.
"This represents good value and reflects the fall in capital values in some marinas," Mr Morris said.
The most recent sale of a marina was at Airlie Beach in north Queensland, where coal entrepreneur
Other marinas have also come to the market looking for buyers, such as AMP Capital's Spinnaker Sound Marina with 138 berths at Sandstone Point, Deception Bay.
Buyers such as Pacific Marinas, the venture between Sydney solicitor Andrew Robinson and venture capitalist
Underlying demand for marina berths has lifted slightly with factors such as boat registrations helping the investment climate.
According to the Queensland Department of Transport, boat registrations were up 2 per cent in 2012 to 250,000, albeit much less than the 5 per cent growth experienced in the years leading up to the financial crisis.
Tourism figures are also on the mend with Tourism Research Australia indicating that for the first time since 2007 Queensland recorded an annual domestic visitor increase of more than 1 million.
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" Brnad: Pavers / Type: Handbag "
I love butterflies and have a variety of clothes and accessories with them on. For Christmas, my parents bought me this lovely handbag, which lots of people have commented on how nice it is. My mam is a fan of pavers and often gets shows from there. I've had a couple of pairs of shoes from Pavers and always find them to be good quality and last well.
I like to have a handbag that I can just use everyday until it wears out to ensure that I always have everything I need in it (if I keep changing bags you can guarantee that I will forget to transfer something I need!) - and this one does the job perfectly. I also need a bag with a long enough handle that I can quickly throw it onto my shoulder, without then being too long, so that the bag sits comfortably under my arm. Again, this does the jobs just right!
Mine is grey in colour with 4 butterflies on the front (purple, black, silver and pink). There is also a cut out patterned design around the butterflies and as they aren't completely attached, it looks like the butterflies have just landed on my handbag (which looks pretty).
I need a handbag which can fit a lot in without being too big, as I do need to be able to carry it, and this one is an ideal size for me.
The bag has three large compartments inside (the middle of which is zipped). There are also 2 small zipped compartments (one on the inside, and one on the back on the outside). Inside there is also a place to put your phone and perhaps keys, but these 2 'pockets' are not zipped.
The lining feels strong and so far has been very durable. When I buy a cheap handbag, sometimes they only last a few weeks before they fall apart, due to the amount of stuff I carry round in it - but so far this is exactly as it was when I started using it 2 months ago. I've used it everyday and sometimes carry a bottle of water and lunch in it too.
I do carry a lot of things around in my bag, particularly when I'm at work or doing my voluntary work with a speech and language therapy team. Due to this it is often heavy when I'm carrying it around, but so far it's as good as new!
The outside of the bag feels a bit like leather and is soft. The grey colour is nice, as it goes with lots of different outfits, and the butterflies add a little extra colour.
The compartments allow me to organise the contents of my bag so I can (usually) find whatever it is I am looking for quite quickly. (I sometimes find that things easily get lost inside large bags, but due to the compartment down the middle of the bag, it is much easier to find things in one of the 3 main parts.)
Sometimes I do overfill it slightly and have difficulty fastening the zip, however, this doesn't happen often, as I know how much is a suitable amount to carry in it.
When I first got it the outer zip wasn't great (didn't always fasten) and we thought we were going to have to take it back. My dad said he thought it just needed to be 'worn in' and he was right; the only time I have a problem with the zip now is when I overfill it.
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* Zip can be occasionally temperamental
* Easy to put lots of things in leading to a heavy bag
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With the 2008 Grand Caravan, Dodge provides comfort to match the minivan's reputation as an all-around family car.
Room and convenience is what the 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan has to offer. Cars.com likes the Stow 'n Go second-row seats, "which fold into the floor," and Car and Driver calls them "a masterpiece of accommodating design." Motor Trend and other sources also note the newly optional Swivel 'n Go second-row chairs [that] flip around 180 degrees." Mother Proof says the new feature is "fun," but had difficulty removing the optional table that also fits between the second- and third-row seats. Autoblog notes that the third-row seat "flips backwards for tailgate seating that's more comfortable than any bare-metal pickup truck bed."
Cars.com describes the layout of the interior and different seating options: "The standard second-row bench seat and a manual 60/40-split folding third row (with the bench, the same bins in the floor that would accept folded Stow 'n Go seats, were they installed, provide covered storage); Stow 'n Go second-row captain's chairs with the manual folding third row; or Swivel 'n Go rearward-facing second-row seats with the manual third row."
There are plenty of bins, boxes, and storage areas elsewhere in the 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan; Car and Driver calls the big center console "rickety." And most reviewers come down hard on the materials used on the dash and door panels of the Dodge; 2008's interior "has a cheap-motel look about it, too, with plastic gestures everywhere—obvious plastic, blatant plastic," Car and Driver adds.
Despite these drawbacks, Washington Post gives a positively glowing review, advising car buyers to go for the top-of-the-line Caravan SXT, calling it "luxurious ... like being in your living room or a family room." ConsumerGuide agrees, acknowledging the Grand Caravan as "possibly the quietest minivans." Motor Trend likes the "convenient LED reading lamps [that] dot the cabin, and there's an available overhead 'halo' light that bathes the interior in soft blue."
TheCarConnection.com's editors add that there is no longer a short-wheelbase Caravan model Dodge; 2008's model range only comes as the Grand Caravan. Also, with the Swivel 'n Go second-row bucket seats and removable pedestal-mounted table, adults will find the face-to-face configuration cramped. With all rows facing forward, seating comfort is very good.


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New Election Law Put On Hold
A U haul truck full of petitions…..and a crowd of volunteers occupy the alley behind the Ohio Secretary of State's office…..
Volunteers line up and using what's commonly referred to as a bucket brigade, they pass the boxes of petitions down through the line that snakes into the building. More than 318 thousand petition signatures were collected. More than 231 thosuand valid signatures are needed. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner says she and others working on the campaign only had six weeks to collect signatures to put a referendum of the new election reform law on the 2012 ballot. And she says they aren't stopping.
Brunner – The fact that we need 231 thousand signatures and we are this far over, there is a potential that we wouldn't need the extra signatures but as an insurance policy, we are going forward and getting those extra signatures.
If there are enough valid signatures, the new election reform law will be put on hold thi November and next November when Ohio voters will decide whether to enact the newly passed election reform law. Local boards of elections are ready to go ahead and operate under the same rules they've been using for the past couple of elections. That means, for now, early voting will begin next week in many places throughout the state. Weekend voting, including the weekend before the election, will be allowed. Those are just some of the things that would've been changed under the new law. Democratic congresswoman Marcia Fudge says this effort should send a strong message to majority Republicans.
Fudge – They should've had enough by now. We beat them back on SB 5, We beat them back on 194. I think they would be silly to try to do something else, just let the people's voice be heard. That's what they need to do.
Fudge says Democrats and minority voters will benefit by keeping the current election laws in place instead of going with the newer, more restrictive election rules.
Fudge – It is targeted certain pre-determined populations. They are the elderly, the disabled, students, minorities and the poor. Those are people who are more likely to vote Democratic. So absolutely it would have an effect. And since Ohio is always a swing state, it would only take a very small number to change the outcome of the election. And I do believe that it will make a difference by being in effect on the 2012 ballot instead of not taking effect two days from now. (outcue….two days from now :37)
Blessing – I don't know how they come to that conclusion but they can put it on the ballot if they like.
That's Republican State Representative Lou Blessing, one of the sponsors of the new election reform law Democrats oppose. He says the referendum effort is just making the election more complicated.
Blessing – The only thing I can conclude is people with these petitions want to create chaos and make it more difficult at the polls because that's what will happen.
Blessing says he doesn't think the new election reform rules would disenfranchise voters. He says the problem is that the pendulum on voting has swung too far.
Blessing – There were times, not too long ago, when you could vote on election day and if you weren't there on Election Day, you couldn't vote. We've, over the years, expanded that to the point that we've had 31 days and the boards were telling us they couldn't do that administratively because it caused problems.
But Ohio's Democratic Party Chair, Chris Redfern, says the real problem is that Republicans who voted the current law into place years ago to give more people the opportunity to vote don't like the effect of it.
Redfern - What we've saw is what we know is you turn out more people in the state of Ohio, regardless of political stripe, Democrats and the middle class win because of it. It doesn't matter what they think. It's the law and they wrote the law and we abided by the law and we won because of it.
Democrats are hoping, by keeping the current rules in place, they can not only help their candidates win in 2012 but will also convince voters to keep the election rules they say make it easier to do that.


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Discussion in 'Manchester United Forum' started by Inspectah deck, Mar 5, 2012.
Who is the better player, and why?
Van Persie
More consistent goalscorer, scores in the big matches.
This season? RVP
Otherwise Rooney
We've had this debate loads of times.
Van Persie is the better striker. Why? Because he is in the form of his life.
This season, Van Persie.
Overall, have to take the injury records into consideration.. I'd rather have Rooney's last 5 years than Van Persie's.
He kicked on at 28, Rooney might do the same.
It is like taking two of the hottest women in the world and asking who the fittest is.
It's close.......but Rooney. His record in big matches this year has been terrific (so has VP's).
Two wonderful footballers. I don't think you could argue with anybody picking either of them.
So does Rooney, no?
And Rooney doesn't?
Van Persie's having a brilliant season and a half, thanks to an unprecedented run without injuries. Every time Rooney picks up an injury he almost always has a dip in form on his comeback (same is true for almost everyone)
We'll get a better idea of the true comparison if/when Rooney gets the same luck with injuries Van Persie has recently had (and yes, I appreciate how bizarre it sounds to talk about him being lucky with injuries!)
Also worth bearing in mind that Van Persie is closer to his peak, as he's two years older.
So does Wayne, I think you'll struggle to find a bigger scorer in big matches than Wayne this season.
I prefer Van Persie - he's much better as a striker, but, despite his sometimes inconsistent form, Rooney is consistently fit, and therefore more reliable over a campaign. Wayne also offers more overall as his quality isn't as limited to attack as VP's is.
So, Wayne Rooney.
Although RvP is having a splendid year, from a career perspective (ie. taking the knee-jerk element of RvP being world class just this year), its Rooney.
This season alone? RVP... last 5 years? Wayne Rooney. Up front feeding of scraps for Arsenal? RVP. Up front, dropping deep, helping out in midfield and creating play going forward for Manchester United? Wayne Rooney.
So... my answer is Pavel Pogrebnyak
I didn't mean to say Rooney doesn't deliver in big games guys, I just feel if you were to give me Rooney or Van Persie in a big game, I would pick Van Persie.
I'd like both.
Persie is better striker, that's for sure. But overall, I would pick Rooney anyday.
This season, RVP.
Last 5 years ,Rooney.
Also who knows how good RVP would have been if not injured so often.
Both on form, I'd go for Rooney. Tough decision as there's almost nothing to choose between the 2 (I think either of them can do whatever the other one can), but I still think if Rooney was leading the line for us, he'd also have at least another 5+ goals to his name.
Currently Rooney is still scoring a shed load of goals even though he is currently playing as more of a playmaker.
How about a Rooney----RvP combo?
Van Persie this season looks like the player i thought Rooney would turn into when he was 18.
Spectacular goals, spectacular technique, brilliant hold up play and vision. RVP is simply on a different palnet to Rooney atm.
Rooney is still a top top player, but RVP has that extra bit of class atm that Rooney looked like he was going to have when he was tagged as the White Pele. Never quite hit those heights again for me im afraid.
Not gonna happen, our budget won't stretch to Rooney
Still feel Van Persie's being wasted a bit playing up top on his own. A bit similar to how we played Rooney up top alone a couple of seasons ago. Scored loads of goals, but we always knew he was curbing his all round game.
Rooney. He has more to his game than just attacking.
Based on their best two seasons, van Persie is comfortably the better player in almost every attribute. However, I'd have Rooney over him because of his versatility and superior injury record.
Fuuuck that... Van Persie doesn't have Rooney's passing vision. We've seen Rooney drop deep into midfield and play almost like Scholes.
Only one of them has scored 15+ and assisted another 5 at least in the past 8 straight years.....and when the team was built 100% around him as a striker who doesn't drop deep and do his own thing as much, he was just as good, maybe a little worse, but he's only played the same role RVP did this year for us for like a consistent injury free 7 months or so.
Rooney is easily far more effective everywhere else though, that's the clincher for me. The question should be....should we cash in on Hernandez and Welbeck to keep Berbatov and throw the bank at Van Persie?
Wayne Rooney has more all-round ability than Van Persie, and stays fit more than Van Persie. Van Persie, however, is more consistant as a striker than Rooney when he does play and is in the better form now. I'd go with Rooney though.
Passing is the one attribute where Rooney trumps van Persie, but the latter still notches up a similar amount of assists.
No thanks, I'd rather keep Chicharito and Welbeck.
Rooney every single time. He is essential to our play and works his bollocks off in midfield creating an extra man. Van Persie won't do that
Very weird of a question
This is true, Rooney is the only reason we can currently afford to play in two up front even when our opposition plays 3 in the middle.
Have a look at who Rooney has scored against this season.
Erm, No.
the question is 'who is the better player'.
Rooney...he is just the best player in the Prem. simples.
RVP is the best striker atm no doubt.
Well it's where Van Persie plays.....except with Fabregas last year and well whoever in the role Rooney plays this year.
I wouldn't, all down to him being 29 when the next season starts though, if he were 26 or 27, I'd do that hypothetical move.
In response to the original question, Rooney is better player cos he can play in different positions and has done so throughout his career
EDIT: because he is! Rooneys overall game is far superior to Van Persie, he's capable of playing almost every attacking position on the pitch and is decent cover even for the CM position which makes him better player. If question was who is better striker then it would be Van Persie.
RVP is also the best striker in the premiership, by a bigger distance.
People seem to only think RVP has had one good season.
I recall him being pretty shit hot last year also, and the year before before he got injured he was scoring.
Still though it's obvious he doesn't stay as fit as Rooney, but I just thought I'd point that one out.
Van Persie has always been an outstanding striker, the only thing that stopped him before wasn't a lack of quality, but fitness.
This isn't a freak season in the sense he has got so much better out of nowhere, he hasn't, he's just been fitter, for a longer time.
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Fighting Poverty in India
Globe Aware's India program is based in Jaipur. Maharaja Jai Singh II, a Kachhwaha Rajput, who ruled from 1699-1744, founded Jaipur, "The Pink City". Built in 1727 Jaipur was the first planned city of India and the King took great interest in its design. The title of "The Pink City" is in reference to its distinctly colored buildings, which were originally painted that color to imitate the red sandstone architecture of Mughal cities. Jaipur has grown into the commercial centre for most of the rural regions of the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan and is that state's largest city.
It is a place with a rich cultural history. During your strolls through the city you will come across typical Rajasthani men and women wearing turbans and colorful ghagra-choli. While much of the news of India is rightfully focused on the stunning growth rates of its tech sector and the miraculous transformations of many of the major cities, mass poverty is still very much in evidence in rural regions throughout the country. We are doing what we can by partnering with a under-served local community to help provide much needed services that would otherwise not be available due to lack of resources.
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The local community is also concerned with the conditions of local communal facilities. As a result volunteers will also participate in beautification activities at government schools, day care centers, & other public facilities. In all cases the projects that you, our volunteers, make possible will enhance the quality of life for these children and communities in ways that you can only begin to imagine.
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JERUSALEM (Dec. 7)
A court ruling in Israel has sparked a new debate regarding religious pluralism in the Jewish state.
The decision, issued last week by a labor court, allowed members of a kibbutz on the outskirts of Jerusalem to work on the Sabbath.
In his ruling, the judge noted that Israeli law requires only that citizens not work on their day of rest, as determined by their religion.
But the judge added that the day of rest for a collective organization such as a kibbutz cannot be determined by outside religious bodies.
He said kibbutz members could determine their own day of rest.
The decision came in the wake of charges filed last March by the Labor Ministry against six members of Kibbutz Tzora for working in kibbutz stores on the Sabbath.
The ruling heated up an already simmering debate over the extent to which the country's religious authorities can regulate life in Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was "shocked" by the ruling, which he said "indicates that the kibbutzim live in a different country and are not part of the Jewish people. I am certain that the ruling that the religion of kibbutzim cannot be determined will encounter fierce opposition."
Some of that opposition came from members of Netanyahu's Cabinet.
Labor Minister Eli Yishai of the haredi, or fervently Orthodox, Shas Party said he planned to appeal the ruling.
Transportation Minister Shaul Yahalom, of the National Religious Party, called on the attorney general to challenge the ruling.
Yahalom said that if the appeal is rejected, he would work to change the law.
On the other side of the divide, Yossi Sarid, the leader of the secularist Meretz Party, declared that "every effort by Netanyahu and his haredim to dictate our lifestyle, change the status quo and close down shopping and cultural centers on Saturdays is a declaration of war against the secular public in Israel."
Enforcement of the law banning work on the Sabbath has increased with the political clout of the religious parties in the Netanyahu government.
Under the control of the Shas Party, the Labor Ministry has dispatched non- Jewish inspectors to fine businesses operating on the Sabbath or employing Jewish workers on the Sabbath.
Much of the court's ruling dealt not with religion, but the issue of fair competition.
Noting that most of the kibbutz commercial areas are located in peripheral areas, the court rejected the argument of the labor minister that the kibbutz enterprises present unfair competition to businesses that offer similar services in the center of the country.
Kibbutzim earn an estimated $36 million a year in revenues from Sabbath sales in kibbutz-run stores, gas stations, restaurants and tourist services.
These revenues represent some 50 percent to 80 percent of their total sales.
An order to close on the Sabbath, kibbutz officials have maintained, would be a death blow to these operations.


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In today's Glam Slam feature: Jessica Simpson wowed the stylish crowd in her flattering citrus chic dress — it's spring personified.
Without a doubt, she's got her body back and looks fab!
Jessica hit the carpet for a great cause — the John Varvatos 11th Annual Stuart House Benefit. One of Jess' old friends — Willie Nelson — performed live (Jessica and Willie go way back — in 2005 they were both in "The Dukes of Hazzard" and they've even dueted together!).
I was lucky enough to attend the event with my family again this year and I can vouch for the fact that Willie, who performed with his sons, sounded great in person. I love having the opportunity to introduce my 5-year-old daughter to the music of legends like Willie — last year we got to see Aerosmith's Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry perform live at the event. One day I hope she will really appreciate all of this… but these days, she's just excited about the liquid nitrogen ice cream made on site!
She did enjoy the special kids' tent, where we spent the majority of the day. There were amazing balloon artists (she got a balloon shaped like "Frozen's" Olaf!), temporary tattoo artists, a hair station, and all kinds of games and arts and crafts. A magician kept the kids (and adults!) entertained and she kept asking, "How did he DO that?"
I saw James Van Der Beek and his adorable family enjoying the festivities and while waiting in line for pizza, event emcee Bill Bellamy raved about the pies, saying he heard they were awesome. (They were! They were made in an oven right in front of us!) Fresh off his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction, KISS front man Gene Simmons happily posed for selfies with fans, but I was too shy to ask him for one!
More than 1,500 guests enjoyed the family-friendly event, which was co-hosted by Amy Adams and her fiancé. The benefit raised $939,000 for Stuart House — the UCLA Rape Treatment Center for sexually abused children.
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A 20-minute free parking scheme will be rolled out across the borough, it was announced today.
Harrow Borough Council leader Councillor Susan Hall revealed the plans for the scheme ahead of budget discussions this month.
The Conservative administration says it has found the money in its budget to introduce the scheme across the whole borough.
It will include the upgrading of many of Harrow's on-street ticket machines to include a keypad for motorists to input their car registration number, which the council hopes will prevent the scheme being abused.
Drivers will also only be able to get free 20-minutes' parking once a day.
The scheme was trialled by the previous Independent Labour administration around Rayners Lane in the summer last year.
However it was cancelled by the incoming Conservative group after it was found the scheme would cost the authority too much money and was being abused by motorists.


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Blog was apparently one of the words of 2004, and whilst undoubtedly true, the statement also makes me cringe; for what is "hot" can quickly become "not", as Simon Waldeman reminds us. More importantly, blogs have been discussed as a serious business issue in the mainstream press for the first time over the past year, a good example being Fortune magazine's well-informed overview Why There's No Escaping the Blog. Further evidence for the inexorable rise of the blogging phenomenon is provided by the much heralded Pew Internet and American Life Project survey (PDF, BBC report), which claims that 32m Internet users in the USA have read blogs, 8m have produced their own and 14m have commented on other peoples' blogs, with an overall 58% increase in readership compared to 2003.
Dave Pollard, a prolific blogger who offers up some consistently good writing, believes the survey implies that the growing network of (mostly) individual weblogs will soon start to rival local press for media eyeballs:
"The survey suggests that the total online potential audience (regular Internet users) has reached 40% of the US population … Other research indicates that, excluding the exploding Chinese market, US blog readership is about 40% of global blog readership, which means that the blog writer now has a target audience of 80 million readers worldwide…"
"Other surveys monitored by Phil Wolff's Blogcount suggest the number of regular Internet users who maintain active blogs is closer to 2% of regular Internet users (2 million Americans, perhaps 5 million globally), and that global blog readership including China is as high as 110 million. These surveys also indicate that the average blog reader stays only 90 seconds per page, and only 40 seconds per page on 'A-list' blogs."
"… All US dailies combined are getting an aggregate of 12.5 million hours of reader attention per day. The blogosphere combined is getting an aggregate of 1.0 million hours of reader attention per day, and that's doubling every 18 months, and we haven't started to bridge the digital divide yet, where 80% of our potential audience lies."
(from the Pew survey, via Dave Pollard)
Network effects
If Dave Pollard is right, this has tremendously exciting implications for the media in general. This is presumably as encouraging for pioneering citizen-media activists such as the excellent Dan Gillmor as it is depressing for traditional local media, who are not only losing readers but also advertising revenue to social software upstarts. But blogs are only part of the story.
What is really going on is a major shift in the way that we are able to communicate, collaborate and share things with each other using online technologies. The key to this is not the technology itself – there is remarkably little that we can do now that wasn't possible 5 years ago – but rather the critical mass of connectivity between people that we are finally reaching, as the Pew survey makes clear. The real story is about about ease of use, availability, culture change and most importantly network effects, as Jon Udell rightly emphasises. As Simon Waldeman notes, the only slight negative in the Pew stats is the relatively low level of RSS adoption among non-expert users. This is something we should all work to address, as RSS/Atom and other syndication schema are the glue that binds this growing ecosystem of connected conversations.
Lilia Efimova has been doing some interesting work looking at the structure and lifecycle of blog-based conversations. Lada Adamovic and her colleagues at HP have applied ideas from epidemiology to identify how and why some blogs spread ideas more widely than others in a paper called Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace. Elsewhere in HP, as Piers Young recently spotted, HP Labs in the UK have been looking at how to support informal social knowledge sharing by applying some lightweight semantic markup to blog-based information sharing. What's interesting is the potential for linking people in a lightweight, but highly connected way. Some, like George Por, think of this as the development of Collective Intelligence and are working within organisations and networks to develop it.
Blogging is often seen as the only important form of social software, but it is just one (major) component among many, and more are emerging all the time. Some of the most interesting thinking and innovation is now taking place across a wider area covering "software which supports, extends, or derives added value from, human social behaviour – message-boards, musical taste-sharing, photo-sharing, instant messaging, mailing lists, social networking" (to borrow Tom Coates' new shorthand definition of social software). There has been much written and debated about this term and its meaning, but we should bear in mind, as Christopher Allen wrote so eloquently last year, that it is just the latest in a long series of phases in the use of computers to support social interaction that stretches right back to Vannevar Bush in the 1940's.
Beyond Blogs
If I was entirely honest, I would admit to spending more time on Fantasy Football games and photo sharing than I do blogging. Never mind – they are both important elements of my online social interaction, and Flickr (not a blogging tool) was arguably the best social software application launched last year. Jon Udell also dubbed 2004 the year of the Enterprise Wiki as these simple collaboration tools really started to take off within large organisations. This year, a decade on since the first wiki was developed, we should expect to see even more internal applications of wikis and other open source tools for business purposes.
So what general developments do we expect to see in the social software field this year?
With regard to blogs themselves, I think we are already seeing some cracks emerging in the concept of a single connected "blogosphere" where anybody can hold meaningful connected conversations with anybody else. Bena and Mena Trott, developers of the best blog management platform Movable Type,
acknowledged this in their keynote speech at Blogtalk last year, when they predicted that a significant proportion of new blogs would be either explicitly closed or just aimed at a very limited circle of friends, family or co-workers. Six Apart (their company) have also recognised the vulnerability of comments and trackbacks – two key elements in joining together blog-based conversations – and they are trying to address them. Their acquisition of LiveJournal should be seen in this context – LiveJournal is currently better at handling the subtleties of private communities than Movable Type and Typepad.
Elsewhere, some people are starting to question the viability of a single, open access blogging world, whilst others are looking for more sophisticated forms of collaboration than blogs currently provide.
So, whilst there will be more public blogs sprouting this year, we expect to see greater focus on internal blogging within and between organisations, and this will require new features and tools to support more task- and work-oriented requirements. Blogs are great for collaborative sense making among a network or group of people, but as Ton Zijlstra wrote some time ago, it is important to be able to move seamlessly from the sense making mode to the actionable sense mode, where interaction becomes more focused on doing something. Wikis and other collaboration tools (every morning at Headshift we bow before our JIRA overlord, for example) are currently the logical progression when people develop a common purpose in blog-based discussion that requires focused action. There will be more.
New forms within social tools
Looking beyond blog and wikis, many other types of tools are adopting socially connected characteristics, such as photo sharing, social bookmarking, notetaking and many other types of applications. We will need better aggregation and concept matching tools in order to pull together an increasing amount of online interaction that is becoming spread across too many places right now. Ton touches upon this in his response to Stuart Henshall's announcement that he is moving away from 'traditional blogging', Marc Canter has been talking about digital lifestyle aggregators for some time. Seb Paquet recently wrote about commentlogging, which involves using del.icio.us to create a personal trail of comments and discussions that a user takes part in, and del.icio.us backlinks to see who has bookmarked a given page. The meticulous Phil Gyford also scripted a tool recently to pull together his varied output into a composite RSS feed to make it easier to follow his tracks. Finally, of course, Technorati is doing an excellent job of tying together weblog conversations and themes, and we can expect a lot more from the sleeping giant in this space: Google.
Several related techniques that rose to prominence during 2004 will become focal points for technical development during 2005 to support the requirements of more active, more sophisticated communities of people using social software to help them manage their lives and work.
One of these is folksonomies (aka social tagging or ethnoclassification). We have been using this approach for over a year in a social knowledge sharing community and it has produced some very interesting results that we will be reviewing soon to inform future development in this area. It is not without its limitations, and it should not be seen as competing exclusively with traditional metadata structures, but more than any other idea last year this one captured the imagination of those of us who strive to give people more control over the language, relationships and structure of their own information. This technique is a close relation to collaborative filtering – social bookmarking tool del.icio.us is driven by social tagging, whilst Digg is driven by user ratings – and we can probably expect new and exciting combinations of the two approaches in new social software tools.
Another is the pursuit of simplicity, adaptability and tolerance of ambiguity on the client side, whilst applying computing power on the server side to make users' lives a little easier. One of the best contributions in this area was Adam Bosworth's ISOC04 talk in November, where he reflects on the evolution of XML and other interoperability frameworks:
"On the one hand we have Blogs and Photo Albums and Event Schedules and Favorites and Ratings and News Feeds. On the other we have CRM and ERP and BPO and all sorts of enterprise oriented 3 letter acronyms."
As I said in my blog,
"My mother never complains that she needs a better client for Amazon. Instead, her interest is in better community tools, better book lists, easier ways to see the book lists, more trust in the reviewers, librarian discussions since she is a librarian, and so on".
This is what will be new. In fact it already is. You want to see the future. Don't look at Longhorn. Look at Slashdot. 500,000 nerds coming together everyday just to manage information overload. Look at BlogLines. What will be the big enabler? Will it be Attention.XML as Steve Gillmor and Dave Sifry hope? Or something else less formal and more organic? It doesn't matter. The currency of reputation and judgment is the answer to the tragedy of the commons and it will find a way. This is where the action will be. Learning Avalon or Swing isn't going to matter. Machine learning and inference and data mining will. For the first time since computers came along, AI is the mainstream.
Whilst Adam is concerned mostly with the back-end technologies necessary to make this happen, Joel Spolsky hit the nail on the head in terms of how to think about the client-side competencies required to make this a reality for users in an essay entitled It's Not Just Usability about the idea of social interface design. We are only beginning to learn how to build social interfaces that support a multiplicity of behaviours, cultures and identities, but this will be an important line of enquiry during the next twelve months.
Social and cultural issues
In addition to the instrumental requirements of software and interfaces required to support new forms of online social interaction, we will also be hearing a lot more about the real-world social and cultural issues that our increasing levels of connectedness bring to the fore.
Last year there was a lot of self-referential discussion among bloggers about their "right" to talk about everything and anything they like, which has raised sometimes thorny policy issues for companies. We have seen
bloggers fired for breach of contract and confidentiality, and a plethora of anonymised work blogs telling tales from inside call centres, the police and even ambulances (few bloggers have said much safeguarding the patient's right to privacy, incidentally). In general, organisations have yet come to terms with the legal and policy side of this, but increasing moves towards transparency will force their hand soon and policy will start to become clearer and probably more defensive.
Within social networks and communities themselves, there is also a need for more attention to be paid to governance, shared values, rules and acceptable use. Clay Shirky argued almost two years ago that, in some respects, the group is its own worst enemy and called for more focus on governance issues within online communities. Recent debates about the value and reliability of content on Wikipedia have brought some of these issues to the surface again.
As we focus more on individual communities rather than the world of blogs as a whole, and especially as social software gains more traction within the enterprise, there will be more need for clearly articulated rules and social norms to govern day to day behaviour. Relatively few people have looked at the relationship between online social interaction and moral development, but Ulises Ali Mejias has produced two recent posts that attempt to understand how the Internet can assist the development of 'social perspective taking' and thereby engender empathy and shared values: Moral Development and the Internet and Is Morality an Emergent Behavior? Our own observations of both the 'blogosphere' in general and the actions of individuals within closed online social networks suggest that there is strong evidence for shared values being an emergent property of these groups, which is not something that many organisations take into account when creating projects to support online communities.
Putting it into practice
The Financial Times has given space to discussions of corporate blogging and the use of wikis (including the use of Socialtext's product by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein) recently, which is a strong signal the enterprise uses of social software are no longer ahead of the adoption curve. Blogs and wikis are in use by Disney, Google, Razorfish and a host of other corporations, whilst many others are experimenting with corporate Instant Messaging (good post by Simon Forrest about this) and other social tools. Law firms and other professional service firms that are largely knowledge-based enterprises are especially interested in how social networking ideas can be used to improve communications, knowledge sharing and process. Industry-specific blogs such as Excited Utterances in the legal sector are helping drive this forward in public, and gradually some of these ideas are being brought inside the firewall, especially when firms start to see how much cheaper these solutions can be compared to traditional enterprise systems.
There is also increasing interest in Social Network Analysis and its application to organisations (reading list). When I spoke at the Annual Gurteen Knowledge Conference last year, much of the discussion was dominated by the application of SNA tools to corporate email stores and other data to derive social network information from raw messages. Whilst this is an interesting area, it is still fundamentally a top-down approach that is not yet able to cope with the subtleties and idiosyncrasies of our online social interactions, so it should be used with care.
The key to adoption in most of these cases is starting small with well scoped projects to address definable needs for a specific group of people, and then using this as proof of concept and widening the net if it proves useful. These so-called stealth projects are often able to fly under the radar until they are well enough established to face wider scrutiny, and because of their small-scale beginnings they tend to have the best ROI.
Although there is huge growth in the enterprise social software market, for products, services and a combination of the two, more questions will be asked about the measurement of outcomes in the future. Anu and Piers Young have done some thinking on this as part of their own exploration of how to justify such projects, and Piers has suggested a measure of employee engagement as a key outcome of social software projects, based on the link between engagement and productivity suggested by a Gallup workplace study. Whilst this certainly helps provide a general rationale for improving the social networks within an organisation, specific projects with clearly defined goals will almost certainly have their own specific measures and targets as well.
The enterprise social software market is in a very exciting phase. More and more groups within companies and public or networked organisations are starting to see the practical benefits that these tools, techniques and approaches can bring to areas such as knowledge sharing, corporate communications, project management, customer feedback, marketing, research and innovation. There are some good tools and great ideas around. The key to success is how to combine these within a rounded service offering, based on a sound methodology that takes into account the many non-technical issues that surround deployment, including support, training and user engagement.
We will look at each of the individual areas where we think social software can add the greatest value over the next few weeks, in the hope that this will stimulate some ideas for projects and partnerships; and we will talk some more about the work we have done over the past year and also the new offering we have put together as our own contribution to this fast-growing market.
In the meantime, any ideas or suggestions about important developments we may have missed are welcome!
Blogs are not the only fruit: some thoughts and responses about network effects and social software in general


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Photographed by Jonathan Robert Willis, 2010 New Orleans
Roots of Music is a non-profit organization in New Orleans committed to keeping music a vibrant part of New Orleans culture. JRW photographed the body of students July 2010 at the downtown Roots of Music campus. The students come from all parts of the the city to get a boot camp style music education but it goes beyond that. Kids must maintain high GPA in school and have outstanding behavior. For these kids its bigger than just the music, it discipline, commeradery, and there only hope in getting a college scholarship. The group of images here were shot for marketing materials for the roots of music program.
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A recent study published in The Lancet suggests a better way to treat Crohn's disease. The research was conducted by Dr. Brian Feagan, Director of Robarts Clinical Trials at the University of Western Ontario. The new treatment method has the added benefit of avoiding the use of steroids in an otherwise slow and not entirely effective approach, known as the 'step-up' approach.
The 'step-up' approach was not living up to its name as many patients were not recovering and were suffering the poor effects of steroid use even after the treatment was over. Steroid treatment has been linked with metabolic disease and even death. Step up also incorporated immune-suppressing drugs and an antibody to curb inflammation in the patient.
A new strategy is now being introduced called "top-down". It uses immune-suppressing drugs and antibodies, just like the "step-up" approach, but steroids are not included in the regimen. Initial results have been very promising.
The two-year study involved 129 subjects suffering from Crohn's disease. 64 participants received the conventional "step up" treatment, while the remaining 65 were managed with "top-down" approach. 36% of the patients who had received the step-up approach were symptom-free after the 26th week of the new study, in comparison to 60% of the "top-down" patients.
The positive results for patients of Crohn's disease do not end there. Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and other chronic auto-immune diseases, such as Ulcerative Colitis, may also benefit from this new form of therapy.
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LAS VEGAS — Stop by your local multiplex on a weekday night and you'll pretty much have a private screening for the movie of your choice. Theater owners have been trying to combat this midweek ghost-town effect in recent years with alternative programming concepts such as screening major sports events and operas.
The latest twist in alternative programming will land in more than 80 digital cinemas for one night Tuesday: a new documentary about the post-grunge rockers the Foo Fighters with a special encore. In what's touted as an industry first, the documentary "Foo Fighters: Back and Forth" will be followed immediately by a live, 3-D performance of "Wasting Light," the band's album arriving next week. Audience members will be able to text in extra song requests as the band plays.
At last week's annual convention of theater owners in Las Vegas, exhibitors were still grappling with how to boost sagging movie attendance overall — admissions are off by some 20 percent so far this year. Many theaters generate only about 15 percent of their weekly business on school nights, but there are some signs of life. Non-movie presentations yielded $112 million in U.S. sales last year, according to a recent report in the trade publication Screen Digest, up nearly 52 percent from 2009. Almost half of that revenue was driven by the series "Met Opera: Live in HD," which grossed a combined $48 million — more than many traditional Hollywood offerings, such as "Saw 3D," Clint Eastwood's "Hereafter" or "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore."
But the new programming options can sometimes be costly — admissions for the Foo Fighters double bill run as high as $25. But the band's most ardent followers don't seem to mind the premium, as several auditoriums already are fully booked — with hardly any paid advertising.
Jeremy Devine, the vice president of marketing and advertising for the 905-screen Rave Motion Pictures, says the chain has booked "Foo Fighters: Back and Forth" into about 60 of its theaters. Because the chain is fully digital, Rave can add screens as interest builds.
"We can really react to the demand. That's the beauty of digital cinema," Devine said at last week's CinemaCon. "Two or three shows have already sold out, mostly driven by the groups who follow Foo Fighters."
The film, directed by Oscar-winning documentarian James Moll ("The Last Days"), probably won't displace "The Last Waltz" or "Stop Making Sense" on the list of seminal pop music movies, but it does provide an interesting primer on the formation and evolution of the popular rockers. Initially conceived by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a self-produced, one-man effort following the death of lead singer Kurt Cobain, Foo Fighters went on to experience any number of mutinies, defections and drug and alcohol overindulgences on its climb to stardom.
Owing to the mystique of Nirvana and Cobain, Foo Fighters' every misstep was chronicled extensively. "We went through all of those embarrassing growing pains in public," Grohl says in the film. Toward the end of the movie, the band makes its latest album at Grohl's home, using analog tape instead of digital tools. It is that record that will be played front-to-back from a studio in Los Angeles after the 7 p.m. PDT Tuesday screenings. (The documentary and a recorded version of the album performance will be released together in about 250 theaters next week.)
Chris McGurk, whose Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. is delivering the documentary and performance, says theater owners are eager to find ways to generate revenue when their auditoriums are sitting empty between weekends. Cinedigm previously has done recorded concerts featuring the Dave Matthews Band, Bon Jovi, Phish and Beyonce, along with live, 3-D sporting events such as the World Cup and college football and basketball championships.
With so many multiplexes now equipped with digital projectors and 3-D screens and glasses, live music makes sense, McGurk says. "It's exactly the kind of thing you should be presenting in 3-D," he adds. "It makes you feel like you're in this little studio with the band." To attract exhibition partners, Cinedigm offers a share of a show's ancillary profits in exchange for marketing and promotional support.
McGurk said Cinedigm wants to create a series of programs — other companies have done live theater performances such as Danny Boyle's London play "Frankenstein" and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's "LA Phil Live" symphonies — that can spark subscription sales. "We want to move away from the one-offs and go to more programmatic series" such as regular lectures or extreme sports offerings, McGurk says. Even if 3-D television sales accelerate, he says "the tribal, communal experience" of watching sports or music or theater with a group "will keep this going forward."
But don't expect these midweek alternative offerings to push the latest "Pirates of the Caribbean," "Transformers" or "Harry Potter" movies out of theaters on the weekend. Says Rave's Devine: "I don't think anything is going to supplant the Hollywood blockbusters."
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