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User talk:Jcb
I'm away till about 17 August
archive May 2005 - March 2011 - April 2011 - June 2011 - July 2011 - September 2011 - October 2011 - December 2012 - January 2013 - December 2013 - January 2014 - February 2014 - April 2014
Limited availability from Monday till Thursday. Messages at my talk page during those days might remain unanswered till Friday.
- 1 A barnstar for you!
- 2 About "Smite_generic_logo.jpg" (Third time is the charm)
- 3 Sobre File:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone logo.png
- 4 Biografía Carlos Antonio Cifuentes. CC-BY-SA-3.0 y GFDL
- 5 File:Seal of the Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky, Inc.png
- 7 Commons:Deletion requests/All pictures uploaded by User:Riesending-bergwachtfotos
- 8 File:Scoundrel 4.jpg
- 9 Mass Delete these Photos
- 10 Bedeutende Luftfoto für die Architektur - File:Orphanage-1a.Aldo van Eyck.jpg
- 11 Question
- 12 Jean-Yves Lechevallier
- 13 File:Barbage à l'Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon le 10 juin 2014 (photo La Barbe à Lyon).jpg
- 14 File:La Barbe université de la gastronomie à Tours - Rencontres François Rabelais 09 11 2013.jpg
- 15 Commons:Deletion requests/File:2012 07 05 Yael Abecassis.JPG
- 16 File:Escudo de Chipiona.svg
- 17 File:Bruno Choel.jpg
- 18 File:Passage 907 - Henrijean.jpg
- 19 File:Marco Aarnink.jpg
- 20 File:EricVerberne.jpg
- 21 File:Julio Ríos Gallego 2014.JPG
- 22 Permisos OTRS (Lorenzo Peirano (1), Lorenzo Peirano (2) y Poemas de Lorenzo Peirano (2014))
- 23 File:Solidus Tiberius Petasius.jpg
- 24 Your deletion of Gabor B. Racz photo
- 25 images illustrant l'article français La Barbe
- 26 File:Motherwell FC logo.png
- 27 OTRS tickets
A barnstar for you![edit]
|The Special Barnstar
|The Special Barnstar is awarded to a user as a gesture of appreciation when there is no other barnstar which would be appropriate.
Thank you for all your hard work! -- Steinsplitter (talk) 20:20, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
About "Smite_generic_logo.jpg" (Third time is the charm)[edit]
I came to check if there was any news on the matter, since I haven't got a single message from anyone at all, but I noticed something: The description and reasons of why the file was deleted was changed to "Copyright violation: http://www.parliamodivideogiochi.it/2014/01/14/pdv/rubriche/att/2014-giochi-in-uscita/".
There is a "small" problem with this: I made that particular version of the file, and I did Not upload it to that website.
I still have the original file on my pc (seems like my paranoia is starting to pay off), stating that it was last modified on December 15, 2013.
I'm trully indignated by this. I've been patient, I've put a good amount of time and effort in all this, only to end but being branded a generic kid uploading stuff they downloaded from somewhere.--Malvodion (talk) 09:39, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Sobre File:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone logo.png[edit]
Hola, Jcb. Hace unos meses subí varios archivos a Wikimedia Commons que fueron borrados, ya que los subí con la licencia incorrecta. Por ejemplo, vos borraste File:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone logo.png. La pregunta es: ¿cómo podría volver a subir esos archivos pero con una licencia diferente?, ya que Commons no me deja. De antemano, gracias. Facu Carneiro (talk) 22:56, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
- A través de Commons:Undeletion requests/Current requests - Jcb (talk) 11:20, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Biografía Carlos Antonio Cifuentes. CC-BY-SA-3.0 y GFDL[edit]
Hola Jcb, gusto de saludarle. Puede usted ayudarme con este permiso, por favor. Un Saludo.--Deucaleon (talk) 03:42, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
- Hola Jcb. El permiso de la autora, ya había sido enviado el 5 de junio de 2014, a las 18:08hrs. Lo volveré a enviar nuevamente desde mi correo. Saludos. --Deucaleon (talk) 14:46, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
File:Seal of the Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky, Inc.png[edit]
You deleted this file as some type of copyright infringement. I am on the National Council of the Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky and that seal you deleted is ours to post on Wiki Commons as we see fit. Please restore the seal to Wikimedia Commons and the Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky Wiki article. Wado.
Hi Johann, his wife shots the photo, sorry but I seem obvious that the camera is owner of the man and the woman grants the permissions and the free license for use it. They are newbies, they don't know our policies Ezarateesteban 09:42, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- I understand they are newbies, that's why we have to give explanations and ask questions. We are in place to guide them through policies, not to help them breaking policies. Jcb (talk) 15:38, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Commons:Deletion requests/All pictures uploaded by User:Riesending-bergwachtfotos[edit]
There is still ongoing debate on your decision, you may confirm what I wrote knowing the OTRS-Mails. Thanks -Riesending-bergwachtfotos (talk) 09:33, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
- I have put the discussion on my watch list. I will keep an eye on it. Jcb (talk) 09:50, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
File:Scoundrel 4.jpg[edit]
Hola Jcb. He visto que has eliminado File:Scoundrel 4.jpg por violación de copyright. La página que mencionas o sea esta, así como su contenido, es publicada bajo la licencia CC-BY-SA. Podrías por favor verificar y avisarme si es posible restaurar el archivo. Un saludo, Jmvkrecords ⚜ Intra Talk 18:54, 21 June 2014 (UTC).
- Verificado y restaurado. Jcb (talk) 20:54, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
- Dank u! Jmvkrecords ⚜ Intra Talk 22:42, 21 June 2014 (UTC).
Sorry, but I disagree. Wikia content could be release with that licence, but pictures aren't. Just notice than, in the same link, they shows "Pirates of the Caribean" logo. That is not content with free licence. As two users explained me on february, Wikia got a global licence, but doesn`t mean all content is free. See the picture: low quality, probably screenshot. Description says: "One of "Scoundrel of the Seas" flags from POTCO game". In my opinion has no chance to be "free content". Cheers. --Ganímedes (talk) 13:01, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- We can use the Precautionary principle to delete it again... sorry. Is not possible to know that the image is correctly uploaded on Wikia. Licence is right, but... Regards, Jmvkrecords ⚜ Intra Talk 16:52, 22 June 2014 (UTC).
Mass Delete these Photos[edit]
Dear Admin Jcb,
Can you file a mass DR on these photos? They are copyrighted. The uploader states that these sculptures were carved by Henri Bouchard but he died in 1960 in France and Commons has a template not to upload such images. Please help. --Leoboudv (talk) 04:42, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- When I came back from a long wikibreak last year, I decided to try not to involve myself in Freedom of Panorama related issues, to keep myself out of trouble. I still think that was a good decision. E.g. User:Jameslwoodward will be able to advice you in this case. Jcb (talk) 10:50, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
- From time to time I, too, have tried staying out of FOP cases -- your decision is a good one.
- I agree with Leoboudv that these are all derivative works and should be deleted. I suggest you use Visual File Change to put the DRs on them. . Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 12:37, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
Bedeutende Luftfoto für die Architektur - File:Orphanage-1a.Aldo van Eyck.jpg[edit]
Hi Jcb, am 11.11.2013 haben Sie geschrieben: "Ich kann das Bild wieder setzen, wenn wir eine gültige Genehmigung durch OTRS erhalten." - Der Copyrightbesitzer "Aviodrome Collectiebeheer in Lelystad" hat am 3.6.2014 das schriftliche Copyright an Commons geschickt. Commons hat es wie folgt registriert:
Ticket#: 2014 0603 1000 5416 und Ticket#: 2014 0603 1000 5425
Darf ich Sie freundlich fragen, die Luftfoto wieder zu setzen, resp. wieder zu aktivieren. Für Ihre Mühe zum voraus besten Dank. User:Leuk2 User talk:Leuk2 13:15, 22. Juni 2014 (UTC)
- Das Ticket ist in unserer Warteschlange. Tickets werden in der Reihenfolge des Eingangs bearbeitet. Jcb (talk) 11:38, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
Das Copyright von 4 Zeichnungen (Diagoon 1.Herman Hertzberger.jpg) wurde am 3.6.2014 an Permissions geschickt. Nach einem Tag, am 4.6.2014, waren die Zeichnungen aktiviert! User:Leuk2 14:30, 22. Juni 2014 (UTC)
- Ich verstehe nicht, warum Sie ein DE-1 Benutzer belästigen, um die Priorität auf Ihre DE Ticket zu bekommen. Bitte warten in Geduld. Jcb (talk) 13:23, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
Im deutschsprachigen Raum hat man einen guten Vorbildtext für das Copyright von andern Autoren. Leuk2 16:30, 22. Juni 2014 (UTC)
- File:Orphanage-1a.Aldo van Eyck.jpg aus Amsterdam ist aktiviert durch den deutschen Benutzer Krd. Leuk2 12:00, 8. Juli 2014 (UTC)
First, I don't know what is the relationship between OTRS and license reviewer , there is no mistakes in the files I reviewed from (Flickr , Picasa .. etc) and there is no reason to revoke this right from me! Second, You treat me as "stupid" without any respect ! I know it is a mistake, but it ordinary not basic as you said! because it came from (like official) email (not free email) and include right license and I search it in google and tineye and didn't find another website host it, there is no there is no suspicious thing , so I add a ticket. I admit (and do not deny) that is a mistake, but I think you should not rush in harsh judgments , specially it first time for me and I join the team in less than one month! and this mistake is 1% of all permissions I made, you check my last approved tickets yourself, and found it is right, I'm also not a junior or newcomer, I'm also administrator in wikipedia and active at Wikimedia/Wikipedia from 2009 so what experiences you talk about , and how can I gain experiences (as you said) and you behead my head from first mistake! --Ibrahim.ID ♒ 02:36, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
- About half of your permissions were bad. I did not (yet) check your reviewer activity, but you obviously do not have sufficient knowledge of copyright to have additional rights. People need to trust review-templates. They cannot if we give the rights to unexperienced people. Jcb (talk) 06:08, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
- How could you say «About half of your permissions were bad» then say «I did not (yet) check your reviewer activity» !!! are you serious ?! are you revoke the right before check my permissions?!!
- Unfortunately, all you calculations is not right, because you only reverted 4 files from 27 files I have reviewed:
- File:Gary Marks.jpg right OTRS ticket you checked it yourself.
- File:Monica Wehby.jpg came from right place, just need photographer name only !
- deleted file
- File:Sandra Maas1.jpg not depicted person, it came from real person with real name and email , she use a right licenses with perfect template, but we discover (including you) that she is not the real Author (nobody can sure 100% before) , neither you nor anyone can detect the right author because there is no sources in google or tinyeye and there is nothing is suspicious .
- I know that I should be more careful ,but I didn't make willful violation or ignore the guidelines.
- If you think that I'm inexperienced , this is your «personal point of view» only, there are an administrator in Meta accept my OTRS volunteering request, and in commons: there are two administrators support me in the request and the third neutral user give me the right ! you should respect the opinions of others, Wikimedia Commons is not yours and the administrative permissions are not depend on personal opinion, so please reconsider it , Because your decision is hasty and too rough --Ibrahim.ID ♒ 11:23, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
- I think you don't get the point yet. Do you e.g. clearly understand the English word 'depicted'? You may wish to reconsider your Babel information, EN-2 may be more in line with your real knowledge of English. Jcb (talk) 15:23, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
- OK, let's talk about my English skills! what else? I think if someone made a mistake or doesn't know , the other one must assume a good faith and discuss it with him. Are you did? No, you took your decision immediately and treat me with contempt since a first time. --Ibrahim.ID ♒ 00:49, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
- Administrators are allowed to assign or remove those rights at their own discretion. If a user turns out not to be capable, rights may be removed immediately. Your comments afterward clearly confirmed (not even taking into account the poor English) that you are too unfamiliar at the moment with copyright to have reviewer rights. Jcb (talk) 21:10, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
- OK, let's talk about my English skills! what else? I think if someone made a mistake or doesn't know , the other one must assume a good faith and discuss it with him. Are you did? No, you took your decision immediately and treat me with contempt since a first time. --Ibrahim.ID ♒ 00:49, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
- I think you don't get the point yet. Do you e.g. clearly understand the English word 'depicted'? You may wish to reconsider your Babel information, EN-2 may be more in line with your real knowledge of English. Jcb (talk) 15:23, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Jean-Yves Lechevallier[edit]
Hello Jcb, in the series of pictures uploaded by User:DDupard concerning artworks of Jean-Yves Lechevallier, link to ticket : https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2014061110010654 , the picture File:Polypores Fountain. Jean Yves Lechevallier.jpg has not yet that ticket, probably the ticked discussion Commons:Deletion requests/File:Cristaux.jpg crossed the upload of this latest image. User:DDupard is a beginner. Does the ticket account for this picture or do DDupard and the artist have to repeat the procedure for another ticket? Greetings. --Havang(nl) (talk) 15:20, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
- The permission is generic and we also received a new message to the ticket to notify us that new files were added. I have marked them as confirmed. Jcb (talk) 15:49, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
File:Barbage à l'Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon le 10 juin 2014 (photo La Barbe à Lyon).jpg[edit]
Dear Jcb, I have looked for the author and found her three days ago. The author of this photo is Laura Tangre, she is a professionnal photographer she has sent the evidence of permission and licence GFDL / Cc-by-sa to "firstname.lastname@example.com " (on July 15th) And I m going to write her name under the photo (elle "donne son autorisation pour publier cette œuvre sous la licence GFDL / Cc-by-sa"
- I hope nothing is missing now. If something is missing, please tell me.
- Best regards --Mocaya (talk) 08:27, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
File:La Barbe université de la gastronomie à Tours - Rencontres François Rabelais 09 11 2013.jpg[edit]
Message to User :Jcb Dear Jcb, I have looked for the author and found her three days ago. The author does not want to see her name on Wikipédia but I sent sent the evidence of permission to "email@example.com "
- I hope nothing is missing now. If something is missing, please tell me.
- Best regards --Mocaya (talk) 09:08, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Commons:Deletion requests/File:2012 07 05 Yael Abecassis.JPG[edit]
Hi Jcb, I was very surprized to see that you closed the deletion request 1 hour and 40 minutes after I opened the request, with the closing comment: " nominated for the same reason three months ago and kept. No valid deletion reason. Commons is not censored." Since the first request was closed with "no reason given", and I gave a valid reason according with the policy of Wikimedia founation Resolution:Media about living people the reason of your closing is not correct. I ask you to reopen the deletion request and give the other users in Commons the chance to express their opinion. Thanks Hanay (talk) 04:46, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
- I read that resolution and it doesn't give any reason for this particular case. We cannot delete pictures with a valid license just because the subject or her agent doesn't like it. I don't know how experienced you are at OTRS, but requests like this come in on a daily base and much colleagues just explain to the subject that their permission is not needed for a picture taken in a public place. Imagine what would happen if we would fulfil these requests. The stream of censorship requests just because e.g. someones hair is in the wrong direction would become unmanagable. I cannot read your Hebrew answer, but please explain to her agent that her permission is not needed for a picture depicting her in a public place and that we don't do courtesy deletions if there is no apparent reason. There is nothing wrong with this picture. Jcb (talk) 10:42, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
File:Escudo de Chipiona.svg[edit]
You tagged this file missing permission or author and I tried to help a colleague heraldist who may be absent for some time. As far as I can see both details are given like with plenty (maybe +100) coats of arms this user has drawn and uploaded with the identical file details. What is specifically wrong with this file, pls? -- Maxxl² - talk 10:47, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
- Ok, I've seen this thread only yet, I've converted this completely arbitrarily tagging to a regular DR, because Jcb is an admin and has reinserted the SD. → User: Perhelion (Commons: = crap?) 12:17, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
File:Bruno Choel.jpg[edit]
Hi, I noticed you deleted File:Bruno Choël.png. Another file, with a different picture but the same quality has been uploaded by the same user: File:Bruno Choel.jpg. If you see any possible copyright violation here too, please do act. Elfix 13:09, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, I have started a DR. (Later today I will be leaving for a few weeks, this edit may be my last edit before 17 August) - Jcb (talk) 16:57, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
File:Passage 907 - Henrijean.jpg[edit]
Hello. I noticed you deleted "Passage 907 - Henrijean.jpg" & "Passage 504.jpg" whereas I've asked a special authorisation by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. I work with the author and he allows the publication of the pictures under a cc-by-sa-3.0 licence. It has already been done with the following files : - Adam - Henrijean.jpg - Autoportrait- Henrijean.jpg - Curiculum Vitae - Henrijean.jpg - Le temps d'une seconde - Heanrijean.jpg How should I proceed to have the same kind of authorisation for the two more recent works ? Thank you. Best regards. --Nimbus08 (talk) 15:13, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
- Although it may take a while before you get an answer, this should be dealt with by email. Jcb (talk) 17:16, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
File:Marco Aarnink.jpg[edit]
|File:Marco Aarnink.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue.
JurgenNL (talk) 09:23, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
|File:EricVerberne.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue.
JurgenNL (talk) 16:09, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
File:Julio Ríos Gallego 2014.JPG[edit]
Hi. I spoke to someone about this today at Wikimania, and I hope you don't mind me being bold but I have reverted the authorship to as originally stated - if nothing else we can work on the basis that the author should be attributed as they wish, and there's nothing to stop someone wishing to be attributed as someone else. I have started a discussion on this general topic at Commons:Village_pump#Authorship_for_images_where_subject_is_not_the_photographer_but_is_the_person_who_sets_things_up, which you may want to join in once you get back from your holiday (?). -mattbuck (Talk) 22:50, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
- @mattbuck, in this case it is not true that the photographer stated that she wants to be named as her husband. The depicted person didn't state such a thing either. Only the uploader claims such a thing, but in this case she (Marinna) is clearly the one to blame, because she caused the initial confusion by sending standard texts to several people in which those people claim to be the author and/or copyright holder of a picture depicting them. Jcb (talk) 17:09, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
- I don't doubt there's confusion, but I think we can just let this one slide. The uploader's happy, the subject/author are allegedly happy, it's all gone away. There are certainly issues with communicating in non-native languages, I think it can be chalked up to that. -mattbuck (Talk) 20:06, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Permisos OTRS (Lorenzo Peirano (1), Lorenzo Peirano (2) y Poemas de Lorenzo Peirano (2014))[edit]
Hola Jcb. Puede usted ayudarme con este, este y este archivo. De antemano, muchas gracias. Saludos.--Deucaleon (talk) 21:55, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
File:Solidus Tiberius Petasius.jpg[edit]
Restored with proper license. --SJuergen (talk) 21:51, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Your deletion of Gabor B. Racz photo[edit]
I just discovered that you removed File:Dr. Gabor B. Racz.jpg citing the reason No OTRS permission for 30 days. On June 24, 2014, written permission was sent under the license Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 to permissions-en on June 24, 2014. Permission was sent for all the photos. Was there something else I had to do? The article was nominated for GA status, and a reviewer has contacted me, so please advise at your earliest possible convenience. Thank you in advance.... Atsme☯Consult 04:08, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- I see you also sent an email today, which is already responded by a colleague. Jcb (talk) 16:02, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
images illustrant l'article français La Barbe[edit]
Bonjour, I need help, Green Giant a laissé un message incompréhensible menaçant de supprimer toutes les photos illustrant l'article français LA BARBE. (I have received a message by Green Giant that I do not understand at all, because the permissions have already benne sent by the authors and the tickets delivered. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mocaya#.7B.7BAutotranslate.7C1.3DFile:Remise_du_diplome_de_Barbe_d.27or_-_La_Barbe_Toulouse_groupe_d.27action_f.C3.A9ministe.jpg.7Cbase.3DImage_permission.2Fheading.7D.7D
Les permissions ont pourtant déjà été envoyées par les auteurs . Et les numéros de ticket ont ensuite été délivrés. Je ne comprends pas du tout, pouvez-vous venir à mon secours ? : thanks, regards cordialement, Mocaya --Mocaya (talk) 09:01, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
- Please ignore the Green Giant message. I have forwarded an email message to you with the open question. Jcb (talk) 11:35, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
File:Motherwell FC logo.png[edit]
Hoi Jcb, de release van deze afbeelding is een beetje op het randje. Denk je dat je nog even met die club in contact kan treden om het echt duidelijk te krijgen? Op irc hadden mensen het nu over verwijdering en dat zou natuurlijk zonde zijn. Multichill (talk) 13:06, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- Op het randje misschien, hoewel in ieder geval strict genomen voldoende. Ik stel voor dat we ons eerst op echte problemen richten, op lekken als Hanay, die stug door blijven gaan PermissionOTRS te plakken op afbeeldingen waarvan wij niet eens weten wie de auteur is. Die het voldoende vinden dat een of andere "groep" blijkbaar een fototoestel kan bedienen, of die denken dat 'auteur' hetzelfde is als 'afgebeelde persoon'. Als die mensen de hand boven het hoofd wordt gehouden, zoals hier en hier, dan denk ik dat het weinig zin heeft om ons bezig te gaan houden met oude tickets die strict genomen wel correct zijn, maar niet helemaal optimaal. Jcb (talk) 13:22, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- Don't shoot the messenger. Bijvoorbeeld user:Natuur12 wilde het al gaan nomineren voor verwijdering. Multichill (talk) 13:33, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- Ehhh, hou mijn offwiki gebrabbel er even buiten wil je. Ik was helemaal niks van plan. Natuur12 (talk) 13:44, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry Natuur12, dan heb ik dat verkeerd begrepen. Mijn excuses. Multichill (talk) 15:51, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- Ehhh, hou mijn offwiki gebrabbel er even buiten wil je. Ik was helemaal niks van plan. Natuur12 (talk) 13:44, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- Don't shoot the messenger. Bijvoorbeeld user:Natuur12 wilde het al gaan nomineren voor verwijdering. Multichill (talk) 13:33, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
OTRS tickets[edit]
Please, it doesn't seem like you read Hebrew, Your deletion requests aren't looking in good faith and wasting my time restoring files that were deleted. I request you to ask me if you have concerns regarding a ticket. Thanks and have a nice day. matanya • talk 09:54, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Hi :), Can you please stop opening del request on valid OTRS tickets. If you have a personal problem with someone you should speak with this person and not starting DR on files with valid OTRS tickets. Have a nice day. --Steinsplitter (talk) 10:15, 2 September 2014 (UTC)


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I'm getting TONS of notification emails about sites my daughter has supposedly tried to visit, but she's not even going to these sites. It's even sending me blocked site notifications when we're not even home, so nobody is even on the computer. I've seen the posts about a program trying to access a particular site or domain, but I'm getting alerts from a wide variety of sites--mostly advertising. This is really annoying, since it means so many emails. I got 73 notifications in less than 6 hours, and we weren't even home. I'm getting notifications while I'm sitting here watching her play Webkinz! She's not trying to access anything! But I've gotten 14 alerts in the last 20 minutes while she plays! How can I stop this? I'm wondering if it's even worth having this software if it's going to be so frustrating and annoying to have.
Hi CDWhite74,
We have heard several users with similar experiences. One of the possibilities is the Web page with flash games is open on the PC (with the kid playing the game or not). The website pings back to the server and checks with the server. Norton Safety Minder records these activities as it should.
Please show us a screen shot of the Activity page where shows the blocked sites.
I'm having the same problem. I am getting " Family computer is blocked from visiting website http://z0g7ya1i0.com" and we are not going to that site. Any ideas?
H Dadof5,
One of the possibilities is the link is embedded in a Web page which the kid visited and the embedded link was being blocked.
I am having the same problem. I was about to remove online privileges for the computer from my teenager after receiving 14 alerts about blocked sites when I got home today. The sites were mostly viagra.com and porno.com (not sure if those names will be blocked). We then as an entire family went out for dinner tonight so nobody was home and I came home to about 7 more emails about blocked sites. I just installed this online family and was very excited about it and now am concerned that perhaps we have a virus on our computer or there is some type of problem with your program.
(In fact one just popped up now and I physically looked and nobody is anywhere near the computer. I'm on my laptop, but desktop is in view.)
I am linking a screen shot since you asked for one in the post above. I did a quick google search to see if anyone else was having this problem which is what led me to this post. screenshot of norton online recent alerts
Hi supermama73,
I checked with our QA and development team on this and it sounds like it is the behavior of an infected machine. There could be be a rogue program on this PC that is generating the web traffic.
This type of behavior does not necessarily indicate an infected machine. I saw the same type of thing earlier--I got a slew of alerts that my daughter was visiting blocked web sites. It immediately raised an eyebrow because the sites were the same ones I use to automatically check for news updates.
The sites were being visited, but not by my daughter. I use a couple different RSS feed readers (namely, WebSite-Watcher and the Brief Firefox extension). What happens is that if my daughter is logged on when these RSS readers check URLs in the background, running in my user context, Online Family Safety thinks they're being visited by my daughter, and flags them as such. This is blatantly erroneous behavior.
Online Family Safety seems to only check (1) Which user is currently active, and (2) What network activity is going on. It does not care which user account a process is running under when that process accesses web sites or other remote resources. For example, if a process is running under the user context of "Dad", and it checks a URL while "Dad" is logged in but is not in an active user session, Online Family Safety will assign that network activity to whichever user happens to be active at the time (if any).
I wonder how many arguments this ridiculous program design has caused!
Fortunately, not all parental control software is designed this way.
Hi entropy,
Thanks for the input. I'll report this to the QA and development team and check into it.
We will add this to our enhancement list.
I am experiencing a similar symptom set. I have several children who share a computer. I have noticed that I get alerts on some of their accounts for sites that I have gone to and alerts that mysteriously cross accounts. Adding to the complexity, multiple accounts can be logged on at the same time. Entropy's theory would begin to explain how NSM may be getting confused.


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It was then that he felt pain in his leg and realized that he had been shot. A friend of his picked him and one of his friends up, the other they lost track of during the shooting.
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Sumter County-- You've heard about that string of church arsons this week next door in Alabama, nine churches damaged or destroyed. It's a problem in Georgia too. The state Insurance and Fire Commissioner wants every church to practice safety precautions. One Georgia church was steeled by fire and grounded in faith.
Singing is part of evening bible study at St. John Baptist Church in Leslie. Members sing about a shining light, much different than the bright, burning fire that destroyed their church in 2003.
"We got a call that the church was on fire and we just left coming that way to the church and it was just shocking to us when we got there and saw it," says church officer Dennis Hamilton. Not much remained of their country church on Kaylor Road in Lee County. At the time, church members suspected arson.
"Oh, we cried. We just said this is devastating. Who would destroy the house of the Lord?," says church member Georgia Deriso. Deriso has been a member of St. John for 50 years. Her father and grandfather both attended the church. She says church fires are suspicious this time of year.
"This is the time you hear about a lot of churches being destroyed when we start celebrating Black History," says Deriso. This month marks the third anniversary of their church fire. They know what the Alabama congregations are going through and they've put precautions into practice. "It's fire alarms and we're in the city now and the police comes and patrols and it's closer to more houses now," says Hamilton.
Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John Oxendine also issues these tips for congregations. Illuminate the exterior and all entrances. Promote church watches in the neighborhood. Keep shrubbery and trees trimmed to allow easier views for patrol cars. Consider installing burglary and fire alarms.
Church members say that bigger than any fire is prayer, even for those who cause damage to churches. "We prayed for them and that God will touch their heart and let them know that they can burn the building but they can't burn the soul," says Deriso.
It's an experience that's enough to rebuild faith. "It should be. It should be. The God that we serve is able. He's got all power," says Hamilton.
They're going to continue singing about a little shining light that comes from big faith after fire.
In the past two years, Georgia's Insurance and Safety Fire Office investigated 30 church fires. About half were ruled arson and five arrests were made. So far this year, there have been two church fires in Georgia.
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The other day I was looking through photo albums and came across a picture of me in my first Lilly Pulitzer dress. I had had a skirt in seventh grade I think, but this was my first official dress.
I was really tall and skinny for my age, so finding clothes that fit was always difficult. I spent the majority of my middle school years wearing clothes from Gap Kids. Pants with elastic waist bands are the farthest thing from cool in middle school. Thankfully, Abercrombie Kids opened in the mall, so at least I could wear clothes that were "in style."
In eighth grade I was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society (it was a big deal at the time haha) and I couldn't find a dress anywhere. By eighth grade, I was pretty adamant on NOT wearing kid's clothing, but I pretty much couldn't fit into anything else. My best friend was wearing a Lilly dress (adult sized of course) and I was depressed because I wanted to so badly. My mom and I went to the Pink Palm and found the most mature looking little girls dress we could. I was in LOVE with it!
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& Food
Women's work and women's lives all
over the world have long been intertwined with food. In every
country on every continent, it is women who assume primary
responsibility for preparing and serving meals for themselves
and their families. Not only do women prepare and serve food,
in many parts of the world women also grow food. In Sub-Saharan
Africa women contribute 60-80% of the labour required for
food production both for household consumption and for sale.
In Asia women account for 50% of food production overall.
In the Pacific women play a dominant role in fisheries and
food marketing as well as in labour-intenstive production
of cash crops such as palm oil, vanilla, and cocoa. Women
make up a substantial part of the unpaid agricultural labour
force in the Near East and are increasingly employed in production
of non-traditional export crops in Latin America and the Caribbean.1
And in Canada, women are farmers, grocery store cashiers,
and meat packers. It's clear that women have a lot to do with
food. But do they really?
ahead to:
industry of food
Indian feminist Vandana Shiva calls
women the "world's original food producers." But over time,
women have become a little-recognized force in the series
of processes that moves food from fields to tables. Much of
women's work around food has been labelled 'unproductive.'
Because it is unpaid, it does not count as being part of the
monetary economy. But not all
food production is unrecognized.
Farmers in Manitoba produced nearly $2.7 billion worth of crops in 2009 and $1.6 billion worth of livestock. Fields of wheat, canola, potatoes, barley, flax, and sunflowers are a large part of our province's geography. So are pig and poultry barns. When food production is geared towards the market instead of one's own family and when there's money moving between hands, it's worth something according to economists.
Economic globalization - the process
of opening up regional markets for global consumption - has
played a large role in the transformation of agriculture from
family gardens to a huge industry characterized by agribusinesses.
Globalization has stressed production for export
and free trade agreements
have encouraged this export. Commercialized agriculture relies
just as heavily on the work of women as did the family farm.
Women are cogs in the machine of a globalized agriculture
industry: picking tomatoes in Mexico, harvesting rice in India,
planting tea in Uganda, packing peaches in Ontario and fish
in Nova Scotia. But while women still play a role in agricultural
production, women's control over the means of food production
has been significantly weakened. The forced migration, environmental
contamination, and hunger that have resulted from this transformation,
have been devastating.
workers in the global food chain
Guadelupe Martinez is a single mother
with five children. Guadelupe worked at a banana plantation
in Honduras. She describes work at the plantation:
was gruelling. We worked 12 hours straight, from 7 am to 7
pm, with only two 15-minute breaks, an hour for lunch and
a half-hour for dinner. If we had food, we ate. If we didn't,
we watched everyone else eat. After I finished work I would
go home and make dinner for the children and do some housework.
I had to prepare food for the children's breakfast and lunch.
We worked six days a week.
Then on Sundays, I would get up very early in the mornings
and wash clothes and clean the house all day because there
was no time during the week. There
were many Sundays when I'd still be washing clothes at 7 at
night. Then I'd have to be up by 4 the next morning to make
breakfast for the children."2
Unfortunately, there are many stories
like Guadelupe's. Women's work in the global food chain is
chronically undervalued and underpaid. Guadelupe's work may
have provided bananas for lunches in Canada and the United
States. It didn't always give her enough for a lunch of her
Originally from Guatemala, Egla
Martinez-Salazar's family is one of many Indigenous families
who lost their own land and were subsequently forced to migrate
from Mexico to Guatemala to work on coffee and cotton plantations.
Egla describes conditions in the camps where migrant workers
live: few latrines if any, dirty water, little space for cooking
and living, dangerous shelters or none at all, no electricity,
and an environment that breeds disease without recourse to
health care. Wages are low and hours long and while in the
fields, workers and their families are exposed to another
danger: pesticides. Children as young as nine years old work
in these fields and those too young to work accompany their
mothers. Egla herself lost a sister to pesticide poisoning.
Indigenous women workers in Guatemala are women whose "priority
is to put food on the table." Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction
of that food arrives on their own tables.3
In Canada, the situation is not
quite so stark yet there are incongruities. Aboriginal peoples
lose control over their food supply as their traditional diet
is destroyed by development: hydro-electric dams in northern
Manitoba, oil-drilling in northern Alberta, and forestry in
British Columbia. The family farm is in crisis as farmers
try to survive in a global economy (see Celia's
Story). Although farm production has increased 10 fold
over the last 100 years,4
hunger is still a concern in Canada and nutritional deficiencies
have increased as food has become more packaged and refined.
At the same time shoppers discover
that even food grown in Manitoba has made a trip to Toronto
between the field and the grocery store. And many grocery
cashiers face low-pay and irregular hours.
over people
When a woman has her own land, she
can always grow a few vegetables for her family. She may be
poor but she and her children will still eat. Large-scale
agricultural production requires a lot of land, land that
was often once-owned by families who used it to satisfy their
needs. When families like Egla's lose their land, they also
lose their livelihoods and are forced to migrate to places
where they can find work, often on land that has been taken
away from other small farmers. In their new jobs farmers are
working for corporations, not themselves, and their earnings
may or may not provide enough for them to survive.
Many countries produce only a few major
crops: bananas, coffee, rice. This means that they are completely
dependant on market prices and extremely vulnerable to market
collapses. It also means they are subject to environmental
hazards of large-scale agricultural production like pesticide
use. Citizens of countries like Mexico and Honduras who have
less strict environmental regulations, risk their lives in
order to grow crops for export.
Sometimes when rich countries like Canada
have too much food they will sell their exports below cost
to poor countries. This is called dumping.
Dumping policies can have devastating impacts on farmers in
the regions where this food ends up because local producers
cannot compete with these cheap imports. For example, when
Canadian wheat, grown with subsidies
by our government, is given to a country like Kenya, Kenyan
farmers have a difficult time earning money for their own
wheat. This creates yet more instability and vulnerability
for already vulnerable countries and their citizens.
The push for production encourages new
technologies like genetic-engineering.
While companies argue that being able to produce more food
will allow countries to feed more of their people, genetic
manipulation of agriculture often results in just the opposite.
Many genetically-engineered crops do not produce a seed that
can be saved for the next planting season. This means that
farmers need to buy new seed each year, an expense they often
cannot afford. Genetically-altered seeds often have strict
pesticide requirements, another expense for a farmer with
limited funds, an expense that often threatens the health
of the farmer, her family, the community, and the earth. Genetic
manipulation of agriculture also reduces the number and variety
of seeds which form the very basis of life on this planet
- no one yet knows what the impact of this massive loss will
In the end, globalization stresses profits
over people, production over care of workers. Women and children
are often the most vulnerable members of society and are the
most exploited; in many countries Indigenous women are at
greatest risk. Like the globalized garment industry, the globalized
agriculture industry survives on women's hard work and nimble
fingers yet is unable to provide for or protect them.
can I do?
While women bear the brunt of difficulties
that come with a globalized food source, women are working
hard to challenge this system. In rural Manitoba women are
choosing to grow organic vegetables without pesticides, which
they sell directly to people in towns and cities (see Charlene's
story). Women like Guadelupe in Honduras are organizing
unions to demand fair working conditions and pay. People who
live in inner-city Winnipeg are growing food on abandoned
lots. In Peru and Canada and Bangladesh, women are gathering
together for community kitchens, cooking large meals which
are shared among the group. And in Mexico women are forming
bulk buying groups and credit cooperatives in order to survive.
Visit Alternative Food Systems
to hear more about how women are creating change!
you have a story?
Have you worked as a grocery store
cashier, served hamburgers at MacDonald's, or picked fruit
or vegetables? Have you had difficulty affording enough food
for your family? Are you a farmer experiencing the farm crisis?
What's your story about women and food in the global economy?
Please write to us at firstname.lastname@example.com
For more
A good book to read is Women Working
the NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food and Globalization, edited
by Deborah Barndt and published in Toronto by Second Story
Press in 1999.
Also be sure to check out our Links
page for more information on globalization, agriculture, women,
and food security.
1 1999
World Survey on the Role of Women in Development: Globalization,
Gender and Work. UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs,
2 Guadelupe Martinez. "Being involved in the
women's committee changed my life." Women Behind the
Labels: Worker Testimonies from Central America. Maquila Solidarity
Network, 2000. To order a copy go to www.maquilasolidarity.org.
3 Egla Martinez-Salazar. "The Poisoning of
indigenous migrant farm workers and children: from deadly
colonialism to toxic globalization" D. Barndt, ed. Women
working the NAFTA food chain: women, food, and globalization.
Toronto: Second Story Press, 1999.
4 Ingeborg Boyens. Another
Season's Promise. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 1999.
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Man's best friend is apparently also man's best wingman!
A recent Australian study showed that walking your dog is one of the top five ways to meet women.
Experts say it gives guys an opportunity to show their kinder, gentler side.
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The seniors of 2011-2012 graduated Friday with the distinction of being the first class to do so from the brand new building,
Construction served as the theme for Class President Chris McKenna's speech.
"Between the renovation and the high school construction, this graduating class has spent virtually every day surrounded by construction," he said. "As much as we've enjoyed the terrific smashing of pilings and grinding of electrical saws, we'd like to thank those of you who allowed us to experience a peaceful last few months of high school."
The ceremony took place on the high school's varsity football field.
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Continue up trail from peacemaker (about 120 feet).
Standard rack. A few old hangers on pitch 1 and for the belay for pitch two (note; the fixed hangers for the belay are suspect). Pitch 3 belay has (2) fixed pitons with slings. A fixed cam on pitch 3 protects the traverse (if you do the standard variation; you can also add supplementary gear). Build your own belay for pitch 4 in a crack/dish ~ 200 ft. Pitch 5 has options; awkward crack or bolted face climbs.


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It's not often that we see TV series centered around the lives of black people - in this case, a black teenage girl. So when that happens, we take notice!
A new show on BBC3 that I'm only just now learning about, titled Some Girls, stars Adelayo Adedayo and centers on the lives and loves of a group of quirky 16-year-old girls who play on the same school football team and live in the same inner city neighborhood.
Any of our Brit readers watching this? What're your thoughts on it thus far?
Some Girls launched on November 6 (when its first episode aired on BBC3), and is currently 2 episodes in, with episode 3 scheduled to air on November 20. So it's still early in the season - although I learned that it's only a 6-episode season (which is common across the pond; no 13 to 24 episode seasons like we have here in the USA).
But Adelayo Adedayo (whose name might be familiar, since she co-starred in a Brit drama called SKET, which we profiled on S&A earlier this year), leads Some Girls (which immediately made me think of HBO's hit series Girls, but in name only. Although if I recall, Girls also centers on the lives and loves of a group of quirky women - not 16-year-olds; they don't live in an *inner city* neighborhood however).
Here's the breakdown:
At the heart of the comedy is Viva (Adelayo Adedayo), whose ambition is to stay motivated and go to college. She lives with her dad Rob (Colin Salmon) and her stepmother Anna (Dolly Wells), a New Zealander who also happens to be Viva's sadistic PE teacher. Viva is great friends with Holli (Natasha Jonas) whose entertaining, violent outbursts are legendary. Saz (Mandeep Dhillon) and Amber (Alice Felgate) complete the gang. They talk about everything from history homework to their ambitions in life. They share everything: their clothes, their moods, their secrets and - occasionally - their mothers' tranquillisers.
Hat-tip to Colin Salmon, another S&A fave actor whose name has come up often. Glad that he's busy.
I was surprised to find episodes of the new series already on YouTube - full episodes! I embedded episode 1 below; but first, a clip from series for a sample of what it's like, before you decide to jump into a full episode.
Here's the short clip:
And here's episode 1 in full (I haven't watched it yet, because I haven't had a moment, but dive in and let me know what you think):
ariyann | November 30, 2013 9:59 AM
when is episode 7 coming out
jess | October 29, 2013 5:21 PM
is their going to be a series 3?xo
Cynthia | February 5, 2013 7:27 PM
The UK has a great way of portraying colored people without having to point at their race all the time. Not to mention, they're in a great amount of roles geared toward numerous demographics, as compared to here in the US.
In terms of the show, I like it. The blonde girl was the funniest to me, and Viva is charming to watch.
Kayley | January 15, 2013 12:47 PM
It's amazing! Will there be more seasons?
Zia | December 23, 2012 9:49 PM
Absolutely love this programme. Sad it's only 6 episodes in length as I got hooked into it only to find that it wasn't continued for a long length of time. I'm a 16 year old from London myself and found the series relatable in an ive aggregated way. Some really funny moments! Love it, want more!
Akimbo | November 23, 2012 11:33 AM
That was really good. I'm in.
bondgirl | November 19, 2012 1:08 PM
Adorable. The actress has great comedic timing."Year 3, teaching PE teachers how to spell PE..." LOL I love when Brits are snarky.
Greg | November 18, 2012 7:20 AM
Cheeky as fk. Dig it. Heavy brav.
Nadine | November 17, 2012 6:54 PM
Love it. Too many scenes to love and point out (the girl running with the bloody nose - funny). They're foul, but closer to realistic girls (sans the excessive cursing, or maybe not sans the cursing). Girls are savages.... and that's okay. Making them only saccharin, sweet, one version of "hot", demure yet always noble or heroic is stupid, mainstream America. Inbetweeners is hilarious and I can understand the comparisons, but those guys seemed lower in the "popular" food chain than the others which I think is the real difference... different issues when you don't have to worry about appearing cool. The diversity is inspiring and the acting... adorable.
Jai | November 17, 2012 5:15 PM
I like it so far.
BluTopaz | November 17, 2012 3:55 PM
Cute show. If this was produced in America the lead character would be a 250 lbs sassy neck roller.
Adam Scott Thompson | November 17, 2012 11:49 AM
Man, this is more "multi-colored" than any of the shows I see on network TV, or cable for that matter. British comedy just sends me -- the accents, the wit, the different-yet-familiar cultural mores -- and probably because I too have a sarcastic, cynical, prick-ish sense of humor. Anyway, I like the characters, I like the setup and this first episode is enough to keep me interested. It's no "Inbetweeners," but I don't know that it's trying to be (as in the case of the US adaptation of "Inbetweeners," which is trying and failing terribly).
connie | November 17, 2012 7:04 AM
I liked the clip, might check out the episode after I catch up on "Arrow". Colin Salmon is playing an interesting character on Arrow. He and David Ramsey are both on "Arrow" with lines and back stories. So of course I keep wondering which one will die first.
Ava | November 16, 2012 7:03 PM
I think it has promise. The main character's friends have such strong (i.e. wacky) personalities, I just hope Viva's personality and story doesn't get lost in the mayhem. I do like that she is an intelligent, snarky Black teen girl who knows what she wants out of life (or perhaps more importantly at that age-- what she doesn't want) and who just happens to live in Council housing.
I hope the dialog doesn't flow into that 'too cool for school' type of speech that all teens seem to be given on TV but so far, I think the pace is pretty good as each person seems to have their own distinct personality.
Most importantly, you have a fairly likeable main character in Viva, one whom I think has the potential to be a very a character that many will relate to. Since she is the main draw, this is fairly important. Hopefully the show will find its footing and get better.
And yes, big up to Colin Salmon...haven't seen him in a bit.
Alex | November 16, 2012 5:34 PM
I'm still warming to this show. After the success of Inbetweeners its nice to have a comedy female spin on brit teen life in place of the exhausting too cool for school tripe that became SKINS. Especially in South London (WOOP!) Colin Salmon is in the most light-hearted role ive seen him and he's great. Ade is gorgeous and can go far, also the blonde dumb friend, she brings the laughs with her nonsense talk. It's on to something, just needs a chance. Wish it was on Channel 4...
Monique A. Williams | November 16, 2012 2:58 PM
Accents are strong! Looks good from the preview, but I'll pass it on to my daughter.


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Using Isolated Storage on Windows Phone
On a Windows Phone application, or actually in any application, you will sometimes want to keep information around from one session to another. On a Windows Phone it is sometimes especially important as it is a little difficult to type on these small devices. If you need the user to login, fill in their name and email, or enter other information each time they use the application, then you might want to store that data on the phone and retrieve it each time they come back in to the application. Isolated storage is the place where you are can store this information for your application.
This article assumes that you have VS.NET 2010 and the Windows Phone tools installed along with it. The Windows Phone tools must be downloaded separately and installed with VS.NET 2010. You may also download the free VS.NET 2010 Express for Windows Phone developer environment.
Figure 1: Store Data on your Phone
The LastUser Class
For this example, I will be taking the data from the screen and putting it into a class called "LastUser". This class is shown in the code below:
public class LastUser : INotifyPropertyChanged {
#region INotifyPropertyChanged Event
public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
protected void RaisePropertyChanged(string propertyName) {
if (PropertyChanged != null)
new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
private string mFirstName = string.Empty;
private string mLastName = string.Empty;
private string mEmail = string.Empty;
public string FirstName {
get { return mFirstName; }
set {
mFirstName = value;
public string LastName {
get { return mLastName; }
set {
mLastName = value;
public string Email {
get { return mEmail; }
set {
mEmail = value;
This class implements the INotifyPropertyChanged interface as I want the user interface to automatically update when I load this data into an instance of this class.
Hooking up this Class to the Page
In the sample page (shown in Figure 1) you will need to bind the LastUser class to the DataContext of this page. In the page class create an instance of the LastUser class like the shown here:
private LastUser _User = new LastUser();
In the Loaded event procedure for the page you will set the DataContext of the page to the _User variable as shown here:
private void PhoneApplicationPage_Loaded(object sender,
RoutedEventArgs e)
this.DataContext = _User;
The first time in, this user class will be completely blank. All of the text boxes on the XAML page that are bound to each of the properties in the LastUser class will also be blank. Later you will add two additional lines of code to the Loaded event procedure to retrieve user data stored, but first let's learn to store a user into isolated storage.
Storing Data into Isolated Storage
After the user has filled in some information on this phone page and click the Submit button you will save the data from the LastUser class into isolated storage. After you save the user data you will then redirect back to the main page.
private void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri("/MainPage.xaml",
The SaveUser Method
The SaveUser method will take the data from the _User variable and serialize it as an XML string so it can be stored into isolated storage. The process for serializing an object into XML is the same on Windows Phone as in any other .NET application.
You create an instance of the XmlSerializer class passing in the Type of LastUser. You call the Serialize method on the XmlSerializer object to convert all the properties of the LastUser object to Xml and store the result into a MemoryStream. Next, use a StreamReader class to read the MemoryStream and convert that memory stream into an XML string (stored in the "xml" variable). Finally you use the IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings to create a new key (in this case a constant USER_KEY defined as "LastUser") and store the data in the "xml" variable into storage.
private void SaveUser()
string xml = string.Empty;
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(LastUser));
serializer.Serialize(ms, _User);
ms.Position = 0;
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(ms))
xml = reader.ReadToEnd();
// Store user in Isolated Storage
IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings[USER_KEY] = xml;
NOTE: The USER_KEY is a constant defined in the page class as shown below:
private const string USER_KEY = "LastUser";
Checking if Data Exists
The next time you come into this phone page, after storing the user data, you will want to retrieve that data and fill it into the _User variable. You will now add two more lines to the Loaded event procedure to detect if the data has been stored into isolated storage with the key name of USER_KEY ("LastUser"). For this you use the ApplicationSettings.Contains method to check to see if the USER_KEY key name is in isolated storage. If the key exists, you will call the GetUser method to retrieve the data.
private void PhoneApplicationPage_Loaded(object sender,
RoutedEventArgs e)
if (IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings.
this.DataContext = _User;
The GetUser Method
The GetUser method is just the opposite of the SaveUser method. This method will use the IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings to retrieve the data as a string from the key USER_KEY. You now need to take the string and convert it into a stream. I am using a MemoryStream object in the code below and calling the GetBytes method on the Unicode object to convert the string into a byte array. Once in the byte array, you create an instance of the XmlSerializer and use the Deserialize method to convert the byte array in the memory stream back into an instance of the LastUser class.
private void GetUser()
string xml;
xml =
using (MemoryStream ms = new
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(LastUser));
_User = (LastUser)serializer.Deserialize(ms);
After you have deserialized the data from isolated storage and placed it into the _User variable, the data will automatically display in the bound text boxes on the page.
You have now seen how easy it is to store data from one invocation of your phone app to another. I added two pages within the phone application so you can see that the data does indeed stick around in between calls to the pages. You need to do this because on the emulator you can't save the data in isolated storage because it is wiped out each time you stop and start your project in VS.NET. However, on a real Windows Phone, the storage will stay around in between each instance of running the application.
NOTE: You can download the complete sample code at my website. http://www.pdsa.com/downloads. Choose Tips & Tricks, then "Using Isolated Storage on Windows Phone" from the drop-down.
Good Luck with your Coding,
Paul Sheriff
Visit http://www.pdsa.com/Event/Blog for a free video on Silverlight entitled Silverlight XAML for the Complete Novice - Part 1.
Change Templates When Orientation Changes on Windows Phone
Developing for Windows Phone does require you to think a little differently. For example on a regular computer you only have to worry about the screen orientation being in portrait mode. However, on a phone the user can turn the phone sideways and even upside down. If the user switches from portrait orientation (Figure 1) to landscape orientation (Figure 2) you end up with more room to display your data horizontally. You can take advantage of this extra room by switching between two different XAML templates when the phone orientation changes.
This article assumes that you have VS.NET 2010 and the Windows Phone tools installed along with it. The Windows Phone tools must be downloaded separately and installed with VS.NET 2010. You may also download the free VS.NET 2010 Express for Windows Phone developer environment.
Figure 1: Windows Phone in Portrait Mode
Figure 2: Windows Phone in Landscape Mode
The Product Class
For this example, I will be using a Product class with three properties, and a collection class of Product objects using the Generic List class. You can create this sample by creating a Product class as shown in the following code:
public class Product {
public Product() { }
public Product(string name, decimal price, string imageUri)
this.ProductName = name;
this.Price = price;
this.ImageUri = imageUri;
public string ProductName { get; set; }
public decimal Price { get; set; }
public string ImageUri { get; set; }
Create a collection class that initializes a property called DataCollection with some sample data as shown in the code below:
public class Products : List<Product> {
public Products() {
public List<Product> DataCollection { get; set; }
List<Product> BuildCollection() {
DataCollection = new List<Product>();
DataCollection.Add(new Product(
"Haystack Code Generator for .NET", 799, "Haystack.jpg"));
DataCollection.Add(new Product(
"Fundamentals of N-Tier eBook", 19.95, "NTier.jpg"));
return DataCollection;
Value Converter
As you can see in Figure 1 and Figure 2, the Price is shown in a currency format. Unfortunately in the Windows Phone version of Silverlight, the StringFormat attribute on the Binding class is absent. So you will need to create a value converter for displaying a value in a currency format. Create the following class that implements the IValueConverter interface. In the Convert method you will then take the "value" parameter passed in, convert it to a decimal value, then return that value as a string formatted with the "c" option in the ToString() method.
public class PriceConverter : IValueConverter
public object Convert(object value, Type targetType,
object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
decimal price;
price = (decimal)value;
return price.ToString("c");
public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType,
object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
throw new NotImplementedException();
Create Classes in XAML
Now that you have the Product class, the Products class and the PriceConverter classes created, you now need to create an instance of the Products collection class and the PriceConverter class in your XAML. In your MainPage.xaml, add an xml namespace to the name of your project as shown here:
Next you create an instance of the Products and PriceConverter class in XAML. The constructor for the Products class will create the initial collection of product objects.
<local:Products x:Key="productCollection" />
<local:PriceConverter x:Key="priceConvert" />
These two classes may now be used within the rest of your XAML by referencing them by their Key name.
Create Portrait Template
Also in the Resources section of your phone application page is where you will create two different XAML templates for displaying data in a list box. The first template you will create is for when the phone is in portrait mode.
<DataTemplate x:Key="listPortrait">
<TextBlock Margin="8"
Text="{Binding Path=ProductName}" />
<TextBlock Width="100"
Converter={StaticResource priceConvert}}" />
This <DataTemplate> with the key name "listPortrait" has a <StackPanel> control to display the text for the product name and the price stacked vertically on top of each other. Notice in the text block that displays the actual price the use of the value converter class you created earlier. You bind to the Price property using the Path attribute of the Binding class. However, before the Binding class displays the Price it passes it through the converter. The Convert() method of the PriceConverter class formats the price and returns it as a string to be displayed in the TextBlock.
Create Landscape Template
The next XAML template you create in the Resources section of the phone application page has a key name of "listLandscape". The XAML for this <DataTemplate> is shown below.
<DataTemplate x:Key="listLandscape">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image Margin="8"
Source="{Binding Path=ImageUri}"
Height="100" />
<TextBlock Margin="8"
Text="{Binding Path=ProductName}" />
<TextBlock Width="100"
Converter={StaticResource priceConvert}}" />
In this template you add a <StackPanel> control around the <StackPanel> you created in the "listPortrait" template. Set the Orientation property of this stack panel to be horizontal. Then you place an <Image> control that will display the image for the product before the product name and price. Notice also that the Width property of the product name TextBlock control has also been increased so the product name may not have to wrap as it might have to in portrait mode.
The List Box Definition
The List Box control used for this phone application page is fairly simple. You simply set the ItemsSource property and the ItemsTemplate property to the appropriate static resources defined in the Resources section of this page.
<ListBox x:Name="lstData"
Source={StaticResource productCollection},
ItemsTemplate="{StaticResource listPortrait}" />
The ItemsTemplate is set to listPortrait to start out because in the Page definition the Orientation attribute is set to "Portrait".
OrientationChanged Event
Now all you need to do is to hook up an event so when the user changes the orientation of the phone you can switch between the two templates you have created. There are just a couple of things you have to do to prepare the page. First you must set the attribute in the PhoneApplicationPage called SupportedOrientation to the value "PortraitOrLandscape". This attribute will allow the OrientationChanged event to fire.
So, next you add the OrientationChanged event to the Page. Type in OrientationChanged in the page XAML and have it build the event procedure for you.
In the OrientationChanged event procedure you will write the following code:
private void PhoneApplicationPage_OrientationChanged(
object sender, OrientationChangedEventArgs e)
if (e.Orientation.ToString().Contains("Portrait"))
lstData.ItemTemplate =
lstData.ItemTemplate =
When the OrientationChanged event is fired the new orientation is passed in the "e" argument as the Orientation property. This property can be one of 7 enumeration values; None, Portrait, PortraitUp, PortraitDown, Landscape, LandscapeRight, and LandscapeLeft. Since we are just concerned with Portrait or Landscape, you will just convert the Orientation property to a string and see if the value contains "Portrait". If it contains "Portrait", then you find the "listPortrait" resource, cast it as a DataTemplate and assign it to the list box's ItemTemplate property. This causes the list box to redraw itself using the defined data template.
In this article you learned how to respond to the OrientationChanged event and switch between two pre-defined templates. Since the user can physically move the phone into almost any orientation it is useful for us to take advantage of the extra screen width. By creating different XAML templates and responding to just one event you can give your users a great experience when using your application.
NOTE: You can download the complete sample code at my website. http://www.pdsa.com/downloads. Choose Tips & Tricks, then "Change Orientation/Templates on Windows Phone" from the drop-down.
Good Luck with your Coding,
Paul Sheriff
Visit http://www.pdsa.com/Event/Blog for a free videos on Silverlight entitled Silverlight XAML for the Complete Novice - Part 1.


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Dissertation and Thesis Assistance (DATA) Program [Audio]
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Megan: Howdy Ags, welcome to Write Right, the student podcast for the Texas A&M University Writing Center. Today's episode will highlight a special program for our graduate students who are writing a thesis or dissertation. This program is called the DATA program, which stands for Dissertation And Thesis Assistance program. It provides one-on-one guidance with the same consultant for up to ten sessions. DATA sessions are designed to help students create a personalized appointment calendar and obtain regular feedback about the progress of their writing. Today, we're talking with two students who previously completed the DATA program. They've agreed to share their experiences and discuss how their sessions were structured. Let's meet Richa and Mallory.
Ricaha: My name is Richa Dhanju, and I study cultural anthropology. I'm a PhD student. I'm studying politics and slums and how it's changing due to the new liberal governance in Delhi, India.
Mallory: My name's Mallory Frazier. I'm in the Psychology Department, specifically the BCN Program, Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience. The topic of my paper was social stress in mice, exacerbates a mouse model of multiple sclerosis called Theiler's murine and encephalomyelitis virus.
Megan: First, I asked Richa and Mallory about the focus of their DATA sessions and how they used their time. They both worked with a Writing Center consultant named Lara.
Mallory: Mostly we worked on the introduction and the discussion, because those are the parts that are generally the most difficult to write for scientific students. We would read each section and make corrections while we were reading.
Richa: Essentially our sessions were a lot of brainstorming. So I would tell her, "Look I have these three examples from my paper. Do you think they're fitting here? Do you think this is more emphatic? Do you think this is getting the point across?" And she would just be able to tell me right on. Lara really helped me focus on what I want to say, how many pages it should be, what should be the organization of the chapter. It was a lot of brainstorming, a lot of organizing, a lot of cleaning up the text, including grammatical issues. So, it was a mix of everything.
Megan: Next, Richa described how attending DATA sessions on a regular basis helped her stay on track and meet deadlines.
Richa: I'm sure as you know, graduate students suffer from procrastination. There are times when graduate students feel overwhelmed because their progress has not been regularly spanned over a period of time. And frankly one of the reasons I came to the University Writing Center was to get help with being regular. And that's exactly what my sessions with Lara did. I knew I had to meet Lara every week or every second week and show her work, so that helped me really sit down every day and think and write about issues. I also knew that there would be somebody looking at my work and asking me questions. That helped me clarify beforehand what I thought the questions could be. The committee essentially does not, more often than not, want to see anything other than a finished product. What do you do in the process? That's where the University Writing Center and its experts come in.
Megan: I also asked if Richa and Mallory ran into challenges with the DATA program. They worked with Lara to overcome miscommunication about their specialized topics.
Mallory: Some of the words that are very specific jargon to my area, she didn't really understand. But that helped in itself. Yes, you're supposed to write and assume that the people who are reading what you're writing know kind of what you're talking about. But, you should still try to define everything that you can and make it so that a layman can read and understand at least part of it.
Richa: It was a lot of simplification on my part so that she could understand, and that in turn also helped my writing. I knew eventually there would be a lot of people reading what I write who are not from my field.
Finally, I asked if they have recommendations for other students considering the DATA program. They also shared overall benefits of working with Lara.
Mallory: I do kind of wish I had gone a little bit earlier. I ended up having to make a lot of revisions without her right before my defense, and I think that if I had gone two full months ahead of time, that would have been better. What I did get with her was really solid. I gave it to my mentor and she had very few edits to make from the things I worked with Lara on, whereas the things I didn't work with Lara on, there was a lot more to do.
Richa: Lara's amazing. I think the best thing I found in her is that she took interest in my project. There would be times when I was sitting there telling her stories from my fieldwork and what my project is about, and she would listen with keen interest. And that provided both of us a background, a foundation to start from. Knowing that the people you're talking to are not just students here, but they care about your work and they want to see it going ahead. That's definitely what I felt with Lara. She was very engaged with my progress, and that gave me a lot of hope.
Megan: We want to thank Richa and Mallory for taking the time to share their feedback with us. If anyone is interested in more information about the DATA program, please go to our website at writingcenter.tamu.edu, and click on the Graduate Student Services link. An application form is also available online for anyone who wants to join the program. Thanks for tuning in to this episode of Write Right, and have a great day.
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Epsilon-Delta Limit Proof
Can anyone prove that the limit of e^x as x --> 1 is e using the epsilon-delta method?
This is not a homework problem, but I am trying to review my course in analysis from a few years back, and this one has me stumped.
Exactly how are you defining ex? One standard way is to define an, for n a positive integer, as [itex]a\ddot a\cdot\cdot\cdot a[/itex] n times. Then a0= 1 follows from an+ m= anam, a-n= 1/an follows from the same, [itex]a^{\frac{1}{n}}= ^n/sqrt{a}[/itex], [itex]a^{\frac{m}{n}}= ^n\sqrt{a^m}[/itex] which give ar for r any rational number. To define ax for x an arbitrary real number, we take a sequence of rational numbers {rn} that converges to x and define [itex]a^x= \lim_{n\leftarrow \infty}a^{r_n}[/itex]. Of course, that defines ax to be continuous for all x so ex goes to e as x goes to 1 by continuity.
Another method is to define [itex]ln(x)= \int_0^x \frac{1}{x}dx[/itex] and then define e[sup]x[sup] to be the inverse function to ln(x). Of course, since ln(x) is defined as an integral, it is continuous and so is its inverse. That is, ex is continuous by definition and again ex goes to e as x goes to 1 by continuity.
I'm simply using e = 2.718... and raising it to x, nothing fancy about it. I'm looking for the trick that will give me delta in terms of epsilon (the epsilon-delta proof) or somehow to put a bound on delta.
Unfortunately, for this, I'm not at liberty to make definitions. It's not merely proving the limit, but utilizing the epsilon-delta approach. Thanks, though.
(I'm preparing for an entrance exam.)
what are the rest of your decimals? unlkess you tell us exactly what number e is, you cannot prove that e^x really approaches e as x goes to 1 by your method. and unless you define precisely what e^x means you also cannot do it.
the easiest way is halls second method that e^x is continuous, since it is the inverse of the continuous function ln(x), hence it suffices to show e^1 = e, but that follows from the fact that e is defined as the unique number such that ln(e) = 1.
If this is a specific question on a practice exam, please state the complete problem itself.
[itex]| e^x - e | < \epsilon [/itex] for all [itex]1-\delta < x < 1+\delta [/itex] and [itex] x \neq 1[/itex].
We have
[tex]| e^x - e | < \epsilon \Rightarrow -\epsilon < e^x - e < \epsilon \Rightarrow e - \epsilon < e^x < e + \epsilon \Rightarrow \ln (e-\epsilon) < x < \ln(e + \epsilon) \Rightarrow 1- \ln \frac{1}{1-\epsilon / e} < x < 1 + \ln (1+\epsilon/ e) [/tex]
(we have used the fact that exponential an logarithmic functions are increasing in their domain).
Now, by noting that
[tex]\ln(1 + \epsilon/ e) < \ln \frac{1}{1-\epsilon /e}[/tex]
we can choose [itex]\delta = \ln (1 + \epsilon / e) [/itex] which satisfies our initial request.
Gee, I didn't think that defining e was such a priority. I simply meant that e is the irrational number that serves as the base of the natural log, and as such, it can't be stated as a number with a definite number of decimal places (it is like PI in this regard).
Thanks, WigneRacah, you hit the nail right on the head!
i agree the argument just given is nice and simple, but it proceeds bya ssuming all the thigns that have been pointed out as necessary. the hard part is to prove that log and exp do have the properties that were just assumed, using suitable definitions.
the argument just given is the trivial observation that if f and g are mutually inverse continuous, hence monotone (e.g. increasing) functions, then f maps the interval (a-e,a+e) to the interval (f(a)-d1,f(a)+d2) if and only if d1 = f(a) - f(a-e), and d2 = f(a+e) - f(a).
for instance, without a definition of log or of e, yopu have no idea what the number delta is that you have been given here, i.e. how can you say that delta must be ln(1 + epsilon/e) when you say you don't need a definition of e? if you don't know what e is then you don't know what ln(1 + epsilon/e) is either.
do you see? you are sort of asking for an answer that will look ok, on a test but without understanding what any of the letters mean in your answer. this is not your fault, as you seem not to have had any instruction in mathematical thinking or proof. the idea is to ask yourself what the symbols mean in your statements.
[tex]e = \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}\left(1+\frac{1}{n}\right)^n,[/tex]
for example (you have to prove that the limit exists in order for this to make sense, of course). There are many other possibilities.
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Brian McCann hit a homer in his second rehab game in Gwinnett and promptly declared himself healthy. I drool over what our lineup will be like with everyone together now. Todd Redmond backed up McCann's homer with another solid pitching performance and Chris Masters took a no hitter into the sixth inning but picked up a no decision when Andrelton Simmons committed a walk off error.
Pawktucket Red Sox 2, Gwinnett Braves 4
- Brian McCann, C 1-3, HR, K, .333 Avg
- Mauro Gomez, 1B 3-4, 2B, .279 Avg
- Wilkin Ramirez, RF 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI, .262 Avg
- Todd Redmond 7 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 6 K, 2.84 ERA
Todd Redmond tossed another gem for Gwinnett and Brian McCann homered in what will probably be his last game rehabbing for Gwinnett. Redmond continues to dazzle at AAA and should probably get a chance somewhere, but it most likely won't be with the Braves. Tyler Pastornicky did pick up a hit tonight as well. Gwinnett currently sits one game behind Durham in the division.
Mississippi Braves 3, Mobile BayBears 11
- Mycal Jones, CF 2-5, PO, .239 Avg
- Willie Cabrera, 2B 2-5, 2B, 3B, K, .267 Avg
- Ernesto Mejia, 1B 1-3, RBI, BB, 2 K, .294 Avg
- Braeden Schlehuber, C 2-4, 2B, RBI, 2 K, .250 Avg
Not much went right for the M-Braves tonight especially on the pitching side of things. The starter, Shafer, gave up six runs (five in the fifth) in less than five innings and the relief didn't give much relief. The offense collected thirteen hits but couldn't capitalize on their many opportunities The defense also committed five errors, three from Donell Linares.
Lynchburg Hillcats 2, Wilmington BlueRocks 3
- Todd Cunningham, CF 1-4, .291 Avg
- Andrelton Simmons, SS 1-4, 2B, .299 Avg
- Christian Bethancourt, C 0-2, RBI, BB, 2 K, .238 Avg
- Chris Masters 8 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 3 BB, 9 K, 3.28 ERA
Chris Masters and Justin Marks were locked in a tough pitcher's duel for most of the game with Masters holding the BlueRocks hitless until they broke through for two runs in the sixth inning. The Hillcats got the runs back in the top of the seventh but Eliecer Cardenas came on in relief in the ninth inning and gave up two consecutive singles before Andrelton Simmons committed the walkoff error. That's a tough way to lose a game.
Asheville Tourists 2, Rome Braves 7
- Evan Gattis, DH 2-4, 2 2B, RBI, BB, K, .303 Avg
- Edward Salcedo, 3B 1-2, RBI, K, .262 Avg
- Matt Weaver, RF 2-3, 2 2B, 2 RBI, BB, .289 Avg
- Willie Kempf 7 IP, 6 H, 2 R(1 ER), 3 BB, 8 K, 3.38 ERA
Rome's offense broke out tonight against the Tourists scoring more than five runs for just the second time this month. Willie Kempf tossed his best game of the season but at 23 years old he should be doing this at least one level higher and probably two. Edward Salcedo went 1-2 tonight but he is hitting just .211 this month and appears to be tiring out a bit.
Danville Braves 9, Burlington Royals 2
- Nick Ahmed, SS 3-5, SB(14), .255 Avg
- Chase Larsson, LF-CF 1-3, HR(7), 3 RBI, 2 BB, K, SB(5), .232 Avg
- Brandon Drury, 2B 2-4, HR(8), 2 RBI, 2 K, .245 Avg
- Sam Munson, RF 2-5, 2 RBI, K, .281 Avg
- Kurt Fleming, CF 2-4, RBI, .250 Avg
- David Filak 6 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 6 K, 6.07 ERA
Danville's offense blew up tonight behind Larsson and Drury's home runs and David Filak never looked back. 2011 has been an incredibly rough year for Filak who posted a 7.54 ERA in Rome and still has a 6.07 for Danville even after tonight's game. He may be showing signs of turning it around however after throwing 11 innings and allowing just two runs and nine strikeouts in his last two outings.
GCL Braves 8, GCL Blue Jays 6
- Logan Robbins, SS 1-5, HR(6), 4 RBI, .222 Avg
- Aris Alcantara, 1B 2-5, 2B, HR(3), K, .281 Avg
The Braves were down 6-2 going into the top of the ninth inning. Aris Alcantara led off the inning with a double and the Braves eventually collected two runs and had the bases loaded with two outs when Logan Robbins hit the go ahead grand slam. Expectations for Alcantara were high after he showed excellent plate discipline and moderate power in the DSL last year but he got off to a slow start. August has been a change of pace however as he has posted a .980 OPS this month.
DSL Braves 3, DSL Angels 6
- Jose Peraza, SS 1-4, 2B, RBI, 2 K, .287 Avg
Jose Peraza has been in a mini-slump lately and hopefully getting an extra base hit will help him break out of it.